Irving Pichel

Known for Acting

6/24/1891

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Irving Pichel (June 24, 1891 – July 13, 1954) was an American actor and film director. He married Violette Wilson, daughter of Jackson Stitt Wilson, a Methodist minister and Socialist mayor of Berkeley, California. Her sister was actress Viola Barry. The Pichels had three sons, Pichel Wilson, Julian Irving, and Marlowe Agnew. Description above from the Wikipedia article Irving Pichel, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For (74 credits)

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Martin Luther

1953

A biopic of Martin Luther, covering his life between 1505 and 1530, and the birth of the Protestant Reformation movement.

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The High Wall

1952

Film produced for a coalition of public service groups to combat racial and ethnic hatred. The narrative follows an emotionally insecure Chicago teenager whose bigoted thinking leads him to violence. Explores how prejudices are passed like "a contagious disease" from parent to child, teacher to pupils, and youth to youth, and suggests strategies for breaking the cycle.

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This Is Korea!

1951

John Ford's documentary about the early battles of the Korean War, shot in color.

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Santa Fe

1951

After their service in the Civil War, four brothers go their separate ways, but later find themselves on opposite sides of a final showdown.

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The Maya Through the Ages

1950

Documentary on the Mayan culture.

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Destination Moon

1950

A team composed of an aerospace scientist, an ex-Air Force general, and an industrialist conceives an ambitious plan to land Americans on the moon. From their base in the Mojave Desert, they construct and successfully launch a spacecraft named "Luna" that contains a cargo of four astronauts. But a critical miscalculation of needed power to escape the moon's gravitational pull may put the astronauts' lives in danger.

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The Great Rupert

1950

Shortly before Christmas, a family moves into an apartment where Rupert the squirrel lives in the attic rafters. Just as it seems that the holiday will come and go without so much as a Christmas tree, Rupert acts as the family's guardian angel - not only saving Christmas, but changing their lives forever.

6.9

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She Wore a Yellow Ribbon

1949

On the eve of retirement, Captain Nathan Brittles takes out a last patrol to stop an impending massive Indian attack. Encumbered by women who must be evacuated, Brittles finds his mission imperiled.

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They Won't Believe Me

1947

On trial for murdering his girlfriend, philandering stockbroker Larry Ballentine takes the stand to claim his innocence and describe the actual, but improbable sounding, sequence of events that led to her death.

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The Bride Wore Boots

1946

A bookish husband tries to win back the affections of his horse-breeding wife.

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Tomorrow Is Forever

1946

In 1918, Elizabeth MacDonald learns that her husband, John Andrew, has been killed in the war. Elizabeth bears John's son and eventually marries her kindly boss. Unknown to her, John has survived but is horribly disfigured and remains in Europe. Years later, on the eve of World War II, Elizabeth refuses to agree to her son's request to enlist and is stunned when an eerily familiar stranger named Kessler arrives from abroad and becomes involved.

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That Justice Be Done

1945

Newsreel footage from both sides of World War II make a case for convicting Nazi war criminals.