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The Philadelphia Experiment (film)
''The Philadelphia Experiment'' is a 1984 American science fiction film. It is directed by Stewart Raffill and stars Michael Paré, Bobby Di Cicco, Kene Holliday and Nancy Allen and based on the urban legend of the Philadelphia Experiment. In 1943, United States Navy sailors David Herdeg (Paré) and Jim Parker (Di Cicco) are thrown forward in time to the year 1984 when a scientific experiment being performed aboard the USS ''Eldridge'' suffers a catastrophe. The film follows the two men as they attempt to survive the future and race against time to put an end to the experiment that now threatens the fate of the entire world. Plot In 1943, United States Navy sailors David Herdeg and Jim Parker serve aboard destroyer escort USS ''Eldridge'', docked in Philadelphia. Doctor James Longstreet and his team conduct an experiment to render the ship invisible to radar, but a malfunction causes the ship to disappear. David and Jim's attempts to stop the experiment fail and they jump ov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stewart Raffill
Stewart Raffill is a British writer and director. Biography Raffill was born in England and grew up near Stratford before immigrating to the US and working in the motion picture industry. His writing and directing work in film and TV spans several genres including science fiction, family, comedy and drama. Film Raffill made his feature debut as director with '' The Tender Warrior'', starring Dan Haggerty and sold to Warner Brothers. It was filmed on location in Okefenokee Swamp in Georgia. He sold his next script, ''Napoleon and Samantha'', to Disney. Raffill also worked on the film as a producer. The film starred Jodie Foster and Michael Douglas. He wrote and directed ''When the North Wind Blows''. Raffill wrote and directed ''The Adventures of the Wilderness Family'' with Robert Logan, leading to two sequels. He followed it with two films with Logan, '' Across the Great Divide'' and '' The Sea Gypsies''. Raffill wrote and directed '' High Risk'', shot in Mexico, star ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Eldridge (DE-173)
USS ''Eldridge'' (DE-173), a , was a ship of the United States Navy named for Lieutenant Commander John Eldridge Jr., who led an operation for the invasion of the Solomon Islands. Namesake Eldridge was born in Buckingham County, Virginia, on 10 October 1903 and graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1927. After flight training at Pensacola, Florida, he served at various stations on aviation duty. From 11 September 1941, he was Commander, Scouting Squadron 71, attached to ''Wasp'' (CV-7). Lieutenant Commander Eldridge was killed in action in the Solomon Islands on 2 November 1942. For his extraordinary heroism in leading the air attack on Japanese positions in the initial invasion of the Solomons on 7 August and 8 August 1942, he was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross. Construction ''Eldridge'' was laid down 22 February 1943, by the Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company in Newark, New Jersey. ''Eldridge'' was launched on 25 July 1943, sponsored by Lieutenant Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Fog
''The Fog'' is a 1980 American supernatural horror film directed by John Carpenter, who also co-wrote the screenplay and created the music for the film. It stars Adrienne Barbeau, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tom Atkins, Janet Leigh and Hal Holbrook. It tells the story of a strange, glowing fog that sweeps over a small coastal town in California, bringing with it the vengeful ghosts of mariners who were killed in a shipwreck there 100 years before. ''The Fog'' received a mixed reception by critics upon release but was a hit at the box office, making over $21 million domestically on a $1.1 million budget. Since its release, the film has received more positive retrospective reviews and has become a cult classic. A remake of the film was released in 2005; it was panned by critics, but performed well at the box office, grossing $46.2 million worldwide on a $18 million budget. Plot Right before midnight, on the eve of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the small coastal town of Anto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Carpenter
John Howard Carpenter (born January 16, 1948) is an American filmmaker, actor, and composer. Although he worked in various film genres, he is most commonly associated with horror, action, and science fiction films of the 1970s and 1980s. He is generally recognized as one of the greatest masters of the horror genre. At the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, the French Directors' Guild gave him the Golden Coach Award, lauding him as "a creative genius of raw, fantastic, and spectacular emotions". Carpenter's early films included box office and critical successes like '' Halloween'' (1978), ''The Fog'' (1980), ''Escape from New York'' (1981), and ''Starman'' (1984). His other productions from the 1970s and the 1980s only later came to be considered cult classics, and he has been acknowledged as an influential filmmaker. These include '' Dark Star'' (1974), '' Assault on Precinct 13'' (1976), '' The Thing'' (1982), ''Christine'' (1983), ''Big Trouble in Little China'' (1986), '' Prince o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vaughn Armstrong
Vaughn Dale Armstrong (born July 7, 1950) is an American actor. He is noted for portraying many characters in the '' Star Trek'' franchise, in four ''Star Trek'' television series. He is perhaps best known as the recurring character Admiral Maxwell Forrest in ''Star Trek: Enterprise''. He has played twelve Star Trek characters. In 1985, Armstrong portrayed drill instructor Sergeant Williams in a production of the play ''Tracers'' at the Coronet Theater in Los Angeles. In 1989, he played Father Larkin, a priest-principal of a Catholic school, in ''Stand-up Tragedy'' at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles. In 1992 he appeared in an episode of Quantum Leap as Fred Trump (alongside his future Enterprise co-star Scott Bakula Scott Stewart Bakula (; born October 9, 1954) is an American actor. He is known for his roles in two science-fiction television series: as Sam Beckett on '' Quantum Leap'' and as Captain Jonathan Archer on '' Star Trek: Enterprise''. For ''Quantu ...). In 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glenn Morshower
Glenn Morshower is an American character actor. He is best known for playing United States Secret Service, Secret Service Agent Aaron Pierce (24 character), Aaron Pierce in ''24 (TV series), 24'' and Colonel (later General) Sharp Morshower in the Transformers (film series), ''Transformers'' film series. He has also appeared in many feature films and television series. Background Morshower was raised Jewish, studied with a Jehovah's Witnesses, Jehovah's Witness, went to a Religious Christian Science, Science church, and taught at a Baptist church. Filmography Film Television Video games References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Morshower, Glenn Living people American Jews American male film actors American male television actors Male actors from Dallas 21st-century American male actors 20th-century American male actors Year of birth missing (living people) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gary Brockette
Gary "Tex" Brockette (September 13, 1947Ancestry.com. Texas Birth Index, 1903–1997 atabase on-line Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2005. Original data: Texas. Texas Birth Index, 1903–1997. Texas: Texas Department of State Health Services. Microfiche. – January 1, 2010) was an American actor, assistant director, writer and co-producer. He was born in Denton, Texas. Career Gary Brockette began his career working as an actor in New York. He played the role of Bobby Sheen in 1971's ''The Last Picture Show'' and Frank Cameron in ''Encounter with the Unknown''. He also appeared in the 1984 movies, '' The Philadelphia Experiment'' and ''The Ice Pirates''. As a character actor, he made guest appearances on such television shows as ''Trapper John, M.D.'' and ''Charlie's Angels''. He also wrote, directed, and edited a short film called ''Deceit'' in 2009. Brockette was married to actress Sandra Brown who played Diane in the 1973 blaxploitation ''The Mack ''The Mac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Currie (actor)
Michael Currie (born Herman Christian Schwenk Jr.; July 24, 1928 – December 22, 2009) was an American actor who appeared in several films and on television. Born in Kingston, New York to Herman C. Schwenk and Mabel Lockwood, he began his career in 1964. He had roles in several Clint Eastwood movies including the comedy film ''Any Which Way You Can'' (1980) and ''Firefox'' (1982). He also played Lt. Donnelly in the fourth installment of the "Dirty Harry" film series ''Sudden Impact'' (1983), and reprised his role as Capt. Donnelly in the 1988 sequel ''The Dead Pool''. Currie had roles in the horror films '' Dead & Buried'' (1981) and '' Halloween III: Season of the Witch'' (1982). His other film appearances included '' Loving Couples'' (1980), '' Airplane II: The Sequel'' (1982), '' Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land'' (1983), '' The Philadelphia Experiment'' (1984), '' Distant Thunder'' (1988), ''The Man Without a Face'' (1993) and ''G.I. Jane'' (1997). Currie starred ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Tobolowsky
Stephen Harold Tobolowsky (born May 30, 1951) is an American character actor. He is known for film roles such as insurance agent Ned Ryerson in ''Groundhog Day'' and amnesiac Sammy Jankis in '' Memento'', as well as such television characters as Commissioner Hugo Jarry ('' Deadwood''), Bob Bishop (''Heroes''), Sandy Ryerson (''Glee''), Stu Beggs (''Californication'' and ''White Famous''), "Action" Jack Barker (''Silicon Valley''), Dr. Leslie Berkowitz ('' One Day at a Time''), and Principal Earl Ball ('' The Goldbergs''). Tobolowsky has a monthly audio podcast, ''The Tobolowsky Files'', of autobiographical stories of his acting and personal life. In 2015, he co-hosted a short-lived second podcast, ''Big Problems – An Advice Podcast'', with David Chen. He has also authored three books: ''The Dangerous Animals Club'', ''Cautionary Tales'', and '' My Adventures With God''. Early life and education Tobolowsky was born in Dallas, Texas, into a Jewish family from Russia and Poland. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louise Latham
Louise Latham (September 23, 1922 – February 12, 2018) was an American actress, perhaps best known for her portrayal of Bernice Edgar in Alfred Hitchcock's 1964 film ''Marnie''. Early years Latham came from Hamilton, Texas. She was from a family of ranchers, "mostly around San Saba and Mason Counties in Texas." She graduated from Dallas' Sunset High School. Latham was a Democrat who donated over $500 to the Friends of Lois Capps in the 2000 election. Career Television Most of Latham's work was on television. In 1965, she made two appearances on ''Perry Mason'', both roles as the murderer: Matilda Shore in "The Case of the Careless Kitten" and Shirley Logan in "The Case of the Cheating Chancellor". She made an appearance on ''The Waltons'', playing Olivia's Aunt Kate, who consoles Olivia through her ordeal with menopause. She also appeared in ''The Alfred Hitchcock Hour'', ''Bonanza'', ''Gunsmoke'', ''Kojak'', ''Hawaii Five-O'', '' Ironside'', ''Columbo'', ''Quincy, M.E.'', '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ralph Manza
Ralph Manza (December 1, 1921 – January 31, 2000) was an American character actor who made over 160 appearances in American film and television shows. Career A pre-med student at UC-Berkeley in the early 1940s, Manza was drafted into the United States Army during World War II. He was serving as a medic in the Army when he was assigned to an acting troupe. The diminutive Manza appeared on daytime television briefly in 1963 as an original cast member of the ABC-TV soap opera series ''General Hospital'', where he played the role of Mike Costello. Manza went on to become a character actor appearing on many primetime TV series in guest role spots, beginning in the 1950s with the TV crime/drama series ''Highway Patrol'', and ''Alfred Hitchcock Presents''. This part of his acting career continued to flourish through the 1960s, with appearances on such shows as ''77 Sunset Strip'', ''McHale's Navy'', ''Perry Mason'', ''The Twilight Zone'', ''Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.'' and ''Gunsmoke'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vacuum Tube
A vacuum tube, electron tube, valve (British usage), or tube (North America), is a device that controls electric current flow in a high vacuum between electrodes to which an electric voltage, potential difference has been applied. The type known as a thermionic tube or thermionic valve utilizes thermionic emission of electrons from a hot cathode for fundamental electronic functions such as signal amplifier, amplification and current rectifier, rectification. Non-thermionic types such as a vacuum phototube, however, achieve electron emission through the photoelectric effect, and are used for such purposes as the detection of light intensities. In both types, the electrons are accelerated from the cathode to the anode by the electric field in the tube. The simplest vacuum tube, the diode (i.e. Fleming valve), invented in 1904 by John Ambrose Fleming, contains only a heated electron-emitting cathode and an anode. Electrons can only flow in one direction through the device—fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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