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St. Elsewhere
''St. Elsewhere'' is an American medical drama television series created by Joshua Brand and John Falsey that originally ran on NBC from October 26, 1982, to May 25, 1988. The series stars Ed Flanders, Norman Lloyd, and William Daniels as teaching doctors at an aging, run-down Boston hospital who give interns a promising future in making critical medical and life decisions. The series was produced by MTM Enterprises, which had success with a similar NBC series, the police drama '' Hill Street Blues'', during that same time. The series were often compared to each other for their use of ensemble casts and overlapping serialized storylines (an original ad for ''St. Elsewhere'' quoted a critic that called the series "''Hill Street Blues'' in a hospital"). Recognized for its gritty, realistic drama, ''St. Elsewhere'' gained a small yet loyal following (the series never ranked higher than 47th place in the yearly Nielsen ratings) over its six-season, 137-episode run; however, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Medical Drama
A medical drama is a Television film, television movie or film in which events center upon a hospital, clinic, doctor's office, a paramedic, or any other medical topic or environment. Most recent medical drama (film and television), dramatic programming goes beyond the events pertaining to the characters' jobs and portray some aspects of their personal lives. The longest running prime-time medical drama in the world is the British series ''Casualty (TV series), Casualty'', airing since 1986, and the longest running medical soap opera is ''General Hospital'', running since 1963. History ''City Hospital (U.S. TV series), City Hospital'', which first aired in 1951, is usually considered to be the first televised medical drama. (The first serialized medical drama was probably the ''Dr. Kildare'' film series (1937–1947), starring a number of actors in the eponymous role, and Lionel Barrymore throughout the series.) ''Medic (TV series), Medic'', which featured Richard Boone, ran two se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ellen Bry
Ellen Bry is an American actress. She is best known for her portrayal of nurse-turned-vigilante Shirley Daniels on the hospital drama ''St. Elsewhere''. Bry gained acting experience in school plays, community theater productions, and summer stock theatre. At one point, she left acting and worked as a paralegal for New York City's Department of Consumer Affairs. A scripted fight on an episode of ''Kojak'' led to Bry's working for a while as a stuntwoman in New York. Bry also appeared as medical student Jean Hallinan in three episodes of the television series ''Dallas'' (Season Four, 1981) and as photographer Julie Masters on the 1978 CBS series ''The Amazing Spider-Man ''The Amazing Spider-Man'' is an ongoing American superhero American comic book, comic book series featuring the Marvel Comics superhero Spider-Man as its title character and main protagonist. Being in the Earth 616, mainstream continuity of t ...''. Bry's family moved to Stamford, Connecticut, when she was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Byron Stewart
Byron Craig Stewart (born May 1, 1956 in Baxter Springs, Kansas) is an American actor best known for his portrayal of Warren Coolidge in the television series '' The White Shadow'' and the television medical drama ''St. Elsewhere''. Stewart's first credited acting role came in 1977 at age 21 in the movie ''Fire Sale'', a comedy in which a Jewish basketball coach adopts a tall African-American teenage boy (played by Stewart) to help him win games. Ken Howard stated in ''The White Shadow'' season 1 DVD commentary that, after seeing a re-run of ''Fire Sale'', he immediately phoned Bruce Paltrow and said he wanted Stewart for a role as one of his basketball players. Howard wanted at least one "player" taller than himself for the "team." Stewart, who is 6'8" tall, later reprised the role of Warren Coolidge in another Paltrow-directed series, ''St. Elsewhere ''St. Elsewhere'' is an American medical drama television series created by Joshua Brand and John Falsey that originally ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jennifer Savidge
Jennifer Savidge is an American actress, best known for her role as Nurse Lucy Papandrao in the NBC medical drama series, ''St. Elsewhere''. She is married to actor Robert Fuller. Career Savidge has appeared in a number of television shows. From 1982 to 1988, she was regular cast member in the NBC medical drama series, ''St. Elsewhere''. She played the role of Nurse Lucy Papandrao. During 1990s, Savidge has appeared in several made for television movies, and guest starred on ''L.A. Law'', '' Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman'', ''Sisters'', '' Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'' and ''Beverly Hills, 90210''. Her film credits include '' Clifford'' (1994), '' Magic Kid 2'' (1994), ''True Crime'' (1996), ''Evolution'' (2001), ''Searching for Sonny'' (2011), and '' Rudderless'' (2014). From 2000 to 2005, Savidge had the recurring role as Commander Amy Helfman in the CBS procedural, '' JAG''. In 2015, she played Ruth Taylor in the first season of ABC's critically acclaimed drama ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
France Nuyen
France Nuyen (born France Nguyễn Vân Nga on 31 July 1939) is a French-American actress, model, and psychological counselor. She is known to film audiences for playing romantic leads in '' South Pacific'' (1958), '' Satan Never Sleeps'' (1962), and '' A Girl Named Tamiko'' (also 1962), and for playing Ying-Ying St. Clair in '' The Joy Luck Club'' (1993). She also originated the title role in the Broadway play ''The World of Suzie Wong'', based on the novel of the same name. She is a Theatre World Award winner and Golden Globe Award nominee. Early life Nuyen was born France Nguyễn Vân Nga in Marseille, the daughter of a Romani French mother and a father from French Indochina. Her father is widely reported to be Viet; however, Nuyen identifies him and herself as Chinese or Hoa. Nuyen’s father abandoned her and her mother when she was young, and she was raised in Marseille by a cousin she calls "an Orchidaceae raiser who was the only person who gave a damn about me." ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sagan Lewis
Susan Jane Lewis (November 30, 1952 – August 7, 2016) was an American actress, best known for co-starring as Dr. Jacqueline Wade on the NBC medical drama ''St. Elsewhere''. Her other television credits included a multiple-episode recurring role as Judge Susan Aandahl on NBC's '' Homicide: Life on the Street'' during the 1990s, and the television films '' Cocaine: One Man's Seduction'' (1983) and ''Full Ride''. Lewis was born in Omaha, Nebraska, and raised across the river in Council Bluffs, Iowa. She received her master of fine arts from the graduate acting program at the University of California, San Diego. Lewis began acting professionally during the late 1970s. She met her future husband, television producer and screenwriter Tom Fontana, in 1978 while auditioning at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in Massachusetts. Fontana was working as an assistant to the theatre festival's artistic director at the time of their meeting. In 1980, Lewis moved to Los Angeles when Fontana ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ronny Cox
Daniel Ronald Cox (born July 23, 1938) is an American actor and musician. He has appeared in numerous films and television series since his acting debut in ''Deliverance'' (1972). He is best known for his roles in ''RoboCop'' (1987) and '' Total Recall'' (1990). He is also active as a musician, performing over 100 times per year at festivals and theaters as of 2012. Personal life Daniel Ronald Cox was born on July 23, 1938 in the mountain town of Cloudcroft, New Mexico, the third of five children to Lounette (née Rucker) and Bob P. Cox, a carpenter who also worked at a dairy. He grew up in Portales, New Mexico. Cox met his wife Mary when she was 11 and he was 14. They began dating when she was 15 and he was 18. They married in 1960 and had two sons. Cox graduated from Eastern New Mexico University in 1963 with a double major in theater and speech correction. Mary died in 2006, 50 years to the day of their first date. Cox often talks about her during his music performances. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cindy Pickett
Cindy Pickett (born April 18, 1947) is an American actress. She is known for her 1970s role as Jackie Marler-Spaulding on the CBS soap ''Guiding Light'' and Dr. Carol Novino on the television drama ''St. Elsewhere'' in the 1980s. Pickett, however, is best known to audiences for her lighter turn as Katie Bueller, Ferris Bueller's loving and unsuspecting mother, in the 1986 American comedy film, movie ''Ferris Bueller's Day Off''. Other notable cinematic roles and performances include Valerie St. John, the leading role in Roger Vadim's 1980 film, ''Jeux de Nuit / Night Games'', and the heroic, tough-as-nails Dr. Diane Norris, executive officer of the under-siege, deep-sea scientific research station in the 1989 sci-fi-horror film ''DeepStar Six''. Life and career Pickett was born in Sand Springs, Oklahoma, daughter of Cecil Pickett, a director and drama teacher at the University of Houston. Pickett made a major departure from her soap opera image when she played the central role in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruce Greenwood
Stuart Bruce Greenwood (born August 12, 1956) is a Canadian actor and producer. He has starred in five films by Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan and has been nominated for three Canadian Screen Awards, once for Best Actor for '' Elephant Song'' (2014) and twice for Best Supporting Actor, for '' The Sweet Hereafter'' (1997) and '' Being Julia'' (2004). Greenwood is known for frequently portraying the President of the United States, beginning with his role as John F. Kennedy in '' Thirteen Days'' (2000), for which he won the Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture; he later played fictional presidents in '' National Treasure: Book of Secrets'' (2007) and '' Kingsman: The Golden Circle'' (2017). He also portrayed Captain Christopher Pike in J. J. Abrams's ''Star Trek'' reboot series (2009–2013) and Gerald Burlingame in '' Gerald's Game'' (2017). He has appeared in other supporting roles in such films as ''Double Jeopardy'' (1999), ''I, Robot'' (2004), '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bonnie Bartlett
Bonnie Bartlett Daniels (born June 20, 1929) is an American retired actress. Her career spans about seven decades, with her first major role being on a 1950s daytime drama, '' Love of Life''. Bartlett is known for her role as Grace Snider Edwards on the Michael Landon television series '' Little House on the Prairie'' and as Ellen Craig on the medical drama series '' St. Elsewhere''. Her husband, actor William Daniels, played her fictional husband Dr. Mark Craig, and they both won Emmy Awards on the same night in 1986—becoming the first married couple to accomplish the feat since Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne in 1965. Early life Bartlett was born in Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, the daughter of Carrie Archer and Elwin Earl Bartlett, and was raised in Moline, Illinois. Her father had been an actor in stock productions across the country, but he gave up acting because her mother wanted to settle in Wisconsin. In 1947, she graduated from Moline High School. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Furst
Stephen Furst (born Stephen Nelson Feuerstein; May 8, 1954 – June 16, 2017) was an American actor, director and producer. After gaining attention with his featured role as Kent "Flounder" Dorfman in the comedy film '' National Lampoon's Animal House'' and its spin-off television series '' Delta House'', he went on to be a regular as Dr. Elliot Axelrod in the medical drama series ''St. Elsewhere'' from 1983 to 1988, and as Centauri diplomatic attaché Vir Cotto in the science fiction series ''Babylon 5'' from 1994 to 1998. Other notable film roles included the college comedy '' Midnight Madness'' (1980), as a team leader in an all-night mystery game, the action thriller ''Silent Rage'' (1982), as deputy to a sheriff played by Chuck Norris, and the comedy '' The Dream Team'' (1989), as a good-natured psychiatric patient. Early life Born Stephen Nelson Feuerstein in Norfolk, Virginia, on May 8, 1954, Furst attended Virginia Commonwealth University. He was Jewish. Career Ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nancy Stafford
Nancy Elizabeth Stafford (born June 5, 1954) is an American actress, speaker and author, known for her roles on television. She came to prominence in the 1980s as Michelle Thomas, law partner, on five seasons of '' Matlock''. She later hosted a syndicated TV series called ''Main Floor'' (1995–2005), a show about fashion and beauty. Early life Nancy Elizabeth Stafford was born in Wilton Manors, Florida, a suburb of Ft. Lauderdale, in 1954, where she was raised as a Southern Baptist. She graduated from the University of Florida with a Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism. After graduating from Ft. Lauderdale High School in 1972, she was Miss Florida 1976, competing in the 1977 Miss America Pageant. Career Stafford moved to Los Angeles in 1982, where she had her first contract role playing the dual role of Adrienne/Felicia Hunt on the daytime soap opera '' The Doctors''. She had guest starring roles in shows such as '' Riptide'', ''Remington Steele'', ''Scarecrow and Mrs. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
