Brothers & Sisters, the ABC family drama series, ran for five seasons, totaling over 100 episodes.
The series focused on the wealthy Walker family and how they dealt with coping with patriarch William Walker’s sudden death and learning of his infidelity with Holly Harper.
The series also covered many other storylines, including running the family business -- Ojai Foods, Robert’s political career, and Kitty’s infertility and adoption process. Many of these showed how the family came together and supported one another.
The show aired on Sundays after Desperate Housewives during all five seasons so audiences could enjoy different kinds of drama.
What is the cast of Brothers & Sisters doing now? Find out below!
Sally Field as Nora Walker
Sally Field portrayed the family matriarch Nora Walker. She was one of only two characters to appear in every series episode.
Shortly after her husband died, Nora learned that...
The series focused on the wealthy Walker family and how they dealt with coping with patriarch William Walker’s sudden death and learning of his infidelity with Holly Harper.
The series also covered many other storylines, including running the family business -- Ojai Foods, Robert’s political career, and Kitty’s infertility and adoption process. Many of these showed how the family came together and supported one another.
The show aired on Sundays after Desperate Housewives during all five seasons so audiences could enjoy different kinds of drama.
What is the cast of Brothers & Sisters doing now? Find out below!
Sally Field as Nora Walker
Sally Field portrayed the family matriarch Nora Walker. She was one of only two characters to appear in every series episode.
Shortly after her husband died, Nora learned that...
- 10/7/2023
- by Laura Nowak
- TVfanatic
Joan Hotchkis, veteran stage and screen actor known for ABC’s “The Odd Couple” and “Legacy,” died Sept. 27 of congestive heart failure in Los Angeles, according to her daughter Paula Chambers. She was 95.
Hotchkis starred opposite William Windom in the NBC sitcom “My World and Welcome to It,” and played the on-again/off-again girlfriend of Jack Klugman’s Oscar Madison in “The Odd Couple.” As a playwright, she wrote 1974’s “Legacy,” a one-woman play about an upper-class housewife who deteriorates mentally. The following year, she wrote and starred in the film adaptation of “Legacy,” which won the best newcomer award at the Tehran International Film Festival.
Born on Sept. 21, 1927, in Los Angeles, Hotchkis was the last surviving child of civic leaders Preston Hotchkis and Katharine Bixby, who led the Metropolitan Water District and the California Historical Society.
After earning a B.A. in psychology from Smith College and an M.
Hotchkis starred opposite William Windom in the NBC sitcom “My World and Welcome to It,” and played the on-again/off-again girlfriend of Jack Klugman’s Oscar Madison in “The Odd Couple.” As a playwright, she wrote 1974’s “Legacy,” a one-woman play about an upper-class housewife who deteriorates mentally. The following year, she wrote and starred in the film adaptation of “Legacy,” which won the best newcomer award at the Tehran International Film Festival.
Born on Sept. 21, 1927, in Los Angeles, Hotchkis was the last surviving child of civic leaders Preston Hotchkis and Katharine Bixby, who led the Metropolitan Water District and the California Historical Society.
After earning a B.A. in psychology from Smith College and an M.
- 10/4/2022
- by Michaela Zee
- Variety Film + TV
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Joan Hotchkis, who appeared as Oscar Madison’s girlfriend on ABC’s The Odd Couple and in films including Breezy and Ode to Billie Joe before becoming a playwright, screenwriter and feminist performance artist, has died. She was 95.
Hotchkis died Sept. 27 of congestive heart failure in Los Angeles, her daughter, Paula Chambers, announced.
A member of The Actors Studio, Hotchkis played the wife of William Windom’s James Thurber-like cartoonist on the high-concept NBC comedy My World and Welcome to It in 1969-70 and the lascivious Lydia on the five-days-a-week syndicated sitcom The Life and Times of Eddie Roberts in 1980.
In 1974, Hotchkis wrote her first play, Legacy, about a day when an upper-class housewife suffers a mental and emotional breakdown. She starred in the one-woman drama, directed by noted Method acting teacher Eric Morris, at Actors Studio West in Los Angeles.
Hotchkis...
Joan Hotchkis, who appeared as Oscar Madison’s girlfriend on ABC’s The Odd Couple and in films including Breezy and Ode to Billie Joe before becoming a playwright, screenwriter and feminist performance artist, has died. She was 95.
Hotchkis died Sept. 27 of congestive heart failure in Los Angeles, her daughter, Paula Chambers, announced.
A member of The Actors Studio, Hotchkis played the wife of William Windom’s James Thurber-like cartoonist on the high-concept NBC comedy My World and Welcome to It in 1969-70 and the lascivious Lydia on the five-days-a-week syndicated sitcom The Life and Times of Eddie Roberts in 1980.
In 1974, Hotchkis wrote her first play, Legacy, about a day when an upper-class housewife suffers a mental and emotional breakdown. She starred in the one-woman drama, directed by noted Method acting teacher Eric Morris, at Actors Studio West in Los Angeles.
Hotchkis...
- 10/4/2022
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The 20 Tony-nominated actors below gave performances this Broadway season—soaring, stunning, often gut-wrenching performances—that linger in our minds. From “The Little Foxes” to “Oslo,” here are your 2017 nominees for actors in plays. Leading Actress In A Play Cate Blanchett, “The Present”It’s not every day one gets to witness film royalty onstage, dancing on a table and pouring vodka over her head. As an unhinged Russian widow on the eve of her 40th birthday in this adaptation of Chekhov’s “Platonov,” Blanchett never steps back from the ledge, making for a thrilling Broadway debut. Jennifer Ehle, “Oslo”The steely determination this two-time Tony winner emanates in J.T. Rogers’ depiction of the 1993 Oslo Accords is outmatched by her innate charm. As Norwegian emissary Mona Juul, who, with her husband, accomplished the impossible in bringing together Israel and the Palestinian Liberation Organization, Ehle proves that diplomacy is as complicated—and riveting—as brain surgery.
- 5/26/2017
- backstage.com
The actor, who is on Broadway in The Glass Menagerie, talks about being typecast and struggling to find roles while balancing life as a parent
Last fall, Sally Field turned 70. Her celebration of choice? A starring role in the most controversial play of the season. In the director Sam Gold’s production of Tennessee William’s The Glass Menagerie, Field plays Amanda Wingfield, a role she’s taken on before, though never quite like this. On a recent afternoon, Field, who progressed from teen sitcoms (Gidget, The Flying Nun) to serious films (Norma Rae, Places in the Heart) and recently to theater, sat in a backstage room to discuss her career.
Related: The Glass Menagerie review – Sally Field returns to Broadway in style
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Last fall, Sally Field turned 70. Her celebration of choice? A starring role in the most controversial play of the season. In the director Sam Gold’s production of Tennessee William’s The Glass Menagerie, Field plays Amanda Wingfield, a role she’s taken on before, though never quite like this. On a recent afternoon, Field, who progressed from teen sitcoms (Gidget, The Flying Nun) to serious films (Norma Rae, Places in the Heart) and recently to theater, sat in a backstage room to discuss her career.
Related: The Glass Menagerie review – Sally Field returns to Broadway in style
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- 4/4/2017
- by Alexis Soloski in New York
- The Guardian - Film News
Played Out: Dyer’s Sophomore Feature Overly Familiar and Underwhelming
Director Julia Dyer, again teaming with screenwriter sister Gretchen, mount their first project since their successfully received 1996 independent feature, Late Bloomers, with a 1970s sexual revolution period piece, The Playroom. While there are certain sensational and dramatic elements that may put one in mind of a cross between something like Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Flowers in the Attic, the feature, while it certainly avoids camp cliché, also avoids any type of practical engagement with its sordidly unhappy elements. While the adults in the Dyer sisters’ latest feature suffer the children, so do they suffer the patience of an audience desperately searching for a point of interest in the troupe presented to us here.
Opening with a group of four siblings in the Cantwell family, looked after by elder teen Maggie (Olivia Harris), the breaking newspaper headline on...
Director Julia Dyer, again teaming with screenwriter sister Gretchen, mount their first project since their successfully received 1996 independent feature, Late Bloomers, with a 1970s sexual revolution period piece, The Playroom. While there are certain sensational and dramatic elements that may put one in mind of a cross between something like Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Flowers in the Attic, the feature, while it certainly avoids camp cliché, also avoids any type of practical engagement with its sordidly unhappy elements. While the adults in the Dyer sisters’ latest feature suffer the children, so do they suffer the patience of an audience desperately searching for a point of interest in the troupe presented to us here.
Opening with a group of four siblings in the Cantwell family, looked after by elder teen Maggie (Olivia Harris), the breaking newspaper headline on...
- 2/8/2013
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
The ’70s-set family drama The Playroom, starring John Hawkes and the underrated Molly Parker premiered last spring at the Tribeca Fim Festival, but the first clip has newly arrived. Now we have the first theatrical trailer for the film which failed to get much traction.
Freestyle’s upcoming indie drama directed by Julia Dyer (Late Bloomers) is slated for a day and date release on theatrical and DVD/VOD February 8th, 2013. The film written by Julia’s sister Gretchen Dyer sees a family straining beneath a pleasant facade.
The film also stars Molly Parker, Cody Linley, Lydia MacKay, and Olivia Harris. It seems like one of Hawkes’ forgettable indies, but check it out for yourself and maybe you’ll feel differently.
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Here’s the official synopsis:
Set in the suburbs during the 1970s, the story unfolds like a dream wrapped around a family drama,...
Freestyle’s upcoming indie drama directed by Julia Dyer (Late Bloomers) is slated for a day and date release on theatrical and DVD/VOD February 8th, 2013. The film written by Julia’s sister Gretchen Dyer sees a family straining beneath a pleasant facade.
The film also stars Molly Parker, Cody Linley, Lydia MacKay, and Olivia Harris. It seems like one of Hawkes’ forgettable indies, but check it out for yourself and maybe you’ll feel differently.
Click here to view the embedded video.
Here’s the official synopsis:
Set in the suburbs during the 1970s, the story unfolds like a dream wrapped around a family drama,...
- 1/18/2013
- by Nick Martin
- Filmofilia
Today, Funimation announced the full English voice cast for Sacred Blacksmith, scheduled for a complete DVD series set release on January 25, 2011. Character: Cecily Cambell Luke Ainsworth Lisa Aria Charlotte E. Firobisher Doris Margot Penelope Evadne Siegfried Hannibal Quasar Hugo Housman Reginald Drummond Areviy Irving Augustus Arthur Justina Albright Lancelot Douglas Fio Atkins Lucy Cambell Patty Baldwin Francesca Jack Strader Elsa Elsa’s Father Actor: Cherami Leigh Blake Shepard Monica Rial Anastasia Munoz Alexis Tipton Maxey Whitehead Trina Nishimura Jamie Marchi Clarine Harp J. Michael Tatum Mark Stoddard Christopher Bevins Chris Cason Barry Yandell Kenny Green Cynthia Cranz Grant James Leah Clark Lydia Mackay Kara Edwards Colleen Clinkenbeard R Bruce Elliott Brina Palencia Cole Brown About Sacred Blacksmith The knight Cecily wants to defend the weak, but her lack of skill makes her an unlikely heroine – until the blacksmith Luke comes to her aid, using magic to forge blades of supernatural strength.
- 12/3/2010
- by Bags
- BuzzFocus.com
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