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Derek Morgan (Criminal Minds)
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Derek Morgan
Criminal Minds character
Shemar Moore as Derek Morgan
First appearance
"Extreme Aggressor"
1x01, September 22, 2005
Last appearance
"A Beautiful Disaster"
March 23, 2016 (as Main Cast)
"Lucky Strikes"
October 25, 2017 (as Special Guest)
Created by
Jeff Davis
Portrayed by
Shemar Moore
Information
Occupation
FBI Special Agent
Title
FBI BAU Acting Unit Chief
Supervisory Special Agent
Family
Hank Morgan (father, deceased)
Fran Morgan (mother)
Desirée
Morgan (sister)
Sarah Morgan (sister)
Significant other(s)
Savannah Hayes (wife) E720
Children
Hank Spencer Morgan (son)
Relatives
Yvonne Burns (aunt)
Paul Burns (uncle, deceased)
Cindi Burns (first cousin)E720
Anthony Ford (first cousin once removed)
Seasons
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
Derek Morgan is a fictional character on the CBS crime drama Criminal Minds, portrayed by Emmy Award winner Shemar Moore. Morgan specializes in fixations and obsessive behaviors.[1] He is a Supervisory Special Agent of the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit, (although has served as interim unit chief for Aaron Hotchner), and has appeared from the series' pilot episode "Extreme Aggressor", which was originally broadcast on September 22, 2005. Before he left in season 11, he was one of only three main characters to appear since the first season as "starring", while also becoming the only character to appear in all episodes.
Morgan is shown over the series being flirtatious towards the team's technical analyst Penelope Garcia (Kirsten Vangsness). However, the relationship is platonic. He is shown to be confident and assertive, along with being very protective towards Spencer Reid (Matthew Gray Gubler), whom he helps to pick up girls. He is the muscle of the team, and usually storms in when a suspect requires apprehending physically.
Contents
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1 Background
2 Characterization
3 Behavioral Analysis Unit
4 Reception
5 References
5.1 Episode sources
6 External links
Background[edit]
Morgan and his sisters Sarah and Desirée grew up on the South Side, in an unnamed notorious neighborhood of Chicago. He is the son of an African American father and white mother he has left he rarely speaks of his immediate family, he is close to his mother and sisters and returns every year for Fran's birthday.[2] In season 2 it was stated that he was around age 33, putting his birth year around 1976. He attended Northwestern University on a football scholarship, graduating cum laude. Although it was stated that he had earned a law degree, there has never been any mention of him practicing law. He was a star quarterback until a left knee injury ended his career.
At the age of ten, Morgan was a witness to the shooting death of his father, also a police officer.[2] Left without a father figure, he had behavioral problems as an adolescent and earned himself a juvenile record for fighting. He was taken under the wing of a local youth center coordinator, Carl Buford. Buford acted as a surrogate father to Morgan, helping expunge Morgan's juvenile criminal record and him to obtain the aforementioned football scholarship. Although Morgan was able to avoid going into a life of crime like many of his peers, Buford was also sexually abusing him, a fact which Morgan only admitted years later and under extreme duress.[2] As a teen he discovered the body of an unidentified boy, which had a profound effect on him (he went door to door in order to collect money to buy the boy a headstone and visited the boy's grave every time he came home to Chicago). Due to his difficult past, he displays little sympathy for unremorseful criminals who attempt to use their traumatic childhood as an excuse for the crimes they commit.[3] Prior to joining the FBI, Morgan served in a bomb squad and was a Chicago PD officer. At one time he spent 18 months doing deep undercover work.
Years later, Morgan's past would come back to haunt him when he was arrested by the Chicago Police Department for the murder of the unidentified boy and two others. The lead detective, who had arrested Morgan several times for juvenile misdemeanors when the latter was young, believed Morgan was guilty and used a BAU profile done by Jason Gideon (Mandy Patinkin) to support his case. Believing he was being framed by the real killer, the BAU searched through Morgan's life and background to prove him innocent, which discomfited Garcia as Morgan had been generally reticent about the details of his past. They later identified Carl Buford as the man who set Morgan up to take the fall (Buford was friends with the lead detective). When Hotch asked about Buford, Morgan told him to back off. He then escaped police custody and spoke to a local boy who was friends with the latest victim. The boy revealed he was currently being molested by Buford and that the latest victim knew about it. Morgan confronted Buford, who at first denied anything happened between them, and told Morgan the other boy was lying. Refusing to back down (and wishing that he had told someone about Buford when he was a kid), Morgan eventually got Buford to admit to the abuse. Buford's admission was overheard by Chicago PD detectives who were lying in wait nearby, and they arrested Buford. Buford pleaded with Morgan to help him, to which Morgan replies, "You go to Hell," leaving the child molester to his fate.[2]
Characterization[edit]
Characterized as a "jock", Morgan is the most athletic of the BAU team members, often being tasked with the more physical aspects of the job, such as taking down intimidating suspects or chasing a runaway on foot.[4] He holds a black belt in judo and has occasionally been asked to train other FBI agents for fitness tests[5] and in SWAT tactics.[6] Due to his past as a juvenile delinquent and experience with gangsters in Chicago, he is rarely intimidated by suspects, even those belonging to criminal syndicates.
Morgan often appears to be happy-go-lucky and is frequently seen teasing or playing pranks on Garcia and Spencer Reid.[5][7] As his background is revealed, it becomes apparent that Morgan was putting on a facade to bury the painful memories of his past. He looks up to his "bosses" Jason Gideon and later Aaron Hotchner as well as senior agent David Rossi as mentors. They, particularly Hotch, are usually the ones to calm Morgan down when a case gets to him. Hotch once said of him, "there are very few people he truly trusts",[8] but Morgan is extremely loyal to those "few" (the BAU team). In season 5, he temporarily took over Hotch's position as Unit Chief while serial killer and nemesis George Foyet was on the loose, on the condition that Hotch be reinstated once Foyet was captured.
Morgan is good with children and shown to be fond of Hotch's son Jack, and JJ and Will's son Henry. This is apparent when the team is assigned to cases involving minors and Morgan is sometimes the one tasked with interviewing children or adolescents, especially boys, for information.
Behavioral Analysis Unit[edit]
Shemar Moore filming in 2010
Morgan was at one point being considered to replace SSA Kate Joyner as Unit Chief of the New York FBI field office.[9] His boss, BAU Unit Chief Aaron Hotchner, didn't recommend him for the position due to concerns that Morgan didn't have enough trust in his coworkers. However, after Joyner was killed by an IED in the fourth-season premiere, Hotchner told Morgan that the job was his if he wanted it. Nevertheless, Morgan chose not to take the position, and remained with the BAU.
Morgan bears an especially intense grudge against George Foyet (played by C. Thomas Howell). After Morgan was knocked out by Foyet in early 2009, Foyet stole Morgan's FBI credentials. He then used the credentials while dropping off a severely injured Aaron Hotchner in the Emergency Room after attacking and nearly killing Hotchner.[10]
Because of his experiences as a teenager, Morgan seems to bear a lingering hostility towards organized religion, but he still prays, even going so far as to visit a churchE308. He is very charming, and has been seen flirting with many women, even dancing with several at a time in a bar.[11] Morgan once asked out Jordan Todd, only later realizing that she would be his coworker. However, as with most BAU agents, a long-term stable romantic relationship has eluded him, until Season 11, where he announces his marriage with his long-time girlfriend, Savannah Hayes. They eventually had a son named Hank Spencer Morgan, naming him after Derek's father and Dr. Spencer Reid, a fellow BAU member and friend.
Morgan is intensely devoted to his coworkers, especially Technical Analyst Penelope Garcia. They have a bantering, sweet, flirtatious relationship. Morgan often calls her "baby girl," "doll face" or "sweetness" (having first used the term when he didn't know her name, he continued doing so when she seemed to like it[12]). In the aftermath of the New York bombing that killed SSA Joyner, Morgan told Garcia that she was his "God-given solace" after jumping out of an ambulance which was about to blow upE401. Morgan's close relationship with Garcia was made especially clear after she was shot by a perpetrator of hero homicide; taking her home from the hospital, Morgan said to Garcia: "I love you, you know that right?", and then insisted on staying with her to protect her, eventually saving her life, until the perpetrator was killed.
Morgan has an extremely close friendship with SSA Dr. Spencer Reid, akin to that of a protective older brother figure. Morgan frequently makes friendly banter with Reid, and attempts to help him with his love life. In the episode "Revelations" he is particularly distressed and prone to violent outbursts after Reid had been taken and after seeing the torture he went through live. Even going as far as stating that he would put the unsub's "head on a stick". Morgan often calls him "Doc", "Kid", "Genius", or "Pretty Boy" and they frequently tease and exchange banter with one another, even going as far as having a joke war in the episode "Painless". Morgan has been seen giving Reid advice on how to pick up girls at a bar after he unsuccessfully tried to hand out fliers and he is one of two people who knew that Reid was experiencing extremely painful headaches that may or may not have been related to the possibility of schizophrenia, the other being Emily Prentiss.
He also has an extremely close friendship with Agent Emily Prentiss. As she joined the team in season 2, they immediately bonded due to their mutual love of Kurt Vonnegut books. Morgan is protective of Prentiss, but their relationship is never shown beyond outside of the bureau. In the episode 6x17 "Valhalla", Morgan tells Prentiss that she can "trust him", and that he is there for her no matter what. In Prentiss's final episode as a series regular, 6x18 "Lauren," she disappears after walking out of the BAU to go and confront her nemesis, Ian Doyle. At the end of the episode after being stabbed in the abdomen by Doyle, Morgan rushes to her side to try to save her. She tells him to let her go, and he responds by saying "No, no, I am not letting you go." Then he says, "Listen to me, I know why you did all of this, and I know what you did for Declan. I am so proud of you. Do you understand that? I am proud of you because you are my friend, and you are my partner," to which then, Emily starts to fade in and out of consciousness while Morgan is holding her hand. At the hospital, J.J. tells the team that Prentiss, "never made it off the table," and everyone dropped their heads in sadness. Everyone, except Hotch and J.J. think Prentiss is dead as they attend her funeral, unaware that she is alive and went into hiding from Doyle once again and that she is living in France, specifically Paris. In season seven, Morgan's summer investigation leads him to be the first to discover that Prentiss is alive. When she returns to the BAU they share an emotional moment and a hug. Later, Morgan tells her he was never upset nor does he feel betrayed. In "Dorado Falls", Morgan signs them up for takedown re-certification without telling her and lets her believe Hotch was responsible. He doesn't want her to know it was him who signed her up because he doesn't want to admit that he needs to make sure she can still take care of herself. Later, he admits to Emily he did it because losing her was "7 months of Hell" and he worried that his fear of losing her would be so great he wouldn't be able to perform properly because he would be worrying about her. She tells him she understands this and agrees to 10 hours of training, but states that his demands of 'a neck rub everyday along with coffee' are pushing it.
Morgan also became close with Ellie Spicer, a little girl who was the daughter of a murder victim in the "Prince of Darkness" case. In the Season 6 premiere, Morgan was left injured and tied up after being attacked by the Prince of Darkness, Billy Flynn (played by Tim Curry), who also killed Matthew Spicer (a local LAPD detective) in the attack and kidnapped Spicer's daughter Ellie. After being treated by paramedics, Morgan rejoined his coworkers in hunting Flynn, who the team had identified as "a pure psychopath". Throughout the episode, Morgan snaps at several of his teammates, including Garcia, whom he is normally flirtatious with. After Flynn turns Ellie loose, the team arrives at a house where Flynn is holding two people hostage. Flynn calls Hotch's phone, and demands that Morgan enter. Hotch initially refuses, until Morgan steps to him and says, "This one is mine." Morgan enters the house with his weapon drawn, and finds Flynn in a bedroom, with two victims tied up. Flynn tells Morgan that while he may not be afraid, the hostages were. Morgan responds by saying "You point that gun at them, and I will kill you, and that is another promise." After a bit of attempted conversation, Flynn starts crying, and asks Morgan if he believes in heaven, causing the agent to raise his gun. Flynn stands up and aims his gun at the female victim, resulting in Morgan instantly opening fire, coldly shooting Flynn in the chest repeatedly until "The Prince of Darkness" dies, and falls back onto the bed. Morgan emerges from the house removing his Kevlar vest and is greeted by Ellie. He takes her into his arms and comforts her as her bravado cracks, and she begins to cry. Ellie is placed into a foster home following her father's death because her parents were separated and her aunt (Matt Spicer's sister, who had been caring for Ellie) was also killed by Flynn. When Ellie catches a boy in the home peeping at her as she bathes, she runs away, flies to D.C., seeks out Morgan and asks to live with him. Morgan declines, but he and the BAU team members are able to reunite Ellie with her mother.
In "Big Sea," Morgan gets personal on a case in Jacksonville, Florida when bodies are discovered buried in the ocean floor off the coast. His aunt Yvonne fears that her missing daughter, Cindi, was one of the victims. Rossi tells Seaver that Morgan's cousin escaped a stalker and was never heard from. After Morgan catches the Unsub, he shows him pictures of two of his victims during his interrogation. When Morgan showed Cindi's picture he claims that she cried for Morgan before her throat was sliced."The killer didn't know Cindi's name, but he knew those of the other victims" Morgan said to Rossi. Even though Cindi wasn't one of the victims, Morgan lies to his aunt, and tells her that she was dead, to give her closure however, she is still missing. In the season six finale, he fatally shoots the unsub leader of the human trafficking ring who'd been pretending to be a victim and was about to shoot Rossi.
Reception[edit]
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Morgan was included in TV Guide's list of "TV's Sexiest Crime Fighters".[13]
References[edit]
Jump up ^ Muir, John Kenneth (2007). TV Year, Volume 1: The Prime Time 2005-2006 Season. Hal Leonard Corporation. p. 33. ISBN 978-1-55783-684-7.
^ Jump up to: a b c d "Profiler, Profiled". Criminal Minds. Season 2. Episode 12. December 13, 2006. CBS.
Jump up ^ "Safe Haven". Criminal Minds. Season 6. Episode 5. October 20, 2010. CBS.
Jump up ^ "Catching Out". Criminal Minds. Season 4. Episode 5. October 29, 2008. CBS.
^ Jump up to: a b "A Thin Line". Criminal Minds. Season 9. Episode 18. March 12, 2014. CBS.
Jump up ^ "A Thin Line". Criminal Minds. Season 7. Episode 15. February 22, 2012. CBS.
Jump up ^ "Painless". Criminal Minds. Season 7. Episode 4. October 12, 2011. CBS.
Jump up ^ "No Way Out II: The Evolution of Frank". Criminal Minds. Season 2. Episode 23. May 16, 2007. CBS.
Jump up ^ "Lo-Fi". Criminal Minds. Season 3. Episode 20. May 21, 2008. CBS.
Jump up ^ "Nameless, Faceless". Criminal Minds. Season 5. Episode 1. May 14, 2008. CBS.
Jump up ^ "The Big Game". Criminal Minds. Season 2. Episode 14. February 4, 2007. CBS.
Jump up ^ "Tabula Rasa". Criminal Minds. Season 3. Episode 19. May 14, 2008. CBS.
Jump up ^ "TV's Sexiest Crime Fighters". TV Guide. Retrieved June 26, 2012.
Episode sources[edit]
^E308 "Lucky". Criminal Minds. Season 3. Episode 08. 2007-11-14. CBS.
^E401 "Mayhem". Criminal Minds. Season 4. Episode 01. 2008-09-24. CBS.
^E309 "Penelope". Criminal Minds. Season 3. Episode 09. 2007-11-21. CBS.
^E604 "Remembrance of things Past". Criminal Minds. Season 6. Episode 04. 2010-10-06. CBS.
^E720 "The Company". Criminal Minds. Season 7. Episode 20. 2012-04-11. CBS.
External links[edit]
Derek Morgan on IMDb
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Stefanie Powers
Powers attending the "Night of 100 Stars" for the 82nd Academy Awards viewing party in March 2010
Born
Stefanie Zofya Paul[1]
(1942-11-02) November 2, 1942 (age 74)
Hollywood, California, U.S.
Other names
Taffy Paul
Occupation
Actress
Years active
1958–present
Spouse(s)
Gary Lockwood (1966–1972)
Patrick De La Chenais (1993–1999)
Stefanie Powers (born Stefanie Zofya Paul; November 2, 1942) is an American actress best known for her role as Jennifer Hart in the 1980s television series Hart to Hart.
Contents
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1 Early life
2 Career
3 Personal life
4 Cancer
5 Filmography
6 References
7 External links
Early life[edit]
Powers was possibly born Stefanie Zofya Paul in Hollywood, California,[1] though her name is often given as Stefania Zsofia (or Zofia) Federkiewicz.[2][3] In her autobiography she says "Moje prawdziwe nazwisko to Federkiewicz" ("My real (Polish) name is Federkiewicz").[4]
Her parents divorced during her childhood. Powers was estranged from her father, whom she barely references and whose name is never mentioned in her memoir, One from the Hart, in which she refers to the "tension and unhappiness created by my father's presence".[5] Her father was a Jewish immigrant from Eastern Europe. She remained extremely close throughout her life to her mother, born Juliana Dimitria Golan (1912–2009) in New York, of Polish descent. Her mother, who died in Los Angeles from pneumonia at 96 years old,[6] would be known late in life and in local obituaries as Julie Powers. Stefanie Powers had an elder brother, Jeffrey Julian Paul[7][8] (1940–2013), as well as a half-sister, Charlene Groman.[6][9] Powers was a cheerleader at Hollywood High School; one of her schoolmates was Nancy Sinatra. In 1965, using the alias Taffy Paul, she made an obscure independent film, The Young Sinner.
Career[edit]
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Powers (left) with Maureen O'Hara in McLintock!, 1963
Powers appeared in several motion pictures in the early 1960s in secondary roles such as the thriller Experiment in Terror, If a Man Answers, and McLintock! (1963). She played a schoolgirl in Tammy Tell Me True (1961), and Bunny, the police chief's daughter, in Palm Springs Weekend (1963). She appeared in the 1962 hospital melodrama The Interns, and its sequel, The New Interns in 1964. In 1965, she played opposite Tallulah Bankhead in Die! Die! My Darling (originally released in England as Fanatic).
Powers with Noel Harrison in The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
In 1966, her "tempestuous" good looks led to being cast in the starring role as the passive and demure April Dancer, in the short-lived NBC television series spy thriller The Girl from U.N.C.L.E., a spin-off of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Shortly after the series' debut, she was featured on the cover of TV Guide (December 31, 1966 – January 6, 1967). The article mentions her "117-pound frame is kept supple with 11 minutes of Royal Canadian Air Force exercises every morning... Unlike her fellow U.N.C.L.E. agents, the ladylike April is not required to kill the bad guys. Her feminine charms serve as the bait, while her partner Noel Harrison provides the fireworks." The series lasted for only one season (29 one-hour episodes), airing from September 16, 1966 to April 11, 1967.
In 1967, she appeared in Warning Shot with David Janssen. Her 1970s films include The Boatniks (1970) and Herbie Rides Again (sequel to The Love Bug). She was a guest star on the Robert Wagner series It Takes a Thief in 1970. The two went on to co-star in the popular Hart to Hart series nine years later. Before the Hart to Hart success, she starred in The Feather and Father Gang as Toni "Feather" Danton, a successful lawyer, whose father, Harry Danton, was a smooth-talking ex-con man (played by Harold Gould). It ran for a half-season (13 episodes).
Guest roles on other popular TV shows include: McCloud (1971), The Mod Squad (1972), Kung Fu (1974), The Rockford Files (1975), Three for the Road (1975), The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman (1976), and McMillan & Wife (1977). Powers appeared in these shows long after she signed a contract with Universal Studios in 1970. Coincidentally, her longtime friend and Hart to Hart series' star, Wagner, signed a contract with Universal, but did not guest-star on more shows than Powers did. Her role as stripper Dottie Del Mar in 1979's Escape to Athena with Roger Moore turned out to be Powers' last theatrical film to date.
In 1977 Stephanie played Sally Whalen in the 6 part TV mini series Washington: Behind Closed Doors produced by Paramount Television. The programme was based on John Ehrlichman's book The Company, and was inspired by his experiences in the Nixon administration. The series had Powers cast alongside a strong cast including Cliff Robertson, Jason Robards, Robert Vaughn, Lois Nettleton and John Houseman and was broadcast on ABC.
Powers became widely known as a television star for her role opposite Robert Wagner as a married pair of amateur sleuths in the 1979–84 series Hart to Hart, for which she received two Emmy and five Golden Globe Award Best Television Actress nominations. In 1984, she starred in the miniseries Mistral's Daughter, based on Judith Krantz's novel.[10] In the 1990s, Powers and Wagner reunited to make eight Hart to Hart made-for-TV two-hour movies.
In 1985, Powers starred as twins who swap places leading to dire consequences in the two-part made-for-TV movie Deceptions.[11]
In 1987, she starred in the real-life TV drama, At Mother's Request, as the frightening Frances Schreuder, who goaded her 17-year-old-son into killing her father.
She starred briefly in a 1991 London musical, Matador, which closed prematurely due to the sharp drop in tourism during the Persian Gulf War.[citation needed]
She was awarded the Sarah Siddons Award in 1993 for her stage performance in Love Letters.[12]
In 1996, she toured as Margo Channing in a production of Applause, with hopes of a Broadway revival, which did not materialize.[13] She toured the UK in 2002 playing Anna Leonowens in a revival of The King and I,[14] and toured the U.S. in 2004 and 2005 in the same role.[15]
Powers released her debut CD in 2003, titled, On The Same Page. The album features selections from the classic Great American Songbook era. Since 2006, she has been the U.S. location presenter on the long-running Through the Keyhole panel show. On April 30, 2008, she was reunited with Wagner for the filming of a special Hart to Hart edition of the BBC's The Graham Norton Show. On March 12, 2011, she received the Steiger Award (Germany) for accomplishment in the arts.[16]
In 2000–01, she starred in the BBC's popular long-running British soap opera Doctors as Jane Powers,[17] a wealthy businesswoman, and the mother of Dr. Caroline Powers. Jane Powers, after being widowed, was due to marry her much younger fiancé David Wilde, but in the lead-up to the wedding, her daughter (Caroline) and fiancé David fell in love and ran off together. Powers took part in the 11th series of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!, but was the first celebrity to be eliminated on November 25, 2011.
Powers started a tour of Looped, a play about her old co-star Tallulah Bankhead, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on February 26, 2013, after Valerie Harper withdrew due to health problems.[18]
She starred in the musical Gotta Dance, which premiered in Chicago in December 2015 through January 2016. The cast also stars Georgia Engel, Lillias White, and Andre DeShields. The musical is directed and choreographed by Jerry Mitchell, with a book by Chad Beguelin and Bob Martin, and the score by Matthew Sklar and Nell Benjamin.[19]
Stefanie Powers has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6776 Hollywood Boulevard, presented in 1992.[20]
Personal life[edit]
Powers was married to actor Gary Lockwood from 1966–72. Her relationship with actor William Holden led to their joint involvement with wildlife conservation. He died in 1981; by the following year, Powers was the founder and president of the William Holden Wildlife Foundation and a director of the Mount Kenya Game Ranch and Wildlife Conservancy in Nanyuki, Kenya. In the United States, she works with both the Cincinnati and Atlanta zoos. She devotes a great deal of time to the cause and is an international guest speaker on wildlife preservation.[21]
Powers told BBC Radio 4's Broadcasting House programme that she campaigned for Robert F. Kennedy during his 1968 presidential campaign.[22]
On April 1, 1993, she married Patrick Houitte de la Chesnais (born May 7, 1951, Versailles, France); the couple divorced in 1999.
Powers has no children.[23]
A polo player, she was among the first foreign members of the Royal County of Berkshire Polo Club in the United Kingdom, whose membership includes HRH The Prince of Wales. In 2005, she competed in the Joules United Kingdom National Women's Championships at Ascot.[citation needed]
Cancer[edit]
In November 2008, Powers, who was a smoker for 20 years, was diagnosed with alveolar carcinoma, a form of lung cancer.[24] She had surgery to remove part of her right lung on January 29, 2009, the same month her mother died of pneumonia, aged 96, in Los Angeles.[6]
Filmography[edit]
Year
Film
Role
Notes
2014 Mr. Fiction Marilyn TV movie
2014 Ring by Spring Madam Rue TV movie
2013 Reading, Writing and Romance Brenda TV movie
2010 Meet My Mom Louise Metcalf TV movie
2008 Jump! Katherine Wilkins
1998 Someone Is Watching Michelle Dupre TV movie
1996 Till Death Do Us Hart Jennifer Hart TV movie
1996 Harts in High Season TV movie
1995 Two Harts in 3/4 Time TV movie
1995 Secrets of the Hart TV movie
1994 Old Friends Never Die TV movie
1994 Crimes of the Hart TV movie
1994 Home is Where the Hart Is TV movie
1993 Hart to Hart Returns TV movie
1988 Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun Beryl Markham TV movie
1985 Hollywood Wives Montana Gray TV miniseries
1985 Deceptions Sabrina/Stephanie TV miniseries
1984 Family Secrets Jessie Calloway TV movie
1984 Mistral's Daughter Maggie Lunel TV miniseries
1979–84 Hart to Hart Jennifer Hart 110 episodes
1979 Escape to Athena Dottie Del Mar
1978 A Death in Canaan Joan Barthel TV movie
1978 The Astral Factor Candy Barrett Alternate title: Invisible Strangler
1977 Washington: Behind Closed Doors Sally Whalen 6 episodes
1977 The Feather and Father Gang Toni "Feather" Danton 14 episodes
1975 It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time Georgia Price
1975 The Streets of San Francisco Rita King Episode: "No Place to Hide"
1975 Gone with the West Little Moon
1975 The Rockford Files Christine Dusseau Episode: "The Real Easy Red Dog"
1974 Herbie Rides Again Nicole Harris
1974 Shootout in a One-Dog Town Letty Crandell TV movie
1972 The Magnificent Seven Ride Ms. Laurie Gunn
1972 Hardcase Rozaline TV movie
1972 Cannon Rene Stubber, Kelly Prentiss 2x08 "The Rip-off", 4x01 "Kelly’s Song"
1971 Sweet, Sweet Rachel Rachel Stanton TV movie
1971 Five Desperate Women Gloria TV movie
1971 Paper Man Karen McMillan TV movie
1970 The Boatniks Kate Fairchild
1969 Crescendo Susan Roberts
1967 Warning Shot Liz Thayer
1966–67 The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. April Dancer 29 episodes
1966 Stagecoach Mrs. Mallory
1965 Die! Die! My Darling! Pat Carroll Alternate title: Fanatic
1965 Love Has Many Faces Carol Lambert
1965 The Young Sinner Ginny Miller Alternate title: Like Father, Like Son
1964 The New Interns Gloria Worship
1963 Route 66 Julie Severn Episode: "A Cage in Search of a Bird"
1963 McLintock! Becky McLintock
1963 Palm Springs Weekend Bunny Dixon
1962 The Interns Nurse Gloria Mead
1962 Experiment in Terror Toby Sherwood Alternate title: The Grip of Fear
1963 Bonanza Calamity Jane Episode: "Calamity Over the Comstock"
1962 If a Man Answers Tina
1961 Tammy Tell Me True Kay
1961 Bat Masterson Ann Elkins Episode: "Dead Man's Claim"
References[edit]
^ Jump up to: a b Stefanie Zofya Paul birth registration, californiabirthindex.org; accessed April 3, 2014.
Jump up ^ Joseph F. Clarke (1977). Pseudonyms. BCA. p. 134.
Jump up ^ Fred Landesman (7 May 2004). The John Wayne Filmography. McFarland. p. 223. ISBN 978-0-7864-3252-3.
Jump up ^ Stefanie Powers (25 October 2011). One from the Hart. Simon and Schuster. p. 204. ISBN 978-1-4391-7211-7.
Jump up ^ Her father's name is reportedly Morrison Bloomfield Paul, who claimed to be a cinematographer (see Spokane Chronicle, December 7, 1983, pg. 12)
An IMDb posting states that Powers' "... father, Morrison Bloomfield Paul, was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, to a Jewish immigrant family from Eastern Europe. Her mother ... was born in New York, to Polish Catholic immigrants", One from the Hart, Gallery Books (reprint edition, October 25, 2011), ISBN 1439172110/ISBN 978-1439172117.
^ Jump up to: a b c One from the Heart: a memoir. Gallery Books, Simon and Schuster, Inc. pp. 9, 256. ISBN 978-1-4391-7210-0.
Jump up ^ Jeffrey Paul birth registration, familytreelegends.com; accessed April 3, 2014.
Jump up ^ Jeffrey Paul profile, californiabirthindex.org; accessed April 3, 2014.
Jump up ^ "50 Plus Senior News". Powers Surge. Retrieved June 13, 2006.
Jump up ^ John J. O'Connor (September 24, 1984). "TV Review; 'Mistral's Daughter' Starts Tonight". The New York Times. Retrieved August 3, 2015.
Jump up ^ " 'Deceptions' Details" The New York Times, accessed August 3, 2015
Jump up ^ "About Us (see Awardees)", sarahsiddonssociety.org, accessed August 3, 2015.
Jump up ^ Lefkowitz, David. " 'Applause' Tour Closes for Retooling" playbill.com, November 25, 1996.
Jump up ^ "Powers & Webb Share Lead in King & I Tour", Theatre News, April 1, 2002
Jump up ^ Gans, Andrew. "Diva Talk: A Chat with The King & I's Powers Plus News of Salonga and Benanti" playbill.com, January 21, 2005
Jump up ^ Medien, Hellen. "Projekte GmbH". Der Steiger Award. Büro Der Steiger Award. Retrieved September 16, 2015.
Jump up ^ " 'Doctors" Cast" tv.com, accessed August 3, 2015
Jump up ^ Fullerton, Krissie. "Photo Call: Stefanie Powers Is Tallulah Bankhead in 'Looped' Tour" playbill.com, March 5, 2013
Jump up ^ Cox, Gordon. "Stefanie Powers, Georgia Engel Join Cast of Broadway-Bound 'Gotta Dance'", Variety.com, June 29, 2015.
Jump up ^ "Stafanie Powers Listing" walkof fame.com, accessed August 4, 2015
Jump up ^ The William Holden Wildlife Foundation website; accessed June 16, 2014.
Jump up ^ "Broadcasting House". January 22, 2012.
Jump up ^ Marriage to Patrick Houitte de la Chesnais, dailymail.co.uk; accessed March 14, 2015.
Jump up ^ Powers discusses cancer battle, lifescript.com; accessed April 3, 2014.
External links[edit]
Stefanie Powers on IMDb
Stefanie Powers' official website
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ISNI: 0000 0001 1470 8761
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SUDOC: 074722522
BNF: cb140415721 (data)
IATH: w64z81gf
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