Noel Black was an American film and television director, screenwriter, and producer.
24 Facts About Noel Black
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Noel Black won awards at the 1966 Cannes Film Festival for an 18-minute short subject filmed in 1965 called Skaterdater.
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Noel Black directed the 1968 cult film Pretty Poison, and subsequently concentrated on directing for television, occasionally directing films such as Private School.
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Noel Black received bachelor's and master's degrees in film from the University of California, Los Angeles.
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Noel Black was under the influence of the French New Wave.
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Noel Black raised $17,000 to make Skaterdater, which was shot with car and tricycle-mounted cameras.
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Noel Black had enormous charm and intelligence, the very qualities I wanted to come through in the role he would be playing.
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Noel Black took 30 days to shoot at lush locations around Great Barrington, Massachusetts, in the autumn of 1967, with exactly one day in a studio for the scenes in the prison and an office.
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Noel Black often refused to do what Black demanded of her and would break down and cry.
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In 1969, Noel Black spoke about his film to students at Boston University.
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The subsequent film Noel Black directed afterwards was Jennifer on My Mind, and its screenplay was written by Erich Segal, who was known for his novel, Love Story.
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Noel Black directed Ron Howard in an adaptation of Sherwood Anderson's I'm a Fool, which served as a 1977 episode for the PBS series, The American Short Story.
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Noel Black attempted a return to the big screen in 1978 with a voodoo horror film initially titled Marianne.
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Noel Black officially returned to the big screen with A Man, a Woman, and a Bank, a caper comedy film starring Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams and Paul Mazursky.
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Noel Black continued his television work by directing television films including: The Golden Honeymoon and The Hollow Boy for PBS; The Electric Grandmother for NBC; The Other Victim, with William Devane, and Promises to Keep, starring Robert Mitchum, for CBS.
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Noel Black directed episodes of the 1980s version of The Twilight Zone.
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Noel Black was to have directed a biopic depicting the life of Railroad Bill, with Erich Segal as screenwriter.
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However, Noel Black had been removed from the film after shooting the first half of it due to creative differences.
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Noel Black was married twice, to Sandra MacPhail and Catherine Cownie.
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Noel Black had two children, a daughter Nicole and a son Marco, from his marriage to MacPhail.
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Marco Noel Black was "inspired to join the family business" by his father, and he has worked as a unit production manager on CBS's Extant and an assistant director on such films as the Will Ferrell comedy Old School.
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On July 5,2014, Noel Black died in Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital, located in Santa Barbara, California, of bacterial pneumonia at the age of 77.
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Noel Black is survived by his two children, as well as his son-in-law Renaud Gonthier, and his five grandchildren: Morgan, Cameron, Sidney, Hayden and John.
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The Academy Film Archive has preserved a number of Noel Black's films, including Reflections, The River Boy, and Skaterdater.