Rudy Behlmer

Rudy Behlmer

Birthday: 1926-10-13

Deathday: 2019-09-27

Place of birth: San Francisco, California, USA

Also known as: Rudolph Herman Behlmer, Rudy Behlmar

imdb_id: nm0066935

Biography:

Rudy Behlmer (October 13, 1926 – September 27, 2019) was an American film historian and writer. He was an expert in the history and evolution of the motion picture industry. Behlmer began his career with KLAC-TV in Hollywood as a stage manager. At the beginning of the 1960s, Behlmer started researching and writing articles on various aspects of film history. One such project, a career piece on film producer David O. Selznick (Gone with the Wind, Rebecca), led to his book Memo from David O. Selznick (1972). It was followed by nine other books as well as numerous magazine articles and film music recording booklets. Behlmer also contributed to a wide variety of works about the Golden Age of Hollywood.

Played in movies:

Elizabeth & Essex: Battle Royale

Score: 9.0

Angels with Dirty Faces: Whaddya Hear? Whaddya Say?

Score: 8.3

The Fantasia Legacy: The Concert Feature

Score: 8.0

A House of Secrets: Exploring 'Dragonwyck'

Score: 8.0

The Opera Ghost: A Phantom Unmasked

Score: 8.0

The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird

Score: 7.8

The Adventures of Errol Flynn

Score: 7.8

The 'Frankenstein' Files: How Hollywood Made a Monster

Score: 7.7

Cinerama Adventure

Score: 7.6

1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year

Score: 7.5

Victor Fleming: Master Craftsman

Score: 7.5

William Powell: A True Gentleman

Score: 7.5

Ben-Hur: The Making of an Epic

Score: 7.4

Bette and Joan: Blind Ambition

Score: 7.0

Michael Curtiz: The Greatest Director You Never Heard Of

Score: 7.0

Singin' in the Rain: Raining on a New Generation

Score: 7.0

The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk

Score: 7.0

Robby the Robot: Engineering a Sci-Fi Icon

Score: 7.0

Mummy Dearest: A Horror Tradition Unearthed

Score: 7.0

Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film

Score: 6.9

Embracing Chaos: Making The African Queen

Score: 6.7

A Streetcar on Broadway

Score: 6.5

A Streetcar in Hollywood

Score: 6.5

Jack L. Warner: The Last Mogul

Score: 6.5

Casablanca: An Unlikely Classic

Score: 6.5

Captain Blood: A Swashbuckler Is Born

Score: 6.5

Discovering Treasure: The Story of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'

Score: 6.5

Welcome to Sherwood! The Story of 'The Adventures of Robin Hood'

Score: 6.5

You Must Remember This: A Tribute to 'Casablanca'

Score: 6.5

Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood

Score: 6.4

Becoming John Ford

Score: 6.3

Now You See Him: 'The Invisible Man' Revealed!

Score: 6.2

The Making of 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea

Score: 6.0

In the Beginning: Quo Vadis and the Genesis of the Biblical Epic

Score: 6.0

Robin Hood: The Myth, the Man, the Movie

Score: 6.0

The Universe According to Universal

Score: 5.0

Amazing! Exploring the Far Reaches of Forbidden Planet

Score: 4.5

Celebrating Dumbo

Score: 0.0

Backstory: 'How Green Was My Valley'

Score: 0.0

Backstory: 'Gentleman's Agreement'

Score: 0.0

King Kong 60th Anniversary Special: "It was beauty killed the beast."

Score: 0.0

Backstory: 'All About Eve'

Score: 0.0

Tarzan: Silver Screen King of the Jungle

Score: 0.0

The Making of 'Rebecca'

Score: 0.0

Guilt by Association: Psychoanalyzing 'Spellbound'

Score: 0.0

The Ultimate Romance: The Making of 'Notorious'

Score: 0.0

Alfred Hitchcock: The Ultimate Spymaster

Score: 0.0

What a Glorious Feeling: The Making of 'Singin' in the Rain'

Score: 0.0

The Music of 'Humoresque'

Score: 0.0

Killer Instincts: Richard Widmark and Ida Lupino at Twentieth Century Fox

Score: 0.0

Stagecoach: A Story of Redemption

Score: 0.0

Jezebel: Legend of the South

Score: 0.0

RKO Production 601: The Making of “Kong, the Eighth Wonder of the World”

Score: 0.0

Censorship and Desire

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

The Dick Cavett Show

Score: 6.8