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Albert Arnold "Buddy" Gillespie (October 14, 1899 – May 3, 1978) was an American cinema special effects artist.
He was born on October 14, 1899 in El Paso, Texas. Gillespie joined MGM as a set designer in 1925, a year after it was founded. He was educated at Columbia University and the Arts Students League. His first project was the silent film Ben-Hur, released that same year. He worked at the studio in various capacities until 1962. In 1936, he became the head of MGM's Special Effects Department.
He died on May 3, 1978 in Los Angeles, California.
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21 August 1939
Young Dorothy finds herself in a magical world where she makes friends with a lion, a scarecrow and a tin man as they make their way along the yellow brick road to talk with the Wizard and ask for the things they miss most in their lives.
18 November 1959
In ancient Judea, a Jewish aristocrat opposing Roman occupation of his homeland reunites with his childhood friend, now a Roman commander — setting in motion a saga of betrayal, adventure, tragedy, revenge, and faith.
19 November 1952
A man (Howard Keel), his wife (Jane Greer) and his famous-aviator ex-wife (Patricia Medina) search for their two children lost with a cougar.
14 November 1948
Ricardo, the milquetoast son of a Mexican bandit, would rather lead a quiet life in Boston. But the family would rather that he follow in his father's footsteps and become "The Kissing Bandit".
24 September 1923
Michael Ramsay only has time for gathering his fortune in wheat. His wife seeks comfort elsewhere and, to avoid a scandal, her daughter Matilda assumes her mother's guilt.
06 August 1959
Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.
01 April 1951
Kiplingesque tale of British forces in 19th-century India.
02 May 1952
A Montana lawyer gets distracted after moving to California with his wife and children.
02 November 1962
The epic tale of the development of the American West from the 1830s through the Civil War to the end of the century, as seen through the eyes of one pioneer family.
25 March 1950
Pirdy is accident prone. He has been denied insurance from every company in town because he is always getting hit or hurt in some way.
03 March 1954
Rose Marie Lemaitre, an orphan living in the Canadian wilderness, falls in love with her guardian, Mike Malone, an officer of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
23 December 1926
U.S. Marine Sergeant O'Hara has his hands full training raw recruits, one of whom, 'Skeets' Burns, is a particular thorn in his side.
13 February 1926
Two thieves, the Blackbird and West End Bertie, fall in love with the same girl, a French nightclub performer named Fifi.
17 July 1956
With socialite Tracy Lord about to remarry, her ex-husband - with the help of a sympathetic reporter - has 48 hours to convince her that she really still loves him.
08 May 1952
In 18th-century France, a young man masquerades as an actor to avenge his friend's murder.
15 November 1951
Two smart marketing people resurrect some old films starring cowboy Smoky Callaway and put them on television.
08 November 1951
After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lygia, he begins to question the tyrannical leadership of the despotic emperor Nero.
26 September 1956
An ambitious executive jeopardizes his career to marry a European refugee.
17 January 1957
Young convict Vince Everett, serving time for manslaughter, discovers his musical talent in prison and becomes a rock and roll star after his release, navigating fame and relationships.
06 October 1933
Story of South American mail pilots, and the dangers they face flying at night.
08 June 1934
American Civil War, 1862. After the disaster of the Second Battle of Bull Run, Major Allen, chief of the Secret Service of the Union, asks actress Gail Loveless to become one of his operators and infiltrate enemy territory.
08 November 1962
The Bounty leaves Portsmouth in 1787. Its destination: to sail to Tahiti and load bread-fruit. Captain Bligh will do anything to get there as fast as possible, using any means to keep up a strict discipline.
23 March 1956
Starship C57D travels to planet Altair 4 in search of the crew of spaceship "Bellerophon," a scientific expedition that has been missing for twenty years.
20 December 1950
Biography of celebrated American jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes.
07 December 1945
After a demonstration of new PT boats, Navy brass are still unconvinced of their viability in combat, leaving Lt.
20 March 1953
Melvin Hoover, a budding photographer for Look magazine, accidentally bumps into a young actress named Judy LeRoy in the park.
22 November 1935
Fletcher Christian successfully leads a revolt against the ruthless Captain Bligh on the HMS Bounty. However, Bligh returns one year later, hell bent on revenge.
18 November 1954
Reporter Charles Wills, in Paris to cover the end of World War II, falls for the beautiful Helen Ellswirth following a brief flirtation with her sister, Marion.
19 October 1951
The short-tempered manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates mends his ways in return for a little divine assistance.
25 December 1952
Told in flashback form, the film traces the rise and fall of a tough, ambitious Hollywood producer, Jonathan Shields, as seen through the eyes of various acquaintances, including a writer, James Lee Bartlow; a star, Georgia Lorrison; and a director, Fred Amiel.
19 March 1959
A young Venezuelan idealist flees his native land to escape a revolution. Hoping to find peace, he goes to the mountains and the forests of the Amazon.
22 July 1954
In 1850 Oregon, when a backwoodsman brings a wife home to his farm, his six brothers decide that they want to get married too.
03 July 1942
Middle-class housewife Kay Miniver deals with petty problems. She and her husband Clem watch her Oxford-educated son Vin court Carol Beldon, the charming granddaughter of the local nobility as represented by Lady Beldon.
03 March 1928
John, an ambitious but undisciplined New York City office worker, meets and marries Mary. They start a family, struggle to cope with marital stress, financial setbacks, and tragedy, all while lost amid the anonymous, pitiless throngs of the big city.
16 April 1934
Harry Holt returns to Africa with his friend Martin Arlington to head up a large ivory expedition.
28 November 1944
A year in the life of a turn-of-the-century middle class family, leading up to the opening of the 1904 St.
13 November 1953
In the South Pacific islands, two brothers, one good and one bad, fight over the same girl and over a bag of pearls.
18 January 1946
On a train trip out west to become a mail-order bride, Susan Bradley meets a cheery crew of young women traveling out to open a "Harvey House" restaurant at a remote whistle-stop.
25 December 1925
Erstwhile childhood friends, Judah Ben-Hur and Messala meet again as adults, this time with Roman officer Messala as conqueror and Judah as a wealthy, though conquered, Israelite.
11 August 1954
An inexperienced female teacher is hired at a private elite school for boys where she raises a few eyebrows among the all-male faculty.
18 February 1955
Rome is on the verge of being conquered by Hannibal. While Rome's ruler, Fabius Maximus, plots a defense against Hannibal's armies, Fabius' fiancée, Amytis, is curious about the fearless conqueror.
06 November 1926
Dolly Havens, a small-town girl with big-town ambitions that are larger than her talents, hooks up with Johnny Storm, a vaudeville performer, whose talents make the act a success.
25 April 1947
On America's frontier, a St. Louis woman marries a New Mexico cattleman who is seen as a tyrant by the locals.
31 August 1951
Drummer Stanley Maxton moves to Los Angeles with dreams of opening his own jazz club, but falls in with a gangster and a nightclub dancer and ends up accused of her murder.
30 August 1940
Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a twenty year period both love the same woman.
13 March 1926
A group of starving artists try to survive in 1830s Paris, including a seamstress and the would-be playwright she loves.
15 November 1956
Former radio singer Kay learns from her gossipy friends that her husband, Steve, has had an affair with chorus girl Crystal.
07 February 1962
In Argentina, one daughter of patriarch Madariaga is married to a Frenchman while the other is married to a German thus leading to a crisis when Nazi Germany occupies France and some Madariaga family members fight on opposite sides.
29 January 1952
A rich man buys a husband for his dying daughter and she finds out.
17 November 1949
A woman's attempted murder of her uncaring husband results in everyday quarrels in the lives of Adam and Amanda, a pair of happily married lawyers who end up on opposite sides of the case in court.
29 May 1953
The mother died under the executioner's axe; the daughter rose to become England's greatest monarch -- the brilliant and cunning Queen Elizabeth I.
03 April 1957
In this musical-comedy, Dean Martin plays an American hotel mogul who becomes smitten with a young Italian woman (Anna Maria Alberghetti) when buying a hotel in Rome.
01 December 1960
The epic story of a family involved in the Oklahoma Land Rush of April 22, 1889.
15 November 1944
In the wake of Pearl Harbor, a young lieutenant leaves his expectant wife to volunteer for a secret bombing mission which will take the war to the Japanese homeland.
25 December 1963
A group of Nobel laureates descends on Stockholm to accept their awards. Among them is American novelist Andrew Craig, a former literary luminary now writing pulp detective stories to earn a living.
17 July 1953
Two Mexican outlaws, Rio and Esqueda, raised as stepbrothers, have a showdown over the issue of whether to evict new settlers from their Texas border territory.
03 May 1961
A Greek Fisherman brings an Atlantean Princess back to her homeland which is the mythical city of Atlantis.
15 August 1952
A young man brings his pet lion with him when he's drafted into the U.S. Army.
23 June 1960
Ella Peterson works in the basement office of Susanswerphone, a telephone answering service. She listens in on others' lives and adds some interest to her own humdrum existence by adopting different identities for her clients.
01 March 1951
A tycoon rises to the top in 19th-century San Francisco through greed and corruption.
