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The first of his appearances on "Gunsmoke" (1955), in the episode "Buffalo Man", climaxed with a brutal fistfight between his character, Ben Siple, and James Arness` Marshal Matt Dillon. This action scene, from its build-up to its dénouement, would become the common sequence upon which generations of budding editors would cut their teeth in film school. This sequence also features Jack Klugman, who would later co-star with Anderson in the classic "A Passage for Trumpet" episode of "The Twilight Zone" (1959). Shortly before his death, Anderson remarked that it was Klugman who informed him, many years after the filming of their "Gunsmoke" (1955) episode, that they had become legendary among film editors for their ubiquitous presence in student editing bays.
Dour, lantern-jawed character actor John Anderson attended the University of Iowa before inaugurating his performing career on a Mississippi showboat. After serving in the Coast Guard during World War II, Anderson made his Broadway bow, then first appeared on screen in 1952`s The Crimson Pirate. The actor proved indispensable to screenwriters trafficking in such stock characters as The Vengeful Gunslinger, The Inbred Hillbilly Patriarch, The Scripture-Spouting Zealot and The Rigid Authority Figure. Anderson`s many screen assignments included used-car huckster California Charlie in Psycho (1960), the implicitly incestuous Elder Hammond in Ride the High Country (1962), the title character in The Lincoln Conspiracy (1977) and Caiaphas in In Search of Historic Jesus (1980). A dead ringer for 1920s baseball commissioner Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, Anderson portrayed that uncompromising gentleman twice, in 1988`s Eight Men Out and the 1991 TV biopic Babe Ruth. A veteran of 500 TV appearances (including four guest stints on The Twilight Zone), John Anderson was seen as FDR in the 1978 miniseries Backstairs in the White House, and on a regular basis as Michael Spencer Hudson in the daytime drama Another World, Virgil Earp in The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (1955-61) and the leading man`s flinty father in MacGyver (1985-92). Bore a strong resemblance to President Abraham Lincoln and portrayed him three times. Biography Credit: www.imdb.com/name/nm0026930/bio |
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 But my point is that you design something in the end that precludes any unhealthy trading practices that are not going to serve your environmental or your economic objectives but now is not the time to do it. If we get it right, there need not be losers. I don`t know the taxpayer has perhaps much of an understanding of just how much wealth has been and is being and can be created that flows through the economy and just how many jobs depend upon it. We have to have a way of dealing with this that engenders confidence, trust, gives us every chance of getting the right outcome and boosts both sustainability and economic return at the same time. I don`t know that I can give a definitive answer to that, I can only say that if we create the right climate those who are producing those products will have the opportunity to move into a higher value product if changes are needed if we get this right. Look there are going to be, there are already adjustment processes in place but the point is that you`ll actually make them work and get satisfactory outcomes if there`s decent burden sharing along the way. If there`s, if you like a proper transitional assistance. They`ve got to tell us what is necessary to ensure the future health of the river system. It is one of the issues that will have to be worked through however let me make the point and I think anyone would accept that if you set it up properly, not only will you get better environmental outcomes, you have a chance to create more wealth with the available resource. Well if you were asking my personal opinion on that I think the answer can only be yes but it was missed. Much as I know I`m responsible for a lot of things, I can`t wear any responsibility for that. I can`t think of any more important issue. If we get this right, we`ll not only preserve our landscape for future generations we`ll be able to generate I think more investment and more job opportunities in the inland and we sure as hell need those jobs. Well they have an input into policy but in the end governments are elected to put together policy but the good thing about the Wentworth Group is that you know you`ve got 11 pretty capable people with a lot of good ideas. I`m not being evasive but I am saying I`m not a scientist and I`m not directly involved in the consultation however the science must be sound, it must be agreed and the consultation must be of a high quality or no one will have any confidence in the process. Yes, yes, no one denies, for example, that you`re going to be able to fix the Murray through the Living Murray process without money, no one denies that. People forget that a huge proportion of our jobs still depend on agricultural production in Australia so of course there are exports. That`s easily overlooked. No I haven`t and all I can say is that if it`s cost $600,000, I hope we get $600,000 worth of value out of it. We made certain that there were decent transitional arrangements to get us to where we wanted to go. The same principle will have to apply here or we won`t get there. | ||
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