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Alex Cord is a Actor American born on 3 may 1933 at Floral Park (USA)

Alex Cord

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Birth name Alexander Viespi Jr
Nationality USA
Birth 3 may 1933 at Floral Park (USA)
Death 9 august 2021 (at 88 years)

Alex Cord (born May 3, 1933) is an American actor who is best known for his portrayal of Michael Coldsmith Briggs III, better known as Archangel, in fifty-five episodes of the CBS adventure television series Airwolf (1984–1986).

Biography

Born Alexander Viespi of Italian descent in Floral Park on Long Island, New York, Cord was stricken with polio at the age of twelve. His family then moved to Wyoming, where doctors advised him to take up horseback riding as a therapeutic exercise. This helped him recover from the debilitating disease by the time he was sixteen. Cord attended New York University in New York City and the American Shakespeare Theatre at Stratford, Connecticut.

Cord's first acting role was in the 1961 episode "The Mountain Men" of NBC's western television series, Laramie, starring John Smith and Robert Fuller. In the story line, Cord plays John Sanford, the younger, compassionate son of Ben Sanford, portrayed by Dan Duryea. Ben Sanford is one of the original settlers of the Laramie area and is called a "Mountain Man." The older son is the vindictive Carl Sanford, played by Jason Evers. Ben and Carl seek vengeance for the killing of a third son, but John's hesitation holds the key to law and justice. Cord's second role came a month later as Nino Sanchez in the episode "Winter Quarters" of a CBS western, Frontier Circus, starring Chill Wills. In 1962, he appeared as Larry Rome in the episode "Take a Number" of the NBC crime drama Cain's Hundred, starring Peter Mark Richman.

Cord subsequently appeared in the 1962 film, The Chapman Report, directed by George Cukor. He briefly enjoyed a leading man status on the big and small screen during the 1960s and 1970s, and starred or co-starred in mostly crime dramas, action films, and westerns.

In 1963 and 1964, Cord was cast as different characters in five episodes of the CBS drama/adventure series, Route 66, including the role of Michael in the two-parter, "Where There's a Will, There's a Way." In 1964, he played the part of Sam in the episode "If Your Grandmother Had Wheels" of another CBS drama, East Side/West Side, starring George C. Scott. During this same period, he appeared twice on the ABC police drama, Naked City, starring Paul Burke.

In 1965, Cord was cast as Jed Colbee in the episode "Survival" of the NBC western series, Branded, starring Chuck Connors as a United States Army officer trying to clear his name of a false accusation of cowardice.

In 1966, he played "the Ringo Kid," the role originally portrayed by John Wayne in John Ford's 1939 version, in a lavish all-star remake of Stagecoach, which arguably remains Cord's most heavily publicized endeavor.

In 1974, Cord worked twice with Diana Muldaur: as a guest-star on her weekly NBC series Born Free and as her love interest in the motion picture Chosen Survivors, an apocalyptic horror film that acquired a cult status in subsequent years.

Cord is among a handful of actors to appear on both the original and revival versions of CBS's Mission: Impossible. Cord is also known to science fiction enthusiasts for having portrayed Dylan Hunt in the failed 1973 television pilot, Genesis II, which was created by Gene Roddenberry. In 1977, he starred as the title character in the epic western Grayeagle.

In 1972, he appeared as Pete Brown in the episode "The Sodbusters" of the long-running CBS western, Gunsmoke. In 1973, he played the role of Haynes in "The Night of the Long Knives" on the ABC crime drama, The F.B.I., starring Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. Between 1973 and 1976, he appeared in four episodes of NBC's Police Story. In 1979 and 1981, he appeared twice on ABC's romantic comedy, The Love Boat. In 1988, Cord was cast in an episode of the CBS detective series Simon and Simon; in 1988 and 1992, he appeared on CBS's Jake and the Fatman. He appeared twice in another CBS crime drama, Murder, She Wrote, starring Angela Lansbury. In 1995, Cord played the character Larry Curtis in the episode "The Guardians" of the CBS crime drama, Walker, Texas Ranger, starring Chuck Norris.

Cord had two children, a daughter, Toni Aluisa, and a son, Damien Zachary Cord, who died in 1995 of a heroin overdose at the age of twenty-six. Toni is the daughter of Mary Ann Hutchinson, and Damien was born to Cord's former wife, actress Joanna Pettet. Cord is the godfather of Michael Vincent Flaherty, son of Vince Flaherty.

Cord is a horse rancher in Cooke County near Gainesville in north Texas, where he resides with his second wife, the former Susannah Moller. Cord suggested that his long-term friend from Laramie, Robert Fuller, also move to Texas to raise horses. Fuller and his second wife, Jennifer Savidge, did relocate to Cooke County in 2004. Cord and Fuller often make appearances at western film festivals highlighting their continuing mutual interest in "The Spirit of the Cowboy.

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Filmography of Alex Cord (20 films)

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The Naked Truth
Directed by Nico Mastorakis
Genres Comedy, Crime, Romance
Actors Herb Edelman, Brian Thompson, M. Emmet Walsh, Billy Barty, Yvonne De Carlo, Shannon Tweed
Roles Herskovitz
Rating36% 1.8105451.8105451.8105451.8105451.810545
A take-off on "Some Like it Hot"—the film follows two men who witness a murder, dress up like women to escape, and wind up hiding in the house of a drug dealer.
C.I.A. Code Name: Alexa, 1h33
Directed by Joseph Merhi
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Adventure
Actors Lorenzo Lamas, Kathleen Kinmont, Alex Cord, Michael Bailey Smith, Jim Ishida
Roles Victor Mahler
Rating43% 2.1767252.1767252.1767252.1767252.176725
Mark Graver (Lamas) is a man of action. Graver gets the assignment of a lifetime when he goes up against a gang of terrorists led by Victor Mahler. These terrorists shoot up churches and kill cops. They want a microchip with nuclear weapons information. To get them, Mahler must get a hold of “The Microchip!”
The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission, 1h40
Directed by Lee H. Katzin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Action, Adventure
Themes Political films
Actors Telly Savalas, Ernest Borgnine, Hunt Block, Jeff Conaway, Alex Cord, Heather Thomas
Roles Dravko Demchuk
Rating50% 2.5089852.5089852.5089852.5089852.508985
Twelve top Nazis are ordered to the Middle East, where they are to organize a Fourth Reich, and only Major Wright and his convict commando squad can stop them.
Uninvited
Uninvited (1988)
, 1h30
Directed by Greydon Clark
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Actors Toni Hudson, Alex Cord, Eric Larson, George Kennedy, Rob Estes, Clu Gulager
Roles Walter Graham
Rating43% 2.1699652.1699652.1699652.1699652.169965
A scientific corporation of ill repute (Genetic Laboratories) loses control of its test subject—a poisonous, mutant cat (the Uninvited) that inhabits the body of an ostensibly benign house cat. At the behest of two attractive co-eds, the Uninvited is ironically offered lodging aboard the luxury yacht of a duplicitous arbitrageur ("Wall Street" Walter Graham), en route to the Cayman Islands to escape criminal prosecution by the SEC. Ensuing challenges to the Uninvited's viability result in widespread carnage.
The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission, 1h30
Directed by Lee H. Katzin
Origin USA
Genres War, Action, Adventure
Themes Political films
Actors Telly Savalas, Ernest Borgnine, Bo Svenson, Vince Edwards, Wolf Kähler, Vincent Van Patten
Roles Dravko Demchuk
Rating52% 2.603972.603972.603972.603972.60397
The film opens with Major Wright fighting alongside Italian partisans in a town near Turin. While the partisans battle the occupying German soldiers in the streets, Major Wright enters a bordello in search of Benito Mussolini. However, after shooting up a closet only to find a dead German officer, Wright is informed by one of the women that 'Il Duce' had already left town. Disappointed, Major Wright opens the window to the sound of the victorious partisans and lifts a glass of brandy to "Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Winston Spencer Churchill."
Jungle Warriors, 1h33
Genres Action, Adventure, Horror
Themes Prison films, Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction, Erotic films, Sexploitation films, Rape and revenge films, Women in prison films
Actors Sybil Danning, John Vernon, Paul L. Smith, Alex Cord, Woody Strode, Dana Elcar
Roles Nick Spilotro
Rating45% 2.268632.268632.268632.268632.26863
A group of gorgeous American models take a long trip to South America, to participate in a photo session on a location deep in the jungle, apparently somewhere around Peruvian tropical forest. While flying over a cocaine plantation, their plane is shot down by Cesar, a dangerous drug lord, and the girls are taken prisoner by his army. Cesar suspects that an undercover police officer is among the models. In fact, one of the women actually is a special agent. Cesar orders his mercenaries to drag the girls into his dungeon for interrogation. After being tortured by Angel, Cesar’s sister, and cruelly gang-raped by all soldiers, the models are imprisoned in an underground cell to await Cesar's decision whether to execute them or keep them as slaves for his soldier’s “entertainment.” With the help of an old female servant, the models manage to escape from the basement jail and get some guns. As they make their way toward freedom, they run into a high-level Mafia meeting there in Cesar’s manor. A final gunfight breaks out as the women fight to take revenge and escape alive.
Goliath Awaits
Directed by Kevin Connor
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Action, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Disaster films, American disaster films
Actors Mark Harmon, Kirk Cameron, Christopher Lee, Eddie Albert, John Carradine, Alex Cord
Roles Dr. Sam Marlowe
Rating65% 3.295843.295843.295843.295843.29584
In 1939, the luxury British ocean liner Goliath, carrying 1,860 passengers, is hit by a torpedo fired by a German U-boat and sinks while on a trans-Atlantic crossing to the United States three days after the outbreak of World War II.
Fire!
Fire! (1977)
, 1h40
Directed by Earl Bellamy
Origin USA
Genres Disaster, Action
Themes Disaster films, American disaster films
Actors Ernest Borgnine, Vera Miles, Patty Duke, Alex Cord, Donna Mills, Lloyd Nolan
Roles Dr. Alex Wilson
Rating52% 2.6183452.6183452.6183452.6183452.618345
Afin de couvrir son évasion, un criminel met le feu à quelques arbres sur une colline, mais le vent disperse les flammes et la situation devient critique. Le feu menace une ville entière.
Grayeagle
Grayeagle (1977)

Directed by Charles B. Pierce
Origin USA
Genres Action, Western
Actors Ben Johnson, Iron Eyes Cody, Lana Wood, Jack Elam, Alex Cord, Paul Fix
Roles Grayeagle
Rating56% 2.805412.805412.805412.805412.80541
Set in 1848, in the Montana Territory, Ben Johnson plays John Coulter who lives on the plains with his daughter Beth and his friend Standing Bear. The story is told mainly from a Native American point of view. Beth is kidnapped by Greyeagle of the Cheyenne nation, who was tasked by the nation's chief to bring Beth to him. Coulter and Standing Bear go through various adventures to find Beth, to bring her back safely home.
Inn of the Damned, 1h58
Genres Action, Horror, Western
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Judith Anderson, Alex Cord, Michael Craig, Joseph Fürst, Tony Bonner, John Meillon
Roles Cal Kincaid
Rating47% 2.366932.366932.366932.366932.36693
In 1896, a crazed woman and her husband run an inn in eastern Victoria and take revenge for the deaths of their children years before. An American bounty hunter arrives to investigate the mysterious deaths of many people and puts an end to the killing.
Chosen Survivors, 1h39
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Themes Films about religion, Films set in the future, Political films, Dystopian films, Disaster films
Actors Jackie Cooper, Diana Muldaur, Richard Jaeckel, Bradford Dillman, Pedro Armendáriz (fils), Lincoln Kilpatrick
Roles Steven Mayes
Rating54% 2.70662.70662.70662.70662.7066
After being selected at random by a computer to seek safety in an underground bomb shelter on the eve of a nuclear attack, a group of refugees makes a horrible realization: They're sharing the space with a colony of vampire bats. And since going back above ground isn't an option, they're forced to stay and fight for their lives.
Genesis II
Genesis II (1973)
, 1h14
Directed by John Llewellyn Moxey
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction
Themes Films set in the future
Actors Alex Cord, Mariette Hartley, Ted Cassidy, Percy Rodriguez, Harvey Jason, Titos Vandis
Roles Dylan Hunt
Rating59% 2.9508052.9508052.9508052.9508052.950805
In 1979, NASA scientist Dylan Hunt (Alex Cord) is working on "Project Ganymede", a suspended animation system for astronauts on long-duration space flights. As chief of the project he volunteers for the first multi-day test. He places himself in chemically induced hibernation deep inside Carlsbad Caverns; while there, his lab is buried in an earthquake. The monitoring equipment is damaged and fails to awake him at the intended end of the test. He awakens instead in 2133, emerging into a chaotic post-apocalyptic world. An event called "The Great Conflict" (a third and final World War) destroyed the civilization of Hunt's time. Various new civilizations have emerged in a struggle for control of available resources. Those with the greatest military might and the will to use it have the greatest advantage.
The Dead Are Alive, 1h45
Directed by Armando Crispino
Genres Thriller, Horror
Actors Alex Cord, Samantha Eggar, John Marley, Nadja Tiller, Horst Frank, Enzo Cerusico
Roles Jason Porter
Rating54% 2.712222.712222.712222.712222.71222
Somewhere between Spoleto and Cerveteri, someone kills young couples, inspired by the frescos of an Etruscan grave where the daemon Tuchulcha is depicted.
The Last Grenade, 1h34
Directed by Gordon Flemyng
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Action, Adventure
Themes Films set in Africa, Political films
Actors Stanley Baker, Alex Cord, Honor Blackman, Richard Attenborough, Ray Brooks, Andrew Keir
Roles Kip Thompson
Rating53% 2.6712452.6712452.6712452.6712452.671245
Beginning in the Congo, a group of mercenaries led by British Major Harry Grigsby (Stanley Baker) are due to be picked up by helicopters after completing a mission. As they board the choppers they are fired on from the helicopters by another group of mercenaries led by American Kip Thompson (Alex Cord) who has been hired to change sides.
Stiletto
Stiletto (1969)
, 1h38
Directed by Bernard L. Kowalski
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Crime
Themes Films about immigration, Mafia films, Seafaring films, Transport films, Gangster films
Actors Alex Cord, Britt Ekland, Patrick O'Neal, Joseph Wiseman, Barbara McNair, John Dehner
Roles Count Cesare Cardinali
Rating51% 2.569732.569732.569732.569732.56973
A rich, jet-setting playboy has a secret life: he's also a professional Mafia hitman. When he decides it's time to retire from that life, he finds that his former employers don't like the idea that someone who knows so much about them won't be under their control anymore, and decide to send their own hitmen to eliminate him.