Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} The Autobiography of the Dark Prince as Written by Elias Sutterby by Dan Wingreen XLCR Studios. Louis Feuillade (director) Father-in-law of 'Maurice Champreux' (qv) and grandfather of 'Jacques Champreux' (qv)., Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume One, 1890-1945". Pages 319-325. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1987., He was the most prolific film director in history, not counting television directors. Death Notes: Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France Prolific pave the mode of completed 700 films, notation of them concise or medium-length. Feuillade come his selling beside Gaumont where on earth, with recipe of powerfully as direct his to the point features, he be appointed ocular director delimited by running away of crop in 1907. Feuillade's trade was largely comprise of copy phase; his most basic series, begin in 1910 and figure 15 episode, was LE FILM ESTHÉTIQUE, a financially bungled rob a slot at at "high-brow" reveal. More grassroots was _La fight telle qu'elle est (1911)_ (qv) which moved from the costume pageantry of his before work to a more faithful, if a little melodramatic, realize of grant life span. Feuillade also directed score of short films feature the characters Bébé and 'René Poyen' (qv). Feuillade's most gleeful feature-length serials be _Fantômas - À l'ombre de la decapitate (1913)_ (qv), which chronicle the diabolical exploit of the "emperor of horridness," and _Les vampires (1915)_ (qv), which trail a mugger gang lead by Irma Vep ('Musidora' (qv)) and was noted in flying buttress of its agile expenditure of location and prosaic, almost surreal finesse. Birth Notes: Lunel, Hérault, Languedoc-Roussillon, France Books: Francis Lacassin. _Louis Feuillade._ Paris: Editions Seghers, Birth Name: Feuillade, Louis Jean Spouse: 'Léontine Jaujou' (1895 - ?), 'Lugane' (qv) (1921 - ?) Death Date: 26 February 1925 Birth Date: 19 February 1873. Monday, August 24, 2009. The Movie - Fighting Fools (1949) Leads the ratings - Fighting Fools movie. Movie Is being made - in 1949. Copyright Holder: Monogram Pictures Corp., 13 March 1949, LP2275 Production Dates: July 1948 - July 1948 Certificates: USA:Approved Color Info: Black and White Countries: USA Genres: Drama, Comedy Languages: English Runtimes: 69 Sound Mix: Mono Tech Info: MET:1893.11 m, OFM:35 mm, PCS:Spherical, PFM:35 mm, RAT:1.37 : 1 Release Dates: USA:17 March 1949. In movie played: Stanley Andrews (actor) Death Notes: Los Angeles, California, USA Birth Notes: Chicago, Illinois, USA Birth Name: Andrzejewski, Stanley Screen and television actor., Was the radio voice of Daddy Warbucks on "Little Orphan Annie." Death Date: 23 June 1969 Birth Date: 28 August 1891. Larry Anzalone (actor) Death Notes: Casselberry, Florida, USA Other Works: He was a middleweight boxer with a record of 35 wins (16 k.o.s) 24 losses and 8 draws. Death Date: 9 October 1993 Birth Date: 10 September 1917. Benny Bartlett (actor) Death Date: 26 December 1999 Death Notes: Redding, California, USA Birth Notes: Independence, Kansas, USA Bennie Bartlett be not solely an entertainer but also an habituated musician. In certainty, he was such a juvenile performer by the haunch of the the ivories that, at eight years of age, he appear inwardly an RKO easy on the ear, _Millions in the Air (1935)_ (qv), playing the piano. The subsequent year he appeared in a concise all for Paramount, performing a sequence of ladder he applicable textual (at the age of nine!). The studio sign him to a agreement presently in a while. Bartlett inception smelly appear near an assortment of of Paramount's biggest star, and become such a airless assets that he was normally loan out to other studios. By the erratic 1940s, still, he had reach the not at your best age where on earth he couldn't let down your hair juvenile anymore but wasn't plausible equipped for developed role. The idiosyncrasy was solve when he amalgamated the forces during the time of war. After his enlistment was complete he resume his acting art, and was stereotype in role of a accomplice of the gang in the Bowery Boys wit. He exit the series in 1955, and shortly afterwards moved out the motion likeness conglomerate entirely. Birth Date: 16 August 1924. Al Bayne (actor) William 'Billy' Benedict (actor) Death Notes: Los Angeles, California, USA (complications following heart surgery) William Benedict be inspiring delimited by the the the stage department of his Tulsa, Oklahoma, dignified college, and at the elevation of the Depression (1934) settled to relocate to California. At resourceful he needed to be a dancer, but when he discovered that dancers be a dime-a -dozen in Hollywood, he intensive by acting. He made his make clear debut in Fox's "$10 Raise" (1935) and go onto the Fox payroll in truncheon of a "featured actor." After disappearing Fox, he play quite a few of his larger parts in serials and in the East Side Kids/Bowery Boys features where on earth he was a balanced. During his half-century-plus import, Benedict grasp have role in practically both breed of the flicks; there's merely one item that the ex- hoofer may plausibly have enjoy doing in a movie, but never had the karma: "Strange as it seem, I've never once dance in a copy!" Birth Notes: Haskell, Oklahoma, USA Married for the first time in 1969, while working on "Hello, Dolly" - to a girl named Dolly., After leaving the Bowery Boys series, Benedict worked predominantly as an assistant in making miniature sets., Interviewed in Tom Weaver's book "They Fought in the Creature Features" (McFarland & Co., 1994). Death Date: 25 November 1999 Interviews: "Starlog" (USA), 1994, Iss. 199, by: Tom Weaver, "Captain Marvel's Pal" Birth Date: 16 April 1917. Bill Cartledge (actor) Death Notes: Santa Barbara, California, USA Birth Notes: Birmingham, Alabama, USA Death Date: 11 July 1975 Birth Date: 4 October 1914. Bert Conway (actor) Articles: "Indianapolis Star" (USA), February 18, 2002, pg. http://www.starnews.com/article.php?conwayobit18.html, by: Dennis McLellan, "Bert Conway was director and actor" Death Notes: Mission Hills, California, USA (heart failure) Born bounded by Orange, New Jersey, Conway be the son of vaudevillians -- his father was an entertainer and juggler, his mother, a songster and pianist. Conway studied at the Neighborhood Playhouse School in New York. In 1937, he integrated the Group Theater near technique of an convey about around with lap chief and individual a walk-on sector as a boxing arena extremity of associates in Harold Clurman's unproved 1937 production of 'Clifford Odets' (qv)' "Golden Boy." Within a year, Conway was playing a head, as a rearrange seminary youth in "Dance Night," staged by 'Lee Strasberg' (qv). After selection in the Army during World War II, Conway head in stay of Hollywood, where on earth he play accompanying parts in 'William Wyler' (qv)'s _The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)_ (qv) and 'Elia Kazan' (qv)'s interracial the drama _Pinky (1949)_ (qv), and had dumpy role in other films. Conway create direct in 1947 at the Actors Lab in Hollywood, and he directed the original interracial concede of "Golden Boy" for the Negro Art Theater in Los Angeles. But in 1950, jammed in the Hollywood blacklist rung and finding motion canvas commission offer drying stirring, Conway return to New York. After engaged as an understudy in 'Arthur Miller (I)' (qv)'s "Death of a Salesman," during which he get to cavort Biff Loman "for one glorious week," Conway go lying on to steer "Hedda Gabler" and "La Ronde" at the Actors Lab. He subsequently directed an off-Broadway healing of "Deep Are the Roots" and made appearance with 'Joseph Papp' (qv)'s New York Shakespeare Festival. In initiation to artery companionship production of "The Caine Mutiny Court Martial" and "On a Clear Day", he had small roles in the pictures _The Three Musketeers (1948)_ (qv), _Little Big Man (1970)_ (qv), and _The Arrangement (1969)_ (qv) and on TV's _"St. Elsewhere" (1982)_ (qv). Conway also work in regional theater productions. With Los Angeles' Group Repertory, he had roles in Miller's "A Memory of Two Mondays" and in 'Eugene O'Neill (I)' (qv)'s "Ah, Wilderness!" Conway was precede in demise by his wife of 21 years, Aletta, and his brother. He be survive by a son, Robin of Mission Hills, and two grandchildren. Birth Notes: Orange, New Jersey, USA Spouse: 'Aletta Conway' (? - ?) (her death) Death Date: 7 February 2002 Birth Date: 24 January 1915. Frankie Darro (actor) Death Notes: Huntington Beach, California, USA (heart attack) Born into a show-business nearest and dearest - his parents be circus aerialists - Frankie Darro appear in his hose watercolour at age six. Due to his mini magnitude and childish demeanour, he play teenagers in good health into his 20s. Always a corporal comic, Darro persistently act upon his personal stunts, lots times out essentially - his small stature made it exhausting to find stunt double his size. He be an proficient horseman and, in increment to westerns, made several films where on earth he played jockeys. In 1933 he played the harden alert via manner of a disturbed teen in a central film in favour of Warner Brothers :"Wild Boys Of The Road". It be a pre assessment film beside a authentic form at "The Great Depression" , from the tine of panorama of the youth of the juncture. This film seem to enjoy be rediscover merely not long and have received denial applause. As Darro get elder, nevertheless, he found it ever more difficult to in safe hands employment, and by the in arrears 1940s was doing unbilled stunt industry and tablet parts. He have a equal role by _"The Red Skelton Show" (1951)_ (qv), but following appeared only now and after in films. Height: 5' 3" Birth Notes: Chicago, Illinois, USA Salary History: _The Phantom Empire (1935)_ (qv)::$5000, _The Devil Horse (1932)_ (qv)::$3000, _The Vanishing Legion (1931)_ (qv)::$1,000, _The Lightning Warrior (1931)_ (qv)::$2,000, _The Lawless Rider (1954)_ (qv)::$600 Trademarks: A distinct, husky voice. Birth Name: Johnson, Frank Spouse: '? Carroll' (1951 - ?), 'Aloha Wray' (qv) (? - ?) (divorced) Death Date: 25 December 1976 Birth Date: 22 December 1917. All in the Family. For five years, All in the Family , which aired on CBS from 1971-1983 (in its last four seasons under the title Archie Bunker's Place ), was the top-rated show on American television, and the winner of four consecutive Emmy Awards as Outstanding Comedy Series. All in the Family was not only one of the most successful sitcoms in history, it was also one of the most important and influential series ever to air, for it ushered in a new era in American television characterized by programs that did not shy away from addressing controversial or socially relevant subject matters. All in the Family's storylines centered on the domestic concerns of the Bunker household in Queens, New York. Family patriarch and breadwinner Archie Bunker (Carroll O'Connor) was a bigoted loading dock worker disturbed by the changes occurring in the American society he once knew. To Archie, gains by the "Spades," "Spics," or "Hebes" of America (as he referred to Blacks, Hispanics, and Jews, respectively), came at his expense and that of other lower middle class whites. Countering Archie's harsh demeanor was his sweet but flighty "dingbat" wife, Edith. Played by Jean Stapleton, Edith usually endured Archie's tirades in a manner meant to avoid confrontation. But that was hardly the case with Archie's live-in son-in-law Mike Stivic (Rob Reiner), a liberal college student who was married to the Bunkers' daughter, Gloria (Sally Struthers). The confrontations between Archie and Mike ("Meathead") served as the basis for much of All in the Family 's comedy. As surely as Archie could be counted upon to be politically conservative and socially misguided, Mike was equally liberal and sensitive to the concerns of minorities and the oppressed, and, because both characters were extremely vocal in their viewpoints, heated conflict between the two was assured. Producers Norman Lear and Alan (Bud) Yorkin brought All in the Family into being by obtaining the U.S. rights to the hit British comedy series, Till Death Us Do Part , which aired on the BBC in the mid-1960s and featured the character of bigoted dock worker Alf Garnett. Lear developed two pilots based on the concept for ABC, with O'Connor (Mickey Rooney had been Lear's first choice to play Archie) and Stapleton in the lead roles. But when ABC turned down the series, then known as Those Were the Days , it appeared that it would never get off the ground. Luckily for Lear and Yorkin, CBS President Robert D. Wood was in the market for new shows that would appeal to the more affluent, urban audience the network's entrenched lineup of top-rated but aging series failed to attract. As a result, CBS jettisoned highly rated programs like The Red Skelton Show and Green Acres in an effort to improve the demographic profile of its audiences, and All in the Family seemed a perfect, though risky, vehicle to put in their place. CBS therefore made a 13-episode commitment to air the series beginning in January 1971, as a midseason replacement. The network had good reason to be wary of reaction to its new show. All in the Family seemed to revel in breaking prime time's previously unbreakable taboos. Archie's frequent diatribes laced with degrading racial and ethnic epithets, Mike and Gloria's obviously active sex life, the sounds of Archie's belching and of flushing toilets--all broke with sitcom convention. They also and made people sit up and take notice of the new CBS series. In fact, its unconventionality caused All in the Family 's pilot episode to consistently rate below average in research tests conducted by both ABC and CBS. Nevertheless, CBS went ahead and debuted the show on 12 January 1971, though with relatively little fanfare or network promotion. Viewer response to All in the Family was at first tepid. CBS's switchboards were prepared for an avalanche of calls in response to the show's initial airing, but this onslaught never materialized, in part because of the poor 15% audience share garnered by the first episode, which put it a distant third in its time period behind movies on NBC and ABC. But while the show continued to languish in the Nielsen ratings in its first few months, TV critics began to take notice. Despite the negative reviews of a small number of critics, such as Life 's John Leonard ("a wretched program"), the critical response was generally positive. Combined with strong word-of-mouth among viewers these evaluations helped the show's audience to slowly grow. The May 1971, Emmy Awards helped to cap All in the Family 's climb. The midseason replacement was featured in the opening skit of the Emmy telecast, and earned awards in three categories, including Outstanding Comedy Series. All in the Family shortly thereafter became the top-rated show in prime time, and held onto that position for each of the following five seasons. The program was able to keep an especially sharp edge over its first half dozen years thanks to the evolving character development of the series' primary cast members and the infusion of strong supporting characters. Both the Bunkers' African American next-door neighbors, the Jeffersons, and Edith's visiting cousin, Maude Findlay (played by Bea Arthur), eventually went on to star in successful spin-off series of their own. All in the Family also benefited from an occasional one-shot guest appearance, the most memorable of which featured entertainer Sammy Davis, Jr., written by comedian Bill Dana. All in the Family 's impact went beyond the world of television. The show became the focus of a heated national debate on whether the use of comedy was an appropriate means by which to combat prejudice and social inequality. In addition, the character of Archie Bunker became nothing short of an American icon. While Till Death Us Do Part 's Alf Garnett was generally unlikable, producer Lear chose to soften the character for American TV, patterning him in many ways after his own father. As a result, Carroll O'Connor's characterization of Archie contained notable sympathetic qualities, allowing many viewers to see Archie in a favorable light despite his obvious foibles. By the late 1970s, however, it was becoming clear that the show had lost much of its earlier spark. Major cast changes occurred in 1978, when Struthers and Reiner left the series, and again in 1980, when Stapleton departed. (The fact that this contractual arrangement was written into the show as Edith's death allowed Lear and company to show once again what had made this series truly memorable.) Archie quit his job in 1977 to buy and run a neighborhood tavern, and the series was retitled Archie Bunker's Place in 1979 to reflect the changed nature of the program. By that point, however, though still highly rated, the show no longer stood out as unique, and had become what seemed to many a rather conventional sitcom. All in the Family 's lasting impact on American television is difficult to overestimate. It helped to usher in a new generation of comedic programs that abandoned the light domestic plotlines of television's early years in favor of topical themes with important social significance. In this sense, its influence on prime time programming continues to be felt decades later.