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Actors Studio
Coordinates: 40°45′36″N 73°59′34″W / 40.760068°N 73.992654°W / 40.760068; -73.992654
The Actors Studio is a membership organization for professional actors, theatre directors and playwrights at 432 West 44th Street in the Clinton neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. It was founded October 5, 1947, by Elia Kazan, Cheryl Crawford, Robert Lewis and Anna Sokolow who provided training for actors that were members.Lee Strasberg joined later and took the helm in 1951 until his death on February 17, 1982. It is currently run by Al Pacino and Ellen Burstyn. The Studio is best known for its work refining and teaching method acting. This approach was originally developed by the Group Theatre in the 1930s based on the innovations of Constantin Stanislavski. While at the Studio, actors work together to develop their skills in a private environment where they can take risks as performers without the pressure of commercial roles.
The group initially met in a rehearsal space in the Princess Theatre. In 1955 it moved to its current location in the former Seventh Associate Presbyterian Church, built in 1859.
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Broadway theatre
Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theatre District centered along Broadway, and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan in New York City. Along with London's West End theatre, Broadway theatre is widely considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English-speaking world.
The Broadway theatre district is a popular tourist attraction in New York. According to The Broadway League, Broadway shows sold approximately $1.081 billion worth of tickets in calendar year 2011, compared with $1.037 billion for 2010. Attendance in 2011 was 12.13 million.
New York did not have a significant theatre presence until about 1750, when actor-managers Walter Murray and Thomas Kean established a resident theatre company at the Theatre on Nassau Street, which held about 280 people. They presented Shakespeare plays and ballad operas such as The Beggar's Opera. In 1752, William Hallam sent a company of twelve actors from Britain to the colonies with his brother Lewis as their manager. They established a theatre in Williamsburg, Virginia and opened with The Merchant of Venice and The Anatomist. The company moved to New York in the summer of 1753, performing ballad operas and ballad-farces like Damon and Phillida. The Revolutionary War suspended theatre in New York, but thereafter theatre resumed in 1798, the year the 2,000-seat Park Theatre was built on Chatham Street (now called Park Row). The Bowery Theatre opened in 1826, followed by others. Blackface minstrel shows, a distinctly American form of entertainment, became popular in the 1830s, and especially so with the arrival of the Virginia Minstrels in the 1840s.
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New York
New York (/njuː ˈjɔrk/; locally IPA: [nɪu ˈjɔək] or [nuː ˈjɔɹk] (
listen)) is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. New York is the 27th most extensive, the 3rd most populous, and the 7th most densely populated of the 50 United States. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east. The state has a maritime border with Rhode Island east of Long Island, as well as an international border with the Canadian provinces of Ontario to the west and north, and Quebec to the north. The state of New York is often referred to as New York State to distinguish it from New York City.
New York City, with a population of over 8.1 million, is the most populous city in the United States. Alone, it makes up over 40 percent of the population of New York state. It is known for its status as a center for finance and culture and for its status as the largest gateway for immigration to the United States. According to the U.S. Department of Commerce, New York City is also a destination of choice for many foreign visitors. Both the state and city were named for the 17th century Duke of York, James Stuart, future James II and VII of England and Scotland.
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The Bronx
The Bronx is the northernmost of the five boroughs of New York City. It is also known as Bronx County, the last of the 62 counties of New York State to be incorporated. Located north of Manhattan and Queens, and south of Westchester County, the Bronx is the only borough that is located primarily on the mainland (a very small portion of Manhattan, the Marble Hill neighborhood, is physically located on the mainland, due to the rerouting of the Harlem River in 1897). The Bronx's population is 1,400,761 according to the 2010 United States Census. The borough has a land area of 42 square miles (109 km2), making it the fourth-largest in land area of the five boroughs, the fourth most populated, and the third-highest in density of population.
The Bronx is divided by the Bronx River into a hillier section in the west, closer to Manhattan, and the flatter East Bronx, closer to Long Island. The West Bronx was annexed to New York City (then largely confined to Manhattan) in 1874, and the areas east of the Bronx River in 1895. The Bronx first assumed a distinct legal identity when it became a borough of Greater New York in 1898. Bronx County, with the same boundaries as the borough, was separated from New York County (afterwards coextensive with the Borough of Manhattan) as of January 1, 1914. Although the Bronx is the third-most-densely-populated county in the U.S., about a quarter of its area is open space, including Woodlawn Cemetery, Van Cortlandt Park, Pelham Bay Park, the New York Botanical Garden and the Bronx Zoo in the borough's north and center, on land deliberately reserved in the late 19th century as urban development progressed northwards and eastwards from Manhattan with the building of roads, bridges and railways.
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United States
The United States of America (commonly abbreviated to the United States, the U.S., the USA, America, and the States) is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to the east and Russia to the west, across the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The country also possesses several territories in the Pacific and Caribbean.
At 3.79 million square miles (9.83 million km2) and with over 312 million people, the United States is the third or fourth largest country by total area, and the third largest by both land area and population. It is one of the world's most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, the product of large-scale immigration from many countries. The U.S. economy is the world's largest national economy, with an estimated 2011 GDP of $15.1 trillion (22% of nominal global GDP and over 19% of global GDP at purchasing-power parity). Per capita income is the world's sixth-highest.
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Al Pacino
Alfredo James "Al" Pacino (/pəˈtʃiːnɵ/; born April 25, 1940) is an American film and stage actor and director. He is famous for playing mobsters, including Michael Corleone in The Godfather trilogy and Tony Montana in Scarface, though he has also appeared several times on the other side of the law — as a police officer, a detective and a lawyer. His role as Frank Slade in Scent of a Woman won him the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1993 after receiving seven previous Oscar nominations, one of them being in the same year.
He made his feature film debut in the 1969 film Me, Natalie in a minor supporting role, before playing the leading role in the 1971 drama The Panic in Needle Park. Pacino made his major breakthrough when he was given the role of Michael Corleone in The Godfather in 1972, which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. Other Oscar nominations for Best Supporting Actor were for Dick Tracy and Glengarry Glen Ross. Oscar nominations for Best Actor include The Godfather Part II, Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon, ...And Justice for All and Scent of a Woman.
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Alan Alda
Alphonso Joseph D'Abruzzo (born January 28, 1936), better known as Alan Alda, is an American actor, director, screenwriter, and author. A six-time Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award winner, he is best known for his role as Hawkeye Pierce in the TV series M*A*S*H. He is currently a Visiting Professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook School of Journalism and a member of the advisory board of The Center for Communicating Science.
In 1996, Alda was ranked #41 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time.
Alda was born Alphonso Joseph D'Abruzzo in The Bronx, New York City. His father, Robert Alda (born Alphonso Giuseppe Giovanni Roberto D'Abruzzo), was an actor and singer, and his mother, Joan Browne, was a former showgirl. His father was of Italian descent and his mother was of Irish ancestry. His adopted surname, "Alda," is a portmanteau of ALphonso and D'Abruzzo. When Alda was seven years old, he contracted Poliomyelitis. To combat the disease, his parents administered a painful treatment regimen developed by Sister Elizabeth Kenny that consisted of applying hot woolen blankets to his limbs and stretching his muscles. Alda attended Archbishop Stepinac High School in White Plains, New York. In 1956, he received his Bachelor of Science degree in English from Fordham College of Fordham University in the Bronx, where he was a student staff member of its FM radio station, WFUV. Alda's half-brother, Antony Alda, was born the same year and would also become an actor.
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Alan Bates
Sir Alain Arthur Bates CBE (17 February 1934 – 27 December 2003) was an English actor who came to prominence in the 1960s, a time of high creativity in British cinema, when he appeared in films ranging from the popular children's story Whistle Down the Wind to the "kitchen sink" drama A Kind of Loving. He is also known for his performance with Anthony Quinn in Zorba the Greek, as well as his roles in King of Hearts, Georgy Girl, Far From the Madding Crowd, and The Fixer, which gave him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. In 1969, he starred in the Ken Russell film Women in Love with Oliver Reed and Glenda Jackson.
Bates went on to star in The Go-Between, An Unmarried Woman, Nijinsky, and The Rose with Bette Midler, as well as playing varied roles in television drama, including The Mayor of Casterbridge, Harold Pinter's The Collection, A Voyage Round My Father, An Englishman Abroad (as Guy Burgess), and Pack of Lies. He also continued to appear on the stage, notably in the plays of Simon Gray, such as Butley and Otherwise Engaged.
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Albert Salmi
Albert Salmi (March 11, 1928 – April 22, 1990) was an American actor.
Albert Salmi was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Finnish immigrant parents, and following a stint in the Army, took up acting as a career, studying Method acting with Lee Strasberg. In 1955, Salmi starred in Bus Stop on Broadway. He volunteered to go on the road with the show, where he fell in love with and married his leading lady, former child star Peggy Ann Garner, on May 16, 1956. Their only child, Catherine Ann Salmi, died in 1995 of premature heart disease at the age of thirty-eight.
He made his film debut as Smerdjakov in the 1958 movie version of The Brothers Karamazov, with Yul Brynner, Lee J. Cobb, William Shatner, and Richard Basehart. Salmi's next film was The Bravados in which he played one of the villains hunted down by hero Gregory Peck. The National Board of Review presented Salmi with the NBR Award for Best Supporting Actor for his work in both of these films.
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Alec Baldwin
Alexander Rae "Alec" Baldwin III (born April 3, 1958) is an American actor who has appeared on film, stage, and television.
Baldwin first gained recognition through television for his work, for two seasons (6 and 7), on the soap opera Knots Landing, in the role of Joshua Rush. He has since played both leading and supporting roles in films such as Beetlejuice (1988), The Hunt for Red October (1990), The Marrying Man (1991), The Shadow (1994), Notting Hill (1999), The Aviator (2004) and The Departed (2006). His performance in the 2003 film The Cooler garnered him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Since 2006 he has starred as Jack Donaghy on the NBC sitcom 30 Rock, receiving critical acclaim for his performance and winning two Emmy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, and seven Screen Actors Guild Awards for his work on the show, making him the male performer with most SAG Awards ever.
He is the eldest of the Baldwin brothers working in Hollywood.
Baldwin was born on Long Island, New York, the son of Carolyn Newcomb (née Martineau) and Alexander Rae Baldwin, Jr., a high school history/social studies teacher and football coach. Baldwin was raised in a Roman Catholic family of Irish, English, and French descent. He has three younger brothers, Daniel, William, and Stephen, who also became actors. Baldwin has two sisters, Beth Baldwin Keuchler (born 1955), and Jane Baldwin Sasso (born 1965).[citation needed]
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Alec Guinness
Sir Alec Guinness, CH, CBE (2 April 1914 – 5 August 2000) was an English actor. After an early career on the stage he was featured in several of the Ealing Comedies, including Kind Hearts and Coronets in which he played eight different characters. However, he was probably best known for his six collaborations with David Lean: Herbert Pocket in Great Expectations (1946), Fagin in Oliver Twist (1948), Col. Nicholson in The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor), Prince Faisal in Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Yevgraf in Doctor Zhivago (1965), and Professor Godbole in A Passage to India (1984). In later years, he achieved fame with younger audiences for his role as Obi-Wan Kenobi in George Lucas’s Star Wars films.
Guinness was born at 155 Lauderdale Mansions South, Lauderdale Road, Maida Vale, London as Alec Guinness de Cuffe. His mother's maiden name was Agnes Cuff. She was born 8 December 1890 to Edward Cuff and Mary Ann Benfield. On Guinness's birth certificate, the space for the mother's name shows Agnes de Cuffe. The space for the infant's name (where first names only are given) says Alec Guinness. The column for name and surname of father is blank.
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Alfred Lunt
Alfred Lunt (August 12, 1892 – August 3, 1977) was an American stage director and actor, often identified for a long-time professional partnership with his wife, actress Lynn Fontanne. Broadway's Lunt-Fontanne Theatre was named for them.
Lunt received two Tony Awards, an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor for 1931's The Guardsman and an Emmy Award for the Hallmark Hall of Fame's production of The Magnificent Yankee. He became a star in 1919 as the buffoonish lead in Booth Tarkington's Clarence, but soon distinguished himself in a variety of roles. The roles ranged from the Earl of Essex in Maxwell Anderson's Elizabeth the Queen, to a song-and-dance man touring the Balkans in Robert E. Sherwood's Idiot's Delight, a megalomaniacal tycoon in S. N. Behrman's Meteor and Jupiter himself in Jean Giraudoux's Amphitryon 38. His appearances in classical drama were infrequent, but he scored successes in Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew and Chekhov's The Seagull (in which Lunt played Trigorin, his wife played Arkadina, and Uta Hagen made her Broadway debut in the role of Nina). He was described by director and critic Harold Clurman as "universally acclaimed the finest American actor in the generation which followed John Barrymore; the Lunts are absolute angels."
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Anthony Hopkins
Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins, CBE (born 31 December 1937), best known as Anthony Hopkins, is a Welsh actor of film, stage and television, and a composer. Considered to be one of the greatest living actors, Hopkins is perhaps best known for his portrayal of Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs. Other prominent film credits include The Lion in Winter, Magic, The Elephant Man, 84 Charing Cross Road, Dracula, Legends of the Fall, The Remains of the Day, Amistad, Nixon, The World's Fastest Indian, and Fracture. Hopkins was born and brought up in Wales. Retaining his British citizenship, he became a U.S. citizen on 12 April 2000. Hopkins' films have spanned a wide variety of genres, from family films to horror. As well as his Academy Award, Hopkins has also won three BAFTA Awards, two Emmys and the Cecil B. DeMille Golden Globe Award. Hopkins was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1993 for services to the arts. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2003, and was made a Fellow of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 2008.
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Basil Rathbone
Sir Philip St. John Basil Rathbone, KBE, MC, Kt (13 June 1892 – 21 July 1967) was a South African-born British actor. He rose to prominence in England as a Shakespearean stage actor and went on to appear in over 70 films, primarily costume dramas, swashbucklers, and, occasionally, horror films. He frequently portrayed suave villains or morally ambiguous characters, such as Murdstone in David Copperfield (1935) and Sir Guy of Gisbourne in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938). His most famous role, however, was heroic—that of Sherlock Holmes in fourteen Hollywood films made between 1939 and 1946 and in a radio series. His later career included Broadway and television work; he received a Tony Award in 1948 as Best Actor in a Play.
He was born Philip St. John Basil Rathbone in Johannesburg, South African Republic, to English parents Edgar Philip Rathbone, a mining engineer and scion of the Liverpool Rathbone family, and Anna Barbara née George, a violinist. He had two older half brothers Harold and Horace as well as two younger siblings, Beatrice and John. The Rathbones fled to England when Basil was three years old after his father was accused by the Boers of being a British spy near the onset of the Second Boer War at the end of the 1890s.
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Brian Bedford
Brian Bedford (born 16 February 1935) is an English actor. He has appeared on the stage and in film, and is known for both acting in and directing Shakespeare.
Bedford was born in Morley, West Riding of Yorkshire, the son of Ellen (née O'Donnell) and Arthur Bedford, a postman. Bedford attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London from 1952–1954 and was in the same class as Albert Finney, Alan Bates and Peter O'Toole.
Primarily a stage actor, he is known for his English-speaking interpretations of the French playwright Molière, including Tony Award nominated performances in Tartuffe, The Molière Comedies (a double bill of the short plays The School for Husbands and The Imaginary Cuckold) and The School for Wives, for which he received the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play. He has done a great deal of Shakespearean work, notably as Ariel in The Tempest opposite John Gielgud's Prospero in 1958, Angelo in Measure for Measure at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in 1975 and 1976, and The Public Theater's New York Shakespeare Festival Shakespeare in the Park productions of As You Like It (as Orlando), and Timon of Athens (as Timon), the latter based on a production he originated with the National Actors Theatre in 1993 and which he eventually played on Broadway.
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Burgess Meredith
Oliver Burgess Meredith (November 16, 1907 – September 9, 1997), known professionally as Burgess Meredith, was an American actor in theatre, film, and television, who also worked as a director. Active for more than six decades, Meredith has been called "a virtuosic actor" who was "one of the most accomplished actors of the century." Meredith won several Emmys, was the first man to win two times the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor, and was nominated for Academy Awards.
Meredith was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of Ida Beth (née Burgess) and Canadian-born William George Meredith, M.D.
He graduated from Hoosac School in 1926 and then attended Amherst College as a member of the Class of 1931. Meredith served in the United States Army Air Forces in World War II, reaching the rank of captain. He was discharged in 1944 to work on the movie The Story of G.I. Joe, in which he starred as the popular war correspondent Ernie Pyle.
In 1933, he became a member of Eva Le Gallienne's Civic Repertory Theatre company in New York City. Although best known to the larger world audience for his film and television work, Meredith was an influential actor and director for the stage. He made his Broadway debut as Peter in Le Gallienne's production of Romeo and Juliet (1930) and became a star in Maxwell Anderson's Winterset (1935), which became his film debut the following year. His early life and theatre work were the subject of a New Yorker profile.
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Casey Affleck
Caleb Casey McGuire Affleck-Boldt (born August 12, 1975), better known as Casey Affleck, is an American actor and film director. Throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, he played supporting roles in mainstream hits like Good Will Hunting (1997) and Ocean's Eleven (2001) as well as in critically acclaimed independent films such as Chasing Amy (1997). Casey is the younger brother of actor and director Ben Affleck, with whom he has frequently collaborated professionally. In 2007, his breakout year, Affleck gained recognition and critical acclaim for his work in Gone Baby Gone and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.
Affleck was born in Falmouth, Massachusetts. He is the younger brother of Ben Affleck, and second son of Christine Anne "Chris" (née Boldt), a school district employee and teacher, and Timothy Byers Affleck, a drug counselor, social worker, janitor, auto mechanic, bartender, and former actor with the Theater Company of Boston. Affleck has Irish, Scottish, German, and English ancestry (the surname "Affleck" is Scottish), and is a distant cousin of actor Matt Damon. He was raised in a mostly Episcopalian family. Affleck is three years younger than his brother Ben. As a child he had numerous pets, including cats, snakes, guinea pigs and turtles. Affleck went to George Washington University and later transferred to Columbia University in New York City, where he majored in physics, astronomy, and Western philosophy, but never graduated. Affleck worked sporadically on television while finishing high school and attending college during the early 1990s.
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Charles Bickford
Charles Bickford (January 1, 1891 – November 9, 1967) was an American actor best known for his supporting roles. He was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, for The Song of Bernadette (1943), The Farmer's Daughter (1947), and Johnny Belinda (1948). Other notable roles include Whirlpool (1948), A Star is Born (1954) and The Big Country (1958).
Bickford was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, during the first minute of 1891. The fifth of seven children, he was a very independent and unruly child who was tried and acquitted at nine years old of the attempted murder of a trolley motorman who had callously driven over and killed his dog. In his late teens he drifted aimlessly around the United States for a time. Before breaking into acting he worked as a lumberjack, investment promoter, and for a short time, ran a pest extermination business. He was a stoker and fireman in the United States Navy when a friend dared him to get a job in Burlesque. He did and remained on stage for the next sixteen years.
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Charles Durning
Charles Durning (born February 28, 1923) is an American actor. With appearances in over 100 films, Durning's memorable roles include police officers in the Oscar-winning The Sting (1973) and crime drama Dog Day Afternoon (1975), along with the comedies Tootsie, To Be Or Not To Be and The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, the last two of which earned him an Academy Award nomination for best supporting actor. He won a Tony award for his portrayal of Big Daddy in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof in 1990.
Durning was born in Highland Falls, New York, the second youngest of five children, James G. (1915–2000), Clifford John (1916–1994), Frances (born 1919) and Gerald J. Durning (born 1926). His mother, Louise M. (1894–1982), was a laundress at West Point, and his father was James Durning.
Durning served in the U.S. Army during World War II. Drafted at age 21, he was first assigned as a rifleman with the 398th Infantry Regiment, and later served overseas with the 3rd Army Support troops and the 386th Anti-aircraft Artillery (AAA) Battalion. For his valor and the wounds he received during the war, Durning was awarded the Silver Star and three Purple Heart medals.
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Christian Bale
Christian Charles Philip Bale (born 30 January 1974) is an English actor. Best known for his roles in American films, Bale has starred in both big budget Hollywood films and the smaller projects from independent producers and art houses.
Bale first caught the public eye at the age of 13, when he was cast in the starring role of Steven Spielberg's Empire of the Sun (1987). He played an English boy who is separated from his parents and subsequently finds himself lost in a Japanese internment camp during World War II. He is also notable for his role as serial killer Patrick Bateman in American Psycho (2000), and for portraying Bruce Wayne/Batman in Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins (2005), The Dark Knight (2008) and the upcoming finale The Dark Knight Rises (2012).
In 2010, Bale portrayed Dicky Eklund in the biopic The Fighter. He received critical acclaim for his role and won several awards, including the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role.
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Christopher Plummer
Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer, CC (born December 13, 1929) is a Canadian theatre, film and television actor. He made his film debut in 1958's Stage Struck, and notable early film performances include The Night of the Generals, The Return of the Pink Panther, and The Man Who Would Be King.
In a career that spans seven decades and includes substantial roles in each of the dramatic arts, Plummer is probably best known to audiences as the autocratic widower Captain Georg Ludwig von Trapp in the hit 1965 musical film The Sound of Music alongside Julie Andrews. Plummer has also ventured into various television projects, including the legendary miniseries The Thorn Birds.
His most recent film roles include the The Insider as Mike Wallace, the Disney-Pixar 2009 film Up as Charles Muntz, the Shane Acker production 9 as 1, The Last Station as Leo Tolstoy, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus as Doctor Parnassus, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo as Henrik Vanger, and Beginners as Hal.
Plummer has won numerous awards and accolades for his work, including an Academy Award, two Emmy Awards, two Tony Awards, a Golden Globe Award, a SAG Award, and a BAFTA Award. With his win at the age of 82 in 2012 for Beginners, Plummer is the oldest actor ever to win an Academy Award.
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Christopher Walken
Christopher Walken (/ˈwɔːkən/; born March 31, 1943) is an American stage and screen actor. He has appeared in more than 100 movies and television shows, including The Deer Hunter, Annie Hall, The Prophecy trilogy, The Dogs of War, Sleepy Hollow, Brainstorm, The Dead Zone, A View to a Kill, At Close Range, King of New York, True Romance, Catch Me If You Can, Pulp Fiction, Wedding Crashers, The Rundown, Click, and Hairspray, as well as music videos by recording artists such as Madonna, Journey, Run DMC, The Left Rights and Fatboy Slim.
Walken's films have grossed more than $1.8 billion in the United States. He has also played the main role in the Shakespeare plays Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, and Coriolanus. He is also a popular guest-host of Saturday Night Live, having hosted 7 times as of April 2008. His most notable roles on the show include record producer Bruce Dickinson (no relation to the singer with the same name) in the "More Cowbell" sketch and his multiple appearances as The Continental.
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Claude Rains
Claude Rains (10 November 1889 – 30 May 1967) was an English stage and film actor whose career spanned 46 years. He was known for many roles in Hollywood films, among them the title role in The Invisible Man (1933), a corrupt senator in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), Mr. Dryden in Lawrence of Arabia (1962), and, perhaps his most notable performance, as Captain Renault in Casablanca (1942).
Rains was born William Claude Rains in Camberwell, London. He grew up, according to his daughter, with "a very serious cockney accent and a speech impediment". His parents were Emily Eliza (Cox) and English stage and film actor Frederick William Rains. The young Rains made his stage debut at 11 in Nell of Old Drury.
His acting talents were recognised by Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, founder of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Tree paid for the elocution lessons Rains needed in order to succeed as an actor. Later, Rains taught at the institution, teaching John Gielgud and Laurence Olivier, among others. Many years later, after he had gone to Hollywood and become a film star, Gielgud was to quip: "He was a great influence on me. I don`t know what happened to him. I think he failed and went to America."
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Cliff Gorman
Cliff Gorman (October 13, 1936 – September 5, 2002) was an American stage and screen actor. He won an Obie award in 1968 for the stage presentation of The Boys in the Band, and went on to reprise his role in the 1970 film version.
Gorman was born in New York City, New York, the son of Ethel (née Kaplan) and Samuel Gorman. He was raised Jewish.
Gorman won a Tony Award in 1972 for playing Lenny Bruce in the play Lenny. Although the film version, directed by Bob Fosse, featured Dustin Hoffman, Gorman was recruited to portray a Lenny-like character in a side-story in Fosse's film All That Jazz. In 1984 he co-starred as Lt. Andrews in the film Angel. Noteworthy are his roles in movies like An Unmarried Woman with Jill Clayburgh, Hoffa with Jack Nicholson and Danny De Vito and Night and the City with Robert De Niro. His TV work included performances in series like Law and Order, Murder, She Wrote and the 1970's drama Police Story, written by former LAPD Detective Sergeant Joseph Wambaugh.
Gorman and his wife cared for his fellow Boys in the Band performer Robert La Tourneaux in the last few months of his battle against AIDS, until La Tourneaux's death on June 3, 1986.
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David Wayne
David Wayne (January 30, 1914 – February 9, 1995) was an American actor with a career spanning nearly 50 years.
Wayne was born Wayne James McMeekan in Traverse City, Michigan, the son of Helen Matilda (née Mason) and John David McMeekan. He grew up in Bloomingdale, Michigan. Wayne's first major Broadway role was Og the leprechaun in Finian's Rainbow, for which he won the Theatre World Award and the first ever Tony for Best Featured Actor in a Musical. While appearing in the play, he and co-star Albert Sharpe were recruited by producer David O. Selznick to play Irish characters in the film Portrait of Jennie (1948).
He was awarded a second Tony for Best Actor in a Play for The Teahouse of the August Moon and was nominated as Best Actor in a Musical for The Happy Time. He originated the role of Ensign Pulver in the classic stage comedy Mister Roberts and also appeared in Say, Darling, After the Fall, and Incident at Vichy.
In films, Wayne most often was cast as a supporting player, such as the charming cad opposite Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn in Adam's Rib (1949). He portrayed the child killer, originally played by Peter Lorre, in the remake of M (1951), a chance to see him in a rare leading role, even rarer as an evil character. He costarred in The Tender Trap (1955) with Frank Sinatra, Debbie Reynolds, and Celeste Holm.
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Djimon Hounsou
Djimon Diaw Hounsou (pronounced [dʒimɔ̃ hũsu];[need tone] born April 24, 1964) is a Beninese actor and model. As an actor, Hounsou has been nominated for two Academy Awards.
Djimon Hounsou was born in Cotonou, Benin, in 1964, to lbertine and Pierre Hounsou, a cook. He emigrated to Lyon in France at the age of thirteen with his brother, Edmond. In 1987, he became a model and established a career in Paris. He moved to the U.S. in 1990.
In 1989 he appeared in a music video of Straight Up by Paula Abdul. Hounsou's film debut was in the 1990 Sandra Bernhard film Without You I’m Nothing, and he has had television parts on Beverly Hills, 90210 and ER and a guest starring role on Alias, but received a larger role in the science fiction film Stargate. His first on-screen appearance was in the 1990 Janet Jackson video “Love Will Never Do (Without You)” from Rhythm Nation 1814, which co-starred Antonio Sabàto, Jr. He also starred in a 2002 Gap commercial directed by Peter Lindbergh, dancing to a rendition of John Lee Hooker's "Boom Boom" by Arrested Development's Baba Oje.
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Ed Begley
Edward James "Ed" Begley, Sr. (March 25, 1901 – April 28, 1970) was an Academy Award-winning American actor.
Begley was born in Hartford, Connecticut, the son of Hannah (née Clifford) and Michael Joseph Begley, Irish immigrants. Begley began his career as a Broadway and radio actor while in his teens. He appeared in the hit musical Going Up on Broadway in 1917 and in London the next year. He later acted in roles as Sgt. O'Hara in the radio show The Fat Man. His radio work included a period as Charlie Chan and Stroke of Fate amongst other roles. He also starred in the 1950s radio program Richard Diamond, Private Detective, playing Lieutenant Walter Levinson, head of homicide at the 5th Precinct, Manhattan. In the late 1940s, he began appearing regularly in supporting film roles.
In the 1952-1953 television season, Begley co-starred with Eddie Albert in the CBS sitcom Leave It to Larry. Begley, though only five years older than Albert, played the father-in-law and employer of Albert's character, Larry Tucker, a shoe salesman, who with his young family lives with Begley.
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Ed Harris
Edward Allen "Ed" Harris (born November 28, 1950) is an American actor, writer, and director, known for his performances in Appaloosa, The Rock, The Abyss, Apollo 13, A Beautiful Mind, A History of Violence, The Truman Show, and The Hours. Harris has also narrated commercials for The Home Depot and other companies. He is a three-time nominee of the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, along with an Academy Award for Best Actor nomination for the title role in Pollock.
Harris was born in Englewood Hospital, and raised in Tenafly, the son of Margaret, a travel agent, and Robert L. Harris, who sang with the Fred Waring chorus and worked at the bookstore of the Art Institute of Chicago. He has an older brother, Robert, and a younger brother, Spencer. His parents were originally from Oklahoma. Harris was raised in a middle-class Presbyterian family. He graduated from Tenafly High School in 1969, where he played on the football team, serving as the team's captain in his senior year. He was a star athlete in high school, and competed in athletics at Columbia University in 1969. Two years later his family moved to New Mexico, and he followed, after having discovered his interest in acting in various theater plays. He enrolled at the University of Oklahoma to study drama. After several successful roles in the local theater, he moved to Los Angeles, and enrolled at the California Institute of the Arts.
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Edward Norton
Edward Harrison Norton (born August 18, 1969) is an American actor, screenwriter, film director and producer. In 1996, his supporting role in the courtroom drama Primal Fear garnered him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Two years later, his lead role as a reformed white power skinhead in American History X earned a nomination for Academy Award for Best Actor. His other films include period dramas such as Kingdom of Heaven (2005), in which he played King Baldwin, The Illusionist (2006), and The Painted Veil (2006); and other notable films such as Rounders (1998), Fight Club (1999), 25th Hour (2002), Red Dragon (2002), and The Incredible Hulk (2008).
In addition to acting, Norton is also a writer and director. He made his directorial debut with the film Keeping the Faith (2000) and is slated to direct the film adaptation of the novel Motherless Brooklyn. Norton did uncredited work on the scripts for The Score, Frida, and The Incredible Hulk.
In his private life, Norton is an environmental and social activist. He is a member of the board of trustees of Enterprise Community Partners, a non-profit organization for developing affordable housing, founded by his grandfather, James Rouse. Norton is president of the American branch of the Maasai Wilderness Conservation Trust. He ran in the 2009 New York City Marathon to raise money for the Trust. He also raises money for charity through Crowdrise, a social networking community for volunteers and a micro-donations fundraising platform. In July 2010, Norton was designated as the United Nations Goodwill Ambassador for Biodiversity by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
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Elia Kazan
Elia Kazan (IPA: [eˈlia kaˈzan]; September 7, 1909 – September 28, 2003) was an American director, producer, writer and actor, described by The New York Times as "one of the most honored and influential directors in Broadway and Hollywood history". He was born in Istanbul, Ottoman Empire, to Greek parents. After studying acting at Yale, he acted professionally for eight years, later joining the Group Theater in 1932, and co-founded the Actors Studio in 1947. With Lee Strasberg, he introduced Method acting to the American stage and cinema as a new form of self-expression and psychological "realism". Kazan acted in only a few films, including City for Conquest (1940).
Kazan introduced a new generation of unknown young actors to the movie audiences, including Marlon Brando and James Dean. Noted for drawing out the best dramatic performances from his actors, he directed 21 actors to Oscar nominations, resulting in nine wins. He became "one of the consummate filmmakers of the 20th century" after directing a string of successful films, including, A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), On the Waterfront (1954), and East of Eden (1955). During his career, he won two Oscars as Best Director and received an Honorary Oscar, won three Tony Awards, and four Golden Globes. Among the other actors he introduced to movie audences were Warren Beatty, Carroll Baker, Julie Harris, Andy Griffith, Lee Remick, Rip Torn, Eli Wallach, Eva Marie Saint, Martin Balsam, Fred Gwynne, and Pat Hingle.
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Erwin Piscator
Erwin Friedrich Maximilian Piscator (17 December 1893 in Greifenstein-Ulm – 30 March 1966 in Starnberg) was a German theatre director and producer and, with Bertolt Brecht, the foremost exponent of epic theatre, a form that emphasizes the socio-political content of drama, rather than its emotional manipulation of the audience or on the production's formal beauty.
Erwin Friedrich Max Piscator was born on December 17, 1893 in the village of Greifenstein-Ulm to Carl Piscator, a merchant, and Antonia Laparose. His family was descended from Johannes Piscator, a Protestant theologian who produced an important translation of the Bible in 1600. The family moved to Marburg where Piscator attended the Gymnasium Philippinum. In 1913, he enrolled at Munich University to study German, philosophy and art history. Piscator also took Arthur Kutscher's famous seminar in theatre history which Bertolt Brecht was also later to attend. He began his acting career in 1914, in small unpaid roles at the Munich Court Theatre, under the directorship of Ernst von Possart. In 1896, Carl Lautenschläger had installed one of the world's first revolving stages at that theatre.
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Frank Langella
Frank A. Langella, Jr. (born January 1, 1938) is an American stage and film actor. He has won a Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Play for his performance as Richard Nixon in the play Frost/Nixon (2006), and later received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor in a Leading Role for the same role in the film, Frost/Nixon (2008).
Langella, an Italian American, was born in Bayonne, New Jersey, the son of Angelina and Frank A. Langella Sr., a business executive who was the president of the Bayonne Barrel and Drum Company. Langella attended Washington Elementary School and Bayonne High School in Bayonne. After the family moved to South Orange, New Jersey he graduated from Columbia High School, in the South Orange-Maplewood School District, in 1955, and graduated from Syracuse University in 1959 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in drama. He remains a brother of the Alpha Chi Rho fraternity.
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Fredric March
Fredric March (born Ernest Frederick McIntyre Bickel; August 31, 1897 – April 14, 1975) was an American stage and film actor. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1932 for Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and in 1946 for The Best Years of Our Lives.
March was born in Racine, Wisconsin, the son of Cora Brown (née Marcher), a schoolteacher, and John F. Bickel, a devout Presbyterian Church elder who worked in the wholesale hardware business. March attended the Winslow Elementary School (established in 1855), Racine High School, and the University of Wisconsin–Madison where he was a member of Alpha Delta Phi. He began a career as a banker, but an emergency appendectomy caused him to reevaluate his life, and in 1920 he began working as an extra in movies made in New York City, using a shortened form of his mother's maiden name, Marcher. He appeared on Broadway in 1926, and by the end of the decade signed a film contract with Paramount Pictures.
March received an Oscar nomination in 1930 for The Royal Family of Broadway, in which he played a role based upon John Barrymore (which he had first played on stage in Los Angeles). He won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1932 for Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (tied with Wallace Beery for The Champ although March accrued one more vote than Beery), leading to a series of classic films based on stage hits and classic novels like Design for Living (1933) with Gary Cooper, Death Takes a Holiday (1934), Les Misérables (1935) with Charles Laughton, Anthony Adverse (1936) with Olivia de Havilland, and as the original Norman Maine in A Star is Born (1937) with Janet Gaynor, for which he received his third Oscar nomination.
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Fritz Weaver
Fritz William Weaver (born January 19, 1926) is an American actor and voice actor.
Weaver was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the son of Elsa W. (née Stringaro) and John Carson Weaver. His mother was of Italian descent and his father was a social worker from Pittsburgh. Weaver attended Peabody High School. He served in Civilian Public Service as a conscientious objector during World War II, breaking into acting in the early 1950s. His first television role came in 1956 on an episode of The United States Steel Hour. He would continue to appear on television during the next four decades, appearing on such shows as The Twilight Zone (in episodes "Third from the Sun" and "The Obsolete Man"), Beyond This Place, Dr. Kildare, The Fugitive, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Rawhide, Mission: Impossible, Combat!, Gunsmoke, Mannix, Night Gallery, Kung Fu, Hawaii Five-O, Wonder Woman, Magnum, P.I., Murder, She Wrote, Matlock, Law & Order, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (in the episode "Tribunal"), 12 O'Clock High, The X-Files, and Frasier. Weaver also starred in the TV movies Holocaust (1978), and The Legend of Lizzie Borden.
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Gary Sinise
Gary Alan Sinise (
/səˈniːs/; born March 17, 1955) is an American actor, film director and musician. During his career, Sinise has won various awards including an Emmy and a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for an Academy Award. In 1992, Sinise directed, and played the role of George Milton in the successful film adaptation of Of Mice and Men. Sinise was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1994 for his role as Lt. Dan Taylor in Forrest Gump. He won a Golden Globe Award for his role in Truman, as Harry S. Truman. In 1996, he played a corrupt police officer in the dramatic hit Ransom, Detective Jimmy Shaker. In 1998, Sinise was awarded an Emmy Award for the television film George Wallace, a portrayal of the late George C. Wallace. Since 2004, Sinise has starred in CBS's CSI: NY as Detective Mac Taylor.
Sinise was born in Blue Island, Illinois, the son of Mylles S. (née Alsip; b. 1932) and Robert L. Sinise (b. 1931), the latter of whom was a film editor. He is of part Italian ancestry (from his paternal grandfather). He attended Highland Park High School in Highland Park, Illinois. In 1974, Sinise and two friends, Terry Kinney and Jeff Perry, founded the Steppenwolf Theatre Company. Since its founding, Steppenwolf has showcased the talents of such notable actors as Joan Allen, Kevin Anderson, Gary Cole, Ethan Hawke, Glenne Headly, John Mahoney, John Malkovich, Laurie Metcalf, Martha Plimpton, Jim True-Frost and most recently William Petersen. At Steppenwolf, Sinise honed his acting and directing skills, received a Joseph Jefferson Award for his direction of Lyle Kessler's play Orphans, that took him from Chicago, to New York City to London's West End, and worked on more than thirty of the company's productions.
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George Burns
George Burns (January 20, 1896 – March 9, 1996), born Naftaly Birnbaum, was an American comedian, actor, and writer.
He was one of the few entertainers whose career successfully spanned vaudeville, film, radio, and television. His arched eyebrow and cigar smoke punctuation became familiar trademarks for over three quarters of a century. Beginning at the age of 79, Burns' career was resurrected as an amiable, beloved and unusually active old comedian, continuing to work until shortly before his death, in 1996, at the age of 100.
Naftaly (late called Nathan) Birnbaum was the ninth of 12 children born to Louis and Dorah (nèe Bluth) Birnbaum, Jewish immigrants who had come to the United States from Romania. Burns was an active member of the First Roumanian-American congregation. His father was a substitute cantor at the local synagogue but usually worked as a coat presser. During the influenza epidemic of 1903, Lippe Birnbaum contracted the flu and died at the age of 47. Nattie (as he was then called) went to work to help support the family, shining shoes, running errands, and selling newspapers.
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George Chakiris
George Chakiris (born September 16, 1934) is a Greek-American dancer, singer and actor.
Chakiris was born in Norwood, Ohio, to Steven and Zoe (née Anastasiadou) Chakiris, immigrants from Greece. Chakiris studied at the American School of Dance.
Chakiris made his film debut in 1947, in the chorus of Song of Love. For several years he appeared in small roles, usually as a dancer or a member of the chorus in various musical films. He was one of the dancers in Marilyn Monroe's "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" number in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), and appeared as a dancer alongside Vera-Ellen and Rosemary Clooney in White Christmas (in the "Mandy" and "Love, You Didn't Do Right by Me" numbers). He can also be seen in the "Chop Suey" number in the musical film Flower Drum Song and the funeral dance in the MGM musical film Brigadoon.
His biggest success came with the film West Side Story (1961), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Bernardo, leader of the "Sharks". Prior to the film, he'd appeared as "Riff," leader of the "Jets," in the West End (London) production of the same musical. He starred as a doctor in the film Diamond Head (1963) opposite Charlton Heston and Yvette Mimieux, and appeared alongside Gene Kelly in Jacques Demy's French musical Les Demoiselles de Rochefort (1967).
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George Kennedy
George Harris Kennedy, Jr. (born February 18, 1925) is an American actor who has appeared in over 200 film and television productions. He is perhaps best-known for three of his roles: as the convict "Dragline" in Cool Hand Luke, for which he won an Academy Award; as airline pilot-cum-troubleshooter Joe Patroni in all four of the 1970s Airport disaster movies; and as Captain Ed Hocken in the Naked Gun series of comedy films.
Kennedy was born in New York City, into a show business family. His father, George Harris Kennedy, a musician and orchestra leader, died when Kennedy was four years old. He was raised by his mother, Helen A. (née Kieselbach), a ballet dancer. He made his stage debut at the age of two, later becoming a radio performer. Kennedy put aside show business during World War II and served in the United States Army for 16 years, seeing combat and working in the Armed Forces radio. He was involved with the opening of the first Army Information Office, which provided technical assistance to films and TV shows. After retiring from the military (reportedly because of a back injury), Kennedy found his way back to the entertainment industry.
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George Peppard
George Peppard Byrne, Jr. ( /pəˈpɑrd/; October 1, 1928 – May 8, 1994) was an American film and television actor.
Peppard secured a major role when he starred alongside Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), portrayed a character based on Howard Hughes in The Carpetbaggers (1964), and played the title role of the millionaire sleuth Thomas Banacek in the early-1970s television series Banacek. He is probably best known for his role as Col. John "Hannibal" Smith, the cigar-chomping leader of a renegade commando squad, in the 1980s television show The A-Team.
George Peppard Byrne, Jr. was born in Detroit, Michigan, the son of building contractor George Peppard Byrne, Sr. and opera singer Vernelle Rohrer. He graduated from Dearborn High School in Dearborn, Michigan.
Peppard enlisted in the United States Marine Corps at age 17 on July 8, 1946 and rose to rank of Corporal in the 10th Marines, leaving the Marines at the end of his enlistment in January 1948.
From 1948 to 1949, he studied Civil Engineering at Purdue University where he was a member of the Purdue Playmakers theatre troupe and Beta Theta Pi fraternity. He then transferred to Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he received his bachelor's degree in 1955. He also trained at the Pittsburgh Playhouse.
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Gig Young
Gig Young (November 4, 1913 – October 19, 1978) was an American film, stage, and television actor. Known mainly for second leads and supporting roles, Young won an Academy Award for his performance as a dance-marathon emcee in the 1969 film They Shoot Horses, Don't They?.
Born Byron Elsworth Barr in St. Cloud, Minnesota, his parents John and Emma Barr raised him and his older siblings in Washington D.C. He developed a passion for the theatre while appearing in high school plays, and after some amateur experience he applied for and received a scholarship to the acclaimed Pasadena Community Playhouse. While acting in Pancho, a south-of-the-border play by Lowell Barrington, he and the leading actor in the play, George Reeves, were spotted by a Warner Brothers talent scout. Both actors were signed to supporting player contracts with the studio. His early work was uncredited or as Byron Barr (not to be confused with another actor with the same name, Byron Barr), but after appearing in the 1942 film The Gay Sisters as a character named "Gig Young", the studio decided he should adopt this name professionally.
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Greg Kinnear
Gregory "Greg" Kinnear (born June 17, 1963) is an American actor and television personality who first rose to stardom in 1991. He has appeared in more than 20 motion pictures, and was nominated for an Academy Award for his role in As Good as It Gets.
Kinnear was born in Logansport, Indiana, the son of Suzanne, a homemaker, and Edward Kinnear, a career diplomat who worked for the US State Department. He has two brothers, James and Steven. When he was a child, the Kinnear family moved around frequently, from Beirut to Athens, part of a group sometimes referred to as the "Foreign Service Brats". While a student at the American Community Schools in Athens, Greg Kinnear first ventured into the role of talk show host with his radio show "School Daze With Greg Kinnear". Returning to the United States for a college education, he attended the University of Arizona, where he graduated in 1985 with a degree in broadcast journalism. At Arizona, Greg was a member of the Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity.
Kinnear hosted a short-lived game show, College Mad House, which was spun off from the kids' show, Fun House. Later he would become the creator, co-executive producer, and host of Best of the Worst which aired from 1990 to 1991. In 1991, Kinnear became the first host of Talk Soup, which he did until 1995, when he left the show for the NBC late-night talk show, Later with Greg Kinnear (1994).
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Gregory Peck
Eldred Gregory Peck (April 5, 1916 – June 12, 2003) was an American actor.
One of the world's most popular film stars from the 1940s to the 1960s, Peck continued to play important roles well into the 1980s. His notable performances include that of Atticus Finch in the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird, for which he won an Academy Award. President Lyndon Johnson honored Peck with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1969 for his lifetime humanitarian efforts. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Peck among the Greatest Male Stars of All Time, ranking at #12. He was named to the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame in 1983.
Eldred Gregory Peck was born in La Jolla, California, the son of Missouri-born Bernice Mae "Bunny" (née Ayres) and Gregory Pearl Peck, who was a chemist and pharmacist. Peck's father was of Irish (maternal) heritage and English (paternal) heritage, and his mother was of Scots (paternal) and English (maternal) ancestry. Peck's father was a Catholic and his mother converted upon marrying his father. Peck's Irish-born paternal grandmother, Catherine Ashe, was related to Thomas Ashe, who took part in the Easter Rising fewer than three weeks after Peck's birth and died while on hunger strike in 1917. Peck's parents divorced by the time he was six years old and he spent the next few years being raised by his maternal grandmother.
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Hal Holbrook
Harold Rowe "Hal" Holbrook, Jr. (born February 17, 1925) is an American actor. His television roles include Abraham Lincoln in the 1976 TV series Lincoln, Hays Stowe on The Bold Ones: The Senator and Capt. Lloyd Bucher on Pueblo. He is also known for his role in the 2007 film Into the Wild, for which he was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award and an Academy Award. He has also performed a one-man show as Mark Twain since 1954.
Holbrook was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of Aileen Davenport Holbrook, a vaudeville dancer, and Harold Rowe Holbrook, Sr. He was raised in South Weymouth, Massachusetts. He graduated from the Culver Academies and Denison University, where an honors project about Mark Twain led him to develop the one-man show for which he is best known, a series of performances called Mark Twain Tonight (for which he won both a Tony and a Drama Desk Award). Holbrook served in the U.S. Army in World War II and was stationed in Newfoundland, where he performed in theatre productions such as the play Madam Precious.
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Harry Andrews
Harry Fleetwood Andrews, CBE (10 November 1911 – 6 March 1989) was an English film actor known for his frequent portrayals of tough military officers. His performance as Sergeant Major Wilson in The Hill alongside Sean Connery earned Andrews the 1965 National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actor and a nomination for the 1966 BAFTA Award for Best British Actor. He made his film debut in The Red Beret in 1953.
Prior to his film career, Andrews was an accomplished Shakespearean actor, appearing at such venues as the Queen's Theatre, the Lyceum Theatre, and the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in England as well as theatres in New York City, Paris, Antwerp and Brussels. Andrews made his London theatre debut in 1935 at the St James's Theatre and his New York debut in 1936 at the since-demolished Empire Theatre.
Harry Andrews was born on 10 November 1911, in Tonbridge, Kent. He was the son of Henry Arthur Andrews and Amy Diana Frances (née Horner). Andrews attended Wrekin College in Wellington, Shropshire. From October 1939 to October 1945, Andrews served with the Royal Artillery during the Second World War. Andrews died at the age of 77 on 6 March 1989, at his home in Salehurst, leaving behind his long-term romantic partner Basil Hoskins.
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Henry Fonda
Henry Jaynes Fonda (May 16, 1905 – August 12, 1982) was an American film and stage actor.
Fonda made his mark early as a Broadway actor. He also appeared in 1938 in plays performed in White Plains, New York, with Joan Tompkins. He made his Hollywood debut in 1935, and his career gained momentum after his Academy Award-nominated performance as Tom Joad in The Grapes of Wrath, a 1940 adaptation of John Steinbeck's novel about an Oklahoma family who moved west during the Dust Bowl. Throughout six decades in Hollywood, Fonda cultivated a strong, appealing screen image in such classics as The Ox-Bow Incident, Mister Roberts and 12 Angry Men. Later, Fonda moved both toward darker epics as Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West and lighter roles in family comedies like Yours, Mine and Ours with Lucille Ball.
Fonda was the patriarch of a family of famous actors, including daughter Jane Fonda, son Peter Fonda, granddaughter Bridget Fonda, and grandson Troy Garity. His family and close friends called him "Hank". In 1999, he was named the sixth-Greatest Male Star of All Time by the American Film Institute.
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Holger Löwenadler
Holger Löwenadler (1 April 1904, Jönköping, Jönköpings län, Sweden – 18 June 1977, Stockholm, Sweden) was a Swedish film actor. He starred in Ingmar Bergman's 1947 A Ship to India. He appeared in the 1951 Divorced, which was written by Bergman. Other appearances include Lacombe Lucien (1974).
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Howard Simons
Howard Simons (June 3, 1929 - June 13, 1989) was the managing editor of the Washington Post at the time of the Watergate scandal, and later curator of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University.
According to his Washington Post obituary, Simons was a native of Albany, New York, and received a BA from Union College in Schenectady in 1951 and a master's degree a year later from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. After service in the Korean War, he became a science reporter in Washington for several news organizations, and joined The Post as a science writer in 1961. He became assistant managing editor in 1966 and managing editor in 1971.
According to a site on the Howard Simons Fellowship, "Simons received the first phone call in The Post newsroom with word of the Watergate break-in and pressed relentlessly on the paper's coverage of the story. He started at The Post as a science reporter but soon became an editor, nurturing talented young reporters such as Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein." Simons is credited with dubbing their well-placed source "Deep Throat," in reference to the film of the same name.
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Hugh Griffith
Hugh Emrys Griffith (30 May 1912 – 14 May 1980) was a Welsh film, stage and television actor.
Griffith was born in Marianglas, Anglesey, Wales, the son of Mary and William Griffith. He was educated at Llangefni County School and attempted to gain entrance to university, but failed the English examination. He was then urged to make a career in banking, becoming a bank clerk and transferring to London to be closer to acting opportunities. Just as he was making progress and gained admission to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, he had to suspend his plans in order to serve in the British Army, serving for six years with the Royal Welsh Fusiliers in India and the Burma Campaign during World War II. He resumed his acting career in 1946.
Between 1946 and 1976, Griffith won acclaim for many stage roles, in particular for his portrayals of Falstaff, Lear and Prospero. Griffith acted on both sides of the Atlantic, taking leading roles in London, New York and Stratford. In 1952 he starred in the Broadway adaption of Legend of Lovers, alongside fellow Welsh actor Richard Burton. In 1958 he was back in New York, this time taking a lead role in the opening production of Look Homeward, Angel alongside Anthony Perkins. Both he and Perkins were nominated for a Tony Award for Best Actor in a play for their roles.
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Jack Albertson
Jack Albertson (June 16, 1907 – November 25, 1981) was an American character actor dating to vaudeville. A comedian, dancer, singer, and musician, Albertson is perhaps best known for his roles as Manny Rosen in The Poseidon Adventure (1972), Grandpa Joe in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971), Amos Slade in the 1981 animated film The Fox and the Hound (1981), and as Ed Brown in the 1974–1978 television sitcom Chico and the Man. For his contributions to the television industry, Jack Albertson was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6253 Hollywood Boulevard.
Albertson was born in Malden, Massachusetts, the son of Russian-born Jewish immigrants Flora (née Craft) and Leopold Albertson. His sister was actress Mabel Albertson. Albertson's mother, a stock actress, supported the family by working in a shoe factory. Albertson dropped out of high school and traveled to New York City in an attempt to make it big in show business. He was too poor to get a room in a flophouse, so in the winter he would sleep on the IRT subway; he would catch the train for a nickel, and hide out when the transit workers would clear out the train at the end of the line. In the summer he would sleep in Central Park. Albertson's first real job in show business was with a vaudeville road troupe, the Dancing Verselle Sisters.
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Jack Nicholson
Not to be confused with Nicholas Jackson
John Joseph "Jack" Nicholson (born April 22, 1937) is an American actor, film director, producer and writer. He is renowned for his often dark portrayals of neurotic characters. His twelve Oscar nominations make him the second most nominated actor of all time, behind only Meryl Streep, and tied with Katharine Hepburn.
Nicholson has been nominated for an Academy Award twelve times and has won the Academy Award for Best Actor twice: for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and for As Good as It Gets. He also won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the 1983 film Terms of Endearment. He is tied with Walter Brennan for most acting wins by a male actor (three). Nicholson is well known for playing villainous roles such as Jack Torrance in The Shining, Frank Costello in The Departed, and the Joker in 1989's Batman, among many other roles.
Nicholson is one of only two actors who have been nominated for an Academy Award for acting in every decade from the 1960s to 2000s; the other is Michael Caine. He has won seven Golden Globe Awards, and received a Kennedy Center Honor in 2001. In 1994, he became one of the youngest actors to be awarded the American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award. Notable films in which he has starred include Easy Rider, Five Easy Pieces, Chinatown, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Passenger, The Shining, Reds, Terms of Endearment, Batman, A Few Good Men, As Good as It Gets, About Schmidt, The Departed and Anger Management .
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Jackie Gleason
Jackie Gleason (February 26, 1916 – June 24, 1987) was an American comedian, actor and musician. He was known for his brash visual and verbal comedy style, especially by his character Ralph Kramden on The Honeymooners. His most noted film roles were as Minnesota Fats in the drama film The Hustler (1961) starring Paul Newman, and as Buford T. Justice in the Smokey and the Bandit movie series.
Gleason was born at 364 Chauncey Street in Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York. He grew up nearby at 328 Chauncey Street, an address that he later used as the address for Ralph and Alice Kramden on his show The Honeymooners. Originally named Herbert Walton Gleason, Jr., he was baptized as John Herbert Gleason. His parents were Mae "Maisie" (née Kelly), a subway change-booth attendant, and Herbert John "Herb" Gleason, an insurance auditor. His mother was from Farranree,[citation needed]Cork, Ireland. Gleason was one of their two children. Gleason's brother, Clemence, died of spinal meningitis at age 14, and his father abandoned the family.
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Jake Gyllenhaal
Jacob Benjamin "Jake" Gyllenhaal (
/ˈdʒɪlənhɔːl/ JIL-ən-hawl; born December 19, 1980) is an American actor. The son of director Stephen Gyllenhaal and screenwriter Naomi Foner, Gyllenhaal began acting at the age of ten. Following his first lead role in 1999's October Sky, he starred in the indie cult hit Donnie Darko (2001), in which he played a psychologically troubled teenager alongside his older sister, actress Maggie Gyllenhaal. In 2004 he appeared in the science-fiction film The Day After Tomorrow, portraying a student caught in a cataclysmic global cooling event. He then played against type as a frustrated Marine in Jarhead (2005). The same year his role as Jack Twist in Brokeback Mountain earned him critical acclaim and an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. He has since played the lead roles in many notable films, including Zodiac (2007), Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010) and Source Code (2011).
Gyllenhaal has promoted various political and social causes. He has appeared in Rock the Vote advertising, campaigned for the Democratic Party in the 2004 U.S. presidential election, promoted environmental causes, and campaigned on behalf of the American Civil Liberties Union.
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James Earl Jones
James Earl Jones (born January 17, 1931) is an American actor. Since his Broadway debut in 1957, Jones has spent more than five decades as "one of America's most distinguished and versatile actors" and has been termed "one of the greatest actors in American history." On November 12, 2011, Jones received an Honorary Academy Award.
He is well known for his distinctive bass voice and for his portrayal of characters of substance, gravitas and leadership.
James Earl Jones was born in Arkabutla, Mississippi, son of Robert Earl Jones (1910–2006), an actor, boxer, butler, and chauffeur who left the family shortly after James Earl's birth, and his wife Ruth (Connolly) Jones, a teacher and maid. Jones and his father reconciled many years later. Jones was raised by his maternal grandparents, farmers John Henry and Maggie Connolly. He is multiracial, with African, Irish, and Native American ancestry.
Jones describes his grandmother, Maggie, as "the most racist person I have ever known", thus forcing him to develop his own independent thinking. His grandmother was of Cherokee, Choctaw, and black ancestry.
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Jason Robards
Jason Nelson Robards, Jr. (July 26, 1922 – December 26, 2000) was an American actor on stage, and in film and television. He is a winner of the Tony Award, two Academy Awards and the Emmy Award. He was also a United States Navy combat veteran of World War II.
He became famous playing works of Eugene O'Neill, an American playwright, and regularly performed in O'Neill's works throughout his career. Robards was cast in both common-man roles and as well-known historical figures.
Robards was born in Chicago, the son of Hope Maxine (née Glanville) Robards and Jason Robards, Sr., an actor who regularly appeared on the stage and in such early films as The Gamblers (1929). Robards was of English, Welsh, Irish, and Swedish descent.
The family moved to New York City, New York, when Jason Jr. was still a toddler, and then moved to Los Angeles, California, when he was six years old. Later interviews with Robards suggested that the trauma of his parents' divorce, which occurred during his grade-school years, greatly affected his personality and worldview.
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Jim Broadbent
James "Jim" Broadbent (born 24 May 1949) is an English theatre, film, and television actor. He is known for his roles in Iris, Moulin Rouge!, Topsy-Turvy, Hot Fuzz, and Bridget Jones' Diary. He also appears in the Harry Potter films as Horace Slughorn.
Broadbent was born in Holton cum Beckering, the son of Doreen "Dee" Broadbent (née Findlay), a sculptor, and Roy Laverick Broadbent, an artist, sculptor, interior designer, and furniture maker who turned a former church into a theatre named after him. Broadbent's parents were both amateur actors who co-founded the Holton Players acting troupe at Holton cum Beckering; the two were described by the BBC as conscientious objectors who "worked the land" rather than participate in World War II. He had a twin sister who died at birth. Broadbent was educated at Leighton Park School, a Quaker school in Reading, and briefly attended art college before transferring to the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art from which he graduated in 1972.
Broadbent's early stagework included a number of productions for The National Theatre of Brent, as the downtrodden assistant Wallace to Patrick Barlow's self-important actor/manager character Desmond Olivier Dingle. Broadbent and Barlow played many male and female character roles in comically less-than-epic tellings of historical and religious stories such as The Messiah, The Complete Guide to Sex, The Greatest Story Ever Told, Revolution!!, and All The World's A Globe. These were hits at the Edinburgh Fringe, in London, and on tour. Later stage work included the original productions of Kafka's Dick (1986) and Our Country's Good (1988) at the Royal Court Theatre and work for the Royal National Theatre including "The Government Inspector". Work on the stage with Mike Leigh includes Goosepimples and Ecstasy.
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Joaquin Phoenix
Joaquin Rafael Phoenix ( /hwɑːˈkiːn ˈfiːnɪks/; born October 28, 1974), formerly credited as Leaf Phoenix, is an American film actor. He was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and his family returned to the continental United States four years later. Phoenix is from a family of performers, including his older brother, the late River Phoenix.
Phoenix has ventured behind the camera, directing music videos as well as producing movies and television shows, and has recorded an album, the soundtrack to Walk the Line. He is also known for his work as a social activist, particularly as an advocate for animal rights.
Phoenix was born Joaquín Rafael Bottom in Río Piedras, located in the city of San Juan, Puerto Rico, to American parents. He is the third of five children, including River (1970–1993), Rain (1972), Liberty (1976), and Summer (1978). He also has a half-sister named Jodean (1964) from a previous relationship of his father's.
His father, John Lee Bottom, was a lapsed Catholic from Fontana, California. His mother, Arlyn (née Dunetz), was born in The Bronx, New York to Jewish parents whose families emigrated from Russia and Hungary. In 1968, Arlyn left her family and moved to California, later meeting Phoenix's father while hitch-hiking. They married in 1969, then later joined the religious cult the Children of God. They began travelling throughout South America.
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Joe Don Baker
Joe Don Baker (born February 12, 1936) is an American character actor, perhaps best known for his roles as a Mafia hitman in Charley Varrick, deputy sheriff Thomas Jefferson Geronimo III in Final Justice, real-life Tennessee Sheriff Buford Pusser in Walking Tall, brute-force-with-a-badge detective Mitchell in Mitchell, James Bond villain Brad Whitaker in The Living Daylights, CIA Agent Jack Wade in the James Bond films GoldenEye and Tomorrow Never Dies and the brilliant and tough NYPD Chief of Detectives Earl Eischied in television police drama, Eischied.
Baker was born in Groesbeck, Texas, the son of Edna (née McDonald) and Doyle Charles Baker. He attended the University of North Texas. In 1964 he appeared on stage in Marathon '33 at the ANTA Theatre in New York City. He got his start in acting as an uncredited character in the 1967 film Cool Hand Luke and as an illiterate vending machine robber in a 1969 episode of the TV series Mod Squad, but his real beginnings came when he scored the role of Steve McQueen's younger brother in Sam Peckinpah's Junior Bonner. He later starred in the 1973 film Walking Tall, directed by Phil Karlson and also starring in the filmmaker's final work, Framed, two years later. Baker was offered a cameo in the remake, but declined the offer.
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Joe Pesci
Joseph Frank "Joe" Pesci (/ˈpɛʃi/PESH-ee; born February 9, 1943) is an American actor, comedian, and musician. He is known for playing a variety of different roles, from violent mobsters to comedic leads to quirky sidekicks. Pesci has starred in a number of high profile films including Goodfellas, Casino, Raging Bull, Once Upon a Time in America, My Cousin Vinny, JFK, Home Alone, and the Lethal Weapon series. He took a six year hiatus from acting between 1999 and 2005 before returning for a cameo in The Good Shepherd (2006).
In 1990, Pesci won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as the psychotic mobster Tommy DeVito in Goodfellas, ten years after receiving a nomination in the same category for Raging Bull.
Pesci was born in Newark, New Jersey, the son of Mary, who worked part-time as a barber, and Angelo Pesci, a forklift driver for General Motors and bartender. Pesci was raised in Belleville, New Jersey and attended Belleville High School. By the time Pesci was five years old, he was appearing in plays in New York. A few years later, at age ten, he was a regular on a television variety show called Startime Kids, which also featured Connie Francis. He started out working as a barber in the 1960s, following in his mother's footsteps.
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Joel Grey
Joel Grey (born April 11, 1932) is an American stage and screen actor, singer, and dancer, known for his role as the Master of Ceremonies in both the stage and film adaptation of the Kander & Ebb musical Cabaret. He has won the Academy Award, Tony Award and Golden Globe Award. He also originated the role of the Wizard in the musical Wicked. Grey is featured in the Broadway revival of Anything Goes as Moonface Martin, which opened on April 7, 2011.
Grey was born as Joel David Katz in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of Goldie "Grace" (née Epstein) and Mickey Katz, an actor, comedian and musician. Grey started his career as a child actor in the Cleveland Play House. He attended Alexander Hamilton High School in Los Angeles.
Grey originated the role of the Master of Ceremonies in the Broadway musical Cabaret in 1966 for which he won the Tony Award. Additional Broadway credits include Come Blow Your Horn (1961), Stop the World - I Want to Get Off (1962), Half a Sixpence (1965), George M! (1968), Goodtime Charley (1975), The Grand Tour (1979), Chicago (1996), Wicked (2003), and Anything Goes (2011). In November 1995, he performed as the Wizard in The Wizard of Oz in Concert: Dreams Come True a staged concert of the popular story at Lincoln Center to benefit the Children's Defense Fund. The performance was originally broadcast on Turner Network Television (TNT) in November 1995, and released on CD and video in 1996.
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John Houseman
John Houseman (born Jacques Haussmann; September 22, 1902 – October 31, 1988) was a Romanian-born British-American actor and film producer who became known for his highly publicized collaboration with director Orson Welles from their days in the Federal Theatre Project through to the production of Citizen Kane. He is perhaps best known for his role as Professor Charles Kingsfield in the 1973 film The Paper Chase, for which he won a best supporting actor Oscar. He reprised his role as Kingsfield in the subsequent TV series adaptation of The Paper Chase. Houseman was also known for his commercials for the brokerage firm Smith Barney. He had a distinctive Mid-Atlantic English accent, in common with many actors of his generation.
Houseman was born in Bucharest, Romania in 1902, the son of May (née Davies) and Georges Haussmann, who ran a grain business. His mother was British, from a Christian family of Welsh and Irish descent. His father was an Alsatian-born Jew. He was educated in England at Clifton College, became a British citizen and worked in the grain trade in London before emigrating to the United States in 1925, where he took the stage name of John Houseman. He became a U.S. citizen in 1943. Houseman died of spinal cancer in 1988 at his home in Malibu, California, at age 86.
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John Kani
Bonsile John Kani (born 1943) is a South African actor, director and playwright.
He was born in New Brighton, South Africa.
Kani joined The Serpent Players (a group of actors whose first performance was in the former snake pit of the zoo, hence the name) in Port Elizabeth in 1965 and helped to create many plays that went unpublished but were performed to a resounding reception.
These were followed by the more famous Sizwe Banzi is Dead and The Island, co-written with Athol Fugard and Winston Ntshona, in the early 1970s. He also received an Olivier nomination for his role in My Children My Africa!
Kani's work has been widely performed around the world, including New York, where he and Winston Ntshona won a Tony Award in 1975 for Sizwe Banzi Is Dead and The Island. These two plays were presented in repertory at the Edison Theatre for a total of 52 performances.
Nothing but the Truth (2002) was his debut as sole playwright and was first performed in the Market Theatre in Johannesburg. This play takes place in post-apartheid South Africa and does not concern the conflicts between whites and blacks, but the rift between blacks who stayed in South Africa to fight apartheid, and those who left only to return when the hated regime folded. It won the 2003 Fleur du Cap Awards for best actor and best new South African play. In the same year he was also awarded a special Obie award for his extraordinary contribution to theatre in the USA.
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John Malkovich
John Gavin Malkovich (born December 9, 1953) is an American actor, producer, director and fashion designer with his label Technobohemian. Over the last 25 years of his career, Malkovich has appeared in more than 70 motion pictures. For his roles in Places in the Heart and In the Line of Fire, he received Academy Award nominations. He has also appeared in critically acclaimed films such as Empire of the Sun, The Killing Fields, Dangerous Liaisons, Of Mice and Men, Con Air, Being John Malkovich, and Red. He will produce the film version of the book The Perks of Being a Wallflower.
Malkovich was born in Christopher, Illinois. His paternal grandparents were Croats, natives of Ozalj in Croatia. His mother was of Scottish and German ancestry. He grew up in Benton, Illinois, in a large house on South Main Street. His father, Daniel Leon Malkovich, was a state conservation director and publisher of Outdoor Illinois, a conservation magazine. His mother, Joe Anne (née Choisser), owned the Benton Evening News (a local newspaper in Benton, Il.), as well as Outdoor Illinois. Malkovich attended Logan Grade School,[citation needed] Webster Junior High, and Benton Consolidated High School, in Benton, Illinois. During his high school years, he appeared in various plays and the musical, Carousel. He was also a member of a folk/rock musical trio, and was a member of a local summer theater/comedy project in Benton in 1972, where he co-starred in Jean-Claude van Itallie's America Hurrah. Upon graduation from high school, he entered Eastern Illinois University, and then transferred to Illinois State University, where he majored in theatre.
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John Mills
Sir John Mills CBE (22 February 1908 – 23 April 2005), born Lewis Ernest Watts Mills, was an English actor who made more than 120 films in a career spanning seven decades.
Mills was born at the Watts Naval School in North Elmham, Norfolk, England, and grew up in Belton, where his father was the headmaster of the village school and in Felixstowe, Suffolk, where he lived in a modest house in Ham's Road. He was educated at Norwich High School for Boys, where it is said that his initials can still be seen carved into the brickwork on the side of the building in Upper St. Giles Street. He made his acting debut on the stage of the Sir John Leman School in Beccles in a performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream when he played the part of Puck.[citation needed] Upon leaving school he worked as a clerk at a corn merchants in Ipswich.
Mills took an early interest in acting, making his professional debut at the London Hippodrome in The Five O'Clock Girl in 1929. He also starred in the Noël Coward revue Words and Music. He made his film debut in The Midshipmaid (1932), and appeared as Colley in the 1939 film version of Goodbye, Mr Chips, opposite Robert Donat.
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Josh Brolin
Josh James Brolin (pronounced /ˈbroʊlɨn/; born February 12, 1968) is an American actor. He has acted in theater, film and television roles since 1985, and won acting awards for his roles in the films W., No Country for Old Men, Milk and True Grit.
Brolin was born in Santa Monica, California, the son of Jane Cameron Agee, a wildlife activist who was a native of Corpus Christi, Texas, and actor James Brolin. Brolin was raised on a California ranch with little exposure to his father's acting career. His parents divorced when he was 16 and his stepmother is singer/actress Barbra Streisand. He became interested in acting after taking an improv acting class in high school.
Brolin started his career in TV movies and guest spots on TV shows before getting a more notable role as Brand Walsh in the Richard Donner-directed movie The Goonies (1985). He was considered for the role of Tom Hanson in the series 21 Jump Street; he and Johnny Depp were the finalists for the role, and at that time the two became close and remained friends even after the role was ultimately awarded to Depp. Brolin guest-starred in an episode of the show in its first season.
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José Ferrer
José Vicente Ferrer de Otero y Cintrón (January 8, 1912 – January 26, 1992), best known as José Ferrer, was a Puerto Rican actor, as well as a theater and film director. He was the first Puerto Rican, as well as the first Hispanic actor to win an Academy Award. Jose Ferrer donated his Academy Award to the University of Puerto Rico as a tribute to his roots. The prolific and distinguished thespian also won numerous Tony Awards: In 1947 he won a Tony Award for his theatrical performance of Cyrano de Bergerac, and in 1952 Ferrer won the Distinguished Dramatic Actor Award for The Shrike, plus the Outstanding Director Award for The Shrike, The Fourposter, and Stalag 17. Jose Ferrer's contributions to American theatre were recognized in 1981 when he was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame. Further honors came in 1985 when he was awarded the National Medal of Arts.
Ferrer was born in the Santurce, Puerto Rico, the son of Maria Providencia Cintron and Rafael Ferrer, an attorney and writer. He studied in the Swiss boarding school Institut Le Rosey. In 1933, he graduated from Princeton University, where he wrote a senior thesis "French Naturalism and Pardo Bazán"; he was also a member of the Princeton Triangle Club.
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Joyce Van Patten
Joyce Benignia Van Patten (born March 9, 1934) is an American stage, film and television actress.
Van Patten was born in New York City, the daughter of Josephine Rose (née Acerno), an Italian American magazine advertising executive, and Richard Byron Van Patten, a Dutch American interior decorator.
She is the younger sister of actor Dick Van Patten, half-sister of actor/director Tim Van Patten and aunt to actors Vincent Van Patten, James Van Patten and Nels Van Patten. She was formerly married to the late actor Martin Balsam, and is the mother of actress Talia Balsam, who was briefly married to actor George Clooney. Van Patten is divorced from actor-director Dennis Dugan.
Van Patten has appeared in dozens of television series. She was a member of the original cast of the daytime drama As the World Turns. She also played Joyce, the jilted fiancee of Peter Sellers in the cult classic movie I Love You, Alice B. Toklas in 1968.
She made her prime-time TV debut as a featured regular on The Danny Kaye Show, after which she co-starred with Bob Denver and Herb Edelman in the 1968-70 sitcom The Good Guys as Claudia Gramus, the long-suffering wife of diner owner Bert Gramus (played by Edelman).
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Kevin Spacey
Kevin Spacey, CBE (born Kevin Spacey Fowler; July 26, 1959) is an American actor, director, screenwriter, producer, and crooner. He grew up in California, and began his career as a stage actor during the 1980s, before being cast in supporting roles in film and television. He gained critical acclaim in the early 1990s, culminating in his first Academy Award for The Usual Suspects (Best Supporting Actor), followed by a Best Actor Academy Award win for American Beauty (1999). His other starring roles in Hollywood include Seven, L.A. Confidential, Pay It Forward, K-PAX, and Superman Returns in a career which has earned him several Emmy and Golden Globe nominations. Since 2003, he has been artistic director of the Old Vic theatre in London.
Spacey was born in South Orange, New Jersey, the son of Kathleen Ann (née Knutson; December 5, 1931 – March 19, 2003), a secretary, and Thomas Geoffrey Fowler (June 4, 1924 – December 24, 1992), a technical writer and data consultant. He has two older siblings: a sister, Julie, and a brother, Randy. He attended Northridge Military Academy, Canoga Park High School (in tenth and eleventh grades), and then Chatsworth High School in Chatsworth, Los Angeles, where he graduated valedictorian of his class. At Chatsworth High, he starred in the school's senior production of The Sound of Music, playing the part of Captain Georg von Trapp, opposite Mare Winningham's character, Maria.
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Lee Strasberg
Lee Strasberg (November 17, 1901 – February 17, 1982) was an American actor, director and acting teacher. He cofounded, with directors Harold Clurman and Cheryl Crawford, the Group Theatre in 1931, which was hailed as "America's first true theatrical collective". In 1951, he became director of the non-profit Actors Studio, in New York City, considered "the nation's most prestigious acting school". In 1969, Strasberg founded the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York City and in Hollywood to teach the work he pioneered.
He is considered the "father of method acting in America," according to author Mel Gussow, and from the 1920s until his death in 1982 "he revolutionized the art of acting by having a profound influence on performance in American theater and movies". From his base in New York, he trained several generations of theatre and film's most illustrious talents, including Anne Bancroft, Dustin Hoffman, Montgomery Clift, James Dean, Marilyn Monroe, Julie Harris, Paul Newman, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro and director Elia Kazan.
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Leo McKern
Reginald "Leo" McKern, AO (16 March 1920 – 23 July 2002) was an Australian-born English actor who appeared in numerous British and Australian television programmes and movies, and more than 200 stage roles.
McKern was born Reginald McKern in Sydney, New South Wales, the son of Vera (née Martin) and Norman Walton McKern and attended Sydney Technical High School. After an accident at age 15 he lost his left eye. He first worked as an engineering apprentice, then as an artist, followed by serving in the Australian Army during World War II. During the war, he made his first stage appearance in Sydney in 1944.
Having fallen in love with actress Jane Holland, McKern moved to England to be with her and they married in 1946. He soon became a regular performer at London's Old Vic theatre and the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre (now called the Royal Shakespeare Theatre) in Stratford-upon-Avon, despite the difficulties posed by his glass eye and Australian accent.
In 1949, he played Forester in Love's Labour's Lost at the Old Vic. His most notable Shakespearean role was as Iago to Anthony Quayle's Othello in 1952. On the West End in London, McKern originated the role of the Common Man for Robert Bolt's A Man for All Seasons in 1960, but for the show's Broadway production, he was shifted to the role of Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex, the prosecutor of Sir Thomas More, which he would reprise in the film version. He also memorably played Subtle in Ben Jonson's The Alchemist in 1962.
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Leonardo DiCaprio
Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio (/dɨˈkæpri.oʊ/; born November 11, 1974) is an American actor and film producer. He has been nominated for the Golden Globe Award eight times as an actor, and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor for his performance in The Aviator (2004). He has also been nominated by the Academy Awards, Screen Actors Guild, Satellite Awards, and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.
Born and raised in Los Angeles, California, DiCaprio started his career by appearing in television commercials prior to landing recurring roles in TV series such as the soap opera Santa Barbara and the sitcom Growing Pains in the early 1990s. He made his film debut in the comedic sci-fi horror film Critters 3 (1991) and received first notable critical praise for his performance in This Boy's Life (1993). DiCaprio obtained recognition for his subsequent work in supporting roles in What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993) and Marvin's Room (1996), as well as leading roles in The Basketball Diaries (1995) and Romeo + Juliet (1996), before achieving international fame in James Cameron's Titanic (1997).
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Martin Balsam
Martin Henry Balsam (November 4, 1919 – February 13, 1996) was an American actor. He is known for his Oscar-winning role as "Arnold Burns" in A Thousand Clowns and his role as "Detective Milton Arbogast" in Psycho.
Martin Balsam was born in The Bronx, New York to Jewish parents Lillian (née Weinstein) and Albert Balsam, who was a manufacturer of ladies sportswear. He attended DeWitt Clinton High School, where he participated in the drama club. He studied at the Dramatic Workshop of The New School in New York with the influential German director Erwin Piscator and then served in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II.
Martin Balsam made his professional debut in August 1941 in a production of The Play's the Thing in Locust Valley. In 1947, he was selected by Elia Kazan and Lee Strasberg to be a player in the Actors Studio television program. He appeared in many other television drama series, including The Twilight Zone (episodes "The Sixteen Millimeter Shrine" and "The New Exhibit"), as a psychologist in the pilot episode, Five Fingers, Target: The Corruptors!, The Eleventh Hour, Breaking Point, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Fugitive, and Mr. Broadway, as a retired U.N.C.L.E. agent in The Man from U.N.C.L.E. episode, "The Odd Man Affair", and guest starred in the two-part Murder, She Wrote episode, "Death Stalks the Big Top".
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Martin Caidin
Martin Caidin (September 14, 1927 – March 24, 1997) was an American author and an authority on aeronautics and aviation.
Caidin wrote more than 50 books, including Samurai!, Black Thursday, Thunderbolt!, Fork-Tailed Devil: The P-38, Zero!, The Ragged, Rugged Warriors, A Torch to the Enemy and many other works of military history. He wrote more than 1,000 magazine articles. Caidin established his own company to promote aeronautical subjects for a young audience and began writing fiction in 1957.
Caidin's 1964 novel Marooned tells the story of an American astronaut who is stranded in space and NASA's attempt to rescue him. The novel was the basis for the movie Marooned made in 1969. The movie starred Gregory Peck, Richard Crenna, David Janssen, James Franciscus, and Gene Hackman.
He twice won the Aviation/Space Writers Association award as the outstanding author in the field of aviation. Among his other honors, he was made an honorary member of the U.S. Army's Golden Knights parachute demonstration team; flew for several months with the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds demonstration squadron; and set the world record for the number of people deployed for a wing-walk — nineteen — on one wing of an airplane on November 14, 1981.
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Martin Scorsese
Martin Charles Scorsese ( /skɔrˈsɛsɛ/; born November 17, 1942) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film historian. In 1990 he founded The Film Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to film preservation, and in 2007 he founded the World Cinema Foundation. He is a recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award for his contributions to the cinema, and has won Academy Award, Palme d'Or, Emmys, Golden Globes, BAFTAs, and DGA Awards.
Scorsese's body of work addresses such themes as Italian American identity, Roman Catholic concepts of guilt and redemption,machismo, modern crime, and violence. Scorsese is hailed as one of the most significant and influential filmmakers of all time, directing landmark films such as Mean Streets (1973), Taxi Driver (1976), Raging Bull (1980), and Goodfellas (1990) – all of which he collaborated on with actor and close friend Robert De Niro. He won the Academy Award for Best Director for The Departed (2006), having been nominated a previous five times.
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Melvyn Douglas
Melvyn Edouard Hesselberg (April 5, 1901 – August 4, 1981), better known as Melvyn Douglas, was an American actor.
Coming to prominence in the 1930s as a suave leading man (perhaps best typified by his performance in the 1939 romantic comedy Ninotchka), Douglas later transitioned into more mature and fatherly roles as in his Academy Award-winning performances in Hud (1963) and Being There (1979).
Douglas was born in Macon, Georgia, the son of Lena Priscilla (née Shackelford) and Edouard Gregory Hesselberg, a concert pianist and composer. His father was a Jewish immigrant from Riga, Latvia, then part of Russia. His mother, a native of Tennessee, was Protestant and a Mayflower descendant. His maternal grandfather, George Shackelford, was a General and Civil War veteran.
Douglas, in his autobiography, See You at the Movies (1987), writes that he was unaware of his Jewish background until later in his youth: "I did not learn about the non-Christian part of my heritage until my early teens," as his parents preferred to hide his Jewish heritage. It was his aunts, on his father's side, who told him "the truth" when he was 14. He writes that he "admired them unstintingly and modeled" himself on them; they in turn treated him like a son.
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Michael Moriarty
Michael Moriarty (born April 5, 1941) is an American-Canadian actor of stage and screen, and a jazz musician. He played Benjamin Stone for four seasons in the TV series Law & Order.
Moriarty, an Irish American was born in Detroit, Michigan the son of Elinor (married and maiden names|née Paul) and George Moriarty, a police sergeant. His grandfather, George Moriarty, was a third baseman, umpire and manager in the major leagues for nearly 40 years.
Moriarty attended middle school at Cranbrook School in Bloomfield Hills before transferring to the University of Detroit Jesuit High School for high school. He then matriculated at Dartmouth College in the class of 1963, where he was a theatre college major. After receiving his degree, he left for London, England, where he enrolled in the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, after receiving a Fulbright Scholarship.
In 1973, Moriarty was cast as the egocentric Henry Wiggen in Bang the Drum Slowly, a film about the unlikely friendship between two baseball teammates – the second being Robert De Niro, a slow thinking catcher who becomes terminally ill. In the same year, Moriarty starred in a TV movie adaptation of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie with Katharine Hepburn. Coincidentally, the film also featured Sam Waterston, who later replaced Moriarty as the Executive Assistant District Attorney on Law & Order. Moriarty's role in Menagerie (as "Jim," the Gentleman Caller; Waterston played the son "Tom") won him an Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actor of the Year. In 1974, Moriarty starred as rookie detective Bo Lockley in the acclaimed gritty police drama Report to the Commissioner.
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Paul Dooley
Paul Dooley (born February 22, 1928) is an American actor, writer, and comedian.
Dooley was born Paul Dooley Brown in Parkersburg, West Virginia, the son of Ruth Irene (née Barringer), a homemaker, and Peter James Brown, a factory worker. Dooley was a cartoonist as a youth and drew a strip for a local paper in Parkersburg. He joined the Navy before discovering acting while at college. He is married to writer Winnie Holzman, with whom he has one daughter, Savannah Dooley (born 1985).
Moving to New York, he soon found success as a regular on the stage. Also having an interest in comedy, Dooley was a standup comedian for five years, and a member of the Compass Players and The Second City troupe in NYC, as well as having brief stints as a magician and as a clown. Not afraid of trying different areas of entertainment, he also worked as a writer. He was one of the writers on The Electric Company, which the character Paul the Gorilla was named after, and appeared in commercials.
Besides appearing in many movies, including most notably Popeye, Sixteen Candles, Breaking Away, and the voice of Sarge in the Disney/Pixar film Cars and its sequel Cars 2. Dooley has also appeared as a variety of recurrent characters on numerous television shows, including My So-Called Life, Dream On, Grace Under Fire, Curb Your Enthusiasm, ALF (playing Whizzer Deaver) and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine where he played the recurring role of Enabran Tain. He guest starred in other primetime shows like The Wonder Years, Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, The Golden Girls, and Desperate Housewives. In 2000, he was nominated for an Emmy Award for his role as an eccentric judge on The Practice. He was also in the infamous alternate ending to Little Shop of Horrors, but was replaced by Jim Belushi in the final cut.
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Paul Ford
Paul Ford (born Paul Ford Weaver, November 2, 1901 – April 12, 1976) was an American character actor who came to specialize in authority figures whose ineptitude and pompous demeanor were played for comic effect.
Ford was born in Baltimore, Maryland. At a young age, he showed an adept talent for performance, but was discouraged when directors thought he was tone-deaf. However, in later years, he made his hollow, reverberating voice one of the most recognized of his era. His success was long in the making, and he did little acting, but instead raised his family during the Great Depression.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Public Works programs provided Ford with work, and to the day he died, he was a passionate Democrat. Ford auditioned for a play under his birth name, but did not get the part. Later, he dropped his surname and was known professionally as Paul Ford.
Ford became an "overnight" success at age 54 when he played Colonel John T. Hall opposite Phil Silvers on Silvers' Sergeant Bilko TV show. His signature role may well be the part of Mayor George Shinn, a befuddled politico in the film adaptation of the Broadway show The Music Man. Ford played the role straight, and received glowing reviews. Ford had an active career in both films and television until his retirement in the early 1970s.
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Paul Muni
Paul Muni (born Meshilem Meier Weisenfreund; 22 September 1895 – 25 August 1967) was an Austrian-born American stage and film actor. During the 1930s, he was considered one of the most prestigious actors at Warner Brothers studios, and one of the rare actors who was given the privilege of choosing which parts he wanted.
His acting quality, usually playing a powerful character, such as Scarface, was partly a result of his intense preparation for his parts, often immersing himself in study of the real character's traits and mannerisms. He was also highly skilled in using makeup techniques, a talent he learned from his parents, who were also actors, and from his early years on stage with the Yiddish Theater, in New York. At the age of 12, he played the stage role of an 80-year-old man; in one of his films, Seven Faces, he played seven different characters.
He was nominated six times for an Oscar, winning once as Best Actor in The Story of Louis Pasteur.
Muni was born to a Jewish family in Lemberg, Galicia, a province of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, now Lviv, Ukraine (formerly Lwów, Poland). His family emigrated to the United States in 1902.
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Paul Scofield
David Paul Scofield, CH, CBE (21 January 1922 – 19 March 2008), better known as Paul Scofield, was an English actor of stage and screen. Noted for his distinctive voice and delivery, Scofield received an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award for his performance as Sir Thomas More in the 1966 film A Man for All Seasons, a reprise of the role he played in the stage version at the West End and on Broadway for which he received a Tony Award.
Scofield was born in Birmingham, England, the son of Mary and Edward Harry Scofield. When Scofield was a few weeks old, his family moved to Hurstpierpoint, Sussex, where his father served as the headmaster at the Hurstpierpoint Church of England School. At the age of 12 he began attending the Varndean Secondary School in Brighton, where he took various roles in school plays.
Scofield began his stage career in 1940 with a debut performance in Desire Under the Elms at the Westminster Theatre, and was soon being compared to Laurence Olivier. He played at the Old Rep in Birmingham. From there he went to the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford, where he starred in Walter Nugent Monck's 1947 revival of Pericles, Prince of Tyre.
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Peter Ustinov
Sir Peter Alexander Ustinov CBE ( /ˈjuːstɪnɒf/ or /ˈuːstɪnɒf/; 16 April 1921 – 28 March 2004) was an English actor, writer and dramatist. He was also renowned as a filmmaker, theatre and opera director, stage designer, author, screenwriter, comedian, humourist, newspaper and magazine columnist, radio broadcaster and television presenter. A noted wit and raconteur, he was a fixture on television talk shows and lecture circuits for much of his career. He was also a respected intellectual and diplomat who, in addition to his various academic posts, served as a Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF and President of the World Federalist Movement.
Ustinov was the winner of numerous awards over his life, including two Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor, Emmy Awards, Golden Globes and BAFTA Awards for acting, a Grammy Award for best recording for children, as well the recipient of governmental honours from, amongst others, the United Kingdom, France and Germany. He displayed a unique cultural versatility that has frequently earned him the accolade of a Renaissance man. Miklós Rózsa, composer of the music for Quo Vadis and of numerous concert works, dedicated his String Quartet No. 1, Op. 22 (1950) to Ustinov.
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Philippe Noiret
Philippe Noiret (born 1 October 1930, Lille, France – died 23 November 2006, Paris, France) was a French film actor.
Noiret's father was in the clothes trade. Philippe was an indifferent scholar and attended several prestigious Paris schools, including the Lycée Janson de Sailly. He failed several times to pass his baccalauréat exams, so he decided to study theater. He trained at the Centre Dramatique de l'Ouest and toured with the Théâtre National Populaire for seven years, where he met Monique Chaumette, whom he married in 1962. During that time he developed a career as a nightclub comedian in a duo act with Jean-Pierre Darras, in which he played Louis XIV in an extravagant wig opposite Darras as the dramatist Jean Racine. In these roles they satirized the politics of Charles de Gaulle, Michel Debré and André Malraux.
Noiret's screen debut (1949) was an uncredited role in Gigi. In 1955 he appeared in La Pointe Courte directed by Agnès Varda. She said later - "I discovered in him a breadth of talent rare in a young actor." Sporting a pudding-basin haircut, Noiret played a lovelorn youth in the southern fishing port of Sète. He later admitted : "I was scared stiff, and fumbled my way through the part - I am totally absent in the film." He was not cast again until 1960 in Zazie dans le métro. After playing second leads in Georges Franju's Thérèse Desqueyroux in 1962, and in Le Capitaine Fracasse, from Théophile Gautier's romantic adventure, he became a regular on the French screen, without being cast in major roles until La Vie de château directed by Jean-Paul Rappeneau in 1966. He became a star in France with Yves Robert's Alexandre le Bienheureux in 1967. After that he devoted himself entirely to movie roles.[citation needed]
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Ralph Bellamy
Ralph Bellamy (June 17, 1904 – November 29, 1991) was an American actor whose career spanned sixty-two years.
He was born Ralph Rexford Bellamy in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Lilla Louise (née Smith), a native of Canada, and Charles Rexford Bellamy. He ran away from home when he was fifteen and managed to get into a road show. He toured with road shows before finally landing in New York City, New York. He began acting on stage there and by 1927 owned his own theatre company. In 1931, he made his film debut and worked constantly throughout the decade first as a lead then as a capable supporting actor. Bellamy was cast in the lead role in the film Straight from the Shoulder (1936) and also in the film It Can't Last Forever (1937) with Edward J. Pawley.
He received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in The Awful Truth (1937) with Irene Dunne and Cary Grant, and played a similar part, that of a naive boyfriend competing with the sophisticated Grant character, in His Girl Friday (1940). He portrayed detective Ellery Queen in a few films during the 1940s, but as his film career did not progress, he returned to the stage, where he continued to perform throughout the fifties. Highly regarded within the industry, he was a founder of the Screen Actors Guild and served as President of Actors' Equity from 1952-1964.
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Rex Harrison
Sir Reginald Carey "Rex" Harrison (5 March 1908 – 2 June 1990) was an English actor of stage and screen. One of Harrison's best remembered film roles was that of Professor Henry Higgins in the stage and film versions of My Fair Lady. The role earned him a Tony Award, a Golden Globe Award and Best Actor Oscar.
Harrison was born in Huyton, Lancashire, and educated at Liverpool College. After a bout of childhood measles, Harrison lost most of the sight in his left eye, which on one occasion caused some on-stage difficulty. He first appeared on the stage in 1924 in Liverpool. Harrison's acting career was interrupted during World War II while serving in the Royal Air Force, reaching the rank of Flight Lieutenant. He acted in various stage productions until 11 May 1990. He acted in the West End of London when he was young, appearing in the Terence Rattigan play French Without Tears, which proved to be his breakthrough role.
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Richard Basehart
John Richard Basehart (August 31, 1914 – September 17, 1984) was an American actor. He starred in the 1960s television science fiction drama Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, in the role of Admiral Harriman Nelson.
One of his most notable film roles was the acrobat known as "the Fool" in the acclaimed Italian film La Strada, directed by Federico Fellini. He also appeared as the killer in the film noir classic He Walked by Night (1948), as a psychotic member of the Hatfield clan in Roseanna McCoy (1949), as Ishmael in Moby Dick (1956), and in the drama Decision Before Dawn (1951). He was married to Italian Academy Award-nominated actress Valentina Cortese, with whom he had one son, the actor Jackie Basehart, before their divorce in 1960. Cortese and Basehart also costarred in Robert Wise's The House on Telegraph Hill (1951).
From 1964-68, Basehart played the lead role, Admiral Harriman Nelson, on Irwin Allen's first foray into science-fiction television, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. Allen would go on to produce a number of sci-fi series in the 1960s and the highly successful feature films The Poseidon Adventure (1972) and The Towering Inferno (1974), earning him the moniker "The Master of Disaster." Although Basehart started his career as a film actor, he became best known for his role on Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.
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Richard Farnsworth
Richard W. Farnsworth (September 1, 1920 – October 6, 2000) was an American actor and stuntman. His film career began in 1937; however, he achieved his greatest success for his performances in The Grey Fox (1982) and The Straight Story (1999), for which he received a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Actor.
Farnsworth was born in Los Angeles, California, to a housewife mother and an engineer father. He was raised during the Great Depression. He lived with his aunt, mother, and two sisters in downtown Los Angeles after his father died when he was seven years old.
He was working as a stable hand at a polo field in Los Angeles for six dollars a week when he was offered a chance to make seven dollars a day plus a box lunch as a stuntman. In 1937, when he was sixteen, he started by riding horses in films such as The Adventures of Marco Polo with Gary Cooper. He performed several horse-riding stunts in such films as the Marx Brothers' A Day at the Races (1937) and Gunga Din (1939).
What differentiated Farnsworth from other western actors was his gradual transition into acting from stunt work. He made uncredited appearances in numerous films, including Gone with the Wind (1939), Red River (1948), The Wild One (1953), and The Ten Commandments (1956). He was on the set of Spartacus (1960) for eleven months. He laughed when he said he did not look like a gladiator but drove a chariot. However, it was not until 1963 that he finally received his first acting credit.
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River Phoenix
River Jude Phoenix (August 23, 1970 – October 31, 1993) was an American film actor, musician, and activist. He was the oldest brother of fellow actors Rain, Joaquin, Liberty, and Summer Phoenix. Phoenix's work encompassed 24 films and television appearances, including the science fiction adventure film Explorers, the coming-of-age film Stand By Me, the action sequel Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and the independent adult drama My Own Private Idaho.
Phoenix began acting at age 10 in television commercials. He appeared in diverse roles, making his first notable appearance in the 1986 film Stand by Me, a hugely popular coming-of-age film based on a novella by Stephen King. Phoenix made a transition into more adult-oriented roles with Running on Empty (1988), playing the son of fugitive parents in a well-received performance that earned him an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor nomination, and My Own Private Idaho (1991), playing a gay hustler in search of his estranged mother. For his performance in the latter, Phoenix garnered enormous praise and won a Volpi Cup at the Venice Film Festival, along with Best Actor from the National Society of Film Critics. He was listed by John Willis as one of twelve promising new actors of 1986.
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Robert De Niro
Robert De Niro (pronounced /dəˈnɪəroʊ/; born August 17, 1943) is an American actor, director and producer. His first major film roles were in Bang the Drum Slowly and Mean Streets, both in 1973. In 1974, he played the young Vito Corleone in The Godfather Part II, a role that won him the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
His critically acclaimed, longtime collaborations with Martin Scorsese began with 1973's Mean Streets, and earned De Niro an Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Jake LaMotta in the 1980 film Raging Bull. He was also nominated for an Academy Award for his roles in Scorsese's Taxi Driver (1976) and Cape Fear (1991). In addition, he received nominations for his acting in Michael Cimino's The Deer Hunter (1978) and Penny Marshall's Awakenings (1990). Also in 1990, his portrayal as Jimmy Conway in Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas earned him a BAFTA nomination.
He has earned four nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy: New York, New York (1977), Midnight Run (1988), Analyze This (1999) and Meet the Parents (2000). De Niro directed A Bronx Tale (1993) and The Good Shepherd (2006). He has received accolades for his esteemed career, including the AFI Life Achievement Award and the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award.
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Robert Mitchum
Robert Charles Durman Mitchum (August 6, 1917 – July 1, 1997) was an American film actor, author, composer and singer and is #23 on the American Film Institute's list of the greatest male American screen legends of all time. Mitchum rose to prominence for his starring roles in several major works of the film noir style, and is considered a forerunner of the anti-heroes prevalent in film during the 1950s and 1960s.
Mitchum was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, into a Methodist family. His mother, Ann Harriet (née Gunderson), was a Norwegian immigrant and sea captain's daughter, and his father, James Thomas Mitchum, was a shipyard and railroad worker. A sister, Annette, (known as Julie Mitchum during her acting career) was born in 1914. James Mitchum was crushed to death in a railyard accident in Charleston, South Carolina, in February 1919, when his son was less than 2 years old. After his death, Ann Mitchum was awarded a government pension, and soon realized she was pregnant. She returned to her family in Connecticut, and married a former British Army major who helped her care for the children. In September 1919 a second son, John, was born. When all of the children were old enough to attend school, Ann found employment as a linotype operator for the Bridgeport Post.
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Sean Connery
Sir Thomas Sean Connery (born 25 August 1930) is a Scottish actor and producer who has won an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards (one of them being a BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award) and three Golden Globes (including the Cecil B. DeMille Award and a Henrietta Award).
Connery is best known for portraying the character James Bond, starring in seven Bond films between 1962 and 1983 (six Eon Productions films and the non-canonical Thunderball remake, Never Say Never Again). In 1988, Connery won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in The Untouchables. His film career also includes such films as Marnie, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, The Hunt for Red October, Highlander, Murder on the Orient Express, Dragonheart, and The Rock. He was knighted in July 2000. Connery has been polled as "The Greatest Living Scot" and "Scotland's Greatest Living National Treasure". In 1989, he was proclaimed "Sexiest Man Alive" by People magazine and in 1999, at age 69, he was voted "Sexiest Man of the Century".
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Sessue Hayakawa
Sessue Hayakawa (早川 雪洲, Hayakawa Sesshū?, June 10, 1889 – November 23, 1973) was a Japanese and American Issei actor who starred in American, Japanese, French, German, and British films. Active at the beginning of the American film industry, Hayakawa was the first and remains one of the few Asian actors to find stardom in the United States and Europe. His brooding good looks and typecasting as a sinister villain with sexual dominance made him a heartthrob among American women and the first male sex symbol of Hollywood before Rudolf Valentino. In his time Hayakawa was as well known and popular as Charlie Chaplin and Douglas Fairbanks although today his name is mostly unknown to the general public.
His popularity, sex appeal and extravagant lifestyle (such as hosting wild parties and driving a gold-plated Pierce-Arrow) caused tension within American society resulting in discriminatory stereotypes and the de-sexualizing of Asian men in cinema, as exemplified by the controversial I.Y. Yunioshi. Refusing to adopt negative stereotypes he decided to leave Hollywood and moved into European cinema where he was treated equally, as would his female counterpart Anna May Wong. Hayakawa's friendship with fellow actors would see him return to Hollywood once again, although to this day few Asian actors have ever had the chance to play a respectable lead role in an American film. He was one of the highest paid stars of his time; making $5,000 a week in 1915, and $2 million a year via his own production company during the 1920s. He starred in over 80 movies and has two films in the U.S. National Film Registry.
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Sidney Blackmer
Sidney Alderman Blackmer (July 13, 1895 – October 6, 1973) was an American actor.
Blackmer was born and raised in Salisbury, North Carolina. He started off in an insurance and financial business but gave up on it. While working as a builder's laborer on a new building, he saw a Pearl White serial being filmed and immediately decided to go into acting. He attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Blackmer went to New York hoping to act on the stage. While in the city, he took jobs and extra work at various film studios at the then motion picture capital, Fort Lee, New Jersey, including a bit part in the highly popular serial, The Perils of Pauline (1914).
He made his Broadway debut in 1917, but his career was interrupted by service in the U.S. military in World War I. After the war, he returned to the theatre and in 1929 returned to motion pictures and went on to be a major character actor in more than 120 films. He won the 1950 Tony Award for Best Actor (Drama) for his role in the Broadway play, Come Back, Little Sheba.
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Talia Balsam
Talia Balsam (born March 5, 1959) is an American actress.
Balsam was born in New York City to actors Martin Balsam and Joyce Van Patten. She is the niece to actor Dick Van Patten.
Balsam made her television debut in Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn in 1977. Survival of Dana was her second TV lead role. She appeared in multiple episodes of Happy Days, Taxi, Family Ties, thirtysomething, Murder, She Wrote, Punky Brewster, Archie Bunker's Place, L.A. Doctors, Tour of Duty, Early Editionand K Street. In more recent years, she had a recurring role as Anthony LaPaglia's estranged wife on Without a Trace and appears as Mona Sterling on Mad Men opposite her husband, John Slattery.
Balsam made her Broadway debut in the 1992 Neil Simon play Jake's Women and won the Theatre World Award for her performance.[citation needed]
Balsam's screen credits include Mass Appeal, Crawlspace, Killer Instinct, Little Manhattan, All the King's Men, and The Wackness, and the 2011 independent film Return, with Slattery.
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Thomas Haden Church
Thomas Haden Church (born June 17, 1960) is an American actor. After co-starring in the 1990s sitcom Wings, Church became well known for his film roles, including his Academy Award-nominated performance in Sideways and his role as the Sandman in Spider-Man 3.
Church, the fourth of six children, was born Thomas Richard McMillen in Yolo, California, to an Army officer/health care worker father and a telephone company sales rep mother. He was raised under his stepfather's surname, "Quesada", and later changed his surname to "Haden Church" (both names are in his family tree). He was raised in Laredo, Texas, and graduated from Harlingen High School, Harlingen, Texas, in 1979, going on to attend the University of North Texas.
Church started in the entertainment business as a radio personality and doing voice over work. A part in an independent film convinced him to move to California to pursue an acting career. He played the part of slow-witted airport mechanic Lowell Mather for six seasons (1990–1995) on the NBC sitcom Wings. He worked in television for two more seasons with a lead role on Ned and Stacey opposite Debra Messing. He has had supporting roles in films such as Tombstone, George of the Jungle, and The Specials. Church often plays villains or comic relief in films, most evident by turns in Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight and Over the Hedge.
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Timothy Hutton
Timothy Tarquin Hutton (born August 16, 1960) is an American actor and director.
He is the youngest actor to win the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, which he won at the age of 20 for his performance as Conrad Jarrett in Ordinary People (1980). Hutton has since appeared regularly in feature films and on television, with featured roles in Taps, The Falcon and the Snowman, and The Dark Half, among others.
Since 2008 he has starred as Nathan "Nate" Ford on the TNT drama series Leverage.
Timothy Hutton was born in Malibu, California. His father was actor Jim Hutton; his mother, Maryline Adams (née Poole), was a teacher. His parents' marriage dissolved when Hutton was three years old, and his mother took him and his older sister with her to Boston. The family returned to California when Hutton was 12.
"A lot of people think that because my father was an actor, I come from this big show-business background," Hutton told Bruce Cook of American Film magazine in 1981. "But that's not how I grew up at all. My mother took us to Cambridge because she wanted to get her M.A. She wound up teaching in Connecticut, but the way she saw it, after a while, if we all stayed there, my sister and I would just wind up as the proprietors of the local drugstore or something, so that was why she took us to Berkeley – to get us into the world, I guess. Now she's given up teaching and she's into printing miniature books."
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Tom Ewell
Tom Ewell (April 29, 1909 – September 12, 1994) was an American actor.
Born Samuel Yewell Tompkins in Owensboro, Kentucky, where his family expected him to follow in their footsteps as lawyers or whiskey and tobacco dealers.
Ewell began acting in summer stock in 1928 with Don Ameche, before moving to New York in 1931. He enrolled in the Actors Studio alongside classmates Montgomery Clift and Karl Malden. He made his Broadway debut in 1934 and his film debut in 1940, and for several years played comic supporting roles. He attracted attention with a strong performance in the film Adam's Rib (1949) and he began to receive Hollywood roles more frequently. Ewell continued acting in summer stock through the 1940s: He starred opposite June Lockhart in Lawrence Riley's biographical play Kin Hubbard in 1951, the story of one of America's greatest humorists and cartoonists. With this play, Ewell also made his debut as a producer. In 1947 he won a Clarence Derwent Award for his portrayal of Fred Taylor in the original Broadway cast of John Loves Mary.
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Tom Skerritt
Thomas Roy "Tom" Skerritt (born August 25, 1933) is an American actor who has appeared in over 40 films and more than 200 television episodes since 1962. He is best known for his roles in MASH, Alien, Top Gun, A River Runs Through It, and the TV series Picket Fences.
Skerritt was born in Detroit, Michigan, the son of Helen, a homemaker, and Roy Skerritt, a businessman. A 1951 graduate of Detroit's Mackenzie High School, Skerritt attended Wayne State University and the University of California at Los Angeles.
Skerritt made his film debut in War Hunt, produced by Terry Sanders and released in 1962. Skerritt's notable film appearances include MASH (1970), Harold and Maude (credited as "M. Borman", 1971), Big Bad Mama, Cheech & Chong's Up In Smoke (1978), Ice Castles (1978), as Captain A. J. Dallas in Alien (1979), as a would-be astronaut in Contact (1997) and SpaceCamp (1986), and in Top Gun (1986) as Commander Mike "Viper" Metcalf. In 1988, he starred with Nancy Allen and Lara Flynn Boyle in Poltergeist III.
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Walter Matthau
Walter Matthau (October 1, 1920 – July 1, 2000) was an American actor best known for his role as Oscar Madison in The Odd Couple and his frequent collaborations with Odd Couple star Jack Lemmon, as well as his role as Coach Buttermaker in the 1976 comedy The Bad News Bears. He won an Academy Award for his performance in the 1966 Billy Wilder film The Fortune Cookie.
Matthau was born Walter John Matthow in New York City's Lower East Side on October 1, 1920, the son of Rose (née Berolsky; from Lithuania), who worked in a sweatshop, and Milton Matthow, an electrician and peddler (from Russia), both Jewish immigrants. His surname has often incorrectly been listed as Matuschanskayasky (see below for a detailed discussion). As a young boy, Walter attended a Jewish non-profit sleepaway camp, Tranquillity Camp, where he first began acting in the shows the camp would stage on Saturday nights. He also attended Surprise Lake Camp. His high school was Seward Park High School.
During World War II, Matthau served in the U.S. Army Air Forces with the Eighth Air Force in England as a B-24 Liberator radioman-gunner, in the same 453rd Bombardment Group as James Stewart. He reached the rank of staff sergeant and became interested in acting. He took classes in acting at the Dramatic Workshop of The New School in New York with the influential German director Erwin Piscator. He often joked that his best early review came in a play where he posed as a derelict. One reviewer said, "The others just looked like actors in make-up, Walter Matthau really looks like a skid row bum!" Matthau was a respected stage actor for years in such fare as Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? and A Shot in the Dark. He won the 1962 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a play.
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Winston Ntshona
Winston Ntshona (born 6 October 1941) is a South African playwright and actor.
Born in Port Elizabeth, Ntshona worked alongside fellow South African Athol Fugard on several occasions and played a minor role in Richard Attenborough's acclaimed film Gandhi.
Ntshona also played deposed President Julius Limbani, the subject of a rescue attempt in The Wild Geese (1978). Limbani is based on Moise Tshombe.
With Fugard and John Kani, Ntshona wrote the 1973 play The Island, in which he and Kani starred in a number of major international productions over the next thirty years. He and Kani were co-winners of the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for their performance in both The Island and Sizwe Banzi is Dead, which he also co-wrote.
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Woody Harrelson
Woodrow Tracy "Woody" Harrelson (born July 23, 1961) is an American actor.
Harrelson's breakout role came in the television sitcom Cheers as bartender Woody Boyd. Some notable film characters include basketball hustler Billy Hoyle in White Men Can't Jump, bowler Roy Munson in Kingpin, serial killer Mickey Knox in Natural Born Killers, magazine publisher Larry Flynt in The People vs. Larry Flynt, country singer Dusty in A Prairie Home Companion, bounty hunter Carson Wells in No Country for Old Men, zombie killer Tallahassee in Zombieland, blind piano player/meat salesman Ezra Turner in Seven Pounds, conspiracy nut Charlie Frost in 2012, a delusional man who believes that he is a superhero named Defendor in Defendor and Cpt. Tony Stone in The Messenger. For The People vs. Larry Flynt and The Messenger, Harrelson earned Academy Award nominations for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor, respectively. He also appeared as Haymitch in the film The Hunger Games, which was released on March 23, 2012.
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Zero Mostel
Samuel Joel “Zero” Mostel (February 28, 1915 – September 8, 1977) was an American actor of stage and screen, best known for his portrayal of comic characters such as Tevye on stage in Fiddler on the Roof, Pseudolus on stage and on screen in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, and Max Bialystock in the original film version of The Producers. He was blacklisted during the 1950s, and his testimony before the House Committee on Un-American Activities was well-publicized. He was a Tony Award and Obie Award winner.
Mostel was born to Israel Mostel, an Eastern European Jew, and Cina "Celia" Druchs, also from a Jewish family, who was born in Poland and raised in Vienna. The two immigrated to the United States (separately: Israel in 1898 and Cina in 1908), where they met and married. Israel already had four children from his first wife; he had four more children with Cina. Samuel, later known as Zero, was Israel's seventh child.
It is said that Samuel Mostel got his nickname "Zero" since his parents were not kind with words and always told him that he would only ever amount to "Gournisht," which is Yiddish for "zero" or "nothing." The rest is history.
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Balsam, Martin Filmography
- A Night at the Movies: The Suspenseful World of Thrillers (2009)
- Strictly Courtroom (2008)
- All About 'The Birds' (2000)
- Legend of the Spirit Dog (1997)
- The 68th Annual Academy Awards (1996)
- Soldato ignoto (1995)
- Il silenzio dei prosciutti (1994)
- La classe américaine (1993)
- The Black Cat (1993)
- The Sands of Time (1992)
- Fonda on Fonda (1992)
- Cape Fear (1991)
- L'ultima partita (1990)
- Due occhi diabolici (1990)
- Oceano (1989)
- The Child Saver (1988)
- Fratello dello spazio (1988)
- La sporca insegna del coraggio (1987)
- Kids Like These (1987)
- P.I. Private Investigations (1987)
- Queenie (1987)
- Once Again (1987)
- The Delta Force (1986)
- Whatever It Takes (1986)
- Second Serve (1986)
- Murder in Space (1985)
- Death Wish 3 (1985)
- St. Elmo's Fire (1985)
- Space (1985)
- The Goodbye People (1984)
- Innocent Prey (1984)
- Cold Storage (1983)
- I Want to Live (1983)
- Night of 100 Stars (1982)
- Little Gloria... Happy at Last (1982)
- Henry Fonda: The Man and His Movies (1982)
- The People vs. Jean Harris (1981)
- The Salamander (1981)
- There Goes the Bride (1980)
- L'avvertimento (1980)
- The Love Tapes (1980)
- The House on Garibaldi Street (1979)
- The Horror Show (1979)
- Gardenia, il giustiziere della mala (1979)
- Aunt Mary (1979)
- The Seeding of Sarah Burns (1979)
- Cuba (1979)
- Silver Bears (1978)
- Occhi dalle stelle (1978)
- Rainbow (1978)
- A Salute to American Imagination (1978)
- The Millionaire (1978)
- Siege (1978)
- The Storyteller (1977)
- Contract on Cherry Street (1977)
- Diamanti sporchi di sangue (1977)
- The Sentinel (1977)
- The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case (1976)
- All the President's Men (1976)
- America at the Movies (1976)
- Cipolla Colt (1976)
- Con la rabbia agli occhi (1976)
- Pronto ad uccidere (1976)
- Raid on Entebbe (1976)
- Two-Minute Warning (1976)
- Corruzione al palazzo di giustizia (1975)
- Miles to Go Before I Sleep (1975)
- Il tempo degli assassini (1975)
- Mitchell (1975)
- Death Among Friends (1975)
- Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
- The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)
- Trapped Beneath the Sea (1974)
- The Six Million Dollar Man: Wine, Women and War (1973)
- A Brand New Life (1973)
- The Stone Killer (1973)
- Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams (1973)
- The Six Million Dollar Man (1973)
- Il consigliori (1973)
- Money to Burn (1973)
- Night of Terror (1972)
- La colonna infame (1972)
- The Man (1972)
- Il vero e il falso (1972)
- Imputazione di omicidio per uno studente (1972)
- Confessione di un commissario di polizia al procuratore della repubblica (1971)
- The Anderson Tapes (1971)
- Little Big Man (1970)
- The Old Man Who Cried Wolf (1970)
- Hunters Are for Killing (1970)
- Catch-22 (1970)
- Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
- Me, Natalie (1969)
- The Good Guys and the Bad Guys (1969)
- Trilogy (1969)
- Around the World of Mike Todd (1968)
- Hombre (1967)
- Among the Paths to Eden (1967)
- The 38th Annual Academy Awards (1966)
- Caccia alla volpe (1966)
- Anyone Around My Base Is It (1966)
- A Thousand Clowns (1965)
- The Bedford Incident (1965)
- Harlow (1965)
- Youngblood Hawke (1964)
- The Carpetbaggers (1964)
- Seven Days in May (1964)
- Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed? (1963)
- La città prigioniera (1962)
- Cape Fear (1962)
- Ada (1961)
- Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
- Psycho (1960)
- Tutti a casa (1960)
- Middle of the Night (1959)
- Winterset (1959)
- Al Capone (1959)
- Marjorie Morningstar (1958)
- 12 Angry Men (1957)
- Time Limit (1957)
- The Greatest Gift (1954)
- On the Waterfront (1954)
- Valiant Lady (1953)
- The Living Christ Series (1951)
Famous quotes by Martin Balsam:
"I still don't feel whatever change you're supposed to feel when your name goes up above the title. I think that's because this star thing has never been the first consideration with me. Never. The work has always come first."
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Martin Balsam in 12 Angry Men
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- Updated: 07 Nov 2012
Martin Balsam in 12 Angry Men
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Martin Balsam & Lila Kedrova Academy Awards 1965
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- Duration: 0:57
- Updated: 27 Oct 2012
Balsam discusses winning Oscar.
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MARTIN BALSAM TRIBUTE
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- Duration: 4:56
- Updated: 19 Sep 2012
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Henry Fonda Jack Warden & Martin Balsam in 12 Angry Men doc short Great Actors part 2 movie by Ana Oproiu xvid
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- Duration: 3:44
- Updated: 07 Dec 2012
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The Twilight Zone - Personal Demons
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- Duration: 12:02
- Updated: 31 Dec 2012
A scriptwriter (Martin Balsam) suffering from writers block is tormented by a group of small creatures.
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A scriptwriter (Martin Balsam) suffering from writers block is tormented by a group of small creatures.
- published: 01 Nov 2012
- views: 629
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WT The Whipping
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- Duration: 69:55
- Updated: 04 Dec 2012
with Martin Balsam and Jeanne Cooper...I will at times re upload episodes that were on my first channel..this is one of them...a very good one
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with Martin Balsam and Jeanne Cooper...I will at times re upload episodes that were on my first channel..this is one of them...a very good one
- published: 20 Dec 2011
- views: 18333
- author: raymondff1000
Psycho Official Trailer #1 - Martin Balsam Movie (1960) HD
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- Duration: 6:29
- Updated: 30 Dec 2012
Psycho Trailer - Directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin, Janet Leigh, and Martin Balsam. A young woman steals $40000 from her employer's client, and subsequently encounters a young motel proprietor too long under the domination of his mother. Universal - 1960
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Psycho Trailer - Directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin, Janet Leigh, and Martin Balsam. A young woman steals $40000 from her employer's client, and subsequently encounters a young motel proprietor too long under the domination of his mother. Universal - 1960
- published: 10 Jan 2012
- views: 15708
- author: oldhollywoodtrailers
Ida Lupino - Twilight Zone (16mm Shrine) Teaser
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- Duration: 0:33
- Updated: 12 Sep 2012
Ida Lupino appears in an episode of the Twilight Zone as Barbara Jean Trenton.
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Ida Lupino appears in an episode of the Twilight Zone as Barbara Jean Trenton.
- published: 12 Mar 2007
- views: 4142
- author: Aaron Joseph
2 1980s PSAs Martin Balsam Ed Asner
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- Duration: 1:28
- Updated: 06 Sep 2010
Whatever happened to these kind of PSAs???
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Psycho (10/12) Movie CLIP - Arbogast Meets Mother (1960) HD
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- Duration: 2:19
- Updated: 03 Jan 2013
Psycho Movie Clip - watch all clips j.mp click to subscribe j.mp Arbogast (Martin Balsam) enters the Bates residence to question Norman's mother; she's been expecting him. TM & © Universal (2012) Cast: Martin Balsam, Anthony Perkins Director: Alfred Hitchcock MOVIECLIPS YouTube Channel: j.mp Join our Facebook page: j.mp Follow us on Twitter: j.mp Buy Movie: amzn.to Producer: Alfred Hitchcock Screenwriter: Joseph Stefano, Robert Bloch Film Description: In 1960, Alfred Hitchcock was already famous as the screen's master of suspense (and perhaps the best-known film director in the world) when he released Psycho and forever changed the shape and tone of the screen thriller. From its first scene, in which an unmarried couple balances pleasure and guilt in a lunchtime liaison in a cheap hotel (hardly a common moment in a major studio film in 1960), Psycho announced that it was taking the audience to places it had never been before, and on that score what followed would hardly disappoint. Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) is unhappy in her job at a Phoenix, Arizona real estate office and frustrated in her romance with hardware store manager Sam Loomis (John Gavin). One afternoon, Marion is given $40000 in cash to be deposited in the bank. Minutes later, impulse has taken over and Marion takes off with the cash, hoping to leave Phoenix for good and start a new life with her purloined nest egg. 36 hours later, paranoia and exhaustion have started to set in, and Marion decides to stop for ...
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Psycho Movie Clip - watch all clips j.mp click to subscribe j.mp Arbogast (Martin Balsam) enters the Bates residence to question Norman's mother; she's been expecting him. TM & © Universal (2012) Cast: Martin Balsam, Anthony Perkins Director: Alfred Hitchcock MOVIECLIPS YouTube Channel: j.mp Join our Facebook page: j.mp Follow us on Twitter: j.mp Buy Movie: amzn.to Producer: Alfred Hitchcock Screenwriter: Joseph Stefano, Robert Bloch Film Description: In 1960, Alfred Hitchcock was already famous as the screen's master of suspense (and perhaps the best-known film director in the world) when he released Psycho and forever changed the shape and tone of the screen thriller. From its first scene, in which an unmarried couple balances pleasure and guilt in a lunchtime liaison in a cheap hotel (hardly a common moment in a major studio film in 1960), Psycho announced that it was taking the audience to places it had never been before, and on that score what followed would hardly disappoint. Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) is unhappy in her job at a Phoenix, Arizona real estate office and frustrated in her romance with hardware store manager Sam Loomis (John Gavin). One afternoon, Marion is given $40000 in cash to be deposited in the bank. Minutes later, impulse has taken over and Marion takes off with the cash, hoping to leave Phoenix for good and start a new life with her purloined nest egg. 36 hours later, paranoia and exhaustion have started to set in, and Marion decides to stop for ...
- published: 27 May 2011
- views: 58434
- author: movieclips
Al Capone (1959) Trailer (Rod Steiger, Martin Balsam and Fay Spain)
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- Duration: 2:28
- Updated: 20 Dec 2012
www.trailerobsessed.com This factual biography of gang lord Al Capone follows his rise and fall in Chicago gangdom during the Prohibition era.
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www.trailerobsessed.com This factual biography of gang lord Al Capone follows his rise and fall in Chicago gangdom during the Prohibition era.
- published: 13 Aug 2012
- views: 568
- author: agelesstrailers
Psycho Official Trailer #1 - Martin Balsam Movie (1960) HD
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- Duration: 1:55
- Updated: 07 Nov 2012
Psycho Trailer - Directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Anthony Perkins Vera Miles John Gavin Janet Leigh and Martin Balsam Psycho is one of the most famous masterpieces from Hitchcock and for it's time was unparalleled in it's horror effect. A chilling score sets the pace for an introverted killer and a mystery thriller case of multiple dimensions. The credits for the film directed by Saul Bass were revolutionary for their time. Universal - 1960
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Psycho Trailer - Directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Anthony Perkins Vera Miles John Gavin Janet Leigh and Martin Balsam Psycho is one of the most famous masterpieces from Hitchcock and for it's time was unparalleled in it's horror effect. A chilling score sets the pace for an introverted killer and a mystery thriller case of multiple dimensions. The credits for the film directed by Saul Bass were revolutionary for their time. Universal - 1960
- published: 13 Dec 2011
- views: 1052
- author: oldhollywoodtrailers
12 Angry Men (1957) Martin Balsam, John Fiedler and Lee J. Cobb FULL MOVIE
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- Duration: 96:22
- Updated: 03 Jan 2013
A dissenting juror in a murder trial slowly manages to convince the others that the case is not as obviously clear as it seemed in court. www.imdb.com
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A dissenting juror in a murder trial slowly manages to convince the others that the case is not as obviously clear as it seemed in court. www.imdb.com
- published: 27 Dec 2012
- views: 76
- author: CharlieChaplinMovie
A Thousand Clowns (1965) - Jason Robards - Martin Balsam - Brothers
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- Duration: 10:18
- Updated: 15 Dec 2012
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The Taking Of Pelham One Two Three, opening titles
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- Duration: 1:38
- Updated: 26 Dec 2012
Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, Martin Balsam, David Shire, Joseph Sargent, film, 1974, Reservior Dogs
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Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, Martin Balsam, David Shire, Joseph Sargent, film, 1974, Reservior Dogs
- published: 28 Nov 2007
- views: 54846
- author: titanb15
Lee Marvin & Julie Christie Academy Awards 1965
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- Duration: 0:59
- Updated: 19 Sep 2012
Backstage. They're later joined by Martin Balsam, Shelley Winters & Bob Hope (sorry for the lack of sound)
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Backstage. They're later joined by Martin Balsam, Shelley Winters & Bob Hope (sorry for the lack of sound)
- published: 31 Aug 2008
- views: 14331
- author: JerseySurvivor
12 Angry Men - Juror #1 (Martin Balsam & Courtney B. Vance)
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- Duration: 1:01
- Updated: 01 Jun 2012
12 Angry Men - Juror #1 (Martin Balsam & Courtney B. Vance) Song: Stupid Cupid - Minipop Kids
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12 Angry Men - Juror #1 (Martin Balsam & Courtney B. Vance) Song: Stupid Cupid - Minipop Kids
- published: 01 Jun 2012
- views: 41
- author: Justin Tyme
CAPE FEAR - Trailer - HQ - (1991)
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- Duration: 2:32
- Updated: 04 Jan 2013
Trailer for Martin Scorsese's film starring Robert De Niro, Nick Nolte, Jessica Lange, Juliette Lewis, Joe Don Baker, Robert Mitchum, Gregory Peck, Martin Balsam, Illeana Douglas, Fred Dalton Thompson, Zully Montero, Craig Henne, Forest Burton, Edgar Allan Poe IV, Rod Ball,
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Trailer for Martin Scorsese's film starring Robert De Niro, Nick Nolte, Jessica Lange, Juliette Lewis, Joe Don Baker, Robert Mitchum, Gregory Peck, Martin Balsam, Illeana Douglas, Fred Dalton Thompson, Zully Montero, Craig Henne, Forest Burton, Edgar Allan Poe IV, Rod Ball,
- published: 20 Jan 2009
- views: 303168
- author: ryy79
Twelve Angry Men
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- Duration: 12:01
- Updated: 04 Jan 2013
Juror #1 (Norman Fell - Martin Balsam - Courtney B. Vance - Mark Blum - George Wendt - Eric Cole) Juror #2 (John Beal - John Fiedler - Ossie Davis - Kevin Greer - Todd Cerveris - Kyle Caskey) Juror #3 (Franchot Tone - Lee J. Cobb - George C. Scott - Philip Bosco - Robert Foxworth - Randle Mell - Tom Murtha) Juror #4 (Walter Abel - EG Marshall - Armin Mueller-Stahl - James Rebhorn - Jeffrey Hayenga - Michael McCabe) Juror #5 (Lee Phillips - Jack Klugman - Dorian Harewood - Michael Mastro - Jim Saltouros - Quincy Perkins) Juror #6 (Bart Burns - Edward Binns - James Gandolfini - Robert Clohessy - Charles Borland - Larry Cohen) Juror #7 (Paul Hartman - Jack Warden - Tony Danza - John Pankow - Mark Morettini - George Murphy) Juror #8 (Robert Cummings - Henry Fonda - Jack Lemmon - Boyd Gaines - Richard Thomas - Bob Bowersox) Juror #9 (Joseph Sweeney - Hume Cronyn - Tom Aldredge - Alan Mandell - George Gugleotti) Juror #10 (Edward Arnold - Ed Begley - Mykelti Williamson - Peter Friedman - Julian Gamble - Brian Furlong) Juror #11 (George Voskovec - Edward James Olmos - Larry Bryggman - David Lively - Tony Konrath) Juror #12 (William West - Robert Webber - William Petersen - Adam Trese - Craig Wroe - Joe McMurray)
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Juror #1 (Norman Fell - Martin Balsam - Courtney B. Vance - Mark Blum - George Wendt - Eric Cole) Juror #2 (John Beal - John Fiedler - Ossie Davis - Kevin Greer - Todd Cerveris - Kyle Caskey) Juror #3 (Franchot Tone - Lee J. Cobb - George C. Scott - Philip Bosco - Robert Foxworth - Randle Mell - Tom Murtha) Juror #4 (Walter Abel - EG Marshall - Armin Mueller-Stahl - James Rebhorn - Jeffrey Hayenga - Michael McCabe) Juror #5 (Lee Phillips - Jack Klugman - Dorian Harewood - Michael Mastro - Jim Saltouros - Quincy Perkins) Juror #6 (Bart Burns - Edward Binns - James Gandolfini - Robert Clohessy - Charles Borland - Larry Cohen) Juror #7 (Paul Hartman - Jack Warden - Tony Danza - John Pankow - Mark Morettini - George Murphy) Juror #8 (Robert Cummings - Henry Fonda - Jack Lemmon - Boyd Gaines - Richard Thomas - Bob Bowersox) Juror #9 (Joseph Sweeney - Hume Cronyn - Tom Aldredge - Alan Mandell - George Gugleotti) Juror #10 (Edward Arnold - Ed Begley - Mykelti Williamson - Peter Friedman - Julian Gamble - Brian Furlong) Juror #11 (George Voskovec - Edward James Olmos - Larry Bryggman - David Lively - Tony Konrath) Juror #12 (William West - Robert Webber - William Petersen - Adam Trese - Craig Wroe - Joe McMurray)
- published: 02 Oct 2012
- views: 99
- author: Justin Tyme
Anthony Perkins in Catch-22 (1970)
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- Duration: 10:44
- Updated: 25 Dec 2012
Anthony Perkins, Alan Arkin, Martin Balsam, Jon Voight, Bob Balaban.
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Anthony Perkins, Alan Arkin, Martin Balsam, Jon Voight, Bob Balaban.
- published: 31 May 2007
- views: 85992
- author: ferdydurke
12 Angry Men 1957 / Movie trailer
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- Duration: 1:32
- Updated: 14 Dec 2012
12 Angry Men (1957) - Download: starsmanias.com Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb and Martin Balsam
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12 Angry Men (1957) - Download: starsmanias.com Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb and Martin Balsam
- published: 21 Jan 2011
- views: 10411
- author: starsmanias
Death Rage (1976) Con la rabbia agli occhi
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- Duration: 76:27
- Updated: 26 Dec 2012
Stars: Yul Brynner, Martin Balsam, Barbara Bouchet Director: Antonio Margheriti A former mob assassin (Brynner) is lured out of retirement for one last assignment--the man who killed his brother-- but he might be stepping into a trap set an underworld kingpin! Watch for Bond Babe Barbara Bouchet! For more ACTION-PACKED flicks check-out the GIALLO EUROCRIME playlist only at PizzaFlix! www.youtube.com
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Stars: Yul Brynner, Martin Balsam, Barbara Bouchet Director: Antonio Margheriti A former mob assassin (Brynner) is lured out of retirement for one last assignment--the man who killed his brother-- but he might be stepping into a trap set an underworld kingpin! Watch for Bond Babe Barbara Bouchet! For more ACTION-PACKED flicks check-out the GIALLO EUROCRIME playlist only at PizzaFlix! www.youtube.com
- published: 25 Oct 2012
- views: 457
- author: PizzaFlix
The Stone Killer
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- Duration: 95:25
- Updated: 02 Jan 2013
A tough New York cop discovers that a prohibition gangster is planning a massacre--revenge for a forty-year-old shootout. Watch hundreds of free full-length streaming movies and TV shows on www.crackle.com. Crackle Twitter twitter.com Be a Facebook Fan! www.facebook.com Tags: The Stone Killer Movie Martin Balsam,Charles Bronson,Norman Fell,John Ritter watch free streaming television tv video crackle
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A tough New York cop discovers that a prohibition gangster is planning a massacre--revenge for a forty-year-old shootout. Watch hundreds of free full-length streaming movies and TV shows on www.crackle.com. Crackle Twitter twitter.com Be a Facebook Fan! www.facebook.com Tags: The Stone Killer Movie Martin Balsam,Charles Bronson,Norman Fell,John Ritter watch free streaming television tv video crackle
- published: 16 Sep 2010
- views: 14648
- author: Crackle
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WT The Whipping
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- Duration: 69:55
- Updated: 04 Dec 2012
with Martin Balsam and Jeanne Cooper...I will at times re upload episodes that were on my first channel..this is one of them...a very good one
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with Martin Balsam and Jeanne Cooper...I will at times re upload episodes that were on my first channel..this is one of them...a very good one
- published: 20 Dec 2011
- views: 18333
- author: raymondff1000
12 Angry Men (1957) Martin Balsam, John Fiedler and Lee J. Cobb FULL MOVIE
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- Duration: 96:22
- Updated: 03 Jan 2013
A dissenting juror in a murder trial slowly manages to convince the others that the case is not as obviously clear as it seemed in court. www.imdb.com
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A dissenting juror in a murder trial slowly manages to convince the others that the case is not as obviously clear as it seemed in court. www.imdb.com
- published: 27 Dec 2012
- views: 76
- author: CharlieChaplinMovie
Death Rage (1976) Con la rabbia agli occhi
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- Duration: 76:27
- Updated: 26 Dec 2012
Stars: Yul Brynner, Martin Balsam, Barbara Bouchet Director: Antonio Margheriti A former mob assassin (Brynner) is lured out of retirement for one last assignment--the man who killed his brother-- but he might be stepping into a trap set an underworld kingpin! Watch for Bond Babe Barbara Bouchet! For more ACTION-PACKED flicks check-out the GIALLO EUROCRIME playlist only at PizzaFlix! www.youtube.com
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Stars: Yul Brynner, Martin Balsam, Barbara Bouchet Director: Antonio Margheriti A former mob assassin (Brynner) is lured out of retirement for one last assignment--the man who killed his brother-- but he might be stepping into a trap set an underworld kingpin! Watch for Bond Babe Barbara Bouchet! For more ACTION-PACKED flicks check-out the GIALLO EUROCRIME playlist only at PizzaFlix! www.youtube.com
- published: 25 Oct 2012
- views: 457
- author: PizzaFlix
The Stone Killer
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- Duration: 95:25
- Updated: 02 Jan 2013
A tough New York cop discovers that a prohibition gangster is planning a massacre--revenge for a forty-year-old shootout. Watch hundreds of free full-length streaming movies and TV shows on www.crackle.com. Crackle Twitter twitter.com Be a Facebook Fan! www.facebook.com Tags: The Stone Killer Movie Martin Balsam,Charles Bronson,Norman Fell,John Ritter watch free streaming television tv video crackle
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A tough New York cop discovers that a prohibition gangster is planning a massacre--revenge for a forty-year-old shootout. Watch hundreds of free full-length streaming movies and TV shows on www.crackle.com. Crackle Twitter twitter.com Be a Facebook Fan! www.facebook.com Tags: The Stone Killer Movie Martin Balsam,Charles Bronson,Norman Fell,John Ritter watch free streaming television tv video crackle
- published: 16 Sep 2010
- views: 14648
- author: Crackle
THE WARNING (1980) EURO CRIME THRILLER
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- Duration: 105:01
- Updated: 16 Dec 2012
L AVVERTIMENTO (ORIGINAL TITLE) ITALIAN CRIME THRILLER STARRING GIULIANO GEMMA AND MARTIN BALSAM
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L AVVERTIMENTO (ORIGINAL TITLE) ITALIAN CRIME THRILLER STARRING GIULIANO GEMMA AND MARTIN BALSAM
- published: 15 Dec 2012
- views: 263
- author: MOVIE MADNESS HOUSE IN NEW YORK
Confessione di un commissario di polizia al procuratore della repubblica (1971) Italiano
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- Duration: 101:02
- Updated: 04 Jan 2013
Confessions of a Police Captain (1971) Starring: Franco Nero, Martin Balsam, Claudio Gora, Marilu Tolo Director: Damiano Damiani The techniques of a big city district attorney and cynical police chief (Martin Balsam) clash when they team up to trap an elusive mobster. Like Dirty Harry and Death Wish? Check out this title and lots more loaded in the PIZZATTESCHI play list. Go ahead, make my day...
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Confessions of a Police Captain (1971) Starring: Franco Nero, Martin Balsam, Claudio Gora, Marilu Tolo Director: Damiano Damiani The techniques of a big city district attorney and cynical police chief (Martin Balsam) clash when they team up to trap an elusive mobster. Like Dirty Harry and Death Wish? Check out this title and lots more loaded in the PIZZATTESCHI play list. Go ahead, make my day...
- published: 25 Oct 2012
- views: 932
- author: PizzaFlix
50th CFC Anniversary
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- Duration: 22:50
- Updated: 05 Oct 2011
"50th Anniversary Combined Federal Campaign" digitally remastered and edited by CFC Nexus. Video features CFC hosts from 1974 through 1992. Hosts include Dean Jones, Martin Balsam, Charlton Heston, Tony Curtis, James Whitmore, Eddie Albert, Frank Reynolds, Leslie Nielsen, Chuck Connors, Rocky Bleier, Joe Theisman, Robert Guillaume, Cliff Robertson, Chuck Norris, and Wayne Rogers.
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"50th Anniversary Combined Federal Campaign" digitally remastered and edited by CFC Nexus. Video features CFC hosts from 1974 through 1992. Hosts include Dean Jones, Martin Balsam, Charlton Heston, Tony Curtis, James Whitmore, Eddie Albert, Frank Reynolds, Leslie Nielsen, Chuck Connors, Rocky Bleier, Joe Theisman, Robert Guillaume, Cliff Robertson, Chuck Norris, and Wayne Rogers.
- published: 22 Aug 2011
- views: 385
- author: CFCNexus
Confessions of a Police Captain
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 101:26
- Updated: 03 Jan 2013
Confessions Of A Police Captain in a city mired in high-level corruption, a cynical police captain (Martin Balsam) clashes with an idealistic district attorney (Franco Nero) over questionable techniques used to nab an elusive mobster.
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Confessions Of A Police Captain in a city mired in high-level corruption, a cynical police captain (Martin Balsam) clashes with an idealistic district attorney (Franco Nero) over questionable techniques used to nab an elusive mobster.
- published: 03 Mar 2012
- views: 1159
- author: AllegroMediaMovies
The Anderson Tapes
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 98:53
- Updated: 31 Dec 2012
This breathlessly paced high-tech thriller stars Sean Connery as Anderson, a career criminal who's just been released from his latest prison term. Seeking a quick financial turnover, Anderson uses mob funding to finance an ambitious robbery. With a gang of expert thieves, Anderson sets about to rob every wealthy tenant of a fancy East Side apartment building. What he doesn't know is that every move he makes is being monitored and taped by several law-enforcement agencies, who hope that Anderson will lead them to the Mob kingpins. Though the film may look like a "comment" on the Watergate break-in, The Anderson Tapes actually preceded that third-rate burglary by nearly two years. The Anderson Tapes boasts an impressive supporting cast, many of whom play wildly against type, including Alan King as an aging and infirm Mafia don.
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This breathlessly paced high-tech thriller stars Sean Connery as Anderson, a career criminal who's just been released from his latest prison term. Seeking a quick financial turnover, Anderson uses mob funding to finance an ambitious robbery. With a gang of expert thieves, Anderson sets about to rob every wealthy tenant of a fancy East Side apartment building. What he doesn't know is that every move he makes is being monitored and taped by several law-enforcement agencies, who hope that Anderson will lead them to the Mob kingpins. Though the film may look like a "comment" on the Watergate break-in, The Anderson Tapes actually preceded that third-rate burglary by nearly two years. The Anderson Tapes boasts an impressive supporting cast, many of whom play wildly against type, including Alan King as an aging and infirm Mafia don.
- published: 23 Sep 2011
- author: CrackleUK
Route 66-Somehow it Gets to Be Tomorrow
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- Duration: 49:59
- Updated: 01 Jan 2013
Originally aired February 15, 1963.
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Cipolla Colt - Enzo G. Castellari (film completo)
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- Duration: 83:31
- Updated: 04 Jan 2013
ilmiovizioeunastanzachiusa.wordpress.com regia di Enzo G. Castellari - 1975 con Franco Nero, Martin Balsam, Sterling Hayden
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ilmiovizioeunastanzachiusa.wordpress.com regia di Enzo G. Castellari - 1975 con Franco Nero, Martin Balsam, Sterling Hayden
- published: 10 Oct 2012
- views: 5183
- author: John Trent
MST3K - Mitchell
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 91:37
- Updated: 04 Jan 2013
Episode 512 Mitchell is a 1975 film starring Joe Don Baker as an abrasive, alcoholic police detective. Very much an anti-hero, Mitchell often ignores the orders of his superiors in pursuit of his targets, and demonstrates disdain for by-the-book police work as well as normal social graces. The film also stars John Saxon and Martin Balsam as the criminals Mitchell pursues throughout the film. Linda Evans and Merlin Olsen appear in supporting roles as a prostitute and henchman, respectively. Be sure and notice the genre-busting soundtrack. The movie starts out with a Shaft inspired rubber guitar solo, the chase scenes have a lovely 2 bar light rock/corporate PR film melody, and interspersed with that is some piano noodling that sounds vaguely similar to Nadia's Theme. And if that isn't enough to set your teeth on edge and leave you tasting vinegar and copper, there's the 'Ma-ma-ma-ma-Mitchell' country crooning of an embarrassed Hoyt Axton. All episodes available for free at: www.club-mst3k.com Joel Hodgeson (Joel Robinson), Mary Jo Pehl (Pearl Forester), J Elvis Weinstein (1st Tom Servo, Dr. Laurence Erhardt), Frank Conniff (TV's Frank) and Trace Beaulieu (Dr. Forester, 1st Crow T. Robot) are still riffing at www.cinematictitanic.com Mike Nelson (Mike Nelson, Torgo, etc.), Bill Corbet (2nd Crow) and Kevin Murphy (2nd Tom Servo) are riffing over at www.rifftrax.com
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Episode 512 Mitchell is a 1975 film starring Joe Don Baker as an abrasive, alcoholic police detective. Very much an anti-hero, Mitchell often ignores the orders of his superiors in pursuit of his targets, and demonstrates disdain for by-the-book police work as well as normal social graces. The film also stars John Saxon and Martin Balsam as the criminals Mitchell pursues throughout the film. Linda Evans and Merlin Olsen appear in supporting roles as a prostitute and henchman, respectively. Be sure and notice the genre-busting soundtrack. The movie starts out with a Shaft inspired rubber guitar solo, the chase scenes have a lovely 2 bar light rock/corporate PR film melody, and interspersed with that is some piano noodling that sounds vaguely similar to Nadia's Theme. And if that isn't enough to set your teeth on edge and leave you tasting vinegar and copper, there's the 'Ma-ma-ma-ma-Mitchell' country crooning of an embarrassed Hoyt Axton. All episodes available for free at: www.club-mst3k.com Joel Hodgeson (Joel Robinson), Mary Jo Pehl (Pearl Forester), J Elvis Weinstein (1st Tom Servo, Dr. Laurence Erhardt), Frank Conniff (TV's Frank) and Trace Beaulieu (Dr. Forester, 1st Crow T. Robot) are still riffing at www.cinematictitanic.com Mike Nelson (Mike Nelson, Torgo, etc.), Bill Corbet (2nd Crow) and Kevin Murphy (2nd Tom Servo) are riffing over at www.rifftrax.com
- published: 18 Nov 2011
- views: 69562
- author: Tom van Uijen
Yul Brynner in Death Rage (1976)
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- Duration: 84:59
- Updated: 28 Sep 2012
Italy Movie starring by Yul Brynner and Martin Balsam. Directed by Antonio Margheriti
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Italy Movie starring by Yul Brynner and Martin Balsam. Directed by Antonio Margheriti
- published: 02 Jan 2012
- views: 8426
- author: WesternClassicTV
The Old Man Who Cried Wolf (1970) Full Movie
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- Duration: 72:29
- Updated: 29 Dec 2012
ABC Movie of the Week: Emile Pulska is visiting his old friend Abe Stillman. During the visit they are attacked and Emile is struck senseless. When he wakes up he is told that Abe has died by natural causes. When Emile insists that they were attacked, his relatives try to give him psychiatric help. Emile decides to try to find the killers himself. (IMDB)
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ABC Movie of the Week: Emile Pulska is visiting his old friend Abe Stillman. During the visit they are attacked and Emile is struck senseless. When he wakes up he is told that Abe has died by natural causes. When Emile insists that they were attacked, his relatives try to give him psychiatric help. Emile decides to try to find the killers himself. (IMDB)
- published: 26 Aug 2012
- views: 7263
- author: Charles787980
The Delta Force
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- Duration: 90:05
- Updated: 02 Jan 2013
A 707 aircraft jetliner on its way from Athens to Rome and then to New York City is hijacked by Lebanese terrorists. The terrorists demand that the pilot take them to Beirut. What the terrorists don't realize is that an elite team of commandoes led by Major McCoy (Norris) and by Colonel Alexander (Marvin) as been called into service to eliminate all terrorists on the jetliner and who's involved in the hijacking and try to retake the plane before the terrorists kill all the hostages.
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A 707 aircraft jetliner on its way from Athens to Rome and then to New York City is hijacked by Lebanese terrorists. The terrorists demand that the pilot take them to Beirut. What the terrorists don't realize is that an elite team of commandoes led by Major McCoy (Norris) and by Colonel Alexander (Marvin) as been called into service to eliminate all terrorists on the jetliner and who's involved in the hijacking and try to retake the plane before the terrorists kill all the hostages.
- published: 22 Nov 2012
- views: 6738
- author: TheCinecurryTamil
The Living Jesus Christ Chapter 01 - Holy Night (Bible Movies)
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- Duration: 30:05
- Updated: 27 Dec 2012
The Living Jesus Christ Series Chapter 01 - Holy Night (Bible Movies) The Living Christ Series is a 12-part drama series about the life of Jesus Christ. In some ways, it was a version of the typical Hollywood serial film. Each episode was thirty minutes long, bringing the total running time of the series to what might have been considered an epic six hours long if the films had been shown consecutively. Filmed in color in 1951, it is notable for being one of the few American film series of that time in which Christ's face was actually shown. Since the early days of sound, American film producers had been afraid that some members of the audience would be alienated if an actor who did not fit the public's image of Christ was chosen to play the role, so virtually all had played it safe by showing Him only from the back or in long shot. Sometimes only Christ's hand would be seen. Foreign film makers, however, had no such doubts, and Christ was actually shown in such films as the French Golgotha (1935), the Mexican El Martir del Calvario (1952), and the 1953 British serial Jesus of Nazareth. However, The Living Christ Series was not meant to be shown in movie theatres, but more as an instructional, inspirational film in churches or on Sunday-morning television. Far from being a religious epic, the series was clearly shot mostly on soundstages and on a low budget, much like a typical television program of the era shot on film. Directed by John T. Coyle, the series featured ...
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The Living Jesus Christ Series Chapter 01 - Holy Night (Bible Movies) The Living Christ Series is a 12-part drama series about the life of Jesus Christ. In some ways, it was a version of the typical Hollywood serial film. Each episode was thirty minutes long, bringing the total running time of the series to what might have been considered an epic six hours long if the films had been shown consecutively. Filmed in color in 1951, it is notable for being one of the few American film series of that time in which Christ's face was actually shown. Since the early days of sound, American film producers had been afraid that some members of the audience would be alienated if an actor who did not fit the public's image of Christ was chosen to play the role, so virtually all had played it safe by showing Him only from the back or in long shot. Sometimes only Christ's hand would be seen. Foreign film makers, however, had no such doubts, and Christ was actually shown in such films as the French Golgotha (1935), the Mexican El Martir del Calvario (1952), and the 1953 British serial Jesus of Nazareth. However, The Living Christ Series was not meant to be shown in movie theatres, but more as an instructional, inspirational film in churches or on Sunday-morning television. Far from being a religious epic, the series was clearly shot mostly on soundstages and on a low budget, much like a typical television program of the era shot on film. Directed by John T. Coyle, the series featured ...
- published: 27 Dec 2012
- views: 85
- author: FilmStreamOnline
The Living Jesus Christ Chapter 02 - Escape to Egypt (Bible Movies)
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- Duration: 28:40
- Updated: 27 Dec 2012
The Living Jesus Christ Chapter 02 - Escape to Egypt (Bible Movies) The Living Christ Series is a 12-part drama series about the life of Jesus Christ. In some ways, it was a version of the typical Hollywood serial film. Each episode was thirty minutes long, bringing the total running time of the series to what might have been considered an epic six hours long if the films had been shown consecutively. Filmed in color in 1951, it is notable for being one of the few American film series of that time in which Christ's face was actually shown. Since the early days of sound, American film producers had been afraid that some members of the audience would be alienated if an actor who did not fit the public's image of Christ was chosen to play the role, so virtually all had played it safe by showing Him only from the back or in long shot. Sometimes only Christ's hand would be seen. Foreign film makers, however, had no such doubts, and Christ was actually shown in such films as the French Golgotha (1935), the Mexican El Martir del Calvario (1952), and the 1953 British serial Jesus of Nazareth. However, The Living Christ Series was not meant to be shown in movie theatres, but more as an instructional, inspirational film in churches or on Sunday-morning television. Far from being a religious epic, the series was clearly shot mostly on soundstages and on a low budget, much like a typical television program of the era shot on film. Directed by John T. Coyle, the series featured mostly ...
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The Living Jesus Christ Chapter 02 - Escape to Egypt (Bible Movies) The Living Christ Series is a 12-part drama series about the life of Jesus Christ. In some ways, it was a version of the typical Hollywood serial film. Each episode was thirty minutes long, bringing the total running time of the series to what might have been considered an epic six hours long if the films had been shown consecutively. Filmed in color in 1951, it is notable for being one of the few American film series of that time in which Christ's face was actually shown. Since the early days of sound, American film producers had been afraid that some members of the audience would be alienated if an actor who did not fit the public's image of Christ was chosen to play the role, so virtually all had played it safe by showing Him only from the back or in long shot. Sometimes only Christ's hand would be seen. Foreign film makers, however, had no such doubts, and Christ was actually shown in such films as the French Golgotha (1935), the Mexican El Martir del Calvario (1952), and the 1953 British serial Jesus of Nazareth. However, The Living Christ Series was not meant to be shown in movie theatres, but more as an instructional, inspirational film in churches or on Sunday-morning television. Far from being a religious epic, the series was clearly shot mostly on soundstages and on a low budget, much like a typical television program of the era shot on film. Directed by John T. Coyle, the series featured mostly ...
- published: 27 Dec 2012
- views: 36
- author: FilmStreamOnline
My DVD Collection - DVD Update 1/11/11
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- Duration: 20:27
- Updated: 28 Aug 2012
In this update i show 10 DVD's that i've gotten over the past month. First off i show my new LG 22 inch LCD HDTV monitor. The DVD's in this video are as follows: Boy Meets World: The Complete Fourth Season - Starring Ben Savage, Rider Strong, Danielle Fishel, Will Freddle, William Daniels, Betsy Randle, William Russ, Lindsay Ridgeway, Anthony Tyler Quinn, Blake Clark Dick Tracy: Directed and starring Warren Beatty, Madonna, Al Pacino, Glenne Headly, Charlie Korsmo, Dustin Hoffman Full House: The Complete Third Season: Starring John Stamos, Bob Saget, Dave Coulier, Candace Cameron Bure, Jodie Sweetin, Mary - Kate Olsen, Ashley Olsen, Lori Loughlin Grown Ups: Directed By Dennis Dugan - Starring Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock, David Spade, Rob Schneider, Salma Hayek, Maria Bello, Maya Rudolph Smallville: The Complete First Season - Starring Tom Welling, Kristin Kreuk, Michael Rosenbaum, Eric Johnson, Sam Jones III, Allison Mack, Annette O' Toole, John Schneider The Animal: Directed By Luke Greenfield - Starring Rob Schneider, Colleen Haskel, John C. McGinley, Edward Asner, Michael Caton, Louis Lombardi, Norm Macdonald Starman: Directed By John Carpenter - Starring Jeff Bridges, Karen Allen, Charles Martin Smith, Richard Jaeckel, Robert Phalen He Got Game: Directed By Spike Lee - Starring Denzel Washington, Ray Allen, Milla Jovovich, Ned Beatty, Bill Nunn, Michele Shay, John Turturro, Thomas Jefferson Byrd, Roger Guenveur Smith The Best Of WWE Raw 15th Anniversary 1993 ...
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In this update i show 10 DVD's that i've gotten over the past month. First off i show my new LG 22 inch LCD HDTV monitor. The DVD's in this video are as follows: Boy Meets World: The Complete Fourth Season - Starring Ben Savage, Rider Strong, Danielle Fishel, Will Freddle, William Daniels, Betsy Randle, William Russ, Lindsay Ridgeway, Anthony Tyler Quinn, Blake Clark Dick Tracy: Directed and starring Warren Beatty, Madonna, Al Pacino, Glenne Headly, Charlie Korsmo, Dustin Hoffman Full House: The Complete Third Season: Starring John Stamos, Bob Saget, Dave Coulier, Candace Cameron Bure, Jodie Sweetin, Mary - Kate Olsen, Ashley Olsen, Lori Loughlin Grown Ups: Directed By Dennis Dugan - Starring Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock, David Spade, Rob Schneider, Salma Hayek, Maria Bello, Maya Rudolph Smallville: The Complete First Season - Starring Tom Welling, Kristin Kreuk, Michael Rosenbaum, Eric Johnson, Sam Jones III, Allison Mack, Annette O' Toole, John Schneider The Animal: Directed By Luke Greenfield - Starring Rob Schneider, Colleen Haskel, John C. McGinley, Edward Asner, Michael Caton, Louis Lombardi, Norm Macdonald Starman: Directed By John Carpenter - Starring Jeff Bridges, Karen Allen, Charles Martin Smith, Richard Jaeckel, Robert Phalen He Got Game: Directed By Spike Lee - Starring Denzel Washington, Ray Allen, Milla Jovovich, Ned Beatty, Bill Nunn, Michele Shay, John Turturro, Thomas Jefferson Byrd, Roger Guenveur Smith The Best Of WWE Raw 15th Anniversary 1993 ...
- published: 11 Jan 2011
- views: 2286
- author: michael101591
The Living Jesus Christ Chapter 03 - Boyhood and Baptism (Bible Movies)
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- Duration: 28:36
- Updated: 27 Dec 2012
The Living Jesus Christ Chapter 03 - Boyhood and Baptism (Bible Movies) The Living Christ Series is a 12-part drama series about the life of Jesus Christ. In some ways, it was a version of the typical Hollywood serial film. Each episode was thirty minutes long, bringing the total running time of the series to what might have been considered an epic six hours long if the films had been shown consecutively. Filmed in color in 1951, it is notable for being one of the few American film series of that time in which Christ's face was actually shown. Since the early days of sound, American film producers had been afraid that some members of the audience would be alienated if an actor who did not fit the public's image of Christ was chosen to play the role, so virtually all had played it safe by showing Him only from the back or in long shot. Sometimes only Christ's hand would be seen. Foreign film makers, however, had no such doubts, and Christ was actually shown in such films as the French Golgotha (1935), the Mexican El Martir del Calvario (1952), and the 1953 British serial Jesus of Nazareth. However, The Living Christ Series was not meant to be shown in movie theatres, but more as an instructional, inspirational film in churches or on Sunday-morning television. Far from being a religious epic, the series was clearly shot mostly on soundstages and on a low budget, much like a typical television program of the era shot on film. Directed by John T. Coyle, the series featured ...
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The Living Jesus Christ Chapter 03 - Boyhood and Baptism (Bible Movies) The Living Christ Series is a 12-part drama series about the life of Jesus Christ. In some ways, it was a version of the typical Hollywood serial film. Each episode was thirty minutes long, bringing the total running time of the series to what might have been considered an epic six hours long if the films had been shown consecutively. Filmed in color in 1951, it is notable for being one of the few American film series of that time in which Christ's face was actually shown. Since the early days of sound, American film producers had been afraid that some members of the audience would be alienated if an actor who did not fit the public's image of Christ was chosen to play the role, so virtually all had played it safe by showing Him only from the back or in long shot. Sometimes only Christ's hand would be seen. Foreign film makers, however, had no such doubts, and Christ was actually shown in such films as the French Golgotha (1935), the Mexican El Martir del Calvario (1952), and the 1953 British serial Jesus of Nazareth. However, The Living Christ Series was not meant to be shown in movie theatres, but more as an instructional, inspirational film in churches or on Sunday-morning television. Far from being a religious epic, the series was clearly shot mostly on soundstages and on a low budget, much like a typical television program of the era shot on film. Directed by John T. Coyle, the series featured ...
- published: 27 Dec 2012
- views: 20
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The Living Jesus Christ Chapter 04 - Men of the Wilderness (Bible Movies)
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- Duration: 29:44
- Updated: 27 Dec 2012
The Living Jesus Christ Chapter 04 - Men of the Wilderness (Bible Movies) The Living Christ Series is a 12-part drama series about the life of Jesus Christ. In some ways, it was a version of the typical Hollywood serial film. Each episode was thirty minutes long, bringing the total running time of the series to what might have been considered an epic six hours long if the films had been shown consecutively. Filmed in color in 1951, it is notable for being one of the few American film series of that time in which Christ's face was actually shown. Since the early days of sound, American film producers had been afraid that some members of the audience would be alienated if an actor who did not fit the public's image of Christ was chosen to play the role, so virtually all had played it safe by showing Him only from the back or in long shot. Sometimes only Christ's hand would be seen. Foreign film makers, however, had no such doubts, and Christ was actually shown in such films as the French Golgotha (1935), the Mexican El Martir del Calvario (1952), and the 1953 British serial Jesus of Nazareth. However, The Living Christ Series was not meant to be shown in movie theatres, but more as an instructional, inspirational film in churches or on Sunday-morning television. Far from being a religious epic, the series was clearly shot mostly on soundstages and on a low budget, much like a typical television program of the era shot on film. Directed by John T. Coyle, the series featured ...
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The Living Jesus Christ Chapter 04 - Men of the Wilderness (Bible Movies) The Living Christ Series is a 12-part drama series about the life of Jesus Christ. In some ways, it was a version of the typical Hollywood serial film. Each episode was thirty minutes long, bringing the total running time of the series to what might have been considered an epic six hours long if the films had been shown consecutively. Filmed in color in 1951, it is notable for being one of the few American film series of that time in which Christ's face was actually shown. Since the early days of sound, American film producers had been afraid that some members of the audience would be alienated if an actor who did not fit the public's image of Christ was chosen to play the role, so virtually all had played it safe by showing Him only from the back or in long shot. Sometimes only Christ's hand would be seen. Foreign film makers, however, had no such doubts, and Christ was actually shown in such films as the French Golgotha (1935), the Mexican El Martir del Calvario (1952), and the 1953 British serial Jesus of Nazareth. However, The Living Christ Series was not meant to be shown in movie theatres, but more as an instructional, inspirational film in churches or on Sunday-morning television. Far from being a religious epic, the series was clearly shot mostly on soundstages and on a low budget, much like a typical television program of the era shot on film. Directed by John T. Coyle, the series featured ...
- published: 27 Dec 2012
- views: 17
- author: FilmStreamOnline
The Living Jesus Christ Chapter 05 - Challenge of Faith (Bible Movies)
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- Duration: 28:25
- Updated: 27 Dec 2012
The Living Jesus Christ Chapter 05 - Challenge of Faith (Bible Movies) The Living Christ Series is a 12-part drama series about the life of Jesus Christ. In some ways, it was a version of the typical Hollywood serial film. Each episode was thirty minutes long, bringing the total running time of the series to what might have been considered an epic six hours long if the films had been shown consecutively. Filmed in color in 1951, it is notable for being one of the few American film series of that time in which Christ's face was actually shown. Since the early days of sound, American film producers had been afraid that some members of the audience would be alienated if an actor who did not fit the public's image of Christ was chosen to play the role, so virtually all had played it safe by showing Him only from the back or in long shot. Sometimes only Christ's hand would be seen. Foreign film makers, however, had no such doubts, and Christ was actually shown in such films as the French Golgotha (1935), the Mexican El Martir del Calvario (1952), and the 1953 British serial Jesus of Nazareth. However, The Living Christ Series was not meant to be shown in movie theatres, but more as an instructional, inspirational film in churches or on Sunday-morning television. Far from being a religious epic, the series was clearly shot mostly on soundstages and on a low budget, much like a typical television program of the era shot on film. Directed by John T. Coyle, the series featured ...
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The Living Jesus Christ Chapter 05 - Challenge of Faith (Bible Movies) The Living Christ Series is a 12-part drama series about the life of Jesus Christ. In some ways, it was a version of the typical Hollywood serial film. Each episode was thirty minutes long, bringing the total running time of the series to what might have been considered an epic six hours long if the films had been shown consecutively. Filmed in color in 1951, it is notable for being one of the few American film series of that time in which Christ's face was actually shown. Since the early days of sound, American film producers had been afraid that some members of the audience would be alienated if an actor who did not fit the public's image of Christ was chosen to play the role, so virtually all had played it safe by showing Him only from the back or in long shot. Sometimes only Christ's hand would be seen. Foreign film makers, however, had no such doubts, and Christ was actually shown in such films as the French Golgotha (1935), the Mexican El Martir del Calvario (1952), and the 1953 British serial Jesus of Nazareth. However, The Living Christ Series was not meant to be shown in movie theatres, but more as an instructional, inspirational film in churches or on Sunday-morning television. Far from being a religious epic, the series was clearly shot mostly on soundstages and on a low budget, much like a typical television program of the era shot on film. Directed by John T. Coyle, the series featured ...
- published: 27 Dec 2012
- views: 18
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The Living Jesus Christ Chapter 06 - Discipleship (Bible Movies)
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- Duration: 28:08
- Updated: 28 Dec 2012
The Living Jesus Christ Chapter 06 - Discipleship (Bible Movies) The Living Christ Series is a 12-part drama series about the life of Jesus Christ. In some ways, it was a version of the typical Hollywood serial film. Each episode was thirty minutes long, bringing the total running time of the series to what might have been considered an epic six hours long if the films had been shown consecutively. Filmed in color in 1951, it is notable for being one of the few American film series of that time in which Christ's face was actually shown. Since the early days of sound, American film producers had been afraid that some members of the audience would be alienated if an actor who did not fit the public's image of Christ was chosen to play the role, so virtually all had played it safe by showing Him only from the back or in long shot. Sometimes only Christ's hand would be seen. Foreign film makers, however, had no such doubts, and Christ was actually shown in such films as the French Golgotha (1935), the Mexican El Martir del Calvario (1952), and the 1953 British serial Jesus of Nazareth. However, The Living Christ Series was not meant to be shown in movie theatres, but more as an instructional, inspirational film in churches or on Sunday-morning television. Far from being a religious epic, the series was clearly shot mostly on soundstages and on a low budget, much like a typical television program of the era shot on film. Directed by John T. Coyle, the series featured mostly ...
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The Living Jesus Christ Chapter 06 - Discipleship (Bible Movies) The Living Christ Series is a 12-part drama series about the life of Jesus Christ. In some ways, it was a version of the typical Hollywood serial film. Each episode was thirty minutes long, bringing the total running time of the series to what might have been considered an epic six hours long if the films had been shown consecutively. Filmed in color in 1951, it is notable for being one of the few American film series of that time in which Christ's face was actually shown. Since the early days of sound, American film producers had been afraid that some members of the audience would be alienated if an actor who did not fit the public's image of Christ was chosen to play the role, so virtually all had played it safe by showing Him only from the back or in long shot. Sometimes only Christ's hand would be seen. Foreign film makers, however, had no such doubts, and Christ was actually shown in such films as the French Golgotha (1935), the Mexican El Martir del Calvario (1952), and the 1953 British serial Jesus of Nazareth. However, The Living Christ Series was not meant to be shown in movie theatres, but more as an instructional, inspirational film in churches or on Sunday-morning television. Far from being a religious epic, the series was clearly shot mostly on soundstages and on a low budget, much like a typical television program of the era shot on film. Directed by John T. Coyle, the series featured mostly ...
- published: 27 Dec 2012
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The Living Jesus Christ Chapter 07 - Return to Nazareth (Bible Movies)
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- Updated: 27 Dec 2012
The Living Jesus Christ Chapter 07 - Return to Nazareth (Bible Movies) The Living Christ Series is a 12-part drama series about the life of Jesus Christ. In some ways, it was a version of the typical Hollywood serial film. Each episode was thirty minutes long, bringing the total running time of the series to what might have been considered an epic six hours long if the films had been shown consecutively. Filmed in color in 1951, it is notable for being one of the few American film series of that time in which Christ's face was actually shown. Since the early days of sound, American film producers had been afraid that some members of the audience would be alienated if an actor who did not fit the public's image of Christ was chosen to play the role, so virtually all had played it safe by showing Him only from the back or in long shot. Sometimes only Christ's hand would be seen. Foreign film makers, however, had no such doubts, and Christ was actually shown in such films as the French Golgotha (1935), the Mexican El Martir del Calvario (1952), and the 1953 British serial Jesus of Nazareth. However, The Living Christ Series was not meant to be shown in movie theatres, but more as an instructional, inspirational film in churches or on Sunday-morning television. Far from being a religious epic, the series was clearly shot mostly on soundstages and on a low budget, much like a typical television program of the era shot on film. Directed by John T. Coyle, the series featured ...
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The Living Jesus Christ Chapter 07 - Return to Nazareth (Bible Movies) The Living Christ Series is a 12-part drama series about the life of Jesus Christ. In some ways, it was a version of the typical Hollywood serial film. Each episode was thirty minutes long, bringing the total running time of the series to what might have been considered an epic six hours long if the films had been shown consecutively. Filmed in color in 1951, it is notable for being one of the few American film series of that time in which Christ's face was actually shown. Since the early days of sound, American film producers had been afraid that some members of the audience would be alienated if an actor who did not fit the public's image of Christ was chosen to play the role, so virtually all had played it safe by showing Him only from the back or in long shot. Sometimes only Christ's hand would be seen. Foreign film makers, however, had no such doubts, and Christ was actually shown in such films as the French Golgotha (1935), the Mexican El Martir del Calvario (1952), and the 1953 British serial Jesus of Nazareth. However, The Living Christ Series was not meant to be shown in movie theatres, but more as an instructional, inspirational film in churches or on Sunday-morning television. Far from being a religious epic, the series was clearly shot mostly on soundstages and on a low budget, much like a typical television program of the era shot on film. Directed by John T. Coyle, the series featured ...
- published: 27 Dec 2012
- views: 28
- author: FilmStreamOnline
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WT The Whipping
with Martin Balsam and Jeanne Cooper...I will at times re upload episodes that were on my ...
published: 20 Dec 2011
author: raymondff1000
WT The Whipping
with Martin Balsam and Jeanne Cooper...I will at times re upload episodes that were on my first channel..this is one of them...a very good one
- published: 20 Dec 2011
- views: 18333
- author: raymondff1000
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12 Angry Men (1957) Martin Balsam, John Fiedler and Lee J. Cobb FULL MOVIE
A dissenting juror in a murder trial slowly manages to convince the others that the case i...
published: 27 Dec 2012
author: CharlieChaplinMovie
12 Angry Men (1957) Martin Balsam, John Fiedler and Lee J. Cobb FULL MOVIE
A dissenting juror in a murder trial slowly manages to convince the others that the case is not as obviously clear as it seemed in court. www.imdb.com
- published: 27 Dec 2012
- views: 76
- author: CharlieChaplinMovie
76:27
Death Rage (1976) Con la rabbia agli occhi
Stars: Yul Brynner, Martin Balsam, Barbara Bouchet Director: Antonio Margheriti A former m...
published: 25 Oct 2012
author: PizzaFlix
Death Rage (1976) Con la rabbia agli occhi
Stars: Yul Brynner, Martin Balsam, Barbara Bouchet Director: Antonio Margheriti A former mob assassin (Brynner) is lured out of retirement for one last assignment--the man who killed his brother-- but he might be stepping into a trap set an underworld kingpin! Watch for Bond Babe Barbara Bouchet! For more ACTION-PACKED flicks check-out the GIALLO EUROCRIME playlist only at PizzaFlix! www.youtube.com
- published: 25 Oct 2012
- views: 457
- author: PizzaFlix
95:25
The Stone Killer
A tough New York cop discovers that a prohibition gangster is planning a massacre--revenge...
published: 16 Sep 2010
author: Crackle
The Stone Killer
A tough New York cop discovers that a prohibition gangster is planning a massacre--revenge for a forty-year-old shootout. Watch hundreds of free full-length streaming movies and TV shows on www.crackle.com. Crackle Twitter twitter.com Be a Facebook Fan! www.facebook.com Tags: The Stone Killer Movie Martin Balsam,Charles Bronson,Norman Fell,John Ritter watch free streaming television tv video crackle
- published: 16 Sep 2010
- views: 14648
- author: Crackle
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THE WARNING (1980) EURO CRIME THRILLER
L AVVERTIMENTO (ORIGINAL TITLE) ITALIAN CRIME THRILLER STARRING GIULIANO GEMMA AND MARTIN ...
published: 15 Dec 2012
author: MOVIE MADNESS HOUSE IN NEW YORK
THE WARNING (1980) EURO CRIME THRILLER
L AVVERTIMENTO (ORIGINAL TITLE) ITALIAN CRIME THRILLER STARRING GIULIANO GEMMA AND MARTIN BALSAM
- published: 15 Dec 2012
- views: 263
- author: MOVIE MADNESS HOUSE IN NEW YORK
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Confessione di un commissario di polizia al procuratore della repubblica (1971) Italiano
Confessions of a Police Captain (1971) Starring: Franco Nero, Martin Balsam, Claudio Gora,...
published: 25 Oct 2012
author: PizzaFlix
Confessione di un commissario di polizia al procuratore della repubblica (1971) Italiano
Confessions of a Police Captain (1971) Starring: Franco Nero, Martin Balsam, Claudio Gora, Marilu Tolo Director: Damiano Damiani The techniques of a big city district attorney and cynical police chief (Martin Balsam) clash when they team up to trap an elusive mobster. Like Dirty Harry and Death Wish? Check out this title and lots more loaded in the PIZZATTESCHI play list. Go ahead, make my day...
- published: 25 Oct 2012
- views: 932
- author: PizzaFlix
22:50
50th CFC Anniversary
"50th Anniversary Combined Federal Campaign" digitally remastered and edited by CFC Nexus....
published: 22 Aug 2011
author: CFCNexus
50th CFC Anniversary
"50th Anniversary Combined Federal Campaign" digitally remastered and edited by CFC Nexus. Video features CFC hosts from 1974 through 1992. Hosts include Dean Jones, Martin Balsam, Charlton Heston, Tony Curtis, James Whitmore, Eddie Albert, Frank Reynolds, Leslie Nielsen, Chuck Connors, Rocky Bleier, Joe Theisman, Robert Guillaume, Cliff Robertson, Chuck Norris, and Wayne Rogers.
- published: 22 Aug 2011
- views: 385
- author: CFCNexus
101:26
Confessions of a Police Captain
Confessions Of A Police Captain in a city mired in high-level corruption, a cynical police...
published: 03 Mar 2012
author: AllegroMediaMovies
Confessions of a Police Captain
Confessions Of A Police Captain in a city mired in high-level corruption, a cynical police captain (Martin Balsam) clashes with an idealistic district attorney (Franco Nero) over questionable techniques used to nab an elusive mobster.
- published: 03 Mar 2012
- views: 1159
- author: AllegroMediaMovies
98:53
The Anderson Tapes
This breathlessly paced high-tech thriller stars Sean Connery as Anderson, a career crimin...
published: 23 Sep 2011
author: CrackleUK
The Anderson Tapes
This breathlessly paced high-tech thriller stars Sean Connery as Anderson, a career criminal who's just been released from his latest prison term. Seeking a quick financial turnover, Anderson uses mob funding to finance an ambitious robbery. With a gang of expert thieves, Anderson sets about to rob every wealthy tenant of a fancy East Side apartment building. What he doesn't know is that every move he makes is being monitored and taped by several law-enforcement agencies, who hope that Anderson will lead them to the Mob kingpins. Though the film may look like a "comment" on the Watergate break-in, The Anderson Tapes actually preceded that third-rate burglary by nearly two years. The Anderson Tapes boasts an impressive supporting cast, many of whom play wildly against type, including Alan King as an aging and infirm Mafia don.
- published: 23 Sep 2011
- author: CrackleUK
49:59
Route 66-Somehow it Gets to Be Tomorrow
Originally aired February 15, 1963....
published: 17 Apr 2012
author: ilovemartinmilner
Route 66-Somehow it Gets to Be Tomorrow
Originally aired February 15, 1963.
- published: 17 Apr 2012
- views: 7455
- author: ilovemartinmilner
83:31
Cipolla Colt - Enzo G. Castellari (film completo)
ilmiovizioeunastanzachiusa.wordpress.com regia di Enzo G. Castellari - 1975 con Franco Ner...
published: 10 Oct 2012
author: John Trent
Cipolla Colt - Enzo G. Castellari (film completo)
ilmiovizioeunastanzachiusa.wordpress.com regia di Enzo G. Castellari - 1975 con Franco Nero, Martin Balsam, Sterling Hayden
- published: 10 Oct 2012
- views: 5183
- author: John Trent
91:37
MST3K - Mitchell
Episode 512 Mitchell is a 1975 film starring Joe Don Baker as an abrasive, alcoholic polic...
published: 18 Nov 2011
author: Tom van Uijen
MST3K - Mitchell
Episode 512 Mitchell is a 1975 film starring Joe Don Baker as an abrasive, alcoholic police detective. Very much an anti-hero, Mitchell often ignores the orders of his superiors in pursuit of his targets, and demonstrates disdain for by-the-book police work as well as normal social graces. The film also stars John Saxon and Martin Balsam as the criminals Mitchell pursues throughout the film. Linda Evans and Merlin Olsen appear in supporting roles as a prostitute and henchman, respectively. Be sure and notice the genre-busting soundtrack. The movie starts out with a Shaft inspired rubber guitar solo, the chase scenes have a lovely 2 bar light rock/corporate PR film melody, and interspersed with that is some piano noodling that sounds vaguely similar to Nadia's Theme. And if that isn't enough to set your teeth on edge and leave you tasting vinegar and copper, there's the 'Ma-ma-ma-ma-Mitchell' country crooning of an embarrassed Hoyt Axton. All episodes available for free at: www.club-mst3k.com Joel Hodgeson (Joel Robinson), Mary Jo Pehl (Pearl Forester), J Elvis Weinstein (1st Tom Servo, Dr. Laurence Erhardt), Frank Conniff (TV's Frank) and Trace Beaulieu (Dr. Forester, 1st Crow T. Robot) are still riffing at www.cinematictitanic.com Mike Nelson (Mike Nelson, Torgo, etc.), Bill Corbet (2nd Crow) and Kevin Murphy (2nd Tom Servo) are riffing over at www.rifftrax.com
- published: 18 Nov 2011
- views: 69562
- author: Tom van Uijen
84:59
Yul Brynner in Death Rage (1976)
Italy Movie starring by Yul Brynner and Martin Balsam. Directed by Antonio Margheriti...
published: 02 Jan 2012
author: WesternClassicTV
Yul Brynner in Death Rage (1976)
Italy Movie starring by Yul Brynner and Martin Balsam. Directed by Antonio Margheriti
- published: 02 Jan 2012
- views: 8426
- author: WesternClassicTV
72:29
The Old Man Who Cried Wolf (1970) Full Movie
ABC Movie of the Week: Emile Pulska is visiting his old friend Abe Stillman. During the vi...
published: 26 Aug 2012
author: Charles787980
The Old Man Who Cried Wolf (1970) Full Movie
ABC Movie of the Week: Emile Pulska is visiting his old friend Abe Stillman. During the visit they are attacked and Emile is struck senseless. When he wakes up he is told that Abe has died by natural causes. When Emile insists that they were attacked, his relatives try to give him psychiatric help. Emile decides to try to find the killers himself. (IMDB)
- published: 26 Aug 2012
- views: 7263
- author: Charles787980
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Balsam
Uns geht es gut, wenn es anderen schlecht geht....
published: 03 Feb 2012
author: Martin Knispel
Balsam
Uns geht es gut, wenn es anderen schlecht geht.
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Define Balsam
Art-director...
published: 25 Nov 2011
author: Martin van der Meijden
Define Balsam
Art-director
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The BALSAMS Inn-Bedded Resorter Candidate - Martin Earley
Listen to each candidate's opening remarks as the voting for The BALSAMS', or the world's ...
published: 25 Jun 2010
author: Bob Manley
The BALSAMS Inn-Bedded Resorter Candidate - Martin Earley
Listen to each candidate's opening remarks as the voting for The BALSAMS', or the world's for that matter, first Inn-Bedded Resorter gets underway at Dixville Notch.
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ORŁY 2010 - Maciej Stuhr - Nominacje :-) wersja nieocenzurowana
Filmiki na ceremonię Polskich Nagród Filmowych Orły 2010, organizowaną przez Niezależną Fu...
published: 25 Feb 2010
author: Maciej Puczynski
ORŁY 2010 - Maciej Stuhr - Nominacje :-) wersja nieocenzurowana
Filmiki na ceremonię Polskich Nagród Filmowych Orły 2010, organizowaną przez Niezależną Fundacje Filmową, przygotowali:
Maciej Stuhr - autor pomysłu i jego wykonawca
Joanna Fedorowicz - niezastąpiona w roli kierownik produkcji
Maciej Puczyński - autor zdjęć i współautor montażu
Tomek Kućkowski (aka. NotSoBright) - mistrz montażu i efektów specjalnych
Bartosz Mrozowki, który wyczarowuje scenografię i rekwizyty nie wiadomo kiedy, nie wiadomo skąd i nie wiadomo jak
Marcin Różalski - człowiek ze słuchawkami na uszach oraz
Chłopcy z Piramida Films z pięknym zestawem lamp i...
Beata Szota z torebką pełną pudru.
W roli gór, knajpy MDM, licznych pokoi, ulicy w nocy i celi przesłuchań całkowicie bezinteresownie wystąpiła restauracja Balsam.
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Fragmenty oryginalnych filmów, wykorzystane za zgodą Autorów, pochodzą z:
"Wojna polsko-ruska" (reż. Xawery Żuławski/ zdj. Marian Prokop/ wyst. Borys Szyc), "Rewers" (reż. Borys Lankosz/ zdj. Marcin Koszałka/ wyst. Marcin Dorociński, Krystyna Janda), "Generał Nil" (reż. Ryszard Bugajski/ zdj. Piotr Śliskowski/ wyst. Olgierd Łukaszewicz), "Janosik. Prawdziwa historia" (reż. Agnieszka Holland, Kasia Adamik/ zdj. Martin Strba / wyst. Michał Żebrowski) and "Dom zły" (reż. Wojciech Smarzowski/ zdj. Krzysztof Ptak/ wyst. Marian Dziędziel, Arkadiusz Jakubik, Kinga Preis).
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90:05
The Delta Force
A 707 aircraft jetliner on its way from Athens to Rome and then to New York City is hijack...
published: 22 Nov 2012
author: TheCinecurryTamil
The Delta Force
A 707 aircraft jetliner on its way from Athens to Rome and then to New York City is hijacked by Lebanese terrorists. The terrorists demand that the pilot take them to Beirut. What the terrorists don't realize is that an elite team of commandoes led by Major McCoy (Norris) and by Colonel Alexander (Marvin) as been called into service to eliminate all terrorists on the jetliner and who's involved in the hijacking and try to retake the plane before the terrorists kill all the hostages.
- published: 22 Nov 2012
- views: 6738
- author: TheCinecurryTamil
30:05
The Living Jesus Christ Chapter 01 - Holy Night (Bible Movies)
The Living Jesus Christ Series Chapter 01 - Holy Night (Bible Movies) The Living Christ Se...
published: 27 Dec 2012
author: FilmStreamOnline
The Living Jesus Christ Chapter 01 - Holy Night (Bible Movies)
The Living Jesus Christ Series Chapter 01 - Holy Night (Bible Movies) The Living Christ Series is a 12-part drama series about the life of Jesus Christ. In some ways, it was a version of the typical Hollywood serial film. Each episode was thirty minutes long, bringing the total running time of the series to what might have been considered an epic six hours long if the films had been shown consecutively. Filmed in color in 1951, it is notable for being one of the few American film series of that time in which Christ's face was actually shown. Since the early days of sound, American film producers had been afraid that some members of the audience would be alienated if an actor who did not fit the public's image of Christ was chosen to play the role, so virtually all had played it safe by showing Him only from the back or in long shot. Sometimes only Christ's hand would be seen. Foreign film makers, however, had no such doubts, and Christ was actually shown in such films as the French Golgotha (1935), the Mexican El Martir del Calvario (1952), and the 1953 British serial Jesus of Nazareth. However, The Living Christ Series was not meant to be shown in movie theatres, but more as an instructional, inspirational film in churches or on Sunday-morning television. Far from being a religious epic, the series was clearly shot mostly on soundstages and on a low budget, much like a typical television program of the era shot on film. Directed by John T. Coyle, the series featured ...
- published: 27 Dec 2012
- views: 85
- author: FilmStreamOnline
28:40
The Living Jesus Christ Chapter 02 - Escape to Egypt (Bible Movies)
The Living Jesus Christ Chapter 02 - Escape to Egypt (Bible Movies) The Living Christ Seri...
published: 27 Dec 2012
author: FilmStreamOnline
The Living Jesus Christ Chapter 02 - Escape to Egypt (Bible Movies)
The Living Jesus Christ Chapter 02 - Escape to Egypt (Bible Movies) The Living Christ Series is a 12-part drama series about the life of Jesus Christ. In some ways, it was a version of the typical Hollywood serial film. Each episode was thirty minutes long, bringing the total running time of the series to what might have been considered an epic six hours long if the films had been shown consecutively. Filmed in color in 1951, it is notable for being one of the few American film series of that time in which Christ's face was actually shown. Since the early days of sound, American film producers had been afraid that some members of the audience would be alienated if an actor who did not fit the public's image of Christ was chosen to play the role, so virtually all had played it safe by showing Him only from the back or in long shot. Sometimes only Christ's hand would be seen. Foreign film makers, however, had no such doubts, and Christ was actually shown in such films as the French Golgotha (1935), the Mexican El Martir del Calvario (1952), and the 1953 British serial Jesus of Nazareth. However, The Living Christ Series was not meant to be shown in movie theatres, but more as an instructional, inspirational film in churches or on Sunday-morning television. Far from being a religious epic, the series was clearly shot mostly on soundstages and on a low budget, much like a typical television program of the era shot on film. Directed by John T. Coyle, the series featured mostly ...
- published: 27 Dec 2012
- views: 36
- author: FilmStreamOnline
20:27
My DVD Collection - DVD Update 1/11/11
In this update i show 10 DVD's that i've gotten over the past month. First off i show my n...
published: 11 Jan 2011
author: michael101591
My DVD Collection - DVD Update 1/11/11
In this update i show 10 DVD's that i've gotten over the past month. First off i show my new LG 22 inch LCD HDTV monitor. The DVD's in this video are as follows: Boy Meets World: The Complete Fourth Season - Starring Ben Savage, Rider Strong, Danielle Fishel, Will Freddle, William Daniels, Betsy Randle, William Russ, Lindsay Ridgeway, Anthony Tyler Quinn, Blake Clark Dick Tracy: Directed and starring Warren Beatty, Madonna, Al Pacino, Glenne Headly, Charlie Korsmo, Dustin Hoffman Full House: The Complete Third Season: Starring John Stamos, Bob Saget, Dave Coulier, Candace Cameron Bure, Jodie Sweetin, Mary - Kate Olsen, Ashley Olsen, Lori Loughlin Grown Ups: Directed By Dennis Dugan - Starring Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock, David Spade, Rob Schneider, Salma Hayek, Maria Bello, Maya Rudolph Smallville: The Complete First Season - Starring Tom Welling, Kristin Kreuk, Michael Rosenbaum, Eric Johnson, Sam Jones III, Allison Mack, Annette O' Toole, John Schneider The Animal: Directed By Luke Greenfield - Starring Rob Schneider, Colleen Haskel, John C. McGinley, Edward Asner, Michael Caton, Louis Lombardi, Norm Macdonald Starman: Directed By John Carpenter - Starring Jeff Bridges, Karen Allen, Charles Martin Smith, Richard Jaeckel, Robert Phalen He Got Game: Directed By Spike Lee - Starring Denzel Washington, Ray Allen, Milla Jovovich, Ned Beatty, Bill Nunn, Michele Shay, John Turturro, Thomas Jefferson Byrd, Roger Guenveur Smith The Best Of WWE Raw 15th Anniversary 1993 ...
- published: 11 Jan 2011
- views: 2286
- author: michael101591
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04 Jan 2013
Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner has released a public letter urging the United Kingdom to relinquish its control over the disputed Falkland Islands. ... The veterans delivered a letter addressed to the British Ambassador in Argentina, John Freeman, criticising the British government for refusing to discuss the sovereignty of the islands with the Argentine government ... 508 Source.. Al Jazeera and agencies. Share....(size: 19.6Kb)
photo: WN / Imran Nissar
03 Jan 2013
A gang of men accused of repeatedly raping a 23-year-old student on a moving bus in New Delhi in a deadly crime that repulsed the nation are to appear in court today for the first time. A British tourist join others in a candlelight vigil to mourn the death of a gang rape victim, in Kolkata, India Photo. AP. 3.52AM GMT 03 Jan 2013 ... Police have ordered a bone test to determine his age and whether he can stand trial in an adult court....(size: 11.3Kb)
photo: US Navy / HMC Josh Ives
03 Jan 2013
Washington. Aiming to get cooperation through dialogue, the US said that it is working hard to create an environment within Afghanistan and also in the region to have support for Afghan-Afghan reconciliation ... Responding to questions, Nuland said the US supports an Afghan-led process of reconciliation ... Saying that Pakistan needs to engage with Afghanistan directly, Nuland said the US supports dialogue between the two ... PTI ... First Published....(size: 2.3Kb)
photo: AP / Yadana Htun
04 Jan 2013
LAIZA, Myanmar (AP) — Ethnic Kachins living in makeshift camps in Myanmar described their terror at the army's use of air power during fighting with Kachin rebels seeking more autonomy as the government said Friday that it has exercised maximum restraint. Connect With Us on Twitter. Follow @nytimesworld for international breaking news and headlines. Twitter List. Reporters and Editors ... Are We Becoming Cyborgs?. IHT Magazine ... ... ....(size: 10.1Kb)
photo: AP / Mohammad Hannon
02 Jan 2013
The United Nations has estimated that more than 60,000 people have been killed in Syria's 21-month-old uprising against authoritarian rule, a toll one-third higher than what anti-regime activists had counted. The UN human rights chief called the toll "truly shocking". Opposition activist groups had been estimating the death toll at more than 45,000 and this was the first time that the UN estimate was higher ... 30, 2012 ... - AP. ....(size: 6.3Kb)
The Examiner
29 Dec 2012
Before his death on Christmas Eve 2012 at the age of 90, Jack Klugman was widely known for his work on television. He starred on the anthology series The Twilight Zone and was already an Emmy winner (for The Defenders) before landing his first major series role as Oscar Madison on the TV version of The Odd Couple ... Cobb, Jack Warden, E.G. Marshall and Oscar winner Martin Balsam ... Suggested by the author. ... A ReviewThe Odd Couple. ....(size: 3.1Kb)
Orange News
25 Dec 2012
Tweet. Beloved U.S. TV star Jack Klugman has died, aged 90 ... He also starred in classic 1957 courthouse drama 12 Angry Men, opposite Henry Fonda and Martin Balsam ... ....(size: 0.9Kb)
Orlando Sentinel
25 Dec 2012
Cobb, Ed Begley, Jack Warden, Martin Balsam and E.G. Marshall. ....(size: 0.7Kb)
Starpulse
25 Dec 2012
Beloved television star Jack Klugman has died at his home in California. He was 90 ... He also starred in classic 1957 courthouse drama 12 Angry Men, opposite Henry Fonda and Martin Balsam ... Photo Credits. Chris Hatcher / PR Photos. ....(size: 1.1Kb)
The Independent
25 Dec 2012
The death of the American actor Jack Klugman will be mourned by TV fans of the slovenly sportswriter Oscar Madison in The Odd Couple and the forensic medic Quincy, M.E. But his death at 90 will be noted by Hollywood historians for another reason. Klugman was the last survivor of the dozen jurors in Sidney Lumet's landmark 1957 film, 12 Angry Men ... The acting credits for 12 Angry Men are a Hollywood rarity ... Martin Balsam Juror (foreman) ... ....(size: 4.0Kb)
The Examiner
24 Dec 2012
Jack Klugman, the popular actor best known for television roles on "The Odd Couple" and "Quincy M.E.," has died, according to reports from ABC and other news outlets ... His performance as one of the jurors placed him in company with Henry Fonda, Martin Balsam, and Lee J. Cobb, among others. Later, Klugman's television roles made him familiar to generations of viewers ... ....(size: 1.9Kb)
noodls
14 Dec 2012
(Source. University of Windsor). Laura McLean, secretary to the dean of science, is in a distinct minority. She was one of just two respondents to get every answer correct in Wednesday's trivia quiz marking the 12th day of the 12th month of the 12th year ... In her e-mail response, McLean called it a "trick question." ... Twelfth Night falls on Epiphany eve ... The foreman of the jury in the 1957 film 12 Angry Men was played by a) Martin Balsam....(size: 4.1Kb)
noodls
12 Dec 2012
(Source. University of Windsor). The University Bookstore is offering this beautiful hardcover volume, "Cooking with Giovanni Caboto," as the prize for the winner of today's trivia quiz. Today-December 12, 2012-is 12/12/12 and to celebrate the occasion, the University Bookstore is offering DailyNews readers a special contest with an alluring prize. Up for grabs is a copy of Cooking with Giovanni Caboto ... a) a cube ... a) 10 ... a) Martin Balsam....(size: 5.1Kb)
IMDb
09 Nov 2012
Psycho was released June 16th, 1960 and stars Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin, Martin Balsam, John McIntire, Simon Oakland, Vaughn ......(size: 0.8Kb)
Starpulse
04 Nov 2012
Happy Birthday to.. Actor Matthew McConaughey (1969). Actress Gillian Zinser (1985). Actress Marcy Rylan (1980) ... Actress Heather Tom (1975) ... Actor Martin Balsam (1919; d. 1996) ... ....(size: 1.1Kb)
MSNBC
04 Nov 2012
Actress Doris Roberts ("Everybody Loves Raymond") is 82. Actress Loretta Swit ("M.A.S.H.") is 75. Singer Harry Elston of Friends of Distinction is 74. Singer Delbert McClinton is 72. Former First Lady Laura Bush is 66. Actress Markie Post ("Night Court," "The Fall Guy") is 62. mooth jazz keyboardist Jeff Lorber is 60. Advertise . AdChoices. Advertise . AdChoices. Advertise . AdChoices ... Advertise . AdChoices ... 1919 Martin Balsam, actor; died 1996 ... ....(size: 4.0Kb)
Celebrity Café
27 Oct 2012
Alfred Hitchcock Month Week 4 ... He cast just one star, Janet Leigh, and picked some of the finest supporting actors he could find, including Martin Balsam (12 Angry Men) and Vera Miles (The Searchers) ... At first, Sam and Marion's sister, Lila (Miles), put their trust in a detective (Balsam), but when he doesn't return, they take it upon themselves to visit the motel to discover the truth ... 0. No votes yet ... None ... ....(size: 5.1Kb)
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18 Oct 2012
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| Martin Balsam | |
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| Born | Martin Henry Balsam (1919-11-04)November 4, 1919 Bronx, New York, New York, U.S. |
| Died | February 13, 1996(1996-02-13) (aged 76) Rome, Italy |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1947–1995 |
| Spouse | Pearl Somner (1952–1954) Joyce Van Patten (1959–1962) Irene Miller (1963–1987) |
| Children | 1 (Talia Balsam, b. 1959) |
Martin Henry Balsam (November 4, 1919 – February 13, 1996)[1] was an American actor. He is known for his Oscar-winning role as "Arnold Burns" in A Thousand Clowns and his role as "Detective Milton Arbogast" in Psycho.
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Early life[link]
Martin Balsam was born in The Bronx, New York to Jewish parents Lillian (née Weinstein) and Albert Balsam, who was a manufacturer of ladies sportswear.[2][3] He attended DeWitt Clinton High School, where he participated in the drama club.[4] He studied at the Dramatic Workshop of The New School in New York with the influential German director Erwin Piscator and then served in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II.
Career[link]
Martin Balsam made his professional debut in August 1941 in a production of The Play's the Thing in Locust Valley.[5] In 1947, he was selected by Elia Kazan and Lee Strasberg to be a player in the Actors Studio television program. He appeared in many other television drama series, including The Twilight Zone (episodes "The Sixteen Millimeter Shrine" and "The New Exhibit"), as a psychologist in the pilot episode, Five Fingers, Target: The Corruptors!, The Eleventh Hour, Breaking Point, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Fugitive, and Mr. Broadway, as a retired U.N.C.L.E. agent in The Man from U.N.C.L.E. episode, "The Odd Man Affair", and guest starred in the two-part Murder, She Wrote episode, "Death Stalks the Big Top".
Balsam appeared in such films as On the Waterfront, 12 Angry Men (as Juror #1), Time Limit, Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Carpetbaggers, Seven Days in May, The Anderson Tapes, Hombre, Catch-22, Tora! Tora! Tora!, Little Big Man, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, All the President's Men, Murder on the Orient Express,The Delta Force, and The Goodbye People.
Along with Gregory Peck and Robert Mitchum, Martin Balsam appeared in both the original Cape Fear (1962), and the 1991 Martin Scorsese remake.
In 1965, he won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Arnold Burns in A Thousand Clowns. In 1967, he won a Tony Award for his appearance in the 1967 Broadway production of You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running.
Balsam played Washington Post editor Howard Simons in the 1976 blockbuster All the President's Men.[6] He also appeared in a film that eventually became a highly popular Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode, the 1975 Joe Don Baker police drama Mitchell. In 1973, he played Dr. Rudy Wells when the Martin Caidin novel Cyborg was adapted as the TV-movie, The Six Million Dollar Man, though he did not reprise the role for the subsequent weekly series. He appeared as a spokesman/hostage in the 1976 TV movie Raid on Entebbe and as a detective in the 1977 TV movie Contract on Cherry Street. He also appeared on an episode of Quincy ME. Balsam starred as Murray Klein on the All in the Family spin-off Archie Bunker's Place for two seasons (1979–1981). He even filled in for Charles Nelson Reilly on Match Game for one question when Reilly was late for a taping.
Personal life[link]
In 1952, Balsam married his first wife, actress Pearl Somner. They divorced two years later. His second wife was actress Joyce Van Patten. This marriage lasted for three years (from 1959 until 1962) and had one daughter, Talia Balsam. He married his third wife, Irene Miller, in 1963. They divorced in 1987.
Death[link]
Balsam died in Rome, Italy, of a heart attack at the age of 76. He is interred at Cedar Park Cemetery, in Emerson, New Jersey.[7] He was survived by Renee Landau, his companion.[8]
Awards[link]
- (1964) Best Supporting Actor - The Carpetbaggers
- (1966) Best Actor in a Supporting Role - A Thousand Clowns
- (1974) Best Supporting Actor - Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams (Nominated)
- (1976) Best Supporting Actor - The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (Nominated)
- (1977) Best Supporting Actor - All the President's Men (Nominated)
- (1977) Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie - Raid on Entebbe (Nominated)
References[link]
- ^ "Balsam, Martin Henry". Who Was Who in America : with World Notables, v. XI (1993-1996). New Providence, N.J.: Marquis Who's Who. 1996. p. 13. ISBN 0837902258.
- ^ Van Gelder, Lawrence (February 14, 1996). "Martin Balsam Is Dead at 76; Ubiquitous Character Actor". The New York Times. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E01E2D81139F937A25751C0A960958260. Retrieved May 12, 2010.
- ^ Great Character Actors
- ^ Van Gelder, Lawrence. "Martin Balsam Is Dead at 76; Ubiquitous Character Actor", The New York Times, February 14, 1996. Accessed September 14, 2009. "He grew up on Mosholu Parkway and became involved in theater and music at DeWitt Clinton High School."
- ^ Ian Herbert, ed. (1981). "BALSAM, Martin". Who's Who in the Theatre. 1. Gale Research Company. pp. 39–40. ISSN 0083-9833.
- ^ All the President's Men (1976)
- ^ "Sometimes the Grave Is a Fine and Public Place". New York Times. March 28, 2004.
- ^ New York Times
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| Place of birth | The Bronx, New York City |
| Date of death | February 13, 1996 |
| Place of death | Rome, Italy |
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| Lila Kedrova | |
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| Born | 9 October, c. 1918 Saint Petersburg, Russia |
| Died | 16 February 2000 Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1938–1994 |
| Spouse | Dick Howard (1968-2000; her death) |
Lila Kedrova (born Yelizaveta Nikolayevna Kedrova; Russian: Елизавета Николаевна Кедрова; 9 October, c. 1918 – 16 February 2000) was a Russian-born French actress.
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Kedrova claimed to have been born in 1918, in Petrograd, Russia. Her parents were Russian opera singers. Lila Kedrova's brother was Nikolay Kedrov, Jr. Her father, Nikolay Kedrov, Sr., was a singer and composer, a creator of the first Russian male quartet to perform liturgical chants. Her mother, Sofia Gladkaya (ru: Софья Николаевна Гладкая) (1875—1965), was a singer at the Mariinsky Theatre. In 1922, some time after the October Revolution, the family emigrated from Russia and lived in Berlin. In 1928 they moved to France. There, Kedrova's mother taught at the Conservatoire de Paris, and her father once again recreated the quartet "Quatuor Kedroff". In 1932, Lila Kedrova joined the Moscow Art Theatre touring company. Then her film career began, mostly in French films, until her first English appearance in 1964 as Mme Hortense in Zorba the Greek. Her performance won her the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. She then went on to play a series of eccentric or batty ladies in several Hollywood films.[citation needed]
In 1983, she reprised her role as Mme Hortense on Broadway in the musical version of Zorba the Greek, winning both a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical and a Drama Desk Award in the process. In 1989 she played Madame Armfeldt in the London revival of A Little Night Music.[citation needed]
Death[link]
In 2000, Lila Kedrova died at her summer home in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada, of pneumonia, after a long battle with Alzheimer's disease.
Filmography[link]
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| Ultimatum | 1938 | Irina | as Lila Kédrova |
| Weg ohne Umkehr | 1953 | Ljuba | |
| Défroqué, LeLe Défroqué | 1954 | uncredited | |
| Flesh and the Woman | 1954 | Rose | French: Le Grand jeu |
| Impures, LesLes Impures | 1955 | Mme. Denis, la concierge | |
| Chiffonniers d'Emmaüs, LesLes Chiffonniers d'Emmaüs | 1955 | Le femme de Bastien | uncredited |
| gens sans importance, DesDes gens sans importance | 1955 | ||
| Futures vedettes | 1955 | Sophie's mother | |
| Razzia sur la Chnouf | 1955 | Léa | |
| Calle Mayor | 1956 | ||
| Jusqu'au dernier | 1957 | Marcella Bastia | |
| Ce joli monde | 1957 | Léa | |
| The Lovers of Montparnasse | 1958 | Mme. Sborowsky | |
| Mon pote le gitan | 1959 | La Choute | |
| Jons und Erdme | 1959 | ||
| La Femme et le Pantin | 1959 | Manuela | |
| Kriss Romani | 1963 | ||
| Mort d'un tueur, LaLa Mort d'un tueur | 1964 | ||
| Zorba the Greek | 1964 | Madame Hortense |
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| High Wind in Jamaica, AA High Wind in Jamaica | 1965 | Rosa, Tampico Bar Owner | |
| Torn Curtain | 1966 | Countess Kuchinska | |
| Penelope | 1966 | Sadaba | |
| Maigret à Pigalle | 1967 | Rise | |
| Canard en fer-blanc, LeLe Canard en fer-blanc | 1967 | Rosa | |
| Amants de Montparnasse, LesLes Amants de Montparnasse | 1968 | ||
| Il Suo modo di fare | 1969 | Yolanda's mother | |
| Kremlin Letter, TheThe Kremlin Letter | 1970 | ||
| Time for Loving, AA Time for Loving | 1971 | Madame Olga Dubillard | |
| Rak | 1972 | mère de David, LaLa mère de David | |
| Escape to the Sun | 1972 | Sarah Kaplan | |
| Soft Beds, Hard Battles | 1974 | ||
| Alla mia cara mamma nel giorno del suo compleanno | 1974 | ||
| Il Medaglione insanguinato | 1975 | Contessa Cappelli | |
| Eliza's Horoscope | 1975 | Lila | |
| Footprints on the Moon | 1975 | Old woman on the beach | French: Le Orme |
| Tenant, TheThe Tenant | 1976 | Madame Gaderian | French: Le Locataire |
| Moi, fleur bleue | 1977 | Countess de Tocqueville | |
| Nido de viudas | 1977 | Mother | |
| Paradis des riches, LeLe Paradis des riches | 1978 | Camille Chevallier | |
| Cavaleur, LeLe Cavaleur | 1979 | Olga | |
| Égouts du paradis, LesLes Égouts du paradis | 1979 | Charlotte | |
| Clair de femme | 1979 | Sonia | |
| Tell Me a Riddle | 1980 | Golden Mask Award | |
| Les Parents terribles | 1980 | ||
| Il Turno | 1981 | Maria | |
| Blood Tide | 1982 | Sister Anna | |
| Testament | 1983 | uncredited | |
| Sword of the Valiant | 1984 | Lady of Lyonesse | |
| Some Girls | 1988 | Granny | |
| Star for Two, AA Star for Two | 1991 | ||
| Prossima Volta il Fuoco, LaLa Prossima Volta il Fuoco | 1994 | Mother |
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| Date of death | 16 February 2000 |
| Place of death | Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada |
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| Henry Fonda | |
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| Born | Henry Jaynes Fonda (1905-05-16)May 16, 1905 Grand Island, Nebraska, U.S. |
| Died | August 12, 1982(1982-08-12) (aged 77) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Cause of death | Heart disease |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of Minnesota |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1935–82 |
| Political party | Democrat |
| Spouse | 1) Margaret Sullavan (m. 1931-32, divorced) 2) Frances Ford Seymour (m. 1936-50, her death) 3) Susan Blanchard (m. 1950-56, divorced) 4) Afdera Franchetti (m. 1957-61, divorced) 5) Shirlee Mae Adams (m. 1965-82, his death) |
| Children | Jane Fonda Peter Fonda Amy Fishman |
| Relatives | Bridget Fonda (granddaughter) |
Henry Jaynes Fonda (May 16, 1905 – August 12, 1982) was an American film and stage actor.[1]
Fonda made his mark early as a Broadway actor. He also appeared in 1938 in plays performed in White Plains, New York, with Joan Tompkins.[2] He made his Hollywood debut in 1935, and his career gained momentum after his Academy Award-nominated performance as Tom Joad in The Grapes of Wrath, a 1940 adaptation of John Steinbeck's novel about an Oklahoma family who moved west during the Dust Bowl. Throughout six decades in Hollywood, Fonda cultivated a strong, appealing screen image in such classics as The Ox-Bow Incident, Mister Roberts and 12 Angry Men. Later, Fonda moved both toward darker epics as Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West and lighter roles in family comedies like Yours, Mine and Ours with Lucille Ball.
Fonda was the patriarch of a family of famous actors, including daughter Jane Fonda, son Peter Fonda, granddaughter Bridget Fonda, and grandson Troy Garity. His family and close friends called him "Hank". In 1999, he was named the sixth-Greatest Male Star of All Time by the American Film Institute.
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Fonda was born in Grand Island, Nebraska,[3] to advertising-printing jobber William Brace Fonda and his wife, Elma Herberta (née Jaynes), in the second year of their marriage.[4] The Fonda family had migrated from Genoa, Italy, to the Netherlands in the 15th century. In 1642 they emigrated to the Dutch colony of New Netherland. The Fondas were among the first Dutch population to settle in what is now upstate New York, establishing the town of Fonda, New York. By 1888, most of the Fondas had relocated to Nebraska.[5]
Fonda was brought up as a Christian Scientist, though he was baptized an Episcopalian at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church[citation needed] in Grand Island. He said, "[M]y whole damn family was nice." They were a close family and highly supportive, especially in health matters, as they avoided doctors due to their religion.[6] Fonda was a bashful, short boy who tended to avoid girls, except his sisters, and was a good skater, swimmer, and runner. He worked part-time in his father's print plant and imagined a possible career as a journalist. Later, he worked after school for the phone company. He also enjoyed drawing. Fonda was active in the Boy Scouts of America; Teichmann reports that he reached the rank of Eagle Scout.[7] When he was about 14, his father took him to observe a lynching, from the window of his father's plant, of a young black man accused of rape.[8] This so enraged the young Fonda that he kept a keen awareness of prejudice for his entire adult life.[9] By his senior year in high school, Fonda had grown to more than six feet tall, but remained a shy teenager. He attended the University of Minnesota, majoring in journalism,[10] but he did not graduate. He took a job with the Retail Credit Company.
Career[link]
Early stage work[link]
At age 20, Fonda started his acting career at the Omaha Community Playhouse, when his mother's friend Dodie Brando (mother of Marlon Brando) recommended that he try out for a juvenile part in You and I, in which he was cast as Ricky.[3] He was fascinated by the stage, learning everything from set construction to stage production, and embarrassed by his acting ability.[11] When he received the lead in Merton of the Movies, he realized the beauty of acting as a profession, as it allowed him to deflect attention from his own tongue-tied personality and create stage characters relying on someone else's scripted words. Fonda decided to quit his job and go East in 1928 to strike his fortune.
He arrived on Cape Cod and played a role at the Cape Playhouse in Dennis, Massachusetts; a friend took him over to Falmouth, where he quickly became a valued member of the new University Players, an intercollegiate summer stock company. There he worked with Margaret Sullavan, his future wife.[12] James Stewart joined the Players months after Fonda left, and they later became lifelong friends.[13] He landed his first professional role in the University Players production of The Jest, by Sem Benelli. Joshua Logan, a young sophomore at Princeton who had been double-cast in the show, gave Fonda the part of Tornaquinci, "an elderly Italian with long, white beard and heavy wig." Also in the cast of The Jest with Fonda and Logan were Bretaigne Windust, Kent Smith, and Eleanor Phelps.[14]
The tall (6'1.5") and slim (160 lbs) Fonda headed for New York City, where he was soon joined by Stewart (after Fonda's short marriage to Margaret Sullavan ended.) The two men were roommates and honed their skills on Broadway. Fonda appeared in theatrical productions from 1926 to 1934. They fared no better than many Americans in and out of work during the Great Depression, sometimes lacking enough money to take the subway.[15]
Entering Hollywood[link]
Fonda got the first break, as he was hired to make his first film appearance in 1935 as Janet Gaynor's leading man in 20th Century Fox's screen adaptation of The Farmer Takes a Wife; he reprised his role from the Broadway production of the same name, which had gained him critical recognition. Suddenly, Fonda was making $3,000 a week and dining with Hollywood stars such as Carole Lombard.[16] Stewart soon followed him to Hollywood, and they roomed together again, in lodgings next door to Greta Garbo. In 1935 Fonda starred in the RKO film I Dream Too Much with the opera star Lily Pons. The New York Times announced him as "Henry Fonda, the most likable of the new crop of romantic juveniles."[17] Fonda's film career blossomed as he costarred with Sylvia Sidney and Fred MacMurray in The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1936), the first Technicolor movie filmed outdoors.
He starred with ex-wife Margaret Sullavan in The Moon's Our Home, and a short re-kindling of their relationship led to a brief but temporary consideration of re-marriage. Fonda got the nod for the lead role in You Only Live Once (1937), also costarring Sidney, and directed by Fritz Lang. He was a critical success opposite Bette Davis, who had picked him, in the film Jezebel (1938). This was followed by the title role in Young Mr. Lincoln (1939), his first collaboration with director John Ford, and that year he played Frank James in Jesse James (1939). Another 1939 film was Drums Along the Mohawk, also directed by Ford.
Fonda's successes led Ford to recruit him to play "Tom Joad" in the film version of John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath (1940). A reluctant Darryl Zanuck, who preferred Tyrone Power, insisted on Fonda's signing a seven-year contract with his studio Twentieth Century-Fox.[18] Fonda agreed, and was ultimately nominated for an Academy Award for his work in the 1940 film, which many consider to be his finest role. Fonda starred in The Return of Frank James (1940) with Gene Tierney. He then played opposite Barbara Stanwyck in Preston Sturges' The Lady Eve (1941), and again teamed with Tierney in the successful screwball comedy Rings on Her Fingers (1942 ). She was one of Fonda's favorite co-stars, and they appeared in three films together. He was acclaimed for his role in The Ox-Bow Incident (1943).
Fonda enlisted in the Navy to fight in World War II, saying, "I don't want to be in a fake war in a studio."[19] Previously, he and Stewart had helped raise funds for the defense of Britain.[20] Fonda served for three years, initially as a Quartermaster 3rd Class on the destroyer USS Satterlee. He was later commissioned as a Lieutenant Junior Grade in Air Combat Intelligence in the Central Pacific and was awarded the Navy Presidential Unit Citation and the Bronze Star.[21]
Post-war career[link]
After the war, Fonda took a break from movies and attended Hollywood parties and enjoyed civilian life. He and Stewart would listen to records and invite Johnny Mercer, Hoagy Carmichael, Dinah Shore, and Nat King Cole over for music, with the latter giving the family piano lessons.[22] Fonda played Wyatt Earp in John Ford's My Darling Clementine (1946) and appeared in the film Fort Apache (1948) as a rigid Army colonel, along with John Wayne and Shirley Temple in her first adult role. Fonda did seven post-war films until his contract with Fox expired, the last being Otto Preminger's Daisy Kenyon (1947), opposite Joan Crawford.
Refusing another long-term studio contract, Fonda returned to Broadway, wearing his own officer's cap to originate the title role in Mister Roberts, a comedy about the Navy, where Fonda, a junior officer, wages a private war against the captain. He won a 1948 Tony Award for the part. Fonda followed that by reprising his performance in the national tour and with successful stage runs in Point of No Return and The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial. After a few years almost completely absent from films, he starred in the 1955 film version of Mister Roberts opposite James Cagney, William Powell and Jack Lemmon, continuing a pattern of bringing his acclaimed stage roles to life on the big screen. On the set of Mister Roberts, Fonda came to blows with John Ford, who punched him during filming, and Fonda vowed never to work for the director again. While he kept that vow, Fonda spoke glowingly of Ford in Peter Bogdanovich's documentary Directed by John Ford.
Fonda next acted in Paramount Pictures's production of the Leo Tolstoy epic War and Peace (1956), in which he played Pierre Bezukhov opposite Audrey Hepburn; it took two years to shoot. Fonda worked with Alfred Hitchcock in 1956, playing a man falsely accused of robbery in The Wrong Man; the unusual semi-documentary work of Hitchcock's was based on an actual incident and partly filmed on location.
In 1957, Fonda made his first foray into production with 12 Angry Men, based on a teleplay and a script by Reginald Rose and directed by Sidney Lumet. The low-budget production was completed in seventeen days of filming, mostly in one claustrophobic jury room. It had a strong cast, including Jack Klugman, Lee J. Cobb, Martin Balsam, and E. G. Marshall. The intense film about twelve jurors deciding the fate of a young Puerto Rican man accused of murder was well-received by critics worldwide. Fonda shared the Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations with co-producer Reginald Rose and won the 1958 BAFTA Award for Best Actor for his performance as "Juror #8", who with logic and persistence eventually sways all the jurors to an acquittal. Early on the film drew poorly, but after winning critical acclaim and awards, it proved a success. In spite of the good outcome, Fonda vowed that he would never produce a movie again, fearing that failing as a producer might derail his acting career.[23] After acting in the western movies The Tin Star (1957) and Warlock (1959), Fonda returned to the production seat for the NBC western television series The Deputy (1959–1961), in which he starred as Marshal Simon Fry. His co-stars were Allen Case and Read Morgan.
During the 1960s, Fonda performed in a number of war and western epics, including 1962's The Longest Day and How the West Was Won, 1965's In Harm's Way and Battle of the Bulge. In the Cold War suspense film Fail-Safe (1964), Fonda played the President of the United States who tries to avert a nuclear holocaust through tense negotiations with the Soviets after American bombers are mistakenly ordered to attack the USSR. He also returned to more light-hearted cinema in Spencer's Mountain (1963), which was the inspiration for the TV series, The Waltons.
Fonda appeared against type as the villain 'Frank' in 1968's Once Upon a Time in the West. After initially turning down the role, he was convinced to accept it by actor Eli Wallach and director Sergio Leone, who flew from Italy to the United States to persuade him to take the part. Fonda had planned on wearing a pair of brown-colored contact lenses, but Leone preferred the paradox of contrasting close-up shots of Fonda's innocent-looking blue eyes with the vicious personality of the character Fonda played.
Fonda's relationship with Jimmy Stewart survived their disagreements over politics — Fonda was a liberal Democrat, and Stewart a conservative Republican. After a heated argument, they avoided talking politics with each other. The two men teamed up for 1968's Firecreek, where Fonda again played the heavy. In 1970, Fonda and Stewart costarred in the western The Cheyenne Social Club, a minor film in which they humorously argued politics. They had first appeared together on film in On Our Merry Way (1948), a comedy which also starred William Demarest and Fred MacMurray and featured a grown-up Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer, who had acted as a child in Our Gang.[24]
Late career[link]
Despite approaching his seventies, Fonda continued to work in theater, television and film through the 1970s. In 1970, Fonda appeared in three films, the most successful The Cheyenne Social Club. The other two films were Too Late the Hero, in which Fonda played a secondary role, and There Was a Crooked Man, about Paris Pitman Jr. (played by Kirk Douglas) trying to escape from an Arizona prison.
Fonda returned to both foreign and television productions, which provided career sustenance through a decade in which many aging screen actors suffered waning careers. He starred in the ABC television series ''The Smith Family between 1971 and 1972. 1973's TV-movie The Red Pony, an adaptation of John Steinbeck's novel, earned Fonda an Emmy nomination. After the unsuccessful Hollywood melodrama, Ash Wednesday, he filmed three Italian productions released in 1973 and 1974. The most successful of these, My Name is Nobody, presented Fonda in a rare comedic performance as an old gunslinger whose plans to retire are dampened by a "fan" of sorts.
Fonda continued stage acting throughout his last years, including several demanding roles in Broadway plays. He returned to Broadway in 1974 for the biographical drama, Clarence Darrow, for which he was nominated for a Tony Award. Fonda's health had been deteriorating for years, but his first outward symptoms occurred after a performance of the play in April 1974, when he collapsed from exhaustion. After the appearance of a heart arrhythmia brought on by prostate cancer, he had a pacemaker installed following cancer surgery. Fonda returned to the play in 1975. After the run of a 1978 play, First Monday of October, he took the advice of his doctors and quit plays, though he continued to star in films and television.
Fonda appeared in a revival of The Time of Your Life that opened in March 17, 1972 at the Huntington Hartford Theater in Los Angeles where Fonda, Richard Dreyfuss, Gloria Grahame, Ron Thompson, Strother Martin, Jane Alexander, Lewis J. Stadlen, Richard X. Slattery and Pepper Martin were among the cast with Edwin Sherin directing.[25][26]
In 1976, Fonda appeared in several notable television productions, the first being Collision Course, the story of the volatile relationship between President Harry Truman (E. G. Marshall) and General MacArthur (Fonda), produced by ABC. After an appearance in the acclaimed Showtime broadcast of Almos' a Man, based on a story by Richard Wright, he starred in the epic NBC miniseries Captains and Kings, based on Taylor Caldwell's novel. Three years later, he appeared in ABC's Roots: The Next Generations, but the miniseries was overshadowed by its predecessor, Roots. Also in 1976, Fonda starred in the World War II blockbuster Midway.
Fonda finished the 1970s in a number of disaster films. The first of these was the 1977 Italian killer octopus thriller Tentacoli (Tentacles) and Rollercoaster, in which Fonda appeared with Richard Widmark and a young Helen Hunt. He performed again with Widmark, Olivia de Havilland, Fred MacMurray, and José Ferrer in the killer bee action film The Swarm. He also acted in the global disaster film Meteor (his second role as a sitting President of the United States after Fail-Safe), with Sean Connery, Natalie Wood and Karl Malden, and the Canadian production City on Fire, which also featured Shelley Winters and Ava Gardner. Fonda had a small role with his son, Peter, in Wanda Nevada (1979), with Brooke Shields.
As Fonda's health declined and he took longer breaks between filming, critics began to take notice of his extensive body of work. In 1979, the Tony Awards committee gave Fonda a special award for his achievements on Broadway. Lifetime Achievement awards from the Golden Globes and Academy Awards followed in 1980 and 1981, respectively.
Fonda continued to act into the early 1980s, though all but one of the productions he was featured in before his death were for television. The television works included the critically acclaimed live performance of Preston Jones' The Oldest Living Graduate and the Emmy nominated Gideon's Trumpet (co-starring Fay Wray in her last performance).
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Fonda won an Academy Award for his work with Katharine Hepburn in On Golden Pond
On Golden Pond in 1981, the film adaptation of Ernest Thompson's play, marked one final professional and personal triumph for Fonda. Directed by Mark Rydell, the project provided unprecedented collaborations between Fonda and Katharine Hepburn, along with Fonda and his daughter, Jane. The elder Fonda played an emotionally brittle and distant father who becomes more accessible at the end of his life. Jane Fonda has said that elements of the story mimicked their real-life relationship, and helped them resolve certain issues. She bought the film rights in the hope that her father would play the role, and later described it as "a gift to my father that was so unbelievably successful."[27]
Premiered in December 1981, the film was well received by critics, and after a limited release on December 4 On Golden Pond developed enough of an audience to be widely released on January 22. With 11 Academy Award nominations, the film earned nearly $120 million at the box office, becoming an unexpected blockbuster. In addition to wins for Hepburn (Best Actress), and Thompson (Screenplay), On Golden Pond brought Fonda his only Oscar - for Best Actor (he was the oldest recipient of the award; it also earned him a Golden Globe Best Actor award). Fonda was by that point too ill to attend the ceremony, and his daughter Jane accepted on his behalf. She said when accepting the award that her dad would probably quip, "Well, ain't I lucky." After Fonda's death, some film critics called this performance "his last and greatest role".[who?]
Fonda's final performance was in the 1981 television drama Summer Solstice[28] with Myrna Loy. It was filmed after On Golden Pond had wrapped and Fonda was in rapidly declining health.
Personal life[link]
Marriages and children[link]
Fonda was married five times and had three children, one of them being adopted. His marriage to Margaret Sullavan in 1931 soon ended in separation, which was finalized in a 1933 divorce.
In 1936, he married Frances Ford Seymour Brokaw, widow of a wealthy industrialist, George Tuttle Brokaw.[29] The Brokaws had a daughter, Frances de Villers, nicknamed "Pan," who had been born soon after the Brokaws marriage in 1931.[30]
Fonda met his future wife Frances at Denham Studios in England on the set of Wings of the Morning,[31] the first British picture to be filmed in technicolor. They had two children, Peter and Jane, both of whom became successful actors in their own rights. They have each had Oscar nominations and wins.
In August 1949 Fonda announced to Frances that he wanted a divorce so he could remarry; their thirteen years of marriage had not been happy ones for him.[32] Devastated by Fonda’s confession, and plagued by emotional problems for many years, Frances went into the Austen Riggs Psychiatric Hospital in January 1950 for treatment. She committed suicide there on April 14. Before her death she had written six notes to various individuals, but left no final message for her husband. Fonda quickly arranged a private funeral with only himself and his mother-in-law, Sophie Seymour, in attendance.[33] Years later Dr. Margaret Gibson, the psychiatrist who had treated Frances at Austen Riggs, described Henry Fonda: “He was a cold, self-absorbed person, a complete narcissist.” [34]
Later in 1950, Fonda married Susan Blanchard, with whom he had been having an affair since sometime in 1948. She was twenty-one years old and the stepdaughter of Oscar Hammerstein II.[35] Together, they adopted a daughter, Amy Fishman (born 1953).[36] They divorced three years later. Blanchard was in awe of Fonda, and she described her role in the marriage as “a geisha,” doing everything she could to please him, dealing with and solving problems he did not acknowledge.[37]
In 1957, Fonda married the Italian countess Afdera Franchetti;[38] they divorced in 1961. Soon after, Fonda married Shirlee Mae Adams, and remained with her until his death in 1982.
Fonda's relationship with his children has been described as "emotionally distant." Fonda loathed displays of feeling in himself or others, and this was a consistent part of his character. Whenever he felt that his emotional wall was being breached, he had outbursts of anger, exhibiting a furious temper that terrified his family.[39] In Peter Fonda's 1998 autobiography Don't Tell Dad (1998), he described how he was never sure how his father felt about him. He never volunteered to his father that he loved him until he was elderly, and Peter finally heard, "I love you, son."[40] His daughter Jane rejected her father's friendships with Republican actors such as John Wayne and James Stewart. Their relationship became extremely strained as she became politically active.
Jane Fonda reported feeling detached from her father, especially during her early acting days. In 1958 she met Lee Strasberg while visiting her father at Malibu, as the families were neighbors, and she knew his daughter Susan. Jane Fonda started studying acting with him, which was a turning point in her career. He taught the techniques of "The Method."[41] As Jane Fonda developed as an actress, she was frustrated by being unable to understand her father's effortless acting style.
Politics[link]
Fonda was an ardent supporter of the Democratic party, and "an admirer" of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.[42] In 1960, Fonda appeared in a campaign commercial for Democratic Presidential candidate John F. Kennedy. The ad focused on Kennedy's naval service during World War II, specifically the famous PT-109 incident.[42]
On acting[link]
In the late 1950s, when Jane Fonda asked her father how he prepared before going on stage, she was baffled by his answer, "I don’t know, I stand there, I think about my wife, Afdera, I don't know."
The writer Al Aronowitz, while working on a profile of Jane Fonda for The Saturday Evening Post in the 1960s, asked Henry Fonda about Method acting: "I can't articulate about the Method", he told me, "because I never studied it. I don't mean to suggest that I have any feelings one way or the other about it...I don't know what the Method is and I don’t care what the Method is. Everybody's got a method. Everybody can’t articulate about their method, and I can't, if I have a method—and Jane sometimes says that I use the Method, that is, the capital letter Method, without being aware of it. Maybe I do; it doesn’t matter."[citation needed]
Aronowitz reported Jane saying, "My father can't articulate the way he works. He just can't do it. He's not even conscious of what he does, and it made him nervous for me to try to articulate what I was trying to do. And I sensed that immediately, so we did very little talking about it...he said, 'Shut up, I don't want to hear about it.’ He didn’t want me to tell him about it, you know. He wanted to make fun of it."[citation needed]
Death and legacy[link]
Fonda died at his Los Angeles home on August 12, 1982, from heart disease. Fonda's wife Shirlee, his daughter Jane and his son Peter were at his side when he died.[43] He also suffered from prostate cancer, but this did not directly cause his death; it was noted only as a concurrent ailment on his death certificate.
In the years since his death, Fonda has become more highly regarded as an actor than during his life. He is widely recognized as one of the Hollywood greats of the classic era. On the centenary of his birth, May 16, 2005, Turner Classic Movies honored him with a marathon of his films. Also in May 2005, the United States Post Office released a 37-cent postage stamp with an artist's drawing of Fonda as part of their "Hollywood legends" series.[19] The Henry Fonda Theater (now called the Music Box) is located at 6126 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. 34°06′07″N 118°20′27″W / 34.101944°N 118.340972°W / 34.101944; -118.340972
Filmography[link]
Main article: Henry Fonda filmography
From the beginning of his career in 1935 through his last projects in 1981, Fonda appeared in 106 films, television programs, and shorts. Through the course of his career he appeared in many critically acclaimed films, including such classics as 12 Angry Men and The Ox-Bow Incident. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in 1940's The Grapes of Wrath and won for his part in 1981's On Golden Pond. Fonda made his mark in westerns (which included his most villainous role as Frank in Once Upon a Time in the West), war films, and made frequent appearances in both television and foreign productions late in his career.
Broadway stage performances[link]
- The Game of Love and Death (November 1929 – January 1930)
- I Loved You, Wednesday (October – December 1932)
- New Faces of 1934 (Revue; March – July 1934)
- The Farmer Takes a Wife (October 1934 – January 1935)
- Blow Ye Winds (September – October 1937)
- Mister Roberts (February 1948 – January 1951)
- Point of No Return (December 1951 – November 1952)
- The Caine Mutiny (January 1954 – January 1955)
- Two for the Seesaw (January 1958 – October 1959)
- Silent Night, Lonely Night (December 1959 – March 1960)
- Critic's Choice (December 1960 – May 1961)
- A Gift of Time (February – May 1962)
- Generation (October 1965 – June 1966)
- Our Town (November – December 1969)
- Clarence Darrow (March – April 1974; March 1975)
- First Monday in October (October – December 1978)
Awards[link]
Henry Fonda received the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1978.
| Awards | Year | Category | Film | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Academy Awards | 1940 | Best Actor | The Grapes of Wrath | Nominated |
| 1957 | Best Picture | 12 Angry Men | Nominated Producer |
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| 1981 | Best Actor | On Golden Pond | Won | |
| 1980 | Honorary Award | Lifetime Achievement | ||
| BAFTA Awards | 1958 | Best Actor | 12 Angry Men | Won |
| 1981 | Best Actor | On Golden Pond | Nominated | |
| Emmy Awards | ||||
| 1973 | Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or Movie | The Red Pony | Nominated | |
| 1980 | Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or Movie | Gideon's Trumpet | Nominated | |
| Golden Globes | 1958 | Best Motion Picture Actor - Drama | 12 Angry Men | Nominated |
| 1980 | Cecil B. DeMille Award | Lifetime Achievement | Honorary | |
| 1982 | Best Motion Picture Actor - Drama | On Golden Pond | Won | |
| Grammy Awards | 1977 | Best Spoken Word Album | Great American Documents | Won |
| Tony Awards | 1975 | Best Actor | Clarence Darrow | Nominated |
| 1979 | Special Award | Lifetime Achievement | Honorary | |
| 1948 | Best Actor | Mister Roberts | Won |
See also[link]
References[link]
- ^ Obituary Variety, August 18, 1982.
- ^ "Tim Dunleavy, Biography for Joan Tompkins". Internet Movie Data Base. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0867000/bio. Retrieved January 17, 2010.
- ^ a b Bain, David Haward (2004). The Old Iron Road: An Epic of Rails, Roads, and the Urge to Go West. New York City, New York: Penguin Books. pp. 65–6. ISBN 0-14-303526-6.
- ^ Fonda, Henry (1982). Fonda: My Life. Fulcrum Publishing. ISBN 0-453-00402-4.
- ^ Bosworth, Patricia, Jane Fonda, The Private Life of a Public Woman,' Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011, p. 18.
- ^ Fonda 1981, p. 21.
- ^ Fonda 1981, p. 29.
- ^ Fonda 1981, p. 25.
- ^ Race Riots of 1919, Nebraska Studies, Retrieved on 2007-01-28.
- ^ Henry Fonda. YahooMovies.com. Retrieved on January 11, 2007.
- ^ Fonda 1981, p.30.
- ^ Houghton 1951: pp. 56-58.
- ^ Fonda and Stewart were not members of the University Players at the same time. Fonda left the Players at the end of their 1931-32 winter season in Baltimore and joined his new wife, Margaret Sullavan, in New York. Stewart did not join the University Players until the summer of 1932, after his graduation from Princeton. See Houghton 1951, supra.
- ^ Houghton 1951: p. 58.
- ^ Fonda 1981, p.60.
- ^ Fonda 1981, p. 95.
- ^ Fonda 1981, p.102.
- ^ Rabin, Kenn. The Grapes of Wrath. FilmNight.org. Retrieved on January 11, 2007.
- ^ a b United States Postal Service. Henry Fonda joins U.S. Postal Service Legends of Hollywood Stamp Series. Press Release, May 20, 2005, Retrieved on January 11, 2007.
- ^ Life Goes to a Party. From Life, August 5, 1940, at Tyrone-Power.com. Retrieved on January 11, 2007.
- ^ Fonda, A. Mark. Fonda Military. Fonda.org, October 23, 2006. Retrieved on January 11, 2007.
- ^ Fonda 1981, p.165.
- ^ Fonda 1981, p.250.
- ^ On Our Merry Way. 4alfalfa.com. Retrieved on January 11, 2007.
- ^ "WorldCat". Worldcat.org. http://www.worldcat.org/title/time-of-your-life/oclc/611053954. Retrieved 2012-01-22.
- ^ "Hollywood Beat". The Afro American. 1972-04-08. http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2211&dat=19720408&id=FCcmAAAAIBAJ&sjid=J_4FAAAAIBAJ&pg=781,2046468. Retrieved 2012-01-22.
- ^ Kennedy, Dana (May 6, 2001). "An Unscripted Life Starring Herself". The New York Times. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A07EFD71738F935A35756C0A9679C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=print. Retrieved May 4, 2010.
- ^ "The New York Times". The New York Times. http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/47630/Summer-Solstice/overview. Retrieved 2012-01-24.
- ^ Bosworth (2011), Jane Fonda, p. 22
- ^ Bosworth, Jane Fonda, p. 222
- ^ Christopher Andersen (1990) Citizen Jane
- ^ Bosworth (2011), Jane Fonda, p. 65
- ^ Bosworth (2011), Jane Fonda, p. 69
- ^ Bosworth (2011), Jane Fonda, p. 67
- ^ Bosworth (2011), Jane Fonda, pp. 63-64
- ^ Amy Fonda 1953 - fonda.org, January 16, 2005. Retrieved on January 11, 2007.
- ^ Bosworth, Patricia, "Jane Fonda, The Private Life of a Public Woman," Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011, p. 78
- ^ Graziano Arici Archives / GA016526: Celebrities from '40's to '70's. Graziano Arici Photographer. Retrieved on January 11, 2007.
- ^ Bosworth (2011), Jane Fonda, p. 78
- ^ Araujo, Djalma. Sermon of September 27, 1998. First United Methodist Church of San Diego. Retrieved on January 11, 2007.
- ^ Bosworth (2011), Jane Fonda, pp. 107-108
- ^ a b 1960 Kennedy campaign ad
- ^ Interview with Peter Fonda, NPR's "Fresh Air.
Bibliography[link]
- Collier, Peter (1991). The Fondas: A Hollywood Dynasty. Putnam. ISBN 0-399-13592-8.
- Fonda, Henry (1982). Fonda: My Life. Fulcrum Publishing. ISBN 0-453-00402-4.
- Fonda, Jane (2005). My Life So Far. Random House. ISBN 0-375-50710-8.
- Fonda, Peter (1998). Don't Tell Dad. Hyperion. ISBN 0-7868-6111-8.
- Houghton, Norris (1951). But Not Forgotten: The Adventure of the University Players. New York: William Sloane Associates.
- James, John Douglas (1976). The MGM Story. Crown Publishers. ISBN 0-517-52389-2.
- Roberts, Allen and Max Goldstein (1984). Henry Fonda: A Biography. McFarland & Co.. ISBN 0-89950-114-1.
- Sweeney, Kevin (1992). Henry Fonda: A BioBibliography. Greenwood Press. ISBN 0-313-26571-2.
- Thomas, Tony (1990). The Films of Henry Fonda. Citadel Press. ISBN 0-8065-1189-3.
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| Place of birth | Grand Island, Nebraska, U.S. |
| Date of death | August 12, 1982 |
| Place of death | Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
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| Jack Warden | |
|---|---|
 Warden (left) as Mike Haines in N.Y.P.D., 1968, |
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| Born | John Warden Lebzelter (1920-09-18)September 18, 1920 Newark, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Died | July 19, 2006(2006-07-19) (aged 85) New York, New York, U.S. |
| Resting place | Cremated |
| Other names | Jack Lebzelter Jack Warden Lebzelter Johnny Costello |
| Years active | 1950–2000 |
| Spouse | Vanda Dupre (1958–2006) |
Jack Warden (September 18, 1920 – July 19, 2006) was an American character actor.
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Early life[link]
Warden was born John Warden Lebzelter[1] in Newark, New Jersey,[2] the son of Laura M. (née Costello) and John Warden Lebzelter, who was an engineer and technician.[3] He was of Irish and Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry.[4] Raised in Louisville, Kentucky, he was expelled from high school for fighting and eventually fought as a professional boxer under the name Johnny Costello. He had 13 welterweight bouts but earned little money.[5]
World War II[link]
Warden worked as a nightclub bouncer, tugboat deckhand and lifeguard before joining the United States Navy in 1938. He was stationed in China for three years with the Yangtze River Patrol.[5]
In 1941, he joined the United States Merchant Marine but, quickly tiring of the long convoy runs, he switched to the United States Army in 1942 where he served as a paratrooper in the 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, with the elite 101st Airborne Division during World War II.
In 1944, on the eve of the D-Day invasion (during which many of his friends died), Staff Sergeant (Lebzelter) Warden shattered his leg by landing in a tree during a night-time practice jump in England. After almost eight months in the hospital (during which time he read a Clifford Odets play and decided to become an actor), he was sent back to the United States. Ironically in That Kind of Woman Warden played a paratrooper from the 101st's rivals: the 82nd Airborne Division.[6][7]
After leaving the military with the rank of master sergeant, he moved to New York City and pursued an acting career on the G.I. Bill. He joined the company of the Dallas Alley Theater and performed on stage for five years. In 1948 he made his television debut on The Philco Television Playhouse and Studio One. He made an uncredited film debut in 1951 in You're in the Navy Now, a movie which also featured the film debuts of Lee Marvin and Charles Bronson.[2]
Career[link]
Warden had his first credited film role in The Man with My Face in 1951, and in 1952 he began a three-year role in the television series Mr. Peepers. After a role as a sympathetic corporal in From Here to Eternity, Warden's breakthrough film role was his performance as Juror No. 7, a salesman who wants a quick decision in a murder case, in 12 Angry Men.
Warden guest-starred on many television series over the years, including two episodes of Barton MacLane's The Outlaws on NBC in 1960, The Fugitive, and later on Marilyn Maxwell's Bus Stop on ABC. He received a supporting actor Emmy Award for his performance as Chicago Bears coach George Halas in Brian's Song, and was twice nominated for his starring role in the 1980s comedy series, Crazy Like a Fox.
Warden was nominated for Academy Awards as Best Supporting Actor for his performances in Shampoo and Heaven Can Wait. He also had notable roles in All the President's Men, ...And Justice for All, Being There, Used Cars (in which he played a celebrated dual role), The Verdict, Problem Child and its sequel, as well as While You Were Sleeping, Guilty as Sin and the Norm Macdonald comedy Dirty Work.[6]
Warden appeared in over one hundred movies, typically playing gruff cops, sports coaches, trusted friends or similar roles, during a career which spanned six decades. His last film was The Replacements in 2000, opposite Gene Hackman and Keanu Reeves.
Personal life[link]
Warden married French actress Vanda Dupre in 1958 and had one son, Christopher. Although they separated in the 1970s, they never divorced.[8]
Death[link]
Warden suffered from declining health in his last years, and died of heart and kidney failure in a New York hospital on July 19, 2006. He was 85 years old.[9]
Filmography[link]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | The Asphalt Jungle | Bit Role | Uncredited |
| 1951 | The Man with My Face | Walt Davis | |
| 1953 | From Here to Eternity | Corporal Buckley | |
| 1957 | Edge of the City | Charles Malik | Alternative title: A Man Is Ten Feet Tall |
| 1957 | The Bachelor Party | Eddie Watkins, the Bachelor | |
| 1957 | 12 Angry Men | Juror No. 7 | |
| 1958 | Run Silent, Run Deep | Yeoman 1st Class Mueller | |
| 1958 | Darby's Rangers | Master Sergeant Saul Rosen | |
| 1959 | The Sound and the Fury | Ben Compson | |
| 1959 | That Kind of Woman | George Kelly | |
| 1960 | Wake Me When It's Over | Dave "Doc" Farrington | |
| 1962 | Escape from Zahrain | Huston | |
| 1963 | Donovan's Reef | Doctor William Dedham | |
| 1964 | The Thin Red Line | First Sergeant Welsh | |
| 1965 | Blindfold | General Prat | |
| 1968 | Bye Bye Braverman | Barnet Weinstein | |
| 1971 | Summertree | Herb | |
| 1971 | Welcome to the Club | General Strapp | |
| 1973 | The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing | Dawes | |
| 1974 | The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz | Max | |
| 1975 | Shampoo | Lester Carp | First Academy Award nomination |
| 1976 | All the President's Men | Harry M. Rosenfeld | |
| 1977 | The White Buffalo | Charlie Zane | |
| 1977 | Raid on Entebbe | Lt. Gen. Mordechai Gur | |
| 1978 | Death on the Nile | Doctor Ludwig Bessner | |
| 1978 | Heaven Can Wait | Max Corkle | Second Academy Award nomination |
| 1979 | The Champ | Jackie | |
| 1979 | Beyond the Poseidon Adventure | Harold Meredith | |
| 1979 | Being There | President "Bobby" of the United States | |
| 1979 | ...And Justice for All | Judge Francis Rayford | |
| 1980 | Used Cars | Roy L. Fuchs Luke Fuchs |
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| 1981 | The Great Muppet Caper | Mr. Tarkenian, the News Editor | |
| 1981 | Chu Chu and the Philly Flash | The Commander | |
| 1981 | Carbon Copy | Nelson Longhurst | |
| 1981 | So Fine | Jack Fine | |
| 1982 | The Verdict | Mickey Morrissey | |
| 1984 | Crackers | Garvey | |
| 1985 | The Aviator | Moravia | |
| 1986 | The Cosmic Eye | Rocko | Voice |
| 1987 | September | Lloyd | |
| 1988 | The Presidio | Sergeant Major Ross Maclure | |
| 1990 | Everybody Wins | Judge Harry Murdoch | |
| 1990 | Problem Child | "Big" Ben Healy | |
| 1991 | Problem Child 2 | "Big" Ben Healy | |
| 1992 | Passed Away | Jack Scanlan | |
| 1992 | Night and the City | Al Grossman | |
| 1992 | Toys | Old General Zevo | |
| 1993 | Guilty as Sin | Moe | |
| 1994 | Bullets Over Broadway | Julian Marx | |
| 1995 | Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead | Joe Heff | |
| 1995 | Mighty Aphrodite | Tiresias | |
| 1995 | While You Were Sleeping | Saul | |
| 1996 | Ed | Chubb | |
| 1997 | The Island on Bird Street | Boruch | |
| 1998 | Chairman of the Board | Armand McMillan | |
| 1998 | Dirty Work | Pops | |
| 1998 | Bulworth | Eddie Davers | |
| 1999 | A Dog of Flanders | Jehan Daas | |
| 2000 | The Replacements | Edward O'Neil |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1952 | Tales of Tomorrow | Steve | 1 episode |
| 1952 | Mr. Peepers | Chicago Cabbie | 1 episode |
| 1953 | The Campbell Playhouse | 1 episode | |
| 1953 | Man Against Crime | Deck Hand | 2 episodes |
| 1954-55 | Kraft Television Theatre | Various roles | 2 episodes |
| 1954-55 | Studio One | Various roles | 3 episodes |
| 1955 | Justice | Two roles | "Flight from Fear" and "Save Me Now" |
| 1956 | The Alcoa Hour | Frank Doran | 1 episode |
| 1956 | Climax! | Lieutenant Ravenna | 1 episode |
| 1958-59 | Playhouse 90 | Various roles | 3 episodes |
| 1959 | Five Fingers | Fitzgerald | "The Moment of Truth" |
| 1959-60 | Bonanza | Mike Wilson | 1 episode (The Paiute War) |
| 1959-60 | The Twilight Zone | James A. Corry Mouth McGarry |
"The Lonely" "The Mighty Casey" |
| 1960 | The Outlaws | 2 episodes | |
| 1961 | Route 66 | Adam Darcy | The Clover Throne |
| 1961 | Checkmate | Farrell | 1 episode |
| 1962 | Naked City | Cornelius Daggett | Face of the Enemy |
| 1962 | Naked City | Steve Lollo | The King of Venus Will Take Care of You |
| 1962 | Naked City | Sam Langen | The Spectre of the Rose Street Gang |
| 1962 | Target: The Corruptors! | Jerry Skala | 2 episodes |
| 1962 | Tales of Wells Fargo | Brad Axton | 1 episode |
| 1962 | Route 66 | Sandor Biro | Feat of Strength |
| 1963 | Route 66 | Major Barbon | Two Strangers and an Old Enemy |
| 1963 | 77 Sunset Strip | Max Eames | 1 episode |
| 1964 | Breaking Point | Carlo Scotti | "No Squares in My Family Circle" |
| 1964 | The Great Adventure | Latham | 1 episode |
| 1964 | Bewitched | Rex Barker | "It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog" |
| 1965 | Dr. Kildare | Ernie Duffy | 1 episode |
| 1966 | The Wackiest Ship in the Army | Major Simon Butcher | 29 episodes |
| 1967 | The Fugitive | Alex Patton | "Concrete Evidence" |
| 1967 | The Invaders | Barney Cahill | 1 episode |
| 1967-69 | N.Y.P.D. | Lieutenant Mike Haines | 49 episodes |
| 1971 | The Face of Fear | Lieutenant George Coy | Television film |
| 1971 | Brian's Song | George Halas | ABC Movie of the Week |
| 1972 | What's a Nice Girl Like You...? | Lieutenant Burton | ABC Movie of the Week |
| 1972 | Lieutenant Schuster's Wife | Captain Patrick Lonergan | Television film |
| 1973 | Wheeler and Murdoch | Sam Wheeler | Television film |
| 1974 | The Godchild | Sergeant Dobbs | Television film |
| 1975 | Journey from Darkness | Fred Hartman | Television film |
| 1979-80 | The Bad News Bears | Morris Buttermaker | 23 episodes |
| 1983 | Hobson's Choice | Henry Horatio Hobson | Television film |
| 1984 | Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues | Mark Twain | Television film |
| 1984-86 | Crazy Like a Fox | Harrison "Harry" Fox, Sr. | 35 episodes |
| 1987 | Hoover vs. the Kennedys: The Second Civil War | J. Edgar Hoover | Television film |
| 1988 | Police Story: The Watch Commander | Joe Wilson | Television film |
| 1989 | Knight & Daye | Hank Knight | 1 episode |
| 1990 | Judgment | Claude Fortier | Television film |
| 1995 | Problem Child 3: Junior in Love | Big Ben | Television film |
| 1997 | Ink | Timothy Logan | 1 episode |
| 1999 | The Norm Show | Harry | 1 episode |
Awards and nominations[link]
| Year | Award | Result | Category | Film or series |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1972 | Emmy Award | Won | Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in Drama | Brian's Song |
| 1985 | Nominated | Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series | Crazy Like a Fox | |
| 1986 | Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series | Crazy Like a Fox | ||
| 1976 | Academy Award | Best Actor in a Supporting Role | Shampoo | |
| 1979 | Best Actor in a Supporting Role | Heaven Can Wait | ||
| 1976 | BAFTA Award | Best Supporting Actor | Shampoo |
References[link]
- ^ "Jack Warden, 85: Actor had a familiar face". Los Angeles Times. July 27, 2006. http://www.thestar.com/Obituary/TtoZ/article/108229. Retrieved 30 December 2010.
- ^ a b "Jack Warden, 85, Actor Known for Tough-Guy Roles, Is Dead". The New York Times. 2006-07-22. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/22/arts/22warden.html. Retrieved 2008-10-12.
- ^ "Jack Warden Biography (1920-)". filmreference.com. http://www.filmreference.com/film/68/Jack-Warden.html. Retrieved 2008-10-12.
- ^ Stinson, Charles (1958-12-28). "Warden: the Face Is Familiar". Los Angeles Times. http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/476287672.html?dids=476287672:476287672&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Dec+28%2C+1958&author=&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=Warden%3A+the+Face+Is+Familiar&pqatl=google. Retrieved 2010-08-29.
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External links[link]
- Jack Warden at the Internet Movie Database
- Jack Warden at the Internet Broadway Database
- Jack Warden at Find a Grave
- Cinema2000 obituary (Portuguese)
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| Name | Warden, Jack |
| Alternative names | Lebzelter, Jack Warden |
| Short description | Actor |
| Date of birth | September 18, 1920 |
| Place of birth | Newark, New Jersey |
| Date of death | July 19, 2006 |
| Place of death | New York City, New York |
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| Ida Lupino | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1918-02-04)4 February 1918 Camberwell, London |
| Died | 3 August 1995(1995-08-03) (aged 77) Los Angeles, California |
| Occupation | Actress, director |
| Years active | 1931–1978 |
| Spouse | Louis Hayward (m.1938–1945; divorced) Collier Young (m.1948–1951; divorced) Howard Duff (m.1951–1984; divorced) |
Ida Lupino (4 February 1918[1] – 3 August 1995) was an English-born film actress and director, and a pioneer among women filmmakers. In her 48-year career, she appeared in 59 films and directed seven others, mostly in the United States, where she became a citizen in 1948. She appeared in serial television programmes 58 times and directed 50 other episodes. Additionally, she contributed as a writer to five films and four TV episodes.[2]
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Acting career[link]
Lupino was born in 1918 into an English family of performers.[3] Her father, Stanley Lupino, was a music hall comedian, and her mother, Connie Emerald (1892–1959), was an actress.[4] As a girl, Ida Lupino was encouraged to enter show business by both her parents and her uncle, Lupino Lane. She trained at RADA and made her first film appearance in The Love Race (1931), the next year making Her First Affaire. She played leading roles in five British films in 1933 at Warner Bros.' Teddington studios and for Julius Hagen at Twickenham, including in The Ghost Camera with John Mills and I Lived with You with Ivor Novello. She moved to Hollywood at the end of that year.[5]
Lupino starred in over a dozen films in the mid-1930s. Following her appearance in The Light That Failed (1939), she began to be taken seriously as a dramatic actress. As a result, her parts improved during the 1940s, and she described herself as "the poor man's Bette Davis."[6]
During this period, Lupino became known for her hard-boiled roles,[7] as in such films as They Drive by Night (1940) and High Sierra (1941), both opposite Humphrey Bogart. For her performance in The Hard Way (1943), she won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress. She worked regularly and was in demand throughout the 1940s without becoming a major star until later. In 1947, Lupino left Warner Bros. to freelance. Notable films she appeared in around that time include Road House and On Dangerous Ground.
Directing career[link]
In the mid-1940s, while on suspension for turning down a role,[8] Lupino became interested in directing. She described herself as being bored on set while "someone else seemed to be doing all the interesting work."[7] She and her husband Collier Young formed an independent company, The Filmakers [sic], and Lupino became a producer, director and screenwriter of low-budget, issue-oriented films.[9]
Her first directing job came unexpectedly in 1949 when Elmer Clifton suffered a mild heart attack and could not finish Not Wanted, the film he was directing for Filmakers. Lupino stepped in to finish the film and went on to direct her own projects, becoming Hollywood's only female film director of the time.[10]
In an article for the Village Voice, Carrie Rickey wrote that Lupino was a model of modern feminist filmmaking, stating:
Not only did Lupino take control of production, direction and screenplay, but each of her movies addresses the brutal repercussions of sexuality, independence, and dependence.[11]
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Lupino (left) directing The Hitch-Hiker (1953)
After four "woman's" films about social issues – including Outrage (1950), a film about rape – Lupino directed her first hard-paced, fast-moving picture, The Hitch-Hiker (1953), making her the first woman to direct a film noir. Writer Richard Koszarski noted that:
Her films display the obsessions and consistencies of a true auteur... In her films The Bigamist and The Hitch-Hiker Lupino was able to reduce the male to the same sort of dangerous, irrational force that women represented in most male-directed examples of Hollywood film noir.[12]
Lupino often joked that if she had been the "poor man's Bette Davis" as an actress, then she had become the "poor man's Don Siegel" as a director.[13] In 1952, Lupino was invited to become the "fourth star" in Four Star Productions by Dick Powell, David Niven and Charles Boyer, after Joel McCrea and Rosalind Russell had dropped out of the company.
Television[link]
Lupino continued acting throughout the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. Her directing efforts during these years were almost exclusively television productions such as Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Thriller, The Twilight Zone, Have Gun – Will Travel, The Donna Reed Show, Gilligan's Island, 77 Sunset Strip, The Ghost & Mrs. Muir, The Rifleman, The Virginian, Sam Benedict, The Untouchables, The Fugitive and Bewitched.
Lupino appeared in 19 episodes of Four Star Playhouse from 1952 to 1956. From January 1957 through September 1958, Lupino starred with her then husband, Howard Duff, in the CBS sitcom Mr. Adams and Eve, in which the duo played husband and wife film stars named Howard Adams and Eve Drake, living in Beverly Hills, California. Duff and Lupino also co-starred as themselves in 1959 in one of the 13 one-hour installments of The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour. Lupino guest-starred on numerous television programs, including The Ford Television Theatre (1954), The Twilight Zone (1959), Bonanza (1959), Burke's Law (1963–64), The Virginian (1963–65), Batman (1968), The Mod Squad (1969), Family Affair (1969–70), Columbo (1972–74), Barnaby Jones (1974), The Streets of San Francisco ("Blockade", 1974), Ellery Queen (1975), Police Woman (1975) and Charlie's Angels (1977), to name a few. She made her final film appearance in 1978 and retired at the age of 60.
Awards and homage[link]
Lupino has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contributions to the fields of television and motion pictures. They are located at 1724 Vine Street and 6821 Hollywood Boulevard. Lupino is the titular subject of a jazz homage composed by Carla Bley in 1964, originally for the album Turning Point.[14] She won the inaugural Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress for The Devil's Rain.[citation needed]
Personal life[link]
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Lupino was born in Camberwell, London, (allegedly under a table during a World War I zeppelin raid[citation needed]) to actress Connie O'Shea (Connie Emerald) and music hall entertainer Stanley Lupino, a member of the theatrical Lupino family. Lupino's birth year is 1918 and not 1914 as some biographies have claimed.[1] Her sister Rita Lupino, born in 1920, became an actress and dancer. During World War II she served as a Lieutenant in the Women's Ambulance and Defense Corps.[15] Lupino became a U.S. citizen in 1948.[16]
Lupino was married and divorced three times.
- Louis Hayward, actor (November 1938 - 11 May 1945)
- Collier Young, producer (1948–1951)
- Howard Duff, actor (October 1951 - 1984) with whom she had daughter Bridget Duff on 23 April 1952
In 1983, Lupino petitioned a California court to appoint her business manager, Mary Ann Anderson, as her conservator due to poor business dealings from her prior business management company and her long separation from Howard Duff.
Lupino died from a stroke while undergoing treatment for colon cancer in Los Angeles in August 1995, at the age of 77.[citation needed] Lupino's memoirs, Ida Lupino: Beyond the Camera, were edited after her death and published by Mary Ann Anderson.[17]
Filmography[link]
| Title | Year | As actress | Role | As director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Love Race, TheThe Love Race | 1931 | Yes | Minor supporting role | ||
| Her First Affaire | 1932 | Yes | Anne | ||
| Ghost Camera, TheThe Ghost Camera | 1933 | Yes | Mary Fulton | ||
| High Finance | 1933 | Yes | Jill | ||
| Money for Speed | 1933 | Yes | Jane | ||
| I Lived with You | 1933 | Yes | Ada Wallis | ||
| Prince of Arcadia | 1933 | Yes | The Princess | ||
| Search for Beauty | 1934 | Yes | Barbara Hilton | ||
| Come on Marines | 1934 | Yes | Esther Smith-Hamilton | ||
| Ready for Love | 1934 | Yes | Marigold Tate | ||
| Paris in Spring | 1935 | Yes | Mignon de Charelle | ||
| Smart Girl | 1935 | Yes | Pat Reynolds | ||
| Peter Ibbetson | 1935 | Yes | Agnes | ||
| Fiesta de Santa Barbara, LaLa Fiesta de Santa Barbara | 1935 | Yes | Herself | ||
| Anything Goes | 1936 | Yes | Hope Harcourt | ||
| One Rainy Afternoon | 1936 | Yes | Monique Pelerin | ||
| Yours for the Asking | 1936 | Yes | Gert Malloy | ||
| Gay Desperado, TheThe Gay Desperado | 1936 | Yes | Jane | ||
| Sea Devils | 1937 | Yes | Doris Malone | ||
| Let's Get Married | 1937 | Yes | Paula Quinn | ||
| Artists and Models | 1937 | Yes | Paula Sewell/Paula Monterey | ||
| Fight for Your Lady | 1937 | Yes | Marietta | ||
| Lone Wolf Spy Hunt, TheThe Lone Wolf Spy Hunt | 1939 | Yes | Val Carson | ||
| Lady and the Mob, TheThe Lady and the Mob | 1939 | Yes | Lila Thorne | ||
| Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, TheThe Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | 1939 | Yes | Ann Brandon | ||
| Light That Failed, TheThe Light That Failed | 1939 | Yes | Bessie Broke | ||
| Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 6 | 1939 | Yes | Herself | Promotional short film | |
| They Drive by Night | 1940 | Yes | Lana Carlsen | ||
| High Sierra | 1940 | Yes | Marie | ||
| Sea Wolf, TheThe Sea Wolf | 1941 | Yes | Ruth Webster | ||
| Out of the Fog | 1941 | Yes | Stella Goodwin | ||
| Ladies in Retirement | 1941 | Yes | Ellen Creed | ||
| Moontide | 1942 | Yes | Anna | ||
| Life Begins at Eight-Thirty | 1942 | Yes | Kathy Thomas | ||
| Forever and a Day | 1943 | Yes | Jenny | ||
| Hard Way, TheThe Hard Way | 1943 | Yes | Mrs. Helen Chernen | ||
| Thank Your Lucky Stars | 1943 | Yes | Herself | ||
| In Our Time | 1944 | Yes | Jennifer Whittredge | ||
| Hollywood Canteen | 1944 | Yes | Herself | ||
| Pillow to Post | 1945 | Yes | Jean Howard | ||
| Devotion | 1946 | Yes | Emily Bronte | ||
| Man I Love, TheThe Man I Love | 1947 | Yes | Petey Brown | ||
| Deep Valley | 1947 | Yes | Libby Saul | ||
| Escape Me Never | 1947 | Yes | Gemma Smith | ||
| Road House | 1948 | Yes | Lily Stevens | ||
| Lust for Gold | 1949 | Yes | Julia Thomas | ||
| Not Wanted | 1949 | Yes | |||
| Never Fear | 1949 | Yes | |||
| Woman in Hiding | 1950 | Yes | Deborah Chandler Clark | ||
| Outrage | 1950 | Yes | Country Dance Attendee | Yes | |
| Hard, Fast and Beautiful | 1951 | Yes | Seabright Tennis Match Supervisor | Yes | |
| On the Loose | 1951 | Yes | Narrator | ||
| On Dangerous Ground | 1952 | Yes | Mary Malden | ||
| Beware, My Lovely | 1952 | Yes | Mrs. Helen Gordon | ||
| Hitch-Hiker, TheThe Hitch-Hiker | 1953 | Yes | |||
| Jennifer | 1953 | Yes | Agnes Langley | ||
| Bigamist, TheThe Bigamist | 1953 | Yes | Phyllis Martin | Yes | |
| Private Hell 36 | 1954 | Yes | Lilli Marlowe | ||
| Women's Prison | 1955 | Yes | Amelia van Zandt | ||
| Big Knife, TheThe Big Knife | 1955 | Yes | Marion Castle | ||
| While the City Sleeps | 1956 | Yes | Mildred Donner | ||
| Strange Intruder | 1956 | Yes | Alice Carmichael | ||
| Bewitched | 1965 | Yes | TV series | ||
| Trouble with Angels, TheThe Trouble with Angels | 1966 | Yes | |||
| Junior Bonner | 1972 | Yes | Elvira Bonner | ||
| The Strangers in 7A | 1972 | Yes | Iris Sawyer | ||
| Devil's Rain, TheThe Devil's Rain | 1975 | Yes | Mrs. Preston | ||
| Food of the Gods, TheThe Food of the Gods | 1976 | Yes | Mrs. Skinner | ||
| Charlie's Angels | 1977 | Yes | Gloria Gibson | TV series | |
| My Boys are Good Boys | 1978 | Yes | Mrs. Morton |
Notes[link]
- ^ a b Recorded in Births Mar 1918 Camberwell Vol. 1d, p. 1019 (Free BMD). Transcribed as "Lupine" in the official births index
- ^ Ida Lupino at the Internet Movie Database
- ^ Allrovi Biography
- ^ Acker, Alley, Reel Women - Pioneers of the Cinema, The Continuum Publishing Company, 1991, p. 75, ISBN 0-8264-0499-5
- ^ Ida Lupino TCM biography. Accessed 4 July 2011.
- ^ Katz, Ephraim; Fred Klein, Ronald Dean Nolan (1998). The Film Encyclopedia (3rd Edition ed.). New York: HarperPerennial. p. 858. ISBN 0-06-273492-X.
- ^ a b Acker, p. 76
- ^ Rickey, Carrie, "Lupino Noir," Village Voice, October 29 - November 4, 1980, p. 43
- ^ Acker, pp. 74, 76,
- ^ Acker, p. 75
- ^ Rickey, VV, p. 43, as quoted in Reel Women by Acker, p. 76
- ^ Koszarski, Richard, Hollywood Directors, New York: Oxford University Press, 1976 ISBN 0-19-502085-5 (0-19-502085-5)
- ^ Wood, Bret. "Outrage (1950)". Turner Classic Movies Online. http://www.tcm.com/thismonth/article.jsp?cid=102732&mainArticleId=159651. Retrieved 2008-08-10.
- ^ "Ida Lupino". YouTube clip, played by Paul Bley, accessed September 5, 2010
- ^ "Partners in Winning the War: American Women in WWII". National Women's History Museum. http://www.nwhm.org/online-exhibits/partners/34.htm. Retrieved 8 May 2011.
- ^ Kupferberg, Audrey E. "Lupino, Ida", FilmReference.com, accessed April 11, 2012
- ^ "Ida Lupino : Beyond The Camera", Paul Green: Author, Blog at WordPress.com, 6 July 2011
External links[link]
- Ida Lupino at the Internet Movie Database
- Ida Lupino at the TCM Movie Database
- Ida Lupino at Find a Grave (photos of Lupino)
- Ida Lupino at Virtual History
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| Name | Lupino, Ida |
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| Date of birth | (1918-02-04)February 4, 1918 |
| Place of birth | Camberwell, London, England, UK |
| Date of death | August 3, 1995(1995-08-03) (aged 77) |
| Place of death | Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
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