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Charles Guggenheim is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter, Producer and Camera Operator American born on 31 march 1924 at Cincinnati (USA)

Charles Guggenheim

Charles Guggenheim
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Nationality USA
Birth 31 march 1924 at Cincinnati (USA)
Death 9 october 2002 (at 78 years)

Charles Guggenheim (1924-2002) est un réalisateur et producteur américain, ayant remporté plusieurs Oscars du cinéma.

Biography

Charles Guggenheim est né le 31 mars 1924 à Cincinnati en Ohio dans une famille juive allemande. Il souffrait de dyslexie étant enfant sans que cela soit diagnostiqué et était considéré comme lent à l'école. Il n'a appris à lire qu'à l'âge de neuf ans. Il intègre l'armée en 1943 et termine ses études à l'Université de l'Iowa en 1948 avant de se rendre à New York où il travaille pour CBS. Il se marie en 1957.

Il réalise de nombreux documentaires, souvent nommés aux Oscars du cinéma, et en remporte quatre entre 1965 et 1994. Certains de ses documentaires sont présentés de façon permanente dans différentes institutions dont l'Ellis Island Museum à New York et le D-Day muséum à la Nouvelle-Orléans.

Il meurt le 9 octobre 2002 à Washington d'un cancer du pancréas.

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Paul Richards
(1 films)
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Thomas Alva Edison
(1 films)
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Bob Holt
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Steve McQueen
Steve McQueen
(1 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Charles Guggenheim (14 films)

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Actor

Gossip
Gossip (2000)
, 1h30
Directed by Terry Kinney, Davis Guggenheim
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors James Marsden, Lena Headey, Norman Reedus, Kate Hudson, Marisa Coughlan, Joshua Jackson
Roles Derrick's father
Rating58% 2.9494452.9494452.9494452.9494452.949445
The movie takes place on a college campus in the Northeastern United States. Derrick Webb (James Marsden), Cathy Jones (Lena Headey), and Travis (Norman Reedus) are students as well as roommates. They all take a Communications class with Professor Goodwin (Eric Bogosian), in which the subject of gossip is brought up. For their final project, the three students decide to start a rumor and track and see the results. One night while at a nightclub, they run into Naomi Preston (Kate Hudson) and her boyfriend Beau Edson (Joshua Jackson). It is common knowledge through the campus that Naomi is saving her virginity for marriage. Jones (as Cathy is called throughout the movie) in particular has a problem with Naomi's wealth and sense of entitlement. Furthermore, Naomi seems to have started a rumor about Jones having sex with Professor Goodwin.

Director

A Time for Justice
A Time for Justice (1994)
, 38minutes
Directed by Charles Guggenheim
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about racism, Documentary films about racism, Documentary films about law, Documentary films about historical events, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Documentary films about politics, Political films
Rating67% 3.358493.358493.358493.358493.35849
Une histoire des mouvements pour les droits civiques aux États-Unis, allant de l'assassinat d'Emmett Till en 1955 jusqu'à la loi Voting Rights Act de 1965.
The Johnstown Flood
The Johnstown Flood (1989)
, 26minutes
Directed by Charles Guggenheim
Origin USA
Genres Documentary, Historical
Themes Documentary films about historical events, Disaster films
Actors Len Cariou
Rating72% 3.637023.637023.637023.637023.63702
Le documentaire est consacré à l'inondation de Johnstown de 1889, catastrophe qui fit 2 200 victimes à la suite de la rupture d'un barrage en Pennsylvanie.
High Schools
High Schools (1984)
, 28minutes
Directed by Charles Guggenheim
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about education
Rating32% 1.648541.648541.648541.648541.64854
Nine from Little Rock
Nine from Little Rock (1964)
, 20minutes
Directed by Charles Guggenheim
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about racism, Documentary films about racism, Documentary films about law, Documentary films about historical events, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Documentary films about politics, Political films
Actors Thomas Jefferson
Rating68% 3.436893.436893.436893.436893.43689
Le film raconte l'histoire de neuf étudiants afro-américains, connus sous le nom des Neuf de Little Rock, les premiers à tenter d'entrer dans le lycée central de Little Rock en Arkansas en 1957. Il était jusque-là exclusivement réservé aux Blancs.
The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery
The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery (1959)
, 1h26
Directed by Charles Guggenheim
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Crime
Themes Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Steve McQueen, David Clarke, Bob Holt
Rating58% 2.903192.903192.903192.903192.90319
George Fowler (Steve McQueen) shows himself as an ex-football hero. He finds himself slowly drawn into the world of gangsters. With the gang in need of just another $50, George asks his ex-girlfriend, Ann, for a check in that amount, supposedly for her brother Gino. The plan starts to unravel when she sees Gino coming out of a restaurant across the street from the bank. When questioned about it, George later reveals he's involved with robbing the bank. She writes "Warning" and beneath that "you will be robbed!" with lipstick on a bank window, but the bank takes it as a joke. As the day of the heist approaches, tensions within the gang increase with no one trusting anyone. The robbers, having seen the lipstick warning, burst into George's and Gino's apartment that night and demand to know who talked to the girl about the robbery. Gino breaks about his sister's talking to George. George goes to her apartment with the gang and talks her into going to Chicago. Gino and George go to a park and wait. While Willie and John are taking her down the fire escape, John gets fidgety and hurls her off the escape down to the street below. They return to George and Gino, saying nothing about the murder. The next day, the robbery is attempted as planned. Meanwhile, the bank has moved the switchboard, previously inside the bank, downstairs to what seems to be a better control room. The robbers, who were planning to disable the switchboard, are unaware of this move. John distrusts George and compels Willie to drive, instead of George, who will now be inside robbing the bank even though it's his first time on any illegal job. The robbery goes as planned, until George can't find the switchboard they wanted to disable. The switchboard downstairs calls the police and they send a squad car over to the bank. When the police arrive, the robbery goes wrong. John is killed while trying to escape with a hostage and Gino commits suicide in the vaults. Willie flees with the car, leaving his partners behind. George gets shot in the leg. He tries to escape with a female hostage, the woman's husband offering himself instead. As the wife is in his headlock, his arm aiming the gun at her husband, she says: - It's no use, he's vicious. Realizing just how far he went, George relaxes his grip and falls to the ground, muttering how he isn't 'vicious'. George is taken away, his last sight looking out the bars of the car.

Scriptwriter