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Richard Hirschfeld "Dick" Williams (May 7, 1929 – July 7, 2011) was an American left fielder, third baseman, manager, coach and front office consultant in Major League Baseball. Known especially as a hard-driving, sharp-tongued manager from 1967 to 1969 and from 1971 to 1988, he led teams to three American League pennants, one National League pennant, and two World Series triumphs. He is one of seven managers to win pennants in both major leagues, and joined Bill McKechnie in becoming only the second manager to lead three franchises to the Series. He and Lou Piniella are the only managers in history to lead four teams to seasons of 90 or more wins. Williams was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2008 following his election by the Veterans Committee.
Williams was born on May 7, 1929 in St. Louis, Missouri. After growing up in St. Louis, and Pasadena, California, Williams signed his first professional contract with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947, and played his first major league game with Brooklyn in 1951. Initially an outfielder, he separated a shoulder making a diving catch early in his career, weakening his throwing arm. As a result, he learned to play several positions (he was frequently a first baseman and third baseman) and became a notorious "bench jockey" in order to keep his major league job. He appeared in 1,023 games over 13 seasons with the Dodgers, Baltimore Orioles, Cleveland Indians, Kansas City Athletics and Boston Red Sox. A right-handed batter and thrower, Williams had a career batting average of .260 with 70 home runs.
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Actors: John Kusiak (composer), Jeremy Allen White (actor), James Lurie (actor), Kurt Braunohler (actor), Andrew Willis (composer), Rob Meyer (producer), Rob Meyer (editor), Rob Meyer (director), Rob Meyer (writer), Barbara Ann Davison (actress), Christopher Nicholas Smith (actor), Ani Williams (producer), Don L. Bagley (actor), Cara Marcous (miscellaneous crew), Edie Hofstatter (actress),
Plot: In a leafy Boston suburb, David pushes his dog in a baby carriage to a pier on a pond. He secures a rope around the carriage and the dog, and he pushes it into the water. At home, he has fish in several aquariums in the basement. His parents show concern about him and try truncated communication; his older brothers punch him in the arm. His next-door neighbor, Ellen, who goes to a private school, waves hello. He and two friends, both geeks and into fish as well, go to the evening meeting of the Boston Aquarium Society. David notices Ellen there; he leaves a lecture to find her in a room with penguins and jellies ("they're not fish"). They talk and she shows him something. Only connect.
Keywords: aquarium, coming-of-age, dog, fish, jellyfishActors: Brinton Bryan (miscellaneous crew), Jason Konopisos (actor), K. Lynn Martin (miscellaneous crew), Joe Grisaffi (actor), Tangi Miller (actress), Jay Ferguson (composer), Craig Busch (miscellaneous crew), Tony Norris (actor), Kareem J. Grimes (actor), Romany Malco (actor), Joice Stewart (miscellaneous crew), Thom Buckley (miscellaneous crew), Michele L. Jennings (actress), Tennille Williams (actress), Brent Anderson (actor),
Genres: Biography, Drama,Actors: Regis Toomey (actor), Byron Foulger (actor), Paul Dunlap (composer), Paul Kelly (actor), Cathy Downs (actress), Stuart O'Brien (editor), Alexander J. Wells (writer), Alexander J. Wells (actor), Alexander J. Wells (director), Harold V. McKenzie (editor), Roy Irwin (actor), Charles E. King (producer), Jack Edwards (actor), Sheila Urban (actress), Marilyn Madison (actress),
Plot: Police Lieutenant Lacey, with aid from Coach Bettger, heads a crack-down on dope-peddling to high-school athletes. One kid dies from an overdose, two more kill a gas station attendant in an aborted hold-up attempt to get money to buy dope, and a third dies in a fall in a condemned empty building while fleeing from the law. With the aid of some outraged students, the dope pusher is brought to justice. Sheila Urban plays a character named Julie Bishop.
Keywords: 1950s, alcohol, arrest, b-movie, band, beatnik, big-game, california, chase, cigarette-smokingActors: Maurice Wright (miscellaneous crew), Richard Arlen (actor), Vince Barnett (actor), Edward Brophy (actor), Richard Carle (actor), Andy Devine (actor), Tom Dugan (actor), Andrew Tombes (actor), Mira McKinney (actress), Ben Pivar (producer), Maxwell Shane (writer), John Rawlins (director), Ray Curtiss (editor), Rudolph Anders (actor), Marc Lawrence (actor),
Plot: Detectives Dick Williams and Andy McAllister find themselves trying to solve several crimes at an isolated mentally-ill hospital, where the patients range from slightly daffy to criminally insane, and they don't know which is which. A gang is out to steal a fortune inherited by one of the patients and, before Dick and Andy solve the case, several patients are transferred to the cemetery. And 'tiddlie-winks" are indeed involved.
Keywords: 1940s, alias, b-movie, california, chase, clue, cross-dresser, cross-dressing, detective, doctorActors: Cyril Ring (actor), Lee Phelps (actor), Murray Alper (actor), George O'Hanlon (actor), Arthur Aylesworth (actor), Frank Orth (actor), Anthony Caruso (actor), Richard Lane (actor), Robert Armstrong (actor), Horace McMahon (actor), Frank Fanning (actor), Grant Mitchell (actor), Edgar Kennedy (actor), Oscar O'Shea (actor), Lester Sharpe (actor),
Plot: College-journalist Johnny Dixon gets a job on the "Daily Clarion", primarily because his mother knows the wife of the hen-pecked publisher. Managing-Editor Bill Daly dispatches Johnny to City-Editor Dick Williams, where Williams and the other reporters proceed to haze and pull pranks on the egotistical cub-reporter. He is befriended by Midge Lambert, who writes the paper's sob-sister column. Johnny's lack of a nose-for-news incurs the wrath of Daly, especially after Johnny gets beat on a couple of assignments. The he attempts to prevent a bank-holdup only to fire at the wrong car...the police car...which upsets the capture of the bandits by the short-tempered Police Captain McGuire. Trying to redeem himself, he peruses the police-department's "Rogues Gallery" and identifies "Shiv" Moroni as the gang leader, only to learn from the irate Daly that "Shiv" Moroni had been executed the week before. Daly fires him. Midge suggests that they solve the holdup as a means of regaining his job. They reconstruct the crime and Johnny follows a lead which takes him to the apartment-hideout of "Flannel-Mouth" Moroni, an exact double of his brother "Shiv," and his henchmen, led by Pete. He tricks the gang into believing he is a wanted criminal. So they hand him a sub-machine gun, put him in the car and head out to rob another bank. The ultimate result, after Madge and the police rescue him, is that Johnny accidentally shoots his bride-to-be in the calf of a leg, and she is on crutches for the wedding.
Keywords: 1940s, apartment, b-movie, bank, bank-officer, bank-robber, bank-robbery, banker, bartender, big-cityActors: Warner Richmond (actor), Vince Barnett (actor), Arthur Hoerl (writer), Dave O'Brien (actor), Edward Peil Sr. (actor), Stanley Price (actor), Lloyd Ingraham (actor), Merrill McCormick (actor), Dorothy Short (actress), Pete Gordon (actor), George A. Hirliman (producer), Guy V. Thayer Jr. (editor), Ross DiMaggio (composer), Ethan Allen (actor), Paul Barrett (actor),
Plot: Tolen is after the Harkins ranch where his men have found gold. After they kill Harkins, Dorothy and Dick step in and discover that the gold actually washes down from Tolen's own ranch. When Harkins' brother arrives to take over they test Tolen by having the brother offer to swap ranches.
Keywords: 1930s, b-movie, b-western, boy, chase, cigarette-smoking, cowgirl, crook, damsel-in-distress, deceptionActors: William Bailey (actor), Egon Brecher (actor), Arthur Edmund Carewe (actor), Francis Ford (actor), Bud Geary (actor), Jonathan Hale (actor), Chuck Hamilton (actor), James T. Mack (actor), Earl Derr Biggers (writer), Robert Ellis (writer), Robert Ellis (writer), Joseph Hoffman (writer), Helen Logan (writer), Helen Logan (writer), Nick DeMaggio (editor),
Plot: An ocean liner sinks off Honolulu and Allen Colby, heir to millions, is presumed dead...but local sleuth Charlie Chan is not so sure, and flies to San Francisco to investigate further. Somehow, the missing Colby is there ahead of him...but is knifed in the back before seeing anyone. Further events revolve around spiritualist Mrs. Lowell, her family of suspicious characters, and the spooky, untenanted Colby mansion, where the body turns up during a seance!
Keywords: adage, aphorism, apparition, asian-comedian, asian-detective, asian-hero, black-cat, butler, character-name-in-title, chinese-heroActors: Jack La Rue (actor), Ernie Adams (actor), Richard Alexander (actor), Lew Harvey (actor), Stanley Blystone (actor), Allan Cavan (actor), Steve Clark (actor), Jules Cowles (actor), Wesley Barry (actor), Dick Elliott (actor), Wallace Ford (actor), Roger Gray (actor), Harrison Greene (actor), Eddie Hart (actor), Marc Lawrence (actor),
Plot: Dave Durfkin and Andy Blane are a pair of ace newsreel cameramen with Durkin being the assistant who does all the dirty work, with Blane getting the credit and collecting the bonuses. They are both in love with Ann Jordan. Fed up with being double-crossed, Durkin quits the team and goes free-lancing on his own...and promptly screws up. Now he has to find a big story to redeem himself in Ann's eyes.
Keywords: 1930s, archive-footage, b-movie, bonus, box-office, cafe, cameraman, cameramen, cigarette-smoking, evidenceActors: William Fox (miscellaneous crew), William Conklin (actor), Lee Shumway (actor), Marjorie Daw (actress), Gerald Beaumont (writer), Malcolm Stuart Boylan (writer), Harold Shumate (writer), Lewis Seiler (director), Duke R. Lee (actor), Francis McDonald (actor), Tom Mix (actor), Tony the Horse (actor), Arthur Clayton (actor), Virginia Marshall (actress), Seessel Anne Johnson (actress),
Genres: Action, Adventure, Western,From the TV show "Seinfeld" - Behind the Scene
Dick Letourneau chats with one of baseball's all-time great managers at Olympic Stadium.
Here an excerpt from a 1983 WMC-TV 5 Memphis broadcast of Dick William's Magicland. This show is certified by the Guiness Book of World Records to be the longest running magic show on TV. Dick Williams, aka "Mr. Magic" and his assistant (his wife, Virginia) did 1200 original Magicland shows over 23 years, from 1966 until 1989, all at WMC-TV 5 in Memphis, Tennessee. In addition to a bit of magic and clowning around from Dick Williams (an undisputed master of corny joke telling), this clip also includes a 1983 McDonalds "Wild West Happy Meal Guys on a Stagecoach" commercial along with one of the typical commercials by local advertiser, Aaron Sells Furniture. For more information on Mr. Magic, please visit http://www.magiclandtv.com (maintained by his family)
Prophetic Service - Captured Live on Ustream at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/harvesttvnetwork
Tribute to Dick Williams(brother of Andy Williams) singing "The More I Can Be There" (Dick Williams) at the Easter Sunday service 2009 Produced by Max Vasquez - Director/Editor 1st Camera - Carl A. Craig 2nd Camera - Joe Plonsky Associate Producers: Carl A. Craig & Jason Johnson for Maxx Vaxx Music Prod.
Williams taught Gwynn the right way to play baseball.
Here's an 8 minute flashback to Top Forty Radio circa 1964 with a rapid-fire, mile-a-minute punch. Dick Williams, "The Tall One," is credited with being the first DJ in North America to play the Beatles exclusively, well before the beginning of the "British Invasion." You can read (and hear) more in his upcoming ebook, "A DJ's Spin." Don't touch that dial...you don't know where its been!
Matt C climbing 'Dick Williams', font 7b+ at the Secret Garden in the peak district
From the TV show "Seinfeld" - Behind the Scene
Dick Letourneau chats with one of baseball's all-time great managers at Olympic Stadium.
Here an excerpt from a 1983 WMC-TV 5 Memphis broadcast of Dick William's Magicland. This show is certified by the Guiness Book of World Records to be the longest running magic show on TV. Dick Williams, aka "Mr. Magic" and his assistant (his wife, Virginia) did 1200 original Magicland shows over 23 years, from 1966 until 1989, all at WMC-TV 5 in Memphis, Tennessee. In addition to a bit of magic and clowning around from Dick Williams (an undisputed master of corny joke telling), this clip also includes a 1983 McDonalds "Wild West Happy Meal Guys on a Stagecoach" commercial along with one of the typical commercials by local advertiser, Aaron Sells Furniture. For more information on Mr. Magic, please visit http://www.magiclandtv.com (maintained by his family)
Prophetic Service - Captured Live on Ustream at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/harvesttvnetwork
Tribute to Dick Williams(brother of Andy Williams) singing "The More I Can Be There" (Dick Williams) at the Easter Sunday service 2009 Produced by Max Vasquez - Director/Editor 1st Camera - Carl A. Craig 2nd Camera - Joe Plonsky Associate Producers: Carl A. Craig & Jason Johnson for Maxx Vaxx Music Prod.
Williams taught Gwynn the right way to play baseball.
Here's an 8 minute flashback to Top Forty Radio circa 1964 with a rapid-fire, mile-a-minute punch. Dick Williams, "The Tall One," is credited with being the first DJ in North America to play the Beatles exclusively, well before the beginning of the "British Invasion." You can read (and hear) more in his upcoming ebook, "A DJ's Spin." Don't touch that dial...you don't know where its been!
Matt C climbing 'Dick Williams', font 7b+ at the Secret Garden in the peak district
Dick Williams from Idaho ministering at BMF Modesto on 10/17/16
Ormie King, a columnist for The Citizen, hosts the latest episode of "Talkin' Sports." His guest: Dick Williams.
Dick Williams from Boise, Idaho ministering at BMF Modesto 1/21/16
William Dick brings the Word to the tent.
William Dick brings the Word to Ider, AL.
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