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American actor and film. Appeared in films: "Night air" (Oscar), "Indifference," "uncle," "Al Capone", "Sergeant," "Waterloo," "Mussolini: the last act" "Innocent with dirty hands", "Jesus of Nazareth", etc.
Rodney Stephen Stayger born April 14, 1925 in Uesthemptone, New York. His parents, Frederick and Laurent Stayger, gave song and dance number, a mobile TV. Father, he does not remember: parents divorced when her son was about a year.
In Staygere mixed French, Swedish and German blood, and his mother was brought up in simplicity and rigor of Lutheranism. Acting leanings appeared at Roda still in elementary school, where he played Santa Claus or George Washington. Однокашники gave him the nickname Rodney-rock because of its strength.
During the war, Rhode torpedistom was first class and took part in the most dangerous combat operations, the Third and the Fifth United States fleet, including Ivodzhimskoy and Okinawa campaigns.
The day after the capitulation of Japan Stayger left the naval service to the medical report of an acute skin disease.
In the amateur theatrical group led his desire to become acquainted with the girls. Stayger Menelaya played the king in the play "The husband of Helen and the role of villain in the play entitled" Be cursed, Jack Dalton. " Troupe leader advised him to learn from the actor.
Genus Stayger moved to New York, where for two years studying the art of acting at the New School for Social Research, and Daniel Mann invited him to New York actors studio, which led by Elia Kazan and Lee Strasberg. Stayger, inclined to corpulence, with a thoughtful, and even severe expression, at once has been chosen for the role of mature, often elderly. "I am - an actor no representations, and experiences," - he said.
In April 1951, Rhode Stayger got his first role on Broadway in the play resumed production of Clifford Odetsa "Night Music". He played pyatidesyatipyatiletnego detective, and was highly marked by the New York critics. The following year he appears on stage in a comedy Hugh Hastings "Seagulls over Sorrento, and in ibsenovskom" enemy of the people. "
But the main field of activity of the actors in those years - on television. Have not yet received a Hollywood roles - "emotional villain, Rhode Stayger demonstrates the breadth of its range - from Romeo and Rasputin. In the five years from 1948 to 1953, he has played over 250 roles.
Stayger Silwan was awarded in 1953 for best TV actor for his participation in five productions, among them - "Marty." He is proud of that record TV Marti is stored in the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
For the first time tried Staygera in the movie Fred Tsinneman in 1951. The film "Teresa" was one of the short bursts of American neorealizma.
Already next Staygera role in the film prompted criticism to speak of him as a phenomenon.
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The following year, director Robert Oldrich film "Big Knife." Stayger played by producer Stanley Hoff. He is a very short time on screen, but all the action heroes are subject to its magnetic adamantine power. Stanley Hoff - an ominous figure, and yet suffers.
Choice of Staygera director Otto Premindzherom the role of the army prosecutor Allan Guillaume in the Tribunal of the Billy Mitchell was clearly a conscious choice after pictures Kazana. Although the main character - Billy Mitchell (Gary Cooper), the work Staygera not go unnoticed. Shifty, tenacious, smarmy prosecutor was all review for the film.
Himself an actor from the works of this period provides a very small role Jouda Fry Fred Tsinnemana in the musical "Oklahoma!" Stayger general loved to sing, and once immediately after returning to the Navy, he "raised" voice. Now his musical training paid off. According to the actor, he had a lot of work to read Jouda, farm laborer literally chased him. He even wrote in the book their observations, take notes about the characters. "I played a" villain ", but I do not believe that my hero should be or really good or really bad. We have all the good and bad at the same time."
Fred Tsinneman, which included Staygera the five most interesting actors in Hollywood, was satisfied with his debut in the musical. "Rod was simply amazing. He turned Judah in neurotic and make people feel pity for him. "
Roda Staygera best role in a movie in the late 1950′s - in the English film "The Bridge" by Ken Annakina. The film on a Graham Green novel. Genus Stayger tragedy based on an adventure blockbuster. His Hero - International financier Carl Shaffner. Eternal doomed heroes Staygera here appears particularly bright, sharp, saturated. Full Movie Ken Annakina - so, as the English say, one-man show. The director was very happy Staygerom. "I deeply penetrating into the psychology of the central hero, he made the film no less input than I do."
By the luck of the television time the role of sheriff in the performance "The city turned to ashes" on the play by Rhoda Serlinga "Planet of apes". Stayger made in this role, first by the BBC in England (per-director Alvin Rakoff), and then in America in the setting of John Frankenheymera (premiere took place on 19 June 1958). Sheriff, the hero Staygera - rueful figure, suffering and broken.
Position cinematic villain, has confirmed its Staygerom in 1950, of course, determines the choice of its director, Richard Wilson in the main role in the movie "Al Capone". In addition, Wilson has a formal resemblance between the actor and famous gangsters.
But, in fact, bribed Staygera great opportunity to play a distinctive role.
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Stayger studied all of his characteristic gestures, and obygryvaya them, he wore a jacket over one′s shoulders and a hat with zalomlennymi fields. "I felt it would be significant. It was imperative that the natural human actions speak for themselves. "
"Al Capone" was a huge success. Stayger at this time returned to the theater. On Broadway, he plays a dark, ill-Mexican in the play "Rasemon.
Stayger recalled: "I then made a much more interesting things, but people continued to say:" Oh, cool you found this Capone. "I have worked on Broadway, and just around the corner was" Capone. " Roles seemed diametrically opposed, that secretly teshilo my pride and give the opportunity to feel like a real actor ... Risk - a noble cause. "
Together with him in the theater to play a British actress Claire Bloom - kareglazaya elegant woman, so well chosen for the main role Chaplin "ramp lights."
Three months after dating - 19 September 1959 - Claire Bloom was the wife Staygera, and a pair of Bloom - Stayger will soon be able to compete in terms of popularity with the other actor′s "star" a pair of Elizabeth Taylor - Richard Burton, has not been reached, however, the vast wealth of recent .
In the film Stayger appear now on the sunny quay Monte Carlo - a young, handsome, in a white suit and hat, but grustnovaty and uncertain. He is a hero of the film by Henry Hataueya Seven thieves "(1960).
Seven thieves "Hollywood completing a period of creativity Staygera. He was in several films outside of the United States. At the small role of commander of an American destroyer in the cost of the multimillion epic "The Longest Day" (1962) Genus Stayger have been invited as an international film star.
In the early 1960′s Stayger works in Italy. Choosing Staygera on the primary role in Francesco Rosi tape "Hands over the City characterized the first meeting between an actor and producer. Rosie gave Staygeru to understand Italy. Actor and now argues that, thanks to Rosie, he fell in love with Rome. Because he was pleased to immediately agreed to removed in another movie with a young Italian director Francesco Mazelli. "Indifference" (1964) - filming the first novel by Alberto Moravia. The film paints a two days of the Roman bourgeois family, once wealthy, now broken. The "indifferent" Stayger serves coherent ensemble of the major stars of international screen - Paulette Goddar, Claudia Cardinale, Tomas Milian, and Shelley Winters.
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Genus Stayger remain dissatisfied with the picture Mazelli, won prizes at festivals in 1965 in Mar del Plata and in Rome. "This film is too intelligent and too slow for me. I do not like to talk about it. "
When asked interviewers: "What kind of films do you consider your best?" Stayger says: " usurer. "I love it." Loan shark ", an eighteen outage actor." What did I do in these Eighteen months? read, painted, wrote stories for the two films, rastolstel, brought to mind his family and playing tennis. "
"I′m always conscious of the danger to be an actor - the danger of turning the art of life, instead of one, albeit the most important part of life. You need another man, who was always there. To play, you should be primarily a man to love, make friends, to suffer in real life. "
Offer his friend Sydney Lyumeta play sixtieth Jew-usurer actor interrupts simple. "usurer" in Italy has exceeded the cash on the success of James Bond films, which caused surprise distributors.
During these years, couple Staygerov is life, typical of the international screen actors. Claire Bloom was then in France, then Germany, then England, then in Italy. As Stayger, she fell in love with Rome. In the short intervals between films Claire Bloom is coming to Italy, where he was Stayger.
In the same 1965 Staygera invited taken an interesting English director Tony Richardson in the screening satirical novel Evelyn in "unforgettable."
Next year Stayger conducted in Spain and then was withdrawn from the Italian director Pasquale Festa Kampanile, places tragicomedy about the First World War, "The girl and the general."
In mid-1960′s Stayger completely given film, leaving at least he loved the theater. If the role requires a focus, it becomes a constant for Staygera and in life, yet the film is not finished. The actor believes that you can not catch the manner of his hero, and immediately assume the audience, you need to live a little like inside risuemogo image.
Norman began shooting pictures Dzhuisona "air at night." His hero, Bill Gillespie - Chief of Police of Sparta, a small town in the southern United States. Stayger now permanently and nesemochnoe being chewed gum, and said with emphasis southerner and wore huge shoes to get used to swinging walk sheriff.
Genus Stayger talked about the film: "night air" - not a great social drama, and I did not give full opportunity to express its attitude to racial prejudice, but it had to act on the human subconscious, when people see a white and black get along with each other ... "
Nevertheless, the picture "night air" was a huge success worldwide.
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Detective Jack Smythe "So ladies do not go" is built on a series of murders, every - single short story, allowing Staygeru demonstrate the art of reincarnation. Stayger plays in the film back, which the pastor, and the plumber, a hairdresser and flirtatious, and police, and finally, a prostitute.
Roman Dennis Murphy, which in 1968 directed by John Flynn began to shoot the film "Sergeant", Roda Staygera interested in a further eight years ago. "I was struck by a tragedy of this man, his loneliness, his haughtiness, his willingness to sacrifice useless." However, some nuances of the novel (hidden hint at homosexuality and, most importantly, suicide, Sergeant U.S. Army) did not screen it, censorship is not allowed to this fact at the time. Stayger was invited to the central role that brought him to France, where there were shooting.
The film is advertised almost as an indictment of homosexuality. Sergeant Kallai, as played by his Rhode Stayger - infinitely lonely man. He wants to love someone, he dreams of at least one sister′s soul. Kallai tries to start a friendship with a young soldier Suonsenom (John Phillip Law). "He was trying to return to the life of a boy, killed him at the beginning of the movie," - explained Stayger.
The film proved fatal for four Staygerov. The crack in the family emerged early. "Claire loves company, parties - and I can not tolerate this. Also, when I shoot, I is closed, focus, do I need solitude. Perhaps I nesnosen ", - said Stayger the eve of divorce.
In 1968, Claire Bloom and Rod Stayger acted in two films in succession, and he hoped that working together once again brought together by them. But soon in the newspapers it was reported that Claire Bloom is married to Broadway producer Hillarda Elkinsa.
Stayger deeply experienced a breakup with a beloved wife. This was during the shooting of "Waterloo" by Sergei Bondarchuk.
"Stayger - and this is my directing idea, - says Sergei Bondarchuk in the June day in 1969 in the field of Uzhgorod before shooting - shows not only Napoleon, military leader, but above all, Napoleon-man ... Whatever Stayger played, he has always been interested in the human condition, experience, he should shake the audience. It is five years studying psychology, excellent use of the lessons of the Russian acting school, he was close to the talent of Nikolai Cherkasov. Stayger often improvising in front of the camera ... Any smooth literary phrase annoys Staygera ... That Napoleon was not yet in the film, and in this lies a certain danger, because the audience is already accustomed to a certain cliche.
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In early 1974, to screen out an Italian film producer Carlo Lidzani "Mussolini, the last act, where Rhode Stayger performed a central role. Painting Lidzani - it chronicles the five days of April 1945. Committee of National Liberation of Mussolini was sentenced to death. Acting work Staygera here is perfect, he was never false, deciding to set a task to show the last days of man, fallen from the top of unjust glory and did not understand his plea for the country.
"I was more interested in ideas and vivid characters than plots, - said the actor. - Execution of the roles of the real heroes brings me more pleasure than imagined. Feel responsibility before history, the need to find the truth and save her. "
Genus Stayger together with Romy Schneider appears in the detective stories of family life "Innocent with dirty hands" (1974) Claude Shabrolya. The director, along with actors psychologically accurately analyze family relationships, transfers all the nuances of the characters.
Another memorable movie involving Staygera - "Jesus of Nazareth" (1976) Franco Dzeffirelli delivered in English and Italian cinematographers on the order of the Vatican. In this picture have also been employed such stars as Laurence Olivier, Peter Ustinov, Ralph Richardson, Ann Benkroft, Robert Powell and others.
In 1978, Rhode Stayger played in the movie "The senator Andrew Madison" (FIST), and in 1982 - in the German screening novel by Thomas Mann "The Magic Mountain."
Unfortunately, on the big screen, it appears less and less. In 1991, Rhode Stayger shot in the film directed by Simon Kallou "Ballad of the sad cafe", where his partner was the famous Vanessa Redgrave. This drama of love ugly women. Scold the love and the unfairness of fate - platitude, but the performance of amazing actors story seems original and touching.
Stayger argues that learned to think in more realistic and easier to carry disappointment. "I realized that really like to play, although the romantic aura of the profession has already faded, and I often cursed her, but I know that would not otherwise exist. And because I have cursed it, I see ever more clearly and try to play better. It′s like the feeling of toreador. I know that I can be wounded, but give me a good bull, and see if I can make this presentation ... "
P.S. Genus Stayger passed away on 9 July 2002.
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