Personal Info
Birth date
1934-12-29 (90 Years)
Day of death
1995-02-22
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Also known as
Edward Paul Flanders
Ed Flanders
Biography
Edward Paul Flanders was an American actor. He is best known for playing Dr. Donald Westphall in the medical drama series St. Elsewhere. Flanders was nominated for eight Primetime Emmys and won three times in 1976, 1977, and 1983.
Filmography
M*A*S*H
7.9
Overview:
The 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital is stuck in the middle of the Korean war. With little help from the circumstances they find themselves in, they are forced to make their own fun. Fond of practical jokes and revenge, the doctors, nurses, administrators, and soldiers often find ways of making wartime life bearable.Mission: Impossible
7.607
Overview:
Mission: Impossible is an American television series that was created and initially produced by Bruce Geller. It chronicles the missions of a team of secret government agents known as the Impossible Missions Force. In the first season, the team is led by Dan Briggs, played by Steven Hill; Jim Phelps, played by Peter Graves, takes charge for the remaining seasons. A hallmark of the series shows Briggs or Phelps receiving his instructions on a recording that then self-destructs, followed by the theme music composed by Lalo Schifrin. The series aired on the CBS network from September 1966 to March 1973, then returned to television for two seasons on ABC, from 1988 to 1990, retaining only Graves in the cast. It later inspired a popular series of theatrical motion pictures starring Tom Cruise, beginning in 1996.Tony Awards
5.917
Overview:
The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway productions and performances, and an award is given for regional theatre.Hawaii Five-O
7.122
Overview:
Hawaii Five-O is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and Leonard Freeman. Set in Hawaii, the show originally aired for 12 seasons from 1968 to 1980, and continues in reruns. Jack Lord portrayed Detective Lieutenant Steve McGarrett, the head of a special state police task force which was based on an actual unit that existed under martial law in the 1940s. The theme music composed by Morton Stevens became especially popular. Many episodes would end with McGarrett instructing his subordinate to "Book 'em, Danno!", sometimes specifying a charge such as "murder one".St. Elsewhere
5.567
Overview:
St. Elsewhere is an American medical drama television series that originally ran on NBC from October 26, 1982 to May 25, 1988. The series starred Ed Flanders, Norman Lloyd and William Daniels as teaching doctors at a lightly-regarded Boston hospital who gave interns a promising future in making critical medical and life decisions.Mannix
6.686
Overview:
Mannix is an American television detective series that ran from 1967 through 1975 on CBS. Created by Richard Levinson and William Link and developed by executive producer Bruce Geller, the title character, Joe Mannix, is a private investigator. He is played by Mike Connors. Mannix was the last series produced by Desilu Productions.Daniel Boone
6.867
Overview:
Daniel Boone is an American action-adventure television series starring Fess Parker as Daniel Boone that aired from September 24, 1964 to September 10, 1970 on NBC for 165 episodes, and was made by 20th Century Fox Television. Ed Ames co-starred as Mingo, Boone's Cherokee friend, for the first four seasons of the series. Albert Salmi portrayed Boone's companion Yadkin in season one only. Dallas McKennon portrayed innkeeper Cincinnatus. Country Western singer-actor Jimmy Dean was a featured actor as Josh Clements during the 1968–1970 seasons. Actor and former NFL football player Rosey Grier made regular appearances as Gabe Cooper in the 1969 to 1970 season. The show was broadcast "in living color" beginning in fall 1965, the second season, and was shot entirely in California and Kanab, Utah.The Name of the Game
6.8
Overview:
The Name of the Game is an American television series starring Tony Franciosa, Gene Barry, and Robert Stack that ran from 1968 to 1971 on NBC, totaling 76 episodes of 90 minutes. It was a pioneering wheel series, setting the stage for The Bold Ones and the NBC Mystery Movie in the 1970s. The show had an extremely large budget for a television series.Cimarron Strip
5
Overview:
Cimarron Strip is an American Western television series that aired on CBS from September 1967 to March 1968. Starring Stuart Whitman as Marshal Jim Crown, the series was produced by the creators of Gunsmoke. Reruns of the original show were aired in the summer of 1971. Cimarron Strip was one of only three 90-minute weekly Western series that aired during the 1960s, and the only 90-minute series of any kind to be centered primarily around one lead character. Cimarron Strip was set in the Oklahoma Panhandle, which comprises, east to west, Beaver, Texas, and Cimarron counties in Oklahoma. The show is set in 1888, just as the continuous frontier of the West, which once ran from the Canadian to the Mexican border, was closing. In less than five years there would no longer be that "continuous frontier," only pockets of undeveloped land. This was the late "Wild West" that Marshall Jim Crown was called to defend.Barnaby Jones
6.9
Overview:
Barnaby Jones is a television detective series starring Buddy Ebsen and Lee Meriwether as father- and daughter-in-law who run a private detective firm in Los Angeles. The show ran on CBS from January 28, 1973 to April 3, 1980, beginning as a midseason replacement. William Conrad guest starred as Frank Cannon of Cannon on the first episode of Barnaby Jones, "Requiem for a Son" and the two series had a two-part crossover episode in 1975, "The Deadly Conspiracy".McMillan & Wife
6.9
Overview:
McMillan & Wife is a lighthearted American police procedural that aired on NBC from September 17, 1971 to April 24, 1977. Starring Rock Hudson and Susan Saint James in the title roles, the series premiered in 90-minute episodes as part of the wheel series NBC Mystery Movie, in rotation with Columbo and McCloud. Initially airing on Wednesday night, the original line-up was shifted to Sundays in the second season, where it aired for the rest of its run. This was the first element to be created specially for the Mystery Movie strand.Salem's Lot
6.813
Overview:
Ben Mears has returned to his hometown to write a book about the supposedly haunted Marsten House. When people around the Marsten House start dying mysteriously, Mears discovers that the owner of the mansion is actually a vampire who is turning them into an army of undead slaves.Nichols
5
Overview:
Nichols is an American Western television series starring James Garner broadcast in the United States on NBC during the 1971-72 season. Set the fictional town of Nichols, Arizona, in 1914, Nichols differed from traditional Western series of the era. The main character, a sheriff, rode on a motorcycle and in an automobile rather than on the traditional horse. The hero did not carry a firearm and was generally opposed to the use of violence to solve problems, preferring other means. Margot Kidder portrayed Ruth, the love interest/barmaid of Nichols.The Exorcist III
6.3
Overview:
On the fifteenth anniversary of the exorcism that claimed Father Damien Karras' life, Police Lieutenant Kinderman's world is once again shattered when a boy is found decapitated and savagely crucified.Hallmark Hall of Fame
8.571
Overview:
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.Jack's Place
8
Overview:
Jack Evans is a retired jazz musician who runs a restaurant where romances tend to start.Blind Ambition
5
Overview:
The Watergate crisis as viewed by John Dean and his wife Maureen, based on their personal accounts -- his best-seller, her book on how it affected their marriage -- and distilled into an eight-hour drama with all of the political figures of the day parading by as Dean relates his story to his attorney when his world, based on blind ambition, begins crashing down on him.The Road Home
NYR
Overview:
The Road Home is an American TV series that aired on CBS from March 5, 1994, to April 16, 1994. The series starred Karen Allen, Ed Flanders, Terence Knox, Jessica Bowman and Christopher Masterson. 5 episodes were produced.Backstairs at the White House
5.9
Overview:
Behind the scenes at the White House during eight administrations, as told by the people who work there.The Ninth Configuration
6.428
Overview:
Army psychiatrist Colonel Kane is posted to a secluded gothic castle housing a military asylum. With a reserved calm, he indulges the inmates' delusions, allowing them free rein to express their fantasies.Bye Bye Love
5.9
Overview:
With varying degrees of success, recently divorced friends Dave, Vic and Donny are trying to move on with their lives. Vic feels vilified by his ex-wife's parents, while Donny has a shaky bond with his teen daughter, Emma. Dave, meanwhile, has an enviable problem -- he has more dates than he can handle. As they confront their post-marital challenges, the men take solace in one another's plights.True Confessions
6.1
Overview:
A cop clashes with his priest brother while investigating the brutal murder of a young prostitute.MacArthur
6.235
Overview:
The film portrays MacArthur's life from 1942, before the Battle of Bataan, to 1952, the time after he had been removed from his Korean War command by President Truman for insubordination, and is recounted in flashback as he visits West Point.Lincoln
8
Overview:
Sandburg's Lincoln is a six-part mini-series starring Hal Holbrook as Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth President of the United States.Special Bulletin
6.98
Overview:
An evening of TV programming is interrupted by breaking news: in Charleston, South Carolina, two Coast Guard personnel and two members of a local news team have been taken hostage by a group of terrorists who are seeking to destroy the triggers of all local nuclear devices. Moreover, the terrorists threaten to detonate their own device if their demands are not met.The Perfect Tribute
6
Overview:
A boy risks life and limb to travel across the war-torn southern states of America during the height of hostilities in the Civil War, hoping to visit his wounded brother in a field hospital on the other side of the country. His accidental meeting with Abraham Lincoln helps the disheartened president understand just how important the Gettysburg Address really is.The Final Days
6.8
Overview:
The Final Days concerns itself with the final months of the Richard Nixon presidency.Acting
1995Bye Bye Love as Walter Sims
1994The Road Home (6 Episodes) as Walter Babineaux
1993Message from Nam as Ed Wilson
1992Citizen Cohn as Joseph N. Welch
1992Jack's Place (1 Episode) as Unknown
1991The Perfect Tribute as Warren
1990The Exorcist III as Father Joseph Kevin Dyer
1989The Final Days as Leonard Garment
1983Special Bulletin as John Woodley
1982St. Elsewhere (115 Episodes) as Donald Westphall
1982Tomorrow's Child as Anders Stenslund
1981Skokie as Mayor Albert J. Smith
1981The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper as Brigadier
1981True Confessions as Dan T. Campion
1981Inchon as President Harry S. Truman (voice)
1980The Ninth Configuration as Col. Richard Fell
1979Salem's Lot (2 Episodes) as Dr. Bill Norton
1979Blind Ambition (4 Episodes) as Charles Shaffer
1979Backstairs at the White House (4 Episodes) as Pres. Calvin Coolidge
1977MacArthur as President Harry S. Truman
1977The Amazing Howard Hughes as Noah Dietrich
1977Mary White as William Allen White
1976Harry S. Truman: Plain Speaking as Harry S. Truman
1976Eleanor and Franklin (2 Episodes) as Louis Howe
1975A Moon for the Misbegotten as Phil Hogan
1975Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan as Ralph Paine
1975The Legend of Lizzie Borden as Hosea Knowlton
1974Things in Their Season as Carl Gerlach
1974Lincoln (6 Episodes) as General George C. McClellan
1974Indict and Convict as Timothy Fitzgerald
1973Barnaby Jones (1 Episode) as 'Doc' Fred Tucker
1973Hunter as Dr. Miles
1972The Female Instinct as Milo Perkins
1972Kung Fu (1 Episode) as Alonzo Davis
1972M*A*S*H (1 Episode) as Lt. Bricker
1972Banyon (1 Episode) as Unknown
1972The Trial of the Catonsville Nine as Father Daniel Berrigan
1971Goodbye, Raggedy Ann as David Bevin
1971McMillan & Wife (1 Episode) as Unknown
1971Nichols (1 Episode) as Harlan B. Flanders
1971Travis Logan, D.A. as Psychiatrist
1970The Grasshopper as Jack Benton
1968Hawaii Five-O (1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1 Episode) as Professor David Stone, Dr. Alexander Kline, Dmitri Rostov, Byers, Joe Connors, Bernie Ross
1968The Name of the Game (1 Episode) as Lazlo Subich
1967Mannix (1 Episode) as Unknown
1967Cimarron Strip (1 Episode) as Unknown
1966Mission: Impossible (1 Episode) as Unknown
1964Daniel Boone (1 Episode) as Col. Richard Lackland
1956Tony Awards (1 Episode) as Self - Winner
1951Hallmark Hall of Fame (1 Episode) as Harry S. Truman