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Harvey Banks Martin (November 16, 1950 – December 24, 2001) was an American football defensive end in the National Football League for the Dallas Cowboys from 1973 until 1983. He started playing football in high school, only because he overheard his father tell his mother that he was ashamed that his son did not play like his friends' children. He eventually starred at South Oak Cliff High School and East Texas State University before being drafted in the third round of the 1973 NFL Draft.
In 1967, Martin's junior year in high school, he transferred to South Oak Cliff High School, which had become the first integrated high school in Dallas. That year, Martin suited up for a football team for the first time in his life. The team went 9-1 that year, though Martin was a backup offensive tackle and only played whenever they had a sizable lead. That would change by his senior year, when in the spring game he got a chance to fill in on defense, which eventually convinced the coaches to move him to defensive tackle. By the third game of his senior year he was a starter and by the end of the season he was the best lineman on a 12-1 team that won the Dallas City championship and went on to the state quarterfinals. Still, he was so skinny and so late-blooming that the only college that offered him a scholarship was East Texas State in Commerce (now named Texas A&M University–Commerce).
Eric Marlon Bishop (born December 13, 1967), professionally known as Jamie Foxx, is an American actor, singer-songwriter, rapper, stand-up comedian, and talk radio host who began playing the piano when he was five years old. As an actor, his work in the film Ray earned him the Academy Award and BAFTA Award for Best Actor as well as the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a musical/comedy. He is also a Grammy Award winning musician, producing three albums which have charted highly on the Billboard 200: Unpredictable, which topped the chart, Best Night of My Life and Intuition.
Born in Terrell, Texas, Foxx was raised by his mother's adoptive parents. He performed in high school and was awarded with a scholarship to United States International University. In his twenties, Foxx began performing stand-up at comedy clubs, and eventually joined the cast of In Living Color in 1991; this exposure helped him land film roles and star in his own sitcom, The Jamie Foxx Show. He released his debut album, Peep This, in 1994, but he did not gain significant musical success until 2004 when he was featured in Twista's song "Slow Jamz". Also in 2004, Foxx played critically acclaimed roles in the films Collateral and Ray. He released his second album, Unpredictable, in 2005, which was helped by his collaboration on Kanye West's number-one single "Gold Digger". His third album Intuition was released in 2008 and was anchored by the single "Blame It". Foxx released his fourth studio album, Best Night of My Life, in 2010.
Martin Fitzgerald Lawrence (born April 16, 1965) is an actor, film director, film producer, screenwriter, and stand up comedian. He came to fame during the 1990s, establishing a Hollywood career as a leading actor, most notably the films Bad Boys, Blue Streak, and Big Momma's House. Lawrence has acted in numerous film roles and starred in his own television series, Martin, which ran from 1992 to 1997.
Lawrence was born in Frankfurt am Main, Hesse in Germany on April 16, 1965, to American parents. He was given his first name after civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. and his middle name after US President John F. Kennedy. His father, John Lawrence, served in the US Military. After his parents divorced when he was eight, Lawrence rarely saw his father, who worked as a police officer at the time. His mother, Chlora (née Bailey), began working several jobs to support her family. During his teen years, Lawrence excelled at boxing. He lived in Maryland, and attended Thomas G. Pullen School of Creative and Performing Arts (Landover, Maryland), Fairmont Heights High School (Fairmount Heights, Maryland), Eleanor Roosevelt High School, and also Friendly High School in Fort Washington, Maryland, becoming a Mid-Atlantic Golden Gloves boxing contender.
Actors: Ralph Dixon (editor), Budd Buster (actor), Tom Chatterton (actor), Tex Cooper (actor), James Craven (actor), Kenne Duncan (actor), Bill Elliott (actor), Bud Geary (actor), Augie Gomez (actor), Jack Kirk (actor), Bob Steele (actor), Alice Fleming (actress), Peggy Stewart (actress), Earle Snell (writer), R.G. Springsteen (director),
Plot: Redwood Valley residents raise $50,000 for blasting a mountain tunnel to bring a new railroad there. Town leader Bidwell ('James Craven (I)' (qv)) engineers a plot to steal the money and to blame it on the Reno Kid ('Bob Steele (I)' (qv)) who has recently broken out of prison in order to clear himself of false charges that sent him there and caused him to lose his ranch. The badly-wounded sheriff turns his badge over to Red Ryder ('Bill Elliott (III)' (qv)). Reno visits his wife, Molly ('Peggy Stewart (I)' (qv)) and their ailing son Johnny ('John Wayne Wright' (qv)), and Red, also wounded, is brought there by Little Beaver ('Robert Blake (I)' (qv). There, Red begins to believe Reno's story about being innocent.
Keywords: red-ryder-series, sheriffActors: Barney Furey (actor), Tom London (actor), Leo D. Maloney (actor), Bud Osborne (actor), William Steiner (producer), Leo D. Maloney (director), Josephine Hill (actress), Eva Thatcher (actress), Whitehorse (actor), Patricia Darling (actress),
Plot: In this western comedy, bachelor Harvey Martin is suprised to hear there is a woman and a baby in his house. When he, his finance and her mother arrive they not only find the woman and the baby there but the woman claims Harvey is her husband.
Genres: Comedy, Western,Actors: Josephine Hill (actress), Barney Furey (actor), Tom London (actor), Leo D. Maloney (actor), Bud Osborne (actor), Leo D. Maloney (director), Ford Beebe (writer), Eva Thatcher (actress), Whitehorse (actor), Buck Black (actor), William Stratton (actor), Ray Walters (actor), Baby Charlotte Johnson (actress), Grace Rouch (actress),
Genres: Comedy, Western,Actors: Joseph J. Dowling (actor), John Harron (actor), Jack Holt (actor), Claude Payton (actor), Bert Woodruff (actor), Laura La Varnie (actress), Bess Meredyth (writer), Frank Lloyd (director), Gloria Hope (actress), Rita Weiman (writer), Mae Hopkins (actress), Phoebe Hunt (actress),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Lois Weber (director), Rupert Julian (actor), Phillips Smalley (actor), Lois Weber (writer), Phillips Smalley (director), Ella Hall (actress), Lois Weber (actress), Fred L. Wilson (actor), Theo Carew (actor),
Genres: Drama, Short,