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Toby Tyler Or 10 Weeks With A Circus (film)
''Toby Tyler or 10 Weeks with a Circus'', also known simply as ''Toby Tyler'', is a 1960 American Drama (film and television), drama film directed by Charles Barton (director), Charles Barton and starring Kevin Corcoran, Henry Calvin, Gene Sheldon, and Richard Eastham. It was produced by Walt Disney Pictures, Walt Disney Productions and distributed by Buena Vista Distribution Company on January 21, 1960. It is based on the 1880 children's book ''Toby Tyler; or, Ten Weeks with a Circus'' by James Otis Kaler. The film, shot at Golden Oak Ranch in Newhall, Santa Clarita, California, Newhall, California, later aired on the Walt Disney anthology television series. Plot After his stern Uncle Daniel describes him as a "millstone" for neglecting his chores, ten year old Toby Tyler runs away from his foster home to join the circus. There, he soon befriends Mr. Stubbs, a frisky chimpanzee. However, the circus isn't all fun and games; his employer Harry Tupper, the candy vendor, is dishone ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Barton (director)
Charles Barton (May 25, 1902December 5, 1981) was an American film and vaudeville actor and film director. He won an Academy Awards, Oscar for Academy Award for Best Assistant Director, best assistant director in 1933. His first film as a director was the Zane Grey feature ''Wagon Wheels (film), Wagon Wheels'', starring Randolph Scott, in 1934. Barton worked in Hollywood B-movie units. From 1946, he was a principal director of the Abbott and Costello comedies, such as ''The Time of Their Lives'', ''Buck Privates Come Home,'' ''Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein,'' and ''Africa Screams''. He later directed Walt Disney films such as ''The Shaggy Dog (1959 film), The Shaggy Dog'' and ''Toby Tyler''. His extensive work for television included every episode of ''Amos 'n' Andy#Television, Amos 'n' Andy'' in the 1950s, a total of 90 episodes of ''Dennis the Menace (1959 TV series), Dennis the Menace'' in the 1960s, and 106 episodes of ''Family Affair'' from 1967 to 1971. One obituary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buena Vista Distribution Company
Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures is an American film distributor within the Disney Entertainment division of the Walt Disney Company. It handles theatrical and occasional digital distribution, marketing, and promotion for films produced and released by the Walt Disney Studios, including Walt Disney Pictures, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Pixar, Marvel Studios, Lucasfilm, 20th Century Studios, and Searchlight Pictures, though it operates its own autonomous theatrical distribution and marketing unit in the United States. The company was originally established by Walt Disney in 1953 as Buena Vista Film Distribution Company Inc. (later renamed Buena Vista Distribution Inc. and Buena Vista Pictures Distribution Inc.). It took on its current name in late 2007. History Before in 1953, Disney's productions were previously distributed by: * M.J. Winkler Pictures (1924–1926), * Film Booking Offices of America (1926–1927), * Universal Pictures (1927–1928), * Celebrity Produc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael McGreevey
Michael McGreevey (born February 7, 1948) is an American actor and screenwriter. He starred in several Walt Disney films as a young actor and later became a writer for the '' Fame'' TV series. He is the son of Emmy Award-winning television and film screenwriter John McGreevey. Career Michael McGreevey's first major role was as young cabin boy Chip Kessler in the 1959–61 TV series ''Riverboat''. It starred Darren McGavin as the captain of a riverboat on the Mississippi River during the 1830s. In a 2015 interview, McGreevey confirmed the rumored friction between McGavin and his co-star Burt Reynolds: "They were just two very different personalities. I think that Burt was insecure. It was his first job in Hollywood and Darren was a very polished actor. It was Darren's show really--he was Captain Holden. I think Burt was a little jealous of Darren and they clashed quite a bit. What finally happened was that Burt left the show. But I loved them both. Darren was very much a father fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oliver Wallace
Oliver George Wallace (August 6, 1887 – September 15, 1963) was a British-American composer and conductor from London.''Home Front Heroes: A Biographical Dictionary of Americans During Wartime'', Volume 3, ed. Benjamin F. Shearer (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2007), p. 836 He was especially known for his film music compositions, which were written for many animation, documentary, and feature films from Walt Disney Studios.Thomas S. Hischak, ''The Encyclopedia of Film Composers'' (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015), pp. 691–693, Biography Wallace was born on August 6, 1887, in London. After completing his musical training, he emigrated to the United States in 1904, becoming a US citizen ten years later. He initially worked primarily on the West Coast in Seattle as a conductor of theater orchestras and as an organist accompanying silent films. At the same time, he also made a name as a songwriter, writing tunes such as the popular "". With the advent of the talking film e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmy MacDonald (sound Effects Artist)
John James MacDonald (May 19, 1906 – February 1, 1991) was an American foley artist and voice actor. He was the original head of the Disney sound-effects department and was also the second official voice of Mickey Mouse from 1947 to 1976 after Walt Disney stopped playing the character and before Wayne Allwine became the 3rd voice of Mickey in 1977. Early life MacDonald was born on May 19, 1906, in Crewe, Cheshire. His parents were Richard William MacDonald and Minnie Hall. The family emigrated to America when MacDonald was a month old. They travelled via the SS ''Haverford'' from Liverpool, England, arriving in Pennsylvania 15 days later. Career Sound effects As a young man, MacDonald landed a job as a musician on the Dollar Steam Ship Lines, which in 1934 led to an opportunity to record music for a Disney cartoon. He went on to secure a permanent contract with Disney, becoming head of the sound department. In addition to directing sounds for animated shorts as aurally ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kermit Maynard
Kermit Maynard (September 20, 1897 – January 16, 1971) was an American actor and stuntman. He appeared in 280 films between 1927 and 1962. Early years Born in Vevay, Indiana, he was the son of Mr. and Mrs. William Maynard and a lookalike younger brother of actor Ken Maynard; they were frequently assumed to be identical twins. Maynard was a 1916 graduate of Columbus High School in Columbus, Indiana. He graduated with a degree in engineering from Indiana University and played college football as a lineman for the Indiana Hoosiers in the early 1920s. While at the university, he lettered in three sports in one year. After he finished college, Maynard worked as a claims agent for the George H. Hormel Meat Packing Company. Maynard also competed as a rider in rodeo competition. In 1933, he won a Pacific Coast trick-riding championship in the Pendleton Round-Up. Early in his career, promoters disdained Maynard's given name of Kermit and marketed him as "Tex Maynard." Career ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Rowland (actor)
Henry Rowland (born Heinrich Wilhelm von Bock; December 28, 1913 – April 26, 1984) was an American film and television actor. He is remembered for his role as Count Kolinko in the ''Zorro'' television series. Biography Rowland was born in Omaha, Nebraska. His father left Germany before World War I began and became a professor of German at the University of Nebraska. Following the war, Rowland was educated in Germany through the secondary level. He returned to the United States and studied acting in Pasadena. While Rowland was born in the American Midwest, he was frequently cast as German characters, particularly as Nazis in films made during or, later, about World War II. Rowland "heiled" and "achtunged" his way through a variety of films, ranging from ''Casablanca'' (1943) to Russ Meyer's '' Supervixens'' (1975). Conversely, he showed up as an American flight surgeon in 1944's ''Winged Victory'', billed under his Army rank as Corporal Henry Rowland. In his last years, Row ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Fadden
Tom Fadden (January 6, 1895 – April 14, 1980) was an American actor. He performed on the stage, vaudeville, in films and on television during his long career. Early life Fadden was born in Bayard, Iowa, on January 6, 1895; his father was a mining engineer. Early in life the family moved farther west, moving from state to state, including the Dakotas, Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, Oregon, and Nebraska. In Nebraska Fadden graduated from Creighton University. Career After graduating from college, Fadden joined a theater company in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1915. He acted in stock companies and vaudeville during the 1910s and 1920s. In 1924 he made his Broadway debut, starring as Peter Jekyll in ''The Wonderful Visit''. Over the next fifteen years he appeared in almost two dozen productions on the Great White Way, including ''Nocturne'' (1925), '' The Butter and Egg Man'' (1925–26), ''Elmer Gantry'' (1928), ''The Petrified Forest'' (1935) and ''Our Town'' (1938). During a revival of ''T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edith Evanson
Edith Evanson ( ''Carlson''; April 29, 1896 – November 29, 1980) was an American character actress of film, stage and television during the Golden Age of Hollywood. Life and career She was born Edith Carlson in Tacoma, Washington."Coincidence." ''Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.'' November 3, 1949. Her first job was as a court reporter in Bellingham. On March 15, 1923, she married Morris Otto Evanson (1893-1975). The couple had no children. Her first film role came in ''The Man Who Wouldn't Talk'' (1940) in an uncredited role. In the 1940s she was in supporting roles mostly as a maid, a busybody, landladies, or middle-aged secretaries. Some of her other film roles include parts in ''Citizen Kane'' (1941), ''Blossoms in the Dust'' (1941), ''Woman of the Year'' (1942), ''Reunion in France'' (1942), '' The Strange Woman'' (1947), '' I Remember Mama'' (1948), ''Rope'' (1948), '' The Damned Don't Cry'' (1950), ''The Day the Earth Stood Still'' (1951) and Disney's '' Toby Tyler'' (1960) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dennis Joel
Dennis Joel (born Dennis Joel Olivieri, August 29, 1947 – September 27, 2006) was an American child actor and singer. Early years The son of Mr. and Mrs. Alphonse Olivieri of Garfield, New Jersey, Joel attended Our Lady of Mount Virgin School before he moved to California with his mother and older brother. Beginning at age 5, he worked as a model for the Walter Thornton Agency. He began performing when at age 8 he sang a radio jingle for the local Yoo-hoo beverage company owned by his father. Career On Broadway, Joel went from being an understudy to portraying Patrick Dennis as a boy in ''Auntie Mame'' (1956). He continued in that role in a road company production and a West Coast production. On television, Joel played Roy Strickland on '' The Betty Hutton Show'', a situation comedy on CBS. He also appeared on '' Walt Disney Presents'' and ''The DuPont Show with June Allyson'' and did commercials on local TV. Billed as Dennis Olivieri, he portrayed Stanley on ''The New People'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Drury
James Child Drury Jr. (April 18, 1934 – April 6, 2020) was an American actor. He is best known for having played the title role in the 90-minute weekly Western television series '' The Virginian'', which was broadcast on NBC from 1962 to 1971. Early years Drury was born in New York City, the son of James Child Drury and Beatrice Crawford Drury. His father was a New York University professor of marketing. He grew up between New York City and Salem, Oregon, where his mother owned a farm. Drury contracted polio at the age of 10. He studied drama at New York University and took additional classes at UCLA to complete his degree after he began acting in films at MGM. Career Drury's professional acting career began when he was 12 years old, when he performed in a road company's production of '' Life with Father''. He signed a film contract with MGM in 1954 and appeared in bit parts in films. After he went to 20th Century Fox, he appeared in '' Love Me Tender'' (1956 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Sweeney (actor And Director)
Bob Sweeney (October 19, 1918 – June 7, 1992) was an American actor, director and producer of radio, television and film. Early years Bob Sweeney was a graduate of San Francisco State College. In the early part of World War II, he and college classmate George Fenneman formed a stand-up comedy team and entertained troops at military bases. Early career on radio and television From 1944 through 1948 Sweeney teamed with comedy partner Hal March in ''The Bob Sweeney-Hal March Show'' on CBS Radio. He went on to appear as a supporting character in various sitcoms in the early days of television including the role of Gilmore Cobb in the television version of ''My Favorite Husband'' (1953–54) with co-stars Joan Caulfield and Barry Nelson. Sweeney made appearances on ''The Rifleman'' and ''Our Miss Brooks'' during its last two seasons of production (1955–1956) working alongside Eve Arden, Gale Gordon, and Richard Crenna. From 1956 to 1957, Sweeney starred with Gordon in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
