Best remembered for playing the creepy Omni chairman in RoboCop, Dan O’Herlihy was a one-of-a-kind Best Actor Oscar nominee during the studio era.
Carol Reed
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Ron Moody: Oliver Twist + Walt Disney But No Harry Potter
19 minutes readRon Moody: Fagin in Oliver! Went From Charles Dickens to Walt Disney (and Mel Brooks) – But Strangely no star cameo in Harry Potter movies.
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Ron Moody: Oliver! Actor + Oscar Nominee
15 minutes readRon Moody: Oliver! Actor, Oscar Nominee Dead. Dickens’ Fagin in troubled but highly successful stage musical and later Best Picture winner..
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Autumn Crocus (Movie 1934): Ivor Novello Swan Song
7 minutes readAutumn Crocus (movie 1934) review: West End legend Ivor Novello stars in Basil Dean’s wistful romantic drama about middle-aged longing. Fay Compton costars.
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Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson in Brief Encounter. Friday, Aug. 22, highlights on Turner Classic Movies (TCM): I’m not all that familiar with Trevor Howard’s career as a star. I’ve …
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Walter Matthau Movies: The Fortune Cookie + Kotch
4 minutes readWalter Matthau in The Fortune Cookie, with Jack Lemmon. Saturday, June 14, highlights on Turner Classic Movies include The Third Man and several Walter Matthau movies: Many consider The Third …
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Alida Valli: Italian Film Star
18 minutes readAlida Valli possessed a stern, aristocratic beauty: A wide face covered with dark, voluptuous hair, and featuring large, profoundly expressive green eyes that could convey with equal intensity either soulfulness …
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Best British Films Poll: Violent Caine Thriller Is #1
10 minutes readWhat are the best British films of all time? Starring Michael Caine, the violent 1971 thriller Get Carter is critics’ surprise no. 1 choice.
Andrew Sarris: Auteur Theory Film Critic & Author Dead
Andrew Sarris, auteur theory proponent in the U.S., died earlier today at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital in Manhattan, apparently of complications caused by a stomach virus. Sarris, who was 83, was …
Margaretta Scott. Margaretta Scott: Things to Come & All Creatures Great and Small actress remembered Margaretta Scott, best remembered for playing the eccentric widow Mrs. Pumphrey in the BBC television …