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Abraham Sofaer is a Actor Birmanien born on 30 september 1896 at Yangon (Birmanie)
Abraham Sofaer (October 1, 1896 – January 21, 1988) was a Burmese stage actor who became a familiar supporting player in film and on television in his later years. He was born in Rangoon and originally worked as a school teacher. Sofaer's strong features and resonant voice (he modified his Burmese accent to sound more like English Received Pronunciation) complemented the many exotic character parts he played.
He began his acting career on the London stage in 1921, but soon was alternating between London and Broadway. By the 1930s, he was appearing in both British and American films. Among his more prominent performances were the dual role of the Judge and Surgeon in Powell and Pressburger's A Matter of Life and Death (1946) and St. Paul in Quo Vadis (1951).
He also appeared on television from its earliest days in the late 1930s and on radio. Although his film appearances diminished after the 1950s, he continued to have guest roles on dozens of major U.S. television series throughout the 1960s. He made three appearances on Perry Mason, including the role of defendant Elihu Laban in the 1963 episode, "The Case of the Two-Faced Turn-a-Bout." He also featured in Star Trek ("Charlie X" and "Spectre of the Gun" - voice only), The Twilight Zone ("The Mighty Casey"), Daniel Boone ("Not in Our Stars"), Lost in Space ("The Flaming Planet"), The Asphalt Jungle ("The McMasters Story"), and The Outer Limits ("Demon with a Glass Hand"), until retiring in the mid-1970s. He may be best-remembered for his recurring role as Hadji, the master of all genies, on I Dream of Jeannie and as The Swami who advises Peter Tork in the "Sauna" scene in The Monkees' 1968 film Head.
Sofaer married psyche Angela Christian, with whom he had two sons and four daughters. He died in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, as the result of congestive heart failure in 1988.
The noted jurist of the same name is the actor's first cousin, once removed.
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Nationality Birmanie
Birth 30 september 1896 at Yangon (Birmanie)
Death 21 january 1988 (at 91 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Birth 30 september 1896 at Yangon (Birmanie)
Death 21 january 1988 (at 91 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
He began his acting career on the London stage in 1921, but soon was alternating between London and Broadway. By the 1930s, he was appearing in both British and American films. Among his more prominent performances were the dual role of the Judge and Surgeon in Powell and Pressburger's A Matter of Life and Death (1946) and St. Paul in Quo Vadis (1951).
He also appeared on television from its earliest days in the late 1930s and on radio. Although his film appearances diminished after the 1950s, he continued to have guest roles on dozens of major U.S. television series throughout the 1960s. He made three appearances on Perry Mason, including the role of defendant Elihu Laban in the 1963 episode, "The Case of the Two-Faced Turn-a-Bout." He also featured in Star Trek ("Charlie X" and "Spectre of the Gun" - voice only), The Twilight Zone ("The Mighty Casey"), Daniel Boone ("Not in Our Stars"), Lost in Space ("The Flaming Planet"), The Asphalt Jungle ("The McMasters Story"), and The Outer Limits ("Demon with a Glass Hand"), until retiring in the mid-1970s. He may be best-remembered for his recurring role as Hadji, the master of all genies, on I Dream of Jeannie and as The Swami who advises Peter Tork in the "Sauna" scene in The Monkees' 1968 film Head.
Sofaer married psyche Angela Christian, with whom he had two sons and four daughters. He died in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, as the result of congestive heart failure in 1988.
The noted jurist of the same name is the actor's first cousin, once removed.
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The Story of Mankind (1957)
, 1h40Directed by Irwin Allen, Don Alvarado
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Fantasy
Themes Films about religion
Actors Ronald Colman, Vincent Price, Hedy Lamarr, Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx
Roles Indian Chief
Rating48%
Scientists have developed a weapon, called the "Super H-bomb", which if detonated will wipe out the human race entirely. A "High Tribunal" in "The Great Court of Outer Space" is called upon to decide whether divine intervention should be allowed to stop the bomb's detonation. The devil (Vincent Price), who goes by the name of Mr. Scratch, prosecutes Mankind while the Spirit of Man (Ronald Colman) defends it.
Bhowani Junction (1956)
, 1h50Directed by George Cukor
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Historical, Romance
Themes Transport films, Rail transport films
Actors Ava Gardner, Stewart Granger, Bill Travers, George Macready, Abraham Sofaer, Francis Matthews
Roles Surabhai
Rating63%
India, 1947: Victoria Jones, a woman raised by an Indian mother and English father who has been serving India in the army, returns after a long absence to Bhowani Junction, where supporters of Mahatma Gandhi are protesting against British rule, led by a revolutionary known as Davay.
The First Texan (1956)
, 1h22Directed by Byron Haskin
Origin USA
Genres War, Historical, Western
Themes Political films
Actors Joel McCrea, Felicia Farr, Jeff Morrow, Wallace Ford, Jody McCrea, Abraham Sofaer
Roles Don Carlos - magistrate
Rating60%
Sam Houston, a lawyer and former Governor of Tennessee, travels to San Antonio, Texas to begin a new life. He encounters Jim Bowie, who is determined to free the territory from Mexico's rule.
Out of the Clouds (1955)
, 1h28Directed by Basil Dearden
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Themes Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Anthony Steel, Robert Beatty, James Robertson Justice, Eunyce Gayson, Isabel Dean, Gordon Harker
Roles The Indian
Rating56%
During a day at an airport in London, many complications arise, involving both passengers and airline crew members. Pilot Gus Randall (Anthony Steel) is a compulsive gambler who is caught up in a smuggling ring as well as a love triangle; Nick Millbourne (Robert Beatty) is the chief duty officer who wants to get back in the sky and vies with Gus for the attention of stewardess Penny Henson (Eunice Gayson); and passengers Bill Steiner (David Knight) and German Leah Rosch (Margo Lorenz) cross paths on opposite journeys; after their flights are grounded by bad weather, they fall in love. Nick and Penny also find happiness together.
The Naked Jungle (1954)
, 1h35Directed by Arthur Rosson, Byron Haskin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes Films about animals, La fin du monde, Natural horror films, Films about insects, Disaster films, Film de catastrophe animalière
Actors Eleanor Parker, Charlton Heston, Abraham Sofaer, William Conrad, Douglas Fowley, Romo Vincent
Roles Incacha
Rating66%
In 1901, mail order bride Joanna (Eleanor Parker) arrives from New Orleans at a South American cocoa plantation to meet her new husband, plantation owner Christopher Leiningen (Charlton Heston), whom she has married by proxy.
Elephant Walk (1954)
, 1h43Directed by William Dieterle, Alvin Ganzer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Romance
Themes Films about animals, Seafaring films, Transport films, Mise en scène d'un éléphant, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Elizabeth Taylor, Dana Andrews, Peter Finch, Abraham Sofaer, Abner Biberman, Rosalind Ivan
Roles Appuhamy
Rating62%
Colonial tea planter John Wiley, visiting England at the end of World War II, wins and weds lovely English rose Ruth and takes her home to Elephant Walk, Ceylon, where the local elephants have a grudge against the plantation because it blocks their migrating path. Ruth's delight with the tropical wealth and luxury of her new home is tempered by isolation as the only white woman in the district; by her husband's occasional imperious arrogance; by a mutual physical attraction with plantation manager Dick Carver; and by the hovering, ominous menace of the hostile elephants. The elephants end up destroying the plantation in a stampede along with a fire.
His Majesty O'Keefe (1954)
, 1h31Directed by Byron Haskin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Pirate films
Actors Burt Lancaster, Joan Rice, Benson Fong, André Morell, Philip Ahn, Abraham Sofaer
Roles Fatumak, Medicine Man
Rating60%
Captain David O'Keefe (Burt Lancaster), seeking his fortune in the 19th century South Pacific, decides to enlist island natives to harvest copra, but runs into a wall of cultural problems. Backed by a Chinese dentist, he obtains a ship and sets about harvesting copra while fending off cantankerous native chieftains and ambitious German empire-builders. The natives, happy with their existence, see no reason to work hard to obtain copra, either for a German trading company or for O'Keefe. He finally motivates them by showing them how to produce large quantities of Rai stones, the stone money of Yap, their valued coinage.
Judgment Deferred (1952)
, 1h28Directed by John Baxter
Genres Crime
Actors Hugh Sinclair, Abraham Sofaer, Joan Collins, Leslie Dwyer, Harry Locke, Elwyn Brook-Jones
Roles Chancellor
Rating58%
With the assistance of a journalist a group of refugees and down and outs try and unmask the criminal who has framed one of their number as a drug dealer.
, 2h2Directed by Albert Lewin
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Fantastic, Romantic drama, Fantasy, Romance
Themes Films about animals, Sports films, Bullfighting films, Ghost films
Actors Ava Gardner, James Mason, Nigel Patrick, Sheila Sim, Harold Warrender, Marius Goring
Roles Judge
Rating68%
In 1930, fishermen in the small Catalan port of Esperanza make a grim discovery in their nets, the bodies of a man and a woman. The resultant ringing of church bells in the village brings the local police and the resident archaeologist, Geoffrey Fielding (Harold Warrender), to the beach. Fielding returns to his villa, and, breaking the "fourth wall", retells the story of these two people to the audience.
Quo Vadis (1951)
, 2h51Directed by Mervyn LeRoy, Anthony Mann
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical, Peplum, Romance
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about religion
Actors Robert Taylor, Deborah Kerr, Peter Ustinov, Leo Genn, Patricia Laffan, Finlay Currie
Roles Paul
Rating70%
The action takes place in ancient Rome from AD 64–68, a period after Emperor Claudius' illustrious and powerful reign, during which the new corrupt and destructive Emperor Nero ascends to power and eventually threatens to destroy Rome's previous peaceful order. The main subject is the conflict between Christianity and the corruption of the Roman Empire, especially in the last period of the Julio-Claudian line. The characters and events depicted are a mixture of actual historical figures and situations and fictionalized ones.
Cairo Road (1950)
, 1h35Directed by David MacDonald
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime, Romance
Themes Films set in Africa, Medical-themed films, Films about drugs
Actors Laurence Harvey, Eric Portman, Maria Mauban, Grégoire Aslan, Karel Štěpánek, John Bailey
Roles Commandant
Rating54%
A team of Egyptian anti-narcotic agents try to prevent shipments of drugs crossing the southern Egyptian border. The film takes its name from the Cairo Road.
Christopher Columbus (1949)
, 1h39Directed by David MacDonald
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Biography, Action, Adventure, Historical
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Fredric March, Florence Eldridge, Francis L. Sullivan, Kathleen Ryan, James Robertson Justice, Derek Bond
Roles Luis de Santangel
Rating59%
Christopher Columbus overcomes intrigue at the Spanish court and convinces Queen Isabella that his plan to reach the East by sailing west is practical.
Calling Paul Temple (1948)
Directed by Maclean Rogers
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Crime
Actors John Bentley, Dinah Sheridan, Margaretta Scott, Abraham Sofaer, Jack Raine, Alan Wheatley
Roles Dr. Charles Kohima
Rating60%
Dual Alibi (1947)
, 1h21Directed by Alfred Travers
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Films about families
Actors Herbert Lom, Terence De Marney, Abraham Sofaer, Sebastian Cabot, Wallas Eaton, Eric Mason
Roles French Judge
Rating67%
A top French acrobatic act, the de Lisle twins, are hired by a British promoter to perform in his Blackpool show. While working there one of the twins falls in love with a cigarette girl and aspiring singer Penny. After the twins win the French lottery, she steals their ticket with the help of a spivish publicity agent and goes to Paris to claim the prize. The twins follow them to seek revenge.
, 1h25Directed by Vernon Sewell
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Fantastic, Comedy, Fantasy
Themes Ghost films
Actors Robert Morley, Felix Aylmer, Yvonne Arnaud, Claude Hulbert, Abraham Sofaer, Ernest Thesiger
Roles Benjamin Disraeli
Rating58%
Two 18th century officers, General Burlap (Morley) and Colonel Kelsoe (Aylmer), are desperate to prevent war, so they hatch a plan to capture the Duke of Marlborough and hold him prisoner until the threat of hostilities passes. Unfortunately, while testing the efficacy of the contraption they have designed to entrap the duke, they manage to kill themselves. Their stupidity incurs the wrath of Queen Anne in the afterlife, and as punishment they are condemned to haunt the Berkeley Square house until such time as a British monarch crosses the threshold of the property.