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2. Birdman of Alcatraz (film) - Wikipedia

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   Birdman of Alcatraz is a 1962 American biographical drama film directed by John Frankenheimer and starring Burt Lancaster. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] It is a largely fictionalized [ 5 ] version of the life of Robert Stroud , who was sentenced to solitary confinement after having killed a prison guard.

3. Burt Lancaster filmography - Wikipedia

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   He played a Nazi war criminal in 1961 in the all-star, war-crime-trial film, Judgment at Nuremberg. Playing a bird expert prisoner in Birdman of Alcatraz in 1962, he earned the BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actor and his third Oscar nomination.

4. Robert Stroud - Wikipedia

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   Robert Franklin Stroud (January 28, 1890 – November 21, 1963), known as the "Birdman of Alcatraz", was a convicted murderer, American federal prisoner, and author who has been cited as one of the most notorious criminals in the United States.

5. John Frankenheimer - Wikipedia

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   John Michael Frankenheimer (February 19, 1930 – July 6, 2002) [1] was an American film and television director known for social dramas and action/suspense films. Among his credits were Birdman of Alcatraz (1962), The Manchurian Candidate (1962), Seven Days in May (1964), The Train (1964), Seconds (1966), Grand Prix (1966), French Connection II (1975), Black Sunday (1977), The Island of Dr ...

6. Birdman (film) - Wikipedia

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   Birdman, stylized as BİRDMAN or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), is a 2014 American dark comedy-drama film directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu.The film stars Michael Keaton as a washed-up Hollywood actor, best known for playing a superhero named Birdman, and follows the struggles he faces while trying to make a comeback by writing, directing, and starring in a Broadway adaptation ...

7. Telly Savalas - Wikipedia

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   Savalas made his film debut in Mad Dog Coll (1961), playing a cop. [23] His work had impressed fellow actor Burt Lancaster, who arranged for Savalas to be cast in the John Frankenheimer-directed The Young Savages (also 1961 and again playing a cop). [23] [6] Pollack worked on the film as an acting coach. [24]

8. Escape from Alcatraz (film) - Wikipedia

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   Escape from Alcatraz is a 1979 American biographical prison drama film [3] [4] [5] directed and produced by Don Siegel. The screenplay, written by Richard Tuggle , is based on the 1963 non-fiction book of the same name by J. Campbell Bruce, which recounts the 1962 prisoner escape from the maximum security prison on Alcatraz Island .

9. Thelma Ritter - Wikipedia

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   Ritter was born in Brooklyn, New York, on February 14, 1902, the first child of Charles and Lucy Ritter. [1] [2] Her father was a bookkeeper, [1] later an office manager.[3]At age 11, Ritter played Puck in a semi-professional dramatic society's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. [3]