"films shot in southern Spain by mixed Spanish-Italian teams were co-productions. On the other hand, several American epic-scale superproductions or blockbusters were shot also in Spain, produced either by Samuel Bronston, ""King of Kings"" (1961), ""El Cid"" (1961), ""55 Days at Peking"" (1963), ""The Fall of the Roman Empire"" (1964), ""Circus World"" (1964)), or by others (""Alexander the Great"" (1956), ""The Pride and the Passion"" (1957), ""Solomon and Sheba"" (1959), ""Lawrence of Arabia"" (1962), ""Doctor Zhivago"" (1965), ""The Trojan Women"" (1971)). These movies employed many Spanish technical professionals, and as a byproduct caused that some filmstars, like Ava Gardner and"
"Hungarian movie in 1935 in Budapest. Between 1936 and 1939 he worked with Alexander Korda in London. After the outbreak of World War II, he moved to the United States for good. During the 1940s and 1950s he worked mostly for MGM Studios. In 1954 he founded his own production company with Ivan Tors, Louis Meyer and László Benedek. Ray worked as both as a feature film director and as a second unit director in many big budget epic films. On ""55 Days at Peking"" (1963) Marton stepped up from second unit direction to replace Nicholas Ray as one of"
"Los Angeles, California. O'Brien and Delgado's first work together was in ""The Lost World"", but they became famous a few years later with ""King Kong"" (1933). Kong's success was followed by a failed sequel, ""Son of Kong"". They also worked on movies like ""The Last Days of Pompeii"" (1935) etc. Marcel Delgado Marcel Delgado (January 16, 1901 in Coahuila, Mexico - November 26, 1976 in Los Angeles, California) was a sculptor and model-maker. His technique revolutionized the stop motion film industry. He is best known for his work on the 1933 film ""King Kong"". Prior to Delgado, stop motion models"
"the early 1960s, when Hollywood frequently collaborated with foreign film studios (such as Rome's Cinecittà) to use relatively exotic locations in Spain, Morocco, and elsewhere for the production of epic films such as ""El Cid"" (1961) or ""Lawrence of Arabia"" (1962). This boom period of international co-productions is generally considered to have ended with ""Cleopatra"" (1963), ""The Fall of the Roman Empire"" (1964), and ""Doctor Zhivago"" (1965). Nevertheless, films in this genre continued to appear, with one notable example being ""War and Peace"", which was released in the former Soviet Union during 1967-1968 and, directed by Sergei Bondarchuk, and said"
"Raymond Wong Pak-ming Raymond Wong Pak-ming (born 8 April 1946; sometimes transliterated as Raymond Wong Bak-ming) is a Hong Kong film producer, playwright, director and actor. He is one of the most successful producers in Hong Kong cinema, having been one of the comedians to establish Cinema City Studios in 1980. In 1980, Wong formed the renowned Cinema City Co., Ltd. with Karl Maka and Dean Shek. The production company became an industry phenomenon, producing films such as ""A Better Tomorrow"", ""Aces Go Places"", ""Prison on Fire"" and ""All About Ah-Long"". Actors such as Chow Yun-fat, Leslie Cheung and Ti"
"Executive Vice President of Asian Operations at The Weinstein Company, where he oversaw the company's Asian business as well as its US$285 million Asian Film Fund. In 2007, David co-founded SDJS/Havenwood Media and produced Already Dead, an action-thriller starring Til Schweiger, Ron Eldard and Academy Award winning actor Christopher Plummer, which was distributed by Sony Pictures Entertainment. David was also a Co-Executive Producer of the Jackie Chan and Jet Li starring film, The Forbidden Kingdom, which went on to become the most successful China/U.S. co-production in history. In April 2008, David founded Leeding Media as a film entertainment enterprise dedicated"
"ultimately appearing in 99 films over the course of his career. A capable if not fluent English speaker, Tichy also appeared in several international productions that were filmed in Spain, most notably ""King of Kings"" (1961) as Joseph, ""El Cid"" (1961) playing King Ramirez, and ""Doctor Zhivago"" (1965) as Liberius, a Red partisan commander. He appeared in numerous spaghetti Westerns, most notably Sergio Corbucci's ""Compañeros"" (1971). Gérard Tichy Gerard Tichy (also Gérard Tichy, Gerhard Tichi and Gerardo Tichy) was a Spanish actor of German descent, who appeared in numerous movies, including several international productions. He was born in Weißenfels, Germany,"
"an executive producer for the films produced. To this day, the company has produced over 100 films. Wong is married to Wong Man-kuen (). Raymond Wong Pak-ming Raymond Wong Pak-ming (born 8 April 1946; sometimes transliterated as Raymond Wong Bak-ming) is a Hong Kong film producer, playwright, director and actor. He is one of the most successful producers in Hong Kong cinema, having been one of the comedians to establish Cinema City Studios in 1980. In 1980, Wong formed the renowned Cinema City Co., Ltd. with Karl Maka and Dean Shek. The production company became an industry phenomenon, producing films"
"Bernard Gordon. Yordan was credited on ""The Day of the Triffids"" (1963) but he was a ""front"" for Bernard Gordon. He continued to work regularly for Bronston: ""55 Days at Peking"" (1963), directed by Ray and Guy Green, with Yordan producing, contributing ideas and being a script front for Gordon; ""The Fall of the Roman Empire"" (1964), directed by Mann; and ""Circus World"" (1964), directed by Henry Hathaway (mostly written by Gordon). Then, Bronston's filmmaking empire collapsed. In 1963 Security Pictures announced they would make ten films for Allied Arists over two and a half years, including ""The Tribe That"
"London Films London Films Productions is a British film and television production company founded in 1932 by Alexander Korda and from 1936 based at Denham Film Studios in Buckinghamshire, near London. The company's productions included ""The Private Life of Henry VIII"" (1933), ""Things to Come"" (1936), ""Rembrandt"" (1936), and ""The Four Feathers"" (1939). The facility at Denham was taken over in 1939 by Rank and merged with Pinewood to form D & P Studios. The outbreak of war necessitated that ""The Thief of Bagdad"" (1940) was completed in California, although Korda's handful of American-made films still had Big Ben for"
"Mike Todd Michael ""Mike"" Todd (born Avrom Hirsch Goldbogen, June 22, 1909 – March 22, 1958) was an American theater and film producer, best known for his 1956 production of ""Around the World in 80 Days"", which won an Academy Award for Best Picture. He is known as the third of Elizabeth Taylor's seven husbands, and is the only one whom she did not divorce (he died in a private plane accident a year after their marriage). He was the driving force behind the development of the eponymous Todd-AO widescreen film format. Todd was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to Chaim"
"(1959) with him. Power died during the filming of ""Solomon"" in Spain. Richmond moved to MGM where he made ""Bachelor in Paradise"" (1961) and ""It Happened at the World's Fair"" (1963). Richmond spent the last 30 years of his life in Paris with his wife, Asuko. Ted Richmond Ted Richmond (June 10, 1910 – December 23, 2013) was an American film producer credited with 66 films between 1940 and 1979. He was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Richmond produced films for several studios including Universal Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Columbia Pictures. His most noted films include Return of the Seven (1966)"
"lead the fight against the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Lifetime Achievement Award to Elia Kazan, who cooperated with HUAC during the blacklist era. Gordon died on May 11, 2007 in Hollywood, California. Bernard Gordon (writer) Bernard Gordon (October 29, 1918 – May 11, 2007) was an American writer and producer. For much of his 27-year career, he toiled in obscurity, prevented from taking screen credit by the Hollywood Blacklist. Among his best-known works are screenplays for ""Flesh and Fury"", ""Earth vs. the Flying Saucers"" and ""55 Days at Peking"". Gordon was born in New Britain, Connecticut to"
"King Hu Hu Jinquan (29 April 1932 – 14 January 1997), better known as King Hu, was a Chinese film director based in Hong Kong and Taiwan. He is best known for directing various ""wuxia"" films in the 1960s and 1970s, which brought Chinese cinema (including Hong Kong and Taiwan) to new technical and artistic heights. His films ""Come Drink with Me"" (1966), ""Dragon Inn"" (1967), and ""A Touch of Zen"" (1969–1971) inaugurated a new generation of ""wuxia"" films in the late 1960s. Apart from being a film director, Hu was also a screenwriter and set designer. Hu was born"
"King of Kings (1961 film) King of Kings is a 1961 American Biblical epic film made by Samuel Bronston Productions and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Directed by Nicholas Ray, the film is a dramatization of the story of Jesus Christ from his birth and ministry to his crucifixion and resurrection, with much dramatic license. In 63 BC, Pompey conquered Jerusalem and the city was sacked. He entered the Temple to seize the treasure of Solomon and massacred the priests there. He discovered that the treasure is only a collection of scrolls of the Torah. These Pompey held over a fire until"
"died in Beijing due to a heart attack. He was seventy. Li Han-hsiang Richard Li Han Hsiang (; 7 March 1926 in Jinxi, Liaoning - 17 December 1996 in Beijing) was a Chinese film director. Li directed more than 70 films in his career beginning in the 1950s and lasting till the 1990s. His ""The Enchanting Shadow"", ""The Magnificent Concubine"", and ""Empress Wu Tse-Tien"" were entered into the Cannes Film Festival in 1960, 1962, and 1963 respectively. Li also won the Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards for his work on the movie ""Xi Shi"" in 1965. Most of his"
"Another film for which Gordon wrote pseudonymously due to the Black List was ""Zombies of Mora Tau"" (1957). Through his friendship with writer/entrepreneur Philip Yordan, Gordon found regular work as a writer and producer in Madrid for the Samuel Bronston Productions. At first, however, he was still denied screen credit, with Yordan frequently listing himself as sole author of films like ""Circus World"", ""Battle of the Bulge"", ""Custer of the West"" and ""Day of the Triffids"". Gordon did receive on-screen credit for ""55 Days at Peking"", and the first screen adaptation of ""The Thin Red Line"". As a producer, he"
"films, including ""King Kong"" (1933) and ""Woman on the Run"" (1950). Hollywood Foreign Press Association The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) is a non-profit organization of journalists and photographers who report on the entertainment industry activity and interests in the United States for information outlets (newspaper, magazine and book publication, television and radio broadcasting) predominantly outside the U.S. The HFPA consists of about 90 members from approximately 55 countries with a combined following of more than 250 million. It conducts the annual Golden Globe Awards ceremony in Los Angeles every January that honor notable examples of cinema and television and"
"Bob Harper (producer) Bob Harper (born March 24, 1955) is an American film producer. In a Hollywood career spanning 30 years, he has marketed over 400 films including ""Titanic"", ""Mr. and Mrs. Smith"", ""Planet of the Apes"", ""X-Men"", the ""Star Wars"" trilogy and ""Home Alone"", and collaborated with some of the most influential directors of the past twenty-five years, including George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, James Cameron and Tim Burton. Robert Everett Harper was born and raised in Washington D.C. and has worked in the entertainment business for his whole career. He served as general manager at Kaleidoscope Films from 1980"
"Anthony Mann Anthony Mann (June 30, 1906 – April 29, 1967) was an American actor and film director, best remembered for his work in the film noir and Westerns genres. As a director, he often collaborated with the cinematographer John Alton. He directed films for a variety of production companies, from RKO to MGM, and worked with many major stars of the era. He made several Westerns with Jimmy Stewart, such as ""Winchester '73"" (1950), and he was the director of the medieval epic ""El Cid"" (1961), working with Charlton Heston and Sophia Loren. He also directed the big-budget film"
"3, 2012, aged 70, from cancer. Zalman King Zalman King (born Zalman King Lefkowitz; May 23, 1941 – February 3, 2012) was an American film director, writer, actor and producer. His films are known for incorporating sexuality, and are often categorized as erotica. Zalman King Lefkowitz dropped his last name at the beginning of his acting career. In 1964, he played a gang member in ""Memo from Purgatory"", an episode of the television series ""The Alfred Hitchcock Hour"" written by Harlan Ellison and featuring actors James Caan and Walter Koenig. Between 1965 and 1967 King appeared in 5 episodes of"
"Ted Richmond Ted Richmond (June 10, 1910 – December 23, 2013) was an American film producer credited with 66 films between 1940 and 1979. He was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Richmond produced films for several studios including Universal Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Columbia Pictures. His most noted films include Return of the Seven (1966) with Yul Brynner, Red Sun (1971) with Charles Bronson, and Papillon (1973) with Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman. He died in Paris at the age of 103 in 2013. Richmond was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts. He first worked in the movie business as an usher"
"American studios in Italy and (primarily) Spain, credited as ""Michael Waszynski"". His credits include ""The Quiet American"" (1958) (associate producer), ""El Cid"" (1961), and ""The Fall of the Roman Empire (film)"" (1964) (executive producer and associate producer). He died of a heart attack on 20 February 1965 in Madrid, and was buried in a ceremonious Catholic funeral in Rome. Michał Waszyński Michał Waszyński (29 September 1904 – 20 February 1965) was first a film director in Poland, then in Italy, and later (as Michael Waszynski) a producer of the major American films, mainly in Spain. Known for his elegance and"
"Eddie Romero, Lamberto Avellana, and Cirio Santiago. During the 1960s, the studio system in Hollywood declined, because many films were now being made on location in other countries, or using studio facilities abroad, such as Pinewood in the UK and Cinecittà in Rome. ""Hollywood"" films were still largely aimed at family audiences, and it was often the more old-fashioned films that produced the studios' biggest successes. Productions like ""Mary Poppins"" (1964), ""My Fair Lady"" (1964) and ""The Sound of Music"" (1965) were among the biggest money-makers of the decade. The growth in independent producers and production companies, and the increase"
"time in Siu-Pang Chan's ""The Magnificent"" in 1979 and again in his own ""Mr. X"" in 1995 (in the role of Godfather Ho). Godfrey Ho Godfrey Ho (Chinese language: 何志强 or 何致强, born 1948) is a former Hong Kong-based prolific film director and screenwriter, sometimes considered the Ed Wood of Hong Kong cinema. Ho is believed to have directed more than one hundred films, including over 80 movies from 1980 to 1990, but only one film since 1995, apparently retiring from film-making in 2000. Many of his works are now regarded cult films by aficionados of Z movies as being"
"productions. His most notable film, which raised his profile in America, was ""The King of Kings"" by Cecil B. DeMille (1927), in which he played the High Priest Caiaphas. He was married to Erna (Weinstein), with whom he had a son, Joseph Schildkraut (1896–1964), who was also known as an actor. Schildkraut died at the age of 67 years of a heart attack while working a film studio, in Los Angeles. He is interred in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood, California. His son also died at the same age, also of a heart attack. Rudolph Schildkraut Schildkraut was born"
"Bernard Gordon (writer) Bernard Gordon (October 29, 1918 – May 11, 2007) was an American writer and producer. For much of his 27-year career, he toiled in obscurity, prevented from taking screen credit by the Hollywood Blacklist. Among his best-known works are screenplays for ""Flesh and Fury"", ""Earth vs. the Flying Saucers"" and ""55 Days at Peking"". Gordon was born in New Britain, Connecticut to Kitty and William Gordon, Jewish immigrants from Russia. His father managed a hardware store and Gordon grew up in New York City, where he attended the City College. Beginning as a writer for print, Gordon"
"Its Head"" but it was not made. In 1959 Yordan and Harmon announced they would made four films for Columbia. They were going to start with a World War Two story, ""Kingdom of Man"". Yordan produced the TV series """" (1960-61). He also made some uncredited contributions to the script of ""The Time Machine"" (1960). Yordan's association with Samuel L. Bronston began when he worked on ""King of Kings"" (1961), directed by Nicholas Ray. Yordan stayed with Bronston to write ""El Cid"" (1961) for Mann, although it is more likely the actual scripting was done by blacklistees Ben Barzman and"
"51 Academy Awards and received over 220 AACTA nominations. As a film distributor he has released films such as The King's Speech, Amour, Samson & Delilah, The Railway Man, Calvary, Shame and many more. As a producer he has executive produced a number of films including Holding the Man directed by Neil Armfield, Mary & Max directed by Adam Elliot, Candy directed by Neil Armfield, The Eye of the Storm directed by Fred Schepisi, Tracks directed by John Curran, the UK/Australian co-production Oyster Farmer directed by Anna Reeves and Strangerland directed by Kim Farrant starring Nicole Kidman. Mackie and Payten"
"as Sir Lancelot. Indicative of her sophistication, she portrayed a duchess, a baroness, and other ladies of royal lineage in her films of the 1950s. Off-camera, she could be witty and pithy, as in her assessment of director John Ford, who directed ""Mogambo"" (""The meanest man on earth. Thoroughly evil. Adored him!""). She was billed between Charlton Heston and David Niven in ""55 Days at Peking"" in 1963, which was set in China during the Boxer Rebellion in 1900. The following year, she played her last major leading role in a critically acclaimed film, ""The Night of the Iguana"" (1964),"
"Blake Edwards William Blake Crump (July 26, 1922 – December 15, 2010), better known by his stage name Blake Edwards, was an American filmmaker. Edwards began his career in the 1940s as an actor, but he soon began writing screenplays and radio scripts before turning to producing and directing in television and films. His best-known films include ""Breakfast at Tiffany's"", ""Days of Wine and Roses"", ""10"", ""Victor/Victoria"", and the hugely successful Pink Panther film series with British actor Peter Sellers. Often thought of as primarily a director of comedies, he also directed several drama, musical, and detective films. Late in"
"films as ""Some Like It Hot"", ""The Apartment"", ""Jack the Giant Killer"", ""Tobruk"", ""Blazing Saddles"", and ""Superman"". Anderson was born in Los Angeles, California, on March 31, 1920, the son of Minerva Ayling and Howard Alvin Anderson. He grew up in Culver City, California, where his younger brother, Darrell Addison Anderson, was born in 1921. His father was a Hollywood special effects photographer who pioneered the emerging art of visual effects when he created the lightning, flood and storm effects for Cecil B. DeMille's epic silent film ""The King of Kings"", released in 1927. That same year, Anderson Sr. founded"
"Cid"" (1961). Also during this period a number of other significant films were produced in Todd-AO, developed by Mike Todd shortly before his death, including Oklahoma! (1955), Around the World in 80 Days (1956), South Pacific (1958) and Cleopatra (1963) plus many more. Gimmicks also proliferated to lure in audiences. The fad for 3-D film would last for only two years, 1952–1954, and helped sell ""House of Wax"" and ""Creature from the Black Lagoon"". Producer William Castle would tout films featuring ""Emergo"" ""Percepto"", the first of a series of gimmicks that would remain popular marketing tools for Castle and others"