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Dance Of The Damned
''Dance of the Damned'' is a 1989 American film directed by Katt Shea and executive produced by Roger Corman. Cast * Starr Andreeff as Jodi Hurtz * Cyril O'Reilly as The Vampire * Debbie Nassar as La Donna * Maria Ford as Teacher * Athena Worthy as Ray Gun Girl * Tom Ruben as Cabby * Chuck Rhee as Daniel Production Katt Shea later recalled: Corman wanted to use a strip club again and he had a haunted house set that he had left over from another film. So Andy Ruben and I came up with an idea to shoot in those two locations. Of course we changed the haunted house into this really modern, amazing, great house."Director Katt Shea talks about her 1980's Roger Corman produced films" ''TV Store Online'' 3 Feb 2015, accessed 21 April 2015 She ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katt Shea
Kathleen Ann Shea (born October 9, 1959) is an American actress, film director, and acting teacher. She is best known for directing the erotic thriller '' Poison Ivy'', which was nominated for the 1992 Sundance Grand Jury Prize. Early life Shea was born in Detroit, Michigan to an artist father and nurse mother. She studied teaching at the University of Michigan from which she graduated with honors. After graduating, she spent six months teaching blind children, before taking off at age 19 to Hollywood, California where she started her early modeling career and for a short time attended University of California, Los Angeles. "I was directing plays I'd written in my back yard when I was twelve", she said later. "I was a total misfit and didn't have any friends, so that's what I did instead. I recruited younger kids from the neighborhood, and their parents paid me to put them in my productions. I made some pretty good money, actually. Helped put me through college. Yay for being a m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Starr Andreeff
Starr Andreeff is a Canadian producer and former actress from Hamilton, Ontario. She was Miss Teen Hamilton and a semi-finalist in the 1980 Miss Teen Canada pageant. She is best known for her roles in B-movies such as ''Dance of the Damned'', '' Nightfall'', ''The Terror Within'', ''Out of the Dark'', and ''Amityville Dollhouse. ''Andreeff appeared as lawyer Jessica Holmes on ''General Hospital'' and as Sabrina Cross on ''Falcon Crest''. She also appeared as a guest star on ''The Golden Girls'' (S3E2), '' The Facts of Life'', ''Mike Hammer, Private Eye'', and ''TekWar ''TekWar'' is a series of science fiction novels created by Canadian actor William Shatner and ghost-written by American writer Ron Goulart, published by Putnam beginning in October 1989. The novels gave rise to a comic book series, video game, an ...''. She created, produced, and starred in the 2014 four-part series ''Child Star'', which aired on Slice Network in Canada. References External links * Actre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cyril O'Reilly
Cyril J. O'Reilly is an American film and television actor, writer and producer. Life and career O'Reilly was born in Los Angeles, California, one of three children born to Patrick Joseph O'Reilly, a Deputy Director of the Peace Corps, and his wife, Harriet ( Rothwell). He has worked in Hollywood for nearly three decades, and is known for playing a reluctant vampire in ''Dance of the Damned'', and for his role as Tim Cavanaugh in the teen sex comedies ''Porky's'' and '' Porky's II: The Next Day''. He co-starred in the 1981 television movie ''Splendor in the Grass'' with Melissa Gilbert. In 2007, twenty-six years later, the two re-united in the television movie ''Sacrifices of the Heart''. His other film work has included roles in ''Airplane!'', ''The Cool Surface'', and ''Navy SEALs''. He has appeared in a variety of television programs, including ''M*A*S*H'', '' ER'', '' Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'', ''The X-Files'', ''Beverly Hills, 90210'', '' St. Elsewhere'', ''Hunter'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phedon Papamichael
Phedon Papamichael, ASC ( el, Φαίδων Παπαμιχαήλ, ''Faidon Papamihail''; born 10 February 1962) is a Greek cinematographer and film director, known for his collaborations with directors James Mangold, Alexander Payne and Wim Wenders. He has twice been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography and twice also for the BAFTA Award for Best Cinematography. He has been a member of the American Society of Cinematographers since 2000. Early life and education He was born in Athens, Greece in 1962 to a Greek father and a German mother. When Papamichael was six years old, his family relocated to the United States, as his father, a well-known artist and set designer, was offered a job as a production designer for John Cassavetes. From an early age, he was involved in cinema. He studied photography and art at the University of Munich and received his Bachelor in Fine Arts in 1982. Career Papamichael's first job as a cinematographer was in the 1988 film ''Da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Corman
Roger William Corman (born April 5, 1926) is an American film director, producer, and actor. He has been called "The Pope of Pop Cinema" and is known as a trailblazer in the world of independent film. Many of Corman's films are based on works that have an already-established critical reputation, such as his cycle of low-budget cult films adapted from the tales of Edgar Allan Poe. In 1964, Corman—admired by members of the French New Wave and '' Cahiers du Cinéma''—became the youngest filmmaker to have a retrospective at the Cinémathèque Française, as well as in the British Film Institute and the Museum of Modern Art. He was the co-founder of New World Pictures, the founder of New Concorde and is a longtime member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. In 2009, he was awarded an Honorary Academy Award "for his rich engendering of films and filmmakers". Corman is also famous for distributing in the U.S. many foreign directors, such as Federico Fellini (Ital ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Ford
Maria Ford (born 1966) is an American film and television actress, model and dancer. Known for her " scream queen" performances in low-budget films of the 1990s, she is one of the main subjects of the 1998 documentary ''Some Nudity Required''.Rita Kempley"Today at Filmfest DC: Naked Truth of B-Movies" ''The Washington Post'', April 29, 1998 . Maria Ford worked extensively as a professional model and professional dance Dance is a performing art form consisting of sequences of movement, either improvised or purposefully selected. This movement has aesthetic and often symbolic value. Dance can be categorized and described by its choreography, by its repertoir ...r in 2014-2020, both in the United States and internationally. Filmography Film Television References External links * * Maria Ford Home Page {{DEFAULTSORT:Ford, Maria American film actresses American television actresses Living people Actresses from Los Angeles 21st-century American women 1966 births ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scott Valentine (actor)
Scott Eugene Valentine (born June 3, 1958) is an American actor, best known for his role as Nick Moore on the series ''Family Ties''. Life and career Valentine was born in Saratoga Springs, New York, the son of Beverly Ann (née Hanna) and Edward Eugene Valentine. He began to pursue acting one year into his college education, attending the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City. He completed the three-year program in one and a half years. He got as far as a screen test for the film ''The Lords of Discipline'' when he was hit, run over, and dragged by a truck on September 17, 1981 and his career was halted for three years as he recovered. He moved to Los Angeles and landed a recurring role on the TV series ''Family Ties'' as Nick Moore, the loveable but dim-witted boyfriend of Mallory Keaton from 1985 to 1989, for seasons 4 through 7. During an interview for Montreal radio station CJAD, Valentine thought the role was not challenging enough for the money he was rec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlie Spradling
Charlie Lynn Spradling (born September 27, 1968) is a retired American actress. Early years Charlie Lynn Spradling was born September 27, 1968 in Forth Worth, Texas, where she was also raised. Career Spradling's first appearance in film was in the 1988 science fiction horror cult film ''The Blob''. Mainly active throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Spradling is primarily known for her acting roles and appearances in horror films such as '' Meridian: Kiss of the Beast'' (1990), or '' Puppet Master II'' (1990). She has also had small appearances in the television series ''Twin Peaks'' and the film '' Wild at Heart'' (1990), both by David Lynch. Personal life Spradling married actor Jason London Jason Paul London (born November 7, 1972) is an American actor, known for his roles as Randall "Pink" Floyd in director Richard Linklater's film '' Dazed and Confused'' (1993), as Jesse in '' The Rage: Carrie 2'' (1999) and as Rick Rambis in '' O ... in 1997. The couple had a daugh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1989 Films
The year 1989 involved many significant films. Highest-grossing films The top 10 films released in 1989 by worldwide gross are as follows: Events * Actress Kim Basinger and her brother Mick purchase Braselton, Georgia, for $20 million. Basinger would lose the town to her partner in the deal, the pension fund of Chicago-based Ameritech Corp., in 1993 after being forced to file for bankruptcy when a California judge ordered her to pay $7.4 million for refusing to honor a verbal contract to star in the film ''Boxing Helena''. * A director's cut of ''Lawrence of Arabia'' is released with a 227-minute length. The restoration was undertaken by Robert A. Harris under the supervision of director David Lean. * April 23 – ''Field of Dreams'', starring Kevin Costner, James Earl Jones, and Burt Lancaster, is released. * May 24 – '' Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade'' is released. It is the third installment of the Indiana Jones series. * June 13 – The James Bond film ''Licence to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films Directed By Katt Shea
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 through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitized ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1989 Horror Films
File:1989 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Cypress Street Viaduct, Cypress structure collapses as a result of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, killing motorists below; The proposal document for the World Wide Web is submitted; The Exxon Valdez oil tanker runs aground in Prince William Sound, Alaska, causing a large Exxon Valdez oil spill, oil spill; The Fall of the Berlin Wall begins the downfall of Communism in Eastern Europe, and heralds German reunification; The United States United States invasion of Panama, invades Panama to depose Manuel Noriega; The Singing Revolution led to the independence of the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania from the Soviet Union; The stands of Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield, Yorkshire, where the Hillsborough disaster occurred; 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre, Students demonstrate in Tiananmen Square, Beijing; many are killed by forces of the Chinese Communist Party., 300x300px, thumb rect 0 0 200 200 1989 Loma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
