Bill English (actor)
Bill English is an actor. He is known as playing the role of Joel in the ABC television series ''Cavemen''. Early life and education English was raised Honeoye Falls, New York, a small village outside of Rochester, New York. He is a graduate of the North Carolina School of the Arts. Career English has performed on Broadway with Anne Heche and Alec Baldwin in ''20th Century''. In February 2012, he took over the lead role of Billy Crocker in the 2011 revival of Anything Goes. He starred in ''Cavemen in 2007 and had guest roles on '' Melrose Place'' (CW), '' Person of Interest'' (CBS) among others. English had the role of Chris in the 2012 film ''The Last Day of August ''The Last Day of August'' is a 2012 American film drama about four friends recovering from the physical and psychological damage of a car accident. An independent feature film, it was directed by Craig DiFolco with a screenplay written by DiFolco ...''. References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:English ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American commercial broadcast television network. It is the flagship property of the ABC Entertainment Group division of The Walt Disney Company. The network is headquartered in Burbank, California, on Riverside Drive, directly across the street from Walt Disney Studios and adjacent to the Roy E. Disney Animation Building. The network's secondary offices, and headquarters of its news division, are in New York City, at its broadcast center at 77 West 66th Street on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Since 2007, when ABC Radio (also known as Cumulus Media Networks) was sold to Citadel Broadcasting, ABC has reduced its broadcasting operations almost exclusively to television. It is the fifth-oldest major broadcasting network in the world and the youngest of the American Big Three television networks. The network is sometimes referred to as the Alphabet Network, as its initialism also represents the first three letters of the ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Television Program
Television, sometimes shortened to TV, is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. The term can refer to a television set, or the medium of television transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertising, entertainment, news, and sports. Television became available in crude experimental forms in the late 1920s, but only after several years of further development was the new technology marketed to consumers. After World War II, an improved form of black-and-white television broadcasting became popular in the United Kingdom and the United States, and television sets became commonplace in homes, businesses, and institutions. During the 1950s, television was the primary medium for influencing public opinion.Diggs-Brown, Barbara (2011''Strategic Public Relations: Audience Focused Practice''p. 48 In the mid-1960s, color broadcasting was introduced in the U.S. and most other developed countries. The availability of various types of archival storag ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Cavemen (TV Series)
''Cavemen'' is an American sitcom that aired on American Broadcasting Company, ABC from October 2 to November 13, 2007. The show was developed by Joe Lawson (writer), Joe Lawson, Josh Gordon and Will Speck, based on the GEICO Cavemen TV commercials, which were also written by Lawson. It was described by the network as a "unique buddy comedy that offers a clever twist on stereotypes and turns race relations on its head", and is set in San Diego, California. Despite this, the show earned an extremely negative reception, becoming regarded as one of the List of sitcoms known for negative reception, worst television shows of all time. Plot In the series, cavemen were never really fully supplanted by modern humans, but integrated into ''Homo sapiens'' civilization as a separate species sub-group. Cavemen are a small but widespread minority group that have been present in every global civilization since the dawn of recorded history (a montage scene in the opening credits shows Cavemen in ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Honeoye Falls, New York
Honeoye Falls ( ) is a village within the town of Mendon in Monroe County, New York, United States. The population was 2,674 at the 2010 census. The village includes a small waterfall on Honeoye Creek, which flows through the village and gives it its name. The name Honeoye comes from the Seneca word ''ha-ne-a-yah'', which means ''lying finger'', or ''where the finger lies''. The name comes from the local story of a Native American whose finger was bitten by a rattlesnake and who therefore cut off his finger with a tomahawk. History The village was founded in 1791 by Zebulon Norton when he purchased of land for the price of 12½ cents per acre. He built a grist mill and later a saw mill, at a waterfall on Honeoye Creek. The area was originally known as Norton Mills. In 1827, Hiram Finch built a second mill, which would come to be called the Lower Mill to differentiate it from the earlier mill. On May 17, 1973, the Lower Mill was listed on the National Register of Historic Plac ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Rochester, New York
Rochester () is a City (New York), city in the U.S. state of New York (state), New York, the county seat, seat of Monroe County, New York, Monroe County, and the fourth-most populous in the state after New York City, Buffalo, New York, Buffalo, and Yonkers, New York, Yonkers, with a population of 211,328 at the 2020 United States census. Located in Western New York, the city of Rochester forms the core of a larger Rochester metropolitan area, New York, metropolitan area with a population of 1 million people, across six counties. The city was one of the United States' first boomtowns, initially due to the fertile Genesee River Valley, which gave rise to numerous flour mills, and then as a manufacturing center, which spurred further rapid population growth. Rochester rose to prominence as the birthplace and home of some of America's most iconic companies, in particular Eastman Kodak, Xerox, and Bausch & Lomb (along with Wegmans, Gannett, Paychex, Western Union, French's, Cons ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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North Carolina School Of The Arts
The University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA) is an arts school in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. It grants high school, undergraduate, and graduate degrees. Founded in 1963 as the North Carolina School of the Arts by then-Governor Terry Sanford, it was the first public arts conservatory in the United States. The school owns and operates the Stevens Center in Downtown Winston-Salem and is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. The school consists of five professional schools: School of Dance, School of Design & Production (including a HS Visual Arts Program), School of Drama, School of Filmmaking, and School of Music. History Founding The idea of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts was initiated in 1962 by Vittorio Giannini, a leading American Composer and teacher of Composition at Juilliard, the Curtis Institute of Music and the Manhattan School of Music, who approached then-governor Terry Sanford and enlisted the help of ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Anne Heche
Anne Celeste Heche ( ; May 25, 1969August 11, 2022) was an American actress, known for her roles in a variety of genres in film, television, and theater, receiving numerous accolades, including a National Board of Review Award and multiple Emmy Awards. Heche's professional acting career began on the soap opera '' Another World'' (1987–1991) portraying the twins Vicky Hudson and Marley Love, for which she received a Daytime Emmy Award in 1991. Her acting profile rose during the first half of the 1990s, gaining particular attention for her co-starring role in the independent film ''Walking and Talking'' (1996) and for her standout supporting role in the crime drama ''Donnie Brasco'' (1997). Further high-profile roles followed in 1997, including ''Volcano'', ''I Know What You Did Last Summer'', and ''Wag the Dog''. In 1998, Heche further rose to prominence with her leading role in the romantic comedy ''Six Days, Seven Nights'' opposite Harrison Ford. Also in 1998, she starred in G ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Alec Baldwin
Alexander Rae Baldwin III (born April 3, 1958) is an American actor, comedian, and producer. In his early career, Baldwin played both leading and supporting roles in a variety of films such as Tim Burton's ''Beetlejuice'' (1988), Mike Nichols' ''Working Girl'' (1988), Jonathan Demme's ''Married to the Mob'' (1988), and Oliver Stone's ''Talk Radio (film), Talk Radio'' (1988). He gained attention for his performances as Jack Ryan (character), Jack Ryan in ''The Hunt for Red October (film), The Hunt for Red October'' (1990) and in ''Glengarry Glen Ross (film), Glengarry Glen Ross'' (1992). Since then he has worked with directors such as Woody Allen in ''Alice (1990 film), Alice'' (1990), ''To Rome With Love (film), To Rome with Love'' (2012) and ''Blue Jasmine'' (2013), and Martin Scorsese in ''The Aviator (2004 film), The Aviator'' (2004) and ''The Departed'' (2006). His performance in the drama ''The Cooler'' (2003) garnered him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Anything Goes
''Anything Goes'' is a musical with music and lyrics by Cole Porter. The original book was a collaborative effort by Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse, heavily revised by the team of Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. The story concerns madcap antics aboard an ocean liner bound from New York to London. Billy Crocker is a stowaway in love with heiress Hope Harcourt, who is engaged to Lord Evelyn Oakleigh. Nightclub singer Reno Sweeney and Public Enemy Number 13, "Moonface" Martin, aid Billy in his quest to win Hope. The musical introduced such songs as "Anything Goes", "You're the Top", and "I Get a Kick Out of You." Since its 1934 debut at the Alvin Theatre (now known as the Neil Simon Theatre) on Broadway, the musical has been revived several times in the United States and Britain and has been filmed three times. The musical has long been a popular choice for school and community productions. History The original idea for a musical set on board an ocean liner came from producer ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Melrose Place (2009 TV Series)
''Melrose Place'' is an American drama television series that aired on The CW from September 8, 2009, to April 13, 2010. The series is a revival of the 1990s Fox series of the same name and is the fifth series in the ''Beverly Hills, 90210'' franchise. The show follows the lives of a group of young adults living at the fictitious Melrose Place apartment complex in West Hollywood, California. '' Smallville'' producers Todd Slavkin and Darren Swimmer were showrunners of the series. The series was met with mixed reviews from critics. Due to low ratings, it was cancelled by The CW on May 20, 2010, after one season. Development After successfully relaunching the franchise with '' 90210'' in 2008, there was considerable speculation as to whether The CW planned to create a new version of ''Melrose Place'' in a similar vein. An article in E! Online reported the possibility of a new version of ''Melrose'' in September 2008, though The CW declined to confirm any such project at that ti ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Person Of Interest (TV Series)
''Person of Interest'' is an American science fiction Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel unive ... crime fiction, crime drama television series that aired on CBS from September 22, 2011, to June 21, 2016, with its List of Person of Interest episodes, five seasons consisting of 103 episodes. The series was created by Jonathan Nolan; executive producers were Nolan, J. J. Abrams, Bryan Burk, Greg Plageman, Denise Thé, and Chris Fisher. The series centers on a mysterious reclusive billionaire computer programmer, Harold Finch (Person of Interest), Harold Finch (Michael Emerson), who has developed a computer program for the federal government known as "the Machine" that is capable of collating all Mass surveillance, sources of information to predict terrorism, terrorist acts and ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |