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Sarge (TV Series)
''Sarge'' is an American crime drama television series starring George Kennedy. The series aired for one season on NBC from September 1971 to January 1972. Overview Kennedy stars as Samuel Patrick Cavanaugh, a San Diego police detective sergeant who decides to retire and enter the priesthood after his wife is murdered. Sarge had initially studied for the priesthood prior to his police career, but his seminary studies were interrupted by military service in the Marine Corps during World War II. The series, which ran in 1971-72, was preceded by a pilot titled ''Sarge: The Badge or the Cross'' (February 22, 1971 airdate), which set the premise for the subsequent series. One week before the show's fall premiere, on September 14, 1971, Cavanaugh traveled to San Francisco because of the death of a friend and fellow priest. His investigation caused him to cross paths with the characters from '' Ironside'' in a two-hour special that consolidated the two series' consecutive time slots. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Kennedy
George Harris Kennedy Jr. (February 18, 1925 – February 28, 2016) was an American actor who appeared in more than 100 film and television productions. He played "Dragline" opposite Paul Newman in ''Cool Hand Luke'' (1967), winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the role and being nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture, corresponding Golden Globe. He received a second Golden Globe nomination for portraying Joe Patroni in ''Airport (1970 film), Airport'' (1970). Among the notable films he had a significant role in are ''Cool Hand Luke'', ''Charade (1963 film), Charade'', ''Strait-Jacket'', ''McHale's Navy (1964 film), McHale's Navy'', ''Shenandoah (film), Shenandoah'', ''The Sons of Katie Elder'', ''The Flight of the Phoenix (1965 film), The Flight of the Phoenix'', ''The Dirty Dozen'', ''The Boston Strangler (film), The Boston Strangler'', ''Guns of the Magnificent Seven'', ''Thunderbolt and Lightfoot'', ''The Good Gu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers. World War II was a total war that directly involved more than 100 million personnel from more than 30 countries. The major participants in the war threw their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities behind the war effort, blurring the distinction between civilian and military resources. Aircraft played a major role in the conflict, enabling the strategic bombing of population centres and deploying the only two nuclear weapons ever used in war. World War II was by far the deadliest conflict in human history; it resulted in 70 to 85 million fatalities, mostly among civilians. Tens of millions died due to genocides (including the Holocaust), starvation, ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seymour Robbie
Seymour Robbie (August 25, 1919 – June 17, 2004) was a director of American television programs, whose work ranged from 1951 ('' Down You Go'') to 1990 ('' Father Dowling Mysteries''). His credits include game shows (e.g., ''The $64,000 Question''), crime dramas (e.g., ''Kojak''), action-adventure programs (e.g., ''Wonder Woman''), and sitcoms (e.g., ''F Troop''). He was born in New York City New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the most densely populated major city in the Un .... Filmography Theatrical and television films * ''Art Carney Meets the Sorcerer's Apprentice'' (1959 TV movie) * ''Spirit of the Alamo'' (1960 TV documentary) * ''Beauty and the Beast'' (1969 TV movie) * '' C.C. and Company'' (1970 theatrical film) * '' Marco'' (1973 theatrical film) Television series Robbie directed one or more episodes of ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Donner
Richard Donner (born Richard Donald Schwartzberg; April 24, 1930 – July 5, 2021) was an American filmmaker whose notable works included some of the most financially-successful films during the New Hollywood era. According to film historian Michael Barson, Donner was "one of Hollywood's most reliable makers of action blockbusters". His career spanned over 50 years, crossing multiple genres and filmmaking trends. Donner began in 1957 as a television director. By the 1960s, Donner had directed episodes of ''The Rifleman'', ''The Man from U.N.C.L.E.'', '' The Fugitive'', ''The Twilight Zone'', ''The Banana Splits'' and many others. He made his film debut with the low-budget aviation drama ''X-15'' in 1961, but had his critical and commercial breakthrough with the horror film ''The Omen'' in 1976. He directed the landmark superhero film ''Superman'' in 1978, which provided an inspiration for the fantasy film genre to eventually gain artistic respectability and commercial dominanc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Haller
Daniel Haller (born September 14, 1929) is an American film and television director, production designer, and art director. Life and career Haller was born in Glendale, California on September 14, 1929. He studied at the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles. In 1953, Haller started as an art director in television and then later made low budget feature films. Haller designed sets for Roger Corman's Edgar Allan Poe film series, including '' House of Usher'' (1960) and ''The Pit and the Pendulum'' (1961). Haller directed his first film, ''Die, Monster, Die!'', in 1965 for American International Pictures, based on H. P. Lovecraft's short story "The Colour Out of Space". After directing two motorcycle pictures, '' Devil's Angels'' (1967) and ''The Wild Racers'' (1968), Haller filmed another Lovecraft adaptation, ''The Dunwich Horror'' (1970). From 1972, all of Haller's subsequent work has been in television, including directing episodes of ''Night Gallery'', ''Kojak'', ''Sar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joel Oliansky
Joel Oliansky (October 11, 1935 – July 29, 2002) an Emmy-winning director and screenwriter, was best known for the screenplay of ''Bird'' (the 1988 biographic film about Charlie Parker), as well as writing and directing episodes of TV series including '' The Law'', and ''Kojak.'' Early life Oliansky was born in Brooklyn, New York and attended Hofstra University, graduating in 1959. In his last year, he wrote the book for the Hofstra University Kaleidoscopians' musical ''Inertia'' which featured music by Steve Lawrence, lyrics by Francis Ford Coppola and starred fellow-student Lainie Kazan; a drama scholarship at Hofstra is named in his memory. He pursued a master's degree at Yale, during which course his 1962 play ''Here Comes Santa Claus'' was written and produced. He remained as playwright-in-residence at Yale until 1964, and directed two of the four plays comprising the initial season of the Hartford Stage Company, as well. During this period he also wrote ''Shame, Shame On ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Badham
John MacDonald Badham (born August 25, 1939) is an English television and film director, best known for his films ''Saturday Night Fever'' (1977), ''Dracula'' (1979), ''Blue Thunder'' (1983), ''WarGames'' (1983), ''Short Circuit'' (1986), and ''Stakeout'' (1987). Early life Badham was born in Luton, Bedfordshire, England, the son of U.S. Army General Henry Lee Badham Jr., and English-born actress Mary Iola Badham (née Hewitt). Henry, a native of Birmingham, Alabama, moved his family back to the US when John was two years old. John's parents and paternal grandparents are buried in Elmwood Cemetery in Birmingham. Henry was an aviator in both World Wars, and was posthumously inducted into the Alabama Aviation Hall of Fame in 2007. After retirement from the U.S. Air Force as a brigadier general, Henry became a businessman and helped develop the Ensley and Bessemer regions near Birmingham. This same line of business had brought his own father, John's grandfather, into association ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dana Elcar
Ibsen Dana Elcar (October 10, 1927 – June 6, 2005) was an American television and film character actor. He appeared in about 40 films as well as on the 1980s and 1990s television series ''MacGyver'' as Peter Thornton, MacGyver's immediate supervisor at the Phoenix Foundation. Elcar had appeared in the pilot episode of ''MacGyver'' as Andy Colson before assuming the role of Thornton. Early life Elcar was born in Ferndale, Michigan, the son of Hedwig (née Anderberg) and James Aage Elcar, a carpenter and butcher. He was an alumnus of the University of Michigan where he was a member of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity. At age 18, Elcar enlisted and served a tour of duty in the United States Navy at the end of World War II. He moved to New York in the 1950s to become a professional thespian. He was a student of legendary acting coach Sanford Meisner. He brought this education to bear when in 1986, with fellow character actor William Lucking, he formed the Santa Paula Theater ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Wilcoxon
Harry Frederick Wilcoxon (8 September 1905 – 6 March 1984), known as Henry Wilcoxon, was an actor born in Roseau, Dominica, British West Indies, and who was a leading man in many of Cecil B. DeMille's films, also serving as DeMille's associate producer on his later films. Early life Wilcoxon was born on 8 September 1905 in Roseau, Dominica. His father was English-born Robert Stanley 'Tan' Wilcoxon, manager of the Colonial Bank in Jamaica''The deMercado Family Website'' "Monthly Comments: Jamaica" Vol. 6 – 'Memories and Reflections,' by Ansell Hart . Retrieved 7 August 2008 and his mother, Lurline Mignonette Nunes, was a Jamaican amateur theatre actress, descendant of a wealthy Spanish merchant family. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harold Sakata
, better known as Harold Sakata, was an American Olympic weightlifter, professional wrestler, and film actor of Japanese descent. He won a silver medal for the United States at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London in weightlifting, and later became a popular professional wrestler under the ring name Tosh Togo, wrestling primarily for various National Wrestling Alliance territories as a tag team with Great Togo. He also wrestled extensively in Japan for All Japan Pro Wrestling, and was a one-time All Asia Tag Team Championship with Rikidōzan. On the basis of his wrestling work, he was cast in the James Bond film '' Goldfinger'' (1964) as the villain Oddjob, a role he would be closely associated with for the rest of his life. Early life Toshiyuki Sakata was born on July 1, 1920, in Holualoa, Hawaii, to Japanese-American parents who worked at a Kona coffee farm. His father Risaburo was ''issei'' (first-generation), and his mother Matsue was ''nisei''. He had ten siblings, six ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ramon Bieri
Ramon Arens Bieri (June 16, 1929 – May 27, 2001) was an American actor who starred in many films and TV shows. Television work Bieri starred as the title character in the NBC sitcom ''Joe's World'', from December 1979 to July 1980, playing Joe Wabash, a Detroit housepainter with a wife and five kids. He co-starred on the short-lived 1981 TV series ''Bret Maverick'' with James Garner, as banker Elijah Crow. Bieri appeared in many TV movies as well. In 1971–1972, he played Lieutenant Barney Verick in the NBC drama '' Sarge''. Bieri also played in the second season of Barnaby Jones; episode titled, "Death Leap"(09/23/1973). His movie roles included ''Badlands'', ''The Sicilian'', '' The Grasshopper'', which was his first film, ''Grandview, U.S.A.'', ''Reds'', and ''The Andromeda Strain''. Bieri made guest appearances in many TV shows, including ''Daniel Boone'', ''Gunsmoke'', ''Little House on the Prairie'', ''Bonanza'', ''Hawaii Five-O'', '' Kolchak: The Night Stalker'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chinatown, Los Angeles
Chinatown is a neighborhood in Downtown Los Angeles, California, that became a commercial center for Chinese and other Asian businesses in Central Los Angeles in 1938. The area includes restaurants, shops, and art galleries, but also has a residential neighborhood with a low-income, aging population of about 20,000 residents. The original Los Angeles Chinatown developed in the late 19th century, but it was demolished to make room for Union Station, the city's major ground-transportation center. A separate commercial center, known as "New Chinatown," opened for business in 1938. Geography and climate According to CRA/LA, borders of (the current) Chinatown neighborhood are: "Chinatown," Mapping L.A., ''Los Angeles Times''''The Thomas Guide, Los Angeles County'' 2006, page 634 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
