Cornel Wilde

ACTOR, DIRECTOR, PRODUCER

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Dashing actor Cornel Wilde was born Kornel Lajos Weisz on October 13, 1912, in Prievidza, Hungary (now part of Slovakia), to a Jewish family. In 1920, he immigrated to New York City with his parents, Rayna (Vid) and Vojtech Béla Weisz, and elder sister, Edith. His family Americanized their names and Kornel took the name Cornelius Louis Wilde. He spent much of his youth traveling in Europe, developing a continental flair as well as an affinity for languages. He received a scholarship for medical school, but turned it down in favor of his new love, the theatre. A natural athlete and a champion fencer with the U.S. Olympic fencing team, he quit the team just prior to the 1936 Berlin Olympics in order to take a role in a play. In 1937, he married Marjory Heinzen (later known as Patricia Knight), and they both shaved a few years off their ages in order to get work, Wilde thereafter claiming publicly that he was born in New York in 1915, though he continued to list his correct Hungarian birth in 1912 on government documents. Shortening his name to Cornel Wilde for the stage, he appeared in the Broadway hit "Having a Wonderful Time", but it was not until he was hired in the dual capacities of fencing choreographer and actor (Tybalt) in Laurence Olivier's 1940 Broadway production of "Romeo and Juliet" that Hollywood spotted him. He played a few minor roles before leaping to fame and an Oscar nomination as Frederic Chopin in A Song to Remember (1945). He spent the balance of the 1940s in romantic, and often swashbuckling, leading roles. In the 1950s his star dimmed a little, and aside from an occasional blockbuster like The Greatest Show on Earth (1952), he settled mainly into adventure films. A growing interest in directing led him to form his own production company with the goal of directing his own films. Several of his ventures into film noir in this period, both his own and other directors', are quite interesting (The Big Combo (1955) and Storm Fear (1955), for example). He produced, directed and starred in The Naked Prey (1965), a tour-de-force adventure drama that brought him real acclaim as a director. His later films were of varying quality, and he ended his career in near-cameos in minor adventure films. He died of leukemia in 1989, three days after his 77th birthday, leaving behind an unpublished autobiography, "The Wilde Life." - IMDb Mini Biography By: Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>

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Streaming Availability

Amazon Video has the most number of Cornel Wilde’s flixes, followed by Amazon Prime Video compared to other streaming platforms. See the full graph below.

Releases by Year

Cornel Wilde on average has worked on 1 movies per year from 1970 to 1979. See the full graphs of the number of Cornel Wilde movies released per year from 1970 till 1979.

Top Genres

Cornel Wilde works mostly in Action Genre followed by Adventure Genre flixes. 30% of Cornel Wilde movies are Action Genre movies. See Top Genres that Cornel Wilde worked on in the graph below.

Average IMDB Score

On average the IMDB score of the movies that Cornel Wilde has worked on is 5.1.

5.1 / 10

Cornel Wilde's Movies and Tv Series available to Stream now ..

An anthropologist/paleontologist and his daughter, while travelling through the southwestern U.S., stumble upon a colony of living, breathing gargoyles.

6/1074 min

Available in 6 platform(s).

When a deadly virus strikes London, John Custance takes his family to hoped-for safety in Scotland.

5.8/1096 min

Available in 6 platform(s).

Action,Adventure,Romance
The Fifth Musketeer (1979)

When French King Louis XIV (Beau Bridges) learns that his twin brother, Philippe (Beau Bridges), could usurp his crown, he sets out to imprison him in the Bastille prison but four loyal musketeers are protecting Philippe.

5.2/10116 min

Available in 6 platform(s).

Action,Adventure
Sharks' Treasure (1975)

Eccentric charter skipper Jim Carnahan and his team of hard-luck dreamers battle sharks, bandits and their own greed to recover sunken treasure off the coast of Honduras.

4.8/1095 min

Available in 2 platform(s).

Action,Adventure
The Norseman (1978)

An eleventh century Viking Prince sails to America to find his father, who on a previous voyage had been captured by Indians.

3.7/1090 min

Available in 1 platform(s).