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The Westerner is an American Western television series that aired on NBC from September 30 to December 30, 1960. Created and produced by Sam Peckinpah , who also wrote and directed some episodes, the series was a Four Star Television production. [ 1 ]
When television became popular in the late 1940s and 1950s, TV Westerns quickly became an audience favorite, with 30 such shows airing at prime time by 1959. Traditional Westerns faded in popularity in the late 1960s, while new shows fused Western elements with other types of shows, such as family drama, mystery thrillers, and crime drama.
Walter Andrew Brennan (July 25, 1894 – September 21, 1974) was an American actor and singer. [1] He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Come and Get It (1936), Kentucky (1938) and The Westerner (1940), making him one of only six actors to win three Academy Awards, and the only male or female actor to win three awards in the supporting actor category.
The Westerner is a 1940 American Western film directed by William Wyler and starring Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan and Doris Davenport.Written by Niven Busch and Jo Swerling (from a story by Stuart N. Lake), the film concerns a self-appointed hanging judge in Vinegaroon, Texas, who befriends a saddle tramp who opposes the judge's policy against homesteaders.
A Westerner is a person from the Western world. The Westerner may also refer to: In arts and entertainment: The Westerners (1919 film), a 1919 American film directed by Edward Sloman; The Westerner, a 1934 American western starring Tim McCoy; The Westerner, a 1940 American western starring Gary Cooper and Walter Brennan
Robert Fuller (born Leonard Leroy Lee; July 29, 1933) is an American retired actor.Fuller was known for his deep “charcoal” voice, his roles on the popular Western series Laramie as Jess Harper and Wagon Train as Cooper Smith, and as Dr. Kelly Brackett in the medical/action drama Emergency!
Home Alone launched the career of Macaulay Culkin — and three decades later, fans are still quoting the iconic 1990s Christmas film. “Christmas is my time of year,” Culkin exclusively told ...
John Smith (born Robert Errol Van Orden, March 6, 1931 – January 25, 1995) was an American actor primarily appearing in westerns and was considered the ideal cowboy.He had his leading roles in two NBC western television series, Cimarron City and Laramie.