Don Siegel
Director
American Rebe: the Life of Clint Eastwood by Marc Eliot...has always felt something of an outsider in Hollywood, and has made a habit of falling out with the many colleagues, notably the director Don Siegel, who made mighty contributions to his box-office appeal. But to call him an "American rebel",... In this article: Clint Eastwood, Academy Awards, Hollywood, Ice cream, Derivative, Man with No Name, Neil Armstrong, and Don Siegel |
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Sydney Morning Herald - Business | November 02, 2009
All the evidence points to writer as a repressed detective
...began a long friendship. Kaminsky taught in the new film program at Northwestern and published biographical studies of Siegel and Clint Eastwood, as well as a groundbreaking study, American Film Genres (1974). He edited a critical study of...
In this article: Northwestern University, Stuart Kaminsky, Charlton Heston, and Once Upon a Time in America
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A.V. Club RSS Feeds | June 04, 2009
Film: Primer: Clint Eastwood
...whom Eastwood worked periodically until the end of Siegel's career. In 1971, Siegel gave Eastwood his second most famous role, as the title character of Dirty Harry. Though four sequels dulled the original's impact, Dirty Harry remains...
In this article: Clint Eastwood, Dirty Harry, Sergio Leone, Philip Kaufman, The Shawshank Redemption, Man with No Name, Harry Callahan, Yojimbo, and Wolfgang Petersen
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Wikipedia | October 29, 2009
Sergio Leone
...an Oscar for best director, as well as Best Picture. Leone was one of the two directors whom Eastwood dedicated his award to, the other was Don Siegel who directed Eastwood in Dirty Harry. The script was written by Leone, Luca Morsella, and...
In this article: Sergio Leone, Clint Eastwood, Once Upon a Time in America, Christopher Frayling, Once Upon a Time in the West, Carlo Verdone, Ennio Morricone, A Fistful of Dollars, Henry Fonda, and Duck, You Sucker
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MTV.com | October 06, 2009
Thomas Jane Channels Pulp Horror For Directorial Debut 'Dark Country'
...said Jane. "Clint Eastwood talked to Mel for a long time and told Mel that he was really nervous and he called Don Siegel, who had directed Clint in a bunch of movies, and Don told Clint, 'Don't sell yourself short. Spend as much time...
In this article: Thomas Jane, Dark Country, Mel Gibson, Clint Eastwood, He Walked by Night, David Lynch, Ron Perlman, Grind House, and Lauren German
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Variety | December 15, 2008
Eastwood lives in an imperfect world
...-- and evolves them a little further," Lorenz says. Eastwood didn't direct "Dirty Harry," but he was a powerful enough star at the time to pick Don Siegel for the job. In the realm of genre entertainment, the series makes for...
In this article: Clint Eastwood, Warner Bros., Scarlett Johansson, Tom Cruise, Heisman Trophy, Matthew Perry, World War II, James Bond, Changeling, and Angels & Demons
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Guardian Unlimited | June 05, 2008
Interview: Clint Eastwood Film The Guardian
...just bullshit," says Eastwood. But Ol' Blue Eyes' loss was Young Blue Eyes' gain. Eastwood brought director/collaborator Don Siegel to the project. And, courtesy of a much misquoted line - "You've got to ask yourself one question: do I...
In this article: Clint Eastwood, Spike Lee, Dirty Harry, Dirty Harry, Changeling, Sergio Leone, John McCain, Flags of Our Fathers, Ronald Reagan, and Nelson Mandela
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Wikipedia | September 08, 2009
The Beguiled
The Beguiled The Beguiled (1971 ) is a drama film directed by Don Siegel, starring Clint Eastwood and Geraldine Page. The script was written by Albert Maltz and is based on the 1966 Southern Gothic novel written by Thomas Cullinan, originally...
In this article: Clint Eastwood, The Beguiled, Geraldine Page, Elizabeth Hartman, Suicide, American Civil War, Changeling, and Albert Maltz
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Wikipedia | October 16, 2009
The Zodiac Killer in popular culture
...inspired many movies, novels, television and more. Dirty Harry directed by Don Siegel, starring Clint Eastwood, was filmed in San Francisco and released on December 23, 1971. In the movie, which is very loosely based on the Zodiac...
In this article: Zodiac, Zodiac Killer, San Francisco, Robert Graysmith, Ulli Lommel, Balzac, Laurie Bird, Dirty Harry, and The Exorcist III
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Wikipedia | October 26, 2009
High Plains Drifter
...directed by and starring Clint Eastwood. The film was influenced by the work of Eastwood's two major collaborators Sergio Leone and Don Siegel (Eastwood has noted that the graveyard set featured in the film's finale had tombstones reading...
In this article: High Plains Drifter, Lago, Clint Eastwood, Ernest Tidyman, and Sergio Leone
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Donald Siegel (October 26, 1912 - April 20, 1991) was an influential American film director and producer. His name appeared in the credits of his films as both Don Siegel and Donald Siegel.
Born in Chicago, he graduated from Cambridge University, Cambridge, and found work in Warner Bros. film library, rising to become head of the Montage Department, where he directed thousands of montages (see montage sequence), including the opening montage for Casablanca. In 1945 two shorts he directed, Hitler Lives? and A Star in the Night, won Academy Awards, which launched his career as a feature director.
He directed whatever material came his way, often transcending the limitations of budget and script to produce interesting and adept works. He directed two episodes of The Twilight Zone, "The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross" and "Uncle Simon". He worked with Elvis Presley and Dolores del Rio in Flaming Star (1960), and with Steve McQueen in Hell Is for Heroes and Lee Marvin in the influential The Killers (1964) before a series of films with Clint Eastwood that were successful both critically and commercially. These included the policiers Coogan's Bluff and Dirty Harry, the Budd Boetticher-scripted Western Two Mules for Sister Sara, the cynical American Civil War melodrama The Beguiled and the prison-break picture Escape from Alcatraz. He was a considerable influence on Eastwood's own career as a director, and Eastwood's film Unforgiven is dedicated to Siegel and Sergio Leone.
- Birth Date:
- October 26, 1912
- Birthplace:
- Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
- Death Date:
- April 20, 1991
- Place of Death:
- Nipoma, California, U.S.
- Spouse:
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- Doe Avedon (div.)
- Viveca Lindfors (div.)
- Carol Rydall
- Occupation:
- Film director and producer
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