If any television series past or present could be called a tribute to the Los Angeles Police Department, it would be Jack Webb’s Dragnet. Dragnet ran on television in the 1950s and then several years ...

Television is the enemy of the people. It broadcasts Fake News. It suppresses thought. We can’t let it dominate us. These media lessons originated with Jack Webb, one of the pioneers of television ...

Friday marks the opening of “Noir City: Chicago,” the weeklong festival of film noir presented by Music Box and the Film Noir Foundation. This is the ninth annual edition, which should give you some ...

Herb Ellis, an actor and director known for helping Jack Webb create the iconic TV series Dragnet, died Dec. 26 in San Gabriel, Calif. He was 97. Born Herbert Siegel in Cleveland, Ohio on Jan. 7, 1921 ...

Webb was born in 1920 in Santa Monica, California. Raised by a single mother, the future television producer and writer was asthmatic. His mother and grandmother relied greatly on public assistance ...

NUMBER OF FILMS DIRECTED: 5. NUMBER OF SERIES CREATED / PRODUCED: 14+. BIOGRAPHY: Jack Webb was one of the innovators in the field of television and film. The first producer to base a film on a ...

The LAPD worked closely with the television series, which some called a public relations machine for the department. Staff writer Don Page wrote in the March 10, 1967 Los Angeles Times: “Just getting ...

John Randolph 'Jack' Webb, also known by the pen name John Randolph, was an American actor, television producer, director, and screenwriter, who is most famous for his role as Sergeant Joe Friday in ...

This is the city — Los Angeles, California. But it ain’t no city of angels, Mister. That’s why police Detective Joe Friday, the nephew of his late namesake, carries a badge. Dan Aykroyd provides a ...

”Dragnet” (Dan Aykroyd, Tom Hanks; Tom Mankiewicz, dir. MCA, 1987; Technicolor; running time: 106 minutes. $89.95). ”Dragnet” (Jack Webb, Ben Alexander; Jack Webb, dir. MCA; 1954; Technicolor; running ...