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John Korty is a Director, Scriptwriter, Producer, Director of Photography and Character Designer American born on 22 june 1936 at Indiana (USA)

John Korty

John Korty
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Nationality USA
Birth 22 june 1936 at Indiana (USA)
Death 9 march 2022 (at 85 years)
Awards Emmy Award, Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature

John Korty (born July 22, 1936) is an American film director and animator, best known for the television film The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and the documentary Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids?, as well as the theatrical animated feature Twice Upon a Time. He has won an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature (for Who Are the DeBolts?) and several other major awards. He is described by the film critic Leonard Maltin as "a principled filmmaker who has worked both outside and within the mainstream, attempting to find projects that support his humanistic beliefs".

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Filmography of John Korty (13 films)

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Director

Redwood Curtain, 1h40
Directed by John Korty
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Jeff Daniels, Lea Salonga, Catherine Hicks, John Lithgow, Debra Monk, Shirley Douglas
Rating58% 2.9078952.9078952.9078952.9078952.907895
In her search for her biological father, an Amerasian piano prodigy comes to California's redwood forests to an area populated by Vietnam veterans unable to reintegrate into society.
Resting Place, 1h40
Directed by John Korty
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors John Lithgow, Morgan Freeman, CCH Pounder, Frances Sternhagen, Richard L. Brooks, Richard Bradford
Rating63% 3.195033.195033.195033.195033.19503
Le major Kendall Laird, héros de la Guerre du Viet Nam, assume la fonction d'officier chargé de l'aide aux familles des militaires morts au combat. Il est chargé d'escorter la dépouille d'un lieutenant de race noire, et de la remettre officiellement à ses parents, à Rockville, en Géorgie. Cette ville est restée ségrégationniste [1972] et refuse officiellement que le défunt, pourtant héros décoré, soit enterré au cimetière de la ville, réservé aux Blancs.
Second Sight: A Love Story, 2h
Directed by John Korty
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Elizabeth Montgomery, Barry Newman, Nicholas Pryor, Susan Ruttan, Richard Romanus, Mitzi Hoag
Rating60% 3.0482753.0482753.0482753.0482753.048275
A self-sufficient stubborn independent blind woman named Alexandra McKay (Montgomery), who has been blind for over 20 years, finally agrees to acquire a guide dog. She is worried that people will try to get close to her out of pity, so she distances herself emotionally from everyone, but becomes attached to her seeing-eye Labrador Retriever companion, Emma.
The Ewok Adventure, 1h36
Directed by John Korty
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantasy, Adventure
Themes Space adventure films, Monde imaginaire, Dans l'espace, Sur une planète fictive, Films about extraterrestrial life, Space opera, Films about extraterrestrial life, Robot films
Actors Warwick Davis, Fionnula Flanagan, Guy Boyd, Aubree Miller, Tony Cox, Burl Ives
Rating53% 2.6582552.6582552.6582552.6582552.658255
On the forest moon of Endor three years after the Battle of Yavin, the Towani family starcruiser lies wrecked. The Towani family (Catarine, Jeremitt, Mace, and Cindel) are stranded. When Catarine and Jeremitt vanish, the children are found by the Ewok Deej. After Mace tries to kill them, the Ewoks subdue him and take both children to the Ewoks’ home. There, Cindel and Wicket become friends. Shortly thereafter, the Ewoks kill a beast only to find a life-monitor from one of the Towani parents with the creature.
Twice Upon a Time, 1h14
Directed by John Korty
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Fantasy, Adventure, Animation
Actors Lorenzo Music, Julie Payne, Hamilton Camp, Marshall Efron, Judith Kahan, Paul Frees
Rating68% 3.442693.442693.442693.442693.44269
In the faraway eternally busy city of Din, live the black-and-white Rushers, who constantly go about their business in a fast-paced way and stop only to sleep. Din lies in between two worlds that create dreams to deliver to the sleeping Rushers – one is the bright and cheerful Frivoli, where Greensleeves and his Figmen of Imagination bring sweet dreams, and the other is the Murkworks, a dark and dingy factory home to vultures who drop nightmare bombs. The evil Synonamess Botch, maniacal ruler of the Murkworks wants to foil Greenie's efforts and subject the Rushers to non-stop waking nightmares. He uses his vultures to kidnap the Figs and Greensleeves, but not before Greensleeves writes an S.O.S. to Frivoli.
A Christmas Without Snow, 1h35
Directed by John Korty
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Christmas films, Musical films, Films based on plays
Actors Michael Learned, John Houseman, Ramon Bieri, James Cromwell, Valerie Curtin, Ruth Nelson
Rating57% 2.8577252.8577252.8577252.8577252.857725
A divorcee, Zoe Jensen (Michael Learned), moves to San Francisco from Omaha in an effort to rebuild her life. She has reluctantly left her young son back home with his grandmother until she is more financially secure. She joins a local church choir which has just gained a new, demanding choirmaster-- retired music conductor Ephraim Adams (John Houseman). Adams challenges the choir to dramatically improve, creating discomfort for some of the members, particularly when he sets the high goal of performing Handel's Messiah for a Christmas concert. Meanwhile, the choir overcome personal setbacks as they all deal with personal issues.
Oliver's Story, 1h31
Directed by John Korty
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Ryan O'Neal, Candice Bergen, Nicola Pagett, Benson Fong, Ed Binns, Kenneth McMillan
Rating46% 2.312272.312272.312272.312272.31227
Oliver Barrett IV is emotionally devastated by the death of his young wife Jenny. As he tries to lose himself in his work as a lawyer, the long hours don't ease his pain, especially when he finds that his leftist views conflict with those of the senior partners at the firm.
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, 1h45
Directed by John Korty
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Cicely Tyson, Michael Murphy, Eric Brown, Katherine Helmond, Richard A. Dysart, Will Hare
Rating77% 3.8896553.8896553.8896553.8896553.889655
Le téléfilm est basé sur une nouvelle écrite en 1971 par Ernest J. Gaines (biographie d'une femme afro-américaine entre la guerre de Sécession et la guerre hispano-américaine).
The People
The People (1972)

Directed by John Korty
Genres Science fiction, Comedy
Actors Kim Darby, William Shatner, Diane Varsi
Rating59% 2.951242.951242.951242.951242.95124
This science fiction film tells the story of Melodye Amerson (Kim Darby), a young teacher who goes to a remote area to work with a group of individuals who have isolated themselves from civilization and maintained an independent community, vaguely similar to the Amish or a religious commune. Melodye is unnerved by the secretive behavior of her students, and the fact that all fun, games and activities she proposes are forbidden to them. Valancy (Diane Varsi), an elder in the community, advises Melodye to stay, because she senses that things are about to change in the valley, and Melodye herself is a part of that change.

Scriptwriter

Twice Upon a Time, 1h14
Directed by John Korty
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Fantasy, Adventure, Animation
Actors Lorenzo Music, Julie Payne, Hamilton Camp, Marshall Efron, Judith Kahan, Paul Frees
Roles Story
Rating68% 3.442693.442693.442693.442693.44269
In the faraway eternally busy city of Din, live the black-and-white Rushers, who constantly go about their business in a fast-paced way and stop only to sleep. Din lies in between two worlds that create dreams to deliver to the sleeping Rushers – one is the bright and cheerful Frivoli, where Greensleeves and his Figmen of Imagination bring sweet dreams, and the other is the Murkworks, a dark and dingy factory home to vultures who drop nightmare bombs. The evil Synonamess Botch, maniacal ruler of the Murkworks wants to foil Greenie's efforts and subject the Rushers to non-stop waking nightmares. He uses his vultures to kidnap the Figs and Greensleeves, but not before Greensleeves writes an S.O.S. to Frivoli.
A Christmas Without Snow, 1h35
Directed by John Korty
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Christmas films, Musical films, Films based on plays
Actors Michael Learned, John Houseman, Ramon Bieri, James Cromwell, Valerie Curtin, Ruth Nelson
Roles Teleplay
Rating57% 2.8577252.8577252.8577252.8577252.857725
A divorcee, Zoe Jensen (Michael Learned), moves to San Francisco from Omaha in an effort to rebuild her life. She has reluctantly left her young son back home with his grandmother until she is more financially secure. She joins a local church choir which has just gained a new, demanding choirmaster-- retired music conductor Ephraim Adams (John Houseman). Adams challenges the choir to dramatically improve, creating discomfort for some of the members, particularly when he sets the high goal of performing Handel's Messiah for a Christmas concert. Meanwhile, the choir overcome personal setbacks as they all deal with personal issues.