"human being. The experiment goes drastically wrong, and Barnabas ages rapidly, to the appearance of a man over 175 years old. Smith said that designing the make-up appliances for ""Dark Shadows"" ""turned out to be valuable preparation for ""Little Big Man""."" In the film ""Little Big Man"" (1970), the 30-something Dustin Hoffman played a Native American man, in extreme old age at several points in the film. ""In the original book, Dustin's character is 110,"" Smith observed ""but the director Arthur Penn just said out of the blue one day: 'Lets make him 121 instead'. I worked six weeks on"
"Chief Dan George Chief Dan George, OC (July 24, 1899 – September 23, 1981) was a chief of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation, a Coast Salish band whose Indian reserve is located on Burrard Inlet in the southeast area of the District of North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He was also an actor, poet and author; his best-known written work was ""My Heart Soars"". As an actor, he is best remembered for portraying Old Lodge Skins opposite Dustin Hoffman in ""Little Big Man"" (1970), for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor; also for his role in"
"Little Big Horn (film) Little Big Horn (also known as The Fighting Seventh) is a 1951 American Western film directed by Charles Marquis Warren starring Lloyd Bridges, John Ireland and Marie Windsor. It was also known as The Fighting Seventh. Captain Phillip Donlin (Lloyd Bridges) and his small troop must rush to reach Little Big Horn in order to warn General Custer of the Sioux attack that awaits him. As they race against time, and Donlin pushes them hard through an arduous and dangerous journey, the Sioux start taking out the soldiers one at a time. Meanwhile, Donlin also clashes"
"Dustin Hoffman Dustin Lee Hoffman (born August 8, 1937) is an American actor and director. Hoffman is best known for his versatile portrayals of antiheroes and emotionally vulnerable characters. He is the recipient of various accolades including two Academy Awards, six Golden Globe Awards (including the Cecil B. DeMille Award), four BAFTAs, three Drama Desk Awards, two Emmy Awards, and a Genie Award. Hoffman received the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1999 and the Kennedy Center Honors Award in 2012. Hoffman first drew critical praise for starring in the play, ""Eh?"", for which he won a Theatre World Award and"
"adapt his song ""Alice's Restaurant Massacree"" into a film, but also secured Guthrie's participation as well as several other Stockbridge town residents while also filming in many of the same locations where the events took place. The film ""Alice's Restaurant"" was released in 1969. His next film after this was a return to the western genre, ""Little Big Man"" (1970), a ""shaggy dog"" account of the life of a white man (played by Dustin Hoffman) who gets adopted into the Cheyenne tribe. In 1973 Penn provided a segment for a promotional film for the Olympics, ""Visions of Eight"" along with"
"received the freedom of the Italian city Ascoli Piceno for being there during 1972 to shoot the movie ""Alfredo, Alfredo"" by Pietro Germi, where he played the role of Alfredo Sbisà. Dustin Hoffman received Kennedy Center Honors in 2012, with the following commendation: ""Dustin Hoffman's unyielding commitment to the wide variety of roles he plays has made him one of the most versatile and iconoclastic actors of this or any other generation"". Hoffman was successfully treated for cancer in 2013. Dustin Hoffman Dustin Lee Hoffman (born August 8, 1937) is an American actor and director. Hoffman is best known for"
"come into contact with (through his unseen travels) as a crusading physician."" The result was widely admired: over a decade later the American make-up artist, Dick Smith, consulted Ashton about the effect to create make-up to age Dustin Hoffman as a 103-year-old man in ""Little Big Man"", and was to repeat the effect in several subsequent films. Ashton subsequently created some of the studio's most celebrated images in films, such as ""The Mummy"" (1959), ""The Curse of the Werewolf"" (1960) and ""The Reptile"" (1966). Ashton was particularly proud of the make-up he created for ""The Curse of the Werewolf"", which"
"Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight in the 1969 film ""Midnight Cowboy"", for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress. For her performance in the 1975 film adaptation of Jacqueline Susann's ""Once Is Not Enough"" she gained an Academy Award nomination and won the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress. Additional screen credits include ""Airport '77"", ""Capricorn One"", ""The Pride of Jesse Hallam"", ""Supergirl"", ""The Mirror Has Two Faces"", ""Heart of Midnight"", ""Zorro, The Gay Blade"" and ""House by the Lake"", also known as ""Death Weekend"". Her television credits include the title role in the"
"scenes of the bikers tooling around, but I have to admit to finding this one a little irresistible."" Bigfoot (1970 film) Bigfoot is an American 1970 independently made low budget science fiction film, produced by Anthony Cardoza and directed by Robert F. Slatzer. The film stars a few well-known actors (and family namesakes): John Carradine, Chris Mitchum, Joi Lansing, Doodles Weaver, and Lindsay Crosby. This exploitation film attempts to transform the Pacific Northwest Sasquatch man-beast into an old-fashioned movie monster, ala King Kong (as a quote on the original film poster proudly trumpets). A remake, of sorts, was produced in"
"Dustin Nguyen Dustin Nguyen (born September 17, 1962) is an American actor, director, writer, and martial artist. He is best known for his roles as Harry Truman Ioki on ""21 Jump Street"", and as Johnny Loh on ""V.I.P."" In Films, he's known for starring in ""Little Fish"", ""The Doom Generation"" and ""The Rebel"". Born as Nguyễn Xuân Trí in Saigon, South Vietnam, his mother My Le, was an actress and dancer, and his father, Xuan Phat, was an actor, comedian, writer, and producer in South Vietnam. The family left Vietnam in April 1975 as it fell to Communist Viet Cong"
"Bigfoot (1970 film) Bigfoot is an American 1970 independently made low budget science fiction film, produced by Anthony Cardoza and directed by Robert F. Slatzer. The film stars a few well-known actors (and family namesakes): John Carradine, Chris Mitchum, Joi Lansing, Doodles Weaver, and Lindsay Crosby. This exploitation film attempts to transform the Pacific Northwest Sasquatch man-beast into an old-fashioned movie monster, ala King Kong (as a quote on the original film poster proudly trumpets). A remake, of sorts, was produced in 2012. Fast-talking Jasper B. Hawks drives through a forest with his sidekick, Elmer Briggs, while pilot Joi Landis"
"lives at the Battle of the Little Bighorn to delay the Indians' advance and prevent this slaughter. A letter left behind by Custer, now considered his dying declaration, names the culprits and absolves the Indians of all responsibility; Custer has won his final campaign. The Warner Bros. script was an original screenplay and was announced in early 1941 as a vehicle for Errol Flynn. It was to be made after Warner's aviation film ""Dive Bomber"", another feature starring Flynn. The film is frequently confused with Michael Curtiz's ""Santa Fe Trail"", released the previous year, in which Flynn portrayed Jeb Stuart"
"However, the film was poorly received at the time of its release, as the country was celebrating its bicentennial. The story begins in 1885 with the arrival of an important new guest star in Buffalo Bill Cody's grand illusion, Chief Sitting Bull of Little Big Horn fame. Much to Cody's annoyance, Sitting Bull proves not to be a murdering savage but a genuine embodiment of what the whites believe about their own history out west. He is quietly heroic and morally pure. Sitting Bull also refuses to portray Custer's Last Stand as a cowardly sneak attack. Instead, he asks Cody"
"the Battle of the Little Big Horn. Jeff Chandler was originally announced to play the lead. Instead the part was given to Victor Mature. Filming began in June 1954, on location in Montana and Wyoming. This was the final film of Suzan Ball who died of cancer four months after the film was released. Chief Crazy Horse (film) Chief Crazy Horse is a 1955 American CinemaScope Technicolor Western film directed by George Sherman starring Victor Mature, Suzan Ball and John Lund. The film is a fictionalized biography of the Lakota Sioux Chief Crazy Horse. It was also known as ""Valley"
"by Dustin Hoffman. The film was widely praised by critics and was one of Dunaway's few commercial successes at this point. That same year, she appeared in the lead role in ""Puzzle of a Downfall Child"" (1970), an experimental drama directed by Jerry Schatzberg and inspired by the life of model Anne St. Marie. The film failed to generate commercial interest, though it earned for Dunaway a second Golden Globe nomination, for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama. The film remained in obscurity over 40 years, until it was revived at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival in honor of Dunaway."
"the main competition section at the 70th Venice International Film Festival, where it was very favorably received by critics. On Dench's performance, ""The Times"" commented that ""this is Dench's triumph. At 78, she has a golden career behind her, often as queens and other frosty matriarchs. So the warmth under pressure she radiates here is nearly a surprise [...] Dench gives a performance of grace, nuance, and cinematic heroism."" She was subsequently nominated for many major acting awards, including a seventh Oscar nomination. In 2015, Dench appeared opposite Dustin Hoffman in Dearbhla Walsh's small screen adaptation of Roald Dahl's children's"
"another for ""Our Lady of 121st Street"" in 2003. In a 2008 interview, Hoffman opined that ""switching hats"" between acting and directing helped him improve in both roles. David Mamet's comedy ""State and Main"", about the difficulties of shooting a film in rural New England, was Hoffman's first film role of 2000 and had a limited release. He had a more prominent supporting role that year in ""Almost Famous"", Cameron Crowe's popular coming-of-age film set in the 1970s music industry. Hoffman portrayed the enthusiastic rock critic Lester Bangs, a task by which he felt burdened, but he managed to convey"
"and failed to earn a profit for its distributor Warner Bros. In 1878, Chiefs Little Wolf (Ricardo Montalbán) and Dull Knife (Gilbert Roland) led over three hundred starved and weary Cheyenne Indians from their reservation in the Oklahoma Territory to their former traditional home in Wyoming. The U.S. government sees this as an act of rebellion, and the sympathetic Captain Thomas Archer (Richard Widmark) of the U.S. Army is forced to lead his troops in an attempt to stop the tribe. As the press misrepresents the natives' motives and goals for their trek as malicious, the U.S. Secretary of the"
"(1975) and the 1976 TV mini-series ""Captains and the Kings"". York had previously appeared in ""Cabaret"" (1972), ""The Three Musketeers"" (1973) and ""Murder on the Orient Express"" (1974), while Agutter was best known for ""The Railway Children"" (1970) and ""Walkabout"" (1971). York and Agutter were 33 and 23 respectively, casting made justifiable by Goodman raising the age of death to 30. In September 1975, it was announced Peter Ustinov would play ""the last man alive in Washington, D.C."" in the film. Farrah Fawcett has a small role, but her rising celebrity in television earned her prominent credit as Farrah Fawcett-Majors."
"release on November 13, 2018. The Last Movie The Last Movie is a 1971 drama film from Universal Pictures. It was written by Stewart Stern and directed by Dennis Hopper, who also played a horse wrangler named after the state of Kansas. It also starred Peter Fonda, Henry Jaglom and Michelle Phillips. Production of the movie, which cost $1 million, took place in the film's major setting, Peru. Kansas (Hopper) is a stunt coordinator in charge of horses on a western being shot in a small Peruvian village. Following a tragic incident on the set where an actor is killed"
"and upheaval to search for the Great Valley, an area spared from devastation. On his journey, he meets four young companions: Cera the ""Threehorn"", Ducky the ""Bigmouth"", Petrie the ""Flyer"", and Spike the ""Spiketail"". The film explores issues of prejudice between the different species and the hardships they endure in their journey as they are guided by the spirit of Littlefoot's mother and forced to deal with the Sharptooth. This is the only Don Bluth film of the 1980s in which Dom DeLuise did not participate (instead, he starred in Disney's ""Oliver & Company"" that same year), and the only"
"Man in the Wilderness Man in the Wilderness is a 1971 American revisionist Western film about a scout for a group of mountain men who are traversing the Northwestern United States during the 1820s. The scout is mauled by a bear and left to die by his companions. He survives and recuperates sufficiently to track his former comrades, forcing a confrontation over his abandonment. The story is loosely based on the life of Hugh Glass. It stars Richard Harris as Zachary Bass and John Huston as Captain Henry. The expedition in the movie is notable for bringing a large boat"
"of Dustin Hoffman in ""Rain Man""?” The entry closes with the actor’s late-90s comeback, calling his work in ""Magnolia"", “his most searching and self-critical performance,” and abandoning objectivity altogether: “So, after bad years, I remain hopeful, even if all the """" put a greater load on things that might be.” The Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd-published first edition—the 600-page ""Biographical Dictionary of Cinema""—was followed by ""Biographical Dictionary of Film,"" published by William Morrow & Co in June, 1980; the third, entitled ""A Biographical Dictionary of Film"", would be released on November 17, 1994, by Andre Deutsch Ltd. 328 pages longer"
"reprising his Custer role as Herbert Gower, an outpatient from a mental institution who is accidentally put in charge of a U.S. history class and teaches his pupils while impersonating historical figures such as Custer, but also Abe Lincoln and Ben Franklin, amongst others. , ""Little Big Man"" has been released worldwide on VHS and DVD, and in the U.S. on a region free Blu-ray. Little Big Man (film) Little Big Man is a 1970 American western film directed by Arthur Penn and based on the novel ""Little Big Man"" by Thomas Berger. While broadly categorized as a western, or"
"in the War, Daddy?"" (both released in 1966), ""The Happening"" (1967), ""Bullitt"" (1968), and the Western television series ""Cimarron Strip"". His other assistant directorial credits include ""The Great White Hope"" (1970), ""The Reivers"" (1969), ""Cinderella Liberty"" (1973), ""The Day of the Locust"" (1975), ""Farewell, My Lovely"" (1975) and ""Smile"" (1975). He then became a line producer. His credits include ""Straight Time"" (1978), ""A Small Circle of Friends"" (1980), ""The Long Riders"" (1980), ""Impulse"" (1984), ""Fandango"" (1985), ""The Running Man"" (1987), ""Lies of the Twins"" (1991), ""Street Fighter"" and ""The Island of Dr. Moreau"" (1996), his last producing credit. In 1985,"
"alive, and says, ""Sometimes the magic works, and sometimes it doesn't"". They return to his tepee to have dinner. Back in the present, Jack's narrative ends and he dismisses the historian. The elderly Jack now thinks with sadness about the memories of a world which is no more. The historical Little Big Man was a Native American leader bearing no resemblance to the Jack Crabb character. Little Big Man is known for his involvement in the capture and possible assassination of Crazy Horse at Fort Robinson in 1877. The movie's portrayal of the Battle of Washita River as a Custer-led"
"addition, the film industry was in crisis, and the army did not wish to assist in making anti-war films. From the late 1970s, independently financed and produced films showed Hollywood that Vietnam could be treated in film. Successful but very different portrayals of the war in which America had been defeated included Michael Cimino's ""The Deer Hunter"" (1978), and Francis Ford Coppola's ""Apocalypse Now"" (1979). With the shift in American politics to the right in the 1980s, military success could again be shown in films such as Oliver Stone's ""Platoon"" (1986), Stanley Kubrick's ""Full Metal Jacket"" (1987) and John Irvin's"
"in 2007. The film grossed over $84 million worldwide on a production budget of $65 million. In 2016 it was voted 12th among 100 films considered the best of the 21st century by 117 film critics from around the world. On July 4, 1969, an unknown man attacks Darlene Ferrin (Ciara Hughes) and Mike Mageau (Lee Norris) with a handgun at a lovers' lane in Vallejo, California. Mageau survives. One month later, the ""San Francisco Chronicle"" receives encrypted letters written by the killer calling himself the ""Zodiac"" and taunting the police. Political cartoonist Robert Graysmith (Jake Gyllenhaal) is not taken"
"this period include Chahine's ""The Sparrow"", ""Love Under the Rain"" (based on the Naguib Mahfouz novel), and ""The Damned"" (an adaptation of ""King Lear""). Kabil spent the last years of the 1970s attempting to have a short story he penned, ""Sinai 73"", turned into a full-length film. Based on his experience of capturing Israeli pilot Yair Barak in the Six-Day War in 1967, the film was ideally to be a joint American-Israeli-Egyptian production that would highlight the possibility of peace between Egypt and Israel. By 1979, Dustin Hoffman had signed on to play the role of Kabil's prisoner for $3.5"
"The Last Movie The Last Movie is a 1971 drama film from Universal Pictures. It was written by Stewart Stern and directed by Dennis Hopper, who also played a horse wrangler named after the state of Kansas. It also starred Peter Fonda, Henry Jaglom and Michelle Phillips. Production of the movie, which cost $1 million, took place in the film's major setting, Peru. Kansas (Hopper) is a stunt coordinator in charge of horses on a western being shot in a small Peruvian village. Following a tragic incident on the set where an actor is killed in a stunt, he decides"
"actor Barry Newman in the lead role. The film marked the first major screen appearances of Cleavon Little and John Amos. According to Sarafian, it was Zanuck who came up with the idea of using the new 1970 Dodge Challenger R/T. He wanted to do Chrysler a favor for their long-time practice of providing 20th Century Fox with cars on a rental basis for only a dollar a day. Many of the other cars featured in the film are also Chrysler products. Stunt Coordinator Carey Loftin said he requested the Dodge Challenger because of the ""quality of the torsion bar"
"Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?"" (1971), ""Straw Dogs"" (also 1971), and ""Papillon"" (1973). Hoffman next starred in ""Lenny"" (1974), for which he was again nominated for Best Actor. ""Lenny"" was based on the life of stand-up comedian Lenny Bruce, who died at the age of 40, and was known for his open, free-style and critical form of comedy which integrated politics, religion, sex, and vulgarity. Expectations were high that Hoffman would win an Oscar for his portrayal, especially after his similar role in ""Midnight Cowboy."" Film critic Katharine Lowry speculates that director Bob Fosse"
"character Ol' Antoine (pron. ""Antwine""). He performed the same role in a Walt Disney Studios movie ""Smith!"" (1969), adapted from an episode in this series (based on ""Breaking Smith's Quarter Horse"", a novella by Paul St. Pierre). At age 71, he received several honors for his role in the film ""Little Big Man"" (1970), including a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He continued to act in other films, such as ""Cancel My Reservation"" (1972), ""Alien Thunder"" (1974), ""The Bears and I"" (1974), ""Harry and Tonto"" (1974), ""The Outlaw Josey Wales"" (1976), ""Shadow of the Hawk"" (1976),"