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Glen A. Larson is a Actor, Scriptwriter and Producer American born on 3 january 1937 at California (USA)

Glen A. Larson

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Birth name Glen Albert Larson
Nationality USA
Birth 3 january 1937 at California (USA)
Death 14 november 2014 (at 77 years) at Santa Monica (USA)

Glen Albert Larson (born January 3, 1937 in Long Beach, California) is an American television producer and writer best known as the creator of the television series Battlestar Galactica, Quincy, M.E., B. J. and the Bear, The Fall Guy, Magnum, P.I. and Knight Rider.

Biography

Jeunesse
La famille de Glen A. Larson s'installe à Los Angeles durant sa jeunesse. Il est scolarisé à la Hollywood High School, où il côtoie Robert Wagner, Yvette Mimieux et Sally Kellerman. Larson effectue un stage dans les studios de NBC.


Carrière musicale
Au cours des années 1950, Larson fait partie du groupe vocal The Four Preps . Ils sont signés par Capitol Records en 1956. Le groupe enregistre plusieurs titres certifiés « disque d'or », dont 26 Miles , coécrit par Larson, qui se classe dans le Top 10 des ventes de singles aux États-Unis. Devenu père de famille, il délaisse le monde de la musique.


Carrière télévisuelle
Débuts
En 1966, Larson commence sa carrière télévisuelle en vendant une idée de scénario pour la série télévisée Le Fugitif (The Fugitive). Il devient scénariste, puis producteur d'Opération vol (It Takes a Thief), une série d'Universal Television. En 1970, Universal lui confie la production de la série Un shérif à New York (McCloud).


Années 1970
Larson créé et produit la série western Opération danger (Alias Smith and Jones). Entre 1971 et 1973, 50 épisodes sont diffusés en première partie de soirée par le réseau ABC. En 1973, il produit deux téléfilms inspirés du roman Cyborg de Martin Caidin, qui précèdent le lancement de la série L'Homme qui valait trois milliards (The Six Million Dollar Man). Larson créé et produit les séries Switch, dont 70 épisodes sont diffusés par CBS entre 1975 et 1978, puis Quincy (Quincy, M.E.), créée avec Lou Shaw. Le succès de cette dernière, diffusée par NBC durant huit saisons entre 1976 et 1983, lui permet de mener à bien de nombreux projets. The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries , inspirée de la série de romans policiers pour la jeunesse Les Frères Hardy (The Hardy Boys), est diffusée entre 1977 et 1979. La série de science-fiction Galactica (Battlestar Galactica) reste à l'antenne durant une seule saison, en 1978-1979. Sa diffusion est interrompue par ABC après 24 épisodes en raison des coûts de production élevés. Buck Rogers au XXVe siècle (Buck Rogers in the 25th Century), créée avec Leslie Stevens, met en scène le personnage créé par l'auteur de science-fiction Philip Francis Nowlan. Elle est diffusée sur NBC entre 1979 et 1981, tout comme la série humoristique B. J. and the Bear , créée avec Christopher Crowe. Larson créé également une série dérivée de B. J., intitulée The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo.


Années 1980

Durant les années 1980, Glen A. Larson créé et produit des séries populaires, dont Magnum (Magnum, P.I.), créée avec Donald Bellisario et diffusée sur CBS durant huit saisons, entre 1980 et 1988. Larson abandonne le show à son co-créateur afin de mettre sur pied de nouveaux projets. Le producteur travaille avec la firme 20th Century Fox Television à partir de 1980. Il créé la série d'aventures L'Homme qui tombe à pic (The Fall Guy), qui reste à l'antenne entre 1981 et 1986, puis retourne à la science-fiction avec K 2000 (Knight Rider), diffusée par NBC de 1982 à 1986. Larson essuie des échecs avec deux nouvelles séries de science-fiction, Manimal et Automan, diffusées durant une seule saison, respectivement par NBC et ABC. Trauma Center , diffusée en 1983, Masquerade en 1983-1984, Espion modèle (Cover Up) en 1984-1985, et Police 2000 (The Highwayman) créée en 1988 avec Douglas Heyes, ne rencontrent pas plus de succès.

Usually with

Stu Phillips
Stu Phillips
(3 films)
Eddie Albert
Eddie Albert
(2 films)
Paul Williams
Paul Williams
(1 films)
Erin Gray
Erin Gray
(2 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Glen A. Larson (6 films)

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Actor

Gidget
Gidget (1959)
, 1h35
Directed by Paul Wendkos
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Sports films, Transport films, Surfing films
Actors Sandra Dee, James Darren, Cliff Robertson, Joby Baker, Tom Laughlin, Doug McClure
Rating65% 3.2965153.2965153.2965153.2965153.296515
Frances Lawrence (Sandra Dee) is about to turn 17 years old and is on her summer break between her junior and senior years of high school. She resists the pressure to go "manhunting" with her girlfriends and laments the days when the girls had fun together without boys. Frances also rejects her parents wishing to fix her up on a date with the son of a friend of the family, Jeffrey Matthews.

Scriptwriter

Knight Rider, 1h20
Directed by Steve Shill
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller
Actors Justin Bruening, Deanna Russo, Mini Anden, Bruce Davison, Sydney Tamiia Poitier, Val Kilmer
Rating58% 2.9025652.9025652.9025652.9025652.902565
At night, several power company technicians answer a call at Charles Graiman's home. He is suspicious, as he did not expect them until the next morning. They threaten his daughter if he does not co-operate and Graiman suffers a fatal heart attack. Searching his home for hard drives containing the information they are after (for a defense project named Prometheus), they stumble across a parked Ford Mustang Shelby GT500KR in the garage that they unsuccessfully try to stop.
Knight Rider 2000, 1h31
Directed by Alan J. Levi
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Action, Adventure
Actors David Hasselhoff, Edward Mulhare, Eugene Clark, Carmen Argenziano, William Daniels, James Doohan
Rating46% 2.3085252.3085252.3085252.3085252.308525
Thomas J. Watts (Mitch Pileggi) – a former cop turned psychotic killer, has been released from the prison and assassinates the mayor. Police officer Shawn McCormick (Susan Norman) confronts the masked Watts holding the next mayor hostage at gunpoint. She shoots Watts, who flees. Shawn finds the handgun used in the murder and hides it, not knowing what to do. The city's new mayor demands the gunman be found, but his fellow councilmen reprimand him for disarming the police and setting up the cryo-prison where the inmates "sleep away" their sentences and emerge the same people as before.
Rooster
Rooster (1982)
, 1h25
Directed by Russ Mayberry
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Crime
Actors Paul Williams, Pat McCormick, J. D. Cannon, Ed Lauter, Jill St John, Kathrine Baumann
Rating67% 3.3947753.3947753.3947753.3947753.394775
A physically small police psychologist (Paul Williams) and a physically large insurance detective (Pat McCormick) team up on an arson case.
Evening in Byzantium, 4h
Directed by Jerry London
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Disaster films, Films about aviation accidents or incidents
Actors Glenn Ford, Eddie Albert, Edward James Olmos, Vince Edwards, Shirley Jones, Erin Gray
Rating69% 3.4571653.4571653.4571653.4571653.457165
Famous motion picture producer and writer Jesse Craig (Glenn Ford) attends a film festival on the French Riviera. He has not been actively making films for a few years and some in the film industry think he has retired, but he comes to the Riviera with a new screenplay to show it to his friend and film/literary agent Brian Murphy (Eddie Albert) who is attending the festival. The screenplay is a cautionary tale about terrorists attacking major cities in the United States using hijacked commercial airliners containing nuclear bombs as the attack vehicles. No one knows the content of the script or its author who Craig claims is a new writer by the name of Malcolm Hart.

Producer

Rooster
Rooster (1982)
, 1h25
Directed by Russ Mayberry
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Crime
Actors Paul Williams, Pat McCormick, J. D. Cannon, Ed Lauter, Jill St John, Kathrine Baumann
Roles Executive producer
Rating67% 3.3947753.3947753.3947753.3947753.394775
A physically small police psychologist (Paul Williams) and a physically large insurance detective (Pat McCormick) team up on an arson case.
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, 1h29
Directed by Daniel Haller
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Action, Adventure
Themes Space adventure films, Films set in the future, Space opera
Actors Gil Gerard, Erin Gray, Pamela Hensley, Tim O'Connor, Felix Silla, Mel Blanc
Roles Producer
Rating64% 3.2466653.2466653.2466653.2466653.246665
In 1987, NASA astronaut Captain William "Buck" Rogers is piloting the space shuttle Ranger 3 when he flies into an unexpected space phenomenon and is frozen for 504 years. In the year 2491, his shuttle is found drifting in space by the alien ship Draconia, which is headed to Earth for a trade conference, under the command of Princess Ardala and her aide de camp, Kane, a former native of Earth. Rogers is revived from his cryogenic sleep. Princess Ardala is visibly attracted to Buck, but Buck rebuffs the Princess and is put back on his shuttle and sent towards earth.
Evening in Byzantium, 4h
Directed by Jerry London
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Disaster films, Films about aviation accidents or incidents
Actors Glenn Ford, Eddie Albert, Edward James Olmos, Vince Edwards, Shirley Jones, Erin Gray
Roles Executive producer
Rating69% 3.4571653.4571653.4571653.4571653.457165
Famous motion picture producer and writer Jesse Craig (Glenn Ford) attends a film festival on the French Riviera. He has not been actively making films for a few years and some in the film industry think he has retired, but he comes to the Riviera with a new screenplay to show it to his friend and film/literary agent Brian Murphy (Eddie Albert) who is attending the festival. The screenplay is a cautionary tale about terrorists attacking major cities in the United States using hijacked commercial airliners containing nuclear bombs as the attack vehicles. No one knows the content of the script or its author who Craig claims is a new writer by the name of Malcolm Hart.