John Phillip Law
Nascimento : 1937-09-07, Los Angeles, California, USA
Morte : 2008-05-13
História
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John Phillip Law (September 7, 1937 – May 13, 2008) was an American film actor with over one hundred movie roles to his credit. He was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of actress Phyllis Sallee and the brother of actor Thomas Augustus Law (also known as Tom Law). He was best known for his roles as the blind angel Pygar in the 1968 science fiction cult classic anti-war film Barbarella, and as news anchor Robin Stone in the 1971 movie The Love Machine. (The latter reteamed him with Alexandra Hay, his costar from the 1968 "acid comedy" Skidoo.) He also gained attention in the title role of the 1968 thriller Danger: Diabolik and as a Russian sailor stranded in a New England village in The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming. Tall (six-foot-five) and handsome, with steel blue eyes, Law became a male sex symbol in the 1960s. He was a VIP guest at Hugh Hefner's Playboy Mansion and in Hollywood society. While he never achieved superstar status, he became a popular action hero, particularly in the Italian movie market, with movies ranging from science fiction, and fantasy to comedy, westerns, drama, and war movies. Law co-starred in Roger Corman's 1971 film Von Richthofen and Brown, playing Manfred von Richthofen opposite Don Stroud's Roy Brown. Corman used Lynn Garrison's Irish aviation facility, complete with replica World War I aircraft. Garrison taught Law the basics of flying so that he could take off and land, making some of the footage more realistic. Some other of Law's movies have also become cult classics, including The Golden Voyage of Sinbad, Death Rides a Horse and Attack Force Z. Two of Law's films, Danger: Diabolik and Space Mutiny, were also featured in the movie-mocking TV series Mystery Science Theater 3000. In 2001 he appeared in Roman Coppola's directorial debut CQ, an homage to the Italian spy/sci-fi B-movies in which Law often starred during the 1960s. Law's final credited film role was in 2008's Chinaman's Chance. In his personal life, he was once married to actress Shawn Ryan, with whom he had a daughter named Dawn. His doctors told him in late 2007 that he had pancreatic cancer and only six months to live. Law died May 13, 2008, at his Los Angeles home. His remains were cremated and the ashes remain with his daughter, Dawn and his grandson, Ryan.
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Foreman Dan
1870's America. A Chinese immigrant falsely accused of murdering a white woman is viciously hunted down; he'll have to prove his innocence in a time when people of color had "no legal rights" and could be bought and sold for a profit. Railroad to Hell: A Chinaman's Chance explores the exploitation of Chinese workers during the building of American railroads. The workers not only spent long hours, but the work was often dangerous and fatal. The Chinaman is a fugitive on the run, and all odds are against him. While stealing a horse was a hanging offense in the Old West, our fugitive knows that killing a Chinaman is not a crime.
Himself
The star of cult classics such as Death Rides a Horse, Danger: Diabolik and The Last Movie talks about his life and early film career. Film features a considerable amount of behind the scenes footage (much of it shot by Law himself).
Rachael, an aspiring pianist with a troubled past, disguises herself as a boy and searches for her father, a free-wheeling musician who abandoned her when she was a child.
Self
Professor Peter Price
In the first story two grave robbers, thieving from an ancient Etruscan burial ground, gets in trouble when one of them tries out a ring which passes a werewolf curse to him! The second one is about a woman who wants to look like her best friend and goes to a plastic surgeon, which is the biggest mistake she's done. The third story is about three friends and a very dangerous sea monster eating its way through their camping site! The wrap-around story is set on a train where John Phillip Law plays a mystical hypnotist who claims that he can see the past of the passengers...
Sheriff Murphy
A group of friends discover gold deep inside an old mine. But by taking the gold and think they've hit it big, they awaken a long dead miner who's Hell Bent on protecting his treasure.
Chairman
A young filmmaker in 1960s Paris juggles directing a cheesy sci-fi debacle, directing his own personal art film, coping with his crumbling relationship with his girlfriend, and a new-found infatuation with the sci-fi film's starlet.
Himself
Director Garry S. Grant’s insightful documentary celebrates the work and legacy of auteur filmmaker Mario Bava, the grand master of Italian horror and the man known by many as “the Italian Hitchcock.”
1. Verfolger
Vincent Lehman
Things heat up when a promising young actor begins an affair with a glamorous model in order to advance his career.
Böhme
Follows the life of the famous German politician, writer, and communist activist, Gustav Regler, from his birth in 1898, in the Saar, through the two World Wars and his many travels, until his death in 1963 in India.
Brigham Young
Recounts the 40-year history of building the Salt Lake Temple, shown as if recounted by Wilford Woodruff to a young reporter. It portrays the pioneers' dedication to temple worship.
Steven Fox
Angel is a disturbed teen who becomes obsessed with her nice stepfather Steven. After her mother dies under unusual circumstances, Angel is sent to an institution. Years later, she is let out and tracks down her dear step-dad who now lives with his new girlfriend Michelle. He is technically her only kin so he takes her in, but his girlfriend doesn't like Angel one bit. Angel's obsession with her "dad" is as strong as ever and she fantasizes about seducing him. After spying on him and his girlfriend having passionate sex, she begins playing a deadly game and even tries to seduce his hostile girlfriend. However, Steven has a more immediate and obvious problem - a drug dealer called Johnny Ventura.
Harry Billings
Col. Barberon
Only one enemy has ever beat him. Now he needs her to save his life.
Ward Armstrong
A space commander sends a female android to Earth to destroy an escaped convict.
(uncredited)
Filled with the fast-paced thrills of a 007 epic and the suave sophistication of a Pee Wee Herman adventure, this film takes the sacred, great all-American Nerd and puts him where he belongs - on a top secret spy mission.
R.C. Mallon
Whatever tycoon R.C. Mallon wants, he takes. Obsessed with money and power, he crushes all who stand in his way. But now, the woman who was once the object of his desire has dared take away the most precious of all Mallon's possessions, his ten-year-old son — the heir to his corrupt and violent empire. And all hell has been let loose.
Deputy Sheriff
They took his wife... but he's still Walking Tall, they drew First Blood, but he's gonna fight back like Billy Jack.
Capt. Roger L. Barnes
A Case of Honor is a 1991 film directed by Eddie Romero. After escaping from a Vietnamese pow camp where they had suffered for five years, five American soldiers attempt to get out of the country before being spotted by Russian and Vietnamese
Charles Saint Simone
After his beloved wife dies, an unbalanced painter who believes himself to be the reincarnation of Vincent Van Gogh goes over the edge and digs up her corpse--with the help of his necrophiliac butler--to bring it back to his castle and use it for "inspiration". He soon meets a beautiful musician who looks exactly like his late wife and brings her back to his castle. However, she eventually discovers their secret: the butler murders young women, disposes of their bodies and uses their blood--"the color of life"--for the artist's paints.
Flight Cmdr. Elijah Kalgan
A pilot is the only hope to stop the mutiny of a spacecraft by its security crew, who plot to sell the crew of the ship into slavery.
Shaw
On their way to cover a sporting event in Argentina, reporter John Teller and photographer Bob Norton make a brief stop-off in a Latin America country and get entangled in a revolution.
Maximilian Steiner
A biopic about Austrian composer Johann Strauß.
Alessio
The film tells the birth of a love story and its evolution between the vicissitudes, the frenzies and the complications between the two young protagonists.
Frank Morris
John Slade is hired to rescue a journalist named Frank Morris from a Sandinista prison in Nicaragua. He teams with Marta, a local woman, to carry out this mission, but then he's captured, tortured, and forced to deal with the fact that he's been betrayed.
Allen
A Vietnam vet with PTSD and his new wife are invited for their honeymoon aboard his war buddy's yacht along with a third war friend and their girlfriends. Soon, they are being slaughtered one-by-one by a mysterious gloved assailant with an unusual pronged murder weapon.
Dr. Stephen Kendrick
A tough street kid from the L.A. barrios is discovered during an examination to have stomach tumors. During his hospitalization, he must learn to cope with not only his medical condition, but with people such as other patients, social workers and hospital personnel who come from a totally different world than he does--and they have to learn to cope with him.
Kelly
A group of Vietnam vets are sent to Southeast Asia to destroy drug-smuggling operations in the Golden Triangle. When they get there, they find that many of the drug gangs are run by other Vietnam vets.
Harry Billings (segment "The Case of Harry Billings")
God and Satan are on a train discussing the fate of three individuals. The stories of the people in question are told in a trio of very strange vignettes. One involves an insane asylum with some very interesting treatment plans. Another involves a 'death club'. The final story shows us the adventures of a server of Satan.
Ted Barner
Released directly to video, this action film features John Phillip Law as Ted Barner, a low-level employee of a corporation in Indonesia who is charged with testing a new laser weapon. Accompanied by an engineer who works for the corporation and a friend, Barner heads out to the test site with the laser in tow. Before the three can get very far, they must outrun an evil Texas industrialist who intends to grab the laser for himself. They are joined by a female reporter and end up at the site of the test, where their problems are just beginning.
Dr. Edison
A young man, born deaf, invents a computer so he can hear and speak with others.
Lieutenant Veitch
Tim Burstall directs then-up-and-comers Mel Gibson and Sam Neill in this action-packed Cannes Film Festival selection about the grim realities of World War II, a gritty drama based on actual events. Sent to rescue survivors from the site of a plane crash in the South Pacific, Capt. P.G. Kelly (Gibson) and his elite squad of Australian commandos must keep tabs on a defecting Japanese official who could hold the secret to peace.
Harry Holt
Oeste da África, 1910. Linda, Jane Parker, viaja com objetivo de encontrar seu pai, o grande aventureiro James Parker. Ela se perde e Tarzan a salva. James Parker estava sendo escravizado e Tarzan o procura. A paixão e o encantamento da jovem inglesa Jane por Tarzan, durante uma fracassada expedição na África à procura de seu pai. Tarzan a salva de perigosos nativos selvagens, cobras e de um leão.
A.P Karns
Wu Linfang, an immigrant from the mainland to Taiwan more than a hundred years ago, grows from a poor boy to a leader who instructs villagers to open oil wells
The Exorcist
Once a Satanist who surrendered her soul and body to the devil himself, Carlotta Rhodes begins to regret her tryst with Lucifer when her teenage daughter, Daria, starts showing the evil influence of dear old Dad. Convinced that she can stop the devil's power on earth, Carlotta calls upon an exorcist for help.
Dr. Gary Mancini
A widow's life is thrown into turmoil by her hippie daughter, her rebellious teenage son, and an ill-starred love affair she is having with a much younger man -- and then a former suitor comes back into the picture.
Deichgraf Hauke Haien
A young engineer is supposed to do surveyings for a projected nuclear power station in an economically under-developed region and encounters strong opposition by the population. He realizes that the inhabitants are influenced by strange parapsychological occurences released by an elderly man, who also seems to dominate Walpurga, a young woman the engineer falls in love with.
Shannon
Arturo
The movie starts with a scene of a young man raping and murdering a woman on a train. Later he rents a room from an elderly wheelchair-bound voyeur and his much younger wife. The elderly man enjoys watching the younger man through the a hole in the wall where he has set up a periscope-like device. The first thing he sees, for instance, is the younger man get forcibly raped by a big black guy he has picked up at a cheesy disco. Then he sends his wife over to seduce the young man, and its eventually revealed the true nature of the couple's relationship and how he came to be in the wheelchair.
Major Stark
A Travessia de Cassandra é um 'Disaster Movie', com grande elenco de estrelas, sobre a odisseia aterrorizante de 1000 passageiros presos a bordo de um trem contaminado por uma peste. Um terrorista infectado com um vírus mortal ataca o Expresso Estocolmo-Genebra e expõe todos a bordo para a doença. O coronel Mackenzie (Burt Lancaster) é chamado para lidar com a situação e descobre que o Dr. Chamberlain (Richard Harris) está a bordo do trem. Mackenzie decide direcionar o trem para a Travessia de Cassandra, onde ele vai mergulhar no esquecimento. Mas os passageiros milagrosamente começam a se recuperar e Chamberlain deve correr contra o tempo para desconectar os vagões da locomotiva e salvar todos.
Alex
Martino is a young child who claims to have an invisible friend called Luca. His parents assume it is just a game, but strange things start to happen.
Dr. Benjamin Justice
Based on the title character, a World Health Organisation (WHO) doctor and martial arts expert who fights bad guys, created in 1970 by scriptwriter Jean Ollivier and artist Carlo Marcello for "Pif Gadget", a weekly kids' comic book magazine in France.
Steven
A mute young woman is stalked by a serial killer at her uncle's mansion.
Greg
Three Vietnam vets have become so conditioned to violence that they have developed psychotic tendencies. They kidnap people, brutalize them, then turn them loose and hunt them like animals. However the father of one of their earlier victims is plotting a vicious revenge against them.
Captain Sinbad
Esta é uma espetacular aventura passada nas misteriosas terras antigas, habitadas por incríveis criaturas! Simbad (John Phillip Law) - Príncipe de Bagdá e lendário marinheiro - acha um intrigante mapa e sai em busca da desconhecida ilha de Lemuria, levando a bela escrava Margiana (Caroline Muron) e o Grão Vizir de Marabia. O Príncipe Koura (Tom Baker), um maligno feiticeiro que tenta obter o controle de Marabia com a manipulação de espíritos do mal, segue-os para impedir o sucesso de Simbad. Mas o marinheiro encontra Lemuria a despeito dos terríveis feitiços lançados por Koura em seu caminho. Em Lemuria, Simbad e sua corajosa tripulção lutam contra uma estátua de seis espadas, um centauro de um olho só e um Grifo, fabuloso animal com cabeça de águia e garras de leão. Finalmente Simbad confronta-se a Koura, num duelo de vida e morte!
John
The lives of two local professional dancers change suddenly as American soldiers stop in their town hoping to be entertained in accordance with the Broadway style. Effectively, they perform up to their expectations. However, as the army men have to march northward, their moment of glory finishes heartlessly.
Little Brother
After a film production wraps in Peru, an American wrangler decides to stay behind, witnessing how filmmaking affects the locals.
Robin Stone
An ambitious TV newscaster has an affair with the wife of a network executive to get a promotion.
Baron Manfred von Richthofen
Spend time on both sides of World War I, partly with German flying ace Baron Manfred Von Richthofen (John Phillip Law), aka "The Red Baron," and his colorful "flying circus" of Fokker fighter planes, during the time from his arrival at the war front to his death in combat. On the other side is Roy Brown of the Royal Air Force, sometimes credited with shooting Richthofen down.
Michael Strogoff
A captain in the Czar's army encounters danger and romance while carrying a secret message across 19th-century Russia.
Noel Hoxworth
A wanderer returns home only to find political turmoil, disease and romantic difficulties.
Mondo Rocco is a collection of short films weaved together as it was seen in the Park Theater in Los Angeles in 1969/1970. Charming in their innocence, Rocco's films captured important moments in gay history and are an invaluable resource.
Crispino
Marta works as a telephone operator for a telephone company. She lives with her friend Nanda in Nanda's flat. But Nanda's priority is above anything else to find a husband.
Pfc. Tom Swanson
THE SERGEANT is the story of the dark inner struggle of Master Sergeant Albert Callan to overcome the overwhelming attraction he feels for one of his charges. In the staid and stifling environment of a post-World War II army post in France, Callan's deeply repressed attraction to other men surfaces when he encounters handsome Private Swanson. Maintaining the rugged "man's man" image of a war hero, Callan barks orders to his underlings. Later, lonely in his solitude, he recalls the frightening experiences of war and the events that led to this crossroads. Filled with self-loathing and unable to act on the natural attraction he feels for Swanson, Callan's affection festers into antagonism. He pushes Swanson constantly with verbal assaults and undeserved punishments.
Stash
Ex-gangster Tony Banks is called out of retirement by mob kingpin God to carry out a hit on fellow mobster "Blue Chips" Packard. When Banks demurs, God kidnaps his daughter Darlene on his luxury yacht.
Pygar
No século XXXXI, as guerras já foram abolidas há muito tempo, mas Barbarella (Jane Fonda), uma bela agente, recebe um comunicado do Presidente da Terra (Claude Dauphin), dizendo que uma arma foi inventada e que isto pode perturbar a paz no universo. Assim, sua missão é evitar que tal mal aconteça.
Diabolik
Um dos grandes filmes baseados em histórias em quadrinhos de todos os tempos do diretor Mario Bava.
A seductive woman pushes three men to the limits toying with their sexual desires and male pride.
Bill Meceita
Ainda criança Bill (John Philip Law), é a única testemunha do assassinato de toda a sua família por quatro assaltantes. Quinze anos depois, ele vai atrás dos assassinos em busca de vingança. Durante sua jornada, ele cruz o caminho de Ryan (Lee Van Cleef), um ex-condenado que acabou de sair da cadeia, e também quer se vingar dos bandidos que o colocaram na cadeia. Juntos os dois formam uma dupla nada comum em busca do mesmo objetivo.
Rad McDowell
Following the Second World War, a northern cannery combine negotiates for the purchase of a large tract of uncultivated Georgia farmland. The major portion of the land is owned by Julie Ann Warren and has already been optioned by her unscrupulous, draft dodging husband, Henry. Now the combine must also obtain two smaller plots - one owned by Henry's cousin Rad McDowell, a combat veteran with a wife and family; the other by Reeve Scott, a young black man whose mother had been Julie's childhood Mammy. But neither Rad nor Reeve is interested in selling and they form an unprecedented black and white partnership to improve their land. Although infuriated by the turn of events, Henry remains determined to push through the big land deal. And when Reeve's mother Rose dies, Henry tries to persuade his wife to charge Reeve with illegal ownership of his property, confident the the bigoted Judge Purcell will rule against a Negro.
Alexei Kolchin
Durante a Guerra Fria, quando o capitão de um submarino russo chega muito perto da Ilha Gloucester em Massachusetts, para dar uma olhada na América, o submarino fica encalhado. Uma equipe de nove marinheiros comandados pelo Tenente Rozanov vai para terra em busca de um barco a motor para desencalhar o submarino e chega na casa de verão do escritor nova-iorquino Walt Whittaker, que está passando o fim de semana com sua família em Gloucester. Quando ele percebe que eles são russos, acredita que é uma invasão. Logo a notícia começa a se espalhar, levando a histeria e paranoia os habitantes da pequena cidade. Sem intenção hostil, um submarino soviético encalha ao largo de New England. Marinheiros são enviados em busca de um rebocador, mas muitos dos moradores da pequena cidade chegam a loucura com medo de uma invasão, arriscando começar a 3ª Guerra Mundial.
Fra Felice
Omnibus film with individual segments directed by Renato Castellani, Luigi Comencini and Franco Rossi; all of them starring the radiant Catherine Spaak as "out of place" women longing for love, in a Sicillian village, a monastery, and a modern Italian urban setting, respectively.
Ronald
Four different directors present lighthearted stories about married Italian couples and their dilemmas with jealousy, sex and love.
An ambitious Italian attorney has his flight delayed in Los Angeles. The vapid lawyer goes to some parties with some Italians living there and has a brief affair with a beautiful Italian expatriate.
