Busting
Busting is a 1974 film directed by Peter Hyams, starring Elliott Gould and Robert Blake as Los Angeles police detectives. This film was the main inspiration for the television show "Starsky & Hutch", which premiered in 1975.
Angels in the Endzone
Angels in the Endzone is a 1997 American film directed by Gary Nadeau and starring Christopher Lloyd. It is a sequel to the 1994 film "Angels in the Outfield". The film is about a high school football team that lacks skill.
Cybill
"Cybill" takes place in Los Angeles and focuses on the character of a somewhat faded actress, Cybill Sheridan (played by Cybill Shepherd), who, because of her age, had been relegated to playing character roles, bit parts, and TV commercials. Also featured are her daughters: headstrong Zoey (Witt) and uptight Rachel (Pfeiffer), two ex-husbands: Ira (Rosenberg) and Jeff (Wopat), and her hard-drinking best friend Maryann (Baranski). Due to the show's premise, many episodes featured a show-within-a-show format, showing Cybill Sheridan playing a variety of other characters in her various film and TV acting roles.
Amour de poche
Amour de poche ("Girl in His Pocket") is a French comedy fantasy film from 1957, directed by Pierre Kast, written by France Roche, starring Jean Marais. The scenario was based on a novel "Diminishing Draft" of Waldemar Kaempffert.
500 Days of Summer
David Ng of the Los Angeles Times describes architecture as a star of the film. Tom is seen reading Alain de Botton's The Architecture of Happiness. The film was originally set in San Francisco but was later moved to Los Angeles and the script rewritten to make better use of the location. Buildings used include the Los Angeles Music Center (which includes the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion) and the towers of California Plaza. The older Fine Arts Building is featured in the film, in a scene where Tom shows it to Summer and mentions its designers, Walker and Eisen, two of his favorite architects, although he incorrectly gives the partners' names as ``Walker and Eisner. ''
Baywatch
Baywatch is an American action drama series about the Los Angeles County lifeguards who patrol the beaches of Los Angeles County, California, starring David Hasselhoff. The show was cancelled after its first season on NBC, but survived through syndication and later became the most-watched television show in the world. The show ran in its original title and format from 1989 to 1999. From 1999 to 2001, with a setting change and large cast overhaul, it was known as "Baywatch: Hawaii".
A Night in the Show
A Night in the Show was Charlie Chaplin's 12th film for Essanay. It was made at Majestic Studio in Los Angeles the fall of 1915. Chaplin played two roles: one as Mr. Pest and one as Mr. Rowdy. The film was created from Chaplin's stage work from a play called "Mumming Birds" (a.k.a. "A Night at an English Music Hall" in the United States) with the Karno Company from London. Chaplin performed this play during his U.S. tours with Fred Karno company and decided to bring some of this play to his film work. Edna Purviance played a minor role as a lady in the audience.
Ron Howard
Howard first came to prominence playing young Opie Taylor in the sitcom The Andy Griffith Show for eight years and later playing teenager Richie Cunningham in the sitcom Happy Days for seven years. He appeared in the musical film The Music Man (1962), the comedy film The Courtship of Eddie's Father (1963), the coming of age film American Graffiti (1973), the western film The Shootist (1976), and the comedy film Grand Theft Auto (1977), which he also directed.
The Jimmy Show
The Jimmy Show is a 2001 drama written and directed by Frank Whaley, based on the Off-Broadway play "Veins and Thumbtacks" by Jonathan Marc Sherman. The film stars Whaley, Carla Gugino, and Ethan Hawke.
Women Aren't Angels
Women Aren't Angels is a 1943 black and white British comedy film directed by Lawrence Huntington and starring Aldwych Theatre farceurs Robertson Hare and Alfred Drayton, with Polly Ward and Joyce Heron. It was made at Welwyn Studios and based on a 1941 play of the same title by Vernon Sylvaine.
Angel in My Pocket
Angel in My Pocket is a 1969 American comedy film starring Andy Griffith and directed by Alan Rafkin. One of three films originally planned by Universal Pictures to star Griffith, it also features Lee Meriwether, Jerry Van Dyke, Kay Medford, Henry Jones, Edgar Buchanan, and Gary Collins. The film has never been released to home video in any format.
It Happened in New York
It Happened in New York is a 1935 American musical comedy film directed by Alan Crosland and starring Gertrude Michael, Heather Angel and Lyle Talbot. It is based on a play "Bagdad on the Hudson" by Ward Morehouse and Jean Dalrymple. A New York taxi driver is hired as a bodyguard to a film star, whose manager is always involving her in publicity stunts.
The Jucklins (film)
The Jucklins is a lost 1921 American silent drama film directed by George Melford and written by Frank Condon, based on the novel "The Jucklins" by Opie Read. The film stars Winter Hall, Mabel Julienne Scott, Monte Blue, Ruth Renick, Fanny Midgley, Z. Wall Covington, and J.M. Dumont. The film was released on January 9, 1921, by Paramount Pictures.
Headmaster (TV series)
"Headmaster" marked the return to series television of Griffith, whose previous eponymous show had been one of CBS's major hits of the 1960s prior to his voluntary departure and a program which was still in production (as "Mayberry R.F.D."), when "Headmaster" was launched. Griffith had just signed a three-picture deal with Universal Pictures but was so disappointed with the first film in the contract, the rural comedy "Angel in My Pocket", that the two parties never made the other two films and he quickly returned to television.
Angel (1982 Irish film)
Angel is a 1982 film directed by Neil Jordan and starring Stephen Rea. The film was Neil Jordan's directorial debut, and the executive producer was John Boorman.
Lynne Marie Stewart
Lynne Marie Stewart (born December 14, 1946) is an American film, stage, television and voice actress, best known for her performance as Miss Yvonne, the Most Beautiful Woman in Puppet Land. She originated the role in the 1981 stage show The Pee - wee Herman Show and on the CBS television show Pee - wee's Playhouse. She returned to the role in the 2010 Los Angeles stage revival and returned again to play the role in the Broadway production which opened in November 2010 at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre.
Pocket Protectors
Pocket Protectors was an animated series produced for New Zealand's long running children's show, "What Now?". The series is when Ollie is given a pocket protector full of old fashioned stationery by his Dad, the last thing he expected was for them to transform into tiny robots, known as the Pocket Protectors, intent on guiding Ollie through "tough times". The only problem is... the Pocket Protectors make Ollie's life more difficult than it already was... thanks to them being completely delusional.
Angel Unchained
Angel Unchained (also known as Hell's Angels Unchained) is a 1970 American action film directed by Lee Madden for American International Pictures and starring Don Stroud as the title character Angel. It was released in the United States on September 2, 1970.
Adam Sandler
Early in his career, in 1987, Sandler played Theo Huxtable's friend, Smitty, in The Cosby Show and the Stud Boy or Trivia Delinquent in the MTV game show Remote Control. After his film debut Going Overboard in 1989, Sandler performed in comedy clubs, having first taken the stage at his brother's urging when he was 17. He was discovered by comedian Dennis Miller, who caught Sandler's act in Los Angeles and recommended him to Saturday Night Live producer Lorne Michaels. Sandler was hired as a writer for SNL in 1990 and became a featured player the following year, making a name for himself by performing amusing original songs on the show, including "The Thanksgiving Song" and "The Chanukah Song". Sandler told Conan O'Brien on The Tonight Show that NBC fired him and Chris Farley from the show in 1995, and played this up in his return to the show as a host in 2019.In 1993, Adam Sandler appeared in the film Coneheads with Chris Farley, David Spade, Dan Aykroyd, Phil Hartman, and Jane Curtin. In 1994, he co-starred in Airheads with Brendan Fraser and Steve Buscemi. He starred in Billy Madison (1995) playing a grown man repeating grades 1–12 to earn back his father's respect and the right to inherit his father's multimillion-dollar hotel empire. The film was successful at the box office despite negative reviews. He followed this film with Bulletproof (1996), and the financially successful comedies Happy Gilmore (1996) and The Wedding Singer (1998). He was initially cast in the bachelor party–themed comedy/thriller Very Bad Things (1998) but had to back out due to his involvement in The Waterboy (1998), one of his first hits.
Give 'em Hell, Harry!
Give 'em Hell, Harry! is a biographical play and 1975 film, written by playwright Samuel Gallu. Both the play and film are a one-man show about former President of the United States Harry S. Truman. "Give 'em Hell, Harry!" stars James Whitmore, and was directed by Steve Binder and Peter H. Hunt.
Who played Opie on the show named for the star of the film Angel in My Pocket?
Who are the stars of the film Angel in My Pocket?
Andy Griffith
who played opie on the #1 show
Howard