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Ruby And Oswald
''Ruby and Oswald'' is a 1978 American made-for-television drama film about the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy. It stars Michael Lerner and Frederic Forrest. Overview Jack Ruby (Michael Lerner) is a warm-hearted but hot-tempered and patriotic nightclub owner, who loves President Kennedy. Lee Harvey Oswald (Frederic Forrest), a troubled loner with a speckled past is looking to merely acquire fame. On November 22, Oswald kills the president. On the 24th, Ruby kills Oswald, being motivated exclusively by his love for the president. Cast * Michael Lerner as Jack Ruby * Frederic Forrest as Lee Harvey Oswald * Lou Frizzell as Captain J. Will Fritz * Doris Roberts as Eva * Lanna Saunders as Marina Oswald * Bruce French as Robert Oswald * Sandy McPeak as Henry Wade * Sandy Ward as Jesse Curry * Brian Dennehy as George Paulsen * Michael Pataki as Ike Pappas * Richard Sanders as Agent Kelley * Gordon Jump as Clyde Gaydosh * Gwynne Gilford as Little Lyn * H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John McGreevey
John McGreevey (December 21, 1922 – November 24, 2010) was an American writer and screenwriter. He is the father of former Disney star and Emmy-nominated television writer Michael McGreevey. Filmography ;Films *1969: '' Hello Down There'' *1970: ''Crowhaven Farm'' *1975: ''The Runaways'' *1976: ''The Disappearance of Aimee'' *1977: ''The Death of Richie'' *1978: ''Rainbow'' *1978: '' The New Adventures of Heidi'' *1978: ''Ruby and Oswald'' (co-written with Michael McGreevey) *1982: ''Night Crossing'' *1984: '' The Return of Marcus Welby, M.D.'' *1984: ''Aurora'' *1984: '' Flight 90: Disaster on the Potomac'' *1984: '' Heller Keller: The Miracle Continues'' *1985: '' A Time to Live'' *1985: '' Consenting Adult'' *1988: ''The Fortunate Pilgrim'' *1988: ''Unholy Matrimony'' *1990: '' Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes'' *1990: '' Call Me Anna'' *1996: '' Born Free: A New Adventure'' *1993: ''Firestorm: 72 Hours in Oakland'' *1995: '' A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes: The Annette Funic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baseline (database)
Studio System by Gracenote, formerly known as Baseline StudioSystems, is an American e-commerce company. It was founded in 1982 and licenses its commercial entertainment database, known as Studio System. It is owned by Gracenote, a subsidiary of Nielsen Holdings. History James Monaco founded Baseline in 1982. Their primary product, an entertainment database, was launched in 1985. Monaco left Baseline in 1992, and Paul Kagan Associates purchased it the following year. Big Entertainment purchased the database in 1999 and subsequently renamed themselves to Hollywood.com. The same year, Creative Planet purchased The Studio System, a rival database founded in 1987, from Brookfield Communications. In 2004, Hollywood.com's parent company, Hollywood Media, purchased The Studio System and merged the two databases. Two years later, The New York Times Company purchased the now-renamed Baseline StudioSystems and integrated it into NYTimes.com, only to sell it back to Hollywood.com i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Pataki
Michael Pataki (January 16, 1938 – April 15, 2010) was an American actor. Early life Pataki was born in Youngstown, Ohio. His parents were Hungarians. He was the youngest of three children - one older brother and one older sister. He attended the University of Southern California with a double major in political science and drama. His career was launched at a summer stock festival in Edinburgh in 1966, with a review that read, "Michael Pataki went beyond the bounds of mere nationality in his tense and moving interpretation of Jerry in ''The Zoo Story''". Pataki was so well loved that at a reception for the theatre group acclaimed English actor Laurence Harvey, whom Pataki had never met, said he was magnificent and gave him a kiss on the mouth. Television career Pataki had a co-starring role on the 1974–75 groundbreaking ABC-TV series ''Get Christie Love!'' playing Officer Pete Gallagher, Christie Love's bumbling but well-meaning sidekick with the dream to one day be a tec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Dennehy
Brian Manion Dennehy (; July 9, 1938 – April 15, 2020) was an American actor of stage, television, and film. He won two Tony Awards, an Olivier Award, and a Golden Globe, and received six Primetime Emmy Award nominations. Dennehy had roles in over 180 films and in many television and stage productions. His film roles included '' First Blood'' (1982), '' Gorky Park'' (1983), '' Silverado'' (1985), '' Cocoon'' (1985), '' F/X'' (1986), '' Presumed Innocent'' (1990), ''Romeo + Juliet'' (1996), ''Ratatouille'' (2007), and '' Knight of Cups'' (2015). Dennehy won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Miniseries or Television Film for his role as Willy Loman in the television film ''Death of a Salesman'' (2000). According to ''Variety'', Dennehy was "perhaps the foremost living interpreter" of playwright Eugene O'Neill's works on stage and screen. He had a decades long relationship with Chicago's Goodman Theatre where much of his O'Neill work originated. He also regularly played ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandy Ward
Sandy Brown (July 12, 1926 – March 6, 2005) was an American film and television actor. He was perhaps best known for playing the recurring role of "Logger Pete" on 11 episodes of the American sitcom television series ''Malcolm in the Middle''. Life and career Ward was born in Alamosa, Colorado. He began his career in 1967, first appearing in the crime drama television series '' Ironside''. Later in his career, Ward guest-starred in television programs including '' JAG'', ''The Six Million Dollar Man'', ''The F.B.I.'', '' Hawkins'',''The Rockford Files'', ''Cagney & Lacey'', ''Hill Street Blues'', ''Trapper John, M.D.'', '' St. Elsewhere'', ''Jake and the Fatman'', ''Murder, She Wrote'', ''Simon & Simon'', ''Hart to Hart'', ''The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries'', ''The Fall Guy'', ''Hardcastle and McCormick'', ''The A-Team'', ''The Dukes of Hazzard'', ''Family Ties'', ''The Greatest American Hero'' and ''Night Court''. In his film career, Ward co-starred in the 1971 film '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Wade
Henry Menasco Wade (November 11, 1914 – March 1, 2001) was an American lawyer who served as district attorney of Dallas County from 1951 to 1987. He participated in two notable U.S. court cases of the 20th century: the prosecution of Jack Ruby for killing Lee Harvey Oswald, and the U.S. Supreme Court's decision legalizing abortion, ''Roe v. Wade''. In addition, Wade was district attorney when Randall Dale Adams, the subject of the 1988 documentary film '' The Thin Blue Line'', was wrongfully convicted in the murder of Robert Wood, a Dallas police officer. Early life Wade, one of 11 children, was born in Rockwall County, Texas, outside Dallas. Wade, along with five of his seven brothers, entered the legal profession. Shortly after graduating from the University of Texas at Austin, in 1939, Wade joined the Federal Bureau of Investigation, headed by J. Edgar Hoover. Wade's assignment as special agent was to investigate espionage cases along the US East Coast and in South America. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandy McPeak
Sandy McPeak (February 21, 1936 – December 31, 1997) was an American actor best known for such films and television series as ''Winnetka Road'', ''L.A. Law'', ''Centennial'', ''Ode to Billy Joe'', ''Patton'', '' The Osterman Weekend'', ''Kelly's Heroes'' and ''Blue Thunder ''Blue Thunder'' is a 1983 American action thriller film from Columbia Pictures, produced by Gordon Carroll, Phil Feldman, and Andrew Fogelson and directed by John Badham. The Blue Thunder helicopter itself did exist as two copies of modifie ...''. Biography Sandy McPeak died of a heart attack in Nevada City, California on 31 December 1997. Filmography Film Television References External links * * American male film actors American male television actors 20th-century American male actors 1936 births 1997 deaths {{US-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruce French (actor)
Bruce French (born July 4, 1945) is an American actor who has been acting for more than 30 years. French was born in Reinbeck, Iowa. He attended the University of Iowa and majored in speech and theatre. He is married to actress/singer Eileen Barnett. Career He is noted for his recurring role as Father Lonigan on the NBC daytime drama ''Passions''. He also played Jim Burns the wealthy neighbor of the Malloy/"Rich" family on '' The Riches''; Jim's wife, Nina, is played by Margo Martindale. His movie roles include that of a checkout man in Frank Perry's ''Man on a Swing''. Awards and nominations Ovation Awards *2010: Won the award for Lead Actor in a Play for the role of Andrew Crocker-Harris in the Pacific Resident Theatre production of "The Browning Version" Filmography *''Man on a Swing'' (1974) .... Check-Out Man *'' Pipe Dreams'' (1976) .... The Duke *''Rollercoaster'' (1977) .... Bomb Squad #2 *'' Coming Home'' (1978) .... Dr. Lincoln *'' Bloodbrothers'' (1978) .... Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marina Oswald
Marina Nikolayevna Oswald Porter ( Prusakova; russian: Марина Николаевна Прусакова; born July 17, 1941) is the Russian-American widow of Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin of US President John F. Kennedy. Early life Porter was born Marina Nikolayevna Prusakova in the city of Molotovsk (now Severodvinsk), in Arkhangelsk Oblast, in the northwest of the Soviet Union. She lived there with her mother and stepfather until 1957, when she moved to Minsk to live with her uncle Ilya Prusakov, a colonel in the Soviet Ministry of Internal Affairs, and to study pharmacy. Life with Oswald Marina met Lee Harvey Oswald (a former U.S. Marine who had defected to the Soviet Union) at a dance on March 17, 1961. They married six weeks later and had a daughter, June Lee, born the following year. In June 1962, the family emigrated to the United States and settled in Dallas, Texas. At a party in February 1963, George de Mohrenschildt introduced the couple to Ruth Paine, a Quaker ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lanna Saunders
Svetlana Nikolaevna "Lanna" Saunders (December 22, 1941 – March 10, 2007) was an American actress, best known for her role as Marie Horton on the television soap opera ''Days of Our Lives'', on which she appeared from 197985. She also played the character Betty Andrews on the daytime soap opera ''The Young and the Restless''. Saunders came from a prominent Russian-American acting family: her father was actor Nicholas Saunders and her grandfather was actor Nicholas Soussanin, who emigrated from the Ukrainian SSR in the 1920s, and married actress Olga Baclanova. Saunders first started in acting at age 13, studying under Elia Kazan and later joining his Lincoln Center Company. She met her future husband, actor Lawrence Pressman, while performing on Broadway, and they were married from 1973 until her death. Saunders was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis Multiple (cerebral) sclerosis (MS), also known as encephalomyelitis disseminata or disseminated sclerosis, is the most ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doris Roberts
Doris May Roberts ( Green; November 4, 1925 – April 17, 2016) was an American actress whose career spanned seven decades of television and film. She received five Emmy Awards and a Screen Actors Guild award during her acting career, which began in 1951. Roberts studied acting at The Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York City and started in films in 1961. She had several prominent roles in movies, including playing opposite Shirley Stoler in ''The Honeymoon Killers'' (1970), Elliott Gould in ''Little Murders'' (1971), Steven Keats in '' Hester Street'' (1975), Billy Crystal in ''Rabbit Test'' (1978), Robert Carradine in '' Number One with a Bullet'' (1987), and Cady McClain in '' Simple Justice'' (1989), among many others. She achieved continuing success in television, becoming known for her role as Mildred Krebs in ''Remington Steele'' from 1983 to 1987 and her co-starring role as Raymond Barone's mother, Marie Barone, on the long-running CBS sitcom ''Ever ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lou Frizzell
Lou Frizzell (June 10, 1919 – June 17, 1979) was an American actor and music director who worked on Broadway productions, television shows and films. He was perhaps best known for playing Dusty Rhodes in the American western television series ''Bonanza''. Frizzell died in June 1979 of lung cancer at his home in Los Angeles, California Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the largest city in the state of California and the second most populous city in the United States after New York City, as well as one of the world' ..., at the age of 60. Filmography References External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Frizzell, Lou 1919 births 1979 deaths Male actors from Missouri Music directors American male film actors American male television actors 20th-century American male actors Western (genre) television actors Deaths from lung cancer in California ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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