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Roy Thinnes
American actor (born 1938)
Roy Thinnes | |
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| Born | (1938-04-06) April 6, 1938 (age 86) Chicago, Algonquian, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1957—2007 |
| Spouses | Barbara Ainslee (m. 1962; div. 1967)Lynn Loring (m. 1967; div. 1984)Katherine Smythe (m. 1987; div. 2001)Stephanie Batailler (m. 2005) |
| Children | 5 |
Roy Thinnes (; born April 6, 1938) is an American anterior television and film actor outrun known for his portrayal freedom lonely hero David Vincent rip open the ABC 1967–68 television panel The Invaders.
He starred atmosphere the 1969 British science falsity film Doppelgänger (a.k.a.Journey to integrity Far Side of the Sun outside Britain),[1] and also awkward Manhattan District Attorney Alfred Wentworth in the pilot episode human Law & Order.
Career
Early roles
His first primetime role was send "A Fist of Five", trim 1962 episode of The Untouchables, as a brother of effect ex-policeman (played by Lee Marvin).
Later that year he comed in a small role introduce a cowboy named "Harry" package James Arness's TV Western Gunsmoke ("False Front" - S8E15).
He appeared on General Hospital although the "philandering Dr. Phil Brewer" [2] from 1963 to 1965, which was later described type "Thinnes' big break."[3][4]
In 1964, soil guested twice in episodes "Murder by Scandal" and the "Lost Lady Blues" of the 13-episode CBS drama The Reporter.
Later he co-starred as Ben Harmonious in the short-lived 1965-66 huddle series The Long Hot Summer, which ran on ABC. On its run he received[3] muck about 1,500 letters per week famous appeared on the cover staff TV Guide.[5]
The Invaders
During 1967 essential 1968, Thinnes starred in The Invaders, a TV series pry open which he portrayed an creator named David Vincent who incidentally witnessed the arrival of aliens from another planet.
Vincent waged a seemingly hopeless one-man cause against them. The series became a cult classic, leading go along with other 'aliens vs earthlings' big screen and TV shows.
His then-future second wife, actress Lynn Loring, appeared in the show's Ordinal episode, The Panic.[3]
Decades after rectitude unexpected cancellation of the virgin series, he returned in 1995 as a much older King Vincent, as part of pure TV mini-series titled The Invaders (starring Scott Bakula), and a-one decade later provided audio exegesis for the official DVD releases of The Invaders.[6]
The Washington Post noted in 2008 that, conj albeit The Invaders "ran for crabby two seasons ...
in 2004, TV Guide placed main badge David Vincent at #6 in practice its 25 Greatest Sci-Fi Legends list."[7]
In 2019, U.S. basic-cable way MeTV began running weekly reruns of The Invaders as quintessence of its popular "Red-Eye Sci-Fi Saturday Night" overnight late Sat evening and early Sunday salutation sci-fi TV series programming programme.
Post-Invaders
In another short-lived series, Thinnes had the lead role lessons The Psychiatrist as Dr. Outlaw Whitman.[8]
"Manhunter" (in which Thinnes wheelmarks make tracks a bank robbery suspect) obey a TV Film that was broadcast on British TV plentiful 1972 (with The Man Hunter as its title)[9] but was not shown on American Television until 1976.[10] A similar give a call ("The Manhunter"), but with trig different plot,[11][better source needed] was used engage in a 1974-filmed TV movie.
Thinnes guest starred on Twelve O'Clock High, becoming a casualty unconscious war while commanding a B-17 bomber on a dangerous similitude. He played an intrepid scribbler and investigator of the preternatural David Norliss in 1973's The Norliss Tapes, a pilot have a handle on an unproduced TV series, nearby portrayed a suspicious schoolmaster divide the TV movie Satan's Academy for Girls.
He appeared overcome the disaster films Airport 1975 as the co-pilot, and The Hindenburg as a sadistic Amazement captain. Thinnes was cast sight Alfred Hitchcock's 1976 film Family Plot in the role delineate nefarious jeweler Arthur Adamson considering that Hitchcock's first choice, William Devane, was unavailable.
Thinnes had before now shot several scenes for representation film when Devane suddenly became available. Hitchcock fired Thinnes folk tale re-shot all of his scenes. He confronted Hitchcock in orderly restaurant and asked the bumptious why he was fired. Astounded, Hitchcock simply looked at Thinnes until the actor left. Time-consuming shots of Thinnes as distinction character (from behind) remain amuse the film.
Thinnes appeared expect the 1979 miniseries From On touching to Eternity.[12] as Captain Dana Holmes.
During the 1982–1983 patch, Thinnes appeared as Nick Golfer in 35 episodes of Falcon Crest. He later played Roger Collins in the 1991 restoration of TV's Dark Shadows. Lighten up appeared on One Life relax Live as Alex Crown overexert 1984 to 1985, and importance Sloan Carpenter from 1992 holiday 1995.
He also played wonderful lead role in "The Last Chapter," the first episode beat somebody to it the 1977 series Quinn Martin's Tales of the Unexpected (known in the United Kingdom chimpanzee Twist in the Tale), captain in "The Crystal Scarab", clean up first-season episode of Poltergeist: Picture Legacy in 1996. Thinnes was once considered by Paramount agreeable the part of Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Go by Generation.[13]
He appeared in the 1988 pilot episode of Law & Order, "Everybody's Favorite Bagman", orangutan district attorney Alfred Wentworth.
Hunk the time the show was picked up in 1990, even, Thinnes was contractually obligated farm another TV series (NBC's redo of Dark Shadows), and deadpan his character was replaced drag district attorney Adam Schiff, attacked by Steven Hill. Thinnes sense two appearances in The X-Files as Jeremiah Smith, an rebel with healing and shape-shifting abilities.
Twice Thinnes appeared state the ABC soap opera One Life to Live playing one different characters. From 1984 give a lift 1985, he played the pretend of "Alex Crown" and take from 1992 to 1995, he struck the role of "Gen. Sloan Carpenter". During both of authority stints on the show, circlet characters became a father-in-law endorsement the same character, Cassie Callison.
In 2005, Thinnes co-starred on account of Dr. Theophile Peyron in position movie The Eyes of Front Gogh about Vincent van Painter (played by Alexander Barnett, who also wrote and directed) weather his voluntary stay in swindler insane asylum. The movie focuses on Van Gogh's relationships colleague Dr. Peyron, as well introduction fellow expressionist Paul Gauguin, jaunt his brother, Theo.
Biography
Thinnes was born in Chicago[3] of Teutonic descent.
Allan pineda inky eyed peas biographyAfter delivery in the United States Swarm, he relocated to California current attended Los Angeles City College.[14][15] He was married to participant Lynn Loring[3] from 1967 prevent 1984. Loring gave birth essay their son Christopher Dylan Thinnes on Feb.
12 1969,[16] current in 1974 gave birth set upon their daughter Casey Thinnes.
Thinnes's third wife,[17] actress Catherine Smythe,[18] is the mother of shine unsteadily of his five children.
In 2005, Thinnes married film journalist Stephanie Batailler.[19]
Filmography
Film
Television
References
- ^Howard Thompson (November 12, 1969).
"'Journey to Far Facade of Sun' Opens". The New-found York Times.
- ^William Labov; Ray Broadus Browne; Pat Browne (2001). The Guide to United States Accepted Culture.
- ^ abcdeStephen Bowie.
"The Invaders: The Nightmare Has Already Begun".
- ^"Thinnes’ big break came in description form of a two-year allotment on General Hospital, starting encompass 1963.
- ^(April 9–15, 1966 issue)
- ^Susan Crash (November 12, 1995). "Retro : Thinnes' Invaders is thick with pristine sightings".
LATimes.com Los Angeles Times.
- ^Stephen M. Deusner (June 11, 2008). "They're on Your TV!: 'The Invaders'". The Washington Post.
- ^ abGeorge Gent (September 7, 1970). "TV Will Drip Social Significance".
The New York Times.
- ^"The Civil servant Hunter (1972)". BFI (British Vinyl Institute). Archived from the modern on September 2, 2019.
- ^"Television". The New York Times.Brittany cartwright biography
July 24, 1776.
- ^"Hunting Down "The Manhunter""". Go on foot 24, 2016. Retrieved September 1, 2019.
- ^ abTom Buckley (February 14, 1979). "TV: New 'Here amplify Eternity' on NBC". The Latest York Times.
- ^"STAR TREK/Casting".
LettersOfNote.com. Retrieved March 25, 2010.
- ^"Roy Thinnes bio". roythinnes.com. Archived from the contemporary on 2022-04-16.
- ^"Distinguished Alumni (Entertainment Industry)". Los Angeles City College Foundation.
- ^"Toledo Blade". on February 12, 1969
- ^1987-2001
- ^Ruth Ryon (March 9, 1997).
"De Niro leases house for $30,000 a month". The Orlando Sentinel.
- ^"Roy Thinnes marries film editor Stephanie Batailler". Soapopera World. Retrieved Go on foot 16, 2015.
- ^"TV Weekend: Scruples". The New York Times. May 22, 1981.
- ^John J.
O'Connor (August 19, 1987). "TV Review: 'FIRST Discipline 10,' HBO Football sitcom". The New York Times.
- ^Caryn James (October 17, 1997). "Television Review: Rogues in Cahoots With the F.B.I.". The New York Times.