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Daniel Melnick is a Actor and Producer American born on 21 april 1932 at New York City (USA)

Daniel Melnick

Daniel Melnick
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Nationality USA
Birth 21 april 1932 at New York City (USA)
Death 13 october 2009 (at 77 years) at Los Angeles (USA)

Daniel Melnick (April 21, 1932 – October 13, 2009) was an American film producer and movie studio executive who started working in Hollywood as a teenager in television and then became the producer of such films as All That Jazz, Altered States and Straw Dogs. Melnick's films won more than 20 Academy Awards out of some 80 nominations.

Best films

Blue Streak (1999)
(Executive Producer)
Footloose (1984)
(Executive Producer)
All That Jazz (1979)
(Executive Producer)
That's Entertainment! (1974)
(Executive Producer)

Usually with

Steve Martin
Steve Martin
(2 films)
Rick Simpson
Rick Simpson
(3 films)
Mario Kassar
Mario Kassar
(3 films)
Bob Fosse
Bob Fosse
(1 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Daniel Melnick (19 films)

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Actor

The Celluloid Closet, 1h47
Directed by Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Documentary, Historical
Themes Films about films, Films about sexuality, Bisexuality-related films, LGBT-related films, Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the film industry, Documentaire sur l'homosexualité, Documentary films about cities, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Susan Sarandon, Lily Tomlin, Armistead Maupin, Arthur Laurents, Antonio Fargas, Tom Hanks
Roles Self
Rating77% 3.894033.894033.894033.894033.89403
Le film montre comment le cinéma hollywoodien a évoqué le thème de l’homosexualité, comment cette représentation a évolué au fil des ans et comment, en retour, elle a influencé la perception de l’homosexualité par le grand public.

Producer

Blue Streak, 1h34
Directed by Les Mayfield
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Action, Crime
Themes Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Martin Lawrence, Luke Wilson, Dave Chappelle, Peter Greene, Olek Krupa, William Forsythe
Roles Executive Producer
Rating64% 3.200773.200773.200773.200773.20077
Jewel thief Miles Logan (Martin Lawrence) participates in a $17 million diamond heist in Los Angeles. One accomplice, Deacon (Peter Greene), wants the diamond all for himself, killing one member of the team[eddie], and Logan escapes to a nearby construction site, hiding the diamond in a vent as the police close in. Deacon escapes, while Logan is caught and arrested as a robber, spending two years in jail. Upon his release, he argues with his ex-girlfriend, Janiece (Tamala Jones), who is angry for him lying to her about being a banker. Returning to the spot where he hid the diamond, Logan is dismayed that the site is the location of a new LAPD police station.
Universal Soldier: The Return, 1h23
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, War, Thriller, Action
Themes Films about computing, Sports films, Martial arts films, Cyberpunk films
Actors Jean-Claude Van Damme, Michael Jai White, Xander Berkeley, Justin Lazard, Karis Paige Bryant, Kiana Tom
Roles Producer
Rating42% 2.133712.133712.133712.133712.13371
Seven years after the events in the first film, Luc Deveraux (Van Damme), now an ordinary human, is a technical expert who is working with the government with his partner Maggie (Kiana Tom), who has been through countless hours of combat training with him, in order to refine and perfect the UniSol program in an effort to make a new, stronger breed of soldier that is more sophisticated and intelligent to reduce the use of normal, human soldiers in the battlefield. All of the new UniSols, which are faster and stronger than the original UniSols, are connected through an artificially intelligent computer system called S.E.T.H. (voice of Michael Jai White), a Self-Evolving Thought Helix.
L.A. Story
L.A. Story (1991)
, 1h35
Directed by Mick Jackson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Fantastic, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Themes Films based on plays, Films based on works by William Shakespeare
Actors Victoria Tennant, Richard E. Grant, Marilu Henner, Sarah Jessica Parker, Steve Martin, Sam McMurray
Roles Producer
Rating66% 3.3487353.3487353.3487353.3487353.348735
Harris K. Telemacher (Steve Martin) is a TV meteorologist living in Los Angeles. He is in a dead-end relationship with his social-climbing girlfriend Trudi (Marilu Henner), and wants to find some meaning and magic in his life and also finds himself growing increasingly weary of what he sees as the rather shallow and superficial city of LA.
Air America, 1h52
Directed by Roger Spottiswoode
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Action, Adventure
Themes Politique, Transport films, Aviation films, Political films, Buddy films
Actors Mel Gibson, Robert Downey Jr., Nancy Travis, David Marshall Grant, Michael Dudikoffi, Ken Jenkins
Roles Producer
Rating58% 2.9001552.9001552.9001552.9001552.900155
In late 1969, Billy Covington (Robert Downey Jr.) works as a helicopter traffic pilot for a Los Angeles radio station, but after breaking several safety regulations on the job, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration suspends his pilot's license. His piloting skills, bravery and disregard for the law are noticed by a mysterious government agent, who tells Billy that he can get his license back if he accepts a job in Laos, working for a "strictly civilian" company called Air America. The stranger indicates the air mission in Laos is "Top Secret" and the fact that American soldiers are stationed in Laos is a cover-up.
Mountains of the Moon, 2h16
Directed by Bob Rafelson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Historical
Themes Films set in Africa
Actors Patrick Bergin, Iain Glen, Richard E. Grant, Fiona Shaw, Roshan Seth, John Savident
Roles Producer
Rating70% 3.542713.542713.542713.542713.54271
Exploratory adventures of 1857, Sir Richard Burton (Patrick Bergin) and John Henning Speke (Iain Glen), try to discover the true source of the Nile river.
Punchline
Punchline (1988)
, 2h3
Directed by David Seltzer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy
Actors Sally Field, Tom Hanks, John Goodman, Mark Rydell, Kim Greist, Paul Mazursky
Roles Producer
Rating58% 2.9470552.9470552.9470552.9470552.947055
Steven Gold (Hanks) is a struggling medical student who moonlights as a stand-up comedian. It quickly becomes evident that he is lousy at the former and excels at the latter. And yet, when he is given a chance at the big time, he cracks under the pressure. Lilah (Field) is a dedicated housewife that also yearns to be a comic. She has the raw talent but does not have the command of craft that Steven possesses.
Roxanne
Roxanne (1987)
, 1h47
Directed by Fred Schepisi
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films about the labor movement, Films based on plays, Disaster films
Actors Steve Martin, Daryl Hannah, Rick Rossovich, Shelley Duvall, John Kapelos, Damon Wayans
Roles Producer
Rating65% 3.298573.298573.298573.298573.29857
C.D. "Charlie" Bales (Steve Martin), the fire chief of a small American ski town in Washington, is intelligent, humorous, charismatic, athletic and skilled. He is close to many in town, especially his godsister, Dixie (Shelley Duvall), who owns the town diner and several rental homes. He becomes immediately attracted to beautiful newcomer Roxanne Kowalski (Daryl Hannah), an astronomy student in town for the summer searching for a new comet. She adores Bales, but only as a friend, preferring Chris (Rick Rossovich), a handsome but dim fireman who has just joined Bales's unit to help turn it around. Bales is sensitive about his large nose, which many in town have learned to not mention. He is unable to have it surgically altered because of a dangerous allergy to anesthetics.
Quicksilver, 1h45
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Action, Adventure
Themes Sports films, Cycling films
Actors Kevin Bacon, Jami Gertz, Paul Rodriguez, Rudy Ramos, Laurence Fishburne, Gerald S. O'Loughlin
Roles Producer
Rating56% 2.8499052.8499052.8499052.8499052.849905
Jack Casey (Kevin Bacon) is a young floor trader who loses all of his company's and family's savings on a risky business decision. Deflated and disenchanted with his profession, he quits his job and becomes a bicycle messenger. Casey has to deal with his parents and his girlfriend, who are disappointed with his new job. Along with the colorful characters that work with him, he saves a troubled young woman named Terri (Jami Gertz) from a gang.
Unfaithfully Yours, 1h36
Directed by Howard Zieff
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about classical music and musicians
Actors Dudley Moore, Nastassja Kinski, Armand Assante, Albert Brooks, Richard Libertini, Leonard Mann
Roles Executive Producer
Rating59% 2.9975152.9975152.9975152.9975152.997515
Claude Eastman (Dudley Moore) is a composer and the conductor of a prestigious symphony who has recently married beautiful Daniella (Nastassja Kinski), a much younger woman. While travelling, he sends a message to his friend Norman Robbins (Albert Brooks) to keep an eye on his wife, but the message is garbled by Claude's Italian valet Giuseppe (Richard Libertini), and instead of looking after Daniella, Norman hires a private detective named Keller (Richard B. Shull) to investigate her.
Footloose
Footloose (1984)
, 1h47
Directed by Herbert Ross
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Dance films, Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Kevin Bacon, Lori Singer, Dianne Wiest, John Lithgow, Chris Penn, Sarah Jessica Parker
Roles Executive Producer
Rating66% 3.3006453.3006453.3006453.3006453.300645
Ren McCormack (Kevin Bacon), a teenager raised in Chicago, moves to the small town of Bomont to live with his aunt and uncle. Soon after arriving, Ren makes a friend, Willard Hewitt (Chris Penn), and from him learns the city council has banned dancing and rock music. He soon begins to fall for a rebellious girl named Ariel (Lori Singer), who has an abusive boyfriend, Chuck Cranston (Jim Youngs), and a domineering father, Reverend Shaw Moore (John Lithgow), an authority figure in the town.
Making Love, 1h53
Directed by Arthur Hiller
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Children's films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Michael Ontkean, Kate Jackson, Harry Hamlin, Terry Kiser, Wendy Hiller, Arthur Hill
Roles Producer
Rating68% 3.4480753.4480753.4480753.4480753.448075
Zack Elliot (Ontkean) is a successful young doctor (an oncologist) in the Los Angeles area married to Claire (Jackson), an equally successful television network executive during the early 1980s. They have been married for eight years and are generally happy in their relationship, sharing in common a love for Gilbert and Sullivan and the poetry of Rupert Brooke, to whom they were introduced by their elderly former neighbor, Winnie Bates (Wendy Hiller). Intending to start a family, the couple buys a big house.
Altered States, 1h42
Directed by Ken Russell
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Fantasy, Horror
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Films based on science fiction novels
Actors William Hurt, Blair Brown, Bob Balaban, Charles Haid, Thaao Penghlis, Drew Barrymore
Roles Executive Producer
Rating68% 3.4482153.4482153.4482153.4482153.448215
Edward Jessup is a university professor of abnormal psychology who, while studying schizophrenia, begins to think that "our other states of consciousness are as real as our waking states." Jessup begins experimenting with sensory deprivation using a flotation tank, aided by two like-minded researchers, Parrish and Rosenberg. At a faculty party he meets fellow "wonder kid" Emily and the two eventually marry.
First Family, 1h40
Directed by Buck Henry
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Political films
Actors Gilda Radner, Bob Newhart, Madeline Kahn, Richard Benjamin, Rip Torn, Fred Willard
Roles Producer
Rating43% 2.1644752.1644752.1644752.1644752.164475
Manfred Link is the President of the United States. He and the usually tipsy First Lady have a 28-year-old, sex-starved daughter named Gloria.