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Andrew Solt is a Director, Scriptwriter, Producer and Additional Dialogue born on 13 december 1947 at London (United-kingdom)

Andrew Solt

Andrew Solt
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Birth name Andrew W. Solt
Birth 13 december 1947 (77 years) at London (United-kingdom)

Andrew Solt (born December 13, 1947) is a producer, director, writer and documentary filmmaker. He has done numerous television specials and series for both broadcast and cable television and also movies. Solt owns the rights to The Ed Sullivan Show library and has produced over 100 hours of new programming from the archive. A frequent focus of his documentaries is rock and roll music, its history and star performers.

Best films

Little Women
Little Women
(1949)
(Scriptwriter) Joan of Arc
Joan of Arc
(1948)
(Scriptwriter)

Usually with

John Lennon
John Lennon
(2 films)
George Harrison
George Harrison
(2 films)
David L. Wolper
David L. Wolper
(2 films)
Ringo Starr
Ringo Starr
(2 films)
Paul McCartney
Paul McCartney
(2 films)
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Filmography of Andrew Solt (15 films)

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Director

This Is Elvis
This Is Elvis (1981)
, 2h24
Directed by Andrew Solt
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Documentary, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about television, Documentary films about music and musicians, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Musical films
Actors Elvis Presley, Johnny Harra, Linda Diane Thompson, Priscilla Presley, Frank Sinatra, Nancy Sinatra
Rating75% 3.787653.787653.787653.787653.78765
Ce docu-film relate la vie du King, alternant images d'archives et scènes rejouées par des acteurs, le tout illuminé par ses meilleures chansons. Un voyage inoubliable dans les coulisses d'un phénomène musical incomparable et intemporel…

Scriptwriter

Imagine: John Lennon
Imagine: John Lennon (1988)
, 1h40
Directed by John Lennon, Andrew Solt
Origin USA
Genres Musical theatre, Documentary, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Documentary films about music and musicians, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Musical films
Actors John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, David Bowie
Roles Writer
Rating77% 3.8911753.8911753.8911753.8911753.891175
La vie du Beatle John Lennon vue à travers des interviews et des images d'archives inédites.
This Is Elvis
This Is Elvis (1981)
, 2h24
Directed by Andrew Solt
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Documentary, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about television, Documentary films about music and musicians, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Musical films
Actors Elvis Presley, Johnny Harra, Linda Diane Thompson, Priscilla Presley, Frank Sinatra, Nancy Sinatra
Roles Writer
Rating75% 3.787653.787653.787653.787653.78765
Ce docu-film relate la vie du King, alternant images d'archives et scènes rejouées par des acteurs, le tout illuminé par ses meilleures chansons. Un voyage inoubliable dans les coulisses d'un phénomène musical incomparable et intemporel…
The Lusty Men
The Lusty Men (1952)
, 1h53
Directed by Robert Parrish, Nicholas Ray
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Western
Actors Susan Hayward, Robert Mitchum, John Arthur Kennedy, Arthur Hunnicutt, Frank Faylen, Walter Coy
Rating73% 3.687753.687753.687753.687753.68775
When longtime professional rodeo competitor Jeff McCloud (Robert Mitchum) is injured by a Brahma bull he was trying to ride, he decides to quit. He hitchhikes to his childhood home, a decrepit place now owned by Jeremiah (Burt Mustin). Run down as it is, it is the dream home for Wes Merritt (Arthur Kennedy) and his wife Louise (Susan Hayward). They are painstakingly saving up the money to buy it from Wes's meager wages as a cowhand. Wes recognizes Jeff as a once-prominent rodeo rider, and introduces himself, then helps Jeff gets a job at the same ranch. Wes has competed in some local rodeos, but has the ambition to do more, and wants Jeff to help him improve his skills.
Thunder on the Hill
Thunder on the Hill (1951)
, 1h24
Directed by Douglas Sirk
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Claudette Colbert, Ann Blyth, Robert Douglas, Gladys Cooper, Michael Pate, Philip Friend
Rating67% 3.392763.392763.392763.392763.39276
Sister Mary Bonaventure is in charge of the hospital ward of a convent in the county of Norfolk, England. She is troubled by her own sister's suicide, which she confides to her Mother Superior.
The Family Secret
The Family Secret (1951)

Directed by Henry Levin
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors John Derek, Lee J. Cobb, Jody Lawrance, Erin O'Brien-Moore, Santos Ortega, Henry O'Neill
Rating60% 3.046423.046423.046423.046423.04642
Law student David Clark kills best friend Art Bradley in self-defense after an argument. He flees, but later confesses to his father, Howard, a lawyer. The next morning, Howard expects his son to explain what happened to district attorney Redman, but instead David merely asks the DA if he can be of any help after another man, Joe Elsner, is arrested. Elsner is a bookie to whom the dead man owed a debt.
In a Lonely Place
In a Lonely Place (1950)
, 1h34
Directed by Nicholas Ray, Earl Bellamy
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime, Romance
Themes Films about films, Films about writers, Feminist films, Films about domestic violence, Mise en scène d'un scénariste
Actors Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame, Frank Lovejoy, Carl Benton Reid, Jeff Donnell, Art Smith
Rating78% 3.947193.947193.947193.947193.94719
Dixon "Dix" Steele (Humphrey Bogart) is a down-on-his-luck Hollywood screenwriter who has not had a hit "since before the war." While driving to meet his agent, Mel Lippman (Art Smith), at a nightclub, Dix's explosive temper is revealed at a stoplight along the way in a confrontation with another motorist that almost becomes violent.
September Affair
September Affair (1950)
, 1h44
Directed by William Dieterle
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romantic drama, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about classical music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Joan Fontaine, Joseph Cotten, Jessica Tandy, Jimmy Lydon, Robert Arthur, Françoise Rosay
Rating67% 3.389243.389243.389243.389243.38924
Marianne "Manina" Stuart (Joan Fontaine), a prominent concert pianist, meets David Lawrence (Joseph Cotten), a businessman, on a flight from Rome to New York. Their plane is diverted to Naples for engine repairs, and they decide to kill time by doing some sight-seeing.
Whirlpool
Whirlpool (1950)
, 1h38
Directed by Otto Preminger
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Noir, Crime, Romance
Themes Psychologie, Psychanalyse, Children's films
Actors Gene Tierney, Richard Conte, José Ferrer, Charles Bickford, Barbara O'Neil, Eduard Franz
Rating66% 3.346633.346633.346633.346633.34663
Ann Sutton (Gene Tierney), the wife of a successful psychoanalyst (Richard Conte), is arrested for shoplifting. Ann is saved from scandal by smooth-talking hypnotist David Korvo (José Ferrer).
Little Women
Little Women (1949)
, 2h1
Directed by Mervyn LeRoy
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Films about writers, Films about families, Political films, Children's films
Actors Elizabeth Taylor, June Allyson, Janet Leigh, Margaret O'Brien, Mary Astor, Peter Lawford
Rating72% 3.601023.601023.601023.601023.60102
In the small town of Concord, Massachusetts, during the Civil War, the March sisters — Meg (Janet Leigh), Jo (June Allyson), Amy (Elizabeth Taylor) and Beth (Margaret O'Brien) — live with their mother in a state of genteel poverty, their father having lost the family's fortune to an unscrupulous businessman several years earlier. While Mr. March (Leon Ames) serves in the Union Army, Mrs. March (Mary Astor), affectionately referred to as "Marmee" by her daughters, holds the family together and teaches the girls the importance of giving to those less fortunate than themselves, especially during the upcoming Christmas season. Though the spoiled and vain Amy often bemoans the family's lack of material wealth and social status, Jo, an aspiring writer, keeps everyone entertained with her stories and plays, while the youngest March, the shy and sensitive Beth, accompanies Jo's productions on an out-of-tune piano.
Joan of Arc
Joan of Arc (1948)
, 2h25
Directed by Richard Rosson, Victor Fleming
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes Films about religion, Jeanne d'Arc, Political films, Films based on plays, Histoire de France
Actors Ingrid Bergman, José Ferrer, Francis L. Sullivan, J. Carrol Naish, George Coulouris, Gene Lockhart
Rating63% 3.195783.195783.195783.195783.19578
Unlike the play Joan of Lorraine, which is a drama that shows how the story of Joan affects a group of actors who are performing it, the film is a straightforward recounting of the life of the French heroine. It begins with an obviously painted shot of the inside of a basilica with a shaft of light, possibly descending from heaven, shining down from the ceiling, and a solemn off-screen voice pronouncing the canonization of the Maid of Orleans. Then, the opening page of what appears to be a church manuscript recounting Joan's life in Latin is shown on the screen, while some uncredited voiceover narration by actor Shepperd Strudwick sets up the tale. The actual story of Joan then begins, from the time she becomes convinced that she has been divinely called to save France to her being burnt at the stake at the hands of the English and the Burgundians.
Without Reservations
Without Reservations (1946)
, 1h47
Directed by Mervyn LeRoy
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Themes Transport films, Rail transport films
Actors Claudette Colbert, John Wayne, Don DeFore, Anne Triola, Phil Brown, Frank Puglia
Rating63% 3.198323.198323.198323.198323.19832
Successful author Christopher "Kit" Madden (Claudette Colbert) travels to Los Angeles to work on the film adaptation of her best-selling book Here is Tomorrow. It is supposed to star Cary Grant as the hero Mark Winston and Lana Turner, but Grant has just dropped out and the producer thinks they need an unknown actor to play Winston. On a train to Hollywood Kit meets two Marines, Captain "Rusty" Thomas (John Wayne) and 1st Lieutenant "Dink" Watson (Don DeFore). She considers Rusty the best choice to play Mark Winston, but he is dismissive of her book: she wrote a political allegory and he does not believe Cary Grant would refuse Lana Turner for 400 pages. Unsure how he will react if he discovers she is a famous writer, she keeps her identity secret (saying her name is "Kitty Kloch"). During their journey across the country on trains, the trio end up in various comedic and dramatic situations. When Rusty finally learns the truth, he thinks that she has been using him just so he would be in the motion picture. Nonetheless, after a number of missteps, the couple eventually are able to resolve their differences.