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Jules Buck
Jules Buck (July 30, 1917 – July 19, 2001) was an American film producer. Career He was a cameraman for John Huston's war documentaries and began producing as assistant to Mark Hellinger. In 1952 he moved to Paris, then London, where he created, in association with Peter O'Toole, the company Keep Films. This produced movies such as ''Lord Jim'' (1963), ''Becket'' (1963), and ''What's New Pussycat?'' (1965). Personal life Buck was born in St Louis, Missouri, on July 30, 1917. From his 1945 marriage to actress Joyce Gates (née Joyce Ruth Getz), Buck had one child, journalist Joan Juliet Buck. He died in Paris on July 19, 2001. Partial filmography *''Report from the Aleutians'' (1943), cameraman *''The Battle of San Pietro'' (1944), cameraman *''The Killers'' (1946), assistant producer *'' Brute Force'' (1947), associate producer *''The Naked City'' (1948), associate producer *''We Were Strangers'' (1949), associate producer *''Fixed Bayonets!'' (1951), producer *''Love Nest'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cameraman
A camera operator, or depending on the context cameraman or camerawoman, is a professional operator of a film camera or video camera as part of a film crew. The term "cameraman" does not necessarily imply that a male is performing the task. Duties and functions In filmmaking, the cinematographer or director of photography (DP or DoP) is responsible for bringing Director's vision to life on screen. The Cinematographer or Director of Photography handles all the technical aspects of visual storytelling and is the head of the camera crew and light crew on the set. The DP may operate the camera themselves, or enlist the aid of a camera operator or second cameraman to operate it or set the controls. The first assistant cameraman (1st AC), also known as a focus puller, is responsible for maintenance of the camera, such as clearing dirt from the film gate and adjusting the follow focus. A second assistant cameraman (2nd AC), also known as a clapper loader, might be employed to load ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fixed Bayonets!
''Fixed Bayonets!'' is a 1951 American war film written and directed by Samuel Fuller and produced by Twentieth Century-Fox during the Korean War. It is Fuller's second film about the Korean War. Plot In the first winter of the Korean War, during the Korean War#China intervenes (October–December 1950), Red Chinese intervention, a 48-man platoon is left to defend a choke point while covering the withdrawal of their Division (military), division over an exposed bridge. Frostbite is as big a problem as enemy fire. The platoon’s first duty as a rear guard is to lay a minefield, which they do a poor job of memorizing. Sgt.Lonergan becomes trapped in it while wounded and one soldier is blown up attempting to rescue him. Corporal Denno manages to bring Lonergan back, only to have him die minutes later. Sgt. Rock, whom everyone was depending on to get them through alive, is killed by a freak ricochet bullet. Cpl. Denno, who has an innate aversion to responsibility for the lives o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2001 Deaths
This is a list of lists of deaths of notable people, organized by year. New deaths articles are added to their respective month (e.g., Deaths in ) and then linked below. 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1988 1987 1986 Earlier years ''Deaths in years earlier than this can usually be found in the main articles of the years.'' See also * Lists of deaths by day * Deaths by year (category) {{DEFAULTSORT:deaths by year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1917 Births
Events Below, the events of World War I have the "WWI" prefix. January * January 9 – WWI – Battle of Rafa: The last substantial Ottoman Army garrison on the Sinai Peninsula is captured by the Egyptian Expeditionary Force's Desert Column. * January 10 – Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition: Seven survivors of the Ross Sea party are rescued after being stranded for several months. * January 11 – Unknown saboteurs set off the Kingsland Explosion at Kingsland (modern-day Lyndhurst, New Jersey), one of the events leading to United States involvement in WWI. * January 16 – The Danish West Indies is sold to the United States for $25 million (equivalent to $ million in ). * January 22 – WWI: United States President Woodrow Wilson calls for "peace without victory" in Germany. * January 25 – WWI: British armed merchantman is sunk by mines off Lough Swilly (Ireland), with the loss of 354 of the 475 aboard. * January 26 – The se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ephraim Katz
Ephraim Katz (11 March 1932 – 2 August 1992) was a writer, journalist and filmmaker who devoted his life to gathering the information in his book, ''The Film Encyclopedia'', first published in 1979. Biography Katz, born in Tel Aviv, studied law and economics at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. He later studied political science at Hunter College, New York and cinema at New York University. Ephraim was a film reporter and critic in Israel, before moving to the United States in 1959. Residing in New York City, he made television documentaries for CBS, including ''The Taste of Sunday'', one of its first in color, and later for NBC. Katz, Quentin Reynolds, and Zwy Aldouby co-wrote the book ''Minister of Death: The Adolf Eichmann Story'' (1960), about Israel's capture of Eichmann. Ephraim Katz directed many documentaries, educational and industrial films, but his greatest contribution to cinema was his single-volume work, ''The Film Encyclopedia'' (1st hardcover edition, 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Filmgoer's Companion
''The Filmgoer's Companion'', now published as ''Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies'', is an encyclopedic reference of film actors, film technicians (cameramen, editors, score composers, and the many other specialist required to make a movie), directors and producers who have produced or performed in the cinema. The format is a brief biographic introduction, followed by a list of films that they have association. It was originally written by Leslie Halliwell, but since his death in 1989, it has been edited by John Walker. The second half of the book contains information on film themes and genres, a listing of production companies and film studios, a glossary, and some movie awards. The first edition, published in 1965, included an introduction by Alfred Hitchcock Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was an English film director. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in the history of cinema. In a career spanning six dec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leslie Halliwell
Robert James Leslie Halliwell (23 February 1929 – 21 January 1989) was a British film critic, encyclopaedist and television rights buyer for ITV, the British commercial network, and Channel 4. He is best known for his reference guides, '' Filmgoer's Companion'' (1965), a single volume film-related encyclopaedia featuring biographies (with credits) and technical terms, and ''Halliwell's Film Guide'' (1977), which is dedicated to individual films. Anthony Quinton wrote in the '' Times Literary Supplement'': "Immersed in the enjoyment of these fine books, one should look up for a moment to admire the quite astonishing combination of industry and authority in one man which has brought them into existence." Halliwell's promotion of the cinema through his books and seasons of "golden oldies'"on Channel 4 won him awards from the London Film Critics' Circle, the British Film Institute and a posthumous BAFTA.''Broadcast'' magazine, 28 June 1985. Early life Born in Bolton, Lancashir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Agee
James Rufus Agee ( ; November 27, 1909 – May 16, 1955) was an American novelist, journalist, poet, screenwriter and film critic. In the 1940s, writing for ''Time'', he was one of the most influential film critics in the United States. His autobiographical novel, '' A Death in the Family'' (1957), won the author a posthumous 1958 Pulitzer Prize. Agee is also known as a co-writer of the book '' Let Us Now Praise Famous Men'' and as the screenwriter of the film classics ''The African Queen'' and '' The Night of the Hunter''. Early life and education Agee was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, to Hugh James Agee and Laura Whitman Tyler, at Highland Avenue and 15th Street, which was renamed James Agee Street, in what is now the Fort Sanders neighborhood. When Agee was six, his father was killed in an automobile accident. From the age of seven, Agee and his younger sister, Emma, were educated in several boarding schools. The most prominent of these was near his mother's summer cottage t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Great Scout & Cathouse Thursday
''The Great Scout & Cathouse Thursday'' is a 1976 comedy western film directed by Don Taylor starring Lee Marvin, Oliver Reed, Robert Culp, Elizabeth Ashley, Strother Martin, Sylvia Miles, and Kay Lenz. Plot In Serendipity, Colorado, before the 1908 United States presidential election, Sam Longwood, a frontiersman who has seen better days, has finally found after 15 years his ex-business partner Jack Colby, who ran off with all the gold from a mine they were prospecting, and also with the love of his life, Nancy Sue. Sam, along with his two other partners, Indian Joe Knox and Billy, along the way pick up a young prostitute nicknamed ''Thursday''. Getting their money is not going to be as easy as they think. The trio decide to kidnap Nancy Sue and try to get some ransom money for her return to Jack, but Jack does not want her back. After Sam and Thursday spend one night together, Sam starts to take a shine to her and Thursday is cozying up to him; Sam is now torn between Nancy Su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Ruling Class (film)
''The Ruling Class'' is a 1972 British black comedy film. It is an adaptation of Peter Barnes (playwright), Peter Barnes' satire, satirical 1968 stage play ''The Ruling Class (play), The Ruling Class,'' which tells the story of a paranoid schizophrenia, paranoid schizophrenic British nobleman (played by Peter O'Toole) who inherits a peerage. The film co-stars Alastair Sim, William Mervyn, Coral Browne, Harry Andrews, Carolyn Seymour, James Villiers and Arthur Lowe. It was produced by Jules Buck and directed by Peter Medak. The film has been described as a "commercial failure ... [that] has since become a cult classic"; Peter O'Toole described it as "a comedy with tragedy, tragic relief". Plot Following the death from accidental asphyxiation of Ralph Gurney, 13th Earl of Gurney, Jack Gurney becomes the 14th Earl of Gurney. Jack, a paranoid schizophrenia, paranoid schizophrenic, thinks he is Jesus Christ and shocks his family and friends with his talk of returning to the wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Under Milk Wood
''Under Milk Wood'' is a 1954 radio drama by Welsh people, Welsh poet Dylan Thomas. The BBC commissioned the play, which was later adapted for the stage. The first public reading was in New York City in 1953. A Under Milk Wood (1972 film), film version of the same name, directed by Andrew Sinclair, was released in 1972. A second adaptation of the play, directed by Pip Broughton, was staged for television in 2014 for the 60th anniversary of the piece. An omniscient narrator invites the audience to listen to the dreams and innermost thoughts of the inhabitants of the fictional small Welsh fishing town, Llareggub, (Bugger#Bugger all, buggerall spelt backwards). They include Mrs. Ogmore-Pritchard, relentlessly nagging her two dead husbands; Captain Cat, reliving his seafaring times; the two Mrs. Dai Breads; Organ Morgan, obsessed with his music; and Polly Garter, pining for her dead lover. Later, the town awakens, and, aware now of how their feelings affect whatever they do, we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Catherine (film)
''Great Catherine'' is a 1968 British comedy film directed by Gordon Flemyng and starring Peter O'Toole, Zero Mostel, Jeanne Moreau and Jack Hawkins. It was written by Hugh Leonard based on the 1913 one act play '' Great Catherine: Whom Glory Still Adores'' by George Bernard Shaw, loosely based on the story of Sir Charles Hanbury Williams and his time spent as an envoy at the Russian court. Synopsis A British officer, Captain Charles Edstaston, is sent to the Russian court of Catherine the Great as an envoy, where he has to contend with the crafty machinations of her chief minister Potemkin. Cast * Peter O'Toole as Charles Edstaston * Jeanne Moreau as Catherine the Great * Zero Mostel as Potemkin * Jack Hawkins as British Ambassador * Akim Tamiroff as Sergeant * Marie Lohr as Dowager Lady Gorse * Kate O'Mara as Varinka * Angela Scoular as Claire * Oliver MacGreevy as General Pyskov * James Mellor as Colonel Pugachov * Lea Seidl as Grand Duchess * Claire Gordon as Elizabe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
