Stacy Harris
Nacimiento : 1918-07-26, Big Timber, Quebec, Canada
Muerte : 1973-03-13
Historia
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Stacy Harris (July 26, 1918 – March 13, 1973) was a Canadian-born actor with hundreds of film and television appearances. His name is often found spelled Stacey Harris.
Harris was an Army pilot whose leg was injured in a plane crash less than six months after he enlisted in 1937. That injury prevented him from re-enlisting when World War II began, but he served with the American Volunteer Group as an ambulance driver and with the French Foreign Legion as a dispatch rider. Before becoming an actor, he held a variety of jobs, including newspaper reporter, boxer, sailor, and artist.
Harris played varied characters, often villains, on various programs produced by Jack Webb's Mark VII Limited, such as Dragnet, Noah's Ark, GE True, Adam-12, and Emergency!.
Harris guest starred in the religion anthology series, Crossroads, and played a gangster in the 1956 time travel television episode of the anthology series Conflict entitled "Man from 1997" opposite James Garner and Charles Ruggles. Thereafter, he appeared as Whit Lassiter in the 1958 episode "The Man Who Waited" of the NBC children's western series, Buckskin. He guest starred as Colonel Nicholson in the 1959 episode "A Night at Trapper's Landing" of the NBC western series, Riverboat, starring Darren McGavin.
Harris appeared too in three syndicated series, Whirlybirds, starring Kenneth Tobey, Sheriff of Cochise and U.S. Marshal, both with John Bromfield, and as the character Ed Miller in the episode "Mystery of the Black Stallion" of the western series, Frontier Doctor, starring Rex Allen. He was cast in two episodes of the David Janssen crime drama, Richard Diamond, Private Detective.
Harris in 1958 portrayed Max Bowen in "The Hemp Tree" and in 1959 as Abel Crowder in "Rough Track to Payday", episodes of the CBS western series, The Texan, starring Rory Calhoun.
In 1960, Harris was cast as a drummer named Cramer in the episode "Fair Game" of the ABC western series, The Rebel, starring Nick Adams. Harris appeared in three episodes of CBS's Perry Mason, playing the role of murder victim Frank Curran in "The Case of the Married Moonlighter" (1958), Perry's client Frank Brooks in "The Case of the Lost Last Act" (1959), and murderer Frank Brigham in "The Case of the Crying Comedian" in 1961.
In 1969, Harris played the corrupt and cowardly Mayor Ackerson of the since ghost town of Helena, Texas, in the episode "The Oldest Law" of the syndicated television series, Death Valley Days, hosted by Robert Taylor not long before Taylor's own death. Popular character actor Jim Davis played Colonel William G. Butler (1831-1912), who takes revenge on the town after its citizens refuse to disclose the killer of Butler's son, Emmett, who died from a stray bullet from a saloon brawl. Butler arranges for the San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway to bypass Helena; instead Karnes City, south of San Antonio, becomes the seat of government of Karnes County. Tom Lowell (born 1941) played Emmett Butler, and Tyler McVey was cast as Parson Blake in this episode.
Harris died March 13, 1973, at the age of 54 in Los Angeles, California of an apparent heart attack. CLR
Agent Ben Hazzard
Suddenly widowed by an accident, a deputy sheriff from the Midwest becomes a customs agent and cracks a narcotics ring. Pilot movie for the series "O'Hara, U.S. Treasury."
Dr. Leonard
D.A. Paul Ryan doesn't buy self-defense when a pharmacist fatally shoots an armed robber and brings the man up on manslaughter charges, for which he's convicted. However, when Ryan discovers the pharmacist's double life--he's been running a burglary ring out of the pharmacy, and the dead man may have been a member of said ring, he vacates the manslaughter conviction and sets out to nail him for murder instead.
Psychiatrist
Six stories involving wife and husband swapping/swinging, are described in titillating detail while analyzed by a pseudo psychologist.
Operations Commander Callan
Two mercenaries are hired to commit a political assassination.
Phillip Rootes
One of the patients in a group-therapy session conducted by a famous psychiatrist is a murderer.
Script Supervisor
Cuando la NASA se da cuenta de que los rusos están a punto de conseguir llevar a un hombre a la Luna, la agencia comienza a entrenar a un astronauta para adelantar a los rusos. Los astronautas candidatos a ser el primer hombre en pisar la luna son Lee Stegler (James Caan), Chiz (Robert Duvall) y Rick (Michael Murphy). Entre Lee y Chiz existe una pequeña rivalidad compartida por sus esposas. Olvidando su relativa inexperiencia, Lee es el elegido por la NASA. Olvidando sus diferencias Chiz comienza a instruirle en como sobrevivir en el espacio. Pero los entrenamientos son detenidos repentinamente cuando se descubre que una nave rusa, el Vostok, está maniobrando para preparar el alunizaje. No hay tiempo de más preparación y Lee se hunde. Si llega a la Luna deberá permanecer allí todo un año en una estación lunar hasta que la cápsula del Apolo pueda acudir a rescatarle.
Technician (uncredited)
Cuando la NASA se da cuenta de que los rusos están a punto de conseguir llevar a un hombre a la Luna, la agencia comienza a entrenar a un astronauta para adelantar a los rusos. Los astronautas candidatos a ser el primer hombre en pisar la luna son Lee Stegler (James Caan), Chiz (Robert Duvall) y Rick (Michael Murphy). Entre Lee y Chiz existe una pequeña rivalidad compartida por sus esposas. Olvidando su relativa inexperiencia, Lee es el elegido por la NASA. Olvidando sus diferencias Chiz comienza a instruirle en como sobrevivir en el espacio. Pero los entrenamientos son detenidos repentinamente cuando se descubre que una nave rusa, el Vostok, está maniobrando para preparar el alunizaje. No hay tiempo de más preparación y Lee se hunde. Si llega a la Luna deberá permanecer allí todo un año en una estación lunar hasta que la cápsula del Apolo pueda acudir a rescatarle.
Dialogue
Jack Connel sobrevive a una tremenda batalla en Guadalcanal. Pero su prueba más difícil esta por venir. Después de volver a Estados Unidos: recibir la Medalla de Honor y casarse; cuando debe de volver a la guerra, ya no es el mismo animal de combate que era. (FILMAFFINITY)
Detective O'Brien
Stephen Rojack es un famoso comentarista televisivo, especialmente crítico con algunos sectores de la policía, a los que acusa de estar relacionados con la mafia. Un día, durante una fuerte discusión con su esposa, ésta cae por la terraza. Aunque consigue que su muerte parezca un suicidio, su vida se transformará en una pesadilla cuando, tanto la mafia como la policía, lo persigan sin tregua.
Josh Reynolds
Un científico, que impide que una mujer se suicide, descubre que se trata de la esposa de su jefe, pero no puede evitar enamorarse de ella y, además, es correspondido. La pareja urde un plan para asesinar al marido, pero las cosas no saldrán exactamente como pensaban.
Mr. Turner
Cuando el capitán Benton llega al Oeste y se pone a las órdenes del general Custer, éste ve en él a su sucesor. Benton se enamora de la hija de Custer. Todo parece marchar con normalidad hasta que un grupo de hombres se muestra contrario al tratado firmado con los indios y empieza a a instigar a Custer para que lo rompa.
Mr. Leland (uncredited)
Sylvia West (Carroll Baker) may not be who she says she is. Her fiancé, the very well-to-do Frederick Summers (Peter Lawford), hires an investigator named Alan Maklin (George Maharis) to do some digging, and what he finds out about her life prior to becoming a writer is quite shocking. Will the newfound knowledge ruin the marriage? Gordon Douglas (Young at Heart) directs this drama, which is based on E.V. Cunningham's book.
Lieutenant Victor Beaujac
This episodic detective film presents the cases of two New Orleans gumshoes. In once case they preserve the good name of a patrolman who is suspected of murdering a kleptomaniacal socialite. They then find the murderer of a bank robber whose corpse was found in a swamp. After that, they catch a psycho hitchhiker. Finally, they bring in the killer of a cabbie's wife and her little dog.
Jake
Jimmy, Clark Kent and Lana Lang's friend, is ashamed that his father works as a doorman at the Smallville theater. His opinion changes when Superboy is able to thwart a robbery with Jimmy's father's help.
Eph Brown (as Stacy S. Harris)
Un joven que vive amargado por el hecho de ser hijo ilegitimo, se da a la bebida.,Pero cuando hereda un rancho de un donante desconocido, decide enderezar su vida, sacando el rancho adelante ayudado por un competente capataz. (FILMAFFINITY)
Coley
De joven, Eddie llega al pueblo con su banda para robar el banco, pero es capturado y condenado. El sheriff Ben le ayudará a convertirse en un ciudadano honrado. Han pasado muchos años y la banda vuelve al pueblo, otra vez para robar el banco; en la lucha que se produce, matan al Sheriff y Eddie es el único que puede identificar al asesino, pero dudará entre la lealtad a sus viejos o sus nuevos amigos.
Col. Monk Moncavage
El mayor Saville, un veterano de guerra que encabeza un grupo de oficiales, se enamora de la esposa de uno de ellos. Tras una peligrosa misión, el marido cae atrapado en las líneas enemigas y Saville es el encargado de rescatarle.
Detective Vic Beaujac
Cops go under cover to track down a Mafia drug kingpin who has re-entered the country to sell "junk" to the prostitutes and "hopheads" on Bourbon Street. Edited from TV series N.O.P.D.
George Barlow
During a ride with his new pony Sinoya, the young Clay Gibson by chance finds the secret housing of the multiple murderer Tris Hatten. He reports immediately to Sheriff Adams, who strongly recommends him not to tell anybody about it. Unfortunately Clay talks to his father nevertheless. He believes Adams just wanted fame and reward for himself and accuses him in the newspaper. Thereby he endangers his son, who's now targeted by a killer which Tris' girlfriend Winnie hired for revenge. Written by Tom Zoerner
Nicholas Servoz
Zachary Teller, un viejo guía alpino, acompaña, contra su voluntad, a su hermano Chris, que quiere apoderarse de las pertenencias de los pasajeros de un avión que se ha estrellado contra un pico de los Alpes franceses. La única superviviente es una muchacha hindú.
Art Downey
En el verano de 1875, los comanches asaltan una ciudad mexicana y se llevan cautiva a Margarita Álvarez, que pasa a ser propiedad de Nube Negra. Mientras tanto, el gobierno pide a Jim Read, el jefe de los exploradores indios, que intervenga como mediador.
Scrappy Durant
William Castle directed this Sam Katzman production, a gritty crime thriller about a newly-discharged sailor who gets a job as a longshoreman in The Big Easy. He swiftly discovers mob corruption throughout the docks, and when a friend is killed by the gangsters, he convinces the police to let him go undercover and take matters into his own hands. Filmed on location on the docks and in the French Quarter.
Max Edward Troy
Dos detectives de homicidios investigan el brutal asesinato con una escopeta de un miembro del sindicato del crimen. (FILMAFFINITY)
Uriah (as Stacy S. Harris)
Durante la Guerra de Secesión, un grupo de agitadores sudistas se dedican a enturbiar la paz de los soldados de la Unión con los Sioux, en Wyoming. Les ayuda un vendedor de caballos sin escrúpulos.
Chet Jones
(1870) Kate Maxwell, una mujer que regenta una taberna, se debate entre el amor de dos hombres muy distintos entre sí.
Reuben Zadok
A short film made for the United Jewish Appeal, reuniting the main players behind The Sniper, writers Edna and Edward Anhalt, director Edward Dmytryk, and star Arthur Franz.
Paul Ferrar
Tras el asesinato de un empleado de Correos, una monja asegura que podría reconocer a uno de los asesinos si lo volviese a ver. Desde ese momento su vida correrá peligro.
