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The Rainmaker is a 1956 American western romance film directed by Joseph Anthony and adapted by N. Richard Nash from his 1954 play The Rainmaker.The film tells the story of a middle-aged woman, suffering from unrequited love for the local town sheriff; however, she falls for a con man who comes to town with the promise that he can make it rain.
Holliman in a publicity portrait for The Rainmaker (1956). Earl Holliman (September 11, 1928 – November 25, 2024) was an American film and TV actor who appeared in 97 features between 1952 and 2000, including recurring roles on the television series Hotel de Paree, Wide Country, Police Woman, The Thorn Birds, P.S.
Title Director Cast Genre Notes Calling Homicide: Edward Bernds: Bill Elliott, Kathleen Case, Don Haggerty: Crime: Allied Artists: Canyon River: Harmon Jones: George Montgomery, Marcia Henderson, Peter Graves
Earl Holliman, the handsome actor who won a Golden Globe for his supporting role in “The Rainmaker” and appeared in numerous Westerns and dozens of films including “Giant” and “Forbidden ...
Earl Holliman, square-jawed and with a unique and compelling voice, made his mark in film and TV as well as theater. The Golden Globe winner died Monday at 96.
Lancaster was born on November 2, 1913, in New York City, at his parents' home at 209 East 106th Street, the son of Elizabeth (née Roberts) and mailman James Lancaster. [2] Both of his parents were Protestants of working-class origin. All four of his grandparents were emigrants from the province of Ulster, Ireland.
In 1957, she was cast in films, in an uncredited part as Sally in Elvis Presley's Loving You and in Michael Landon's I Was a Teenage Werewolf, and with top billing in Dragstrip Riot (1958). She and TV producer Don Fedderson married in 1969, and had a daughter, Dionne Fedderson; he had seven children from two previous marriages [ 1 ]
A Provisional Irish Republican Army member was sentenced to death for murder before abolition was extended across the UK. European Union human-rights protocols signed in 1999 abolished the death penalty in EU nations, but the UK is no longer an EU member. [18] 1998 Mahmood Hussein Mattan, convicted and hanged 1952, conviction quashed 1998. [19]