Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
From the 1940s onward, the character became closely associated with actor Humphrey Bogart, who played Spade in the third and best-known film version of The Maltese Falcon. [5] Though Bogart's slight frame, dark features and no-nonsense depiction contrasted with Hammett's vision of Spade (blond, well-built and mischievous), his sardonic ...
The Maltese Falcon (1941 film) The Maltese Falcon. (1941 film) The Maltese Falcon is a 1941 American film noir written and directed by John Huston [3] in his directorial debut. The film was based on the 1930 novel The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett and is a remake of the 1931 film of the same name. [4][5][6] It stars Humphrey Bogart as ...
Humphrey Bogart on stage, screen, radio and television. Bogart in Brother Orchid, 1940. Humphrey Bogart (1899–1957) [1][2] was an American actor and producer whose 36-year career began with live stage productions in New York in 1920. He had been born into an affluent family in New York's Upper West Side, [3] the first-born child and only son ...
Younger audiences today might not have Humphrey Bogart's name on the tip of their tongue, but he was iconic enough to come in at No. 1 among the male actors on the American Film Institute's 1999 ...
Humphrey Bogart. Humphrey DeForest Bogart (/ ˈboʊɡɑːrt / BOH-gart; [1] December 25, 1899 – January 14, 1957), nicknamed Bogie, was an American actor. His performances in classic Hollywood cinema films made him an American cultural icon. [2] In 1999, the American Film Institute selected Bogart as the greatest male star of classic American ...
The iconic private detective famously played by Humphrey Bogart in The Maltese Falcon is coming to AMC in Monsieur Spade (premiering this Sunday at 9/8c), with Clive Owen taking on the role.
The Adventures of Sam Spade. The Adventures of Sam Spade, Detective was a radio series based loosely on the private detective character Sam Spade, created by writer Dashiell Hammett for The Maltese Falcon. The show ran for 13 episodes on ABC in 1946, for 157 episodes on CBS in 1946–1949, and finally for 75 episodes on NBC in 1949–1951.
Steed is cast in the role of Sam Spade, in a spoof of The Maltese Falcon, with dead bodies piling up in his apartment as one man after another tries to kill him to get hold of the item. Ronald Lacey guest stars as Mr. Green, and Stratford Johns as Mr. Street, in a homage to Humphrey Bogart's co-star, Sydney Greenstreet.