William Sylvestor — Actor (11)
Heaven Can Wait (1978) [Movie] Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData
Heaven Can Wait
director: Warren Beatty / Buck Henry actor: Warren Beatty / Julie Christie
other title: Il paradiso può attendere / O Céu Pode Esperar
Joe Pendleton is a quarterback preparing to lead his team to the superbowl when he is almost killed in an accident. An overanxious angel plucks him to heaven only to discover that he wasn't ready to die, and that his body has been cremated. A new body must be found, and that of a recently-murdered millionaire is chosen. His wife and accountant—the murderers—are confused by this development, as he buys the L.A. Rams in order to once again quarterback them into the Superbowl.
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (1973) [Movie] NeoDB Douban WikiData TMDB IMDb
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark
director: John Newland actor: Kim Darby / Jim Hutton
other title: Non avere paura del buio / Gate of Darkness
A young couple inherits an old mansion inhabited by small demon-like creatures who are determined to make the wife one of their own.
Gorgo (1961) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Gorgo
director: Eugène Lourié actor: Bill Travers / William Sylvester
Greedy sailors capture a giant lizard off the coast of Ireland and sell it to a London circus. Then its mother shows up.
The Hindenburg (1975) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Hindenburg
director: Robert Wise actor: George C. Scott / Anne Bancroft
other title: Hindenburg / Die Hindenburg
Colonel Franz Ritter, a former hero pilot now working for military intelligence, is assigned to the great Hindenburg airship as its chief of security. As he races against the clock to uncover a possible saboteur aboard the doomed zeppelin he finds that any of the passengers and crew could be the culprit.
Busting (1974) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Busting
director: Peter Hyams actor: Elliott Gould / Robert Blake
other title: Mani sporche sulla città / Spur der Gewalt
Defying orders to lay-off the case, two Los Angeles vice-squad cops go after a local mobster and use unorthodox methods to achieve results.
The Yellow Balloon (1953) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Yellow Balloon
director: J. Lee Thompson actor: Andrew Ray / Kathleen Ryan
other title: Il tunnel del terrore / Amenaza siniestra
A young boy is blackmailed by a crook who saw him unwittingly cause his friend's death.
Riding with Death (1976) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Riding with Death
director: Don McDougall / Alan J. Levi actor: Ben Murphy / Richard Dysart
Agent Sam Casey is in a satellite explosion and the radiation turns him invisible. He gets a watch that keeps him visible, and he uses it to switch from visible to invisible. He is assigned to transport a chemical called Tripolydine, which is purported to be the most efficient fuel; when the cover is blown on that and he uncovers and stops the Tripolydine fraud, he must then stop a terrorist from blowing up race cars.
Give Us This Day (1949) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Give Us This Day
director: Edward Dmytryk actor: Sam Wanamaker / Lea Padovani
other title: Cristo tra i muratori / Haus der Sehnsucht
Exiled from Hollywood due to the blacklist, director Edward Dmytryk briefly operated in England in the late 1940s. Though filmed in its entirety in London, Dmytryk's Give Us This Day is set in New York during the depression. Fellow blacklistee Sam Wanamaker is starred as the head of an Italian immigrant family struggling to survive the economic crisis.
Devils of Darkness (1965) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Devils of Darkness
director: Lance Comfort actor: William Sylvester / Hubert Noël
other title: I diavoli delle tenebre / Die Gruft der toten Frauen
A secret vampire cult, which has its headquarters beneath the town cemetery, searches for victims for its human sacrifice rituals.