Connection
George Antheil is a Actor and Sound American born on 8 july 1900 at Trenton (USA)
George Antheil (/ˈæntaɪl/; July 8, 1900 – February 12, 1959) was an American avant-garde composer, pianist, author and inventor whose modernist musical compositions explored the modern sounds – musical, industrial, mechanical – of the early 20th century.
Spending much of the 1920s in Europe, Antheil returned to the US in the 1930s, and thereafter spent much of his time composing music for films and, eventually, television. As a result of this work, his style became more tonal. A man of diverse interests and talents, Antheil was constantly reinventing himself. He wrote magazine articles (one accurately predicted the development and outcome of World War II), an autobiography, a mystery novel, newspaper and music columns. In 1941 he co-patented a "Secret Communications System" with actress Hedy Lamarr that used a code (stored on a punched paper tape) to synchronise random frequencies, referred to as frequency hopping, with a receiver and transmitter. This technique, which is now known as spread spectrum, is now widely used in telecommunications.
Source : Wikidata
George Antheil
- Infos
- Photos
- Best films
- Family
- Characters
- Awards
Birth name Georg Carl Johann Antheil
Nationality USA
Birth 8 july 1900 at Trenton (USA)
Death 12 february 1959 (at 58 years) at New York City (USA)
Awards EFF Pioneer Award, Guggenheim Fellowship
Nationality USA
Birth 8 july 1900 at Trenton (USA)
Death 12 february 1959 (at 58 years) at New York City (USA)
Awards EFF Pioneer Award, Guggenheim Fellowship
Spending much of the 1920s in Europe, Antheil returned to the US in the 1930s, and thereafter spent much of his time composing music for films and, eventually, television. As a result of this work, his style became more tonal. A man of diverse interests and talents, Antheil was constantly reinventing himself. He wrote magazine articles (one accurately predicted the development and outcome of World War II), an autobiography, a mystery novel, newspaper and music columns. In 1941 he co-patented a "Secret Communications System" with actress Hedy Lamarr that used a code (stored on a punched paper tape) to synchronise random frequencies, referred to as frequency hopping, with a receiver and transmitter. This technique, which is now known as spread spectrum, is now widely used in telecommunications.
Usually with
Filmography of George Antheil (26 films)
Actor
Add to a movie list
, 1h30Origin USA
Genres Biography, Documentary
Actors Hedy Lamarr, Mel Brooks, Diane Kruger, Peter Bogdanovich, George Antheil, Hedda Hopper
Roles Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Rating73%
Actrice de jour et scientifique du soir, Hedy Lamarr (1914-2000), la sublime créature d'Extase, fut une star de la MGM qui tourna avec les plus grands réalisateurs de son temps et fut célébrée comme une des plus belles femmes du monde. Mais on ignora longtemps qu'elle est aussi à l'origine de la création d'un système de codage complexe, ancêtre du Gps et du Wifi, l’étalement de spectre par sauts de fréquence.
Sound
The Pride and the Passion (1957)
, 2h12Directed by Stanley Kramer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Adventure, Horror, Historical, Romance
Themes Political films, Histoire de France, Napoleonic Wars films, French Revolution films
Actors Cary Grant, Frank Sinatra, Sophia Loren, Theodore Bikel, Jay Novello, Carlos Larrañaga
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating57%
During the Peninsular War, Napoleon's armies overrun Spain. An enormous cannon, belonging to a Spanish army, is abandoned when it slows down the army's retreat. French cavalrymen are dispatched to retrieve it.
The Giant Claw (1957)
, 1h15Directed by Fred F. Sears
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Films about magic and magicians, Natural horror films, Films about birds, Giant monster films, Disaster films
Actors Morris Ankrum, Jeff Morrow, Mara Corday, Edgar Barrier, Morgan Jones, Robert Shayne
Roles Music
Rating46%
Mitch MacAfee (Jeff Morrow), a civil aeronautical engineer, while engaged in a radar test flight near the North Pole, spots an unidentified flying object. Three jet fighter aircraft are scrambled to pursue and identify the object but one aircraft goes missing. Officials are initially angry at MacAfee over the loss of a pilot and jet over what they believe to be a hoax.
The Young Don't Cry (1957)
, 1h29Directed by Alfred L. Werker
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Sal Mineo, James Whitmore, J. Carrol Naish, Gene Lyons, Paul Carr, Stefan Gierasch
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating60%
Un adolescent solitaire, pensionnaire d'un orphelinat, aide un prisonnier évadé condamné à tort à retrouver sa dignité.
The Werewolf (1956)
, 1h19Genres Science fiction, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Wolves in film, Werewolves in film
Actors Don Megowan, Harry Lauter, Larry J. Blake, Ken Christy, S. John Launer, George Cisar
Roles Music
Rating57%
Duncan Marsh (Steven Ritch), a mild-mannered man, finds himself lost in a remote village called Mountaincrest. His mind is clouded, but he learns later that Emory Forrest (S. John Launer) and Morgan Chambers (George Lynn), two scientists, injected him with a special serum containing irradiated wolf's blood when he was suffering from amnesia after being in a car accident. The wolf's blood, for unknown reasons, changed the previously gentlemanly Duncan into a vicious, bloodthirsty werewolf.
Not as a Stranger (1955)
, 2h15Directed by Stanley Kramer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films
Actors Olivia de Havilland, Robert Mitchum, Frank Sinatra, Gloria Grahame, Lon Chaney, Jr., Lee Marvin
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating66%
The film follows a group of medical students through school, hospital internships, and eventually their careers as doctors. Dr. Lucas Marsh (Robert Mitchum) was blinded by ambition, losing his idealism after marrying older woman Kristina Hedvigson (Olivia de Havilland) in order to make it through medical school. He is indifferent toward his wife, dedicated only to his work. As he climbs his way to the top of the medical profession by using others, he is forced to face his morality after his misjudgment leads to the death of a friend.
Dementia (1955)
, 58minutesDirected by Bruno VeSota
Genres Horror, Crime
Actors Angelo Rossitto, Ed McMahon, Bruno VeSota, Shelley Berman, Shorty Rogers, Jonathan Haze
Roles Music
Rating66%
A young woman awakens from a nightmare in a run down hotel. She leaves the building and wanders through the night, passing a newspaper man. The news headline "Mysterious stabbing" catches her eye, and she quickly leaves. In a dark alley, a wino approaches and grabs her. A policeman rescues her and beats up the drunken man. Shortly later, another man approaches her and talks her into escorting a rich man in a limousine. While they cruise the night, she remembers her unhappy youth with an abusive father, whom she stabbed to death with a switchblade after he had killed her unfaithful mother. The rich man takes her to various clubs and then to his noble apartment. As he ignores her while having an extensive meal, she tries to tempt him. When he advances her, she stabs him with her knife and pushes the dying man out of the window. Before his fall, he grabs her pendant. The woman runs down onto the street and, as the dead man's hand won't relieve her pendant, cuts off the hand while being watched by faceless passersby. Again, the patrol policeman shows up and follows her. She flees and hides the hand in a flower girl's basket. The pimp shows up again and drags her into a night club, where an excited audience watches a jazz band playing. The policeman enters the club, while the rich man, lying at the window, points out his murderess with his bloody stump. The crowd encircles the woman, laughing frantically. The woman wakes up in her hotel room, her encounters have supposedly been a nightmare. In one of her drawers, she discovers her pendant, clutched by the fingers of a severed hand. The camera leaves the hotel room and moves out into the streets, while a desperate cry can be heard.
The Juggler (1953)
, 1h24Directed by Edward Dmytryk
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes Circus films, Films about religion, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Kirk Douglas, Milly Vitale, Paul Stewart, Joseph Walsh, Alf Kjellin, Charles Lane
Roles Music
Rating64%
After World War II, a German named Hans Müller (Kirk Douglas) is one of a shipload of Jewish refugees who debark at Haifa in 1949. Like many other concentration camp survivors, Hans has psychological problems, including survivor guilt. At one point, he mistakes a woman and some children for his murdered family.
Actors and Sin (1952)
, 1h22Directed by Lee Garmes, Ben Hecht
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Edward G. Robinson, Eddie Albert, Dan O'Herlihy, Marsha Hunt, Peter Brocco, Jack Warner
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating53%
The film lampoons the Hollywood motion picture industry and is separated into two sections: The first section of the film is Actor's Blood, a morality play about legitimate theater. The second section is Woman of Sin, a send-up of Hollywood greed.
The Sniper (1952)
, 1h27Directed by Edward Dmytryk
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Actors Adolphe Menjou, Gerald Mohr, Arthur Franz, Marie Windsor, Frank Faylen, Richard Kiley
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating70%
Eddie Miller (Arthur Franz), a San Francisco delivery man, struggles with his hatred of women. He's especially bothered by seeing women with their lovers. Miller knows he is disturbed and, out of despair, burns himself by pressing his right hand to an electric stove. The doctor treating him in an emergency room suspects he might need psychological help, but gets too busy to follow through.
Sirocco (1951)
, 1h38Directed by Curtis Bernhardt
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Noir, Crime, Romance
Actors Humphrey Bogart, Märta Torén, Lee J. Cobb, Everett Sloane, Gerald Mohr, Zero Mostel
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating61%
In 1925 Damascus, the Syrians are engaged in a guerrilla war against the French rule of Syria. Harry Smith (Humphrey Bogart) is an amoral American black marketeer secretly selling them weapons. As the situation deteriorates, French General LaSalle (Everett Sloane) orders that civilians be executed each time his soldiers are killed, but his head of military intelligence, Colonel Feroud (Lee J. Cobb), persuades him to rescind the plan. Feroud presses for negotiations with rebel leader Emir Hassan (Onslow Stevens) instead. LaSalle reluctantly lets him try to arrange a meeting, but refuses to let Feroud make contact directly. The young officer sent in his place is later found with his throat cut.
House by the River (1950)
, 1h24Directed by Fritz Lang
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Actors Louis Hayward, Jane Wyatt, Lee Bowman, Dorothy Patrick, Kathleen Freeman, Ann Shoemaker
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating69%
A rich novelist, Stephen Byrne, who lives and works by a river, kills his attractive maid after she begins screaming following a drunken pass. The writer, with the help of his limping brother, loads the body into an old sack and the pair throws the body into the river. Unfortunately, the body comes back up and floats by the house days later. Despite desperate attempts by the brothers to get the body, the police end up recovering it.
In a Lonely Place (1950)
, 1h34Directed by Nicholas Ray, Earl Bellamy
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime, Romance
Themes Films about films, Films about writers, Feminist films, Films about domestic violence, Mise en scène d'un scénariste
Actors Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame, Frank Lovejoy, Carl Benton Reid, Jeff Donnell, Art Smith
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating78%
Dixon "Dix" Steele (Humphrey Bogart) is a down-on-his-luck Hollywood screenwriter who has not had a hit "since before the war." While driving to meet his agent, Mel Lippman (Art Smith), at a nightclub, Dix's explosive temper is revealed at a stoplight along the way in a confrontation with another motorist that almost becomes violent.
We Were Strangers (1949)
, 1h46Directed by John Huston
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Jennifer Jones, John Garfield, Pedro Armendáriz, Gilbert Roland, Ramón Novarro, Wally Cassell
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating65%
Based on the overthrow of Cuban dictator Gerardo Machado y Morales in 1933, the story is about a group of revolutionaries who plot to bring down their corrupt government. China (pronounced Cheena) Valdez (Jennifer Jones) witnesses her brother's murder after he distributes leftist pamphlets and vows that she will kill his assassin. At his funeral, however, she is persuaded to join an underground group whose moves are more carefully orchestrated. China's house is next door to a cemetery and the leader of the group John Fenner (John Garfield) devises a scheme to assassinate an official whose family plot is in the cemetery and detonate a bomb at the man's funeral thereby killing as many officials as possible. To do this, they must dig a tunnel from China's house to the cemetery. Much of the movie focuses on the digging of the tunnel while Garfield and Jones develop a romantic interest in each other. The film climaxes with a violent shoot-out sequence.
Knock on Any Door (1949)
, 3h20Directed by Nicholas Ray
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Humphrey Bogart, John Derek, George Macready, Allene Roberts, Mickey Knox, Barry Kelley
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating65%
Against the wishes of his law partners, lawyer Andrew Morton (Humphrey Bogart) takes the case of Nick Romano (John Derek), a troubled young man from the slums, partly because he himself came from the same slums, and partly because he feels guilty for botching the criminal trial of Nick's father years earlier (he was innocent). Nick is on trial for viciously killing a policeman point-blank and faces execution if convicted (the event is shown in a dark opening scene, but the killer's face is not seen).