Alex Nicol - Turner Classic Movies

Biography

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Alex Nicol was an actor who was no stranger to being featured in numerous film roles throughout his Hollywood career. Nicol started his acting career landing roles in such films as the Richard Conte mystery "The Sleeping City" (1950), "Tomahawk" (1951) with Van Heflin and "Because of You" (1952) with Loretta Young. He also appeared in "Meet Danny Wilson" (1952) with Frank Sinatra, "R...

Filmography

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Point of Terror (1971)

Then There Were Three (1961)

The Screaming Skull (1958)

Woman in the Rain (1976)

Winner Take All (1975)

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Man from Laramie, The (1955) -- (Movie Clip) I Own This Town

Man from Laramie, The (1955) -- (Movie Clip) Keep Diggin' Salt

Biography

Alex Nicol was an actor who was no stranger to being featured in numerous film roles throughout his Hollywood career. Nicol started his acting career landing roles in such films as the Richard Conte mystery "The Sleeping City" (1950), "Tomahawk" (1951) with Van Heflin and "Because of You" (1952) with Loretta Young. He also appeared in "Meet Danny Wilson" (1952) with Frank Sinatra, "Red Ball Express" (1952) and the western "The Redhead From Wyoming" (1953) with Maureen O'Hara. His passion for acting continued to his roles in projects like "The House Across the Lake" (1954), the drama "Strategic Air Command" (1955) with James Stewart and the James Stewart western "The Man From Laramie" (1955). He also appeared in the Liberace dramatic adaptation "Sincerely Yours" (1955). Nicol continued to exercise his talent in the sixties and the seventies, taking on a mix of projects like "The Wild Wild West" (CBS, 1965-1970), "Bloody Mama" with Shelley Winters (1970) and "Point of Terror" with Peter Carpenter (1971). His credits also expanded to "The Night God Screamed" (1974). Nicol more recently acted in "Ape" (1976).

Filmography

Director (Feature Film)

Point of Terror (1971)

Then There Were Three (1961)

The Screaming Skull (1958)

Cast (Feature Film)

Woman in the Rain (1976)

Winner Take All (1975)

Huckleberry Finn (1975)

The Night God Screamed (1974)

Bloody Mama (1970)

Gunfighters of Casa Grande (1965)

Run With the Devil (1963)

Everybody Go Home! (1962)

American paratrooper

A Matter of WHO (1962)

The Savage Guns (1962)

Then There Were Three (1961)

Look In Any Window (1961)

Under Ten Flags (1960)

Knoche/Capt. Canard

Five Branded Women (1960)

The Screaming Skull (1958)

Great Day in the Morning (1956)

The Man from Laramie (1955)

Strategic Air Command (1955)

Sincerely Yours (1955)

Howard Ferguson

Dawn at Socorro (1954)

Heat Wave (1954)

The Black Glove (1954)

James "Brad" Bradley

The Lone Hand (1953)

Law and Order (1953)

[Luther] Lute Johnson

Champ for a Day (1953)

The Redhead from Wyoming (1953)

Red Ball Express (1952)

Sgt. [Red] Kallek

Meet Danny Wilson (1952)

Michael Francis Ryan

Because of You (1952)

The Raging Tide (1951)

Tomahawk (1951)

Target Unknown (1951)

[Sgt.] Al[fred] Mitchell

Air Cadet (1951)

Sgt. Joe Czanoczek

Producer (Feature Film)

Then There Were Three (1961)

Life Events

Videos

Man from Laramie, The (1955) -- (Movie Clip) I Own This Town Lockhart (James Stewart) tangles with all three head men from the Waggoman Ranch in town as Dave (Alex Nicol) starts, Vic (Arthur Kennedy) takes over and Alec (Donald Crisp) settles, neighbor Kate (Aline MacMahon) rescuing, in Anthony Mann's The Man from Laramie, 1955.

Man from Laramie, The (1955) -- (Movie Clip) Keep Diggin' Salt Signature intensity from director Anthony Mann as cruel Dave Waggoman (Alex Nicol) and his men abuse Lockhart (James Stewart) et al at the salt lagoons in The Man from Laramie, 1955.

Man from Laramie, The (1955) -- (Movie Clip) Checkin' Half Moon Stock Not a lot of chat as Dave (Alex Nicol) and his gang start shooting at Lockhart (James Stewart) for trespassing then enforce punishment in Anthony Mann's The Man From Laramie, 1955.

Heat Wave (1954) -- (Movie Clip) Fast Blondes And Slow Gin Presumably Ken Hughes, the novelist, screenwriter and director, means “slow” not “sloe,” regardless, his opening introduces Alex Nicol as American hack Mark, and places the story at a real location, England’s largest natural lake, in the Hammer Films Brit-Noir Heat Wave, 1954, co-starring Hillary Brooke.

Heat Wave (1954) -- (Movie Clip) The Suspense Was Terrific American writer Mark (Alex Nicol) the morning after the party on England’s Lake Windermere, where he met host Beverley (Sidney James), meets his daughter (Susan Stephen), but the subject is the wife, her stepmother, Carol (Hillary Brooke) whom we know, via flashback, winds up dead, in the Brit-Noir Heat Wave 1954.

Heat Wave (1954) -- (Movie Clip) Showing Off Her Torso American writer Mark (Alex Nicol), narrating, is done working, spying Carol (Hillary Brooke), across from his rental on an English lake, recalls the party where she wounded husband (Sidney James) and stepdaughter (Susan Stephen), steam ensuing, in the Hammer Films Noir Heat Wave, 1954.

About Mrs. Leslie (1954) -- (Original Trailer) Emphasis on Academy Award-winner Shirley Booth in the original trailer for producer Hal Wallis’ About Mrs. Leslie, 1954, co-starring Robert Ryan, from the popular potboiler by Viña Del Mar.

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