"The Executioners (MacDonald novel) The Executioners is a psychological thriller-suspense novel written by John D. MacDonald, published in 1957. It was filmed twice under the title ""Cape Fear"", once in 1962 and again in 1991. The overall tone of the novel is not nearly as brutal as the film adaptations, and especially the remake. The basic plot of the novel concerns an attorney named Sam Bowden, who caught Max Cady, an illiterate, brutal rapist, in the act. Bowden later testifies against him. The jury finds Cady guilty and Cady is sent to prison for fourteen years, when he develops and"
"were ""Spellbound"" (1945), ""The Paradine Case"" (1947), ""The Gunfighter"" (1950), ""Moby Dick"" (1956), ""The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit"" (1956), ""On the Beach"" (1959), which brought to life the terrors of global nuclear war, ""The Guns of Navarone"" (1961), and ""Roman Holiday"" (1953), with Audrey Hepburn in her Oscar-winning role. Peck and Hepburn were close friends until her death; Peck even introduced her to her first husband, Mel Ferrer. Peck once again teamed up with director William Wyler in the epic Western ""The Big Country"" (1958), which he co-produced. Peck won the Academy Award with his fifth nomination, playing"
"Gregory Peck. Welles's next turn as director was the film ""Mr. Arkadin"" (1955), which was produced by his political mentor from the 1940s, Louis Dolivet. It was filmed in France, Germany, Spain and Italy on a very limited budget. Based loosely on several episodes of the Harry Lime radio show, it stars Welles as a billionaire who hires a man to delve into the secrets of his past. The film stars Robert Arden, who had worked on the Harry Lime series; Welles's third wife, Paola Mori, whose voice was dubbed by actress Billie Whitelaw; and guest stars Akim Tamiroff, Michael"
"Gregory Peck Eldred Gregory Peck (April 5, 1916 – June 12, 2003) was an American actor. He is one of the most popular film stars from the 1940s to the 1960s. Peck received five Academy Award for Best Actor nominations and won once for his performance as Atticus Finch in the 1962 drama film ""To Kill a Mockingbird"". Peck also received Oscar nominations for his roles in ""The Keys of the Kingdom"" (1944), ""The Yearling"" (1946), ""Gentleman's Agreement"" (1947) and ""Twelve O'Clock High"" (1949). Other notable films in which he appeared include ""Spellbound"" (1945), ""The Gunfighter"" (1950), ""Roman Holiday"" (1953),"
"movies filmed in Savannah, ""The Legend of Bagger Vance"" and ""The Gingerbread Man"". His firm's office, Armstrong House, was featured, along with other locations in Savannah, in the original 1962 film ""Cape Fear"", starring Gregory Peck and Robert Mitchum. Seiler is also interviewed in a book ""Rebels, Saints & Sinners: Savannah's Rich History and Colorful Personalities,"" (Pelican Publishing 2002) by Timothy Daiss, in his chapter entitled ""Corruption Savannah Style."" In this chapter Seiler reflects on his early years as an attorney around the early 1960s and recounted the life of Savannah-political boss John Bouhan, a major political player in Savannah"
"to let him spend the rest of his life in jail. The film concludes with the Bowden family sitting together on a boat the next morning. Rod Steiger wanted to play Max Cady, but he backed off when he heard Mitchum was considering the role. Telly Savalas was screentested for the role, but later played private eye Charlie Sievers. Charles Bronson, James Coburn, Charlton Heston, Jack Palance, and John Wayne, were all considered for the role of the attorney, Sam Bowden. Peck was a last-minute replacement for Heston, who was originally cast. Jim Backus was set to play attorney Dave"
"Gregory Peck, where he was featured in an extensive role as Peck's second-in-command. His second film role was perhaps his most notable: As painter Basil Hallward in ""The Picture of Dorian Gray"" (1945), the film adaption of Oscar Wilde's literature classic. Another notable role was the District Commissioner in the Oscar-winning adventure film ""King Solomon's Mines"" (1950) with Deborah Kerr. Although Gilmore was born in the United States, the ""suave-looking, wavy-haired supporting actor"" often portrayed British characters like doctors, officers and aristrocrats. His roles were often dapper and sometimes also cads and villains. One of his best roles was probably"
"in a new home at the University of California, San Diego where it still thrives today. It has attracted Hollywood film stars on hiatus both as performers and enthusiastic supporters since its inception. Peck's first film, ""Days of Glory"", was released in 1944. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor five times, four of which came in his first five years of film acting: for ""The Keys of the Kingdom"" (1944), ""The Yearling"" (1946), ""Gentleman's Agreement"" (1947), and ""Twelve O'Clock High"" (1949). ""The Keys of the Kingdom"" emphasized his stately presence. As the farmer Ezra ""Penny"" Baxter"
"Lionel Richie, Louise Fletcher, Tony Danza, and Piper Laurie. Peck was nominated for five Academy Awards, winning once. He was nominated for ""The Keys of the Kingdom"" (1945), ""The Yearling"" (1946), ""Gentleman's Agreement"" (1947), and ""Twelve O'Clock High"" (1949). He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Atticus Finch in the 1962 film ""To Kill a Mockingbird"". In 1967, he received the Academy's Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. Peck also received many Golden Globe awards. He won in 1947 for ""The Yearling"", in 1963 for ""To Kill a Mockingbird"", and in 1999 for the TV miniseries ""Moby"
"to ""Peeping Tom"" (1960). He received a BAFTA nomination for ""The Bedford Incident"" in 1965. Listing of films: 1942 The Foreman Went to France 1943 The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp 1944 This Happy Breed 1944 The Way Ahead 1945 They Knew Mr. Knight 1946 A Matter of Life and Death 1947 Black Narcissus 1948 The Red Shoes 1950 Gone to Earth 1950 The Elusive Pimpernel 1951 The Tales of Hoffmann 1952 Folly to Be Wise 1952 The Story of Robin Hood and His Merry Men 1953 Twice upon a Time 1953 Front Page Story 1954 The Constant Husband"
"Young ""' Omar Sharif - ""Lawrence of Arabia"" ""' Angela Lansbury - ""The Manchurian Candidate"" ""Only winners announced"" ""' ""Mister Ed"" ""' ""The Dick Powell Show"" ""' Rod Serling - ""The Twilight Zone"" ""' Richard Chamberlain - ""Dr. Kildare"" ""' Donna Reed - ""The Donna Reed Show"" Telstar Keir Dullea Peter O'Toole Omar Sharif Terence Stamp Patty Duke Sue Lyon Rita Tushingham Bob Hope 20th Golden Globe Awards The 20th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film for 1962 films, were held on March 5, 1963. ""' Gregory Peck - ""To Kill a Mockingbird"" ""' Marcello Mastroianni - ""Divorce,"
"a factual book about an Alabama serial murderer, but also put it aside when she was not satisfied. Her withdrawal from public life prompted unfounded speculation that new publications were in the works. Lee said of the 1962 Academy Award–winning screenplay adaptation of ""To Kill a Mockingbird"" by Horton Foote: ""I think it is one of the best translations of a book to film ever made."" She became a friend of Gregory Peck, and after his death remained close to the actor's family; Peck's grandson, Harper Peck Voll, is named after her. Peck won an Oscar for his portrayal of"
"when Delmer Daves was taken ill during the shooting of ""The Hanging Tree"" (1959), Malden took over direction of the movie for two weeks — ""Pollyanna"" (1960), ""Birdman of Alcatraz"", ""Gypsy"", ""How the West Was Won"" (all 1962), ""The Cincinnati Kid"" (1965), and ""Patton"" (1970), playing General Omar Bradley. Malden's wife, Mona (the former Mildred Greenberg), graduated from Roosevelt High School in Emporia, Kansas, where she attended Kansas State Teachers College, now Emporia State University. He first visited the campus with her in 1959 and was impressed by the ESU Summer Theatre. He returned in the summer of 1964 to"
"Sarabande Film Classics series. To Kill a Mockingbird (film) To Kill a Mockingbird is a 1962 American drama film directed by Robert Mulligan. The screenplay by Horton Foote is based on Harper Lee's 1960 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name. It stars Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch and Mary Badham as Scout. ""To Kill a Mockingbird"" marked the film debuts of Robert Duvall, William Windom, and Alice Ghostley. The film received overwhelmingly positive reviews from critics and was a box-office success, earning more than six times its budget. The film won three Academy Awards, including Best Actor for Peck,"
"a Senior Electrical Engineer. He currently lives in the Pacific Northwest. Charles Bates (actor) Charles Bates (born January 15, 1935) is a former American child actor. He appeared in about 43 films between 1941 and 1952, mostly in small roles. He is probably best known as young Roger Newton in Alfred Hitchcock's thriller ""Shadow of a Doubt"" (1943). Other notable roles include ""The North Star"" (1943), ""San Diego, I Love You"" (1944), ""Pursued"" (1947) and ""Shockproof"" (1949). His last film was ""The Snows of Kilimanjaro"", where he played Gregory Peck's character as a 17-year-old. Bates went on to study electrical"
"The Paradine Case The Paradine Case is a 1947 American film noir courtroom drama film, set in England, directed by Alfred Hitchcock and produced by David O. Selznick. The screenplay was written by Selznick and an uncredited Ben Hecht, from an adaptation by Alma Reville and James Bridie of the novel by Robert Smythe Hichens. The film stars Gregory Peck, Ann Todd, Alida Valli, Charles Laughton, Charles Coburn, Ethel Barrymore and Louis Jourdan. It tells of an English barrister who falls in love with a woman who is accused of murder, and how it affects his relationship with his wife."
"20th Golden Globe Awards The 20th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film for 1962 films, were held on March 5, 1963. ""' Gregory Peck - ""To Kill a Mockingbird"" ""' Marcello Mastroianni - ""Divorce, Italian Style (Divorzio all'italiana)"" ""' Geraldine Page - ""Sweet Bird of Youth"" ""' Rosalind Russell - ""Gypsy"" ""' David Lean - ""Lawrence of Arabia"" ""' ""That Touch of Mink"" ""' ""Lawrence of Arabia"" ""' ""The Music Man"" ""' ""To Kill a Mockingbird"" To Kill a Mockingbird - Elmer Bernstein The Longest Day - Henri Persin, Walter Wottitz, Jean Bourgoin Lawrence of Arabia - Freddie"
"The Bravados The Bravados is a 1958 American western film (color by DeLuxe) directed by Henry King, starring Gregory Peck and Joan Collins. The CinemaScope film was based on a novel of the same name, written by Frank O'Rourke. Jim Douglas (Gregory Peck) is a rancher pursuing four outlaws he is convinced are guilty of murdering his wife six months before. He rides into Rio Arriba, where these four men, Alfonso Parral (Lee Van Cleef), Bill Zachary (Stephen Boyd), Ed Taylor (Albert Salmi) and Lujan (Henry Silva), are in jail awaiting execution, by hanging, for an unrelated murder. Sheriff Eloy"
"On the Beat (1962 film) On the Beat is a 1962 British comedy film starring Norman Wisdom, and directed by Robert Asher. Norman Pitkin (Norman Wisdom) works at Scotland Yard as a car cleaner, but dreams of becoming a policeman as his late father was. The police reject his request to join the force, but later recruit him to work undercover in disguise. He has turned out to be the double of a suspected jewel thief, an Italian crime boss in London. In addition to his criminal activities, this man is a ladies' hairdresser. Norman disguises himself as the suspect"
"and a shorter connecting novel between the two."" This assertion has been discredited, however, by rare-books expert James S. Jaffe, who reviewed the pages at the request of Lee's attorney and found them to be only another draft of ""To Kill a Mockingbird"". Nurnberg's statement was also contrary to Jonathan Mahler's description of how ""Watchman"" was seen as just the first draft of ""Mockingbird"". Instances where many passages overlap between the two books, in some case word for word, also refutes this assertion. The book was made into the well-received 1962 film with the same title, starring Gregory Peck as"
"arrangement of the film's title theme, by composer Philip Green, was recorded for a production music library, and may be heard in many American animated cartoons of the early 1960s, particularly those from Hanna-Barbera Productions. On the Beat (1962 film) On the Beat is a 1962 British comedy film starring Norman Wisdom, and directed by Robert Asher. Norman Pitkin (Norman Wisdom) works at Scotland Yard as a car cleaner, but dreams of becoming a policeman as his late father was. The police reject his request to join the force, but later recruit him to work undercover in disguise. He has"
"was opposite Bonita Granville in the episode ""The Valley of the Blue Mountain"" telecast on March 11, 1961, of the anthology series, ""The Best of the Post"", based on articles from the magazine, ""The Saturday Evening Post"". Kim Spalding Kim Spalding (December 7, 1915 – November 18, 2000) was an American actor who appeared on television and in film between 1950 and 1961. Spalding's first role was as an uncredited clerk in the 1950 film ""The Gunfighter"", starring Gregory Peck as Jimmy Ringo. From 1950-1953, Spalding appeared in different roles in the western television series, ""The Lone Ranger"". In 1953,"
"MacArthur (film) MacArthur is a 1977 American biographical war film directed by Joseph Sargent and starring Gregory Peck in the eponymous role as American General of the Army Douglas MacArthur. The film portrays MacArthur's (Gregory Peck) life from 1942, before the Battle of Bataan in World War II, to 1952, after he had been removed from his Korean War command by President Harry Truman (Ed Flanders) for insubordination. It is recounted in flashback as MacArthur visits West Point in 1962. Gregory Peck said, ""I admit that I was not terribly happy with the script they gave me, or with the"
"include ""The Lone Ranger"" (1950), ""The Cisco Kid"" (1951), ""The Public Defender"" (1954), ""I Love Lucy"" (1957), ""M Squad"" (1957), ""Fury"" (1959), ""Peter Gunn"" (1960), ""Bat Masterson"" (1961), ""The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp"" (1961), ""Rawhide"" (1961–62), ""The Rifleman"" (1959–62), ""The Untouchables"" (1961–62), ""Wagon Train"" (1959–62), ""Surfside 6"" (1962) and ""Daniel Boone"" (1964–1970) among many more. Bice's film credits include: Robert Bice Robert Bice (March 14, 1914 – January 8, 1968), was an American television and film actor. He was born on March 14, 1914 in Dallas, Texas. He died on January 8, 1968 in Los Angeles, California. Bice"
"on location in Rhodes, Greece, was nominated for seven Academy Awards including Thompson for Best Director. The success of that film won him entry into Hollywood, where he directed ""Cape Fear"" (1962), a psychological thriller with Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum, Polly Bergen and Lori Martin. Based on a novel called ""The Executioners"" by John D. MacDonald, ""Cape Fear"" shows how a sex offender can manipulate the justice system and terrorise an entire family. Highly controversial for its time, the film was cut heavily in both the United States and the United Kingdom. Thompson maintained a steady career in Hollywood through"
"""An Ungentlemanly Act"". In 1993, Peck made his biggest film appearance, when he was cast as park gamekeeper Robert Muldoon in the blockbuster smash hit ""Jurassic Park"", directed by Steven Spielberg from the 1990 novel of the same name by Michael Crichton. After appearing in ""Jurassic Park"", Peck appeared in the popular television show ""The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles"" in 1993 playing General Targo in one episode. He also played Italian Romantic composer Giuseppe Verdi in a television movie documenting the life and success of the composer. In the later years of his life and career, Peck appeared in more"
"including ""Family Portrait"" and ""On Earth As It Is"". His stage career began in 1941 when he played the secretary in a Katharine Cornell production of George Bernard Shaw's play ""The Doctor's Dilemma"". Unfortunately, the play opened in San Francisco just one week before the attack on Pearl Harbor. He made his Broadway debut as the lead in Emlyn Williams' ""The Morning Star"" in 1942. His second Broadway performance that year was in ""The Willow and I"" with Edward Pawley. Peck's acting abilities were in high demand during World War II because he was exempt from military service owing to"
"Show"", where he served as a technical adviser, a role which Kennedy later described as ""a great training ground"". His film career began in 1961 in ""The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come"". He appeared in several Hollywood movies, including as a sadistic jail guard in the Kirk Douglas modern western ""Lonely Are the Brave"" (1962), a ruthless criminal in the Cary Grant suspense film ""Charade"" (1963), and in a Joan Crawford thriller, ""Strait-Jacket"" (1964). Kennedy was busy in 1965. He appeared with Gregory Peck in the mystery ""Mirage"", with a large cast led by James Stewart in the plane-crash adventure"
"man, Peck had long wanted to play him on film, and did so in ""MacArthur"" in 1976. In 1978, Peck traveled to Alabama, the setting of ""To Kill a Mockingbird"", to campaign for Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Donald W. Stewart of Anniston, who defeated the Republican candidate, James D. Martin, a former U.S. representative from Gadsden. In 1987, Peck undertook the voice-overs for television commercials opposing President Reagan's Supreme Court nomination of conservative judge Robert Bork. Bork's nomination was defeated. Peck was also a vocal supporter of a worldwide ban of nuclear weapons, and a lifelong advocate of gun control."
"whom he blames for his 14-year imprisonment due to purposefully faulty defense tactics used during his trial. ""Cape Fear"" marks the seventh collaboration between Scorsese and De Niro. The film received positive reviews and received Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations for Best Actor (De Niro) and Best Supporting Actress (Juliette Lewis). Sam Bowden is a lawyer in the town of New Essex, North Carolina. Max Cady is a former client whom Bowden defended 14 years earlier when he was working as a public defender in Atlanta. Cady was tried for the violent rape and battery of a young woman."
"Atticus Finch, a Depression-era lawyer and widowed father, in a film adaptation of the Harper Lee novel ""To Kill a Mockingbird"". Released in 1962 during the height of the Civil Rights Movement in the Southern United States, this film and his role were Peck's favorites. In 2003, Peck's portrayal of Atticus Finch was named the greatest film hero of the past 100 years by the American Film Institute. Peck served as the president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 1967, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the American Film Institute from 1967 to 1969, Chairman"
"Academy of Film and Television Arts in 1986 for his portrayal of maverick policeman Ronald Craven in the television miniseries ""Edge of Darkness"". Peck married actress Jill Baker in 1982, and they had three children Hannah (born 1983), George (born 1986) and Milly (born 1990). Peck and Baker shared a seventeen-year marriage until his death in 1999. In November 1994, Peck was diagnosed with an undisclosed type of cancer. Peck was said to be undergoing chemotherapy and radiotherapy and his agent claimed that he was making a recovery. Nevertheless, Peck died at his home in London on 4 April 1999,"
"""Gondoliers"" (Don Alhambra and Giuseppe (part)); ""Yeomen"" (Sergeant Meryll and Wilfred Shadbolt); and ""Iolanthe"" (Lord Chancellor). On the Sir Malcolm Sargent/Glyndebourne series, he recorded: 1958 ""Pinafore"" (Sir Joseph Porter); 1959 ""Iolanthe"" (Lord Chancellor); 1961 ""Pirates"" (Major-General); 1961 ""Trial"" (The Learned Judge); 1963 ""Patience"" (Bunthorne); and 1963 Ruddigore (Robin Oakapple). For the BBC, Baker recorded: 1966 ""Trial"" (Judge) and 1966 ""Ida"" (King Gama). He is also heard on a 1970 recording compiling many of his early recordings, called ""A Tribute to George Baker: Vintage Compilation"". In 1973, for an LP set, ""The Art of the Savoyard"", Baker recorded his reminiscences of"