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The Sacketts is a 1979 American made-for-television Western miniseries directed by Robert Totten and starring Sam Elliott, Tom Selleck, Jeff Osterhage, and Glenn Ford.Based on the novels The Daybreakers (1960) and Sackett (1961) by Louis L'Amour, the film recounts the story of the Sackett brothers in 1869 who leave their Tennessee home and start a new life together in Santa Fe.
The Sacketts was a two-part TV movie broadcast on May 15 and 16, 1979, based on the novels The Daybreakers and Sackett. It starred Sam Elliott as Tell Sackett, Tom Selleck as Orrin, and Jeff Osterhage as Tyrel, but also featured parts for Western movie veterans, including Glenn Ford , Gilbert Roland , Jack Elam , Slim Pickens , Pat Buttram ...
Osterhage is of German descent, and began his acting career in a television adaptation of True Grit in 1978 and starred in the 1979 TV movie The Legend of the Golden Gun. He is probably most recognizable to western fans in his role as Tyrel Sackett in the 1979 western The Sacketts , followed by the 1982 The Shadow Riders , both being film ...
Robert Charles Totten (February 5, 1937 – January 27, 1995) [1] [2] was an American television director, writer, and actor, best known for directing many Gunsmoke episodes between 1966 and 1971. [ 3 ] [ 4 ]
His first important acting role was as Trooper Shattuck in the 1961 Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre episode "Image of a Drawn Sword". His other early roles were in a 1964 episode of The Outer Limits entitled " Don't Open Till Doomsday ", and as John Bradford (Brad) in four episodes of the 1966 ABC Western series The Monroes .
Ana Alicia Ortiz Torres (born December 12, 1956) [1] is a Mexican-American retired actress who performed in theatre and on television. After getting her television start by spending a year on the daytime soap-opera Ryan's Hope, she gained international recognition for her role as scheming vineyard heiress Melissa Agretti on the long-running primetime soap opera Falcon Crest which she portrayed ...
McKean is also the only eventual cast member who first appeared as a musical guest (with Spinal Tap, May 1984). Eddie Murphy is the only cast member to have hosted the show while still a cast member. He also holds the distinction of having the longest gap between successive hosting of the show, with his second and third hostings of the show ...
She frequently performed feature roles on the CBS Radio Mystery Theater, and was an original cast member on Guiding Light (before the Bauers took over as the central characters). She also starred in her own show, Defense Attorney on ABC 1951–52, as Martha Ellis Bryan.