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Generations (American TV Series)
''Generations'' is an American soap opera that aired on NBC in the United States from March 27, 1989, to January 25, 1991, and in Canada, where it ran on CBC Television. The show was groundbreaking in that it was the first soap opera to feature a Black Americans, Black-American family from its inception. Original cast * Marla Adams (Helen Mullin) * Anthony Addabbo (Jason Craig) * Jonelle Allen (Doreen Jackson) * Jack Betts (Hugh Gardner) * Taurean Blacque/James Reynolds (actor), James Reynolds (Henry Marshall) * Sharon Brown (actress), Sharon Brown/Debbi Morgan (Chantal Marshall) * Patricia Crowley/Dorothy Lyman (Rebecca Whitmore) * George Deloy (Rob Donnelly) * Elinor Donahue (Sylvia Furth) * Rick Fitts (Martin Jackson) * Vivica A. Fox (Maya Reubens) * Bruce Gray (Phillip Webb) * Lynn Hamilton (actress), Lynn Hamilton (Vivian Potter) * Ron Harper (actor), Ron Harper (Peter Whitmore) * Andrew Masset (Trevor McCallum) * Joan Pringle (Ruth Marshall) * Gail Ramsey (Laura McCallum) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soap Opera
A soap opera (also called a daytime drama or soap) is a genre of a long-running radio or television Serial (radio and television), serial, frequently characterized by melodrama, ensemble casts, and sentimentality. The term ''soap opera'' originated from radio dramas originally being sponsored by soap manufacturers.Bowles, p. 118. The term was preceded by ''horse opera'', a derogatory term for low-budget Western (genre), Westerns. According to some dictionaries, for something to be adequately described as a soap opera, it need not be long-running; but some authors define the word in a way that excludes short-running serial dramas from their definition. BBC Radio's ''The Archers'', first Broadcasting, broadcast in 1950, is the world's longest-running soap opera. The longest-running television soap opera is ''Coronation Street'', which was first broadcast on ITV (TV network), ITV in 1960. According to Albert Moran, one of the defining features that make a television program a soap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elinor Donahue
Elinor Donahue (born Mary Eleanor Donahue; April 19, 1937) is an American retired actress known for playing the role of Betty Anderson, the eldest child of Jim and Margaret Anderson, on the 1950s American sitcom ''Father Knows Best''. Early life and career Donahue was born in Tacoma, Washington, the daughter of Doris Genevieve (née Gelbaugh) and Thomas William Donahue on April 19, 1937. Appearing in dancing-chorus film roles from the age of five, Donahue was at one point a ballet-school classmate of future Fred Astaire partner Barrie Chase. She was a child actress working in vaudeville and had several bit parts in movies as a teenager, including ''Love Is Better Than Ever'' (1952), starring Elizabeth Taylor and ''Tea for Two (film), Tea for Two'' (1950) starring Doris Day. She played one of the daughters in ''Three Daring Daughters'' in 1948 and appeared as Mamie Van Doren's sister in ''Girls Town (1959 film), Girls Town'' (1959). ''Father Knows Best'' Donahue achieved star ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Debbi Morgan
Deborah Ann "Debbi" Morgan is an American film and television actress. Morgan has appeared in a number of film and TV productions, and may be best known for the role of Angie Baxter–Hubbard on the ABC soap opera ''All My Children''. Morgan was the first African American to win the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her performance as Angie in 1989. She is also known for her role as the Seer in the fourth and fifth seasons of '' Charmed''. In film, her performance as Mozelle Batiste-Delacroix in '' Eve's Bayou'' (1997) earned critical acclaim and the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female. More recently she played a recurring role as Estelle Green in the starz crime drama series '' Power'' and its spinoff '' Power Book II: Ghost'' from 2014 to 2021, and also co-starred in the Fox drama series '' Our Kind of People''. Early life Morgan was born in Dunn, North Carolina, the daughter of Lora, a teacher, and George Morga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sharon Brown (actress)
Sharon Catherine Brown (born January 11, 1962), also known as Sharon Catherine Blanks, is an American actress of stage, film, and television. Early life She was born in New York City and is the daughter of actor Johnny Brown, who portrayed Nathan Bookman on the 1970s sitcom '' Good Times''. Her mother, June Brown, was a studio manager. Sharon graduated from Hollywood High School where she played Mame Dennis in the musical ''Mame'' and Ruth Sherwood in ''Wonderful Town''. She has a brother, John Brown Jr. Career Brown has worked frequently as a stage actress, including roles as Effie in both Broadway and touring productions of the musical ''Dreamgirls''; as Violet in the musical '' Maggie Flynn''; and as the narrator in versions of '' Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat''. She has also toured with productions of '' The Wiz'', '' Rent'' and '' Jekyll & Hyde''. Brown was nominated for a Helen Hayes Award in 1987 for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Non-Resident Pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Betts
Jack Betts, also credited as Hunt Powers, is an American character actor. He has acted in film, on stage, and on television. He starred in several Spaghetti western films such as '' Sugar Colt''. Career Betts was raised in Jersey City, New Jersey. When he was 10 years old, he and his family moved to Miami, Florida. He auditioned for a talent contest on WIOD. He graduated from Miami Senior High School and attended the University of Miami in which he studied theater. Betts started his career in 1953 in the play ''Richard III''. He portrayed Chris Devlin in the CBS mystery series ''Checkmate'' (1960–1962). From 1963 to 1965, he portrayed Dr. Ken Martin in ''General Hospital''. He also played Mr. Fisher, an 80-year-old man on ''One Life to Live'' in 1982. Among his numerous television appearances were four roles on the CBS drama series '' Perry Mason'', including the role of Bert Nickols in the 1961 episode, "The Case of the Impatient Partner," Enos Watterton in the 1962 ep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Americans
African Americans, also known as Black Americans and formerly also called Afro-Americans, are an Race and ethnicity in the United States, American racial and ethnic group that consists of Americans who have total or partial ancestry from any of the Black people, Black racial groups of Africa. African Americans constitute the second largest ethno-racial group in the U.S. after White Americans. The term "African American" generally denotes descendants of Slavery in the United States, Africans enslaved in the United States. In 2023, an estimated 48.3 million people self-identified as Black, making up 14.4% of the country’s population. This marks a 33% increase since 2000, when there were 36.2 million Black people living in the U.S. African-American history began in the 16th century, with Africans being sold to Atlantic slave trade, European slave traders and Middle Passage, transported across the Atlantic to Slavery in the colonial history of the United States, the Western He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CBC Television
CBC Television (also known as CBC TV, or simply CBC) is a Television in Canada, Canadian English-language terrestrial television, broadcast television network owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the national public broadcasting, public broadcaster. The network began operations on September 6, 1952, with its main studios at the Canadian Broadcasting Centre in Toronto. Its French-language counterpart is Ici Radio-Canada Télé. CBC Television is available throughout Canada on over-the-air television stations in urban centres, and as a must-carry station on cable and satellite television providers, and live streamed on its CBC Gem video platform. Overview CBC Television provides a complete 24-hour network schedule of news, sports, entertainment, and children's programming; in most cases, it feeds the same programming at the exact local times nationwide, except to the Newfoundland Time Zone, where programs air 30 minutes "late". On October 9, 2006, at 6:00 a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soap Opera
A soap opera (also called a daytime drama or soap) is a genre of a long-running radio or television Serial (radio and television), serial, frequently characterized by melodrama, ensemble casts, and sentimentality. The term ''soap opera'' originated from radio dramas originally being sponsored by soap manufacturers.Bowles, p. 118. The term was preceded by ''horse opera'', a derogatory term for low-budget Western (genre), Westerns. According to some dictionaries, for something to be adequately described as a soap opera, it need not be long-running; but some authors define the word in a way that excludes short-running serial dramas from their definition. BBC Radio's ''The Archers'', first Broadcasting, broadcast in 1950, is the world's longest-running soap opera. The longest-running television soap opera is ''Coronation Street'', which was first broadcast on ITV (TV network), ITV in 1960. According to Albert Moran, one of the defining features that make a television program a soap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Gore
Michael Gore (born March 5, 1951) is an American composer. He is the younger brother of singer Lesley Gore. Biography A 1969 graduate of the Dwight-Englewood School, Gore received the school's Distinguished Alumni Award in 2004. Gore, along with lyricist Dean Pitchford, won the Oscar in 1981 for Academy Award for Best Original Song, Best Original Song for "Fame (Irene Cara song), Fame", from the Fame (1980 film), film of the same title. He also won the award that year for Academy Award for Original Music Score, Best Original Score. Gore, alongside his long-term partner Lawrence D. Cohen, later collaborated with Pitchford on ''Carrie (musical), Carrie: The Musical,'' a show based on Stephen King's Carrie (novel), first published novel from 1974. The show, as directed by Terry Hands of the Royal Shakespeare Company, became one of Broadway (theatre), Broadway's most infamous flops, receiving polarized reviews from theater critics. Despite reactive audiences and positive comparison ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NBC Productions
Universal Television LLC (abbreviated as UTV) is an American television production company that is a division of NBCUniversal Television and Streaming#Universal Studio Group, Universal Studio Group, a division of NBCUniversal, which, in turn, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Comcast. It serves as the network television production arm of NBC; a predecessor of the company, NBC Studios, previously assumed such functions, and a substantial portion of the company's shows air on the network. It was formerly known by various names, including Revue Studios, Universal Pictures Television Department, Universal-International Television, Studios USA Television LLC, Universal Studios Network Programming, Universal Network Television, Universal Domestic Television, NBC Universal Television Studio, and Universal Media Studios. It is also known as Open 4 Business Productions in copyright in certain television series produced by them since 2009. Re-established in 2004, both NBC Studios and the ori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ron Harper (actor)
Ronald Robert Harper (January 12, 1933 – March 21, 2024) was an American television and film actor. Life and career Ronald Robert Harper was born in Turtle Creek, Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh. After earning straight A's at Turtle Creek High School, he went to Princeton University, where he was a member of the University Players. He was offered a fellowship to study law at Harvard but chose instead to study acting under Lee Strasberg. After serving in the U.S. Navy during the Korean War, Harper returned to New York. After several disappointments, he earned a job as Paul Newman's understudy in the Broadway play ''Sweet Bird of Youth'' in 1959. Relocating to Hollywood, his first role was in 1960 for the NBC television series ''Tales of Wells Fargo''. Steady television guest appearances followed, including a role on NBC's series '' The Tall Man''. In December 1960, he appeared in the episode "Duel at Parkison Town" of NBC's '' Laramie'', and three years later in its episode "Ed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Gentry (actor)
Robert Gentry (September 29, 1940 – September 17, 2022) was an American actor known for his work on daytime soap operas. Career Gentry was one of the actors to play Ed Bauer on ''Guiding Light''. He portrayed Ed from 1966 to 1969, then left the role to appear on a new ABC soap opera, ''The Best of Everything.''. Gentry returned nearly 30 years later to play the role of Ed on a recurring basis from 1997 to 1998. Gentry played two characters on '' Another World''. From 1979 to 1981, he played the character of the opportunistic Philip Lyons, then returned in 1997–98 to play the role of Detective Craig Morris. In 1983, he had the short-term role of Giles Morgan on ''One Life to Live''. His longest tenure was on ''All My Children'', where he played Ross Chandler, the nephew of powerful Adam Chandler, and illegitimate son of Palmer Cortlandt, from 1983–1990. In 1990, on '' Generations'', he played the role of villain Jordan Hale Gentry played the part of Richard Hunt on '' D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
