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The Eiger Sanction is a 1975 American action film directed by and starring Clint Eastwood.Based on the 1972 novel The Eiger Sanction by Trevanian, the film is about Jonathan Hemlock, an art history professor, mountain climber, and former assassin once employed by a secret government agency, who is blackmailed into returning to his deadly profession for one last mission.
Thayer David (born David Thayer Hersey; March 4, 1927 – July 17, 1978) was an American film, stage, and television actor.He was best known for his work on the ABC serial Dark Shadows (1966–1971), as Dragon, the Albino ex-Nazi Director of C-2 in The Eiger Sanction (1975) and as the fight promoter Miles Jergens in Rocky (1976).
The Eiger Sanction: Jonathan Hemlock [48] [49] 1976 The Outlaw Josey Wales: Josey Wales [50] [51] The Enforcer: Harry Callahan [52] 1977 The Gauntlet: Ben Shockley [53] [54] 1978 Every Which Way but Loose: Philo Beddoe [55] 1979 Escape from Alcatraz: Frank Morris [56] 1980 Bronco Billy: Bronco Billy McCoy [57] [58] Any Which Way You Can: Philo ...
The Eiger Sanction (1975), directed by Clint Eastwood, was partly filmed in Monument Valley; both Eastwood and George Kennedy were filmed on top of the Totem Pole, which has been off-limits to climbers since the movie was filmed here. Joshua (1976) The Villain (aka Cactus Jack) (1979) Wanda Nevada (1979) The Legend of the Lone Ranger (1981)
George Harris Kennedy Jr. [1] (February 18, 1925 – February 28, 2016) was an American actor who appeared in more than 100 film and television productions. He played "Dragline" in Cool Hand Luke (1967), winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the role and being nominated for the corresponding Golden Globe.
Vonetta Lawrence McGee (January 14, 1945 – July 9, 2010) was an American actress. [2] She debuted in the Spaghetti Western The Great Silence and went on to appear in blaxploitation films such as Hammer, Melinda, Blacula, Shaft in Africa, Detroit 9000, and 1974's Thomasine & Bushrod alongside her then-boyfriend Max Julien.
The Eiger Sanction (1975). A number of accidents occurred during the filming of The Eiger Sanction. A 27-year-old English climber, David Knowles, who was a body double and photographer, was killed during a rock fall, and mountaineer Mike Hoover narrowly escaped with his life. [147] The Great Waldo Pepper (1975).
The Eiger Sanction may refer to The Eiger Sanction (novel), a 1972 thriller novel by Trevanian, the pen name of Rodney William Whitaker;