From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Andrew W Andy Sidaris February 20 1931 March 7 2007 was an American television and film director film producer actor and screenwriter Sidaris was best known for his Bullets Bombs and Babes or Bullets Bombs and Boobs BBB for short series of Bmovies produced between 1985 and 1998 These films featured a rotating stock company of actors mostly made up of Playboy Playmates and Penthouse Pets including Julie Strain Dona Speir Hope Marie Carlton Cynthia Brimhall Roberta Vasquez Julie K Smith Shae Marks and Wendy Hamilton Several of his films were done wholly or largely in Shreveport using many local actors or actors with local ties Before the Bmovies Sidaris was a pioneer in sports television He directed coverage of hundreds of football and basketball games Olympic events and special programs and won seven Emmy awards for his work in the field His best known work was with ABCs Wide World of Sports he was the shows first director and continued in that post for 25 years Sidaris pioneered what he called the honey shot closeups of cheerleaders and pretty girls in the stands at sporting events He won an Emmy Award in 1969 for directing the Summer Olympics He expanded into dramatic television in the 1970s directing episodes of programs like Gemini Man 1976 CBSs Kojak mid1970s ABCs The Hardy BoysNancy Drew Mysteries late1970s and ABCs Monday Night Football He expanded into film specializing in action flicks featuring buxom guntoting Playboy Playmates and Penthouse Pets with titles like Fit to Kill and Savage Beach Most of Sidaris Triple B series later given the title LETHAL Ladies focused on the adventures of a team of secret agents and were mostly filmed in Hawaii Several entries in the series were merely produced by him and were written and directed by others Although the series featured recurring characters continuity between films was not a priority and it was common for an actress who played a villain and was killed off in one film to reappear in a subsequent film as a hero With his wife Arlene T Sidaris born ca 1942 as his production partner Sidaris made twelve films After Sidaris death she runs the official websites of his twelve films
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