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Reb Brown |
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Born Robert
Brown in April 1948, California native Reb Brown attended
USC on a football scholarship, following graduation from high
school in 1966. After a stint as a bouncer and Boxed professionally
at Olympic Auditorium. Brown was discovered by a talent scou
and acted in many films and TV shows such as The Love Boat,
Fantasy Island, The Rockford Files, CHiPs,
Emergency and Marcus Welby, M.D. Standing 6'3"
the former football star was perfect as Captain America in two
made-for-TV movies Captain America and Captain America
2: Death too Soon. Originally
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released in 1982, Yor, the Hunter
from the Future became an instant cult classic when
Columbia Pictures picked it up for distribution in 1983.
Yor was shot in Turkey as a four-part Italian TV
miniseries, but when it was released to U.S. theaters, the film
version was drastically edited down to 88 minutes, making the
plot somewhat hard to follow. Although critics have given the
film a bad rap, Brown makes it watchable, and the film now enjoys
a cult following. Brown also appear in a direct-to-video release
from 1988, Space Mutiny (aka Mutiny in Space),
some of the special effects in this movie were first used in
the TV series Battlestar Galactica. Making over 30 movies,
such as The Girl Most Likely to..., Big
Wednesday, Goldie and the Boxer Go to Hollywood,
The Sword and the Sorcerer, Death of a
Soldier, and The Deli, his first was SSSSSSS
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David Wayne |
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Born
in January of 1915 the son of an insurance salesman, David Wayne
attended Western Michigan University. While working as a statistician
in Cleveland, Wayne became attracted to the local theatrical
activity. Auditioning for a Shakespearean repertory company,
he won the role of Touchstone in As You Like It,
which he performed before an audience
for the first time at the 1935 Cleveland Exposition. In 1938,
he made his first New York stage appearance in Escape This
Night. Classified 4F at the outbreak of World War II, Wayne
volunteered for the ambulance corps, subsequently serving as
a Red Cross driver in North Africa. His theatrical career really
began to pick up steam after the war: cast as Og the Leprechaun
in the 1947 musical hit Finian's Rainbow, he became the
first actor ever to win a Tony Award. The following year, he
created the role of Ensign Pulver in Mister Roberts,
and in 1955 he was seen as Okinawan interpreter Sakini in Teahouse
of the August Moon. While all of his
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major stage roles went to other actors
in the film versions, Wayne enjoyed a substantial movie career
of his own. Though he made his screen debut in 1947's Portrait
of Jennie, Wayne was given "and introducing" billing
in the Tracy/Hepburn comedy Adam's Rib, in which
he played capricious composer Kip Lurie. After playing Joe,
cartoonist Bill Mauldin's mud-caked infantryman, in Up
Front), Wayne spent most of his screen time at 20th
Century-Fox, where, among other things, he did two co-starring
stints with Marilyn Monroe We're Not Married,
and How to Marry a Millionaire. Wayne also appeared
in Tonight We Sing, Wait Till the Sun Shines
Nellie, and The Three Faces of Eve. He
worked steadily in television from 1948 onward. Wayne appeared
in classic individual episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents
and Twilight Zone, played "special guest villain" The
Mad Hatter on Batman, and was a regular on the weekly
series Norby, The Good Life, Ellery Queen,
Dallas, and House Calls. In addition, Wayne appeared
with New York's Lincoln Center Repertory, and was one of the
hosts of the NBC weekend radio potpourri Monitor. Curtailing
his activities in the late 1980s, David Wayne retired altogether
in 1993, after the death of his wife of 51 years, and would
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Joan Prather |
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Born in October of 1950, Joan Prather
who played Adriane, attended Highland Park High School in Dallas,
Texas, graduating in 1968. During her high school years, she
was a regular on a teen T.V. show, Somethin' Else, which
was telecast on the local ABC affiliate station in Dallas, WFAA-TV.
In 1973 she made her first screen appearance in the forgetful
film The Single Girls. She would also appear in Big Bad Mamma,
The Devil's Rain, and Smile. She would also appear in the critically
aclaimed TV film, Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway starring
Eve Plumb in her breakaway appearance from Jan Brady of The
Brady Bunch. In 1977 Prather would join a "bunch"
of her own, when she went on to play Janet McArthur Bradford
in Eight is Enough. During the 70s Prather would make
guest star appearances on such shows as Happy Days, Sandford
and Son, The Love Boat, Fantasy Island and
CHiPs. In the late 70s and early 80s she would return
to the big screen in the films Take This Job and Shove
It, The Rabbit Test, and The Deerslayer.
Towards the end of the 80s she would return to her role of Janet
McArthur Bradford for two more Eight is Enough reunion
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Susan Woolen |
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Susan Woolen, who played Cathy
Addams, also was a writer for the Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew
Mysteries. She penned the episode
of The Mystery of the Ghost Writer's Cruise and also
appeared in the episode The Strange Fate of Flight 608.
She would go on to become script supervisor
for shows like Different Strokes, The Incredible Hulk
and Remington Steele. Woolen would also appear in several
teleivsion shows like Harry O, McCloud, and B.J.
and the Bear. Woolen would also appear in several made for
television movies such as Evening in Byzantium, The
Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E., and The Return of
the Six-Million-Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman. |
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