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The Big Tall Wish
Season 1, Episode 27
No one is on the side of a boxer (Ivan Dixon) trying to make a comeback except a little boy (Steven Perry) with a big wish. Mother: Kim Hamilton. Thomas: Henry Scott.
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1960
English
HD Level Unknown
Stereo
Sci-fi
Anthology
Suspense/thriller
Cult Classic
Cast & Crew
Kim Hamilton
(Actor)
.. Mother
Henry Scott
(Actor)
.. Thomas
Ivan Dixon
(Actor)
.. Bolie Jackson
Steven Perry
(Actor)
.. Henry
Walter Burke
(Actor)
.. Mizell
Charles Horvath
(Actor)
.. Other Fighter
Carl McIntyre
(Actor)
.. Announcer
Frankie Van
(Actor)
.. Referee
More Information
Did You Know..
Kim Hamilton
(Actor)
.. Mother
Born:
September 12, 1932
Died: September 16, 2013
Died: September 16, 2013
Henry Scott
(Actor)
.. Thomas
Born:
January 01, 1921
Died: January 01, 1981
Died: January 01, 1981
Ivan Dixon
(Actor)
.. Bolie Jackson
Born:
April 06, 1931
Died: March 16, 2008
Birthplace: New York City, New York
Died: March 16, 2008
Birthplace: New York City, New York
Trivia:
Forceful African American leading man Ivan Dixon first commanded notice from theatergoers for his performance in the 1957 Broadway play The Cave Dwellers. He entered films as Sidney Poiter's double and stand-in with Something of Value (1957) and The Defiant Ones (1958), ultimately sharing scenes with Poitier in Porgy and Bess (1959) and Raisin in the Sun (1961). In 1964's Nothing But a Man, Dixon starred as Duff Anderson, an irresponsible Alabama railroad worker whose late-blooming maturity forms the nucleus of the film. Dixon's TV work includes the role of Kinchloe on the POW sitcom Hogan's Heroes and his Emmy-nominated starring role on the 1967 dramatic special The Private War of Olly Winter. In his later years, Ivan Dixon remained active as a director and a performer: he helmed the theatrical features Trouble Man (1972) and The Spook Who Sat By the Door (1992), such TV movies as Love is Not Enough and Percy and Thunder, and several episodes of the TV adventure series Hawaiian Heat (1984). Dixon died at age 76 in March 2008.
Steven Perry
(Actor)
.. Henry
Walter Burke
(Actor)
.. Mizell
Born:
January 01, 1909
Died: August 09, 1984
Died: August 09, 1984
Trivia:
Diminutive Irish-American character actor Walter Burke kicked off his film career in 1948. Burke's weaselly, cigarette-dangling-from-lips characterization of political flunky Sugar Boy in the Oscar-winning All the King's Men (1949) set the tone for most of his later roles. Though often afforded meaty roles on television -- he was one of several actors who subbed for William Talman during the 1960-1961 season of Perry Mason -- Burke had no objection to accepting tiny but memorable bits, such as the cockney who warns Eliza Doolittle, "There's a bloke be'ind that pillar, takin' down every word that you're sayin'!" in the opening scene of My Fair Lady (1964). In another unbilled assignment, Burke convincingly voice-doubled for narrator Walter Winchell in a handful of early-'60s episodes of The Untouchables. Closing out his film career in the early '70s, Walter Burke moved to Pennsylvania, where he became an acting teacher.
Charles Horvath
(Actor)
.. Other Fighter
Born:
January 01, 1920
Died: July 23, 1978
Died: July 23, 1978
Trivia:
Charles Horvath entered films in the immediate postwar years as a stunt man. From 1951 onward, Horvath began receiving speaking roles, most often in westerns. He occasionally accepted contemporary parts, playing rednecks and toughs in such films as Damn Citizen (1957). Charles Horvath spent his last decade playing featured roles in films like A Woman Under the Influence (1974) and The Domino Principle (1977).
Carl McIntyre
(Actor)
.. Announcer
Frankie Van
(Actor)
.. Referee
Born:
January 01, 1970
Died: January 01, 1978
Died: January 01, 1978
