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Benedict Bogeaus built an impressive career for himself producing throughout Hollywood. Working on movies including the Lynn Bari drama "The Bridge of San Luis Rey" (1944), "Captain Kidd" (1945) and the George Raft drama "Mr. Ace" (1946). He also appeared in the dramatic adaptation "The Diary of a Chambermaid" (1946) with Paulette Goddard, "Christmas Eve" (1947) and the dramatic adventur...

Filmography

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Most Dangerous Man Alive (1961)

Jet over the Atlantic (1959)

Enchanted Island (1958)

From the Earth to the Moon (1958)

From the Earth to the Moon (1958)

Enchanted Island (1958)

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Enchanted Island (1958) -- (Movie Clip) You Don't Find Cannibals That Pretty

Captain Kidd (1945) -- (Movie Clip) Touched Off The Magazine

Biography

Benedict Bogeaus built an impressive career for himself producing throughout Hollywood. Working on movies including the Lynn Bari drama "The Bridge of San Luis Rey" (1944), "Captain Kidd" (1945) and the George Raft drama "Mr. Ace" (1946). He also appeared in the dramatic adaptation "The Diary of a Chambermaid" (1946) with Paulette Goddard, "Christmas Eve" (1947) and the dramatic adventure "The Macomber Affair" (1947) with Gregory Peck, Bogeaus began his producing career in film. Bogeaus continued to focus on film through the forties and the fifties, producing movies like "A Miracle Can Happen" (1948) with Burgess Meredith, "The Crooked Way" (1949) and the crime picture "My Outlaw Brother" (1951) with Mickey Rooney. He also appeared in "Appointment in Honduras" (1953) with Glenn Ford, the Teresa Wright crime flick "Count the Hours" (1953) and the western "Cattle Queen of Montana" (1954) with Barbara Stanwyck. Bogeaus then focused on film, producing "Passion" (1954), the Barbara Stanwyck adventurous drama "Escape to Burma" (1955) and the John Payne drama "Tennessee's Partner" (1955). He also appeared in "The River's Edge" (1957) and the historical film "From the Earth to the Moon" (1958) with Joseph Cotten. Bogeaus last produced the sci-fi motion picture "The Most Dangerous Man Alive" (1961) with Ron Randell.

Filmography

Producer (Feature Film)

Most Dangerous Man Alive (1961)

Jet over the Atlantic (1959)

Enchanted Island (1958)

From the Earth to the Moon (1958)

From the Earth to the Moon (1958)

Enchanted Island (1958)

The River's Edge (1957)

Slightly Scarlet (1956)

Slightly Scarlet (1956)

Pearl of the South Pacific (1955)

Tennessee's Partner (1955)

Escape to Burma (1955)

Pearl of the South Pacific (1955)

Tennessee's Partner (1955)

Escape to Burma (1955)

Silver Lode (1954)

Cattle Queen of Montana (1954)

Cattle Queen of Montana (1954)

Silver Lode (1954)

Appointment in Honduras (1953)

Appointment in Honduras (1953)

Count the Hours (1953)

One Big Affair (1952)

My Outlaw Brother (1951)

My Outlaw Brother (1951)

Johnny One-Eye (1950)

The Crooked Way (1949)

On Our Merry Way (1948)

The Girl from Manhattan (1948)

On Our Merry Way (1948)

The Girl from Manhattan (1948)

Christmas Eve (1947)

The Macomber Affair (1947)

The Macomber Affair (1947)

Christmas Eve (1947)

The Diary of a Chambermaid (1946)

Captain Kidd (1945)

Dark Waters (1944)

The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1944)

Production Companies (Feature Film)

Lulu Belle (1948)

Life Events

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Enchanted Island (1958) -- (Movie Clip) You Don't Find Cannibals That Pretty Dana Andrews as sailor Abner, fleeing a vengeful captain in the South Seas circa 1842, wraps this with a line probably not from the original Herman Melville novel as, with injured buddy Tom (Don Dubbins) they pursue native Fayaway (Jane Powell), her first scene, in Enchanted Island, 1958.

Captain Kidd (1945) -- (Movie Clip) Touched Off The Magazine The title character (Charles Laughton), secretly a pirate, and aide Lorenzo (Gilbert Roland) transfer the nobleman (Lumsden Hare) and daughter (Barbara Britton) and their treasure to their ship, their game soon revealed, the under-cover good guy Mercy (Randolph Scott) worried, in Captain Kidd, 1945.

Enchanted Island (1958) -- (Movie Clip) The Wind Stinks Of Sin Allan Dwan opens his final film, on location on the Mexican Pacific coast, from Herman Melville's novel Typee, introducing sailors Dana Andrews and Don Dubbins, island pimp Arthur Shields, officer Les Hellman and Ted de Corsia their cruel captain, in Enchanted Island, 1958, also starring Jane Powell.

Enchanted Island (1958) -- (Movie Clip) What Is Your Favorite Meat? With his wounded buddy Tom (Don Dubbins), New England-based sailor Abner (Dana Andrews) has been taken in by a South Sea island tribe, represented by lovely Fayaway (Jane Powell), still worried they may be cannibals, in Enchanted Island, 1958, from a Herman Melville novel.

Christmas Eve (1947) -- (Movie Clip) We Have No License Opening scenes, we meet Philip (Reginald Denny) who's brought a judge and doctor (Clarence Kolb, Carl Harbord) to meet his maybe-nutty New York heiress Aunt Matilda (Ann Harding), in the holiday crime-comedy hybrid Christmas Eve (a.k.a. Holiday For Sinners), 1947.

Christmas Eve (1947) -- (Movie Clip) By The Love Seat We meet shiftless New York playboy Michael (George Brent), unaware of the larger drama involving his heiress adoptive aunt, with ex-gal Ann (Joan Blondell) messing with his plans to marry society girl Harriet (Molly Lamont) in Christmas Eve (a.k.a. Holiday For Sinners), 1947.

Christmas Eve (1947) -- (Movie Clip) The Sea Is A Wide Place In the byzantine tale of his imperiled maiden aunt back in New York, ex-pat South American club owner Mario (George Raft) discovers a fugitive Nazi (Konstantine Shayne) has been scamming his girlfriend (Virginia Field), in the crime-comedy Christmas Eve (a.k.a. Holiday For Sinners), 1947.

Crooked Way, The -- (Movie Clip) Right To Come Home Amnesiac ex-soldier and ex-con Eddie (John Payne) arrives in L-A trying to figure out who he is, when Nina (Ellen Drew) immediately recognizes him, early in Robert Florey's The Crooked Way, 1948.

Macomber Affair, The (1947) -- (Movie Clip) Women Sometimes Make Trouble In Kenya, hunter Wilson (Gregory Peck) is filling out the report on the shooting death of his client Macomber (Robert Preston), whom we meet in flashback, attitudes from Ernest Hemingway's original story emerging, in director Zoltan Korda's The Macomber Affair, 1947.

Macomber Affair, The (1947) -- (Movie Clip) She Looked Good Doing It The animals, though not the actors, are in East Africa, Hunter Wilson (Gregory Peck) guiding Margo (Joan Bennett) and Francis (Robert Preston), whom we know will not survive, Macomber on the first night of their safari, in The Macomber Affair, 1947, from an Ernest Hemingway story.

Macomber Affair, The (1947) -- (Movie Clip) They're Devils To Kill The opening not from Ernest Hemingway's short story but as devised by director Zoltan Korda and his screenwriters, Gregory Peck as African hunter Wilson, Joan Bennett the bereaved wife Margaret, Reginald Denny as colonial policeman Smollet, in The Macomber Affair, 1947.

Diary Of A Chambermaid, The (1946) -- (Movie Clip) Filthy Souls Director Jean Renoir's opening scene, narrative device introducing Paulette Goddard as the title character Celestine, along with fellow servant Louise (Irene Ryan) and presumptuous Joseph (Francis Lederer), from The Diary Of A Chambermaid, 1946.

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