Don Siegel

National Film Registry selects 25 films for preservation

2012-12-19 05:00:00

A gripping western, a beloved holiday film, a 115-year-old movie capturing a famous boxing match, a memoir of a Holocaust survivor and a visionary science-fiction thriller in which Keanu Reeves utters the word “whoa” are among the 25 films...

Bruce Surtees dies at 74; cinematographer worked with Eastwood and Fosse

2012-03-02 00:00:00

Early in his career as one of Hollywood's top cinematographers, Bruce Surtees became known for his artful use of low-level, moody lighting in films such as Don Siegel's "The Beguiled" and "Dirty Harry" and Bob Fosse's "Lenny." Surtees, 74, who received...

PASSINGS: Doe Avedon Siegel, Dan Frazer

2011-12-23 00:00:00

Doe Avedon Siegel Model and stage, film, TV actress Doe Avedon Siegel, 86, a model, actress and young muse for photographer Richard Avedon, died of pneumonia Sunday at Encino Hospital Medical Center, said her daughter-in-law Annette Siegel. Born...

Oscars 2012: Was 'Wings' Hollywood's first bromance?

2012-02-10 16:37:33

Friday's TV Highlights: 'Talihina Sky: The Story of Kings of Leon' on Showtime

2011-08-25 21:36:15

Dana Wynter dies at 79; actress in 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers'

2011-05-08 00:00:00

Dana Wynter, an actress best known for her role in the 1956 science-fiction classic "Invasion of the Body Snatchers," has died. She was 79. Wynter died Thursday of congestive heart failure at Ojai Valley Community Hospital's Continuing Care Center,...

Kevin McCarthy dies at 96; prolific actor best known for 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers'

2010-09-13 00:00:00

Kevin McCarthy, the veteran stage and screen actor best known for his starring role as the panicked doctor who tried to warn the world about the alien "pod people" who were taking over in the 1956 science-fiction suspense classic "Invasion of the Body...

Stuart M. Kaminsky dies at 75; prolific mystery writer

2009-10-14 00:00:00

Stuart M. Kaminsky, a writer of impressive range who created four distinctive detectives for series set in Los Angeles, Chicago, Florida and Moscow, has died. He was 75. Kaminsky, who joined the elite of his craft in 2006 when the Mystery Writers of...

Tuesday's TV Highlights: Ed Oâ€™Neill on 'Biography'

2010-06-14 21:35:37

Robert F. Boyle dies at 100; longtime Hollywood production designer

2010-08-04 00:00:00

Robert F. Boyle, a four-time Oscar-nominated production designer best known for his work on Alfred Hitchcock's "North by Northwest" and "The Birds" and Norman Jewison's "Fiddler on the Roof," has died. He was 100. Boyle died of natural causes Sunday at...

Manny Farber: A film critic not in awe of Hollywood

2009-10-04 00:00:00

Farber on Film The Complete Film Writings of Manny Farber Edited by Robert Polito Library of America: 824 pp., $40 At this year's Academy Awards, the most incongruous moment came during the "In Memoriam" roll call. Among the distinguished deceased...

Christopher Nolan's 'Knight' vision

2008-07-06 00:00:00

THE BRITISH filmmaker Christopher Nolan has the mien of a passionate literature professor (passionate, that is, in the British sense of the term) and, last December, he spoke about the young actor Heath Ledger as if he were the most fascinating manuscript...

Clint Eastwood introduced his iconic role as maverick San Francisco Det. Harry Callahan in Don Siegel's influential action-thriller.

2012-12-18 11:13:11

Henry Fonda, left, as Commissioner Anthony X. Russell, James Whitmore as Chief Inspector Charles Kane and Richard Widmark as Det. Daniel Madigan in the 1968 film "Madigan," which later became a TV series.

2009-02-06 16:58:27

Actor Richard Widmark, March 24 Richard Widmark, who made an indelible screen debut in 1947 as a giggling sadistic killer and later brought a sense of urban cynicism and unpredictability to his roles as a leading man, died on Monday, March 24, 2008, at his home in Roxbury, Conn.

2008-03-27 00:00:00