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John W. Holmes (film Editor)
John W. Holmes (12 April 1917 – 25 May 2001) was a film editor. He was one of the editors on '' Diamonds Are Forever'' and ''The Andromeda Strain''. He was nominated along with Stuart Gilmore at the 44th Academy Awards in the category of Best Film Editing for the film ''The Andromeda Strain ''The Andromeda Strain'' is a 1969 novel by American writer Michael Crichton, his first novel under his own name and his sixth novel overall. It documents the outbreak of a deadly extraterrestrial microorganism in Arizona and the team of scie ...''. He died in 2001. Filmography ;TV movies ;TV series References External links * Film editors 2001 deaths 1917 births {{film-editor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film Editor
Film editing is both a creative and a technical part of the post-production process of filmmaking. The term is derived from the traditional process of working with film stock, film which increasingly involves the use Digital cinema, of digital technology. When putting together some sort of video composition, typically, one would need a collection of shots and footages that vary from one another. The act of adjusting the shots someone has already taken, and turning them into something new is known as film editing. The film editor works with raw footage, selecting Shot (filmmaking), shots and combining them into Sequence (filmmaking), sequences which create a finished Film, motion picture. Film editing is described as an art or skill, the only art that is unique to cinema, separating filmmaking from other art forms that preceded it, although there are close parallels to the editing process in other art forms such as poetry and novel writing. Film editing is an extremely important ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Just Tell Me You Love Me
''Just Tell Me You Love Me'' is a soundtrack album to the film of the same name, with songs performed by the pop rock duo England Dan & John Ford Coley. Track listing All tracks composed by Carol Connors and Dick Halligan Richard Bernard Halligan (August 29, 1943 – January 18, 2022) was an American musician and composer, best known as a founding member of the jazz-rock band Blood, Sweat & Tears. Career Halligan was born in Troy, New York. He was BS&T's trom ..., except where indicated. #"Just Tell Me You Love Me" #"Part of Me, Part of You" (John Ford Coley, Bob Gundry, Dan Seals) #"I'm Going to Find Tomorrow" #"Leaving It All Behind" (Coley, Gundry, Halligan, Seals) #"Movin' On Down the Line" (Coley, Gundry, Seals) #"Never, Never Night" (Coley, Gundry, Seals) #"Rainbows for Your Eyes" #"Life Is Beautiful" #"Just Tell Me You Love Me" (Instrumental) #"Maui" References England Dan & John Ford Coley albums 1980 soundtrack alb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea (TV Series)
''Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea'' is a 1964–1968 American science fiction television series based on the 1961 film of the same name. Both were created by Irwin Allen, which enabled the film's sets, costumes, props, special effects models, and sometimes footage, to be used in the production of the television series. ''Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea'' was the first of Irwin Allen's four science fiction television series (the three others being ''Lost in Space'', ''The Time Tunnel'', and '' Land of the Giants''), and the longest-running. The show's theme was underwater adventure. ''Voyage'' was broadcast on ABC from September 14, 1964, to March 31, 1968. The 110 episodes produced included 32 shot in black-and-white (1964–1965), and 78 filmed in color (1965–1968). The first two seasons took place in the then-future of the 1970s. The final two seasons took place in the 1980s. The show starred Richard Basehart and David Hedison. Show history Pilot episode The pilot ep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Curtis Harrington
Gene Curtis Harrington (September 17, 1926 – May 6, 2007) was an American film and television director whose work included experimental films and horror films. He is considered one of the forerunners of New Queer Cinema. Life and career Early life Harrington was born on September 17, 1926, in Los Angeles, the son of Isabel (Dorum) and Raymond Stephen Harrington, and grew up in Beaumont, California. His first cinematic endeavors were amateur films he made while still a teenager. He attended Occidental College and the University of Southern California, then graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with a degree in film studies. Career beginnings At age 16, in 1942, he directed and co-starred in a (9 minute) short version of Edgar Allan Poe's '' The Fall of the House of Usher''. He began his career as a film critic, writing a book on Josef von Sternberg in 1948. He directed several avant-garde short films in the 1940s and 1950s, including ''Fragment of S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Killer Bees (1974 Film)
''Killer Bees'' is a 1974 American made-for-television horror film starring Gloria Swanson. Directed by Curtis Harrington, the cast includes Kate Jackson, Craig Stevens, John Getz, and Edward Albert. The film originally aired as the ''ABC Movie of the Week'' on February 26, 1974. Plot Edward Van Bohlen is estranged from his family and their wine making business. His new girlfriend, Victoria Wells, has convinced him to return to the family at their winery near San Francisco to reconcile despite Edward's warning that his family is eccentric and reclusive. Victoria is treated coolly by the family, but she nevertheless becomes involved in the family power struggle. Victoria discovers that the family has been using the Africanized bee strain to improve yields at the winery. Madame Van Bohlen, a strong-willed woman and matriarch of her family, runs the family wine business. Her family refers to her as "Madame." She also has a psychic link which allows her control over the swarm of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barry Shear
Barry Shear (March 23, 1923 in Brooklyn, New York – June 13, 1979 in Los Angeles) was an American film and television director and producer. Career Military He served in the United States Army Air Forces from October 1942 to March 1945. Television career Shear began directing for television in the 1950s for the DuMont Television Network news program '' Newsweek Views the News'', and directed episodes of the DuMont series '' Guide Right'', '' Not for Publication'', and '' Joseph Schildkraut Presents''. Shear directed ''The Hazel Scott Show'' for DuMont, the first television show to feature a Black woman as the star of a show, performing without sketch comedy or guests. He quickly moved to episodic television. Over his 30-year career in television he directed both series and telefilms. Series that he directed several episodes for include '' The Man from U.N.C.L.E.'', '' The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.'', '' The Name of the Game'', '' Ironside'', '' Alias Smith and Jones'', '' Police ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jarrett (film)
''Jarrett'' (1973) is an NBC TV film, directed by Barry Shear and starring Glenn Ford as an investigator who specializes in art cases. A feature-length pilot, it was envisioned as a weekly series, but the network did not pick it up. Background Glenn Ford had recently starred in Western drama '' Cade's County'', and its executive producer David Gerber wanted to work with Ford again and pitched it to NBC. ''Jarrett'' was intended to be a comedy-mystery series akin to James Bond films, and the filmmakers recruited Bond scriptwriter Richard Maibaum for its script. Ford did his own stunts for the film. Plot Sam Jarrett, a middleweight boxing champion turned globe-trotting private detective, specializes in art crimes. He is tasked with tracking down the missing Book of Adam and Eve, a collection of rare biblical papyrus scrolls stolen from a museum. His nemesis is Cosmo Bastrop, a comic book enthusiast who owns a private island and brags about his large collection of obscure comics. Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerry Thorpe
Richard Jerome Thorpe (August 29, 1926 – September 25, 2018) was an American television-and-film director and producer. Actor and director Richard Thorpe was his father. Thorpe served as the executive producer of 33 episodes of '' The Untouchables'' (starring Robert Stack) during the series's second season (1960–61). Thorpe also served as executive producer of ''Harry O'', the 1973-75 David Janssen TV series. Thorpe won an Emmy award for his work on an episode of ''Kung Fu.'' In 2003, a Golden Palm Star on the Palm Springs, California, Walk of Stars was dedicated to him and his father. Thorpe died in Santa Barbara, California, at the age of 92 from natural causes. He was buried at Desert Memorial Park in Cathedral City, California. Filmography * '' Colgate Theatre'' (TV series, episode "Adventures of a Model, 1958") * '' The Venetian Affair'' (1966), starring Robert Vaughn Robert Francis Vaughn (November 22, 1932 – November 11, 2016) was an American actor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terence Young (director)
Stewart Terence Herbert Young (20 June 1915 – 7 September 1994) was a British film director and screenwriter who worked in the United Kingdom, Europe and Hollywood. He is best known for directing three List of James Bond films, James Bond films: the first two films in the series, ''Dr. No (film), Dr. No'' (1962) and ''From Russia with Love (film), From Russia with Love'' (1963), and ''Thunderball (film), Thunderball'' (1965). His other films include the Audrey Hepburn thrillers ''Wait Until Dark (film), Wait Until Dark'' (1967) and ''Bloodline (1979 film), Bloodline'' (1979), the historical drama ''Mayerling (1968 film), Mayerling'' (1968), the infamous Korean War epic ''Inchon (film), Inchon'' (1981), and the Charles Bronson films ''Cold Sweat (1970 film), Cold Sweat'' (1970), ''Red Sun'' (1971), and ''The Valachi Papers (film), The Valachi Papers'' (1972). Early life and education Young was born in the Shanghai International Settlement, International Settlement, of Shangh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inchon (film)
''Inchon'' (also stylized as ''Inchon!'') is a 1981 war film about the Battle of Inchon, considered to be the turning point of the Korean War. Directed by Terence Young and financed by Unification movement founder Sun Myung Moon, the film stars Laurence Olivier as General Douglas MacArthur, who led the United States' surprise amphibious landing at Incheon, South Korea in 1950, with Jacqueline Bisset, Ben Gazzara, Toshiro Mifune and Richard Roundtree. ''Inchon''s plot includes both military action and human drama. Characters face danger and are involved in various personal and dramatic situations. The film concludes with the American victory over North Korean forces in the Battle of Inchon, which is considered to have saved South Korea. Produced on $46 million with filming taking place in South Korea, California, Italy, Ireland and Japan, it encountered many problems during production, including a typhoon and the death of a cast member. Both the Unification movement and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Altman
Robert Bernard Altman ( ; February 20, 1925 – November 20, 2006) was an American film director, screenwriter, and film producer, producer. He is considered an enduring figure from the New Hollywood era, known for directing subversive and satire, satirical films with overlapping dialogue and ensemble casts. Over his career he received several awards including an Academy Honorary Award, two British Academy Film Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award as well as nominations for seven competitive Academy Awards. Altman was nominated for five Academy Award for Best Director, Academy Awards for Best Director for the war comedy ''M*A*S*H (film), M*A*S*H'' (1970), the musical film ''Nashville (film), Nashville'' (1975), the satire, Hollywood satire ''The Player (1992 film), The Player'' (1992), the dark comedy ''Short Cuts'' (1993), and the murder mystery ''Gosford Park'' (2001). He is also known for directing ''Brewster McCloud'' (1970), ''McCabe & Mrs. Miller'' (19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Popeye (film)
''Popeye'' is a 1980 American musical comedy film directed by Robert Altman and produced by Paramount Pictures and Walt Disney Productions. It is based on E. C. Segar's Popeye comics character. The script was written by Jules Feiffer, and stars Robin Williams as Popeye the Sailor Man and Shelley Duvall as Olive Oyl. Its story follows Popeye's adventures as he arrives in the town of Sweethaven. The film premiered December 6, 1980, in Los Angeles, California, and opened in the rest of the United States the following week, distributed by Paramount, with Disney handling international distribution through Buena Vista International. It grossed $6.3 million in its opening weekend, and $49.8 million worldwide, against a budget of $20 million. It received negative reviews from critics when it was first released, but has received improved reviews over time. Plot Popeye, a gruff but good-hearted sailor, arrives at the small coastal town of Sweethaven while searching for his missing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
