Acting

Allan F. Nicholls

Born April 8, 1945 · Montreal, Quebec, Canada (age 81)

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Known For

Dead Man Walking · 1995

Dead Man Walking

★ 7.31995

MovieDrama

A death row inmate turns for spiritual guidance to a local nun in the days leading up to his scheduled execution for the murders of a young couple.

Popeye is a super-strong, spinach-scarfing sailor man who's searching for his father. During a storm that wrecks his ship, Popeye washes ashore and winds up rooming at the Oyl household, where he meets Olive. Before he can win her heart, he must first contend with Olive's fiancé, Bluto.

Cradle Will Rock · 1999

Cradle Will Rock

★ 6.51999

MovieDrama

A true story of politics and art in the 1930s USA, centered around a leftist musical drama and attempts to stop its production.

The intersecting stories of twenty-four characters—from country star to wannabe to reporter to waitress—and their connection through the music business in Nashville, Tennessee.

A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?

Many loosely connected characters cross paths in this film, based on the stories of Raymond Carver. Waitress Doreen Piggot accidentally runs into a boy with her car. Soon after walking away, the child lapses into a coma. While at the hospital, the boy's grandfather tells his son, Howard, about his past affairs. Meanwhile, a baker starts harassing the family when they fail to pick up the boy's birthday cake.

Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle · 1994

Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle

★ 5.91994

MovieDrama

Dorothy Parker remembers the heyday of the Algonquin Round Table, a circle of friends whose barbed wit, like hers, was fueled by alcohol and flirted with despair.

To build up attendance at their games, the management of a struggling minor-league hockey team signs up the Hanson Brothers, three hard-charging players whose job is to demolish the opposition.

Filmography

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Dead Man Walking · 1995

Dead Man Walking

★ 7.31995

MovieDrama

A death row inmate turns for spiritual guidance to a local nun in the days leading up to his scheduled execution for the murders of a young couple.

Associate Producer

Rough House

Cradle Will Rock · 1999

Cradle Will Rock

★ 6.51999

MovieDrama

A true story of politics and art in the 1930s USA, centered around a leftist musical drama and attempts to stop its production.

Executive Producer

The intersecting stories of twenty-four characters—from country star to wannabe to reporter to waitress—and their connection through the music business in Nashville, Tennessee.

Original Music Composer

A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?

First Assistant Director

First Assistant Director

Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle · 1994

Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle

★ 5.91994

MovieDrama

Dorothy Parker remembers the heyday of the Algonquin Round Table, a circle of friends whose barbed wit, like hers, was fueled by alcohol and flirted with despair.

Co-Producer

To build up attendance at their games, the management of a struggling minor-league hockey team signs up the Hanson Brothers, three hard-charging players whose job is to demolish the opposition.

Johnny Upton

Four retired mobsters plan one last crime to save their retirement home.

Wiseguy #3

Millionaire conservative Bob Roberts launches an insurgent campaign against incumbent senator Brickley Paiste, firing up crowds at his rallies by singing '60s-style acoustic folk songs with lyrics espousing far-right conservative social and economic views.

Associate Producer

Trouble in Mind · 1985

Trouble in Mind

★ 5.81985

MovieCrimeDrama

The lives of an ex-con, a coffee-shop owner, and a young couple looking to make it rich intersect in the hypnotic Rain City.

Sector Representative Pete Regis

A small but growing Texas town, filled with strange and musical characters, celebrates its sesquicentennial and converge on a local parade and talent show.

Executive In Charge Of Production

Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson · 1976

Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson

★ 5.61976

MovieWesternComedy

Buffalo Bill plans to put on his own Wild West sideshow, and Chief Sitting Bull has agreed to appear in it. However, Sitting Bull has his own hidden agenda, involving the President and General Custer.

The Journalist (Prentiss Ingraham)

Muffin's wedding to Dino Corelli is to be a big affair. Except the ageing priest isn't too sure of the ceremony, only the families actually turn up as the Corelli Italian connection is suspect, security guards watch the gifts rather over-zealously, and Dino's grandma expires in bed just as the reception starts. Could be quite an occasion.

Screenplay

Threshold · 1981

Threshold

★ 5.31981

MovieDramaScience Fiction

Celebrated heart surgeon Thomas Vrain supports the research of an offbeat scientist who has invented an artificial heart. Against the advice of the Ethics Committee, Dr. Vrain decides to perform the first artificial heart transplant.

Dr. Basil Rents

Welcome to L.A. · 1976

Welcome to L.A.

★ 5.01976

MovieRomanceDrama

The lives of a group of Hollywood neurotics intersect over the Christmas holidays. Foremost among them, a songwriter visits Los Angeles to work on a singer's album. The gig, unbeknownst to him, is being bankrolled by his estranged father, a dairy magnate, who hopes to reunite with his son. When the songwriter meets an eccentric housewife who fancies herself a modern-day Garbo, his world of illusions comes crashing down.

David Howard

Footsteps in the Snow · 1966

Footsteps in the Snow

★ 7.01966

MovieAdventureThriller

An overprotective mother (Veronica Lake) goes to great lengths to thwart her daughter's (Meredith MacRae) budding romance.

The Jaybees (musical group / soundtrack)

At a luxury Florida resort, health food lobbyists choose their new president at their annual convention. As the conference progresses, underhanded tricks, backroom corruption and bizarre personal behavior threaten to undermine the entire affair.

Jake Jacobs

Jennifer on My Mind · 1971

Jennifer on My Mind

★ 3.61971

MovieDramaRomance

Two rich American young adults who meet and fall in love in Venice, Italy. With plenty of money and no real responsibilities or direction in life, the couple begin experimenting with illicit drugs. The movie travels through a series of flashbacks showing their progression from marijuana to harder drugs as a result of their complex romantic entanglement with each other.

Hell's Angel #2

Two 12-year-olds, the products of Upper West Side broken homes, struggle to make sense of their parents lives and their own adolescent feelings.

Songs

Moonlight & Mistletoe · 2008

Moonlight & Mistletoe

★ 5.82008

MovieTV MovieDrama

After three years, Nick's estranged daughter Holly returns home to find the spirit of Christmas in Santaville has dwindled, taking the family business with it. What starts out as an attempt to bail out her dad, ends up rekindling Holly's belief in Christmas all over again.

Earl

Canadian businesswoman Dinah Middleton's is devastated when her teenage son, Alex, is killed by a hit-and-run driver. When the police fail to turn up any suspects, she turns private detective to track the killer down. She traces the murderer to New York, only to discover that the crime is not covered by the extradition treaty between Canada and the US. She becomes obsessed with bringing the criminal to justice.

Line Producer

A Perfect Couple · 1979

A Perfect Couple

★ 5.11979

MovieComedyRomance

An uptight bachelor tries his luck with a computer dating service and gets matched up with his polar opposite.

Writer

A DEA agent and a local sheriff have to wrestle with their consciences as they start raids on local farmers, who have started growing marijuana simply to keep their farms operational. Story focuses on a young man, who accidentally discovers that his straight-laced parents are involved in the marijuana cultivation.

Music Supervisor

Tanner on Tanner · 2004

Tanner on Tanner

★ 10.02004

SeriesComedy

Sixteen years ago, Jack Tanner's bid for the White House ended at the 1988 Democratic convention. Now the former congressman is the subject of a documentary film directed by his daughter Alex, focusing on the toll paid by failed contenders.

First Assistant Director