William Sylvester
출생 : 1922-01-31, Oakland, California, USA
사망 : 1995-01-25
약력
William Sylvester (January 31, 1922 – January 25, 1995) was an American TV and film actor. His most famous film credit was Dr. Heywood Floyd in Stanley Kubrick's 2001 A Space Odyssey (1968). Born in Oakland, California and married at one time to the British actress Veronica Hurst, he moved to England after the Second World War and became a staple of British B films at a time when American and Canadian actors were much in demand in order to give indigenous films some appeal in the US.
As a result, he gained top billing in one of his very first films, House of Blackmail (1953), directed by the veteran filmmaker Maurice Elvey, for whom he also made What Every Woman Wants the following year. He also starred in such minor films as The Stranger Came Home (1954, for Hammer), Dublin Nightmare (1958), Offbeat (1960), Information Received (1961), Incident at Midnight, Ring of Spies and Blind Corner (all 1963). There were also lead roles in four British horror films: Gorgo (1960), Devil Doll (1963), Devils of Darkness (1964) and The Hand of Night (1966). Among his many TV credits were a 1959 BBC version of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar (playing Mark Antony), The Saint, The Baron, The High Chaparral, Harry O and The Six Million Dollar Man.
His later films included You Only Live Twice (1967) and, back in the USA after his prominent role for Kubrick, Busting (1973), The Hindenburg (1975) and Heaven Can Wait (1978). He died in Sacramento, California in 1995, aged 72.
Sam Slade (archive footage)
Retrospective documentary on the making of Gorgo (1961).
Dr. Heywood R. Floyd (archive footage) (uncredited)
The making of Stanley Kubrick's classic space epic, presented by James Cameron, including unseen footage.
TV Interviewer
When the First Daughter is kidnapped by an African tribe, the President must do what he can to keep them from sacrificing her.
Nuclear Reporter
미식 축구를 사랑하는 죠(Joe Pendleton/Leo Farnsworth/Tom Jarrett: 워렌 비티 분)는 외롭고 힘겨운 훈련을 하며 살아간다. 축구의 꿈을 이루어 가려던 죠는 갑작스런 교통사고로 하늘나라로 불리워 간다. 천국위 사도를 만난 죠는 천국으로 가길 거부하고 다시 현세로 내려오나, 자신의 몸이 가루가 되어 뿌려졌기에 다른 사람의 몸을 빌려 삶을 연장할 수 있게 된다. 억만장자의 몸으로 다시 환생한 죠는 귀족 생활방식에 맞춰 살아가고, 아내와 비서의 살인 음모를 알면서도 오직 미식 축구팀에만 관심을 집중한다. 미식축구팀을 만들어 열심히 살고 또한 로건(Betty Logan: 줄리 크리스티 분)과 결혼하려는 죠에게 천국의 사도가 찾아와 생명이 다 끝나간다는 걸 통보해 준다. 결국 총에 맡고 죽는 죠는 다시 천국으로 올라가지만.
Dimwitted, meaty guy foils criminals by turning invisible.
Luftwaffe Colonel
1937년 봄 한덴버그라 명명된 거대한 비행선이 뉴욕을 향해 베를린을 출항, 97명의 승객이 항해하고 있었다. 운항 중에 일어나는 믿을 수 없는 소문으로 승무원과 승무원간의 불신의 갈등이 생긴다.
Mr. Weldman
케닐리(Michael Keneely: 엘리어트 굴드 분)와 파렐(Patrick Farrel: 로버트 블레이크 분)은 냉소적이며 고집센 LA시경의 대리 형사이다. 예전에 그들은 거리의 불량배로서 뜨내기 생활을 했었지만 마음을 고쳐먹고 경찰 조직에 투신한 것이다. 그들은 콤비를 이루어 괄목할만한 수사 활동을 전개하지만 일을 너무 크게 벌이기를 두려워하는 경찰 본부측과의 잦은 충돌을 겪는다.
한편, 암흑가 단체는 물론이며 경찰의 수뇌부들까지 마음먹은대로 뒤에서 조종할 수 있는 거물급의 한 인물이 있는데 그는 자신의 활동에 케닐리와 파렐이 눈에 가시처럼 성가심을 느낀다. 그러나 이에 굴하지않고 케닐리와 파렐은 집요한 추적을 통하여 악한 무리들을 일망 타진하는데...
Tom Henderson
A young couple inherits an old mansion inhabited by small demon-like creatures who are determined to make the wife one of their own.
Paul Harrison
Tony Petrocelli, a bright young lawyer practicing in the rich cattle town of Baker, becomes embroiled in a murder case.
Brad York
Racers compete in the Grand Prix.
Burt Hickey
Two vehicles lurch across the east African bush, carrying an ill-assorted party of prospectors who have formed a syndicate to search for uranium deposits. As their four-week window for digging starts to close, trouble soon starts amongst the group and there are some sinister 'accidents'... It is obvious that one of the party is trying to sabotage the expedition; but who?
Paul Carver
A tourist travelling through Morocco discovers an ancient curse and must choose between light and dark.
Trumpeter
Musical short, filmed for the abandoned portmanteau film Red, White and Zero (1967).
Dr. Heywood Floyd
인류에게 문명의 지혜를 가르쳐 준 검은 돌기둥의 정체를 밝히기 위해서 디스커버리호의 선장 보우만과 승무원 풀은 목성을 향해서 날아간다. 하지만 평온하던 디스커버리호에 갑자기 재난이 찾아온다. 우주선 내부에서 일어난 재난은 컴퓨터 HAL이 반란을 일으킨 것. HAL은 풀을 우주선 밖으로 던져버리고, 보우만까지도 모선 밖으로 끌어내지만 그는 필사의 노력으로 HAL을 제압한다. 보우만은 마침내 목성 궤도에서 문제의 검은 돌기둥을 발견하지만, 그 순간 우주의 급류에 휘말리게 된다. 보우만은 지구로의 귀환을 위해 노력하고, 신비한 시간의 흐름을 경험하는데...
Paul Baxter
A secret vampire cult, which has its headquarters beneath the town cemetery, searches for victims for its human sacrifice rituals.
Mark English
An evil hyponotist/ventriloquist plots to gain an heiress' millions.
Gordon Lonsdale
The film is based on the actual events of the Portland Spy Ring trial in the U.K. A disgruntled Navy Clerk is transferred to a secret research establishment and is subsequently black-mailed/paid by Czech intelligence to procure secrets for them. He seduces the secretary who controls the most secret documents, and they enjoy the fruits of their treachery until the British authorities begin to close in on them.
Paul Gregory
Paul Gregory (William Sylvester) is an accomplished composer despite his blindness, and his beautiful wife Anne (Barbara Shelley) seems to be the perfect supporting wife. But unknown to Paul, she is having a passionate affair with Ricky (Alexander Davion), a struggling artist. Keen to support her artist lover and give them more time to make love, she persuades Paul to commission Ricky to paint her portrait. But Paul senses their affection for each other, and threatens to cut Anne off without a penny. Desperate to keep both her lover and Paul s money, Anne plots the perfect murder and asks Ricky to carry it out...
Vince Warren
In a late night chemist a shot bank robber has been taken for treatment, and to rendezvous with the gang leader.
Rick Hogan
Drama of an underworld double-cross as a man and woman set a death trap from which only one could possibly escape.
Sam Slade
한 인간의 무한한 욕망과 상상으로 대참사가 빚어진다. 지하의 괴물이 땅바닥을 가르고 나와 가공할만한 힘으로 대도시를 붕괴하며 살육과 파고를 일삼는다. 현대 과학으로 도저히 풀 수 없는 불가사의한 비밀을 캐내기 위해 집념의 사나이가 이 사건에 뛰어드는데...
Layton / Steve Ross
When Scotland Yard finds themselves up against a brick wall in tracking down a vicious gang of thieves and bank robbers, they call in Layton, a loner from MI5 to work his way into the gang and help bring them down.
Hermann
The ex-girlfriend (Juliette Greco) of a German fugitive hides with the captain (O.W. Fischer) and crew of a ship on the Rhine.
John Kevin
Loot goes missing in robbery double-cross. Gang members, an ex-lover and a handsome stranger are left to sort it out.
Alec Douglas
After returning home to a rugged island near Nova Scotia, Joanna, daughter of the local bigwig, struggles to choose between three eligible bachelors -- the rebel (Patrick McGoohan), the steadfast friend (Michael Craig) and the poetry-quoting newcomer (William Sylvester). As the local lobster supply dwindles due to overfishing, the island's inhabitants encounter economic difficulties.
Dave Forrester
An actress and an artist are linked by his brother to deadly smugglers sought by Scotland Yard.
Philip Vickers
Someone knocked out a man and left him for dead during a fishing trip in Portugal. That someone is either his fetching wife, or two business partners, all sporting guilty faces after his unexpected return. Two more murders and a frame-up befall the quartet before an inspector closes the case.
Jim Barnes
Young couple Mark and Jane are forced to thrash out marital problems in a borrowed room in Jane’s parents’ tiny house. Meanwhile, Jane’s cousin, Jim - back from the war in Korea - and Mark’s involvement in left-wing politics place further strain on the relationship. Can grandfather help?
Texas
The British inmates of a POW camp think they have an informer among them after several escape attempts fail. One of the prisoners constructs a dummy which they christen "Albert" and use at roll call in order to foil the German guards.
Jimmy
A blackmailer is murdered, and the police find that there is a long list of suspects who wanted to see him dead.
Mac
Wing-commander Tim Mason leads a squadron of Lancaster bombers on almost nightly raids from England. Having flown eighty-seven missions he will shortly be retiring from flying, but the strain is showing. He tries to make sure his men concentrate only on their job and so keeps women away from the base, but then he himself meets naval officer Eve Canyon.
Len Turner
A young boy is blackmailed by a crook who saw him unwittingly cause his friend's death.
American Soldier (uncredited)
The film begins in a WW II training depot of a British Guards armoured regiment where recruits from many walks of life learn to survive the strict discipline and training together before going into battle in tanks. There is a cameo appearance by the real Sgt. Major Brittain who was famous in the British guards regiments.
Giovanni
Exiled from Hollywood due to the blacklist, director Edward Dmytryk briefly operated in England in the late 1940s. Though filmed in its entirety in London, Dmytryk's Give Us This Day is set in New York during the depression. Fellow blacklistee Sam Wanamaker is starred as the head of an Italian immigrant family struggling to survive the economic crisis.
