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Charles Russell (producer)
Charles Russell (March 31, 1918 – January 18, 1985) was a movie and radio actor who appeared in 17 movies between 1943 and 1950. He was also a television producer who worked in Hollywood and Australia. Acting Career Born in New York City, Russell made his debut in an uncredited part as a ball player in ''Ladies' Day'' (1943). His last film was ''Chinatown at Midnight'' (1949). He originated the role of insurance investigator Johnny Dollar in the CBS Radio series ''Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar'' in 1949, playing the role until being replaced by Edmond O'Brien in 1950. Russell married fellow 20th Century-Fox contract player Nancy Guild in 1947, and they had one child, a daughter, Elizabeth, in 1949. They divorced in 1950. Producer Russell moved into television producing working on shows such as ''The Untouchables'' and ''Naked City''. He worked for a number of years in Australia at the ABC. John Cameron, head of drama at the ABC in the 1970s, said Ryssell "was a man of great tal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Anderson (actress, Born 1918)
Mary Bebe Anderson (April 3, 1918 – April 6, 2014) was an American actress, who appeared in 31 films and 22 television productions between 1939 and 1965. She was best known for her small supporting role in the film ''Gone With the Wind'' as well as one of the main characters in Alfred Hitchcock's 1944 film ''Lifeboat''. Early life Anderson's younger brother James Anderson (1921–1969) was also an actor, best known as Bob Ewell in ''To Kill a Mockingbird'' (1962). They appeared in one film together, 1951's ''Hunt the Man Down''. Career After two uncredited roles, she made her first important screen appearance in ''Gone With the Wind'' (1939). After auditioning as one of the 1,400 actresses involved in the search for Scarlett, she received the supporting role of Maybelle Merriwether. In 1944, she played Alice the nurse, one of the ten characters in the Alfred Hitchcock film ''Lifeboat''. Ending her film career in the early 1950s, she occasionally acted on television, f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inner Sanctum (1948 Film)
''Inner Sanctum'' is a 1948 American film noir directed by Lew Landers based on the Simon & Schuster book series of the same name and the ''Inner Sanctum Mystery'' radio series. A previous film series of the show had been produced by Universal Pictures until 1945. It is the first and only film of M.R.S. productions, the initials of Richard B. Morros, Samuel Rheiner and Walter Shenson. Plot summary The film follows a murderer who is on the run and hiding out in a small town. As the story progresses, a boy who is sharing his room with the stranger realises he has witnessed the man killing a woman. The story begins on a train at night where an elegantly dressed woman (Eve Miller) meets another passenger, a mysterious stranger (Fritz Leiber, Sr.) She is fascinated when he is able to predict every shake and bump of the train, and every flickering moment of darkness, an instant before they occur, although he claims he has never ridden on this train before. He is evidently gifted wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1918 Births
This year is noted for the end of the World War I, First World War, on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, as well as for the Spanish flu pandemic that killed 50–100 million people worldwide. Events Below, the events of World War I have the "WWI" prefix. January * January – 1918 flu pandemic: The "Spanish flu" (influenza) is first observed in Haskell County, Kansas. * January 4 – The Finnish Declaration of Independence is recognized by Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Soviet Russia, Sweden, German Empire, Germany and France. * January 9 – Battle of Bear Valley: U.S. troops engage Yaqui people, Yaqui Native American warriors in a minor skirmish in Arizona, and one of the last battles of the American Indian Wars between the United States and Native Americans. * January 15 ** The keel of is laid in Britain, the first purpose-designed aircraft carrier to be laid down. ** The Red Army (The Workers and Peasants Red Army) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Games For Parents And Other Children
''Games for Parents and Other Children'' is a 1975 Australian TV movie.Ed. Scott Murray, ''Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995'', Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p66 Cast * John Clayton * Colleen Fitzpatrick * Vincent Ball * Garry McDonald * Melissa Jaffer Melissa Jaffer (born 1 December 1936) is an Australian actress. She is best known for her stage and television roles, but has also appeared in many films. Career Jaffer started her career in theatre productions in the mid 1950s has made many ... References External links * 1975 television films 1975 films Australian drama television films 1970s English-language films 1970s Australian films {{1970s-Australia-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seven Little Australians (TV Series)
''Seven Little Australians'' was a 10-part TV series that aired on ABC Television in 1973. Captain Woolcot is a widower with seven children. He marries again and his new wife takes on all the trials of bringing up seven spirited children. The mini-series was based on Ethel Turner's best-selling novel, ''Seven Little Australians ''Seven Little Australians'' is a classic Australian children's literature novel by Ethel Turner, published in 1894. Set mainly in Sydney in the 1880s, it relates the adventures of the seven mischievous Woolcot children, their stern army father ...''. Music for the television miniseries was composed by Bruce Smeaton. It won the Gold Logie in 1974 for Best New Drama. The series was largely faithful to the book; differences include the fact that Judy was thin and waiflike in the book, she is more solidly built in the series. Meg's hair was long and dark, but in the book her hair is long and blonde. The series has been released on a 2-disc region ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Survivor (Keneally Novel)
''The Survivor'' is a 1969 novel by Australian author Thomas Keneally. Awards and nominations *Captain Cook Bicentenary Awards, Novel Section, 1970: joint winner Notes *Dedication: "To W. H. Crook" 1972 TV Movie The novel was adapted for TV by the ABC in 1972.Ed. Scott Murray, ''Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995'', Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p149 References External linksBlog review* Reviews "Southerly" Vol 30 No 1, 1970, by Michael Wilding at AustLit
AustLit: The Australian Literature Resource (also known as AustLit: Australian Literature Gateway; and AustLit: The Resource for Australian Literature), usually referred to simply as AustLit, is an internet-based, non-profit collaboration betwee ...
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Devlin (TV Play)
''Devlin'' is a 1971 Australian television play. It was made as the pilot for a series but aired as a stand-alone television play. Premise At a seaside town, a priest who has spent time in prison in China falls in love with a widow. He keeps flashing back to his time in a Chinese prison. Cast * John Bell as Devlin *Kerry McGuire as Joan Hunter * Tony Ward as Father Michael *Kenneth Tsang Kenneth Tsang Kong (; 5 October 1934 – 27 April 2022) was a Hong Kong actor. Tsang's career spanned 50 years and included a variety of acting roles. Tsang won the Best Supporting Actor Award at the 34th Hong Kong Film Awards in 2015. Early ... as Yang Production It was based on a story story by Morphett. Director Tom Jeffrey liked the story and took it to the ABC who agreed to make it. Charles Russell was an American executive working at the ABC. Jeffrey says that Russell wanted to make the story "tougher" and closer to the real life saga of the Berrigan brothers. Filming took place on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judd For The Defense
''Judd, for the Defense'' is an American legal drama originally broadcast on the ABC network on Friday nights from September 8, 1967, to March 21, 1969. Synopsis The show stars Carl Betz, who had previously spent eight years in the role of Dr. Alex Stone, husband of Donna Reed in ABC's ''The Donna Reed Show''. In his new role, reportedly based on high-profile lawyers such as F. Lee Bailey and Percy Foreman, Betz played Clinton Judd, a flamboyant attorney based in Houston, who often took on controversial cases across the country. Playing his top assistant, Ben Caldwell, was Stephen Young. Even before the show premiered, Foreman threatened a lawsuit by saying that the program was "appropriating for commercial purposes my career as a lawyer." Throughout the course of the two-year run of the show, there were never enough viewers to establish Foreman's claim, although critics gave it positive reviews. Undoubtedly, the skittishness of viewers was a result of the program's dealing with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naked City (TV Series)
''Naked City'' is an American police procedural television series from Screen Gems that aired on ABC from 1958 to 1959 and from 1960 to 1963. It was inspired by the 1948 motion picture ''The Naked City'' and mimics its dramatic "semi- documentary" format. As in the film, each episode concluded with a narrator intoning the iconic line: "There are eight million stories in the naked city. This has been one of them." The ''Naked City'' episode "Four Sweet Corners" (1959) inspired the series '' Route 66'', created by Stirling Silliphant. ''Route 66'' was broadcast by CBS from 1960 to 1964, and, like ''Naked City'', followed the "semi-anthology" format of building the stories around the guest actors, rather than the regular cast. In 1997, the episode "Sweet Prince of Delancey Street" (1961) was ranked number 93 on ''TV Guide'' " 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time" list. Synopsis Filmed on location in New York City, the series concerned the detectives of NYPD's 65th Precinct (changed f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
''Alfred Hitchcock Presents'' is an American television anthology series created, hosted and produced by Alfred Hitchcock, aired on CBS and NBC between 1955 and 1965. It features dramas, thrillers and mysteries. Between 1962 and 1965 it was renamed ''The Alfred Hitchcock Hour''. Hitchcock himself directed only 18 episodes during its run. By the time the show premiered on October 2, 1955, Hitchcock had been directing films for over three decades. ''Time'' magazine named ''Alfred Hitchcock Presents'' as one of "The 100 Best TV Shows of All Time". The Writers Guild of America ranked it #79 on their list of the 101 Best-Written TV Series, tying it with ''Monty Python's Flying Circus'', '' Star Trek: The Next Generation'' and '' Upstairs, Downstairs''. In 2021, ''Rolling Stone'' ranked it 18th on its list of 30 Best Horror TV Shows of All Time. A series of literary anthologies with the running title ''Alfred Hitchcock Presents'' were issued to capitalize on the success of the telev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Breakthrough (1950 Film)
''Breakthrough'' is a 1950 film directed by Lewis Seiler and starring John Agar about an American infantry unit in World War II. Approximately one-third of the film was assembled from preexisting footage. Plot Captain Hale ( David Brian) leads a company of infantrymen from the 1st Infantry Division from the D-Day landings through the Normandy campaign. They resent the presence of a fresh lieutenant Joe Mallory (John Agar). Cast * David Brian as Capt. Tom Hale * John Agar as Lt. Joe Mallory * Frank Lovejoy as platoon Sgt. Pete Bell * William Campbell as Cpl. Danny Dominick (as Bill Campbell) * Paul Picerni as Pvt. Edward P. Rojeck * Greg McClure as Pvt. Frank Finley * Richard Monahan as Pvt. 'Four-Eff' Nelson * Edward Norris as Sgt. Roy Henderson (as Eddie Norris) * Matt Willis as Pvt. Jumbo Hollis * Dick Wesson as Pvt. Sammy Hansen * Suzanne Dalbert as Collette * William Self as Pvt. George Glasheen * Danny Arnold as Pvt. Rothman * Danni Sue Nola ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chinatown At Midnight
''Chinatown at Midnight'' is a 1949 film noir crime film directed by Seymour Friedman and starring Hurd Hatfield. Plot After a jade vase is mentioned to him by Lisa Marcel, an interior designer, Clifford Ward steals it from a Chinatown shop. He shoots and kills shopkeeper Joe Wong, who triggered the burglar alarm, and when employee Betty Chang telephones for help, Ward shoots her as well. Ward, fluent in Chinese, speaks to the police on the phone. Telephone operator Hazel Fong becomes the only hope police have of identifying the voice. Lisa sees a photo of the stolen vase in the newspaper and immediately suspects Ward, who then adds her to his murder victims. When he falls ill and phones a neighborhood pharmacy, the call is once again placed by Hazel, who recognizes his voice. Ward attempts to flee, but the police gun him down. Cast * Hurd Hatfield as Clifford Ward * Jean Willes as Alice * Tom Powers as Capt. Howard Brown * Ray Walker as Sam Costa * Charles Russell as Fred ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
