Category: Playwrights

Victor Hugo

(1802–1885) Victor-Marie Hugo The artist’s works: Paysage avec un burg en ruine 1842 Musée du Louvre, Paris Paysage avec deux châteaux en ruines 1847 Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Victor Hugo sur le rocher des Proscrits c.1853 Musée d’Orsay, Paris Le vieux pont…

Pier Paolo Pasolini

(1922–1975) Filmography as Director: Edipo re 1967 Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini Starring: Silvana Mangano, Franco Citti     Medea 1969 Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini Starring: Maria Callas, Massimo Girotti     Filmography as Writer: Le notti di Cabiria 1957 Director: Federico Fellini Starring: Giulietta…

Robert Shaw

(1927–1978) Robert Archibald Shaw Filmography as Actor: From Russia with Love 1963 Director: Terence Young Starring: Sean Connery, Daniela Bianchi     A Man for All Seasons 1966 Director: Fred Zinnemann Starring: Paul Scofield, Wendy Hiller     Robin and Marian 1976 Director: Richard Lester Starring: Sean Connery, Audrey…

Jules Verne

(1828–1905) Jules-Gabriel Verne Works: • Abandoned (English) • All Around the Moon (English) • Around the World in Eighty Days (English) • Autour de la lune (French) • In Search of the Castaways (English) • Les enfants du capitaine Grant (French)…

Franco Branciaroli

(1947) Filmography as Actor: La chiave 1983 Director: Tinto Brass Starring: Stefania Sandrelli, Frank Finlay   Born May 27 1947 Milano (Italia) Occupation Actor Playwright Theatre Director

Nino Manfredi

(1921–2004) Saturnino Manfredi, OMRI Filmography as Actor: C’eravamo tanto amati 1974 Director: Ettore Scola Starring: Nino Manfredi, Vittorio Gassman     Pane e cioccolata 1974 Director: Franco Brusati Starring: Nino Manfredi, Anna Karina   Born March 22 1921 Castro dei Volsci…

Michael V. Gazzo

(1923–1995) Michael Vincente Gazzo Filmography as Actor: The Godfather: Part II 1974 Director: Francis Ford Coppola Starring: Al Pacino, Robert Duvall   Born April 5 1923 Hillside, NJ (USA) Died February 14 1995 Los Angeles, CA (USA) Cause of death…

Carrie Fisher

(1956–2016) Carrie Frances Fisher Filmography as Actress: Appointment with Death 1988 Director: Michael Winner Starring: Peter Ustinov, Lauren Bacall     When Harry Met Sally… 1989 Director: Rob Reiner Starring: Billy Crystal, Meg Ryan   Born October 21 1956 Beverly…

Peter Ustinov

(1921–2004) Sir Peter Alexander Ustinov, CBE, FRSA Filmography as Actor: Quo Vadis 1951 Director: Mervyn LeRoy Starring: Robert Taylor, Deborah Kerr     Spartacus 1960 Director: Stanley Kubrick Starring: Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier     Jesus of Nazareth 1977 Director: Franco Zeffirelli Starring: Robert Powell, Olivia Hussey    …

Mark Rylance

(1960) David Mark Rylance Waters Filmography as Actor: The Other Boleyn Girl 2008 Director: Justin Chadwick Starring: Natalie Portman, Scarlett Johansson   Born January 18 1960 Ashford (England) Occupation Actor Theatre director Occupation Playwright Writer Awards Academy Award BAFTA Awards…