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Post by mattgarth on Apr 22, 2017 19:01:57 GMT
And then there's Tom Tryon -- Matt, I have to say that the film adaptation of his novel, "The Other" scared the hibbi-gibbies (sp) out of me when I saw it in the theatre when it was first released. At the time I was working with a man who knew Tryon, and he told me that he once asked Tom how he could write something as terrifying as "The Other." Tryon told him that he wrote it every day on a raft in his swimming pool in broad daylight. And he wasn't kidding. So THAT'S why Tom's original manuscript was delivered to the publisher -- dripping wet!
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Post by Richard Kimble on Apr 22, 2017 19:02:02 GMT
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Post by Jillian on Apr 22, 2017 19:03:05 GMT
Mark Gatiss (Sherlock Holmes)
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Post by Jillian on Apr 22, 2017 19:09:38 GMT
Mark Gatiss (Sherlock Holmes) Excellent choice! What a talented man. Agreed, yes he is indeed!!
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Post by telegonus on Apr 22, 2017 19:31:50 GMT
Alan Caillou was the nom de plume of Alan Samuel Lyle-Smythe M.B.E., M.C. (9 November 1914 – 1 October 2006), an English born author, actor, screenwriter, soldier, policeman and professional hunter. Alan Lyle-Smythe was born in Surrey, England. Prior to World War II he served with the Palestine Police from 1936 to 1939, where he learned the Arabic language. He was awarded an MBE in June 1938. He married Aliza Sverdova in 1939, then studied acting from 1939–1941. In January 1940, Lyle-Smythe was commissioned in the Royal Army Service Corps. Due to his linguistic skills, he transferred to the Intelligence Corps and served in the Western Desert where he used the surname "Caillou" (the French word for 'stone') as an alias. He was captured in North Africa, imprisoned and threatened with execution in Italy, then escaped to join the British forces at Salerno. He was then posted to serve with the partisans in Yugoslavia. He wrote about his experiences in the book The World is Six Feet Square (1954). He was promoted to Captain and awarded the Military Cross in 1944. Following the war he returned to the Palestine Police from 1946 to 1947 then served as a Police Commissioner in British occupied Italian Somaliland from 1947 to 1952 where he was recommissioned a Captain. After work as a District Officer in Somalia and professional hunter, Lyle-Smythe travelled to Canada, where he worked as a hunter and then became an actor on Canadian television. He wrote his first novel, Rogue's Gambit, in 1955, first using the name of Caillou; one of his aliases during the war. Moving from Vancouver to Hollywood, he made an appearance as a contestant on 23 January 1958 edition of You Bet Your Life. This was followed by many appearances as an actor as well as a screenwriter in such shows as Daktari, The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (including the screenwriting for "The Bow-Wow Affair" from 1965), Thriller, Daniel Boone, Quark, where he played "The Head", Centennial and How the West Was Won, as well as television movies such as Sole Survivor (1970), The Hound of the Baskervilles (1972, as Inspector Lestrade), and Goliath Awaits (1981). His cinema film credits included roles in Five Weeks in a Balloon (1962), Clarence, the Cross-Eyed Lion (1965), The Rare Breed (1966), The Devil's Brigade (1968), Hellfighters (1968), Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) (1972), Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo (1977), Beyond Evil (1980), The Sword and the Sorcerer (1982) and The Ice Pirates (1984). Caillou wrote a variety of 52 paperback thrillers under his own name and a nom de plume of Alex Webb with such heroes as Cabot Cain, Colonel Matthew Tobin, Mike Benasque, Ian Quayle and Josh Dekker as well as writing many magazine stories. He also wrote books under female names. Several of Caillou's novels were filmed, such as Rampage with Robert Mitchum in 1963 based on his big game hunting knowledge, Assault on Agathon with Nico Minardos as Cabot Cain for which Caillou did the screenplay as well, and The Cheetahs, filmed in 1989.
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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Apr 22, 2017 19:36:32 GMT
Would an actress who wrote her own sitcom count? (I'm thinking of Marge Greene. She wrote the scenario for each live episode of "Marge and Jeff", and she and her male co-star improvised the dialogue during the live broadcast. A DuMont Television Network production). She's got virtually no credits outside the sitcom though (maybe she did theatre? Who knows?).
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Post by Richard Kimble on Apr 22, 2017 19:48:58 GMT
The intriguing thing about David Niven as a novelist is that he wrote two: the first, Round The Rugged Rocks, was published during the low point of his career in 1951, and immediately forgotten. What's interesting is that RTRR is apparently a fictionalized autobiography, including many of the same stories that would later be read by millions in his bestselling '70s memoirs. This is presumably the reason Niven never allowed it to be reprinted. I couldn't find pics of RTRR. Here's the American version, entitled Once Over Lightly:
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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Apr 23, 2017 1:31:40 GMT
George M. Cohan wrote plays, acted on stage and in silent films.
One of these films, Seven Keys to Baldpate (1917), is on DVD. His other silents are lost, but that hasn't stopped some idiot from reviewing them on IMDb. Yet another reason to not trust IMDb reviews.
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Post by bravomailer on Jul 15, 2017 4:39:19 GMT
Sam Shepherd is a fine playwright and occasional actor.
Tom Hanks wrote the under-appreciated That Thing You Do. He wrote some of the music too.
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Post by Richard Kimble on Jul 15, 2017 6:25:19 GMT
Alan Caillou was the nom de plume of Alan Samuel Lyle-Smythe M.B.E., M.C. (9 November 1914 – 1 October 2006), an English born author, actor, screenwriter, soldier, policeman and professional hunter. Alan Lyle-Smythe was born in Surrey, England. Prior to World War II he served with the Palestine Police from 1936 to 1939, where he learned the Arabic language. He was awarded an MBE in June 1938. He married Aliza Sverdova in 1939, then studied acting from 1939–1941. In January 1940, Lyle-Smythe was commissioned in the Royal Army Service Corps. Due to his linguistic skills, he transferred to the Intelligence Corps and served in the Western Desert where he used the surname "Caillou" (the French word for 'stone') as an alias. He was captured in North Africa, imprisoned and threatened with execution in Italy, then escaped to join the British forces at Salerno. He was then posted to serve with the partisans in Yugoslavia. He wrote about his experiences in the book The World is Six Feet Square (1954). He was promoted to Captain and awarded the Military Cross in 1944. Following the war he returned to the Palestine Police from 1946 to 1947 then served as a Police Commissioner in British occupied Italian Somaliland from 1947 to 1952 where he was recommissioned a Captain. After work as a District Officer in Somalia and professional hunter, Lyle-Smythe travelled to Canada, where he worked as a hunter and then became an actor on Canadian television. He wrote his first novel, Rogue's Gambit, in 1955, first using the name of Caillou; one of his aliases during the war. Moving from Vancouver to Hollywood, he made an appearance as a contestant on 23 January 1958 edition of You Bet Your Life. This was followed by many appearances as an actor as well as a screenwriter in such shows as Daktari, The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (including the screenwriting for "The Bow-Wow Affair" from 1965), Thriller, Daniel Boone, Quark, where he played "The Head", Centennial and How the West Was Won, as well as television movies such as Sole Survivor (1970), The Hound of the Baskervilles (1972, as Inspector Lestrade), and Goliath Awaits (1981). His cinema film credits included roles in Five Weeks in a Balloon (1962), Clarence, the Cross-Eyed Lion (1965), The Rare Breed (1966), The Devil's Brigade (1968), Hellfighters (1968), Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) (1972), Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo (1977), Beyond Evil (1980), The Sword and the Sorcerer (1982) and The Ice Pirates (1984). Caillou wrote a variety of 52 paperback thrillers under his own name and a nom de plume of Alex Webb with such heroes as Cabot Cain, Colonel Matthew Tobin, Mike Benasque, Ian Quayle and Josh Dekker as well as writing many magazine stories. He also wrote books under female names. Several of Caillou's novels were filmed, such as Rampage with Robert Mitchum in 1963 based on his big game hunting knowledge, Assault on Agathon with Nico Minardos as Cabot Cain for which Caillou did the screenplay as well, and The Cheetahs, filmed in 1989.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jul 15, 2017 12:15:29 GMT
Somehow I missed this one last April. Nice thread (as usual ) LILLIAN GISH: Silver Glory (1951) (TV) Remodeling Her Husband (1920) (scenario) (as Dorothy Elizabeth Carter) (story) (as Dorothy Elizabeth Carter) The Greatest Thing in Life (1918) (story) She also wrote a biography "Mr. Griffith and Me".
HAROLD LLOYD Movie Crazy (1932) (uncredited) Welcome Danger (1929) (uncredited) The Freshman (1925) (uncredited) Girl Shy (1924) (uncredited) Safety Last! (1923) (uncredited) Grandma's Boy (1922) (story) (uncredited) From Hand to Mouth (1919) (uncredited) The uncredited may just be a result of the short collection of credits posted in the silents. Not like now when the stuntman's dog walker gets a credit.
KATHARINE HEPBURN Katharine Hepburn: All About Me (1993) (TV) and her wonderfully readable biographical story of the making of the African Queen The Making of the African Queen: Or How I Went to Africa With Bogart, Bacall and Huston and Almost Lost My Mind and her autobiography "Me: Stories of My Life" She writes these just the way she talks and they were great fun to read. (Me being a major Hepburn Fan.)
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jul 15, 2017 12:22:00 GMT
Richard Kimble Alan Caillou was the nom de plume of Alan Samuel Lyle-Smythe M.B.E., M.C. (9 November 1914 – 1 October 2006), an English born author, actor, screenwriter, soldier, policeman and professional hunter.
What a coincidence of names : Alan Smithee (also Allen Smithee) is an official pseudonym used by film directors who wish to disown a project. Coined in 1968 and used until it was formally discontinued in 2000, it was the sole pseudonym used by members of the Directors Guild of America (DGA) when a director, dissatisfied with the final product, proved to the satisfaction of a guild panel that he or she had not been able to exercise creative control over a film. The director was also required by guild rules not to discuss the circumstances leading to the move or even to acknowledge being the project's director
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Post by koskiewicz on Jul 16, 2017 15:38:26 GMT
Tom Tryon acted mostly in TV and also wrote a few screenplays...
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Post by Eλευθερί on Jul 17, 2017 0:11:59 GMT
Spiderwort, did you know Joan Collins was/is a writer? (Some might question whether she is an actor, though, I suppose ... )
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Post by Eλευθερί on Jul 17, 2017 1:02:08 GMT
Jerry Lewis John Huston Charles Chaplin Terry Jones Barbra Streisand Roman Polanski George Clooney Ben Affleck Seth Rogen Sacha Baron Cohen Clint Eastwood Bill Cosby
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Post by bravomailer on Jul 17, 2017 1:06:18 GMT
Robert Shaw wrote The Man in the Glass Booth.
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Post by Staccato on Jul 17, 2017 14:49:28 GMT
Mary Astor Sterling Hayden
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Post by movielover on Jul 17, 2017 14:54:47 GMT
Kristen Wiig
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Post by bravomailer on Jul 17, 2017 14:55:22 GMT
Robert Shaw wrote The Man in the Glass Booth. I knew that, Bravo, but what I didn't know until I researched it is that he was an award-winning writer of several novels and plays. His novel, The Man in the Glass Booth, he then turned into a play, which became the film we know and love. I wonder if The Man in the Glass Booth is often passed over because it's misunderstood as a retelling of the Eichmann trial.
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Post by Staccato on Jul 17, 2017 14:55:46 GMT
Robert Culp Michael Landon Patrick McGoohan Roger Smith
David Niven Robert Wagner
Sarah Polley Alan Alda Mel Gibson Jason Miller Cornel Wilde Mark Stevens Mary-Louise Parker
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