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The Life And Legend Of Wyatt Earp
''The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp'' is the first Western television series written for adults."Hugh O'Brian, actor who played Wyatt Earp, dies at 91," September 5, 2016, '''' retrieved April 3, 2023"The Eastern Earps," September 5, 2016, '' Baltimore Sun'' retrieved April 3, 2023 It premiered four days before ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh O'Brian
Hugh O'Brian (born Hugh Charles Krampe; April 19, 1925 – September 5, 2016) was an American actor and humanitarian, best known for his starring roles in the American Broadcasting Company, ABC Western (genre), Western television series ''The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp'' (1955–1961) and the National Broadcasting Company, NBC action television series ''Search (American TV series), Search'' (1972–1973). His notable films included the adaptation of Agatha Christie's ''Ten Little Indians (1965 film), Ten Little Indians'' (1965); he also had a notable supporting role in John Wayne's last film, ''The Shootist'' (1976). He created the Hugh O'Brian Youth Leadership Foundation, (HOBY) a nonprofit youth leadership-development program for high-school scholars. It has sponsored more than 500,000 students since O'Brian founded the program in 1958, following an extended visit with physician and theologian Albert Schweitzer. Life and career Early life and military service O'Bri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred Coby
Frederick G. Beckner Jr. (March 1, 1916 – September 27, 1970) was an American film and television actor. He was known for playing Pony Deal in the fifth season of the American western television series ''The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp''. Coby died on September 27, 1970, at the age of 54. Partial filmography * ''The Cross of Lorraine'' (1943) - French Soldier (uncredited) * ''Girl Crazy'' (1943) - Radio Man (uncredited) * '' Lost Angel'' (1943) - Bit Role (uncredited) * ''A Guy Named Joe'' (1943) - Cadet (uncredited) * '' Two Girls and a Sailor'' (1944) - Sailor (uncredited) * ''Meet the People'' (1944) - Marine (uncredited) * '' Marriage Is a Private Affair'' (1944) - Roger Poole (uncredited) * ''They Were Expendable'' (1945) - Officer at Airport (uncredited) * '' The Scarlet Horseman'' (1946) - Tioga * ''Without Reservations'' (1946) - French Officer (uncredited) * '' The Brute Man'' (1946) - Young Hal Moffat * ''Don Ricardo Returns'' (1946) - Don Ricardo * '' Sweethea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American Commercial broadcasting, commercial broadcast Television broadcaster, television and radio Radio network, network that serves as the flagship property of the Disney Entertainment division of the Walt Disney Company. ABC is headquartered on Riverside Drive in Burbank, California, directly across the street from Walt Disney Studios (Burbank), Walt Disney Studios and adjacent to the Team Disney – Roy E. Disney Animation Building. The network maintains secondary offices at 77 66th Street (Manhattan), West 66th Street on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, New York City, which houses its broadcast center and the headquarters of its news division, ABC News (United States), ABC News. Since 2007, when ABC Radio (also known as Cumulus Media Networks) was sold to Citadel Broadcasting, ABC has reduced its broadcasting operations almost exclusively to television. The youngest of the "Big Three (American television), Big Three" American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Desilu Productions
Desilu Productions, Inc. () was an American television production company founded and co-owned by husband and wife Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball. The company is best known for shows such as ''I Love Lucy'', '' The Lucy Show'', '' Mannix'', '' The Untouchables'', '' Mission: Impossible'' and ''Star Trek''. Until 1962, Desilu was the second-largest independent television production company in the United States, behind MCA's Revue Studios, until MCA bought Universal Pictures and Desilu became and remained the number-one independent production company, until Ball sold it to Gulf and Western Industries (then the parent company of Paramount Pictures) in 1968. Ball and Arnaz jointly owned the majority stake in Desilu from its inception until 1962, when Ball bought out Arnaz and ran the company by herself for several years. Ball had succeeded in making Desilu profitable again by 1968, when she sold her shares of Desilu to Gulf+Western for $17 million (valued at $ in ). Gulf+Western the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert B
The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of ''Hrōþ, Hruod'' () "fame, glory, honour, praise, renown, godlike" and ''berht'' "bright, light, shining"). It is the second most frequently used given name of ancient Germanic origin.Reaney & Wilson, 1997. ''Dictionary of English Surnames''. Oxford University Press. It is also in use Robert (surname), as a surname. Another commonly used form of the name is Rupert (name), Rupert. After becoming widely used in Continental Europe, the name entered England in its Old French form ''Robert'', where an Old English cognate form (''Hrēodbēorht'', ''Hrodberht'', ''Hrēodbēorð'', ''Hrœdbœrð'', ''Hrœdberð'', ''Hrōðberχtŕ'') had existed before the Norman Conquest. The feminine version is Roberta (given name), Roberta. The Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish form is Roberto (given name), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Cronjager Jr
Henry Cronjager Jr (1906–1991) was an American cinematographer who worked both in the film and television industries from the 1930s until the 1970s. He was the son of Henry Cronjager, brother to Edward Cronjager, and father to William Cronjager, all also cinematographers. Due to the similarity in names with his father, there is some confusion as to exactly when the senior Cronjager's career ended, and the younger one's began. Both were active during the 1930s, however the American Film Institute's entry for Henry Cronjager conflates the careers of the two cinematographers, while Imdb.com as the senior's career ending in 1933. The first reliable source wherein it shows that Cronjager Jr. was the cameraman and not his father is a Walter Winchell column from February 26, 1937, which shows that Cronjager Jr. was a cameraman on the film ''Wake Up and Live'', for which his brother Edward was the cinematographer. He worked as cameraman for films in the 1930s, 40s and into the 50s, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Sisk
Robert F. Sisk (March 20, 1903 – February 25, 1964) was an American film producer. Sources differ as to his birthplace, with some indicating Maryland and others specifying the unincorporated village of Pokeshaw in the Canadian province of New Brunswick. After working as a reporter for ''The Baltimore Sun'' and ''Variety'', he began working as a publicity director, first for the Theatre Guild and then for RKO Pictures. In the late 1930s he became a producer and made a number of movies with John Farrow at RKO, including ''Five Came Back'' (1939). He later worked at MGM and produced for TV. His wife died in 1957. They had one daughter. Sisk died in Los Angeles at age 60. Select credits * ''Little Women'' (1933) * ''The Three Musketeers'' (1935) * ''Annie Oakley'' (1935) * ''The Plough and the Stars'' (1936) * '' The Saint Strikes Back'' (1939) * ''Five Came Back'' (1939) * '' A Bill of Divorcement'' (1940) * '' The Forest Rangers'' (1942) * ''Love Laughs at Andy Hardy'' (1946) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis F
Louis may refer to: People * Louis (given name), origin and several individuals with this name * Louis (surname) * Louis (singer), Serbian singer Other uses * Louis (coin), a French coin * HMS ''Louis'', two ships of the Royal Navy See also * Derived terms * King Louis (other) * Saint Louis (other) * Louis Cruise Lines * Louis dressing, for salad * Louis Quinze, design style Associated terms * Lewis (other) * Louie (other) * Luis (other) * Louise (other) * Louisville (other) Associated names * * Chlodwig, the origin of the name Ludwig, which is translated to English as "Louis" * Ladislav and László - names sometimes erroneously associated with "Louis" * Ludovic, Ludwig, Ludwick, Ludwik Ludwik () is a Polish given name. Notable people with the name include: * Ludwik Czyżewski, Polish WWII general * Ludwik Fleck (1896–1961), Polish medical doctor and biologist * Ludwik Gintel (1899–1973), Polish- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ken Darby
Kenneth Lorin Darby (May 13, 1909 – January 24, 1992) was an American composer, vocal arranger, lyricist, and conductor. His film scores were recognized by the awarding of three Academy Awards and one Grammy Award. He provided vocals for the Munchkin Country, Munchkinland mayor in ''The Wizard of Oz (1939 film), The Wizard of Oz'' (1939), who was portrayed in the film by Charlie Becker. Darby is also notable as the author of ''The Brownstone House of Nero Wolfe'' (1983), a biography of the home of Nero Wolfe, Rex Stout's fictional detective. Personal life Kenneth Lorin Darby was born in Hebron, Nebraska, on May 13, 1909, to Lorin Edward Darby and Clara Alice Powell.Cook, Page, prelude to Ken Darby's ''Hollywood Holyland: The Filming and Scoring of 'The Greatest Story Ever Told' ''. Metuchen, New Jersey : Scarecrow Press, 1992 pp. xiii–xxx Darby was married to Vera Matson from 1932 to his death in 1992. Career Ken Darby's choral group, The Ken Darby Singers, sang b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herman Stein
Herman Stein (August 19, 1915 – March 15, 2007) was an American composer who wrote music for many of the 1950s science-fiction and horror films from Universal Studios. "Herman Stein was one of the architects of the sound of 1950s science-fiction movies."Jon Burlingame, film-music historian at the University of Southern California, quoted in Fox, Margalit (24 March 2007) "Herman Stein, 91, Composer of Moody Horror and Science-Fiction Scores" ''New York Times'' Section C;, Column 1, The Arts/Cultural Desk, p. 10 Stein retired in the 1970s and died of congestive heart failure in his home in Los Angeles at the age of 91. Life Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Stein was a child prodigy, playing the piano by the age of threeStaff (9 April 2007) "Child prodigy began performing at three" ''The Courier Mail'' (Australia) p. 60 and making his professional concert debut at the age of six.Fox, Margalit (24 March 2007) "Herman Stein, 91, Composer of Moody Horror and Science-Fiction Scor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Cassady
William Cassady Sizemore (September 5, 1923 – September 15, 2006) was an American film and television actor. He was known for playing Dr. McCarty in the third and fourth season of the American western television series ''The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp''. Cassady appeared in the films '' Up Front'' (1951), starring David Wayne and Tom Ewell; '' Meet Danny Wilson'' (1952), starring Frank Sinatra, Shelley Winters and Alex Nicol; '' Footsteps in the Night'' (1957), starring Wild Bill Elliott; ''Man's Favorite Sport?'' (1964), starring Rock Hudson and Paula Prentiss and '' Not with My Wife, You Don't!'' (1966), starring Tony Curtis, Virna Lisi and George C. Scott. He guest-starred in television programs including ''Sergeant Preston of the Yukon'', ''State Trooper'', ''Death Valley Days'', '' Johnny Midnight'', ''Highway Patrol'', ''The Wild Wild West'' and '' Harbor Command''. Partial filmography * '' The Pecos Pistol'' (1949) * '' Peggy'' (1950) * '' Up Front'' (1951) * '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ross Elliott
Ross Elliott (born Elliott Blum; June 18, 1917 – August 12, 1999) was an American television and film character actor. He began his acting career in the Mercury Theatre, where he performed in Orson Welles' 1938 radio broadcast of ''The War of the Worlds''. Early years Elliott was born in the borough of the Bronx in New York City. While at City College of New York, he participated in the college's dramatic society, causing him to abandon his original plan to become a lawyer. Radio and stage Directly out of college, Elliott joined Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre, garnering bit parts both on the radio (including the notorious '' War of the Worlds'' production (1938)) and stage (including Welles' ''Caesar'' (1937–1938). Elliott's Broadway credits include '' The Shoemaker's Holiday'' (1938), ''Danton's Tod'' (1938), ''Morning Star'' (1940), ''This Is the Army'' (1942), and ''Apple of His Eye'' (1946). In 1972, he returned to the stage in Shakespeare's ''King Lear'' with the Sant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
