Byron Haskin

Byron Haskin

Nascimento : 1899-04-22, Portland, Oregon, USA

Morte : 1984-04-16

História

Byron Conrad Haskin was an American film and television director. He was born in Portland, Oregon. He is remembered today for directing 1953's The War of the Worlds, one of many films where he teamed with producer George Pal. In his early career, he was a special effects artist, with a number of credits on Warner Bros. films, an asset when directing the killer ants film The Naked Jungle and the science fiction film Robinson Crusoe on Mars. Haskin also worked as a cinematographer and producer. His career in television included directing six episodes of the original The Outer Limits, including two highly regarded episodes, "The Architects of Fear" and "Demon with a Glass Hand". He also co-produced the original Star Trek pilot episode, "The Cage". Haskin appeared as an interviewee on-screen in the 1980 documentary Hollywood series by Kevin Brownlow. Haskin died in Montecito, California six days before his 85th birthday.

Perfil

Byron Haskin

Filmes

The Power
Director
One by one members of a special project team are being killed by telekinesis - the ability to move things with the power of the mind alone. The race is on to determine which of the remaining team members is the murderer and to stop them.
Robinson Crusoe on Mars
Director
Stranded on Mars with only a monkey as a companion, an astronaut must figure out how to find oxygen, water, and food on the lifeless planet.
O Capitão Sinbad
Director
After completing his voyages Sindbad the Sailor and his hearty crew have come home to find a palace coup d'etat has occurred and his home city is being run by a brutal dictator played by Pedro Armendariz. He's got designs on the beautiful young princess, Heidi Bruhl both lustful and political.
Armored Command
Director
An American army unit is trapped in a small town during a German counterattack and discovers that a spy in the town is providing the Germans with information about them.
Tesouro Submarino
Director
American fashion model Anne Traymore, swimming off the isle of Majorca, loses a bracelet, which the handsome Manuel del Rio Montoya returns to her. She believes he owns a beautiful yacht called The Swan, but he merely works on it for the wealthy Rene LeClerc.
Jet Over The Atlantic
Director
Director Byron Haskin's 1960 airplane-in jeopardy drama stars Guy Madison, Virginia Mayo, George Raft, Ilona Massey, Margaret Lindsay, George Macready, Brett Halsey, Anna Lee and Mary Anderson.
The Little Savage
Director
The most fearsome pirate in epic deeds and fierce battles. Betrayed and abandoned on an island, discover a fabulous treasure and fight to the death to save a child from the dangers and wild beasts.
Da Terra à Lua
Director
Logo após a Guerra da Secessão um cientista, Victor Barbicane (Joseph Cotten), declara ter inventado uma infinita fonte de energia, que foi chamada de "Força X". Victor quer demonstrá-la fazendo um foguete que, impulsionado por esta energia, o leve até a Lua. Para isto investe toda sua fortuna pessoal e ainda precisa usar o dinheiro de outros investidores, pois é um projeto bem oneroso. No entanto, se der certo ele ficará muito rico. Porém Stuyvesant Nicholl (George Sanders), outro cientista que também fará a viagem, crê que Victor está violando as leis de Deus e da natureza com seus sonhos extraterrestres. Assim Nicholl sabota a espaçonave, mesmo sabendo que isto poderá lhe custar a vida.
The Boss
Director
A crusading politician falls prey to the temptations of power.
The First Texan
Director
After arriving in Texas to escape a scandal back east, lawyer Sam Houston just wants to hang out his shingle, keep a low profile, and stay out of any political intrigue. However, when President Jackson personally orders him to lead the fight for Texan independence, he overcomes his reluctance to become involved and leads his compatriots to a string of victories over the Mexican army.
A Conquista do Espaço
Director
A team of American astronauts leave their space station on the first mission to Mars, but the captain's religious beliefs may get in the way.
O Pirata de Porto Belo
Director
Novamente em busca do tesouro, o pirata Long John Silver finge ajudar o governador a resgatar sua filha raptada por outro bucaneiro, que também mantém cativo o jovem Jim Hawkins. Mas é só um truque para obter um navio. Produção independente e continuação não-oficial do grande sucesso da Disney, "A Ilha do Tesouro" ("Treasure Island", 1950).
A Selva Nua
Director
Quando tinha 19 anos, em 1886, Christopher Leiningen foi determinado o bastante para ir até a América do Sul para construir barragens, no intuito de fazer uma plantação de chocolate perto do rio Negro. Em 1901 Christopher ainda continua no mesmo lugar, está rico, tem 34 anos e nada sabe sobre mulheres. Mesmo assim se casa por procuração com Joana Selby (Eleanor Parker), 25 anos, de Nova Orleans, apesar deles nunca terem se visto. Ela é bonita, independente e chega pronta para ser uma dedicada esposa, mas ninguém contou para Christopher que ela era viúva, em razão disto ele a rejeita. Na semana seguinte ela espera o barco que a levará de volta aos Estados Unidos, então descobrem que um imenso exército de formigas, que destrói tudo no caminho, chegará na plantação em poucos dias. Ela une-se a ele para ajudá-lo a salvar a plantação, sendo que Christopher poderá perder o trabalho de toda uma vida se mandá-la embora.
His Majesty O'Keefe
Director
Men steal for it. Nations go to war for it. The it is oil - and it grows on trees. Coconut oil is the precious lifeblood of 1870s South Seas traders. And lots of real blood will be spilled to get it! Screen royalty Burt Lancaster ist His Majesty O'Keefe in this last of three adventures that (along with The Flame and the Arrow and The Crimson Pirate) blew a revitalizing wind into the sails of the swashbucker genre. Action, cunning and derring-do are watchwords of the title seafarer as he befriends, defends and ultimately rules the islanders of exotic Yap. Lensed on gorgeus Fiji locations, grandly scored by Robert Farnon and rousingly directed by Byron Haskin, His Majesty O'Keefe delivers heroics of regal proportions.
Guerra dos Mundos
Director
Os cientistas Clayton Forrester e Sylvia Van Buren são os primeiros a chegar no local onde caiu um meteorito. Logo depois, uma máquina alienígena aparece e começa uma matança aleatória. Fuzileiros navais são enviados para o local, porém as forças de ataque deles não está a altura da força de ataque dos alienígenas.
Denver and Rio Grande
Director
Jim Vesser and his team of railroading men try to build a rail line through a mountain pass, while a group of less scrupulous construction workers sabotages the entire operation in the hopes that they can get their tracks laid first and get the money from the railroad.
Prata Maldita
Director
Having masterminded the hold up of his company office, a mining engineer is barred from the industry. He then sets up shop as an assayer, scheming to acquire a rich silver mine lease from its operators.
Warpath
Director
John Vickers has spent eight years hunting for the three men who murdered the woman he loved. He finds one, Woodson, and kills him in a gunfight, but not before learning that the other two men have joined the U.S. Cavalry.
Tarzan's Peril
Director
Escaped convicts are selling weapons to a warlike native tribe.
A Ilha do Tesouro
Director
Após receber o mapa do tesouro escondido pelo capitão Flint, o garoto Jim Hawkins embarca num barco pirata rumo a uma ilha do Caribe. E vive uma incrível quando, entre outros perigos, tem de encarar velhos companheiros do bucaneiro como o nada simpático Long John Silver. Aventura, produção dos estúdios Disney, baseada no clássico da literatura de Robert Louis Stevenson.
Lágrimas Tardias
Director
Uma noite, em uma estrada solitária, um carro em alta velocidade joga uma bolsa de dinheiro, destinada a outra pessoa, no banco de trás de Jane e Alan Palmer. Alan quer entregá-lo à polícia, mas Jane o convence a ficar 'por um tempo'. Logo, os Palmers são descobertos por um Danny Fuller, um personagem desprezível que afirma que o dinheiro é dele.
A Fera de Kumaon
Director
Nas selvas um médico caça um tigre, vicioso comedor de homens, e experimenta uma pessoal mudança atraído pelos costumes e crenças dos nativos. .
Estranha Fascinação
Director
Frankie Madison retorna a Nova York depois de 14 anos de prisão. Noll Turner, ex-parceiro de Frankie em contrabando, é agora um rico gerente de boate, e Frankie está esperando que ele honre um acordo verbal de 'meio-a-meio' que eles fizeram quando ele foi pego e Noll escapou. Chance gorda! Será que Frankie, que conhece apenas os métodos violentos da Lei Seca, vai vencer no Big Business? Vai ser difícil... mesmo com a improvável ajuda da cantora Kay, a ex-namorada de Noll. (e 16 - Estimado 16 Anos)
Esse Mundo é um Hospício
Special Effects
Mortimer Brewster é um jornalista e escritor conhecido por suas implicância com o casamento. Logo na cena de abertura nós vemos ele se casar na prefeitura. Agora, só falta uma rápida viagem para casa para informar as tias solteironas de Mortimer. Ao tentar dar a notícia, ele descobre o passatempo de suas tias: matar velhos solitários, como se fosse um ato de caridade, e enterrá-los no porão. E vai ficar pior.
Garras Amarelas
Special Effects
Em dezembro de 1941, o ex-capitão do exército Rick Leland embarca em um navio japonês que segue para a Ásia pelo Canal do Panamá, onde seus anfitriões japoneses demonstram interesse nos planos de defesa americanos para a zona do canal. Rick Leland não esconde o fato de que ele não tem lealdade ao seu país de origem depois que ele é submetido a uma corte marcial, expulso do Exército e embarca em um navio japonês para o Oriente no final de 1941. Mas Leland realmente foi expulso ou existe algum outro motivo para ele se aproximar do companheiro de viagem, doutor Lorenz? Qualquer motivo para se aproximar do atraente viajante Alberta Marlow pareceria bastante óbvio. (e Livre - Estimado Livre)
Wings for the Eagle
Special Effects
Aircraft workers during during World War II become involved in a love triangle.
Always in My Heart
Special Effects
A man is pardoned from prison and returns to Santa Rita, CA to be with his family, but discovers his children have been told he's dead and his wife is in love with another man.
Bullet Scars
Special Effects
Dr. Steven Bishop is taken to the hideout of Frank Dillon and his gang to treat the wounded Joe Madison. Joe's nurse sister Nora Madison is also taken. Dillon tells Bishop that if Joe dies, he will be killed, but Bishop knows he will be either way. Joe dies, but Nora and Steve conceal it from Dillon and send a plea for help in a prescription that Bishop writes in Latin.
Corsários das Nuvens
Special Effects
Inspired by Churchill's Dunkirk speech, brash, undisciplined Canadian bush pilot Brian MacLean and three friends enlist in the RCAF.
Demônios do Céu
Special Effects
A military surgeon teams with a ranking navy flyer to develop a high-altitude suit which will protect pilots from blacking out when they go into a steep dive.
Aquela Mulher!
Special Effects
Hank McHenry and Johnny Marshall work as power company linesmen. Hank is injured in an accident and subsequently promoted to foreman of the gang. Tensions start to show in the road crew as rivalry between Hank and Johnny increases.
A Tragédia do Circo
Special Effects
An escaped circus lion provides the impetus for the meeting of carnival owner Nick Coster and Matt Varney, a small-town man who suddenly becomes a lion tamer when he manages to subdue the big cat. While acclimating to carnival life, Matt begins a romance with Nick's sister, Mary, causing tension between Matt and Nick. The latter must also juggle his stormy relationship with glamorous circus star Flo Lorraine.
A Grande Mentira
Special Effects
After a newlywed's husband apparently dies in a plane crash, she discovers that her rival for his affections is pregnant with his child.
O Lobo do Mar
Special Effects
Shipwrecked fugitives try to escape a brutal sea captain who's losing his mind.
Knute Rockne All American
Special Effects
The story of legendary Notre Dame football player and coach Knute Rockne.
City for Conquest
Special Effects
The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and struggle through their impoverished lives in New York City. When Peggy, hoping for something better in life for both of them, breaks off her engagement to Danny, he sets out to be a championship boxer, while she becomes a dancer paired with a sleazy partner. Will tragedy reunite the former lovers?
Flowing Gold
Special Effects
In the American oilfields, a fugitive from justice's destiny is intertwined with the fortunes and the misfortunes of a small oil company that hires him as a roughneck.
O Gavião do Mar
Special Effects
Enquanto a Espanha prepara um exército para invadir a Inglaterra, o pirata britânico Geoffrey Thorpe embarca em uma missão para saquear barcos espanhóis. Quando ele captura o barco que transportava o embaixador Don Jose Alvarez de Cordoba, o vistoso capitão apaixona-se por sua sobrinha, a bela Dona Maria, que se instala confortavelmente na Inglaterra. Dedicado a proteger os interesses ingleses, Thorpe vai para o mar em uma perigosa expedição que pode determinar o destino do país.
Dentro da Noite
Special Effects
Joe Fabrini (George Raft) e Paul Fabrini (Humphrey Bogart) são dois irmãos motoristas de caminhão que levam uma acidentada e explorada vida como caminhoneiros. Joe sonha com o dia em que terão seu próprio negócio. Eles acabam sendo demitidos do serviço de um patrão corrupto. Um acidente com Paul mudará os sonhos dessa dupla, e para tentar manter um emprego, Joe se vê envolvido em uma trama de crime com a mal-intencionada Lana Carlsen (Ida Lupino), mulher de seu patrão.
Gambling on the High Seas
Other
A reporter enlists the help of a gangster's secretary to obtain evidence to bring her boss to justice.
Torrid Zone
Special Effects
A Central American plantation manager and his boss battle over a traveling showgirl.
Um Sonho Para Dois
Special Effects
After crooked nightclub owner murders a police informant, he blackmails his piano player to allow him to stay at his eccentric mother's boarding house.
Caravana do Ouro
Special Effects
Bradford, um capitão nortista, encontra-se preso. Seu carcereiro é um capitão sulista, de nome Irby. Depois que Bradford escapa, ambos vão travar nas ruas de Virginia City, no condado de Storey, no estado de Nevada, uma luta por recursos para ambas as partes.
Dias Sem Fim
Special Effects
A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden.
Homens Marcados
Special Effects
A gangster is unable to go straight after returning home from prison.
Meu Reino Por um Amor
Special Effects
This period drama frames the tumultuous affair between Queen Elizabeth I and the man who would be King of England.
Dust Be My Destiny
Special Effects
Embittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, Joe Bell is soon back in jail, on a prison farm. His love for the foreman's daughter leads to a fight between them, leading to the older man's death due to a weak heart. Joe and Mabel go on the run as he thinks no-one would believe a nobody like him.
Uma Cidade Que Surge (Dodge City)
Special Effects
In this epic Western, Wade Hatton, a wagon master turned sheriff, tames a cow town at the end of a railroad line.
Submarine D-1
Special Effects
Butch Rogers and Sock McGillis are old submarine hands stationed in Panama. On land, Butch and Sock battle over pretty Ann Sawyer. At sea and underwater, however, our two heroes are inseparable.
Green Light
Director of Photography
A brilliant young surgeon takes the blame for a colleague when a botched surgery causes a patient's death and buries himself at a wilderness research facility.
Stage Struck
Director of Photography
A Broadway show is forced to bow to the whims of a talentless, whacky, but rich, Broadway actress with a contract.
Colleen
Director of Photography
Musical about dingaling millionaire businessman Cedric Ames and his various employees
Personal Maid's Secret
Director of Photography
A longtime maid for New York socialites watches from afar as the daughter she once gave up is raised by others. Director Arthur Greville Collins' 1935 film stars Ruth Donnelly, Anita Louise, Margaret Lindsay, Warren Hull, Frank Albertson, Arthur Treacher, Ronnie Crosby, Henry O'Neill, Lillian Kemble Cooper and Gordon Elliott.
Inferno Negro
Director of Photography
A simple Pennsylvania coal miner is drawn into the violent conflict between union workers and management.
As the Earth Turns
Cinematography
Love happens between the son of Polish immigrants settled in Maine and the daughter of a neighboring farm family.
The Guilty Generation
Director of Photography
The children of feuding gangsters fall in love and fight to escape their parents' notoriety.
Rookery Nook
Production Supervisor
A husband tries to hide a runaway girl from his wife and mother-on-law.
Glad Rag Doll
Director of Photography
She sought to conquer...but found Cupid her master! This is one of many lost films of the 1920s, no prints or Vitaphone discs survive, but the song with the same title and the trailer survives.
Black Waters
Supervising Producer
A mad captain poses as a cleric to murder people aboard a fogbound ship.
The Redeeming Sin
Cinematography
The Redeeming Sin (1929) is a crime drama part-talking silent film with Vitaphone music and sound effects. It was produced and distributed by Warner Bros. and stars Dolores Costello. This film is currently a lost film.
The Singing Fool
Director of Photography
After years of hopeful struggle, Al Stone (Jolson) is on his way. "I'm Sittin' on Top of the World", he sings to an appreciative speakeasy crowd. But, as Al discovers, getting there is one thing. Staying there is another. Singing waiter Stone gets his huge break on a magical night when his song wows a big-time producer and a gold-digging showgirl he fancies. Broadway success and marriage follow, but sure enough, hard times are on the way. Al's fickle wife abandons him, taking the beloved son he calls Sonny Boy with her. Heartbroken, Al becomes a devastated loner until friends from the speakeasy that launched his career rescue him from a life on the streets. Soon, Al is back in lights. But another crisis awaits: Sonny Boy is in the hospital and dying....
Caught in the Fog
Cinematography
Wealthy Bob visits his mother's Florida houseboat in order to remove her jewelry and stumbles upon a bobbed-hair bandit and her male accomplice, who mistake him for another burglar. A fight is broken up by the arrival of an elderly couple (still more burglars) who are posing as guests. Bob keeps his identity secret and passes himself off as the butler; the girl and her partner pretend to be the maid and the cook. A couple of idiotic detectives, arrive on the scene, closely followed by a heavy fog that traps them all on board.
When a Man Loves
Director of Photography
A nobleman studying for the priesthood abandons his vocation in 18th Century France when he falls in love with a beautiful, but reluctant, courtesan.
Irish Hearts
Director
Sheila, a feisty Irish girl, loves Emmett, a somewhat shady Irish boy. When Emmett goes to America, Sheila and her father follow and join him. However, when he loses his job, Sheila is forced to get a job in a cheap restaurant. There she meets Rory, a poor American boy who works in a shipyard. Rory falls in love with her but she still loves Emmett. Then she finds out that Emmett has been taking up with a brassy "flapper" named Clarice.
Across the Pacific
Director of Photography
Following the Spanish-American War, a soldier is given the assignment of finding the leader of a band of rebels in the Philippines. In order to do this, he must romance Roma, a cabaret spy working for the rebels. This does not please the daughter of his commanding officer, whom he is romancing.
Don Juan
Director of Photography
Don Juan é um charmoso jovem que aprendeu com o pai todos os segredos da arte da sedução. Em meio a diversas aventuras amorosas e duelos de espada com maridos enfurecidos, Don Juan conhece a bela Adriana Della Varnese, a única jovem da região que parece não ceder aos seus encantos. Decidido a conquistar a garota, o galã terá de enfrentar uma poderosa tirana local.
The Sea Beast
Director of Photography
Based on Herman Melville's novel "Moby Dick."
The Golden Cocoon
Director of Photography
The story of a much put-upon woman who becomes involved with a professor of political economy only to be thrown over by him for the daughter of a wealthy businessman.
Where the Worst Begins
Cinematography
1925 picture starring Ruth Roland.
Broken Chains
Director of Photography