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Escape from Alcatraz. (film) Escape from Alcatraz is a 1979 American prison thriller 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.
John William Anglin (born May 2, 1930) and Clarence Anglin (born May 11, 1931) were born into a family of 14 children in Donalsonville, Georgia.Their parents, George Robert Anglin and Rachael Van Miller Anglin, were seasonal farmworkers; in the early 1940s, they moved the family to Ruskin, Florida, 20 miles (32 km) south of Tampa, where the truck farms and tomato fields provided a more ...
List of Alcatraz escape attempts. Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay was the site of Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary between 1934 and 1963. There were a total of 14 escape attempts from the prison made by 34 prisoners during this time. [1] Two men tried twice, making for a total of 36 individual escape attempts; fifteen were caught, eight gave ...
2. Robert Scott Blossom (March 25, 1924 – July 8, 2011) was an American poet and character actor of theatre, film, and television. He is best known for his roles as Old Man Marley in Home Alone (1990) and as Ezra Cobb in the horror film Deranged (1974). [1] He is also remembered for his supporting roles in films such as The Great Gatsby (1974 ...
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. A federal prison inmate, he became known as the "Birdman of ...
Robert Stroud. 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. [1][2][3] During his time at Leavenworth Penitentiary, he reared and sold birds and ...
1963–present. Website. thereallarryhankin.com. Lawrence Alan Hankin (born December 7, 1937) [6] is an American character actor. He has had major film roles as Charley Butts in Escape from Alcatraz (1979), Ace in Running Scared (1986), and Carl Alphonse in Billy Madison (1995). He had smaller roles as Doobie in Planes, Trains and Automobiles ...
Escape from Alcatraz: Inmate Acting debut 1981 Chu Chu and the Philly Flash: Morgan 1982 Out: Jojo / Roland Alternative title: Deadly Drifter: 1984 Iceman: Loomis Places in the Heart: Moses "Moze" Hadner 1985 Witness: Lieutenant James McFee Silverado: Malachi "Mal" Johnson The Color Purple: Mister Albert Johnson 1987 Lethal Weapon: Sergeant ...