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Lee Patterson (golfer)
Lee Patterson (March 31, 1929 – February 14, 2007) was a Canadian film and television actor. British career He moved to the UK, where he specialised in playing virile American types in British films. He appeared in a number of films during the 1950s and 1960s, including ''The Good Die Young'' (1954), ''Above Us the Waves'' (1955), ''Reach for the Sky'' (1956), '' The Key Man'' (1957), ''Time Lock'' (1957) ''The Golden Disc'' (1958), '' Cat & Mouse'' (1958), ''Jack the Ripper'' (1959) and ''The 3 Worlds of Gulliver'' (1960). He left but returned to the UK to appear as hard-bitten navigation expert Captain Randolph Southard in the play version of '' The Caine Mutiny Court Martial'' at The Queen's Theatre, London, directed by Charlton Heston in 1985. American TV After moving to the USA in the early 1960s, Patterson worked mainly in television. In 1960, he was cast in two episodes of the ABC/Warner Brothers western television series ''The Alaskans'', starring Roger Moore. Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Surfside 6
''Surfside 6'' is an ABC television series that aired from 1960 to 1962. The show centers on a Miami Beach detective agency set on a houseboat, and features Troy Donahue as Sandy Winfield II, Van Williams as Kenny Madison (a character recycled from '' Bourbon Street Beat''), and Lee Patterson as Dave Thorne. Diane McBain co-stars as socialite Daphne Dutton, whose yacht is berthed next to their houseboat. Spanish actress Margarita Sierra also plays a supporting role as Cha Cha O'Brien, an entertainer who works at the Boom Boom Room, a popular Miami Beach hangout at the Fontainebleau Hotel, directly across the street from Surfside 6. Surfside 6 was, in fact, a real address in Miami Beach, where an unrelated houseboat was moored at the time; it can also be seen in the sweeping aerial establishing shot of the Fontainebleau in 1964's '' Goldfinger''. Description ''Surfside 6'' was one of four detective TV series produced by Warner Bros. around that time, the others being ''77 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Alaskans
''The Alaskans'' is a 1959–1960 ABC/Warner Bros. Western television series set during the late 1890s in the port of Skagway, Alaska. The show features Roger Moore as "Silky Harris" and Jeff York as "Reno McKee", a pair of adventurers intent on swindling travelers bound for the Yukon Territories during the height of the Klondike Gold Rush. Their plans are inevitably complicated by the presence of singer "Rocky Shaw" ( Dorothy Provine), "an entertainer with a taste for the finer things in life". The show was the first regular work on American television for the British actor Roger Moore. Background and production ''The Alaskans'' is closely related to the ABC/WB series '' Maverick'' through broadcast and production. ''Maverick'' was the most prominent of ABC's Sunday night of Western dramas. For the 1959–60 season, Sundays began with '' Colt .45'' and ''Maverick'', then John Russell's '' Lawman'' and Nick Adams' '' The Rebel'', and concluded with ''The Alas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
One Life To Live
''One Life to Live'' (often abbreviated as ''OLTL'') is an American soap opera broadcast on the American Broadcasting Company, ABC television network for more than 43 years, from July 15, 1968, to January 13, 2012, and then on the internet as a web series on Hulu and iTunes via Prospect Park (production company), Prospect Park from April 29 to August 19, 2013. Created by Agnes Nixon, the series was the first daytime drama to primarily feature ethnically and socioeconomically diverse characters and consistently emphasize social issues. ''One Life to Live'' was expanded from 30 minutes to 45 minutes on July 26, 1976, and then to an hour on January 16, 1978. ''One Life to Live'' heavily focuses on the members and relationships of the Lord family. Actress Erika Slezak began portraying the series' protagonist Victoria Lord in March 1971 and played the character continuously for the rest of the show's run on ABC Daytime, winning a record six Daytime Emmy Awards for the role. In 2002, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
