Richard Beymer

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Richard Beymer (* 20th February 1938 in Avoca , Iowa as George Richard Beymer ) is an American actor and filmmaker . He achieved international fame as Tony in the classic film West Side Story and as Benjamin Horne in the television series Twin Peaks .

Life

Towards the end of the 1940s, he moved with his parents to Los Angeles , where he also appeared in front of the camera for a children's television show for the first time shortly afterwards. His film debut followed in Italy in 1953, in Vittorio De Sica's film Rome, Termini Station . After a handful of other films, including Peter van Pels in The Diary of Anne Frank , his breakthrough came in 1961 with the lead role of Tony in West Side Story , which is still his best-known role today. In 1962 he had a bigger role in the war film The Longest Day and received a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Young Actor . Around this time he was dating Sharon Tate , whose film career began after Beymer introduced her to his agent.

In 1963 he enrolled in New York at Lee Strasberg's Actors Studio one, left New York but soon afterwards, to engage in the American South in the civil rights movement. In 1964 he made the documentary A Regular Bouquet: Mississippi Summer , which was later also broadcast on PBS , the American public television, about the efforts to register black voters there . In the next 20 years or so he only worked sporadically as an actor. In 1974 he wrote and produced his film The Innerview , a psychedelic experimental film in which he also acted as director, cameraman, composer and leading actor and which he showed at various film festivals. The film won the Josef von Sternberg Prize for the most eccentric film at the International Mannheim Film Weeks.

In the 1980s he returned to acting and played supporting roles in various films and television series. Best known is his role as hotel owner Benjamin Horne in David Lynch's cult television series Twin Peaks . He also played in three episodes in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine . In 2000 he starred as Bob Parkinson alongside Grace Zabriskie in Temístocle's López horror comedy Home - The Horror Story . Since the turn of the millennium, however, he has rarely been seen in new films or series. Instead, he devoted himself to sculpture, published the fictional autobiography Impostor in 2007 and made several documentaries in which his friend David Lynch is the focus. For the new edition of Twin Peaks , he stood in front of the camera for the first time in a long time.

Awards

Filmography (selection)

As an actor (selection)

  • 1951: Fourteen Hours (Fourteen Hours)
  • 1953: Rome, Termini Station (Stazione Termini)
  • 1953: A Heart of Gold (So ​​Big)
  • 1957: Johnny Tremain
  • 1959: The Diary of Anne Frank ( The Diary of Anne Frank )
  • 1961: West Side Story
  • 1962: Dinosaurs preferred ( Bachelor Flat )
  • 1962: A Stranger Arrived ( Fiver Fingers Exercise )
  • 1962: Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man ( Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man )
  • 1962: The Longest Day ( The Longest Day )
  • 1963: The Lost Rose ( The Stripper )
  • 1965: The People of Shiloh Ranch ( The Virigian ; TV series, 2 episodes)
  • 1969: The Devil's Executioner ( Scream Free! )
  • 1983: Rushed ( Cross Country )
  • 1984: Carousel of the Dolls ( Paper Dolls ; TV series, 13 episodes)
  • 1987: Dallas (TV series, episode Bedtime Stories )
  • 1987–1996: Murder is her hobby ( Murder, She Wrote ; TV series, 6 episodes)
  • 1990–1991: Twin Peaks (TV series, 30 episodes)
  • 1992: Vacation flight to the island of horror ( Danger Island )
  • 1993: The Color of Blood ( Under Investigation )
  • 1993: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV series, 3 episodes)
  • 1994: My Girl 2 ( My Girl 2 )
  • 1994: Scandal in the emergency room ( State of Emergency , TV movie)
  • 1996: Kevin Johnson - A man disappears ( The Disappearance of Kevin Johnson )
  • 1996: A Face to Die For , Movie made for TV
  • 1997: Elvis and the President ( Elvis Meets Nixon , TV movie)
  • 1996: Foxfire
  • 2000: Home the Horror Story
  • 2017: Twin Peaks (TV series, 6 episodes)

As a director

  • 1964: A Regular Bouquet: Mississippi Summer (documentary)
  • 1973: The Innerview
  • 2010: The Passing of a Saint (documentary)
  • 2014: It's a Beautiful World (documentary)
  • 2016: Richard Beymer's Before ... the Big Bang (documentary)
  • 2017: I had bad milk in Dehradun ( I Had Bad Milk in Dehradun , documentary)
  • 2017: Behind the red curtain ( Behind the Red Curtain , Documentary)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Home: The Horror Story Hits iTunes, Right-Wingers Prepare to be Offended ... Again
  2. ^ Felicia R. Lee: Right Out of Hollywood, a Witness to History . In: The New York Times . June 18, 2014, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed January 24, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Beymer, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beymer, George Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-American actor
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Avoca , Iowa , USA