
Thus The Norseman arrived for our delectation, one of the most derided movies of its era even if it did pick up a few followers among those viewers too young to know any better. Pierce who had helmed The Legend of Boggy Creek a few years before, as the ideal vehicle for his talent, in spite of damn few folks looking at Colonel Steve Austin and thinking, it's OK, but he needs to be wearing a helmet with a car ornament on it. For some reason Mr Majors saw this low budget A.I.P. Thorvald has a hardy crew with him, which includes his right hand man Ragnar ( Cornel Wilde), his seer ( Jack Elam) and his younger brother Eric ( Chuck Pierce Jr), and they are ready for anything the excursion can throw at them, everything that is until they sight land and are plunged into an adventure generations to come would decree unbelievable.Ībout as unbelievable as this film, a project produced by the erstwhile Six Million Dollar Man Lee Majors with the company set up by himself and his wife Farrah Fawcett to provide starring roles for them. However, it did happen, and Thorvald the Bold ( Lee Majors) has set sail across the Atlantic after his missing father King Eurich ( Mel Ferrer) who also undertook the journey but has never returned. and the Viking hordes have conquered most of Europe and other territories further afield as well, but one location history has not remembered them visiting was the continent of North America. Lee Majors, Cornel Wilde, Mel Ferrer, Jack Elam, Susie Coelho, Christopher Connelly, Jimmy Clem, Deacon Jones, Denny Miller, Fred Biletnikoff, Seamon Glass, Kathleen Freeman, Jerry Daniels, Steve Denny, Chuck Pierce Jr, Jesse Pearson What's So Funny About Brit Horror? Vampira and Bloodbath at the House of Death on Arrow Sex vs Violence: In the Realm of the Senses on Blu-ray Super Sammo: Warriors Two and The Prodigal Son on Blu-ray Moon Night - Space 1999: Super Space Theater on Blu-ray The Call of Nostalgia: Ghostbusters Afterlife on Blu-ray Uncomfortable Truths: Three Shorts by Andrea Arnold on MUBI Not So Permissive: The Lovers! on Blu-ray Two Christopher Miles Shorts: The Six-Sided Triangle/Rhythm 'n' Greens on Blu-ray

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He followed with a series of swashbuckling roles that used his fencing skills. signed him to a movie contract.įamous for: The role that made him a star was Chopin in 1945's "A Song to Remember" (he was nominated for an Oscar for it). The roles were small until he played Tybalt in the Olivier-Leigh Broadway production "Romeo and Juliet." Warner Bros. 1936 Olympic Fencing Team when he landed a role on Broadway. Wilde dropped out of college and quit the U.S. Married twice: actress Patricia Knight (1938-51), one daughter actress Jean Wallace (1951-1980), one son.Early years: Wilde grew up in Europe, where his father was a cosmetic salesman. 13, 1915, in New York, N.Y., as Conrelius Louis Wilde.

Whatever happened to Cornel Wilde? -V.A.B., San Antonio, Texas.
