Cornel Wilde
Acting
Biography
Cornel Wilde was a Hungarian-American actor and film director. Wilde's acting career began in 1935, when he made his debut on Broadway. In 1936 he began making small, uncredited appearances in films. By the 1940s, he had signed a contract with 20th Century Fox, and by the mid-1940s, he was a major leading man. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in 1945's A Song to Remember. In the 1950s, he moved to writing, producing and directing films, and still continued his career as an actor.
Born: October 13, 1912
Place of Birth: Prievidza, Hungary
Known For
Swiss Tour
A sailor on leave meets a beautiful girl on the ski slopes of Switzerland.
I Love Lucy
Cuban Bandleader Ricky Ricardo would be happy if his wife Lucy would just be a housewife. Instead she tries constantly to perform at the Tropicana where he works, and make life comically frantic in the apartment building they share with landlords Fred and Ethel Mertz, who also happen to be their best friends.
Night Gallery
Rod Serling narrates an anthology of fantasy, horror and sci-fi stories from a set resembling a macabre museum. A chilling work of art serves as the connective link between the stories.
Los Angeles Plays Itself
From its distinctive neighborhoods to its architectural homes, Los Angeles has been the backdrop to countless movies. In this dazzling work, Andersen takes viewers on a whirlwind tour through the metropolis' real and cinematic history, investigating the myriad stories and legends that have come to define it, and meticulously, judiciously revealing the real city that lives beneath.
Murder, She Wrote
An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.
Leave Her to Heaven
A socialite marries a prominent novelist, which spurs a violent, obsessive, and dangerous jealousy in her.
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.
High Sierra
Given a pardon from jail, Roy Earle gets back into the swing of things as he robs a swanky resort.
The Big Combo
Police Lt. Leonard Diamond vies to bring a clever, well connected, and sadistic gangster to justice all the while obsessing over the gangster's girlfriend.
It Had to Be You
A chronic runaway bride is haunted by her conscience, who becomes reality.
Filmography
as Griff Marat in Shockproof (archive footage)
as Police Captain
as Duncan Barnett
as D'Artagnan
as Ragnar
as Jim Carnahan
as Dr. Mercer Boley
as Frank Powers
as Capt. MacDonald / Narrator
as The Man
as George Press
as Sir Lancelot
as Self - Co-Host
as Constantine
as Steve Roberts / German Captain / Count / Jacque / Sheik
as Les Martin
as Vic Scott
as Nick Jargin
as Omar Khayyam
as Matt Campbell
as Self
as Stephano Torino
as Charlie
as Maj. John Boulton
as Leonard Diamond
as Juan Obreon
as Bill Baxter
as Pierre St. Laurent
as Si Lahssen
as Self
as Jean-Paul
as Peter Maresy
as Rudy Alberti
as Peter Forrester
as Don Arturo Bordega
as D'Artagnan Jr.
as The Great Sebastian
as Cornel Wilde
as Capt. Mark Bradford
as Self
as Stanley Robin
as Griff Marat
as Dave Connors
as Pete Morgan
as George McKesson
as Bruce Carlton
as Jock Wallace
as Philippe Lascalles
as Robert of Nottingham
as Richard Harland
as Aladdin
as Frédéric Chopin
as Freddy Austin
as Robert Carter
as Jeff Bailey
as Mike Lord
as Chet Oakley
as Tommy Rossi
as Louis Mendoza
as Mr. Williams (uncredited)
as Reporter