Dana Elcar

biography:
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Ibsen Dana Elcar (October 10, 1927 - June 6, 2005) was an American television and movie character actor. Although he appeared in about 40 films, his most memorable role was on the 1980s and 1990s television series MacGyver as Peter Thornton, an administrator working for the Phoenix Foundation. Elcar had appeared in the pilot episode of MacGyver as Andy Colson (a completely different character), but was later cast as Peter Thornton, making his first regular appearance in the 11th episode of the first season.

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Falcon Crest

overview:
Falcon Crest is an American primetime television soap opera which aired on the CBS network for nine seasons, from December 4, 1981 to May 17, 1990. A total of 227 episodes were produced.

The series revolves around the feuding factions of the wealthy Gioberti/Channing family in the Californian wine industry. Jane Wyman starred as Angela Channing, the tyrannical matriarch of the Falcon Crest Winery, alongside Robert Foxworth as Chase Gioberti, Angela's nephew who returns to Falcon Crest following the death of his father. The series was set in the fictitious Tuscany Valley northeast of San Francisco.

character: Carl Reed

original_name: Falcon Crest

original_language: en

Columbo

overview: Columbo is a friendly, verbose, disheveled-looking police detective who is consistently underestimated by his suspects. Despite his unprepossessing appearance and apparent absentmindedness, he shrewdly solves all of his cases and secures all evidence needed for indictment. His formidable eye for detail and meticulously dedicated approach often become clear to the killer only late in the storyline.

character: Falcon

original_name: Columbo

B. J. and the Bear

overview: B.J. and the Bear is an American comedy series which aired on NBC from 1979 to 1981. Created by Christopher Crowe and Glen A. Larson, the series stars Greg Evigan and Claude Akins.

original_name: B. J. and the Bear

Trapper John, M.D.

overview: Trapper John, M.D. is an American television medical drama and spin-off of the film MASH, concerning a lovable doctor who became a mentor and father figure in San Francisco, California. The show ran on CBS from September 23, 1979, to September 4, 1986.

original_name: Trapper John, M.D.

Kung Fu

overview: The adventures of a Shaolin Monk as he wanders the American West armed only with his skill in Kung Fu.

character: Noah Jones

original_name: Kung Fu

The A-Team

overview: A fictional group of ex-United States Army Special Forces personnel work as soldiers of fortune while on the run from the Army after being branded as war criminals for a "crime they didn't commit."

character: George Olsen

original_name: The A-Team

The F.B.I.

overview: The F.B.I. is an American television series that was broadcast on ABC from 1965 to 1974. It was sponsored by the Ford Motor Company, and the characters almost always drove Ford vehicles in the series. Alcoa was co-sponsor of Season One only.

character: Howard Bergdahl

original_name: The F.B.I.

Matlock

overview: Thrifty, folksy and cantankerous, Matlock charges a premium for his services but is worth every penny: This renowned attorney, always clothed in his trademark light-gray suit and driving his signature Ford Crown Victoria, has an uncanny knack for finding overlooked clues and exposing murderers in dramatic courtroom scenes.

character: Arthur Hughes

original_name: Matlock

Hawaii Five-O

overview: Hawaii Five-O is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and Leonard Freeman. Set in Hawaii, the show originally aired for 12 seasons from 1968 to 1980, and continues in reruns. Jack Lord portrayed Detective Lieutenant Steve McGarrett, the head of a special state police task force which was based on an actual unit that existed under martial law in the 1940s. The theme music composed by Morton Stevens became especially popular. Many episodes would end with McGarrett instructing his subordinate to "Book 'em, Danno!", sometimes specifying a charge such as "murder one".

character: Dr. Benjamin

original_name: Hawaii Five-O

Knight Rider

overview: Michael Long, an undercover police officer, is shot while investigating a case and left for dead by his assailants. He is rescued by Wilton Knight, a wealthy, dying millionaire and inventor who arranges life-saving surgery, including a new face and a new identity--that of Michael Knight. Michael is then given a special computerized and indestructible car called the Knight Industries Two Thousand (nicknamed KITT), and a mission: apprehend criminals who are beyond the reach of the law. The series depicts Michael's exploits as he and KITT battle the forces of evil on behalf of the Foundation for Law and Government.

character: Strock

original_name: Knight Rider

Hawkins

overview: The cases of slow-talking but high-powered West Virginia attorney Billy Jim Hawkins.

character: Dr. Aaronson

original_name: Hawkins

Baretta

overview: Baretta is an American detective television series which ran on ABC from 1975 to 1978. The show was a milder version of a successful 1973–74 ABC series, Toma, starring Tony Musante as chameleon-like, real-life New Jersey police officer David Toma. While popular, Toma received intense criticism at the time for its realistic and frequent depiction of police and criminal violence. When Musante left the series after a single season, the concept was retooled as Baretta, with Robert Blake in the title role.

character: Inspector Shiller

original_name: Baretta

Alias Smith and Jones

overview: Alias Smith and Jones is an American Western series that originally aired on ABC from 1971 to 1973. It stars Pete Duel as Hannibal Heyes and Ben Murphy as Jedediah "Kid" Curry, a pair of cousin outlaws trying to reform. The governor offers them a conditional amnesty, as he wants to keep the pact under wraps for political reasons. The condition is that they will still be wanted— until the governor can claim they have reformed and warrant clemency.

original_name: Alias Smith and Jones

Room 222

original_name: Room 222

Naked City

overview:
Naked City is a police drama series which aired from 1958 to 1963 on the ABC television network. It was inspired by the 1948 motion picture of the same name, and mimics its dramatic “semi-documentary” format.

In 1997, the episode “Sweet Prince of Delancey Street” was ranked #93 on TV Guide’s “100 Greatest Episodes of All Time”.

character: Al Borris

original_name: Naked City

Mannix

overview: Mannix is an American television detective series that ran from 1967 through 1975 on CBS. Created by Richard Levinson and William Link and developed by executive producer Bruce Geller, the title character, Joe Mannix, is a private investigator. He is played by Mike Connors. Mannix was the last series produced by Desilu Productions.

original_name: Mannix

Hill Street Blues

overview: A realistic glimpse into the daily lives of the officers and detectives at an urban police station.

original_name: Hill Street Blues

Scarecrow and Mrs. King

overview: Scarecrow and Mrs. King is an American television series that aired from October 3, 1983, to May 28, 1987 on CBS. The show stars Kate Jackson and Bruce Boxleitner as divorced housewife Amanda King and top-level "Agency" operative Lee Stetson who begin a strange association, and eventual romance, after encountering one another in a train station.

original_name: Scarecrow and Mrs. King

MacGyver

overview:
He's everyone's favorite action hero... but he's a hero with a difference. Angus MacGyver is a secret agent whose wits are his deadliest weapon. Armed with only a knapsack filled with everyday items he picks up along the way, he improvises his way out of every peril the bad guys throw at him.

Making a bomb out of chewing gum? Fixing a speeding car's breaks... while he's riding in it? Using soda pop to cook up tear gas? That's all in a day's adventures for MacGyver. He's part Boy Scout, part genius. And all hero.

character: Pete Thornton

original_name: MacGyver

Herbie, the Love Bug

overview: Herbie the Matchmaker, also known as Herbie, The Love Bug, is a short-lived situation comedy that aired on CBS in the spring of 1982. The series is based on Walt Disney Productions' popular Herbie film series, about a Volkswagen Beetle with a mind of its own. It was cancelled after five episodes and, for the next fifteen years, would mark Herbie's last new appearance in either television or film; Herbie would next return to television in the 1997 film The Love Bug.

original_name: Herbie, the Love Bug

Newhart

overview: Dick Loudon and his wife Joanna decide to leave life in New York City and buy a little inn in Vermont. Dick is a how-to book writer, who eventually becomes a local TV celebrity as host of "Vermont Today." George Utley is the handyman at the inn and Leslie Vanderkellen is the maid, with ambitions of being an Olympic Ski champion; she is later replaced by her cousin Stephanie, an heiress who hates her job. Her boyfriend is Dick's yuppie TV producer, Michael Harris. There are many other quirky characters in this fictional little town, including Dick's neighbors Larry, Darryl, and Darryl...three brothers who buy the Minuteman Cafe from Kirk Devane. Besides sharing a name, Darryl and Darryl never speak.

original_name: Newhart

Medical Center

overview: Medical Center is a medical drama series which aired on CBS from 1969 to 1976. It was produced by MGM Television.

original_name: Medical Center

Hart to Hart

overview: Wealthy couple Jonathan and Jennifer Hart, a self-made millionaire and his journalist wife, moonlight as amateur detectives.

original_name: Hart to Hart

Gunsmoke

overview: Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West. The central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon, played by William Conrad on radio and James Arness on television.

character: Pennigrath

original_name: Gunsmoke

Mission: Impossible

overview:
Mission: Impossible is an American television series that was created and initially produced by Bruce Geller. It chronicles the missions of a team of secret government agents known as the Impossible Missions Force. In the first season, the team is led by Dan Briggs, played by Steven Hill; Jim Phelps, played by Peter Graves, takes charge for the remaining seasons. A hallmark of the series shows Briggs or Phelps receiving his instructions on a recording that then self-destructs, followed by the theme music composed by Lalo Schifrin.

The series aired on the CBS network from September 1966 to March 1973, then returned to television for two seasons on ABC, from 1988 to 1990, retaining only Graves in the cast. It later inspired a popular series of theatrical motion pictures starring Tom Cruise, beginning in 1996.

character: C.W. Cameron

original_name: Mission: Impossible

Galactica 1980

overview: 30 years after the original Battlestar Galactica series. Upon reaching Earth, the inhabitants of the renegade starfleet take action when they realize earthlings aren't advanced enough to help battle the Cylons.

character: John Steadman

original_name: Galactica 1980

Cannon

overview:
Cannon is a CBS detective television series produced by Quinn Martin which aired from March 26, 1971 to March 3, 1976. The primary protagonist is the title character, private detective Frank Cannon, played by William Conrad. He also appeared on two episodes of Barnaby Jones.

Cannon is the first Quinn Martin-produced series to be aired on a network other than ABC. A "revival" television film, The Return of Frank Cannon, was aired on November 1, 1980. In total, there were 124 episodes.

original_name: Cannon

Voyagers!

overview: A member of a league of time travelers and a boy travel through time repairing errors in world history.

original_name: Voyagers!

Eight Is Enough

overview: Eight Is Enough is an American television comedy-drama series that ran on ABC from March 15, 1977, until August 29, 1981. The show was modeled after syndicated newspaper columnist Thomas Braden, a real-life parent with eight children, who wrote a book with the same name.

original_name: Eight Is Enough

Get Smart

overview:
Get Smart is an American comedy television series that satirizes the secret agent genre. Created by Mel Brooks with Buck Henry, the show stars Don Adams, Barbara Feldon, and Edward Platt. Henry said they created the show by request of Daniel Melnick, who was a partner, along with Leonard Stern and David Susskind, of the show's production company, Talent Associates, to capitalize on "the two biggest things in the entertainment world today"—James Bond and Inspector Clouseau. Brooks said: "It's an insane combination of James Bond and Mel Brooks comedy." This is the only Mel Brooks production to feature a laugh track.

The success of the show eventually spawned the follow-up films The Nude Bomb and Get Smart, Again!, as well as a 1995 revival series and a 2008 film remake. In 2010, TV Guide ranked Get Smart's opening title sequence at No. 2 on its list of TV's Top 10 Credits Sequences, as selected by readers.

character: Kruger

original_name: Get Smart

Hallmark Hall of Fame

overview: Long-running anthology program sponsored by Hallmark Cards. Beginning in 1951 and continuing into 2019, the series received 80 Emmy Awards, 24 Christopher Awards, 11 Peabody Awards, 9 Golden Globes, and 4 Humanitas Prizes. Early seasons were a weekly live drama, eventually transitioning to videotaped and then filmed productions broadcast as occasional specials.

character: Jacob

original_name: Hallmark Hall of Fame

Ironside

overview: When an assassin's bullet confines him to a wheelchair for life ending his career as Chief of Detectives, Robert T. Ironside becomes a consultant to the police department. Detective Sergeant Ed Brown and policewoman Eve Whitfield join with him to crack varied and fascinating cases. Ex-con Mark Sanger is employed by the chief as home help but eventually becomes a fully fledged member of the team also. Officer Whitfield leaves after 4 years service, and is replaced by Officer Fran Belding.

character: Bill O'Brien

original_name: Ironside

The Waltons

overview: The Waltons live their life in a rural Virginia community during the Great Depression and World War II.

original_name: The Waltons

The Fall Guy

overview: Hollywood stuntman Colt Seavers picks up some extra pocket money by using his rough-and-tumble skills to track and capture bail jumpers.

original_name: The Fall Guy

The Magic School Bus

overview: An eccentric schoolteacher takes her class on wondrous educational field trips with the help of a magical school bus.

character: Mr. Terese (voice)

original_name: The Magic School Bus

origin_country: CA US

Run for Your Life

overview: Run for Your Life is an American television drama series starring Ben Gazzara as a man with only a short time to live. It ran on NBC from 1965 to 1968. The series was created by Roy Huggins, who had previously explored the "man on the move" concept with The Fugitive.

character: Dr. George Graham

original_name: Run for Your Life

Matt Houston

overview: Matt Houston is an American crime drama series that aired on ABC from 1982 to 1985. Created by Lawrence Gordon, the series was produced by Aaron Spelling.

original_name: Matt Houston

The Patty Duke Show

overview: The Patty Duke Show is an American sitcom which ran on ABC from September 18, 1963 to April 27, 1966, with reruns airing through August 31, 1966. The show was created as a vehicle for rising star Patty Duke. A total of 104 episodes were produced, most written by Sidney Sheldon.

original_name: The Patty Duke Show

Judd, for the Defense

overview: High-priced Houston lawyer Clinton Judd and his assistant Ben Caldwell take difficult cases throughout the U.S.

original_name: Judd, for the Defense

The Sixth Sense

overview: Dr. Michael Rhodes, a professor of parapsychology who, along with his assistant Nancy Murphy, attempts to solve supernatural mysteries.

original_name: The Sixth Sense

ABC Stage 67

overview:
ABC Stage 67 is the umbrella title for a series of 26 weekly shows that included dramas, variety shows, documentaries, and original musicals.

It premiered on American Broadcasting Company on September 14, 1966 with Murray Schisgal's The Love Song of Barney Kempinksi, directed by Stanley Prager and starring Alan Arkin as a man enjoying the sights and sounds of New York City in his last remaining hours of bachelorhood. Arkin was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Single Performance By An Actor in a Leading Role in a Drama and the program was nominated as Outstanding Dramatic Program.

Future programs included appearances by Petula Clark, Bobby Darin, Sir Laurence Olivier, Albert Finney, Peter Sellers, David Frost, and Jack Paar.

ABC's effort to bring culture to the masses was a noble but unsuccessful experiment. Scheduled first against I Spy on Wednesdays and then The Dean Martin Show on Thursdays, the show consistently received low ratings. Its last production, an adaptation of Jean Cocteau's one-woman play The Human Voice starring Ingrid Bergman, aired on May 4, 1967.

"Stage 67" was not actually a part of the primary ABC facilities in Los Angeles. It was produced at the old Monogram Studios backlot that was later sold to KCET.

Foul Play

overview: Based on the 1978 film of the same name, the series is about a bumbling detective in San Francisco and his girlfriend.

The Manhunter

overview: The Manhunter is an American crime drama that was part of CBS' lineup for the 1974–1975 television season. The series was produced by Quinn Martin and starred Ken Howard as Dave Barret, a 1930s-era private investigator from Idaho. The series was executive produced by Quinn Martin.

The Defenders

overview: The Defenders is an American courtroom drama series . It starred E. G. Marshall and Robert Reed as father-and-son defense attorneys who specialized in legally complex cases, with defendants such as neo-Nazis, conscientious objectors, civil rights demonstrators, a schoolteacher fired for being an atheist, an author accused of pornography, and a physician charged in a mercy killing.

name: What Really Happened to the Class of '65?

overview: Sam Ashley, a graduate of 1965 class of Bret Harte High School, who was now a teacher at the school, served as the narrator describing what had happened to his fellow graduates in the decade since they had graduated.

original_name: What Really Happened to the Class of '65?

Baa Baa Black Sheep

overview: The dramatized World War II adventures of US Major Gregory "Pappy" Boyington and his Marine Attack Squadron 214, AKA The Black Sheep Squadron.

Bonanza

overview: The High-Sierra adventures of Ben Cartwright and his sons as they run and defend their ranch while helping the surrounding community.

ER

overview: ER explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by the dedicated physicians and staff of its overburdened emergency room.

Code Red

overview: Code Red is an American drama series that ran from 1981 to 1982 on ABC and was produced by Irwin Allen. The series revolves around the family and crew of L.A. Battalion Fire Chief Joe Rorchek.

The Six Million Dollar Man

overview: Follow the adventures of Steve Austin, cybernetically enhanced astronaut turned secret agent, employed by the OSI, under the command of Oscar Goldman and supervised by the scientist who created his cybernetics, Rudy Wells. Steve uses the superior strength and speed provided by his bionic arm and legs, and the enhanced vision provided by his artificial eye, to fight enemy agents, aliens, mad scientists, and a wide variety of other villains.

The Name of the Game

overview: The Name of the Game is an American television series starring Tony Franciosa, Gene Barry, and Robert Stack that ran from 1968 to 1971 on NBC, totaling 76 episodes of 90 minutes. It was a pioneering wheel series, setting the stage for The Bold Ones and the NBC Mystery Movie in the 1970s. The show had an extremely large budget for a television series.

Hardcastle and McCormick

overview: Hardcastle and McCormick is an American action/drama television series from Stephen J. Cannell Productions, shown on ABC from 1983 through 1986. The series stars Brian Keith as Judge Milton C. Hardcastle and Daniel Hugh Kelly as ex-con and race car driver Mark "Skid" McCormick. The series premise was somewhat recycled from a previous Cannell series, Tenspeed and Brown Shoe.

The Rockford Files

overview: Cranky but likable L.A. PI Jim Rockford pulls no punches (but takes plenty of them). An ex-con sent to the slammer for a crime he didn't commit, Rockford takes on cases others don't want, aided by his tough old man, his lawyer girlfriend and some shady associates from his past.

The Virginian

overview: The Shiloh Ranch in Wyoming Territory of the 1890s is owned in sequence by Judge Henry Garth, the Grainger brothers, and Colonel Alan MacKenzie. It is the setting for a variety of stories, many more based on character and relationships than the usual western.

Teachers Only

overview:
Teachers Only is an NBC television sitcom centered around the faculty of a high school; in the first season the school was Millard Fillmore High in Los Angeles, but in the second it is Woodrow Wilson High in New York with a changed cast. In both seasons Norman Fell played Principal Ben Cooper, but Lynn Redgrave's character, Diana Swanson, who had been an English teacher in the first season, became a guidance counselor in the second season.

Redgrave and Fell were already established names when this show aired, but two of the supporting stars in the second season, Jean Smart would go on, three years later, to play her best known role, that of interior design studio receptionist Charlene Frazier Stillfield on the long running show, Designing Women. Also, Jean's co-star Teresa Ganzel became well known for her many game show appearances in the 1980s as well as her appearance in the comedic miniseries, Fresno.

This show ran for only two seasons, in 1982 and 1983.

The Invaders

overview: The Invaders, alien beings from a dying planet. Their destination: the Earth. Their purpose: to make it their world. David Vincent has seen them, for him it began one lost night on a lonely country road, looking for a shortcut that he never found. It began with a closed deserted diner, and a man too long without sleep to continue his journey. It began with the landing of a craft from another galaxy. Now, David Vincent knows that the Invaders are here, that they have taken human form. Somehow he must convince a disbelieving world that the nightmare has already begun.

The Incredible Hulk

overview: During an experiment gone bad, radiation turns a scientist into a raging green behemoth whenever he becomes agitated. Unable to control his transformations, David Banner searches for a cure as he crosses the country, fugitive-style, with a dogged tabloid reporter on his trail.

The Big Story

overview: Based on a popular radio series, each show tells a different reporter's Big Story, a true story selected from newspapers across the United States. Comments from the actual reporter open and close each show but the permanent narrator drives the plot line and a featured actor dramatizes the reporter's role.

The Bold Ones: The Senator

overview:
Hays Stowe is a new senator who comes to Washington DC with his wife Erin and daughter Norma. He arrives full of optimism that being on the side of justice can help him change things for the better…

The characters originally appeared in the 2 hour TV-movie/pilot film A Clear and Present Danger (1970).

Petrocelli

overview: Tony Petrocelli is an Italian-American Harvard-educated lawyer who gave up the big money and frenetic pace of major-metropolitan life to practice in a sleepy city in the American Southwest. He and wife Maggie live in a trailer in the country while waiting for their new house to be built, and travel around in a beat-up old pickup truck. For a quiet rural area, Petrocelli seems to have no trouble running into his share of murderers to defend.

The Outsider

overview: The Outsider was the story of David Ross, a go-it-alone private investigator who's always where the action is. Darren McGavin played Ross, a man living in an off-beat, always-dangerous world. The series aired for one season on NBC and was a precursor of sorts to The Rockford Files in that it featured a loner private detective who had previously done time in prison for a crime he didn't commit and who never quite fit into a rapidly changing environment.

Love, American Style

overview: An anthology comedy series featuring a line up of different celebrity guest stars appearing in anywhere from one, two, three, and four short stories or vignettes within an hour about versions of love and romance.

Gemini Man

overview: Sam Casey is an agent for INTERSECT, a government think-tank and operations center specializing in secret missions. While on a diving assignment, Sam was affected by the radiation from an underwater explosion. The radiation rendered him invisible, but INTERSECT devised a way to control his invisibility, by fitting him with a computerized watch that kept him visible. He could, however, shut it off, and become invisible again, for short periods of time. If he did this for more than 15 minutes in any 24 hour period he would die. This ability to become invisible made him a very effective agent.

Omnibus

overview: Omnibus is an American, commercially sponsored, educational television series.

Delphi Bureau

overview:
The Delphi Bureau is an American dramatic television series aired in the United States by ABC as one of three elements of The Men, a wheel series shown as part of its 1972-73 schedule.

The Delphi Bureau starred Laurence Luckinbill as Glenn Garth Gregory, a man with a photographic memory, whose obscure United States Government "agency" ostensibly did obscure research for the President of the United States. Its actual role was counter-espionage and its main operative was Gregory, whose liaison with the group's unnamed superiors was Sybil Van Lowreen, a Washington D.C. society hostess.

A framing design for each episode involved a limerick, a single new line of which was added for each segment of the show, until the entire limerick was completed in the final segment.

The Partridge Family

overview: The Partridge Family is an American television sitcom series about a widowed mother and her five children who embark on a music career.

Police Story

overview: Detective Cheng is commissioned by Interpol to destroy the Empire of Chaiba, a worldwide criminal organization based in Southeast Asia. He initiates an undercover operation to infiltrate the organization.

Espionage

overview: Pulled from actual case histories and utilizing newsreel and documented narratives, the activities of spies from various countries are depicted as far back as the American Revolution and as recent as the Cold War.

The Duke

overview: The Duke is an American mini series that aired shown on NBC from April 5 to May 18, 1979.

Salvage 1

overview:
Salvage operator Harry Broderick buys and sells scrap as well as electronics, aircraft, and other equipment. Harry constantly has grandiose schemes to make money, sometimes not completely honestly.  In the pilot, his dream is to recover equipment left on the Moon during Apollo Program missions, for he believes the salvage value will make it a worthwhile venture. In the show's opening title narration, Harry states:

"I wanna build a spaceship, go to the Moon, salvage all the junk that's up there, bring it back, sell it."

Deutsch

biography:
Dana Elcar (* 10. Oktober 1927 in Ferndale, Michigan, als Ibson Dana Elcar; † 6. Juni 2005 in Ventura, Kalifornien) war ein US-amerikanischer Schauspieler.

Seit seinem Fernsehdebüt 1954 spielte Elcar knapp 200 Rollen in Film und Fernsehen. Dabei wirkte er in zahllosen Gastrollen in diversen Serien mit, in Großproduktionen wie 2010 nach Arthur C. Clarke, Komödien wie Solo für zwei (neben Steve Martin) und Buddy, Buddy! (neben Walter Matthau und Jack Lemmon), in Franco Zeffirellis The Champ und als FBI-Agent Polk in der Gaunerkomödie Der Clou (neben Paul Newman und Robert Redford).

Besonders populär wurde er durch seine Serienrollen. Von 1976 bis 1978 spielte er in der Kriegsserie Pazifikgeschwader 214 (Baa Baa Black Sheep) Col. Thomas Lard, den paragraphentreuen Gegenspieler der sympathischen Hauptfigur, die dem US-amerikanischen Marinepiloten Gregory „Pappy“ Boyington (die von Robert Conrad gespielte Figur trug dabei den Namen Boyingtons) nachempfunden war. 1985 wurde er in der Serie MacGyver als Pete Thornton, Direktor der Phoenix-Foundation und damit Vorgesetzter des Titelhelden, besetzt. Zuvor hatte er bereits in der Pilotfolge zur Serie die Rolle eines Sicherheitschefs mit dem Namen Andy Colson gespielt. Die Figur Pete Thornton wurde so beliebt, dass Elcar ab Beginn der zweiten Staffel die feste Hauptrolle neben Richard Dean Anderson als MacGyver bekam, nachdem er während der ersten Staffel nur ein wiederkehrender Nebendarsteller war.

1991 erkrankte Elcar an der Augenkrankheit Grüner Star (Glaukom), an der er schließlich erblindete. Dennoch übte er seinen Beruf weiterhin aus, der zunehmende Verlust des Augenlichts wurde in seine Rolle bei MacGyver hineingeschrieben. In den folgenden Jahren übernahm Elcar immer wieder Gastrollen in Fernsehserien.

普通话

达娜·埃尔卡

biography: 达娜·埃尔卡（1927 年 10 月 10 日 - 2005 年 6 月 6 日）是美国电视和电影角色演员。

Pусский

Дана Элкар

biography: Дана Элкар, при рождении Ибсен Дана Элкар - американский кино- и теле- характерный актёр, снявшийся в более чем 40 фильмах и больше всего известный своей ролью с 1980-х по 1990-е в телесериале «Секретный агент Макгайвер» в качестве Питера Торнтона, руководителя вымышленного учреждения Феникс, которое занималось вопросами национальной безопасности. В пилотном эпизоде актёр появился в роли Энди Колсона (совершенно другого персонажа), но позднее стал регулярно сниматься в роли Питера Торнтона, начиная с 11 эпизода первого сезона.

普通话

達納·艾卡

biography: 達納·艾卡（1927 年 10 月 10 日 - 2005 年 6 月 6 日）是美國電視和電影角色演員。

title: 2010

overview: While planet Earth poises on the brink of nuclear self-destruction, a team of Russian and American scientists aboard the Leonov hurtles to a rendezvous with the still-orbiting Discovery spacecraft and its sole known survivor, the homicidal computer HAL.

title: The Borgia Stick

overview: A suburban couple discovers that they are pawns for a powerful crime syndicate. They try to break away from the cartel and go legitimate, but the syndicate doesn't want to give them up so easily.

title: Catch-22

overview: Bombardier Yossarian is stationed on the small island of Pianosa during World War II. In addition to the enemy trying to kill him, Yossarian also has to endure the bureaucratic SNAFUs of group leaders and the insane antics of other 256th Squadron members. Failed television pilot for a sitcom adaptation of Joseph Heller’s satirical black comedy novel Catch-22.

title: Murder in Three Acts

overview: In Acapulco, Hercule Poirot attends a dinner party in which one of the guests clutches his throat and suddenly dies. The causes seem to be natural until another party with most of the same guests produces another corpse.

title: A Lovely Way to Die

overview: A cop quits the force after too much disappointment in the system. He becomes a bodyguard of a rich recent widow. She is on trial for her husband's murder. He decides to help her clear her name... and get over her husband.

title: The Sting

overview: A novice con man teams up with an acknowledged master to avenge the murder of a mutual friend by pulling off the ultimate big con and swindling a fortune from a big-time mobster.

title: The Boston Strangler

overview: Boston is being terrorized by a series of seemingly random murders of women. Based on the true story, the film follows the investigators path through several leads before introducing the Strangler as a character. It is seen almost exclusively from the point of view of the investigators who have very few clues to build a case upon.

title: The Nude Bomb

overview: When KAOS develops a bomb that can dissolve all clothing, Maxwell Smart is brought in to foil the evil plot.

title: Breach of Contract

overview: A husband and wife, both of whom are career-oriented, agree never to step on the other's ambitions. Unfortunately, both become too ambitious for their own good, and, true to the film's title, their verbal "contract" is shattered.

title: The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid

overview: The gangs of Jesse James and Cole Younger join forces to rob the First National Bank in Northfield, Minnesota, but things do not go as planned.

title: The Fool Killer

overview: After the Civil War, a southern boy, aged 12, runs away from his foster home, wanders the countryside, and meets various odd characters along the way, including Milo, a mysterious drifter who may or may not be the vengeful "Fool Killer" of folklore.

title: The Last Flight of Noah's Ark

overview: The only chance to escape a desert island is to convert the plane carrying many different animals into a boat.

title: Soldier Blue

overview: After a cavalry group is massacred by the Cheyenne, only two survivors remain: Honus, a naive private devoted to his duty, and Cresta, a young woman who had lived with the Cheyenne two years and whose sympathies lie more with them than with the US government. Together, they must try to reach the cavalry's main base camp. As they travel onward, Honus is torn between his growing affection for Cresta.

title: Report to the Commissioner

overview: Police officer Patty Butler, alias "Chicklet," is the live-in girlfriend of Thomas 'Stick' Henderson to gather evidence. Detective Bo Lockley is instructed to try to find her, not knowing she's also a cop.

title: The Day the Bubble Burst

overview: A fictionalized account of how the 1929 stock market crash hurt the elite and the struggling, and the forces that may have caused the crash to occur.

title: St. Ives

overview: A dabbler-in-crime and his assistant hire an ex-police reporter to recover some stolen papers.

title: The Whole World Is Watching

overview: In this second pilot of "The Lawyers," a rotating segment of "The Bold Ones" series, the firm of Nichols, Darrell & Darrell defends the leader of a student protest movement charged with the murder of a campus policeman. The problem is that the student, and his supporters, may be more interested in making a statement about their grievances than about his acquittal.

title: W.C. Fields and Me

overview: In 1920s New York City, W. C. Fields is a successful headlining entertainer, but when his girlfriend leaves him and his broker loses his money, Fields begins anew in California. Working at a wax museum, Fields eventually lands a film role that ascends him to stardom. Back in the limelight and palling around with John Barrymore and the like, Fields meets an aspiring actress Carlotta Monti at a party, with whom he forms a rocky relationship.

title: Condorman

overview: Comic artist and writer Woody performs a simple courier operation for his friend Harry who works for the CIA. But when he successfully fends off hostile agents, he earns the respect of the beautiful Natalia, who requests his assistance for her defection. Woody uses this request as leverage to use the CIA's resources to bring his comic book creation, Condorman, to life to battle the evil Krokov.

title: Of Mice and Men

overview: Two ranch workers, one of them simple-minded, look for work and happiness during the Great Depression, but luck is not in their cards.

title: Sweet Revenge

overview: While a major in the U.S. Army, Joe Cheever has a fling with his commanding officer's daughter that results in a pregnancy. Cheever convinces the girl to have an illegal abortion. The abortion goes wrong and the girl dies. To protect his career, Cheever implicates Captain Dennison whose life is thereby ruined. Years later, the Captain's now grown-up sister Katherine marries Army Major Alex Breen, and is stunned to learn his commanding officer is the now Colonel Cheever. She becomes obsessed with getting revenge for the sake of her dead brother.

title: A Gunfight

overview: Will Tenneray and Abe Cross are two aging, famous gunfighters, both in need of money. Tenneray comes up with the idea to stage a duel to the death in a bullfight arena, with the ticket proceeds going to the winner.

title: Inside Out

overview: An agoraphobic must give up his sheltered life and venture outside after a series of personal and financial problems.

title: Zig Zag

overview: A dying man frames himself for murder so his widow can collect the reward.

title: Dying Room Only

overview: A married couple are traveling on a deserted desert road at night. They stop at a diner and the husband goes to the men's room. He never returns and the wife begins to suspect serious foul play.

title: Jungle Warriors

overview: A group of models fly into the jungle of some South American country to look for a photo location. Their plane is shot down and they are captured by a drug baron's private army. At the same time, the Mafia's representative arrive to negotiate future collaboration.

title: Death Penalty

overview: A strong-willed psychologist tries to rehabilitate a member of a Pittsburgh street gang who has been found guilty of the murder of two other teenagers in a playground rumble.

title: Quarterback Princess

overview: The Maida family has moved to Oregon, and daughter Tami wants to play quarterback for the high school football team. There's just one problem. She's a girl. With everyone from the coach to her next door neighbor against her, she's out to prove that not only can she can play football, but she can win the state championship. (Based on a true story)

title: 'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War

overview: Film critic J. Hoberman discusses the best-selling 1962 novel by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler on which "Fail-Safe" is based, along with the pervasiveness of nuclear paranoia in films of the sixties.

title: Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff

overview: An abusive sexual relationship between a white spinster schoolteacher and a young black janitor in 1956 Kansas complicates her struggle to come to grips with her sexuality and emotions.

title: Mark, I Love You

overview: A distraught widower is caught in a bitter custody battle with his late wife's parents over his 10-year-old son, following his plans to remarry and move off to California with the boy.

title: Mrs. Pollifax — Spy

overview: Mrs. Emily Pollifax of New Jersey goes to the CIA to volunteer for spy duty, being in her own opinion, expendable now that the children are grown and she's widowed. And being just what the department needed (someone who looks and acts completely unlike a spy), she's assigned to simple courier duty to pick up a book in Mexico City. But when the pickup doesn't go as planned, Mrs. Pollifax finds herself handcuffed to a handsome stranger on a plane bound for an Albanian prison. And it's up to her to get them out.

title: The Death of Me Yet

overview: The editor of a small-town newspaper has his past unexpectedly catch up with him: he finds out that a Soviet agent who knew him when he was a spy has been sent to the U.S. to kill him.

title: Burning Bright

overview: In this acclaimed production of John Steinbeck's classic morality tale, award-winning actress Colleen Dewhurst stars as Mordeen, a wife driven to desperate measures to give her aging circus performer husband a child. Dana Elcar, Donald Madden and Tony Award winner Myron McCormick round out the talented cast of this televised Broadway Theatre Archive production, produced by Lewis Freedman and Henry Weinstein.

title: Crisis in Mid-Air

overview: The life of a stressed-out air controller falls apart as he battles a court case involving a mid-air collision for which an investigator is trying to hold him responsible.

title: Heatwave!

overview: A devastating heatwave hits the Los Angeles area and a young expecting couple try to evade it by escaping to a mountain resort town.

title: Deadlock

overview: The murder of a journalist, coming shortly after the killings of a black teenager and a white cop, threatens to inflame passions in the city. To prevent a riot, Lieutenant Sam Danforth and District Attorney Leslie Washburn are determined to find the killer, even though they do not exactly get along with each other and disagree over procedure.

title: Sarge: The Badge or the Cross

overview: After his wife is murdered, a veteran cop quits the police department and becomes a priest. Several years later he is assigned to a parish where he meets the man who killed his wife -- and discovers that the killer was gunning for him instead. The first of two feature-length pilots for the series "Sarge."

title: Senior Year

overview: Pilot for the short-lived series "Sons and Daughters" set in a high school in the 1950's and seen through the eyes of five carefree seniors.

title: The Flying Misfits

overview: The dramatized World War II adventures of US Major Gregory "Pappy" Boyington and his Marine Attack Squadron 214, AKA The Black Sheep Squadron. The film also acted as the pilot for the television series Baa Baa Black Sheep.  Former U.S. Marine pilot Greg "Pappy" Boyington is flying with the American Volunteer Group (the Flying Tigers) in China. After Pearl Harbor brings America into World War II, Greg leaves the AVG to rejoin the Marine Corps. He refuses to be relegated to a desk job and, against all military protocol, forms his own fighter squadron from a group of misfits and disciplinary cases.

title: The Learning Tree

overview: The story, set in Kansas during the 1920's, covers less than a year in the life of a black teenager, and documents the veritable deluge of events which force him into sudden manhood. The family relationships and enmities, the fears, frustrations and ambitions of the black teenager in small-town America are explored with a strong statement about human values.

title: Baby Blue Marine

overview: A would-be Marine fails basic training, and is sent home wearing the "baby blue" fatigues of a washout. En route, he is mugged by a battle-fatigued Marine Raider, who leaves him to hitch-hike home in an undeserved hero's uniform. A small Colorado town takes him in, treating him like the hero he appears to be.

title: Buddy Buddy

overview: During a high-profile Mafia testimony case in Riverside County, a hired killer checks into a hotel room near the courthouse, while his depressed neighbor contemplates suicide over marital problems.

title: Blue Skies Again

overview: A hard-hitting, fast, sure-handed baseball player tries to break into the sport by applying for a spot on a minor-league team. The only problem is that the player is female, which engenders resistance and resentment among many players and officials.

title: San Francisco International

overview: This pilot for the TV series stars Pernell Roberts as Jim Conrad, who runs an airport, much to the chagrin of his boss, "his way." In this, two plots run - a kid whose parents are splitting up decides to take off in a little red prop plane (and Conrad talks him down), and thieves played by the handsome Tab Hunter and his truly ugly sidekicks try to steal a money shipment. Roberts was replaced by Lloyd Bridges when the show went to series.

title: The D.A.: Murder One

overview: A Deputy District Attorney suspects that a nurse has been murdering her rich husbands and relatives by giving them unneeded insulin doses, but his superiors don't believe him.

title: There Were Times, Dear

overview: Bob and Susanne Millard deal with the onset of Bob's Alzheimer's disease.

title: The Champ

overview: Billy used to be a great boxer, but he's settled into a hardscrabble life that revolves around drinking, training horses, and the one bright spot in his existence — his young son, T.J. Although Billy has had custody of T.J. since his wife, Annie, left the family years ago, her return prompts a new struggle for the former fighter. Determined to hold on to his son, Billy gets back into the ring to try and recapture his past success.

title: Law of the Land

overview: A frontier sheriff and his young deputies search for a serial killer who is murdering prostitutes.

title: Fail Safe

overview: Because of a technical defect an American bomber team mistakenly orders the destruction of Moscow. The President of the United States has but little time to prevent an atomic catastrophe from occurring.

title: The Maltese Bippy

overview: A man buys a house and comes to believe that not only is the house haunted by werewolves, but a family of vampires lives next door.

title: Forbidden Love

overview: A young doctor meets and falls in love with the older Joanna, who is on the board of directors at his hospital. The people around them, including their families, have a hard time accepting the age difference, and they must decide whether to call it quits or stick with each other.

title: The Bravos

overview: The commander of an isolated frontier cavalry post tries to stop an Indian war and find his son, who has been kidnapped.

title: Adam at Six A.M.

overview: A disenchanted young Professor of Semantics at a California college learns of a distant relative's death in Missouri. He journeys cross-country to the funeral, then decides to spend the summer there and work as a laborer for a power-line company. In time, he meets a girl and falls in love but then faces an important decision as to which direction he wants his life to go.

title: Pendulum

overview: On the evening of his decoration for bringing a murderer to justice, Washington DC Police Captain Frank Matthews' wife, and her lover are murdered in bed. Jailed as the prime suspect, with the aforementioned murderer released on a technicality Matthews escapes in search of the man he believes to be the real killer.

title: Samurai

overview: Lee Cantrell, a young San Francisco attorney by day, at night becomes a samurai warrior, and battles a crazed multi-millionaire who is planning to destroy the city with an earthquake machine.

title: The Sound of Anger

overview: Two teenagers who have been engaged in pre-marital sex become the prime suspects when the girl's disapproving father is mysteriously murdered.

title: Help Wanted: Male

overview: An unmarried career woman decides she wants a baby and finds a suitable partner, a sportswriter working for the magazine she publishes. After she maneuvers him into proposing marriage to her, she learns that he happens to be sterile.

title: All of Me

overview: Just before stubborn millionaire Edwina Cutwater dies, she asks her uptight lawyer, Roger Cobb, to amend her will so that her soul will pass to the young, vibrant Terry Hoskins – but the spiritual transference goes awry. Edwina enters Roger's body instead, forcing him to battle Edwina for control of his own being.

title: Panic on the 5:22

overview: Three armed men take over a private railroad car, determined to rob and kill the passengers.

title: Fireball Forward

overview: A hard-nose general takes over a division with a bad combat record.

title: Big Deal in Laredo

overview: A timid man with money problems gets into a big card game with some high-rollers.

title: I Want to Live

overview: The movie tells the story of a woman who struggles and fights to escape the gas chamber being condemned with capital punishment because of her participation in a hold up in which a person was killed.

title: Tough Love

overview: The Charters family falls into despair over their drug-addicted son Gary. They discuss his problems through the "Tough Love" program in searching for answers.

title: Inspector Perez

overview: Failed crime TV pilot starring Anne Bloom.

title: The Crucible

overview: Landmark TV adaptation of the Arthur Miller play. Nominated for 3 Emmy awards.

title: Elizabeth the Queen

overview: In the sixteenth century, Queen Elizabeth I (Dame Judith Anderson) is the ruler of England. Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex (Charlton Heston) is her lover, best friend, and worst enemy.

title: Love Nest

overview: This comedy pilot is the story of the life of a pair of widowed senior citizens who live together in a Florida trailer park.

title: 2010

title: The Borgia Stick

title: Catch-22

title: Murder in Three Acts

title: A Lovely Way to Die

title: The Sting

title: The Boston Strangler

title: The Nude Bomb

title: The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid

title: Breach of Contract

title: The Fool Killer

title: The Last Flight of Noah's Ark

title: Soldier Blue

title: Report to the Commissioner

title: The Day the Bubble Burst

title: St. Ives

title: The Whole World Is Watching

title: W.C. Fields and Me

title: Condorman

title: Of Mice and Men

title: Sweet Revenge

title: A Gunfight

title: Inside Out

title: Zig Zag

title: Dying Room Only

title: Jungle Warriors

title: Death Penalty

title: Quarterback Princess

title: 'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War

title: Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff

title: Mark, I Love You

title: Mrs. Pollifax — Spy

title: The Death of Me Yet

title: Burning Bright

title: Crisis in Mid-Air

title: Heatwave!

title: Deadlock

title: Sarge: The Badge or the Cross

title: Senior Year

title: The Flying Misfits

title: The Learning Tree

title: Baby Blue Marine

title: Buddy Buddy

title: Blue Skies Again

title: San Francisco International

title: The D.A.: Murder One

title: There Were Times, Dear

title: The Champ

title: Law of the Land

title: Fail Safe

title: The Maltese Bippy

title: Forbidden Love

title: The Bravos

title: Adam at Six A.M.

title: Pendulum

title: Samurai

title: The Sound of Anger

title: Help Wanted: Male

title: All of Me

title: Panic on the 5:22

title: Fireball Forward

title: Big Deal in Laredo

title: I Want to Live

title: Tough Love

title: Inspector Perez

title: The Crucible

title: Elizabeth the Queen

title: Love Nest


Eleanor Coppola

biography:
Eleanor Jessie Coppola (née Neil; May 4, 1936 – April 12, 2024) was an American documentary film director, screenwriter, and artist. She was married to director Francis Ford Coppola from 1963 until her death. She was best-known for her 1991 documentary film Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse as well as other documentaries chronicling the films of her husband and children.

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Eleanor Coppola

biography:
Eleanor Coppola, geborene Eleanor Jessie Neil, war eine US-amerikanische Regisseurin, Drehbuchautorin und Künstlerin.

Als Set-Dekorateurin an dem Film Dementia 13 lernte sie ihren späteren Ehemann Francis Ford Coppola kennen, der bei dieser Produktion zum zweiten Mal als Regisseur arbeitete.

2017 inszenierte sie mit Paris kann warten ihren ersten Spielfilm, der auf autobiographischen Erlebnissen basiert.

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overview: A chronicle of the production problems — including bad weather, actors' health, war near the filming locations, and more — which plagued the filming of Apocalypse Now, increasing costs and nearly destroying the life and career of Francis Ford Coppola.

character: Self

title: Coda: Thirty Years Later

overview: A behind-the-scenes look at the trials and tribulations of filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola directing his first film in ten years, Youth Without Youth (2007).

original_title: Coda: Thirty Years Later

title: Ryska Alaska

overview: History of the Russian Alaska.

original_title: Ryska Alaska

original_language: sv

title: A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope

overview: A fascinating chronicle of the birth and rise of the radically different independent studio founded by director Francis Ford Coppola.

title: Megadoc

overview: Presenting a behind-the-scenes account of a visionary at work. From Oscar-nominated Mike Figgis, Megadoc gives audiences an unfiltered and intimate look at the making of Francis Ford Coppola’s epic sci-fi drama Megalopolis.

original_title: Megadoc

title: Behind the Scenes of Palo Alto

overview: Jacqui Getty's behind-the-scenes look at Gia Coppola's directorial debut Palo Alto, starring Emma Roberts, James Franco, Jack Kilmer, Nat Wolff, and Val Kilmer.

original_title: Behind the Scenes of Palo Alto

title: The Making of The Virgin Suicides

overview: While Sofia Coppola directed her first feature, her mother, the artist and filmmaker Eleanor Coppola, was there to document the experience.

original_title: The Making of The Virgin Suicides

title: Tell Them We Were Here

overview: Tell Them We Were Here is an inspirational feature-length documentary about eight artists who show us why art is vital to a healthy society and reminds us that we are stronger together.

original_title: Tell Them We Were Here

title: The Rain People

overview: When a housewife finds out she is pregnant, she runs out of town looking for freedom to reevaluate her life decisions.

character: Gordon's Wife (uncredited)

original_title: The Rain People

title: Eleanor Coppola: Art is All Around Us

overview: A look at the creative life of documentary film director, screenwriter, author, and artist Eleanor Coppola.

character: Herself

original_title: Eleanor Coppola: Art is All Around Us

title: On the Set of CQ

overview: Documentary short on the set of CQ.

original_title: On the Set of CQ

title: A Visit to China’s Miao Country

overview: A documentary from Eleanor Coppola has her traveling through China.

character: Narrator

original_title: A Visit to China’s Miao Country

job: Title Designer

title: You're a Big Boy Now

overview: Naive library clerk Bernard Chanticleer moves out of his parents’ home and into a chaotic city full of eccentric landlords, meddling parents, and romantic missteps. Infatuated with a glamorous but manipulative go-go dancer, he learns through heartbreak—and the kindness of a steadfast admirer—what growing up really means.

department: Art

original_title: You're a Big Boy Now

job: Screenplay

title: Love Is Love Is Love

overview: Three stories that explore love, commitment, and loyalty between couples and friends. "Two for Dinner" where a married couple temporarily living in two different locations are more separated than they think. "Sailing Lesson" about a long-married couple who spend a day on a sailboat rekindling their romance… and unexpected events arise. "Late Lunch" where a young woman who recently lost her mother gathers together a group of her mother’s friends to share memories, with surprising revelations.

department: Writing

original_title: Love Is Love Is Love

job: Director

department: Directing

job: Writer

title: Paris Can Wait

overview: Anne is at a crossroads in her life. Long married to a successful, driven but inattentive movie producer, she unexpectedly finds herself taking a car trip from Cannes to Paris with Jacques, a business associate of her husband. What should be a seven-hour drive turns into a carefree two-day adventure replete with diversions involving picturesque sights, fine food and wine, humor, wisdom and romance - reawakening Anne's senses and giving her a new lust for life.

original_title: Paris Can Wait

title: Paris Can Wait

job: Set Supervisor

title: Dementia 13

overview: A scheming widow hatches a bold plan to acquire her late husband's inheritance, unaware that she is being targeted by an ax murderer who lurks in the family's estate.

original_title: Dementia 13

job: Producer

title: Paris Can Wait

department: Production

job: In Memory Of

title: Megalopolis

overview: In a futuristic New York known as New Rome, visionary architect Cesar Catilina dreams of building "Megalopolis," a utopian city that redefines society’s limits. Opposing him is the corrupt Mayor Franklyn Cicero, who clings to power and profit. Between them stands Julia, the mayor’s daughter, whose love for Cesar forces her to choose between loyalty, ambition, and the fate of humanity.

department: Crew

original_title: Megalopolis

job: Story

title: Love Is Love Is Love

title: Coda: Thirty Years Later

title: Coda: Thirty Years Later

title: Coda: Thirty Years Later

title: The Making of The Virgin Suicides

title: Love Is Love Is Love

title: The Making of Marie Antoinette

overview: A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette (2006).

title: The Last Showgirl

overview: When the glittering Las Vegas revue she has headlined for decades announces it will soon close, a glamorous showgirl must reconcile with the decisions she’s made and the community she has built as she plans her next act.

title: Peeling a Potato Is a Work of Art

title: Victorian House

title: Joyce Goldstein

title: Refrigerator

title: Apocalypse Now

overview: At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter Kurtz, who has been leading his personal army on illegal guerrilla missions into enemy territory.

title: Francis Ford Coppola Directs 'John Grisham's the Rainmaker'

overview: A behind-the-scenes look at the making of the film The Rainmaker (1997), and director Francis Ford Coppola's creative methods of getting great performances from his cast.

title: A Visit to China’s Miao Country

title: A Visit to China’s Miao Country

title: Coda: Thirty Years Later

title: Ryska Alaska

title: Megadoc

title: Behind the Scenes of Palo Alto

title: The Making of The Virgin Suicides

title: Tell Them We Were Here

title: The Rain People

title: Eleanor Coppola: Art is All Around Us

title: On the Set of CQ

title: A Visit to China’s Miao Country

title: You're a Big Boy Now

title: Love Is Love Is Love

title: Paris Can Wait

title: Paris Can Wait

title: Dementia 13

title: Paris Can Wait

title: Megalopolis

title: Love Is Love Is Love

title: Coda: Thirty Years Later

title: Coda: Thirty Years Later

title: Coda: Thirty Years Later

title: The Making of The Virgin Suicides

title: Love Is Love Is Love

title: The Making of Marie Antoinette

title: The Last Showgirl

title: Peeling a Potato Is a Work of Art

title: Victorian House

title: Joyce Goldstein

title: Refrigerator

title: Apocalypse Now

title: A Visit to China’s Miao Country

title: A Visit to China’s Miao Country