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Luther Adler is a Actor American born on 4 may 1903 at New York City (USA)

Luther Adler

Luther Adler
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Birth name Lutha Adler
Nationality USA
Birth 4 may 1903 at New York City (USA)
Death 8 december 1984 (at 81 years) at Kutztown (USA)

Luther Adler (May 4, 1903 – December 8, 1984) was an American actor best known for his work in theatre, but who also worked in film and television. He also directed plays on Broadway.

Biography

Né Lutha Adler à New York, il était l'un des enfants d'une famille qui en comptait six. Ses parents étaient les acteurs russes et juifs Sara et Jacob Pavlovitch Adler. Ses frères et ses sœurs travaillaient également au théâtre, notamment sa sœur Stella Adler, qui fut célèbre en tant qu'actrice et professeur dramatique.

Adler fit sa première apparition à Broadway en 1921 et apparut dans plusieurs productions avant de rejoindre « The Group Theatre » en 1931. Il joua face à Katharine Cornell dans Alien Corn (1933), face à sa sœur Stella dans Gold Eagle Guy (1934), Awake and Sing! et Le Paradis perdu (les deux en 1935), et face à Frances Farmer dans Golden Boy (1937). Au début des années 1940 il fut également metteur en scène, mais sa première production, They Should Have Stood in Bed cessa après seulement 7 représentations en 1942. Son aventure suivante comme metteur en scène, A Flag is Born , fut représentée 120 fois en 1946 avec un jeune premier, Marlon Brando, dans l'un des rôles principaux.

Adler a été marié à l'actrice Sylvia Sidney de 1938 à 1947.

Il est mort à Kutztown (Pennsylvanie), et est enterré au cimetière du Mont Carmel, à Glendale, New York, à côté de sa famille, y compris sa sœur aînée, Stella.

Best films

Absence of Malice (1981)
(Actor)
The Loves of Carmen (1948)
(Actor)

Usually with

Thomas Little
Thomas Little
(5 films)
Lyle Wheeler
Lyle Wheeler
(5 films)
Fred Aldrich
Fred Aldrich
(4 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Luther Adler (29 films)

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Actor

Absence of Malice, 1h56
Directed by Sydney Pollack
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime, Romance
Themes Films about writers, Films about journalists, Prison films, Films about capital punishment
Actors Paul Newman, Sally Field, Bob Balaban, Melinda Dillon, Luther Adler, Barry Primus
Roles Santos Malderone
Rating68% 3.447683.447683.447683.447683.44768
Miami liquor wholesaler Michael Gallagher (Newman), who is the son of a deceased criminal, awakes one day to find himself a front-page story in the local newspaper, indicating that he is being investigated in the disappearance and presumed murder of a local longshoreman union official, Joey Diaz.
Mean Johnny Barrows, 1h15
Directed by Fred Williamson
Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Actors Fred Williamson, Elliott Gould, Stuart Whitman, James Brown, Anthony Caruso, Roddy McDowall
Roles Don Racconi
Rating50% 2.5167352.5167352.5167352.5167352.516735
Un vétéran du Vietnam est pris dans une guerre de foule avec quelques doubles croisés.
Voyage of the Damned, 2h35
Directed by Stuart Rosenberg
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War
Themes Seafaring films, Films about religion, Transport films, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Faye Dunaway, Oskar Werner, Lee Grant, Max von Sydow, James Mason, Malcolm McDowell
Roles Professor Weiler
Rating63% 3.196113.196113.196113.196113.19611
Based on actual events, this film tells the story of the 1939 voyage of the MS St. Louis, which departed from Hamburg carrying 937 Jews from Germany, ostensibly to Havana, Cuba. The passengers, having seen and suffered rising anti-Semitism in Germany, realised this might be their only chance to escape. The film details the emotional journey of the passengers who gradually become aware that their passage was planned as an exercise in propaganda, and that it had never been intended that they disembark in Cuba. Rather, they were to be set up as Pariahs, to set an example before the world. As a Nazi official states in the film, when the whole world has refused to accept them as refugees, no country can blame Germany for the fate of the Jews.
Murph the Surf, 1h41
Directed by Marvin J. Chomsky
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Crime
Actors Robert Conrad, Don Stroud, Donna Mills, Luther Adler, Paul Stewart, Morgan Paull
Roles Max 'The Eye'
Rating60% 3.049323.049323.049323.049323.04932
Deux play-boys de Miami devenus célèbres en réalisant l'un des plus grands vols de bijoux du 20ème siècle. 22 pierres précieuses au compteur, dont les fameuses étoile de l'Inde et le diamant de l'aigle. Des pierres à l'époque si connues qu'il était alors impossible de les revendre...
The Man in the Glass Booth, 1h57
Directed by Arthur Hiller
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action
Themes Films about religion, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism, Films based on plays
Actors Maximilian Schell, Lois Nettleton, Lawrence Pressman, Luther Adler, Robert H. Harris, Lloyd Bochner
Roles Presiding Judge
Rating69% 3.49023.49023.49023.49023.4902
Arthur Goldman is Jewish and a Nazi death camp survivor. Now a rich industrialist, he lives in luxury in a Manhattan high-rise. He banters with his assistant Charlie, often shocking him with his outrageousness and irreverence about aspects of Jewish life. One day, Israeli secret agents kidnap Goldman and take him to Israel for trial on charges of being a Nazi war criminal. Goldman's trial forces his accusers to face not only his presumed guilt, but their own as well.
Crazy Joe
Crazy Joe (1974)

Directed by Carlo Lizzani
Genres Drama, Biography, Crime
Themes Films about immigration, Mafia films, Seafaring films, Transport films, Gangster films
Actors Peter Boyle, Michael Vincenzo Gazzo, Paula Prentiss, Fred Williamson, Rip Torn, Charles Cioffi
Roles Falco
Rating61% 3.0985153.0985153.0985153.0985153.098515
Hot-tempered gangster Joe Gallo pulls a knife on a man in a theater who complains about Joe's talking during the movie. Joe then gets into a car with his brother Richie and cronies Jelly and Mannie, don masks, pull guns and do a mob hit in a New York restaurant.
Paradise Lost
Genres Drama
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Eli Wallach, Jo Van Fleet, Jiří Voskovec, Bernadette Peters, Cliff Gorman, George Bartenieff
Roles Self - Host
Rating80% 4.011434.011434.011434.011434.01143
The play takes place in an unnamed American city during the Depression, in 1932. The head of the family, Leo, and his wife Clara are middle-class and prosperous. However, over the course of the play Leo and his partner Sam lose their handbag business and the family must come to terms with this. The other characters in the play include a friend, Gus, and his daughter, Libby, a frivolous and self-centered young woman who is newly married to Leo's son Ben; a boarder, and an assortment of other characters.
The Brotherhood, 1h36
Directed by Martin Ritt
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Films about immigration, Mafia films, Seafaring films, Transport films, Gangster films
Actors Kirk Douglas, Alex Cord, Irène Papas, Luther Adler, Susan Strasberg, Eduardo Ciannelli
Roles Dominick Bertolo
Rating60% 3.04813.04813.04813.04813.0481
A young American man arrives in Palermo by plane. A taxi driver at the airport immediately gets word to Frank Ginetta (Kirk Douglas), who hides, armed with a gun, until he realizes that the visitor he's been warned about is actually his kid brother, Vinnie (Alex Cord).
Cast a Giant Shadow, 2h26
Directed by Melville Shavelson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Historical
Themes Films set in Africa, Political films
Actors Kirk Douglas, Senta Berger, Angie Dickinson, Yul Brynner, James Donald, Frank Sinatra
Roles Jacob Zion
Rating62% 3.1490353.1490353.1490353.1490353.149035
The film is a fictionalized account of the experiences of a real-life Jewish-American military officer, Colonel David "Mickey" Marcus, who commanded units of the fledgling Israel Defense Forces during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
The Last Angry Man, 1h40
Directed by Daniel Mann
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Paul Muni, David Wayne, Betsy Palmer, Luther Adler, Joby Baker, Joanna Moore
Roles Max Vogel
Rating68% 3.4436353.4436353.4436353.4436353.443635
As the fiercely dedicated general practitioner who tries to help the sick, the poor and the unfortunate in his decrepit neighborhood, Dr. Sam Abelman (Paul Muni) is a testy old man who faces life without compromise and Woodrow Thrasher (David Wayne) is a troubled television executive fighting to preserve his career.
Hot Blood
Hot Blood (1956)
, 1h25
Directed by Nicholas Ray
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Jane Russell, Cornel Wilde, Luther Adler, Joseph Calleia, Nina Koshetz, Helen Westcott
Roles Marco Torino
Rating57% 2.853272.853272.853272.853272.85327
Marco Torino (Luther Adler), king of the gypsies in southern California, is terminally ill. He wants his younger brother to succeed him, but Stephano (Cornel Wilde) is determined to become a dancer instead.
The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing, 1h49
Directed by Richard Fleischer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Crime, Romance
Themes Children's films
Actors Ray Milland, Joan Collins, Farley Granger, Luther Adler, Glenda Farrell, Cornelia Otis Skinner
Roles Delphin Delmas
Rating63% 3.197533.197533.197533.197533.19753
The film relates the fictionalized story of Evelyn Nesbit. Nesbit was a model and actress who became embroiled in the scandal surrounding the June 1906 murder of her former lover, architect Stanford White, by her husband, rail and coal tycoon Harry Kendall Thaw. Nesbit served as a technical adviser on the film.
Crashout
Crashout (1955)
, 1h29
Directed by Lewis R. Foster
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Noir, Crime
Actors William Bendix, John Arthur Kennedy, Luther Adler, William Talman, Gene Evans, Marshall Thompson
Roles Pete Mendoza
Rating69% 3.4864453.4864453.4864453.4864453.486445
Convict Van Duff is the leader of a large-scale prison break. The breakout works as the six survivors hide out in a forgotten mine working near the prison.