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Robert Sampson (actor)
Robert LeRoy Sampson (May 10, 1933 – January 18, 2020) was an American actor. He was known for playing the role of Father Mike Fitzgerald in the American sitcom television series ''Bridget Loves Bernie''. Life and career Sampson was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of Roy Sampson. He began his screen career in 1954, appearing in the television series '' Meet Corliss Archer''. Sampson also guest-starred in numerous television programs including ''Gunsmoke'', '' The Outer Limits'', '' Star Trek: The Original Series'', '' Mission: Impossible'', ''Bonanza'', '' Dr. Kildare'', ''Wonder Woman'', ''Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea'', ''Green Acres'', '' Hawkins'', ''The Jeffersons'', and '' Police Story''. He also appeared in films such as '' Re-Animator'' (as Dean Halsey), '' City of the Living Dead'', '' Mr. Ricco'', ''The Dark Side of the Moon'', '' Robot Jox'', '' The Sky's the Limit'', '' Look in Any Window'' and ''Mad Dog Coll''. Later in his career, Sampson had a l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bridget Loves Bernie
''Bridget Loves Bernie'' is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from September 16, 1972, to March 3, 1973. The series, created by Bernard Slade, depicted an interfaith marriage between a Catholic woman and a Jewish man. It stars Meredith Baxter and David Birney as the title characters. CBS canceled the show after only one season despite very high ratings. Baxter and Birney later married in real life in 1974 after the program had left the air and Baxter was known in her professional career for several years as Meredith Baxter Birney. Overview The series depicts an interfaith marriage between an Irish Catholic teacher (Bridget Fitzgerald) from a wealthy family and a Jewish cab driver who aspires to be a playwright (Bernie Steinberg), whom she had met at a bus stop. With a primetime slot between ''All in the Family'' and ''The Mary Tyler Moore Show'' on Saturday nights, the situation comedy was No. 5 in the ratings among all shows for the 1972-73 television season and obtained ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Green Acres
''Green Acres'' is an American television absurdist sitcom starring Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor as a couple who move from New York City to a country farm. Produced by Filmways as a sister show to ''Petticoat Junction'', the series was first broadcast on CBS, from September 15, 1965, to April 27, 1971. Although it received solid ratings during its six-year run, ''Green Acres'' was cancelled in 1971 as part of the " rural purge" by CBS. The sitcom has been in syndication and is available on DVD and VHS releases. A reunion movie aired in 1990. In 1997, the two-part episode "A Star Named Arnold Is Born" was ranked No. 59 on TV Guide's 100 Greatest Episodes of All-Time. Radio origins ''Green Acres'' derives from '' Granby's Green Acres'', a comedy show aired on the CBS radio network from July 3 to August 21, 1950. The eight-episode summer series was created by Jay Sommers, who also wrote, produced, and directed. The principal characters, a married couple played by Bea Benad ... [...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] |
Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Fort Lauderdale ( ) is a coastal city located in the U.S. state of Florida, north of Miami along the Atlantic Ocean. It is the county seat of and most populous city in Broward County, Florida, Broward County with a population of 182,760 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, making it the tenth-most populous city in Florida. After Miami and Hialeah, Florida, Hialeah, Fort Lauderdale is the third-most populous city in the Miami metropolitan area, Miami Metro Area, which had a population of 6,166,488 in 2019. Built in 1838 and first incorporated in 1911, Fort Lauderdale is named after a series of forts built by the United States during the Second Seminole War. The forts took their name from Major William Lauderdale (1782–1838), younger brother of Lieutenant Colonel James Lauderdale. Development of the city did not begin until 50 years after the forts were abandoned at the end of the conflict. Three forts named "Fort Lauderdale" were constructed including the first at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fort Lauderdale News
The ''Sun Sentinel'' (also known as the ''South Florida Sun Sentinel'', known until 2008 as the ''Sun-Sentinel'', and stylized on its masthead as ''SunSentinel'') is the main daily newspaper of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and Broward County, and covers Miami-Dade and Palm Beach counties and state-wide news, as well. It is the 4th largest-circulation newspaper in Florida. Greg Mazanec has held the position of general manager since November 2023, Gretchen Day-Bryant has held the position of executive editor since December 2024. The newspaper was for many years branded as the ''Sun-Sentinel'', with a hyphen, until a redesign and rebranding on August 17, 2008. The new look also removed the space between "Sun" and "Sentinel" in the newspaper's flag, but its name retained the space. The ''Sun Sentinel'' is owned by the parent company, ''Tribune Publishing''. This company was acquired by Alden Global Capital, which operates its media properties through Digital First Media, in May 2021 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mad Dog Coll (1961 Film)
''Mad Dog Coll'' is a 1961 biographical film directed by Burt Balaban. It was the film debut role of Telly Savalas and Gene Hackman. Plot The film is a heavily fictionalized treatment of the life of Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll Curran, who was born in 1908 in County Donegal, Ireland. In the film, Coll is depicted as growing up with an abusive father who beats and ridicules him (the film opens with him machine-gunning his father's gravestone), and started a street gang at a very young age, which led in turn to organized crime. He is portrayed as a psychopath, incapable of fear or compassion, who is never more happy than when he is recklessly shooting people with his tommy gun or feuding with the fellow mobster Dutch Schultz over whisky hijacking. The film ends with Coll being shot down by the police after Schultz puts a contract on him, but in fact he was arrested, tried, released, then later killed by associates of Lucky Luciano because he was making too much trouble for the synd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Look In Any Window
''Look in Any Window'' is a 1961 American drama film starring Paul Anka and Ruth Roman. The film was directed by William Alland and released by Allied Artists. It was distributed as part of a double bill with ''The George Raft Story''. Plot A teenager of uncaring, dysfunctional parents voyeuristically spies on his suburban neighbors while wearing a frightening mask. Cast * Paul Anka as Craig Fowler * Ruth Roman as Jackie Fowler * Alex Nicol as Jay Fowler * Gigi Perreau as Eileen Lowell * Carole Mathews as Betty Lowell * Jack Cassidy as Gareth Lowell Reception In a contemporary review for ''The New York Times'', critic Howard Thompson called ''Look in Any Window'' "a broadly sensationalized little melodrama" and wrote: "Ugly and even sickening as it becomes, this strange little film may grip some spectators ... it's a miracle that the psychotic young protagonist wasn't carrying on like Jack the Ripper Jack the Ripper was an unidentified serial killer who was act ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sky's The Limit (1975 Film)
''The Sky's the Limit'' is a 1975 American made-for-television adventure film directed by Tom Leetch, starring Pat O’Brien, Ike Eisenmann and Lloyd Nolan. It was produced by Walt Disney Productions and based on the story by Larry Lenville. The film was originally aired as a two-part episode on ''The Wonderful World of Disney'' on January 19 and 26, 1975 on NBC. Plot A boy known as Three, off from school for the summer, reluctantly goes to spend the time on his grandfather's farm. The rural life with his grandfather, Abner and his only farm hand Cornwall is hard for Three to adjust to. This includes a goose that picks on him and an attempt to drive a tractor that goes wrong. However, things change when Three discovers a World War I biplane in the barn and that his grandfather was a flying ace during that war. Three convinces Abner to fix the plane and teach him how to fly. Cast * Pat O’Brien as Abner Therman *Ike Eisenmann as Three *Lloyd Nolan as Cornwall *Jeanette Nolan a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robot Jox
''Robot Jox'' is a 1990 American post-apocalyptic mecha science-fiction film directed by Stuart Gordon and starring Gary Graham, Anne-Marie Johnson and Paul Koslo. Co-written by science-fiction author Joe Haldeman, the film's plot follows Achilles, one of the "robot jox" who pilot giant machines that fight international battles to settle territorial disputes in a dystopian, post-apocalyptic world. After producer Charles Band approved Gordon's initial concept, the director approached Haldeman to write the script. Gordon and Haldeman clashed frequently over the film's tone and intended audience. Principal photography finished in Rome in 1987, but the bankruptcy of Band's Empire Pictures delayed the film's release in theaters until 1990. It earned $1,272,977 in domestic theatrical gross, failing to return its production cost. ''Robot Jox'' received negative critical response and little audience attention upon its first theatrical run. The film has been released on various home v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dark Side Of The Moon (1990 Film)
''The Dark Side of the Moon'' is a 1990 direct-to-video science fiction horror film. It was directed by D. J. Webster from the screenplay by brothers Chad and Carey Hayes. Plot In the near future, a maintenance vehicle is orbiting the Earth on a mission to repair nuclear-armed satellites. Suddenly, the crew experiences a mysterious, inexplicable power failure that cannot be accounted for. As the ship grows colder, they find themselves drifting toward the dark side of the Moon. An old NASA shuttle, the ''Discovery'', drifts toward them, although NASA has not been operating for 30 years. Two of the crew members board the ship, hoping to salvage parts to repair their ship, but instead they find a dead body. The mission records of the crew's own ship indicate that the shuttle they have found disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle many years before. The area in space the shuttle is found in corresponds to the earthbound Bermuda Triangle. As they attempt to solve this mystery, it qui ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Of The Living Dead
''City of the Living Dead'' (, also released as ''The Gates of Hell'') is a 1980 Italian supernatural horror film co-written and directed by Lucio Fulci. It stars Christopher George, Catriona MacColl, Carlo de Mejo, Antonella Interlenghi, Giovanni Lombardo Radice, and Janet Agren. The film follows a priest whose suicide opens a gateway to hell that releases the undead, leading a psychic and a reporter team up to close it before All Saints' Day. ''City of the Living Dead'' was developed after the financial success of Fulci's previous film, ''Zombi 2'', leading him to work with screenwriter Dardano Sacchetti to write a new horror film inspired by the works of H.P. Lovecraft. The film was greenlit during production of ''Contraband'', which Fulci left to begin working on ''City of the Living Dead''. Principal photography was shot predominantly on location in the United States, with interiors shot in Rome. ''City of the Living Dead'' was theatrically released in Italy in August ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Re-Animator
''Re-Animator'' (also known as ''H. P. Lovecraft's Re-Animator'') is a 1985 American comedy horror film loosely based on the 1922 H. P. Lovecraft serial novelette " Herbert West–Reanimator". Directed by Stuart Gordon and produced by Brian Yuzna, the film stars Jeffrey Combs as Herbert West, a medical student who has invented a reagent which can re-animate deceased bodies. He and his classmate Dan Cain ( Bruce Abbott) begin to test the serum on dead human bodies, and conflict with Dr. Carl Hill ( David Gale), who is infatuated with Cain's fiancée ( Barbara Crampton) and wants to claim the invention as his own. Originally devised by Gordon as a theatrical stage production and later a half-hour television pilot, the television script was revised to become a feature film. Filmed in Hollywood, the film originally was released without a rating from the Motion Picture Association of America, and was later edited to obtain an R rating. It garnered its largest audience through t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
