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Sam Spiegel is a Actor, Producer and Sound American born on 11 november 1901 at Jarosław (Pologne)

Sam Spiegel

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Birth name Samuel P. Spiegel
Nationality USA
Birth 11 november 1901 at Jarosław (Pologne)
Death 31 december 1985 (at 84 years) at Saint Martin (France)

Sam Spiegel (November 11, 1901 – December 31, 1985) was an Austrian-born American independent film producer.

Biography

Né en Galicie, Autriche-Hongrie, il fit ses études à Vienne et alla ensuite en Palestine. Dans les années 1920 et 1930, il fit carrière dans le cinéma comme producteur. En 1942, il quitta l’Europe pour les États-Unis, où il fonda une compagnie de film en 1947.

Il a produit notamment L’Odyssée de l’African Queen, Le Pont de la rivière Kwaï (7 Oscars), Soudain l’été dernier et Lawrence d'Arabie (7 Oscars). Les films qu'il a produits ont remporté 37 Oscars au total.

Best films

Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
(Producer)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
(Producer)
The African Queen (1952)
(Producer)
Nicholas and Alexandra (1971)
(Producer)
On the Waterfront (1954)
(Producer)

Usually with

John Huston
John Huston
(4 films)
Ernest Laszlo
Ernest Laszlo
(2 films)
Richard Day
Richard Day
(4 films)
Spike Jonze
Spike Jonze
(2 films)
David Lean
David Lean
(2 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Sam Spiegel (26 films)

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Actor

Happy Days
Happy Days (1929)
, 1h20
Directed by Benjamin Stoloff
Origin USA
Genres Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Marjorie White, Stuart Erwin, Charles Farrell, Frank Albertson, George MacFarlane, Janet Gaynor
Roles Lui-même
Rating57% 2.86172.86172.86172.86172.8617
Originally titled New Orleans Frolic, the story centers around Margie (played by Marjorie White), a singer on a showboat who goes to make her fortune in New York City, despite being in love with the boat owner's grandson. Although successful in the city, when she hears that the showboat is in financial trouble she calls all the boat's former stars to perform in a show to rescue it.

Producer

Betrayal
Betrayal (1983)
, 1h35
Directed by David Hugh Jones
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Jeremy Irons, Ben Kingsley, Patricia Hodge, Avril Elgar
Roles Producer
Rating68% 3.442863.442863.442863.442863.44286
Betrayal follows significant moments in the seven-year extramarital affair of art gallery owner Emma (Patricia Hodge) with literary agent Jerry (Jeremy Irons), the best friend of her husband Robert (Ben Kingsley), a London publisher. With titles such as "Two years earlier" and "One year earlier," nine sequences are shown in reverse chronological order with Emma and Jerry meeting for the first time at the conclusion of the film.
The Last Tycoon, 2h2
Directed by Elia Kazan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Robert De Niro, Tony Curtis, Robert Mitchum, Jack Nicholson, Donald Pleasence, Jeanne Moreau
Roles Producer
Rating62% 3.10093.10093.10093.10093.1009
Monroe Stahr is the young production chief and the most creative executive of one of the biggest studios of the Golden Age of Hollywood. He is a tireless worker in a time of turmoil in the industry due to the creation of the Writers Guild of America, Monroe being accustomed to make his underlings, including screenwriters, do whatever he says.
Nicholas and Alexandra, 3h9
Directed by Franklin J. Schaffner
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Biography, Historical, Romance
Themes Politique, Political films, Films about capital punishment, Films about royalty
Actors Michael Jayston, Janet Suzman, Roderic Noble, Ania Marson, Lynne Frederick, Candace Glendenning
Roles Producer
Rating71% 3.596643.596643.596643.596643.59664
The story begins with the birth of Tsarevich Alexei on 12 August 1904 during the Russo-Japanese War. Tsar Nicholas (Michael Jayston) is warned by the Prime Minister Count Witte (Laurence Olivier) and his uncle Grand Duke Nicholas (Harry Andrews) that the war is futile and costing too many lives. They tell him the Russian people want representative government, health care, voting and workers' rights, but Nicholas wants to maintain the autocracy. Meanwhile, underground political parties led by Vladimir Lenin (Michael Bryant), Joseph Stalin (James Hazeldine) and Leon Trotsky (Brian Cox) have formed.
The Swimmer, 1h34
Directed by Sydney Pollack, Frank Perry
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Sports films
Actors Burt Lancaster, Janice Rule, Marge Champion, Kim Hunter, Bernie Hamilton, Charles Drake
Roles Executive Producer
Rating75% 3.797523.797523.797523.797523.79752
On a sunny day in an affluent suburb in Connecticut, a fit and tanned middle-aged man in a bathing suit, Ned Merrill (Burt Lancaster), drops by a pool party being held by friends. They offer him a cocktail while nursing hangovers from the night before. As they share stories, Ned realizes that there is a series of swimming pools that form a "river" to his house, making it possible for him to "swim" his way home. Ned dives into the pool, emerging at the other end and beginning his journey. Ned's behavior perplexes his friends, who know things about his recent past he seems to have forgotten.
The Happening, 1h40
Directed by Robert Altman, Elliot Silverstein
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Comedy-drama, Crime
Actors Anthony Quinn, Michael Parks, George Maharis, Robert Walker Jr., Faye Dunaway, Martha Hyer
Roles Producer
Rating51% 2.5591852.5591852.5591852.5591852.559185
Four bored beach bums from Miami come across kids playing with toy guns. They chase one into a house, which by chance belongs to Roc Delmonico, a former gangster who is now retired and a respectable businessman.
The Night of the Generals, 2h28
Directed by Anatole Litvak, Norman J. Warren, Andrzej Żuławski
Origin France
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Politique, Serial killer films, Political films
Actors Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif, Tom Courtenay, Donald Pleasence, Joanna Pettet, Philippe Noiret
Roles Producer
Rating71% 3.5953653.5953653.5953653.5953653.595365
The murder of a prostitute in German-occupied Warsaw in 1942 causes Abwehr Major Grau (Omar Sharif) to start an investigation, as she was also a German agent. His evidence soon points to the killer being one of three German general officers: General von Seydlitz-Gabler (Charles Gray); General Kahlenberg (Donald Pleasence), his chief of staff; and General Tanz (Peter O'Toole). Grau's investigation, however, is cut short by his summary transfer to Paris at the instigation of these officers.
The Chase
The Chase (1966)
, 2h13
Directed by Arthur Penn
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Marlon Brando, Jane Fonda, Robert Redford, E. G. Marshall, Angie Dickinson, Janice Rule
Roles Producer
Rating70% 3.549293.549293.549293.549293.54929
In a small Texas town where banker Val Rogers (E.G. Marshall) wields a great deal of influence, word comes that native son Bubber Reeves (Robert Redford) and another man have escaped from prison.
Lawrence of Arabia, 3h38
Directed by David Lean, Noël Howard
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Biography, Adventure, Historical
Themes Political films, Films based on plays, Le désert
Actors Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins, Omar Sharif, José Ferrer
Roles Producer
Rating82% 4.1485654.1485654.1485654.1485654.148565
Part I In 1935, Lawrence is killed in a motorcycle accident. At his memorial service at St Paul's Cathedral, a reporter tries to gain insights into this remarkable, enigmatic man from those who knew him, with little success.
Suddenly, Last Summer, 1h54
Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action
Themes Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Films about sexuality, Théâtre, LGBT-related films, Films about psychiatry, Films based on plays, Adaptation d'une pièce de théâtre de Tennessee Williams, Films set in psychiatric hospitals, LGBT-related films, Lobotomie, LGBT-related film
Actors Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, Montgomery Clift, Albert Dekker, Mercedes McCambridge, Gary Raymond
Roles Producer
Rating74% 3.7477353.7477353.7477353.7477353.747735
New Orleans, 1937: Catherine Holly (Elizabeth Taylor) is a young woman institutionalized for a severe emotional disturbance that occurred when her cousin, Sebastian Venable, died under questionable circumstances while they were on summer holiday in Europe. The late Sebastian's wealthy mother, Violet Venable (Katharine Hepburn), makes every effort to deny and suppress the potentially sordid truth about her son and his demise. Toward that end, she attempts to bribe the state hospital's administrator, Dr. Lawrence J. Hockstader (Albert Dekker), by offering to finance a new wing for the underfunded facility if he will coerce his brilliant young surgeon, Dr. John Cukrowicz (Montgomery Clift), into lobotomizing her niece, thereby removing any chance that the events surrounding her son's death might be revealed by Catherine's "obscene babbling.
The Strange One, 1h40
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Films about sexuality, Théâtre, LGBT-related films, Films based on plays, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Ben Gazzara, Pat Hingle, George Peppard, Geoffrey Horne, Peter Mark Richman, Larry Gates
Roles Producer
Rating68% 3.44273.44273.44273.44273.4427
Cadet Staff Sergeant Jocko DeParis is a senior at the fictional Southern Military College. Using the authority of his own rank, his father's connections with the school, and the college's tradition of allowing upperclassmen to bully new cadets, DeParis effectively does what he pleases. Everyone at the school is either afraid of him or believes he is a normal or even exemplary cadet.
The Bridge on the River Kwai, 2h41
Directed by David Lean
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Adventure, Historical
Themes Seafaring films, Pont, Prison films, Transport films, Rail transport films, Political films, Évasion
Actors William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa, James Donald, Percy Herbert
Roles Producer
Rating80% 4.048734.048734.048734.048734.04873
In World War II, British prisoners arrive by train at a Japanese prison camp in Burma. The commandant, Colonel Saito (Sessue Hayakawa), informs them that all prisoners, regardless of rank, are to work on the construction of a railway bridge over the River Kwai that will connect Bangkok and Rangoon. The senior British officer, Lieutenant Colonel Nicholson (Alec Guinness), reminds Saito that the Geneva Conventions exempt officers from manual labour.
On the Waterfront, 1h48
Directed by Elia Kazan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Noir, Crime, Romance
Themes Mafia films, Films about religion, Films about the labor movement, Political films, Gangster films
Actors Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Eva Marie Saint, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger, Leif Erickson
Roles Producer
Rating80% 4.0489654.0489654.0489654.0489654.048965
Mob-connected union boss Johnny Friendly (Lee J. Cobb) gloats about his iron-fisted control of the waterfront. The police and the Waterfront Crime Commission know that Friendly is behind a number of murders, but witnesses play "D and D" ("deaf and dumb"), accepting their subservient position rather than risking the danger and shame of informing.
Melba
Melba (1953)
, 1h52
Directed by Lewis Milestone
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Biography, Musical
Themes Seafaring films, Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Films about classical music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Robert Morley, John Justin, John McCallum, Martita Hunt, Sybil Thorndike, Theodore Bikel
Roles Producer
Rating55% 2.762032.762032.762032.762032.76203
Based on the life of Dame Nellie Melba, the film traces the career of Melba (Patrice Munsel) from the time she left Australia, traveling to Paris to receive vocal training, meets a new suitor, and debuts her talent in Brussels. As her success grows, her former suitor from Australia arrives in Monte Carlo, convinces her to marry him, but then finds himself placed in the position of being "Mr. Melba". When he leaves her to return to Australia, Melba remains in Europe to continue singing.
The African Queen, 1h45
Directed by John Huston, Guy Hamilton
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Romantic comedy, Action, Adventure, Historical, Romance
Themes Films set in Africa, Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films
Actors Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Morley, Theodore Bikel, Peter C. Bull, Walter Gotell
Roles Producer
Rating76% 3.8476453.8476453.8476453.8476453.847645
Samuel Sayer (Robert Morley) and his sister Rose (Katharine Hepburn) are British Methodist missionaries in the village of Kungdu in German East Africa at the beginning of World War I in August/September 1914. Their mail and supplies are delivered by a small tramp steamer named the African Queen, helmed by the rough-and-ready Canadian boat captain Charlie Allnut (Humphrey Bogart), whose coarse behavior they tolerate in a rather stiff manner.