Vincent McEveety
Vincent Michael McEveety, mostly Vincent McEveety or Vince McEveety (born August 10, 1929 in Los Angeles - † May 19, 2018 ) was an American film and television director . His work for Walt Disney productions was best known .
Life
Origin and family
Vincent McEveety came from a family in the film and television business. His father, Bernard McEveety, worked as a director and production manager. His two brothers Bernard McEveety and Joseph L. McEveety later became film and television directors. His own son Vincent J. McEveety worked occasionally as an assistant director and supporting actor, especially in the 1990s. Vincent McEveety was also the uncle of producer and assistant director Stephen McEveety and cinematographer Annie McEveety .
Beginnings in television
Vincent McEveety began his professional career at Walt Disney in the mid-1950s . For the Disney Studios he worked as an assistant director on the television series Mickey Mouse Club . In this role he was at Disney, among other things, in the movie Train of the Fearless (1956) and the series Zorro (1957-1960) involved.
In the industry he then made his work on the Emmy- winning crime series Die Unbrechlichen (1959–1963), in which McEveety was allowed to direct himself for the first time and appeared as a co-producer. For the television film The Scarface Mob (1959), which was made in connection with this series, he received his only film award as assistant director: The Directors Guild of America honored him and director Phil Karlson together with the DGA Award in 1960 for "outstanding directorial performance in television". With The Ballad of Hector the Stowaway Dog , the Disney studios enabled him to direct his first long television film in 1964 , which was to be followed by more by the early 1980s. During the 1960s, Vincent McEveety also directed numerous episodes of well-known US series such as Smoking Colts (1965–1975), Solo for ONCEL (1964–1968) and Spaceship Enterprise (1966–1968).
The jump to the big screen
McEveety made his cinema debut as a director in 1968 with the western The Five Birds Free , in which James Stewart , Henry Fonda and Inger Stevens played the leading roles. The film caused a sensation mainly because Fonda embodied the villain, which he finally managed to do even more impressively under the direction of Sergio Leone in Spiel mir das Lied von Tod (also 1968).
McEveety's actual cinema career only began with the Disney comedy The Million Dollar Duck (1971). In the following decade he was one of the most important film directors at Disney Studios, for whom his brothers Bernard McEveety and Joseph L. McEveety also worked during this time . McEveety directed the science fiction comedy The Retort Goliath (1975) and the adventure film The Gold Treasure of Matecumbe (1976), an unsuccessful box office adaptation of the novel Reise nach Matecumbe by Robert Lewis Taylor with Peter Ustinov . With Südsee-Cowboy (1974), in which James Garner and Vera Miles could be seen, McEveety returned to the western genre again, albeit on unusual terrain.
In Gus (1976) and the western parody The Return of the Bread Dumplings Gang (1979), he directed two films by the comedian duo Don Knotts and Tim Conway . In addition, McEveety staged the two last Herbie cinema appearances for the time being The great Beetle in the Monte Carlo Rally (1977) - also with Knotts - and Herbie goes crazy (1980). He was also involved in the short-lived television series Herbie, the Love Bug (1982). In 1986 he directed the hour-long Disneyland episode Ask Max .
McEveety's best work includes the serious drama Amy - The Hour of Truth (1981), starring Jenny Agutter , which was originally shot for television but was then brought to theaters by the Disney studios.
Return to working exclusively on television
McEveety's film career ended with Amy . Since then he has only worked for television, where he specialized in crime series. He directed Simon & Simon (1982–1988) and the multi-award-winning series Mord ist ihr Hobby (1988–1996) with Angela Lansbury and In the Heat of the Night (1989–1994). McEveety directed 18 episodes of this NBC series, including the particularly award-winning episode Melody of Death ( Sweet, Sweet Blues , 1991) with guest stars Bobby Short and James Best . Best won the 1992 Crystal Reel Award for "best actor".
Between 1990 and 1997 Vincent McEveety directed seven feature films in the crime series Columbo with Peter Falk and produced some of them. His last directorial work was the crime series Diagnosis: Murder with Dick Van Dyke , for which he directed a total of eleven episodes between 1994 and 2000. He then retired.
Filmography (selection)
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literature
- The McEveety Glory . Interview with Edward Gross in Starlog , No. 144, July 1989, pp. 89–92.
Web links
- Vincent McEveety in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Vincent McEveety Obituary. In: legacy.com. Retrieved May 24, 2018 .
- ↑ Biographical information in the Internet Movie Database (IMDb) ; Retrieved June 23, 2012
- ^ Dave Smith: Disney A to Z. The Official Encyclopedia . 3. Edition. Hyperion, New York 1996, ISBN 0-7868-6223-8 , p. 301
- ↑ See the information in the imdb; Retrieved June 23, 2012
- ↑ See also Dave Smith: Disney A to Z. The Official Encyclopedia . 3. Edition. Hyperion, New York 1996, ISBN 0-7868-6223-8 , pp. 300-301
- ↑ Richard Holliss, Brian Sibley: The Disney Studio Story . Octopus, London 1988, ISBN 0-7064-3040-9 , p. 224
- ↑ The Florida Motion Picture and Television Association Announces Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient ( Memento of the original from November 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Florida Office of Film and Entertainment press release dated August 1, 2008; Retrieved June 24, 2012
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | McEveety, Vincent |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | McEveety Jr., Vincent Michael (full name); McEveety Jr., Vincent; McEveety, Vincent M .; McEveety, Vince |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American film and television director and television producer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 10, 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Los Angeles , California |
| DATE OF DEATH | 19th May 2018 |