Jules Buck


Producer

About

Birth Place
St Louis, Missouri, USA
Born
July 30, 1917
Died
July 19, 2001
Cause of Death
Complications From Alzheimer's Disease

Family & Companions

Joyce Buck
Wife
Interior designer. Died in 1996.

Biography

Life Events

1946

Debut as associate producer, "The Killers", directed by Robert Siodmak

1957

Settled in London; met Peter O'Toole

1980

Returned to USA to live

1996

After wife's death, moved back to Paris

Videos

Movie Clip

Love Nest (1951) -- (Movie Clip) Your Ancestors Had Excellent Taste First meeting of Frank Fay (as Paterson, though he went by another name at his previous residence) with William Lundigan and June Haver (as returned veteran Jim and wife Connie), his prospective landlords, in post-WWII Manhattan, in Love Nest, 1951, from a novel by Scott Corbett and script by I.A.L. Diamond.
Love Nest (1951) -- (Movie Clip) Are You The Janitor's Wife? Novice Manhattan landlord Connie (June Haver) greets Roberta, a.k.a. “Bobbie” (Marilyn Monroe, her first scene), war-buddy of her returned-veteran husband Jim (William Lundigan) who earlier did, in fact, start to mention her gender, in 20th Century-Fox’s Love Nest, 1951.
Ruling Class, The (1972) -- (Movie Clip) Talking To Myself Still robed, raving Jack (Peter O'Toole) explains to his aunt Lady Claire (Coral Browne) how he came to consider himself God, or Jesus, before the liberated butler Tucker (Arthur Lowe) and (uncle) Sir Charles (William Mervyn) appear, in Peter Medak's The Ruling Class, 1972.
Great Catherine (1968) -- (Movie Clip) Hands Off You Swine! Brit captain Edstaston (Peter O'Toole, also co-producer), in Petersburg to brief the empress on the American revolution, meets apparently dissolute Prince Patiomkin (Zero Mostel) and niece (Marie Kean), Akim Tamiroff and Jack Hawkins in support, in the Bernard Shaw adaptation Great Catherine, 1968.
Great Catherine (1968) -- (Movie Clip) Men Have Grown Sober In Siberia Jeanne Moreau (title character) having arisen amid her court in Petersburg, tangles with an aide (Kenneth Griffith) and others before her ruffian cousin Patiomkin (Zero Mostel) delivers the outraged British envoy (Peter O'Toole), in Great Catherine, 1968, from the George Bernard Shaw play.
Day They Robbed The Bank Of England, The -- (Movie Clip) The Bank Picket Opening narration establishing Irish-American Norgate (Aldo Ray), in 1901 London, in The Day They Robbed The Bank Of England, 1960, also starring Hugh Griffith and Peter O'Toole.
Day They Robbed The Bank Of England, The -- (Movie Clip) The Mood Of The Fish Peter O'Toole (as Lt. Fitch) in his first appearance in his first important role, meeting Irish-American plotter Norgate (Aldo Ray) in a London pub, in The Day They Robbed The Bank Of England, 1960.

Family

Gene Buck
Brother
Survived him.
Joan Juliet Buck
Daughter
Magazine editor. Edited the French edition of <i>Vogue</i>.

Companions

Joyce Buck
Wife
Interior designer. Died in 1996.

Bibliography