Rowland Vance Lee was a U.S. film director, writer, and producer.
Lee directed the 1940 black-and-white film The Son of Monte Cristo, starring Louis Hayward, Joan Bennett and George Sanders. He was one of the 11 co-directors of Paramount Pictures’ all-star revue Paramount on Parade. He also directed The Guilty Generation, Zoo in Budapest, Son of Frankenstein, The Tower of London and The Bridge of San Luis Rey .
Roger William Corman is an American film producer and director. Sometimes nicknamed “King of the B-movies” for his output of B-movies, Corman has mostly worked on low-budget films. Some of his work has an established critical reputation, such as his cycle of films derived from the tales of Edgar Allan Poe, and he has also won an Academy Award for his work. Corman is also an occasional actor, taking minor roles in such films as The Silence of the Lambs, The Godfather Part II, Apollo 13 and Philadelphia.
Corman has served as a mentor to many famous directors early in their careers, stressing the importance of budgeting and resourcefulness; Corman once joked he could make a film about the fall of the Roman Empire with two extras and a sagebrush.
Corman was born in Detroit, Michigan, the son of Anne and William Corman, an engineer. His brother Gene Corman has also produced numerous films, sometimes in collaboration with Roger. Roger Corman received an industrial engineering degree from Stanford University, beginning his film career in 1953 as a producer and screenwriter. Corman started directing films in 1955.
In Corman’s most active period, he would produce up to seven movies a year. His fastest film was perhaps The Little Shop of Horrors, which was reputedly shot in two days and one night. Supposedly, he had made a bet that he could shoot an entire feature film in less than three days. Another version of the story claims that he had a set rented for a month, and finished using it with three days to spare, thus pushing him to use the set to make a new film. Although highly cost-effective, Corman’s parsimonious approach to filmmaking was not without its critics; Charles B. Griffith, who wrote the original screenplay for Little Shop, later remarked that ” uses half his genius to degrade his own work, and the rest to degrade the artists who work for him.”
In memory of Walk of Famer Roger Moore, flowers were placed on his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Tuesday, May 23, 2017 at 12:15 p.m. PDT. The star in category of Motion Pictures is located at 7007 Hollywood Boulevard. “Moore Roger Moore. Best Bond Ever! We will miss you.” Ana Martinez, Producer of the Hollywood Walk of Fame signed the card on behalf of the Hollywood Historic Trust and the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce.
Sir Roger George Moore, KBE is an English actor and film producer, perhaps best known for portraying British secret agent James Bond in seven films from 1973 to 1985. He also portrayed Simon Templar in the long-running British television series The Saint.
Moore was born in Stockwell, London. The only child of George Moore, a policeman, and Lillian "Lily", a housewife, he attended Battersea Grammar School, but was evacuated to Holsworthy, Devon during World War II and was then educated at Dr Challoner's Grammar School. He then attended the College of the Venerable Bede at the University of Durham but never graduated. At 18 years old, shortly after the end of the war, Moore was conscripted for National Service. He was commissioned as an officer and eventually became a Captain. Moore served in the Royal Army Service Corps, commanding a small depot in West Germany. He later transferred to the entertainment branch, and immediately prior to his National Service, there was a brief stint at RADA, during which his fees were paid by film director Brian Desmond Hurst, who also used Moore as an extra in his film Trottie True. Moore was a classmate at RADA with his future Bond colleague Lois Maxwell, the original Miss Moneypenny. The young Moore first appeared in films during the mid to late-1940s, as an extra. Moore's film idol as a child was Stewart Granger. As a 17-year-old, Moore appeared as an extra in the film Caesar and Cleopatra, finally meeting his idol on the set. Moore later worked with Granger in The Wild Geese.
In the early 1950s, Moore worked as a male model, appearing in print advertisements for knitwear, and a wide range of other products such as toothpaste an element that many critics have used as typifying his lightweight credentials as an actor. His earliest known television appearance was on 27 May 1950, in Drawing Room Detective, a one-off programme. Presented by veteran BBC announcer Leslie Mitchell, it invited viewers at home to spot clues to a crime during a playlet, whose actors also included Alec Ross and Michael Ripper. Barring interviews, Moore has not worked for BBC television since.
Although Moore won a contract with MGM in the 1950s, the films which followed were not a success and, in his own words, "At MGM, RGM was NBG ." His starring role in The Miracle, a version of the play Das Mirakel for Warner Bros., had been turned down by Dirk Bogarde.
In memory of film critic Roger Ebert, flowers were placed on his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Thursday, April 4, 2013. The star in category of Motion Pictures is located at 6834 Hollywood Blvd. “Thumbs Up Roger Ebert!” Leron Gubler, Hollywood Chamber of Commerce President/CEO signed the card on behalf of the Hollywood Historic Trust and the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce.
Roger Joseph Ebert is an American film critic and screenwriter. Forbes has described him as "the most powerful pundit in America".
He is known for his film review column and for the television programs Sneak Previews, At the Movies with Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert, and Siskel and Ebert and The Movies, all of which he co-hosted for a combined 23 years with Gene Siskel. After Siskel's death in 1999, Ebert teamed with Richard Roeper for the television series Ebert & Roeper & the Movies, which began airing in 2000. Although his name remained in the title, Ebert did not appear on the show after mid-2006, when he suffered post-surgical complications related to thyroid cancer which left him unable to speak. Ebert ended his association with the show in July 2008, but in February 2009 he stated that he and Roeper would continue their work on a new show.
Ebert's movie reviews are syndicated to more than 200 newspapers in the United States and worldwide by Universal Press Syndicate. He has written more than 15 books, including his annual movie yearbook which is predominantly a collection of his reviews of that year. In 1975, Ebert became the first film critic to win a Pulitzer Prize. His television programs have been widely syndicated and have been nominated for Emmy awards. In February 1995, a section of Chicago's Erie Street near the CBS Studios was renamed Siskel & Ebert Way. In June 2005, Ebert was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He was the first professional film critic to receive such an award. He has honorary degrees from the University of Colorado, the AFI Conservatory, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Since 1994, he has written a Great Movies series of individual reviews of what he deems to be the most important films of all time. This list and his associated reviews have now expanded to include over 300 movies. Since 1999, he has hosted the annual in Champaign, Illinois.
Rodney Dangerfield, born Jacob Cohen, was an American comedian, and actor, known for the catchphrases "I don't get no respect" or "I get no respect" and his monologues on that theme. He is also famous for his 1980s film roles, notably in Caddyshack and Back To School.
Dangerfield was born on Long Island in the town of Babylon, the son of Jewish parents. His father was the vaudevillian performer Phil Roy. His ancestors came to the United States from Hungary. He would later say that his father "was never home ? he was out looking to make other kids," and that his mother "brought him up all wrong".
As a teenager, he got his start writing jokes for standup comics; he became one himself at 19 under the name Jack Roy. He struggled financially for nine years, at one point performing as a singing waiter, and also working as a performing acrobatic diver before giving up show business to take a job selling aluminum siding to support his wife and family. He later said that he was so little known then that "at the time I quit, I was the only one who knew I quit!"
In the early 1960s he started down what would be a long road toward rehabilitating his career, still working as a salesman by day. He came to realize that what he lacked was an "image" ? a well-defined on-stage persona that audiences could relate to and that would distinguish him from similar comics.
Ronald Charles Colman was an English actor. He was born in Richmond, Surrey, England, the second son and fourth child of Charles Colman and his wife Marjory Read Fraser. His siblings included Eric, Edith, and Marjorie. He was educated at boarding school in Littlehampton, where he discovered he enjoyed acting. He intended to study engineering at Cambridge University, but his father’s sudden death from pneumonia in 1907 made this financially impossible.
He became a well-known amateur actor, and was a member of the West Middlesex Dramatic Society in 1908-9. He made his first appearance on the professional stage in 1914.
After working as a clerk at the British Steamship Company in the City of London, he joined the London Scottish Regiment in 1909 and was among the first of Territorial Army to fight in World War I. During the war, he served with fellow actors Claude Rains, Herbert Marshall, Cedric Hardwicke and Basil Rathbone. On 31 October 1914 at the Battle of Messines Colman was seriously wounded by shrapnel in his ankle, which gave him a limp that he would attempt to hide throughout the rest of his acting career. He was invalided from the service in 1916.
He had sufficiently recovered to appear at the London Coliseum on 19 June 1916, as Rahmat Sheikh in The Maharani of Arakan, with Lena Ashwell; at the Playhouse in December that year as Stephen Weatherbee in Charles Goddard & Paul Dickey’s play The Misleading Lady; at the Court Theatre in March 1917 he played Webber in Partnership and at that theatre the following year appeared in Eugene Brieux’s play, adapted from the French, Damaged Goods; at the Ambassador Theatre in February 1918 he played George Lubin in The Little Brother, and during 1918 toured as David Goldsmith in The Bubble.
Roger Williams, is an American popular music pianist. As of 2004, he had released 116 albums.
He is the son of a Lutheran minister and a music teacher, in Omaha, Nebraska, but before his first birthday the family moved to Des Moines, Iowa. He first played the piano at age three. In high school he became interested in boxing, mainly at his father’s insistence, and only returned to music after breaking his nose several times and sustaining several other injuries.
He majored in piano at Drake University in Des Moines, but was expelled for playing “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes” in the practice room. Weertz entered the United States Navy and served in World War II. While still in the Navy, he earned a bachelor’s degree from Idaho State College in 1950. Afterwards Weertz re-enrolled at Drake, where he earned his master’s degree. He then moved to New York City to study at the Juilliard School of Music. At Juilliard he studied jazz piano under Lennie Tristano and Teddy Wilson.
One night Weertz was scheduled to play as an accompanist for a Juilliard student who was to sing on Arthur Godfrey’s Talent Scouts. When the singer failed to appear, Weertz went on as a piano soloist and won the night’s contest. He was heard by David Kapp, founder of Kapp Records. Kapp was so impressed that he signed the pianist, changing his name to ‘Roger Williams’ after the founder of Rhode Island. In addition to the Godfrey program, Williams also won a talent contest on Dennis James’ program, Chance of a Lifetime.
AWARD-WINNING DIRECTOR/ PRODUCER RON HOWARD
HONORED WITH A HOLLYWOOD WALK OF FAME STAR FOR FILM
Watch Ron Howard unveil his second Walk of Fame star below.
The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce proudly honored legendary actor/director/producer Ron Howard the 2,568th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame today, December 10, 2015, at 11:30 a.m. PST. The star, in the category of Motion Pictures, was dedicated at 6931 Hollywood Boulevard in front of Madame Tussauds Hollywood.
Helping Hollywood Chamber President/CEO and emcee Leron Gubler to unveil the star were Brian Grazer and Michael Keaton. “Ron Howard is the epitome of the dream-come-true of the entertainment world… starring as a child actor and becoming one of the world’s most prolific filmmakers,” stated Ana Martinez, Producer of the Walk of Fame ceremonies. “We are proud to add him to our Walk of Fame for a rare second time. His first star was dedicated to him on August 19, 1981, in the category of Television.”
The star ceremony was live-streamed exclusively on www.walkoffame.com.
Ron Howard began his career as an actor. He first appeared in “The Journey” and “The Music Man,” then as ‘Opie’ on the long-running television series “The Andy Griffith Show.” Howard later drew favorable reviews for his performances in the feature films “American Graffiti” and “The Shootist,” and starred in the popular TV series “Happy Days.”
Howard is an Academy Award®-winning filmmaker and one of today’s most esteemed directors, who has helmed some of the most popular films of the past four decades. From the critically acclaimed dramas “A Beautiful Mind” and “Apollo 13” to the hit comedies “Parenthood” and “Splash,” Howard has created some of Hollywood’s most memorable films. Howard’s latest film is the Warner Bros. Pictures and Village Roadshow Pictures film, “In the Heart of the Sea,” which opens on December 11, 2015.
Howard won an Oscar® for Best Director for his work on “A Beautiful Mind,” starring Russell Crowe. The film won several Oscars®, for Best Picture, Best Screenplay, and Best Supporting Actress (Jennifer Connelly). The drama also garnered four Golden Globes, including the award for Best Motion Picture – Drama. Additionally, Howard won Best Director of the Year from the Directors Guild of America (DGA). Howard and producer Brian Grazer received the first annual Awareness Award from the National Mental Health Awareness Campaign for their work on the film.
Howard’s skill as a director has long been recognized. In 1995, he received his first Best Director Award from the DGA for “Apollo 13,” starring Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, Ed Harris, Bill Paxton, Gary Sinise and Kathleen Quinlan. The true-life drama also garnered nine Academy Award® nominations, winning Oscars® for Best Film Editing, and Best Sound. “Apollo 13,” also received Best Ensemble Cast and Best Supporting Actor Awards from the Screen Actors Guild.
Howard also produced and directed the film adaptation of Peter Morgan’s critically acclaimed play “Frost/Nixon.” The 2009 film was nominated for five Academy Awards®, including Best Picture, and was also nominated for The Darryl F. Zanuck Producer of the Year Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures by the PGA. Many of Howard’s past films have received nods from the Academy, including the hits “Backdraft,” starring Robert De Niro and Kurt Russell; “Parenthood,” starring Steve Martin; and “Cocoon,” which won two Oscars®, including one for Best Supporting Actor for Don Ameche.
Howard was honored by the Museum of Moving Images in 2005 and by the American Cinema Editors in 2006. Howard and his creative partner Brian Grazer were honored by the Producers Guild of America with the Milestone Award in 2009; NYU’s Tisch School of Cinematic Arts with the Big Apple Award in 2009; and by the Simon Wiesenthal Center with their Humanitarian Award in 2010. In 2010, Howard was honored by the Chicago Film Festival with their Gold Hugo – Career Achievement Award. In 2013, Howard was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame.
Howard’s more recent films include the critically acclaimed drama “Rush,” staring Chris Hemsworth and Daniel Brüel, written by Peter Morgan; and “Made In America,” a music documentary he directed for Showtime, starring Jay Z. He most recently directed the dramatic adventure “In the Heart of the Sea,” starring Hemsworth, based on the book about the true story of the Essex disaster that inspired Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick. Howard just completed filming on the upcoming “Inferno,” his third film based on Dan Brown’s best-selling novels, with Tom Hanks reprising the role of Robert Langdon. He had previously directed Hanks in the adaptations of Brown’s “Angels & Demons” and “The Da Vinci Code.”
Howard’s long and diverse list of film credits includes the comedy “The Dilemma,” staring Vince Vaughn and Kevin James; “Cinderella Man,” starring Russell Crowe; the suspenseful Western “The Missing,” starring Cate Blanchett and Tommy Lee Jones; the blockbuster holiday favorite “Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas,” starring Jim Carrey; the suspense thriller “Ransom,” starring Mel Gibson, Rene Russo, Gary Sinise and Delroy Lindo; the historical epic “Far and Away,” starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman; the fantasy “Willow;” the mega-hit romantic comedy “Splash,” starring Hanks and Daryl Hannah; and “Night Shift,” starring Henry Winkler, Michael Keaton and Shelley Long.
Howard has also served as an executive producer on a number of award-winning films and television shows, including the HBO miniseries “From the Earth to the Moon;” FOX’s Emmy Award winner for Best Comedy Series, “Arrested Development,” which he also narrated; NBC’s “Parenthood”; and “Felicity,” among others.
Howard and long-time producing partner Brian Grazer first collaborated on the hit comedies “Night Shift” and “Splash.” The pair co-founded Imagine Entertainment in 1986 to create independently produced feature films.
Among the many charities Howard supports are the Boys and Girls Clubs of America and the Jacob Burns Film Center.
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Ronald William "Ron" Howard is an American film director and producer, as well as an actor. Howard came to prominence in the 1960s while playing the son of sheriff Andy Taylor, Opie Taylor, on The Andy Griffith Show, and later in the 1970s as Howard Cunningham's son and Arthur Fonzarelli's best friend, Richie Cunningham, on Happy Days. Since retiring from acting, he has directed many films including Splash, Cocoon, Backdraft, Apollo 13, A Beautiful Mind, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Frost/Nixon, The Da Vinci Code, and Angels & Demons.
In 2003, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts.
Howard was born in Duncan, Oklahoma, the son of Jean Speegle Howard, an actress, and Rance Howard, a director, writer, and actor. His family moved to Burbank, California in 1958, the year before the birth of his younger brother, Clint Howard. Howard graduated from John Burroughs High School, and later attended the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts but did not graduate.
In 1959, he had his first credited film role, in The Journey, and appeared in June Allyson's CBS anthology series The DuPont Show with June Allyson in the episode "Child Lost," as well as The Twilight Zone episode "Walking Distance", about a man who learns that he cannot go home again.
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Roland Young was an English actor. Born in London, England, Young was educated at Sherborne School, Dorset and the University of London before being accepted into Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. He made his first stage appearance in London’s West End in Find the Woman in 1908, and in 1912 he made his Broadway debut in Hindle Wakes. He appeared in two comedies written for him by Clare Kummer, Good Gracious Annabelle!, A Successful Calamity before he served with the US Army during World War I. He returned to New York when the war ended, and married Kummer’s daughter, Frances. For the next few years he alternated between New York and London. He made his film debut in the 1922 silent film Sherlock Holmes, in which he played Watson opposite John Barrymore as Holmes.
He signed a contract with MGM and made his talkie debut in The Unholy Night, directed by Lionel Barrymore. He was loaned to Warner Bros. to appear in Her Private Life, with Billie Dove and 20th Century Fox, winning critical approval for his comedic performance as Jeanette MacDonald’s husband in Don’t Bet on a Woman. He was again paired with MacDonald in the film version of Good Gracious Annabelle!, titled Annabelle’s Affairs. He appeared in Cecil B. de Mille’s The Squaw Man, and played opposite Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne in The Guardsman. He appeared with Evelyn Brent in Columbia’s The Pagan Lady and Pola Negri in RKO’s A Woman Commands. His final film under his MGM contract was Lovers Courageous, opposite Robert Montgomery.
Young began to work as a free-lance performer and found himself in constant demand. He appeared with Jeanette MacDonald, Genevieve Tobin and Maurice Chevalier in One Hour With You and with Kay Francis in Street of Women. Alexander Korda invited him to return to England to make his British film debut in Wedding Rehearsal. He returned to Hollywood and appeared in a diverse group of films that included comedies, murder mysteries and dramas, and also worked on Broadway. Among his films of this period, were Ruggles of Red Gap, playing Uriah Heep in David Copperfield and H.G. Wells’ fantasy The Man Who Could Work Miracles. In 1937, he achieved one of the most important successes of his career, as the businessman Cosmo Topper, haunted by the ghosts of his clients played by Cary Grant and Constance Bennett. The film was one of the most successful films of the year, and for his comedic performance, Young received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor nomination. His wife was played by Billie Burke who wrote in her memoir that Young “was dry and always fun to work with”. They also appeared together in The Young in Heart, and the first of the Topper sequels, Topper Takes a Trip. He continued to play supporting roles in comedies such as Yes, My Darling Daughter, with Fay Bainter and Priscilla Lane, but over the next few years the importance of his roles again decreased, but he achieved another success as Katharine Hepburn’s uncle in The Philadelphia Story. His last starring role was in the final installment of the Topper series, Topper Returns in 1941, with Billie Burke and Joan Blondell.
Rodney Bingenheimer, born December 15, 1947, is a radio DJ on the Los Angeles rock station KROQ. He is often referred to as The Mayor of the Sunset Strip, a nickname given to him by actor Sal Mineo during his years as personality in the Los Angeles music scene.
Bingenheimer was born December 15 in Mountain View, California. He auditioned for the Davy Jones part in the Monkees. While he did not get the part, he later doubled Davy Jones in the episode “Prince and the Pauper”.
When Bingenheimer arrived in Los Angeles actor Sal Mineo dubbed him ?The Mayor of the Sunset Strip.? He formed friendships with pop stars of the day such as The Byrds and Sonny & Cher, for whom he was a live-in publicist. In his own words, Bingenheimer ?became the talk of the town because I had the perfect Brian Jones ?do? .?
Many events and incidents contributed to Bingenheimer?s notoriety. He and Sonny Bono were reportedly asked to leave the Hollywood restaurant Martoni?s because of their hippie appearance, Bingenheimer brought Brian Wilson to the recording session for Tina Turner?s lead vocal on the Phil Spector classic ?River Deep, Mountain High,? and he was ridiculed in a dialogue by the all-girl band The GTOs on their Frank Zappa-produced LP Permanent Damage.