114-582: Robert Wallace Forster Jr. (July 13, 1941 – October 11, 2019), known professionally as Robert Forster , was an American actor. He made his screen debut as Private L.G. Williams in John Huston 's Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967), followed by a starring role as news reporter John Casellis in the landmark New Hollywood film Medium Cool (1969). For his portrayal of bail bondsman Max Cherry in Quentin Tarantino 's Jackie Brown (1997), he
228-800: A Golden Globe Award for The Cardinal (1963), and Chinatown (1974) respectively. He also acted in Casino Royale (1967), Myra Breckinridge (1970) and Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973). He voiced the wizard Gandalf in The Hobbit (1977). Huston has been referred to as "a titan", "a rebel", and a " renaissance man " in the Hollywood film industry . He traveled widely, settling at various times in France, Mexico, and Ireland. Huston
342-466: A James Bond -type spy spoof co-starring Robert Morley ; Modesty Blaise (1966), a campy spy send-up playing archvillain Gabriel opposite Monica Vitti and Terence Stamp and directed by Joseph Losey; The Fixer (1968), based on Bernard Malamud 's novel, co-starring Alan Bates ; Sebastian (1968), as Sebastian, a mathematician working on code decryption, who falls in love with Susannah York ,
456-455: A court-martial , reluctantly defending deserter Tom Courtenay . He won a second BAFTA for his role as a television broadcaster-writer Robert Gold in Darling (1965), directed by John Schlesinger . Bogarde, Losey and Pinter reunited for Accident (1967), which recounted the travails of Stephen, a bored Oxford University professor. Our Mother's House (1967) is an off-beat film noir and
570-427: A 1986 Yorkshire Television interview with Russell Harty , Bogarde recalled going on painting trips, sometimes to see the villages which he had selected as targets: I found what I had thought in the rubble were a whole row of footballs , and they weren't footballs ... they were children's heads ... A whole school of kids, a convent , had been pulled out of school, and lined up in this little narrow alleyway between
684-518: A chance of becoming a professional actress: Even though my part was a minor one, I felt as if I were the most important performer in the picture—when I was before the camera. This was because everything I did was important to the director. The film succeeded at the box office, and Huston was again nominated for an Oscar for best screenplay and best director, along with winning the Screen Directors Guild Award. This became
798-612: A combination of romance, comedy and adventure. Barson calls it "one of the most popular Hollywood movies of all time." The film's producer, Sam Spiegel , urged Huston to change the ending to allow the protagonists to survive, instead of dying. Huston agreed, and the ending was rewritten. It became Huston's most successful film financially, and "it remains one of his finest works." Huston was nominated for two Academy Awards— Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay . Bogart, meanwhile, won his only Oscar for Best Actor for his role as Charlie Allnut. Hepburn wrote about her experiences shooting
912-486: A controversial performance as Lieutenant General Frederick 'Boy' Browning . Bogarde claimed he had known General Browning from his time on Field Marshal Montgomery's staff during the war, and took issue with the largely negative portrayal of the general whom he played in A Bridge Too Far . Browning's widow, author Dame Daphne du Maurier , ferociously attacked his characterisation and "the resultant establishment fallout, much of it homophobic , wrongly convinced [Bogarde] that
1026-549: A cottage on the Bendrose Estate in Little Chalfont , Buckinghamshire , the family home of his business manager and partner, Anthony 'Tote' Forwood. Bogarde subsequently lived in the area for some 40 years. After an unsuccessful attempt to gain planning permission to convert the estate into a housing development, Bogarde bought the adjoining Beel House and Park from William Lowndes for £4,000. After tearing down
1140-527: A decadent valet, in The Servant (1963), with a script by Harold Pinter , and which garnered Bogarde a BAFTA Award. That year also saw the release of The Mind Benders , in which he played a professor conducting sensory deprivation experiments at Oxford University (and which anticipates Altered States (1980)). The following year saw another collaboration with Losey in the antiwar film King and Country , in which Bogarde played an army officer at
1254-533: A decrypter in the all-female decoding office he heads for British Intelligence , also co-starring Sir John Gielgud and Lilli Palmer , co-produced by Michael Powell; Oh! What a Lovely War (1969), co-starring Sir John Gielgud and Sir Laurence Olivier and directed by Richard Attenborough ; Justine (1969), directed by George Cukor; Le Serpent (1973), co-starring Henry Fonda and Yul Brynner ; A Bridge Too Far (1977), also starring Sean Connery , and again directed by Richard Attenborough, saw Bogarde give
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#17327804717881368-795: A dime. I've never had anything that approached a hit in my entire career of 15 movies and a lot of TV shows." Forster appeared in the thrillers Satan's Princess (1989) and The Banker (1989), the mini series Goliath Awaits (1981), and episodes of Magnum, P.I. , Tales from the Darkside , Hotel , Crossbow , and Jesse Hawkes . He was in the TV movie Mick and Frankie (1989). Forster's films by this stage were almost entirely low budget ones: Peacemaker (1990), Checkered Flag (1990), Countdown to Esmeralda Bay (1990), Long Way Back (1990), Committed (1991), Diplomatic Immunity (1991), 29th Street (1991), In Between (1992), In
1482-470: A film about doctors and that Bogarde, who up to then had played character roles, had sex appeal and could play light comedy. They were allocated a modest budget and were allowed to use only available Rank contract artists. The film was the first of the Doctor film series based on the books by Richard Gordon . In The Sleeping Tiger (1954), Bogarde played a neurotic criminal with co-star Alexis Smith . It
1596-557: A fine art painter in Paris. He then moved to Mexico and began writing, first plays and short stories, and later working in Los Angeles as a Hollywood screenwriter, and was nominated for several Academy Awards writing for films directed by William Dieterle and Howard Hawks , among others. His directorial debut came with The Maltese Falcon (1941), which despite its small budget became a commercial and critical hit; he continued to be
1710-484: A first volume A Postillion Struck by Lightning (an allusion to the phrase My postillion has been struck by lightning ), he wrote a series of 15 best-selling books—nine volumes of memoirs and six novels, as well as essays, reviews, poetry and collected journalism. As a writer, Bogarde displayed a witty, elegant, highly literate and thoughtful style. While under contract with the Rank Organisation, Bogarde
1824-545: A life-changer. It's a gigantic hit if you remember those years, a phenomenon. But I didn't do that. [...] And this time, I got a call from my agents and they said, David Lynch is going to call you. When he called me five minutes later, he said, "I'd like you to come and work with me again." And I said, 'Whatever it is, David, here I come!'" Forster appeared in the TV series Alcatraz . After Forster's death, he appeared posthumously in El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie , reprising
1938-537: A medical student in Doctor in the House (1954), a film that made him one of the most popular British stars of the 1950s. The film co-starred Kenneth More and Donald Sinden , with James Robertson Justice as their crabby mentor. The production was initiated by Betty Box, who had picked up a copy of the book at Crewe during a long rail journey and had seen its possibility as a film. Box and Ralph Thomas had difficulties convincing Rank executives that people would go to
2052-495: A model for many similar movies by other filmmakers. The Red Badge of Courage (1951) Huston's next film, The Red Badge of Courage (1951), was of a completely different subject: war and its effect on soldiers. While in the army during World War II, he became interested in Stephen Crane 's classic American Civil War novel of the same title. For the starring role, Huston chose World War II hero Audie Murphy to play
2166-500: A number of leading films. Huston gained a reputation as a "lusty, hard-drinking libertine" during his first years as a writer in Hollywood. Huston described those years as a "series of misadventures and disappointments". In 1933 he was in a romantic relationship with actress Zita Johann . While driving drunk, with Johann as passenger, he hit a parked car sending Johann through the glass windshield. She suffered head trauma and Huston
2280-553: A period on the New York Graphic. In 1931, when he was 25, he moved back to Los Angeles in hopes of writing for the blossoming film industry. The silent films had given way to "talkies", and writers were in demand. His father had earlier moved there and already gained success in a number of films. Huston received a script editing contract with Samuel Goldwyn Productions but, after six months of receiving no assignments, quit to work for Universal Studios , where his father
2394-552: A play called Frankie and Johnny , based on the ballad of the same title. After selling it easily, he decided that writing would be a viable career, and he focused on it. His self-esteem was enhanced when H. L. Mencken , editor of the popular magazine American Mercury , bought two of his stories, "Fool" and "Figures of Fighting Men." During subsequent years, Huston's stories and feature articles were published in Esquire , Theatre Arts , and The New York Times . He also worked for
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#17327804717882508-535: A professional boxer . By age 15 he was a top-ranking amateur lightweight boxer in California. He ended his brief boxing career after suffering a broken nose. He also engaged in many interests, including ballet , English and French literature , opera , horseback riding , and studying painting at the Art Students League of Los Angeles . Living in Los Angeles, Huston became infatuated with
2622-659: A provincial repertory group". His first on-screen appearance was as an uncredited extra in the George Formby comedy, Come On George! (1939). During the war, Derek "Pip" Bogaerde served in the British Army , initially with the Royal Corps of Signals . He was then commissioned at the age of 22 into the Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) on 2 April 1943 with the rank of second lieutenant . He served in both
2736-616: A revival of A Streetcar Named Desire , opposite Julie Harris . He also played Juror No. 3 in the first New York stage production of Twelve Angry Men at the Queens Playhouse . After a support part in The Don Is Dead (1972), Forster starred in the TV movie The Death Squad (1974) then another short-lived TV series, Nakia (1974), playing a Navajo detective. Forster guest starred on shows such as Medical Story , Gibbsville and Police Story and played
2850-542: A second career, he wrote seven best-selling volumes of memoirs, six novels, and a volume of collected journalism , mainly from articles in The Daily Telegraph . Bogarde saw active military duty during World War Two , and over the course of five years reached the rank of major and was awarded seven medals. His poetry has been published in war anthologies, and a grey ink brush drawing, "Tents in Orchard. 1944",
2964-829: A successful, if iconoclastic, Hollywood director for the next 45 years. Huston directed acclaimed films such as The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), Key Largo (1948), The Asphalt Jungle (1950), The African Queen (1951), Moulin Rouge (1952), Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957), The Misfits (1961), The Night of the Iguana (1964), Fat City (1972), The Man Who Would Be King (1975), Annie (1982), Prizzi's Honor (1985) and The Dead (1987). During his 46-year career, Huston received 14 Academy Award nominations, winning twice. Huston acted in numerous films receiving nominations for an Academy Award and
3078-489: A supporting role to his father, Walter Huston. Warners studio was initially uncertain what to make of the film. They had allowed Huston to film on location in Mexico, which was a "radical move" for a studio at the time. They also knew that Huston was gaining a reputation as "one of the wild men of Hollywood." In any case, studio boss Jack L. Warner initially "detested it." But whatever doubts Warners had were soon removed, as
3192-705: Is in the collection of the British Museum . Having come to prominence in films including The Blue Lamp in the early 1950s, Bogarde starred in the successful Doctor film series (1954–1963). He twice won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role , for The Servant (1963) and Darling (1965). His other notable film roles included Victim (1961), Accident (1967), The Damned (1969), Death in Venice (1971), The Night Porter (1974), A Bridge Too Far (1977) and Despair (1978). He
3306-615: The "B.8" airfield at Sommervieu , near Bayeux . As an air photographic interpreter with the rank of captain , Bogarde was later attached to the Second Army , where he selected ground targets in France, Holland and Germany for the Second Tactical Air Force and RAF Bomber Command . Villages on key routes were heavily bombed to prevent the Wehrmacht 's armour from reaching the invasion lodgement areas. In
3420-523: The Doctor film series, with later Bond girl Shirley Eaton ; the Powell and Pressburger production Ill Met by Moonlight (1957) co-starring Marius Goring as German General Kreipe , kidnapped on Crete by Patrick "Paddy" Leigh Fermor (Bogarde) and W. Stanley Moss (David Oxley), and a fellow band of Cretan resistance fighters based on W. Stanley Moss ' real-life account ( Ill Met by Moonlight ) of
3534-531: The European and Pacific theatres , principally as an intelligence officer. Bogarde served as an intelligence officer with Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery 's 21st Army Group as it liberated Europe. Taylor Downing's book, Spies in the Sky , tells of Bogarde's work in photo-reconnaissance in the aftermath of D-Day , moving through Normandy with Royal Canadian Air Force units. By July 1944, they were located at
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3648-590: The Voluntary Euthanasia Society : My views were formulated as a 24-year-old officer in Normandy ;... On one occasion, the jeep ahead hit a mine ... Next thing I knew, there was this chap in the long grass beside me. A gurgling voice said, "Help. Kill me." With shaking hands I reached for my small pouch to load my revolver ... I had to look for my bullets – by which time somebody else had already taken care of him. I heard
3762-651: The third season of Twin Peaks (2017) and the Breaking Bad episode " Granite State " as Ed "The Disappearer" Galbraith , for which he won the Saturn Award for Best Guest Starring Role on Television . He reprised the role in the film El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie (2019) and Better Call Saul (2020). Forster was born and raised in Rochester, New York . His mother was Italian American, while his father
3876-466: The "main movies we watched were the war documentaries." Huston performed an uncredited rewrite of Anthony Veiller 's screenplay for The Stranger (1946), a film he was to have directed. When Huston became unavailable, the film's star, Orson Welles , directed instead; Welles had the lead role of a high-ranking Nazi fugitive who settles in New England under an assumed name. The Treasure of
3990-539: The "moral rot" he felt was created by investigation and hearings by the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HCUA), which had affected many of his friends in the movie industry. Huston had, with friends including director William Wyler and screenwriter Philip Dunne , established the "Committee for the First Amendment", as a response to the ongoing government investigations into communists within
4104-590: The 1960s and 1970s Bogarde played opposite many renowned stars. The Angel Wore Red (1960) saw Bogarde playing an unfrocked priest who falls in love with cabaret entertainer Ava Gardner during the Spanish Civil War . The same year, in Song Without End he portrayed Hungarian composer and virtuoso pianist Franz Liszt , a film initially directed by Charles Vidor (who died during shooting) and completed by Bogarde's friend George Cukor , which
4218-519: The Army were "controversial", and were either not released, were censored, or banned outright, as they were considered "demoralizing" to soldiers and the public. Let There Be Light was the most controversial as the Army banned the film from public viewing due to the ethics of filming the soldiers' recovery and the lack of written permission supplied by Huston. Years later, after Huston moved to Ireland, his daughter, actress Anjelica Huston , recalled that
4332-581: The British entry at the Venice Film Festival , directed by Jack Clayton , in which Bogarde plays a ne'er-do-well father who descends upon "his" seven children on the death of their mother. In his first collaboration with Luchino Visconti in La Caduta degli dei ( The Damned , 1969), Bogarde played German industrialist Frederick Bruckmann alongside Ingrid Thulin . Two years later Visconti
4446-619: The Fatman , P.S.I. Luv U , Silk Stalkings , Murder, She Wrote , One West Waikiki and Walker, Texas Ranger . Forster appeared in Jackie Brown as bail bondsman Max Cherry, which earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1997. Jackie Brown revitalized Forster's career, an effect that occurred for many actors appearing in Quentin Tarantino films. He subsequently had consistent work in
4560-682: The Pacific , another thriller starring Humphrey Bogart. In 1942 Huston served in the United States Army during World War II , making films for the Army Signal Corps . While in uniform with the rank of captain, he directed and produced three films that some critics rank as "among the finest made about World War II: Report from the Aleutians (1943), about soldiers preparing for combat; The Battle of San Pietro (1945),
4674-459: The Rank Organisation in the early 1960s, Bogarde abandoned his heart-throb image and "chose roles that challenged received morality and that pushed the scope of cinema". He starred in the film Victim (1961), playing a London barrister who fights the blackmailers of a young man with whom he has had a deeply emotional relationship. The young man commits suicide after being arrested for embezzlement, rather than ruin his beloved's career. In exposing
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4788-685: The Second World War abduction ; A Tale of Two Cities (1958), a faithful retelling of Charles Dickens ' classic; as a flight lieutenant in the Far East , who falls in love with a beautiful Japanese teacher Yoko Tani in The Wind Cannot Read (1958); The Doctor's Dilemma (1959), based on a play by George Bernard Shaw and co-starring Leslie Caron and Robert Morley ; and Libel (1959), playing three separate roles and co-starring Olivia de Havilland . After leaving
4902-507: The Shadow of a Killer (1992), Maniac Cop 3: Badge of Silence (1993), South Beach (1993), American Yakuza (1993), Cover Story (1993), Point of Seduction: Body Chemistry III (1993), Scanner Cop II (1995), Guns & Lipstick (1995), The Method (1995), Original Gangstas (1996) (directed by Larry Cohen), Uncle Sam (1996), Hindsight (1996) and American Perfekt (1997). He appeared in series such as Jake and
5016-435: The Sierra Madre (1948) Huston's next picture, which he wrote, directed, and briefly appeared in as an American asked to "help out a fellow American, down on his luck", was The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948). It would become one of the films that established his reputation as a leading filmmaker. The film, also starring Humphrey Bogart, was the story of three drifters who band together to prospect for gold. Huston gave
5130-584: The U.S. and overseas. Decades later, Film Comment magazine devoted four pages to the film in its May–June 1980 edition, with author Richard T. Jameson offering his impressions: This film has impressed itself on the heart and mind and soul of anyone who has seen it, to the extent that filmmakers of great originality and distinctiveness like Robert Altman and Sam Peckinpah can be said to have remade it again and again ... without compromising its uniqueness. Key Largo (1948) Also in 1948, Huston directed Key Largo , again starring Humphrey Bogart. It
5244-476: The brother of Sheriff Harry S. Truman, Sheriff Frank Truman, in Twin Peaks: The Return , when Ontkean was not available to reprise his role. About this, Forster said: "David Lynch, what a good guy he is. He wanted to hire me for the original, 25 years ago, for a part, and I was committed to another guy for a pilot that never went. So I didn't do the original Twin Peaks , which would have been
5358-520: The buildings to save them from the bombing, and the whole thing had come in on top of them. Bogarde said he was one of the first Allied officers to reach the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany on 20 April 1945, an experience that had the most profound effect on him and about which he had difficulty speaking for many years afterward. The gates were opened, and then I realised that I
5472-497: The character of Ed the "Disappearer" from the Breaking Bad series. He died on the day the movie was released. Four months later, Forster again appeared posthumously as Ed in episode " Magic Man " of the fifth season of Better Call Saul . The episode ended with a dedication to "our friend Robert Forster." He also appeared in an episode "Dynoman and The Volt" of the rebooted Amazing Stories television series before his death;
5586-423: The condition that his next script also became a hit. Huston wrote: They indulged me rather. They liked my work as a writer and they wanted to keep me on. If I wanted to direct, why, they'd give me a shot at it, and if it didn't come off all that well, they wouldn't be too disappointed as it was to be a very small picture. His next script was High Sierra (1941), to be directed by Raoul Walsh . The film became
5700-526: The end of 1937. He attended University College School and the former Allan Glen's High School of Science in Glasgow, a time he described in his autobiography as an unhappy one. Having secured a scholarship at Chelsea College of Art, Bogarde completed his two year course, and landed "a back-stage job as tea-boy at seven shillings and sixpence per week". A chance to act as a stand-in convinced Bogarde that "he needed some additional basic training, and he joined
5814-462: The episode was dedicated to Forster. Forster was married to June Forster (née Provenzano) from 1966 to 1975. The couple had met at their alma mater, the University of Rochester . The marriage produced three daughters. Robert was married to Zivia Forster from 1978 to 1980. He also had a son from a previous relationship. From 2004 to the time of his death, his longtime partner was Denise Grayson. He
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#17327804717885928-420: The film achieved widespread public and critical acclaim. Hollywood writer James Agee called it "one of the most beautiful and visually alive movies I have ever seen." Time magazine described it as "one of the best things Hollywood has done since it learned to talk." Huston won Oscars for Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay ; his father won for Best Supporting Actor . The film also won other awards in
6042-490: The film in her memoir, The Making of the African Queen: Or How I went to Africa with Bogart, Bacall, and Huston and almost lost my mind . Clint Eastwood directed and starred in the film White Hunter, Black Heart , based on Peter Viertel 's novel of the same name, which tells a fictional version of the making of the film. In 1952 Huston moved to Ireland as a result of his "disgust" at the "witch-hunt" and
6156-489: The film industry, appearing in Like Mike , Mulholland Drive , Supernova , Me, Myself & Irene (2000), Human Natyre (2001), Confidence (2003), Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003), Lucky Number Slevin (2006), and Firewall (2006). Forster continued to appear in lower budgeted productions like Night Vision (1997) along with the remakes of Rear Window (1998) and Psycho (1998). He appeared in
6270-567: The film industry. The HCUA was calling numerous filmmakers, screenwriters, and actors to testify about any past affiliations. Dirk Bogarde Sir Dirk Bogarde (born Derek Jules Gaspard Ulric Niven van den Bogaerde ; 28 March 1921 – 8 May 1999) was an English actor, novelist and screenwriter. Initially a matinée idol in films such as Doctor in the House (1954) for the Rank Organisation , he later acted in art house films, evolving from "heartthrob to icon of edginess". In
6384-608: The hit NBC series Heroes as Arthur Petrelli , the father of Nathan and Peter Petrelli, as well as the Emmy Award-winning AMC crime drama Breaking Bad as Walter White 's new-identity specialist Ed Galbraith (a role he reprised in El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie and Better Call Saul ). He played Bud Baxter, father to Tim Allen 's Mike Baxter, on the ABC (later Fox) hit comedy Last Man Standing . Forster
6498-551: The hit Huston wanted. It also made Humphrey Bogart a star with his first major role, as a gunman on the run. Warners kept their end of the bargain and gave Huston his choice of subject. For his first directing assignment, Huston chose Dashiell Hammett 's detective thriller, The Maltese Falcon , a film which failed at the box office in two earlier versions by Warners. However, studio head Jack L. Warner approved of Huston's treatment of Hammett's 1930 novel, and he stood by his word to let Huston choose his first subject. Huston kept
6612-763: The important role of Private Williams in Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967), opposite Elizabeth Taylor and Marlon Brando ; there was a scene where Forster rode naked on a horse which became famous. Forster also appeared in episodes of the TV series N.Y.P.D. , Judd for the Defense and Premiere , the latter also featuring Dustin Hoffman and Sally Kellerman . Forster was then cast in another key role in an important movie: part-Indian Army scout Nick Tana in Robert Mulligan 's The Stalking Moon (1968); he
6726-546: The incident left him "traumatized". He moved to London and Paris , living as a "drifter." By 1937, the 31-year-old Huston returned to Hollywood intent on being a "serious writer." He married again, to Lesley Black. His first job was as scriptwriter with Warner Brothers Studio , and he formed his personal longterm goal to direct his own scripts. For the next four years, he co-wrote scripts for major films such as Jezebel , The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse , Juarez , Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet , and Sergeant York (1941). He
6840-652: The late 1980s, he wrote that he would disembark from a lift rather than ride with a German of his generation. Nevertheless, three of his more memorable film roles were as Germans, one of them as a former SS officer in The Night Porter (1974). Bogarde was most vocal towards the end of his life on voluntary euthanasia , of which he became a staunch proponent after witnessing the protracted death of his lifelong partner and manager Anthony Forwood (the former husband of actress Glynis Johns ) in 1988. He gave an interview to John Hofsess, London executive director of
6954-570: The lead in the film adaptation of John Osborne's ground-breaking stage play, Look Back in Anger in 1959. In 1961, Bogarde was offered the chance to play Hamlet at the recently founded Chichester Festival Theatre by artistic director Sir Laurence Olivier but had to decline owing to film commitments. Bogarde later said that he regretted declining Olivier's offer and with it the chance to "really learn my craft". After his acting career had given him some success, Bogarde moved from London and rented
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#17327804717887068-893: The lead in the TV movies Royce (1976), The City (1977) (with Don Johnson), Standing Tall and The Darker Side of Terror (1979). He toured in a stage production of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and appeared in The Sea Horse on stage in Louisville. Forster moved into lower-budgeted movies, starring in Stunts (1977) for Mark L. Lester and Avalanche (1978), the latter opposite Rock Hudson and Mia Farrow for Roger Corman's New World Pictures . Also for New World, Forster had an unbilled cameo in The Lady in Red (1979). This
7182-433: The lead role. Bogart was happy to take the role, as he liked working with Huston. The supporting cast included other noted actors: Mary Astor , Peter Lorre , Sydney Greenstreet (his first film role), and his own father, Walter Huston . The film was given only a small B-movie budget, and received minimal publicity by Warners, as they had low expectations. The entire film was made in eight weeks for only $ 300,000. Warners
7296-430: The made-for-television movie The Hunt for the BTK Killer , as the detective intent on capturing serial killer Dennis Rader . Forster also played the father of Van on the short-lived Fox series Fastlane . Forster recorded a public service announcement for Deejay Ra's Hip-Hop Literacy campaign, encouraging reading of books by Elmore Leonard , whose book Rum Punch was adapted as Jackie Brown . He appeared in
7410-410: The mid-2010's. Bogarde and Forwood later moved to Provence , France, then Italy, before returning to France. They moved back to London shortly before Forwood's death in 1988. The critical and commercial failure of Song Without End affected his Hollywood leading man hopes. He struggled with the trauma of his active service, compounded by rapid fame, recounting, "First there was the war, and then
7524-428: The new film industry and motion pictures, as a spectator only. To Huston, " Charlie Chaplin was a god." Huston returned to New York City to live with his father, who was acting in off-Broadway productions, and had a few small roles. He later remembered that while watching his father rehearse, he became fascinated with the mechanics of acting: What I learned there, during those weeks of rehearsal, would serve me for
7638-445: The newly ennobled Sir Richard [Attenborough] had deliberately contrived to scupper his own chance of a knighthood." While several of his fellow actors were veterans, Bogarde was the only cast member to have served at the battles being depicted in the film, having entered Brussels the day after its liberation, and worked on the planning of Operation Market Garden. In 1977, Bogarde embarked on his second career as an author. Starting with
7752-420: The peace to cope with, and then suddenly I was a film star . It happened all too soon." Bogarde had a minor stroke in November 1987 while Forwood was dying of liver cancer and Parkinson's disease . In September 1996, he underwent angioplasty to unblock arteries leading to his heart and had a massive stroke following the operation. He was paralysed on one side of his body, which affected his speech. After
7866-412: The plot, involving a large jewelry theft, by examining the minute, step-by-step details and difficulties each of the characters had of carrying it out. Some critics felt that, by this technique, Huston had achieved an almost "documentary" style. His assistant director Albert Band explains further: I'll never forget it. We got on that set and he composed a shot in which ten elements were working all at
7980-458: The point where Huston felt like stepping down to avoid growing the conflict. However, Mayer encouraged Huston to stay on telling him to fight for the picture regardless of what he thought of it. The African Queen (1951) Before The Red Badge of Courage opened in theaters, Huston was already in Africa shooting The African Queen (1951), a story based on C. S. Forester 's popular novel. It starred Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn in
8094-426: The rescue of Jean Simmons during the World's Fair in Paris. He also had roles as an accidental murderer in Hunted (or The Stranger in Between , 1952), a young wing commander in Bomber Command in Appointment in London (1953), and in Desperate Moment (1953), a wrongly imprisoned man who regains hope of clearing his name when he learns his sweetheart, Mai Zetterling , is still alive. Bogarde featured as
8208-474: The rest of my life. After a short period of acting on stage, and having undergone surgery, Huston travelled alone to Mexico. During two years there, among other adventures, he obtained a position as an honorary member of the Mexican cavalry. He returned to Los Angeles and married Dorothy Harvey, a girlfriend from high school. Their marriage lasted seven years (1926–1933). During his stay in Mexico, Huston wrote
8322-468: The ring of extortionists, Bogarde's character risks his reputation and marriage to see that justice is done. Victim was the first British film to portray the humiliation to which gay people were exposed via discriminatory law and as a victimised minority; it is said to have had some effect upon the later Sexual Offences Act 1967 ending, to some extent, the illegal status of male homosexual activity. He again teamed up with Joseph Losey to play Hugo Barrett,
8436-519: The same time. Took half a day to do it, but it was fantastic. He knew exactly how to shoot a picture. His shots were all painted on the spot ... He had a great eye and he never lost his sense of composition. Film critic Andrew Sarris considered it to be "Huston's best film", and the film that made Marilyn Monroe a recognized actress. Sarris also notes the similar themes in many of Huston's films, as exemplified by this one: "His protagonists almost invariably fail at what they set out to do." This theme
8550-413: The screenplay close to the novel, keeping much of Hammett's dialogue, and directing it in an uncluttered style, much like the book's narrative. He did unusual preparation for his first directing job by sketching out each shot beforehand, including camera positions, lighting, and compositional scale, for such elements as closeups. He especially benefited by selecting a superior cast, giving Humphrey Bogart
8664-431: The servants wing, Bogarde and Forwood had the main house redeveloped and refurbished "to bring more light" into the original 1700s core. They lived there until 1960, after the development of Dr Challoner’s High School just 200 yards from Beel House. The couple subsequently moved to Drummer’s Yard near Beaconsfield . Beel House was later owned by Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne , and Robert Kilroy Silk who sold it for £6.5M in
8778-584: The shot. I still remember that gurgling sound. A voice pleading for death. Bogarde's London West End theatre -acting debut was in 1939, with the stage name "Derek Bogaerde", in J. B. Priestley 's play Cornelius . In 1947 he appeared at the Fortune Theatre in Michael Clayton Hutton 's Power Without Glory . After the war, he started pursuing film roles using the name "Dirk Bogarde". One of Bogarde's earliest starring roles in cinema
8892-504: The story (censored by the Army) of a failure by America's intelligence agencies that resulted in many deaths, and Let There Be Light (1946), about psychologically damaged veterans. It was censored and suppressed for 35 years, until 1981. Huston was promoted to the rank of major and received the Legion of Merit award for "courageous work under battle conditions." All of his films made for
9006-576: The stroke, he used a wheelchair. He then completed the final volume of his autobiography , which covered the effects of the stroke, and published an edition of his collected journalism , mainly from The Daily Telegraph . He spent some time with his friend Lauren Bacall the day before he died at his home in London from a heart attack on 8 May 1999, aged 78. His ashes were scattered at his former estate Le Pigeonnier in Grasse , southern France . Bogarde
9120-691: The women who had loved him, they inevitably referred to his mother as the key to unlocking Huston's psyche." According to actress Olivia de Havilland , "she [his mother] was the central character. I always felt that John was ridden by witches. He seemed pursued by something destructive. If it wasn't his mother, it was his idea of his mother." As a child, Huston was often ill; he was treated for an enlarged heart and kidney ailments. He recovered after an extended bedridden stay in Arizona and moved with his mother to Los Angeles, where he attended Abraham Lincoln High School . He dropped out after two years to become
9234-423: The young Union soldier who deserts his company out of fear, but later returns to fight alongside them. MGM was concerned that the movie seemed too antiwar for the postwar period. Without Huston's input, they cut down the running time of the film from eighty-eight minutes to sixty-nine, added narration, and deleted what Huston felt was a crucial scene. The movie did poorly at the box office. Huston suggests that it
9348-672: Was Bogarde's first film for American expatriate director Joseph Losey . He did his second Doctor film, Doctor at Sea (1955), co-starring Brigitte Bardot in one of her first film roles; played a returning colonial who fights the Mau-Mau with Virginia McKenna and Donald Sinden in Simba (1955); Cast a Dark Shadow (1955), as a man who marries women for money and then murders them; The Spanish Gardener (1956), with Michael Hordern , Jon Whiteley and Cyril Cusack ; Doctor at Large (1957), again with Donald Sinden, another entry in
9462-697: Was a box office flop. He was cast in the pilot for a TV series Banyon , playing a private eye in late 1930s in Los Angeles. then starred in Journey Through Rosebud which was not released theatrically. He directed for the Rochester Community Theatre. A year after the pilot for Banyon was made, it was picked up for a series but had only a short run. After this cancellation Forster said his career "started to slip and then it slipped and then it slipped." In 1973, he briefly returned to Broadway playing Stanley Kowalski in
9576-543: Was a citizen of the United States by birth but renounced this to become an Irish citizen and resident in 1964. He eventually returned to the United States, where he lived the rest of his life. He was the father of actress Anjelica Huston , whom he directed to an Oscar win. John Huston was born on August 5, 1906, in Nevada, Missouri . He was the only child of Reah (née Gore) and Canadian-born Walter Huston . His father
9690-412: Was a member of the high-IQ Triple Nine Society . In June 2019, Forster was diagnosed with a brain tumor , and he died from the disease at his home in Los Angeles on October 11, 2019, at the age of 78, on the day El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie was released. John Huston John Marcellus Huston ( / ˈ h juː s t ən / HEW -stən ; August 5, 1906 – August 28, 1987)
9804-538: Was a star. At Universal, he got a job in the script department, and began by writing dialogue for a number of films in 1932, including Murders in the Rue Morgue , A House Divided , and Law and Order . The last two also starred his father, Walter Huston . A House Divided was directed by William Wyler , who gave Huston his first real "inside view" of the filmmaking process during all stages of production. Wyler and Huston became close friends and collaborators on
9918-608: Was also a motivational speaker. He was the first choice to play Sheriff Harry S. Truman in David Lynch 's Twin Peaks , but had to turn it down due to a prior commitment to a different television pilot, and was replaced by Michael Ontkean . He appeared in Lynch's Mulholland Drive , a pilot for a TV series that was not picked up but was later turned into a critically acclaimed movie, and finally appeared in Twin Peaks , playing
10032-459: Was also expressed in Treasure of the Sierra Madre , where the group foundered on their own greed. It starred Sterling Hayden and Sam Jaffe , a personal friend of Huston. Marilyn Monroe had her first serious role in this film. Huston said, "it was, of course, where Marilyn Monroe got her start." Monroe said Huston was the first genius she had ever met; and he made her feel that she finally had
10146-522: Was among his greatest screen disappointments. (Rattigan reworked the script as a play, Ross , which opened to great success in 1960, initially with Alec Guinness playing Lawrence.) Bogarde was also reportedly considered for the title role in MGM 's Doctor Zhivago (1965). Earlier, he had declined Louis Jourdan 's role as Gaston in MGM's Gigi (1958). His contract with Rank had precluded him from accepting
10260-551: Was an American film director, screenwriter and actor. He wrote the screenplays for most of the 37 feature films he directed, many of which are today considered classics. He received numerous accolades including two Academy Awards and three Golden Globe Awards . He also received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960 and the BAFTA Fellowship in 1980. Son of actor Walter Huston , he studied and worked as
10374-500: Was an actor, initially in vaudeville , and later in films. His mother worked as a sports editor for various publications but stopped after John was born. Similarly, his father ended his stage acting career for steady employment as a civil engineer , although he returned to stage acting within a few years. He later became highly successful on both Broadway and then in motion pictures. He had Scottish , Scotch-Irish , English and Welsh ancestry. Huston's parents divorced in 1913 when he
10488-586: Was annoyed that the studio cut several scenes from the final release without his agreement. That, along with some earlier disputes, angered Huston enough that he left the studio when his contract expired. The Asphalt Jungle (1950) In 1950 he wrote and directed The Asphalt Jungle , a film which broke new ground by depicting criminals as somewhat sympathetic characters, simply doing their professional work, "an occupation like any other". Huston described their work as "a left-handed form of human endeavor." Huston achieved that effect by giving "deep attention" to
10602-514: Was appointed a Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters in 1990 and a Knight Bachelor in 1992. Bogarde was the eldest of three children born to Ulric van den Bogaerde (1892–1972) and Margaret Niven (1898–1980). Ulric was born in Perry Barr , Birmingham , of Flemish ancestry, and was art editor of The Times . Margaret Niven, a former actress, was Scottish , from Glasgow . Dirk Bogarde
10716-763: Was back at the helm when Bogarde portrayed Gustav von Aschenbach in Morte a Venezia ( Death in Venice ). In 1974, the controversial Il Portiere di notte ( The Night Porter ) saw Bogarde cast as an ex-Nazi, Max Aldorfer, co-starring Charlotte Rampling , and directed by Liliana Cavani . He played Claude, the lawyer son of a dying, drunken writer ( John Gielgud ) in the well-received, multidimensional French film Providence (1977), directed by Alain Resnais , and industrialist Hermann Hermann, who descends into madness in Despair (1978) directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder . "It
10830-595: Was billed third, after Gregory Peck and Eva Marie Saint . Forster had a key support role in Justine (1969), directed by George Cukor and starring Dirk Bogarde , which was a huge flop. He starred in the critically acclaimed film Medium Cool (1969), which was also a big hit commercially. Forster played a tormented priest in Pieces of Dreams (1970) and a student filmmaker in Cover Me Babe (1970), which
10944-595: Was born in a nursing home at 12 Hemstal Road, West Hampstead , London, and was baptised on 30 October 1921, at St. Mary's Church, Kilburn . He had a younger sister, Elizabeth (born 1924), and a brother, Gareth Ulric Van Den Bogaerde, an advertising film producer, born in July 1933 in Hendon . Conditions in the family home in north London became cramped, so Bogarde was moved to Glasgow to stay with relatives of his mother. He stayed there for more than three years, returning at
11058-465: Was charged with driving while intoxicated. His brief career as a Hollywood writer ended suddenly when he struck and killed actress Tosca Roulien, wife of actor Raul Roulien , while driving. There is a rumor that actor Clark Gable was responsible for the accident, but that MGM general manager Eddie Mannix paid Huston to take the blame. Gable was on location filming a movie, however, proving that rumor untrue. A coroner's jury absolved Huston of blame, but
11172-765: Was honoured with the first BAFTA Tribute Award for an outstanding contribution to cinema. Bogarde was created a Knight Bachelor in the United Kingdom in 1992, awarded the Commandeur de l' Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government in 1990, an honorary doctorate of literature on 4 July 1985 by St Andrews University in Scotland, and an honorary doctorate of letters in 1993 by the University of Sussex in England. In 1984, Bogarde served as president of
11286-592: Was in the 1949 film Once a Jolly Swagman , where he played a daring speedway ace, riding for the Cobras. This was filmed at New Cross Speedway, in South East London, during one of the postwar years in which speedway was the biggest spectator sport in the UK. Bogarde was contracted to the Rank Organisation under the wing of the prolific independent film producer Betty Box , who produced most of his early films and
11400-646: Was instrumental in creating his matinée idol image. His Rank contract began following his appearance in Esther Waters (1948), his first credited role, replacing Stewart Granger . Another early role of his was in The Blue Lamp (1950), playing a hoodlum who shoots and kills a police constable ( Jack Warner ), whilst in So Long at the Fair (1950), a film noir , he played a handsome artist who comes to
11514-406: Was looking at Dante 's Inferno . And a girl came up who spoke English, because she recognised one of the badges, and she ... her breasts were like, sort of, empty purses, she had no top on, and a pair of man's pyjamas, you know, the prison pyjamas, and no hair ... and all around us there were mountains of dead people, I mean mountains of them, and they were slushy, and they were slimy. There
11628-666: Was nominated five times as Best Actor by BAFTA , winning twice, for The Servant in 1963 and for Darling in 1965. He also received the London Film Critics Circle Lifetime Award in 1991 . He made a total of 63 films between 1939 and 1991. In 1983, he received a special award for service to the cinema at the Cannes Festival . He was awarded the British Film Institute Fellowship in 1987. In 1988, Bogarde
11742-1283: Was nominated for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor . Forster played a variety of both leading and supporting roles in over 100 films, including Captain Dan Holland in The Black Hole (1979), Detective David Madison in Alligator (1980), Abdul Rafai in The Delta Force (1986), Colonel Partington in Me, Myself & Irene (2000), Scott Thorson in The Descendants (2011), General Edward Clegg in Olympus Has Fallen (2013) and its sequel London Has Fallen (2016), Norbert Everhardt in What They Had (2018), and Sheriff Hadley in The Wolf of Snow Hollow (2020). He also had prominent roles in television series such as Banyon (1971–73), Nakia (1974), Karen Sisco (2003–04), Heroes (2007–08),
11856-457: Was nominated for Academy Awards for his screenplays for both Ehrlich and Sergeant York. Huston wrote that Sergeant York , which was directed by Howard Hawks , has "gone down as one of Howard's best pictures, and Gary Cooper had a triumph playing the young mountaineer." Huston was recognized and respected as a screenwriter. He persuaded the Warners to give him a chance to direct, under
11970-783: Was of English and Irish descent. He earned a Bachelor's Degree in Psychology from the University of Rochester . He performed in a number of plays in college, and decided to become an actor. Forster added an "R" to his surname as there was another member of the Screen Actors Guild named Robert Foster. Forster made his Broadway debut in 1965 in Mrs. Dally Had a Lover, opposite Arlene Francis and Ralph Meeker . He also starred in productions of Come Blow Your Horn , The Big Knife , and The Glass Menagerie . Forster's movie career began strongly, when John Huston cast him in
12084-475: Was possibly because it "brought war very close to home." Huston recalls that at the preview showing, before the film was halfway through, "damn near a third of the audience got up and walked out of the theater." Despite the "butchering" and weak public response, film historian Michael Barson describes the movie as "a minor masterpiece." At the same time, the film was also the cause of a growing feud between MGM founder Louis B. Mayer and Producer Dore Schary to
12198-441: Was set to play the role of T. E. Lawrence in a proposed film Lawrence written by Terence Rattigan and to be directed by Anthony Asquith . On the eve of production, after a year of preparation by Bogarde, Rattigan and Asquith, the film was scrapped without full explanation—ostensibly for budgetary reasons—to the dismay of all three men. The abrupt scrapping of Lawrence , a role long researched and keenly anticipated by Bogarde,
12312-609: Was six years old. For much of his childhood, he lived and studied in boarding schools . During summer vacations, he traveled separately with each of his parents – with his father on vaudeville tours, and with his mother to horse races and other sports events. Young Huston benefited greatly from seeing his father act on stage, and he was later drawn to acting. Some critics, such as Lawrence Grobel, surmise that his relationship with his mother may have contributed to his marrying five times, and seeming to have difficulty in maintaining relationships. Grobel wrote, "When I interviewed some of
12426-420: Was some doubt as to whether he really visited Belsen, although, more than a decade after publishing his biography, and following additional research, John Coldstream concluded that "it is now possible to state with some authority that he did at least set foot inside the camp". The horror and revulsion at the cruelty and inhumanity that he said he witnessed left him with a deep-seated hostility towards Germany; in
12540-510: Was surprised by the immediate enthusiastic response by the public and critics, who hailed the film as a "classic", with many ranking it as the "best detective melodrama ever made." Herald Tribune critic Howard Barnes called it a "triumph." Huston received an Academy Award nomination for the screenplay. After this film, Huston directed all of his screenplays, except for one, Three Strangers (1946). In 1942, he directed two more hits, In This Our Life (1942), starring Bette Davis , and Across
12654-538: Was the actor's only foray into Hollywood. The campy The Singer Not the Song (1961) starred Bogarde as a Mexican bandit alongside John Mills as a priest. In H.M.S. Defiant (or Damn the Defiant! ) (1962), he played the sadistic Lieutenant Scott-Padget, co-starring Sir Alec Guinness ; I Could Go On Singing (1963), co-starring Judy Garland in her final screen role; Hot Enough for June (or Agent 8¾ ) (1964),
12768-538: Was the best performance I've ever done in my life," he later recounted. "Fassbinder... really screwed the film up. He tore it to pieces with a scissors." This led to Bogarde going on an extended hiatus. "And I thought, 'OK. Give it up'. So I gave it up and I didn't do another film for fourteen years." He returned one last time, as Daddy in Bertrand Tavernier's Daddy Nostalgie , (or These Foolish Things ) (1991), co-starring Jane Birkin as his daughter. In
12882-458: Was the story about a disillusioned veteran who clashes with gangsters on a remote Florida key. It co-starred Lauren Bacall , Claire Trevor , Edward G. Robinson , and Lionel Barrymore . The film was an adaptation of the stage play by Maxwell Anderson . Some viewers complained that it was still overly stage-bound. But the "outstanding performances" by all the actors saved the film, and Claire Trevor won an Oscar for best supporting actress. Huston
12996-718: Was written by John Sayles and directed by Lewis Teague who later collaborated on Alligator (1980), which starred Forster. He played a key support role in Disney's The Black Hole (1979). Throughout the 1980s Forster alternated between television and low budget films. He was in the comedy Heartbreak High (1981), and the action films Vigilante (1983), Walking the Edge (1985), The Delta Force (1986), and Counterforce (1988). He wrote, starred in, produced and directed Hollywood Harry (1985), in which he invested all his savings. That year he stated "Not one of my movies made
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