Jay Presson Allen is a Actor, Scriptwriter and Producer American born on 3 march 1922 at San Angelo (USA)
Jay Presson Allen
Jay Presson Allen participated to
16 films (as actor, director or script writer).
Among those,
5 have good markets following the box office.
Here are the best films classified by number of entries :
Scriptwriter
, 2h20
Directed by Frank PiersonOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Musical,
RomanceThemes Films about alcoholism,
Medical-themed films,
Films about music and musicians,
Films about drugs,
Musical filmsActors Kris Kristofferson,
Barbra Streisand,
Gary Busey,
Paul Mazursky,
Robert Englund,
Joanne LinvilleRating60%
Esther Hoffman, an aspiring singer/songwriter, meets John Norman Howard, a famous, successful and self-destructive singer/songwriter rock star, whom, after a series of coincidental meetings, she finally starts dating. Believing in her talent, John gives her a helping hand and her career begins to eclipse his., 2h9
Directed by Sidney LumetOrigin USAGenres DramaThemes Films about alcoholism,
Medical-themed films,
Films about drugs,
Children's filmsActors Paul Newman,
Charlotte Rampling,
Jack Warden,
James Mason,
Milo O'Shea,
Lindsay CrouseRoles Writer
Rating76%
Frank Galvin (Paul Newman) was once a promising graduate of Boston College Law School and a lawyer at an elite Boston law firm. But he was framed for jury tampering some years back by the firm's senior partner because he was going to expose their corrupt practices. Although he retains his license to practice law, Frank has become an alcoholic ambulance chaser who has had only four cases over the last three years, all of which he has lost., 2h4
Directed by Bob FosseOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Musical theatre,
Musical,
RomanceThemes Dance films,
Films about writers,
Films about music and musicians,
Films about sexuality,
Bisexuality-related films,
LGBT-related films,
Musical films,
Films based on plays,
Films based on musicals,
LGBT-related films,
LGBT-related filmActors Liza Minnelli,
Michael York,
Joel Grey,
Helmut Griem,
Fritz Wepper,
Marisa BerensonRating77%
In 1931 Berlin, young American Sally Bowles performs at the Kit Kat Klub. A new British arrival in the city, Brian Roberts, moves into the boarding house where Sally lives. A reserved academic and writer, Brian gives English lessons to earn a living while completing his doctorate. Sally tries seducing Brian and suspects he may be gay. Brian tells Sally that on three previous occasions he has tried to have physical relationships with women, all of which failed. They become friends, and Brian witnesses Sally's anarchic, bohemian life in the last days of the German Weimar Republic. Sally and Brian become lovers despite their earlier reservations; they conclude that his previous failures with women were because they were "the wrong three girls"., 1h56
Directed by Ronald NeameOrigin United-kingdomGenres DramaThemes Films about education,
Children's filmsActors Maggie Smith,
Robert Stephens,
Celia Johnson,
Pamela Franklin,
Gordon Jackson,
Jane CarrRoles Pièce de théatre
Rating75%
Jean Brodie (Maggie Smith) is a teacher in the junior-aged section of the Marcia Blaine School for Girls in Edinburgh, Scotland in the 1930s. Brodie is known for her tendency to stray from the hard knowledge of the school's curriculum, to romanticize fascist leaders like Benito Mussolini and Francisco Franco, and to believe herself to be in the prime of life. Brodie devotes her time and energy to her four special 12-year-old junior school girls, called the Brodie Set: Sandy (Pamela Franklin), Monica (Shirley Steedman), Jenny (Diane Grayson) and Mary (Jane Carr)., 1h49
Directed by George CukorOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Comedy-drama,
AdventureThemes Transport films,
Rail transport filmsActors Maggie Smith,
Alec McCowen,
Louis Gossett Jr.,
Robert Stephens,
Raymond Gérôme,
Cindy WilliamsRating62%
While attending the cremation of his mother's remains, London bank manager Henry Pulling (Alec McCowen) meets aging eccentric Augusta Bertram (Maggie Smith), a flaming redhead who claims to be his aunt and announces that the woman who raised him was not his biological mother. She invites him back to her apartment, where her lover, an African fortune teller named Zachary Wordsworth (Louis Gossett Jr.), is waiting for her. Shortly after she receives a package allegedly containing the severed finger of her true love, Ercole Visconti (Robert Stephens), with a note promising the two will be reunited upon payment of $100,000 ($433,000 in 2013 dollars).