"as Wallace's novel was the basis for the earlier 1937 film ""Kid Galahad,"" directed by Michael Curtiz - also by Warner Bros. and featuring Bogart in a supporting role - but using the boxing world as a backdrop. In 1962, United Artists produced a musical remake of the ""boxing"" version of Wallace's story under the same title, directed by Phil Karlson and starring Elvis Presley as the boxer. From a traveling carnival managed by Nick Coster (Humphrey Bogart), an aggressive lion named Caesar escapes, but is cornered in a grocery store by clerk Matt Varney (Eddie Albert). Seeing that Matt"
"Wayne Morris (American actor) Wayne Morris (February 17, 1914 – September 14, 1959) was an American film and television actor, as well as a decorated World War II fighter ace. He appeared in many films, including ""Paths of Glory"" (1957), ""The Bushwackers"" (1952), and the title role of ""Kid Galahad"" (1937). Morris was born Bert DeWayne Morris, or Bert De Wayne Morris, in Los Angeles. (Another source says that he was born in Pasadena, California.) He attended Los Angeles City College and was a fullback on that school's varsity football team. He gained acting experience through his work at the"
"February 25, 1942. O'Rourke was the sister to B-movie actress Peggy Stewart. He had two daughters and a son. Aged 45, Morris died of a coronary occlusion September 14, 1959, aboard the ""USS Bon Homme Richard"". Wayne Morris (American actor) Wayne Morris (February 17, 1914 – September 14, 1959) was an American film and television actor, as well as a decorated World War II fighter ace. He appeared in many films, including ""Paths of Glory"" (1957), ""The Bushwackers"" (1952), and the title role of ""Kid Galahad"" (1937). Morris was born Bert DeWayne Morris, or Bert De Wayne Morris, in Los"
"Frank S. Nugent applauded Morris's ""natural and easy performance. Time Out considered the film a ""none too subtle exposition of the now well-worn theme of corruption in the boxing-ring"", but conceded that ""sleek direction and excellent performances keep it enjoyable."" Dave Kehr of the ""Chicago Reader"" disagreed, characterizing it as ""pretty much all genre and no nuance"", though he found Curtiz's direction ""surprising soft and light."" Kid Galahad (1937 film) Kid Galahad is a 1937 boxing film starring Edward G. Robinson, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart and, in the title role, rising newcomer Wayne Morris. It was scripted by Seton I."
"Pasadena Playhouse. Morris's film debut came in ""China Clipper"" (1936). Morris played the title character of ""Kid Galahad"" (1937), a story of a young prizefighter that featured some of Hollywood's biggest stars, Bette Davis, Edward G. Robinson and Humphrey Bogart. His career flourished in films like ""Brother Rat"", which starred Ronald Reagan, and in Bogart's only horror film, ""The Return of Doctor X"" (1939). While filming ""Flight Angels"" (1940), Morris became interested in flying and became a pilot. With war in the wind, he joined the Naval Reserve and became a Navy flier in 1942, leaving his film career behind"
"adaptations. The 1951 film version, starring Michael Redgrave as Crocker-Harris, won two awards at the Cannes Film Festival, one for Rattigan's screenplay, the other for Redgrave's performance. It was remade in 1994, starring Albert Finney, Michael Gambon, Greta Scacchi, Matthew Modine, Julian Sands and young Ben Silverstone. A British television version was made in 1955, starring Peter Cushing as Crocker-Harris. John Frankenheimer directed John Gielgud in a 1959 television version for CBS. In 1960, Maurice Evans repeated his Broadway role for CBC television under the sponsorship of Ford of Canada in their Startime series. Another made-for-TV version in 1985 starred"
"show transferred in September to the Palace Theatre in the West End, toured and returned to the Palace. During the run Joan Plowright left the cast and was replaced by Geraldine McEwan. Plowright rejoined the cast when the production opened in New York in February 1958. In the same year a touring production was presented in the British provinces, starring John Slater as Archie and Bobby Howes as Billy. West End revivals have starred Max Wall (Greenwich Theatre, 1974); Peter Bowles (Shaftesbury Theatre, 1986); Robert Lindsay (Old Vic, 2007); and Kenneth Branagh (Garrick Theatre, 2016). In 1974, Jack Lemmon appeared"
"successful and less troubled adaptation in 1719 at Lincoln's Inn Fields; Shakespeare's original version was revived at Covent Garden in 1738. The play had limited popularity in the early twentieth century, but John Gielgud exploded onto the world's theatrical consciousness, through his performance as Richard at the Old Vic Theatre in 1929, returning to the character in 1937 and 1953 in what ultimately was considered as the definitive performance of the role. Another legendary Richard was Maurice Evans, who first played the role at the Old Vic in 1934 and then created a sensation in his 1937 Broadway performance, revived"
"previews, but both parts were cut during the pre-Broadway run. Several pairs of characters originally played by the same Monty Python member were reduced to one: the Dead Collector and Sir Robin (Idle), the Large Man with a Dead Body and Sir Lancelot (Cleese), and Dennis the Active Peasant and Sir Galahad (Michael Palin). Notable Broadway cast replacements included: Notable West End cast replacements have included Peter Davison and Bill Ward in 2007 and Marin Mazzie, in early 2008. Sanjeev Bhaskar (King Arthur), Michael Xavier (Sir Galahad) and Nina Söderquist (Lady of the Lake) were part of the closing cast."
"""Kid Galahad"" (1937), ""The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse"" (1938) and ""Brother Orchid"" (1940). For this movie, however, Robinson's name appears to the right of Bogart's, but placed a little higher on the posters, and also in the film's opening credits, to indicate Robinson's near-equal status. Robinson's image was also markedly larger and centered on the original poster, with Bogart relegated to the background. In the film's trailer, Bogart is repeatedly mentioned first but Robinson's name is listed above Bogart's in a Cast listing at the end. Exterior shots of the hurricane were taken from stock footage used in ""Night Unto Night"","
"Geoffrey Bayldon Albert Geoffrey Bayldon (7 January 1924 – 10 May 2017) was an English actor. After playing roles in many stage productions, including the works of William Shakespeare, he became known for portraying the title role of the children's series ""Catweazle"" (1970–71). Bayldon's other long-running parts include the Crowman in ""Worzel Gummidge"" (1979–81) and Magic Grandad in the BBC television series ""Watch"" (1995). Bayldon was born in Leeds and attended Bridlington School and Hull College of Architecture. Following service in the Royal Air Force during World War II, he appeared in amateur theatricals and then trained at the Old"
"Bradley Dean Bradley Dean is an American stage and screen actor. From December 2009 until January 2011, he starred in the Broadway revival of ""A Little Night Music"", first as Frid, and then later as Count Carl-Magnus opposite Bernadette Peters. On March 25, 2008, Dean succeeded Christopher Sieber in the role of Sir Galahad in the musical comedy ""Spamalot"" on Broadway. Prior to performing the role on Broadway, Dean played the same role in the show's touring company. Dean has had other Broadway roles in productions of ""Evita"", ""The Story of my Life"", ""Company"", ""Man of La Mancha"", and ""Jane"
"(Rocky Pioggi), Carl Benton Reid (Larry Slade), Morton L. Stevens (Ed Mosher), Frank Tweddell (Piet ""The General"" Wetjoen), and Michael Wyler (Moran). The play received mixed reviews. 1956: An Off-Broadway production staged after O'Neill's death featured Jason Robards as Hickey and was directed by José Quintero. This production was an unqualified success and established the play as a great modern tragedy. 1973: A Broadway revival staged at the Circle in the Square Theatre ran from December 13, 1973 to February 16, 1974 with James Earl Jones as Hickey. 1985: A Broadway revival staged at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre featured Jason Robards"
"Billy the Kid (1941 film) Billy the Kid is a 1941 American color remake of the 1930 film of the same name. The film features Robert Taylor as Billy and Brian Donlevy as a fictionalized version of Pat Garrett renamed ""Jim Sherwood"" in the film. Directed by David Miller and based on the book by Walter Noble Burns, the cast also included Gene Lockhart and Lon Chaney Jr.. The film was not as well received as the 1930 original, ""Billy the Kid"", which had starred Johnny Mack Brown and Wallace Beery and been shot in an experimental widescreen process. The"
"from undisclosed causes. His partner of many years, fellow actor Alan Rowe, predeceased him in 2000. Geoffrey Bayldon Albert Geoffrey Bayldon (7 January 1924 – 10 May 2017) was an English actor. After playing roles in many stage productions, including the works of William Shakespeare, he became known for portraying the title role of the children's series ""Catweazle"" (1970–71). Bayldon's other long-running parts include the Crowman in ""Worzel Gummidge"" (1979–81) and Magic Grandad in the BBC television series ""Watch"" (1995). Bayldon was born in Leeds and attended Bridlington School and Hull College of Architecture. Following service in the Royal Air"
"stage roles, as Ficsur. Schildkraut and Le Gallienne repeated their roles, and Sayre Crawley played the Magistrate in the first Broadway revival of the play, in 1932. In 1939, Orson Welles directed and played the title role in a one-hour radio adaptation for his CBS ""The Campbell Playhouse"" program. The production costarred Helen Hayes as Julie and Agnes Moorehead as Mrs. Muskat, the carousel owner who is infatuated with Liliom. It was broadcast live on October 22, 1939. In 1940, a second American stage revival, starring Burgess Meredith and Ingrid Bergman, with Elia Kazan as Ficsur and Joan Tetzel as"
"heard in 30 years. Directly before the commercial break Sebastian Cabot's photo was shown on national television as a tribute. Sebastian Cabot (actor) Charles Sebastian Thomas Cabot (6 July 1918 – 22 August 1977) was an English film and television actor, best remembered as the gentleman's gentleman, Giles French, opposite Brian Keith's character, William ""Uncle Bill"" Davis, in the CBS-TV sitcom ""Family Affair"" (1966–1971). He was also known for playing the Wazir in the film ""Kismet"" (1955) and Dr. Carl Hyatt in the CBS-TV series ""Checkmate"" (1960–1962). Cabot was also a voice performer in many Disney animated films; he made"
"Frank Wood as Cecil Lewis, Bill Irwin as Ed Mosher, Reg Rogers as James Cameron, Colm Meaney as Harry Hope, and David Morse as Larry Slade. The sets were by Santo Loquasto, costumes by Ann Roth, and lighting design by Jules Fisher and Peggy Eisenhauer. 1960: TV Production for Play of the Week on National Educational Television (NET) directed by Sidney Lumet. This production featured Jason Robards as Hickey, Tom Pedi from the original 1947 stage production as Rocky Pioggi, Sorrell Booke as Hugo Kalmar, and Robert Redford as Don Parritt. It is presented as two separate episodes of the"
"Ives as Big Daddy, Mildred Dunnock as Big Mama, Pat Hingle as Gooper, and Madeleine Sherwood as Mae. Bel Geddes was the only cast member nominated for a Tony Award, and Kazan was nominated for Best Director of a Play. Both Ives and Sherwood would reprise their roles in the 1958 film version. The cast also featured the southern blues duo Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry and had as Gazzara's understudy the young Cliff Robertson. When Gazzara left the play, Jack Lord replaced him. Others from the original Broadway production included R.G. Armstrong as Doctor Baugh, Fred Stewart as Reverend"
"inspired directly by the comic strip and 1930s serials. Brian Blessed's performance as the Hawkman Prince Vultan lodged the veteran stage and screen actor into the collective consciousness for the utterance of a single line – ""GORDON'S ALIVE?!"" – which, more than 30 years later, remained the most repeated, reused, and recycled quotation from both the film and Blessed's career. The film's cult status led it to feature heavily in the comedy films ""Ted"" (2012) and ""Ted2"" (2015) giving a resurgence and resurrection to the film."" In 1967, a low-budget Turkish adaptation of the comic was made, called ""Flash Gordon's"
"opposite his then flatmate Mel Gibson as Estragon in 1979 at the Jane Street Theatre in Sydney. In 1980, Braham Murray directed a production at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester with Max Wall as Vladimir, Trevor Peacock as Estragon and Wolfe Morris as Pozzo. The Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater at Lincoln Center was the site of a 1988 revival directed by Mike Nichols, featuring Robin Williams (Estragon), Steve Martin (Vladimir), Bill Irwin (Lucky), F. Murray Abraham (Pozzo), and Lukas Haas (boy). With a limited run of seven weeks and an all-star cast, it was financially successful, but the critical"
"Janus took over as Adelaide; and Nigel Lindsay, Neil Morrissey, Patrick Swayze, Alex Ferns and Don Johnson took over as Nathan Detroit. This production added the song ""Adelaide"" that Frank Loesser had written for the 1955 film adaptation. According to a September 2007 article in ""Playbill.com"", this West End production had been scheduled to begin previews for a transfer to Broadway in February 2008, but this plan was dropped. A 2009 Broadway revival of the show opened on March 1, 2009 at the Nederlander Theatre. The cast starred Oliver Platt as Nathan Detroit, Lauren Graham, in her Broadway debut, as"
"Howard Keel as Arthur, Constance Towers as Guenevere, and Bob Holiday as Lancelot. An Australian production opened in Adelaide in October 1963 produced by the J. C. Williamson company and ran for two years. The London production opened in August 1964 at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane and featured Laurence Harvey as Arthur, Elizabeth Larner as Guenevere and Barry Kent as Lancelot. It played for 518 performances. The film version was released in 1967, starring Richard Harris as Arthur, Vanessa Redgrave as Guenevere, Franco Nero as Lancelot and David Hemmings as Mordred. Richard Burton reprised his role as Arthur in"
"Billy the Kid (1930 film) Billy the Kid is a 1930 American pre-Code film directed in widescreen by King Vidor about the relationship between frontier outlaw Billy the Kid (Johnny Mack Brown, billed as ""John Mack Brown"") and Pat Garrett (Wallace Beery), the man who later killed him. Directed by King Vidor, the movie was filmed in an early widescreen process called Realife, a 70mm format similar to Fox Film Corporation's Grandeur used for the lavish ""The Big Trail"" the same year. While ""The Big Trail"", starring John Wayne, has been restored so that the 1930 widescreen process can be"
"1932 Walls directed a film adaptation of the play, under the same title. Travers wrote the screenplay, and Walls, Lynn, Hare and Brough reprised their old stage roles. ""The Evening Telegraph"" called it ""poor cinema, but excellent entertainment"". The first London revival of the stage play was in 1965, with Peter Cushing and Alec McCowen as Benbow and Gamble. A 1989 production at the Lyric, Hammersmith featured Dinsdale Landen and Griff Rhys Jones. In August 2013 Snapdragon Productions presented a revival at The Park Theatre in a new adaptation, by the actor and writer Clive Francis, who starred in the"
"children: Frank Byrne, Susan Byrne, Michael Byrne & Catherine Byrne. He died of a stroke in Dublin in 1981. Eddie Byrne Eddie Byrne (31 January 1911 – 21 August 1981) was an Irish actor. Outside Ireland he is probably best known for his minor role as General Willard in ""Star Wars"" (1977), but viewers of horror films might also remember him as the sceptical Inspector Mulrooney in ""The Mummy"" (1959) and as the kindly Dr. Reginald Landers in ""Island of Terror"" (1966). He also appeared as Inspector O'Neill in the film ""Jack the Ripper"" (1959). Eddie Byrne was born in"
"James Monroe Iglehart James Monroe Iglehart (born September 4, 1974) is an American stage actor and singer. Iglehart is perhaps best known for his Tony Award-winning performance as the Genie in the original Broadway production of ""Aladdin"". Iglehart assumed the role of Marquis de Lafayette/Thomas Jefferson in the Broadway company of ""Hamilton"" in April 2017. Iglehart attended Cal State Hayward and started his career in California, performing in ""Bat Boy"" at TheatreWorks, Palo Alto, California and as Teen Angel in ""Grease"" at the American Musical Theatre, San Jose, California. In 2005, he directed ""Bat Boy the Musical"" at Ray of"
"""Blade on the Feather""; ""The Stinker"" (Tales of the Unexpected) ""'1982 Anthony Andrews in ""Brideshead Revisited"" ""'1983 Alec Guinness in ""Smiley's People"" ""'1984 Alan Bates in ""An Englishman Abroad"" ""'1985 Tim Pigott-Smith in ""The Jewel In The Crown"" ""'1986 Bob Peck in ""Edge of Darkness"" ""'1987 Michael Gambon in ""The Singing Detective"" ""'1988 David Jason in ""Porterhouse Blue"" ""'1989 Ray McAnally in ""A Very British Coup"" ""'1990 John Thaw as Endeavour Morse in ""Inspector Morse"" ""'1991 Ian Richardson as Francis Urquhart in ""House of Cards"" ""'1992 Robert Lindsay as Michael Murray in ""G.B.H."" ""'1993 John Thaw as Endeavour Morse in"
"in the 1920 film version, by Harry Carey in the 1932 film serial version, by Randolph Scott in the 1936 film version, by Kenneth Ives in the 1971 BBC serial, by Steve Forrest in the 1977 TV movie and by Daniel Day-Lewis in the 1992 film version. Day-Lewis received a BAFTA Film Award nomination for Best Actor in 1993, won an ""Evening Standard"" British Film Award for Best Actor in 1993, and won an ALFS Award for British Actor of the Year in 1993 for his interepretation of the character. In the 1992 film, however, the character's name is changed"
"Fosse choreography was alien to her style, and she was replaced by Elizabeth Seal. It also starred Bill Kerr as Applegate, and Ivor Emmanuel as Joe Hardy. In the mid-1970s, Vincent Price starred as Applegate in summer stock productions of the show. In the late 1970s and early 1980s film actor Van Johnson did so in productions throughout the U.S.A. In July, 1981, a production was performed at the Jones Beach Marine Theater in Wantagh, New York. It was notable due to former New York Jets quarterback Joe Namath being cast in the role of Joe Boyd. A Broadway revival"
"May 7, 1965, after 32 performances. The cast included Michael Strong as LeBeau, Stanley Beck as Bayard, Paul Mann as Marchand, and David J. Stewart as Monceau. A London production in 1966 at the Phoenix Theatre starred Alec Guinness, Anthony Quayle and Nigel Davenport. Miller adapted the play for a 1973 television production directed by Stacy Keach and starring Andy Robinson, Burt Freed, Harris Yulin, Richard Jordan and René Auberjonois. None of the characters in the play is referred to by name at any time, except for Von Berg and Ferrand. The first half of the play revolves around the"
"was also adapted on three broadcasts of Lux Radio Theater: on September 21, 1942, with Allgood, Crisp, O'Hara, McDowall and Pidgeon; on March 31, 1947, with Crisp and David Niven; and on September 28, 1954, with Crisp and Donna Reed. A Broadway musical adaptation, entitled ""A Time for Singing"", produced by Alexander H. Cohen, opened at the Broadway Theatre on May 21, 1966. The music was by John Morris; book and lyrics by Morris and Gerald Freedman, who also served as the director. Cast included Laurence Naismith as Gwillym, Tessie O'Shea as Beth Morgan, Shani Wallis as Angharad and Frank"
"Oded Fehr Oded Fehr (; born on November 23, 1970) is an Israeli actor now based in the United States. He is known for his appearance as Ardeth Bay in the 1999 remake of ""The Mummy"" and its sequel ""The Mummy Returns"", as well as Carlos Oliveira in """" and """" and Todd / Clone Carlos in """", Faris al-Farik in ""Sleeper Cell"", Antoine in """", the demon Zankou in the TV series ""Charmed"" and Eli Cohn on the TV series ""V"". He recently portrayed Eyal Lavin, a Mossad agent on the TV series ""Covert Affairs"", as well as Beau"