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The Norliss Tapes
''The Norliss Tapes'' is a 1973 American made-for-television horror film directed by Dan Curtis and written by William F. Nolan, starring Roy Thinnes and Angie Dickinson. Framed through a series of tapes left behind by the missing Norliss, an investigator of the occult, it tells the story of his encounter with a widow and her artist husband who has returned from the dead. The film was originally produced by NBC as a pilot for a television series which was ultimately not produced. The film premiered as a standalone movie on the NBC network on February 21, 1973. Years later it acquired a modest cult following on the independent theater circuit. Plot David Norliss, a writer working on a book debunking spiritualists and fakers, vanishes from his home in San Francisco, California, leaving behind a series of audio tapes explaining his absence and recent investigations. The narrative unfolds as a friend, his publisher Sanford Evans, listens to the tapes. Norliss had recently investi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan Curtis
Dan Curtis (born Daniel Mayer Cherkoss; August 12, 1927 – March 27, 2006) was an American director, writer, and producer of television and film, known among fans of horror films for his afternoon TV series ''Dark Shadows'' (1966–1971) and its 1991 remake, and TV films such as '' The Night Stalker'' (1972), '' Bram Stoker's Dracula'' (1974) and ''Trilogy of Terror'' (1975). He also directed three feature films – the ''Dark Shadows'' spinoffs ''House of Dark Shadows'' (1970) and ''Night of Dark Shadows'' (1971), and the supernatural horror '' Burnt Offerings'' (1976). For general audiences, Curtis is also known as the director and producer of the highly-rated miniseries ''The Winds of War'' (1983) and its sequel ''War and Remembrance'' (1988), based on two novels by Herman Wouk, which follow the lives of two American families through World War II. Career Curtis's series of macabre films includes ''House of Dark Shadows'', ''Night of Dark Shadows'', '' The Night Stalker'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michele Carey
Michele Carey (born Michele Lee Henson; February 26, 1942 – November 21, 2018) was an American actress who was best known for her role as Josephine "Joey" MacDonald in the 1966 Western film ''El Dorado''. She appeared in movies and guest-starred in television series in the 1960s and 1970s. Early life and education Carey was born on February 26, 1942, in Annapolis, Maryland, to Stanley Willard Henson, Jr., and Thelma Burnell Henson; her father was working as a wrestling instructor at the U.S. Naval Academy. The family soon moved to Rochester, Minnesota, where her father continued his medical studies. Carey was a piano prodigy who won a national contest at the Chicago Music Festival at age 13, and performed with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. Carey's family eventually moved to Fort Collins, Colorado, where her father practiced as a physician, becoming Fort Collins' first open-heart surgeon. She graduated from Fort Collins High School in 1960. Career After graduating from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Variety (magazine)
''Variety'' is an American media company owned by Penske Media Corporation. The company was founded by Sime Silverman in New York City in 1905 as a weekly newspaper reporting on theater and vaudeville. In 1933 it added ''Daily Variety'', based in Los Angeles, to cover the motion-picture industry. ''Variety.com'' features entertainment news, reviews, box office results, cover stories, videos, photo galleries and features, plus a credits database, production charts and calendar, with archive content dating back to 1905. History Foundation ''Variety'' has been published since December 16, 1905, when it was launched by Sime Silverman as a weekly periodical covering theater and vaudeville with its headquarters in New York City. Silverman had been fired by ''The Morning Telegraph'' in 1905 for panning an act which had taken out an advert for $50. As a result, he decided to start his own publication "that ouldnot be influenced by advertising." With a loan of $1,500 from his father- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Out Of Print
__NOTOC__ An out-of-print (OOP) or out-of-commerce item or work is something that is no longer being published. The term applies to all types of printed matter, visual media, sound recordings, and video recordings. An out-of-print book is a book that is no longer being published. The term can apply to specific editions of more popular works, which may then go in and out of print repeatedly, or to the sole printed edition of a work, which is not picked up again by any future publishers for reprint. Most works that have ever been published are out of print at any given time, while certain highly popular books, such as the Bible, are always "in print". Less popular out-of-print books are often rare and may be difficult to acquire unless scanned or electronic copies of the books are available. With the advent of book scanning, and print-on-demand technology, fewer and fewer works are now considered truly out of print. A publisher creates a print run of a fixed number of copies of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
20th Century Fox
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 Ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Anchor Bay Entertainment (formerly Video Treasures and Starmaker Entertainment) was an American home entertainment and production company. It was a subsidiary of Starz Inc. Anchor Bay Entertainment marketed and sold feature films, television series (mainly shows that aired on Starz), television specials and short films to consumers worldwide. In 2004, Anchor Bay agreed to have its movies distributed by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment and renewed their deal in 2011. A year after Starz launched a home entertainment division (in-name only) in 2016, it later folded Anchor Bay Entertainment into Lionsgate Home Entertainment. History Anchor Bay Entertainment can date its origins back to two home video distributors: Video Treasures, formed in 1985,Executive Biography of George Port from the MarVista Entertainment websit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teleplay
A teleplay is a screenplay or script used in the production of a scripted television program or series. In general usage, the term is most commonly seen in reference to a standalone production, such as a television film, a television play, or an episode of an anthology series. In internal industry usage, however, all television scripts (including episodes of ongoing drama or comedy series) are teleplays, although a "teleplay by" credit may be classified into a "written by" credit depending on the circumstances of its creation.''Television Credits Manual'' . The term first surfaced during the 1950s, as television was gaining cultu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nick Dimitri
Nick Dimitri (December 27, 1932 – October 20, 2021) was an American stuntman and actor best known as Charles Bronson's character's opponent in the climax of '' Hard Times'' (1975). In addition to fisticuffs, his specialty was dying violently on screen. He was a regular stuntman on the World War II TV series ''The Rat Patrol'' and a double for action actors Sean Connery and William Smith. He helped set up the fights in ''Darker than Amber'' and ''Any Which Way You Can''. Dimitri also played Angie Dickinson's character's undead husband in the 1973 cult TV movie ''The Norliss Tapes''. He later became a fixture in many of Arnold Schwarzenegger's films, stood up to Steven Seagal's character in ''Out for Justice'', and doubled for the one-armed man in the big screen version of '' The Fugitive'' (1993). Dimitri was married to actress Christina Cummings from 1982 until his death. He died on October 20, 2021, at the age of 88. Partial filmography * 1959 ''Li'l Abner'' as Muscleman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George DiCenzo
George Ralph DiCenzo (April 21, 1940 – August 9, 2010) was an American actor, and one-time associate producer for ''Dark Shadows''. He was in the show business for over 30 years, with extensive film, TV, stage, and commercial credits. DiCenzo notably played Marty's grandfather Sam Baines in the film ''Back to the Future''. He also had a minor role in William Peter Blatty's ''The Exorcist III''. Life and career DiCenzo was born in New Haven, Connecticut. He appeared in more than 30 feature films, including ''Close Encounters of the Third Kind'' (1977), '' The Choirboys'' (1977), ''The Frisco Kid'' (1979), ''The Ninth Configuration'' (1980), ''Back to the Future'' (1985), '' About Last Night'' (1986), '' Walk Like a Man'' (1987), ''The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking'' (1988), '' 18 Again!'' (1988), ''Sing'' (1989) and ''The Exorcist III'' (1990). He appeared in ''Hotel'', directed by Mike Figgis, and '' Tempted'', directed by Bill Bennett. He also played the late baseball ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanley Adams (actor)
Stanley Adams (born Stanley Abramowitz; April 7, 1915 – April 27, 1977) was an American actor and screenwriter. He appeared in many television series and films, notably '' Breakfast at Tiffany's'' (1961), '' Lilies of the Field'' (1963), and in TV series from ''Gunsmoke'' to the ''Star Trek'' episode "The Trouble with Tribbles" in which he played a salesman selling tribbles. Early life Adams was born in New York City. He had his first film role playing the bartender in the movie version of ''Death of a Salesman'' (1951). He played another barkeep in ''The Gene Krupa Story'' and a safecracker in Roger Corman's ''High School Big Shot'' (1959). Career Adams had a lengthy career as a character actor, often playing comic, pompous characters. Adams played Otis Campbell's brother on an episode of ''The Andy Griffith Show''; the character berated Otis for being the town drunk but turned out to be an alcoholic himself. His 1959 portrayal of Chicago gangster/gambler Nick Popolous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ed Gilbert
Edmund Francis Gilbert (June 29, 1931 – May 8, 1999) was an American actor, with extensive credits in both live-action roles and voice work in animation, although he was better known for the latter. He is also credited, under his birth name (Edmund Francis Giesbert), with research in entomology and the discovery of new beetle species. Career During the 1960s, Gilbert appeared on television series such as ''The Gallant Men'', ''Combat!'', ''The Rogues (TV series), The Rogues'', and ''Mannix''. In 1966, he guest starred as Robert Cramer on four episodes of ''Ben Casey''. He is well known as Fenton Hardy on the 1970s television series ''The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries''. He provided the voices of Superion (originally voiced by Frank Welker), Thrust and Blitzwing in the second and third seasons of ''The Transformers (TV series), The Transformers'', Kissyfur's father Gus in ''Kissyfur'', Thirty-Thirty, Sandstorm, Shaman and other voices in ''BraveStarr'', Baloo in the Disney an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Mandan
Robert Mandan (February 2, 1932 – April 29, 2018) was an American actor, best known for his roles as Sam Reynolds on ''Search for Tomorrow'' (1965–1970), Chester Tate, the womanizing businessman husband of Jessica Tate (Katherine Helmond) on the satirical sitcom ''Soap'' (1977–1981) and James Bradford on the short lived ''Three's Company'' spin off ''Three's A Crowd'' (1984–1985) that lasted for one season. Career Mandan first acted in such television serials as NBC's ''From These Roots'' (1958–1961) and businessman Sam Reynolds on ''Search for Tomorrow'' (1965–1970). He also appeared on Broadway in the 1970 musical ''Applause''. His sitcom appearances prior to ''Soap'' include an auctioneer in the 1972 premiere episode of ''Sanford and Son'', attorney Mr. Morrison in a 1973 episode of ''All in the Family'', and Maude's gay friend Barry on a 1974 episode of '' Maude''. He also appeared in the ''Barnaby Jones'' episodes titled "Counterfall" and " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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