name	Frederic Forrest
birth name	Frederic Fenimore Forrest, Jr.
birth date	December 23, 1936
birth place	Waxahachie, Texas, U.S.
occupation	Actor
years active	1967–2006 }}

Frederic Fenimore Forrest, Jr. (born December 23, 1936) is an American actor.

Life

Forrest was born in Waxahachie, Texas, the son of Virginia Allie (née McSpadden) and Frederic Fenimore Forrest, a furniture store owner. He is known for his roles as Chef in ''Apocalypse Now'', ''When The Legends Die'', ''It Lives Again'', the neo-Nazi surplus store owner in ''Falling Down'', ''Right to Kill?'' and for playing the writer Dashiell Hammett twice in film — in ''Hammett'' (1982) and in ''Citizen Cohn'' (1992 TV movie). He had a role as the renegade Mexican-Indian Blue Duck in the 1989 miniseries, ''Lonesome Dove''. He was Academy Award-nominated in the Supporting Actor category for his role in ''The Rose''. He was married to Marilu Henner from 1980 to 1982.

Career

Notable film roles include ''The Conversation'', ''Valley Girl'' ,''Promise Him Anything'' (TV), ''One from the Heart'', ''The Stone Boy'', ''The Missouri Breaks'', ''The Deliberate Stranger'' (TV), and horror maestro Dario Argento's first American film ''Trauma''.

On television, he played Captain Richard Jenko on the first season of the Fox Television series ''21 Jump Street'', in 1987. Forrest was subsequently replaced by actor Steven Williams, who played Captain Adam Fuller for the remainder of the series.

Filmography

+ List of film credits
! Year	! Title	! Role	Notes
1967	''Dark Shadows''	Blue Whale customer	(uncredited)
1968	''The Filthy Five''	Johnny Longo
1969	''Futz!''	Sugford
1972	''When the Legends Die''	Tom Black Bull
1973	''The Don is Dead''	Tony Fargo
1974	''The Conversation''	Mark
1974		Larry Herman
1974	''The Gravy Train''	Rut
1975	''Promise Him Anything''	Paul Hunter
1975	''Permission to Kill''	Scott Allison
1976	''The Missouri Breaks''	Cary
1978	''Ruby and Oswald''	Lee Harvey Oswald
1978	''It Lives Again''	Eugene Scott
1979	''Mrs. Columbo''	Martin	Episode: Word Games
1979	''Apocalypse Now''	Jay "Chef" Hicks
1979	''Survival of Dana''	Mr. Davis	(uncredited)
1979		Huston Dyer
1982	''One From the Heart''	Hank
1982		Hammett
1983	''Who Will Love My Children?''	Ivan Fray
1983		Steve Richman
1983	''Saigon: Year of the Cat''	Bob Chesneau
1984		Matt Kirby
1984		Wild Bill Hickock
1984		Blaise Dietz
1984	''The Stone Boy''	Andy Jansen
1985		Pap Finn
1985	''"Quo Vadis?"''	Petronius	(TV Mini-Series)
1985	''Right to Kill?''	Richard Jahnke, Sr.
1985		Brian Stoving
1986	''The Deliberate Stranger''	Det. Bob Keppel
1986	''Where are the Children?''	Courtney Parrish
1987		Buster McGuire
1987	''21 Jump Street''	Captain Richard Jenko	5 episodes
1988		Tim Brady
1988	''Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun''	Raoul Schumacher
1988	''Tucker: The Man and His Dream''	Eddie
1988		Father George
1989		Blue Duck	(TV Mini-Series) (unknown episodes)
1989		Erskine Caldwell
1989	''Valentino Returns''	Sonny Gibbs
1989	''Cat Chaser''	Nolen Tyner
1989		Jack Burke
1990	''The Two Jakes''	Chuck Newty
1990	''Die Kinder''	Lomax	6 episodes
1992		Delvaux
1992	''The Young Riders''		2 episodes
1992	''Citizen Cohn''	Dashiell Hammett
1992	''The Habitation of Dragons''	Leonard Tolliver
1992	''Rain Without Thunder''	Warden
1993	''Hidden Fears''	Mike
1993	''Falling Down''	Nick, Nazi Surplus Store Owner
1993		Dr. Judd
1993	''Precious Victims''	Sheriff Frank Yocom
1994	''Double Obsession''	Paul Harkness
1994	''Against the Wall''	Weisbad
1994	''Chasers''	Duane
1994		Sam Garland
1995		Michael Joslyn
1996		Jack
1996		Sgt. McSpadden
1997		Adm. Pendleton
1997	''The Brave''	Lou Sr.
1997	''The End of Violence''	Ranger MacDermot
1997		Maj. Ron Bridges
1997		Carl
1998	''Implicated''	Det. Luddy
1998	''Boogie Boy''	Edsel Dundee
1998	''Murphy Brown''	Kenny	Episode: A Man and a Woman
1998		Mac Bradford
1998		Mr. Chaminski
1998	''Black Thunder''	The Admiral
1998	''The First 9½ Weeks''	David Millman
1999	''Shadow Lake''	Roy Harman
1999		Alex (present day)
2000	''Shadow Hours''	Sean
2000	''The Spreading Ground''	Det. Michael McGivern
2000		William Fain
2000	''A Piece of Eden''	Paulo Tredici
2002	''The House Next Door''	Vernon Crank
2002	''Path to War''	Earle Wheeler
2003	''The Quality of Light''	David
2006		Willie's Father

References

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Category:1936 births Category:American film actors Category:American television actors Category:Living people Category:People from Waxahachie, Texas Category:Actors from Texas

bg:Фредерик Форест de:Frederic Forrest fr:Frederic Forrest it:Frederic Forrest he:פרדריק פורסט nl:Frederic Forrest ja:フレデリック・フォレスト pl:Frederic Forrest ru:Форрест, Фредерик fi:Frederic Forrest tl:Frederic Forrest

name	Jacque Fresco
birth date	March 13, 1916
birth place	Brooklyn, New York
residence	Florida
occupation	Futurist, Social Engineer, Structural Engineer, Industrial Designer, Author, Lecturer
nationality	American
known for	The Venus Project, Resource-Based Economy, Sociocyberneering
notable works	''Looking Forward'' (1969), ''The Best That Money Can't Buy'' (2002)
influences	B. F. Skinner, Jacques Loeb, Alfred Korzybski, Buckminster Fuller, Thorstein Veblen, Stuart Chase, Edward Bellamy, H. G. Welles, Howard Scott, Norbert Wiener, Arthur Radebaugh }}

Jacque Fresco (born March 13, 1916), is a self-educated structural designer, philosopher of science, concept artist, educator, and futurist. His interests span a wide range of disciplines including several in philosophy, science, and engineering. Fresco writes and lectures extensively on his view of subjects ranging from the holistic design of sustainable cities, energy efficiency, natural resource management, cybernated technology, advanced automation, and the role of science in society, focusing on the benefits he claims this will bring. With his colleague, Roxanne Meadows, he is the founder and director of an organization known as The Venus Project, located in Venus, Florida.

In contemporary culture he has been popularized by three documentaries, ''Future By Design'', ''Zeitgeist Addendum'', and ''Zeitgeist: Moving Forward'', His Venus Project has been inspirational worldwide, especially to activists.

Early life

Youth

Born on March 13, 1916, Jacque Fresco grew up in the minority neighborhood of Bensonhurst in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. Precocious as a child, Fresco's interests did not pertain to the topics presented to him at school. Unwilling, or unable, to conform with the setting of formal education, he sought a self-directed education throughout his later teen years. Fresco spent many days of his youth at the local library. For a short time, Fresco took an interest in attending the Young Communist League wherein he caused commotion. After brief discussion and disagreements with the League president, Fresco was physically removed. Thereafter, Fresco turned his attention to Technocracy. Fresco had long taken an interest in designing flying saucers and tried to interest the aircraft industry at a time when experimental construction was underway. Eventually, Fresco demonstrated such designs in the 1930s. After departing from Douglas due to safety design disagreements, he traveled to Hawaii in late 1939 where he then traveled to the South Sea Islands where he interacted with native islanders. Fresco claims that his visit to these islands effectively helped shape his understanding of cultural relativism and the flexibility of human values in alternate environments. In California, Fresco took various residence in Hermosa Beach and Los Angeles. where he would produce up to forty designs a day. Among Fresco's many designs, a design of a radical variable camber wing attempted to optimize wing thickness for lift and flight. It received a patent and was thereafter given to the Army Air Force. He was eventually discharged.

In the mid-1940s, Fresco began working with Earl Muntz and Michael Shore who employed Fresco to design a new low cost form of modernistic housing. Its design of light weight, high strength, and long lasting materials allowed for reduced production costs and streamlined production which increased its economic viability. The structure was first exhibited in 1947 at Stage 8 of the Warner Brothers Sunset boulevard. It would go on to attract over 20,000 visitors. The proceeds were donated to The Cancer Prevention Society to build part of a new hospital. For the next few years the Trend Home was to undergo mass production and was considered by the U.S. government as a possible solution for soldiers returning from World War II. near Hollywood, where he also lived, lectured, and taught technical design, meanwhile researching and working on inventions as a freelance inventor and scientific consultant. Fresco claims that many of his inventions were patented by his employers. During these years, Fresco had difficulty managing finances and would face auctioneers as they entered his lab to compensate for his lack of payments.

Also during Fresco's years in Los Angeles, he worked as model designer for science-fiction movies Fresco was noted for his high quality models and special effects despite the low budgets of the B-movie productions. His talents were recommended to Roger Corman for the film ''The Beast with a Million Eyes'', but Corman could not accommodate Fresco into the budget (of $23,000). Fresco also worked as technical adviser in the film industry, most notably for the 1956 Oscar nominated documentary ''The Naked Eye''. Eventually, in the mid-1950s, Fresco left California after his lab was commandeered to build the Golden State Freeway.

Midlife

Pursuing his affinity for the tropics, in 1955 Fresco moved to Miami, Florida, where he lived on a boat for a short time. He began practicing private therapy sessions, and at a time when the American Psychological Association was pressuring therapists lacking approved credentials to relinquish their practice, Fresco received criticism for his therapy service. In Miami, Fresco held public lectures throughout the late 1950s and 1960s. On the lecture circuit, Fresco sometimes utilized the title of "Dr." based on a doctorate of philosophy that he obtained from Sierra State University in California. It was not recognized as an accredited university by the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. As a result, Fresco's degree came under scrutiny when he was practicing his therapy service. Fresco would eventually hold the doctorates degree only as an honorary title. Eventually, he disregarded the title entirely. Later, he acknowledged his lack of formal credentials as being a detriment in academic circles and has made it difficult for him to gain influence.

From the mid-1950s and throughout the 1960s, Fresco developed what he called "Project Americana." It was a ten year plan for American social change. His vision included a circular city and the application of full cyber-automation of city operations wherein machines direct other machines to operate. Such was Fresco's conception of a "thinking city" in "The Machine-Machine Age." The national plan also included methods for aiding struggling nations by erecting prefabricated factories that produce prefabricated products for building, and a new curriculum for schooling. In 1962, CBS approached Fresco about developing a series on his ideas after appearing on two successive episodes of ''On the Town'' with Fred Fischer.

Fresco spent much of his time in Miami trying to showcase his designs of a circular city and raise funds to get it built. He also designed a three-wheeled car that was to have only 32 moving parts, which he strove to fund as well. Fresco made much of his living working as an industrial designer for various companies such as Alcoa and the Major Realty Corporation and from draftsman inventions through Jacque Fresco Enterprises Inc.

In 1969, with Ken Keyes, a book was written about Fresco's ideas, entitled ''Looking Forward''. The first half of the book was dedicated to detailing some of the causes of many problems in humanity's thinking and behavior, the changes that humanity will have to make as it enters the future, and a description of three components which can be used to best correctly analyze the future: humanity's values, methods of thinking, and tools i.e. technological developments. All three are described as being interdependent much like a set of gears. The second half of the book was dedicated to a speculative look at the future revolving around the experiences of the fictional characters, Scott, and, Hella. It was one of the earliest publications to theorize the possible social implications of a central network knowledge bank (Corcen) used to bring about a "humanized man-machine symbiosis". Fresco and Keyes gave consideration for a wide range of technological and social possibilities resulting from the technologically governed societal design.

Sociocyberneering

Fresco's ideas for Project Americana continued to evolve and became what was known as Sociocyberneering Inc, a non-profit organization founded in 1971 for which Fresco was president. It was a non-political and non-sectarian membership organization having, at its peak, 250 members, many of whom became Fresco's pupils. Fresco frequently hosted educational lectures in Miami Beach and at his home in Coral Gables. His lecture topics pertained to society, social change, science, technology, engineering, architecture, religion, prudence, semantics, anthropology, psychology, systems theory, and education, among other topics. Aside from educating, Fresco worked with members of the organization to produce designs, films, and literature pertaining to the aims and goals of the organization.

The term "sociocyberneering" was defined as "the application of the most sophisticated forms of computer technology in the management of human affairs." The stated goal of Sociocyberneering was to apply "the most sophisticated forms of science and technology toward problem solving ... an approach at the restructuring of society in humanistic terms," and dedicated to finding practical solutions that could be rapidly applied to the many problems that faced society. The primary focus was to "investigate alternative solutions based in conservation of energy, international cooperation in all areas of social endeavor, and the assimilation of a systems approach for the design of cities." There was also heavy emphasis on the prospects of cybernated technology in the societies of human beings, arguing that, "the future of man and his cities does not depend on whether or not this or that design is preferred. It is determined by the forces of social and environmental evolution in which computerized approaches to human and environmental systems will ultimately emerge as the ultimate technique in all areas of the social sequences."

By this time Fresco had designed his circular city to be one mile in diameter with radially connected concentric rings "resembling the spokes of a wheel." Each ring was dedicated to a general function such as agriculture, recreation, housing, among others. At the nucleus center, in the dome, was a supercomputer that was intended to function as the centralized data management system for the automated processes throughout the city.

Throughout the 1970s Fresco worked to expand the organization and elevate its exposure to the general public by lecturing at universities and appearing on radio and television. Fresco became acquainted with Larry King when King's career was emerging out of Miami. King featured Fresco on his television show and radio show several times to discuss, with academics and local callers, the proposals of Sociocyberneering.

At the apex of the organization's membership, they began investing in 40 acres of land in Naples. The organization set out to construct an experimental community in which they would live and expand. They encountered a setback in 1978 when members feared that the Collier County zoning board would complicate implementation. The result was a partial dissolution of Sociocyberneering membership. The investment was abandoned and the land was resold. Fresco sold his home and new land was located in rural Venus. Upon an old tomato patch he established a research center for Sociocyberneering in 1980. With the help of remaining members, Fresco constructed buildings based on the designs of his futuristic renderings. After the move, Sociocyberneering became less popular as many members remained in Miami. Eventually, Sociocyberneering became much less active and through the 1980s Fresco dedicated his time to designing and studying alongside Roxanne Meadows who remained with Fresco as his colleague.

Later life

In 1994, Fresco rebooted Sociocyberneering Inc. under the new title The Venus Project. By this time, Fresco had accumulated a large quantity of designs and models that could represent a general outline of how his vision may look and operate, and were used to gain exposure for the organization through educational films and literature distributed to teachers and universities. Aside from their educational materials, Fresco and Meadows continued to support the project throughout the '90s through freelance structural designing, such as for Pratt and Whitney, industrial engineering, and conventional architectural modeling. In the process, some of Fresco's futuristic designs succeeded in inspiring some development companies. At one point, Fresco claimed that The Venus Project was under consideration for developing plans to build a theme park/experimental city in Turkey. A similar consideration occurred with Dubai. In 2002, Fresco published his main work ''The Best That Money Can't Buy''. In 2006, William Gazecki directed the semi-biographical film about Fresco, "Future by Design" in which Fresco was compared to the Renaissance polymath Leonardo Da Vinci. In 2008, Peter Joseph featured Fresco in the film ''Zeitgeist Addendum'' wherein his vision of the future was presented as a possible solution for the societal and environmental crisis expounded in the film. The reaction that followed was manifested by the development of The Zeitgeist Movement which actively professes Fresco's ideas and considers itself the "activist arm" of The Venus Project.

In 2010, Fresco attempted to trademark the phrase "Resource-Based Economy" in the midst of its popularization to preserve his definition of it. The phrase was reviewed and found to be too generic to qualify. The action to trademark Fresco's specific meaning was therefore blocked. Other small Internet organizations now profess a version of a resource-based economy based on Fresco's original conception.

Throughout 2010, Fresco traveled with Meadows on a world wide tour in response to the growing popularity of The Venus Project. On January 15, 2011, ''Zeitgeist: Moving Forward'' was released in theaters, again featuring Fresco and a more elaborate articulation of his vision as a possible solution for planetary dilemmas. and has initiated the funding of a major motion picture that may be made which will depict The Venus Project future.

The Venus Project

The Venus Project is an organization depicting, as well as professing, the culmination of Fresco's life work and serves as a foundation that represents his vision of a future without poverty, crime, war, corruption, or waste. It was founded in 1980 and took its name in 1994. It is located in central Florida near west Lake Okeechobee about fifty miles northeast of Fort Myers. On its 21.5-acre lot, there are ten buildings designed by Fresco, which showcase limited versions of Fresco's architectural designs. It is partly a research center for Fresco and Roxanne Meadows, and partly an educational center for supporters of the project. They produce videos and literature depicting and explaining the future vision and the goals to actualize it. Among these goals, the salient are to produce a major motion picture portraying the future world the project promotes; constructing a theme park with the intention of exhibiting technologies and the ideas of the Venus Project; and constructing an experimental city in an attempt to test Fresco's hypotheses. Its ultimate aim is to improve society by moving towards a global, sustainable, technological social design that is termed a "resource-based economy".

Personal life and family

Fresco was born to immigrants from Turkey, Isaac and Lena Fresco. His father was born in 1880 and around 1905 immigrated from Istanbul to New York where he worked as a horticulturalist. He died in 1963. Fresco's mother was born in 1887 in Jerusalem and also migrated to New York around 1904. She died in 1988. Fresco was brother to two siblings, a sister, Freda, and a brother, David. His brother was born in 1909. He was a draftsman, a private during World War II, and became a theater actor and a character actor in Hollywood. he resurrected his career in the 1960s eventually appearing in many films and television shows. He died in 1997.

Fresco had one marriage when he lived in Los Angeles, California and through his first couple years in Miami. He divorced in 1957. His wife, Patricia, gave birth to a son, Richard, in 1953 and a daughter, Bambi, in 1956. Richard was an army private and died in 1976. Bambi died of cancer in 2010.

Vision

Fresco's vision has formed as the culmination of many disciplines and schools of thought. The dominant features of it have been compared to earlier thinkers from as early as the nineteenth century. Titles such as ''The Paradise within the Reach of all Men without Labor by Powers of Nature and Machinery'', ''Emigration to the Tropical World for the Melioration of All Classes of People of All Nations'', and ''The New World or Mechanical System'' were written in the 1800s by John Adolphus Etzler who has been described as an early forerunner to Fresco's vision. Likewise, Ebenezer Howard and his book ''Garden Cities of Tomorrow'', as well as the Garden City Movement during the early 1900s has been described as another predecessor. Fresco's vision removes the mechanics of modern economics and his view toward modern economics has been compared to Thorstein Veblen's concept of "the predatory phase in human development." Other facets of Fresco's vision have been labeled a "tabula rasa approach."

Fresco himself cites several theorists and authors for contributing to his vision, such as Jacques Loeb, who established the ''Mechanistic Conception of Life''; Edward Bellamy, who wrote the extremely influential book, ''Looking Backward''; Thorstein Veblen, who influenced the Technocracy movement and Howard Scott, who popularized it; Alfred Korzybski, who originated General Semantics; H. G. Wells, and many others. Fresco has often been heard stating, "I have been able to achieve what I have achieved because I stood on the shoulders of giants," paraphrasing Einstein, (though the metaphore was first made famous by Isaac Newton, and stated by others before him).

Resource-based economy

Primary in Fresco's vision is the concept of a "resource-based economy." It incorporates sustainable cities and values, along with the goals of energy efficiency, natural resource management, and advanced automation, focusing on the benefits that it might bring to humanity as a whole.

According to Fresco, poverty, crime, corruption and war are the result of scarcity created by the present world's profit-based economic system. He theorizes that the profit motive also stifles the progress of socially beneficial technology, and instead he favors a system that fosters the purpose motive. Fresco claims that the progression of technology, if it were carried on independently of its profitability, would make more resources available to more people by producing an abundance of products and materials. This new-found abundance of resources would, according to Fresco, reduce the human tendency toward individualism, corruption, and greed, and instead rely on people helping each other.

A resource-based economy replaces the need for the current monetary economy, which is "scarcity-oriented" or "scarcity-based". Fresco argues that the world is rich in natural resources and energy and that — with modern technology and judicious efficiency — the needs of the global population can be met with abundance, while at the same time removing the current limitations of what is deemed possible due to notions of economic viability.

Reception

Critics and advocates of Fresco's vision are sharply divided. Throughout his life Fresco has been labeled a "dreamer," an "eccentric," an "utopian," an "idealist," a "crackpot," a "charlatan," etc., halfheartedly by some magazine and newspaper writers among others. Some feel that his vision is impractical, idealistic, and/or borderline science fiction. The books ''Nineteen Eighty-Four'' or ''Brave New World'' are sometimes referenced in relation to The Venus Project. These attitudes continue today across some Web sites. Even further, some claims have labeled him a cult leader due to his figurehead status in The Zeitgeist Movement. Others accuse him of affiliations with conspirators of a New World Order. Fresco dismisses these accusations.

His hypothesis of a resource-based economy is sometimes equated with Marxism, socialism, communism or technocracy. Fresco responds to these comparisons by stating, "The aims of The Venus Project have no parallel in history, not with communism, socialism, fascism or any other political ideology. This is true because cybernation is of recent origin. With this system, the system of financial influence and control will no longer exist."

One writer notes, "it's also true that his system of governance, in which authority is given to the expert in each field — in this case, specially programmed computers — is one that many writers, including Nobel-prize-winner Friedrich Hayek, have shown to be disastrous."

Another writer reviewing one of Fresco's films writes,

''the more I listened to Fresco's specifics and fuzzy non-specifics it seemed to me I was encountering a God-like hubris coupled with the standard sci-fi dreamer's naivete vis á vis human nature. But just as I was jotting this last down in my notes, Fresco cautioned viewers — and it gave me the shivers, since he seemed to be responding directly to my written reservations — to remember that human nature is not synonymous with human behavior; the latter can be changed. Although Fresco's futurist scenario is — in my humble opinion — rife with problems, it's not every day that somebody comes along ambitious enough to offer a blueprint for re-designing the world.''

Other criticisms have implied a scientistic approach due to Fresco's heavy emphasis on science alone to overcome humanity's obstacles,

''His vision is eminently practical, and although this constitutes an innovative and welcome element with reference to previous utopian projections, his focus on science alone makes him fail as a generalist – the criticism Fresco himself passed on academics and scientists. Today's pressing problems require a holistic approach – various disciplines, arts science, philosophy working on a "convergence mode", unfortunately Fresco's vision seems to consolidate the long established view that the "two cultures" (Science and Art) are antagonistic.''

Focusing on accusations of utopianism, a writer from the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies remarks, "For most people, the promise of the project sounds like an unattainable utopia, but if you examine it more closely, there are surprisingly many scientifically founded arguments that open up an entire new world of possibilities." Another writer for CIFS points out,

''Perhaps the modern interpretation of the word "utopia" is to blame when the Renaissance man and futurist Jacque Fresco says ... he doesn't want to call his life work, The Venus Project, a utopia. However, this visionary idea of a future society has many characteristics in common with the utopia. ... the word utopia carries a double meaning, since in Greek it can mean both the good place (eutopia) and the nonexisting place (outopia). A good place is precisely what Fresco has devoted his life to describing and fighting for."''

In response to association with utopianism, Fresco has stated, "We do not believe in the erroneous notion of a utopian society. There is no such thing. Societies are always in a state of transition. We propose an alternative direction, which addresses the causes of many of our problems. There are no final frontiers for human and technological achievement." One writer suggests instead that "The Venus project is no static utopia, rather a dynamic one: it requires an incremental process driven by an ever-changing extropic ideal."

Art historian Hans-Ulrich Obrist notes, "Fresco's future may, of course, seem outmoded and his writings have been subject to critique for their fascistic undertones of order and similitude, but his contributions are etched in the popular psyche and his eco-friendly concepts continue to influence our present generation of progressive architects, city planners and designers."

When asked by a reporter why he has such difficulty actualizing his many ideas, Fresco responded, "Because I can't get to anybody. I have no credentials." Nevertheless, positive attitudes toward Fresco regard him as "a genius, a prophet, and a visionary." General praise appears among futurists, especially the World Future Society who have considered him a visionary engineer in review of his work in the ''Futurist'', commenting, "Whether the future Fresco envisions is probable or even possible is open to debate, but he succeeds in conveying the power of thinking of the future on a grander scale than we're used to." Fresco's work has been compared to the work of Paolo Soleri and especially Buckminster Fuller for all attempting to actualize their vision against great odds, as well as Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison, and Da Vinci for sharing affluence in prolific innovation. The elaborate scope of Fresco's designs intrigued Forest Ackerman and Arthur C. Clarke who, late in his life, briefly tried to help Fresco get exposure for The Venus Project. Synergetics theorist Norman Arthur Coulter appreciated Fresco's vision for his attempt to accomplish it "not for profit, but to meet the needs of human beings." Author, Harold Cober, comments, "Once you've seen the man's ideas and buildings, you can't let go of it." Bruce Eisner mentions that the Venus Project shares similar aims as his Island Sanctuary Project. Commenting on what he sees as Fresco's inspirational and charismatic teaching methods, physicist, Paul G. Hewitt, cites Fresco as being one of the three major sources of inspiration, turning him away from work as a sign painter and toward a career in science.

Psychologist and scientist, Jack Catran, notes,

''Contemplate the staggering realistic views of the future published by Jacque Fresco ... There are many futurists, "geniuses", and self-styled seers in our midst who, upon careful examination, turn out to be disappointingly commercial and exploitive. Most extrapolations into the future are made from fixed and narrow points of view. We are all products of today's mediocrity-breeding culture, but if anyone can be called a genius in our money system society, Jacque Fresco should be singled out as the broadest, most aware, individual of our time.''

At Drexel University, sociologist and futurist, Arthur B. Shostak, often incorporated Fresco's ideas into his writing and teaching, stating,

''His contribution to futuristics is singular, as few, if any around the globe, dare the sweep, the depth, and the drama of his vision. When he writes or speaks, futurists grow quiet, pensive, and finally, appreciative — as his work is sound in its call for a thorough examination of the assumptions under which we labor. While little of his vision may materialize in the lifetime of us all, our grandchildren may yet salute much of what Jacque first helped them set in motion.''

In 2008 the Raelian Movement gave Fresco their Honorary Guide award for dedicating "his life to the betterment of humanity as a whole." In 2010, it was announced that Fresco has been selected to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Exemplar-Zero Initiative in the summer of 2011.

Works

Books

Articles

''Modern Food Production''

''Designing the Future: A Cybernetic City For the Next Century'' in ''The Futurist''. Vol. 28, No. 3. pp. 29–33. (May/June 1994).

''The Future and Beyond'' The Venus Project, Inc. (2000)

with Meadows, Roxanne. ''Beyond Utopia'' in ''Utopian Thinking in Sociology: Creating the Good Society.'' pp. 86–92 edited by Arthur B. Shostak. American Sociological Association. (2001). OCLC 49561995.

with Meadows, Roxanne. ''The Future by Design: Beyond Money and Politics'' in ''Viable Utopian Ideas: Shaping a Better World.'' pp. 197–205 edited by Arthur B. Shostak. London/Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe. (2003). ISBN 0765611058. OCLC 473852611.

with Meadows, Roxanne. ''Reinventing Iraq'' in ''In the Shadow of War.'' pp. 147–154 edited by Arthur B. Shostak. Philadelphia, PA: Chelsea House. (2004). ISBN 9781438124681. OCLC 646806392.

Films

''The Venus Project: The Redesign of a Culture'' (1994)

''Welcome to the Future'' (1998)

''Cities in the Sea'' (2002)

''Self-erecting Structures'' (2002)

''Designing the Future'' (2006)

References

Durrani, Noni. (2007). ''The Future: Jacque Fresco On The Future'', ''Forbes''

Gia Films. (2010). ''Frequency of Genius'', Gia Film Productions

Gazecki, William. (2006) ''Future By Design'', Docflix

Hoving, K. (2002). ''Engineering the Impossible'', Discovery Channel

Joseph, Peter. (2008). ''Zeitgeist Addendum'', Gentle Machine Productions

Joseph, Peter. (2011). ''Zeitgeist: Moving Forward'', Gentle Machine Productions

Maja Borg, M. (2011). ''Future For Sale'', Sonja Henrici, SDI Productions Ltd.

Wachtmeister, J. (2007). ''Great Expectations: A Journey through the History of Visionary Architecture'', Solaris Filmproduktion

External links

www.thevenusproject.com — The Venus Project

www.youtube.com/user/thevenusprojectmedia — The Venus Project YouTube channel

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name	Larry King
birth name	Lawrence Harvey Zeiger
birth date	November 19, 1933
birth place	Brooklyn, New York City, U.S.
religion	Jewish (1933–1966)Agnostic (1966–present)
occupation	Television/Radio personality
years active	1957–present
spouse	Freda Miller (1952–1953, annulled); Annette Kaye (1961, divorced); Alene Akins (1961–1963; divorced)Mickey Sutphin (1963–1967, divorced); Alene Akins (1967–1972, divorced); Sharon Lepore (1976–1983, divorced); Julie Alexander (1989–1992, divorced); Shawn Southwick (1997–present)}}

Larry King (born November 19, 1933) is an American television and radio host whose work has been recognized with awards including two Peabodys and ten Cable ACE Awards. He began as a local Florida journalist and radio interviewer in the 1950s and 1960s and became prominent as an all-night national radio broadcaster starting in 1978. From 1985-2010, he hosted the nightly interview TV program ''Larry King Live'' on CNN, a network for which he continues to host specials.

Early life

King was born Lawrence Harvey Zeiger in Brooklyn, New York City, to an Austrian immigrant Edward Zeiger, a restaurant owner and defense plant worker, and his wife Jennie Gitlitz, a garment worker, who emigrated from Belarus. King grew up in a religiously observant Jewish home, but in adulthood became an agnostic.

King's father died at 44 of heart disease, and his mother had to go on welfare to support her two sons. His father's death greatly affected King, and he lost interest in school. After graduating from high school, he worked to help support his mother. From an early age, however, he had wanted to go into radio. King is a fan of the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Career

Miami radio and television

A CBS staff announcer, whom King met by chance, told him to go to Florida, a growing media market where openings still existed for inexperienced broadcasters. King rode a bus to Miami. After initial setbacks, King persisted and got his first job in radio. The manager of a small station, WAHR (now WMBM) in Miami Beach, hired him to clean up and perform miscellaneous tasks. When one of their announcers quit, they put King on the air. His first broadcast was on May 1, 1957, when he worked as the disc jockey from 9 a.m. to noon. He also did two afternoon newscasts and a sportscast. He was paid $55 a week. He acquired the name Larry King when the general manager Martial Cemen said that Zeiger was too ethnic and difficult to remember, so Larry chose the surname ''King'', which he got from an ad in ''The Miami Herald'' for King's Wholesale Liquor, minutes before air. He started interviewing on a midmorning show for WIOD, at Pumpernik's Restaurant in Miami Beach. He would interview anyone who walked in. His first interview was with a waiter at the restaurant. Two days later, singer Bobby Darin, in Miami for a concert later that day, walked into Pumpernik's as a result of coming across King's show on his radio; Darin became King's first celebrity interview guest.

His Miami radio show launched him to local stardom. A few years later, in May 1960, he hosted ''Miami Undercover,'' airing Sunday nights at 11:30 p.m. on WPST-TV Channel 10 (now WPLG). On the show, he moderated debates on important issues of the time. King credits his success on local TV to the assistance of another showbiz legend, comedian Jackie Gleason, whose national TV variety show was being filmed in Miami Beach during this period. "That show really took off because Gleason came to Miami," King said in a 1996 interview he gave when inducted into the Broadcasters' Hall of Fame. "He did that show and stayed all night with me. We stayed till five in the morning. He didn't like the set, so we broke into the general manager's office and changed the set. Gleason changed the set, he changed the lighting, and he became like a mentor of mine." Jackie Gleason was instrumental in getting Larry a hard-to-get on air interview with Frank Sinatra during this time.

During this period, WIOD gave King further exposure as a color commentator for the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League, during their 1970 season and most of their 1971 season. However, he was dismissed by both WIOD and television station WTVJ as a late-night radio host and sports commentator as of December 20, 1971, when he was arrested after being accused of grand larceny by a former business partner. Other staffers covered the Dolphins' games into their 24–3 loss to Dallas in Super Bowl VI. King also lost his weekly column at the ''Miami Beach Sun'' newspaper. The charges were dropped on March 10, 1972, and King spent the next several years in reviving his career, including a stint as the color announcer in Louisiana for the Shreveport Steamer of the World Football League in 1974–75 on KWKH. Eventually, King was rehired by WIOD in Miami. For several years during the 1970s in South Florida, he hosted a sports talk-show called "Sports-a-la-King" that featured guests and callers. He is known for voice Doris in Shrek 2, Shrek The Third, and Shrek forever After,

National radio

In 1978, he went national, inheriting the nightly talk show slot on the Mutual Broadcasting System, broadcast coast-to-coast, that had been "Long John" Nebel's until his death, and had been pioneered by Herb Jepko. One reason King got the Mutual job is that he had once been an announcer at WGMA-AM in Hollywood, Florida, which was then owned by C. Edward Little. Little went on to become president of Mutual and was the one who hired King when Nebel died. King's Mutual show developed a devoted audience.

It was broadcast live Monday through Friday from midnight to 5:30 a.m. Eastern Time. King would interview a guest for the first 90 minutes, with callers asking questions that continued the interview for another 90 minutes. At 3 a.m., he would allow callers to discuss any topic they pleased with him, until the end of the program, when he expressed his own political opinions. That segment was called "Open Phone America". Some of the regular callers used the pseudonyms "The Portland Laugher", "The Miami Derelict", "The Todd Cruz Caller", "The Scandal Scooper", "Mr. Radio" and "The Water Is Warm Caller". "Mr. Radio" made over 200 calls to King during Open Phone America. The show was successful, starting with relatively few affiliates and eventually growing to more than 500. It ran until 1994.

For its final year, the show was moved to afternoons, but, because most talk radio stations at the time had an established policy of local origination in the time-slot (3 to 6 p.m. Eastern Time) that Mutual offered the show, a very low percentage of King's overnight affiliates agreed to carry his daytime show and it was unable to generate the same audience size. The afternoon show was eventually given to David Brenner and radio affiliates were given the option of carrying the audio of King's new CNN evening television program. The Westwood One radio simulcast of the CNN show continued until December 31, 2009.

CNN

He started his ''Larry King Live'' CNN show in June 1985, hosting a broad range of guests from controversial figures of UFO conspiracy theories and alleged psychics, to prominent politicians and leading figures in the entertainment industry, often doing their first or only interview on breaking news stories on his show.

Unlike many interviewers, King has a direct, non-confrontational approach. His reputation for asking easy, open-ended questions has made him attractive to important figures who want to state their position while avoiding being challenged on contentious topics. His interview style is characteristically frank, but with occasional bursts of irreverence and humor. His approach attracts some guests who would not otherwise appear. King, who is known for his general lack of pre-interview preparation, once bragged that he never read the books of authors before making an appearance on his program.

In a show dedicated to the surviving Beatles, King asked George Harrison's widow about the song "Something", which was written about George Harrison's first wife. He seemed surprised when she did not know very much about the song.

Throughout his career King has interviewed many of the leading figures of his time. CNN claimed during his final episode that he had performed 60,000 interviews in his career.

King also wrote a regular newspaper column in USA Today for almost 20 years, from shortly after that newspaper's origin in 1982 until September 2001. The column consisted of short "plugs, superlatives and dropped names" but was dropped when the newspaper redesigned its "Life" section. The column was resurrected in blog form in November 2008 and on Twitter in April 2009.

Departure

On June 29, 2010, King announced that after 25 years, he would be stepping down from his nightly job hosting ''Larry King Live''. However, he stated that he would remain with CNN to host occasional specials. The announcement came in the wake of speculation that CNN had approached Piers Morgan, the British television personality and journalist, as King's primetime replacement, speculation confirmed in September.

The final edition of ''Larry King Live'' aired on December 16, 2010. The show concluded with his last thoughts and a thank you to his audience for watching and supporting him over the years.

Other ventures

King was the moderator of the 6th KAZENERGY Eurasian Forum in Astana, Kazakhstan, an annual forum for Kazakhstan's energy sector occurring in October 2011.

Charitable works

As a result of heart attacks, he established the Larry King Cardiac Foundation, an organization to which David Letterman, through his American Foundation for Courtesy and Grooming, has also contributed. King gave $1 million to George Washington University's School of Media and Public Affairs for scholarships to students from disadvantaged backgrounds. King serves as a member of the Board of Directors on the Police Athletic League of New York City, a nonprofit youth development agency serving inner-city children and teenagers.

On September 3, 2005, following Hurricane Katrina, King aired "How You Can Help", a three-hour special designed to provide a forum and information clearinghouse for viewers to understand and join nationwide and global relief efforts. On January 18, 2010, in the wake the 2010 Haiti earthquake, King aired "Haiti: How You Can Help", a special two-hour edition designed to show viewers how to take action and be a part of the global outreach. Following the Deepwater Horizon explosion, King aired "Disaster in the Gulf: How You Can Help", a special two-hour edition designed to show viewers how to take action in the clean-up efforts on the Gulf Coast.

On August 30, 2010, King served as the host of Chabad's 30th annual "To Life" telethon, in Los Angeles.

Controversial positions

On September 10, 1990, while on ''The Joan Rivers Show,'' Rivers asked King which contestant in the Miss America pageant was "the ugliest". King responded, "Miss Pennsylvania. She was one of the 10 finalists and she did a great ventriloquist bit [...] The dummy was prettier." King was a judge for the September 8, 1990 pageant. King later sent Miss Pennsylvania, Marla Wynne, a dozen long-stemmed roses and a telegram apologizing for saying she was the ugliest contestant in the pageant that year.

In 1997, King was one of 34 celebrities to sign an open letter to then-German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, published as a newspaper advertisement in the ''International Herald Tribune'', which protested the treatment of Scientologists in Germany, comparing it to the Nazis' oppression of Jews in the 1930s. Other signatories included Dustin Hoffman and Goldie Hawn.

Personal life

King has been married eight times, to seven different women. He married high-school sweetheart Freda Miller in 1951 at age 18. The union ended the following year at the behest of their parents, who reportedly had the marriage annulled. King was later briefly married to Annette Kaye who gave birth to his son, Larry Jr., in November 1961. King did not meet Larry Jr. until the son was in his thirties. Larry Jr. and his wife, Shannon, have three children.

In 1961, King married his third wife, Alene Akins, a ''Playboy'' bunny at one of the magazine's eponymous nightclubs. The couple had son Andy in 1962, and divorced the following year. In 1963, King married his fourth wife, Mary Francis "Mickey" Sutphin, who divorced King. He remarried Akins, with whom he had a second child, Chaia, in 1969. The couple divorced a second time in 1972. In 1997, Dove Books published a book written by King and Chaia, ''Daddy Day, Daughter Day''. Aimed at young children, it tells each of their accounts of his divorce from Akins.

On September 25, 1976, King married his fifth wife, math teacher and production assistant Sharon Lepore. The couple divorced in 1983.

King met businesswoman Julie Alexander in summer 1989, and proposed to her on the couple's first date, on August 1, 1989. Alexander became King's sixth wife on October 7, 1989, when the two were married in Washington, D.C. The couple lived in different cities, however, with Alexander in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and King in Washington, D.C., where he worked. The couple separated in 1990 and divorced in 1992. He became engaged to actress Deanna Lund in 1995, after five weeks of dating, but they never married.

He married his seventh wife, Shawn Southwick, born in 1959 as Shawn Oro Engemann, a former singer and TV host, in King's Los Angeles, California, hospital room three days before King underwent heart surgery to clear a clogged blood vessel. The couple have two children: Chance, born March 1999, and Cannon, born May 2000. He is stepfather to Danny Southwick. On King and Southwick's 10th anniversary in September 2007, Southwick boasted she was "the only [wife] to have lasted into the two digits". On April 14, 2010, both Larry and Shawn King filed for divorce. but have since stopped the proceedings, claiming "We love our children, we love each other, we love being a family. That is all that matters to us".

On February 24, 1987, King suffered a major heart attack and then had quintuple-bypass surgery. Since then, King has written two books about living with heart disease. ''Mr. King, You're Having a Heart Attack: How a Heart Attack and Bypass Surgery Changed My Life'' (1989, ISBN 0-440-50039-7) was written with New York's ''Newsday'' science editor B. D. Colen. ''Taking On Heart Disease: Famous Personalities Recall How They Triumphed over the Nation's #1 Killer and How You Can, Too'' (2004, ISBN 1-57954-820-2) features the experience of various celebrities with cardiovascular disease including Peggy Fleming and Regis Philbin.

In July 2009, King appeared on ''The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien'', where he told host O'Brien about his wishes to be cryonically preserved upon death, as he had revealed in his book ''My Remarkable Journey''. In December of 2011, preceding a CNN Special on the topic, the Kings had a special dinner with friends Conan O'Brien, Tyra Banks, Shaquille O'Neal, Seth MacFarlane, Jack Dorsey, Quincy Jones and Russell Brand where his intent to do so was reiterated, among other topics that were discussed.

On February 12, 2010, Larry King revealed that he had undergone surgery five weeks earlier to place stents in his coronary artery to remove plaque from his heart. During the segment on Larry King Live which discussed Bill Clinton's similar procedure, King said he was "feeling great" and had been in hospital for just one day.

Awards

King has received many broadcasting awards. He won the Peabody Award for Excellence in broadcasting for both his radio (1982) and television (1992) shows. He has also won 10 CableACE awards for Best Interviewer and for Best Talk Show Series.

In 1989, King was inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame, and in 1996 to the Broadcasters' Hall of Fame. In 2002, the industry magazine ''Talkers'' named King both the fourth-greatest radio talk show host of all time and the top television talk show host of all time.

in June 1998, King received an Honorary Degree from Brooklyn College, City University of New York, for his life achievements.

King was given the Golden Mike Award for Lifetime Achievement in January 2009, by the Radio & Television News Association of Southern California.

King is an honorary member of the Rotary Club of Beverly Hills. He is also a recipient of the President's Award honoring his impact on media from the Los Angeles Press Club in 2006.

King is the first recipient of the Arizona State University Hugh Downs Award for Communication Excellence, presented April 11, 2007, via satellite by Downs himself. Downs sported red suspenders for the event and turned the tables on King by asking "very tough questions" about King's best, worst and most influential interviews during King's 50 years in broadcasting.

References

External links

CNN profile

Larry King Cardiac Foundation - Foundation to fund treatments cardiac patients with little or no insurance

Clark lawsuit

Larry King Live - Transcripts of all interviews since 2000

Larry King interviewed by Gianluca D'Agostino

Larry King Archive of American Television video interview

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name	Larry Grayson
birth name	William Sulley White
birth date	August 31, 1923
birth place	Banbury, England, UK
death date	January 07, 1995
death place	Nuneaton, Warwickshire, UK
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Larry Grayson (31 August 1923 – 7 January 1995), born William Sulley White, was an English stand-up comedian and television presenter of the 1970s and early 80s. He is best remembered for hosting the BBC's popular series ''The Generation Game'' and for his high camp and English music hall humour.

Biography

Grayson was born in Banbury, north Oxfordshire, in 1923 to unmarried parents (he never met his father). Ten days after he was born, he was adopted by Alice and Jim Hammond, a family in Nuneaton, Warwickshire. His adoptive mother died when he was six years old, and he was brought up by his eldest adoptive sister, Flo until his adoptive father remarried latterly. When he was eight, he discovered that his Aunt Ethel was in fact his natural mother, though he always considered Flo as his mother.

He left school at the age of 14 and was soon working professionally under the name of Billy Breen as a supporting drag act on the comedy club circuit. Over the next thirty years, he toured the UK not only in male revues and drag shows, but also in variety shows. Grayson once toured with Harry Leslie and his Tomorrow Stars, hoping that his chance of fame would come too. He also added stand-up comedy to his act and appeared in London at the Metropolitan.

Television career

Grayson was one of the first television comedians to suggest an openly gay persona. He did not achieve stardom until he was in his fifties and had his own television show. An early TV appearance in the 1950s had led to many complaints about his act being too outrageous, and Grayson had resigned himself to a career off television. He was very popular in revue and working men's clubs with a unique and very gentle anecdotal style of comedy. It was usually based around his various "friends" such as Everard, Apricot Lil, Slack Alice, and the postman Pop-It-In Pete. A lot of this was observational. Grayson's family owned the only telephone in the street when he was a child, and he used to listen to his neighbours using the phone.

Following a hit run of guest spots on ATV variety shows in the 1970s, he was rewarded by Lew Grade with his own award-winning show, ''Shut That Door!'', in 1972.

''The Generation Game''

Grayson's popularity peaked when he moved over to the BBC to present ''The Generation Game'' in 1978.

Attracting audiences of 24 million each week, the show became even more popular and ran until 1981. Grayson was aided and abetted by Isla St Clair, whom he always referred to as "my lovely Isla". Despite its popularity, ''The Generation Game'' was being beaten in the ratings by its ITV rival, ''Game for a Laugh'', and the BBC took the decision to end the series in early 1982. Accepting this decision philosophically, Grayson went into semi-retirement, enjoying time on his own at his bungalow with his beloved dogs, although he did return to television to present the game show "Sweethearts" for ITV in 1987.

He also made two memorable cameo appearances in the Midlands-based soap opera ''Crossroads'', as a flouncing, difficult customer at the Crossroads Motel and as the chauffeur at the wedding of Meg Richardson (played by his close friend Noele Gordon). Ironically, Grayson couldn't drive.

Grayson moved with Flo (his adoptive older sister) to Torquay, Devon as part of his semi-retirement, but moved back to Nuneaton after just a couple of years.

In 2009, Network DVD released a 3 disc set ''Shut That Door – Larry Grayson At ITV'', which features material from his ITV days, including the one existing episode of his series ''Shut That Door'' and both series of ''The Larry Grayson Show''.

Memorial in Nuneaton

It was said that he had been incensed at an objection by one councillor at a Nuneaton town council meeting to the idea of a monument for Grayson in the town. Apparently, the comments made were unpleasantly homophobic. Grayson asked his family to ensure that no memorial to him was ever to be erected there.

However, a permanent tribute to Larry Grayson was opened in April 2009 at the Riversley Park museum, Nuneaton, with a display of personal memorabilia and items from his showbiz career. The exhibition, in the ground-floor Local History Room, includes his trademark gold bentwood chair, a plaque from the star dressing room at the London Palladium, trophies, gifts and souvenir programmes.

A new Lloyds Bar was opened in May 2010 in Nuneaton, named the William White, Larry's Birthname.

Catchphrases

"Shut that door!" (Directed off-stage; his most famous catchphrase, said to have been coined accidentally while playing a draughty theatre in Redcar)

"What a gay day!" (An exclamation after something risqué or innuendo-laden had been said or done)

"Isla, the scores on the doors..." (To Isla St Clair on The Generation Game; her reply was "The names in the frames...")

"Seems like a nice boy!" (Directed to the audience after meeting a male to suggest questionable sexuality)

"Look at the muck on 'ere!" (After running his finger across the top of the back of a chair or another stage prop)

"Fancy!" (An exclamation after something risqué or innuendo-laden had been said or done)

"Why was I given this information?" (On The Generation Game; directed off-stage after reading out a mundane fact about a contestant)

Non-verbal: Cheeks sucked in, mouth puckered, staring into camera for several seconds then quickly looking away; to feign shock or disgust

Characters

His characters were based on real people.

Slack Alice

Apricot Lil, who works in the jam factory

Pop-It-In-Pete, the postman ("The things I've had through my letterbox!")

Self-Raising Fred, the baker

Everard Farquharson, Larry's "close friend"

Top-it-Up Ted, the petrol station attendant

Television Appearances

''Saturday Variety'' — 1971 — television show appearances.

''The Leslie Crowther Show'' — 1971 — television show appearances.

''Shut That Door!'' — 1972–1973 — television show host.

''Crossroads'' — 1973 — guest appearance on the Boxing Day episode as an irate customer.

''The Larry Grayson Hour of Stars'' — 1974 — television show host.

''Look Who's Talking'' — 1974–75 — television show host.

''Crossroads'' — 1975 — guest appearance as the chauffeur of the wedding car in the episode when Meg married Hugh Mortimer.

''Larry Grayson's Generation Game'' — 1978–1981 — television game show host.

''At Home with Larry Grayson'' — 1983 — television show host.

''If You Can't Beat Them, Join Them'' — 1983 — television game show host. Based on an original idea by John Deacon of the rock band Queen (Band).

''Late Night Larry'' — 1983 — radio music show host.

''Sweethearts'' — 1987 — television panel game host.

Death

On New Year's Eve 1994, Grayson was rushed into hospital. The diagnosis was that he had suffered from a perforated appendix. After being allowed home from hospital, Grayson died on 7 January 1995 in Nuneaton, at the age of 71. Grayson's final public appearance was on 3 December 1994 at the ''Royal Variety Performance''. During this performance he referred to his hiatus from television, by commenting to the audience, "They thought I was dead!". His last words during the performance were his catchphrase "Shut that door!", followed by "I love you." He is buried alongside other members of his family in his home town of Nuneaton.

Obituaries

Journalist Suzi Pritchard wrote in ''The Guardian'':

"His camp, deliciously naughty humour was never crude or vulgar. The gentle ambivalence of his humour made him attractive to an extraordinarily diverse range of people. But his real appeal was that of a valued neighbour perceptively observing the details of every day life and commenting on it across the garden fence, creating an emotional intimacy in a society starting to fragment."

Ken Dodd, comedian, said of Larry Grayson's appeal and warmth:

"He loved everybody and he wanted them to love him in return and yes, they did, they all loved Larry".

References

External links

Larry Grayson – h2g2, ''Look at the Muck on 'Ere!'' – Part One

Larry Grayson – h2g2, ''Look at the Muck on 'Ere!'' – Part Two

Larry Grayson – h2g2, ''Look at the Muck on 'Ere!'' – Part Three

Knitting Circle – Larry Grayson biographical article

BBC Coventry article – ''Shut that door with Larry Grayson''

Shut That Door! Larry Grayson at ITV, DVD review and biographical background

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birth date	September 21, 1931
birth place	Fort Worth, Texas, U.S.
occupation	Actor, TV producer and director
years active	1950–present
spouse	Maj Axelsson(1954-present)
children	Daughter and son
parents	Benjamin Hagman (deceased)Mary Martin (deceased)
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Larry Martin Hagman (born September 21, 1931) is an American film and television actor, producer and director known for playing J.R. Ewing in the 1980s primetime television soap opera ''Dallas'' and Major Anthony 'Tony' Nelson in the 1960s sitcom ''I Dream of Jeannie''.

Early life and career

Hagman was born in Fort Worth, Texas. His mother, Mary Martin, later became a Broadway actress and his lawyer father, Benjamin Jack Hagman, was a district attorney. His parents divorced in 1936 when he was five years old. He lived with his grandmother in Texas and California. His famous mother became a contract player with Paramount in 1938 and occasionally brought him to her movies. In 1940 his mother met and married Richard Halliday and gave birth to a daughter, Heller, the following year. Hagman attended the strict Black-Foxe Military Institute (now closed). When his mother moved to New York City to continue her Broadway career, Hagman again lived with his grandmother in California. A couple of years later, his grandmother died and Hagman joined his mother in New York. At age 14 (in 1945) while attending boarding school, he began drinking heavily which led to serious health problems later in life. In 1946 Hagman moved back to his hometown of Weatherford, Texas, where he worked as a ranch hand for his father's friend's company. Upon attending Weatherford High School, he was drawn to drama classes and reputedly fell in love with the stage and, in particular, with the warm reception he got for his comedic roles.

Hagman developed a reputation as a talented performer and in between school terms, would take minor roles in local stage productions. Hagman graduated from high school in 1949, when his mother suggested that he try acting as a profession.

Hagman began his career in Dallas, Texas working as a production assistant and acting in small roles in Margo Jones' Theater in 1950 during a break from his one year at Bard College. He appeared in ''The Taming of the Shrew'' in New York City, followed by numerous tent show musicals with St. John Terrell's Music Circus in St. Petersburg, Florida, and Lambertville, New Jersey. In 1951, Hagman appeared in the London production of ''South Pacific'' with his mother, and stayed in the show for nearly a year.

In 1952, during the Korean War, Hagman was drafted into the United States Air Force. Stationed in London, he spent the majority of his military service entertaining U.S. troops in the UK and at bases in Europe.

Stage/TV and film actor

After leaving the Air Force in 1956, Hagman returned to New York City where he appeared in the Off-Broadway play ''Once Around the Block'', by William Saroyan, and received excellent reviews. This was followed by nearly a year in another Off Broadway play, James Lee's ''Career''. Despite his success, his career was overshadowed by his mother's fame, which was in ascendancy due to her starring role in a TV production of ''Peter Pan'' (in a role she had already played on Broadway). Larry Hagman's Broadway debut occurred in 1958 in ''Comes a Day''. Hagman appeared in four other Broadway plays, ''God and Kate Murphy'', ''The Nervous Set'', ''The Warm Peninsula'' and ''The Beauty Part''.

During this period, Hagman appeared in numerous, mostly live, television programs. In 1958 he joined Barbara Bain as a guest star in the short-lived adventure and drama series ''Harbourmaster'', starring Barry Sullivan. Hagman joined the cast of ''The Edge of Night'' in 1961 as Ed Gibson, and stayed in that role for two years. In 1964 he made his film debut in ''Ensign Pulver'', which featured young unknown Jack Nicholson. That same year, Hagman also appeared in ''Fail-Safe'', opposite Henry Fonda.

Versatile character actor

At 25, Hagman made his TV debut on an episode of ''Decoy''. The part led to other roles on other TV series such as: ''Goodyear Television Playhouse'', ''Studio One'', ''Kraft Television Theatre'', ''Harbourmaster'', ''The DuPont Show of the Month'', 3 episodes of ''Sea Hunt'', ''The United States Steel Hour'', 2 episodes of ''The Defenders'', ''Diagnosis: Unknown'', ''Mr. Broadway'', ''Love American Style'', ''Medical Center'', ''McCloud'', ''Love Story'', ''Lucas Tanner'', ''The Streets of San Francisco'', ''Police Woman'', two episodes of ''Marcus Welby, M.D.'', ''Three for the Road'', ''Harry O'', ''The Rockford Files'', ''Barnaby Jones'', ''McMillan & Wife'', ''Police Story'', five episodes of ''Dallas'''s spin-off series, ''Knots Landing'' with Michele Lee, in which he played J.R. Ewing, ''The Simpsons'', and five episodes of ''Nip/Tuck''.

TV series

''I Dream of Jeannie''

After years of guest-starring in many TV roles, and starring in a less successful series the previous year, Hagman hit the jackpot in 1965 playing Barbara Eden’s TV "master" and eventual love interest, Captain (later Major) Anthony Nelson in the sitcom, ''I Dream of Jeannie'', for NBC. The show had climbed into the Top 10 in its first year and was NBC's answer to both successful 1960s magical comedies, ''Bewitched'' on ABC and ''My Favorite Martian'' on CBS.

In its first season ''I Dream of Jeannie'' was not filmed in color, which was prohibitively expensive at the time. From the 2nd season (1966) on, however, the show was filmed in color in recognition of the widespread purchase and use of color televisions by the viewing public. During the show's first season Hagman's character was promoted from Captain to Major.

By 1970 ''Jeannie'' was running out of steam, and during the last season Hagman’s character finally married Jeannie.

There were two reunion movies both televised on NBC: ''I Dream of Jeannie: 15 Years Later'' (1985) and ''I Still Dream of Jeannie (1991)''. Hagman refused to appear in the first reunion movie, reportedly because of a payment dispute.

1970s work

After ''Jeannie'' was canceled, Hagman had two other short-lived series in the 1970s: ''Here We Go Again'' and ''The Good Life''. He also appeared in such television films as ''Getting Away From It All'', ''Sidekicks'', ''The Return Of The World's Greatest Detective'', Intimate Strangers, and ''Checkered Flag Or Crash''.

Hagman appeared in the theatrical films ''The Group'', ''Harry and Tonto'', ''Mother, Jugs & Speed'', ''The Eagle Has Landed'', ''Superman'', ''Nixon'' and ''Primary Colors''. He directed (and appeared briefly in) a low-budget comedy and horror film in 1972 called ''Beware The Blob'' (a sequel to the classic 1958 horror film, ''The Blob''). Some have jokingly called this "the film that J.R. shot".

''Dallas''

Hagman was cast as conniving elder son and businessman, J.R. Ewing, a man whom everybody loved to hate for the show ''Dallas''. Already starring on the show was legendary stage and screen actress Barbara Bel Geddes and Hagman's childhood movie hero Jim Davis as her husband Jock Ewing. In addition, ''Dallas'' cast a number of unfamiliar, yet promising actors including Patrick Duffy, Steve Kanaly, Ken Kercheval, teen-aged Charlene Tilton and Victoria Principal. When Hagman read the script for the role of J.R. at his wife’s suggestion, they concluded it was perfect for him. Another attraction for Hagman was that as a native Texan, he did not have to travel that far from his hometown, which gained great exposure and notoriety from the series.

In mid-1978, the producers thought that the series was originally supposed to be about Bobby and Pam, and it wasn’t originally intended to be a ratings bonanza, with producers anticipating having to cancel the show after only five episodes.

However, thanks to the strong fan following for Hagman's portrayal of J.R., he was credited as being the star who saved the show, it being offered a second season, on the strength of excellent first season ratings. His co-star Linda Gray also received a starring role as J.R.’s long-suffering wife. Overall, the cast got along very well with Hagman, particularly Duffy, who would often spend weekends with the Hagmans. The chemistry between Hagman and Duffy was convincingly like sibling rivalry (despite their real-life 18 year age difference) which made for exciting on-screen exchanges and equal screen time for Duffy's character.

Seen in over 90 countries, the show was a worldwide success and Hagman became one of the most reliable and supportive network stars. As the star of the show, Hagman drew on many of his youthful experiences of growing up in Texas to bring depth to J.R.'s irascible character. While J.R. played out a complex love/hate relationship with his ''Dallas'' family, Hagman enjoyed a relaxed and warm relationship with his castmates, often playing practical jokes to lessen the tension caused by tight filming schedules and highly emotionally charged scripts.

By the end of its second season, Dallas was a bonafide hit. Producers were keen to capitalize on that love/hate family relationship of J.R.'s, building anticipation to a fever-pitch in a cliff hanger season finale in which J.R. is shot.

At the beginning of Dallas' third season, audience and actors were guessing "Who Shot J.R.?". During the media buildup, Hagman was involved in contract negotiations delaying his return in the third season. Holding out for a higher salary, Hagman did not appear in the first episode of the show until the final few minutes, despite all the media and fan frenzy over the fate of J.R.

Producers were faced with a dilemma whether to pay the greatly increased salary or to write J.R. out of the picture. CBS began taping different episodes of ''Dallas'' which did not include Hagman.

In the midst of negotiations, Hagman took his family to London for their July vacation. He continued to fight for his demands and network executives conceded that the show really could not go on without him. From the third season, Hagman was paid a huge amount per episode.

At the beginning of the third season, writers were told to keep the storylines away from the actors until they really found out who actually shot J.R., and it took at least three weeks until the culprit was revealed on November 21, 1980.

Toward the end of the third season in 1981, Hagman’s co-star and TV father (Jim Davis) had been diagnosed with brain cancer. Davis was a heavy smoker (as were Bel Geddes and Hagman themselves), and Hagman got his TV father to stop, but unfortunately it was too late. Despite his illness he was retained on the show, so that he was not only written out of the show but died in real-life. His character was first sent off to South America to work on the oil fields. The following year he died. The show did an episode surrounding Jock's death/disappearance in the 4th season. They said his helicopter crashed in the jungles of South America and sunk to the bottom of a lake.

During the fall of 1981, his character met Clayton Farlow (played by singer and 1950s moviestar Howard Keel), who became his on-screen stepfather, for the next decade. Hagman's on- and off-screen chemistry with Keel, would endure for most of the 1980s, as he would play that role, almost until the very end, when he departed from the series. Coincidentally, his departure from the program was a few weeks before ''Dallas'''s series cancelation in 1991.

For his work as J.R. Ewing, Hagman was nominated for two Emmys between 1980 and 1981, for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series, but did not win. He was also nominated for four Golden Globes, between 1981 and 1983 and one in 1985, losing both. He was nominated for a Soap Opera Digest Award seven times for Outstanding Villain on a Prime Time Serial, Outstanding Actor in a Leading Role on a Prime Time Serial, Favorite Super Couple: Prime Time and Outstanding Actor in a Comic Relief Role on a Prime Time Serial, and won five times. In 1984, co-star (Barbara Bel Geddes) left the show after suffering a heart attack. At one point, Hagman suggested to his real-life mother (Mary Martin) that she play Miss Ellie, but she refused and Bel Geddes was replaced with veteran actress Donna Reed. Reed was fired from the show, just one year before her death in 1986.

Bel Geddes came back in 1985 and stayed on until 1990, while Tilton left the show in 1985, but came back in 1988 and stayed on until 1990. Also in 1985, his co-star (Patrick Duffy) left the show in order to pursue a career in TV movies, but thanks to Hagman’s persuasion, decided to come back at the end of the 1985-86 season.

The decline in ''Dallas''' fortunes in the late '80s was mirrored in Hagman’s private life. He was drinking continuously and this led to him developing cirrhosis of the liver. During the final season of ''Dallas'', he appeared with former ''Jeannie'' star Barbara Eden, who played J.R.'s conniving former girlfriend.

By the end of its thirteenth season in 1991, ratings continued to slip and CBS decided to end ''Dallas'' after a remarkable run. Hagman was the only actor to appear in all 357 episodes. Due to his character's popularity, he made five guest appearances on ''Knots Landing'', which itself was a spinoff from ''Dallas'''s in the early 1980s. Hagman also appeared in two subsequent ''Dallas'' TV movies: ''J.R. Returns'' in 1996, and ''War of the Ewings'' in 1998.

After a 14-year hiatus, Hagman will reprise his role as J.R. Ewing in TNT's continuation of ''Dallas'', beginning in 2012.

''Hagman and Patrick Duffy''

Hagman's relationship with Patrick Duffy's family began in the mid 1940s, when the teenaged actor went to spend a lot of time with Duffy's parents. In the reunion, Duffy said of Hagman's friendship with his real-life parents, "Larry knew my parents, before he ever knew me," Later, he said about working with the veteran actor on a weekly series made Patrick really nervous, "I would get a phone call from them, when I was driving my truck, and they said, 'Call this nice Mr. Hagman, maybe he can help you in the business.' And I didn't know who the hell Mr. Hagman was!" Patrick also said of Hagman's tenure on ''Dallas'': "Larry took the part that could've been a joke, just plain 'The Evil Master of the Universe'. And he decided to play J.R. as the hero. Larry believes that J.R. was this knight in shining armor. He thought he'd never done something wrong!" Duffy would also say something about Hagman's character who did everybody more harm than good, "He never actually killed anybody. He fomented revolutions in South America, he had no problems with environmental disasters, he sank ships, he had babies stolen — he made babies, God knows he was like a rabbit. In fact, my son was his on the show, figure that one out." When the "Who Shot JR?", media was surrounded, Duffy would say of Hagman's contract renegotiation, "Not only it was 'Who Shot J.R.?', it was 'Who's going to be JR?', and the press took a hold of that, and I think the studio is throwing out people's names in their negotiations with Larry, and this will scare him, it won't scare him!" Upon Hagman's return to the show, Duffy said, "And he came back and it was grand, you know, it was Larry!" Years before Hagman's hospitalization, Duffy was one of the stars to be emotionally concerned about his drinking behavior, "He came to my house and had cornflakes and Bourbon. And I realized, he was just way out of his league," he said, "We'd arrived for make-up around 7:30 A.M. in the morning and the first bottle will be popped open," the last thing he said was, "He'd continue to imbibe, not just throw it back, but to keep that buzz going, all day long." After the show was canceled and Hagman's short battle against cancer, Duffy still remained close to Hagman.

''Hagman and Charlene Tilton''

Long before Charlene Tilton co-starred with Hagman on a long-running soap opera, Hagman was her childhood television hero as she watched her future TV uncle's series, ''I Dream of Jeannie'', where the actor gave comic relief in each of the scenes, while filming. Long after the series was demised, Tilton was more than happy to work with Larry on ''Dallas'', both on-screen and -off, for seven 1/2 seasons, making her a household name. The remarkable TV uncle/TV niece relationship of both Hagman & Tilton were a huge success of 1980s television, dancing to death as friends, while the two were playing gossipy relatives on the show. In describing of her TV uncle's previous role that has not been typecasted, Charlene said: "Larry Hagman is one of the nicest people on the planet. He is so wonderful, so loving, so giving. JR was a 1-dimensional, evil character. JR was multi-dimensional, and Larry Hagman is probably one of the greatest actors that we have. Then, you go back and look at "''I Dream of Jeannie''" - I mean, he's a comic genius, as well. So, I think they should give him an honorary Emmy Award." When Tilton left the show in 1985, but came back in 1988 through 1990, she continued to be friends with Larry. More recently, she was one of the guests at Larry Hagman's 70th birthday party at her TV uncle's family's house. The rest of the surviving ''Dallas'' cast was there, except for Patrick Duffy and Linda Gray. She in turn was also concerned about her series' lead's health, when in 1995, Hagman undergo a lifesaving liver transplant, at the same time, he battled liver cancer, where he was forced to quit drinking.

After ''Dallas''

In January 1997, Larry starred in a short lived TV series named ''Orleans'' as ''Judge Luther Charbonnet'', lasting only eight episodes. By this time, Hagman ceased wearing his toupée, which was first seen by the public when he appeared as a guest star during the fourth season of ''Nip/Tuck''.

''I Dream of Jeannie'' again

In November 1999, after 29 years, Hagman agreed to reunite with ''Jeannie'' co-stars Barbara Eden and Bill Daily and creator/producer Sidney Sheldon on the ''The Donny and Marie Show''. In 2002, when ''I Dream Of Jeannie'' was set to join the cable channel TV Land, Hagman once again took part in a ''I Dream Of Jeannie'' reunion with Eden and Daily, this time on ''Larry King Live''.

On the ''TV Land Awards'' in March 2004, Hagman and Eden were the first presenters to reunite on stage. The following October, Hagman and Daily appeared at The Ray Courts Hollywood Autograph Show. And the following year, 2005 brought all three stars from ''I Dream Of Jeannie'' to the first ever cast reunion at The Chiller Expo Show.

Hagman reunited with Eden in March 2006 for a publicity tour in New York City to promote the first season DVD of ''I Dream Of Jeannie''. He reunited once again with Eden on stage in the play ''Love Letters'' at the College of Staten Island in New York and the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York. The appearance marked the first time the two had acted together since Eden appeared with Hagman on ''Dallas'' in 1990.

In 2002, Hagman made an appearance in the fourth series of Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer's British comedy panel game, ''Shooting Stars''.

In January 2011, Hagman made a guest appearance in the 7th Season of ''Desperate Housewives'' as a new husband for Lynette Scavo's mother, Stella.

TV Commercials

During the 80's, Hagman was featured in a national televised Schlitz beer campaign, playing on - but not explicitly featuring - Hagman's J.R. character from ''Dallas''. Hagman wore the same kind of western business outfit - complete with cowboy hat - that he wore playing J.R. Ewing. The end of each 30-second spot featured a male voice-over saying, "Refreshing Schlitz beer...the gusto's back..." and Hagman grinning into the camera and saying, "...and I'm gonna get it!" He also made commercials for B.V.D. brand underwear.

In 2010, Larry Hagman has been hired as a spokesman for SolarWorld, a solar energy commercial enterprise. While the SolarWorld commercials do not specifically mention either ''Dallas'' or J.R. Ewing, Hagman essentially revisits the character (complete with a picture of Hagman as J.R. Ewing from the original series on the mantle), stating that his oil company days are long over, "though still in the energy business", meaning solar energy instead.

Personal life

In 1973, stepfather Richard Halliday died, and Hagman reconciled with his mother soon after. The two became close until his mother’s own death, seventeen years later. Late in 1990, his mother (Mary Martin) was diagnosed with colon cancer and died just one month before her 77th birthday. Hagman enjoyed a warm relationship with his mother, and she was very proud of her son’s accomplishments.

While in England, he dated future British actress Joan Collins (of ''Dynasty'' fame).

In 1954, Hagman married Swedish-born Maj Axelsson and they had two children, Heidi Kristina (b. 1958) and Preston (b. 1962). Longtime residents of Malibu, California, they now live in Ojai, California. He has been a member of the Peace and Freedom Party since the 1960s. Hagman derided President George W. Bush, a fellow Texan, before the Iraq War. At a signing for his book he said "A sad figure (Bush)—not too well educated, who doesn't get out of America much. He's leading the country towards fascism". Hagman appeared at the Dublin races in 2008 with his wife.

Despite playing the very conservative J.R. Ewing, Hagman is a member of the Democratic Party and supported Bill Clinton, Al Gore, John Kerry, Hillary Clinton and later Barack Obama in their respective bids for the United States Presidency.

In 1967 a good friend, musician David Crosby, supplied him with LSD after a Crosby, Stills, and Nash concert: "LSD was such a profound experience in my life that it changed my pattern of life and my way of thinking and I could not exclude it." Hagman was introduced to marijuana by Jack Nicholson, as a safer alternative to Hagman's heavy drinking. Although Hagman says he no longer smokes marijuana and is on a "Twelve-step program," he explains, "Marijuana is like being compared to alcohol and when you come right down to it, alcohol destroys your body and makes you do violent things, but with grass, you just sit back and enjoy life."

In 1980, he released a 45 record for CBS Records. It features the single "My Favorite Sins" with the b/w "Ballad Of the Good Luck Charm".

In 1982, he crowned the winner of the Miss Sweden competition in Stockholm. During the coronation he wore a traditional Lapphatt and sang a Swedish folksong.

In August 1995, Hagman underwent a life-saving liver transplant after admitting he had been a heavy drinker. Numerous reports state he was drinking four bottles of champagne a day on the set of ''Dallas''. He was also a heavy smoker as a young man, but the cancer scare was the catalyst for him to quit. Hagman was so shaken by this incident that he immediately became strongly anti-smoking. He has recorded several public service announcements pleading with smokers to quit and urging non-smokers never to start. Hagman was the chairman of the American Cancer Society's annual Great American Smokeout for many years, and also worked on behalf of the National Kidney Foundation.

In a 2007 interview, he talked about how he is now a major proponent of alternative energy. On an episode of ''Living With Ed'', Larry and Maj show the Begleys their solar powered, super energy efficient home and Larry talks about his green lifestyle.

In early 2010, Hagman & Maj put their 43-acre estate called ''Heaven'' up for sale, which was valued at $9.5 million. The estate is located high in the hills of Ojai, California. Maj began her career in cultural fashion in the late 1950s for modern-day celebrities. She designed the house and infused it with her trademark elegance and style. Both Hagman & Maj first purchased this entire property in 1991.

Filmography

Search for Tomorrow (1951) (TV-series)

The Outcasts of Poker Flat (1958) (TV-film)

The Edge of Night (1956) (TV-series)

The Silver Burro (1963) (TV-film)

The Cavern (1965)

Ensign Pulver (1964)

Fail-Safe (1964)

In Harm's Way (1965)

I Dream of Jeannie (1965) (TV-series)

The Rogues (1964) (TV-series)

The Group (1966)

Three's a Crowd (1969) (TV-film)

Up in the Cellar (1970)

Vanished (1971) (TV-film)

The Hired Hand (1971) (TV-film)

The Good Life (1971) (TV-series)

A Howling in the Woods (1971) (TV-film)

Getting Away from It All (1972) (TV-film)

Beware! The Blob (1972) (directorial debut)

No Place to Run (1972) (TV-film)

Antonio (1973)

Here We Go Again (1973) (TV series)

Applause (1973) (TV) .... Bill Sampson

The Toy Game (1973) .... Major

The Alpha Caper (1973) (TV) .... Tudor

Blood Sport (1973) (TV) .... Coach Marshall

What Are Best Friends For? (1973) (TV-film)

Stardust (1974)

Sidekicks (1974) (TV-film)

Harry and Tonto (1974)

Hurricane (1974) (TV-film)

Sarah T. - Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic (1975) (TV-film)

The Big Rip-Off (1975) (TV-film)

Mother, Jugs & Speed (1976)

The Return of the World's Greatest Detective (1976) (TV-film)

The Big Bus (1976)

The Eagle Has Landed (1976)

Cry for Justice (1977)

The Rhinemann Exchange (1977) (TV-mini-series)

Checkered Flag or Crash (1977)

Intimate Strangers (1977) (TV-film)

A Double Life (1978) (TV-film)

The President's Mistress (1978) (TV-film)

Last of the Good Guys (1978) (TV-film)

Dallas (1978) (TV-series)

Superman (1978)

S.O.B. (1981)

I Am Blushing (1981)

Deadly Encounter (1982) (TV-film)

Dallas: The Early Years (1986) (TV-film)

Lone Star (1986) (TV documentary)

JFK (1991)

Ein Schloß am Wörthersee (1992) (German TV-series)

Staying Afloat (1993) (TV-film)

Nixon (1995)

Dallas: J.R. Returns (1996) (TV-film)

Orleans (1997) (TV-series)

The Third Twin (1997) (TV-film)

Primary Colors (1998)

Dallas: War of the Ewings (1998) (TV-film)

Nip/Tuck (2006) (TV-series)

Lindenstraße (2006) (German Soap Opera)

Cómplices (2009) (Spanish Soap Opera)

Desperate Housewives (2010)

Dallas (2012)

References

External links

Larry Hagman Official website

Larry Hagman's Official Website

''Larry Hagman: Vita Celebratio Est'' (''Time'' magazine profile, Aug. 11, 1980)

Love Letters New York

Larry Hagman Archive of American Television Interview

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