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Corinne Camacho
Corinne Camacho, also known as Corinne Michaels (October 31, 1941 – September 15, 2010), was an American actress, model, singer and songwriter. She is known for playing Joanne Barnes on ''Days of Our Lives'', ''Marlowe'' and the medical drama, '' Medical Center''. Early life Born Gloria Angelina Katharina Alletto in Passaic, New Jersey, she moved with her parents to Los Angeles at age 5. She made California her home for the next 50 years. Camacho took classical piano training at the Conservatory of Music and Arts in New Jersey. In the 1960s Corinne was one of the top fashion models on the West Coast. She married, started a family, and transitioned into the world of acting. She switched to acting in 1967 and worked steadily in television, theater, and film for the next three decades. Career Camacho made her acting debut in an episode of ''The Wild Wild West'' as the date of Artemus Gordon, played by Ross Martin. She went on to play small parts on ''Bewitched'', ''I Dream of Jean ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Passaic, New Jersey
Passaic ( or ) is a City (New Jersey), city in Passaic County, New Jersey, Passaic County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census, the city was List of municipalities in New Jersey, the state's 16th-most-populous municipality,Table1. New Jersey Counties and Most Populous Cities and Townships: 2020 and 2010 Censuses New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development. Accessed December 1, 2022. with a population of 70,537, falling behind Bayonne, New Jersey, Bayonne (ranked 16th in 2010), an increase of 756 (+1.1%) from the 2010 United States census, 2010 census count of 69,781, [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Six Million Dollar Man
''The Six Million Dollar Man'' is an American science fiction and action television series, running from 1973 to 1978, about a former astronaut, USAF Colonel Steve Austin, portrayed by Lee Majors. After being seriously injured in a NASA test flight crash, Austin is rebuilt (at considerable expense, hence the title of the series) with bionic implants that give him superhuman strength, speed and vision. Austin is then employed as a secret agent by a fictional U.S. government office titled OSI. The series was based on Martin Caidin's 1972 novel ''Cyborg'', which was the working title of the series during pre-production. Following three television films intended as pilots, which all aired in 1973, ''The Six Million Dollar Man'' television series aired on the ABC network as a regular episodic series for five seasons from 1974 to 1978. Steve Austin became a pop culture icon of the 1970s. A spin-off television series, ''The Bionic Woman'', featuring the lead female character Jaim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan August
''Dan August'' is an American drama series that aired on American Broadcasting Company, ABC from September 23, 1970, to April 8, 1971. Burt Reynolds played the title character. Reruns of the series aired in prime time on CBS from May to October 1973 and from April to June 1975. Premise Police lieutenant Dan August investigates homicide cases in his (fictional) hometown of Santa Luisa, California. The town is supposedly based on Santa Barbara, California, but was filmed in Oxnard in Ventura County. Cast * Burt Reynolds as police lieutenant Dan August * Norman Fell as Sergeant Charles Wilentz, August's partner * Richard Anderson as Police Chief Untermeyer * Ned Romero as Sergeant Joe Rivera * Ena Hartman as Katie Grant Barney Phillips had a recurring role as Mike Golden, the medical examiner. John Lasell also had a recurring role as Benjamin Wedlock. Guest stars Guest stars including Diana Muldaur in the pilot episode "Murder by Proxy"; Martin Sheen in "Dead Witness to a Killing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Mask Of Sheba
''The Mask of Sheba'' is a 1970 American made-for-television adventure film starring Walter Pidgeon, Inger Stevens, Eric Braeden, William Marshall and Stephen Young. It is directed by David Lowell Rich and was first broadcast on NBC on March 9, 1970.TV Guide, March 7–11, 1970, p A-50 Plot An anthropological team travels to a dense African jungle in search of missing safari members and a priceless gold statue. The journey is endangered by primitive tribesmen, treacherous territory and intrigue within the group. Cast * Walter Pidgeon as Dr. Condon * Inger Stevens as Sarah * Eric Braeden as Dr. Morgan * William Marshall as Condor * Stephen Young as Travis * Corinne Camacho as Joanna * Joseph Wiseman Joseph Wiseman (May 15, 1918 – October 19, 2009) was a Canadian-American theatre, film, and television actor. He starred as the villain Julius No in the first James Bond film, '' Dr. No,'' in 1962. He was also known for his role as crime boss ... as Bondelok * Christopher ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mayberry R
Mayberry is a fictional community that was the setting for two popular American television sitcoms, ''The Andy Griffith Show'' (1960–1968) and '' Mayberry R.F.D.'' (1968–1971); Mayberry was also the setting for a 1986 reunion television film titled '' Return to Mayberry''. The town is also frequently mentioned in the spin-off program '' Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.'', and is seen when Pyle returns to visit his home town. Mayberry is said to be based on Andy Griffith's hometown of Mount Airy, North Carolina. Mount Airy is also known as Mayberry and called by both names by its residents. The name "Mayberry" According to show episodes, the community of Mayberry was named for fictional founder John Mayberry. In the 1964 episode “The Pageant,” Mayberry celebrates its centennial, implying its founding was in 1864. Purportedly, Andy Griffith himself chose the name of the fictional community. Griffith, however, told Larry King in 2003 that Artie Stander is the person who thought of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CBS Playhouse
''CBS Playhouse'' is an American anthology drama television series that aired on CBS from 1967 to 1970. Airing twelve plays over the course of its run, the series won ten Primetime Emmy Awards and featured many noteworthy actors and playwrights. History The ''CBS Playhouse'' series was announced in 1966, with CBS announcing a $500,000 outlay for new scripts to film. CBS was specifically looking to "encourage authors to write original and significant dramas for television," and offered $25,000 per optioned script. This occurred shortly after ABC announced its dramatic arts program '' ABC Stage 67'', along with many CBS dramas. ''Playhouse'' ultimately commissioned thirteen playwrights to write scripts for the series. The first program aired in 1967, called ''The Final War of Olly Winter'' starring Ivan Dixon and written by noted playwright Ronald Ribman. According to CBS, over 30 million people watched the broadcast, making it a popular hit for the time. Twelve broadcasts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lewis And Clark And George
''Lewis and Clark and George'' is a 1997 comedy crime thriller film directed by Rod McCall. Plot ''Lewis and Clark and George'' opens with Lewis (Salvator Xuereb) and Clark (Dan Gunther) Clark at a water tank site wearing prison jump suits. The scene is desert scrub and the two state prison escapees have just located a buried metal box with a loaded revolver, treasure map, and Cuban cigars. A road trip begins as the two hike off through the desert to find the treasure, eventually joined by George (Rose McGowan). Cast *Rose McGowan as George *Dan Gunther as Clark *Salvator Xuereb as Lewis *Aki Aleong as Chang *Paul Bartel as Cop *E. E. Bell as Mailman *James Brolin as Reverend Red *Richard Butterfield as Pickup Cowboy * Tamara Clatterbuck as Blond Hooker *Destiny Esposito as Gun Girl *Jerry Gardner as Yo-Yo Man *Art LaFleur Art LaFleur (September 9, 1943 – November 17, 2021) was an American character actor and acting coach. Life and career LaFleur was born in Gary, Indiana. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drama (film And Television)
In film and television show, television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or docudrama, semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humour, humorous in tone. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super-genre, macro-genre, or micro-genre, such as soap opera, police procedural, police crime drama, political drama, legal drama, historical drama, domestic drama, Drama (film and television)#Teen drama, teen drama, and comedy drama (dramedy). These terms tend to indicate a particular Setting (narrative), setting or subject matter, or they combine a drama's otherwise serious tone with elements that encourage a broader range of Mood (literature), moods. To these ends, a primary element in a drama is the occurrence of Conflict (process), conflict—emotional, social, or otherwise—and its resolution in the course of the storyline. All forms of Film industry, cinema or television that involve Fiction, fiction ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anchoress (film)
''Anchoress'' is a 1993 British drama film directed by Chris Newby. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival. The screenplay is partly based on accounts of an historical female anchorite, Christine Carpenter, who was walled into her anchorhold in a village church in Shere, Surrey, in southern England, in 1329. The story revolves around the girl's mystical visions of the Virgin Mary, the local reeve who wants to marry her, and the priest who walls her into his village church and his dislike of her mother, a midwife whom he regards as a witch. The film is shot in black-and-white and visually resembles the works of Danish filmmaker Carl Theodor Dreyer, especially ''The Passion of Joan of Arc'' (1928). Cast * Natalie Morse as Christine Carpenter * Gene Bervoets as Reeve (as Eugene Bervoets) * Toyah Willcox as Pauline Carpenter * Pete Postlethwaite as William Carpenter * Christopher Eccleston as Priest * Michael Pas as Drover * Brenda Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Science Fiction Film
Science fiction (or sci-fi) is a film genre that uses Speculative fiction, speculative, fictional science-based depictions of phenomena that are not fully accepted by mainstream science, such as Extraterrestrial life in fiction, extraterrestrial lifeforms, List of fictional spacecraft, spacecraft, robots, cyborgs, Mutants in fiction, mutants, interstellar travel, time travel, or other technologies. Science fiction films have often been used to focus on politics, political or social issues, and to explore philosophical issues like the human condition. The genre has existed since the early years of silent cinema, when Georges Méliès' ''A Trip to the Moon'' (1902) employed Special effect, trick photography effects. The next major example (first in feature-length in the genre) was the film ''Metropolis (1927 film), Metropolis'' (1927). From the 1930s to the 1950s, the genre consisted mainly of low-budget B movies. After Stanley Kubrick's landmark ''2001: A Space Odyssey (film), 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Biographical Film
A biographical film or biopic () is a film that dramatizes the life of an actual person or group of people. Such films show the life of a historical person and the central character's real name is used. They differ from Docudrama, docudrama films and Historical drama, historical drama films in that they attempt to comprehensively tell a single person's life story or at least the most historically important years of their lives. Context Biopic scholars include George F. Custen of the College of Staten Island and Dennis P. Bingham of Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis. Custen, in ''Bio/Pics: How Hollywood Constructed Public History'' (1992), regards the genre as having died with the Studio system, Hollywood studio era, and in particular, Darryl F. Zanuck. On the other hand, Bingham's 2010 study ''Whose Lives Are They Anyway? The Biopic as Contemporary Film Genre'' shows how it perpetuates as a codified genre using many of the same tropes used in the studio era that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Born Again (film)
''Born Again'' is a 1978 American biographical film, biographical drama film directed by Hollywood veteran Irving Rapper depicting the involvement of Charles Colson in the Watergate scandal, his subsequent conversion to Christianity and his prison term. It stars Dean Jones (actor), Dean Jones as Colson, Anne Francis as his wife, Dana Andrews as Tom Phillips, Harry Spillman as Richard Nixon, President Nixon, former Senator Harold Hughes as himself and George Brent in his final film. The film was released by Embassy Pictures, Avco Embassy Pictures. The title theme song "Born Again," with music by Les Baxter and lyrics by Craig Johnson, was sung by Larnelle Harris. Plot As president Richard Nixon's United States Office of Special Counsel, special counsel, Colson has power and prestige along with an office in the White House. After the Watergate scandal, Watergate scandal, Colson pleads guilty and is sent to prison. The experience changes him drastically, and he establishes Prison Fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
