‘ER’ Surgeon’s Dana Point Redo

Anthony Edwards, who plays Dr. Mark Green on “ER,” and his wife, cosmetics entrepreneur Jeanine Lobell, are finishing a major renovation of an Orange County oceanfront home they bought late last year for $2 million.

The actor-producer-director, 37, signed a $35-million deal in October to stay with the NBC series through the 2001-02 season. The co-star of “Top Gun” (1986), who played Tom Cruise’s ill-fated navigator Goose, has been a regular on “ER” since 1994.

Swedish-born Lobell, 35, is a former makeup artist who created her own cosmetics line, known as Stila. Her client list has included Helen Hunt, Jennifer Lopez, Julianne Moore and Rosanna Arquette.

Their house, in the Capistrano Beach neighborhood of Dana Point, is one of four Mission-style Spanish homes built by oil baron Edward Doheny in 1928. The main house and courtyards are about 5,000 square feet. The property has 52 feet of private beach frontage.

The house was restored to its original condition under the direction of architect John McInnes, who also has designed houses for Kevin Costner and Alex Trebec.

Capistrano Beach is a gated two-mile-long community of a couple of hundred waterfront homes. Among its residents are actress Ann Blyth and Roy Disney, vice chairman of the Walt Disney Co.

Edwards and Lobell also have a home in the Los Feliz area.

David Cortens of Southern California Real Estate Associates handled their Capistrano Beach home purchase, other sources said.

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Actor-comedian Ed Begley Jr. has put his Malibu home on the market at $3.4 million.

Begley, 49, earned six successive Emmy nominations for his role as Dr. Ehrlich on the NBC series “St. Elsewhere” (1982-88). He went on to appear in the movies “The Accidental Tourist” (1988), “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues” (1994) and “Batman Forever” (1995).

An environmentalist who once served as environmental affairs commissioner for the City of Los Angeles, Begley is the son of Oscar-winning actor Ed Begley, who died at 69 in 1970.

Begley decided to sell his Malibu home because he is now living most of the time in Hawaii, a source said.

The Malibu house, which is on the sand in gated Malibu Colony, has four bedrooms in 1,500 square feet. It was built in 1930.

Bill Mason of Malibu Realty has the listing.

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The longtime Los Feliz home of the late Pulitzer Prize-winning historians Ariel and Will Durant has been sold for close to its asking price of $4.5 million, including an adjacent parcel with a tennis court.

The Durants, who lived in the house for almost 40 years and wrote most of their 11-volume “The Story of Civilization” there, died within two weeks of each other in 1981. The house has been sold a few times since then. The current seller, Stephen Liss, is a developer who spent six months renovating the home.

Built in 1925, the gated Spanish Colonial Revival-style house, on slightly more than an acre, has five bedrooms in about 6,000 square feet. It also has a butler’s pantry, a pool, a full basement and city-to-ocean views.

Rosemary Low of DBL Realtors, Los Feliz, had the listing and facilitated the sale.

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Andrew Dunn, director of photography on the movies “Ever After” and “Practical Magic,” has leased a Beverly Hills home for six months while filming the animated-live action movie “Monkey Bone,” starring Paul Reubens, Brendan Fraser and Whoopi Goldberg.

Dunn, who is from London, also was the director of photography on “The Crucible” (1996), “The Madness of King George” (1994), “The Bodyguard” (1992) and “L.A. Story” (1991).

He leased the three-story villa, built in 1927, at $9,000 a month, furnished. The house has five bedrooms, four baths, a pool, patios and canyon views.

The house, which has been leased to such celebrities as actress Mercedes Ruehl and singer Sarah Brightman, is owned by former stage actress Bijou Durden, widow of Wally Durden, longtime manager of the Beverly Hills Hotel.

Michael Barton of Coldwell Banker Previews, Beverly Hills, had the listing; Michele Hall and Suzanne Peterson of the firm’s Brentwood office represented the Dunns, other sources said.

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Hall of Famer Bill Sharman, former president of the Lakers who played for the Boston Celtics, and his wife, Joyce, have sold their Rancho Palos Verdes home for $1.25 million to singer-guitarist-songwriter David Pack of the progressive rock band Ambrosia.

The Los Angeles band was discovered in 1971 by Zubin Mehta, who was then conductor of the L.A. Philharmonic. The four-member band broke up in 1982 but reunited seven years later and has continued to tour on and off since then with such songs as “I Just Can’t Let Go.” Pack, 46, has been working on a solo album.

After the band’s breakup, the Grammy-winning Pack started producing albums by Wynonna Judd, Natalie Cole and Aretha Franklin.

The former Boston Celtics guard-turned-Lakers coach, general manager and president listed his home in February with the intention of keeping a smaller home in the L.A. area and a larger one on the East Coast, where his wife’s mother lives.

The house was built in the ‘60s and was remodeled after the Sharmans bought it in 1996. It has four bedrooms and an entertainment-media room in about 4,000 square feet, behind gates. The 1.13-acre grounds have a tennis court, spa, orchard and L.A. Harbor views.

Marion Busia of RE/MAX, Palos Verdes Realty, had the listing.

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