Sylvia Miles

Sylvia Miles

Nacimiento : 1932-09-09, New York City, New York, USA

Muerte : 2019-06-12

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Sylvia Miles (September 9, 1924 – June 12, 2019) was an American actress. She was twice nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performances in Midnight Cowboy (1969) and Farewell, My Lovely (1975). Description above from the Wikipedia article Sylvia Miles, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Sylvia Miles
Sylvia Miles

Películas

Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies
Self
The definitive documentary on the history of nudity in feature films from the early silent days to the present, studying the changes in morality that led to the use of nudity in films while emphasizing the political, sociological and artistic changes that shaped that history. Skin will also study the gender inequality in presenting nude images in motion pictures and will follow the revolution that has created nude gender equality in feature films today.
Japanese Borscht
Mary Tess
Davis Loses his Girl and step daughter to gangster Brother n Law but gets unlikely help from the Phantom of the Opera and his newly found Yakuza family MICHAEL Musto stars in this cult classic remake of a film made in 2006 on a vacation camera
Mary Tyler Moore: A Celebration
Sally Rogers (archive footage)
Not only did Mary Tyler Moore “turn the world on with her smile,” as her show’s theme song declared, she also influenced a generation of women to become more independent and to pursue successful and fulfilling careers. Moore’s own 50-plus-year career has spanned award-winning films and Broadway shows, as well as two beloved television series that broke ground and continue to entertain viewers. ​ This one-hour special includes highlights from a recent interview with Mary Tyler Moore, tributes from her co-stars and clips from iconic moments throughout her career. The program looks at her breakthrough role on The Dick Van Dyke Show, her iconic turn as TV's first independent career woman on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and her Academy Award-nominated work on Ordinary People.
Con Artist
Self
A docu-comedy feature film about a once-famous millionaire "business artist" forced to confront his own legendarily obnoxious behavior, while trying to find love through fame.
Wall Street: El dinero nunca duerme
Realtor
Secuela de la popular cinta de 1987 "Wall Street", ambientada 20 años después. Recién salido de prisión tras cumplir una larga condena, el implacable tiburón de las finanzas, Gordon Gekko, se siente desorientado en un nuevo mundo que en tiempos dominó. Buscando rehacer sus arruinadas relaciones con su hija, Gekko conoce por casualidad a Jakob, su prometido. Juntos proyectan apoyarse mutuamente: Gordon ayudará a Jacob a vengar la ruina de su mentor y este intentará que Gordon y su hija se reconcilien.
Go Go Tales
Lilian Murray
Ray Ruby's Paradise" es un bar cabaret situado en pleno Manhattan, en el que actúan go-gos; es una especie de fábrica de sueños cuyo propietario es el carismático empresario Ray Ruby.
After Midnight: Reflecting on a Classic 35 Years Later
Self
Interviews with Michael Childers, Jerome Hellman, Jennifer Salt, Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, John Barry, Sylvia Miles, Bob Balaban, Adam Holender about Midnight Cowboy.
Controversy and Acclaim: The Timelessness of a Groundbreaking Film
Self
Documentary featuring the contentious news surrounding the movie "Midnight Cowboy" (1969), including its Oscar win for feature film.
Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis
Herself
Andy Warhol described Jackie Curtis as “A pioneer without a frontier.” In this biographical documentary, Curtis’s co-workers and friends speak of her work and her influence, along with clips from Curtis’s Warhol films as well as never-before-seen footage from her stage shows.
High Times Potluck
Ma
High Times' Pot Luck is an upbeat pot caper that centers around a mobster who discovers the magic of marijuana.
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
Self
A look at 1970s Hollywood when it was known as New Hollywood, and the director was the star of the movie.
The Cockettes
Self
Documentary about the gender-bending San Francisco performance group who became a pop culture phenomenon in the early 1970s.
The Boys Behind the Desk
Denise Calls Up
Sharon, Gail's Aunt
A group of friends in New York, working away at their PCs and laptops, keep in touch exclusively by phone and fax. They are all too busy to meet face to face. Gale plays matchmaker, by phone, to Jerry and Barbara who, in turn, hit it off beautifully – via phone and fax. Martin gets a telephone call from someone he's never met. It's Denise, with some extraordinary news. Tapping away at his computer all the while, he develops a sort of friendship with Denise – via phone. And so it goes as the friends, tap, tap, tapping away, share news, hopes, and dreams – via phone and fax. Finally Gale has an unfortunate encounter with a phone, Denise has some more news for Martin, and Frank plans a gala New Year's Eve party, but will he answer the door?
Nelson Sullivan's World Of Wonder
Self
Tells the story of Nelson Sullivan who was the unofficial video documentary filmmaker of the late 1980s downtown New York nightlife and LGBTQ+ community, with extensive archival segments directed by Sullivan himself.
Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol
Self
Documentary portrait of Andy Warhol.
Vida y amores de una diablesa
Mrs. Fisher
Ruth y Bob Patchett llevan quince años casados y tienen dos hijos. Ruth, que ha ayudado siempre a su marido en su carrera, se ha resignado a su papel de madre y ama de casa. Una noche, acompaña a Bob a una importante fiesta en la que desentona bastante. Allí conoce a Mary Fisher, una famosa autora de novelas románticas, que intenta seducir a su marido. Como Bob cree que Ruth es una diablesa que sólo intenta privarlo de su libertad, la abandona. Pero, esa misma noche, Ruth se transforma en una auténtica diablesa que se da cuenta de que lo único que puede aliviar sus penas es la venganza. Se propondrá entonces arruinar la relación de su marido con la escritora de novelas rosas.
Nelson Sullivan's Video Diaries
Herself
From 1983 to 1989, New Yorker Nelson Sullivan captured more than 1,900 hours of video footage and saved most of it on VHS tapes, making a collection of 601 episodes documenting his everyday life in the East-Village, as well as following some flamboyant local icons like RuPaul, Sylvia Miles, and Phoebe Legere.
Nelson Sullivan
Nelson Sullivan, a videographer in Manhattan circa 1983 to 1989, documented a large chunk of the final six years of his life, capturing his days and nights with drag queens and other NYC outcasts of the time. His style takes on a "home movie quality" that captures a lost - and now romanticized - American era in all of its mundane glory.
Spike of Bensonhurst
Congresswoman
Spike Fumo is an Italian kid apsiring to be a boxer. He falls in love with a rich girl, who turns out to be the daughter of a Mafia boss. Spike is threatened to leave Bensonhurst by the mob, and then goes to a poverty-stricken Puerto Rican part of Brooklyn.
Cruzando la calle
Hannah Mandelbaum
Isabelle Grossman (Amy Irving), neoyorquina de 33 años, es una atractiva e inteligente mujer que ama la independencia por encima de muchas cosas. Tiene un buen empleo en una librería y vive en un bonito apartamento. A menudo visita a su abuela, Bubbie, quien desea fervientemente que Isabelle conozca a un hombre y asiente la cabeza de una vez por todas. Bubbie pide ayuda a Hannah Mandelbaum, una vieja casamentera, para que encuentre el hombre perfecto para su nieta: la solución parece ser Sam Posner (Peter Riegert), propietario de una tienda de pepinillos.
Wall Street
Dolores the Realtor
Bud Fox es un joven y ambicioso corredor de bolsa que logró finalizar sus estudios universitarios gracias a su esfuerzo y al de su padre, mecánico y jefe de sindicato. Su mayor deseo es trabajar con el hombre al que admira, Gordon Gekko, un individuo sin escrúpulos hecho a sí mismo que, en poco tiempo, ha conseguido amasar una gran fortuna en el mundo de la bolsa. Gracias a su insistencia, Bud consigue introducirse en el círculo privado del todopoderoso Gekko y comienza a colaborar con él en sus negocios e inversiones.
Sleeping Beauty
Red Fairy
Feature-length, live-action musical version of the classic fairy tale by Charles Perrault.
Estado crítico
Nurse Maggie Lesser
Pryor es un estafador que, para librarse de la cárcel, finge estar loco. Enviado al ala de psiquiatría de un gran hospital, allí empieza la verdadera "locura", ya que durante un apagón intenta escapar disfrazado de doctor. De alguna manera consigue poner orden en el caos, bien sea llevando a cabo diagnósticos poco ortodoxos, ayudando a nacer a un bebe o utilizando un helicóptero a modo de aire acondicionado. Así, sin querelo, nuestro buen amigo se verá a cargo de la institución.
Andy Warhol
Herself
The first major profile of the American Pop Art cult leader after his death in 1987 covers the whole of his life and work through interviews, clips from his films, and conversations with his family and superstar friends. Andy Warhol, the son of poor Czech immigrants, grew up in the industrial slums of Pittsburgh while dreaming of Hollywood stars. He went on to become a star himself.
The Ever Popular Tortured Artist Effect
The Ever Popular Tortured Artist Effect uses the interviewer/interviewee format in which Todd Rundgren answers numerous questions about his life, his music and his philosophy using his explanations spliced with large portions of his songs.
Cindy Eller: A Modern Fairy Tale
Sweet Susie
A contemporary remake of "Cinderella"
No Big Deal
Peincipal Bellows
A school takes on a troublesome boy from juvenile hall, in order to try to help him settle back in to normal life. But everything seems to be mounted against him, including a drunken mother.
Muerte bajo el sol
Myra Gardener
La investigación sobre un diamante falso lleva al detective Hércules Poirot a alojarse en un hotel donde coincide con Arlena, una actriz con un pasado tumultuoso a la que los demás huéspedes parecen odiar.
The Making of Agatha Christie's 'Evil Under the Sun'
Self / Myra Gardener
Director Guy Hamilton and several of the stars of Agatha Christie's "Evil Under The Sun" walk you through the making of the film.
La casa de los horrores
Madame Zena
Unos jóvenes en busca de emociones fuertes acuden a una siniestra feria ambulante, pese a la oposición de una de las chicas, que ha oído ciertos rumores sobre la desaparición de algunos jóvenes en el lugar...
Shalimar
Countess Rasmussen
Kumar, a thief by profession poses as the son of Raja Bahadur Singh to accept an invitation to the island of Sir John Locksley. The guests include K.P.W. Iyengar aka Romeo, Dr. Dubari, Colonel Columbus, and Countess Sylvia Rasmussen. A stunned Kumar finds out that all of these invitees are master criminals. Kumar's guise does not fool anyone, nevertheless Sir John permits him to stay on. The reason why John has invited them is to find a successor to take his place as he is dying of cancer. He feels that one of his invitees can be trusted to take his place and for this he has arranged for them to steal a ruby (Shalimar) worth 135 crores of rupees. This gem is placed in a secure room within his palace, which is alarmed, and guarded. He challenges one of them to steal the Shalimar - but if anyone fails then they are killed by the security system. Pitted against such veterans, it looks like Kumar has got himself into a bind that he may not come out of alive.
Zero to Sixty
Flo Ames
Un hombre divorciado liga con una pilluela de dieciséis años que se gana la vida devolviendo coches previamente robados a sus propietarios.
La centinela
Gerde Engstrom
Tras romper con su novio, Alison, una joven modelo, se muda a un nuevo apartamento. Pronto empieza a padecer insomnio y mareos. Además, tras la muerte de su padre, los recuerdos de un intento de suicidio siendo una niña la acosan constantemente. Al mismo tiempo, va conociendo a sus extraños vecinos.
Botas duras, medias de seda
Mike
Sam Longwood y el indio Knox, dos granujas que viven en Colorado, se encuentran un día con Jack Colby, un antiguo amigo que les timó sesenta mil dólares y que está promocionando un campeonato de de boxeo. Para cobrarle la deuda, secuestran a su esposa, pero Jack parece encantado de haberla perdido de vista.
92 in the Shade
Bella
A young drifter returns to his home in Key West, Florida and attempts to open a fishing charter business, provoking a dangerous feud with a rival fishing sea captain.
Adiós, muñeca
Mrs. Florian
Basada en la novela de Raymond Chandler, publicada en 1940, Adiós muñeca es una buena mezcla entre el cine policíaco y la comedia que toma como protagonista a un investigador, el detective Marlowe, que da bandazos entre la seriedad, el deber y el humor. Los años y la experiencia han hecho que el detective Phillip Marlowe (Robert Mitchum) esté de vuelta de todo. Acostumbrado a tratar con toda clase de criminales y escoria, Marlowe se ha protegido durante años con una coraza de cinismo y serenidad, salpicados con un poco de mal genio. En su profesión como investigador esa actitud es fundamental, ya que diariamente debe enfrentarse a asesinatos, conspiraciones, robos, por no hablar de algún que otro puñetazo o sorpresa desagradable. Ahora tiene una nueva misión entre manos, y deberá poner las cartas sobre la mesa si quiere resolver el caso.
Caliente
Sally Todd
Former child star Joe Davis, reduced to living in a cheap Hollywood motel while struggling for acting jobs, is lusted after by nearly every woman he meets, including Jessica Todd, a tightly wound feminist who has recently come out as a lesbian. When Jessica's mother, Sally, an emotionally needy has-been actress, meets Joe, she moves him into her enormous, tacky mansion as her new boy toy and attempts to get him acting work.
Andy Warhol
Self
With a rambling, unstructured style that echoes Andy Warhol’s own approach to filmmaking, this documentary profiles his career, showing him to be a brilliant manipulator, dedicated voyeur and person of astute commercial judgment.
Who Killed Mary Whats'ername?
Christine
A prostitute is murdered on the streets of a tough, low-income neighborhood. A diabetic retired boxer who knew her is appalled by the lack of interest shown in the case by the police or anybody else in the neighborhood, and decides to investigate the case himself.
La última película
Script Clerk
Durante el rodaje de una película en una aldea peruana, un actor muere al interpretar una escena peligrosa. Kansas decide entonces abandonar el cine y quedarse a vivir allí con una mujer del pueblo. Sin embargo, su sueño de llevar una vida idílica se ve truncado cuando el cura del pueblo le pide que le ayude a evitar un grave problema: los nativos del pueblo, que fingen rodar una película, se enfrentan violentamente entre sí, imitando lo que han visto durante el rodaje.
Cowboy de medianoche
Cass
Soñando con una vida como cowboy de exhibición, el joven e ingenuo tejano Joe Buck se encamina hacia la ciudad de Nueva York para convertirse en un gigoló, pero pronto descubre que ese mundo no es como él se imaginaba. Sin dinero y sin amigos, conoce a Rico "Ratso" Rizzo, un timador que le quiere estafar.
Terror in the City
Rose
Rural runaway finds himself in Manhattan.
Violent Midnight
Silvia
An axe murderer is loose in a small New England town.
Parrish
Eileen
Parrish es un honrado, valiente y atractivo joven. Un día su madre recibe una oferta de trabajo para convertir en una señorita a una joven malcriada, que es la heredera de un importante productor de tabaco. Parrish se traslada con su madre a la mansión de la acomodada familia y no tardará en ser el centro de atención de todas las jovencitas del lugar.
El sindicato del crimen
Sadie
En el Nueva York de los años 30, dos trabajadores de un nightclub se ven forzados a colaborar con una famosa banda de gángsters.