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The Fly (film Series)
The film series of ''The Fly'' is a sequence of science fiction-horror films, consisting of an original series started in 1958 and a remake series made in the 1980s. The first film of the series, '' The Fly'', was produced and distributed by 20th Century Fox in 1958 as a colour film. The two following black and white sequels, ''Return of the Fly'' and ''Curse of the Fly'', both produced by Associated Producers, were released in 1959 and 1965 respectively. The original film was remade in 1986, '' The Fly'' directed by David Cronenberg. The remake film received the Academy Award for Best Makeup in 1987. Its sequel, ''The Fly II'', was released in 1989. All five films within the series were distributed by 20th Century Fox. Films Original series ''The Fly'' (1958) The screenplay of the first film is based on a short story of the same name written by George Langelaan in 1957, presenting a scientist, André Delambre (David Hedison), who accidentally mixes his molecules with a fly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Fly (Langelaan)
"The Fly" is a science fiction horror short story by French-British writer George Langelaan. It was published in the June 1957 issue of ''Playboy'' magazine. It appeared in ''SF The Year's Greatest Science-Fiction and Fantasy'', Dell First Edition B119, 1958. It was first filmed in 1958, and then again in 1986. An opera of the same name by Howard Shore premiered at the Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris, in 2008. The short story "The Fly" is included in Langelaan's short story collection ''Out of Time'' (1964). Plot The story begins late at night when François Delambre is awakened by the telephone. On the other end of the line is his sister-in-law Hélène who tells him that she has just killed his brother and that he should call the police. He does and they find the mangled remains of his brother in the family factory, his head and arm crushed under a hydraulic machine press. Helène seems surprisingly calm throughout the investigation, willing to answer all questions except on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Edward Pogue
Charles Edward Pogue Jr. (born January 18, 1950) is an American screenwriter, playwright and stage actor. He is best known for writing the screenplays of ''The Hound of the Baskervilles'' (1983), ''Psycho III'' (1986), '' The Fly'' (1986) and ''Dragonheart'' (1996). Early life Pogue was born on January 18, 1950 in Cincinnati, Ohio, the son of Charles Edward Pogue Sr. (1921–1994) and Ruth Elizabeth Hick (1921–2010). He grew up in Fort Thomas, Kentucky and graduated from Highlands High School in 1968. He earned a degree in theater arts from the University of Kentucky in 1972 where he was active in theatre productions. Career Pogue began writing plays and screenplays after moving to Los Angeles, California. He has worked in the science fiction, fantasy, horror, and thriller genres, and he has also scripted several Sherlock Holmes adaptations: ''The Hound of the Baskervilles'', ''The Sign of Four'', and ''Hands of a Murderer''. His most well-known work to date is probably the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seth Brundle (The Fly)
Dr. Seth Brundle, also known as Brundlefly, is a fictional character and the anti-villain protagonist turned main antagonist in David Cronenberg's 1986 remake of '' The Fly''. He is played by Jeff Goldblum. Brundle was the third of Goldblum's "nerdy scientist" roles (a character type he played previously in ''The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension'' and ''Invasion of the Body Snatchers'', and later played in '' The Race for the Double Helix'', ''Jurassic Park'', ''Independence Day'', '' The Lost World: Jurassic Park'' and ''Jurassic World Dominion''), and is one of his most famous roles to date. The character of Brundle was played by Daniel Okulitch in Howard Shore's 2008 opera '' The Fly'' in its premiere at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris. Fictional biography Invention of the telepods Seth Brundle mastered molecular physics at the age of 20, and devoted his life to developing a teleportation system, due to his severe motion sickness, to allow himsel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Donlevy
Waldo Brian Donlevy (February 9, 1901 – April 6, 1972) was an American actor, noted for playing dangerous tough guys from the 1930s to the 1960s. He usually appeared in supporting roles. Among his best-known films are ''Beau Geste'' (1939), ''The Great McGinty'' (1940) and ''Wake Island'' (1942). For his role as the sadistic Sergeant Markoff in ''Beau Geste'', he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He starred as U.S. special agent Steve Mitchell in the radio/TV series ''Dangerous Assignment''. His obituary in ''The Times'' newspaper in the United Kingdom said, "Any consideration of the American 'film noir' of the 1940s would be incomplete without him". Early life Donlevy was born in 1901 in Cleveland, Ohio, to Irish parents Rebecca (née Parks) and Thomas Donlevy, originally from Portadown, County Armagh. Sometime between 1910 and 1912, the family moved to Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin, where Donlevy's father was a supervisor at the Brickner Wool ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carole Gray
Carole Gray (born 1938) Linked 2017-07-11 is a Southern Rhodesia-born former dancer and film actress known for her roles throughout Britain in 1960s West End musicals. Born in , , she arrived in England in 1956, and began her 12-year acting career by appearing in the television series,'' The Avengers.'' She made her first notable film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Baker (British Actor)
George Morris Baker, MBE (1 April 19317 October 2011) was an English actor and writer. He was best known for portraying Tiberius in ''I, Claudius'', and Inspector Wexford in ''The Ruth Rendell Mysteries''. Early life Baker was born in Varna, Bulgaria. His father was an English businessman and honorary vice consul and his mother an Irish Red Cross nurse who moved to Bulgaria to help fight cholera. He attended Lancing College, Sussex; he then appeared as an actor in repertory theatre and at the Old Vic. Career Early film stardom Baker's first film was '' The Intruder'' (1953). He made his name in '' The Dam Busters'' (1955), and his first starring role was in ''The Ship That Died of Shame'' (1955) with Richard Attenborough. Baker also starred as a leading man in ''The Woman for Joe'' (1955) opposite Diane Cilento; '' The Feminine Touch'' (1956), playing a handsome doctor in a nurse film; ''A Hill in Korea'' (1956), playing a heroic soldier, with Robert Shaw and Stanley Baker ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Frankham
David Frankham (born 16 February 1926) is a British retired actor. After serving in India and British Malaya, Malaya in the Second World War, Frankham worked first as a news reader, and then a writer, interviewer and producer for the BBC from 1948 to 1955. In 1955, Frankham moved to Hollywood, Los Angeles, Hollywood to pursue a career as an actor. He soon found work, appearing on five episodes of the live television programme ''Matinee Theatre''. He worked steadily in television, as well as appearing in films such as ''Return of the Fly'' (1959), ''Ten Who Dared'' (1960), ''Master of the World (1961 film), Master of the World'' (1961), ''Tales of Terror'' (1962), ''The Spiral Road'' (1962), ''King Rat (film), King Rat'' (1965), and ''The Great Santini'' (1979). Frankham provided the voice of Sergeant Tibbs the cat in Walt Disney's ''One Hundred and One Dalmatians'' (1961). He appeared in guest roles on American television from the late 1950s to the 1980s. His career peaked in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brett Halsey
Brett Halsey (born Charles Oliver Hand, June 20, 1933) is an American film actor, sometimes credited as Montgomery Ford. He appeared in B pictures and in European-made feature films. He originated the role of John Abbott on the soap opera ''The Young and the Restless'' (from May 1980 to March 1981). Halsey is a great-nephew of the United States Navy Admiral William F. Halsey Jr., also known as Bull Halsey, commander of the Pacific Allied naval forces during World War II. Universal Pictures selected Brett Halsey's acting name from the admiral. Career Interested in acting since he was a child, young Brett was employed as a page at CBS Television studios, where he met Jack Benny and Benny's wife, Mary Livingstone, who presented him to William Goetz, the head of Universal Pictures, who placed him in a school with other aspiring actors for the studio. Halsey appeared as Swift Otter, a Cheyenne Indian in the 1956 episodes "The Spirit of Hidden Valley" and "The Gentle Warrior" of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Hedison
Albert David Hedison Jr. (May 20, 1927 – July 18, 2019) was an American film, television, and stage actor. He was billed as Al Hedison in his early film work until 1959 when he was cast in the role of Victor Sebastian in the short-lived espionage television series '' Five Fingers.'' NBC insisted that he change his name and he proposed his middle name; he was billed as David Hedison from then on. He was known for his roles as the titular character in '' The Fly'' (1958), Captain Lee Crane in the television science fiction drama ''Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea'' (1964–1968), and CIA agent Felix Leiter in two James Bond films, '' Live and Let Die'' (1973) and ''Licence to Kill'' (1989). Biography Early life He was born in Providence, Rhode Island to Albert David Hedison (Heditsian) Sr. and Rose Boghosian; both of whom were Armenian. Hedison decided he wanted to be an actor after he saw Tyrone Power in the film '' Blood and Sand''. He began his acting career with the Sock and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steven-Charles Jaffe
Steven-Charles Jaffe (born 1951) is an American film producer, director, and screenwriter known for his work on such films as ''Motel Hell'' (1980), ''Near Dark'' (1987), '' Strange Days'' (1995)'','' and the Best Picture-nominated romantic fantasy film ''Ghost''. He is a long-time friend and collaborator of directors Nicholas Meyer and Kathryn Bigelow, and has worked with them on films like '' Time After Time'' (1979), '' Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country'' (1991), and '' K-19: The Widowmaker'' (2002). He is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Life and career Jaffe was born and raised in New York state, the son of Herb Jaffe, a successful literary agent and whose clients included Mario Puzo, Paddy Chayefsky, Irwin Shaw, and Margaret Bourke-White. At an early age, he wanted to be a novelist, and later an architect. His father entered the film industry while Jaffe was in high school, and became an executive at United Artists after selling his agen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Darabont
Frank Árpád Darabont (born Ferenc Árpád Darabont, January 28, 1959) is an American film director, screenwriter and producer. He has been nominated for three Academy Awards and a Golden Globe Award. In his early career, he was primarily a screenwriter for such horror films as ''A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors'' (1987), ''The Blob (1988 film), The Blob'' (1988) and ''The Fly II'' (1989). As a director, he is known for his film adaptations of Stephen King novellas and novels, such as ''The Shawshank Redemption'' (1994), ''The Green Mile (film), The Green Mile'' (1999), and ''The Mist (film), The Mist'' (2007). Darabont also developed and executive-produced the The Walking Dead (season 1), first season and first half of the The Walking Dead (season 2), second season of the AMC (TV channel), AMC horror series ''The Walking Dead (TV series), The Walking Dead'' (2010–2011). Early life Darabont was born in a refugee camp in 1959 in Montbéliard, France. His parents ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ken And Jim Wheat
Ken Wheat (born 1950) and Jim Wheat (born 1952) are an American screenwriting, producing, and directing duo. Mainly known for their horror films, the brothers co-wrote the slasher film '' The Silent Scream'' (1979), as well as '' A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master'' (1988) and ''The Fly II'' (1989). In 1989, they wrote, directed, and produced the anthology horror film '' After Midnight''. They later devised the story and co-wrote the screenplay of the science fiction horror film '' Pitch Black'' (2000). Filmography Also credited as "Characters created" in ''The Chronicles of Riddick'' franchise Franchise may refer to: Business and law * Franchising, a business method that involves licensing of trademarks and methods of doing business to franchisees * Franchise, a privilege to operate a type of business such as a cable television p ... (second and third films, shorts and video games). References External links * American male screenwriters Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
