Richard Egan
Actor
Billy Chapin...was just a year later as young Jody Burrows in the 1956 B-Western Tension At Table Rock, starring Richard Egan. From then on, however, his career decreased solely to television, where it eventually ended late in 1959 in a TV episode of the... In this article: Billy Chapin, Richard Egan, Charles Laughton, Jack Webb, Lauren Chapin, Peter Graves, The Night of the Hunter, and Broadway |
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Wikipedia | October 19, 2009
Redigo (TV series)
...series , set on a New Mexico ranch during the early 1960s, which aired over NBC from September 24 to December 31, 1963. It starred Richard Egan as ranch owner Jim Redigo, Roger Davis as Mike the ranch hand, and Elena Verdugo as Gerry. It...
In this article: Empire, Roger Davis, Elena Verdugo, Ernest Borgnine, Red Skelton Show, McHale's Navy, and New Mexico
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Empire (1962 TV series)
Empire, an hour-long Western television series set on a 1960s half-million acre ranch in New Mexico, starred Richard Egan (1921-1987), Terry Moore (born 1929), and Ryan O'Neal (born 1941). It ran on NBC for a season between September 25,...
In this article: Empire, New Mexico, Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater, Screen Gems, Connie Stevens, Red Skelton, Ryan O'Neal, and Robert Conrad
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Richard Egan (actor)
Richard Egan (July 29, 1921 - July 20, 1987) was an American actor. In some films he is credited as Richard Eagan. Born in San Francisco , California, Egan served in the United States Army as a judo instructor during World War II. A...
In this article: Empire, Rod Serling, Elvis Presley, The Big Cube, World War II, Maureen Egan, View from Pompey's Head, and Cancer
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Seven Cities of Gold (film)
Seven Cities Of Gold is a 1955 historical adventure film directed by Robert D. Webb and starring Anthony Quinn, Richard Egan and Michael Rennie. It tells the story of the 18th. Century Franciscan priest, Father Junipero Serra and the...
In this article: Junipero Serra, Michael Rennie, Anthony Quinn, California, and Rita Moreno
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Gog (film)
...L. Strock and released in 1954 by United Artists. It is notable for having been shot in color, widescreen and 3-D . It stars Richard Egan , Constance Dowling, and Herbert Marshall. It is the third episode in Ivan Tors' Office of...
In this article: Gog, Ivan Tors, Gog, Constance Dowling, Herbert Marshall, and United Artists
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The Big Cube
...by Tito Davison and starring Lana Turner, Karin Mossberg (in her first and only role), George Chakiris, Dan O'Herlihy and Richard Egan ; it was one of Lana Turner's last movies. It is notable for its aggressive portrayal of LSD use and 60's...
In this article: The Big Cube, Lana Turner, Dan O'Herlihy, Warner Bros., and George Chakiris
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Violent Saturday
Violent Saturday is a 1955 American crime drama directed by Richard Fleischer and starring Victor Mature, Lee Marvin, Richard Egan and Stephen McNally. The film, set in a mining town, depicts the planning of a bank robbery as the nexus in...
In this article: Violent Saturday, Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Amish, Sylvia Sidney, Victor Mature, and Stephen McNally
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Sydney Morning Herald - Entertainment | May 13, 2009
Underwater!
...detective pulper, promising "Jane Russell As You've Never Seen Her Before!!" - but always wanted to: namely, semi-nude. Johnny Grey (Richard Egan), a diver working from Havana, learns of a 17th-century wreck off the coast of Cuba and, with...
In this article: Jane Russell, The Outlaw, Howard Hughes, Jet Pilot, RKO, Waste, God, The Sydney Morning Herald, and The Conqueror
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www.washingtonpost.com | March 08, 2007
'300': A Losing Battle in More Ways Than 1
...-- Leonidas, the king, played by brawny Scotsman Gerard Butler, who has enough charisma to pull it off. (He's a lot better than Richard Egan in 1962's campy "The 300 Spartans," I'll tell you.) He bellows and struts and declaims -- he once...
In this article: 300, Leonidas, Spartan, The 300 Spartans, Dominic West, Zack Snyder, and Sin City
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Golden Milestones For Elvis, 'Lady'
...changed to tie in to Presley's single "Love Me Tender." The story is set at the end of the Civil War. Vance Reno, played by Richard Egan, and two other Renos return from the war. This surprises the folks at home, who had been told the trio...
In this article: Elvis Presley, Lady and the Tramp, Love Me Tender, Love Me Tender, Disney, Trademark, Dvd-rom, and Civil War
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Richard Egan (July 29, 1921 - July 20, 1987) was an American actor. In some films he is credited as Richard Eagan.
Born in San Francisco, California, Egan served in the United States Army as a judo instructor during World War II. A graduate of the University of San Francisco (B.A.) and Stanford University (M.A.), he studied and taught at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, for a time. Having studied theatre, he took a bit role in the 1949 Hollywood film "The Story of Molly X".
This start would lead to his signing of a contract with 20th Century Fox where his talent, rugged physique and good looks made him a favorite and respected leading man.
In 1956, he starred as Elvis Presley's older brother in Presley's first film, Love Me Tender, and in 1959 was the male lead opposite Dorothy McGuire in A Summer Place. In 1960, Egan appeared with Jane Wyman and Hayley Mills in Pollyanna. He also starred with Joan Collins in Esther and the King. Other noteworthy films include Undercover Girl (1950), Split Second (1953), A View from Pompey's Head (1955), Slaughter on 10th Avenue (1957), Voice In The Mirror, about the man who started Alcoholics Anonymous, The 300 Spartans (1962), The Big Cube (1969), and Moonfire (1970).
After his series ended, he made guest appearances on other television shows and acted in several motion pictures for the big screen plus in films made specifically for television. In 1982 he joined the cast for the new daytime television political drama Capitol.
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