Ed Wolff (actor)
Ed Wolff( July 2, 1907 — July 7, 1966) was an American actor known for his height of 7' 4" and for his monster roles in" The Phantom of the Opera"( 1925)," The Phantom Creeps"( 1939)," Invaders from Mars"( 1953)," The Colossus of New York"( 1958) and" The Return of the Fly"( 1959).
Thomas Telford
Thomas Telford FRS, FRSE( 9 August 1757 – 2 September 1834) was a Scottish civil engineer, architect and stonemason, and road, bridge and canal builder.
After establishing himself as an engineer of road and canal projects in Shropshire, he designed numerous infrastructure projects in his native Scotland, as well as harbours and tunnels.
Such was his reputation as a prolific designer of highways and related bridges, he was dubbed" The Colossus of Roads"( a pun on the Colossus of Rhodes), and, reflecting his command of all types of civil engineering in the early 19th century, he was elected as the first President of the Institution of Civil Engineers, a post he held for 14 years until his death.
The Colossus of Rhodes (film)
The Colossus of Rhodes (Italian: "Il Colosso di Rodi") is a 1961 Italian sword and sandal film co-written and directed by Sergio Leone.
Starring Rory Calhoun, it is a fictional account of the island of Rhodes during its Classical period in the late third century before coming under Roman control, using the Colossus of Rhodes as a backdrop for the story of a war hero who becomes involved in two different plots to overthrow a tyrannical king: one by Rhodian patriots and the other by Phoenician agents.
The film was Leone's first work as a credited director, in a genre where he already had worked before (as the replacement director for "The Last Days of Pompeii" and as a secondary director for both "Ben-Hur" and "Quo Vadis").
It is perhaps the least known of the eight films he directed, and is notable for being one of only two of these films without an Ennio Morricone score.
The film is also notable for its unusual time period: The time following Alexander the Great’s death (323 BC) but before the rise of the Roman empire (27 BC), known as the Hellenistic era.
Most sword-and-sandal epics of the 1950s and 1960s were set in either classical Greece or even earlier ("Hercules,Ulysses,The Giant of Marathon") or the later Roman period ("Ben Hur,The Magnificent Gladiator,Quo Vadis").
The only other films made during the peplum era to use a Hellenistic setting are "Hannibal" (1959), "Revak the Rebel" and "Siege of Syracuse" (both 1960).
Colossus of Rhodes (disambiguation)
The Colossus of Rhodes was a statue of the Greek Titan Helios, erected in the city of Rhodes between 292 and 280 BC.
Colossus of Rhodes may also refer to:
Toto Tours Italy
Toto Tours Italy is a 1948 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Totò.
The film features cameos of famous cyclists of that time: Fausto Coppi, Gino Bartali, Fiorenzo Magni, Ferdi Kubler, Giordano Cottur, Gianni Ortelli, Oreste Conte, Adolfo Consolini, Louison Bobet, Briek Schotte, Amos Matteucci, Jean- Pierre Wimille, Ulisse Lorenzetti, Di Segni, Amadeo Deiana, Aldo Spoldi, Giuseppe Tosi, Camillo Achilli and Tazio Nuvolari.
Chares of Lindos
Chares of Lindos(" gen.:" Χάρητος; fl. 280 BC) was a Greek sculptor born on the island of Rhodes.
He was a pupil of Lysippos.
Chares constructed the Colossus of Rhodes in 282 BC, an enormous bronze statue of the sun god Helios and also the patron god of Rhodes.
The statue was built to commemorate Rhodes' victory over the invading Macedonians in 305 BC, led by Demetrius I, son of Antigonus, a general under Alexander the Great.
Also attributed to Chares was a colossal head which was brought to Rome and dedicated by P. Lentulus Spinther on the Capitoline Hill, in 57 BC( Pliny," Natural History" XXXIV.18).
The Colossus of Rhodes is one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, and was considered Chares's greatest accomplishment, until its destruction in an earthquake in 226 BC.
It is believed that Chares did not live to see his project finished.
There are several legends stating that he committed suicide.
In one tale he had almost finished the statue when someone pointed out a small flaw in the construction.
The sculptor was so ashamed of it he killed himself.
In another version, the Rhodians asked Chares how much he would charge for a statue fifty feet high, and when he answered, asked him how much for a statue twice as big; he answered twice as much- and they awarded the contract; he had overlooked that doubling the height would mean an eightfold increase in the amount of materials needed.
This drove him to bankruptcy and eventually suicide.
The work may have been completed by Laches, also an inhabitant of Lindos.
Rhodes (disambiguation)
Rhodes is the Greek Dodecanese island where the Colossus of Rhodes stood.
Rhodes may also refer to:
Mario Mattoli
Mario Mattòli( 30 November 1898 – 26 February 1980) was an Italian film director and screenwriter.
He directed 86 films between 1934 and 1966.
His 1939 film" Defendant, Stand Up!" was shown as part of a retrospective on Italian comedy at the 67th Venice International Film Festival.
The Colossus of Rhodes (Dalí)
The Colossus of Rhodes is a 1954 oil painting by the Spanish surrealist artist Salvador Dalí.
It is one of a series of seven paintings created for the 1956 film" Seven Wonders of the World", each depicting one of the eponymous wonders.
The painting shows the Colossus of Rhodes, the ancient statue of the Greek titan- god of the sun, Helios.
It was ultimately not used for the movie, and in 1981 was donated to the Kunstmuseum Bern, its present location.
Painted two decades after Dalí's heyday with the surrealist movement," The Colossus of Rhodes" is emblematic of his shift from the avant- garde to the mainstream.
After financial pressures imposed by his move to the United States in 1940, and influenced by his fascination with Hollywood, Dalí shifted focus away from his earlier exploration of the subconscious and perception, and towards historical and scientific themes.
Dalí's rendering of the Colossus is heavily influenced by a 1953 paper by Herbert Maryon, a sculptor and conservator at the British Museum.
Maryon proposed a hollow Colossus formed from hammered bronze plates, located alongside the harbour rather than astride it.
He further suggested that it used a hanging drapery to give the statue a stable tripod base.
These elements were all incorporated by Dalí.
Sergio Leone
Sergio Leone( January 3, 1929 – April 30, 1989) was an Italian film director, producer and screenwriter, credited as the inventor of the Spaghetti Western genre and widely regarded as one of the most influential directors in the history of cinema.
Leone's film- making style includes juxtaposing extreme close- up shots with lengthy long shots.
His movies include the" Dollars Trilogy" of Westerns featuring Clint Eastwood:" A Fistful of Dollars"( 1964)," For a Few Dollars More"( 1965) and" The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"( 1966); and the" Once Upon a Time" films:" Once Upon a Time in the West"( 1968)," Duck, You Sucker!"( 1971) and" Once Upon a Time in America"( 1984).

Question: Which film has the director who died first, Toto Tours Italy or The Colossus Of Rhodes (Film)?
Answer: Toto Tours Italy