Actor: Richard Derr

Richard Derr played the pilot in When Worlds Collide, a film that won an Academy Award for special effects and whose ending was originally planned as a far more elaborate matte painting than the budget allowed. He worked extensively in American television afterward.

When Worlds Collide (1951) film posterBarbara Rush

When Worlds Collide (1951)

When Worlds Collide is the early-Cold War apocalypse film that established the planetary-impact template for the next seventy-five years. The screenplay by Sydney Boehm adapts the 1933 novel by Edwin Balmer and Philip Wylie.

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