Joseph Campanella
Campanella in his role on The Nurses, 1965.
Born	Joseph Anthony Campanella (1927-11-21) November 21, 1927 (age 84) Lewistown, Pennsylvania, USA
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1952-2009
Spouse	Kathryn Jill Bartholomew (1964-present) 7 children

Joseph Campanella (born November 21, 1927) in Lewistown, Pennsylvania is an American character actor who has appeared in over 200 TV and film roles since 1955, including such tv shows as The Eleventh Hour, The Fugitive, Mission: Impossible, Gunsmoke, The Untouchables, Police Story, The Road West, The Golden Girls and Mama's Family. He also had a role in 1967 as Lew Wickersham in the television series Mannix as Joe Mannix's boss and friend, before the P.I. went solo and started his own firm. Campanella would go on to appear as attorney Brian Darrell from 1969 to 1972 in The Bold Ones: The Lawyers. He played Ann Romano's ex-husband, Ed Cooper, in seven episodes of One Day at a Time (1975–1984) and Barbara Stanwyck's love interest in the first season (1985–1986) of the Aaron Spelling's short-lived Dynasty spinoff, The Colbys. The actor had a prominent role as Harper Deveraux on the soap opera Days of Our Lives from 1987 to 1988 and from 1990 to 1992, and a recurring role on The Bold and the Beautiful from 1996 to 2005. He is the brother of actor Frank Campanella, who died in December 2006. He also had a bit part in the cowboy episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. Campanella also hosted the Canadian educational programme Science International between 1976 and 1979; the show aired on Nickelodeon as What Will They Think Of Next? He played an endearing character in the independent comedy, For Heaven's Sake.

Campanella formerly provided the voiceover for BMW commercials in the United States, intoning, "BMW... the ultimate driving machine." He also narrated the Discover Magazine science series on the Disney Channel from 1992-1994. He also co-hosted with Tiu Leek the 1976-1979 Global Television Network science documentary What Will They Think Of Next?.

Two of Campanella's sons, Rob and Dominic, play in the L.A. psychedelic-rock band The Quarter After.

Filmography[link]

• History of China: The Roots of Madness - CIA Cold War Documentary Film (1967) (narration only)
• Meteor (1979)
• Earthbound (1981)
• My Body, My Child (1982)
• Christmas at Cadillac Jack's (2007)

References[link]

External links[link]

• Joseph Campanella at the Internet Movie Database
• Joseph Campanella at Memory Alpha (a Star Trek wiki)

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Joseph Arthur Campanella (September 3, 1930 – February 15, 1967) was a professional American football player who played linebacker for six seasons for the Cleveland Browns and the Baltimore Colts.

He was selected by Carroll Rosenbloom to be Vice President and General Manager of the Baltimore Colts from November 1966 until his death in February 1967.

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Steve Ihnat (August 7, 1934 – May 12, 1972) was a Czechoslovakian-born actor and director. He immigrated to Canada when he was five years old, and later became a United States citizen.

Early life[link]

Born Stefan Ihnat, he was raised on a farm in Lynden, Ontario. His family settled there after fleeing his native Czechoslovakia in 1939, when he was five years old. Ihnat, his mother, father, and two young boys from other families left Czechoslovakia three days before Prague was closed.

Ihnat became hooked on acting when he played a child role in an amateur theatre near Lynden. He said, "I knew this was the only thing I wanted to do with my life." He also said "I think wanting to act started when I was about 14 as an escape valve to my environment. I was raised on a farm and I decided I wanted to be everything in life. Acting is the best way to do it."

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Ihnat moved to the United States in 1958 to pursue a career in acting and attended the Pasadena Playhouse. He gained United States citizenship. At a time when he had difficulty finding work he enlisted in the U.S. Army for two years and served at Headquarters and Headquarters U.S. Army, Port Inchon, South Korea. In 1960, Pvt. Ihnat won second prize in the Republic of Korea poetry contest for his entry titled "Toil in the Night."

Ihnat guest-starred in several television series during the 1960s and is best known by Star Trek fans as Garth of Izar from the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "Whom Gods Destroy" The Fugitive episode "Cry Uncle" "The Walls of Night" Ihnat held over seventy guest star credits in such well known series as Gunsmoke ("Exodus 21:22", "Jenny" with Lisa Gerritsen (December 28, 1970), and "Noose of Gold"), Bonanza ("A Dream to Dream" and "Terror at 2:00"), The Virginian ("Jed" and "Last Grave at Socorro Creek"), Mission: Impossible ("The Mind of Stefan Miklos"), Cimarron Strip ("The Hunted"), I Dream of Jeannie ("My Master the Rainmaker"), Mannix ("End Game" and "To Catch the Lightning"), The F.B.I. ("Region of Peril" and "The Prey"), The Outer Limits ("The Inheritors"), The Name of the Game ("The Chains of Command" and "Nightmare"), Medical Center (TV series) ("Fright and Flight") and Perry Mason ("The Case of the Duplicate Case") but never achieved major fame for starring in movies or his own television series.

As an actor, he first achieved wide notice for his portrayal of a mind-controlled lieutenant in the science fiction television series The Outer Limits. His extended speech at the end of that double episode, "The Inheritors — Part 1 & Part 2" (1964), is one of the most affecting moments in television. Ihnat eventually became one of the most in-demand A-list guest stars of the 1960s.

Ihnat's most famous role in Mission: Impossible was that of brilliant Soviet Union investigator Stefan Miklos in the 1969 episode "The Mind of Stefan Miklos," widely praised as one of the most cerebral and intelligent episodes of the entire series. While he played other roles (mostly villains) in the show, his performance in this episode is his most memorable.^[1][2]

From 1964 to 1968 he appeared in eight feature films. He often played villains, using his abilities to subtly turn one-dimensional characters into complex and multi-dimensional antagonists. In 1967, Lamont Johnson cast him in the Richard Boone film Kona Coast in which Inhat played a murderous playboy in Hawaii doping up teenagers and causing mayhem to Boone's property and person ^[3]. In 1968, he memorably portrayed a murderous thug in the film Madigan, starring Richard Widmark and Henry Fonda and a NASA administrator in the film Countdown, directed by Robert Altman and starring James Caan and Robert Duvall. Other films of note during this period included In Like Flint and Hour of the Gun.

Ihnat was a screenwriter and director as well. He wrote, produced and starred in "Do Not Throw Cushions Into The Ring," which while never released, led to his receiving the plum position of directing The Honkers, starring James Coburn, with whom he had appeared in In Like Flint. He also co-wrote the movie with Stephen Lodge.

Death[link]

Steve Ihnat was married to Sally Carter-Ihnat who had been a Playboy Playmate of the Month in May 1962. Sally had a daughter from a previous marriage. Steve's son, Stefan, was born one month before Steve died. At the age of thirty-seven, he suffered a heart attack while visiting the Cannes Film Festival in France, where he was promoting his "Do Not Throw Cushions in the Ring." He died on his wife's 30th birthday. His death was later announced on the Emmys telecast.

Ihnat is interred in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles. His son, Stefan, who died at age 32 from complications of diabetes, is interred next to him.

Sally Carter-Ihnat was married to Hollywood Squares host Peter Marshall from 1977 to 1988.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Steve Ihnat at the Internet Movie Database
• Steve Ihnat at Memory Alpha (a Star Trek wiki)
• Brief Candle: Tribute to Steve Ihnat

Mike Connors
Born	Krekor Ohanian (1925-08-15) August 15, 1925 (age 86) Fresno, California
Years active	1952–present
Spouse	Mary Lou Willey (1949–present)

Mike Connors (born Krekor Ohanian, August 15, 1925) is an American actor best known for playing detective Joe Mannix in the CBS television series, Mannix. Before that, he had played a crime-fighting investigator, wielding a .38 handgun hidden in his back, in another CBS series, Tightrope.

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Connors was born in Fresno, California, of Armenian descent. He was an avid basketball player in high school who was nicknamed "Touch" by his teammates. During World War II he served in the United States Army Air Forces.^[1] After the war he attended the University of California at Los Angeles on a basketball scholarship, where he was a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity.^[1] William A. Wellman got him into acting after noticing his expressive face while Connors was playing basketball. He appeared on the Los Angeles CBS station as "Touch" Connors in an episode of Jukebox Jury before the program went national via ABC in 1953. Connors is credited in his early films, such as Island in the Sky (1953), Swamp Women (a.k.a. Swamp Diamonds), Five Guns West (1955), and Flesh and the Spur (1957) as "Touch Connors".

He played basketball for coach John Wooden at UCLA.

Connors recalled in an interview that he was renamed by Henry Willson saying that "Ohanian" was too close to the actor George O'Hanlon and came up with "Touch Connors".^[2]

Career[link]

His early film career started in the early 1950s. Among films he was cast in included a critically acclaimed John Wayne film, Island in the Sky (1953 film) in which he was a crewman on one of the search and rescue planes. In 1956, still billed as Touch Connors, he played an Amalekite herder in Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments starring Charlton Heston.

He appeared in numerous television series, including the co-starring role in the 1955 episode "Tomas and the Widow" of the NBC western anthology series Frontier. He guest starred on Jeannie Carson's unsuccessful 1956-1957 situation comedy Hey, Jeannie!. He appeared in two Rod Cameron syndicated crime dramas, City Detective and the western-themed State Trooper, and played the villain in the first episode filmed (but second one aired) of ABC-TV's smash hit Maverick opposite James Garner in 1957. He also appeared on two other syndicated series, The Silent Service, based on true stories of the submarine section of the United States Navy, and Sheriff of Cochise, set about Bisbee, Arizona. Connors also appeared in the episode of the TV Series One Step Beyond called "The Aerialist." In 1965, he co-starred in one of Robert Redford's earliest film roles, a WWII black comedy, Situation Hopeless... But Not Serious alongside Sir Alec Guinness.

Connors later took the starring roles in Tightrope (1959–1960), Mannix (1967–1975) and Today's F.B.I. (1981–1982). Due to the popularity of Tightrope in Mexico during the early 1960s, Discos Orfeon released a 45 rpm single of Connors singing in Spanish.^{[citation needed]} Mannix was originally produced by Desilu Productions (later absorbed by Paramount Television) and it was then-President Lucille Ball who pushed for CBS to keep the show on air after a lacklustre first season in the ratings. This move enabled the show to become a long-running hit for the network. Connors was able to work with his boss on-screen during a cross-promotion episode of Ball's Here's Lucy series in 1971, showing how adept at comedy he was. The episode opened Lucy's fourth season of that entertainment product and was titled 'Lucy and Mannix are Held Hostage'. It was notable for being the first episode shot at Universal Studios, after Ball ceased producing her show at Paramount Studios.

Connors' long history of police and military roles very possibly was the reason he was chosen to play Air Force Colonel Harrison "Hack" Peters in Herman Wouk's 1988 World War II-based miniseries War and Remembrance.

Connors lives in Encino, California.

Filmography[link]

• 1952 : Sudden Fear : Junior Kearney
• 1953 : The 49th Man : Lt. Magrew
• 1953 : Sky Commando : Lt. Hobson Lee
• 1953 : Island in the Sky : Gainer
• 1954 : Day of Triumph : Andrew
• 1955 : Swamp Women : Bob Matthews
• 1955 : Five Guns West : Hale Clinton
• 1955 : The Twinkle in God's Eye : Lou
• 1955 : Day the World Ended: Tony Lamont
• 1956 : Jaguar: Marty Lang
• 1956 : The Oklahoma Woman : Tom Blake
• 1956 : The Ten Commandments  : Amalekite herder
• 1956 : Shake, Rattle & Rock! : Garry Nelson
• 1957 : Flesh and the Spur : Stacy Tanner
• 1957 : Voodoo Woman : Ted Bronson
• 1958 : Suicide Battalion : Maj. Matt McCormack
• 1958 : Live Fast, Die Young : Rick
• 1960 : The Dalton That Got Away : Russ Dalton
• 1964 : Panic Button : Frank Pagano
• 1964 : Good Neighbor Sam : Howard Ebbets
• 1964 : Where Love Has Gone  : Major Luke Miller
• 1965 : Harlow : Jack Harrison
• 1965 : Situation Hopeless... But Not Serious : Sgt. Lucky Finder
• 1966 : Stagecoach : Hatfield
• 1966 : Se tutte le donne del mondo, aka Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die (US title): Kelly
• 1979 : Avalanche Express : Haller
• 1979 : The Death of Oceanview Park : Sam Jackson
• 1980 : Nightkill : Wendell Atwell
• 1985 : Too Scared to Scream: Lt. Alex Dinardo
• 1989 : Fist Fighter : Billy Vance
• 1993 : Public Enemy #2
• 1994 : Downtown Heat : Steve
• 1999 : Gideon : Harland Greer
• 2000 : The Extreme Adventures of Super Dave (video) : Osborne
• 2003 : Nobody Knows Anything! : Joe Mannix

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