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Ralph E. Winters is a Actor and Editor Canadien born on 17 june 1909 at Toronto (Canada)
Ralph E. Winters (17 June 1909 -– 26 February 2004) was a Canadian-born film editor who became one of the leading figures of this field in the American industry.
After beginning on a series of B movies in the early 1940s, including several in the Dr. Kildare series, his first major film was George Cukor's Victorian chiller Gaslight (1944).
Winters won the Academy Award for Film Editing twice, for King Solomon's Mines (1950) and Ben-Hur (1959). He received four other nominations, for Quo Vadis (1951), Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954), The Great Race (1965) and Kotch (1971). Among Winters other projects were such leading films as On the Town (1949), High Society (1956), Jailhouse Rock (1957) and The Thomas Crown Affair (1968).
Winters had a notable collaboration with director Blake Edwards. Over twenty years, they collaborated on twelve films together, including The Pink Panther (1963), The Party (1968), 10 (1979) and Victor Victoria (1982). His last film was the ill-fated pirate epic Cutthroat Island released in 1995.
Winters had been elected to membership in the American Cinema Editors, and in 1991, Winters received their Career Achievement Award. His memoir, Some Cutting Remarks: Seventy Years a Film Editor, was published in 2001.
Fait particulier, il assiste le réalisateur Blake Edwards sur douze films, depuis La Panthère rose (1963, avec Peter Sellers et David Niven) jusqu'à Micki et Maude (1984, avec Amy Irving et Dudley Moore), en passant notamment par La Grande Course autour du monde (1965, avec Tony Curtis et Natalie Wood), La Party (1969, avec Peter Sellers et Claudine Longet) et Victor Victoria (1982, avec Julie Andrews et James Garner).
Parmi ses autres films notables, citons Un jour à New York de Stanley Donen et Gene Kelly (1949, avec Gene Kelly et Frank Sinatra), Quo vadis de Mervyn LeRoy (1951, avec Robert Taylor et Deborah Kerr), ou encore Spéciale Première de Billy Wilder (1974, avec Jack Lemmon et Walter Matthau).
Ralph E. Winters obtient six nominations à l'Oscar du meilleur montage, dont deux gagnés, en 1951 pour Les Mines du roi Salomon de Compton Bennett et Andrew Marton (1950, avec Deborah Kerr et Stewart Granger), puis en 1960 pour Ben-Hur de William Wyler (1959, avec Charlton Heston et Stephen Boyd).
À la télévision, il est monteur d'un épisode de la série Combat !, diffusé en 1962, ainsi que de cinq téléfilms, entre 1976 et 1994.
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Nationality Canada
Birth 17 june 1909 at Toronto (Canada)
Death 26 february 2004 (at 94 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Birth 17 june 1909 at Toronto (Canada)
Death 26 february 2004 (at 94 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Ralph E. Winters (17 June 1909 -– 26 February 2004) was a Canadian-born film editor who became one of the leading figures of this field in the American industry.
After beginning on a series of B movies in the early 1940s, including several in the Dr. Kildare series, his first major film was George Cukor's Victorian chiller Gaslight (1944).
Winters won the Academy Award for Film Editing twice, for King Solomon's Mines (1950) and Ben-Hur (1959). He received four other nominations, for Quo Vadis (1951), Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954), The Great Race (1965) and Kotch (1971). Among Winters other projects were such leading films as On the Town (1949), High Society (1956), Jailhouse Rock (1957) and The Thomas Crown Affair (1968).
Winters had a notable collaboration with director Blake Edwards. Over twenty years, they collaborated on twelve films together, including The Pink Panther (1963), The Party (1968), 10 (1979) and Victor Victoria (1982). His last film was the ill-fated pirate epic Cutthroat Island released in 1995.
Winters had been elected to membership in the American Cinema Editors, and in 1991, Winters received their Career Achievement Award. His memoir, Some Cutting Remarks: Seventy Years a Film Editor, was published in 2001.
Biography
Installé aux États-Unis, Ralph E. Winters y débute au cinéma comme chef-monteur en 1941, au sein de la Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, où il mène une partie de sa carrière. Il travaille en tout sur soixante-dix films (majoritairement américains, plus quelques coproductions), sa dernière contribution étant pour L'Île aux pirates de Renny Harlin (avec Geena Davis et Matthew Modine), sorti en 1995.Fait particulier, il assiste le réalisateur Blake Edwards sur douze films, depuis La Panthère rose (1963, avec Peter Sellers et David Niven) jusqu'à Micki et Maude (1984, avec Amy Irving et Dudley Moore), en passant notamment par La Grande Course autour du monde (1965, avec Tony Curtis et Natalie Wood), La Party (1969, avec Peter Sellers et Claudine Longet) et Victor Victoria (1982, avec Julie Andrews et James Garner).
Parmi ses autres films notables, citons Un jour à New York de Stanley Donen et Gene Kelly (1949, avec Gene Kelly et Frank Sinatra), Quo vadis de Mervyn LeRoy (1951, avec Robert Taylor et Deborah Kerr), ou encore Spéciale Première de Billy Wilder (1974, avec Jack Lemmon et Walter Matthau).
Ralph E. Winters obtient six nominations à l'Oscar du meilleur montage, dont deux gagnés, en 1951 pour Les Mines du roi Salomon de Compton Bennett et Andrew Marton (1950, avec Deborah Kerr et Stewart Granger), puis en 1960 pour Ben-Hur de William Wyler (1959, avec Charlton Heston et Stephen Boyd).
À la télévision, il est monteur d'un épisode de la série Combat !, diffusé en 1962, ainsi que de cinq téléfilms, entre 1976 et 1994.
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Intrigue (1947)
, 1h30Directed by Edwin L. Marin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Crime
Themes Transport films, Aviation films
Actors George Raft, June Havoc, Helena Carter, Tom Tully, Marvin Miller, Marvin Miller
Roles Air Force Pilot at Bar (uncredited)
Rating58%
Court-martialed pilot Brad Dunham now flies smuggled goods into post-war China. He insists to contact Ramon Perez that he be paid more money, but the boss of this black-market operation resists, so Brad steals the cargo back.
Editor
Cutthroat Island (1995)
, 2h4Directed by Renny Harlin
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Swashbuckler, Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Pirate films
Actors Geena Davis, Matthew Modine, Frank Langella, Maury Chaykin, Patrick Malahide, Stan Shaw
Roles Editor
Rating57%
In 1668 Jamaica, Morgan Adams hunts down her uncle and fellow pirate Dawg Brown, who has captured her father, Black Harry. Black Harry has one of three pieces of a map to a huge stash of gold on the remote Cutthroat Island. Dawg has another piece, having stolen it from the corpse of a third brother, Richard, while a fourth brother, Mordechai, has the last piece. Harry refuses to give Dawg his piece and escapes with Morgan's help, but not before being mortally wounded. A dying Harry reveals to his daughter the location of the map piece: on his scalp.
Big Trouble (1986)
, 1h33Directed by John Cassavetes, Andrew Bergman
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Crime
Actors Peter Falk, Alan Arkin, Beverly D'Angelo, Charles Durning, Robert Stack, Paul Dooley
Roles Editor
Rating52%
Leonard Hoffman is a Los Angeles insurance agent with a problem on his hands. He has teenage triplets who are all gifted musicians, but wife Arlene insists that the kids attend college at Yale, requiring more than $40,000 in tuition, rather than less expensive schools like nearby UCLA.
Let's Get Harry (1986)
, 1h42Directed by Stuart Rosenberg
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure
Actors Jere Burns, Michael Schoeffling, Gary Busey, Rick Rossovich, Terry Camilleri, Elpidia Carrillo
Roles Editor
Rating52%
The film opens with an American engineer named Harry Burck (Mark Harmon) being kidnapped by rebels in Colombia. Harry is there to help open a new water pipeline for his company and gets caught up in the action when a diplomat who is on hand for the pipe's unveiling is also kidnapped. Word reaches back to Harry's brother Corey (Michael Schoeffling) and his friends Bob (Thomas F. Wilson), cocaine addict Spence (Glenn Frey) and Kurt (Rick Rossovich), who were all awaiting his return home to Illinois. The men, who all work together at the same factory, learn that Harry was kidnapped by a drug lord named Carlos Ochobar. Corey and Bob travel to Washington, DC only to learn that the U.S. government is not going to mount any rescue attempt for Harry. We learn that the men (and everyone in the town) hold Harry in high regard. Kurt reminds his friends that they all owe Harry something, so he says their only choice is to rescue him themselves. Despite some resistance and skepticism from Kurt and Spence, all the men eventually agree to go. Before heading to Colombia, they enlist the financial help of a local car salesman named Jack (Gary Busey), who insists on going along, and the military expertise of a decorated no-nonsense mercenary named Norman Shrike (Robert Duvall).
Micki + Maude (1984)
, 1h58Directed by Blake Edwards
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality
Actors Amy Irving, Ann Reinking, Dudley Moore, Richard Mulligan, George Gaynes, Wallace Shawn
Roles Editor
Rating59%
Rob Salinger (Dudley Moore) is an overworked television reporter. He is happily married to Micki (Ann Reinking), a lawyer who is a candidate to become a judge. Rob wants a child badly, but Micki decides to postpone having children in order to better pursue her new career opportunity. On an assignment, Rob interviews a young musician, Maude Guillory (Amy Irving), and is smitten with her. They begin seeing one another and, when she becomes pregnant, Maude and her father, professional wrestler Barkhas Guillory (Hard Boiled Haggerty) begin to plan her wedding to Rob.
Curse of the Pink Panther (1983)
, 1h49Directed by Blake Edwards
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Comedy thriller, Crime
Actors David Niven, Robert Wagner, Herbert Lom, Joanna Lumley, Capucine, Robert Loggia
Rating43%
While investigating the theft of the Pink Panther diamond (in the previous film Trail of the Pink Panther), Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau (Peter Sellers), hailed as France's greatest detective, disappeared at sea during a plane crash. His former superior, Chief Inspector Charles Dreyfus (Herbert Lom), is pressured to oversee Operation Paragon and utilize Interpol's fictitious Huxley Huxley 600 computer Aldous to find the world's greatest detective to solve the crime.
The Man Who Loved Women (1983)
, 1h46Directed by Blake Edwards
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films
Actors Burt Reynolds, Julie Andrews, Kim Basinger, Marilu Henner, Cynthia Sikes, Sela Ward
Roles Editor
Rating52%
Les hauts et les bas d'un homme amoureux des femmes et de sa recherche perpétuelle à combler les manquements de sa vie affective.
Victor/Victoria (1982)
, 2h12Directed by Blake Edwards
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, Musical films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Cross-dressing in film
Actors Julie Andrews, James Garner, Robert Preston, Lesley Ann Warren, Alex Karras, John Rhys-Davies
Roles Editor
Rating75%
Set in 1934 Paris, the film opens with Richard Di Nardo, a young hustler, emerging from the bed of middle-aged Carroll Todd (Robert Preston), aka Toddy; Richard dresses, takes money from Toddy's wallet and leaves Toddy's apartment. Going about his day, Toddy, a performer at Chez Lui in Paris, sees Labisse, the club owner, auditioning a frail, impoverished soprano, Victoria Grant (Julie Andrews). After the audition, Labisse drily writes her off, and she responds by sustaining a pitch to shatter his wine glass using resonant frequency. That night, Richard comes to Chez Lui as part of a straight foursome and Toddy incites a brawl by insulting Richard and the women in his group. Labisse fires Toddy and bans him from the club. Walking home, he spots Victoria dining at a restaurant, and she invites him to join her. As neither of them can pay for the meal, she dumps a cockroach in her salad to avoid paying their check, but it escapes and the whole place breaks out in havoc.
S.O.B. (1981)
, 2h2Directed by Blake Edwards
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films
Actors Julie Andrews, William Holden, Robert Vaughn, Richard Mulligan, Robert Preston, Shelley Winters
Roles Editor
Rating63%
The story is a satire of the film industry and Hollywood society. The main character, Felix Farmer, is a phenomenally successful film producer who has just made the first major flop of his career, to the dismay of his movie studio, resulting in the loss of his own sanity. Felix attempts suicide four times:
10 (1979)
, 2h2Directed by Blake Edwards
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films
Actors Dudley Moore, Julie Andrews, Robert Webber, Dee Wallace, Bo Derek, Sam J. Jones
Roles Editor
Rating60%
During a surprise 42nd birthday party for wealthy, well-known composer George Webber (Dudley Moore), thrown by his actress girlfriend Samantha Taylor (Julie Andrews), he finds he's coping badly with incipient middle age. From his car, George glimpses a bride-to-be (Bo Derek) and is instantly obsessed by her beauty, following her to the church, where he crashes into a police cruiser, is stung by a bee and nearly disrupts the wedding ceremony.
Orca (1977)
, 1h32Directed by Michael Anderson, Brian W. Cook
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Seafaring films, Transport films, Cétacé, Natural horror films, Mise en scène d'un cétacé, Disaster films, American disaster films
Actors Richard Harris, Charlotte Rampling, Will Sampson, Bo Derek, Keenan Wynn, Robert Carradine
Roles Editor
Rating58%
The movie revolves around the exploits of Captain Nolan (Harris), an Irish Canadian who catches marine animals to pay off the mortgage of his boat, and return to Ireland. Nolan's crew is looking for a great white shark for a local aquarium, but a scientist named Ken (Carradine) is being targeted by the shark. An orca comes and kills the shark, saving Ken. This switches Nolan's target to the orca. While Nolan is on the journey with his crew, he tries to capture what he believes to be a bull orca, but mistakenly harpoons a pregnant female. Nolan and his crew get the orca on board, where she subsequently miscarries. The crew hoses the dead fetus overboard as the male looks on screaming.
King Kong (1976)
, 2h14Directed by John Guillermin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Fantastic, Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Films about magic and magicians, Seafaring films, La préhistoire, Transport films, Animaux préhistoriques, Natural horror films, Films about apes, King Kong films, Giant monster films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère, Disaster films
Actors Jeff Bridges, Charles Grodin, Jessica Lange, René Auberjonois, Jack O'Halloran, Ed Lauter
Roles Editor
Rating60%
Fred Wilson (Charles Grodin), an executive of the Petrox Oil Company, forms an expedition based on infrared imagery which reveals a previously undiscovered Indian Ocean island hidden by a permanent cloud bank. Wilson believes the island has a huge deposit of oil. Jack Prescott (Jeff Bridges), a primate paleontologist who wants to see the island for himself, stows away on the expedition's vessel. Prescott reveals himself when he warns the crew the cloud bank may be caused by an unknown beast. Wilson orders Prescott locked up, claiming that he is really a spy from a rival oil company. While escorted to lock-up, Prescott spots a life raft which carries the beautiful and unconscious Dwan (Jessica Lange). Wilson conducts a thorough background check on Prescott and realizes he is telling the truth. He appoints Prescott the expedition's official photographer and requests that he be present when Dwan revives because of his medical background. Upon waking, Dwan says she is an aspiring actress who was aboard a director's yacht which suddenly exploded.
The Outfit (1975)
, 1h43Directed by John Flynn
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Mafia films, L'Outfit de Chicago, Gangster films
Actors Robert Duvall, Karen Black, Joe Don Baker, Robert Ryan, Timothy Carey, Sheree North
Roles Editor
Rating69%
Two hitmen drive to Eddie Macklin's house to assassinate him as he builds a brick wall in his backyard. Meanwhile, Eddie's brother Earl (Robert Duvall) is released from prison in Illinois after a 27-month term for carrying a concealed weapon. His girlfriend Bett (Karen Black) picks him up and takes him to a motel. She informs Earl of his brother's execution by the Outfit. Earl deduces that the motel stay is a setup, and when one of the hitmen who killed his brother bursts into the room, Earl ambushes him and tortures him for information.
The Front Page (1974)
, 1h45Directed by Billy Wilder, Carey Loftin, Howard Kazanjian
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about writers, Films about journalists, Films about sexuality, Théâtre, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Films about capital punishment, Films based on plays, Erotic thriller films
Actors Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Charles Durning, David Wayne, Susan Sarandon, Vincent Gardenia
Roles Editor
Rating72%
Chicago Examiner reporter Hildebrand "Hildy" Johnson (Jack Lemmon) has just quit his job in order to marry Peggy Grant (Susan Sarandon) and start a new career, when convict Earl Williams (Austin Pendleton) escapes from death row just prior to his execution. Earl is an impoverished, bumbling leftist whose only offense is stuffing fortune cookies with messages demanding the release of Sacco and Vanzetti, but the yellow press of Chicago has painted him as a dangerous threat from Moscow. As a result the citizenry are anxious to see him put to death.
The Spikes Gang (1974)
, 1h36Directed by Richard Fleischer
Origin USA
Genres Action, Western
Actors Lee Marvin, Gary Grimes, Charles Martin Smith, Ron Howard, Arthur Hunnicutt, Noah Beery, Jr
Roles Editor
Rating63%
Harry Spikes (Lee Marvin) is an aging bank robber of the fading "Old West." Injured and near death, he is found and mended back to health by three impressionable youths who are lifelong friends -- Wil (Gary Grimes), Tod (Charles Martin Smith), and Les (Ron Howard). Later, encouraged by Spikes's reminiscences, they run away from home seeking excitement and easy living.