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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 .
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.
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).
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 ...
Alan Ladd's Jaguar Productions bought film rights prior to publication for a reported $100,000. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The movie was meant to be the first in a revised four-year production deal between Jaguar and Warner Bros. [ 3 ] Frank Gruber himself was hired to write the script and Eleanor Parker and Robert Ryan were discussed as possible co-stars to ...
Opening Title Production company Cast and crew Ref. J A N U A R Y: 13 Angel: New World Pictures: Robert Vincent O'Neill (director/screenplay); Joseph Michael Cala (screenplay); Cliff Gorman, Susan Tyrrell, Dick Shawn, Rory Calhoun, Donna Wilkes, John Diehl, Elaine Giftos, Mel Carter, David Underwood, Ken Olfson, Peter Jason, Ross Hagen, Dick Valentine, Marc Hayashi, Bob Gorman, Todd Hoffman ...
The first feature film adaptation, 1984, was released in 1956. A second feature-length adaptation, Nineteen Eighty-Four , followed in 1984, a reasonably faithful adaptation of the novel. The story has been adapted several other times to radio, television, and film; other media adaptations include theater (a musical [ 90 ] and a play ), opera ...