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Edgar Stehli is a Actor French born on 11 july 1884 at Lyon (France)
Edgar Stehli est un acteur américain d'origine française, né à Lyon (Rhône, France) le 12 juillet 1884, décédé à Upper Montclair (New Jersey, États-Unis) le 25 juillet 1973.
Venu au cinéma sur le tard, il n'apparaît que dans seize films américains, entre 1947 (à 63 ans) et 1970, dont le western Une balle signée X en 1959, aux côtés d'Audie Murphy.
À la télévision, Edgar Stehli contribue à soixante-deux séries, de 1949 à 1968, et à un téléfilm diffusé en 1959.
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Installé aux États-Unis, Edgar Stehli est très actif au théâtre et se produit notamment à Broadway (New York) de 1916 à 1966, dans quarante-huit pièces, deux opérettes et une revue. Mentionnons la pièce Arsenic et vieilles dentelles de Joseph Kesselring, créée à Broadway en 1941, représentée 1 444 fois jusqu'en 1944, où il tient le rôle du docteur Einstein (repris par Peter Lorre dans l'adaptation au cinéma de 1944).Venu au cinéma sur le tard, il n'apparaît que dans seize films américains, entre 1947 (à 63 ans) et 1970, dont le western Une balle signée X en 1959, aux côtés d'Audie Murphy.
À la télévision, Edgar Stehli contribue à soixante-deux séries, de 1949 à 1968, et à un téléfilm diffusé en 1959.
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Loving (1970)
, 1h29Directed by Irvin Kershner
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors George Segal, Eva Marie Saint, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn, David Doyle, Edgar Stehli
Roles Mr. Kramm
Rating60%
Brooks Wilson (George Segal) is a busy man, juggling his work as a commercial artist with a marriage to Selma (Eva Marie Saint) and two young daughters. He also has a girlfriend on the side named Grace (Janis Young) who wants him to commit to her, but he cannot do it.
Loving (1970)
Directed by Irvin Kershner
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Romance
Actors George Segal, Eva Marie Saint, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn, David Doyle, Sherry Lansing
Roles Mr. Kramm
Rating60%
Seconds (1966)
, 1h40Directed by John Frankenheimer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Horror
Actors Rock Hudson, Salome Jens, John Randolph, Will Geer, Richard Anderson, Jeff Corey
Roles Tailor Shop Presser
Rating75%
The film is an expressionistic, part-horror, part-thriller, part-science fiction film about the obsession with eternal youth and misplaced faith in the ability of medical science to achieve it.
Twilight of Honor (1963)
, 1h44Directed by Boris Sagal
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Richard Chamberlain, Nick Adams, Claude Rains, Joan Blackman, James Gregory, Joey Heatherton
Roles Judge James Tucker
Rating62%
The Spiral Road (1962)
, 2h25Directed by Robert Mulligan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Romance
Actors Rock Hudson, Gena Rowlands, Burl Ives, Neva Patterson, Philip Abbott, Geoffrey Keen
Roles The Sultan
Rating60%
Dr. Anton Drager (Rock Hudson) travels to Java to study the effects of leprosy under an expert on the subject, Dr. Brits Jansen (Burl Ives). The two physicians have many of the same views scientifically, but are philosophically a mismatch, because Drager does not share the older Jansen's belief in the One True Triune Living God of the Bible.
Pocketful of Miracles (1961)
, 2h16Directed by Frank Capra
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Action, Crime
Actors Glenn Ford, Bette Davis, Hope Lange, Arthur O'Connell, Peter Falk, Mickey Shaughnessy
Roles Gloomy (uncredited)
Rating71%
Dave the Dude (Glenn Ford) is a successful, very superstitious New York City gangster who buys apples from street peddler Apple Annie (Bette Davis) to bring him good luck. On the eve of a very important meeting, he finds Annie terribly upset.
Parrish (1961)
, 2h18Directed by Delmer Daves
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Troy Donahue, Claudette Colbert, Karl Malden, Dean Jagger, Connie Stevens, Diane McBain
Roles Tully (uncredited)
Rating64%
The movie shows the story of conflict between a young independently minded man and his stepfather, a ruthless tobacco tycoon.
Atlantis: The Lost Continent (1961)
, 1h31Directed by George Pal
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantasy, Adventure, Peplum
Themes Seafaring films, Théâtre, Transport films, Films based on plays, Films set in Atlantis
Actors John Dall, Frank DeKova, Edward Platt, Berry Kroeger, William Smith, Edgar Stehli
Roles King Kronas
Rating55%
A Greek fisherman named Demetrios (Sal Ponti, under the screen name of Anthony Hall) and his father rescue Princess Antillia (Joyce Taylor) from a shipwreck without knowing that she is from the technologically advanced civilization of Atlantis. After rescuing the Atlantean princess, Demetrios must travel beyond the Pillars of Hercules to take her home. Upon returning her to her civilization, Demetrios, expecting to receive a reward, is instead enslaved and forced to work in the crater of the volcano which dominates the island.
Cash McCall (1960)
, 1h42Directed by Joseph Pevney
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Actors James Garner, Natalie Wood, Nina Foch, Dean Jagger, E. G. Marshall, Henry Jones
Roles Mr. Pierce
Rating62%
Grant Austen (Dean Jagger), the head of Austen Plastics, yearns for retirement. So when Scofield Industries, by far his largest customer, threatens to take its business elsewhere, Austen considers selling his company. He hires a consulting firm, which finds an interested potential buyer, the notorious Cash McCall (James Garner).
4D Man (1959)
, 1h25Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Actors Robert Lansing, Lee Meriwether, Robert Strauss, Edgar Stehli, Patty Duke
Roles Dr. Theodore W. Carson
Rating58%
Brilliant but irresponsible scientist Tony Nelson (James Congdon) develops an electronic amplifier that he hopes will allow any object to achieve a 4th dimensional (4D) state. While in this state that object can pass freely through any other object. However, Tony failed to pay attention to the overload, which sparks an electrical fire that burns down his lab, resulting in the university terminating his contract. Now unemployed, Tony seeks out his brother Scott (Robert Lansing), a researcher working on a material called cargonite that is so dense as to be impenetrable, to help him with his experiment.
No Name on the Bullet (1959)
, 1h17Directed by Jack Arnold
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Western
Actors Audie Murphy, Charles Drake, Joan Evans, Virginia Grey, Warren Stevens, Karl Swenson
Roles Judge Benson
Rating71%
When infamous hired gunman John Gant (Audie Murphy) arrives in the small town of Lordsburg, Arizona, the locals are terrified by his reputation and surprised by how young he is. Although Sheriff Buck Hastings would like to arrest Gant, he points out to the townsmen that Gant always coerces his rivals to draw their gun first, allowing him to kill them legally in "self-defence." While the men in the town speculate anxiously about Gant's target, Luke Canfield (played by Charles Drake, an off-screen friend and frequent co-star of Murphy), the town blacksmith and doctor, greets Gant and is totally unaware of Gant's reputation as a hired gunman. During his first meeting with Gant at the smithy, Luke demonstrates his perfect aim with a maul.
The Brothers Karamazov (1958)
, 2h25Directed by Richard Brooks
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical, Romance
Actors Yul Brynner, Maria Schell, Claire Bloom, Lee J. Cobb, William Shatner, Richard Basehart
Roles Grigory
Rating66%
The story follows Fyodor, the patriarch of the Karamazov family and his sons. When he tries to decide an heir, the tensions between the brothers of the film run high, leading to infighting and murder.
The Cobweb (1955)
, 2h14Directed by Vincente Minnelli
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Melodrama
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films set in psychiatric hospitals
Actors Richard Widmark, Lauren Bacall, Mabel Albertson, Charles Boyer, Gloria Grahame, Lillian Gish
Roles Mr. Holcomb
Rating62%
Dr. Stewart McIver (Richard Widmark) is now in charge of a psychiatric facility, one run for many years by medical director Dr. Douglas Devanal (Charles Boyer).
Executive Suite (1954)
, 1h44Directed by Robert Wise
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors William Holden, Barbara Stanwyck, Fredric March, Walter Pidgeon, June Allyson, Louis Calhern
Roles Julius Steigel
Rating73%
While in New York City to meet with investment bankers, 56-year-old Avery Bullard, president and driving force of the Tredway Corporation, a major furniture manufacturing company in the town of Millburgh, Pennsylvania, drops dead in the street. As he collapses in the street he drops his wallet which is picked up by a bystander, emptied of its cash, and shoved into a wastebasket. Without the wallet, there's no way to immediately identify the body as Bullard.
Drum Beat (1954)
, 1h51Directed by Delmer Daves
Origin USA
Genres Adventure, Western
Actors Alan Ladd, Audrey Dalton, Marisa Pavan, Robert Keith, Hayden Rorke, Charles Bronson
Roles Jesse Grant
Rating62%
In 1872, veteran Indian fighter Johnny MacKay (Alan Ladd) is sent for by then President Grant (Hayden Rorke). He tells government officials in Washington about hostilities between settlers, soldiers and Modoc renegades near the California and Oregon border. He is appointed peace commissioner for the territory.