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During the development process, the character O'Brien, the antagonist, was renamed "O'Connor", due to the shared surname of the actor Edmond O'Brien. Emmanuel Goldstein is changed to "Kalador". [citation needed] Like the earlier film adaptation of Animal Farm, 1984 was secretly funded by the Central Intelligence Agency. [5]
Eamon Joseph O'Brien (Irish: Éamonn Ó Briain; September 10, 1915 – May 9, 1985) was an American actor of stage, screen, and television, and film director. His career spanned almost 40 years, and he won one Academy Award , two Golden Globe Awards , and two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame .
The first feature-length adaptation, 1984, was directed by Michael Anderson and was released in 1956. It starred Edmond O'Brien as protagonist Winston Smith with Donald Pleasence as Mr Parsons, Jan Sterling as Julia, and Michael Redgrave as O'Brien (renamed O'Connor).
O'Brien (known as O'Connor in the 1956 film adaptation of the novel) is a fictional character and the main antagonist in George Orwell's 1949 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. The protagonist Winston Smith , living in a dystopian society governed by the Party , feels strangely drawn to Inner Party member O'Brien.
In the 1956 film. Smith was played by Edmond O'Brien. In a 1965 dramatisation broadcast on BBC Home Service, Patrick Troughton voiced the part. Gary Watson played the role in a three-part 1967 BBC Radio 4 adaptation. John Hurt played Smith in the 1984 film adaptation, 1984. Christopher Eccleston played the role in a two-part 2013 BBC Radio 3 ...
Don't Open Till Christmas is a 1984 British slasher film directed by Edmund Purdom, and starring Purdom, Alan Lake, Belinda Mayne, and Gerry Sundquist.Written by Derek Ford and Alan Birkinshaw, the film follows a mysterious killer murdering Santa Claus impersonators in London during Christmastime.
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White Heat is a 1949 American film noir starring James Cagney, Virginia Mayo and Edmond O'Brien, and directed by Raoul Walsh.. Written by Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts, White Heat is based on a story by Virginia Kellogg, and is considered to be one of the best gangster movies of all time.