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Richard X. Slattery is a Actor American born on 26 june 1925 at the Bronx (USA)
Richard X. Slattery (June 26, 1925 – January 27, 1997) was a character actor in film, theater and television. Slattery starred in such films as Walking Tall, The No Mercy Man and Herbie Rides Again.
Richard Xavier Slattery was distinguished by a square-jawed look and a rough, gravelly voice that made him ideal as a "tough guy" character, usually as a cowboy or a cop or a drill sergeant type. He had been an NYPD police officer for twelve years (1948–1960) and started his acting career in police academy training films, and in community theater in the Bronx.
Slattery appeared in the first season of The Odd Couple, episode #2 "The Fight of the Felix". After Oscar gets into a fight with a hockey player played by Slattery, Felix tries to stand up for his roommate, but ends up in the boxing ring instead (original air date: October 8, 1970).
He also has had numerous guest appearance roles in television, including Route 66, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, 77 Sunset Strip, Gunsmoke, Rawhide, The Andy Griffith Show, Bewitched, F Troop, The Virginian, Bonanza, The Partridge Family, The Mod Squad, Emergency!, The Waltons, Ironside, Kojak, The San Pedro Beach Bums, and Knight Rider
Slattery starred in a revival of the play The Time of Your Life, starting March 17, 1972, at the Huntington Hartford Theater in Los Angeles.
During the 1970s he was featured in many TV commercials for Union 76 gasoline, playing a grandfatherly service station owner named Murph (filmed at the 76 station adjacent to Dodger Stadium). He had featured roles in three series: The Gallant Men (as 1st Sgt. John McKenna), Mister Roberts (as Captain John Morton), and C.P.O. Sharkey (as Captain "Buck" Buckner). He appeared on the Cannon episode, "The Cure That Kills," as a carnival owner, an episode which aired as a rerun on MeTV on February 2, 2014.
His son, Kevin, is a television producer (Just Shoot Me).
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^ "WorldCat". Worldcat.org. Retrieved 2012-01-22.
^ "Hollywood Beat". The Afro American. 1972-04-08. Retrieved 2012-01-22.
^ "The New York Times". The New York Times. Retrieved 2012-01-15.
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Birth name Richard Xavier Slattery
Nationality USA
Birth 26 june 1925 at the Bronx (USA)
Death 27 january 1997 (at 71 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Nationality USA
Birth 26 june 1925 at the Bronx (USA)
Death 27 january 1997 (at 71 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Richard X. Slattery (June 26, 1925 – January 27, 1997) was a character actor in film, theater and television. Slattery starred in such films as Walking Tall, The No Mercy Man and Herbie Rides Again.
Richard Xavier Slattery was distinguished by a square-jawed look and a rough, gravelly voice that made him ideal as a "tough guy" character, usually as a cowboy or a cop or a drill sergeant type. He had been an NYPD police officer for twelve years (1948–1960) and started his acting career in police academy training films, and in community theater in the Bronx.
Slattery appeared in the first season of The Odd Couple, episode #2 "The Fight of the Felix". After Oscar gets into a fight with a hockey player played by Slattery, Felix tries to stand up for his roommate, but ends up in the boxing ring instead (original air date: October 8, 1970).
He also has had numerous guest appearance roles in television, including Route 66, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, 77 Sunset Strip, Gunsmoke, Rawhide, The Andy Griffith Show, Bewitched, F Troop, The Virginian, Bonanza, The Partridge Family, The Mod Squad, Emergency!, The Waltons, Ironside, Kojak, The San Pedro Beach Bums, and Knight Rider
Slattery starred in a revival of the play The Time of Your Life, starting March 17, 1972, at the Huntington Hartford Theater in Los Angeles.
During the 1970s he was featured in many TV commercials for Union 76 gasoline, playing a grandfatherly service station owner named Murph (filmed at the 76 station adjacent to Dodger Stadium). He had featured roles in three series: The Gallant Men (as 1st Sgt. John McKenna), Mister Roberts (as Captain John Morton), and C.P.O. Sharkey (as Captain "Buck" Buckner). He appeared on the Cannon episode, "The Cure That Kills," as a carnival owner, an episode which aired as a rerun on MeTV on February 2, 2014.
His son, Kevin, is a television producer (Just Shoot Me).
^ "The New York Times". The New York Times. Retrieved 2012-01-15.
^ "WorldCat". Worldcat.org. Retrieved 2012-01-22.
^ "Hollywood Beat". The Afro American. 1972-04-08. Retrieved 2012-01-22.
^ "The New York Times". The New York Times. Retrieved 2012-01-15.
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, 1h29Directed by Vincent McEveety
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Western
Themes Children's films
Actors Tim Conway, Don Knotts, Tim Matheson, Kenneth Mars, Jack Elam, Elyssa Davalos
Roles Sergeant Slaughter
Rating60%
Amos Tucker (Conway) and Theodore Ogelvie (Knotts), a pair of bumbling holdup men now going straight, arrive in the "boom town" of Junction City to start anew. But the duo end up causing havoc while getting cheated out of their money by two bank robbers named Wes Hardin (Osmond) and Hank Starrett (Gehring). Things worsen when Amos and Theodore end up being suspected of the robbery and end up on the run from the town's feared lawman Marshal Wooly Bill Hitchcock (Mars), who developed a personal vendetta toward Amos and Theodore after they accidentally humiliated and injured the marshal on two occasions. To escape Hitchcock's vengeance, ditching their donkey Clarise as she was used by the robbers, the Amos and Theodore enlist in the US Cavalry at Fort Concho. But the duo's bunglings and a run-in with a now insane marshal, who found them by following Clarise, result in the fort being burned to the ground. The following day, the fort commander Major Gaskill (Morgan) is relieved of his position while Amos and Theodore are placed in a military jail.
Zebra Force (1976)
, 1h40Origin USA
Genres Action, Crime
Actors Mike Lane, Richard X. Slattery, Lindsay Crosby, Rockne Tarkington, George Buck Flower, Timothy Brown
Roles Charlie DeSantis
Rating46%
The film opens with a raid on an illegal casino performed by a group of blacks with automatic weapons. The audience discovers the perpetrators are white disguised as blacks. The story moves to a Vietnam War flashbacks with a patrol being ambushed by the Vietcong, and the resulting firefight. The leader of the vigilante veterans is a man known simply as the Lieutenant who was their platoon leader and disfigured in the action. Recuperating in a hospital he regroups the survivors for a series of escalating raids to not only to enrich themselves, but to wipe out organised criminal gangs involved in illegal gambling and narcotics distribution.
Adventures of the Queen (1975)
, 1h38Directed by David Lowell Rich
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Disaster, Action
Themes Disaster films, American disaster films
Actors Robert Stack, David Hedison, Ralph Bellamy, Bradford Dillman, Sorrell Booke, John Randolph
Roles Riley
Rating52%
Un maître chanteur aidé d'un groupe d'hommes a déposé une bombe sur le navire S.S. Queen. Il exige que l'armateur lui verse une somme exorbitante sur un compte protégé. Après que les passagers ont repris le contrôle de la situation, le chef des terroristes meurt sans avoir donné les codes d'annulation de l'explosif. L'équipage va devoir jouer la course contre la montre pour désactiver l'engin mortel.
Herbie Rides Again (1974)
, 1h28Directed by Robert Stevenson
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Themes Sports films, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Auto racing films, Road movies, Children's films
Actors Helen Hayes, Ken Berry, Stefanie Powers, Keenan Wynn, John McIntire, Liam Dunn
Roles Traffic Commissioner
Rating57%
Ruthless real estate magnate Alonzo Hawk (Keenan Wynn) is pursuing his newest indoor shopping center, the 130-story Hawk Plaza. His only obstacle is an archaic firehouse inhabited by "Grandma" Steinmetz (Helen Hayes), widow of its former owner, Fire Captain Steinmetz, and aunt of mechanic Tennessee Steinmetz who appeared in The Love Bug; her displaced neighbor, flight attendant Nicole Harris (Stefanie Powers); and their sentient machines: Herbie the Love Bug, an orchestrion that chooses its own songs, and a retired cable car known as "Old No. 22". It is explained that Tennessee has gone to Tibet to visit his ailing philosophy teacher, while Herbie's former owner, Jim Douglas, has gone to Europe.
Black Eye (1974)
, 1h38Directed by Jack Arnold
Origin USA
Genres Action, Crime
Actors Fred Williamson, Rosemary Forsyth, Teresa Graves, Richard Anderson, Cyril Delevanti, Richard X. Slattery
Roles Bowen
Rating56%
A private detective takes a case involving a religious cult and a movie star's death.
Busting (1974)
, 1h32Directed by Peter Hyams
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Themes Buddy films
Actors Elliott Gould, Robert Blake, Allen Garfield, Antonio Fargas, Sid Haig, Michael Lerner
Roles Desk Sergeant
Rating63%
The film is episodic, depicting the two vice-squad detectives teaming on several different cases, with varying degrees of success. The focus changes to them trying to bust one man, an LA crime kingpin named Carl Rizzo (Allen Garfield), whom they believe to be responsible for much of the criminal activity they have been investigating.
Wonder Woman (1974)
, 1h13Directed by Vincent McEveety
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantastic, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Spy films, Superhero films, Super-héros inspiré de comics
Actors Cathy Lee Crosby, Kaz Garas, Andrew Prine, Charlene Holt, Ricardo Montalbán, Richard X. Slattery
Roles Colonel Henkins
Rating46%
This version of Wonder Woman (Cathy Lee Crosby) did not wear the comic book costume including the tiara trademark and her "secret identity" of Diana Prince was not all that secret. The film follows Wonder Woman, assistant to government agent Steve Trevor (Kaz Garas) as she pursues a villain named Abner Smith (Ricardo Montalban) who has stolen a set of code books containing classified information about U.S. government field agents.
The No Mercy Man (1973)
, 1h31Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action
Themes Political films
Actors Sid Haig, Rockne Tarkington, Carol Locatell, Ron Thompson, Steve Sandor, Mike Lane
Roles Mark Hand
Rating45%
Prophet and his friends are carnies and itinerant criminals in Arizona. After robbing a liquor store Prophet and a friend evade the local Sheriff and stop at the ranch of Mark Hand, a decorated war veteran. Feeling suspicious, Mark tells Prophet he can help himself to water at a pump behind the house but covers him with a rifle. Prophet's friend overpowers Mark from behind, ties him up and beats him prior to robbing Mark's house. Attracted by the mass amount of firearms in Mark's cabinet, they are distracted by Mark's daughter Mary who Prophet's friend attempts to rape. Mary wounds him with a knife and escapes in the desert coming across the car returning home driven by Mrs Hand and Mary's brother Olie who has returned from the Vietnam War with decorations and mental illnesses. Prophet and his friend make their escape with Mark puzzled that Olie doesn't want to hunt the criminals, preferring to let the sheriff handle the matter.
Walking Tall (1973)
, 1h47Directed by Phil Karlson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Biography, Action, Crime
Actors Joe Don Baker, Elizabeth Hartman, Lurene Tuttle, Noah Beery, Jr, Leif Garrett, John Brascia
Roles Arno Purdy
Rating68%
Pusser, at his wife Pauline's behest, retires from the professional wrestling ring and moves back to Tennessee to start a logging business with his father, Carl Pusser. With a friend, he visits a gambling and prostitution establishment, the Lucky Spot, and is beaten up after catching them cheating at craps. Pusser is seriously injured with a knife and receives over 200 stitches. He complains to the sheriff but is ignored, and soon becomes aware of the rampant corruption in McNairy County. Later, working at his dad's lumber mill, Pusser makes a club out of a tree branch. Late one night, Pusser waits until after the Lucky Spot is closed, and beats up the same thugs that left him for dead. The next day, Pusser is arrested and represents himself at trial. At one point, he rips off his shirt and shows the jury his scars. He informs them that "If you let them do this to me and get away with it, then you're giving them the eternal right to do the same damn thing to any one of you!" The jury finds Pusser not guilty, and he decides to clean up the county and runs for sheriff. Buford Pusser wins, and becomes famous for being incorruptible, intolerant of crime, and for his array of four-foot hickory clubs which he uses to great effect in dispatching criminals and destroying their clandestine gambling dens and illegal distilleries.
The Boston Strangler (1968)
, 1h56Directed by Richard Fleischer, David S. Hall
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Biography, Documentary, Horror, Crime
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Serial killer films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Tony Curtis, Henry Fonda, Sally Kellerman, William Hickey, Mike Kellin, George Kennedy
Roles Det. Capt. Ed Willis
Rating70%
The first part of the film shows the police investigation, with some examples of the seedier side of Boston life, including promiscuity in the adult quarters of the city. The second part shows the apprehension of DeSalvo. Bottomly's intent is to answer the question presented in the film's famous print ad:
, 1h46Directed by Jack Smight
Origin USA
Genres War, Comedy
Themes Military humor in film, Prison films, Political films
Actors Paul Newman, Sylva Koscina, Andrew Duggan, Tom Bosley, John Williams, Charles Gray
Roles MP Sergeant
Rating62%
Several brigadier generals (American, British, and French) are unexpectedly taken prisoner by the Italians while arguing military tactics in a sauna - which is a public relations disaster. They are held in an Italian villa run as a top level prison camp by benevolent Italian Colonel Ferrucci. Being all of the same rank, none is in command and they are forced to plan escapes by committee, with predictably ineffective results.
A Time for Killing (1967)
, 1h28Directed by Roger Corman, Phil Karlson
Origin USA
Genres War, Historical, Western
Themes Political films
Actors Glenn Ford, George Hamilton, Inger Stevens, Paul Petersen, Todd Armstrong, Timothy Carey
Roles Cpl. Paddy Darling
Rating53%
During the Civil War, Confederate soldiers escape from a Union prison and head for the Mexican border. Along the way, they kill a Union courier bearing the news that the war is over. Keeping the message a secret, the captain has his men go on and they soon find themselves in a battle with the Union search party who also is unaware of the war's end.
A Distant Trumpet (1964)
, 1h57Directed by Raoul Walsh
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Troy Donahue, Suzanne Pleshette, William Reynolds, James Gregory, Diane McBain, Claude Akins
Roles Sgt. Fry
Rating61%
In 1883, US Cavalry lieutenant Matthew Hazard, newly graduated from West Point, is assigned to isolated Fort Delivery on the Mexican border of Arizona, where he meets commanding officer Teddy Mainwarring's wife Kitty, whom he later rescues from an Indian attack.
BUtterfield 8 (1960)
, 1h49Directed by Daniel Mann
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution
Actors Elizabeth Taylor, Laurence Harvey, Eddie Fisher, Dina Merrill, Mildred Dunnock, Betty Field
Roles State Trooper (uncredited)
Rating62%
Gloria Wandrous (Elizabeth Taylor) wakes up in the apartment of wealthy executive Weston Liggett (Laurence Harvey) and finds that he has left her $250. Insulted, Gloria, whose dress is torn, takes Liggett's wife Emily's (Dina Merrill) mink coat to cover herself and scrawls "No Sale" in lipstick on the mirror. But she orders her telephone answering service, BUtterfield 8, to put Liggett through if he should call.