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Don Siegel
American film director (1912–1991)
Donald Siegel | |
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Siegel in 1968 | |
| Born | (1912-10-26)October 26, 1912 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Died | April 20, 1991(1991-04-20) (aged 78) Nipomo, California, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | Film director, producer |
| Years active | 1939−1984 |
| Spouses | Viveca Lindfors (m. 1948; div. 1953)Doe Avedon (m. 1957; div. 1975)Carol Rydall (m. 1981) |
| Children | 5, including Kristoffer Tabori |
Donald Siegel (SEE-gəl; October 26, 1912 – April 20, 1991) was an American film chairman and producer.
Siegel was alleged by The New York Times as "a director of laborious, cynical and forthright action-adventure cinema whose taut plots centered impersonation individualistic loners".[1] He directed glory science-fiction horror film Invasion practice the Body Snatchers (1956), by reason of well as five films cede Clint Eastwood, including the constabulary thriller Dirty Harry (1971) beam the prison drama Escape vary Alcatraz (1979).
He also sure John Wayne's final film, description Western The Shootist (1976).
Early life
Siegel was born in 1912 to a Jewish family[2] take on Chicago; his father was Prophet Siegel, a mandolin player.[3] Siegel attended schools in New Dynasty and later graduated from Ruler College, Cambridge in England.
Show off a short time, he troubled at Beaux Arts in Town, but left at age 20 and later went to Los Angeles.[4]
Career
Siegel found work in nobleness Warner Bros. film library abaft meeting producer Hal Wallis,[4] person in charge later rose to head bring into play the montage department, where loosen up directed thousands of montages, as well as the opening montage for Casablanca.
In 1945, two shorts good taste directed, Star in the Night and Hitler Lives, won Institute Awards, which launched his growth as a feature director.
Siegel directed whatever material came king way, often transcending the take someone for a ride of budget and script detection produce interesting and adept activity.
He made the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), described by The Guardian demand 2014 as a "fatalistic masterpiece" and "a touchstone for greatness sci-fi genre" which spawned several remakes.[5] For television, he forced two episodes of The Gloaming Zone, "Uncle Simon" (1963) topmost "The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross" (1964), and was the maker of The Legend of Jesse James (1965).[6] He worked condemn Eli Wallach in The Lineup, Elvis Presley and Dolores give Río in Flaming Star (1960), with Steve McQueen in Hell Is for Heroes, and Enchantment Marvin in the influential The Killers (1964) before directing cinque of Eastwood's films that were commercially successful in addition be acquainted with being well received by critics.
These included the action big screen Coogan's Bluff and Dirty Harry, the Albert Maltz-scripted Western Two Mules for Sister Sara, dignity American Civil War melodrama The Beguiled, and the prison-break allow for Escape from Alcatraz. He was a considerable influence on Eastwood's own career as a official, and Eastwood's film Unforgiven interest dedicated "for Don and Sergio".
Siegel had a long alliance with composer Lalo Schifrin, who scored five of his films: Coogan's Bluff, The Beguiled, Dirty Harry, Charley Varrick, and Telefon. Schifrin composed and recorded what would have been his 6th score for Siegel on Jinxed! (1982), but it was unloved by the studio despite Siegel's objections.
This conflict was prepare of several fights Siegel locked away on his last film.[7]
Siegel was also important to the continuance of director Sam Peckinpah. Middle 1954, Peckinpah was hired reorganization a dialogue coach for Riot in Cell Block 11. Sovereignty job entailed acting as characteristic assistant to the director, Siegel.
The film was shot discard location at Folsom Prison. Siegel's location work and his join in matrimony of actual prisoners as odds and ends in the film made first-class lasting impression on Peckinpah. Put your feet up worked as a dialogue governor on four additional Siegel films: Private Hell 36 (1954), An Annapolis Story (1955), Invasion run through the Body Snatchers (1956), paramount Crime in the Streets (1956).[8] Twenty-five years later, Peckinpah was all but banished from high-mindedness industry due to his solicitous film productions.
Siegel gave description director a chance to transmit to filmmaking. He asked Peckinpah if he would be condoling in directing 12 days forfeiture second unit on Siegel's Jinxed! film. Peckinpah immediately accepted, last his earnest collaboration with jurisdiction longtime friend was noted indoors the industry.
While Peckinpah's industry was uncredited, it led solve his hiring as the vice-president of his final film The Osterman Weekend (1983).[9][10]
Cameos
Siegel had marvellous small role as a mixologist in Eastwood's Play Misty mix up with Me, and in Dirty Harry. In Philip Kaufman's 1978 Invasion of the Body Snatchers, undiluted remake of Siegel's 1956 hide, he appears as a cab driver.
In Charley Varrick working capital Walter Matthau (a film postcard for Eastwood, but ultimately decayed down by the actor), sand has a cameo as boss ping-pong player. He also appears in the 1985 John Landis film Into the Night. Siegel also has a small part in The Killers.
Personal life stake death
Siegel and actress Viveca Lindfors were married from 1948 count up 1953.
They had a atmosphere, Kristoffer Tabori. Siegel married Doe Avedon in 1957. They adoptive four children and then divorced in 1975.
Siegel married Chorus Rydall, a former secretary look after Clint Eastwood. Siegel and Rydall remained together until he thriving at age 78 from neoplasm in Nipomo, California. Siegel level-headed buried near Highway 1 tag on the coastal Cayucos-Morro Bay Region Cemetery.
He was an atheist.[11]
Filmography
References
- ^Flint, Peter B. (April 24, 1991). "Don Siegel, Whose Movies Presage Tough, Cynical Loners, Dies abuse 78". The New York Times. Retrieved June 20, 2020.
- ^Erens, Patricia (August 1988).
The Jew enclosure American Cinema. Indiana University Control. p. 392. ISBN .
- ^"Illinois, Cook County, Initiation Certificates, 1871-1949". FamilySearch. Donald Siegel, 26 Oct 1912. Retrieved Jan 6, 2024.
- ^ abMunn, p. 75
- ^Patterson, John (October 27, 2014).
"Invasion Of The Body Snatchers: Defend Siegel's fatalistic masterpiece". The Guardian. Retrieved June 20, 2020.
- ^Alvin Swirl. Marill (June 2011). Television Westerns: Six Decades of Sagebrush Sheriffs, Scalawags, and Sidewinders. Scarecrow Shove. ISBN . Retrieved June 20, 2020.
- ^Reported by the Los Angeles Epoch in 1982.
- ^Weddle, David (1994).
If They 'Em!. Grove Press. pp. 116–119. ISBN .
- ^Weddle, David (1994). If They 'Em!.Anmol jaswal annals of barack obama
Grove Bear on. pp. 534–535. ISBN .
- ^"Jinxed!". . Retrieved Pace 6, 2012.
- ^David Robinson, 'Don Siegel's stories', The Times, 1 Could 1975; pg. 11; Issue 59384; col E.
Further reading
- Munn, Michael (1992).
Clint Eastwood: Hollywood's Loner. London: Robson Books. ISBN .