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Richard Talmadge is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter, Assistant Director and Stunts American born on 3 december 1892

Richard Talmadge

Richard Talmadge
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Birth name Sylvester Metzetti
Nationality USA
Birth 3 december 1892
Death 25 january 1981 (at 88 years)

Richard Talmadge né Sylvester Metzetti le 3 décembre 1892 à Munich et mort le 25 janvier 1981 à Carmel-by-the-Sea en Californie, est un acteur, réalisateur et producteur de cinéma américain d'origine allemande.

Biography

Avec ses frères, Victor (1895-1949) et Otto Metzetti (1890-1949), il se produit comme voltigeur avec le numéro acrobatique The Flying Metzettis. Ils mettent au point notamment le quadruple saut depuis la bascule suivi d'une arrivée dans un fauteuil, performance remarquable pour l'époque (1917). Au cinéma, Richard Talmage commence sa carrière comme cascadeur, doublant tout d’abord Slim Summerville et Douglas Fairbanks, avant de lui-même obtenir des rôles d’envergure. Avec le développement du cinéma parlant, son fort accent allemand constitue un obstacle à sa carrière hollywoodienne, mais son ami Henry Hathaway lui offre la possibilité de s'essayer en tant que coordinateur de cascades et assistant réalisateur.

Parmi ses nombreux films, citons American Manner, Dancing Dynamite, Speed Madness et la série des Pirate Treasure.

Il a réalisé Project Moonbase (1953).

Mort d'un cancer, l'artiste est enterré à Inglewood Park Cemetery en Californie.

Best films

How the West Was Won (1962)
(Second Unit Director)
Hawaii (1966)
(Director)
Circus World (1964)
(Director)

Usually with

Roy Jenson
Roy Jenson
(2 films)
Woody Allen
Woody Allen
(2 films)
Richard Fryer
Richard Fryer
(2 films)
Peter Sellers
Peter Sellers
(3 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Richard Talmadge (29 films)

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Actor

Hitler's Madman
Directed by Douglas Sirk
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes Political films
Actors Patricia Morison, John Carradine, Alan Curtis, Howard Freeman, Ralph Morgan, Edgar Kennedy
Rating64% 3.245473.245473.245473.245473.24547
En 1942, de passage dans le petit village tchèque de Lidice, Reinhard Heydrich, Reichsprotektor de Bohême, commandant en chef du gouvernement nazi en Tchécoslovaquie (Protectorat de Bohême-Moravie), est mortellement blessé lors d'un attentat commis par deux résistants (l'opération Anthropoid). En représailles, Lidice est détruit, une partie de ses habitants fusillés, les autres déportés...
The Live Wire, 57minutes
Directed by Harry S. Webb
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Action, Romance
Actors Richard Talmadge, Alberta Vaughn, George Walsh, George Chesebro, Charles K. French, Sam McDaniel
Roles 2nd Mate Dick Nelson
Rating49% 2.4785952.4785952.4785952.4785952.478595
Two Professors find an ancient vase at a shop, on the docks. They track down, Dick Nelson (Richard Talmadge), the sailor who sold it, after finding it on an island, where he was shipwrecked, as a boy.
Pirate Treasure
Directed by Ray Taylor
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Pirate films
Actors Richard Talmadge, Lucille Lund, Walter Miller, Patrick H. O'Malley Jr., Ethan Allen Laidlaw, William Desmond
Roles Dick Moreland
Rating55% 2.787242.787242.787242.787242.78724
Aviator Dick Moreland uses his winnings from a recent flight to fund an expedition to recover treasure buried his pirate ancestor. However, Stanley Brasset, another member of Moreland's club, steals his map and sets out to find the treasure for himself. Dorothy Craig becomes involved when Dick needs her car to chase Brasset's henchmen and recover the map, which results in Dorothy being kidnapped and requiring rescue by Dick. When told of the treasure, Dorothy offers her father's yacht to take them to the island. Unable to retain the map, Brasset joins the expedition (his identity as the villain unknown to the protagonists) with henchmen hidden aboard. The henchmen are discovered and attempt to take over the ship en route to the Caribbean but this fails. Brasset releases them again after arrival to stop Dick from recovering the treasure. The treasure chest itself is empty and the search by the two parties continues on the island. Island natives eventually capture Brasset and his henchmen and plan to sacrifice them. Dick intervenes and they are brought back to America as prisoners.
The Cavalier
Directed by Irvin Willat
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Western
Actors Barbara Bedford, Richard Talmadge, Nora Cecil, David Torrence
Rating56% 2.844432.844432.844432.844432.84443
The story takes place in old Mexico, where a masked rider (Talmadge) and an impoverished girl (Bedford) fall in love, against her father's wishes. When she leaves with him, her father sends his gang in a chase after the two lovers.

Director

Casino Royale, 2h11
Directed by Robert Parrish, John Huston, Ken Hughes, Val Guest, Richard Talmadge, Joseph McGrath
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure, Spy
Themes Films about children, Spy films, Politique, Films about terrorism, Political films
Actors David Niven, Peter Sellers, Ursula Andress, Orson Welles, Woody Allen, William Holden
Rating50% 2.5034052.5034052.5034052.5034052.503405
The story of Casino Royale is told in an episodic format. Val Guest oversaw the assembly of the sections, although he turned down the credit of "co-ordinating director".
The Last Safari, 1h50
Directed by Henry Hathaway, Richard Talmadge
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Adventure
Themes Films set in Africa
Actors Kaz Garas, Stewart Granger, Liam Redmond, John Sutton
Rating52% 2.6243252.6243252.6243252.6243252.624325
Un chasseur désabusé souhaite arrêter d'être guide de safaris alors qu'un touriste richissime demande avec insistance ses services.
Hawaii
Hawaii (1966)
, 3h9
Directed by George Roy Hill, James Blue, Richard Talmadge
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Historical, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Julie Andrews, Max von Sydow, Gene Hackman, Jocelyne LaGarde, Richard Harris, Carroll O'Connor
Rating64% 3.248513.248513.248513.248513.24851
The story follows Prince Keoki Kanakoa, the Reverend Abner Hale and his wife Jerusha, who join the prince on mission to the Islands of Hawaii for the Calvinist church with the promise to make Kanakoa a minister. Upon their arrival to the islands, the ship stops in Lahaina, Maui before going on to Honolulu, Oahu where the main church has been established. There they are greeted by the aliʻi nui, Malama Kanakoa, Keoki's mother, who stops the Hales from traveling further when she demands Jerusha remain in Lahaina to teach her to write. Reverend Hale attempts to teach her of the Christian God first but she refuses until she, herself can write. Only after that will she listen to Abner's Christian teachings. As Hale learns, there is a serious difference between a destiny calling to him and the call to recognize the needs of others.
After the Fox, 1h43
Directed by Vittorio De Sica, Giorgio Stegani, Richard Talmadge
Origin Italie
Genres Comedy, Comedy thriller, Crime
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Heist films
Actors Peter Sellers, Britt Ekland, Paolo Stoppa, Victor Mature, Tino Buazzelli, Vittorio De Sica
Rating63% 3.197623.197623.197623.197623.19762
The story begins in Cairo where Okra (Akim Tamiroff), using a bikini-clad accomplice (Maria Grazia Buccella) as a distraction, hijacks $3 million in gold bullion. The thieves need a way to smuggle the two tons of gold bars into Europe. There are only four master criminals considered able to smuggle the gold: one is French (but so crippled he can barely move his wheelchair); one is Irish (but so nearsighted that he is arrested after trying to hold up a police station instead of a bank); one is German (but so fat he can barely get through a door). The only man cunning enough to outwit Interpol is Aldo Vanucci (Peter Sellers), also known as The Fox, a master criminal with a talent for disguise.
John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!, 1h36
Directed by John Flynn, J. Lee Thompson, Richard Talmadge
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Sports films, Children's films
Actors Shirley MacLaine, Peter Ustinov, Richard Crenna, Jim Backus, Scott Brady, Fred Clark
Rating51% 2.555942.555942.555942.555942.55594
The comic spoof of the Cold War was inspired by a May 1960 incident involving American Francis Gary Powers, a CIA operative whose U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union, sparking an international diplomatic incident. Blatty's tale concerns John "Wrong-Way" Goldfarb, a former college football star who once ran 95 yards for a touchdown in the wrong direction. Now a U-2 pilot, his plane malfunctions and crashes in the mythical Arab kingdom of Fawzia.
Circus World, 2h16
Directed by Henry Hathaway, Richard Talmadge
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Western
Themes Circus films
Actors John Wayne, Claudia Cardinale, Rita Hayworth, Lloyd Nolan, John Smith, Richard Conte
Rating61% 3.050263.050263.050263.050263.05026
In 1901, Matt Masters (John Wayne), a Wild West circus star in the mold of Buffalo Bill Cody, bought a bankrupt circus in 1885 and successfully rebuilt it into a combination three ring and Wild West extravaganza, mixing Wild West Show acts with conventional circus acts in a winning combination. He has successfully toured the United States for more than a decade. Now that the century is about to turn, he wants to take his show to Europe.
Rampage
Rampage (1963)
, 1h38
Directed by Phil Karlson, Richard Talmadge
Origin USA
Genres Adventure
Actors Robert Mitchum, Jack Hawkins, Sabu, Elsa Martinelli, Émile Genest, Stefan Schnabel
Rating55% 2.75432.75432.75432.75432.7543
Stanton, un chasseur de fauves, est chargé de capturer des panthères en Malaysie pour le compte d'un zoo allemand. Pour cette mission, il est accompagné d'Otto Abbott, un célèbre trappeur et d'Anna Giorgio, sa secrétaire. Une liaison s'établit bientôt entre Anna et Stanton, qui va faire monter la tension entre les 2 hommes.
Flaming Star, 1h41
Directed by Don Siegel, Michael D. Moore, Richard Talmadge
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Romance, Western
Themes Children's films
Actors Elvis Presley, Barbara Eden, Dolores del Río, Steve Forrest, Rodolfo Acosta, John McIntire
Rating64% 3.2487553.2487553.2487553.2487553.248755
Elvis Presley plays Pacer Burton, the son of a Kiowa mother and a Texan father working as a rancher. His family, including a half-brother, Clint, live a typical life on the Texan frontier. Life becomes anything but typical when a nearby tribe of Kiowa begin raiding neighboring homesteads. Pacer soon finds himself caught between the two worlds, part of both but belonging to neither.