William Sylvester
- Naissance
- 31 janvier 1922
- Décès
- 25 janvier 1995
- Origine
- Oakland, California, USA
William Sylvester (January 31, 1922 – January 25, 1995) was an American TV and film actor. His most famous film credit was Dr. Heywood Floyd in Stanley Kubrick's 2001 A Space Odyssey (1968). Born in Oakland, California and married at one time to the British actress Veronica Hurst, he moved to England after the Second World War and became a staple of British B films at a time when American and Canadian actors were much in demand in order to give indigenous films some appeal in the US.
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As a result, he gained top billing in one of his very first films, House of Blackmail (1953), directed by the veteran filmmaker Maurice Elvey, for whom he also made What Every Woman Wants the following year. He also starred in such minor films as The Stranger Came Home (1954, for Hammer), Dublin Nightmare (1958), Offbeat (1960), Information Received (1961), Incident at Midnight, Ring of Spies and Blind Corner (all 1963). There were also lead roles in four British horror films: Gorgo (1960), Devil Doll (1963), Devils of Darkness (1964) and The Hand of Night (1966). Among his many TV credits were a 1959 BBC version of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar (playing Mark Antony), The Saint, The Baron, The High Chaparral, Harry O and The Six Million Dollar Man.
His later films included You Only Live Twice (1967) and, back in the USA after his prominent role for Kubrick, Busting (1973), The Hindenburg (1975) and Heaven Can Wait (1978). He died in Sacramento, California in 1995, aged 72.
Biographie fournie par TMDB
Interprétation 22
First Family1980
Le ciel peut attendre1978
L'Odyssée du Hindenburg1975
Les Casseurs De Gangs1974
À l’étudeThe Lawyer1970
À l’étudeThe Hand of Night1968
2001 : L'Odyssée de l'espace1968
On ne vit que deux fois1967
À l’étudeOrgie satanique1965
À l’étudeDevil Doll1964
À l’étudeRing of Spies1964
À l’étudeIncident at Midnight1963
À l’étudeGorgo1961
À l’étudeOffbeat1961
À l’étudeTourbillon1959
À l’étudeDublin Nightmare1958
À l’étudePortrait of Alison1955
À l’étudeMeurtres sans empreintes1954
À l’étudeWhat Every Woman Wants1954
À l’étudeLe prisonnier fantôme1953
À l’étudeThey Were Not Divided1950
À l’étudeGive Us This Day1949