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Nurse (1981 TV Series)
''Nurse'' is an American medical drama television series that aired on CBS from April 2, 1981 to May 21, 1982. Series star Michael Learned won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in 1982 for her role on the show. It was based on the bestselling book ''Nurse'' (1979) by Peggy Anderson. Synopsis The series follows Mary Benjamin, the supervising nurse at Grant Memorial Hospital in New York City who returned to work after the death of her physician husband. Cast * Michael Learned as Nurse Mary Benjamin * Robert Reed as Dr. Adam Rose * Hattie Winston as Nurse Toni Gilette * Bonnie Hellman as Nurse Penny Brooks * Hortensia Colorado as Nurse Betty LaSada * Dennis Boutsikaris as Joe Calvo * Clarice Taylor as Nurse Baily * Christopher Marcantel as Chip Benjamin * Rex Robbins Rex McNicol Robbins (March 30, 1935 – September 23, 2003) was an American character actor of stage and screen. Career Robbins appeared opposite Angela Lansbury in the 1974 Broadwa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sue Grafton
Sue Taylor Grafton (April 24, 1940 – December 28, 2017) was an American author of detective novels. She is best known as the author of the "alphabet series" (''"A" Is for Alibi'', etc.) featuring private investigator Kinsey Millhone in the fictional city of Santa Teresa, California. The daughter of detective novelist C. W. Grafton, she said the strongest influence on her crime novels was author Ross Macdonald. Before her success with this series, she wrote screenplays for television movies. Early life Sue Grafton was born in Louisville, Kentucky, to C. W. Grafton (1909–1982) and Vivian Harnsberger, both of whom were the children of Presbyterian missionaries. Her father was a municipal bond lawyer who also wrote mystery novels and her mother was a former high school chemistry teacher. Her father enlisted in the Army during World War II when she was three and returned when she was five, after which her home life started falling apart. Both parents became alcoholics and Graft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rex Robbins
Rex McNicol Robbins (March 30, 1935 – September 23, 2003) was an American character actor of stage and screen. Career Robbins appeared opposite Angela Lansbury in the 1974 Broadway revival of ''Gypsy''. He made his Broadway debut in 1963 as the doctor in '' One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'' and subsequently went on to play roles in over 30 plays and films. He also starred with John Lithgow in several British plays, including ''The Changing Room'' (1973) and ''Comedians'' (1976) and was directed by Lithgow in ''Boy Meets Girl'' (1976) based on the 1938 film of the same name. He replaced David Ogden Stiers in the long-running Doug Henning musical ''The Magic Show''. In 1972, he played the role of Roger Sherman in the film version of the musical ''1776''. Off-Broadway, he appeared in ''Urban Blight'' at Manhattan Theatre Club, A.R. Gurney's '' The Dining Room'' at Playwrights Horizons and ''Henry IV, Part I'' at the Public Theater. His last stage appearance was as Mr. Brown in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seymour Robbie
Seymour Robbie (August 25, 1919 – June 17, 2004) was a director of American television programs, whose work ranged from 1951 ('' Down You Go'') to 1990 ('' Father Dowling Mysteries''). His credits include game shows (e.g., ''The $64,000 Question''), crime dramas (e.g., ''Kojak''), action-adventure programs (e.g., ''Wonder Woman''), and sitcoms (e.g., ''F Troop''). He was born in New York City New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the most densely populated major city in the Un .... Filmography Theatrical and television films * ''Art Carney Meets the Sorcerer's Apprentice'' (1959 TV movie) * ''Spirit of the Alamo'' (1960 TV documentary) * ''Beauty and the Beast'' (1969 TV movie) * '' C.C. and Company'' (1970 theatrical film) * '' Marco'' (1973 theatrical film) Television series Robbie directed one or more episodes of ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diane Venora
Diane Venora is an American stage, television and film actress. She graduated from the Juilliard School in 1977 and made her film debut in 1981 opposite Albert Finney in '' Wolfen''. She won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress for ''Bird'' (1988). Her other films include '' The Cotton Club'' (1984), ''Heat'' (1995), ''Romeo + Juliet'' (1996), '' The Jackal'' (1997), '' The Insider'' (1999) and ''Hamlet'' (2000). Early life Venora was born in East Hartford, Connecticut, one of six children of Marie (née Brooks) and Robert P. Venora, who owned a dry-cleaning business. She graduated from East Hartford High School (class of 1970), where she was active in musicals and plays. She studied at Boston Conservatory of Music and two years later won a scholarship to Juilliard School in New York City, where she graduated in 1977. At Juilliard she was a member of the drama department's Group 6 (1973–1977), which included Kelsey Grammer, Harriet Sansom Harris a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred Freiberger
Fred Freiberger (February 19, 1915March 2, 2003) was an American film and television writer and television producer, whose career spanned four decades and work on such films as ''The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms'' (1953) and TV series including ''Ben Casey'' (1963–64), ''The Wild Wild West'' (1965), ''Star Trek'' (1968–69) and '' Space: 1999'' (1976–77). Freiberger was the producer of the third and final season of science-fiction series ''Star Trek'', between 1968 and 1969. His screenwriting credits include 13 films made between 1946 and 1958. He appeared as himself in the short documentary ''Funny Old Guys'', which aired as part of the HBO series ''Still Kicking, Still Laughing'' in 2003, a few months after his death in March. Freiberger died on March 2, 2003 at his Bel-Air home, according to his son, Ben. No cause of death was given. Early life and career Freiberger was born to a Jewish family in New York City. In the late 1930s, Freiberger worked in advertising in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Harris (director)
Harry Harris (September 8, 1922 – March 19, 2009) was an American television and film director. Harris moved to Los Angeles in 1937 and got a mailroom job at Columbia Studios. After attending UCLA, he became an apprentice sound cutter, assistant sound effects editor, and then an assistant film editor at Columbia Pictures. He enlisted in the Army Air Forces at the start of World War II, and as part of the First Motion Picture Unit, reported to Hal Roach Studios in Culver City. His supervisor there was Ronald Reagan, who hired him as sound effects editor for training and combat films. At the end of World War II, Harris became an assistant film editor and then an editor for Desilu, the studio of Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball. Over the next five decades, he directed hundreds of TV episodes, with significant contributions to ''Gunsmoke'', ''Eight is Enough'', ''The Waltons'', and ''Falcon Crest''. He won an Emmy Award for directing a 1982 episode of '' Fame'', and was nominated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gwen Arner
Gwen may refer to: * Gwen (given name), including a list of people with the name * ''Gwen, or the Book of Sand'', a 1985 animated film * Gwen (film), a 2018 horror film * Tropical Storm Gwen, several storms with the name Acronyms * AN/URC-117 Ground Wave Emergency Network, a military command and control communications system * '' Guild Wars: Eye of the North'' (GW:EN), an expansion pack for a massively multiplayer online role-playing game See also * Gwendolen Gwendolen () is a feminine given name, in general use only since the 19th century. It has come to be the standard English form of Latin '' Guendoloena'', which was first used by Geoffrey of Monmouth as the name of a legendary British queen in hi ... * Gwendolyn (other) {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joan Copeland
Joan Maxine Kupchik ( Miller; June 1, 1922 – January 4, 2022), known professionally as Joan Copeland, was an American actress. She was the younger sister of playwright Arthur Miller. She began her career during the mid-1940s, appearing in theatre in New York City, where, shortly thereafter, she would become one of the first members admitted to the newly formed Actors Studio. She moved into television and film during the 1950s while still maintaining an active stage career. She is best known for her performances in the 1977 Broadway revival of '' Pal Joey'' and her award-winning performance in the 1981 play '' The American Clock''. She also played a number of prominent roles on various soap operas throughout her career, including Andrea Whiting on ''Search for Tomorrow'' and Gwendolyn Lord Abbott on '' One Life to Live''. She voiced Tanana in ''Brother Bear''. Personal life Miller was born to a middle-class Jewish family in New York City. Her father, Isidore, was a woman's cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Coffield
Peter Tenny Coffield (July 17, 1945 – November 19, 1983) was an American actor. Coffield worked as an actor in theater, television, and film. He is best known for his role in the film ''Cry Rape!''. His other films include ''Times Square'' (1980) and Neil Simon's '' Only When I Laugh''. Coffield guest starred on several TV shows throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, including ''The Love Boat'', ''Hart to Hart'', ''Eight Is Enough'', ''Wide World Mystery,'' ''Family'', ‘’ Barnaby Jones’’ and ''Love, Sidney'', and he acted in TV movies such as '' Washington: Behind Closed Doors'', and ''The Man Without a Country''. He also performed in several plays on Broadway, including ''Hamlet'' (1969), ''Abelard and Heloise'' (1971), ''The Merchant of Venice'' (1973), ''Tartuffe'' (1977), and ''The Man Who Came to Dinner'' (1980). In addition to Broadway, Coffield had key roles in ''Misalliance'' at the Roundabout Theater, in A. R. Gurney's ''Middle Ages'' at the Hartman Theater ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Purdham
David Purdham (born June 3, 1951) is an American character actor who has appeared in approximately one hundred films, television series and theatre productions throughout his career. Career Purdham was born and raised in San Antonio, Texas. His first film role was in 1984, in ''Lily in Love''. Other film credits include ''Defending Your Life'' (1991), ''My Girl 2'' (1994), ''Coronado'' (2003), and ''Fracture'' (2007). Purdham has appeared in many television shows since 1980. He played Father Emmerich in the soap opera, ''Ryan's Hope'', from 1981 to 1985, and from 1991 to 1992 he portrayed Fred Porter in the soap opera, ''One Life to Live''. He has had recurring roles in ''Kate & Allie'' (1987), ''Babylon 5'' (1997), ''Port Charles'' (2000), '' JAG'' (1997, 2001), ''The Young and the Restless'' (2006), ''General Hospital'' (2010–11), and more. He has also guest-starred in countless TV programs, such as the cult science fiction series, ''Alien Nation'' (1990) as Marc Guerin, repr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theresa Saldana
Theresa Saldana (August 20, 1954 – June 6, 2016) was an American actress, activist, and writer. She is known for her role as Rachel Scali, the wife of Police Commissioner Tony Scali, in the 1990s television series ''The Commish'', for which she received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role, in 1994. Major film roles include Lenora LaMotta, the wife of Joe Pesci's character in the 1980 film, ''Raging Bull'', and as a Beatles fan in Robert Zemeckis' 1978 Beatlemania ensemble ''I Wanna Hold Your Hand''. She was also known for raising public awareness of the crime of stalking after surviving a knife attack by an obsessed fan at her home in 1982. Early life Saldana was born in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, and was adopted at five days old by Divina and Tony Saldana, a family of Puerto Rican and Italian-American heritage. Saldana took dance lessons as a child. After suffering a serious shoulder injury while part of a tumblin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virgil W
Publius Vergilius Maro (; traditional dates 15 October 7021 September 19 BC), usually called Virgil or Vergil ( ) in English, was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period. He composed three of the most famous poems in Latin literature: the ''Eclogues'' (or ''Bucolics''), the ''Georgics'', and the epic ''Aeneid''. A number of minor poems, collected in the ''Appendix Vergiliana'', were attributed to him in ancient times, but modern scholars consider his authorship of these poems as dubious. Virgil's work has had wide and deep influence on Western literature, most notably Dante's ''Divine Comedy'', in which Virgil appears as the author's guide through Hell and Purgatory. Virgil has been traditionally ranked as one of Rome's greatest poets. His ''Aeneid'' is also considered a national epic of ancient Rome, a title held since composition. Life and works Birth and biographical tradition Virgil's biographical tradition is thought to depend on a lost biography by the Roman poe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
