Jillian Kesner
Jillian Kesner-Graver (August 9, 1949 – December 5, 2007), credited onscreen as Jillian Kesner, was an American actress and historian who worked with her husband, Gary Graver, to preserve the work and legacy of director Orson Welles. She was best known as an actress for playing Fonzie's girlfriend, Lorraine, on a 1977 episode of ''Happy Days''. Early life Kesner-Graver was born in Portsmouth, Virginia. Her father was in the United States Navy and she spent much of her childhood in Denver, Colorado. She first moved to Los Angeles in 1959, where she worked as a model before getting into television and movie acting. Career Kesner-Graver was best known for playing Fonzie's girlfriend, Lorraine, on ''Happy Days''. She appeared in a number of "B-rated" films throughout the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. Her credits included '' Raw Force'', ''Starhops'' and '' Beverly Hills Vamp''. She developed a following among fans of B-level action films. She also costarred in Roots of Evil with Alex ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Michael Cavanaugh (actor)
Michael Cavanaugh (born November 21, 1942) is an American actor. Cavanaugh was born in New York City, and has performed in more than one hundred films since 1976. His television credits include ''The West Wing'', '' Joe Bash'', '' Starman'', ''Hunter'', ''Monk'' and '' 24''. He served in the United States Navy following graduation from high school and served for three years, stationed in Hawaii Hawaii ( ; ) is an island U.S. state, state of the United States, in the Pacific Ocean about southwest of the U.S. mainland. One of the two Non-contiguous United States, non-contiguous U.S. states (along with Alaska), it is the only sta .... Film Television Web series References External links * 1942 births American male film actors American male television actors Living people Male actors from New York City Long stubs with short prose {{US-screen-actor-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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The Rockford Files
''The Rockford Files'' is an American detective drama television series starring James Garner, aired on NBC from September 13, 1974, to January 10, 1980. Garner portrays Los Angeles private investigator Jim Rockford, with Noah Beery Jr. in the supporting role of his father, Joseph "Rocky" Rockford, a retired truck driver. The show was created by Roy Huggins and Stephen J. Cannell. Huggins had created the American Western TV show '' Maverick'' (1957–1962), in which Garner also starred, and he wanted to create a similar show in a modern-day detective setting. In 2002, ''The Rockford Files'' was ranked number 39 on ''TV Guide''s 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time. Premise Huggins and Cannell devised the Rockford character as a departure from typical television detectives, essentially Bret Maverick as a modern detective. In the series storyline, James Scott "Jim" Rockford had served time in California's San Quentin Prison in the 1960s due to a wrongful conviction. After fi ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries
''The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries'' (re-titled ''The Hardy Boys'' for season three) is an American television mystery series based on the '' Hardy Boys'' and ''Nancy Drew'' juvenile novels. The series, which ran from January 30, 1977, to January 14, 1979, was produced by Glen A. Larson from Universal Television for ABC. Parker Stevenson and Shaun Cassidy starred as amateur detective brothers Frank and Joe Hardy, respectively, while Pamela Sue Martin (later Janet Louise Johnson) starred as amateur sleuth Nancy Drew. ''The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries'' was unusual in that it often dealt with the characters individually; the series alternated between episodes that featured the Hardys and episodes featuring Drew in its first season. As the series progressed, the two storylines crossed over, and the Nancy Drew character was drastically reduced, and then dropped, in favor of the Hardys. Synopsis Episodes Episode #12, "The Mystery of the Ghostwriter's Cruise", is notew ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Happy Days (season 3)
This is a list of episodes from the third season of ''Happy Days''. It was the first season of the show to be filmed in front of a live audience. Main cast * Ron Howard as Richie Cunningham * Henry Winkler as Arthur "Fonzie" Fonzarelli * Marion Ross as Marion Cunningham * Anson Williams as Warren "Potsie" Weber * Don Most as Ralph Malph * Erin Moran as Joanie Cunningham * Tom Bosley as Howard Cunningham Guest stars * Pat Morita as Mitsumo "Arnold" Takahashi *Danny Butch as Raymond "Spike" Fonzarelli * Jack Baker as "Sticks" Downey * Penny Marshall as Laverne De Fazio * Cindy Williams as Shirley Feeney * Jack Dodson as Dr. Mickey Malph * Ed Peck Ed Peck (March 26, 1917 – September 12, 1992) was an American actor. He is best known as Officer Kirk in ''Happy Days'' (1975–1983). Career Peck played a captain in the Broadway production of ''No Time for Sergeants'' (1955). He was activ ... as Officer Kirk * Kristoff St. John as Booker Brown * Beatrice Cole ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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The Blue Knight (TV Series)
''The Blue Knight'' is an American crime drama series that was broadcast by CBS from December 17, 1975 until October 20, 1976. It features George Kennedy as Officer Bumper Morgan. The series was based on the 1973 novel of the same name by Joseph Wambaugh and produced by Lorimar Productions. It was also inspired by the 1973 television movie '' The Blue Knight'', featuring William Holden, which was broadcast before the series premiered. Plot Bumper Morgan is a veteran police officer of the Los Angeles Police Department, who continues to patrol the streets in uniform. The series dealt with Morgan's daily dealings with dangerous criminals and drug dealers. Guest actors included Jim Davis, Bruce Glover, Robert Hays, Robert Hoy, Vivi Janiss, Harry Lauter, Gerald McRaney Gerald Lee McRaney (born August 19, 1947) is an American television and film actor. McRaney is best known as one of the stars of the television shows ''Simon & Simon'', '' Major Dad'', ''Promised Land'' and ' ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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List Of S
A list is a Set (mathematics), set of discrete items of information collected and set forth in some format for utility, entertainment, or other purposes. A list may be memorialized in any number of ways, including existing only in the mind of the list-maker, but lists are frequently written down on paper, or maintained electronically. Lists are "most frequently a tool", and "one does not ''read'' but only ''uses'' a list: one looks up the relevant information in it, but usually does not need to deal with it as a whole".Lucie Doležalová,The Potential and Limitations of Studying Lists, in Lucie Doležalová, ed., ''The Charm of a List: From the Sumerians to Computerised Data Processing'' (2009). Purpose It has been observed that, with a few exceptions, "the scholarship on lists remains fragmented". David Wallechinsky, a co-author of ''The Book of Lists'', described the attraction of lists as being "because we live in an era of overstimulation, especially in terms of information, ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Operation Cobra (film)
Operation Cobra was an offensive launched by the First United States Army under Lieutenant General Omar Bradley seven weeks after the D-Day landings, during the Normandy campaign of World War II. The intention was to take advantage of the distraction of the Germans by the British and Canadian attacks around Caen in Operation Goodwood, and thereby break through the German defenses that were penning in their forces, while the Germans were unbalanced. Once a corridor had been created, the First Army would then be able to advance into Brittany, rolling up the German flanks once free of the constraints of the bocage country. After a slow start, the offensive gathered momentum and German resistance collapsed as scattered remnants of broken units fought to escape to the Seine. Lacking the resources to cope with the situation, the German response was ineffectual mainly due to the effect of Operation Bluecoat and the entire Normandy front soon collapsed. Operation Cobra, together with co ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Evil Town
''Evil Town'' is a 1987 American horror film produced by William D. Sklar and Peter S. Traynor, and starring James Keach, Dean Jagger, Robert Walker, Michele Marsh and Lynda Wiesmeier. It is notable for its lengthy and troubled production, which began in 1973 and lasted until 1985, under four different directors: Curtis Hanson (credited as 'Edward Collins'), Mardi Rustam, Larry Spiegel and Traynor. Producer Peter S. Traynor was convicted of fraud related to the film's financing in 1981, six years before its eventual release. This was also the final film for Dean Jagger. Synopsis The film depicts an evil scientist's campaign to achieve eternal youth, through synthesizing a drug derived from human pituitary fluid. In extracting the fluid, he creates mindless zombies from the donors. Because the local town residents are in on the plot, to achieve immortality, they help the scientist, by abducting visitors who come through town. Cast * James Keach as Dr. Chris Fuller * De ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Moon In Scorpio
''Moon in Scorpio'' is a 1987 American horror film directed by Gary Graver. and starring Britt Ekland, John Phillip Law, and William Smith. Plot Newly married couple Linda and Allen plan to take a trip to Acapulco for their honeymoon. Joining them on the cruise are Burt, the owner of the yacht, his wife, Claire, along with an additional couple Mark and his wife, Isabel. Burt and Mark are Vietnam War veterans and friends of Allen. Prior to the yacht leaving the harbor, a marina employee is stabbed to death by a mysterious figure in black pajamas. The couples meet on the boat and set sail. During the voyage, wartime flashbacks show the three men committing atrocities during their tour of duty in Vietnam to include the murdering of innocent villagers. The men are clearly troubled by this and tensions on the ship, some of which are sexual, begin to rise. Soon, the boat is vandalized, rendering some of the navigation and communications equipment inoperable. Isabel begins acting erra ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Trick Or Treats (1982 Film)
''Trick or Treats'' is a 1982 American slasher dark comedy film written, shot, edited, and directed by Gary Graver, and starring Jackelyn Giroux, Peter Jason, Chris Graver, David Carradine, Carrie Snodgress, and Steve Railsback. Its plot focuses on an escaped psychiatric patient who attempts to track his young son on Halloween night. Plot Malcolm O'Keefe is surprised one morning at breakfast when two men arrive to bring him to a mental asylum so that his wife, Joan, will have him committed. After a brief struggle in the backyard pool, Malcolm is captured and taken away by the men in white. Several years later, Linda is called to babysit Joan's son Christopher on Halloween night while Joan and her new husband, Richard, attend a Halloween party in Las Vegas, where they are performing as magicians. Christopher plays tricks on Linda, such as using a fake guillotine, throwing a smoke bomb at her, and using a joy buzzer. At the asylum, Malcolm contemplates his escape after having been ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Variety (magazine)
''Variety'' is an American trade magazine owned by Penske Media Corporation. It was founded by Sime Silverman in New York City in 1905 as a weekly newspaper reporting on theater and vaudeville. In 1933, ''Daily Variety'' was launched, based in Los Angeles, to cover the film industry, motion-picture industry. ''Variety'' website features entertainment news, reviews, box office results, plus a credits database, production charts and film calendar. History Founding ''Variety'' has been published since December 16, 1905, when it was launched by Sime Silverman as a weekly periodical covering theater and vaudeville, with its headquarters in New York City. Silverman had been fired by ''The Morning Telegraph'' in 1905 for panning an act which had taken out an advert for $50. He subsequently decided to start his own publication that, he said, would "not be influenced by advertising." With a loan of $1,500 from his father-in-law, he launched ''Variety'' as publisher and editor. In additi ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Leukemia
Leukemia ( also spelled leukaemia; pronounced ) is a group of blood cancers that usually begin in the bone marrow and produce high numbers of abnormal blood cells. These blood cells are not fully developed and are called ''blasts'' or '' leukemia cells''. Symptoms may include bleeding and bruising, bone pain, fatigue, fever, and an increased risk of infections. These symptoms occur due to a lack of normal blood cells. Diagnosis is typically made by blood tests or bone marrow biopsy. The exact cause of leukemia is unknown. A combination of genetic factors and environmental (non-inherited) factors are believed to play a role. Risk factors include smoking, ionizing radiation, petrochemicals (such as benzene), prior chemotherapy, and Down syndrome. People with a family history of leukemia are also at higher risk. There are four main types of leukemia—acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), acute myeloid leukemia (AML), chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) and chronic myelo ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |