2005Winner
Best Performance
The Adventures of Errol Flynn
Rudy Behlmer
Actor · Director
San Francisco, California, USA
October 13, 1926
Biography
Rudy Behlmer (October 13, 1926 – September 27, 2019) was an American film historian and writer. He was an expert in the history and evolution of the motion picture industry. Behlmer began his career with KLAC-TV in Hollywood as a stage manager. At the beginning of the 1960s, Behlmer started researching and writing articles on various aspects of film history. One such project, a career piece on film producer David O. Selznick (Gone with the Wind, Rebecca), led to his book Memo from David O. Selznick (1972). It was followed by nine other books as well as numerous magazine articles and film music recording booklets. Behlmer also contributed to a wide variety of works about the Golden Age of Hollywood.
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
2008Nominee
Best Performance
Alfred Hitchcock: The Ultimate Spymaster
2008Winner
Best Performance
RKO Production 601: The Making of “Kong, the Eighth Wonder of the World”
Career Highlights
2000Highlight
Best Performance
Mummy Dearest: A Horror Tradition Unearthed
2010Highlight
Best Performance
Embracing Chaos: Making The African Queen