Top Ten Contributors - World for Ransom (1954)
by milam_ogden | created - 17 Oct 2014 | updated - 17 Oct 2014 | PublicA mediocre film noir directed by Robert Aldrich who is a very successful director. This international film noir has a very good cast. Here are the ten contributors that created this movie.
1. Lindsay Hardy
Writer | World for Ransom
Lindsay Hardy was born on September 17, 1914 in Australia. Lindsay was a writer, known for World for Ransom (1954), Million Dollar Manhunt (1956) and Love Is a Ball (1963). Lindsay died on February 7, 1994 in London, England, UK.
wrote the original story and screenplay
2. Robert Aldrich
Director | Emperor of the North Pole
Robert Aldrich entered the film industry in 1941 when he got a job as a production clerk at RKO Radio Pictures. He soon worked his way up to script clerk, then became an assistant director, a production manager and an associate producer. He began writing and directing for TV series in the early ...
asked by Allied Artists to direct
3. Frank De Vol
Soundtrack | Meng long guo jiang
Frank DeVol was born to Herman Frank DeVol and Minnie Emma (Humphreys) DeVol in Moundsville, West Virginia, on September 20, 1911 and grew up in Canton, Ohio. His father had a "pit" orchestra at the local movie house, and his mother had a sewing shop in Canton. His father was also an accountant. ...
provided the musical score
4. Joseph F. Biroc
Camera_department | The Towering Inferno
Joseph Biroc was destined to become one of the most versatile cinematographers in Hollywood, working on films of almost every genre. He started as a lab assistant in 1918, based at Paragon Studio, located in America's first 'film capital', Ft.Lee, New Jersey. From there, he moved on to the ...
5. Dan Duryea
Actor | Too Late for Tears
Dan Duryea was educated at Cornell University and worked in the advertising business before pursuing his career as an actor. Duryea made his Broadway debut in the play "Dead End." The critical acclaim he won for his performance as Leo Hubbard in the Broadway production of "The Little Foxes" led to ...
plays lead role - Mike Callahan; cannot believe the IMDb does not have a photo of this excellent actor
6. Gene Lockhart
Actor | His Girl Friday
Gene Lockhart was born on July 18, 1891, in London, Ontario, Canada, the son of John Coates Lockhart and Ellen Mary (Delany) Lockhart. His father had studied singing and young Gene displayed an early interest in drama and music. Shortly after the 7-year-old danced a Highland fling in a concert ...
plays villain Alexis Pederas, I love this consummate character actor
7. Patric Knowles
Actor | The Adventures of Robin Hood
Fourteen-year-old Reginald Lawrence Knowles was being readied to take his place with other relatives in the family bookbinding business (in Leeds) when he ran off to become an actor. He was inevitably brought back home, but he made good his second escape a few years later - his willful Knowles ...
plays role of Julian March
8. Reginald Denny
Actor | Rebecca
Sometime in the early 1930s, Denny was between scenes on a movie set when he met a neighborhood boy who was trying to fly a bulky gas-powered model plane. When he tried to help by making an adjustment on the machine, Denny succeeded only in wrecking it. But this launched his infatuation with model ...
plays Major Ian Bone
9. Arthur Shields
Actor | The Quiet Man
Though not as well known as his nearly decade-older brother Barry Fitzgerald, Shields was a talented actor with well over twice the film roles in his career. Fitzgerald was already a well established player at the renowned Dublin Abbey Theater when Shields, also bitten by the acting bug, joined in ...
plays Sean O'Connor
10. Nigel Bruce
Actor | Rebecca
Nigel was, from the beginning, typecast as bumbling English aristocrats, military types or drawing room society snobs and, within the narrow parameters of his range, he was very, very good at playing these parts. Nigel Bruce was born in Mexico, where his father, Sir William W. Bruce, worked as an ...
plays role of Gov Sir Charles Coutts
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