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Powder River (film)
''Powder River'' is a 1953 American Western film directed by Louis King and starring Rory Calhoun, Corinne Calvet and Cameron Mitchell. at The screenplay was written by , who two years later was the story consultant on the / western |
Louis King
Louis King (June 28, 1898 – September 7, 1962) was an American actor and film director of westerns and adventure movies in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. Citwf.com; accessed July 23, 2015. Biography King was born in Christiansburg, Virginia. His name was also written as L.H. King and Lewis King. A brother of director Henry King (director), Henry King, he entered the film business in 1919 as a character actor. He specialized in villains and blusterers. He began his career as a director of a series of westerns in the 1920s under the name of Lewis King: ''The Bantam Cowboy'' (1928), ''The Fightin' Redhead'' (1928), ''The Pinto Kid'' (1928), ''The Little Buckaroo'' (1928), ''The Slingshot Kid'' (1927), ''The Boy Rider'' (1927), ''Montana Bill'' (1921), ''Pirates of the West'' (1921), and ''The Gun Runners'' (1921). He directed action adventures and wester ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Television Series
A television show – or simply TV show – is any content produced for viewing on a television set which can be broadcast via over-the-air, satellite television, satellite, or cable television, cable, excluding breaking news, television advertisement, advertisements, or Trailer (promotion), trailers that are typically placed between shows. Television shows are most often broadcast programming, scheduled for broadcast well ahead of time and appear on electronic program guide, electronic guides or other TV listings, but streaming services often make them available for viewing anytime. The content in a television show can be produced with different methodologies such as taped variety shows emanating from a television studio stage, animation or a variety of film productions ranging from movies to series. Shows not produced on a television studio stage are usually contracted or licensed to be made by appropriate production companies. Television shows can be viewed live (real time), b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Western (genre) Films
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20th Century Fox Films
20th Century Studios, Inc. (previously known as 20th Century Fox) is an American film production company headquartered at the Fox Studio Lot in the Century City area of Los Angeles. As of 2019, it serves as a film production arm of Walt Disney Studios, a division of The Walt Disney Company. Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures distributes and markets the films produced by 20th Century Studios and Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment (Buena Vista Home Entertainment) distributes the films produced by 20th Century Studios in home media under the 20th Century Studios Home Entertainment banner. For over 80 years – beginning with its founding in 1935 and ending in 2019 (when it became part of Walt Disney Studios), 20th Century Fox was one of the then "Big Six" major American film studios. It was formed in 1935 from the merger of the Fox Film Corporation and Twentieth Century Pictures and was originally known as the Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation (while owned by TCF Hol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films Directed By Louis King
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitized ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1953 Western (genre) Films
Events January * January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma. * January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a Estonian government-in-exile, government-in-exile in Oslo. * January 14 ** Marshal Josip Broz Tito is chosen President of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia. ** The Central Intelligence Agency, CIA-sponsored Robertson Panel first meets to discuss the Unidentified flying object, UFO phenomenon. * January 15 – Georg Dertinger, foreign minister of East Germany, is arrested for spying. * January 19 – 71.1% of all television sets in the United States are tuned into ''I Love Lucy'', to watch Lucy give birth to Little Ricky, which is more people than those who tune into Dwight Eisenhower's inauguration the next day. This record has yet to be broken. * January 20 – Dwight D. Eisenhower is First inauguration of Dwight D. Eisenhower, sworn in as the 34th President of the United States. * January 24 ** Mau Mau Upr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1953 Films
The year 1953 in film involved some significant events. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1953 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events * January 16 – A new Warner Bros. Pictures Inc. is incorporated following a Consent Judgment to divest their Stanley Warner Theaters. * February 5 – Walt Disney's production of J.M. Barrie's ''Peter Pan'', starring Bobby Driscoll and Kathryn Beaumont, premieres to astounding acclaim from critics and audiences and quickly becomes one of the most beloved Disney films. This is the last Disney animated movie released in partnership RKO Pictures, becoming the last ever smash hit movie of the later company before it bankrupted in 1959. * July 1 – ''Stalag 17'', directed by Billy Wilder and starring William Holden, premieres and is considered by the critics and audiences to be one of the greatest WWII Prisoner of War films ever made. Holden wins the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor Sutherland
Victor Sutherland (February 28, 1889 – August 29, 1968) was an American stage, film, and television actor. Career Born in Paducah, Kentucky, Sutherland worked on stage and in motion pictures from the 1910s through the 1950s, when he also acted on television, including several episodes of ''Perry Mason''. He was also in the original cast of the 1939 hit play '' Arsenic and Old Lace''. At age 19, Sutherland acted in a production of ''Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'' for 25 weeks. Sutherland made films for Fox Film Corporation, among other studios, and he acted in stock theater. Personal life On October 12, 1907, Sutherland married silent film star Pearl White in Oklahoma City. She sued for divorce in 1914. He married actress Faye Cusick on May 10, 1915, in Baltimore, Maryland. Cusick sued for divorce in 1923. He also married silent film actress Anne Hamilton, with whom he had a daughter, Anne Victoria Sutherland, in 1925, and actress Linda Barrett. Death Sutherland died on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raymond Greenleaf
Raymond Greenleaf (born Roger Ramon Greenleaf; January 1, 1892 – October 29, 1963) was an American actor, best known for ''All the King's Men'' (1949), '' Angel Face'' (1952), and '' Pinky'' (1949). Early life He was born as Roger Ramon Greenleaf on January 1, 1892 in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Career In the early 1920s, Greenleaf acted with the Jack X. Lewis Company in summer stock theatre. He had earlier performed with stock theater companies in Boston and in Bridgeport, Connecticut. In the fall of 1921, he was with the Orpheum Players in Ottawa, Canada. Greenleaf's Broadway credits include ''Alice in Wonderland'' (1947), ''Yellow Jack'' (1947), ''A Pound on Demand / Androcles and the Lion'' (1946), ''King Henry VIII'' (1946), ''Foxhole in the Parlor'' (1945), ''Decision'' (1944), ''Jason'' (1942), and ''Your Loving Son'' (1941). Death Greenleaf died in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California at the age of 71 and is buried at Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery, Chatsworth, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Dehner
John Dehner (DAY-ner) (born John Dehner Forkum, also credited Dehner Forkum; November 23, 1915February 4, 1992) was an American stage, radio, film, and television actor. From the late 1930s to the late 1980s, he amassed a long list of performance credits, often in roles as sophisticated con men, shady authority figures, and other smooth-talking villains. His credits just in feature films, televised series, and in made-for-TV movies number almost 300 productions. Dehner worked extensively as an actor radio during the latter half of that medium's "golden age", accumulating hundreds of additional credits on nationally broadcast series. His most notable starring role was as Paladin on the radio version of the television Western ''Have Gun – Will Travel'', which aired for 106 episodes on CBS from 1958 to 1960. He continued to work as a voice actor in film, such as narrating the film ''The Hallelujah Trail''. Earlier in his career, Dehner also worked briefly for Walt Disney Studios ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Betz
Carl Lawrence Betz (March 9, 1921 – January 18, 1978) was an American stage, film, and television actor. He appeared in a variety of television series, including the CBS soap opera ''Love of Life''; he is best remembered for playing Donna Reed's television husband, Dr. Alex Stone, from 1958 to 1966 in the ABC sitcom ''The Donna Reed Show''. Then between 1967 and 1969, Betz played defense attorney Clinton Judd in ABC's courtroom drama ''Judd, for the Defense'', winning an Emmy Award in 1969 for his work on that series. Early years Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1921, Betz was the oldest of four children—two sons and two daughters—of Carl W. and Mary Leona Betz. His siblings (from oldest to youngest) were Mary Louise Betz, Leona Ruth Betz and William Harlow Betz. "The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Penny Edwards (actress)
Millicent Maxine Edwards (August 24, 1928 – August 26, 1998) was an American actress who performed on stage, in films, and on television. Early years She was born Millicent Maxine Edwards in Jackson Heights, Queens, New York. After moving to Florida, she graduated from Miami Edison High School. Career When she was 12 years old, Edwards danced in ''Let's Face It'', and at the age of 14, she appeared on Broadway as a dancer in '' Ziegfeld Follies of 1943''. Her other Broadway credits include ''Laffing Room Only'' (1944) and ''The Duchess Misbehaves'' (1946). Edwards' film debut came in ''My Wild Irish Rose'' (1947). She also appeared in the films ''Trail of Robin Hood'', ''Spoilers of the Plains'', '' Heart of the Rockies'', ''In Old Amarillo'', ''North of the Great Divide'', ''Sunset in the West'', ''Street Bandits'', and ''Missing Women'', among others. In the late 1940s, Edwards toured the United States for 14 months, performing in vaudeville. Public response to Edw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
