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Irving Pichel
24 June 1891
Irving Pichel played in 2 and created 6 movies in the Drama, History, Music, Comedy, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery genres.
Irving Pichel got succeed with average imdb rating 7.3.
Graduate of HarvardDiscovered actress 'Natalie Wood (I)' (qv)A close friend of playwright 'George S. Kaufman' (qv), Pichel also convinced veteran character actor 'Charles Lane (I)' (qv) to give acting a try. Together they went to Los Angeles and studied at the Pasadena Playhouse.Ethnic character villain in early pre-Code talkies who later moved into full-time directing for Twentieth Century-Fox. Pichel (last name pronounced "Pitch-ell" like "Mitchell") directed the sci-fi film _Destination Moon ... (1950)_ (qv), which won a "Best Crime or Adventure" award at the Berlin Film Festival and a special effects Oscar.Played Fagin in Monogram Pictures' low-budget version of 'Charles Dickens' (qv)' _Oliver Twist (1933)_ (qv). His reviews were mixed.He died suddenly in 1954, only a week after completing his last film as a director, _Day of Triumph (1954)_ (qv).Read more Less
