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William Hornbeck is a Editor and Editorial Staff American born on 23 august 1901 at Los Angeles (USA)
William Hornbeck est un monteur américain (membre de l'ACE), né le 23 août 1901 à Los Angeles (Californie), mort le 19 octobre 1983 à Ventura (Californie).
De 1934 à 1941, il travaille au sein de la London Film Productions d'Alexander Korda et contribue ainsi à plusieurs films britanniques bien connus, comme Fantôme à vendre de René Clair (1935, avec Robert Donat et Jean Parker), Rembrandt d'Alexander Korda (1936, avec Charles Laughton et Gertrude Lawrence), Les Quatre Plumes blanches de Zoltan Korda (1939, avec Ralph Richardson et Charles Aubrey Smith), ou encore Le Voleur de Bagdad de Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell et Tim Whelan (1940, avec Conrad Veidt et Sabu).
Revenu aux États-Unis, il retrouve les frères Alexander et Zoltan Korda pour Lady Hamilton du premier (1941, avec Vivien Leigh et Laurence Olivier) et Le Livre de la jungle du second (1942, avec Sabu et Joseph Calleia). Puis il contribue jusqu'en 1945 aux films de propagande de la série documentaire Pourquoi nous combattons, réalisés par Frank Capra et Anatole Litvak, le premier étant Prélude à la guerre (1942).
Par la suite, il est monteur de quatre films de fiction du même Frank Capra, dont La vie est belle (1946, avec James Stewart et Donna Reed) et L'Enjeu (1948, avec Spencer Tracy et Katharine Hepburn).
Il collabore avec George Stevens également sur quatre films, dont Une place au soleil (1951, avec Montgomery Clift et Elizabeth Taylor) et Géant (1956, avec Elizabeth Taylor et Rock Hudson).
Mentionnons encore L'Héritière de William Wyler (1949, avec Olivia de Havilland et Montgomery Clift), la coproduction franco-américaine Un acte d'amour d'Anatole Litvak (1953, avec Kirk Douglas et Dany Robin), ainsi que trois films de Joseph L. Mankiewicz, notamment La Comtesse aux pieds nus (1954, avec Ava Gardner et Humphrey Bogart).
Durant sa carrière de monteur (achevée en 1959), William Hornbeck obtient quatre nominations à l'Oscar du meilleur montage (voir détails ci-dessous), dont un gagné en 1952 pour Une place au soleil pré-cité.
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Nationality USA
Birth 23 august 1901 at Los Angeles (USA)
Death 11 october 1983 (at 82 years) at Ventura (USA)
Birth 23 august 1901 at Los Angeles (USA)
Death 11 october 1983 (at 82 years) at Ventura (USA)
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Entre 1924 et 1932, William Hornbeck est monteur de nombreux courts métrages américains produits par Mack Sennett, dont Feet of Mud d'Harry Edwards (1924, avec Harry Langdon) et Hypnotized de Mack Sennett (1932, avec Charles Murray et Ernest Torrence).De 1934 à 1941, il travaille au sein de la London Film Productions d'Alexander Korda et contribue ainsi à plusieurs films britanniques bien connus, comme Fantôme à vendre de René Clair (1935, avec Robert Donat et Jean Parker), Rembrandt d'Alexander Korda (1936, avec Charles Laughton et Gertrude Lawrence), Les Quatre Plumes blanches de Zoltan Korda (1939, avec Ralph Richardson et Charles Aubrey Smith), ou encore Le Voleur de Bagdad de Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell et Tim Whelan (1940, avec Conrad Veidt et Sabu).
Revenu aux États-Unis, il retrouve les frères Alexander et Zoltan Korda pour Lady Hamilton du premier (1941, avec Vivien Leigh et Laurence Olivier) et Le Livre de la jungle du second (1942, avec Sabu et Joseph Calleia). Puis il contribue jusqu'en 1945 aux films de propagande de la série documentaire Pourquoi nous combattons, réalisés par Frank Capra et Anatole Litvak, le premier étant Prélude à la guerre (1942).
Par la suite, il est monteur de quatre films de fiction du même Frank Capra, dont La vie est belle (1946, avec James Stewart et Donna Reed) et L'Enjeu (1948, avec Spencer Tracy et Katharine Hepburn).
Il collabore avec George Stevens également sur quatre films, dont Une place au soleil (1951, avec Montgomery Clift et Elizabeth Taylor) et Géant (1956, avec Elizabeth Taylor et Rock Hudson).
Mentionnons encore L'Héritière de William Wyler (1949, avec Olivia de Havilland et Montgomery Clift), la coproduction franco-américaine Un acte d'amour d'Anatole Litvak (1953, avec Kirk Douglas et Dany Robin), ainsi que trois films de Joseph L. Mankiewicz, notamment La Comtesse aux pieds nus (1954, avec Ava Gardner et Humphrey Bogart).
Durant sa carrière de monteur (achevée en 1959), William Hornbeck obtient quatre nominations à l'Oscar du meilleur montage (voir détails ci-dessous), dont un gagné en 1952 pour Une place au soleil pré-cité.
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Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)
, 1h54Directed 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 Editorial Consultant
Rating74%
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.
A Hole in the Head (1959)
, 2hDirected by Frank Capra
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Frank Sinatra, Edward G. Robinson, Eleanor Parker, Keenan Wynn, Carolyn Jones, Thelma Ritter
Roles Editor
Rating61%
Tony Manetta moved from the shabby area of Bronx to Miami, Florida with two friends searching for wealth and success. Although his two friends became prosperous over the next 20 years (his older friend owns luxury hotels, and his younger friend runs a local taxi company), Tony manages a small hotel called "Garden Of Eden". He grew spoiled, spending money on expensive suits and a Cadillac despite always being in debt and refusing to become more responsible. He is also a widowed father of an 11-year-old son, Alvin.
I Want to Live! (1958)
, 2hDirected by Robert Wise
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Prison films, Films about capital punishment
Actors Susan Hayward, Simon Oakland, Theodore Bikel, Virginia Vincent, Wesley Lau, Philip Coolidge
Roles Editor
Rating74%
The film tells the story of the life and execution of Barbara Graham (Hayward) a prostitute and convicted perjurer. Graham is the product of a broken home, and works luring men into fixed card games.
The Quiet American (1958)
, 2hDirected by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Bernard Vorhaus
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Romance
Themes French war films, La colonisation française, Films about writers, Films about journalists, Politique, La guerre d'Indochine, Political films, Histoire de France
Actors Audie Murphy, Michael Redgrave, Claude Dauphin, Giorgia Moll, Bruce Cabot, Yoko Tani
Roles Editor
Rating65%
In Saigon in 1952, as Vietnamese insurgents are delivering major strikes against the French colonial rulers, an innocent and enigmatic young American economist (Audie Murphy), who is working for an international aid organization, gets caught between the Communists and the colonialists as he tries to win the "hearts and minds" of the Vietnamese people. By promising marriage, he steals away a young Vietnamese woman (Giorgia Moll) from an embittered and cynical English newspaperman (Michael Redgrave), who retaliates by spreading the word that the American is actually covertly selling arms to the anti-Communists.
Giant (1956)
, 3h21Directed by Fred Guiol, George Stevens
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Romance, Western
Themes Films about families, Films about racism
Actors Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean, Carroll Baker, Nick Adams, Mercedes McCambridge
Roles Editor
Rating75%
The movie follows a Texas family over a quarter century from the 1920s until after World War II. Themes of discrimination along race, class and gender lines, as well as the role they played in the social evolution of post-war Texas, are prominent.
The Girl Rush (1955)
, 1h25Directed by Robert Pirosh
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Actors Rosalind Russell, Fernando Lamas, Eddie Albert, Gloria DeHaven, Marion Lorne, James Gleason
Roles Editor
Rating51%
Gambling is second nature to Kim Halliday (Russell), whose father taught her all its ins and outs. Unfortunately, he also left her broke, living in Rhode Island and working as a receptionist in a museum run by her aunt Clara (Lorne).
The Barefoot Contessa (1954)
, 2h8Directed by Jean-Pierre Mocky, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Bernard Vorhaus
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime, Romance
Themes Films about films, La provence, Films about television
Actors Ava Gardner, Humphrey Bogart, Edmond O'Brien, Olga San Juan, Valentina Cortese, Rossano Brazzi
Roles Editor
Rating68%
Down on his luck, veteran movie director and writer Harry Dawes (Humphrey Bogart) is reduced to working for abusive, emotionally stunted business tycoon Kirk Edwards (Warren Stevens), who has decided he wants to produce a film to stroke his monumental ego. Looking for a fresh leading lady, they discover, in a Madrid night club, stunning dancer Maria Vargas (Ava Gardner), a blithe but proud spirit who likes to go barefoot and has a troubled home life.
Act of Love (1953)
, 1h35Directed by Anatole Litvak
Origin France
Genres Drama, War, Romance
Themes La provence, Political films
Actors Kirk Douglas, Dany Robin, Gabrielle Dorziat, Barbara Laage, Fernand Ledoux, Robert Strauss
Roles Editor
Rating64%
Robert Teller (Kirk Douglas) visits a seaport in the south of France in the early 1950s. He reflects back to his time in the army shortly after Paris has been liberated.
Shane (1953)
, 1h58Directed by George Stevens
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Western
Actors Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, Van Heflin, Brandon deWilde, Jack Palance, Edith Evanson
Roles Editor
Rating75%
Shane (Alan Ladd), a skilled, laconic gunslinger with a mysterious past, rides out of the desert and into an isolated valley in the sparsely settled state of Wyoming some time after enactment of the Homestead Act of 1862. At dinner with a pioneer homesteader, Joe Starrett (Van Heflin) and his wife, Marian (Jean Arthur), he learns that a war of intimidation is being waged on the valley's homesteaders. The ruthless cattle baron Rufus Ryker (Emile Meyer) is trying to run them out and seize their land. Starrett offers Shane a job, and he accepts.
Something to Live For (1952)
, 1h29Directed by Fred Guiol, George Stevens
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about alcoholism, Medical-themed films, Films about drugs
Actors Joan Fontaine, Ray Milland, Teresa Wright, Richard Derr, Douglas Dick, Herbert Heyes
Roles Editor
Rating63%
A Place in the Sun (1951)
, 2h2Directed by George Stevens, Charles C. Coleman, Gerd Oswald
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters, Anne Revere, Keefe Brasselle, Fred Clark
Roles Editor
Rating76%
George Eastman (Montgomery Clift), the poor nephew of rich industrialist Charles Eastman (Herbert Heyes), arrives in town following a chance encounter with his uncle while working as a bellhop in a Chicago hotel. The elder Eastman invites George to visit him if and when he ever comes to town, and the ambitious young man takes advantage of the offer. Despite George's family relationship to the Eastmans, they regard him as something of an outsider, but his uncle nevertheless offers him an entry-level job at his factory. George, uncomplaining, hopes to impress his uncle (whom he addresses as "Mr. Eastman") with his hard work and earn his way up. While working in the factory, George starts dating fellow factory worker Alice Tripp (Shelley Winters), in defiance of the workplace rules. Alice is a poor and inexperienced girl who is dazzled by George and slow to believe that his Eastman name brings him no advantages.
Riding High (1950)
, 1h52Directed by Frank Capra, George Marshall
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical
Themes Films about animals, Sports films, Films about horses, Musical films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère, Horse sports in film, Sport hippique
Actors Bing Crosby, Coleen Gray, Charles Bickford, William Demarest, Frances Gifford, James Gleason
Roles Editor
Rating61%
Yale grad Dan Brooks is expected to marry wealthy boss J.L. Higgins' daughter Margaret and join the family box-making business. He is far more interested in racing a horse he owns, Broadway Bill.
The Heiress (1949)
, 1h55Directed by William Wyler
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical, Melodrama, Romance
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Olivia de Havilland, Montgomery Clift, Ralph Richardson, Miriam Hopkins, Mona Freeman, Vanessa Brown
Roles Editor
Rating80%
Catherine Sloper (Olivia de Havilland) is a plain, painfully shy woman whose emotionally detached father (Ralph Richardson) makes no secret of his disappointment in her. When she meets the charming Morris Townsend (Montgomery Clift), she immediately is taken by the attention that he lavishes upon her, attention she so desperately seeks from her father. Catherine falls madly in love with Morris and they plan to marry.
State of the Union (1948)
, 2h4Directed by Frank Capra
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Politique, Political films, Films based on plays
Actors Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Van Johnson, Angela Lansbury, Howard Smith, Adolphe Menjou
Roles Editor
Rating71%
Republican newspaper magnate Kay Thorndyke (Angela Lansbury) intends to make her lover, aircraft tycoon Grant Matthews (Spencer Tracy), President of the United States with her as the power behind the throne. Thorndyke plans to use her newspaper chain's influence to deadlock the 1948 Republican National Convention, so it will choose Matthews as a compromise dark horse candidate instead of Dewey, Taft, or another.
Singapore (1947)
, 1h19Directed by John Brahm
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Adventure, Crime, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Seafaring films, Transport films, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities
Actors Fred MacMurray, Ava Gardner, Roland Culver, Richard Haydn, Spring Byington, Thomas Gomez
Roles Editor
Rating63%
Pearl smuggler Matt Gordon (MacMurray) finds romance with Linda Grahame (Gardner) just before the start of World War II. He proposes to her, and she accepts. However, when the Japanese attack Singapore, the church where she is waiting to marry him is bombed; Gordon searches frantically in the wreckage, but cannot find her. He is forced to sail away on his schooner.