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James W. Payne is a Set Decoration American born on 11 november 1929
James W. Payne was an American set decorator. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for two more in the category Best Art Direction.
(1973)
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(1979)
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(1982)
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(1970)
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(1963)
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James W. Payne was an American set decorator. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for two more in the category Best Art Direction.
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(1973)(Set Decoration)
(1979)(Set Decoration)
(1982)(Set Decoration)
(1970)(Set Decoration)
(1963)(Set Decoration)
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Filmography of James W. Payne (39 films)
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Her Alibi (1989)
, 1h30Directed by Bruce Beresford
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Comedy thriller, Romantic comedy, Action, Crime, Romance
Themes Films about writers
Actors Paulina Porizkova, Tom Selleck, William Daniels, James Farentino, Victor Argo, Ronald Guttman
Roles Set Decoration
Rating57%
Phil Blackwood (Selleck) is an American mystery novelist who comes across a dazzling Romanian murder suspect named Nina (Porizkova) when she is arraigned in the courtroom he is visiting. Instantly falling for her, Blackwood poses as a Roman Catholic priest in order to meet her while Nina is held pending her continued arraignment. With the help of his publisher and friend, Sam (Daniels), Blackwood invents an alibi for Nina to secure her release.
Funny Farm (1988)
, 1h41Directed by George Roy Hill
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Chevy Chase, Madolyn Smith, Kevin O'Morrison, Joseph Maher, Kevin Conway, Jack Gilpin
Roles Set Decoration
Rating61%
Andy Farmer (Chase) is a New York City sports writer who moves with his wife, Elizabeth (Smith) to the seemingly charming town of Redbud, Vermont, so he can write a novel. They do not get along well with the residents, and other quirks arise such as being given exorbitant funeral bills for a long-dead man buried on their land years before they acquired the house. Marital troubles soon arise from the quirkiness of Redbud as well as the fact that Elizabeth was critical of Andy's manuscript, while secretly getting her ideas for children's books published. They soon decide to divorce and sell their home. To expedite the sale, the Farmers offer the town's residents a $15,000 donation to Redbud, and $50 cash each if they help make a good impression on their prospective home buyers. To that end, the citizens remake Redbud into a perfect Norman Rockwell-style town. Their charade dazzles a pair of prospective buyers, who make the Farmers an offer on the house; however, Andy declines to sell, realizing that he genuinely enjoys small-town living. He and Elizabeth decide to stay together in Redbud, much to the chagrin of the locals, who are now angry that they lost their promised money. Though the mayor does not hold the Farmers liable for the $15,000, as the sale of their house did not occur, Andy decides to pay everyone in Redbud their $50, which helps improve his standing among the townspeople. The film ends with Andy taking a job as a sports writer for the Redbud newspaper, and Elizabeth, now pregnant with their first child, has written multiple children's stories.
Yes, Giorgio (1982)
, 1h50Directed by Franklin J. Schaffner
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Kathryn Harrold, Eddie Albert, Paola Borboni, James Hong, Beulah Quo, Patrick Cranshaw
Roles Set Decoration
Rating38%
Luciano Pavarotti plays a world famous Italian tenor opera singer by the name of Giorgio Fini. While in Boston for a concert Fini gets a phone call asking him to perform at The Met. The call brings up bad memories from his disastrous appearance there seven years earlier. It scares him to the point where he cannot sing at rehearsal. Everyone panics thinking he is losing his voice.
Six Pack (1982)
, 1h48Directed by Daniel Petrie
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about music and musicians, Sports films, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Auto racing films, Musical films, Road movies
Actors Kenny Rogers, Diane Lane, Anthony Michael Hall, Erin Gray, Barry Corbin, Terry Kiser
Roles Set Decoration
Rating60%
When race car driver Brewster Baker (Kenny Rogers) is stopped at a gas station, parts are stolen from his race car. Then while in a diner in a small Texas town, he sees some people stealing parts from another car, and chases the thieves. When the thieves' van goes into a river, Brewster rescues them and discovers that they are orphaned children. The kids were stealing auto parts for "Big John" the corrupt county sheriff, who jails Brewster for breaking and entering, larceny, resisting arrest and speeding. After the kids help break Brewster out of jail, Brewster reluctantly takes the children with him. Eventually, they form a friendship and bond. The end of the movie features real race footage from the 1982 NASCAR Coca-Cola 500, held at Atlanta Motor Speedway and won that year by Darrell Waltrip.
Zorro, The Gay Blade (1981)
, 1h33Directed by Peter Medak
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Swashbuckler, Action, Adventure, Historical, Romance, Western
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Superhero films, Films about disabilities, LGBT-related films, Personne sourde ou muette, Zorro, LGBT-related film
Actors George Hamilton, Lauren Hutton, Ron Leibman, Brenda Vaccaro, Donovan Scott, Clive Revill
Roles Set Decoration
Rating61%
Set in an indeterminate year of the 1840s, the film opens in a villa in Madrid, Spain, where Don Diego Vega (George Hamilton), the archetypal Spanish Don Juan, is in bed with a beautiful woman who, we learn shortly, is not his wife, but someone else's. The couple are caught by her husband, Garcia, who "is not in Barcelona", as they had previously thought. Diego, with considerable panache, fights Garcia and his five brothers with swords. During the fight, Diego's mute servant Paco (Donovan Scott) reads a letter (via gestures) from Diego's father requesting that Diego return to California [then a part of Mexico]. Diego and Paco escape by jumping from a high wall directly into a waiting carriage.
The Competition (1980)
, 2h5Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Piano
Actors Richard Dreyfuss, Amy Irving, Lee Remick, Sam Wanamaker, Joseph Cali, Priscilla Pointer
Roles Set Decoration
Rating66%
Paul Dietrich is an extremely gifted but disillusioned classical pianist running out of time to prove himself. He logically knows it is time to give up his attempts to enter piano competitions and instead accept a salaried position as a music teacher. Paul also needs to help his mother and his seriously ill father, but he decides to travel to San Francisco for an international piano competition. Doing so could cost him his job waiting for him in Chicago; nevertheless, he wants to try his luck for the last time before passing the age limit to compete.
The Baltimore Bullet (1980)
, 1h43Directed by Robert Ellis Miller
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Crime
Themes Sports films
Actors James Coburn, Bruce Boxleitner, Omar Sharif, Ronee Blakley, Jack O'Halloran, Michael Lerner
Roles Set Decoration
Rating59%
Nick Casey, whose nickname is the "Baltimore Bullet," is a legendary pool player whose best days are behind him. He decides to teach everything he knows to a young up-and-comer, Billie Joe Robbins, all leading up to a big winner-take-all match between the two of them.
The Champ (1979)
, 2h3Directed by Franco Zeffirelli
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about families, Sports films, Martial arts films, Boxing films, Le boxe anglaise
Actors Jon Voight, Faye Dunaway, Rick Schroder, Jack Warden, Arthur Hill, Joan Blondell
Roles Set Decoration
Rating68%
Billy Flynn, an ex-boxing champion, is now a horse trainer in Hialeah, Florida. He makes just enough money to raise his little son T.J., of whom Flynn has full custody of since his wife Annie left him, seven years before the events of the film. T.J. worships "The Champ," who has gambling debts and begins working on a comeback to give his boy a better future. Suddenly Annie shows up again and wants to become a part of T.J.'s life.
The Main Event (1979)
, 1h52Directed by Howard Zieff
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films, Boxing films, Le boxe anglaise
Actors Barbra Streisand, Ryan O'Neal, Paul Sand, Patti D'Arbanville, Whitman Mayo, Earl Boen
Roles Set Decoration
Rating54%
Hillary Kramer (Streisand), a successful perfume magnate awakes one morning to find that her accountant has robbed her blind and left for South America. Going through all of her remaining assets she finds a boxer, purchased as a tax write off. She decides to take Eddie "Kid Natural" Scanlon (Ryan O'Neal) who is much more at home giving driving lessons, into the ring and use him as her key to riches. Eddie thinks this will only get him killed and resists.
The Betsy (1978)
, 2h6Directed by Daniel Petrie
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Transport films, Films about automobiles, Road movies
Actors Laurence Olivier, Tommy Lee Jones, Robert Duvall, Clifford David, Katharine Ross, Jane Alexander
Roles Set Decoration
Rating52%
A fading family-owned automobile manufacturer and its owners pin their hopes for a return to profitability on a new model named for the great-granddaughter of the firm's founder.
Heroes (1977)
, 1h52Directed by Jeremy Kagan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Actors Henry Winkler, Sally Field, Harrison Ford, Val Avery, Stuart Margolin, Olivia Cole
Roles Set Decoration
Rating60%
Jack Dunne (Winkler), a Vietnam vet who turns out to have a case of lacunar amnesia, escapes a mental ward in New York City intending to start a business as a worm farmer in Eureka, California.
Scott Joplin (1977)
, 1h36Directed by Jeremy Kagan
Origin USA
Genres Historical, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Billy Dee Williams, Clifton Davis, Margaret Avery, Seymour Cassel, Godfrey Cambridge, Art Carney
Roles Set Decoration
Rating64%
In the late 19th century, Scott Joplin, a young African-American musician, moves to Missouri and to make ends meet finds a job as a piano teacher. He befriends Louis Chauvin, who plays piano in a brothel.
Family Plot (1976)
, 2hDirected by Alfred Hitchcock, Howard Kazanjian
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Comedy thriller, Crime
Actors Barbara Harris, Bruce Dern, Karen Black, William Devane, Cathleen Nesbitt, Ed Lauter
Roles Set Decoration
Rating67%
A fake psychic, Blanche Tyler (Barbara Harris), and her boyfriend, George Lumley (Bruce Dern), attempt to locate the nephew of a wealthy and guilt-ridden elderly woman, Julia Rainbird (Cathleen Nesbitt). Julia's deceased sister gave the baby boy up for adoption, but Julia now wants to make him her heir, and will pay Blanche $10,000 if the heir, Edward Shoebridge, can be found. George Lumley discovers that Shoebridge is thought to be dead, but he tracks down another criminal, Joseph Maloney (Ed Lauter), who paid for the tombstone over an empty grave.
The Great Waldo Pepper (1975)
, 1h47Directed by George Roy Hill
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure
Themes Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Robert Redford, Bo Svenson, Margot Kidder, Bo Brundin, Susan Sarandon, Geoffrey Lewis
Roles Set Decoration
Rating66%
World War I veteran Waldo Pepper (fictitiously 1895-1931, played by Robert Redford) feels he has missed out on the glory of aerial combat after being made a flight instructor. After the war, Waldo had taken up barnstorming to make a living. He soon tangles with rival barnstormer (and fellow war veteran) Axel Olsson (Bo Svenson).
The Front Page (1974)
, 1h45Directed by Billy Wilder, Carey Loftin, Howard Kazanjian
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about writers, Films about journalists, Films about sexuality, Théâtre, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Films about capital punishment, Films based on plays, Erotic thriller films
Actors Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Charles Durning, David Wayne, Susan Sarandon, Vincent Gardenia
Roles Set Decoration
Rating72%
Chicago Examiner reporter Hildebrand "Hildy" Johnson (Jack Lemmon) has just quit his job in order to marry Peggy Grant (Susan Sarandon) and start a new career, when convict Earl Williams (Austin Pendleton) escapes from death row just prior to his execution. Earl is an impoverished, bumbling leftist whose only offense is stuffing fortune cookies with messages demanding the release of Sacco and Vanzetti, but the yellow press of Chicago has painted him as a dangerous threat from Moscow. As a result the citizenry are anxious to see him put to death.