ER (TV series)
ER is an American medical drama television series created by novelist and medical doctor Michael Crichton that aired on NBC from September 19, 1994, to April 2, 2009, with a total of 331 episodes spanning over 15 seasons. It was produced by Constant c Productions and Amblin Television, in association with Warner Bros. Television. "ER" follows the inner life of the emergency room (ER) of fictional County General Hospital in Chicago, Illinois, and various critical issues faced by the room's physicians and staff. The show became the longest-running primetime medical drama in American television history, also became the 2nd longest medical drama across the globe (behind BBC's "Casualty"). It won 23 Primetime Emmy Awards, including the 1996 Outstanding Drama Series award, and received 124 Emmy nominations. "ER" won 116 awards in total, including the Peabody Award, while the cast earned four Screen Actors Guild Awards for Outstanding Ensemble Performance in a Drama Series. As of 2014, "ER" has grossed over in television revenue.
Nicholas Amer
Experienced theatre actors were considered essential for television in the 1950s as programmes went out live in the early days of TV drama. Amer's first television part was in "Emergency – Ward 10" (1957), the first hospital 'soap', as the naval officer brother of Dr Simon Forrester, played by Frederick Bartman. Following this he appeared as the Italian opera singer Carlo Ponchi in "Sing for Your Supper", the first ever TV musical for British television, written and composed by George Hall. Michael Elliott cast him as Sebastian in his and Caspar Wrede's production of Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" (1957). He also appeared in the TV play "Arrow in the Air" by Henry Brinton and Kenneth Robinson, directed by Robert Tronson for Associated-Rediffusion (AR-TV, later Rediffusion, London) (1957), and in the 1959 children's science fiction series "The Red Grass", also for AR-TV. In 1960 he did "The Roving Reasons" and also a comedy for children's TV called "The Old Pull 'n Push", which proved so popular he did "The Return of the Old Pull 'n Push" the following year. Appearances in "The Pursuers" (1961), "The Avengers" (1963), and a BBC TV production of "Hamlet" (playing Rosencrantz), small character parts in "Parbottle Speaking", Hemingway's "For Whom The Bell Tolls" (1965), "The Root of All Evil?" (1969) and "Disciple of Death" (1972) followed.