John O'Toole (producer) in the United States Army from 1954 to 1956. O’Toole was the CEO of the Washington, D.C. -based production company, Eli Productions, for over 20 years. He wrote and produced documentaries, TV shows, and radio series on topics that included the arts and the aging process, many of which aired on NBC, CBS, and public television and radio. His work earned him a Writers Fellowship by The National Endowment for the Arts. In 1979, he wrote a TV miniseries adaptation of James Fenimore Cooper's "Leatherstocking Tales", which aired on PBS and earned an Outstanding Writer Emmy nod. He also did
Grim Prairie Tales Simcox appeared in "Grim Prairie Tales" as the wealthy rancher Horn. In an acting career from 1962-1991, he appeared in eight "Gunsmoke" episodes and in other television westerns. Stephen Holden from "New York Times" wrote, ""Grim Prairie Tales" aspires to be a sort of western "Twilight Zone," but the stories it tells are so flat and lacking in tension and atmosphere that the movie generates no tingles." Hal Hinson from "Washington Post" offered the film similar criticism, stating that the film wasn't particularly scary. Grim Prairie Tales Grim Prairie Tales is a 1990 American independent western-horror film, written and directed