Such is the case with Gargoyles, an enjoyable enough made for television chiller, directed by Bill Norton, fresh from the drama Cisco Pike (1971), and first broadcast on 21 November 1972. Many’s the time an expectant evening of wallowing in nostalgia has been transformed into a session of watching through gritted teeth trying desperately to convince oneself that this really is as good as one remembered it. His later films were of varying quality, and he ended hisĬareer in near-cameos in minor adventure films.The phenomenon of returning to a film or television programme seen once many years ago and enjoyed only to find that it doesn’t quite live up to those memories is a not uncommon one around these parts.
Tour-de-force adventure drama that brought him real acclaim as aĭirector. Several of his ventures into film noir in this period,īoth his own and other directors', are quite interesting Led him to form his own production company with the goal of directing In the 1950s his star dimmed a little, and aside from an Spent the balance of the 1940s in romantic, and often swashbuckling, He playedĪ few minor roles before leaping to fame and an Oscar nomination as Production of "Romeo and Juliet" that Hollywood spotted him. It was not until he was hired in the dual capacities of fencing Stage, he appeared in the Broadway hit "Having a Wonderful Time", but Shortening his name to Cornel Wilde for the
Though he continued to list his correct Hungarian birth in 1912 on Thereafter claiming publicly that he was born in New York in 1915, Shaved a few years off their ages in order to get work, Wilde Olympic fencing team, he quit the team just prior to theġ936 Berlin Olympics in order to take a role in a play. Received a scholarship for medical school, but turned it down in favor He spent much of his youth traveling in Europe,ĭeveloping a continental flair as well as an affinity for languages. His family Americanized their names and Kornel took the nameĬornelius Louis Wilde. In 1920, he immigrated to New York City with his parents, Rayna (Vid) and Vojtech Béla Weisz, and elder sister, Edith. Dashing actor Cornel Wilde was born Kornel Lajos Weisz on October 13, 1912, in Prievidza, Hungary (now part of Slovakia), to a Jewish family.
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