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“Black Sunday”

• In John Frankenheimer: The 1970s and ’80s

  …unstable Vietnam War veteran (Bruce Dern) who is involved in a plot to kill spectators during the Super Bowl; an Israeli officer (Robert Shaw) and an FBI agent (Fritz Weaver) try to foil the attack.

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“Castle Keep”

• In Sydney Pollack: Film directing

  …soldiers (including Peter Falk and Bruce Dern) who take refuge in a Belgian castle.

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“Cowboys, The”

• In Mark Rydell

  …they battle an outlaw (Bruce Dern). Rydell next directed Cinderella Liberty (1973), a bittersweet romantic drama about a sailor (James Caan) and a jaded prostitute (Marsha Mason, nominated for an Academy Award) who is raising a son. Harry and Walter Go to New York (1976) was a strained comedy…

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“King of Marvin Gardens, The”

• In Bob Rafelson: Films of the 1960s and early 1970s

  …in over his head (Bruce Dern), summons the other, a Philadelphia radio monologist (Nicholson). The King of Marvin Gardens, cowritten by Rafelson and Esquire magazine essayist Jackob Brackman and beautifully photographed by Laszlo Kovacs (also the cinematographer for Five Easy Pieces), was greeted with mixed reviews and fared poorly…

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relation to Laura Dern

• In Laura Dern: Family and early roles

  …noted actors Diane Ladd and Bruce Dern. Her parents divorced when she was a small child, and she was raised by her mother. Dern began her acting career with uncredited roles in movies that featured her mother (White Lightning [1973] and Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore [1974]). Her first credited…

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“Smile”

• In Michael Ritchie: Films

  Bruce Dern played a smarmy pageant judge, Barbara Feldon was a megalomaniacal director, and Michael Kidd was cast as an over-the-hill choreographer; Joan Prather, Melanie Griffith, and Annette O’Toole were notable as the contestants. Although the film initially failed to draw an audience, it later…

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