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Harry Palmer (c.1889-1962) was a vaudeville actor in the 1910s who was the inspiration for the musical film For Me and My Gal. [1]Palmer was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1889. . He grew up always wanted to act, and in 1909, at the age of 20, he made his vaudeville debut at the Palace Theater in Chica
Evidence of Michael Caine's popular identification as Harry Palmer can be seen in films such as Blue Ice (1992), where he plays an ex-spy named 'Harry', and who has many similarities to Harry Palmer. Caine's Harry Palmer character (with the glasses, the girls, and disregard for authority) was an influence for Mike Myers’ spy action comedy ...
Harry Palmer: Sidney J. Furie: 1966 Alfie: Alfie Elkins Lewis Gilbert Nominated - Academy Award for Best Actor: The Wrong Box: Michael Finsbury Bryan Forbes: Gambit: Harry Tristan Dean Ronald Neame: Funeral in Berlin: Harry Palmer Guy Hamilton: 1967 Hurry Sundown: Henry Warren Otto Preminger: Woman Times Seven: Handsome Stranger Vittorio De ...
The Ipcress File therefore became the first of the nominally rival Harry Palmer series and some aspects are reminiscent of film noir. In contrast to Bond's public school background and playboy lifestyle, Palmer is a working class Londoner who lives in a Notting Hill bedsit and has to put up with red tape and
Then, Harry remembers that Louis' grandson had given him a seemingly innocent gift, a Matryoshka doll. Inside, he finds a vial. Nevertheless, they have to pretend to deliver the Alorex. At the North Korean embassy, Palmer meets another old spy acquaintance, Kim Soo . Kim Soo has orders to get rid of Harry because he knows too much.
Funeral in Berlin is a 1966 British spy film directed by Guy Hamilton and based on the 1964 novel of the same name by Len Deighton.It is the second of three 1960s films starring Michael Caine as the character Harry Palmer that followed the characters from the initial film, The Ipcress File (1965).
The series is also influenced by the 1965 film, most obviously by adopting the "Harry Palmer" and "Jean Courtney" character names coined for the film. Visually, director James Watkins makes several nods to the direction of Sidney J. Furie , with regular use of angled camera work, and in places borrows almost shot-for-shot the framing of certain ...
Harry Palmer is the name given to a fictional intelligence officer in a number of films based on based on the books of Len Deighton, in which he is unnamed Harry Palmer may also refer to: Harry Palmer (actor) (c.1889–1962), American vaudeville actor; Harry Palmer (animator), American animator