Rudy Behlmer

Rudy Behlmer (October 13, 1926 – September 27, 2019) was an American film historian and writer. He was an expert in the history and evolution of the motion picture industry. Behlmer began his career with KLAC-TV in Hollywood as a stage manager. At the beginning of the 1960s, Behlmer started researching and writing articles on various aspects of film history. One such project, a career piece on film producer David O. Selznick (Gone with the Wind, Rebecca), led to his book Memo from David O. Selznick (1972). It was followed by nine other books as well as numerous magazine articles and film music recording booklets. Behlmer also contributed to a wide variety of works about the Golden Age of Hollywood.

Known For: Acting

Born: San Francisco, California, USA, 1926-10-13

Died: 2019-09-27

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1991	Robin Hood: The Myth, the Man, the Movie	Self	60
2	1992	You Must Remember This: A Tribute to 'Casablanca'	Self - Film Historian	65
3	1992	King Kong 60th Anniversary Special: "It was beauty killed the beast."		0
4	1993	Ben-Hur: The Making of an Epic	Self - Film Historian	74
5	1993	Jack L. Warner: The Last Mogul	Himself	50
6	2000	The Opera Ghost: A Phantom Unmasked	Self	80
7	2000	Now You See Him: 'The Invisible Man' Revealed!	Self / Host	62
8	2000	Mummy Dearest: A Horror Tradition Unearthed	Self / Host	70
9	2000	Backstory: 'All About Eve'	Self	0
10	2000	Backstory: 'How Green Was My Valley'	Self	0
11	2000	The Fantasia Legacy: The Concert Feature	Self	80
12	2001	Backstory: 'Gentleman's Agreement'	Self	0
13	2001	Celebrating Dumbo	Himself	0
14	2002	The Universe According to Universal	Narrator	50
15	2002	Cinerama Adventure	Self	76
16	2002	What a Glorious Feeling: The Making of 'Singin' in the Rain'	Self	0
17	2002	The 'Frankenstein' Files: How Hollywood Made a Monster	Self	79
18	2003	Welcome to Sherwood! The Story of 'The Adventures of Robin Hood'	Himself, film historian	65
19	2003	The Making of 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea	Self	60
20	2003	Discovering Treasure: The Story of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'	Self	65
21	2004	Tarzan: Silver Screen King of the Jungle	Himself	0
22	2005	Angels with Dirty Faces: Whaddya Hear? Whaddya Say?	Self	83
23	2005	The Adventures of Errol Flynn	Self - Author and Film Historian	78
24	2005	Elizabeth & Essex: Battle Royale	Himself	0
25	2005	Captain Blood: A Swashbuckler Is Born	Self - Author & Film Historian	65
26	2005	The Music of 'Humoresque'	Self	0
27	2005	William Powell: A True Gentleman		75
28	2005	RKO Production 601: The Making of 'Kong, the Eighth Wonder of the World'		100
29	2006	A Streetcar in Hollywood	Self	65
30	2006	A Streetcar on Broadway	Self	65
31	2006	Bette and Joan: Blind Ambition	Self	70
32	2006	Censorship and Desire	Self	0
33	2006	Jezebel: Legend of the South	Self	0
34	2006	Stagecoach: A Story of Redemption	Himself - Author-Film Historian	0
35	2006	The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird	Self	78
36	2006	Robby the Robot: Engineering a Sci-Fi Icon	Self	70
37	2006	Amazing! Exploring the Far Reaches of Forbidden Planet	Self	45
38	2007	Becoming John Ford	Self	63
39	2007	The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk	Self	70
40	2008	Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood	Himself	64
41	2008	Guilt by Association: Psychoanalyzing 'Spellbound'		0
42	2008	Killer Instincts: Richard Widmark and Ida Lupino at Twentieth Century Fox	Self	0
43	2008	A House of Secrets: Exploring 'Dragonwyck'	Self	80
44	2008	The Ultimate Romance: The Making of 'Notorious'		0
45	2008	Alfred Hitchcock: The Ultimate Spymaster		0
46	2008	The Making of 'Rebecca'	Self	0
47	2008	Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film	Self	69
48	2008	In the Beginning: Quo Vadis and the Genesis of the Biblical Epic	Himself	60
49	2009	1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year	Self	75
50	2009	Victor Fleming: Master Craftsman	Himself	75
51	2010	Embracing Chaos: Making The African Queen	Self	67
52	2012	Michael Curtiz: The Greatest Director You Never Heard Of	Self	70
53	2012	Casablanca: An Unlikely Classic	Self	65
54	2012	Singin' in the Rain: Raining on a New Generation	Self	70

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1968	The Dick Cavett Show	Self - Guest	67