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Robert Osterloh
Robert Osterloh (May 31, 1918 – April 16, 2001) was an American actor. His career spanned 20 years, appearing in films such as ''The Dark Past'' (1948), ''The Wild One'' (1953), ''I Bury the Living'' (1958) and ''Young Dillinger'' (1965). Biography Osterloh was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, He was the son of Dr. Charles T. Osterloh and Emma Geiselhart Osterloh. As a student at Perry High School, he was president of the student council and the Dramatic Club, and he had the lead in the school's senior play. An agent discovered Osterloh while he was acting in stock theater. Director Rudolph Maté gave Osterloh his first opportunity in film in 1948, introducing him in ''The Dark Past'', in which he had a supporting role. Osterloh continued his career for 20 years, mainly in the 1950s, playing roles in films such as ''Illegal Entry'' (1949), ''White Heat'' (1949) (as a gangster killed by gang boss James Cagney), ''One Minute to Zero'' (1952), ''Star in the Dust'' (1956) and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Untouchables (1959 TV Series)
''The Untouchables'' is an American crime drama produced by Desilu Productions that ran from 1959 to 1963 on the ABC Television Network. Based on the memoir of the same name by Eliot Ness and Oscar Fraley, it fictionalized experiences of Elliot Ness as a Prohibition agent, fighting crime in Chicago in the 1930s with the help of a special team of agents handpicked for their courage, moral character, and incorruptibility, nicknamed the Untouchables. The book was later made into a celebrated film in 1987 by Brian De Palma, with a script by David Mamet, and a second, less-successful TV series in 1993. A dynamic, hard-hitting action drama, and a landmark television crime series, ''The Untouchables'' won series star Robert Stack an Emmy Award for Best Actor in a Dramatic Series in 1960. Series overview The series originally focused on the efforts of a real-life squad of Prohibition agents employed by the United States Department of Justice and led by Eliot Ness (Stack) that helped ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coogan's Bluff (film)
''Coogan's Bluff'' is a 1968 American crime thriller film directed and produced by Don Siegel. It stars Clint Eastwood, Susan Clark, Don Stroud, Tisha Sterling, Betty Field and Lee J. Cobb. The film marks the first of five collaborations between Siegel and Eastwood, which continued with ''Two Mules for Sister Sara'' (1970), '' The Beguiled'' (1971), ''Dirty Harry'' (1971) and '' Escape from Alcatraz'' (1979). Eastwood plays the part of a veteran deputy sheriff from a rural county in Arizona who travels to New York City to extradite an apprehended fugitive named Jimmy Ringerman, played by Stroud, who is wanted for murder. The name of the film itself is a reference to a New York City natural landmark, Coogan's Bluff, a promontory in upper Manhattan overlooking the site of the former long-time home of the New York Giants baseball club, the Polo Grounds, with a double-meaning derived from the name of the lead character. Plot Arizona deputy sheriff Walt Coogan is sent to New York ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pinky (1949 Film)
''Pinky'' is a 1949 American drama film directed by Elia Kazan and produced by Darryl F. Zanuck. The screenplay was adapted by Philip Dunne and Dudley Nichols based on Cid Ricketts Sumner's 1946 novel ''Quality''. It stars Jeanne Crain as the title character, a young light-skinned black woman who passes for white. It also stars Ethel Barrymore, Ethel Waters and William Lundigan. ''Pinky'' was released in the United States on September 29, 1949 by 20th Century-Fox. It generated considerable controversy because of its subject of race relations and the casting of Crain to play a black woman. It was nonetheless a critical and commercial success, and earned Crain, Barrymore and Waters Academy Award nominations. Plot Pinky Johnson returns to the South to visit Dicey, the illiterate black laundress grandmother who raised her. Pinky confesses to Dicey that she passed for white while studying to be a nurse in the North. She had also fallen in love with a white man, Dr. Thomas Adam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Doolins Of Oklahoma
''The Doolins of Oklahoma'' is a 1949 American Western film directed by Gordon Douglas and starring Randolph Scott, George Macready and Louise Allbritton. It was distributed by Columbia Pictures. Plot When the Daltons are killed at Coffeyville, KS, gang member Bill Doolin, arriving late, escapes but kills a man. Now wanted for murder, he becomes the leader of the Doolin gang. He eventually leaves the gang, marries and tries to start a new life under a new name. But the old gang members appear and his true identity becomes known. So once again he becomes an outlaw trying to escape from the law. Written by Maurice VanAuken Cast * Randolph Scott as Bill Doolin / Bill Daley * George Macready as Marshal Sam Hughes * Louise Allbritton as Rose of Cimarron * John Ireland as Bitter Creek * Virginia Huston as Elaine Burton * Charles Kemper as Thomas "Arkansas" Jones * Noah Beery Jr. as Little Bill * Dona Drake as Cattle Annie * Robert Barrat as Marshal Heck Thomas * Lee Patrick as Meli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Across The River
''City Across the River'' is a 1949 American film noir crime film directed by Maxwell Shane and starring Stephen McNally, Thelma Ritter, Sue England, Barbara Whiting, Luis Van Rooten and Jeff Corey. The screenplay is based on the novel ''The Amboy Dukes'' by Irving Shulman. The film is notable as the credited screen debut of Tony Curtis (billed onscreen as "Anthony Curtis"). Plot Two members of a tough Brooklyn street gang accidentally kill one of their teachers. Frank Cusack is a leading member of the Amboy Dukes teenage gang based in a slum-ridden area of Brooklyn. His activities with the gang ultimately lead from vandalism and hooliganism to complicity in the murder of a school teacher. His hopes—and those of his parents—for an escape from the bleakness of slum life are dashed by circumstance and by his willingness to accept the gang code of not informing to the police. Summary The film possibly makes a more convincing impact due to its lack of big stars. The role ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Undercover Man
''The Undercover Man'' is a 1949 American crime film noir directed by Joseph H. Lewis and starring Glenn Ford. Plot Frank Warren is a treasury agent assigned to put an end to the activities of a powerful mob crime boss. The agent struggles to put together a case but is frustrated when all he finds are terrified witnesses and corrupt police officers. Although most informants end up dead, Agent Warren gets critical information about the mob from an unlikely source. Cast * Glenn Ford as Frank Warren * Nina Foch as Judith Warren * James Whitmore as George Pappas * Barry Kelley as Edward O'Rourke * David Bauer as Stanley Weinburg (as David Wolfe) * Frank Tweddell as Insp. Herzog * Howard St. John as Joseph S. Horan * John Hamilton as Police Sergeant Shannon * Leo Penn as Sydney Gordon * Joan Lazer as Rosa Rocco * Esther Minciotti as Maria Rocco * Angela Clarke as Theresa Rocco * Anthony Caruso as Salvatore Rocco * Robert Osterloh as Manny Zanger * Kay Medford as Gladys LaVerne * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Cheated The Law
''I Cheated the Law'' is a 1949 American crime film directed by Edward L. Cahn and written by Richard G. Hubler. The film stars Tom Conway, Steve Brodie (actor), Steve Brodie, Robert Osterloh, Barbara Billingsley, Russell Hicks and James Seay. The film was released on March 4, 1949, by 20th Century Fox. Plot In court, criminal attorney John Campbell defends a man, Frank Bricolle, who is charged with murdering a night watchman in a fur warehouse during a robbery. Frank having saved his life during the war, John believes in him so much that both he and wife Ruth provide the defendant with an alibi, resulting in his acquittal. Frank later confesses to John how he did indeed commit the crime, aided by Joe Corsi and other accomplices. John expresses regret for his actions and leaves Ruth, wanting to be alone for a while. He is actually busy scheming to frame Corsi for the murder. Corsi tries to avoid a conviction by accusing Bricolle in the courtroom, where Bricolle pulls a gun and t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Criss Cross (film)
''Criss Cross'' is a 1949 American film noir crime film directed by Robert Siodmak and starring Burt Lancaster, Yvonne De Carlo and Dan Duryea, from Don Tracy's novel of the same name. This black-and-white film was shot partly on location in the Bunker Hill section of Los Angeles. The film was written by Daniel Fuchs. Miklós Rózsa scored the film's soundtrack. It was remade as ''The Underneath'' in 1995. Plot Steve Thompson returns to Los Angeles looking for his ex-wife Anna Dundee, eager to rekindle a new romance with her against all better judgment. He resumes his old job as a driver at an armored-truck company. Anna is married to mobster Slim Dundee, but continues an auspicious affair with Thompson. To deflect any hint of their affair, Thompson leads Dundee into a daylight armored-truck robbery caper, only to double cross him when the crime is pulled off. Wounded during the botched robbery, Thompson is recovering in a hospital and considered the hero who wounded the rob ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Incident (film)
''Incident'' is a 1948 American film noir directed by William Beaudine and featuring Warren Douglas, Jane Frazee and Robert Osterloh. Plot A man is mistaken for a hoodlum and beaten up, leading him to a sordid web of violence and danger. Cast * Warren Douglas as Joe Downey * Jane Frazee as Marion Roberts * Robert Osterloh as James "Slats" Slattery * Joyce Compton as Joan * Anthony Caruso as Nails * Harry Lauter as Bill * Eddie Dunn as Lt. Madigan * Meyer Grace as Knuckles Morgan * Harry Cheshire as Hartley * Lynn Millan as Sally O'Brien * Robert Emmett Keane as Rinsel * Pierre Watkin Pierre Frank Watkin (December 29, 1887 – February 3, 1960) was an American character actor best known for playing distinguished authority figures throughout the Golden Age of Hollywood. He is best remembered for his roles of Mr. Skinner the b ... as C. W. Sloan Reception Film historian and critic Hal Erickson said of the film: "''Incident'' is one of the slicker directorial accomplishment ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wagon Train
''Wagon Train'' is an American Western series that aired 8 seasons: first on the NBC television network (1957–1962), and then on ABC (1962–1965). ''Wagon Train'' debuted on September 18, 1957, and became number one in the Nielsen ratings. It is the fictional adventure story of a large westbound wagon train through the American Old West, from Missouri to California. Its format attracted different famous guest stars per episode, as travelers or as residents of the settlements they encountered. The show initially starred supporting film actor Ward Bond as the wagon master (replaced after his death in 1960 by John McIntire) and Robert Horton as the scout (eventually replaced by similar-looking Robert Fuller when Horton opted to leave the series). The series was inspired by the 1950 film ''Wagon Master'' directed by John Ford and starring Ben Johnson, Harry Carey Jr., and Ward Bond, and by the 1930 early widescreen film ''The Big Trail'' directed by Raoul Walsh and starring ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Stack
Robert Stack (born Charles Langford Modini Stack; January 13, 1919 – May 14, 2003) was an American actor. Known for his deep voice and commanding presence, he appeared in over forty feature films. He starred in the highly successful ABC television series ''The Untouchables'' (1959–1963), for which he won the 1960 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Series, and later hosted/narrated the true-crime series ''Unsolved Mysteries'' (1987–2002). He was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the film ''Written on the Wind'' (1956). Later in his career, Stack was known for his deadpan comedy roles that lampooned his dramatic on-screen persona, most notably as Capt. Rex Kramer in ''Airplane!'' (1980). Early life He was born Charles Langford Modini Stack in Los Angeles, California, but his first name, selected by his mother, was changed to Robert by his father. He spent his early childhood in Adria and Rome, bec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
''Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse'' is an American television anthology series produced by Desilu Productions. The show ran on the Columbia Broadcasting System between 1958 and 1960. Three of its 48 episodes served as pilots for the 1950s television series ''The Twilight Zone'' (One Episode) and ''The Untouchables'' (Two Episodes). History Between 1951 and 1957, Desi Arnaz (1917-1986) and Lucille Ball (1911-1989) starred in and produced (via their Desilu production company) the immensely popular ''I Love Lucy'' show. In early 1958, Desi Arnaz convinced CBS to purchase ''Desilu Playhouse'' with the promise that a bi-monthly ''Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Show'' (later rebroadcast as ''The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour'') would be among the dramas, comedies and musicals planned for the show. Westinghouse Electric Company paid a then-record $12 million to sponsor the show, which resulted in the cancellation of the prestigious anthology series '' Studio One'', also sponsored by Westinghouse. The sho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
