Jerome Courtland(1926-2012)

Director
Actor
Producer

Corporal Brady (Brian Keith) an American soldier captured during the Korean War, is taken to a POW camp. There he meets Sergeant Rand (Robert Francis) a prisoner who is cooperating with the North Koreans. Brady is disgusted by these actions, but he soon discovers that Rand is actually an intelligence officer playing along to access important secrets. Rand also becomes close to Tanya Clanton (Dianne Foster), the wife of an American traitor, in order to exact information.

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The Bamboo Prison (1954)

Jerome Courtland was born on 27 December 1926 in Knoxville, Tennessee, USA. He was a director and actor, known for L'apprentie amoureuse (1945), Coup de foudre (1944) and Peter et Elliott le dragon (1977). He was married to Marlene Juttner, Janet Rose Gumprecht and Polly Bergen. He died on 1 March 2012 in Santa Clarita Valley, California, USA.

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Awards
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Known for

L'apprentie amoureuse

6.5

Dexter Franklin

1945

Coup de foudre

6.7

Gilbert Parker

1944

Peter et Elliott le dragon

6.3

Producer

1977

Make Believe Ballroom

6.8

Gene Thomas

1949

Credits

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Director

Côte ouest
7.0
TV Series
- Director
- 1988–1993
Falcon Crest
6.2
TV Series
- Director
- 1988–1990
Médecin à Honolulu
7.4
TV Series
- Director
- 1989–1990
Hôtel
6.4
TV Series
- Director
- 1983–1987
Dynastie II: Les Colby
6.0
TV Series
- Director
- 1985–1986
Dynastie
6.4
TV Series
- Director
- 1981–1986
La croisière s'amuse
6.3
TV Series
- Director
- 1982–1986
L'île fantastique
6.6
TV Series
- Director
- 1982–1984
Matt Houston
6.5
TV Series
- Director
- 1982
Le monde merveilleux de Disney
8.3
TV Series
- Director
- 1973–1979
Hog Wild
7.7
TV Movie
- Director
- 1974
La poursuite aux diamants
6.4
TV Movie
- Director
- 1973
Le lion des montagnes
5.7
- Director
- 1972
The Partridge Family
6.6
TV Series
- Director
- 1972
Nancy
6.5
TV Series
- Director
- 1970–1971

Actor

Côte ouest
7.0
TV Series
- Dr. Green
- 1992
Dear John
6.8
TV Series
- Frank
- 1991
La loi de Los Angeles
7.1
TV Series
- Professor Thomas Wadkins
- 1991
The Restless Ones
6.3
- Tim Reynolds
- 1965
Les éperons noirs
5.8
- Sam Grubbs
- 1965
Le Virginien
7.6
TV Series
- Byron Prescott
- 1965
Les aventuriers du Far-West
7.5
TV Series
- William Byers
- 1965
Tharus, fils d'Attila
4.5
- Tharus
- 1962
Café Oriental
5.4
- Michael
- 1962
Mary la rousse, femme pirate
5.5
- Peter Goodwin
- 1961
The Gillmen
TV Movie
- Captain Ben Brady
- 1960
O sole mio
4.8
- Teddy Hill
- 1960
Tales of the Vikings
8.0
TV Series
- Leif
- Leif Ericson
- Leif Erikson
- 1959–1960
L'arche de Noé
6.2
Short
- Narrator (voice)
- 1959
Tonka, cheval sauvage
6.2
- Lt. Henry Nowlan
- 1958

Producer

Amy-on-the-Lips
Video
- producer (uncredited)
- 1982
Amy
6.4
- producer (produced by)
- 1981
Max et le diable
5.0
- producer
- 1981
Le monde merveilleux de Disney
8.3
TV Series
- producer
- co-producer
- 1974–1980
The Ghosts of Buxley Hall
5.6
TV Movie
- producer (produced by)
- 1980
Les visiteurs d'un autre monde
5.7
- producer
- 1978
The Million Dollar Dixie Deliverance
8.1
TV Movie
- producer
- 1978
Peter et Elliott le dragon
6.3
- producer
- 1977
Harness Fever
6.1
TV Movie
- producer
- 1977
Mais où est donc passé mon poney ?
6.0
- producer
- 1975
La montagne ensorcelée
6.3
- producer (produced by)
- 1975
Hog Wild
7.7
TV Movie
- co-producer
- 1974
Help, Inc.
TV Movie
- producer
- 1972
Movin' On
5.9
TV Movie
- producer
- 1972
Nancy
6.5
TV Series
- producer
- 1970–1971

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Alternative name
- Jerome C. Courtland
Height
- 1.93 m
Born
- December 27, 1926
- Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
Died
- March 1, 2012
- Santa Clarita Valley, California, USA(heart disease)
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Trivia
Talked into a screen test by Columbia director Charles Vidor and subsequently signed to a seven-year contract. Appeared as a gangling juvenile in several 1940's comedies, before wartime military service in the Pacific Theater. Continued to act after the war, initially on Broadway, then increasingly drawn towards television. Later switched to directing and producing for Disney, Screen Gems and Aaron Spelling Productions.