Prolific actor who built a 60-year career in the Us and Europe
Few screen debuts have equalled the searing malevolence of Ben Gazzara's Iago-inspired Jocko De Paris in The Strange One (1957). The role, which he had created on stage, became forever associated with this intense graduate of New York's method school of acting.
Gazzara, who has died aged 81 of pancreatic cancer, continued his stage career in modern classics including Epitaph for George Dillon and as the humiliated and vengeful George in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1976). He also achieved popular acclaim through television series – notably Run for Your Life (1965-68) – and in movies for his friend John Cassavetes and other directors including Otto Preminger, Peter Bogdanovich, David Mamet, Todd Solondz and the Coen brothers.
Gazzara was born to Sicilian immigrants and grew up on Manhattan's lower east side. He began acting at the Madison Square Boys Club and...
Few screen debuts have equalled the searing malevolence of Ben Gazzara's Iago-inspired Jocko De Paris in The Strange One (1957). The role, which he had created on stage, became forever associated with this intense graduate of New York's method school of acting.
Gazzara, who has died aged 81 of pancreatic cancer, continued his stage career in modern classics including Epitaph for George Dillon and as the humiliated and vengeful George in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1976). He also achieved popular acclaim through television series – notably Run for Your Life (1965-68) – and in movies for his friend John Cassavetes and other directors including Otto Preminger, Peter Bogdanovich, David Mamet, Todd Solondz and the Coen brothers.
Gazzara was born to Sicilian immigrants and grew up on Manhattan's lower east side. He began acting at the Madison Square Boys Club and...
- 2/4/2012
- by Brian Baxter
- The Guardian - Film News
We are pleased to provide you with new clips and the trailer freshly embedded all in the same player for your convenience. The film stars "Twilight" star Robert Pattinson as well as . Paul Morrison, helmer of the well-received "Wondrous Oblivion," directs from the writing by Philippa Goslett, a first-timer on this project. Goslett's additionally wrote the upcoming "Holy Money" starring Aaron Stanford (in "X2" as Pyro). This film is Rated R for sexual content, language and a brief disturbing image. If you're a fan of Robert Pattinson (and there are tons of them around this time), get the widget for your site here - http://www.littleashes-themovie.com/widget_ecard/. Also, check out the official site here - http://www.littleashes-themovie.com/. The Story? In the midst of the repression and political unrest of pre-Spanish Civil War, eccentric artist Salvador Dalí and renowned poet and revolutionary Federico García Lorca find their artistic and sexual freedom.
- 12/4/2008
- Upcoming-Movies.com
We are pleased to provide you with new clips and the trailer freshly embedded all in the same player for your convenience. The film stars "Twilight" star Robert Pattinson as well as . Paul Morrison, helmer of the well-received "Wondrous Oblivion," directs from the writing by Philippa Goslett, a first-timer on this project. Goslett's additionally wrote the upcoming "Holy Money" starring Aaron Stanford (in "X2" as Pyro). This film is Rated R for sexual content, language and a brief disturbing image. If you're a fan of Robert Pattinson (and there are tons of them around this time), get the widget for your site here - http://www.littleashes-themovie.com/widget_ecard/. Also, check out the official site here - http://www.littleashes-themovie.com/. The Story? In the midst of the repression and political unrest of pre-Spanish Civil War, eccentric artist Salvador Dalí and renowned poet and revolutionary Federico García Lorca find their artistic and sexual freedom.
- 12/4/2008
- Upcoming-Movies.com
We are pleased to provide you with new clips and the trailer freshly embedded all in the same player for your convenience. The film stars "Twilight" star Robert Pattinson as well as . Paul Morrison, helmer of the well-received "Wondrous Oblivion," directs from the writing by Philippa Goslett, a first-timer on this project. Goslett's additionally wrote the upcoming "Holy Money" starring Aaron Stanford (in "X2" as Pyro). This film is Rated R for sexual content, language and a brief disturbing image. If you're a fan of Robert Pattinson (and there are tons of them around this time), get the widget for your site here - http://www.littleashes-themovie.com/widget_ecard/. Also, check out the official site here - http://www.littleashes-themovie.com/. What's this about? In the midst of the repression and political unrest of pre-Spanish Civil War, eccentric artist Salvador Dalí and renowned poet and revolutionary Federico García Lorca...
- 12/4/2008
- Upcoming-Movies.com
We are pleased to provide you with new clips and the trailer freshly embedded all in the same player for your convenience. The film stars "Twilight" star Robert Pattinson as well as . Paul Morrison, helmer of the well-received "Wondrous Oblivion," directs from the writing by Philippa Goslett, a first-timer on this project. Goslett's additionally wrote the upcoming "Holy Money" starring Aaron Stanford (in "X2" as Pyro). This film is Rated R for sexual content, language and a brief disturbing image. If you're a fan of Robert Pattinson (and there are tons of them around this time), get the widget for your site here - http://www.littleashes-themovie.com/widget_ecard/. Also, check out the official site here - http://www.littleashes-themovie.com/. The Story? In the midst of the repression and political unrest of pre-Spanish Civil War, eccentric artist Salvador Dalí and renowned poet and revolutionary Federico García Lorca find their artistic and sexual freedom.
- 12/4/2008
- Upcoming-Movies.com
If you.re looking to become a successful horror writer/director, then I.d say that one of the best things you could possibly do is be a director of photography on an Alex Aja movie. Well, what do ya know?! Maxime Alexandre has done just that. Having served as D.O.P. on Mirrors, High Tension and The Hills Have Eyes, I.d say he is now more than qualified to go forth on his own into our frightening genre! And check this, he.s already on his way with his debut thriller entitled Holy Money....
- 8/13/2008
- by Mike Catalano
- ArrowInTheHead.com
Maxime Alexandre, the director of photography for Mirrors, High Tension and The Hills Have Eyes, is set to make his directorial debut on a new thriller entitled Holy Money. The film stars Aaron Stanford (The Hills Have Eyes), Karl Roden (Blade II), Ben Gazzara, Joaquim de Almeida, Suzanne Bertish, Valeria Solarino, Nicola Di Pinto, Tiberio Murgia, Luca Angeletti, Pino Colizzi and Francesco Guzzo. Written by Philippa Goslett and M. Christine Vanden Eede, inside you can check out the synopsis for the film. Anthony's family runs a small Italian restaurant in London. When his childhood friend, Dario, dies in a suspicious accident, Anthony inherits a vineyard in Sant'Angelo, the village his parents came from in Italy...
- 8/9/2008
- bloody-disgusting.com
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