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Thom Noble
Thom Noble is a British film editor who won an Academy Award and an ACE Eddie Award for the film ''Witness'' (1985). He was nominated for the Academy Award and the BAFTA Award for Best Editing for the film ''Thelma & Louise'' (1991). In 2018, he was on jury for the Mumbai International Film Festival. Selected filmography Film directors indicated in parenthesis. * ''Lancelot and Guinevere'' (Wilde – 1963; first assistant editor - uncredited) * ''Girl in the Headlines'' ( Truman – 1963; first assistant editor - uncredited) * '' The Third Secret'' ( Crichton – 1964; assistant editor - uncredited) * ''Rattle of a Simple Man'' (Box – 1964; assistant editor - uncredited) * ''The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders'' (Young – 1965; assistant editor) * ''Arabesque'' ( Donen – 1966; assistant editor - uncredited) * ''Fahrenheit 451'' ( Truffaut – 1966) * ''The Violent Enemy'' (Sharp – 1967) * ''The Man Outside'' (Gallu – 1967) * ''Amsterdam Affair'' ( O'Hara – 1968; ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Academy Award For Best Film Editing
The Academy Award for Best Film Editing is one of the annual awards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). Nominations for this award are closely correlated with the Academy Award for Best Picture. For 33 consecutive years, 1981 to 2013, every Best Picture winner had also been nominated for the Film Editing Oscar, and about two thirds of the Best Picture winners have also won for Film Editing. In 1980, ''Ordinary People'' won as Best Picture, but its editor Jeff Kanew was not nominated for Best Editing. Only the principal, "Above-the-line (filmmaking), above the line" editor(s) as listed in the film's credits are named on the award; additional editors, supervising editors, etc. are not currently eligible. The nominations for this Academy Award are determined by a ballot of the voting members of the Editing Branch of the Academy; there were 220 members of the Editing Branch in 2012. The members may vote for up to five of the eligible films in the order of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanley Donen
Stanley Donen ( ; April 13, 1924 – February 21, 2019) was an American film director and choreographer whose most celebrated works are '' On the Town,'' (1949) and ''Singin' in the Rain'' (1952), both of which he co-directed with Gene Kelly. His other films include ''Royal Wedding'' (1951), ''Seven Brides for Seven Brothers'' (1954), ''It's Always Fair Weather'' (1955), ''Funny Face'' (1957), '' Indiscreet'' (1958), and ''Charade'' (1963). Donen began his career in the chorus line on Broadway for director George Abbott, where he befriended Kelly. From 1943, he worked in Hollywood as a choreographer before collaborating with Kelly. After ''On the Town'', Donen worked as a contract director for MGM under producer Arthur Freed producing critically well-received box-office hits. Donen and Kelly co-directed the musical ''Singin' in the Rain'', released in April 1952, which has appeared on lists of the best films ever made. Donen's relationship with Kelly deteriorated during thei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian MacNaughton
Edward Ian MacNaughton (30 December 1925 – 10 December 2002) was a Scottish actor-turned-television producer and director, best known for his work with the ''Monty Python'' team. MacNaughton was director and producer for all but four of the forty five episodes of ''Monty Python's Flying Circus'' from 1969 to 1974, director of the group's first feature film ''And Now for Something Completely Different'' in 1971 and director of their two German episodes, ''Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus'' in 1971 and 1972. In 1973, the production team shared the BAFTA Award for Best Light Entertainment Programme for ''Monty Python's Flying Circus''. Early life Ian MacNaughton was born in Glasgow and educated at Strathallan School in Perthshire. His elder brother was killed in World War II. MacNaughton spent a year in medical school before abandoning his plans to become a doctor and joining the Royal Marines for a year in 1945. While serving with the Royal Marines in an officers' training s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
And Now For Something Completely Different
''And Now for Something Completely Different'' is a 1971 British sketch comedy film based on the television comedy series ''Monty Python's Flying Circus'' featuring sketches from the show's first two series. The title was taken from a catchphrase used in the television show. The film, released on 28 September 1971 in the United Kingdom and 22 August 1972 in the United States, consists of 90 minutes of sketches and animation sequences seen in the first two series of the television show. All of the sketches were recreated for the film without an audience, and were intended for an American audience which had not yet seen the series. The announcer (John Cleese) appears briefly between some sketches to deliver the line "and now for something completely different", in situations such as being roasted on a spit and lying on top of a desk in a small pink bikini, as well as the Colonel (Graham Chapman) interrupting them and deeming them "too silly". Background ''And Now for Something Comp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ted Kotcheff
William Theodore Kotcheff (born April 7, 1931) is a Bulgarian-Canadian film and television director, writer and producer, known primarily for his work on British and American television productions such as ''Armchair Theatre'' and '' Law & Order: Special Victims Unit''. He directed numerous successful films including the Australian ''Wake in Fright'' (1971), action films such as the original ''Rambo'' movie '' First Blood'' (1982) and '' Uncommon Valor'' (1983), and comedies like '' Fun with Dick and Jane'' (1977), ''North Dallas Forty'' (1979), and ''Weekend at Bernie's'' (1989). He is sometimes credited as William T. Kotcheff, and resides in Beverly Hills, California. Due to his ancestry, Kotcheff has Bulgarian citizenship. Early life Kotcheff's name was registered in official documents as ''William Theodore Kotcheff'' in Toronto, where he was born into a family of Bulgarian immigrants, who changed their last name from ''Tsochev'' ( bg, link=no, Цочев) to ''Kotcheff'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wake In Fright
''Wake in Fright'' (initially released as ''Outback'' outside Australia) is a 1971 psychological thriller film directed by Ted Kotcheff, written by Evan Jones, and starring Gary Bond, Donald Pleasence, Chips Rafferty, Sylvia Kay and Jack Thompson (actor), Jack Thompson. Based on Kenneth Cook's Wake in Fright (novel), 1961 novel of the same name, it follows a young schoolteacher who descends into personal moral degradation after finding himself stranded in a brutal, menacing town in outback Australia. Filmed on-location in Broken Hill and Sydney, ''Wake in Fright'' was an international co-production between Australia, Britain, and the United States. Alongside ''Walkabout (film), Walkabout'', it was one of two Australian films to be nominated for the Palme d'Or, Grand Prix du Festival at the 1971 Cannes Film Festival, 24th Cannes Film Festival. Despite attracting positive reviews at the time, the film was a Box office bomb, commercial failure in Australia, in part due to scant mar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Krish
John Jeffrey Krish (4 December 1923 – 7 May 2016) was a British film director and screenwriter. He directed and filmed much archive footage and in particular ''Our School'' in 1962, showing the changing ways of Britain's school and the last few years of the 11-plus exam. Selected filmography * General Election' (1945) - editor * ''The Elephant Will Never Forget'' short (1953) * ''Companions in Crime'' (1954) * ''Captured'' (1959) * ''Return To Life'' short (1960) - writer, director and narrator * '' They Took Us to the Sea'' (1961) - writer and director * ''Our School'' (1962) - writer and director * ''The Wild Affair'' (1963) - writer and director * '' Unearthly Stranger'' (1963) * ''I Think They Call Him John'' (1964) - writer and director * '' Decline and Fall... of a Birdwatcher'' (1968) * ''The Man Who Had Power Over Women'' (1970) * ''Drive Carefully, Darling'' short (1975) - director and co-writer * ''The Finishing Line'' short (1977) - director and co-writer * ''Je ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Man Who Had Power Over Women
''The Man Who Had Power Over Women'' is a 1970 British comedy film directed by John Krish and starring Rod Taylor, Carol White and James Booth. The screenplay concerns a successful Australian talent agent who grows disenchanted with his life, which includes a failing marriage and having to represent a troublesome rock group. Further complicating things, he begins an affair with his best friend's wife. Production The original director was Silvio Narizzano who left the project prior to shooting. The screenwriters were Chris Bryant and Allan Scott, who were so upset with subsequent changes made they requested their names be taken off the film.Stephen Vagg, ''Rod Taylor: An Aussie in Hollywood'', Bear Manor Media, 2010, p. 149, Cast * Rod Taylor - Peter Reaney * Carol White - Jody Pringle * James Booth - Val Pringle * Penelope Horner - Angela Reaney * Charles Korvin - Alfred Felix * Alexandra Stewart - Frances * Keith Barron - Jake Braid * Clive Francis - Barry Black * Marie-Fra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerry O'Hara
Gerald O'Hara (born October 1924, Boston, Lincolnshire) is an English film and television director. O'Hara was an assistant director on Laurence Olivier's film, ''Richard III''; the Carol Reed film, ''Our Man in Havana'' and the Academy Award-winning '' Tom Jones''. O'Hara's directorial debut was the 1963 cautionary tale ''That Kind of Girl'', about the dangers of contracting venereal disease. During the 1960s, he directed episodes of '' The Avengers'' and a film based on a Van Der Valk novel by Nicolas Freeling, ''Amsterdam Affair''. O'Hara directed the highly controversial and rarely seen film ''The Brute''. O'Hara directed and wrote the screenplay for the 1979 film, '' The Bitch'', an adaptation of the Jackie Collins novel. Later television credits include directing and writing episodes of '' The Professionals'', script editor for the ITV series ''C.A.T.S. Eyes'' and directing an episode of ''Press Gang''. Selected filmography * ''That Kind of Girl'' (1963) * ''Game for T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amsterdam Affair
''Amsterdam Affair'' is a 1968 British crime film directed by Gerry O'Hara and starring Wolfgang Kieling, William Marlowe, Catherine Schell and Pamela Ann Davy. The plot is about Dutch policeman Van Der Valk, who investigates a novelist who is accused of murdering his mistress. It was based on the novel ''Love in Amsterdam'' by Nicolas Freeling. Cast * Wolfgang Kieling as Van Der Valk * William Marlowe as Martin Ray * Catherine Schell as Sophie Ray * Pamela Ann Davy as Elsa de Charmoy * J.A.B. Dubin-Behrmann as Eric * Guy Deghy Guy Deghy (born Gedeon Aladar Istvan Deghy; 11 October 1912 – 25 February 1992), was a Hungarian-born actor who appeared largely in British films and television, as in the 5th episode of the first season of '' The Saint'' depicting Inspector O ... as Will Munch * Lo van Hensbergen as Magistrate References External links * 1968 films 1960s English-language films Films directed by Gerry O'Hara Films scored by John Scott (composer) British c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Man Outside (1967 Film)
''The Man Outside'' is a 1967 British spy thriller film directed by Samuel Gallu and starring Van Heflin, Heidelinde Weis and Pinkas Braun. It was first exhibited in Austria and West Germany in 1967, and then in Britain the following year. The story is based on the 1959 novel ''Double Agent'' by Gene Stackelberg.''Monthly Film Bulletin'' review; 1968, page 92 The film's sets were designed by the art director Peter Mullins. Synopsis A disgraced former CIA agent attempts to bring a Russian defector safely to his former bosses. Cast * Van Heflin as Bill MacLean * Heidelinde Weis as Kay Sebastian * Pinkas Braun as Rafe Machek * Peter Vaughan as Nikolai Volkov * Charles Gray as Charles Griddon * Paul Maxwell as Judson Murphy * Ronnie Barker as George Venaxas * Linda Marlowe as Dorothy * Gary Cockrell as Brune Parry * Larry Cross as Austen * Bill Nagy as Morehouse * Carole Ann Ford Carole Ann Lillian Ford ( Higgins; born 16 June 1940) is a British actress b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Sharp
Donald Herman Sharp (19 April 192114 December 2011) was an Australian film director. His best known films were made for Hammer Film Productions, Hammer in the 1960s, and included ''The Kiss of the Vampire'' (1963) and ''Rasputin, the Mad Monk'' (1966). In 1965 he directed ''The Face of Fu Manchu'', based on the character created by Sax Rohmer, and starring Christopher Lee. Sharp also directed the sequel ''The Brides of Fu Manchu'' (1966). In the 1980s he was also responsible for several hugely popular miniseries adapted from the novels of Barbara Taylor Bradford. Early career Early life Sharp was born in Hobart, Tasmania, in 1921, according to official military records and his own claims, even though reference sources cite 1922 as his year of birth. He was the second of four children. He attended St Virgil's College and began appearing regularly in theatre productions at the Playhouse Theatre in Hobart, where he trained under a young Stanley Burbury. He later said this was pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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