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Hilly Hicks
Hilly Gene Hicks Sr. is an American character actor. Early life Hicks was born in Los Angeles, California. Biography The role for which Hicks is perhaps best known is Lewis Harvey (the younger son of Alex Haley's second great-grandfather Chicken George) in the TV mini-series ''Roots''. He appeared in the programs ''Adam-12'', ''The Rookies'', '' The Bill Cosby Show'', ''Night Gallery'', ''Hill Street Blues'', ''M*A*S*H'' (appearing twice; once as a soldier trying to steal penicillin and again as an Army medic), '' Roll Out!'' (a short-lived sitcom created by ''M*A*S*H'' producers Larry Gelbart & Gene Reynolds),Riley, Clayton (October 28, 1973). Two Black Shows Get Stuck, Another Really Rolls; 'Roll Out' is not just a winner, it's a dazzler. 'Shaft' and 'Tenafly,' however, are a dull ride. ''New York Times'' the TV movie ''Friendly Fire'', the theatrical movies ''Gray Lady Down'' and '' Raise the Titanic''. Hicks appeared in the ''Barnaby Jones'' episode titled "Dangerous Summer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stu Gilliam
Stewart Byron "Stu" Gilliam (July 27, 1933 datalounge.com; accessed July 21, 2018. – October 11, 2013) was an American actor and and TV comedian. Biography Stewart Byron Gilliam was born in a middle-class area of , the grandson of a church minister. He left home at the age of 14 to perform with a circus as ventriloquist in state fairs, then after a few years began to appear in clubs in Chicago. During his two-year service in the Korean War, he entertained troops as a ventriloquist. In the 1950s/60s he performed his act in clubs nationwide with black audiences, including the |
Roll Out!
''Roll Out'' is an American sitcom that aired Friday evenings on CBS during the 1973-1974 television season. Starring nightclub comedian Stu Gilliam and Hilly Hicks, and featuring Ed Begley Jr. and Garrett Morris, the series was set in France during World War II and was loosely based on the 1952 film ''Red Ball Express''. Actor Jimmy Lydon, familiar as a juvenile lead in the 1940s, was cast as an Army captain. His character's name was Henry Aldrich; the same name he used in Paramount's comedy features of the 1940s. Synopsis In an effort to cash in on the success of ''M*A*S*H,'' CBS decided to air another Army comedy. Instead of Army medics, ''Roll Out'' highlighted the pratfalls of the supply drivers of the fictional 5050th Quartermaster Truck Company of the U.S. Third Army's Red Ball Express, whose staff was mainly African American. The series attempted to use the World War II setting as a commentary on race relations, just as ''M*A*S*H's'' Korean War setting was also a comm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louisiana (1984 Film)
''Louisiana'' is a 1984 Franco - Italian - Canadian film directed by Philippe de Broca. The film score was composed by Claude Bolling. Synopsis The action is located in Louisiana in the mid-nineteenth century. Virginia will fight to get possession of the Bagatelle estate after it was lost during the American Civil War. Cast * Margot Kidder as Virginia Tregan * Ian Charleson as Clarence Dandridge * Andréa Ferréol as Mignette * Lloyd Bochner as Adrien Damvillier * Victor Lanoux as Charles de Vigors * Len Cariou as Oswald * Hilly Hicks as Brent * Raymond Pellegrin as Morley * Ken Pogue as Dr. Murphy * Akosua Busia as Ivy * Corinne Marchand as Anne McGregor * James Bearden as Percy Templeton * Larry Lewis as Adrien II * Wayne Best as Major McGregor * Ron L. Lewis as Pierre Damvillier * Angus MacInnes as Albert * Alex Liggett as Adrien II, Child * Matthew Breeding as Pierre, Child * Scott Burnelle as Fabian * Kellie Brasselle as Julie * Tara Winder as Ivy, Child * Mark Polley as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Godzilla (1978 TV Series)
''Godzilla'' is an American animated monster television series produced by Hanna-Barbera, in association with Henry G. Saperstein. The series aired on NBC on September 9, 1978 with the title ''The Godzilla Power Hour''. The series continued to air until 1981, packaged with other series under various titles. ''The Godzilla Power Hour'' consisted of half-hour episodes of ''Godzilla'' and ''Jana of the Jungle''. A total of 13 original episodes were produced in 1978, with the first eight airing as part of ''The Godzilla Power Hour''. On November 4, 1978, the show was expanded to 90 minutes with the addition of ''Jonny Quest'' reruns and retitled ''The Godzilla Super 90''. Split off into its own half-hour, the show aired in its own half-hour timeslot as simply ''Godzilla'' on September 8, 1979, and then as ''The Godzilla/Globetrotters Adventure Hour'' on November 10, 1979, before another repackaging as ''The Godzilla/Dynomutt Hour'' on September 27, 1980, and then ''The Godzilla/Hon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Amazing Spider-Man (TV Series)
''The Amazing Spider-Man'' is a short-lived American television series based on the Marvel Comics character Spider-Man. It is the first live action, live-action television program, television series featuring Spider-Man and was shown in the United States from September 14, 1977 to July 6, 1979. Though it was a considerable ratings success, the CBS series was cancelled after just 13 episodes, which included a Spider-Man (1977 film), pilot film airing in autumn of 1977. Despite its storylines being set in New York City (the character's hometown), the series was mostly filmed in Los Angeles. Cast and characters * Nicholas Hammond as Spider-Man, Peter Parker / Spider-Man * David White (actor), David White (pilot) and Robert F. Simon (from episode 2) as J. Jonah Jameson * Chip Fields as Gloria Grant, Rita Conway * Michael Pataki as Capt. Barbera (season 1) * Ellen Bry as Julie Masters (season 2) The only characters to appear regularly in both the television series and comics were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spider-Man (1977 Film)
''Spider-Man'' is a 1977 American television superhero film that aired on CBS and had a theatrical release outside the US, which serves as the pilot to the 1978 television series titled '' The Amazing Spider-Man''. It was directed by E. W. Swackhamer, written by Alvin Boretz and stars Nicholas Hammond as the titular character, David White, Michael Pataki, Jeff Donnell and Thayer David. It is the first Spider-Man film by Columbia Pictures. Two sequels, '' Spider-Man Strikes Back'' and '' Spider-Man: The Dragon's Challenge'', were released in 1978 and 1981, respectively. Plot Peter Parker (Nicholas Hammond), a freelance photographer for the ''Daily Bugle'', is bitten by a radioactive spider and discovers he has gained superpowers, such as super-strength, agility and the ability to climb sheer walls and ceilings. When a mysterious Guru ( Thayer David) places people under mind-control - including a doctor and lawyer - to rob banks, Peter becomes the costumed hero Spider-Man to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robbie Robertson (comics)
Joseph "Robbie" Robertson is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, usually in stories featuring the superhero Spider-Man. Created by Stan Lee and John Romita Sr., he first appeared in ''The Amazing Spider-Man'' #51 (August 1967), and has since endured as a supporting character of the wall-crawler. Robbie Robertson was one of the first African Americans, black characters in comics to play a serious supporting role, rather than act as comic relief. He has usually been a high-ranking editor at the New York City, New York newspaper, the ''The Daily Bugle, Daily Bugle'', and a close friend and confidant of publisher J. Jonah Jameson, acting as a voice of reason in Jameson's campaign to discredit Spider-Man. He is more friendly and supportive of Peter Parker as well as the other ''Daily Bugle'' staffers than the brash Jameson. In the 1980s, the character's backstory was explored, revealing a past conflict with the supervillain Tombstone (co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barnaby Jones
''Barnaby Jones'' is an American detective television series starring Buddy Ebsen as a formerly retired investigator and Lee Meriwether as his widowed daughter-in-law, who run a private detective firm in Los Angeles, California. The show was originally introduced as a midseason replacement on the CBS network and ran from 1973 to 1980. Halfway through the series' run, Mark Shera was added to the cast as a much younger cousin of Ebsen's character, who eventually joined the firm. ''Barnaby Jones'' was produced by QM Productions (with Woodruff Productions in the final two seasons). It had the second-longest QM series run (seven and a half seasons), following the nine years of '' The FBI''. The series followed the characteristic Quinn Martin episode format with commercial breaks dividing each episode into four "acts," concluding with an epilogue. The opening credits were narrated by Hank Simms. The first episode of the show, "Requiem for a Son", featured a crossover with anothe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raise The Titanic
''Raise the Titanic!'' is a 1976 adventure novel by Clive Cussler, published in the United States by the Viking Press. It tells the story of efforts to bring the remains of the ill-fated ocean liner RMS ''Titanic'' to the surface of the Atlantic Ocean in order to recover a stockpile of an exotic mineral that was being carried aboard. ''Raise the Titanic!'' was the third published book to feature the author's protagonist, Dirk Pitt. It was the first of Cussler's novels with a prologue set long before the main story, describing an incident with consequences resolved in the present day. The book was adapted into a 1980 feature film, '' Raise the Titanic'', directed by Jerry Jameson. The film was produced by Lord Grade's ITC Entertainment. Although it starred respected and popular actors and boasted a big budget, the movie was a box office bomb and received little critical or popular praise and was also disliked by Cussler. Plot In 1987, Dr. Gene Seagram leads the top-secret P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gray Lady Down
''Gray Lady Down'' is a 1978 American submarine disaster film directed by David Greene and starring Charlton Heston, David Carradine, Stacy Keach, Ned Beatty, Ronny Cox and Rosemary Forsyth, and includes the feature film debut of Christopher Reeve. It is based on David Lavallee's 1971 novel ''Event 1000''. Plot Aging, respected Captain Paul Blanchard (Heston) is on his final submarine tour before promotion to command of a submarine squadron ( COMSUBRON). Surfaced and returning to port, the submarine, USS ''Neptune'', is struck by a Norwegian freighter en route to New York in heavy fog. With the engine room flooded and its main propulsion disabled, the ''Neptune'' sinks to a depth of 1,450 feet (442 meters or approx. 241.6 fathoms) on a canyon ledge above the ocean floor. A United States Navy rescue force, commanded by Captain Hal Bennett (Keach), arrives on the scene, but ''Neptune'' is subsequently rolled by a gravity slide to a greater angle that does not allow the Navy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friendly Fire (1979 Film)
''Friendly Fire'' is an American television movie first broadcast on the ABC network on April 22, 1979. Watched that night by an estimated 64 million people,Brown, Les"ABC's 'Friendly Fire' Drew 64 Million."''The New York Times'', April 25, 1979, p. C22. Archived frothe original./ref> ''Friendly Fire'' went on to win four Emmy awards, including Outstanding Drama Special. The film was directed by David Greene. The movie tells the real-life story of Peg Mullen (played by Carol Burnett),Gamarekian, Barbara"Why Carol Burnett Made 'Friendly Fire'."''The New York Times'', April 21, 1979, p. 15. Archived frothe original./ref> a woman from rural Iowa who with her husband works against government obstacles to uncover the actual details and facts about the death of their son Michael, an Army infantry soldier killed by "friendly fire" in February 1970 during the Vietnam War. Her husband Gene, a World War II veteran, is played by Ned Beatty. Sergeant Mullen was drafted in September 1968 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TV Movie
A television film, alternatively known as a television movie, made-for-TV film/movie or TV film/movie, is a feature-length film that is produced and originally distributed by or to a television network, in contrast to theatrical films made for initial showing in movie theaters, and direct-to-video films made for initial release on home video formats. In certain cases, such films may also be referred to and shown as a miniseries, which typically indicates a film that has been divided into multiple parts or a series that contains a predetermined, limited number of episodes. Origins and history Precursors of "television movies" include ''Talk Faster, Mister'', which aired on WABD (now WNYW) in New York City on December 18, 1944, and was produced by RKO Pictures, and the 1957 ''The Pied Piper of Hamelin'', based on the poem by Robert Browning, and starring Van Johnson, one of the first filmed "family musicals" made directly for television. That film was made in Technicolor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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