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  Sigourney Weaver - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Susan Alexandra Weaver (born October 8, 1949 in New York, New York) is a 5 ft 11½ in tall American actress perhaps best known for her portrayal of Ripley in Alien (1979) and its sequels.
Weaver received a Best Actress nomination for her role as gorilla obsessed Dian Fossey in Gorillas in the Mist and a Best Supporting Actress nomination for her role as the bitchy trustfund baby Katharine Parker (who gets her comeuppance) in Working Girl, opposite Harrison Ford and Melanie Griffith.
She is the daughter of the late NBC television executive Pat Weaver, and his wife, Elizabeth.
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 Doodles Weaver - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Winstead Sheffield "Doodles" Weaver (May 11, 1911–January 17, 1983) was an American comedy actor.
Weaver also portrayed a character in the Jones troupe called "Professor Feitlebaum".
He was the brother of NBC-TV executive Sylvester "Pat" Weaver and the uncle of actress Susan Alexandra "Sigourney" Weaver.
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 Weaver Brothers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Weavers were targeted because of their history of singing protest songs and folk songs favoring labor unions as well as for the leftist political beliefs of the individuals in the group.
The Weavers were an easy target because of their fame and popularity on the radio and with the record-buying public.
She is the daughter of NBC television executive Pat Weaver and niece of comedian and actor Doodles Weaver.
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But Weaver had an alcohol problem that made him too reckless for even the Spike Jones show (this was live TV) and he was fired after going too far with a live commercial.
During the Seventies, Doodles made one of his last TV appearances on a 1974 episode of 'Little House on the Prairie' ("The Lord is My Shepherd").
Winstead "Doodles" Weaver shot and killed himself on January 12, 1983, the result of his long battle with pill addiction and severe alcoholism.
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 Adia's Place - Sigourney Weaver
The whole family seems to have close ties to showbusiness, the dad president of NBC TV, her mom an actress, and her uncle Winstead Sheffield Weaver (Doodles Weaver) was also an actor and member of the Spike Jones' Troup, and remembered from the Professor Feitlebaum character.
Later movies only showed, that she was an actress that mastered most genres; from a gutsy, tough lady as in the Alien Quatrologyand Gorillas in the Mist, through a sexy seductress in Ghostbusters, to a psychotic nervous wreck in Copycat.
Weaver was so moved by her experiences with the gorillas while filming that she became a supporter of the DFGF (Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund).
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 Pat Weaver: Television Advertising Visionary
Sylvester 'Pat' Weaver, the innovative visionary behind much of television's early success, was born in Southern California as the son of a wealthy businessman.
By 1920 and Weaver's emerging adolescence, there were at least four radio stations on the air on a regular basis and technology had made it possible for radio to move from a scientific experiment to a home entertainment device.
During his college years, his father took Weaver, his two sisters, and younger brother Winstead (who would someday be known as Doodles Weaver, the zany television comedian) on a trip to Europe.
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 Doodles - WikiFur   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Doodles (aka Steve Gattuso) is a furry goon whose fursona is an anthropomorphic rabbit.
Doodles is a rabbit breeder in his spare time and has seven different breeds of Fancy Lop.
This character was in turn meant to be a homage to the late Doodles Weaver, a member of Spike Jones's band, The City Slickers.
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 Sigourney Weaver pictures, photos, wallpapers, profile, and news
Sigourney Weaver was born as Susan Alexandra Weaver, on 8 October 1949, in New York City.
In 1983, Weaver delivered an honorary EMMY award to her father, a few months before her uncle, actor Doodles Weaver, committed suicide.
Sigourney Weaver will be on television screens next year with the story of her first journey back to the mountains of Rwanda, 18 years after making the movie Gorillas in the Mist.
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 Doodles Weaver -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The e-i order of the spelling is phonetically incorrect, as it would properly be pronounced "I", not "ee".
He was the brother of (Click link for more info and facts about NBC-TV) NBC-TV executive (Click link for more info and facts about Sylvester "Pat" Weaver) Sylvester "Pat" Weaver and the uncle of actress (Click link for more info and facts about Susan Alexandra "Sigourney" Weaver) Susan Alexandra "Sigourney" Weaver.
In the 1940's he was a prominent member of (Click link for more info and facts about Spike Jones) Spike Jones' band The City Slickers.
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 Carmilla's Sigourney Weaver Page - Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Most moviegoers will probably remember this striking, patrician leading lady for her characterization of Ripley, the besieged protagonist of the Alien movies, but she's shown herself to be capable of much more than blasting slimy monsters into atoms.
Her role as the tough astronaut in Ridley Scott's Alien (1979) made Weaver a recognizable screen player.
Having graduated to starring parts, Weaver appeared as a reporter in both Eyewitness (1981, opposite William Hurt) and The Year of Living Dangerously (1983, opposite Mel Gibson).
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 The 1966 Batman Site - Doodles Weaver
Doodles last appearance was on Little House on the Prairie in 1974.
His later life was sad in the fact that in January of 1983, Winstead "Doodles" Weaver was found in his Burbank California home dead from a self inflicted gunshot wound.
There was no suicide note but recent diary entries at the time indicated that Doodles had many health problems that caused him to take his own life, alcohol seemed to be a great factor in his downfall.
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 What A Character!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The brother of NBC-TV executive Sylvester "Pat" Weaver and the uncle of actress Sigourney Weaver, Doodles Weaver had his own long career that featured hundreds of bit parts.
Born Winstead Sheffield Weaver in Los Angeles, California, he attended Stanford University where he was well known for his numerous practical jokes and pranks.
Weaver was also known for a series of silent comedy shorts that he made for TV in the 1960s called Day with Doodles.
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 Sigourney Weaver
Her father, Pat Weaver, was a high-level executive at NBC, and served as the peacock network's president for several years in the 1950s.
Weaver appeared in several off-Broadway plays, and understudied for a supporting role in a Broadway production of W.
Weaver's uncle, Winstead Sheffield "Doodles" Weaver, was a well-known comic character actor for decades, and starred in The Doodles Weaver Show, a sitcom on his brother's NBC.
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 Sigourney Weaver
Birth Name Susan Alexandra Weaver -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Height 6' -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mini biography Sigourney Weaver was born as Susan Alexandra Weaver, on 8 October 1949, in Leroy Hospital of New York City.
In 1987 she was nominated for an Academy Award for her role in "Aliens".
Is the daughter of NBC executive Sylvester Weaver and actress Elizabeth Inglis.
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 Station Information - Doodles Weaver
Doodles Weaver (Winstead Sheffield Weaver) (born on May 11, 1911) is an American comedy actor.
Locomotive is on the rail!" -- featuring his horse character Feitlebaum.
In the 1940's he was a member of Spike Jones' hilarious band called The City Slickers.
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 Sigourney Weaver , Celebrity profile, bio, biography
Sigourney Weaver was born as Susan Alexandra Weaver, on 8 October 1949, in Leroy Hospital of New York City.
Sigourney Weaver's extreme height made her classmates constantly laughing at her and in order to gain their sympathy, she accepted the role of class clown.
Sigourney Weaver returned to movies as a now skinhead Ripley in _Alien3 (1992)_ and a gorgeous Queen Isabel in 1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992), her second work with director Ridley Scott, after the original famed Alien movie.
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 Weaver Alien   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Blayne Weaver (born 1976) is an American actor and writer and was born in Bossier City, Louisiana.
Weaver's first major film performance was in the independent film ''Where the Red Fern Grows (Part Two)''.
In 2001 he became the new voice of Disney's Peter Pan and has performed that voice in various children's films as well as in recordings for the Disney theme parks.
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 VH1.com : Movies : Person : Doodles Weaver : Biography
So valuable was Weaver to Jones' aggregation that Doodles was the only member of the group who was allowed to drink while on tour.
This indulgence, alas, proved to be Weaver's undoing; though he'd scaled the heights as a radio and TV star in the 1940s and 1950s, Doodles had lost most of his comic expertise by the 1960s thanks to his fondness for the bottle.
Doodles Weaver was the brother of TV executive Sylvester "Pat" Weaver, and the uncle of actress Sigourney Weaver.
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 ipedia.com: Sigourney Weaver Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Weaver as the victim in Polanski 's Death and the Maiden Sigourney Weaver is an American actress.
During the 1970s Weaver studied theater at Yale University, where she appeared in original plays by fr...
Sigourney Weaver (born 8 October 1949) is an American actress.
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 Doodles Weaver Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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 DVD.net : Road to Nashville - DVD Review
In this case they have cast ex-Spike Jones Band member, Winstead "Doodles" Weaver (uncle of Sigourney Weaver), as Colonel Beetlebomb, an inept movie producer’s assistant, who is charged with flying to Nashville to sign the big stars to a movie deal.
The film is 109 minutes of songs punctuated by this completely talentless and unfunny git talking to, watching and auditioning performers as they run through a number or two.
All the while, we are treated to the cross-eyed, torturous facial contortions and goofy antics of Weaver, who is so annoying that I have actually constructed a voodoo doll and taken great delight in ramming the pins into it.
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 Sigourney Weaver   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The daughter of former NBC president Sylvester "Pat" Weaver (who pioneered the "desk-and-couch" talk show format) and actress Elizabeth Inglis, Weaver graduated from Yale drama school one year before Meryl Streep and cut her teeth on the New York stage before making her film debut in the Israeli-produced feature MADMAN (1976).
Weaver went on to become one of Hollywood's biggest female stars of the 1980s.
Weaver has earned three Oscar nominations, two of them in 1989: for best supporting actress (as a model of WASP snobbery) opposite Melanie Griffith in WORKING GIRL; and for best actress, portraying Dian Fossey in GORILLAS IN THE MIST.
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 Sigourney Weaver Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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Her part in Ridley Scott's 1979 film Alien as the sole survivor, Lieutenant Ellen Ripley, ensured her role in the sequels Aliens, Alien
Weaver received a Best Actress nomination for her role as gorilla obsessed Dian Fossey in Gorillas in the Mist and a Best Supporting Actress nomination for her role as the bitchy trustfund baby Katharine Parker (who gets her comeuppance) in Working Girl, opposite Alec Baldwin and Melanie Griffith.
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 Sigourney Weaver Page
ElizabethInglis), she was named Susan Alexander Weaver, though her father wanted to call her Flavia, because of his intense interest in Roman history.
NBC TV, her mom an actress, and her uncle Winstead Sheffield Weaver (Doodles Weaver) was also an actor and member of the Spike Jones' Troup, and remembered from the Professor Feitlebaum character.
She completed an university education at Stanford and Yale Universities, before she started her career on the screen, where she had her breakthrough in Alien with the role as Lt.
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 Doodles Weaver - DVD; Poster; Fotos; - joynd.de/   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Es wurden leider keine Poster zu Doodles Weaver gefunden.
Es wurden leider keine Fotos zu Doodles Weaver gefunden.
Es wurden leider keine sonstigen Merchandise Artikel zu Doodles Weaver gefunden.
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 Honolulu Star-Bulletin Features
YOU may have seen the obituary of Sylvester "Pat" Weaver, the truly original TV programmer who envisioned and put on the air both the "Today" and "Tonight" shows for NBC.
He was the father of actress Sigourney Weaver, who spends a lot of time in Hawaii.
His version of the horse race announcer calling the winner of a race to be "Beidlebaum," was a classic.
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 Doodles Weaver, born in Los Angeles, California, comedian, Spike Jones and City Slickers May 11 in History
Doodles Weaver, born in Los Angeles, California, comedian, Spike Jones and City Slickers May 11 in History
Doodles Weaver, born in Los Angeles, California, comedian, Spike Jones and City Slickers
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 E! Online - E! On Air - Mysteries & Scandals - Doodles Weaver   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
For decades, Doodles Weaver turned the world of comedy on its ear with his far-out sense of humor.
But by the time he died on January 13, 1983, after four failed marriages and a battle with alcohol, the man of a thousand laughs could barely crack a smile.
Now, E! explores the troubled life of jokester Doodles Weaver.
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 Broadmining: SigourneyWeaver   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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 Amazon.ca: DVD: Road to Nashville   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The story, such as it is, finds comic actor Doodles Weaver reprising his popular character, Colonel Beedlebaum, as a bumbling movie producer sent to Nashville in search of talent for a film.
The flimsy plot involves the savagely unfunny Doodles Weaver as a bumbling idiot sent (inexplicably) by his grouchy Hollywood boss to organize a country music extravaganza; not only does Weaver appear in the between-song interludes, he also is frequently cut into the the performances themselves, doing unfunny things and staring in a vacant, unfunny way.
If there is a nice instrumental break, the director splices video in of Doodles Weaver clowning.
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