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A Death In Canaan
''A Death in Canaan'' is a 1978 American made-for-television drama film directed by Tony Richardson and starring Stefanie Powers, Paul Clemens, and Brian Dennehy.BFI | Film & TV Database | A DEATH IN CANAAN (1978) Its plot concerns the true-life story of a teenager who is put on trial for the murder of his mother in a small town. Nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award, 1978. The film is based on the nonfiction book of the same name by Joan Barthel. The film first aired on the CBS ''Wednesday Night Movies'' on March 1, 1978, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Richardson
Cecil Antonio "Tony" Richardson (5 June 1928 – 14 November 1991) was an English theatre and film director and producer whose career spanned five decades. In 1964, he won the Academy Award for Best Director for the film ''Tom Jones''. Early life Richardson was born in Shipley, West Riding of Yorkshire in 1928, the son of Elsie Evans (Campion) and Clarence Albert Richardson, a chemist. He was Head Boy at Ashville College, Harrogate and attended Wadham College, University of Oxford. His Oxford contemporaries included Rupert Murdoch, Margaret Thatcher, Kenneth Tynan, Lindsay Anderson and Gavin Lambert. He had the unprecedented distinction of being the President of both the Oxford University Dramatic Society and the Experimental Theatre Club (the ETC), in addition to being the theatre critic for the university magazine ''Isis''. Those he cast in his student productions included Shirley Williams (as Cordelia), John Schlesinger, Nigel Davenport and Robert Robinson. Career ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nick Nolte
Nicholas King Nolte (born February 8, 1941) is an American actor. He won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for the 1991 film ''The Prince of Tides''. He received Academy Award nominations for '' Affliction'' (1998) and ''Warrior'' (2011), and was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie for the 1976 miniseries '' Rich Man, Poor Man''. His other film appearances include '' The Deep'' (1977), '' Who'll Stop The Rain'' (1978), '' North Dallas Forty'' (1979), ''48 Hrs.'' (1982), ''Teachers'' (1984), '' Down and Out in Beverly Hills'' (1986), '' Another 48 Hrs.'' (1990), ''Three Fugitives'' (1989), '' Everybody Wins'' (1990), '' Cape Fear'' (1991), ''Lorenzo's Oil'' (1992), '' I Love Trouble'' (1994), ''Blue Chips'' (1994), '' The Thin Red Line'' (1998), '' The Good Thief'' (2002), ''Hulk'' (2003), ''Hotel Rwanda'' (2004), ''Over the Hedge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Jackson (actress)
Mary Jackson (November 22, 1910 – December 10, 2005) was an American character actress whose nearly fifty-year career began in 1950 and was spent almost entirely in television. She is best known for the role of the lovelorn Emily Baldwin in ''The Waltons'' and was the original choice to play Alice Horton in the daytime soap opera '' Days of Our Lives'', playing the part in the unaired pilot. The role was instead given to Frances Reid. Biography Jackson was born in the village of Milford, Michigan on November 22, 1910. She graduated from Western Michigan University with a bachelor's degree 1932. She worked for one year as a schoolteacher during the Great Depression before pursuing her interest in theatre. She returned to college, enrolling in Michigan State University's fine arts program and subsequently beginning her performing career in summer stock theatre in Chicago. She embarked on a television career in New York City in the 1950s, during the first Golden Age of Televis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Hallahan
Charles John Hallahan (July 29, 1943 – November 25, 1997) was an American film, television, and stage actor known for his performances in ''Going in Style'', '' The Thing'', '' Cast a Deadly Spell'', and ''Dante's Peak''. He was also best known as Capt. Charlie Devane on ''Hunter'' from 1986 to 1991 and Chet Wilke in '' Lou Grant'' (1979–1982). Life and career Hallahan was born in Philadelphia and grew up in Collingswood, New Jersey. He graduated from Rutgers University-Camden, and earned an MFA from Temple University. During his acting career he was often cast as a police officer, and may have been best known as LAPD Captain Charlie Devane on ''Hunter''. He was memorable for his portrayal of the nameless "Coach" in ''Vision Quest'', opposite Matthew Modine. He also served in the US Navy in the early 1960s, including time as a Navy hospital corpsman stationed in Puerto Rico. In 1982, he portrayed geologist Vance Norris in the remake of '' The Thing''. His most notable rol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pat Corley
Pat Corley (June 1, 1930 – September 11, 2006) was an American actor. He was known for his role as bar owner Phil on the CBS sitcom '' Murphy Brown'' from 1988 to 1996. He also had a recurring role as Chief Coroner Wally Nydorf on the television drama ''Hill Street Blues'' (1981–87) and supporting roles in a number of films, including '' Night Shift'' (1982), '' Against All Odds'' (1984), and ''Mr. Destiny'' (1990). Early life Corley was born Cleo Pat Corley in Dallas, Texas, the son of Ada Lee ( née Martin) and R.L. Corley. He got his start in the entertainment business as a teenage ballet dancer for the Stockton Ballet where he performed for three seasons. While serving in the U.S. Army during the Korean War, Corley helped put on entertainment shows for the brass while stationed in France. After his honorable discharge, he entered Stockton College on the G.I. Bill where he met his future second wife, Iris Carter, a younger student, champion debater and a locally accl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Bronder
William Bronder (June 12, 1930 – May 6, 2015) was an American film and television actor. He first served in the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy as well as the U.S. Army’s 82nd Airborne Division. Afterwards he turned to Hollywood in the 1960s to start a film career. Between 1973 and 2000, William Bronder appeared in seven films, about 50 television episodes and eight TV movies. He often portrayed rough working-class men in character roles. Bronder remains perhaps best known for playing unfriendly junkyard owner Milo Pressman in Rob Reiner's film '' Stand by Me'' (1986), starring Wil Wheaton and River Phoenix. His other films were ''Flush'' (1982), ''Cannery Row'' (1982), '' Yes, Giorgio'' (1982), ''Best Seller'' (1987), the short film ''Tummy Trouble'' (1989) and ''Return to Me'' (2000, in his last role as Wally Jatczak). He also appeared in a great number of television series of the 1970s and 1980s. Among them were ''Marcus Welby, M.D.'', ''The Streets of San Francisco'', '' Po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bonnie Bartlett
Bonnie Bartlett (born June 20, 1929) is an American actress. Her career spans seven decades, with her first major role being on a 1950s daytime drama, ''Love of Life''. Bartlett is known for her role as Grace Snider Edwards on the Michael Landon television series '' Little House on the Prairie'' and as Ellen Craig on the medical drama series ''St. Elsewhere''. She and her husband, actor William Daniels, who played her fictional husband Dr. Mark Craig, each won Emmy Awards on the same night in 1986, becoming the first married couple to accomplish the feat since Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne in 1965. Early life Bartlett was born in Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, the daughter of Carrie Archer and Elwin Earl Bartlett, and was raised in Moline, Illinois. Her father had been an actor in stock productions across the country, but he gave up acting because her mother wanted to settle in Wisconsin. In 1947, she graduated from Moline High School. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuki Shimoda
Yuki Shimoda (August 10, 1921 – May 21, 1981) was an American actor best known for his starring role as Ko Wakatsuki in the NBC movie of the week ''Farewell to Manzanar'' in 1976. He also co-starred in the 1960s television series '' Johnny Midnight'' (39 episodes), with Edmond O'Brien. He was a star of movies, early television, and the stage. His Broadway stage credits include ''Auntie Mame'' with Rosalind Russell, and ''Pacific Overtures'', a musical written by Stephen Sondheim and directed by Harold Prince. During World War II, following the signing of Executive Order 9066, Shimoda was incarcerated to the Tule Lake War Relocation Center. Broadway stage credits * '' Teahouse of the August Moon'', Martin Beck Theatre, (1953–1956), as Mr. Keora, choreographer * ''Auntie Mame'', Broadhurst Theatre, (1956–1958), as Ito * ''Pacific Overtures'', Winter Garden Theatre, (1975–1976), as Abe, First Councillor Filmography Film * ''Auntie Mame'' (1958) as Ito * '' Don't Give Up t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gavan O'Herlihy
Gavan John O'Herlihy (29 July 1951 – 15 September 2021) was an American actor. He was known for playing Chuck Cunningham in the first episodes of ''Happy Days'', as well as his appearances in films such as ''Never Say Never Again'', ''Death Wish 3'', ''Willow'', and ''Superman III''. Early life O'Herlihy was born 29 July 1951 in Malibu, California, the son of Irish parents, actor Dan O'Herlihy and his wife, Sandymount native Elsie Bennett. After graduating from Phillips Academy in Massachusetts, he attended Trinity College, Dublin and as an avid tennis player, he became Irish National Tennis Champion. Career He has over thirty screen credits to his name, most of them in villainous or antagonistic roles such as ''Never Say Never Again'', ''Superman III'', ''Death Wish 3'' and '' The Last Outlaw''. His role as Airk Thaughbaer in the 1988 fantasy ''Willow'' is one of the few heroic roles that he has portrayed, as well as that of the dashing American Loyalist officer from Virg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenneth McMillan (actor)
Kenneth McMillan (July 2, 1932 – January 8, 1989) was an American actor. McMillan was usually cast as gruff, hostile and unfriendly characters due to his rough image. However, he was sometimes cast in some lighter comic roles that highlighted his gentler side. He was perhaps best known as Jack Doyle in ''Rhoda'' (1977–1978), and as Baron Harkonnen in David Lynch's ''Dune''. Biography Personal life McMillan was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Margaret and Harry McMillan, a truck driver. He attended Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts. Prior to becoming an actor, McMillan was employed at Gimbels Department Store first as a salesman, then as a section manager, and then a floor superintendent managing three floors. At age 30, McMillan decided to pursue an acting career, and took acting lessons from Uta Hagen and Irene Dailey. He was married to Kathryn McDonald (20 June 1969 – 8 January 1989) (his death) with whom he had one child, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Floyd Levine
Floyd Levine (born February 23, 1932) is an American film and television actor. He played Dr. Ralph Harris in the 1978 film '' Bloodbrothers''. He also played Gen. Duncan in the 1988 film '' Braddock: Missing in Action III'' and Lt. Mellin in the 1988 film '' Angel III: The Final Chapter''. Levine guest-starred in numerous television programs including ''Quincy, M.E.'', ''Hill Street Blues'', ''Hart to Hart'', '' Charlie's Angels'', ''The Love Boat'', ''Police Squad!'', ''Three's Company'', ''The A-Team'', ''The Dukes of Hazzard'', ''Head of the Class'', '' Columbo'' and '' Archie Bunker's Place''. He also appeared in a few episodes of ''Cagney & Lacey'', ''Manimal'', '' Crazy Like a Fox'', ''Cousin Skeeter ''Cousin Skeeter'' is an American children's sitcom, that originally aired on Nickelodeon from 1998 to 2001. It starred Robert Ri'chard as Bobby, a young boy whose life changed when his strange cousin Skeeter came to live with his family. With Sk ...'' and '' Arliss''. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Haid
Charles Maurice Haid III (born June 2, 1943) is an American actor and television director, with notable work in both movies and television. He is best known for his portrayal of Officer Andy Renko in ''Hill Street Blues''. Haid was born in San Francisco, the son of Grace Marian (née Folger) and Charles Maurice Haid Jr. He attended Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University), where he met Steven Bochco. He was associate producer of the original stage production of ''Godspell'' in 1971, which was developed at CMU. Haid's acting credits include the 1976/1977 series '' Delvecchio'' as Sgt. Paul Schonski, the 1980s series ''Hill Street Blues'' as Officer Andy Renko, and the 1980 movie ''Altered States'' as Dr. Mason Parrish. In 1984, Haid was cast as "The Fatman" (or just "Fats") at the Literature, A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
