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Love And Bullets (1979 Film)
''Love and Bullets'' is a 1979 action crime film directed by Stuart Rosenberg. and starring Charles Bronson, it is based on a screenplay by Wendell Mayes and John Melson. The film was originally to have been directed by John Huston and advertisements were taken out in ''Variety'' to promote this fact. Huston apparently did film some scenes but walked off the set after disagreements with the producers. Veteran director Rosenberg stepped in on the troubled production. The resulting movie received almost-unanimously poor reviews. Plot Phoenix Police Detective Charlie Congers is tasked to assist the FBI in bringing a gangster's girlfriend, Jackie Pruitt, back to the USA to testify. The FBI thinks she can give incriminating information to law enforcement that will put Joe Bomposa behind bars for life. It turns out that Pruitt doesn't know much of anything useful to the FBI. The trouble is, Bomposa is forced by his mafia peers to have her "whacked" anyway, at the exorbitant cost o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stuart Rosenberg
Stuart Rosenberg (August 11, 1927 – March 15, 2007) was an American film and television director. He was most noted for his collaborations with actor Paul Newman, whom he directed in ''Cool Hand Luke'' (1967), ''WUSA (film), WUSA'' (1970), ''Pocket Money'' (1972), and ''The Drowning Pool (film), The Drowning Pool'' (1975). He was a five-time Directors Guild of America Awards, Directors Guild of America Award nominee, and a Primetime Emmy Awards, Primetime Emmy Award winner. His other notable films included ''Question 7'' (1961), ''Voyage of the Damned'' (1976), ''The Amityville Horror (1979 film), The Amityville Horror'' (1979), ''Brubaker'' (1980) and ''The Pope of Greenwich Village'' (1984).Noalnd, Claire (March 18, 2007)Stuart Rosenberg, 79; TV, film director.''Los Angeles Times'' Later in his career, he taught directing at the American Film Institute, where his students included Todd Field and Darren Aronofsky.White, Anath (December 14, 2012The AFI Class of ‘92.''RogerEber ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Silva
Henry Silva (September 23, 1926 – September 14, 2022) was an American actor, with a film and television career which spanned fifty years. A prolific character actor in over 140 productions, he was known for his "dark, sepulchral" looks and brooding screen presence that saw him often play criminals, gangsters, or other "tough guys" in crime and action films. He was also closely associated with the " Rat Pack". After a string of minor and supporting parts, Silva had his breakthrough with featured roles in the Rat Pack features '' Ocean's 11'' (1960), '' The Manchurian Candidate'' (1962), and '' Sergeants 3'' (also 1962), followed by the leading role in '' Johnny Cool'' (1963). In the following decade, he worked extensively in European cinema, becoming a star of the Italian '' poliziotteschi'' genre. During the 1980s, Silva made notable appearances as villains in action films like '' Sharky's Machine'' (1981) with Burt Reynolds, the cult classic '' Megaforce'' (1982), '' Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorraine Chase
Lorraine Chase (born 16 July 1951) is an English actress and former model. She became well known for her strong south east London accent and frequent use of cockney slang, and found fame through a series of television adverts for Campari before embarking on an acting career. She is best known for playing the role of Steph Stokes in ITV soap opera ''Emmerdale'' from 2002 to 2006, with a brief return in 2013. Her partner, John Knight, died from cancer in 1996. Television After initially working as a model, Chase came to public attention in the mid-1970s when she began appearing in television adverts for Campari. The comical adverts were filmed in exotic locations with Chase having drinks with an elegant, sophisticated gentleman suitor played by Jeremy Clyde. Upon his romantic question "Were you truly wafted here from paradise?", Chase would declare in her broadest south east London accent "Nah, Luton Airport!" The line became something of a catchphrase and inspired the 1979 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andy Romano
Andrew RomaSanta, known professionally as Andy Romano, (April 16, 1936 – September 14, 2022) was an American actor, known for playing "J.D.", an outlaw motorcyclist and right-hand henchman of the character Eric von Zipper (played by Harvey Lembeck) in the 1960s Beach party films (which starred Annette Funicello and Frankie Avalon). After Beach Party movies lost money and stopped filming, Romano appeared in minor roles on television episodes and some TV movies through much of the 1970s and 1980. In the late 1980s, he returned to movies in supporting roles, though he continued to guest-star on TV series, including ''NYPD Blue ''NYPD Blue'' is an American police procedural television series set in New York City, exploring the struggles of the fictional 15th Precinct detective squad in Manhattan. Each episode typically intertwines several plots involving an ensemble ca ....'' Romano retired from acting in the late 1990s and settled in Washington state. Romano died on Septem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Hallam
John William Francis Hallam (28 October 1941 – 14 November 2006) was a character actor from Northern Ireland, who frequently played hard men or military types. Early life John Hallam was born, the son of a superintendent at the Port of London, in 1941 in Lisburn, County Antrim, after the family were evacuated to Northern Ireland during the Second World War. On returning to England, he boarded at St Albans School, before starting his working life in a London bank. Despite having a talent for mathematics, he said he was sacked for getting the figures right without being able to explain how he did so. As a result, he ended up selling deckchairs on the South Coast, where he eventually found acting work in repertory theatre. Career Stage After training at RADA (1962–64), Hallam began acting with Laurence Olivier's embryonic National Theatre Company, playing the Stage Door Keeper in '' Trelawny of the 'Wells''' ( Old Vic Theatre, 1965). He was seen performing on tel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Salmi
Albert Salmi (March 11, 1928 – April 22, 1990) was an American actor of stage, film, and television. Best known for his work as a character actor, he appeared in over 150 film and television productions. Early life Salmi was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York City, the son of Finnish immigrant parents. He attended Haaren High School in Manhattan. Following a stint in the United States Army, Salmi took up acting as a career, studying method acting at the Actors Studio in Manhattan with Lee Strasberg. Career In 1955, Salmi starred as Bo Decker in the play ''Bus Stop'' on Broadway, and also performed in the touring production of the play. His performance was praised by critics, and Salmi was offered the chance to reprise the role in the film ''Bus Stop'' (1956) starring Marilyn Monroe. Salmi turned down the offer because he did not enjoy film work. ( Don Murray was later cast as Bo and earned an Academy Award nomination for his performance.) Despite his numerous appearan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Roman
Joseph Spallina Roman (May 23, 1923 – February 6, 2018) was an American actor and gym instructor. He was best known for playing Sgt. Brill on 147 episodes of the American medical drama television series '' Quincy, M.E.'' from 1976 to 1983. Roman was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. At the age of 15 he was a gym instructor for YMCA Philadelphia, and by two years later owned his own gym. Roman appeared in four films with longtime pal and actor, Charles Bronson Charles Bronson (born Charles Dennis Buchinsky; November 3, 1921 – August 30, 2003) was an American actor. He was known for his roles in action films and his "granite features and brawny physique". Bronson was born into extreme poverty in .... He also performed in two Broadway plays, ''Twilight Walk'' and ''Infidel Caesar''. Roman died in February 2018, at the age of 94. Filmography Film Television References External links * * *Rotten Tomatoes profile 1923 births 2018 deaths Male act ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerome Thor
Jerome Thor (January 5, 1915 — August 12, 1993) was an American actor of the stage and screen. He is best known for his work in Broadway plays from 1935 through 1946, and on American television during the 1950s. He starred as Robert Cannon in ''Foreign Intrigue''; a role which popularized the trench coat-wearing detective in public consciousness. His costume is part of the collection at the Smithsonian Institution. Early life Born in Brooklyn, New York, Thor began his career as a stage actor. Career Thor made his Broadway debut in 1934 at the 46th Street Theatre in Emmet Lavery's ''The First Legion''. He appeared in numerous Broadway plays through 1946, including Anton Chekhov's '' The Marriage Proposal'', William Saroyan's ''Get Away Old Man'', Joseph Fields and Jerome Chodorov's ''My Sister Eileen'', Clifford Odets's '' Golden Boy'', and Leonid Andreyev's '' He Who Gets Slapped''. Thor transitioned into working as a television actor in the late 1940s and early 1950s with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Gray (actor)
William Thomas Gray (born January 13, 1938) is an American actor, competitive motorcycle racer and inventor, known for his role as Bud Anderson on the television series ''Father Knows Best'' (1954–1960). Career Gray began acting at five years old. He appeared with his mother in the 1949 horror comedy ''Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff'' (in separated scenes). He acted in more than 200 movies. He acted with stars such as Humphrey Bogart, Doris Day, Bob Hope, William Holden, Michael Rennie, Judith Anderson, Pat O'Brien and Barbara Stanwyck. He did not attend school and was educated by teachers hired by the film studios, often having class in tents set up on studio lots. He portrayed a young Jim Thorpe in ''Jim Thorpe – All-American'', and starred in the science fiction film ''The Day the Earth Stood Still''. He also portrayed Tagg "Bull's Eye" Oakley, younger brother of Annie Oakley in the pilot episode of ''Annie Oakley''. From 1954 to 1960, Gray starred a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Chew Jr
Sam Chew Jr. (born August 20, 1942, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a retired American actor and teacher, likely best known for his role in '' Serial'' (1980), and for playing both John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy on television. After more than two decades in film and television, Chew utilized his voice for narrating the Discovery Channel series, '' Shark Week''. He has been a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences actor's branch for over 30 years. He later became a teacher on the Philadelphia Main Line. In 1972 Chew and his family gave the family home Cliveden Cliveden (pronounced ) is an English country house and estate in the care of the National Trust in Buckinghamshire, on the border with Berkshire. The Italianate mansion, also known as Cliveden House, crowns an outlying ridge of the Chiltern Hi ... to the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Filmography References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Chew, Sam Male actors from Philade ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Val Avery
Sebouh Der Abrahamian (July 14, 1924 – December 12, 2009), known professionally as Val Avery, was an American character actor who appeared in hundreds of movies and television shows. In a career that spanned 50 years, Avery appeared in over 100 films and had appearances in over 300 television episodes. Early life and education Avery was born in Philadelphia to Armenian parents Megerdich and Arousiag Der Abrahamian. His father was from Sebastia and moved to the United States in 1907. During the Armenian genocide, his grandfather Bedros Der Abrahamian, a priest at the Church of the Holy Mother of God in Sebastia, was murdered. In his early years, Avery acted in plays with the Armenian Youth Federation. After serving in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II, he attended the Bessie V. Hicks School of Drama in Philadelphia. Career Avery was frequently cast as tough or low-class types, such as policemen, thugs, mobsters, bartenders, and blue-collar workers. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Koslo
Paul Koslo (born Manfred Koslowski; June 27, 1944 – January 9, 2019) was a German-born Canadian actor. Career Koslo started his career in such 1970s films as '' Nam's Angels'' a.k.a. ''The Losers'', ''Vanishing Point'' and '' The Stone Killer''. He also appeared opposite Charlton Heston in the science fiction film ''The Omega Man'', in a sympathetic co-starring role. He portrayed villains in '' Joe Kidd'' (1972), '' Mr. Majestyk'' (1974), and ''The Drowning Pool'' (1975). He and fellow ''Omega Man'' co-star Anthony Zerbe also appeared in '' Rooster Cogburn'' (1975). After a solid supporting part as a Jewish concentration camp survivor in the critically acclaimed ''Voyage of the Damned'' (1976), as well as the mayor in '' Heaven's Gate'' (1980), he began a long run of portraying villainous types in productions such as '' Roots: The Next Generations'' and '' The Glitter Dome''. In rare, in-depth interviews with both '' Psychotronic Video'' and ''Shock Cinema'' (issue No. 14) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
