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Robert Swink is a Director, Other, Editor and Second Unit American born on 3 june 1918

Robert Swink

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Birth name Robert E. Swink
Nationality USA
Birth 3 june 1918
Death 15 august 2000 (at 82 years) at Santa Maria (USA)

Robert E. Swink (généralement crédité Robert Swink) est un monteur américain — membre de l'ACE —, né le 3 juin 1918 à Rocky Ford (Colorado), mort le 15 août 2000 à Santa Maria (Californie).

Biography

Robert Swink débute comme monteur sur une série de courts métrages comiques sortis en 1943 et 1944, dont Hold Your Temper de Lloyd French (1943, avec Edgar Kennedy et Irene Ryan).

La même année 1944 sortent ses trois premiers longs métrages, dont Action in Arabia de Leonide Moguy (avec George Sanders et Virginia Bruce). Parmi ses autres films des années 1940, citons Tendresse (1948, avec Irene Dunne et Barbara Bel Geddes) de George Stevens, qu'il retrouvera pour monter Le Journal d'Anne Frank (1959, avec Millie Perkins et Joseph Schildkraut).

Le réalisateur qu'il croise le plus souvent est William Wyler, leur tandem se constituant pour onze films, depuis Histoire de détective (1951, avec Kirk Douglas et Eleanor Parker) jusqu'à On n'achète pas le silence (dernier réalisation de Wyler, 1970, avec Lee J. Cobb et Anthony Zerbe), en passant notamment par Vacances romaines (1953, avec Gregory Peck et Audrey Hepburn), La Loi du Seigneur (1956, avec Gary Cooper et Dorothy McGuire), La Rumeur (1961, avec Audrey Hepburn et Shirley MacLaine) et Funny Girl (1968, avec Barbra Streisand et Omar Sharif).

Suit Franklin J. Schaffner et une collaboration sur six films, dont Papillon (1973, avec Steve McQueen et Dustin Hoffman), Ces garçons qui venaient du Brésil (1978, avec Gregory Peck et Laurence Olivier) et Sphinx (1981, avec Lesley-Anne Down et Frank Langella).

Parmi les autres réalisateurs avec lesquels Robert Swink travaille, mentionnons Robert Wise (deux films, le premier étant Cour criminelle en 1946, avec Tom Conway et Martha O'Driscoll), Richard Fleischer (L'Énigme du Chicago Express en 1952, avec Charles McGraw et Marie Windsor) ou encore Stuart Millar (Une bible et un fusil en 1975, avec John Wayne et Katharine Hepburn).

Le dernier des soixante-cinq films américains (parfois en coproduction) qu'il monte est Welcome Home de Franklin J. Schaffner (avec Kris Kristofferson et JoBeth Williams), sorti en 1989.

Par ailleurs, Robert Swink est réalisateur de seconde équipe sur cinq productions, dont Les Grands Espaces (1958, avec Gregory Peck et Jean Simmons) et Comment voler un million de dollars (1966, avec Audrey Hepburn et Peter O'Toole), deux films de William Wyler dont il assure le montage, ainsi que Las Vegas, un couple de George Stevens (uniquement en seconde équipe, 1970, avec Elizabeth Taylor et Warren Beatty).

Signalons aussi sa participation, pour la télévision, à deux séries (1952-1956, comme monteur) et à un téléfilm (1971, comme réalisateur de seconde équipe).

Durant sa carrière, il obtient trois nominations à l'Oscar du meilleur montage, pour Vacances romaines, Funny Girl et Ces garçons qui venaient du Brésil précités, mais n'en gagne pas.

Best films

Midway (1976)
(Editor)
Papillon (1973)
(Editor)
Roman Holiday (1953)
(Editor)
Friendly Persuasion (1956)
(Editor)
The Big Country (1958)
(Second Unit Director)
The Diary of Anne Frank (1959)
(Editor)

Usually with

William Wyler
William Wyler
(10 films)
Darrell Silvera
Darrell Silvera
(15 films)
Robert Wyler
Robert Wyler
(7 films)
John Waters
John Waters
(2 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Robert Swink (51 films)

Display filmography as list

Director

The Liberation of L.B. Jones, 1h42
Directed by William Wyler, Robert Swink
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Roscoe Lee Browne, Lee J. Cobb, Lee Majors, Anthony Zerbe, Lola Falana, Eve McVeagh
Rating67% 3.388463.388463.388463.388463.38846
À Somerton, une petite ville du Tennessee, L.B. Jones est le directeur aisé d'une petite entreprise de pompes funèbres. Afro-américain, il demande le divorce à sa femme Emma, également noire, qui le trompe avec un policier local, Willie Joe Worth. Jones engage dès lors le meilleur avocat de la ville, Oman Hedgepath, pour le défendre face à son épouse. Dans l'attente du procès de divorce, Oman suggère au policier de faire pression sur Emma pour qu'elle renonce à se faire assister d'un avocat, ce qui aurait pour conséquence de faire citer le nom de son amant lors du procès et possiblement de briser sa carrière et sa vie de famille. Comme Emma refuse, il s'en prend à L.

Director

The Liberation of L.B. Jones, 1h42
Directed by William Wyler, Robert Swink
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Roscoe Lee Browne, Lee J. Cobb, Lee Majors, Anthony Zerbe, Lola Falana, Eve McVeagh
Roles Second Unit Director
Rating67% 3.388463.388463.388463.388463.38846
À Somerton, une petite ville du Tennessee, L.B. Jones est le directeur aisé d'une petite entreprise de pompes funèbres. Afro-américain, il demande le divorce à sa femme Emma, également noire, qui le trompe avec un policier local, Willie Joe Worth. Jones engage dès lors le meilleur avocat de la ville, Oman Hedgepath, pour le défendre face à son épouse. Dans l'attente du procès de divorce, Oman suggère au policier de faire pression sur Emma pour qu'elle renonce à se faire assister d'un avocat, ce qui aurait pour conséquence de faire citer le nom de son amant lors du procès et possiblement de briser sa carrière et sa vie de famille. Comme Emma refuse, il s'en prend à L.
How to Steal a Million, 2h3
Directed by William Wyler
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Action, Crime, Romance
Themes Heist films, Children's films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Audrey Hepburn, Peter O'Toole, Eli Wallach, Hugh Griffith, Charles Boyer, Marcel Dalio
Roles Second Unit Director
Rating74% 3.7495353.7495353.7495353.7495353.749535
Charles Bonnet (Hugh Griffith) is a highly skilled art forger who pretends to be an art collector. His daughter Nicole (Audrey Hepburn) disapproves of his forgeries and is afraid that he may get caught. At the beginning of the film, he loans a renowned statue of Cellini's Venus to the Kléber-Lafayette Museum as the centerpiece of an important upcoming exhibition. However, the statue had been made by Nicole's grandfather and would fail even a basic materials analysis.
The Big Country, 2h45
Directed by William Wyler, John Waters
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Romance, Western
Actors Gregory Peck, Jean Simmons, Charlton Heston, Carroll Baker, Burl Ives, Charles Bickford
Roles Second Unit Director
Rating78% 3.947023.947023.947023.947023.94702
Wealthy sea captain James McKay (Gregory Peck) travels to the American West to join his fiancée Patricia (Carroll Baker) at the enormous ranch owned by her father, Henry Terrill (Charles Bickford), referred to by all as the "Major". Terrill has been feuding with Rufus Hannassey (Burl Ives), the patriarch of a poorer, less refined ranching clan, over water rights in the arid grazing lands of the high plains.

Editor

Welcome Home, 1h32
Directed by Franklin J. Schaffner
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Political films
Actors Kris Kristofferson, JoBeth Williams, Sam Waterston, Brian Keith, Kieu Chinh, Thomas Wilson Brown
Roles Editor
Rating57% 2.8561052.8561052.8561052.8561052.856105
Jake Robbins went off to Vietnam, leaving his wife behind to mourn when he is reported missing, presumed dead. Seventeen years later, he unexpectedly returns.
Sphinx
Sphinx (1981)
, 1h58
Directed by Franklin J. Schaffner
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Horror
Themes Films set in Africa
Actors Lesley-Anne Down, Frank Langella, Maurice Ronet, Behrouz Vossoughi, John Gielgud, John Rhys-Davies
Roles Editor
Rating51% 2.556262.556262.556262.556262.55626
Dedicated Egyptologist Erica Baron is researching a paper about the chief architect to Pharaoh Seti. Soon after her arrival in Cairo, she witnesses the brutal murder of unscrupulous art dealer Abdu-Hamdi, meets a French journalist named Yeon, and is befriended by Akmed Khazzan, who heads the antiquities division of the United Nations. When she journeys to the Valley of the Kings in Luxor to search a tomb reportedly filled with treasures, she finds herself the target of black marketeers determined to keep the riches themselves.
Going in Style, 1h37
Directed by Martin Brest
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Action, Crime
Themes Buddy films, Heist films
Actors George Burns, Art Carney, Lee Strasberg, Charles Hallahan, Paul L. Smith, Pamela Payton-Wright
Roles Editor
Rating70% 3.546643.546643.546643.546643.54664
Joe (George Burns), Al (Art Carney), and Willie (Lee Strasberg) are three senior citizens who share a small apartment in Queens , New York City. They live off social security checks and spend their summer days sitting on a park bench, reading newspapers, feeding pigeons, and fending off obnoxious children.
The In-Laws, 1h39
Directed by Arthur Hiller
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure
Themes Monde imaginaire
Actors Peter Falk, Alan Arkin, Richard Libertini, Ed Begley Jr., Michael Lembeck, Penny Peyser
Roles Editor
Rating72% 3.645683.645683.645683.645683.64568
The daughter of mild-mannered Manhattan dentist Sheldon "Shelly" Kornpett and the son of businessman Vince Ricardo are engaged to be married. At an introductory dinner in which Shelly meets his new in-law Vince, he finds Vince suspicious; during the dinner, Vince tells a crazy story of a nine-month "consulting" trip to 1954 Guatemala. Vince's son and wife seem oblivious. Shelly pleads with his daughter not to marry into the Ricardo clan, since he mistrusts Vince. Shelly agrees to give Vince a chance.
Going in Style, 1h37
Directed by Martin Brest
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Action, Crime
Themes Vieillesse
Actors George Burns, Art Carney, Lee Strasberg, Charles Hallahan, Pamela Payton-Wright, Mary Testa
Roles Editor
Rating70% 3.546643.546643.546643.546643.54664
Joe, Al et Willie sont trois vieux retraités. Ils vivent en colocation dans le Queens et n'attendent plus que de mourir. Ils passent leurs journées à trainer au parc et à nourrir les pigeons. Mais Joe s’ennuie profondément. Après s'être rendu à la banque pour son maigre chèque de pension de retraite, Joe pense à quelque chose qui remettra un peu de piment dans leurs vies : braquer une banque ! Cette idée insensée plait cependant immédiatement à Al et Willie, eux aussi lassés de la monotonie de leur vie. Sur le papier, leur plan est simple : déguisés en clones de Groucho Marx, ils vont entrer armés dans leur banque pour voler uniquement l’argent des caisses. Mais dans les faits, la mission ne sera pas aussi facile pour ces papys au casier judiciaire vierge. Après cela, alors qu'ils ont repris goût à la vie, ils s’envolent pour la première fois vers Las Vegas et ses célèbres casinos.
The Boys from Brazil, 2h3
Directed by Franklin J. Schaffner
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Horror
Themes Clonage, Films based on science fiction novels, Hitler, Political films
Actors Gregory Peck, Laurence Olivier, James Mason, Lilli Palmer, Steve Guttenberg, Denholm Elliott
Roles Editor
Rating69% 3.497953.497953.497953.497953.49795
Young, well-intentioned Barry Kohler (Steve Guttenberg) stumbles upon a secret organization of Third Reich war criminals holding clandestine meetings in Paraguay and finds that Dr. Josef Mengele (Gregory Peck), the infamous Auschwitz doctor, is with them. He phones Ezra Lieberman (Laurence Olivier), an aging Nazi hunter living in Vienna, Austria, with this information. A highly skeptical Lieberman tries to brush Kohler's claims aside, telling him that it is already well known that Mengele is living in Paraguay.
Gray Lady Down, 1h51
Directed by David Greene
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Historical
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Submarine films, Disaster films, American disaster films, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors Charlton Heston, David Carradine, Stacy Keach, Ned Beatty, Stephen McHattie, Ronny Cox
Roles Editor
Rating62% 3.1015753.1015753.1015753.1015753.101575
Aging, respected commander Paul Blanchard (Heston) is on his final submarine tour before promotion to command of a submarine squadron (COMSUBRON). Surfaced and returning to port, the submarine, USS Neptune, is struck by a Norweigian freighter in route to New York in heavy fog, and sinks to a depth of 1,450 feet (442 meters) on a canyon ledge above the ocean floor. A United States Navy rescue force, commanded by Captain Bennett (Keach), arrives on the scene, but Neptune is subsequently rolled by a gravity slide to a greater angle that does not allow the Navy's Deep Submergence Rescue Vehicle (DSRV) rescue submarine to complete its work.
Islands in the Stream, 1h45
Directed by Franklin J. Schaffner, Kurt Neumann
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films
Actors George C. Scott, David Hemmings, Gilbert Roland, Susan Tyrrell, Claire Bloom, Richard Evans
Roles Editor
Rating64% 3.2478453.2478453.2478453.2478453.247845
Artist Thomas Hudson is an American who has left the civilized world for a simple life in the Caribbean. Schaffner tells the tale in four parts:
Midway
Midway (1976)
, 2h12
Directed by Jack Smight
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Adventure, Historical
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Aviation films, Political films, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors Charlton Heston, Henry Fonda, James Coburn, Glenn Ford, Hal Holbrook, Toshiro Mifune
Roles Editor
Rating66% 3.3491053.3491053.3491053.3491053.349105
The film chronicles the Battle of Midway, a turning point in World War II in the Pacific. The Imperial Japanese Navy had been undefeated until that time and out-numbered the American naval forces by four to one.
Rooster Cogburn, 1h48
Directed by Stuart Millar
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Western
Actors John Wayne, Katharine Hepburn, Richard Jordan, John McIntire, Anthony Zerbe, Paul Koslo
Roles Editor
Rating67% 3.3975353.3975353.3975353.3975353.397535
Because of his drunkenness and questionable use of firearms, aging U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn (John Wayne) has been stripped of his badge. But he's given a chance to redeem himself after a village in Indian Territory is overrun by a gang of violent, ruthless criminals, who've killed an elderly preacher, Rev. George Goodnight (Jon Lormer). His spinster daughter, Eula Goodnight (Katharine Hepburn), wants to join Cogburn to track the criminals down, becoming his unwilling partner. But Rooster must use care, because the criminals, led by Hawk (Richard Jordan) and Breed (Anthony Zerbe), have stolen a shipment of nitroglycerine.
Three the Hard Way, 1h33
Directed by Gordon Parks, Jr., Gordon Parks Jr.
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action
Themes Films about racism
Actors Fred Williamson, Jim Kelly, Jay Robinson, Sheila Frazier, Howard Platt, Charles McGregor
Roles Editor
Rating61% 3.0988753.0988753.0988753.0988753.098875
Three The Hard Way was released in 1974 and is considered one of the classic action movies of the blaxploitation genre. Directed by the acclaimed Gordon Parks Jr., son of Gordon Parks (Shaft 1971) and director of Super Fly (1972), the film stars the three biggest black action stars of the era; Jim Brown (The Dirty Dozen, El Condor, Slaughter) as record producer Jimmy Lait, Fred Williamson (Black Caesar, Bucktown) as entrepreneur Jagger Daniels, and Jim Kelly (Enter the Dragon, Black Samurai, Black Belt Jones, One Down Two to Go) as martial arts master Mister Keyes.