
John Russell
Oyuncu · 1921 – 1991 · Los Angeles, California, USA
John Lawrence Russell, 3 Ocak 1921 tarihinde Los Angeles, Kaliforniya, ABD'de dünyaya gelmiştir. Uzun boyu (yaklaşık 1.93m), keskin yüz hatları ve heybetli duruşuyla tanınan Russell, Hollywood'da onlarca yıl boyunca ağırlıklı olarak western ve aksiyon türlerinde otoriter figürleri ve akılda kalıcı kötü adamları canlandırmıştır. Kaliforniya Üniversitesi'nde eğitim gördüğü sırada 20th Century Fox ile sözleşme imzalayarak sinemaya adım attı, ancak kariyeri II. Dünya Savaşı nedeniyle kesintiye uğradı. Savaş sırasında ABD Deniz Piyadeleri'nde teğmen olarak görev yaptı ve Guadalcanal'daki çatışmalara katıldı. Savaştan döndükten sonra oyunculuk kariyerine yeniden odaklandı ve Republic Pictures gibi stüdyolar için çok sayıda B filmi ve western filminde rol aldı. Russell'ın kariyerindeki en büyük çıkışı televizyonda gerçekleşti. 1958'den 1962'ye kadar dört sezon ve 156 bölüm boyunca yayınlanan "Lawman" adlı popüler western dizisinde, Laramie'nin sert ama adil şerifi Marshal Dan Troop karakterine hayat verdi. Bu rol, onu 1950'lerin sonu ve 1960'ların başında televizyonun en tanınan western yıldızlarından biri haline getirdi. Televizyondaki başarısının yanı sıra Russell, sinemada da önemli karakter rollerinde yer aldı. En bilinen sinema performanslarından biri, Howard Hawks'ın yönettiği 1959 yapımı western klasiği "Rio Bravo" (Kahramanlar Şehri) filmindeki kötü adam Nathan Burdette rolüdür. Bu rol, onun sert ve tehditkâr kötü adam portresini pekiştirdi. Ayrıca "The Sun Shines Bright" (1953) ve Clint Eastwood'un yönettiği "The Outlaw Josey Wales" (Kanunsuz Josey Wales) (1976) gibi filmlerde de rol aldı. Kariyerinin son dönemlerindeki en unutulmaz rolü, yine bir Clint Eastwood filmi olan 1985 yapımı "Pale Rider" (Soluk Yüzlü Adam) ile geldi. Russell bu filmde, Clint Eastwood'un "Preacher" (Vaiz) karakterinin baş düşmanı olan, acımasız ve soğukkanlı Marshal Stockburn karakterini canlandırarak güçlü bir performans sergiledi. John Russell, 19 Ocak 1991 tarihinde Los Angeles, Kaliforniya'da 70 yaşında amfizem nedeniyle hayatını kaybetmiştir.
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Film7.8WesternDramGelmiş geçmiş en iyi western filmleri arasında gösterilen filmde, Şerif John T. Chance ve iki yardımcısı kasabada işlenen cinayetlerin peşine düşerler. Ancak yardımcılarının birinin çok genç, birinin de alkolik olması onun başına türlü belalar açar...
Film7.5WesternClint Eastwood önceden rol aldığı Avrupa Westernlerindeki 'İsimsiz Adam'a benzeyen, daima tetikte, hızlı silah çeken yabancı rolünde tek kelimeyle mükemmel. Fakat o efsanevi kanunsuzun aksine, Josey Wales'in bir ismi, ve bir yüreği var.Yürek açılır, ve macera başlar. Ailesini vahşice öldürenlerden öcünü alan Wales, bir grup katil tarafından kovalanmaktadır. Wales yanlız yolculuk etmeyi tercih eder, fakat peşine takılan (aralarında Sondra Locke ve Chief Dan George'un da bulunduğu) kanunsuz serserileri korumasız bırakmaya gönlü elvermez. Time dergisine göre 1976 yılının en iyi filmleri arasında yeralan The Outlaw Josey Wales, tüm zamanların en iyi Westernlerinden.
Film7.8KomediDramWashington'da senatörün ölmesinin haberi tüm eyalette yayılmıştır ve Senator Joseph Paine'in medya patronu Jim Taylor'dan istediği geçici göreve gelecek kişi için işlerine pek karışamayacak birini bulmasıdır. Jefferson Smith Boy Rangers'ın başkanı, dürüst ve idealleri olan biridir ve bu istek için biçilmiş kaftandır. Ne var ki, Washington entrikaları içinde Jefferson'ın dürüstlüğü ve kendini insanlara adaması bazı değişimlere sebep olur * İzlemeden önce sıkıcı bir politik film olduğunu zannediyordum.Kesinlikle sıkıcı değilmiş, aksine bir başucu filmiymiş. Kararında ilerleyen senaryo finaline doğru kalitesini hep arttırıyor. Zaten eski filmlerde en çok sevdiğim şey bu * Frank Capra neden filmlerinin son yarım saatini tüyleri havaya dikecek kadar etkileyici biçimde işliyor?
Film7.2WesternDramWestern filmlerine uzun bir ara veren Clint Eastwood, kendi yapım şirketi Malpaso Company ile yaptığı Pale Rider - 1985 ile yeniden at sırtında...Eastwood, western filmlerindeki tipik "ismi olmayan adam" tarzı bir rolle bilinmeyen bir yerlerden çıkıp madencilerin bulunduğu kasabaya geliyor ve kasaba halkını ezen güçlerin karşısına dikiliyor... Kasabanın güçlü kozları, Eastwood'u durdurmak için uzaklardan usta silahşörler kiralayıp getirince işler iyice karışıyor...Pale Rider, ağır ilerleyişine rağmen, ustalıkla kurgulanmış finaliyle, farklı bir Eastwood westerni.
Film6.7TarihWesternDuring the Texas War of Independence of 1836 American frontiersman and pioneer Jim Bowie pleads for caution with the rebellious Texicans. They don't heed his advice since he's a Mexican citizen, married to the daughter of the Mexican vice-governor of the province and a friend to General Santa Anna since the days they had fought together for Mexico's independence. After serving as president for 22 years, Santa Anna has become too powerful and arrogant. He rules Mexico with an iron fist and he would not allow Texas to self-govern. Bowie sides with the Texans in their bid for independence and urges a cautious strategy, given Santa Anna's power and cunning. Despite the disagreement between the Texicans and Bowie regarding the right strategy they ask Bowie to lead them in a last-ditch stand, at Alamo, against General Santa Anna's numerically superior forces.
The Last Command
1955 · 10 votes
Film6.3DramMüzikTüberkiloz hastası bir country müzisyeni olan Red (Clint Eastwood) ünlü olabilmek için yeğeni ile birlikte yollara düşer. Büyük bunalım döneminde geçen filmde yönetmen-oyuncu olarak görev yapan Eastwood, o yıllarda 14 yaşındaki oğlu Kyle Eastwood'a da önemli bir rol vermiş.
Film6.6KomediDramWith the election approaching, a judge in a Southern town at the turn of the 20th century is involved variously in revealing the real identity of a young woman, reliving his Civil War memories, and preventing the lynching of an African youth.
The Sun Shines Bright
1953 · 53 votes
Film6.7GizemGerilimGeorge Taylor returns from WWII with amnesia. Back home in Los Angeles, while trying to track down his old identity, he stumbles onto a three year old murder case and a hunt for a missing $2 million.
Somewhere in the Night
1946 · 74 votes
Film6.2MaceraWesternA fur-trapper named Kelly, who once saved the life of a Sioux chief, is allowed to set his traps in Sioux territory during the late 1870s. Reluctantly he takes on a tenderfoot assistant named Anse and together they give shelter to a runaway Arapaho woman. Tensions develop when Anse falls in love with this woman and when the Sioux chief arrives with his warriors to re-claim her.
Yellowstone Kelly
1959 · 27 votes
Film7.0WesternIn 1867, a gang robs a bank and flees into the desert. Out of water, the outlaws encounter a ghost town called Yellow Sky and its only residents, a hostile young woman and her grandfather.
Yellow Sky
1948 · 131 votes
Film6.1DramTarihAmber St Clair, orphaned during the English Civil War and raised by a family of farmers, aspires to be a lady of high society; when a group of cavaliers ride into town, she sneaks away with them to London to achieve her dreams.
Forever Amber
1947 · 33 votes
Film6.0SavaşDramMajor Joppolo and his men are assigned to restore order to the war-torn Italian town of Adano. He has to manage getting supplies into town without interfering with troop movements, all the while dealing with colorful citizens of the town. One of his quests is to replace the bell which orders the town's life.
A Bell for Adano
1945 · 14 votes
Film5.6AksiyonMaceraIn 1912, during the Mexican Revolution, the border between Texas and Mexico is on flames due to savage raids by Mexican bandits who call themselves freedom fighters, so the US government entrusts to General Pershing the capture of General Héctor Córdoba, the most notorious among them.
Cannon for Cordoba
1970 · 23 votes
Film6.6SuçDramEx-con turned private investigator Bradford Galt suspects someone is following him and maybe even trying to kill him. With the assistance of his spunky secretary, Kathleen Stewart, he dives deep into a mystery in search of answers.
The Dark Corner
1946 · 73 votes
Film6.6WesternA small rancher is being harassed by his mighty and powerful neighbor. When the neighbor even hires gunmen to intimidate him he has to defend himself and his property by means of violence.
Film6.0WesternIn order to gain passage to the West, a woman poses as an opera singer, and causes a feud between two cousins.
The Gal Who Took the West
1949 · 12 votes
Film5.6AksiyonMaceraThe Dutch East Indies, at the end of the nineteenth century. An adventurous captain of an American merchant vessel is looking for a sunken Dutch vessel containing 10,000 precious diamonds. Unfortunately, he's not the only one and then there's also that volcano on the nearby island of Krakatau, waiting to explode in its historical, disastrous eruption...
Fair Wind to Java
1953 · 10 votes
Film7.1KomediTacey and Harry King are a suburban couple with three sons and a serious need of a babysitter. Tacey puts an ad in the paper for a live-in babysitter, and the ad is answered by Lynn Belvedere. But when she arrives, she turns out to be a man. And not just any man, but a most eccentric, outrageously forthright genius with seemingly a million careers and experiences behind him.
Sitting Pretty
1948 · 49 votes
Film7.0WesternFather Kino, a 17th-century Jesuit missionary, dedicated his life to helping Native Americans in the Southwest by teaching them agricultural skills as well as building missions and spreading Christianity. An explorer, astronomer and map maker, Father Kino surmounted numerous challenges as he journeyed through California, Arizona and Mexico.
Mission to Glory: A True Story
1977 · 2 votes
Film6.0WesternFrenchie Fontaine sells her successful business in New Orleans to come West. Her reason? Find the men who killed her father, Frank Dawson. But she only knows one of the two who did and she's determined to find out the other.
Frenchie
1950 · 12 votes
Film5.6SuçDramJames Lake (Raymond St. Jacques) is an escaped black convict imprisoned for a murder he didn't commit. Leslie Whitlock (Kevin McCarthy) offers James money to kill his wife, Ellen (Dana Wynter). He declines and tries to look up his old flame Lily (Barbara McNair), but discovers his own brother is now married to the sultry nightclub singer. James returns to Leslie, and the trio travel towards a mountain retreat. James and Ellen escape and try to find the murderer who had framed James years before.
If He Hollers, Let Him Go!
1968 · 9 votes
FilmBelgeselWesternSome of TV and film's popular western actors reunite in this tribute special hosted by Glenn Ford.
Film6.9KomediTarihCatherine the Great falls in love with an army officer who is plotting against her.
A Royal Scandal
1945 · 20 votes
Film7.1KomediAksiyonA St. Louis cop, Mike Braxton (Sam Jones), receives an urgent call for help from his brother Tony (Nick Cassavetes), a small time thief in Los Angeles. Mike rushes to LA and finds that his brother has been murdered and his brother Tony's girlfriend gunned down right in front of him. Mike quickly learns Tony was a courier for an arms smuggler, Simon Stone (John Russell). When Mike meets Stone's lawyer, Samantha Richardson (Vanessa Williams), the two team up to bring down Stone's arms smuggling empire. However, Mike's infatuation with Samantha keeps putting them in greater danger.
Under the Gun
1988 · 5 votes
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Dizi7.0KomediWesternThe Maverick boys - Bret, Bart, Beau and Brent - are a clan of well-dressed dandies, gamblers who'd much rather make their money playing cards than messing up their fine clothing with actual work. Sly and clever, none of the Mavericks are much for acts of derring do, but they can be courageous when the situation calls for it. Most often, however, they live by their wits and considerable charm.
Maverick
1957 · 43 votes
Dizi8.0Aksiyon ve MaceraDramThe crew of Los Angeles County Fire Department Station 51, particularly the paramedic team, and Rampart Hospital respond to emergencies in their operating area.
Emergency!
1972 · 53 votes
Dizi6.7DramA.J. Simon is a polished fellow with a taste for classic cars and tailored suits. Rick Simon is his less refined (but still pleasant) older brother who has a taste for cowboy boots and four-wheel drive pickups. The two of them live in San Diego, where they own a private detective agency.
Simon & Simon
1981 · 99 votes
Dizi6.2WesternDramCheyenne Bodie was a big man, a former army scout who went west after the American Civil War and drifted from job to job, here a cowboy, there a lawman, and always a larger-than-life hero. CHEYENNE is an American western television series of 108 black-and-white episodes broadcast on ABC from 1955 to 1963. The show was the first hour-long western, and in fact the first hour-long dramatic series of any kind, with continuing characters, to last more than one season. It was also the first series to be made by a major Hollywood film studio which did not derive from its established film properties, and the first of a long chain of Warner Brothers original series produced by William T. Orr.
Cheyenne
1955 · 26 votes
Dizi7.0Aksiyon ve MaceraWesternDaniel Boone is an American action-adventure television series starring Fess Parker as Daniel Boone that aired from September 24, 1964 to September 10, 1970 on NBC for 165 episodes, and was made by 20th Century Fox Television. Ed Ames co-starred as Mingo, Boone's Cherokee friend, for the first four seasons of the series. Albert Salmi portrayed Boone's companion Yadkin in season one only. Dallas McKennon portrayed innkeeper Cincinnatus. Country Western singer-actor Jimmy Dean was a featured actor as Josh Clements during the 1968–1970 seasons. Actor and former NFL football player Rosey Grier made regular appearances as Gabe Cooper in the 1969 to 1970 season. The show was broadcast "in living color" beginning in fall 1965, the second season, and was shot entirely in California and Kanab, Utah.
Daniel Boone
1964 · 34 votes
Dizi6.7WesternAksiyon ve MaceraGunsmoke 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.
Gunsmoke
1955 · 119 votes
Dizi6.0WesternLawman is an American western television series originally telecast on ABC from 1958 to 1962 starring John Russell as Marshal Dan Troop and featuring Peter Brown as Deputy Marshal Johnny McKay. The series was set in Laramie, Wyoming during 1879 and the 1880s. Warner Bros. already had several western series on the air at the time, having launched Cheyenne with Clint Walker as early as 1955. The studio continued the trend in 1957 with the additions of Maverick with James Garner and Jack Kelly, Colt .45 with Wayde Preston, and Sugarfoot with Will Hutchins. One year later, Warner Bros. added Lawman and Bronco with Ty Hardin. Prior to the beginning of production, Russell and Brown and producer Jules Schermer made a pact to maintain the quality of the series so that it would not be seen as "just another western." At the start of season two, Russell and Brown were joined by Peggie Castle as Lily Merrill, the owner of the Birdcage Saloon, and a love interest for Dan.
Lawman
1958 · 13 votes
Dizi7.2SuçDramDeputy Marshal Sam McCloud of the small western town of Taos, New Mexico is assigned to the metropolitan New York City Police Department (NYPD) as a special investigator.
McCloud
1970 · 53 votes
Dizi7.2SuçDramStu Bailey and Jeff Spencer are the wisecracking, womanizing private-detective heroes of this Warner Brothers drama. They work out of an office located at 77 Sunset Strip in Los Angeles, California, right next door to a snazzy restaurant where Kookie works as a valet. The finger-snapping, slang-talking Kookie occasionally helps Stu and Jeff with their cases, and eventually becomes a full-fledged member of the detective agency. Rex Randolph and J.R. Hale also join the firm, and Suzanne is their leggy secretary.
77 Sunset Strip
1958 · 26 votes
Dizi7.0WesternSuçAlias 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.
Alias Smith and Jones
1971 · 33 votes
Dizi7.0Aksiyon ve MaceraSuçDetective 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.
Police Story
1973 · 20 votes
Dizi5.1WesternSugarfoot is an American western television series that aired on ABC from 1957 to 1961. The series stars Will Hutchins as Tom Brewster, an Easterner who comes to the Oklahoma Territory to become a lawyer. Jack Elam is cast in occasional episodes as sidekick Toothy Thompson. Brewster was a correspondence-school student whose apparent lack of cowboy skills earned him the nickname "Sugarfoot", a designation even below that of a tenderfoot.
Sugarfoot
1957 · 8 votes
Dizi7.5DramAileStudio 57 is an American anthology series that was broadcast on the now-defunct DuMont Television Network from September 1954 to September 1955, and in syndication from 1955 to 1956.
Studio 57
1954 · 2 votes
Dizi7.2Aksiyon ve MaceraDramConvicted cat burglar Alexander Mundy gets an offer he can't refuse from the United States government: If he puts his formidable thieving skills to work for them, he'll be released from prison. Alexander's dad, Alister, sometimes comes out of retirement as a thief to help his son on special jobs.
It Takes a Thief
1968 · 26 votes
Dizi6.0Aksiyon ve MaceraSoldiers of Fortune is a 1955 syndicated half hour American television adventure series. It starred John Russell as Tim Kelly and Chick Chandler as his sidekick Toubo Smith who were international adventurers. Each episode would take place in a different country. Many of the film crew had worked at Republic Pictures studios with the show filmed on Republic's backlot then used by television's Revue Productions. The show was constantly rerun on American television into the 1960s. The show was sponsored for two years by 7 Up soft drink. One year after Soldiers of Fortune was cancelled, John Russell went on to star as Marshal Dan Troup in the successful ABC/Warner Brothers western series Lawman.
Soldiers of Fortune
1955 · 2 votes
Dizi5.9Bilim Kurgu ve FantastikAksiyon ve MaceraJason of Star Command is a live action television series by Filmation which ran between 1978 and 1981. The show revolved around the exploits of space adventurer Jason and his colleagues, including Professor E.J. Parsafoot and the pocket robot "Wiki". The show also starred Sid Haig as the evil Dragos, and, in the first season, James Doohan of Star Trek fame. Jason was a spin-off of another Filmation live action show called Space Academy, which starred another sci-fi luminary, Jonathan Harris of Lost in Space fame.
Jason of Star Command
1978 · 14 votes