Leif Erickson
Nascimento : 1911-10-27, Alameda, California, USA
Morte : 1986-01-29
História
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Leif Erickson (born William Wycliffe Anderson) was an American stage, film, and television actor.
Erickson was born in Alameda, California, near San Francisco. He worked as a soloist in a band as vocalist and trombone player, performed in Max Reinhardt's productions, and then gained a small amount of stage experience in a comedy vaudeville act. Initially billed by Paramount Pictures as Glenn Erickson, he began his screen career as a leading man in Westerns.
Erickson enlisted in the United States Navy during World War II. Rising to the rank of Chief Petty Officer in the Naval Aviation Photographic Unit, he served as a military photographer, shooting film in combat zones, and as an instructor. He was shot down twice in the Pacific as well as receiving two Purple Hearts. Erickson was in the unit that filmed and photographed the Japanese surrender aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay on September 2, 1945. Over four years service, he shot more than 200,000 feet of film for the Navy.
Erickson's first films were two 1933 band films with Betty Grable before starting a string of Buster Crabbe Western films based on Zane Grey novels. He would go on to appears in films such as The Snake Pit, Sorry, Wrong Number, Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd, Invaders from Mars, On the Waterfront, A Gathering of Eagles, Roustabout, The Carpetbaggers and Mirage.
One of his more notable roles was as Deborah Kerr's macho husband in the stage and film versions of Tea and Sympathy. He appeared with Greta Garbo, as her brother in Conquest (1937). He played the role of Pete, the vindictive boat engineer, in the 1951 remake of the famed musical Show Boat. His final appearance in a feature film was in Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977).
Erickson appeared frequently on television; he was cast as Dr. Hillyer in "Consider Her Ways" (1964) and as Paul White in "The Monkey's Paw—A Retelling" (1965) on CBS's The Alfred Hitchcock Hour. However, he is probably best known for The High Chaparral, which aired on NBC from 1967 until 1971. He portrayed a rancher, Big John Cannon, determined to establish a cattle empire in the Arizona Territory while keeping peace with the Apache. Erickson guest-starred in several television series, including Rawhide, Bonanza, Gunsmoke, Marcus Welby, M.D., Medical Center, Cannon, The Rifleman, The Rockford Files, and the 1977 series Hunter. His final role was in an episode of Fantasy Island in 1984.
Erickson was married to actress Frances Farmer from 1936 until 1942. The same day that his divorce from Farmer was finalized, June 12, 1942, he married actress Margaret Hayes. They divorced a month later. He married Ann Diamond in 1945. They had two children, William Leif Erickson (born 1946 - died 1971 in a car accident) and Susan Irene Erickson (born 1950).
Erickson died of cancer in Pensacola, Florida, on January 29, 1986, aged 74 CLR
Ralph Whittaker - CIA Director
Um general renegado da USAF, Lawrence Dell, escapa de uma prisão militar e assume um silo de míssil ICBM perto de Montana e ameaça provocar a 3ª Guerra Mundial, a menos que o presidente revele detalhes de uma reunião secreta realizada logo após o início da Guerra do Vietnã entre Dell e os então conselheiros mais confiáveis do presidente.
3 versões de montagem:
146 min - Original
123 min - Suécia
91 min - França
Guthrie
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Prescott
The daughter of wealthy businessman is taken hostage by a gang of radical black revolutionaries. While she fears for her life at first, she gradually starts to become sympathetic to her kidnappers' cause, and begins to consider herself to be one of them.
Cal Newkirk
William Henry Cameron
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Mike Lamont
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Amos Wetherall
Due to a home-steading law, a fur trapper schemes to keep his land by hiring a hooker, a pickpocket and a thief to pose as his family.
Dr. Harold Malcolm
A scientist keeps having dreams that he is marked for murder by a mysterious tribunal for something that he's not aware that he's done, and that his wife and his friends are part of the conspiracy. Soon he's not sure which is the dream and which is reality.
Marty Treleavan
On a transcontinental flight, the flight crew suffer from food poisoning and become incapacitated. Now it's up to one of the passengers to safely land the plane.
Sheriff Mossman
At the beginning of the 19th century a man and his son settle in Arizona which used to be a frontier state and full of criminals at that time.
The Major
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Dave Mannering
Teenage friends Kit and Libby make prank phone calls for fun but then find themselves involved in a brutal double murder committed by one of their targets.
Joe Lean
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Jonas Cord Senior
When playboy Jonas inherits his father's industrial empire, he expands it by acquiring an aircraft factory and movie studio. His rise to power is ruthless. He marries and then quickly abandons sweet, bubbly Monica, turns his young, attractive stepmother Rina into a self-destructive actress and manages to disappoint even his closest friend, cowboy movie star Nevada. Is Jonas beyond redemption?
Bill Cutler
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Gen. Hewitt
Coronel da Força Aérea Americana é designado como comandante de um B-52 depois que o responsável anterior foi afastado por falhar na inspeção da aeronave. O Coronel só terá um grande problema: a esposa, que não contava que o marido fosse destacado para nova missão.
Sam Barbee
A man has his eyes set on controlling the Big Sag territory in Montana and hopes to achieve his goal by forcing a newly-arrived family from Texas from their land. Hoping to convince the local saloonkeeper to help him, the man sends his daughter into town with instructions for his potential partner. A storm waylays the daughter during her trip to town and she is forced to stay at the home of her father's intended victims, leading to an interesting turn or two.
Granville 'Granny' Dix
Dois incompetentes foras da lei tentam um último golpe antes de se regenerarem.
Harry Hutton
An alcoholic captain sails a two-master through danger with a call girl and others on board.
Eddie Turnbill
Three navy war heroes are booked on a morale-building "vacation" in San Francisco. Once they manage to elude their ulcerated public relations officer, the trio throw a wild party with plenty of pretty girls.
Louis Morel
A young Italian fugitive and his older protective brother hide among the grape pickers at a vineyard in Provence.
Charlie Boyle
As inovações da tecnologia e da cor, juntamente com o grande astro Errol Flynn, fazem desta refilmagem do clássico Singapore (1947) uma nova e mais estonteante aventura. Jim Brennan (Flynn) acaba acidentalmente se tornando o portador de uma enorme herança em diamantes, e passa a ser procurado por diversos trapaceiros. Sua noiva Stephanie (Cornnel Borchers), suspeita de estar escondendo as pedras, acaba sendo atacada e queimada até a morte. Cinco anos depois, ainda cheio de dor e arrependimento, Jim retorna a Istambul para recuperar os diamantes que havia escondido, e acaba por encontrar Stephanie viva e casada com outro homem (Torin Tatcher). Mas seu grande amor está sofrendo de amnésia e o rosto de Jim parece ter desaparecido completamente de sua memória... Nat King Cole, uma das maiores vozes que o mundo já conheceu faz uma aparição muito especial cantando o inesquecível sucesso When I Fall In Love.
Bill Reynolds
Tom Lee is more interested in the arts than in sports, something that sits uneasily with both his father and his classmates. Tom's school housemaster Bill Reynolds even gives him a hard time for his "effeminate" interests. However, Bill's wife Laura sympathizes with Tom and tries to help him with her own overtures.
Lou Glover
Aposentado como o atirador mais rápido do oeste, George Temple agora busca um pouco de paz ao lado de sua esposa Dora. No entanto, um dia ele bebe além da conta e acaba exibindo suas surpreendentes habilidades no gatilho. Preocupado com a possibilidade de ser desafiado para um duelo, George resolve sair da cidade com Dora. Os cidadãos locais prometem manter segredo, mas um garoto o entrega a uma gangue de criminosos e monta o cerco para, talvez, seu mais importante confronto.
George Ballard
The sheriff of Gunlock is planning to hang Sam Hall, who shot three farmers found on cattle land, at sundown. At the casino, betting is 8 to 3 he won't make it. The cattlemen are set to rescue Sam; the farmers hope to lynch him before he can be rescued; and Hall schemes for escape with his girl Nellie. But Sheriff Jorden is most concerned with finding out who hired Hall: a leading suspect is the sheriff's future brother-in-law.
Glover
Terry Malloy sonha com as glórias do boxe, mas foi convencido pelo corrupto mafioso Johnny Friendly, para quem trabalha, a perder uma luta. Quando Terry presencia um assassinato cometido pelos capangas do chefe, ele se sente responsável pelo crime.
Edgar Blevins
A new dress plays a key role in the lives of four women who are not acquainted with each other.
Sam (as Lief Erickson)
A group of communist spies plan to blow up an essential commercial artery, the Panama Canal. To this end, they have kidnapped a nuclear scientist and are traveling by steamship to the coast of South America. Luckily for western civilization, the hard-nosed ship's captain, played by Barton MacLane, has other ideas.
Kalmani
In northwest Africa, a tribal leader tries to stir up a rebellion against the ruling powers.
Mr. George MacLean
Numa noite de tempestade, não podendo dormir por causa dos trovões e relâmpagos, o menino David MacLean, vê um disco voador aterrar atrás de uma colina próxima à sua casa. Seu pai, cientista, vai investigar. Ao regressar, comporta-se de maneira diferente, fria e hostil. O menino percebe uma marca incomum na nuca do pai e gradativamente se vai apercebendo que pessoas desaparecem atrás da colina, apresentam o mesmo comportamento estranho e a marca que seu pai. Isso o leva a concluir que há uma invasão alienígena acontecendo.
A polícia o prende e chama a Dra. Pat Blake , do Departamento de Saúde, para cuidar dele. Ela o ouve e, ao presenciar o encontro do menino com seus pais, compreende que ele pode estar falando a verdade. Ela consegue contato com o astrônomo Dr. Stuart Kelston (Arthur Franz)que acredita na história e contata o exército.
Richards
A ship of women embarks on a voyage to California. Director R. G. Springsteen's 1953 adventure drama stars Vera Ralston, David Brian, Virginia Grey, Charles Winninger, Veda Ann Borg and Hope Emerson.
Father Provincial aka Ed
Struggling to retain custody of his daughter following his divorce, football coach Steve Williams finds himself embroiled in a recruiting scandal at the tiny Catholic college he is trying to bring back to football respectability.
Bob Marshall
A naïve, recently-orphaned young man discovers he's being used as a pawn in a crooked gambler's plan to rig a July 4 horserace. Western.
Sgt. Norbert 'Noisy' Jackson
A divorced socialite decides to join the Army because she hopes it will enable her to see more of her boyfriend, a Colonel. She soon encounters many difficulties with the Army lifestyle. Moreover, her ex-husband is working as a consultant with the Army, and he uses his position to disrupt her romantic plans by making her join a group of WACs who are testing new equipment.
Morgan
Two hapless waiters in a tavern on the Spanish Main play cupid between aristocratic Lady Jane and tavern co-worker Bruce Martindale, but the two bumpkins mix-up a love letter with Captain Kidd's treasure map of Skull Island, leading to them being kidnapped and taken off to the notorious pirate's island.
Nicholas Reed
When a man confesses to his wife that he has been unfaithful, she imagines all the different ways that historical figures such as Cleopatra and Joan of Arc might handle the situation.
Feder
David Marshall Williams is sent to a prison farm where he works in the tool shop and eventually develops the precursor of the famous M-1 Carbine automatic rifle used in World War II.
General aboard plane
Depois de conseguir um emprego cantando no rádio, Jane Froman se casa com o acompanhante musical Don Ross. Sob a administração de Don, Jane sobe ao estrelato e é convidada a se apresentar para as tropas durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial. No caminho, seu avião cai, deixando Jane com ferimentos graves nas pernas. Em recuperação, Jane começa um romance com John Burn, um piloto militar ferido. Ela pretende voltar a cantar, mas com dois homens em seu coração, a vida é cada vez mais complicada. (e 10 - Estimado 10 Anos)
Commander Lane
Melvin (Jerry Lewis) entra para a Marinha por ordens médicas. Lá conhece Al (Dean Martin) e os dois se tornam amigos. Juntos se envolvem em muitas confusões e estão sempre a procura de belas mulheres. Comédia musical de grande sucesso de bilheteria da famosa dupla Jerry Lewis e Dean Martin. Com um detalhe: A participação do jovem James Dean não foi creditada.
Marshal John Sutton
Bill Doolin injustamente acusado por funcionários da estrada de ferro de ajudar um assalto de trem por seus antigos amigos, os Daltons, ele se junta a sua gangue e torna-se um participante ativo em outros roubos.
B. Frederick Linaker
A little girl enlists the aid of an attorney to obtain a divorce from her parents. Breezy B comedy was loosely remade as Irreconcilable Differences.
Stranger
Detetive embarca em trem que leva centenas de pessoas para o primeiro discurso de Abraham Lincoln como presidente dos Estados Unidos por suspeitar de conspiração para assassiná-lo. Durante a viagem, evidências parecem confirmar a suspeita.
Pete
Magnolia Hawks vive no Cotton Blossom, barco de shows de seu pai, o Capitão Andy. Ela conhece o jogador Gaylord Ravenal na cidade à beira do rio, e se apaixona por ele. Na mesma tarde, durante o ensaio para o show daquele dia, a estrela Julie e seu marido e co-estrela Steve são forçados a deixar a companhia. Gaylord é contratado para ocupar o lugar de Steve, enquanto Magnolia ocupa o lugar de Julie. Eles se apaixonam e casam. Deixando o barco de shows, 'Nola, Gay e sua pequena filha, Kim, se mudam para Chicago, onde sua fortuna cresce ou mingua dependendo da sorte de Gay. Enfim, ele abandona sua esposa e filha, e ela é forçada a retornar aos palcos, onde ela se torna uma estrela.
Bit Part (uncredited)
A young man, morally destroyed by his parents not loving him and by the fear of being not capable to make his girlfriend happy, rises on the ledge of a building with the intention of committing suicide. A policeman makes every effort to argue him out of it.
Pilate
The story of the Crucifixion, set within the context of the Korean War.
U.S. Marshal Martin Weatherby
After the Civil War, Confederate soldier Blayde Hollister travels to Dallas to avenge the savage murder of his family. Discovering his enemy is now an esteemed citizen, Hollister plots to expose the outlaw and his syndicate.
Bill Chase
A five-year-old boy is the sole survivor of a devastating plane crash in the mountains of California. When the newspapers reveal the boy was adopted and that the crash occurred on his birthday, three women begin to ponder if it's the son each gave up for adoption. As the three await news of his rescue at a mountain cabin, they recall incidents from five years earlier and why they were forced to give up their son.
Big Mart
Shadrach Jones, ex-Texas State Policeman, has the ruthless determination to find and kill the man who shot his brother in the back and stole the money with which he was to buy a ranch for the two of them. At the saloon-hotel run by Adelaide, Shadrach is convinced that one of the cowhands on the Captain McKellar cattle drive to Montana is his man. He takes the job of trail-herd boss to find the killer. McKellar preaches to Jones that he should forget revenge and let the law of retribution take care of the killer. Shadrach's hard driving of the men and his hunt for the killer makes him bitterly hated, and his retribution quest ends in a manner he did not anticipated.
Fred Anderson Jr.
Screwball black comedy about a wacky family that forgets where they've buried a corpse.
Dr. Bruce Gordon
Jane Morgan (Dorothy McGuire) marries handsome doctor William Wright (William Lundigan), despite warnings from a host of other doctor's wives that she will be neglected and lonely, thanks to his career. Based on the novel The Doctor Has Three Faces by Mary Bard and billed as a movie with "all the answers" for new wives, this dated little film follows Jane's struggles to adapt her life to better suit her husband's needs.
Tony
When Joan Boothe accompanies husband-reporter David to Las Vegas, she begins gambling to pass the time while he is doing a story. Encouraged by the casino manager, she gets hooked on gambling, to the point where she "borrows" David's expense money to pursue her addiction. This finally breaks up their marriage, but David continues trying to help her.
Pringle
A federal agent infiltrates a crime syndicate.
Dunois, Bastard of Orleans
No século XV, a França é uma nação derrotada e arruinada após a Guerra dos Cem Anos contra a Inglaterra. A menina de fazenda de 14 anos de idade Joana D'Arc afirma ouvir vozes do Céu pedindo-lhe para levar Exército de Deus contra Orleans e coroando o fraco Delfim Charles VII como Rei da França. Joana arregimenta as pessoas com a sua fé, forma um exército e conquista Orleans. Quando seu exército está pronto para atacar Paris, o corrupto Charles vende seu país para a Inglaterra e dissolve o exército. Joana é presa, vendida ao Burgundians Ingleses e submetida a um julgamento político vergonhoso no castelo de Rouen.
Dr. Mason
After the accidental death of an idiot heir, a stunt man is hired to impersonate him while the family gathers to determine the dispersment of the estate of Miss Tatlock's millions.
Gordon
Uma crônica detalhada da estadia de uma mulher em uma instituição mental. Virginia Cunningham se encontra em um asilo de loucos... E não consegue se lembrar de como chegou lá. Em flashback, seu marido Robert relata seu namoro, casamento e seus sintomas em desenvolvimento. O pessoal do asilo não é demonizado, mas o medo, a ignorância e os preconceitos mantêm a Virgínia em um estado de miséria, enquanto o Dr. Mark Kik luta para encontrar a raiz de seu problema. Mas uma recaída leva Virgínia de volta para a angustiante 'Cova da Serpente' ...
Fred Lord
Leona Stevenson is confined to bed and uses her telephone to keep in contact with the outside world. One day she overhears a murder plot on the telephone and is desperate to find out who is the intended victim.
Dr. Harold Matson
Psychiatrists move in with bickering stage spouses and start bickering too.
Beaumont
Based on the novel Low Company. One of the most peculiar film noirs of the 1940s stars Barry Sullivan as a small-time hood who suffers a mental breakdown as his big plans begin to crumble. Beautiful Belita is the slumming society girlfriend who only fuels his paranoia.
Steve Blake
An expedition into the deep jungle discovers a native tribe led by a tall white blonde woman.
Kamar (as Leif Erikson)
Neste incrível épico das Arábias, os personagens das histórias que encantaram leitores no mundo todo ganham vida com toda a sua paixão e glória através da história de irmãos que lutam entre si pelo poder político e pelo amor de Sherazade (interpretada pela encantadora e carismática Maria Montez). Contando com um elenco memorável, cenários suntuosos e figurinos exóticos, “As Mil e Uma Noites” é um clássico imperdível que já encantou platéias de todas as idades no mundo todo!
Laurie
Kurt Ingston, a rich recluse, invites the doctors who left him a hopeless cripple to his desolate mansion in the swamps as one by one they meet horrible deaths.
Whaba
A pair of bus drivers accidentally steal their own bus. With the company issuing a warrant for their arrest, they tag along with a playboy on a boat trip that finds them on a tropical island, where a jewel thief has sinister plans for them.
Johnny M. Coe
An American joins the British Royal Air Force just before Pearl Harbor is attacked, and falls in love with a beautiful English girl.
Bill Stone
George and Mary Elizabeth Cugat are about to celebrate their second wedding anniversary and dream of having a child. Although they live comfortably on George's earnings as a bank official, Liz's scatterbrained handling of their finances constantly puts them in jeopardy. Liz becomes jealous when George's former girl friend, Myra Ponsonby, comes for a visit with his party-loving friends Bill Stone, Cory Cartwright and Chuck, an artist, after which George spends the entire evening dancing at a nightclub with Myra.
Jake
Shy sailor Casey Kirby suddenly becomes known as a sea wolf when his picture is taken with a famous actress. Things get complicated when bets are placed on his prowess with the ladies.
Rodney 'Bo-Jo' Brown
A man who lived his life as he was told he should, not as he would have chosen to, is brought out of his shell by a beautiful young woman.
Terry Prescott
Fortune hunter Mary Brooks, posing as a missionary's daughter, strives to beat a couple of pilots, Terry Prescott and "Waffles" Billings, (who have turned pearl divers in order to buy a plane and join the Royal Air Force), out of their pearls, while also beating off the advances of Prince Sali who wants to add her to his harem.
Tommy Van Dusen
Gwen Saunders teams up with her uncle's employee, Steve Bennett, in an attempt to double her $10,000 investment in the family firm. If she can reach the $20,000 mark, her uncle T.T. Ralston will match the figure. Steve bets that if he can spend an entire day without telling a lie, Ralston and his business partners must double Gwen's money. Bennett then earns the enmity of everyone involved in his attempt to win the bet.
Narrator (voice)
A documentary about the conquest of Czechoslovakia by the Nazis just prior to World War 2.
Peter Cortlant
The negligent owner of a tenement slum becomes romantically involved with one of the building's residents.
Johnny Simpkins
The son of a cattle-rustling Cossack immigrant must choose between following the straight path and helping his father escape from prison.
Bob Hayes
The Bellows family causes comic confusion on an ocean liner, with time out for radio-style musical acts.
Howard Nelson
"Howdy" Nelson believes there is no such think as real love and that romance can be cooked up between any eligible persons (of the opposite sex.) He is so imbued with the idea that he has established a summer camp for that reason,and has written a play on the subject. The Yacht Club Boys visit the camp, misrepresenting themselves as Broadway producers, and the talented guest of the camp put on Nelson's play...which all ends up with a lot of marriage mating; Judy and Skipper, Betty Jane and Stanley and...Gwen and "Howdy,' the guy who was positive there was no such thing as true love.
Paul Lachinski
A polish countess dispatched by her country to become Napoleon Bonaparte's mistress at the urging of Polish leaders, who feel she might influence him to make Poland independent.
Dr. Victor Quimby
Tony Marvin is a laid back but incredibly successful promoter and fair-haired boy for J. P. Todhunter's pineapple company located in beautiful Hawaii. He gets the company to sponsor a contest in which the winner gets a Hawaiian vacation and is obligated to write articles on the islands which, when published, will constitute a publicity coup for the company. Unfortunately, Georgia Smith, the winner, feels lonely and isolated in the Islands and wants to return to the States. With help from buddy Shad Buggle Tony tries to romantically divert Georgia without letting her know his true motivation.
Dick Winters
College students rally to save a struggling hotel from closing. Comedy.
Tom Bolton
A sweet little country girl has issues with school. Her mother is ill. The school threatens to send her to an orphanage.
Glenn Kasedon
Chet Kasedon is after the Indians hidden gold mine but Chief Moya will not reveal it's location. He has also hired mining engineers Gale and Mortimer to locate the mine. When Gale sees Kasedon's cruelty to Moya, he switches sides.
Curley Prentice (as Glenn Erikson)
Although Larry "Buster" Crabbe earns top billing, the hero of Drift Fence is former Western star Tom Keene as Jim Travis, who, at a rodeo, meets city dweller Jim Traft (Benny Baker), who has come west to erect a fence that will prevent Clay Jackson (Stanley Andrews) from continuing his cattle rustling business. A tough Western type, Travis suggests that he impersonate Traft and the building of the fence soon begins. But Travis is opposed by Slinger Dunn (Crabbe) and his family, whose small ranch will suffer from the division of the land. A romance between Travis and Slinger's sister, Paula (Katherine DeMille), paves the way for a meeting of the minds, however, and Slinger switches sides completely upon learning that Travis is a Texas Ranger in disguise. An in-house production (as opposed to Harry Sherman's Hopalong Cassidy Westerns), Drift Fence was the closest Paramount came to a B-Western in the mid-'30s. Zane Grey's original novel was published in 1932.
Bill Ide (as Glen Erickson)
A gambler (Larry "Buster" Crabbe) wins a ranch in a round of poker, then joins his neighbors on a rustler-ridden cattle drive to Texas.
Lawrence (as Glenn Erickson)
Adam Larey becomes a fugitive from justice when he escapes after being blamed for a crime he did not commit. He wanders into the desert wastelands and joins an outlaw gang who prey on gold prospectors. Years later, he meets his wife and her gold-prospecting father as they have come there seeking their fortune, and not knowing the danger of the treacherous desert wastes, the poisoned-water holes and the outlaw bands of marauders who roam the desert in search of the gold found by others. He comes to their aid and, eventually, manges to clear his name of the false charge against him.
