Original Shooting Script for an Episode Keepers of the Ring by Sally Robinson for the Television Series King’s Crossing, Starring Bradford Dillman, from Dillman’s Library
1981 · Culver City, CA
by ROBINSON, SALLY & BRADFORD DILLMAN
Culver City, CA: Lorimar Productions, 1981. Original final draft shooting script with color rewrite pages for the 90 minute pilot episode Keepers of the Ring written by Sally Robinson for the television series King’s Crossing starring Bradford Dillman. This was Dillman’s working script with his extensive notations throughout and with his estate stamp which reads, “From the Library of Bradford Dillman”. Laid in is a cast list and two staff & crew lists. Bradbound, 90 pages, dated March 12, 1981. Season 1, Episode 1 which aired on January 16, 1982. Fine bright copy. In this episode, Dillman costars with Mary Frann, Linda Hamilton, Beatrice Straight, Doran Clark, and Daniel Zippi. Bradford Dillman (1930-2018) was one of Hollywood’s best regarded actors among his peers and the public. He was trained at the Actors Studio under Lee Strasberg and knew James Dean in early television. Dillman rose to sudden fame with his appearance in Richard Fleisher’s film Compulsion (1959) with Dean Stockwell and Orson Welles, and continued in movies throughout his career in such films as The Way We Were, The Iceman Cometh, The Enforcer, Sudden Impact, Crack in the Mirror, Escape From the Planet of the Apes, Francis of Assisi, Piranha, The Swarm, etc. A great success in television, Dillman appeared in a remarkable number of shows and made for TV movies in a variety of genres, including, Mission Impossible, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Columbo, Wagon Train, Ironside, Dynasty, The Wild Wild West, Thriller, Wonder Woman, Cannon, Barnaby Jones, and many others. (Inventory #: 21979E)