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Superdad
''Superdad'' is a 1973 American comedy film by Walt Disney Productions starring Bob Crane, Barbara Rush, Kurt Russell, Joe Flynn, and Kathleen Cody and directed by Vincent McEveety. Plot Charlie McCready (Bob Crane) tries to wrest his daughter Wendy ( Kathleen Cody) from her childhood friends, who he believes have no ambition. He especially disapproves of her boyfriend, Bart (Kurt Russell). Initially he makes a few attempts to bridge the generation gap, but to no avail. For instance, he attempts to impress his daughter's friends by trying his hand at beach volleyball and water skiing, but both attempts result in humiliating accidents. Late in the summer, Wendy receives a letter informing her that she has won a full scholarship to her parents' alma mater, Huntington College. Unbeknownst to her, the letter is fake; her father has paid the first year's tuition himself and had a friend at the college send the letter to her. He did this so Wendy would not attend City College with B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kathleen Cody (actress)
Kathleen Cody, often credited as Kathy Cody, is an American actress. She is best known for her role as the characters Hallie Stokes and Carrie Stokes, on the television series ''Dark Shadows'', appearing from June 1970 through April 1971. Her career in film and television lasted over 30 years. Career Modeling Cody appeared in her first television commercial when she was six months old and continued to work steadily as a child fashion model. She appeared in television commercials, including one with Louis Armstrong. She also appeared in commercial advertisements and on magazine covers, modeling for New York photographers, including Richard Avedon and Francesco Scavullo. Theatre When Cody was seven years old, she was cast in the theatre production of ''Uncle Willie'', with Menasha Skulnik at the Coconut Grove Playhouse in Miami, Florida. In 1963, at the age of nine, Cody was named one of the original cast members of the Broadway show ''Here's Love'', appearing in the r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vincent McEveety
Vincent Michael McEveety (August 10, 1929 – May 19, 2018) was an American film and television director and producer. Career Vince McEveety directed numerous Emmy Award-winning television series, including '' The Untouchables'', 35 episodes of ''Gunsmoke'', six ''Star Trek'' episodes (including "Dagger of the Mind", "Balance of Terror", " Patterns of Force" and " Spectre of the Gun"), '' Magnum, P.I.'', '' How the West Was Won'', '' The Man from U.N.C.L.E.'', '' Stranger at My Door'', '' Murder, She Wrote'', and '' Diagnosis: Murder'', starring Dick Van Dyke. In 1991, McEveety directed the award-winning episode of the NBC television series '' In the Heat of the Night'', titled " Sweet, Sweet Blues", guest-starring musician Bobby Short and veteran actor James Best. That year ''Heat'' won its first NAACP Image Award for ''Outstanding Dramatic Series'' and James Best won the Crystal Reel Award for ''Best Actor''. From 1994 through 1997, McEveety produced the television series ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Crane
Robert Edward CraneCrane, Robert (2015). Crane : Sex, Celebrity, and My Father's Unsolved Murder'. Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky. p. 100. . (July 13, 1928 – June 29, 1978) was an American acting, actor, drummer, radio personality and disc jockey known for starring in the CBS situation comedy, sitcom ''Hogan's Heroes''. Crane was a drummer from age 11, and began his entertainment career as a radio personality, beginning in Hornell, New York and later in Connecticut. He then moved to Los Angeles, where he hosted the number-one rated morning radio show. In the early 1960s, Crane moved into acting, eventually landing the lead role of Colonel Robert Hogan in ''Hogan's Heroes''. The series aired from 1965 to 1971, and Crane received two Primetime Emmy Award, Emmy Award nominations. Crane's career declined after ''Hogan's Heroes''. He became frustrated with the few roles that he was being offered and began performing in dinner theater. In 1975 he returned ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kurt Russell
Kurt Vogel Russell (born March 17, 1951) is an American actor. He began his career as a child actor before transitioning to leading roles as an adult in various genres such as action adventures, science-fiction, westerns, romance films, comedic films and family dramas. He is known for collaborating with filmmakers such as John Carpenter and Quentin Tarantino and has received a Critics' Choice Super Award as well as various award nominations including for a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award. At the age of 12, he began acting in the Western TV series '' The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters'' (1963–1964). In the late 1960s, he signed a ten-year contract with The Walt Disney Company starring in films such as '' The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes'' (1969), '' Now You See Him, Now You Don't'' (1972), and '' The Strongest Man in the World'' (1975). For his portrayal of rock and roll superstar Elvis Presley in the television film '' Elvis'' (1979), he was nominated for th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Flynn (American Actor)
Joseph Anthony Flynn III (November 8, 1924 – July 19, 1974) was an American actor. He was known for playing Captain Wallace Binghamton in the 1960s ABC television situation comedy ''McHale's Navy''. Flynn was also a frequent guest star on 1960s TV shows, such as ''Batman'', and appeared in several Walt Disney film comedies. Early years Flynn was born in Youngstown, Ohio, to a physician. He graduated from The Rayen School in Youngstown and attended Northwestern University. During World War II, he served in the Army Special Services Branch entertaining the troops before moving west in 1946 to pursue acting and complete his education. He majored in political science at the University of Southern California. Early career Flynn had an interest in theater before leaving northeastern Ohio. He established himself early as a ventriloquist and radio disc jockey. Flynn gained local celebrity as a director by guiding the Canfield Players in such productions as '' Harvey'', ''Antigone' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivor Francis
Ivor Francis (October 26, 1918 – October 22, 1986) was a Canadian-American character actor and acting teacher. He is the father of television soap opera actress Genie Francis. Life and career Francis was born in Toronto and began his acting career on the radio in Canada. He served in the Royal Air Force in the Second World War and then moved to the United States, where he played the son, Joe, in the radio program ''Ma Perkins''. Francis made several appearances on Broadway, in such plays as ''The Devil's Advocate'', ''Gideon'' and '' J.B.''. He performed frequently on television, including appearances in ''I Dream of Jeannie'', '' The Odd Couple'', ''Barney Miller'' (as 4 different characters), a psychologist on ''Happy Days'', ''The Mary Tyler Moore Show'', '' Hart to Hart'', '' Benson'' , '' Hawaii Five-O'', ''Starsky & Hutch'', ''Dark Shadows'', '' Bright Promise'', ''Room 222'', ''Get Smart'', ''The Practice'', ''Little House on the Prairie'', ''The Six Million Dollar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leon Belasco
Leon Belasco (born Leonid Simeonovich Berladsky; 11 October 1902 – 1 June 1988) was a Russian-American actor and musician who had a career in film and television that spanned from the 1920s to the 1980s, appearing in more than 100 films. Musical career Born in Odessa, Russian Empire, Belasco attended St. Joseph College in Yokohama, Japan, and trained as a musician in Japan and Manchuria. He was briefly the concertmaster of the Japanese-Russian Symphony Orchestra, a predecessor of the NHK Symphony Orchestra. When he moved on his own to California in 1921 (leaving his parents and brother behind in Harbin, Manchuria), Belasco found occasional work in Hollywood. He made his film debut in 1926 in the silent film ''The Best People''. To supplement his income, he played the violin. Later he formed his own band, which mainly performed in hotels in and around New York City. The Andrews Sisters were introduced through his band. In 1933, Belasco and his orchestra were heard on the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholas Hammond
Nicholas Hammond (born 15 May 1950) is an American and Australian actor and writer who is best known for his roles as Friedrich von Trapp in the film '' The Sound of Music'' and as Peter Parker/Spider-Man in the 1970s television series ''The Amazing Spider-Man.'' He also appeared in the film ''Spider-Man'' (1977) and its two sequels, '' Spider-Man Strikes Back'' and '' Spider-Man: The Dragon's Challenge''. Early life Hammond was born on May 15, 1950, in Washington, D.C., the son of Colonel Thomas West Hammond, Jr. by his wife Eileen Hammond (née Bennett). Hammond's father was American of English descent and an officer in the U.S. Army, and his mother was English and had played a role in '' Much Too Shy'' in 1942. Hammond has one elder brother, David (b. 1946). Hammond's parents had met and married in London during World War II when his father was posted in the United Kingdom. After the war, the couple moved to the U.S. permanently and, because the Colonel had an army job, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dick Van Patten
Richard Vincent Van Patten (December 9, 1928 – June 23, 2015) was an American actor, comedian, businessman, and animal welfare advocate, whose career spanned seven decades of television. He was best known for his role as patriarch Tom Bradford on the television series '' Eight Is Enough''. Van Patten began work as a child actor and was successful on the New York stage, appearing in more than a dozen plays as a teenager. He worked in radio, on '' Duffy's Tavern''. He later starred in numerous television roles including the long-running CBS television series '' Mama'' and ''Young Doctor Malone''. Later, he would star or co-star in many feature films, including '' Charly'', Mel Brooks's '' Robin Hood: Men in Tights'' and '' Spaceballs'', and '' Soylent Green''. Van Patten was the founder of Natural Balance Pet Foods and National Guide Dog Month. Early life Richard Vincent Van Patten was born on December 9, 1928, in the Kew Gardens section of the New York City borough of Qu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joby Baker
Joseph N. "Joby" Baker (born March 26, 1934) is a Canadian actor and painter, long based in the United States. Career Baker was born in Montreal, Quebec. An early role in his career was in a 1958 episode of ''The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show'', "Ronnie Makes A Record", where he was cast as a recording studio vocalist. In the early 1960s he made guest appearances on many television series. In 1962, he appeared on '' Perry Mason'' as Kenneth Carter in "The Case of the Bogus Books". He appeared as a semi-regular in the first season of the WWII TV series '' Combat!'' as Pvt. Kelly. Other television series appearances included ''The Alfred Hitchcock Hour'', '' Dr. Kildare'' and '' The Dick Van Dyke Show''. In 1960, he co-starred with Jack Lemmon and Ricky Nelson in '' The Wackiest Ship in the Army''. He appeared in the Elvis Presley movie '' Girl Happy'' (1965), and in all three Gidget movies. In 1967, Baker was cast as a travelling magician, Dr. William Davis, in the episode ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan Daly
Jonathan Daly (born January 14, 1942) is an American actor who is known in America for his roles in ''Petticoat Junction'', '' The Jimmy Stewart Show'', and '' C.P.O. Sharkey'', and best known in Australia for being in the comedy duo " Delo and Daly". Delo and Daly In the 1960s, Daly formed the comedy team "Delo and Daly" with Ken Delo (later of ''The Lawrence Welk Show''). They became friends while in the US Army, and began by performing at military shows. They became quite popular in Australia. They appeared as guests on ''In Melbourne Tonight'', which was similar to America's ''The Tonight Show'', and later had their own Australian television variety show ''The Delo and Daly Show'' (1963–64), which featured Australian and American performers. Daly also hosted the television interview show ''Daly at Night'' in Melbourne. American television Daly first appeared on American television in guest roles in such series as ''Bewitched'', ''The Flying Nun'', and '' The Ghost & M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
