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The Man Behind The Badge
''The Man Behind the Badge '' is a half-hour American television police drama series which aired on CBS from October 11, 1953, to October 3, 1954, originally hosted by Norman Rose. In its second syndicated season, the host became character actor Charles Bickford. Jerry Robinson was the producer. The CBS version was broadcast from 9:30 to 10 p.m. Eastern Time on Sundays. It replaced ''Arthur Murray Party'' and was replaced by ''Honestly, Celeste!''. The sponsor was Bristol Myers. Everett Rosenthal was the executive producer, with Arthur Singer as director. Beginning in January 1955, a filmed version of the program was syndicated to local stations by MCA TV. In an interview with Kliph Nesteroff, assistant director Arthur Marks stated the filmed episodes were shot at the same time and on the same sets as '' Treasury Men in Action''. Bernard J. Prockter produced the series in Hollywood. Synopsis The series is based on files from agencies of law enforcement. In addition to poli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Police Drama
The police procedural, police show, or police crime drama is a subgenre of procedural drama and detective fiction that emphasises the investigative procedure of police officers, police detectives, or law enforcement agencies as the protagonists, as contrasted with other genres that focus on non-police investigators such as private investigators (PIs). As its name implies, the defining element of a police procedural is the attempt to accurately depict law enforcement and its procedures, including police-related topics such as forensic science, autopsies, gathering evidence, search warrants, interrogation, and adherence to legal restrictions and procedures. While many police procedurals conceal the criminal's identity until the crime is solved in the narrative climax (the so-called whodunit), others reveal the perpetrator's identity to the audience early in the narrative, making it an inverted detective story. The police procedural genre has faced criticism for its inaccurate depi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Honestly, Celeste!
''Honestly, Celeste!'' is an American television sitcom that was broadcast on CBS from October 10, 1954, to December 5, 1954. It starred Celeste Holm in her first regular TV series. Premise, cast and characters Celeste Anders left her position as a college journalism teacher in the American Midwest to work as a reporter at a newspaper in New York City. As a reporter, she devoted "virtually all of her time to being a Good Samaritan to everyone she meets." Actors and the characters they portrayed were as follows: *Celeste Holm - Celeste Anders *Scott McKay (actor), Scott McKay - Bob Wallace (Anders's friend) *Geoffrey Lumb - Mr. Wallace (Bob's father and editor of the newspaper) *Mary Finney - Mary (Mr. Wallace's secretary) *Mike Kellin - Marty Gordon (Anders's friend and a former gangster) Themes of episodes included Anders's beginning a new life in New York City, her search for an apartment, and Marty's boredom when he drove a cab. In a move that ''The New York Times'' called ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Perkins
Anthony Perkins (April 4, 1932 – September 12, 1992) was an American actor. Born in Manhattan, Perkins began his career as a teenager in summer stock theater, summer stock programs, although he acted in films before his time on Broadway theatre, Broadway. His first film, ''The Actress'', co-starring Spencer Tracy and Jean Simmons and directed by George Cukor, was an overall disappointment, prompting Perkins to return to theatre. He made his Broadway debut in the Elia Kazan-directed ''Tea and Sympathy (play), Tea and Sympathy'' (1953)'','' in which he played Tom Lee, a "sissy" who is "cured" by the right woman. He was praised for the role, and after it closed, he turned to Hollywood cinema, Hollywood once more, starring in ''Friendly Persuasion (1956 film), Friendly Persuasion'' (1956) with Gary Cooper and Dorothy McGuire, which earned him the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actor, Golden Globe Award for Best New Actor of the Year and a nomination for the Acade ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leslie Nielsen
Leslie William Nielsen (February 11, 1926November 28, 2010) was a Canadian actor and comedian. With a career spanning 60 years, he appeared in more than 100 films and 150 television programs, portraying more than 220 characters. He made his acting debut in 1950, appearing in 46 live television programs a year. He made his film debut in 1956, with supporting roles in several dramas, westerns and romance films produced from the 1950s to 1970s. Although his memorable performances in the films ''Forbidden Planet'' and ''The Poseidon Adventure (1972 film), The Poseidon Adventure'' gave him standing as a dramatic actor, Nielsen later gained enduring recognition for his Deadpan, deadpan comedy roles during the 1980s, after being cast for the Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker comedy film ''Airplane!'' In his comedy roles, he specialized in portraying characters oblivious to and complicit in their absurd surroundings. His performance in ''Airplane!'' marked a turning point which made him "th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Newman
Paul Leonard Newman (January 26, 1925 – September 26, 2008) was an American actor, film director, race car driver, philanthropist, and activist. He was the recipient of List of awards and nominations received by Paul Newman, numerous awards, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Awards, BAFTA Award, seven Golden Globe Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, a Silver Bear for Best Actor, a Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor, and nominations for two Grammy Awards and a Tony Award. Along with his Best Actor Academy Award win, Newman also received two additional Oscars, both meritorious: the Academy Honorary Award and the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. Born in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, Cleveland Heights, Ohio, and raised in Shaker Heights, Ohio, Shaker Heights, the eastern suburbs of Cleveland, Newman showed an interest in theater as a child and at age 10 performed in a theatrical production, stage production of ''Saint George and the D ... [...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] |
Carolyn Jones
Carolyn Sue Jones (April 28, 1930 – August 3, 1983) was an American actress of television and film. She began her film career in the early 1950s, and by the end of the decade had achieved recognition with a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for '' The Bachelor Party'' (1957) and a Golden Globe Award as one of the most promising new actresses of 1959. Her film career continued for another 20 years. In 1964, Jones began playing the role of matriarch Morticia Addams in the black-and-white television series ''The Addams Family''. Early life Carolyn Jones was born in Amarillo, Texas, to homemaker Chloe Jeanette Southern (1906–1979) and Julius Alfred Jones (1897–1979), a barber. After their father abandoned the family in 1934, Carolyn and her younger sister, Bette Rhea Jones, moved with their mother into her maternal grandparents' Amarillo home. Jones suffered from severe asthma that often restricted her childhood activities, and when her conditi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vivi Janiss
Vivi Janis (born Vivian Audrey Jamison; May 29, 1911 – September 7, 1988) was an American actress, known for such films as ''The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues'' (1955), ''Man on the Prowl (film), Man on the Prowl'' (1957), and ''First, You Cry'' (1978). Career Vivi Janiss's father was Earl Alexander Jamison, born August 3, 1889, in Nebraska, and died June 17, 1962, in California. He was married to Helen Matilda Jamison née Liljgren. They were traveling theatricals in the Midwest in the 1920s and 1930s, eventually settling in California. Vivi was their only child. A native of Nebraska, she was the second wife of actor and comedian Robert Cummings, Bob Cummings, to whom she was wed from 1935 to 1943. The couple met while performing in 1934 in the ''Ziegfeld Follies'' on Broadway theatre, Broadway. In the 1934 Follies, Bob Cummings, performing under the stage name of Brice Hutchins, and Vivi (billed as Vivian Janis) on January 4, 1934 gave the first live performance of the Vernon D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Flint
Sam Flint (born Samuel A. Ethridge; October 19, 1882 – October 17, 1980) was an American actor. He appeared in more than 200 films, and is perhaps most familiar to today's audiences from Charlie Chan mysteries, adventure serials (notably ''The Phantom'' as the Phantom's father), '' It's a Wonderful Life'' (as the relieved bank manager mopping his brow in Mr. Potter's office), and the Three Stooges short '' Micro-Phonies'' (as singer Christine McIntyre's wealthy father). Flint was born in Gwinnett County, Georgia. As a young man, he became interested in the theater and appeared in many dramatic plays. By 1933 he was a member of the Los Angeles company appearing in the hit play '' The Drunkard'', under his real name of Sam Ethridge, and broke into movies with the small, independent Monogram Pictures. Comedian W. C. Fields wanted to include ''The Drunkard'' in one of his films, and arranged for Paramount Pictures to sign members of the company -- including Ethridge -- to m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Brinegar
Paul Alden Brinegar Jr. (December 19, 1917 – March 27, 1995) was an American character actor best known for his roles in three Western (genre), Western series: ''The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp'', ''Rawhide (TV series), Rawhide'', and ''Lancer (TV series), Lancer''. Early years Brinegar was born in 1917 in Tucumcari, New Mexico, Tucumcari in eastern New Mexico, the first child of Louise (née McElroy) and Paul A. Brinegar Sr., who was a farmer.Oliver, Myrna (1995)"Paul Brinegar; Appeared in TV's 'Rawhide'" obituary, ''Los Angeles Times'', March 31, 1995. Retrieved May 11, 2017. His family relocated several times during his childhood, first moving to Alamogordo, New Mexico, Alamogordo, then to Las Cruces, New Mexico, Las Cruces, and finally to Santa Fe, New Mexico, Santa Fe."Paul Brinegar (Rawhide) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Bronson
Charles Bronson (born Charles Dennis Buchinsky; November 3, 1921 – August 30, 2003) was an American actor. He was known for his roles in action films and his "granite features and brawny physique". Bronson was born into extreme poverty in Ehrenfeld, Pennsylvania, a coal mining town in the Allegheny Mountains. Bronson's father, a miner, died when Bronson was young. Bronson himself worked in the mines as well until joining the United States Army Air Forces in 1943 to fight in World War II. After his service, he joined a theatrical troupe and studied acting. During the 1950s, he played various supporting roles in motion pictures and television, including anthology drama TV series in which he would appear as the main character. Near the end of the decade, he had his first cinematic leading role in '' Machine-Gun Kelly'' (1958). Bronson had sizeable co-starring roles in '' The Magnificent Seven'' (1960), '' The Great Escape'' (1963), '' This Property Is Condemned'' (1966), and ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Treasury Men In Action
''Treasury Men in Action'' (also known as ''Federal Men'') is an American crime drama series broadcast live and which aired from September 11, 1950, through April 1951 on ABC and then on NBC through 1955. The series stars Walter Greaza, Ross Martin, and Tom McKee. Overview The series was an anthology drama dramatizing cases from one of the various law enforcement agencies that operated under the US Treasury Department. The host was Walter Greaza, who introduced each episode as "The Chief" of whichever agency was featured in a given episode. Counterfeiters, tax evaders, smugglers, narcotics traffickers, and other federal offenders whose crimes fell within the jurisdiction of Treasury were pursued. Cases from the files of the US Secret Service, the Customs Bureau. the Alcohol Tax Unit, the Intelligence Division of the Internal Revenue Service, and the Federal Bureau of Narcotics were dramatized. Other actors who appeared in this series include Claude Akins, Charles Bronson, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
