"to HO"". The process of designing and making the puppets took four months and each of the main characters was sculpted in duplicate to allow two episodes to be filmed simultaneously using both puppet stages. The likenesses of some of the puppets were inspired by real-life actors: Titan was based on a young Laurence Olivier and Surface Agent X-2-0 on either Claude Rains or Peter Lorre. Troy Tempest was modelled on James Garner at Gerry Anderson's suggestion. Atlanta Shore has been likened to Lois Maxwell (who voiced the character) and Marina to both Brigitte Bardot and Ursula Andress. ""Stingray"" was"
"James Garner James Garner (born James Scott Bumgarner; April 7, 1928 – July 19, 2014) was an American actor, producer, and voice artist. He starred in several television series over more than five decades, including such popular roles as Bret Maverick in the 1950s western series ""Maverick"" and Jim Rockford in ""The Rockford Files"", and played leading roles in more than 50 theatrical films, including ""The Great Escape"" (1963) with Steve McQueen, Paddy Chayefsky's ""The Americanization of Emily"" (1964), ""Grand Prix"" (1966), Blake Edwards' ""Victor/Victoria"" (1982), ""Murphy's Romance"" (1985), for which he received an Academy Award nomination, ""Space Cowboys"" (2000)"
"and James Garner. He is a member of the College Football Hall of Fame. Born and raised in Gary, Indiana, Karras was the son of Dr. George Karras, a Greek immigrant (from Chios) who graduated from the University of Chicago and got his medical degree in Canada. There, George Karras met and married a Canadian woman, Alex's mother, Emmeline (née Wilson), a registered nurse. George Karras opened a medical practice in Gary, but he died when Alex was thirteen years old. By that time, Alex Karras had learned to play football in a parking lot near his home, and he"
"(Michael York), whose ideals (or lack thereof) are put to the test when he shifts his allegiance from the Nazis to the Americans; and Stanley Mott (Bruce Dern), an aeronautical engineer whose secret assignment is to make certain that men like Kolff aren't snatched up by the Soviets after the fall of Germany. Space (miniseries) Space (also known as James A. Michener's Space) is a 1985 American television miniseries starring James Garner as Sen. Norman Grant. It is based on a novel of the same name by James A. Michener published in 1982. Like the novel, the miniseries is a"
"James Garner filmography The following is the filmography for American actor James Garner. Garner was known for prominent roles in films such as ""Sayonara"" (1957) with Marlon Brando, ""Cash McCall"" (1960) with Natalie Wood, ""The Children's Hour"" (1961) with Audrey Hepburn and Shirley MacLaine, ""Boys' Night Out"" (1962) with Kim Novak and Tony Randall, ""The Great Escape"" (1963) with Steve McQueen, ""The Thrill of It All"" (1963) with Doris Day, ""Move Over, Darling"" (1963) with Doris Day, ""The Wheeler Dealers"" (1963) with Lee Remick (four films in 1963), Paddy Chayevsky's ""The Americanization of Emily"" (1964) with Julie Andrews, Roald Dahl's"
""""". Additionally the series' only two-part episode was similarly repackaged as """". NBC took the unusual step of rerunning the episodes two additional times - in the summer of 1988 to help provide 'new' programming during a writers strike, and in the summer of 1994 to play off publicity surrounding the Mel Gibson movie remake of the original ""Maverick"" series also featuring Garner. As a tribute to the character featured on this television series, on April 21, 2006, a ten-foot bronze statue of James Garner as Bret Maverick was unveiled in Garner's hometown of Norman, Oklahoma, with Garner present at"
"He guest starred too on CBS's ""Perry Mason"", with Raymond Burr, as defendant Grover Johnson in the 1963 episode, ""The Case of the Bouncing Boomerang."" He continued to work in motion pictures and television into the 1970s. He appeared in season 2 of James Garner's NBC detective series, ""The Rockford Files"". Cameron's private life was colorful; in 1960, he divorced his wife and later married her mother. Hence his former director, William Witney, publicly acclaimed Cameron the bravest man that he had ever seen. In his later years, Cameron lived on Lake Lanier in northern Georgia. He died in the"
"Jennifer Garner Jennifer Anne Garner (born April 17, 1972) is an American actress. Following a supporting role in ""Pearl Harbor"" (2001), Garner gained recognition for her performance as CIA officer Sydney Bristow in the ABC spy-action thriller ""Alias"", which aired from 2001 to 2006. For her work on the series, she won a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award, and received four Primetime Emmy Award nominations. While working on ""Alias"", Garner gained a cameo role in ""Catch Me If You Can"" (2002), followed by a praised leading performance in the romantic comedy film ""13 Going on 30"""
"native Drew Carey has paid tribute to Ghoulardi in his television sitcom ""The Drew Carey Show"", where his character can often be seen wearing a Ghoulardi T-shirt. Season 2, Episode 17 of the show (""See Drew Run"") was dedicated to the memory of Ernie Anderson, who died shortly before the episode first aired. In his endorsement of the biography, ""Ghoulardi: Inside Cleveland TV’s Wildest Ride"", Carey is quoted as saying, ""Absolutely, big time, Ghoulardi was an influence on me."" Ghoulardi's influence ultimately inspired the music and performance styles of a number of rock and punk bands from Cleveland and Akron,"
"T.V. series, and for Michael Horse's character, George Steelman, Native American agent under Tom Amandes's Ness, in the revived series syndicated to local stations in 1993. William Jennings Gardner William Jennings Gardner (January 23, 1884 – June 15, 1965) was an American football player, coach, and law-enforcement agent. He was one of Eliot Ness's ""Untouchables,"" a group of 13 hand-picked United States federal law-enforcement agents who, from 1929 to 1931, sought to put an end to Al Capone's illegal empire. Ness chose Gardner for his team because he was an expert at undercover work. Gardner was born in North Dakota."
"Space (miniseries) Space (also known as James A. Michener's Space) is a 1985 American television miniseries starring James Garner as Sen. Norman Grant. It is based on a novel of the same name by James A. Michener published in 1982. Like the novel, the miniseries is a fictionalised history of the United States space program. ""Space"" won an Emmy Award, for film sound mixing. It originally aired from April 14 through 18, 1985, and consisted of five parts running a total of 13 hours. In subsequent showings, it was cut to nine hours. Norman Grant (James Garner) is a former"
"Sean Coyle Sean took over ""The Gerry Anderson Show"" following Gerry's passing in 2014. Sean filled in for Gerry from 2012. Unfortunately, due to ill health, Gerry never returned. Coyle had owned a shop in Waterford, but while listening to Gerry Anderson on the radio he fell in love with what he was doing, labeling him a Northern Irish version of Kenny Everett. Sean joined Anderson on the airwaves after sending a tape of his impressions to the moguls in charge at the BBC. Henry Cooper and Barry McGuigan were two of his best subjects. ""“When I heard his impersonation"
"Gerry Anderson Gerry Anderson (born Gerald Alexander Abrahams; 14 April 1929 – 26 December 2012) was an English television and film producer, director, writer and occasional voice artist. He remains famous for his futuristic television programmes, especially his 1960s productions filmed with ""Supermarionation"" (marionette puppets containing electric moving parts). Anderson's first television production was the 1957 Roberta Leigh children's series ""The Adventures of Twizzle"". ""Supercar"" (1961–62) and ""Fireball XL5"" (1962) followed later, both series breaking into the US television market in the early 1960s. In the mid-1960s Anderson produced his most successful series, ""Thunderbirds"". Other television productions of the 1960s"
"made an unsuccessful 1964 television pilot for MGM Television playing the title role of ""The Mayor"". In 1965, he made two guest appearances on ""Perry Mason"" as Deputy District Attorney Snell; first in ""The Case of the Grinning Gorilla,"" then in ""The Case of the Hasty Honeymooner."" Raymond Burr appeared as the oft-filmed attorney in this television series based on Erle Stanley Gardner's novels. That same year, Colbert guest-starred in an episode of ""Bonanza"" entitled """"The"" Meredith Smith"" in which he appeared dressed almost exactly as he had as Brent Maverick only in full color with a bright blue hatband;"
"by ABC executives who believed that ""conflict"" was the missing element in ""Casablanca"" and ""Kings Row"" from ""Warner Bros. Presents"". Actor James Garner caught producer Roy Huggins' attention with a comedic performance as a gambler in a role not specifically written to be comical in the series' sixth episode, a time travel scenario entitled ""Man from 1997"", leading Huggins to cast Garner as the lead the following year in his television series ""Maverick"", according to Huggins' Archive of American Television interview. In the episode, Charles Ruggles portrays an elderly time-traveling librarian from the future attempting to retrieve a 1997 almanac"
"order in 2008. Burky was arrested in December 2009 outside her daughter's preschool. He was charged with two counts of stalking, to which he pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. In March 2010, he was ruled insane, sent to California's state mental hospital, and ordered to stay away from the Affleck family for 10 years if released. Jennifer Garner Jennifer Anne Garner (born April 17, 1972) is an American actress. Following a supporting role in ""Pearl Harbor"" (2001), Garner gained recognition for her performance as CIA officer Sydney Bristow in the ABC spy-action thriller ""Alias"", which aired from 2001"
"Aaron Schwartz (American actor) Aaron Schwartz (born January 4, 1981) is an American actor, known for playing the lead role of Gerald Garner in the 1995 comedy film ""Heavyweights"", and for the role of Dave Karp in the 1992 Walt Disney film ""The Mighty Ducks"". In addition to his two film roles, Schwartz played Clem Lanell in eight episodes of ""The Adventures of Pete & Pete"", and appeared in one episode of ""The Cosby Show"". He had a recurring role as doorman Vanya on The CW's teen drama series ""Gossip Girl"" and its spin-off web series ""Chasing Dorota"". Schwartz, together"
"Ernie Anderson Ernest Earle Anderson (November 12, 1923 – February 6, 1997) was an American radio and television personality, horror host, and announcer. Best known for his portrayal of ""Ghoulardi,"" the host of a late night horror films on WJW Channel 8 on Cleveland television from 1963 to 1966, he also worked as an announcer for the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) television network from the late 1970s until the mid-1990s. He was the father of filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson. Anderson was born in Boston and grew up in Lynn, Massachusetts, the son of Emily (Malenson) and Ernest C. Anderson. Anderson"
"Alaskans"" is closely related to the ABC/WB series ""Maverick"" through broadcast and production. ""Maverick"" was the most prominent of ABC's Sunday night of western dramas. For the 1959–60 season, Sundays began with ""Colt .45"" and ""Maverick"", then John Russell's ""Lawman"" and Nick Adams' ""The Rebel"", and concluded with ""The Alaskans"". This may have influenced the career path of Roger Moore. The same year that ""The Alaskans"" was canceled, James Garner left ""Maverick"". Moore became, under protest, Garner's replacement, playing Bret Maverick's cousin Beau Maverick in the fourth season of ""Maverick"". ""Maverick"" and ""The Alaskans"" were also related through script, if"
"Perry Mason Perry Mason is an American fictional character, a criminal defense lawyer who is the main character in works of detective fiction written by Erle Stanley Gardner. Perry Mason is featured in more than 80 novels and short stories, most of which involve a client's murder trial. Typically, Mason establishes his client's innocence by implicating another character, who then confesses. The character of Perry Mason was adapted for motion pictures and a long-running radio series. These were followed by its best-known adaptation, the CBS television series ""Perry Mason"" (1957–66) starring Raymond Burr. A second television series, ""The New Perry"
"Ghoulardi Ghoulardi was a fictional character invented and portrayed by voice announcer, actor and disc jockey Ernie Anderson as the horror host of ""Shock Theater"" at WJW-TV, Channel 8 (a.k.a. ""TV-8"") in Cleveland, Ohio from January 13, 1963 through December 16, 1966. ""Shock Theater"" featured grade-""B"" science fiction films and horror films, aired in a Friday late-night time slot. At the peak of Ghoulardi's popularity, the character also hosted the Saturday afternoon ""Masterpiece Theater,"" and the weekday children's program ""Laurel, Ghoulardi and Hardy."" Anderson, a big band and jazz and classic film enthusiast, was born in Boston on November 12,"
"movie of the same name). In the 1983–1984 season, he played Lieutenant Simon Adams on the 22-week Dennis Weaver series ""Emerald Point N.A.S."" on CBS, stealing away Celia Warren (Susan Dey), the wife of naval lawyer Jack Warren (Charles Frank). Anderson then played Tony Kaiser in the acclaimed TV movie ""Ordinary Heroes"", which aired in 1986. Anderson came to fame in the lead role of Angus MacGyver in the hit television series ""MacGyver,"" which lasted from 1985 to 1992 and was highly successful throughout its seven-year run. The character Angus MacGyver, also known as just MacGyver or Mac, was an"
"an early issue of Weldon's ""Psychotronic Video"" magazine. Over 50 years after Ghoulardi signed off, many Clevelanders still associate polka music, white socks, and pink plastic flamingo and yard globe lawn ornaments with Parma, Ohio. Feran, Tom, and R. D. Heldenfels (1997). ""Ghoulardi: Inside Cleveland TV's Wildest Ride"". Cleveland, OH: Gray & Company Publishers. Schodowski, Chuck (2008). ""Big Chuck: My Favorite Stories from 47 Years on Cleveland TV"". Cleveland, OH: Gray & Company, Publishers. Ghoulardi Ghoulardi was a fictional character invented and portrayed by voice announcer, actor and disc jockey Ernie Anderson as the horror host of ""Shock Theater"" at"
"Dougherty was a blind highly independent psychiatrist, who makes three appearances in the fifth and sixth seasons. Rockford has romantic flings with numerous women, but none become permanent. James Garner's real-life brother, Jack Garner, made 23 appearances playing (at various times) a policeman, a gas station attendant, and a stranger in a bathroom. The most regular character Jack played was that of police officer ""Captain McEnroe"" a number of times in the final season. The show's pilot was written by Cannell, who also wrote 36 episodes and was the show's co-creator. Juanita Bartlett, one of the show's producers and Garner's"
"Shedrack Anderson III Shedrack Anderson III (born February 4, 1977) is an American actor. Shedrack Anderson III is an African American writer/directors. He got his big break as a lost boy in the Steven Spielberg film ""Hook"", he then starred in the NBC hit teen series Just Deal as the lovable Jermaine Green. He then became known to a world wide audience with the success of Fat Albert around the globe.He starred as Tommy in Lifetime's Emmy Nominated ""Gracie's Choice"" alongside Kristen Bell, Diane Ladd and Anne Heche. He starred in Warriors of Virtue 2, and has guest starred on"
"panel drawings of Garner were eerily exact, while his later ones of Jack Kelly as Bart, Roger Moore as Beau, and Robert Colbert as Brent (inaccurately referred to as ""Bret"" in the comic book version) bore practically no resemblance to the actual actors. On 21 April 2006, a bronze statue of James Garner as Bret Maverick was unveiled in Garner's hometown of Norman, Oklahoma, with Garner present. Two different books on the ""Maverick"" TV series were published in 1994, one by Burl Barer and the other by Ed Robertson, and serve as the main sources for the background information in"
"well as expected at the box office. In 1969, Garner played Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe in ""Marlowe"", a detective drama featuring an early karate scene with Bruce Lee. The same year, Garner scored a hit with the comedy Western ""Support Your Local Sheriff!"" In 1971, Garner returned to television in an offbeat series, ""Nichols"". The motorcycle-riding antihero character was killed in what became the final episode of the single-season series. Garner was recast as the character's more normal twin brother, in the hopes of creating a more popular series with few cast changes. According to Garner's 1999 videotaped Archive of"
"were nonfiction articles on travel, Western history, and forensic science. Gardner's readership was a broad and international one, including the English novelist Evelyn Waugh, who in 1949 called Gardner the best living American writer. Gardner also created characters for various radio programs, including ""Christopher London"" (1950), starring Glenn Ford, and ""A Life in Your Hands"" (1949–1952). He created Perry Mason as a recurring character in a series of Hollywood films of the 1930s, and then for the radio program ""Perry Mason"", which ran from 1943 to 1955. In 1954, CBS proposed transforming ""Perry Mason"" into a television soap opera. When"
"Gary Mavers Gary John Mavers (born 1 September 1964 in Huyton, Liverpool) is an English television actor. Mavers graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and is best known for his portrayals of GP Andrew Attwood in ""Peak Practice"" which he worked on for 5 years as a hardworking doctor in a country practice, (1995 – 2000), and Will Manning in ""Casualty"" in a year long role, (2004 – 2005). Mavers took over the role of Gordon Livesy in ""Emmerdale"" from 2015 to 2016 where his character was involved in a child abuse storyline, after it was revealed Gordon"
"previously auditioned for guest roles on the show, before the producers decided that they wanted to develop a long-term character specifically for him. Glockner told Brooke Hunter from Femail that former ""Neighbours"" cast member Guy Pearce was one of his main reasons for auditioning for the show, as Pearce is his inspiration. Glockner had a two-year contract with ""Neighbours"", but on 3 December 2013, it was announced that Glockner was to leave the show. Both the producers and Glockner – who had shot nearly 1,000 scenes in one year – felt the character of Mason needed a rest. Glockner did"
"Show"", ""The NBC Comedy Hour"", and ""Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall"" throughout the 1950s. Garner also worked on stage and on television with Spike Jones and His City Slickers throughout the last half of the 1950s. By the 1960s, Garner was a popular character actor on such television programs as ""Maverick"", """", ""Lock Up"", ""Surfside 6"", ""The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis"", ""77 Sunset Strip"", ""Wendy and Me"", ""The Munsters"", ""Petticoat Junction"", ""No Time For Sergeants"", ""Mister Roberts"", ""Honey West"", ""Mr. Terrific"", ""I Dream of Jeannie"", ""Get Smart"", and ""Julia"". Throughout the 1970s, Garner continued to appear on television variety"
"and ""Bret Maverick"" (1981–1982), Jim Rockford in ""The Rockford Files"" (1974–1980) and eight subsequent ""Rockford Files"" TV-movies (1994-1999), and Jim Egan in ""8 Simple Rules"" (2003–2005). James Garner filmography The following is the filmography for American actor James Garner. Garner was known for prominent roles in films such as ""Sayonara"" (1957) with Marlon Brando, ""Cash McCall"" (1960) with Natalie Wood, ""The Children's Hour"" (1961) with Audrey Hepburn and Shirley MacLaine, ""Boys' Night Out"" (1962) with Kim Novak and Tony Randall, ""The Great Escape"" (1963) with Steve McQueen, ""The Thrill of It All"" (1963) with Doris Day, ""Move Over, Darling"" (1963)"
"Norman Gunston Norman Gunston was a satirical TV character performed by Australian actor and comedian Garry McDonald. Norman Gunston was primarily well known in his native Australia, and to a lesser extent, the United States during the mid to late 1970s. He was the only Gold Logie winning fictional character on Australian television, with McDonald collecting the award in character. The Gunston character was originally conceived by comedy writer Wendy Skelcher and first appeared as a minor character to appear in a single sketch in the second series of the cult Australian TV comedy series ""The Aunty Jack Show"" in"