Martin Balsam: Best Supporting Actor Oscar winner for A Thousand Clowns. Martin Balsam: Oscar winner supported Joanne Woodward & Rod Steiger + Charles Bronson Best Supporting Actor Academy Award winner Martin Balsam (A Thousand Clowns) is Turner Classic Movies’ unusual (and welcome) “Summer Under the…
Sylvia Sidney
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Gilbert Cates, best known as the man behind a record 14 Academy Awards ceremonies, died last night (Sept. 31) in Los Angeles. The 77-year-old director and producer collapsed in a parking lot on the UCLA campus; emergency personnel were unable to revive him. Although the…
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Among the good & rarities screened at the UCLA Film and Television Archive Festival of Preservation (website) was a restored print of the rarely seen 1928 drama The Barker (though luckily this one will be screened at the upcoming Cinecon), Joseph H. Lewis’ thriller The…