Rudyard Kipling

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Also Known As
Joseph Rudyard Kipling
Birth Place
Bombay, Maharashtra, IN
Born
December 30, 1865
Died
January 18, 1936
Cause of Death
Cerebral Hemorrhage

Biography

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Rudyard Kipling worked on a variety of projects during his entertainment career. Kipling worked on a variety of projects during his early entertainment career, including "A Fool There Was" (1922), "Captains Courageous" with Freddie Bartholomew (1937) and "Elephant Boy" with Sabu (1937). He also contributed to "Gunga Din" with Cary Grant (1939), "The Light That Failed" (1939) starring Ro...

Filmography

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Jungle Book: Origins (2018)
Source Material
The Jungle Book (2016)
Source Material
The Jungle Book (2013)
Book As Source Material
The Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story (1998)
Characters As Source Material
The Second Jungle Book - Mowgli and Baloo (1997)
Book As Source Material
They Watch (1993)
From Story

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Man Who Would Be King, The (1975) -- (Movie Clip) Alexander Who?

Biography

Rudyard Kipling worked on a variety of projects during his entertainment career. Kipling worked on a variety of projects during his early entertainment career, including "A Fool There Was" (1922), "Captains Courageous" with Freddie Bartholomew (1937) and "Elephant Boy" with Sabu (1937). He also contributed to "Gunga Din" with Cary Grant (1939), "The Light That Failed" (1939) starring Ronald Colman and "Wee Willie Winkie" (1937) starring Shirley Temple Black. Kipling was also credited in "Soldiers Three" (1951), "The Man Who Would Be King" (1975) and "Rikki Tikki Tavi" (1977). He also was recognized in "The Lords of Discipline" (1983). Kipling was most recently credited in "The Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story" (1998). Kipling passed away in January 1936 at the age of 71.

Filmography

 

Writer (Feature Film)

Jungle Book: Origins (2018)
Source Material
The Jungle Book (2016)
Source Material
The Jungle Book (2013)
Book As Source Material
The Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story (1998)
Characters As Source Material
The Second Jungle Book - Mowgli and Baloo (1997)
Book As Source Material
They Watch (1993)
From Story
Rikki Tikki Tavi (1977)
From Story
The Man Who Would Be King (1975)
From Story ("The Man Who Would Be King")

Music (Feature Film)

The Lords of Discipline (1983)
Song
Kipling's Women (1960)
Composer
Everybody Does It (1949)
Composer
Smilin' Through (1941)
Composer
Wife, Husband and Friend (1939)
Composer
Metropolitan (1935)
Composer

Art Director (Feature Film)

Without Benefit of Clergy (1921)
Production Design

Misc. Crew (Feature Film)

The Adventures of Mowgli (1997)
Source Material (From Novel)
The Jungle Book (1994)
Source Material (From Novel)
Kim (1984)
Source Material (From Novel)
Captains Courageous (1977)
Source Material (From Novel)

Writer (Special)

Celebrate Storytelling With Danny Glover (1994)
Writer
Childhood (1977)
From Story

Special Thanks (Special)

Celebrate Storytelling With Danny Glover (1994)
Writer
Childhood (1977)
From Story

Misc. Crew (Special)

Alien Voices (1999)
Source Material (From Novel)
Verse Person Singular (1983)
From Poetry

Writer (TV Mini-Series)

How the Leopard Got Its Spots (1989)
From Story
The Elephant's Child (1987)
From Story ("The Elephant'S Child")

Misc. Crew (TV Mini-Series)

Captains Courageous (1996)
Source Material (From Novel)
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi (1975)
Source Material (From Novel)

Life Events

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Man Who Would Be King, The (1975) -- (Movie Clip) Your Lodge Brothers Christopher Plummer as correspondent Rudyard Kipling, the author inserted into the story by director John Huston, explains to an Indian colonial official (Jack May) why he’s helping arrested fellow Freemasons Carnehan and Dravot (Michael Caine, Sean Connery), in The Man Who Would Be King, 1975.
Man Who Would Be King, The (1975) -- (Movie Clip) Alexander Who? Newsman and fellow Freemason Kipling (Christopher Plummer) baffled, as Peachy (Michael Caine) and Danny (Sean Connery) lay out their plan to become kings of Kafiristan, at his office in Lahore, colonial India, ca. 1870, in John Huston's The Man Who Would Be King, 1975.
Man Who Would Be King, The (1975) -- (Movie Clip) Two Englishmen Left Over Clever scene, not from the Rudyard Kipling novella, adventurers Carnehan (Michael Caine, also narrating) and Dravot (Sean Connery) encounter five Afghan tribesmen, in their journey toward Kafiristan, in John Huston's The Man Who Would Be King, 1975.
Gunga Din (1939) -- (Movie Clip) Children Are Looking Bonnie! Cutter (Cary Grant) and MacChesney (Victor McLaglen) enter a seemingly abandoned Indian village, where comrade Ballantine (Douglas Fairbanks) discovers mysterious Chota (Abner Biberman), early in George Stevens' Gunga Din, 1939.
Gunga Din (1939) -- (Movie Clip) Very Regimental! Famous scene in which Cutter (Cary Grant) supports Sam Jaffe (title character), the humble native water carrier, in his regular-army fantasy, in George Stevens' Gunga Din, based on the Rudyard Kipling poem.
Gunga Din (1939) -- (Movie Clip) We Were Swindled First appearance by India corps sergeants MacChesney (Victor McLaglen), Ballantine (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) and Cutter (Cary Grant), summoned to commander Weed (Montagu Love), in George Stevens' Gunga Din, 1939.
Wee Willie Winkie (1937) -- (Movie Clip) May Allah Bless And Protect Thee Through trickery Sgt. MacDuff (Victor McLaglen) has obtained a uniform for protegè Priscilla (Shirley Temple), commencing drills when she sees the chance to return a necklace she found to the now-imprisoned local chieftain Khan (Cesar Romero), in John Ford’s Wee Willie Winkie, 1937.
Wee Willie Winkie (1937) -- (Movie Clip) Where Are All The Indians? Director John Ford’s opening, Shirley Temple as Priscilla and June Lang her widowed mother, in India to join her father-in-law at his post, received by Victor McLaglen, as MacDuff (in a story based loosely on Kipling, in the British army, two years before Gunga Din), in Wee Willie Winkie, 1937.
Captains Courageous (1937) -- (Movie Clip) He's A Jonah! Portugese fisherman Manuel (Spencer Tracy) takes the fall for rescued schoolboy Harvey (Freddie Bartholomew), after privately forcing him to confess to his misdeed against Long Jack (John Carradine) in Captains Courageous, 1937.
Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book (1942) -- (Movie Clip) Open, All India Opening credits and first scene from the Korda Brothers' lavish 1942 Hollywood production of Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book, starring Sabu and Joseph Calleia.
Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book (1942) -- (Movie Clip) I Am Beautiful Mowgli (Sabu) discovers that flattery will get him everywhere with the snake Kaa, invoking the code of the jungle as he seeks out the tiger Shere Khan, in the Korda Brothers' Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book, 1942.
Captains Courageous (1937) -- (Movie Clip) You're One Of The Crew Now Harvey (Freddie Bartholomew), spoiled schoolboy saved by a fishing schooner after falling off a liner, isn't getting the attention he wants from captain Disko Troop (Lionel Barrymore) or his rescuer Manuel (Spencer Tracy) in Captains Courageous, 1937.

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