Jack Baur

出生 : 1914-11-20, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA

死亡 : 1980-08-13

略歴

Jack Baur was an American casting director for film and television productions.

参加作品

The Night The Bridge Fell Down
Casting
A group of random individuals get stranded on a bridge that begins collapsing at both ends. Not only that, but there's a gun-wielding bank robber using the bridge as his means of escape refusing to let any of the rescuers draw near the survivors. Time is running out ...
Inchon
Casting
A noisy and absurd re-telling of the great 1950 invasion of Inchon during the Korean War which was masterminded by General Douglas MacArthur.
The Memory of Eva Ryker
Casting
A young woman has spent her life tormented by the death of her mother, who was on a ship torpedoed during World War II. When her father hires an investigator to look into the circumstances of the mother's death 30 years prior, it triggers a new rash of emotional turmoil for the young woman and uncovers a heinous crime.
Cave-In!
Casting
A party of tourists -- including a state senator, a park ranger who was her one-time lover, a cantankerous professor, and an escaped convict -- are trapped deep inside the caverns of an unnamed national park, rescued briefly, and then caught in a second cave-in. This Irwin Allen mini-disaster film made in 1979 was shelved for a number of TV seasons, as was his "The Night the Bridge Fell Down", made back-to-back with this one by the same director and much of the same crew.
When Time Ran Out...
Casting
An active volcano threatens a south Pacific island resort and its guests as a power struggle ensues between the property's developer and a drilling foreman.
Hanging by a Thread
Casting
A group of old friends on an outing re-live various traumas and tragedies via flashback whilst trapped high above a ravine in a disabled cable-car.
The Swarm
Casting
Scientist Dr. Bradford Crane and army general Thalius Slater join forces to fight an almost invisible enemy threatening America; killer bees that have deadly venom and attack without reason. Disaster movie-master Irwin Allen's film contains spectacular special effects, including a train crash caused by the eponymous swarm.
Viva Knievel!
Casting
The legendary stuntman plans his most incredible stunt yet while battling the mob in this action-adventure.
Flood!
Casting
Two helicopter pilots rush aid to a small town devastated by a flood following the collapse of an aging dam.
The Domino Principle
Casting
Roy Tucker, a Vietnam war veteran with excellent shooting skills, is serving a long prison sentence when a mysterious visitor promises him that he will be released if he agrees to carry out a dangerous assignment.
Twilight's Last Gleaming
Casting
A renegade USAF general, Lawrence Dell, escapes from a military prison and takes over an ICBM silo near Montana and threatens to provoke World War 3 unless the President reveals details of a secret meeting held just after the start of the Vietnam War between Dell and the then President's most trusted advisors.
Drum
Casting
A mid-19th century mulatto slave is torn between his success as a pit-fighter and the injustices of white society.
2300年未来への旅
Casting
In the 23rd century, inhabitants of a domed city freely experience all of life's pleasures — but no one is allowed to live past 30. Citizens can try for a chance at being "renewed" in a civic ceremony on their 30th birthday. Escape is the only other option.
The Last Hard Men
Casting
In 1909 Arizona, retired lawman Sam Burgade's life is thrown upside-down when his old enemy Provo and six other convicts escape a chain-gang in the Yuma Territorial Prison and come gunning for Burgade.
St. Ives
Casting
A dabbler-in-crime and his assistant hire an ex-police reporter to recover some stolen papers.
Hustle
Casting
The body of teenager Gloria Hollinger is found dead on a Los Angeles beach, and Lt. Phil Gaines is in charge of the investigation. Gaines learns that the girl, a stripper and prostitute, committed suicide, but he ignores the connection between her and a powerful mob lawyer, Leo Sellers. Hollinger's father, however, is not satisfied with Gaines's results, and attempts to investigate the case on his own.
A Girl Named Sooner
Casting
A young girl in the hills of Indiana, who had been abandoned by her family and raised by a bootlegging old woman, is taken by the authorities and made the ward of a childless couple.
Who Is the Black Dahlia?
Casting
In 1947 Los Angeles, a police detective tries to solve the shocking and grisly murder of 22-year-old aspiring actress Elizabeth Short.
Stowaway to the Moon
Casting
E.J. Mackernutt, Jr., an 11-year-old boy who has always been fascinated by space and astronauts, sneaks into Cape Kennedy and becomes a stowaway on a spaceship scheduled for a lunar landing. After he is discovered, NASA at first cancels the landing, but E.J. and the astronauts convince them to go forward with it. Problems arise when one of the astronauts is incapacitated by illness and the other two are stranded on the moon's surface, but E.J. is able to command the space capsule and save the day.
タワーリング・インフェルノ
Casting
地上135階、シスコにそびえ立つ超高層ビル“グラス・タワー”落成式の日。規格外の製品を使ったために起きた出火はやがて巨大な炎となり、最上階に何百人も閉じ込めたままビルを飲み込む。
The Red Badge of Courage
Casting
During the Civil War, a young man enthusiastically joins the Union army thirsting to find glory and honor, but his first battle opens his eyes to reality.....
99 and 44/100% Dead
Casting
Uncle Frank Kelly calls on Harry Crown to help him in a gang war. The war becomes personal when Harry's new girlfriend is kidnapped by Uncle Frank's enemy, Big Eddie.
マジェスティック
Casting
A melon farmer battles organized crime and a hit man who wants to kill him.
Mrs. Sundance
Casting
The girlfriend of the Sundance Kid is on the run, with a price on her head, when she hears rumors that Sundance may still be alive.
パピヨン
Casting
無実の罪で13年間の刑務所生活を強いられたアンリ・シャリエールの実話に基づく小説を、スティーブ・マックィーン、ダスティン・ホフマンの2大スターで映画化。監督は「猿の惑星」「パットン大戦車軍団」のフランクリン・J・シャフナー。胸に蝶の刺青があることからパピヨンと呼ばれる男。身に覚えのない殺人罪で終身刑を言い渡された彼は、自由を求めて脱獄を繰り返した末、親友のドガと共に脱獄不可能とされる孤島に送られる。
Emperor of the North
Casting
Hobos encounter a sadistic railway conductor that will not let anyone "ride the rails" for free.
ソイレント・グリーン
Casting
2022年、今から約50年後のニューヨークには人口が膨大したことによって食糧難が起こっていた。人々は1週間に1度、政府が配給する「ソイレント・グリーン」と呼ばれるウェーフェース状の食料で命を継いでいたが・・・。
ポセイドン・アドベンチャー
Casting
NYからギリシャのアテネに向かっていた豪華客船ポセイドン号が、海底地震による大津波に飲まれて転覆。その惨状とともに生き残った船客の脱出劇を描いた、ロナルド・ニーム監督による傑作パニック巨編。
The Captive City
Casting
A small-town newspaper editor defies threats to expose the mob.
A Kiss for Corliss
Casting
After a brief encounter with the romantic and thrice divorced Kenneth Marquis, Corliss Archer decides to write in her diary that they are together in order to make her boyfriend Dexter jealous. Corliss' father had also served as attorney representing Kenneth Marquis' ex-wife during his most recent divorce trial. When Corliss and Dexter don't come home one evening until five in the morning, Corliss decides to pretend to have amnesia to avoid the inevitable punishment awaiting her.
Caught
Casting
It was Leonora Eames' childhood dream come true. She had married Smith Ohlrig, a man worth millions. But her innocent dream became a nightmare once she realizes the truth about her husband - he is power mad and insane! Since he will not grant her a divorce, she leaves her life of luxury on Long Island and goes to work as a receptionist in an impoverished doctor's office in NYC's lower east side. After Smith deceives her into a temporary reconciliation, Leonora becomes pregnant. By the time she realizes she is expecting, she and one of the doctors, Larry Quinada (James Mason), have fallen in love. But she is again lured backed to her wealthy husband to give her child financial security. Her sadistic husband is hell-bent on keeping her and her child prisoner. What will happen to Leonora?
Force of Evil
Casting
Lawyer Joe Morse wants to consolidate all the small-time numbers racket operators into one big powerful operation. But his elder brother Leo is one of these small-time operators who wants to stay that way, preferring not to deal with the gangsters who dominate the big-time.