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Elizabeth Russell is a Actor and Novel American born on 2 august 1916 at Philadelphia (USA)
Elizabeth Russell est une actrice américaine, née le 2 août 1916 à Philadelphie (Pennsylvanie), morte le 4 mai 2002 à Los Angeles (Californie).
Elle est surtout active durant les années 1940, notamment dans des films d'horreur, tels Le Voleur de cadavres de Wallace Fox (1942, avec Béla Lugosi et Luana Walters) ou La Malédiction des hommes-chats de Gunther von Fritsch et Robert Wise (1944, avec Simone Simon et Kent Smith).
Au cours des années 1950, elle tient des petits rôles dans quatre films, dont Mon grand de Robert Wise (1953, avec Jane Wyman et Sterling Hayden), avant une ultime apparition dans Du haut de la terrasse de Mark Robson (1960, avec Paul Newman et Joanne Woodward), après quoi elle se retire définitivement.
Pour la télévision, elle collabore seulement à un épisode, diffusé en 1954, de la série The Motorola Television Hour .
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Au cinéma, comme second rôle de caractère ou dans des rôles mineurs parfois non crédités, Elizabeth Russell contribue à trente films américains, les cinq premiers sortis en 1936 (dont L'Homme à l'héliotrope d'Ewald André Dupont, avec Herbert Marshall et Gertrude Michael).Elle est surtout active durant les années 1940, notamment dans des films d'horreur, tels Le Voleur de cadavres de Wallace Fox (1942, avec Béla Lugosi et Luana Walters) ou La Malédiction des hommes-chats de Gunther von Fritsch et Robert Wise (1944, avec Simone Simon et Kent Smith).
Au cours des années 1950, elle tient des petits rôles dans quatre films, dont Mon grand de Robert Wise (1953, avec Jane Wyman et Sterling Hayden), avant une ultime apparition dans Du haut de la terrasse de Mark Robson (1960, avec Paul Newman et Joanne Woodward), après quoi elle se retire définitivement.
Pour la télévision, elle collabore seulement à un épisode, diffusé en 1954, de la série The Motorola Television Hour .
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Nomads (1986)
, 1h31Directed by John McTiernan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Fantastic, Fantasy, Horror
Themes Ghost films
Actors Pierce Brosnan, Lesley-Anne Down, Nina Foch, Mary Woronov, John McTiernan, Frank Doubleday
Roles Cathy
Rating51%
The film begins with the violent and painful death of its protagonist, French sociologist Jean-Charles Pommier (Pierce Brosnan). The moment he dies in the Emergency Room of a Los Angeles city hospital the physician treating him, Dr. Eileen Flax (Lesley-Anne Down), becomes possessed with his memories.
From the Terrace (1960)
, 2h29Directed by Mark Robson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Children's films
Actors Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Myrna Loy, Barbara Eden, Ina Balin, Leon Ames
Roles Une dame chez Frolick
Rating66%
In 1946, David Alfred Eaton returns home from the war to Philadelphia. He finds his mother Martha driven to alcoholism by years of neglect and abuse from her husband Samuel Eaton, owner of a prestigious iron and steel company. Having withdrawn from his family after the death of his firstborn son thirteen years earlier, Samuel's resentment drove Alfred to turn his back on the family business and strike out on his own with his closest friend, Lex.
The Monolith Monsters (1957)
, 1h17Directed by John Sherwood
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Actors Grant Williams, Lola Albright, Les Tremayne, Trevor Bardette, Troy Donahue, Harry Jackson
Roles l'opératrice du téléphone
Rating64%
In the desert outside of San Angelo, California, a huge meteorite crashes and explodes, scattering hundreds of black fragments over a wide area. The next day, Federal geologist Ben Gilbert (Phil Harvey) brings one of the fragments to his office, where he and local newspaper publisher Martin Cochrane (Les Tremayne) examine it. That night, a strong wind blows over a full water container onto the black rock, starting a chemical reaction.
So Big (1953)
, 1h41Directed by Robert Wise
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance, Western
Actors Jane Wyman, Richard Beymer, Sterling Hayden, Steve Forrest, Nancy Olson, Elisabeth Fraser
Roles Elsie
Rating66%
In the late 1890s, boarding school student Selina Peake learns of the death of her father, who has left her penniless as the result of bad business transactions. August Hempel, the father of her best friend Julie, secures her a teaching position in New Holland, a small Dutch farming community outside Chicago. There she rents a room in the home of Klaas Pool, who lives with his unhappy wife Maartje and intelligent but troubled adolescent son Roelf.
Bedlam (1946)
, 1h19Directed by Mark Robson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films set in psychiatric hospitals
Actors Boris Karloff, Anna Lee, Billy House, Richard Fraser, Ian Wolfe, Glen Vernon
Roles Mistress Sims
Rating67%
Set in 1761 in London, the film focuses on events at St. Mary's of Bethlehem Asylum, a fictionalized version of Bethlem Royal Hospital, also known as "Bedlam." After an acquaintance of aristocrat Lord Mortimer dies in an attempt to escape from the asylum, apothecary general Master George Sims (played by Karloff, a fictionalized version of an infamous head physician at Bethlem, John Monro) appeases Mortimer by having his "loonies" put on a show for him. Mortified by the treatment of the patients, Mortimer's protégé Nell Bowen (Lee) seeks the help of Whig politician John Wilkes to reform the asylum. Mortimer and Sims conspire to commit Nell to the asylum, where her initial fears of the fellow inmates do not sway her sympathetic commitment to improving their conditions. Frustrated by Nell's progress with the inmates, Sims threatens her with his strongest "cure" but his attempt is thwarted by the very inmates that Nell helped. Ultimately, Sims is literally "deposed" and Nell is rescued by her Quaker friend who had counselled her through the whole process.
Keep Your Powder Dry (1945)
, 1h33Directed by Edward Buzzell
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes Political films
Actors Lana Turner, Susan Peters, Jess Barker, Laraine Day, June Lockhart, Agnes Moorehead
Roles WAC Sergeant (uncredited)
Rating63%
Adventure (1945)
, 2h15Directed by Victor Fleming
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Adventure, Romance
Actors Clark Gable, Greer Garson, Joan Blondell, Thomas Mitchell, Tom Tully, Harry Davenport
Roles Dame #1 (uncredited)
Rating61%
When his ship is torpedoed by a Japanese submarine, Harry Patterson (Clark Gable), a World War II merchant marine boatswain, is cast adrift on a launch with a few of his shipmates. While Harry remains calm in the face of disaster, his friend Mudgin (Thomas Mitchell) prays desperately, promising to avoid women, liquor, and fighting and to donate money to the church if they are saved. Harry finds Mudgin's pleas ridiculous, but no sooner does Mudgin complete his pact with God than a rescue plane appears on the horizon and the men are saved.
Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (1945)
, 1h45Directed by Roy Rowland
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Edward G. Robinson, Margaret O'Brien, James Craig, Frances Gifford, Agnes Moorehead, Morris Carnovsky
Roles Kola Hanson
Rating75%
The story is about a Norwegian immigrant farmer in Wisconsin, Martinius Jacobson (Edward G. Robinson), his wife Bruna (Agnes Moorehead) and their seven-year-old daughter Selma (Margaret O'Brien), who is often bedeviled by her playmate and five-year-old cousin, Arnold (Jackie 'Butch' Jenkins). Martinius simply wants to work his land and be a loving husband and father to his family. The one great ambition in the life of Martinius is to build a new barn, but tragedy strikes. How the family copes with that is the core and the charm of the film
Summer Storm (1944)
, 1h46Directed by Douglas Sirk
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Linda Darnell, George Sanders, Anna Lee, Hugo Haas, Sig Ruman, John Abbott
Roles Dinner Guest Offended by Kuzma (uncredited)
Rating65%
After the Russian Revolution, Count Volsky visits Nadena Kalenin, the editor of a Russian book publishing company, with a manuscript written by his friend and Nadena's former fiancé, Judge Fedor Petroff.
The Curse of the Cat People (1944)
, 1h10Directed by Robert Wise, Gunther von Fritsch
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Fantastic, Fantasy, Horror
Themes Ghost films, Children's films
Actors Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Jane Randolph, Ann Carter, Julia Dean, Elizabeth Russell
Roles Barbara Farren
Rating66%
After the death of his wife Irena (Simone Simon), Oliver Reed (Kent Smith) has married former co-worker Alice Moore (Jane Randolph), and they now have a six-year-old introverted daughter, Amy (Ann Carter). Amy has trouble at school because she spends too much time daydreaming, no matter how much Oliver tries to encourage her to make friends and cope with reality. After Amy finds a photo of the deceased Irena, whose name is never mentioned in the house, Irena appears to her and the two strike up a friendship. At the same time, Amy befriends Julia Farren, an aging actress who is alienated from her own daughter Barbara (Elizabeth Russell), whom she suspects to be a "spy" only pretending to be her relative. Oliver, angry at Amy for repeatedly speaking of her new imaginary friend, punishes her. When Irena announces to Amy that she must leave her, Amy runs out of the house. A snow storm comes up, and Amy seeks shelter in the Farrens' house. Barbara, mad and jealous at her mother's preference for Amy over her, intends to strangle the girl. At this moment, Amy sees Irena's features in Barbara and embraces her. Barbara, perplexed by this gesture of affection, spares her life. Oliver arrives at the house and takes Amy home, promising to accept her fantasies.
Youth Runs Wild (1944)
, 1h7Directed by Mark Robson
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Bonita Granville, Kent Smith, Jean Brooks, Vanessa Brown, Glen Vernon, Ben Bard
Roles Mabel Taylor
Rating48%
The Uninvited (1944)
, 1h39Directed by Charles C. Coleman, Hal Walker, Lewis Allen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Fantastic, Comedy-drama, Fantasy, Horror, Crime, Romance
Themes Ghost films
Actors Ray Milland, Gail Russell, Ruth Hussey, Donald Crisp, Cornelia Otis Skinner, Dorothy Stickney
Rating71%
In 1937, London music critic and composer Roderick "Rick" Fitzgerald (Ray Milland) and his sister Pamela (Ruth Hussey) fall in love with Windward House, an abandoned seaside house, during a holiday on Cornwall's rocky coast. They purchase it for an unusually low price from Commander Beech (Donald Crisp).
Weird Woman (1944)
, 1h3Directed by Reginald Le Borg
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Witches in film
Actors Lon Chaney, Jr., Anne Gwynne, Evelyn Ankers, Ralph Morgan, Elisabeth Risdon, Lois Collier
Roles Evelyn Sawtelle
Rating61%
Professor Norman Reed (Chaney, Jr.) falls in love with and marries an exotic woman named Paula (Gwynne) while on vacation in the South Seas. When they return to his home town, she is greeted coolly by much of the community, especially Illona (Ankers), who felt that Reed was hers. Strange things begin to happen, including the death of a colleague, which turns people against her even more, especially as she believes in voodoo and other supernatural phenomena. Reed must work hard to prove her innocence and find the real culprit behind the strange doings.
The Seventh Victim (1943)
, 1h11Directed by Mark Robson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Noir
Actors Tom Conway, Jean Brooks, Hugh Beaumont, Isabel Jewell, Kim Hunter, Evelyn Brent
Roles Mimi (Uncredited)
Rating66%
Mary (Kim Hunter), a young woman at Miss Highcliff's boarding school, learns that her sister Jacqueline (Jean Brooks), her only relative, has gone missing and has not paid her tuition in months. The school officials tell Mary she can only stay on if she works for the school, to pay her tuition.
Hitler's Madman (1943)
Directed by Douglas Sirk
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes Political films
Actors Patricia Morison, John Carradine, Alan Curtis, Howard Freeman, Ralph Morgan, Edgar Kennedy
Roles Maria Bartonek - Anton's Wife
Rating64%
En 1942, de passage dans le petit village tchèque de Lidice, Reinhard Heydrich, Reichsprotektor de Bohême, commandant en chef du gouvernement nazi en Tchécoslovaquie (Protectorat de Bohême-Moravie), est mortellement blessé lors d'un attentat commis par deux résistants (l'opération Anthropoid). En représailles, Lidice est détruit, une partie de ses habitants fusillés, les autres déportés...