Occasionally, as in DeMille's The Greatest Show on Earth, Wilde stood out. In spite of an early Academy Award nomination for best actor in A Song to Remember, Cornel Wilde has been remembered as a reliable masculine presence in a series of half-remembered films. Krohn, B., "Cornel Wilde, cinéaste," in Cahiers du Cinéma (Paris), December 1989.īrock, A., "Cornel Wilde-My Good Hungarian Friend," in Classic Images (Muscatine), April 1992.Ītkinson, Michael, "Naked Prey," in Film Comment (New York), November-December 1996. Obituary in Variety (New York), 18 October 1989. On WILDE: articles-Ĭoen, John, "Producer-Director Cornel Wilde," in Film Comment (New York), spring 1970. Richards, Jeffrey, Swordsmen of the Screen: From Douglas Fairbanks to Michael York, London, 1977. Stanke, The Swashbucklers, New Rochelle, New York, 1976. Interview in Film Reader (Evanston, Illinois), no. "Survival!," interview in Films and Filming (London), October 1970. Lancelot and Guinevere ( Sword of Lancelot) (+ ro as Lancelot) 1966īeach Red (+ ro as Captain MacDonald) Publications By WILDE: articles. Storm Fear (+ ro as Charlie) The Devil's Hairpin (+ ro as Nick Jargin) 1958 Shark's Treasure (+ d, sc, ro as Jim) Films as Director: 1956 No Blade of Grass (+ d, ro as narrator) 1975 The Big Combo (Lewis) (+ ro as Diamond) 1970 The Fifth Musketeer (Annakin) (as D'Artagnan, + co-sc) 1985įlesh and Bullets (Tobalina) Films as Producer: 1955 Gargoyles (Norton-for TV) (as Mercer Boley) 1978 The Comic (Reiner and Ruben) (as Frank Powers) 1971 Omar Khayyam (Dieterle) (title role) Beyond Mombasa (Marshall) (as Matt Campbell) 1959Įdge of Eternity (Siegel) (as Lee Martin) 1962Ĭonstantine the Great ( Constantine and the Cross) (De Felice) (title role) 1969 The Scarlet Coat (Sturges) (as Major John Bolton) 1956 Passion (Dwan) (as Jean Obregon) Woman's World (Negulesco) (as Bill Baxter) 1955 Saadia (Lewin) (as Si Lahssen) Treasure of the Golden Condor (Daves) (as Jean-Paul) Main Street to Broadway (Garnett) (as himself) Star of India (Lewin) (as Pierre St. Two Flags West (Wise) (as Captain Mark Bradford) 1952Īt Sword's Point ( Sons of the Musketeers) (Allen) (as D'Artagnan) The Greatest Show on Earth (DeMille) (as Sebastian) Operation Secret (Seiler) (as Peter Forrester) California Conquest (Landers) (as Don Arturo Bordega) 1953 Road House (Negulesco) (as Pete Morgan) The Walls of Jericho (Stahl) (as Dave Connors) 1949įour Days Leave (Lindtberg) (as Stanley Robin) Shockproof (Sirk) (as Griff Marat) 1950 The Bandit of Sherwood Forest (Sherman) (as Robin Hood) Centennial Summer (Preminger) (as Philippe Lascalles) 1947įorever Amber (Preminger) (as Bruce Carlton) It Had to Be You (Maté and Hartman) (as George/Johnny Blaine) Stairway for a Star (as Jimmy Banks) The Homestretch (Humberstone) (as Jock Wallace) 1948 Guest in the House (Brahm) Wintertime (Brahm) (as Freddie Austin) 1945Ī Thousand and One Nights (Green) (as Aladdin) A Song to Remember (Vidor) (as Chopin) Leave Her to Heaven (Stahl) (as Richard Harland) 1946 Right to the Heart ( Knockout) (Clemens) Life Begins at 8:30 (Pichel) (as Robert) Manila Calling (Leeds) (as Jeff Bailey) 1943 High Sierra (Walsh) Kisses for Breakfast (Seiler) (as Chet Oakley) The Perfect Snob (McCarey) (as Mike Lord) 1942 The Lady with Red Hair (Bernhardt) (bit role) 1941 Died: Of leukemia, in Los Angeles, 16 October 1989. Olympic training squad in saber on stage in New York: debut in Moon over Mulberry Street, and in Olivier and Leigh's Romeo and Juliet on Broadway film debut in The Lady with Red Hair: short contract with Warner Brothers then contract with 20th Century-Fox 1945-role in A Song to Remember brought national popularity and leading man status 1955-formed Theodora Productions first film directed was Storm Fear, 1956. Family: Married 1) the actress Patricia Knight, 1938 (divorced 1951), one daughter 2) the actress Jean Wallace, 1951 (divorced 1980), one son. Education: Attended Townsend Harris High School, New York studied art in Budapest attended Columbia University, New York, briefly College of the City of New York, premed degree studied acting with Lee Strasberg. Born: Cornelius Louis Wilde in New York City, 13 October 1915.
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