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Downhill Racer is a 1969 American sports drama film starring Robert Redford, Gene Hackman and Camilla Sparv, [4] and was the directorial debut of Michael Ritchie. [5] Written by James Salter, based on the 1963 novel The Downhill Racers by Oakley Hall, the film is about a talented downhill skier who joins the United States Ski Team in Europe to compete in international skiing competitions.
On June 10, 1925, Salter was born and named James Arnold Horowitz, the son of Mildred Scheff and George Horowitz. [4] His father was a real estate broker and businessman who had graduated from West Point [5] in November 1918 and served in the Corps of Engineers with both Army and Army Reserve.
Downhill Racer: 1969 Drama A self-involved skier (Robert Redford) qualifies for the U.S. Olympic team. Snow Job: 1972 Action Jean-Claude Killy stars as a thief who robs a ski resort. The Other Side of the Mountain: 1975 Biographical An accident leaves Olympic-bound slalom skier Jill Kinmont paralyzed. Copper Mountain: 1983 Comedy
Deeper Into Movies is a collection of 1969 to 1972 movie reviews by American film critic Pauline Kael, published by Little, Brown and Company in 1973. It was the fourth collection of her columns; these were originally published in The New Yorker. It won the U.S. National Book Award in category Arts and Letters. [1]
Downhill Racer: 1969: Michael Ritchie: USA: The Downhill Racers: Oakley Hall: 1963: Novel The Other Side of the Mountain: 1975: Larry Peerce: USA: A Long Way Up: the Story of Jill Kinmont: E.G. Valens: 1966 [9] Non-fiction Crazy Canucks * 2004: Randy Bradshaw: Canada: White Circus [19] [circular reference] (uncredited) Ken Read & Matthew Fisher ...
Runners-up: Dustin Hoffman - Midnight Cowboy and Robert Redford - Downhill Racer; Best Actress: Jane Fonda - They Shoot Horses, Don't They? Runners-up: Vanessa Redgrave - Isadora and Maggie Smith - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie; Best Director: Costa-Gavras - Z; Runners-up: Richard Attenborough - Oh!
Charles Robert Redford Jr. (born August 18, 1936) is an American actor and filmmaker. He has received numerous accolades such as an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and two Golden Globe Awards, as well as the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1994, the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 1996, the Academy Honorary Award in 2002, the Kennedy Center Honors in 2005, the Presidential Medal of ...
Other early roles in his career included a U.S. Olympic skiing team coach in Downhill Racer (1969), [18] a high-ranking fire chief in The Towering Inferno (1974), [19] and a wealthy Westerner in Bite the Bullet (1975). He portrayed an FBI agent in Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan (1975). [20]