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Irvin Kershner is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter and Producer American born on 29 april 1923 at Philadelphia (USA)
Irvin Kershner (born Isadore Kershner; April 29, 1923 – November 27, 2010) was an American film director and occasional actor, best known for directing quirky, independent films early in his career, and then The Empire Strikes Back, the James Bond film Never Say Never Again, and RoboCop 2.
Il réalise ensuite quelques documentaires en Iran, en Grèce et en Turquie pour le compte du service d'information américain, puis développe la série télévisée Confidential File.
En 1958, il met en scène son premier long métrage, le film policier Stakeout on Dope Street. Suivront ensuite The Luck of Ginger Coffey (1964) avec Robert Shaw, L'Homme à la tête fêlée (1966) avec Sean Connery, Loving (1970) avec George Segal, Up the Sandbox (1972) avec Barbra Streisand.
En 1974, il dirige deux des acteurs de M*A*S*H, Elliott Gould et Donald Sutherland, dans la comédie Les 'S' Pions. Il acquiert de la notoriété surtout au cours des années 1970 avec le western La Revanche d'un homme nommé cheval (1976), avec Richard Harris, et le thriller Les Yeux de Laura Mars (1979).
Ancien professeur de George Lucas à la Southern University, Irvin Kershner se voit confier la réalisation de Star Wars, épisode V : L'Empire contre-attaque (1980), souvent considéré comme le meilleur épisode de la saga Star Wars. Après le succès du film, il réalise un James Bond « non officiel », Jamais plus jamais (1983), qui marque le retour de Sean Connery dans la peau de l'agent 007.
En 1988, il s'essaie au métier d'acteur dans La Dernière Tentation du Christ de Martin Scorsese.
En 1989, il réalise RoboCop 2, sur un script de Frank Miller.
En 2007, il est président du jury long métrage au festival Fantastic'Arts de Gérardmer.
Le 27 novembre 2010, il meurt à l'âge de 87 ans alors qu'il luttait contre un cancer du poumon depuis trois ans et demi.
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Birth name Isadore Kershner
Nationality USA
Birth 29 april 1923 at Philadelphia (USA)
Death 27 november 2010 (at 87 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Nationality USA
Birth 29 april 1923 at Philadelphia (USA)
Death 27 november 2010 (at 87 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Biography
Irvin Kershner étudie la photographie au Art Center College of Design de Pasadena avant de l'enseigner lui-même à l'University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts.Il réalise ensuite quelques documentaires en Iran, en Grèce et en Turquie pour le compte du service d'information américain, puis développe la série télévisée Confidential File.
En 1958, il met en scène son premier long métrage, le film policier Stakeout on Dope Street. Suivront ensuite The Luck of Ginger Coffey (1964) avec Robert Shaw, L'Homme à la tête fêlée (1966) avec Sean Connery, Loving (1970) avec George Segal, Up the Sandbox (1972) avec Barbra Streisand.
En 1974, il dirige deux des acteurs de M*A*S*H, Elliott Gould et Donald Sutherland, dans la comédie Les 'S' Pions. Il acquiert de la notoriété surtout au cours des années 1970 avec le western La Revanche d'un homme nommé cheval (1976), avec Richard Harris, et le thriller Les Yeux de Laura Mars (1979).
Ancien professeur de George Lucas à la Southern University, Irvin Kershner se voit confier la réalisation de Star Wars, épisode V : L'Empire contre-attaque (1980), souvent considéré comme le meilleur épisode de la saga Star Wars. Après le succès du film, il réalise un James Bond « non officiel », Jamais plus jamais (1983), qui marque le retour de Sean Connery dans la peau de l'agent 007.
En 1988, il s'essaie au métier d'acteur dans La Dernière Tentation du Christ de Martin Scorsese.
En 1989, il réalise RoboCop 2, sur un script de Frank Miller.
En 2007, il est président du jury long métrage au festival Fantastic'Arts de Gérardmer.
Le 27 novembre 2010, il meurt à l'âge de 87 ans alors qu'il luttait contre un cancer du poumon depuis trois ans et demi.
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, 2h9Directed by Irvin Kershner
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Western
Actors Richard Harris, Gale Sondergaard, Irvin Kershner, Geoffrey Lewis, Jorge Luke, William Lucking
Rating60%
Trappers with government support force the Yellow Hands Sioux off their sacred land. The Indians retreat, but await supernatural punishment to descend on their usurpers. Harris reprises his role as John Morgan, 8th Earl of Kildare, who had lived with the tribe for years and is known as Horse, leaves his English fiancée and estate and returns to America, where he discovers the Yellow Hand people have been largely massacred or put into slavery by the unscrupulous white traders and their Indian cohorts. The few survivors, including wise old Running Bull and stubborn old Elk Woman (Gale Sondergaard) have gone into the Badlands and been forced to eat their dogs. "Why did you return?" asks Elk Woman. "I had to come back," says Morgan. "I had to prove something to myself... there was an empty place in my soul. I could not forget." He finds the tribe dispirited, because of the actions of the trappers, and he begins to devise a strategy to overpower the trappers' stronghold, convincing the Indians to take direct action. Soon even the Indian women and boys are assigned tasks to aid the assault to regain their ancestral land.
S*P*Y*S (1974)
, 1h40Directed by Irvin Kershner
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Spy
Themes Spy films, Political films, Children's films
Actors Elliott Gould, Donald Sutherland, Zouzou, Joss Ackland, Xavier Gélin, Vladek Sheybal
Rating45%
Les aventures de deux espions maladroits.
Up the Sandbox (1972)
, 1h37Directed by Irvin Kershner
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Comedy, Fantasy
Actors Barbra Streisand, David Selby, Jacobo Morales, Conrad Bain, Paul Benedict, Carl Gottlieb
Rating57%
Margaret Reynolds, a young wife and mother, severely bored with her day-to-day life in New York City and neglected by her husband, slowly slips into depression, finding refuge in her outrageous fantasies: her mother breaking into her apartment, an explorer's demonstration of tribal fertility music at a party causing strange transformations, and joining terrorists to plant explosives in the Statue of Liberty.
Loving (1970)
, 1h29Directed by Irvin Kershner
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors George Segal, Eva Marie Saint, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn, David Doyle, Edgar Stehli
Rating60%
Brooks Wilson (George Segal) is a busy man, juggling his work as a commercial artist with a marriage to Selma (Eva Marie Saint) and two young daughters. He also has a girlfriend on the side named Grace (Janis Young) who wants him to commit to her, but he cannot do it.
Loving (1970)
Directed by Irvin Kershner
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Romance
Actors George Segal, Eva Marie Saint, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn, David Doyle, Sherry Lansing
Rating60%
The Flim-Flam Man (1967)
, 1h44Directed by Irvin Kershner
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Crime
Actors George C. Scott, Sue Lyon, Michael Sarrazin, Harry Morgan, Jack Albertson, Albert Salmi
Rating67%
Mordecai C. Jones (Scott) - a self-styled "M.B.S., C.S., D.D. — Master of Back-Stabbing, Cork-Screwing and Dirty-Dealing!" - is a drifting confidence trickster who makes his living defrauding people in the southern United States. One of his specialties is rigged punchboards.
A Fine Madness (1966)
, 1h44Directed by Irvin Kershner
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Films about writers, Medical-themed films, Films about sexuality, Films about psychiatry
Actors Sean Connery, Joanne Woodward, Jean Seberg, Patrick O'Neal, Colleen Dewhurst, Clive Revill
Rating55%
Samson Shillitoe, a poet, lives in Greenwich Village with Rhoda, a waitress who stands by him through all his troubles.
The Luck of Ginger Coffey (1964)
, 1h40Directed by Irvin Kershner
Origin Canada
Genres Drama
Actors Robert Shaw, Mary Ure, Liam Redmond, Powys Thomas, Tom Kneebone, Jacques Godin
Rating68%
The Luck of Ginger Coffey is about an Irishman named James Francis Coffey. He is called 'Ginger' because of his reddish hair and moustache. He is unfulfilled career-wise, no matter which job he takes on. After his release from the Army, he and his wife Vera, together with their daughter Paulie, move to Montreal.
A Face in the Rain (1963)
, 1h21Directed by Irvin Kershner
Origin USA
Genres War
Themes Political films
Actors Rory Calhoun, Marina Berti, Niall MacGinnis
Rating54%
The Hoodlum Priest (1961)
, 1h41Directed by Irvin Kershner
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Prison films, Films about religion, Films about capital punishment
Actors Don Murray, Larry Gates, Keir Dullea, Logan Ramsey
Rating65%
Father Charles Dismas Clark, a Jesuit priest in St. Louis, dedicates his life to the rehabilitation of delinquents and ex-convicts. By meeting them on their own terms and talking their language, he wins their confidence and their trust. He is primarily concerned with a young thief, Billy Lee Jackson, recently released from the Missouri State Penitentiary. Father Clark helps clear the boy of some trumped-up charges and then gets him an honest job with a produce market. Billy's rehabilitation is further encouraged by Ellen Henley, a young socialite with whom he falls in love. Meanwhile, aided by Louis Rosen, a successful criminal lawyer, Father Clark raises enough funds to open Halfway House, a shelter for ex-convicts readjusting to civilian life. All goes well until Billy's employer fires him for a theft he did not commit. Embittered, he and a friend, Pio, attempt to rob the produce market. They are caught by one of the owners, and he attacks Billy with a crowbar. The panic-stricken boy grabs a gun and kills him. The police chase Billy to an abandoned house, and he hides there until Father Clark persuades him to surrender. Tried and convicted of murder, he is sentenced to death. Before Billy dies in the gas chamber, Father Clark reassures him by telling him of Dismas, the thief who died on the cross, and of how Christ promised him eternal life. After the execution, Father Clark returns to Halfway House and finds his first client, Pio, drunk and repentant.
The Young Captives (1959)
, 1h1Directed by Irvin Kershner
Genres Drama
Actors Luana Patten, Ed Nelson, Marjorie Stapp, Dan Blocker, Dan Sheridan, Peggy Moffitt
Rating54%
Stakeout on Dope Street (1958)
, 1h29Directed by Irvin Kershner
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Abby Dalton, Jonathan Haze, Andrew J. Fenady, Herschel Bernardi, Coleman Francis
Rating61%
Late one night in Los Angeles, Sgt. Fred Matthews (Frank Harding) and Officer Lynn Donahue (Slate Harlow) arrest a pusher who is carrying two pounds of uncut heroin. They are ambushed by gangsters Mitch Swadurski (Herman Rudin) and Lenny Potter (Philip Mansour), who kill Matthews and wound Donahue, then kill the pusher after he tosses the briefcase containing the heroin into the underbrush.
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Stakeout on Dope Street (1958)
, 1h29Directed by Irvin Kershner
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Abby Dalton, Jonathan Haze, Andrew J. Fenady, Herschel Bernardi, Coleman Francis
Rating61%
Late one night in Los Angeles, Sgt. Fred Matthews (Frank Harding) and Officer Lynn Donahue (Slate Harlow) arrest a pusher who is carrying two pounds of uncut heroin. They are ambushed by gangsters Mitch Swadurski (Herman Rudin) and Lenny Potter (Philip Mansour), who kill Matthews and wound Donahue, then kill the pusher after he tosses the briefcase containing the heroin into the underbrush.
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American Perfekt (1997)
, 1h36Directed by Paul Chart
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Transport films, Films about automobiles, Road movies
Actors Fairuza Balk, Robert Forster, Amanda Plummer, Paul Sorvino, David Thewlis, Geoffrey Lewis
Roles Producer
Rating59%
Jake Nyman decides to take a professional vacation where all decisions will be made by the flip of a coin. He meets up with disenchanted Sandra Thomas, who becomes excited by the potential of having the coin make all the decisions. See, Flipism. Things seem okay, until Sandra vanishes and Alice becomes involved in Jake's life.