Download PDF by Douglas Brode: Shooting Stars of the Small Screen: Encyclopedia of TV

By Douglas Brode

ISBN-10: 0292718497

ISBN-13: 9780292718494

''This quantity enshrines and preserves the essence of what the television Western has constantly been all about.'' --Fess Parker, superstar of the Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone television sequence, from the foreword

Since the start of tv, Westerns were taking part in at the small display. From the mid-1950s until eventually the early Nineteen Sixties, they have been certainly one of TV's most well-liked genres, with thousands of audience tuning in to such well known indicates as Rawhide, Gunsmoke, and Disney's Davy Crockett. notwithstanding the cultural revolution of the later Nineteen Sixties contributed to the dying of conventional Western courses, the Western by no means truly disappeared from television. as an alternative, it took on new kinds, comparable to the hugely well known Lonesome Dove and Deadwood, whereas exploring the lives of characters who by no means earlier than had a starring position, together with anti-heroes, mountain males, farmers, local and African american citizens, Latinos, and women.

Shooting Stars of the Small Screen is a finished encyclopedia of greater than 450 actors who obtained celebrity billing or performed a routine personality position in a television Western sequence or a made-for-TV Western motion picture or miniseries from the past due Nineteen Forties as much as 2008. Douglas Brode covers the highlights of every actor's occupation, together with Western motion picture paintings, if major, to offer an entire feel of the actor's monitor persona(s). in the entries are discussions of rankings of well known Western television exhibits that discover how those courses either mirrored and impacted the social international within which they aired. Brode opens the encyclopedia with a desirable heritage of the television Western that lines its roots in B Western video clips, whereas additionally exhibiting how television Westerns constructed their very own certain storytelling conventions.

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''This quantity enshrines and preserves the essence of what the television Western has continuously been all approximately. '' --Fess Parker, megastar of the Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone television sequence, from the forewordSince the start of tv, Westerns were taking part in at the small reveal. From the mid-1950s until eventually the early Sixties, they have been one in all TV's most well liked genres, with thousands of audience tuning in to such renowned exhibits as Rawhide, Gunsmoke, and Disney's Davy Crockett.

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S E E A L S O : Robert Vaughn. Patricia Blair (1931– ) A fiery-looking redhead from Texas in the Maureen O’Hara tradition, Blair experienced the same sort of relationships with Chuck Connors and Fess Parker on TV that her predecessor had with John Wayne and James Stewart on the big screen. A teen model, Blair was signed to studio contracts in the 1950s, first by Warner’s, then MGM, leading to minor film roles. ” That show concluded in 1963; one year later, Blair won the role of Rebecca Bryan Boone on Daniel Boone.

Corral. S E E A L S O : Hugh O’Brian. Michael Anderson, Jr. (1943– ) The son of a noted director (Around the World in Eighty Days, 1956), Michael Jr. often appeared in Westerns, including the Aussie oater The Sundowners (1960) as the son of Robert Mitchum and Deborah Kerr. He played the youngest of the title characters in The Sons of Katie Elder (John Wayne, Dean Martin, Earl Holliman) and a youthful cavalryman in The Glory Guys and Major Dundee, all in 1965. Anderson gained shortlived TV stardom as “Clayt” in The Monroes (1966–1967), a show about 21 A hippie-like frontier runaway children fending for themselves.

S E E A L S O : Walter Brennan, Hugh O’Brian. Gene Barry (1919– ) Born Eugene Klass in Manhattan, Barry emerged as a child musical prodigy, then moved on to vaudeville and finally Broadway, costarring with Mae West in the 1944 play Catherine Was Great. In Hollywood, he had a mostly negligible career with two exceptions: The War of the Worlds (1953) and Thunder Road (1958). Barry sang in Red Garters (1954), a semi-surreal musical Western, and 33 B played a variation of Morgan Earp (“Wes Bonnell”) in Sam Fuller’s Freudian Forty Guns (1957).

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