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Richard Connell is a Actor, Director and Scriptwriter American born on 17 october 1893

Richard Connell

Richard Connell
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Birth name Richard Edward Connell Jr
Nationality USA
Birth 17 october 1893
Death 12 november 1949 (at 56 years) at Beverly Hills (USA)

Richard Connell, de son vrai nom Richard Edward Connell Jr, est un écrivain et scénariste américain, né le 17 octobre 1893 à Poughkeepsie (État de New York) et mort le 22 novembre 1949 à Beverly Hills (Californie).

Biography

Richard Edward Connell Jr est le fils de Richard E. Connell, un journaliste local devenu conseiller politique de Franklin Delano Roosevelt au cours de la campagne électorale de 1910 pour un siège au Sénat de l'État de New York. Lorsque son père est élu au Congrès en 1911, il l'accompagne à Washington comme secrétaire. Il commence ses études à l'Université de Georgetown puis entre en deuxième année à Harvard.

Connell a commencé à écrire dès l'âge de 10 ans dans le journal de son père, à Harvard il devient rédacteur en chef du Harvard Crimson, le journal étudiant de l'université, et président du Harvard Lampoon. En 1915, après avoir obtenu son diplôme, il devient journaliste au New York American.

Il s'engage en 1917 et sert en France et en Belgique. Après sa démobilisation en 1919, il revient à New York pour travailler dans la publicité, mais peu après il quitte ce métier pour devenir écrivain.

Il publiera plusieurs centaines de nouvelles, dans le Saturday Evening Post ou dans Collier's Weekly. Plusieurs seront adaptées à la radio ou au cinéma, dont notamment “The Most Dangerous Game”, qui sert de base au scénario des Chasses du comte Zaroff, ou “A Reputation”, base du scénario de L'Homme de la rue. Il écrit aussi plusieurs romans et plus d'une douzaine de scénarios. Son implication dans le cinéma le fait déménager du Connecticut à Hollywood.

Connell meurt d'une crise cardiaque en novembre 1949.

Best films

Meet John Doe (1941)
(Story)

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Filmography of Richard Connell (31 films)

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Actor

Jessica
Jessica (2004)

Genres Drama
Actors Leeanna Walsman, Sam Neill, Lisa Harrow, Tony Martin, Oliver Ackland, Wil Traval
Roles Lad
Rating74% 3.7357053.7357053.7357053.7357053.735705
Joe Bergman vient de mourir. Quant à Jack Thomas, il est obligé de partir sous les drapeaux parce que la Première Guerre Mondiale approche. Hester et Meg profitent de la situation pour s'installer dans la riche et somptueuse demeure des Thomas avec l'enfant de Jessica, qu'elles font passer pour celui de sa sœur Meg. Internée depuis trois ans, la malheureuse Jessica est enfin libérée grâce à l'intervention de maître Runche, l'avocat alcoolique de Billie. Mais cette libération a une condition: elle ne doit en aucun cas chercher à revoir son enfant. La jeune femme se lie alors d'amitié avec un groupe d'Aborigène, victimes eux aussi d'injustice.

Director

Her Highness and the Bellboy, 1h52
Directed by Richard Thorpe, Charles Walters, Gladys Lehman, Richard Connell
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Hedy Lamarr, Robert Walker, June Allyson, Agnes Moorehead, John George, Carl Esmond
Rating63% 3.1968953.1968953.1968953.1968953.196895
The beautiful Princess Veronica (Hedy Lamarr) travels to New York City to find the American newspaper columnist she fell in love with six years earlier. After checking into the elegant Eaton Hotel, she is mistaken for a new maid by bellboy Jimmy Dobson (Robert Walker), who offers to accompany her on an afternoon stroll through Central Park. When they return, the hotel manager is shocked to see his bellboy with the princess and fires him for consorting with an important guest. Veronica saves Jimmy's job by insisting that the manager assign him to be her personal attendant while she is in New York.
Nice Girl?
Nice Girl? (1941)
, 1h31
Directed by Joe Pasternak, William A. Seiter, Gladys Lehman, Richard Connell
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Musical theatre, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Films based on plays
Actors Deanna Durbin, Franchot Tone, Walter Brennan, Robert Stack, Robert Benchley, Helen Broderick
Rating65% 3.2903653.2903653.2903653.2903653.290365
The musical starts with the busybody postman who reads everybody's mail, Hector (Walter Brennan), delivering mail to the Dana household and particularly to Cora (Helen Broderick), the maid who he is in love with. Professor Oliver Dana (Robert Benchley) is the head of the household. The oldest sister is Sylvia (Anne Gwynne), an actress, and the youngest is Nancy (Ann Gillis), who is a bit of a flirt and has all the boys fighting over her. The middle sister Jane (Deanna Durbin), the "nice girl", makes her entry singing the song "Perhaps" to the rabbits she takes care of. Her father is trying to write a book about diet and is testing it on rabbits. Don Webb (Robert Stack) is her boyfriend, an avid car buff.

Scriptwriter

The Pest
The Pest (1997)
, 1h25
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action
Actors John Leguizamo, Jeffrey Jones, Edoardo Ballerini, Freddy Rodríguez, Tammy Townsend, Aries Spears
Roles Short Story
Rating47% 2.3999952.3999952.3999952.3999952.399995
Pestario 'Pest' Vargas, petit artiste de Miami, est pourchassé par une foule d'écossais et un chasseur allemand, les uns pour remporter la prime de 50 000 dollars mis sur sa tête, le second pour, justement, sa tête...
Surviving the Game, 1h36
Directed by Ernest R. Dickerson
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Transport films, Films about automobiles, Road movies, Chase films
Actors Ice-T, Rutger Hauer, Charles Dutton, John C. McGinley, William McNamara, Gary Busey
Roles Short Story
Rating61% 3.099013.099013.099013.099013.09901
Jack Mason is a homeless man from Seattle who loses his only friends—a fellow homeless man and his pet dog—on the same day. Dejected, Mason attempts to commit suicide when a soup kitchen worker, Walter Cole, saves him. Cole refers the man to businessman Thomas Burns, who kindly offers Mason a job as a hunting guide. Despite his misgivings, the lure of a well paying job causes Mason to accept.
Slave Girls from Beyond Infinity, 1h28
Genres Science fiction, Horror comedy, Action, Adventure
Themes Comedy horror films
Actors Elizabeth Kaitan, Brinke Stevens
Roles Short Story
Rating44% 2.211552.211552.211552.211552.21155
Daria and Tisa, two nubile female prisoners, clad only in rough-cut rabbit skin bikinis, break out of their cell in a space gulag, overpower their guards, and escape in a shuttlecraft.
Deadly Prey, 1h28
Directed by David A. Prior
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action
Themes Films about sexuality, Transport films, Rape in fiction, Rape and revenge films, Road movies, Chase films
Actors Cameron Mitchell, Troy Donahue, Ted Prior
Roles Short Story
Rating50% 2.54882.54882.54882.54882.5488
Colonel Hogan rents his mercenaries out to anyone with the right price. This time it's businessman Michaelson. A deal is struck, and Hogan recruits new troops. For training, he orders his troops to kidnap innocent people, take them to the forest and hunt them. Unfortunately this time, they picked the wrong guy, Mike Danton. Danton, a Vietnam veteran, is ambushed while taking out the trash. Taken to the forest, he is stripped to his shorts, greased up and told to run. The mercenaries hunt Danton, but are meticulously picked off one by one. The troops report this to Colonel Hogan, who sends a task force with his best man, Lieutenant Thornton. One of this elite combat unit is Jack Cooper. Cooper and Danton realize who each other are while trying to kill each other. Cooper has not seen Danton since he took a bullet for him in 'Nam. With his new-found friend, Danton continues to punish the mercenaries, and get back to his wife Jaimey. Like all good villains, Hogan uses Danton's family against him, but this angers Danton. After storming the military training camp Danton arms himself up, and destroys all traces of Hogan's mercenaries.
The Perverse Countess, 1h13
Directed by Jesús Franco
Genres Erotic, Thriller, Horror
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films
Actors Howard Vernon, Alice Arno, Lina Romay, Monica Swinn, Robert Woods, Tania Busselier
Roles Short Story
Rating52% 2.6485252.6485252.6485252.6485252.648525
Tom et Moira , un couple dans une grande villa côtière aperçoit à la jumelle un corps de femme nue sur la plage. Ils la découvrent épuisée et la font se reposer chez eux. À son réveil Carole raconte en flash back les horreurs qu'elle a connu dans l'ile. Le couple se demande ce qu'ils vont faire d'elle, Tom répond alors qu'ils vont la ramener dans l'ile. On comprend alors qu'ils sont complices de ce qui s'y passe.
The Woman Hunt, 1h21
Directed by Eddie Romero
Origin USA
Genres Horror
Actors John Ashley, Pat Woodell, Sid Haig, Ken Metcalfe, Eddie García, Alona Alegre
Roles Short Story
Rating46% 2.342482.342482.342482.342482.34248
Some mercenaries Tony (John Ashley), Silas (Sid Haig) and Karp (Ken Metcalf) have been kidnapping women and taking them to an island where a wealthy man named Spyros (Eddie Garcia) assembles a group to hunt the women. Tony begins to question what he is doing and helps McGee (Pat Woodell), Billie (Charlene Jones) and Lori (Laurie Rose) escape. Karp and Silas have a falling out and Karp kills Silas. Spyros' head of security, Magda (Lisa Todd) goes after the escapees but is killed in a trap. Billie and Lori are killed during the hunt and Tony kills Spyros. He and McGee escape to safety.
Bloodlust!
Bloodlust! (1961)
, 1h8
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Horror
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Robert Reed, Wilton Graff, Gene Persson, Walter Brooke, Lilyan Chauvin
Roles Short Story
Rating36% 1.8114351.8114351.8114351.8114351.811435
Two couples (Robert Reed, June Kenney, Joan Lora, and Eugene Persson) are on a boating trip when they come across an uncharted island. The four investigate and find themselves in the clutches of Dr. Albert Balleau (Wilton Graff), whose hobby is hunting both animals and humans.
Run for the Sun, 1h39
Directed by John Boulting, Roy Boulting
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure
Themes Transport films, Road movies, Chase films
Actors Richard Widmark, Trevor Howard, Jane Greer, Peter van Eyck, Guillermo Calles
Roles Short Story
Rating63% 3.19513.19513.19513.19513.1951
Katie Connors, on the editorial staff of Sight magazine, journeys to San Marcos, a remote Mexican fishing village, seeking novelist and adventurer Mike Latimer, who has abandoned writing "at the peak of his fame" and dropped from sight. She soon learns that he is indeed there, indulging in drinking, fishing, hunting, and flying his Piper Cub. Katie contrives to meet him, pretending not to know his identity, but Latimer easily sees through her clumsy denials and is immediately attracted to her. Over the next several days they enjoy each other's company, but Katie may be falling in love with him and conceals the real reason she is there. After Latimer explains that his wife was the muse behind his literary success, and that he quit writing because she left him to be with his best friend, Katie decides to go back to New York. Latimer offers to fly her to Mexico City and asks Katie to write down her address to keep in touch. During the flight the magnetized notebook in Katie's purse affects the plane's magnetic compass and they find themselves lost over jungle. The plane runs out of fuel and Latimer crash-lands in a small clearing. Knocked unconscious, he wakes up to find himself in a bed in the main house of a hacienda.
The Kid from Brooklyn, 1h53
Directed by Norman Z. McLeod
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films, Boxing films, Le boxe anglaise
Actors Danny Kaye, Vera-Ellen, Steve Cochran, Eve Arden, Virginia Mayo, Lionel Stander
Rating64% 3.246773.246773.246773.246773.24677
Well-meaning and mild-mannered milkman Burleigh Sullivan (Kaye) meets Polly Pringle (Mayo), a beautiful, but out-of-work, singer, whilst on his rounds early in the morning. He tries to get her a job at the club where his sister Susie (Vera-Ellen) is performing, but gets the sack for his trouble. Whilst meeting Susie after the show, he sees her being molested by drunken boxer 'Speed' McFarlane and his bodyguard 'Spider'. In the fracas, Speed is knocked out and his manager, Gabby Sloan, is furious.
Thrill of a Romance, 1h45
Directed by Richard Thorpe
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Van Johnson, Esther Williams, Frances Gifford, Carleton G. Young, Henry Travers, Spring Byington
Rating64% 3.246423.246423.246423.246423.24642
Cynthia Glenn (Esther Williams) is a swimming instructor in Los Angeles, California, where she lives with her scatterbrained aunt and uncle Nona and Hobart (Spring Byington and Henry Travers). While demonstrating a dive to her students, she catches the eye of an interested stranger, Bob Delbar (Carleton G. Young). Cynthia returns home to find that she has received flowers from the stranger. The two court for one month, and then get married.
Her Highness and the Bellboy, 1h52
Directed by Richard Thorpe, Charles Walters, Gladys Lehman, Richard Connell
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Hedy Lamarr, Robert Walker, June Allyson, Agnes Moorehead, John George, Carl Esmond
Roles Writer
Rating63% 3.1968953.1968953.1968953.1968953.196895
The beautiful Princess Veronica (Hedy Lamarr) travels to New York City to find the American newspaper columnist she fell in love with six years earlier. After checking into the elegant Eaton Hotel, she is mistaken for a new maid by bellboy Jimmy Dobson (Robert Walker), who offers to accompany her on an afternoon stroll through Central Park. When they return, the hotel manager is shocked to see his bellboy with the princess and fires him for consorting with an important guest. Veronica saves Jimmy's job by insisting that the manager assign him to be her personal attendant while she is in New York.