Clifton Webb
Acting
Biography
Clifton Webb (November 19, 1889 – October 13, 1966) was an American actor, dancer, and singer known for his Oscar-nominated roles in such films as Laura, The Razor's Edge, and Sitting Pretty. In the theatrical world he was known for his appearances in the plays of Noël Coward, notably Blithe Spirit. Description above from the Wikipedia article Clifton Webb, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Born: November 19, 1889
Place of Birth: Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
Known For
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
This documentary, hosted by actor Burgess Meredith, explores the life and career of movie director Otto Preminger, whose body of work includes such memorable films as Anatomy of a Murder, Exodus, Laura, Forever Amber, Advise and Consent, In Harm's Way, The Moon Is Blue, The Man with the Golden Arm, and many other movies made from the '30s through the '70s. Interviews with actors Frank Sinatra, Vincent Price, James Stewart, Michael Caine, and others who worked with the flamboyant and sometimes control-obsessed director add information and insight to the story.
Laura
A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating.
Elopement
Two sets of parents frantically race to stop their eloping children's wedding.
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line
Born Ruby Stevens, she was orphaned when she was four. A chance audition led to a chorus job. By 17 she was a Ziegfeld Girl. At 20 she earned excellent reviews for a bit part in a Broadway play — and she had a new name: Barbara Stanwyck.
Mr. Belvedere Goes to College
A middle-aged genius goes to college for the first time.
Woman's World
Needing to fill the position of general manager of his company, and believing that an executive's wife is crucial to her husband's success, auto industry mogul Gifford brings three couples to New York to size up: Jerry and Carol: he hard-driven and self-reliant, she willing to use her beauty to further her husband's career; Sid and Elizabeth, he ulcer-ridden and torn between achieving success and restoring their troubled marriage, she positive that his job will kill him, but gamely agreeing to play the good wife for the duration; and down-to-earth Bill, whose good-natured Katie fears that his promotion would spell the end of their idyllic familiy existence.
Sitting Pretty
Tacey and Harry King are a suburban couple with three sons and a serious need of a babysitter. Tacey puts an ad in the paper for a live-in babysitter, and the ad is answered by Lynn Belvedere. But when she arrives, she turns out to be a man. And not just any man, but a most eccentric, outrageously forthright genius with seemingly a million careers and experiences behind him.
The Man Who Never Was
The true story of a British effort to trick the Germans into weakening Sicily's defenses before the 1943 attack. A dead soldier is dressed as a British officer and outfitted with faked papers showing that the Allies were intending to invade occupied Greece. His body is put into the sea where it will ultimately drift ashore and the papers be passed along to German Intelligence.
For Heaven's Sake
An angel takes on human form in order to persuade a theatrical couple to finally consummate their child that has been waiting to be born.
Mr. Belvedere Rings the Bell
Posing as a man over 70, a lecturer (Clifton Webb) enters an old-folks home to prove age is a state of mind.
Filmography
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as actor 'Laura' (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Father Bovard
as Self (archive footage)
as Robert Dean
as Mr. Horace Pennypacker
as Victor Parmalee
as Lt. Cmdr. Ewen Montagu
as Ernest Gifford
as John Frederick Shadwell
as Robert Jordan
as Richard Ward Sturges
as John Philip Sousa
as Thornton Sayre
as Frank Gilbreth (uncredited)
as Howard Osborne
as Mr.Belvedere
as Charles / Slim Charles
as Frank Gilbreth
as Lynn Belvedere
as Self
as Lynn Belvedere
as Elliott Templeton
as Hardy Cathcart
as Waldo Lydecker
as Maxim
as Tom Lawrence
as Harry Richardson
as Dancer, The Pavane - French episode