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Jackson Bostwick is a Actor and Executive producer American born on 23 october 1943 at Carlisle (USA)
Jackson Leonard Bostwick, Jr. (born October 23, 1943) is an American actor who is best known for having acted out the role of Captain Marvel in the first season of the Shazam! television series in 1974-75.
Bostwick was dismissed from the cast of Shazam! two installments into the second season and replaced in the role by actor John Davey. Bostwick had not shown up for a day's shooting, and the producers, Louis Scheimer and Norman Prescott, accused him of holding out for a higher salary. Bostwick explained that he had sustained an injury during the previous day's filming and had gone to seek medical treatment. He successfully litigated against Filmation Associates, which was forced to pay him for the remainder of his contract, plus residuals, including the entire second season.
Bostwick was born in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Bostwick's father, Dr. Jackson Leonard Bostwick Sr. M.D., was a well-known neurosurgeon who was licensed, was based, and practiced in Montgomery, Alabama. In the late 1980s, Bostwick's father suddenly died. Bostwick had briefly returned to Montgomery before this and had taught theater at Auburn University at Montgomery, where he directed several plays, including The Ballad of the Sad Cafe. He also became the founder of the L.A. (Lower Alabama) Film Group and the MIT [Made (mostly) In Tennessee] Film Group, two independent "off-Hollywood" motion-picture and television production companies.
Bostwick met his wife, Elizabeth, in Los Angeles, where she was working as an actress. He is trained in jeet kune do and Wing-Chun Kung-Fu.
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Birth name Jackson Leonard Bostwick, Jr.
Nationality USA
Birth 23 october 1943 (81 years) at Carlisle (USA)
Nationality USA
Birth 23 october 1943 (81 years) at Carlisle (USA)
Bostwick was dismissed from the cast of Shazam! two installments into the second season and replaced in the role by actor John Davey. Bostwick had not shown up for a day's shooting, and the producers, Louis Scheimer and Norman Prescott, accused him of holding out for a higher salary. Bostwick explained that he had sustained an injury during the previous day's filming and had gone to seek medical treatment. He successfully litigated against Filmation Associates, which was forced to pay him for the remainder of his contract, plus residuals, including the entire second season.
Bostwick was born in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Bostwick's father, Dr. Jackson Leonard Bostwick Sr. M.D., was a well-known neurosurgeon who was licensed, was based, and practiced in Montgomery, Alabama. In the late 1980s, Bostwick's father suddenly died. Bostwick had briefly returned to Montgomery before this and had taught theater at Auburn University at Montgomery, where he directed several plays, including The Ballad of the Sad Cafe. He also became the founder of the L.A. (Lower Alabama) Film Group and the MIT [Made (mostly) In Tennessee] Film Group, two independent "off-Hollywood" motion-picture and television production companies.
Bostwick met his wife, Elizabeth, in Los Angeles, where she was working as an actress. He is trained in jeet kune do and Wing-Chun Kung-Fu.
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Future Zone (1990)
, 1h30Directed by David A. Prior
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantasy, Action, Crime
Themes Time travel films, Films set in the future
Actors David Carradine, Charles Napier, Ted Prior, Jackson Bostwick
Roles Tony Ginetti
Rating34%
John Tucker, a bounty hunter comes face to face with the most dangerous ordeal of his career but he is armed (unknowingly) with his most powerful weapon yet, his son, who travels back in time to save him from a brutal gang of criminals.
The Outing (1987)
, 1h45Directed by Warren Chaney
Origin USA
Genres Horror comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Themes Comedy horror films
Actors Deborah Winters, Warren Chaney, Jackson Bostwick
Roles Jinn (voice)
Rating50%
The Lamp’s introductory scenes suggest the film is a tall tale steeped in mythology and exaggerated mayhem that parody slasher films of the 1990s. The picture opens on board a cargo ship sailing from the Middle East (Damascus) bound for the old shipping seaport of Galveston, Texas. On deck, dead sailors litter the planks. One crate that appears to have been ripped open from the inside indicates that it was bound for a Houston museum.
The Outing (1987)
, 1h27Directed by Warren Chaney
Origin USA
Genres Horror
Actors Deborah Winters, Jackson Bostwick, Warren Chaney
Roles Jinn (voice)
Rating50%
A young Arab woman is sleeping on her house when her bracelet falls from her ankle. A security officer is running from an unseen assailant when it corners him and kills him. Years later, a group of rednecks — including Faylene, Harley and Max — break into a house owned by an elderly woman of Arabic origins. They stumble upon a magic lamp. they killed the old Arab woman by stabbing her with an axe to death. Faylene and Max stole the old woman's things while Harley was investigating the Lamp and he releases the genie. It possesses the dead body of the old woman and while Harley looks at her she rises up and pulls Harley with the axe on her head killing him. Max was cut in half on the pool when the genie pulls him down, Fayelene who failed to help Max, runs inside the house only to be strangled to death by the genie. Police investigators send the lamp to a museum along with an unusual bracelet found at the scene. The teenage daughter of the Museum's curator - Alex, finds the bracelet, puts it on and is unable to remove it. Afterwards, the bracelet seems to exert a strange power over her.
My Science Project (1985)
, 1h24Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Comic science fiction
Themes Time travel films, Comedy science fiction films
Actors John Stockwell, Danielle von Zerneck, Fisher Stevens, Raphael Sbarge, Dennis Hopper, Richard Masur
Roles Sentry
Rating59%
The movie begins in 1957 with a scene of a United States military operation to secure a crashed UFO in a hangar bay. A man, (President Dwight D. Eisenhower; played by Robert Beer), enters to see the craft and simply orders his men to "get rid of it."
What Waits Below (1984)
, 1h28Directed by Don Sharp
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Action, Adventure, Horror
Actors Robert Powell, Timothy Bottoms, Lisa Blount, Anne Heywood, Richard Johnson, Liam Sullivan
Roles Hunter Prime
Rating47%
The US military is running a test for a special type of radio transmitter, to be used to communicate with submarines, in a deep system of underground caves in Central America. When the signal from one of the transmitters suddenly disappears, a team of soldiers led by Major Elbert Stevens (Bottoms) and cave specialists led by Rupert 'Wolf' Wolfsen (Powell) including scientist Leslie Peterson (Blount) are sent in to find out what happened.
The Prey (1983)
, 1h20Genres Thriller, Horror
Actors Steve Bond, Jackson Bostwick, Jackie Coogan, Garry Goodrow, Carel Struycken
Roles Mark O'Brien
Rating44%
Dans une forêt, un couple se prépare un repas autour d'un feu de camp. La femme va faire un tour dans les bois lorsqu'elle entend son mari crier. Alors qu'elle retourne au campement où elle retrouve son mari décapitée, elle est elle-même tuée. Plusieurs semaines plus tard, trois jeunes couples se promènent dans la même forêt.
The Prey (1983)
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror, Slasher
Themes Films about animals, Natural horror films
Actors Steve Bond, Jackie Coogan, Eric Edwards, John Leslie, Garry Goodrow, Carel Struycken
Roles Mark O'Brien
Rating44%
The film is set during the summer between high school graduation and college. The film begins with a couple Frank (Ted Hayden) and Mary Sylvester (Connie Hunter) cooking food over a campfire while being watched by a mysterious figure in the shadows (played by Carel Struycken, but not seen until the end of the film). While Mary is taking a walk in the woods, she hears her husband scream and returns to the campsite to find her husband's decapitated corpse. She is then killed by the killer wielding her husband's axe. Several weeks later, three teenaged couples are hiking in the same remote forest high in the Colorado Rockies to enjoy the nature and to spend some time together. As they progress deeper into the wilderness, it becomes clear that the killer from the beginning of the film is stalking them. During their first night in the woods, Gail (Gayle Gannes) hears a noise and sends her boyfriend Greg (Philip Wenckus) to check out the disturbance. While isolated, they are both murdered by the killer.
Tron (1982)
, 1h36Directed by Steven Lisberger
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Fantastic, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about computing, Jeu, Transport films, Superhero films, Sécurité informatique, Films about video games, Road movies, Cyberpunk films, Dystopian films, Children's films, Chase films
Actors Jeff Bridges, Bruce Boxleitner, David Warner, Cindy Morgan, Barnard Hughes, Peter Jurasik
Roles Head Guard
Rating66%
Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges) is a software engineer, formerly employed by the computer corporation ENCOM, who now runs an arcade bar called Flynn's. He wrote several video games, but another ENCOM engineer, Ed Dillinger (David Warner), stole them and passed them off as his own, earning himself a series of promotions until reaching Senior Executive VP. Having left the company, Flynn attempts to obtain evidence of Dillinger's actions by hacking the ENCOM mainframe, but is repeatedly stopped by the Master Control Program (MCP), an artificial intelligence written by Dillinger. However, since its inception the MCP has become power-hungry, illegally appropriating business and even government programs and absorbing them to increase its own capacities; it informs Dillinger of its plans to subjugate The Pentagon and the Kremlin, and expresses interest in China with its request for Chinese-translation programs, blackmailing Dillinger into compliance with records of his theft of the games.
The Devil and Max Devlin (1981)
, 1h36Directed by Steven Hilliard Stern
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Fantasy
Themes Children's films
Actors Elliott Gould, Bill Cosby, Susan Anspach, Adam Rich, Sonny Shroyer, Ronnie Schell
Rating50%
Max Devlin (Elliott Gould) is a shady landlord of a rundown tenement in Los Angeles who is rather jaded and callous towards his fellow man. One day while chasing an errant tenant, he is run over by a bus and killed. He descends into hell (which resembles a corporate business) and meets the Devil's chief henchman Barney Satin (read: Satan) (Bill Cosby). He is told of his life of sin and the fact that he is doomed to spend eternity at a section called Level 4. However, he is given a chance to save himself by convincing three other people to sell their souls in exchange for his. Max returns to Earth and begins his frantic quest with two months (ending on May 15) to complete his mission. Barney appears frequently throughout the movie to check up on Max's progress as well as both taunt and persuade him to carry out the plans. A running joke is that nobody, except Max, can see or hear Barney.
The Cat from Outer Space (1978)
, 1h44Directed by Norman Tokar, Arthur J. Vitarelli
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Comic science fiction
Themes Films about animals, Comedy science fiction films, Films about cats, Children's films, Films about extraterrestrial life, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Ronnie Schell, Ken Berry, Sandy Duncan, Harry Morgan, Roddy McDowall, McLean Stevenson
Roles Additional Voices (voice) (uncredited)
Rating59%
An unidentified flying object makes an emergency landing on Earth and is taken into custody by the United States government. The occupant of the "flying saucer" turns out to be a strange cat-like alien named Zunar-J-5/9 Doric-4-7. Since the Mother Ship cannot send a rescue party before it leaves the solar system, the cat sets about investigating how to repair the ship himself. Using a special collar that amplifies telekinetic and telepathic abilities, he follows the military to the Energy Research Laboratory (or E.R.L.), where they hope to learn how the UFO's power source works. One of the lab's scientists, Dr. Frank Wilson, attracts the cat's attention when his theory on the power source, while ridiculed by the rest of the staff, is actually on the right track.
Gus (1976)
, 1h36Directed by Vincent McEveety, Arthur Alsberg, Arthur J. Vitarelli
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about animals, Sports films, American football films, Children's films
Actors Don Knotts, Edward Asnere, Gary Grimes, Tim Conway, Timothy Brown, Harold Gould
Roles Stjepan Petrovic
Rating57%
Gus is a film about a football-kicking mule ("Gus") and his trainer "Andy" (Gary Grimes).
The Apple Dumpling Gang (1975)
, 1h40Directed by Norman Tokar
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Western
Themes Children's films
Actors Bill Bixby, Susan Clark, Tim Conway, Don Knotts, Harry Morgan, Slim Pickens
Rating64%
Set during the California Gold Rush, a slick gambler named Russell Donovan (Bill Bixby) arrives to town and finds himself duped into taking care of a trio of orphans with the town's sheriff, barber, Justice of the Peace, and judge Homer McCoy (Harry Morgan) telling him that he is legally obligated unless he can have someone else take custody of the children. By chance, the Bradley children end up finding gold with everyone in the town attempting to adopt the children from Donovan. Fearing they would not have the children's intentions in heart, he arranged a marriage with the stagecoach driver Magnolia Dusty Clydesdale (Susan Clark) so they can keep custody of the Bradley children. However, things become complicated when their legal guardian returns. At the same time, a pair of bumbling holdup men named Amos Tucker (Tim Conway) and Theodore Ogelvie (Don Knotts) attempt to steal the Bradleys' gold before their former boss Frank Stillwell (Slim Pickens) kidnap the children while stealing the gold. But it ends with the gold nugget blown to bits, Stillwell arrested, and Donovan and Dusty keeping the Bradley children as they use the reward money for Stillwell's arrest to buy a farm and on their way a reformed Amos and Theodore catches up with the newfound family asking for work as farmhands.
, 1h34Directed by Robert Stevenson, Arthur J. Vitarelli
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantastic, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about animals, Seafaring films, Transport films, Aviation films, Cétacé, Films based on science fiction novels, Films set in the Viking Age, Steampunk films, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un cétacé
Actors Donald Sinden, David Hartman, Jacques Marin, Mako Iwamatsu, David Gwillim, Lasse Kolstad
Roles Pilot (uncredited)
Rating62%
In London in the year 1907, a British aristocrat named Sir Anthony Ross (Donald Sinden) hastily arranges an expedition to the Arctic to search for his lost son Donald. Donald had become lost on a whaling expedition to find the fabled island where whales go to die.
An Eye for an Eye (1973)
, 1h24Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror, Slasher
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry
Actors Peter Renaday, Jackson Bostwick, John Ashton, Margaret Avery, Brenda Venus
Roles Sgt. Graham
Rating51%
Mr. Rabbey, the host of a children's television show, is every boys' and girls' favorite. But unknown to everyone, when he hears stories from the kids who watch his show about the abuse they suffer at the hands of their parents, he starts visiting the parents and murdering them. Eventually, the police begin to suspect him of the murders.
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An Eye for an Eye (1973)
, 1h24Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror, Slasher
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry
Actors Peter Renaday, Jackson Bostwick, John Ashton, Margaret Avery, Brenda Venus
Roles Executive Producer
Rating51%
Mr. Rabbey, the host of a children's television show, is every boys' and girls' favorite. But unknown to everyone, when he hears stories from the kids who watch his show about the abuse they suffer at the hands of their parents, he starts visiting the parents and murdering them. Eventually, the police begin to suspect him of the murders.