Ed Lukowich
Edward R." Ed" Lukowich( born March 1, 1946; nicknamed" Cool Hand Luke") is a former champion curler.
Lukowich is a two- time Brier champion, having won the Brier Tankard for Alberta as skip of both the 1978 and 1986 Canadian championship teams.
In 1986 his team also won the World Curling Championship.
In 1988, representing Canada at the Olympic Games while curling was a demonstration sport, his team placed third.
Howard Shoup
Howard Shoup( August 29, 1903 – May 29, 1987) was an American costume designer who received 5 Academy Award nominations.
He had over 170 film credits during his long career.
Including films like" Ocean's 11" and" Cool Hand Luke".
Shoup was the long- term romantic partner of artist Sascha Brastoff.
Stuart Rosenberg
Stuart Rosenberg( August 11, 1927 – March 15, 2007) was an American film and television director whose motion pictures include" Cool Hand Luke"( 1967)," Voyage of the Damned"( 1976)," The Amityville Horror"( 1979), and" The Pope of Greenwich Village"( 1984).
He was noted for his work with actor Paul Newman.
Morgan Woodward
Thomas Morgan Woodward( September 16, 1925 – February 22, 2019) was an American actor who is best known for his recurring role as Marvin" Punk" Anderson on the television soap opera" Dallas" and for his portrayal of Boss Godfrey, the sunglasses- wearing" man with no eyes", in the 1967 film" Cool Hand Luke".
On another television series," Gunsmoke", he can be seen in 19 episodes, the most guest appearances of any actor on that long- running Western.
Elvis (1968 TV program)
Singer Presents ... Elvis( commonly referred to as the< nowiki>'</ nowiki>68 Comeback Special) is a television special starring singer Elvis Presley, aired by NBC on December 3, 1968.
It marked Presley's return to live performance after seven years during which his career was centered in the movie business.
Presley was unhappy with his distance from musical trends of the time, and the low- quality movie productions he was involved in.
Initially planned as a Christmas special by the network, and Presley's manager Colonel Tom Parker, producer Bob Finkel transformed the idea.
He hired director Steve Binder to update Presley's sound, and to create a special that would be current and appeal to a younger audience.
Filming took place in June 1968 at NBC Studios in Burbank, California.
The show consisted of a sit- down section, stand- up numbers and two musicals.
The sit- down session showcased Presley in an informal setting, surrounded by fans and small band.
The stripped sound, and intimate atmosphere would become the forerunner to" MTV Unplugged".
The special garnered good reviews when it aired, topped the Nielsen television ratings for the week, and was the most watched show of the season.
Later known as the" Comeback Special", it re-launched Presley's singing career and his return to live performance.
Lou Antonio
Louis" Lou" Antonio( born January 23, 1934) is an American actor and TV director best known for performing in the films" Cool Hand Luke" and" America America".
He also starred in two short- lived TV series," Dog and Cat", and" Makin' It".
The Young Loner
The Young Loner is a 1968 TV movie from Disney.
It was directed by Michael O' Herlihy.
Donn Pearce
Donn Pearce( born, September 28, 1928, died in 2017) was an American author and journalist best known for the novel and screenplay" Cool Hand Luke".
Cool Hand Luke
Cool Hand Luke is a 1967 American prison drama film directed by Stuart Rosenberg, starring Paul Newman and featuring George Kennedy in an Oscar- winning performance.
Newman stars in the title role as Luke, a prisoner in a Florida prison camp who refuses to submit to the system.
The film, set in the early 1950s, is based on Donn Pearce's 1965 novel of the same name.
Pearce sold the story to Warner Bros., who then hired him to write the script.
Due to Pearce's lack of film experience, the studio added Frank Pierson to rework the screenplay.
Newman's biographer Marie Edelman Borden states that the" tough, honest" script drew together threads from earlier movies, especially" Hombre", Newman's earlier film of 1967.
The film has been cited by Roger Ebert as an anti-establishment film which was shot during the time of emerging popular opposition to the Vietnam War.
Newman's character, Lucas Jackson, is described( by the notorious" Captain" upon his arrival at the prison), as a" free spirit," whose personal record( read out loud because of its unusual details) indicates a man who started well in the U.S. Army—receiving medals for bravery in" the war" —rose to the rank of sergeant, yet was discharged as a" buck" private.
Luke does not question his physical incarceration, and initially has no thought of escape.
But his spirit is not, like that of his fellow inmates, imprisoned.
This free thinking is, from the outset, noticed by the institution, its functionaries( the guards), and especially its leaders.
Their response is a mixture of both fear and loathing.
So they retaliate against Luke through" physical punishment, psychological cruelty, hopelessness and equal parts of sadism and masochism."
His influence on his prison mates and the torture that he endures is compared to that of Jesus, and Christian symbolism is used throughout the film, culminating in a photograph superimposed over crossroads at the end of the film in comparison to the crucifixion.
Filming took place within California's San Joaquin River Delta region; the set, imitating a prison farm in the Deep South, was based on photographs and measurements made by a crew sent to Road Prison in Gainesville, Florida by the filmmakers.
Upon its release," Cool Hand Luke" received favorable reviews and became a box- office success.
The film cemented Newman's status as one of the era's top box- office actors, while the film was described as the" touchstone of an era." Newman was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor, George Kennedy won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, Pearce and Pierson were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, and the score by Lalo Schifrin was also nominated for the Best Original Score.
In 2005, the United States Library of Congress selected it for the National Film Registry, considering it to be" culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."
It has a 100% rating on the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes.
The quotation used by the prison warden( Strother Martin) in the film, which begins with" What we've got here is failure to communicate," was listed at No. 11 on the American Film Institute's list of the 100 most memorable movie lines.
Steve Binder
Steve Binder is an American producer and director.
He found success behind the camera on television shows showcasing music, when he was only in his early 20s.
He was also influential in creating music programs with racially and ethnically diverse casts, featuring a variety of musical styles.
Binder is arguably best known as director of" The T.A.M.I. ShowElvis Presley's' 68 Comeback Special", and" Diana Ross Live in Central Park" in which a torrential thunderstorm passed through minutes into Ross' first set, and the" Star Wars Holiday Special".
In addition to working with Petula Clark and Elvis, Binder also worked on numerous TV shows and specials with Steve Allen, Soupy Sales, Chevy Chase, Patti LaBelle, Barry Manilow, Wayne Newton, Mac Davis, Liza Minnelli, Pee- Wee Herman, and John Denver.

Question: Do both films Cool Hand Luke and Elvis (1968 TV program) have the directors that share the same nationality?
Answer: yes