Cinelists

Monday, January 9, 2012

50 Important Cinematographers- and Their Top 10 Movies

Cinematography is often denigrated or ignored; they say if you notice the cinematography in a movie, it can’t be much of a movie. But think about this: on T.V. you can get good scripts, good direction, and good acting but hardly ever do you see a TV program that looks amazing. Whereas there are 100’s of movies, from Sunrise to The Graduate to The Tree of Life, which have stunning visuals. Cinematography is thus perhaps one of cinema’s most precious gifts, one area where it has no peers.

Here are some of its heroes. While a few, such as Gregg Toland, Gordon Willis & Sven Nykvist, are well-known, most are very much under-appreciated. I have tried to select a cross-section of the notable films these DPs have worked on and have, with some difficulty, restricted the selection to a maximum of 10. In most cases their careers take in many more films of interest.

In fact these cinematographers often have far more interesting filmographies than very well-known actors and directors. Consider George Perinal, for example, whose career spans classic French films of the early 30’s, major Alexander Korda productions in Britain later in that decade and Michael Powell and Carol Reed films in the late 1940’s. Or what about Michael Ballhaus, whose career forms a strange connection between Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Martin Scorsese, or Carlo Di Palma, who in a similar way connects Michelangelo Antinioni to Woody Allen. There are all kinds of intriguing matters like this for the film fan to consider in the lists below.

Nestor Almendros (Sp.)

1. Ma Nuit Chez Maud (1969)

2. L' Enfant sauvage, (1970)

3. Claire's Knee (1970)

4. Two English Girls (1971)

5. Chloe in the Afternoon (1972)

6. Days of Heaven (1978)

7. Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)

8. Sophie's Choice (1982)

Michael Ballhaus (Ger.)

1. The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972)

2. Fox and His Friends (1975)

3. The Marriage of Maria Braun(1979)

4. The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)

5. Goodfellas (1990)

6. Postcards from the Edge (1990)

7. The Age of Innocence (1993)

8. Gangs of New York (2002)

9. The Departed (2006)

Billy Bitzer (US)

1. The Birth of a Nation (1915)

2. Intolerance (1916)

3. True Heart Susie (1919)

4. Broken Blossoms (1919)

5. Orphans of the Storm (1921)

Robert Burks (US)

1. The Glass Menagerie (1950)

2. Strangers on a Train (1951)

3. The Enforcer (1951)

4. I Confess (1953)

5. Rear Window (1954)

6. To Catch a Thief (1955)

7. Vertigo (1958)

8. North by Northwest (1959)

9. The Birds (1963)

10. Marnie (1964)

Jack Cardiff (UK)

1. A Matter of Life and Death (1946)

2. Black Narcissus (1947)

3. The Red Shoes (1948)

4. The African Queen (1951)

5. Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951)

6. The Barefoot Contessa (1954)

7. War and Peace (1956)

8. Death on the Nile (1978)

9. The Dogs of War (1981)

Michael Chapman (US)

1. The Last Detail (1973)

2. The Front (1976)

3. Taxi Driver (1976)

4. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

5. The Last Waltz (1978)

6. Raging Bull (1980)

7. Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982)

8. The Fugitive (1993)

9. Primal Fear (1996)

Raoul Coutard (Fr.)

1. À Bout de Souffle (1960)

2. Shoot the Piano Player (1960)

3. Chronique D'un Été (1961)

4. Vivre Sa Vie (1962)

5. Jules et Jim (1962)

6. Le Mépris (1963)

7. 2 Ou 3 Choses Que Je Sais D'elle (1967)

8. Week End (1967)

9. Z (1969)

10. Prénom Carmen (1983)

William H. Daniels (US)

1. Greed (1924)

2. Grand Hotel (1932)

3. Anna Karenina (1935)

4. Ninotchka (1939)

5. The Mortal Storm (1940)

6. The Shop Around the Corner (1940)

7. The Naked City (1948)

8. Harvey (1950)

9. Winchester '73 (1950)

10. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)

Roger Deakins (UK)

1. Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)

2. Barton Fink (1991)

3. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

4. Fargo (1996)

5. Kundun (1997)

6. The Big Lebowski (1998)

7. A Beautiful Mind (2001)

8. The Man Who Wasn't There (2001)

9. No Country for Old Men (2007)

10. The Reader (2008)

Henri Decae (Fr.)

1. Les Enfants Terribles (1950)

2. Bob le Flambeur (1956)

3. Elevator to the Gallows (1958)

4. Les Cousins (1959)

5. The 400 Blows (1959)

6. Sundays and Cybele (1962)

7. Le Samourai (1967)

8. The Comedians (1967)

9. The Only Game in Town (1970)

10. The Boys from Brazil (1978)

Carlo Di Palma (It.)

1. Divorce - Italian Style (1961)

2. The Red Desert (1964)

3. Blowup (1966)

4. Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)

5. Husbands and Wives (1992)

6. Bullets Over Broadway (1994)

7. Everyone Says I Love You (1996)

8. Deconstructing Harry (1997)

Christopher Doyle (Austral.)

1. Days of Being Wild (1991)

2. Chungking Express (1994)

3. Psycho (1998)

4. In the Mood for Love (2000)

5. Hero (2002)

6. The Quiet American (2002)

7. Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002)

8. Last Life in the Universe (2003)

9. 2046 (2004)

10. Paranoid Park (2007)

Freddie Francis (UK)

1. Room at the Top (1959)

2. Sons and Lovers (1960)

3. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960)

4. The Innocents (1961)

5. The Elephant Man (1980)

6. The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981)

7. Dune (1984)

8. Cape Fear (1991)

9. The Straight Story (1999)

Karl Freund (Czech)

1. The Last Laugh (1924)

2. Berlin, Symphony of a City (1927)

3. Metropolis (1927)

4. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)

5. Dracula (1931)

6. Camille (1936)

7. Pride and Prejudice (1940)

8. Key Largo (1948)

Tak Fujimoto (US)

1. Badlands (1973)

2. Last Embrace (1979)

3. Melvin and Howard (1980)

4. Something Wild (1986)

5. Pretty in Pink (1986)

6. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

7. Philadelphia (1993)

8. Devil in a Blue Dress (1995)

9. The Sixth Sense (1999)

10. The Manchurian Candidate (2004)

Lee Garmes (US)

1. Morocco (1930)

2. An American Tragedy (1931)

3. Scarface (1932)

4. Shanghai Express (1932)

5. Gone with the Wind (1939)

6. Jungle Book (1942)

7. Duel in the Sun (1946)

8. Nightmare Alley (1947)

9. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947)

10. Detective Story (1951)

Conrad Hall (US)

1. In Cold Blood (1967)

2. Cool Hand Luke (1967)

3. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)

4. Fat City (1972)

5. Marathon Man (1976)

6. Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993)

7. A Civil Action (1998)

8. American Beauty (1999)

9. Road to Perdition (2002)

Janusz Kaminski (Pol.)

1. Jerry Maguire (1996)

2. Saving Private Ryan (1998)

3. Artificial Intelligence: AI (2001)

4. Catch Me If You Can (2002)

5. Minority Report (2002)

6. War of the Worlds (2005)

7. Munich (2005)

8. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)

9. Funny People (2009)

10. The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn (2011)

Boris Kaufman (Pol.)

1. Zero de Conduite (1933)

2. L'Atalante (1934)

3. On the Waterfront (1954)

4. 12 Angry Men (1957)

5. Baby Doll (1956)

6. The Fugitive Kind (1960)

7. Splendor in the Grass (1961)

8. Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962)

9. The Pawnbroker (1964)

10. The Group (1966)

Darius Khondji (Iran)

1. Delicatessen (1991)

2. Seven (1995)

3. The City of Lost Children (1995)

4. Evita (1996)

5. Stealing Beauty (1996)

6. The Beach (2000)

7. Panic Room (2002)

8. Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait (2006)

9. Funny Games (2008)

10. Midnight in Paris (2011)

László Kovács (Hung.)

1. Easy Rider (1969)

2. Five Easy Pieces (1970)

3. The King of Marvin Gardens (1972)

4. What's Up, Doc? (1972)

5. Paper Moon (1973)

6. Shampoo (1975)

7. New York, New York (1977)

8. Ghost Busters (1984)

9. Copycat (1995)

Robert Krasker (Austral.)

1. Brief Encounter (1945)

2. Odd Man Out (1947)

3. The Third Man (1949)

4. Cry, the Beloved Country (1951)

5. Senso (1954)

6. The Quiet American (1958)

7. Billy Budd (1962)

8. The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)

9. The Collector (1965)

Charles Lang (US)

1. She Done Him Wrong (1933)

2. Desire (1936)

3. Midnight (1939)

4. Ace in the Hole (1951)

5. The Big Heat (1953)

6. Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957)

7. Some Like It Hot (1959)

8. The Magnificent Seven (1960)

9. Wait Until Dark (1967)

Ernest Laszlo (Hung.)

1. M (1951)

2. Stalag 17 (1953)

3. The Moon Is Blue (1953)

4. Vera Cruz (1954)

5. Kiss Me Deadly (1955)

6. Inherit the Wind (1960)

7. Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)

8. Fantastic Voyage (1966)

9. Airport (1970)

10. Logan's Run (1976)

Emmanuel Lubezki (Mex.)

1. The Birdcage (1996)

2. Meet Joe Black (1998)

3. Great Expectations (1998)

4. Sleepy Hollow (1999)

5. Ali (2001)

6. Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004)

7. The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2004)

8. The New World (2005)

9. Children of Men (2006)

10. The Tree of Life (2011)

Rudolph Mate (Fr.)

1. La passion de Jeanne d'Arc(1928)

2. Vampyr (1932)

3. Dodsworth (1936)

4. Love Affair (1939)

5. Foreign Correspondent (1940)

6. My Favorite Wife (1940)

7. The Pride of the Yankees (1942)

8. To Be or Not to Be (1942)

9. Cover Girl (1944)

10. Gilda (1946)

Otello Martelli (It.)

1. Paisà (1946)

2. Variety Lights (1950)

3. Stromboli (1950)

4. I Vitelloni (1953)

5. La Strada (1954)

6. Nights of Cabiria (1957)

7. La Dolce Vita (1960)

Chris Menges (UK)

1. Kes (1969)

2. Made in Britain (1982)

3. Local Hero (1983)

4. The Killing Fields (1984)

5. The Mission (1986)

6. Michael Collins (1996)

7. The Boxer (1997)

8. The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005)

9. Notes on a Scandal (2006)

10. The Reader (2008)

Kazuo Miyagawa (Jap.)

1. Rashomon (1950)

2. Ugetsu (1953)

3. Sansho the Bailiff (1954)

4. Floating Weeds (1959)

5. Yojimbo (1961)

6. Zatoichi (1964)

7. Tokyo Olympiad (1965)

Oswald Morris (UK)

1. Oliver Twist (1948)

2. Look Back in Anger (1959)

3. The Entertainer (1960)

4. The Guns of Navarone (1961)

5. Lolita (1962)

6. The Pumpkin Eater (1964)

7. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965)

8. Oliver! (1968)

9. Sleuth (1972)

10. The Man Who Would Be King (1975)

Robby Muller (Holl.)

1. Alice in the Cities (1974)

2. The American Friend (1977)

3. Saint Jack (1979)

4. Paris, Texas (1984)

5. Mystery Train (1989)

6. Dead Man (1995)

7. Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999)

8. Dancer in the Dark (2000)

9. 24 Hour Party People (2002)

Asakazu Nakai (Jap.)

1. Stray Dog (1949)

2. Ikiru (1952)

3. Seven Samurai (1954)

4. Throne of Blood (1957)

5. The End of Summer (1961)

6. High and Low (1963)

7. Red Beard (1965)

8. Dersu Uzala (1975)

Sven Nykvist (Swed.)

1. Sawdust and Tinsel (1953)

2. The Silence (1963)

3. Persona (1966)

4. Cries and Whispers (1972)

5. Fanny and Alexander (1982)

6. Swann in Love (1984)

7. The Sacrifice (1986)

8. The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)

9. Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)

10. Chaplin (1992)

Miroslav Ondrícek (Cz.)

1. If.... (1968)

2. O Lucky Man!(1973)

3. Hair (1979)

4. Ragtime (1980)

5. The World According to Garp (1982)

6. Silkwood (1983)

7. Amadeus (1984)

8. Valmont (1989)

9. Awakenings (1990)

10. A League of Their Own (1992)

George Perinal (Fr.)

1. Under the Roofs of Paris (1930)

2. The Blood of a Poet (1930)

3. Le Million (1931)

4. A Nous la Liberte (1931)

5. The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933)

6. Things to Come (1936)

7. The Four Feathers (1939)

8. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)

9. The Fallen Idol (1948)

10. Bonjour tristesse (1958)

Wally Pfister (US)

1. Memento (2000)

2. Insomnia (2002)

3. The Italian Job (2003)

4. Batman Begins (2005)

5. The Prestige (2006)

6. The Dark Knight (2008)

7. Inception (2010)

8. Moneyball (2011)

Robert Richardson (US)

1. Platoon (1986)

2. Born on the Fourth of July (1989)

3. JFK (1991)

4. A Few Good Men (1992)

5. Natural Born Killers (1994)

6. Casino (1995)

7. The Aviator (2004)

8. Kill Bill: Vol. 1 & 2 (2003/4)

9. Inglourious Basterds (2009)

10. Shutter Island (2010)

Harold Rosson (US)

1. The Docks of New York (1928)

2. Red Dust (1932)

3. Bombshell (1933)

4. The Ghost Goes West (1935)

5. Captains Courageous (1937)

6. The Wizard of Oz (1939)

7. On the Town (1949)

8. The Asphalt Jungle (1950)

9. Singin' in the Rain (1952)

10. El Dorado (1966)

Harris Savides (US)

1. The Game (1997)

2. Finding Forrester (2000)

3. The Yards (2000)

4. Elephant (2003)

5. Zodiac (2007)

6. American Gangster (2007)

7. Milk (2008)

8. Greenberg (2010)

Douglas Slocombe (UK)

1. Dead of Night (1945)

2. Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)

3. The Man in the White Suit (1951)

4. The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)

5. Freud (1962)

6. The Servant (1963)

7. The Italian Job (1969)

8. Julia (1977)

9. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

10. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)

Vittorio Storaro (It.)

1. The Conformist (1970)

2. Last Tango in Paris (1972)

3. 1900 (1976)

4. Apocalypse Now (1979)

5. Reds (1981)

6. The Last Emperor (1987)

7. Dick Tracy (1990)

8. Bulworth (1998)

Robert Surtees (US)

1. Intruder in the Dust (1949)

2. Quo Vadis (1951)

3. The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)

4. Les Girls (1957)

5. Ben-Hur (1959)

6. Mutiny on the Bounty (1962)

7. The Graduate (1967)

8. Sweet Charity (1969)

9. The Last Picture Show (1971)

10. The Sting (1973)

Gregg Toland (US)

1. Mad Love (1935)

2. These Three (1936)

3. Dead End (1937)

4. Intermezzo: A Love Story (1939)

5. Wuthering Heights (1939)

6. The Long Voyage Home (1940)

7. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)

8. The Little Foxes (1941)

9. Citizen Kane (1941)

10. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

Geoffrey Unsworth (UK)

1. A Town Like Alice (1956)

2. A Night to Remember (1958)

3. The World of Suzie Wong (1960)

4. Becket (1964)

5. Othello (1965)

6. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

7. Three Sisters (1970)

8. Cabaret (1972)

9. Superman (1978)

10. Tess (1979)

Sacha Vierny (Fr.)

1. Night and Fog (1955)

2. Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)

3. Last Year at Marienbad (1961)

4. Muriel (1963)

5. Belle de jour (1967)

6. Stavisky(1974)

7. The Belly of an Architect (1987)

8. The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989)

9. Prospero's Books (1991)

10. The Pillow Book (1996)

Haskell Wexler (US)

1. America, America (1963)

2. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)

3. In the Heat of the Night (1967)

4. The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)

5. Medium Cool (1969)

6. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)

7. Coming Home (1978)

8. Matewan (1987)

9. Mulholland Falls (1996)

10. Limbo (1999)

Gordon Willis (US)

1. Klute (1971)

2. Bad Company (1972)

3. The Godfather (1972)

4. The Godfather: Part II (1974)

5. The Parallax View (1974)

6. All the President's Men (1976)

7. Annie Hall (1977)

8. Manhattan (1979)

9. Stardust Memories (1980)

10. Zelig (1983)

James Wong Howe (US)

1. The Thin Man (1934)

2. Fire Over England (1937)

3. The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)

4. Algiers (1938)

5. Kings Row (1942)

6. Body and Soul (1947)

7. Picnic (1955)

8. Sweet Smell of Success (1957)

9. Hud (1963)

10. Funny Lady (1975)

Freddie Young (UK)

1. Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)

2. Lust for Life (1956)

3. The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (1958)

4. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

5. Doctor Zhivago (1965)

6. You Only Live Twice (1967)

7. Ryan's Daughter (1970)

Vilmos Zsigmond (Hung.)

1. McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)

2. Deliverance (1972)

3. The Long Goodbye (1973)

4. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

5. The Deer Hunter (1978)

6. The Last Waltz (1978)

7. Heaven's Gate (1980)

8. The Witches of Eastwick (1987)

9. The Two Jakes (1990)

10. Melinda and Melinda (2004)

Thursday, January 5, 2012

80 Famous Movie-Makers Who Died Young (Aged 50 or Less)

Causes of death mostly come from imdb.com

1. Alan Ladd, American Actor, 1964 (Aged 50), Overdose, Probably Accidental

2. Albert Lamorrisse, French Director, 1970, Aged 48, Helicopter Accident

3. Andre Bazin, Legendary French Critic, 1958 (Aged 40), Leukemia

4. Andrzej Munk, Polish Director, 1961 (Aged 39), Road Accident

5. Audie Murphy, American Actor, 1971 (Aged 47), Plane Crash

6. Bernie Mac, American Actor, 2008 (Aged 50), Sarcoidosis/Pneumonia

7. Brad Davis, American Actor (‘Midnight Express’), 1991 (Aged 41), AIDS

8. Brandon De Wilde, American Child Star (‘Shane’), 1972 (Aged 30), Road Accident

9. Brandon Lee, American Actor, 1993 (Aged 28), Accidental Gunshot Wound

10. Brittany Murphy, American Actress, 2009 (Aged 32), Cardiac Arrest

11. Bruce Lee, Hong Kong Actor, 1973 (Aged 32), Cerebral Edema

12. Carl Mayer, Austrian Screenwriter (‘Sunrise’), 1944 (Aged 49), Cancer

13. Carmen Miranda, Portuguese Actress, 1955 (Aged 46), Heart Attack

14. Carole Lombard, American Actress, 1942 (Aged 33), Plane Crash

15. Chris Penn, American Actor, 2006 (Aged 40), Enlarged Heart

16. Conrad Veidt, German-American actor, 1943 (Aged 50), Heart Attack

17. Cyril Collard, French Director, 1993 (Aged 35), AIDS

18. Divine, American Actor, 1988 (Aged 42), Respiratory Failure

19. Dorothy Dandridge, American Actress, 1965 (Aged 41), Suicide

20. Elvis Presley, American Actor, 1977 (Aged 42), Cardiac Arrhythmia

21. Errol Flynn, American Actor, 1959 (Aged 50), Heart Attack

22. Fatty Arbuckle, American Actor, 1933 (Aged 46), Heart Attack

23. Francois Dorleac, French Actress, 1967 (Aged 26), Road Accident

24. FW Murnau, German Director, 1931 (Aged 42), Road Accident

25. George Gershwin, American Composer, 1937 (Aged 38), Brain Tumor

26. Glauber Rocha, Brazilian Director, 1981 (Aged 43), Lung Infection

27. Graham Chapman, British Actor, 1989 (Aged 48), Spinal And Throat Cancer

28. Gregg Toland, American Cinematographer, 1948 (Aged 44), Coronary Thrombosis

29. Guru Dutt, Indian Director,1964 (Aged 39), Suicide

30. Haing S. Ngor, Cambodian Actor (‘The Killing Fields’), 1996 (Aged 46), Murdered

31. Heath Ledger, Australian Actor, 2008 (Aged 28), Accidental Drug Overdose

32. Humphrey Jennings, British Director, 1950 (Aged 43), Fell From Cliff

33. Inger Stevens, Swedish Actress, 1970 (Aged 36), Suicide

34. Irving Thalberg, American Executive, 1936 (Aged 37), Pneumonia

35. James Dean, American Actor, 1955 (Aged 24), Road Accident

36. Jayne Mansfield, American Actress, 1967 (Aged 34), Road Accident

37. Jean Eustache, French Director, 1981 (Aged 42), Suicide

38. Jean Harlow, American Actress, 1937 (Aged 26), Uremic Poisoning

39. Jean Seberg, American Actress, 1979 (Aged 40), Probable Suicide

40. Jean Vigo, French Director, 1934 (Aged 29), Tuberculosis

41. John Belushi, American Actor, 1982 (Aged 33), Cocaine And Heroin Overdose

42. John Candy, American Actor, 1994 (Aged 43), Heart Attack

43. John Cazale, American Actor, 1978 (Aged 42), Bone Cancer

44. John Garfield, American Actor, 1952 (Aged 39), Coronary Thrombosis

45. John Gilbert, American Actor, 1936 (Aged 38), Heart Failure

46. Judy Garland, American Actress, 1969 (Aged 47), Accidental Barbiturate Overdose

47. Judy Holliday, American Actress, 1965 (Aged 43), Throat Cancer

48. Kay Kendall, British Actress, 1959 (Aged 33), Leukaemia

49. Laurence Harvey, British Actor, 1973 (Aged 45), Stomach Cancer

50. Leslie Howard, British Actor, 1943 (Aged 49), Killed In Plane Shot Down By Germans

51. Linda Darnell, American Actress, 1965 (Aged 41), Fire

52. Lon Chaney, American Actor, 1930 (Aged 47), Lung Cancer

53. Margaret Sullavan, American Actress, 1960 (Aged 48), Suicide

54. Marilyn Monroe, American Actress, 1962 (Aged 36), Drug Overdose

55. Mario Lanza, American Actor, 1959 (Aged 38), Heart Attack

56. Marty Feldman, British Actor, 1982 (Aged 49), Heart Attack

57. Mary Ure, British Actress, 1975 (Aged 42), Accidental Overdose

58. Matthew Garber, British Child Actor (‘Mary Poppins’), 1977 (Aged 21), Pancreatitis

59. Mauritz Stiller, Swedish Director, 1928 (Aged 45), Infective Pleurisy

60. Max Linder, French Actor-Director, 1925 (Aged 41), Suicide

61. Maya Deren, Russian-American Director, 1961 (Aged 44), Cerebral Hemorrhage

62. Mike Todd, American Producer, 1958 (Aged 50), Plane Crash

63. Montgomery Clift, American Actor, 1966 (Aged 45), Heart Attack

64. Natalie Wood, American Actress, 1981 (Aged 43), Drowning

65. Natasha Richardson, British actress, 2009 (Aged 45), Head Injury
From Skiing Accident

66. Pier Angeli, Italian actress, 1971 (Aged 39), Barbiturate Overdose

67. Rainer Werner Fassbinder, German Director, 1982 (Aged 37), Drug Overdose

68. River Phoenix, American Actor, 1933 (Aged 33), Drug-Induced Heart Failure

69. Robert Walker, American Actor, 1951 (Aged 32), Adverse Reaction
To Prescription Drugs

70. Romy Schneider, Austrian Actress, 1982 (Aged 43), Cardiac Arrest

71. Rudolph Valentino, Italian-American Actor, 1926 (Aged 31), Perforated Ulcer

72. Sabu, Indian Child Star (‘The Thief of Baghdad’), 1963 (Aged 39), Heart Attack

73. Sadao Yamamaka, Japanese Director, 1937 (Aged 29), Killed In Action In Manchuria

74. Sal Mineo, American Actor, 1976 (Aged 47), Murdered

75. Sharon Tate, American Actress, 1969 (Aged 26), Murdered

76. Steve McQueen, American Actor, 1980 (Aged 50), Lung Cancer

77. Thomas Ince, American Producer, 1924 (Aged 42), Heart Failure

78. Tyrone Power, American Actor, 1958 (Aged 45), Heart Attack

79. Veronica Lake, American Actress, 1973 (Aged 50), Hepatitis

80. Zbigniew Cybulski, Polish Actor, 1967 (Aged 40), Struck By Train

People who died not long after the age of 50 include:

Robert Shaw, aged 51 (1978)

Grace Kelly, aged 52 (1982)

Francois Truffaut, aged 52 (1984)

Don Simpson, aged 52 (1996)

Christopher Reeve, aged 52 (2004)

Derek Jarman, aged 52 (1994)

Robert Donat, aged 53 (1958)

Pier Paulo Pasolini, aged 53 (1975)

Anthony Minghella, aged 54 (2008)

Krzysztof Kieslowski, aged 54 (1996)

Max Ophüls, aged 54 (1957)

60 Famous Movie Actors Who Appeared In The "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" TV Series 1955-1963

This list is especially interesting for the inclusion of many actors who would become mega-stars later in the 60’s and in the 70’s (Steve McQueen, Robert Redford, Roger Moore, Burt Reynolds etc ). These would have been amongst their very earliest appearances on screen.

Angie Dickinson

Ann Todd

Barbara Bel Geddes

Ben Johnson

Bette Davis

Brandon De Wilde

Bruce Dern

Burt Reynolds

Charles Bronson

Christopher Lee

Claude Rains

Cloris Leachman

Dean Stockwell

Denholm Elliott

Dennis Weaver

Diana Dors

Dick Van Dyke

E. G. Marshall

Ed Begley

Elisha Cook Jr.

Everett Sloane

Fay Wray

Franchot Tone

Gena Rowlands

George Peppard

Harry Dean Stanton

Herbert Marshall

Hume Cronyn

Jane Greer

Jayne Mansfield

Jessica Tandy

Joanne Woodward

John Cassavetes

Joseph Cotten

Laurence Harvey

Leslie Nielsen

Martin Balsam

Mary Astor

Michael Rennie

Murray Hamilton

Peter Falk

Peter Lawford

Peter Lorre

Raymond Massey

Richard Chamberlain

Robert Culp

Robert Duvall

Robert Newton

Robert Redford

Robert Vaughn

Roger Moore

Scatman Crothers

Cedric Hardwicke

Steve McQueen

Sydney Pollack

Thelma Ritter

Vera Miles

Vincent Price

Walter Matthau

William Shatner

140 Famous Movie People Who’ve Done Voices on ‘The Simpsons’

Albert Brooks
Alec Baldwin
Amy Poehler
Andy Garcia
Andy Serkis
Angela Bassett
Anne Bancroft
Anne Hathaway
Ben Stiller
Bette Midler
Bob Hope
Brendan Fraser
Brooke Shields
Cheech Marin
Christina Ricci
Christopher Guest
Colm Meaney
Daniel Radcliffe
Danny De Vito
David Duchovny
David Mamet
Delroy Lindo
Denis Leary
Dolly Parton
Don Cheadle
Donald Sutherland
Drew Barrymore
Ed Begley, Jr.
Ed Norton
Eddie Izzard
Elizabeth Taylor
Ellen Page
Elliott Gould
Emily Blunt
Eric Idle
Ernest Borginine
Frances McDormand
Gary Busey
Gillian Anderson
Glenn Close
Halle Berry
Hank Azaria (a main cast member)
Helen Hunt
Ian McKellan
Isabella Rossellini
J. K. Simmons
Jack Lemmon
James Caan
James Earl Jones
James L Brooks (also executuve prodcuer)
James Woods
Janeane Garofalo
Jason Bateman
Jeff Goldblum
Jennifer Garner
Jerry Lewis
Jim Jarmusch
Jodie Foster
Joe Mantegna
John C. Reilly
John Goodman
John Mahoney
John Waters
Jon Hamm
Jonah Hill
Kathleen Turner
Kiefer Sutherland
Kim Basinger
Kim Cattrall
Kirk Douglas
Kristen Wiig
Lawrence Tierney
Leonard Nimoy
Liam Neeson
Lily Tomlin
Lisa Kudrow
Lucy Liu
Marisa Tomei
Mark Hamill
Martin Landau
Martin Sheen
Matt Dillon
Matthew Perry
Meg Ryan
Mel Brooks
Mel Gibson
Melanie Griffith
Meryl Streep
Michael Keaton
Michael Moore
Michael York
Michelle Pfeiffer
Mick Jagger
Mickey Rooney
Mike Judge
Natalie Portman
Neve Campbell
Nick Park
Patrick Stewart
Paul Newman
Paul Rudd
Penny Marshall
Peter Bogdanovich
Pierece Brosnan
R. Lee Ermey
Rachel Weisz
Resse Witherspoon
Richard Gere
Ricky Gervais
Ricky Jay
Rob Reiner
Robert Englund
Robert Evans
Robert Forster
Robert Wagner
Rod Steiger
Rodney Dangerfield
Ron Howard
Russell Brand
Sacha Baron Cohen
Sam Neill
Sarah Michelle Gellar
Seth Rogen
Stacy Keach
Stephen King
Stephen Sondheim
Steve Buscemi
Steve Martin
Sting
Susan Sarandon
Tim Robbins
Tom Hanks
Tommy Chong
Topher Grace
Werner Herzog
Willem Dafoe
William H. Macy
Winona Ryder
Woody Harrelson
Zooey Deschanel

Sunday, January 1, 2012

70 Surprising Birthplaces of Movie Actors And Directors

This is a list of film people not born in the country with which most people associate them. I haven’t included anyone born in Canada because they're in a separate list

There are those that definitely qualify because they seem to have nothing to do with their country of birth: Keanu Reeves/Lebanon, Hugo Weaving/Nigeria, etc. Other than that, what exactly is surprising may be open to argument. However, one important criterion I’ve used to make decisions is accent. If a person’s voice gives no indication of their birthplace- usually a sign that they grew up somewhere else- then that birthplace is surprising. So Arnold Schwarzenegger is not included, because everyone knows he’s Austrian just from the way he sounds, but Famke Janssen doesn’t sound particularly Dutch, Audrey Hepburn never sounded Belgian, and Sam Neill certainly doesn’t sound Irish, so these three are included.

Agnes Varda: Brussels
Amy Adams: Vicenza, Italy
Andy Garcia: Havana, Cuba
Ann Margret: Sweden
Anna Karina: Copenhagen
Anthony Quinn: Chihuahua, Mexico
Atom Egoyan: Cairo
Audrey Hepburn: Brussels
Barbet Schroeder: Iran
Basil Rathbone: Johannesburg
Bruce Willis: Idar-Oberstein, West Germany
Carroll Baker: Johannesburg
Charlize Theron: South Africa
Claude Rains: London
Claudette Colbert: Paris
Claudia Cardinale: Tunisia
Daniel Auteuil: Algeria
Delphine Seyrig: Beirut
Dominic Monaghan: Berlin
Eddie Izzard: Aden, Yemen
Edward G. Robinson: Bucharest, Romania
Edward Yang: Shanghai
Emma Watson: Paris
Errol Flynn: Tasmania
Famke Janssen: Holland
Frank Darabont: Doubs, France
Frank Oz: Hereford, UK
Franklin J. Schaffner: Tokyo
George Sanders: St Petersburg, Russia
Googie Withers: Karachi
Guy Hamilton: Paris
Guy Pearce: Cambridgeshire, UK
Hugo Weaving: Nigeria
Ida Lupino: London
Isla Fisher: Oman
Jean Reno: Casablanca, Morocco
Joan Fontaine: Tokyo
Joaquin Phoenix: Puerto Rico
John Leguizamo: Bogota, Colombia
Julie Christie: Assam, India
Keanu Reeves: Beirut
Kiefer Sutherland: London
Kim Cattrell: Liverpool, UK
Laurence Harvey: Lithuania
Lindsay Anderson: Bangalore, India
Liv Ullman: Tokyo
Margaret Lockwood: Karachi
Martin Lawrence: Frankfurt, Germany
Mel Gibson: New York
Merle Oberon:Tasmania
Michael Radford: Delhi
Mike Figgis: Kenya
Mila Kunis: Kiev, Ukraine
Natalie Portman: Jerusalem
Nicole Kidman: Hawaii
Olivia De Havilland: Tokyo
Ray Milland: Neath, Wales
Richard Curtis: New Zealand
Richard E. Grant: Swaziland
Roman Polanski: Paris
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala: Cologne, Germany
Sacha Guitry: St Petersburg, Russia
Sam Neill: Northern Ireland
Sam Worthington: Surrey, UK
Saoirse Ronan: New York
Simone Signoret: Wiesbaden, Germany
Terence Young: Shanghai
Toshiro Mifune: Tsing-Tao, China
Vivien Leigh: Darjeeling, India
Yves Montand: Tuscany, Italy