Del Close
Birthday: 1934-03-09
Place of Birth: Manhattan, Kansas, USA
Biography: Del Close (March 9, 1934 – March 4, 1999) was an American actor, writer, and teacher who coached many of the best-known comedians and comic actors of the late twentieth century. In addition to an acting career in television and film, he was one of the influences on modern improvisational theater. Close is co-founder of the ImprovOlympic (iO). From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Movies
It Is Now Our Time: Peter Sellars’ The Merchant of Venice
A BBC documentary about a pre-rehearsal workshop held in New York prior to the Goodman Theater’s 199...
View Movie
Light of Day
Cleveland siblings rise with a rock band while coping with personal problems....
View Movie
The Blob
In Arborville, California, three high school students try to protect their hometown from a gelatinou...
View Movie
One More Saturday Night
The problems faced by both teenagers and adults in a small Minnesota town who are trying to get date...
View Movie
Beware! The Blob
A technician brings a frozen specimen of the original Blob back from the North Pole. When his wife a...
View Movie
Dream Breakers
A movie about a Chicago family -- a building contractor and his two sons who have opposing ideologie...
View Movie
The Big Town
It is 1957. J.C. Cullen is a young man from a small town, with a talent for winning at craps, who le...
View Movie
Thief
Frank is an expert professional safecracker, specialized in high-profile diamond heists. He plans to...
View Movie
The Untouchables
Elliot Ness, an ambitious prohibition agent, is determined to take down Al Capone. In order to achie...
View Movie
Thank You, Del: The Story of the Del Close Marathon
Del Close was never a household name, but any comedy enthusiast is aware of his impact. From Bill Mu...
View Movie
You Are What You Eat
A montage of the weird, a freak-out film that appeared when the expression was in fashion and in flo...
View Movie
Next of Kin
Truman Gates, a Chicago cop, sets out to find his brother's killer. Meanwhile, another of his brothe...
View Movie
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
After high school slacker Ferris Bueller successfully fakes an illness in order to skip school for t...
View Movie
The Last Affair
The wife of a sterile man steps outside the marriage with a gigolo in order to conceive....
View Movie
Fat Man and Little Boy
Assigned to oversee the development of the atomic bomb, Gen. Leslie Groves is a stern military man d...
View Movie
Gold
Uptight killjoy square cop Captain Harold Jinks doesn't approve of the local hippies in an Old West-...
View Movie
American Graffiti
A couple of high school graduates spend one final night cruising the strip with their buddies before...
View Movie
A League of Their Own
As America's stock of athletic young men is depleted during World War II, a professional all-female ...
View Movie