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The Troublemakers (Playhouse 90)
"The Troublemakers" was an American television play broadcast on November 21, 1957, as part of the second season of the CBS television series ''Playhouse 90''. John Frankenheimer directed. Ben Gazzara, Barbara Rush, and Keenan Wynn starred. Plot A group of university students beat and kill an outspoken journalist for the school newspaper. One of the students struggles with his conscience over his vow to remain silent about the event. Cast The following performers received screen credit for their performances: * Ben Gazzara - Stanley Carr * Barbara Rush - Clara Gerrity * Keenan Wynn - Mr. Sprock * Mary Astor - Mattie Gerrity * Jackie Coogan - Sgt. Bender * Harry Guardino - Ralph Como * Nick Adams - Sandy Remington * Robert Vaughn - Steve Sprock * Jack Mullaney - Torin Gerrity * Malcolm Atterbury - Otis Gerrity Production John Frankenheimer was the director and Martin Manulis the producer. George Bellak wrote the teleplay. It was originally broadcast on November 21, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Rush
Barbara Rush (born January 4, 1927) is an American actress. In 1954, Rush won the Golden Globe Award as most promising female newcomer for her role in the 1953 American science-fiction film ''It Came from Outer Space''.Warren 1982, pp. 151–63. Later in her career, Rush became a regular performer in the television series '' Peyton Place'', and appeared in TV movies, miniseries, and a variety of other programs, including the soap opera '' All My Children'' and family drama '' 7th Heaven'', as well as starring in films, including ''The Young Philadelphians'', ''The Young Lions'', '' Robin and the 7 Hoods'', and '' Hombre''. Early life and education Rush was born in Denver. Her father, Roy, was a lawyer for a Midwest mining company. She grew up in Santa Barbara, California. She attended the University of California, Santa Barbara and graduated in 1948. She started her career in the university's theatre program. Career Rush performed on stage at the Pasadena Playhouse before sign ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jackie Coogan
John Leslie Coogan (October 26, 1914 – March 1, 1984) was an American actor and comedian who began his film career as a child actor in silent films. Charlie Chaplin's film classic ''The Kid'' (1921) made him one of the first child stars in the history of Hollywood. He later sued his mother and stepfather over his squandered film earnings and provoked California to enact the first known legal protection for the earnings of child performers, the California Child Actors Bill, widely known as the Coogan Act. Coogan continued to act throughout his life, later earning renewed fame in middle age portraying Uncle Fester in the 1960s television series ''The Addams Family''. Early life and early career Coogan was born John Leslie Coogan in Los Angeles, California in 1914 to John Henry Coogan Jr. and Lillian Rita (Dolliver) Coogan. He began performing as an infant in both vaudeville and film, with an uncredited role in the 1917 film ''Skinner's Baby''. Charlie Chaplin discovered him in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1957 Television Plays
1957 (Roman numerals, MCMLVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday, common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1957th year of the Common Era (CE) and ''Anno Domini'' (AD) designations, the 957th year of the 2nd millennium, the 57th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1950s decade. Events January * January 1 – The Saarland joins West Germany. * January 3 – Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch. * January 5 – South African player Russell Endean becomes the first batsman to be Dismissal (cricket), dismissed for having ''handled the ball'', in Test cricket. * January 9 – British Prime Minister Anthony Eden resigns. * January 10 – Harold Macmillan becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. * January 11 – The African Convention is founded in Dakar. * January 14 – Kripalu Maharaj is named fifth Jagadguru (world teacher), after giving seven days of speeches before 500 Hindu scholars. * January 15 – The film ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Manulis
Martin Ellyot Manulis (May 30, 1915 – September 28, 2007) was an American television, film, and theatre producer. Manulis was best known for his work in the 1950s producing the CBS Television programs ''Suspense'', '' Studio One Summer Theatre'', ''Climax!'', ''The Best of Broadway'' and ''Playhouse 90''. He was the sole producer of the award-winning drama series, ''Playhouse 90'', during its first two seasons from 1956 to 1958. After leaving ''Playhouse 90'', Manulis was the "head of television" for 20th Century Fox Television where he was responsible for creating and producing the series, ''The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis'', '' Adventures in Paradise'', and '' Five Fingers''. In 1962, he produced the film '' Days of Wine and Roses'' starring Jack Lemmon and Lee Remick. Early years Manulis was born and raised in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. His father, Abraham "Gus" Manulis, immigrated to the United States from Russia in 1897, became a naturalized U.S. c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malcolm Atterbury
Malcolm MacLeod Atterbury (February 20, 1907 – August 16, 1992) was an American stage, film, and television actor, and vaudevillian. Early years A native of Philadelphia, Atterbury was the son of Malcolm MacLeod, Sr. and Arminia Clara (Rosengarten) MacLeod. He had an older sister, Elizabeth, a twin brother, Norman, and a younger brother, George Rosengarten MacLeod. After his father's death his mother remarried to General William Wallace Atterbury, president of Pennsylvania Railroad. Through this marriage he had a half-brother, William Wallace Atterbury Jr. He graduated from The Hill School in Pottstown, Pennsylvania. In the mid-1930s, Atterbury decided to pursue a career in drama. He enrolled at Hilda Spong's Dramatic School using an assumed name. Later, after revealing his true identity, he went on to "finance a summer theater for the Hilda Spong Players at Cape May, and they, in turn, asked him to be their managing director." Radio In 1928, Atterbury was the bass singer i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Mullaney
Jack Mullaney (September 18, 1929 – June 27, 1982) was an American actor. Mullaney acted in several television series and films throughout his career. Early life He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The 1940 United States Census shows Jack Mullaney living on Minot Avenue in the Oakley neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio. Career Mullaney made his film debut in '' The Young Stranger'' in 1957. That same year he appeared as Ensign Lewis in the comedy '' Kiss Them for Me'', starring Cary Grant. He appeared regularly as Johnny Wallace, a bellhop, in CBS's ''The Ann Sothern Show'' (1958–1961). He also portrayed United States Navy Lieutenant (junior grade) Rex St. John in NBC's ''Ensign O'Toole'' (1962–1963). He played Hector Canfield on the CBS science-fiction comedy TV series '' It's About Time'' (1966-1967). In the 1958 film '' South Pacific'', based on the Rodgers and Hammerstein hit musical, he played a character affectionately known as the "Professor." He appeare ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Vaughn
Robert Francis Vaughn (November 22, 1932 – November 11, 2016) was an American actor noted for his stage, film and television work. His television roles include the spy Napoleon Solo in the 1960s series ''The Man from U.N.C.L.E.''; the detective Harry Rule in the 1970s series ''The Protectors''; Morgan Wendell in the 1978–1979 miniseries ''Centennial''; General Hunt Stockwell in the fifth season of the 1980s series ''The A-Team''; and grifter and card sharp Albert Stroller in the British television drama series '' Hustle'' (2004–2012), for all but one of its 48 episodes. He also appeared in the British soap opera '' Coronation Street'' as Milton Fanshaw from January until February 2012. In film, he portrayed the gunman Lee in ''The Magnificent Seven'' with Yul Brynner and Steve McQueen, Major Paul Krueger in ''The Bridge at Remagen'' with George Segal and Ben Gazzara, the voice of Proteus IV, the computer villain of ''Demon Seed'', Walter Chalmers in ''Bullitt'' w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nick Adams (actor, Born 1931)
Nick Adams (born Nicholas Aloysius Adamshock; July 10, 1931 – February 7, 1968) was an American film and television actor and screenwriter. He was noted for his roles in several Hollywood films during the 1950s and 1960s along with his starring role in the ABC television series '' The Rebel'' (1959–1961). Decades after his death from a prescription drug overdose at the age of 36, his widely publicized friendships with James Dean and Elvis Presley would stir speculation about both his private life and the circumstances of his death. In an ''AllMovie'' synopsis for Adams's last film, reviewer Dan Pavlides wrote, "Plagued by personal excesses, he will be remembered just as much for what he could have done in cinema as what he left behind." Early life and career Adams was born as Nicholas Aloysius Adamshock in Nanticoke, Pennsylvania to Catherine (Kutz) and Peter Adamshock, an anthracite coal miner. His parents were both Ukrainian. In 1958, he told columnist Hedda Hopper ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Guardino
Harry Guardino (December 23, 1925 – July 17, 1995) was an American actor whose career spanned from the early 1950s to the early 1990s. Biography Guardino was born to an Italian family on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and raised in Brooklyn, New York. He joined a Police Athletic League dramatic group while attending high school.Harry Guardino Dies. ''''. Retrieved July 24, 2021. After graduation, Guardino joined the Navy, serving in . After the war, he became a [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Astor
Mary Astor (born Lucile Vasconcellos Langhanke; May 3, 1906 – September 25, 1987) was an American actress. Although her career spanned several decades, she may be best remembered for her performance as Brigid O'Shaughnessy in '' The Maltese Falcon'' (1941). Astor began her long motion picture career as a teenager in the silent movies of the early 1920s. When talkies arrived, her voice was initially considered too masculine and she was off the screen for a year. After she appeared in a play with friend Florence Eldridge, film offers returned, and she resumed her career in sound pictures. In 1936, Astor's career was nearly destroyed by scandal. She had an affair with playwright George S. Kaufman and was branded an adulterous wife by her ex-husband during a custody fight over their daughter. Overcoming these stumbling blocks in her private life, she went on to greater film success, eventually winning an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of concert p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Gazzara
Biagio Anthony Gazzara (August 28, 1930 – February 3, 2012) was an American actor and director of film, stage, and television. He received numerous accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award and a Drama Desk Award, in addition to nominations for three Golden Globe Awards and three Tony Awards. Born to Italian immigrants in New York City, Gazzara studied at The New School and began his professional career with the Actors Studio, of which he was a lifelong member. His breakthrough role was in the Broadway play '' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof'' (1955–56), which earned him widespread acclaim. A memorable performance as a soldier on trial for murder in Otto Preminger's ''Anatomy of a Murder'' (1959) transitioned him to an equally successful screen career. As the star of the television series '' Run for Your Life'' (1965–1968), Gazzara was nominated for three Golden Globes and two Emmy Awards. He won his only Emmy Award for the television film '' Hysterical Blindness'' (2002). H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Television Play
A television play is a television programming genre which is a drama performance broadcast from a multi-camera television studio, usually live in the early days of television but later recorded to tape. This is in contrast to a television movie, which employs the single-camera setup of film production. United Kingdom From the 1950s until the early 1980s, the television play was a television programming genre in the United Kingdom. The genre was often associated with the social realist-influenced British drama style known as "kitchen sink realism", which depicted the social issues facing working-class families. ''Armchair Theatre'' (ABC, later Thames, 1956–1974), ''The Wednesday Play'' (BBC, 1964–1970) and ''Play for Today'' (BBC, 1970–1984) received praise from critics for their quality. ''Armchair Theatre'': 1956–1974 ''Armchair Theatre'' was a British television drama anthology series, which ran on the ITV network from 1956 until 1968 in its original form, and wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
