Richard Kiel

Richard Kiel

Born: September 13, 1939
Died: September 10, 2014
in Detroit, Michigan, USA
Richard Dawson Kiel was an American actor best known for his role as the steel-toothed Jaws in the James Bond movies The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and Moonraker (1979) as well as the video game Everything or Nothing, and Mr. Larson in Happy Gilmore. He was 7 feet 1.5  inches (2.18 m) tall in his prime but now due to injury and age, he is slightly under 7 feet tall.

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The Twilight Zone: A 60th Anniversary Celebration
Title: The Twilight Zone: A 60th Anniversary Celebration
Character: Kanamit (archive footage)
Released: November 14, 2019
Type: Movie
Six episodes of the original series, restored and on the big screen for the first time, and a special retrospective documentary encompass this Fathom Event.
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Top Gear: 50 Years of Bond Cars
Title: Top Gear: 50 Years of Bond Cars
Character: Self
Released: October 29, 2012
Type: Movie
Richard Hammond celebrates 50 years of Bond's amazing history with cars revealing the entertaining behind-the-scenes stories of the most iconic cars.
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Tangled
Title: Tangled
Character: Vlad (voice)
Released: November 24, 2010
Type: Movie
When the kingdom's most wanted-and most charming-bandit Flynn Rider hides out in a mysterious tower, he's taken hostage by Rapunzel, a beautiful and feisty tower-bound teen with 70 feet of magical, golden hair. Flynn's curious captor, who's looking for her ticket out of the tower where she's been locked away for years, strikes a deal with the handsome thief and the unlikely duo sets off on an action-packed escapade, complete with a super-cop horse, an over-protective chameleon and a gruff gang of pub thugs.
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Title: Welcome to Sweden
Released: March 9, 2007
Type: TV
Welcome to Sweden is a Swedish reality show starring American actors Richard Kiel and Verne Troyer. The show aired on Swedish channel 5 in early 2007.
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Best Ever Bond
Title: Best Ever Bond
Character: Self / Jaws
Released: November 22, 2002
Type: Movie
Roger Moore presents the ten best sequences ever to have appeared in the James Bond series, and cast members recall their favourite moments.
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Inside 'Moonraker'
Title: Inside 'Moonraker'
Character: Self
Released: May 16, 2000
Type: Movie
Documentary looking at the production of the James Bond movie 'Moonraker'. Narated by Patrick Macnee.
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Inside 'The Spy Who Loved Me'
Title: Inside 'The Spy Who Loved Me'
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 2000
Type: Movie
A behind the scenes look at the James Bond film "The Spy Who Loved Me"
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Inspector Gadget
Title: Inspector Gadget
Character: Famous Big Guy with Silver Teeth
Released: July 23, 1999
Type: Movie
John Brown is a bumbling but well-intentioned security guard who is badly injured in an explosion planned by an evil mastermind. He is taken to a laboratory, where Brenda, a leading robotics surgeon, replaces his damaged limbs with state-of-the-art gadgets and tools. Named "Inspector Gadget" by the press, John -- along with his niece, Penny, and her trusty dog, Brain -- uses his new powers to discover who was behind the explosion.
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The Secrets of 007
Title: The Secrets of 007
Released: December 4, 1997
Type: Movie
Behind-the-scenes look at more than three decades of the James Bond feature film series.
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Title: E! True Hollywood Story
Released: August 21, 1996
Type: TV
E! True Hollywood Story is an American documentary series on E! that deals with famous Hollywood celebrities, movies, TV shows and also well-known public figures. Among the topics covered on the program include salacious re-tellings of Hollywood secrets, show-biz scandals, celebrity murders and mysteries, porn-star biographies, and "where-are-they-now?" investigations of former child stars. It frequently features in-depth interviews, actual courtroom footage, and dramatic reenactments. When aired on the E! network, episodes will be updated to reflect the current life or status of the subject.
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Happy Gilmore
Title: Happy Gilmore
Character: Mr. Larson
Released: February 16, 1996
Type: Movie
Failed hockey player-turned-golf whiz Happy Gilmore -- whose unconventional approach and antics on the grass courts the ire of rival Shooter McGavin -- is determined to win a PGA tournament so he can save his granny's house with the prize money. Meanwhile, an attractive tour publicist tries to soften Happy's image.
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The World of James Bond
Title: The World of James Bond
Released: October 29, 1995
Type: Movie
Elizabeth Hurley hosts a one hour documentary on the history of the James Bond film series to tie in with the seventeenth Bond film, GoldenEye.
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The Giant of Thunder Mountain
Title: The Giant of Thunder Mountain
Character: Eli Weaver
Released: December 25, 1990
Type: Movie
A mountain man is falsely accused of the murder of his parents.
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Think Big
Title: Think Big
Character: Irving
Released: September 30, 1989
Type: Movie
Two truckers hired to transport toxic waste across the country get caught up with a teen genius who stows away on their truck.
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Title: Superboy
Released: October 8, 1988
Type: TV
Superboy is a half-hour live-action television series based on Kal-El's early years as Superboy. It depicted Superboy's adventures during his college years, his meetings with Lex Luthor and his romance with Lana Lang. The series was brought to the screen by executive producers Ilya and Alexander Salkind, who were the producers of the first three Superman movies and the 1984 Supergirl movie.
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Pale Rider
Title: Pale Rider
Character: Club
Released: June 28, 1985
Type: Movie
A mysterious preacher protects a humble prospector village from a greedy mining company trying to encroach on their land.
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Mob Busters
Title: Mob Busters
Released: January 1, 1985
Type: Movie
An American in Hong Kong battles mobsters.
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Cannonball Run II
Title: Cannonball Run II
Character: Arnold
Released: June 29, 1984
Type: Movie
When a wealthy sheikh puts up $1 million in prize money for a cross-country car race, there is one person crazy enough to hit the road hard with wheels spinning fast. Legendary driver J.J. McClure enters the competition along with his friend Victor and together they set off across the American landscape in a madcap action-adventure destined to test their wits and automobile skills.
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Aces Go Places III: Our Man from Bond Street
Title: Aces Go Places III: Our Man from Bond Street
Character: Big G
Released: January 25, 1984
Type: Movie
A master thief is duped by lookalikes for James Bond and the Queen of England into stealing a valuable gem from a heavily guarded location then must help the police recover it.
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Hysterical
Title: Hysterical
Character: Captain James Howdy
Released: December 22, 1982
Type: Movie
Frederic Lansing is a writer who hopes to find inspiration while vacationing in Hellview, Oregon; however, the lighthouse in which he's staying is haunted by the ghost of Venetia, who had killed herself 100 years ago and now wants to use Lansing as a vessel for her dead husband, Captain Howdy. When Howdy's ghost starts killing people, two bumbling scientists are brought in to investigate the history of the lighthouse and solve the case.
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Title: Late Night with David Letterman
Character: Self
Released: February 1, 1982
Type: TV
Late Night with David Letterman is a nightly hour-long comedy talk show on NBC that was created and hosted by David Letterman. It premiered in 1982 as the first incarnation of the Late Night franchise and went off the air in 1993, after Letterman left NBC and moved to Late Show on CBS. Late Night with Conan O'Brien then filled the time slot. As of March 2, 2009, the slot has been filled by Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. It will be filled by Seth Meyers in the spring of 2014, after Fallon becomes host of The Tonight Show.
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Title: Simon & Simon
Released: November 24, 1981
Type: TV
Simon & Simon is an American detective television series that originally ran from November 24, 1981 to January 21, 1989. The series was broadcast on CBS and starred Gerald McRaney and Jameson Parker as two brothers who run a private detective agency together.
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Title: The Fall Guy
Released: November 4, 1981
Type: TV
Hollywood stuntman Colt Seavers picks up some extra pocket money by using his rough-and-tumble skills to track and capture bail jumpers.
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So Fine
Title: So Fine
Character: Eddie
Released: September 25, 1981
Type: Movie
While trying to get his father out of a financial jam, a man comes up with an idea that turns into an unexpected overnight financial fashion success - the bottomless pants.
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Moonraker
Title: Moonraker
Character: Jaws
Released: June 26, 1979
Type: Movie
After Drax Industries' Moonraker space shuttle is hijacked, secret agent James Bond is assigned to investigate, traveling to California to meet the company's owner, the mysterious Hugo Drax. With the help of scientist Dr. Holly Goodhead, Bond soon uncovers Drax's nefarious plans for humanity, all the while fending off an old nemesis, Jaws, and venturing to Venice, Rio, the Amazon...and even outer space.
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The Humanoid
Title: The Humanoid
Character: Golob
Released: April 11, 1979
Type: Movie
Hoping to overthrow his brother as ruler of the planet Metropolis, the evil Graal enlists the help of the insane Dr. Kraspin, who has invented a chemical capable of turning an ordinary person into a perfect soldier. They test this chemical on the pilot Golob, turning the unsuspecting victim into a mindless but indestructible automaton possessing superhuman strength. The people of Metropolis must somehow outwit Graal before he can create an army of these soldiers, or their planet will be destroyed.
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They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way
Title: They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way
Character: Duke
Released: December 1, 1978
Type: Movie
Dewey and Wallace are small-town lawmen who are ordered by the governor to go undercover as prison inmates to find out where a gang of thieves have hidden their loot. While they're undercover, however, the governor dies, and because no one else knows about the ruse Dewey and Wallace are stranded in prison.
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Force 10 from Navarone
Title: Force 10 from Navarone
Character: Drazak
Released: August 16, 1978
Type: Movie
World War II, 1943. Mallory and Miller, the heroes who destroyed the guns of Navarone, are sent to Yugoslavia in search of a ghost from the past.
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The Phoenix
Title: The Phoenix
Character: Grasshopper
Released: January 1, 1978
Type: Movie
With the clash of steel from his mighty magic sword and the beat of the wings of the giant Phoenix, Ty sets forth on his quest to regain his Magic Bronze Pot and thwart the evil intentions of Flower Fox and her villainous companion Grasshopper. A warrior conjured out of stone, a massive tidal wave — one after another, Ty has to overcome the obstacles which Flower Fox throws in his path until he reaches her secret island sanctuary. And then the real battle begins. With the tide of the battle running first one way and then the other, courageous Ty risks his life in a last attempt to save the world from destruction.
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Title: Young Dan'l Boone
Released: September 12, 1977
Type: TV
Young Dan'l Boone is a short-lived TV series broadcast on CBS for only four episodes from September 12 to October 10, 1977. The series followed Daniel Boone on his adventures before he was married. His 3 companions were Peter Dawes, a 12-year-old English boy, a runaway slave named Hawk, and a Cherokee named Tsiskwa. Meanwhile, Rebecca Bryan waits at home hoping she and Daniel would marry someday.
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The Spy Who Loved Me
Title: The Spy Who Loved Me
Character: Jaws
Released: July 7, 1977
Type: Movie
Russian and British submarines with nuclear missiles on board both vanish from sight without a trace. England and Russia both blame each other as James Bond tries to solve the riddle of the disappearing ships. But the KGB also has an agent on the case.
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Title: The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries
Released: January 30, 1977
Type: TV
The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries is a television series which aired for three seasons on ABC. The series starred Parker Stevenson and Shaun Cassidy as amateur sleuth brothers Frank and Joe Hardy, respectively, and Pamela Sue Martin as girl detective Nancy Drew. The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries was unusual in that it often dealt with the characters individually, in an almost anthological style. That is, some episodes featured only the Hardy Boys and others only Nancy Drew.
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Silver Streak
Title: Silver Streak
Character: Reace
Released: December 3, 1976
Type: Movie
A somewhat daffy book editor on a rail trip from Los Angeles to Chicago thinks that he sees a murdered man thrown from the train. When he can find no one who will believe him, he starts doing some investigating of his own. But all that accomplishes is to get the killer after him.
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Gus
Title: Gus
Character: Tall Man
Released: July 7, 1976
Type: Movie
The California Atoms are in last place with no hope of moving up. But by switching the mule from team mascot to team member, (He can kick 100 yard field goals!) they start winning, and move up in the rankings, Hurrah! The competition isn't so happy.
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Title: Van Dyke and Company
Character: Self
Released: October 30, 1975
Type: TV
Short-lived variety show starring Dick Van Dyke and assorted guests. The show was best known for Dick's pantomime acting and a recurring skit about the dumbest family in the world, coincidently named "The Bright Family". Van Dyke & Co also featured appearances by the Los Angeles Mime Company.
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Title: Starsky & Hutch
Released: September 10, 1975
Type: TV
Streetwise Detective David Starsky partners up with a more intellectual partner, Kenneth 'Hutch' Hutchinson, to protect citizens and patrol the streets of Bay City.
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Title: Switch
Character: Loach
Released: September 9, 1975
Type: TV
Switch is an American action-adventure, tongue-in-cheek detective series starring Eddie Albert and Robert Wagner, who work as private eyes, for a deceptive sting operation. It was broadcast on the CBS network for three seasons between September 9, 1975 and August 20, 1978, bumping the Hawaii Five-O detective series to Friday nights.
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Title: Barbary Coast
Character: Moose Moran
Released: September 8, 1975
Type: TV
Barbary Coast is an American television series that aired on ABC. The pilot movie first aired on May 4, 1975 and the series itself premiered September 8, 1975; the last episode aired January 9, 1976. Barbary Coast was inspired by a similar 19th-century spy series, The Wild Wild West, and like the earlier program, Barbary Coast mixed the genres of Western and secret agent drama.
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Flash and the Firecat
Title: Flash and the Firecat
Character: Milo Pewett
Released: May 31, 1975
Type: Movie
Gang of robbers use dune buggies for their big heist.
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Title: Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Character: Self
Released: January 12, 1975
Type: TV
A talk show presented by Michel Drucker
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Title: Kolchak: The Night Stalker
Character: The Monster
Released: September 13, 1974
Type: TV
Kolchak: The Night Stalker is an American television series that aired on ABC during the 1974–1975 season. It featured a fictional Chicago newspaper reporter who investigated mysterious crimes with unlikely causes, particularly those that law enforcement authorities would not follow up. These often involved the supernatural or even science fiction, including fantastic creatures.
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The Longest Yard
Title: The Longest Yard
Character: Samson
Released: August 21, 1974
Type: Movie
A football player-turned-convict organizes a team of inmates to play against a team of prison guards. His dilemma is that the warden asks him to throw the game in return for an early release, but he is also concerned about the inmates' lack of self-esteem.
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Title: Am laufenden Band
Character: Self - Guest
Released: April 27, 1974
Type: TV
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Deadhead Miles
Title: Deadhead Miles
Character: Big Dick
Released: August 8, 1972
Type: Movie
A long-distance trucker, dressed like a sea captain, aimlessly sails the American highways in his 18 wheeler mumbling manic, southern accented non sequiturs; carnivalizing roadside stops and happenstance towns while out-weirding cops and weigh stations with his new cryptic, over-coated hitchhiker buddy.
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Title: Emergency!
Released: January 22, 1972
Type: TV
The crew of Los Angeles County Fire Department Station 51, particularly the paramedic team, and Rampart Hospital respond to emergencies in their operating area.
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The Boy Who Stole the Elephant
Title: The Boy Who Stole the Elephant
Character: Luke Brown
Released: September 20, 1970
Type: Movie
A frontier huckster, Colonel Ryder, and a young orphan, Davey, operate a travelling tent show. They are loaned an elephant by an old friend, Molly, who is also a rival circus owner. Davey trains the elephant and the two soon become inseparable. When the Colonel loses the elephant in gambling, Davey steals the elephant and begins a 20-mile search for Molly, the rightful owner.
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On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
Title: On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
Character: Blacksmith (uncredited)
Released: June 17, 1970
Type: Movie
Daisy Gamble, an unusual woman who hears phones before they ring, and does wonders with her flowers, wants to quit smoking to please her fiancé, Warren. She goes to a doctor of hypnosis to do it. But once she's under, her doctor finds out that she can regress into past lives and different personalities, and he finds himself falling in love with one of them.
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Skidoo
Title: Skidoo
Character: Beany
Released: December 19, 1968
Type: Movie
Ex-gangster Tony Banks is called out of retirement by mob kingpin God to carry out a hit on fellow mobster "Blue Chips" Packard. When Banks demurs, God kidnaps his daughter Darlene on his luxury yacht.
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Now You See It, Now You Don't
Title: Now You See It, Now You Don't
Character: Nori
Released: November 11, 1968
Type: Movie
A bumbling art expert, hired by an insurance company to protect a Rembrandt on loan from the Louvre, schemes to steal it.
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A Man Called Dagger
Title: A Man Called Dagger
Character: Otto
Released: December 15, 1967
Type: Movie
An agent finds himself pitted against a former Nazi who has a plan to become ruler of the world through mind control.
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Title: The Monkees
Character: Monster
Released: September 12, 1966
Type: TV
Micky, Mike, Peter, and Davy are four young men in mid-1960s LA, members of a struggling country-folk-rock band looking for their big break amid madcap encounters with a variety of people straight out of TV and movie central casting, with full knowledge that their existence is part of a weekly television series
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Title: The Monroes
Released: September 7, 1966
Type: TV
The Monroes is a 26-segment Western television series which originally aired on ABC during the 1966-1967 season. The series centers around the story of five orphans trying to survive as a family on the frontier in the area around, what is now, Grand Teton National Park near Jackson, Wyoming.
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Las Vegas Hillbillys
Title: Las Vegas Hillbillys
Released: May 11, 1966
Type: Movie
A Hillbilly hits the big time in Las Vegas.
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Title: I Dream of Jeannie
Character: Ali
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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Title: Honey West
Character: Groalgo
Released: September 17, 1965
Type: TV
After her father's death, Honey West takes over his high-tech private-detective firm, assisted by rugged Sam Bolt--and her pet ocelot Bruce.
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Title: The Wild Wild West
Released: September 17, 1965
Type: TV
The Wild Wild West is an American television series Developed at a time when the television western was losing ground to the spy genre, this show was conceived by its creator, Michael Garrison, as "James Bond on horseback." Set during the administration of President Ulysses Grant, the series followed Secret Service agents James West and Artemus Gordon as they solved crimes, protected the President, and foiled the plans of megalomaniacal villains to take over all or part of the United States. The show also featured a number of fantasy elements, such as the technologically advanced devices used by the agents and their adversaries. The combination of the Victorian era time-frame and the use of Verne-esque style technology have inspired some to give the show credit for the origins of the steam punk subculture.
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Title: My Mother the Car
Released: September 14, 1965
Type: TV
The story of the relationship between a man and his mother, the latter having been reincarnated as a 1928 Porter automobile.
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Brainstorm
Title: Brainstorm
Character: Asylum Inmate (uncredited)
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 Human Duplicators
Title: The Human Duplicators
Character: Dr. Kolos
Released: March 3, 1965
Type: Movie
An alien is dispatched from a faraway galaxy to take over the Earth by "duplicating" humans and creating a race of zombies.
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The Nasty Rabbit
Title: The Nasty Rabbit
Character: Ranch Foreman
Released: December 1, 1964
Type: Movie
Russian spies secretly infect rabbits with a deadly bacteria, then let them loose in the U.S.
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Title: Gilligan's Island
Released: September 26, 1964
Type: TV
The slapstick adventures of hapless Gilligan, long-suffering Skipper and their gang of mismatched castaways, all stranded on an uncharted desert isle after their tiny ship hit stormy weather.
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Title: Daniel Boone
Character: Lemouche
Released: September 24, 1964
Type: TV
Daniel Boone is an American action-adventure television series starring Fess Parker as Daniel Boone that aired from September 24, 1964 to September 10, 1970 on NBC for 165 episodes, and was made by 20th Century Fox Television. Ed Ames co-starred as Mingo, Boone's Cherokee friend, for the first four seasons of the series. Albert Salmi portrayed Boone's companion Yadkin in season one only. Dallas McKennon portrayed innkeeper Cincinnatus. Country Western singer-actor Jimmy Dean was a featured actor as Josh Clements during the 1968–1970 seasons. Actor and former NFL football player Rosey Grier made regular appearances as Gabe Cooper in the 1969 to 1970 season. The show was broadcast "in living color" beginning in fall 1965, the second season, and was shot entirely in California and Kanab, Utah.
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Title: The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Released: September 22, 1964
Type: TV
Agents Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin work for a secret intelligence service working under the auspices of the U.N. Their immediate superior is Mr. Waverly. Together they operate out of a secret base beneath the streets of New York City, and accesses through several cover business such as Del Floria's Tailor Shop and the Masque Club. This secret intelligence service is called U.N.C.L.E. United Network Command for Law and Enforcement.
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Lassie's Great Adventure
Title: Lassie's Great Adventure
Character: Chinook Pete
Released: August 1, 1963
Type: Movie
While in Canada Timmy and Lassie encounter a downed hot air ballonist. By accident they end up in the balloon which takes them into the wilderness. The young boy and his dog must find a way to survive even fending off a wild pig.
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The Nutty Professor
Title: The Nutty Professor
Character: Man in Gym (uncredited)
Released: June 4, 1963
Type: Movie
A timid, nearsighted chemistry teacher discovers a magical potion that can transform him into a suave and handsome Romeo. The Jekyll and Hyde game works well enough until the concoction starts to wear off at the most embarrassing times.
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House of the Damned
Title: House of the Damned
Character: The Giant
Released: March 1, 1963
Type: Movie
An architect and his wife are staying in an empty castle in California. They are joined by an unhappily married lawyer and his wife. Things start getting strange when they spot a half man/half beast prowling around the house and keep seeing a headless woman wandering the grounds.
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Eegah
Title: Eegah
Character: Eegah
Released: June 8, 1962
Type: Movie
Teenagers stumble across a prehistoric caveman, who goes on a rampage.
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The Phantom Planet
Title: The Phantom Planet
Character: The Solarite
Released: December 13, 1961
Type: Movie
After an asteroid draws an astronaut and his ship to its surface, he is miniaturized by the phantom planet's exotic atmosphere.
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Title: The Mike Douglas Show
Character: Self
Released: December 11, 1961
Type: TV
The Mike Douglas Show is an American daytime television talk show hosted by Mike Douglas that originally aired only in the Cleveland area during much of its first two years on the air. It then went into syndication in 1963 and remained on television until 1982. It was distributed by Westinghouse Broadcasting and for much of its run, originated from studios of two of the company's TV stations in Cleveland and Philadelphia.
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The Phantom
Title: The Phantom
Character: Big Mike
Released: January 1, 1961
Type: Movie
The Phantom, along with canine companion Devil, investigate wicked doings at the plantation of Mrs. Harris. An unsold TV pilot based on the popular superhero.
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Title: Thriller
Character: Master Styx
Released: September 13, 1960
Type: TV
Thriller is an American anthology television series that aired during the 1960–61 and 1961–62 seasons on NBC. The show featured host Boris Karloff introducing a mix of self-contained, macabre weird-horror and morbid, hitchockian crime stories, in some of which he also starred.
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Title: The Twilight Zone
Character: Kanamit
Released: October 2, 1959
Type: TV
A series of unrelated stories containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist.
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Title: The Rifleman
Released: September 30, 1958
Type: TV
The Rifleman is an American Western television program starring Chuck Connors as rancher Lucas McCain and Johnny Crawford as his son, Mark McCain. It was set in the 1880s in the town of North Fork, New Mexico Territory. The show was filmed in black-and-white, half-hour episodes. "The Rifleman" aired on ABC from September 30, 1958 to April 8, 1963 as a production of Four Star Television. It was one of the first prime time series to have a widowed parent raise a child.