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Shenandoah (film)
''Shenandoah'' is a 1965 American film set during the American Civil War starring James Stewart and featuring Doug McClure, Glenn Corbett, Patrick Wayne, and, in their film debuts, Katharine Ross and Rosemary Forsyth. The picture was directed by Andrew V. McLaglen. The American folk song " Oh Shenandoah" features prominently in the film's soundtrack. Though set during the Civil War, the film's strong antiwar and humanitarian themes resonated with audiences in later years as attitudes began to change against the Vietnam War. Upon its release, the film was praised for its themes as well as its technical production. Plot In the Commonwealth of Virginia in 1864, during the Civil War, family patriarch Charlie Anderson and his six sons Jacob, John, James, Nathan, Henry, and Boy (who is 16) run the family farm, while his daughter Jennie and daughter-in-law Ann take care of the housework. The family has no slaves. Though Charlie attends church weekly and considers himself a "God ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Arthur (film Producer)
Robert Arthur (November 1, 1909 – October 28, 1986) was an American screenwriter and producer best known for his long association with Universal Studios. Early life and career Born in New York as Robert Arthur Feder, he attended Southwestern University and the University of Southern California before going to work in the oil industry in 1929. He began working as a screenwriter and joined MGM in 1937, where he wrote the screenplay for ''New Moon'' (1940) and the story for ''Chip Off the Old Block'' (1944). During World War II, he served under Pare Lorentz in the Army's Air Transport Command and produced 600 short training films. Universal After the war, he joined Universal Pictures and his first production was the successful '' Buck Privates Come Home'' (1947) starring Abbott and Costello. He produced five further films for Abbott and Costello - '' The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap'' (1947), ''Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein'' (1948), '' Mexican Hayride'' (1948), ''Abbott ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oh Shenandoah
"Oh Shenandoah" (also called "Shenandoah", "Across the Wide Missouri", "Rolling River", "Oh, My Rolling River", "World of Misery") is a traditional folk song, sung in the Americas, of uncertain origin, dating to the early 19th century. The song "Shenandoah" appears to have originated with American and Canadian voyageurs or fur traders traveling down the Missouri River in canoes and has developed several different sets of lyrics. Some lyrics refer to the Oneida chief Shenandoah and a canoe-going trader who wants to marry his daughter. By the mid 1800s versions of the song had become a sea shanty heard or sung by sailors in various parts of the world. The song is number 324 in the Roud Folk Song Index. Other variations (due to the influence of its oral dispersion among different regions) include the Caribbean (St. Vincent) version, "World of Misery", referring not to an "Indian princess" but to "the white mullata". History Until the 19th century, only adventurers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Best
Jewel Franklin Guy (July 26, 1926 – April 6, 2015), known professionally as James Best, was an American television, film, stage, and voice actor, as well as a writer, director, acting coach, artist, college professor, and musician. During a career that spanned more than 60 years, Best was known for his high-pitched, exasperated voice, who performed not only in feature films, but also in scores of television series, his appearances were almost all on Western programs, as well as appearing on various country music programs and talk shows. He played Captain Thorne Sherman in both '' The Killer Shrews'' (1959) and its spin-off, '' Return of the Killer Shrews'' (2012). Television audiences, however, perhaps most closely associate Best with his starring role as the bumbling Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane in the action comedy series ''The Dukes of Hazzard'', which originally aired on CBS between 1979 and 1985. He reprised the role in 1997 and 2000 for the made-for-television movies ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Kennedy
George Harris Kennedy Jr. (February 18, 1925 – February 28, 2016) was an American actor who appeared in more than 100 film and television productions. He played "Dragline" in ''Cool Hand Luke'' (1967), winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the role and being nominated for the corresponding Golden Globe. He received a second Golden Globe nomination for portraying Joe Patroni in ''Airport'' (1970). Among other films in which he had a significant role are '' Lonely Are the Brave'', '' Charade'', '' Strait-Jacket'', ''McHale's Navy'', '' Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte'', '' Mirage'', '' Shenandoah'', ''The Sons of Katie Elder'', '' The Flight of the Phoenix'', '' In Harm's Way'', '' The Dirty Dozen'', '' The Boston Strangler'', '' Guns of the Magnificent Seven'', '' tick… tick… tick…'', '' Cahill U.S. Marshal'', '' Thunderbolt and Lightfoot'', '' The Good Guys and the Bad Guys'', ''Earthquake'', '' The Eiger Sanction'' and '' The Delta Force''. Kennedy i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denver Pyle
Denver Dell Pyle (May 11, 1920 – December 25, 1997) was an American film and television actor and director. He was well known for a number of television roles from the 1960s through the 1980s, including his portrayal of Briscoe Darling in several episodes of '' The Andy Griffith Show,'' as Jesse Duke in '' The Dukes of Hazzard'' from 1979 to 1985, as Mad Jack in the NBC television series '' The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams'', and as the main character's father, Buck Webb, in CBS's '' The Doris Day Show''. In many of his roles, he portrayed either authority figures, or gruff, demanding father figures, often as comic relief. Perhaps his most memorable film role was that of Texas Ranger Frank Hamer in the movie '' Bonnie and Clyde'' (1967), as the lawman who relentlessly chased down and finally killed the notorious duo in an ambush. Early life Pyle was born in Bethune, Colorado on May 11, 1920, to farmer Ben H. Pyle and his wife Maude. His brother, Willis, was an an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Fix
Peter Paul Fix (March 13, 1901 – October 14, 1983) was an American film and television character actor who was best known for his work in Westerns. Fix appeared in more than 100 movies and dozens of television shows over a 56-year career between 1925 and 1981. Fix portrayed Marshal Micah Torrance, opposite Chuck Connors's character in '' The Rifleman'' from 1958 to 1963. He later appeared with Connors in the 1966 Western film '' Ride Beyond Vengeance''. Early life Fix was the son of Wilhelm Fix and Louise Walz, and was born March 13, 1901, in Dobbs Ferry, NY. His father was a brewer from Germany. Following the United States' entry into World War I in April 1917, Fix joined the National Guard, initially serving at Peekskill, New York. After three months of duty there, he went AWOL and enlisted in the U.S. Army. After serving at Fort Slocum for three months, he again went AWOL and then enlisted in the U.S. Navy, and was stationed in Providence, Rhode Island. While servi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim McIntire
Timothy John McIntire (July 19, 1944 – April 15, 1986) was an American character actor, perhaps best known for his starring roles as Alan Freed in the film ''American Hot Wax'' (1978), as singer George Jones in the television movie ''Stand by Your Man (film), Stand by Your Man'' (1981), and for his performances in ''The Gumball Rally'' (1976) and ''Brubaker'' (1980). Biography McIntire co-starred as Dickie, the son-in-law in the 1968 pilot ''Justice for All (TV pilot), Justice for All'', which eventually (1971) was picked up as the series ''All in the Family'', with Rob Reiner as the son-in-law. McIntire's film roles include appearances in ''Shenandoah (film), Shenandoah'' (1965); ''The Thousand Plane Raid'' (1969); ''The Sterile Cuckoo'' (1969); ''Aloha, Bobby and Rose'' (1975); ''The Gumball Rally'' (1976); ''The Choirboys (film), The Choirboys'' (1977); ''Brubaker'' (1980); ''Fast-Walking'' (1982) and ''Sacred Ground (1983 film), Sacred Ground'' (1983). McIntire appeare ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James McMullan (actor)
James P. McMullan (October 13, 1936 – May 31, 2019) was an American actor from Long Island, New York, best known for his role as Dr. Terry McDaniel on the 1960s series ''Ben Casey'' and as Senator Andrew Dowling on the CBS primetime soap opera ''Dallas''. McMullan studied Industrial Design at New York University and Parsons School of Design; he graduated from the University of Kansas in 1961 with a Bachelor of Architecture degree. Career Born in Long Beach, Long Island, he went to Hollywood in 1961 to visit a friend and through a chance meeting with playwright William Inge, was given a screen test for Sam Peckinpah's ''Ride the High Country'' (1962) (Peckinpah also directed the screen test). The test was sent to Universal Pictures, which put him under a seven-year contract, the start of a successful 30-year film career. In 1962 McMullan appeared as Jess Kroeger on the TV western '' The Virginian'' on the episode titled "Impasse." McMullan starred as John Moore on the short-li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Robinson (actor, Born 1932)
Charles Knox Robinson III (April 13, 1932 — July 22, 2006) was an American actor who appeared in over 80 films and television series over his career. From 1958 through 1971 he was credited as Charles Robinson and, from 1972 onward, his full birth name, Charles Knox Robinson, also became his stage name. His credits have been occasionally commingled with those of younger actor Charlie Robinson who, during an eight-year (1984–92) stint as court clerk Mac Robinson on ''Night Court'' had been credited as Charles Robinson. Robinson's first on-screen billing in a feature film was as one of the title characters in 1962's '' The Interns''. He established the Torchlight Project together with his wife, Joan, which aided, empowered and enriched the lives of impoverished children in foreign countries. He was also a member of many organizations including: the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, Actors' Equ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emancipation Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation, officially Proclamation 95, was a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, during the American Civil War. The Proclamation had the effect of changing the legal status of more than 3.5 million Slavery in the United States, enslaved African Americans in the secessionist Confederate States of America, Confederate states from enslaved to free. As soon as slaves escaped the control of their enslavers, either by fleeing to Union (American Civil War), Union lines or through the advance of federal troops, they were permanently free. In addition, the Proclamation allowed for former slaves to "be received into the armed service of the United States". The Emancipation Proclamation played a significant part in the end of slavery in the United States. On September 22, 1862, Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation. Its third paragraph begins: On January 1, 1863, Li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shenandoah River
The Shenandoah River is the principal tributary of the Potomac River, long with two River fork, forks approximately long each,U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed August 15, 2011 in the U.S. states of Virginia and West Virginia. The river and its Tributary, tributaries drain the central and lower Shenandoah Valley and the Page Valley in the Appalachian Mountains, Appalachians on the west side of the Blue Ridge Mountains, in northwestern Virginia and the eastern panhandle of West Virginia. There is a hydroelectric plant along the Shenandoah River constructed in 2014 by Dominion Energy, Dominion. Course The Shenandoah River is formed northeast of Front Royal, Virginia, Front Royal near Riverton, by the confluence (geography), confluence of the South Fork Shenandoah River, South Fork and the North Fork Shenandoah River, North Fork. It flows northeast across Warren County, Virginia, Warren County, passing unde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rugged Individualist
Rugged individualism, derived from individualism, is a term that indicates that an individual is self-reliant and independent from outside (usually government or some other form of collective) assistance or support. While the term is often associated with the notion of ''laissez-faire'' and associated adherents, it was actually coined by United States president Herbert Hoover. History American rugged individualism has its origins in the American frontier experience. Throughout its evolution, the American frontier was generally sparsely populated and had very little infrastructure in place. Under such conditions, individuals had to provide for themselves to survive. This kind of environment forced people to work in isolation from the larger community and may have altered attitudes at the frontier in favor of individualistic thought over collectivism. Through the mid-twentieth century, the concept was championed by Hoover's former Secretary of the Interior and long-time president ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
