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Stunningly comely and slinky brunette Lina Romay rates highly as one of the boldest, most sensuous, and enticing actresses to have appeared with tremendous frequency in a large volume of European horror and exploitation features made from the early 1970s to the early 21st century.
Romay was born Rosa Maria Almirall on June 25, 1954, in Barcelona, Cataluna, Spain. Her cinematic pseudonym was taken from Lina Romay, a singer/actress in mambo king Xavier Cugat's band in the 1940s. Following graduation from high school, Romay studied the arts, married actor/photographer Raymond Hardy (they later divorced), and began acting in stage productions. Lina first met infamous and prolific maverick Spanish independent filmmaker Jesús Franco in the early 1970s. Romay and Franco eventually became a couple. Lina for a long time was Franco's common law wife until they officially wed on April 23, 2008.
Lina made her film debut as a gypsy girl in The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein (1973). She had small parts in a few other Franco films before playing more substantial lead and co-starring roles (she acted in over 100 Franco films). Despite her lack of formal training, Lina nonetheless naturally projected an extremely brazen, earthy, and uninhibited screen presence that was both alluring and captivating in equal measure. In fact, her open, unabashed, and downright aggressive sexuality even led to her willing and enthusiastic participation in explicit scenes in hardcore porno fare. Lina's most memorable roles include the voracious Countess Irina Karlstein in Female Vampire (1973), brutalized innocent Maria in the sensationally sleazy Barbed Wire Dolls (1976), vicious top con Juana in the similarly scuzzy Ilsa, the Wicked Warden (1977), especially inspired in a dual part in Die Marquise von Sade (1976) and bawdy prostitute Marika in the gloomy Jack the Ripper (1976).
Moreover, Romay posed for nude pictorials in such men's magazines as "Cinema X" and "Sex Stars System." In addition to acting, Lina also worked on a handful of films as a writer, director, producer, and assistant editor. In real life Lina was the total radical opposite of her wild and outrageous screen persona: she was a very quiet, soft-spoken, and self-effacing woman who usually dressed in frumpy clothes. Romay died from cancer at age 57 on February 15, 2012 in Malaga, Spain.114 Movies with Husband Jesus Franco (Spanning 38 Years)
From 1972 -2010, the only years they didn't do a movie together were, 1990, 1991, 1995, 1996, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 !!!
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La fille de Dracula (1972)
La maldición de Frankenstein (1972)
Al otro lado del espejo (1973)
Tendre et perverse Emanuelle (1973)
Les gloutonnes (1973)
The Sinister Eyes of Dr. Orloff (1973)
Relax Baby (1973)
El misterio del castillo rojo (1973)
Female Vampire (1973)
Lorna the Exorcist (1974)
The Lustful Amazons (1974)
La comtesse perverse (1974)
Celestine, Maid at Your Service (1974)
Plaisir à trois (1974)
Night of the Assassins (1974)
Lovers of Devil's Island (1974)
Women Behind Bars (1975)
L'éventreur de Notre-Dame (1975)
Les nuits brûlantes de Linda (1975)
Downtown - Die nackten Puppen der Unterwelt (1975)
Sexy Erotic Job (1975)
Les chatouilleuses (1975)
Midnight Party (1976)
Jack the Ripper (1976)
Barbed Wire Dolls (1976)
Les emmerdeuses (1976)
Die Marquise von Sade (1976)
Swedish Nympho Slaves (1977)
Wanda, the Wicked Warden (1977)
Kiss Me Killer (1977)
Shining Sex (1977)
Women Without Innocence (1978)
Cocktail spécial (1978)
Elles font tout (1979)
El sádico de Notre-Dame (1979)
Justine and the Whip (1979)
Devil Hunter (1980)
White Cannibal Queen (1980)
Wicked Memoirs of Eugenie (1980)
Sinfonía erótica (1980)
Ópalo de fuego: Mercaderes del sexo (1980)
Bloody Moon (1981)
The Story of Linda (1981)
Pick-Up Girls (1981)
Sex Is Crazy (1981)
Les filles de Copacabana (1981)
Aberraciones sexuales de una mujer casada (1981)
The Treasure of the Living Dead (1982)
Emmanuelle Exposed (1982)
Revenge in the House of Usher (1982)
Diamonds of Kilimandjaro (1983)
Gemidos de placer (1983)
Macumba sexual (1983)
La casa de las mujeres perdidas (1983)
La noche de los sexos abiertos (1983)
The Hotel of Love Affairs (1983)
Blood on My Shoes (1983)
Los blues de la calle Pop (Aventuras de Felipe Malboro, volumen 8) (1983)
Botas negras, látigo de cuero (1983)
Cecelia (1983)
Night of 1,000 Sexes (1984)
El siniestro doctor Orloff (1984)
Bahía blanca (1984)
¿Cuánto cobra un espía? (1984)
Camino solitario (1984)
Lilian (la virgen pervertida) (1984)
Una rajita para dos (1984)
La mansión de los muertos vivientes (1985)
La esclava blanca (1985)
Dirty Game in Casablanca (1985)
Bangkok, cita con la muerte (1985)
La sombra del judoka contra el doctor Wong (1985)
Una de chinos (1985)
Viaje a Bangkok, ataúd incluido (1985)
El hombre que mató a Mengele (1985)
Un pito para tres (1985)
El chupete de Lulú (1985)
Sida, la peste del siglo XX (1986)
Las últimas de Filipinas (1986)
Alone Against Terror (1986)
La chica de los labios rojos (1986)
Las tribulaciones de un Buda Bizco (1986)
Para las nenas, leche calentita (1986)
Bragueta historia (1986)
Fury in the Tropics (1986)
El mirón y la exhibicionista (1986)
Entre pitos anda el juego (1986)
Las chuponas (1986)
Faceless (1987)
Las chicas del tanga (1987)
Slave of Crime (1987)
Phollastía (1987)
Falo Crest (1987)
Dark Mission: Evil Flowers (1988)
Esmeralda Bay (1989)
El abuelo, la condesa y Escarlata la traviesa (1992)
Jungle of Fear (1993 Video)
Ciudad Baja (Downtown Heat) (1994)
Tender Flesh (1997)
Lust for Frankenstein (1998 Video)
Mari-Cookie and the Killer Tarantula (1998 Video)
Red Silk (1999 Video)
Vampire Blues (1999 Video)
Broken Dolls (1999)
Dr. Wong's Virtual Hell (1999)
Blind Target (2000)
Helter Skelter (2000)
Vampire Junction (2001)
Incubus (2002 Video)
Killer Barbys vs. Dracula (2002)
Snakewoman (2005)
Jess Franco's Perversion (2005)
Jess Franco's Passion (2005)
Paula-Paula (2010 Video)- Actor
- Production Manager
- Writer
Antonio Mayans was born on 4 May 1939 in Valencia, Spain. He is an actor and production manager, known for Revenge of the Alligator Ladies (2013), Diamonds of Kilimandjaro (1983) and Night of Open Sex (1983). He is married to Juana de la Morena. They have three children.50 Movies with Jesus Franco (Spanning 40 Years)
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Tendre et perverse Emanuelle (1973)
El misterio del castillo rojo (1973)
Night of the Assassins (1974)
Kiss Me Killer (1977)
Devil Hunter (1980)
White Cannibal Queen (1980)
Wicked Memoirs of Eugenie (1980)
Hellhole Women (1981)
The Story of Linda (1981)
Pick-Up Girls (1981)
Sex Is Crazy (1981)
The Treasure of the Living Dead (1982)
Emmanuelle Exposed (1982)
Revenge in the House of Usher (1982)
Diamonds of Kilimandjaro (1983)
Gemidos de placer (1983)
Macumba sexual (1983)
La casa de las mujeres perdidas (1983)
La noche de los sexos abiertos (1983)
The Hotel of Love Affairs (1983)
Blood on My Shoes (1983)
Los blues de la calle Pop (Aventuras de Felipe Malboro, volumen 8) (1983)
Voces de muerte (1983)
En busca del dragón dorado (1983)
Night of 1,000 Sexes (1984)
El siniestro doctor Orloff (1984)
Bahía blanca (1984)
¿Cuánto cobra un espía? (1984)
Camino solitario (1984)
La mansión de los muertos vivientes (1985)
Dirty Game in Casablanca (1985)
Bangkok, cita con la muerte (1985)
La sombra del judoka contra el doctor Wong (1985)
Viaje a Bangkok, ataúd incluido (1985)
El hombre que mató a Mengele (1985)
Las últimas de Filipinas (1986)
Alone Against Terror (1986)
La chica de los labios rojos (1986)
Las tribulaciones de un Buda Bizco (1986)
Las chicas del tanga (1987)
Slave of Crime (1987)
Dark Mission: Evil Flowers (1988)
Fall of the Eagles (1989)
Esmeralda Bay (1989)
À la poursuite de Barbara (1991)
El abuelo, la condesa y Escarlata la traviesa (1992)
Ciudad Baja (Downtown Heat) (1994)
Snakewoman (2005)
Al Pereira vs. the Alligator Ladies (2012)
Revenge of the Alligator Ladies (2013)- Actor
- Additional Crew
- Camera and Electrical Department
Swiss-born actor Howard Vernon (né Mario Lippert) would make his infamous claim to fame as a stock lead player for the lowgrade, campy horror features of notorious director Jesús Franco, starring as Dr. Orloff, Dracula, and other terrorizers, most of them produced in Spain or France. Born in 1914 the son of a Swiss father and American mother, Howard received his dramatic training in both Berlin and Paris and was originally a stage and radio player (from 1945) before arriving in post-war French films. He articulated and personified a number of nefarious Nazis and sinister criminals in his five-decade career, although he could grab a sympathetic role from time such as in the French film The Silence of the Sea (1949), which remains one of his best. Occasionally a still photographer, he forged a long, non-creative association beginning in the early 1960s with cult director Jess Franco following his good showing for Fritz Lang in _Tausend Augen des Dr. Mabuse, Die (1960)_ [The 1,000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse]. With his piercing gaze and gravely-voiced he entered into an enduring alliance with Franco, albeit in dreadful schlock. It began promisingly enough with the horror classic The Awful Dr. Orlof (1962) [The Awful Dr. Orloff] in which he portrayed the creepy title role with a slightly sympathetic countenance, but his appearances quickly degenerated into cheap exploitation, void of deserving artistic merit. He died in Paris shortly after his 82nd birthday.37 Movies with Jesus Franco (Spanning 31 Years)
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The Awful Dr. Orlof (1962)
La mano de un hombre muerto (1962)
The Diabolical Dr. Z (1966)
Residencia para espías (1966)
Succubus (1968)
Deadly Sanctuary (1969)
The Bloody Judge (1970)
Sex Charade (1970)
She Killed in Ecstasy (1971)
The Devil Came from Akasava (1971)
X312 - Flight to Hell (1971)
Jungfrauen-Report (1972)
La fille de Dracula (1972)
Drácula contra Frankenstein (1972)
La maldición de Frankenstein (1972)
Robinson und seine wilden Sklavinnen (1972)
Les ebranlées (1972)
A Virgin Among the Living Dead (1973)
Al otro lado del espejo (1973)
Les démons (1973)
Les gloutonnes (1973)
La comtesse perverse (1974)
Lorna the Exorcist (1974)
The Lustful Amazons (1974)
Celestine, Maid at Your Service (1974)
Plaisir à trois (1974)
Lovers of Devil's Island (1974)
Fifteen Year Old Captain (1974)
Tropical Inferno (1978)
Revenge in the House of Usher (1982)
Blood on My Shoes (1983)
El siniestro doctor Orloff (1984)
Viaje a Bangkok, ataúd incluido (1985)
El hombre que mató a Mengele (1985)
Las tribulaciones de un Buda Bizco (1986)
Faceless (1987)
Jungle of Fear (1993 Video)- Actor
- Producer
- Art Department
John Wayne was born Marion Robert Morrison in Iowa, to Mary Alberta (Brown) and Clyde Leonard Morrison, a pharmacist. He was of English, Scottish, Ulster-Scots, and Irish ancestry.
Clyde developed a lung condition that required him to move his family from Iowa to the warmer climate of southern California, where they tried ranching in the Mojave Desert. Until the ranch failed, Marion and his younger brother Robert E. Morrison swam in an irrigation ditch and rode a horse to school. When the ranch failed, the family moved to Glendale, California, where Marion delivered medicines for his father, sold newspapers and had an Airedale dog named "Duke" (the source of his own nickname). He did well at school both academically and in football. When he narrowly failed admission to Annapolis he went to USC on a football scholarship 1925-7. Tom Mix got him a summer job as a prop man in exchange for football tickets. On the set he became close friends with director John Ford for whom, among others, he began doing bit parts, some billed as John Wayne. His first featured film was Men Without Women (1930). After more than 70 low-budget westerns and adventures, mostly routine, Wayne's career was stuck in a rut until Ford cast him in Stagecoach (1939), the movie that made him a star. He appeared in nearly 250 movies, many of epic proportions. From 1942-43 he was in a radio series, "The Three Sheets to the Wind", and in 1944 he helped found the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals, a Conservative political organization, later becoming its President. His conservative political stance was also reflected in The Alamo (1960), which he produced, directed and starred in. His patriotic stand was enshrined in The Green Berets (1968) which he co-directed and starred in. Over the years Wayne was beset with health problems. In September 1964 he had a cancerous left lung removed; in 1977 when Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope was being made, John Waynes archive voice was used for the character Garindan ezz Zavor, later in March 1978 there was heart valve replacement surgery; and in January 1979 his stomach was removed. He received the Best Actor nomination for Sands of Iwo Jima (1949) and finally got the Oscar for his role as one-eyed Rooster Cogburn in True Grit (1969). A Congressional Gold Medal was struck in his honor in 1979. He is perhaps best remembered for his parts in Ford's cavalry trilogy - Fort Apache (1948), She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949) and Rio Grande (1950).21 Movies with John Ford (Spanning 35 years)
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Hangman's House (1928)
Mother Machree (1928)
Four Sons (1928)
Salute (1929)
The Black Watch (1929)
Men Without Women (1930)
Born Reckless (1930)
Stagecoach (1939)
The Long Voyage Home (1940)
They Were Expendable (1945)
3 Godfathers (1948)
Fort Apache (1948)
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)
Rio Grande (1950)
The Quiet Man (1952)
The Searchers (1956)
The Wings of Eagles (1957)
The Horse Soldiers (1959)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
How the West Was Won (1962)
Donovan's Reef (1963)- Actor
- Writer
- Director
Born in the Bronx, New York to Russian Jewish immigrant parents (Isidor "Ira" and Rita Blucher Miller), Richard Miller served in the U.S. Navy for a few years and earned a prize title as a middleweight boxer. He settled in Los Angeles in the mid-1950s, where he was noticed by producer/director Roger Corman, who cast him in most of his low-budget films, often as dislikeable sorts, such as a vacuum-cleaner salesman in Not of This Earth (1957). His most memorable role would have to be that of the mentally unstable, busboy/beatnik artist Walter Paisley, whose clay sculptures are suspiciously lifelike in A Bucket of Blood (1959) (a rare starring role for him), and he is also fondly remembered for his supporting role as the flower-eating Vurson Fouch in Corman's legendary The Little Shop of Horrors (1960).
Miller spent the next 20 years working in Corman productions, and starting in the late 1970s was often cast in films by director Joe Dante, appearing in credited and uncredited walk-on bits as quirky chatterboxes, and stole every scene he appeared in. He has played many variations on his famous Walter Paisley role, such as a diner owner (Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)) or a janitor (Chopping Mall (1986)). One of his best bits is the funny occult-bookshop owner in The Howling (1981). Being short (so he never played a romantic lead or a threatening villain) with wavy hair, long sideburns, a pointed nose and a face as trustworthy as a used-car dealer's, he was, and is to this day, an immediately recognizable character actor whose one-scene appearances in countless movies and TV shows guarantee audience applause.20 Movies with Roger Corman (Spanning 12 Years)
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Apache Woman (1955)
Gunslinger (1956)
It Conquered the World (1956)
The Oklahoma Woman (1956)
Not of This Earth (1957)
Naked Paradise (1957)
The Undead (1957)
Rock All Night (1957)
Sorority Girl (1957)
Carnival Rock (1957)
War of the Satellites (1958)
A Bucket of Blood (1959)
The Little Shop of Horrors (1960)
Atlas (1961)
Premature Burial (1962)
The Terror (1963)
X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes (1963)
The Wild Angels (1966)
The Trip (1967)
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1967)- Japanese character actor Takashi Shimura was one of the finest film actors of the 20th century and a leading member of the "stock company" of master director Akira Kurosawa. A native of southern Japan, Shimura was a descendant of the samurai warrior class. Following university training, he founded a theatre company, Shichigatsu-za ("July Theatre"). In 1930 he joined a professional company, Kindai-za ("Modern Theatre"). Four years later he signed with the Kinema Shinko film studio. He found a niche playing samurai roles for various studios, then signed a long-term contract with Toho Studios in 1943. He appeared in an average of six films a year for Toho over the next four decades. His greatest critical acclaim came in more than 20 roles for Kurosawa, though he is almost as well recognized outside Japan for his kindly doctor role in the original "Godzilla" (Godzilla (1954)). Shimura's triumph was his unforgettable performance as a dying bureaucrat in Kurosawa's Ikiru (1952). He continued to act steadily, in good films and bad, almost until his death, culminating with Kurosawa's Kagemusha: The Shadow Warrior (1980). He is often described as filling the spot for Kurosawa that Ward Bond filled for John Ford--an ever-present and reliable character player who consistently supplied a solidity and strength to whatever film he appeared in. Shimura was definitely a finer actor than Bond, of the most versatile "chameleons" in the world cinema, a great artist with enormous range in sublime interpretations, from Ikiru (1952)'s diffident clerk to the leader of the Seven Samurai in Kurosawa's Seven Samurai (1954). He died in 1982, a reluctant icon of Japanese cinema.19 Movies with Akira Kurosawa (Spanning 37 Years)
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Sanshiro Sugata (1943)
The Most Beautiful (1944)
The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail (1945)
No Regrets for Our Youth (1946)
Drunken Angel (1948)
The Quiet Duel (1949)
Stray Dog (1949)
Scandal (1950)
Rashomon (1950)
The Idiot (1951)
Ikiru (1952)
Seven Samurai (1954)
Throne of Blood (1957)
The Hidden Fortress (1958)
Yojimbo (1960)
Sanjuro (1962)
High and Low (1963)
Red Beard (1965)
Kagemusha (1980) - Actor
- Director
- Producer
Hector Elizondo was born in New York City, New York, where he was raised on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. He is the son of Carmen Medina Reyes and Martín Echevarría Elizondo. Hector is of Basque and Puerto Rican descent, and "Elizondo" means "at the foot of the church" in Basque. His lifestyle in his days before acting was as diverse as the roles he plays today. He was a conga player with a Latin band, a classical guitarist and singer, a weightlifting coach, a ballet dancer and a manager of a bodybuilding gym. In his teens, he played basketball and baseball, and was scouted by the New York Giants and Pittsburgh Pirates farm teams. After a knee injury ended his dance career, he switched to drama. Since then, he has frequently appeared on Broadway, most notably with George C. Scott in Arthur Penn's production of "Sly Fox" for which he received a Drama Desk nomination and for his role as "God" in "Steambath", which won him an Obie Award. Other theatre credits include; "The Prisoner of Second Avenue"; "The Great White Hope"; "Dance of Death" with Robert Shaw and "The Rose Tattoo" opposite Cicely Tyson. Countless starring roles in television include: Foley Square (1985); Medal of Honor Rag (1982); Casablanca (1983) (in which he recreated the Claude Rains role of police chief "Capt. Renault"); Freebie and the Bean (1974); Popi (1975) and as Sophia Loren's husband in the CBS special Courage (1986). Guest appearances include: Kojak (1973); Kojak: Ariana (1989); A Case of Immunity (1975); Baretta (1975); All in the Family (1971); The Rockford Files (1974) and Bret Maverick (1981). In addition, he also directed a.k.a. Pablo (1984), the first show to utilize seven cameras instead of the usual four. On the big screen, he has been seen in, among others, American Gigolo (1980); The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974); Cuba (1979); Valdez Is Coming (1971) and in four films directed by Garry Marshall: Young Doctors in Love (1982); The Flamingo Kid (1984); Nothing in Common (1986) and Overboard (1987). Elizondo starred with Dan Aykroyd and Michelle Pfeiffer in PBS' Tales from the Hollywood Hills: Natica Jackson (1987) (based on a collection of John O'Hara stories) and made his debut as a stage director with a production of "Villa!" starring Julio Medina. In addition, he performed in the 50th anniversary production of "War of the Worlds" co-starring Jason Robards and the TV-movie Addicted to His Love (1988) with Barry Bostwick.17 Movies with Garry Marshall (Spanning 29 Years)
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Young Doctors in Love (1982)
The Flamingo Kid (1984)
Nothing In Common (1986)
Overboard (1987, Uncredited)
Beaches (1988, Uncredited)
Pretty Woman (1990)
Frankie and Johnny (1991)
Exit to Eden (1994)
Dear God (1996)
The Other Sister (1999)
Runaway Bride (1999)
The Princess Diaries (2001)
Raising Helen (2004)
The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004)
Georgia Rule (2007)
Valentine's Day (2010)
New Year's Eve (2011)- Actor
- Producer
- Director
Toshiro Mifune achieved more worldwide fame than any other Japanese actor of his century. He was born in Tsingtao, China, to Japanese parents and grew up in Dalian. He did not set foot in Japan until he was 21. His father was an importer and a commercial photographer, and young Toshiro worked in his father's studio for a time after graduating from Dalian Middle School. He was automatically drafted into the Japanese army when he turned 20, and enlisted in the Air Force where he was attached to the Aerial Photography Unit for the duration of the World War II. In 1947 he took a test for Kajirô Yamamoto, who recommended him to director Senkichi Taniguchi, thus leading to Mifune's first film role in These Foolish Times II (1947). Mifune then met and bonded with director Akira Kurosawa, and the two joined to become the most prominent actor-director pairing in all Japanese cinema. Beginning with Drunken Angel (1948), Mifune appeared in 16 of Kurosawa's films, most of which have become world-renowned classics. In Kurosawa's pictures, especially Rashomon (1950), Mifune would become the most famous Japanese actor in the world. A dynamic and ferocious actor, he excelled in action roles, but also had the depth to plumb intricate and subtle dramatic parts. A personal rift during the filming of Red Beard (1965) ended the Mifune-Kurosawa collaboration, but Mifune continued to perform leading roles in major films both in Japan and in foreign countries. He was twice named Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival (for Yojimbo (1961) and Red Beard (1965)). In 1963 he formed his own production company, directing one film and producing several others. In his later years he gained new fame in the title role of the American TV miniseries Shogun (1980), and appeared infrequently in cameo roles after that. His last years were plagued with Alzheimer's Syndrome and he died of organ failure in 1997, a few months before the death of the director with whose name he will forever be linked, Akira Kurosawa.16 Movies with Akira Kurosawa (Spanning 17 Years)
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Drunken Angel (1948)
The Quiet Duel (1949)
Stray Dog (1949)
Scandal (1950)
Rashomon (1950)
The Idiot (1951)
Seven Samurai (1954)
I Live in Fear (1955)
Throne of Blood (1957)
The Lower Depths (1957)
The Hidden Fortress (1958)
The Bad Sleep Well (1960)
Yojimbo (1961)
Sanjuro (1962)
High and Low (1963)
Red Beard (1965)- Actor
- Writer
- Director
Born in the Bronx, New York to Russian Jewish immigrant parents (Isidor "Ira" and Rita Blucher Miller), Richard Miller served in the U.S. Navy for a few years and earned a prize title as a middleweight boxer. He settled in Los Angeles in the mid-1950s, where he was noticed by producer/director Roger Corman, who cast him in most of his low-budget films, often as dislikeable sorts, such as a vacuum-cleaner salesman in Not of This Earth (1957). His most memorable role would have to be that of the mentally unstable, busboy/beatnik artist Walter Paisley, whose clay sculptures are suspiciously lifelike in A Bucket of Blood (1959) (a rare starring role for him), and he is also fondly remembered for his supporting role as the flower-eating Vurson Fouch in Corman's legendary The Little Shop of Horrors (1960).
Miller spent the next 20 years working in Corman productions, and starting in the late 1970s was often cast in films by director Joe Dante, appearing in credited and uncredited walk-on bits as quirky chatterboxes, and stole every scene he appeared in. He has played many variations on his famous Walter Paisley role, such as a diner owner (Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)) or a janitor (Chopping Mall (1986)). One of his best bits is the funny occult-bookshop owner in The Howling (1981). Being short (so he never played a romantic lead or a threatening villain) with wavy hair, long sideburns, a pointed nose and a face as trustworthy as a used-car dealer's, he was, and is to this day, an immediately recognizable character actor whose one-scene appearances in countless movies and TV shows guarantee audience applause.16 Movies with Joe Dante (Spanning 33 Years)
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Hollywood Boulevard (1976)
Piranha (1978)
The Howling (1981)
Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983, Segment 3)
Gremlins (1984)
Explorers (1985)
Innerspace (1987)
Amazon Women on the Moon (1987)
The 'Burbs (1989)
Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)
Matinee (1993)
The Second Civil War (1997, TV)
The Warlord: Battle for the Galaxy (1998, TV)
Small Soldiers (1998)
Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003)
The Hole (2009, Uncredited)- Actress
- Make-Up Department
Analía Ivars was born on 23 January 1963. She is an actress, known for Dirty Game in Casablanca (1985), Les amazones du temple d'or (1986) and Bahía blanca (1985).15 Movies with Jesus Franco (Spanning 18 Years)
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Revenge in the House of Usher (1982)
Los blues de la calle Pop (Aventuras de Felipe Malboro, volumen 8) (1983)
Panther Squad (1984)
Bahía blanca (1984)
¿Cuánto cobra un espía? (1984)
Dirty Game in Casablanca (1985)
Amazons in the Temple of Gold (1986)
Las chicas del tanga (1987)
El abuelo, la condesa y Escarlata la traviesa (1992)
Tender Flesh (1997)
Lust for Frankenstein (1998 Video)
Mari-Cookie and the Killer Tarantula (1998 Video)
Vampire Blues (1999 Video)
Dr. Wong's Virtual Hell (1999)
Helter Skelter (2000)- Actress
- Soundtrack
Her artistic dreams came early in life and were further supported by her older sister Gerd Andersson who became a ballet dancer at the Royal Opera and made her acting debut in 1951. Bibi, on the other side, had to make do with bit parts and commercials. She debuted in Dum-Bom (1953), playing against Nils Poppe. Eventually, she was able to start at the Royal Dramatic Theatre's acting school in 1954. A brief relationship with Ingmar Bergman made her quit school and follow him to the Malmö city theatre, where he was a director, performing in plays by August Strindberg and Hjalmar Bergman. Bergman also gave her a small part in his comedy Smiles of a Summer Night (1955), and larger roles in his Wild Strawberries (1957) and The Seventh Seal (1957). From the the 1960s she got offers from abroad, with best result in I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (1977). During the civil war in Yugoslavia she has worked with several initiatives to give the people of Sarajevo theatre and other forms of culture.13 Movies with Ingmar Bergman (Spanning 18 Years)
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Smiles of a Summer Night (1955)
The Seventh Seal (1957)
Mr. Sleeman Is Coming (1957, TV)
Wild Strawberries (1957)
Brink of Life (1958)
Rabies (1958)
The Magician (1958)
The Devil's Eye (1960)
All These Women (1964)
Persona (1966)
The Passion of Anna (1969)
The Touch (1971)
Scenes from a Marriage (1973)- Actress
- Soundtrack
Mia Farrow is the daughter of the director John Farrow and the actress and Tarzan-girl Maureen O'Sullivan. She debuted at the movies in 1959 in very small roles. She was noticed for the first time in the film Rosemary's Baby (1968) by Roman Polanski. She showed her talent also on TV and at the theatre, but her final breakthrough was when she met Woody Allen and became his Muse after the film A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (1982). After that, Woody Allen wrote many other roles for her.13 Movies with Woody Allen (Spanning 10 Years)
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A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (1982)
Zelig (1983)
Broadway Danny Rose (1984)
The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)
Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
September (1987)
Radio Days (1987)
Another Woman (1988)
Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
New York Stories (1989)
Alice (1990)
Husbands and Wives (1992)
Shadows and Fog (1992)- Actress
- Writer
- Director
Lillian Diana Gish was born on October 14, 1893, in Springfield, Ohio. Her father, James Lee Gish, was an alcoholic who caroused, was rarely at home, and left the family to, more or less, fend for themselves. To help make ends meet, Lillian, her sister Dorothy Gish, and their mother, Mary Gish, a.k.a. Mary Robinson McConnell, tried their hand at acting in local productions. Lillian was six years old when she first appeared in front of an audience. For the next 13 years, she and Dorothy appeared before stage audiences with great success. Had she not made her way into films, Lillian quite possibly could have been one of the great stage actresses of all time; however, she found her way onto the big screen when, in 1912, she met famed director D.W. Griffith. Impressed with what he saw, he immediately cast her in her first film, An Unseen Enemy (1912), followed by The One She Loved (1912) and My Baby (1912). She would make 12 films for Griffith in 1912. With 25 films in the next two years, Lillian's exposure to the public was so great that she fast became one of the top stars in the industry, right alongside Mary Pickford, "America's Sweetheart".
In 1915, Lillian starred as Elsie Stoneman in Griffith's most ambitious project to date, The Birth of a Nation (1915). She was not making the large number of films that she had been in the beginning because she was successful and popular enough to be able to pick and choose the right films to appear in. The following year, she appeared in another Griffith classic, Intolerance (1916). By the early 1920s, her career was on its way down. As with anything else, be it sports or politics, new faces appeared on the scene to replace the "old", and Lillian was no different. In fact, she did not appear at all on the screen in 1922, 1925 or 1929. However, 1926 was her busiest year of the decade with roles in La Bohème (1926) and The Scarlet Letter (1926). As the decade wound to a close, "talkies" were replacing silent films. However, Lillian was not idle during her time away from the screen. She appeared in stage productions, to the acclaim of the public and critics alike. In 1933, she filmed His Double Life (1933), but did not make another film for nine years.
When she returned in 1943, she appeared in two big-budget pictures, Commandos Strike at Dawn (1942) and Top Man (1943). Although these roles did not bring her the attention she had had in her early career, Lillian still proved she could hold her own with the best of them. She earned an Oscar nomination as Best Supporting Actress for her role of Laura Belle McCanles in Duel in the Sun (1946), but lost to Anne Baxter in The Razor's Edge (1946).
One of the most critically acclaimed roles of her career came in the thriller The Night of the Hunter (1955), also notable as the only film directed by actor Charles Laughton. In 1969, she published her autobiography, "The Movies, Mr. Griffith, and Me". In 1987, she made what was to be her last motion picture, The Whales of August (1987), a box-office success that exposed her to a new generation of fans. Her 75-year career is almost unbeatable in any field, let alone the film industry. On February 27, 1993, at age 99, Lillian Gish died peacefully in her sleep at her Manhattan apartment in New York City. She never married.13 Movies with D.W. Griffith (Spanning 9 Years)
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An Unseen Enemy (1912)
The New York Hat (1912)
The Birth of a Nation (1915)
Intolerance (1916)
The Greatest Thing in Life (1918)
The Great Love (1918)
Hearts of the World (1918)
The Greatest Question (1919)
True Heart Susie (1919)
Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl (1919)
A Romance of Happy Valley (1919)
Way Down East (1920)
Orphans of the Storm (1921)- Comely, buxom, and shapely redhead stunner Alice Arno was born Marie-France Broquet on June 29, 1946 in Poland. The daughter of French naturist parents, Alice had no issues pertaining to nudity, and was justifiably proud of her exquisitely voluptuous body. After initially establishing herself as a glamour model (she posed for such notable photographers as Roland Carre and Serge Jacques and was featured in magazines from all over the world), Arno made her film debut in an uncredited bit role in 1967. Alice went on to do small parts in mainstream movies and more substantial roles in down'n'dirty low-budget exploitation fare throughout the 1970's. She's perhaps best known for acting in a handful of racy pictures for legendary Spanish maverick Jesús Franco. Arno acted in several films with her actress sister Chantal Broquet and was often in demand to shoot steamy scenes to spice up other directors' pictures. In addition, Alice also worked informally on various movies not only as an on-set photographer and continuity person, but also handled costume and make-up duties as well. Arno called it a day as an actress in 1979.12 Movies with Jesus Franco (Spanning 4 Years)
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Al otro lado del espejo (1973)
Tendre et perverse Emanuelle (1973)
A Virgin Among the Living Dead (1973)
Les gloutonnes (1973)
La comtesse perverse (1974)
The Lustful Amazons (1974)
Eugenie Sex Happening (1974)
Plaisir à trois (1974)
Chicas de alquiler (1974)
Les nuits brûlantes de Linda (1975)
Une cage dorée (1976)
Kiss Me Killer (1977) - Actor
- Soundtrack
Japanese leading man, an important star and one of the handful of Japanese actors well known outside Japan. Nakadai was a tall handsome clerk in a Tokyo shop when director Masaki Kobayashi encountered him and cast him in The Thick-Walled Room (1956). Nakadai was subsequently cast in the lead role in Kobayashi's monumental trilogy 'Ningen no joken' and became a star whose international acclaim rivaled that of countryman Toshirô Mifune. Like Mifune, Nakadai worked frequently with director Akira Kurosawa and indeed more or less replaced Mifune as Kurosawa's principal leading man after the well-known falling out between Mifune and Kurosawa. His appearances for Kurosawa in Kagemusha: The Shadow Warrior (1980) and Ran (1985) are among the most indelible in the director's oeuvre.11 Movies with Masaki Kobayashi (Spanning 32 Years)
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The Thick-Walled Room (1953)
Black River (1957)
The Human Condition Trilogy
No Greater Love (1959)
The Road to Eternity (1959)
A Soldier's Prayer (1961)
The Inheritance (1962)
Harakiri (1962)
Rebellion (1967)
Inn of Evil (1971)
Family Without a Dinner Table (1985)- Actor
- Producer
- Soundtrack
Tyrone Power was one of the great romantic swashbuckling stars of the mid-twentieth century, and the third Tyrone Power of four in a famed acting dynasty reaching back to the eighteenth century. His great-grandfather was the first Tyrone Power (1795-1841), a famed Irish comedian. His father, known to historians as Tyrone Power Sr., but to his contemporaries as either Tyrone Power or Tyrone Power the Younger, was a huge star in the theater (and later in films) in both classical and modern roles. His mother, Helen Emma "Patia" (née Reaume), (Mrs. Tyrone Power), was also a Shakespearean actress as well as a respected dramatic coach.
Tyrone Edmund Power, Jr., (also called Tyrone Power III) was born at his mother's home of Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1914. His ancestry included English, Irish, German, French Huguenot, and French-Canadian. A frail, sickly child, he was taken by his parents to the warmer climate of southern California. After his parents' divorce, he and his sister Anne Power returned to Cincinnati with their mother. There he attended school while developing an obsession with acting. Although raised by his mother, he corresponded with his father, who encouraged his acting dreams. He was a supernumerary in his father's stage production of 'The Merchant of Venice' in Chicago and held him as he died suddenly of a heart attack later that year.
Startlingly handsome, young Tyrone nevertheless struggled to find work in Hollywood. He appeared in a few small roles, then went east to do stage work. A screen test led to a contract at 20th Century Fox in 1936, and he quickly progressed to leading roles. Within a year or so, he was one of Fox's leading stars, playing in contemporary and period pieces with ease. Most of his roles were colorful without being deep, and his swordplay was more praised than his wordplay. He served in the Marine Corps in World War II as a transport pilot, and he saw action in the Pacific Theater of operations.
After the war, he got his best reviews for an atypical part as a downward-spiraling con-man in Nightmare Alley (1947). Although he remained a huge star, much of his postwar work was unremarkable. He continued to do notable stage work and also began producing films. Following a fine performance in Billy Wilder's Witness for the Prosecution (1957), Power began production on Solomon and Sheba (1959). Halfway through shooting, he suffered a heart attack during a dueling scene with George Sanders and died before reaching a hospital.
His three children, including his namesake, Tyrone William Power IV (known professionally as Tyrone Power Jr.), have all followed him in the family acting tradition.11 Movies with Henry King (Spanning 21 Years)
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Lloyd's of London (1936)
In Old Chicago (1937)
Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938)
Jesse James (1939)
A Yank in the RAF (1941)
The Black Swan (1942)
Captain from Castile (1947)
Prince of Foxes (1949)
King of the Khyber Rifles (1953)
Untamed (1955)
The Sun Also Rises (1957)- Actor
- Additional Crew
- Director
Max von Sydow was born Carl Adolf von Sydow on April 10, 1929 in Lund, Skåne, Sweden, to a middle-class family. He was the son of Baroness Maria Margareta (Rappe), a teacher, and Carl Wilhelm von Sydow, an ethnologist and folklore professor. His surname traces back to his partial German ancestry.
When he was in high school, he and a few fellow students, including Yvonne Lombard, started a theatre club which encouraged his interest in acting. After conscription, he began to study at the Royal Dramatic Theatre's acting school (1948-1951), together with Lars Ekborg, Margaretha Krook and Ingrid Thulin. His first role was as Nils the crofter in Alf Sjöberg's Only a Mother (1949). After graduation, he worked at the city theatres in Norrköping and Malmö.
His work in the movies by Ingmar Bergman (especially The Seventh Seal (1957), including the iconic scenes in which he plays chess with Death) made him well-known internationally, and he started to get offers from abroad. His career abroad began with him playing Jesus in The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965); Hawaii (1966) and The Quiller Memorandum (1966). Since then, his career includes very different kind of characters, like Karl Oskar Nilsson in The Emigrants (1971); Father Lankester Merrin in The Exorcist (1973); Joubert the assassin in Three Days of the Condor (1975), Emperor Ming in Flash Gordon (1980); the villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the Never Say Never Again (1983); Liet-Kynes in Dune (1984) the artist Frederick in Hannah and Her Sisters (1986); Lassefar in Pelle the Conqueror (1987), for which he received his first Academy Award nomination; Dr. Peter Ingham in Awakenings (1990); Lamar Burgess in Minority Report (2002) and The Renter in Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011), which earned him his second Academy Award nomination.
He became one of Sweden's most admired and professional actors, and is the only male Swedish actor to receive an Oscar nomination. He was nominated twice: for Pelle the Conqueror (1987) in 1988 and for Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011) in 2012. He received the Guldbagge Award for Best Director in his directing debut, the drama film Ved vejen (1988). In 2016, he joined the sixth season of the HBO series Game of Thrones (2011) as the Three-eyed Raven, which earned him his Primetime Emmy Award nomination.
Max von Sydow died on March 8, 2020, in Provence, France, and was survived by his wife Catherine Brelet and four children. He was 90.11 Movies with Ingmar Bergman (Spanning 14 Years)
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The Seventh Seal (Det sjunde inseglet, 1957)
Wild Strawberries (Smultronstället, 1957)
The Magician (Ansiktet, 1958)
Rabies (1958)
Brink of Life (Nära livet, 1958)
The Virgin Spring (Jungfrukällan, 1960)
Through a Glass Darkly (Sasom i en Spegel, 1961)
Shame (Skammen, 1968)
Hour of the Wolf (Vargtimmen, 1968)
The Passion of Anna (En Passion, 1969)
The Touch (Beröringen, 1971)- Actor
- Writer
- Producer
Errol Flynn was born to parents Theodore Flynn, a respected biologist, and Marrelle Young, an adventurous young woman. Young Flynn was a rambunctious child who could be counted on to find trouble. Errol managed to have himself thrown out of every school in which he was enrolled. In his late teens he set out to find gold, but instead found a series of short lived odd jobs. Information is sketchy, however the positions of police constable, sanitation engineer, treasure hunter, sheep castrator, ship-master for hire, fisherman, and soldier seem to be among his more reputable career choices. Staying one jump ahead of the law and jealous husbands forced Flynn to England. He took up acting, a pastime he had previously stumbled into when asked to play (ironically) Fletcher Christian in a film called In the Wake of the Bounty (1933). Flynn's natural athletic talent and good looks attracted the attention of Warner Brothers and soon he was off to America. His luck held when he replaced Robert Donat in the title role of Captain Blood (1935). He quickly rocketed to stardom as the undisputed king of adventure films, a title inherited from Douglas Fairbanks, though which remains his to this day. Onscreen, he was the freedom loving rebel, a man of action who fought against injustice and won the hearts of damsels in the process. His off-screen passions; drinking, fighting, boating and sex, made his film escapades seem pale. His love life brought him considerable fame, three statutory rape trials, and a lasting memorial in the expression "In like Flynn". Serious roles eluded him, and as his lifestyle eroded his youthful good looks, his career declined. Troubles with lawsuits and the IRS plagued him at this time, eroding what little money he had saved. A few good roles did come his way late in life, however, these were usually that of aging alcoholic, almost mirror images of Flynn. Regardless of any perceived similarity; he was making a name as a serious actor before his death.11 Movies with Michael Curtiz (Spanning 6 Years)
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Captain Blood (film) (1935)
The Case of the Curious Bride (1935)
The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936)
The Perfect Specimen (1937)
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
Four's a Crowd (1938)
Dodge City (1939)
Virginia City (1940)
Santa Fe Trail (1940)
The Sea Hawk (1940)
Dive Bomber (1941)- Actor
- Producer
- Director
In 1979 with his Detroit friends, Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert, Bruce Campbell raised $350,000 for a low-budget film, The Evil Dead (1981), in which he starred and co-executive produced. Completed piecemeal over four years, the film first gained notoriety in England where it became the best-selling video of 1983, beating out The Shining (1980). After its appearance at Cannes, where Stephen King dubbed it "the most ferociously original horror film of the year", New Line Cinema stepped forward to release "Evil Dead" in the U.S.
After co-producing Crimewave (1985), a cross-genre comedy written by Sam Raimi, Ethan and Joel Coen, Campbell moved to Los Angeles and quickly gained a foothold producing or starring in genre films such as the Maniac Cop (1988) series, Lunatics: A Love Story (1991), Moontrap (1988), and Mindwarp (1991), a post-apocalyptic "Jeremiah Johnson", during which he met his wife-to-be, filmmaker, Ida Gearon.
Campbell then rejoined his Detroit colleagues to star and co-produce the second and third films in the Evil Dead trilogy (Evil Dead II (1987) & Army of Darkness (1992)), completing 12 years of work on the cult favorite.
This rough-and-tumble background was a plus as Campbell made his foray into television, first starring in the highly touted Fox series The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. (1993), then as a recurring guest-star on the hit show Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (1993).
With these under his belt, Campbell easily made the transition to director, helming numerous episodes and recurring as the King of Thieves in the #1 syndicated Hercules: The Legendary Journeys (1995), and its follow-up phenomenon, Xena: Warrior Princess (1995).
Bruce has since expanded his range on television, appearing in anything from Disney's update of The Love Bug (1997), to decidedly dramatic turns on the acclaimed series Homicide: Life on the Street (1993) and The X-Files (1993). At the invitation of ABC, Campbell ventured into the world of sitcoms with a recurring role on ABC's Emmy-nominated Ellen (1994), participating in one of the three touted "out" episodes.
But Campbell didn't abandon his film roots. During that time, he had featured roles in the blockbuster Congo (1995), John Carpenter's Escape from L.A. (1996), and the award-winning independent crime drama, Running Time (1997). He followed these up with roles in Paramount's romantic comedy, Serving Sara (2002), Jim Carrey's The Majestic (2001), and all three of Sam Raimi's blockbuster Spider-Man movies.
After a return to episodic television in the swashbuckling series, Jack of All Trades (2000), Campbell took the title role in MGM's cult sleeper Bubba Ho-Tep (2002). His directorial debut, Man with the Screaming Brain (2005) premiered on the Sci Fi Channel, and Dark Horse Comics published the comic adaptation.
Campbell then directed and starred as himself in My Name Is Bruce (2007), a spoof of his B-movie career, then re-teamed with Disney for their fun-filled hit, Sky High (2005).
Campbell has since made the leap into other forms of entertainment, and is enjoying his role as an author with back-to-back New York Times bestsellers: a memoir entitled "If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor", and his first novel, "Make Love the Bruce Campbell Way".
In the multi-media industry, Bruce has enjoyed voicing characters for Disney's animated TV series The Legend of Tarzan (2001) and the Warner Brothers feature The Ant Bully (2006). He also portrayed the character of "Mayor Shelbourne" in the animated hit film, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009). Recently, Campbell voiced the role of "Rod Torque Redline" in Cars 2 (2011), the sequel to the smash Disney animated feature and for the immensely popular game, "Call of Duty".
In 2013, Bruce co-produced the hit remake of Evil Dead (2013), joined his filmmaking pal Sam Raimi on Oz the Great and Powerful (2013), and completed an impressive seven-year run on the spy show, Burn Notice (2007) (2007-2013), USA's #1 show on cable.
More than two decades after the release of Army of Darkness (1992), Bruce returned to his most iconic role for Ash vs Evil Dead (2015), a highly-anticipated series premiering on the Starz network on Halloween 2015.10 Movies with Sam Raimi (Spanning 34 Years)
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Within the Woods (1979)
The Evil Dead (1981)
Crimewave (1985)
Evil Dead II (1987)
Darkman (1990)
Army of Darkness (1993, aka Evil Dead 3)
Spider-Man (2002)
Spider-Man 2 (2004)
Spider-Man 3 (2007)
Oz: The Great and Powerful (2013)- Actor
- Writer
- Soundtrack
Stephen Rea was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He attended Belfast High School and the Queen's University, where he studied English. He later trained at the Abbey Theatre School in Dublin. In 1970s, he acted in the Focus Company in Dublin with the talented Gabriel Byrne and Colm Meaney. After several stage, television and film appearances, he came to international success with his performance in The Crying Game (1992). He was nominated an Oscar for Best Actor.10 Movies with Neil Jordan (Spanning 27 Years)
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Angel (1982)
The Company of Wolves (1984)
The Crying Game (1992)
Interview with the Vampire (1994)
Michael Collins (1996)
The Butcher Boy (1997)
In Dreams (1999)
The End of the Affair (1999)
Breakfast on Pluto (2005)
Ondine (2009)- Actor
- Music Department
- Producer
Charles Napier was born in the tiny community of Mt. Union, near Scottsville, Allen County, Kentucky, to Linus Pitts Napier, a tobacco farmer and postman, and his wife, Sara, on April 12, 1936. He attended public school in Scottsville. After graduating high school, he enlisted in the Army in 1954. He rose to the rank of E-5 (Sgt.) while serving as company clerk with Company A 511th Airborne Infantry, 11th Airborne Division. He was a lively character actor who usually played edgy military types and menacing bad guys. His film debut was in Russ Meyer's Cherry, Harry & Raquel! (1969).
Napier went on appearing in other Meyer movies, including the homicidal Harry Sledge in Supervixens (1975) and also became a regular playing smaller roles for Jonathan Demme. His memorable portrayals of tough guys included the scheming intelligence officer in Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985) and the short-tempered front man in The Blues Brothers (1980).10 Movies with Jonathan Demme (Spanning 27 Years)
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Handle with Care (1977)
Last Embrace (1979)
Melvin and Howard (1980)
Swing Shift (1984)
Something Wild (1986)
Married to the Mob (1988)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Philadelphia (1993)
Beloved (1998, Uncredited)
The Manchurian Candidate (2004)- Actor
- Producer
- Additional Crew
Danny Trejo was born Dan Trejo in Echo Park, Los Angeles, to Alice (Rivera) and Dan Trejo, a construction worker. A child drug addict and criminal, Trejo was in and out of jail for 11 years. While serving time in San Quentin, he won the lightweight and welterweight boxing titles. Imprisoned for armed robbery and drug offenses, he successfully completed a 12-step rehabilitation program that changed his life. While speaking at a Cocaine Anonymous meeting in 1985, Trejo met a young man who later called him for support. Trejo went to meet him at what turned out to be the set of Runaway Train (1985). Trejo was immediately offered a role as a convict extra, probably because of his tough tattooed appearance. Also on the set was a screenwriter who did time with Trejo in San Quentin. Remembering Trejo's boxing skills, the screenwriter offered him $320 per day to train the actors for a boxing match. Director Andrey Konchalovskiy saw Trejo training Eric Roberts and immediately offered him a featured role as Roberts' opponent in the film. Trejo has subsequently appeared in many other films, usually as a tough criminal or villain.
Trejo is of Mexican descent.10 Movies with Robert Rodriguez (Spanning 18 Years)
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Desperado (1995)
From Dusk till Dawn (1996)
Spy Kids (2001)
Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams (2002)
Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over (2003)
Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003)
Grindhouse (2007) (Machete Fake Trailer)
Machete (2010)
Spy Kids: All the Time in the World (2011)
Machete Kills (2013)- Actor
- Additional Crew
- Soundtrack
William Claude Rains, born in the Clapham area of London, was the son of the British stage actor Frederick Rains. The younger Rains followed, making his stage debut at the age of eleven in "Nell of Old Drury." Growing up in the world of theater, he saw not only acting up close but the down-to-earth business end as well, progressing from a page boy to a stage manager during his well-rounded learning experience. Rains decided to come to America in 1913 and the New York theater, but with the outbreak of World War I the next year, he returned to serve with a Scottish regiment in Europe. He remained in England, honing his acting talents, bolstered with instruction patronized by the founder of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, Herbert Beerbohm Tree. It was not long before his talent garnered him acknowledgment as one of the leading stage actors on the London scene. His one and only silent film venture was British with a small part for him, the forgettable -- Build Thy House (1920).
In the meantime, Rains was in demand as acting teacher as well, and he taught at the Royal Academy. Young and eager Laurence Olivier and John Gielgud were perhaps his best known students. Rains did return to New York in 1927 to begin what would be nearly 20 Broadway roles. While working for the Theater Guild, he was offered a screen test with Universal Pictures in 1932. Rains had a unique and solid British voice-deep, slightly rasping -- but richly dynamic. And as a man of small stature, the combination was immediately intriguing. Universal was embarking on its new-found role as horror film factory, and they were looking for someone unique for their next outing, The Invisible Man (1933). Rains was the very man. He took the role by the ears, churning up a rasping malice and volume in his voice to achieve a bone chilling persona of the disembodied mad doctor. He could also throw out a high-pitched maniac laugh that would make you leave the lights on before going to bed. True to Universal's formula mentality, it cast him in similar roles through 1934 with some respite in more diverse film roles -- and further relieved by Broadway roles (1933, 1934) for the remainder of his contract. By 1936, he was at Warner Bros. with its ambitious laundry list of literary epics in full swing. His acting was superb, and his eyes could say as much as his voice. And his mouth could take on both a forbidding scowl and the warmest of smiles in an instant. His malicious, gouty Don Luis in Anthony Adverse (1936) was inspired. After a shear lucky opportunity to dispatch his young wife's lover, Louis Hayward, in a duel, he triumphs over her in a scene with derisive, bulging eyes and that high pitched laugh -- with appropriate shadow and light backdrop -- that is unforgettable.
He was kept very busy through the remainder of the 1930s with a mix of benign and devious historical, literary, and contemporary characters always adapting a different nuance -- from murmur to growl -- of that voice to become the person. He culminated the decade with his complex, ethics-tortured Senator "Joe" Paine in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939). That year he became an American citizen. Into the 1940s, Rains had risen to perhaps unique stature: a supporting actor who had achieved A-list stardom -- almost in a category by himself. His some 40 films during that period ranged from subtle comedy to psychological drama with a bit of horror revisited; many would be golden era classics. He was the firm but thoroughly sympathetic Dr. Jaquith in Now, Voyager (1942) and the smoothly sardonic but engaging Capt. Louis Renault -- perhaps his best known role -- in Casablanca (1942). He was the surreptitiously nervous and malignant Alexander Sebastian in Notorious (1946) and the egotistical and domineering conductor Alexander Hollenius in Deception (1946). He was the disfigured Phantom of the Opera (1943) as well. He played opposite the challenging Bette Davis in three movies through the decade and came out her equal in acting virtuosity. He was nominated four times for the Best Supporting Actor Oscar -- but incredibly never won. With the 1950s the few movies left to an older Rains were countered by venturing into new acting territory -- television. His haunted, suicidal writer Paul DeLambre in the mountaineering adventure The White Tower (1950), though a modest part, was perhaps the most vigorously memorable film role of his last years. He made a triumphant Broadway return in 1951's "Darkness at Noon."
Rains embraced the innovative TV playhouse circuit with nearly 20 roles. As a favored 'Alfred Hitchcock' alumnus, he starred in five Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955) suspense dramas into the 1960s. And he did not shy away from episodic TV either with some memorable roles that still reflected the power of Claude Rains as consummate actor -- for many, first among peers with that hallowed title.10 Movies with Michael Curtiz (Spanning 10 Years)
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Stolen Holiday (1937)
Gold Is Where You Find It (1938)
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
Four Daughters (1938)
Daughters Courageous (1939)
Four Wives (1939)
The Sea Hawk (1940)
Casablanca (1942)
Passage to Marseille (1944)
The Unsuspected (1947)- Actress
- Producer
- Costume Designer
Gloria Swanson was born Gloria May Josephine Svensson in Chicago, Illinois. She was destined to be perhaps one of the biggest stars of the silent movie era. Her personality and antics in private definitely made her a favorite with America's movie-going public. Gloria certainly didn't intend on going into show business. After her formal education in the Chicago school system and elsewhere, she began work in a department store as a salesclerk. In 1915, at the age of 18, she decided to go to a Chicago movie studio with an aunt to see how motion pictures were made. She was plucked out of the crowd, because of her beauty, to be included as a bit player in the film The Fable of Elvira and Farina and the Meal Ticket (1915). In her next film, she was an extra also, when she appeared in At the End of a Perfect Day (1915). After another uncredited role, Gloria got a more substantial role in Sweedie Goes to College (1915). In 1916, she first appeared with future husband Wallace Beery. Once married, the two pulled up stakes in Chicago and moved to Los Angeles to the film colony of Hollywood. Once out west, Gloria continued her torrid pace in films. She seemed to be in hit after hit in such films as The Pullman Bride (1917), Shifting Sands (1918), and Don't Change Your Husband (1919). By the time of the latter, Gloria had divorced Beery and was remarried, but it was not to be her last marriage, as she collected a total of six husbands. By the middle 1920s, she was the highest-paid actress in Hollywood. It has been said that Gloria made and spent over $8 million in the '20s alone. That, along with the six marriages she had, kept the fans spellbound with her escapades for over 60 years. They just couldn't get enough of her. Gloria was 30 when the sound revolution hit, and there was speculation as to whether she could adapt. She did. In 1928, she received an Oscar nomination for Best Actress for her role of Sadie Thompson in the film of the same name but lost to Janet Gaynor for 3 different films. The following year, she again was nominated for the same award in The Trespasser (1929). This time, she lost out to Norma Shearer in The Divorcee (1930). By the 1930s, Gloria pared back her work with only four films during that time. She had taken a hiatus from film work after 1934's Music in the Air (1934) and would not be seen again until Father Takes a Wife (1941). That was to be it until 1950, when she starred in Sunset Boulevard (1950) as Norma Desmond opposite William Holden. She played a movie actress who was all but washed up. The movie was a box office smash and earned her a third Academy Award nomination as Best Actress, but she lost to Judy Holliday in Born Yesterday (1950). The film is considered one of the best in the history of film and, on June 16, 1998, was named one of the top 100 films of all time by the American Film Institute, placing 12th. After a few more films in the 1950s, Gloria more or less retired. Throughout the 1960s, she appeared mostly on television. Her last fling with the silver screen was Airport 1975 (1974), wherein she played herself. Gloria died on April 4, 1983, in New York City at the age of 84. There was never anyone like her, before or since.10 Movies with Clarence G Badger (Spanning 2 Years)
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The Nick of Time Baby (1916)
Hearts and Sparks (1916)
A Social Cub (1916)
The Danger Girl (1916)
Haystacks and Steeples (1916)
Teddy at the Throttle (1917)
Dangers of a Bride (1917)
Whose Baby? (1917)
The Sultan's Wife (1917)
The Pullman Bride (1917)- Actress
- Producer
- Director
Julie Strain was born in Concord, California, as Julie Ann Strain. She was an actress, known for Sex Court, (1998), Heavy Metal 2000 (2000) and Double Impact (1991), and Battle Queen 2020. She grew up in Pleasant Hill California and graduated from Diablo Valley College, in that town. Appeared in over 100 movies, was one of the tallest actresses in Hollywood, and performed all her own stunts. Julie was crowned the Queen of the B-movies.10 Movies with Jim Wyrnoski (Spanning 13 Years)
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Sorceress (1995)
Victim of Desire (1995)
The Escort III (1999 Video)
The Bare Wench Project (2000)
The Bare Wench Project 2: Scared Topless (2001 Video)
The Bare Wench Project 3: Nymphs of Mystery Mountain (2002 Video)
Bare Wench Project: Uncensored (2003 Video)
Treasure Hunt (2003 Video)
Bare Wench: The Final Chapter (2005 TV Movie)
The Lusty Busty Babe-a-que (2008 TV Movie)