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Spanish postcard by Oscarcolor, no. 293.
Jean-Louis Trintignant (1930) is one of the most gifted French actors of the post-war era. He starred in more than 100 films and enjoyed international acclaim with films like Et Dieu... créa la femme/And God Created Woman (1956), Un homme et une femme/A Man And A Woman (1966), Z (1969) and Il Conformista/The Conformist (1970 ). He showed a special talent for dark characters like murderers or jealous husbands, and won several awards for it.
Jean-Louis Trintignant was born in Piolenc in the south of France in 1930. He was born in a wealthy family. His father was a wealthy industrialist. His uncle was race car driver, Louis Trintignant, who was killed in 1933 while practicing on the Péronne racetrack in Picardie. Another uncle, Maurice Trintignant, was a Formula One driver who twice won the Monaco Grand Prix as well as the Le Mans. Jean-Louis studied law in Aix-en-Provence, but at the age of twenty, he moved to Paris to study drama at L'IDHEC (now La Fémis). He made his theatrical debut in 1951, and toured in the early 1950’ s in several theater productions. His first film appearances were in La Loi des rues/ Law of the Streets (1956, Ralph Habib) and Si tous les gars du monde/ If All the Guys in the World... (1956, Christian Jaque), an hymn to brotherhood, solidarity and responsibility. At the time Trintignant was not regarded as very talented, but everything changed when Roger Vadim discovered him. He gave him the leading man role opposite Brigitte Bardot in Et Dieu... créa la femme/And God Created Woman (1956, Roger Vadim). It gained him instant stardom. When the press stalked him because of rumors of an affair with Bardot, he fled into the army. His acting was interrupted for several years by mandatory military service. After serving in Algiers, he returned to Paris. He resumed his work in film and appeared for Vadim in Les liaisons dangereuses/Dangerous Liaisons (1959, Roger Vadim) starring Jeanne Moreau, but it took some time for another big success.
Raised in and around automobile racing, Jean-Louis Trintignant was the natural choice for film director Claude Lelouch for the starring role of race car driver in his film Un homme et une femme/A Man and A Woman (1966, Claude Lelouch). Trintignant was – and still is - good friends with actress Anouk Aimée. He recommended her to film Lelouch for the female lead in the film. Un homme et une femme became an art-house classic, and at the time it was the most successful French film ever screened in the foreign market. In Italy, where he was always dubbed into Italian, he collaborated with renowned Italian directors. An example is the cult film Il sorpasso/The Easy Life (1962, Dino Risi) in which he played a shy law student taken for a for a drive through the Roman and Tuscany countries by capricious, exuberant Vittorio Gassman in the summer of 1962. Other major Italian directors he worked with were Valerio Zurlini in Estate violent/Violent Summer (1959) with Eleonora Rossi-Drago and Il deserto dei tartari/The Desert of the Tartars (1974), Bernardo Bertolucci in Il conformista/The Conformist (1970), and Ettore Scola in La terrazzo/The Terrace (1980) and Passione d'amore/Passion For Love (1981). His most interesting French films of the 1960’s were Les Biches/Bad Girls (1968, Claude Chabrol) with Stephane Audran, L'homme qui ment/The Man Who Lies(1968, Alain Robbe-Grillet), the political thriller Z (1969, Costa-Gravas) starring Yves Montand, and the Oscar nominated drama Ma nuit chez Maud/My Night at Maud’s (1969, Eric Rohmer) with Francoise Fabian.
Throughout the 1970’ s, Jean-Louis Trintignant starred in numerous films and in 1983 he made his first English language feature film, Under Fire (1983, Roger Spottiswoode) starring Nick Nolte. Following this, he starred in François Truffaut's final film, Vivement dimanche!/Confidentially Yours (1983) opposite Fanny Ardant. In 1994, he starred in Krzysztof Kieślowski's last film, Trois couleurs: Rouge/Three Colors: Red opposite Ir`ene Jacob. He lent his voice to the widely acclaimed La cité des enfants perdus/City of Lost Children (1995, Marc Caro, Jean-Pierre Jeunet). He has won several awards, including a Silver Bear in Berlin for Best Actor for L'Homme qui ment (1968), the Cannes Award for Best Actor for Z (1969) and a Special David di Donatello in Italy in 1972. Trintignant was nominated for the César four times: in 1987, 1995, 1996, and in 1999. Jean-Louis Trintignant has been married twice. His first wife was actress Stéphane Audran. His second wife, Nadine Marquand, was also an actress as well as a screenwriter and director. They had three children: Vincent Trintignant, Pauline (who died of crib death in 1969) and Marie Trintignant. At the age of 17, Marie performed in La terrazza alongside her father and later became a successful actress in her own right. In 2003, she was killed at the age of 41 by her boyfriend, Bertrand Cantat, the lead rock singer and guitarist of the group Noir Désir, in a hotel room in Vilnius, Lithuania. Apparently the jealous Cantat became outraged when Trintignant received a telephone call from her husband, director/actor Samuel Benchetrit. She suffered a cerebral edema as a result of her skull fractures and died four days after the incident. In 2004, Cantat was sentenced to eight years in prison for manslaughter, which was initially appealed by Marie's family, who wished for a heavier sentence. They later canceled their appeal and the judgment was final. The last decade Jean-Louis Trintignant essentially focused on his stage work, but he will return to the cinema in grand style. In preproduction is Amour/Love (2012), a new film by Michael Haneke. Trintignant will play the male lead opposite Isabelle Huppert.
Sources: Tom Zoerner(IMDb), Wikipedia and IMDb.
Sophie Bouchard as Belle and Craig Bruneski as the Beast in Ignite Theatre"s production of Beauty and the Beast at the Chilliwack Cultural Centre. BC CA
East-German postcard by VEB Progress Film-Vertrieb, Berlin, no. 3281, 1968. Photo: DEFA / Dietrich. Jan Spitzer and Heidemarie Wenzel in Abschied/Farewell (Egon Günther, 1968).
East-German actor Jan Spitzer (1947) was a star of the DEFA in the late 1960s. He also worked as a pop singer and as a stage and voice actor.
German actress Heidemarie Wenzel (1945) became known in DEFA films of the early 1970s, such as Zeit der Störche/Time of the storks (1971) and Nemuritorii (1974).
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French postcard by JRPR, Paris, no. 123. Photo: Erka Prodisco. William Boyd in The Volga Boatman (Cecil B. DeMille, 1926). This image is a pictorial citation of the famous painting Volga Boatmen/ Barge Haulers on the Volga (1870-1873) by Ilia Efimovich Repin (1844-1930).
William Boyd (1895-1972) was an American film actor, best known for his parts in Westerns. He is known primarily as the performer of the cowboy Hopalong Cassidy in the eponymous film series.
William Boyd was born in 1895. In 1918, Boyd arrived in Hollywood and after a series of uncredited parts, he quickly became a sought-after leading actor of the silent movie era. Thanks to saving Cecil B. DeMille's then-favorite actress Julia Faye an awkward situation during the shooting of Saturday Night (1922), when her bathing suit suddenly sprang open, DeMille would give Boyd his chance a few years after. Boyd had his definite breakthrough as Jack Moreland in The Road to Yesterday (Cecil B. DeMille, 1925), also with Joseph Schildkraut, Jetta Goudal, and Vera Reynolds. Critics praised Boyd's performance - as the virile minister Jack who doesn't mind kissing flapper Bess (Vera Reynolds) and knows to use his fists when necessary - while moviegoers loved his easy charm, charisma, and intense good-looks. Due to his growing popularity, DeMille soon cast Boyd as the male lead in the highly successful silent drama, The Volga Boatman (1926). In Tsarist Russia, the Volga boatman Feodor (Boyd) meets Prince Dimitri (Victor Varconi) and his fiancée Vera (Elinor Fair). During the October Revolution, he meets Vera again when he has become a Red Army officer. He receives the order to shoot her but is impressed with her bravery and saves her. Both flee but then have to face the power of Dimitri. After this film, Boyd had definitely become a matinee idol.
At the beginning of the 1930s, William Boyd's career got a kink, as scandals around a certain William Boyd were attributed to him. Despite the fact the culprit was just an actor with the same name, Boyd's contract with Radio Pictures was annulled and for years he had to survive. His rescue came in 1935 when he signed a contract with Paramount Pictures on a Western series, whose character Hopalong Cassidy accompanied him henceforth in his future career. Instead of the hard-drinking, rough character from the pulp magazines on which his character was based, Boyd's film character was a wholesome, chaste cowboy - a confirmed bachelor, quite unlike Boyd's own five marriages. Hopalong Cassidy's white horse was named "Topper". After a move to United Artists, the series was discontinued in 1944. Two years later, however, Boyd continued to do so by producing the films himself.
After 70 movies, William Boyd recognised early on the possibilities of television and switched to the small screen, where from 1952 onwards he did fifty-two half-hour episodes after he had already shown from 1949 on NBC all of his 66 Hopalong Cassidy films. As he had bought the rights of these films (almost ruining him), he became a wealthy man. Boyd also arranged a wealth in merchandising. In addition, he marketed the character in the circus, variety and on promotional tours. In the November 27, 1950 issue, Boyd was put on Time magazine's front page and got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 1972, Boyd died from complications related to Parkinson's disease and congestive heart failure. In 1995, he was immortalized in the Western Performers Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City. There is also a Hopalong Cassidy Museum in Cambridge, Ohio. Boyd was married five times, first to wealthy heiress Laura Maynard, then to the actresses Ruth Miller, Elinor Fair, Dorothy Sebastian, and Grace Bradley.
Source: Wikipedia (English and German), and IMDb.
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Actor Kellan Lutz attends The Cinema Society & D&G screening of "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" at Landmark's Sunshine Cinema on November 19, 2009 in New York City.
West-German postcard by top-Schlagertextheft. Photo: Ariola.
Bruce Low (1913-1990) was a Dutch schlager and gospel singer and actor who had an impressive career in West Germany and Austria.
Bruce Low was born Ernst Gottfried Bielke on a coffee plantation in Paramaribo, Surinam - then part of The Netherlands in 1913. He spent his childhood in Surinam together with his three sisters and brother. Their father, Hermann Moritz Bielke, worked as a missionary with the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine. Their mother Lydia née Reusch was born in Hong Kong, her father came from Württemberg and was also a missionary. From 1921, Bruce attended grammar school in Zeist, the Netherlands, played tenor saxophone in the school jazz band and was a member of the local church choir. After his final exams in 1932, he studied sports at the Deutsche Hochschule für Leibesübungen (DHfL) in Berlin. But a serious injury while trampolining put an end to his studies as a sports teacher. Instead, he took singing lessons from the singing teacher Jacques Stückgold at the Hochschule für Musik. Low continued his studies in the Netherlands and also sang in a chamber choir. His performing career only took shape after the war. He organised shows for the Americans in the Netherlands, contracted music groups, was an emcee and sang spiritual songs, also for the radio. As a result, he was hired in 1949 for a show with African folk songs in Vienna. He appeared in front of the audience dressed as a black man with blackface in the Al Johnson manner and received an offer for a recording contract. His first records contained Western-style cowboy songs, such as '(Ghost) Riders in the Sky' and 'Heimweh nach Virginia'. In 1950, the man with the sonorous bass voice had his first success in Germany with 'Leise rauscht es am Missouri''. In 1953, more hits followed, such as 'So viel Wind und keine Sege'(So Much Wind and No Sail)" and his legendary 'Tabak und Rum' (Tobacco and Rum). Two years later, 'Das alte Haus von Rocky Docky', the cover version of 'This Ole House' became a box office hit. In 1956 he took third place in the newly created German Hit Parade with "Wenn die Sonne scheint in Texas" and climbed to second place with "Und es weht der Wind". His interpretation of the legendary hit "Es hängt ein Pferdehalfter an der Wand", a cover version of Carson Robison's song 'There's a Bridle Hangin' on the Wall', with which the Dutch band Kilima Hawaiians had already caused a furore in Germany in 1953, became his greatest success.
In 1958 Bruce Low took part in the preliminaries for the Eurovision Song Contest in the Netherlands, with 'Neem Dat Maar Aan Van Mij' but came in 10th. Bruce Low also made several guest appearances as a singer in the popular German-language musical entertainment films of the 1950s and 1960s, for example in Königin der Arena/Queen of the Arena (Rolf Meyer, 1952) with Maria Litto and Hans Söhnker, Wenn am Sonntagabend die Dorfmusik spielt/When The Village Music Plays on Sunday Nights (Rudolf Schündler, 1953) starring Rudolf Prack, or the operetta adaptation Blume von Hawaii/The Flower of Hawaii (Géza von Cziffra, 1953) starring Maria Litto. He also performed his hit songs in several Schlager films. As an actor he appeared in the successful drama Die endlose Nacht/The Endless Night (Will Tremper, 1963) a wounderful one-night-at-the-airport film with Karin Hübner and Harald Leipnitz. He later also appeared in two other films by Tremper, the comedy Sperrbezirk/Sperrbezirk, the business of immorality (Will Tremper, 1966) with Harald Leipnitz and Mir hat es immer Spaß gemacht/How Did a Nice Girl Like You Get Into This Business? (Will Tremper, 1970) starring Playboy bunny Barbi Benton and Broderick Crawford. After the stage musical 'Kiss me Kate' in the German translation by Marcel Prawy became an extraordinary success in the Wiener Volksoper, Prawy went to work on the Leonard Bernstein musical 'Wonderful Town' (1956), also in the Wiener Volksoper. Bruce Low played the lead role of Bob Baker as Olive Moorefield's partner.
The advancing rock and roll wave seemed to end his career, so Bruce Low started writing articles for the Munich magazine Jasmin under the pseudonym Thomas Gallauner. At the "Karl May Festival in Berlin he portrayed Old Shatterhand in 'Winnetou' (1966) and 'Der Schatz im Silbersee' (1968), alongside Gustavo Rojo as Winnetou. At the beginning of the 1970s, his voice was in demand again and he performed mainly new, partly traditional gospels. With songs such as 'Noah' (1971), 'Das Kartenspiel' (1974) and 'Die Legende von Babylon' (1978), he hit the charts once more. He appeared as a guest in several television broadcasts and was asked as a presenter for circus broadcasts. He also had several appearances in the ZDF quiz show Der große Preis. He returned to the cinemas in several films by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. First, he played in the TV two-parter Welt am Draht/World on a Wire (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1973) and later in the films Faustrecht der Freiheit/Fox and His Friends (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1975) and Die Ehe der Maria Braun/The Wedding of Maria Braun (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1979) starring Hanna Schygulla. In 1976 he participated again in the preliminaries of the Eurovision Song Contest, now in West Germany, with the song 'Der Jahrmarkt unserer Eitelkeit' (The Fair of Our Vanity). However, he only reached 9th place among twelve participants and the Les Humphries Singers participated for Germany with "Sing Sang Song and reached 12th place. In the 1980s it became quieter again around the singer. Two years before his death, he published his memoirs under the title: 'Es hängt ein Pferdehalfter an der Wand - das Lied meines Lebens'. In 1990, Bruce Lowe died after a long illness at the age of 76 in a Munich hospital. At his own request, the artist, who was married to wife Marion, had his body cremated and scattered in a meadow in the Netherlands.
Sources: Stephanie D'Heil (Steffi-Line - German), Wikipedia (Dutch and German), and IMDb.
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German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 35/1. Photo: Koop-Film Co. Karl Beckersachs, Walter Slezak and Charles Willy Kayser in O alte Burschenherrlichkeit / Oh Those Glorious Old Student Days (Helene Lackner, Eugen Rex, 1925).
German actor Karl Beckersachs (1886-1951) was the gallant lover in many of the early silent films of the Weimar cinema. His career fizzled out in the late 1920s, and later, this pioneer film actor got completely forgotten.
Austrian actor Walter Slezak (1902-1983) began his film career as a thin leading man in silent films. Unable to keep his weight under control, Slezak decided around 1930 to become a character actor. When the Nazis came into power, he moved to Broadway and Hollywood, where he usually portrayed a villain or thug, but also played lighter, kindlier roles.
German actor Charles Willy Kayser (1881-1942) had a remarkable career in the silent cinema. However, today he is little known, while many of his films are considered lost now, and there is little information about his work.
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Canadian actor Donald Sutherland attends the "Ella & John" premiere during the 14th Zurich Film Festival on September 30, 2018 in Switzerland. He was honored with the Zurich Film Festival's Lifetime Achievement Award and a retrospective of his work. For the ZFF Special "ZFF Masters" he also giving answers to questions from the festival visitors.
Born on July 17, 1935 in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
Retrospective: Ella & John (2017); Ordinary People (1980); Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978); Il Casanova (1976); Novecento (1976); Don’t Look Now (1973); Klute (1971); Kelly’s Heroes (1970); MASH (1970); Start the Revolution Without Me (1970); The Dirty Dozen (1967)