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William Windom (actor)
William Windom (September 28, 1923 – August 16, 2012) was an American actor. He was known as a character actor of the stage and screen. He is well known for his recurring role as Dr. Seth Hazlitt alongside Angela Lansbury in the CBS mystery series ''Murder, She Wrote'' and his intense guest role as Commodore Matt Decker in ''Star Trek''. Windom made his television debut in 1949 in the NBC anthology series ''The Philco Television Playhouse''. He continued acting in shows such as '' Studio One'', '' Masterpiece Playhouse'', '' Omnibus'', and ''Kraft Television Theatre''. During this time, he also appeared on ''The Twilight Zone'', ''Gunsmoke'', '' Mission: Impossible'', and ''Star Trek''. He then gained acclaim in his television career for his portrayal of cartoonist John Monroe in the short-lived NBC sitcom ''My World and Welcome to It'' (1969–1970), winning him the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series. He then guest-starred in various p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manhattan
Manhattan ( ) is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the Boroughs of New York City, five boroughs of New York City. Coextensive with New York County, Manhattan is the County statistics of the United States#Smallest, largest, and average area per state and territory, smallest county by area in the U.S. state of New York (state), New York. Located almost entirely on Manhattan Island near the southern tip of the state, Manhattan constitutes the center of the Northeast megalopolis and the urban core of the New York metropolitan area. Manhattan serves as New York City's Economy of New York City, economic and Government of New York City, administrative center and has been described as the cultural, financial, Media in New York City, media, and show business, entertainment capital of the world. Present-day Manhattan was originally part of Lenape territory. European settlement began with the establishment of a trading post by Dutch colonization of the Americas, D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
My World And Welcome To It
''My World ... and Welcome to It'' is an American half-hour television sitcom based on the humor and cartoons of James Thurber. It starred William Windom (actor), William Windom as John Monroe, a Thurber-like writer and cartoonist who works for a magazine closely resembling ''The New Yorker'' called ''The Manhattanite''. Wry, fanciful and curmudgeonly, Monroe observes and comments on life, to the bemusement of his wife Ellen (Joan Hotchkis) and daughter Lydia (Lisa Gerritsen). Monroe's frequent daydreams and fantasies are usually based on Thurber material. The series, which ran for one season during the 1969-70 United States network television schedule, 1969–70 season on NBC, was created by Mel Shavelson, who wrote and directed the pilot episode and was one of its principal writers. Sheldon Leonard was executive producer. The show's producer, Danny Arnold, co-wrote or directed numerous episodes, and appeared as Santa Claus in "Rally Round the Flag". Series description Most ep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Detective (1968 Film)
''The Detective'' is a 1968 American neo-noir crime drama film starring Frank Sinatra. Directed by Gordon Douglas and produced by Aaron Rosenberg, it is based on the 1966 novel of the same name by Roderick Thorp. Co-stars include Lee Remick, Jacqueline Bisset, Jack Klugman, William Windom, and Robert Duvall, with a script by Academy Award-winning screenwriter Abby Mann. The book's rights were owned by Robert Evans, who was to produce the film but never got a chance to when Evans was hired by Gulf+Western to run Paramount Pictures. ''The Detective'' marked a move towards — and was billed as — a more "adult" approach to depicting the life and work of a police detective while confronting, for one of the first times in mainstream cinema, previously taboo subjects such as homosexuality. Here, the detective in question is Joe Leland, who is trying to juggle marital issues with a murder case that seemed to be open-and-shut at first but runs much deeper than he could have ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Americanization Of Emily
''The Americanization of Emily'' is a 1964 American black-and-white black comedy anti-war film directed by Arthur Hiller, written by Paddy Chayefsky, and starring James Garner, Julie Andrews, Melvyn Douglas, James Coburn, Joyce Grenfell, and Keenan Wynn. Set during World War II, the film follows a United States Navy adjutant who is roped into a reckless interservice rivalry-fueled stunt by his superiors, becoming a war hero by being the first American sailor killed on D-Day. Chayefsky's screenplay loosely was adapted from the 1959 novel of the same name by William Bradford Huie, who had been a Seabee officer during Operation Overlord. Controversial for its stance during the dawn of the Vietnam War, the film has since been praised as a " vanguard anti-war film". Both James Garner and Julie Andrews have considered the film to be the favorite of their films. Plot In 1944, during World War II, U.S. Navy Lt. Commander Charlie Madison is a cynical and highly efficient "dog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
To Kill A Mockingbird (film)
''To Kill a Mockingbird'' is a 1962 American Coming-of-age story, coming-of-age legal drama crime film directed by Robert Mulligan starring Gregory Peck and Mary Badham, with Phillip Alford, John Megna, Frank Overton, James Anderson (American actor), James Anderson, and Brock Peters in supporting roles. It marked the film debut of Robert Duvall, William Windom (actor), William Windom, and Alice Ghostley. Adapted by Horton Foote, from Harper Lee's 1960 in literature, 1960 Pulitzer Prize–winning To Kill a Mockingbird, novel, it follows a lawyer (Peck) in Great Depression, Depression-era Alabama defending a black man (Peters) charged with rape while educating his children (Badham and Alford) against prejudice. It gained overwhelmingly positive reception from both the critics and the public; a box-office success, it earned more than six times its budget. The film won three Academy Awards, including Academy Award for Best Actor, Best Actor for Peck and Academy Award for Best Adapte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The District
''The District'' is an American crime drama and police procedural television series that aired on CBS from October 7, 2000, to May 1, 2004. The show followed the work and personal life of the chief of Washington, D.C.'s police department. Premise Former Newark, New Jersey Police Commissioner and New York Transit police officer Jack Mannion is hired as the chief of the bureaucracy-laden Washington, D.C. police force. Together with his detectives and allies, he must fight crime as well as internal corruption and the powers of Congress in order to reorganize and renovate the force. Production ''The District'' was inspired by the real-life experience of former New York City Deputy Police Commissioner Jack Maple. Along with Police Commissioner William Bratton, he had reorganized the NYPD, and one of the achievements was the CompStat program (comparative statistics), which has its own major role in the TV series. After the success in New York, the CompStat program has been ada ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ally McBeal
''Ally McBeal'' is an American legal comedy-drama television series created by David E. Kelley that originally aired on Fox from September 8, 1997, to May 20, 2002. It revolves around Calista Flockhart in the title role as a lawyer working in the Boston law firm Cage and Fish. Although the series is ostensibly a legal drama, its main focus is the romantic and personal lives of the main characters. The series was produced by David E. Kelley Productions and 20th Century Fox Television, with Kelley serving as executive producer alongside Bill D'Elia. ''Ally McBeal'' received critical acclaim in its early seasons, winning the Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy in 1998 and 1999, and also winning the Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series in 1999. Despite these achievements, it was canceled by Fox after five seasons. In March 2021, it was reported that a revival as a limited series was in early development at 20th Television with Flockhart po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sonic The Hedgehog (TV Series)
''Sonic the Hedgehog'' is an List of animated television series of 1993, animated television series that aired from 1993 to 1994 based on Sega's ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' video game franchise. It was produced by DIC Entertainment, DIC Productions, Sega, Sega of America, and the Italy, Italian studio MediaForEurope, Reteitalia in association with Telecinco, and is the second of DIC's List of Sonic the Hedgehog features#Animated series, ''Sonic'' cartoons, following ''Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog''. To distinguish it from other ''Sonic'' media, fans commonly refer to the series as "Sonic SatAM", in reference to its Saturday-morning cartoon, Saturday morning timeslot. The show features a darker and more dramatic story than the lighter ''Adventures'', depicting Sonic and a band of freedom fighters battling to overthrow Doctor Eggman, Dr. Robotnik, now a despotic dictator who conquered their home planet Mobius years ago, and rules it as a polluted industrial dystopia. The program ai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murphy Brown
''Murphy Brown'' is an American television sitcom created by Diane English that premiered on November 14, 1988, on CBS. The series stars Candice Bergen as the eponymous Murphy Brown, a famous investigative journalist and news presenter, news anchor for ''FYI'', a fictional CBS television news magazine, newsmagazine, and later for ''Murphy in the Morning'', a cable morning news show. The series originally ran until May 18, 1998, after airing a total of 247 episodes over ten seasons. In January 2018, it was announced that CBS ordered a 13-episode revival of ''Murphy Brown'', which premiered on September 27, 2018. CBS canceled the revival after one season on May 10, 2019. Plot Original run Murphy Brown (Candice Bergen) is a recovering alcoholic who, in the show's first episode, returns to the fictional newsmagazine ''FYI'' for the first time following a stay at the Betty Ford Clinic residential treatment center. Over 40 and single, she is sharp-tongued and hard as nails. In her prof ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newhart
''Newhart'' is an American television sitcom that aired on CBS from October 25, 1982, to May 21, 1990, with a total of 184 half-hour episodes spanning eight seasons. The series stars Bob Newhart and Mary Frann as an author and his wife, respectively; who own and operate the Stratford Inn in rural Vermont. The small town is home to many eccentric characters. ''TV Guide'', TV Land, and A&E named the ''Newhart'' series finale as one of the most memorable in television history. The theme music for ''Newhart'' was composed by Henry Mancini. Premise Bob Newhart plays Dick Loudon, an author of do-it-yourself and travel books. He and his wife Joanna move from New York City to a small town in rural Vermont to operate the 200-year-old Stratford Inn. Dick and Joanna initially run the inn with the help of sweet-natured but simple handyman George Utley and Leslie Vanderkellen, a bright, cheerful Dartmouth College student and heiress who takes a job as a maid to find out what it is like ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quincy M
Quincy may refer to: People *Quincy (name), including a list of people with the name Quincy * Quincy political family, including members of the family Places and jurisdictions France * Quincy, Cher, a commune in the Cher département * A hamlet of Chilly in the Haute-Savoie département * A former commune in the Seine-et-Marne département, now part of Quincy-Voisins United States *Quincy, California *Quincy, Florida *Quincy, Illinois **Quincy University, located in Quincy, Illinois **the former Roman Catholic Diocese of Quincy, now a Latin titular see * Quincy, Indiana * Quincy, Iowa * Quincy, Kansas * Quincy, Kentucky *Quincy, Massachusetts, the first Quincy in the United States * Quincy, Michigan * Quincy, Mississippi *Quincy, Missouri *Quincy, Ohio * Quincy, Oregon * Quincy, Pennsylvania *Quincy, Washington *Quincy, West Virginia, in Kanawha County *Quincy, Wisconsin, a town **Quincy (ghost town), Wisconsin, a ghost town *Quincy Hollow, a section of Levittown, Pennsylva ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
