Earl Bellamy

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Arthur Earl Bellamy (born March 11, 1917 in Minneapolis , Minnesota , † November 30, 2003 in Albuquerque , New Mexico ) was an American film and television director , film producer , writer and production designer , who participated in more than 1,600 film and television productions was involved.

Life

Arthur Earl Bellamy was also known by the names J. Earl Bellamy, Jr. or Earl J. Bellamy. In 1920, Bellamy came to Hollywood , California with his mother and father, Richard James Bellamy, a railroad engineer . After graduating from Hollywood High School in 1935, he graduated from Los Angeles City College and took a job as a messenger at Columbia Studios . He was promoted to second assistant director within four years. Then he went to the US Navy in a photographic unit for the period of World War II .

When Bellamy returned to Hollywood after the war, he became a well-respected director in the western genre. Although he made nearly two dozen feature films, he was best known for his work on The Lone Ranger (1949), Rin Tin Tin ( The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin , 1954), A Thousand Miles of Dust ( Rawhide , 1959), and The People of the Shiloh Ranch ( The Virginian , 1962).

In the 1950s, his forte was family films like Lassie , You Must Be Grown (Leave It to Beaver) and Mom Is the Best (The Donna Reed Show) . In the 1960s, he mostly devoted himself to sitcoms such as Mini-Max (Get Smart) , The Munsters and McHale's Navy . Medical dramas like M * A * S * H , Dr. med. Marcus Welby ( Marcus Welby, MD ) and Trapper John, MD , employed him in the 1970s. In the years 1966-1967 he was head of ABC 's The Monroes with Michael Anderson Jr. and Barbara Hershey , as orphans in a family of brothers and sisters in the wilderness of Wyoming live.

Prior to his retirement in 1986, Bellamy turned his attention to the science fiction miniseries V - The aliens come (V) and many of the episodes of Fantasy Iceland and Hart to Hart (Hart to Hart) .

After his retirement , Bellamy and his wife Gail moved to New Mexico. There he shot many of his films at various locations during his active time as a director .

Bellamy died suddenly, aged 86, on November 30, 2003 in Albuquerque , New Mexico . It is reported that he died of a myocardial infarction (heart attack).

Marriage and children

Earl Bellamy had three children, Michael, Earl Jr., and Katherine. His first wife died 9 years after Earl Jr. was born. His second wife, Katherine's mother, died of suicide. His third wife, Gail, survived him.

Awards

In 2002, Earl Bellamy received the prestigious Golden Boot Award from the Motion Picture and Television Fund .

Filmography (selection)

Feature films

Television films

  • 1955: Masquerade
  • 1960: O'Conner's Ocean
  • 1969: The Pigeon
  • 1969: The Gold of the Madonna (The Desperate Mission)
  • 1971: The Trackers
  • 1976: Stranded
  • 1976: The tide breaks out (Flood!)
  • 1977: Horizon in Flames (Fire!)
  • 1978: The Cold Hand of Fate (Desperate Women)
  • 1979: The Castaways on Gilligan's Island
  • 1980: Valentine Magic on Love Island

TV Shows

Assistant director

producer

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Biography on IMDb.com . Retrieved October 29, 2009