Paul Bogart

Paul Bogart

Nacimiento : 1919-11-13, New York City, New York, USA

Muerte : 2012-04-15

Historia

Director de cine estadounidense, nacido en Nueva York. Participa en la Segunda Guerra Mundial con la aviación americana. Comienza a trabajar en la televisión realizando todo tipo de oficios, hasta llegar a dirigir sus primeros episodios de la serie televisiva creada por Mel Brooks, Superagente 86. Su debut en la pantalla grande no se produce hasta 1969, cuando dirige Marlowe, detective muy privado. Basada en el personaje creado por Raymond Chandler y escrita por Stirling Silliphant, está interpretada por James Garner y ofrece la posibilidad de ver a Bruce Lee en uno de sus primeros papeles antes de convertirse en el mito de las artes marciales. Al año siguiente dirige Odio en las aulas, con el actor de televisión Edward Asner y Jeff Bridges como protagonistas. Con Los trotamundos (1971) obtiene un cierto éxito que le permite producir Curso del 44 (1973), revisión del clásico de Robert Mulligan, Verano del 42. Desafío (1975) es un interesante film policíaco donde Dean Martin encarna a Joe Ricco, un abogado criminalista de San Francisco que es contratado para defender a un militante negro acusado de asesinato. Después de continuar con su carrera televisiva, dirige su mejor película, la producción de la compañía independiente New Line, Trilogía de Nueva York (1988). Basada en la obra teatral off-Broadway de Harvey Fierstein, Torch song trilogy, adaptada para la pantalla e interpretada por él mismo, cuenta la peripecia vital de un homosexual a través de tres épocas de su vida. Mathew Broderick y una espléndida Anne Bancroft acompañan a Fierstein en el reparto.

Perfil

Paul Bogart

Películas

The Heidi Chronicles
Director
Heidi Holland is a woman on the long and often bumpy road of self-discovery from the 1960s to 1990s. The movie follows her path from high-school egghead, to feminist supporter, to intellectual art dealer/mother, and chronicles her ups and downs and revelations.
The Last Mile
Director
Backstage at the Metropolitan Opera House a soprano is preparing for her debut in the opera Tosca. The stage manager gives her encouraging advice. She is visited by her "tenor for the evening." Equally terrified and nervous yet excited, she thinks fondly of her brother, who died from AIDS. He appears to her in her dressing room as a ghostly apparition.
Rumbo a Broadway
Director
Eugene Jerome es un joven de 22 años que comparte con su hermano mayor Stan la afición por escribir comedias. Ambos están escribiendo un sketch que creen que les hará triunfar en el mundo del espectáculo. Pero para eso deben dejar su excéntrico hogar y trasladarse a Broadway...
Trilogía de Nueva York
Director
Muestra la vida de Arnold Beckoff (Harvey Fierstein), una drag queen profesional, desde 1971 hasta 1980: su obsesión por encontrar el amor, los problemas sociales a los que se enfrenta por su condición sexual, la aceptación de sí misma, sus relaciones sentimentales con los hombres y su lucha personal para que su madre (Anne Bancroft) la acepte tal y como es.
Poder, pasión y crimen
Director
Natica Jackson (Michelle Pfeiffer) es una famosa actriz agotada por los numerosos compromisos y rodajes conseguidos por su ambicioso agente Morris (Hector Elizondo). Un día tiene un accidente gracias al cual conoce a Hal Graham (Brian Kerwin), con quien inicia una apasionada historia de amor. Hal está casado, y su celosa mujer planea su venganza cuidadosamente. Mientras tanto, el director del estudio A.D. Natham (Darren Macgavin) organiza una cena a la que invita a un grupo de personas, entre ellas al actor de moda Tony Montoya (Steven Bauer) y al director fracasado Canteret...
El fantasma de Canterville
Director
Una joven pareja norteamericana hereda un castillo en Inglaterra. Allí descubren que su nueva propiedad está habitada por el fantasma de uno de los ancestros de la familia, caído en desgracia por su cobardía en vida. Para liberarle de su estado actual de alma en pena, un descendiente suyo deberá hacer un acto heroico.
Oh, God! You Devil
Director
George Burns está de vuelta como Dios, pero ¡ups!, aquí también está como Satanás. Una joven estrella de rock está lista para vender su alma a Satanás, y Satanás está muy feliz de complacerlo. ¡Ups! Parece que el tipo fue vigilado por Dios cuando era un bebé, por lo que ahora el todopoderoso y su némesis tienen que pelear por el alma.
Power, Passion and Murder
Director
In 1930s Hollywood, a rising starlet is swept into a secret love affair.
The Shady Hill Kidnapping
Director
John Cheever's wry comedy of errors comes to the screen in this filmed presentation from the Broadway Theatre Archive. An upper-middle-class suburb is turned upside-down by the apparent kidnapping of Toby Wooster (Garrett Hanf). Unaware that the whole thing is a setup, the town swings into action to raise funds to meet the kidnappers' ransom demands. George Grizzard, Polly Holliday, Katharine Balfour and Celeste Holm star.
Fun and Games
Director
A divorcee decides to fight back after her hopes of gaining a promotion are dashed by her rejection of the advances of her boss, and it is only after he actually attacks her that her company and her union take notice.
You Can't Take it With You
Adaptation
Emmy winner Jean Stapleton and Academy Award winner Art Carney star in the Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart about a slightly daft family who do exactly as they please.
You Can't Take it With You
Executive Producer
Emmy winner Jean Stapleton and Academy Award winner Art Carney star in the Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart about a slightly daft family who do exactly as they please.
You Can't Take it With You
Director
Emmy winner Jean Stapleton and Academy Award winner Art Carney star in the Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart about a slightly daft family who do exactly as they please.
The War Widow
Director
Originally broadcast by KCET (PBS) on their dramatic showcase series, "Visions," this sweet, quiet film is set during World War I. It is the story of Amy, a proper, but lonely housewife whose husband is away at war. She finds solace in a friendship with a more worldly female photographer, only to have her entire world turned upside down when the friendship becomes genuine love and she is forced to choose. Groundbreaking for its powerful yet non-prurient portrayal of lesbian first love.
The Easter Promise
Director
Addie and her friends are excited over the visit of a celebrity, a local woman who became a successful Broadway actress and has returned home for a short time following the death of her mother. She brings the woman home for the family Easter celebration, and the little girl's concern and kindness help the woman see the promise of better days ahead.
Winner Take All
Director
The chronicle of an average American housewife who just happens to be addicted to gambling.
Desafío
Director
Un abogado de San Francisco es contratado para defender a un militante negro acusado de asesinato. (FILMAFFINITY)
Tell Me Where It Hurts
Director
A housewife, increasingly disenchanted with her homemaker role, looks for new meaning in her life and organizes a discussion group, changing the lives of her six closest friends.
The Country Girl
Director
Frank Elgin's career in the theater is all washed up — but his friend Bernie thinks he can make a comeback, as long as his wife Georgie doesn't interfere.
The Thanksgiving Treasure
Director
Addie tries to invite her father's sworn enemy over for Thanksgiving dinner in the hopes of ending their long-standing feud.
Class of '44
Producer
Sequel to "Summer of '42" reunites Hermie, Oscy and Benjie as they graduate from high school. Benjie departs shortly to war while Hermie and Oscy go on to college and experience fraternity hazings, cheating on exams, sex scandals and other unsavory college activities. Hermie grows apart from his childhood friend Oscy and begins a relationship with Julie that allows him to settle down into maturity.
Class of '44
Director
Sequel to "Summer of '42" reunites Hermie, Oscy and Benjie as they graduate from high school. Benjie departs shortly to war while Hermie and Oscy go on to college and experience fraternity hazings, cheating on exams, sex scandals and other unsavory college activities. Hermie grows apart from his childhood friend Oscy and begins a relationship with Julie that allows him to settle down into maturity.
The House Without a Christmas Tree
Director
A young girl named Addie, living in Nebraska in 1946 wants nothing more for the holidays than a Christmas tree, but her widowed father, is bitter and refuses due to events from the family's past.
Cancel My Reservation
Director
Un presentador jubilado de TV se ve implicado en una historia de asesinato.
Look Homeward, Angel
Director
The life of a young man growing up in a small town in the mountains of North Carolina during the early part of the 20th century, based on Thomas Wolfe's autobiographical novel of the same name.
Los Trotamundos
Director
Ambientada en el Oeste americano, en 1857. Quincy Drew (James Garner) y su amigo Jason O’Rourke (Louis Gossett Jr.) son dos estafadores que han descubierto una nueva manera de conseguir dinero. Viajan de Missouri a Kansas haciéndose pasar por terrateniente y esclavo negro respectivamente. En cada pueblo, Quincy vende a Jason y, por la noche, ambos huyen con el dinero. Sus problemas empiezan cuando uno de los compradores descubre la trama.
In Search of America
Director
Michael (Jeff Bridges) drops out of college with the intention of finding himself. When his parents (Carl Betz and Vera Miles) balk, he talks them into joining him in traveling the country and educating themselves about the state of things. They, along with Grandma (Ruth McDevitt) trick out an old Greyhound bus and hit the road. The picaresque plotline brings the family into contact with a variety of colorful characters. The producers of In Search of America never declared outright that the made-for-TV film was intended as a series pilot, but it ends on an ambiguous note with plenty of loose plot ends. In Search of America was first telecast March 23, 1971.
A Memory of Two Mondays
Director
Set in summer, 1933, in the depths of the Depression, Arthur Miller's most personal and intimate play focuses on the workers in a warehouse, a grim place in which men and women work for small wages and are grateful for the work. Appearing at the beginning of this production to set the scene, Miller observes that the Civil War and the Depression were the only times in American history in which the whole country was in the same boat-"You could not do a single thing that you wanted to do because no one had any money." The warehouse, he notes, became a grotesque sort of haven for the employees since they, at least, had jobs. Miller's own experience in a warehouse shows in his exceptionally realistic portrayal of the workers, men who often lose themselves in alcohol to escape reality, and women who must put up with sexual abuse and mistreatment to save their jobs.
Odio en las aulas
Director
Un profesor negro tiene que llevar a cabo una difícil misión de integración. Ésta consiste en conseguir una convivencia pacífica entre sesenta alumnos blancos y los estudiantes negros de la escuela a la que van a asistir todos los días. Pero antes de que pueda darse cuenta surgen los primeros brotes violentos y pugnas entre los racistas de ambos bandos. (FILMAFFINITY)
Marlowe, detective muy privado
Director
Basada en la novela "La hermana pequeña" de Raymond Chandler, creador del personaje de Philip Marlowe; un duro y honesto detective privado, cuya sensatez contrasta con el entorno sórdido y brutal de los bajos fondos de California donde trabaja. Marlowe es contratado por una apocada rubia de Kansas que trata de encontrar a su hermano desaparecido... (FILMAFFINITY)
CBS Playhouse: Shadow Game
Director
Workers in a high-powered New York business office are stranded on the 50th floor when the power fails during the East Coast blackout of 1965.
Johnny Belinda
Director
In post-war Cape Breton, a doctor's efforts to tutor a deaf and mute woman are undermined when she is raped, and the resulting pregnancy causes scandal to swirl.
Carousel
Director
In a Maine coastal village toward the end of the 19th century, the swaggering, carefree carnival barker, Billy Bigelow, captivates and marries the naive millworker, Julie Jordan. Billy loses his job just as he learns that Julie is pregnant and, desperately intent upon providing a decent life for his family, he is coerced into being an accomplice to a robbery. Caught in the act and facing the certainty of prison, he takes his own life and is sent 'up there.' Billy is allowed to return to earth for one day fifteen years later, and he encounters the daughter he never knew. She is a lonely, friendless teenager, her father's reputation as a thief and bully having haunted her throughout her young life. How Billy instills in both the child and her mother a sense of hope and dignity is a dramatic testimony to the power of love.
Mark Twain Tonight!
Director
Recreating the one-man show he starred in on Broadway, Hal Holbrook portrays Mark Twain as a 70-year old humorist who skewers politicians, newspapermen and so-called patriots in this 90 minute monologue. Holbrook adapted Twain's own words for a commentary on slavery, religion and politics, mixing the satire with comic yarns about life on the Mississippi and a very effective ghost story. The show's highlight are the lengthy passages from "Huckleberry Finn".
An Enemy of the People
Director
Set in a Norwegian hamlet, an idealistic physician discovers that the town's hot springs are contaminated. But with the community relying on the spa for tourist dollars, his warning to the powers-that-be falls on deaf ears.
Evening Primrose
Director
A young poet gets the brilliant idea to live in a department store, hiding by day, and courting his muse by night where it's quiet, and he can have all his needs met. But, to his surprise, he learns his brilliant idea's not exactly original; there are other residents who dodge the night watchmen, and who keep their existence secret at all costs. And one of them is a young woman who wants to leave, but is too frightened to go. And Charles finds that he wants to show her the larger world outside.
Ages of Man
Director
Performance of extracts from The Ages of Man is a one-man show performed by John Gielgud featuring a collection of speeches in Shakespeare's plays. When the genius of Shakespeare is wedded to the unsurpassed skills of one of the finest actors of this, or any other, age, something extraordinary happens.
The Three Sisters
Director
In a small Russian town at the turn of the century, three sisters and their brother live but dream daily of their return to their former home in Moscow, where life is charming and stimulating meaningful. But for now they exist in a malaise of dissatisfaction. Soldiers from the local military post provide them some companionship and society, but nothing can suffice to replace Moscow in their hopes. Andrei marries a provincial girl, Natasha, and begins to settle into a life of much less meaning than he had hoped. Natasha begins to run the family her way. Masha, though married, yearns for the sophisticated life and begins a dalliance with Vershinin, an army officer with a sick and suicidal wife. Even Irina, the freshest, most optimistic of the sisters, begins to waver in her dreams until, finally, tragedy strikes.
The Citadel
Director
The good doctor is on trial before the British Medical Association Council, if he is found guilty, he will no longer be allowed to practice medicine. The story unfolds through flashbacks which depict his career and his subsequent downfall.
Ten Little Indians
Director
Ten strangers are invited to a mansion on a remote island, where they are killed one by one by a mysterious assailant. Based on the Agatha Christie novel, also known by the title And Then There Were None.
Pinocchio
Director
Pinocchio is a 1957 TV musical broadcast shown live on NBC, directed and choreographed by Hanya Holm. This version features songs by Alec Wilder.