Dallas (1978 TV Series, Season 5)
The fifth season of the television series ''Dallas'' aired on CBS during the 1981–82 TV season. Cast Starring In alphabetical order: * Barbara Bel Geddes as Miss Ellie Ewing (24 episodes) * Patrick Duffy as Bobby Ewing (26 episodes) * Linda Gray as Sue Ellen Ewing (26 episodes) * Larry Hagman as J.R. Ewing (26 episodes) * Susan Howard as Donna Culver Krebbs (26 episodes) * Steve Kanaly as Ray Krebbs (26 episodes) * Ken Kercheval as Cliff Barnes (24 episodes) * Victoria Principal as Pamela Barnes Ewing (26 episodes) * Charlene Tilton as Lucy Ewing Cooper (24 episodes) Also starring * Leigh McCloskey as Mitch Cooper (19 episodes) * Jared Martin as Steven "Dusty" Farlow (10 episodes) Special guest stars * Howard Keel as Clayton Farlow (21 episodes) * Priscilla Pointer as Rebecca Barnes Wentworth (19 episodes) * Audrey Landers as Afton Cooper (17 episodes) * Barry Nelson as Arthur Elrod (3 episodes) * William Smithers as Jeremy Wendell (1 episode) Notable guest stars B ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Dallas (1978 TV Series, Season 4)
The fourth season of the television series ''Dallas (1978 TV series), Dallas'' aired on CBS during the 1980–81 United States network television schedule, 1980–81 TV season. Cast Starring In alphabetical order: * Barbara Bel Geddes as Miss Ellie Ewing (23 episodes) * Jim Davis (actor), Jim Davis as Jock Ewing (21 episodes) * Patrick Duffy as Bobby Ewing (23 episodes) * Linda Gray as Sue Ellen Ewing (23 episodes) * Larry Hagman as J. R. Ewing, J.R. Ewing (23 episodes) * Steve Kanaly as Ray Krebbs (23 episodes) * Ken Kercheval as Cliff Barnes (23 episodes) * Victoria Principal as Pam Ewing, Pamela Barnes Ewing (23 episodes) * Charlene Tilton as Lucy Ewing, Lucy Ewing Cooper (22 episodes) Also starring * Leigh McCloskey as Mitch Cooper (20 episodes) * Susan Howard as Donna Culver Krebbs (19 episodes) * Susan Flannery as Leslie Stewart (11 episodes) * Mary Crosby as Kristin Shepard (7 episodes) * Randolph Powell as Alan Beam (1 episode) Special guest stars * Monte Markham as Clin ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Victoria Principal
Vicki Ree Principal (born January 3, 1950),Born January 3, 1950 as per travel manifests at ancestry.com, showing Vicki R. Principal and her mother, Ree V. Principal here, departing Southampton, England, on January 20, 1958, for New York (age given for Vicki R. Principal is 8; birthdate is January 3, 1950) later known as Victoria Principal, is an American actress, producer, entrepreneur, and author, best known for her role as [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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William Smithers
William Smithers (born July 10, 1927) is an American actor, perhaps best known for his recurring role as Jeremy Wendell in the television series ''Dallas''. He appeared in the series in 1981 and from 1984 to 1989. Early life and career Smithers was born on July 10, 1927, in Richmond, Virginia, the son of systems engineer Marion Wilkinson Smithers and Marion Albany Smithers (née Thompson). He attended Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia and Catholic University in Washington, D.C. After his freshman year, he was chosen to play the leading role of Thomas Jefferson in the first production of Paul Green's ''The Common Glory'', presented at Williamsburg, Virginia. NY Times critic Brooks Atkinson called him "worth encouraging." In 1951, he made his Broadway debut as Tybalt in the Dwight Deere Wiman production of ''Romeo and Juliet'', starring Olivia de Havilland; for this performance he received a Theater World Award. In 1952, he was accepted as a life member of Actors Studio, The ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Barry Nelson
Barry Nelson (born Robert Haakon Nielsen; April 16, 1917 – April 7, 2007) was an American actor, noted as the first actor to portray Ian Fleming's secret agent James Bond. Early life Nelson was born in San Francisco, the son of Norwegian immigrants, Betsy (née Christophersen) and Trygve Nielsen His year of birth has been subject to some debate, but is listed as 1917 on both his 1943 Army enlistment record and his 1993 voter registration records. Career With MGM, Nelson made his screen debut in the role as Paul Clark in ''Shadow of the Thin Man'' (1941) starring William Powell and Myrna Loy, with Donna Reed. He followed that with his role as Lew Rankin in the film noir ''Johnny Eager'' (1942) starring Robert Taylor and Lana Turner. During his service in the United States Army Air Forces in World War II, Nelson debuted on the Broadway stage in Moss Hart's play ''Winged Victory'' (1943) in the role of Bobby Grills. His next Broadway appearance was as Peter Sloan, playwright, i ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Afton Cooper
Afton Cooper (formerly Van Buren) is a fictional character from the popular American television series ''Dallas'', played by Audrey Landers. Joining the cast during season 4 and remaining until the first episode of season 8, Landers returned at the end of season 12 for five episodes and reprised her role one more time in the 1996 TV movie, '' Dallas: J.R. Returns''. In 2013, Afton returned in season 2 of the new 2012 series, ''Dallas''. Storylines Afton is the sister of Mitch Cooper, the husband of Lucy Ewing. J.R. Ewing is immediately attracted to Afton and they wind up in bed. J.R. gets her a singing job in a bar where she meets Cliff Barnes. Afton and Cliff become romantically involved but it doesn't last long because Afton thinks Cliff is a loser. Unlike her brother Mitch, Afton is fond of money. When Cliff Barnes has a case against J.R. concerning the counter revolution in South East Asia, Afton plots with J.R. to drug Cliff so J.R. can get his hands on the evidence that con ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Audrey Landers
Audrey Landers (born Audrey Hamburg; July 18, 1956) is an American actress and singer, best known for her role as Afton Cooper on the television series ''Dallas'' and her role as Val Clarke in the film version of ''A Chorus Line'' (1985). Early years Landers was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Landers began her acting career at the age of 9, when she starred in her first community theater musical, and continued acting and singing in community theater shows in New York State. In January 1970, she performed in ''Oh Dad, Poor Dad...'' at Elmwood Playhouse in Nyack, NY. Landers was first noticed with a country song that she wrote and performed at the age of twelve, which led to a Nashville recording contract with Epic Records, a performance on ''The Merv Griffin Show'', and a year-long role on the daytime drama, ''The Secret Storm''. During her teen years, she acted on the daytime drama ''Somerset'' and studied music at the Juilliard School in New York City, while majoring in ps ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Rebecca Barnes Wentworth
This is a list of characters appearing on the 1978–1991 American television series ''Dallas''. During its 14 seasons on air, the show featured 21 regular cast members, portraying twenty characters (as the character of Miss Ellie was recast for season eight). Additionally, hundreds of guest actors portrayed supporting characters, this list includes the most noteworthy among them. Main characters ;Notes Supporting characters Ewing relatives Gary Ewing Garrison Arthur "Gary" Ewing (David Ackroyd in season 2, Ted Shackelford thereafter) was the middle son of Jock ( Jim Davis) and Miss Ellie Ewing ( Barbara Bel Geddes), husband of Valene (Joan Van Ark) and father of Lucy Ewing (Charlene Tilton). He appeared occasionally between season 2 and season 6, once in season 9, and the series finale in season 14. The character made 11 appearances on the show, Ackroyd for the first two and Shackelford for the remaining nine. Gary was the middle child, being born after J.R. ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Priscilla Pointer
Priscilla Marie Pointer (born May 18, 1924) is an American retired actress. She began her career in the theater in the late 1940's, including productions on Broadway. Later, Pointer moved to Hollywood and making appearances on television in the early 1950s. She didn't however become a regular screen actress until the 1970's. She is the mother of actress and singer Amy Irving, (whom she often appeared alongside as her mother or mother-in-law) therefore making her the former mother-in-law of filmmakers Steven Spielberg and Bruno Barreto and the mother-in-law of documentary filmmaker Kenneth Bowser, Jr. Personal life Pointer was born on May 18, 1924 in New York City. Her mother Augusta Leonora (née Davis) was an artist and an illustrator, and her father Kenneth Keith Pointer was an artist. One of her maternal great-grandfathers, Jacob Barrett Cohen, was from a Jewish family that had lived in the United States since the 1700s. Marriage's and family Pointer was previously married ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Clayton Farlow
Clayton Farlow is a fictional character in the popular American television series ''Dallas'', played by Howard Keel from 1981 to 1991. Background Clayton Farlow, along with his sister Jessica (Alexis Smith), was raised on the Southern Cross Ranch (Co-ordinates: 32°43'N 96°30'W) in San Angelo, Texas. Clayton and Jessica's father was described as a "big man that liked the oil business, but ranching was his real love". Clayton's father took him to his first cattle auction when he was six years old and began teaching him ranching and the oil business. Like his father, Clayton became a successful oilman and rancher. Jessica was wild in her teenage years and developed a serious violent mental condition. She gave birth to a son Steven "Dusty" Farlow (Jared Martin) in London, England. Clayton and his new wife, Amy, became Steven's legal parents when they listed themselves on Steven's birth certificate, while Jessica married an English lord and remained in England. Clayton and Amy retur ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Howard Keel
Harold Clifford Keel (April 13, 1919November 7, 2004), known professionally as Howard Keel, was an American actor and singer, known for his rich bass-baritone singing voice. He starred in a number of MGM musicals in the 1950s and in the CBS television series ''Dallas'' from 1981 to 1991. Early life Keel was born in Gillespie, Illinois, United States, to Navyman-turned-coalminer Homer Keel, and his wife, Grace Margaret (née Osterkamp). Keel was the younger of the couple's children, after elder son Frederick William Keel. The family was so poor that a teacher would often provide Keel with his lunch. After his father's death in 1930, Keel and his mother moved to California, where he graduated from Fallbrook High School at age 17. He worked various odd jobs until settling at Douglas Aircraft Company as a "traveling representative". He was a long haul truck driver. In the 1950s, the MGM publicity department stated that Keel's birth name was Harold Leek. Career At age 20, Kee ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Jared Martin
Jared Christopher Martin (December 21, 1941 – May 24, 2017) was an American film and television actor. He was best known for his role as Steven "Dusty" Farlow in the 1978 series ''Dallas'' and for roles on two science fiction TV series, ''The Fantastic Journey'' and ''War of the Worlds''. Early years Martin was born in Manhattan to Charles Elmer Martin, a cover artist and cartoonist for ''The New Yorker'', and his wife, Florence Taylor, an artist and homemaker. He began acting at the age of ten in a local children's theater group. After graduating from the Putney School and Columbia University, where his roommate was Brian De Palma, he spent a summer apprenticing with Joseph Papp's Shakespeare in the Park. After graduating, he worked for a couple of years at ''The New York Times'' as a copy boy and thumbnail book reviewer for the Sunday edition. Acting career Leaving his newspaper job, Martin joined a summer stock theatre company in Cape May, New Jersey; then spent a season ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Leigh McCloskey
Leigh Joseph McCloskey (born June 21, 1955) is an American actor, artist, author and philosopher. Throughout his acting career, McCloskey appeared in numerous television series and movies, including the popular American soap opera ''Dallas'' and a leading role in the Dario Argento-helmed supernatural horror film ''Inferno''. As a painter, McCloskey has produced a number of works focused on occult, alchemical, and esoteric themes, including his own Tarot deck and '' The Hieroglyph of the Human Soul'', a mixed-media art installation painted on the walls of his home library. His art work has been featured in popular music, including Flying Lotus’ 2010 release ''Cosmogramma'' and The Rolling Stones’ A Bigger Bang Tour in the 2000s. Early life Born in Los Angeles, California, McCloskey was classically trained as an actor at the Juilliard School in Lincoln Center, New York. Acting He began his professional acting career playing Billy Abbott in the original miniseries '' R ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |