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Wiliam Ware Theiss is a Costume Designer American born on 20 november 1931 at Boston (USA)
William Ware Theiss (November 20, 1931 – December 15, 1992), also called Bill Theiss, was a costume designer for television and film.
His film credits as costume designer include Spartacus, Harold and Maude, Bound for Glory, Pete's Dragon (uncredited), Who'll Stop the Rain, Butch and Sundance: The Early Days, The Man with One Red Shoe, and Heart Like a Wheel. His television credits include Star Trek and Star Trek: The Next Generation, for which he won an Emmy Award for Best Costume Design.
(1976)
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(1971)
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Nationality USA
Birth 20 november 1931 at Boston (USA)
Death 15 december 1992 (at 61 years) at San Francisco (USA)
Awards Emmy Award
Birth 20 november 1931 at Boston (USA)
Death 15 december 1992 (at 61 years) at San Francisco (USA)
Awards Emmy Award
His film credits as costume designer include Spartacus, Harold and Maude, Bound for Glory, Pete's Dragon (uncredited), Who'll Stop the Rain, Butch and Sundance: The Early Days, The Man with One Red Shoe, and Heart Like a Wheel. His television credits include Star Trek and Star Trek: The Next Generation, for which he won an Emmy Award for Best Costume Design.
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You Ruined My Life (1987)
, 1h40Origin USA
Themes Children's films
Actors Soleil Moon Frye, Allen Garfield, Paul Reiser, Alison Sweeney, Mimi Rogers, Tony Burton
Roles Costume Design
Rating6%
You Ruined My Life is about 11-year-old Minerva (Soleil Moon Frye), a girl who lives in a Las Vegas casino with her Uncle Howie (Allen Garfield), who spoils her by giving her everything she wants. Minerva gets into trouble and her strict Aunt Hermione (Edith Fields) threatens to take her away. Dexter, a clever Mathematics professor,(Paul Reiser) finds out a foolproof way to cheat and win in blackjack, but he is caught. Dexter is burdened with a gigantic gambling debt. Uncle Howie makes sure Dexter tutors Minerva so she can gain admissions into a private school. It takes a while for this arrangement to work out between Dexter and Minerva, but finally they make great strides and Minerva amazingly learns everything very quickly. She runs away by herself to take the exam and pass. Meanwhile, Dexter and Uncle Howie's assistant Charlotte played by Mimi Rogers fall in love.
The Richest Cat in the World (1986)
, 2hDirected by Greg Beeman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Western
Themes Films about animals, Films about cats, Children's films
Actors Ramon Bieri, Steven Kampmann, Caroline McWilliams, Steve Vinovich, George Wyner, Brandon Call
Roles Costume Design
Rating61%
The death of millionaire Oscar Kohlmeyer leaves an inheritance to a talking cat called Leo Kohlmeyer. Leo's inheritance is worth five million dollars while Oscar's nephew (Mr. Rigsby) gets twenty-five thousand dollars on the condition he doesn't contest the will. Being greedy and bossy, Mrs. Rigsby forces her husband to contest. The Rigsbys try to kidnap the cat.
The Man with One Red Shoe (1985)
, 1h29Directed by Stan Dragoti
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Spy
Themes Spy films, Children's films
Actors Tom Hanks, Dabney Coleman, Lori Singer, Charles Durning, James Belushi, Carrie Fisher
Roles Costume Design
Rating57%
Cooper (Coleman), a deputy director of the CIA, wants to take over the director position. Standing in his way is Ross (Durning), whom Cooper plans on eliminating by implicating him in a failed drug-smuggling operation in Morocco and forcing him to resign.
Heart Like a Wheel (1983)
, 1h53Directed by Jonathan Kaplan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Sports films, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Auto racing films, Road movies
Actors Bonnie Bedelia, Beau Bridges, Leo Rossi, Anthony Edwards, Hoyt Axton, Bill McKinney
Roles Costume Design
Rating66%
In 1956 Schenectady, New York, waitress Shirley Roque (Bonnie Bedelia) marries auto mechanic Jack Muldowney (Leo Rossi) over the mild objections of her singer father Tex (Hoyt Axton), who wants her to be able to take care of herself, rather than having to rely on a husband. Jack buys a gas station, Shirley becomes a housewife, and they have a son.
Mr. Patman (1981)
, 1h37Directed by John Guillermin
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors James Coburn, Kate Nelligan, Fionnula Flanagan, Lois Maxwell, Leslie Carlson, Jan Rubes
Roles Costume Design
Rating55%
A film about a male nurse (James Coburn) working the night shift in a psycho ward who begins to lose his grip on reality. Directed by John Guillermin, responsible for the 1976 version of King Kong and The Towering Inferno, the film was released theatrically in Europe then recut and sold to television in North America.
, 1h55Directed by Richard Lester
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Western
Themes Buddy films, Heist films, Children's films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Tom Berenger, William Katt, Michael C. Gwynne, Peter Weller, Jeff Corey, Brian Dennehy
Roles Costume Design
Rating56%
A young Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid are wannabe outlaws who find that breaking the law is not as easy as it seems.
Goin' South (1978)
, 1h45Directed by Jack Nicholson
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Western
Actors Jack Nicholson, Mary Steenburgen, Christopher Lloyd, John Belushi, Richard Bradford, Veronica Cartwright
Roles Costume Design
Rating61%
Henry Lloyd Moon (Nicholson), a third-rate outlaw in the late 1860s, is a bank robber, horse thief and cattle thief who is sentenced to be hanged in Longhorn, Texas, to the glee of the local populace and especially of the deputy sheriff (Lloyd). Moon comes under especially close scrutiny from some women in town, due to a local ordinance originating during the Civil War, that allowed a condemned man (short of being a murderer) to be saved from the gallows if an unmarried lady would marry him and take responsibility for his good behavior.
The Children of Sanchez (1978)
, 2h6Directed by Hall Bartlett
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Anthony Quinn, Lupita Ferrer, Katy Jurado, Dolores del Río, Stathis Giallelis, Héctor Bonilla
Roles Costume Design
Rating60%
Who'll Stop the Rain (1978)
, 2h6Directed by Karel Reisz
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, War, Thriller, Comedy, Action, Horror, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Political films
Actors Nick Nolte, Tuesday Weld, Michael Moriarty, Richard Masur, Stuart Wilson, David Opatoshu
Roles Costume Design
Rating66%
The film opens in Saigon at the height of the Vietnam War. John Converse (Moriarty), a disillusioned war correspondent, approaches Ray Hicks (Nolte), a merchant marine sailor and acquaintance of Converse's from the US, for help in smuggling a large quantity of heroin from Vietnam to San Francisco, where he will exchange the drugs for payment with Converse's wife Marge (Weld), who has become addicted to Dilaudid. When Hicks discovers he is being followed by thugs connected either to Converse or his suppliers, he goes on the run with Marge and the heroin, and is eventually pursued by the corrupt DEA agent (Zerbe), who initially set the deal in motion. As Marge is separated from her supply of prescription drugs, she experiences withdrawal, and Hicks decides to help her wean off her dilaudid addiction by using the heroin. Hicks also attempts to find another buyer for the heroin before his pursuers can catch up to him.
The Children of Sanchez (1978)
, 2h6Directed by Hall Bartlett
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Anthony Quinn, Lupita Ferrer, Katy Jurado, Helena Rojo, Dolores del Río, Patricia Reyes Spíndola
Roles Costume Design
Rating60%
Bound for Glory (1976)
, 2h27Directed by Hal Ashby
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Rail transport films, Musical films, Road movies
Actors David Carradine, Ronny Cox, Melinda Dillon, Gail Strickland, Ji-Tu Cumbuka, Randy Quaid
Roles Costume Design
Rating71%
In the Depression 1930s, Midwesterner Guthrie (David Carradine) plays music locally but cannot make enough as a sign painter to support his wife (Melinda Dillon) and children. With only his paintbrushes, Woody joins the migration westward from the Dust Bowl to supposedly greener California pastures via boxcar and hitchhiking. Much of the film is based on Guthrie's attempt to humanize the desperate Okie Dust Bowl refugees in California during the Great Depression.
Genesis II (1973)
, 1h14Directed by John Llewellyn Moxey
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction
Themes Films set in the future
Actors Alex Cord, Mariette Hartley, Ted Cassidy, Percy Rodriguez, Harvey Jason, Titos Vandis
Roles Costume Design
Rating58%
In 1979, NASA scientist Dylan Hunt (Alex Cord) is working on "Project Ganymede", a suspended animation system for astronauts on long-duration space flights. As chief of the project he volunteers for the first multi-day test. He places himself in chemically induced hibernation deep inside Carlsbad Caverns; while there, his lab is buried in an earthquake. The monitoring equipment is damaged and fails to awake him at the intended end of the test. He awakens instead in 2133, emerging into a chaotic post-apocalyptic world. An event called "The Great Conflict" (a third and final World War) destroyed the civilization of Hunt's time. Various new civilizations have emerged in a struggle for control of available resources. Those with the greatest military might and the will to use it have the greatest advantage.
Planet Earth (1973)
, 1h14Directed by Marc Daniels
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction
Actors John Saxon, Janet Margolin, Ted Cassidy, Diana Muldaur, Majel Barrett, Aron Kincaid
Roles Costume Design
Rating57%
Un groupe d'humains, Dylan Hunt le commandant, Harper-Smythe la scientifique et Baylok le spécialiste des communications sont réveillés de l'animation suspendue et se retrouvent au 22e siècle sur Terre. Alors qu'ils parcourent la surface de la planète dans un engin motorisé, ils découvrent une civilisation où les femmes contrôlent la planète et les hommes sont devenus des esclaves. D'abord capturé, leur chef Hunt est vendu comme esclave puis prend la tête de la révolte masculine.
Hickey & Boggs (1972)
, 1h51Directed by Robert Culp
Origin USA
Genres Action, Crime
Actors Bill Cosby, Robert Culp, Rosalind Cash, Bernard Nedell, Michael Moriarty, Ta-Ronce Allen
Roles Costume Design
Rating62%
Here, Culp and Cosby play weary, hard-luck private eyes Al Hickey and Frank Boggs: both are hired to find a missing girl. Their search brings death to almost everyone around them, leading to a violent and downbeat conclusion.
Harold and Maude (1971)
, 1h31Directed by Hal Ashby
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about suicide, Vieillesse, Buddy films
Actors Ruth Gordon, Bud Cort, Eric Christmas, Vivian Pickles, Cyril Cusack, Ellen Geer
Roles Costume Designer
Rating78%
Harold Chasen (Bud Cort) is a young man obsessed with death. He stages elaborate fake suicides, attends funerals and drives a hearse, all to the chagrin of his socialite mother (Vivian Pickles).