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Newman's Law
''Newman's Law'' is a 1974 American crime film directed by Richard T. Heffron and starring George Peppard. Plot Vince Newman, a no-nonsense cop, decides to investigate on his own when tipped off that colleagues in the police department are involved in a drug ring. Cast * George Peppard as Vince Newman * Roger Robinson as Garry * Eugene Roche as Reardon * Gordon Pinsent as Jack Eastman * Abe Vigoda as John Dellanzia * Louis Zorich as Frank Lo Falcone * Michael Lerner as Frank Acker * Victor Campos as Pete Jimenez * Mel Stewart as Quist * Jack Murdoch as Beutel * David Spielberg as Hinney * Teddy Wilson as Jaycee (as Theodore Wilson) * Pat Anderson as Sharon * Regis Cordic as Clement (as Regis J. Cordic) * Marlene Clark as Edie * Kip Niven as Assistant Coroner * Richard Bull as Immigration Man * Howard Platt as Spink * Dick Balduzzi as Conrad * Penelope Gillette as Matron * Kirk Mee as First Assistant * Don Hanmer as Real Estate Agent * Antony Carbone as Policeman Gino ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard T
Richard is a male given name. It originates, via Old French, from Old Frankish and is a compound of the words descending from Proto-Germanic ''*rīk-'' 'ruler, leader, king' and ''*hardu-'' 'strong, brave, hardy', and it therefore means 'strong in rule'. Nicknames include " Richie", " Dick", " Dickon", " Dickie", "Rich", " Rick", "Rico", " Ricky", and more. Richard is a common English, German and French male name. It's also used in many more languages, particularly Germanic, such as Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Icelandic, and Dutch, as well as other languages including Irish, Scottish, Welsh and Finnish. Richard is cognate with variants of the name in other European languages, such as the Swedish "Rickard", the Catalan "Ricard" and the Italian "Riccardo", among others (see comprehensive variant list below). People named Richard Multiple people with the same name * Richard Andersen (other) * Richard Anderson (other) * Richard Cartwright (disambiguati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pat Anderson (actress)
Pat Anderson is an American actress best known for her work in 1970s exploitation films. She played Elaine, an undercover CIA agent who assists the title character in ''T.N.T. Jackson'' (1974). Select filmography * 1973 ''Bonnie's Kids'' * 1973 '' Fly Me'' * 1974 '' Dirty O'Neil'' * 1974 ''Newman's Law'' * 1974 '' T.N.T. Jackson'' * 1975 ''Summer School Teachers'' * 1975 ''Cover Girl Models'' * 1978 ''What Really Happened to the Class of '65?'' – episode "Mr Potential" * 1984 ''Dynasty'' – episode * 1983 '' Angel of H.E.A.T.'' * 1983 ''September Gun'' – TV movie * 1987 ''Jake and the Fatman ''Jake and the Fatman'' is an American crime drama television series starring William Conrad as prosecutor J. L. (Jason Lochinvar) "Fatman" McCabe and Joe Penny as investigator Jake Styles. The series ran on CBS for five seasons from Septemb ...'' - episode "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" * 2002 ''Reflections of Evil'' References External links * Living people 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fictional Portrayals Of The Los Angeles Police Department
Fiction is any creative work, chiefly any narrative work, portraying individuals, events, or places that are imaginary, or in ways that are imaginary. Fictional portrayals are thus inconsistent with history, fact, or plausibility. In a traditional narrow sense, "fiction" refers to written narratives in prose often referring specifically to novels, novellas, and short stories. More broadly, however, fiction encompasses imaginary narratives expressed in any medium, including not just writings but also live theatrical performances, films, television programs, radio dramas, comics, role-playing games, and video games. Definition Typically, the fictionality of a work is publicly marketed and so the audience expects the work to deviate in some ways from the real world rather than presenting, for instance, only factually accurate portrayals or characters who are actual people. Because fiction is generally understood to not fully adhere to the real world, the themes and context of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Crime Drama Films
American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, people who self-identify their ancestry as "American" ** American English, the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States ** Native Americans in the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States * American, something of, from, or related to the Americas, also known as "America" ** Indigenous peoples of the Americas * American (word), for analysis and history of the meanings in various contexts Organizations * American Airlines, U.S.-based airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas * American Athletic Conference, an American college athletic conference * American Recordings (record label), a record label previously known as Def American * American University, in Washington, D.C. Sports teams Soccer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1970s Crime Drama Films
Year 197 ( CXCVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Magius and Rufinus (or, less frequently, year 950 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 197 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * February 19 – Battle of Lugdunum: Emperor Septimius Severus defeats the self-proclaimed emperor Clodius Albinus at Lugdunum (modern Lyon). Albinus commits suicide; legionaries sack the town. * Septimius Severus returns to Rome and has about 30 of Albinus's supporters in the Senate executed. After his victory he declares himself the adopted son of the late Marcus Aurelius. * Septimius Severus forms new naval units, manning all the triremes in Italy with heavily armed troops for war in the East. His soldiers embark on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1974 Films
Major events in 1974 include the aftermath of the 1973 oil crisis and the resignation of United States President Richard Nixon following the Watergate scandal. In the Middle East, the aftermath of the 1973 Yom Kippur War determined politics; following Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir's resignation in response to high Israeli casualties, she was succeeded by Yitzhak Rabin. In Europe, the invasion and occupation of northern Cyprus by Turkish troops initiated the Cyprus dispute, the Carnation Revolution took place in Portugal, and Chancellor of West Germany Willy Brandt resigned following an espionage scandal surrounding his secretary Günter Guillaume. In sports, the year was primarily dominated by the FIFA World Cup in West Germany, in which the German national team won the championship title, as well as The Rumble in the Jungle, a boxing match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman in Zaire. Events January–February * January 26 – Bülent Ecevit of CHP forms the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Titos Vandis
Titos Vandis ( el, Τίτος Βανδής; 7 November 1917 – 23 February 2003) was a Greek actor. Biography Vandis began his career on the Greek stage in the late 1930s. In 1962, he won the Best Actor award for the film ''Poliorkia'' at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival. Vandis left Greece when a dictatorship took power and lived in the United States for 24 years. Vandis appeared in over 250 plays before making his Broadway debut in the Tony-nominated musical ''On A Clear Day You Can See Forever'' (1965). He originated the role of Themistocles Kriakos, a Greek shipping magnate who believed in reincarnation and planned to leave his fortune to his future self. ''Boston Globe'' critic Kevin Kelly wrote that Vandis played the role with "marvellous finesse" and that the character was "rather like Zorba as a businessman with $4 million." Vandis was in the original Broadway cast and led the title song in '' Illya Darling'' (1967), a musical based on his film '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stack Pierce
Robert Stack Pierce (June 15, 1933 – March 1, 2016) was a Hollywood actor who was previously a boxer and professional baseball player.Speakers InternationaStack Pierce His acting career began in the early 1970s with television roles in the series '' Arnie'', ''Room 222'', ''Mannix'', '' Mission Impossible'' and later as Jake, the alien commander in the 1980s science fiction series '' V''. His film roles include ''Night Call Nurses'', '' Hammer'', '' Cool Breeze'', '' Low Blow'' and '' Weekend at Bernie's II''. Background Pierce was state boxing champion. Later he played professional baseball, beginning with the Cleveland Indians organization and later the Milwaukee Braves organization. Having left high school, he joined up to the army where he was an Airborne Engineer. While in the army he played baseball in the Special Services. He came up on the radar of the Cleveland Indians and he was signed to a Major League contract. Not long after the Milwaukee Braves bought his co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antony Carbone
Antony Deago Carbone (July 15, 1925 – October 7, 2020) was an American film and television actor. Biography Carbone was born as Antonio Giuseppe Carmelo Carbone in Calabria, Italy on July 15, 1925. His family moved to Syracuse, New York when he was a young boy, and his name was changed to Antony Deago Carbone. The family later relocated to Los Angeles, California. After graduating from Los Angeles State College, he moved to New York City to study drama with Harold Clurman and Eva Le Gallienne. He started his professional acting career in small parts in various Broadway productions before moving into film and television. He was probably best known for his supporting roles in several low-budget horror films by Roger Corman in the late 1950s and early 1960s. In 1968, Carbone appeared (credited as Anthony Carbone) as the first Mexican on ''The Big Valley'', in the episode titled "Miranda." From the mid-1980s, he worked as a stage director in Los Angeles. Carbone died in Long ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Hanmer
Donald L. Hanmer (October 17, 1919 – May 24, 2003) was an American film actor. The Chicago-born actor began his career on Broadway, where he was considered once a big hit. He appeared in 90 films between 1945 until 1991. In 1966, he played a barber on the TV Western Series '' Gunsmoke'' in “Gunfighter, RIP” (S12E6). He died in Monterey, California from cancer at age 83. He was first married to actress Jocelyn Brando Jocelyn Brando (November 18, 1919November 27, 2005) was an American actress and writer. She is best known for her role as Katie Bannion in the film noir ''The Big Heat'' (1953). Early life Brando, the older sister of Marlon Brando, was born ..., and, later, to Susan Tucker Huntington. Filmography References External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Hanmer, Don 1919 births 2003 deaths 20th-century American male actors Male actors from Chicago Deaths from cancer in California ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Howard Platt
Howard Thomas Platt (born June 5, 1938) is an American stage and television actor, singer and director, best known for his role as "Officer Hopkins" on the TV series ''Sanford and Son'' (1972–76). Howard wrote and performed “Riverwinds” for LaSalle:Expedition II in 1977. Career biography Platt has made numerous comedic and dramatic appearances on television, most recently as Rev. Weber in ''What About Joan?'' Along with his role as Hoppy on ''Sanford And Son'', Platt has also had guest roles as Dr. Phil Newman on ''The Bob Newhart Show'' (in a total of 6 episodes), Max on ''Alice'', Major Ted Spector on ''M*A*S*H'', and Judge Jonathan Stockfish on ''Evening Shade''. He portrayed 5 different characters on ''Barney Miller''. As a series regular he played Captain Doug March on the CBS-TV sitcom '' Flying High'' (1978–79). His many movie roles include ''T.R. Baskin'', '' Nixon'', ''The Cat from Outer Space'', and ''Norma Jean & Marilyn ''Norma Jean & Marilyn'' is a 1996 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Bull (actor)
Richard William Bull (June 26, 1924 – February 3, 2014) was an American film, stage and television actor. He was best known for his performances as "Doc" on '' Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea'' and Nels Oleson on '' Little House on the Prairie''. Personal life Bull was born on June 26, 1924 in Zion, Illinois. After years of living in Los Angeles, he moved back to Chicago in 1994 with his wife Barbara Collentine. The couple moved to the Motion Picture & Television Fund House from Chicago in September 2012. Bull fell into acting by accident. “I never gave a serious consideration about becoming an actor. As a senior in high school, I decided to study music, but a friend suggested we attend the Goodman Theater School. In two weeks the friend dropped out, but I was hooked.” There was a three-year interruption while he served as a radio operator for the Army Air Corps, but when he was discharged in 1946 he resumed his acting studies at Goodman. Career Bull began his stage c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
