High Noon High Noon High Noon is a 1952 American Western film produced by Stanley Kramer from a screenplay by Carl Foreman, directed by Fred Zinnemann, and starring Gary Cooper. The plot, depicted in real time, centers around a town marshal who is torn between his sense of duty and love for his new bride and who must face a gang of killers alone. Though mired in controversy with political overtones at the time of its release, the film was nominated for seven Academy Awards and won four (Actor, Editing, Music-Score, and Music-Song) as well as four Golden Globe Awards (Actor, Supporting
Fred Sadoff Fred Sadoff Fred Sadoff (October 21, 1926 — May 6, 1994) was an American film, stage and television actor. Frederick Edward Sadoff was born in Brooklyn, New York to Henry and Bertha Sadoff; his older brothers Sidney and Robert were born years earlier. He got his start as an actor on Broadway in the late 1940s, appearing in "South Pacific" in the role of 'Professor'. A life member of The Actors Studio, Sadoff also appeared in "Camino Real" and "Wish You Were Here". In 1956, he became personal assistant to Michael Redgrave who starred in and directed a production of