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taking care for the performances at the World in a Shell part of the exhibition at the Westerpark, Amsterdam, Autumn 2010 | WiaS overview | Photography by Hans Kalliwoda
Madampu Sankaran Namboothiri, popularly known as Madampu Kunjukuttan, is a Malayalam author and a screenplay writer. A prolific and versatile actor, a Sanskrit scholar, a teacher of repute, priesthood in a famous temple, National awards for the best screenplay in 2000 for the film " Karunam' and the Ashdod International Film Award for Best Screenplay for the film Parinamam (The Change) in 2003-- his life has been extremely colorful and eventful. He lives in the Kiralur village in the Thrissur district of Kerala, India, 77 years young.
Actor and film director
In 1922, Walsh was traveling with a group of actors and crew to Tahiti to direct scenes for "Lost and Found on a South Sea Island" which was released in 1923.
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Raoul Walsh (March 11, 1887 – December 31, 1980) was an American film director, actor, founding member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) and the brother of silent screen actor George Walsh...
Walsh began as a stage actor in New York City, quickly progressing into film acting. Walsh was educated at Seton Hall College and began acting in 1909. In 1914, he became an assistant to D.W. Griffith and made his first full-length feature film The Life of General Villa, followed by the critically-acclaimed Regeneration in 1915, possibly the earliest feature gangster film. Walsh played John Wilkes Booth in Griffith's epic The Birth of a Nation (1915) for which he was also Assistant Director. Walsh later directed The Thief of Bagdad (1924), starring Douglas Fairbanks and Anna May Wong.
In Sadie Thompson (1928) starring Gloria Swanson as a prostitute seeking a new life in Samoa, Walsh starred as Swanson's boyfriend in his first acting role since 1915; he also directed the film. Walsh was then hired to direct and star in In Old Arizona, a film about The Cisco Kid. While on location for that film Walsh suffered a car accident in which he lost his right eye. He gave up the part (but not the directing job), and never acted again. Walsh would wear an eyepatch for the rest of his life.
In the early days of sound with Fox, Walsh directed the first widescreen spectacle, The Big Trail (1930), a wagon train western shot on location across the West. It starred then unknown John Wayne, whom Walsh discovered as prop boy Marion Morrison and renamed after Revolutionary War general Mad Anthony Wayne (Walsh happened to be reading a book about General Wayne at the time). Walsh directed The Bowery (1933), featuring Wallace Beery, George Raft, Fay Wray and Pert Kelton; the movie recounts the story of Steve Brodie, the first man to supposedly jump off the Brooklyn Bridge and live to brag about it.
An undistinguished period followed with Paramount Pictures from 1935 to 1939, but Walsh's career rose to new heights soon after moving to Warner Brothers, with The Roaring Twenties (1939) featuring James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart; Dark Command (1940) with John Wayne and Roy Rogers; They Drive By Night (1940) with George Raft, Ann Sheridan, Ida Lupino, and Bogart; High Sierra (1941) with Lupino and Bogart again; They Died with Their Boots On (1941) with Errol Flynn as Custer; Manpower (1941) with Edward G. Robinson, Marlene Dietrich, and George Raft; and White Heat (1949) with Cagney. Walsh's contract at Warners expired in 1953.
He directed several films afterwards, including two with Clark Gable, The Tall Men (1955) and The King and Four Queens (1956). Walsh retired in 1964."
Week 43
The road trip to the party. I started this week off in Atlanta shooting a commercial for work. This was another one of those jobs that had us working on a beautiful golf course all day. There is something so amazing about these golf courses that I get to see. The scenery is so perfect that sometimes you almost can't believe your eyes. The job went well as usual and as soon as we wrapped we were back on the road heading home. We made it back on Wednesday night, just in time to help set up the office party for Friday. This was my first time going to one of these office parties due to me finally being of age. It was pretty amazing and I had a wonderful time though it is weird to watch a bunch of co-workers and people you have known your whole life to go completely crazy. On Saturday, the day after the party, I headed out with Eric, bought a new film camera, and shot some sunset scenes with him. Scott joined us later in the night and we ended up buying some pixie lights and tried to mimic the famous Instagram look that everyone likes to do. I think they turned out pretty cool!
I can't wait to see what this next week will bring!
German autograph card. Photo: Kövesdi.
German actor Michael Ande (1944) was a well-known child star of the German cinema during the 1950s. Nowadays he is best known for his role as in the West German Krimi TV series Der Alte/The Old Fox (1977-2016).
Michael Ande was born in 1944 in Bad Wiessee, Germany. He made his film debut in the French-German film Marianne de ma jeunesse/Marianne (Julien Duvivier, 1955) featuring Marianne Hold. The film made him a popular child star. During the following years, he played in several Heimatfilms, such as Das Hirtenlied vom Kaisertal/The Shepherd's Song from Kaisertal (Max Michel, 1956). In the Austrian family drama Der schönste Tag in meinem Leben/The Most Beautiful Day of My Life (Max Neufeld, 1957) he played a chorister in the Wiener Sängerknaben (Vienna Boys' Choir). Michael also played in two German films about the Trapp family: Die Trapp-Familie/The Trapp Family (Wolfgang Liebeneiner, 1956) and its sequel Die Trapp-Familie in Amerika/The Trapp Family in America (Wolfgang Liebeneiner, 1958), both starring Ruth Leuwerik. The Trapp Family became one of the most successful German films of the 1950s, and was the inspiration for the Hollywood musical The Sound of Music (Robert Wise, 1965), starring Julie Andrews. Michael Ande played Werner in the Trapp-films. (In The Sound of Music the boy's name is Kurt.) Another popular film was the adventure drama El Hakim (Rolf Thiele, 1957), in which he played O.W. Fischer’s character as a child.
Like many other child stars, Michael Ande had difficulty continuing his career as an adult actor. A reason was his youthful-looking face. He made his debut as stage actor in 1961 and had a successful career in the theatre. Ande returned successfully on the screen as Jim Hawkins in the French-German TV mini-series Die Schatzinsel/Treasure Island (Jacques Bourdon, Wolfgang Liebeneiner, 1966), based on the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. From 1977 on he appeared in the German Krimi series Der Alte/The Old Fox (1977-2016) created by Helmut Ringelmann. The TV series premiered on 11 Apri 1977 on ZDF and became later part of the legendary Friday Crime Night of the network. In 401 episodes Ande played Gertd Heymann, one of the assistants of Munich detective ‘The Old Fox”, from 1977 till 1986 played by Siegfried Lowitz. His later films include Verdammt zur Sünde/Condemned to Sin (Alfred Weidenmann, 1964) as the son of Martin Held, Der Paradiesgarten/The Paradise Garden (Bernd Schwamm, 1970) and the gay drama Zurück auf Los!/Return to Go! (Pierre Sanoussi-Bliss, 2000). He was also the German dubbing voice of Sam Neill, James Woods and martial arts star Fu Sheng in several films. In 2016, after nearly 40 years on the series, Michael Ande decided to stop with Der Alte and to retire. He lives with his family in Schliersee in the south of Germany.
Sources: Stephanie D’heil (Steffi-Line - German), Wikipedia (German and English) and IMDb.
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Such a versatile and mesmerizing actor of stage, screen and TV. He passed away at his home in Malibu at age 87. He was known for his one-man shows about Will Rogers, Teddy Roosevelt, and Harry Truman, for which Whitmore won a Best Actor Oscar nod, marking the only time in Oscar history that an actor has been nominated for a film in which he was the only cast member. In 1947, discharged from Marine duty, he made his Broadway debut in the military drama Command Decision and was awarded a Tony for outstanding performance by a newcomer. Two years later, Whitmore was nominated for a Supporting Actor Oscar in the war movie Battleground. Refusing to be typed, he appeared in a slew of war movies, Westerns, musicals, dramas, and TV series. Today, when so many talented character actors are having trouble finding work, it's inspiring to remember that, in a time when jobs were plentiful, one craftsman did it so well.
By Nikki Finke