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Michael Norell is a Scriptwriter American born on 4 october 1937 at Wallace (USA)
Michael Alden Norell (October 4, 1937 Wallace, Idaho) is an American screenwriter/actor, and executive producer who starred as Captain Henry "Hank" Stanley in the Jack Webb produced television series Emergency! from 1972 to 1978.
Norell was born in Wallace, Idaho. His family moved to follow his father who was in the Army, and who ultimately retired with the rank of Brigadier General. His father was sent to Korea during the war. The family lived in Tokyo, Japan. Norell returned to the States after the war and attended Falls Church High School in Virginia where he acted in several school plays. He attended college at Washington and Lee University where he majored in journalism.
After graduating college Norell entered the Army where he spent the next five years, leaving with the rank of Captain. After his stint in the Army he went to work for the Richmond Times-Dispatch. He went to New York City not too long after returning to civilian life and worked at acting full-time. Six months later he arrived in Hollywood where he won the role of Captain Henry "Hank" Stanley for the show Emergency!.
After Emergency! ended, Norell turned to screenwriting, drawing from his experience writing scripts for Emergency!. He wrote for shows such as The Love Boat, The Love Boat: The Next Wave, Nash Bridges, and The Magnificent Seven, among others. His screenwriting credits also include several made-for-TV movies such as, Doomsday Rock, Three on a Date, The Covergirl and the Cop, Pals, Barnum, Christmas Comes to Willow Creek, and The Incident of which he was nominated for an Emmy Award. Other films include The Diamond Fleece, Long Gone, and Against Her Will: An Incident in Baltimore. Norell created, and was executive producer for the short-lived Love Boat clone Aloha Paradise.
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Norell was born in Wallace, Idaho. His family moved to follow his father who was in the Army, and who ultimately retired with the rank of Brigadier General. His father was sent to Korea during the war. The family lived in Tokyo, Japan. Norell returned to the States after the war and attended Falls Church High School in Virginia where he acted in several school plays. He attended college at Washington and Lee University where he majored in journalism.
After graduating college Norell entered the Army where he spent the next five years, leaving with the rank of Captain. After his stint in the Army he went to work for the Richmond Times-Dispatch. He went to New York City not too long after returning to civilian life and worked at acting full-time. Six months later he arrived in Hollywood where he won the role of Captain Henry "Hank" Stanley for the show Emergency!.
After Emergency! ended, Norell turned to screenwriting, drawing from his experience writing scripts for Emergency!. He wrote for shows such as The Love Boat, The Love Boat: The Next Wave, Nash Bridges, and The Magnificent Seven, among others. His screenwriting credits also include several made-for-TV movies such as, Doomsday Rock, Three on a Date, The Covergirl and the Cop, Pals, Barnum, Christmas Comes to Willow Creek, and The Incident of which he was nominated for an Emmy Award. Other films include The Diamond Fleece, Long Gone, and Against Her Will: An Incident in Baltimore. Norell created, and was executive producer for the short-lived Love Boat clone Aloha Paradise.
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Doomsday Rock (1997)
, 1h36Directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction
Themes Disaster films, American disaster films
Actors Connie Sellecca, Jessica Walter, William Devane
Rating43%
Persuadé que Nemesis, un astéroïde géant, va s'écraser sur Terre, le docteur Carl Sorenson s'empare d'une base de missiles militaires. L'astrophysicien veut envoyer deux missiles nucléaires sur Nemesis afin de le détruire. Mais, le gouvernement américain demande à Catherine, la fille du Dr Carl Sorenson, de ramener le forcené à la raison...
, 2hDirected by Delbert Mann
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Walter Matthau, Harry Morgan, Susan Blakely, Ariana Richards, Barton Heyman, Brian Kerwin
Roles Writer
Rating66%
The sequel to the TV movie entitled The Incident, a small-town lawyer, Harmon Cobb, and his family move to Baltimore where he becomes the law partner of his old adversary (Harry Morgan), where he goes against the State of Maryland, suing on behalf of an institutionalized mental patient for release.
The Diamond Fleece (1992)
, 1h33Directed by Al Waxman
Origin Canada
Actors Ben Cross, Kate Nelligan, Brian Dennehy, Tom Butler, Janet-Laine Green, Ron Lea
Rating57%
Long Gone (1987)
, 1h53Directed by Martin Davidson
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Sports films, Baseball films
Actors William Petersen, Virginia Madsen, Dermot Mulroney, Larry Riley, Henry Gibson, Joel Murray
Roles Teleplay
Rating76%
The Tampico Stogies are a last-place baseball team based in Tampico, Florida. The team competes in the lowest-level (Class D) professional Gulf Coast league during the summer of 1957. It is unclear if the team is affiliated with a major league franchise. The Stogies are owned by a pair of corrupt and scheming local Tampico businessmen, Hale Buchman (Henry Gibson) and his son, Hale Buchman Jr. (Teller). They refer to themselves as sports moguls, despite the team being heavily mortgaged.
, 1h36Directed by Richard Lang
Genres Drama
Themes Christmas films
Actors John Schneider, Tom Wopat, Kim Delaney, Zachary Ansley, Antony Holland, Joy Coghill
Roles Teleplay
Rating64%
Willow Creek, Alaska is going through problems because the town's main business, a cannery, has closed and many residents no longer have jobs. Ray and Pete are brothers; although they share the same profession (truck drivers), they are different as day and night.
Murder by the Book (1986)
, 1h40Directed by Mel Damski
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Crime
Actors Robert Hays, Eric Keenleyside, Catherine Mary Stewart, Fred Gwynne, Christopher Murney, Celeste Holm
Roles Teleplay
Rating53%