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Edgar Lansbury is a Producer and Art Direction British born on 12 january 1930 at London (United-kingdom)
Edgar Lansbury (born 12 January 1930) is an award-winning British theatre, film, and television producer.
Born in London, Lansbury was the son of Belfast-born actress Moyna MacGill and Edgar Lansbury, a politician and businessman, and the grandson of former Labour Party leader George Lansbury. He is the younger brother of actress Angela Lansbury and the twin brother of television producer Bruce Lansbury.
Lansbury's first Broadway production, the 1964 Frank D. Gilroy play The Subject Was Roses, won him the Tony Award for Best Play. Other Broadway credits include Promenade (1969, co-produced with Joseph Beruh), The Only Game in Town, Look to the Lilies, The Magic Show, the 1974 revival of Gypsy starring his sister, Godspell, American Buffalo (which earned him a nomination for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play), and Lennon.
Off-Broadway Lansbury has produced, among other productions, revivals of Arms and the Man, Waiting for Godot, and Long Day's Journey into Night, and the comedy As Bees In Honey Drown, which earned him a second Drama Desk Award nomination.
Lansbury is the recipient of the John Houseman Award, presented to him by The Acting Company to honor his commitment to the development of classical actors and a national audience for the theater.
Lansbury's film credits include The Wild Party, Blue Sunshine, and Squirm and the screen adaptations of The Subject Was Roses and Godspell.
Lansbury produced the television series Coronet Blue, which was broadcast by CBS during the summer of 1967.
Lansbury was the father-in-law of Ally Sheedy, who was married to his son David from 1992 to 2008.
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Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 12 january 1930 at London (United-kingdom)
Death 2 may 2024 (at 94 years)
Birth 12 january 1930 at London (United-kingdom)
Death 2 may 2024 (at 94 years)
Born in London, Lansbury was the son of Belfast-born actress Moyna MacGill and Edgar Lansbury, a politician and businessman, and the grandson of former Labour Party leader George Lansbury. He is the younger brother of actress Angela Lansbury and the twin brother of television producer Bruce Lansbury.
Lansbury's first Broadway production, the 1964 Frank D. Gilroy play The Subject Was Roses, won him the Tony Award for Best Play. Other Broadway credits include Promenade (1969, co-produced with Joseph Beruh), The Only Game in Town, Look to the Lilies, The Magic Show, the 1974 revival of Gypsy starring his sister, Godspell, American Buffalo (which earned him a nomination for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play), and Lennon.
Off-Broadway Lansbury has produced, among other productions, revivals of Arms and the Man, Waiting for Godot, and Long Day's Journey into Night, and the comedy As Bees In Honey Drown, which earned him a second Drama Desk Award nomination.
Lansbury is the recipient of the John Houseman Award, presented to him by The Acting Company to honor his commitment to the development of classical actors and a national audience for the theater.
Lansbury's film credits include The Wild Party, Blue Sunshine, and Squirm and the screen adaptations of The Subject Was Roses and Godspell.
Lansbury produced the television series Coronet Blue, which was broadcast by CBS during the summer of 1967.
Lansbury was the father-in-law of Ally Sheedy, who was married to his son David from 1992 to 2008.
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The Clairvoyant (1982)
, 1h33Directed by Maurice Elvey, Armand Mastroianni
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Fantasy, Horror, Crime
Themes Serial killer films
Actors Perry King, Fay Wray, Claude Rains, Elizabeth Kemp, Jane Baxter, Mary Clare
Roles Producer
Rating55%
After the body of murdered woman is found, nude and handcuffed, floating down the Hudson River in New York, a string of murders occur by an unseen serial killer who kills men by handcuffing them before killing them. Mac, a TV talk-show host, and Larry, a police detective, team up to try to find the killer and seek help from Virna, a clairvayant young artist, who draws visions of the murders before they happen. As Mac and Larry try to establish a connection between the victims and the first female victim, who may have been sexually involved all of the male victims, Virna's further visions begin to point to her as the next victim as she unknowingly closes in on the killer's identity.
He Knows You're Alone (1980)
, 1h34Directed by Armand Mastroianni
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror, Slasher
Themes Serial killer films
Actors Don Scardino, Caitlin O'Heaney, Tom Hanks, Elizabeth Kemp, Patsy Pease, James Rebhorn
Roles Executive Producer
Rating50%
A young bride is murdered on her wedding day by the man she rejected for her current fiancé Len Gamble, a police detective. Several years later, a bride-to-be is stabbed to death in a movie theater with a dagger on Long Island while her friend sits beside her. The killer, Ray Carlton, flees into the night.
Squirm (1976)
, 1h33Directed by Jeff Lieberman
Origin USA
Genres Horror
Themes Films about animals, Films about music and musicians, Natural horror films, Musical films
Actors Don Scardino, Jean Sullivan
Roles Producer
Rating49%
When a powerful storm knocks Fly Creek, Georgia's power lines down onto wet soil, the resulting surge of electricity drives large, bloodthirsty worms to the surface and out of their soil-tilling minds. The townspeople soon discover that their sleepy fishing village is overrun with worms that burrow right into their skin. Inundated by hundreds of thousands of carnivorous creatures, the terrorized locals race to find the cause of the rampage before becoming tilled under themselves.
The Wild Party (1975)
, 1h49Directed by James Ivory
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films about television
Actors James Coco, Raquel Welch, Perry King, Tiffany Bolling, Royal Dano, David Dukes
Roles Executive Producer
Rating53%
Once a great star of silent film, Jolly Grimm has wealth, a mansion, a manservant, Tex, and a beautiful and faithful woman in his life, Queenie, but no longer has Hollywood's interest. He desperately tries to get studio executives interested in his latest project, which he has financed himself, so he decides to throw a huge party at his house and show the film footage to those who come.
Godspell (1973)
, 1h43Directed by David Greene
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about religion, Musical films, Films based on the Bible, Films about Jews and Judaism, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals, Portrayals of Jesus in film
Actors Victor Garber, David Haskell, Lynne Thigpen, Merrell Jackson, Gilmer McCormick, Jeffrey Mylett
Roles Producer
Rating64%
The structure of the musical is, in large part, retained: a series of parables from the gospel of Matthew, interspersed with musical numbers. Many of the scenes take advantage of well-known sites around an empty, still New York City. John the Baptist gathers a diverse band of youthful disciples to follow and learn from the teachings of Jesus. These disciples then proceed to form a roving acting troupe that enacts Jesus's parables through the streets of New York. They often make references to vaudeville shtick.
The Only Game in Town (1970)
, 1h53Directed by George Stevens
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Films based on plays, Children's films
Actors Elizabeth Taylor, Warren Beatty, Hank Henry, Olga Valery
Roles Producer
Rating57%
Aging Las Vegas chorine Fran Walker (Taylor) drifts into an affair with lounge pianist and compulsive gambler Joe Grady (Beatty) while waiting for her married lover, San Francisco businessman Thomas Lockwood, to finalize the divorce he has been promising to get for the past five years.
The Subject Was Roses (1968)
, 1h47Directed by Ulu Grosbard
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Patricia Neal, Jack Albertson, Martin Sheen
Roles Producer
Rating69%
Returning to his Bronx home following World War II, Timmy Cleary (Martin Sheen) discovers his middle class parents have drifted apart and constantly quarrel at the least provocation. Once closer to his mother Nettie (Patricia Neal), the young veteran finds himself bonding with his salesman father John (Jack Albertson), but he tries to remain neutral when intervening in their disputes.
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Desperate Characters (1971)
, 1h37Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Shirley MacLaine, Kenneth Mars, Sada Thompson, Gerald S. O'Loughlin, Carol Kane, Michael Higgins
Roles Art Direction
Rating61%
Sophie and Otto Bentwood are a middle-aged, middle class, childless Brooklyn Heights couple trapped in a loveless marriage. He is an attorney, she a translator of books. Their existence is affected not only by their disintegrating relationship but by the threats of urban crime and vandalism that surround them everywhere they turn, leaving them feeling paranoid, scared, and desperately helpless. The film details their fragile emotional and psychological states as they interact with each other and their friends.
War Hunt (1962)
, 1h30Directed by Denis Sanders
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action
Themes Politique, Political films
Actors John Saxon, Sydney Pollack, Tom Skerritt, Robert Redford, Gavin MacLeod, Charles Aidman
Roles Art Direction
Rating62%
Near the end of the Korean War a new replacement, Private Loomis (Robert Redford) is assigned to an infantry company in the front line. He notices a quiet Private Endore (John Saxon) and is warned by others in the company not to speak to him. Once night falls, Loomis notices Endore in black face and dark clothing infiltrating enemy lines to gather information and spread terror amongst the enemy by killing enemy soldiers with his knife. Endore's odd ritual of drawing a circle around the body with his knife may indicate that he is, in fact, a serial killer. Company Commander Captain Pratt (Charles Aidman) lets Endore act independently.