Robert Cornthwaite

Robert Cornthwaite

Nascimento : 1917-04-28, St. Helens, Oregon, USA

Morte : 2006-07-20

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Robert Cornthwaite

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The Sky Is Falling: Making 'The War of the Worlds'
Self
Documentário dos bastidores sobre a realização do clássico da ficção científica de 1953 "A Guerra dos Mundos". Incluem-se entrevistas com alguns membros do elenco e da equipe, além de filmagens inéditas do próprio filme.
The Naked Monster
Dr. Carrington
Using soundtracks and extensive footage from many old movies, this spoof/homage of 1950's science-fiction films brings back many favorite actors from these classic movies, some reprising their former roles, to help destroy a giant stop-motion monster that is threatening to destroy Los Angeles.
Matinee: Uma Sessão Muito Louca
Dr. Flankon
Em Key West, uma pequena cidade do estado da Flórida, em plena Crise dos Mísseis de 1962, quando a população americana entrou em pânico com a possibilidade de um bombardeio nuclear vindo de Cuba, o produtor Lawrence Woosley tenta tirar proveito da situação, convencendo um grande exibidor de filmes a lançar em grande circuito sua mais recente criação sobre um homem que sofreu uma incrível mutação genética se transformando em uma gigantesca formiga.
Frame Up
Earl Cott
In the small American town of Orton Creek, David Farmer is accidentally killed by Don Curran, son of town tyrant Will Curran, during a fraternity initiation. The frat boys frame electronic parts salesman Frank Govers for hit-and-run but determined newcomer Sheriff Ralph Baker and his love interest Jo Westlake seek the truth. Govers and girlfriend Lee Ann Hadley hide in a hunting cabin and are captured by prison escapees Mick August and Merlin Wells (who is tricked by Govers into electrocuting himself). August tries to claim the bounty on Govers from Will Curran but Sheriff Baker is only one step behind.
Time Trackers
Dr. Alistair Craig
When an evil scientist steals his colleague's time machine his colleague's beautiful, brilliant daughter, aided by an L.A. cop and a hapless admirer, pursues him back to twelfth century England where - disguised as a damsel in distress - she enlists the help of a knight errant whose secret past holds the key to her future.
Doctor Detroit
Professor Blount
A shy but gentle man named Clifford Skridlow is a professor of comparative literature at the financially-strapped fictional Monroe College in Chicago. A chance encounter with four beautiful women at a restaurant changes his life forever.
The Day the Bubble Burst
A fictionalized account of how the 1929 stock market crash hurt the elite and the struggling, and the forces that may have caused the crash to occur.
Beggarman, Thief
In this sequel to "Rich Man, Poor Man," moviemaker Gretchen Jordache, the until-now unseen sister, strives to pull the family together after the murder of brother Tom and the disappearance of brother Rudy by first reestablishing contact with her soldier son, and then patching things up with her sister-in-law, Kate, Tom's widow.
Love's Savage Fury
Dr. Tighe
During the Civil War, a self-centered, young Southern belle tries to hold onto the family estate when the Union Army takes over the area.
Mundo Futuro: Ano 2003, Operação Terra
Mr. Reed
Após o fracasso do parque de diversões Delos, que abalou a credibilidade da corporação responsável e causou prejuízos enormes, um bilhão e quinhentos milhões de dólares foram investidos para refazer todo o centro. Chuck Browning, um repórter pouco lido, e Tracy Ballard, uma entrevistadora de enorme popularidade, são convidados a fazerem uma reportagem para que atestem que tudo agora é seguro. Porém logo os dois jornalistas desconfiam que há algo muito estranho e descobrem que há um plano para substituir os principais líderes do mundo por andróides perfeitos. Inclusive existem cópias deles mesmos, com os robôs sendo programados para jamais criticarem o parque Delos e acatarem todas as ordens que de lá venham.
Crackle of Death
The first of two Kolchak: The Night Stalker compilation TV films. It combines two episodes of the Kolchak TV series, Firefall (about the ghost of an arsonist that tries to take over a renowned conductor's body as his doppelgänger) and The Energy Eater (about a Native American bear-spirit haunting a newly built hospital) and adds new narration by Darren McGavin.
The Six Million Dollar Man
Dr. Ashburn
Colonel Steve Austin, astronaut and test pilot, is badly injured when he crashes while testing an experimental aircraft. A covert government agency (OSI) is willing to pay for special prosthetics to replace the eye, arm and both legs he lost in the crash. Highly advanced technology (bionics) built into them will make him faster, stronger and more resilient than normal. In return they want him to become a covert agent for the OSI. It will cost $6,000,000 to rebuild Steve Austin.
The Devil's Daughter
Pastor Dixon
A young girl whose mother had sold her soul to Satan when she was born is told by Satan that she must marry a fellow demon.
The Longest Night
Frank Cavanaugh
The daughter of a wealthy family is kidnapped and imprisoned underground in a custom-built, ventilated coffin while her family and the police search for her. But the battery that powers the ventilation is running out of juice and the ransom drop has been botched. This movie was originally shown as an ABC Movie of the Week on September 12, 1972. The story is based on the 1968 kidnapping of Barbara Mackle by Gary Krist.
Journey Through Rosebud
Hearing Officer
Na Dakota do Sul, um grupo de jovens índios, vivendo na reserva Sioux, começam um protesto contra o governo americano e anos de mentiras e decepções chegam a um final violento.
Killer by Night
Dr. Bradville
A doctor trying to fight a diphtheria epidemic comes into conflict with a police captain who is using all his resources to track down a cop-killer.
Two on a Bench
Mr. Hayes
An outgoing young girl and a square stockbroker meet on a park bench in Boston and are mistaken for international spies and chased by both sides.
Arruaceiros
Ben
Os irmãos Kristy e Jeffrey estão comprando suprimentos em um posto de gasolina remoto no deserto quando alguns membros de uma gangue de motoqueiros chegam. Os motoqueiros reconhecem Kristy, que costumava ser a principal vítima do líder da gangue antes de ela fugir. A dupla foge, mas os motoqueiros descobrem que estão morando em uma comuna próxima e começam a fazer seus planos de batalha para trazer Kristy de volta.
Environment
Inspired in part by the Irwin Allen film The Story of Mankind (1957), Environment is a featurette that is a cross between a Pirandello play, a science fiction film by Edward D. Wood Jr., and a mundane scientific documentary. The premise is that five individuals from one community, Eagle Valley, are abducted by aliens who then put them on trail for environmental crimes as typical representatives of the human race. Environment was primarily shown in high schools to stimulate discussion on the balance of nature, pollution, and human consumption.
Colossus 1980
First Scientist
Forbin é o projetista de um computador incrivelmente sofisticado que executará todas as defesas nucleares dos EUA. Pouco depois de ser ligado, ele detecta a existência de Guardian, a contraparte soviética, anteriormente desconhecido pelos estrategistas dos EUA. Ambos os computadores insistem em que eles estejam ligados, e depois de implantarem salvaguardas para preservar material confidencial, cada lado concorda em permitir que sejam ligados. Assim que o link for estabelecido, os dois se tornam um novo Super Computador e ameaçam o mundo com o lançamento imediato de armas nucleares se forem desligados. Colossus começa a criar seus planos para a gestão do mundo sob sua orientação. Forbin e os outros cientistas formam uma resistência tecnológica ao Colossus, e devem operar escondidos. Na era de Colossus a paz é obrigatória, a liberdade é proibida, e a maior invenção do homem pode ser o maior erro do homem.
Ouro É o Que Ouro Vale
George - Hotel Clerk
After a professional gambler kills a Confederate soldier, he finds a map pinpointing the location in the desert where stolen army gold bullion is buried. He plans to retrieve it, but others are searching for it too.
The Ride to Hangman's Tree
Harper
Three young outlaws try to stay together and keep one step ahead of the law.
The Ghost & Mr. Chicken
Springer
Luther Heggs, a typesetter for the town newspaper, pitches an idea for a story about a local haunted house where a famous murder/suicide occurred 20 years earlier. After the editor assigns Luther to spend one night alone in the mansion, Heggs has a number of supernatural encounters and writes a front page story that makes him a hometown hero...until the nephew of the deceased sues him for libel.
O Que Terá Acontecido a Baby Jane?
Dr. Shelby
A história do diretor Robert Aldrich é um thriller sobre uma veterana atriz de teatro que conheceu a fama na infância e agora inicia um reinado psicótico de terror sobre sua irmã, ex-rainha do cinema nos anos 30 e hoje presa a uma cadeira de rodas.
Quadrilha Maldita
Tommy Preston, Wyoming Hotel Owner
Fugindo com o saque de um assalto milionário, o implacável Jack Bruhn e seu bando de renegados dominam um remoto povoado do Oeste que está ilhado pela nevasca. Entre os moradores tomados como reféns está o rancheiro Blaise Starrett, que resolve usar de astúcia para enfrentar o bando de assassinos e salvar a cidade - e a mulher que ama.
A Dez Segundos do Inferno
Franz Loeffler
Two rivals from a German bomb squad are left to deactivate duds in postwar Berlin.
The Power of the Resurrection
Caiaphas
A young man, Facing torture and possibly death for his Christian beliefs, confesses his fears to Peter, who awaits a similar fate. Peter tells him of fear he felt in following Jesus' arrest in the Garden of Gethesamene, when he denied knowing him three times - and yet Jesus told him that he would be the rock upon which the Church was built. Peter goes on to relate the events of the passion week, including the Christ's crucifixion, resurrection and ascension.
The Saga of Andy Burnett
Senator Tom Benton
Hell on Devil's Island
Gov. Renault
An ex-con from Devil's Island enlists the support of the governor's daughter in exposing a prison mining operation.
The Leather Saint
Dr. Lomas
Episcopalian minister Gil Allen keeps up his college days interest in boxing by working out at a gym run by his friend, Tom Kelley but declines offers to fight in an actual staged bout, until he realizes he could use the prize money to purchase equipment for local polio victims. Keeping his real identity secret and hoping to step away after one big payday, Gil signs a contract to fight for greedy promoter Gus MacAuliffe.
No Reinado da Guilhotina
Napoleon Bonaparte
France, 1803: 11 years after the Revolution, a royalist underground is led by a new 'Scarlet Pimpernel', the Purple Mask, who rescues nobles in distress and kidnaps Napoleon's officials for ransom, aided by the spy services of a group of lovely models headed by Laurette (really the Duc de Latour's daughter). But even she doesn't know the Purple Mask's real identity as foppish dancing master Rene...
Stranger on Horseback
Arnold Hammer
A circuit judge in the old west attempts to bring a suspected killer to justice. The judge runs afoul of the killer's rich cattle baron father in the process.
Guerra dos Mundos
Dr. Pryor (as Bob Cornthwaite)
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.
O Inventor da Mocidade
Dr. Zoldeck
Um químico descobre que sua vida pessoal e profissional virou de cabeça para baixo quando um de seus chimpanzés encontra a fonte da juventude. Barnaby Fulton, um químico, está trabalhando em uma fórmula da fonte da juventude para uma empresa química, testando-a em chimpanzés. Ao testar uma dose de amostra em si mesmo, ele recebe acidentalmente uma dose de uma mistura que foi adicionada ao bebedouro de água e acredita que sua poção é o que está funcionando. A mistura faz com que temporariamente ele passe a se sentir e agir como um adolescente, inclusive corrigindo sua visão. Quando sua esposa toma uma dose que é ainda maior, ela regride ainda mais em sua infância. Quando um antigo namorado a encontra neste estado, acredita que ela nunca mais queira vê-lo, significa um divórcio, e uma chance para ele.
Na Voragem do Vício
Young Man (uncredited)
Aging advertising executive Alan Miller is a recovered alcoholic who now does interventions on behalf of Alcoholics Anonymous, is called by the elevator operator of a residential hotel to come and intervene in the case of one of the guests, struggling Broadway actress Jenny Carey. The two find they have even more in common than their taste for drink. But Jenny wants to put an end to their romance because Alan is a married man, who moreover is the father of two children. How will Jenny and Alan resolve their feelings without destroying Alan's marriage?
O Monstro do Ártico
Dr. Arthur Carrington
Cientistas de uma estação de pesquisa do Ártico descobrem uma nave espacial enterrada no gelo. Após um exame mais detalhado, eles descobrem o piloto congelado. Todo o inferno surge quando o levam de volta à sua estação e ele é acidentalmente descongelado!
Gambling House
Stefan (uncredited)
A gambler faces deportation when he gets mixed up with murder.
Union Station
Emergency Room Orderly (uncredited)
Police catch a break when suspected kidnappers are spotted on a train heading towards Union Station. Police, train station security and a witness try to piece together the crime and get back the blind daughter of a rich business man.