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List Of Amarilloans
This is a list of Amarilloans, notable current and former citizens of Amarillo, Texas. Arts and entertainment * Jennifer Archer, author *Art Bell, radio host and author *Lacey Brown, folk singer and ''American Idol'' finalist *Gail Caldwell, Pulitzer Prize-winning book critic *Derek Cecil, actor (''Push, Nevada'') *Cyd Charisse, dancer and actress (''The Band Wagon'', ''Brigadoon'') *Ann Doran, actress (''Rebel Without a Cause'') *Joe Ely, country and folk singer *Ron Ely, actor (''Tarzan'') *Todd English, celebrity chef *Kevin Fowler, country music singer *Blair Garner, country music radio host *Jimmy Gilmer, rock singer ("Sugar Shack") *Jimmie Dale Gilmore, country music singer *Clyde Kenneth Harris, soldier and interior decorator *Kimberly Willis Holt, author *Mitchell Hurwitz, TV writer *Sterling Hyltin, ballet dancer *Carolyn Jones, actress (''The Addams Family'') *Grady Nutt, comedian (''Hee Haw'') * Hayden Pedigo, musician *John Rich, guitar player *Eck Robertson, musician * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amarillo, Texas
Amarillo ( ; Spanish for "yellow") is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the seat of Potter County. It is the 14th-most populous city in Texas and the largest city in the Texas Panhandle. A portion of the city extends into Randall County. The estimated population of Amarillo was 200,393 as of April 1, 2020. The Amarillo- Pampa-Borger combined statistical area had an estimated population of 308,297 as of 2020. The city of Amarillo, originally named Oneida, is situated in the Llano Estacado region.Rathjen, Fredrick W. ''The Texas Panhandle Frontier'' (1973). pg. 11. The University of Texas Press. . The availability of the railroad and freight service provided by the Fort Worth and Denver City Railroad contributed to the city's growth as a cattle-marketing center in the late 19th century.. Retrieved on January 25, 2007. Amarillo was once the self-proclaimed "Helium Capital of the World" for having one of the country's most productive helium fields. The city is also known ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tarzan (1966 TV Series)
''Tarzan'' is a series that aired on NBC from 1966 to 1968. The series portrayed Tarzan (played by Ron Ely) as a well-educated character who had grown tired of civilization, and returned to the jungle where he had been raised. It was filmed in Brazil. The production later relocated to Mexico. This series was set in one of the newly independent African countries of the time. This series retained many of the trappings of the film series, included the "Tarzan yell" and Cheeta, but excluded Jane as part of the "new look" for the fabled apeman that executive producer Sy Weintraub had introduced in previous motion pictures starring Gordon Scott, Jock Mahoney, and Mike Henry. CBS aired repeat episodes of the program during the summer of 1969. Cast * Ron Ely as Tarzan * Manuel Padilla, Jr. as Jai * Alan Caillou as Jason Flood * Rockne Tarkington as Rao Recurring appearances Maurice Evans guest starred as retired Brigadier Sir Basil Bertram, hero of the Battle of the Bulge, in four ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hee Haw
''Hee Haw'' is an American television variety show featuring country music and humor with the fictional rural "Kornfield Kounty" as the backdrop. It aired first-run on CBS from 1969 to 1971, in syndication from 1971 to 1993, and on TNN from 1996 to 1997. Reruns of the series were broadcast on RFD-TV from September 2008 to April 2020, and aired on Circle. The show was inspired by ''Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In'', but centered on country music, rural rather than pop culture-inspired humor, and with far less topical material. Hosted by country music artists Buck Owens and Roy Clark for most of its run, the show was equally well known for its corn pone humor as for its voluptuous, scantily clad women (the "Hee Haw Honeys") in stereotypical farmer's daughter outfits. ''Hee Haw''s appeal, however, was not limited to a rural audience. It was successful in all of the major markets, including network-based Los Angeles and New York City, as well as Boston and Chicago. Other niche programs s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grady Nutt
Grady Lee Nutt (September 2, 1934 – November 23, 1982) was a Southern Baptist minister, humorist, television personality, and author. He was an uncle to performer Joey Lauren Adams. His humor revolved around rural Southern Protestantism and earned him the title of "The Prime Minister of Humor". Childhood and early career Grady Lee Nutt was born in Amarillo, Texas, the oldest of four children (three sons and a daughter) born to Grady C. and Doris (''née'' Rickman) Nutt. Reared in a family of devout Baptists, Nutt was a licensed minister by the age of 13. Nutt briefly attended Wayland Baptist College in Plainview, Texas, before transferring to Baylor University. Immediately after graduation, he married Eleanor Wilson and served as youth minister of the First Baptist Church of Waco and later at Gaston Avenue Baptist Church in Dallas. In 1960, he moved to Louisville, Kentucky, to attend the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, where he simultaneously pastored churches in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Addams Family (1964 TV Series)
''The Addams Family'' is an American macabre/black comedy sitcom based on Charles Addams' ''New Yorker'' cartoons. The 30-minute television series was responsible for taking the unnamed characters in the single-panel gag cartoons and giving them names, back stories and a household setting. This was spearheaded by David Levy, who created and developed the series with Donald Saltzman in cooperation with cartoonist Addams, who gave each character a name and description for the first time. The series was shot in black-and-white, airing for two seasons on ABC from September 18, 1964, to April 8, 1966, for a total of 64 episodes. The show's opening theme was composed and sung by Vic Mizzy. The show was originally produced by head writer Nat Perrin for Filmways, Inc., at General Service Studios in Hollywood, California. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer now owns the rights to the series. Premise The Addams Family is a close-knit extended family with decidedly macabre interests and supernatural abi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carolyn Jones
Carolyn Sue Jones (April 28, 1930 – August 3, 1983) was an American actress of television and film. Jones began her film career in the early 1950s, and by the end of the decade had achieved recognition with a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for ''The Bachelor Party'' (1957) and a Golden Globe Award as one of the most promising new actresses of 1959. Her film career continued for another 20 years. In 1964, she began playing the role of matriarch Morticia Addams in the original 1964 black and white television series ''The Addams Family''. Early life Carolyn Jones was born in Amarillo, Texas, the daughter of Chloe Jeanette Southern, a housewife, and Julius Alfred Jones, a barber. After their father abandoned the family in 1934, Carolyn and her younger sister, Bette Rhea Jones, moved with their mother into her parents' Amarillo home. Jones suffered from severe asthma that often restricted her childhood activities, and when her condition prevente ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sterling Hyltin
Sterling Hyltin is an American ballet dancer. She is currently a principal dancer at the New York City Ballet. Early life and training Hyltin was born in Amarillo, Texas. She wanted to be an ice skater, and would train before school started. However, Hyltin's mother also enrolled her to ballet classes. When she was 12, she auditioned for School of American Ballet, but was rejected. She was ultimately accepted by SAB's summer program in 2000, and stayed in New York as a full-time student. Career Hyltin became an apprentice with New York City Ballet in 2002, and became a member of the corps de ballet the following year. She was named soloist in 2006 and principal dancer the following year. Her repertoire included classical roles such as Aurora in '' The Sleeping Beauty'' and the Sylph in ''La Sylphide'', George Balanchine's works such as "Rubies" from ''Jewels'', ''Western Symphony'' and ''Theme and Variations'', and Jerome Robbins works including '' Afternoon of a Faun'' and '' The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mitchell Hurwitz
Mitchell Donald "Mitch" Hurwitz (born May 29, 1963) is an American television writer, producer, and actor. He is best known as the creator of the television sitcom ''Arrested Development'' as well as the co-creator of ''The Ellen Show''. He is also a contributor to ''The John Larroquette Show'' and ''The Golden Girls''. Early life Hurwitz was born in 1963 to a Jewish family in Anaheim, California. In 1976, when Hurwitz was 12, he co-founded a chocolate-chip cookie business, called the Chipyard on Balboa Boulevard in Balboa Fun Zone in Newport Beach, California, in a former taco place, with his older brother, Michael, and his father, Mark. The Chipyard is still in operation in Boston. He graduated from Estancia High School in Costa Mesa, California, and from Georgetown University in 1985 with a double major in English and theology. Early career Hurwitz worked on several sitcoms in the 1980s and 1990s, including ''Nurses'', ''The Golden Girls'', ''The Golden Palace'', ''The John ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kimberly Willis Holt
Kimberly Willis Holt is an American writer of children's literature. She is best known for the novel ''When Zachary Beaver Came to Town'', which won the 1999 U.S. National Book Award for Young People's Literature."National Book Awards – 1999" National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2011-10-14. (With acceptance speech by Willis Holt.) It was film adaptation, adapted as a When Zachary Beaver Came to Town, 2003 film of the same name. Books * ''My Louisiana Sky'' (Henry Holt and Co., 1998) * ''Mister and Me'' (Puffin, 1998) * ''When Zachary Beaver Came to Town'' (Holt, 1999) * ''Dancing in Cadillac Light'' (Holt, 2001) * ''Keeper of the Night'' (Holt, 2003) * ''Part of Me'' (Holt, 2006) * ''The Water Seeker'' (Holt, 2010) * ''Dear Hank Williams'' (Holt, 2015) *''Blooming at t ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clyde Kenneth Harris
Clyde Kenneth Harris (April 18, 1918 – March 2, 1958) was an American soldier and interior decorator. He served as one of the "Monuments Men" during World War II and later married a granddaughter of Kaiser Wilhelm II. Early life Harris was born on April 18, 1918 in Maud, Oklahoma. He was the son of banker Van Buren Harris (1886–1974) and Aurora (''née'' Vandevere) Harris (1891–1969) and grew up in Konawa, Oklahoma. Harris graduated with a degree in interior decoration from the University of Oklahoma in 1939, where he was president of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, a member of Phi Eta Sigma, and secretary of Delta Phi Delta. After earning his BFA, he was offered a scholarship to study in Paris, but instead attended the Parsons School of Design. Career In 1943, he enlisted in the United States Army Corps of Engineers, but was later assigned to the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives program. While working with the MFAA, he retrieved Holbein's ''Madonna'' from the du ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmie Dale Gilmore
Jimmie Dale Gilmore (born May 6, 1945) is an American country singer, songwriter, actor, recording artist and producer, currently living in Austin, Texas. Life and career Gilmore is a native of the Texas Panhandle, having been born in Amarillo and raised in Lubbock, Texas. His earliest musical influence was Hank Williams and the honky tonk brand of country music that his father played. In the 1950s, he was exposed to the emerging rock and roll of other Texans such as Roy Orbison and Lubbock native Buddy Holly, as well as to Johnny Cash and Elvis Presley, the latter two being in the line up at a concert he attended on October 15, 1955, at Lubbock's Fair Park Coliseum. He was profoundly influenced in the 1960s by The Beatles and Bob Dylan and the folk music and blues revival in that decade. With Joe Ely and Butch Hancock, Gilmore founded The Flatlanders. The group has been performing on and off since 1972. The band's first recording project, from the early 1970s, was barely dist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmy Gilmer
The Fireballs, sometimes billed as Jimmy Gilmer and the Fireballs, were an American rock and roll group, particularly popular at the end of the 1950s and in the early 1960s. The original line-up consisted of George Tomsco (lead guitar), Chuck Tharp (vocals), Stan Lark (bass), Eric Budd (drums), and Dan Trammell (rhythm guitar). The Fireballs were formed in Raton, New Mexico, in 1957 and got their start as an instrumental group featuring the distinctive lead guitar of George Tomsco. They recorded at Norman Petty's studio in Clovis, New Mexico. According to group founders Tomsco and Lark, they took their name after their standing ovation performance of Jerry Lee Lewis's "Great Balls of Fire" at the Raton High School PTA talent contest in New Mexico, USA. They reached the top 40 with the singles "Torquay" (1959), "Bulldog" (1960), and "Quite a Party" (1961). "Quite a Party" peaked at No. 29 in the UK Singles Chart in August 1961. Tharp, Budd, and Trammell left the group in the e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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