Biographie
Seth Holt
- Date de naissance
- Date de décès14 février 1971 · Londres, Angleterre, Royaume-Uni (insuffisance cardiaque)
- Nom de naissanceJames Aubrey G. B. Holt
- Seth Holt est né le 21 juin 1923 à Palestine [aujourd'hui Israel]. Il était réalisateur et monteur. Il est connu pour Tueurs de dames (1955), Destination danger (1960) et Le criminel aux abois (1958). Il était marié à Sarah Turquand-Young et Barbara Miller. Il est mort le 14 février 1971 à Londres, Angleterre, Royaume-Uni.
- ConjointsSarah Turquand-Young(1970 - 14 février 1971) (son décès)Barbara Miller(1957 - ?)
- Began directing a farcical detective thriller, "Monsieur Lecoq", in 1967 and filmed for several weeks in mostly bad weather which caused considerable delays. Eventually Columbia Pictures decided it would be cheaper to abandon the uncompleted film. John Le Mesurier, who had a small role, suggested in his autobiography that Holt never recovered from this career blow.
- Brother-in-law of Robert Hamer.
- A few days before the end of filming La Momie sanglante (1971) he held a dinner party, after which he collapsed and died of a heart attack.
- In the early 1960s he and Zero Mostel prepared a screenplay based on Agatha Christie's "The ABC Murders", planning a film in which Holt would direct Mostel in the role of Hercule Poirot. However, this was postponed, and when the film was eventually made (as ABC contre Hercule Poirot (1965)), Frank Tashlin directed Tony Randall as Poirot, using a new script.
- Among the film projects Holt announced at various times were "A Piece Of The Action", an original screenplay set in Las Vegas by David T. Chantler, which was to have been produced by Robert Aldrich; "Lady Into Fox", a version of the celebrated novel by David Garnett; "Gratz", an original screenplay by J.P. Donleavy; "The Anarchist", a biopic about Mikhail Bakunin written by literary critic Alfredo Álvarez; a modern-dress version of Thomas Middleton's 17th-century play "Women, Beware Women"; and a thriller written by John Howlett to be called "The Velvet Well". None of these projects came to fruition.
- [on the music for "Nowhere To Go"]: It was a very early jazz score, and I think it must have been the first English one. It's my favorite score and I love it. I was given a free hand on that, thank goodness. We didn't have the usual composer in, with the lengths of film. I just sat the musicians down to play a piece and I gave them a brief that I wanted it to be cool yet dirty, and that it should have a kind of mocking quality about it. They did it beautifully. The musicians weren't bothered with where it had to go. I used it as a piece of editing and this seems to me a more satisfactory way of working than the traditional way of getting the composer to write stretches of music for specific scenes. I don't think you get the ironies right that way.
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