The 1961 western One-Eyed Jacks was the only feature film to be directed by which actor?
"really wrote the story, he said: ""There is one answer to your question — Marlon Brando, a genius in our time."" The film was Paramount Pictures' last feature released in VistaVision. Cinematographer Charles Lang received an Academy Award nomination in the Best Cinematography, Color category that year. Upon release, it made little money, leading to a string of unsuccessful films for Brando. Marlon Brando shot a total of five hours of additional footage, some of which was later destroyed. Later, other directors worked on the rest of the film after Brando walked away from the production. He did not direct"
"Named Desire"" had been, with the ""Los Angeles Times"" labeling Williams's personae ""psychologically sick or just plain ugly"" and ""The New Yorker"" calling it a ""cornpone melodrama"". In 1961, Brando made his directorial debut in the western ""One-Eyed Jacks"". The picture was originally directed by Stanley Kubrick, but he was fired early in the production. Paramount then made Brando the director. Brando portrays the lead character Rio, and Karl Malden plays his partner ""Dad"" Longworth. The supporting cast features Katy Jurado, Ben Johnson, and Slim Pickens. Brando's penchant for multiple retakes and character exploration as an actor carried over into"
"Only the Valiant Only the Valiant, also known as Fort Invincible, is a 1951 Western film produced by William Cagney (younger brother of James Cagney), directed by Gordon Douglas and starring Gregory Peck, Barbara Payton, and Ward Bond. The screenplay was written by Edmund H. North and Harry Brown, based on the 1943 novel of the same name by Charles Marquis Warren. Gregory Peck, in a role he considered a low point of his career, plays Captain Richard Lance, a by-the-book West Point graduate who is not very popular with the men under his command. Following the American Civil War,"
"Lone Star (1952 film) Lone Star is a 1952 Western film starring Clark Gable, Ava Gardner, Broderick Crawford, Ed Begley, and Lionel Barrymore (in his final role) as President Andrew Jackson. The film also marks the first (uncredited) screen appearance by then-thirteen-year-old George Hamilton, playing beside Barrymore in the role of Jackson's servant. The movie is considered both a Western and a romance, set in Texas shortly before statehood. Devereaux Burke gets a personal request from former President Andrew Jackson to facilitate the annexation of Texas into the United States. Opposition to annexation is gaining favor because it is mistakenly"
"The Guard (2001 film) The Guard (Malayalam:ദി ഗാർഡ്) is the world's first film with a single actor in the cast. Released in December 2001, the Indian Malayalam feature film has Kalabhavan Mani, the only actor on screen, playing the role of a forest guard in a lonely, isolated dense forest. Directed and written by debutante Hakim Rawther, it is jointly produced by Sabitha Jayaraj (Green Dragon Movies) and Kerala State Film Development Corporation (KSFDC). ""Yaadein"" (Hindi, 1964), which featured two actors, previously held the Guinness World Records in the category Fewest actors in a narrative film. The crew of ""The"
"with the double's back to the camera. The 1957 film ""Bayou"" (later retitled ""Poor White Trash"") featured one of Carey's few leading roles, as a demented Cajun shopkeeper named Ulysses. Carey had roles in ""East of Eden"", ""The Wild One"", ""One-Eyed Jacks"", ""The Boy and the Pirates"", ""Beach Blanket Bingo"" and in the John Cassavetes-directed films ""Minnie and Moskowitz"" and ""The Killing of a Chinese Bookie"". He played a minor role as the Angel of Death in the comedy film ""D.C. Cab"", and appeared in the Monkees vehicle ""Head"". His final appearance was in the 1986 movie ""Echo Park"". Carey"
"Jocko's wife coaxes him to stay and defend the fort, despite her disability. His other film credits included ""The Naked Jungle"" (1954), ""The Raid"" (1954), ""Jubal"" (1956), ""The Daughter of Dr. Jekyll"" (1957), ""Blood Arrow"" (1958), ""The Left Handed Gun"" (1958), ""The Buccaneer"" (1958), ""The Hanging Tree"" (1959), ""The Oregon Trail"" (1959), ""One-Eyed Jacks"" (1961), ""The Premature Burial"" (1962), """" (1963), ""The Haunted Palace"" (1963), ""The Omega Man"" (1971) and ""Rage"" (1972). Dierkes died on January 8, 1975 from emphesyma in Los Angeles, California. John Dierkes John Dierkes (February 10, 1905 – January 8, 1975) was an American actor who"
"Karl Malden Karl Malden (born Mladen George Sekulovich; March 22, 1912 – July 1, 2009) was an American actor. He was primarily a character actor who ""for more than 60 years brought an intelligent intensity and a homespun authenticity to roles in theater, film and television"", especially in such classic films as ""A Streetcar Named Desire"" (1951) — for which he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor — ""On the Waterfront"" (1954), ""Pollyanna"" (1960), and ""One-Eyed Jacks"" (1961). Malden also played in high-profile Hollywood films such as ""Baby Doll"" (1956), ""The Hanging Tree"" (1959), ""How the West Was"
"according to Southern, Blocker's agent rejected the script as being ""too pinko"". Kubrick then recruited Pickens, whom he knew from his brief involvement in a Marlon Brando western film project that was eventually filmed as ""One-Eyed Jacks"". His fellow actor James Earl Jones recalls, ""He was Major Kong on and off the set — he didn't change a thing — his temperament, his language, his behavior."" Pickens was not told that the movie was a black comedy, and he was only given the script for scenes he was in, to get him to play it ""straight"". Kubrick's biographer John Baxter"
"""Tonka"" (1959), ""One-Eyed Jacks"" (1961) with Marlon Brando, ""Dr. Strangelove"" (1964), ""Major Dundee"" (1965) with Charlton Heston, the remake of ""Stagecoach"" (1966; Pickens played the driver, portrayed in the 1939 film by Andy Devine), ""Never a Dull Moment"" (1968), ""The Cowboys"" (1972) with John Wayne, ""The Getaway"" (1972) with Steve McQueen, ""Ginger in the Morning"" (1974) with Fred Ward, ""Blazing Saddles"" (1974), ""Poor Pretty Eddie"" (1975), ""Rancho Deluxe"" (1975), ""Tom Horn"" (1980), also with McQueen, ""Beyond the Poseidon Adventure"" (1979) with Michael Caine and Karl Malden, ""An Eye for an Eye"" (1966) and ""Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid"" (1973)."
"Ave, Monkstown. He died, as William Joseph Shields, in St Patrick's Hospital, James Street, on 14 January 1961. Fitzgerald has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, for motion pictures at 6252 Hollywood Boulevard and for television at 7001 Hollywood Boulevard. Source: Barry Fitzgerald Barry Fitzgerald (born William Joseph Shields; 10 March 1888 – 14 January 1961) was an Irish stage, film and television actor. In a career spanning almost forty years, he appeared in such notable films as ""Bringing Up Baby"" (1938), ""The Long Voyage Home"" (1940), ""How Green Was My Valley"" (1941), ""None but the Lonely Heart"""
"named him the second greatest male star of Golden Age Hollywood cinema (after Humphrey Bogart). He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor in ""Penny Serenade"" (1941) and ""None but the Lonely Heart"" (1944). Widely recognized for comedic and dramatic roles, among his best-known films are ""Bringing Up Baby"" (1938), ""Only Angels Have Wings"" (1939), ""His Girl Friday"" (1940), ""The Philadelphia Story"" (1940), ""Arsenic and Old Lace"" (1944), ""North by Northwest"" (1959), and ""Charade"" (1963). Cary Grant Cary Grant (born Archibald Alec Leach; January 18, 1904November 29, 1986) was an English-American actor, known as one of classic Hollywood's"
"in ""Sayonara"" (1957), an adaptation of James Michener's 1954 novel. Brando was included in a list of Top Ten Money Making Stars three times in the 1950s, coming in at number 10 in 1954, number 6 in 1955, and number 4 in 1958. The 1960s saw Brando's career take a downturn. He directed and starred in the cult western film ""One-Eyed Jacks"", a critical and commercial flop, after which he delivered a series of box-office failures, beginning with the 1962 film adaptation of the novel ""Mutiny on the Bounty"". After 10 years, during which he did not appear in a"
"The film is soliloquy of a man who comes home to find that his wife and son are not at home, he assumes that they have left him and reminiscences his life with them, and scared of his life without them, he regrets his past indiscretions. Yaadein (1964 film) Yaadein (English: ""Memories"") is a 1964 black and white Hindi film directed and produced by Sunil Dutt also starring himself. The only other actor in the film is Nargis Dutt that too in a silhouette in the final scene. This film is the first Indian film in cinema that features only"
"Yaadein (1964 film) Yaadein (English: ""Memories"") is a 1964 black and white Hindi film directed and produced by Sunil Dutt also starring himself. The only other actor in the film is Nargis Dutt that too in a silhouette in the final scene. This film is the first Indian film in cinema that features only a single actor and hence has found an entry in the Guinness Book of World Records in the category ""Fewest actors in a narrative film"". Film narrative progresses through dialogues and background music composed by Vasant Desai, who also gave two songs sung by Lata Mangeshkar."
"a pro-bike organization called ""Bicycle for a Day"" and was honored for his work on June 2, 2009 by the environmental arts and education center on the East River, Solar 1. Matthew Modine Matthew Avery Modine (born March 22, 1959) is an American actor and filmmaker, who rose to prominence through his role as United States Marine Corps Private Joker in Stanley Kubrick's ""Full Metal Jacket"". His other film roles include the title character in Alan Parker's ""Birdy"", the high school wrestler Louden Swain in ""Vision Quest"", Drake Goodman in ""Pacific Heights"" and Dr. Ralph Wyman in ""Short Cuts"". On"
"A Man Alone (film) A Man Alone is a 1955 Trucolor Western film directed by Ray Milland starring Ray Milland, Mary Murphy and Ward Bond. The story involves a man (Milland) who stumbles onto the aftermath of a stagecoach robbery in the Arizona desert in which there were no survivors. On foot after the mercy killing of his horse, Wes Steele finds a stagecoach and a number of dead passengers. He takes a horse and rides to Mesa. A corrupt banker, Stanley, and partner Joiner discuss their stagecoach holdup with Clanton, their hired gun. Joiner, upset over the deaths, begins"
"Kellard made his last appearance in a 1951 episode of ABC's Western television series, ""The Lone Ranger"". Kellard's marriage to BeBe LaMonte ended in divorce in 1942. Kellard died of post-obstructive pneumonia in the Wadsworth V.A. Medical center in Los Angeles, California on January 13, 1981 at age 65. Robert Kellard Robert Kellard, aka Robert Stevens (April 23, 1915 – January 13, 1981), was an American actor who appeared in over 60 films between 1937 and 1951. Kellard was born Robert Dorsey Kellard April 23, 1915, in Los Angeles, California. His father, Ralph Kellard, was an actor. He graduated from"
"Warren Oates Warren Mercer Oates (July 5, 1928 – April 3, 1982) was an American actor best known for his performances in several films directed by Sam Peckinpah, including ""The Wild Bunch"" (1969) and ""Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia"" (1974). He starred in numerous films during the early 1970s that have since achieved cult status, such as ""The Hired Hand"" (1971), ""Two-Lane Blacktop"" (1971), and ""Race with the Devil"" (1975). Oates also portrayed John Dillinger in the biopic ""Dillinger"" (1973) and as the supporting character U.S. Army Sergeant Hulka in the military comedy ""Stripes"" (1981), starring Bill Murray."
"Only Angels Have Wings Only Angels Have Wings is a 1939 American drama film directed by Howard Hawks, and starring Cary Grant and Jean Arthur, based on a story written by Hawks. The film also marked the first significant role in a major film for Rita Hayworth. It is generally regarded as being among Hawks' finest films, particularly in its portrayal of the professionalism of the pilots of the film, its atmosphere, and the flying sequences. The supporting cast features Thomas Mitchell and Richard Barthelmess. ""Only Angels Have Wings"" was based on a number of real incidents witnessed by Hawks,"
"Johnny One-Eye Johnny One-Eye is a 1950 film noir crime film directed by Robert Florey starring Pat O'Brien, Wayne Morris, Dolores Moran and Gayle Reed. In Manhattan, former gangster turned legitimate businessman Martin Martin (Pat O'Brien) has become the target of a politically ambitious district attorney, who has offered immunity for Martin's former partner in crime Dane Cory in exchange for his testimony. After being informed about the deal and narrowly escaping arrest, Martin pays a visit to Cory to persuade him not to testify. The meeting ends up with a shootout, with Martin killing one of Cory's henchmen and"
"on CBS. These included Grace Kelly's Academy Award-winning performance in ""The Country Girl"" (1954), Marlon Brando's only directorial effort, ""One-Eyed Jacks"" (1961), and the Jerry Lewis comedy, ""The Delicate Delinquent"" (1957). Columbia Pictures also made a strong showing during the ""Thursday Night Movie's"" second season with such entries as Sam Peckinpah's Civil War epic ""Major Dundee"" (1964) and the Jack Lemmon comedy, ""Good Neighbor Sam"" (1964). But Warner Brothers output, so prominent throughout the anthology's first season, consisted of only five features—and one of those was the animated ""Gay Purr-ee"" (1963), a film targeting the pre-teen audience and broadcast just"
"Dragoon Wells Massacre Dragoon Wells Massacre is a 1957 American CinemaScope DeLuxe Color Western film directed by Harold D. Schuster starring Barry Sullivan, Dennis O'Keefe, Mona Freeman and Katy Jurado. Wagons converge in the middle of nowhere. One is carrying Army captain Matt Riordan, the only survivor of an ambush by Chief Yellow Claw and his Apache braves. Another is a prison wagon carrying accused killer Link Ferris and a second man, known as Tioga, to town for trial, escorted by Marshal Bill Haney. A stagecoach turns up next, owned by Jonah McAdam and carrying Matt's former sweetheart, Ann Bradley,"
"Clayton Moore Clayton Moore (born Jack Carlton Moore, September 14, 1914 – December 28, 1999) was an American actor best known for playing the fictional western character the Lone Ranger from 1949–1951 and 1954–1957 on the television series of the same name and two related movies from the same producers. Born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1914, Moore was the youngest of three sons of Theresa Violet (""née"" Fisher) and Charles Sprague Moore. Moore's father, according to the federal census of 1930, was a native of New York and supported his family in Chicago by working as a real estate broker."
"Howard Hawks Howard Winchester Hawks (May 30, 1896December 26, 1977) was an American film director, producer and screenwriter of the classic Hollywood era. Critic Leonard Maltin called him ""the greatest American director who is not a household name."" A versatile film director, Hawks explored many genres such as comedies, dramas, gangster films, science fiction, film noir, and westerns. His most popular films include ""Scarface"" (1932), ""Bringing Up Baby"" (1938), ""Only Angels Have Wings"" (1939), ""His Girl Friday"" (1940), ""To Have and Have Not"" (1944), ""The Big Sleep"" (1946), ""Red River"" (1948), ""The Thing from Another World"" (1951), and ""Rio Bravo"""
"For Your Eyes Only (film) For Your Eyes Only is a 1981 British spy film, the twelfth in the ""James Bond"" series produced by Eon Productions, and the fifth to star Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. It marked the directorial debut of John Glen, who had worked as editor and second unit director on three other Bond films. The screenplay by Richard Maibaum and Michael G. Wilson takes its characters and combines elements from the plots from two short stories from Ian Fleming's ""For Your Eyes Only"" collection: the title story and ""Risico"". In the plot,"
"Barry Fitzgerald Barry Fitzgerald (born William Joseph Shields; 10 March 1888 – 14 January 1961) was an Irish stage, film and television actor. In a career spanning almost forty years, he appeared in such notable films as ""Bringing Up Baby"" (1938), ""The Long Voyage Home"" (1940), ""How Green Was My Valley"" (1941), ""None but the Lonely Heart"" (1944) and ""The Quiet Man"" (1952). For ""Going My Way"" (1944), he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and was simultaneously nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor. Fitzgerald was born William Joseph Shields in Walworth Road, Portobello, Dublin, Ireland,"
"The Legend of the Lone Ranger The Legend of the Lone Ranger is a 1981 American western film that was directed by William A. Fraker and starred Klinton Spilsbury, Michael Horse and Christopher Lloyd. It is based on the story of The Lone Ranger, a Western character created by George W. Trendle and Fran Striker. Its producers outraged fans by not allowing actor Clayton Moore to wear the character's mask when making public appearances, and created a further bad buzz when the dialogue of leading man Klinton Spilsbury was dubbed by another actor, James Keach. The film was a huge"
"Charles Cooper (actor) Charles Darwin Cooper (August 11, 1926 – November 29, 2013) was an American actor who has played a wide variety of television and film roles for more than a half century from 1950 to 2001. In 1958, Cooper played the outlaw Tate Masters in the episode ""Twelve Guns"" of NBC's western television series ""Cimarron City"" with George Montgomery and John Smith. In 1959, he played a gunfighter, Jack Rollins, in the episode ""The Visitor"" of ""Lawman,"" an ABC/Warner Brothers Television western series. He was cast as Matt Yordy in the 1961 episode ""Honest Abe"" of Chuck Connors'"
"Din"" (1939) with Cary Grant. In the coming decades, Lone Pine and the Alabama Hills continued to be used as the setting for Western films, including ""West of the Pecos"" (1945) with Robert Mitchum, ""Thunder Mountain"" (1947) with Tim Holt, ""The Gunfighter"" (1950) with Gregory Peck, ""The Nevadan"" (1950) with Randolph Scott, ""Bad Day at Black Rock"" (1955) with Spencer Tracy, ""Hell Bent for Leather"" (1960) with Audie Murphy, ""How the West Was Won"" (1962) with James Stewart, ""Nevada Smith"" (1966) with Steve McQueen, ""Joe Kidd"" (1972) with Clint Eastwood, ""Maverick"" (1994) with Mel Gibson, and ""The Lone Ranger"" (2013)"
"shows ""The Fugitive"" (""Smoke Screen"", 1963) and ""The Alfred Hitchcock Hour"" (""The Life Work of Juan Diaz"", 1964; written by Ray Bradbury), as well as on Mexican television. Pellicer committed suicide on December 4, 1964, aged 30, with an overdose of sleeping pills. Pina Pellicer Josefina Yolanda Pellicer López de Llergo (April 3, 1934 – December 4, 1964), professionally known as Pina Pellicer, was a Mexican actress known in Mexico for portraying the female lead in ""Macario"" (1960), and in the United States as Louisa alongside Marlon Brando in the Brando-directed movie ""One-Eyed Jacks"" (1961). Pellicer was born in Mexico"
"Only the Strong (film) Only the Strong is a 1993 martial arts film directed by Sheldon Lettich, starring Mark Dacascos. It is considered to be the only Hollywood film that showcases capoeira, an Afro-Brazilian martial art, from beginning to end. Former Green Beret Louis Stevens (Mark Dacascos) returns to his hometown of Miami after completing military service in Brazil, only to learn that his old high school has become a haven for gangs and drug dealers. After Stevens uses his Capoeira skills to kick several drug dealers off the school property, Mr. Kerrigan (Geoffrey Lewis), one of Stevens' old teachers,"
"Lone Wolf McQuade Lone Wolf McQuade is a 1983 American action film, starring Chuck Norris, David Carradine, Barbara Carrera, L.Q. Jones, R.G. Armstrong, Leon Isaac Kennedy and Robert Beltran, and directed by Steve Carver. The film score was written by Francesco De Masi and borrows heavily from Ennio Morricone's score for ""Once Upon a Time in the West"". The screenplay features a quiver of characters: the ""lone wolf"" Ranger Jim McQuade (Norris), the bad guy (Carradine) with the widow of his partner (Carrera) who falls for the hero at first sight, the retired buddy (Jones), the captain trying to rein"