Esther Williams

Esther Williams retired from acting in the early 1960s. Other credits include:. Her brother, Stanton Williams, also had a brief acting career during the 1920s before his death while still a teenager. The song, Scott Bakula, can be heard here (http://sunspot.lunarpages.com/mp3/sunspot_scott_bakula.mp3). Her third husband was actor Fernando Lamas. A 'ModernRockPowerPopPunkTrio' from Madison, Wisconsin named Sunspot has written and recorded a song about the actor; sample lyrics include "...played quarterback-ula in Necessary Roughness", "I even watched 'Lord Of Illusions', even though I thought the movie kinda sucked", and the archetypical "Ziggy says there's a 98%... chance that the ending's sad". She was romantically linked with Jeff Chandler, and has been married four times. As Captain Jonathan Archer in Star Trek: Enterprise, Bakula is the captain of Starfleet's first long-range interstellar ship, a ship of exploration converted into a warship in order to defend Earth's interests.

Her love life was a source of media interest. He also played a gay neighbor to Kevin Spacey in the Oscar-winning American Beauty in 1999. In her autobiography, Williams details several other occasions in which she nearly drowned shooting her oxygen-defying stunts. Low ratings for this program caused its cancellation in 1993. Her many hours spent submerged resulted in her rupturing her eardrums numerous times. His performance in this program would earn him a Golden Globe award (along with three nominations) and four Emmy nominations for best actor. She broke her neck filming a 50-foot dive off a tower during a climactic musical number for the 1952 release Million Dollar Mermaid which landed her in a body cast for six months (she subsequently recovered though she still suffers headaches as a result of the accident). Sam Beckett who was trapped by a malfunction of his time machine that inserts his consciousness into people in the past.

Many of her films, such as Million Dollar Mermaid and Jupiter's Darling, contained elaborately staged swimming scenes, obtained not without physical cost to the performer. In this science fiction series, Bakula played the time traveler Dr. Williams instead went to Hollywood, and quickly became a popular star of the 1940s and 1950s. His performance in Romance, Romance and his Tony nomination helped him win the lead role opposite Dean Stockwell in the critically acclaimed television series Quantum Leap. She qualified to be in the United States swim team in the 1940 Olympics, but the games were canceled due to World War II. Bakula also played the lead role as Alfred/Sam in the Broadway musical Romance, Romance and in 1988 he was nominated for a Tony Award. Esther Williams was born in Inglewood, California, and was enthusistic about swimming from her youth. His television debut would consist of commercials for Canada Dry and for de-caffeinated Folgers Coffee.

Esther Jane Williams (born 8 August 1922) is a United States swimmer and movie star. In 1983 Bakula (having previously appeared as a standby) made his Broadway debut playing Joe Di Maggio in Marilyn, An American Fable. Williams, Esther, The Million Dollar Mermaid: An Autobiography, Simon & Schuster, 1999. Louis, Missouri. He was born in St. Bakula went on to play a minor, but notable role in the sitcom Murphy Brown and now stars as Captain Jonathan Archer in the science fiction series Star Trek: Enterprise.

Scott Stewart Bakula (born October 9, 1954) is an American television actor most famous for his lead role in the series Quantum Leap. IMDb: Scott Bakula (http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0000836/). BakulaNews - Scott Sightings (http://www.bakulanews.com). Gung Ho (1986).

My Sister Sam (1 episode 1986). Designing Women (1986–1988). Matlock (2 episodes 1987). Eisenhower and Lutz (1988).

Lord of Illusions (1995). Netforce (1999).