Stephen Boyd

Stephen Boyd

Born: July 4, 1931
Died: June 2, 1977
in Glengormley, Northern Ireland, UK
Stephen Boyd, born William Millar, was a Northern Irish/American stage and screen actor. As a teenager he joined the Ulster Group Theatre where he learned the tasks of the theatre. In 1956 he toured North America performing "A Streetcar Named Desire" in the lead role as Stanley Kowalski.

Boyd who appeared in around 60 feature films, most notably in the role of Messala in the 1959 film "Ben-Hur".

 

Movies for Stephen Boyd...

Title: Pulling Moves
Released: March 5, 2004
Type: TV
Pulling Moves was a Northern Irish television programme set in Lenadoon, West Belfast. It follows the exploits of four friends: Wardrobe, Ta, Shay and Darragh. Wardrobe is the leader of the group, who only loves one person, his 'wee ma' and he would do anything for her. Ta lives with Una, the mother of his kids. She is always on his case, trying to get him to leave the group, get a respectable job and make a living for her and the kids, but his nature stops him from doing this. Darragh is always trying to impress his ex-wife to allow him to keep seeing his son. Shay is the youngest in the group, and the one who always makes the mistakes. He is always getting into trouble and his mother always hopes that one day he will be able to get a job and be sensible like his wee sister Niamh. Each episode follows the guys trying different scams to earn money. These schemes vary from nobbling pigeon-racing to dog-breeding, and always with something funny happening to the group. They are joined by other various characters, including "Hoker," an anti-social element who can get anything from stolen cars to lost dogs for the crowd. Wardrobe doesn't like this guy, but Hoker is a friend of Shay's, and he's useful now and again. Crazy Horse is the local wino, he's always drunk and sitting outside the butcher's shop, and finally, Tiny Tim, who owns a pet salon, who the guys help out now and again.
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Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood
Title: Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: April 3, 2001
Type: Movie
Documentary about the making of 20th Century Fox's 1963 film "Cleopatra," then the most expensive film of all time.
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The Bible According to Hollywood
Title: The Bible According to Hollywood
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1994
Type: Movie
Filmmaker Phillip Dye's documentary explores the many biblical adaptations Hollywood has produced throughout the years, including The Ten Commandments, The Greatest Story Ever Told, Ben Hur, The Bible ... In the Beginning and many more titles. With iconic clips, behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with the likes of Charlton Heston, Peter Ustinov and Virginia Mayo, Dye's film is a celebration of the golden age of epic moviemaking.
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Title: Key West
Released: January 19, 1993
Type: TV
Key West was a short-lived 1993 hour long comedy-drama television series set in Key West, Florida. Thirteen episodes aired on Fox between January and June 1993. It was created by David Beaird and Allan Marcil. The show was produced by Viacom Productions. The main character is Seamus O'Neill, played by Fisher Stevens, a factory worker from New Jersey who dreams of being a writer. When he wins the lottery, he uses his newfound wealth to move to Key West to pursue his writing career, Where his idol, Hemingway, had lived. Seamus finds the island inhabited by eccentrics. He takes a job as a reporter for The Meteor," a local newspaper. In addition to Stevens: Jennifer Tilly, Denise Crosby, and Brian Thompson led the large ensemble cast as the town's high-class prostitute, conservative mayor and eccentric sheriff, respectively.
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Women in Hospital
Title: Women in Hospital
Character: Prof. Overhoff, Chefarzt
Released: April 7, 1977
Type: Movie
Schuman and Oberhoff are successful hospital doctors who treat pregnant women. However, their personal lives are a mess. Schuman has to deal with his drug-addicted wife Claudia, while Oberhoff deals with his teenage daughter's pregnancy.
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The Squeeze
Title: The Squeeze
Character: Vic
Released: March 20, 1977
Type: Movie
An alcoholic London ex-cop becomes involved in a kidnapping drama and tries to free the daughter of a friend from a brutal gangster mob.
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Lady Dracula
Title: Lady Dracula
Character: Dracula
Released: March 15, 1977
Type: Movie
A beautiful blonde bitten by Count Dracula 100 years previously is unearthed in Vienna, and soon she goes on a killing spree.
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Title: Hunter
Released: February 18, 1977
Type: TV
Global espionage with an American agent and his sexy partner.
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Montana Trap
Title: Montana Trap
Character: Bill Ardisson
Released: May 5, 1976
Type: Movie
Potato Fritz (Hardy Kruger) and his friends have moved from Germany to the American Wild West, settling eventually in the Rockies. They are besieged by what appear to them to be hostile Native Americans. Before too long, it becomes clear that the hostiles are in fact a gang of gold thieves. This movie is notable among German-made Westerns for its use of authentic period costumes and firearms.
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One Man Against the Organization
Title: One Man Against the Organization
Character: Inspector Stephen McCormick
Released: November 12, 1975
Type: Movie
An airport employee switches a pack of drugs for baking soda and absconds to Barcelona, meanwhile the drug-runners are on his trail.
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The Lives of Jenny Dolan
Title: The Lives of Jenny Dolan
Character: Joe Rossiter
Released: October 27, 1975
Type: Movie
A newspaper reporter's life is endangered when she is assigned to investigate a political assassination.
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The Left Hand of the Law
Title: The Left Hand of the Law
Character: Lanza
Released: September 3, 1975
Type: Movie
After a couple of 'special squad' cops are gunned down while chasing some kidnappers, the head of the squad takes it really personally! His violent path to find the kidnappers leads him to the upper echelons of the government. Now, the powers-that-be don't want to be found out and decide it's time to kill one more cop...
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The Treasure of Jamaica Reef
Title: The Treasure of Jamaica Reef
Character: Hugo Graham
Released: March 1, 1975
Type: Movie
An adventure film about the search for a more than 200-year-old treasure on the ocean floor.
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Key West
Title: Key West
Character: Steve Cutler
Released: December 10, 1973
Type: Movie
A former CIA agent and his friend, operating a charter boat service in Florida, find themselves the target of an eccentric millionaire with a score to settle.
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The Man Called Noon
Title: The Man Called Noon
Character: Rimes
Released: August 29, 1973
Type: Movie
Noon is a gunfighter who has become amnesiac. Helped by Rimes, an outlaw who has befriended him, he tries to figure out who he is actually. It gradually appears that his wife and kid have been murdered. As time goes by, Noon also recalls a fortune hidden somewhere. Niland, a scheming judge, and Peg Cullane, a greedy will do everything to prevent Noon and Rimes from achieving their end while Fan Davidge, a woman living in a ghost town, will support them.
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The Big Game
Title: The Big Game
Character: Leyton van Dyk
Released: April 2, 1973
Type: Movie
Two soldiers of fortune are hired by an inventor to protect him and his invention, a radar-like machine that is capable of controlling armies and forcing them to fight.
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Those Dirty Dogs!
Title: Those Dirty Dogs!
Character: Cpt. Chadwood Willer
Released: March 1, 1973
Type: Movie
Captain Chadwell, Lieutenant Junger and Sergeant Smith are sent by Washington to help their colleagues of Fort Apache to recover stolen arms. A bounty hunter accompanies them.
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The Hands of Cormac Joyce
Title: The Hands of Cormac Joyce
Character: Cormac Joyce
Released: September 16, 1972
Type: Movie
A savage storm wreaks havoc on a small Irish fishing village.
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One Billion for a Blonde
Title: One Billion for a Blonde
Character: León Urrutía, joyero
Released: January 1, 1972
Type: Movie
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Kill!
Title: Kill!
Character: Brad Killian
Released: December 10, 1971
Type: Movie
Interpol investigates the freelance killings of drug and porn peddlers.
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The Devil with Seven Faces
Title: The Devil with Seven Faces
Character: Dave Barton
Released: December 9, 1971
Type: Movie
Carroll Baker plays a dual role as translator Julie Harrison and her twin sister Mary. The serpentine plot begins as Julie tells her lawyer Dave Barton that Mary's life is being threatened in London while Julie herself is being stalked by a mysterious stranger in Amsterdam.
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Hannie Caulder
Title: Hannie Caulder
Character: The Preacher (uncredited)
Released: November 8, 1971
Type: Movie
Hannie enlists the aid of bounty hunter Tom Price to teach her how to be a gunfighter so she can hunt down the 3 men who killed her husband and raped her.
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African Story
Title: African Story
Character: Arnold Tiller
Released: October 21, 1971
Type: Movie
African set action thriller
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Marta
Title: Marta
Character: Miguel
Released: April 10, 1971
Type: Movie
A wealthy landowner haunted by the spectre of his dead mother has a fling with a beautiful fugitive who bears a striking resemblance to his missing wife, who may have been murdered.
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The Great Swindle
Title: The Great Swindle
Character: Arturo
Released: March 6, 1971
Type: Movie
A seductive woman gets involved in relationships with several people. All of the characters play games of deceit with one and other and things get more and more dangerous.
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Carter's Army
Title: Carter's Army
Character: Capt. Beau Carter
Released: January 27, 1970
Type: Movie
A racist officer is put in charge of an all-black squad of troops charged with the mission of blowing up an important hydro-dam in Nazi Germany. Their failure would delay the Allies' advance into Germany, thus prolonging the war.
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Slaves
Title: Slaves
Character: MacKay
Released: July 2, 1969
Type: Movie
A Kentucky slave fights for his freedom from cruel overseer whose mistress eventually joins Davis and the other slaves in their revolt.
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Shalako
Title: Shalako
Character: Bosky Fulton
Released: September 26, 1968
Type: Movie
Sean Connery is Shalako, a guide in the old West who has to rescue an aristocratic British hunting party from Indians and bandits.
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Title: Hawaii Five-O
Character: Daniel Costigan
Released: September 20, 1968
Type: TV
Hawaii Five-O is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and Leonard Freeman. Set in Hawaii, the show originally aired for 12 seasons from 1968 to 1980, and continues in reruns. Jack Lord portrayed Detective Lieutenant Steve McGarrett, the head of a special state police task force which was based on an actual unit that existed under martial law in the 1940s. The theme music composed by Morton Stevens became especially popular. Many episodes would end with McGarrett instructing his subordinate to "Book 'em, Danno!", sometimes specifying a charge such as "murder one".
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Assignment K
Title: Assignment K
Character: Philip Scott
Released: February 16, 1968
Type: Movie
Philip Scott, the boss of a toy company, is secretly also the chief of a British spy organization. Scott's cover is destroyed when enemy agents kidnap his girlfriend to force him to reveal the identities of his fellow spies.
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The Caper of the Golden Bulls
Title: The Caper of the Golden Bulls
Character: Peter Churchman
Released: May 24, 1967
Type: Movie
Peter Churchman stopped robbing banks a long time ago and is now living as a wealthy and respected citizen in Pamplona, Spain. But then his former companion Angela appears and blackmails him to help her robbing the Spanish National Bank of Pamplona. He gives in and develops a brilliant plan... Will this be then end of his comfortable life?
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The Bible: In the Beginning...
Title: The Bible: In the Beginning...
Character: Nimrod
Released: September 28, 1966
Type: Movie
Covering only the first 22 chapters of the Book of Genesis, vignettes include: Adam and Eve frolicking in the Garden of Eden until their indulgence in the forbidden fruit sees them driven out; Cain murdering his brother Abel; Noah building an ark to preserve the animals of the world from the coming flood; and Abraham making a covenant with God.
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Fantastic Voyage
Title: Fantastic Voyage
Character: Grant
Released: August 24, 1966
Type: Movie
In order to save an assassinated scientist, a submarine and its crew are shrunk to microscopic size and injected into his bloodstream.
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Poppies Are Also Flowers
Title: Poppies Are Also Flowers
Character: Benson
Released: May 20, 1966
Type: Movie
A special United Nations bureau organises a campaign to trace a drug-smuggling ring across Europe to its source on the Afghanistan-Iran border.
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The Oscar
Title: The Oscar
Character: Frank Fane
Released: March 4, 1966
Type: Movie
An amoral lowlife accidentally stumbles into an acting career that sets him on a trajectory to Hollywood stardom. But everyone on whom he steps on the way to the top remembers when he is nominated for an Oscar and he runs a dirty campaign in an attempt to win.
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Genghis Khan
Title: Genghis Khan
Character: Yamuga
Released: April 15, 1965
Type: Movie
This is the story of the shy Mongol boy Temujin who,during the 13th century, becomes the fearless Mongol leader Genghis Khan that unites all Mongol tribes and conquers India,China,Persia,Korea and parts of Rusia,Europe and Middle-East.
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The Fall of the Roman Empire
Title: The Fall of the Roman Empire
Character: Livius
Released: March 24, 1964
Type: Movie
In the year 180 A.D. Germanic tribes are about to invade the Roman empire from the north. In the midst of this crisis ailing emperor Marcus Aurelius has to make a decission about his successor between his son Commodus, who is obsessed by power, and the loyal general Gaius Livius.
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The Third Secret
Title: The Third Secret
Character: Alex Stedman
Released: February 2, 1964
Type: Movie
A prominent London psychologist seems to have taken his own life, causing stunned disbelief amongst his colleagues and patients. His teenage daughter refuses to believe it was suicide as this would go against all of the principles her father stood for, therefore she is convinced it was murder. She enlists the help of a former patient to try to get to the truth. However, the truth turns out to be both surprising and disturbing.
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Title: Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
Released: October 4, 1963
Type: TV
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre is an American anthology series, sponsored by Chrysler Corporation, which ran on NBC from 1963 through 1967. The show was hosted by Bob Hope, but it had a variety of formats, including musical, dramatic, and comedy.
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Imperial Venus
Title: Imperial Venus
Character: Jules de Canouville
Released: December 22, 1962
Type: Movie
The romanticized gallant adventures of Pauline Bonaparte, Napoleon's sister. First "engaged" to the Conventionnel Fréron, then separated from him by her brother for political reasons, Pauline joined Napoleon in the Italian army, where she fell in love with the comté de Canouville. But the First Consul married her to his friend, General Leclerc, whom she followed on the expedition to Saint-Domingue. Unconcerned about fidelity, she began to love her husband just as he was about to die of yellow fever. Back in France, she was soon consoled by other gallants. Napoleon, now emperor, hastened to marry her off to Prince Borghese, but he was unable to make her love him. She soon returned to Paris to lead the life of a gallant woman, incognito, and again met Canouville, whom the emperor tried in vain to separate from her. But soon the Russian campaign begins, and her lover is killed. All that remains for Pauline, this time disconsolate, is to reconcile with her brother on the road to exile.
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Billy Rose's Jumbo
Title: Billy Rose's Jumbo
Character: Sam Rawlins
Released: December 6, 1962
Type: Movie
The daughter of a circus owner fights to save her father from a takeover spearheaded by the man she loves.
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The Inspector
Title: The Inspector
Character: Peter Jongman
Released: May 24, 1962
Type: Movie
At the end of WW2, a compassionate Dutch policeman helps smuggle a Jewish woman into British Palestine.
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The Big Gamble
Title: The Big Gamble
Character: Vic Brennan
Released: July 25, 1961
Type: Movie
Irish seaman Vic Brennan persuades his Dublin family to finance a truck-hauling business in the remote African town of Jebanda. The only stipulation is that his cousin Samuel, a timid bank clerk, accompany Vic and his Corsican bride, Marie, to Africa and protect the family fortune.
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Ben-Hur
Title: Ben-Hur
Character: Messala
Released: November 18, 1959
Type: Movie
In 25 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accused by a Roman childhood friend-turned-overlord of trying to kill the Roman governor, he is put into slavery and his mother and sister are taken away as prisoners.
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The Best of Everything
Title: The Best of Everything
Character: Mike Rice
Released: October 9, 1959
Type: Movie
An exposé of the lives and loves of Madison Avenue working girls and their higher-ups.
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Woman Obsessed
Title: Woman Obsessed
Character: Fred Carter
Released: May 27, 1959
Type: Movie
After her husband dies in a fire, a woman (Susan Hayward) is left to tend for her young son and the family farm on her own. Soon, she takes in a drifting handyman, they fall in love, and a resentment begins to build between the son and his new "step-father" who treats the boy harshly on purpose to prepare him for life on the frontier.
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The Bravados
Title: The Bravados
Character: Bill Zachary
Released: June 25, 1958
Type: Movie
Jim Douglass arrives in the small town of Rio Arriba in order to witness the hanging of the four men he believes murdered his wife. When the convicts escape, Jim tracks them into Mexico, determined to see that justice is done. But the farther Jim goes in his quest for vengeance, the more merciless he becomes, losing himself in an unrelenting spiral of hatred and violence.
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The Night Heaven Fell
Title: The Night Heaven Fell
Character: Lambert
Released: April 5, 1958
Type: Movie
Ursula finishes her studies and returns to her aunt Florentine and uncle, Ribera who is the count. She falls in love with Lambert, the killer of her uncle.
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Seven Thunders
Title: Seven Thunders
Character: Dave
Released: September 4, 1957
Type: Movie
Escaping British prisoners of war hide out in German occupied France.
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Island in the Sun
Title: Island in the Sun
Character: Euan Templeton
Released: June 12, 1957
Type: Movie
On a Caribbean island, a rich landowner's son, Maxwell Fleury, is fighting for political office against black labor leader David Boyeur. As if the contentious election weren't enough, there are plenty of scandals to go around: Boyeur has a secret white lover and Fleury's wife, Sylvia, is also having an affair. And then, of course, there's the small matter of a recently murdered aristocrat.
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Abandon Ship
Title: Abandon Ship
Character: Will McKinley
Released: March 12, 1957
Type: Movie
After a massive luxury liner sinks into the ocean, the ship's officer must command a rickety lifeboat, built for only nine, that is stuffed with over twenty desperate and injured passengers. As a hurricane approaches and the many wounded passengers struggle for life, difficult decisions must be made about who will remain on the boat and who must be cast to the sea in order to give others the chance to survive.
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Title: The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
Character: Self
Released: October 5, 1956
Type: TV
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show is an American variety series hosted by Dinah Shore, and broadcast on NBC from October 1956 to June 1963. The series was sponsored by the Chevrolet Motor Division of General Motors and its theme song, sung by Shore, was "See the U.S.A. in Your Chevrolet", which continued to be used in Chevrolet advertising for several more years after the cancellation of the show.
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A Hill in Korea
Title: A Hill in Korea
Character: Pvt. Sims
Released: September 18, 1956
Type: Movie
Based on real events, A Hill in Korea charts the fortunes of a small group of British soldiers serving in the Korean War. Out on a routine patrol, the soldiers find that Chinese troop movements have cut them off from their own lines. They try to fight their way back to safety but with the enemy surrounding them on all sides, the prospects look bleak. Facing almost insurmountable odds, they decide to stand a fight.
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The Man Who Never Was
Title: The Man Who Never Was
Character: Patrick O'Reilly
Released: April 3, 1956
Type: Movie
The true story of a British effort to trick the Germans into weakening Sicily's defenses before the 1943 attack. A dead soldier is dressed as a British officer and outfitted with faked papers showing that the Allies were intending to invade occupied Greece. His body is put into the sea where it will ultimately drift ashore and the papers be passed along to German Intelligence.
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An Alligator Named Daisy
Title: An Alligator Named Daisy
Character: Albert O'Shannon
Released: December 13, 1955
Type: Movie
Returning from a cricket match in Ireland, Peter Weston gains a pet alligator from another passenger who abandons it with him. He is horrified and while his first instinct is to get rid of it he develops a relationship with a young Irishwoman who appears to be entwined with the reptile. He soon discovers that Daisy is tame and seems to be the way to Moira's heart.
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Lilacs in the Spring
Title: Lilacs in the Spring
Character: Beaumont's Poolside Companion (uncredited)
Released: December 21, 1954
Type: Movie
A young actress must decide which of two lovers will be her husband. She daydreams about each one to help her decide.
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The Limping Man
Title: The Limping Man
Character: Airport Traveller (Uncredited)
Released: December 11, 1953
Type: Movie
An American veteran returns to England after WWII to learn that his London lover has become involved with a dangerous spy ring and their search for a limping sniper.
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Black 13
Title: Black 13
Character: Policeman (uncredited)
Released: November 30, 1953
Type: Movie
The son of a college professor who turns to a life of crime after killing a pedestrian in an automobile accident.
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Title: General Electric Theater
Character: Bud Austin
Released: February 1, 1953
Type: TV
General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was sponsored by General Electric's Department of Public Relations.
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Title: This Is Your Life
Character: Self
Released: October 1, 1952
Type: TV
This Is Your Life is an American television documentary series broadcast on NBC, originally hosted by its producer, Ralph Edwards from 1952 to 1961. In the show, the host surprises a guest, and proceeds to take them through their life in front of an audience, including special guest appearances by colleagues, friends and family. Edwards revived the show in 1971-72, while Joseph Campanella hosted a version in 1983. Edwards returned for some specials in the late 1980s, before his death in 2005. The show originated as a radio show on NBC Radio airing from 1948 to 1952.
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Title: Hallmark Hall of Fame
Character: Cormac Joyce
Released: December 24, 1951
Type: TV
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.
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Title: What's My Line?
Character: Self - Mystery Guest
Released: February 2, 1950
Type: TV
Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or "no" questions.