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The Virginian (TV Series)
''The Virginian'' (later renamed ''The Men from Shiloh'' in its final year) is an American Western television series starring James Drury in the title role, along with Doug McClure, Lee J. Cobb, and others. It originally aired on NBC from 1962 to 1971, for a total of 249 episodes. Drury had played the same role in 1958, in an unsuccessful pilot that became an episode of the NBC summer series ''Decision''. Filmed in color, ''The Virginian'' became television's first 90-minute Western series (75 minutes excluding commercial breaks). Cobb left the series after four seasons, and was replaced over the years by mature character actors John Dehner, Charles Bickford, John McIntire, and Stewart Granger, all portraying different characters. It was set before Wyoming became a state in 1890, as mentioned several times as Wyoming Territory, although other references set it later, around 1898. The series was loosely based on '' The Virginian: Horseman of the Plains'', a 1902 Western no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Virginian (novel)
''The Virginian'' (otherwise titled ''The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains)'' is a 1902 novel by the American author Owen Wister (1860-1938), set in Wyoming Territory during the 1880s. It describes the life of a cowboy on a cattle ranch and is considered the first true fictional western ever written, aside from short stories and pulp dime novels, though modern scholars debate this. ''The Virginian'' paved the way for many more westerns by such authors as Zane Grey, Louis L'Amour and several others. The novel was adapted from several short stories published in '' Harper's Magazine'' and the '' Saturday Evening Post'' between Nov 1893 and May 1902. Fictional character The Virginian is a ranch hand at the Sunk Creek Ranch, located outside of Medicine Bow, Wyoming. His friend Steve calls him "Jeff" presumably after Jefferson Davis, but he is always referred to as the Virginian, and no name is mentioned throughout the story. He is described as a tall, dark, slim young giant, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dave Grusin
Robert David "Dave" Grusin (born June 26, 1934) is an American composer, arranger, producer, jazz pianist, and band leader. He has composed many scores for feature films and television, and has won numerous awards for his soundtrack and record work, including an Academy Award and 10 Grammy Awards. In 1978, Grusin founded GRP Records with Larry Rosen, and was an early pioneer of digital recording. Early life Grusin was born in Littleton, Colorado, to Henri and Rosabelle (née de Poyster) Grusin. His mother was a pianist and his father was a violinist from Riga, Latvia. Grusin has one Jewish parent. Grusin studied music at the University of Colorado at Boulder and received his degree in 1956. Grusin's teachers included Cecil Effinger and Wayne Scott, pianist, arranger and professor of jazz. Career Grusin produced his first single in 1962, "Subways Are for Sleeping", and his first film score, for '' Divorce American Style'', in 1967. Other scores followed, including ''The Gradua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norman Macdonnell
Norman Scarth Macdonnell (November 8, 1916 – November 28, 1979) was an American producer for radio, television, and feature films. He is best known for co-creating with writer John Meston the Western series '' Gunsmoke'', which was broadcast on CBS Radio from 1952 to 1961, and on television from 1955 to 1975. Other radio series that Macdonnell either produced, directed, or at various times wrote scripts for include '' Suspense'', '' Escape'', ''The Adventures of Philip Marlowe'', ''Fort Laramie'', ''Rogers of the Gazette'', and '' Have Gun—Will Travel''.Dunning, John. (1976). ''Tune in Yesterday: The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio, 1925-1976''. Prentice-Hall, Inc. , pp. 12, 185, 215, 259-60, 268, 518, 584. He was also a long-time executive producer for the NBC television series '' The Virginian''. Early life Norman Scarth Macdonnell was born in California in 1916. Named in honor of his paternal grandfather, he was the youngest of four children of Alice L. ( née Ta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Marquis Warren
Charles Marquis Warren (December 16, 1912 – August 11, 1990) was an American motion picture and television writer, producer, and director who specialized in Westerns. Among his notable career achievements were his involvement in creating the television series '' Rawhide'' and his work in adapting the radio series ''Gunsmoke'' for television. Biography Early life Warren was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and was the son of a real estate broker and the godson of American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. He was educated at Baltimore High School and Baltimore City College. Writer During his college years, he developed an interest in writing, resulting in a play entitled ''No Sun, No Moon'', which was staged at Princeton University. Warren decided to go to Hollywood in 1933 when Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer took an option on the play. With the help of his godfather, Warren secured a position as a staff writer for the studio. His early assignments included working on the scripts for ''Mutiny o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Stanley (director)
Paul Stanley (1922, Hartford, Connecticut - 2002) was an American television director. Stanley worked in television from the early 1950s until the mid-1980s. His credits encompass all genres, extending to more than fifty prime time television series of the period, from ''Have Gun – Will Travel'' in 1957 to ''Charlie's Angels'' in the late 1970s, to ''MacGyver'' in 1985. Stanley also received producer credit on a handful of TV series episodes in the 1960s and 1970s. Television series credits (partial list) * ''Appointment with Adventure'' (1955-1956) * ''Goodyear Playhouse'' (1956-1957) * ''Have Gun – Will Travel'' (1959) * ''The Third Man'' (1959) * ''Outlaws'' (1961) * '' Dr. Kildare'' (1962) * ''The Untouchables'' (1962) * '' Combat!'' (1963) * '' The Outer Limits'' (1964) * ''Insight'' (1964-1980) * ''Lost in Space'' (1965) * '' Laredo'' (1965-1966) * '' The Virginian'' (1965-1966) * '' The Rat Patrol'' (1967) * '' Mission: Impossible'' (1967-1968) * '' Hawaii Five-O'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernard McEveety
Bernard E. McEveety, Jr. (May 13, 1924 – February 2, 2004) was an American film and television director. Family McEveety was born in New Rochelle, New York; his brothers, Vincent McEveety and Joseph McEveety were also Hollywood directors and producers. His nephew is producer Stephen McEveety, who often collaborates with Mel Gibson Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson (born January 3, 1956) is an American actor, film director, and producer. He is best known for his action hero roles, particularly his breakout role as Max Rockatansky in the first three films of the post-apoca ... (''The Passion of the Christ''). Career McEveety worked primarily in TV, but also directed several feature films. He directed ''The Brotherhood of Satan'' and ''Ride Beyond Vengeance'', and did second-unit work on another cult horror film, ''The Return of Dracula''. McEveety's huge TV output included 31 episodes of the TV series ''Combat!''. He also directed Jodie Foster in her debut film, Disney ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Pevney
Joseph Pevney (September 15, 1911 – May 18, 2008) was an American film and television director. ''Los Angeles Times'', May 29, 2008 Biography Born in New York City, Pevney made his debut in as a boy soprano in 1924. Although he hated vaudeville, he loved the theatre and developed a career as a stage actor, appearing in such plays as ''[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard L
Richard is a male given name. It originates, via Old French, from Old Frankish and is a compound of the words descending from Proto-Germanic ''*rīk-'' 'ruler, leader, king' and ''*hardu-'' 'strong, brave, hardy', and it therefore means 'strong in rule'. Nicknames include "Richie", "Dick", "Dickon", " Dickie", " Rich", "Rick", " Rico", " Ricky", and more. Richard is a common English, German and French male name. It's also used in many more languages, particularly Germanic, such as Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Icelandic, and Dutch, as well as other languages including Irish, Scottish, Welsh and Finnish. Richard is cognate with variants of the name in other European languages, such as the Swedish "Rickard", the Catalan "Ricard" and the Italian "Riccardo", among others (see comprehensive variant list below). People named Richard Multiple people with the same name * Richard Andersen (other) * Richard Anderson (other) * Richard Cartwright (other) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Earl Bellamy
Earl Arthur Bellamy (March 11, 1917 – November 30, 2003) was an American television and film director. Biography Bellamy was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He was also known as Earl J. Bellamy, or Earl J. Bellamy, Jr. "Earl Bellamy." Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television, Volume 28. Gale Group, 2000. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2008. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC Document Number: K1609009682. Fee. Retrieved December 28, 2008. His father was Richard James Bellamy. He moved to Hollywood in 1920 with his parents; his father was a railroad engineer. After graduating from Hollywood High School in 1935, Bellamy received a degree from Los Angeles City College and took a job as a messenger for Columbia Studios. Within four years, Bellamy had worked his way up to second assistant director before taking time off to serve in the U.S. Navy's photographic unit during World War II. When Bellamy returned to Hollywood, he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Sheldon
Leonard James Schleifer (November 12, 1920 – March 12, 2016) was an American television director. Sheldon directed for television programs including '' The Twilight Zone'', '' The Fugitive'', '' The Donna Reed Show'', '' The Millionaire'', '' Death Valley Days'', ''Route 66'', '' The Love Boat'', ''M*A*S*H'', ''The Dukes of Hazzard'', '' Gunsmoke'', ''Bridget Loves Bernie'', ''Room 222'', ''Harbor Command'', ''Love, American Style'', '' The Waltons'', '' The Virginian'', ''That Girl''. ''The Man from U.N.C.L.E.'', ''My Three Sons'', '' Petticoat Junction'', '' Naked City'' and ''Sledge Hammer!''. He died in March 2016 at his home in Manhattan, New York from complications of cancer, at the age of 95. In an interview with novelist Matthew Rettenmund in 2015, Sheldon spoke candidly about his bisexuality, his relationships with actress Loretta Young and actor Clark Gable's daughter Judy Lewis and Ernst Lubitsch's daughter Nicola Lubitsch, discovering Troy Donohue, and his fri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Witney
William Nuelsen Witney (May 15, 1915 – March 17, 2002) was an American film and television director. He is best remembered for the action films he made for Republic Pictures, particularly serials: '' Dick Tracy Returns'', '' G-Men vs. the Black Dragon'', '' Daredevils of the Red Circle'', '' Zorro's Fighting Legion'', and '' Drums of Fu Manchu''. Prolific and pugnacious, Witney began directing while still in his 20s, and continued working until 1982. Early years Witney was born in Lawton, Oklahoma. He was four years old when his father died, and he lived with his uncle, who was an Army captain at Fort Sam Houston. Colbert Clark, Witney's brother-in-law, introduced him to films by letting him ride in some chase scenes for the serial '' Fighting with Kit Carson'' (1933). Witney stayed around the Mascot Pictures headquarters while preparing for the entrance exam to the U.S. Naval Academy. After he failed that exam, he continued at the studio. In 1936 Mascot was absorbed by Rep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abner Biberman
Abner Warren Biberman (April 1, 1909 – June 20, 1977) was an American actor, director, and screenwriter. Early years Biberman was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, later moving to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He gained early acting experience as a student at the Tome School for Boys prep school. He also attended the University of Pennsylvania. Career He was sometimes credited under the pseudonym Joel Judge. Death Biberman died at his home in San Diego, California. His obituary in ''The New York Times'' gave his age as 69. He was survived by his wife and three sons. Filmography As actor *1936: '' Soak the Rich'' *1939: ''Gunga Din'' - Chota *1939: ''Panama Patrol'' - Arlie Johnson *1939: ''Panama Lady'' - Elisha *1939: ''The Magnificent Fraud'' - Ruiz *1939: ''Each Dawn I Die'' - Shake Edwards (uncredited) *1939: ''Lady of the Tropics'' - Wardrobe buyer (uncredited) *1939: ''The Rains Came'' - John, the Baptist *1939: ''The Roaring Twenties'' - Lefty, Hally's Henchm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
