Henry Mancini is a Actor, Director, Musical, Sound and Additional Music American born on 16 april 1924 at Cleveland (USA)
Henry Mancini
Henry Mancini participated to
164 films (as actor, director or script writer).
Among those,
16 have good markets following the box office.
Here are the best films classified by number of entries :
Sound
, 2h2
Directed by Blake EdwardsOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Romantic comedy,
RomanceThemes Films about sexuality,
Erotic filmsActors Dudley Moore,
Julie Andrews,
Robert Webber,
Dee Wallace,
Bo Derek,
Sam J. JonesRoles Original Music Composer
Rating60%
During a surprise 42nd birthday party for wealthy, well-known composer George Webber (Dudley Moore), thrown by his actress girlfriend Samantha Taylor (Julie Andrews), he finds he's coping badly with incipient middle age. From his car, George glimpses a bride-to-be (Bo Derek) and is instantly obsessed by her beauty, following her to the church, where he crashes into a police cruiser, is stung by a bee and nearly disrupts the wedding ceremony., 1h54
Directed by Arthur HillerOrigin USAGenres Thriller,
Comedy,
Action,
Crime,
RomanceThemes Transport films,
Rail transport films,
Buddy films,
Children's filmsActors Gene Wilder,
Jill Clayburgh,
Patrick McGoohan,
Richard Pryor,
Ned Beatty,
Richard KielRoles Original Music Composer
Rating68%
Book editor George Caldwell (Wilder) travels from Los Angeles to Chicago for his sister's wedding aboard a train called the Silver Streak. On board, George meets a vitamin salesman named Bob Sweet (Beatty) and a woman named Hilly Burns (Clayburgh). Hilly works for Professor Schreiner, a well-known art historian who is on a publicity tour for his new book about Rembrandt., 1h14
Directed by Ron Clements,
Burny Mattinson,
John MuskerOrigin USAGenres Comedy,
Adventure,
Musical,
Crime,
AnimationThemes Films about animals,
Mise en scène d'un rongeur,
Sherlock Holmes films,
Musical films,
Mise en scène d'une souris,
Buddy films,
Children's films,
Mise en scène d'un mammifèreActors Barrie Ingham,
Val Bettin,
Vincent Price,
Candy Candido,
Alan Young,
Frank WelkerRoles Songs
Rating70%
In London, circa 1897, a young mouse named Olivia Flaversham is celebrating her birthday with her toymaker father, Hiram. Suddenly, Fidget, a bat with a peg leg, barges in, and after a brief struggle, disappears with Hiram. Fidget takes Hiram to Professor Ratigan who commands him to create a clockwork robot which mimics the Queen of the Mice so Ratigan can rule England. Hiram initially refuses to participate in the scheme, but agrees when Ratigan threatens Olivia., 1h43
Directed by Blake EdwardsOrigin United-kingdomGenres Comedy,
Comedy thriller,
CrimeThemes Heist films,
Gangster films,
EscroquerieActors Peter Sellers,
Herbert Lom,
Lesley-Anne Down,
Burt Kwouk,
Leonard Rossiter,
Colin BlakelyRoles Conductor
Rating70%
At a psychiatric hospital, former Chief Inspector Charles Dreyfus (Herbert Lom) is largely recovered from his obsession to kill the new Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau (Peter Sellers) and is about to be released when Clouseau, arriving to speak on Dreyfus' behalf, drives Dreyfus insane again. Dreyfus promptly escapes from the asylum and once again tries to kill Clouseau by planting a bomb while the Inspector (by periodic arrangement) duels with his manservant Cato (Burt Kwouk). The bomb destroys Clouseau's apartment and injures Cato, but Clouseau himself is unharmed, being lifted from the room by an inflatable disguise. Determining a more elaborate plan is needed, Dreyfus enlists an army of criminals to his cause and kidnaps nuclear physicist Professor Hugo Fassbender (Richard Vernon) and the Professor's daughter Margo (Briony McRoberts), forcing the professor to build a "doomsday weapon" in return for his daughter's freedom., 2h12
Directed by Blake EdwardsOrigin USAGenres Comedy,
Musical theatre,
Romantic comedy,
Musical,
RomanceThemes Films about music and musicians,
Films about sexuality,
Erotic films,
LGBT-related films,
Transgender in film,
Musical films,
LGBT-related films,
LGBT-related film,
Cross-dressing in filmActors Julie Andrews,
James Garner,
Robert Preston,
Lesley Ann Warren,
Alex Karras,
John Rhys-DaviesRoles Songs
Rating75%
Set in 1934 Paris, the film opens with Richard Di Nardo, a young hustler, emerging from the bed of middle-aged Carroll Todd (Robert Preston), aka Toddy; Richard dresses, takes money from Toddy's wallet and leaves Toddy's apartment. Going about his day, Toddy, a performer at Chez Lui in Paris, sees Labisse, the club owner, auditioning a frail, impoverished soprano, Victoria Grant (Julie Andrews). After the audition, Labisse drily writes her off, and she responds by sustaining a pitch to shatter his wine glass using resonant frequency. That night, Richard comes to Chez Lui as part of a straight foursome and Toddy incites a brawl by insulting Richard and the women in his group. Labisse fires Toddy and bans him from the club. Walking home, he spots Victoria dining at a restaurant, and she invites him to join her. As neither of them can pay for the meal, she dumps a cockroach in her salad to avoid paying their check, but it escapes and the whole place breaks out in havoc., 2h37
Directed by Blake EdwardsOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Comedy,
Musical theatre,
Romantic comedy,
Action,
Adventure,
Musical,
Romance,
WesternThemes Monde imaginaire,
Sports films,
Transport films,
Films about automobiles,
Auto racing films,
Musical films,
Road moviesActors Jack Lemmon,
Tony Curtis,
William Bryant,
Natalie Wood,
Peter Falk,
Keenan WynnRoles Original Music Composer
Rating71%
The Great Leslie (Tony Curtis) and Professor Fate (Jack Lemmon) are competing daredevils at the turn of the 20th century. Leslie is the classic hero – always dressed in white, handsome, ever-courteous, enormously talented and successful. Leslie's nemesis, Fate, is the traditional melodramatic villain – usually dressed in black, sporting a black moustache and top hat, glowering at most everyone, maniacal evil laugh, grandiose plans to thwart the hero, and dogged by failure. Leslie proposes an automobile race from New York to Paris, to prove the ability of a new car named after him. Fate builds his own race vehicle, the Hannibal Twin-8, complete with hidden devices of sabotage. Others enter cars in the race, including New York City's most prominent newspaper. Driving the newspaper's car is beautiful photojournalist Maggie DuBois (Natalie Wood), a vocal suffragette., 2h15
Directed by Jack Haley Jr.Origin USAGenres Documentary,
MusicalThemes Films about films,
Films about music and musicians,
Documentary films about business,
Documentary films about the film industry,
Documentary films about cities,
Musical films,
Documentary films about filmsActors Frank Sinatra,
Fred Astaire,
Bing Crosby,
Gene Kelly,
Peter Lawford,
Liza MinnelliRoles Original Music Composer
Rating77%
Cette nostalgique leçon d'histoire recèle les trésors cachés des plus grandes comédies musicales de la MGM ainsi que de nombreux autres extraits merveilleux mais moins célèbres, avec Esther Williams, Jimmy Durante, Eleanor Powell et même Clark Gable chantant et dansant. « Il était une fois Hollywood » est une véritable gourmandise pour cinéphiles et amateurs de comédies musicales., 2h31
Directed by Howard HawksOrigin USAGenres Comedy,
Romantic comedy,
Action,
Adventure,
RomanceThemes Films set in Africa,
Films about animals,
Mise en scène d'un éléphant,
Mise en scène d'un mammifèreActors John Wayne,
Elsa Martinelli,
Hardy Krüger,
Red Buttons,
Gérard Blain,
Bruce CabotRoles Original Music Composer
Rating70%
Hatari! is the story of a group of adventurers in East Africa, engaged in the exciting and lucrative but dangerous business of catching wild animals for delivery to zoos around the world. As "Momella Game Ltd.", they operate from a compound near the town of Arusha. The head of the group is Sean Mercer (John Wayne); the others are safari veteran Little Wolf a/k/a "Indian" (Bruce Cabot), drivers "Pockets" (Red Buttons), and Kurt (Hardy Krüger), roper Luis (a Mexican former bullfighter; Valentin de Vargas), and Brandy (Michele Girardon), a young woman whose late father was a member of the group; she grew up there., 1h55
Directed by Blake EdwardsOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Comedy-drama,
Romantic comedy,
RomanceThemes Films about animals,
Films about writers,
Films about cats,
Mise en scène d'un mammifèreActors Audrey Hepburn,
George Peppard,
Patricia Neal,
Martin Balsam,
Buddy Ebsen,
Mickey RooneyRoles Songs
Rating76%
One early morning, a yellow taxi pulls up at Tiffany & Co. on Fifth Avenue in New York City, from which elegantly dressed Holly Golightly (Audrey Hepburn) emerges. Standing outside the shop looking into the windows, she nibbles on pastry and drinks coffee she brought with her, then strolls home to go to bed. Outside her apartment, she fends off her date Sid Arbuck (Claude Stroud) from the disastrous night before. Later in the day she is awakened by new neighbor-tenant, Paul Varjak (George Peppard), ringing her doorbell to get into the building. The pair chat as she dresses to leave for her weekly visit to Sally Tomato (Alan Reed), a mobster incarcerated at Sing Sing prison. Tomato's lawyer O'Shaughnessy pays her $100 a week to receive "the weather report., 1h57
Directed by Blake EdwardsOrigin USAGenres Drama,
RomanceThemes Films about alcoholism,
Medical-themed films,
Films about drugsActors Jack Lemmon,
Lee Remick,
Charles Bickford,
Jack Klugman,
Alan Hewitt,
Jack AlbertsonRoles Original Music Composer
Rating77%
Public relations man Joe Clay (Jack Lemmon) meets and falls in love with Kirsten Arnesen (Lee Remick), a secretary. Kirsten is a teetotaler until Joe introduces her to social drinking. Reluctant at first, after her first few Brandy Alexanders, she admits that having a drink "made me feel good." Despite the misgivings of her father (Charles Bickford), who runs a San Mateo landscaping business, they get married and give birth to a daughter named Debbie., 1h55
Directed by Anthony MannOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Biography,
Historical,
Musical,
RomanceThemes Films about music and musicians,
Transport films,
Aviation films,
Jazz films,
Musical films,
Political films,
United States Armed Forces in filmsActors James Stewart,
June Allyson,
Harry Morgan,
Charles Drake,
Barton MacLane,
Irving BaconRoles Original Music Composer
Rating72%
The film follows big band leader Glenn Miller (1904–1944) (James Stewart) from his early days in the music business in 1929 through to his 1944 death when the airplane he was flying in was lost over the English Channel during World War II. Prominent placement in the film is given to Miller's courtship and marriage to Helen Burger (June Allyson), and various cameos by actual musicians who were colleagues of Miller.Director
, 1h46
Directed by Maury Gertsman,
Aaron Rosenberg,
Henry Mancini,
William "Bill" Lava,
Jesse HibbsOrigin USAGenres Drama,
War,
Biography,
Action,
Historical,
RomanceThemes Political filmsActors Audie Murphy,
Marshall Thompson,
Charles Drake,
Jack Kelly,
Gregg Palmer,
Paul PicerniRating70%
Young Murphy (Gordon Gebert) grows up in a large, poor sharecropper family in Texas. His father deserts them around 1939–40, leaving his mother (Mary Field) barely able to feed her nine children. As the eldest son, Murphy works from an early age to help support his siblings, and when his mother dies in 1941 he becomes head of the family. His brothers and sisters are sent to an elder sister, Corrine, to whom Murphy sends his GI pay allotment.Sound
, 1h43
Directed by Blake Edwards,
Charles BrackettOrigin USAGenres Comedy,
Musical theatre,
MusicalThemes Films about music and musicians,
Musical filmsActors Bing Crosby,
Fabian Forte,
Tuesday Weld,
Nicole Maurey,
Richard Beymer,
Patrick AdiarteRoles Original Music Composer
Rating60%
Wealthy restauranteur Harvey Howard (Bing Crosby), a self-made man, widower and owner of "Harvey Howard Smokehouses", decides to go back to college at the age of 51 and earn a bachelor's degree. He faces opposition from his grown snobbish children, as well as a generation gap between himself and his much-younger fellow students. The first day in school he finds that just convincing older students, faculty and the admin personnel is a humorous task. He enrolls and receives freshman rooming, and is up front about his determination to be "just another freshman". Being assigned a quad rooming arrangement, this sets the standard for the upcoming years. Dealing with the student press, the dorm adviser and making that first toast with sauerkraut juice to seal their bond to complete their four years together., 1h30
Directed by Charles Jarrott,
Denys Granier-DeferreOrigin United-kingdomGenres Comedy,
Action,
Adventure,
SpyThemes La bande dessinée,
Spy films,
Superhero films,
Political films,
Children's filmsActors Michael Crawford,
Oliver Reed,
Barbara Carrera,
James Hampton,
Dana Elcar,
Vernon DobtcheffRoles Original Music Composer
Rating56%
Woodrow "Woody" Wilkins is an imaginative, yet eccentric, comic book writer and illustrator who demands a sense of realism for his comic book hero "Condorman", to the point where he crafts a Condorman flying suit of his own and launches himself off the Eiffel Tower. The test flight fails as his right wing breaks, sending him crashing into the Seine River. Later after the incident, Woody is asked by his friend, CIA file clerk Harry, to perform what appears to be a civilian paper swap in Istanbul. Upon arriving in Istanbul, he meets a beautiful Soviet named Natalia Rambova, who poses as the Soviet civilian with whom the exchange is supposed to take place, but it is later revealed that she is in fact a KGB spy. Woody does not tell Natalia his real name, and instead fabricates his identity to her as a top American agent code-named "Condorman". During the encounter, Woody fends off a group of would-be assassins and saves her life by sheer luck before accomplishing the paper trade. Impressed by Woody, and disgusted by how she was treated by her lover/boss Krokov when she returns to Moscow, Natalia decides to defect and asks the CIA to have "Condorman" be the agent that helps her., 1h53
Directed by Delbert MannOrigin USAGenres Comedy,
Romantic comedy,
RomanceActors Glenn Ford,
Geraldine Page,
Angela Lansbury,
Barbara Nichols,
Charles Drake,
Mary WickesRoles Original Music Composer
Rating71%
Evie Jackson (Geraldine Page) is a middle-aged, single postmaster who is attending a postmasters' convention in New York City. Honest and somewhat tactless, she has many friends but pines for love. Harry Mork (Glenn Ford) is a womanizing advertising executive who is staying in the same hotel while he finds an apartment. Mork is engaged to Phyllis (Angela Lansbury), a woman from Altoona, Pennsylvania. Mork has been told that Phyllis has a son, whom he assumes from a photo is about 13 years old. But the photo is old and her son, Patrick (Michael Anderson, Jr.), is actually 18 years old and a bohemian. Mork is surprised to discover Patrick's true age. He is also embarrassed by Patrick's casual attitude toward women and nudity, and suspicious of Patrick's seemingly platonic relationship with fellow student Émile Zola Bernkrand (Joanna Crawford).