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Bill Walsh is a Scriptwriter and Co-Producer American born on 30 september 1913 at New York City (USA)
Bill Walsh (30 septembre 1913, New York - 27 janvier 1975, Los Angeles) était un producteur cinématographique et un scénariste américain qui commença sa carrière sur les films en prise de vue réelle pour Walt Disney Productions.
En 1934, il déménage en Californie et officie dans le bureau de publicité de Margaret Ettinger. Ensuite l'un des clients d'Ettinger, Edgar Bergen l'invite à écrire des gags pour ses sketches de ventriloque. Il écrira ensuite également pour Charlie McCarthy et Mortimer Snerd.
Il débute en tant que gag man pour George Burns et Gracie Allen. En 1943, il est engagé pour écrire des gags pour les comic strips des Mickey Mouse et le service publicité de Disney. Son style privilégie la fantaisie, la spontanéité et le conflit d'émotions. Par la suite, il scénarise les planches hebdomadaires de Mickey, Panchito et Bibi Lapin.
En 1950, Walt Disney l'engage pour écrire et produire l'émission One Hour in Wonderland (1950), première émission de Disney. Cette émission a servi à promouvoir le film Alice au pays des merveilles (1951). Il poursuit ensuite sur la production d'épisodes de séries télévisées avant de passer aux longs métrages en prises de vue réelles. À partir de 1956, Bil participe à 18 longs métrages en prise de vue réelle pour les studios Disney, en tant que scénariste, coproducteur ou producteur. Parmi les émissions produit sous sa direction Jimmy Johnson note The Mickey Mouse Club et parmi les films Quelle vie de chien ! (1959) et Monte là-d'ssus (1961). Walsh explique que faire valider ses scénarios, il ajoutait des facettes de la personnalité de son patron dans ses personnages principaux pour forcer un peu la main à Walt Disney comme le père dans Quelle vie de chien ! ou le professeur dans Monte là-d'ssus.
Au début des années 1960, il participe au film Mary Poppins et obtient l'Oscar du meilleur film avec Walt Disney ainsi que l'Oscar du meilleur scénario adapté avec Don DaGradi.
Il décède en 1975 à Los Angeles.
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Nationality USA
Birth 30 september 1913 at New York City (USA)
Death 27 january 1975 (at 61 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Birth 30 september 1913 at New York City (USA)
Death 27 january 1975 (at 61 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
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Bill Walsh nait en 1913 à New York du mariage d'un canadien et d'une irlandaise. Lors de ses études sportives à l'Université de Cincinnati, il se lance dans l'écriture pour le théâtre.En 1934, il déménage en Californie et officie dans le bureau de publicité de Margaret Ettinger. Ensuite l'un des clients d'Ettinger, Edgar Bergen l'invite à écrire des gags pour ses sketches de ventriloque. Il écrira ensuite également pour Charlie McCarthy et Mortimer Snerd.
Il débute en tant que gag man pour George Burns et Gracie Allen. En 1943, il est engagé pour écrire des gags pour les comic strips des Mickey Mouse et le service publicité de Disney. Son style privilégie la fantaisie, la spontanéité et le conflit d'émotions. Par la suite, il scénarise les planches hebdomadaires de Mickey, Panchito et Bibi Lapin.
En 1950, Walt Disney l'engage pour écrire et produire l'émission One Hour in Wonderland (1950), première émission de Disney. Cette émission a servi à promouvoir le film Alice au pays des merveilles (1951). Il poursuit ensuite sur la production d'épisodes de séries télévisées avant de passer aux longs métrages en prises de vue réelles. À partir de 1956, Bil participe à 18 longs métrages en prise de vue réelle pour les studios Disney, en tant que scénariste, coproducteur ou producteur. Parmi les émissions produit sous sa direction Jimmy Johnson note The Mickey Mouse Club et parmi les films Quelle vie de chien ! (1959) et Monte là-d'ssus (1961). Walsh explique que faire valider ses scénarios, il ajoutait des facettes de la personnalité de son patron dans ses personnages principaux pour forcer un peu la main à Walt Disney comme le père dans Quelle vie de chien ! ou le professeur dans Monte là-d'ssus.
Au début des années 1960, il participe au film Mary Poppins et obtient l'Oscar du meilleur film avec Walt Disney ainsi que l'Oscar du meilleur scénario adapté avec Don DaGradi.
Il décède en 1975 à Los Angeles.
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The Shaggy Dog (2006)
, 1h38Directed by Brian Robbins
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Fantasy
Themes Films about animals, Films about dogs, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Tim Allen, Robert Downey Jr., Kristin Davis, Danny Glover, Spencer Breslin, Jane Curtin
Roles Original Film Writer
Rating44%
Dave Douglas (Tim Allen) is a deputy district attorney in Los Angeles County who is prosecuting social studies teacher and activist Justin Forrester (Joshua Leonard) for firebombing the pharmaceutical corporation Grant and Strictland. Forrester denies this, but claims that Grant and Strictland has been engaging in illegal animal experimentation. This distances Douglas from his daughter Carly (Zena Grey), one of Forrester's students.
That Darn Cat (1997)
, 1h29Directed by Bob Spiers
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Crime
Themes Films about animals, Films about cats, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Christina Ricci, Doug E. Doug, Dean Jones, Peter Boyle, Megan Cavanagh, Bess Armstrong
Rating47%
A pair of bumbling kidnappers break into the house of the president with the intention of kidnapping his wife and holding her for ransom. Things don't go according to plan when they mistakenly kidnap house maid Lizzie instead.
The Love Bug (1997)
, 1h28Directed by Peyton Reed
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Fantasy, Adventure
Themes Sports films, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Auto racing films, Road movies, Children's films
Actors Bruce Campbell, John Hannah, Alexandra Wentworth, Jeff Garlin, Kevin J. O'Connor, Dana Gould
Roles Writer
Rating52%
La Coccinelle ne remporte plus aucune course. Abandonnée par son nouveau propriétaire, Simon Moore III, elle est sauvée par Hank Cooper, un pilote malchanceux devenu mécanicien. Pour aider ce dernier à retrouver la plus haute marche du podium et l'amour d'Alex, son ancienne fiancée, Choupette reprend la compétition. Elle va devoir affronter Horace, la nouvelle voiture de Simon...
Flubber (1997)
, 1h33Directed by Les Mayfield
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Comic science fiction
Themes Films about education, Comedy science fiction films, Children's films, Robot films
Actors Robin Williams, Marcia Gay Harden, Christopher McDonald, Ted Levine, Jodi Benson, Clancy Brown
Rating53%
Professor Philip Brainard (Robin Williams) of Medfield College is developing a new energy source, in an attempt to raise enough money to save the college from closure. His preoccupation with his research distracts him from his fiancée, the college president Sara Jean Reynolds (Marcia Gay Harden). He has missed two weddings because of that preoccupation, much to Sara's anger. On the day of the third attempted wedding, Philip is approached by his former partner Wilson Croft (Christopher McDonald), who has profited from ideas he has stolen from the chemist and now desires to steal Sara from Philip and make her his wife, which he declares directly to Philip. Before he can make it to the wedding, his latest experiment shows fast development, forcing him to miss another wedding. The resulting substance created from the experiment is a green goo that increases in speed as it bounces and proves to be difficult to control, wreaking havoc on the neighborhood before the professor finally manages to capture it. Weebo (voiced by Jodi Benson), Philip's hovering robot assistant, classifies the substance as "flying rubber", leading Philip to christen it as "Flubber".
The Shaggy Dog (1994)
, 1h36Directed by Dennis Dugan
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about animals, Films about dogs, Children's films
Actors Scott Weinger, Ed Begley Jr., Sharon Lawrence, Jon Polito, James Cromwell, Jeremy Sisto
Rating52%
Preteen Moochie Daniels just wants a dog, but his dad, Ron, is allergic to canines, like Bundles, the shabby sheep dog of neighbor Charlie Mulvihill who secretly trained his pet to help him steal jewels. Mooch's big brother Wilbert 'Wilby' is smart, shy and a promising inventor, but hopelessly clumsy when it comes to girls, and is jealous of his slick mate Trey who has no problems. Desperate Wilby resorts to a spell from the ring of Lucrezia Borgia (he accidentally got from dad's museum of curiosities), which magically turns him into Bundles and back at uncontrollable times. This is how he also knows that the diamond on loan in his father's museum is Charlie's next target, but who would believe his story?
, 1h40Directed by Robert Stevenson, Art Stevens, Wolfgang Reitherman, John Lounsbery
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about animals, Dinosaur films, Spy films, La préhistoire, Animaux préhistoriques, Children's films
Actors Peter Ustinov, Helen Hayes, Clive Revill, Derek Nimmo, Percy Herbert, Hugh Burden
Roles Writer
Rating58%
Escaping from China with a microfilm of the formula for the mysterious "Lotus X", Lord Southmere, a Queen's Messenger, is chased by a group of Chinese spies.
Herbie Rides Again (1974)
, 1h28Directed by Robert Stevenson
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Themes Sports films, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Auto racing films, Road movies, Children's films
Actors Helen Hayes, Ken Berry, Stefanie Powers, Keenan Wynn, John McIntire, Liam Dunn
Rating57%
Ruthless real estate magnate Alonzo Hawk (Keenan Wynn) is pursuing his newest indoor shopping center, the 130-story Hawk Plaza. His only obstacle is an archaic firehouse inhabited by "Grandma" Steinmetz (Helen Hayes), widow of its former owner, Fire Captain Steinmetz, and aunt of mechanic Tennessee Steinmetz who appeared in The Love Bug; her displaced neighbor, flight attendant Nicole Harris (Stefanie Powers); and their sentient machines: Herbie the Love Bug, an orchestrion that chooses its own songs, and a retired cable car known as "Old No. 22". It is explained that Tennessee has gone to Tibet to visit his ailing philosophy teacher, while Herbie's former owner, Jim Douglas, has gone to Europe.
Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971)
, 1h53Directed by Robert Stevenson, Christopher Hibler, Arthur J. Vitarelli
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Fantasy, Adventure, Musical, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Films about magic and magicians, Sports films, Transport films, Aviation films, Association football films, Witches in film, Musical films, Political films, Children's films
Actors Angela Lansbury, David Tomlinson, Cindy O'Callaghan, Roddy McDowall, Sam Jaffe, John Ericson
Rating69%
The three Rawlins children, Charlie, Carrie, and Paul are evacuated from London during The Blitz to the remote village of Pepperinge Eye. They are placed in the reluctant care of Miss Eglantine Price, a reclusive woman who agrees to the arrangement temporarily. The children attempt to run away back to London, but change their minds after observing Miss Price attempting to fly on a broomstick. Miss Price reveals she is learning witchcraft through a correspondence school with hopes of using her spells in the British war effort, and offers the children a transportation spell in exchange for their silence. Miss Price casts the spell on a knob that the youngest child, Paul, has removed from the bed in the children’s shared bedroom, and she adds that only Paul can activate the spell.
Scandalous John (1971)
, 1h53Directed by Robert Butler
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Western
Themes Children's films
Actors Brian Keith, Alfonso Arau, Michele Carey, Harry Morgan, Rick Lenz, Simon Oakland
Rating58%
John McCanless was once a gunslinger and has become a cranky old rancher. There is a plan to build a dam which would flood his property. John has no intention of selling his land and is determined to fight the dam to the end if necessary.
Blackbeard's Ghost (1968)
, 1h46Directed by Robert Stevenson, Paul Cameron, Arthur J. Vitarelli
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantastic, Comedy, Fantasy
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Pirate films, Ghost films, Children's films
Actors Peter Ustinov, Dean Jones, Suzanne Pleshette, Elsa Lanchester, Richard Deacon, Elliott Reid
Rating67%
Steve Walker (Dean Jones) arrives in a North Carolina seacoast town to take the position of track coach at Godolphin College. The night of his arrival coincides with a charity bazaar at the hotel where he will be boarding — Blackbeard's Inn, named after the notorious English pirate Captain Edward Teach and now run by the Daughters of the Buccaneers, elderly descendants of the pirate's crew. The owners are attempting to pay off their mortgage to keep the inn from being bought by the local crime boss, Silky Seymour (Joby Baker), who wants to build a casino on the land. Steve quickly discovers his track team's shortcomings and runs afoul of the dean of Godolphin College, its football coach, and Seymour. He also makes the acquaintance of attractive Godolphin professor Jo Anne Baker (Suzanne Pleshette), who is anxious to help the elderly ladies save Blackbeard's Inn.
The Love Bug (1968)
, 1h48Directed by Robert Stevenson, Christopher Hibler, Arthur J. Vitarelli
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Fantasy
Themes Sports films, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Auto racing films, Road movies, Children's films
Actors Dean Jones, Michele Lee, David Tomlinson, Buddy Hackett, Johnny Flynn, Joe Flynn
Rating65%
In 1968, Jim Douglas is a down-on-his luck racing driver, reduced to competing in demolition derby races against drivers half his age. Jim lives in an old fire house overlooking San Francisco Bay with his friend and mechanic, Tennessee Steinmetz, a jolly Brooklynite who constantly extols the virtues of spiritual enlightenment, having spent time amongst Buddhist monks in Tibet, and builds "art" from car parts. After yet another race ends in a crash (and Tennessee turns his Edsel into a sculpture), Jim finds himself without a car and heads into town in search of some cheap wheels. He is enticed into an upmarket European car showroom after setting eyes on an attractive sales assistant, Carole Bennett. Jim witnesses the dealership's British owner, Peter Thorndyke, being unnecessarily abusive towards a white Volkswagen Beetle that rolls into the showroom, and defends the car's honor, much to Thorndyke's displeasure. The following morning Jim is shocked to find that the car is parked outside his house and that Thorndyke is pressing charges for grand theft. A heated argument between Jim and Thorndyke is settled when Carole persuades Thorndyke to drop the charges if Jim buys the car on a system of monthly payments.
Lt. Robin Crusoe U.S.N. (1966)
, 1h50Directed by Joseph L. McEveety, Tom Leetch
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Adventure
Themes Films about animals, Military humor in film, Seafaring films, Transport films, Films based on Robinson Crusoe, Films about apes, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors Dick Van Dyke, Nancy Kwan, Akim Tamiroff, Arthur Malet, Tyler McVey, Peter Renaday
Rating58%
While flying a routine mission for the U.S. Navy from his aircraft carrier, an emergency causes Lieutenant Robin "Rob" Crusoe (Van Dyke) to eject from his F-8 Crusader into the ocean. Crusoe drifts on the ocean in an emergency life raft for several days and nights until landing on an uninhabited island. Crusoe builds a shelter for himself, fashions new clothing out of available materials, and begins to scout the island, discovering an abandoned Japanese submarine from World War II. Scouring the submarine, Crusoe also discovers a NASA astrochimp named Floyd, played by Dinky.
That Darn Cat! (1965)
, 1h56Directed by Robert Stevenson, Joseph L. McEveety, Arthur J. Vitarelli
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Spy, Crime
Themes Films about animals, Films about cats, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Hayley Mills, Dean Jones, Dorothy Provine, Roddy McDowall, Neville Brand, Frank Gorshin
Rating66%
"Darn Cat" or "DC" is a wily, adventurous Siamese tomcat who lives with two young women, suburbanite sisters Ingrid "Inkie" (Dorothy Provine) and Patricia "Patti" Randall (Hayley Mills), whose parents are traveling abroad at the time of the story.
Mary Poppins (1964)
, 2h19Directed by Robert Stevenson, Joseph L. McEveety, Tom Leetch, Arthur J. Vitarelli
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Fantasy, Musical
Themes Films about animals, Films about children, Films about families, Films about music and musicians, Films about birds, Musical films, Films about penguins, Children's films
Actors Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke, David Tomlinson, Glynis Johns, Karen Dotrice, Matthew Garber
Rating77%
In Edwardian London, 1910, Cockney one-man band Bert is entertaining a crowd when he senses a change in the wind. Afterwards, he directly addresses the audience and gives them a tour of Cherry Tree Lane, stopping outside the home of the Banks'. George Banks returns home from his job at the bank to learn from his wife Winifred that their hired nanny, Katie Nanna, has left their service after his children, Jane and Michael, ran away again. They are returned shortly after by the local constable, who reveals that the children were dragged away by their kite. The children ask their father to help build a better kite, but he dismisses them. Taking it upon himself to hire a nanny, George advertises for a stern, no-nonsense nanny. Jane and Michael present their own advertisement for a kinder, sweeter nanny, but George rips up the letter and throws the scraps in the fireplace, which magically float up and out into the air.
, 1h31Directed by Robert Stevenson, Joseph L. McEveety
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Adventure
Themes Children's films
Actors Tommy Kirk, Annette Funicello, Leon Ames, Stuart Erwin, Alan Hewitt, Connie Gilchrist
Roles Screenstory
Rating62%
Midvale College student Merlin Jones (Tommy Kirk), who is always involved with mind experiments, designs a helmet that connects to an electroencephalographic tape that records mental activity. He is brought before Judge Holmby (Leon Ames) for wearing the helmet while driving and his license is suspended. Merlin returns to the lab and discovers accidentally that his new invention enables him to read minds.