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Cannon Season 4
{{Episode list/sublist, Cannon season 4 , EpisodeNumber=75 , EpisodeNumber2=2 , Title=The Hit Man , DirectedBy=William Wiard , WrittenBy=Robert Heverly , OriginalAirDate={{start date, 1974, 09, 18 , ShortSummary=A hit man who looks just like Cannon is hired to execute a bishop. , LineColor=500050 {{Episode list/sublist, Cannon season 4 , EpisodeNumber=76 , EpisodeNumber2=3 , Title=Voice from the Grave , DirectedBy=William Wiard , WrittenBy=Robert Hamner , OriginalAirDate={{start date, 1974, 09, 25 , ShortSummary=Cannon assists a retired detective with an unsolved homicide case. , LineColor=500050 {{Episode list/sublist, Cannon season 4 , EpisodeNumber=77 , EpisodeNumber2=4 , Title=Lady in Red , DirectedBy=William Wiard , WrittenBy= Max Hodge , OriginalAirDate={{start date, 1974, 10, 02 , ShortSummary=Cannon must ensure the safe travel of a woman carrying valuable securities. , LineColor=500050 {{Episode list/sublist, Cannon season 4 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cannon (TV Series)
''Cannon'' is an American detective television series produced by Quinn Martin that aired from 1971 to 1976 on CBS. William Conrad played the title character, private detective Frank Cannon. The series was the first Quinn Martin production to run on a network other than ABC. In total, there were 122 episodes, plus the series' two-hour pilot and a "revival" television film, ''The Return of Frank Cannon'' (1980). Synopsis Cannon was portrayed in the series as a veteran of the Korean War and a former member of the Los Angeles Police Department. He was not only street smart but also appeared to have an unusually high level of education outside the law enforcement field. Besides his familiarity with several languages, he showed extensive knowledge of such diverse subjects as science, art, and history. Cannon was a widower, having lost his wife and son in a bomb attack while he was on the police force, as revealed in the two-hour pilot. Conrad was an overweight actor, and the se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Hodge
Max Hodge (February 12, 1916 – August 17, 2007) was an American television writer who worked on shows including '' The Girl From U.N.C.L.E.'', ''CHiPS'' and '' Mission: Impossible'', and is perhaps best known for creating Mr. Freeze for ''Batman''. Hodge grew up in East Moline, Illinois and Michigan, later graduating from the University of Michigan then enlisting in the Navy during World War II. He then attended Pasadena Playhouse College of Theater Arts and began his television career in the 1950s as a producer working on industrial shows for Oldsmobile. In his time at University of Michigan- Ann Arbor, Hodge was chief editor of the student magazine the Gargoyle and president of the men's dramatic union, the Mimes. His writing career spanned the 1960s through the early 1980s, with Hodge writing for '' Dr. Kildare'', ''The Wild Wild West'', '' Marcus Welby, M.D.'', '' Ironside'', ''The Waltons'', ''The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan'' in addition to the aforementioned '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George McCowan
George McCowan (June 27, 1927 – November 1, 1995) was a Canadian film and television director in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. McCowan began his career working for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. He worked as an actor and director for several seasons at the Stratford Festival, and moved to the United States in 1967. He directed episodes of ''Charlie's Angels'', ''S.W.A.T. (1975 TV series), S.W.A.T.'', and ''Starsky and Hutch'', as well as every episode of the popular Canadian series ''Seeing Things (TV series), Seeing Things''. He also worked on such shows as ''The Silent Force (TV series), The Silent Force'', ''The Mod Squad'', ''The Streets of San Francisco'', ''Fantasy Island'', and ''Hart to Hart''. McCowan directed the 1970 TV movie ''Carter's Army'', the 1971 Canadian hockey film ''Face-Off (1971 film), Face-Off'', the fourth and final Magnificent Seven film, ''The Magnificent Seven Ride!'' in 1972, the cult horror film ''Frogs (film), Frogs'' in the same year, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jackson Gillis
Jackson Clark Gillis (August 21, 1916 – August 19, 2010) was an American radio and television screenwriter, scriptwriter whose career spanned more than 40 years and encompassed a wide range of genres. Gillis was born in Kalama, Washington to a highway engineer and a piano teacher. His family moved to California when he was a teenager. He attended California State University, Fresno, but transferred to Stanford University, where he earned his undergraduate degree in English in 1938.Staff"PASSINGS: Alain Corneau, Jackson Gillis, Francisco Varallo" ''Los Angeles Times'', August 31, 2010. Accessed September 1, 2010. He worked in England after graduating from college. After returning to the United States, he performed with the Barter Theatre in Virginia, together with Gregory Peck. George Bernard Shaw attended a performance of one of his plays, in which Gillis acted. Gillis received a note from Shaw that critiqued his exit, a postcard Gillis retained for decades. He enlisted in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corey Allen
Corey Allen (born Alan Cohen; June 29, 1934 – June 27, 2010) was an American film and television director, writer, producer, and actor. He began his career as an actor but eventually became a television director. He is best known for playing the character Buzz Gunderson in Nicholas Ray's '' Rebel Without a Cause'' (1955). He was the son of Carl Cohen. Early life Allen was born as Alan Cohen in Cleveland, Ohio, on June 29, 1934. He was the son of Carl and Frances Freudenreich Cohen; his father was an illegal bookie and gambling operator for the Mayfield Road Mob in Cleveland, and later became an important gambling executive at the Sands Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. Cohen attended the University of California, Los Angeles, where he received his start in acting and was awarded a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1954.Nagourney, Eric"Corey Allen, Actor and Director, Dies at 75" ''The New York Times'', June 30, 2010. Accessed July 1, 2010. Career Allen was best known for his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Kandel
Stephen David Kandel (April 30, 1927 – October 21, 2023) was an American television writer. Life and career Stephen Kandel was born on April 30, 1927. In his youth, he grew up in Pennsylvania, and earned the "Excellence in Table Tennis" award at the age of 10. Following his graduation from high school at only 16 years old, he began college before being drafted and serving in the United States Army during World War II in Germany. During his time in the military he was stabbed in the chest, but went on to recover fully. Post-WWII, Kandel went on to graduate from Dartmouth College in 1950. Kandel wrote episodes for many popular series, from ''Sea Hunt'' in the 1950s through ''MacGyver'' in the 1980s, with stops in between at '' Star Trek: The Original Series'', ''Mannix'', ''Wonder Woman'', ''The Six Million Dollar Man'', ''Cannon'', ''Barnaby Jones'', ''Banacek'', and others. He was credited with writing the pilot episodes of ''Daktari'', ''Broken Promises'', and ''Chamber of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norman Hudis
Norman Hudis (27 July 1922 – 8 February 2016) was an English writer for film, theatre and television, and is most closely associated with the first six of the '' Carry On...'' film series, for which he wrote the screenplays until he was replaced by Talbot Rothwell. Life and career Born in Stepney, London, Hudis began his writing career on a local newspaper, the '' Hampstead & Highgate Express''. When World War II broke out, Hudis joined the RAF and served in the Middle East writing for ''Air Force News''. Like many other post-war writers his first foray into entertainment was writing for camp concerts. After the war Hudis decided to become a playwright, but only one of his plays ''Here Is The News'' met with critical success. This was enough to get him noticed by Pinewood Studios, who offered him a job as trainee screenwriter. During the two years he spent there he failed to get any of his screenplays into production. Hudis left Pinewood and became a freelance writer and was s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leslie H
Leslie may refer to: * Leslie (name), a name and list of people with the given name or surname, including fictional characters Families * Clan Leslie, a Scottish clan with the motto "grip fast" * Leslie (Russian nobility), a Russian noble family of Scottish origin Places Canada * Leslie, Saskatchewan * Leslie Street, a road in Toronto and York Region, Ontario ** Leslie (TTC), a subway station ** Leslie Street Spit, an artificial spit in Toronto United States *Leslie, Arkansas *Leslie, Georgia *Leslie, Michigan *Leslie, Missouri *Leslie, West Virginia *Leslie, Wisconsin *Leslie Township, Michigan *Leslie Township, Minnesota Elsewhere * Leslie Dam, a dam in Warwick, Queensland, Australia * Leslie, Mpumalanga, South Africa * Leslie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, see List of listed buildings in Leslie, Aberdeenshire * Leslie, Fife, Scotland, UK Other uses * Leslie speaker system * Leslie Motor Car company * Leslie Controls, Inc. * Leslie (singer) (born 1985), French singer * Lis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Armen
Margaret Alberta Armen (September 9, 1921 – November 10, 2003) was an American screenwriter and author. Biography She was born Margaret Alberta Sampsell in Washington, D.C., the daughter of Commander Thomas Lloyd Sampsell and Florence Neilson (née Buehler). Her father was a dental surgeon serving in the United States Navy Dental Corps, and she grew up in Manila, Panama, Japan, and spent four years living in Peking, China, where she learned Mandarin. She graduated with a degree in English literature from the University of California, Berkeley, then studied creative writing at University of California, Los Angeles. On June 30, 1945, she married Garo Armen, a naval officer, and started a family. While raising her son, she worked from home, writing newspaper articles and short stories, before finally breaking into television writing Westerns, furnishing scripts for ''Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre'' (1960), '' The Rebel'' (1961), '' Lawman'' (1960–62), '' The Tall Man'' (1962) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rick Husky
Rick Husky (born May 6, 1940) is an American television writer and producer. He created the television series '' T. J. Hooker''. Husky also worked, in various capacities, on the television series '' Mission: Impossible''; ''Charlie's Angels''; ''Tour of Duty''; ''Walker, Texas Ranger ''Walker, Texas Ranger'' is an American action fiction, action Crime drama, crime television series created by Leslie Greif and Paul Haggis. It was inspired by the film ''Lone Wolf McQuade'', with both the film and the series starring Chuck Norr ...'' and '' S.W.A.T''. References External links * Living people 1940 births American television writers American television producers American television show creators {{US-tv-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Falk (director)
Harry George Falk Jr. (March 15, 1933 – April 29, 2016) was an American film and television director. He directed the 1969 television film ''Three's a Crowd''. Early life Falk was born in New York City to a Catholic family. His family moved to California after his father, a former policeman, got a job as a gaffer. Career Falk began his career, as an assistant director on television commercials and for the television series '' The Defenders'', in 1961. Later in his career, Falk directed for many television programs, as his credits includes, ''The Patty Duke Show'', ''Get Smart'', ''The Partridge Family'', ''That Girl'', '' Hawaii Five-O'', ''The Doris Day Show'', ''The Mod Squad'' and '' The Courtship of Eddie's Father''. In 1975, Falk was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award in the category Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series for an episode of ''The Streets of San Francisco''. He directed miniseries programs in his career, as directing '' The Sophisticated Gents'', ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carey Wilber
Carey Wilber (June 26, 1916 – May 2, 1998) was an American journalist and television writer born in Buffalo, New York. He began his career in the days of live television, and wrote for a variety of programs over the next three decades, including ''Captain Video and His Video Rangers'', ''The Asphalt Jungle'', ''Lost In Space'', ''The Time Tunnel'', ''Bonanza'', and '' Maverick''. Wilber wrote the "Ice Princess" storyline for the daytime serial ''General Hospital'' in 1981. He died in Seattle, Washington. Star Trek Wilber wrote the original story for, and co-wrote the teleplay of, the ''Star Trek'' episode "Space Seed". The general plot had originally been created by Wilber for the series ''Captain Video and His Video Rangers'', which featured humans from Ancient Greece who were preserved in cryogenic suspension and resurrected. During the conception and writing of the episode, numerous changes were made, as producer Bob Justman felt that it would be too expensive to film. Desp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
