Stephen Roberts

Stephen Roberts

Born: July 25, 1917
Died: October 26, 1999
in Floral Park, Long Island, New York, USA

Movies for Stephen Roberts...

Title: Hunter
Character: Mr. Latimer
Released: September 18, 1984
Type: TV
Hunter is an American police drama television series created by Frank Lupo, and starring Fred Dryer as Sgt. Rick Hunter and Stepfanie Kramer as Sgt. Dee Dee McCall, which ran on NBC from 1984 to 1991. However, Kramer left after the sixth season to pursue other acting and musical opportunities. In the seventh season, Hunter partnered with two different women officers. The titular character, Sgt. Rick Hunter, was a wily, physically imposing, and often rule-breaking homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department. The show's main characters, Hunter and McCall, resolve many of their cases by shooting dead the perpetrators. The show's executive producer during the first season was Stephen J. Cannell, whose company produced the series.
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Romantic Comedy
Title: Romantic Comedy
Character: Maitre D'
Released: October 7, 1983
Type: Movie
Jason is in need of a collaborator to give him inspiration. Phoebe is a small-town English teacher with an urge to write. On the day Jason is being married, Jason and Phoebe meet and form a partnership.
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Enola Gay: The Men, the Mission, the Atomic Bomb
Title: Enola Gay: The Men, the Mission, the Atomic Bomb
Character: President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Released: November 23, 1980
Type: Movie
The story of Col. Paul Tibbets and his crew who flew the Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, bringing World War II to a close.
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The Long Days of Summer
Title: The Long Days of Summer
Character: Franklin D. Roosevelt
Released: May 23, 1980
Type: Movie
In this sequel to his 1978 "When Every Day Was the Fourth of July" (and a pilot to a prospective series), producer/director Dan Curtis recalls more of his youth during the late '30, and follows a fictionalized family where the father has jeopardized a promising law career to defend a Jewish immigrant against the prejudices of a staid New England town.
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Ike
Title: Ike
Character: Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Released: May 3, 1979
Type: Movie
Eisenhower the military man is the focus of this mini-series, his relationships with the other wartime leaders, and, very discreetly, his personal relationship with his driver, Kay Summersby.
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Ring of Passion
Title: Ring of Passion
Character: Franklin D. Roosevelt
Released: February 4, 1978
Type: Movie
Fact-based drama about the two Joe Louis-Max Schmeling heavyweight fights and the way both boxers unwillingly became symbols of political ideologies just prior to World War II.
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Escape from the Planet of the Apes
Title: Escape from the Planet of the Apes
Character: Gen. Brody (uncredited)
Released: May 20, 1971
Type: Movie
The world is shocked by the appearance of three talking chimpanzees, who arrived mysteriously in a spacecraft. Intrigued by their intelligence, humans use them for research - until the apes attempt to escape.
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The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band
Title: The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band
Character: Second Outspoken Man (uncredited)
Released: April 19, 1968
Type: Movie
The Bower Family Band petitions the Democratic National Committee to sing a Grover Cleveland rally song at the 1888 convention, but decide instead to move to the Dakota territory on the urging of a suitor to their eldest daughter. There, Grampa Bower causes trouble with his pro-Cleveland ideas, as Dakota residents are overwhelmingly Republican, and hope to get the territory admitted as two states (North and South Dakota) rather than one in order to send four Republican senators to Washington. Cleveland opposed this plan, refusing to refer to Congress the plan to organize the Dakotas this way. When Cleveland wins the popular vote, but Harrison the presidency due to the electoral college votes, the Dakotans (particularly the feuding young couple) resolve to live together in peace, and Cleveland grants statehood to the two Dakotas before he leaves office (along with two Democrat-voting states, evening the gains for both parties).
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Title: I Dream of Jeannie
Character: General Gorman
Released: September 18, 1965
Type: TV
While on a mission, American astronaut Captain Tony Nelson is forced to make an emergency landing that will forever change his life. On a deserted South Pacific island, Captain Nelson happens upon a bottle containing a beautiful two-thousand-year-old female genie named Jeannie. Rescuing her from the bottle nets Tony the requisite three wishes, and then some, when Jeannie pledges total devotion to her new "master".
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Brainstorm
Title: Brainstorm
Character: Judge
Released: May 5, 1965
Type: Movie
Scientist Jim Grayam saves his boss' wife from suicide but then falls in love with her.
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The Quick Gun
Title: The Quick Gun
Character: Dr. Stevens
Released: April 1, 1964
Type: Movie
Gunslinger Murphy helps an ungrateful town fight off a raid by his former gang.
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Title: The Fugitive
Character: Chief Blaney
Released: September 17, 1963
Type: TV
Richard Kimble is falsely convicted of his wife's murder and given the death penalty. En route to death row, Kimble's train derails and crashes, allowing him to escape and begin a cross-country search for the real killer, a "one-armed man". At the same time, Dr. Kimble is hounded by the authorities, most notably dogged by Police Lieutenant Philip Gerard.
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Terrified
Title: Terrified
Character: Wesley Blake
Released: May 1, 1963
Type: Movie
A masked lunatic kills off people in a haunted house.
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Diary of a Madman
Title: Diary of a Madman
Character: Captain Robert Rennedon
Released: March 6, 1963
Type: Movie
Simon Cordier, a French magistrate and amateur sculptor comes into contact with a malevolent entity. The invisible - yet corporeal - being, called a "horla" is capable of limited psychokinesis and complete mind control.
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Title: The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Character: Boris Crispis
Released: September 20, 1962
Type: TV
A continuation of the anthology series “Alfred Hitchcock Presents”, hosted by the master of suspense and featuring thrillers and mysteries.
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Portrait of a Mobster
Title: Portrait of a Mobster
Character: Guthrie
Released: April 19, 1961
Type: Movie
A vicious hood rises to the top of the rackets in Depression-era New York in this account of the life of Dutch Schultz.
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The Wild and the Innocent
Title: The Wild and the Innocent
Character: Bouncer
Released: May 27, 1959
Type: Movie
Charming tale of mountaineer-trapper Murphy's first taste "big city" life with young, sweet Sandra Dee in tow. She flees her family, which tried to trade her for some of Murphy's beaver pelts, and tags along with the reluctant Murphy. They get into all manner of trouble in town, and Murphy has to shoot the sheriff to rescue Dee from her job as a dancehall girl.
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Title: One Step Beyond
Character: Swanson - Second Mate
Released: January 20, 1959
Type: TV
Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond is an American anthology series created by Merwin Gerard. The original series ran for three seasons on ABC from January 1959 to July 1961.
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Title: Black Saddle
Character: Whit Graham
Released: January 10, 1959
Type: TV
Black Saddle is an American Western television series starring Peter Breck that aired 44 episodes on ABC from January 10, 1959 to May 6, 1960. The half-hour program was produced by Dick Powell's Four Star Television, and the original pilot was an episode of CBS's Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater, with Chris Alcaide portraying the principal character, Clay Culhane. For syndicated reruns, Black Saddle was combined with three other Western series from the same company, Law of the Plainsman starring Michael Ansara, Johnny Ringo starring Don Durant and Mark Goddard, and the critically acclaimed creation of Sam Peckinpah, The Westerner with Brian Keith, under the umbrella title, The Westerners, with new hosting sequences by Keenan Wynn.
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The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell
Title: The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell
Character: Major Carl Spaatz
Released: December 31, 1955
Type: Movie
A dramatization of the American general and his court martial for publically complaining about High Command's dismissal and neglect of the aerial fighting forces.
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Title: Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Psychiatrist
Released: October 2, 1955
Type: TV
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
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The Twonky
Title: The Twonky
Character: Head Treasury Agent
Released: June 10, 1953
Type: Movie
A college professor, left alone by his wife for the weekend, discovers his new TV set is not only alive, but determined to take control of his entire life.
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Julius Caesar
Title: Julius Caesar
Character: Dardanius
Released: June 4, 1953
Type: Movie
The assassination of the would be ruler of Rome at the hands of Brutus and company has tragic consequences for the idealist and the republic.
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The Racket
Title: The Racket
Character: Schmidt (uncredited)
Released: October 25, 1951
Type: Movie
The big national crime syndicate has moved into town, partnering up with local crime boss Nick Scanlon. McQuigg, the only honest police captain on the force, and his loyal patrolman, Johnson, take on the violent Nick.
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Roadblock
Title: Roadblock
Character: Matt De Vita (uncredited)
Released: September 17, 1951
Type: Movie
An insurance agent's greedy girlfriend with a taste for mink leads him to a life of crime.
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Rogue River
Title: Rogue River
Character: Mayor Arthur Judson
Released: February 15, 1951
Type: Movie
The story of Ownie Rodgers, the nephew of crooked Oregon police chief Joe Dandridge. A $70,000 windfall, bequeathed to Dandridge by a man he'd once framed on a bank robbery charge, unleashes innumerable family skeletons. Ownie is obliged to solve the long-ago bank job himself, and in so doing he discovers that his "faithful" girl friend Judy was in on the scheme.
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Shakedown
Title: Shakedown
Character: Magazine Representative (uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1950
Type: Movie
Jack Early is a photographer who will stop at nothing to climb his way to the very top of the success ladder. On the strength of his sheer tenacity, he gets a job with a major newspaper, and it's not long before he's made a name for himself by charming a notorious crime boss, Nick Palmer, into allowing himself to be photographed. Palmer takes him under his wing, but Early decides to bite the hand that feeds him and sets Palmer and another crime boss, Colton, against one another.
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Where the Sidewalk Ends
Title: Where the Sidewalk Ends
Character: Gilruth (uncredited)
Released: July 7, 1950
Type: Movie
A police detective's violent nature keeps him from being a good cop.
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The File on Thelma Jordon
Title: The File on Thelma Jordon
Character: Jury Foreman (Uncredited)
Released: November 4, 1949
Type: Movie
Cleve Marshall, an assistant district attorney, falls for Thelma Jordon, a mysterious woman with a troubled past. When Thelma becomes a suspect in her aunt's murder, Cleve tries to clear her name.
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Criss Cross
Title: Criss Cross
Character: Doctor (uncredited)
Released: February 4, 1949
Type: Movie
An armored-car guard must join a robbery after being caught with his ex-wife by her gangster husband.
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Joan of Arc
Title: Joan of Arc
Character: Thomas de Courcelles, a Prosecutor
Released: December 22, 1948
Type: Movie
In the 15th Century, France is a defeated and ruined nation after the One Hundred Years War against England. The fourteen-year-old farm girl Joan of Arc claims to hear voices from Heaven asking her to lead God's Army against Orleans and crowning the weak Dauphin Charles VII as King of France. Joan gathers the people with her faith, forms an army, and conquers Orleans.
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Kiss of Death
Title: Kiss of Death
Character: Guard (uncredited)
Released: August 27, 1947
Type: Movie
An ex-con trying to go straight must face a crazed criminal out for revenge.
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Miracle on 34th Street
Title: Miracle on 34th Street
Character: Security Guard (uncredited)
Released: June 4, 1947
Type: Movie
Kris Kringle, seemingly the embodiment of Santa Claus, is asked to portray the jolly old fellow at Macy's following his performance in the Thanksgiving Day parade. His portrayal is so complete that many begin to question if he truly is Santa Claus, while others question his sanity.
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Spy Train
Title: Spy Train
Character: Anderson #1 (as Steve Roberts)
Released: July 9, 1943
Type: Movie
People on a train want what's in a Nazi spy bag, unaware it's a time bomb.