Mel Stuart

Mel Stuart

출생 : 1928-09-02, New York City, New York, USA

사망 : 2012-08-09

약력

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Mel Stuart, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

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Mel Stuart

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The Mystery of Sleep
Director
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.
The Mystery of Sleep
Writer
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.
The Hobart Shakespeareans
Director
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.
Pure Imagination: The Story of 'Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory'
Self
Retrospective documentary on the making of the cult classic "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory."
Running on the Sun: The Badwater 135
Director
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
Billy Wilder: The Human Comedy
Producer
A profile of writer-director Billy Wilder
Billy Wilder: The Human Comedy
Director
A profile of writer-director Billy Wilder
Man Ray: Prophet of the Avant Garde
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.
Happy Anniversary 007: 25 Years of James Bond
Producer
An hour documentary on the history of Bond for the 25th anniversary of the film series.
Happy Anniversary 007: 25 Years of James Bond
Director
An hour documentary on the history of Bond for the 25th anniversary of the film series.
Bill
Producer
Bill, an intellectually disabled man, ventures out into the world for the first time, having spent most of his life in a dreary inner city institution. He is taken in by a kind family and learns what it means to love and be loved for the first time in his life.
Buana
Director
A college professor, his wife, and daughter go the the wilds of Africa to live, and study the rare white lions of the region.
Sophia Loren: Her Own Story
Director
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.
The Triangle Factory Fire Scandal
Director
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.
Mean Dog Blues
Director
A victim of circumstance, country and western musician Paul Ramsey finds himself on a Southern chain gang.
Ruby and Oswald
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.
Brenda Starr
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.
Life Goes to the Movies
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.
와트스탁스
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.
와트스탁스
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.
One Is a Lonely Number
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.
초콜렛 천국
Director
세계적인 초콜릿과 과자 재벌 윌리 윙커(Willy Wonka: 진 와일더 분)는 어느날 100개의 초콜릿 상자 속에 단 5개의 황금 티켓을 넣어 발매하였다는 발표를 한다. 티켓을 찾아낸 어린이들은 평생 동안 웡카 초콜릿을 무상으로 공급받을 수 있고, 비밀에 싸인 웡카 공장의 견학을 할 수 있는 자격이 생긴다. 온세계는 웡카 열풍에 휩싸이고, 어른이며 애며 할 것없이 웡카 초콜릿을 박스째로 사다가 뜯어본다. 한반 아이들은 평균 수백개의 초콜릿을 사본 경험이 있을 정도로 대 인기를 얻은 이벤트가 되었다. 하지만, 집이 가난한 찰리(Charlie: 피터 오스트럼 분)는 친조부모와 외조부모, 그리고 혼자된 어머니를 모시고 살며, 가족의 끼니 걱정을 하는 어린이이다. 수백개의 상자를 뜯고 있는 사람들의 모습은 찰리에겐 너무나도 먼 일이지만, 할머니와 할아버지들은 어렵게 모은 돈으로 찰리에게 웡카 초콜릿을 선물한다. 헛된 꿈을 키우는 것을 원치않는 찰리의 어머니는 반대하지만, 겉으로 내색않는 찰리에게도 남들의 이야기는 마냥 부럽다. 영국, 미국, 독일 등지에서 황금 티켓을 가진 어린이들이 나타난다. 마지막 한개의 티켓은 남미의 어느 나라에서 발견되고 찰리에게는 더 이상 별다른 희망이 없다. 길을 걷다가 커다란 은화를 발견한 찰리는 먹고 싶던 초콜릿을 두 개 산다. 하나는 자신을 위해 하나는 할아버지(Grandpa Joe: 잭 알버트슨 분)를 위해. 그때, 남미에서 발견된 황금 티켓이 위조된 것이라는 뉴스 발표가 나온다. 찰리는 할아버지를 위해 남겨둔 마지막 초콜릿 포장을 뜯고. 그 안에 든 것은 이제 전 세계에 단 하나 남은 황금티켓. 한명의 동반자만을 허용한다는 웡카 회사의 이야기를 들은 찰리는 할아버지와 함께 가기로 하고, 공장 견학의 날, 다섯 어린이들은 각자의 부모와 함께 공장앞에 모인다. 윌리 웡카가 안내하는 초콜릿 공장. 어린이들은 이제껏 어디서도 본 적 없는 꿈과 환상의 세계에 들어가게 되는데.
I Love My Wife
Director
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.
The Unfinished Journey of Robert Kennedy
Director
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.
이프 잇츠 튜즈데이, 디스 머스트 비 벨지엄
Director
A group of travelers from the United States race through seven countries in 18 days.
China: The Roots of Madness
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.
The Thin Blue Line
Executive Producer
The work of the US police force and the problem of fighting rising crime across the country.
The Teen-Age Revolution
Executive Producer
Documentary about teenage life in the mid-60s.
Four Days In November
Producer
1964 American documentary film about the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
Four Days In November
Director
1964 American documentary film about the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
The Making of the President 1960
Director
The story of the 1960 US Presidential election