Mark Rydell

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Mark Rydell (2008)

Mark Rydell (born March 23, 1929 in New York City ) is an American film director , producer and actor .

Life

Mark Rydell settled in New York at the Juilliard School , the "Neighborhood Playhouse School" and finally in the Actors Studio by Lee Strasberg in drama and dramatic form. He was a busy actor and musician in the 1950s . He played from 1956 to 1962 in the CBS - soap opera As the World Turns a regular role. In 1956 he received in Unleashed youth of Don Siegel 's film debut as a criminal gang member.

In the 1960s, Rydell was able to earn a reputation as an accomplished director of television series. His first work as a film director was The Fox from 1968, a film adaptation of a short story by DH Lawrence . The film won a Golden Globe Award and earned composer Lalo Schifrin a nomination for best music at the Oscars . Then Rydell was able to establish himself as a filmmaker, for example through the comedy film Der Gauner (1969) with Steve McQueen and the western Die Cowboys (1972) with John Wayne, based on a novel by William Faulkner . The film drama The Rose , which brought Bette Midler her big break in Hollywood in the role of a self-destructive singer, was also very popular . Rydell celebrated one of his greatest successes in 1981 with the old age drama On the Golden Lake with Katharine Hepburn and Henry Fonda in the leading roles. It was one of the most commercially successful films of the year, and Rydell was nominated for an Oscar for Best Director , while its two leading actors were even honored with Oscars. Rydell's subsequent movies like Menschen am Fluß (1983) and For the Boys (1991) were less popular with critics and audiences alike. It wasn't until 2001 that he succeeded again with the biography James Dean , in which James Franco embodied the title role. The television film won several Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe for portraying James Franco. In 2006 Rydell returned to the big screen with his last film Even Money, starring Kim Basinger and Danny DeVito . The gloomy drama about gambling addiction, however, only brought in around 110,000 US dollars at the box office.

Despite his own career as a director, Rydell continued to appear on camera for other filmmakers. In 1973 he made an appearance as a gangster in Death Knows No Return , directed by longtime friend Robert Altman . He then had supporting roles in films such as Punchline - Der Knalleffekt von 1988 and Havanna (1990), the latter was directed by Sydney Pollack . Together with Pollack, Rydell founded "Sandford Productions" in the mid-1980s.

From 1962 to 1979, Mark Rydell was married to actress Joanne Linville . Their children Christopher and Amy are also actors.

Filmography (selection)

Rydell's roles: R = direction, D = actor, P = production

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mark Rydell | American actor and director. Retrieved April 16, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Even Money at Box Office Mojo. Retrieved April 16, 2020 .
  3. ^ Mark Rydell | Biography, Movie Highlights and Photos. Retrieved April 16, 2020 (American English).
personal data
SURNAME Rydell, Mark
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film director, producer, and actor
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City , New York , United States