Brian De Palma
Actor and Director
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Carrie (novel)..., released in 1976. Screenwritten by Lawrence D. Cohen and directed by Brian De Palma, it starred Sissy Spacek as Carrie, along with Piper Laurie, Amy Irving, Nancy Allen , John Travolta, Betty Buckley, and William Katt. It is regarded as a... In this article: Carrie White, Carrie, Sue Snell, Stephen King, Tommy Ross, Doubleday, and Hampden Academy |
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Ain't It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news. | October 08, 2009
A Movie A Day: VISITING HOURS (1982)<BR> <i>+ Brian DePalma's DRESSED TO KILL (1980)!!</i>
...deeper Psycho vibe than that (spoiler!). Who cares? A good movie's a good movie and I really dig DePalma's twisting of Hitchcock's style into something grittier, darker and more brutal. Plus Hitchcock never had a young, nubile Nancy Allen...
In this article: Brian DePalma, Lee Grant, Michael Ironside, Michael Caine, William Shatner, Visiting Hours, Psycho, Angie Dickinson, and Jaws: The Revenge
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boston.com - Latest TV news | September 30, 2009
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...De Palma hit his stride with this sensual, provocative, witty murder mystery. Although he pays his traditional homage to Hitchcock, the material is uniquely his. Michael Caine, Angie Dickinson, and Nancy Allen are perfectly cast, and De...
In this article: Comcast, Buoyancy, Encore, Dressed to Kill, Joel Silver, Michael Caine, John Cameron Mitchell, Steven Seagal, and Angie Dickinson
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Wikipedia | October 14, 2009
Wissahickon Creek
In the 1982 Brian DePalma directed film "Blow Out" starring Nancy Allen and John Travolta, the car crash Travolta records is a of an auto traveling northbound on Lincoln Drive crashing headfirst into the Wissahickon Creek. The crash...
In this article: Wissahickon Creek, Philadelphia, Johannes Kelpius, George Lippard, Edgar Allan Poe, Fairmount Park, Fanny Kemble, and Pennsylvania
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Brian De Palma
...Bernard Herrmann and Pino Donaggio. De Palma is credited with fostering the careers of or outright discovering Robert De Niro, Jill Clayburgh, John C. Reilly, John Leguizamo, and Margot Kidder. De Palma, whose background is Italian...
In this article: Hi, Mom!, Greetings, Carrie Snodgress, Robert De Niro, The Untouchables, Carlito's Way, Scarface, Dressed to Kill, and Body Double
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Nancy Allen (actress)
...several times, participating in racy sex scene s or appearing completely nude for the camera . She and De Palma divorced in 1984. That same year, two of Allen's films were released, The Buddy System '' opposite Richard Dreyfuss and...
In this article: Nancy Anne Allen, Anne Lewis, Carrie White, Dressed to Kill, RoboCop, Peter Weller, Craig Shoemaker, and RoboCop 3
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Blow Out
...De Palma to cast Nancy Allen for the role (the three had previously worked together on Carrie ''); De Palma hesitated at first-he and Allen were married at the time and did not want Allen to have a reputation for only working in her...
In this article: John Travolta, Nancy Allen, Blowup, Blow Out, and Philadelphia
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Brian De Palma (born Brian Russell DePalma on September 11 1940 in Newark, New Jersey) is an American film director. In a career spanning over forty years, he is probably best known for his suspense and thriller films, including such box office successes as Carrie, Dressed to Kill, Scarface, The Untouchables, and Mission: Impossible.
De Palma is often cited as a leading member of the New Hollywood generation of film directors, a distinct pedigree who either emerged from film schools or are overtly cine-literate. His contemporaries include Martin Scorsese, Paul Schrader, John Milius, George Lucas, Francis Ford Coppola, and Steven Spielberg.
Throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, De Palma worked repeatedly with actors Jennifer Salt, Amy Irving, Nancy Allen (his wife from 1979 to 1983), William Finley, Charles Durning, Gerrit Graham, cinematographers Stephen H. Burum and Vilmos Zsigmond (see List of noted film director and cinematographer collaborations), set designer Jack Fisk, and composers Bernard Herrmann and Pino Donaggio. De Palma is credited with fostering the careers of or outright discovering Jill Clayburgh, John C. Reilly, John Leguizamo, and Margot Kidder.
De Palma has encouraged and fostered the filmmaking careers of directors such as Mark Romanek and Keith Gordon. Terrence Malick credits seeing De Palma's early films on college campus tours as a validation of independent film, and subsequently switched his attention from philosophy to filmmaking.
- Name At Birth:
- Brian Russell DePalma
- Birth Date:
- September 11, 1940
- Birthplace:
- Newark, New Jersey, U.S.
- Years Active:
- 1960-present
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