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Gene Saks is a Actor and Director American born on 8 november 1921 at New York City (USA)
Gene Saks (Jean Michael Saks; November 8, 1921 – March 28, 2015) was an American stage and film director, and actor. An inductee of the American Theater Hall of Fame, his acting career beginning with a debut on Broadway in 1949. As a director, he was nominated for seven Tony Awards, winning three for his direction of I Love My Wife, Brighton Beach Memoirs and Biloxi Blues. He also directed a number of films during his career. He was married to Bea Arthur, who died in 2009, from 1950 until 1980, and subsequently to Keren Saks, from 1980 to his death in 2015.
(1969)
(Director)
(1965)
(Actor)
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Birth name Jean Michael Saks
Nationality USA
Birth 8 november 1921 at New York City (USA)
Death 28 march 2015 (at 93 years)
Nationality USA
Birth 8 november 1921 at New York City (USA)
Death 28 march 2015 (at 93 years)
Gene Saks (Jean Michael Saks; November 8, 1921 – March 28, 2015) was an American stage and film director, and actor. An inductee of the American Theater Hall of Fame, his acting career beginning with a debut on Broadway in 1949. As a director, he was nominated for seven Tony Awards, winning three for his direction of I Love My Wife, Brighton Beach Memoirs and Biloxi Blues. He also directed a number of films during his career. He was married to Bea Arthur, who died in 2009, from 1950 until 1980, and subsequently to Keren Saks, from 1980 to his death in 2015.
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Il était marié à la comédienne Beatrice Arthur (1922-2009).Best films
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Deconstructing Harry (1997)
, 1h36Directed by Woody Allen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films about writers, Films about religion, Films about sexuality, Transport films, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Films about automobiles, Demons in film, Films about Jews and Judaism, Road movies, Erotic thriller films
Actors Caroline Aaron, Kirstie Alley, Bob Balaban, Richard Benjamin, Eric Bogosian, Billy Crystal
Roles Harry's Father
Rating72%
One night, Lucy (Judy Davis) gets a taxi to the home of author Harry Block (Woody Allen). She has just read Harry's latest novel. In the novel, the character Leslie (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) is having an affair with her sister's husband Ken (Richard Benjamin). Lucy is angry because the novel is patently based on her and Harry's own affair; as a result, everyone knows about it. Lucy pulls a gun out of her purse, saying she will kill herself. She then turns the gun on Harry and begins firing. She chases him out onto the roof. Harry insists that he has already been punished: his latest girlfriend Fay (Elisabeth Shue) has left him for his best friend Larry (Billy Crystal). To distract Lucy, Harry tells her a story he is currently writing: a semi-autobiographical story of a sex-obsessed young man named Harvey (Tobey Maguire) who is mistakenly claimed by Death.
On Seventh Avenue (1996)
, 2hDirected by Jeff Bleckner
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Wendy Makkena, Stephen Collins, Damian Chapa, Faye Grant, Frank Vincent, Lara Harris
Roles Sol Jacobs
Rating50%
Nobody's Fool (1994)
, 1h50Directed by Robert Benton
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Paul Newman, Jessica Tandy, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith, Dylan Walsh, Pruitt Taylor Vince
Roles Wirf Wirfley
Rating72%
Donald "Sully" Sullivan (Newman) is a worn yet spry hustler living in the peaceful, snowy northern New York state village of North Bath. He free-lances in the construction business, usually with his dim-witted friend Rub (Vince) by his side. He is often at odds with Carl Roebuck (Willis), a local contractor, suing him at every opportunity for unpaid wages and disability. Sully's one-legged lawyer Wirf (Saks) is inept, and his lawsuits are repeatedly dismissed. As a way to irritate him, Sully flirts with Carl's wife Toby (Griffith) openly at every opportunity (which she enjoys). He is a regular at the Iron Horse Saloon, where he often has drinks and plays cards with Wirf, Carl, Rub, and the town sheriff.
I.Q. (1994)
, 1h40Directed by Fred Schepisi
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Tim Robbins, Meg Ryan, Walter Matthau, Lou Jacobi, Stephen Fry, Gene Saks
Roles Boris Podolsky
Rating61%
An amiable garage mechanic, Ed Walters (Tim Robbins), meets Catherine Boyd (Meg Ryan), a brilliant Princeton University mathematics doctoral candidate, as she comes into the garage, accompanied by her stiff and fussy English fiancé, experimental psychology professor James Moreland (Stephen Fry). There is an immediate connection, but she refuses to acknowledge it. Finding a watch she left at the garage, Ed travels to her address and finds himself face to face with Albert Einstein (Walter Matthau), who is Catherine's uncle.
Lovesick (1983)
, 1h35Directed by Marshall Brickman
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Actors Dudley Moore, Elizabeth McGovern, Alec Guinness, Christine Baranski, Wallace Shawn, Ron Silver
Roles Frantic Patient
Rating52%
Psychologist Saul Benjamin takes on a patient temporarily as a favor to a colleague friend, Otto Jaffe, who is infatuated with her. After her doctor dies, Chloe Allen comes to see Dr. Benjamin and immediately he is smitten with her, too.
The One and Only (1978)
, 1h37Directed by Carl Reiner
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Themes Sports films, Films about television
Actors Henry Winkler, Kim Darby, Gene Saks, William Daniels, Harold Gould, Hervé Villechaize
Roles Sidney Seltzer
Rating58%
At a midwestern college, student Mary Crawford has the combined good and bad fortune to meet Andy Schmidt, a remarkably conceited young man who is convinced that he is tremendously talented and has every intention of becoming a star. Andy is so obnoxious, he wants Mary to marry him fast before he becomes too famous to give her a second look. She can't resist him, try as she might. Mary takes her new boyfriend home to Columbus, Ohio, to meet her strait-laced parents. Andy proceeds to annoy them in every possible way, hugging them, calling them "Tom and Mom," interrupting dinner to do a series of impressions, thoroughly ruining the visit.
, 1h38Directed by Melvin Frank
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Jack Lemmon, Anne Bancroft, Gene Saks, Elizabeth Wilson, M. Emmet Walsh, Florence Stanley
Roles Harry Edison
Rating66%
The story revolves around the escalating problems of a middle-aged couple living on Second Avenue on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City. Mel Edison, the main character, has just lost his job after many years and now has to cope with being unemployed at middle age, during an economic recession. The action occurs during an intense summer heat wave and a prolonged garbage strike, which just exacerbates Edison's plight to no end as he and his wife Edna deal with noisy neighbors, loud sounds emanating from Manhattan streets up to their apartment and even a robbery of their apartment during broad daylight. Although his former boss sympathetically tries to lend Mel considerable money, Mel eventually suffers a nervous breakdown from the whole affair, and it is up to the loving care of his brother Harry, his sisters and Edna to bring Mel back to a firm reality.
A Thousand Clowns (1965)
, 1h58Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Jason Robards, Barbara Harris, Martin Balsam, Gene Saks, William Daniels, Philip Bruns
Roles Leo
Rating72%
Unemployed television writer Murray Burns (Jason Robards) lives in a cluttered New York City studio apartment with his 12-year-old nephew, Nick (Barry Gordon). Murray has been unemployed for five months after quitting his previous job: writing jokes for a children's television show called Chuckles the Chipmunk. Nick, the illegitimate son of Murray's sister, was left with Murray seven years earlier.
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Bye Bye Birdie (1995)
Directed by Gene Saks
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical
Actors Jason Alexander, Vanessa Williams, Chynna Phillips, Tyne Daly, Jason Gaffney, Marc Kudisch
Rating58%
A Fine Romance (1991)
, 1h22Directed by Gene Saks
Origin Italie
Genres Comedy
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Julie Andrews, Marcello Mastroianni, Jonathan Cecil, Jean-Pierre Castaldi, Denise Grey, Ian Fitzgibbon
Rating49%
Le mari de Pamela a une liaison avec la femme de Cesareo. Les deux conjoints trompés unissent leurs forces pour résoudre la situation. Les obstacles qu'ils rencontrent sont différents puisqu'elle est une femme anglaise réservée et lui un italien qui s'adonne à la fête et au bon vin.
Brighton Beach Memoirs (1986)
, 1h49Directed by Gene Saks
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about religion, Théâtre, Films about Jews and Judaism, Films based on plays
Actors Jonathan Silverman, Blythe Danner, Fyvush Finkel, Judith Ivey, Bob Dishy, Jason Alexander
Rating67%
Se déroulant à Brighton Beach, quartier de Brooklyn à New York en Septembre 1937, cette comédie douce-amère suit l'entrée dans l'age adulte de Eugene Morris Jerome, un adolescent juif d'origine polonaise. Il affronte à la fois la puberté, la découverte de sexualité et l'affirmation de son identité.
Mame (1974)
, 2h12Directed by Gene Saks
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Théâtre, Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals
Actors Lucille Ball, Beatrice Arthur, Robert Preston, Bruce Davison, Jane Connell, Joyce Van Patten
Rating59%
At the reading of the will of young Patrick Dennis's (Kirby Furlong) father, a trustee, Mr. Babcock (John McGiver), reveals that Patrick is to be left in the care of his aunt, Mame Dennis (Lucille Ball), as well as his nanny, Agnes Gooch (Jane Connell). Taking a train to New York City (Main Title Including St. Bridget), Babcock and the boy arrive at Mame's home, where they walk into a wild party that Mame is giving for a holiday she herself created (It's Today). Patrick asks if he may slide down her banister, then reveals his true identity. Mame introduces the boy to her friends, including a renowned stage actress (and famous lush), Vera Charles (Beatrice Arthur).
Last of the Red Hot Lovers (1972)
, 1h38Directed by Gene Saks
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films based on plays
Actors Alan Arkin, Sally Kellerman, Paula Prentiss, Renee Taylor, Paul "Mousie" Garner, Sully Boyar
Rating60%
Waking up beside his wife and bored with his life, seafood restaurant owner Barney Cashman finds the flirtation of Elaine Navazio appealing enough that he arranges a rendezvous at his mother's apartment.
Cactus Flower (1969)
, 1h43Directed by Gene Saks
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Walter Matthau, Ingrid Bergman, Goldie Hawn, Jack Weston, Rick Lenz, Vito Scotti
Rating71%
21-year-old Toni Simmons attempts to commit suicide by inhaling gas from a second-hand stove. Her neighbor, Igor Sullivan, smells the gas and rescues her by using mouth to mouth resuscitation, which evolves into a kiss after Toni regains consciousness.
The Odd Couple (1968)
, 1h45Directed by Gene Saks
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays, Buddy films
Actors Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, John Fiedler, Herb Edelman, Monica Evans, David Sheiner
Rating75%
Felix Ungar (Jack Lemmon) checks into a fleabag hotel near Times Square, Manhattan and attempts to kill himself by jumping out of the window, but he fails to open it and pulls a muscle in his back. Limping back on the street he tries to get drunk at a dance bar and ends up hurting his neck when he throws down a shot. He stands on a bridge, contemplating jumping into the river.