Norman Felton (born April 29, 1913) is a British-born American television producer, best known for his involvement in shows such as The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and Dr. Kildare, both on NBC.

Background[link]

Norman Felton was born in London, the son of John Felton, a lithographer, and Gertrude Anne Felton, a cleaning lady.^[1] He left school at 13 to go to work. In 1929 the family emigrated to the USA where they settled in Cleveland, Ohio.^[1] Felton left his job as a truck driver to attend The University of Iowa where he received a bachelor's degree in 1940 and a master's in 1941. In 1940 he married Aline Stotts, they had three children.^[1]

Early career[link]

Felton started out directing community theatre before becoming a producer-director of radio programs for NBC in Chicago. In 1950 he moved to New York to direct live television shows. In 1952 he won an Emmy award for Robert Montgomery Presents.^[1]

The 1960s[link]

The greatest successes of Felton's career came in the 1960s, when he produced and developed several classic television shows including The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and Dr. Kildare.

It was Felton who approached James Bond creator Ian Fleming to collaborate in the development of U.N.C.L.E. When contractual obligations forced Fleming to pull out, Felton brought in Sam Rolfe to replace him. In 1965, he received a Golden Globe Award for The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and 1966 he received an Emmy Award nomination for the same show.

Felton made one cameo appearance in U.N.C.L.E., as a chess player in the party scene of the first season episode, "The Giuoco Piano Affair".

At this time, he was also executive producer of the Wendell Corey/Jack Ging/Ralph Bellamy medical drama focusing on psychiatry, The Eleventh Hour, which aired on NBC from 1962-1964.

Later career[link]

In 1975, he produced the made-for-television film Babe (for which he received another Emmy nomination) and in 1979, And Your Name Is Jonah. He also produced Hawkins, a drama featuring James Stewart as a defense lawyer, and the prime-time soap, Executive Suite.

In 1997 he was awarded an Honorary Lifetime Membership of the Producers Guild of America.^[2]

He lives in Los Angeles.^[3]

Norman Felton awards[link]

Norman Felton has lent his name to multiple awards.

• The Death Penalty Focus organization's Aline and Norman Felton Humanitarian Award[1]
• Producers Guild of America's Norman Felton Producer of the Year Award

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Norman Felton

• Norman Felton at the Internet Movie Database
• http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/spec-coll/Bai/felton.htm

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"The Man" is a slang phrase that may refer to the government or to some other authority in a position of power. In addition to this derogatory connotation, it may also serve as a term of respect and praise.

The phrase "the Man is keeping me down" is commonly used to describe oppression. The phrase "stick it to the Man" encourages resistance to authority, and essentially means "fight back" or "resist", either openly or via sabotage.^[1]

History[link]

The earliest recorded use^{[citation needed]} of the term "the Man" in the American sense dates back to a letter written by a young Alexander Hamilton in September 1772, when he was 15. In a letter to his father James Hamilton, published in the Royal Dutch-American Gazette, he described the response of the Dutch governor of St. Croix to a hurricane that raked that island on August 31, 1772. "Our General has issued several very salutary and humane regulations and both in his publick and private measures, has shewn himself the Man." ^{[2][dubious – discuss]} In the Southern U.S. states, the phrase came to be applied to any man or any group in a position of authority, or to authority in the abstract. From about the 1950s the phrase was also an underworld code word for police, the warden of a prison or other law enforcement or penal authorities.

It was also used as a term for a drug dealer in the 1950s and 1960s and can be seen in such media as Curtis Mayfield's "No Thing On Me", William Burroughs's novel Naked Lunch, and in the Velvet Underground song "I'm Waiting for the Man", in which Lou Reed sings about going to Uptown Manhattan, specifically Lexington Avenue and 125th Street, to buy heroin.

The use of this term was expanded to counterculture groups and their battles against authority, such as the Yippies, which, according to a May 19, 1969 article in U.S. News and World Report, had the "avowed aim ... to destroy 'The Man', their term for the present system of government". The term eventually found its way into humorous usage, such as in a December 1979 motorcycle ad from the magazine Easyriders which featured the tagline, "California residents: Add 6% sales tax for The Man."

In present day, the phrase has been popularized in commercials and cinema, featuring particularly prominently as a recurring motif in the 2003 film School of Rock.^[3][4][5][6]

Use as praise[link]

The term has also been used as an approbation or form of praise. This may refer to the recipient's status as the leader or authority within a particular context, or it might be assumed to be a shortened form of a phrase like "He is the man (who is in charge)." One example of this usage dates to 1879 when Otto von Bismarck commented, referring to Benjamin Disraeli's pre-eminent position at the Congress of Berlin, "The old Jew, he is the man."^{[7][dubious – discuss]}

In more modern usage, it can be a superlative compliment ("you da man!") indicating that the subject is currently standing out amongst his peers even though they have no special designation or rank, such as a basketball player who is performing better than the other players on the court. It can also be used as a genuine compliment with an implied, slightly exaggerated or sarcastic tone, usually indicating that the person has indeed impressed the speaker but by doing something relatively trivial.

See also[link]

• Absentee landlord
• Big Brother (Nineteen Eighty-Four)
• New World Order (conspiracy theory)
• Ruling class
• The Establishment
• Power elite
• Corrections officer
• YTMND

Notes[link]

References[link]

• Lighter, J.E. (Ed.). (1997). Random House Dictionary of American Slang. New York: Random House.

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Gary Lockwood
Lockwood at WonderCon 2009
Born	John Gary Yurosek (1937-02-21) February 21, 1937 (age 75) Van Nuys, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1959–2004
Spouse	Denise DuBarry (1982–1988); 1 child Stefanie Powers (1966–1972) Hope Harrsen (?–?)

Gary Lockwood (born February 21, 1937) is an American actor probably best known for his iconic 1968 role as the astronaut Dr. Frank Poole in 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Early life[link]

Born in Van Nuys in the San Fernando Valley of southern California, Lockwood's birth name was John Gary Yusolfsky.^[1] He attended the University of California at Los Angeles on a football scholarship. He was married to Stefanie Powers in the 1960s and Denise DuBarry in the 1980s.

Career[link]

Lockwood was a movie stuntman, and a stand-in for Anthony Perkins prior to his acting debut in 1959 in an uncredited bit role in Warlock.

Lockwood's two series came early in his career, and each lasted only a single season. ABC's Hawaii-set Follow the Sun (1961–62) cast him in support of Brett Halsey and Barry Coe, who played adventurous magazine writers based in Honolulu. Lockwood was Eric Jason, who did the legwork for their articles, but his on-screen time was limited since most of the plot focused on Halsey or Coe. In the story, Lockwood was said to have been born on December 7, 1941 (Pearl Harbor Day), but he was actually born nearly five years earlier.

Lockwood made an impression in a supporting role in the film Splendor in the Grass (1961) and appeared in ABC's Bus Stop (also 1961) as a rodeo cowboy named Bo in love with an 18-year-old singer, Cherie, played by Tuesday Weld. The 26-week series starred Marilyn Maxwell as the owner of a diner in fictitious Sunrise, Colorado. Bus Stop aired a half-hour after Follow the Sun. Thereafter, he starred with Jeff Bridges in the acclaimed "My Daddy Can Beat Your Daddy" episode of CBS's anthology series, The Lloyd Bridges Show. In 1963, Lockwood co-starred with Elvis Presley in the musical-comedy film, It Happened at the World's Fair.

In 1963-64, Lockwood starred as a young U.S. Marine second lieutenant named William T. "Bill" Rice in the NBC series The Lieutenant. This drama about the peacetime Marines was produced by the Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, and The Man from U.N.C.L.E. creator Norman Felton. The series co-starred Robert Vaughn as Lieutenant Rice's immediate superior, Captain Raymond Rambridge. Despite moderately good reviews, The Lieutenant's Saturday night time slot opposite CBS' Jackie Gleason's American Scene Magazine caused its cancellation after twenty-nine episodes. In 1965 he guest-starred as Major Gus Denver in season 1 episode 29, "V For Vendetta" of 12 O'Clock High. He also guest-starred as Lt. Josh McGraw in season 2 episode 4, "The Idolator" of 12 O'Clock High.

Shortly afterwards, Lockwood starred in another NBC television series The Kraft Mystery Theater (also known as Crisis) in an episode titled "Connery's Hands". He was cast opposite Sally Kellerman, with whom he would soon appear again as Helmsman Gary Mitchell in the second Star Trek pilot, "Where No Man Has Gone Before" (1965); their characters develop god-like powers.

In 1966, Lockwood guest starred as Clint Bethard in the episode "Reunion" of ABC's The Legend of Jesse James, starring Christopher Jones in the title role. That same year, Lockwood appeared as Danny Hamil on the episode "Day of Thunder" of NBC's drama, The Long Hot Summer, based loosely on the works of William Faulkner. He appeared twice in 1966 as Jim Stark in the two-part episode "The Raid" of CBS' Gunsmoke with James Arness.

He co-starred with Stefanie Powers (then his wife) in an episode of ABC's Love, American Style as a newlywed who gets his mouth stuck around a doorknob. In 1983 he made a guest starring role in the series Hart to Hart ("Emily by Hart") starring Robert Wagner, and Powers.

Between 1959 and 2004, Gary Lockwood gained roles in some forty theatrical features and made-for-TV movies and eighty TV guest appearances, including the CBS 1975 family drama Three for the Road and Barnaby Jones starring Buddy Ebsen, in which he appeared many times as a villain.

He is father of the actress Samantha Lockwood. Both currently live in Los Angeles.

References[link]

Partial filmography[link]

• Wild in the Country (1961) as Cliff Macy
• Splendor in the Grass (1961) as Toots
• The Magic Sword (1962) as Sir George
• Perry Mason "The Playboy Pugilist" (1962) as Davey Carroll
• Star Trek: 'Where No Man Has Gone Before' (1965) as Lt. Cdr. Gary Mitchell
• It Happened at the World's Fair (1963) as Danny Burke
• Firecreek (1968) as Earl
• They Came to Rob Las Vegas (1968) as Tony Ferris
• 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) as Dr. Frank Poole
• Model Shop (film) (1969) as George Matthews
• RPM (1970) as Rossiter
• Earth II (TV series pilot) (1971) as David Seville
• Project Kill (1976) as Frank Lassiter
• The Quest (1976), a short-lived NBC western
• The Ghost of Flight 401 (1978 TV) as Jordan Evanhower
• The Incredible Journey of Doctor Meg Laurel (1978 TV)
• The Top of the Hill (1980 TV) as Dave Cully
• Emergency Room (1983 TV) as Dr. David Becker
• Murder, She Wrote "Sudden Death" (1985), "Indian Giver" (1987), "Tainted Lady" (1991), "Roadkill" (1994)
• The Wild Pair (1987) as Captain Kramer
• Terror in Paradise (1990) as Major Douglas
• Night of the Scarecrow (1995) as Mayor William Goodman

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Gary Lockwood

• Gary Lockwood at Memory Alpha (a Star Trek wiki)
• Gary Lockwood at the Internet Movie Database