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Nakia (TV Series)
''Nakia'' is an American drama series starring Robert Forster about a Native American police officer in New Mexico. It aired from September 21 to December 28, 1974.McNeil, Alex, ''Total Television: The Comprehensive Guide to Programming From 1948 to the Present'', New York: Penguin Books, 1996, p. 588.Brooks, Tim, and Earle Marsh, ''The Complete Directory to Prime-Time Network and Cable TV Shows, 1946–Present, Sixth Edition'', New York: Ballantine Books, 1995, , p. 726. ''Nakia''s pilot was the made-for-television movie ''Nakia'', which was broadcast on April 17, 1974. Cast * Robert Forster...Deputy Nakia Parker * Arthur Kennedy...Sheriff Sam Jericho * Gloria DeHaven...Irene James * Taylor Lacher...Deputy Hubbel Martin * John Tenorio, Jr.Half Cub * Victor Jory...Ben Redearth Synopsis Nakia Parker is a full-blooded Navajo in his mid-30s who is a deputy sheriff in the fictional town of Concord in fictional Davis County in 1974 New Mexico. In the sheriffs department, he works ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Police Drama
The police show, or police crime drama, is a subgenre of procedural drama and detective fiction that emphasizes the investigative procedure of a police officer or department as the protagonist(s), as contrasted with other genres that focus on either a private detective, an amateur investigator or the characters who are the targets of investigations. While many police procedurals conceal the criminal's identity until the crime is solved in the narrative climax (the so-called whodunit), others reveal the perpetrator's identity to the audience early in the narrative, making it an inverted detective story. Whatever the plot style, the defining element of a police procedural is the attempt to accurately depict the profession of law enforcement, including such police-related topics as forensic science, autopsies, gathering evidence, search warrants, interrogation and adherence to legal restrictions and procedure. Early history The roots of the police procedural have been traced to at lea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor Jory
Victor Jory (November 23, 1902 – February 12, 1982) was a Canadian-American actor of stage, film, and television. He initially played romantic leads, but later was mostly cast in villainous or sinister roles, such as Oberon in ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' (1935) and carpetbagger Jonas Wilkerson in ''Gone with the Wind'' (1939). From 1959 to 1961, he had a lead role in the 78-episode television police drama ''Manhunt''. He also recorded numerous stories for Peter Pan Records and was a guest star in dozens of television series as well as a supporting player in dozens of theatrical films, occasionally appearing as the leading man. Biography Born in Dawson City, Yukon, to American parents, he was the boxing and wrestling champion of the US Coast Guard during his military service, and he kept his burly physique. He graduated from the Martha Oatman School of the Theater in Los Angeles. Jory toured with theatre troupes and appeared on Broadway, before making his Hollywood debut in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Sunga
George A. Sunga is an American director and producer. He is notable for producing the American sitcom television series ''Three's Company'' (and its spin-offs ''The Ropers'' and ''Three's a Crowd''). Sunga was raised in San Diego, California, where he attended San Diego State University. He began his career in 1963, as a production supervisor for the short-lived musical variety television series ''The Judy Garland Show''. Sunga later produced and directed other television programs including ''All in the Family'', ''The Jeffersons'', ''The Redd Foxx Show'', ''Good Times'', ''The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour'', '' Dear John'', '' The Good Life'', ''Gung Ho'', '' Someone Like Me'' and '' Perfect Station''. In 1969, Sunga was nominated for a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Variety or Musical Series. In 1972 Sunga was an associate producer of the television film A television film, alternatively known as a television movie, made-for-TV film/movie or TV film/movie, is a featu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernest A
Ernest is a given name derived from Germanic languages, Germanic word ''ernst'', meaning "serious". Notable people and fictional characters with the name include: People *Archduke Ernest of Austria (1553–1595), son of Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor *Ernest, Margrave of Austria (1027–1075) *Ernest, Duke of Bavaria (1373–1438) *Ernest, Duke of Opava (c. 1415–1464) *Ernest, Margrave of Baden-Durlach (1482–1553) *Ernest, Landgrave of Hesse-Rheinfels (1623–1693) *Ernest Augustus, Elector of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1629–1698) *Ernest, Count of Stolberg-Ilsenburg (1650–1710) *Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover (1771–1851), son of King George III of Great Britain *Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1818–1893), sovereign duke of the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha *Ernest Augustus, Crown Prince of Hanover (1845–1923) *Ernest, Landgrave of Hesse-Philippsthal (1846–1925) *Ernest Augustus, Prince of Hanover (1914–1987) *Prince Ernst August of Hanover (born 1954 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Katz (TV Producer)
Peter Katz is an American film producer. His work includes ''Pop Skull'', ''Home Sick'' and ''Mortuary''. Career Katz has produced genre films that have screened at the AFI Fest, Rome Film Festival, as well as the New Zealand International Film Festival. He was one of the producers on ''Mortuary'', which was helmed by director Tobe Hooper. His newest feature, ''Pop Skull'', has received positive reviews from such press as ''Variety'', San Francisco Bay Guardian, and ''Fangoria''. ''Pop Skull'' was the subject an experiment in neuromarketing that mapped audiences reactions to individual scenes in the film. Katz said that the information would be used to make more effective films that were properly marketed to audience desires. In addition to making feature films, Peter has organized multimedia panels at Comic Con and he is the host of the Hollywood 2.0 podcast where he interviews innovators in the entertainment industry. They discuss where storytelling, business, and tech in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Gerber
David Gerber (July 25, 1923 – January 2, 2010) was a television executive producer. His notable work on television included the 1970s TV series '' Police Story'' and '' Police Woman''. Other executive producer credits include '' Jessie'', '' The Ghost & Mrs. Muir'', ''Nanny and the Professor'', ''Cade's County'', '' Riker'', ''Eischied'', ''The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case'', ''Nakia'', '' Gibbsville'', ''Hunter'', '' Walking Tall'', ''Quark'', '' Today's F.B.I.'', ''Seven Brides for Seven Brothers'', '' Lady Blue'', ''The Price of Love'' and ''Jack & Mike''. Gerber was executive producer of the 2006 made-for-TV docudrama, '' Flight 93''. During his long career, he was president of the television division of three major studios: 20th Century Fox Television, from 1965 to 1972, Columbia Pictures Television, from 1974 to 1982 and MGM Television, from 1984 to 1992, throughout most of his time, his works went under his own production company David Gerber Productions. After 1992, he launc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Television Producer
A television producer is a person who oversees one or more aspects of video production on a television show, television program. Some producers take more of an executive role, in that they conceive new programs and pitch them to the television networks, but upon acceptance they focus on business matters, such as budgets and contracts. Other producers are more involved with the day-to-day workings, participating in activities such as screenwriting, Scenic design, set design, Casting (performing arts), casting, and directing. There are a variety of different producers on a television show. A traditional producer is one who manages a show's budget and maintains a schedule, but this is no longer the case in modern television. Types of television producers Different types of producers in the industry today include (in order of seniority): Showrunner : The showrunner is the "chief executive" in charge of everything related to the production of the show. It is the highest-ranking in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Singer
Alexander Singer (born 18 April 1928, in New York City, New York, died 28 December 2020) was an American director. He began his career behind the camera in 1951 as a cinematographer on the short documentary ''Day of the Fight'', directed by his high-school friend Stanley Kubrick.Gelmis, Josep"An Interview with Stanley Kubrick (1969) excerpted from ''The Film Director as Superstar'' New York: Doubleday, 1970. Singer turned to directing a decade later with the film '' A Cold Wind in August''. Although he directed other films, such as the Lee Van Cleef Western '' Captain Apache'' (1971), and '' Glass Houses'' (1972), an adaptation of a book that his wife Judith Singer wrote, the bulk of Singer's credits are in television. The long list of series to which Singer has lent his directorial talents include ''Dr. Kildare'', ''The F.B.I.'', '' Mission: Impossible'', ''Alias Smith and Jones'', ''Nakia'', '' Police Woman'', ''Cagney & Lacey'', ''MacGyver'', six episodes of ''The Monkees'', a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonard Horn
Leonard Horn (August 1, 1926 – May 25, 1975) was an American director of prime time television programs in the 1960s and 1970s and helped shape a number of "classic" adventure and sci-fi series, including '' Mission: Impossible'', '' Mannix'', ''Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea'', and ''Wonder Woman''. Horn was born in Bangor, Maine. Career Horn started directing in 1959-1962 for '' Alfred Hitchcock Presents'' and '' The Alfred Hitchcock Hour'' and was soon among a stable of directors working on such popular prime-time programs as ''The Untouchables'', '' Route 66'', and '' The Fugitive''. Horn's most sustained contribution to one series was directing ten episodes of '' Mission: Impossible'', including five in the first season. His "Operation Rogosh" (1966), the series' 3rd episode, ties among IMDB voters for the most popular first-season show, and most of his other efforts get high marks. In one of Horn's second-season episodes, "Trek", Peter Graves appeared for the first tim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alvin Ganzer
Alvin Ganzer (1911–2009) was an American film and television director. Early life Ganzer was born in 1911 in Cold Spring, Minnesota. Career As a young man, Ganzer moved to California, and in 1932 was given a job at Paramount Pictures in its casting department. He worked for Paramount as an assistant and second unit director on many feature films from 1934 through 1954. His first directorial feature film credit is for ''The Girls of Pleasure Island'' (1953); he had been assisting F. Hugh Herbert, who became ill during production. From 1954–1979 he was a prolific director of episodes for television series, and directed a handful of additional feature films. Personal life He was married to Murial Ganzer, and they had a son Alvin, and a daughter, Carolynn Jacobs Finnegan, all of whom survived him. He died on 3 January 2009, in Poʻipū, Hawaii, where he and his wife had moved about six years earlier to be close to their son. Selected filmography (as director) * '' Midnight S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholas Colasanto
Nicholas Colasanto (January 19, 1924 – February 12, 1985) was an American actor and television director who is best known for his role as "Coach" Ernie Pantusso in the American television sitcom ''Cheers''. He served in the United States Navy during World War II and later attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in the 1950s. Early life Colasanto attended Bryant University (now located in Smithfield, Rhode Island) and was a decorated veteran of World War II, during which he served as a coxswain in the United States Navy. Around 1954, he intended to work as an accountant for a company in Saudi Arabia. Instead, he attended American Academy of Dramatic Arts. He was of Italian descent. Career Colasanto is best known for his role as Coach Ernie Pantusso, a character in the television sitcom ''Cheers''; he also directed episodes of many television series, including ''Hawaii Five-O'', ''Starsky & Hutch'', ''Bonanza'', ''Columbo'', and ''CHiPs''. He also appeared in feature f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Executive Producer
Executive producer (EP) is one of the top positions in the making of a commercial entertainment product. Depending on the medium, the executive producer may be concerned with management accounting or associated with legal issues (like copyrights or royalties). In films, the executive producer generally contributes to the film's budget and their involvement depends on the project, with some simply securing funds and others being involved in the filmmaking process. Motion pictures In films, executive producers may finance the film, participate in the creative effort, or work on set. Their responsibilities vary from funding or attracting investors into the movie project to legal, scripting, marketing, advisory and supervising capacities. Executive producers vary in involvement, responsibility and power. Some executive producers have hands-on control over every aspect of production, some supervise the producers of a project, while others are involved in name only. The creditin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
