Don Siegel
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Don Siegel Trivia
- Was eager to direct movies as early as 1942, but his contract with Warner Brothers kept him restricted to doing editing and montage sequences. Studio chief 'Jack L. Warner' refused to let Siegel out of his contract because he wanted to utilize his exceptional montage skills.
- Siegel and screenwriter 'Stephen Geller (I)' (The Valachi Papers (1972), Slaughterhouse-Five (1972)) once collaborated on a script of "The First Deadly Sin" (based on the novel), to be directed by Siegel. The project fell through, however, and a different version was filmed several years later.
- Interviewed in 'Peter Bogdanovich''s "Who the Devil Made It: Conversations With 'Robert Aldrich (I)', 'George Cukor', 'Allan Dwan', 'Howard Hawks', 'Alfred Hitchcock (I)', 'Chuck Jones (I)', 'Fritz Lang (I)', 'Joseph H. Lewis', 'Sidney Lumet', 'Leo McCarey', 'Otto Preminger', 'Don Siegel', 'Josef von Sternberg', 'Frank Tashlin', 'Edgar G. Ulmer', 'Raoul Walsh'." NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997.
- He originally intended for Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) to end with the hero, Dr. Miles Bennell ('Kevin McCarthy (I)') on the highway shouting to the motorists, "You're next! You're next!" but Allied Artists wanted a happier ending that assured the audience the hero's efforts had not been in vain. Siegel subsequently added the opening with Miles in the hospital recounting his story to the other two doctors, who find out at the end of the film that the pod people are real and contact the FBI.
- Siegel and producer 'Walter Wanger' had been desperately trying to persuade the warden of San Quentin Prison to allow the use of the facility to film Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954), but the warden had adamantly refused. After the final meeting in the prison, when the warden had said there was nothing Siegel or Wanger could do to persuade him to allow filming there, Siegel turned to speak to his assistant, 'Sam Peckinpah'. When the warden heard Peckinpah's name, he asked, "Are you related to Denver Peckinpah?" Sam replied that Denver was his father. It turned out that Denver Peckinpah was a well-known jurist in northern California who had a reputation as a "hanging judge" and the warden had long been an admirer of his. He immediately granted the company permission to shoot the movie in San Quentin.
Don Siegel Mini Biography
- Don Siegel was educated at Cambridge University, England. In Hollywood from the mid-'30s, he began his career as an editor and second unit director. In 1945 he directed two shorts (Hitler Lives (1945) and Star in the Night (1945)) and won Academy Awards for both. His first feature as a director was 1946's The Verdict (1946). He made his reputation in the early and mid-'50s with a series of tightly made, expertly crafted, tough but intelligent "B" pictures (among them The Lineup (1958), Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954), Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)), then graduated to major "A" films in the 1960s and early 1970s. He made several "side trips" to television, mostly as a producer. Siegel directed what is generally considered to be 'Elvis Presley''s best picture, Flaming Star (1960). He had a long professional relationship and personal friendship with 'Clint Eastwood', who has often said that everything he knows about filmmaking he learned from Don Siegel.
Don Siegel Quotes
- [on 'Charles Bronson'] He is a very helpful actor in planning or staging a scene. He gets wonderful ideas, good practical suggestions and I enjoy his contributions. He's a positive force for the good in this grinding work of making a film. He's patient when the work is difficult and he's never satisfied until he's convinced what's been done is right. He's my kind of actor, you might say. He's a true loner.
- [on 'Clint Eastwood'] Hardest thing in the world is to do nothing and he does it marvelously.
- [on 'Walter Matthau'] One of the funniest men I ever worked with and didn't understand a thing about the movie [Charley Varrick (1973)] at all. When I showed him the first cut all he said was, "Well, I got to admit it's a picture but can anyone tell me what the hell it's all about?"
- [on 'Walter Wanger'] He was a rarity among producers. He encouraged creativity. He wasn't only interested in protecting himself, which is what most producers do.
- I think in America I'm looked upon as the equivalent of a European director -- which is quite laughable. I've never had a personal publicity man working for me. So all this came out of the blue -- all this publicity. The cult was not engineered. It festered, in a sense. And erupted. And it did me a lot of good.
Don Siegel Movies
- Return to the Alamo (1975) as 2nd Desk Sergeant
- 1863 (1966) as ...
- Vendetta (1965) as ...
- The Celebrity (1965) as ...
- The Pursuers (1965) as ...
- The Black Windmill (1974) as ...
- Private Hell 36 (1954) as ...
- The Quest (1965) as ...
- Hell Is for Heroes (1962) as ...
- The Hanged Man (1964) as ...
- Into the Night (1985) as Embarrassed Man
- The Dead Man's Hand (1965) as ...
- South Wind (1966) as ...
- Put Me in Touch with Jesse (1965) as ...
- The Killers (1964) as Cook at diner
- The Beguiled (1971) as ...
- No Time for Flowers (1952) as ...
- Cherie (1961) as ...
- The Bogey Man (1955) as ...
- The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross (1964) as ...
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