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Hot Lead And Cold Feet
''Hot Lead and Cold Feet'' (originally titled ''Welcome to Bloodshy'') is a 1978 American comedy-Western film produced by Walt Disney Productions and starring Jim Dale (in triple roles), Karen Valentine, Don Knotts, Jack Elam and Darren McGavin. Plot Mayor Ragsdale (Darren McGavin) and Sheriff Denver Kid (Don Knotts) meet wealthy businessman Jasper Bloodshy (Jim Dale) and his English butler Mansfield (John Williams) on the outskirts of the Wild Western town of Bloodshy in the Arizona territory. Mansfield reveals that Bloodshy's doctors indicate he is severely ill and will die within two days. Surveying the land he will leave to his heirs, Bloodshy shocks the mayor and sheriff by revealing that in addition to his infamous gunslinger son Wild Billy, he has another son named Eli. Bloodshy's wife returned home to England with this second son after childbirth. After revealing that he wrote a new will to include both sons, a huge gust of wind blows Bloodshy into a gorge, presumably to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Butler (director)
Robert Stanton Butler (November 16, 1927 – November 3, 2023) was an American film and Emmy awards, Emmy Award-winning television director. He is best known for his work in television, where he directed the pilots for a number of series including ''Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek'', ''Hogan's Heroes, '' ''Batman (TV series), Batman'', ''Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman '' and ''Hill Street Blues''. Career Butler graduated from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he majored in English. He was first in an army band, before his career as a Stage management, stage manager and an assistant before launching his directing career with an episode of ''Hennesey'' (starring Jackie Cooper and including a young Ron Howard)Susan King"Director Robert Butler put stamp on 'Batman,' other landmark series" ''Los Angeles Times'', February 15, 2014. and then went on to direct such shows as ''The Untouchables (1959 TV series), The Untouchables'', ''Dr. Kildare ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Sharrett
Stuart Michael Sharrett (born July 18, 1965) is an American actor. Best known for his role in the 1978 family movie '' The Magic of Lassie'' with James Stewart, Sharrett additionally co-starred in the 1985 action film ''Savage Dawn'' and in the 1986 Wes Craven horror film '' Deadly Friend'', for which he received a Young Artist Award nomination as the "Best Young Actor in a Horror Motion Picture". Biography and career Sharrett was born in Ventura, California. Sharrett began his career at the age of 12 in the Emmy Award-winning ''Our Town'', a 1977 television adaptation of the classic play ''Our Town''. On February 20, 1978, Sharrett guest starred on ''Little House on the Prairie'' on the episode entitled "The Stranger" about young Peter Lundstrom, who is expelled from his private school for petty theft, so his wealthy father sends the boy to stay with Uncle Nels Oleson in Walnut Grove for a long-overdue lesson in values. At first he rebels but later on learns the pride of hard wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oregon
Oregon ( , ) is a U.S. state, state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is a part of the Western U.S., with the Columbia River delineating much of Oregon's northern boundary with Washington (state), Washington, while the Snake River delineates much of its eastern boundary with Idaho. The 42nd parallel north, 42° north parallel delineates the southern boundary with California and Nevada. The western boundary is formed by the Pacific Ocean. Oregon has been home to many Indigenous peoples of the Americas, indigenous nations for thousands of years. The first European traders, explorers, and settlers began exploring what is now Oregon's Pacific coast in the early to mid-16th century. As early as 1564, the Spanish expeditions to the Pacific Northwest, Spanish began sending vessels northeast from the Philippines, riding the Kuroshio Current in a sweeping circular route across the northern part of the Pacific. In 1592, Juan de Fuca undertook detailed mapping a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deschutes National Forest
The Deschutes National Forest is a United States national forest (NF) located in Central Oregon, in parts of Deschutes, Klamath, Lake, and Jefferson counties. It was established in 1908, with border changes following in 1911 and 1915. The forest now encompasses almost along the east side of the Cascade Range. The forest is bordered to the south by the Fremont–Winema NF, to the southwest by the Umpqua NF, and to the west by the Willamette NF. The Deschutes NF hosts official preservation areas, various biology, and recreational activities. History The Deschutes National Forest was established in 1908 from parts of the Blue Mountains, Cascade, and Fremont national forests (NFs). In 1911, parts of the Deschutes were split off to form the Ochoco and Paulina NFs, with parts of the Cascade and Oregon NFs being added to the Deschutes; in 1915, the Paulina NF was absorbed back into the Deschutes. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Bender
Jack Bender (born September 25, 1949) is an American television and film director, television producer and actor best known for his work as a director on '' Lost'', ''The Sopranos'', ''Game of Thrones'', and '' From''. Biography Bender grew up in a secular Jewish family in Los Angeles. His father was a furrier to the Hollywood community. He studied art with Los Angeles artist Martin Lubner (spouse of actress Joanna Merlin) and then went into acting "because it seemed like what I could do and make a living." As an actor, Bender guest-starred on ''All in the Family'', ''The Bob Newhart Show'' and ''The Mary Tyler Moore Show''. He co-starred in '' The Million Dollar Duck'', '' Savage'' and ''McNaughton's Daughter''. He then went into directing, working on a number of television series. He directed the popular slasher film '' Child's Play 3'' before becoming an executive producer and lead director on the ABC TV series '' Lost'', directing 38 episodes of the show, including the se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Brodie
Donald Ellis Brodie (May 29, 1904 – January 8, 2001) was an American film and television actor. Early years The youngest of six children born to Frank Ellis Brodie and Charlotte Moonert,"California, County Marriages, 1850-1952," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K8NY-BV9 : 9 March 2021), Don L Brodie and Lucille I Becker, 07 Mar 1930; citing Los Angeles, California, United States, county courthouses, California; FHL microfilm 2,074,789. Donald Brodie was raised in Cincinnati's Avondale neighborhood and attended Hughes High School and the University of Cincinnati. Before becoming a professional actor, Brodie worked in Procter & Gamble's main offices. At age 16, his first-place finish-this-'filmerick' entry was published in ''The Cincinnati Post'': Career As early as 1922, Brodie was acting on stage. In 1924, he co-starred in a production of Lord Dunsany's ''Fame and the Poet''. In November 1927, a story in ''The Cincinnati Post ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanley Clements
Stanley Clements (born Stanislaw Klimowicz; July 16, 1926 – October 16, 1981) was an American actor and comedian, best known for portraying "Stash" in the East Side Kids film series, and group leader Stanislaus "Duke" Coveleskie in The Bowery Boys film series. Life and career Clements was born in Long Island, New York. "Stosh" (the Polish diminutive nickname for "Stanislau") realized that he wanted a show-business career while he was in grammar school, and after he graduated from Brooklyn's P.S. 49 in 1938, he toured in vaudeville and found work in radio for the next two years. He then joined the touring company of the ''Major Bowes Amateur Hour''. His career stalled in 1940, and Clements was reduced to panhandling for a time to survive. In 1941, he was signed to a contract by 20th Century-Fox and appeared in juvenile/teen roles in several B films for the studio. East Side Kids In 1942, he was loaned to Monogram Pictures. Among his friends, he was known offscreen as "Sto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Lukather
Paul Lukather (August 24, 1926 – October 9, 2014) was a veteran actor known for his vast array of work across stage, television and voice-over work. Lukather graduated from Drake University and Yale University. He won the Barter Award, which was given to the year's most outstanding young actor, and he acted in productions of the Barter Theatre. For most of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, Lukather worked in television and film; from the late 1980s into the 1990s, he primarily worked as a voice-over artist known for many video games, including the '' Legacy of Kain'' series where he voiced Vorador. He also had a role in '' Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty'' where he did the English voice-over for President James Johnson. Lukather made dozens of television appearances on ''Perry Mason'', '' The Fugitive'', '' The F.B.I.'', '' Mission: Impossible'', ''Cannon'', and many others. In 1966 he guest starred on ''Perry Mason'' as defendant 'Duke' Maronek in "The Case of the Misguided Mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Server
Eric Server (born December 4, 1944 in Santa Monica, California) is an American television actor, best known for providing the voice of computer brain Dr. Theopolis in the 1979 TV series '' Buck Rogers in the 25th Century''. From 1979 to 1981 he appeared as Lt. Jim Steiger in 17 episodes of '' B.J. and the Bear''. He guest-starred in the '' Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'' episode " The Circle" and in the ''Battlestar Galactica'' episode "The Magnificent Warriors". He also appeared as a police officer in the pilot episode of ''The Incredible Hulk''. Server also appeared in two more episodes of ''The Incredible Hulk'' as a race car driver in the season 2 episode "Ricky" and as a thief in the Season 3 episode "A Rock and a Hard Place". Starting in the early 1970s Server had guest roles in a number of network series. The shows he appeared in more than once include '' Ironside'', ''Barnaby Jones'', ''The Rockford Files'', '' Police Story'', ''The Streets of San Francisco'', ''Hunter'', ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Steadman (actor)
John Steadman (July 20, 1909 – January 28, 1993) was an American actor, radio personality and editor. Early life Steadman was born in Greenville, South Carolina. Career Steadman was a former radio personality who became a character actor when he retired after 30 years in radio. He began his acting career in 1970 and his last role was in 1987, both on television where he appeared many times. He also appeared in film where he usually had bit parts. He is probably best remembered as "Pop" in '' The Longest Yard'' (1974) with Burt Reynolds and directed by Robert Aldrich. He appeared with Reynolds in '' White Lightning'' (1973) as "Skeeter" and in '' Gator'' (1976) as "Ned McKlusky", "Gator's" father (that role played by Dabbs Greer in ''White Lightning''). He also appeared in '' Emperor of the North'' (1973) and '' The Frisco Kid'' (1979), both directed by Aldrich. In addition to acting, John was a DOD employee. He worked at the Armed Forces Radio and Television Service Broadcas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ed Bakey
William Edward Baekey (November 13, 1925 – May 4, 1988) was an American film and television actor. Life and career Bakey was born in Havre de Grace, Maryland, and moved to Baltimore at an early age. He attended Baltimore City College, graduating in 1943, and began his acting career in 1945 at the Hilltop Theatre. He later moved to New York to perform at the Provincetown Playhouse. He then worked as an announcer for the television station WBAL-TV and as a director for a radio station. In 1957 he appeared on the CBS television station WJZ-TV as the clown "Pop-Pop" in ''The Jack Wells Show''. He also played the folk singer Eddie Greensleeve in Mike Wallace's program. In 1966, he played George Beenstock in the Broadway play ''Walking Happy''. Bakey returned to television work in 1967, appearing in the western television series ''Death Valley Days''. He guest-starred in television programs including ''Gunsmoke'', '' Mission: Impossible'', '' The F.B.I.'', ''The Big Valley'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gregg Palmer
Palmer Edwin Lee (January 25, 1927 – October 31, 2015), known by his stage name Gregg Palmer, was an American film and television actor. He was known for playing Tom McLowery in the final season of the American Western (genre), western television series ''The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp''. Life and career Palmer was born in San Francisco, California, He served in the United States Army Air Corps as a cryptographer in World War II. He began his acting career in 1950 with the uncredited role of an ambulance driver in the film ''My Friend Irma Goes West''. Palmer guest-starred in numerous television programs, including ''Gunsmoke#Television series (1955–1975) and TV movies, Gunsmoke'', ''Bonanza'', ''Wagon Train'', ''Kolchak: The Night Stalker'', ''The Virginian (TV series), The Virginian'', ''The Wild Wild West'', ''Rawhide (TV series), Rawhide'', ''Star Trek: The Original Series'', ''Mannix'', ''Mission: Impossible (1966 TV series), Mission: Impossible'' and ''Death Val ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
