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BIOGRAPHY

Author/co-author of numerous books about the cinema and is regarded as one of the foremost James Bond scholars. His book The Essential Bond: An Authorized Guide to the World of 007 (written with Dave Worrall) is the top selling Bond film book of all time. Pfeiffer is also the editor-in-chief of Cinema Retro magazine, dedicated to films of the 1960s and 1970s, and the producer of, and consultant to, numerous film-related documentaries. He resides in New Jersey.

Author of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Classic Movies (2006), The Essential Bond: The Authorized Guide to the World of 007 (2002); coauthor of The Films of Harrison Ford (1996), and The Films of Sean Connery (1993), among others.

Primary Contributions (451)
Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire in Swing Time
Swing Time
Swing Time, American musical comedy film, released in 1936, that was the fifth teaming of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. It is considered by many to be their best collaborative effort. Lucky Garnett (played by Astaire) is a gambler and dancer who, after arriving late to his own wedding, finds…
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Top Hat
Easy Rider
The Guns of Navarone
North by Northwest
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Freaks
The Jazz Singer
The Wild Bunch
Forbidden Planet
The Lion in Winter
Dial M for Murder
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Meet Me in St. Louis
Strangers on a Train
Jason and the Argonauts
Brief Encounter
La Dolce Vita
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Song of the South
The Jungle Book
Pinocchio
Dr. No
A Fistful of Dollars
Goldfinger
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Ben-Hur
Rosemary’s Baby
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Big Sleep
The Uninvited
Oklahoma!
Bride of Frankenstein
Shadow of a Doubt
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Touch of Evil
Fantastic Voyage
The Haunting
The King and I
The Mummy
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Horror of Dracula
Modern Times
The Grapes of Wrath
Red River
The Music Man
The Lady Vanishes
His Girl Friday
The Heiress
Splendor in the Grass
The Fly
Bringing Up Baby
The Blob
To Have and Have Not
The Philadelphia Story
Charade
Yellow Submarine
The Killing
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
The Charge of the Light Brigade
The Diary of Anne Frank
Dracula
Judgment at Nuremberg
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Stagecoach
Inherit the Wind
The Kid
The Odd Couple
Sergeant York
Night of the Living Dead
The 400 Blows
High Sierra
Mary Poppins
Doctor Zhivago
Guys and Dolls
Seven Samurai
Bullitt
The Birds
Godzilla
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
From Russia with Love
The Italian Job
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
Thunderball
A Star Is Born
Cool Hand Luke
Casino Royale
The Producers
It’s a Wonderful Life
One Hundred and One Dalmatians
The Wizard of Oz
Lolita
Sunset Boulevard
Where Eagles Dare
Gaslight
Bambi
Spartacus
The Quiet Man
How the West Was Won
The Longest Day
Alice in Wonderland
The Hustler
Frankenstein
Planet of the Apes
The Great Dictator
To Kill a Mockingbird
King Kong
You Only Live Twice
The Magnificent Seven
Once upon a Time in the West
Citizen Kane
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
True Grit
Giant
High Noon
Miracle on 34th Street
The Seventh Seal
A Streetcar Named Desire
Metropolis
Vertigo
The Birth of a Nation
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Romeo and Juliet
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Rear Window
East of Eden
Blow-Up
The Pink Panther
Scaramouche
Witness for the Prosecution
The Red Shoes
Some Like It Hot
Lady and the Tramp
Paths of Glory
A Raisin in the Sun
Scarface: The Shame of a Nation
Battle of Britain
The African Queen
Days of Wine and Roses
Point Blank
The Thomas Crown Affair
Attack!
The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming
Cleopatra
Rio Bravo
The Searchers
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Shane
The Manchurian Candidate
Exodus
The Thing from Another World
Anatomy of a Murder
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Dumbo
House on Haunted Hill
M
The Night of the Hunter
Bonnie and Clyde
The Killers
The Killers
Great Expectations
A Christmas Carol
Fahrenheit 451
For a Few Dollars More
Ocean’s Eleven
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
The Entertainer
The Maltese Falcon
Funny Girl
The Thin Man
The Battle of Algiers
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Jezebel
Cinderella
The Dirty Dozen
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
The Swimmer
Moulin Rouge
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
The 39 Steps
The Pride of the Yankees
Whistle Down the Wind
To Sir, with Love
Lost Horizon
The Thief of Bagdad
Von Ryan’s Express
Rebel Without a Cause
Son of Frankenstein
Singin’ in the Rain
Swiss Family Robinson
Thunder Road
The Great Escape
A Hard Day’s Night
42nd Street
Hombre
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
Harper
Coogan’s Bluff
Madigan
Targets
Our Man Flint
After the Thin Man
The Professionals
The Man with the Golden Arm
Take the Money and Run
The Time Machine
Little Caesar
A Night to Remember
Cape Fear
The Set-Up
Body and Soul
Requiem for a Heavyweight
Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Champion
Bad Day at Black Rock
Babes in Toyland
Sons of the Desert
The Vikings
Psycho
Fantasia
Murder, My Sweet
Double Indemnity
The Phantom of the Opera
The Phantom of the Opera
To Be or Not to Be
The Miracle Worker
In Cold Blood
Northwest Passage
Village of the Damned
The Nutty Professor
In Which We Serve
Thirty Seconds over Tokyo
One-Eyed Jacks
The Desperate Hours
Safety Last!
Greed
The Crowd
La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc
Camelot
The Prisoner of Zenda
Foreign Correspondent
Gunga Din
Sweet Smell of Success
Birdman of Alcatraz
Elmer Gantry
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
For Whom the Bell Tolls
The Devil and Daniel Webster
Mogambo
The Public Enemy
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Sands of Iwo Jima
Father of the Bride
Wuthering Heights
The Petrified Forest
Les Diaboliques
Lilies of the Field
Jules and Jim
Adam’s Rib
Hud
Born Yesterday
Meet John Doe
A Shot in the Dark
A Place in the Sun
Stalag 17
The Caine Mutiny
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Lonely Are the Brave
55 Days at Peking
Wild Strawberries
Lust for Life
Fury
On the Beach
They Were Expendable
The Awful Truth
The Ghost and Mr. Chicken
Asphalt Jungle, The
Charly
City Lights
The Gold Rush
The Silencers
Yojimbo
D.O.A.
Dark Victory
Road to Morocco
Sullivan’s Travels
The Train
Seven Days in May
The Front Page
Saboteur
The Fortune Cookie
Twelve O’Clock High
The Gunfighter
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
The Ipcress File
Cat People
Repulsion
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
Mister Roberts
The Lady from Shanghai
No Way Out
The Defiant Ones
Grand Illusion
Open City
Duck Soup
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
The Seven Year Itch
The Son of the Sheik
A Taste of Honey
Jailhouse Rock
My Darling Clementine
The Naked Prey
The Bank Dick
The Stalking Moon
The Counterfeit Traitor
Will Penny
The Wild One
The Incredible Shrinking Man
Witchfinder General
The Bridge at Remagen
Ninotchka
The Day the Earth Caught Fire
Limelight
The General
Tarzan of the Apes
Riot in Cell Block 11
Now, Voyager
The Bad and the Beautiful
The Misfits
The Big Clock
The Ox-Bow Incident
Zulu
The Quiller Memorandum
Billy Budd
The Wages of Fear
The Young Lions
Medium Cool
Kiss of Death
Scott of the Antarctic
Becket
Brute Force
Kind Hearts and Coronets
The Dam Busters
A Night at the Opera
A Face in the Crowd
The Big Heat
In Harm’s Way
Detective Story
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
This Sporting Life
San Francisco
The League of Gentlemen
The Blue Dahlia
Dead of Night
Oliver Twist
The Ladykillers
Masque of the Red Death, The
House of Wax
The Hill
She Done Him Wrong
The Scarlet Claw
First Men in the Moon
The Innocents
The Four Feathers
It Happened Here
Summertime
The Sand Pebbles
Lord of the Flies
The Americanization of Emily
Beau Geste
Mutiny on the Bounty
The Invisible Man
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Anna Karenina
Life with Father
A Boy Named Charlie Brown
Some Came Running
The Night of the Iguana
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
The Big Parade
Blackboard Jungle
Key Largo
Napoléon
Harvey
12 Angry Men
The Informer
The Lavender Hill Mob
The Horse’s Mouth
The Magnificent Ambersons
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Angels with Dirty Faces
The Fall of the Roman Empire
Ride the High Country
Torn Curtain
Pillow Talk
Henry V
Knife in the Water
The Circus
The Hound of the Baskervilles
One, Two, Three
Penny Serenade
Khartoum
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
Mysterious Island
The Alamo
Out of the Past
Morituri
The Detective
Friendly Persuasion
On the Town
El Cid
Robin and the Seven Hoods
White Heat
The Postman Always Rings Twice
Ben-Hur
Laura
The Love Bug
Fort Apache
Drums Along the Mohawk
Fail Safe
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
And Then There Were None
Marriage, Italian Style
Belle de jour
Dinner at Eight
Detour
The Roaring Twenties
Anastasia
Alfie
Peeping Tom
Desk Set
Faces
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Seconds
Two for the Road
Sorry, Wrong Number
Intolerance
The Knack…and How to Get It
The Pawnbroker
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
The Wolf Man
Tony Rome
The Abominable Snowman
The Incredible Mr. Limpet
Viridiana
Two Women
A Double Life
Publications (3)
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Classic Movies
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Classic Movies
By Lee Pfeiffer
The Essential Bond: The Authorized Guide to the World of 007
The Essential Bond: The Authorized Guide to the World of 007
By Lee Pfeiffer, Dave Worrall
Cinema Sex Sirens
Cinema Sex Sirens
By Lee Pfeiffer, Dave Worrall
Cinema Sex Sirens centers around a select number of actresses who capitalized on their natural beauty during the 60s and 70s.  They range from cinematic legends to some whose names are barely known by the general public. Each chapter focuses on one actress wth a biography, commentary and complete filmography. Features full color photos, rate international movie poster artwork and magazine covers. Actresses featured include Sophia Loren, Raquel Welch, Brigitte Bardot, Elizabeth...
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