William Sylvester Trailers
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William Sylvester (January 31, 1922 – January 25, 1995) was an American TV and film actor. His most famous film credit was Dr. Heywood Floyd in Stanley Kubrick's 2001 A Space Odyssey (1968). Born in Oakland, California and married at one time to the British actress Veronica Hurst, he moved to England after the Second World War and became a staple of British B films at a time when American and Canadian actors were much in demand in order to give indigenous films some appeal in the US.
As a result, he gained top billing in one of his very first films, House of Blackmail (1953), directed by the veteran filmmaker Maurice Elvey, for whom he also made What Every Woman Wants the following year. He also starred in such minor films as The Stranger Came Home (1954, for Hammer), Dublin Nightmare (1958), Offbeat (1960), Information Received (1961), Incident at Midnight, Ring of Spies and Blind Corner (all 1963). There were also lead roles in four British horror films: Gorgo (1960), Devil Doll (1963), Devils of Darkness (1964) and The Hand of Night (1966). Among his many TV credits were a 1959 BBC version of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar (playing Mark Antony), The Saint, The Baron, The High Chaparral, Harry O and The Six Million Dollar Man.
His later films included You Only Live Twice (1967) and, back in the USA after his prominent role for Kubrick, Busting (1973), The Hindenburg (1975) and Heaven Can Wait (1978). He died in Sacramento, California in 1995, aged 72.
Most Popular William Sylvester Trailers
Total trailers found: 37
02 April 1968
Humanity finds a mysterious object buried beneath the lunar surface and sets off to find its origins with the help of HAL 9000, the world's most advanced super computer.
16 September 1968
Two vehicles lurch across the east African bush, carrying an ill-assorted party of prospectors who have formed a syndicate to search for uranium deposits.
01 March 1959
The ex-girlfriend of a German fugitive hides with the captain and crew of a ship on the Rhine.
01 October 1958
Loot goes missing in robbery double-cross. Gang members, an ex-lover and a handsome stranger are left to sort it out.
25 December 1980
When the First Daughter is kidnapped by an African tribe, the President must do what he can to keep them from sacrificing her.
01 January 1964
Paul Gregory (William Sylvester) is an accomplished composer despite his blindness, and his beautiful wife Anne (Barbara Shelley) seems to be the perfect supporting wife.
13 June 1967
A mysterious spacecraft captures Russian and American space capsules and brings the two superpowers to the brink of war.
16 November 1995
The story of actor Roger Moore, including clips from his movies, television shows and interviews with the actor, his family and acquaintances.
24 September 1954
Someone knocked out a man and left him for dead during a fishing trip in Portugal. That someone is either his fetching wife, or two business partners, all sporting guilty faces after his unexpected return.
10 June 1954
Young couple Mark and Jane are forced to thrash out marital problems in a borrowed room in Jane’s parents’ tiny house.
30 April 1957
After returning home to a rugged island near Nova Scotia, Joanna, daughter of the local bigwig, struggles to choose between three eligible bachelors -- the rebel, the steadfast friend and the poetry-quoting newcomer.
01 August 1961
Drama of an underworld double-cross as a man and woman set a death trap from which only one could possibly escape.
27 February 1974
Defying orders to lay-off the case, two Los Angeles vice-squad cops go after a local mobster and use unorthodox methods to achieve results.
28 June 1978
Joe Pendleton is a quarterback preparing to lead his team to the superbowl when he is almost killed in an accident.
08 August 1968
Musical short, filmed for the abandoned portmanteau film Red, White and Zero (1967).
23 March 1964
The film is based on the actual events of the Portland Spy Ring trial in the U.K. A disgruntled Navy Clerk is transferred to a secret research establishment and is subsequently black-mailed/paid by Czech intelligence to procure secrets for them.
11 August 1968
A tourist travelling through Morocco discovers an ancient curse and must choose between light and dark.
01 January 1963
In a late night chemist a shot bank robber has been taken for treatment, and to rendezvous with the gang leader.
02 February 1961
When an underwater volcanic eruption tears up the sea bed off the coast of Ireland, two treasure hunters make the discovery of a lifetime when they encounter a gigantic prehistoric monster that’s been unleashed from the earth’s crust.
01 May 1965
A secret vampire cult, which has its headquarters beneath the town cemetery, searches for victims for its human sacrifice rituals.
29 November 1955
An actress and an artist are linked by his brother to deadly smugglers sought by Scotland Yard.
19 March 2013
Retrospective documentary on the making of Gorgo (1961).
25 December 1975
Colonel Franz Ritter, a former hero pilot now working for military intelligence, is assigned to the great Hindenburg airship as its chief of security.
13 July 1953
A blackmailer is murdered, and the police find that there is a long list of suspects who wanted to see him dead.
10 October 1973
A young couple inherits an old mansion inhabited by small demon-like creatures who are determined to make the wife one of their own.
01 January 1961
When Scotland Yard finds themselves up against a brick wall in tracking down a vicious gang of thieves and bank robbers, they call in Layton, a loner from MI5 to work his way into the gang and help bring them down.
10 October 1958
When a US Naval captain shows signs of mental instability that jeopardizes the ship, the first officer relieves him of command and faces court martial for mutiny.
01 September 1964
An evil hyponotist/ventriloquist plots to gain an heiress' millions.
10 February 1953
A young boy is blackmailed by a crook who saw him unwittingly cause his friend's death.
24 April 1950
The film begins in a WW II training depot of a British Guards armoured regiment where recruits from many walks of life learn to survive the strict discipline and training together before going into battle in tanks.
13 January 2001
The making of Stanley Kubrick's classic space epic, presented by James Cameron, including unseen footage.
23 November 1953
The British inmates of a POW camp think they have an informer among them after several escape attempts fail.
17 February 1953
Wing-commander Tim Mason leads a squadron of Lancaster bombers on almost nightly raids from England. Having flown eighty-seven missions he will shortly be retiring from flying, but the strain is showing.
14 October 1949
Exiled from Hollywood due to the blacklist, director Edward Dmytryk briefly operated in England in the late 1940s.
10 March 1970
Tony Petrocelli, a bright young lawyer practicing in the rich cattle town of Baker, becomes embroiled in a murder case.
01 January 1976
Agent Sam Casey is in a satellite explosion and the radiation turns him invisible. He gets a watch that keeps him visible, and he uses it to switch from visible to invisible.
20 February 1970
Racers compete in the Grand Prix.
