The Master of Disaster 20th Century Studios and Warner Bros. Pictures. The primary architect of The Towering Inferno‘s success was producer Irwin Allen, who made his name in the ’60s with ...

On Dec. 16, 1974, 20th-Fox and Warner Bros. unveiled in theaters what would become a landmark disaster movie, The Towering Inferno.

Prior to The Towering Inferno, Holden was a veteran actor with a long and distinguished career, known for films like Sunset Boulevard (1950) and Stalag 17 (1953) for which he won an Academy Award.

Start the day smarter. Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning. The culmination — the ultimate movie of its kind — was "The Towering Inferno," which opened 50 years ago this month ...

The Hilltoppers appeared on Ed Sullivan’s Toast of the Town show Oct. 26, 1952. Left to right were Sullivan, Billy Vaughn, Don McGuire, Jimmy Sacca and Seymour Spiegelman. McGuire died Friday at ...

The culmination — the ultimate movie of its kind — was "The Towering Inferno," which opened 50 years ago this month, on Dec. 14, 1974. In it, a sleazy electrical subcontractor, played by ...

Don McGuire, the last surviving member of The Hilltoppers, has died in his home state of Kentucky. He was 86. Skip to content. NOWCAST WLKY News at 11:00pm.

The Hilltoppers shot a combined 9-of-34 from 3-point range, or 26.5 percent, in those two games, and 40-of-114, or 35.1 percent, overall. They also turned it over on one-fifth of their possessions.