Actor
Rudy Behlmer
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. Selzn ...

Known For
Acting
2012 -- Singin' in the Rain: Raining on a New Generation | Self
2012 -- Casablanca: An Unlikely Classic | Self
2012 -- Michael Curtiz: The Greatest Director You Never Heard Of | Self
2010 -- Embracing Chaos: Making The African Queen | Self
2009 -- Victor Fleming: Master Craftsman | Self
2009 -- 1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year | Self
2008 -- In the Beginning: Quo Vadis and the Genesis of the Biblical Epic | Self
2008 -- Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film | Self
2008 -- The Making of 'Rebecca' | Self
2008 -- The Ultimate Romance: The Making of 'Notorious' |
2008 -- Alfred Hitchcock: The Ultimate Spymaster | Self
2008 -- A House of Secrets: Exploring 'Dragonwyck' | Self
2008 -- Killer Instincts: Richard Widmark and Ida Lupino at Twentieth Century Fox | Self
2008 -- Guilt by Association: Psychoanalyzing 'Spellbound' | Self
2008 -- Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood | Self
2007 -- The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk | Self
2007 -- Becoming John Ford | Self
2006 -- Amazing! Exploring the Far Reaches of Forbidden Planet | Self
2006 -- Robby the Robot: Engineering a Sci-Fi Icon | Self
2006 -- The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird | Self
2006 -- Stagecoach: A Story of Redemption | Self - Author, Film Historian
2006 -- Jezebel: Legend of the South | Self
2006 -- Censorship and Desire | Self
2006 -- Bette and Joan: Blind Ambition | Self
2006 -- A Streetcar in Hollywood | Self
2006 -- A Streetcar on Broadway | Self
2005 -- RKO Production 601: The Making of 'Kong, the Eighth Wonder of the World' |
2005 -- William Powell: A True Gentleman |
2005 -- The Music of 'Humoresque' | Self
2005 -- Captain Blood: A Swashbuckler Is Born | Self - Author & Film Historian
2005 -- Elizabeth & Essex: Battle Royale | Self
2005 -- The Adventures of Errol Flynn | Self - Author and Film Historian
2005 -- Angels with Dirty Faces: Whaddya Hear? Whaddya Say? | Self
2004 -- Tarzan: Silver Screen King of the Jungle | Self
2003 -- Discovering Treasure: The Story of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre' | Self
2003 -- The Making of 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea | Self
2003 -- Welcome to Sherwood! The Story of 'The Adventures of Robin Hood' | Self, Film Historian
2002 -- The 'Frankenstein' Files: How Hollywood Made a Monster | Self
2002 -- What a Glorious Feeling: The Making of 'Singin' in the Rain' | Self
2002 -- Cinerama Adventure | Self
2002 -- The Universe According to Universal | Narrator
2001 -- Celebrating Dumbo | Self
2001 -- Backstory: 'Gentleman's Agreement' | Self
2000 -- The Fantasia Legacy: The Concert Feature | Self
2000 -- Backstory: 'How Green Was My Valley' | Self
2000 -- Backstory: 'All About Eve' | Self
2000 -- Mummy Dearest: A Horror Tradition Unearthed | Self - Host
2000 -- Now You See Him: 'The Invisible Man' Revealed! | Self - Host
2000 -- The Opera Ghost: A Phantom Unmasked | Self
1993 -- Jack L. Warner: The Last Mogul | Self
1993 -- Ben-Hur: The Making of an Epic | Self - Film Historian
1992 -- King Kong 60th Anniversary Special: "It was beauty killed the beast." | Self
1992 -- You Must Remember This: A Tribute to 'Casablanca' | Self - Film Historian
1991 -- Robin Hood: The Myth, the Man, the Movie | Self
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