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Bruce Kessler est un Réalisateur et Second Unit Director Américain né le 23 mars 1936 à Seattle (Etats-Unis)

Bruce Kessler

Bruce Kessler
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Nationalité Etats-Unis
Naissance 23 mars 1936 (88 ans) à Seattle (Etats-Unis)

Bruce Kessler (born March 23, 1936) is an American racing driver and film and television director.

He entered one World Championship Formula One Grand Prix (Monaco 1958) with a Connaught owned by Bernie Ecclestone, but failed to qualify, although he posted the 21st fastest time of the 28 entrants.

Kessler born in Seattle, Washington and grew up in Beverly Hills, California. He was the son of a clothing designer. In the early 1950s he started racing his mother's Jaguar XK120 in the Sports Car Club of America races at sixteen years old. He raced the road race courses at Paramount Ranch and Willow Springs in California. He was a team driver along with Chuck Daigh for the Scarab race cars built by his good friend Lance Reventlow in the late 1950s.

Kessler and Reventlow, driving Reventlow's Mercedes-Benz SL aluminum coupe had stopped at Blackwells Corner on CA Rt. 466/133 on September 30, 1955 on their way to the Salinas Road Races when James Dean and his mechanic, Rolf Wutherich pulled in with Dean's Porsche Spyder. They all agreed to meet for dinner at Paso Robles, about 60 miles away that evening. Reventlow and Kessler took off 10 minutes earlier. Dean never made it as he was involved in a fatal two-car crash at Rt. 466/41 near Cholame 30 miles away. Kessler, today, remains the last person alive who spoke with James Dean before his death.

The Scarabs won the International Grand Prix at Riverside, California beating the famous driver Phil Hill and the Ferrari team. Kessler was invited to Europe to drive at Le Mans.
On 22 March 1958 Kessler became class winner at "12 hour Florida International Grand Prix of Endurance for the AMOCO Trophy" (12 h Sebring), driving a Ferrari 250 GT LWB (#0773GT).

After a serious crash at the 1959 Examiner Grand Prix at Pomona, California, he spent days in a coma. Soon after, he retired from racing.

Kessler came back to California and became a film and television director. He directed many television films and series. One of his earliest efforts was a short film he directed on the Scarab race car for his friend Lance Reventlow called The Sound of Speed. As a film and television director, some his credits include Angels from Hell, The Monkees, The Flying Nun, Mission: Impossible, It Takes a Thief, Marcus Welby, M.D., The Rockford Files, McCloud, CHiPs, The Greatest American Hero, The A-Team, Hunter and Renegade, his last directing credit.

Kessler was also a world class skeet and trap shooter. He is now retired in Florida.

Le plus souvent avec

Howard Hawks
Howard Hawks
(1 films)
Stu Phillips
Stu Phillips
(3 films)
Norman Burton
Norman Burton
(2 films)
Jack Starrett
Jack Starrett
(2 films)
Andrew Prine
Andrew Prine
(1 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmographie de Bruce Kessler (5 films)

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Réalisateur

Murder in Peyton Place, 1h40
Réalisé par Bruce Kessler
Genres Drame
Acteurs Dorothy Malone, Ed Nelson, Tim O'Connor, Christopher Connelly, Janet Margolin, Marj Dusay
Note65% 3.272273.272273.272273.272273.27227
The film starts with Stella Chernak (Stella Stevens), who arrives at the Peyton Tower Hotel in Peyton Place after an absence of numerous years. She has returned to destroy the small town, and is able to use her power through Jay Kamens (Norman Burton), the president of the Peyton Mills and her trustee. Another former citizen returning to Peyton Place is Betty Anderson (Janet Margolin). Although she is now married to David Roerick (Edward Bell), she agreed to a secret meeting with her ex-husband Rodney Harrington near Peyton Place. Her friend Denise Haley (Charlotte Stewart) offers her a roof, despite her husband Stan Haley's (Jonathan Goldsmith) objections about her presence.
Simon, King of the Witches, 1h31
Réalisé par Bruce Kessler
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Drame, Comédie, Horreur
Acteurs Andrew Prine, Brenda Scott, Norman Burton, Isabelle Collin-Dufresne
Note58% 2.90032.90032.90032.90032.9003
Un sorcier habitant les égouts de Los Angeles découvre que ses pouvoirs sont plus puissants qu'il ne le croyait. Un groupe d'adeptes va se joindre à lui...
The Gay Deceivers, 1h37
Réalisé par Bruce Kessler
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Comédie
Thèmes Sexualité, Homosexualité, LGBT, LGBT
Acteurs Brooke Bundy, Jo Ann Harris, Lawrence P. Casey, Michael Greer, Jack Starrett, Richard Webb
Note58% 2.900652.900652.900652.900652.90065
The Gay Deceivers follows Danny and Elliot, two friends who try to get out of the draft by pretending to be gay. They're placed under surveillance by the Army and have to keep up the pretense. They move into a gay apartment building and try to blend in with the residents, all the while trying to maintain their romantic relationships with women and not get caught by the Army.
Angels from Hell, 1h26
Réalisé par Bruce Kessler
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Action
Thèmes Transport, Road movie
Acteurs Arlene Martel, Ted Markland, Jack Starrett, Tom Stern, Pepper Martin, Sharmagne Leland-St. John
Note49% 2.469352.469352.469352.469352.46935
A former motorcycle gang leader, Mike (Tom Stern), returns home from Vietnam to resume his life and form a new motorcycle gang. Using all his gathered experience as a hero from the war he tries to unite all the existing motorcycle gangs in the neighborhood and put together a brand new, super outlaw gang. They beat a road police officer who wants to give them a parking ticket. Although the sheriff tries to calm everybody down, things are not going down well. Very soon Mike faces big trouble when Speed, one of his gang members, is stopped on fake possession charges and murdered on retaliation. The trouble intensifies when an all-out cop against biker war breaks out.

Directeur

Ligne rouge 7000, 1h50
Réalisé par Howard Hawks
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Drame, Comédie dramatique, Action
Thèmes Sport, Transport, Automobile, Compétition automobile, Road movie, La NASCAR
Acteurs James Caan, Laura Devon, Charlene Holt, Marianna Hill, Teri Garr, Christian Brückner
Rôle Second Unit Director
Note56% 2.802292.802292.802292.802292.80229
Un épisode de la vie de trois pilotes automobile mêlant la compétition automobile et leurs vies privées avec leurs femmes ou fiancées.