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Richard Derr is a Actor American born on 16 june 1918 at Norristown (USA)

Richard Derr

Richard Derr
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Nationality USA
Birth 16 june 1918 at Norristown (USA)
Death 8 may 1992 (at 73 years) at Santa Monica (USA)

Richard Derr (June 15, 1918 – May 8, 1992) was an American actor who worked on stage, screen and television, performing in both starring and supporting roles. A life member of The Actors Studio, Derr landed the majority of his leading roles on stage; on the screen, he was primarily a character actor. Beginning in the 1950s, most of Derr's work was done on television. In 1955 he sang in the lead role in the Broadway musical Plain and Fancy. In 1965 he played the role of Dr. Dwyer in the three-part serial, "The Adventures of Gallegher," on Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color.

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When Worlds Collide
When Worlds Collide
(1951)
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Filmography of Richard Derr (27 films)

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Firefox
Firefox (1982)
, 1h59
Directed by Clint Eastwood
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, War, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Spy
Themes Spy films, Politique, Transport films, Aviation films, Political films, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors Clint Eastwood, Freddie Jones, David Huffman, Warren Clarke, Ronald Lacey, Nigel Hawthorne
Roles Admiral Curtin
Rating59% 2.9509552.9509552.9509552.9509552.950955
A joint Anglo-American plot is devised to steal a highly advanced Soviet fighter aircraft (MiG-31, NATO code name "Firefox") which is capable of Mach 6, is invisible to radar, and carries weapons controlled by thought. Former United States Air Force Major Mitchell Gant (Eastwood), a Vietnam veteran and former POW, infiltrates the Soviet Union, aided by his ability to speak Russian (due to his having had a Russian mother) and a network of Jewish dissidents and sympathizers, three of whom are key scientists working on the fighter itself. His goal is to steal the Firefox and fly it back to friendly territory for analysis.
American Gigolo
American Gigolo (1980)
, 1h57
Directed by Paul Schrader
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Erotic thriller films
Actors Richard Gere, Lauren Hutton, Héctor Elizondo, Nina, Baroness van Pallandt, Bill Duke, K Callan
Roles Mr. Williams
Rating62% 3.1478053.1478053.1478053.1478053.147805
Julian Kaye (Richard Gere) is a male escort in Los Angeles whose job supports his expensive taste in cars, stereophonic equipment and clothes. He is blatantly narcissistic and superficial; however, he claims to take some pleasure in his work from being able to sexually satisfy women.
SST: Death Flight
SST: Death Flight (1977)
, 1h29
Directed by David Lowell Rich
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action
Themes Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Aviation films, Musical films, Disaster films, American disaster films, Films about aviation accidents or incidents
Actors Barbara Anderson, Peter Graves, Bert Convy, Lorne Greene, Tina Louise, Season Hubley
Roles Governor Stensky
Rating41% 2.07272.07272.07272.07272.0727
On the flight of Maiden 1, the first American supersonic transport, Captain Jim Walsh (Robert Reed) is the assigned pilot on an attempt to set a world speed record from New York to Paris. The flight crew includes the navigator (Robert Ito), stewardess Mae (Tina Louise) and steward (Billy Crystal). The select group on the ceremonial first flight include passengers and executives. On board is Willy Basset (Burgess Meredith), the designer of the SST, Tim Vernon (Bert Convy), the Cutlass Airlines head of publicity who is having an affair with "Miss SST" Angela Garland (Misty Rowe), the model who is the public face of the new aircraft. Hank Fairbanks (Doug McClure), an ex-pilot who now works for an airline group in South America as an aircraft buyer, accompanies the other VIPs, and wants to renew an earlier romance with Mae.
The Drowning Pool
The Drowning Pool (1975)
, 1h48
Directed by Stuart Rosenberg
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Anthony Franciosa, Murray Hamilton, Gail Strickland, Melanie Griffith
Roles James
Rating64% 3.247613.247613.247613.247613.24761
Private detective Lew Harper (Paul Newman) investigates a blackmail plot in Louisiana bayou country involving the daughter (Melanie Griffith) of an old flame of his, Iris Devereaux (Joanne Woodward).
Adam at Six A.M.
Adam at Six A.M. (1970)
, 1h40
Directed by Robert Scheerer
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Michael Douglas, Lee Purcell, Joe Don Baker, Louise Latham, Charles Aidman, Grayson Hall
Roles Mr. Gaines
Rating56% 2.801982.801982.801982.801982.80198
The film revolves around Adam Ganes (Douglas), a semantics professor at a California college. He becomes complacent in his life and hears about the death of a relative in Missouri. He drives cross country to attend the funeral and pay his respects, and decides to spend the summer there working as a laborer. He meets Jerri Jo Hopper (Purcell) and falls in love, along the way developing new friendships with the town locals. He then must decide what direction he wants his life to go, whether to stay in Missouri or return to California.
Topaz
Topaz (1969)
, 2h7
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Spy, Crime
Themes Spy films, Seafaring films, Politique, Transport films, Political films
Actors Frederick Stafford, Dany Robin, Claude Jade, Michel Subor, John Forsythe, Karin Dor
Roles U.S. Embassy Official - Copenhagen (uncredited)
Rating61% 3.0981153.0981153.0981153.0981153.098115
In Copenhagen in 1962, a high-ranking Soviet intelligence officer, Boris Kusenov (Per-Axel Arosenius), defects to the West with his wife and daughter after a chase through the streets to the US embassy. In Washington DC, CIA agent Mike Nordstrom (John Forsythe) debriefs him and learns that Russian ballistic missiles with nuclear warheads are to be placed in Cuba. Needing physical evidence of the missiles, he contacts an old friend, French agent André Devereaux (Frederick Stafford), at his house in Georgetown. Nordstrom discloses Kusenov's name to Devereaux, asking him to bribe Luis Uribe, a member of Cuba's U.N. delegation, to provide photographs of documents confirming the missile bases in Cuba (knowing that Uribe hates the United States and would never cooperate with an American agent). Devereaux decides to accompany his daughter Michèle (Claude Jade) on her honeymoon with journalist François Picard (Michel Subor) as a reason to go to New York City. His wife Nicole (Dany Robin) is worried and tries to dissuade him.
Three in the Attic
Three in the Attic (1968)
, 1h32
Directed by Richard Wilson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Christopher Jones, Yvette Mimieux, Judy Pace, Maggie Thrett, Eve McVeagh, Nan Martin
Roles Mr. Clinton
Rating54% 2.7039252.7039252.7039252.7039252.703925
Paxton Quigley (Christopher Jones), a renowned womanizer, is a student at the fictional Willard College for Men, located one mile away from the fictional Fulton College for women. The schools are located in small college communities in the middle of Vermont.
An American Dream
An American Dream (1966)
, 1h43
Directed by Robert Gist
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Stuart Whitman, Janet Leigh, Eleanor Parker, Barry Sullivan, Lloyd Nolan, Murray Hamilton
Roles Jack Hale
Rating48% 2.414442.414442.414442.414442.41444
Stephen Rojack, a war hero, returns home to become a tough-talking television commentator who strongly criticizes the police's inability to put an end to the criminal activities of an organized-crime figure, Ganucci.
Terror Is a Man
Terror Is a Man (1959)
, 1h29
Directed by Gerardo de León
Origin Philippines
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Actors Francis Lederer, Greta Thyssen, Richard Derr
Roles William Fitzgerald
Rating52% 2.6473652.6473652.6473652.6473652.647365
A lone survivor of a shipwreck washes up on Blood Island. William Fitzgerald (Richard Derr) is found by Dr. Charles Girard (Francis Lederer), a scientist who has set up a laboratory on the island with his wife, Frances Girard (Greta Thyssen), and assistant Walter Perrera (Oscar Keesee). The island's natives are scared of Dr. Girard, due to his strange ideas about the link between man and animals, and leave the island. The doctor has experimented on a panther, changing it into a half-man/half-panther beast which escapes and goes on a rampage. Fitzgerald and Frances fall in love and have to deal with the escaped creature, the mad Dr. Girard and the sadistic Walter. The creature is recaptured but escapes again, killing Walter and Dr. Girard before falling off a cliff.
The Invisible Avenger
The Invisible Avenger (1958)
, 1h10
Directed by James Wong Howe
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action
Themes Superhero films
Actors Richard Derr, Helen Westcott, Jack Donner
Roles Lamont Cranston / The Shadow
Rating53% 2.6703252.6703252.6703252.6703252.670325
Pablo Ramirez is an expatriate from the Caribbean nation of Santa Cruz that is under control of a military dictator called the Generalissimo. From New Orleans, Ramirez plots a revolution and his return to Santa Cruz. To assist in this and to protect him from the Santa Cruz secret police who are in New Orleans he seeks the help of Lamont Cranston through a mutual friend, jazz trumpeter Tony Alcade. In the midst of a telephone call to Cranston Tony is murdered by the secret police.
When Worlds Collide
When Worlds Collide (1951)
, 1h23
Directed by Rudolph Maté
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Films set in Africa, Space adventure films, La fin du monde, Films about religion, Films based on science fiction novels, Films set in the future, Political films, Dystopian films, Impact events in fiction, Space opera, Disaster films, American disaster films
Actors Richard Derr, Barbara Rush, Larry Keating, Peter Hansen, John Hoyt, Rachel Ames
Roles David Randall
Rating65% 3.296763.296763.296763.296763.29676
Pilot David Randall is paid to fly top-secret photographs from South African astronomer Dr. Emery Bronson to Dr. Cole Hendron in the United States. Hendron, with the assistance of his daughter Joyce, confirms their worst fears: Bronson has discovered a rogue star named Bellus that is on a collision course with Earth.
Guilty of Treason
Guilty of Treason (1950)
, 1h26
Directed by Felix E. Feist
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Films about religion, Political films
Actors Charles Bickford, Bonita Granville, Paul Kelly, Richard Derr, John Banner, Roland Winters
Roles Soviet Col. Aleksandr Melnikov
Rating60% 3.0487153.0487153.0487153.0487153.048715
The film uses the framing device of a speech to members of the Overseas Press Club of America by a journalist who has just returned from Budapest where he witnessed the treason trial of Mindszenty. He also tells the story of Stephanie Varna, a young teacher who decides to stake a moral stand against Communism despite her love for a Russian officer.
Joan of Arc
Joan of Arc (1948)
, 2h25
Directed by Richard Rosson, Victor Fleming
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes Films about religion, Jeanne d'Arc, Political films, Films based on plays, Histoire de France
Actors Ingrid Bergman, José Ferrer, Francis L. Sullivan, J. Carrol Naish, George Coulouris, Gene Lockhart
Roles Jean de Metz, a knight
Rating63% 3.195783.195783.195783.195783.19578
Unlike the play Joan of Lorraine, which is a drama that shows how the story of Joan affects a group of actors who are performing it, the film is a straightforward recounting of the life of the French heroine. It begins with an obviously painted shot of the inside of a basilica with a shaft of light, possibly descending from heaven, shining down from the ceiling, and a solemn off-screen voice pronouncing the canonization of the Maid of Orleans. Then, the opening page of what appears to be a church manuscript recounting Joan's life in Latin is shown on the screen, while some uncredited voiceover narration by actor Shepperd Strudwick sets up the tale. The actual story of Joan then begins, from the time she becomes convinced that she has been divinely called to save France to her being burnt at the stake at the hands of the English and the Burgundians.