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Chuck Connors (April 10, 1921 -- November 10, 1992) was an American actor, writer, and professional basketball and baseball player. His best known role from his forty-year film career was Lucas McCain in the 1960s ABC hit Western series "The Rifleman".
Connors realized that he would not make a career in professional sports, so he decided to pursue an acting career. Playing baseball near Hollywood proved to be fortunate, as he was spotted by an MGM casting director and subsequently signed for the 1952 Tracy-Hepburn film Pat and Mike. In 1953, he starred opposite Burt Lancaster as a rebellious Marine private in the film South Sea Woman. Connors also starred in 1957's Old Yeller as Burn Sanderson. That same year, he co-starred in The Hired Gun.
Connors was in feature films, such as The Big Country and Soylent Green, with Charlton Heston. He also became a lovable character actor, guest-starring in dozens of shows. His first guest-starring debut was on an episode of Dear Phoebe. He also appeared on television in roles in Hey, Jeannie!, The Loretta Young Show, Schlitz Playhouse, Adventures of Superman (2 episodes), Screen Directors Playhouse, Four Star Playhouse, Matinee Theatre, Cavalcade of America, Gunsmoke, Crossroads, The Gale Storm Show, West Point, The Millionaire, Tales of Wells Fargo (2 episodes), General Electric True Theater, Wagon Train, The Restless Gun, Murder, She Wrote, Date with the Angels, The DuPont Show with June Allyson, The Virginian, and many others.
Richard Widmark (December 26, 1914 -- March 24, 2008) was an American actor of films, stage, radio and television.
He was nominated for an Academy Award for his role as the villainous Tommy Udo in his debut film, Kiss of Death. Early in his career Widmark specialized in similar villainous or anti-hero roles in films noir, but he later branched out into more heroic leading and support roles in westerns, mainstream dramas and horror films, among others.
At his death, Widmark was the earliest surviving Oscar nominee in the Supporting Actor category, and one of only two left from the 1940s (the other having been James Whitmore). For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Widmark has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6800 Hollywood Boulevard. In 2002, he was inducted into the Western Performers Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
László Benedek, sometimes credited as Laslo Benedek (March 5, 1905 -- March 11, 1992), was a Hungarian-born film director.
Born in Budapest, he worked as a writer and editor in Hungarian cinema until World War II. Louis B. Mayer helped the Jewish Benedek escape and brought him to Hollywood where he directed his first film for MGM in 1944 as a stand-in.
He gained wide recognition for his direction of 1951's Death of a Salesman, for which he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Director and a Best Director nomination from the Directors Guild of America. However, it was for his directorial efforts on his next project that Benedek is best remembered. His 1953 motorcycle gang film The Wild One caused a storm of controversy and was banned in the United Kingdom until 1968.
László Benedek spoke several languages and directed in Germany, making the 1955 film Kinder, Mütter und ein General and in France in 1960, directing Recours en grâce. In Hollywood, Benedek went on to make more motion pictures, but also became a significant director of television series, beginning with the Perry Mason series in 1957. He also directed episodes of other shows, including The Outer Limits, Mannix, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Untouchables, and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour.
Benedek died in 1992 in The Bronx, New York.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Connors
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Widmark
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laslo_Benedek
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Entertainment Tonight - on the Death of Chuck Connors, 1992by videoholic90sA259,450 views
guys a fuckin rapist
FamasPlox 2 weeks ago
Maudie Prickett is "Mabel Phillips" (the unbearable mother); Chuck Connors is "The Counselor".
fromthesidelines 6 months ago
Isn't that the June and Ward Cleaver family at that table? Looks like Wally has gone bad.
6motion6 7 months ago
@nirvgardengod indeed it is
thefilmarchive 9 months ago
is that the Rifleman??
nirvgardengod 9 months ago