The Luck of Ginger Coffey

film by Kershner [1964]

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discussed in biography

  • Star Wars: Episode V—The Empire Strikes Back
    In Irvin Kershner: From B-24s to Laura Mars

    …set during World War II; The Luck of Ginger Coffey (1964) was a low-budget drama featuring real-life married couple Robert Shaw and Mary Ure as husband and wife; and A Fine Madness (1966) featured Sean Connery as an irreverent poet whose outbursts of violence earn him a lobotomy. In 1967…

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role of Shaw

  • Robert Shaw and Paul Scofield in A Man for All Seasons
    In Robert Shaw

    …trouble holding a job in The Luck of Ginger Coffey (1964), based on a novel by Brian Moore. He was later cast as a German officer in Battle of the Bulge (1965). Shaw’s performance as King Henry VIII in Fred Zinnemann’s A Man for All Seasons (1966) earned him an…

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