Cliff Osmond

5 films on Best Blurays5 in HD

Cliff Osmond (born February 26, 1937) is an American character actor and television screenwriter most famous for the supporting role of "Barney," Ray Walston's dimwitted songwriting partner, in Billy Wilder's Kiss Me, Stupid (the comedic song lyrics were actually written by Ira Gershwin). Osmond made more than 86 appearances in TV shows or movies between 1962 and 1996. Description above from the Wikipedia article Cliff Osmond, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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5 in HD

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The Fortune Cookie (1966)

Supporting role · Director: Billy Wilder

Best English-Friendly:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray

Best Video:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray, new 4K master

3.6

Kiss Me, Stupid (1964)

Supporting role · Director: Billy Wilder

Best English-Friendly:

Olive Films Blu-ray

Best Video:

All Blu-ray are OOP and no comparisons available

US Olive Films or France Rimini or Germany vocomo

3.5

Irma la Douce (1963)

Small role · Director: Billy Wilder

Best English-Friendly & Video:

2018 Kino Lorber Blu-ray/2025 Germany Plaion Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Eureka Blu-ray has worse encoding.

Best Audio:

1985 Key Video Hi-Fi VHS

3.8

The Front Page (1974)

Small role · Director: Billy Wilder

Best English-Friendly:

Likely Germany Plaion Blu-ray

Best Video:

Germany Plaion Blu-ray

Video Notes:

No comparisons available, but from online reviews and other Billy Wilder releases, Germany Plaion Blu-ray is likely better than Kino Lorber Blu-ray

3.6

How the West Was Won (1962)

Small role · Directors: Henry Hathaway & John Ford & George Marshall

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Bros Blu-ray 2-Disc version (Digibook) for the Smilebox presentation

Sources: YouTube (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

See what smilebox looks like for its smilebox trailer
See Damn Fool Idealistic Crusader's review especially why a smilebox version is preferred, for example how a letterboxd version is actually distorted
Even if you do not prefer the smilebox version, the letterboxd version is still present on disc 1

3.5

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