(L-R) Actresses Tyne Daly and Sharon Gless from Cagney and Lacey.
Sharon Gless is a chracter actress of stage, film and television, who is best known
for her roles as Maggie Philbin on the CBS-TV series Switch,1975 to 1978 and as
Sgt. Christine Cagney in the CBS police drama series Cagney & Lacey, 1982 to
1988. At the beginning of her career, Gless appeared in many TV shows including NBC’s Emergency and Marcus Welby, M.D. on ABC.
1985
Following his breakthrough role on the TV series Rawhide (1959–65), Clint
Eastwood starred as the Man with No Name in Sergio Leone’s Dollars Trilogy
of spaghetti westerns in the 1960s. He also known for his portrayal of San
Francisco PD Inspector Harry Callahan in the Dirty Harry films during the 1970
and 1980s. Eastwood won Academy Awards for Best Director and Producer of
the Best Picture,for his work in the films Unforgiven (1992) and Million Dollar
Baby (2004). Since 1967 Eastwood has run his own production company,
Malpaso, which has produced the vast majority of his films. He also served as
the nonpartisan mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, from 1986 to 1988.
1966
Sudden Impact,1983
Gran Torino, 2008
Mel Blanc (born Melvin Jerome Blank) was born in San Francisco and grew up
in Portland, Oregon where he attended Lincoln High School. He changed is last
name to ‘Blanc’ at the age of 16. While still in his teens, Blanc started his career
as a voice actor on KGW radio in 1927 and produced and hosted his own show
on KEX radio beginning in 1933. Blanc moved to Southern California in 1935,
eventually working on CBS and NBC radio programs, including Jack Benny in
the late 1930s and later on Benny’s TV show. Blanc is best known for providing
voices for classic Warner Brothers cartoons beginning in 1936. Many of his
characters included Bugs Bunny, porky Pig, Daffy Duck, and Tweety Bird just
to name a few.
