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Ivan Tors is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter, Producer and Original Music Composer Hongrois born on 12 june 1916 at Budapest (Hongrie)
Ivan Tors (born Iván Törzs, June 12, 1916 Budapest, Austria-Hungary – June 4, 1983) was a Hungarian playwright, film director, screenwriter, and film and television producer with an emphasis on non-violent but exciting science fiction, underwater filmed television and films, and films about animals. He started a Miami-based film studio now known as Greenwich Studios, and later a music company.
In 1952 Tors made Storm over Tibet, his first film as co-writer and producer. He began his partnership with fellow Hungarian Andrew Marton with this film.
Long interested in fact-based science fiction (often with an underwater setting), Tors partnered with actor Richard Carlson in the 1950s to create A-Men Films, a production company devoted to making movies about its own fictitious exploits.
Under the A-Men banner, Tors wrote and produced films such as The Magnetic Monster (1951), Riders to the Stars (1954), Gog (1954) and the TV series Science Fiction Theatre, Sea Hunt, and The Aquanauts (starring Keith Larsen, Jeremy Slate, and Ron Ely and renamed Malibu Run). He created the NBC science fiction series The Man and the Challenge, starring principally George Nader and Jack Ging and was executive producer of Ripcord.
His Office of Scientific Investigation (OSI) trilogy consisted of: The Magnetic Monster, Riders to the Stars, and Gog.
In the 1960s Tors left science fiction and made several films and television series spin offs involving animals such as Flipper, Daktari, and Cowboy in Africa a TV spinoff of his film Africa Texas Style. Tors was an executive producer of MGM Television's 1967 Off to See the Wizard. He directed some films like Rhino!, Zebra in the Kitchen (1965) and Galyon (1977). Several of Tors' television series were made by the production company Ziv TV.
His production company, Ivan Tors Films did the underwater filming for the James Bond film Thunderball as well as filming his own Around the World Under the Sea for MGM and Daring Game and Hello Down There for Paramount. The company also co-produced a nature-themed documentary series, Jambo, for the NBC television network from 1969 to 1971. Tors studio filmed the Soupy Sales film debut in Birds Do It.
Tors was married to film actress Constance Dowling from 1955 until her death in 1969. Tors himself died 14 years later, eight days before his 67th birthday. He died in Mato Grosso, Brazil where he was scouting a new TV series.
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Ivan Tors
Nationality Hongrie
Birth 12 june 1916 at Budapest (Hongrie)
Death 4 june 1983 (at 66 years) at Mato Grosso (Bresil)
Birth 12 june 1916 at Budapest (Hongrie)
Death 4 june 1983 (at 66 years) at Mato Grosso (Bresil)
Biography
Tors wrote several plays in Hungary before moving to the US just prior to World War II. He enlisted in the US Army Air Corps then transferred to the Office of Strategic Services. Following the war he was contracted to MGM as a screenwriter.In 1952 Tors made Storm over Tibet, his first film as co-writer and producer. He began his partnership with fellow Hungarian Andrew Marton with this film.
Long interested in fact-based science fiction (often with an underwater setting), Tors partnered with actor Richard Carlson in the 1950s to create A-Men Films, a production company devoted to making movies about its own fictitious exploits.
Under the A-Men banner, Tors wrote and produced films such as The Magnetic Monster (1951), Riders to the Stars (1954), Gog (1954) and the TV series Science Fiction Theatre, Sea Hunt, and The Aquanauts (starring Keith Larsen, Jeremy Slate, and Ron Ely and renamed Malibu Run). He created the NBC science fiction series The Man and the Challenge, starring principally George Nader and Jack Ging and was executive producer of Ripcord.
His Office of Scientific Investigation (OSI) trilogy consisted of: The Magnetic Monster, Riders to the Stars, and Gog.
In the 1960s Tors left science fiction and made several films and television series spin offs involving animals such as Flipper, Daktari, and Cowboy in Africa a TV spinoff of his film Africa Texas Style. Tors was an executive producer of MGM Television's 1967 Off to See the Wizard. He directed some films like Rhino!, Zebra in the Kitchen (1965) and Galyon (1977). Several of Tors' television series were made by the production company Ziv TV.
His production company, Ivan Tors Films did the underwater filming for the James Bond film Thunderball as well as filming his own Around the World Under the Sea for MGM and Daring Game and Hello Down There for Paramount. The company also co-produced a nature-themed documentary series, Jambo, for the NBC television network from 1969 to 1971. Tors studio filmed the Soupy Sales film debut in Birds Do It.
Tors was married to film actress Constance Dowling from 1955 until her death in 1969. Tors himself died 14 years later, eight days before his 67th birthday. He died in Mato Grosso, Brazil where he was scouting a new TV series.
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Escape from Angola (1976)
, 1h50Directed by Leslie H. Martinson
Origin USA
Actors Ivan Tors
Roles Ivan Mallory
Rating42%
Rhino! (1964)
, 1h31Directed by Ivan Tors
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure
Actors Harry Guardino, Shirley Eaton, Robert Culp, Ivan Tors
Roles Self - director
Rating56%
A humane zoologist, Dr. Jim Hanlon, who deplores the poaching of African rhinoceros, is unaware that the man he is guiding on safari, Alec Burnett, is a hunter intending to capture two rare white rhino to sell. Edith Arleigh is a nurse romantically involved with Burnett, whose hardened attitude toward jungle life softens when he is bitten by a cobra and Hanlon has to save his life.
Director
Zebra in the Kitchen (1965)
, 1h32Directed by Ivan Tors
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about animals, Environmental films, Films about lions, Political films, Children's films
Actors Jay North, Martin Milner, Andy Devine, Joyce Meadows, Jim Davis, Vaughn Taylor
Rating52%
When Chris Carlyle (Jay North) moves with his parents from the farm to the city, he secretly takes with him his woodland friend, a full-grown mountain lion. The problems surface when the mountain lion strolls around his new neighborhood, his friendliness mistaken for predatory habits. The neighbors get into an uproar and Chris is forced to allow his friend to be relocated to the city zoo.
Rhino! (1964)
, 1h31Directed by Ivan Tors
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure
Actors Harry Guardino, Shirley Eaton, Robert Culp, Ivan Tors
Rating56%
A humane zoologist, Dr. Jim Hanlon, who deplores the poaching of African rhinoceros, is unaware that the man he is guiding on safari, Alec Burnett, is a hunter intending to capture two rare white rhino to sell. Edith Arleigh is a nurse romantically involved with Burnett, whose hardened attitude toward jungle life softens when he is bitten by a cobra and Hanlon has to save his life.
Scriptwriter
The Aquarians (1970)
Directed by Don McDougall
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure
Actors Leslie Nielsen, Ricardo Montalbán, José Ferrer, Thomas William "Tom" Simcox, Curt Lowens, Austin Stoker
Roles Story
Rating61%
Hello Down There (1969)
, 1h38Directed by Jack Arnold, Ricou Browning
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Tony Randall, Janet Leigh, Jim Backus, Ken Berry, Roddy McDowall, Charlotte Rae
Roles Story
Rating56%
Fred Miller (Tony Randall) must prove that his new design for an underwater home is viable by convincing his family to live in it for 30 days. His son and daughter (Gary Tigerman and Kay Cole) are members of an emerging pop rock band (Richard Dreyfuss and Lou Wagner) whom they invite to live with them during the experiment. Their temporary home, which Miller dubs the "Green Onion," is 90 feet below the surface of the ocean and is filled with super-modern appliances and amenities for house-wife Vivian (Janet Leigh) all designed by Miller, and a hole in the floor providing direct access to the sea.
Flipper's New Adventure (1964)
, 1h34Origin USA
Genres Adventure
Themes Films about animals
Actors Luke Halpin, Pamela Franklin, Tom Helmore, Brian Kelly, Helen Cherry, Francesca Annis
Roles Story
Rating59%
Boy Sandy et Flipper sont aux Bahamas où ils harcèlent un tas de brigands qui retienne une famille anglaise.
Flipper's New Adventure (1964)
, 1h34Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Adventure
Actors Luke Halpin, Pamela Franklin, Tom Helmore, Helen Cherry, Francesca Annis, Brian Kelly
Roles Story
Rating59%
Un jeune homme se retrouve seul sur une île inhabitée aux Bahamas.
Gog (1954)
, 1h25Directed by Herbert L. Strock
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Crime
Themes Films set in the future, Films about extraterrestrial life, Films about extraterrestrial life, Alien invasions in films, Disaster films
Actors Richard Egan, Constance Dowling, Herbert Marshall, Philip Van Zandt, Michael Fox, William Schallert
Roles Story
Rating54%
Unaccountable, deadly malfunctions begin occurring at a top-secret government facility under the New Mexico desert where a space station is being constructed. Agents from the Office of Scientific Investigation (OSI) in Washington, D.C. are called in to investigate.
Riders to the Stars (1954)
, 1h21Directed by Richard Carlson, Herbert L. Strock
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Adventure
Themes Space adventure films, Space opera
Actors William Lundigan, Martha Hyer, Herbert Marshall, Richard Carlson, Dawn Addams, Robert Karnes
Roles Story
Rating54%
A group of highly qualified single men, including Dr. Richard Stanton (William Lundigan) and Dr. Jerry Lockwood (Richard Carlson), are recruited for a top secret project. They undergo a series of rigorous physical and psychological tests, during which Stanton becomes attracted to the beautiful Dr. Jane Flynn (Martha Hyer), one of the scientists testing the candidates. After most of the candidates have been eliminated from consideration, the four remaining are told about the purpose of the project.
The 49th Man (1953)
, 1h13Origin USA
Genres Thriller
Themes Political films
Actors John Ireland, Richard Denning, Peter Marshall, Robert Foulk, Suzanne Dalbert, Mike Connors
Roles Story
Rating59%
After a fatal car crash in Lordsburg, New Mexico, investigators find a mysterious machine component that they turn over to the nearby Los Alamos National Laboratory for identification. Scientists there declare that it is one component of an advanced portable nuclear weapon designed by an unknown, presumably hostile power. The discovery prompts Paul Reagan (Richard Denning), chief of the Security Investigation Division (SID), to send agent John Williams (John Ireland) to investigate the source of these components and to prevent them from being assembled into a functioning weapon. As more parts are smuggled into the United States, the investigation expands and a pattern begins to emerge which points to Marseilles, France.
The Magnetic Monster (1953)
, 1h16Directed by Curt Siodmak, Herbert L. Strock
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Actors Richard Carlson, King Donovan, Jean Byron, Leo Britt, Leonard Mudie, Byron Foulger
Rating58%
A pair of agents from the Office of Scientific Investigation (OSI) are sent to investigate a local appliance store, where all of the clocks have stopped at the same time, and metal items in the store have been magnetized. The source of this is traced to an office located directly above the store, where scientific equipment is found, along with a dead body. There are also signs of radioactivity, but the cause of the difficulties itself is clearly no longer in the room, or the immediate area.
The Glass Wall (1953)
, 1h22Directed by Maxwell Shane
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Actors Vittorio Gassman, Gloria Grahame, Ann Robinson, Douglas Spencer, Joe Turkel, Kathleen Freeman
Roles Ecrivain
Rating67%
After the end of World War II, Peter Kuban (Vittorio Gassman), a Hungarian displaced person and survivor of the Nazi concentration camps, stows away on a ship bound for New York City. However, he is spotted and held for the authorities. When they arrive, he claims that he qualifies for entry under an exception for those who helped Allied soldiers during the war, but all he knows about the paratrooper he hid from the enemy is that his name is Tom and he plays clarinet in a jazz band in New York City's Times Square.The immigration authorities led by Inspector Bailey say that without better documentation he must be sent back to Europe.
Watch the Birdie (1951)
, 1h11Directed by Jack Donohue, John Waters
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Crime, Romance
Actors Red Skelton, Arlene Dahl, Ann Miller, Leon Ames, Richard Steven Rauber, Pamela Britton
Rating59%
Everything's going wrong for Rusty Cammeron, a photographer who owns a shop with his pop and grandpop. Rusty owes over $1,000, then loses a camera worth at least that much after borrowing it from another man who suggested Rusty try to take candid pictures of the rich and famous.
In the Good Old Summertime (1949)
, 1h42Directed by Buster Keaton, Robert Z. Leonard
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Films based on plays
Actors Judy Garland, Van Johnson, S.Z. Sakall, Spring Byington, Clinton Sundberg, Buster Keaton
Rating70%
Veronica Fisher (Judy Garland) enters Oberkugen's music shop, looking for work. Although Otto Oberkugen (S. Z. Sakall) is reluctant to take on more staff, she wins a job by persuading a wealthy matron, through her singing and musical expertise, to buy a harp at almost $25 over Oberkugen's list price. Neither she nor Andrew Larkin (Van Johnson), the shop's senior salesman, suspects that they are each other's anonymous pen pal. They bicker constantly at work although becoming increasingly attracted to each other.