12 O'clock High - "The Ace" - 12:00 am Sunday, June 28 on WWOR Heroes & Icons

Paul Burke (Actor) .. Capt./Maj./Col. Joe Gallagher

Andrew Duggan (Actor) .. Brig. Gen. Ed Britt

Born: December 28, 1923
Died: May 15, 1988
Birthplace: Franklin, Indiana

Trivia: Born in Indiana and raised in Texas, Andrew Duggan attended Indiana University on a speech and drama scholarship. He was starred there in Maxwell Anderson's The Eve of St. Mark, which was being given a nonprofessional pre-Broadway tryout; on the basis of this performance, Duggan was cast in the professional Chicago company of the Anderson play. Before rehearsals could start, however, Duggan was drafted into the army. After wartime service, Duggan began his acting career all over again, working at his uncle's Indiana farm in-between Broadway and stock engagements. In Hollywood in the late 1950s, Duggan was co-starred in the Warner Bros. TV series Bourbon Street Beat and was featured in such films as The Bravados (1958), Seven Days in May (1964) and In Like Flint (1967). He also was starred on the 1962 TV sitcom Room for One More and the 1968 video western Lancer. Because of his marked resemblance to Dwight D. Eisenhower, Duggan was frequently cast as generals and U.S. presidents. Andrew Duggan's last screen appearance was in The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover.

James Whitmore (Actor) .. Connely

Born: February 06, 2009
Died: February 06, 2009
Birthplace: White Plains, New York, United States

Trivia: Whitmore attended Yale, where he joined the Yale Drama School Players and co-founded the Yale radio station. After serving in World War II with the Marines, he did some work in stock and then debuted on Broadway in 1947's Command Decision. He entered films in 1949, going on to play key supporting roles; occasionally, he also played leads. For his work in Battleground (1949), his second film, he received a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination. He starred in the early '60s TV series "The Law and Mr. Jones." He won much acclaim for his work in the one-man stage show Give 'Em Hell, Harry!, in which he played Harry Truman; he reprised the role in the 1975 screen version, for which he received a Best Actor Oscar nomination. After 1980 his screen appearances were infrequent. He is the father of actor James Whitmore Jr.

Joe Maross (Actor) .. Chandler

Born: February 07, 1923
Died: November 07, 2009

12 O'clock High: The Ace

12:00 am - 01:00 am, Sunday, June 28 on WWOR Heroes & Icons (9.4)

The Ace

Season 3, Episode 12