Irving Pichel
| Sign | Cancer |
| Born | Jun 24, 1891 Pittsburgh, PA |
| Died | Jul 13, 1954 Hollywood, CA |
| Age | Died at 63 |
Irving Pichel | |
| Job | Actor/Director |
| Years active | 1920-54 |
| Top Roles | Huger, Bob, District Attorney Clark, Radio Commentator, Narrator |
| Top Genres | Drama, Comedy, Romance, Film Adaptation, Mystery, Adventure |
| Top Topics | World War II, Book-Based, Marriage |
| Top Collaborators | Ian Wolfe, Minerva Urecal, Walter Baldwin, Frank Orth |
| Shares birthday with | Georgia Hale, Juanita Quigley, Martha Sleeper see more.. |
Irving Pichel Overview:
Director, Irving Pichel, was born on Jun 24, 1891 in Pittsburgh, PA. Pichel died at the age of 63 on Jul 13, 1954 in Hollywood, CA .
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Quicksand (1950, )
By Andrew Wickliffe on Aug 15, 2014 From The Stop ButtonQuicksand is a film noir with room for cream and about five sugars. The genre often has a morality element to it, but this entry goes way too far with it. Or it might just be how the film treats lead Mickey Rooney. Most film noir male protagonists are overconfident simpletons taken in by devious wom... Read full article
The Most Dangerous Game (1932, Ernest B. Schoedsack and )
on Nov 12, 2012 From The Stop ButtonRunning about an hour, The Most Dangerous Game shouldn’t be boring. But it somehow manages. Worse, the boring stuff comes at the end; directors Schoedsack and Pichel drag out the conclusion with a false ending or two. The film doesn’t have much to recommend it. That laborious ending wipe... Read full article
O.S.S. (1946, )
on Mar 11, 2011 From The Stop ButtonPichel does such a good job with the majority of O.S.S., it’s a surprise how ineptly he handles the jingoistic last scene. It’s a WWII patriotism picture (is there a proper term for this genre?), so that last scene is requisite, but Pichel could have at least made it work. Instead, he ha... Read full article
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Irving Pichel Quotes:
[Simmons sees a paintbrush, in Spanky's hand and it appears as if Spanky was about to try paint on his shoe! Therefore forcing Spanky and Buckwheat to dive off the ship, in fear of Simmons]
Huw Morgan: [Narrating] I think I fell in love with Bronwen then. Perhaps it is foolish to think a child could fall in love. But I am the child that was, and nobody knows how I felt, except only me.
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First reporter: Doctor, is it true that through your experiments in endocrine glands you can cure crime?
Second reporter: What about this crime cure?
Dr. Herbert Stander: Boys, after the grand jury's decision, I'll have a statement to make. If making a criminal mind is normal... than I'll be indicted.
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