Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson and which other actor starred in both The Magnificent Seven and The Great Escape films?
"reviews. McQueen's character, Bill Ringa, was never more comfortable than when driving at high speed—in this case in a jeep—or handling a switchblade or a tommy gun. After ""Never So Few"", the film's director John Sturges cast McQueen in his next movie, promising to ""give him the camera"". ""The Magnificent Seven"" (1960), in which he played Vin Tanner and co-starred with Yul Brynner, Eli Wallach, Robert Vaughn, Charles Bronson, and James Coburn, became McQueen's first major hit and led to his withdrawal from ""Wanted: Dead or Alive"". McQueen's focused portrayal of the taciturn second lead catapulted his career. His added"
"Magnificent Seven."" He also worked as an Assistant Director for John Wayne on ""The Alamo"" and Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins on ""West Side Story."" Wise was so impressed with Relyea he offered him a job running his production company as a partner but Relyea felt indebted to Sturges and joined his production company, Alpha Corp., in 1961. There, he worked on the 1963 film ""The Great Escape"", starring Steve McQueen where he shot many of the night scenes and doubled for James Garner in the flying sequences, including crashing the stolen plane, which sent Relyea to the hospital with"
"Steve McQueen Terence Steven McQueen (March 24, 1930 – November 7, 1980) was an American actor. He was called ""The King of Cool"", whose ""anti-hero"" persona developed at the height of the counterculture of the 1960s and made him a top box-office draw of the 1960s and 1970s. McQueen received an Academy Award nomination for his role in ""The Sand Pebbles"". His other popular films include ""The Cincinnati Kid"", ""Love With the Proper Stranger"", ""The Thomas Crown Affair"", ""Bullitt"", ""The Getaway"", and ""Papillon"", as well as the all-star ensemble films ""The Magnificent Seven"", ""The Great Escape"", and ""The Towering Inferno""."
"$21,000, though through network television the loss was cancelled out by the $1.05 million earned from syndication. The Magnificent Seven Ride The Magnificent Seven Ride (also known as The Magnificent Seven 4) is a 1972 western film and is the third and last sequel of the 1960 western, ""The Magnificent Seven"". It stars Lee Van Cleef as Chris Adams, succeeding Yul Brynner and George Kennedy in the role. It was directed by George McCowan. In southern Arizona Territory, former hired gun-turned-marshal Chris Adams rescues his old friend, former bounty hunter Jim Mackay from an ambush. After recovering from his long"
"in ""Never So Few"" (1959), his first of three films with John Sturges. In 1960, McQueen achieved stardom when he co-starred alongside Yul Brynner in Sturges' western, ""The Magnificent Seven"", which was based on Akira Kurosawa's 1954 film ""Seven Samurai"". After a series of unsuccessful films for the next two years, McQueen teamed up with Sturges again in the war drama ""The Great Escape"" (1963), where he played Virgil Hilts, a World War II prisoner of war who along with fellow Allied POWs makes an escape from a high security prisoner-of-war camp. It emerged as one of the highest-grossing films"
"The Magnificent Seven Ride The Magnificent Seven Ride (also known as The Magnificent Seven 4) is a 1972 western film and is the third and last sequel of the 1960 western, ""The Magnificent Seven"". It stars Lee Van Cleef as Chris Adams, succeeding Yul Brynner and George Kennedy in the role. It was directed by George McCowan. In southern Arizona Territory, former hired gun-turned-marshal Chris Adams rescues his old friend, former bounty hunter Jim Mackay from an ambush. After recovering from his long ride across the desert, Jim asks Chris to help him defend the small Mexican border town of"
"""Never So Few"" marked his introduction to working with director John Sturges, who went on to cast McQueen in his breakout role the following year, as second lead in ""The Magnificent Seven"", and later as the motorcycle-jumping lead in the classic ""The Great Escape"". On the original US one-sheet theatrical poster (see infobox above), only Sinatra and Lollobrigida were top billed. As illustrated to the right, in the 1967 re-release McQueen's credit was moved in front of Peter Lawford's and above the title, and he was featured prominently in the artwork. In a similar move, Sinatra later recast the role"
"was preceded by ""Return of the Seven"" in 1966, and followed by ""The Magnificent Seven Ride"" in 1972. Executive producer Walter Mirisch felt that in the unpredictable market of filmgoers, there was safety in familiar material. Yul Brynner did not want to return to the role of Chris; the role was taken by George Kennedy, then at a height of popularity after winning his Academy Award for ""Cool Hand Luke"" (1967). Mirisch surrounded Kennedy with a strong cast, with Monte Markham giving a thinly-disguised Steve McQueen-like performance, in the same wardrobe McQueen wore in ""The Magnificent Seven"". Elmer Bernstein was"
"McQueen played a lead role in the next big Sturges film, 1963's ""The Great Escape"", Hollywood's fictional depiction of the true story of a historical mass escape from a World War II POW camp, Stalag Luft III. Insurance concerns prevented McQueen from performing the film's notable motorcycle leap, which was done by his friend and fellow cycle enthusiast Bud Ekins, who resembled McQueen from a distance. When Johnny Carson later tried to congratulate McQueen for the jump during a broadcast of ""The Tonight Show"", McQueen said, ""It wasn't me. That was Bud Ekins."" This film established McQueen's box-office clout and"
"The Magnificent Seven (2016 film) The Magnificent Seven is a 2016 American western action film directed by Antoine Fuqua and written by Nic Pizzolatto and Richard Wenk. It is a remake of the 1960 film of the same name, which in turn is a reimagining of the 1954 film ""Seven Samurai"". The film stars Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke, Vincent D'Onofrio, Lee Byung-hun, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Martin Sensmeier, Haley Bennett, and Peter Sarsgaard. It is the final film of composer James Horner, who died the previous year after composing part of the score; his friend Simon Franglen completed the music."
"Bud Ekins James Sherwin ""Bud"" Ekins (May 11, 1930 – October 6, 2007) was an American professional stuntman in the U.S. film industry. He is considered to be one of the film industry's most accomplished stuntmen with a body of work that includes classic films such as ""The Great Escape"" and ""Bullitt"". Ekins, acting as stunt double for Steve McQueen while filming ""The Great Escape"", was the rider who performed what is considered to be one of the most famous motorcycle stunts ever performed in a movie. He was recognized for his stunt work by being inducted into the Stuntmen's"
"The Getaway (1972 film) The Getaway is a 1972 American neo-noir crime film directed by Sam Peckinpah and written by Walter Hill, based on Jim Thompson's 1958 novel. It stars Steve McQueen, Ali MacGraw, Ben Johnson, Al Lettieri, and Sally Struthers. The plot follows imprisoned mastermind robber Carter ""Doc"" McCoy (McQueen), whose wife Carol (MacGraw) conspires for his release on the condition they rob a bank in Texas. A double-cross follows the crime and the McCoys are forced to flee for Mexico with the police and criminals in hot pursuit. Peter Bogdanovich, whose ""The Last Picture Show"" impressed McQueen and"
"of ""Rolling Stone"" gave the film three out of four stars, saying, ""The new Seven isn't aiming for cinema immortality. It's two hours of hardcore, shoot-em-up pow and it's entertaining as hell."" The Magnificent Seven (2016 film) The Magnificent Seven is a 2016 American western action film directed by Antoine Fuqua and written by Nic Pizzolatto and Richard Wenk. It is a remake of the 1960 film of the same name, which in turn is a reimagining of the 1954 film ""Seven Samurai"". The film stars Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke, Vincent D'Onofrio, Lee Byung-hun, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Martin Sensmeier,"
"gadgets, and elaborate action sequences. Producer-Director John Sturges' 1963 film ""The Great Escape"", featuring Allied prisoners of war attempting to escape a German POW camp during World War II, and featuring future icons of the action genre including Steve McQueen and Charles Bronson, is an example of an action film prototype. During the 1970s, gritty detective stories and urban crime dramas began to evolve and fuse themselves with the new ""action"" style, leading to a string of maverick police officer films, such as ""Bullitt"" (1968), ""The French Connection"" (1971) and ""The Seven-Ups"" (1973). ""Dirty Harry"" (1971) essentially lifted its star,"
"Joe Don Baker Joe Don Baker (born February 12, 1936) is an American character actor and a life member of the Actors Studio. He established himself as an action star with supporting roles as a mysterious cowboy drifter in ""Guns of the Magnificent Seven"" (1969), and as a deputy sheriff in the western ""Wild Rovers"" (1971), before receiving worldwide fame for his iconic roles as a mafia hitman in ""Charley Varrick"" (1973), real-life Tennessee Sheriff Buford Pusser in the classic action film ""Walking Tall"" (1973), brute force detective Mitchell in ""Mitchell"" (1975), deputy sheriff Thomas Jefferson Geronimo III in ""Final"
"Jerzy Mondschein, Kazimierz Pawluk and Paweł Tobolski. This episode of history was the subject of the 1963 film ""The Great Escape"", starring Steve McQueen. It was the biggest and the most deadly escape of officer aircrew captured by Nazi Germany during the entire World War II. The number of prisoners attempting the escape was 200, of whom 76 managed to leave the camp; 73 were caught and 50 executed on Hitler's orders. Just three successfully escaped, one to Gibraltar and two to Sweden. All three re-united in England. There were only a few other, similar escapes from German PoW camps"
"Magnificent Seven"", an American remake of ""Seven Samurai"" which featured Mifune. The project was announced in 1968 with Toshiro Mifune attached early on. Ted Richmond Productions were going to make it for Warner Bros-Seven Arts. Clint Eastwood was mentioned as a possible early co-star. The film was eventually made by France's Corona Films, headed by Robert Dorfman and Ted Richmond. Red Sun Red Sun (French: ""Soleil rouge"") is a 1971 French-Italian-Spanish Western film directed by Terence Young. The international cast stars American-born actor Charles Bronson, Japanese actor Toshirō Mifune, French actor Alain Delon and Swiss actress Ursula Andress. It was"
"Return of the Seven Return of the Seven (1966) (also called Return of the Magnificent Seven, and The Magnificent Seven 2) is the first sequel to the western, ""The Magnificent Seven"" (1960). Yul Brynner is the sole returning cast member from the first film, portraying Chris Adams. Robert Fuller assumes the role of Vin from Steve McQueen. The film was written by Larry Cohen and directed by Burt Kennedy, and features Warren Oates, Claude Akins, Jordan Christopher, Virgilio Teixeira and Julian Mateos (as Chico, replacing Horst Buchholz). Emilio Fernández is the villain. Fernando Rey portrays a priest. Rey was in"
"T100SC models were collected from Meriden for the competition. Cliff Coleman achieved third place in the up to 750 cc class and Dave Ekins gained fifth place in the 500 cc. Bud Ekins and Steve McQueen both crashed on the third day, Ekins with a broken ankle. The Steve McQueen bike has been rediscovered and is now owned by Sean and Catherine Kelly of Johnson Motors. The motorcycles used during chase scene in film ""The Great Escape"" were 1961 Triumph TR6 Trophy models disguised as German BMW R75 motorcycles. The star of the movie, Steve McQueen, did much of the"
"James Garner James Garner (born James Scott Bumgarner; April 7, 1928 – July 19, 2014) was an American actor, producer, and voice artist. He starred in several television series over more than five decades, including such popular roles as Bret Maverick in the 1950s western series ""Maverick"" and Jim Rockford in ""The Rockford Files"", and played leading roles in more than 50 theatrical films, including ""The Great Escape"" (1963) with Steve McQueen, Paddy Chayefsky's ""The Americanization of Emily"" (1964), ""Grand Prix"" (1966), Blake Edwards' ""Victor/Victoria"" (1982), ""Murphy's Romance"" (1985), for which he received an Academy Award nomination, ""Space Cowboys"" (2000)"
"The Magnificent Seven (TV series) The Magnificent Seven is an American western television series based on the 1960 movie, which was itself a remake of the Japanese film ""Seven Samurai"". The series premiered on January 3, 1998, and ran for two seasons on CBS, airing through July 3, 2000. The cast of ""The Magnificent Seven"" included Michael Biehn, Eric Close, and Ron Perlman. Robert Vaughn, who played one of the seven gunmen in the original 1960 movie, had a recurring role as a crusading judge on the series. Seven men from the western United States band together and form the"
"John Sturges John Eliot Sturges (; January 3, 1910 – August 18, 1992) was an American film director. His movies include ""Bad Day at Black Rock"" (1955), ""Gunfight at the O.K. Corral"" (1957), ""The Magnificent Seven"" (1960), ""The Great Escape"" (1963), and ""Ice Station Zebra"" (1968). In 2013, ""The Magnificent Seven"" was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being ""culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant"". He was not related to director Preston Sturges. He started his career in Hollywood as an editor in 1932. During World War II, he directed documentaries"
"veteran. Hawke was the first person to come on board after the project was finalized. He had stumbled upon Fuqua and Washington during the New York premiere of ""The Equalizer"" in 2014 and, upon learning that a remake was in the works, asked Fuqua to cast him. Like Washington, ""The Magnificent Seven"" marks the third collaboration between Hawke and Fuqua, after ""Training Day"" (2001) and ""Brooklyn's Finest"" (2009). Manuel Garcia-Rulfo described his character Vasquez, a bandit on the run from the law, as someone who loves gunfighting. Martin Sensmeier auditioned several times to land the role of Red Harvest, a"
"Special award at the Primetime Emmy Awards The Great Escape II: The Untold Story The Great Escape II: The Untold Story is a 1988 American made-for-television action-adventure drama film and a sequel to ""The Great Escape"" (1963) starring Christopher Reeve, Judd Hirsch, Anthony Denison, Ian McShane, and Charles Haid. Donald Pleasence in a supporting role plays a member of the SS (in the 1963 original Pleasence had played Flight-Lieutenant Colin Blythe, 'The Forger'). The film was directed by Jud Taylor (in the 1963 original Taylor had played 2nd Lt. Goff). ""The Great Escape II"" premiered in two parts on NBC"
"Lovell (former film critic for the ""San Jose Mercury News""), was published by University of Wisconsin Press in 2008. John Sturges John Eliot Sturges (; January 3, 1910 – August 18, 1992) was an American film director. His movies include ""Bad Day at Black Rock"" (1955), ""Gunfight at the O.K. Corral"" (1957), ""The Magnificent Seven"" (1960), ""The Great Escape"" (1963), and ""Ice Station Zebra"" (1968). In 2013, ""The Magnificent Seven"" was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being ""culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant"". He was not related to director Preston"
"Donald Pleasence Donald Henry Pleasence, OBE (; 5 October 1919 – 2 February 1995) was an English actor. His most notable film roles include psychiatrist Dr. Sam Loomis in ""Halloween"" (1978) and four of its sequels, the villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the James Bond film ""You Only Live Twice"" (1967), RAF Flight Lieutenant Colin Blythe in ""The Great Escape"" (1963), SEN 5241 in ""THX 1138"" (1971), Clarence ""Doc"" Tydon in ""Wake in Fright"" (1971), and the President of the United States in ""Escape from New York"" (1981). Pleasence was born in Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England, the son of Alice (née"
"honored as an inaugural recipient of the North Central High School Distinguished Alumnus Award. Fellow recipients included Spokane Mayor, Jack Geraghty; US Congressman, George Nethercutt; Jerry Sage, WWII prisoner of war portrayed by Steve McQueen in the movie, ""the Great Escape""; and musician Don Eagle, who toured with the USO during WWII and appeared in ""A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court"" (with fellow-Spokanite Bing Crosby), ""Night Has a Thousand Eyes"" (with Edward G. Robinson), and ""The Strip"" (with Mickey Rooney). Following high school, Grose enrolled at Whitworth University in north Spokane, earning a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics"
"in north Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The film premiered on September 8 at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival, and was released in the United States in conventional and IMAX theatres on September 23, 2016. In ""The Magnificent Seven"", Washington plays Sam Chisolm (""the Bounty Hunter""), a duly sworn warrant officer from Wichita, Kansas. His character was renamed from Chris Adams (played by Yul Brynner in the original film) to Sam Chisolm. It is Washington's first Western film. Washington did not watch Westerns growing up, as it was the end of the Western era in the movies. Moreover, he and his"
"Principal photography began on May 18, 2015, in the north of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. ""The Magnificent Seven"" premiered on September 8, 2016, at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival, and was released in the United States on September 23, 2016, in conventional and IMAX theatres. The film received mixed reviews from critics, although the cast and action sequences were praised, and grossed $162 million worldwide. In 1879, robber baron and gold-mining tycoon Bartholomew Bogue assumes control of the American frontier town of Rose Creek, and subjects its residents to forced labor in his mines. After a town church assembly denounces"
"they were inside the cars. Even during the most calamitous scenes, the star – Steve McQueen – could be clearly seen at the wheel of the vehicle. ""The French Connection"" further increased the realism. While previous chases had obviously been filmed on closed roads, isolated highways, or Sunday mornings (including ""Bullitt""), ""The French Connection"" placed the chase in the midst of busy New York traffic and pedestrians. The producer of both ""Bullitt"" and ""The French Connection"", Philip D'Antoni, went on to direct ""The Seven-Ups"" with yet another trademark chase sequence through New York featuring Roy Scheider from ""The French Connection"""
"and Drino Miller, another Off-Road Hall of Fame Inductee. Through his association with McQueen, Ekins began a career as a film stuntman. Ekins is best known as the actor who jumped the fence on a motorcycle in the 1963 film ""The Great Escape"", and one of the stuntmen who drove the Ford Mustang 390 GT in the car chase scene in the 1968 film ""Bullitt"". The chase scene led by stunt coordinator Carey Loftin and filmed on the streets of San Francisco, is regarded as one of the most influential in film history. He also coordinated the stunts for the"
"Chelcie Ross Chelcie Claude Ross (born June 20, 1942) is an American character actor, most known for ""Major League"", ""Basic Instinct"", ""Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey"", ""Hoosiers"" and ""The Ballad of Buster Scruggs"". He served in Vietnam as an officer in the United States Air Force where he had been awarded a Bronze Star, and earned an MFA from the Dallas Theater Center. He left the air force in 1970. His son, Ian Ross, plays bass in the band John 5 and The Creatures, the instrumental group fronted by guitarist John 5 (Marilyn Manson, Rob Zombie.) In 2007, Ross appeared,"
"Steve McQueen (album) Steve McQueen is the second studio album by English pop band Prefab Sprout, released in June 1985 by Kitchenware Records. The album was released by CBS in the United States as Two Wheels Good due to a legal conflict with the estate of American actor Steve McQueen. The album cover references Steve McQueen's lifelong passion for Triumph motorcycles and the 1963 film ""The Great Escape"", starring McQueen and featuring prominent motorcycle chase scenes (with stunts performed by himself on a Triumph motorcycle). On 2 April 2007, it was reissued as a ""legacy edition"" double CD, featuring a"