* 1892 – Jack Warner, Canadian-American film producer ( d. 1978 )

She starred opposite Anthony Perkins in the 1978 Alan Rudolph film Remember My Name and opposite Jeff Bridges in the 1979 film Winter Kills.

Holly's life story inspired a Hollywood biographical film, The Buddy Holly Story ( 1978 ).

Following the success of The Buddy Holly Story in 1978, Haley expressed interest in having his life story committed to film, but this never came to fruition.

* The first film based on the Triangle was The Bermuda Triangle in 1978.

Its success ( coupled with some theatrical releases of the film in Europe ) convinced CBS to turn it into a weekly series, which began airing in the Spring of 1978.

There have been infrequent scientific and amateur radio expeditions, and in 1978 Jacques-Yves Cousteau visited with his team of divers, plus a survivor from the 1917 evacuation, to film a television special called Clipperton: The Island that Time Forgot.

The Commodores made a brief appearance in the 1978 film Thank God It's Friday.

In addition to R-rated sex comedies and horror films, cheerleaders became a staple of the adult film industry, starting with Debbie Does Dallas ( 1978 ) and its four sequels.

In 1978, the first of four Superman films was made in which Clark Kent and Superman were portrayed by Christopher Reeve ( with teenage Kent played by Jeff East in the first film ).

It won a Special Jury Award at the Cannes International Film Festival for best short film, and received an Academy Award nomination ( for best animated short film ), both in 1978.

Most notably, the 1978 comedy film National Lampoon's Animal House was co-written by Chris Miller ' 63, and is based loosely on a series of stories he wrote about his fraternity days at Dartmouth.

* Dark Star, a 1978 film distributed by David Grant

More than half of the footage filmed for Superman II by the originally credited director ( Richard Lester ) has been removed from the film and replaced with Donner footage shot during the original principal photography from 1977 – 1978.

* 1978: Dylan: Life and Death of a Poet, a BBC Wales film of Thomas ' final two visits to America ; directed by Richard Lewis.

She claimed she was offered two highly sought-after movie roles: the part of possessed child Regan MacNeil in the 1973 film, The Exorcist, and the starring role in Louis Malle's 1978 film, Pretty Baby.

The short film Within the Woods ( 1978 ) was made as a prototype to help convince possible investors to fund The Evil Dead.

In 1978 when the film premiered, Werner Herzog cooked and publicly ate his shoe, an event later incorporated into a short documentary by Les Blank.

The 1978 British comedy film The Rutles was done in the style of rock documentary which treated the fake band The Rutles as if they were a real band.

Franklin James Schaffner ( May 30, 1920July 2, 1989 ) was an American film director best known for such films as Planet of the Apes ( 1968 ), Patton ( 1970 ), Papillon ( 1973 ), and The Boys from Brazil ( 1978 ).

The film was given a North American theatrical release in March 1978 by Bob Conn Enterprises under the title The Terror of Godzilla.

Henry Saperstein, who sold the theatrical rights to Bob Conn Enterprises, also released the film to television in late 1978, this time under the title Terror of Mechagodzilla.

A French adaptation for television, translated and written by Jean-Claude Carrière, appeared in 1978.

In the 1976 Ira Levin novel The Boys from Brazil and its 1978 film adaptation, Josef Mengele uses cloning to create copies of Adolf Hitler.

Miyazaki's most famous television work was his direction of Future Boy Conan ( 1978 ), an adaptation of the children's novel The Incredible Tide by Alexander Key.

Newton-John's career soared after starring in the film adaptation of the Broadway musical, Grease, in 1978.

Subsequently in 1978, he starred in The Silver Bears, an adaptation of Paul Erdman's ( 1974 ) novel of the same name.

In Ralph Bakshi's 1978 animated film adaptation of The Lord of the Rings, Gríma Wormtongue was voiced by Michael Deacon ( and his name is pronounced as " Grime-a ").

His credits for Marvel Comics include an adaptation of The Iliad in Marvel Classics Comics # 26 ( 1977 ), and two superhero tales, The Spectacular Spider-Man # 16 ( March 1978 ), and The Incredible Hulk # 230 ( Dec. 1978 ).

" However, fans consider the origins of furry fandom to be much earlier, with fictional works such as Kimba, The White Lion released in 1965, Richard Adams ' novel Watership Down, published in 1972 ( and its 1978 film adaptation ), as well as Disney's Robin Hood as oft-cited examples.

A film adaptation of Last Exit to Brooklyn, directed by Uli Edel, was made in 1989, while Selby's 1978 novel Requiem for a Dream was made into a film released in 2000.

He did not return to acting until 1978 with An Enemy of the People, playing against type as a heavily bearded, bespectacled 19th-century doctor in this adaptation of a Henrik Ibsen play.

Battle of the Planets ( 1978 ) is an American animated television adaptation of the Japanese anime series Science Ninja Team Gatchaman ( 1972 ).

He also provided the voice of Fiver in the animated film adaptation of Watership Down ( 1978 ).

For 1978, the Hornet platform was redesigned with an adaptation of the new Gremlin front-end design and renamed AMC Concord.

: This article is about the book ( 1978 ) and its film adaptation ( 1982 ).

A 1978 film adaptation directed by Robert Mulligan starred Ellen Burstyn and Alan Alda.

A 1978 adaptation played at the Quigh Theatre in New York and another in 2005 at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, where the family of the original Dead End Kids ( Leo Gorcey, Jr., Bobby Jordan, Jr., Gabe Dell, Jr., and the nieces and nephews of Billy Halop ) attended a performance together.

Butterbur appears in both Ralph Bakshi's animated adaptation of The Lord of the Rings ( 1978 ) and Peter Jackson's film The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring ( 2001 ), but in both adaptations most of his scenes, including the references to Gandalf's letter, are cut.

" In 1978, she appeared in the Broadway musical adaptation of Studs Terkel ’ s Working, which ran for only 24 performances.

His later films include Pretty Baby ( 1978 ), Atlantic City ( 1981 ), My Dinner with Andre ( 1981 ), Crackers ( 1984 ), Alamo Bay ( 1985 ), Damage ( 1992 ) and Vanya on 42nd Street ( 1994, an adaptation of Anton Chekhov's play Uncle Vanya ) in English ; Au revoir, les enfants ( 1987 ) and Milou en Mai ( May Fools in the U. S., 1990 ) in French.

His Alms for Oblivion ten-novel sequence is usually regarded as his best achievement-A. N. Wilson thought it " the jolliest roman-fleuve "-though it is likely that he gained wider public recognition for his TV work, especially the adaptation of The Pallisers ( 1974 ) and Edward and Mrs Simpson ( 1978 ).

The story was altered for the 1978 Motown / Universal film adaptation of The Wiz, in which Dorothy ( portrayed by Diana Ross ) is a shy 24-year-old schoolteacher who has never traveled far beyond the neighborhood she grew up in.

A 1978 episode of Once Upon a Classic, " A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court ", was an adaptation.

A film adaptation was released in 1978.