|
Rhys Williams (Welsh-American Actor)
Rhys Williams (31 December 1897 – 28 May 1969) was a Welsh character actor. He appeared in 78 films over a span of 30 years and later appeared on several American television series. Career He made his 1941 film debut in the role of Dai Bando in '' How Green Was My Valley'', a drama about a working-class Welsh family that won the Academy Award for Best Picture. Williams was the only Welsh actor in the cast. He is believed to have been the original narrator of the film, and was originally hired by director John Ford as a dialogue coach. During television's early years in America, Williams was in scores of series episodes, including the '' Adventures of Superman'' as a sadistic character in the 1952 episode "The Evil Three". Williams played art collector Rufus Varner in the 1958 '' Perry Mason'' episode, "The Case of the Purple Woman", and appeared on the religion anthology series, '' Crossroads''. His other television work was on such programmes as ''The Rifleman'', '' The D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bonanza (TV Series)
''Bonanza'' is an American Westerns on television, Western television series that ran on NBC from September 12, 1959, to January 16, 1973. Lasting 14 seasons and 431 episodes, ''Bonanza'' is NBC's longest-running Western, the second-longest-running Western series on United States, American network television (behind CBS's ''Gunsmoke''), and one of the longest-running, live-action American series. The show continues to air in Broadcast syndication, syndication. The show is set in the 1860s and centers on the wealthy Cartwright family, who live in the vicinity of Virginia City, Nevada, bordering Lake Tahoe. The series initially starred Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker and Michael Landon and later featured (at various times) Guy Williams (actor), Guy Williams, David Canary, Mitch Vogel and Tim Matheson. The show is known for presenting pressing moral dilemmas. The title "Bonanza" is a term used by miners in regard to a large vein or deposit of silver ore, from Spanish ''b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The DuPont Show With June Allyson
''The DuPont Show with June Allyson'' (also known as ''The June Allyson Show'') is an American anthology drama series which aired on CBS from September 21, 1959, to April 3, 1961, with rebroadcasts continuing until June 12, 1961. The series was hosted by actress June Allyson and was a Four Star-Pamric Production. Allyson sometimes starred in episodes, one of which ("A Summer's Ending") was her first appearance on TV with her husband, Dick Powell. Aaron Spelling was the producer. Paul Henreid, James Neilson, and Jack Smight John Ronald Smight (March 9, 1925 – September 1, 2003) was an American theatre and film director. His film credits include ''Harper (film), Harper'' (1966), ''No Way to Treat a Lady (film), No Way to Treat a Lady'' (1968), ''Airport 1975'' (19 ... were directors. Richard Levinson and William Link were writers for the program. Allyson took offense when critics dismissed the program with comments that included comparing its episodes to contents o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Andy Griffith Show
''The Andy Griffith Show '' is an American sitcom television series that was aired on CBS from October 3, 1960, to April 1, 1968, with a total of 249 half-hour episodes spanning eight seasons—159 in black and white and 90 in color. The series originated from an episode of ''The Danny Thomas Show''. It stars Andy Griffith as Andy Taylor (The Andy Griffith Show), Andy Taylor, the widowed sheriff of Mayberry, Mayberry, North Carolina, a fictional community of roughly 2,000–5,000 people. Other major characters include Andy's lifelong friend, the well-meaning and enthusiastic but bumbling deputy, Barney Fife (Don Knotts), Andy's aunt and housekeeper, Aunt Bee, Bee Taylor (Frances Bavier) and Andy's young son, Opie Taylor, Opie (Ron Howard). The townspeople round out the regular cast. Regarding the tone of the show, Griffith said that despite a contemporary setting, the show evoked nostalgia, saying in a ''Today (American TV program), Today'' interview, "Well, though we never said i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Here Come The Brides
''Here Come the Brides'' is an American comedy Western television series from Screen Gems that aired on the ABC television network from September 25, 1968, to April 3, 1970. It was loosely based on Asa Mercer's efforts in the 1860s to import marriageable women (the Mercer Girls) from the East Coast cities of the United States to Seattle, where there was a shortage. Synopsis In the pilot episode, smooth-talking, charismatic logging company boss Jason Bolt (Robert Brown) is faced with a shutdown of his operation as lonely lumberjacks are ready to leave Seattle due to the lack of female companionship. He promises to find 100 marriageable ladies willing to come to the frontier town (population 152) and stay for a full year. Sawmill owner Aaron Stempel ( Mark Lenard) puts up much of the expense money as a wager that Bolt will not succeed; the Bolt brothers bet Bridal Veil Mountain, home to their logging company. The Bolts travel to New Bedford, Massachusetts, recruit the wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Donna Reed Show
''The Donna Reed Show'' is an American sitcom starring Donna Reed as the middle-class housewife Donna Stone. Carl Betz co-stars as her Pediatrics, pediatrician husband Dr. Alex Stone, and Shelley Fabares and Paul Petersen as their teenage children, Mary and Jeff. The show originally aired on American Broadcasting Company, ABC from September 24, 1958, to March 19, 1966. Background The series was sponsored by Campbell Soup Company, with Johnson & Johnson as the principal alternate sponsor (succeeded in the fall of 1963 by Singer Sewing Machine Company, The Singer Company). This show was the first TV family sitcom to feature the mother as the center of the show. Reed's character, Donna Stone, is a loving mother and wife, but also a strong woman, an active participant in her community, a woman with feelings and a sense of humor. According to many of Reed's friends and family, Reed shared many similarities to the character that she portrayed on screen, implying that the fictional D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mannix
''Mannix'' is an American detective television series that originally aired for eight seasons on CBS from September 16, 1967, to March 13, 1975. The show was created by Richard Levinson and William Link, and developed by executive producer Bruce Geller. The title character, Joe Mannix, is a private investigator played by actor Mike Connors. Premise During the first season of the series, Joe Mannix works for a large Los Angeles detective agency called Intertect, which was the planned original title of the show. His superior is Lew Wickersham, played by Joseph Campanella. Intertect uses computers to help solve crimes. As opposed to the other employees, Mannix belonged to the classic American detective archetype, thus usually ignoring the computers' solutions, disobeying his boss's orders, and setting out to do things his own way. He wears plaid sport coats and has his own office that he keeps sloppy between his assignments. Lew has cameras in all the rooms of the Interte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Impossible (1966 TV Series)
Impossible, Imposible or Impossibles may refer to: Music * ''ImPossible'' (album), a 2016 album by Divinity Roxx * ''The Impossible'' (album), a 1981 album by Ken Lockie Groups * The Impossibles (American band), a 1990s indie-ska group from Austin, Texas * The Impossibles (Australian band), an Australian band * The Impossibles (Thai band), a 1970s Thai rock band Songs * "Impossible" (Captain Hollywood Project song) (1993) * "The Impossible" (song), a country music song by Joe Nichols (2002) * "Impossible" (Edyta Górniak song) (2003) * "Impossible" (Kanye West song) (2006) * "Impossible" (Travis Scott song) (2015) * "Impossible" (Daniel Merriweather song) (2009) * "Impossible" (Måns Zelmerlöw song) (2009) * "Impossible" (Anberlin song) (2010) * "Impossible" (Shontelle song) (2010), covered by James Arthur (2012) * "Impossible", from Rodgers and Hammerstein's 1957 musical ''Cinderella'' * "Impossible", a song written by Steve Allen and recorded by Nat King Cole for h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The F
F is the sixth letter of the Latin alphabet. F may also refer to: Science and technology Mathematics * F or f, the number 15 in hexadecimal and higher positional systems * ''p''''F''''q'', the hypergeometric function * F-distribution, a continuous probability distribution **F-test, a statistical test * f, SI prefix femto, factor 10−15 * , Fibonacci number Computing and engineering * F (programming language), a subset of Fortran 95 * F Sharp (programming language), a functional and object-oriented language for the .NET platform. * F* (programming language), a dependently typed functional language for the .NET platform. * F-measure, the harmonic mean of precision and recall * f, in programming languages often used to represent the floating point * F connector, used for inlet in cable modems * F crimp, a type of solderless electrical connection * F band (NATO), a radio frequency band from 3 to 4 GHz * F band (waveguide), a millimetre wave band from 90 to 140 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
12 O'Clock High (TV Series)
''12 O'Clock High'' is an American military drama television series set in World War II. It was originally broadcast on ABC-TV for two-and-one-half TV seasons from September 1964 through January 1967 and was based on the 1949 film of the same name. The series was a co-production of 20th Century Fox Television (Fox had also produced the movie) and QM Productions (one of their few non-law-enforcement series). This show is one of the two QM shows not to display a copyright notice at the beginning, but rather at the end (the other was '' A Man Called Sloane'') and the only one not to display the standard "A QM Production" closing card on the closing credits. Overview The series follows the missions of the fictitious 918th Bombardment Group (Heavy) of the U.S. Army Air Forces (USAAF), equipped with B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bombers, stationed at Archbury Field, England (a fictitious air base). For the first season, many of the characters from the book and 1949 movie were retain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wild Wild West
''The Wild Wild West'' is an American Western (genre), Western, spy film, spy, and science fiction on television, science fiction television series that ran on the CBS television network for four seasons from September 17, 1965, to April 11, 1969. Two Satire, satirical Comedy film, comedy television film sequels were made with the original stars in 1979 and 1980 and the series was adapted for a Wild Wild West, theatrical film in 1999. Developed at a time when the television Western was losing ground to the spy genre, this show was conceived by its creator, Michael Garrison (producer), Michael Garrison, as "James Bond on horseback." Set during the administration of President Ulysses S. Grant (1869–1877), the series followed United States Secret Service, Secret Service agents James West (Robert Conrad) and Artemus Gordon (Ross Martin) as they foiled the plans of megalomaniacal villains to take over part or all of the United States, protected the President, and solved crimes. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
77 Sunset Strip
''77 Sunset Strip'' is an American private detective crime drama television series created by Roy Huggins and starring Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Roger Smith, Richard Long (from 1960 to 1961) and Edd Byrnes (billed as Edward Byrnes). Each episode was one hour long when aired with commercials. The series aired on ABC from October 10, 1958, to February 7, 1964. The character of detective Stuart Bailey was first used by writer Huggins in his 1946 novel ''The Double Take'', later adapted into the 1948 film '' I Love Trouble''. Description Initial setup and characters Private detective and former World War II Office of Strategic Services secret agent and foreign languages professor Stuart ("Stu") Bailey (Zimbalist) and former government agent and nonpracticing attorney Jeff Spencer (Smith) form a duo who work from stylish offices at 77 Sunset Boulevard in Suites 101 and 102. Tab Hunter claimed he was the first choice for the lead of the series, but turned it down. The street add ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Temple Houston (TV Series)
''Temple Houston'' is an American Westerns on television, Western television series starring Jeffrey Hunter as real-life 19th century Texas lawyer Temple Lea Houston. It ran for one season on NBC from 1963-64 United States network television schedule, 1963 to 1964. It is considered "the first attempt ... to produce an hour-long Western (genre), western series with the main character being an Lawyer, attorney in the formal sense."Nevins, Frances M. "Westerns". ''Prime Time Law: Fictional Television as Legal Narrative''. Robert M. Jarvis and Paul R. Joseph, Editors. Carolina Academic Press. 1998. p. 212-213 ''Temple Houston'' was the only program which Jack Webb sold to a television network, network during his ten months as the head of production at Warner Bros. Television. It was also the lone series in which Hunter played a regular part. The series' supporting cast features Jack Elam and Chubby Johnson. Plot ''Temple Houston'' is based loosely on the career of the real-life circui ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
