Movie · 1991
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
Released 28 October 1991 More from 1991 → Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗
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.
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How old were they?
John Gielgud
as Self (archive footage)
Walter Pidgeon
as actor 'Advise and 'Consent' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Burgess Meredith
as Narrator (voice)
Dana Andrews
as Det. Lt. Mark McPherson (archive footage) (uncredited)
Vincent Price
as Self
José Ferrer
as Self
Clifton Webb
as actor 'Laura' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Ossie Davis
as Self
David Niven
as actor 'Bonjour Tristesse' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Richard Todd
as Self (archive footage)
Gene Tierney
as Laura Hunt (archive footage) (uncredited)
Tom Tryon
as Self
George Grizzard
as actor 'Advise and 'Consent' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Charles Laughton
as actor 'Advise and 'Consent' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Franchot Tone
as actor 'Advise and 'Consent' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Johanna Matz
as Self
John Saxon
as Self (archive footage)
Diahann Carroll
as Vivian Thurlow (archive footage) (uncredited)
Peter Bogdanovich
as Self
Maggie McNamara
as actress 'The Moon Is Blue' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Ken Howard
as Self
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The numbers
40years between the oldest and youngest billed
87John Gielgud — oldest on the call sheet
47Ken Howard — youngest billed
68average age of the credited cast