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I Died A Thousand Times
''I Died a Thousand Times'' is a 1955 American CinemaScope Warnercolor film noir directed by Stuart Heisler. The drama features Jack Palance as paroled bank robber Roy Earle, with Shelley Winters, Lee Marvin, Earl Holliman, Perry Lopez, Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez, and Lon Chaney Jr. ''I Died a Thousand Times'' is a scene-by-scene remake of '' High Sierra'' (1941), which was based upon a novel by W.R. Burnett and starred Humphrey Bogart as Earle. The same story had also been transformed into the Western ''Colorado Territory'' (1949), with Joel McCrea. Plot Roy "Mad Dog" Earle (Jack Palance), an aging bank robber, intends to pull off one last heist before retiring. Sprung from prison by crime boss Big Mac ( Lon Chaney Jr.), Earle agrees to plan the robbery of a resort hotel. His partners include the hotheaded Babe (Lee Marvin), easy-going Red ( Earl Holliman), and an "inside man" at the hotel, Louis Mendoza (Perry Lopez). Along for the ride is Marie (Shelley Winters), a dance-hall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stuart Heisler
Stuart Heisler (December 5, 1896 – August 21, 1979) was an American film and television director. He was a son of Luther Albert Heisler (1855–1916), a carpenter, and Frances Baldwin Heisler (1857–1935). He worked as a motion picture editor from 1921 to 1936, then worked as a film director for the rest of his career. Heisler directed the 1944 propaganda film '' The Negro Soldier'', a documentary-style recruitment piece aimed at getting African-Americans to enlist in the U.S. military during World War II. He found commercial and critical success in the late forties directing Susan Hayward in two of her breakthrough performances. He received an Oscar nomination in 1949 for his contribution to the visual effects of the film ''Tulsa''. Partial filmography As editor *'' The Love Light'' (1921) * '' They Shall Pay'' (1921) *'' Cytherea'' (1924) *'' Tarnish'' (1924) * '' The Silent Stranger'' (1924) *'' In Hollywood with Potash and Perlmutter'' (1924) *'' Stella Dallas'' (1925) *' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joel McCrea
Joel Albert McCrea (November 5, 1905 – October 20, 1990) was an American actor whose career spanned a wide variety of genres over almost five decades, including comedy, drama, romance, thrillers, adventures, and Westerns, for which he became best known. He appeared in over one hundred films, starring in over eighty, among them Alfred Hitchcock's espionage thriller '' Foreign Correspondent'' (1940), Preston Sturges' comedy classics '' Sullivan's Travels'' (1941), and '' The Palm Beach Story'' (1942), the romance film '' Bird of Paradise'' (1932), the adventure classic '' The Most Dangerous Game'' (1932), Gregory La Cava's bawdy comedy ''Bed of Roses'' (1933), George Stevens' six-time Academy Award nominated romantic comedy '' The More the Merrier'' (1943), William Wyler's '' These Three'', '' Come and Get It'' (both 1936) and '' Dead End'' (1937), Howard Hawks' ''Barbary Coast'' (1935), and a number of Westerns, including '' Wichita'' (1955) as Wyatt Earp and Sam Peckinpah' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bosley Crowther
Francis Bosley Crowther Jr. (July 13, 1905 – March 7, 1981) was an American journalist, writer, and film critic for ''The New York Times'' for 27 years. His work helped shape the careers of many actors, directors and screenwriters, though some of his reviews of popular films have been seen as unnecessarily harsh. Crowther was an advocate of foreign-language films in the 1950s and 1960s, particularly those of Roberto Rossellini, Vittorio De Sica, Ingmar Bergman, and Federico Fellini. Life and career Crowther was born Francis Bosley Crowther Jr. in Lutherville, Maryland, the son of Eliza Hay (née Leisenring, 1877–1960) and Francis Bosley Crowther (1874–1950). As a child, Crowther moved to Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where he published a neighborhood newspaper, ''The Evening Star''. His family moved to Washington, D.C., and Crowther graduated from Western High School in 1922. After two years of prep school at Woodberry Forest School, he entered Princeton University, wher ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willie Best
William Best (May 27, 1916 – February 27, 1962), known professionally as Willie Best or Sleep 'n' Eat, was an American television and film actor. Best was one of the first African American film actors and comedians to become well known. In the 21st century, his work, like that of Stepin Fetchit, is sometimes reviled because he was often called upon to play stereotypically lazy, illiterate, and/or simple-minded characters in films. Of the 124 films he appeared in, he received screen credit in at least 77, an unusual feat for an African American bit player. Stage A native of Sunflower, Mississippi, Best reached Hollywood, Los Angeles, Hollywood as a chauffeur for a vacationing couple. He decided to stay in the region and began his performing career with a traveling show in southern California. He was regularly hired as a character actor in Hollywood films after a talent scout discovered him on stage. Motion pictures Willie Best appeared in more than one hundred films o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Millican
James Millican (February 17, 1910 – November 24, 1955) was an American actor with over 200 film appearances mostly in western movies. Millican was the son of Fred S. Millican, a circus owner, and Dorothy Millican. Millican was a close associate of cowboy star "Wild" Bill Elliott, staging a number of personal-appearance rodeos on Elliott's behalf. Millican was sent to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's dramatic school directly after graduating from University of Southern California. Death Millican died on November 24, 1955, after a brief illness and is buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale), California. Selected filmography * '' The Sign of the Cross'' (1932) – Capt. Kevin Driscoll – (1944 Re-Release Prologue) (uncredited) * ''Mills of the Gods'' (1934) – Chauffeur * '' Love Me Forever'' (1935) – Phillip's Friend (uncredited) * '' Atlantic Adventure'' (1935) – Sailor (uncredited) * '' Case of the Missing Man'' (1935) – Pedestrian (uncredited) * '' Too Tough ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Brinegar
Paul Alden Brinegar Jr. (December 19, 1917 – March 27, 1995) was an American character actor best known for his roles in three Western (genre), Western series: ''The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp'', ''Rawhide (TV series), Rawhide'', and ''Lancer (TV series), Lancer''. Early years Brinegar was born in 1917 in Tucumcari, New Mexico, Tucumcari in eastern New Mexico, the first child of Louise (née McElroy) and Paul A. Brinegar Sr., who was a farmer.Oliver, Myrna (1995)"Paul Brinegar; Appeared in TV's 'Rawhide'" obituary, ''Los Angeles Times'', March 31, 1995. Retrieved May 11, 2017. His family relocated several times during his childhood, first moving to Alamogordo, New Mexico, Alamogordo, then to Las Cruces, New Mexico, Las Cruces, and finally to Santa Fe, New Mexico, Santa Fe."Paul Brinegar (Rawhide) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dub Taylor
Walter Clarence "Dub" Taylor Jr. (February 26, 1907 – October 3, 1994)Dub Taylor, 87, Actor in Westerns, The New York Times, October 5, 1994, Section B, Page 12 was an American character actor who from the 1940s into the 1990s worked extensively in films and on television, often in Westerns but also in comedies. He is the father of actor and painter Buck Taylor. Early life Taylor was born February 26, 1907, in Richmond, Virginia, the middle child of five children of Minnie and Walter C. Taylor Sr."The Fourteenth Census of the United States: 1920" enumeration date January 15, 1920, Augusta City, Richmond County, Georgia. Digital copy of original census page, FamilySearch. Retrieved A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olive Carey
Olive Carey (born Olive Fuller Golden; January 31, 1896 – March 13, 1988) was an American film and television actress, and the mother of actor Harry Carey Jr. Early life Carey was born Olive Fuller Golden in New York City, the daughter of Ada (Maxwell), who was from Surrey, England, and George Fuller Golden (originally George Michael Fuller), a vaudeville entertainer. In 1912, her father died, "leaving a wife and four children destitute." She had a sister, Ruth Fuller Golden, who also acted in films. Career Films 1910s to 1950s Carey's screen debut was in ''Sorrowful Jones'' (1913). She next acted in '' Tess of the Storm Country'' (1914). (An obituary indicates that the name of her initial film was '' The Sorrowful Shore''.) She appeared in more than 50 films, mostly Westerns, including '' Gunfight at the O.K. Corral'', often playing tough tomboy parts. Television and films 1950s and later In 1956, Carey guest starred in the episode "Death in the Snow" of NBC's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dennis Hopper
Dennis Lee Hopper (May 17, 1936 – May 29, 2010) was an American actor, filmmaker, photographer and visual artist. He was considered one of the key figures of New Hollywood. He earned prizes from the Cannes Film Festival and Venice International Film Festival as well as nominations for two Academy Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award and two Golden Globe Awards. Hopper studied acting at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego and the Actors Studio in New York. He made his first television appearance in 1954, and soon after appeared in two of the films that made James Dean famous, '' Rebel Without a Cause'' (1955) and ''Giant'' (1956). He then played supporting roles in films like '' Gunfight at the O.K. Corral'' (1957), ''The Sons of Katie Elder'' (1965), ''Cool Hand Luke'' (1967), '' Hang 'Em High'' (1968) and '' True Grit'' (1969). Hopper made his directorial film debut with '' Easy Rider'' (1969), which he and co-star Peter Fonda wrote with Terry Southern. The film earned Hopper a C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nick Adams (actor, Born 1931)
Nicholas Aloysius Adamshock (July 10, 1931 – February 7, 1968), better known as Nick Adams, was an American film and television actor and screenwriter. He was noted for his roles in several Cinema of the United States, Hollywood films during the 1950s and 1960s, including ''Rebel Without a Cause'' and ''Giant (1956 film), Giant'' along with his starring role in the American Broadcasting Company, ABC Television show#Seasons/series, television series ''The Rebel (American TV series), The Rebel'' (1959–1961). He also led the cast of several Japanese productions, including ''Frankenstein Conquers the World'', ''Invasion of Astro-Monster'', and ''The Killing Bottle''. Decades after his death from a prescription drug overdose at the age of 36, his widely publicized friendships with James Dean and Elvis Presley would stir speculation about both his private life and the circumstances of his death. In an ''AllMovie'' synopsis for Adams's last film, reviewer Dan Pavlides wrote, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Howard St
Howard is a masculine given name derived from the English surname Howard. ''The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names'' notes that "the use of this surname as a christian name is quite recent and there seems to be no particular reason for it except that it is the name of several noble families". The surname has a number of possible origins; in the case of the noble family, the likely source is the Norse given name Hávarðr, composed of the elements ''há'' ("high") and ''varðr'' ("guardian"). Diminutives include Howie and Ward. Howard reached peak popularity in the United States in the 1920s, when it ranked as the 26th most popular boys' name. As of 2018, it had fallen to 968th place. People with the given name * Howard Allen (1949–2020), American serial killer * Howard Duane Allman (1946–1971), American guitar virtuoso * Howard Anderson (other), name of several people * Howard Andrew (1934–2021), American poker player * Howard Ashman (1950–1991), Ame ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Davalos
Richard Davalos (November 5, 1930 – March 8, 2016) was an American stage, film, and television actor. Early life Davalos was born in The Bronx, New York City of Spanish and Finnish descent. At age six, he acted in a school performance of ''Cinderella'', in which he played both the talking mirror and the prince. Career Davalos appeared in '' East of Eden'' (1955) as James Dean's brother Aron and portrayed the convict Blind Dick in ''Cool Hand Luke'' (1967). His other film credits include roles in ''I Died a Thousand Times'' (1955); '' All the Young Men'' (1960); '' The Cabinet of Caligari'' (1962); ''Pit Stop'' (1969); ''Kelly's Heroes'' (1970); '' Brother, Cry for Me'' (1970); '' Hot Stuff'' (1979); '' Death Hunt'' (1981); '' Something Wicked This Way Comes'' (1983) and ''Ninja Cheerleaders'' (2008). He won the 1956 Theatre World Award for his performances in the Arthur Miller plays ''A View from the Bridge'' and ''A Memory of Two Mondays''. In a 1960 episode of the dr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
