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Mark Rydell is a Actor, Director and Producer American born on 23 march 1934 at New York City (USA)
Mark Rydell (born March 23, 1928) is an American actor, film director and producer. He has directed many Academy Award-nominated films including The Fox (1967), The Reivers (1969), Cinderella Liberty (1973), The Rose (1979), The River (1984) and For the Boys (1991). He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director for On Golden Pond (1981).
He married actress Joanne Linville in 1962. They had two children, Amy and Christopher, both actors. Rydell and Linville divorced in 1973. Rydell has another son Alexander, by his second marriage, to Esther Rydell.
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Mark Rydell (born March 23, 1928) is an American actor, film director and producer. He has directed many Academy Award-nominated films including The Fox (1967), The Reivers (1969), Cinderella Liberty (1973), The Rose (1979), The River (1984) and For the Boys (1991). He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director for On Golden Pond (1981).
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Rydell was born Mortimer H. Rydell on March 23, 1928, in New York City.He married actress Joanne Linville in 1962. They had two children, Amy and Christopher, both actors. Rydell and Linville divorced in 1973. Rydell has another son Alexander, by his second marriage, to Esther Rydell.
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, 1h44Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the visual arts, Documentary films about the film industry, Documentaire sur une personnalité
Actors Dennis Hopper, Peter Bogdanovich, Sharon Stone, John Boorman, Karen Black, Sandra Bullock
Roles Self
Rating77%
This documentary traces the careers of cinematographers László Kovács and Vilmos Zsigmond. These lifelong friends are Hungarian expatriates who had been studying cinematography in Hungary and defected following the 1956 Soviet invasion. Coincidentally, they also photographed many of the tumultuous events during the invasion.
Even Money (2007)
Directed by Mark Rydell
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Kim Basinger, Danny DeVito, Kelsey Grammer, Nicholas Cannon, Ray Liotta, Forest Whitaker
Roles Ivan
Rating57%
Carolyn Carver is a published author whose husband and daughter believe she is working on a new book, when in fact she is gambling away their life savings. She is befriended by Walter, a has-been magician with a gambling habit who entertains casino guests for tips. Clyde Snow, meanwhile, is deeply in debt to gamblers, to the extent that he must ask his younger brother Godfrey, a college basketball star, to shave points at games.
Hollywood Ending (2002)
, 1h52Directed by Woody Allen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about disabilities, La cécité
Actors Woody Allen, George Hamilton, Téa Leoni, Debra Messing, Gregg Edelman, Mark Rydell
Roles Al
Rating64%
Val Waxman (Allen) is a one-time prestigious film director lately reduced to overseeing cheesy television commercials in order to pay his bills and support his current live-in girlfriend (Debra Messing). When he is thrown off his latest effort (a deodorant commercial being filmed in the frozen north), he desperately seeks a real movie project.
, 1h43Directed by Woody Allen
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Comedy thriller, Crime, Romance
Actors Woody Allen, Dan Aykroyd, Helen Hunt, John Tormey, Wallace Shawn, David Ogden Stiers
Rating66%
In 1940, C.W. Briggs (Woody Allen) is an insurance investigator in New York City who is highly successful, owing to his many connections and ability to think like a criminal. His work does not impress Betty Ann Fitzgerald (Helen Hunt), an efficiency expert who butts heads with C.W. over his old-fashioned views. Her advice is usually followed however, because she secretly is in a relationship with her boss, Chris Magruder (Dan Aykroyd), who constantly reassures her that they will be free to pursue their relationship in public once he finalizes his divorce with his wife.
James Dean (2001)
, 2hDirected by Mark Rydell
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about television
Actors James Franco, Michael Moriarty, Valentina Cervi, Enrico Colantoni, David Proval, Joanne Linville
Roles Jack Warner
Rating70%
At eight years old, James Dean lives with his estranged father Winton and mother Mildred in 1939 Santa Monica, California. When Mildred dies of cancer in 1940, Winton sends James on a train to Fairmount, Indiana, along with the coffin containing her body. Winton does not show up at the funeral, leaving James to be raised by his aunt and uncle on a farm in Fairmount. Over the years, he becomes more curious about his father's decision to abandon him. He tries to impress him by sending him a package displaying his various athletic trophies in high school sports.
A Century of Cinema (1994)
, 1h12Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about films, Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the film industry
Actors Arnold Schwarzenegger, Richard Attenborough, Dan Aykroyd, Kim Basinger, Milton Berle, George Burns
Rating57%
Un siècle de cinéma vu par quelques-uns de ses plus prestigieux représentants…
Havana (1990)
, 2h20Directed by Sydney Pollack
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Jeu, Seafaring films, Transport films, Poker, Political films
Actors Robert Redford, Lena Olin, Raúl Juliá, Alan Arkin, Tomás Milián, Daniel Davis
Roles Meyer Lansky
Rating60%
The film is set on the eve of the Cuban Revolution's victory on January 1, 1959.
Punchline (1988)
, 2h3Directed by David Seltzer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy
Actors Sally Field, Tom Hanks, John Goodman, Mark Rydell, Kim Greist, Paul Mazursky
Roles Romeo
Rating58%
Steven Gold (Hanks) is a struggling medical student who moonlights as a stand-up comedian. It quickly becomes evident that he is lousy at the former and excels at the latter. And yet, when he is given a chance at the big time, he cracks under the pressure. Lilah (Field) is a dedicated housewife that also yearns to be a comic. She has the raw talent but does not have the command of craft that Steven possesses.
Cinderella Liberty (1973)
, 1h57Directed by Mark Rydell
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Films about sexuality, Transport films, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Children's films, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors James Caan, Marsha Mason, Eli Wallach, Burt Young, Dabney Coleman, Allan Arbus
Roles Gutteral Mischief (as Marty Augustine)
Rating66%
John J. Baggs (James Caan) a peacetime sailor, and a WWII veteran, checks into the Naval base's medical facility for treatment. After he gets a clean bill of health, he finds out that he is unable to get paid or receive new orders because somehow the U.S. Navy has lost his file. While they continue to search for his lost file, he is able to come and go from the base until curfew with his "Cinderella Liberty" pass issued by the medical facility.
The Long Goodbye (1973)
, 1h52Directed by Robert Altman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Noir, Crime
Actors Elliott Gould, Nina, Baroness van Pallandt, Sterling Hayden, Mark Rydell, Henry Gibson, Warren Berlinger
Roles Marty Augustine
Rating74%
Late one night, with nothing better to do than feed his fussy cat, private investigator Philip Marlowe is visited by his close friend Terry Lennox, who asks for a lift from Los Angeles to the California–Mexico border at Tijuana. Marlowe obliges. On returning home, Marlowe is met by two police detectives, who accuse Lennox of having murdered his rich wife, Sylvia. Marlowe refuses to give them any information, so they arrest him. After three days in jail, the police release him, because Lennox committed suicide in Mexico. It is an open-and-shut case to the police and the press, but the official facts do not sit right with Marlowe.
Crime in the Streets (1956)
, 1h31Directed by Don Siegel
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Noir, Crime
Actors James Whitmore, John Cassavetes, Sal Mineo, Virginia Gregg, Malcolm Atterbury, Mark Rydell
Roles Lou Macklin
Rating65%
After a rumble between New York City street gangs, the Hornets and Dukes, a youth is taken captive and threatened with a zip gun by Lenny Daniels, one of the Hornets. The act is witnessed by a neighbor, McAllister, who tells the cops.
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Even Money (2007)
Directed by Mark Rydell
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Kim Basinger, Danny DeVito, Kelsey Grammer, Nicholas Cannon, Ray Liotta, Forest Whitaker
Rating57%
Carolyn Carver is a published author whose husband and daughter believe she is working on a new book, when in fact she is gambling away their life savings. She is befriended by Walter, a has-been magician with a gambling habit who entertains casino guests for tips. Clyde Snow, meanwhile, is deeply in debt to gamblers, to the extent that he must ask his younger brother Godfrey, a college basketball star, to shave points at games.
James Dean (2001)
, 2hDirected by Mark Rydell
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about television
Actors James Franco, Michael Moriarty, Valentina Cervi, Enrico Colantoni, David Proval, Joanne Linville
Rating70%
At eight years old, James Dean lives with his estranged father Winton and mother Mildred in 1939 Santa Monica, California. When Mildred dies of cancer in 1940, Winton sends James on a train to Fairmount, Indiana, along with the coffin containing her body. Winton does not show up at the funeral, leaving James to be raised by his aunt and uncle on a farm in Fairmount. Over the years, he becomes more curious about his father's decision to abandon him. He tries to impress him by sending him a package displaying his various athletic trophies in high school sports.
Crime of the Century (1996)
Directed by Mark Rydell
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Stephen Rea, Isabella Rossellini, Allen Garfield, Michael Moriarty, J. T. Walsh, Barry Primus
Rating70%
En 1932, le monde apprend avec stupeur l'enlèvement et l'assassinat du fils de Charles Lindberg, alors âgé de quatorze mois. Deux ans plus tard, Bruno Richard Hauptmann est arrêté et condamné. Le film revient sur l'enquête, le procès et les étapes de cette affaire caractérisée par la corruption et la manipulation de la police de l'époque.
Intersection (1994)
, 1h39Directed by Mark Rydell
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Richard Gere, Sharon Stone, Lolita Davidovich, Martin Landau, Jennifer Morrison, David Selby
Rating53%
Vincent Eastman and his wife, Sally, run an architectural firm together. He is the architect and creative director while she is in charge of the business end.