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Richard Bull (actor)
Richard William Bull (June 26, 1924 – February 3, 2014) was an American film, stage and television actor. He was best known for his performances as "Doc" on ''Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea'' and Nels Oleson on ''Little House on the Prairie''. Personal life Bull was born on June 26, 1924 in Zion, Illinois. After years of living in Los Angeles, he moved back to Chicago in 1994 with his wife Barbara Collentine. The couple moved to the Motion Picture & Television Fund House from Chicago in September 2012. Bull fell into acting by accident. “I never gave a serious consideration about becoming an actor. As a senior in high school, I decided to study music, but a friend suggested we attend the Goodman Theater School. In two weeks the friend dropped out, but I was hooked.” There was a three-year interruption while he served as a radio operator for the Army Air Corps, but when he was discharged in 1946 he resumed his acting studies at Goodman. Career Bull began his stage care ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zion, Illinois
Zion is a city in Lake County, Illinois, United States. Per the 2020 census, the population was 24,655. History The city was founded in July 1901 by John Alexander Dowie (1847-1907), a Scots-Australian evangelical minister and faith healer who had migrated to the United States in 1888. By 1890, he had settled in Chicago, where he built a large faith healing business (which included a large mail order component) and had attracted thousands of followers. He bought land 40 miles north of Chicago to found Zion, where he personally owned all of the land and most businesses. The city was named after Mount Zion in Israel. Dowie also founded the Zion Tabernacle of the Christian Catholic Apostolic Church, which was the only church in town. The structure was built in the early 1900s and was burned down in 1937, following several decades of tumultuous rule by Dowie's successor, Wilbur Glenn Voliva. Geography Zion is located at According to the 2010 census, Zion has a total area of , ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Then There Were Three (film)
''Then There Were Three'' also known as ''Three Came Back'' ( it, L'urlo dei Marines, french: Le Cri des Marines) is a 1961 black and white Italian war film produced and directed by as well as co-starring Alex Nicolp. 44 Nicol, Alex ''Surviving the Studio System'' in ''Collected Interviews: Voices from Twentieth-century Cinema'' SIU Press, 2001 with Frank Latimore and Barry Cahill. Plot summary During the Italian campaign the Germans scheme to assassinate an Italian partisan leader held by the Americans. They infiltrate an English speaking assassin dressed in American uniform who joins a group of stragglers making their way to the village where the partisan leader is. During their journey the German infiltrator eliminates the American soldiers one by one. Cast * Frank Latimore as Lt. Willotsky * Barry Cahill as Sgt. Travers * Alex Nicol as Pvt. Sam McLease * Frederick R. Clark as Calhoun * Sidney Clute as Pvt. Ben Harvey * Brendan Fitzgerald * Michael Billingsley as Pvt. T.I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ulzana's Raid
''Ulzana's Raid'' is a 1972 American Revisionist Western film starring Burt Lancaster, Richard Jaeckel, Bruce Davison and Joaquin Martinez. The film, which was filmed on location in Arizona, was directed by Robert Aldrich based on a script by Alan Sharp. It portrays a brutal raid by Chiricahua Apaches against European settlers in 1880s Arizona. The bleak and nihilistic tone of U.S. troops chasing an elusive merciless enemy has been seen as allegory to the United States participation in the Vietnam War. Plot Following mistreatment by Indian agency authorities, Ulzana breaks out of the San Carlos Indian Reservation with a small Chiricahua war party. When news reaches Fort Lowell, the commanding officer sends riders out to alert the local settlers. However, both troopers are ambushed separately; one is dragged away while the other kills the European woman he is escorting and then himself. The Apaches play catch with his liver. The woman's husband, who stayed behind to pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Man And Boy (1971 Film)
''Man and Boy'' is a 1971 American western film directed by E.W. Swackhamer and starring Bill Cosby. Plot In the wake of the American Civil War, an ex-soldier and his family move west to settle in lawless Arizona. Cast * Bill Cosby as Caleb Revers * Gloria Foster as Ivy * Leif Erickson as Mossman * George Spell as Billy * Douglas Turner Ward as Christmas * John Anderson as Stretch * Henry Silva as Caine * Dub Taylor as Atkins * Yaphet Kotto as Nate * Shelley Morrison as Rosita * Richard Bull as Thornhill * Robert Lawson as Lawson * Jason Clark as "Red" * Fred Graham as Himself * Jack Owens as Himself Music The music was supervised by Quincy Jones and features vocals by Bill Withers. See also * List of American films of 1971 A ''list'' is any set of items in a row. List or lists may also refer to: People * List (surname) Organizations * List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America * SC Germania List, German rugby unio . ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Andromeda Strain (film)
''The Andromeda Strain'' is a 1971 American science fiction film, science fiction thriller film produced and directed by Robert Wise. Based on Michael Crichton's 1969 The Andromeda Strain, novel of the same name and adapted by Nelson Gidding, the film stars Arthur Hill (Canadian actor), Arthur Hill, James Olson (actor), James Olson, Kate Reid, and David Wayne as a team of scientists who investigate a deadly organism of Outer space, extraterrestrial origin. With a few exceptions, the film follows the book closely. The special effects were designed by Douglas Trumbull. The film is notable for its use of split screen (video production), split screen in certain scenes. Plot The story unfolds in flashback, told by Dr. Jeremy Stone as he testifies before the United States Senate Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences, United States Senate Committee on Space Sciences in 1971: After a Federal government of the United States, U.S. government satellite crashes near the small rura ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lawman (film)
''Lawman'' is a 1971 American revisionist Western film produced and directed by Michael Winner and starring Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan, Lee J. Cobb and Robert Duvall. Plot synopsis Drunken cowhands from the town of Sabbath are shooting up the western town of Bannock. Jared Maddox is Bannock's marshal. Days later he rides into Sabbath with the body of Marc Corman, one of the renegade cowhands shot that night in Bannock. Corman and five others were involved in the reckless killing of an old man, and Maddox has warrants for them. Maddox calls on Sabbath's sheriff, Cotton Ryan. He demands that the five surrender to him within 24 hours. Ryan tells Maddox the five work for Vincent Bronson, a wealthy cattle rancher, and that he should avoid a dangerous confrontation. Maddox is not moved. Ryan goes to Vincent Bronson's ranch to inform him of Marshal Maddox's arrival in Sabbath. Bronson, unaware of the killing in Bannock offers cash as compensation. Sheriff Ryan explains that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Move (1970 Film)
''Move'' is a 1970 American comedy film starring Elliott Gould, Paula Prentiss and Geneviève Waïte, and directed by Stuart Rosenberg. The screenplay was written by Joel Lieber and Stanley Hart, adapted from a novel by Lieber. Plot The film covers three days in the life of Hiram Jaffe, a would-be playwright who supplements his living as a porn writer and by walking dogs. He and his wife, Dolly, are moving to a new apartment on New York's Upper West Side. Jaffe is beset by problems, including his inability to persuade the moving man to move the couple's furniture, and retreats into fantasy. Cast * Elliott Gould as Hiram Jaffe * Paula Prentiss as Dolly Jaffe * Geneviève Waïte as Girl * John Larch as Patrolman * Joe Silver as Oscar * Graham Jarvis as Dr. Picker * Ron O'Neal as Peter * Garrie Beau as Andrea * Mae Questel Mrs. Katz Production Original novel The film was based on ''Move!'', a novel by Joel Lieber which was published in 1968. The ''Chicago Tribune'' ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moonfire (1973 Film)
''Moonfire'' is a 1970 action adventure film written, produced, and directed by Michael Parkhurst. It was photographed in the De Luxe colour system. It starred Richard Egan, Charles Napier, and former World Heavyweight Champion boxer Sonny Liston. It portrays truckers battling a Nazi hiding in Mexico. There is a subplot about the disappearance of a reclusive billionaire. Internet Movie Database. Retrieved: 2012-05-12. Cast * Richard Egan – Sam Blue * Charles Napier – Robert W. Morgan * |
The Secret Life Of An American Wife
''The Secret Life of an American Wife'' is a 1968 comedy film written and directed by George Axelrod. The film was released by 20th Century Fox in 1968, and was considered a box-office failure. It features a music score by Billy May. Edy Williams has a supporting role in the film as the Laytons' blonde bombshell neighbor. Plot Victoria Layton (Anne Jackson) is a suburban housewife who is dissatisfied with her marriage and fears that her sex appeal is fading. Her husband ( Patrick O'Neal) works as a press agent, and his only client is a movie star who is known as an international sex symbol (Walter Matthau). Upon hearing that The Movie Star (the character is not given a name, and Matthau is credited as "The Movie Star" in the closing credits) indulges in the services of prostitutes, Victoria decides to pose surreptitiously as one in order to prove to herself that she is still sexually attractive. Cast * Walter Matthau as The Movie Star * Anne Jackson as Victoria Layton * Patr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Thomas Crown Affair (1968 Film)
''The Thomas Crown Affair'' is a 1968 American heist film directed and produced by Norman Jewison and starring Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway. It was nominated for two Academy Awards, winning Best Original Song for Michel Legrand's " The Windmills of Your Mind". A remake was released in 1999. Plot Millionaire businessman-sportsman Thomas Crown accomplishes a perfect crime by orchestrating four men to steal $2,660,527.62 from a Boston bank ($ in dollars ), along with a fifth man who drives the getaway car with the money and dumps it in a cemetery trash can. None of the men ever meets Crown face to face, nor do they know or meet each other before the robbery. Crown retrieves the money from the trash can after secretly following the driver of the getaway car. He deposits the money into an anonymous Swiss bank account in Geneva, making several trips, never depositing the money all at once so as not to draw undue attention to his actions. Independent insurance investigator Vicki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
How To Steal The World
''How To Steal the World'' is a 1968 American action–adventure film, taken from a two-part episode of the TV series '' The Man from U.N.C.L.E.'', with Robert Vaughn and David McCallum as secret agents Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin. The film also stars Barry Sullivan, Eleanor Parker, Leslie Nielsen, Tony Bill, Peter Mark Richman, Albert Paulsen, Inger Stratton, Hugh Marlowe, and Dan O'Herlihy. It was originally telecast as the final episode of the series, " The Seven Wonders of the World Affair". The feature version is the only U.N.C.L.E. film not to include Jerry Goldsmith's theme music. The film was directed by Sutton Roley and written by Norman Hudis. Plot U.N.C.L.E. agents Napoleon Solo (Robert Vaughn) and Illya Kuryakin (David McCallum) investigate when fellow agent Robert Kingsley (Barry Sullivan) and European general Maximilian Harmon (Leslie Nielsen) disappear. Shortly afterward, five of the world's top scientists are mysteriously abducted. The trail leads to the H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
