Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 17, 1963, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press saturday August 17, 1963 Glenn Corbett is Milner co Pilot in sporty racing car on route 66 Glenn Corbett Martin Mil Ler s new partner in screen gems route 66 series moves into the co Pilot s seat the racy sport scar that has Cov ered thousands Miles and carried its passengers into a variety of adventures. He plays line Case a for Mer . Army Ranger and a Veteran of the fighting in Vietnam. Now cot Bett. Who spent he Early part of television season pumping gasoline on it s a Man s will spend the rest of the year burning it on route 66. Corbett was bom in Al Monte Calif. He grew up and went to school in Ojai a sleepy artists Colony North of los Angeles then joined the Seabeck for three years. After his service hitch he continued ins Edu cation at Ventura College and Glendale City College. At Occidental College near los Angeles where he went to compete his schooling Cor Bett had his first serious Brush with dramatics. Friends in his College s drama depart ment asked him to replace a last minute dropout in you never can by George Bernard Shaw. Corbett did it. He enjoyed it to the extent that he plunged into acting with enthusiasm. His High Point in College dramatics came. When he played the. Navy lawyer Greenwald in a production of the Caine Mutiny court b e f e the production Corbett mapped out a strategy that would have done credit to Napoleon he arranged for some Talent agents to be in the audience r that night. They liked what Ley saw and one of them greed to represent Corbett. This was followed by a Reading at Columbia pictures or the film Crimson i in which Corbett won part. He moved on to a co Star ing role i with Ernest Borg nine in Man on a Hen Mountain Road with Lames Stewart. All the Young men and Homicki then in 1961, he Mads a test for the role of Wes Macauley in the television series it s a Man s on this series Corbett caught the Eye of Many critics and producers among them Herbert b. Leonard producer of route 66. He had a drive and sensitivity that Leonard liked and when the role of Linic came into being on toe lbs television network series the producer went after Corbett. Corbett is married to the former Judy Daniels a fellow student at Ventura College. They have two children Jason born oct. 8, 1959, and Jocelyn born sept. 26, 1960. California s Glenn Corbett loins Milner on route 66 hourglass debuts sept. 15 the hourglass has been chosen As the title for the ctr television network s series of British produced hour Long programs which will appear this fall beginning sept. 15. The series will be carried by All ctr stations. The hourglass presents a wide variety of top Quality entertainment. It will bring Back to the ctr network the wily Sleuth Maigret in 13 Brand new episodes. It will show 20 new Man of the world pro Grams starring Craig Stevens who scored so successfully with his portrayals of Peter Gunn. And it will include 12 bbl major television productions. The new Maigret series is the last the bbl plans to pro Duce. Each episode of Maigret is an adaptation from the books of Georges Simenon and when the projected ser ies is completed no Simenon Book will remain a televised. The Man of the world pro Grams show Stevens As Mike Strait a sophisticated roving photographer who finds intriguing adventure in dramatic and foreign locales. These localities were used in. Filming adding much to the pictorial interest of the series. Special productions in the hourglass will include such outstanding programs As the red army chorus in London s i Royal Albert Hall the life Story of composer Edward Elgar and a 400-voice Welsh i choir singing Handel s Mes Siah in Llandaff Cathedral Wales. In a new programming plan one from each group in the series will be shown in three week cycles. Toby Robins Canadian actress will be seen thursday aug. 21, at p.m., in a guest appearance on Csc to s the defenders in which a seance held at a week end Beach party leads to Mur Der. Csc announces new appointment ,1. D. Nixon director of net work programming has announced the appointment of John Reeves Haggan As Gen eral supervisor of Public affairs for the Canadian Broad casting corporation. Or. Haggan 41-year-old native of Belfast Ireland succeeds Bernard Trotter who recently was named executive assistant to the principal of Queen s University. Or. Haggan received his education in Belfast and in Lon Don England and came to Canada in 1950. Prior to join ing the Csc in Toronto in 1958 As a program organizer with Public affairs he was employed with the Imperial to Bacco company in Montreal. On March 2, 1961, he was named Ottawa area supervisor of Public affairs a position he has held until his present appointment which becomes effective sept. 1 ;