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James Griffith is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter and Sound American born on 13 february 1916 at Los Angeles (USA)
James Griffith (February 13, 1916 – September 17, 1993) was an American character actor, musician and screenwriter.
Citons Quand les tambours s'arrêteront d'Hugo Fregonese (1951, avec Stephen McNally et Coleen Gray), La Loi de la prairie de Robert Wise (1956, avec James Cagney et Don Dubbins), L'Ultime Razzia de Stanley Kubrick (1956, avec Sterling Hayden et Coleen Gray), L'Incroyable Homme invisible d'Edgar G. Ulmer (1960, avec Douglas Kennedy et Ivan Triesault), ou encore Le Bataillon des lâches de George Marshall (1964, avec Glenn Ford et Stella Stevens).
Pour la télévision, de 1950 à 1984, il apparaît dans dix téléfilms et cent-vingt-trois séries, dont La Grande Caravane (huit épisodes, 1957-1964), Batman (trois épisodes, 1966-1967) et La Petite Maison dans la prairie (deux épisodes, 1975-1982).
Oocasionnellement, James Griffith est scénariste, collaborant à trois films dans les années 1960 (dont Shalako d'Edward Dmytryk en 1968, coproduction germano-britannique), ainsi qu'à un épisode (diffusé en 1967) de la série Mission impossible. Enfin, il compose la musique d'un film sorti en 1964.
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James Griffith
Birth name James Jeffrey Griffith
Nationality USA
Birth 13 february 1916 at Los Angeles (USA)
Death 17 september 1993 (at 77 years) at Avila Beach (USA)
Nationality USA
Birth 13 february 1916 at Los Angeles (USA)
Death 17 september 1993 (at 77 years) at Avila Beach (USA)
James Griffith (February 13, 1916 – September 17, 1993) was an American character actor, musician and screenwriter.
Biography
Au cinéma, comme second rôle de caractère (parfois non crédité), James Griffith contribue à quatre-vingt-six films américains (dont des westerns), sortis entre 1948 et 1977.Citons Quand les tambours s'arrêteront d'Hugo Fregonese (1951, avec Stephen McNally et Coleen Gray), La Loi de la prairie de Robert Wise (1956, avec James Cagney et Don Dubbins), L'Ultime Razzia de Stanley Kubrick (1956, avec Sterling Hayden et Coleen Gray), L'Incroyable Homme invisible d'Edgar G. Ulmer (1960, avec Douglas Kennedy et Ivan Triesault), ou encore Le Bataillon des lâches de George Marshall (1964, avec Glenn Ford et Stella Stevens).
Pour la télévision, de 1950 à 1984, il apparaît dans dix téléfilms et cent-vingt-trois séries, dont La Grande Caravane (huit épisodes, 1957-1964), Batman (trois épisodes, 1966-1967) et La Petite Maison dans la prairie (deux épisodes, 1975-1982).
Oocasionnellement, James Griffith est scénariste, collaborant à trois films dans les années 1960 (dont Shalako d'Edward Dmytryk en 1968, coproduction germano-britannique), ainsi qu'à un épisode (diffusé en 1967) de la série Mission impossible. Enfin, il compose la musique d'un film sorti en 1964.
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1980)
, 1h44Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Themes Ghost films
Actors Jeff Goldblum, Meg Foster, Paul Sand, James Griffith, John Sylvester White
Roles Squire Van Tassel
Rating61%
The story begins when schoolteacher Ichabod Crane arrives in the quaint town of Sleepy Hollow. There, he discovers his predecessor was driven mad by evil spirits. Not one to believe in ghosts, Ichabod takes a personal interest in the "Headless Horseman" who terrorizes the townspeople with his midnight runs. In one hair-raising encounter after another, Ichabod meets the demon head-on (so to speak) and discovers the truth behind the legend. The timid teacher is soon transformed from laughing-stock to town hero in this gothic tale of early America.
Flood! (1977)
, 1h40Directed by Earl Bellamy
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Disaster, Action, Adventure
Themes Disaster films, American disaster films
Actors Robert Culp, Martin Milner, Barbara Hershey, Richard Basehart, Carol Lynley, Roddy McDowall
Roles Charlie Davis
Rating52%
Après plusieurs semaines de pluie torentielle, les habitants soucieux de la sécurité de la petite ville de Brownsville demandent à leur maire d'ouvrir les vannes pour faire sortir le surplus d'eau du barrage mais ce dernier refuse. La construction cède et c'est la panique pour les quelques habitants qui vont devoir faire l'impossible pour survivre.
Speedtrap (1977)
Directed by Earl Bellamy
Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Themes Transport films, Road movies, Chase films
Actors Joe Don Baker, Tyne Daly, Richard Jaeckel, Morgan Woodward, Robert Loggia, Timothy Carey
Roles Wino
Rating54%
After a wave of unsolved car thefts, an insurance company calls in private investigator Pete Novick (Joe Don Baker) to solve the case. While the chief of police isn't thrilled about having an outsider come and show up his men, one of the officers is a former girlfriend of Novick's who's more than willing to help him out in any way she can. After a long and convoluted investigation with false leads, psychics and the mafia, Novick at last unravels the identity of the thief.
Dial Hot Line (1970)
, 1h38Directed by Jerry Thorpe
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Vince Edwards, Chelsea Brown, Felton Perry, June Harding, Kim Hunter, G. D. Spradlin
Roles Sam
Rating72%
Hail, Hero! (1969)
, 1h40Directed by David Miller
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Michael Douglas, Peter Strauss, John Arthur Kennedy, Teresa Wright, Deborah Winters, Charles Drake
Roles Le deuxième peintre
Rating52%
During the Vietnam War, college student Carl Dixon quits school and joins the Army in hopes of using love, not bullets, to combat the Viet Cong.
Heaven with a Gun (1969)
, 1h41Directed by Lee H. Katzin
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Glenn Ford, Carolyn Jones, Barbara Hershey, John Anderson, David Carradine, Violetta Villas
Roles Abraham Murdock
Rating62%
Preacher Jim Killian (Ford) arrives in a town divided between cattlemen and sheep herders. Killian is not just any preacher. He is a former gunslinger who has set upon a different path.
Seven in Darkness (1969)
, 1h14Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Dans un avion
Actors Milton Berle, Dina Merrill, Sean Garrison, James Griffith, Barry Nelson, Arthur O'Connell
Roles Harlan Cabot
Rating63%
The film follows a group of blind people who are flying to a convention for the blind in [Seattle]. Among the group are its charismatic leader, Alex Swain (Barry Nelson), a former doctor-turned-teacher for the blind. With him are his old friend Emily Garth Pleasant (Dina Merrill), recently blinded Larry Wise (Arthur O'Connell), Ramon and Christine Rohas (Alejandro Rey and Tippy Walker) who are expecting their first child at any moment, And singer Deborah Cabot (Leslie Ann Warren) who is traveling with her sighted father. Also along are Vietnam war hero Mark Larsen (Sean Garrison), who is harboring a guilty secret, and Sam Fuller (Milton Berle in a rare dramatic role), a bitter and selfish man who antagonizes everyone in the group.
Day of the Evil Gun (1968)
, 1h35Directed by Jerry Thorpe
Origin USA
Genres Action, Western
Actors Glenn Ford, John Arthur Kennedy, Dean Jagger, John Anderson, Paul Fix, Harry Dean Stanton
Roles Storekeeper - Hazenville
Rating63%
A woman and two children are kidnapped by Apaches. The husband Lorne Warfield (Glenn Ford), enlists the help of his neighbor Owen Forbes (Arthur Kennedy) to find his captured family. Warfield is a former gunman trying to forget his violent past. Forbes, a decent and humane rancher, is also in love with Warfield's wife and feels guilty that he let her be captured without trying to help. An Indian trader (Dean Jagger) aids them in their quest. Along the way they are encounter Mexican bandits, Apache warriors, renegade soldiers, and a town blighted by cholera. While Warfield in his cynicism immediately recognizes malevolent motives, each encounter results in further stripping Forbes of his humanity and making him accustomed to killing. The search eventually leads them to the Apache camp where they rescue the woman and children. Safely back home, Forbes challenges Warfield (who is now unarmed, trading his gun to a storekeeper for clothing for his family) to a duel, but he refuses. Forbes shoots Warfield in the back, wounding him. Before he can finish him off, he is shot and killed by the storekeeper using Warfield's gun.
, 1h35Directed by Fielder Cook
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Western
Themes Jeu, Poker
Actors Henry Fonda, Joanne Woodward, Paul Ford, Jason Robards, Burgess Meredith, Charles Bickford
Roles Mr. Stribling
Rating72%
The five richest men in the territory gather in Laredo for their annual high-stakes poker game. The high rollers let nothing get in the way of their yearly showdown. When undertaker Tropp (Charles Bickford) calls for them in his horse-drawn hearse, cattleman Henry Drummond (Jason Robards) forces a postponement of his daughter's wedding, while lawyer Otto Habershaw (Kevin McCarthy) abandons his closing arguments in a trial, with his client's life hanging in the balance. They are joined by Wilcox (Robert Middleton) and Buford (John Qualen) in the back room of Sam's saloon, while the curious gather outside for occasional reports.
Advance to the Rear (1964)
, 1h40Directed by George Marshall
Origin USA
Genres War, Comedy, Western
Themes Military humor in film, Political films
Actors Glenn Ford, Stella Stevens, Melvyn Douglas, Jim Backus, Joan Blondell, Andrew Prine
Roles Hugo Zattig
Rating58%
Union Colonel Claude Brackenbury has a cozy arrangement with his Confederate counterpart. They fire a few artillery rounds in each other's general direction at precisely the same time each morning, then go back to contentedly waiting for the war to end.
Lorna (1964)
, 1h18Directed by Russ Meyer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Erotic
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Sexploitation films
Actors Lorna Maitland, Althea Currier, Hal Hopper, James Griffith
Roles The Man of God
Rating58%
The publicity to Lorna exclaimed: "Without artistic surrender, without compromise, without question or apology, an important motion picture was produced: LORNA—a woman too much for one man."
How the West Was Won (1962)
, 2h35Directed by John Ford, Henry Hathaway, George Marshall, Richard Thorpe
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Historical, Western
Themes Political films
Actors James Stewart, Carroll Baker, Debbie Reynolds, Gregory Peck, George Peppard, Carolyn Jones
Roles Poker Player with Cleve (uncredited)
Rating69%
Zebulon Prescott (Karl Malden) and his family set out west for the frontier via the Erie Canal, the “west” at this time being the Illinois country. On the journey, they meet mountain man Linus Rawlings (James Stewart), who is traveling east to Pittsburgh to trade his furs. He and Zebulon's daughter Eve (Carroll Baker) are attracted to each other, but Linus is not ready to settle down.
Pocketful of Miracles (1961)
, 2h16Directed by Frank Capra
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Action, Crime
Actors Glenn Ford, Bette Davis, Hope Lange, Arthur O'Connell, Peter Falk, Mickey Shaughnessy
Roles Detective Briscoe (uncredited)
Rating71%
Dave the Dude (Glenn Ford) is a successful, very superstitious New York City gangster who buys apples from street peddler Apple Annie (Bette Davis) to bring him good luck. On the eve of a very important meeting, he finds Annie terribly upset.
North to Alaska (1960)
, 1h57Directed by John Wayne, Henry Hathaway
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure, Romance, Western
Themes Musical films, Children's films
Actors Stewart Granger, John Wayne, Capucine, Fabian Forte, Ernie Kovacs, Mickey Shaughnessy
Roles Salvation Army Leader
Rating68%
After finding gold in Nome, Alaska, George Pratt (Stewart Granger) sends partner Sam McCord (John Wayne) to Seattle, Washington to bring back his fiancée, a French girl whom Sam has never met.
Spartacus (1960)
, 3h4Directed by Stanley Kubrick, Anthony Mann
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Adventure, Historical, Peplum
Themes Films about slavery, Films about sexuality, Sports films, Bisexuality-related films, LGBT-related films, Political films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton, Peter Ustinov, John Gavin
Roles Otho (uncredited)
Rating78%
In the 1st century BC, the Roman Republic has slid into corruption, its menial work done by armies of slaves. One of these, a proud and gifted man named Spartacus, is so uncooperative in his servitude that he is sentenced to fight as a gladiator. He is trained at a school run by the unctuous Roman businessman Lentulus Batiatus, who instructs Spartacus's trainer Marcellus to bully the slave mercilessly and break his spirit. Amid the abuse, Spartacus forms a quiet relationship with a serving woman named Varinia, whom he refuses to rape when she is sent to "entertain" him in his cell.