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Peter Gowland is a Actor and Stand In American born on 3 april 1916 at Los Angeles (USA)
Peter Gowland (April 3, 1916 – March 17, 2010) was a famous American glamour photographer and actor. He was known for designing and building his own studio equipment and was active professionally for six decades.
Gowland shot more than 1,000 magazine covers, mostly glamour shots of female models but also portraits of celebrities including Rock Hudson and Robert Wagner. His covers included Rolling Stone, Playboy, and Modern Photography. He invented elite cameras and equipment that he used to shoot pinups and magazine covers. In the late 1950s, Gowland also invented the twin-lens Gowlandflex camera, which used 4-by-5 inch film for high-quality pictures. The camera has since been used by such photographers as Annie Leibovitz and Yousuf Karsh.
Gowland grew up on movie sets and worked as film extra in his youth. He learned photo lighting and techniques from watching movies being shot. The son of Gibson Gowland and Sylvia Andrew, both actors, he acted in at least 12 films, mostly uncredited. He had a small part in Citizen Kane.
(1936)
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Nationality USA
Birth 3 april 1916 at Los Angeles (USA)
Death 17 march 2010 (at 93 years) at Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles (USA)
Birth 3 april 1916 at Los Angeles (USA)
Death 17 march 2010 (at 93 years) at Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles (USA)
Gowland shot more than 1,000 magazine covers, mostly glamour shots of female models but also portraits of celebrities including Rock Hudson and Robert Wagner. His covers included Rolling Stone, Playboy, and Modern Photography. He invented elite cameras and equipment that he used to shoot pinups and magazine covers. In the late 1950s, Gowland also invented the twin-lens Gowlandflex camera, which used 4-by-5 inch film for high-quality pictures. The camera has since been used by such photographers as Annie Leibovitz and Yousuf Karsh.
Gowland grew up on movie sets and worked as film extra in his youth. He learned photo lighting and techniques from watching movies being shot. The son of Gibson Gowland and Sylvia Andrew, both actors, he acted in at least 12 films, mostly uncredited. He had a small part in Citizen Kane.
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You're My Everything (1949)
, 1h34Directed by Walter Lang
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Children's films
Actors Dan Dailey, Anne Baxter, Anne Revere, Stanley Ridges, Henry O'Neill, Alan Mowbray
Roles Leading Man (uncredited)
Rating59%
Boston, 1924: A starstruck Hannah Adams waits outside in the rain to meet Tim O'Connor, who has just performed in a musical on stage. She invites him home to meet her family, and soon they are in love and getting married.
, 1h50Directed by Norman Z. McLeod
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Themes Musical films
Actors Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Boris Karloff, Fay Bainter, Dorothy Christy, Thurston Hall
Roles R.A.F. Pilot (uncredited)
Rating68%
Walter Mitty (Kaye) is an "inconsequential guy from Perth Amboy, New Jersey", henpecked and harassed by everyone in his life including his bossy mother, his overbearing, idea-stealing boss Bruce Pierce, his childishly dimwitted fiancée Gertrude Griswold, and Gertrude's obnoxious would-be suitor Tubby Wadsworth and loud-mouthed mother, Mrs. Griswold.
Citizen Kane (1941)
, 1h59Directed by Orson Welles
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films about journalists, Films about music and musicians, Hitler
Actors Joseph Cotten, Orson Welles, Dorothy Comingore, Everett Sloane, Ray Collins, George Coulouris
Roles Guest (uncredited)
Rating82%
In a mansion in Xanadu, a vast palatial estate in Florida, the elderly Charles Foster Kane is on his deathbed. Holding a snow globe, he utters a word, "Rosebud", and dies; the globe slips from his hand and smashes on the floor. A newsreel obituary tells the life story of Kane, an enormously wealthy newspaper publisher. Kane's death becomes sensational news around the world, and the newsreel's producer tasks reporter Jerry Thompson with discovering the meaning of "rosebud".
Wuthering Heights (1939)
, 1h44Directed by William Wyler
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Fantasy, Historical, Romance
Actors Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier, David Niven, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Flora Robson, Donald Crisp
Roles Dancer (uncredited)
Rating74%
A traveller named Lockwood (Miles Mander) is caught in the snow and stays at the estate of Wuthering Heights, despite the cold behaviour of his aged host, Heathcliff (Laurence Olivier). Late that night, after being shown into an upstairs room that was once a bridal chamber, Lockwood is awakened by a cold draft and finds the window shutter flapping back and forth. Just as he is about to close it, he feels an icy hand clutching his and sees a woman outside calling, "Heathcliff, let me in! I'm out on the moors. It's Cathy!" Lockwood calls Heathcliff and tells him what he saw, whereupon the enraged Heathcliff throws him out of the room. As soon as Lockwood is gone, Heathcliff frantically calls out to Cathy, runs down the stairs and out of the house, into the snowstorm.
Hot Water (1937)
, 55minutesDirected by Frank R. Strayer
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Jed Prouty, Shirley Deane, Spring Byington, Russell Gleason, June Carlson, Florence Roberts
Roles College Boy (uncredited)
Rating53%
Cain and Mabel (1936)
, 1h30Directed by Lloyd Bacon
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films, Boxing films
Actors Marion Davies, Clark Gable, Allen Jenkins, Roscoe Karns, Walter Catlett, Robert Paige
Rating62%
Waitress-turned-Broadway star Mabel O'Dare (Marion Davies) and garage-mechanic-turned-prize fighter Larry Cain (Clark Gable) dislike each other intensely, but press agent Aloysius K. Reilly (Roscoe Karns) cooks up a phony romance between them for publicity. Inevitably, the two fall in love for real, and plan on getting married, with Mabel quitting show business to be a housewife and Cain quitting the fight racket to run garages in New Jersey.
Directed by Lew Landers
Origin USA
Genres Adventure
Actors Jean Rogers, Bryant Washburn, John King, Carla Laemmle, House Peters, Jr., Donald Briggs
Roles Peter Gowland
Rating64%
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These Three (1936)
, 1h33Directed by William Wyler
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about education, Films based on plays
Actors Miriam Hopkins, Merle Oberon, Joel McCrea, Bonita Granville, Catherine Doucet, Alma Kruger
Roles Stand In
Rating73%
Following graduation, college friends Karen Wright and Martha Dobie transform Karen's Massachusetts farm into a boarding school with the assistance of wealthy benefactor Amelia Tilford, who enrolls her malevolent granddaughter Mary. Karen and local doctor Joe Cardin begin to date, unaware Martha is in love with him.
Dodsworth (1936)
, 1h41Directed by William Wyler
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals
Actors Walter Huston, Ruth Chatterton, Paul Lukas, Mary Astor, David Niven, Gregory Gaye
Roles Stand In
Rating76%
Samuel "Sam" Dodsworth (Walter Huston) is the successful, self-made and unsophisticated head of Dodsworth Motor Company, an American automobile parts manufacturing firm, based in the small Midwestern town of Zenith (also the setting for Lewis' Babbitt). His wife Fran (Ruth Chatterton), feeling trapped by the boring social life of their small-town existence, convinces her spouse to sell his interest in the company and take her to Europe. Sam disregards the warning of Tubby Pearson, his banker and friend, that men like them are only happy when they are working.