Elliot Silverstein
Elliot Silverstein ( born August 3, 1927 in Boston, Massachusetts as Elliot Hersh Silverstein ) is an American film director and film producer. He became internationally known through the movies Cat Ballou - Hang thou shalt in Wyoming, A man called Horse and The Devil on wheels.
Life and career
Elliot Silverstein was born in 1927 in Boston, Massachusetts. A graduate of Yale Drama School Silverstein taught courses at the beginning of his career in the theater before moving to the U.S. Omnibus series a directing career began in television in 1954. From 1954 to 1964 staged Silverstein dozens of episodes of well-known television series, including episodes of Omnibus, Suspicion, The Westerner, Route 66, Have Gun - Will Travel, Merciless City, The Dick Powell, Dr. Kildare, The Twilight Zone, Preston! & Preston or hour of decision.
In 1965, he began his film career in cinema as a director of the satirical Western comedy Cat Ballou - Hang thou shalt in Wyoming with Jane Fonda. The film won numerous international awards, including the Academy Award for Best Actor for Lee Marvin. Much to the success of the film also had the virtuosic score of the composer Frank De Vol contributed, which should compose the music for Silverstein's next film, the Kömodie The pack with Anthony Quinn in the title role.
1970 led Silverstein again directed a Western, this time in the drama A Man Called Horse with Richard Harris in the title role. The acclaimed soundtrack composer Leonard Rosenman created the, who is also the dramatic score for the horror thriller The Devil on Wheels in 1977 to write for Silverstein, to this not only directed, but also still the same self-produced. The lead role was James Brolin.
In the 1980s and 1990s, Elliot Silverstein then returned as a director with a number of television films and episodes of popular television shows such as Tales from the Crypt and Picket Fences - Tatort back garden fence to its origins in the TV.
The Action Thriller Flash Fire in the cast Billy Zane and Louis Gossett Jr. He served his hitherto last post for the big screen.
A tireless fighter behind the scenes Silverstein helped beyond in enforcing improvements for directors in the editing room and in the 1980s in the protection of old classic Hollywood films opposite the modern computer coloring of media mogul Ted Turner on TV.
Elliot Silverstein was verheirat 1961-1968 with the actress Evelyn Ward. Silverstein is the former stepfather of actor David Cassidy. Since 1982 he has been married to his second wife Alana King.