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Trail Of The Yukon
''Trail of the Yukon'' is a 1949 American Northern film directed by William Beaudine and starring Kirby Grant, Suzanne Dalbert and Bill Edwards. It was based on a novel by James Oliver Curwood about a North-West Mounted Police officer and his faithful German Shepherd dog Chinook. It is part of the Northern genre. The film was popular, and inspired Monogram to make a series of nine further films starring Grant and Chinook. Plot Cast * Kirby Grant as Bob McDonald – Royal NW Mounted * Suzanne Dalbert as Marie Laroux * Bill Edwards as Jim Blaine * Iris Adrian as Paula * Dan Seymour as Tom Laroux * William Forrest as Banker John Dawson * Anthony Warde as Muskeg Joe * Maynard Holmes as Henchman Buck * Peter Mamakos as Henchman Rand * Guy Beach as Matt Blaine * Stanley Andrews as Rogers * Dick Elliott as Editor Sullivan * Jay Silverheels as Poleon * Bill Kennedy as Constable, RCMP * Harrison Hearne as Bank Teller Frank Reception A ''Variety'' review noted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Beaudine
William Washington Beaudine (January 15, 1892 – March 18, 1970) was an American film actor and director. He was one of Hollywood's most prolific directors, turning out films in remarkable numbers and in a wide variety of genres. Life and career Born in New York City, Beaudine began his career as an actor in 1909 with American Mutoscope and Biograph Company. He married Marguerite Fleischer in 1914 and they stayed married until his death. Her sister was the mother of actor Bobby Anderson. Beaudine's brother Harold Beaudine was a director of short action-filled comedy films. In 1915 he was hired as an actor and director by the Kalem Company. He was an assistant to director D.W. Griffith on '' The Birth of a Nation'' and '' Intolerance''. By the time he was 23 Beaudine had directed his first picture, a short called ''Almost a King'' (1915). He would continue to direct shorts exclusively until 1922, when he shifted his efforts into making feature-length films. Beaudine directe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corporal Rod Webb
Corporal Rod Webb and his faithful dog Chinook were the major characters in a series of films made by the American studio Monogram Pictures between 1949 and 1954. Webb was played by the actor Kirby Grant in eight films, while in two others (''Trail of the Yukon'' and ''Snow Dog'') Grant played the almost identical character of Bob McDonald, accompanied as usual by Chinook. Corporal Webb was an officer of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and enjoyed a series of adventures tracking down criminals in Yukon and the Northwest Territories. Chinook was his German Shepherd companion who, in spite of his name, had no connection to the Chinook breed of dog. The series was based on the Northlands novels of James Oliver Curwood,Drew p.225 and is part of the Northern genre of popular culture. The series bore similarities to a number of other films and shows, particularly to an earlier radio series ''Challenge of the Yukon'' and to the later television series '' Sergeant Preston of the Yuko ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northwest Territory (film)
''Northwest Territory'' is a 1951 American Northern film directed by Frank McDonald and starring Kirby Grant, Gloria Saunders and Warren Douglas. The film is the fifth in the series of ten films featuring Kirby Grant as a Canadian Mountie.Drew, p. 225. Plot Cast * Kirby Grant as Corporal Rod Webb * Gloria Saunders as Anne DuMere * Warren Douglas as Dan Morgan * Pat Mitchell as Billy Kellogg * Tristram Coffin as Kincaid * John Crawford as LeBeau * Duke York as Dawson * Don C. Harvey as Barton * Sam Flint as Pop Kellogg * Chinook as Chinook, Webb's dog See also * '' Trail of the Yukon'' (1949) * '' The Wolf Hunters'' (1949) * ''Snow Dog'' (1950) * '' Call of the Klondike'' (1950) * '' Yukon Manhunt'' (1951) * '' Yukon Gold'' (1952) * '' Fangs of the Arctic'' (1953) * ''Northern Patrol The Northern Patrol, also known as Cruiser Force B and the Northern Patrol Force, was an operation of the British Royal Navy during the First World War and Second World War. The P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Call Of The Klondike
''Call of the Klondike'' is a 1950 American Northern film directed by Frank McDonald and starring Kirby Grant, Anne Gwynne, and Lynne Roberts. The film was the fourth in the series of ten films featuring Kirby Grant as a Canadian Mountie.Drew p.225 Plot Cast * Kirby Grant as Corporal Rod Webb * Anne Gwynne as Nancy Craig * Lynne Roberts as Emily Mallory * Tom Neal as Tom Mallory * Russell Simpson as Andy McKay * Marc Krah as Mencheck * Paul Bryar as Henchman Fred Foley * Pat Gleason as Billy * Duke York as Henchman Luke * Roy Gordon as Major Robertson * Chinook as Chinook, Webb's Dog See also Kirby Grant as Robb Webb Mountie Series * '' Trail of the Yukon'' (1949) * '' The Wolf Hunters'' (1949) * ''Snow Dog'' (1950) * ''Call of the Klondike'' (1950) * ''Northwest Territory'' (1951) * ''Yukon Manhunt'' (1951) * '' Yukon Gold'' (1952) * ''Fangs of the Arctic'' (1953) * ''Northern Patrol'' (1953) * ''Yukon Vengeance ''Yukon Vengeance'' is a 1954 American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Snow Dog
''Snow Dog'' is a 1950 American Northern film directed by Frank McDonald and starring Kirby Grant, Elena Verdugo and Rick Vallin. It was the third of a series of ten films featuring Grant as a Canadian Mountie.Drew, p. 225. Plot Cast * Kirby Grant as Corporal Rod McDonald – RCMP * Elena Verdugo as Andrée Blanchard * Rick Vallin as Louis Blanchard * Milburn Stone as Dr. F. J. McKenzie * Richard Karlan as Biroff * Jane Adrian as Red Feather * Hal Gerard as Henchman Antoine * Richard Avonde as Henchman Phillippe * Duke York as Henchman Duprez * Guy Zanette as Henchman Baptiste * Chinook as Chinook, Webb's Dog See also * '' Trail of the Yukon'' (1949) * '' The Wolf Hunters'' (1949) * '' Call of the Klondike'' (1950) * ''Northwest Territory'' (1951) * '' Yukon Manhunt'' (1951) * '' Yukon Gold'' (1952) * '' Fangs of the Arctic'' (1953) * ''Northern Patrol The Northern Patrol, also known as Cruiser Force B and the Northern Patrol Force, was an ope ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wolf Hunters (1949 Film)
''The Wolf Hunters'' is a 1949 American Northern film directed by Budd Boetticher and starring Kirby Grant, Jan Clayton and Edward Norris. It was based on the novel of the same title by James Oliver Curwood, which had previously been adapted in 1926 as '' The Wolf Hunters'' and in 1934 as ''The Trail Beyond'' starring John Wayne, Noah Beery, Sr. and Noah Beery, Jr. The film was the second in a series of ten films featuring Kirby Grant as a Canadian Mountie.Drew, p. 225. Cast * Kirby Grant as RCMP Corporal Rod Webb * Jan Clayton as Renée * Edward Norris as Paul Lautrec * Helen Parrish as Marcia Cameron * Charles Lang as J. L. McTavish * Ted Hecht as Muskoka * Luther Crockett as Supt. Edward Cameron * Elizabeth Root as Minnetaki * Chinook as Chinook, Webb's dog Production Budd Boetticher later recalled, "Monogram! That was really second rate! ''Wolf Hunters'' was an outdoor picture, kind of an "in the snow" thing, and I put all my friends in it who were out of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Variety (magazine)
''Variety'' is an American media company owned by Penske Media Corporation. The company was founded by Sime Silverman in New York City in 1905 as a weekly newspaper reporting on theater and vaudeville. In 1933 it added ''Daily Variety'', based in Los Angeles, to cover the motion-picture industry. ''Variety.com'' features entertainment news, reviews, box office results, cover stories, videos, photo galleries and features, plus a credits database, production charts and calendar, with archive content dating back to 1905. History Foundation ''Variety'' has been published since December 16, 1905, when it was launched by Sime Silverman as a weekly periodical covering theater and vaudeville with its headquarters in New York City. Silverman had been fired by '' The Morning Telegraph'' in 1905 for panning an act which had taken out an advert for $50. As a result, he decided to start his own publication "that ouldnot be influenced by advertising." With a loan of $1,500 from his f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Kennedy (actor)
Willard "Bill" Kennedy (June 27, 1908 – January 27, 1997) was an American actor, voice artist, and host of the long-running Detroit-based television show, ''Bill Kennedy at the Movies.'' He began his career as a staff announcer in radio; Kennedy's voice narrates the opening of the television series '' Adventures of Superman.'' Career Kennedy was born June 27, 1908, in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. He began his media career as a staff announcer at '' WWJ, The Detroit News.'' In 1941, he became a Warner Bros. contract player, appearing in dozens of Hollywood movies from 1941 through 1955. He was often cast as a police officer or detective. He played Thierache, the Executioner, who sets fire to Joan (played by Ingrid Bergman) in ''Joan of Arc'' (1948), but recounted that after the picture previewed in a neighborhood popular with gays, his one line – "We need more fagots" (a term referring to a bundle of sticks used to burn someone at the stake) – generated loud laughter fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jay Silverheels
Jay Silverheels (born Harold Jay Smith; May 26, 1912 – March 5, 1980) was an Indigenous Canadian actor and athlete. He was well known for his role as Tonto, the Native American companion of the Lone Ranger in the American Western television series ''The Lone Ranger''. Early life Silverheels was born Harold Jay Smith in Canada, on the Six Nations of the Grand River, near Hagersville, Ontario. He was a grandson of Mohawk Chief A. G. Smith and Mary Wedge, and one of the 11 children of Captain Alexander George Edwin Smith, MC, Cayuga, and his wife Mabel Phoebe Dockstater, maternal Mohawk, and paternal Seneca. His father was wounded and decorated for service at the battles of Somme and Ypres during World War I, and later was an adjutant training Polish-American recruits for the Blue Army for service in France, at Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario. Athlete Silverheels excelled in athletics, most notably in lacrosse, before leaving home to travel around North America. In 1931, owners ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dick Elliott
Richard Damon Elliott (April 30, 1886 – December 22, 1961) was an American character actor who played in over 240 films from the 1930s until the time of his death. Early years Elliott was born in Boston, Massachusetts. Career Elliott played many different roles, typically as a somewhat blustery sort, such as a politician. A short, fat man, Elliott played Santa Claus on the Jimmy Durante, Red Skelton, and Jack Benny programs. Elliott had a couple of memorable lines in ''It's a Wonderful Life'' (1946), in which he scolded James Stewart, who was trying to say goodnight to Donna Reed, advising him: "Why don't you kiss her instead of talking her to death?" He also had a few memorable appearances in episodes of the '' Adventures of Superman'' television series. He appeared three times as Stanley on the CBS sitcom '' December Bride'', as well as on two of ABC/Warner Brothers' western series, ''Sugarfoot'' and ''Maverick''. He was cast as the prospector Peter Cooper and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanley Andrews
Stanley Andrews (born Stanley Martin Andrzejewski; August 28, 1891 – June 23, 1969) was an American actor perhaps best known as the voice of Daddy Warbucks on the radio program ''Little Orphan Annie'' and later as "The Old Ranger", the first host of the syndicated western anthology television series, ''Death Valley Days''. Biography Early life Andrews was born in Chicago, Illinois as Stanley Martin Andrzejewski.U.S. WWI Draft Registration retrieved December 21, 2013. Little is known of his early years, except that he was reared in the |
Peter Mamakos
Peter Mamakos (December 14, 1918 – April 27, 2008) was an American film and television actor. Early life Mamakos was of Greek descent. Mamakos' father owned Pilgrim restaurants in New England. Mamakos was sent to California to scout locations for restaurants, but he liked Hollywood so much that he decided to stay, declining his father's offers of $50,000 in cash and a $250,000 nightclub of his own if he returned to Boston. He told a reporter, "I feel right at home in Hollywood. A hot kitchen and a hot sound stage are alike -- you're surrounded by hams in both." Career Peter Mamakos was perhaps best known for playing Greek, Indian, Hispanic, French, Italian and Middle Eastern villains from the 1940s through the 1990s. Film Mamakos was in eight movies in his first seven months in Hollywood. Mamakos appeared in ''Trail of the Yukon'' (1949), in which he and other supporting players offered what a ''Variety'' review called "stock performances". Television He had a r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
