Andy Sidaris

Directeur, Acteur, Scénariste, Producteur

20 février 1931 — 7 mars 2007 (76 ans)
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Andrew W. "Andy" Sidaris (February 20, 1931 – March 7, 2007) was an American television and film director, film producer, actor, and screenwriter.

Sidaris was best known for his Bullets, Bombs, and Babes or Bullets, Bombs, and Boobs (BBB for short) series of B-movies produced between 1985 and 1998. These films featured a rotating "stock company" of actors mostly made up of Playboy Playmates and Penthouse "Pets", including Julie Strain, Dona Speir, Hope Marie Carlton, Cynthia Brimhall, Roberta Vasquez, Julie K. Smith, Shae Marks, and Wendy Hamilton. Several of his films were done wholly or largely in Shreveport using many local actors or actors with local ties.

Before the B-movies, Sidaris was a pioneer in sports television. He directed coverage of hundreds of football and basketball games, Olympic events, and special programs and won seven Emmy awards for his work in the field. His best known work was with ABC's Wide World of Sports; he was the show's first director, and continued in that post for 25 years.

Sidaris pioneered what he called the "honey shot", close-ups of cheerleaders and pretty girls in the stands at sporting events. He won an Emmy Award in 1969 for directing the Summer Olympics. He expanded into dramatic television in the 1970s, directing episodes of programs like Gemini Man (1976), CBS's Kojak (mid-1970s), ABC's The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries (late-1970s) and ABC's Monday Night Football.

He expanded into film, specializing in action flicks featuring buxom gun-toting Playboy Playmates and Penthouse Pets with titles like Fit to Kill and Savage Beach. Most of Sidaris' "Triple B" series (later given the title L.E.T.H.A.L. Ladies) focused on the adventures of a team of secret agents and were mostly filmed in Hawaii. Several entries in the series were merely produced by him and were written and directed by others. Although the series featured recurring characters, continuity between films was not a priority and it was common for an actress who played a villain (and was killed off) in one film to re-appear in a subsequent film as a hero.

With his wife, Arlene T. Sidaris (born ca. 1942) as his production partner, Sidaris made twelve films. After Sidaris' death, she runs the official websites of his twelve films.

Connue pour

  • Piège mortel à Hawaï
    Piège mortel à Hawaï1987
  • Malibu Express
    Malibu Express1985
  • Piège pour Amazones
    Piège pour Amazones1989
  • Picasso Trigger
    Picasso Trigger1988
  • Day of the Warrior
    Day of the Warrior1996
  • Return to Savage Beach
    Return to Savage Beach1998
  • Guns
    Guns1990
  • Jeu Fatal
    Jeu Fatal1991
  • Hard Hunted
    Hard Hunted1992
  • Fit to Kill
    Fit to Kill1993
  • Dallas Connection
    Dallas Connection1994
  • Seven
    Seven1979
  • Opération panthère noire
    Opération panthère noire1994
  • Kojak
    Kojak5 saisons
  • Stacey
    Stacey1973
  • The Racing Scene
    The Racing Scene1969
  • ESPN Monday Night Football
    ESPN Monday Night Football2 saisons
  • The Bare Wench Project
    The Bare Wench Project2000
  • The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries
    The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries3 saisons
  • The Bare Wench Project 3: Nymphs of Mystery Mountain
    The Bare Wench Project 3: Nymphs of Mystery Mountain2002

Filmographie

2002
2001
2000
The Bare Wench Project · as Dick Bigdickian
1994
The Dallas Connection · as Forensics Investigator In Locker Room (uncredited)
1993
Enemy Gold · as Man In Dickson's Lobby
1992
Hard Hunted · as Man In Pink Shorts At Hawaii Airport
1991
Do or Die · as Restaurant Owner Wearing Apron (uncredited)
1989
Savage Beach · as Honolulu Cb Radio Operator (uncredited)
1988
Picasso Trigger · as Whitey (uncredited)
1987
Hard Ticket to Hawaii · as Whitey The Tv Director (uncredited)
1985
Malibu Express · as Campervan Driver (uncredited)
1979
Seven · as Man Wearing White Hat Sitting On Sidewalk
1976
Two-Minute Warning · as Tv Director

1994
The Dallas Connection · as Executive Producer
1993
Enemy Gold · as Executive Producer
1985
1979
1973

2018
Sidelined · as Self
2009
Popatopolis · as Andy Sidaris
1998
Some Nudity Required · as Himself
1987

1979
Seven · as Story
1973
Stacey · as Story