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Philip D'Antoni
Philip D'Antoni (February 19, 1929 – April 15, 2018) was an American film and television producer. He was best known for producing the Oscar-winning crime films '' The French Connection'' (1971) and ''Bullitt'' (1968). Early life D'Antoni attended Evander Childs High School in the Bronx.Menapace, Stephen A"Liz Taylor London Tour A Rockland Man's Show" ''The Record'', East Bergen, New Jersey, volume 69, number 105, October 7, 1963, page 48. He then served in the United States Army from 1946 to 1948 during the occupation of Japan after World War II. He was eventually assigned to Special Services where he entertained troops by participating in theatrical productions. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York City
New York, often called New York City (NYC), is the most populous city in the United States, located at the southern tip of New York State on one of the world's largest natural harbors. The city comprises five boroughs, each coextensive with a respective county. The city is the geographical and demographic center of both the Northeast megalopolis and the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the United States by both population and urban area. New York is a global center of finance and commerce, culture, technology, entertainment and media, academics, and scientific output, the arts and fashion, and, as home to the headquarters of the United Nations, international diplomacy. With an estimated population in 2024 of 8,478,072 distributed over , the city is the most densely populated major city in the United States. New York City has more than double the population of Los Angeles, the nation's second-most populous city. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Taylor
Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor (February 27, 1932 – March 23, 2011) was an English and American actress. She began her career as a child actress in the early 1940s and was one of the most popular stars of classical Hollywood cinema in the 1950s. She then became the world's highest-paid movie star in the 1960s, remaining a well-known public figure for the rest of her life. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked her seventh on its AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars, greatest female screen legends list. Born in London to socially prominent American parents, Taylor moved with her family to Los Angeles in 1939 at the age of 7. She made her acting debut with a minor role in the Universal Pictures film ''There's One Born Every Minute'' (1942), but the studio ended her contract after a year. She was then signed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and became a popular teen star after appearing in ''National Velvet (film), National Velvet'' (1944). She transitioned to mature roles in the 1950s, when ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2018 Deaths
This is a list of lists of deaths of notable people, organized by year. New deaths articles are added to their respective month (e.g., Deaths in ) and then linked below. 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1988 1987 1986 Earlier years ''Deaths in years earlier than this can usually be found in the main articles of the years.'' See also * Lists of deaths by day * Deaths by year (category) {{DEFAULTSORT:deaths by year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1929 Births
This year marked the end of a period known in American history as the Roaring Twenties after the Wall Street Crash of 1929 ushered in a worldwide Great Depression. In the Americas, an agreement was brokered to end the Cristero War, a Catholic Counter-revolutionary, counter-revolution in Mexico. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, a British high court, ruled that Canadian women are persons in the ''Edwards v. Canada (Attorney General)'' case. The 1st Academy Awards for film were held in Los Angeles, while the Museum of Modern Art opened in New York City. The Peruvian Air Force was created. In Asia, the Republic of China (1912–1949), Republic of China and the Soviet Union engaged in a Sino-Soviet conflict (1929), minor conflict after the Chinese seized full control of the Manchurian Chinese Eastern Railway, which ended with a resumption of joint administration. In the Soviet Union, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, General Secretary Joseph S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Golden Globe
The Golden Globe Awards are awards presented for excellence in both international film and television. It is an annual award ceremony held since 1944 to honor artists and professionals and their work. The ceremony is normally held every January, and has been a major part of the film industry's awards season, which culminates each year in the Academy Awards. The eligibility period for Golden Globes corresponds from January 1 through December 31. The Golden Globes were not televised in 1969–1972, 1979, and 2022. The 2008 ceremony was canceled due to the 2007–08 Writers Guild of America strike. Currently, the Golden Globes Awards are owned and operated by Dick Clark Productions, following its sale by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association on June 12, 2023. History The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) was founded in 1943 as the Hollywood Foreign Correspondent Association (HFCA) by Los Angeles–based foreign journalists seeking to develop a better-organized proc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Academy Award
The Academy Awards, commonly known as the Oscars, are awards for artistic and technical merit in film. They are presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) in the United States in recognition of excellence in cinematic achievements as assessed by the Academy's voting membership. The Oscars are widely considered to be the most prestigious awards in the film industry. The major award categories, known as the Academy Awards of Merit, are presented during a live-televised Hollywood ceremony in February or March. It is the oldest worldwide entertainment awards ceremony. The 1st Academy Awards were held in 1929. The second ceremony, in 1930, was the first one broadcast by radio. The 1953 ceremony was the first one televised. It is the oldest of the four major annual American entertainment awards. Its counterparts—the Emmy Awards for television, the Tony Awards for theater, and the Grammy Awards for music—are modeled after the Academy Aw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shark Kill
''Shark Kill'' is a 1976 made-for-television adventure film directed by William A. Graham. The film was one of the first films released to capitalize on the success of the 1975 film '' Jaws''; both films follow the premise of men hunting a bloodthirsty great white shark. Cast * Richard Yniguez as Cabo Mendoza * Phillip Clark as Rick Dayner * Jennifer Warren as Carolyn * Elizabeth Gill as Bonnie * Victor Campos as Luis * David Huddleston as Bearde Release The film was first broadcast on NBC on May 20, 1976, and was released on DVD on January 17, 2007. See also * List of killer shark films Natural horror is a subgenre of horror films that features natural forces, typically in the form of Fauna, animals or Flora, plants, that pose a threat to human characters. Though killer animals in film have existed since the release of ''The Lo ... References External links * {{William A. Graham 1976 films 1970s English-language films 1976 television films 1970s adventure fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Movin' On (TV Series)
''Movin' On'' is an American drama television series. It ran for two seasons from 1974 to 1976 on the NBC network. Synopsis ''Movin' On'' stars Claude Akins as old-time independent "big-rig" truck driver Sonny Pruitt, and Frank Converse as his college-educated co-driver Will Chandler. The theme song, " Movin' On", was written and performed by Merle Haggard, and was a No. 1 single on the ''Billboard'' Hot Country Singles chart in July 1975. The series was likened to '' Route 66'' and ''Cannonball'', following a similar format. Episodes usually centered on Sonny and Will, always traveling, becoming involved in the lives of people they met (or met again) in the various places they found themselves. The pilot episode was a made-for-television movie originally titled ''In Tandem'' — a reference to the tandem axles on the tractor and trailer, as well as that they drove as a team, or "in tandem". The movie begins with Will sliding out of control in a truck he was drivi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Connection (1973 Film)
''The Connection'' is an ABC Movie of the Week that was broadcast on February 27, 1973, starring Charles Durning as an out-of-work newspaper reporter who becomes involved with jewel thieves. The film was produced by Philip D'Antoni as a pilot for a potential television series starring Durning. Plot Frank Devlin is a popular newspaper columnist who is now out of work and in debt, and his friend and accountant Everett Hutchneker is trying to work through the mess of his finances. A young man he knows through his regular poker game, Sy McGruder, approaches him through his wife, June. Sy and others had robbed jewels from a Manhattan hotel safe, and now wants to sell them to the insurance company. Sy wants Devlin to serve as intermediary with the insurance company for a share of the proceeds. After initial reluctance, Devlin agrees. He meets with representatives of the insurance company, and they meet with Sy. Devlin surreptitiously tapes that meeting. Sy's accomplices become aware of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cruising (novel)
''Cruising'' is a novel written by ''New York Times'' reporter Gerald Walker and published in 1970. The novel is about an undercover policeman looking for a homosexual serial killer in the gay New York City of 1970. The murder victims were closeted or relatively open (as open as they could be at the time) men who came across the killer while cruising for sex. While undercover, the policeman develops feelings for his gay neighbor. The novel is notable for its discussion of gay themes at a time when that was not commonplace. Joseph Hansen was one other writer of the 1970s to incorporate queerness into his crime fiction with his Brandstetter detective series. The first emergence of gay crime fiction was owed to George Baxt, who wrote about the gay detective Pharaoh Love. Hansen, Nava, Zubro and Nathan Aldyne (a pseudonym for Michael Mcdowell and Dennis Schuetz) were authors of crime fiction who also incorporated gay themes into their writing in the 1970s and 1980s, around th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerald Walker (writer)
Gerald Robert Walker (April 16, 1928 – February 19, 2004) was an American magazine editor for ''The New York Times Magazine'' who was known for writing the 1970 novel '' Cruising'', which was adapted into the controversial 1980 film of the same name directed by William Friedkin and starring Al Pacino Alfredo James Pacino ( ; ; born April 25, 1940) is an American actor. Known for his intense performances on stage and screen, Pacino is widely regarded as one of the greatest actors of all time. His career spans more than five decades, duri .... Biography Walker was born on April 16, 1928.page 367 He graduated from New York University and earned a Master of Fine Arts in theatre at Columbia University. Walker worked as an articles editor for ''The New York Times Magazine'' from 1963 to 1990. Walker also compiled an annual anthology titled ''Best Magazine Articles'' from 1965 to 1967. At the time of his death, Walker was completing a mystery novel titled ''Witnesses''. Wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Connection II
''French Connection II'' is a 1975 American neo-noir action thriller film starring Gene Hackman and directed by John Frankenheimer. It is a sequel to the 1971 film '' The French Connection'', and continues the story of the central character, Detective Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle, who travels to Marseille in order to track down French drug-dealer Alain Charnier, played by Fernando Rey, who escaped at the end of the first film. Hackman and Rey are the only returning cast members. Plot Picking up four years after the original left off, New York City police officer Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle (Gene Hackman) is still searching for elusive drug kingpin Alain Charnier ( Fernando Rey). Orders from his superiors send Doyle to Marseille to track down the criminal mastermind and bust his drug ring. Once in France, Doyle is met by English-speaking Inspector Henri Barthélémy ( Bernard Fresson), who resents his rude and nasty crimefighting demeanor. Doyle then begins to find himself as a fish out of wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
