Advanced search
- TITLES
- NAMES
- COLLABORATIONS
Search filters
Enter full date
to
or just enter yyyy, or yyyy-mm below
to
Only includes names with the selected topics
to
or just enter yyyy, or yyyy-mm below
to
1-8 of 8
- Actor
- Director
- Camera and Electrical Department
A rather wanderlust fellow before he latched onto acting, Denver Pyle--who made a career of playing drawling, somewhat slow Southern types--was actually born in Colorado in 1920, to a farming family. He attended a university for a time but dropped out to become a drummer. When that didn't pan out he drifted from job to job, doing everything from working the oil fields in Oklahoma to the shrimp boats in Texas. In 1940 he moseyed off to Los Angeles and briefly found employment as a (somewhat unlikely) NBC page. That particular career was interrupted by World War II, and Pyle enlisted in the navy. Wounded in the battle of Guadalcanal, he received a medical discharge in 1943. Working for an aircraft plant in Los Angeles as a riveter, the rangy actor was introduced to the entertainment field after receiving a role in an amateur theater production and getting spotted by a talent scout. Training with such renowned teachers as Maria Ouspenskaya and Michael Chekhov, he made his film debut in The Guilt of Janet Ames (1947). Pyle went on to roles in hundreds of film and TV parts, bringing a touch of Western authenticity to many of his roles. A minor villain or sidekick in the early 1950s, he often received no billing. Prematurely white-haired (a family trait), he became a familiar face on episodes of Gunsmoke (1955) and Bonanza (1959) and also developed a close association with actor John Wayne, appearing in many of Wayne's later films, including The Horse Soldiers (1959), The Alamo (1960), The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) and Cahill U.S. Marshal (1973). Pyle's more important movie roles came late in his career. One of his most memorable was in Bonnie and Clyde (1967) as Texas Ranger Frank Hamer, the handcuffed hostage of the duo, who spits in Bonnie's (Faye Dunaway) face after she coyly poses with him for a camera shot. He settled easily into hillbilly/mountain men types in his later years and became a household face for his crotchety presence in The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams (1977) and, especially, The Dukes of Hazzard (1979). He died of lung cancer at age 77.- Actress
- Producer
- Director
Sabine Crossen is a bilingual actress (French mother, American father) who was born in the United States but grew up in NZ. When she was 20 years old she moved to Paris to study acting at the Actorat Dramatic Arts College where she landed her first role playing the Virgin Mary.
Sabine's first role in a feature film was playing an Elf in Lord Of The Rings.
In 2003 she had her first lead role portraying Kim Lee in the independent feature film Shadow Girl that won several awards; Platinum Award Houston (USA) and Thessaloniki (Greece) Best Image.
During this time Sabine was also on the prime time Canal+ Hypershow presenting stars like David Bowie, John Malkovitch, The Cranberries and Adrien Brody.
She has written songs for several compilation albums winning 3 gold discs.
In 2005 after playing the Rita in Surface Sensible the blockbuster The Brice Man (starring Jean Dujardin star of The Artist) came out where she plays his young mother-in-law.
During this time Sabine also presented for the Alcatel web TV filming in France and Spain over several years.
2006 brought In Memoriam II: The Last Ritual (In Memoriam won the 2003 best game award world), which gave her the lead role of Jessica Moses. Filming took place in Canada, USA, Portugal, Scotland and France.
Then in 2007 Sabine played the lead female part of the alien Dragonfly Fairy in Car Academy, also interpreting the song "Superman" for the original soundtrack. The DVD won a double diamond disc in France.
Sabine then discovered motion capture and had the opportunity to play in several video games; Heavy Rain, Red Steel 2, Lana Del Rey. She then had the privilege of playing June in the game that became the film Hitman with Timothy Olyphant and Olga Kurylenko.
3 years later she seduces Philippe Lellouche and Franck Dubosc in the movie Bienvenue A Bord (Welcome A Bord)
In 2012 things start to accelerate for Sabine who flies to Hong Kong and China to film S.O.L.I.I.D a pure-quell for the feature film where she will play the lead of a dangerous android. She then returns to Hong Kong to film the role of Joan in The Borderland starring Seydina Baldé.
Back in Paris she films Le Grand Méchant Loup (The Big Bad Wolf) playing a naughty dominatrix and then the role of a reporter in Crossing Lines directed by Daniel Percival and finally a Texan facing Pierce Brosnan and Emma Thompson in The Love Punch in 2013.
2014 saw Sabine travel back to Hong Kong to film as Joan in director Mathieu Weschler's debut film Couvert Operation. She also filmed in Rosemary's Baby an NBC TV series.
In 2015 Sabine played the role of Freya in Predator Dark Ages, a fan film which has today 13 million views on YouTube. She learn how to use a bow and arrow for this role and looks a little like Orlando Blooms character in L.O.T.R, Legolas. She shot two other short films Spavento and award winning Blue-Eyed Me that year.
Her first role in a horror feature film S.H.C.I.A.W as the bad girl Ana was shot in March/April 2016 written and directed by Simon P. Edward with award winning D.O.P Andrew Martin. This involved on screen fight scenes with a lot of action and FX.
Sabine then shot a family comedy It's All About The Manners shot in 2016 in the UK is a film about the Manners adopting 2 chaotic boys that turn the kingdom of Barland upside down. Sabine plays the role of Jenny Manners.
In 2015 she shot her first short film L'amour Rend Aveugle (Love Is Blind) as a director. It won 22 awards.
Sabine is the brand ambassador for Chablis 2012 alongside Plus Belle La Vie Star Ambroise Michel. Sabine was an official jury member of the International Crime Film Festival in Liège 2013.
Acting awards : "Best Actress Short Stop Int. Film Festival 2020" "Best Actress Oniros Film Awards 2018" "Best Actress Southern Shots Awards 2018" "Best Actress 9FilmFestival 2018"
Since 2016 Sabine filmed 4 more short films as a director, all of which have traveled the world in film festivals and won multiple awards.
In 2020 she acted in 'The Moderator' shot in Morocco and in 2021 she played Rebecca Morgan in 'Operation Napoleon', shot in Iceland & Germany.
She is preparing a feature film The Villa Next Door, to be set in Kefalonia Greece, in May 2023.- Actor
- Soundtrack
Philippe Duquesne was born on 30 June 1965 in Béthune, Pas-de-Calais, France. He is an actor, known for A Very Long Engagement (2004), Welcome to the Sticks (2008) and The Truth About Charlie (2002).- Adélaïde Leroux was born on 30 December 1982 in Béthune, Pas-de-Calais, France. She is an actress, known for Home (2008), Uchronia (2016) and Flanders (2006).
- Director
- Writer
- Camera and Electrical Department
Jacques Renard was born on 6 March 1944 in Béthune, Pas-de-Calais, France. He is a director and writer, known for Army of Shadows (1969), Hamburger Extrablätter (1961) and Blanche and Marie (1985).- Producer
- Additional Crew
- Actor
Pierre Cottrell was one of the most important figures linking the Nouvelle Vague (New Wave) and the New American Cinema. As a producer and active associate producer, Cottrell worked with some of the most creative filmmakers of the past fifty years. His role was often hard to define because he was involved in so many aspects of filmmaking, often uncredited.
Cottrell met Éric Rohmer when he was 15 at Cahiers du Cinéma. Four years later, in 1964, just back from the United States, he joined Barbet Schroeder and Rohmer, who were launching Films du Losange. While on a short trainee program in New York at Alcoa Aluminum Company in 1963, Cottrell had the privilege to get to know the fearsome Otto Preminger. The Viennese film director enjoyed dissecting his work with that rare species: a French cinephile. When Cottrell was arrested with Jonas Mekas on the charge of pornography by the New York police for having screened Jean Genet's film, Song of Love (1950), Preminger asked his niece Eve Preminger to take on the case.
Later on, in 1967, Cottrell was working with Films du Losange when Roger Corman asked him to organize the shooting of two films in Istanbul and Monte Carlo: The Wild Racers (1968) and Target: Harry (1969) (What's in it for Harry?). 1969 found him linked to the New Hollywood through his friend Jack Nicholson who was getting to stardom with his part in Easy Rider (1969). Right before the screening "hors competition" at the Cannes Film Festival of the film, Bert Schneider (founder of BBS with pals Rafelson and Blauner), not happy with the French subtitles provided by the Paris office of Columbia's, asked Cottrell to rewrite the French subtitles - since his return to France, Cottrell had been subtitling films with Bernard Eisenschitz, his buddy from the lycée Henri-IV. It might be of interest to know that the partnership was started by Pierre Rissient, then programming the MacMahon movie theater, who showed Joseph Losey's films in Paris. From 1969 to 1972, Cottrell concentrated on Films du Losange, producing three of Rohmer's most important films: My Night at Maud's (1969), Claire's Knee (1970), and Love in the Afternoon (1972), with the last two distributed in the USA by Columbia.
Back in 1966, Cottrell had helped Nicholson find French distribution for two Corman pictures he had produced, both directed by Monte Hellman, The Shooting (1966) and Ride in the Whirlwind (1966). After the huge box-office success of Easy Rider, Nicholson and Rafelson provided some money - half the budget of $120,000 - that Cottrell put into Jean Eustache's The Mother and the Whore (1973) in 1972. The film won two prizes at Cannes in 1973, but its length of 3 hours and 40 minutes prevented box-office success. Much was expected from Eustache's third film, My Little Loves (1974), a title from Rimbaud's poem. But the film was murdered: reviews came out two weeks after its release because Eustache had refused access to the press screening to a reviewer of dubious taste who had trashed The Mother and the Whore. The hack's colleagues, who had ignored him until then, decided to support him. So much for film critics backing independent "art films".
In 1975, as associate producer on Wim Wenders' The American Friend (1977), Cottrell brought Dennis Hopper to the production. Later, in 1981, he originated Lightning Over Water (1980), shot in New York by Wenders and the dying Nicholas Ray. Along with Hawks, Walsh and Lang, Ray figured in the pantheon of Cottrell's favorite directors. In 1982, he brought Wenders (who was on standby in San Francisco during the editing of Hammett) to Portugal, where The State of Things (1982) was shot. It was filmed back to back with Raúl Ruiz's The Territory (1981), another film he was involved with.
Cottrell continued to shuttle back and forth between Europe and the US until Roger Corman turned to him in 1978 for his production of Peter Bogdanovich's Saint Jack (1979) in Singapore. By then Cottrell had been supplying Corman with some of France's top cameramen, including Néstor Almendros, Pierre-William Glenn and Daniel Lacambre. Throughout the last three decades of his life, Cottrell worked as one of the world's most prestigious subtitlers. His credits include works by David Lynch, Spike Lee, Pedro Almodovar, Ridley Scott and many others. He always sought to eke out the right balance between a perfect translation of often jargon-laden dialogue into the patois of another language. He juggled meaning, nuance, mood, length and position to achieve what would appear seamless on screen, leaving viewers with the impression that they had not been reading at all. His dedication to finding the exact meaning and sense of every word produced truly magical results.- Monique Morelli was born on 13 December 1923 in Béthune, Pas-de-Calais, France. She was an actress, known for Cauchemar (1980), Vivre ensemble (1973) and Mandrin (1972). She died on 27 April 1993 in Paris, Ile-de-France, France.
- Actor
- Writer
- Director
Didier Tronchet was born on 29 September 1958 in Béthune, Pas-de-Calais, France. He is an actor and writer, known for Le nouveau Jean-Claude (2002), O Gavrilos kai oi kaloi tou filoi (1997) and Park Benches (2009).