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Murder In Texas
''Murder in Texas'' is a 1981 television film starring Katharine Ross, Sam Elliott, Farrah Fawcett, and Andy Griffith. The film was directed by William Hale, and was based on a true story; that was written for the TV screen by John McGreevey. It first aired on television in two parts on Sunday and Monday May 3–4, 1981.Blau, EleanoTelevision Week ''The New York Times'' Plot Based on the true story of the death of Joan Robinson Hill, this film tells of a plastic surgeon who was suspected of causing the death of his first wife, the daughter of a wealthy member of Houston society. The circumstances of her death - which was never solved - are clouded by a suspiciously hasty embalming and a hurried burial. The doctor then marries his mistress. In spite of two autopsies showing that his daughter died of natural causes, Ash Robinson, convinced that his daughter was murdered, sets out single-handedly to find out the true cause of her death, determined to see that the doctor is punishe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ann Kurth
Ann Elizabeth Kurth FAAN is the dean and Linda Koch Lorimer Professor at Yale School of Nursing. She is a fellow of the National Academy of Medicine and a member of the United States Preventive Services Task Force. She is an expert in global health and studies HIV. Early life and education Kurth completed her bachelor's degree at Princeton University where she specialised in African and Developmental Studies and completed in 1984. She completed a Master of Public Health at Columbia University, graduating in 1987. She joined Yale School of Nursing where she earned a Master of Science in Nursing in 1990. She was certified a midwife in 1990. She joined the University of Washington for her doctoral studies, gaining a PhD in epidemiology in 1998. In 1993 she published her doctoral research in a book - ''Until the Cure: Caring for Women with HIV'' - one of the first textbooks that described HIV in women. The book considers the ethical issues, including the reproductive rights of women ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joan Robinson Hill
Joan Olive Robinson Hill (February 6, 1931 – March 19, 1969) was a socialite and equestrian from Houston, Texas. Her unexplained death at age 38 led to her husband, John Hill, becoming the first person to be indicted by the state of Texas on the charge of murder by omission. The case precipitated a series of events that included the 1972 murder of John Hill and, two years later, the fatal police shooting of the man accused of that murder. Adopted as an infant by wealthy oil tycoon Davis Ashton "Ash" Robinson and his wife, Rhea, Joan became an equestrian at a young age. She excelled and continued the sport into adulthood, ultimately winning several national titles. After two youthful marriages that ended in divorce, Joan married plastic surgeon John Hill in 1957. After a tumultuous marriage, she died following a short illness on March 19, 1969. Autopsy examinations failed to determine a cause of death beyond an infection from an unknown source. Ash subsequently accused John of po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nielsen Ratings
Nielsen Media Research (NMR) is an American firm that measures media audiences, including television, radio, theatre, films (via the AMC Theatres MAP program), and newspapers. Headquartered in New York City, it is best known for the Nielsen ratings, an audience measurement system of television viewership that for years has been the deciding factor in canceling or renewing television shows by television networks. As of May 2012, it is part of Nielsen Holdings. NMR began as a division of ACNielsen, a 1923-founded marketing research firm. In 1996, NMR was split off into an independent company, and in 1999, was purchased by the Dutch conglomerate VNU. In 2001, VNU also purchased ACNielsen, thereby bringing both companies under the same corporate umbrella. NMR is also a sister company to Nielsen//NetRatings, which measures Internet and digital media audiences. VNU was reorganized and renamed the Nielsen Company in 2007. History The Nielsen TV Ratings have been produced in the U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parley Baer
Parley Edward Baer (August 5, 1914 – November 22, 2002) was an American actor in radio and later in television and film. Despite dozens of appearances in television series and theatrical films, he remains best known as the original "Chester" in the radio version of ''Gunsmoke'', and as the Mayor of Mayberry (Roy Stoner) in ''The Andy Griffith Show''. Early life, family and education Parley Edward Baer was born in Salt Lake City, Utah. He studied drama at the University of Utah. Career Baer had a circus background, but he began his radio career at Utah station KSL. Circus Early in his career, Baer was a circus ringmaster and publicist. He left those roles for military service in World War II. In the 1950s, he had a job training wild animals at Jungleland USA in Thousand Oaks, California. Still later, he served as a docent at the Los Angeles Zoo. Military Baer was commissioned as an officer in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II, attaining the rank of C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lesley Woods
Lesley Woods (August 22, 1910 – August 2, 2003) was an American radio, stage and television actress. She was a graduate of the Goodman School of Drama in Chicago. Personal life Woods was married to actor Richard McMurray. Sam McMurray is her stepson. Death Woods died on August 2, 2003, 20 days before her 93rd birthday. Stage Woods' acting on Broadway included being in ''Double Dummy'' (1936), ''Excursion'' (1937), ''Comes the Revelation'' (1942), ''The Assassin'' (1945), and ''A Case of Libel'' (1963–64). She was a member of Theatre West. A Billboard review of ''Comes the Revelation'' summarized Woods' acting as follows: "Small, blond and attractive, Miss Woods plays with an honesty and restraint that are as rare as they are commendable. Quiet, sincere and tremendously effective, she does one of the finest jobs of the entire season." Radio Woods' roles on radio programs included those shown in the table below. Other programs on which Woods was a regular included '' Crime ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vernon Weddle
Vernon Weddle Jr. (born August 23, 1935) is an American film, stage and television actor. He is perhaps best known for playing "General Washburne" in the 1986 film ''Short Circuit''. Life and career Weddle was born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, the son of Vernon Sr. and Grace. When he was thirteen years old, Weddle and his family moved to Texas, where he has attended at Lon Morris College and University of Texas, in 1958. He then attended at Stephens College, where he was a resident actor and instructor for theatre arts. Weddle began his career with a stage play, with his wife, Gerri. In the play, he played the role of an exhausted psychologist, with Tom Ewell as the lead in the play. The play was shown at the Okoboji Summer Theatre. Later in his career, Weddle began appearing in film and television programs, where he first appeared on the television series ''Mr. Deeds Goes to Town'', playing Brad Kingsley. He also appeared in ''Bonanza'', playing South, in 1969. He continue ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Sterling
Philip Sterling (October 9, 1922 – November 30, 1998) was an American film and television actor. He played Dr. Winston Croft on 28 episodes of the American daytime soap opera '' The Doctors''. He also played Judge Truman Ventnor on 21 episodes in ''Sisters'' and Dr. Simon Weiss on 12 episodes in '' St. Elsewhere''. Sterling guest-starred in numerous television programs including ''The Golden Girls'', ''M*A*S*H'', ''The Rockford Files'', ''Family Ties'', ''Hart to Hart'', ''Growing Pains'', ''Night Court'', ''The Wonder Years'', ''The A-Team'', ''Diff'rent Strokes'' and ''Newhart''. He also appeared in a few episodes of ''Barney Miller'', ''L.A. Law'', '' Matlock'', ''Guiding Light'' and ''Hotel''. Sterling died in November 1998 in Woodland Hills, California of complications from myelofibrosis Primary myelofibrosis (PMF) is a rare bone marrow blood cancer. It is classified by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a type of myeloproliferative neoplasm, a group of cancers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jude Farese
Jude may refer to: People Biblical * Jude, brother of Jesus, who is sometimes identified as being the same person as Jude the Apostle * Jude the Apostle, an apostle also called Judas Thaddaeus or Lebbaeus, the patron saint of lost causes in the Catholic Church * Epistle of Jude, a book of the New Testament of the Bible * Saint Jude (other) Given name * Jude (singer) (born 1969), American singer-songwriter * Jude Abaga (born 1981), Nigerian hip hop artist * Jude Abbott (born 1962), English musician * Jude Acers (born 1944), American chess master * Jude Adjei-Barimah (born 1992), Italian-American football cornerback * Jude Aneke (born 1990), Nigerian forward * Jude Angelini (born 1977), American radio host and author known as Rude Jude * Jude Anthany Joseph, Indian film director, screenwriter and actor * Jude Bellingham (born 2003), English footballer * Jude Bolton (born 1980), Australian rules footballer * Jude Deveraux (born 1947), American novelist * Jude Law (born 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dimitra Arliss
Dimitra Arliss (October 23, 1932 – January 26, 2012) was an American actress. Early life and education Of Greek descent, she was born in Lorain, Ohio, on October 23, 1932. She attended Miami University. Career Arliss's acting career began at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago. She first gained attention after appearing in Arthur L. Kopit's Broadway play '' Indians'' (1970) in which she played Teskanjavila, a Native American character who spoke with an Italian accent. She also appeared on Broadway as Eurydice in ''Antigone'' (1971) and as Catherine Petkoff in ''Arms and the Man'' (1985). Her films included ''The Sting'' (1973), in which she portrayed Salino, a murderess for hire, ''Xanadu'', ''Firefox'', and ''Bless the Child.'' Her acting on television included ''Bella Mia'' and ''Rich Man, Poor Man'' and episodes of ''Dallas'' and ''Quincy, M. E.'' Voice-over work She voiced Anastasia Hardy in the '' Spider-Man: The Animated Series'' episodes "The Sins Of The Fath ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royce Wallace
Royce K. Wallace (May 9, 1925 – November 24, 1992) was an American actress, singer and dancer who had a long, distinguished career beginning in the 1940s through the late–1980s. Biography Born in Buffalo, Nebraska or Pleasanton, Nebraska or Cleveland, Ohio (sources differ), Wallace began her acting career on Broadway. Wallace received her first role as a dancer in ''Carmen Jones'' in 1943 which ran on Broadway for two years. Wallace appeared in productions throughout the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s such as '' Funny Girl'' in 1964. In the 1960s, Wallace was a founding co-member of the Cambridge Players theatrical group, a group which included some of the distinguished black actresses such as Esther Rolle (of ''Good Times'' TV show fame), Lynn Hamilton (who starred as "Donna" on the hit NBC-TV sitcom ''Sanford and Son''), and Helen Martin of NBC-TV's ''227''. Wallace later appeared mostly in guest roles on ''Sanford and Son'', ''Barnaby Jones'', '' The Paper Chase'', ''Benson'', '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Craig T
__NOTOC__ Craig may refer to: Geology *Craig (landform), a rocky hill or mountain often having large casims or sharp intentations. People (and fictional characters) * Craig (surname) * Craig (given name) Places Scotland *Craig, Angus, aka Barony of Craigie United States *Craig, Alaska, a city *Craig, Colorado, a city *Craig, Indiana, an unincorporated place * Craig, Iowa, a city *Craig, Missouri, a city * Craig, Montana, an unincorporated place *Craig, Nebraska, a village *Craig, Ohio, an unincorporated community *Craig County, Virginia *Craig County, Oklahoma *Craig Township (other) (two places) Other uses *Craig (song) *Craig Electronics, a consumer electronics company * Craig Broadcast Systems, later Craig Media and finally Craig Wireless, a defunct Canadian media and communication company *Clan Craig, a Scottish clan *Craig tube, a piece of scientific apparatus See also *''Craig v. Boren'', a U.S. Supreme Court case * Justice Craig (other) *Craic '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pamela Myers
Pamela Myers (born July 15, 1947, Hamilton, Ohio) is an American actress who made her Broadway debut as Marta in Stephen Sondheim's musical ''Company'', in which she introduced the song "Another Hundred People". She was nominated for a 1971 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical. In 1975, she appeared in the original San Francisco cast of ''Snoopy! The Musical''. On television, she appeared as Mitzi the waitress on the ''Happy Days'' Season 2 episode "Goin' to Chicago". She was also a main supporting player on the show ''Sha Na Na'' (she also did the announcing). She appeared twice on '' Alice'', once playing a tour guide named Bobbi who falls for Mel, and again playing a dental assistant, Ms. Dubro, who sang Broadway songs, rather off-key. In 2002, she appeared in the Broadway revival of ''Into the Woods'' as Cinderella's Stepmother and Little Red Ridinghood’s Granny. She directed a production of ''Company'' at Xavier University Xavier Univer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
