Known for Art
Born
July 19, 1917
Died
March 19, 2001 (age 83)
Birthplace
Los Angeles, California, USA
Filmography
37 films, 1 show


DragonHeart
1996 · 1h 43m · US
In an ancient time when majestic fire-breathers soared through the skies, a knight named Bowen comes face to face and heart to heart with the last dragon on Earth, Draco. Taking up arms to suppress a tyrant king, Bowen soon realizes his task will be harder than he'd imagined: If he kills the king, Draco will die as well.


So I Married an Axe Murderer
1993 · 1h 33m · US
Just after a bad breakup, Charlie MacKenzie falls for lovely butcher Harriet Michaels and introduces her to his parents. But, as voracious consumers of sensational tabloids, his parents soon come to suspect that Harriet is actually a notorious serial killer -- "Mrs. X" -- wanted in connection with a string of bizarre honeymoon killings. Thinking his parents foolish, Charlie proposes to Harriet. But while on his honeymoon with her, he begins to fear they were right.


Total Recall
1990 · 1h 53m · US
Construction worker Douglas Quaid's obsession with the planet Mars leads him to visit Rekall, a virtual vacation company that manufactures memories. When something goes wrong during Quaid's memory implant procedure, his life turns upside down, leading him to question what is reality and what isn't.


Silver Bullet
1985 · 1h 35m · IT
The small city of Tarker's Mills is startled by a series of sadistic murders. The population fears the work of a maniac, but sightings of a mysterious, hairy creature soon spread. People lock themselves up at night, but there's one boy who's still outside…


Summer Rental
1985 · 1h 27m · US
Jack Chester, an overworked air traffic controller, takes his family on vacation to the beach. Things immediately start to go wrong for the Chesters, and steadily get worse. Jack ends up in a feud with a local yachtsman, and has to race him to regain his pride and family's respect.


My Favorite Year
1982 · 1h 32m · US
Fledgling comic Benjy Stone can't believe his luck when his childhood hero, the swashbuckling matinee idol Alan Swann, gets booked to appear on the variety show he writes for. But when Swann arrives, he fails to live up to his silver screen image. Instead, he's a drunken womanizer who suffers from stage fright. Benjy is assigned to look after him before the show, and it's all he can do to keep his former idol from going completely off the rails.


The Thing
1982 · 1h 49m · US
A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.


Blade Runner
1982 · 1h 58m · US
In the smog-choked dystopian Los Angeles of 2019, blade runner Rick Deckard is called out of retirement to terminate a quartet of replicants who have escaped to Earth seeking their creator for a way to extend their short life spans.


Hurricane
1979 · 2h · US
The story of the desperate love affair between a young Samoan chief and a beautiful American painter, against the will of her father, the powerful governor of the island. Amid this man-made tension comes a powerful hurricane so devastating, the lives of the lovers and the entire island are imperiled.


Looking for Mr. Goodbar
1977 · 2h 16m · US
A short, unhappy affair with a married man leads a dedicated schoolteacher into the alcohol-and-drug fueled underworld of singles’ bars, where she begins to engage in a pattern of dangerous sexual activity.


King Kong
1976 · 2h 14m · US
An oil company expedition disturbs the peace of a giant ape and brings him back to New York to exploit him.


The Prisoner of Second Avenue
1975 · 1h 38m · US
Mel Edison has just lost his job after many years and now has to cope with being unemployed at middle age during an intense NYC heat wave.


Westworld
1973 · 1h 29m · US
Delos is a futuristic amusement park that features themed worlds populated by human-like androids. After two patrons have a run-in with a menacing gunslinger in West World, the androids at Delos all begin to malfunction, causing havoc throughout the park.


The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing
1973 · 2h 3m · US
On the run from her violent husband, a woman witnesses a train robbery and is taken prisoner by a frontier outlaw gang, led by a bandit who’s hiding a secret of his own.


Prime Cut
1972 · 1h 28m · US
A group of ruthless Chicago mob enforcers are sent to Kansas City to settle things with the owner of a slaughterhouse who has taken money that is not his to keep.


Julius Caesar
1970 · 1h 57m · UK
All-star cast glamorizes this lavish 1970 remake of the classic William Shakespeare play, which portrays the assassination of Julius Caesar on the Ides of March, and the resulting war between the faction led by the assassins and the faction led by Mark Anthony.


The Liberation of L.B. Jones
1970 · 1h 42m · US
A successful African American businessman has a quarrel with a white policeman, suspecting that he is having an affair with his wife. The policeman's colleagues are seeking to avoid publicity.


Generation
1969 · 1h 49m · US
Newlyweds shock the bride's father with plans for natural childbirth in a Greenwich Village loft.


The Longest Day
1962 · 2h 58m · US
The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day"


Cimarron
1960 · 2h 27m · US
The epic story of a family involved in the Oklahoma Land Rush of April 22, 1889.


The Tunnel of Love
1958 · 1h 38m · US
A series of misunderstandings leaves a married man believing he has impregnated the owner of an adoption agency, and that she will be his and his wife's surrogate.


The Power and the Prize
1956 · 1h 38m · US
An ambitious executive jeopardizes his career to marry a European refugee.


Mister Roberts
1955 · 2h 3m · US
Mr. Roberts is a Navy officer who's yearning for battle but is stuck in the backwaters of World War II on a non-commissioned ship run by the bullying Captain Morton.


Hit the Deck
1955 · 1h 52m · US
Sailors on leave in San Francisco get mixed up in love and show business.


The Last Time I Saw Paris
1954 · 1h 56m · US
Reporter Charles Wills, in Paris to cover the end of World War II, falls for the beautiful Helen Ellswirth following a brief flirtation with her sister, Marion. After he and Helen marry, Charles pursues his novelistic ambition while supporting his new bride with a deadening job at a newspaper wire service. But when an old investment suddenly makes the family wealthy, their marriage begins to unravel — until a sudden tragedy changes everything.


Executive Suite
1954 · 1h 44m · US
When the head of a large manufacturing firm dies suddenly from a stroke, his vice-presidents vie to see who will replace him.


Kiss Me Kate
1953 · 1h 49m · US
A pair of divorced actors are brought together to participate in a musical version of The Taming of the Shrew. Of course, the couple seem to act a great deal like the characters they play, and they must work together when mistaken identities get them mixed up with the mafia.


Take the High Ground!
1953 · 1h 41m · US
Sgt. Thorne Ryan, who once fought bravely in Korea, now serves as a hard-nosed drill instructor to new Army recruits at Fort Bliss, Texas. But is he really the man he is often described as? His fellow instructor, and friend helps him to face the ghosts of his past experiences in Korea. One night in a bar across the border in Juarez, Mexico, Sgt. Ryan meets a lady who begins to turn his life around. Will this be enough to help him deal with the past? Or will he continue to be so hard on his troops?


The Naked Spur
1953 · 1h 31m · US
A bounty hunter trying to bring a murderer to justice is forced to accept the help of two less-than-trustworthy strangers.


Undercurrent
1946 · 1h 56m · US
After a rapid engagement, a dowdy daughter of a chemist weds an industrialist, knowing little of his family or past. He transforms her into an elegant society wife, but becomes enraged whenever she asks about Michael, his mysterious long-lost brother.


The Shop Around the Corner
1940 · 1h 39m · US
Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand one another, without realising that they are falling in love through the post as each other's anonymous pen pal.