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William C. Thompson is a Actor, Director of Photography and Cinematography American born on 30 march 1889
William Creevy Thompson (généralement crédité William C. Thompson ou William Thompson) est un directeur de la photographie américain, né le 30 mars 1889 à Bound Brook (New Jersey), mort le 22 octobre 1963 à Los Angeles (Californie).
Ses dix-sept premiers films parlants comme directeur de la photographie sortent entre 1930 et 1936, dont Maniac de Dwain Esper (1934, avec Horace B. Carpenter).
Sa troisième période, de 1945 à 1960, comprend trente-et-un autres films américains, dont Project Moonbase de Richard Talmadge (1953, avec Hayden Rorke) et Too Soon to Love de Richard Rush (son avant-dernier film, 1960, avec Richard Evans et Jack Nicholson).
De plus, il collabore à sept films d'Ed Wood, depuis Louis ou Louise (1953, avec le réalisateur et Béla Lugosi) jusqu'à The Sinister Urge (son dernier film, 1960), en passant notamment par La Fiancée du monstre (1955, avec Béla Lugosi et Tor Johnson) et Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959, avec Gregory Walcott et Tor Johnson).
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Birth name William Creevy Thompson
Nationality USA
Birth 30 march 1889
Death 22 october 1963 (at 74 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Nationality USA
Birth 30 march 1889
Death 22 october 1963 (at 74 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
William Creevy Thompson (généralement crédité William C. Thompson ou William Thompson) est un directeur de la photographie américain, né le 30 mars 1889 à Bound Brook (New Jersey), mort le 22 octobre 1963 à Los Angeles (Californie).
Biography
William C. Thompson débute comme chef opérateur sur Absinthe d'Herbert Brenon et George Edwardes-Hall (avec King Baggot), sorti en 1914. Suivent dix-sept autres films muets (le dernier sorti en 1928), dont The Curse of Eve de Frank Beal (1917, avec Enid Markey et Edward Coxen) et Revenge de Tod Browning (1918, avec Edith Storey et Wheeler Oakman).Ses dix-sept premiers films parlants comme directeur de la photographie sortent entre 1930 et 1936, dont Maniac de Dwain Esper (1934, avec Horace B. Carpenter).
Sa troisième période, de 1945 à 1960, comprend trente-et-un autres films américains, dont Project Moonbase de Richard Talmadge (1953, avec Hayden Rorke) et Too Soon to Love de Richard Rush (son avant-dernier film, 1960, avec Richard Evans et Jack Nicholson).
De plus, il collabore à sept films d'Ed Wood, depuis Louis ou Louise (1953, avec le réalisateur et Béla Lugosi) jusqu'à The Sinister Urge (son dernier film, 1960), en passant notamment par La Fiancée du monstre (1955, avec Béla Lugosi et Tor Johnson) et Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959, avec Gregory Walcott et Tor Johnson).
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Glen or Glenda (1953)
, 1h5Directed by Ed Wood
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Documentary, Horror
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Sexploitation films, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, Documentaire sur l'homosexualité, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Cross-dressing in film
Actors Ed Wood, Dolores Fuller, Timothy Farrell, Bela Lugosi, Lyle Talbot, Daniel Davis
Roles Judge (uncredited)
Rating42%
The film begins with a narrator, called The Scientist, making cryptic comments about humanity. He first comments that humanity's constant search for the unknown, results in startling things coming to light. But most of these "new" discoveries are actually quite old, to which he refers to as "the signs of the ages". Later, the scene turns to the streets of a city, with the narrator commenting that each human has his/her own thoughts, ideas, and personality. He makes further comments on human life, while sounds accompany some comments. The cries of a newborn baby are followed by the sirens of an ambulance. One is a sign that a new life has begun, the other that a life has ended.
Marihuana (1936)
, 57minutesOrigin USA
Genres Drama, Documentary, Historical, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Documentary films about law, Documentary films about health care
Actors Barry Norton, William C. Thompson
Roles Waterfront-Raid Detective (uncredited)
Rating40%
Burma is a confused girl who likes to party. One day, she meets some strangers in a bar who invite her and her group to a party. She goes to the party with her friends, they all drink alcohol, only the girls at the party smoke marijuana unknowingly, and keep on laughing. The other girls wind up going skinny-dipping while Burma has sex with her boyfriend on the beach (which leads to her pregnancy).
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The Sinister Urge (1960)
, 1h11Directed by Ed Wood
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Films about music and musicians, Serial killer films, Musical films
Actors Kenne Duncan, Duke Moore, Harvey B. Dunn, Joan Fontaine, Reed Howes, Ed Wood
Roles Director of Photography
Rating26%
The film revolves around a series of murders of young women. The opening scene features an unnamed blonde woman (Betty Boatner) running along a mountain road, wearing only her undergarments. She is clearly scared for her life. She enters a city park and manages to reach a telephone booth. Her attempt to escape her assailant ends in failure, when the man also reaches the booth. He quickly kills her and leaves her corpse next to a lake. The corpse is soon discovered by visitors of the park. The scene shifts to a police station, where Police Lieutenant Matt Carson (Kenne Duncan) receives a phone report on the latest murder. He instructs subordinate Officer Kline (Fred Mason) to gather information from the witnesses who called in the discovery of the body. Then he summons his associate Sergeant Randy Stone (Duke Moore) and they head out towards the crime scene. They take note of the youthful appearance of the victim and suspect a connection to the "smut picture racket".
Night of the Ghouls (1959)
, 1h9Directed by Ed Wood
Origin USA
Genres Horror
Themes Ghost films, Zombie films
Actors Kenne Duncan, Duke Moore, Tor Johnson, Valda Hansen, Johnny Carpenter, John Carpenter
Roles Director of Photography
Rating35%
The basic plot involves the police investigating a supposed haunted house. The house is discovered to serve as headquarters for a confidence trickster who pretends to be able to contact the dead, and charges naive customers large amounts of money to allow them to speak to their deceased loved ones.
Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959)
, 1h19Directed by Ed Wood
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantastic, Horror
Themes Medical-themed films, Films set in the future, Films about extraterrestrial life, Zombie films, Films about viral outbreaks, Films about extraterrestrial life, Alien invasions in films, Disaster films
Actors Gregory Walcott, Tom Keene, Tor Johnson, Duke Moore, Dudley Manlove, Bunny Breckinridge
Roles Director of Photography
Rating39%
At the funeral of an Old Man's wife, mourners are gathered by an open grave, among them her husband (Bela Lugosi). Overhead, an airliner is heading towards Burbank, California. The pilot Jeff Trent (Gregory Walcott) and his co-pilot Danny (David De Mering) are blinded by a bright light and loud sound. They look outside and see a flying saucer. The pilots follow the saucer's flight until it lands at the graveyard, where the funeral's gravediggers are killed by a female zombie (Maila Nurmi).
The Astounding She-Monster (1957)
, 1h2Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Actors Robert Clarke, Kenne Duncan, Ewing Miles Brown
Roles Director of Photography
Rating36%
A group of criminals who have kidnapped an heiress take over a geologist's home in a secluded forest to hide in. Then a UFO crashes nearby and out emerges an alien resembling a beautiful woman- however, she's highly radioactive and can kill with her bare touch. She starts stalking and killing the other characters. In the end, the alien herself is killed, but not before the scientist realizes she was only trying to ask for help, apparently unaware of how dangerous she was to humans. He fears what the reaction of her race will be towards Earth after the incident.
The Violent Years (1956)
, 1h5Directed by Ed Wood, William Morgan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Barbara Weeks, Glen Corbett, Timothy Farrell, Glenn Corbett, I. Stanford Jolley
Roles Director of Photography
Rating35%
Paula Parkins, the spoiled daughter of a well-to-do newspaper editor father and a socialite mother, gets her kicks by organizing and directing a gang of bored young women like herself. The gang dresses in men's attire, robs gas stations, and terrorizes habitués of a local lovers' lane—even raping a young gentleman (off camera) after tying up his girlfriend.
Bride of the Monster (1955)
, 1h8Directed by Ed Wood
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Themes Films about writers, Films about journalists, Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Bela Lugosi, Loretta King, Tor Johnson, Harvey B. Dunn, Dolores Fuller, Paul Marco
Roles Director of Photography
Rating41%
The film opens to the scene of an old, dark house in a stormy night. In the nearby woods, two hunters are caught in the "raging thunderstorm". Their conversation reveals that every night of the previous three months had its own storm, which the hunters find to be unnatural weather. They decide to seek refuge in Willows House, identifying the old house, which is supposedly abandoned and haunted. When they reach Willows House, they find it to be occupied and the current owner repeatedly denies them hospitality. One of the hunters attempts to use his rifle to force his entry into the house, but at this point a menacing giant (played by Tor Johnson) appears and scares the intruders away.
Jail Bait (1954)
, 1h12Directed by Ed Wood
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Crime
Actors Timothy Farrell, Dolores Fuller, Herbert Rawlinson, Steve Reeves, Lyle Talbot, Buster Keaton
Roles Director of Photography
Rating37%
The film credits open to the scene of a moving police car in the streets of Alhambra, California. The car stops at a police station, and the officers inside it transport their drunk prisoner to the station. Inside the station, Marilyn Gregor (Dolores Fuller) meets Inspector Johns (Lyle Talbot) and Bob Lawrence (Steve Reeves). Through their discussion, the viewers learn that her brother Don Gregor (Clancy Malone) had been arrested for carrying an unlicensed handgun. She has just posted bail for him, and the two officers warn her that she would forfeit if her brother fails to show up for his trial. They release her brother, but they refuse Don's request to return his handgun. As the Gregor siblings leave, John Muses about the son of a great doctor being a jerk. Lawrence suggests it could be a result of the "sins of the father". Johns suspects the young man was an associate of gangster Vic Brady (Timothy Farrell).
Girl Gang (1954)
, 1h3Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Actors Timothy Farrell
Roles Director of Photography
Rating46%
Joe (Timothy Farrell) controls a gang of young girls who commit robberies and prostitution for him by getting them hooked on drugs.
Girl Gang (1954)
, 1h3Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Actors Timothy Farrell
Roles Director of Photography
Rating46%
Joe (Timothy Farrell) controls a gang of young girls who commit robberies and prostitution for him by getting them hooked on marijuana, then heroin.
Glen or Glenda (1953)
, 1h5Directed by Ed Wood
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Documentary, Horror
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Sexploitation films, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, Documentaire sur l'homosexualité, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Cross-dressing in film
Actors Ed Wood, Dolores Fuller, Timothy Farrell, Bela Lugosi, Lyle Talbot, Daniel Davis
Roles Director of Photography
Rating42%
The film begins with a narrator, called The Scientist, making cryptic comments about humanity. He first comments that humanity's constant search for the unknown, results in startling things coming to light. But most of these "new" discoveries are actually quite old, to which he refers to as "the signs of the ages". Later, the scene turns to the streets of a city, with the narrator commenting that each human has his/her own thoughts, ideas, and personality. He makes further comments on human life, while sounds accompany some comments. The cries of a newborn baby are followed by the sirens of an ambulance. One is a sign that a new life has begun, the other that a life has ended.
Project Moon Base (1953)
, 1h3Directed by Richard Talmadge
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Adventure
Themes Space adventure films, Spy films, Films about music and musicians, Sur la Lune, Films set in the future, Musical films, Political films, Space opera
Actors Hayden Rorke, Donna Martell, Ernestine Barrier, Robert Karnes
Roles Director of Photography
Rating33%
Set in a future 1970, the United States is considering building bases on the Moon. Colonel Briteis (Donna Martell), Major Bill Moore (Ross Ford), and Doctor Wernher (Larry Johns) are sent to orbit the Moon to survey landing sites for future lunar missions. However, Dr. Wernher is an impostor whose mission is to destroy the US's Earth-orbiting space station, which he plans to do by colliding the rocket with the station on the way back from the Moon.
Son Of The Renegade (1953)
, 56minutesOrigin USA
Genres Western
Actors Johnny Carpenter, Jack Ingram, Ewing Miles Brown, Frank Ellis
Roles Director of Photography
Rating40%
The Blonde Pick-Up (1951)
, 1h10Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Timothy Farrell
Roles Director of Photography
Rating18%
Umberto Scalli (Timothy Farrell) is a small-time gangster who acts as a manager for women's wrestling in order to cover his involvement in many crime rings, including racketeering, bookmaking, and prostitution. He must dodge both police investigations and the local mob, to which he owes $35,000.