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Jacques R. Marquette

Born January 26, 1915 · Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Died July 12, 1999 · aged 84

No biography available.

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Rose Loomis and her older, gloomier husband, George, are vacationing at a cabin in Niagara Falls. The couple befriend Polly and Ray Cutler, who are honeymooning in the area. Polly begins to suspect that something is amiss between Rose and George, and her suspicions grow when she sees Rose in the arms of another man. While Ray initially thinks Polly is overreacting, things between George and Rose soon take a shockingly dark turn.

Varan the Unbelievable · 1962

Varan the Unbelievable

★ 4.41962

MovieHorrorScience Fiction

In an effort to find an economic means of purifying salt water, a joint U.S.-Japanese military command is set up on an isolated Japanese island where an unusual salt water lake is situated. However, their purifying experiments arouse the prehistoric monster Obaki from hibernation at the lake's bottom, and it proceeds to attack Japan. Although made by a U.S. independent film company, this film was based on a Japanese Toho monster film of 1958, "Daikaiju Varan", from which all of the monster effects scenes and a few incidental dramatic shots were edited into it.

Frankie and Johnny · 1966

Frankie and Johnny

★ 5.61966

MovieComedyMusic

Johnny is a riverboat entertainer with a big gambling problem. After a psychic tells Johnny how he can change his luck, the appearance of a new 'lady luck' soon causes a catfight with Johnny's girlfriend, Frankie.

Burnt Offerings · 1976

Burnt Offerings

★ 6.51976

MovieHorrorThriller

A family moves into a large old mansion in the countryside which seems to have a mysterious and sinister power over its new residents.

Police in Boston search for a mad bomber trying to extort money from the city.

The Wicked Dreams of Paula Schultz · 1968

The Wicked Dreams of Paula Schultz

★ 3.91968

MovieComedy

A beautiful East German Olympic hopeful pole-vaults over the Berlin Wall to freedom.

Teenage Monster · 1958

Teenage Monster

★ 3.91958

MovieWesternHorror

In a little Western town, a boy is subjected to rays from a meteor. As a result, he grows into a teenaged, hairy, psychopathic killer. His mother hides him in her basement.

The behind-the-scenes intrigues — including, possibly, a murder — of an all-star fundraising telethon set in Las Vegas.

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Varan the Unbelievable · 1962

Varan the Unbelievable

★ 4.41962

MovieHorrorScience Fiction

Director of Photography

Frankie and Johnny · 1966

Frankie and Johnny

★ 5.61966

MovieComedyMusic

Director of Photography

Burnt Offerings · 1976

Burnt Offerings

★ 6.51976

MovieHorrorThriller

A family moves into a large old mansion in the countryside which seems to have a mysterious and sinister power over its new residents.

Director of Photography

Police in Boston search for a mad bomber trying to extort money from the city.

Director of Photography

The Wicked Dreams of Paula Schultz · 1968

The Wicked Dreams of Paula Schultz

★ 3.91968

MovieComedy

A beautiful East German Olympic hopeful pole-vaults over the Berlin Wall to freedom.

Director of Photography

Teenage Monster · 1958

Teenage Monster

★ 3.91958

MovieWesternHorror

In a little Western town, a boy is subjected to rays from a meteor. As a result, he grows into a teenaged, hairy, psychopathic killer. His mother hides him in her basement.

Director

The behind-the-scenes intrigues — including, possibly, a murder — of an all-star fundraising telethon set in Las Vegas.

Director of Photography

A Bucket of Blood · 1959

A Bucket of Blood

★ 6.61959

MovieComedyHorror

Nerdy Walter Paisley, a maladroit busboy at a beatnik café who doesn't fit in with the cool scene around him, attempts to woo his beautiful co-worker, Carla, by making a bust of her. When his klutziness results in the death of his landlady's cat, he panics and hides its body under a layer of plaster. But when Carla and her friends enthuse over the resulting artwork, Walter decides to create some bigger and more elaborate pieces using the same artistic process.

Director of Photography

The Brain from Planet Arous · 1957

The Brain from Planet Arous

★ 5.11957

MovieHorrorScience Fiction

An evil alien brain, bent on world domination, takes over the body of an atomic scientist, while a "good" alien brain inhabits the body of the scientist's dog and waits for an opportunity to defeat the evil brain.

Director of Photography

Attack of the 50 Foot Woman · 1958

Attack of the 50 Foot Woman

★ 4.81958

MovieScience FictionDrama

When an abused wife grows to giant size because of an alien encounter and an aborted murder attempt, she goes after her cheating husband with revenge on her mind.

Executive Producer

The F.B.I. Story: The FBI Versus Alvin Karpis, Public Enemy Number One · 1974

The F.B.I. Story: The FBI Versus Alvin Karpis, Public Enemy Number One

★ 8.01974

MovieTV MovieHistory

J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI go after notorious bank robber and kidnapper Alvin Karpis and his gang.

Director of Photography

The Aliens Are Coming · 1980

The Aliens Are Coming

★ 4.41980

MovieScience FictionTV Movie

A young astrophysicist searches for sinister extraterrestrials looking for sanctuary for their comrades by possessing the bodies of humans.

Director of Photography

The Trouble with Girls · 1969

The Trouble with Girls

★ 4.91969

MovieComedyMusic

Chautauqua manager Walter Hale and his loyal business manager struggle to keep their traveling troupe together in small town America.

Director of Photography

The story of four couples who are about to have children using the Lamaze method.

Director of Photography

Battle of Blood Island · 1960

Battle of Blood Island

★ 5.41960

MovieDramaWar

Two American GIs are the only survivors of a unit wiped out in a battle with Japanese troops on an isolated island. The two, who don't like each other, find try to put aside their differences in order to evade the Japanese and survive.

Director of Photography

Wealthy widow Helen Mercer hires a young woman, Gretchen Addison, to act as her personal assistant and companion. Unfortunately, Helen is a poor judge of character, as Gretchen is part of a murderous extortionist duo with her boyfriend, Jay. However, Gretchen has second thoughts when she develops genuine affection for Helen. When Gretchen informs Jay that she wants to call off their plot, he refuses and carries on with the plan. Now both Helen and Gretchen may be in grave danger.

Director of Photography

A man comes home to see his wife window washing and he is surprised to find out that she is a latin scholar. She has been dropping hints that she has been cheating with another Latin scholar. Now, he must become fluent in Latin to win her back.

Director of Photography

The Defection of Simas Kudirka · 1978

The Defection of Simas Kudirka

★ 6.01978

MovieTV MovieDrama

Based on the true story of the attempted defection in 1970 by a Lithuanian seaman seeking political asylum in the United States. Kudirka was denied asylum and returned to the Soviets, charged with treason, and sentenced to ten years of hard labor. It was later discovered and verified that his mother had been born in Brooklyn and gone to Lithuania at a young age, which meant she was a U. S. citizen. As a result, Kudirka was declared a U. S. citizen and in 1974 released by the Soviets.

Director of Photography

Return to Macon County · 1975

Return to Macon County

★ 6.61975

MovieDrama

In 1958, two teenagers take their pride and joy, a hopped-up Chevy, and start a cross-country journey to enter it in the National Championship drag races in California. Along the way they hook up with a pretty but dingy waitress who quits her job and hops in their car--and turns out to be more trouble than they thought--drag-race a gang of town punks who lose to to them and then accuse them of cheating, and come up against a local cop who is obsessed with putting these two "juvenile delinquents" in jail.

Director of Photography

Arizona Raiders · 1965

Arizona Raiders

★ 6.41965

MovieWestern

Murphy plays an ex-Quantrill's Raider who's released from jail with buddy Cooper to be deputized as Arizona Rangers in order to hunt down the remnant of the gang, rumored to he hiding out in a town "neer dee border" in the words of the loose-lipped saloon dancer. The goons are found hiding in an Indian mission. Murphy and Cooper pretend to want to rejoin the gang, but the bad guys catch on and brutally beat Cooper, who protects Murphy's true sentiments to the death.

Director of Photography

Pilot movie for the short-lived TV series set in the 1930's about a World War I ex-marine-turned-bounty-hunter, named Dave Barrett, who goes after two Bonnie-and-Clyde style bank robbers who murdered his former girlfriend.

Director of Photography

A Few Days at Weasel Creek · 1981

A Few Days at Weasel Creek

★ 8.01981

MovieDramaTV Movie

Serio-comic road movie about a feisty girl who sets out for California and hitches a ride for herself and her house trailer with a runaway farm boy and accompanies him on a side trip to visit his aunt in the Southern hamlet of Weasel Creek.

Director of Photography

Creature from the Haunted Sea · 1961

Creature from the Haunted Sea

★ 3.61961

MovieHorrorComedy

A crook decides to bump off members of his inept crew and blame their deaths on a legendary sea creature. What he doesn't know is that the creature is real.

Director of Photography

North and South · 1985

North and South

★ 7.51985

SeriesDramaWar & Politics

The story of the enduring friendship between Orry Main of South Carolina and George Hazard of Pennsylvania, who become best friends while attending the United States Military Academy at West Point but later find themselves and their families on opposite sides of the American Civil War.

Director of Photography

The Streets of San Francisco · 1972

The Streets of San Francisco

★ 7.11972

SeriesCrimeDrama

Two police officers, the older Lt. Stone and the young upstart Inspector Keller, investigate murders and other serious crimes in San Francisco. Stone would become a second father to Keller as he learned the rigors and procedures of detective work.

Director of Photography

Centennial · 1978

Centennial

★ 7.71978

SeriesAction & AdventureDrama

The economic and cultural growth of town of Centennial, Colorado, through the intertwining lives of the brave men and women inhabiting it. Spanning two centuries from the settling of the area in the 1700s, to the late 1970s.

Director of Photography

The Rousters · 1983

The Rousters

★ 4.31983

SeriesAction & Adventure

A group of modern-day bounty hunters are descendants of legendary lawman Wyatt Earp.

Director of Photography

Miniseries along the lines of a soap opera which centers on one young woman, Tiger Hayes, as she starts up a perfume company. The usual soap plots of adultery, romance, corruption, and greed abound.

Director of Photography

Loosely based on the life of Jimmy Hoffa, this traces the rise of Tommy Vanda (Joe Don Baker) from a Chicago dock worker to an influential labor leader who, like Hoffa, finds himself behind bars in a federal prison, and not long after, taken for a ride by shady men never to be seen again.

Director of Photography

Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan · 1975

Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan

1975

SeriesDramaCrime

After three civil-rights workers are murdered in Mississippi in 1964, a team of FBI agents is sent there to find the killers.

Director of Photography

Based on the 1971 novel by Arthur Hailey, Wheels is about the automobile industry and the day-to-day pressures involved in its operation. The plot lines follow many of the topical issues of the day, including race relations, corporate politics, and business ethics. The auto company of the novel is a little-disguised Ford Motor Company and some of the characters are recognizable to company insiders.

Director of Photography