Carl Sklover

Known for Acting

9/1/1904

Vilna, Russian Empire [now Vilnius, Lithuania]

Biography

Carl Sklover (September 1, 1904 - April 23, 1999), born in Vilna, Russia as Calman Schimen Sklawer. He is known for his work on "Meet Danny Wilson (1952)", "Playgirl (1954)" and "Dragnet (1951)". He died on April 24, 1999 in Palm Springs, California, USA.

Known For (42 credits)

6.4

Movie

Batman

1966

The Dynamic Duo faces four super-villains who plan to hold the world for ransom with the help of a secret invention that instantly dehydrates people.

7.1

Movie

A Big Hand for the Little Lady

1966

A naive traveler in Laredo gets involved in a poker game between the richest men in the area, jeopardizing all the money he has saved for the purpose of settling with his wife and child in San Antonio.

6.2

Movie

The Wheeler Dealers

1963

Henry J. Tyroon leaves Texas, where his oil wells are drying up, and arrives in New York with a lot of oil money to play with in the stock market. He meets stock analyst Molly Thatcher, who tries to ignore the lavish attention he spends on her but, in the end, she falls for his charm.

5.2

Movie

Mary, Mary

1963

Sparks fly when a recently-divorced couple is forced back into proximity to sort out a tax matter.

6.0

Movie

The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond

1960

Jack Diamond and his sickly brother arrive in prohibition New York as jewelry thieves. After a spell in jail, the coldly ambitious Diamond hits on the idea of stealing from thieves himself and sets about getting close to gangster boss Arnold Rothstein to move in on his booze, girls, gambling, and drugs operations.

4.2

Movie

Attack of the Giant Leeches

1959

A backwoods game warden and a local doctor discover that giant leeches are responsible for disappearances and deaths in a local swamp, but the local police don't believe them.

8.1

Movie

Some Like It Hot

1959

Two musicians witness a mob hit and struggle to find a way out of the city before they are found by the gangsters. Their only opportunity is to join an all-girl band as they leave on a tour. To make their getaway they must first disguise themselves as women, then keep their identities secret and deal with the problems this brings - such as an attractive bandmate and a very determined suitor.

7.1

Movie

The Last Hurrah

1958

In a changing world where television has become the main source of information, Adam Caulfield, a young sports journalist, witnesses how his uncle, Frank Skeffington, a veteran and honest politician, mayor of a New England town, tries to be reelected while bankers and captains of industry conspire in the shadows to place a weak and manageable candidate in the city hall.

6.2

Movie

Marjorie Morningstar

1958

While working as a counselor at a summer camp, college-student Marjorie Morgenstern falls for 32-year-old Noel Airman, a would-be dramatist working at a nearby summer theater. Like Marjorie, he is an upper-middle-class New York Jew, but has fallen away from his roots, and Marjorie's parents object among other things to his lack of a suitable profession. Noel himself warns Marjorie repeatedly that she's much too naive and conventional for him, but they nonetheless fall in love.

7.4

Movie

An Affair to Remember

1957

A couple falls in love and agrees to meet in six months at the Empire State Building - but will it happen?

6.2

Movie

The Vampire

1957

A small town doctor mistakenly ingests an experimental drug made from the blood of vampire bats which transforms the kindly medic into a bloodthirsty monster.

4.7

Movie

The Girl in the Kremlin

1957

In Moscow 1953, four terrified women prisoners are brought before Joseph Stalin, who chooses the beautiful Dasha. He punishes her by shaving off her long hair. Moments later, a plastic surgeon leads Stalin into the operating room and transforms his face so that he is unrecognizable. He vanishes, but OSS agent Steve Anderson searches for him in Europe.