Dana

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Dana
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Portrays:	Sesha Abinell
Date of Birth:	March 13,1956
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Age:	70
Nationality:	USA
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Dana Welles Delany is an American film, stage, and television actress. Most people know her as the voice of Lois Lane in the cartoons Superman, Batman, and Justice League. She played terrorist Sesha Abinell in the Battlestar Galactica episode Sacrifice. She has had a colorful career spanning three decades.

Delany was born on March 13, 1956 in New York, New York, and raised in Stamford, Connecticut. After graduating from Wesleyan University, she moved to New York to get into television and theater. Her first pivotal role was for the TV series, China Beach (1988-1991), for which she earned 3 Emmy nominations and 2 Emmy awards. She later starred in feature films.

External links

• Dana Delany Official Website

• Dana Delany article at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

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Portrays:	John Steadman
Date of Birth:	October 10,1927
Date of Death:	June 6, 2005
Age at Death:	77
Nationality:	USA
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Dana Elcar (born Ibson Dana Elcar; October 10, 1927 – June 6, 2005) was an American actor who portrayed John Steadman, a water-hoarding rancher, in the Galactica 1980 episode "Space Croppers". Over a career spanning five decades, he accumulated more than 150 television and film credits. He is best known for playing Pete Thornton, director of operations at the Phoenix Foundation, in the ABC adventure series MacGyver (1985–1992).

Career

Stage

The son of Danish immigrants, Elcar was born in Ferndale, Michigan. At the University of Michigan, where he played linebacker on the football team, he founded the Ann Arbor Theater. He joined the U.S. Navy in 1948 and in the early 1950s moved to New York City, driving a taxi while studying drama with Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse.

His early New York stage career included the original American productions of Harold Pinter's The Dumb Waiter and The Caretaker, Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood, and Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot. He also appeared in Richard III opposite George C. Scott and in several Phoenix Theatre Company productions, including Androcles and the Lion.

Elcar made his Broadway debut in 1955 in Roald Dahl's The Honeys, opposite Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy. His subsequent Broadway credits included Good as Gold (1957), Semi-Detached (1960), and A Murderer Among Us (1964). In 1964 he served as understudy to Alec Guinness in Dylan and to Jason Robards in Eugene O'Neill's Hughie.

After moving to Los Angeles in 1968, Elcar co-founded the L.A. Actors' Theater in the mid-1970s. In 1985, with fellow actor William Lucking, he co-founded the Santa Paula Theater Center in Santa Paula, California, serving as its artistic director for six years. He also directed episodes of Baa Baa Black Sheep, The Rockford Files, and MacGyver.

Television

Elcar made his television debut in 1954 in the daytime drama "A Time to Live". From 1966 to 1967, he played Sheriff George Patterson on the ABC gothic soap opera Dark Shadows. His 1970s television work included recurring roles in Baretta (as Inspector Shiller) and Baa Baa Black Sheep (as Colonel Thomas A. Lard), as well as guest appearances on Gunsmoke, Hawaii Five-O, Mannix, Kung Fu, and Falcon Crest.

In 1980, Elcar guest starred as John Steadman in the Galactica 1980 episode "Space Croppers", which aired on April 27, 1980.

From 1985 to 1992, Elcar co-starred in all seven seasons of MacGyver as Pete Thornton, Richard Dean Anderson's boss and closest friend. After four seasons, he told producers he was losing his sight to glaucoma; rather than recasting the role, they wrote the condition into Pete Thornton's storyline. Anderson later recalled of the experience:

At a time when I had very little business being called an actor, he made things so easy for me. It was a learning experience that was very warm and loving for all seven years.

After MacGyver ended in 1992, Elcar continued acting despite having lost his sight entirely, subsequently playing blind characters in episodes of Law & Order and ER. His final screen credit was a 2002 episode of ER.

Film

Elcar's film debut came in Sidney Lumet's Fail-Safe (1964). He went on to appear in more than 40 films, among them The Learning Tree (1969), The Sting (1973) as FBI Agent Polk, 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984) as Soviet scientist Dimitri Moisevitch, and All of Me (1984).

Personal life

Elcar settled in Santa Paula, California in the mid-1980s. He died on June 6, 2005, at Community Memorial Hospital in Ventura, California, of complications from pneumonia, aged 77. He was survived by his companion, Thelma M. Garcia, three daughters, and a son.

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Dana Anderson

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Mr. Brooks is a station manager for United Broadcasting Company Television studios. Mr. Brooks offers Jamie Hamilton a shot at a job, but only if she can secure an interview with Dr. Donald Mortinson ^{(1980: "Galactica Discovers Earth, Part I")}. She secures the interview and lands the job ^{(1980: "Galactica Discovers Earth, Part II")}.

Mr. Brooks begins to grow weary of Hamilton's tendency to stray from her assignments, assigning a cameraman, Hal Fredricks, to her in an attempt to keep her on track. She is sent to cover a baseball camp run by former baseball superstar Billy Eheres ^{(1980: "Spaceball")}.

Novelization depiction

In the novelization by Michael Resnick, this character is named Dana Anderson, who is the West Coast News Director of United Broadcasting Corporation and an award winning journalist who has interviewed various governors, presidents, and other people of importance. Anderson is described as a tall, graying man, who happens to be an atheist, and offers Jamie Hamilton a three-year contract if she successfully gets an interview with Dr. Alfred Mortinson.

Anderson later snags an interview with Mortinson after his first meeting with "terrorists" Troy and Dillon, and, after Hamilton's return from 1944 C.E., believes she is sympathetic to the so-called terrorists. After being contacted at the office by Dillon to warn her about Xaviar, she informs him that Anderson has put a trace on their call, much to Anderson's irritation. After this, Hamilton terminates her employment with Anderson.

Notes

• After "Spaceball," Brooks neither appears in the rest of the series episodes nor is he a character in any of the unproduced scripts from the series.

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