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Shocktrauma
''Shocktrauma'' is a 1982 television film produced in Canada and syndicated nationally in the United States by sponsor General Foods. The screenplay by Stephen Kandel is based on the book by Jon Franklin and Alan Doelp, which details the true story of the first trauma center in America, founded in Baltimore, Maryland. It was directed by Eric Till. Dick Atkins and Michael Lepiner were the executive producers, with Christopher Dalton and Wayne Fenske as producers. The production stars William Conrad as Dr. R Adams Cowley, the heart surgeon who pioneered trauma care. The film's score was composed by Eric Robertson. Cast * William Conrad as Dr. R Adams Cowley * Philip Akin as Sam Hooke * Leslie Carlson as Elton Bates * Jim Chad as John Grady * Lawrence Dane as Dr. Jordan Tracy * Scott Hylands as Dr. "Tex" Goodnight * Patricia Idlette as Nurse Malcolm * Kerrie Keane as Jill Jackson * Ken Pogue as Governor * Linda Sorenson as Elizabeth Scanlan * Beau Starr Beau Starr (born ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
R Adams Cowley
R Adams Cowley (July 25, 1917 – October 27, 1991) was an American surgeon considered a pioneer in emergency medicine and the treatment of shock trauma. Called the "Father of Trauma Medicine", he was the founder of the United States' first trauma center at the University of Maryland in 1958, after the US Army awarded him $100,000 to study shock in people—the first award of its kind in the United States. The trauma unit at first consisted of two beds, and was later expanded to four beds. Many people called the four-bed unit the "death lab." Cowley was the creator of the " Golden Hour" concept, the period of 60 minutes or less following injury when immediate definitive care is crucial to a trauma patient's survival. He was a leader in the use of helicopters for medical evacuations of civilians, beginning in 1969, and founded the Society of Thoracic Surgeons. He also founded the nation's first statewide EMS system, called MIEMSS by Executive Order of Maryland's Governor Mandel, 1972 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Akin
Philip Akin (born April 18, 1950) is a Canadian actor. Akin has had roles in major American films such as '' The Sum of All Fears'', ''S.W.A.T.'', and '' Get Rich or Die Tryin'''. He has also done much voice work, including voicing the character of Bishop for the ''X-Men'' animated series and Tripp Hansen in ''Monster Force''. Life and career Akin was born in Kingston, Jamaica, as a middle brother of five sons. His parents moved to Oshawa, Ontario in 1953, and he and his brothers followed suit the next year. He has lived in Ontario ever since. Shortly after attending high school, Akin attended Toronto's Ryerson Theatre School. In 1975, he became the school's first acting graduate, landing a role just a few days later in a Shaw Festival production of '' Caesar and Cleopatra''. In 1983, Akin began studying Yoshinkan aikido and is presently a 5th degree black belt in that art. He has also trained in Jing Mo kung fu and t'ai chi ch'uan. Akin first came to prominence in the early ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beau Starr
Beau Starr (born September 1, 1944) is an American actor who has starred in movies and on television. He is known for his film role as Sheriff Ben Meeker in the 1988 hit horror movie '' Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers''; he reprised his role in the 1989 sequel '' Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers''. Many also remember him as Lt. Harding Welsh in ''Due South''. Starr was born in Queens, New York, to a retail employee mother and a meatpacker father. His brother is actor Mike Starr. Beau Starr's well-known television role was in the 1990s Canadian television series ''Due South'' as Lieutenant Harding Welsh of the Chicago Police Department. He also starred in the 1980s television series ''Rituals'', '' Bizarre'' and '' True Blue''. He has starred in several made-for-television movies, and appeared in a number of productions based in Canada, including ''Due South'', '' Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye'' and ''Doc'' as well as some advertisements. His first feature film role was i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kerrie Keane
Kerrie Keane is a Canadian actress. She graduated from McMaster University with a Bachelor of Arts in history in 1970. Her early film career included roles in '' The Incubus'' (1982), '' Spasms'' (1983), ''Morning Man'' (1986) and '' Bates Motel'' (1987). In 1987 she appeared in the film '' Obsessed'' and was nominated for the 1989 Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role. Keane also played the leading female role in the film '' Distant Thunder'' (1988) and appeared in the superhero film ''Steel'' (1997). She co-hosted '' What Will They Think of Next?'', and appeared on episodes of such television series as '' Star Trek: The Next Generation'', '' Matlock'' and ''Beverly Hills, 90210 ''Beverly Hills, 90210'' (often referred to by its short title, ''90210'') is an American teen drama television series created by Darren Star and produced by Aaron Spelling under his production company Spelling Television. The series ran for ...''. Filmography Fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patricia Idlette
Patricia Idlette is an American actress known for her role as Kiffany in Showtime's ''Dead Like Me''. She also appeared in four episodes of '' Battlestar Galactica'' as politician Sarah Porter, and as Melanie Blackstone in the miniseries '' Amerika''. Idlette portrayed Katherine Jackson, mother of Michael Jackson, in the 2004 biopic '' Man in the Mirror: The Michael Jackson Story''. She appeared as Brenda's mother in ''Scary Movie 3'' in 2003. Originally from Miami, Florida,"Patricia Idlette" . ''Fort Myers Florida Weekly'', July 23, 2008. she trained as an actress in Florida and ."Stages of Black and White: Should directors cast by color or simply cast the best for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Conrad
William Conrad (born John William Cann Jr., September 27, 1920 – February 11, 1994) was an American actor, producer, and director whose entertainment career spanned five decades in radio, film, and television, peaking in popularity when he starred in the detective series ''Cannon''. A radio writer and actor, he moved to Hollywood after serving in World War II as a fighter pilot, and played a series of character roles in films, beginning with the film noir ''The Killers'' (1946). He created the role of Marshal Matt Dillon for the radio series ''Gunsmoke'' (1952–1961) and narrated the television adventures of ''Rocky and Bullwinkle'' (1959–1964) and '' The Fugitive'' (1963–1967). Finding fewer onscreen roles in the 1950s, he changed from actor to producer-director with television work, narration, and a series of Warner Bros. films in the 1960s. Conrad found stardom as a detective in the TV series ''Cannon'' (1971–1976) and ''Nero Wolfe'' (1981), and as district attorn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leslie Carlson
Les Carson ( Leslie Merle Carlson; February 24, 1933 – May 3, 2014) was an American-Canadian film and television character actor who acted on stage in Canada, the U.S. and England. His films include the horror films '' Deranged'', '' Black Christmas'', and ''Videodrome'', as well as the family film ''A Christmas Story''. His television credits include ''The Twilight Zone'' and ''The X-Files''. He was sometimes billed as "Les Carlson" and sometimes as "Leslie Carlson". Early life Born in the small South Dakota city of Mitchell, Carlson earned both a BFA and a MA from the University of South Dakota, which he attended in the 1950s and began his acting career performing in several stage plays in both the U.S and England. Career His performances include '' A Walk in the Woods'' in 1991 at the Gateway Theatre and ''Glengarry Glen Ross'', ''Jekyll & Hyde (musical)'', ''Hamlet'', ''Joggers'', ''All My Sons'' and '' Death and the Maiden''. He immigrated to Canada in the late 1960 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lawrence Dane
Lawrence Joseph Zahab (April 3, 1937 – March 21, 2022), known professionally as Lawrence Dane, was a Canadian actor and film producer, best known for his role as Lt. Preston in ''Bride of Chucky''. Life and career Born in Masson, Quebec, Dane was raised in Ottawa, and was from a Lebanese family. He attended Ottawa Tech and LaSalle Academy. He began acting at the stage as an old policeman in the play ''Our Town'' at Ottawa's Fisher Park Community Centre under Lynne Gorman's direction in 1958.Ronald Grantham"Ottawa Star in RCMP Show Finds Acting 'A Rat Race'" ''Ottawa Citizen'', January 25, 1960. His screen career began when he met film maker F. R. Crawley in the same year. Crawley gave him a job as an extra and stand-in for John Perkins as Constable Frank Scott in the TV series '' R.C.M.P.''. In addition to acting, he cowrote and directed the film drama '' Heavenly Bodies'' (1984). His producing credits include ''The Rowdyman'', written by and starring Gordon Pinsent, and the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Till
Eric Till (born 24 November 1929) is an English film and television director working in Canada, the United States, and Europe since the 1960s. His 1977 film ''It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet'' was entered into the 10th Moscow International Film Festival. Career After directing for the ''Armchair Theatre'' and ''Wednesday Play'' series' in the UK, Till emigrated to Canada in Toronto. He has directed numerous Canadian and American TV films from the 1960s onwards, including ''An American Christmas Carol'' starring Henry Winkler, '' Getting Married in Buffalo Jump'', and ''To Catch a Killer'', starring Brian Dennehy as psychotic serial killer John Wayne Gacy. Films he has directed include ''A Great Big Thing'', ''Hot Millions'', '' A Fan's Notes'', ''It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet'', '' Bethune'', ''Wild Horse Hank'', ''Improper Channels'', '' Voices from Within'' (also known as ''Silhouette''), ', ''Luther'' and the Muppet television series and specials ''Fraggle Rock'', ''The Christma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Robertson (composer)
Eric Nathan Robertson (born 6 April 1948) is a Scottish composer, organist, pianist, and record producer who has been primarily active in Canada. A two time Gemini Award winner, he has composed more than 60 film scores and written music for a number of television series in Canada and the United States. He has also written a considerable amount of choral and organ music, sometimes with instrumental or symphonic accompaniment. His works display a strong influence of Ralph Vaughan Williams, Charles Wood, and William O. Minay, the latter of whom he studied with for over 30 years. He has also produced and played on numerous commercial albums by a variety of artists and released several of his own albums of popular songs and film themes under the name ''Magic Melodies''. Life and career Born in Edinburgh, Robertson began his musical training in organ, piano and music theory in his native city where he was a pupil of E. Francis Thomas, Eric Reid, and William O. Minay. In 1963, at t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linda Sorenson
Linda Sorenson (born January 19, 1940) is a Canadian film, television and voice actress, best known for playing Mrs. Stegman in ''Class of 1984'', Warden Howe in '' Murphy Brown'', Virginia Reeves in '' Material World'' and Isabelle Carrington in '' Road to Avonlea''. She has appeared in a number of film and television roles. She voiced Love-a-Lot Bear in the Care Bears TV series, Blanche the Persian Cat in Webkinz and the old woman in ''Barbie and the Diamond Castle''. Sorenson has won two Genie Awards for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in ''Joshua Then and Now'' and ''Draw!''. Filmography Film Television Radio Recognition * 1995 Gemini Award for Best Guest Performance in a Series by an Actress - '' Road to Avonlea'' - Nominated * 1986 Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role - ''Joshua Then and Now'' - Won * 1985 Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role - ''Draw! ''Draw!'' is a 1984 Am ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scott Hylands
Scott Hylands Douglas (born 1943) is a Canadian actor who has appeared in movies, on television, and on the stage. Because of his longevity and versatility, critics have called him "one of Canada's greatest actors." Early years Hylands was born in 1943 in Vancouver, British Columbia. His mother Ruth was a science teacher, and his father Walter died during World War II. Hylands was raised and educated in Vancouver, where he attended Shawnigan Lake School, Shawnigan Lake Boys School; he then attended the University of British Columbia and graduated in 1964. Hylands at first studied zoology, but when the university began a theater arts major, he transferred into that program. Upon graduation, he left Canada to pursue an acting career in New York City, where his first role was as the lead in an off-Broadway production of the comedy ''Billy Liar.'' Career in the United States After that 1965 debut role, he spent several years in San Francisco, acting with the American Conservatory Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
