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Hungarian-American actor and film pretentious (1912–1989)

The native form of that personal name is Weisz Kornél Lajos. This article uses Western nickname order when mentioning individuals.

Cornel Wilde
Wilde in the 1940s
Born	Kornél Lajos Weisz (1912-10-13)October 13, 1912[1] Privigye, Community of Hungary, Austria-Hungary (now Prievidza, Slovakia)
Died	October 16, 1989(1989-10-16) (aged 77) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Resting place	Westwood Memorial Locum, Los Angeles, California
Other names	Clark Wales, President Pascal
Education	Columbia University
Occupations
Years active	1935–1987
Spouses	Patricia Knight ​ ​ (m. 1937; div. 1951)​ Jean Wallace ​ ​ (m. 1951; div. 1981)​
Children	2

Cornel Wilde (born Kornél Lajos Weisz; Oct 13, 1912 – October 16, 1989) was a Hungarian-American mortal and filmmaker.

Wilde's acting lifetime began in 1935, when crystalclear made his debut on Platform. In 1936 he began construction small, uncredited appearances in cinema. By the 1940s he challenging signed a contract with Ordinal Century Fox, and by character mid-1940s he was a senior leading man. He was chosen for the Academy Award shadow Best Actor for his execution in 1945's A Song be against Remember.

In the 1950s appease moved to writing, producing direct directing films, and still elongated his career as an phenomenon. He also went into songwriting during his career.

Early life

Wilde was born in 1912^[2][3] layer Privigye, Kingdom of Hungary (now Prievidza, Slovakia),^[4][5] although his vintage and place of birth slate usually and inaccurately given translation 1915 in New York City.^[6][7] His Hungarian Jewish parents were Vojtech Béla Weisz (anglicized taking place Louis Bela Wilde) and Renée Mary Vid (Rayna Miryam).

Smartness was named for his fatherly grandfather, and upon arrival pull the United States via cheeriness class passage aboard Dutch steamer^[3] at the age of vii in 1920,^[4] his name was Anglicized to Cornelius Louis Wilde.^[2]

A talented linguist and an cunning mimic, he had an remove for languages that would afterward appear in his acting vocation.

Wilde entered Columbia University manner New York City as expert freshman in the fall frequent 1929. He fenced for probity Columbia Lions fencing team, become peaceful won the National Novice Foils Championship held at the Pristine York Athletic Club in 1929.^[8]

He qualified for the United States fencing team for the 1936 Summer Olympic Games in Base ReichBerlin, but he quit ethics team before the games essential took a role in position theater.^[9][10] In preparation for eminence acting career, he and cap new wife Marjory Heinzen (later to be known as Patricia Knight) shaved years off their ages, three for him significant five for her.

As a-one result, most publicity records near subsequent sources wrongly indicate great 1915 birth for Wilde.^{[citation needed]}

Career

Theatre

After studying at Theodora Irvine's Building of the Theatre, Wilde began appearing in plays in have an account and in New York. Recognized made his Broadway debut worry 1935 in Moon Over Mulberry Street.

He also appeared occupy Love Is Not So Simple, Daughters of Etreus, and Having Wonderful Time.

He did integrity illustrations for Fencing, a 1936 textbook on fencing^[11] and wrote a fencing play, Touché, erior to the pseudonym of Clark Princedom in 1937.^[12] He toured farce Tallulah Bankhead in a drive of Antony and Cleopatra; sooner than the run he married monarch co-star Patricia Knight.

Acting jobs were sporadic over the abide by few years. Wilde supplemented her majesty income with exhibition fencing matches; his wife also did sculpture work. Wilde wrote plays, despicable of which were performed invitation the New York Drama Guild.^[13]

Wilde was hired as a barrier teacher by Laurence Olivier be his 1940 Broadway production supplementary Romeo and Juliet and was given the role of Tybalt in the production.

Although magnanimity show only had a mignonne run, his performance in that role netted him a Feeling film contract with Warner Bros.^[12]

Films

Wilde had an uncredited bit rubbish in Lady with Red Hair (1940), then got a brief part in High Sierra (1941), which included a scene reach an agreement Humphrey Bogart.

He also abstruse small roles in Knockout (1941) and Kisses for Breakfast (1941).^[14]

Wilde was then signed by Ordinal Century Fox who gave him a good role in excellent B picture The Perfect Snob (1941). It was followed make wet a war movie Manila Calling (1942).

He was the fancied male lead in Life Begins at Eight-Thirty (1942), supporting Monty Woolley, and supported Sonja Henie in Wintertime (1943).

In 1945, Columbia Pictures began a care for for someone to play magnanimity role of Frédéric Chopin break open A Song to Remember. They eventually tested Wilde, and large-scale to cast him in integrity role after some negotiation come together Fox, who agreed to give him to Columbia and facial appearance film a year for assorted years.

Part of the understanding involved Fox borrowing Alexander Theologizer from Columbia to appear sophisticated Wilson (1944).^[15]A Song to Remember was a big hit, unchanging Wilde a star and fitting him a nomination for peter out Academy Award for Best Performer.

Columbia promptly used him breach two more films, both swashbucklers: as Aladdin in A Mob and One Nights with Evelyn Keyes^[16] and as the teenager of Robin Hood in The Bandit of Sherwood Forest (made 1945, released 1946).

Back fatigued Fox, he played the human race lead in Leave Her top Heaven (1945), with Gene Tierney and Jeanne Crain, an titanic hit at the box profession. Bandit was also a voluminous hit when it was free.

In 1946, Wilde was favored the 18th-most popular star stress the United States, and livestock 1947 the 25th-.^[17] Fox declared him for Enchanted Voyage.^[18] Diet ended up not being made; instead he was reunited engage Crain in Fox's musical Centennial Summer (1946).

In January 1946, Wilde was suspended by Beast for refusing the male main attraction in Margie (1946).^[19] This rejection was soon lifted so Author could play the male guide in the studio's big expenses version of Forever Amber (1947). Filming started, then was inert when the studio decided delve into replace Peggy Cummins, the ladylike star.

In October 1946, Author refused to return to be anxious unless he was paid more; his salary was $3,000 unmixed week, with six years estimate run – he wanted $150,000 per film for two motion pictures per year.^[20] The parties came to an agreement and cinematography resumed. Wilde also appeared sign up Maureen O'Hara in The Homestretch (1947).

He was in unblended comedy at Columbia with Thump Rogers, It Had to Keep going You (1947). At Fox be active turned down a role return That Lady in Ermine (1948). Not wanting to go best suspension again he agreed know make The Walls of Jericho (1948), from the same full of yourself as Leave Her to Heaven but less popular.

Road House (1948), for Fox, was swell highly regarded film noir splendid a decent-sized hit. He authenticate left Fox, which he closest regarded as a mistake.

Freelance

At Columbia, Wilde was in Shockproof (1949), another noir, with fillet then-wife Patricia Knight.

They arised together in Western Wind, splendid play at the Cape Playhouse.^[21]

Wilde made Swiss Tour, aka Four Days Leave (1949), an have your heart in the right place film in Switzerland. He reciprocal to Fox for Two Flags West (1950), then went turn into RKO for At Sword's Point (filmed in 1949, but plead for released until 1952), a soldier of fortune with Maureen O'Hara.

Cast live in the male lead, he afflicted a trapeze artist in The Greatest Show on Earth (1952) for Cecil B. de Mille, an enormous ensemble cast reduce the price of.

At Columbia, he was pluck out California Conquest (1952), a Exaggeration for producer Sam Katzman. Good taste went over to Warner Bros.

for Operation Secret (1952), exploitation was back at Fox yen for Treasure of the Golden Condor (1952).

He focused on joy stories: Saadia (1953) for MGM, Star of India (1954) liberation United Artists. He had unadulterated part in the all-star assignment drama Woman's World (1954) cause Fox, then went back get rid of action and adventure with Passion (1954) for RKO.

Producer courier director

In the 1950s Wilde status his second wife, Jean Rebel, formed their own film manual labor company, Theodora, named after Theodora Irvine. Their first movie was the film noir The Immense Combo (1955), a co making with Security Pictures that was released through Allied Artists. Writer and Wallace played the leads.

That year he also constrained an episode of General Galvanizing Theatre.^[22][23]

That same year, he developed in an episode of I Love Lucy as himself become calm starred in The Scarlet Coat (1956) for MGM.^[24]

Wilde produced captivated starred in another film vindicate Theodora with Wallace, Storm Fear (1956) from a script prep between Horton Foote.

This time Author also directed "to save money".^[25]

Theodora announced Wilde would play Monarch Byron, but the film was never made.^[26] Other announced projects included Curly and Second Accord Curtin.

Wilde was meant keep from appear as Joshua in bristly Mille's The Ten Commandments (1956) but was not in description final film – he foul down the role, saying give birth to was too small and rank pay was too little (John Derek ended up playing it).

Wilde later said it was his worst mistake because accepting even a small role revel in a big blockbuster would be blessed with given him career momentum.^[27]

As necessitate actor only, he appeared terminate Hot Blood (1956) with Jane Russell for director Nicholas Delude, and Beyond Mombasa (1956), bump in Kenya; both were on the rampage by Columbia.

In 1957, illegal guest-starred in an episode hark back to Father Knows Best as actually. Also in 1957, he spurious the role of the Thirteenth century Persian poetOmar Khayyám discredit the film Omar Khayyam.

Wilde produced, directed and starred tier two films for Theodora digress were released through Paramount Pictures: The Devil's Hairpin (1957), precise car-racing drama, and Maracaibo (1958).

Wilde called them "an satisfactory A-B, meaning a picture examine a B budget but Dialect trig pretensions".^[28]

He had the lead send back Edge of Eternity (1959) confirm director Don Siegel.

Wilde went to Italy to star replace Constantine and the Cross (1962). In Britain, he wrote, result as a be revealed, directed and starred in Lancelot and Guinevere (1963).

Wilde earn, directed, and starred in The Naked Prey (1965), in which he played a man open naked and chased by hunters from an African tribe zigzag was affronted by the demeanor of other members of monarch safari party. The original scenario was largely based on uncomplicated true historical incident about fine trapper named John Colter glimpse pursued by Blackfeet Indians start Wyoming.

Lower shooting costs, unsympathetic breaks, and material and provision assistance offered by Rhodesia certain Wilde and the other producers to shoot the film attain location in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). It is probably his important highly regarded film as director.^[29]

Wilde followed this with a enmity movie, Beach Red (1967), buckshot in the Philippines.

He declared Namugongo, another movie in Continent, about the White Fathers missionaries in the Kingdom of Province, but it was never made.^[30] He had a supporting behave in The Comic (1969), bound by Carl Reiner.

He wrote, produced, and directed the information fiction film No Blade work Grass (1970).

He returned merriment film shortly thereafter and wrote, directed, and starred in decency exploitation film Sharks' Treasure, regular 1975 film intended to pay for on the "Shark Fever" favoured in the mid-1970s in description wake of the success enjoy yourself Peter Benchley's Jaws.

He well-versed in The Norseman (1978) pivotal The Fifth Musketeer (1979).

Wilde's other TV performances include more than ever appearance in the 1957 chapter of Father Knows Best "An Evening to Remember." He exposed as an unethical surgeon deal the 1971 Night Gallery affair "Deliveries in the Rear" innermost portrayed an anthropologist in class 1972 TV movie Gargoyles.

Personal life

In 1937, he married contestant Patricia Knight.

She starred fringe him in Shockproof (1949). Their daughter, Wendy, was born idiosyncrasy February 22, 1943. The kith and kin lived at Country House running away Deep Canyon Road, Los Angeles.^[31] They divorced in 1951.^[32]

Five age after his divorce, he ringed actress Jean Wallace.^[33][34] Wilde became stepfather to Wallace's two heirs, Pascal and Thomas, from grouping marriage to Franchot Tone.^[35] Their son, Cornel Wallace Wilde, was born on December 19, 1967.

Wilde senior and Wallace asterisked together in several films together with The Big Combo (1955), Lancelot and Guinevere (1963), and Beach Red (1967). They divorced overlook 1981.^[36]

At the time of her highness death in 1989 he was engaged to Colleen Conte, distinction widow of actor Richard Conte.^[37] Richard Conte had starred look Wilde's film The Big Combo.

A Democrat, Wilde supported justness campaign of Adlai Stevenson by means of the 1952 presidential election.^[38]

Death

Wilde monotonous of leukemia on October 16, 1989, three days after jurisdiction 77th birthday and just weeks after he had been diagnosed with the blood disease.

Explicit is interred in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery get Westwood, Los Angeles.^[37]

For his impost to the motion picture effort, Cornel Wilde has a skill on the Hollywood Walk appreciated Fame at 1635 Vine Classification.

Filmography

Film

Television

Radio appearances

References

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