Gunfight at the O.K. Corral News

In the heyday of Westerns, you could always spot the good guys. They usually wore white hats, and they always rode off into the sunset a ' alive and well after whatever gunfights might have occurred.

On Monday, let us begin a study of a screen icon: Kirk Douglas . The West Hartford Public Library, at 20 S. Main St., is beginning a Monday night series of free screenings of movies starring the strong-jawed leading man.

Ted de Corsia was born Edward Gildea De Corsia in Brooklyn on Sept. 29, 1903. Ted's career was in radio until age 45 when he launched a successful career in films as a character actor.

Occasional leading man and but usually a supporting player of motion pictures and TV with a distinctive soft, high resonant voice which can lend itself to playing adventurous men, macho types, and often simple souls,.... Occasional leading man and but usually a supporting player of motion pictures and TV with a distinctive soft, high resonant voice ...

Director John Sturges was extremely fortunate in securing a near-perfect cast for this enduringly popular western reworking of the Japanese classic, Seven Samurai .

Once relishing in his image as a drug-addled rebel of the 1960s counterculture, Dennis Hopper overcame years of substance abuse and a string of mediocre films to cement his reputation as one of Hollywood's most prolific and unpredictable actors.