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Cornel Wilde is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter and Producer American born on 13 october 1912
Cornel Wilde (October 13, 1912 – October 16, 1989) was a Hungarian-American actor and film director.
Wilde's acting career began in 1935, in which year he made his debut on Broadway. In 1936, he began making small, uncredited appearances in films. By the 1940s, he had signed a contract with 20th Century Fox, and by the mid-1940s he was a major leading man. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in 1945's A Song to Remember. In the 1950s, he moved to writing, producing and directing films, but still continued his career as an actor.
He married the actress Jean Wallace in 1951. Wallace, formerly married to actor Franchot Tone, co-starred with Wilde in several films including The Big Combo (1955), Lancelot and Guinevere, aka Sword of Lancelot (1963), and Beach Red (1967). Her two children from her marriage to Franchot Tone became Wilde's stepsons. They also had a son together, Cornel Wallace Wilde Jr. (born December 19, 1967). They divorced in 1981.
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Cornel Wilde
Birth name Kornél Lajos Weisz
Nationality USA
Birth 13 october 1912
Death 16 october 1989 (at 77 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Nationality USA
Birth 13 october 1912
Death 16 october 1989 (at 77 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Wilde's acting career began in 1935, in which year he made his debut on Broadway. In 1936, he began making small, uncredited appearances in films. By the 1940s, he had signed a contract with 20th Century Fox, and by the mid-1940s he was a major leading man. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in 1945's A Song to Remember. In the 1950s, he moved to writing, producing and directing films, but still continued his career as an actor.
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He married the actress Patricia Knight in 1937. She appeared with him in Shockproof (1949). They had a daughter, Wendy (born February 22, 1943), and divorced in 1951.He married the actress Jean Wallace in 1951. Wallace, formerly married to actor Franchot Tone, co-starred with Wilde in several films including The Big Combo (1955), Lancelot and Guinevere, aka Sword of Lancelot (1963), and Beach Red (1967). Her two children from her marriage to Franchot Tone became Wilde's stepsons. They also had a son together, Cornel Wallace Wilde Jr. (born December 19, 1967). They divorced in 1981.
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Flesh and Bullets (1985)
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Crime
Actors Yvonne De Carlo, Cornel Wilde, Cesar Romero, Aldo Ray, Robert Z'Dar, Bill Cable
Roles Police Captain
Rating42%
The Fifth Musketeer (1979)
, 1h56Directed by Ken Annakin
Origin Austria
Genres Swashbuckler, Action, Adventure, Historical
Themes Films about families, Politique, Political films, Films about royalty
Actors Sylvia Kristel, Ursula Andress, Beau Bridges, Cornel Wilde, Ian McShane, Alan Hale Jr.
Roles D'Artagnan
Rating53%
Le roi Louis XIV a à son insu un frère jumeau, Philippe, mais quand il est dit, il verrouille immédiatement son frère à la Bastille. Le roi veut augmenter sa popularité et met en scène un assassinat contre lui-même où Philippe est habillé comme roi Louis. Mais Philippe parvient à échapper à l'assassinat et tout le monde le croit le vrai roi ...
The Norseman (1978)
Directed by Charles B. Pierce
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Films set in the Viking Age
Actors Lee Majors, Mel Ferrer, Cornel Wilde, Christopher Connelly, Jack Elam, Kathleen Freeman
Roles Ragnar
Rating35%
Un prince viking du XIe siècle part en Amérique pour retrouver son père qui, lors d'un précédent voyage, avait été capturé par des Indiens.
Sharks' Treasure (1975)
, 1h35Directed by Cornel Wilde
Origin USA
Genres Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Underwater action films
Actors Yaphet Kotto, Cornel Wilde, Cliff Osmond, David Canary, Carmen Argenziano, Dale Ishimoto
Roles Jim Carnahan
Rating47%
Eccentric charter skipper Jim Carnahan (Wilde) and his team of hard-luck dreamers battle sharks, bandits and their own greed to recover sunken treasure off the coast of Honduras.
The Comic (1969)
, 1h34Directed by Carl Reiner
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about television
Actors Dick Van Dyke, Mickey Rooney, Michele Lee, Cornel Wilde, Nina Wayne, Pert Kelton
Roles Frank Powers
Rating63%
Billy Bright (Dick Van Dyke), a silent-era film comedian, narrates this film which begins at his character's funeral in 1969 and tells his life story in flashbacks, unable to see his own faults and morosely (and incorrectly) blaming others for the turns of the events in his life.
Beach Red (1967)
, 1h45Directed by Cornel Wilde
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films
Actors Cornel Wilde, Rip Torn, Burr DeBenning, Jaime Sánchez, Jean Wallace, Dale Ishimoto
Roles Capt. MacDonald / Narrator
Rating62%
The 30-minute opening sequence of the film depicts an opposed beach landing. Its graphic depiction of the violence and savagery of war was echoed thirty years later in Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan. In one scene during the landing a Marine is shown with his arm blown off, similar to Thomas C. Lea III's 1944 painting The Price.
The Naked Prey (1965)
, 1h36Directed by Cornel Wilde
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure
Themes Films set in Africa, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Road movies, Chase films
Actors Cornel Wilde, Patrick Mynhardt, Gert Van den Bergh
Roles The Man
Rating72%
Wilde, whose character is never named, plays a professional safari guide leading two white men (Gert van den Bergh and Patrick Mynhardt) and their troupe on an elephant hunt through the African veldt during the colonial era. When the group intrudes on a local tribe's territory, some natives politely accost them, expecting to be bought off with gifts. Although the guide advises his client to be courteous, warning "they could give us a bad time," the client refuses to offer anything and insults the natives, sending them away empty-handed. Later, the tribe returns en masse, captures the entire party, and puts the captives to death, using various cruel and unusual methods. One man is covered in clay and roasted alive on a spit; another is tarred, feathered, and trussed, then chased and killed by all the women. The man who insulted the tribesmen is trapped in a ring of fire with a poisonous snake.
Lancelot and Guinevere (1963)
, 1h56Directed by Cornel Wilde
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Romance
Actors Jean Wallace, Cornel Wilde, Brian Aherne, George Baker, Adrienne Corri, Reginald Beckwith
Roles Sir Lancelot
Rating56%
Lancelot is King Arthur's most valued Knight of the Round Table and a paragon of courage and virtue. Things change, however, when he falls for Guinevere (Wallace), bride of Arthur (Brian Aherne, who had essayed this character previously in 1954's Prince Valiant), and she for him.
Constantine and the Cross (1961)
, 2hDirected by Irving Rapper, Lionello De Felice
Genres Drama, Adventure, Historical
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about religion
Actors Cornel Wilde, Belinda Lee, Massimo Serato, Christine Kaufmann, Fausto Tozzi, Renato Terra
Roles Constantine
Rating57%
Constantin, qui guerroie aux côtés de son père contre les Barbares, est appelé à Rome. Avant d'arriver à la ville, il tombe dans un guet-apens organisé par Maxence
Edge of Eternity (1959)
, 1h20Directed by Don Siegel
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Cornel Wilde, Victoria Shaw, Mickey Shaughnessy, Edgar Buchanan, Jack Elam, Dabbs Greer
Roles Les Martin
Rating63%
The film begins with an attempted assassination of a man looking into the Grand Canyon with his binoculars. The assassin disables the emergency brake from the man's car and attempts to run him over as the car goes off the edge. The man leaps out of the way and kills his assassin by throwing him off the rim. He is seen wandering by Eli, an old prospector who attempts to tell a Deputy Sheriff (Cornel Wilde). However Eli has a reputation for telling tall tales, so the deputy ignores him to chase an attractive woman (Victoria Shaw) speeding recklessly down the road. The unidentified man is later found dead, hanging bound and gagged in a former mining office in an abandoned gold mine.
Maracaibo (1958)
, 1h28Directed by Cornel Wilde
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Cornel Wilde, Jean Wallace, Abbe Lane, Francis Lederer, Michael Landon, Joe E. Ross
Roles Vic Scott
Rating63%
Red Adair-type former Navy Frogman Vic Scott is on vacation in Venezuela when a huge oil fire at a well of his rich friend erupts. While romancing a newly-famous novelist from New York a colleague locates him and persuades him to help put out the blaze, just as theirs is starting.
Omar Khayyam (1957)
, 1h41Directed by William Dieterle, Joseph L. McEveety
Origin USA
Genres Biography, Adventure, Historical, Romance
Themes Films about writers, Poésie
Actors Cornel Wilde, Michael Rennie, Debra Paget, John Derek, Edward Platt, Raymond Massey
Roles Omar Khayyam
Rating59%
A Nishapur, en Perse, au XIIe siècle. Omar Khayyam, jeune poète et brillant mathématicien, aime la belle Sharain. Hélas, le shah en personne a jeté son dévolu sur la jeune fille, qui ne peut pas le repousser. Grâce à Nizam, un ancien camarade devenu grand vizir, Omar obtient un travail dans le palais du shah. Il y retrouve un autre ami, Hasani. Le shah apprécie les services d'Omar et le récompense. Un jour, une secte mystérieuse, les «Assassins», élimine le frère du souverain. Celui-ci part combattre les Byzantins...
The Devil's Hairpin (1957)
Directed by Cornel Wilde
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action
Themes Sports films, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Auto racing films, Road movies
Actors Cornel Wilde, Jean Wallace, Mary Astor, Arthur Franz, Morgan Jones, Larry Pennell
Roles Nick Jargin
Rating60%
Nick Jargin retired from auto racing undefeated. He is continually goaded by Mike Houston, a sportswriter, to come out of retirement and challenge the top racer of the day, Tony Botari, particularly after egotistically saying in an interview that Botari has no real competition now that he's out of the sport.
Beyond Mombasa (1956)
, 1h30Directed by George Marshall
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure
Themes Films set in Africa
Actors Cornel Wilde, Donna Reed, Leo Genn, Ron Randell, Christopher Lee, Clive Morton
Roles Matt Campbell
Rating57%
Matt Campbell (Cornel Wilde) arrives in Kenya, where his brother George is reported missing. A man named Ralph Hoyt (Leo Genn) tells him that George has been killed by members of the "Leopard Men" cult.
Hot Blood (1956)
, 1h25Directed by Nicholas Ray
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Jane Russell, Cornel Wilde, Luther Adler, Joseph Calleia, Nina Koshetz, Helen Westcott
Roles Stephano Torino
Rating57%
Marco Torino (Luther Adler), king of the gypsies in southern California, is terminally ill. He wants his younger brother to succeed him, but Stephano (Cornel Wilde) is determined to become a dancer instead.