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Eugene Iglesias
Eugene Luis Francisco Iglesias Carrillo (3 December 1926 – 4 February 2023) was an American actor from Puerto Rico who was active mainly in 1950s and 1960s. In 1955, Iglesias appeared as Alfredo on the television western ''Cheyenne'' in the episode "Border Showdown." He is most known for his roles in ''Harper'', otherwise referred to as "The Moving Target" during its production period, (1966), ''Cowboy'' (1958), and ''The Naked Dawn'' (1955). Iglesias was mostly active as a film actor, but also appeared in television, including the series '' My Little Margie'' and '' Dragnet'' (1954): Broken Arrow, season 1, episode 8-November 27, 1956 as Cheewaukee. Life and career Iglesias was born in December 1926 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He was also known as Gene Iglesias. He died from a heart attack in Lamesa, Texas, on 4 February 2023, at the age of 96. He was buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles, California Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Juan, Puerto Rico
San Juan ( , ; Spanish for "Saint John the Baptist, John") is the capital city and most populous Municipalities of Puerto Rico, municipality in the Commonwealth (U.S. insular area), Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the United States. As of the United States Census Bureau, 2020 census, it is the List of United States cities by population, 57th-most populous city under the jurisdiction of the United States, with a population of 342,259. San Juan was founded by Spanish Empire, Spanish colonists in 1521, who called it Ciudad de Puerto Rico (Spanish for "Rich Port City"). Puerto Rico's capital is the second oldest European-established capital city in the Americas, after Santo Domingo, in the Dominican Republic, founded in 1496, and is the List of North American settlements by year of foundation, oldest European-established city under United States of America, United States sovereignty. Several historical buildings are located in the historic district of Old S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taza, Son Of Cochise
''Taza, Son of Cochise'' is a 1954 American Western film directed by Douglas Sirk and starring Rock Hudson and Barbara Rush. The film was shot in 3D, and is one of just two films confirmed to have been released in the Pola-Lite 3D System using one projector. Plot Three years after the end of the Apache Wars, peacemaking chief Cochise dies. His elder son Taza (Rock Hudson) shares his ideas, but (in this fictional narrative) brother Naiche ( Bart Roberts) yearns for war...and for Taza's betrothed, Oona (Barbara Rush). Naiche loses no time in starting trouble which, thanks to a bigoted cavalry officer, ends with the proud Chiricahua Apaches on a reservation, where they are soon joined by the captured renegade Geronimo, who is all it takes to start a war. Cast Production It was the third time Jeff Chandler played Cochise, following '' Broken Arrow'' and '' The Battle at Apache Pass''. Parts of the film were shot in Castle Valley, Professor Valley, Sand Flats, Devil's Garden, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Safe At Home!
''Safe at Home!'' is a 1962 American comedy sports film starring Major League Baseball players Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris of the New York Yankees.https://archive.today/20130104111145/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/481899212.html?dids=481899212:481899212&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Apr+29,+1962&author=&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=Mantle+and+Maris+Bat+Out+a+Movie&pqatl=google The film also stars William Frawley (in his final film appearance) and Don Collier, with appearances by Yankees Whitey Ford and Ralph Houk. The film concerns a Florida boy who lies to his Little League teammates, telling them that he knows Mantle and Maris and will bring them to their team banquet. His attempts to meet his heroes during spring training by sneaking into the stadium and the players' hotel room result in chaos. The film was shot in Fort Lauderdale and Pompano Beach, Florida. Plot Hutch Lawton is a young boy living on a boat in Florida with his father, Ken. Ken is a sin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frontier Uprising
''Frontier Uprising'' is a 1961 American Western film directed by Edward L. Cahn and starring Jim Davis, Nancy Hadley and Ken Mayer. It is a remake of '' Kit Carson'' (1940). at TCMDB Plot Not having heard that war has erupted between the U.S. and Mexico, a wagon train heads west, only to find itself threatened by the Mexicans who have teamed up with hostile Indians.Cast * Jim Davis as Jim Stockton * Nancy Hadley as Consuela Montalvo *[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Gunn
''Peter Gunn'' is an American detective fiction, private eye television series, starring Craig Stevens (actor), Craig Stevens as Peter Gunn with Lola Albright as his girlfriend, lounge singer Edie Hart. The series was broadcast by NBC from September 22, 1958, to 1960 and by American Broadcasting Company, ABC in 1960–61. The series was created by Blake Edwards, who also wrote 39 episodes and directed nine. According to Vincent Terrace, ''Peter Gunn'' was the first detective series whose character was created especially for television, instead of adapted from other media. The series is probably best remembered today for its music by film and television composer Henry Mancini, including the iconic "Peter Gunn (song), Peter Gunn Theme", which was nominated for an Emmy Award and two Grammy Award, Grammys for Mancini. Subsequently the theme has been performed and recorded by many jazz, rock and blues musicians. The progressive rock band Emerson, Lake & Palmer recorded the song, add ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Key Witness (1960 Film)
''Key Witness'' is a black-and-white 1960 American neo-noir crime film directed by Phil Karlson and starring Jeffrey Hunter, Pat Crowley, and Dennis Hopper. Plot Fred Morrow, an average Los Angeles citizen, witnesses a gang murder when he stops in a café to use a telephone. Aware that he is the only witness against them, the gang members, led by young "Cowboy" Tomkins, seek out his identity and terrorize his family and him to keep him from testifying against them. A police detective, Torno, fears he will lose his only witness, but Fred stands up to the gang, despite wife Ann's hysteria. Cowboy gives the Morrows until midnight to change their minds, while gang members Ruby, Muggles and Apple and he throw a rock through the family's window and slash their car's tires. Cowboy leads the cops on a car chase, but is caught. In court, though, Fred changes his testimony after learning Ann has been attacked by Ruby, and their child is held at gunpoint by Muggles. He later provokes Appl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frontier Doctor
''Frontier Doctor'' is an American Western television series starring Rex Allen that aired in syndication from September 26, 1958, until June 20, 1959. The series was also known as ''Unarmed'' and ''Man of the West''.TV Guide Guide to TV. Barnes & Noble. 2004. p. 238 . Synopsis ''Frontier Doctor'' follows the exploits of a physician, Dr. Bill Baxter, who is based in Rising Springs in the Arizona Territory during the early 20th century. He rides in a buggy with his black bag and encounters more than his share of trouble as he aids many who cross his path. Baxter often finds difficulty with his patients, such as the outlaw Butch Cassidy. Stafford Repp occasionally appeared as Sheriff Brawley. Other guest stars *Jack Albertson as J. B. Drummond, Lee Van Cleef as Deputy Sid Carver, aka Bill Dalton, and Tyler McVey as Sheriff Ed Wilson, in "The Great Stagecoach Robbery" (1958) * Chris Alcaide as Ed Slater in "Broken Barrier" (1959) * Diane Brewster as Marian Dell in "Law of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Untouchables (1959 TV Series)
''The Untouchables'' is an American crime drama produced by Desilu Productions that ran from 1959 to 1963 on the American Broadcasting Company, ABC television network. Based on the The Untouchables (1957 book), memoir of the same name by Eliot Ness and Oscar Fraley, it fictionalizes the experiences of Ness as a Bureau of Prohibition, Prohibition agent fighting crime in Chicago in the 1930s with the help of a special team of agents handpicked for their courage, moral character and incorruptibility, nicknamed the Untouchables (law enforcement), the Untouchables. The book was later made into The Untouchables (film), a celebrated film in 1987 and a second, less-successful The Untouchables (1993 TV series), TV series in 1993. A dynamic, hard-hitting action drama and a landmark television crime series, ''The Untouchables'' won series star Robert Stack the Emmy Award for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series, Best Actor in a Dramatic Series in 1960. Series ov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rio Bravo (film)
''Rio Bravo'' is a 1959 American Western film directed and produced by Howard Hawks and starring John Wayne, Dean Martin, Angie Dickinson, Ricky Nelson, Walter Brennan, and Ward Bond. Written by Jules Furthman and Leigh Brackett, based on the short story "Rio Bravo" by B.H. McCampbell, the film stars Wayne as a Texan sheriff who arrests the brother of a powerful local rancher for murder and then has to hold the man in jail until a U.S. Marshal can arrive. With the help of a lame old man, a drunk, and a young gunfighter, they hold off the rancher's gang. ''Rio Bravo'' was filmed on location at Old Tucson Studios outside Tucson, Arizona, in Eastmancolor, with film processing provided by Technicolor. In 2014, ''Rio Bravo'' was deemed "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. Plot Joe Burdette, the spoiled younger brother of wealthy land baron Nathan Burdette, taunts town drun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cowboy (1958 Film)
''Cowboy'' is a 1958 American Western film directed by Delmer Daves and starring Glenn Ford, Jack Lemmon, Anna Kashfi and Brian Donlevy. This film is an adaptation of Frank Harris's 1930 semi-autobiographical novel ''My Reminiscences as a Cowboy''. Lemmon's character is based on Harris. The opening animated title sequence was created by Saul Bass. The screenwriters were Edmund H. North and Dalton Trumbo - the latter received no screen credit at the time because he had been blacklisted as one of the Hollywood Ten. Plot Frank Harris is a Chicago hotel clerk who dreams of making his fortune in the cattle business and has also fallen in love with Maria, the daughter of hotel guest and Mexican cattle baron Señor Vidal. When Vidal finds out about the relationship, he orders Harris to stay away and arranges to return immediately to Mexico with his daughter. Meanwhile, Tom Reece finishes a cattle drive and takes over an entire wing of the hotel, as usual. He makes a deal to buy catt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Domino Kid
''Domino Kid'' is a 1957 American Western film directed by Ray Nazarro and written by Kenneth Gamet and Hal Biller. The film stars Rory Calhoun, Kristine Miller, Andrew Duggan, Yvette Dugay, Peter Whitney and Eugene Iglesias. The film was released in October 1957, by Columbia Pictures. Plot Domino (Rory Calhoun) returns from the Civil War to find his ranch in ruins and his father murdered. Five men were responsible and four were identified. One by one Domino outdraws the four that were known, all being outlaws. There is only one left now. Domino does not know his identity but that man probably knows of Domino and his mission. Cast *Rory Calhoun as Cort Garand aka Domino Kid * Kristine Miller as Barbara Ellison *Andrew Duggan as Wade Harrington, Land Office Manager * Yvette Dugay as Rosita, owner, dancer at The Cantina La Rosita *Peter Whitney as Lafe Prentiss, outlaw gunman, fifth and last victim of Domino Kid *Eugene Iglesias as Juan Cortez, guitarist at The Cantin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walk The Proud Land
''Walk the Proud Land'' is a 1956 American CinemaScope Technicolor Western film directed by Jesse Hibbs and starring Audie Murphy and future Academy Award winner Anne Bancroft. Filmed at Old Tucson Studios, it recounts the first successful introduction of limited self-government by John Clum (1851–1932), Indian agent for the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation in the Arizona Territory and is based on the 1936 biography ''Apache Agent'' by his son Woodworth Clum (1878-1946). Plot The film begins in 1874, when John Clum arrives in Tucson, Arizona as the new Indian agent of the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation. He meets with Arizona Territory Governor Safford and Army General Wade, both of whom mock the Department of the Interior's decision to change its policy toward the Apache, Wade calling them "savages". Arriving at San Carlos, Clum gives his papers to Wade's subordinate Captain Larsen and meets Larsen's subordinate Sergeant Sweeney. Clum orders Larsen to free Apache ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
