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''Adventures in Paradise'' is an American one-hour television series created by James Michener and starring Gardner McKay, which ran on ABC from 1959 until 1962. Premise Gardner McKay starred as Adam Troy, the captain of the schooner ''Tiki III'', which sailed the South Pacific looking for passengers and adventure. The plots deal with the romantic and detective adventures of Korean War veteran Troy. The supporting cast, varying from season to season, featured George Tobias, Guy Stockwell, and Linda Lawson. Jacques Tourneur directed the 1962 episode "A Bride for the Captain"''.'' Cast Main *Gardner McKay as Captain Adam Troy *James Holden as Clay Baker (seasons 2–3) *Guy Stockwell as Chris Parker (season 3) Recurring * Weaver Levy as Oliver Lee (season 1) * Henry Slate as Bulldog Lovey (season 1) * Linda Lawson as Renee (seasons 1–2) * George Tobias as Trader Penrose (season 2) *Lani Kai as Kelly (seasons 2–3) *Marcel Hillaire as Inspector Bouchard (seasons 2–3) ...
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Gardner McKay
George Cadogan Gardner McKay (June 10, 1932 – November 21, 2001) was an American actor, artist, and author. He is best known for the lead role in the TV series ''Adventures in Paradise (TV series), Adventures in Paradise'', based loosely on the writings of James Michener. His character, Adam Troy, is a Korean War veteran who purchased the two-masted 82-foot (25 m) schooner ''Tiki III'', and sailed the Pacific Ocean, South Pacific. The show ran for three seasons on American Broadcasting Company, ABC from 1959–1962, for a total of 91 episodes. Early life Born in New York City, McKay was the son of ad executive Hugh Deane McKay (born 1894) and socialite Catherine "Kitty" Gardner McKay (born 1904). He was the great-grandson of shipbuilder Donald McKay. The father's business took the family to Paris, where McKay attended private schools. The family returned to the United States shortly before the outbreak of World War II; McKay and his older brother, Hugh, lived with grandparent ...
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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 ...
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Phyllis Avery
Phyllis Avery (November 14, 1922 – May 19, 2011) was an American actress. Early life Phyllis Avery was born to screenwriter Stephen Morehouse Avery and his wife Evelyn Martine Avery.''Prolific TV Actress Phyllis Avery Dies at 88''
Nachruf in: ''The Hollywood Reporter'' vom 23. Mai 2011
She grew up in and .''PASSINGS: Phyllis Avery''
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John Anderson (actor)
John Robert Anderson (October 20, 1922 – August 7, 1992) was an American actor. Life and career Anderson was born in 1922 and raised in Clayton, Illinois. He served in the United States Coast Guard during World War II. He also held a master's degree in drama from the University of Iowa. Anderson started out on Broadway, including an appearance in the musical '' Paint Your Wagon'' in 1951. He later worked primarily in film and television. Standing , he bore a strong resemblance to Abraham Lincoln, whom he portrayed three times. He appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's '' Psycho'' (1960) as used car salesman "California Charlie", who sells a car to Marion Crane (Janet Leigh). On television, he appeared in such series as ''The Rockford Files'', '' Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre'', ''Rawhide'', ''Gunsmoke'', ''The Rifleman'', '' Laramie'', '' Have Gun – Will Travel '', ''The Alfred Hitchcock Hour'', '' The Virginian'', ''The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp'', '' The Californians'', ' ...
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Philip Ahn
Philip Ahn (; March 29, 1905 – February 28, 1978) was an American actor and activist of Korean descent. With over 180 film and television credits between 1935 and 1978, he was one of the most recognizable and prolific Asian-American character actors of his time. He is widely regarded as the first Korean American film actor in Hollywood. The son of Korean independence activist Ahn Changho, Philip Ahn was a longtime advocate for his father's legacy and the Korean-American community, helping to establish memorials to his father in his native Seoul and later arranging for his remains to be buried there. Early life and education Ahn was born in the Highland Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, on March 29, 1905. His parents, Ahn Changho (도산 안창호) and Yi Hyeryon (이혜련), were both Korean emigrants who had moved to the United States in 1902, making him the first American citizen born to two Korean parents in the United States. His father Dosan was a ...
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Sondi Sodsai
Sodsai Pantoomkomol (; ; ) Vanijvadhana (; ;; born 18 March 1934) is a Thai actress, beauty pageant titleholder, and teacher of dramatic arts. Also known as Sondi Sodsai from her acting career in the United States during her studies, she returned to Thailand to become a lecturer and associate professor at the Faculty of Arts of Chulalongkorn University, where she founded the Dramatic Arts Department, the first such school in the country. She produced numerous theatrical works throughout her career, and was named National Artist in 2011. Early life and education Sodsai Vanijvadhana was born on 18 March 1934 in Bangkok, Siam, to Subhajaya Vanijvadhana, professor and head of the Biology Department at Chulalongkorn University, and Prayongsi Vanijvadhana (née Laksanasut). She attended Mater Dei School, and enrolled at Chulalongkorn's Faculty of Arts. She graduated Bachelor of Arts with honors, and subsequently received a Fulbright scholarship to study teaching English as a fore ...
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Google Books
Google Books (previously known as Google Book Search, Google Print, and by its code-name Project Ocean) is a service from Google that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition (OCR), and stored in its digital database.The basic Google book link is found at: https://books.google.com/ . The "advanced" interface allowing more specific searches is found at: https://books.google.com/advanced_book_search Books are provided either by publishers and authors through the Google Books Partner Program, or by Google's library partners through the Library Project. Additionally, Google has partnered with a number of magazine publishers to digitize their archives. The Publisher Program was first known as Google Print when it was introduced at the Frankfurt Book Fair in October 2004. The Google Books Library Project, which scans works in the collections of library partners and adds them to the digital inventory, ...
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Henry Slate
Henry Sonken (July 15, 1910 – August 11, 1996) was an American film, television and theatre actor. Often appearing as one of the Slate Bros, he was known for his appearances in the films ''Miss Sadie Thompson'', ''Loan Shark'', '' Hey Boy! Hey Girl!'', '' Somebody Loves Me'' and ''Rock Around the Clock'', and for playing the role of Bulldog Lovey in the American television series '' Adventures in Paradise''. Slate died on August 11, 1996 in Los Angeles, California, at the age of 86. He was cremated. Partial filmography *'' College Swing'' (1938) - Hangout Waiter (credited as "The Slate Brothers") *''Winged Victory'' (1944) - Andrews Sister *'' You're in the Navy Now'' (1951) - Chief Engineer Ryan *''Fourteen Hours'' (1951) - Cab Driver (uncredited) *'' The Frogmen'' (1951) - Sleepy *''Rhubarb'' (1951) - Dud Logan *'' The Belle of New York'' (1952) - Police Sgt. Clancy (uncredited) *'' Just This Once'' (1952) - Jeff Parma *''Loan Shark'' (1952) - Paul Nelson *'' Down Among t ...
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Linda Lawson As Renee Adventures In Paradise 1959
Linda is an English feminine given name, derived from the Spanish word , meaning "pretty." Linda may also refer to: Names * Linda (given name), a female given name (including a list of people and fictional characters so named) * Linda (singer) (born 1977), stage name of Svetlana Geiman, a Russian singer * Miss Linda, long-time manager and wife of Welsh wrestler Adrian Street Surname * Anita Linda (born Alice Lake, 1924–2020), Filipino film actress * Bogusław Linda (born 1952), Polish actor * La Prieta Linda (1933–2021), Mexican singer and actress * Sarah Linda (born 1987), British actress and model * Solomon Linda (1909–1962), South African Zulu musician, singer and composer who wrote the song "Mbube" which later became "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" Places * Linda, Tasmania, Australia, a ghost town * Linda Valley, Tasmania * Linda, Georgia, a village in Abkhazia * Linda, Bashkortostan, Russia, a village * Linda, California, United States, a census-designated place * ...
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Jacques Tourneur
Jacques Tourneur (; ; November 12, 1904 – December 19, 1977) was a French-American filmmaker, active during the Golden Age of Hollywood. He was known as an auteur of stylish and atmospheric genre films, many of them for RKO Pictures, including the horror films '' Cat People'', ''I Walked with a Zombie'', and '' The Leopard Man'', and the classic film noir ''Out of the Past''. He is also known for directing '' Night of the Demon'', which was released by Columbia Pictures. Life Born in Paris, France, Tourneur was the son of Fernande Petit and film director Maurice Tourneur.Earnshaw 2004, p. 102. At age 10, Jacques moved to the United States with his father. He started a career in cinema while still attending high school as an extra and later as a script clerk in various silent films. Both Maurice and Jacques returned to France after his father worked on the film '' The Mysterious Island'' in 1925. Tourneur died in 1977, aged 73, in Bergerac, Dordogne, France. Career Tourneur be ...
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The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''NYT'') is an American daily newspaper based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces, investigative reports, and reviews. As one of the longest-running newspapers in the United States, the ''Times'' serves as one of the country's Newspaper of record, newspapers of record. , ''The New York Times'' had 9.13 million total and 8.83 million online subscribers, both by significant margins the List of newspapers in the United States, highest numbers for any newspaper in the United States; the total also included 296,330 print subscribers, making the ''Times'' the second-largest newspaper by print circulation in the United States, following ''The Wall Street Journal'', also based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' is published by the New York Times Company; since 1896, the company has been chaired by the Ochs-Sulzberger family, whose current chairman and the paper's publ ...
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Linda Lawson (actress)
Linda Lawson (born Linda Gloria Spaziani; January 14, 1936 – May 18, 2022) was an American actress and singer. Early life and career The first of three children born to Italian immigrants Maria Cataldi and Edward Spaziani, she was five years old when her family moved from Michigan to Fontana, California. After graduating from Chaffey High School, she began her 50-year acting career in 1955 with a short film for the U.S. government. On May 5, 1955, Lawson was dubbed "Miss Cue" in reference to a series of nuclear tests conducted by the US military under "Operation Teapot," and publicized as " Operation Cue" in a short film distributed by the US Federal Civil Defense Administration. She appeared in several television series, including ''Alfred Hitchcock Presents''; ''The Alfred Hitchcock Hour''; '' Maverick'' starring James Garner, as Clint Eastwood's "other woman" in the episode " Duel at Sundown"; James Michener's '' Adventures in Paradise'', as recurring character "Renee" in ...
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