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Lloyd Bochner is a Actor Canadien born on 29 july 1924 at Toronto (Canada)

Lloyd Bochner

Lloyd Bochner
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Birth name Lloyd Wolfe Bochner
Nationality Canada
Birth 29 july 1924 at Toronto (Canada)
Death 29 october 2005 (at 81 years) at Santa Monica (USA)

Lloyd Wolfe Bochner (July 29, 1924 – October 29, 2005) was a Canadian actor.

Biography

Lloyd Bochner est né dans une famille juive à Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

C'est à l'âge de onze ans dans son Ontario natale qu'il a effectué sa première prestation artistique à la radio.

Étudiant en sociologie à l'université de Toronto, il sert dans la marine canadienne durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale.

De retour au pays, il embrasse avec succès la carrière d'acteur qui lui vaudra d'être récompensé de deux "Liberty Awards Canada's top acteur honor".

En 1951, il part travailler à New York puis en 1953 rejoint la troupe du "Stratford Festival of Canada" où pendant six ans il interprète les rôles de Horatio dans "Hamlet", Orsino dans "Twelfth Night" et Duke Vincentio dans "Measure for Measure," au côté de James Mason.

En 1960 Bochner déménage à Los Angeles où il est covedette de la série télévisée Hong Kong.

En 1963, Bochner interprète un cryptographe du gouvernement dans l'épisode "Comment servir l'homme" de la série "La quatrième dimension" (The Twilight Zone en VO), l'un des meilleurs épisodes de la série.

Au cinéma, dans des seconds rôles, il partage la vedette avec Frank Sinatra (Le Détective en 1968), avec Lee Marvin (Le Point de non-retour en 1967) ou encore avec Barbara Stanwyck (Celui qui n'existait pas en 1964).

C'est à la télévision néanmoins qu'il fait carrière dans toutes les séries de l'époque (Ma sorcière bien-aimée, Les Mystères de l'Ouest, Mission impossible, Hawaï police d'État, Drôles de dames, Hotel, La croisière s'amuse, Galactica, Pour l'amour du risque, Matt Houston, Manimal, Arabesque, Madame est servie...).

Le rôle de Cecil Colby en 1981-1982 dans le feuilleton Dynastie l'immortalise aux yeux du grand public.

Retenu d'abord pour le rôle de Channing Capwell dans le feuilleton Santa Barbara, une attaque cardiaque en 1984 l'éloigne provisoirement du petit écran.

En 1998, il est le cofondateur du " Committee to End Violence", un panel chargé d'étudier l'impact des images violentes sur la culture nord-américaine.

Lloyd Bochner est mort d'un cancer le 29 octobre 2005, à son domicile de Santa Monica, Californie.

Best films

Usually with

Peter Brook
Peter Brook
(1 films)
David Zucker
David Zucker
(1 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Lloyd Bochner (35 films)

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Actor

Legend of the Mummy, 1h36
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror
Actors Louis Gossett Jr., Amy Locane, Eric Lutes, Mark Lindsay Chapman, Lloyd Bochner, Mary Jo Catlett
Roles Abel Trelawny
Rating30% 1.5273051.5273051.5273051.5273051.527305
Margaret Trelawny, fille d'un égyptologue, se met en tête de résoudre une série de meurtres qui auraient été commis par une momie.
Loyal Opposition, 2h
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action
Themes Politique, Political films, White House in fiction
Actors Joan Van Ark, Nick Mancuso, Rick Springfield, Lloyd Bochner, Corbin Bernsen, Don Diamont
Roles President Mark Hayden
Rating33% 1.6815551.6815551.6815551.6815551.681555
When a terrorist surfaces, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General James Metzger (Nick Mancuso) urges President Mark Hayden (Lloyd Bochner) for a military response. However, the President prefers to try negotiating. So, the General takes the President hostage and launches an offensive of his own. The first female Vice President Elizabeth Lane (Joan Van Ark) is the only one who can do something about it and must fight mutineers in the White House to rescue him.
The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear, 1h25
Directed by David Zucker
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Comedy thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Politique, White House in fiction
Actors Leslie Nielsen, Priscilla Presley, George Kennedy, Robert Goulet, Richard Griffiths, Jacqueline Brookes
Roles Baggett
Rating68% 3.449023.449023.449023.449023.44902
Frank Drebin (Leslie Nielsen) is honored at the White House, where President George H. W. Bush (John Roarke) announces that he will base his recommendation for the country's energy program on Dr. Albert Meinheimer's (Richard Griffiths) advice at the National Press Club dinner the following week. The heads of the coal and oil (fossil fuel) and nuclear industries are apparently distressed by this fact, as Dr. Meinheimer is an advocate for renewable energy. Jane Spencer (Priscilla Presley), now working for Dr. Meinheimer, is working late at his research institute, crying about Frank. She spots a man in a red van. A maintenance worker, emptying out garbage cans, discovers a clock with dynamite attached and takes it to the security guards, accidentally triggering it. The next morning, Frank reacquaints himself with Jane as he interviews her about the explosion. He is shown around the institute and meets Jane's boyfriend, Hexagon Oil executive Quentin Hapsburg (Robert Goulet), of whom he becomes exceedingly jealous. Frank's boss, Ed Hocken (George Kennedy), finds him at a lonely blues bar. Meanwhile, at a meeting of the "energy" industry leaders, Hapsburg reveals that he has kidnapped Dr. Meinheimer and found an exact double for him, Earl Hacker, who will give their recommendation to the President endorsing fossil and nuclear fuels.
Millennium
Millennium (1989)
, 1h48
Directed by Michael Anderson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller
Themes Transport films, Time travel films, Aviation films, Films based on science fiction novels
Actors Kris Kristofferson, Cheryl Ladd, Robert Joy, Brent Carver, Al Waxman, Daniel J. Travanti
Roles Walters
Rating56% 2.8474752.8474752.8474752.8474752.847475
The film begins in the cockpit of a U.S. passenger airliner (Boeing 747) in 1989, shortly before they are struck from above by another airliner (McDonnell Douglas DC-10) on a landing approach. The pilot handles the airplane as well as he can while the flight engineer goes back to check on the passenger cabin. He comes back in the cockpit screaming, “They're dead! All of them! They’re burned up!”
Double Agent, 1h28
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Spy
Themes Spy films, Children's films
Actors Michael McKean, Susan Walden, Lloyd Bochner, Alexa Hamilton, John Putch, Lois January
Roles Special Agent Vaughn
Rating7% 0.3845780.3845780.3845780.3845780.384578
Jason Starr is an international spy. While on a mission there was an altercation and Jason disappears. His boss Vaughn then goes to his twin brother Warren Starbinder, a veterinarian, and asks him to pose as Jason so to complete his mission. Warren agrees to do so but the talk will not be easy since he is not a spy. Warren also cannot tell his wife and family what he's doing which makes it hard for him to explain the peculiar ways he is now behaving. He is supposed to deliver a quarter million dollars in exchange for an overlay of a secret document. From being chased by the KGB and an ex-NSB agent who is out for revenge, to spicy car chases and action sequences all the while maintaining his family's trust through deceit, this movie is a comic treat. And the end springs a surprise in the identity of Scorpion, the primary villain.
Louisiana
Louisiana (1984)
, 3h7
Directed by Jacques Demy, Philippe de Broca, Emmanuel Gust
Origin France
Genres Drama, War, Historical, Romance
Actors Margot Kidder, Ian Charleson, Andréa Ferréol, Victor Lanoux, Lloyd Bochner, Len Cariou
Roles Adrien Damvillier
Rating53% 2.678972.678972.678972.678972.67897
L'action se situe en Louisiane au milieu du XIX siècle. Virginia va se battre pour entrer en possession du domaine de Bagatelle.
The Lonely Lady, 1h32
Directed by Peter Sasdy
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Horror
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Pia Zadora, Lloyd Bochner, Bibi Besch, Joseph Cali, Jared Martin, Anthony Holland
Roles Walter Thornton
Rating31% 1.574581.574581.574581.574581.57458
Jerilee Randall (Pia Zadora) is an innocent schoolgirl living in the San Fernando Valley area of California with dreams of becoming a famous screenwriter. Shortly after winning a trophy for her creative writing, she meets Walt (Kerry Shale), the son of famous screenwriter Walter Thornton (Lloyd Bochner), at a party. She goes home with him, along with some other friends, and during a late evening pool party, one of Jerilee's friends (played by Ray Liotta in one of his first roles) beats her, slaps her and then sexually assaults her with a garden hose nozzle.
The Hot Touch, 1h33
Directed by Roger Vadim
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Wayne Rogers, Marie-France Pisier, Lloyd Bochner, Samantha Eggar, Patrick Macnee, Melvyn Douglas
Roles Severo
Rating50% 2.5399852.5399852.5399852.5399852.539985
Wayne, faussaire de génie, devient la proie d'un fou armé d'un rasoir.
Mazes and Monsters, 1h40
Directed by Steven Hilliard Stern
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Fantasy
Actors Tom Hanks, Wendy Crewson, David Wallace, Chris Makepeace, Lloyd Bochner, Peter Donat
Roles Hal
Rating41% 2.0564552.0564552.0564552.0564552.056455
The film opens with a scene that is repeated later in the film in which a reporter meets with police searching a cavern. He is told a Mazes and Monsters game got out of hand.
Riel
Riel (1979)
, 2h30
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical
Themes Political films
Actors Christopher Plummer, Raymond Cloutier, Daniel Gadouas, Roger Blay, Maury Chaykin, Barry Morse
Roles Dr. Schultz
Rating64% 3.23283.23283.23283.23283.2328
Louis Riel (Cloutier) leads the Red River and North-West Rebellions against the Canadian government's expansionist ideas leading up to his capture, trial and execution in 1885.
A Fire in the Sky, 2h30
Directed by Jerry Jameson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction
Themes Films about religion, Films set in the future, Political films, Dystopian films, Impact events in fiction, Disaster films
Actors Richard Crenna, Elizabeth Ashley, David Dukes, Joanna Miles, Lloyd Bochner, Andrew Duggan
Roles Paul Gilliam
Rating59% 2.999282.999282.999282.999282.99928
While reviewing pictures of the planet Jupiter, astronomer Jennifer Dreiser (Joanna Miles) discovers a new comet streaking through space. The joy of finding the comet is short-lived, however, when it is determined that it may hit the Earth in just eight days. Dreiser is summoned to see the President (Andrew Duggan) at his vacation home, along with a number of other experts, to discuss the situation. Astronomer Jason Voight (Richard Crenna), a specialist in near-Earth objects, shocks the group by telling them that the comet will hit within 50 miles of Phoenix. Voight urges the President to order an evacuation of Phoenix and the surrounding area, but the President ultimately leaves that decision in the hands of Arizona's governor, Michael Ritchie (Nicolas Coster). The President does order the MIRV nosecone of a Minuteman ICBM be launched into space aboard a Titan-Centaur rocket, so that an attempt can be made at destroying the comet.
It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time, 1h30
Genres Comedy
Actors Anthony Newley, Stefanie Powers, John Candy, Isaac Hayes, Lloyd Bochner, Yvonne De Carlo
Roles Burton
Rating37% 1.8929751.8929751.8929751.8929751.892975
Sweeney (Anthony Newley) is a playwright on a career decline. He spends much of his time wheedling money and beer out of his artistic friend Moriarty (Isaac Hayes). One of his few highlights is weekly sex with his ex-wife Georgina (Stefanie Powers). She is remarried to a rich but vile construction developer (Henry Ramer), but Sweeney and Georgina are still in love.
The Man in the Glass Booth, 1h57
Directed by Arthur Hiller
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action
Themes Films about religion, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism, Films based on plays
Actors Maximilian Schell, Lois Nettleton, Lawrence Pressman, Luther Adler, Robert H. Harris, Lloyd Bochner
Roles Dr. Churchill
Rating69% 3.49023.49023.49023.49023.4902
Arthur Goldman is Jewish and a Nazi death camp survivor. Now a rich industrialist, he lives in luxury in a Manhattan high-rise. He banters with his assistant Charlie, often shocking him with his outrageousness and irreverence about aspects of Jewish life. One day, Israeli secret agents kidnap Goldman and take him to Israel for trial on charges of being a Nazi war criminal. Goldman's trial forces his accusers to face not only his presumed guilt, but their own as well.