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John McMartin is a Actor American born on 21 august 1929 at Warsaw (USA)
John McMartin (born August 21, 1929) is an American actor of stage, film and television.
Il tient son dernier rôle Off-Broadway (à ce jour) de juin à août 2013, dans la pièce The Explorers Club de Nell Benjamin. Entretemps, citons Jules César de William Shakespeare en 1988, où il tient le rôle-titre, aux côtés d'Al Pacino (Marc Antoine) et Martin Sheen (Brutus).
À Broadway, il joue à partir de 1961, dans des pièces et comédies musicales. Mentionnons la pièce Children From Their Games d'Irwin Shaw, mise en scène par Sam Wanamaker (1963, avec Peggy Cass, Martin Gabel, Gene Hackman et Brenda Vaccaro), ainsi que les comédies musicales Sweet Charity (musique de Cy Coleman, 1966-1967, avec Gwen Verdon dans le rôle-titre), Follies (musique et lyrics de Stephen Sondheim, 1971-1972, avec Alexis Smith et Yvonne De Carlo), et Show Boat (musique de Jerome Kern, 1994-1997, avec Elaine Stritch).
Toujours à ce jour, son dernier rôle à Broadway est dans la comédie musicale Anything Goes (musique et lyrics de Cole Porter), représentée 521 fois d'avril 2011 à juillet 2012.
Sa carrière au théâtre lui vaut plusieurs nominations et récompenses aux Tony Awards et aux Drama Desk Awards, dont le détail figure plus loin sous la rubrique « Distinctions ». Entre autres, grâce à son rôle de Sganarelle en 1972-1973 à Broadway, dans Dom Juan ou le Festin de pierre de Molière (avec Paul Hecht et Katherine Helmond), il obtient en 1973 une nomination au Tony Award du meilleur acteur dans un second rôle dans une pièce, et gagne un Drama Desk Award dans la même catégorie.
Au cinéma, John McMartin contribue à seulement dix-huit films (à ce jour), majoritairement américains. Le premier est Des clowns par milliers de Fred Coe (avec Jason Robards et Barbara Harris), sorti en 1965. Le dernier est Le Goût de la vie de Scott Hicks (avec Catherine Zeta-Jones et Aaron Eckhart), sorti en 2007. Son troisième film, musical, est Sweet Charity de Bob Fosse (1969), adaptation à l'écran de la comédie musicale éponyme pré-citée, où il reprend le rôle d'Oscar Lindquist qu'il avait créé, avec Shirley MacLaine remplaçant Gwen Verdon dans le rôle-titre.
Évoquons encore Tout l'or du ciel d'Herbert Ross (1981, avec Steve Martin et Bernadette Peters), L'Affaire Chelsea Deardon d'Ivan Reitman (1986, avec Robert Redford et Debra Winger), L'Antenne de Rob Sitch (film australien, 2000, avec Sam Neill et Kevin Harrington), et Dr Kinsey de Bill Condon (film germano-américain, 2004, avec Liam Neeson et Laura Linney).
Pour la télévision (à ce jour également), John McMartin collabore à quarante-quatre séries dès 1958, dont Hawaï police d'État (deux épisodes, 1971), Arabesque (quatre épisodes, 1985-1991) et Oz (trois épisodes, 2000). Son ultime prestation au petit écran est dans un cinquième épisode, diffusé en 2009, de New York, police judiciaire (après quatre autres, à partir de 1992).
S'y ajoutent seize téléfilms entre 1963 et 2000, dont Day One de Joseph Sargent (1989), avec Brian Dennehy (général Groves) et David Strathairn (Robert Oppenheimer), lui-même personnifiant Arthur Compton.
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Très actif au théâtre, John McMartin débute Off-Broadway dans la comédie musicale Little Mary Sunshine (musique, lyrics et livret de Rick Besoyan ), avec Eileen Brennan dans le rôle-titre, représentée 1 143 fois de novembre 1959 à septembre 1962. Son rôle du caporal Jester lui permet de gagner en 1960 un Theatre World Award.Il tient son dernier rôle Off-Broadway (à ce jour) de juin à août 2013, dans la pièce The Explorers Club de Nell Benjamin. Entretemps, citons Jules César de William Shakespeare en 1988, où il tient le rôle-titre, aux côtés d'Al Pacino (Marc Antoine) et Martin Sheen (Brutus).
À Broadway, il joue à partir de 1961, dans des pièces et comédies musicales. Mentionnons la pièce Children From Their Games d'Irwin Shaw, mise en scène par Sam Wanamaker (1963, avec Peggy Cass, Martin Gabel, Gene Hackman et Brenda Vaccaro), ainsi que les comédies musicales Sweet Charity (musique de Cy Coleman, 1966-1967, avec Gwen Verdon dans le rôle-titre), Follies (musique et lyrics de Stephen Sondheim, 1971-1972, avec Alexis Smith et Yvonne De Carlo), et Show Boat (musique de Jerome Kern, 1994-1997, avec Elaine Stritch).
Toujours à ce jour, son dernier rôle à Broadway est dans la comédie musicale Anything Goes (musique et lyrics de Cole Porter), représentée 521 fois d'avril 2011 à juillet 2012.
Sa carrière au théâtre lui vaut plusieurs nominations et récompenses aux Tony Awards et aux Drama Desk Awards, dont le détail figure plus loin sous la rubrique « Distinctions ». Entre autres, grâce à son rôle de Sganarelle en 1972-1973 à Broadway, dans Dom Juan ou le Festin de pierre de Molière (avec Paul Hecht et Katherine Helmond), il obtient en 1973 une nomination au Tony Award du meilleur acteur dans un second rôle dans une pièce, et gagne un Drama Desk Award dans la même catégorie.
Au cinéma, John McMartin contribue à seulement dix-huit films (à ce jour), majoritairement américains. Le premier est Des clowns par milliers de Fred Coe (avec Jason Robards et Barbara Harris), sorti en 1965. Le dernier est Le Goût de la vie de Scott Hicks (avec Catherine Zeta-Jones et Aaron Eckhart), sorti en 2007. Son troisième film, musical, est Sweet Charity de Bob Fosse (1969), adaptation à l'écran de la comédie musicale éponyme pré-citée, où il reprend le rôle d'Oscar Lindquist qu'il avait créé, avec Shirley MacLaine remplaçant Gwen Verdon dans le rôle-titre.
Évoquons encore Tout l'or du ciel d'Herbert Ross (1981, avec Steve Martin et Bernadette Peters), L'Affaire Chelsea Deardon d'Ivan Reitman (1986, avec Robert Redford et Debra Winger), L'Antenne de Rob Sitch (film australien, 2000, avec Sam Neill et Kevin Harrington), et Dr Kinsey de Bill Condon (film germano-américain, 2004, avec Liam Neeson et Laura Linney).
Pour la télévision (à ce jour également), John McMartin collabore à quarante-quatre séries dès 1958, dont Hawaï police d'État (deux épisodes, 1971), Arabesque (quatre épisodes, 1985-1991) et Oz (trois épisodes, 2000). Son ultime prestation au petit écran est dans un cinquième épisode, diffusé en 2009, de New York, police judiciaire (après quatre autres, à partir de 1992).
S'y ajoutent seize téléfilms entre 1963 et 2000, dont Day One de Joseph Sargent (1989), avec Brian Dennehy (général Groves) et David Strathairn (Robert Oppenheimer), lui-même personnifiant Arthur Compton.
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No Reservations (2007)
, 1h43Directed by Scott Hicks
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Cooking films
Actors Catherine Zeta-Jones, Aaron Eckhart, Abigail Breslin, Patricia Clarkson, Lily Rabe, Jenny Wade
Roles Mr. Peterson
Rating63%
Kate Armstrong (Catherine Zeta-Jones) is the head chef at the trendy 22 Bleecker Street Restaurant in Manhattan, New York. She runs her kitchen at a rapid pace as she coordinates the making and preparation of all the fantastic meals, and personally displays the food to perfection on every dish. She intimidates everyone around her, including her boss Paula (Patricia Clarkson), who sends her to therapy. Kate hates to leave the kitchen when a customer wants to compliment her on one of her special dishes; however, she is ready to leave the kitchen in an instant when a customer insults her cooking.
Kinsey (2004)
, 1h58Directed by Bill Condon
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Comedy
Themes Films about sexuality, Bisexuality-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Liam Neeson, Laura Linney, Peter Sarsgaard, Chris O'Donnell, Will Denton, Timothy Hutton
Roles Huntington Hartford
Rating70%
Professor Alfred Kinsey is being interviewed about his sexual history. Interspersed with the interview, are flashbacks from his childhood and young-adulthood. The young child years show his father, a lay minister, denouncing modern inventions as leading to sexual sin, then in early adolescence, humiliating him in a store by denouncing its keeper for showing him cigarettes, while his adolescence shows his experiences as a Boy Scout and a late teenage scene shows Kinsey disappointing his father by his chosen vocational intentions. It then shows adult Kinsey teaching at Indiana University as a professor of biology lecturing on gall wasps. Kinsey falls in love with a student in his class, whom he calls Mac, and marries her. Consummation of their marriage is difficult at first, because of a medical problem Mac has that is fixed easily with minor surgery, after which it is shown that she has an equally intense sexual appetite as her husband. Meanwhile, at the University, Professor Kinsey, who is affectionately called "Prok" by his graduate students, meets with students after hours to offer individual sexual advice. Later, in a fictional scene where his mother has just died and Alfred Jr. is back at his parents home with grieving friends and relatives, ex. his sister being too fat and thus unattractive to get a husband and his brother as a possible early boomerang generation man who moved back home after losing his business, Kinsey shocks his father by telling his "big secret": that he's doing a sex survey and want his father to contribute his own sexual history to it.
The Dish (2000)
, 1h41Directed by Rob Sitch
Origin Australie
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Historical
Themes Space adventure films, Seafaring films, Transport films, Films about the Apollo program, Sur la Lune, Sur la Lune
Actors Sam Neill, Kevin Harrington, Tom Long, Patrick Warburton, Roy Billing, Bud Tingwell
Roles U.S. Ambassador Howard
Rating71%
The radio telescope at Parkes (Parkes Observatory), New South Wales, Australia, was used by NASA throughout the Apollo program to receive signals in the Southern Hemisphere, along with the NASA Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station near Canberra.
Three Businessmen (1998)
Directed by Alex Cox
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Miguel Sandoval, Alex Cox, Robert Wisdom, Masatoshi Nagase, Tomorowo Taguchi, Andrew Schofield
Roles Liverpool Businessman
Rating67%
Citizen Cohn (1992)
, 1h51Directed by Frank Pierson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about viral outbreaks, HIV/AIDS in film
Actors James Woods, Joe Don Baker, Joseph Bologna, Lee Grant, Ed Flanders, Jeffrey Nordling
Roles Older Doctor
Rating70%
The film spans Cohn's life from childhood through his initial rise to power as McCarthy's right-hand man in the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations hearings and his eventual public discrediting a month before his death in 1986 from AIDS. It is told mostly in flashback as Cohn lies dying in a Virginia hospital, hallucinating that his many enemies (from Robert Kennedy to Ethel Rosenberg, a convicted Communist spy he sent to the electric chair) are haunting him. It concerns aspects of Cohn's life such as his closeted homosexuality and the measure of his culpability in the "Red Scare" of the 1950s. While the movie portrays Cohn in a decidedly unsympathetic light, it also depicts episodes in his life, such as the death of his beloved mother, in which he showed a more tender, compassionate side.
Separate But Equal (1991)
, 3h14Directed by George Stevens Jr.
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical
Actors Graham Beckel, Sidney Poitier, Burt Lancaster, Gloria Foster, Richard Kiley, Tommy Hollis
Roles Governor James F. Byrnes
Rating74%
The issue before the United States Supreme Court is whether the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution mandates the individual states to desegregate public schools; that is, whether the nation's "separate but equal" policy heretofore upheld under the law, is unconstitutional. The issue is placed before the Court by Brown v. Board of Education and its companion case, Briggs v. Elliott. Many of the justices personally believe segregation is morally unacceptable, but have difficulty justifying the idea legally under the 14th Amendment. Marshall and Davis argue their respective cases. Marshall argues the equal protection clause extends far enough to the states to prohibit segregated schools. Davis counters that control of public schools is a "state's rights" issue that Congress never intended to be covered by the 14th Amendment when it was passed.
A Shock to the System (1990)
, 1h28Directed by Jan Egleson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Crime
Actors Michael Caine, Elizabeth McGovern, Swoosie Kurtz, Peter Riegert, John McMartin, Will Patton
Roles George Brewster
Rating65%
A family man named Graham Marshall, a long-time executive in a large advertising company, is unexpectedly passed over for promotion. Marshall himself can live with it, but his nagging wife Leslie is devastated and continually reproaches her husband for his apparent lack of ambition and willpower.
Day One (1989)
, 2h21Directed by Joseph Sargent
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Environmental films, Seafaring films, Transport films, Aviation films, Documentary films about environmental issues, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Documentary films about nuclear technology, Documentary films about technology, Political films, Documentary films about World War II
Actors Brian Dennehy, David Strathairn, Michael Tucker, Hume Cronyn, Richard A. Dysart, Hal Holbrook
Roles Dr. Arthur Compton
Rating73%
When Hungarian physicist Leo Szilard leaves Europe he eventually arrives in the United States where, with the help of Albert Einstein, he persuades the Federal government to build an atomic bomb. General Leslie Groves selects physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer to head the Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico, where the bomb is built. As World War II draws to a close, Szilard (whose idea was responsible for the progress made) has second thoughts about atomic weapons and debates how and when to use the bomb.
Roots: The Gift (1988)
, 1h40Directed by Kevin Hooks
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Films about slavery, Christmas films, Films about racism
Actors LeVar Burton, Louis Gossett Jr., Jerry Hardin, Kate Mulgrew, Shaun Cassidy, Avery Brooks
Roles Edmund Parker, Sr.
Rating66%
In December 1775, Cletus Moyer (Brooks) is a free black Northerner in colonial America, working with a pre-Underground Railroad network to help slaves escape captivity. In the days just prior to Christmas, a group of bounty hunters led by Hattie Carraway (Mulgrew) captures Moyer near the Parker plantation in Spotsylvania County, Virginia. Because of his capture, dozens of slaves who have already left their plantations in escape attempts are in danger of being captured as well. Moyer implores two slaves from the nearby Reynolds plantation to take his place: Kunta Kinte (Burton), a Mandinka in his mid-twenties who was captured in what is now the Gambia, and Fiddler (Gossett), an elderly man who was born into slavery. Kunta is eager to help (and to escape himself), but Fiddler is unwilling, fearful of the consequences if they are caught.
Who's That Girl (1987)
, 1h30Directed by James Foley
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Crime, Romance
Actors Madonna, Griffin Dunne, Haviland Morris, John McMartin, Dennis Burkley, Bibi Besch
Roles Simon Worthington
Rating48%
Nikki Finn is a carefree young woman, who is always dressed in a leather jacket and skirt, with fire-red lips, platinum bob hair and speaking in a high-pitched voice. One day, her boyfriend Johnny uncovers two men stealing money out of a trust fund and takes pictures of the theft. Johnny puts the pictures in a safety deposit box and gives Nikki the key for safekeeping. The thieves catch Johnny and murder him, then frame Nikki by putting his body into the trunk of her car. Nikki is sentenced to seven years in prison. This is seen during the animated opening credits of the movie.
Dream Lover (1986)
, 1h44Directed by Alan J. Pakula
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Fantastic, Horror, Crime
Actors Kristy McNichol, Ben Masters, Paul Shenar, Justin Deas, John McMartin, Gayle Hunnicutt
Roles Martin
Rating48%
Kathy, flûtiste, vit seule. Une nuit, alors qu'elle est endormie, un intrus pénètre dans son domicile et tente d'abuser d'elle. Terrorisée, elle l'ébouillante, puis le poignarde. Le calvaire semble bel et bien fini pour la jeune femme. Cependant, elle cauchemarde et revoit la scène de meurtre sous différents angles. Cela devient vite une obsession. Elle fait alors appel à un spécialiste du sommeil qui tente d'analyser son comportement à différents stades du sommeil. Il va découvrir que ses cauchemars deviennent trop dangereux pour elle et pour son entourage s'il ne trouve pas très rapidement une solution à son problème.
Legal Eagles (1986)
, 1h56Directed by Ivan Reitman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Comedy thriller, Romantic comedy, Crime, Romance
Themes Peinture
Actors Robert Redford, Debra Winger, Daryl Hannah, Brian Dennehy, Terence Stamp, Steven Hill
Roles Forrester
Rating60%
Tom Logan (Robert Redford) is an Assistant District Attorney in the New York City District Attorney's Office, who is on his way to becoming the new District Attorney. Into his life enters Laura Kelly (Debra Winger), an attorney who is representing Chelsea Deardon (Daryl Hannah). Chelsea is accused of stealing a painting from an art dealer, Victor Taft (Terence Stamp). However, Chelsea claims that the painting is actually hers, as her father made it for her and signed it to her on her 8th birthday 18 years ago - the same day that her father and most of his paintings went up in smoke in a mysterious fire.
Native Son (1986)
, 1h51Directed by Jerrold Freedman
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about racism
Actors Matt Dillon, Oprah Winfrey, Elizabeth McGovern, Geraldine Page, Akosua Busia, Carroll Baker
Roles Mr. Dalton
Rating59%
Set in Chicago in the 1930s, Bigger Thomas, an African American who lives in an impoverished neighborhood, is employed by a prosperous white family who live in the suburbs of a major city. The money Bigger makes at his new job will be used to supplement his mother's income. As a chauffeur, he is directed by the father of the family to take Mary, the daughter, to the university. Instead, Mary decides to pick up her Socialist boyfriend, Jan, and to spend the time drinking and partying.
Pennies from Heaven (1982)
, 1h48Directed by Herbert Ross
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about sexuality, Films about prostitution, Musical films
Actors Steve Martin, Bernadette Peters, Christopher Walken, Jessica Harper, John McMartin, John Karlen
Roles Mr. Warner
Rating64%
In 1934, Chicago sheet-music salesman Arthur Parker (Martin) is having a hard time, both in his business and at home with his wife Joan (Harper). His business and marriage are failing, and Joan refuses to give him the money she inherited from her father to start his own business.
Blow Out (1981)
, 1h47Directed by Brian De Palma
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Horror, Crime
Themes Assassinat, Films about films, Serial killer films, Political films
Actors John Travolta, Nancy Allen, John Lithgow, Dennis Franz, John McMartin, Bernie Rachelle
Roles Lawrence Henry
Rating73%
While in post-production on a low-budget exploitation film, Philadelphia sound technician Jack Terry (Travolta) is told by his producer that he needs a more realistic sounding scream and better wind effects. After leaving the studio to record potential sound effects at a local park, he sees a car careen off the road and plunge into a nearby creek. Jack dives into the water to help, discovering a dead man and a young woman, still alive, trapped inside the submerged car. He pulls her to safety and accompanies her to a local hospital. Jack learns that the driver of the car was the governor (and a presidential hopeful); the girl was an escort named Sally (Allen). Associates of the governor attempt to whitewash the incident by concealing that Sally was in the car, and they convince Jack to smuggle Sally out of the hospital with him.