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Season 2, Episode 3
Veteran character actor Henry Jones plays an aging doctor who won't give in to his weakening heart. DeSoto: Kevin Tighe. Gage: Randolph Mantooth. Brackett: Robert Fuller. Early: Bobby Troup. Dixie: Julie London.
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1972
English
Stereo
Action/adventure
Rescue
Hospital
Medicine
Cast & Crew
Robert Fuller
(Actor)
.. Dr. Kelly Brackett
Lillian Lehman
(Actor)
.. Carol Williams
Julie London
(Actor)
.. Nurse Dixie McCall
Bobby Troup
(Actor)
.. Dr. Joe Early
Kevin Tighe
(Actor)
.. Roy DeSoto
Christine Dixon
(Actor)
.. Laura Crandall
Randolph Mantooth
(Actor)
.. John Gage
Monica Lewis
(Actor)
.. Maury Peeyer
Fred Gabourie
(Actor)
.. Albert Peeyer
Henry Jones
(Actor)
Dick Hammer
(Actor)
.. Capt. Hammer
Jerry Summers
(Actor)
.. Irish
Sam Lanier
(Actor)
.. Dispatcher
Ezra Stone
(Actor)
.. Boris Miller
Ted Gehring
(Actor)
.. Peter Euben
George Sawava
(Actor)
.. Bridger
Jack De Leon
(Actor)
.. Simmer
More Information
Did You Know..
Robert Fuller
(Actor)
.. Dr. Kelly Brackett
Born:
July 29, 1933
Birthplace: Troy, New York, United States
Birthplace: Troy, New York, United States
Trivia:
Robert Fuller spent his first decade in show business trying his best to avoid performing. After his film debut in 1952's Above and Beyond, Fuller studied acting with Sanford Meisner at New York's Neighborhood Playhouse but never exhibited any real dedication. He tried to become a dancer but gave that up as well, determining that dancing was "sissified." Fuller rose to nominal stardom fairly rapidly in the role of Jess Harper on the popular TV western Laramie (1959-63). Once he found his niche in cowboy attire, he stuck at it in another series, Wagon Train, turning down virtually all offers for "contemporary" roles. When westerns began dying out on television in the late 1960s, Fuller worked as a voiceover actor in commercials, earning some $65,000 per year (a tidy sum in 1969). On the strength of his performance in the Burt Topper-directed motorcycle flick The Hard Ride, Fuller was cast by producer Jack Webb as chief paramedic Kelly Brackett on the weekly TVer Emergency, which ran from 1972 through 1977. In 1994, Robert Fuller was one of several former TV western stars who showed up in cameo roles in the Mel Gibson movie vehicle Maverick.
Lillian Lehman
(Actor)
.. Carol Williams
Born:
February 12, 1947
Julie London
(Actor)
.. Nurse Dixie McCall
Born:
September 26, 1926
Died: October 18, 2000
Died: October 18, 2000
Trivia:
Sultry blues vocalist Julie London began her film career long before she achieved fame as a recording artist. In 1945, 18-year-old London was selected to play a bargain-basement jungle princess, appearing opposite a gorilla in the PRC cheapie Nabonga. She was pretty bad, but no worse than the film itself. By the time she was cast as a sexy teenager in The Red House (1947), her acting had improved immensely, and by the time she played the female lead in the 1951 programmer The Fat Man, it looked as though she actually had a future in films. Still, London's greatest claim to fame was her long string of hit records ("Cry Me a River" et. al.) of the 1950s; many male admirers bought her albums simply to gaze upon her come-hither countenance on the dust jacket. Her status as every red-blooded American boy's wish dream was gently lampooned in Frank Tashlin's The Girl Can't Help It (1956), in which she appears as a spectral vision who transfixes a wistful Tom Ewell. Her best dramatic film appearances of this period include her leading-lady gigs in Voice in the Mirror (1958) and Man of the West (1958). From 1945 through 1955, Julie London was the wife of actor/producer Jack Webb; years after the divorce, London played Nurse Dixie McCall on the popular Jack Webb-produced TV series Emergency, in which she co-starred with her second husband, actor/jazz musician Bobby Troup.
Bobby Troup
(Actor)
.. Dr. Joe Early
Born:
October 13, 1918
Died: February 07, 1999
Died: February 07, 1999
Kevin Tighe
(Actor)
.. Roy DeSoto
Christine Dixon
(Actor)
.. Laura Crandall
Randolph Mantooth
(Actor)
.. John Gage
Born:
September 19, 1945
Monica Lewis
(Actor)
.. Maury Peeyer
Born:
May 05, 1925
Trivia:
Singer and lead actress, onscreen from 1951.
Fred Gabourie
(Actor)
.. Albert Peeyer
Henry Jones
(Actor)
Born:
August 01, 1912
Died: May 17, 1999
Died: May 17, 1999
Trivia:
Starting out in musicals and comedies, leather-lunged character actor Henry Jones had developed into a versatile dramatic actor by the 1950s, though he never abandoned his willingness to make people laugh. Jones scored his first cinematic bullseye when he re-created his Broadway role as the malevolent handyman Leroy in the 1956 cinemadaptation of Maxwell Anderson's The Bad Seed (1956). Refusing to be typed, Jones followed this triumph with a brace of quietly comic roles in Frank Tashlin's The Girl Can't Help It (1956) and Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter. He returned to Broadway in 1958, winning the Tony and New York Drama Critics' awards for his performance in Sunrise at Campobello. Since that time, Jones has flourished in films, often making big impressions in the tiniest of roles: the coroner in Vertigo (1958), the bicycle salesman in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), the hotel night clerk in Dick Tracy (1990) and so on. From 1963's Channing onward, Jones has been a regular on several weekly TV series, most notably as Judge Jonathan Dexter in Phyllis (1975-76) and B. Riley Wicker on the nighttime serial Falcon Crest (1985-86). Henry Jones is the father of actress Jocelyn Jones.
Dick Hammer
(Actor)
.. Capt. Hammer
Jerry Summers
(Actor)
.. Irish
Born:
December 29, 1942
Sam Lanier
(Actor)
.. Dispatcher
Ezra Stone
(Actor)
.. Boris Miller
Born:
December 02, 1917
Died: March 03, 1994
Died: March 03, 1994
Trivia:
An actor and director who worked on stage, radio, television, and in feature films, Ezra Stone is still best remembered for having played the well-meaning but troublesome adolescent Henry Aldrich, from 1939 to 1953, on the radio series The Aldrich Family. This popular program was based on a hit Broadway play, What a Life (1938), in which Stone originated the role of Henry. When the radio series ended, he turned toward directing plays and television episodes for shows ranging from Lassie to The Munsters to Lost in Space. Stone played small roles in numerous films. He learned to act at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and his professional career began on stage, in the mid-'30s.
Ted Gehring
(Actor)
.. Peter Euben
Born:
April 06, 1929
Trivia:
Character actor Ted Gehring first appeared onscreen in the late '60s.
George Sawava
(Actor)
.. Bridger
Born:
August 14, 1923
Jack De Leon
(Actor)
.. Simmer
Born:
December 19, 1924
