Roy Dana (R.D.) Call, an actor who appeared in such films as “Last Man Standing,” “Born on the Fourth of July” and several other films alongside Sean Penn, died on Feb. 27 of back surgery complications, his family announced. He was 70.
The Utah native was born Feb. 16, 1950 and came to Los Angeles in 1975 to pursue his career in acting, attending Lee Strasberg Acting School and Lonny Chapman’s L.A. Repertory Theater Group. His first major television performance was in the drama “Barnaby Jones,” episodes of which were directed by Leo Penn, Sean Penn’s father. He went on to appear on “The X-Files,” “Little House on the Prairie,” “V” and “Trapper John M.D,” and had a recurring role in Stephen King’s “Golden Years.”
Call acted alongside Penn in seven films that began with “At Close Range” in 1986, followed by “Colors,” “State of Grace,” “The Weight of Water,...
The Utah native was born Feb. 16, 1950 and came to Los Angeles in 1975 to pursue his career in acting, attending Lee Strasberg Acting School and Lonny Chapman’s L.A. Repertory Theater Group. His first major television performance was in the drama “Barnaby Jones,” episodes of which were directed by Leo Penn, Sean Penn’s father. He went on to appear on “The X-Files,” “Little House on the Prairie,” “V” and “Trapper John M.D,” and had a recurring role in Stephen King’s “Golden Years.”
Call acted alongside Penn in seven films that began with “At Close Range” in 1986, followed by “Colors,” “State of Grace,” “The Weight of Water,...
- 3/10/2020
- by Klaritza Rico
- Variety Film + TV
It's alive! It's. Alive! North Hollywood Theatre breathes life into George A. Romero's classic Night of the Living Dead. Continue reading for details on the cast as well as the stage production's start date. Also in today's Horror Highlights: The Fetch Wilson's premiere at London Horror Festival, Black Wood casting details, and The Cleansing Hour images, trailer, and info.
Details on Night of the Living Dead at the North Hollywood Theatre: "North Hollywood Theatre Brings New Adaptation Of George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead To The Stage.
The Group Rep is proud to present George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead, adapted for the stage by filmmaker Gus Krieger, directed by Drina Durazo, produced by Larry Eisenberg, October 4 through November 10, on the Main Stage of the Lonny Chapman Theatre in North Hollywood, California.
In Night of the Living Dead, as a mysterious pandemic emerges and quickly spreads,...
Details on Night of the Living Dead at the North Hollywood Theatre: "North Hollywood Theatre Brings New Adaptation Of George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead To The Stage.
The Group Rep is proud to present George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead, adapted for the stage by filmmaker Gus Krieger, directed by Drina Durazo, produced by Larry Eisenberg, October 4 through November 10, on the Main Stage of the Lonny Chapman Theatre in North Hollywood, California.
In Night of the Living Dead, as a mysterious pandemic emerges and quickly spreads,...
- 10/1/2019
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
Tony Richardson’s look at corruption in the border patrol service is both sensational and insightful, and Jack Nicholson gives a committed performance as a downtrodden functionary who finds himself in a major moral and humanitarian catastrophe. The problem is still there today, with no consensus on the right diagnosis or solution. The action melodrama costars Harvey Keitel & Valerie Perrine, and introduces (to the U.S.) the impressive Elpidia Carrillo.
The Border (1982)
Region B Blu-ray
Indicator
1982 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 108 min. / Street Date January 22, 2018 / available from Powerhouse Films UK / £14.99
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Harvey Keitel, Valerie Perrine, Warren Oates, Elpidia Carrillo, Shannon Wilcox, Manuel Viescas, Jeff Morris, Lonny Chapman, Alan Fudge.
Cinematography: Ric Waite, Vilmos Zsigmond
Film Editor: Robert K. Lambert
Original Music: Ry Cooder
Written by Deric Washburn, Walon Green, David Freeman
Produced by Edgar Bronfman Jr.
Directed by Tony Richardson
It’s no surprise that Tony Richardson’s 1982 The Border is indeed more relevant now,...
The Border (1982)
Region B Blu-ray
Indicator
1982 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 108 min. / Street Date January 22, 2018 / available from Powerhouse Films UK / £14.99
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Harvey Keitel, Valerie Perrine, Warren Oates, Elpidia Carrillo, Shannon Wilcox, Manuel Viescas, Jeff Morris, Lonny Chapman, Alan Fudge.
Cinematography: Ric Waite, Vilmos Zsigmond
Film Editor: Robert K. Lambert
Original Music: Ry Cooder
Written by Deric Washburn, Walon Green, David Freeman
Produced by Edgar Bronfman Jr.
Directed by Tony Richardson
It’s no surprise that Tony Richardson’s 1982 The Border is indeed more relevant now,...
- 2/9/2018
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
It’s the one saga of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral that puts Western legend into proper perspective as to the nature of money, power and the law: Edward Anhalt’s vision is of a gangland turf war with sagebrush and whiskey bottles. James Garner is a humorless Wyatt Earp, matched by Jason Robards’ excellent Doc Holliday. It’s one of John Sturges’ best movies.
Hour of the Gun
Blu-ray
Twilight Time
1967 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 101 min. / Street Date September 19, 2017 / Available from the Twilight Time Movies Store 29.95
Starring: James Garner, Jason Robards, Robert Ryan, Albert Salmi, Charles Aidman, Steve Ihnat, Michael Tolan, William Windom, Lonny Chapman, Larry Gates, William Schallert, Jon Voight.
Cinematography: Lucien Ballard
Art Direction: Alfred C. Ybarra
Film Editor: Ferris Webster
Original Music: Jerry Goldsmith
Written by Edward Anhalt
Produced and Directed by John Sturges
Producer-director John Sturges’ Hour of the Gun was a dismal non-performer in...
Hour of the Gun
Blu-ray
Twilight Time
1967 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 101 min. / Street Date September 19, 2017 / Available from the Twilight Time Movies Store 29.95
Starring: James Garner, Jason Robards, Robert Ryan, Albert Salmi, Charles Aidman, Steve Ihnat, Michael Tolan, William Windom, Lonny Chapman, Larry Gates, William Schallert, Jon Voight.
Cinematography: Lucien Ballard
Art Direction: Alfred C. Ybarra
Film Editor: Ferris Webster
Original Music: Jerry Goldsmith
Written by Edward Anhalt
Produced and Directed by John Sturges
Producer-director John Sturges’ Hour of the Gun was a dismal non-performer in...
- 9/19/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Steve McQueen spent most of the 1960s avoiding lightweight movie roles -- only to do well with his winning comedy-drama performance in William Faulkner's most cheerful tale of old Mississippi. Get set for music by John Williams and an exciting climactic horse race. In storytelling terms this show would seem to have given Steven Spielberg a few ideas. The Reivers Blu-ray Kl Studio Classics 1969 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 106 min. / Street Date August 25, 2015 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95 Starring Steve McQueen, Rupert Crosse, Mitch Vogel, Sharon Farrell, Will Geer, Ruth White, Michael Constantine, Clifton James, Juano Hernandez, Lonny Chapman, Diane Ladd, Ellen Geer, Dub Taylor, Allyn Ann McLerie, Charles Tyner, Burgess Meredith. Cinematography Richard Moore Film Editor Thomas Stanford Original Music John Williams Written by Irving Ravetch, Harriet Frank Jr. from the book by William Faulkner Produced by Irving Ravetch, Robert Relyea Directed by Mark Rydell
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
What? This...
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
What? This...
- 9/15/2015
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
This week’s DVD and Blu-Ray Releases include a couple of films from the After Dark Horrorfest as well as two of Ron Howard’s earlier films and a Blu-Ray edition of Solaris. Check beyond the break for the full list.
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Death Hunter: Werewolves vs. Vampires
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In a forgotten region of the desert, an unspeakable evil exists. By no choice of his own, John Croix...
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In a forgotten region of the desert, an unspeakable evil exists. By no choice of his own, John Croix...
- 5/24/2011
- by Andy Triefenbach
- Destroy the Brain
Listings compiled by Jessica Gardner and Pete KeeleyDEFINITIONS:Membership: Theater maintains an active company or ensemble of actors and generally casts productions from that pool.Open: Each show is cast on an open basis.Limited: Theater casts on an open policy under limited or special circumstances, usually when a part cannot be cast from existing company members.Key To Symbols & Abbreviations: R: Theater is available for rent. R-va: Rental with variable availability. H&R: Headshots and résumés accepted. M: Accepts manuscripts. Include self-addressed, stamped envelope. W: Workshops or classes offered. D: Charges dues.Note: The following sets of listings comprise theater venues and producing companies; often these are one and the same and are listed as such. Producing companies not exclusively associated with any particular venue are included in the "Independent Theatre Companies" listing on page 18. Affiliated companies are listed in parentheses.More Than 499 Seatsahmanson THEATRE135 N. Grand Ave.Los Angeles,...
- 11/24/2010
- backstage.com
A Christmas Carol, based on Charles Dickens' classic Christmas story, written by Richard Hellesen, music & lyrics by David De Berry, directed by Ernest A. Figueroa will have its Los Angeles Premiere and opening, Saturday, November 28, 7:30 pm, at the Lonny Chapman Theatre in North Hollywood. The musical plays Fridays, Saturdays, & Sundays 7:30 pm, with a Sunday matinee at 2:00 pm, through December 20, 2009.
- 11/28/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
Veteran character actor Lonny Chapman has died of heart disease. He was 87. Chapman, who appeared in movies including Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, Woody Allen's Take The Money And Run and disaster film Earthquake, passed away on October 12 in North Hollywood, California. Chapman made his television debut in Captain Video in 1949, the same year he first appeared on the Broadway stage in The Closing Door, directed by Lee Strasberg. His last movie role was in 2003's The Hunted. For the last 34 years, Chapman was artistic director of the Lonny Chapman Theater in Los Angeles. He is survived by his wife Erma and a son.
- 10/25/2007
- WENN
"Nightwatch" is a serviceable serial-killer-themed mystery that will give some audience members a dose of the heebie-jeebies. But the Dimension Films release won't draw crowds for long, with video and cable releases perhaps showing a little more life.
Set primarily in a morgue that is all but haunted by ghosts at night, Danish writer-director Ole Bornedal's American feature debut boasts once and future star Ewan McGregor as the proverbial patsy under the nose of a devious sociopath.
Based on Bornedal's 1995 film "Nattevagten", a boxoffice hit in Denmark, "Nightwatch" is a moody, atmospheric shocker with a morbid appetite for bloody details about stiffs. But there's not much of a plot, and the material is not as challenging or unsettling as another European chiller, George Sluizer's "The Vanishing" (1988), which unfortunately lost a lot of its impact when remade in Hollywood by its original director.
A serious law student in need of an income, Martin (McGregor) is involved with a nice girl (Patricia Arquette), but his best friend James (Josh Brolin) is borderline demonic in his misanthropic outlook and loathsome behavior. An emotionally numb manipulator and player of dangerous games, James is the primary suspect when Martin is drawn into the mystery surrounding a serial killer who murders prostitutes and cuts out their eyes.
The film is strongest when Martin first starts working at the morgue, with every sound and dark corner keeping the affable Young Turk on edge. Lonny Chapman is marvelously demented as the old watchman Martin replaces, and such devices as an alarm that should never go off lead to a few crowd-pleasing frights.
On the trail of the serial killer is somber Inspector Cray (Nick Nolte), who becomes Martin's pal and then problem. A ghoulish veteran with a cool demeanor and theory that the fiend wants to be caught, Cray lets loose with a creepy monologue while examining a victim's body. But it's James who really draws attention to himself by introducing Martin to Joyce (Alix Koromzay), a prostitute he has gotten to know.
James, who also has an amiable girlfriend (Lauren Graham), is a devious, unhealthy person, and he sets up Martin and Joyce at a restaurant with her instructions to get to work right away. Mostly an eager Boy Scout with bad judgment, Martin puts up with such unsociable antics and more serious tomfoolery like a switching of names that helps set up his swift downfall.
The energetic performances by McGregor and Brolin keep the film on track, while Richard Hoover's production design and Dan Laustsen's widescreen cinematography are exemplary for a fairly ordinary genre rehash.
NIGHTWATCH
Dimension Films
A Michael Obel production
A Bornedal film
Writer-director: Ole Bornedal
Producer: Michael Obel
Executive producers: Bob Weinstein,
Harvey Weinstein, Cary Granat
Director of photography: Dan Laustsen
Production designer: Richard Hoover
Editor: Kant Pan
Costume designer: Louise Mingenbach
Casting: Rick Pagano
Color/stereo
Cast:
Martin: Ewan McGregor
Inspector Cray: Nick Nolte
Katherine: Patricia Arquette
James: Josh Brolin
Marie: Lauren Graham
Joyce: Alix Koromzay
Old Watchman: Lonny Chapman
Running time -- 101 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
Set primarily in a morgue that is all but haunted by ghosts at night, Danish writer-director Ole Bornedal's American feature debut boasts once and future star Ewan McGregor as the proverbial patsy under the nose of a devious sociopath.
Based on Bornedal's 1995 film "Nattevagten", a boxoffice hit in Denmark, "Nightwatch" is a moody, atmospheric shocker with a morbid appetite for bloody details about stiffs. But there's not much of a plot, and the material is not as challenging or unsettling as another European chiller, George Sluizer's "The Vanishing" (1988), which unfortunately lost a lot of its impact when remade in Hollywood by its original director.
A serious law student in need of an income, Martin (McGregor) is involved with a nice girl (Patricia Arquette), but his best friend James (Josh Brolin) is borderline demonic in his misanthropic outlook and loathsome behavior. An emotionally numb manipulator and player of dangerous games, James is the primary suspect when Martin is drawn into the mystery surrounding a serial killer who murders prostitutes and cuts out their eyes.
The film is strongest when Martin first starts working at the morgue, with every sound and dark corner keeping the affable Young Turk on edge. Lonny Chapman is marvelously demented as the old watchman Martin replaces, and such devices as an alarm that should never go off lead to a few crowd-pleasing frights.
On the trail of the serial killer is somber Inspector Cray (Nick Nolte), who becomes Martin's pal and then problem. A ghoulish veteran with a cool demeanor and theory that the fiend wants to be caught, Cray lets loose with a creepy monologue while examining a victim's body. But it's James who really draws attention to himself by introducing Martin to Joyce (Alix Koromzay), a prostitute he has gotten to know.
James, who also has an amiable girlfriend (Lauren Graham), is a devious, unhealthy person, and he sets up Martin and Joyce at a restaurant with her instructions to get to work right away. Mostly an eager Boy Scout with bad judgment, Martin puts up with such unsociable antics and more serious tomfoolery like a switching of names that helps set up his swift downfall.
The energetic performances by McGregor and Brolin keep the film on track, while Richard Hoover's production design and Dan Laustsen's widescreen cinematography are exemplary for a fairly ordinary genre rehash.
NIGHTWATCH
Dimension Films
A Michael Obel production
A Bornedal film
Writer-director: Ole Bornedal
Producer: Michael Obel
Executive producers: Bob Weinstein,
Harvey Weinstein, Cary Granat
Director of photography: Dan Laustsen
Production designer: Richard Hoover
Editor: Kant Pan
Costume designer: Louise Mingenbach
Casting: Rick Pagano
Color/stereo
Cast:
Martin: Ewan McGregor
Inspector Cray: Nick Nolte
Katherine: Patricia Arquette
James: Josh Brolin
Marie: Lauren Graham
Joyce: Alix Koromzay
Old Watchman: Lonny Chapman
Running time -- 101 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
- 4/13/1998
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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