Beautifully engraved certificate from the Four Star Television Company. This historic document was printed by the Jeffries Banknote Company and has an ornate border around it with a vignette of of a woman in a studio with a Television Camera and the company's logo. This item has the printed signatures of the Company's President, Thomas McDermott and is over 46 years old. Folded from original mailing.
Certificate Vignette Four Star Television was founded by Charles Boyer, Thomas McDermott, David Niven and Dick Powell. FOUR STAR TELEVISION included: Four Star Playhouse (1952-56) hosts Dick Powell, Ida Lupino, David Niven, Charles Boyer Richard Diamond, Private Detective (4 Star)(1957-60) starring David Janssen The David Niven Show (4 Star/NBC)(Summer 1959) host David Niven The Detectives (4 Star)(1959-62) Robert Taylor The DuPont Show (4Star) (1959-61) hosted by June Allyson Michael Shayne (4 Star)(1960-61) starring Richard Denning Dante (4 Star))(1960-61) starring Howard Duff The Law and Mr. Jones (4 Star)(1960-62) starring James Whitmore The Corruptors (4 Star) (1961-62) starring Stephen McNally The Dick Powell Show (4 Star) (1961-63) anthology series, host Dick Powell Saints and Sinners (4Star) (1962-63) starring Nick Adams & John Larkin The Lloyd Bridges Show (4 Star/CBS)(1962-63) host Lloyd Bridges The Rogues (4Star) (1964-65) David Niven, Charles Boyer, Gig Young Burke's Law (4 Star)(1963-65) / Amos Burke, Secret Agent (1965-66) Gene Barry Honey West (4 Star/ABC)(1963-65) starrng Anne Francis & John Ericson FOUR STAR TV Western series Guide Zane Grey Theater Four Star for CBS 1956-60 156 episodes x 30 min bw western anthology series hosted by Dick Powell Features Pilots for "Trackdown","The Rifleman" & "The Westerner" Trackdown Four Star for CBS 1957-59 pilot + 70 episodes x 30 min bw cast Robert Culp ................ Hoby Gilman Ellen Corby ........... Henrietta Porter Norman Leavitt ................... Ralph Pilot featured in "Zane Grey Theater" Adventures of an 1870's Texas Ranger. Black Saddle imdb / episode guide Four Star for ABC 1958-59 44 episodes x 30 min bw cast Peter Breck ................ Clay Culhane Russell Johnson ....... Marshal Gib Scott Anna Lisa .................. Nora Travers A gunfighter turned lawyer tours the southwest after the Civil War. Wanted - Dead or Alive Four Star/ Malcolm for CBS 1958-60 98 episdes x 30 min bw (colorized in 1990's) starring Steve McQueen ............. Josh Randall Pilot featured in 'Trackdown' Adventures of a western bounty hunter. Pilot featured in "Trackdown" The Rifleman Four Star / Sussex for ABC 1958-63 168 episodes x 30 min bw cast Chuck Connors .......... Lucas McCain (1958-63) Johnny Crawford ......... Mark McCain (1958-63) Paul Fix ..... Marshal Micah Torrance (1958-63) Joan Taylor ........ Miss Milly Scott (1960-62) Patricia Blair .......... Lou Mallory (1962-63) Bill Quinn ... Sweeney, the bartender (1958-63) Hope Summers .......... Hattie Denton (1958-63) Harlan Warde ... Banker John Hamilton (1958-62) Joe Higgins ............ Nils Swenson (1961-63) Ralph Moody ............. Doc Burrage (1961-63) Pilot featured in "Zane Grey Theatre". Johnny Ringo Four Star for CBS 1959-60 38 episodes x 30 min bw produced by Aaron Spelling cast Don Durant ................ Johnny Ringo Karen Sharpe .............. Laura Thomas Mark Goddard ..................... Cully Terence de Marney .......... Case Thomas Law of The Plainsman Four Star / Cardiff for NBC 1959-60 30 episodes x 30 min bw cast Michael Ansara ... Deputy U.S.Marshal Sam Buckhart Dayton Lummis .............. Marshal Andy Morrison Gina Gillespie ........................ Tess Logan Nora Marlowe ..................... Martha Commager Robert Harland ............... Deputy Billy Jordon The Westerner Four Star / Winchester for NBC 1960 pilot + 13 episodes x 30 min bw executive producer Hal Hudson producer Sam Peckinpah cast Brian Keith ............ Dave Blassingame John Dehner .............. Burgundy Smith Henry A. Gobble .................. Digger Marie Selland ..................... Jenny Jimmy Lee Cook Pilot featured in 1959 episode of 'Zane Grey Theatre' Stagecoach West Four Star / Hilgarde production for ABC 1960-61 38 episodes x 60 min bw cast Wayne Rogers ................ Luke Perry Robert Bray ................. Simon Kane Richard Eyer ................ David Kane James Burke ................ Zeke Bonner The Big Valley Four Star/Margate for ABC Levy-Garner-Laven production 1965-69 112 episodes x 60 min color 5 seasons cast Barbara Stanwyck ..... Victoria Barkley Richard Long ............ Jarod Barkley Peter Breck ...............Nick Barkley Lee Majors .......................Heath Linda Evans ............. Audra Barkley FOUR STAR Comedy series Guide Hey, Jeannie (4 Star)(1956-57) starring Jeannie Carson Mr Adams And Eve (4 Star) (1957-58) starring Ida Lupino & Howard Duff The Tom Ewell Show (4 Star)(1960-61) starring Tom Ewell & Marilyn Erskine Peter Loves Mary (4 Star)(1960-61) starring Peter Lind Hayes & Mary Healy Mrs G. Goes To College (4Star)(1961-62) starring Gertrude Berg McKeever And The Colonel (4 Star)(1962-63) starring Scott Lane & Allyn Joslyn Ensign O'Toole (4 Star)(1962-63) starring Dean Jones The Smother Brothers Show (half-hour sitcom) (4Star)(1965-66) History from OldCompany.com (old stock certificate research service).