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Best began his contract career in 1949 at Universal Studios, where he met fellow actors Julie Adams, Piper Laurie, Tony Curtis, Mamie Van Doren and Rock Hudson.Initially, he performed in several uncredited roles for Universal, such as in the 1950 film One Way Street, but credited performances soon followed that same year in the Westerns Comanche Territory, Winchester '73, and Kansas Raiders.
The story revolves around the forty-plus-year-old, unsolved racially motivated murder of Sergeant Willson Sweet's grandfather, Louis Sweet, a story loosely based on the 1963 murder of Mississippi civil rights activist Medgar Evers. Although the crime went unsolved and the elder Sweet's body was never found, there was a witness, a young black ...
This came five years after his first nomination for Best Actor in 1958's The Defiant Ones. [3] Poitier had been aware of the significance of Hattie McDaniel having won an Oscar in the 1940 ceremony at the time that he accepted his Best Actor Oscar, and he was the only winner present at the ceremony.
Here's a list of the best actor Oscar winners since the very beginning. ... 1963 - Gregory Peck, "To Kill a Mockingbird" ... James Stewart, "The Philadelphia Story" 1940 - Robert Donat, Goodbye ...
Of all the back-and-forth Bond bickering, no one is disputing that the best 007 was and will forever be Sean Connery. First of all, he was the first actor to play James Bond, in the film series ...
Black Gold is a 1962 adventure film directed by Leslie H. Martinson and written by Bob Duncan, Wanda Duncan and Harry Whittington .The film stars Philip Carey, Diane McBain, James Best, Fay Spain, Claude Akins and William Edward Phipps.
Legendary actor James Earl Jones, best known for his innumerable movie roles and the booming voice of the character of Darth Vader in the "Star Wars" franchise, has died, his representative ...
The 35th Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 1962, were held on April 8, 1963, at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California, hosted by Frank Sinatra. The year's most successful film was David Lean 's Lawrence of Arabia , with 10 nominations and 7 wins, including Best Picture and Lean's second win for Best Director .