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Dear God (Touched By An Angel)
The second season of the American dramatic television series ''Touched by an Angel'' ran on CBS from September 23, 1995 to May 18, 1996, spanning 24 episodes. Created by John Masius and produced by Martha Williamson, the series chronicled the cases of two angels, Monica (Roma Downey) and her supervisor Tess (Della Reese), who bring messages from God to various people to help them as they reach a crossroads in their lives. A third angel, Andrew (John Dye) is introduced as the "Angel of Death". A season set containing all of the episodes of the season was released to DVD region code#Region codes and countries, Region 1 DVD. The episodes use the song "Walk with You", performed by Reese, as their opening theme. __TOC__ Episodes References External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Touched by an Angel season 2 Touched by an Angel seasons 1995 American television seasons 1996 American television seasons ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roma Downey
Roma Burnett (née Downey) is an actress, producer, and author from Derry, Northern Ireland. She produced the mini-series ''The Bible'' for the History Channel and also appeared in it as Mary, mother of Jesus. For nine seasons she played Monica the angel in the CBS television series ''Touched by an Angel''. She has performed on stage with the Abbey Theatre, The National Theatre of Ireland, and has appeared both on and off Broadway. She played the leading role of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis in the Emmy award-winning miniseries ''A Woman Named Jackie'' for NBC. Downey starred in and was executive producer for a number of television movies for the CBS network, including ''Borrowed Hearts'' and ''Second Honeymoon''. She is an ambassador for Operation Smile, serving on missions to Honduras, Vietnam, and Jordan. On 11 August 2016 she was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 2021, Downey received the Lifetime Achievement Award for the International Christian Film & ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Van Patten
Timothy Van Patten (born June 10, 1959) is an American director, actor, screenwriter, and producer. He has directed episodes of '' Perry Mason'', ''Boardwalk Empire'', '' Black Mirror'', ''Deadwood'', '' Ed'', ''Game of Thrones'', ''The Pacific'', '' Rome'', '' Sex and the City'', '' The Sopranos'', and '' The Wire''. As an actor, he is perhaps best known for portraying Mario "Salami" Pettrino on '' The White Shadow''. He also played the villainous teenager Peter Stegman in '' Class of 1984'' and Max Keller on '' The Master''. Personal life Van Patten was born in Brooklyn, New York to Richard Byron Van Patten and his second wife Eleanor della Gatta Van Patten and grew up in Massapequa, New York. He is the half-brother of Dick Van Patten and Joyce Van Patten, and the uncle of Vincent Van Patten and Talia Balsam. He graduated from Massapequa High School in 1977, in the same class as musician Brian Setzer and football player Brian Baldinger. His daughter is actress Grace ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dick Van Patten
Richard Vincent Van Patten (December 9, 1928 – June 23, 2015) was an American actor, comedian, businessman, and animal welfare advocate, whose career spanned seven decades of television. He was best known for his role as patriarch Tom Bradford on the ABC television comedy-drama ''Eight Is Enough''. Van Patten began work as a child actor and was successful on the New York stage, appearing in more than a dozen plays as a teenager. He worked in radio, on '' Duffy's Tavern''. He later starred in numerous television roles including the long-running CBS television series, "Mama" and ''Young Doctor Malone''. Later, he would star or co-star in many feature films, including '' Charly'', Mel Brooks's '' Robin Hood: Men in Tights'' and ''Spaceballs'', and ''Soylent Green''. Van Patten was the founder of Natural Balance Pet Foods and National Guide Dog Month. Early life Richard Vincent Van Patten was born on December 9, 1928, in the Kew Gardens section of the New York City borough ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Schneider (screen Actor)
John Richard Schneider (born April 8, 1960) is an American actor and country music singer. He is best known for his portrayal of Beauregard "Bo" Duke in the American television action/comedy series '' The Dukes of Hazzard'' (opposite Tom Wopat, Catherine Bach and James Best), Jonathan Kent in the 2001–11 TV series '' Smallville'', and James "Jim" Cryer on the television series '' The Haves and the Have Nots'', created by Tyler Perry. Alongside his acting career, Schneider has been a singer since the early 1980s, releasing nine studio albums and a greatest hits package, as well as eighteen singles. This total includes "I've Been Around Enough to Know", " Country Girls", " What's a Memory Like You", and " You're the Last Thing I Needed Tonight", all of which reached the top of the ''Billboard'' country singles charts. Early life Schneider was born on April 8, 1960, in Mount Kisco, New York, the youngest of three boys for Shirley Conklin (1932-2016) and John "Jack" Schne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Talia Balsam
Talia Balsam (born March 5, 1959) is an American television and film actress. Early life Balsam was born in New York City on March 5, 1959, to actors Martin Balsam and Joyce Van Patten. Her ancestry is Russian Jewish (father) and Italian, Dutch, and English (mother). She is the niece of actor Dick Van Patten, actress Pat Van Patten and actor and director Tim Van Patten. Her cousin is actress Grace Van Patten. She attended a boarding school in Tucson, Arizona, in her adolescent years. Career Balsam began her career appearing in a recurring role on the ABC sitcom ''Happy Days'' and later appeared in a number of shows, including ''Dallas'', ''Taxi'', ''Hill Street Blues'', ''Family Ties'' and '' Magnum, P.I.''. Balsam also played female leading roles in films '' Crawlspace'' (1986) and ''In the Mood'' (1987). She also appeared in a number of made-for-television movies, including ''Kent State'' (1981), ''Nadia'' (1984), and '' Consenting Adult'' (1985). Balsam continued playing su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Ashley
Elizabeth Ann Cole, known professionally as Elizabeth Ashley (born August 30, 1939) is an American actress of theatre, film, and television. She has been nominated for three Tony Awards, winning once in 1962 for ''Take Her, She's Mine''. Ashley was also nominated for the BAFTA and Golden Globe awards for her supporting performance in '' The Carpetbaggers'' (1964), and was nominated for an Emmy Award in 1991 for '' Evening Shade''. Elizabeth was a guest on '' The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson'' 24 times. She appeared in several episodes of '' In the Heat of the Night'' as Maybelle Chesboro. Early life Ashley was born to a music teacher and raised in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Ashley left Louisiana State University after her freshman year and moved to New York. She studied acting at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre there, supporting herself by working as the Jell-O pudding girl on a television program and as a showroom model. Career Ashley won a Tony Award for B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Black
Thomas Jacob Black (born August 28, 1969) is an American actor, comedian, and musician. He is known for his acting roles in the films '' High Fidelity'' (2000), '' Shallow Hal'' (2001), '' Orange County'' (2002), '' School of Rock'' (2003), '' Envy'' (2004), ''The Holiday'' (2006), ''Gulliver's Travels'' (2010), '' Bernie'' (2011), '' The House with a Clock in Its Walls'' (2018), and the '' Jumanji'' franchise; in addition, as of August 2022, his music video for "Tribute"—as one half of the Grammy Award–winning comedy rock duo Tenacious D—has accumulated more than 112 million views on YouTube alone. Additionally, he is also well known for his voice-acting roles as the giant panda named Po from DreamWorks Animation's '' Kung Fu Panda'' films. Black gained Golden Globe nominations for his work in ''School of Rock'' and ''Bernie'', and was given a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame in 2018. He is the lead vocalist of the Tenacious D, and formed the duo in 1994 with long-ti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Marsden
James Paul Marsden (born September 18, 1973) is an American actor, singer, and former model. Marsden began his acting career guest starring in the television shows '' Saved by the Bell: The New Class'' (1993), ''Touched by an Angel'' (1995), '' Party of Five'' (1995), and miniseries ''Bella Mafia'' (1997). He gained prominence in the early 2000s with his portrayal of Scott Summers / Cyclops in the ''X-Men'' film series (2000–2014), and starred in ''Superman Returns'' (2006). Other works during this period include '' The Notebook'' (2004), ''10th & Wolf'' (2006), and '' The Alibi'' (2006). Following his breakthrough in comic book films, Marsden went on to star in various genre films, including '' Hairspray'' (2007), which was a critical and commercial success and won many awards for its ensemble cast. As Corny Collins, he sang two songs for the film's soundtrack which has been certified Platinum by the RIAA. He subsequently appeared in the films '' Sex Drive'' (2008), '' Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melissa Joan Hart
Melissa Joan Hart (born April 18, 1976) is an American actress, producer, and director. She had starring roles as the title characters in the sitcoms ''Clarissa Explains It All'' (1991–1994), ''Sabrina the Teenage Witch'' (1996–2003), and ''Melissa & Joey'' (2010–2015), and also in '' No Good Nick'' (2019). She has also appeared in films '' Drive Me Crazy'' (1999), '' Nine Dead'' (2009), and '' God's Not Dead 2'' (2016). On October 17, 2021, she became the first celebrity to win the $1 million top prize for her charity, Youth Villages, on '' Celebrity Wheel of Fortune'' and the fourth overall million dollar winner on ''Wheel of Fortune''. Early life Hart was born in Smithtown, New York, the first child of Paula Hart (née Voje), a producer and talent manager, and William Hart, a carpenter, shellfish purveyor, oyster hatchery worker, and entrepreneur. Her maternal grandfather, Stanley John Voje, was a Navy veteran and Catholic. Hart grew up in Sayville, New York. Hart's p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruce Bilson
Bruce Bilson (born May 19, 1928) is an American film director and television director. He is most notable for his work as a regular director on the spy spoof ''Get Smart''. He won the 1967–1968 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series for the third season ''Get Smart'' episode "Maxwell Smart, Private Eye". Life and career Bilson was born in Brooklyn to Jewish parents. His mother, Hattie Bilson (née Dratwa; 1907-2004), was an American screenwriter, and his father, George Bilson (1902–1981), was a British producer/writer/director of Ashkenazi Jewish descent who was born in Leeds, England. His brother, Malcolm is a fortepianist and professor of piano at Cornell University. Bilson graduated from UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television in 1950. Family Bilson married Mona Weichman on August 31, 1955; they divorced in 1976. They had two children, Danny Bilson (born 1956), a film and video game writer/producer and father of Rachel Bilson, and Juli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diahann Carroll
Diahann Carroll (; born Carol Diann Johnson; July 17, 1935 – October 4, 2019) was an American actress, singer, model, and activist. She rose to prominence in some of the earliest major studio films to feature black casts, including '' Carmen Jones'' (1954) and ''Porgy and Bess'' (1959). In 1962, Carroll won a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical, a first for an African-American woman, for her role in the Broadway musical '' No Strings.'' In 1974 she starred in '' Claudine'' alongside James Earl Jones for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress. Her title role in '' Julia'', for which she received the 1968 Golden Globe Award for Best TV Star – Female, was the first series on American television to star a black woman in a non-stereotypical role, and was a milestone both in her career and the medium. In the 1980s, she played the role of Dominique Deveraux, a mixed-race diva, in the prime time soap opera ''Dynasty''. In 1997, she had a signifi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vanessa Bell Calloway
Vanessa Bell Calloway ( Bell; born March 20, 1957) is an American actress. Beginning her career as a dancer, Bell Calloway became known for her film roles as Princess Imani Izzi in the 1988 comedy ''Coming to America'', as well as for her roles in '' What's Love Got to Do with It'' (1993), '' The Inkwell'' (1994), '' Crimson Tide'' (1995), and ''Daylight'' (1996). Bell Calloway had several starring roles on television series and movies, include first African American prime time soap opera, '' Under One Roof'' (1995). She later played recurring roles on '' Hawthorne'' and '' Shameless''. In 2016, she appeared in comedy-drama film ''Southside with You'', and began starring as Lady Ella Johnson in the Bounce TV prime time soap opera, '' Saints & Sinners''. Bell Calloway is a nine-time NAACP Image Award nominee. Early life Bell was born on March 20, 1957, in Cleveland, Ohio. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Ohio University, where she became a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
