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One Little Indian (film)
''One Little Indian'' is a 1973 American Western comedy film produced by Walt Disney Productions starring James Garner and Vera Miles. The supporting cast includes Pat Hingle, John Doucette, Morgan Woodward, Andrew Prine, as well as a 10-year-old Jodie Foster. The plotline involves a cavalry soldier's misadventures with a camel and a little boy. The film was written by Harry Spalding and directed by Bernard McEveety. Garner later wrote that "I've done some things I'm not proud of. This is one of them. The only bright spot was a ten year old Jodie Foster." Cast Production Parts of the film were shot in Kanab Canyon, the Gap, Kanab movie fort, and the Coral Pink Sand Dunes in Utah Utah ( , ) is a state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. Utah is a landlocked U.S. state bordered to its east by Colorado, to its northeast by Wyoming, to its north by Idaho, to its south by Arizona, and to it .... Reception The film earned an estimated $2 m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernard McEveety
Bernard E. McEveety, Jr. (May 13, 1924 – February 2, 2004) was an American film and television director. Family McEveety was born in New Rochelle, New York; his brothers, Vincent McEveety and Joseph McEveety were also Hollywood directors and producers. His nephew is producer Stephen McEveety, who often collaborates with Mel Gibson (''The Passion of the Christ''). Career McEveety worked primarily in TV, but also directed several feature films. He directed '' The Brotherhood of Satan'' and ''Ride Beyond Vengeance'', and did second-unit work on another cult horror film, ''The Return of Dracula''. McEveety's huge TV output included 31 episodes of the TV series ''Combat!''. He also directed Jodie Foster in her debut film, Disney's ''Napoleon and Samantha''. He produced the TV series ''Cimarron Strip'', which he often directed, as well. His Western directing credits include such television series as '' Rawhide'', '' Gunsmoke'', '' Bonanza'', '' The Virginian'', '' The Big Vall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruce Glover
Bruce Herbert Glover (born May 2, 1932) is an American character actor best known for his portrayal of the assassin Mr. Wint in the James Bond film '' Diamonds Are Forever''. He is the father of actor Crispin Glover. Life and career Glover was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Eva Elvira (née Hedstrom) and Herbert Homan Glover. He is of English, Czech, and Swedish descent. Glover was drafted into the US Army serving from 1953 to 1955 where he served six months in Korea. He began acting with numerous appearances on various television shows including ''My Favorite Martian'' (1963), ''Perry Mason'': '' The Case of the Golden Girls'' (1965), ''The Rat Patrol'' (1966), ''Hawk'' (1966), ''The Mod Squad'' (1968), ''Gunsmoke'' (1969), ''Adam 12'' (1969), '' Mission: Impossible'' (1970), ''Bearcats!'' (1971), '' Police Story'' (1977), ''The Feather and Father Gang'' (1977), ''CHiPs'' (1978), and ''The Dukes of Hazzard'' (1979). In 1978, he appeared on the ''Barney Miller'' episode: "The P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Archive Of American Television
The Interviews: An Oral History of Television (formerly titled the Archive of American Television) is a project of the nonprofit Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation in North Hollywood, Los Angeles, that records interviews with notable people from all aspects of the television industry.New York Time"Interviews With Legends of Television Hit Web"September 13, 2009 The project has interviewed over 850 television pioneers and has posted over 500 videotaped interviews online. It is their ultimate goal to be the world's largest and most advanced oral history collection on the history of television. The archive's subjects include all professions within the television industry. Examples include: actors Fess Parker, William Shatner, Betty White, Alan Alda, James Garner, Mary Tyler Moore, Dick Van Dyke, Ossie Davis, Carol Burnett and Michael J. Fox; and producers Norman Lear, Carl Reiner, Chris Carter, Steven Bochco, Phil Rosenthal, Sherwood Schwartz, Fred Rogers and Dick Wolf; ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Utah
Utah ( , ) is a state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. Utah is a landlocked U.S. state bordered to its east by Colorado, to its northeast by Wyoming, to its north by Idaho, to its south by Arizona, and to its west by Nevada. Utah also touches a corner of New Mexico in the southeast. Of the fifty U.S. states, Utah is the 13th-largest by area; with a population over three million, it is the 30th-most-populous and 11th-least-densely populated. Urban development is mostly concentrated in two areas: the Wasatch Front in the north-central part of the state, which is home to roughly two-thirds of the population and includes the capital city, Salt Lake City; and Washington County in the southwest, with more than 180,000 residents. Most of the western half of Utah lies in the Great Basin. Utah has been inhabited for thousands of years by various indigenous groups such as the ancient Puebloans, Navajo and Ute. The Spanish were the first Europe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coral Pink Sand Dunes
Coral Pink Sand Dunes State Park is a state park in southwestern Utah, United States, located between Mount Carmel Junction and Kanab, south and west of U.S. Highway 89 in Kane County. The park features uniquely pink-hued sand dunes located beside red sandstone cliffs. The dunes are formed from the erosion of pink-colored Navajo Sandstone surrounding the park. High winds passing through the notch between the Moquith and Moccasin Mountains pick up loose sand particles and then drop them onto the dunes as a result of the Venturi effect. The dunes are estimated to be between 10,000 and 15,000 years old. The park allows camping, hiking, off-road vehicle driving, and photography. There is a conservation area of , and the total grounds include . It was established as a Utah state park in 1963. Sandboarding is also a popular activity, sandboards and sand sleds can be rented directly at the park. The Coral Pink Sand Dunes tiger beetle (''Cicindela albissima'') is endemic to the dunes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kanab
Kanab ( ) is a city in and the county seat of Kane County, Utah, Kane County, Utah, United States.Find a County ". ''National Association of Counties''. Retrieved June 7, 2011. It is located on Kanab Creek just north of the Arizona state line. This area was first settled in 1864, and the town was founded in 1870 when ten Mormon families moved into the area. Named for a Paiute word meaning "place of the willows," Fort Kanab was built on the east bank of Kanab Creek in 1864 for defense against the Indians and as a base for the exploration of the area. The population was 4,312 at the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census and an estimated 4,798 in 2018. Kanab is situated in the "Grand Circle" area, centrally located among Vermilion Cliffs National Monument, Bryce Canyon N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Davis (actor)
Jim Davis (born Marlin Davis; August 26, 1909 – April 26, 1981) was an American actor, best known for his roles in television Westerns. In his later career, he became famous as Jock Ewing in the CBS primetime soap opera, ''Dallas'', a role he continued until he was too ill from a terminal illness to perform. Life and career Born in Edgerton in Platte County in northwestern Missouri, Davis attended high school in Dearborn, and the Baptist-affiliated William Jewell College in Liberty. At WJC, he played tight end on the football team and graduated with a degree in political science. He served in the United States Coast Guard during World War II. He was known as Jim Davis by the time of his first major screen role, which was opposite Bette Davis in the 1948 melodrama ''Winter Meeting'',. His subsequent film career consisted of mostly B movies, many of them Westerns, although he made an impression as a U.S. Senator in the Warren Beatty conspiracy thriller ''The Parallax Vie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Hale
Richard Hale (born James Richards Hale; November 16, 1892 – May 18, 1981) was an American opera and concert singer and later a character actor of film, stage and television. Hale's appearance usually landed him roles as either Middle Eastern or Native American characters. Life and career Born in Rogersville, Tennessee, Hale attended Columbia University on a singing scholarship. Upon graduation in 1914, he turned down an offer to join Columbia's English department, choosing instead to join Minnie Maddern Fiske's theater group. Hale's 1921 debut at Aeolian Hall began a successful career in opera as a baritone; he toured Europe and the United States. The 1927 ''New York Times'' film review of '' The Unknown'' credits "Richard Hale, baritone" as singing "The Pirate's Frolic". During the 1930s, Hale performed at the Berkshire Playhouse in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Hale also narrated ''Peter and the Wolf'' for Sergei Prokofiev, at Tanglewood, with Serge Koussevitsky con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Read Morgan
Read Lawrence Morgan (January 30, 1931 – April 20, 2022) was an American film and television actor. He was known for playing the role of Sergeant Hapgood Tasker in the American western television series ''The Deputy''. Life and career Morgan was born in Chicago, Illinois. He attended the University of Kentucky, where he played basketball and football. After two years there Morgan left to study drama at Northwestern University, then served in the United States Air Force for two years. He began his acting career in the crime drama television series '' The Big Story''in 1949. Later he joined the cast of the western television series ''The Deputy'', playing army officer Sergeant Hapgood Tasker, who had blindness in one eye, wearing a eye patch. Morgan also appeared in the Broadway play ''Li'l Abner''. Morgan appeared in numerous television programs, his credits including '' Gunsmoke'', ''Wagon Train'', ''The United States Steel Hour'', ''M Squad'', '' How the West Was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Sorensen
Paul Sorensen (February 16, 1926 – July 17, 2008) was an American film, theater and television actor who appeared in hundreds of roles during his career, including ''The Brady Bunch'' and ''Dallas''. He was frequently cast in westerns or as a police officer. Early years Sorenson was born in Kenosha, Wisconsin. He moved to Hollywood, California, in 1945 and enrolled in the Pasadena Playhouse, from which he graduated two years later. Sorenson served 15 months with the U.S. Army's 25th Division during the Korean War. Career Sorensen returned to California after the war and resumed acting. His professional stage debut came in ''Born Yesterday'' at the Sartu Theater. A talent agent signed Sorenson after watching him perform in a theater production of '' Born Yesterday''. He was cast in his first television role as the deputy-turned-bandit Billy Stiles in the 1954-1955 syndicated '' Stories of the Century'', a western series starring and narrated by Jim Davis. One of So ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terry Wilson (actor)
Terry W. Wilson (September 3, 1923 – March 30, 1999) was an American actor most noted for his role as "Bill Hawks", the assistant trail master, in all 267 episodes of the NBC and ABC western television series, ''Wagon Train'', which aired from 1957 to 1965. Life and career Wilson appeared in more than thirty-five films and television programs between 1948 and 1981. Many of his early roles were uncredited. On July 2, 1953, he was cast as a stagecoach guard in episode 121, "Woman from Omaha", of ''The Lone Ranger''. In 1956, he had another uncredited role as a robber in the ABC/Warner Brothers western series, ''Cheyenne'', the first television western in an hour-long format, starring Clint Walker. Wilson was with ''Wagon Train'' for the entire run and worked with all the other stars on the program, including Ward Bond, Robert Horton, John McIntire, Robert Fuller, Frank McGrath, Denny Miller, and Michael Burns. After ''Wagon Train'', Wilson appeared in several other w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hal Baylor
Hal Harvey Fieberling (born Hal David Britton); December 10, 1918 – January 15, 1998 known professionally as Hal Baylor, was an American actor, probably best known for his role as Pvt. 'Sky' Choynski in the film '' Sands of Iwo Jima''. In 1956, he portrayed “Dolph Timble” in James Arness's TV Western Series '' Gunsmoke'' in the episode “Hack Prine” (S1E26). In addition to his acting career, he was also a boxer, with a record of 52-5 as an amateur and 16-8-3 as a professional. Baylor was born in San Antonio, Texas, and died in Los Angeles. Partial filmography * ''Joe Palooka in Winner Take All'' (1948) - Sammy Talbot * '' The Set-Up'' (1949) - Tiger Nelson (as Hal Fieberling) * '' The Crooked Way'' (1949) - Coke * '' Yes Sir, That's My Baby'' (1949) - Pudge Flugeldorfer * '' Sands of Iwo Jima'' (1949) - Pvt. 'Sky' Choynski (as Hal Fieberling) * ''Destination Big House'' (1950) - Bill Storm (uncredited) * ''Dial 1119'' (1950) - Lt. 'Whitey' Tallman * ''Joe Palooka ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
