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The Big Valley
The Big Valley is an American western television series which ran on ABC from September 15, 1965, to May 19, 1969. The show stars Barbara Stanwyck, as the widow of a wealthy nineteenth century California rancher. It was created by A.I. Bezzerides and Louis F. Edelman, and produced by Levy-Gardner-Laven for Four Star Television.
  • First aired on 09/15/1965 (TV Show)
  • Western / Drama
  • 4 Seasons
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Barbara Stanwyck

Character's name: "Victoria Barkley"
Birthday: 07/16/1907
Date of Death: 01/20/1990
Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Biography:
Barbara Stanwyck (July 16, 1907 – January 20, 1990) was an American actress. A film and television star, she was known during her 60-year career as a consummate and versatile professional with a strong screen presence and was a favorite of directors including Cecil B. DeMille, Fritz Lang and Frank Capra. After a short stint as a stage actress, she made 85 films in 38 years in Hollywood, before turning to television. Stanwyck was nominated for the Academy Award four times, and won three Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe. She was the recipient of honorary lifetime awards from the Motion Picture Academy, the Film Society of Lincoln Center, the Golden Globes, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, and the Screen Actors Guild, has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and is ranked as the eleventh greatest female star of all time by the American Film Institute.

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Richard Long

Character's name: "Jarrod Barkley"
Birthday: 12/17/1927
Date of Death: 12/21/1974
Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Biography:
​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Richard Long  (December 17, 1927 – December 21, 1974) was an American actor better known for his leading roles in several ABC television series, including The Big Valley and Nanny and the Professor. Description above from the Wikipedia article Richard Long, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

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Peter Breck

Character's name: "Nick Barkley"
Birthday: 03/13/1929
Date of Death: 02/06/2012
Birthplace: Rochester, New York, U.S.A

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Lee Majors

Character's name: "Heath Barkley"
Birthday: 04/23/1939
Birthplace: Wyandotte, Michigan, USA
Biography:
Lee Majors (born Harvey Lee Yeary on April 23, 1939) is an American television, film and voice actor, best known for his roles as Heath Barkley in the TV series The Big Valley (1965–69), as Colonel Steve Austin in The Six Million Dollar Man (1973–78) and as Colt Seavers in The Fall Guy (1981–86). In the late 1980s and 1990s, he reprized the role of Steve Austin in a number of TV movies, and appeared in a number of supporting, recurring and cameo roles in feature films and TV series, and lent his voice to a number of animated TV series and video games. 

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Linda Evans

Character's name: "Audra Barkley"
Birthday: 11/18/1942
Birthplace: Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Biography:
Linda Evans  (born on November 18, 1942) is an American actress known primarily for her roles on television. She rose to fame playing Victoria Barkley's (played by Barbara Stanwyck) daughter, Audra Barkley, in the 1960s Western TV series, The Big Valley (1965–1969). Her most prominent role was that of long-suffering heroine Krystle Carrington, the wife of Blake Carrington (played by John Forsythe), in the 1980s ABC prime time television soap opera Dynasty, a role she played from 1981 to 1989. Description above from the Wikipedia article Linda Evans, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia


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Jules V. Levy
Producer

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Lou Morheim
Producer