Coordinates	55°45′06″N37°37′04″N
name	Suzy Kendall
birth name	Frieda Harrison
birth date	January 01, 1944
birth place	Belper, Derbyshire, England
occupation	Actress
yearsactive	1965-1977
spouse	Dudley Moore (1968 - 1972; divorced)Sandy Harper (? - present) }}

Suzy Kendall (born Frieda Harrison 1 January 1944) is a British actress best known for her film roles in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Her blonde attractive looks got her leading roles in some fairly prestigious productions. She later appeared in increasingly lower-profile films, including several giallo thrillers made in Italy and several TV series in the 1970s before retiring to spend more time with her family.

Personal life

Born in Belper, Derbyshire, England, Kendall attended Derby & District College of Art where she studied painting and design. She was a fabric designer at British Celanese and then became a photographic model before becoming an actress.

In 1968 Kendall married pianist, comedian and actor Dudley Moore, and though they divorced in 1972, they remained friends throughout the rest of their lives. Following the divorce she remarried shortly afterwards to Sandy Harper. In 2002 she hosted a memorial service for Moore attended by her second husband and daughter.

Kendall and her friend Pat Wellington wrote ''Natural Appeal: Fragrant Natural Preparations for the Care of Skin, Hair and Body'', a book on beauty tips.

Kendall now lives in London with her second husband Sandy Harper. Their daughter Elodie Harper is a BBC journalist.

Selected filmography

''Up Jumped a Swagman'' (1965)

''The Liquidator'' (1965)

''Thunderball'' (1965)

''The Sandwich Man'' (1966)

''Circus of Fear'' (1966)

''The Penthouse'' (1967)

''To Sir, with Love'' (1967)

''30 Is a Dangerous Age, Cynthia (1968)

''Up the Junction'' (1968)

''Fräulein Doktor'' (1969)

''The Gamblers'' (1970)

''The Bird with the Crystal Plumage'' (1970)

''Assault'' (aka ''Tower of Terror'') (1970)

''Fear is the Key'' (1972)

''Torso (1973 film)''

''Craze'' (1974)

''Spasmo'' (1974)

''Adventures of a Private Eye'' (1977)

TV appearances

''The Persuaders!'' (1 episode, 1971)

''Van der Valk'' (1 episode, 1977)

References

;Notes

External links

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Suzy may refer to:

a common English girls' name, short for Suzanne

Suzy Turquoise Blue, character in The Keys to the Kingdom by Garth Nix

''Suzy'' (1936 film), starring Jean Harlow, Franchot Tone and Cary Grant

SuZy, a Turkish-Israeli singer

Suzy (record label), a record label in Croatia

"Suzy" (Fool's Garden song), a song by German pop band Fool's Garden

Suzy, Aisne, a commune in northern France

Suzy, a song by French electro swing band Caravan Palace

See also

Susie

Susy

Suzie

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Coordinates	55°45′06″N37°37′04″N
name	Dudley Moore
birth date	April 19, 1935
birth place	London, UK
death date	March 27, 2002
death place	Plainfield, New Jersey, U.S.
birth name	Dudley Stuart John Moore
spouse	Suzy Kendall (1968–72) Tuesday Weld (1975–80) Brogan Lane (1988–91) Nicole Rothschild (1994–98)
occupation	Actor, comedian, musician
years active	1961–2002 }}

Dudley Stuart John Moore, CBE (19 April 1935 – 27 March 2002) was an English actor, comedian, composer and musician.

Moore first came to prominence as one of the four writer-performers in the ground-breaking comedy revue ''Beyond the Fringe'' in the early 1960s, and then became famous as half of the highly popular television double-act he formed with Peter Cook.

His fame as a comedic film actor was later heightened by success in hit Hollywood movies such as ''10'' with Bo Derek and ''Arthur'' in the late 1970s and early 1980s, respectively. He received an Oscar nomination for the latter role. He was frequently referred to in the media as "Cuddly Dudley" or "The Sex Thimble", a reference to his short stature and reputation as a "ladies' man".

Early life

Moore was born in Charing Cross Hospital, London, the son of Ada Francis (Huges), a secretary, and John Moore, a railway electrician. He was brought up in Dagenham, east London. He was notably short: and was born with club feet that required extensive hospital treatment and which, coupled with his diminutive stature, made him the butt of jokes from other children. His right foot responded well to corrective treatment and had straightened itself by the time he was six, but his left foot became permanently twisted and consequently his left leg below the knee was withered. Seeking refuge from his problems, he became a choirboy at the age of six and took up piano and violin. He rapidly developed into a highly talented pianist and organist and was playing the pipe organ at church weddings by the age of 14. He attended Dagenham County High School where he received musical tuition from a dedicated teacher, Peter Cork. Cork became a friend and confidant to Moore, corresponding with him until 1994.

Moore's musical talent won him an organ scholarship to Magdalen College, Oxford. While studying music and composition there, he also performed with Alan Bennett in the Oxford Revue. Bennett then recommended him to the producer putting together ''Beyond the Fringe'', a comedy revue, where he was to first meet Peter Cook. ''Beyond the Fringe'' was at the forefront of the 1960s satire boom and after success in Britain, it transferred to the United States where it was also a hit.

During his university years, Moore took a great interest in jazz and soon became an accomplished jazz pianist and composer. He began working with such leading musicians as John Dankworth and Cleo Laine. In 1960, he left Dankworth's band to work on ''Beyond the Fringe''. During the 1960s he formed the "Dudley Moore Trio" (with drummer Chris Karan and bassists Pete McGurk and later Peter Morgan). Moore's admitted principal musical influences were Oscar Peterson and Errol Garner. In an interview he recalled the day he finally mastered Garner's unique left hand strum and was so excited that he walked around for several days with his left hand constantly playing that cadence. His early recordings included "My Blue Heaven", "Lysie Does It", "Poova Nova", "Take Your Time", "Indiana", "Sooz Blooz", "Baubles, Bangles and Beads", "Sad One for George" and "Autumn Leaves". The trio performed regularly on British television, made numerous recordings and had a long-running residency at Peter Cook's London nightclub, The Establishment.

Moore composed the soundtracks for the films ''Bedazzled'', ''Inadmissible Evidence'', ''Staircase'' and ''Six Weeks'' among others.

Career

Partnership with Peter Cook

After following the Establishment to New York City, Moore returned to the UK and was offered his own series on the BBC. ''Not Only... But Also'' (1965). It was commissioned specifically as a vehicle for Moore, but when he invited Peter Cook on as a guest, their comedy partnership was so notable that it became a permanent fixture of the series. Cook and Moore are most remembered for their sketches as two working class men, Pete and Dud, in macs and cloth caps, commenting on politics and the arts, but they fashioned a series of one-off characters, usually with Moore in the role of interviewer to one of Cook's upper-class eccentrics. The pair developed an unorthodox method for scripting the material by using a tape recorder to tape an ad libbed routine that they would then have transcribed and edited. This would not leave enough time to fully rehearse the script so they often had a set of cue cards. Moore was famous for "corpsing"—the programmes often went on live, and Cook would deliberately make him laugh in order to get an even bigger reaction from the studio audience. Regrettably, many of the videotapes and film reels of these seminal TV shows were later erased by the BBC (an affliction which wiped out large portions of other British television productions as well, such as ''Doctor Who''), although some of the soundtracks (which were issued on record) have survived. Moore and Cook co-starred in the film ''Bedazzled'' (1967) with Eleanor Bron, and also had tours called ''Behind the Fridge'' and ''Good Evening''.

In 2009 it came to light that at the time three separate British police forces had wanted them to be prosecuted under obscenity laws for their comedy recordings made during the late 1970s under the pseudonyms ''Derek and Clive''. Shortly following the last of these, ''Derek and Clive – Ad Nauseam'', Moore made a break with Cook, whose alcoholism was affecting his work, to concentrate on his film career. When Moore began to manifest the symptoms of the disease that eventually killed him (progressive supranuclear palsy), it was at first suspected that he too had a drinking problem. Two of Moore's early starring roles were the titular drunken playboy ''Arthur'' and the heavy drinker George Webber in ''10''.

Later career

In the late 1970s, Moore moved to Hollywood, where he appeared in ''Foul Play'' (1978) with Goldie Hawn and Chevy Chase. The following year saw his break-out role in Blake Edwards's ''10'', which he followed up with the movie ''Wholly Moses!'' The latter was not a major success.

Moore played Watson to Cook's Holmes in 1978's ''Hound of the Baskervilles''. Moore was noteworthy as a comic foil to Sir Henry and played 3 other roles: one in drag and one as a one legged man. Moore also played the piano for the entire score and appears at the start and end of the film as a flamboyant and mischievous pianist. Moore also scored the film.

In 1981, Moore appeared as the lead in the comedy ''Arthur'', an even bigger hit than ''10'', which also starred Liza Minnelli and Sir John Gielgud. It was both commercially and critically successful; Moore received an Oscar nomination for Best Actor whilst Gielgud won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role as Arthur's stern but compassionate manservant. Moore lost to Henry Fonda (for ''On Golden Pond''). He did, however, win a Golden Globe award for Best Actor in a Musical/Comedy. In 1984, Moore had another hit, starring in the Blake Edwards directed ''Micki + Maude'', co-starring Amy Irving. This won him another Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Musical/Comedy.

His subsequent films, including ''Arthur 2: On the Rocks'', a sequel to the original, and an animated adaptation of ''King Kong'', were inconsistent in terms of both critical and commercial reception; Moore eventually disowned the former. In later years, Cook would wind up Moore by claiming he preferred ''Arthur 2: On the Rocks'' to ''Arthur''.

In addition to acting, Moore continued to work as a composer and pianist, writing scores for a number of films and giving piano concerts, which were highlighted by his popular parodies of classical favourites. In addition, Moore collaborated with the conductor Sir Georg Solti to create a 1991 television series, ''Orchestra!'', which was designed to introduce audiences to the symphony orchestra. He later worked with the American conductor Michael Tilson Thomas on a similar television series from 1993, ''Concerto!'', likewise designed to introduce audiences to classical music concertos. He also appeared as Ko-Ko in a Jonathan Miller production of ''The Mikado'' in Los Angeles in March 1988.

In 1987, he was interviewed for the ''New York Times'' by the music critic Rena Fruchter, herself an accomplished pianist. They became close friends. At that time Moore's film career was already on the wane. He was having trouble remembering his lines, a problem he had never previously encountered (for this reason he was fired from Barbra Streisand's film ''The Mirror Has Two Faces''). He opted to concentrate on the piano, and enlisted Fruchter as an artistic partner. They performed as a duo in the U.S. and Australia. However, his disease soon started to make itself apparent there as well, as his fingers would not always do what he wanted them to do. Symptoms such as slurred speech and loss of balance were misinterpreted by the public and the media as a sign of drunkenness. Moore himself was at a loss to explain this. He moved into Fruchter's family home in New Jersey and stayed there for five years, but this, however, placed a great strain on both her marriage and her friendship with Moore, and she later set him up in the house next door.

Moore was deeply affected by the death of Peter Cook in 1995, and for weeks would regularly telephone Cook's home in London just to get the telephone answering machine and hear his friend's voice. Moore attended Cook's memorial service in London and at the time many people who knew him noted that Moore was behaving strangely and attributed it to grief or drinking. In November 1995, Moore teamed up with friend and humorist Martin Lewis in organising a two-day salute to Cook in Los Angeles which Moore co-hosted with Lewis.

Moore is the main subject of the play ''Pete and Dud: Come Again'', by Chris Bartlett and Nick Awde. Set in a chat show studio in the '80s, it focuses on Moore's comic and personal relationship with Peter Cook and how their careers took off after the split of the partnership.

Entrepreneur

Moore co-owned a fashionable restaurant in Venice, California [1980s–2000]. The restaurant was named 72 Market Street. Moore played piano in the restaurant whenever he dropped by the premises.

Personal life

Moore was married and divorced four times: to actresses Suzy Kendall, Tuesday Weld (by whom he had a son, Patrick, in 1976), Brogan Lane and Nicole Rothschild (one son, Nicholas, born in 1995).

He maintained good relationships with Kendall particularly, and also Weld and Lane. However, he expressly forbade Rothschild to attend his funeral. At the time his illness became apparent, he was going through a difficult divorce from Rothschild, despite sharing a house in Los Angeles with her and her previous husband.

Moore dated and was a favourite of some of Hollywood's most attractive women, including Susan Anton. In 1994, Moore was arrested after Rothschild claimed he had beaten her before that year's Oscars; she later withdrew her charges.

Illness and death

In September 1997 Moore underwent quadruple heart bypass surgery in London, and subsequently suffered four minor strokes.

In June 1998, Nicole Rothschild was reported to have told an American television show that Moore was "waiting to die" due to a serious illness, but these reports were denied by Suzy Kendall.

On 30 September 1999, Moore announced that he was suffering from the terminal degenerative brain disorder progressive supranuclear palsy, some of whose early symptoms were so similar to intoxication that he had been accused of being drunk, and that the illness had been diagnosed earlier in the year.

He died on 27 March 2002, as a result of pneumonia, secondary to immobility caused by the palsy, in Plainfield, New Jersey. Rena Fruchter was holding his hand when he died, and she reported his final words were, "I can hear the music all around me." Moore was interred in Hillside Cemetery in Scotch Plains, New Jersey. Fruchter later wrote a memoir of their relationship (''Dudley Moore'', Ebury Press, 2004).

In December 2004, the Channel 4 television station in the United Kingdom broadcast ''Not Only But Always'', a TV movie dramatising the relationship between Moore and Cook, although the principal focus of the production was on Cook. Around the same time the relationship between the two was also the subject of a stage play called ''Pete and Dud: Come Again''.

Honours and awards

In June 2001, Moore was appointed a Commander of the Order of The British Empire (CBE). Despite his deteriorating condition, he attended the ceremony, mute and wheelchair-bound, at Buckingham Palace to collect his honour.

Filmography

''The Wrong Box'' (1966)

''Bedazzled'' (1967)

''30 Is a Dangerous Age, Cynthia'' (1968)

''The Bed-Sitting Room'' (1969)

''Monte Carlo or Bust'' (1969)

''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'' (1972)

''The Hound of the Baskervilles'' (1978)

''Foul Play'' (1978)

''10'' (1979)

''BBC Horizon: "It's About Time" '' (1979)

''Wholly Moses!'' (1980)

''Arthur'' (1981)

''Six Weeks'' (1982)

''Lovesick'' (1983)

''Romantic Comedy'' (1983)

''Unfaithfully Yours'' (1984)

''Micki + Maude'' (1984)

''Best Defense'' (1984)

''Santa Claus: The Movie'' (1985)

''Like Father Like Son'' (1987)

''Arthur 2: On the Rocks'' (1988)

''The Adventures of Milo and Otis'' (1989)

''Crazy People'' (1990)

''Blame It on the Bellboy'' (1992)

''Really Wild Animals'' (1993)

''Dudley '' (1993)

''Daddy's Girls'' (1994) (TV)

''The Disappearance of Kevin Johnson'' (1995)

''The Mighty Kong'' (1998)

Discography

UK chart singles

"Goodbye-ee" (1965) Peter Cook and Dudley Moore

"The L.S. Bumble Bee" (1967) Peter Cook and Dudley Moore

"Song for Suzy" (1972) Dudley Moore Trio – upbeat jazz.

Jazz discography

''From Beyond The Fringe'' (Atlantic Standard 2 017, 1966)

''The Dudley Moore Trio'' (Decca Records (LK UK) / London Records (US) PS558) 1969

''Dudley Moore plays The Theme From Beyond The Fringe and All That Jazz'' – Atlantic 1403 (1962)

''The World of Dudley Moore'' – Decca SPA 106

''The Other Side Of Dudley Moore'' - Decca LK 4732

''Genuine Dud'' – Decca LK 4788

''The Music of Dudley Moore'' – EMI Australia (Cube Records) TOOFA.14-1/2

''Dudley Down Under'' – Cube ICS 13

''Dudley Moore at the Wavendon Festival'' – Black Lion Records BLP 12151

''Smilin' Through'' – Cleo Laine & Dudley Moore – Finesse Records FW 38091

''Dudley Dell'' – Parlophone 45R 4772

''Strictly For The Birds'' – Cleo Laine & Dudley Moore – CBS A 2947

''The Theme From "Beyond The Fringe" & All That Jazz'' – Collectibles COL 6625

''Live From an Aircraft Hangar'' – Martine Avenue Productions MAPI 8486

''Songs Without Words'' – GRP/BMG LC 6713

''The First Orchestrations'' – Dudley Moore & Richard Rodney Bennett – Played by John Bassett and his Band – Harkit Records HRKCD 8054

''Jazz Jubilee'' – Martine Avenue Productions MAPI 1521

References

;Notes

;Further reading

''From Fringe to Flying Circus'' – 'Celebrating a Unique Generation of Comedy 1960–1980' – Roger Wilmut, Eyre Methuen Ltd, 1980

''Dudley Moore'', Rena Fruchter, Ebury Press, 2004.

''Fallen Stars'', Julian Upton, Headpress, 2004.

External links

"The Films of Dudley Moore", film clip compilation, 5 minutes

Obituary at CNN.com

Radio 4 programme "Affectionately Dudley", 2006

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Coordinates	55°45′06″N37°37′04″N
name	Kenneth More
birth name	Kenneth Gilbert More
birth date	September 20, 1914
birth place	Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, England
death date	July 12, 1982
death place	London, England
years active	1935–80
spouse	Beryl Johnstone (1939-46)(divorce) 1 childMabel Barkby (1952-68)(divorce) 1 childAngela Douglas (1968-82) (his death) }}

Kenneth Gilbert More CBE (20 September 1914 – 12 July 1982) was a highly successful English film actor during the post-World War II era and starred in many feature films, often in the role of an archetypal carefree and happy-go-lucky middle-class gentleman.

Early life

Kenneth More was born in Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, the only son of Charles Gilbert More, a Royal Naval Air Service pilot, and Edith Winifred Watkins, the daughter of a Cardiff solicitor. He was educated at Victoria College, Jersey. He spent part of his childhood in the Channel Islands, where his father was general manager of Jersey Eastern Railways. After he left school, he followed the family tradition by training as a civil engineer. He gave up his training and worked for a while in Sainsbury's.

When More was 17 his father died, and he applied to join the RAF, but failed the medical test for equilibrium. He went to Canada, intending to work as a fur trapper, but was sent back for lacking immigration papers.

Acting career

On his return, a family friend, Vivian Van Damm, took him on as assistant manager at the Windmill Theatre, where his job included spotting audience members misbehaving or using opera glasses to look at the nude players during its ''Revudeville'' variety shows. He was soon promoted to playing straight man in the ''Revudeville'' comedy routines. This led to regular work in repertory, including Newcastle and Wolverhampton, performing in plays such as ''Burke and Hare'' and ''Dracula's Daughter''. He continued this work until World War II, during which time he served as a lieutenant in the Royal Navy, seeing active service aboard the cruiser HMS ''Aurora'' and the aircraft carrier HMS ''Victorious'', returning to acting in 1946. After various roles in the West End, he attracted particular attention through his performance as Freddie in Terence Rattigan's ''The Deep Blue Sea''.

In the 1950s, he entered into a contract with the Rank Organisation, which led to a successful career in starring roles for a decade. He enjoyed great success in films of the 1950s after winning a BAFTA Award as best newcomer for ''Doctor in the House'' in 1954. Possibly his most famous role was that of the Royal Air Force fighter ace, Douglas Bader, in ''Reach for the Sky'' in 1956. He played the lead role in the Titanic film ''A Night to Remember'' in 1958. He specialised in likeable, unflappable English heroes ("an air of hectoring confidence ... heroic in a cocky big-brotherly way"), a persona that could in some roles show darker aspects, as with the controlling Crichton in ''The Admirable Crichton'' and the brash Ambrose Claverhouse in ''Genevieve''. In 1959, Rank's John Davis gave permission for More to work outside his contract to appear in ''The Guns of Navarone''. More, however, made the mistake of heckling and swearing at Davis at a BAFTA dinner at the Dorchester, losing both the role (which went to David Niven) and his contract with Rank.

He later appeared in a number of all-star war films, among them ''Sink the Bismarck!'' (1960), ''The Longest Day'' (1962), ''Battle of Britain'' (1969), and ''Oh! What a Lovely War'' (1969).

His film parts got smaller in the 1960s, with some thinking his popularity declined when he left his wife to live with Angela Douglas. His popularity recovered through West End stage performances and television roles, especially following his success in ''The Forsyte Saga'', and as the title character in ATV's 1974 ''Father Brown''. He is also known for his role as the Ghost of Christmas Present in 1970's ''Scrooge''.

He stood in the wings to replace Bernard Lee as M in the James Bond film ''Live and Let Die'' when it wasn't known if an ill Lee would be able to appear.

Personal life

More was married three times. His first marriage in 1939 to actress Beryl Johnstone (one daughter, Susan, born 1941) ended in divorce in 1946. He married Mabel Edith "Bill" Barkby in 1952 (one daughter, Sarah, born 1954) but left her in 1968 for Angela Douglas, an actress 26 years his junior, causing considerable estrangement from friends and family. He was married to Douglas (whom he nicknamed "Shrimp") from 17 March 1968 until his death.

Kenneth More published two autobiographies, ''Happy Go Lucky'' in 1959 and ''More or Less'' in 1978. In the second book he related how he had had since childhood a recurrent dream of something akin to a huge wasp descending towards him. During the war he experienced a Nazi Stuka bomber descending in just such a manner. After that he claimed never to have had that dream again.

He died in London from Parkinson's disease on 12 July 1982, aged 67, and was cremated at Putney Vale Crematorium.

The Kenneth More Theatre, named in his honour, is in Ilford, Essex. The robot Kryten in the TV series ''Red Dwarf'' was named after More's character in ''The Admirable Crichton''.

Filmography

''Look Up and Laugh'' (1935) (uncredited bit part)

''Windmill Revels'' (1937) (uncredited bit part)

''Carry On London'' (1937) (bit part)

''The Silence of the Sea'' (1946) (TV)

''School for Secrets'' (1946)

''Toad of Toad Hall'' (1946) (TV)

''Scott of the Antarctic'' (1948)

''Man on the Run'' (1949)

''Now Barabbas'' (1949)

''Stop Press Girl'' (1949)

''Morning Departure'' (1950)

''Chance of a Lifetime'' (1950)

''The Clouded Yellow'' (1951)

''The Franchise Affair'' (1951)

''The Galloping Major'' (1951)

''No Highway'' (1951) (uncredited)

''Appointment with Venus'' (1951)

''Brandy for the Parson'' (1952)

''The Yellow Balloon'' (1953)

''Never Let Me Go'' (1953)

''Genevieve'' (1953)

''Our Girl Friday'' (1953)

''Doctor in the House'' (1954)

''The Man Who Loved Redheads'' (1955) (voice)

''Raising a Riot'' (1955)

''The Deep Blue Sea'' (1955)

''Reach for the Sky'' (1956)

''The Admirable Crichton'' (1957)

''The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw'' (1958)

''A Night to Remember'' (1958)

''Next to No Time'' (1958)

''North West Frontier'' (1959)

''The Thirty-Nine Steps'' (1959)

''Sink the Bismarck!'' (1960)

''Man in the Moon'' (1960)

''The Greengage Summer'' (1961)

''We Joined the Navy'' (1962)

''Heart to Heart'' (1962) (TV)

''Some People'' (1962)

''The Longest Day'' (1962)

''The Comedy Man'' (1964)

''The Collector'' (1965) (uncredited)

''Lord Raingo'' (1966) (TV)

''The Forsyte Saga'' (1967) (TV)

''Dark of the Sun'', also known as ''The Mercenaries'' (1968)

''Fräulein Doktor'' (1969)

''Oh! What a Lovely War'' (1969)

''Battle of Britain'' (1969)

''Scrooge'' (1970)

''Father Brown'' (1974) (TV)

''Viaje al centro de la Tierra'' (1978)

''The Slipper and the Rose: The Story of Cinderella'' (1976)

''Leopard in the Snow'' (1978)

''An Englishman's Castle'' (1978) (TV)

''The Spaceman and King Arthur'' (1979)

''A Tale of Two Cities'' (1980) (TV)

See also

Cinema of the United Kingdom

List of British actors and actresses

Sheridan Morley, "More, Kenneth Gilbert (1914–1982)", ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 12 Sept 2007

References

External links

Kenneth More Theatre

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{{infobox actor | name	Umberto Lenzi | image Umberto_lenzi_sitges2008.jpg | imagesize | caption Umberto Lenzi at the Festival de Cine de Sitges in October 2008. | birth_date August 06, 1931 | birth_place Massa Marittima, Italy | occupation Film director and screenwriter | birthname | academyawards | spouse }}

Umberto Lenzi (born August 6, 1931), is an Italian film director who was very active in low budget crime films, peplums, spaghetti westerns, war movies, cannibal films and giallo murder mysteries (in addition to writing many of the screenplays himself).

Life and career

Lenzi was born in Massa Marittima, Grosseto, southern Tuscany. He is the writer/director of two highly controversial exploitation films: ''Eaten Alive!'' (1980) and ''Cannibal Ferox'' (1981) as well as the director of the film adaptation of the Italian comic book ''Kriminal'' (1966). He was one of the first Italian directors to get involved in the Giallo film craze (along with Mario Bava and Dario Argento), and his ''Man From Deep River'' is credited as being the film that started the Italian "cannibal film" genre later popularized by Ruggero Deodato, Jess Franco and others. Lenzi has claimed in interviews however that he was never too enamored of the cannibal films he made, being much prouder of his war films, his police crime films and his westerns. Lenzi has said in interviews that ''Man From Deep River'' was his best cannibal film (he said he only did the other two to make a quick buck), and his favorite ''giallos'' were ''Orgasmo'' and ''Seven Blood-Stained Orchids''. He said ''Black Demons'' was another of his all-time favorites, a "potential masterpiece" marred only by the poor acting of the female lead he was forced to work with.

Two films called ''Paranoia''

Umberto Lenzi's ''Orgasmo'' (1969) was retitled ''Paranoia'' when it was released in the USA, and it was so successful under that title, the Italian producers asked Lenzi to make another giallo called ''Paranoia'' to be distributed in Italy. So that same year, Lenzi made ''Paranoia'' which was later retitled ''A Quiet Place to Kill'' in the USA (since ''Orgasmo'' had already been shown there under the title ''Paranoia''). That's why Lenzi has 2 films called "PARANOIA" in his filmography.

The Italian ''La Casa'' horror film series

Umberto Lenzi directed ''Ghosthouse'' in 1988 (''La Casa 3 - Ghosthouse''), but many of his fans do not know why it was released as ''La Casa 3'' in Italy. The American films ''The Evil Dead'' and ''Evil Dead 2'' were released in Italy as ''La Casa'' and ''La Casa 2'' respectively. Lenzi's film ''Ghosthouse'' was designed as a sort of sequel to these two high-grossing fan favorites, and thus was released in theatres there as ''La Casa 3''. The same year, Fabrizio Laurenti directed ''Witchery'' (starring Linda Blair) which was released in Italy as ''La Casa 4'' and was followed several years later by Claudio Fragasso's ''La Casa 5: Beyond Darkness'' (not to be confused with Joe D'Amato's "Beyond The Darkness").

Filmography

''Queen of the Seas'' (1961) aka ''The Adventure of the Mary Reade''

''Catherine of Russia'' (1962)

''The Triumph of Robin Hood'' (1962)

''Duel of Fire'' (1962) aka ''Duello nella Sila''

''Terror of the Black Mask'' (1962) aka ''The Invincible Masked Rider/ L'invincibile cavaliere mascherato''

''Sandokan the Great'' (1963) aka ''Sandokan, The Tiger of Mompracem'', starring Steve Reeves

''Samson and the Slave Queen'' (1963) aka ''Zorro Vs Maciste''

''Temple of the White Elephants'' (1964) aka ''Sandok, the Maciste of the Jungle''

''The Pirates of The Seven Seas'' (1964) aka ''The Pirates of Malaysia'', starring Steve Reeves once again portraying Sandokan the Great

''Messalina Against the Son of Hercules'' (1964) aka ''The Last Gladiator''

''Super Seven Calling Cairo'' (1965)

''008 Operation Exterminate'' (1965)

''The Mountain of Light'' (1965) aka ''Jungle Adventurer'', aka ''Sandok'', aka ''Temple of a Thousand Lights'', starring Richard Harrison

''The Spy Loves Flowers'' (1966)

''A Million Dollars For Seven Killers'' (1966)

''Kriminal'' (1966) based on the famous Italian comic strip

''Desert Commandos'' (1967) aka ''Attentato ai tre grandi''

''Copperface'' (1967)

''A Pistol for a Hundred Coffins'' (1968)

''Legion of the Damned'' (1969) aka ''Battle of the Commandos'', written by Dario Argento, starring Jack Palance

''Orgasmo'' (1969) (released in USA as ''Paranoia'')

''So Sweet, So Perverse'' (1969)

''An Ideal Place To Kill'' (1969) aka ''Dirty Pictures'', aka ''Oasis of Fear''

''Paranoia'' (1970) (released in USA as ''A Quiet Place To Kill'', since ''Orgasmo'' had already been released there as ''Pananoia'')

''The Man From Deep River'' (1972) aka ''Il Paese del Sesso Selvaggio'', aka ''The Country of Savage Sex'', aka ''Sacrifice'', aka ''Deep River Savages''

''Seven Bloodstained Orchids'' (1972) aka ''Puzzle of the Silver Half Moons''

''The Knife of Ice'' (1972) aka ''Silent Horror''

''Gang War in Milan'' (1973)

''Spasmo'' (1974)

''Almost Human'' (1974) aka ''Milano Odia: la polizia non può sparare'', aka ''The Kidnapping of Mary Lou''

''Eyeball'' (1975) aka ''Wide-Eyed in the Dark'', aka ''Red Cats in a Glass Maze''

''Syndicate Sadists'' (1975) aka ''The Avenger Challenges the City''

''Rome Armed to the Teeth'' (1976) aka ''Brutal Justice'', aka ''Roma a Mano Armata''

''Violent Naples'' ((1976) aka ''Napoli Violenta''

''Free Hand for a Tough Cop (1976) aka ''Il Trucido E Lo Sbirro ''

''Brothers Till We Die'' (1977)

''The Cynic,The Rat and The Fist'' (1977) written by Ernesto Gastaldi

''The Great Attack'' (1978) aka ''Il Grande Attacco''

''From Hell to Victory'' (1979)

''From Corleone to Brooklyn'' (1979)

''The Sicilian Boss'' (1979)

''Nightmare City'' (1980) aka ''City of the Walking Dead'', aka ''Nightmare in the Contaminated City''/ ''Incubo Sulla Cittá Contaminata''

''Eaten Alive!'' (1980) aka ''Mangiati vivi'', aka ''The Emerald Jungle'', aka ''Doomed To Die''

''Cannibal Ferox'' (1981) aka ''Make Them Die Slowly''

''Daughter of the Jungle'' (1982) aka ''Incontro nell'ultimo paradiso''/ ''Encounter in the Last Paradise''

''Ironmaster'' (1982) aka ''The War of Iron''/ ''La Guerra di Ferro''

''Tempi di guerra'' (1987) aka ''Times of War''

''Nightmare Beach'' (1988) aka ''Welcome to Spring Break''

''Black Cobra'' (Lenzi was a co-director) (1987-1990)

''Ghosthouse'' (1988) known in Italy as ''La Casa 3''

''Hell's Gate'' (1989)

''Hitcher in the Dark'' (1989) aka ''Fear in the Dark''

''The House of Witchcraft'' (1989) Made for Italian TV, aka ''Ghosthouse 4''

''The House of Lost Souls'' (1989) Made for Italian TV

''Black Demons'' (1991) erroneously distributed in some countries as ''Demons 3''

''The Hunt for the Golden Scorpion'' (1991)

''Mean Tricks'' (1993)

''Sarayevo inferno di fuoco'' (1996)

See also

Cannibal boom

Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia

Poliziotteschi

Spaghetti Nightmares

External links

Interview with Umberto Lenzion, 'Cultfilms en Kutfilms' (April 4th 2008)

Category:1931 births Category:Living people Category:People from the Province of Grosseto Category:Italian film directors Category:Horror film directors Category:Spaghetti Western directors

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