Hometown Humor with Eddie Albert Stuntman of His Own, Was Born of the Camera, Noting Each July 1 in Detroit, Mich He Problem and How It Was Solved
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WHERE THE GOOD TIMES ARE THURSDAYS PAGE 5 many performers, who play DENNIS COLE cards or read when not in a Dennis Cole, a former stunt-ma- n scene. Cole spent his time who can now have a studying the work on both sides Hometown Humor With Eddie Albert stuntman of his own, was born of the camera, noting each July 1 in Detroit, Mich He problem and how it was solved. learned to play the trumpet from He expects eventually to have a whole new crop of there. Eva Gabor co-sta-rs high-jink- s to There's moved continue befuddle his father, Pep Cole, and he his own production company. hilarious comedy coming to as his glamorous help- Oliver and Lisa as they played in the orchestra at Several acting assignments in Channel 11 7:30 p.m. mate, Lisa, society leader of the painlessly attempt to starting at modernize Southeastern High School while the "Dr. Kildare" series on Thursday Sept. 16 on seedy set. Continuing GREEN ef- GREEN characters ACRES and their earning a football scholarship to followed and his career took an ACRES, in color, which reflects include Pat Buttram as Mr. forts are persistently being the University of Detroit. Music upswing when he met Katharine the bucolic of super-sophisticat- wheeler-deale- r careers two Haney, in hampered by the elements, won out, however, and he came Hepburn and George Cukor who who migrate from nosey everything from dreams to neighbors and each other. to Hollywood where he worked sensed his talent and persuaded a GREEN Park Avenue penthouse They schemes; Tom Lester as Eb, the ACRES ..produced as a stuntman, double, extra, agent Robert Raison to take him move to a run-dow- n on by TV dwelling hired hand; Alvy Moore as Hank Filmways Productions, musician, dance instructor and on as a client. 160 acres of weedy farm land out Kimball, the uncertain County Inc.... distributed by Filmways doorman-bounce- r in a nightclub. Raison got him signed as star in Hooterville Valley. Agency; Mary Syndication Sales... executive and Grace While working as an extra at of the then-ne- daytime series Eddie Albert stars as Oliver Canfield and Sid Melton as a producer, Paul Hen-nin- Warner Brothers Studios he was "Paradise Bay" and nine Wendell Douglas, a successful brother and sister team of producer, Jay Som-mer- asked to double for Troy months later he moved to New York lawyer who thought carpenters who take a whack at director, Richard Donahue, an association that "Felony Squad," where for the grass was greener on the remodeling the Douglas domain. Bare... writers. Jay Sommers continued through three films three years he built a sizable other side of the fence until he Riotous action and hilarious and Dick Chivillat. and a season on the "Hawaiian reputation as the young police Eye" television series. Unlike officer, Jim Briggs EDDI E ALBERT EVA GABOR I 1' Mf Kl Reap a new crop of comedy every program on Channel 11 7:30PM WJHL-T- ROD TAYLOR Rod Taylor, whose adventure-fille- d PAUL NEWMAN, NEW SHOW, 8PM real life parallels roles he LAUREN BACALL, plays on the screen, was born in ROD TAYLOR AND DENNIS Sydney, Australia, January 11. JANET LEIGH, JULIE HARRIS, COLE AS ROVING TROUBLESHOOTERS His father, William Sturt Taylor, SHELLEY WINTERS ON a steel construction contractor, IN THE STILL-WIL- D WEST OF THE CBS THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIES. and his mother, writer Mona HALF A CENTURY AGO. Stewart, hoped he would become an artist and he took art courses at Parramatta High School and at Sydney Technical and Fine Arts College. He was wavering between art and acting when Laurence Olivier came to Sydney with the Old Vic Company and his mind was made up He turned his boundless energy and en- thusiasm to acting and in 1954 Australian critics voted him the coveted Rola Award as best actor of the year. He arrived in Hollywood in 1955 in what he calls "My too-tig- Australian tweeds," and was greeted without warmth at the airport by two studio representatives who had received enthusiastic wires from Australia about this new star and expected a Rock Hudson or Cary Grant type. He quit the studio after three months and spent the next nine months at the beach fishing, to eat, not for fun. "If the fish didn't bite, I didn't eat," he says..