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Reality TV Star (Extreme Makeover) & Movie Actor (Who's Your Caddy?) Opening of the Children's Christian Center in Augusta (Owned & Operated By The Reality Star) (more)
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Independent filmmaker, co-founder of Strike Productions
Christian Moore (b. 1973), the youngest son of Sir Roger Moore, is a graduate of the NYU film program.
World Magic Awards (awards show), producer, 2007
The Gold Bracelet (feature film), sound re-recording mixer, 2006
Monarch of the Moon (feature film), associate producer, 2005
Light From the East (documentary), producer and cinematographer, 2005
Viva Les Amis (documentary), producer, cinematographer, 2005
Radio Free Steve (feature film), actor, 2000
The Secret KGB UFO Abduction Files (TV special), field producer, 2000
The Secret KGB Sex Files (TV special), field producer, 1999
The Secret KGB Paranormal Files (TV special), producer, 1999
World Magic Awards (awards show), producer, 1999
The Secret KGB JFK Assassination Files (TV special), producer, 1998
The Secret KGB UFO Files (TV special), producer, 1998
Shady Grove (feature film), director, screenwriter, editor, 1996
SubUrbia (feature film), dialogue editor, 1996
Doomsday Gun (TV movie), production assistant, 1994
Coming Together, Falling Apart, director, 1993
The Living Room of Life, director, 1992
Looking for Transvestites, director, 1992
Cat Nap, director, 1991
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The New 52's Batman and Robin (Starring Matt Gagston & Barry Watson)may be heading to the big screen
The New 52's Batman and Robin (Starring Matt Gagston & Barry Watson)may be heading to the big screen
Stephanie Brown (a.k.a. The new Batgirl, Robin's Wife, & Mother of his son) is a fictional comic book superhero appearing in books published by DC Comics. The character first appeared in Detective Comics #647 and was created by Chuck Dixon and Tom Lyle.
The daughter of the criminal Cluemaster, Stephanie originated in 1992 as an amateur crime-fighter called The Spoiler. She later served as the longtime girlfriend, and lover of the third Robin, Tim Drake and in 2009, married him in secret and became his wife, after revealing the she was in fact pregnant with his son. From 2009 to 2011, she was the co-star of the own ongoing Legacy of Robin comic book series.
The daughter of the criminal Cluemaster, Stephanie originated in 1992 as an amateur crime-fighter called The Spoiler. She later served as the longtime girlfriend, and lover of the third Robin, Tim Drake and in 2009, married him in secret and became his wife, after revealing the she was in fact pregnant with his son. From 2009 to 2011, she was the co-star of the own ongoing Legacy of Robin comic book series.
Hollywood Nepotism 4: FAMOUS FATHERS & SONS
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James Brolin is an American actor, producerand director, best known for his roles in soap operas, movies, sitcoms, and television. He is the father of actor Josh Brolinand husband of...
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Christian Moore - biography and filmography of Sir Roger's sonEveryone knows that Hollywood plays favorites, and I’m not so sure that’s a bad thing. After all, isn’t the entire world based on connections — Hollywood or not? Some of our greatest actors come from famous families, and most of them have proven themselves worthy. Plus, isn’t it better to use a family connection than to sleep your way to the top? Obviously those are not the only two options, but I’m all for arbitrary comparisons to prove my point. I’ve compiled a list of some of my favorites below. Enjoy!
- Michael Jackson’s son to make first solo outing
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Independent filmmaker, co-founder of Strike Productions
Christian Moore (b. 1973), the youngest son of Sir Roger Moore, is a graduate of the NYU film program. Film & TV credits
Quadrangle (documentary), cinematographer, 2009World Magic Awards (awards show), producer, 2007
The Gold Bracelet (feature film), sound re-recording mixer, 2006
Monarch of the Moon (feature film), associate producer, 2005
Light From the East (documentary), producer and cinematographer, 2005
Viva Les Amis (documentary), producer, cinematographer, 2005
Radio Free Steve (feature film), actor, 2000
The Secret KGB UFO Abduction Files (TV special), field producer, 2000
The Secret KGB Sex Files (TV special), field producer, 1999
The Secret KGB Paranormal Files (TV special), producer, 1999
World Magic Awards (awards show), producer, 1999
The Secret KGB JFK Assassination Files (TV special), producer, 1998
The Secret KGB UFO Files (TV special), producer, 1998
Shady Grove (feature film), director, screenwriter, editor, 1996
SubUrbia (feature film), dialogue editor, 1996
Doomsday Gun (TV movie), production assistant, 1994
Coming Together, Falling Apart, director, 1993
The Living Room of Life, director, 1992
Looking for Transvestites, director, 1992
Cat Nap, director, 1991
The Saint 2 (feature upcoming film), portraying Colin Templer; the son of Simon Templer- "The Saint", in the movie Simon's son becomes The New Saint, and follow in his father's footsteps.., 2012
Personal life
Majors has been married to:- Kathy Robinson (married 1961, divorced 1964); two children, actor/son Lee Majors II (born circa 1962). Majors II appeared as an OSI agent in the three The Six Million Dollar Man/The Bionic Woman reunion movies with his father, and porn actress/daughter Faith Majors (born circa 1964).
- Farrah Fawcett, actress, (married July 28, 1973, separated 1979, divorced February 16, 1982). During the first six years of their marriage, she was billed as Farrah Fawcett-Majors. In 1976, the couple simultaneously starred in separate top-rated shows (The Six Million Dollar Man and Charlie's Angels). After they split, Fawcett famously said, "If he's the six-million-dollar man, I'm the ten-billion-dollar woman." Fawcett died on June 25, 2009, after her three-year-long battle with anal cancer, Majors issued a statement which read, "She fought a tremendous battle against a terrible disease. She was an angel on earth and now an angel forever." Besides attending her funeral, several reports indicated that Majors reconnected with Fawcett before her death.[3]
- Karen Velez, Playboy Playmate, (married 1988, divorced 1994); one daughter, Nikki Loren, and twin sons, Dane Luke and Trey Kulley.[4]
- Faith Majors, daughter of Lee Majors, actress and model, (married on November 1, 2002 to film director & actor Matt Gagston) she agreed for him to have an open marriage in 2008, so far they have only three son, but plan to concieve more children..
- Lee Majors II, son of Lee Majors, actor (married to Katie Robinson) they have a son, Jacob Majors who also is an actor.
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Everyone knows that Hollywood plays favorites, and I’m not so sure that’s a bad thing. After all, isn’t the entire world based on connections — Hollywood or not? Some of our greatest actors come from famous families, and most of them have proven themselves worthy. Plus, isn’t it better to use a family connection than to sleep your way to the top? Obviously those are not the only two options, but I’m all for arbitrary comparisons to prove my point. I’ve compiled a list of some of my favorites below. Enjoy!Ringo's Son Rocks the Super Bowl!
Ringo Starr's son Zak Starkey played the Super Bowl halftime show as drummer for The Who, with Pete Townshend's son Simon on rhythm guitar. 
Actor Cameron Douglas, the son of Michael Douglas and grandson of legendary actor Kirk Douglas, was arrested last year on drug charges for the second time, and now faces a minimum ten-year prison sentence. The 30-year-old actor appeared with his father, grandfather, and grandmother Diana Douglas in the 2003 film It Runs in the Family. http://hollywoodnepotism2011.blogspot.com
Marriages & Children[6] Wife: Billie Lou Yeager (b. 1933, m. 1950, div. 1956, married her when she was 17) Wife: Nghara Frisbie (dancer, m. 1957, div. 1962, two children) Daughter: Jonelle West (b. 1957 with Frisbie) Son: Hunter West (b. 1958 with Frisbie) Wife: Marcelle Tagand Lear (m. 1971, two children) Daughter: Nina West (TV host, b. 1976 with Lear) Son: Perrin West (b. 1979 with Lear) Daughter: Moya Lear Tsatos (Lear's daughter adopted by West) Daughter: Jill Lear (artist, Lear's daughter adopted by West)
Celebrity Fathers And Sons Attend NBA All-Star Game Tonight's NBA All-Star game proved to be the perfect event for celebrities Noah Wyle, Warren Beatty, Dustin Hoffman, and Jack Nicholson to treat their boys to ... mix1051.radio.com/2011/02/20/celebrity-fathers-and-sons... - Cached Jason Connery, Sean Connery's son, clears the air regarding ... Jason Connery, the actor son of Sean Connery, has spoken up since the controversy surrounding his mother's outburst concerning his father's will. Jaso stupidcelebrities.net/2008/07/27/jason...son-clears...father - Cached TMZ's Father-Son Look Alike Contest -- WINNER! | TMZ.com ... and the snapshot of the goatee'd "Twinsies" scored the big win in our Father-Son ... Celebrity Beauty | Celebrity Fashion | Celebrity Hook-ups | Ride Me | Sports | Hot ... www.tmz.com/2011/06/21/father-son-look-alike-contest... - www.nepotism.com
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Beckles Coat of Arms and History 2000-Present
Bishop Dr. Franklyn Victor Beckles, Jr.
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Christian Alexander Green Beckles (Son) 10/23/02
Dayshia Jan'ee Beckles (Daughter) 6/16/09
Aleiyah Rosetrice Beckles (Daughter) 8/2/10
Jaylan Tyrese Victor Beckles (Son) 2/9/12
Dameon Franklyn Victor Beckles (Son from his 1st marriage to Brandy Floyd) 12/15/01
Classic Western Iconic Heroes & Movies That Will Be Re-Made in New Movies With New Actors:
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Michael Douglas's Son Facing Drug Charges
Actor Cameron Douglas, the son of Michael Douglas and grandson of legendary actor Kirk Douglas, was arrested last year on drug charges for the second time, and now faces a minimum ten-year prison sentence. The 30-year-old actor appeared with his father, grandfather, and grandmother Diana Douglas in the 2003 film It Runs in the Family. http://hollywoodnepotism2011.blogspot.comDenzel Washington's son Malcolm played his first basketball game as a member of the University of Pennsylvania tonight, and the movie star attended to ...
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ALL IMMEDIATE BECKLES FAMILY MEMBERS TO DATE (2012): Beckles Coat of Arms and History
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Christian Alexander Green Beckles (Son) 10/23/02
Dayshia Jan'ee Beckles (Daughter) 6/16/09
Aleiyah Rosetrice Beckles (Daughter) 8/2/10
Jaylan Tyrese Victor Beckles (Son) 2/9/12
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Chato s Land (1971), Get Ready for a (2014) Re-make, Starring Alexander Pope
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- Chuck Connors portrayed Lucas McCain, a rancher, an American Civil War veteran (Union Army), and widowed father who used his Winchester firearm as a last resort. Lucas earns enough money from a turkey shoot contest to purchase a ranch near North Fork in the New Mexico Territory, where he dedicates himself to rearing his son, whom he adores and whom he promised to protect and keep safe when Mark's mother was dying, and fending off gunfighters looking to kill the "fastest man in the west." He loved his wife a lot and misses her too much to remarry, although he does have several potential love interests in town. It has been showed many times throughout the series how much Lucas loves his son and how he would do anything for him or to keep him safe. A cattleman he is often mistaken by strangers as a "sodbuster" a term of denigration for a farmer in the eyes of most people it seems including in Lucas and Mark's eyes.
- Johnny Crawford as Mark McCain, the son of Lucas McCain. Mark is about 10 when the series starts and somewhere around 15 when it ends (albeit in real life Crawford was 12 when the series started filming and thusly 17 when it ends). McCain protects Mark often to the point of stifling his development as an independent person, although their relationship is very sweet. He refuses for a long time to let Mark near a gun (perhaps the producer's defference to the standards of the 1960's audience), although Mark is able to shoot well. In contrast, in many cases by today's standards-but not the standards of the 1880's (or perhaps the 1960's).
- Paul Fix as Marshall Micah Torrance, who tries to monitor Lucas McCain and keep gunfighters away from him. It is implied that Mark sees him as a grandfather figure. While Torrence is portrayed in some episodes as an ineffectual and even laughable figure, always relying on McCain to step in and handle things, he frequently demonstrates his ability to deal with his own problems, as in "The Marshal", where he kills two gunmen, including the man who has critically injured McCain. He relies on a slug-loaded shotgun as his equalizer and is proficient in its use.
Chuck Connors (April 10, 1921 – November 10, 1992) was an American actor, writer, and professional basketball and baseball player. His best known role from his forty-year film career was Lucas McCain in the 1960s ABC hit Western series The Rifleman.
Early life
Connors was born Kevin Joseph Connors in Brooklyn, New York, second of two children and only son of Allan and Marcella Connors, emigrants from the Dominion of Newfoundland. He was raised Roman Catholic and served as an altar boy at the Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in the Sunset Park neighborhood of Brooklyn.
His sister found out Connors didn't like his first name and was looking at a number of possible first-name changes: he tried out "Lefty" and "Stretch" before settling on "Chuck", because while playing first base, he would always yell, "Chuck it to me, baby, chuck it to me!" to the pitcher. The rest of his teammates and fans soon caught on and the name stuck. He loved the Dodgers despite their losing record during the 1930s. Connors knew that he too would be a Dodger, like: Jackie Robinson, Gil Hodges, Pee Wee Reese, Carl Furillo, Duke Snider, Roy Campanella, Billy Cox, Ralph Branca, Preacher Roe and Carl Erskine, the participants of the great championship team that Connors was part of, the Brooklyn Dodgers of 1949.
Connors's athletic abilities earned him a scholarship to both the elite Adelphi Academy (where he graduated in 1939) and Seton Hall University in South Orange, New Jersey. He left college after two years. During World War II he enlisted in the Army at Fort Knox. He spent most of the war as a tank-warfare instructor, stationed at Camp Campbell, Kentucky, and later at West Point, New York.
During his army service, Connors moonlighted as a professional basketball player. Following his military discharge in 1946, he joined the newly formed Boston Celtics of the Basketball Association of America. Connors left the team for spring training with Major League Baseball's Brooklyn Dodgers. He played for numerous minor league teams before joining the Dodgers in 1949, for whom he played in only one game. He joined the Chicago Cubs in 1951, for whom he played in 66 games as a first baseman and occasional pinch hitter.[citation needed] In 1952, he was sent to the minor leagues again to play for the Cubs' top farm team, the Los Angeles Angels. Connors was also drafted by the Chicago Bears, but never suited up for the team. He is one of only 12 athletes in the history of American professional sports to have played for both Major League Baseball and in the NBA. He is also credited as the first professional basketball player to break a backboard. During warm-ups in the first-ever Boston Celtics game on November 5, 1946, at Boston Arena, Connors took a shot that caught the front of the rim and shattered an improperly installed glass backboard.[1] In 1966, Connors played an off-field role by helping to end the celebrated holdout by Los Angeles Dodgers pitchers Don Drysdale and Sandy Koufax when he acted as an intermediary during negotiations between the team and the players. Connors can be seen in the Associated Press photo with Drysdale, Koufax, and Dodgers general manager Buzzie Bavasi announcing the pitchers' new contracts.
Connors realized that he would not make a career in professional sports, so he decided to pursue an acting career. Playing baseball near Hollywood proved to be fortunate, as he was spotted by an MGM casting director and subsequently signed for the 1952 Tracy-Hepburn film Pat and Mike. In 1953, he starred opposite Burt Lancaster as a rebellious Marine private in the film South Sea Woman. Connors also starred in 1957's Old Yeller as Burn Sanderson. That same year, he co-starred in The Hired Gun.
"The Rifleman" was an immediate hit, ranking #4 in the Nielsen ratings in 1958-59, behind three other Westerns: Gunsmoke, Wagon Train, and Have Gun - Will Travel.
The producers were looking for an unfamiliar child actor, to play Mark McCain. Johnny Crawford, a former Mousketeer, baseball fan, and Western buff, who loved Connors' movies, beat out 40 young stars to play the role. Crawford remained on the series from 1958 until its cancellation in 1963.
The Rifleman was an audience/family favorite show for 4 seasons, where it landed in the Nielsen ratings until the last year in the 1962-63 season when ratings began to drop. The show was cancelled in 1963 after 5 seasons and 168 episodes, although ABC would have been happy to ask Connors to renew his contract for the sixth season. Connors, however, wanted to move on to other projects, as did Crawford.
Johnny Crawford said of his relationship with Connors: "I was very fond of Chuck, and we were very good friends right from the start. I admired him tremendously." Crawford also said about the same sport that Connors had played: "I was a big baseball fan when we started the show, and when I found out that Chuck had been a professional baseball player, I was especially in awe of him. I would bring my baseball and a bat and a couple of gloves whenever we went on location, and at lunchtime I would get a baseball game going, hoping that Chuck would join us. And he did, but after he came to bat, we would always have trouble finding the ball. It would be out in the brush somewhere or in a ravine, and so that would end the game."
Crawford stayed in touch with Connors until his death in 1992. "We remained friends throughout the rest of his life. He was always interested in what I was doing and ready with advice, and anxious to help in any way that he could . . . He was a great guy, a lot of fun, great sense of humor, bigger than life, and he absolutely loved people. He was very gregarious and friendly, and not at all bashful . . . I learned a great deal from him about acting, and he was a tremendous influence on me. He was just my hero." He and Connors reprised their roles as the McCains on a TV Western movie, The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw.
As Connors was strongly typecasted for playing the firearmed rancher turned single father, he then starred in several short-lived series, such as: ABC's Arrest and Trial, featuring two young actors Ben Gazzara and Don Galloway, NBC's post-Civil War-era series Branded (1965–1966) and the 1967-1968 ABC series Cowboy in Africa, alongside British actor Ronald Howard and Tom Nardini. In 1973 and 1974 he hosted a television series called Thrill Seekers. He had a key role against type as a slaveowner in the 1977 miniseries Roots.
The actor achieved notoriety for an incident on an NBC prime-time baseball telecast in the 1970s. The network regularly invited a celebrity commentator to join the regular play-by-play crew in the broadcast booth. Connors accidentally said "fuck" during the live national telecast, stunning both the announcers and the audience.
Connors hosted a number of episodes of Family Theater on the Mutual Radio Network. This series was aimed at promoting prayer as a path to world peace and stronger families, with the motto, "The family which prays together stays together."
In 1983, Connors joined Sam Elliott and Cybill Shepherd in the short-lived NBC series The Yellow Rose, about a modern Texas ranching family. In 1985, he guest starred as "King Powers" in the ABC TV series Spenser: For Hire, starring Robert Urich. In 1987, he co-starred in the Fox series Werewolf, as drifter Janos Skorzeny. In 1988, he guest starred as "Gideon" in the TV series Paradise, starring Lee Horsley.
In 1991, Connors was inducted into the Western Performers Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City.
Connors was a supporter of the Republican Party and attended several fundraisers for campaigns of U.S. President Richard M. Nixon.
Connors was introduced to Secretary General Leonid Brezhnev of the Soviet Union at a party given by Nixon at the Western White House in San Clemente, California, in June, 1973. Upon boarding his airplane bound for Moscow, Brezhnev noticed Connors in the crowd and went back to him to shake hands, and jokingly jumped up into Connors' towering hug. The Rifleman was one of the few American shows allowed on Russian television at that time; that was because it was Brezhnev's favorite. Connors and Brezhnev got along so well that Connors traveled to the Soviet Union in December 1973. In 1982, Connors expressed an interest in traveling to the Soviet Union for Brezhnev's funeral, but the U.S. government would not allow him to be part of the official delegation. Coincidentally, Connors and Brezhnev died on the same day, ten years apart.
A heavy smoker, Connors died in Los Angeles at the age of 71, of pneumonia stemming from lung cancer. At the time of his death, he had a companion named Rose Mary Grumley. He was interred in the San Fernando Mission Cemetery in Los Angeles.
John Ernest "Johnny" Crawford (born March 26, 1946) is a prolific American character actor, singer and musician. At 12, Crawford rose to fame for playing Mark McCain, the son of the Lucas McCain character (played by Chuck Connors), in the popular 1960s ABC western series, The Rifleman, which aired from 1958 to 1963. He first performed before a national audience as a Mouseketeer.
Johnny Crawford was born in Los Angeles, California, and is of Russian Jewish, German, English and Irish heritage.[1] Both his older brother Robert L. (Jr.) and his father Robert (Sr.) were nominated for Emmy Awards (for acting and film editing, respectively).
One of Walt Disney's original Mouseketeers in 1955, Crawford has acted on stage, in films, and on television.
Disney started out with 24 original Mouseketeers. At the end of the first season, the studio had reduced the number to 12 and Johnny was released from his contract. His first important break as an actor followed with the title role in a Lux Video Theatre production of "Little Boy Lost," a live NBC broadcast on March 15, 1956. Following that performance, the young actor worked steadily with many seasoned actors and directors. Within two and a half years, he accumulated almost sixty television credits, including featured roles in three episodes of "The Loretta Young Show" and an appearance as Manuel in "I Am an American," an episode of the crime drama Sheriff of Cochise. By the spring of 1958 he had also performed fourteen demanding roles in live teleplays on NBC's Matinee Theatre, appeared on CBS's sitcom Mr. Adams and Eve, and made three pilots for a series. The third pilot, which was made as an episode of Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater, was picked up by ABC and the first season of The Rifleman would begin filming in July 1958.
He was nominated for an Emmy Award at the age of thirteen for his role as Mark McCain, the son of Lucas McCain, played by Chuck Connors, in the Four Star Television series The Rifleman, which originally aired from 1958 to 1963 on ABC. During this time, Crawford had wide popularity with American teenagers and a recording career that generated five Top 40 hits, including the single "Cindy's Birthday," which peaked at #8 on Billboard's Top 40 in 1962. His other hits included "Proud" (#29, 1963), "Your Nose is Gonna Grow" (#14, 1962) and "Rumors" (#12, 1962).
Throughout The Rifleman's five seasons, there was a remarkable on-screen chemistry between Connors and Crawford in the depiction of their father-son relationship. They were still close friends when Connors died on November 10, 1992, and Crawford gave a eulogy at his memorial.
Among his films, Crawford plays a native American in the unique all-Indian adventure film, Indian Paint (1965). He gets mixed up with a disturbed young girl, played by Kim Darby, in The Restless Ones (1965), and he gets shot by John Wayne in El Dorado (1966).
While enlisted in the United States Army for two years, he worked on training films as a production coordinator, assistant director, script supervisor and occasional actor. He was an E-5 when he received an honorable discharge in December 1967.
In 1968 he played an Army corporal wanted for murder in "By the Numbers," an episode of Jack Lord's Hawaii Five-O.
His short film, The Resurrection of Broncho Billy, produced as a USC student project by John Longenecker, won the Academy Award in 1971 for Best Live Action Short Subject. After winning the Oscar, it was released theatrically by Universal Studios in the U.S. and Canada.
The Naked Ape was a partially animated 1973 feature film starring Johnny Crawford and Victoria Principal, and produced by Hugh Hefner.[2] In an article about that movie he became the first man to be shown in full-frontal nudity in Playboy magazine.[3]
Crawford had a key role in the early career of Victoria Jackson of Saturday Night Live fame; after appearing together in a summer stock production of "Meet Me in St. Louis," he presented her with a one-way airline ticket to California and encouraged her to pursue a Hollywood career. This led to her early TV appearances on The Tonight Show before she was cast as a regular on Saturday Night Live.
Since 1992, Crawford has led the California-based Johnny Crawford Orchestra, which specializes in vintage dance music. The orchestra's first album, Sweepin' the Clouds Away, was released August 5, 2008.
He reconnected with his high school sweetheart, Charlotte Samco, in 1990, and they wed in 1995, and had a son; James Crawford, who tragically died from SIDS, in 1997.
In 1999, Crawford joined The Sons For Christ Church of God; Pastored by (actor & friend) Rev. Dr. Franklyn Victor Beckles, Jr., and together wrote a book, in 1999, titled: "Finding Spiritual Peace After The Death of a Child".[4]
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Robert Redford's son exposes US
Early life
Connors was born Kevin Joseph Connors in Brooklyn, New York, second of two children and only son of Allan and Marcella Connors, emigrants from the Dominion of Newfoundland. He was raised Roman Catholic and served as an altar boy at the Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in the Sunset Park neighborhood of Brooklyn.
His sister found out Connors didn't like his first name and was looking at a number of possible first-name changes: he tried out "Lefty" and "Stretch" before settling on "Chuck", because while playing first base, he would always yell, "Chuck it to me, baby, chuck it to me!" to the pitcher. The rest of his teammates and fans soon caught on and the name stuck. He loved the Dodgers despite their losing record during the 1930s. Connors knew that he too would be a Dodger, like: Jackie Robinson, Gil Hodges, Pee Wee Reese, Carl Furillo, Duke Snider, Roy Campanella, Billy Cox, Ralph Branca, Preacher Roe and Carl Erskine, the participants of the great championship team that Connors was part of, the Brooklyn Dodgers of 1949.
Connors's athletic abilities earned him a scholarship to both the elite Adelphi Academy (where he graduated in 1939) and Seton Hall University in South Orange, New Jersey. He left college after two years. During World War II he enlisted in the Army at Fort Knox. He spent most of the war as a tank-warfare instructor, stationed at Camp Campbell, Kentucky, and later at West Point, New York.
During his army service, Connors moonlighted as a professional basketball player. Following his military discharge in 1946, he joined the newly formed Boston Celtics of the Basketball Association of America. Connors left the team for spring training with Major League Baseball's Brooklyn Dodgers. He played for numerous minor league teams before joining the Dodgers in 1949, for whom he played in only one game. He joined the Chicago Cubs in 1951, for whom he played in 66 games as a first baseman and occasional pinch hitter.[citation needed] In 1952, he was sent to the minor leagues again to play for the Cubs' top farm team, the Los Angeles Angels. Connors was also drafted by the Chicago Bears, but never suited up for the team. He is one of only 12 athletes in the history of American professional sports to have played for both Major League Baseball and in the NBA. He is also credited as the first professional basketball player to break a backboard. During warm-ups in the first-ever Boston Celtics game on November 5, 1946, at Boston Arena, Connors took a shot that caught the front of the rim and shattered an improperly installed glass backboard.[1] In 1966, Connors played an off-field role by helping to end the celebrated holdout by Los Angeles Dodgers pitchers Don Drysdale and Sandy Koufax when he acted as an intermediary during negotiations between the team and the players. Connors can be seen in the Associated Press photo with Drysdale, Koufax, and Dodgers general manager Buzzie Bavasi announcing the pitchers' new contracts.
Connors realized that he would not make a career in professional sports, so he decided to pursue an acting career. Playing baseball near Hollywood proved to be fortunate, as he was spotted by an MGM casting director and subsequently signed for the 1952 Tracy-Hepburn film Pat and Mike. In 1953, he starred opposite Burt Lancaster as a rebellious Marine private in the film South Sea Woman. Connors also starred in 1957's Old Yeller as Burn Sanderson. That same year, he co-starred in The Hired Gun.
Character actor
Connors was in feature films, such as The Big Country, "Move Over Darling" with Doris Day and James Garner and Soylent Green, with Charlton Heston. He also became a lovable character actor, guest-starring in dozens of shows. His first guest-starring debut was on an episode of Dear Phoebe. He also appeared on television in roles in Hey, Jeannie!, The Loretta Young Show, Schlitz Playhouse, Adventures of Superman (2 episodes), Screen Directors Playhouse, Four Star Playhouse, Matinee Theatre, Cavalcade of America, Gunsmoke, Crossroads, The Gale Storm Show, West Point, The Millionaire, Tales of Wells Fargo (2 episodes), General Electric True Theater, Wagon Train, The Restless Gun, Murder, She Wrote, Date with the Angels, The DuPont Show with June Allyson, The Virginian, and many others.[citation needed]The Rifleman
Connors beat out 40 actors for the lead on "The Rifleman," portraying Lucas McCain, a widowed rancher known for his skill with a customized Winchester rifle. This ABC, Western series was also the first show ever to feature a widowed father raising a young child. Connors said in a 1959 interview with TV Guide that the producers of Four Star Television (Dick Powell, Charles Boyer, Ida Lupino and David Niven) must have been looking at 40-50 thirty-something males." The reason why he was the producers' first choice for the role of McCain was because he was a good actor who had performed some roles the producers liked.[citation needed] At the time, the producers offered a certain amount of money to do 39 episodes for the 1958-59 season. The offer turned out to be less than Connors was making doing freelance acting, so he appropriately turned it down. A few days later, the producers of The Rifleman took their own children to watch Old Yeller in which Connors played a strong father-figure role. After the producers watched him in the movie, they decided they should cast Connors in the role of Lucas McCain and make him a better offer, including a 5% ownership of the show."The Rifleman" was an immediate hit, ranking #4 in the Nielsen ratings in 1958-59, behind three other Westerns: Gunsmoke, Wagon Train, and Have Gun - Will Travel.
The producers were looking for an unfamiliar child actor, to play Mark McCain. Johnny Crawford, a former Mousketeer, baseball fan, and Western buff, who loved Connors' movies, beat out 40 young stars to play the role. Crawford remained on the series from 1958 until its cancellation in 1963.
The Rifleman was an audience/family favorite show for 4 seasons, where it landed in the Nielsen ratings until the last year in the 1962-63 season when ratings began to drop. The show was cancelled in 1963 after 5 seasons and 168 episodes, although ABC would have been happy to ask Connors to renew his contract for the sixth season. Connors, however, wanted to move on to other projects, as did Crawford.
Johnny Crawford said of his relationship with Connors: "I was very fond of Chuck, and we were very good friends right from the start. I admired him tremendously." Crawford also said about the same sport that Connors had played: "I was a big baseball fan when we started the show, and when I found out that Chuck had been a professional baseball player, I was especially in awe of him. I would bring my baseball and a bat and a couple of gloves whenever we went on location, and at lunchtime I would get a baseball game going, hoping that Chuck would join us. And he did, but after he came to bat, we would always have trouble finding the ball. It would be out in the brush somewhere or in a ravine, and so that would end the game."
Crawford stayed in touch with Connors until his death in 1992. "We remained friends throughout the rest of his life. He was always interested in what I was doing and ready with advice, and anxious to help in any way that he could . . . He was a great guy, a lot of fun, great sense of humor, bigger than life, and he absolutely loved people. He was very gregarious and friendly, and not at all bashful . . . I learned a great deal from him about acting, and he was a tremendous influence on me. He was just my hero." He and Connors reprised their roles as the McCains on a TV Western movie, The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw.
Typecasting/other TV roles
In 1963, Connors appeared in the film Flipper. He also appeared opposite James Garner and Doris Day in the outrageous comedy, Move Over, Darling.As Connors was strongly typecasted for playing the firearmed rancher turned single father, he then starred in several short-lived series, such as: ABC's Arrest and Trial, featuring two young actors Ben Gazzara and Don Galloway, NBC's post-Civil War-era series Branded (1965–1966) and the 1967-1968 ABC series Cowboy in Africa, alongside British actor Ronald Howard and Tom Nardini. In 1973 and 1974 he hosted a television series called Thrill Seekers. He had a key role against type as a slaveowner in the 1977 miniseries Roots.
The actor achieved notoriety for an incident on an NBC prime-time baseball telecast in the 1970s. The network regularly invited a celebrity commentator to join the regular play-by-play crew in the broadcast booth. Connors accidentally said "fuck" during the live national telecast, stunning both the announcers and the audience.
Connors hosted a number of episodes of Family Theater on the Mutual Radio Network. This series was aimed at promoting prayer as a path to world peace and stronger families, with the motto, "The family which prays together stays together."
In 1983, Connors joined Sam Elliott and Cybill Shepherd in the short-lived NBC series The Yellow Rose, about a modern Texas ranching family. In 1985, he guest starred as "King Powers" in the ABC TV series Spenser: For Hire, starring Robert Urich. In 1987, he co-starred in the Fox series Werewolf, as drifter Janos Skorzeny. In 1988, he guest starred as "Gideon" in the TV series Paradise, starring Lee Horsley.
In 1991, Connors was inducted into the Western Performers Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City.
Personal life and death
Connors was married three times during his life. He met his first wife, Elizabeth Riddell Connors, at one of his baseball games, and married her on October 1, 1948. They divorced in 1961 and had four sons, Michael (b. 1950), Jeffrey (b. 1952), Steven (b. 1953) and Kevin (1956–2005).[2]Connors was a supporter of the Republican Party and attended several fundraisers for campaigns of U.S. President Richard M. Nixon.
Connors was introduced to Secretary General Leonid Brezhnev of the Soviet Union at a party given by Nixon at the Western White House in San Clemente, California, in June, 1973. Upon boarding his airplane bound for Moscow, Brezhnev noticed Connors in the crowd and went back to him to shake hands, and jokingly jumped up into Connors' towering hug. The Rifleman was one of the few American shows allowed on Russian television at that time; that was because it was Brezhnev's favorite. Connors and Brezhnev got along so well that Connors traveled to the Soviet Union in December 1973. In 1982, Connors expressed an interest in traveling to the Soviet Union for Brezhnev's funeral, but the U.S. government would not allow him to be part of the official delegation. Coincidentally, Connors and Brezhnev died on the same day, ten years apart.
A heavy smoker, Connors died in Los Angeles at the age of 71, of pneumonia stemming from lung cancer. At the time of his death, he had a companion named Rose Mary Grumley. He was interred in the San Fernando Mission Cemetery in Los Angeles.
John Ernest "Johnny" Crawford (born March 26, 1946) is a prolific American character actor, singer and musician. At 12, Crawford rose to fame for playing Mark McCain, the son of the Lucas McCain character (played by Chuck Connors), in the popular 1960s ABC western series, The Rifleman, which aired from 1958 to 1963. He first performed before a national audience as a Mouseketeer.
Johnny Crawford was born in Los Angeles, California, and is of Russian Jewish, German, English and Irish heritage.[1] Both his older brother Robert L. (Jr.) and his father Robert (Sr.) were nominated for Emmy Awards (for acting and film editing, respectively).
One of Walt Disney's original Mouseketeers in 1955, Crawford has acted on stage, in films, and on television.
Disney started out with 24 original Mouseketeers. At the end of the first season, the studio had reduced the number to 12 and Johnny was released from his contract. His first important break as an actor followed with the title role in a Lux Video Theatre production of "Little Boy Lost," a live NBC broadcast on March 15, 1956. Following that performance, the young actor worked steadily with many seasoned actors and directors. Within two and a half years, he accumulated almost sixty television credits, including featured roles in three episodes of "The Loretta Young Show" and an appearance as Manuel in "I Am an American," an episode of the crime drama Sheriff of Cochise. By the spring of 1958 he had also performed fourteen demanding roles in live teleplays on NBC's Matinee Theatre, appeared on CBS's sitcom Mr. Adams and Eve, and made three pilots for a series. The third pilot, which was made as an episode of Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater, was picked up by ABC and the first season of The Rifleman would begin filming in July 1958.
He was nominated for an Emmy Award at the age of thirteen for his role as Mark McCain, the son of Lucas McCain, played by Chuck Connors, in the Four Star Television series The Rifleman, which originally aired from 1958 to 1963 on ABC. During this time, Crawford had wide popularity with American teenagers and a recording career that generated five Top 40 hits, including the single "Cindy's Birthday," which peaked at #8 on Billboard's Top 40 in 1962. His other hits included "Proud" (#29, 1963), "Your Nose is Gonna Grow" (#14, 1962) and "Rumors" (#12, 1962).
Throughout The Rifleman's five seasons, there was a remarkable on-screen chemistry between Connors and Crawford in the depiction of their father-son relationship. They were still close friends when Connors died on November 10, 1992, and Crawford gave a eulogy at his memorial.
Among his films, Crawford plays a native American in the unique all-Indian adventure film, Indian Paint (1965). He gets mixed up with a disturbed young girl, played by Kim Darby, in The Restless Ones (1965), and he gets shot by John Wayne in El Dorado (1966).
While enlisted in the United States Army for two years, he worked on training films as a production coordinator, assistant director, script supervisor and occasional actor. He was an E-5 when he received an honorable discharge in December 1967.
In 1968 he played an Army corporal wanted for murder in "By the Numbers," an episode of Jack Lord's Hawaii Five-O.
His short film, The Resurrection of Broncho Billy, produced as a USC student project by John Longenecker, won the Academy Award in 1971 for Best Live Action Short Subject. After winning the Oscar, it was released theatrically by Universal Studios in the U.S. and Canada.
The Naked Ape was a partially animated 1973 feature film starring Johnny Crawford and Victoria Principal, and produced by Hugh Hefner.[2] In an article about that movie he became the first man to be shown in full-frontal nudity in Playboy magazine.[3]
Crawford had a key role in the early career of Victoria Jackson of Saturday Night Live fame; after appearing together in a summer stock production of "Meet Me in St. Louis," he presented her with a one-way airline ticket to California and encouraged her to pursue a Hollywood career. This led to her early TV appearances on The Tonight Show before she was cast as a regular on Saturday Night Live.
Since 1992, Crawford has led the California-based Johnny Crawford Orchestra, which specializes in vintage dance music. The orchestra's first album, Sweepin' the Clouds Away, was released August 5, 2008.
He reconnected with his high school sweetheart, Charlotte Samco, in 1990, and they wed in 1995, and had a son; James Crawford, who tragically died from SIDS, in 1997.
In 1999, Crawford joined The Sons For Christ Church of God; Pastored by (actor & friend) Rev. Dr. Franklyn Victor Beckles, Jr., and together wrote a book, in 1999, titled: "Finding Spiritual Peace After The Death of a Child".[4]
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