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Sam Melville is a Actor and Stunts American born on 20 august 1936 at Fillmore (USA)
Samuel Gardner Melville (August 20, 1936 – March 9, 1989) was an American actor who appeared as a guest star on many popular television programs of the 1960s and 1970s. He portrayed Officer Mike Danko in four seasons of Aaron Spelling's ABC series, The Rookies, and The Bear in the classic 1978 surfing movie, Big Wednesday, with Celia Kaye as his unnamed "bride."
Melville also had small parts in Hour of the Gun (1967) playing the role of Morgan Earp, The Thomas Crown Affair (1968) starring Steve McQueen, and the television disaster film Terror in the Sky (1971) as the co-pilot. On Gunsmoke and Hawaii Five-O, both on CBS, he played villains as a guest-star. However, on the episode "A Mule ... Like the Army's Mule" of the syndicated anthology series Death Valley Days, Melville portrayed United States Army Lt. Jason Beal, who befriended Sandy King, played by Luke Halpin, the youngest member of the Curly Bill Brocius outlaw gang. In 1967, he guest starred in an episode of the CBS western, Dundee and the Culhane.
Melville again portrayed a villain on CBS's Scarecrow and Mrs. King, and later portrayed Mrs. King's ex-husband and father of her children. Oddly, he had also played earlier opposite Kate Jackson as her husband in The Rookies. He guest starred as a jewel thief, alongside Janie Fricke, in the seventh season episode of CBS's The Dukes Of Hazzard, "Happy Birthday, General Lee".
Melville was born in Fillmore, Utah, and died from heart failure in Los Angeles, California.
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Nationality USA
Birth 20 august 1936 at Fillmore (USA)
Death 9 march 1989 (at 52 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Birth 20 august 1936 at Fillmore (USA)
Death 9 march 1989 (at 52 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Melville also had small parts in Hour of the Gun (1967) playing the role of Morgan Earp, The Thomas Crown Affair (1968) starring Steve McQueen, and the television disaster film Terror in the Sky (1971) as the co-pilot. On Gunsmoke and Hawaii Five-O, both on CBS, he played villains as a guest-star. However, on the episode "A Mule ... Like the Army's Mule" of the syndicated anthology series Death Valley Days, Melville portrayed United States Army Lt. Jason Beal, who befriended Sandy King, played by Luke Halpin, the youngest member of the Curly Bill Brocius outlaw gang. In 1967, he guest starred in an episode of the CBS western, Dundee and the Culhane.
Melville again portrayed a villain on CBS's Scarecrow and Mrs. King, and later portrayed Mrs. King's ex-husband and father of her children. Oddly, he had also played earlier opposite Kate Jackson as her husband in The Rookies. He guest starred as a jewel thief, alongside Janie Fricke, in the seventh season episode of CBS's The Dukes Of Hazzard, "Happy Birthday, General Lee".
Melville was born in Fillmore, Utah, and died from heart failure in Los Angeles, California.
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Big Wednesday (1978)
, 2hDirected by John Milius
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Seafaring films, Sports films, Transport films, Surfing films, Political films
Actors Jan-Michael Vincent, William Katt, Gary Busey, Lee Purcell, Darrell Fetty, Patti D'Arbanville
Roles "Bear"
Rating70%
The film tells the story of three young friends whose passion in life is surfing. The friends include: Matt Johnson (Jan-Michael Vincent), a self-destructive type who has a devil-may-care attitude; Jack Barlowe (William Katt), the calm and responsible one of the bunch; and Leroy "The Masochist" Smith (Gary Busey), whose nickname tells a lot about his personality.
Terror in the Sky (1977)
, 1h14Directed by Bernard L. Kowalski
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Dans un avion, Disaster films, American disaster films, Films about aviation accidents or incidents
Actors Doug McClure, Lois Nettleton, Roddy McDowall, Kenneth Tobey, Leif Erickson, Keenan Wynn
Roles Stewart
Rating58%
Passengers on a plane headed from the Midwest to the West Coast (Winnipeg to Vancouver in the book; Minneapolis to Seattle in the film) get quite ill after eating the chicken pot pie entree. Both pilots also ate the chicken. A man who has not flown since the Vietnam War (single-engine planes in the book, helicopter/war choppers in the film) is reluctantly pressed into flying the plane, where he makes a very neurotic, but survivable landing.
The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)
, 1h42Directed by Norman Jewison, Walter Hill
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime, Romance
Themes Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway, Paul Burke, Jack Weston, Gordon Pinsent, Addison Powell
Roles Dave
Rating68%
Millionaire businessman-sportsman Thomas Crown (Steve McQueen) pulls off a perfect crime by orchestrating four men to rob $2,660,527.62 from a Boston bank, along with a fifth man who drives the getaway Ford station wagon with the money and dumps it in a cemetery trash can. None of the men ever meets Crown face-to-face, nor do they know or meet each other before the robbery. Crown retrieves the money from the trash can personally after secretly following the driver of the station wagon, then personally deposits the money into an anonymous Swiss bank account in Geneva, making several trips, never depositing the money all at once so as to not draw undue attention to his actions.
Hour of the Gun (1967)
, 1h41Directed by John Sturges
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Western
Actors James Garner, Jason Robards, Robert Ryan, Albert Salmi, Charles Aidman, Steve Ihnat
Roles Morgan Earp
Rating65%
Outnumbered but determined, Wyatt Earp (James Garner), his brothers Virgil (Frank Converse) and Morgan (Sam Melville) and ally Doc Holliday (Jason Robards) confront and clearly get the best of the Ike Clanton gang in a violent shootout at the O.K. Corral in the Arizona town of Tombstone.
, 1h11Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors David F. Friedman, Bob Todd, Sam Melville, Tom Hughes
Roles Lowell Carter (as Neville Coward)
Rating58%
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Hooper (1978)
, 1h37Directed by Hal Needham
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action
Actors Burt Reynolds, Jan-Michael Vincent, Adam West, Sally Field, Brian Keith, Robert Klein
Roles Stunts
Rating63%
Sonny Hooper (Burt Reynolds), known as "Hollywood's Greatest Stuntman," is Adam West's stunt double on the action film The Spy Who Laughed at Danger. Hooper's on-set antics and wisecracks are a trial for egotistical director Roger Deal (Robert Klein), and even more so for Roger's bossy, obnoxious (but cowardly) assistant Tony (Alfie Wise), who gets Hooper in trouble with the Humane Society over a stunt involving a dog. Years of physical abuse on are fast catching up with Hooper, with the numerous stunts (referred to in the movie business as "gags") and his use of painkillers beginning to take their toll on his body.