What do Sergei Bondarchuk and James Cruze have in common?
was a silent film actor and film director
Sergei Bondarchuk James Cruze
Sono Art-World Wide Pictures was an American film distribution and production company that existed from 1927 to 1933.  Among their feature films was "The Great Gabbo" (1929) starring Erich von Stroheim and directed by James Cruze for James Cruze Productions, Inc.  One of the last films distributed by the company was "A Study in Scarlet" (1933) starring Reginald Owen as Sherlock Holmes.
Fate of a Man (Russian: Судьба человека , translit.   Sudba Cheloveka), also released as A Man's Destiny and Destiny of a Man is a 1959 Soviet film adaptation of the novel by Mikhail Sholokhov, and also the directorial debut of Sergei Bondarchuk.  In the year of its release it won the Grand Prize at the 1st Moscow International Film Festival; Bondarchuk would win again for the first part of his colossal adaption of Tolstoy's "War and Peace", titled "Andrei Bolkonsky", six years later.
She Got What She Wanted is an American Pre-Code early talking film comedy-drama directed by James Cruze and starring his actress wife Betty Compson.  The film was made for Tiffany Pictures with Cruze and Compson having recently completed "The Great Gabbo" (1929).
Sergei Fedorovich Bondarchuk (] ; Russian: Серге́й Фё́дорович Бондарчу́к ; Ukrainian: Сергі́й Фе́дорович Бондарчу́к, "Serhiy Fedorovych Bondarchuk"; 25 September 192020 October 1994) was a Soviet film director, screenwriter and actor.
Waking Up the Town is a 1925 American comedy silent film directed by James Cruze and written by Frank Condon and James Cruze.  The film stars Jack Pickford, Claire McDowell, Alec B. Francis, Norma Shearer and Herbert Prior.  The film was released on April 14, 1925, by United Artists.
Natalya Sergeyevna Bondarchuk (Russian: Наталья Серге́евна Бондарчук ) (born May 10, 1950) is a Soviet and Russian actress and film director, best known for her appearance in Andrei Tarkovsky's "Solaris" as "Hari".  She is the daughter of the Ukrainian director and actor Sergei Bondarchuk and the Russian actress Inna Makarova.  Her half-brother is the film director and actor Fedor Bondarchuk; her half-sister is the actress Yelena Bondarchuk.
Inna Vladimirovna Makarova (Russian: И́нна Влади́мировна Мака́рова ) (born July 28, 1926 in Tayga) is a Soviet Russian actress.  She grew up in Novosibirsk.  In 1948 she graduated from the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography in Moscow and began to work as an actress at the State Film Actor Theater (Государственный театр киноактёра ).  In 1949, she was awarded the Stalin Prize for her role as Lyubov Shertsova in Sergei Gerasimov's "The Young Guard".  In 1985, she was awarded the designation of People's Artist of the USSR.  Inna Makarova was married to Sergei Bondarchuk and is the mother of Natalya Bondarchuk.
James Cruze (March 27, 1884 near Ogden, Utah – August 3, 1942 in Hollywood, California) was a silent film actor and film director.
War and Peace (Russian: "Война и мир" , trans.  Voyna i mir) is a 1966-67 Soviet war drama film written and directed by Sergei Bondarchuk and a film adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's 1869 novel "War and Peace".  The film, released in four installments throughout 1966 and 1967, starred Bondarchuk in the leading role of Pierre Bezukhov, alongside Vyacheslav Tikhonov and Ludmila Savelyeva, who depicted Prince Andrei Bolkonsky and Natasha Rostova.
If I Had a Million is a 1932 American pre-Code Paramount Studios anthology film.  There were seven directors: Ernst Lubitsch, Norman Taurog, Stephen Roberts, Norman Z. McLeod, James Cruze, William A. Seiter, and H. Bruce Humberstone.  Lubitsch, Cruze, Seiter, and Humberstone were each responsible for a single vignette, Roberts and McLeod directed two each, and Taurog was in charge of the prologue and epilogue.  The screenplays were scripted by many different writers, with Joseph L. Mankiewicz making a large contribution.  "If I Had a Million" is based on a novel by Robert Hardy Andrews.
Sono Art-World Wide Pictures Fate of a Man She Got What She Wanted Sergei Bondarchuk Waking Up the Town Natalya Bondarchuk Inna Makarova James Cruze War and Peace (film series) If I Had a Million
Sono Art-World Wide Pictures was an American film distribution and production company that existed from 1927 to 1933.  Among their feature films was "The Great Gabbo" (1929) starring Erich von Stroheim and directed by James Cruze for James Cruze Productions, Inc.  One of the last films distributed by the company was "A Study in Scarlet" (1933) starring Reginald Owen as Sherlock Holmes.
Sono Art-World Wide Pictures
Fate of a Man (Russian: Судьба человека , translit.   Sudba Cheloveka), also released as A Man's Destiny and Destiny of a Man is a 1959 Soviet film adaptation of the novel by Mikhail Sholokhov, and also the directorial debut of Sergei Bondarchuk.  In the year of its release it won the Grand Prize at the 1st Moscow International Film Festival; Bondarchuk would win again for the first part of his colossal adaption of Tolstoy's "War and Peace", titled "Andrei Bolkonsky", six years later.
Fate of a Man
She Got What She Wanted is an American Pre-Code early talking film comedy-drama directed by James Cruze and starring his actress wife Betty Compson.  The film was made for Tiffany Pictures with Cruze and Compson having recently completed "The Great Gabbo" (1929).
She Got What She Wanted
Sergei Fedorovich Bondarchuk (] ; Russian: Серге́й Фё́дорович Бондарчу́к ; Ukrainian: Сергі́й Фе́дорович Бондарчу́к, "Serhiy Fedorovych Bondarchuk"; 25 September 192020 October 1994) was a Soviet film director, screenwriter and actor.
Sergei Bondarchuk
Waking Up the Town is a 1925 American comedy silent film directed by James Cruze and written by Frank Condon and James Cruze.  The film stars Jack Pickford, Claire McDowell, Alec B. Francis, Norma Shearer and Herbert Prior.  The film was released on April 14, 1925, by United Artists.
Waking Up the Town
Natalya Sergeyevna Bondarchuk (Russian: Наталья Серге́евна Бондарчук ) (born May 10, 1950) is a Soviet and Russian actress and film director, best known for her appearance in Andrei Tarkovsky's "Solaris" as "Hari".  She is the daughter of the Ukrainian director and actor Sergei Bondarchuk and the Russian actress Inna Makarova.  Her half-brother is the film director and actor Fedor Bondarchuk; her half-sister is the actress Yelena Bondarchuk.
Natalya Bondarchuk
Inna Vladimirovna Makarova (Russian: И́нна Влади́мировна Мака́рова ) (born July 28, 1926 in Tayga) is a Soviet Russian actress.  She grew up in Novosibirsk.  In 1948 she graduated from the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography in Moscow and began to work as an actress at the State Film Actor Theater (Государственный театр киноактёра ).  In 1949, she was awarded the Stalin Prize for her role as Lyubov Shertsova in Sergei Gerasimov's "The Young Guard".  In 1985, she was awarded the designation of People's Artist of the USSR.  Inna Makarova was married to Sergei Bondarchuk and is the mother of Natalya Bondarchuk.
Inna Makarova
James Cruze (March 27, 1884 near Ogden, Utah – August 3, 1942 in Hollywood, California) was a silent film actor and film director.
James Cruze
War and Peace (Russian: "Война и мир" , trans.  Voyna i mir) is a 1966-67 Soviet war drama film written and directed by Sergei Bondarchuk and a film adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's 1869 novel "War and Peace".  The film, released in four installments throughout 1966 and 1967, starred Bondarchuk in the leading role of Pierre Bezukhov, alongside Vyacheslav Tikhonov and Ludmila Savelyeva, who depicted Prince Andrei Bolkonsky and Natasha Rostova.
War and Peace (film series)
If I Had a Million is a 1932 American pre-Code Paramount Studios anthology film.  There were seven directors: Ernst Lubitsch, Norman Taurog, Stephen Roberts, Norman Z. McLeod, James Cruze, William A. Seiter, and H. Bruce Humberstone.  Lubitsch, Cruze, Seiter, and Humberstone were each responsible for a single vignette, Roberts and McLeod directed two each, and Taurog was in charge of the prologue and epilogue.  The screenplays were scripted by many different writers, with Joseph L. Mankiewicz making a large contribution.  "If I Had a Million" is based on a novel by Robert Hardy Andrews.
If I Had a Million
What do Sergei Bondarchuk and James Cruze have in common?
What do Sergei Bondarchuk and James Cruze have in common?