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The Legend Of The Golden Gun
''The Legend of the Golden Gun'' is a 1979 American Western television film, starring Jeff Osterhage, Hal Holbrook, Carl Franklin, and Robert Davi. Plot summary John Golden, a young farmer whose parents are murdered meets Joshua Brown, a runaway slave, and they team up to track down the legendary Confederate guerrilla William Quantrill. Along their travels, they run into a legendary gunfighter, who teaches the young farmer how to shoot and gives him a special gun that shoots seven rounds, the seventh of which is intended as an advantage against evil. Cast * Jeff Osterhage as John Golden * Carl Franklin as Joshua Brown * Robert Davi as William Quantrill * Keir Dullea as General Custer * Michele Carey as Maggie * John McLiam as Jake Powell * Elissa Leeds as Sara Powell * R. G. Armstrong as Judge Harrison Harding * Hal Holbrook as J.R. Swackhammer * William Bryant as William Ford * Rex Holman as Sturges * J. Brian Pizer as Captain Marks * R. L. Tolbert as Buffalo Bill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Western (genre)
The Western is a genre Setting (narrative), set in the American frontier and commonly associated with Americana (culture), folk tales of the Western United States, particularly the Southwestern United States, as well as Northern Mexico and Western Canada. It is commonly referred to as the "Old West" or the "Wild West" and depicted in Western media as a hostile, sparsely populated frontier in a state of near-total lawlessness patrolled by outlaws, sheriffs, and numerous other Stock character, stock "gunslinger" characters. Western narratives often concern the gradual attempts to tame the crime-ridden American West using wider themes of justice, freedom, rugged individualism, Manifest Destiny, and the national history and identity of the United States. History The first films that belong to the Western genre are a series of short single reel silents made in 1894 by Edison Studios at their Edison's Black Maria, Black Maria studio in West Orange, New Jersey. These featured vet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Broadcasting Company
The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American English-language commercial broadcast television and radio network. The flagship property of the NBC Entertainment division of NBCUniversal, a division of Comcast, its headquarters are located at Comcast Building in New York City. The company also has offices in Los Angeles at 10 Universal City Plaza and Chicago at the NBC Tower. NBC is the oldest of the traditional "Big Three" American television networks, having been formed in 1926 by the Radio Corporation of America. NBC is sometimes referred to as the "Peacock Network," in reference to its stylized peacock logo, introduced in 1956 to promote the company's innovations in early color broadcasting. NBC has twelve owned-and-operated stations and nearly 200 affiliates throughout the United States and its territories, some of which are also available in Canada and Mexico via pay-television providers or in border areas over the air. NBC also maintains brand licensing agr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1979 Television Films
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David Holbrook (actor)
David Kenneth Holbrook (9 January 1923 – 11 August 2011) was a British writer, poet and academic. From 1989 he was an Emeritus Fellow of Downing College, Cambridge. Life David Holbrook was born in Norwich in 1923. He was educated at City of Norwich School and won a scholarship to study English at Downing College, Cambridge for a year in 1941, where he was a pupil of F. R. Leavis. He is sometimes identified as a Leavis disciple, but their relationship was slighter than this might suggest (and also ended angrily, though this is a lesser indication). Holbrook was called up for military service with the British Army in 1942 and served until 1945 as an officer with the East Riding Yeomanry. His novel ''Flesh Wounds'' (1966) is a lightly fictionalised account of his D-Day campaign experiences. In 1945 he returned to Downing to complete his degree, which he did in 1947. In 1946 he made a bleak visit to George Orwell on Jura. The actual reason was to see his girlfriend Susan Watson ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Yama
Michael Yama (November 14, 1943July 30, 2020), was an American actor who has regularly voiced for GI Joe. He has been on ''The X-Files'', ''Just Shoot Me'' and ''Lois & Clark'' and he starred on ''Betty White's Off Their Rockers''. Prior to his death on July 30, 2020, he had worked in theater for over 38 years. Partial filmography * ''The Bad News Bears Go to Japan'' (1978) as Usher * ''Hansel and Gretel'' (1983) as Step Mother / Wicked Witch * ''My Tutor'' (1983) as Mr. Russell * ''Deal of the Century'' (1983) as Masaggi's Aide #2 * ''Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom'' (1984) as Chinese Co-Pilot * ''Bachelor Party'' (1984) as Japanese Businessman * '' Down and Out in Beverly Hills'' (1986) as Nagamichi * '' Winners Take All'' (1987) as Japanese Representative * '' Number One with a Bullet'' (1987) as Charlie 'Tai Chi Charlie' * '' The Hidden'' (1987) as Sketch Artist * ''Stand and Deliver'' (1988) as Sanzaki * ''Catchfire'' (1990) as Technician * ''It's Pat'' (1994) as Curi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walt Davis (actor)
Walter Francis "Buddy" Davis (January 5, 1931 – November 17, 2020) was an American athlete. After winning a gold medal in the high jump at the 1952 Olympics he became a professional basketball player.Buddy Davis sports-reference.com Despite contracting at age nine and being unable to walk for three years, Davis had a standout athletic career at and later won Olympic gold in the |
Budge Taylor
Budge is a verb, meaning to move. Budge can also refer to: * Budge of court, free food and drink in a royal court * Budgebudge, a city in the state of West Bengal, India * Budge Hall, a building at Brigham Young University * Budge, a mediaeval term for lamb's skin fur clothing or trimming with the wool showing outwards People: * Ann Budge, Scottish businesswoman * Bill Budge, computer game programmer and designer ** BudgeCo, a company founded by Bill Budge * E. A. Wallis Budge, English Egyptologist, Orientalist, and philologist * Edward Budge, English theologian and geologist * Hamer H. Budge, American legislator and judge * Paul Budge, British businessman, finance director of the Arcadia Group * Richard Budge (1947–2016), British coal mining entrepreneur * Susan Budge (born 1959), ceramic sculptor * Budge Crawley, Canadian film producer In sports: * Don Budge, American tennis champion * Grahame Budge, former Scotland rugby player * Budge Patty, American tennis player * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rex Holman
Rexford George Holman (born 1935) is an American film and television actor. Holman was born in Oklahoma. He began his screen career in 1959, appearing in the anthology television series '' The Millionaire''. In 1960 he made his film debut in ''Ma Barker's Killer Brood''. Holman made several appearances in the western television series ''Gunsmoke'', his first appearance being in the episode "Small Water". Holman guest-starred in television programs including ''Bonanza'', ''Tales of Wells Fargo'', '' Rawhide'', '' The Virginian'', '' Mission: Impossible'', ''Mannix'', ''The Twilight Zone'', ''Land of the Giants'', ''The Big Valley'', ''The Deputy'', ''The Fall Guy'', ''The Streets of San Francisco'', ''Wagon Train'',''The Rifleman'', ''Death Valley Days'', ''Daniel Boone'', '' Lawman'' and ''Star Trek''. He also played the recurring role of India in the western television series ''The Road West''. His final television credit was from the television series '' Wildside'' in 1985. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Bryant (actor)
William Bryant (born William Robert Klein; January 31, 1924 – June 26, 2001) was an American actor. Film Born in Detroit, Bryant was a character actor who appeared in films such as ''King Dinosaur'' (1955), ''Escape from San Quentin'' (1957), ''Experiment in Terror'' (1962) with Glenn Ford, ''How to Murder Your Wife'' and ''The Great Race'' with Jack Lemmon, ''What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?'' (1966), McQ'' (1974), and '' Walking Tall Part II'' (1975). He also played several roles in the classic western movies ''Heaven with a Gun'' (1969), ''Chisum'' (1970), '' Macho Callahan'' (1970), ''Wild Rovers'' (1971), ''The Deadly Trackers'' (1973). Television Most of his career was made on television, including ''Hallmark Hall of Fame'', ''Frontier'', ''Casey Jones'', ''Tales of the Texas Rangers'', '' The Gray Ghost'', ''Maverick'', '' The Rebel'', ''Have Gun – Will Travel'', ''The Rifleman'', '' Laramie'', '' The Virginian'', '' Rawhide'', ''Lancer'', ''Miami Undercover'', '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elissa Leeds ''
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Elissa may refer to: * Elissa (name), a feminine given name (including people by that name) People * Dido, Queen of Carthage in Greek and Roman mythology, also referred to as Elissa or Alyssa * Elissa (singer) (born 1972), Lebanese singer Other uses * ''Elissa'' (book), a 1900 novel by H. Rider Haggard * ''Elissa'' (ship), a historic sailing ship anchored in Galveston Bay * Elissa, one of the seven women occurring as narrators in Giovanni Boccaccio's ''The Decameron ''The Decameron'' (; it, label=Italian, Decameron or ''Decamerone'' ), subtitled ''Prince Galehaut'' (Old it, Prencipe Galeotto, links=no ) and sometimes nicknamed ''l'Umana commedia'' ("the Human comedy", as it was Boccaccio that dubbed Dan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John McLiam
John McLiam (born John Williams; January 24, 1918 – April 16, 1994) was a film and television actor noted for his skill at different accents. His film appearances include ''My Fair Lady'' (1964), ''In Cold Blood'' (1967), John Frankenheimer's movie of ''The Iceman Cometh'' (1973), ''The Missouri Breaks'' (1976), and ''First Blood'' (1982). He was a guest star in numerous television series and wrote a Broadway play, ''The Sin of Pat Muldoon''. Early life He attended St. Mary's College of California (Moraga, California). During World War II he served in the United States Navy as an intelligence officer, having received a Bronze Star. After the war he worked briefly as a journalist for the ''San Francisco Examiner''. Acting career He took McLiam, the Gaelic form of his real surname Williams, as a stage name. His acting career began in Maxwell Anderson's Winterset in San Francisco in 1946. After a few roles in plays in California he moved to New York. His first Broadway role wa ... [...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] |
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