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The Sword Of Villon
"The Sword of Villon" is a 1956 American TV episode of the ''Screen Directors Playhouse'' series. Errol Flynn played Francois Villon. Plot Francois Villon learns of a plot to assassinate the king, and gathers his followers to stop the plot and save the king's life. Cast *Errol Flynn as Francois Villon *Hillary Brooke as Countess *Pamela Duncan (actress), Pamela Duncan as Velvet *Murvyn Vye as Bagot *Lois Collier as Lady Elaine *Mark Dana as Count *Richard Avonde as 1st. Bully *Sol Gorss as 2nd. Bully *Nesdon Booth as Tavernkeeper Production The show was a collaboration between the Screen Directors Guild, the Hal Roach Studios and the J Walter Thompson advertising agency. In January 1956 the ''Screen Directors Playhouse'' announced they had signed Errol Flynn to play Francois Villon and it would be directed by Don Weis. Flynn made it just prior to his own show ''The Errol Flynn Theatre''. Reception ''Filmink'' magazine later wrote the episode was "more of interest as a curiosity ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Screen Directors Playhouse
''Screen Directors Playhouse'' (sometimes written as ''Screen Directors' Playhouse'') is an American radio and television anthology series which brought leading Hollywood actors to the NBC microphones beginning in 1949. The radio program broadcast adaptations of films, with original directors of the films sometimes involved in the productions, although their participation was usually limited to introducing the radio adaptations and taking a brief "curtain call" with the cast and host at the end of the program. During the 1955–56 season, the series was seen on television, focusing on original teleplays and several adaptations of famous short stories (such as Robert Louis Stevenson's "Markheim"). Radio The radio version ran for 122 episodes and aired on NBC from January 9, 1949, to September 28, 1951, under several different titles: ''NBC Theater'', ''Screen Directors Guild Assignment'', ''Screen Directors Assignment'' and, as of July 1, 1949, ''Screen Directors Playhouse''. Act ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Waggner
George Waggner (September 7, 1894 – December 11, 1984) was an American actor, director, producer and writer. He is best known for producing and directing the 1941 film '' The Wolf Man''. For some unknown reason, Waggner sometimes configured his name in mostly lowercase letters but with his surname's two Gs capitalized ("waGGner"), including in the credits of some of the productions he directed. Career Born in New York City, he trained as a chemist and served in World War I before coming to Hollywood to pursue a career as an actor. He made his film debut as an actor portraying Yousayef in '' The Sheik'' (1921). He later acted in Western films. The first film he directed was ''Western Trails'' (1938). During his career as a film director, he worked with John Wayne (''The Fighting Kentuckian''), Lon Chaney Jr. (''Man Made Monster'' and his most famous film, ''The Wolf Man''), Brian Donlevy and Broderick Crawford (''South of Tahiti''), Randolph Scott ('' Gunfighters'') and Boris Ka ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Errol Flynn
Errol Leslie Thomson Flynn (20 June 1909 – 14 October 1959) was an Australian-American actor who achieved worldwide fame during the Golden Age of Hollywood. He was known for his romantic swashbuckler roles, frequent partnerships with Olivia de Havilland, and reputation for his womanising and hedonistic personal life. His most notable roles include the eponymous hero in ''The Adventures of Robin Hood'' (1938), which was later named by the American Film Institute as the 18th greatest hero in American film history, the lead role in ''Captain Blood'' (1935), Major Geoffrey Vickers in ''The Charge of the Light Brigade'' (1936), and the hero in a number of Westerns such as ''Dodge City'' (1939), ''Santa Fe Trail'' (1940), and ''San Antonio'' (1945). Early life Errol Leslie Thomson Flynn was born on 20 June 1909 in Battery Point, Tasmania. His father, Theodore Thomson Flynn, was a lecturer (1909) and later professor (1911) of biology at the University of Tasmania. His mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hillary Brooke
Hillary Brooke (born Beatrice Sofia Mathilda Peterson; September 8, 1914 – May 25, 1999) was an American film actress. Career A 5′6″ blonde from the Astoria neighborhood of New York City's borough of Queens, Brooke, who was of Swedish ancestry, started work as a model while attending Columbia University. She spent a year in the United Kingdom, mastering an RP accent that she used in several of her films. She frequently played English women in Hollywood films, and also had such a role in her only British-made film, '' The House Across the Lake''. Brooke began her acting career in movies, co-starring in two Sherlock Holmes films with Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, ''Sherlock Holmes Faces Death'' (1943) and ''The Woman in Green'' (1945). She was a regular on several television series of the early 1950s, playing Roberta Townsend, the glamorous love interest of Margie's father Vern Albright on the 1952–1955 TV series ''My Little Margie''. On ''The Abbott and Costello S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pamela Duncan (actress)
Pamela Duncan (December 28, 1924 – November 11, 2005) was an American B-movie actress who starred in the 1957 Roger Corman cult science fiction film ''Attack of the Crab Monsters'' and later appeared in the 2000 Academy Award-nominated documentary, '' Curtain Call'', that focused on the lives and careers of the residents of the Lillian Booth Actors Home in Englewood, New Jersey. Biography A native of Brooklyn, New York, Duncan won several local beauty pageants as a teenager before moving to Southern California to get into film acting. She attended Cornell University and Hunter College. Duncan worked three years in summer stock theatre. Her first role came when she appeared in the 1951 film ''Whistling Hills''. Also in the 1950s, she played the part of Mike Hammer's secretary Velda in the mystery drama '' My Gun Is Quick''. On television, Duncan appeared on a number of television programs. In 1958 she appeared on ''Perry Mason'' as the murder victim and title character in "The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murvyn Vye
Marvin Wesley Vye Jr. (July 15, 1913 – August 17, 1976) was an American character actor. He is best known for portraying Prince Ken Arok in the comedy film ''Road to Bali''. Early years Vye was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, and educated at Yale University. Career Vye's first film was ''Golden Earrings'' (1947). He appeared in numerous films in the 1940s and 1950s, often in exotic roles. He portrayed a villainous Merlin the Magician in the 1949 Bing Crosby musical comedy, ''A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court'', and the scheming Prince Arok in 1952's ''Road to Bali'', a comedy co-starring Crosby and Bob Hope. On Broadway, Vye debuted in ''Hamlet'' (1936). He also created the role of Jigger Cragin in the original production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's ''Carousel''. Vye was also set to appear as the Kralaholme in the original production of ''The King and I'', but as rehearsals went on he lost his only two musical numbers and left the show. In 1958 Vye appear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lois Collier
Lois Collier (born Madelyn Earle Jones; March 21, 1919 – October 27, 1999) was an American actress born in Salley, South Carolina. She was sometimes credited as Lois Collyer. Early years Collier's father was Ernest Jones, a pharmacist, of Salley, South Carolina. Chaperoned by her grandmother, she visited Hollywood when she was 15, later describing herself as "movie-struck" at the time. She attended Limestone College in Gaffney, South Carolina. Film Collier's acting career started at age 19 in 1938, when she had a small but credited role in ''A Desperate Adventure'', starring Ramon Novarro and Marian Marsh. From 1940 through 1949, her career would be active and somewhat successful, with her playing mostly heroine roles in B-movies. Her best known film is probably ''A Night in Casablanca'' (1946) starring the Marx Brothers. During the 1940s, she often starred opposite western stars Bob Steele, Tom Tyler, and Dennis Moore. In 1950, she starred in the sci-fi serial ''The Flyi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nesdon Booth
Nesdon Foye Booth (September 1, 1918 – March 25, 1964) was an American film and television actor. He appeared in over 100 films and television programs, and was known for his recurring role as Frank the bartender in the American western television series ''Cimarron City''. Booth was born in Baker County, Oregon. He began his career in Portland, Oregon, acting on old-time radio programs. He guest-starred in numerous television programs including ''Gunsmoke'', ''Bonanza'', ''The Twilight Zone'', ''Sky King'', '' Colt .45'', ''Tales of Wells Fargo'', ''77 Sunset Strip'', ''The Lawless Years'', '' Lawman'', ''Father Knows Best'', ''The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp'', ''Man with a Camera'', ''Peter Gunn'' and ''Perry Mason''. Booth died in March 1964 of a heart attack in Hollywood, California. He was buried in Olive Lawn Memorial Park. Partial filmography * ''City Across the River'' (1949) - Boy (uncredited) * ''The Girl in White'' (1952) - Sailor (uncredited) * ''Sally and Sai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Weis
Don Weis (May 13, 1922 – July 26, 2000) was an American film and television director. Biography Weis was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Emma (née Wiener; 1889–1971) and Meyer Weis (1886-1942). He graduated from the University of Southern California where he studied film. During World War II, Weis served in the Air Force as a film technician. After the war, he began working at MGM directing such films as ''Bannerline'' (1951), ''Just This Once'' (1952), ''You for Me'' (1952) and '' The Affairs of Dobie Gillis'' (1953). Weis began directing for television in 1954 and worked on such series as '' M*A*S*H'', '' Ironside'', '' It Takes a Thief'', '' Twilight Zone'', '' Alfred Hitchcock Presents'' (1955), ''The Andy Griffith Show'', ''Happy Days'', '' Starsky and Hutch'', ''CHiPs'', ''The Courtship of Eddie's Father'', ''Hawaii Five-O'', '' The Andros Targets'', and ''The San Pedro Beach Bums'', among others. Weis won two Directors Guild of America Awards for television directi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Errol Flynn Theatre
''The Errol Flynn Theatre'' is an anthology series presented by Errol Flynn, who would also play the lead in every fourth show. His wife Patrice Wymore and son Sean also made appearances. Production Filming started 1 March 1956 and was done by Inter Film TV. It was shot in England at Bray Studios but was made for the American market. In May 1956 Flynn said all money from the show went to pay for his debts. Episodes Reception ''Filmink'' magazine later wrote that watching the show "you get the sense of what some of his lynn'swork for Northampton Rep must have been like – playing all sorts of different roles, sometimes pulling it off, other times not so much." Archive Status All 26 episodes exist and are held at ITV. References External links''The Errol Flynn Theatre''at IMDb''The Errol Flynn Theatre''at Classic TV Archive'Strange Auction' from ''Errol Flynn Theatre''at Internet Archive The Internet Archive is an American digital library with the stated mission of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IMDb
IMDb (an abbreviation of Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television series, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and personal biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan and critical reviews. IMDb began as a fan-operated movie database on the Usenet group "rec.arts.movies" in 1990, and moved to the Web in 1993. It is now owned and operated by IMDb.com, Inc., a subsidiary of Amazon. the database contained some million titles (including television episodes) and million person records. Additionally, the site had 83 million registered users. The site's message boards were disabled in February 2017. Features The title and talent ''pages'' of IMDb are accessible to all users, but only registered and logged-in users can submit new material and suggest edits to existing entries. Most of the site's data has been provided by these volunteers. Registered users with a prov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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