Dan Curtis
Director and Producer
Vamp-Tired: No More 'New Moon' (Short Ends and Leader)...in service of the supernatural, we'd have something more solid. As it stands, Meyers is just mimicking the lovelorn shtick from Dan Curtis' far superior Dark Shadows - and doing a dreadful job of it at that. Indeed, if there were any... In this article: New Moon, Twilight, Jacob Black, The Twilight Saga, Robert Pattinson, Chris Weitz, and Wolf |
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Wikipedia | November 02, 2009
Burnt Offerings (film)
...itself with each death that occurs inside of it. The film stars Karen Black, Oliver Reed, and Bette Davis and was directed by Dan Curtis. The movie won the 1977 Saturn Award for Best Horror Film . The Rolf family takes a vacation from...
In this article: Burnt Offerings, Oliver Reed, Bette Davis, Karen Black, California, and Sitges Film Festival
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Wikipedia | October 30, 2009
Night of Dark Shadows
Night of Dark Shadows is a 1971 horror film by Dan Curtis. It is the sequel to House of Dark Shadows. It centers on the story of Quentin Collins and his bride Tracy at the Collinwood Mansion in Collinsport, Maine. David Selby, Lara Parker,...
In this article: Night of Dark Shadows, Quentin Collins, Dark Shadows, and House of Dark Shadows
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Wikipedia | October 23, 2009
Art Wallace
...the job. Wallace offered to write the show and recommended Robert Costello for the job of producer. In 1966, working with Dan Curtis he wrote the "bible" and first thirteen weeks' worth of early episodes of Dark Shadows. He wrote the...
In this article: Art Wallace, Dark Shadows, Elizabeth Wallace, Francis Swann, Studio One, Goodyear Playhouse, Star Trek, All My Children, and Tom Corbett, Space Cadet
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Ain't It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news. | October 22, 2009
A Movie A Day: DEAD OF NIGHT (1977) <BR><i>It has nothing to do with time… The dead of night is a state of mind.</i>
...quality TV movie. Much like it's more expensive 1945 counterpart it is also an anthology. Get this… it's directed and produced by Dan Curtis, director of TRILOGY OF TERROR, BURNT OFFERINGS and the Dark Shadows series and written by Richard...
In this article: Dead of Night, John Landis, Vic Morrow, Steven Spielberg, Ed Begley Jr., Patrick Macnee, DVD, Jerry Goldsmith, and Joe Dante
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Wikipedia | October 12, 2009
House of Dark Shadows
House of Dark Shadows is a 1970 feature-length horror film by Dan Curtis based on his Dark Shadows television series. Filming took place at Lyndhurst in Tarrytown, New York with additional footage at nearby Sleepy Hollow Cemetery. Vampire...
In this article: Maggie Evans, Jeff Clark, House of Dark Shadows, Night of Dark Shadows, Dark Shadows, and Willie Loomis
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Wikipedia | September 30, 2009
Diana Millay
...pilot films for prospective new TV series', Slezak and Son, Boston Terrier and Las Vegas Beat. In November 1966, executive producer Dan Curtis offered Diana the contract role of "Laura Collins" on his ABC-TV daytime series, the cult...
In this article: Diana Millay, Dark Shadows, The Secret Storm, Broadway, Boston terrier, Halloween, Rye, New York, and Henry Morgan
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Wikipedia | September 21, 2009
Dark Shadows (1991)
Dark Shadows, often referred to as The New Dark Shadows, was a re-imagining of Dan Curtis's original Dark Shadows television series which aired in 1991 on NBC. It aired as a weekly show during primetime. It was later shown in reruns on the...
In this article: Dark Shadows, Barnabas Collins, MGM Television, Sci-Fi Channel, Warner Bros, and NBC
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Wikipedia | September 02, 2009
Maggie Evans
...Scott has said creator Dan Curtis gave her this exit because when she told him she wanted to leave, he said she was crazy. In 1970, MGM and Dan Curtis released a motion picture, House of Dark Shadows. The film covered the early...
In this article: Maggie Evans, Barnabas Collins, Quentin Collins, Sarah Collins, Kathryn Leigh Scott, Victoria Winters, and House of Dark Shadows
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Wikipedia | August 30, 2009
Dan Curtis
R. Daniel Curtis (August 12 1927 - March 27 2006) was an American director and producer of television and film, probably best known for the afternoon TV series Dark Shadows. Dark Shadows originally aired from 1966 to 1971 and has aired in...
In this article: Dark Shadows, Emmy Award, The Winds of War, Barnabas Collins, The WB Television Network, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Richard Matheson, and The Picture of Dorian Gray
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www.washingtonpost.com | July 11, 2006
A Delightful Scream: TNT's 'Nightmares' Toys With the Mind
...old toymaker -- is strikingly reminiscent of "Amelia," the third story in a TV-movie called "Trilogy of Terror," produced by Dan Curtis for ABC in 1975. Yes, children, we had TV in 1975. Karen Black played the title role, a woman...
In this article: William Hurt, Battleground, Richard Christian Matheson, Trilogy of Terror, Stephen King, and Karen Black
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R. Daniel Curtis (August 12 1927 – March 27 2006) was an American director and producer of television and film, probably best known for the afternoon TV series Dark Shadows, which originally aired from 1966 to 1971 and has aired in syndication for the last thirty years. He also did the 1991 remake of Dark Shadows, but was cancelled due to low ratings. And was the executive producer, for Dark Shadows (2004) , for the The WB Television Network. However was canceled before airing the pilot.
His series of macabre films include The Night Stalker (which inspired the series Kolchak: The Night Stalker), Intruders, The Night Strangler, House of Dark Shadows, Night of Dark Shadows, Burnt Offerings, Trilogy of Terror, The Norliss Tapes (a 1973 pilot for an unproduced series starring Roy Thinnes), and others. He worked frequently with sci-fi/horror writer Richard Matheson.
His miniseries The Winds of War was nominated for four Emmy Awards.
He also directed the War and Remembrance mini-series which was the continuation of The Winds of War. This mini-series was so long that it had to be broken up into two segments. Chapters 1-Vll and Vll the final chapter. The whole mini-series was 30 hours in all.
This series received 15 Emmy Award nominations and won for best miniseries, special effects and single-camera production editing. The miniseries was nominated for Emmy Awards for best actor (John Gielgud), actress (Jane Seymour) and supporting actress (Polly Bergen).
He died of brain cancer on March 27, 2006, twenty days after the death of his wife Norma. He was 78.
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