Sam O'Steen is a Actor, Director and Editor American born on 6 november 1923 at Arkansas (USA)
Sam O'Steen
Sam O'Steen participated to
40 films (as actor, director or script writer).
Among those,
10 have good markets following the box office.
Here are the best films classified by number of entries :
Editor
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Directed by Mike NicholsOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Fantastic,
Horror comedy,
Fantasy,
Horror,
RomanceThemes Films about animals,
Films about magic and magicians,
Films about sexuality,
Wolves in film,
Werewolves in film,
Comedy horror films,
Mise en scène d'un mammifèreActors Jack Nicholson,
Michelle Pfeiffer,
James Spader,
Kate Nelligan,
Richard Jenkins,
Christopher PlummerRoles Editor
Rating62%
Will Randall is bitten by a wolf while driving home in Vermont. Afterwards, he is demoted from editor-in-chief of a publishing house when it is taken over by tycoon Raymond Alden, who replaces him with Will's protégé Stewart Swinton. When Will thinks that his wife Charlotte is having an affair with Stewart, he rushes over to his house where Stewart sees Will angry and asks him what the problem is. Will bites Stewart and rushes upstairs to the room to find Charlotte half-naked. His worst fears are confirmed. Will becomes more aggressive, taking on the characteristics of a wolf., 1h45
Directed by Mike NicholsOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Comedy-drama,
RomanceThemes Films about sexuality,
Erotic films,
Musical films,
Films about virginityActors Anne Bancroft,
Dustin Hoffman,
Katharine Ross,
William Daniels,
Murray Hamilton,
Elizabeth WilsonRoles Editor
Rating79%
Benjamin Braddock, aged twenty, has earned his bachelor's degree and has returned home to a party celebrating his graduation at his parents' house in Pasadena, California. Benjamin, visibly uncomfortable as his parents deliver accolades and neighborhood friends ask him about his future plans, evades those who try to congratulate him. Mrs. Robinson, the neglected wife of his father's law partner, insists that he drive her home. Benjamin is coerced inside to have a drink and Mrs. Robinson attempts to seduce him. She invites him up to her daughter's bedroom to see her portrait and then reenters the room naked, making it clear that she is available to him. Benjamin initially rebuffs her, but after a few days, he clumsily organizes a tryst at the Taft hotel., 1h55
Directed by Mike NicholsOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Comedy-drama,
Romantic comedy,
RomanceThemes L'usurpation d'identité,
Musical films,
Children's films,
EscroquerieActors Melanie Griffith,
Harrison Ford,
Sigourney Weaver,
Alec Baldwin,
Joan Cusack,
Philip BoscoRoles Editor
Rating67%
Tess McGill (Melanie Griffith) is an Irish American working-class stockbroker's secretary from Staten Island with a bachelor's degree in Business from evening classes. She dreams of an executive position. Tricked by her boss (Oliver Platt) into a date with his lascivious colleague (Kevin Spacey), she gets into trouble by publicly insulting him and is reassigned as secretary to a new financial executive, Katharine Parker (Sigourney Weaver). Seemingly supportive, Katharine encourages Tess to share ideas. Tess suggests that a client, Trask Industries, should invest in radio to gain a foothold in media. Katharine listens to the idea and says she'll pass it through some people. Later, she says the idea wasn't well received. But when Katharine breaks her leg skiing in Europe, she asks Tess to house-sit. While at Katharine's place, Tess discovers some meeting notes where Katharine plans to pass off the merger idea as her own. At home, Tess finds her boyfriend (Alec Baldwin) in bed with another woman. Disillusioned, she returns to Katharine's apartment and begins her transformation., 1h41
Directed by Mike NicholsOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Comedy-dramaThemes Films about families,
Medical-themed films,
Films about drugs,
Films about televisionActors Meryl Streep,
Shirley MacLaine,
Dennis Quaid,
Gene Hackman,
Rob Reiner,
Richard DreyfussRoles Editor
Rating66%
Actress Suzanne Vale (Meryl Streep) is a recovering drug addict trying to pick up the pieces of her acting career and get on with her life after being discharged from a rehab center to kick a cocaine-acid-Percodan habit; after overdosing while on a date, her mother admitted her to the rehab center from the emergency room. When she is ready to return to work her agent advises her the studio's insurance policy will cover her only if she lives with a "responsible" individual such as her mother Doris Mann (Shirley MacLaine) who was the reigning musical comedy star of the 1950s and '60s. Suzanne is very reluctant to return to the woman she struggled to escape from for years after growing up in her shadow. The situation is not helped by the fact that Doris is loud, competitive, manipulative, self-absorbed and given to offering her daughter unsolicited advice with insinuating value judgments while treating her like a child., 2h11
Directed by Mike NicholsOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
BiographyThemes Films about sexuality,
Films about the labor movement,
LGBT-related films,
Political films,
Children's films,
LGBT-related films,
LGBT-related filmActors Meryl Streep,
Kurt Russell,
Cher,
Craig T. Nelson,
Sam Elliott,
Fred WardRoles Editor
Rating70%
Karen Silkwood (Meryl Streep), a worker at the Kerr-McGee Cimarron Fuel Fabrication Site (near Crescent, Oklahoma), shares a ramshackle house with two co-workers, her boyfriend Drew Stephens (Kurt Russell) and her lesbian friend Dolly Pelliker (Cher). She makes plutonium fuel rods for nuclear reactors, where she deals with the threat of exposure to radiation. She has become a union activist, concerned that corporate practices may adversely affect the health of workers. She is also engaged in a conflict with her former common-law husband in an effort to have more time with their three children., 2h11
Directed by Mike NicholsOrigin USAGenres Drama,
ComedyThemes Films about alcoholism,
Films about families,
Medical-themed films,
Films about drugs,
Films about sexuality,
Théâtre,
Films based on playsActors Elizabeth Taylor,
Richard Burton,
George Segal,
Sandy DennisRoles Editor
Rating79%
Set on the campus of a small New England college, the film focuses on the volatile relationship of associate history professor George and his hard-drinking wife Martha, the daughter of the college president. George and Martha engage in dangerous emotional games with one another. After they return home drunk from a party, Martha reveals she has invited a young married couple, whom she met at the party, for a drink. The guests arrive – Nick, a biology professor (who Martha thinks teaches math), and his wife, Honey. As the four drink, Martha and George engage in scathing verbal abuse in front of Nick and Honey. The younger couple is first embarrassed and later enmeshed. They stay., 2h16
Directed by Roman PolanskiOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Fantastic,
HorrorThemes Films about children,
Pregnancy films,
Films about magic and magicians,
Christmas films,
Films about religion,
Films about sexuality,
Rape in fiction,
Erotic films,
Demons in film,
Witches in film,
Erotic thriller filmsActors Mia Farrow,
John Cassavetes,
Ruth Gordon,
Sidney Blackmer,
Maurice Evans,
Ralph BellamyRoles Editor
Rating79%
In 1965, Rosemary Woodhouse (Mia Farrow), a bright but somewhat naive young housewife, and Guy (John Cassavetes), her husband and a struggling actor, move into the Bramford, an antiquated New York City apartment building. The couple learns from the building's manager, Mr. Nicklas (Elisha Cook, Jr.), that their new residence was previously inhabited by Mrs. Gardenia, an elderly woman who had seemingly gone senile. Guy also discovers a dresser concealing a simple closet which contains nothing except a vacuum cleaner and a few other household items. Their friend Hutch (Maurice Evans) tries to dissuade them from taking the apartment, informing them of some of the Bramford's rather unseemly history but, undeterred, Rosemary and Guy move into the building., 2h11
Directed by Roman PolanskiOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Noir,
CrimeThemes Films about families,
Films about sexualityActors Jack Nicholson,
Faye Dunaway,
John Huston,
Perry Lopez,
John Hillerman,
Diane LaddRoles Editor
Rating80%
A woman identifying herself as Evelyn Mulwray (Ladd) hires private investigator J. J. "Jake" Gittes (Nicholson) to carry out surveillance on her husband, Hollis I. Mulwray (Zwerling), chief engineer for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. Gittes tails him, hears him publicly oppose the creation of a new reservoir, and shoots photographs of him with a young woman (Palmer), which are published on the front page of the following day's paper. Upon his return to his office, Gittes is confronted by a beautiful woman who, after establishing that the two of them have never met, irately informs him she is the real Evelyn Mulwray (Dunaway) and that he can expect a lawsuit., 2h
Directed by Roman PolanskiOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Action,
CrimeActors Harrison Ford,
Betty Buckley,
John Mahoney,
Emmanuelle Seigner,
Yorgo Voyagis,
Gérard KleinRoles Editor
Rating67%
Dr. Richard Walker is a surgeon visiting Paris with his wife Sondra for a medical conference. At their hotel, she is unable to unlock her suitcase, and Walker determines that she has picked up the wrong one at the airport. While Walker is taking a shower, his wife mysteriously disappears from their hotel room., 2h6
Directed by Stuart RosenbergOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy-drama,
Action,
CrimeThemes Prison filmsActors Paul Newman,
George Kennedy,
J. D. Cannon,
Strother Martin,
Robert Drivas,
Lou AntonioRoles Editor
Rating80%
Decorated Korean War veteran Lucas "Luke" Jackson (Paul Newman), is arrested for cutting the "heads" off parking meters one drunken night. He is sentenced to two years in prison and sent to a Florida chain gang prison run by a sadistic warden, the Captain (Strother Martin), and a stoic rifleman, Walking Boss Godfrey (Morgan Woodward), whose eyes are always obstructed by a pair of mirrored sunglasses.