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Earl Hamner, Jr. is a Scriptwriter American born on 10 july 1923 at Nelson County (USA)
Earl Henry Hamner Jr. (born July 10, 1923 in Schuyler, Virginia), is an American television writer and producer (sometimes credited as Earl Hamner), best known for his work in the 1970s and 1980s on the long-running CBS series The Waltons and Falcon Crest. As a novelist, he is best known for Spencer’s Mountain, which was inspired by his own childhood and formed the basis for both the film of the same name and the television series The Waltons, for which he provided voiceover narration.
He based the Walton family grandparents in the popular television series on his own maternal Italian-American grandparents, Ora Lee and Colonel Anderson Gianniny, an anglicized version of the Italian surname “Giannini”.
In 1954, Hamner wrote “Hit and Run”, an episode of the NBC legal drama Justice in which guest star E.G. Marshall played a man haunted by his crime of striking a newsboy on a bicycle and fleeing the scene of the accident. He reprised the theme in the 1964 “You Drive” episode of The Twilight Zone.
Hamner also contributed eight episodes in the early 1960s to the CBS science fiction series The Twilight Zone. His first script acceptance for the series was his big writing break in Hollywood.
He created two less successful series, Apple's Way (1974-1975) on CBS starring Ronny Cox, and Boone on NBC (1983–1984), with Tom Byrd and Barry Corbin.
Hamner used family names to title his projects: Spencer (Spencers Mountain) is the maiden name of his paternal grandmother Susan Henry Spencer Hamner. The Waltons comes from his paternal grandfather Walter Clifton Hamner and great-grandfather Walter Leland Hamner.
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Birth name Earl Henry Hamner Jr.
Nationality USA
Birth 10 july 1923 at Nelson County (USA)
Death 24 march 2016 (at 92 years)
Nationality USA
Birth 10 july 1923 at Nelson County (USA)
Death 24 march 2016 (at 92 years)
Earl Henry Hamner Jr. (born July 10, 1923 in Schuyler, Virginia), is an American television writer and producer (sometimes credited as Earl Hamner), best known for his work in the 1970s and 1980s on the long-running CBS series The Waltons and Falcon Crest. As a novelist, he is best known for Spencer’s Mountain, which was inspired by his own childhood and formed the basis for both the film of the same name and the television series The Waltons, for which he provided voiceover narration.
He based the Walton family grandparents in the popular television series on his own maternal Italian-American grandparents, Ora Lee and Colonel Anderson Gianniny, an anglicized version of the Italian surname “Giannini”.
In 1954, Hamner wrote “Hit and Run”, an episode of the NBC legal drama Justice in which guest star E.G. Marshall played a man haunted by his crime of striking a newsboy on a bicycle and fleeing the scene of the accident. He reprised the theme in the 1964 “You Drive” episode of The Twilight Zone.
Hamner also contributed eight episodes in the early 1960s to the CBS science fiction series The Twilight Zone. His first script acceptance for the series was his big writing break in Hollywood.
He created two less successful series, Apple's Way (1974-1975) on CBS starring Ronny Cox, and Boone on NBC (1983–1984), with Tom Byrd and Barry Corbin.
Hamner used family names to title his projects: Spencer (Spencers Mountain) is the maiden name of his paternal grandmother Susan Henry Spencer Hamner. The Waltons comes from his paternal grandfather Walter Clifton Hamner and great-grandfather Walter Leland Hamner.
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, 47minutesDirected by Michael Sporn
Origin USA
Genres Animation
Actors Mari Devon, Wendee Lee, Julie Maddalena, Kirk Thornton
Roles Story
Rating56%
During hardships faced by a family of mice when forced to find a new place to live just before the holidays, the mouse family discovers the true meaning of Christmas.
Charlotte's Web (2006)
, 1h37Directed by Gary Winick
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Fantasy
Themes Films about animals, Films about music and musicians, Films about spiders, Films about pigs, Musical films, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Dakota Fanning, Julia Roberts, Beau Bridges, Steve Buscemi, Kevin Anderson, Leslie Mann
Roles Author
Rating62%
One spring, on a farm in Somerset County, Maine, Fern Arable (Dakota Fanning) finds her father about to kill the runt of a litter of newborn pigs. She successfully begs him to spare its life. He gives it to her, who names him Wilbur and raises him as her pet. To her regret, when he grows into an adult pig, she is forced to take him to the Zuckerman farm, where he is to be prepared as dinner in due time.
The Education of Little Tree (1997)
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Joseph Ashton Valencia, James Cromwell, Tantoo Cardinal, Graham Greene, Graham Greene, Christopher Heyerdahl
Roles Teleplay
Rating70%
In the 1930s, an eight-year-old boy who is later given the Native American name "Little Tree" (Joseph Ashton) was being raised alone by his widowed mother and is left an orphan when she dies of illness. His white mother's sister comes to take him but his paternal grandfather (James Cromwell) and grandmother (Tantoo Cardinal), whose ancestors had escaped from the Trail of Tears and hid in the Great Smoky Mountains, arrive and take the boy to live with them. In his grandparents' care, the boy, learns about his heritage as a descendant of Native Americans in the United States through them and their Cherokee friend Willow John (Graham Greene).
Directed by Delbert Mann
Genres Drama
Themes Christmas films
Actors Lee Remick, Angela Lansbury, Polly Holliday, Michael Pearlman, Michael Higgins
Roles Teleplay
Rating66%
With her world in turmoil, Janet (Lee Remick) feels she is losing so much that’s important… her beloved mother (Angela Lansbury), the family business, maybe even her husband. Janet dreams of simpler times, of Christmas in the idyllic Vermont of her younger days, and of taking her children back to the family home where her parents and spinster aunt (Polly Holliday) would be waiting for them. And they are, in all the warmth of the holiday. But only when even more seems lost, as one her children is in jeopardy, does Janet search for that ‘secret place’ where we all may find what really matters, at Christmas and always.
Where the Lilies Bloom (1974)
, 1h38Directed by William A. Graham
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Harry Dean Stanton, Rance Howard, Jan Smithers
Roles Writer
Rating71%
The Luther family are poor sharecroppers living in the mountains of North Carolina. The father, Roy Luther (Rance Howard) is sickly and asks the second eldest daughter, Mary Call (Julie Gholson) to take over his role of father when he passes on. He instructs her not to tell anyone when he dies as doctors, undertakers and preachers "just take money." When the authorities discover he is dead, the children will be split up and put in foster homes since none of them are of legal age.
Charlotte's Web (1973)
, 1h34Directed by Iwao Takamoto, Charles August Nichols
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Films about music and musicians, Film d'animation mettant en scène un animal, Films about spiders, Films about pigs, Musical films, Buddy films, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Debbie Reynolds, Paul Lynde, Henry Gibson, Danny Bonaduce, Agnes Moorehead, Rex Allen
Roles Writer
Rating68%
When farmer John Arable decides to "do away with" the runt of a litter of pig, his daughter Fern intervenes, telling him that it is absurd to kill it just because it is smaller than the others. John decides to spares the piglet and let Fern raise it as a pet. Fern nurtures it lovingly, naming it Wilbur. Six weeks later, Wilbur, due to being a spring pig, has matured, and John tells Fern that Wilbur has to be sold (his siblings were already sold). Fern sadly says good-bye as Wilbur is sold down the street to her uncle, Homer Zuckerman. At the farm, a goose coaxes a sullen Wilbur to speak his first words. Although delighted at this new ability, Wilbur still yearns for companionship. He attempts to get the goose to play with him, but she declines on the condition that she has to hatch her goslings. Wilbur also tries asking a rat named Templeton to play with him, but Templeton's only interests are spying, hiding, and eating. Wilbur then wants to play with a lamb, but the lamb's father says sheep do not play with pigs because it is only a matter of time before they are turned into smoked bacon and ham. Horrified at this depressing discovery, Wilbur reduces himself to tears until a mysterious voice tells him to "chin up", and wait until morning to reveal herself to him. The following morning, the voice reveals herself to be an araneus cavaticus named Charlotte living on a web overlooking Wilbur's enclosure. Charlotte tells Wilbur that she will come with a plan guaranteed to spare his life.
Heidi (1968)
, 1h45Directed by Delbert Mann
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Animation
Themes Films about children, Children's films
Actors Maximilian Schell, Jennifer Edwards, Jean Simmons, Michael Redgrave, Walter Slezak, Peter van Eyck
Roles Teleplay
Rating64%
Spencer's Mountain (1963)
, 1h58Directed by Delmer Daves, Robert Totten
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Henry Fonda, Maureen O'Hara, James MacArthur, Donald Crisp, Mimsy Farmer, Wally Cox
Roles Novel
Rating69%
The film centers on the trials and tribulations of the Spencers, a family living in the Grand Teton Mountains of Wyoming during the early 1960s. As the patriarch of a large and growing family, Clay Spencer (Henry Fonda) is fiercely independent, yet dedicated to his family. While he resists the influence of religion, he struggles to remain faithful to his wife Olivia (Maureen O'Hara), to allow his son (James MacArthur) to attend college, and to build a new home for his family.
Palm Springs Weekend (1963)
, 1h40Directed by Norman Taurog
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films
Actors Troy Donahue, Connie Stevens, Ty Hardin, Stefanie Powers, Robert Conrad, Andrew Duggan
Rating58%
A group of college students from Los Angeles travel to Palm Springs to spend the Easter weekend there. Student Jim Munroe (Troy Donahue) falls for Bunny Dixon (Stefanie Powers), the daughter of an overprotective police chief (Andrew Duggan). Munroe's room mate Biff Roberts (Jerry Van Dyke) and plain-jane Amanda North (Zeme North) try to seduce each other. Spoiled rich playboy Eric Dean (Robert Conrad) and Hollywood stuntman from Texas Doug Fortune (Ty Hardin) compete for the attentions of a pretty girl (Connie Stevens) from Beverly Hills. A wild auto chase and serious crash ensue on the long drive home after an evening in Las Vegas, but all ends well.