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Felony Squad
''The Felony Squad'' is a half-hour television crime drama originally broadcast on the ABC network from September 12, 1966, to January 31, 1969. Overview Sergeant Sam Stone and Detective Jim Briggs are investigators in a major crimes unit in an unidentified West Coast city. (Los Angeles City Hall is shown at dusk in the final scene of the opening credits.) Duff's character was the veteran who was teaching his younger partner the nuances of life in this new facet of police work. Another main character was desk sergeant Dan Briggs, the father of Cole's character. Originally titled ''Men Against Evil'', the show was set to be a soap opera-type program that would have been broadcast two nights per week. By March 1966 Stone's alcoholic wife and other "main female characters" were removed, with the focus of the program changed from personal lives of policemen to the work of the police. In addition, following primary sponsor Liggett & Myers' objection about being associated with the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Police Procedural
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 agency, 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, Autopsy, autopsies, gathering Evidence (law), 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 Climax (narrative), 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis De Sales (actor)
Francis DeSales (March 23, 1912 – September 25, 1988) was an American actor known for playing Harold Faller in '' The Big Story'', Sheriff Maddox in ''Two Faces West'', and Ralph Dobson in ''The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet''. Biography Born in Philadelphia, DeSales was survived by his wife Doris when he died of cancer at his home in Van Nuys at the age of 76. DeSales is interred in Queen of Heaven Cemetery in Rowland Heights, California.Wilson, Scott. ''Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons'', 3d ed.: 2 (Kindle Locations 25047-25048). McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. Kindle Edition. Film roles *'' Mr. and Mrs. North'' (1954, TV Series) - Lieutenant Bill Weigan *'' Headline Hunters'' (1955) - Tribune Reporter (uncredited) *''Alfred Hitchcock Presents'' (1956) (Season 2 Episode 9: Crack of Doom") - Card Player *'' Terror at Midnight'' (1956) - Police Lieutenant Conway *''The Girl He Left Behind'' (1956) - Army Psychiatrist (uncredited ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Donner
Richard Donner (born Richard Donald Schwartzberg; April 24, 1930 – July 5, 2021) was an American film director, producer and actor. Described as "one of Hollywood's most reliable makers of action blockbusters", Donner directed some of the most financially successful films of the 1970s and 1980s. His 50-year career crossed genres and influenced trends among filmmakers across the world. Donner began his career in 1957 as a television director. In the 1960s, he directed episodes of the series ''The Rifleman'', ''The Man from U.N.C.L.E.'', ''The Fugitive (1963 TV series), The Fugitive'', ''The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series), The Twilight Zone'', ''The Banana Splits'', and many others. Donner made his film debut with the low-budget aviation drama ''X-15 (film), X-15'' in 1961, but had his critical and commercial breakthrough with the horror film ''The Omen'' in 1976. He directed the landmark superhero film ''Superman (1978 film), Superman'' in 1978, which provided an inspiration f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hank Searls
Henry Hunt Searls (August 10, 1922 – February 17, 2017) was an American author and screenwriter. His novels included ''The Crowded Sky'' (1960), which was adapted as the 1960 movie of the same name; ''The Pilgrim Project'' (1964), which was adapted as the 1968 movie '' Countdown''; and ''The Penetrators'' (1965, writing as Anthony Gray). Searls also wrote the novelizations for the movies ''Jaws 2'' (1978) featuring Roy Scheider and Murray Hamilton, and '' Jaws: The Revenge'' (1987) featuring Michael Caine and Lorraine Gary. Career Hank Searls' 1960 novel, ''The Crowded Sky'', was made that same year into a feature movie featuring Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming, Anne Francis, and Troy Donahue. Set in the USAF's Strategic Air Command, the 1965 novel ''The Penetrators'' is the story of a maverick Royal Air Force exchange officer who commands a mock Avro Vulcan bomber attack on the USA. Replete with quotes from Curtis LeMay, Robert S McNamara and other officials of the Cold ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donald S
Donald is a Scottish masculine given name. It is derived from the Gaelic name ''Dòmhnall''.. This comes from the Proto-Celtic *''Dumno-ualos'' ("world-ruler" or "world-wielder"). The final -''d'' in ''Donald'' is partly derived from a misinterpretation of the Gaelic pronunciation by English speakers. A short form of Donald is Don, and pet forms of Donald include Donnie and Donny. The feminine given name Donella is derived from Donald. ''Donald'' has cognates in other Celtic languages: Modern Irish ''Dónal'' (anglicised as ''Donal'' and ''Donall'');. Scottish Gaelic ''Dòmhnall'', ''Domhnull'' and ''Dòmhnull''; Welsh '' Dyfnwal'' and Cumbric ''Dumnagual''. Although the feminine given name '' Donna'' is sometimes used as a feminine form of ''Donald'', the names are not etymologically related. Variations Kings and noblemen Domnall or Domhnall is the name of many ancient and medieval Gaelic kings and noblemen: * Dyfnwal Moelmud (Dunvallo Molmutius), legendary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vincent McEveety
Vincent Michael McEveety (August 10, 1929 – May 19, 2018) was an American film and television director and producer. Career Vince McEveety directed numerous Emmy Award-winning television series, including '' The Untouchables'', 35 episodes of ''Gunsmoke'', six ''Star Trek'' episodes (including "Dagger of the Mind", "Balance of Terror", " Patterns of Force" and " Spectre of the Gun"), '' Magnum, P.I.'', '' How the West Was Won'', '' The Man from U.N.C.L.E.'', '' Stranger at My Door'', '' Murder, She Wrote'', and '' Diagnosis: Murder'', starring Dick Van Dyke. In 1991, McEveety directed the award-winning episode of the NBC television series '' In the Heat of the Night'', titled " Sweet, Sweet Blues", guest-starring musician Bobby Short and veteran actor James Best. That year ''Heat'' won its first NAACP Image Award for ''Outstanding Dramatic Series'' and James Best won the Crystal Reel Award for ''Best Actor''. From 1994 through 1997, McEveety produced the television series ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Eckstein
George Eckstein (May 3, 1928 – September 12, 2009) was an American writer and television producer whose career spanned three decades, from the early 1960s through the late 1980s. Eckstein was a producer of many popular television programs such as ''The Invaders'' and '' The Name of the Game'' (Robert Stack segment), in addition to penning the scripts of many others, including ''Gunsmoke'', and ''Cannon''. He co-wrote '' The Fugitive'' final two part episode, "The Judgment" (1967). He was Executive Producer on the series ''Banacek''. From the late 1970s onward, the bulk of Eckstein's producing work was on several made-for-TV movies and specials, with a year's stint as executive producer of the NBC series ''Love, Sidney'' in the midst. Early life Eckstein was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of Ruth (née Wexler) and George Eckstein, a salesman. Personal life He was married to actress Ann Morgan Guilbert from 1953 until their divorce in 1966, and had two children with her, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Ritchie (film Director)
Michael Brunswick Ritchie (November 28, 1938 – April 16, 2001) was an American film director, producer, and writer of films with comical or satirical leanings, such as ''The Candidate'' (1972) and ''Smile'' (1975). He scored commercial successes directing sports films like ''Downhill Racer'' (1969) and ''The Bad News Bears'' (1976), and comedies like Chevy Chase's '' Fletch'' (1985) and Eddie Murphy's ''The Golden Child'' (1986). Personal life Ritchie was born in Waukesha, Wisconsin, the son of Patricia (née Graney) and Benbow Ferguson Ritchie. His family later moved to Berkeley, California, where his father was a professor of experimental psychology at the University of California at Berkeley and his mother was the art and music librarian for the city. He attended Berkeley High School before becoming interested in film, and was accepted at Harvard University following high school. He told Robert Redford's biographer, author Michael Feeney Callan, that academic intere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lana Wood
Lana Wood (born Svetlana Lisa Gurdin; March 1, 1946) is an American actress and producer. She made her film debut in ''The Searchers'' as a child actress and later achieved notability for playing Sandy Webber on the TV series '' Peyton Place'' and Plenty O'Toole in the James Bond film '' Diamonds Are Forever''. Her sister was Natalie Wood. Early life Wood was born Svetlana Lisa Gurdin to Russian immigrant parents, Maria Zudilova (1908–1998) and Nicholas Zacharenko (1912–1980). They had each left Russia as child refugees with their parents following the Russian Civil War, and they grew up far from their homeland. Her father's family left Vladivostok after her grandfather, a chocolate-factory worker who joined the anti-Bolshevik civilian forces, was killed in a street fight in 1922; they settled in Vancouver, British Columbia, with their relatives, then moved to San Francisco. Lana's maternal grandfather owned soap and candle factories in Barnaul; he left Russia with his family ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brooke Bundy
Brooke Bundy (born August 8, 1944) is an American film and television actress. Early years As a teenager, Bundy was a model in New York before she went to Hollywood on vacation and remained there to become an actress. While in New York, she attended the Professional Children's School. Acting career Movie She is perhaps best known for her role as Elaine Parker in the 1987 hit horror film '' A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors'' and its sequel, '' A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master'' (1988). Bundy appeared in Daniel Farrands' documentary film, '' Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy''. Television Bundy had two long-running roles on the soap opera ''Days of Our Lives'' as Rebecca North (1975–77) and ''General Hospital'' as Diana Maynard Taylor, RN (1977–81). She has made guest appearances on a variety of television shows including ''The Big Valley'', ''Mr. Novak'', ''Daniel Boone'', ''Lassie'' (playing Terri Young in season 12, episode 10 "In the Mid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Shea
Eric Shea (born February 14, 1960) is an American former child actor. Active from age six through seventeen, he is best known for his roles in the feature films '' Yours, Mine and Ours'' (1968), ''Smile'' (1975), and '' The Poseidon Adventure'' (1972), as well as his numerous guest-starring appearances throughout the 1960s and 1970s on such popular television series as ''Batman'', ''Gunsmoke'', '' The Flying Nun'', '' Nanny and the Professor'', ''The Brady Bunch'', and ''Little House on the Prairie'', among others. Shea's brothers Christopher and Stephen Stephen or Steven is an English given name, first name. It is particularly significant to Christianity, Christians, as it belonged to Saint Stephen ( ), an early disciple and deacon who, according to the Book of Acts, was stoned to death; he is w ... each voiced Linus van Pelt for the '' Peanuts'' TV animation specials in the 1960s and 1970s, respectively. Filmography Bibliography * Holmstrom, John. ''The Moving Picture Bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Pickard (American Actor)
John M. Pickard (June 25, 1913 – August 4, 1993) was an American actor who appeared primarily in television Westerns. Early life Pickard was born in Lascassas in Rutherford County, near Murfreesboro in Middle Tennessee. He graduated from the Nashville Conservatory in Nashville, Tennessee. His first acting roles were small parts in films, mostly uncredited, beginning in 1936 as a dueling soldier in the picture '' Mary of Scotland'', based on the 16th century queen, Mary of Scotland. Career Pickard returned to acting after the war and appeared in supporting roles in scores of Westerns and action dramas before landing the starring role in the syndicated television series, '' Boots and Saddles'', set in an Arizona fort in the late 19th century. His second film role, also uncredited, came in John Wayne's '' Wake of the Red Witch'' (1948). Pickard's first television guest-starring roles were in crime dramas in 1951 and 1952, respectively -- ''Racket Squad'', with Reed Had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
