Air America Actors

Known for his distinctive drawl and everyman screen persona stewart had a film career that spanned over 55 years from 1935 to 1991 with 80 films.

Air america actors. Air america was an american passenger and cargo airline established in 1946 and covertly owned and operated by the central intelligence agency cia from 1950 to 1976. After losing his pilot s license billy covington is recruited into it and ends up in the middle of a bunch of lunatic pilots gun running by his friend gene ryack and opium. Air america is a 1990 american action comedy film directed by roger spottiswoode and starring mel gibson and robert downey jr. Their duties included carrying out rescue missions investigating criminal activities and other covert activities.

Air america was the cia s private airline operating in laos during the vietnam war running anything and everything from soldiers to foodstuffs for local villagers. With the strong morality he portrayed both on and off the screen stewart epitomized the american ideal in twentieth century united. Directed by roger spottiswoode. When the protagonists discover their aircraft is being used by government agents to smuggle heroin they must avoid being framed as the drug smugglers.

Air america tv series 1998 1999 cast and crew credits including actors actresses directors writers and more. Air america formerly air america radio and air america media was an american radio network specializing in progressive talk radio it was on the air from march 2004 to january 2010. Created by philip deguere jr. In the mid 1980s the air america name was revived by a scheduled passenger airline based in los angeles which operated flights serving.

It supplied and supported covert operations in southeast asia during the vietnam war. As part of their duties they investigate international. Air america featured programs with monologues by on air personalities guest interviews call ins from. Their covers were as two pilots working for a latin american airline called air america.

A young pilot finds himself recruited unwittingly into a covert and corrupt c i a. With mel gibson robert downey jr nancy travis ken jenkins. Rio and his buddy wiley are supposedly just ordinary pilots working for the latin american air transport company air america. The network was founded as a left wing alternative to counter talk radio with a right wing perspective.

Air america 1990 cast and crew credits including actors actresses directors writers and more. Air america was a 60 minute action series that aired in syndication about two government agents who worked undercover for the u s. The plot of the film is adapted from. As air america pilots flying missions in laos during the vietnam war.

Airlift organization operating in vietnam war era laos.