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China Beach sends off Wayloo Marie, returning to the U.S. for a job at the ABC news network in New York City. She gets an unexpected traveling companion in McMurphy, headed home to Lawrence, Kansas for the first time in 16 months after her estranged, alcoholic father (guest star Donald Moffat) suffers a heart attack. The two leave Vietnam with ...
China Beach is an American war drama television series set at an evacuation hospital during the Vietnam War. The title refers to My Khe [ 1 ] beach in the city of Đà Nẵng, Vietnam , nicknamed "China Beach" in English by American and Australian soldiers during the Vietnam War.
John Sacret Young (May 24, 1946 – June 3, 2021) was an American author, producer, director, and screenwriter primarily in television, perhaps best known for his work on the show China Beach. Young was nominated for seven Emmys and seven Writers Guild of America Awards, winning two WGA Awards. [1]
William Dodson Broyles Jr. [1] (born October 8, 1944) is an American journalist, screenwriter, and former United States Marine Corps officer. He created the television series China Beach (1988–91) and Six (2017-18), and wrote such films as Apollo 13 (1995), Cast Away (2000), Planet of the Apes (2001), Unfaithful (2002), The Polar Express (2004), Jarhead (2005) and Flags of Our Fathers (2006).
She was a regular cast member in the TV-series China Beach, which ran from 1988 to 1991. She was also in the cast of the short-lived Madman of the People (1994–95). [ 3 ] She appeared in recurring roles in several TV series, including L.A. Law , Falcon Crest , Picket Fences , Max Headroom , and Judging Amy .
As of March 2020, Giles lives in Weehawken, New Jersey.During the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, she self-isolated to avoid infection, and produced and starred in "A brisk walk with Nancy Giles", which documented her walk around the town, in particular up the inclined block on which Weehawken High School is located, and up Boulevard East, across from which the view of the Manhattan ...
Susan Nan Woods (born June 21, 1966, in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.) is a retired American actress who began her brief career in the mid-1980s. Her best-known role was Cherry White in the first two seasons of the ABC television series China Beach.
The beach was referred to as China Beach, but technically was My Khe and marked the first time U.S. troops officially set foot in Vietnam when 3,500 soldiers disembarked there in 1965. [3] What started initially as a small lifeguard outpost, grew into a major surf club with soldiers bringing surfboards back from the states.