7.4
The Battered Bastards of Baseball
2014
Bing Russell
Acting
Born May 5, 1926Died April 8, 2003Brattleboro, Vermont, USA
Biography
Neil Oliver "Bing" Russell (May 5, 1926 – April 8, 2003) was an American actor and Class A minor-league baseball club owner. He was the father of Hollywood actor Kurt Russell. Although best known as the deputy on Bonanza (1959) and Robert in The Magnificent Seven (1960), Russell's was also well known on a national level as the owner of the Portland Mavericks Baseball Club. Helming the only independent team in the class A Northwest League, Russell was an innovator. Before Bull Durham (1988), there were the Mavericks. Russell kept a 30 man roster because he believed that some of the players deserved to have one last season. His motto was simply one three lettered word - not WIN - although the Mavericks did just that - no, the word was FUN. He created a park that kept all corporate sponsorship outside the gates, hired the first female general manager in professional baseball, and the following year hired the first Asian American GM/Manager. That same season his team set a record for the highest attendance in Minor league history, and went on to win the pennant. Ex-major leaguers and never-weres who couldn't stop playing the game flocked to his June tryouts, which were always open to anyone that showed up. From as far away as Capetown, and France, players would head to Portland for a chance with Russell's Mavericks.
Movies
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6.2
Dick Tracy
1990
6.5
Tango & Cash
1989
5.7
Sunset
1988
6.9
Overboard
1987
6.9
Elvis
1979
7.1
The Loneliest Runner
1976
8.0
The New Daughters of Joshua Cabe
1976
6.6
The Apple Dumpling Gang
1975
5.6
Death Sentence
1974
4.0
The Sex Symbol
1974
6.5
A Cry in the Wilderness
1974
5.7
Runaway!
1973
5.5
Satan's School for Girls
1973
7.0
Set This Town on Fire
1973
6.3
Now You See Him, Now You Don't
1972
6.1
A Taste of Evil
1971
5.8
The Million Dollar Duck
1971
5.9
Yuma
1971
6.0
The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes
1969
5.4
Journey to Shiloh
1968
6.7
Blackbeard's Ghost
1968
4.9
The Ride to Hangman's Tree
1967
6.5
Madame X
1966
6.1
The Hallelujah Trail
1965
6.7
Cheyenne Autumn
1964
4.2
One Man's Way
1964
5.8
A Gathering of Eagles
1963
4.6
The Stripper
1963
7.0
How the West Was Won
1962
6.8
Flashing Spikes
1962
6.5
Stakeout!
1962
6.9
The Great Impostor
1960
7.5
The Magnificent Seven
1960
7.1
Last Train from Gun Hill
1959
6.9
The Horse Soldiers
1959
7.8
Rio Bravo
1959
6.4
Good Day for a Hanging
1959
6.2
Cattle Empire
1958
6.3
Suicide Battalion
1958
5.3
Ride a Violent Mile
1957
5.8
Bombers B-52
1957
5.6
The Land Unknown
1957
0.0
Without Incident
1957
7.0
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
1957
5.0
The Deadly Mantis
1957
5.6
Drango
1957
6.0
Teenage Thunder
1957
6.8
Attack
1956
6.0
Cult of the Cobra
1955
5.3
A Life at Stake
1955
7.3
Big Leaguer
1953
TV Shows
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4.0
Arthur Hailey's The Moneychangers
7.6
The Rockford Files
7.2
Petrocelli
7.1
The Streets of San Francisco
7.1
The Streets of San Francisco
8.0
Emergency!
7.0
Alias Smith and Jones
6.1
The Mod Squad
6.5
The Outcasts
6.9
Mannix
6.5
The Guns of Will Sonnett
6.5
The Guns of Will Sonnett
6.9
Hondo
5.3
Dundee and the Culhane
6.8
Ironside
6.8
Ironside
6.5
The Monkees
6.8
The Monroes
7.8
I Dream of Jeannie
6.2
The Big Valley
6.2
The Big Valley
6.2
The Big Valley
6.2
The Big Valley
6.2
The Big Valley
6.2
The Big Valley
6.2
The Big Valley
6.2
The Big Valley
6.2
The Big Valley
6.8
Branded
6.8
Branded
7.9
The Munsters
7.3
The Fugitive
7.3
The Fugitive
7.3
The Fugitive
7.3
The Fugitive
6.8
Stoney Burke
0.0
General Electric True
6.5
The Virginian
6.5
The Virginian
6.5
The Virginian
6.5
The Virginian
6.5
The Virginian
6.5
The Virginian
6.7
Sam Benedict
5.9
Ben Casey
6.7
Route 66
6.3
Surfside 6
6.7
Stagecoach West
7.6
The Andy Griffith Show
5.4
Tate
6.7
The Alaskans
8.5
The Twilight Zone
8.5
The Twilight Zone
5.9
Johnny Ringo
6.7
Laramie
6.7
Laramie
7.5
Bonanza
7.5
Bonanza
7.5
Bonanza
7.5
Bonanza
7.5
Bonanza
7.5
Bonanza
6.2
Black Saddle
6.2
Black Saddle
7.3
Rawhide
7.1
The Rifleman
6.0
The Texan
6.5
The Donna Reed Show
6.0
Bronco
6.0
Bronco
7.1
Wanted: Dead or Alive
7.1
Wanted: Dead or Alive
4.0
Harbor Command
7.0
Maverick
7.0
Maverick
7.0
Maverick
5.1
Sugarfoot
5.1
Sugarfoot
7.3
Have Gun, Will Travel
7.3
Have Gun, Will Travel
6.2
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
6.2
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
6.2
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
10.0
The Man Called X
5.2
Navy Log
6.7
Gunsmoke
6.7
Gunsmoke
6.7
Gunsmoke
6.7
Gunsmoke
6.7
Gunsmoke
6.7
Gunsmoke
6.8
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
6.8
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
6.3
Science Fiction Theatre
7.9
The Wonderful World of Disney
7.9
The Wonderful World of Disney
6.3
Lassie
6.2
Public Defender
6.6
Letter to Loretta
6.6
Letter to Loretta
6.6
Letter to Loretta
6.6
Letter to Loretta
6.0
You Are There
6.0
You Are There
7.2
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
5.7