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Nick Knight (film)
''Nick Knight'' is a 1989 American television film about Nick Knight, a centuries-old vampire working as a police detective in modern-day Los Angeles. Originally meant to be a pilot episode for a television series, it was not picked up at the time. However, in 1992, CBS picked up the series but produced the show in Canada as ''Forever Knight'', re-filming the pilot (with the same plot) and using a completely different cast, except for John Kapelos. Cast * Rick Springfield as Nick Knight * John Kapelos as Don Schanke * Robert Harper as Dr. Jack Brittington * Richard Fancy as Capt. Brunetti * Laura Johnson as Dr. Alyce Hunter * Craig Richard Nelson as Fenner * Fran Ryan as Jeannie * Cec Verrell as Janette * Jack Murdock as Topper * Michael Nader as Lacroix * Irene Miracle as The Nurse * Gregory Wagrowski as Detective Jessell * Davis Roberts as Dr. Dave * Al Fann as Dedrick See also *Vampire film *List of vampire television series List of television series about vampires, c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Farhad Mann
Farhad Mann ( fa, فرهاد من) is an American director, screenwriter of film, television and commercials, and owner of the production company FMPI. Mann has directed episodes for television series such as ''Beauty & the Beast'', '' The Listener'', ''Murdoch Mysteries'', and ''Aaron Stone'', as well as many television films. Notable feature films he has directed include '' Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace'' (which he also wrote) for New Line Cinema, and '' Fighting for Freedom''. The pilot episode of '' Max Headroom'' (" Blipverts") that he directed for ABC won several Emmys. The next pilot he directed, ''Nick Knight'', was developed by CBS into the long-running ''Forever Knight''. Mann directed the TV movie adaption of Dean Koontz's novel'', The Face of Fear''. He most recently directed the TV movies ''A Mother's Crime'', ''The Past Never Dies'', and ''A Killer In My Home''. Mann is also the creator and owner of the Los Angeles-based commercial production company FMPI, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vampire
A vampire is a mythical creature that subsists by feeding on the Vitalism, vital essence (generally in the form of blood) of the living. In European folklore, vampires are undead, undead creatures that often visited loved ones and caused mischief or deaths in the neighbourhoods they inhabited while they were alive. They wore shrouds and were often described as bloated and of ruddy or dark countenance, markedly different from today's gaunt, pale vampire which dates from the early 19th century. Vampiric entities have been Vampire folklore by region, recorded in cultures around the world; the term ''vampire'' was popularized in Western Europe after reports of an 18th-century mass hysteria of a pre-existing folk belief in the Balkans and Eastern Europe that in some cases resulted in corpses being staked and people being accused of vampirism. Local variants in Eastern Europe were also known by different names, such as ''shtriga'' in Albanian mythology, Albania, ''vrykolakas'' in G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Davis Roberts
Davis Roberts (born Robert A. Davis, March 7, 1917 – July 18, 1993) was an American character actor whose career spanned five decades, from the late 1940s until just before his death in 1993. He started out making films in the 1940s and 1950s and expanded into television work in the following decades. Davis was known for his dignified portrayals which were often in contrast to prevailing stereotypical roles. He played the role of Dr. Caldwell in three episodes in the second and third seasons of the NBC-TV sitcom series ''Sanford and Son'', and as Dr. Ozaba in the 1968 episode "The Empath" in the original ''Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek'' series. He was active off-screen as well, serving several terms on the western advisory board of Actors' Equity Association. As one of the officers of Beverly Hills-Hollywood Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, NAACP he helped present the first NAACP Image Award, Image Awards in 1967. Deat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irene Miracle
Irene Miracle is an American film and television actress and director. Early life Miracle was raised in Oklahoma of "French Arcadian ... Scots-Irish, Russian, French and Osage" descent. Acting career Her first film appearance was as a murder victim in '' Night Train Murders'' (1975), an Italian '' Last House on the Left''-clone. Her most prestigious role was in Alan Parker's '' Midnight Express'' (1978), a worldwide box office success. For her role as the girlfriend of the incarcerated protagonist, she won the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year - Female. Miracle followed that film with another major role in Dario Argento's ''Inferno'' (1980), as a woman who comes to believe the New York City apartment building she lives in also houses a centuries-old witch. Since then, she has continued her acting work, while also writing, directing and producing. In 1979, Miracle appeared in the episode "Now You See Her..." of the NBC television crime drama series ''The Eddie Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Nader
Michael Nader (February 19, 1945 – August 23, 2021) was an American actor, known for his roles as Dex Dexter on the ABC primetime soap opera ''Dynasty'' from 1983 to 1989, and Dimitri Marick on the ABC daytime soap opera ''All My Children'' from 1991 to 2001, and in 2013. He also starred as Kevin Thompson on the soap opera ''As the World Turns'' from 1975 to 1978. Early life Nader was born on February 19, 1945, in St. Louis, Missouri. He was of German and Yugoslavian descent. Nader was a nephew of actor George Nader. His parents split a few months after his birth. At the age of six, he was hit by a drunk driver, which left him with a visible facial scar. Nader accompanied his mother, Minette, when she moved to Los Angeles to pursue an entertainment career. At 16, Nader was one of three young surfers featured in a September 1961 ''Life'' photo with George Jones spread accompanying the article "The Mad, Happy Surfers: A Way of Life on the Wavetops". He graduated from Palisades C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Murdock (actor)
Jack Murdock (October 28, 1922 – April 27, 2001) was an American actor. He was born in Urbana, Ohio to performer parents. His father had a vaudeville group called Teck Murdock and Company; his mother and her sister had an act called The Kennedy Sisters. The two acts combined as Teck Murdock and the Kennedy sisters. He lived with an aunt and uncle in Put-in-Bay in South Bass Island. Murdock enlisted in the U.S. Navy after he graduated from high school; he served as a gunner's mate in the north Atlantic. After the end of World War II, Murdock, who intended to study law, earned a bachelor's degree in speech from the Ohio State University in Columbus. Career Ohio Murdock was a director WBNS-TV in Columbus. He hosted an afternoon show with Jonathan Winters. St. Louis Murdock came to the St. Louis, Missouri area in 1953 to serve as director and star of ''Coffee Break'', a morning program on WTVI in Belleville, Illinois. He cowrote and costarred in ''Hiram and Sneed''. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cec Verrell
Cec Verrell is an American actress who starred in many television programmes. Filmography * 2001 ''Nice Guys Finish Dead'' as Shauna * 1999 '' ER'' - (TV series) (1 episode) as Mrs. Casey * 1999 '' Air America'' (1999) - (TV series) (1 episode) as Sandra Casey * 1997 ''The Price of Kissing'' as Renee's Mother * 1997 ''Wings'' (1997) - (TV series) (1 episode) as Wanda Harrison * 1996 ''Paihnidi'' (1996) * ''NYPD Blue'' (1996) - (TV series) (1 episode) as Gail Keller * 1995 ''M.A.N.T.I.S.'' (1995) - (TV series) (1 episode) as Dr. Marissa Savoy * 1994 ''Murder, She Wrote'' (1994) - (TV series) (1 episode) as Joellen Waller * 1994 ''The X-Files'' - (TV series) (episode: '' Lazarus") as Lula Phillips * 1994 '' Space Rangers'' - (TV series) (1 episode) as Ree * 1993 ''Three of Hearts'' as Allison * 1992 ''Perry Mason: The Case of the Heartbroken Bride'' (TV) as 'Rocky' * 1992 ''Inside Out III'' as Susan 'Tango' * 1992 ''Mad at the Moon'' as Sally * 1991 ''Inside Out'' as Psychiatrist * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fran Ryan
Fran Mary Ryan (November 29, 1916 January 15, 2000) was an American character actress featured in television and films. She was born in Los Angeles, California. Career Ryan began performing at the age of six at Oakland's Henry Duffy Theatre. She attended Stanford University for three years, and during World War II was a member of the USO entertaining troops. She performed comedy, singing and acting on stage in California and Chicago, and launched her television career two decades later. Her television debut came in episode 43 of ''Batman'', in 1966, followed by a bit part in ''Beverly Hillbillies''. She also appeared in a 1972 episode of ''Columbo'', Dagger of the Mind, as "uncredited woman at the airport." Ryan's first supporting cast television role was as Aggie Thompson in the first several episodes of ''The Doris Day Show''. The same season, she was offered the replacement role on the series ''Green Acres'' as Doris Ziffel from 1969 to 1971. Ryan replaced Barbara Pepper, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Craig Richard Nelson
Craig Richard Nelson (born September 17, 1947) is an American actor in theater, film and television. Life and career Nelson was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, and grew up as a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He studied acting at the University of Utah and New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. After graduation, he was cast in the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical ''Two Gentlemen of Verona (musical), Two Gentlemen of Verona''. A casting director saw him in that show and cast him in the film ''The Paper Chase (film), The Paper Chase'' as a mean-spirited law student. This led to a long career in film and television, including three Robert Altman films, ''A Wedding (1978 film), A Wedding'', ''3 Women'', and ''Quintet (film), Quintet'' as well as a role in the coming-of-age comedy ''My Bodyguard''. He also had a recurring role as drama teacher Mr. Spacek on the 1980s television show ''Square Pegs''. Filmography Film *''The Paper Chase (film), Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laura Johnson
Laura Johnson is an American actress. She is best known for playing Terry Hartford in the CBS primetime soap opera ''Falcon Crest'' from 1983 to 1986. Career Johnson made her film debut in the 1977 drama film ''Opening Night (1977 film), Opening Night'' directed by John Cassavetes and starring Gena Rowlands. From 1979 to 1980, she had a recurring role as Betty Lou Barker in the CBS prime time soap opera ''Dallas (1978 TV series), Dallas''. In 1983, she was cast as Terry Hartford in the another CBS prime time soap opera, ''Falcon Crest'' playing this role to 1986. In 1986, she received a Soap Opera Digest Award, ''Soap Opera Digest'' Award nomination for Outstanding Villainess on a Prime Time Serial. Johnson appeared in a number of movies, include ''Beyond Reason (1977 film), Beyond Reason'' (1985), ''Wes Craven's Chiller'' (1985), ''Fatal Instinct'' (1992), ''Trauma (1993 film), Trauma'' (1993), ''Deadly Exposure'' (1993), ''Four Christmases'' (2008) and ''Fame (2009 film), Fam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Fancy
Richard Ronald Fancy (born August 2, 1943) is an American actor and comedian known for his long recurring role on ''Seinfeld'' as publisher Mr. Lippman, Elaine Benes's employer. Early life Fancy was born August 2, 1943, in Evanston, Illinois, to salesman Raymond Chester Fancy and a radio performer mother. Fancy is named after his paternal grandmother, Magdelene Richard. Career Fancy appeared on the third and fourth seasons of ''It's Garry Shandling's Show'' as network boss Mr. Stravely. He also plays the priest in the 1991 film ''What About Bob?'' and was Kevin Arnold's high school principal, Dr. Valenti, in the fourth and fifth seasons of ''The Wonder Years''. He also appeared in Oliver Stone's ''Nixon (film), Nixon'' (1995) and ''Primal Force'' (1999). He played Sector Control in the ''Sliders (TV series), Sliders'' episode "Please Press One." He had two memorable appearances in late 2005 on ''Boston Legal'', as a crooked Catholic priest; as mob financier Bernie Abrahms ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Harper (actor)
Robert Francis Harper (May 19, 1951 – January 23, 2020) was an American stage, film, and television actor. Early life Raised in Middletown Township, New Jersey, he attended Mater Dei High School. He graduated with honors from Rutgers University with a degree in English literature. Career Following his college graduation, Harper took a job at Arena Stage, where he performed in plays by Shakespeare, Ibsen, Miller, and Wilder. He appeared on Broadway in a revival of '' Once in a Lifetime'' (directed by Tom Moore), ''The Inspector General'', and the original cast of Arthur Miller's ''The American Clock''. Harper was perhaps most well known for his role as Sharkey in ''Once Upon a Time in America''. He also portrayed Charlie Gereson in ''Creepshow''. Other film credits include '' Wiseguy'', ''Final Analysis'', '' The Insider'', ''Deconstructing Harry'', and '' Molly''. Harper played lawyers on several occasions and said he had an interest in the law. Harper played Bubba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
