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Trooper Hook
''Trooper Hook'' is a 1957 American Western film directed by Charles Marquis Warren and starring Joel McCrea as the title character and Barbara Stanwyck as the woman he frees from the Indians. The fact that during her captivity she has had a son by a much-feared chief makes her situation very difficult. Plot Led by First Sergeant Clovis Hook, the US cavalry captures Apache warriors and torches an Apache village, rounding up the women and children. Cora Sutliff, an unresponsive and silent white woman, is spotted among the prisoners. Cora had been taken captive in a raid nine years before, while travelling to join her rancher husband, Fred. She has a child named Quito. The cavalrymen return to their fort with Cora and the prisoners. Among the prisoners is Apache Chief Nanchez, Quito's father. Most women at the fort are unsympathetic toward Cora, reasoning that any sane white woman would prefer suicide to being "defiled" by an Indian. Hook is assigned to escort Cora and Quito to C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Marquis Warren
Charles Marquis Warren (December 16, 1912 – August 11, 1990) was an American motion picture and television writer, producer, and director who specialized in Westerns. Among his notable career achievements were his involvement in creating the television series ''Rawhide'' and his work in adapting the radio series ''Gunsmoke'' for television. Biography Early life Warren was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and was the son of a real estate broker and the godson of famous American writer and fellow Baltimorean F. Scott Fitzgerald. He was educated at The Baltimore City College, a longtime prominent secondary school in the region plus the third oldest public high school in America (founded 1839). It is known for its landmark stone "Castle on the Hill" of Collegiate Gothic architecture with a tall bell/clock tower, built in 1922-1928. With numerous famous alumni / faculty and curriculum as one of the nation's earliest Magnet schools, the City College focuses on the humanities / lib ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Confederate States Of America
The Confederate States of America (CSA), also known as the Confederate States (C.S.), the Confederacy, or Dixieland, was an List of historical unrecognized states and dependencies, unrecognized breakaway republic in the Southern United States from 1861 to 1865. It comprised eleven U.S. states that declared Secession in the United States, secession: South Carolina in the American Civil War, South Carolina, Mississippi in the American Civil War, Mississippi, Florida in the American Civil War, Florida, Alabama in the American Civil War, Alabama, Georgia in the American Civil War, Georgia, Louisiana in the American Civil War, Louisiana, Texas in the American Civil War, Texas, Virginia in the American Civil War, Virginia, Arkansas in the American Civil War, Arkansas, Tennessee in the American Civil War, Tennessee, and North Carolina in the American Civil War, North Carolina. These states fought against the United States during the American Civil War. With Abraham Lincoln's 1860 Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sheb Wooley
Shelby Fredrick Wooley (April 10, 1921 – September 16, 2003) was an American singer, songwriter, and actor. He recorded a series of novelty songs, including the 1958 hit rock-and-roll comedy single "The Purple People Eater", and under the name Ben Colder, the country hit "Almost Persuaded No. 2". As an actor, he portrayed Cletus Summers, the principal of Hickory High School and assistant coach in the 1986 film '' Hoosiers''; Ben Miller, brother of Frank Miller in the film ''High Noon''; Travis Cobb in '' The Outlaw Josey Wales''; and scout Pete Nolan in the television series '' Rawhide.'' Wooley is also credited as the voice actor who provided the Wilhelm scream and all of the other stock sound effects for Thomas J. Valentino's Major record label during the 1940s. Early life Sheb Wooley was born in 1921 in Erick, Oklahoma, the third son of William C. Wooley and Ora E. Wooley. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Shannon (actor)
Richard Esberry Mangan (July 25, 1920 – December 2, 1989) was an American film and television actor. He appeared in over 70 films and television programs, and was known for playing the role of Buck Henderson in the 1957 film '' The Tin Star''. In 1959 he appeared on ''Tales of Wells Fargo'' as outlaw Wade who contracts a hitman in season four's "Wanted: Jim Harrie." He later appeared as the cold hearted and oft drunk Deputy Gamer in a 1962 episode of ''Gunsmoke'' entitled "The Gallows." Later in the series, he had a larger role as one of the two title characters, Trapper Tug (partner to Strother Martin's Trapper Billy), in "The Trappers." Also in 1962, he appeared in an episode of ''The Alfred Hitchcock Hour.'' Partial filmography *'' The Girls of Pleasure Island'' (1953) − Captain McKendry (uncredited) *''Pony Express'' (1953) − Red Barrett *'' The Vanquished'' (1953) − Lieutenant Adams (uncredited) *''Houdini'' (1953) − Miner (uncredited) *''Arrowhead'' (1953) − ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanley Adams (actor)
Stanley Adams (born Stanley Abramowitz; April 7, 1915 – April 27, 1977) was an American actor and screenwriter. He appeared in several films, including ''Breakfast at Tiffany's (film), Breakfast at Tiffany's'' (1961) and ''Lilies of the Field (1963 film), Lilies of the Field'' (1963). On television, he is probably best known for his guest appearance in the 1967 ''Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek'' episode "The Trouble with Tribbles" in which he portrayed outer space peddler Cyrano Jones, purveyor of tribbles. Concurrent with his acting career, Adams also maintained a career as a freelance television scriptwriter from the mid-1950s through the early 70s, writing for shows such as ''It's Always Jan'', ''Mister Ed'', ''Dr. Kildare (TV series), Dr. Kildare'', ''Bonanza'', ''Gunsmoke'', ''Star Trek'', ''The Outsider (1968 TV series), The Outsider'', ''The Flying Nun'', ''Mannix'', ''The Name of the Game (TV series), The Name of the Game, ''and others. Although he did a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Dano
Royal Edward Dano Sr. (November 16, 1922 – May 15, 1994) was an American actor. In a career spanning 46 years, he was perhaps best known for playing cowboys, villains, and Abraham Lincoln. Dano also provided the voice of the Audio-Animatronic Lincoln for Walt Disney's ''Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln'' attraction at the 1964 New York World's Fair (brought to Disneyland in 1965), as well as Lincoln's voice at the "The Hall of Presidents, Hall of Presidents" attraction at Disney's Magic Kingdom in 1971. Early life Dano was born in New York City on November 16, 1922, the eldest of three siblings born to Mary Josephine (née O'Connor), an Irish immigrant, and Caleb Edward Dano, a printer for newspapers. Career Dano appeared as McSnoyd the leprechaun in the stage show ''Barnaby (comics)#Theater, Barnaby and Mr. O'Malley'', based on the comic strip by Crockett Johnson. McSnoyd appears to the audience only as a blinking light on a large mushroom, so only his voice is heard. However, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Dehner
John Dehner (DAY-ner; born John Dehner Forkum; November 23, 1915February 4, 1992), also credited Dehner Forkum, was an American stage, radio, film, and television character actor. From the late 1930s to the late 1980s, he amassed a long list of performance credits, often in roles as sophisticated con men, shady authority figures, and other smooth-talking villains. His credits just in feature films, televised series, and in made-for-TV movies number almost 300 productions. Dehner worked extensively as a radio actor during the latter half of that medium's "golden age," accumulating hundreds of additional credits on nationally broadcast series. His most notable starring role was as Paladin on the radio version of the television Western '' Have Gun – Will Travel'', which aired for 106 episodes on CBS from 1958 to 1960. He continued to work as a voice actor in film, such as narrating the film '' The Hallelujah Trail''. Earlier in his career, Dehner also worked briefly for Wal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Miguel County, New Mexico
San Miguel County () is a county in the U.S. state of New Mexico. As of the 2020 census, the population was 27,201. Its county seat is Las Vegas. San Miguel County comprises the Las Vegas Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the Albuquerque–Santa Fe–Las Vegas combined statistical area. Geography According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of , of which is land and (0.4%) is water. The country is more than long from east to west and wide north to south and reaches from the Great Plains to the Rocky Mountains. The highest elevation in the county is at Elk Mountain and the lowest elevation is on the Canadian River at about . The eastern two thirds of the country is semi-arid steppe grassland. The Bell Ranch receives of precipitation annually, most in the summer months. The conifer-clad higher elevations in the northwest corner of the country are cooler and receive more precipitation. Gascon (near Rociada) at an elevation of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Celia Lovsky
Celia Lovsky (born Cäcilia Josefina Lvovsky, February 21, 1897 – October 12, 1979) was an Austrian-American actress. On the original ''Star Trek'' she played the Vulcan matriarch T'Pau, and on ''The Twilight Zone'' she played the aged daughter of an eternally youthful Hollywood actress. Early years Lovsky was born in Vienna, daughter of Břetislav Lvovsky, a minor Czech opera composer and his wife, Vallee, a cellist. She studied theater, dance, and languages at the Austrian Royal Academy of Arts and Music. Life and career Lovsky married journalist Heinrich Vinzenz Nowak in 1919. By 1925, they were apparently estranged and she was romantically involved with playwright Arthur Schnitzler. She later moved to Berlin, where she acted in the surrealist plays ''Dream Theater'' and ''Dream Play'' by Karl Kraus. There, in 1929, she met Peter Lorre, who had seen her in a production of Shakespeare's ''Othello'' near Vienna. The couple traveled to Paris, London, and the United ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susan Kohner
Susanna "Susan" Kohner (born November 11, 1936) is an American actress who worked in film and television. She played Sarah Jane, a young African-American woman attempting to "pass" as white, in '' Imitation of Life'' (1959), for which she was nominated for an Oscar as Best Supporting Actress. She won two Golden Globe awards for her performance. Kohner married menswear designer and writer John Weitz in 1964. Their two sons, Paul Weitz and Chris Weitz, both became film directors and producers, screenwriters, and occasional actors. Early life Kohner was born in Los Angeles, California, daughter of Lupita Tovar, a Mexican-born actress who had a career in Hollywood, and Paul Kohner, a film producer who was born in Bohemia, Austria-Hungary. Her mother was Roman Catholic, and of Irish and Mexican descent; her father was Bohemian Jewish. Career Most of Kohner's film roles came during the late 1950s and early 1960s, including co-starring with Sal Mineo in both '' Dino'' (1957) an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Andrews
Edward Bryan Andrews Jr. (October 9, 1914 – March 8, 1985) was an American stage, film and television actor. Andrews was one of the most recognizable character actors on television and in films from the 1950s through the 1980s. His stark white hair, imposing build and horn-rimmed glasses influenced the roles he received, as he was often cast as an ornery boss, a cagey businessman or other officious types. Life and career Andrews was born in Griffin, Georgia, the son of an Episcopal priest, and was raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Cleveland, Ohio and Wheeling, West Virginia. At the age of 12, he won a walk-on role in a stock theater production featuring James Gleason. He attended the University of Virginia, and at age 21 made his stage debut in 1935, progressing to Broadway that same year. During this period, Andrews starred in the short-lived but well-received military drama ''So Proudly We Hail'' in the lead role opposite Richard Cromwell. In 1936, Andrews deb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Earl Holliman
Henry Earl Holliman (September 11, 1928 – November 25, 2024) was an American actor, animal rights activist, and singer known for his many character roles in films, mostly Westerns and dramas, in the 1950s and 1960s. He won a Golden Globe Award for the film '' The Rainmaker'' (1956) and portrayed Sergeant Bill Crowley on the television police drama '' Police Woman'' throughout its 1974 to 1978 run. Holliman's other notable film roles include ''Broken Lance'' (1954), ''The Bridges at Toko-Ri'' (1954), ''The Big Combo'' (1955), '' I Died a Thousand Times'' (1955), ''Forbidden Planet'' (1956), ''Giant'' (1956), '' Hot Spell'' (1958), ''Anzio'' (1968), '' The Desperate Mission'' (1969), '' The Biscuit Eater'' (1972), '' Sharky's Machine'' (1981), and '' Gunsmoke: Return to Dodge'' (1987). He also had several notable television appearances in ''The Twilight Zone''; '' Hotel de Paree''; '' The Thorn Birds''; ''Gunsmoke''; ''Murder, She Wrote''; and ''Caroline in the City''. From 1958 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
