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Ralph Kemplen is a Director, Writer, Editor and Script British born on 8 october 1912 at London (United-kingdom)
Ralph Kemplen (8 October 1912 – 4 April 2004) was a British film editor with more than fifty film credits between 1933 and 1982. Kemplen had a notable collaboration with director John Huston on six films between 1951 and 1966. He won the BAFTA Award for Best Editing for The Day of the Jackal (1973) and was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing (for Moulin Rouge (1952), Oliver! (1968), and Day of the Jackal).
Fait particulier, il collabore à six réalisations de John Huston, dont L'Odyssée de l'African Queen (1951, avec Humphrey Bogart et Katharine Hepburn) et La Nuit de l'iguane (1964, avec Richard Burton et Ava Gardner).
Parmi ses autres films notables, mentionnons Lazybones de Michael Powell (1935, avec Ian Hunter et Claire Luce), Les Chemins de la haute ville de Jack Clayton (1959, avec Simone Signoret et Laurence Harvey), Oliver ! de Carol Reed (1968) et Chacal de Fred Zinnemann (1973, avec Edward Fox et Michael Lonsdale).
Au nombre des distinctions qu'il reçoit durant sa carrière (voir sélection ci-dessous), il gagne en 1974 le British Academy Film Award du meilleur montage, pour Chacal précité.
Unique contribution à la télévision, Ralph Kemplen monte le téléfilm Macbeth de George Schaefer (1960, avec Maurice Evans et Judith Anderson).
Autre expérience unique, il est réalisateur et scénariste du film britannique The Spaniard's Curse (1958, avec Michael Hordern et Ralph Truman).
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Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 8 october 1912 at London (United-kingdom)
Death 4 april 2004 (at 91 years) at Greater London (United-kingdom)
Birth 8 october 1912 at London (United-kingdom)
Death 4 april 2004 (at 91 years) at Greater London (United-kingdom)
Ralph Kemplen (8 October 1912 – 4 April 2004) was a British film editor with more than fifty film credits between 1933 and 1982. Kemplen had a notable collaboration with director John Huston on six films between 1951 and 1966. He won the BAFTA Award for Best Editing for The Day of the Jackal (1973) and was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing (for Moulin Rouge (1952), Oliver! (1968), and Day of the Jackal).
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Au cinéma, Ralph Kemplen est monteur sur soixante-huit films (principalement britanniques, américains ou en coproduction, y compris quelques documentaires), depuis There Goes the Bride d'Albert de Courville (1932, avec Jessie Matthews) jusqu'au film d'animation Dark Crystal de Jim Henson et Frank Oz (1982).Fait particulier, il collabore à six réalisations de John Huston, dont L'Odyssée de l'African Queen (1951, avec Humphrey Bogart et Katharine Hepburn) et La Nuit de l'iguane (1964, avec Richard Burton et Ava Gardner).
Parmi ses autres films notables, mentionnons Lazybones de Michael Powell (1935, avec Ian Hunter et Claire Luce), Les Chemins de la haute ville de Jack Clayton (1959, avec Simone Signoret et Laurence Harvey), Oliver ! de Carol Reed (1968) et Chacal de Fred Zinnemann (1973, avec Edward Fox et Michael Lonsdale).
Au nombre des distinctions qu'il reçoit durant sa carrière (voir sélection ci-dessous), il gagne en 1974 le British Academy Film Award du meilleur montage, pour Chacal précité.
Unique contribution à la télévision, Ralph Kemplen monte le téléfilm Macbeth de George Schaefer (1960, avec Maurice Evans et Judith Anderson).
Autre expérience unique, il est réalisateur et scénariste du film britannique The Spaniard's Curse (1958, avec Michael Hordern et Ralph Truman).
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The Spaniard's Curse (1958)
, 1h20Directed by Ralph Kemplen
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Horror
Actors Tony Wright, Lee Patterson, Michael Hordern, Susan Beaumont, Ralph Truman, Henry Oscar
Rating57%
Guy Stevenson (Basil Dignam) is a British man of Spanish heritage wrongly convicted of murder. On being given the death sentence, he places a curse on the judge (Michael Hordern) and jury. Two of the jurors then die mysteriously, and suspicion falls on Stevenson, but he himself also dies. The judge and his daughter Margaret attempt to solve the mystery and uncover the real killer.
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The Spaniard's Curse (1958)
, 1h20Directed by Ralph Kemplen
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Horror
Actors Tony Wright, Lee Patterson, Michael Hordern, Susan Beaumont, Ralph Truman, Henry Oscar
Roles Writer
Rating57%
Guy Stevenson (Basil Dignam) is a British man of Spanish heritage wrongly convicted of murder. On being given the death sentence, he places a curse on the judge (Michael Hordern) and jury. Two of the jurors then die mysteriously, and suspicion falls on Stevenson, but he himself also dies. The judge and his daughter Margaret attempt to solve the mystery and uncover the real killer.
Editor
The Dark Crystal (1982)
, 1h28Directed by Frank Oz, Jim Henson
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Fantasy, Adventure, Animation
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Children's films
Actors Lisa Maxwell, Barry Dennen, Frank Oz, Jim Henson, Billie Whitelaw, Dave Goelz
Roles Editor
Rating70%
A thousand years ago on the planet Thra, a magical crystal cracked, and two new races appeared: the malevolent Skeksis, who use the power of the "Dark Crystal" to continually replenish themselves, and kind wizards called Mystics.
The Great Muppet Caper (1981)
, 1h30Directed by Jim Henson
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Musical, Crime, Romance
Themes Films about films, Musical films, Heist films, Children's films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Dave Goelz, Jerry Nelson, Jack Warden, Joan Sanderson
Roles Editor
Rating70%
Kermit the Frog, Fozzie Bear, and Gonzo the Great play newspaper reporters for the Daily Chronicle. Kermit and Fozzie, specifically, are playing identical twin reporters, which becomes the source of a running gag - supposedly, nobody can tell they are twins unless Fozzie wears his hat. While Gonzo is too busy taking pictures of a chicken, prominent London fashion designer Lady Holiday (Diana Rigg) gets robbed of her jewels. The trio are eventually assigned to investigate the theft of the valuable jewels from Lady Holiday, which they have to beg for after their supervisor Mike Tarkenian dismisses them following the Daily Chronicle 's headline about the twins joining the staff (while the other papers report on the jewel heist).
Escape to Athena (1979)
, 2h5Directed by George Cosmatos
Origin United-kingdom
Genres War, Comedy, Action, Adventure
Themes Prison films, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Political films, Erotic thriller films
Actors Roger Moore, Telly Savalas, David Niven, Stefanie Powers, Claudia Cardinale, Richard Roundtree
Roles Editor
Rating57%
In 1944 allied POWs, at a remote POW camp on an unnamed island, are forced to excavate ancient Greek artifacts. The camp Commandant, Major Otto Hecht (Roger Moore), who was an Austrian antiques dealer before the war, is sending some of the valuable pieces to his sister living in Switzerland.
The Odessa File (1974)
, 2h3Directed by Ronald Neame
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Spy
Themes Films about writers, Spy films, Films about journalists, Political films
Actors Jon Voight, Maximilian Schell, Maria Schell, Derek Jacobi, Peter Jeffrey, Mary Tamm
Roles Editor
Rating69%
On 22 November 1963, the day John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Peter Miller, a young freelance reporter, pulls over to the curb to listen to a radio report of the event in a district in Hamburg, West Germany. As a result he happens to be stopped at a traffic signal as an ambulance passes by on a highway. He chases the ambulance and discovers it is en route to pick up the body of an elderly Jewish Holocaust survivor who had committed suicide, leaving behind no family. The reporter obtains the diary of the man, which contains information on his life in the Second World War Riga Ghetto, and the name of the SS officer who ran the camp, Eduard Roschmann.
No Sex Please: We're British (1973)
, 1h31Directed by Cliff Owen
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Ronnie Corbett, Ian Ogilvy, Susan Penhaligon, Beryl Reid, Arthur Lowe, Deryck Guyler
Roles Editor
Rating54%
Runnicles, a clerk in a small-town British bank (openly depicted in the film as the branch of Barclays Bank in Windsor High Street), is horrified when a package arrives containing pornography rather than the new calculator he expected. His efforts to dispose of it, while avoiding detection, turn into a farcical series of events including a bank inspector, the police and a local criminal to whom the pornography actually belongs.
The Day of the Jackal (1973)
, 2h23Directed by Fred Zinnemann, Andrew Marton, Alain Bonnot
Origin France
Genres Thriller, Action
Themes Assassinat, Spy films, La provence, Political films, Histoire de France
Actors Edward Fox, Michael Lonsdale, Michel Auclair, Terence Alexander, Derek Jacobi, Alan Badel
Roles Editor
Rating77%
In the Paris suburb of Petit-Clamart on 22 August 1962, an assassination attempt is made on the President of France General Charles de Gaulle by the militant French underground organisation OAS in anger over the French government granting independence to Algeria. As the president's motorcade passes, de Gaulle's unarmoured Citroën DS car is raked with machine gun fire, but the entire entourage escapes without injury. Within six months, OAS leader Jean Bastien-Thiry and several other members of the plot are captured and Bastien-Thiry is executed.
To Kill a Clown (1972)
, 1h44Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Alan Alda, Blythe Danner, Heath Lamberts, Eric Clavering
Roles Editor
Rating53%
Un ancien du Viet-Nam règne en maître sanguinaire sur les terres sauvages d'une petite île isolée. Ses seules compagnies sont un serviteur sourd-muet et deux monstrueux dobermans dressés pour tuer. Un couple vient échouer sur l'île. Au travers d'un dédale effroyable, ils essaieront d'échapper à la folie furieuse du maître des lieux, "Seigneur de la guerre" n'ayant qu'une seule et véritable passion : la chasse à l'homme.
Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969)
, 2h35Directed by Herbert Ross
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical theatre, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about education, Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Peter O'Toole, Petula Clark, Michael Redgrave, Siân Phillips, Alison Leggatt, Michael Bryant
Roles Editor
Rating67%
Terence Rattigan's screenplay is a major departure from the simple plot of Hilton's novella. The time frame of the original story was advanced by several decades, starting in the 1920s, continuing through the Second World war, and ending in the late 1960s. Also, it does not show Chipping's first arrival at the Brookfield School, but starts with him already an established member of the teaching staff.
Oliver! (1968)
, 2h33Directed by Carol Reed
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Musical theatre, Musical
Themes Dance films, Films about children, Films about music and musicians, Théâtre, L'enfance marginalisée, Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals
Actors Mark Lester, Ron Moody, Shani Wallis, Oliver Reed, Jack Wild, Harry Secombe
Roles Editor
Rating73%
A workhouse in Dunstable, England is visited by the wealthy governors who fund it. While a sumptuous banquet is held for them, the barefoot orphan boys who work there are being served their daily gruel. They dream of enjoying the same "Food, Glorious Food" as their masters. While eating, some boys draw straws to see who will ask for more to eat, and the job falls to a boy named Oliver Twist. He goes up to Bumble and Widow Corney, who run the workhouse and serve the gruel, and asks for more. Enraged, Bumble takes Oliver to the governors to see what to do with him ("Oliver!"). A decision is made to have Oliver sold into service. Bumble parades Oliver through the snow, trying to sell him to the highest bidder ("Boy for Sale"). Oliver is sold to an undertaker named Mr. Sowerberry, who intends to use him as a mourner for children's funerals. After his first funeral, Noah Claypole, Sowerberry's apprentice, insults Oliver's mother. Oliver attacks Noah in fury and Sowerberry forces him into a coffin while Noah fetches Bumble. Oliver is too angry to be intimidated by Bumble, who places the blame on not keeping Oliver on a diet of gruel, instead of meat, which made him strong. Oliver is thrown into the cellar as further punishment. Alone in the dark with a roomful of empty coffins, Oliver wonders ("Where is Love?"). While clutching the window grate, Oliver pushes it open and escapes.
, 1h46Directed by Henry Levin, Dino Maiuri
Origin Italie
Genres Comedy, Action
Themes Spy films
Actors Mike Connors, Dorothy Provine, Terry-Thomas, Jack Gwillim, Raf Vallone, Edith Peters
Rating60%
A Brazilian industrialist (Raf Vallone) plans to sterilize the human race through the use of his satellite and to personally repopulate the planet with beautiful women he has kidnapped and is holding in suspended animation. A down-to-earth CIA agent (Michael Connors), an aristocratic female MI-6 agent (Dorothy Provine), and her chauffeur (Terry-Thomas), driving a Rolls-Royce car filled with spy gadgets, team up to stop the madman.
, 2h54Directed by John Huston
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Fantasy, Adventure, Historical
Themes Films about religion, Films based on the Bible, Films about Jews and Judaism, Children's films, Disaster films
Actors Stephen Boyd, Ava Gardner, Richard Harris, Peter O'Toole, Franco Nero, Michael Parks
Roles Editor
Rating62%
The film consists of five main sections: The Creation, Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Noah's Ark, and the story of Abraham. There are also a pair of shorter sections, one recounting the building of the Tower of Babel, and the other the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. The sections vary greatly in tone. The story of Abraham is somber and reverential, while that of Noah repeatedly focuses on his love of all animals—herbivorous and carnivorous or omnivorous. Cats (including lions) drink milk, with Noah's relationship with the animals being depicted harmoniously. It was originally conceived as the first in a series of films retelling the entire Old Testament, but these sequels were never made.
A Man for All Seasons (1966)
, 2hDirected by Fred Zinnemann
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical
Themes Politique, Films about religion, Political films, Films about capital punishment, Films based on plays, Films about royalty
Actors Paul Scofield, Wendy Hiller, Leo McKern, Orson Welles, Robert Shaw, Susannah York
Roles Editor
Rating76%
Cardinal Wolsey, the Lord Chancellor of England, summons Sir Thomas More to Hampton Court. King Henry VIII of England wishes to divorce his wife and marry Anne Boleyn. Saying that England needs a male heir to prevent another civil war, Wolsey chastises More for being the only member of the Privy Council to argue against him. When More states that the Pope will never grant a divorce, he is appalled by Wolsey's suggestion that they apply "pressure" on Church lands to force the issue. To Wolsey's fury, More responds, "No, Your Grace. I am not going to help you.
The Night of the Iguana (1964)
, 2h5Directed by John Huston
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Théâtre, LGBT-related films, Films based on plays, Adaptation d'une pièce de théâtre de Tennessee Williams, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Richard Burton, Ava Gardner, Deborah Kerr, Sue Lyon, Cyril Delevanti, Grayson Hall
Roles Editor
Rating75%
The preface to the story shows Episcopal priest Reverend Dr. T. Lawrence Shannon (Richard Burton) having a "nervous breakdown" after being ostracized by his congregation for having an inappropriate relationship in Virginia with "a very young Sunday school teacher."