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Deadwood (TV Series)
''Deadwood'' is an American western (genre), Western television series that aired on the premium television, premium cable television, cable network HBO from March 21, 2004, to August 27, 2006, spanning List of Deadwood episodes, three seasons and 36 episodes. The series is set in the 1870s in Deadwood, South Dakota, before and after the area's annexation by the Dakota Territory, and charts Deadwood's growth from camp to town. The show was created, produced, and largely written by David Milch. ''Deadwood'' features a large ensemble cast headed by Timothy Olyphant and Ian McShane, playing the real-life Deadwood residents Seth Bullock and Al Swearengen, respectively. Many other historical figures appear as characters, including George Crook, Wyatt Earp, E. B. Farnum, George Hearst, Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane, Sol Star, A. W. Merrick, Jack McCall, and Charlie Utter. The plot lines involving these characters include historical truths as well as substantial fictional elements. Mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Western (genre)
The Western is a genre Setting (narrative), set in the American frontier and commonly associated with Americana (culture), folk tales of the Western United States, particularly the Southwestern United States, as well as Northern Mexico and Western Canada. It is commonly referred to as the "Old West" or the "Wild West" and depicted in Western media as a hostile, sparsely populated frontier in a state of near-total lawlessness patrolled by outlaws, sheriffs, and numerous other Stock character, stock "gunslinger" characters. Western narratives often concern the gradual attempts to tame the crime-ridden American West using wider themes of justice, freedom, rugged individualism, Manifest Destiny, and the national history and identity of the United States. History The first films that belong to the Western genre are a series of short single reel silents made in 1894 by Edison Studios at their Edison's Black Maria, Black Maria studio in West Orange, New Jersey. These featured vet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Dickens
Kimberly Jan Dickens (born June 18, 1965) is an American actress. Her film debut was in the 1995 comedy film ''Palookaville (film), Palookaville''. Dickens played lead roles in the films ''Truth or Consequences, N.M. (film), Truth or Consequences, N.M.'' (1997), ''Zero Effect'' (1998) and ''Mercury Rising'' (1998). Her other films include ''Great Expectations (1998 film), Great Expectations'' (1998), ''Hollow Man'' (2000), ''House of Sand and Fog (film), House of Sand and Fog'' (2003), ''Thank You for Smoking'' (2005), ''The Blind Side (film), The Blind Side'' (2009), ''Gone Girl (film), Gone Girl'' (2014), ''Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (film), Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children'' (2016), ''Lizzie (2018 film), Lizzie'' (2018), ''Land (2021 film), Land'' (2021), and ''The Good Nurse'' (2022). On television, Dickens had regular roles in the drama series ''Deadwood (TV series), Deadwood'' (2004–2006; Deadwood: The Movie, 2019), ''Treme (TV series), Treme'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paramount Television
The original incarnation of Paramount Television was the name of the television production division of the American film studio Paramount Pictures, that was responsible for the production of Viacom television programs, until it changed its name to CBS Paramount Television on January 17, 2006, due to the Viacom split. History Desilu Productions Desilu Productions was an American production company founded and co-owned by husband and wife Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball, best known for shows such as ''I Love Lucy'', ''Star Trek'', and ''The Untouchables''. Until 1962, Desilu was the second-largest independent television production company in the U.S. behind MCA Inc.'s Revue Productions until MCA bought Universal Pictures, and Desilu became and remained the number-one independent production company until it was sold in 1967. Ball and Arnaz jointly owned the majority stake in Desilu from its inception until 1962, when Ball bought out Arnaz and ran the company by herself for several ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Tinker
Mark Tinker (born January 16, 1951) is an American television producer and director. Tinker was an executive producer and regular director on the HBO series '' Deadwood''. Prior to ''Deadwood'', Tinker served as a director/producer on ''NYPD Blue'', which was co-created by ''Deadwood'' writer David Milch. Tinker has also directed episodes of '' The White Shadow'', '' St. Elsewhere'', '' Capital News'', ''Civil Wars'', ''Chicago Hope'', ''L.A. Law'', ''Grey's Anatomy'', ''Private Practice'', ''Scandal'', ''Chicago P.D.'', ''Magnum P.I.'', and ''American Gods''. Early life Tinker was born in Stamford, Connecticut, the son of Ruth Prince (née Byerly) (1927–2004) and former NBC chairman Grant Tinker (1926–2016), and the brother of John Tinker, with whom he worked on '' St. Elsewhere''. His stepmother was Mary Tyler Moore, who was married to Grant Tinker from 1962 until 1981. Tinker graduated from Syracuse University in 1973. Career Tinker joined the crew of the HBO western dram ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gregg Fienberg
Gregg Fienberg (born September 12, 1960) is an American television producer and director. He worked on the Western drama '' Deadwood'' in both capacities and received a Directors Guild of America Award and two Emmy Award nominations for the series. He was an Emmy nominated producer for the mystery series ''Twin Peaks''. He was also the executive producer and unit production manager for the HBO series ''True Blood''. Biography Fienberg was born and raised in Southern California, and is the third of four children. 1980s He was a producer for the 1984 film ''Voice in Exile''. 1990s He worked on several music videos in the early 1990s and worked with Madonna, Michael Jackson and U2. In 1990 made his television debut with the series ''Twin Peaks''. The series was created by David Lynch and Mark Frost and focused on the investigation of the murder of a prom queen. Fienberg served as a production manager and producer for the first season. Fienberg and the production staff were nominate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Brook
Michael Brook (born 1951) is a Canadian guitarist, inventor, music producer, and film music composer. He plays in many genres, including rock, electronica, world music, minimalism and film scores. His collaborations with musicians around the world have made him "one of the most sought-after producers in the music industry." Born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Brook lives in Los Angeles. He is the creator of the Infinite Guitar. Career Brook studied music and electronics at York University and worked as an engineer at the Grant Avenue studios, then owned by the Lanois brothers. Here he worked with Brian Eno, The Edge, Jon Hassell and Harold Budd. In 1985 he released his first solo album ''Hybrid'', containing instrumental tracks with Indian and African elements. Another notable collaboration was ''Sleeps with the Fishes'' with Clan of Xymox member Pieter Nooten ( 4AD, 1987). He worked on the album ''Set'' by Youssou N'Dour, ''Miss America'' by Mary Margaret O'Hara and collabora ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johnny Klimek
Johnny Klimek (born 18 August 1962) is an Australian musician, music producer, and composer, best known for his innovative work in the underground electronica music scene and for his film scores. Life and career Klimek was born in Melbourne, Australia. His mother, Luisa née Cester (born 29 January 1916 in Pasiano di Pordenone) was a daughter of the couple Eugenia and Ernesto Cester. In the Summer of 1940 she left Friuli-Venezia Giulia for Australia. After the Second World War, she married Alfons Klimek (died 1998) and gave birth to eight children: Eugenia, Lydia, Naomi (born 1953), Greta, Alfons junior, Robert, and twins Jayney and Johnny (born August 1962). Her sister, Fanny Cester (1921–1988), emigrated to Australia in 1937 and married racing cyclist Nino Borsari in 1940. The Klimek family lived in various Melbourne suburbs including Kew, Oakleigh and, from 1969, Clayton. Klimek's younger cousins, Nic and Chris Cester, were founding mainstays of Australian hard rock ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reinhold Heil
Reinhold Heil (born May 18, 1954) is a German-born musician and film and television composer based in Los Angeles. He initially achieved success in Germany as a member of the post-punk and Neue Deutsche Welle bands Nina Hagen Band and Spliff and later as a music producer. He is known for his frequent collaborations with Australian composer Johnny Klimek and director Tom Tykwer on films such as ''Run Lola Run'' and ''Cloud Atlas''. Early life Heil was born in Schlüchtern, in the state of Hesse, West Germany. He grew up twenty meters from Schlüchtern's 10th century monastery, where he was introduced to classical music. Heil learned to play church organ at a young age and in adolescence began training to become a pianist. In his teenage years, Heil's father, who owned the town's only record and hi-fi store, put Heil in charge of selecting all the records sold in his store, inadvertently giving Heil access to the most influential pop music of the times. Heil eagerly immersed himse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Schwartz
David Schwartz is an American composer, known for his scoring of the music for several television series. He composed most of the songs for ''Arrested Development'', and he returned as the series composer for the fourth season, which debuted on Netflix. Schwartz attended the School of Visual Arts in New York City and the Berklee College of Music in Boston. He began composing music for television and film in 1990. The theme for his first network television series, ''Northern Exposure'', resulted in a Grammy nomination. "Theme from ''Northern Exposure''", credited to Schwartz, hit #15 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart in late 1992. He scored every episode of the show's six season run. He has scored themes for television productions including ''Reaper'', '' Two of Us'', ''The Good Place'', '' Deadwood'', ''Arrested Development'', ''Carpoolers'', ''Running Wilde'', and ''Beverly Hills, 90210''. His film credits include ''You Stupid Man''. He is the father of singer-songwri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brent Sexton
Brent Sexton (born August 12, 1967) is an American actor best known for his roles in the television series '' Bosch'', '' The Killing'', ''Life'', and '' Deadwood''. He has guest starred in several other television series, such as ''The Expanse'', '' Justified'', '' That's Life'', ''Birds of Prey'', '' Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'', and ''Judging Amy''. He has also appeared in several motion pictures, such as ''In the Valley of Elah'', ''Flightplan'', ''Radio'', and ''A.I. Artificial Intelligence''. In 2006, Sexton, along with the cast of ''Deadwood'', was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award. Early life Sexton was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He studied at Missouri State University and Elon University. Career Sexton toured internationally with a theater company as both Officer Krupke and Detective Schrank in ''West Side Story ''West Side Story'' is a musical conceived by Jerome Robbins with music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and a book by A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garret Dillahunt
Garret Lee Dillahunt (born November 24, 1964) is an American actor. He is best known for his work in television, including the roles Burt Chance on the Fox sitcom ''Raising Hope'', for which he was nominated for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actor in a Comedy Series, Jack McCall and Francis Wolcott in '' Deadwood'', and John Dorie in '' Fear the Walking Dead'' (2018–2021). He has also appeared in ''The 4400'', '' ER'', '' Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles'', '' Justified'', and ''The Mindy Project'' (2015–2017). He starred in the Amazon Studios drama series '' Hand of God'' (2014–2017). In film, Dillahunt has played supporting roles in ''No Country for Old Men'', ''The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford'', ''Winter's Bone'', ''Looper'', and '' 12 Years a Slave''. Early life and education Dillahunt was born in Castro Valley, California, and grew up in Selah, Washington. He was born into a family of three boys, with two brothers: Bre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Titus Welliver
Titus B. Welliver (born March 12, 1962) is an American actor. He is best known for his portrayals of the Man in Black in ''Lost'', Silas Adams in '' Deadwood'', Jimmy O’Phelan in ''Sons of Anarchy'', and the title role in the television series '' Bosch'' and '' Bosch: Legacy.'' He is also known for his collaborations with Ben Affleck, starring in his films ''Gone Baby Gone'' (2007) and '' The Town'' (2010). Early life Welliver was born in New Haven, Connecticut. His father, Neil Welliver, was a well-known American landscape painter who was a professor of fine art at Yale University before becoming dean of the University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Fine Art. Welliver's mother, Norma Cripps, was a fashion illustrator. Welliver studied drama at New York University in the early 1980s before his film and television career began. Welliver befriended Adam Sandler in a comedy writing class while attending New York University. Welliver's life has been marked by losses. His ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
