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Paul Heller
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Paul Heller is a British-American film producer residing in Southern California. His best movies known include Enter the Dragon, My Left Foot, The Annihilation of Fish, Skin Games, Hot Potato, The Promise, The Barony, Black Belt Jones, and David and Lisa. His debut as a producer was David and Lisa, which received two Oscar nominations and innumerable awards. He was the producer of 1990s Oscar winner, My Left Foot. Hellers commitment to quality films has been the hallmark of his career. His film, The Eavesdropper won acclaim as Best Film at Mar del Plata and it was also nominated for Best Foreign Film at the French Awards, as was his film Secret Ceremony, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Mia Farrow. In that role he is able to combine the goal of making quality films with his love of hands-on involvement in the process of film-making, a process that has so far created and developed over 30 feature films and numerous projects in allied fields. In 1973, Heller founded Sequoia Pictures, Inc. a production house affiliated with Warner Bros. The companys first production was Enter the Dragon, the film that set off the explosion of interest in the martial arts genre, eleven more films followed with an unprecedented financial success rate. He was the ground breaker in the cable TV feature market, producing the first made-for-cable feature film, Falcons Gold, Heller now only makes pictures that delight him from the first reading of the script. Following The Annihilation of Fish, is another film with writer-director Bruce Robinson, Heller first has produced a television movie Wait Until Dark, which is distributed by Warner Bros. and HBO in 1982. In the same year, he has produced CBS Television and Showtimes Falcons Gold, in 1998, he was involved in ABCs David and Lisa, produced with Oprahs Harpo Productions. During this time, Heller renewed his interest in teaching promising young students of film, Heller was approached by the American Film Institute to develop a producing program for their new school in Los Angeles, the American Film Institute Center for Advanced Studies. He had previously taught Film and Television Design at both New York University and Columbia University, and founded the Community Film Workshop Council with the American Film Institute. This was followed, over the years, by lectures at conferences and he currently heads the Education and Outreach Committee of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, Los Angeles. He is a member of the United Scenic Artists, the Directors Guild, in October 2010, Heller made an opening remark for the Koyamada Foundations United States Martial Arts Festival at the Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center in Redondo Beach, California. Heller serves as the Board of Directors of the Koyamada Foundation, Heller has been a pioneer in the field of multimedia and theatrical presentations. Heller at the Internet Movie Database Paul Heller at Hollywood. com at Archive. is
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Danielle Steel
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Based in California for most of her career, Steel has produced several books a year, often juggling up to five projects at once. All her novels have been bestsellers, including those issued in hardback and her formula is fairly consistent, often involving rich families facing a crisis, threatened by dark elements such as prison, fraud, blackmail and suicide. Steel has also published fiction and poetry, as well as raising funds for the treatment of mental disorders. Her books have been translated into 28 languages, with 22 adapted for television, Steel was born Danielle Fernandes Dominique Schuelein-Steel in New York City, the only child of Norma da Câmara Stone dos Reis and John Schulein-Steel. Her father was a German Jewish immigrant, a descendant of owners of Löwenbräu beer and her mother, born in Portugal, was the daughter of a diplomat. Steel was raised Catholic and had wanted to be a nun during her early years. She spent much of her childhood in France, where from an early age she was included in her parents dinner parties, giving her an opportunity to observe the habits and lives of the wealthy and famous. Her parents divorced when she was eight, however, and she was raised primarily in New York City and Europe by her father, Steel started writing stories as a child, and by her late teens had begun writing poetry. In 1965, when she was 18, Steel married French-American banker Claude-Eric Lazard, while a young wife, and still attending New York University, Steel began writing, completing her first manuscript the following year, when she was 19. After the birth of their daughter, Beatrix, in 1966, a magazine client was highly impressed with her freelance articles and encouraged her to focus on writing and suggested she write a book, which she did. She later moved to San Francisco, and worked for Grey Advertising, after nine years of marriage and many years of separation, Steel and Lazard divorced. In 1972 her first novel, Going Home, was published, the novel contained many of the themes that her writing would become known for, including a focus on family issues and human relationships. The heroine of Going Home was a single mother. While still married to Lazard, Steel met Danny Zugelder while interviewing an inmate in a prison near Lompoc, California and he moved in with Steel when he was paroled in June 1973, but returned to prison in early 1974 on robbery and rape charges. After receiving her divorce from Lazard in 1975, she married Zugelder in the prison canteen and she divorced him in 1978, but the relationship spawned Passions Promise and Now and Forever, the two novels that launched her career. Steel married her husband, William George Toth, the day after her divorce from Zugelder was finalized. She was already 8 1⁄2 months pregnant with his child, Nicholas, with the success of her fourth book, The Promise, she became a participant in San Francisco high society while Toth, a former drug addict, was left out. Steel married for the time in 1981, to vintner John Traina
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Kathleen Quinlan
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Kathleen Denise Quinlan is an American film and television actress. Her other film appearances include Airport 77, The Promise, The Runner Stumbles, Sunday Lovers, Sunset, Claras Heart, The Doors, Breakdown, and Breach. Quinlan was born in Pasadena, California, the daughter of Josephine, a military supply supervisor, and Robert Quinlan and she was raised in Mill Valley, California, where she attended Tamalpais High School, studied drama and began her acting career. She has been married to actor Bruce Abbott since April 12,1994, Quinlan made her film debut in George Lucas 1973 nostalgic look at the early 60s, American Graffiti at the age of 19. As a young actress, she guest-starred in several 1970s television series, including Police Woman, Ironside, kathleen Quinlan at the Internet Movie Database
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Stephen Collins
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Stephen Weaver Collins is an American actor, writer, director, and musician. He played Eric Camden on the television series 7th Heaven. He also played the roles of Captain Will Decker in Star Trek, The Motion Picture and he also appeared in a supporting role in the TV series Revolution as Dr. Gene Porter, father of Elizabeth Mitchells character Rachel Matheson. Collins was born on October 1,1947, in Des Moines, Iowa, the son of Madeleine and Cyrus Stickney Collins, Collins was raised with his two older brothers in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, and attended Amherst College, graduating cum laude. He played bass guitar and rhythm guitar in a number of rock, Collins is probably best known for his role as Eric Camden in the television drama series 7th Heaven. He is also known for portraying captain/commander Willard Decker in Star Trek and he also played the lead role opposite Lauren Hutton in the made-for-TV movie The Rhinemann Exchange, based on Robert Ludlums bestselling novel. Collins has co-starred with Diane Keaton in two movies, The First Wives Club and Because I Said So, in the 2010–11 television season, Collins starred in the short-lived ABC series No Ordinary Family. He also appeared as a love interest for Ron Rifkins character Saul Holden, on ABCs Brothers & Sisters. He also appeared in eight of The Office playing Andy Bernards dad in the episode Garden Party. In 2013, Collins began appearing in the NBC series Revolution as Dr. Gene Porter, Collins was married to Marjorie Weinman from 1970 to 1978. He married actress Faye Grant in 1985 and they had a daughter, Kate, in 1989. Collins filed for divorce from Grant in 2012, the divorce was finalized in January 2015. Collins is an Episcopalian as well as a practitioner of Transcendental Meditation and has part in the advanced TM Yogic Flying technique since 1980. Until October 2014, he had been a national co-director of the Committee for Stress-Free Schools, a Los Angeles Police Department spokesperson stated Collins had been investigated by the department in 2012 after receiving a claim from 40 years earlier regarding sexual abuse. The LAPD further stated their investigation did not allow them to substantiate the allegation, in a December 2014 interview with People magazine, Collins admitted he had inappropriate sexual conduct with three female minors in 1973,1982, and 1994. Collins is the author of two novels, Eye Contact and Double Exposure
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Beatrice Straight
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Beatrice Whitney Straight was an American theatre, film and television actress and a member of the prominent Whitney family. She was an Academy Award and Tony Award winner, Straight made her Broadway debut in 1939 in The Possessed. Her other Broadway roles included Viola in Twelfth Night, Catherine Sloper in The Heiress, for her role as Elizabeth Proctor in the 1953 production of The Crucible, she won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play. For the 1976 film Network, she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and she was on screen for five minutes and two seconds, the shortest performance ever to win an Academy Award for acting. She also received an Emmy Award nomination for the 1978 miniseries The Dain Curse, Straight also appeared as Mother Christophe in The Nuns Story and Dr. Lesh in Poltergeist. S. Her maternal grandfather was political leader and financier William Collins Whitney, in 1918, when Straight was four years old, her father died in France of influenza during the great epidemic while serving with the US Army during World War I. Following her mothers remarriage to British agronomist Leonard K. Elmhirst in 1925 and it was there that Straight was educated at Dartington Hall and began acting in amateur theater productions. Straight returned to the United States and made her Broadway debut in 1939 in the play The Possessed. Most of her work was in the classics, including Twelfth Night, Macbeth. Kildare, Ben Casey, The Defenders, Route 66, Mission, Impossible, further television performances include the role of Hippolyta in the Wonder Woman series, and Marion Hillyard, the icy, controlling mother of Stephen Collins in The Promise. Straight worked infrequently in film and is remembered best for her role as a devastated wife confronting husband William Holdens infidelity in Network. She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance which, at five minutes and her most widely seen film appearance after Network was the role of the paranormal investigator Dr. Martha Lesh in the 1982 horror film Poltergeist. On February 22,1942, Straight married Louis Dolivet, Free French Leader, in Polk County, at the time, Dolivet was a speaker at the National Farm Institute and Straight was in the middle of the mid-west road show of Twelfth Night. Her mother, Dorothy Elmhirst and stepfather, Leonard K. Elmhirst attended the wedding, along with her brother Michael Straight and his wife, Belinda Crompton. Dolivet was in the French Air Force until June 1940 and was the co-editor of The Free World, at the time of the wedding, her elder brother, Whitney Straight, had been missing since August 1941, when his plane was shot down on the French coast. Straight obtained a divorce from Dolivet in Reno, Nevada on May 24,1949 and they married in 1949 and remained married until Cooksons death in 1990. Peter had two children from his previous marriage, Peter Cookson, Jr. and Jane Copland, the boy was found by Straights second husband, Cookson. Straight reportedly suffered from Alzheimers disease in her last years, in 2001, she died from pneumonia in Northridge, Los Angeles, at the age of eighty-six
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Laurence Luckinbill
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Laurence George Luckinbill is an American actor, playwright and director. He has worked in television, film and theatre, doing duty in the latter by writing, directing and starring in stage productions. Luckinbill was born in Fort Smith, Arkansas, the son of Agnes and he is the uncle of film directors Lana and Lilly Wachowski, the children of his sister, Lynne. He is married to actress Lucie Arnaz, daughter of Lucille Ball and they have three children together, Simon, Joseph and Katharine. Arnaz and Luckinbill have toured together in theatrical productions such as Theyre Playing Our Song and he also has two sons from his previous marriage to actress Robin Strasser, Nicholas and Benjamin. On television, he started out with roles on the now-defunct American soap operas Where the Heart Is and he starred as espionage agent Glenn Garth Gregory in the 1972-73 ABC dramatic television series, The Delphi Bureau. He has performed in episodes of television series, including Law & Order, Barnaby Jones, Columbo and Murder. He played Lillian Hellmans lawyer in the TV movie Dash and Lilly and his 1961 Broadway debut was in A Man for All Seasons. He starred in Pavel Kohouts 1976 Broadway play Poor Murderer at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre and his theater career has included writing and directing. Luckinbill has written and performed in several shows, including, Hemingway, Teddy. He has also starred in productions of Lyndon, which he did not write. One production was at the LBJ Museum in Austin, Texas and he appeared in the drama film The Boys in the Band, reprising the role of Hank, which he originated on stage. He portrayed Mr. Spocks half-brother Sybok in Star Trek V, sean Connery was originally contacted to star in the role, but was busy with Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. William Shatner discovered Luckinbill by chance, channel surfing late one night, when Shatner called to offer him the role, Luckinbill accepted immediately Other film appearances include Such Good Friends, The Promise and Cocktail. He also narrated the documentary Moonwalk One
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William Prince (actor)
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Prince was born in Nichols, New York, the son of Myrtle, a nurse, and Gorman Prince, who worked in sales. Prince attended Cornell University, which he left in his year to join a Federal Theatre tour of The Taming of the Shrew. He served an apprenticeship with the Barter Theater in Abingdon, Virginia and he then joined Maurice Evanss company, appearing in minor Shakespearean roles. His star began to rise after actress Eva Le Gallienne, responding to a letter, gave him an audition for the part of Richard in a revival of Eugene ONeills Ah. He got the part and caught the eye of the critics and his breakthrough came a year later, in 1942, with the role of Private Quizz West in Maxwell Andersons play The Eve of St. Mark. He was soon signed to a Hollywood contract, and appeared in Destination Tokyo, Objective Burma, after a mostly undistinguished movie career in the late 1940s, Prince worked primarily in television the following decade, having moved back to New York in the interim. It was there, in 1947, that Prince became one of the members of The Actors Studio. Two of his most notable roles were as Christian de Neuvillette in the 1950 Cyrano de Bergerac. He also gained acclaim for his portrayal of patriarch Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy in the 1977 teleplay Johnny. Returning to Broadway, he took leading roles in John Loves Mary and he appeared as Orlando in As You Like It, with Katharine Hepburn, and as Christopher Isherwood in I Am a Camera. In 1963, he played Charles Marsden in the Actors Studio production of Strange Interlude and he took leading roles in several plays by Edward Albee, beginning with The Ballad of the Sad Cafe in 1963. He appeared opposite Angela Lansbury in Counting the Ways and Listening in 1977, during the 1970s, 1980s and into the early 1990s, Prince made guest appearances on dozens of primetime television series and miniseries including Captains and the Kings, Aspen, and George Washington. He also reunited with Cyrano star Jose Ferrer for the made-for-television films The Rhinemann Exchange, in the latter, Ferrer played attorney for petitioner Gideon, Abe Fortas, and Prince was seen as one of the Supreme Court Justices. In 1992 he appeared on the long-running NBC drama Law & Order in the episode The Working Stiff, William Prince died October 8,1996, at Phelps Memorial Hospital in Tarrytown, New York. He was 83, and lived in Dobbs Ferry, New York at the time of his death. Prince was survived by his wife, Augusta Dabney Prince, a sister, Charlotte, William Prince at the Internet Movie Database William Prince at the Internet Broadway Database In Loving Memory Of William Prince
