The 59th Karlovy Vary Intl. Film Festival will feature a tribute to 1940s American screen star John Garfield. “We are excited to remember the exceptional but somewhat forgotten career of a pioneer of ...

The 59th edition of the Czech fest will screen 10 films with the star who testified before Congress and whose style, later known as method acting, influenced Marlon Brando, James Dean and Paul Newman.

John Garfield (March 4, 1913 – May 21, 1952) was an American actor. Garfield was especially adept at playing brooding, rebellious, working-class character roles. Garfield is acknowledged as the ...

Since his untimely death in 1952 at age 39, there has been a heavy layer of glib journalistic varnish over the life and career of Hollywood’s first angry young man, John Garfield. It was difficult to ...

“It’s my baby,” KVIFF artistic director Karel Och tells THR about the retrospective. “I’ve been wanting to do Garfield for many years, since the centenary [of his birth] in 2013, because I don’t think ...

Mickey Borden (John Garfield): I wouldn’t win first prize if I were the only entry in the contest. Ann Lemp (Priscilla Lane): Mathematically speaking, I think you’d stand a fine chance. Mickey: ...

He was brash, cocky, explosive, sensitive and sincere, all at the same time. John Garfield was one of the most popular and electrifying actors of the 1940s. But he was also a marked man, done in by ...

John Newell Garfield, 93, formerly of Lake Forest and Chicago, IL, died on November 12, 2016, in Tiverton, RI, after a brief illness. He was the great-grandson of James A. Garfield, 20th President of ...