William Frye, a man about town in Hollywood who produced General Electric Theater and Boris Karloff's Thriller for television as well as films including The Trouble With Angels and Airport 1975, has died. He was 96.
Frye died Nov. 3 of natural causes at his home in Palm Desert, Calif., according to an obituary placed in the Los Angeles Times.
Frye worked with and became dear friends with the likes of Cary Grant, Ronald Colman, Ronald Reagan, Irene Dunne, Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Loretta Young, Rosalind Russell, Bob Hope and Jimmy Stewart.
The producer also was close...
Frye died Nov. 3 of natural causes at his home in Palm Desert, Calif., according to an obituary placed in the Los Angeles Times.
Frye worked with and became dear friends with the likes of Cary Grant, Ronald Colman, Ronald Reagan, Irene Dunne, Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Loretta Young, Rosalind Russell, Bob Hope and Jimmy Stewart.
The producer also was close...
- 11/11/2017
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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The thriller Raise The Titanic was a $40m flop in 1980, its model Titanic alone costing millions. Ryan charts the replica's sad history...
By autumn 1977, author Clive Cussler was the toast of the publishing world. Following a decade of writing and two moderately successful novels, his third book, Raise The Titanic! was a runaway bestseller. Its popularity was a contrast to Cussler's earlier books, which had earned him a relatively meagre $5,000. But those earlier adventures - The Mediterranean Caper and Iceberg - helped establish the daring hero Dirk Pitt, a practical, earthy hero designed as a counterpoint to the suave, refined James Bond.
For Raise The Titanic!, Cussler dreamed up a scenario in which Pitt headed up a multi-billion-dollar operation to find and recover the doomed luxury liner, which sank in 1912. Their goal: to recover a mysterious, incredibly rare substance called byzantium from the ship's belly - a...
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The thriller Raise The Titanic was a $40m flop in 1980, its model Titanic alone costing millions. Ryan charts the replica's sad history...
By autumn 1977, author Clive Cussler was the toast of the publishing world. Following a decade of writing and two moderately successful novels, his third book, Raise The Titanic! was a runaway bestseller. Its popularity was a contrast to Cussler's earlier books, which had earned him a relatively meagre $5,000. But those earlier adventures - The Mediterranean Caper and Iceberg - helped establish the daring hero Dirk Pitt, a practical, earthy hero designed as a counterpoint to the suave, refined James Bond.
For Raise The Titanic!, Cussler dreamed up a scenario in which Pitt headed up a multi-billion-dollar operation to find and recover the doomed luxury liner, which sank in 1912. Their goal: to recover a mysterious, incredibly rare substance called byzantium from the ship's belly - a...
- 10/21/2015
- by ryanlambie
- Den of Geek
California-based Image Entertainment reports it has acquired North American rights to the 1960's horror anthology TV series "Thriller" from NBC/Universal, hosted by actor Boris Karloff ("Frankenstein").
Created by Hubbell Robinson for Revue Studios (later purchased by Universal) and produced by Canadian Fletcher Markle, William Frye, and Maxwell Shane, writers for the series included Robert Bloch, adapting his own stories including "The Weird Tailor".
Karloff acted in several of the episodes alongside guest stars including William Shatner ("Star Trek"), Scott Marlowe, Judson Pratt, Leslie Nielsen ("Forbidden Planet"), Mary Tyler Moore, Elizabeth Montgomery ("Bewitched"), Rip Torn, Richard Chamberlain, Cloris Leachman, Robert Vaughn ("The Man From U.N.C.L.E."), John Carradine and Ursula Andress. Other notable performers included Dayton Lummis as 'Clarence' in "The Cheaters" (1960) and Laura Craig in "Mr. George" (1961).
In his book "Danse Macabre", author Stephen King, aside from admitting that his best stories were cribbed from EC horror comics of the 1950's,...
Created by Hubbell Robinson for Revue Studios (later purchased by Universal) and produced by Canadian Fletcher Markle, William Frye, and Maxwell Shane, writers for the series included Robert Bloch, adapting his own stories including "The Weird Tailor".
Karloff acted in several of the episodes alongside guest stars including William Shatner ("Star Trek"), Scott Marlowe, Judson Pratt, Leslie Nielsen ("Forbidden Planet"), Mary Tyler Moore, Elizabeth Montgomery ("Bewitched"), Rip Torn, Richard Chamberlain, Cloris Leachman, Robert Vaughn ("The Man From U.N.C.L.E."), John Carradine and Ursula Andress. Other notable performers included Dayton Lummis as 'Clarence' in "The Cheaters" (1960) and Laura Craig in "Mr. George" (1961).
In his book "Danse Macabre", author Stephen King, aside from admitting that his best stories were cribbed from EC horror comics of the 1950's,...
- 5/9/2010
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
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