Connection
Collier Young is a Actor, Scriptwriter and Producer American born on 19 august 1908 at Asheville (USA)
Collier Young (August 19, 1908 - December 25, 1980) was an American film producer and writer, who worked on many films in the 1950s before becoming a television producer for such shows as NBC's Ironside and CBS's The Wild, Wild West as well as the supernatural series One Step Beyond (1959–61).
Young was married to actress and director Ida Lupino from 1948 to 1951, and to actress Joan Fontaine from 1952 to 1961; both marriages ended in divorce. His film production credits included Outrage and The Hitch-Hiker, both with Lupino as director.
After his divorce from Lupino, he was executive director of her 1957-1958 CBS sitcom Mr. Adams and Eve, co-starring Lupino's then husband Howard Duff.
In 1969 Young planned a film called The Todd Dossier, based on a story by Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne and novelised by Robert Bloch. The film was never made; Bloch, who had contracted for a paperback release, was shocked to learn that the producer had placed his own name on the book as author when it was published in hardcover editions (by Delacorte Press in the USA and by Macmillan in the UK).
Young died on Christmas Day 1980 from a road accident at the age of 72.
Source : Wikidata
Collier Young
Nationality USA
Birth 19 august 1908 at Asheville (USA)
Death 25 december 1980 (at 72 years) at Santa Monica (USA)
Birth 19 august 1908 at Asheville (USA)
Death 25 december 1980 (at 72 years) at Santa Monica (USA)
Young was married to actress and director Ida Lupino from 1948 to 1951, and to actress Joan Fontaine from 1952 to 1961; both marriages ended in divorce. His film production credits included Outrage and The Hitch-Hiker, both with Lupino as director.
After his divorce from Lupino, he was executive director of her 1957-1958 CBS sitcom Mr. Adams and Eve, co-starring Lupino's then husband Howard Duff.
In 1969 Young planned a film called The Todd Dossier, based on a story by Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne and novelised by Robert Bloch. The film was never made; Bloch, who had contracted for a paperback release, was shocked to learn that the producer had placed his own name on the book as author when it was published in hardcover editions (by Delacorte Press in the USA and by Macmillan in the UK).
Young died on Christmas Day 1980 from a road accident at the age of 72.
Usually with
Filmography of Collier Young (9 films)
Actor
Add to a movie list
The Bigamist (1953)
, 1h20Directed by Ida Lupino
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about marriage
Actors Joan Fontaine, Ida Lupino, Edmond O'Brien, Edmund Gwenn, Kenneth Tobey, Jane Darwell
Roles Canton Cafe Barfly
Rating67%
Harry (Edmond O'Brien) and Eve Graham (Joan Fontaine) want to adopt a child, as Eve is infertile. Adoption agent Mr Jordan (Edmund Gwenn) warns the couple that he would need to investigate them thoroughly. Harry looks curiously at Jordan, something that worries Jordan.
The Hitch-Hiker (1953)
, 1h11Directed by Ida Lupino
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Noir, Crime
Themes Transport films, Films about automobiles, Road movies
Actors Edmond O'Brien, Frank Lovejoy, William Talman, José Torvay, Natividad Vácio, Collier Young
Roles Sleeping Mexican Peon
Rating68%
Two men (Edmond O'Brien and Frank Lovejoy) from El Centro, California are driving toward a planned fishing trip at the Mexican town of San Felipe on the Gulf of California. Just south of Mexicali, they pick up a hitchhiker named Emmett Myers (William Talman), whose stolen car has apparently run out of gas. Myers turns out to be a psychopath who has committed multiple murders while hitch-hiking between Illinois and Southern California, and has managed to slip into Mexico at Mexicali. In order to evade the pursuing authorities, Myers forces the two men at gunpoint to journey deep into the heart of the Baja California Peninsula, toward the town of Santa Rosalía, where he plans to take a ferry across the Gulf of California.
Scriptwriter
Private Hell 36 (1954)
, 1h21Directed by Don Siegel
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Steve Cochran, Howard Duff, Ida Lupino, Dean Jagger, Dorothy Malone, James Anderson
Roles Writer
Rating66%
L.A. police detectives Cal Bruner (Steve Cochran) and Jack Farnham (Howard Duff) get in over their heads when they decide to split up thousands of dollars they found on a recently killed counterfeiter. To make matters worse, they are assigned by their police captain to look for the missing cash.
The Bigamist (1953)
, 1h20Directed by Ida Lupino
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about marriage
Actors Joan Fontaine, Ida Lupino, Edmond O'Brien, Edmund Gwenn, Kenneth Tobey, Jane Darwell
Rating67%
Harry (Edmond O'Brien) and Eve Graham (Joan Fontaine) want to adopt a child, as Eve is infertile. Adoption agent Mr Jordan (Edmund Gwenn) warns the couple that he would need to investigate them thoroughly. Harry looks curiously at Jordan, something that worries Jordan.
The Hitch-Hiker (1953)
, 1h11Directed by Ida Lupino
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Noir, Crime
Themes Transport films, Films about automobiles, Road movies
Actors Edmond O'Brien, Frank Lovejoy, William Talman, José Torvay, Natividad Vácio, Collier Young
Rating68%
Two men (Edmond O'Brien and Frank Lovejoy) from El Centro, California are driving toward a planned fishing trip at the Mexican town of San Felipe on the Gulf of California. Just south of Mexicali, they pick up a hitchhiker named Emmett Myers (William Talman), whose stolen car has apparently run out of gas. Myers turns out to be a psychopath who has committed multiple murders while hitch-hiking between Illinois and Southern California, and has managed to slip into Mexico at Mexicali. In order to evade the pursuing authorities, Myers forces the two men at gunpoint to journey deep into the heart of the Baja California Peninsula, toward the town of Santa Rosalía, where he plans to take a ferry across the Gulf of California.
Outrage (1950)
, 1h15Directed by Ida Lupino, James Anderson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Horror, Crime, Politic
Themes Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction
Actors Mala Powers, Tod Andrews, Robert Clarke, Hal March, Jerry Paris, Angela Clarke
Rating66%
Une jeune employée de bureau, Ann Walton, ne cesse de fuir, tel un être traqué. Violée, à la veille de son mariage, elle sillonne les routes sans but précis. Une entorse à la cheville la cloue bientôt au sol et lui fait perdre connaissance. Elle est alors recueillie par un pasteur, Bruce Ferguson, qui tente de lui redonner goût à la vie. Mais, lors d'un bal de campagne, un homme l'invite à danser et cherche à l'embrasser. Elle croit revoir son agresseur d'autrefois et, à l'aide d'une clef anglaise, lui assène de terribles coups. Récupérée, elle est arrêtée. Le shérif, Charlie Hanlon, raconte à Ferguson le dur passé d'Ann. Le pasteur prend, dès lors, la défense de la jeune femme devant le juge d'instruction et se porte garant de son rétablissement psychologique.
Never Fear (1950)
, 1h22Directed by Sally Forrest, Ida Lupino, James Anderson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Hugh O'Brian, Sally Forrest, Keefe Brasselle, Lawrence Dobkin, Eve Miller, Kevin O'Morrison
Rating62%
Carol Williams (played by Sally Forrest) is a beautiful young dancer with a promising career, struck down with and crippled by polio. Williams' dance partner and fiancé, Guy Richards (played by Keefe Brasselle), wants to see her through her illness, but Carol struggles with dealing with her recovery and prefers to go it alone. Her father (played by Herb Butterfield) takes her to the Kabat-Kaiser Institute for rehabilitation, where she meets fellow patients in recovery. One of the patients that inspire Carol's recovery is Len Randall (Hugh O'Brian in his first movie role). Only by allowing others to share her grief is Ms Williams able to pull herself together and go on with her life.
Act of Violence (1949)
, 1h22Directed by Fred Zinnemann, John Sturges
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Actors Van Heflin, Robert Ryan, Janet Leigh, Bruce Bennett, Volkert Kraeft, Elsa Lanchester
Roles Story
Rating74%
Frank Enley (Van Heflin), returns home from World War II after surviving a German POW camp where the rest of his comrades had been murdered by guards during an escape attempt. The "war hero" is respected and praised for his fine character and good works in the California town of Santa Lisa, where he, his young wife and baby had settled after moving from the East. What his wife doesn't know is that Frank relocated them to get away from Joe Parkson (Robert Ryan), once his best friend, who also lived through the ordeal, though he was left with a crippled leg. In exchange for food, Frank had alerted the Nazi camp commander to their escape plans, thinking wrongly that the men would not be punished, and Joe is now determined finally to exact justice on Frank, whose location he has learned from a newspaper story commending him for his civic endeavors.
Producer
The Halliday Brand (1957)
, 1h19Directed by Joseph H. Lewis
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Joseph Cotten, Viveca Lindfors, Betsy Blair, Ward Bond, Bill Williams, Jay C. Flippen
Roles Producer
Rating62%
Daniel and Martha Halliday, son and daughter of the powerful Big Dan, strenuously object to his bigotry and violence. When he leads the lynching of her half-breed beau, Jivaro Burris, it is the last straw.
Private Hell 36 (1954)
, 1h21Directed by Don Siegel
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Steve Cochran, Howard Duff, Ida Lupino, Dean Jagger, Dorothy Malone, James Anderson
Roles Producer
Rating66%
L.A. police detectives Cal Bruner (Steve Cochran) and Jack Farnham (Howard Duff) get in over their heads when they decide to split up thousands of dollars they found on a recently killed counterfeiter. To make matters worse, they are assigned by their police captain to look for the missing cash.
The Bigamist (1953)
, 1h20Directed by Ida Lupino
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about marriage
Actors Joan Fontaine, Ida Lupino, Edmond O'Brien, Edmund Gwenn, Kenneth Tobey, Jane Darwell
Roles Producer
Rating67%
Harry (Edmond O'Brien) and Eve Graham (Joan Fontaine) want to adopt a child, as Eve is infertile. Adoption agent Mr Jordan (Edmund Gwenn) warns the couple that he would need to investigate them thoroughly. Harry looks curiously at Jordan, something that worries Jordan.
The Hitch-Hiker (1953)
, 1h11Directed by Ida Lupino
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Noir, Crime
Themes Transport films, Films about automobiles, Road movies
Actors Edmond O'Brien, Frank Lovejoy, William Talman, José Torvay, Natividad Vácio, Collier Young
Roles Producer
Rating68%
Two men (Edmond O'Brien and Frank Lovejoy) from El Centro, California are driving toward a planned fishing trip at the Mexican town of San Felipe on the Gulf of California. Just south of Mexicali, they pick up a hitchhiker named Emmett Myers (William Talman), whose stolen car has apparently run out of gas. Myers turns out to be a psychopath who has committed multiple murders while hitch-hiking between Illinois and Southern California, and has managed to slip into Mexico at Mexicali. In order to evade the pursuing authorities, Myers forces the two men at gunpoint to journey deep into the heart of the Baja California Peninsula, toward the town of Santa Rosalía, where he plans to take a ferry across the Gulf of California.
Beware, My Lovely (1952)
, 1h17Directed by Harry Horner
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan, O. Z. Whitehead, William Talman
Roles Producer
Rating65%
The film is set in 1918 in an unnamed small town. A widow (Lupino) impulsively hires handyman (Ryan) to look after her house. She soon learns Ryan is a dangerous schizophrenic, but by the time she comes to this realization she is unable to leave her house and escape from him.
Hard, Fast and Beautiful (1951)
, 1h18Directed by Ida Lupino, James Anderson
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Sports films, Tennis films
Actors Claire Trevor, Sally Forrest, Carleton G. Young, Robert Clarke, Robert C. Schnitzer, Joseph Kearns
Roles Producer
Rating61%
Florence Farley, a girl from Santa Monica, California in her late teens, and a tennis prodigy, is torn between fulfilling the dreams of her ambitious mother Millie, who has planned her tennis career, or her own dreams of being with the man she loves.
Outrage (1950)
, 1h15Directed by Ida Lupino, James Anderson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Horror, Crime, Politic
Themes Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction
Actors Mala Powers, Tod Andrews, Robert Clarke, Hal March, Jerry Paris, Angela Clarke
Roles Producer
Rating66%
Une jeune employée de bureau, Ann Walton, ne cesse de fuir, tel un être traqué. Violée, à la veille de son mariage, elle sillonne les routes sans but précis. Une entorse à la cheville la cloue bientôt au sol et lui fait perdre connaissance. Elle est alors recueillie par un pasteur, Bruce Ferguson, qui tente de lui redonner goût à la vie. Mais, lors d'un bal de campagne, un homme l'invite à danser et cherche à l'embrasser. Elle croit revoir son agresseur d'autrefois et, à l'aide d'une clef anglaise, lui assène de terribles coups. Récupérée, elle est arrêtée. Le shérif, Charlie Hanlon, raconte à Ferguson le dur passé d'Ann. Le pasteur prend, dès lors, la défense de la jeune femme devant le juge d'instruction et se porte garant de son rétablissement psychologique.