Known for Costume & Make-Up
Born
September 17, 1913
Died
April 12, 1990 (age 76)
Birthplace
Cananda
Filmography
62 films


Defiance
1980 · 1h 43m · US
Tommy takes up temporary housing in a New York neighborhood plagued by a violent gang called the Souls. Tommy is waiting for his next assignment as a seaman and though he tries to avoid the gang and his neighbors, it does not work. Soon he is battling the Souls and not only changing their attitudes, but the attitudes of his previously intimidated neighbors as well.


Lost and Found
1979 · 1h 46m · UK
While visiting Switzerland, an American college professor, Adam, keeps running into a divorced British secretary, Patricia, wherever they go. First their cars collide. Then they smash into one another on a ski slope, each breaking a leg. In between numerous quarrels, the two develop lust and love. They hastily marry, but the disagreements continue. Patricia decides to leave, so Adam decides to fake a suicide. They lose and find each other, again and again.


The Sky Trap
1979 · 1h 40m · US
A young man in Arizona, in trying to save his mother’s business, takes off in a sailplane and finds a secret landing strip. He finds that it is being used by drug smugglers, and he works to catch them.


Comes a Horseman
1978 · 1h 58m · US
Ella Connors is a single woman who gets pressured to sell her failing cattle farm to her corrupt ex-suitor, Jacob Ewing. She asks for help from her neighbor, Frank Athearn. As Ella and Frank fight back through stampedes, jealousy, betrayal, and sabotage... they eventually find love.


Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?
1978 · 1h 52m · FR
Mystery abounds when it is discovered that, one by one, the greatest chefs in Europe are being killed. The intriguing part of the murders is that each chef is killed in the same manner that their own special dish is prepared in. Food critics and the (many) self-proclaimed greatest chefs in Europe demand the mystery be solved.


Murder at the World Series
1977 · 1h 40m · US
A disturbed young man threatens violence at the World Series after failing to make the Houston Astros.


Fun with Dick and Jane
1977 · 1h 35m · US
When an upwardly mobile couple find themselves unemployed and in debt, they turn to armed robbery in desperation.


The Great Houdinis
1976 · 1h 36m · US
A biography of the renowned escape artist Harry Houdini, examining his fascination with the occult and his promise to his wife on her deathbed that he would speak from the beyond.


The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox
1976 · 1h 43m · US
A female hustler is chasing after rich men, but becomes repeatedly mixed up with a suave con man and card shark through a series of misadventures before falling in love with him.


Rooster Cogburn
1975 · 1h 48m · US
After a band of drunken thugs overruns a small Indian Nation town, killing Reverend Goodnight and raping the women folk, Eula Goodnight enlists the aid of US Marshal Cogburn to hunt them down and bring her father's killers to justice.


The Towering Inferno
1974 · 2h 45m · US
At the opening party of a colossal—but poorly constructed—skyscraper, a massive fire breaks out, threatening to destroy the tower and everyone in it.


The Klansman
1974 · 1h 52m · US
A small southern town has just been rocked by a tragedy: a young white woman has been raped by a black man. When young black man Garth witnesses the Ku Klux Klan's violent retaliation against his innocent friend, Garth declares a one-man war on the Klan and hunts them down one-by-one.


The Iceman Cometh
1973 · 3h 59m · US
Set in 1912, inside a dive bar named The Last Chance Saloon, its destitute patrons eagerly await the arrival of Hickey, who arrives annually and props everyone up with free drinks and spirited stories of his travels. However, when Hickey does show up this year, it is with a message of temperance and an exhortation to give up hopeless dreams and face reality.


A Reflection of Fear
1972 · 1h 29m · US
A young girl lives with her mother and grandmother. One day her estranged father returns home with a female companion he introduces as his fiance. Soon the girl finds herself in the midst of strange goings-on, which evolve into a web of crime and murder.


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.


The Cowboys
1972 · 2h 14m · US
When his cattlemen abandon him for the gold fields, rancher Wil Andersen is forced to take on a collection of young boys as his cowboys in order to get his herd to market in time to avoid financial disaster. The boys learn to do a man's job under Andersen's tutelage, however, neither he nor the boys know that a gang of cattle thieves is stalking them.


Le Mans
1971 · 1h 44m · US
Filmed during the annual 24-hour endurance race at Le Mans, Michael Delaney is a Porsche driver haunted by the memory of an accident at the previous year's race in which a competing driver was killed. Delaney also finds himself increasingly infatuated with the man's widow.


Monte Walsh
1970 · 1h 39m · US
Monte Walsh is an aging cowboy facing the ending days of the Wild West era. As barbed wire and railways steadily eliminate the need for the cowboy, Monte and his friends are left with fewer and fewer options. New work opportunities are available to them, but the freedom of the open prarie is what they long for. Eventually, they all must say goodbye to the lives they knew, and try to make a new start.


Flareup
1969 · 1h 40m · US
A Las Vegas go-go dancer moves to Los Angeles to escape the psycho who has killed her partners.


Bullitt
1968 · 1h 53m · US
Senator Walter Chalmers is aiming to take down mob boss Pete Ross with the help of testimony from the criminal's hothead brother Johnny, who is in protective custody in San Francisco under the watch of police lieutenant Frank Bullitt. When a pair of mob hitmen enter the scene, Bullitt follows their trail through a maze of complications and double-crosses. This thriller includes one of the most famous car chases ever filmed.


With Six You Get Eggroll
1968 · 1h 35m · US
Abby McClure, a widow with three sons, and Jake Iverson, a widower with a teenage daughter, begin dating and eventually decide to get married. But they're not prepared for the hostile reactions from their children, who are not very excited about the new union between the two families.


The President's Analyst
1967 · 1h 43m · US
At first, Dr. Sidney Schaefer feels honored and thrilled to be offered the job of the President's Analyst. But then the stress of the job and the paranoid spies that come with a sensitive government position get to him, and he runs away. Now spies from all over the world are after him, either to get him for their own side or to kill him and prevent someone else from getting him.


Waterhole #3
1967 · 1h 35m · US
After a professional gambler kills a Confederate soldier, he finds a map pinpointing the location in the desert where stolen army gold bullion is buried. He plans to retrieve it, but others are searching for it too.


Hawaii
1966 · 3h 9m · US
Abner Hale, a rigid and humorless New England missionary, marries the beautiful Jerusha Bromley and takes her to the exotic island kingdom of Hawaii, intent on converting the natives. But the clash between the two cultures is too great and instead of understanding there comes tragedy.


Kiss Me, Stupid
1964 · 2h 5m · US
While traveling home from Vegas, an amorous lounge singer named Dino gets conned by a local mechanic/songwriter into staying in town for the night. The mechanic's songwriting partner, Orville, offers Dino his home for overnight lodging and enlists a local waitress/call girl to pose as his wife in order to placate Dino's urges.


Invitation to a Gunfighter
1964 · 1h 32m · US
In New Mexico, a Confederate veteran returns home to find his fiancée married to a Union soldier, his Yankee neighbors rallied against him and his property sold by the local banker who then hires a gunman to kill him.


Kings of the Sun
1963 · 1h 48m · US
In order to flee from powerful enemies, young Mayan king Balam leads his people north across the Gulf of Mexico to the coast of what will become the United States. They build a home in the new land but come into conflict with a tribe of Native Americans led by their chief, Black Eagle, while both Balam and Black Eagle fall in love the beautiful Mayan princess Ixchel.


The Great Escape
1963 · 2h 53m · US
The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocate them to a high-security 'escape-proof' camp to sit out the remainder of the war. Undaunted, the prisoners plan one of the most ambitious escape attempts of World War II. Based on a true story.


Taras Bulba
1962 · 1h 59m · US
Ukraine, 16th century. While the Poles dominate the Cossack steppes, Andrei, son of Taras Bulba, a Cossack leader, must choose between his love for his family and his folk and his passion for a Polish woman.


The Children's Hour
1961 · 1h 48m · US
An unruly student at a private all-girls boarding school scandalously accuses the two women who run it of having a romantic relationship.


West Side Story
1961 · 2h 33m · US
In Manhattan’s Upper West Side, rival gangs of Polish-Americans and newly arrived Puerto Ricans clash for control of the neighborhood, even as two young members from opposite sides fall dangerously in love.


20,000 Eyes
1961 · 1h 1m · US
An investment counselor turns jewel thief when the gangster he embezzled funds from demands to be paid back.


The Plunderers
1960 · 1h 34m · US
Four young toughs have ridden into Trail City and claimed it as easy pickings for their bullying and gunplay. The whole town will be overrun by lawlessness if decent folks like rancher and Civil War veteran Sam Christy don’t take a stand.


The Magnificent Seven
1960 · 2h 8m · US
An oppressed Mexican peasant village hires seven gunfighters to help defend their homes.


The Hypnotic Eye
1960 · 1h 19m · US
A mysterious hypnotist is suspected by the police of being responsible for a wave of young, attractive women committing various forms of self-mutilation.


The Atomic Submarine
1959 · 1h 12m · US
Ships disappear on route across the Arctic Sea, and a special submarine is sent to investigate.


Some Like It Hot
1959 · 2h 3m · US
In Prohibition-era Chicago, musicians Joe and Jerry witness a mob hit, and flee the state in an all-female band disguised as Josephine and Daphne, but further complications set in.


Man of the West
1958 · 1h 40m · US
Heading east to Fort Worth to hire a schoolteacher for his frontier town home, Link Jones is stranded with singer Billie Ellis and gambler Sam Beasley when their train is held up. For shelter, Jones leads them to his nearby former home, where he was brought up an outlaw. Finding the gang still living in the shack, Jones pretends to be ready to return to a life crime.


Queen of Outer Space
1958 · 1h 20m · US
An aborted mission strands a crew on Venus where they find the planet inhabited only by women led by their evil Queen Yllana. Yllana had all the men of Venus killed, now that's she met Earth men, she wants them dead, too.


Fort Massacre
1958 · 1h 20m · US
New Mexico Territory, August 1879. The few surviving members of a cavalry column, which has been relentlessly decimated by the Apaches, attempt to reach Fort Crain. On their way through a hostile land, the obsessive and ruthless Sergeant Vinson takes to the limit the battered will of the troopers under his command.


Man from God's Country
1958 · 1h 12m · US
Dan Beattie gives up his lawman job to move further west and rejoin his old war buddy Curt Warren in the town of Sundown. At first mistaken for a railroad agent by Beau Santee, a Sundown businessman who wants to keep the railroad away from his town, Dan is nearly killed by Santee's henchman, Mark Faber. Dan discovers that his old pal Curt works for Santee. Even after learning Dan's true identity, Santee considers him trouble and plots to get rid of him. With the help of Curt's son Stony, Dan tries to get Curt to take a stand on the right side of the law.


Up In Smoke
1957 · 1h 1m · US
In order to be able to get the names of winning horses at the track, Sach agrees to sell his soul to the devil.


The Tall Stranger
1957 · 1h 23m · US
A Union soldier returns to his western home at the end of the Civil War and finds himself caught in the middle of a land war between his greedy half-brother and a wagon train of Confederate homesteaders.


Death in Small Doses
1957 · 1h 19m · US
A government agent investigates the use of illegal amphetamines among long-haul truck drivers.


The Disembodied
1957 · 1h 13m · US
When men on a photo safari stumble into a misanthropic doctor’s remote camp with a wounded comrade, the doctor's restless wife supplements her usual pursuit (voodoo, especially as a way to off her husband) with a new one: seduction. As men lose their hearts (sometimes literally) to the alluring voodoo priestess, she embarks on a killing spree that turns the jungle blood red.


My Gun Is Quick
1957 · 1h 31m · US
Detective Mike Hammer's investigation of a murder puts him in the middle between warring jewel thieves.


Dino
1957 · 1h 34m · US
A juvenile delinquent on parole receives support from a social worker and a girl from a slum.


Spook Chasers
1957 · 1h 2m · US
Sach and the gang (Bowery Boys) find stashed cash in an old farmhouse apparently haunted.


Footsteps in the Night
1957 · 1h 2m · US
Two detectives investigate the strangulation murder of a man whom everyone seemed to like.


Friendly Persuasion
1956 · 2h 17m · US
The story of a family of Quakers in Indiana in 1862. Their religious sect is strongly opposed to violence and war. It's not easy for them to meet the rules of their religion in everyday life but when Southern troops pass the area they are in real trouble. Should they fight, despite their peaceful attitude?


Hold Back the Night
1956 · 1h 20m · US
A Marine officer goes through Korea with the bottle of Scotch that his wife gave him in the last war.


Invasion of the Body Snatchers
1956 · 1h 20m · US
A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.


At Gunpoint
1955 · 1h 21m · US
A general-store keeper scares off bank robbers with a lucky shot, but they come back.


Pearl of the South Pacific
1955 · 1h 26m · US
Two beachcombers with a yacht join woman-with-a-past Rita on a quest for black pearls on a secret island. Arrived, they find another white man has made himself high priest; but George, the latter's handome son, is fair game for Rita, who lands in the guise of a missionary! The inevitable conflict over the pearls brings violence and corruption to the quiet island.


Land of the Pharaohs
1955 · 1h 45m · US
A captured architect designs an ingenious plan to ensure the impregnability of the tomb of a self-absorbed Pharaoh, obsessed with the security of his next life.


One Way Street
1950 · 1h 19m · US
After stealing a gangster's money and his girlfriend, a doctor heads for a small village in Mexico to hide out.


Bagdad
1949 · 1h 22m · US
An Arab sheik's daughter (Maureen O'Hara) avenges his death, blamed on Hassan (Paul Christian) and his Black Riders.


Abandoned
1949 · 1h 18m · US
A Los Angeles newspaperman seeks a woman's sister and finds a black-market baby ring.


Take One False Step
1949 · 1h 34m · US
Catherine Sykes disappears after a midnight drive with Professor Andrew Gentling . When she's presumed murdered, his friend Martha convinces him that he's a prime suspect and should investigate before he's arrested.


Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein
1948 · 1h 23m · US
The Wolf Man tries to warn a dimwitted porter that Dracula wants his brain for Frankenstein monster's body.


Fort Apache
1948 · 2h 8m · US
Owen Thursday sees his new posting to the desolate Fort Apache as a chance to claim the military honour which he believes is rightfully his. Arrogant, obsessed with military form and ultimately self-destructive, he attempts to destroy the Apache chief Cochise after luring him across the border from Mexico, against the advice of his subordinates.