George Kennedy, the burly character actor who won an Academy Award as a chain-gang leader in “Cool Hand Luke,” threatened Audrey Hepburn as a hook-armed villain in “Charade” and was a ...

COOL HAND LUKE By . Linda Stasi. Published July 5, 2008, 6:32 a.m. ET. ... DeSantis, on the other hand, can’t figure out who and what her character is, which might not be her fault.

Then I thought of the character that first made me love him as a screen persona. To a boy’s imagination, seeing that epitome of composure under pressure named Cool Hand Luke was more than seeing ...

Cool Hand Luke was based on the book of the same name, written in 1965 by Donn Pearce. According to Rotten Tomatoes , Donn Pearce wrote the book based on his own firsthand experience as a part of ...

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He wrote about him in his book Cool Hand Luke, which was published in 1965. Pearce sold the movie rights to Warner Bros. for $80,000, and got an additional $15,000 to write the screenplay.

Harry Dean Stanton, a prolific character actor who brought a soulful, hangdog presence to such varied films as “Alien,” “Paris, Texas,” “Repo Man” and “Pretty in Pink,” becoming a ...

Where is today's cool hand Luke? Published:1/24/2025 1/24/2025 • By Rachel Sauer. In honor of what would have been Paul Newman’s 100 th birthday, CU Boulder film historian Clark Farmer considers ...

In Cool Hand Luke, his intimidating character never said a word as he oversaw, with rifle or cane in hand, the chain gang prison which Paul Newman had joined. They have a memorable shocking ...

In one scene from Cool Hand Luke, George Kennedy's Dragline character has beaten Luke to a pulp in the chain gang's fighting circle, bloodying his face and repeatedly knocking him to the dusty ...

For his Treat, Helgeland plainly states that 1967’s Cool Hand Luke ranks among the best of Western civilization's artistic achievements. He argues Paul Newman’s portrayal of Lucas “Luke” Jackson, a ...