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- Christopher George didn’t want to be Dan August. “Chris wanted to do (the sci-fi series) The Immortal instead,” his widow Lynda Day George remembered in the 2008 book Quinn Martin, Producer: A Behind-the-Scenes History of QM Productions and Its Founder.
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Christopher George didn’t want to be Dan August. “Chris wanted to do (the sci-fi series) The Immortal instead,” his widow Lynda Day George remembered in the 2008 book Quinn Martin, Producer: A Behind-the-Scenes History of QM Productions and Its Founder.
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Christopher George played Dan August, with Keenan Wynn as Sergeant Wilentz and Barry Sullivan as Chief Untermeyer. Ned Romero was the only actor in the film who reprised his role in the series. [2] Reception and legacy.
Jan 11, 1970 · Chief Frank Untermyer: [as August starts to leave the room] Where are you going? Lieutenant Dan August: I'm a detective. I'm going out to detect. [Leaves] Sergeant Charles Wilentz: A detective. That's what I want to be when I grow up. Chief Frank Untermyer: There's no money in it.
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- Robert Day
- 1970-01-11
That became the short-lived series Dan August (1970-71), which saw Burt Reynolds take over the role of August. Martin wanted Chris for the role, but he had already committed to The Immortal, but he quickly suggested Reynolds and, as it so happened, Chris had 16mm prints of Burt's previous series Hawk for the producer to review.
Art Direction George B. Chan Synopsis: Lt. Dan August is a homicide detective in his hometown of Santa Luisa, California. In this reediting of two episodes of Burt Reynolds' "Dan August" TV series, August and his partner Wilentz investigate the slayings of two winos who died after
During this time, he played Dan August in the television film House on Greenapple Road (1970), which evolved into the television series Dan August starring Burt Reynolds. In addition, he starred in an unsold series pilot, Escape with Avery Schreiber and Huntz Hall, which ABC released in 1971 as a television movie. In it, he portrayed Robin Hood ...
Martin wanted Christopher George to star in the series, but George had to decline, as he'd already committed to another series for that season, The Immortal (1969). Chris made a suggestion to the producer... hire Burt Reynolds !
