Rudy Behlmer - Actor Profile

Rudy Behlmer

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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.

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Complete Filmography & Verdicts

YearMovieCharacterRatingVerdict
2012 Singin' in the Rain: Raining on a New Generation Self ★ 7.0 HIT
2012 Casablanca: An Unlikely Classic Self ★ 6.5 HIT
2012 Michael Curtiz: The Greatest Director You Never Heard Of Self ★ 6.7 HIT
2010 Embracing Chaos: Making The African Queen Self ★ 7.0 HIT
2009 Victor Fleming: Master Craftsman Self ★ 7.5 HIT
2009 1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year Self ★ 7.5 HIT
2008 In the Beginning: Quo Vadis and the Genesis of the Biblical Epic Self ★ 6.0 FLOP
2008 Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film Self ★ 6.9 HIT
2008 The Ultimate Romance: The Making of 'Notorious' - ★ 0.0 FLOP
2008 Alfred Hitchcock: The Ultimate Spymaster Self ★ 0.0 FLOP
2008 The Making of 'Rebecca' Self ★ 0.0 FLOP
2008 RKO Production 601: The Making of “Kong, the Eighth Wonder of the World” Self ★ 0.0 FLOP
2008 A House of Secrets: Exploring 'Dragonwyck' Self ★ 7.7 HIT
2008 Killer Instincts: Richard Widmark and Ida Lupino at Twentieth Century Fox Self ★ 0.0 FLOP
2008 Guilt by Association: Psychoanalyzing 'Spellbound' Self ★ 0.0 FLOP
2008 Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood Self ★ 6.1 FLOP
2007 The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk Self ★ 7.0 HIT
2007 Becoming John Ford Self ★ 6.3 FLOP
2006 Robby the Robot: Engineering a Sci-Fi Icon Self ★ 7.0 HIT
2006 Amazing! Exploring the Far Reaches of Forbidden Planet Self ★ 4.5 FLOP
2006 The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird Self ★ 7.8 HIT
2006 Stagecoach: A Story of Redemption Self - Author, Film Historian ★ 0.0 FLOP
2006 Jezebel: Legend of the South Self ★ 7.0 HIT
2006 Bette and Joan: Blind Ambition Self ★ 6.7 HIT
2006 Censorship and Desire Self ★ 3.0 FLOP
2006 A Streetcar in Hollywood Self ★ 6.5 HIT
2006 A Streetcar on Broadway Self ★ 6.5 HIT
2005 William Powell: A True Gentleman - ★ 7.5 HIT
2005 The Music of 'Humoresque' Self ★ 0.0 FLOP
2005 Captain Blood: A Swashbuckler Is Born Self - Author & Film Historian ★ 6.5 HIT
2005 Elizabeth & Essex: Battle Royale Self ★ 9.0 HIT
2005 The Adventures of Errol Flynn Self - Author and Film Historian ★ 7.8 HIT
2005 Angels with Dirty Faces: Whaddya Hear? Whaddya Say? Self ★ 8.3 HIT
2004 Tarzan: Silver Screen King of the Jungle Self ★ 0.0 FLOP
2003 Discovering Treasure: The Story of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre' Self ★ 6.5 HIT
2003 The Making of 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea Self ★ 6.0 FLOP
2003 Welcome to Sherwood! The Story of 'The Adventures of Robin Hood' Self, Film Historian ★ 6.5 HIT
2002 The 'Frankenstein' Files: How Hollywood Made a Monster Self ★ 7.7 HIT
2002 What a Glorious Feeling: The Making of 'Singin' in the Rain' Self ★ 0.0 FLOP
2002 Cinerama Adventure Self ★ 7.6 HIT
2002 The Universe According to Universal Narrator ★ 5.0 FLOP
2000 The Fantasia Legacy: The Concert Feature Self ★ 8.0 HIT
2000 Backstory: 'All About Eve' Self ★ 0.0 FLOP
2000 Mummy Dearest: A Horror Tradition Unearthed Self - Host ★ 7.0 HIT
2000 Now You See Him: 'The Invisible Man' Revealed! Self - Host ★ 6.2 FLOP
2000 The Opera Ghost: A Phantom Unmasked Self ★ 8.0 HIT
1993 Jack L. Warner: The Last Mogul Self ★ 6.5 HIT
1993 Ben-Hur: The Making of an Epic Self - Film Historian ★ 7.4 HIT
1992 You Must Remember This: A Tribute to 'Casablanca' Self - Film Historian ★ 6.5 HIT
1991 Robin Hood: The Myth, the Man, the Movie Self ★ 6.0 FLOP