Joel Grey
Nacimiento : 1932-04-11, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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Joel Grey (born April 11, 1932) is an American stage and screen actor, singer, and dancer, best known for his role as the Master of Ceremonies in both the stage and film adaptation of the Kander & Ebb musical Cabaret. He has won the Academy Award, Tony Award and Golden Globe Award. He also originated the role of the Wizard in the acclaimed musical Wicked. Grey is currently featured in the Broadway revival of Anything Goes as Moonface Martin.
"SUNDAY" Legend
En la cúspide de su cumpleaños número 30, un joven y prometedor compositor de teatro navega por el amor, la amistad y las presiones de la vida como artista en la ciudad de Nueva York.
Self (archive footage)
An all-star cast tells the inside story of the Broadway theater, and how it came back from the brink thanks to innovative work, a new attention to inclusion and a sometimes uneasy balance between art and commerce. Legends of the stage and screen—including Helen Mirren, Christine Baranski, August Wilson, James Corden, Alec Baldwin, John Lithgow, Viola Davis, Hugh Jackman and Ian McKellen—take us behind the scenes of Broadway's most groundbreaking and beloved shows, from A Chorus Line to Hamilton. Iconic performances by Lin Manuel Miranda, Patti LuPone, Bernadette Peters, James Earl Jones and Mandy Patinkin lead the way on a hurly burly ride through Times Square, once again the main street of American show business in this documentary directed by Academy-Award nominee Oren Jacoby.
Himself
The origin story behind one of Broadway's most beloved musicals, Fiddler on The Roof, and its creative roots in early 1960s New York, when "tradition" was on the wane as gender roles, sexuality, race relations and religion were evolving.
Himself
Un retrato íntimo de la vida y obra de Wynn Handman, el extraordinario profesor de actuación y productor de teatro que marcó un antes y un después.
Self
TCM host Robert Osborne discusses his life and career with guest interviewer Alec Baldwin in commemoration of Osborne's 20 years with the network.
Narrator
Is it true what they say in Spamalot (“You won’t make it on Broadway if you don’t have any Jews”)? Tracing Broadway’s Yiddish roots, and exploring back-stories behind many landmark shows from Showboat to Wicked, filmmaker Michael Kantor chronicles the unique role of Jewish musicians in the creation of the modern American musical. This joyful and intelligent documentary features interviews with many theatre artists, rare archival footage and recordings from original Broadway productions, and unforgettable anecdotes (hearing about Ethel Merman’s irreverent behavior at a Passover Seder during the rehearsals for Gypsy will leave you in hysterics).
Himself
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History es el documental más completo hecho hasta ahora sobre las producciones musicales de Hollywood. Shirley Jones, ícono de la televisión y del cine, nos presenta esta celebración llena de canciones y bailes, comenzando por "El Cantor de Jazz" y continuando con "Chicago" y "Dreamgirls".
Phil
Adaptación de una novela de Chuck Palahniuk. Victor tiene un empleo un tanto particular. Representa a un miserable campesino del siglo XVIII en un parque temático histórico. Para completar sus ingresos también se dedica a timar a la gente, pero tiene una buena razón para hacerlo. Victor debe hacerse cargo de los gastos hospitalarios de su madre demente. Acude a lujosos restaurantes y se atraganta intencionadamente para conseguir un cheque de sus amables rescatadores. Victor también tiene otros problemas: es adicto al sexo. Paige, la doctora de su madre, le ha hablado de un posible tratamiento experimental para ella que requiere celulas de cordón umbilical, compatibles genéticamente. La única solución es que Victor tenga un hijo y ella se prestará a concebirlo en pos de la salvación de la señora.
Narrator
Host (segment "Leading Men") / Emcee (segment "Cabaret")
The golden age of the annual Tony Awards ceremony lasted from 1967 to 1986 — the period during which Alexander H. Cohen and his wife, Hildy Parks, were the producers of the show. This film offers a compilation of performances from Tony Award broadcasts during those years. They are presented with color-corrected footage and digitally re-mastered sound.
Self
Featuring inverviews from: Afrika Bambaataa, Ashford & Simpson, Jackson Browne, Kim Burell, Taylor Dayne, Carmen Electra, Faith Evans, Roberta Flack, Joel Gray, Kc & the Sunshine Band, Eartha Kitt, Patti Labelle, Queen Latifah and more?
Dr. Mensley (segment "Reaching Normal")
A compendium of three short science-fiction films, each with a decidedly feminist slant.
Amos Bellamy
Las rencillas que enfrentan a dos vecinos de un pequeño pueblo americano parecen insuperables. Los dos son viudos y tienen hijos, una chica y un chico que mantienen un romance a espaldas de sus progenitores. Sin embargo, todo es una farsa cuya finalidad es que los chicos acaben casándose. Cuando el noviazgo de los chicos va en serio, tienen que buscar la forma de arreglar "sus diferencias" sin levantar sospechas. La llegada de un circo ambulante, The Fantasticks, les da la solución. (FILMAFFINITY)
Oldrich Novy
La película se desarrolla en Estados Unidos en el año 1964. Selma (Björk) es una inmigrante checa que se muda a aquel país con su hijo Gene. Además padece una enfermedad hereditaria degenerativa que le está ocasionando una rápida ceguera progresiva. Por este motivo Selma ahorra centavo a centavo en una lata que guarda en su cocina para pagar una operación que evite que su hijo sufra el mismo destino.
The Ghost of Christmas Past
Adaptación televisiva del clásico cuento navideño de Charles Dickens. Durante una Navidad, Ebenezer Scrooge, un miserable y malhumorado anciano que no siente compasión por nada ni por nadie, recibe la visita de espíritus del pasado, del presente y del futuro que pretenden conmover su corazón para salvar su alma.
Self
A profile of composing team John Kander and Fred Ebb, who have written many Broadway musicals. Highlights include interviews with Lauren Bacall, Joel Grey and others, as well as the two men themselves, plus clips of performances of their songs.
Simon
During the course of one summer, a young Irish lad named Chris befriends an American boy named Joe. The two couldn't be more different, yet they become inseparable. Things turn horribly wrong however, when Chris discovers his new best friend isn't a he, but a she. The sadness only begins as Chris learns why Joe's gender must be kept a secret.
Adolf Hitler faces himself and must come to terms with his infamous career in an imaginary post-war subterranean bunker where he reviews historical films, dictates his memoirs and encounters Eva Braun, Josef Goebbels, Hermann Göring and Sigmund Freud.
Jimmie
A couple escapes an island prison and are chased through the real world where drugs and artificial reality are used to create emotions.
Professor Marvel / The Gatekeeper / The Carriage Driver / The Palace Guard / The Wizard of Oz
This production consists an abbreviated script and highlights most musical numbers from the 1939 film.
Flea
Brother and sister Ninja warriors get revenge for their sister's death by killing the drug dealers in New Orleans. The police enlist the help of a biker warrior to solve the crime. The head drug dealer stirs the pot even further by hiring Cajun warriors to kill those he believes are responsible for the deaths of his dealers.
Willy Stone
Jim Nashe es un ex-bombero que viaja sin rumbo, con dinero heredado y su BMW nuevo. En medio de la carretera se encuentra a un desconocido que ha recibido una brutal paliza. Este es Jack Pozzi, un jugador con mucha labia que convence a Nash para que se juegue todo su dinero, 10.000 dólares, en una partida de cartas contra dos millonarios excéntricos. Pero lo que pueden perder va más allá del simple dinero.... Un evocativo y oscuro cuento sobe el poder, la manipulación y las apuestas donde a menudo el destino está determinado por el simple corte de una baraja. (FILMAFFINITY)
Joel Grey
Griffin Mill, productor cinematográfico de Hollywood, recibe amenazas escritas de un guionista al que rechazó un proyecto. Intentan llegar a un acuerdo, pero tras una terrible discusión, Griffin lo mata. Dada la crisis económica por la que atraviesan los estudios, estos harán todo lo posible para que eluda la responsabilidad de los hechos.
Self
Behind-the-scenes documentary about a fundraiser which was staged for Robert Altman's film "The Player" (1992).
Burgel
Praga, 1919. Tras el asesinato de un compañero, Kafka, un empleado de una compañía de seguros, ingresa en un misterioso grupo subversivo.
Johnny Hyde
Aspiring writer Robert Slatzer befriends Norma Jean Baker in 1946, the year she becomes Marilyn Monroe.
Self
A celebrity benefit for The Actors' Fund of America, featuring music, songs, dance and comedy.
Chiun
Remo Williams, un rudo policía de Nueva York, es reclutado por una organización que depende del Presidente de los Estados Unidos y cuya misión es acabar con los políticos y los funcionarios corruptos. Previamente, Remo tendrá que ser adiestrado por un maestro coreano de lucha.
Jack Point
Colonel Fairfax has been falsely accused of sorcery by a jealous relative who covets his estates and money. The Colonel is condemned to death for his 'crime' and waits in the Tower of London for his execution. Fate, however, steps in - in the form of Sergeant Meryll (who owes his life to Colonel Fairfax) and Elsie Maynard, a beautiful strolling singer who has just arrived at the Tower to entertain the people in the company of a strolling jester, Jack Point.
Self
The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place Friday February 19, 1982 at New York's Radio City Music Hall. The event, for which ticket-buyers payed up to $1,000 a seat (tax-deductible as a contribution to the Actors' Fund) was billed as "The Night of 100 Stars" but, actually, around 230 stars took part. And most of the audience of 5,800 had no idea in advance that they were paying to see a TV taping, complete with long waits for set and costume changes, tape rewinding, and the like. Executive producer Alexander Cohen estimated that the 5,800 Radio City Music Hall seats sold out at prices ranging from $25 to $1,000. The show itself cost about $4 million to produce and was expected to yield around $2 million for the new addition to the Actors Fund retirement home in Englewood, N. J. ABC is reputed to have paid more than $5 million for the television rights.
Self - Host
Joel Grey dresses up as Charlie Chaplin to tell the story of his movie career, and show many of his clips.
Lowenstein
En 1890, el famoso detective Sherlock Holmes malvive en Londres convertido en un cocainómano. Tras una larga ausencia, su inseparable compañero, el Doctor Watson, va a visitarlo. Al encontrarlo en semejante estado, decide llevarlo a Viena, a la consulta del joven psicólogo Sigmund Freud, con la esperanza de que éste le ayude a superar su adicción a las drogas. A través del psicoanálisis y la hipnosis, Freud consigue adentrarse en el subconsciente del detective. Durante su convalecencia, Holmes conoce a una paciente de Freud: Lola Devereaux, una actriz de teatro que sufre un gravísimo trauma que le impide articular palabra. Poco después, Freud y Holmes se ocupan de resolver un caso de secuestro en el que está involucrada la actriz.
The Producer (Nate Salisbury)
Western basado en la obra de teatro de Kopit que narra, desde un punto de vista cercano a la parodia, la vida del legendario Buffalo Bill (Paul Newman), que en 1885 triunfaba con su espectáculo circense.
Joshua Trundle (voice)
El programa se desarrolla en la ciudad ficticia de Junctionville, Nueva York, a finales del siglo XX. Santa Claus se ofende con una carta anónima impresa en el periódico de la ciudad (y firmó "todos nosotros") que afirma que él no existe. En respuesta, Santa les devuelve las cartas de toda la ciudad sin abrir. Al leer la carta anónima impresa en el periódico, el Padre Ratón, un ratón asistente del relojero humano Joshua Trundle, inmediatamente sospecha que su inteligente hijo Albert es su autor. Albert confirma sus sospechas, repitiéndole la carta literalmente.
Franklin Wills
A small-town police chief investigating a murder is offered help by a self-described psychic. However, when the chief discovers that the "psychic" is in possession of information known only to the police, he suspects that the man may be more involved in the case than he lets on.
Big Joe Brown
A government agent, out to destroy a crime ring, finds himself in the middle of a mob war.
Master of Ceremonies
Berlín, años 30, en plena República de Weimar y antes de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. A pesar de la crisis del momento, los berlineses prefieren vivir la magia que les ofrece cada noche un cabaret cuya estrella es Sally, una bailarina y cantante que se enamorará de dos hombres muy diferentes entre sí.
A behind the scenes look at the design of Cabaret (1972).
Himself/ George M Cohan
Based on the semi-hit Broadway musical of 1968 starring Joel Grey, this TV version has been re-fashioned in significant ways. The premise here is that a small group of modern-day performers have gotten together in a rehearsal studio to celebrate George M. Cohan's life and work. Joel Grey and Bernadette Peters (also from the original cast) and the other cast members are apparently playing themselves, with Austin Pendleton serving as a stage manager/director.
Beagle
Robert Talbot, un millonario americano, llega antes de lo habitual a su lujosa villa italiana para pasar sus vacaciones anuales, pero su novia de muchos años, se ha cansado de esperarlo y ha decidido casarse con otro hombre. Para complicar más las cosas, mientras él estaba fuera y en secreto, su mayordomo ha convertido la villa en un hotel y los huéspedes resultan ser un grupo de chicas jóvenes americanas.
A jukebox operator helps promote a calypso craze.
Bender
Three friends enter military school together, but 2 of them don't know that the 3rd one is secretly married.
Narrator
The story of the attempted extermination of European Jews is told through witness testimony at the 1961 trial of Nazi officer Adolf Eichmann.