RANDOM QUOTES – PT79

RANDOM QUOTES – PT79

May 8, 2023 Alan Royle 4

  SALLY FIELD (1946 – )                              [In her 2018 autobiography titled In Pieces, Sally wrote of the sexual abuse she suffered at the hands of her step-father, actor and Hollywood stuntman Jock Mahoney, abuse that began in a variety of ways before her seventh birthday and continued for years]: ‘I […]

TV WESTERNS – PT45

TV WESTERNS – PT45

February 1, 2023 Alan Royle 0

                 WRANGLER (1960) 6 EPISODES                          This extremely short-lived western series was the summer replacement for a musical series, The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show (1956). Wrangler’s only claim to fame, miniscule as that claim may have been, is that it was the very first […]

TV WESTERNS – PT30

TV WESTERNS – PT30

June 23, 2022 Alan Royle 2

  THE RANGE RIDER (1951-53) 78 EPISODES                This series was one of the earliest westerns on American TV and was well-received. Jock Mahony, a former stuntman (and the step-father of actress Sally Field) was the star of the show. Oddly, his character had no name and was known only as […]

WORLD WAR TWO – The stars & their stories – PT32.

WORLD WAR TWO – The stars & their stories – PT32.

September 30, 2020 Alan Royle 3

            PATRICK MACNEE (1922 – 2015)                      The British actor who made a name for himself in the sixties and seventies playing John Steed in a couple of popular TV series – The Avengers and The New Avengers – was called up for the United Kingdom Armed Forces just as he […]

TV – When the western was king – PT1.

June 23, 2018 Alan Royle 4

There was a time, back in the fifties when television suddenly took off, that saw the western genre dominating the box. Scores of series were launched throughout the late forties, the fifties and sixties. Many of them lasted only a single season (even less), but others made a fortune for […]

B-LIST BEAUTIES – PT 3.

September 22, 2017 Alan Royle 0

            PEGGIE CASTLE (1927 – 73)                  The Yellow Tomahawk (1954) opposite Rory Calhoun                                   Audie Murphy                […]

The ‘Tarzan’ movies – PT 3

March 10, 2017 Alan Royle 13

       Denny Miller                                                           with Joanna Barnes Denny Miller made his one and only appearance as Tarzan in Tarzan, the […]

Tragic Hollywood – Accidental Deaths ( Pt 2 )

May 26, 2015 admin 2

  I have so far found a total of twenty movie actors who have perished in motor vehicle related accidents. Here are the second group of ten. Next, I shall look at ‘accidental death in fires’.   Sammi Kane Kraft (1992-2012) Sammi only made one movie, the remake of Bad […]