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Desert Sands
''Desert Sands'' is a 1955 American adventure film directed by Lesley Selander and written by Danny Arnold, George W. George and George F. Slavin. The film stars Ralph Meeker, Marla English, J. Carrol Naish, John Carradine, Ron Randell, John Smith (actor), John Smith and Keith Larsen. The film was released on November 18, 1955, by United Artists. The film was based on the 1954 novel ''Punitive Action'', one of a series of French Foreign Legion novels written by John Robb. Unlike many Foreign Legion films the film was set in the 1950s. Plot A strong force of mounted tribal Arabs launches a surprise attack on a French Foreign Legion fort in the North African desert, having previously intercepted and brutally massacred a relief column en route to the fort. After an Battle of the Alamo, Alamo-like battle, the more numerous Arabs capture the fort. Addressing the surviving Legionnaires as captives, the Arab leader makes passing reference to Pan-Islam as a motivation for the attacks. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lesley Selander
Lesley Selander (May 26, 1900 – December 5, 1979) was an American film director of Western (genre), Westerns and adventure film, adventure movies. His career as director, spanning 127 feature films and dozens of TV episodes, lasted from 1936 to 1968. Before that, Selander was assistant director on films such as ''The Cat and the Fiddle (film), The Cat and the Fiddle'' (1934), ''A Night at the Opera (film), A Night at the Opera'' (1935), and Fritz Lang's ''Fury (1936 film), Fury'' (1936). To this day Selander remains one of the most prolific directors of feature Westerns in cinema history, having taken the helm for 107 Westerns between his first directorial feature in 1936 and 1967. Lesley Selander at IMDb. In 1956 he was nominated for the Directors Guild of America award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Television, for his w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle Of The Alamo
The Battle of the Alamo (February 23 – March 6, 1836) was a pivotal event in the Texas Revolution. Following a 13-day siege, Mexican troops under President General Antonio López de Santa Anna reclaimed the Alamo Mission near San Antonio de Béxar (modern-day San Antonio, Texas, United States), killing most of the occupants inside. Santa Anna's refusal to take prisoners during the battle inspired many Texians and Tejanos to join the Texian Army. Motivated by a desire for revenge, as well as their written desire to preserve a border open to immigration and the importation and practice of slavery, the Texians defeated the Mexican Army at the Battle of San Jacinto, on April 21, 1836, ending the rebellion in favor of the newly formed Republic of Texas. Several months previously, Texians, who were primarily recent immigrants from USA, had killed or driven all Mexican troops out of Mexican Texas. About 100 Texians were then garrisoned at the Alamo. The Texian force grew sl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1955 Films
The year 1955 in film involved some significant events. __TOC__ Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top-grossing hits of 1955 in the United States. Top-grossing films by country The highest-grossing 1955 films from countries outside of North America. Events * January 7 – U.K. release of the Halas and Batchelor film animation of George Orwell's ''Animal Farm'' (completed April 1954), the first full-length British-made animated feature on general theatrical release. *February 24 - 12th Golden Globe Awards announced: '' On The Waterfront'', Marlon Brando, & Judy Garland win * March 18 – The film adaptation of Evan Hunter's novel ''Blackboard Jungle'' previews in New York City, featuring the single " Rock Around the Clock" by Bill Haley & His Comets over the opening credits, the first use of a rock and roll song in a major film. Teenagers jump from their seats to dance to it. * June 1 – Premiere of Billy Wilder's film of ''The Seven Year Itch'' featuring an iconic scene of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terence De Marney
Terence Arthur De Marney (1 March 190825 May 1971) was a British film, stage, radio and television actor, as well as theatre director and writer. Career Actor The son of Violet Eileen Concanen and Arthur De Marney, and the grandson of noted Victorian lithographer Alfred Concanen, his career in the theatre began in 1923 and continued almost without interruption, taking in film, radio and television parts. He toured with Mrs Patrick Campbell in '' The Last of Mrs. Cheyney''. In 1930 he played Gustave in ''The Lady of the Camellias'', and toured South Africa as Raleigh in ''Journey's End''. In 1934 he played Tybalt in ''Romeo and Juliet'' at the Open Air Theatre, and Giovanni in '' 'Tis Pity She's a Whore'' at the Arts. Thrillers tended to be his stock in trade, appearing in a revival of Sutton Vane's ''Outward Bound'' during the 1930s, as well as Agatha Christie's ''Ten Little Indians'' and ''Dear Murderer''. In later years he appeared in a revival of Gerald Du Maurier's ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Carrier
Alberto Carrieri (October 16, 1919 – May 23, 2002) was an Italian-American film and television actor. He was perhaps best known for playing "Pedro Quinn" in the 1983 film '' Scarface'', with also being known for playing the role of "Captain Jacques Tremaine" in the 1965 film ''Major Dundee''. Life and career Carrier was born in Italy. He began his career in 1950, where he appeared in five Mexican films. He then moved to Hollywood, California to appear in films. In 1958, Carrier co-starred in the film ''Desert Hell'', where he played the role of "Sgt St. Clair". He appeared in films such as: ''Two Weeks in Another Town'', ''The Secret Life of an American Wife'', '' Fitzwilly'', ''Thoroughly Modern Millie'', '' Do Not Disturb'', ''Tender Is the Night'', ''Thunder in the Sun'' and ''Moment to Moment''. Carrier also appeared in numerous television programs. In 1963, he played the uncredited role of the Paris policeman "Gendarme" in the film ''A New Kind of Love ''A New Kind o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nico Minardos
Nico Minardos (February 15, 1930, Pangrati, Athens – August 27, 2011, Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California) was a Greek-American actor. He died in 2011 in Woodland Hills, California at age 81, from natural causes. Work in Hollywood His first Hollywood screen appearance was as an extra in the 1952 film '' Monkey Business''. His film credits also include ''Holiday for Lovers''; ''Twelve Hours to Kill''; ''It Happened in Athens''; and ''Cannon for Cordoba''. The majority of Minardos's work was in television, where he made guest appearances in a wide variety of shows. Due to his "dark looks" and accent, he was often cast as a Mexican. He played a thief in the ''Maverick'' episode, "The Judas Mask"; a doctor in ''The Twilight Zone'' episode "The Gift"; and two roles in the TV show ''Alias Smith and Jones,'' first as a bandit chief in "Journey from San Juan", and then as the Alcalde of a Mexican resort town in "Miracle at Santa Marta". These latter two appearances reunited him w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mort Mills
Mort Mills (born Mortimer Morris Kaplan; January 11, 1919 – June 6, 1993) was an American film and television actor who had roles in over 150 movies and television episodes. He was often the town lawman or the local bad guy in many popular westerns of the 1950s and 1960s. From 1957–1959 he had a recurring co-starring role as Marshal Frank Tallman in ''Man Without a Gun''. Other recurring roles were as Sergeant Ben Landro in the ''Perry Mason (1957 TV series), Perry Mason'' series and Sheriff Fred Madden in ''The Big Valley''. He played villainous character "Red Scanlon" in an episode of ''Maverick (TV series), Maverick'' opposite James Garner titled "Day of Reckoning" in 1957. The following year, he guest starred as a particularly greedy bounty hunter who clashes with Steve McQueen's character Josh Randall in the CBS Western (genre), western series, ''Wanted: Dead or Alive (TV series), Wanted: Dead or Alive''. Biography During World War II Mills served in the 3rd Marine P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otto Waldis
Otto Waldis (born Otto Glucksmann-Blum, May 20, 1901 – March 25, 1974) was an Austrian-American character actor in films and television from the 1930s through the 1960s. He was also billed as Otto Blum. Years in Germany Waldis was born Otto Glucksmann-Blum in 1901 in Vienna. He was a student during World War I and initially studied to be a naval engineer. When Germany had no navy after the war, he shifted his attention to acting in the 1920s. Rudolph Schildkraut saw him perform and encouraged him to pursue a theatrical career. Billed as Otto Valdis, he performed Shakespeare and classic German plays. He also directed plays. Waldis began made his film debut in a small role in director Fritz Lang's classic thriller '' M'' (1931) starring Peter Lorre. After he began acting regularly in films, he had the lead in ''The Broken Pitcher'', which received first prize in an international competition in 1934. Emigration and work in Hollywood The Jewish actor fled from Europe because ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Mamakos
Peter Mamakos (December 14, 1918 – April 27, 2008) was an American film and television actor. Early life Mamakos was of Greek descent. Mamakos' father owned Pilgrim restaurants in New England. Mamakos was sent to California to scout locations for restaurants, but he liked Hollywood so much that he decided to stay, declining his father's offers of $50,000 in cash and a $250,000 nightclub of his own if he returned to Boston. He told a reporter, "I feel right at home in Hollywood. A hot kitchen and a hot sound stage are alike -- you're surrounded by hams in both." Career Peter Mamakos was perhaps best known for playing Greek, Indian, Hispanic, French, Italian and Middle Eastern villains from the 1940s through the 1990s. Film Mamakos was in eight movies in his first seven months in Hollywood. Mamakos appeared in ''Trail of the Yukon'' (1949), in which he and other supporting players offered what a ''Variety'' review called "stock performances". Television He had a r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Tonge
Philip Asheton Tonge (26 April 1897 – 28 January 1959) was an English actor. Born into a theatrical family, he was a child actor, making his stage debut at the age of five. Among the stars with whom he performed while he was a boy were Henry Irving, Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Ellen Terry and Johnston Forbes-Robertson. His colleagues as child actors included Hermione Gingold, Mary Glynne, Esmé Wynne-Tyson and Noël Coward. Tonge's adult acting career was in the US, where he and his parents settled after the First World War. He made numerous appearances in Broadway productions, including nine Coward plays. Among his films were ''Miracle on 34th Street'' (1947), ''Hans Christian Andersen'' (1952) and ''Witness for the Prosecution'' (1957). Life and career Early years Tonge was born in Hampstead, London, the son of the actor H. Asheton Tonge and his wife Lillian, ''née'' Brennard, an actressParker, p. 919–920 He made his first appearance on the stage at His Majesty's Theatre in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lita Milan
Lita Milan also known as Lita Trujillo (born 1933) is an American actress. Her film credits include ''The Violent Men'' (1955), ''Desert Sands'' (1955), ''Gun Brothers'' (1956), '' The Ride Back'' (1957), ''Bayou'' (1957), ''The Left Handed Gun'' (1958), ''Never Love a Stranger'' (1958) and ''I Mobster'' (1959). Early years Born Iris Maria Lia Menshall in New York, Milan was a salesman's daughter. Personal life Milan married former president of the Dominican Republic Ramfis Trujillo in 1960. They had two sons. In 1969, Trujillo died of pneumonia, following hospitalization for a traffic accident. For years she had a sentimental relationship with the spanish bullfighter Jaime Ostos Jaime Ostos Carmona (8 April 1931 – 8 January 2022) was a Spanish bullfighter. Biography Ostos made his debut in Écija on 1 June 1952 alongside Bartolomé Jiménez Torres. His debut with '' picadors'' took place in Osuna on 5 April 1953 ag .... In a 2013 interview, Milan said of her marriage: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marc Cavell (actor)
Marc Edward Cavell (June 28, 1939 – February 29, 2004) was an American actor. He performed in eighteen films from 1952 to 1974. Television guest-credits include ''Peter Gunn'', ''Alfred Hitchcock Presents'', ''Gunsmoke'' and ''The Twilight Zone ''The Twilight Zone'' is an American media franchise based on the anthology television series created by Rod Serling. The episodes are in various genres, including fantasy, science fiction, absurdism, dystopian fiction, suspense, horror, su ...''. Early Years Cavell was born Maurice Edward Cavell, the son of Italian immigrant Rudolph Cavell, who had a career as a boxer and wrestler. His father emigrated to the United States from Italy as Rodolfo Cavazzale. Filmography References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Cavell, Marc 1939 births 2004 deaths American male film actors American male television actors 20th-century American male actors American people of Italian descent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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