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Philip Rogers, a producer with credits including the 1960s ABC sitcom Love on a Rooftop and the 1988 action film Shoot to Kill, starring Sidney Poitier, has died. He was 90.

Rogers died Feb. 27 of leiomyosarcoma at his home in Las Vegas, his wife of 49 years, Stephanie Rogers, told The Hollywood Reporter.

As president of Century Park Pictures, Rogers served as an executive producer on Shoot to Kill, which was directed by Roger Spottiswoode and also starred Tom Berenger and Kirstie Alley.

Later, he headed the PhiliPiCo Pictures banner, where in 1996 and ’97 he developed and produced for Lifetime the telefilms The Haunting of Lisa, starring Cheryl Ladd, and The Hired Heart, starring Penelope Ann Miller.

After moving from Los Angeles to Las Vegas in 2000, he produced another telefilm, the 2001 straight-to-video thriller Blind Terror, starring Nastassja Kinski.

Born on July 26, 1934, in Oxnard, California, Rogers as a youngster was signed to an acting contract at 20th Century Fox.

Geoffrey Deuel, the actor best known for his role as Dave Campbell on the long-running soap opera ‘The Young and the Restless’ (Y&r) spoilers and his iconic portrayal of Billy the Kid alongside John Wayne in the 1970 Western film “Chisum,” passed away on December 22, 2024, at the age of 81.

Deuel, who had been battling chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, passed away peacefully in hospice care in Largo, Florida. His wife, Jacqueline Deuel, confirmed the news, sharing a heartfelt message on his Facebook page: “This is Jacqueline, Geoffrey’s wife. At midnight last night Geoffrey passed away and is with Peter,” referring to his late brother. “God took my ‘knight in shining armor’ gently.”

‘The Young and the Restless’ Alum Geoffrey Deuel (Dave Campbell) Passes Away at 81

Deuel’s career in Hollywood spanned decades, beginning with his television debut in 1966 on the military drama “12 O’Clock High.” He quickly gained recognition for his...

Geoffrey Deuel, a popular television and film actor of the 1960s and '70s, has passed away at 81. Perhaps most well known for his beloved portrayal of Billy the Kid opposite John Wayne in Chisum or his time on the long-running soap opera The Young and The Restless, Deuel was also the younger brother of another actor, Peter Duel, who died tragically from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in 1971.

The news was confirmed via The Hollywood Reporter, and also conveyed in a Facebook post on Deuel's account in a statement made by his wife, Jacqueline. "At midnight last night Geoffrey passed away and is with Peter," she wrote. "God took my 'knight in shining armor' gently." According to THR's reporting, Deuel died on Sunday, December 22, while in hospice care in Largo, Florida after enduring a battle with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Who Were Geoffrey Deuel and Peter Deul?

Born on January 17, 1943, in New York,...

Veteran actor Geoffrey Deuel, best known for playing Dave Campbell in the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless, has died. He was 81. According to an obituary on EverLoved.com, Geoffrey passed away on Sunday, December 22, 2024. His wife, Jacqueline Deuel, later confirmed the news to The Hollywood Reporter, revealing he died in hospice care in Largo, Florida, after a battle with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Born on January 17, 1943, Geoffrey was the younger brother of the late actor Peter Deuel, who was known for portraying Hannibal Heyes (aka Joshua Smith) on the popular ABC Western series Alias Smith and Jones. Geoffrey debuted on-screen in the military TV drama Twelve O’Clock High in 1966. He continued to appear on TV in small roles throughout the late 1960s, including spots on Occasional Wife, The Monkees, The Invaders, Bonanza, The Flying Nun, The F.B.I., Mod Squad, and Mannix. One of Geoffrey’s most memorable...

Geoffrey Deuel, the younger brother of tragic Alias Smith and Jones actor Peter Duel who portrayed the famed outlaw Billy the Kid in the John Wayne-starring Chisum, has died. He was 81.

Deuel died Sunday in hospice care in Largo, Florida, after a battle with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, his wife, Jacqueline Deuel, told The Hollywood Reporter.

The square-jawed Deuel appeared on many TV shows from the mid-1960s through the mid-’70s, showing up on The Monkees, The Invaders, The FBI, The Flying Nun, Medical Center, Mannix, Adam-12, The Mod Squad, Mission: Impossible, The Streets of San Francisco, Ironside, Cannon and The Young and the Restless, among others.

In his film debut, Deuel was “introduced” to moviegoers in the opening credits of Andrew V. McLaglen’s Chisum (1970), and a reviewer in The New York Times wrote that he “cut a personable swath” as a particularly vengeful Billy the Kid.

If you’ve been keeping up with Quentin Tarantino since 2019’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, you’ll know that few characters have ever piqued his interest the way Leonardo DiCaprio’s Rick Dalton has. Tarantino has teased a new book called “The Films of Rick Dalton,” and indeed, just last week, a mysterious new Wikipedia page went up that filled out Dalton’s filmography in an intriguing way. Now, via the official Twitter feed of the Video Archives Podcast, which he hosts with Roger and Gala Avary, he’s confirmed the “death” of Rick Dalton at the ripe old age of ninety. The podcast is also hyping a special commemorative episode dropping on Tuesday that will examine some of the best roles.

We are saddened by the news of the passing of actor Rick Dalton, best known for his roles in the hit TV series Bounty Law and The Fireman trilogy.

Aging like a fine wine (aka the opposite of too many whiskey sours), Quentin Tarantino’s latest film Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood continues to blossom like one of the director’s finest works over a year after release. Now, as the filmmaker looks towards wrapping up his career behind the camera with perhaps one final film, he has suggested he would get more into writing, and he’s now confirmed that desire by signing a two-film book deal.

Tarantino has inked the deal with HarperCollins and first up will be an expansion of Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood with a new novel. Said to offer “a fresh, playful and shocking departure from the film,” according to the publisher, it will arrive as a mass market paperback, akin to the director’s pulp paperback favorites, alongside e-book and digital audio editions, this coming summer. A deluxe hardcover edition...

Quentin Tarantino has signed a two book deal with Harper, the HarperCollins imprint. First up is Tarantino’s first work of fiction, Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, a novel to be published next summer that breathes new life into the characters and the premise of a film that got 10 Oscar nominations and won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for Brad Pitt. Tarantino has long been infatuated with the movie novelizations he read voraciously growing up, paperbacks that accompanied a film’s release. He has set in that tradition a book that teases out the characters played by Leonardo DiCaprio and Pitt. Appropriately, the throwback novel will start as a Harper Perennial mass market paperback, alongside e-book and digital audio editions. A deluxe hardcover edition will follow in the fall.

Tarantino’s second work with Harper will be a work of nonfiction, Cinema Speculation. Tarantino has often cited film critic...

Bernard Slade, the Oscar-nominated writer who created The Partridge Family and wrote the enduring romantic comedy Same Time, Next Year for Broadway and the big screen, died Wednesday. He was 89.

Slade died peacefully at his Beverly Hills home from complications of Lewy body dementia, a family rep announced.

In the 1960s and '70s, Slade also developed ABC's The Flying Nun and created NBC's The Girl With Something Extra, two comedies starring Sally Field; created ABC's Love on a Rooftop, featuring Judy Carne, Pete Duel and Rich Little, and CBS' Bridget Loves Bernie, starring David Birney and Meredith Baxter; and served ...

Bernard Slade, the Oscar-nominated writer who created The Partridge Family and wrote the enduring romantic comedy Same Time, Next Year for Broadway and the big screen, died Wednesday. He was 89.

Slade died peacefully at his Beverly Hills home from complications of Lewy body dementia, a family rep announced.

In the 1960s and '70s, Slade also developed ABC's The Flying Nun and created NBC's The Girl With Something Extra, two comedies starring Sally Field; created ABC's Love on a Rooftop, featuring Judy Carne, Pete Duel and Rich Little, and CBS' Bridget Loves Bernie, starring David Birney and Meredith Baxter; and served ...

In a video chat with Vanity Fair, Quentin Tarantino and Leonardo DiCaprio break down the character Rick Dalton from Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. In addition to revealing that Dalton was partially inspired by real-life Western actor Pete Duel (who died by suicide in 1971), the character is clinically bipolar. Check out the interview […]

The post Quentin Tarantino Says DiCaprio’s Character in Once Upon A Time In Hollywood is Bipolar appeared first on Dread Central.

Director Quentin Tarantino recently revealed a new detail about Leonardo DiCaprio’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood character, Rick Dalton. In a video interview with Vanity Fair, Tarantino and DiCaprio discussed the mental state of Rick Dalton saying that he is bipolar and that the real-life inspiration behind the character and that mental condition was actor Pete Duel.

Duel starred in a 1970s Western series called Alias Smith and Jones, and he ended up committing suicide in 1971. While researching the actor, Tarantino learned he had “a drinking problem due to self-medicating his apparent undiagnosed bipolar disorder.” This is an element that was added to the character Rick.

Knowing this adds a whole new layer to Rick, his issues, his attitude, his mood swings, and how he acts throughout the film. From my own personal experience, I thought that Rick might be bipolar, especially with that scene where he has...

By Fred Blosser

“Cannon for Cordoba,” a 1970 film produced by Vincent M. Fennelly for the Mirisch Corporation, written by Stephen Kandel, directed by Paul Wendkos, and distributed by United Artists, has been released by Kino Lorber Studio Classics in an attractive new Blu-ray edition. In the movie, U.S. Army Captain Rod Douglas (George Peppard) leads a three-man team across the Mexican Border in 1916. Douglas has been assigned to gather intelligence on a predatory rebel general, Cordoba (Raf Vallone), who has confiscated American-owned property in Mexico. Wealthy U.S. ranchers and politicians are demanding that the Army secure the border with troops (an outcry for a $70 billion wall would have to wait another hundred years). After Douglas’ team enters Mexico, one of the trio, Adam, is captured and tortured to death by Cordoba’s troops. Douglas and the third ranger, Jackson (Don Gordon), escape to warn Gen. Pershing (John Russell...

A middling entry in the genre of blow-it-up big action spectacles, Paul Wendkos’ Spain-filmed western gives us all the excitement promised by the poster, but with some cardboard characters and lumpy storytelling. George Peppard is on the job, however, and once again proves he can carry a big picture, flaws and all.

Cannon for Cordoba

Blu-ray

Kl Studio Classics

1970 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 104 min. / Street Date October 31, 2017 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95

Starring: George Peppard, Raf Vallone, Giovanna Ralli, Don Gordon, Pete Duel, Nico Minardos, John Russell, John Larch, Gabriele Tinti, Francine York, Lionel Murton, Hans Meyer, Aldo Sambrell, Luis Barboo.

Cinematography: Antonio Macasoli

Film Editor: Walter A. Hannemann

Special effects: Emilio Ruiz del Río

Original Music: Elmer Bernstein

Written by Stephen Kandel

Produced by Vincent M. Fennelly

Directed by Paul Wendkos

While providing backing for independent writer-producers like Billy Wilder, Walter Mirisch also shepherded various less ambitious war movies and westerns,...

By Lee Pfeiffer

MGM has released the 1970 Western Cannon For Cordoba as part of their burn-to-dvd line. This is yet another film that was written off as "run of the mill" at the time of its initial release but probably plays far better today when Westerns are scare commodities. The film is clearly designed to capitalize on movies such as The Professionals and The Wild Bunch, and while it certainly isn't in the league of those classics, it's a consistently engrossing and highly entertaining horse opera.  Set in 1916, when the Us was embroiled in assisting the Mexican government in suppressing "revolutionaries" who were really bandits, the plot centers on a crime kingpin named General Coroba (well played with charm and menace by Raf Vallone), who launches an audacious raid on American General Pershing's troops and succeeds in stealing a number of valuable cannons that will make him almost invulnerable...

The Movie Pool goes in with guns blazing to review Cannon for Cordoba on DVD for the first time!

This DVD is offered as part of MGM's "Limited Edition Collection," which is available from select online retailers and manufactured only when the DVD is ordered. The DVD features a simple menu with no menu for chapters or scenes. Manufacture-On-Demand (Mod) DVDs are made to play in DVD playback units only and may not play in DVD recorders or PC drives. This DVD did not play in our laptop DVD drive but did play in our Toshiba DVD recorder.

DVD Specs

Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1  

Running Time: 104 minutes

Rating: PG-13

Audio: Dolby Digital 2.0

Subtitles: None  

Special Features: Theatrical trailer  

The Set-up

During the Mexican Revolution of 1912, a U.S. Army captain (George Peppard) is sent on a mission to destroy stolen American cannons and capture a rebel leader (Raf Vallone).

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This week sees the release of several new movies and TV shows, some for the first time ever on Blu-ray. Of the ones coming out this week, we’re excited for a few of them in particular.

These esteemed examples of entertainment include A Nightmare on Elm Street, Pirate Radio, the debut of Voltron Beast King Golion, the thirteenth season of Dallas, the DVD release of the very funny Defendor and the 15th Anniversary Blu-ray of Apollo 13 (pictured above with Bill Paxton, Tom Hanks, Gary Sinise and Kevin Bacon).

Check them out:

Movies

A Nightmare on Elm Street ~ Heather Langenkamp, Johnny Depp, Robert Englund, John Saxon (Blu-ray)

Apollo 13 (15th Anniversary Edition) ~ Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton, Kevin Bacon, Gary Sinise (Blu-ray)

Creature of Darkness ~ Devon Sawa, Sanoe Lake, Matthew Lawrence (Blu-ray and DVD)

Defendor ~ Woody Harrelson, Kat Dennings, Sandra Oh, Elias Koteas (DVD)

Final Storm ~ Luke Perry, Lauren Holly...

Owen Wilson is reportedly heading back to the Wild West for a movie adaptation of cult TV series Alias Smith & Jones.

The Marley & Me star recently confirmed plans were afoot for the project, based on the hit 1970s show about a pair of outlaws.

Wilson says, "We're thinking about (doing) the Western Alias Smith and Jones.

The TV series featured Pete Duel as Hannibal Heyes (aka Joshua Smith) and Ben Murphy as Jed 'Kid' Curry (aka Thaddeus Jones) and ran for 50 episodes between 1971 and 1973.