"credibility. Trumbo was publicly given credit for two major films. Otto Preminger made public that Trumbo wrote the screenplay for his film ""Exodus"", and Kirk Douglas publicly announced that Trumbo was the screenwriter of ""Spartacus"". Further, President John F. Kennedy publicly ignored a demonstration organized by the American Legion and went to see the film. After David Lean turned down an offer to direct, ""Spartacus"" was to be directed by Anthony Mann, then best known for his Westerns such as ""Winchester '73"" and ""The Naked Spur"". Douglas fired Mann at the end of the first week of shooting, in which"
"his ""richest, most impressive collaborations"" with Douglas, and for Minnelli, no other actor portrayed his level of ""cool"": ""A robust, athletic, sometimes explosive player, Douglas loved stagy rhetoric, and he did everything passionately."" That level of passion in Douglas's persona was also used effectively by Minnelli in ""The Bad and the Beautiful"", four years earlier, for which Douglas was nominated for Best Actor, with the film winning five Oscars. In 1960 Douglas played the lead role in what many consider his career defining role of the Thracian slave rebel Spartacus with an all-star cast in ""Spartacus"" (1960). He was the"
"Woody Strode Woodrow Wilson Woolwine Strode (July 25, 1914 – December 31, 1994) was an American athlete and actor. He was a decathlete and football star who was one of the first African American players in the National Football League in the postwar era. After football, he went on to become a film actor, where he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in ""Spartacus"" in 1960. He served in the United States Army during World War II. Strode was born in Los Angeles. His parents were from New Orleans; his grandmother was"
"birth adopted into the Servilii Vatiae. Batiatus was played by Peter Ustinov in Stanley Kubrick's 1960 film, ""Spartacus"", for which Ustinov won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Ian McNeice played Batiatus in the 2004 television adaptation ""Spartacus"". John Hannah played Batiatus (here given the first name Quintus) in the 2010 Starz television series """" and the 2011 """". Lentulus Batiatus Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Batiatus (or, possibly, Vatia) was the Roman owner of a gladiatorial school in Capua. It was from this school that, in 73 BC, the Thracian slave Spartacus and about 70 to 78 followers escaped. The"
"first in the title role, with Anthony Quinn as the king, and later exchanging roles with his co-star. Two films featuring Olivier were released in 1960. The first—filmed in 1959—was ""Spartacus"", in which he portrayed the Roman general, Marcus Licinius Crassus. His second was ""The Entertainer"", shot while he was appearing in ""Coriolanus""; the film was well received by the critics, but not as warmly as the stage show had been. The reviewer for ""The Guardian"" thought the performances were good, and wrote that Olivier ""on the screen as on the stage, achieves the tour de force of bringing Archie"
"They were unable to find anyone to play the Ethiopian king so Strode was given that role too. He had a support role in ""Tarzan's Fight for Life"" (1958) and a small part in ""The Buccaneer"" (1958). In 1959 he portrayed the conflicted, some would say cowardly, Private Franklin in ""Pork Chop Hill"", which brought him critical acclaim. He called it ""the first dramatic thing that I had done."" He guest starred on ""The Man from Blackhawk"" (1960). Strode was next cast in ""Spartacus"" (1960) as the Ethiopian gladiator Draba, in which he has to fight Spartacus (played by Kirk"
"popular was ""Operation Petticoat"" (1959), a military comedy which Curtis made for Edwards alongside Cary Grant. Curtis and Leigh made one more film together ""Who Was That Lady?"" (1960), a comedy with Dean Martin. He and Debbie Reynolds then starred in the romantic comedy ""The Rat Race"" (1960). Douglas came calling again, offering Curtis a key role in the former's epic production ""Spartacus"" (1960). It was a huge hit and earned Curtis a Golden Globe nomination. Curtis then made his first movies in a while without a significant ""name"" co star. Both were biopics: ""The Great Impostor"" (1961), directed by"
"Peter Brocco Carl Peter Brocco (January 16, 1903 – December 20, 1992) was an American screen and stage actor. He appeared in about 300 credits, notably ""Spartacus"" (1960) and ""One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"" (1975), during his career spanning over 60 years. Brocco was born in Reading, Pennsylvania. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Brocco. Brocco acted on stage with the Walter Hampton Players. He debuted on Broadway in ""Centuries"" (1927); he also performed in ""The Merry Wives of Windsor"" (1938). Brocco appeared as a criminal type in several episodes of ""Adventures of Superman"". He holds"
"hired Trumbo to write the script for ""Spartacus"" (1960), Hopper denounced the film in her column, stating that ""[the script is based on] a book written by a Commie and the screen script was written by a Commie, so don't go see it."" Nonetheless the film was a critical and financial success. Charlie Chaplin was another target of Hedda Hopper's vitriol because of his alleged Communist sympathies and his penchant for much younger women, which she considered immoral. She also loathed him for remaining a British citizen and not becoming an American, which she considered an act of ingratitude towards"
"Laughton as Sempronius Gracchus, and Tony Curtis as Antoninus. Douglas, whose company Bryna Productions was producing the film, removed original director Anthony Mann after the first week of shooting. Kubrick, with whom Douglas had worked before, was brought on board to take over direction. It was the only film directed by Kubrick where he did not have complete artistic control. Screenwriter Dalton Trumbo was blacklisted at the time as one of the Hollywood Ten. Douglas publicly announced that Trumbo was the screenwriter of ""Spartacus"", and President-elect John F. Kennedy crossed American Legion picket lines to view the film, helping to"
"autocrat – Marcus Licinius Crassus in ""Spartacus"" and Commodus in ""Gladiator."" Both actors who played Gracchus (in ""Spartacus"" and ""Gladiator""), played Claudius in previous films – Charles Laughton of ""Spartacus"" played Claudius in the unfinished 1937 film ""I, Claudius"" and Sir Derek Jacobi of ""Gladiator"", played Claudius in the 1976 BBC adaptation. Both films also share a specific set piece, wherein a gladiator (Maximus here, Woody Strode's Draba in ""Spartacus"") throws his weapon into a spectator box at the end of a match, as well as at least one line of dialogue: ""Rome is the mob"", said here by Gracchus"
"that Dalton Trumbo, one of the best known members of the Hollywood Ten, was the screenwriter of his forthcoming film ""Exodus"". Six-and-a-half months later, with ""Exodus"" still to debut, the ""New York Times"" announced that Universal Pictures would give Trumbo screen credit for his role as writer on ""Spartacus"", a decision star Kirk Douglas is now recognized as largely responsible for. On October 6, ""Spartacus"" premiered – the first movie to bear Trumbo's name since he had received story credit on ""Emergency Wedding"" in 1950. Since 1947, he had written or co-written approximately seventeen motion pictures without credit. ""Exodus"" followed"
"with Bass in his Los Angeles office. By 1960, with the opening to ""Spartacus"", she was directing and producing title sequences, and in 1961 the two married, beginning more than 40 years of close collaboration. After the birth of their children, Jennifer in 1964 and Jeffrey in 1967, they concentrated on their family, film directing, and title sequences. Saul and Elaine designed title sequences for more than 40 years, continuously experimenting with a variety of innovative techniques and effects, from Bunraku-style maneuvers in ""Spartacus"" (1960), live-action sequences in ""Walk On The Wild Side"" (1962), to time-lapse photography in ""The Age"
"anything to me."" Elaine joined the office in 1955 and by 1959, Saul was delegating important tasks to her. In 1960, she co-directed and co-produced the opening title sequence to ""Spartacus"". The following year, Saul and Elaine married and after the birth of their children, Jennifer in 1964 and Jeffrey in 1967, Elaine concentrated on motherhood, film directing, and title sequences. Elaine designed title sequences alongside Saul Bass for more than 40 years, and employed diverse filmmaking techniques from Bunraku-style maneuvers in ""Spartacus"" (1960), live action sequences in ""Walk on the Wild Side"" (1962), to time-lapse photography in ""The Age"
"Spartacus (Fast novel) Spartacus is a 1951 historical novel by American writer Howard Fast. It is about the historic slave revolt led by Spartacus around 71 BCE. The book inspired the 1960 film directed by Stanley Kubrick and the 2004 TV adaptation by Robert Dornhelm. ""Spartacus"" begins with three young Roman patricians - Caius, his sister Helena and her friend Claudia, commencing a journey from Rome to Capua along the Via Appia a few weeks after the final suppression of the slave revolt. The road is lined by ""tokens of punishment"" - slaves crucified in the immediate aftermath of the"
"of the similarity of the titles and the fact that the Sondheim musical featured an actor named Mark Lambert). Lambert's husky dark looks suited his frequent screen portrayals of gangsters and other heavies. In addition, he often appeared as authority figures such as executives, judges, and police officers. Among his major films were ""Spartacus"" (his movie debut), ""Planet of the Apes"" (in a brief role as a simian minister), and ""All the President's Men"", in which he played the national editor of ""The Washington Post"". It was on television that Lambert played his biggest roles. He acted on 300 shows"
"films. For example, Broadway's Her First Roman and Pippin are based on Roman Empire characters though gladiators are not central to the stories. Gladiators do abound in television and film. Spartacus’ story has been told by at least one long running television series and a 2004 made for TV movie starring Goran Visnjic. On the big screen, Howard Fast’s novel Spartacus was adapted into film in 1960 starring Kirk Douglas and it is considered a classic. Just like Bird’s play, Fast’s novel has social relevance in that it reflects the fight for the “political empowerment of the working class” (Joshel"
"the opening sequence in the quarry had been filmed. ""He seemed scared of the scope of the picture,"" wrote Douglas in his autobiography; yet a year later Mann would embark on another epic of similar size, ""El Cid"". The dismissal (or resignation) of Mann is mysterious since the opening sequences, filmed at Death Valley, Nevada, set the style for the rest of the film. Thirty-year-old Stanley Kubrick was hired to take over. He had already directed four feature films (including ""Paths of Glory"", also starring Douglas). ""Spartacus"" was a bigger project by far, with a budget of $12 million (equivalent"
"parts, starting with ""Spartacus"" (1960). Subsequent films in this period included ""El Cid"" (1961), ""Mysterious Island"" (also 1961), playing Captain Nemo, and Hammer Films' remake of ""The Phantom of the Opera"" (1962). Again in the leading role, the phantom's mask in this version was full-face, which made casting an actor with a reputation for his vocal talents a sensible decision. ""It was wonderful to play such a part, but I was disappointed with the picture"", Lom says. ""This version of the famous Gaston Leroux story dragged. The Phantom wasn't given enough to do, but at least I wasn't the villain,"
"work under other authors' names or pseudonyms. His uncredited work won two Academy Awards: for ""Roman Holiday"" (1953), which was given to a front writer, and for ""The Brave One"" (1956) which was awarded to a pseudonym of Trumbo's. When he was given public screen credit for both ""Exodus"" and ""Spartacus"" in 1960, this marked the beginning of the end of the Hollywood Blacklist for Trumbo and other screenwriters. He finally was given full credit by the Writers' Guild for all his achievements, the work of which encompassed six decades of screenwriting. Trumbo was born in Montrose, Colorado, the son"
"a performance of ""The Gladiator"", starring the popular American actor, Edwin Forrest, as Spartacus. She arranged to meet him and on June 23, 1837 they were married at a church in Covent Garden. Shortly thereafter, the Forrests moved to New York and lived there for the next twelve years. By many accounts, the Forrests lived as a happily married couple in New York from 1837-1849. Forrest became one of the prominent actors of his time, especially after his success in London, where previously American actors were not taken seriously. Forrest's acting work took him throughout the U.S., sometimes accompanied by"
"Agatha Christie's detective Hercule Poirot, first in ""Death on the Nile"" (1978) and then in 1982's ""Evil Under the Sun"", 1985's ""Thirteen at Dinner"" (TV movie), 1986's ""Dead Man's Folly"" (TV movie), 1986's ""Murder in Three Acts"" (TV movie) and 1988's ""Appointment with Death"". Ustinov won Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor for his roles in ""Spartacus"" (1960) and ""Topkapi"" (1964). He also won a Golden Globe award for Best Supporting Actor for the film ""Quo Vadis"" (he set the Oscar and Globe statuettes up on his desk as if playing doubles tennis; the game was a love of his"
"with Davies because of the constraints imposed by filming. Davies encouraged Moran to insert linguistic jokes similar to those in the comic book series ""Asterix"", such as ""Lucius Petrus Dextrus"" (""Lucius Stone Right Arm""), TK Maxximus, and Spartacus; the use of the phrase ""I'm Spartacus!"" refers to the 1960 film. Moran drew the name Caecilius from that of the main character in Book I of the Cambridge Latin Course, who is in turn based on the banker Lucius Caecilius Iucundus, and he based the ancillary characters of Metella (Tracey Childs) and Quintus on Caecilius's family in the same course; the"
"Barry Duffield Barry Duffield (born 28 February 1962) is an Australian actor, producer, scriptwriter and director from Billingham, England. He is mostly known for his portrayal of Lugo in the Starz television series ""Spartacus"". Born 28 February 1962 in Billingham (England), Barry Duffield moved in Australia with his family in 1968 where they finally set up in Nhulunbuy in the north of the country. He studied at the ""Woodridge North State School"" until 1972, and then at the ""Nhulunbuy Area School"" until 1979. From 1997 to 1998, he chose the ""South Seas Film and Television School"" of New-Zealand to improve"
"wife Cleo and teenage children to work as his support staff, adding to domestic conflict. King Brothers' film ""The Brave One"", an original story by Trumbo under a pseudonym, receives an Academy Award he cannot claim. His blacklisted friend Arlen Hird dies from cancer, destitute, but an attempt by Hedda Hopper's allies to intimidate the head of King Brothers to fire Trumbo fails completely. Over time, industry suspicion of Trumbo's ghostwriting develops, but he is careful not to confirm it. In 1960, actor Kirk Douglas recruits him to write the screenplay for his epic film ""Spartacus"", and director Otto Preminger"
"Spartacus (miniseries) Spartacus is a 2004 North American miniseries directed by Robert Dornhelm and produced by Ted Kurdyla from a teleplay by Robert Schenkkan. It aired over two nights on the USA Network, and stars Goran Visnjic, Alan Bates, Angus Macfadyen, Rhona Mitra, Ian McNeice, Ross Kemp and Ben Cross. It is based on the novel of the same name by Howard Fast. The plot, setting, and costumes are nearly identical to those of the Stanley Kubrick 1960 version; however, this adaptation follows Howard Fast's novel more closely than does Kubrick's film. (Two of the more noticeable omissions from the"
"Scars of Dracula Scars of Dracula is a 1970 British horror film directed by Roy Ward Baker for Hammer Studios. It stars Christopher Lee as Count Dracula, along with Dennis Waterman, Jenny Hanley, Patrick Troughton, and Michael Gwynn. Although disparaged by some critics, the film does restore a few elements of Bram Stoker's original character: the Count is introduced as an ""icily charming host;"" he has command over nature; and he is seen scaling the walls of his castle. It also gives Lee more to do and say than any other Hammer Dracula film except its first, 1958's ""Dracula"". This"
"began producing films as varied as ""Paths of Glory"" (1957) and ""Spartacus"" (1960). In those two films, he collaborated with the then-relatively-unknown director Stanley Kubrick taking lead roles in both films. Douglas has been praised for helping to break the Hollywood blacklist by having Dalton Trumbo write ""Spartacus"" with an official on-screen credit, although this has been disputed by others. He produced and starred in ""Lonely Are the Brave"" (1962), considered a classic, and ""Seven Days in May"" (1964), opposite Burt Lancaster, with whom he made seven films. In 1963, he starred in the Broadway play ""One Flew Over the"
"recruits him to script ""Exodus"". Both men publicly credit him as the screenwriter, despite Hopper's futile efforts to intimidate Douglas into dropping Trumbo. By 1960, the effectiveness of the Blacklist has been broken to the point where newly elected US President John F. Kennedy publicly endorses ""Spartacus"", and Trumbo and others are able to begin rebuilding their careers. Ten years later, finally receiving his due accolades from Hollywood, Trumbo speaks about how the Blacklist victimized them all: those who stood by their principles and lost their jobs, and also those who compromised their principles to keep them. On September 18,"
"Walter Sparrow Walter Leonard Sparrow (22 January 1927 – 31 May 2000) was an English film and television actor best known for his appearance as Duncan in the 1991 film """" starring Kevin Costner. Born in Eltham, London in 1927, Sparrow began his career as a stand-up comic before moving to acting with a period with the Royal Shakespeare Company. His first film role was in 1964, in ""Dr. Terror's House of Horrors"", with Christopher Lee. Subsequent films, interspersed between countless TV appearances, included the 1969 sex fantasy ""Zeta One"", ""Young Sherlock Holmes"", and the acclaimed 1988 film ""The Accidental"
"by Simon & Schuster; ), the author has a short introduction, """"Spartacus"" and the Blacklist"", which expands on the conditions surrounding the writing and publishing of the work. Spartacus (Fast novel) Spartacus is a 1951 historical novel by American writer Howard Fast. It is about the historic slave revolt led by Spartacus around 71 BCE. The book inspired the 1960 film directed by Stanley Kubrick and the 2004 TV adaptation by Robert Dornhelm. ""Spartacus"" begins with three young Roman patricians - Caius, his sister Helena and her friend Claudia, commencing a journey from Rome to Capua along the Via Appia"
"was disappointed when Wyler chose Charlton Heston instead. Shortly after, Edward (Eddie) Lewis, a vice president in Douglas's film company, Bryna Productions (named after Douglas's mother), had Douglas read Howard Fast's novel, ""Spartacus"", which had a related theme—an individual who challenges the might of the Roman Empire—and Douglas was impressed enough to purchase an option on the book from Fast with his own financing. Universal Studios eventually agreed to finance the film after Douglas persuaded Olivier, Laughton, and Ustinov to act in it. Lewis became the producer of the film, with Douglas taking executive producer credit. Lewis subsequently produced other"
"Spartacus: Blood and Sand Spartacus: Blood and Sand is the first season of American television series ""Spartacus"", which premiered on Starz on January 22, 2010. The series was inspired by the historical figure of Spartacus (played by Andy Whitfield), a Thracian gladiator who from 73 to 71 BC led a major slave uprising against the Roman Republic. Executive producers Steven S. DeKnight and Robert Tapert focused on structuring the events of Spartacus' obscure early life leading up to the beginning of historical records. Slave Roman The program is preceded by a warning that it purports to portray a ""historical portrayal"