Born on this day – Hall Bartlett:

Hall Bartlett

Director

Producer

Writer

November 27, 1922 – September 8, 1993

Born on this day – Marshall Thompson:

Marshall Thompson

Actor

Writer

Director

Producer

November 27, 1925 – May 18, 1992

Born on this day – John Alcott:

John Alcott

Cinematographer

November 27, 1930 – July 28, 1986

John Alcott, with Stanley Kubrick and Shelley Duvall, on the set of The Shining (1980)

 

Credits:

No Way Out (1987); White Water Summer (1987); Miracles (1986); Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend (1985); Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984); Under Fire (1983); Triumphs of a Man Called Horse (1983); The Beastmaster (1982); Vice Squad (1982); Fort Apache the Bronx (1981); Terror Train (1980); The Shining (1980); Fangio: Una vita a 300 all'ora (1980); Fiat Strada: Figaro (1979); Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? (1978); The Disappearance (1977); March or Die (1977); Barry Lyndon (1975); Overlord (1975); Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs (1974); A Clockwork Orange (1971); 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968); Othello (1965); Tamahine (1963); The Main Attraction (1962); Whistle Down the Wind (1961); The Singer Not the Song (1961); An heiligen Wassern (1960); North West Frontier (1959); A Night to Remember (1958); Violent Playground (1958); Checkpoint (1956); Tiger in the Smoke (1956); A Town Like Alice (1956); An Alligator Named Daisy (1955); Value for Money (1955); Simba (1955); Land of Fury (1954); Man with a Million (1954); Desperate Moment (1953); The Long Memory (1953); The Assassin (1952); The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men (1952); Easy Money (1948).

Born on this day – Les Blank:

Les Blank

Cinematographer

Director

Editor

Documentary filmmaker

November 27, 1935 – April 7, 2013

On this day in movie history - Network (1976)

Network

directed by Sidney Lumet,

written by Paddy Chayefsky,

was released in the United States on November 27, 1976.

Music by Elliot Lawrence.

Cast:

Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch, Robert Duvall, Wesley Addy, Ned Beatty, Arthur Burghardt, Bill Burrows, John Carpenter, Jordan Charney, Kathy Cronkite, Ed Crowley, Jerome Dempsey, Conchata Ferrell, Gene Gross, Stanley Grover, Cindy Grover, Darryl Hickman, Mitchell Jason, Paul Jenkins, Ken Kercheval, Kenneth Kimmins, Lynn Klugman, Carolyn Krigbaum, Zane Lasky, Michael Lipton, Michael Lombard, Pirie MacDonald, Russ Petranto, Bernard Pollock, Roy Poole, William Prince, Sasha von Scherler, Lane Smith, Ted Sorel, Beatrice Straight, Fred Stuthman, Cameron Thomas, Marlene Warfield, Lydia Wilen, Lee Richardson, Robert P. Cohen, Andrew Duncan, Todd Everett, John Gabriel, Tom Gibney, Lance Henriksen, Raymond Martino, John Pashley, Michael Tucker.

On this day in movie history - Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (1991)

Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse

directed by Fax Bahr, George Hickenlooper and Eleanor Coppola,

written by Fax Bahr and George Hickenlooper,

was released in the United States on November 27, 1991.

Music by Todd Boekelheide.

Documentary on the making of Apocalypse Now (1979), directed by Francis Ford Coppola.

Cast:

Francis Ford Coppola, Eleanor Coppola, Orson Welles, John Milius, George Lucas, Tom Sternberg, Sam Bottoms, Albert Hall, Frederic Forrest, Laurence Fishburne, Gian-Carlo Coppola, Roman Coppola, Sofia Coppola, Dean Tavoularis, Fred Roos, Martin Sheen, Vittorio Storaro, Robert Duvall, Rona Barrett, Tom Snyder, Monty Cox, Doug Claybourne, Dennis Hopper, Marlon Brando, Randy Carter, Robert De Niro, J. David Jones.

H. P. Lovecraft, on writing:

At night, when the objective world has slunk back into its cavern and left dreamers to their own, there come inspirations and capabilities impossible at any less magical and quiet hour.

No one knows whether or not he is a writer unless he has tried writing at night.

- H. P. Lovecraft.