Diagnosis Murder

A respected doctor and very appreciated of Los Angeles spends his spare time to inquire into murders. Between comedy and suspense, the series plunges us in the hidden and worrying face of Los Angeles, it in a new way since our guide is an old doctor who still has continuation in the ideas and which gene not to involve its medical team with him. Doctor Mark Sloan is the doctor as a head of the internal medicine of a hospital of Los Angeles. Happy unlucky person, the good doctor has the knack to be to confront with police intrigues. Even if he helps the police force as a medical consultant, Doctor Sloan finds himself in spite of him, in mysterious adventures, where the doctor is helped by colleagues. With the passing of years, he is surrounded to inquire of young doctors and especially, of his son, Steve, a detective who has great difficulty to follow his father.

Doctor Mark Sloan

In spite of his age, Doctor Mark Sloan is a very occupied man. He is responsible for "General Hospital" of Los Angeles, practises his trade like any other doctor and gives many councils to the young people who discover the trade. To fill his spare time, the doctor has fun to play the detectives and renders many service to the police force of the city. Because in addition to being excellent in his profession, facetious Mark Sloan is a really good sleuth which likes flirter with the muddles particularly.

Doctor Amanda Bentley

Person in charge for the service of pathology of the hospital, Amanda Bentley admires and worries about the hobby of her large friend, Mark Sloan. Sometimes he involves her in spite of him in his investigations and her direction of the observation is an asset for the doctor as a head. A friend who wants you good!

Doctor Jesse Travis

Young intern, Jesse Travis quickly becomes the right arm of the doctor. Indeed, Jesse divides with Sloan, the taste for danger and the pleasure of carrying out surveys. But the young man is not very tested: more than one once, he is saved by the experiment and the roublardise of the doctor-detective.

Doctor Jack Stewart

He also young doctor, Jack Stewart was the first to follow Sloan in his investigations. Of an impetuous temperament, Jack forgets time with others to reflect, but his youth returns many services in Sloan. After two years with the service of the doctor, the young doctor leaves the hospital to practise medicine in Colorado.

Detective Steve Sloan

Wire of the doctor, Steve Sloan is as for him a true police officer of Los Angeles. Strangest, he is less gifted than his father. Not very smart, he is however very physically imposing and he is a man of action. He supplements the rather young team which accompanies Doctor Sloan in police intrigues.

Norman Briggs

His spot in the hospital fades on his personality: administrator of the hospital, Norman Briggs is a bird of ill omen, always criticizing the actions of the medical team and apprentices detectives. Even if he is obsessed by the budget, Norman lets appear a certain sensitivity from time to time.

Dick Van Dyke (Doctor Mark Sloan)

Essential figure of American television, Dick Van Dyke has been for 50 years one of the preferred craftsmen tele American. Born in 1925 in Missouri, Richard Wayne Van Dyke. It is into 1954 that America discovers this dynamics artist, which becomes presenter of emission at the time of The Morning Show . Some emissions later, he benefits from his small notoriety to obtain one of the principal roles of Bye Bye Birdy , a musical. In Broadway, the part is an enormous success and when the part becomes a film, the actor takes again his role with with dimensions of Janet Leigh and Ann-Margret. This role will be worth also Tony to him award in 1963.

The recognition is total and Dick Van Dyke becomes the hero many comedies (whose Mary Poppins ) and surprises everyone in his series The Dick Van Dyke Show . He will gain Emmy award 3 times of continuation: in 1963, 1964 and 1965. In 1977, he receives fourth Emmy for Van Dyke and Company. From the middle of the Seventies, Dick Van Dyke is devoted exclusively to television through telefilms and series. True performer, omnipresent and much in demand, he is a prestigious guest whom one will be able to see in a few series like Alfred Hitchcock Present, the Roads of the Paradise, Matlock or Supercopter . It is by appearing in the series Jake &The Fatman in the role of Doctor Sloan, that a series based on this character is imagined. The growing old actor does not devote himself whereas to the series, where he makes play his children and even his little children.

Victoria Rowell (Amanda Bentley)

Born in 1960 with Portland , in Maine, Victoria Rowell did not think actress but rather dancer. She works hard and takes down a place in prestigious "American Ballet Theater". The music seems to be all her life (so much so that she had two children with the jazzman Wynton Marsalis) and yet in 1986, she finds a small role in Leonard Part 6 with Bill Cosby. She finds then small roles in soaps then in 1992, she meets another actor black-American: Eddie Murphy, for the needs for the comedy Mister the Deputy. The actress becomes then Doctor Bentley, the faithful friend of Sloan. The actress, she, escapes from time from other to turn in other fictions of which Dumb & Dumber or Barb Wire.

Charlie Schlatter (Jesse Travis)

Born in 1966 in the New Jersey, it is necessary nevertheless to wait until 1988 to discover this young actor in the film Heartbreak Hotel, carried out by Chris Colombus. After having to saunter in New York with Michael J.Fox in Fires of the Night , the actor leaves for Australia to make some films then returns in 1990 and becomes Ferris Bueller in the adapted series of film of John Hughes with Matthew Broderick. He specializes then in the doubling of animated drawing ( Captain Planet, Sonic ...) and continues to turn in telefilms. After having turned in the seventh shutter of Academy Police force, Charlie Schlatter becomes Jesse Travis since 1995.

Scott Baio (Stewart Jack)

Revealed at 15 years in film of Alan Parker, Bugsy Malone in the role untouched, Scott Baio must wait the third season of Happy Days to become the sympathetic nerve Charles Arcola, alias Chachi. From 1977, Scott Baio tastes with glory at the 16 years age. The actor is very asked and in 1982, he is the hero of the spin-off of Happy Days, Joanie Loves Chachi. In 1984, he rediscovers the joys of the sitcom with Charles Takes care some. The series lasts six years and in 1991, he is the hero of Baby Talk where he crosses an unknown named George Clooney. After having left Diagnosis Murder in 1995, the actor was done more discrete.

Barry Van Dyke (Steve Sloan)

Second child of the principal actor of the series, Barry was born in Atlanta in 1951. Very near to his father, Barry always worked for him. He appeared by twice with his father: in Diagnosis Murder but also in The Van Dyke Show in 1988. Of dimensioned sound, Barry played in a few series worships like Galactica or Supercopter , where he interpreted the brother of Springfellow Hawke. Since 1992, he did not play any other character but that of the police officer Steve Sloan. One saw him before appearing in episodes of Wonder Woman , Remington Steele, the Agency All Risks , Hooker or Arabesque , series which one compares much with Diagnosis Murder.

Michael Tucci (Norman Briggs)

Pure produced from New York, Michael Tucci was born in 1950. As much of actor, he starts with the small scenes of the city. In 1975, he finds some roles in small comedies and in 1978, he plays Sonny in the Grease film . In 1980, he threads a blouse of doctor for the needs for Trapper John MANDELEVIUM , spin-off of Mash . Supporting his career on the boards, Michael Tucci plays in many series: The Paper Chase, It' S Garry Shandling Show, Flying Blind and Diagnosis Murder . He also turns in some telefilms but he prefers by far the meeting with a true public that a turning. Moreover since he left the series in 1997, the actor did not appear any more on the screen.

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