"The program faced stiff competition on Wednesday evenings from NBC's ""Wagon Train"", hence lasted for only one season. He voiced Pongo (a Dalmatian dog) in Disney's animated feature ""One Hundred and One Dalmatians"" (1961) and also guest-starred on Marilyn Maxwell's short-lived ABC series ""Bus Stop"" around the same time. In 1962, he starred in an episode of NBC's ""The DuPont Show of the Week"" (""The Ordeal of Dr. Shannon""), an adaptation of A. J. Cronin's novel ""Shannon's Way"". Taylor starred in Alfred Hitchcock's horror/thriller ""The Birds"" (1963), along with Tippi Hedren, Suzanne Pleshette, Veronica Cartwright, and Jessica Tandy, playing a"
"the 21st century. Among his television shows as a regular are: Rod Taylor Rodney Sturt Taylor (11 January 1930 – 7 January 2015) was an Australian actor. He appeared in more than 50 films, including ""The Time Machine"" (1960), ""The Birds"" (1963), and ""One Hundred and One Dalmatians"" (1961). Taylor was born on 11 January 1930 in Lidcombe, a suburb of Sydney, the only child of William Sturt Taylor, a steel construction contractor and commercial artist, and Mona Taylor (née Thompson), a writer of more than a hundred short stories and children's books. His middle name comes from his great-great"
"Birds"". According to Hedren, he offered her the role of Marnie during filming of ""The Birds"". Hedren told writer Moral that she was ""amazed"" that Hitchcock would offer her this ""incredible role"", calling it a ""once-in-a-lifetime opportunity"". In 2005, more than 40 years after the film's release, Hedren declared in an interview that ""Marnie"" was her favorite of the two films she made with Hitchcock, because of the intriguing, complex, challenging character that she played. Male lead Sean Connery had been worried that being under contract to Eon Productions for both James Bond and non-Bond films would limit his career"
"Ethel Griffies Ethel Griffies (born Ethel Woods, 26 April 1878 in Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire – 9 September 1975 in London) was an English actress of stage, screen and television. She is perhaps best-known to modern audiences as the ornithologist Mrs. Bundy in Alfred Hitchcock's ""The Birds"" (1963). Griffies was the daughter of actors Samuel Rupert Woods and Lillie Roberts. Taken onstage at the age of three, she continued to act for the next 86 years. Griffies married actor Walter Beaumont in 1900, and he died in 1910. In 1914, she married actor Edward Cooper, who predeceased his wife"
"York when Hitchcock saw her, in October 1961, in an NBC television ad for Sego, a diet drink: ""I signed her because she is a classic beauty. Movies don't have them any more. Grace Kelly was the last."" He insisted, without explanation, that her first name be written in single quotation marks: 'Tippi'. In ""The Birds"", Melanie Daniels, a young socialite, meets lawyer Mitch Brenner (Rod Taylor) in a bird shop; Jessica Tandy plays his possessive mother. Hedren visits him in Bodega Bay (where ""The Birds"" was filmed) carrying a pair of lovebirds as a gift. Suddenly waves of birds"
"Rod Taylor Rodney Sturt Taylor (11 January 1930 – 7 January 2015) was an Australian actor. He appeared in more than 50 films, including ""The Time Machine"" (1960), ""The Birds"" (1963), and ""One Hundred and One Dalmatians"" (1961). Taylor was born on 11 January 1930 in Lidcombe, a suburb of Sydney, the only child of William Sturt Taylor, a steel construction contractor and commercial artist, and Mona Taylor (née Thompson), a writer of more than a hundred short stories and children's books. His middle name comes from his great-great grand uncle, Captain Charles Sturt, a British explorer of the Australian"
"Hong Kong (TV series) Hong Kong is a 26-episode adventure/drama series (plus an initial pilot episode) which aired on ABC television during the 1960–1961 season and helped to catapult Australian actor Rod Taylor into a major film star, primarily in the 1960s, beginning with his role in Alfred Hitchcock's ""The Birds"". The series was a production of 20th Century Fox Television, and the final credit of each episode stated: ""Filmed by Twentieth Century Fox Television Inc. at its Hollywood studios and in the Crown Colony of Hong Kong"". ""Hong Kong"" was set in the then British Crown Colony of Hong"
"announced they will be making a television adaptation of ""The Birds"" for broadcast in 2018. The series, from ""Harry Potter"" producer David Heyman, will bear a closer resemblance to the 1952 Daphne du Maurier novelette than the 1963 film, and rather than northern California, the birds will attack in Cornwall. The pilot for the series is being written by Conor McPherson who adapted the original source material into a stage play in 2009. Streaming audio The Birds (film) The Birds is a 1963 American horror-thriller film directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock, loosely based on the 1952 story of the"
"with Sandra."" In February 1961, she succeeded Anne Bancroft as Anne Sullivan Macy opposite 14-year-old Patty Duke's Helen Keller in ""The Miracle Worker"". Her early screen credits include ""The Geisha Boy"", ""Rome Adventure"", ""Fate Is the Hunter"", and ""Youngblood Hawke"", but she was best known at that time for her role in Alfred Hitchcock's classic suspense film ""The Birds"". She worked with Steve McQueen in the 1966 western drama film ""Nevada Smith"", was nominated for a Laurel Award for her starring performance in the comedy ""If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium"" opposite Ian McShane, and co-starred with James Garner"
"by his mother for insisting that shadowy, murderous men are after him. In ""The Birds"" (1963), the Rod Taylor character, an innocent man, finds his world under attack by vicious birds, and struggles to free himself from a clinging mother (Jessica Tandy). The killer in ""Frenzy"" (1972) has a loathing of women but idolises his mother. The villain Bruno in ""Strangers on a Train"" hates his father, but has an incredibly close relationship with his mother (played by Marion Lorne). Sebastian (Claude Rains) in ""Notorious"" has a clearly conflicting relationship with his mother, who is (rightly) suspicious of his new"
"was the elderly ornithologist Mrs. Bundy in Alfred Hitchcock's ""The Birds"" (1963). She also performed in Billy Liar 1963 the same year as The Birds. Ethel Griffies Ethel Griffies (born Ethel Woods, 26 April 1878 in Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire – 9 September 1975 in London) was an English actress of stage, screen and television. She is perhaps best-known to modern audiences as the ornithologist Mrs. Bundy in Alfred Hitchcock's ""The Birds"" (1963). Griffies was the daughter of actors Samuel Rupert Woods and Lillie Roberts. Taken onstage at the age of three, she continued to act for the next"
"the top 10 foreign films selected by the Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards. Hitchcock also received the Association's Director Award for the film. It also won the Horror Hall of Fame Award in 1991. ""The Birds"" received mixed reviews upon its initial release. Bosley Crowther of ""The New York Times"" was positive, calling it ""a horror film that should raise the hackles on the most courageous and put goose-pimples on the toughest hide."" Crowther was unsure whether the birds were meant to be an allegory because ""it isn't in Mr. Hitchcock's style to inject allegorical meanings or social significance in"
"and was asked by Hitchcock to play the leading role in his upcoming film ""The Birds"". ""I was so stunned. It never occurred to me that I would be given a leading role in a major motion picture. I had great big tears in my eyes"", Hedren later recalled. ""The Birds"" (1963) was Hedren's screen debut. Hitchcock became her drama coach, and gave her an education in film-making as she attended many of the production meetings such as script, music or photography conferences. Hedren said, ""I probably learned in three years what it would have taken me 15 years to"
"brief role in Alfred Hitchcock's film ""The Birds"" (1963) as Mitch's (Rod Taylor) neighbor who advises Melanie (Tippi Hedren) that Mitch has gone to Bodega Bay for the weekend. He played a larger role in the original ""Invasion of the Body Snatchers"" (1956), as a physician in the ""book-end"" sequences added to the beginning and end of this film after its original previews. In Billy Wilder's 1957 film adaptation of Charles Lindbergh’s ""The Spirit of St. Louis"", Deacon portrayed the chairman of the Columbia Aircraft Corporation, Charles A. Levine, who, in February 1927, refused to sell Lindbergh his company's recently"
"actress he brought from relative obscurity to star in his 1963 film ""The Birds"". Hitchcock becomes infatuated with his leading lady; when she rebuffs his advances, he subjects her to a series of traumatic experiences during the filming of ""The Birds"". Hitchcock's obsession with Hedren continues when she stars in his next production, ""Marnie"". Hedren grows increasingly uncomfortable with his attentions, and decides that she needs to escape the situation. However, she cannot work elsewhere because of her exclusive contract with Hitchcock; this effectively ends her Hollywood career. ""The Girl"" made its television debut in the United States on 20"
"made sure he did not turn down the part of protagonist Richard Thorn in the sequel. Lee Grant, another Oscar-winner, was a fan of the first ""Omen"" and accepted enthusiastically the role of Ann Thorn. Ray Berwick (1914–1990) trained and handled the crows used for several scenes in the film. Live birds and a crow-puppet were used for the attack on photojournalist Joan Hart. Berwick also trained the avian actors in Alfred Hitchcock's ""The Birds"" (1963). The movie was mainly set in Chicago and was largely filmed in downtown Chicago. The ""Thorn Industries"" building was actually Chicago's city hall. Another"
"with Katharine Cornell (who won for the female lead in ""Antony and Cleopatra"") and Judith Anderson (for the latter's portrayal of Medea) in a three-way tie for the award. Over the following three decades, her career continued sporadically and included a supporting role in Alfred Hitchcock's horror film, ""The Birds"" (1963), and a Tony Award-winning performance in ""The Gin Game"" (1977, playing in the two-hander play opposite Hume Cronyn). Along with Cronyn, she was a member of the original acting company of the Guthrie Theater. In the mid-1980s she had a career revival. She appeared with Cronyn in the Broadway"
"a nuclear power plant received significant negative attention from local citizens, beginning in 1958. By 1964, the plans for the plant were abandoned. Bodega Bay was the setting for the 1963 Alfred Hitchcock film, ""The Birds"", starring Rod Taylor, Tippi Hedren and Suzanne Pleshette. In October 2017, Bodega Bay, on the northwest edge of Sonoma County, served as a site of refuge and supply depot for evacuees from an historic fast-moving destructive fire in northern California. People from Santa Rosa and other regions affected by the raging wildfire started pouring in not long after the blazes started. Like underwater parks,"
"Richard Bird (actor) Richard Bird (4 Apr 1895 - December, 1979) was an English actor and director of stage and screen. Born George, Bird took the stage name Richard Bird after being nicknamed ""Dickie"" by his theatre colleagues. After working in a newspaper office for a year he made his stage debut as a member of the Liverpool Repertory Company in 1917. He went on to appear on both the London and American stage, making his film debut in some silent shorts during 1919. He appeared in films throughout the 1930s and 1940s, playing the lead roles in ""The Warren"
"Biller designed the sets and costumes to emulate the style of classic Hollywood films, and collaborated closely with her cinematographer M. David Mullen, who is an expert on period cinematography and who has been nominated for two Independent Spirit Awards, to create the hard lighting style characteristic of such films. For the driving scenes, rear projection photography was used to give glamor to the lead actress, and in tribute to the opening of the Hitchcock film ""The Birds"". The actors also played their parts in a classic presentational acting style, with lead actress Samantha Robinson receiving accolades for her stylized"
"Kim Novak (who starred in one of Hitchcock's films) and Nora Brown (widow of one of Hitchcock's close friends) disputed the film's version of events. The film is a partially fictionalised account of the relationship between Alfred Hitchcock and Tippi Hedren. In 1961, Hitchcock notices Hedren in a television commercial for a diet drink. He wants to turn her into the next Grace Kelly, with whom he had worked extensively during the 1950s. Hedren passes her screen test and is groomed for the starring role in Hitchcock's latest film, ""The Birds""; the director instructs her about her dress and appearance."
"The Birds (story) ""The Birds"" is a horror story by British writer Daphne du Maurier, first published in her 1952 collection ""The Apple Tree"". It is the story of a farmhand, his family, and his community that are attacked by flocks of birds and seabirds in ""kamikaze"" fashion. The story is set in du Maurier's native Cornwall shortly after the end of the Second World War. By the end of the story it becomes clear that all of Britain is under aerial assault. The story was the inspiration for Alfred Hitchcock's film ""The Birds"", released in 1963, the same year"
"of the time, including Myrna Loy, Joan Crawford, Ethel Barrymore, Roy Rogers, Barbara Stanwyck, Dale Evans, Lionel Barrymore, and Robert Mitchum. Smit worked on two of Alfred Hitchcock's films in the 1960s, ""Marnie"" and ""The Birds"". He switched to television and later worked on the ""Mod Squad"" and ""The Streets of San Francisco"". The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees offered the Hollywood Motion Picture Make-up Artists Association a union charter in 1937. The charter led to the foundation of the IATSE local 706, Make-up and Hairstylists Guild chapter, in 1937, of which Smit was a founding member. Smit remained"
"The Thorn Birds (miniseries) The Thorn Birds is an American television miniseries broadcast on ABC from March 27 to 30, 1983. It starred Richard Chamberlain, Rachel Ward, Barbara Stanwyck, Christopher Plummer, Jean Simmons, Richard Kiley, Bryan Brown, Mare Winningham and Philip Anglim. It was directed by Daryl Duke and based on a novel of the same name by Colleen McCullough. The series was enormously successful and became the United States' second highest-rated miniseries of all time behind ""Roots""; both series were produced by television veteran David L. Wolper. Set primarily on Drogheda, a fictional sheep station in the Australian outback"
"Brad Bird Phillip Bradley Bird (born September 24, 1957) is an American animation director, voice actor, comedian and screenwriter. He is best known for his animated feature films, ""The Iron Giant"" (1999), ""The Incredibles"" (2004), ""Ratatouille"" (2007), and ""Incredibles 2"" (2018). Bird developed a love for the art of animation at an early age and was mentored by Milt Kahl, one of Disney's reputed Nine Old Men. He was part of one of the earliest graduating classes of the California Institute of the Arts alongside John Lasseter and Tim Burton. Afterward, Bird worked as an animator for Disney in ""The"
"The Yellow Birds (film) The Yellow Birds is a 2017 American war film directed by Alexandre Moors and based on the novel ""The Yellow Birds"" by Kevin Powers. The film stars Tye Sheridan, Alden Ehrenreich, Toni Collette, Jason Patric, Jack Huston and Jennifer Aniston. The film had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 21, 2017. It was released on May 17, 2018, through DirecTV Cinema before being released in a limited release and through video on demand on June 15, 2018, by Saban Films. Two young soldiers, Bartle (21) and Murph (18) navigate the terrors of"
"was also inspired by Alfred Hitchcock's 1963 film ""The Birds."" ""The Birds"" starred actress Tippi Hedren, who appeared in Nguyen's earlier film ""Julie and Jack."" ""Birdemic"" includes footage of that appearance, playing on a television. The movie contains several anti-war statements. On the DVD commentary, the director explained that one early inspiration for the movie was the anti-war movie ""Apocalypse Now"", and that at the end of the movie the birds stopped their attack because they wanted to have peace, and to give humans a second chance to help the environment. He said that as production continued, he became more"
"names of the two principal characters. The portrayal of the character Sir John Mernier was loosely based on that of the actor Gerald du Maurier, who was a friend of Hitchcock. Hitchcock later adapted three novels written by du Maurier's daughter Daphne du Maurier: ""Jamaica Inn"", ""Rebecca"" and ""The Birds"". Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance in the film as a man walking past the murder victim's house. The film's sets were designed by the art director John Mead. The German language version of the film, ""Mary"", was shot simultaneously on the same set with German speaking actors. Miles Mander reprised"
"Hour"" (1961) and Alfred Hitchcock's ""The Birds"" (1963), which were both highly successful. In ""The Birds"", she was cast along with her television father from ""Leave It to Beaver"", Richard Deacon, although the two were not on screen together. She played daughter Jemima Boone in the first two seasons of NBC's ""Daniel Boone"" from 1964 until 1966, with co-stars Fess Parker, Patricia Blair, Darby Hinton, Ed Ames and Dallas McKennon. She won a regional Emmy Award for the television movie ""Tell Me Not in Mournful Numbers"" (1964). Cartwright achieved successes with ""Invasion of the Body Snatchers"" (1978) and ""Alien"" (1979),"
"Killing Birds Killing Birds is a 1988 Italian horror film filmed in Louisiana and starring Lara Wendel and Robert Vaughn. It was co-produced by ""Flora Film"" and Joe D'Amato's ""Filmirage"". The director's credit reads ""Claude Milliken"", which is the pseudonym of Claudio Lattanzi, but according to most accounts, the film was completely or almost completely directed by Joe D'Amato in Lattanzi's presence. Theatrically, the film was released in Italy as ""Killing Birds"" in 1988 and in France as ""L'attaque des morts-vivants"". On home video, it was released in Italy and Germany as Killing Birds: Raptors and in the United States"
"in the second movie about the Inbetweeners, ""The Inbetweeners 2"". Bird has co-created, co-written, and co-starred in a pilot, ""Chickens"", for Channel 4, alongside Jonny Sweet and Joe Thomas. It is about three men who remain in England during World War I. It was broadcast as part of Channel 4's ""Comedy Showcase"" season. In 2012, Sky One picked up a six episode season; filming began in late 2012 and the series premiered in summer 2013. In 2015, Bird voiced thetrainline.com TV advertisements. As of 2017, he was starring on the West End in ""The Philanthropist"", alongside Charlotte Ritchie. In 2017"
"delay of a few years while the trade was completed, and by then Pryor had lost interest. The film was eventually shot in 52 days for $14.4 million, not counting Eastwood's fee, although in interviews Eastwood sometimes said the film only cost $9 million to make. Locations used for filming include the Sacramento Valley, Los Angeles, and Pasadena, California as well as New York City. ""Bird"" received positive reviews from critics, scoring a 78% ""Fresh"" rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Forest Whitaker's performance as Parker earned him critical acclaim and several awards, including the Best Actor award at the 1988 Cannes"
"Fire Birds Fire Birds (originally titled Wings of the Apache and released internationally under that name) is a 1990 action film directed by David Green and produced by William Badalato, Keith Barish and Arnold Kopelson. The storyline was conceived by retired Lt. Colonels Step Tyner and John K. Swensson and retired Marine Capt. Dale Dye and developed into a screenplay written by Paul F. Edwards, Nick Thiel and uncredited David Taylor. The film stars Nicolas Cage, Tommy Lee Jones and Sean Young. Cage is cast as a helicopter pilot attempting to help dismantle a drug cartel in South America. Jones"