Get a closer look at some of Hollywood's perfect pairs.

Hollywood Power Couples

Get a closer look at some of Hollywood&#39;s perfect pairs.

"The Gentlemen" and "Slow Horses" return this fall, while the "Reacher" spin-off series "Neagley" makes its debut. See our guide of the biggest Fall TV and streaming releases.

2026 Fall TV and Streaming Watch Guide

&quot;The Gentlemen&quot; and &quot;Slow Horses&quot; return this fall, while the &quot;Reacher&quot; spin-off series &quot;Neagley&quot; makes its debut. See our guide of the biggest Fall TV and streaming releases.

Get a closer look at these actors from their many TV and streaming series roles.

Streaming Stars, Then and Now

After graduation from the University of California at Berkeley, Byron Haskin worked for a time as a newspaper cartoonist. He began his career in the film industry in 1920 as a commercial-industrial movie photographer, and then as a cameraman for Pathe and International Newsreel. Later he became an assistant director at Selznick Pictures. He was a cinematographer during the silent era, worked on special effects and helped to develop the technology that eventually brought sound to the film industry. He began directing in the late 1920s at Warner Brothers and journeyed to England in the early 1930s to make films there. Upon his return he was appointed head of the Warner Brothers Special Effects department. He returned to directing, and was responsible for Walt Disney's first live-action film, Treasure Island (1950). In the mid-'50s Haskin began a rewarding association with producer George Pal, for whom he shot what is probably his best-known film, the science-fiction classic The War of the Worlds (1953). Haskin would collaborate with Pal on three other films, The Naked Jungle (1954), Conquest of Space (1955) and The Power (1968). Fans will also remember Haskin for the cult-classic Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964).

"War of the Worlds" Director Byron Haskin 1953, Paramount, **I.V.

[on his last film, <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/title/tt0063452/?ref_=nmqu_qu">The Power (1968)</a>, produced by <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm0657162/?ref_=nmqu_qu">George Pal</a>] The personal friction between MGM and George Pal--the hatreds between them, you just wouldn&#39;t believe!--were allowed to operate on that film&#39;s economy. It wasn&#39;t released with any fanfare. It was grudgingly allowed to escape, with everyone at MGM hoping it would flop, because they were trying to get rid of Pal.

[on &quot;Robinson Crusoe On Mars&quot;]: I consider that film to be the best thing I&#39;ve ever done, because it had basically one of the soundest stories ever written. Unfortunately, the film did not become a hit because of the bad judgment of the producer and the releasing company. I fought like a tiger to get rid of the silly-ass title, but to no avail.

[quoted in the 1980 British television documentary miniseries, &quot;Hollywood,&quot; talking about actor-director Erich von Stroheim] He was flawed by living the character he portrayed, too. He didn&#39;t have the saving grace of Anglo Saxon &quot;common sense,&quot; to put it bluntly. He was always &quot;on,&quot; and he was always against the management, wherever he was, didn&#39;t matter. And he was gonna&#39; wreck &#39;em - if they thought they had suffered before, he was gonna&#39; show them real suffering.

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