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Lynn Carlin
Mary Lynn Carlin (née Reynolds) is an American retired actress. For her debut role in the 1968 John Cassavetes film ''Faces (1968 film), Faces'', she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, becoming the first nonprofessional performer to receive an Oscar nomination. She was later nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her performance in Milos Forman’s ''Taking Off (film), Taking Off'' (1971). Life and career Lynn Carlin was born in Los Angeles, the daughter of socialite Muriel Elizabeth (née Ansley) and 'Larry Reynolds' (Laurence Kramer). Her father was a Hollywood business manager, and her mother worked in radio. She grew up in Laguna Beach. Carlin made her stage debut in ''The Women (play), The Women'' at the Laguna Beach Playhouse. Carlin, Robert Altmans secretary-turned-actress, earned her only Academy Award nomination in 1968 for her first feature role as John Marley's suicidal wife Maria in John Cassavetes' ''Faces ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Angeles
Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the List of municipalities in California, most populous city in the U.S. state of California, and the commercial, Financial District, Los Angeles, financial, and Culture of Los Angeles, cultural center of Southern California. With an estimated 3,878,704 residents within the city limits , it is the List of United States cities by population, second-most populous in the United States, behind only New York City. Los Angeles has an Ethnic groups in Los Angeles, ethnically and culturally diverse population, and is the principal city of a Metropolitan statistical areas, metropolitan area of 12.9 million people (2024). Greater Los Angeles, a combined statistical area that includes the Los Angeles and Riverside–San Bernardino metropolitan areas, is a sprawling metropolis of over 18.5 million residents. The majority of the city proper lies in Los Angeles Basin, a basin in Southern California adjacent to the Pacific Ocean in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Kennedy
George Harris Kennedy Jr. (February 18, 1925 – February 28, 2016) was an American actor who appeared in more than 100 film and television productions. He played "Dragline" in ''Cool Hand Luke'' (1967), winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the role and being nominated for the corresponding Golden Globe. He received a second Golden Globe nomination for portraying Joe Patroni in ''Airport'' (1970). Among other films in which he had a significant role are '' Lonely Are the Brave'', '' Charade'', '' Strait-Jacket'', ''McHale's Navy'', '' Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte'', '' Mirage'', '' Shenandoah'', ''The Sons of Katie Elder'', '' The Flight of the Phoenix'', '' In Harm's Way'', '' The Dirty Dozen'', '' The Boston Strangler'', '' Guns of the Magnificent Seven'', '' tick… tick… tick…'', '' Cahill U.S. Marshal'', '' Thunderbolt and Lightfoot'', '' The Good Guys and the Bad Guys'', ''Earthquake'', '' The Eiger Sanction'' and '' The Delta Force''. Kennedy i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James At 15
''James at 15'' (later ''James at 16'') is an American drama series that aired on NBC during the 1977–78 season. The series was preceded by the 1977 TV movie ''James at 15'', which aired on Monday September 5, 1977 and was intended as a television pilot for the series. Both were written by Dan Wakefield, a journalist and fiction writer whose novel ''Going All the Way'', a tale of coming of age in the 1950s, had led to his being contacted by David Sontag of Twentieth Century Fox. Sontag, the senior vice-president of creative affairs at Fox, had had a lunch meeting in New York City with Paul Klein, the head of programming at NBC. Klein said he needed a series for Sunday night. On the spot, Sontag pitched the idea for a coming-of-age series seen through the eyes of a teenage boy, including his dreams, fantasies, and hopes. Klein loved the idea and asked Sontag who would write it, with Sontag's suggesting Dan Wakefield. Despite this unsourced account of the "creation" of the seri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lance Kerwin
Lance Michael Kerwin (November 6, 1960 – January 24, 2023) was an American actor, known primarily for roles in television and film during his childhood and teen years in the 1970s. He played lead roles in the TV series ''James at 15'' as well as the TV films '' The Loneliest Runner'' and '' Salem's Lot''. Early life and career Kerwin was raised in Lake Elsinore, California."Lance is 'Off And-Running'" ''The Robesonian''. Lumberton, N.C. January 15, 1977. p. 10. His father, Don Kerwin, was an , who brought home scripts for his son to read. His mother, Lois, was also a performer and later, a |
Superstition (1982 Film)
''Superstition'' is a 1982 American supernatural slasher film directed by James W. Roberson and starring James Houghton, Albert Salmi, and Lynn Carlin. The plot follows a family who move into a house that was once the site of a witch's execution. Though shot in 1981, ''Superstition'' was not released in US before 1985. In the United Kingdom, the film was banned during the " video nasty" panic, though it would subsequently be released uncut under the title ''The Witch''. Plot Two young men are brutally murdered by an unseen force in an abandoned house after playing a prank on a young couple outside in their car. A short time later, Inspector Sturgess and his partner Hollister visit Reverend David Thompson, a new clergyman assigned to the local parish who is assuming the role of an elderly minister, Reverend Maier. The abandoned house being on church's property, Sturgess voices concern about the house being a local dumping ground, and cites the recent murders of the two teenage bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Postcards
''French Postcards'' is a 1979 coming-of-age romantic comedy-drama film directed by Willard Huyck, who co-wrote the screenplay with Gloria Katz. It stars Miles Chapin, Blanche Baker, Mitch Hoefer, David Marshall Grant, Valérie Quennessen, Debra Winger, Marie-France Pisier Marie-France Pisier (10 May 194424 April 2011) was a French actress, screenwriter, and director. She appeared in numerous films of the French New Wave, and twice earned the national César Award for César Award for Best Supporting Actress, Best ..., and Jean Rochefort. The film was shot on location in central Paris, and had a contemporary time setting, with American students being used as extras. Plot A group of American exchange students spend a year studying in Paris at the fictional Institute of French Studies, run by Madame Catherine Tessier and her husband Monsieur Tessier. Student Laura spends much of her time alone, visiting museums and art galleries and regularly sending postcards to her b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scott Jacoby (actor)
Scott Bennett "Scotty" Jacoby (born November 26, 1956) is an American former actor. He appeared in the 1972 television film '' That Certain Summer'',"Ask TV Scout", ''The Town Talk'' (Alexandria, Louisiana; June 2, 1973), TV Section, p. 8. for which he won an Emmy Award. He is also known for playing the lead role in the made-for-TV film '' Bad Ronald'' (1974), and his role opposite Jodie Foster in '' The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane'' (1976). He is also known for his recurring role as Dorothy's son, Michael Zbornak, in 3 episodes of the 1980s sitcom ''The Golden Girls''. Early life Jacoby was born in the Chicago suburb of Skokie, Illinois, and his family moved to Queens in New York City when he was ten years old. At the age of eleven, he was nominated for a Tony Award for his portrayal of Ally in the Broadway musical '' Golden Rainbow'', which starred Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gormé, for the category Best Featured Actor in a Musical at the 22nd Tony Awards, held on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baxter!
''Baxter!'' is a 1973 drama film directed by Lionel Jeffries and starring Patricia Neal, Jean-Pierre Cassel and Britt Ekland. The film follows a young boy called Roger Baxter who struggles to overcome his speech problem ( rhotacism) and his strained relationship with his parents. The screenplay was by Reginald Rose, based on the 1968 book by Kin Platt, ''The Boy Who Could Make Himself Disappear''. The film was made before Jeffries' third film as director, '' The Amazing Mr Blunden'' (1972), but released afterwards. Plot Roger Baxter, a young American boy with a speech impediment, goes to live in London with his mother after his parents' divorce. He struggles to pronounce the letter R, and at school he becomes close to his speech therapist. He makes friends with his upstairs neighbour Chris Bentley whom he meets in the lift, and her French husband, Roger Tunnell. He also meets Nemo, a girl who lives across the street from his flat. His parents are extremely self-centred ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deathdream
''Deathdream'' (also known as ''Dead of Night'' or ''The Night Andy Came Home'') is a 1974 horror film directed by Bob Clark and written by Alan Ormsby, and starring Richard Backus, John Marley, and Lynn Carlin. Filmed in Brooksville, Florida, it was inspired by the W. W. Jacobs short story "The Monkey's Paw". Plot In 1972 Vietnam, American soldier Andy Brooks is shot by a sniper and falls to the ground. As he dies, he hears his mother's voice calling out, "Andy, you'll come back. You've got to. You promised." Sometime later, Andy's family receives notice of his death in combat. His father, Charles, and sister, Cathy, begin to grieve, but his mother, Christine, becomes irate and refuses to believe that Andy has died. Meanwhile, a trucker stops at a diner and says that he has picked up a hitchhiker who is a soldier. Hours later, in the middle of the night, Andy arrives at his family's front door in full uniform, apparently unharmed; the family welcomes him back with joy, conc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Clark
Benjamin Robert Clark (August 5, 1939 – April 4, 2007) was an American film director and screenwriter. In the 1970s and 1980s, he was responsible for some of the most successful films in Canadian film industry, Canadian film history such as ''Black Christmas (1974 film), Black Christmas'' (1974), ''Murder by Decree'' (1979), ''Tribute (1980 film), Tribute'' (1980), ''Porky's'' (1981), and ''A Christmas Story'' (1983). He won a trio of Genie Awards (two Canadian Screen Award for Best Director, Best Direction and one Canadian Screen Award for Best Screenplay, Best Screenplay) with two additional nominations. Early life and education Clark was born in New Orleans in 1939,Reuters reported on the day of his death, "Clark was 67, according to police, although some reference sites list him as 65." but grew up in Birmingham, Alabama, and later moved to Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He grew up poor. His father died during his childhood and his mother was a barmaid. After attending C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wild Rovers
''Wild Rovers'' is a 1971 American Western film directed by Blake Edwards and starring William Holden and Ryan O'Neal. Originally intended as a three-hour epic, it was heavily edited by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer without Edwards' knowledge, including a reversal of the ending from a negative one to a positive. Edwards disowned the finished film and later satirized his battle with the studio in his comedy '' S.O.B.'', which also starred Holden. Plot An aging cowboy, Ross Bodine, and a younger one, Frank Post, work on cattleman Walt Buckman's ranch in Montana. A neighboring sheepman, Hansen, is in a long-running feud with Buckman. Ross has a dream of riding off to Mexico to retire from the hard work of the range, but he does not have much money saved up. Frank suggests they rob a bank and head for Mexico together. While Ross thinks this over, he and Frank brawl with Hansen's men at a saloon. Buckman intends to withhold their pay to make restitution for the saloon's damages. Desperate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blake Edwards
Blake Edwards (born William Blake Crump; July 26, 1922 – December 15, 2010) was an American film director, producer and screenwriter. Edwards began his career in the 1940s as an actor, but he soon began writing screenplays and radio scripts before turning to producing and directing in television and films. His best-known films include ''Breakfast at Tiffany's (film), Breakfast at Tiffany's'' (1961), ''Days of Wine and Roses (film), Days of Wine and Roses'' (1962), ''A Shot in the Dark (1964 film), A Shot in the Dark'' (1964), ''The Great Race'' (1965), ''10 (1979 film), 10'' (1979), ''Victor/Victoria'' (1982), ''Blind Date (1987 film), Blind Date'' (1987), and the hugely successful ''The Pink Panther, Pink Panther'' film series with British actor Peter Sellers. Often thought of as primarily a director of comedies, he also directed several drama, musical, and detective films. Late in his career, he took up writing, producing and directing for theater. In 2004, he received an H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
