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Stanley Sheff is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter and Editor American
Stanley Sheff (also known as Maxwell DeMille) is a Hollywood born director and writer. He has worked in television, stage and screen. His collaboration with Orson Welles eventually led Sheff to direct the cult science fiction feature Lobster Man From Mars starring Tony Curtis, based on a title suggested by Welles. Feature films and television are not the only types of projects directed by Stanley Sheff. In the early 1980s he produced, directed and performed a popular comedy radio show for KROQ-FM radio in Los Angeles called "The Young Marquis And Stanley", a zany comedy show that was aired on Sunday evenings.
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Filmography of Stanley Sheff (4 films)
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Return to Babylon (2013)
, 1h15Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Jennifer Tilly, María Conchita Alonso, Debi Mazar, Ione Skye, Laura Harring, Tippi Hedren
Roles Douglas Fairbanks
Rating60%
Photographed with a hand-cranked camera and scored with music of the roaring twenties, this silent film strings together the lives of the most famous and infamous stars of the 1920s, including Rudolph Valentino, Gloria Swanson, Clara Bow, Lupe Vélez, Fatty Arbuckle, and William Desmond Taylor.
Waxwork II: Lost in Time (1992)
, 1h44Directed by Anthony Hickox
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantastic, Comedy, Horror comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Medical-themed films, Time travel films, Frankenstein films, Ghost films, Vampires in film, Zombie films, Films about viral outbreaks, Comedy horror films, Disaster films
Actors Zach Galligan, Alexandre Godounov, Monika Schnarre, Martin Kemp, Martin Kemp, Bruce Campbell
Roles Speaker for Jury
Rating53%
The film opens with a reenactment of final scenes of Waxwork, with Mark and Sarah leaving the burning waxwork (the part of Sarah having been recast from the first film). The disembodied zombie hand from the first film follows Sarah to her run-down flat and kills her stepfather with a hammer, a murder for which Sarah is blamed. No one believes her story about the evil waxwork.
Lobster Man from Mars (1989)
, 1h22Directed by Stanley Sheff
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Comic science fiction
Themes Space adventure films, Mars in film, Comedy science fiction films, Martiens, Comedy horror films, Space opera, Films about extraterrestrial life
Actors Tony Curtis, Patrick Macnee, Deborah Foreman, Dean Jacobson, Anthony Hickox, Philip Proctor
Roles Space Bat / Brainex (voices)
Rating54%
Young filmmaker Stevie Horowitz (Dean Jacobson) eagerly awaits a meeting with big shot Hollywood film producer J.P. Shelldrake (Tony Curtis). Shelldrake has been desperately searching for a way to avoid problems with the IRS and unpaid millions owed them in back taxes. His brilliant yet overpaid accountant (Phil Proctor) devises a scheme to allow the producer to write off the expenses of his next movie release, but only if the film is a box office flop. Armed with his foolproof plan, Shelldrake agrees to meet with Stevie and screen his film "Lobster Man From Mars" (financed by Stevie's jailed con man Uncle Joey). The plot resembles the premise of The Producers by Mel Brooks.
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Lobster Man from Mars (1989)
, 1h22Directed by Stanley Sheff
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Comic science fiction
Themes Space adventure films, Mars in film, Comedy science fiction films, Martiens, Comedy horror films, Space opera, Films about extraterrestrial life
Actors Tony Curtis, Patrick Macnee, Deborah Foreman, Dean Jacobson, Anthony Hickox, Philip Proctor
Rating54%
Young filmmaker Stevie Horowitz (Dean Jacobson) eagerly awaits a meeting with big shot Hollywood film producer J.P. Shelldrake (Tony Curtis). Shelldrake has been desperately searching for a way to avoid problems with the IRS and unpaid millions owed them in back taxes. His brilliant yet overpaid accountant (Phil Proctor) devises a scheme to allow the producer to write off the expenses of his next movie release, but only if the film is a box office flop. Armed with his foolproof plan, Shelldrake agrees to meet with Stevie and screen his film "Lobster Man From Mars" (financed by Stevie's jailed con man Uncle Joey). The plot resembles the premise of The Producers by Mel Brooks.
Scriptwriter
Return to Babylon (2013)
, 1h15Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Jennifer Tilly, María Conchita Alonso, Debi Mazar, Ione Skye, Laura Harring, Tippi Hedren
Roles Writer
Rating60%
Photographed with a hand-cranked camera and scored with music of the roaring twenties, this silent film strings together the lives of the most famous and infamous stars of the 1920s, including Rudolph Valentino, Gloria Swanson, Clara Bow, Lupe Vélez, Fatty Arbuckle, and William Desmond Taylor.
Lobster Man from Mars (1989)
, 1h22Directed by Stanley Sheff
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Comic science fiction
Themes Space adventure films, Mars in film, Comedy science fiction films, Martiens, Comedy horror films, Space opera, Films about extraterrestrial life
Actors Tony Curtis, Patrick Macnee, Deborah Foreman, Dean Jacobson, Anthony Hickox, Philip Proctor
Roles Writer
Rating54%
Young filmmaker Stevie Horowitz (Dean Jacobson) eagerly awaits a meeting with big shot Hollywood film producer J.P. Shelldrake (Tony Curtis). Shelldrake has been desperately searching for a way to avoid problems with the IRS and unpaid millions owed them in back taxes. His brilliant yet overpaid accountant (Phil Proctor) devises a scheme to allow the producer to write off the expenses of his next movie release, but only if the film is a box office flop. Armed with his foolproof plan, Shelldrake agrees to meet with Stevie and screen his film "Lobster Man From Mars" (financed by Stevie's jailed con man Uncle Joey). The plot resembles the premise of The Producers by Mel Brooks.
Editor
Return to Babylon (2013)
, 1h15Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Jennifer Tilly, María Conchita Alonso, Debi Mazar, Ione Skye, Laura Harring, Tippi Hedren
Rating60%
Photographed with a hand-cranked camera and scored with music of the roaring twenties, this silent film strings together the lives of the most famous and infamous stars of the 1920s, including Rudolph Valentino, Gloria Swanson, Clara Bow, Lupe Vélez, Fatty Arbuckle, and William Desmond Taylor.
Lobster Man from Mars (1989)
, 1h22Directed by Stanley Sheff
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Comic science fiction
Themes Space adventure films, Mars in film, Comedy science fiction films, Martiens, Comedy horror films, Space opera, Films about extraterrestrial life
Actors Tony Curtis, Patrick Macnee, Deborah Foreman, Dean Jacobson, Anthony Hickox, Philip Proctor
Roles Editor
Rating54%
Young filmmaker Stevie Horowitz (Dean Jacobson) eagerly awaits a meeting with big shot Hollywood film producer J.P. Shelldrake (Tony Curtis). Shelldrake has been desperately searching for a way to avoid problems with the IRS and unpaid millions owed them in back taxes. His brilliant yet overpaid accountant (Phil Proctor) devises a scheme to allow the producer to write off the expenses of his next movie release, but only if the film is a box office flop. Armed with his foolproof plan, Shelldrake agrees to meet with Stevie and screen his film "Lobster Man From Mars" (financed by Stevie's jailed con man Uncle Joey). The plot resembles the premise of The Producers by Mel Brooks.
KGB: The Secret War (1985)
, 1h29Directed by Dwight H. Little
Origin USA
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors Michael Billington, Denise DuBarry, Michael Ansara, Walter Gotell, Sally Kellerman, Paul Linke
Roles Editor
Rating40%
A spy thriller about a KGB agent operating inside the U.S. who wants to defect. The agent steals top secret computer microchips as barter material to switch sides and is hunted by a U.S. agent.