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American Films Of 1978
A list of American films released in 1978. ''The Deer Hunter'' won the Academy Award for Best Picture of 1978. '' Superman'' was the highest-grossing film of 1978. __TOC__ A-B C-G H-L M-S T-Z Documentaries and other films See also * 1978 in American television * 1978 in the United States External links 1978 filmsat the Internet Movie Database *List of 1978 box office number-one films in the United States {{DEFAULTSORT:American films of 1978 1978 Films A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere ... Lists of 1978 films by country or language ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1978 In Film
The year 1978 in film involved some significant events. Highest-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1978 released films by box office gross in the United States and Canada are as follows: Events * February 6 – David Begelman resigns as president of Columbia Pictures. * March 1 – Charlie Chaplin's coffin is stolen from a Swiss cemetery three months after burial. After recovery a few weeks later, the casket is sealed in a concrete vault prior to reburial. * March – Leigh Brackett completes the first draft for ''The Empire Strikes Back'', but dies only two weeks later. * June – Daniel Melnick becomes head of Columbia Pictures after the David Begelman scandal. * June 4 – '' Grease'', starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John, has its world premiere at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. It becomes the highest-grossing musical ever and Paramount Pictures' highest-grossing film. * July 20 – Alan Hirschfield is fired as president and CEO of Columbia Pictures. He is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paramount Pictures
Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American film and television production company, production and Distribution (marketing), distribution company and the main namesake division of Paramount Global (formerly ViacomCBS). It is the fifth-oldest film studio in the world, the second-oldest film studio in the United States (behind Universal Pictures), and the sole member of the Major film studio, "Big Five" film studios located within the city limits of Los Angeles. In 1916, film producer Adolph Zukor put 24 actors and actresses under contract and honored each with a star on the logo. In 1967, the number of stars was reduced to 22 and their hidden meaning was dropped. In 2014, Paramount Pictures became the first major Hollywood studio to distribute all of its films in digital form only. The company's headquarters and studios are located at 5555 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, California. Paramount Pictures is a member of the Motion Picture Association of America, Motion Picture Associ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Wilson (actor)
George Christopher (born George Wilson, 5 March 1970) is a British actor. He is best known for his teenage role as Liverpudlian scamp Ziggy Greaves in Grange Hill, a role he played from 1986 to 1989. The character was a hit with viewers, and Wilson himself has compared his alter-ego with the series' original hero, Tucker Jenkins."From Grange Hill To Albert Square...And Beyond"; a celebration of 20 years of Grange Hill, broadcast New Year's Day 1998 on BBC1. Following his acting career he took up a business that embraced his stage name and his desire to upcycle the front of customers' houses whilst staying true to his musical icon, David Bowie. And hence 'Ziggy Paves Your Drives' was born. After Grange Hill, Wilson took on another high-profile role in the Channel 4 soap Brookside, as Little Jimmy Corkhill. He played the drug addict son of Jimmy Corkhill senior. George has since taken on a variety of stage and film roles, including a play about the Hillsborough disaster The Hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes
''Attack of the Killer Tomatoes'' is a 1978 American parody film produced by J. Stephen Peace and John DeBello, and directed by John DeBello based upon an original idea by Costa Dillon. The screenplay was written by Dillon, Peace, and DeBello. The film spoofs B movies and was made on a budget of less than US$ 100,000. The story involves tomatoes becoming sentient by unknown means and revolting against humanity. Critical reception of ''Attack of the Killer Tomatoes'' were mostly negative. The box office success of the film led to three sequels, all co-written by the same three writers and directed by DeBello. Plot The film opens with a scroll saying that when Alfred Hitchcock's film '' The Birds'' (1963) was released, audiences laughed at the notion of birds revolting against humanity, but when an attack perpetrated by birds occurred in 1975, no one laughed. This is followed by a pre-credits sequence of a tomato rising out of a woman's garbage disposal. Her puzzlement turns i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Independent Film
An independent film, independent movie, indie film, or indie movie is a feature film or short film that is produced outside the major film studio system, in addition to being produced and distributed by independent entertainment companies (or, in some cases, distributed by major companies). Independent films are sometimes distinguishable by their content and style and the way in which the filmmakers' personal artistic vision is realized. Usually, but not always, independent films are made with considerably lower budgets than major studio films. It is not unusual for well-known actors who are cast in independent features to take substantial pay cuts for a variety of reasons: if they truly believe in the message of the film; they feel indebted to filmmaker for a career break; their career is otherwise stalled or they feel unable to manage a larger commitment to a studio film; the film offers an opportunity to showcase a talent that hasn't gained traction in the studio system; or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Slade
Mark Van Blarcom Slade (born May 1, 1939) is an American actor, artist, and author, particularly remembered for his role of Billy Blue Cannon on the NBC Western television series, ''The High Chaparral''.Terrace, Vincent (2011). ''Encyclopedia of Television Shows, 1925 through 2010''. McFarland & Company, Inc. . P. 458. Early life Born in Salem, Massachusetts, Slade is the son of Elinor (née Van Blarcom) and William A. Slade Jr., a Boston businessman and watercolor artist. Along with his two sisters and a brother, he grew up in the Danvers/Hamilton area of the North Shore. His parents divorced when he was 13, and his stepfather, Esmond R. Crowley Jr., became a valuable influence on his life. In 1956, he enrolled in Worcester Academy with the intention of becoming an artist. After he filled in for a sick classmate by playing the role of an English professor in the play ''The Male Animal'', he decided to study acting. Slade moved to New York City to attend the American Academy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marianna Hill
Marianna Hill ( Schwarzkopf, February 9, 1942) is an American actress. She predominantly worked in American television and is known for her starring roles in the Western films '' El Condor'' and ''High Plains Drifter'' and the cult horror film ''Messiah of Evil'' (both 1973), as well as many roles on television series in the 1960s and '70s. She was sometimes credited as Mariana Hill. Early years Marianna Hill was born in Santa Barbara, California, to architect Frank Schwarzkopf and writer Mary Hawthorne Hill, who worked as a script doctor. United States Army General Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. was her cousin. Her father, a building contractor, worked in several countries, which resulted in Hill's education in California, Spain, and Canada. During her teenage years, her family settled in Southern California when her father purchased a restaurant there. Career Hill's initial acting experience came when she was an apprentice at the Laguna Playhouse. She then worked three summers at th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cesare Danova
Cesare Danova (March 1, 1926 – March 19, 1992) was an Italian television and screen actor. Best known for his roles in ''The Captain's Daughter'' (1947), ''Viva Las Vegas'' (1964), '' Chamber of Horrors'' (1966), ''Mean Streets'' (1973), and various roles in ''The Rifleman'' (1958-1963). Life and career Born as Cesare Deitinger in Rome,Danova's obituary in the ''Los Angeles Times'' notes he was born in Rome. Italy to an Austrian fatherThe book ''Italian Americans: The History and Culture of a People'' says that his father was Australian. and an Italian mother; he adopted Danova as his stage name after becoming an actor in Rome at the end of World War II. After the film ''Don Juan'' (1955) he immigrated to the United States. He was contracted to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1956. His appearances include ''The Man Who Understood Women'' (1959). He tested for a part in ''Ben Hur'', but his big break was the role of Apollodorus, Cleopatra's personal servant, in the 1963 film ''Cleopatr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elke Sommer
Elke Sommer (; born Elke Baronin von Schletz, 5 November 1940) is a German actress. She appeared in numerous films in her heyday throughout the 1960s and 1970s, including roles in ''The Pink Panther (1963 film), The Pink Panther'' sequel ''A Shot in the Dark (1964 film), A Shot in the Dark'' (1964), the Bob Hope comedy ''Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number!'' (1966), Agatha Christie's ''And Then There Were None (1974 film), And Then There Were None'' (1974), and the British ''Carry On (franchise), Carry On'' series in ''Carry On Behind'' (1975). Early life Sommer was born in Berlin to Baron Peter von Schletz, a Lutheranism, Lutheran minister, and his wife Renata, ''née'' Topp. During the Second World War (in 1942), the family was evacuated to Herzogenaurach, Niederndorf, a village near Erlangen, a small university town in Franconia, where she attended a Gymnasium (school), university-preparatory high school. Her father died when she was 14 years old. She passed her college entranc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sue Lyon
Sue or SUE may refer to: Music * Sue Records, an American record label * ''Sue'' (album), an album by Frazier Chorus * "Sue (Or in a Season of Crime)", a song by David Bowie Places * Sue Islet (Queensland), one of the Torres Straits islands, Australia * Sue, Fukuoka, a town in Japan ** Sue Station (Fukuoka), a railway station * Sue Lake, a lake in Glacier National Park, Montana, United States Other uses * Suing (to sue), a type of lawsuit * Sue (name), a feminine given name (and list of people with the name) * Sué, a god of the Andean Muisca civilization * Sue (dinosaur), a ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' specimen * '' Sue Lost in Manhattan'' or ''Sue'', a 1998 film * Subsurface Utility Engineering * Sue ware, ancient Japanese pottery * ARC (file format) or .sue * Door County Cherryland Airport's IATA code * Mary Sue or Sue, an idealized fictional character * Yoshiko Tanaka or Sue (1956–2011), Japanese actress People with the surname * Carolyn Sue, Australian physician ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stefanie Powers
Stefanie Powers (born Stefania Zofya Paul; November 2, 1942) is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Jennifer Hart on the mystery television series ''Hart to Hart'' (1979–1984), for which she received nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards and five Golden Globe Awards. Early life Powers was born Stefania Zofya Paul in Hollywood, California, but her surname often was cited as Federkiewicz. In her Polish-language autobiography, Powers says, "" - translates to - "My real (Polish) name is Federkiewicz". At the age of 16, she was put under studio contract with Columbia Pictures, and as was the movie-industry custom in those days, her name change to the more Anglo-Saxon-sounding "Stefanie Powers" was made a part of the deal. Her parents divorced during her childhood. Powers was estranged from her father, who was Jewish, whom she barely refers to and whose name is never mentioned in her memoir ''One from the Hart'', in which she refers to the "tension and unhapp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Foxworth
Robert Heath Foxworth (born November 1, 1941) is an American film, stage, and television actor. Early life Foxworth was born in Houston, Texas, the son of Erna Beth (née Seamman), a writer, and John Howard Foxworth, a roofing contractor. He attended Lamar High School and earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in acting at Carnegie Mellon University. Career Foxworth first gained attention as a stage actor, particularly at Washington, DC's Arena Stage. He was offered the role of J. R. Ewing in ''Dallas'', but turned it down and Larry Hagman was cast. Among his numerous film and television roles, such as in the television series '' The Storefront Lawyers'' (1970–1971), Foxworth is best known for his stints on '' Falcon Crest'' (he played Jane Wyman's long-suffering nephew, Chase Gioberti, from 1981–1987) and '' Six Feet Under'' (he played Bernard Chenowith from 2001–2003), as well as a starring role in Gene Roddenberry's 1974 movie ''The Questor Tapes''. He also app ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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