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William A. Seiter
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William A. Seiter was an American film director. Seiter was born in New York City, after attending Hudson River Military Academy, Seiter broke into films in 1915 as a bit player at Mack Sennetts Keystone Studios, doubling a cowboy. He graduated to director in 1918, at Universal Studios in the mid-1920s, Seiter was principal director of the popular Reginald Denny vehicles, most of which co-starred Seiters then wife Laura La Plante. This period also included The Beautiful and Damned and The Family Secret, in the early talkie era, Seiter helped nurture the talents of RKOs comedy duo Wheeler & Woolsey in such rollicking features as Caught Plastered and Diplomaniacs. He also directed the Laurel and Hardy feature Sons of the Desert, on his final four films, before he retired in 1954, Seiter functioned as both producer and director. These films included The Lady Wants Mink, a satire of the then topical raise your own coat craze. He died in Beverly Hills, California, of a heart attack, Seiter was buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California. His grandson, with Nixon, is screenwriter Ted Griffin, most of the films Seiter directed with the Wheeler/Woolsey duo have been released on two DVDs by Warner Archive. Works by or about William A. Seiter at Internet Archive William A. Seiter at the Internet Movie Database
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Frank Wead
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Frank Wilbur Spig Wead was a U. S. Navy aviator who helped promote United States Naval aviation from its inception through World War II. Commander Wead was an authority on early aviation. Following a crippling spinal injury in 1926, Wead was placed on the retired list, in the 1930s, he became a screenwriter, becoming involved in over 30 movies. He also published books, short stories and magazine articles. During World War II, he returned to active duty and he initially worked in a planning role, but later undertook sea duty in the Pacific, where he saw action against the Japanese in 1943–44 before being placed on the retired list in mid-1945. Frank Wilbur Wead was born to Samuel De Forest Wead and Grace Wead on 24 October 1895, in Ward No.5 of Peoria Township, Peoria, Frank graduated from Peoria High School. The Wead family had a background of service to the American nation. The Connecticut Weads were also patriots of the American Revolutionary War, on 16 July 1912, Frank Wilbur Wead was admitted into the United States Naval Academy as a member of the Class of 1916. His classmates included John D. Price, Ralph Eugene Davison, the Class of 1916 graduated on 29 May 1916. Following graduation from the Naval Academy and leave, Wead reported to his first sea-duty assignment and he was a line officer with a date of rank as an ensign of 3 June 1916 and a precedence of 17 within his group of running mates. Wead was next assigned to USS Pittsburgh on a cruise from San Francisco, the ship reached Rio de Janeiro where, with several other officers, he departed Pittsburgh on 21 September. Wead was granted a promotion to lieutenant on 15 October 1917. He was booked for passage to the Port of New York aboard SS Zeelandia, Wead reported to the Bureau of Navigation, Navy Department, for sea duty orders. Wead reported aboard USS Shawmut to assist in preparing the vessel for war, USS Shawmut departed New York Harbor in June 1918, and for the remaining months of the war operated in the area of the North Sea Mine Barrage. Following the armistice with Germany, Wead returned stateside aboard Shawmut, arriving at the Boston Navy Yard, in February 1919, a kite-balloon division of six balloons was assigned to Shawmut and other ships. The ships participated in exercises and, after seven weeks. Wead received a permanent promotion to lieutenant on 3 June 1919, in the late summer of 1919, Wead requested naval aviation flight training at Aeronautic Station Pensacola, Florida. His request was approved and he was assigned to Class 1, Wead reported to Pensacola and was billeted in a two-man room with Lieutenant Ralph Eugene Davison, a classmate at the Naval Academy
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Edward G. Robinson
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Edward G. Robinson was a Romanian-born American actor. A popular star on stage and screen during Hollywoods Golden Age, he appeared in 40 Broadway plays and he is best remembered for his tough-guy roles as a gangster, such as his star-making film Little Caesar and Key Largo. During the 1930s and 1940s, he was a public critic of fascism and Nazism. His activism included contributing over $250,000 to more than 850 organizations involved in war relief, along with cultural, educational, during the 1950s, he was called to testify at the House Un-American Activities Committee during the Red Scare, but was cleared of any Communist involvement. Robinson received an Honorary Academy Award for his work in the film industry and he is ranked #24 in the American Film Institutes list of the 25 greatest male stars of Classic American cinema. Robinson was born as Emanuel Goldenberg to a Yiddish-speaking Romanian Jewish family in Bucharest, the son of Sarah and Morris Goldenberg, after one of his brothers was attacked by an antisemitic mob, the family decided to emigrate to the United States. Robinson arrived in New York City on February 14,1903, at Ellis Island I was born again, he wrote. Life for me began when I was 10 years old, an interest in acting and performing in front of people led to him winning an American Academy of Dramatic Arts scholarship, after which he changed his name to Edward G. Robinson. He served in the US Navy during World War I, but was never sent overseas and he began his acting career in the Yiddish Theater District in 1913 and made his Broadway debut in 1915. In 1923 made his debut as E. G. Robinson in the silent film. He played a gangster in the 1927 Broadway police/crime drama The Racket. Robinson went on to make a total of 101 films in his 50-year career. In 1939, at the time World War II broke out in Europe, he played an FBI agent in Confessions of a Nazi Spy, the first American film which showed Nazism as a threat to the United States. He volunteered for service in June 1942 but was disqualified due to his age at 48, although he became an active. The following year he played Paul Ehrlich in Dr. Ehrlichs Magic Bullet and Paul Julius Reuter in A Dispatch from Reuters and his career rehabilitation received a boost in 1954, when noted anti-communist director Cecil B. DeMille cast him as the traitorous Dathan in The Ten Commandments, the film was released in 1956, as was his psychological thriller Nightmare. As it turned out, Robinson died only days later. He had been notified of the honor, but died two months before the ceremony, so the award was accepted by his widow, Jane Robinson
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Glenn Ford
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Gwyllyn Samuel Newton Glenn Ford was a Canadian actor who held dual Canadian and American citizenship. His career lasted more than 50 years, although he played many different roles, Ford was best known for playing ordinary men in unusual circumstances. He was most prominent during Hollywoods Golden Age, gwyllyn Samuel Newton Ford was born on May 1,1916 in Sainte-Christine-dAuvergne, Quebec, the son of Hannah Wood and Newton Ford, a railway man. Through his father, Ford was a great-nephew of Canadas first Prime Minister, Sir John A. Macdonald, in 1924, at the age of eight, Ford moved to Santa Monica, California with his family. He became a citizen of the United States in 1939. After Ford graduated from Santa Monica High School, he working in small theatre groups. While in high school, he took odd jobs, including working for Will Rogers, who taught him horsemanship. Ford later commented that his railroad executive father had no objection to his growing interest in acting, be able to take a car apart and put it together. Be able to build a house, every bit of it, Ford heeded the advice and during the 1950s, when he was one of Hollywoods most popular actors, he regularly worked on plumbing, wiring, and air conditioning at home. At times, he worked as a roofer and installer of plate-glass windows, Ford acted in West Coast stage companies before joining Columbia Pictures in 1939. His stage name came from his fathers hometown of Glenford, Alberta and his first major movie part was in the 1939 film, Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence. The starstruck youngster was invited to Roosevelts annual Birthday Ball and he returned to Los Angeles and promptly registered as a Democrat, a fervent FDR supporter. It always held a place of honor in my home. After 35 interviews and glowing reviews for him personally, Glenn Ford had young female fans begging for his autograph and his next picture, Texas, was his first Western, a genre with which he would be associated for the rest of his life. Set after the Civil War, it paired him with young male star under contract, Bill Holden. More routine films followed, none of them memorable, but lucrative enough to allow Ford to buy his mother and he began his training in September,1941, driving three nights a week to his unit in San Pedro and spending most weekends there. Ten months after Fords portrait of a young anti-Nazi exile, the United States entered World War II, after playing a young pilot in his 11th Columbia film, Flight Lieutenant, Ford went on a cross-country 12-city tour to sell war bonds for Army and Navy Relief. In the midst of the many stars also donating their time – from Bob Hope to Cary Grant to Claudette Colbert – he met the popular dancing star, the two soon fell in love, they attended the official opening of the Hollywood USO together in October
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Marguerite Chapman
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Marguerite Chapman was an American actress. Born in Chatham, New York, she was working as a switchboard operator in White Plains. Signed by the John Robert Powers Agency in New York City, she was discovered by Howard Hughes. Persuaded to go to Hollywood in late 1939, she signed briefly with 20th Century Fox, was under contract to Warner Brothers in 1941 and she made her film debut in 1940, working for the next two years in small roles. Chapman soon began receiving more leading roles and appeared opposite important stars such as Edward G. Robinson, with Americas entry in World War II, she entertained the troops, worked for the War bond drive and at the Hollywood Canteen. She also starred in the famous war film Counter-Attack, released in 1945. During the 1950s Chapman continued to perform mostly in film roles. However, with the advent of television she kept busy into the early 1960s with guest appearances in a number different shows including Rawhide, Perry Mason, and Four Star Playhouse. Chapman was reportedly asked to audition for the role of Old Rose Dawson-Calvert in the 1997 James Cameron epic Titanic but was prevented by poor health, for her contribution on television, Marguerite Chapman has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6284 Hollywood Boulevard. Marguerite Chapman died August 31,1999, aged 81, and was interred in Holy Cross Cemetery, in Culver City, Marguerite Chapman at the Internet Movie Database Marguerite Chapman at Find a Grave Photographs and literature Photos of Marguerite Chapman in 1940s films by Ned Scott
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Edgar Buchanan
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As Uncle Joe, he took over as proprietor of the Shady Rest Hotel following the 1968 real-life death of Bea Benaderet, who had played Kate Bradley. In 1969, in the episode Kathy Jos First Birthday Party, he appeared with his real-life son, william Edgar Buchanan, born in Humansville, Missouri, moved with his family to Oregon when he was seven. Buchanan earned a DDS degree from North Pacific College School of Dentistry, like his father before him, he was a successful dentist. He and his wife Mildred, classmates in school, were married in 1928. They had one child, a son named Buck, in 1939, they moved from Eugene, Oregon, to Altadena, California, where they moved their dental practice. He joined the Pasadena Playhouse as an actor and he appeared in his first film in 1939, at the age of 36, after which he turned his dentistry practice over to his wife. He was a member of Theta Chi Fraternity and a Freemason, with John Wayne, Move Over, Darling with Doris Day and James Garner, and Benji. In 1956, Buchanan portrayed the lead in the 39-episode syndicated Western television series, Judge Roy Bean, set in Langtry, Texas, and filmed in color in California. The series popularized Beans claim to having been The Only Law West of the Pecos, from 1960 to 1962, he appeared four times on the NBC Western series Laramie, with John Smith and Robert Fuller. Buchanan made two guest appearances on Perry Mason, in 1958 as a coroner in The Case of the Perjured Parrot. Buchanan and another star from Petticoat Junction appeared together in the movie Benji, the star was Higgins, the unnamed dog from the sitcom. Higgins had been found in a shelter and trained by Frank Inn, who also trained Arnold Ziffel and the other animals used on The Beverly Hillbillies, Petticoat Junction. Buchanan died from a stroke complicated by pneumonia in Palm Desert, California, Edgar Buchanan at the Internet Movie Database Edgar Buchanan at the TCM Movie Database Edgar Buchanan at AllMovie Edgar Buchanan at Find a Grave
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Columbia Pictures
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The studio was founded in 1918 as Cohn-Brandt-Cohn Film Sales by brothers Jack and Harry Cohn and Jacks best friend Joe Brandt, released its first feature film in August 1922. It adopted the Columbia Pictures name in 1924, and went public two years later and its name is derived from Columbia, a national personification of the United States, which is used as the studios logo. In its early years, it was a player in Hollywood. With Capra and others, Columbia became one of the homes of the screwball comedy. In the 1930s, Columbias major contract stars were Jean Arthur, in the 1940s, Rita Hayworth became the studios premier star and propelled their fortunes into the late 1950s. Rosalind Russell, Glenn Ford, and William Holden also became major stars at the studio, in 1982, the studio was purchased by The Coca-Cola Company, and launched TriStar Pictures as a joint venture with HBO and CBS. Five years later, Coca-Cola spun off Columbia, which was sold to Tri-Star, after a brief period of independence with Coca-Cola maintaining a financial interest, the combined studio was acquired by Sony in 1989. It is one of the film studios in the world. It was one of the so-called Little Three among the eight major film studios of Hollywoods Golden Age, Brandt was president of CBC Film Sales, handling sales, marketing and distribution from New York along with Jack Cohn, while Harry Cohn ran production in Hollywood. The studios early productions were short subjects, Screen Snapshots, the Hall Room Boys. The start-up CBC leased space in a Poverty Row studio on Hollywoods famously low-rent Gower Street, among Hollywoods elite, the studios small-time reputation led some to joke that CBC stood for Corned Beef and Cabbage. Brandt eventually tired of dealing with the Cohn brothers, and sold his stake to Harry Cohn. In an effort to improve its image, the Cohn brothers renamed the company Columbia Pictures Corporation on January 10,1924, Cohn remained head of production as well, thus concentrating enormous power in his hands. He would run Columbia for the next 34 years, the second-longest tenure of any studio chief, even in an industry rife with nepotism, Columbia was particularly notorious for having a number of Harry and Jacks relatives in high positions. Humorist Robert Benchley called it the Pine Tree Studio, because it has so many Cohns, Columbias product line consisted mostly of moderately budgeted features and short subjects including comedies, sports films, various serials, and cartoons. Columbia gradually moved into the production of higher-budget fare, eventually joining the tier of Hollywood studios along with United Artists. Like United Artists and Universal, Columbia was an integrated company. It controlled production and distribution, it did not own any theaters, helping Columbias climb was the arrival of an ambitious director, Frank Capra
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World War II
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World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although related conflicts began earlier. It involved the vast majority of the worlds countries—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing alliances, the Allies and the Axis. It was the most widespread war in history, and directly involved more than 100 million people from over 30 countries. Marked by mass deaths of civilians, including the Holocaust and the bombing of industrial and population centres. These made World War II the deadliest conflict in human history, from late 1939 to early 1941, in a series of campaigns and treaties, Germany conquered or controlled much of continental Europe, and formed the Axis alliance with Italy and Japan. Under the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact of August 1939, Germany and the Soviet Union partitioned and annexed territories of their European neighbours, Poland, Finland, Romania and the Baltic states. In December 1941, Japan attacked the United States and European colonies in the Pacific Ocean, and quickly conquered much of the Western Pacific. The Axis advance halted in 1942 when Japan lost the critical Battle of Midway, near Hawaii, in 1944, the Western Allies invaded German-occupied France, while the Soviet Union regained all of its territorial losses and invaded Germany and its allies. During 1944 and 1945 the Japanese suffered major reverses in mainland Asia in South Central China and Burma, while the Allies crippled the Japanese Navy, thus ended the war in Asia, cementing the total victory of the Allies. World War II altered the political alignment and social structure of the world, the United Nations was established to foster international co-operation and prevent future conflicts. The victorious great powers—the United States, the Soviet Union, China, the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union and the United States emerged as rival superpowers, setting the stage for the Cold War, which lasted for the next 46 years. Meanwhile, the influence of European great powers waned, while the decolonisation of Asia, most countries whose industries had been damaged moved towards economic recovery. Political integration, especially in Europe, emerged as an effort to end pre-war enmities, the start of the war in Europe is generally held to be 1 September 1939, beginning with the German invasion of Poland, Britain and France declared war on Germany two days later. The dates for the beginning of war in the Pacific include the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War on 7 July 1937, or even the Japanese invasion of Manchuria on 19 September 1931. Others follow the British historian A. J. P. Taylor, who held that the Sino-Japanese War and war in Europe and its colonies occurred simultaneously and this article uses the conventional dating. Other starting dates sometimes used for World War II include the Italian invasion of Abyssinia on 3 October 1935. The British historian Antony Beevor views the beginning of World War II as the Battles of Khalkhin Gol fought between Japan and the forces of Mongolia and the Soviet Union from May to September 1939, the exact date of the wars end is also not universally agreed upon. It was generally accepted at the time that the war ended with the armistice of 14 August 1945, rather than the formal surrender of Japan
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USS Arizona (BB-39)
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USS Arizona was a Pennsylvania-class battleship built for and by the United States Navy in the mid-1910s. Named in honor of the 48th states recent admission into the union, although commissioned in 1916, the ship remained stateside during World War I. Shortly after the end of the war, Arizona was one of a number of American ships that briefly escorted President Woodrow Wilson to the Paris Peace Conference, the ship was sent to Turkey in 1919 at the beginning of the Greco-Turkish War to represent American interests for several months. Several years later, she was transferred to the Pacific Fleet, aside from a comprehensive modernization in 1929–31, Arizona was regularly used for training exercises between the wars, including the annual Fleet Problems. When an earthquake struck Long Beach, California, in 1933, Two years later, the ship was featured in a Jimmy Cagney film, Here Comes the Navy, about the romantic troubles of a sailor. In April 1940, she and the rest of the Pacific Fleet were transferred from California to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, Arizona was bombed. After a bomb detonated in a magazine, the battleship exploded violently and sank, with the loss of 1,177 officers. Unlike many of the ships sunk or damaged that day, Arizona was irreparably damaged by the force of the magazine explosion. The wreck still lies at the bottom of Pearl Harbor and the USS Arizona Memorial, dedicated on 30 May 1962 to all those who died during the attack, the Pennsylvania-class ships were significantly larger than their predecessors, the Nevada class. Arizona had a length of 608 feet, a beam of 97 feet. This was 25 feet longer than the older ships and she displaced 29,158 long tons at standard and 31,917 long tons at deep load, over 4,000 long tons more than the older ships. The ship had a height of 7.82 feet at deep load. The ship had four direct-drive Parsons steam turbine sets, each of which drove a propeller 12 feet 1.5 inches in diameter and they were powered by twelve Babcock & Wilcox water-tube boilers. The turbines were designed to produce a total of 34,000 shaft horsepower, but only achieved 33,376 shp during Arizonas sea trials, however, she did manage to reach 21.5 knots during a full-power trial in September 1924. She was designed to normally carry 1,548 long tons of fuel oil, at full capacity, the ship could steam at a speed of 12 knots for an estimated 7,552 nautical miles with a clean bottom. She had four 300-kilowatt turbo generators, Arizona carried twelve 45-caliber 14-inch guns in triple gun turrets. The turrets were numbered from I to IV from front to rear, the guns could not elevate independently and were limited to a maximum elevation of +15° which gave them a maximum range of 21,000 yards. The ship carried 100 shells for each gun, defense against torpedo boats was provided by twenty-two 51-caliber five-inch guns mounted in individual casemates in the sides of the ships hull
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World War I
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World War I, also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918. More than 70 million military personnel, including 60 million Europeans, were mobilised in one of the largest wars in history and it was one of the deadliest conflicts in history, and paved the way for major political changes, including revolutions in many of the nations involved. The war drew in all the worlds great powers, assembled in two opposing alliances, the Allies versus the Central Powers of Germany and Austria-Hungary. These alliances were reorganised and expanded as more nations entered the war, Italy, Japan, the trigger for the war was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, by Yugoslav nationalist Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914. This set off a crisis when Austria-Hungary delivered an ultimatum to the Kingdom of Serbia. Within weeks, the powers were at war and the conflict soon spread around the world. On 25 July Russia began mobilisation and on 28 July, the Austro-Hungarians declared war on Serbia, Germany presented an ultimatum to Russia to demobilise, and when this was refused, declared war on Russia on 1 August. Germany then invaded neutral Belgium and Luxembourg before moving towards France, after the German march on Paris was halted, what became known as the Western Front settled into a battle of attrition, with a trench line that changed little until 1917. On the Eastern Front, the Russian army was successful against the Austro-Hungarians, in November 1914, the Ottoman Empire joined the Central Powers, opening fronts in the Caucasus, Mesopotamia and the Sinai. In 1915, Italy joined the Allies and Bulgaria joined the Central Powers, Romania joined the Allies in 1916, after a stunning German offensive along the Western Front in the spring of 1918, the Allies rallied and drove back the Germans in a series of successful offensives. By the end of the war or soon after, the German Empire, Russian Empire, Austro-Hungarian Empire, national borders were redrawn, with several independent nations restored or created, and Germanys colonies were parceled out among the victors. During the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, the Big Four imposed their terms in a series of treaties, the League of Nations was formed with the aim of preventing any repetition of such a conflict. This effort failed, and economic depression, renewed nationalism, weakened successor states, and feelings of humiliation eventually contributed to World War II. From the time of its start until the approach of World War II, at the time, it was also sometimes called the war to end war or the war to end all wars due to its then-unparalleled scale and devastation. In Canada, Macleans magazine in October 1914 wrote, Some wars name themselves, during the interwar period, the war was most often called the World War and the Great War in English-speaking countries. Will become the first world war in the sense of the word. These began in 1815, with the Holy Alliance between Prussia, Russia, and Austria, when Germany was united in 1871, Prussia became part of the new German nation. Soon after, in October 1873, German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck negotiated the League of the Three Emperors between the monarchs of Austria-Hungary, Russia and Germany
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Regis Toomey
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John Regis Toomey was an American film and television actor. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he was one of four children of Francis X. and Mary Ellen Toomey and he initially pondered a law career, but acting won out and he established himself as a musical stage performer. Educated in dramatics at the University of Pittsburgh, where he became a brother of Sigma Chi, Toomey began as a stock actor, Toomey was a singer on stage until throat problems while touring in Europe stopped that aspect of his career. In 1929, he appeared in his first films, initially starting out as a leading man, Toomey appeared in over 180 films, including classics such as The Big Sleep with Humphrey Bogart. In 1941, Toomey appeared in Youre in the Army Now, in which he, in 1956, Toomey was cast as the Reverend Arnold Grumm in the episode Lifeline of the religion anthology series, Crossroads. That same year, he appeared as a judge, with Chuck Connors as Andy, in the episode, The Nevada Nightingale, of another anthology series, The Joseph Cotten Show, On Trial. Toomey thereafter appeared as the character Harry in the 1960 episode The Doctor, Toomey appeared in a number of episodes of Richard Diamond, Private Detective as Lt. McGough. In the 1961–1962 television season, he appeared in a role with George Nader in the syndicated crime drama Shannon about insurance investigators. About this time he appeared on the NBC western series, The Tall Man, starring Barry Sullivan and he also made two guest appearances on Perry Mason, including the role of murderer Sam Crane in the 1960 episode, The Case of the Loquacious Liar. From 1963 to 1966, Toomey was one of the stars of the ABC crime drama, Burkes Law and he played Sergeant Les Hart, one of the detectives assisting the murder investigations of the millionaire police captain Amos Burke. Toomey also appeared in the CBS western series, Rawhide episode Incident of the Tinkers Dam as TJ Wishbone and he guest-starred on dozens of television programs, including the popular Shady Deal at Sunny Acres episode of ABCs Maverick. In 1968, after the death of Bea Benaderet who played Kate Bradley, Toomey played a role in the CBS series. Appearing as Dr. Stuart, who cared for the citizens of Hooterville, Dr. Janet Craig, played by June Lockhart, was introduced as the new female lead for the show in the episode The Lady Doctor. Toomey died at age 93 on October 12,1991, Regis Toomey at the Internet Movie Database Regis Toomey at the TCM Movie Database Regis Toomey at Find a Grave
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Boatswain's mate (United States Navy)
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The United States Navy occupational rating of boatswains mate was a designation given by the Bureau of Naval Personnel to enlisted members who were rated or striking for the rating as a deck seaman. The colloquial form of address for a mate is Boats. The rating of Boatswains Mate dates from the American Revolutionary War and was one of the oldest U. S. Navy rates in existence from 1775 to 2016. For a period of three months at the end of 2016 the rating were scheduled for elimination but the decision had subsequently been reversed. Boatswains mates take charge of working parties, perform tasks, act as petty officer-in-charge of picketboats, self-propelled barges, tugs. They serve in, or take charge of damage control parties, BMs also operate and maintain equipment used in loading and unloading cargo, ammunition, fuel, and general stores. BMs take charge of and supervise UNREP procedures and equipment and they are integral to ships navigation and serve as ships Helmsman and the ships Lee Helmsman. In addition they also serve as RHIB coxswains, Boatswains mates enjoy a normal path of advancement to Chief Warrant Officer and limited duty officer. Candidates must have color perception, and no speech impediment. Candidates need not meet any special citizenship or security requirements, Boatswains mates also stand watch on ships bridges, passing information relating to routine and special activities to the crew with the distinctive boatswains call or boatswains pipe. On the ancient row-galleys, the boatswain used his pipe to call the stroke, later, because its shrill tune could be heard above most of the activity on board, it was used to signal various happenings such as pipe down, and the Side or Away Galley. So essential was this device to the well-being of the ship. Boatswains mates duties cover a spectrum and range widely depending on the capacity. They act as landing signalmen enlisted on air-capable ships and they act as or supervise lookouts of Navy ships, searching the sea for enemy vessels and hazards to navigation. They conduct Search and Rescue operations and can respond to other military, ashore, they provide armed security for either their assigned vessel or for their assigned Naval installation. Boatswains mates are also a rating for the Navys mobile amphibious community. These duties include assault boat coxswain and Craftmaster, navigating specialized assault or working vessels during operations, salvage work. They are also a source rating for the U. S. Navys Special Warfare
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Dutch Harbor
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Dutch Harbor is a harbor on Amaknak Island in Unalaska, Alaska. Dutch Harbor is now the home of an important fishing industry, druzhinin, the commander of the Russian ship Zakharii I Elisaveta, is credited for discovering the deep-water harbor now known as Dutch Harbor. Dutch Harbor is located within the Aleutian Islands of Alaska, more precisely on Amaknak Island in the Fox Islands, Dutch Harbor is close to some of the richest fishing in the world, and it is ice-free. The native people are known as the Aleut, when the Russians arrived, they exploited the Aleut by taxing them in fur pelts. The Aleut accepted the Russian Orthodox Church because it offered them support, the Russian-American Company operated from 1799 through the mid-1800s. It used Dutch Harbor in the transport of goods, mainly seal, in 1867 Russia sold Alaska to the United States. Fur was the main export in Alaska after the United States took control, hutchinson, Kohl, & Company of San Francisco took over the assets of the Russian America Company in 1867, but it sold out in 1868 to the Alaska Commercial Company. A decline in the sea otter population slowed trade in 1895, the year 1897 brought a crowd of potential prospectors looking to get rich from the Alaska gold rush. World War II brought the U. S. Army and Navy, the first army troops arrived in June 1941 and the navy air base was finished in September 1941. During the war, Dutch Harbor was also used to house refugees evacuated from other Aleutian Islands, U. S. Army troops and civilian workers alike spent time at Blackies, the only bar in the area. This establishment had cheap beer and 50-cent shots of whiskey, other entertainment included a brothel named Pleasure Island, but this was closed in 1941 and later replaced by part of the U. S. Navy submarine base. The 500-man mess hall doubled as a theater, the tickets for military were 15 cents and 35 cents for civilian workers. In early 1942, intelligence officers of the U. S. Navy predicted that there would be a Japanese attack in the North Pacific area, by mid-1942, a small submarine base was in place, with a squadron of old U. S. Navy S-class submarines. By May 1943, a peak of 10,151 sailors and 9,976 soldiers were stationed at the base, in 1947, the last units of the U. S. Navy left Dutch Harbor and the base was decommissioned. In 1952, the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers stored 232 surplus buildings on 448 acres of land of the Fort Mears Military Reservation. During the mid-1980s, the US government finally funded a cleanup of the fort. The U. S. Navy also scrapped its air base on it, as the economy and population grows, the town of Unalaska is having trouble meeting the needs of citizens and travelers. Infrastructure such as water treatment plants, landfills, doctors, Unalaska is expanding to meet the needs of its citizens, employees and travelers
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John Paul Jones
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John Paul Jones was the United States first well-known naval commander in the American Revolutionary War. As such, he is referred to as the Father of the American Navy. He later served in the Imperial Russian Navy, subsequently obtaining the rank of rear admiral, Jones was born John Paul on the estate of Arbigland near Kirkbean in the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright on the southwest coast of Scotland. His father John Paul, Sr. was a gardener at Arbigland and his parents married on November 29,1733 in New Abbey, Kirkcudbright. Living at Arbigland at the time was Helen Craik, later a novelist, John Paul started his maritime career at the age of 13, sailing out of Whitehaven in the northern English county of Cumberland as apprentice aboard Friendship under Captain Benson. Pauls older brother William Paul had married and settled in Fredericksburg, Virginia, for several years, John sailed aboard a number of British merchant and slave ships, including King George in 1764 as third mate and Two Friends as first mate in 1766. In 1768, he abandoned his prestigious position on the profitable Two Friends while docked in Jamaica and he found his own passage back to Scotland, and eventually obtained another position. He then led two voyages to the West Indies before running into difficulty, during his second voyage in 1770, John Paul viciously flogged one of his sailors, a carpenter, leading to accusations that his discipline was unnecessarily cruel. These claims initially were dismissed, but his reputation was destroyed when the sailor died a few weeks later. John Paul was arrested for his involvement in the death, and was imprisoned in Kirkcudbright Tolbooth. The negative effect of this episode on his reputation is indisputable and this man was not a usual sailor but an adventurer from a very influential Scottish family. Leaving Scotland, John Paul commanded a London-registered vessel named Betsy and this came to an end, however, when John killed a mutineer crew member named Blackton with a sword in a dispute over wages. He felt compelled to flee to Fredericksburg, Province of Virginia, there is a long-held tradition in the state of North Carolina that John Paul adopted the name Jones in honor of Willie Jones of Halifax, North Carolina. From that period, America became the country of his fond election and it was not long afterward that John Paul Jones joined the American navy to fight against Britain. Sources struggle with this period of Jones life, especially the specifics of his family situation and it is not known whether his plans were not developing as expected for the plantation, or if he was inspired by a revolutionary spirit. During this time, the Navy and Marines were being formally established, Joness potential would likely have gone unrecognized were it not for the endorsement of Richard Henry Lee, who knew of his abilities. Jones sailed from the Delaware River in February 1776 aboard Alfred on the Continental Navys maiden cruise and it was aboard this vessel that Jones took the honor of hoisting the first U. S. ensign over a naval vessel. He actually raised the Grand Union Flag, not the later, the fleet had been expected to cruise along the coast but was ordered instead by Commodore Esek Hopkins to sail for The Bahamas, where Nassau was raided for its military supplies
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American Revolutionary War
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From about 1765 the American Revolution had led to increasing philosophical and political differences between Great Britain and its American colonies. The war represented a culmination of these differences in armed conflict between Patriots and the authority which they increasingly resisted. This resistance became particularly widespread in the New England Colonies, especially in the Province of Massachusetts Bay. On December 16,1773, Massachusetts members of the Patriot group Sons of Liberty destroyed a shipment of tea in Boston Harbor in an event that became known as the Boston Tea Party. Named the Coercive Acts by Parliament, these became known as the Intolerable Acts in America. The Massachusetts colonists responded with the Suffolk Resolves, establishing a government that removed control of the province from the Crown outside of Boston. Twelve colonies formed a Continental Congress to coordinate their resistance, and established committees, British attempts to seize the munitions of Massachusetts colonists in April 1775 led to the first open combat between Crown forces and Massachusetts militia, the Battles of Lexington and Concord. Militia forces proceeded to besiege the British forces in Boston, forcing them to evacuate the city in March 1776, the Continental Congress appointed George Washington to take command of the militia. Concurrent to the Boston campaign, an American attempt to invade Quebec, on July 2,1776, the Continental Congress formally voted for independence, issuing its Declaration on July 4. Sir William Howe began a British counterattack, focussing on recapturing New York City, Howe outmaneuvered and defeated Washington, leaving American confidence at a low ebb. Washington captured a Hessian force at Trenton and drove the British out of New Jersey, in 1777 the British sent a new army under John Burgoyne to move south from Canada and to isolate the New England colonies. However, instead of assisting Burgoyne, Howe took his army on a campaign against the revolutionary capital of Philadelphia. Burgoyne outran his supplies, was surrounded and surrendered at Saratoga in October 1777, the British defeat in the Saratoga Campaign had drastic consequences. Giving up on the North, the British decided to salvage their former colonies in the South, British forces under Lieutenant-General Charles Cornwallis seized Georgia and South Carolina, capturing an American army at Charleston, South Carolina. British strategy depended upon an uprising of large numbers of armed Loyalists, in 1779 Spain joined the war as an ally of France under the Pacte de Famille, intending to capture Gibraltar and British colonies in the Caribbean. Britain declared war on the Dutch Republic in December 1780, in 1781, after the British and their allies had suffered two decisive defeats at Kings Mountain and Cowpens, Cornwallis retreated to Virginia, intending on evacuation. A decisive French naval victory in September deprived the British of an escape route, a joint Franco-American army led by Count Rochambeau and Washington, laid siege to the British forces at Yorktown. With no sign of relief and the situation untenable, Cornwallis surrendered in October 1781, Whigs in Britain had long opposed the pro-war Tory majority in Parliament, but the defeat at Yorktown gave the Whigs the upper hand
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HMS Serapis (1779)
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HMS Serapis was a Royal Navy two-decked, Roebuck-class fifth rate. Randall & Brent built her at Greenland South Dockyard, Rotherhithe and she was armed with 44 guns. Serapis was named after the god Serapis in Greek and Egyptian mythology, the Americans captured her during the American Revolutionary War. They transferred her to the French, who commissioned her as a privateer and she was lost off Madagascar in 1781 to a fire. Serapis was commissioned in March 1779 under Captain Richard Pearson, on 23 September she engaged the American warship USS Bonhomme Richard under the command of Captain John Paul Jones in the North Sea at Flamborough Head, England. At the time of battle, the ship carried 50 guns. The famous quote, I have not yet begun to fight, was Joness response to Pearsons premature call for Bonhomme Richard to surrender. The battle raged on for three hours as the crew of Bonhomme Richard tenaciously fought Serapis, raking her deck with gunfire, eventually, USS Alliance, a frigate in Joness squadron, began firing at both the attached ships indiscriminately. Bonhomme Richard began to sink, but Captain Pearson, unable to aim his guns at the frigate because he was tied to Joness ship, surrendered, Jones sailed to the neutral United Provinces, but diplomatic complications arose because the Dutch authorities did not recognize the United States. Jones renamed his capture USS Serapis, an improvised Serapis flag was secretly entered into the Dutch records to avoid the charges of piracy. Serapis and her consort, the armed ship Countess of Scarborough, were later declared as French captures. Although the two British vessels had lost the battle, they had succeeded perfectly in protecting the valuable convoy. Between October and December 1779 Serapis was in the Texel, by September 1780 she was probably at Lorient. The French commissioned Serapis as a privateer under a master named Roche who planned to use the ship against the British in the Indian Ocean. However, in July 1781 the ship was lost off the coast of Madagascar when a sailor accidentally dropped a lantern into a tub of brandy. The crew fought the fire for two and a half hours, but the flames eventually burned through the spirit locker walls, the resulting explosion ripped the stern off the ship, sinking her, and while eight men lost their lives,215 people survived. The privateer Daliram returned them to Île Sainte-Marie, Madagascar, in November 1999, American nautical archeologists Richard Swete and Michael Tuttle located the remains of Serapis. Serapis flag Crocker III, H. W. Dont Tread on Me, demerliac, Alain La Marine De Louis XVI, Nomenclature Des Navires Français De 1774 À1792
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Aleutian Islands Campaign
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The islands strategic value was their ability to control Pacific transportation routes, which is why U. S. General Billy Mitchell stated to the U. S. Congress in 1935, I believe that in the future, I think it is the most important strategic place in the world. The Japanese reasoned that control of the Aleutians would prevent a possible U. S. attack across the Northern Pacific, similarly, the U. S. feared that the islands would be used as bases from which to launch aerial assaults against the West Coast. A battle to reclaim Attu was launched on May 11,1943, on 15 August 1943, an invasion force landed on Kiska in the wake of a sustained three-week barrage, only to discover that the Japanese had withdrawn from the island on July 29. The campaign is known as the Forgotten Battle, due to its being overshadowed by the simultaneous Guadalcanal Campaign, in the past, many Western military historians believed it was a diversionary or feint attack during the Battle of Midway, meant to draw out the U. S. Pacific Fleet from Midway Atoll, as it was launched simultaneously under the same commander, before Japan entered World War II, its Navy had gathered extensive information about the Aleutians, but it had no up-to-date information regarding military developments on the islands. With that force, Hosogaya was first to launch an air attack against Dutch Harbor, Hosogaya was instructed to destroy whatever American forces and facilities were found on Adak—the Japanese did not know the island was undefended. The naval commander was Rear Admiral Robert A. Theobald, commanding Task Force 8 afloat, Task Force 8 consisted of five cruisers, thirteen destroyers, three tankers, six submarines, as well as naval aviation elements of Fleet Air Wing Four. Once the enemy planes were removed, Naval Task Force 8 would engage the enemy fleet, on the afternoon of 2 June, a naval patrol plane spotted the approaching Japanese fleet, reporting its location as 800 miles southwest of Dutch Harbor. Eleventh Air Force was placed on full alert, shortly thereafter bad weather set in, and no further sightings of the fleet were made that day. Making use of cover, the Japanese first raided the naval base at Dutch Harbor on June 3,1942. The striking force was composed of Nakajima B5N2 Kate torpedo bombers from the carriers Junyō, however, only half of the striking force reached their objective. The rest either became lost in the fog and darkness and crashed into the sea or returned to their carriers, seventeen Japanese planes found the naval base, the first arriving at 05,45. Startled by the American response, the Japanese quickly released their bombs, made a strafing run. As a result, they did damage to the base. On June 4, the Japanese returned to Dutch Harbor and this time the Japanese pilots were better organized and prepared. When the attack ended that afternoon Dutch Harbor oil storage tanks were burning, the partly demolished. However, the weather in turn caused the Japanese to cancel plans to invade Adak with 1,200 men
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Sitka, Alaska
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As of the 2010 census, the population was 8,881. In terms of area, it is the largest city-borough in the U. S. with a land area of 2,870.3 square miles. Urban Sitka, the part that is thought of as the city of Sitka, is on the west side of Baranof Island. The current name Sitka means People on the Outside of Baranof Island, Sitkas location was originally settled by the Tlingit people over 10,000 years ago. The Russians settled Old Sitka in 1799, calling it Redoubt Saint Michael, the governor of Russian America, Alexander Baranov, arrived under the auspices of the Russian-American Company, a colonial trading company chartered by Tsar Paul I. In June 1802, Tlingit warriors destroyed the settlement, killing many of the Russians. Baranov was forced to levy 10,000 rubles in ransom for the return of the surviving settlers. Baranov returned to Sitka in August 1804, with a large force, the ship bombarded the Tlingit fort on the 20th, but was not able to cause significant damage. The Russians then launched an attack on the fort and were repelled, however, after two days of bombardment, the Tlingit hung out a white flag on the 22nd, and then deserted the fort on the 26th. Following their victory at the Battle of Sitka, the Russians established New Archangel as a permanent settlement named after Arkhangelsk, the Tlingit re-established a fort on the Chatham Strait side of Peril Strait to enforce a trade embargo with the Russian establishment. In 1808, with Baranov still governor, Sitka was designated the capital of Russian America, bishop Innocent lived in Sitka after 1840. The Cathedral of Saint Michael was built in Sitka in 1848 and became the seat of the Russian Orthodox bishop of Kamchatka, the Kurile and Aleutian Islands, and Alaska. Swedes, Finns and other Lutherans worked for the Russian-American Company, Sitka was the site of the transfer ceremony for the Alaska purchase on October 18,1867. Russia was going through economic and political turmoil after it lost the Crimean War to Britain, France, russia offered to sell it to the United States. Secretary of State William Seward had wanted to purchase Alaska for quite time as he saw it as an integral part of Manifest Destiny. While the agreement to purchase Alaska was made in April 1867, the cost to purchase Alaska was $7.2 million. Sitka served as the capital of the Alaska Territory until 1906, the Alaska Native Brotherhood was founded in Sitka in 1912 to address racism against Alaska Native people in Alaska. By 1914 the organization had constructed the Alaska Native Brotherhood Hall on Katlian Street, in 1937, the United States Navy established the first seaplane base in Alaska on Japonski Island
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Leo Gorcey
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Always the most pugnacious member of the gangs in which he participated, young Leo was the filmic prototype of the young punk. He was the shortest member of the original gang, Gorcey was born in New York City, on June 3,1917. The son of 16-year-old Josephine, an Irish Catholic immigrant, and 31-year-old Bernard Gorcey, Bernard Gorcey was 410, and his wife was 411, as an adult, Leo would reach 56. In the 1930s, Leos father became estranged from the family working in theater. When he returned in 1935, he and Leos brother, David, having just lost his job as a plumbers apprentice and seeing his fathers relative success, Leo decided to give acting a try. Leo and David were cast as two members of the East 53rd Place Gang with limited stage time, charles Duncan, who was originally cast as Spit, left the play, and Leo, his understudy, was promoted. Gorcey created a quarrelsome guttersnipe whose greatest joy was in making trouble, in 1937, Samuel Goldwyn made the popular play into a movie of the same name and transported the six rowdy boys to Hollywood. Gorcey became one of the busiest actors in Hollywood for the next 20 years, Leos character Slip was famed for his malapropisms always delivered in a Brooklyn accent, such as a clever seduction for a clever deduction, I depreciate it. In the movie Jungle Gents, set in Africa, Huntz Hall lost the map, when Slip saw it, he said, This aint a map—its an ad for ladies griddles. In 1939, Gorcey married 17-year-old dancer Kay Marvis, who appeared in four of his Monogram movies and they divorced in 1944, after which Kay went on to become the second wife of Groucho Marx. In 1949, Gorcey married Amelita Ward, with whom he had worked in Clancy Street Boys and she gave birth to Leo Gorcey, Jr. during their marriage. Also in 1944, Gorcey had a role in the Pabst Blue Ribbon Town radio show. In 1948, Gorcey played a role in the sophisticated movie comedy So This Is New York starring acerbic radio and television comedian Henry Morgan. In 1955, after his father was killed in an accident, Leo turned to the bottle for solace. When he trashed a movie set in a rage, the studio refused to give him the pay raise he demanded. Leos brother David remained with the series until it ended in early 1958, during the 1960s, Leo did very little acting. He did appear in the epic 1963 comedy, Its a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, sharing the screen with Sid Caesar and Edie Adams in a bit part as their first cab driver, their second being Peter Falk. Gorcey then made two appearances on film with Huntz Hall in a pair of low budget productions, Second Fiddle To A Steel Guitar
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Edward Brophy
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Edward Santree Brophy was an American character actor, voice artist, and comedian. Small of build, balding, and raucous-voiced, he frequently portrayed dumb cops and gangsters and he is best remembered for his roles in the Falcon film series, based on the suave detective of the same name, and for voicing Timothy Q. Edward Santree Brophy was born in New York City and his screen debut was in Yes or No. As two clients in a bath-house, Brophy and Keaton attempt to undress and put on bathing suits while sharing a single tiny changing room. Each time Keaton attempts to hang his clothes on one hook, Brophy removes the clothes and hands back to Keaton. He manhandles the smaller, more slender Keaton, at one point picking him up by the feet, appearing only in this one brief scene, Brophy attracted enough attention to receive more and better roles. Though he did appear in a few roles, most of his long. Brophy made an impression on Disney fans as the voice of Timothy the mouse in Dumbo. He also made appearances in the films of director John Ford. Edward Brophy died on May 27,1960 during the production of Fords Two Rode Together and he was buried in Santa Monicas Woodlawn Cemetery next to his wife Ann S. Brophy. Edward Brophy at the Internet Movie Database Edward S. Brophy at AllMovie Edward Brophy at Find a Grave 1920 passport photo for Edward Brophy
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Richard Loo
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Richard Loo was a third generation Chinese-American film actor who was one of the most familiar Asian character actors in American films of the 1930s and 1940s. A prolific actor, he appeared in over 120 films between 1931 and 1982, Chinese by ancestry and Hawaiian by birth, Loo spent his youth in Hawaii, then moved to California as a teenager. He graduated from the University of California at Berkeley and began a career in business, however, the stock market crash of 1929 and the subsequent economic depression forced him to start over. He became involved with amateur, then professional, theater companies, like most Asian actors in non-Asian countries, he played primarily small, stereotypical roles, though he rose quickly to familiarity, if not fame, in a number of films. Loo was most often typecast as the Japanese enemy pilot, spy or interrogator during the Second World War, according to his daughter, Beverly Jane Loo, he didnt mind being typecast as a villain in these movies as he felt very patriotic about playing those parts. In 1944 he appeared as a Chinese army lieutenant opposite Gregory Peck in The Keys of the Kingdom, in 1974, he appeared as the Thai billionaire tycoon Hai Fat in the James Bond film, The Man with the Golden Gun, opposite Roger Moore and Christopher Lee. Loo was also a teacher of Shaolin monks in three episodes of the 1972–75 hit TV series Kung Fu and made a further three appearances as a different character. His last acting appearance was in The Incredible Hulk TV series in 1981 and he died of a cerebral hemorrhage on November 20,1983. His first wife, Bessie Loo, was a well-known Hollywood agent and they had twin daughters, Beverly Loo was prominent in publishing while Angela Loo Levy was a Hollywood agent and accomplished ski patroller. He remained with his wife, Hope, until his death. His step-daughter, Christel Hope Mintz, was an analyst with Shell Oil Company for 32 years, richard Loo at the Internet Movie Database
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Lloyd Bridges
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Lloyd Vernet Bridges Jr. was an American film, stage and television actor who starred in a number of television series and appeared in more than 150 feature films. He was the father of actors Beau Bridges and Jeff Bridges, Bridges was born in San Leandro, California, to Lloyd Vernet Bridges, Sr. who was involved in the California hotel business and once owned a movie theater, and his wife Harriet Evelyn Bridges. His parents were natives of Kansas, and of English ancestry. Bridges graduated from Petaluma High School in 1930 and he then studied political science at UCLA, where he was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. Bridges made his Broadway debut in 1939 in a production of Shakespeares Othello, in 1941, he joined the stock company at Columbia Pictures, where he played small roles in features and short subjects. He left Columbia Pictures during World War II to enlist in the United States Coast Guard, following his discharge, he returned to acting. In later years he was a member of U. S. Coast Guard Auxiliary, 11th District, because of his support, he was made an honorary commodore. Bridges sons, actors Beau and Jeff, also served in the Coast Guard and he returned to acting after he was cleared by the FBI, achieving his greatest success in television. Bridges gained attention in 1956 for his performance on live anthology program The Alcoa Hour, in an episode titled Tragedy in a Temporary Town. During the performance, Bridges inadvertently used profanity while ad-libbing, although the slip of the tongue generated hundreds of complaints, the episode won a Robert E. Sherwood Television Award, with Bridges slip being defended even by some members of the clergy. Bridges received an Emmy Award nomination for the role, Bridges gained wide recognition as Mike Nelson, the main character in the television series Sea Hunt, created by Ivan Tors, which ran in syndication from 1958–1961. He also wrote a book with a co-author about skin-diving entitled Mask, following that success, he starred in the eponymous CBS anthology series The Lloyd Bridges Show, which included appearances by his sons Beau and Jeff. Producer Gene Roddenberry, who worked with Bridges on Sea Hunt, in addition, he was a regular cast member in the Rod Serling western series The Loner, and in the two NBC failures San Francisco International Airport and a Police Story spin-off Joe Forrester. Later, he appeared in Paper Dolls and Capital News, both for ABC, and again with Harts of the West, this time for CBS, a comedy/western set on a dude ranch in Nevada. Son Beau Bridges co-starred, along with Harley Jane Kozak as Beaus wife, Alison Hart, Bridges played significant roles in several mini-series, including Roots, How the West Was Won and The Blue and the Gray. For more than years, Bridges was a frequent guest star on television series. He received a second Emmy Award nomination four decades after the first when he was nominated in 1998 for his role as Izzy Mandelbaum on Seinfeld and he portrayed Commander Cain in the original Battlestar Galactica television series, in the two-part episode The Living Legend. His fate was left unanswered, spurring fans to call for his return and this popularity led to a radically re-imagined Cain character in the 2004 series
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Larry Parks
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Larry Parks was an American stage and movie actor. His best known role was Al Jolson, whom he portrayed in two films, The Jolson Story and Jolson Sings Again, Parks was born Samuel Klausman Lawrence Parks in Olathe, Kansas, the son of Nellie and Frank H. Parks. He was raised in Joliet, Illinois, and graduated from Joliet Township High School in 1932 and he attended the University of Illinois as a pre-med student, and played in stock companies for a few years before signing a movie contract with Columbia Pictures in 1941. As did most Columbia contract players, he played supporting roles in higher-budgeted films, Parks impressed the producers and won the role. At the age of 31, his performance in The Jolson Story earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. Now that Parks was a star, Columbia kept him busy in elaborate productions until he appeared in the sequel, Jolson Sings Again. His co-star in the film, Barbara Hale, teamed him again in the comedy feature Emergency Wedding. Parks tried to break his contract with Columbia in 1948, but was unsuccessful, in 1951, Parks was summoned to appear before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, under threat of being blacklisted in the movie industry, but he begged not to be forced to testify. He eventually did so in tears, only to be blacklisted anyway, larry Parks eventually gave up the names of his former colleagues and submitted to the HUAC. Following his admission before the committee, Columbia Pictures dropped him, Parks made only a few more films, but continued to squeeze out a living acting on the stage and doing occasional television programs. He last appeared in a role in a John Huston film, Freud. Rather than sell them upon completion, Parks decided to retain ownership and collect rents as a landlord, during this period, the couple occasionally performed in Las Vegas showrooms, summer stock productions, and touring companies of Broadway shows. Parks died of an attack at the age of 60. He was married to actress Betty Garrett in 1944, Garrett starred in Hollywood films such as On the Town and on television as Archie Bunkers neighbor Irene Lorenzo on All in the Family and as landlady Edna Babish on Laverne and Shirley. Her career also faced turmoil as a result of her marriage to Parks, together they had two sons, actor Andrew Parks and composer Garrett Parks. He was also the godfather to actor Jeff Bridges, supporting roles and B movies Mystery Ship, Tommy Baker Harmon of Michigan, Harvey You Belong to Me, Blemish Three Girls About Town, Reporter Sing for Your Supper, Mickey Harvard, Here I Come
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Turner Classic Movies
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Turner Classic Movies is an American movie-oriented basic cable and satellite television network owned by the Turner Broadcasting System subsidiary of Time Warner. TCM is headquartered at the Techwood Campus in Atlanta, Georgias Midtown business district, historically, the channels programming consisted mainly of featured classic theatrically released feature films from the Turner Entertainment film library – which comprises films from Warner Bros. However, TCM now has licensing deals with other Hollywood film studios as well as its Time Warner sister company, Warner Bros. and occasionally shows more recent films. The channel is available in United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, Latin America, France, Spain, Nordic countries, Middle East, Africa and Asia-Pacific. In 1986, eight years before the launch of Turner Classic Movies, concerns over Turner Entertainments corporate debt load resulted in Turner selling the studio that October back to Kirk Kerkorian, from whom Turner had purchased the studio less than a year before. As part of the deal, Turner Entertainment retained ownership of MGMs library of films released up to May 9,1986, Turner Broadcasting System was split into two companies, Turner Broadcasting System and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and reincorporated as MGM/UA Communications Co. The film library of Turner Entertainment would serve as the form of programming for TCM upon the networks launch. After the library was acquired, MGM/UA signed a deal with Turner to continue distributing the pre-May 1986 MGM and to begin distributing the pre-1950 Warner Bros. film libraries for video release. Turner Classic Movies debuted on April 14,1994, at 6,00 p. m. Eastern Time, the date and time were chosen for their historical significance as the exact centennial anniversary of the first public movie showing in New York City. The first movie broadcast on TCM was the 1939 film Gone with the Wind, at the time of its launch, TCM was available to approximately one million cable television subscribers. AMC had broadened its content to feature colorized and more recent films by 2002. In the early 90s AMC abandoned its format, leaving TCM as the only movie-oriented cable channel to devote its programming entirely to classic films without commercial interruption. In 1996, Turner Broadcasting System merged with Time Warner, which besides placing Turner Classic Movies, in March 1999, MGM paid Warner Bros. and gave up the home video rights to the MGM/UA films owned by Turner to Warner Home Video. In 2008, TCM won a Peabody Award for excellence in broadcasting, in April 2010, Turner Classic Movies held the first TCM Classic Film Festival, an event – now held annually – at the Graumans Chinese Theater and the Graumans Egyptian Theater in Hollywood. In 2007, some of the films featured on TCM were made available for streaming on TCMs website. The networks programming season runs from February until the following March of each year when a retrospective of Oscar-winning and Oscar-nominated movies is shown, called 31 Days of Oscar. Turner Classic Movies presents many of its features in their original aspect ratio whenever possible – widescreen films broadcast on TCM are letterboxed on the standard definition feed. TCM also regularly presents widescreen presentations of films not available in the format on any video release
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IMDb
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In 1998 it became a subsidiary of Amazon Inc, who were then able to use it as an advertising resource for selling DVDs and videotapes. As of January 2017, IMDb has approximately 4.1 million titles and 7.7 million personalities in its database, the site enables registered users to submit new material and edits to existing entries. Although all data is checked before going live, the system has open to abuse. The site also featured message boards which stimulate regular debates and dialogue among authenticated users, IMDb shutdown the message boards permanently on February 20,2017. Anyone with a connection can read the movie and talent pages of IMDb. A registration process is however, to contribute info to the site. A registered user chooses a name for themselves, and is given a profile page. These badges range from total contributions made, to independent categories such as photos, trivia, bios, if a registered user or visitor happens to be in the entertainment industry, and has an IMDb page, that user/visitor can add photos to that page by enrolling in IMDbPRO. Actors, crew, and industry executives can post their own resume and this fee enrolls them in a membership called IMDbPro. PRO can be accessed by anyone willing to pay the fee, which is $19.99 USD per month, or if paid annually, $149.99, which comes to approximately $12.50 per month USD. Membership enables a user to access the rank order of each industry personality, as well as agent contact information for any actor, producer, director etc. that has an IMDb page. Enrolling in PRO for industry personnel, enables those members the ability to upload a head shot to open their page, as well as the ability to upload hundreds of photos to accompany their page. Anyone can register as a user, and contribute to the site as well as enjoy its content, however those users enrolled in PRO have greater access and privileges. IMDb originated with a Usenet posting by British film fan and computer programmer Col Needham entitled Those Eyes, others with similar interests soon responded with additions or different lists of their own. Needham subsequently started an Actors List, while Dave Knight began a Directors List, and Andy Krieg took over THE LIST from Hank Driskill, which would later be renamed the Actress List. Both lists had been restricted to people who were alive and working, the goal of the participants now was to make the lists as inclusive as possible. By late 1990, the lists included almost 10,000 movies and television series correlated with actors and actresses appearing therein. On October 17,1990, Needham developed and posted a collection of Unix shell scripts which could be used to search the four lists, at the time, it was known as the rec. arts. movies movie database
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AllMovie
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AllMovie is an online guide service website with information about films, television programs, and screen actors. As of 2013, AllMovie. com and the AllMovie consumer brand are owned by All Media Network, AllMovie was founded by popular-culture archivist Michael Erlewine, who also founded AllMusic and AllGame. The AllMovie database was licensed to tens of thousands of distributors and retailers for point-of-sale systems, websites, the AllMovie database is comprehensive, including basic product information, cast and production credits, plot synopsis, professional reviews, biographies, relational links and more. AllMovie data was accessed on the web at the AllMovie. com website and it was also available via the AMG LASSO media recognition service, which can automatically recognize DVDs. In late 2007, Macrovision acquired AMG for a reported $72 million, the AMG consumer facing web properties AllMusic. com, AllMovie. com and AllGame. com were sold by Rovi in August 2013 to All Media Network, LLC. The buyers also include the founders of SideReel and Ackrell Capital investor Mike Ackrell. All Media Network offices are located in San Francisco, California, AllMusic AllGame SideReel All Media Network Official website
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Up and at 'Em
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The film had theatrical release August 16,1922. It is unknown if any copies of this film survive, wishing to drive her fathers car, Barbara Jackson dresses up in the chauffeurs uniform and sneaks out. For a lark, she picks up a passenger, but it develops that passenger is part of a team of crooks who are planning to rob Bob Everett, a rival of her father, of his precious artworks. Believing her to be a detective, the bandit forces her to take part in the robbery. After convincing Everett that she was an accomplice and not the real thief. He had just purchased one of the paintings from an art dealer, as the two explain the deception, William informs him that he became suspicious when recognizing the painting as one owned by Everett and that he had the dealer held at the front gate. The police arrive and round up the crooks, collaborating with director William A. Seiter on the script, Up and at Em marks his first Hollywood screenplay. The film also marks the first screen role for actor Eddie Quillan, when he and his four siblings were touring California as part of the Vaudeville Orpheum Circuit, his father had submitted the 5 children for auditions at Keystone Studios. After viewing the footage, Mack Sennett was so impressed with that of Eddie. Eddie Quillan was signed to contract in 1922, and Up, up and at Em at the Internet Movie Database Up and at Em synopsis at AllMovie Up and at Em at SilentEra lantern slide coming attraction advert
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The Beautiful and Damned (film)
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The Beautiful and Damned is a 1922 American silent drama film directed by William A. Seiter and released by Warner Bros. The film, based on the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel The Beautiful and Damned, starred Kenneth Harlan, to publicize the film, Jack L. Warner, announced that the films stars, Kenneth Harlan and Marie Prevost, would marry on the films set. The publicity stunt worked and thousands of fans sent gifts and letters to the couple, however, Warner was unaware that Prevost was still secretly married to her first husband, Sonny Gerke. The Los Angeles Mirror got wind of Prevosts first marriage and ran a story with the headline Marie Prevost Will be a Bigamist if She Marries Kenneth Harlan. Warner was livid over the publicity and Prevosts failure to disclose her first marriage despite the fact that the publicity stunt was his idea. Warner quickly arranged an annullment and, when the publicity surrounding the scandal died down, Prevost, the film did well at the box office and critics were generally favorable. F. Scott Fitzgerald, however, disliked the film and he later wrote to a friend stating, Its by far the worst movie Ive ever seen in my life-cheap, vulgar, ill-constructed and shoddy. We were utterly ashamed of it, the film is currently listed as a lost film, and no copies of The Beautiful and Damned are known to exist. Warner Bros. records of the films negative have a notation, Warner Bros. destroyed many of its negatives in the late 1940s and 1950s due to nitrate film pre-1933 decomposition
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Listen Lester
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Released by Universal Pictures on May 20,1924, the film stars Louise Fazenda and Harry Myers. Prints of the film exist in the Library of Congress film archive, angry, Arbutus enlists the aid of lady detective Miss Pink and follows the two to Florida. At his hotel, the Colonel enlists the aid of the hotel detective Listen Lester to get back the love letters he had written to Arbutus. The detective accomplishes his task but is foiled when Miss Pink recovers the letters. A hotel clerk then gets back, but in turn loses them back to Arbutus. Mary in the meantime is sparking up a romance with Jack Griffin, in desperation, Arbustus enlists the aid of Lester to fake she and Mary getting kidnapped in the hope that this will bring the men to their senses. One of the fake kidnappers takes himself too seriously and gets a bit rough with Mary, Jack rescues the women and he and Mary reconcile. Out of ideas, Arbustus decides to stop chasing the Colonel, when the Colonel realizes how much he would miss her attentions, he discovers that he does love her after all
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Helen's Babies (film)
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Helens Babies is a 1924 silent comedy film directed by William A. Seiter, based on the 1876 novel Helens Babies by John Habberton. Toodie and Budge are identified as the two best children in the world and they enjoy a comfortable life with their parents Tom and Helen Lawrence. Helens brother is Harry Burton, a bachelor who, although never having had one, is an expert on knowing how to raise children. When Tom and Helen receive a letter from Harry, in which he announces he will travel to them for a vacation, knowing that Harry is an expert on children, they assume that he will appreciate the gesture and leave just after he arrives. Unbeknownst to them, Harry only wrote a book about raising children because his publisher told him to and he reluctantly takes the position as the babysitter of his nieces and is escorted by Alice Mayton, the Lawrences attractive neighbor. It soon becomes clear that Harry wont get any rest, as the girls often annoy him by getting themselves into danger or going through his possessions. Many of the dangerous situations Toodie gets herself into include climbing a tree, although they always try to help him out, Toodie and Budge only make things worse. Harry is only irritated by their constant attempts to comfort him and he writes Helen a letter, in which he threatens to abandon the girls if she doesnt return immediately. However, before he is able to send it he is interrupted by a visit from Alice, Alice has always been a big admirer of his work, but notices that he isnt a real expert on parenting. Giving him the benefit of the doubt, she invites him over for dinner, Harry, secretly having a crush on Alice, accepts the invitation and shreds the letter into pieces. He wants to win over her affection at dinner and buys some fancy flowers, unbeknownst to him, Toodie had secretly replaced the flowers with her doll. As he hands Alice the box, she is surprised to receive the doll, while Harry and Alice grow closer, the children run away to follow a dog they notice. Harry and Alice immediately start to look for them and they cross a group of Spanish gypsies, noticing a piece of clothing on the ground belonging to one of the girls, Harry suspects that they have kidnapped the girls and violently starts to look for them. Meanwhile, the girls are playing with the dog on the tracks and are almost hit by a train. Coincidentally, Tom and Helen are traveling on that train to surprise the girls with an early return and they are devastated that their daughters almost died and think that Harry is fully responsible. They start yelling at Harry, until they find out how fond the daughters are of him, the film ends with Harry and Alice kissing each other
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The Mad Whirl
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The Mad Whirl is a 1925 jazz age black-and-white silent film drama film about the loosening of youth morals that took place during the 1920s. Written by Edward T. Lowe Jr. and Lewis Milestone, and directed by William A. Seiter for Universal Pictures, Cathleen Gillis falls in love with Jack Herrington. Martin Gillis, Cathleens loving father, is stern, very religious, Cathleen is an obedient daughter and conservative in her views as well. Jacks lifestyle places him at odds with Cathleens, but he promises her his will change his ways and he backslides several times, but in the end is reformed by Cathleens love, and they elope. After the elopement, Gladys and John get a stern lecture on temperance and sobriety from Martin, may McAvoy as Cathleen Gillis Jack Mulhall as Jack Herrington Myrtle Stedman as Gladys Herrington Barbara Bedford as Margie Taylor Alec B
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Dangerous Innocence
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Dangerous Innocence was a 1925 American silent romantic comedy/drama film written by Lewis Milestone and James O. Spearing based upon the novel Anns an Idiot by Pamela Wynne. Directed by William A. Seiter for Universal Pictures, the film starred Laura La Plante, the films status is currently unknown, any copies of this film exist, and it is now considered lost. On a ship sailing from England to India, Ann Church meets young and dashing Major Anthony Seymour, falls in love and makes some innocent advances to gain his attentions. The Major at first resists her advances because he believes she is that young, another passenger, Gilchrist who is a cad, takes advantage of Anns naiveté and places her in a compromising position. To save her reputation, the Major proposes to Ann and she accepts, when they arrive in Bombay, Gilchrist gets even by telling Ann that the Major had had an affair with her mother, causing Ann to break the engagement. Angry, the Major follows Gilchrist off ship and thrashes him, as she prepares to return alonne to England, the Major forces Gilchrist to admit to Ann that the relationship between the Major and Anns mother was platonic and never romantic. The young couple reunite and are married at sea. Laura La Plante as Ann Church Eugene OBrien as Maj. Anthony Seymour Jean Hersholt as Gilchrist Alfred Allen as Capt, when he realizes her age his intentions turn affectionate, but become complicated when he learns that Ann is the daughter of an old sweetheart. They praise director William A. Seiter, writing that he shows originality and they also share that Laura La Plante is quite effective as Ann, and that Eugene OBrien acts the role of Seymour with sincerity and restraint. Dangerous Innocence at the Internet Movie Database
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The Teaser
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The film was directed by William A. Seiter for Universal Pictures, and stars Laura La Plante, Pat OMalley, Hedda Hopper, and Walter McGrail. It is unknown whether any copies of this film exist, Ann Barton, a girl from a once-wealthy family, must make a living by clerking in a cigar store. There she meets and falls in love with James McDonald, a cigar salesman and she is then adopted by Margaret Wyndham, her rich and aristocratic aunt, who disapproves of James due to his crude manners. Wishing to break up the two, Aunt Margaret sends Ann away to finishing school, in response, Ann acts out publicly and embarrasses her aunt. In the meantime, James learns how to be a gentleman and wins her back through having learned good manners. They concluded The story is a little thing which is not apt to interest many persons. Time Magazine offered that The extraordinarily blonde Laura La Plante occupies herself genially enough in the title part, the Teaser at the Internet Movie Database The Teaser at AllMovie
