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Klute
''Klute'' is a 1971 American neo-noir psychological thriller film directed and produced by Alan J. Pakula and starring Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Charles Cioffi, Nathan George, Dorothy Tristan, Roy Scheider and Rita Gam. Its plot follows a high-priced New York City call girl who assists a detective from Pennsylvania in solving the missing person case of a Client (prostitution), john who may be stalking her. It is the first installment of what has informally come to be known as Pakula's "paranoia trilogy", followed by ''The Parallax View'' (1974) and ''All the President's Men (film), All the President's Men'' (1976), all films dealing with themes of paranoia, conspiracy, conspiracies and surveillance. The original screenplay for ''Klute'' was written by brothers Andy Lewis (screenwriter), Andy and Dave Lewis, with Andy drawing inspiration from a Serial (literature), serial he read as a child about a man attempting to solve his brother's murder in a city. Principal photograph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donald Sutherland
Donald McNichol Sutherland (17 July 1935 – 20 June 2024) was a Canadian actor. With a career spanning six decades, he received List of awards and nominations received by Donald Sutherland, numerous accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award and two Golden Globe Awards as well as a BAFTA Award nomination. Considered one of the best actors never nominated for an Academy Award, he was given an Academy Honorary Award in 90th Academy Awards, 2017. Sutherland rose to fame after roles in the war films ''The Dirty Dozen'' (1967), ''M*A*S*H (film), M*A*S*H'' (1970), and ''Kelly's Heroes'' (1970). He subsequently appeared in many leading and supporting roles, including ''Klute'' (1971), ''Don't Look Now'' (1973), ''The Day of the Locust (film), The Day of the Locust'' (1975), ''1900 (film), 1900'' (1976), ''Fellini's Casanova'' (1976), ''Animal House'' (1978), ''Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978 film), Invasion of the Body Snatchers'' (1978), ''Ordinary People'' (1980), ''Max Dugan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Fonda
Jane Seymour Fonda (born December 21, 1937) is an American actress and activist. Recognized as a film icon, Jane Fonda filmography, Fonda's work spans several genres and over six decades of film and television. She is the recipient of List of awards and nominations received by Jane Fonda, numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, seven Golden Globe Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award as well as nominations for a Grammy Award and two Tony Awards. Fonda also received the Honorary Palme d'Or in 2007, the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2014, the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in 2017, the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2021, and the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2025. Born to socialite Frances Ford Seymour and actor Henry Fonda, she made her screen debut in the romantic comedy ''Tall Story'' (1960). She rose to prominence acting in the comedies ''Cat Ballou'' (1965), ''Barefoot in the Park (film), Barefoot in the Park'' (1967), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorothy Tristan
Dorothy Tristan (May 9, 1934 – January 7, 2023) was an American actress and screenwriter. She was best known for her roles in the films ''Klute'', ''Down and Out in Beverly Hills'', and '' Scarecrow''. She co-wrote the films '' Steal the Sky'' and ''Weeds''. She also wrote the films ''Suspended Animation Suspended animation is the slowing or stopping of biological function so that physiological capabilities are preserved. States of suspended animation are common in micro-organisms and some plant tissue, such as seeds. Many animals, including l ...'', which is based on her novel, and ''A Piece of Eden''. Tristan started her career as a model and was on the magazine covers of ''Vogue (magazine), Vogue'' and ''Life (magazine), Life''. In 1957, she married her first husband, Aram Avakian. They divorced in 1972. A couple of years before that, she made her film debut in ''End of the Road (1970 film), End of the Road'', which was made by Avakian. In 1975, she married John D. Hanco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Lerner
Carl Lerner (17 June 1912 – 26 August 1973) was an American film editor, director and educator whose career bridged New York's post‑war documentary movement and Hollywood's studio and independent features, earning recognition for his editorial work on '' 12 Angry Men'' (1957) and for directing the civil‑rights drama '' Black Like Me'' (1964). Early life and education Lerner was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on 17 June 1912 to Russian‑Jewish immigrant parents. He earned a degree in theatre arts at Temple University in the early 1930s, where he also staged student productions. After acting with Philadelphia and New York repertory companies, he moved behind the scenes as a stage director before entering film in the late 1940s. Career Lerner’s first credited feature was '' Cry Murder'' (1950) for Columbia Pictures, initiating a prolific decade that included the docu‑fiction '' On the Bowery'' (1956), which won the Grand Prize for Documentary at the Venice Film Festiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andy Lewis (screenwriter)
Andrew Kittredge Lewis (August 5, 1925 – February 28, 2018) was an American screenwriter. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Original Screenplay for the film ''Klute''. Lewis died in February 2018 of natural causes at his home in Walpole, New Hampshire, at the age of 92. Selected filmography * ''Klute ''Klute'' is a 1971 American neo-noir psychological thriller film directed and produced by Alan J. Pakula and starring Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Charles Cioffi, Nathan George, Dorothy Tristan, Roy Scheider and Rita Gam. Its plot follows a ...'' (1971; co-nominated with David E. Lewis) References External links * 1925 births 2018 deaths Writers from Lexington, Massachusetts American male screenwriters American television writers American male television writers Screenwriters from Massachusetts 20th-century American male writers {{US-film-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nathan George
Nathan George (July 27, 1936 – March 3, 2017) was an American actor who was active from 1968 to 1997. He co-won a 1969 Obie Award with Ron O'Neal for Charles Gordone's Pulitzer Prize-winning play '' No Place to Be Somebody''; this performance also received a Drama Desk Award. George also directed for the stage. He directed a production of Ron Milner's ''Who's Got His Own'' at Center Stage in Baltimore in 1970, and ''Cummings and Bowings'', a play based on poems by E.E. Cummings, for the U.R.G.E.N.T. Theatre in New York in 1973. In film, George acted in ''Brubaker'' (1980), ''Klute'' (1971), '' Serpico'' (1973), ''Harsh Light'' (1997), his last film, and '' One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'' (1975) and was one of the leads in '' Short Eyes'' (1977). George died on March 3, 2017, in New York City New York, often called New York City (NYC), is the most populous city in the United States, located at the southern tip of New York State on one of the world's largest na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roy Scheider
Roy Richard Scheider (; November 10, 1932 – February 10, 2008) was an American actor and amateur boxer who achieved fame with his leading and supporting roles in celebrated films from the 1970s through to the mid-1980s. He was nominated for two Academy Awards, one Golden Globe Awards, Golden Globe, and one British Academy Film Awards, BAFTA. Scheider's best-known roles include Frank Ligourin in ''Klute'' (1971), Police Chief Martin Brody in ''Jaws (film), Jaws'' (1975) and its Jaws 2, 1978 sequel, "Cloudy" Russo in ''The French Connection (film), The French Connection'' (1971), "Buddy" in ''The Seven-Ups'' (1973), Doc Levy in ''Marathon Man (film), Marathon Man'' (1976), Scanlon / Dominguez in ''Sorcerer (film), Sorcerer'' (1977), Joe Gideon in ''All That Jazz (film), All That Jazz'' (1979), Frank Murphy in ''Blue Thunder'' (1983), and Dr. Heywood Floyd in the ''2001: A Space Odyssey'' sequel, ''2010: The Year We Make Contact'' (1984). Subsequent credits included ''Naked Lunc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gordon Willis
Gordon Hugh Willis Jr., (May 28, 1931 – May 18, 2014) was an American cinematographer and film director. He is best known for his photographic work on eight Woody Allen films (including ''Annie Hall'' and ''Manhattan''), six Alan J. Pakula films (including ''All the President's Men''), four James Bridges films, and all three films from Francis Ford Coppola's ''The Godfather'' series. Fellow cinematographer William A. Fraker called Willis's work a "milestone in visual storytelling", while one critic suggested that Willis "defined the cinematic look of the 1970s: sophisticated compositions in which bolts of light and black put the decade's moral ambiguities into stark relief".Garrett, Steven"Take Five With Gordon Willis", Time Out New York; retrieved March 4, 2011. When the International Cinematographers Guild conducted a survey in 2003, they placed Willis among the ten most influential cinematographers in history. Career Early life and beginnings Willis was born in Astoria, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Small
Michael Small (May 30, 1939 – November 24, 2003) was an American film score composer known for his scores to thriller movies such as ''Klute'', '' The Parallax View'', '' Marathon Man'', and '' The Star Chamber''. Personal life Small was born in New York City but grew up in Maplewood, New Jersey. His father, Jack Small, was an actor and later, the general manager of the Shubert Theater in New York City. Small did his undergraduate work at Williams College where he was graduated with a degree in English. He later studied for a year at Harvard University. Small died from prostate cancer on November 24, 2003, at the age of 64. Filmography References External links * * "Michael Small Explores the Mountains of the Moon interview by Matthias Büdinger; originally published in ''Soundtrack Magazine'' (volume 9, number 35, 1990), posted at Soundtrack: The CinemaScore and Soundtrack Archives for "The Doorbell Rang" (2001), the premiere episode of the A&E TV series '' A Nero W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
29th Golden Globe Awards
The 29th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film and television for 1971, were held on February 6, 1972. Winners and nominees Film The following films received multiple nominations: The following films received multiple wins: Television The following programs received multiple nominations: The following programs received multiple wins: Cecil B. DeMille Award 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 decades, he directed over 50 featu ... ReferencesIMdb 1972 Golden Globe Awards {{DEFAULTSORT:Golden Globe Awards 029 *029 1971 film awards 1971 television awards February 1972 in the United States 1971 awards in the United States ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
44th Academy Awards
The 44th Academy Awards were presented April 10, 1972, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles. The ceremonies were presided over by Helen Hayes, Alan King, Sammy Davis Jr., and Jack Lemmon. One of the highlights of the evening was one of the last public appearances of Betty Grable, who died the following year. She appeared alongside one of her leading men from the 1940s, singer Dick Haymes, to present the musical scoring awards. This was the first time in Awards history that the nominees were shown in superimposed pictures while being announced. Around seventy-five million viewers watched the ceremony. Winners and nominees Awards Nominations announced on February 22, 1972. Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface and indicated with a double dagger (). Select "1971" in the "Award Year(s)" drop-down menu and press "Search". Honorary Award * To Charles Chaplin for the incalculable effect he has had in making motion pictures the art form of this ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Cioffi
Charles M. Cioffi (born October 31, 1935) is an American film and television actor best known as Lt. Matt Reardon in '' Get Christie Love!'' opposite co-star Teresa Graves. Career Born in New York City, he attended Michigan State University, where he became a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity. His film roles include Lt. Vic Androzzi in '' Shaft'' (1971), Peter Cable in ''Klute'' (1971), and Pop in '' All the Right Moves'' (1983). Cioffi has appeared on ''Kojak'', ''Frasier'', '' Wings'', ''The X-Files'', '' Thirtysomething'', ''NYPD Blue'', '' Hawaii Five-O'', ''Cannon'', ''Bonanza'', and various other series, including ''The A-Team'' (1983) as Gianni Christian, and ''Days of Our Lives'', in which he played Ernesto Toscano. He appeared in several productions both on and off Broadway. He made an appearance on ''Law & Order'' as mob boss Frank Masucci. He voiced Chairman Prescott and Adam Fenix in the Xbox 360 The Xbox 360 is a home video game console developed by Microso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
