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The Wedsworth-Townsend Act
The doctor (Robert Fuller) in charge of emergency at a Los Angeles hospital opposes a bill that would initiate a paramedical program there. First of two parts. Wolski: Jack Kruschen. Nurse McCall: Julie London. John Gage: Randolph Mantooth.
1972
English
Action/adventure
Rescue
Hospital
Medicine
Cast & Crew
Robert Fuller
(Actor)
.. Dr. Kelly Brackett
Julie London
(Actor)
.. Nurse Dixie McCall
Randolph Mantooth
(Actor)
.. John Gage
Jack Kruschen
(Actor)
.. Wolski
Dick Hammer
(Actor)
.. Capt. Hammer
Sam Lanier
(Actor)
.. Dispatcher
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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.
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.
Randolph Mantooth
(Actor)
.. John Gage
Born:
September 19, 1945
Jack Kruschen
(Actor)
.. Wolski
Born:
March 20, 1922
Died: April 02, 2002
Birthplace: Winnipeg, Manitoba
Died: April 02, 2002
Birthplace: Winnipeg, Manitoba
Trivia:
Husky, bushy-mustached, frequently unkempt Canadian actor Jack Kruschen appeared steadily on radio from 1938 onward. He began playing small film roles in 1949, often cast as minor villains and braying bullies. He became a cult favorite after playing one of the three earliest victims (the Hispanic one) of the Martian death ray in George Pal's War of the Worlds (1953). His larger film roles included MGM mogul Louis B. Mayer in the Carol Lynley version of Harlow (1965), and the remonstrative physician neighbor of Jack Lemmon in Billy Wilder's The Apartment (1960); the latter assignment copped a "Best Supporting Actor" Oscar nomination for Kruschen. A tireless TV performer, Kruschen has guested in a variety of roles on most of the top video offerings, and was a regular in the 1977 sitcom Busting Loose, playing the father of Adam Arkin. Relatively inactive after 1980, Jack Kruschen made a welcome return in PBS' 1993 adaptation of Arthur Miller's The American Clock.
Dick Hammer
(Actor)
.. Capt. Hammer
Sam Lanier
(Actor)
.. Dispatcher
