Mel Stuart
Nacimiento : 1928-09-02, New York City, New York, USA
Muerte : 2012-08-09
Historia
Mel Stuart (born Stuart Solomon; September 2, 1928 – August 9, 2012) was an American film director and producer who often worked with producer David L. Wolper, at whose production firm he worked for 17 years, before going freelance.
Stuart directed the fantasy-musical Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971). He has directed other features, including If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium (1969), One Is a Lonely Number (1974) and Running on the Sun: The Badwater 135 (2000).
Stuart also directed feature documentaries including Four Days in November and Wattstax.
In addition he has directed or produced over 150 films including movies of the week, The Triangle Factory Fire, Bill, The Chisholms, and Ruby and Oswald, the television series Ripley's Believe it Not, and the documentaries The Making of the President 1960, 1964, and 1968, The Hobart Shakespeareans, Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Man Ray - The Prophet of the Avant-Garde, George Plimpton and the Philharmonic and The Poet's View. He has been awarded four Emmy awards, an Academy Award nomination, a Peabody and numerous other awards. He served as president of the International Documentary Association for two years.
He was related to TV producer David L. Wolper.
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Sleep experts explore how the discovery of REM (rapid eye movement) opened up a fascinating new field of research on dreams, sleep disorders and more.
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Sleep experts explore how the discovery of REM (rapid eye movement) opened up a fascinating new field of research on dreams, sleep disorders and more.
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Rafe Esquith, 1992 American Teacher of the Year and National Medal of Arts recipient, teaches 5th-grade children whose parents don't speak English at a school in a dangerous, poor, drug-infested 100% Latino/Asian neighborhood in Los Angeles.
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Charlie Bucket es un niño pobre que vive con su madre y cuatro abuelos, quienes están postrados en cama, en una pequeña casa. Charlie colabora con los escasos ingresos familiares repartiendo periódicos después de la escuela. La familia, junto con el resto del mundo, se entera de que el fabricante de dulces Willy Wonka ha escondido cinco boletos de oro entre sus chocolates Wonka. Aquellos que encuentren estos billetes especiales darán un recorrido completo de la mundialmente famosa, pero fuertemente custodiada fábrica de golosinas, así como conseguirán una fuente de chocolate para siempre. Charlie quiere tomar parte en la búsqueda, pero no puede permitirse el lujo de comprar grandes cantidades de chocolate, como la mayoría de los participantes.
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Forty runners compete in the most gruelling race on earth, the Badwater. The film documents the trials and tribulations of these athletes as they run 135 miles through Death Valley in July and explores the motivations behind this seemingly masochistic contest. A celebration of the perseverance of the human will beyond the limits of the human body
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Documental que repasa la trayectoria de uno de los directores más importantes de todos los tiempos. Las declaraciones de Wilder se alternan con las de Jack Lemmon y Walter Matthau, entre otros.
Director
Documental que repasa la trayectoria de uno de los directores más importantes de todos los tiempos. Las declaraciones de Wilder se alternan con las de Jack Lemmon y Walter Matthau, entre otros.
Director
Man Ray, the master of experimental and fashion photography was also a painter, a filmmaker, a poet, an essayist, a philosopher, and a leader of American modernism. Known for documenting the cultural elite living in France, Man Ray spent much of his time fighting the formal constraints of the visual arts. Ray’s life and art were always provocative, engaging, and challenging.
Producer
An hour documentary on the history of Bond for the 25th anniversary of the film series.
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An hour documentary on the history of Bond for the 25th anniversary of the film series.
Producer
Bill es un hombre de 40 años que tiene retraso mental y es residente en una zona marginal de Nueva York. Cuando por un malentendido acaba en la cárcel, es advertido por las autoridades de que al menor incidente volverá al sanatorio en el que estuvo internado años atrás.
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A college professor, his wife, and daughter go the the wilds of Africa to live, and study the rare white lions of the region.
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This biopic about actress Sophia Loren covers her life from childhood through international stardom, her marriage to Carlo Ponti following a romantic fling with Cary Grant, and the birth of her first child, and is tied together with actual clips from some of her movies.
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The story of a fire in the Triangle Shirt Mfg. Co. building in New York City in 1911 that resulted in the deaths of 146 employees, mostly young women. The ensuing investigation revealed the company's almost total disregard for its workers' safety in pursuit of increased production and profits, and resulted, among other things, in the passage of new worker safety laws and the formation of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union.
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Paul Ramsey, un cantante de música country, es traicionado por su abogado ante un tribunal y condenado a cinco años de prisión. Paul es enviado a una sádica prisión del sur. Esta prisión utiliza a los presos de forma inhumana para entrenar a su jauría de perros de ataque. Los animales también se utilizan para localizar a los hombres que intentan escapar, incluyendo el uso de "Rattler", el feroz Doberman dominante de la jauría. Pero Paul no está dispuesto a permanecer más en aquella infernal prisión.
Director
A dramatic re-creation of the four-day span preceding and following the assassination of John F. Kennedy in November, 1963, drawn from authenticated events and eyewitness accounts.
Director
A newspaper reporter trying to track down a hermit-like billionaire goes to the Brazilian jungle, where she finds herself in the middle of an extortion plot, voodoo and supernatural occurrences.
Director
A look at the history of film from 1936-1972, with a special emphasis on the social impact of the medium and the way it both reflected and influenced American life.
Producer
A documentary film about the Afro-American Woodstock concert held in Los Angeles seven years after the Watts riots. Director Mel Stuart mixes footage from the concert with footage of the living conditions in the current day Watts neighborhood. The film won the Golden Globe for Best Documentary Film.
Director
A documentary film about the Afro-American Woodstock concert held in Los Angeles seven years after the Watts riots. Director Mel Stuart mixes footage from the concert with footage of the living conditions in the current day Watts neighborhood. The film won the Golden Globe for Best Documentary Film.
Director
A young woman has difficulty understanding why her husband walks out on her. Alone for the first time, she finds life difficult to cope with and for a time lives with the hope that her husband will come back to her.
Director
Willy Wonka es el excéntrico dueño de una gran fábrica de chocolate. Un día decide ofrecer a cinco niños una entrada dorada que les permitirá recorrer la dulce fábrica. Uno de los ganadores es Charlie Bucket, un niño pobre de buen corazón que espera un futuro mejor para él, para su madre y sus cuatro abuelos. Los otros ganadores resultan ser cuatro insoportables niños.
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Young surgeon becomes bored with his wife and family, he has a very successful career, but even with having so much in life, he feels empty and goes through a series of brief and meaningless relations with attractive women.
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A documentary story of a man of our times- In a period when his country was tormented by conflict and violencei he perceived and embraced the struggle of his epoch - the struggle for human dignity and freedom. The only documentary that was presented as an ABC Movie of the Week.
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Un grupo de turistas recorre siete países europeos, a un ritmo frenético, pues el viaje sólo dura 18 días. La rapidez provoca que pierdan la noción del país en el que están.
Director
China: The Roots of Madness is a 1967 Cold War era, made-for-TV documentary film produced by David L. Wolper, written by Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Theodore H. White with production cost funded by a donation from John and Paige Curran. The film has been released under Creative Commons license. It won an Emmy Award in the documentary category.
Executive Producer
Documental sobre la fuerza policial estadounidense y las dificultades que enfrentan para combatir la escalada del crimen en todo el país.
Executive Producer
Documentary about teenage life in the mid-60s.
Producer
1964 American documentary film about the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
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1964 American documentary film about the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
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The story of the 1960 US Presidential election
