Open Channel D: The Man From UNCLE Affair

Gene Raymond  (August 13, 1908 – May 3, 1998) was an  American  film, television, and stage actor of the 1930s and 1940s. In addition to acting, Raymond was also a composer, writer, director, producer, and decorated military pilot.  Raymond was born Raymond Guion on August 13, 1908 in  New York City . He attended the  Professional Children's School  while appearing in productions like  Rip Van Winkle and  Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch . His Broadway debut, at age 17, was in  The Cradle Snatchers  which ran two years. (The cast included  Mary Boland ,  Edna May Oliver , and a young  Humphrey Bogart .)  His most notable films, mostly as a second lead actor, include  Red Dust  (1932) with  Jean Harlow  and  Clark Gable ,  Zoo in Budapest (1933) with  Loretta Young ,  Ex-Lady  (1933) with  Bette Davis ,  Flying Down to Rio  (1933) with  Dolor...

Photo: Amanda Demme 15 Things You Learn While Hanging Out With Armie Hammer By  Kyle Buchanan @kylebuchanan 11. But don’t get him wrong: He loved  The Man From U.N.C.L.E. , too.  Guy Ritchie’s 2015 spy movie is an  underrated gem  that bombed at the box office but has since built a cult following. Hammer starred as a Russian agent opposite Henry Cavill and Alicia Vikander, and he still counts the movie as one of his favorite filming experiences. “It was glorious,” he said. “White-tablecloth lunches and amazing meals all across Europe and hanging out with Guy Ritchie, who’s the coolest fucker in the entire world.” Still, Hammer felt like he had hit his limit when it came to making big studio films. “I was so happy and having a great time, but at the end of the day, I wanted to finish a project feeling like I had almost been transformed as a person. You only get that on movies where you have an exceptional amount of skin in the game and everybody i...

The Man From UNCLE Episode 19 The Secret Scepter Affair Writer: Anthony Spinner Director: Marc Daniels Guests: Gene Raymond (Colonel Morgan), Ziva Rodman (Zia), Lili Darvas (Madamme Karim) Filmed : 08-14 December 1964 Premiere : 08 February 1965 Places: Somewhere in the Sahara, Marseille (France) Acts titles: 1 - "Drop Zone: the Middle East" 2 - "A Boxful of Death" 3 - "The Bear-pit Polka" 4 - "The Scepter Secret" The affair: Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin parachute to a fortress somewhere in the Sahara and are picked up by soldier Zia. They are just training. The group meet Colonel Morgan, to whom Solo served during the Korean War. Morgan comes to save the country's elected new premier Karim. Solo and Illya warns that he will act on their own (as a favor to Morgan) using only anesthetic arrows. Morgan plan is to steal the golden scepter symbolizing power in the country, taking the power to Karim...

Reappraisal: ‘The Man From U.N.C.L.E.’ is stylish, fast-paced fun Max Michalsky For the Daily Tuesday, November 7, 2017 - 6:02pm In 2015, director Guy Ritchie (“King Arthur: Legend of the Sword”) released “The Man From U.N.C.L.E.,” a Cold War spy caper featuring Henry Cavill (“Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice”), Alicia Vikander (“Submergence”) and Armie Hammer (“Call Me By Your Name”) as a motley crew of international spies hunting for a missing warhead. The film seemed to be one nobody had asked for, adapted from a low-brow 1964 television series of the same name. What’s more, it opened just weeks after spy-movie blockbuster “Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation.” As a result, ticket sales were less than spectacular. With tepid critical reviews, the film came and went as little more than a blip on the 2015 summer movie radar. Today the film remains one of the most underrated spy films to come out of the last decade, featuring dazzling stylization, irresis...

Peter Abraham Haskell (October 15, 1934 – April 12, 2010) was an American actor who worked primarily in television. Haskell was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Rose Veronica (née Golden) and geophysicist Norman Haskell. He attended Browne & Nichols and later earned a Bachelor of Arts degree at Harvard University following a two-year stint in the United States Army where he rose to the rank of Private First Class. Haskell's plan to study at Columbia Law School was derailed when he was cast in the off-Broadway play The Love Nest, with James Earl Jones and Sally Kirkland. The play closed after only 13 performances but led to his being cast in an episode of Death Valley Days. Guest appearances on The Outer Limits, Dr. Kildare, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Ben Casey, The Fugitive, The F.B.I. The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Big Valley, Mannix, Medical Center, The Streets of San Francisco, Barnaby Jones, Vega$, B. J. and the Bear, Charlie's Angels, The A-...

Cleaning & pressing? Don't forget: Del Floria's Tailor Shop. Nobody does it better in all Manhattan. "Yes, we're open until six!" Much more about the  Man From UNCLE  in the  Open Channel D  book: Amazon.com -  http://goo.gl/OD1XKW Amazon Australia -  http://goo.gl/ODQYPY Amazon Brazil -  http://goo.gl/qYPYg6 Amazon Canada -  http://goo.gl/XrC6gc Amazon France-  http://goo.gl/IGxkLq Amazon Germany -  http://goo.gl/Wtz6WB Amazon India-  http://goo.gl/vtNMYo Amazon Italy -  http://goo.gl/gPOn6X Amazon Japan-  http://goo.gl/Cwqw1s Amazon Mexico -  http://goo.gl/xY6ANr Amazon Netherlands-  http://goo.gl/y1t4KO Amazon Spain -  http://goo.gl/ph9s0Z Amazon UK-  http://goo.gl/RDkUxB

  In episode 18, the mysterious Mr Hemingway (Richard Haydn) drives a toy plane to UNCLE HQ building. Napoleon Solo (Robert Vaughn) coordinates the defense and order agent Illya Kuryakin (David McCallum) to use the laser weapon installed in the building roof.  Illya sets up the laser command against the toy but... it fails. And they find out that the plane was just a warning from Mr Hemingway, in one of the most imaginative episodes in the whole series. Much more about the  Man From UNCLE  in the  Open Channel D  book: Amazon.com -  http://goo.gl/OD1XKW Amazon Australia -  http://goo.gl/ODQYPY Amazon Brazil -  http://goo.gl/qYPYg6 Amazon Canada -  http://goo.gl/XrC6gc Amazon France-  http://goo.gl/IGxkLq Amazon Germany -  http://goo.gl/Wtz6WB Amazon India-  http://goo.gl/vtNMYo Amazon Italy -  http://goo.gl/gPOn6X Amazon Japan-  http://goo.gl/Cwqw1s Amazon Mexico -...

George Richard Haydn (10 March 1905 – 25 April 1985), known as Richard Haydn, and born as George Richard Haydon, was an English comic actor in radio, films and television. Some of his better known performances include Ball of Fire (1941) as Professor Oddley, No Time for Love (1943) as Roger, And Then There Were None (1945) as Thomas Rogers, The Emperor Waltz (1948), Alice in Wonderland(1951) as the Caterpillar, as Baron Popoff in The Merry Widow (1952), as William Brown in Mutiny on the Bounty (1962), and The Sound of Music (1965) as Max Detweiler. Haydn was born on 10 March 1905 in London. After working as a music hall entertainer and overseer of a Jamaican banana plantation, he joined a touring British theatre troupe, and then moved into television and film. In the DVD commentary of Young Frankenstein, Mel Brooks said that Haydn eschewed the Hollywood lifestyle, and that he used gardening and horticulture as a means of escape. Following a heart attack, Haydn died on 25 ...