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Coronado 9
''Coronado 9'' is an American crime drama series starring Rod Cameron that aired in syndication in 1960. Synopsis Set in San Diego, California, the series follows Dan Adams (Cameron), a former United States Navy intelligence officer turned private detective. The show's title was taken from the telephone exchange of Adams's office. The Revue Productions series had 39 episodes that aired from September 6, 1960, and May 31, 1961. ''Coronado 9'' was produced by Richard Irving. Lawrence Kimble wrote scripts for it. It was sponsored in at least 70 markets by the Falstaff Brewing Company. Guest stars * Rayford Barnes * Kathie Browne * King Calder * Anthony Caruso * Virginia Christine * Steve Darrell * Don Devlin * Roy Engel * Bill Erwin * Beverly Garland * Coleen Gray * Clark Howat * Ted Jordan * DeForest Kelley * Robert Knapp * Sue Ane Langdon * Nan Leslie * Ann McCrea * Doug McClure * Eve Miller * Read Morgan * Ed Nelson * Jay Novello * J. Pat O'Malley * William Scha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crime Drama
Crime film is a film belonging to the crime fiction genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and fiction. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combine with many other genres, such as Drama (film and television), drama or gangster film, but also include Comedy film, comedy, and, in turn, is divided into many sub-genres, such as Mystery film, mystery, suspense or Film noir, noir. Screenwriter and scholar Eric R. Williams identified crime film as one of eleven super-genres in his Screenwriters Taxonomy, claiming that all feature-length narrative films can be classified by these super-genres. The other ten super-genres are action, fantasy, horror, romance, science fiction, slice of life, sports, thriller, war and western. Williams identifies drama in a broader category called "film type", mystery and suspense as "macro-genres", and film noir as a "screenwriter's pathway" explaining that these categories are additive rather than exclusionary. ''China ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roy Engel
Roy Engel (born Leroy Englewood Stults Jr.;"Missouri, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QLFM-JTCJ : Thu Jul 18 04:43:41 UTC 2024), Entry for Leroy Englewood Stults and Virginia Groves Stults, 16 Oct 1940. September 13, 1913"California Death Index, 1940-1997," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VPC2-HDQ : 26 November 2014), Roy Engel, 29 Dec 1980; Department of Public Health Services, Sacramento. – December 29, 1980) was an American actor on radio, film, and television. He performed in more than 150 films and almost 800 episodes of television programs. Career Engel's ancestry was Irish and Dutch. His father was Roy Engelwood Stults. Engel was a Letterman (sports), letterman in football Rockhurst High School and Rockhurst University, Rockhurst College. After he graduated from college, he worked in a warehouse. Engel's career in radio began at KCMO in Kansas City. His firs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Read Morgan
Read Lawrence Morgan (January 30, 1931 – April 20, 2022) was an American film and television actor. He was perhaps best known for playing Sergeant Hapgood Tasker in the American western television series '' The Deputy''. Life and career Morgan was born in Chicago, Illinois. He attended the University of Kentucky, where he played basketball and football. After two years there, he left to study drama at Northwestern University, then served in the United States Air Force for two years. Morgan began his acting career in the crime drama television series '' The Big Story'' in 1949. Later he joined the cast of the western television series '' The Deputy'', playing army officer Sergeant Hapgood Tasker, who was blind in one eye and wore an eye patch. Morgan also appeared in the Broadway play ''Li'l Abner''. Morgan guest-starred in numerous television programs including ''Gunsmoke'', ''Wagon Train'', ''The United States Steel Hour'', '' M Squad'', '' How the West Was Won'', '' La ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eve Miller
Eve Marilyn Miller (born Marilyn Miller; August 8, 1923 – August 17, 1973) was an American actress who appeared in 41 films between 1945 and 1961. She was born in Los Angeles, California, and died in Van Nuys, California. She died by suicide at age 50. Early life Born in Los Angeles, California, Miller was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Stanley Miller and was raised in San Francisco, where her father was a piano salesman. During the early years of World War II, Miller worked as a welder in a shipyard and later, before the war ended, became a department store clerk. Movie career In 1951, after several small parts in television and movies such as '' The Vicious Years'' (1950), Miller came to the attention of producer-director Ida Lupino and through her influence was cast in Warner Brothers' '' The Big Trees'', starring opposite Kirk Douglas. Several more parts followed such as '' The Winning Team'' with Ronald Reagan and '' Kansas Pacific'' starring Sterling Hayde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doug McClure
Douglas Osborne McClure (May 11, 1935 – February 5, 1995) was an American actor whose career in film and television extended from the 1950s to the 1990s. He is best known for his role as the cowboy Trampas during the entire run from 1962 to 1971 of the series '' The Virginian'' and mayor turned police chief Kyle Applegate on '' Out of This World''. From 1961 to 1963, he was married to actress BarBara Luna. Career McClure's acting career included such films as '' Gidget'' (1959), '' The Enemy Below'', '' The Unforgiven'', and ''Because They're Young'', then he landed the role of Trampas on ''The Virginian'', a role that would make him famous. He also starred: * As different characters in several episodes in 1957 of ''Death Valley Days'' * As Flip Flippen in the 1960 television western series '' Overland Trail'', in which he co-starred with William Bendix for 17 episodes * As Jed Sills in the 1960-1962 CBS television series ''Checkmate'' for 70 episodes. * As C.R. (Christophe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ann McCrea
Ann McCrea (born February 25, 1931) is an American film and television actress. She is known for playing Midge Kelsey in the American sitcom television series '' The Donna Reed Show''. Life and career McCrea was born in DuBois, Pennsylvania to a Greek mother and Scottish father. At an early age, she decided that she wanted to become an actress after seeing stage plays in New York. McCrea attended a modeling school, and became a cover girl and model. She met Bing Crosby, who encouraged her to move to Hollywood, California. McCrea began her acting career in 1952, appearing in the film '' Deadline – U.S.A.'' playing the uncredited role of "Sally Gardner". She also guest-starred in television programs including '' Bachelor Father'', '' Mr. Lucky'', '' The Deputy'', '' Johnny Midnight'', ''Tales of Wells Fargo'', '' Rawhide'', '' Perry Mason'', ''McHale's Navy'', '' The Bob Cummings Show'', '' Family Affair'' and '' Wendy and Me''. McCrea appeared in films such as '' Will S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nan Leslie
Nanette June Leslie (June 4, 1926 – July 30, 2000) was an American actress. She was known for playing Martha McGivern in the American Western (genre), western television series ''The Californians (TV series), The Californians''. Life and career Leslie was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of Frank Leslie, a salesman, and his wife, Alma. Leslie attended University High School (Los Angeles, California), University High School. She began her career in 1945 in the film ''Under Western Skies (1945 film), Under Western Skies''. Leslie starred, co-starred and appeared in other films such as ''Guns of Hate'', ''The Devil Thumbs a Ride'', ''Under the Tonto Rim (1947 film), Under the Tonto Rim'', ''Sunset Pass (1946 film), Sunset Pass'', ''The Miracle of the Hills'', ''Western Heritage'', ''The Arizona Ranger'', ''Wild Horse Mesa (1947 film), Wild Horse Mesa'' and ''I'll Remember April (1945 film), I'll Remember April''. Between 1949 and 1955 Leslie appeared in eig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sue Ane Langdon
Sue Ane Langdon (born Sue Ane Lookhoff on March 8, 1936)Lisanti, Tom; Paul, Louis (2002). Film Fatales: Women in Espionage Films and Television, 1962-1973'. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company. p. 171. . is an American actress. She has appeared in dozens of television series and had featured roles in films such as '' A Guide for the Married Man'' and '' The Cheyenne Social Club'', both directed by Gene Kelly, as well as '' The Rounders'' opposite Henry Fonda and Glenn Ford and two films starring Elvis Presley, '' Roustabout'' and '' Frankie and Johnny''. Langdon began her performing career at Radio City Music Hall, singing and acting in stage productions. In the mid-1960s, she appeared in the Broadway musical ''The Apple Tree'', which starred Alan Alda. Her co-starring role on the 1970 television series '' Arnie'' won her a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress-Television. In 1976, she appeared in '' Hello Dolly'' at The Little Theatre on the Square. In 1978, sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Knapp (actor)
Robert Knapp (February 24, 1924, Los Angeles, California – May 17, 2001, Glendale, California) was an American actor who appeared in film and on television between 1951 and 1976. Background As a teenager, Knapp worked on his father's orange grove in Covina, Los Angeles County, where he attended school. As a youth he particularly excelled in swimming and football. He studied for a year in a college in Glendale but dropped out to work as a messenger for Warner Brothers Studios. He became a member of Irving Asher's unit. After two years in the United States Army making training films, he returned to Warner Brothers, where he was employed in the publicity department and then as a second assistant director. His acting career was launched after he was seen playing opposite Mary Boland and Charles Ruggles in the play ''One Fine Day.'' Knapp's father was president of the Aurbaugh Department Store in Lansing, Michigan; brother Roland Knapp worked there for a time as a buyer. K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DeForest Kelley
Jackson DeForest Kelley (January 20, 1920 – June 11, 1999) was an American actor, screenwriter, poet, and singer. He was known for his roles in film and television Western (genre), Westerns and achieved international fame as Dr. Leonard McCoy, Leonard "Bones" McCoy of the in the television and film series ''Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek'' (1966–1991). Early life Kelley was born in Atlanta, Georgia. His mother was Clora (née Casey) and his father was Ernest David Kelley, a Baptist minister of Irish ancestry. Kelley was named after pioneering electronics engineer Lee de Forest. He later named his ''Star Trek'' character's father "David" after his own father. Kelley had an older brother, Ernest Casey Kelley. Kelley was immersed in his father's mission at his father's church in Conyers, Georgia. Before the end of his first year at Conyers, Kelley was regularly putting to use his musical talents, and often sang solo in morning church services. Kelley wanted to beco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ted Jordan
Edgar Harrison Friedman Jr. (May 23, 1924 – March 30, 2005) was an American film and television actor. He was known for playing freight agent Nathan Burke on 108 episodes of the American Western television series ''Gunsmoke'' from 1966 to 1975. Jordan was born in Lancaster, Ohio, He guest-starred in numerous television programs, including '' The Virginian'', ''The Andy Griffith Show'', ''Gunsmoke'', '' Mission: Impossible'', ''Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea'', and ''Land of the Giants''. He died on March 30, 2005 in Palm Desert, California Palm Desert is a city in the Coachella Valley region of Riverside County, California. The city is located in the Colorado Desert arm of the Sonoran Desert, about east of Palm Springs, northeast of San Diego and east of Los Angeles. The popula ..., at the age of 80. Filmography Film Television References External links * *Rotten Tomatoes profile {{DEFAULTSORT:Jordan, Ted 1924 births 2005 deaths People from Lan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clark Howat
John Clark Howat (January 22, 1918 – October 30, 2009) was an American film and television actor. Life and career Howat was born in Calaveras County, California. He began his career in 1947, appearing in the Broadway play ''The Wanhope Building'', playing the roles of the "Interviewer" and "Pilot". Howat began his film career in July 1947, playing the role of the "Patron in Macy's Lunchroom" in the film ''Miracle on 34th Street''. His early film career was mostly uncredited and co-starring roles. His later credits include '' The Doctor and the Girl'', '' Customs Agent'', ''Airport'', '' My Blue Heaven'' and '' California Passage'', among others. He began appearing on television in 1952, appearing in '' Beulah'', playing the role of "Pete Bradley". In 1956, Howat played the main role of "Dr. Jack (John) Petrie" in the short-lived sitcom television series '' The Adventures of Dr. Fu Manchu''. He also appeared in '' Dragnet'', ''Leave It to Beaver'', ''Highway Patrol'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
