Patrick Macnee

Patrick Macnee

Born: February 6, 1922
Died: June 25, 2015
in Paddington, London, England, UK
Patrick Macnee (6 February 1922 - 25 June 2015) was an English actor, best known for his role as the secret agent John Steed in the series The Avengers (1961-1969).

Movies for Patrick Macnee...

The Witnessing of Angels
Title: The Witnessing of Angels
Character: Self - Host
Released: May 16, 2006
Type: Movie
As a force of light, angels are God's ministering spirits, messengers who protect and comfort, created for the purpose of carrying out the will of God. Serving as an intermediary between heaven and earth, angels pass through the invisible windows between the worlds. The Witnessing of Angels" features breathtaking eyewitness accounts of people who have seen and heard angels. These divine encounters with angels have brought with them a renewed sense that God is at work and that these angels among us are real. Join us on a spiritual journey of never before told stories of ordinary people's personal encounters with God's Messengers.
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Title: Must See TV
Released: November 10, 2005
Type: TV
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Unlocking DaVinci's Code
Title: Unlocking DaVinci's Code
Character: Narrator/Host
Released: August 10, 2004
Type: Movie
Centuries of conspiracy unmasked in this documentary! Discover the hidden meaning inside the greatest art in history as host Patrick MacNee reveals the secrets to the strange riddles and clues within the masterpieces of Leonardo DaVinci. Revealed for the first time ever on DVD, the controversial link between Jesus Christ, Mary Magdalene and Leonardo DaVinci. Explore the secret society that includes DaVinci, Sir Isaac Newton, Botticelli and Victor Hugo. Unlocking DaVinci's Code reveals the greatest mysteries of our time and the greatest secrets of our past.
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The Low Budget Time Machine
Title: The Low Budget Time Machine
Character: Dr. Ballard
Released: May 1, 2003
Type: Movie
A conniving professor and his gorilla side-kick convince down-and-out astronauts to go on a time-journey to benefit mankind. Once transported to the future, they meet beautiful but deadly space babes, a horrible monster and an army of mutants. The last doomed survivors of earth are trapped by a cosmic plague unleashed in an apocalyptic future!
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Inside 'Licence to Kill'
Title: Inside 'Licence to Kill'
Character: Narrator
Released: October 17, 2000
Type: Movie
A behind the scenes look at the James Bond film 'Licence to Kill'.
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Inside 'Diamonds Are Forever'
Title: Inside 'Diamonds Are Forever'
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: October 17, 2000
Type: Movie
A behind the scenes look at the James Bond film "Diamonds are Forever"
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Inside 'You Only Live Twice'
Title: Inside 'You Only Live Twice'
Character: Narrator
Released: October 17, 2000
Type: Movie
A behind the scenes look at the James Bond film "You Only Live Twice"
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Inside 'The Living Daylights'
Title: Inside 'The Living Daylights'
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: October 17, 2000
Type: Movie
A behind the scenes look at the James Bond film "The Living Daylights"
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Silhouettes: The James Bond Titles
Title: Silhouettes: The James Bond Titles
Character: Narrator
Released: July 25, 2000
Type: Movie
Documentary exploring the famous title sequences used in the Bond movies. Narrated by Patrick Macnee. Included on the 'You Only Live Twice' Bluray disc
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Inside 'From Russia with Love'
Title: Inside 'From Russia with Love'
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: June 23, 2000
Type: Movie
A behind the scenes look at the James Bond film "From Russia with Love".
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Inside 'The Man with the Golden Gun'
Title: Inside 'The Man with the Golden Gun'
Character: Narrator
Released: May 20, 2000
Type: Movie
A behind the scenes look at the James Bond film "The Man with the Golden Gun"
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Inside 'For Your Eyes Only'
Title: Inside 'For Your Eyes Only'
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: May 20, 2000
Type: Movie
A behind the scenes look at the James Bond film "For Your Eyes Only"
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Inside 'Moonraker'
Title: Inside 'Moonraker'
Character: Narrator (voice)
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 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service'
Title: Inside 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service'
Character: Narrator
Released: May 16, 2000
Type: Movie
A behind the scenes look at the James Bond film "On Her Majesty's Secret Service"
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Inside 'Dr. No'
Title: Inside 'Dr. No'
Character: Narrator
Released: May 16, 2000
Type: Movie
A behind the scenes look at the James Bond film Dr. No.
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Inside 'Octopussy'
Title: Inside 'Octopussy'
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: January 25, 2000
Type: Movie
Documentary looking at the production of the James Bond movie 'Octopussy'. Narrated by Patrick Macnee.
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The Bond Sound: The Music of 007
Title: The Bond Sound: The Music of 007
Character: Narrator
Released: January 1, 2000
Type: Movie
Documentary discussing the many songs featured in the James Bond films
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Ian Fleming: 007's Creator
Title: Ian Fleming: 007's Creator
Character: Narrator / Self
Released: January 1, 2000
Type: Movie
John Cork and his compatriots from the Ian Fleming Foundation, who have created outstanding documentaries for most of MGM's 007 DVDs, provide a fine overview of the life and times of James Bond's creator. Rather than using voice-over narrative, Cork and company tell this story entirely through the recollections of Fleming's family, friends and colleagues, combining new interviews with archival footage (including conversations with Fleming himself).
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Inside 'A View to a Kill'
Title: Inside 'A View to a Kill'
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 2000
Type: Movie
A behind the scenes look at the James Bond film "A View to a Kill"
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Inside 'The Spy Who Loved Me'
Title: Inside 'The Spy Who Loved Me'
Character: Narrator (voice)
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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Designing Bond: Peter Lamont
Title: Designing Bond: Peter Lamont
Character: Narrator
Released: January 1, 2000
Type: Movie
A documentary about the work of Peter Lamont.
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Cubby Broccoli: The Man Behind Bond
Title: Cubby Broccoli: The Man Behind Bond
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: January 1, 2000
Type: Movie
Short documentary about Cubby Broccoli.
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Title: Family Law
Released: September 20, 1999
Type: TV
Family attorney and mom Lynn Holt has had to scramble to keep her family and her law firm together since her husband left her and took most of their joint law practice with him. Although the attorneys are carting plenty of life's baggage, they're all determined to make the most of this unexpected second chance—and make each month's mortgage payment.
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Title: Nancherrow
Released: April 4, 1999
Type: TV
When Colonel Carey-Lewis dies, his irrepressible daughter, Loveday, inherits Nancherrow and fights to keep it alive so that her son Nat will eventually take over from her.
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Nancherrow
Title: Nancherrow
Character: Lord Awliscombe
Released: January 1, 1999
Type: Movie
The basic story involves Loveday's struggle to keep the estate Nancherrow in the family after the death of her father.
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Inside 'Live and Let Die'
Title: Inside 'Live and Let Die'
Character: Narrator
Released: January 1, 1999
Type: Movie
A behind the scenes look at the James Bond film "Live and Let Die"
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The Avengers
Title: The Avengers
Character: Invisible Jones (voice)
Released: August 13, 1998
Type: Movie
British Ministry agent John Steed, under direction from "Mother", investigates a diabolical plot by arch-villain Sir August de Wynter to rule the world with his weather control machine. Steed investigates the beautiful Doctor Mrs. Emma Peel, the only suspect, but simultaneously falls for her and joins forces with her to combat Sir August.
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Roswell Top Secret
Title: Roswell Top Secret
Character: Self - Host
Released: January 1, 1998
Type: Movie
Something happened near the town of Rosewell. This event came to be known as the Rosewell incident. The town has since become synonymous with flying saucers crashes, alien visitation, government cover up, or what many say, a jump to conclusions and a gross distortion of facts.
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Nightman
Title: Nightman
Character: Dr. Walton
Released: November 23, 1997
Type: Movie
After lightning strikes saxophonist Johnny Domino, he finds he is telepathically tuned to the frequency of evil. This gives him an edge for finding the bad guys, and some special classified wearable gear gives him an edge for fighting them.
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Title: Night Man
Character: Dr. Walton
Released: September 20, 1997
Type: TV
Night Man is an American action/adventure/sci-fi series that aired in syndication from September 15, 1997 to May 17, 1999. The series is loosely based on a comic book published by Malibu Comics and was created by Steve Englehart and developed for television by Glen A. Larson. It stars Matt McColm as the title character, a superhero whose real name was Johnny Domino, a saxophonist. Englehart would write three episodes of the series. Night Man is also one of the few series to cross over with characters from Larson's previous series: in the episode "Manimal", Johnny allies with Professor Jonathan Chase, the star of the short-lived 1980s' series Manimal.
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Title: Spy Game
Released: March 3, 1997
Type: TV
Spy Game is a short-lived American action-adventure television series that aired on the ABC network for 13 episodes during the spring and summer of 1997. The series was created by screenwriter and physician Ivan Raimi, director Sam Raimi, and writer John McNamara.
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In the Footsteps of Sherlock Holmes
Title: In the Footsteps of Sherlock Holmes
Released: July 1, 1996
Type: Movie
Actor Patrick Macnee leads the viewer through London in the footsteps of the genius private investigator Sherlock Holmes and his assistant and friend, Dr. Watson.
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Thunder in Paradise 3
Title: Thunder in Paradise 3
Character: Edward Whitaker
Released: July 11, 1995
Type: Movie
Spencer and Bru break into his HQ and capture notorious drug lord Manuel Santiago of a DEA Agent. Santiago's angered assistant, Mason Lee, takes the school hostage where Kelly is teaching and Jessica is one of the students in attendance in retaliation to Santiago's capture. Alison, knowing a way in, joins Spencer and Bru in the rescue.
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Behind the Scenes with 'Thunderball'
Title: Behind the Scenes with 'Thunderball'
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: May 16, 1995
Type: Movie
A behind the scenes look at the James Bond film "Thunderball".
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Behind the Scenes with 'Goldfinger'
Title: Behind the Scenes with 'Goldfinger'
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: January 9, 1995
Type: Movie
A behind the scenes look at the James Bond film "Goldfinger".
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The Goldfinger Phenomenon
Title: The Goldfinger Phenomenon
Character: Narrator
Released: January 1, 1995
Type: Movie
A look at the marketing, advertising and merchandising of the James Bond movie Goldfinger (1964) including trailers, interviews, TV spots and rare promotional films.
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Title: Mysteries, Magic and Miracles
Released: October 23, 1994
Type: TV
Join Patrick MacNee as he travels the globe in search of the world’s most baffling stories and events. Infamous myths are put on trial as we try to answer those questions of the unsolved and unexplained.
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Thunder in Paradise 2
Title: Thunder in Paradise 2
Character: Edward Whitaker
Released: April 27, 1994
Type: Movie
Kelly is whisked off into Prince Aramour's harem and given to his enemy as tribute in this romantic tale of capture and rescue.
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Title: Thunder in Paradise
Character: Edward Whitaker
Released: March 25, 1994
Type: TV
Thunder in Paradise was a one-hour action-adventure TV series from the creators of Baywatch, which starred Hulk Hogan, Chris Lemmon, and Carol Alt. This first-run syndicated TV series originally premiered as a straight-to-video feature film in September 1993, then ran for one season in 1994, before being cancelled. The series was later rebroadcast on the TNT cable network.
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Title: Diagnosis: Murder
Character: John Garrison
Released: October 29, 1993
Type: TV
Dr. Mark Sloan is a good-natured, offbeat physician who is called upon to solve murders.
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Thunder in Paradise
Title: Thunder in Paradise
Character: Edward Whitaker
Released: September 22, 1993
Type: Movie
Terry "Hulk" Hogan stars as R. J. "Hurricane" Spencer who is an ex-Navy S. E. A. L. and confirmed bachelor struggling to make ends meet. In order to save his superboat THUNDER (and ultimately, his business) Spencer is forced into a marriage of convenience with the snobby Megan Whitaker. When Megan gets kidnapped it's up to Spencer and his partner Bru to save the day or risk losing everything.
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Title: Frasier
Character: Cecil Hedley
Released: September 16, 1993
Type: TV
After many years spent at the “Cheers” bar, Frasier moves back home to Seattle to work as a radio psychiatrist after his policeman father gets shot in the hip on duty.
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The Hound of London
Title: The Hound of London
Character: Sherlock Holmes
Released: August 1, 1993
Type: Movie
The Hound of London
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Title: Kung Fu: The Legend Continues
Character: Steadman
Released: January 27, 1993
Type: TV
Kung Fu: The Legend Continues is a spin-off of the 1972–1975 television series Kung Fu. David Carradine and Chris Potter starred as a father and son trained in kung fu - Carradine playing a Shaolin monk, Potter a police detective. This series aired in syndication for four seasons, from January 27, 1993 to January 1, 1997, and was broadcast in over 70 countries. Filming took place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Reruns of the show have been aired on TNT. The show was canceled when its producer, Prime Time Entertainment Network, ceased operations and no other network opted to continue the series.
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Title: Vicki!
Character: Self
Released: August 31, 1992
Type: TV
Singer-actress Vicki Lawrence hosted this talk and entertainment show.
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Title: Jack's Place
Released: May 26, 1992
Type: TV
Jack Evans is a retired jazz musician who runs a restaurant where romances tend to start.
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Waxwork II: Lost in Time
Title: Waxwork II: Lost in Time
Character: Sir Wilfred
Released: May 11, 1992
Type: Movie
The survivors of the first Waxwork must use a portal through time to defeat the evil that has followed them and turned their lives upside down.
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Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls
Title: Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls
Character: Dr. John Watson
Released: February 19, 1992
Type: Movie
King Edward asks Sherlock Holmes to perform one more task before his retirement: to safeguard the Star of Africa on a trip to Cape Town. Soon the fabled jewel is stolen and several people end up being murdered.
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Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady
Title: Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady
Character: Dr. Watson
Released: December 6, 1991
Type: Movie
Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson get involved with Balkan terrorists to save Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria from an assassination at the opera house and prevent World War I.
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Eye of the Widow
Title: Eye of the Widow
Character: Andrew Marcus
Released: October 17, 1991
Type: Movie
A new international terrorist group attack the castle of an Austrian prince during his party, but one of the guests, a contractor, deals with them. The CIA then hires him to find the men behind the attack and take them out. This big budget film with many 'A' stars was barely released. In fact, despite being a U.S. production filmed in Europe, it was never widely screened theatrically in America nor did it receive a video release.
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Title: Super Force
Character: E.B. Hungerford
Released: October 5, 1990
Type: TV
Super Force is an action-adventure TV series about a former astronaut who uses an advanced combat suit and motorcycle to fight crime in the city of Metroplex during the year 2020. Among the features of the suit were enhanced strength and armament, whereas the motorcycle had an array of James Bond-type gadgets and weapons.
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Super Force
Title: Super Force
Character: E.B. Hungerford
Released: September 22, 1990
Type: Movie
The time: the near future. Astronaut Zach Stone (Ken Olandt) returns from a heroic Mars mission to find his brother murdered -- and his country losing its battle against rampant violence, corruption and anarchy. Determined to avenge his brother's death, and to fight back against the mounting tide of barbarism, Stone transforms himself into an ultra-high-tech, one-man vigilante army: the Super Force. Equipped with invincible body armor and as awesome arsenal of futuristic weaponry, he wages an apocalyptic, inner-city war against the sinister conspiracy lead by the inscrutably evil Tao Satori (G. Gordon Liddy). A high impact, special effects-filled sci-fi adventure!
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Title: Dream On
Released: July 8, 1990
Type: TV
The family life, romantic life, and career of Martin Tupper, a divorced New York City book editor. The show distinctively interjected clips from older black and white television series to punctuate Tupper's feelings or thoughts.
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Lobster Man from Mars
Title: Lobster Man from Mars
Character: Professor Plocostomos
Released: February 9, 1990
Type: Movie
Young film student tries to sell his weird movie to a desperate film producer who is in need of a tax write-off. The producer screens the film "Lobster Man From Mars". What follows is one of the most bizarre and funny film within-a-film send-ups: Mars suffers from an air leakage, and send the dreaded Lobster Man to Earth to steal its air. The plot is foiled by a mad scientist, a girl, and an army colonel. The producer buys the movie, but it makes a huge profit and the producer is sent to jail, with the film student taking his place as the studio hot shot.
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Dick Francis: Twice Shy
Title: Dick Francis: Twice Shy
Character: Geoffrey Keeble
Released: December 14, 1989
Type: Movie
A fool-proof formula for picking winning horses on a computer disc is the Maguffin sought by Cleveland and others.
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The Return of Sam McCloud
Title: The Return of Sam McCloud
Character: Tom Jamison
Released: November 12, 1989
Type: Movie
Ex-Marshal McCloud now is senator of New Mexico, fighting for a new environment law. His enemy is Maitland, unscrupulous owner of Chemtel, the world's most important chemical manufacturer. Shortly after McCloud gives an inspiring speech, he barely escapes an bomb in his car and a shooting in a restaurant. When he learns that his niece, medical researcher for Chemtel, was killed, he begins to suspect that the attempts on his life were not made by Arabian terrorists, but by Maitland. He pays him a visit in Britain and starts to research on his own.
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Masque of the Red Death
Title: Masque of the Red Death
Character: Machiavel
Released: October 27, 1989
Type: Movie
With a deadly plague ravaging his Renaissance kingdom, Prince Prospero invites his friends to retire to the protection of his castle for ongoing revels, leaving the peasantry to die. But fate is not so easily escaped by the debauched nobility.
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Sorry, Wrong Number
Title: Sorry, Wrong Number
Character: Nigel Evans
Released: October 11, 1989
Type: Movie
Based on a famous play, follows a bedridden wife who overhears a murder plan on her phone. She tries to piece the puzzle together and prevent it.
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Title: Around the World in 80 Days
Character: Ralph Gautier
Released: April 16, 1989
Type: TV
Around the World in 80 Days is a 1989 three-part television Eastmancolor miniseries originally broadcast on NBC. The production garnered three nominations for Emmy awards that year. The teleplay by John Gay is based on the Jules Verne novel of the same title. Starring Pierce Brosnan as Phileas Fogg, Eric Idle as Passepartout, Julia Nickson as Princess Aouda, and Peter Ustinov as Detective Fix, the miniseries featured multiple cameo appearances, including Patrick Macnee, Simon Ward, and Christopher Lee as members of the Reform Club, and Robert Morley, who had a cameo in the 1956 film adaptation, and Roddy McDowall appear as officials of the Bank of England. Other familiar faces, credited as guest stars and in more substantial roles, include John Hillerman, Jack Klugman, Darren McGavin, Henry Gibson and John Mills. The heroes travel a slightly different route than in the book, and the script makes several contemporary celebrities part of the story who were not mentioned in the book, such as Sarah Bernhardt, Louis Pasteur, Jesse James, Cornelius Vanderbilt and Queen Victoria.
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Title: Coach
Released: February 28, 1989
Type: TV
Hayden Fox, the curmudgeonly coach of Minnesota State University's Screaming Eagles football team, tries to navigate his way through the sports world, fatherhood and family life without dropping the ball.
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Chill Factor
Title: Chill Factor
Character: Carl Lawton
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
After a day of filming her popular "Window On The World" television series, hostess Katherine returns to her hotel room to find Clifford, an ex-CIA agent who reveals a saga of a worldwide organization that seeks to destroy the economic stability of every major country. Katherine seizes this opportunity to become a "real journalist" like star reporter Jerry, against the direct orders of news director Carl.
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Black Leather Jacket
Title: Black Leather Jacket
Character: John Steed (segment "Death at Bargain Prices") (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
Based upon Mick Farren's book,'The Black Leather Jacket', this documentary explores the history of this garment from it's utilitarian beginnings through to it's 'bad boy' reputation and considers whether it has now become emasculated by pop culture.
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Cult People
Title: Cult People
Character: Himself
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
In interviews, various actors and directors discuss their careers and their involvement in the making of what has come to be known as "cult" films. Included are such well-known genre figures as Russ Meyer, Curtis Harrington, Cameron Mitchell and James Karen.
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Title: Murphy's Law
Released: November 2, 1988
Type: TV
Murphy's Law was an American television series that starred George Segal and Maggie Han, loosely based on the Trace novels by Warren Murphy.
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Title: War of the Worlds
Character: Valery Kedrov
Released: October 7, 1988
Type: TV
Humanity must resume its war against the Martians when they revive after decades of hibernation following their defeat in the 1950s. The fate of Earth may very well rest in the hands of a small yet courageous band: astrophysicist Harrison Blackwood, paraplegic computer wizard Norton Drake, microbiologist Suzanne McCullough and military man Paul Ironhorse.
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Transformations
Title: Transformations
Character: Father Christopher
Released: September 2, 1988
Type: Movie
Wolfgang is traveling in outer space when a monster, which he sees as a beautiful woman, appears in his spaceship and makes love with him. Then the ship is forced to land on a planet which is a penal colony. Here he meets Miranda who falls in love with him. A group of prisoners uses him and his spaceship to fly away from the planet. But the monster which is by now inside Wolfgang arouses and only Miranda's love can save him.
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Waxwork
Title: Waxwork
Character: Sir Wilfred
Released: June 17, 1988
Type: Movie
Wealthy slacker college student Mark, his new girlfriend Sarah, and their friends are invited to a special showing at a mysterious wax museum which displays 18 of the most evil men of all time. After his ex-girlfriend and another friend disappear, Mark becomes suspicious.
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Club Med
Title: Club Med
Character: Gilbert Anthony Paige
Released: January 6, 1986
Type: Movie
Various romantic entanglements occur among the week's visitors to a Club Med resort in Ixtapa, Mexico. The "chef du village" is shocked when a former lover turns up, and must also cope with the troubled son of a close pilot friend killed on a rescue flight.
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Title: Blacke's Magic
Released: January 5, 1986
Type: TV
Blacke's Magic is an American crime drama series that aired on NBC from January to May 1986. The series stars Hal Linden as magician Alexander Blacke who, with some help from his con-man father Leonard, solves mysteries that get in the way of his performances. The series aired for a total of thirteen episodes and featured crimes that tested logic against seemingly magical crimes. The stories were not so much whodunits as "how-he-do-its," for Alex Blacke often had to turn detective to solve the mysteries.
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Title: Mary
Released: December 11, 1985
Type: TV
Mary is an American sitcom that aired on CBS during the 1985-86 television season. The series stars Mary Tyler Moore in her return to series television after an absence of over six years, during which time she appeared on Broadway in Whose Life Is It Anyway? and in the dramatic film Ordinary People. After The Mary Tyler Moore Show, her subsequent ventures into series television, the variety show Mary and The Mary Tyler Moore Hour had been short-running ratings disasters, and Moore decided to return to the sitcom format which had brought her the greatest television success.
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Title: The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Thaddeus
Released: September 29, 1985
Type: TV
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents is an American anthology series that aired on NBC from 1985 to 1986, and on the USA Network from 1987 to 1989. The series is an updated re-imagining of the classic 1955 series Alfred Hitchcock Presents.
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Title: Lime Street
Character: Sir Geoffrey Rimbatten
Released: September 21, 1985
Type: TV
Lime Street is an American action/drama series that aired on the ABC television network during the 1985 television season. The series was created by Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, who also served as executive producer alongside husband Harry Thomason and series star Robert Wagner. Robert Wagner is half of a crackerjack team of insurance investigators. A colorful British bachelor (John Standing) is the other half, and he resides in a castle outside London. This Lloyd's of London-type duo travel all over the world to crack some of the toughest insurance cases ever devised by a scriptwriter. Lew Ayres is Wagner's dapper Virginia countrygentleman father and the grandfather to Bob's motherless children.
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Shadey
Title: Shadey
Character: Sir Cyril Landau
Released: May 31, 1985
Type: Movie
A young man discovers that not only does he have the ability to read minds, but that if he holds a camera next to his head he can transmit the thoughts he sees onto film.
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A View to a Kill
Title: A View to a Kill
Character: Tibbett
Released: May 24, 1985
Type: Movie
A newly-developed microchip designed by Zorin Industries for the British Government that can survive the electromagnetic radiation caused by a nuclear explosion has landed in the hands of the KGB. James Bond must find out how and why. His suspicions soon lead him to big industry leader Max Zorin who forms a plan to destroy his only competition in Silicon Valley by triggering a massive earthquake in the San Francisco Bay.
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Title: The Ray Bradbury Theater
Character: Stendahl
Released: May 21, 1985
Type: TV
A Canadian-produced fantastic anthology series scripted by famed science-fiction author Ray Bradbury. Many of the teleplays were based upon Bradbury's novels and short stories.
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Title: Murder, She Wrote
Character: Dayton Whiting
Released: September 30, 1984
Type: TV
An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.
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Title: Murder, She Wrote
Character: Oliver Trumbull
Released: September 30, 1984
Type: TV
An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.
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This Is Spinal Tap
Title: This Is Spinal Tap
Character: Sir Denis Eton-Hogg
Released: March 2, 1984
Type: Movie
"This Is Spinal Tap" shines a light on the self-contained universe of a metal band struggling to get back on the charts, including everything from its complicated history of ups and downs, gold albums, name changes and undersold concert dates, along with the full host of requisite groupies, promoters, hangers-on and historians, sessions, release events and those special behind-the-scenes moments that keep it all real.
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Title: Empire
Character: Calvin Cromwell
Released: January 4, 1984
Type: TV
Empire is an American comedy television series that aired from January 4 until February 1, 1984.
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Title: Automan
Character: Lydell Hamilton
Released: December 15, 1983
Type: TV
Automan is an American science fiction superhero television series produced by Glen A. Larson. It aired for only 12 episodes on ABC between 1983 and 1984.
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Spaceship
Title: Spaceship
Character: Dr. Stark
Released: July 1, 1983
Type: Movie
A farce satirizing extraterrestrial horror movies such as Alien. Alternate titles include "The Creature Wasn't Nice" and "Naked Space" (1999 re-release trying to capitalize on Nielsen's "Naked Gun" success).
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The Hot Touch
Title: The Hot Touch
Character: Vincent Reyblack
Released: June 29, 1983
Type: Movie
A master art forger and his partner in crime, an art expert who can vouch for the authenticity of the forgeries, are making a bundle. An art dealer figures out their scheme but agrees to keep quiet if they forge some art lost in WWII.
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Title: For the Term of His Natural Life
Character: Major Vickers
Released: May 23, 1983
Type: TV
In 1830s England, a young man from a good but troubled family is unjustly convicted of stealing a watch. He's transported to Van Diemen's Land where he suffers under the enmity of Lt. Frere while falling in love with Sylvia, the Warden's daughter. Meanwhile, back in England, an imposter lays claim to the young man's inheritance.
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The Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E.: The Fifteen Years Later Affair
Title: The Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E.: The Fifteen Years Later Affair
Character: Sir John Raleigh
Released: April 5, 1983
Type: Movie
When THRUSH steals a nuclear weapon and demands a ransom delivered by Napoleon Solo, UNCLE recalls him and his partner to duty.
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Sweet Sixteen
Title: Sweet Sixteen
Character: Dr. John Morgan
Released: March 18, 1983
Type: Movie
A beautiful lonely girl named Melissa tries to make new friends from a town she's currently living in. The only problem is, each of the boys that she spends time with end up brutally murdered. Her sixteenth birthday is on the way, but Melissa turns out to be a suspect when it seems she's the last person who has seen her boyfriends alive.
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Likely Stories Vol. 2
Title: Likely Stories Vol. 2
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: Movie
VINCE D'ANGELO is a low life, Congressman from New Jersey who'll stop at nothing to get elected to the U.S. Senate. With his sleazy, below-the-belt campaign tactics, he's hell-bent on destroying his opponents reputations and getting himself and his wife to the top of the heap in Washington D.C. In "SCHOOL, GIRLS, & YOU," it's the 1950's -- and strait-laced Everdale University is about to go "coed". In order to prepare it's student body for the onslaught of "females" on campus, they present this hard-hitting educational film. Wally Bile is the "wrong-way" role model with Science Professor, Dr. Bloom. Dr. Bloom explains the vital "do's and don'ts" on dating women, and the all-important "warning signs" and "danger signals" to look out for when close-encountering the opposite sex.
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Title: Gavilan
Released: October 26, 1982
Type: TV
Gavilan is an American 1982 TV series directed by Corey Allen that aired on NBC.
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Title: Hotel
Released: August 21, 1982
Type: TV
Hotel is an American prime time drama series which aired on ABC from September 21, 1983 to May 5, 1988 in the timeslot following Dynasty. Based on Arthur Hailey's 1965 novel of the same name, the series was produced by Aaron Spelling and set in the elegant and fictitious St. Gregory Hotel in San Francisco. Establishing shots of the hotel were filmed in front of The Fairmont San Francisco atop the Nob Hill neighborhood. Episodes followed the activities of passing guests, as well as the personal and professional lives of the hotel staff.
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Young Doctors in Love
Title: Young Doctors in Love
Character: Jacob
Released: July 16, 1982
Type: Movie
An 'Airplane!'-style spoof of hospital soap operas—a brilliant young trainee can't stand the sight of blood; a doctor romances the head nurse in order to get the key to the drugs cabinet; and there's a mafioso on the loose disguised as a woman.
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Rehearsal for Murder
Title: Rehearsal for Murder
Character: David Mathews
Released: May 26, 1982
Type: Movie
A year after his fiancée's death, a playwright schedules a rehearsal for his new play, which proves to be a trap for her killer.
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Title: Wogan
Character: Self
Released: May 4, 1982
Type: TV
Wogan is a British television chat show
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Comedy of Horrors
Title: Comedy of Horrors
Character: Host
Released: July 28, 1981
Type: Movie
The story is set at Beacon House, a small honeymoon hotel hexed by a haunt, which is located along a scenic but desolate stretch of the North Carolina coast. People whose pasts are tainted with evil will not find Beacon House a peaceful shelter; only the innocent and pure of heart will find safety.
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The Howling
Title: The Howling
Character: Dr. George Waggner
Released: January 21, 1981
Type: Movie
After a bizarre and near fatal encounter with a serial killer, a newswoman is sent to a rehabilitation center whose inhabitants may not be what they seem.
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Making a Monster Movie: Inside 'the Howling'
Title: Making a Monster Movie: Inside 'the Howling'
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1981
Type: Movie
Making-of featurette for 'The Howling' (1981)
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Title: Magnum, P.I.
Released: December 11, 1980
Type: TV
A private investigator who works when he wants, lives in a beachfront estate in Hawaii, drives a posh Ferrari, runs up an unlimited tab at a swank bar, and charms attractive women in peril - that's the lifestyle of Thomas Magnum, aka Magnum, P.I.
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The Sea Wolves
Title: The Sea Wolves
Character: Major 'Yogi' Crossley
Released: July 3, 1980
Type: Movie
A German spy is passing on information about the location of Allied ships in the neutral harbor of Goa, India, with catastrophic results. Unable to undertake a full military operation in the Portuguese stronghold, English intelligence brings out of retirement a crew of geriatric ex-soldiers, veterans from World War I, using their age as cover. These old soldiers are asked to take to the seas and pull off an unlikely undercover mission.
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Title: Hart to Hart
Released: September 22, 1979
Type: TV
Wealthy couple Jonathan and Jennifer Hart, a self-made millionaire and his journalist wife, moonlight as amateur detectives.
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King Solomon's Treasure
Title: King Solomon's Treasure
Character: Captain Good R.N.
Released: May 31, 1979
Type: Movie
Three adventurers lead an expedition into darkest Africa in search of the treasure of King Solomon, and on the way encounter hostile natives, volcanoes, dinosaurs and a lost Phoenician city ruled by a beautiful queen.
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The Fantastic Seven
Title: The Fantastic Seven
Character: Boudreau
Released: May 30, 1979
Type: Movie
An intrepid team of stunt experts stage a daring air, sea and land rescue of a kidnapped movie star from the clutches of a suave, modern-day pirate who rules a sovereign fortress state in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico.
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The Billion Dollar Threat
Title: The Billion Dollar Threat
Character: Horatio Black
Released: April 15, 1979
Type: Movie
A James Bondish superspy is assigned to thwart the devious plans of a master agent who is threatening to destroy the planet unless he is paid one billion dollars within 48 hours.
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Title: Sweepstakes
Released: January 26, 1979
Type: TV
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Title: Dick Turpin
Released: January 6, 1979
Type: TV
Richard O'Sullivan stars as Dick Turpin in this action-filled adventure series chronicling the exploits of England's most celebrated highwayman.
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Title: Vega$
Released: September 20, 1978
Type: TV
Vega$ is an American detective television drama series that aired on ABC between 1978 and 1981. It was produced by Aaron Spelling. The series was filmed in its entirety in Las Vegas, Nevada. It is believed to be the first television series produced entirely in Las Vegas. The show stars Robert Urich as private detective Dan Tanna, who drove around the streets of Las Vegas in a red 1957 Ford Thunderbird solving crimes and making Las Vegas a better place for residents and tourists alike.
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Title: Battlestar Galactica
Character: Count Iblis
Released: September 17, 1978
Type: TV
When the 12 Colonies of Man are wiped out by a cybernetic race called the Cylons, Commander Adama and the crew of the battlestar Galactica lead a ragtag fleet of human survivors in search of a "mythical planet" called Earth.
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Title: Battlestar Galactica
Character: Opening Credit Announcer (voice)
Released: September 17, 1978
Type: TV
When the 12 Colonies of Man are wiped out by a cybernetic race called the Cylons, Commander Adama and the crew of the battlestar Galactica lead a ragtag fleet of human survivors in search of a "mythical planet" called Earth.
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Title: Battlestar Galactica
Character: Imperious Leader (voice)
Released: September 17, 1978
Type: TV
When the 12 Colonies of Man are wiped out by a cybernetic race called the Cylons, Commander Adama and the crew of the battlestar Galactica lead a ragtag fleet of human survivors in search of a "mythical planet" called Earth.
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Battlestar Galactica
Title: Battlestar Galactica
Character: Imperious Leader (voice)
Released: September 16, 1978
Type: Movie
After the destruction of the Twelve Colonies of Mankind, the last major fighter carrier leads a makeshift fugitive fleet in a desperate search for the legendary planet Earth. This film is adapted from a television series that aired on ABC from September 17, 1978, to August 17, 1980. The first and fifth episodes of the series were edited into this theatrical feature film. Taken together, the two episodes ran 148 minutes, without commercials, while the film runs 125 minutes.
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Evening in Byzantium
Title: Evening in Byzantium
Character: Ian Waldeigh
Released: August 14, 1978
Type: Movie
While the prestigious Cannes Film Festival goes on around him, American movie producer Jesse Craig struggles to develop a pitch-worthy thriller about a terrorist plot. Before long, Craig becomes concerned that a shocking act of real-life terrorism already may be underway. Meanwhile, radical actor Bret Easton works in cahoots with a group of extremists to coordinate the hijacking of a trio of passenger planes in a devastating, multi-city nuclear attack.
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Title: The Love Boat
Character: David Blake
Released: September 24, 1977
Type: TV
Passengers who search for romantic nights aboard a beautiful ship travelling to tropical or mysterious countries, decide to pass their vacation aboard the "Love Boat", where Gopher, Dr. Bricker, Isaac, Julie, and Captain Stubing try their best to please them, and sometimes help them fall in love. Things are not always so easy, but in the end, love wins.
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Title: Bitte umblättern
Character: Self
Released: April 20, 1977
Type: TV
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Dead of Night
Title: Dead of Night
Character: Dr. Gheria
Released: March 29, 1977
Type: Movie
This anthology tells three stories: a man buys a car that takes him back and forth through time; a tale of vampires; and a distraught mother asks for her drowned son to come back to life and gets more than she bargained for.
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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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Title: The New Avengers
Character: John Steed
Released: October 22, 1976
Type: TV
The New Avengers is a British secret agent fantasy adventure television series broadcast during 1976 and 1977. It is a sequel to the 1960s series The Avengers and was developed by Albert Fennell and Brian Clemens. A joint United Kingdom-France-Canada production, the show picks up the adventures of John Steed and his team of Avengers fighting evil plots and world domination. Whereas in the original series Steed had almost always been partnered with a woman, in the new series he had two partners: Mike Gambit, a top agent, crack marksman and trained martial artist, and Purdey, a former trainee with The Royal Ballet who was an amalgam of many of the best talents from Steed's previous female partners.
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Sherlock Holmes in New York
Title: Sherlock Holmes in New York
Character: Doctor Watson
Released: October 18, 1976
Type: Movie
An affectionate bow to the master sleuth in this lavishly produced original that has Holmes rushing to New York City after discovering that his old nemesis, Moriarty, has kidnapped the son of the detective's long-time love, actress Irene Adler.
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Matt Helm
Title: Matt Helm
Character: Shawcross
Released: May 7, 1975
Type: Movie
In this pilot film for the later series, a former secret agent, now a private investigator, is hired to protect a beautiful film star and gets involved with black marketeers and gun runners.
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Title: Khan!
Released: February 7, 1975
Type: TV
Khan! is an American television detective series. Set in San Francisco, it is named after the central character, a Chinese-American detective, played by Khigh Dheigh. Evan C. Kim and Irene Yah-Ling Sun are featured as his relatives. Four episodes were aired in February 1975 on CBS. Dheigh is better known for his portrayal of the Chinese spy Wo Fat on Hawaii Five-O from 1968 to 1980.
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Title: Diana
Released: September 10, 1973
Type: TV
Diana is an American sitcom that aired on NBC during the 1973-1974 television season that was created by Leonard Stern, which ran from September 10, 1973 to January 7, 1974. The series was filmed in front of a live studio audience at CBS Studio Center in Los Angeles.
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Title: Columbo
Character: Captain Gibbon
Released: September 15, 1971
Type: TV
Columbo is a friendly, verbose, disheveled-looking police detective who is consistently underestimated by his suspects. Despite his unprepossessing appearance and apparent absentmindedness, he shrewdly solves all of his cases and secures all evidence needed for indictment. His formidable eye for detail and meticulously dedicated approach often become clear to the killer only late in the storyline.
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Incense for the Damned
Title: Incense for the Damned
Character: Derek Longbow
Released: May 14, 1971
Type: Movie
A group of friends search for a young English Oxford student who has disappeared whilst researching in Greece. They are shocked to find that, wherever he has been, certain unsolved murders have taken place. Not believing that their friend could be the perpetrator of such acts, they press on with their search, finding him under the spell of a beautiful Vampire, whose blood-sucking methods include the use of sado-masochism. Believing they have killed her, the group return home, unaware that their friend is now a Vampire.
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Title: Alias Smith and Jones
Released: January 5, 1971
Type: TV
Alias Smith and Jones is an American Western series that originally aired on ABC from 1971 to 1973. It stars Pete Duel as Hannibal Heyes and Ben Murphy as Jedediah "Kid" Curry, a pair of cousin outlaws trying to reform. The governor offers them a conditional amnesty, as he wants to keep the pact under wraps for political reasons. The condition is that they will still be wanted— until the governor can claim they have reformed and warrant clemency.
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Title: Night Gallery
Character: Major Crosby (segment "Logoda's Heads")
Released: December 16, 1970
Type: TV
Rod Serling narrates an anthology of fantasy, horror and sci-fi stories from a set resembling a macabre museum. A chilling work of art serves as the connective link between the stories.
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Mister Jerico
Title: Mister Jerico
Character: Dudley Jerico
Released: March 3, 1970
Type: Movie
Con man Dudley Jerico sets out to rob corrupt millionaire Victor Rosso of his legendary Gemini diamond, but there's another operator in town who is out to con the con.
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Title: Goldene Kamera Verleihung
Character: Self
Released: January 25, 1966
Type: TV
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Title: Die Rudi Carrell Show
Released: October 25, 1965
Type: TV
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The Importance of Being Earnest
Title: The Importance of Being Earnest
Released: November 15, 1964
Type: Movie
TV adaptation of the Oscar Wilde play. Jack pretends to be his foolish younger brother, Ernest in order to be a model of moral rectitude to his young ward, Cecily. And he intends to propose to Gwendolyn--that is until he discovers that she loves him because his name is Ernest.
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Title: The Virginian
Character: Connor
Released: September 19, 1962
Type: TV
The Shiloh Ranch in Wyoming Territory of the 1890s is owned in sequence by Judge Henry Garth, the Grainger brothers, and Colonel Alan MacKenzie. It is the setting for a variety of stories, many more based on character and relationships than the usual western.
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Title: The Avengers
Character: John Steed
Released: January 7, 1961
Type: TV
The Avengers is a British television series created in the 1960s. It initially focused on Dr. David Keel and his assistant John Steed. Hendry left after the first series and Steed became the main character, partnered with a succession of assistants. His most famous assistants were intelligent, stylish and assertive women: Cathy Gale, Emma Peel and Tara King. Later episodes increasingly incorporated elements of science fiction and fantasy, parody and British eccentricity.
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Mission of Danger
Title: Mission of Danger
Character: Colonel Trent
Released: January 16, 1960
Type: Movie
After his Rangers are caught during a raid, a major must infiltrate the French army to save his men.
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Title: The Swamp Fox
Released: October 23, 1959
Type: TV
The story of Revolutionary War hero Francis Marion, an American patriot who fought the British Tories using unusual methods, becoming known as “The Swamp Fox.”
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Title: Adventures in Paradise
Character: Colonel O'Neill
Released: October 5, 1959
Type: TV
Adventures in Paradise is an American television series created by James Michener which ran on ABC from 1959 until 1962, starring Gardner McKay as Adam Troy, the captain of the schooner Tiki III, which sailed the South Pacific looking for passengers and adventure. USA Network aired reruns of this series between 1984 and 1988. The plots deal with the romantic and detective stories of Korean War veteran Troy. The supporting cast, varying from season to season, features George Tobias, Guy Stockwell, and Linda Lawson.
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Title: The Twilight Zone
Character: First Officer McLeod
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: Stars in der Manege
Character: Self
Released: April 11, 1959
Type: TV
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Title: One Step Beyond
Character: Eric Farley
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: Michael Kent
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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Title: Rawhide
Released: January 9, 1959
Type: TV
The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across the old west. Along the way they meet up with adventure and drama.
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Title: The Veil
Released: January 1, 1958
Type: TV
The legendary actor Boris Karloff presents a chilling collection of short stories of horror and suspense.
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Until They Sail
Title: Until They Sail
Character: Pvt. Duff (scenes deleted)
Released: October 8, 1957
Type: Movie
Four sisters in New Zealand fall for four U.S. soldiers en route to the Pacific theater in WWII.
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Les Girls
Title: Les Girls
Character: Sir Percy
Released: October 3, 1957
Type: Movie
After writing a tell-all book about her days in the dance troupe "Barry Nichols and Les Girls", Sybil Wren is sued for libeling her fellow dancer Angele. A Rashômon style narrative presents the story from three points of view where Sybil accuses Angele of having an affair with Barry, while Angele insists that it was actually Sybil who was having the affair. Finally, Barry gives his side of the story.
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Title: Suspicion
Character: Captain John Biersdorf
Released: September 30, 1957
Type: TV
Suspicion is the title of an American television mystery drama series which aired on the NBC from 1957 through 1959. The executive producer of Suspicion was film director Alfred Hitchcock.
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Jane Eyre
Title: Jane Eyre
Character: Rochester
Released: May 16, 1957
Type: Movie
Unusual adaptation of the classic novel.
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The Battle of the River Plate
Title: The Battle of the River Plate
Character: Lieutenant Commander Medley, R.N.
Released: October 30, 1956
Type: Movie
In the early years of the World War II, the Royal Navy is fighting a desperate battle to keep the Atlantic convoy routes open to supply the British Isles, facing the great danger posed by the many German warships, such as the Admiral Graf Spee, which are scouring the ocean for cargo ships to sink.
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Title: First Performance
Released: October 3, 1956
Type: TV
First Performance is a Canadian dramatic television series which aired on CBC Television from 1956 to 1958.
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Title: Armchair Theatre
Character: David Manning
Released: July 8, 1956
Type: TV
Armchair Theatre is a British television drama anthology series of single plays that ran on the ITV network from 1956 to 1974. It was originally produced by Associated British Corporation, and later by Thames Television from mid-1968.
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Title: Matinee Theater
Released: October 31, 1955
Type: TV
Matinee Theater is an American anthology series that aired on NBC during the Golden Age of Television, from 1955 to 1958. The series, which ran daily in the afternoon, was frequently live. It was produced by Albert McCleery, Darrell Ross, George Cahan and Frank Price with executive producer George Lowther. McCleery had previously produced the live series Cameo Theatre which introduced to television the concept of theater-in-the-round, TV plays staged with minimal sets. Jim Buckley of the Pewter Plough Playhouse recalled: When Al McCleery got back to the States, he originated a most ambitious theatrical TV series for NBC called Matinee Theater: to televise five different stage plays per week live, airing around noon in order to promote color TV to the American housewife as she labored over her ironing. Al was the producer. He hired five directors and five art directors. Richard Bennett, one of our first early presidents of the Pewter Plough Corporation, was one of the directors and I was one of the art directors and, as soon as we were through televising one play, we had lunch and then met to plan next week’s show. That was over 50 years ago, and I’m trying to think; I believe the TV art director is his own set decorator —yes, of course! It had to be, since one of McCleery’s chief claims to favor with the producers was his elimination of the setting per se and simply decorating the scene with a minimum of props. It took a bit of ingenuity.
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Title: Playwrights '56
Released: October 4, 1955
Type: TV
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Title: Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Sgt. John Theron
Released: October 2, 1955
Type: TV
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
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Title: Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Professor Kersley
Released: October 2, 1955
Type: TV
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
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Title: Folio
Character: Macduff
Released: September 25, 1955
Type: TV
Folio, a precursor to CBC's renowned fine-arts series Festival, aired for four years starting in 1956. The series showcased original dramas, music compositions, and ballets, many originating from diverse regions across Canada. Notable episodes featured Barry Morse in a new staging of MacBeth, along with performances by Canadian talents like Robert Goulet and Sharon Acker. One of the highlights included a musical adaptation of the beloved Canadian classic, Anne of Green Gables. Airing without sponsorship, Folio thrived until its conclusion in the fall of 1960. Producers: Robert Allen, Harvey Hart, David Greene, Mario Prizek and Ronald Weyman.
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Three Cases of Murder
Title: Three Cases of Murder
Character: Guard Subaltern (segment "Lord Mountdrago") (uncredited)
Released: March 15, 1955
Type: Movie
Three stories of murder and the supernatural: A museum worker is introduced to a world behind the pictures he sees every day. When two lifelong friends fall in love with the same woman and she is killed, they are obvious suspects. Is their friendship strong enough for them to alibi each other? When a young politician is hurt by the arrogant Secretary for Foreign Affairs Lord Mountdrago, he uses Mountdrago's dreams to get revenge.
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Title: Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color
Character: British Captain
Released: October 27, 1954
Type: TV
Walt Disney Productions has produced an anthology television series under several different titles since 1954. The original version of the series premiered on ABC, Wednesday night, October 27, 1954. The same basic show has since appeared on several networks, with its latest revival debuting in 2012 on Disney Junior. The show is the second longest showing prime-time program on American television, behind its rival, Hallmark Hall of Fame. However, Hallmark Hall of Fame was a weekly program only during its first five seasons, while Disney remained a weekly program for more than forty years.
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Scrooge
Title: Scrooge
Character: Young Jacob Marley
Released: November 28, 1951
Type: Movie
Ebenezer Scrooge malcontentedly shuffles through life as a cruel, miserly businessman; until he is visited by three spirits on Christmas Eve who show him how his unhappy childhood and adult behavior has left him a selfish, lonely old man.
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Title: Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Character: Lt. Charles Daurigny
Released: October 5, 1951
Type: TV
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS. Offering both comedies and drama, the series was sponsored by the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company. The title was shortened to Schlitz Playhouse, beginning with the fall 1957 season.
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Flesh and Blood
Title: Flesh and Blood
Character: Capt. David Sutherland
Released: March 6, 1951
Type: Movie
Based upon the play A Sleeping Clergyman by James Bridie, it tells the story of three generations of the Scottish Cameron family, with its various conflicts and romances.
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Title: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Released: November 14, 1950
Type: Movie
Television adaptation of the novel by R.L. Stevenson about the upright Dr Jekyll whose experiments lead him to discover a way to separate out good and evil in a man, and lead to him becoming the persona of the immoral Mr Hyde when taking the substance. However, he finds that the splitting begins to occur of its own accord and he loses control over it.
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The Elusive Pimpernel
Title: The Elusive Pimpernel
Character: Hon. John Bristow
Released: November 7, 1950
Type: Movie
A British aristocrat goes in disguise to France to rescue people from The Terror of the guillotine.
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Dick Barton at Bay
Title: Dick Barton at Bay
Character: Phillips
Released: October 2, 1950
Type: Movie
David Phillips (Patrick Macnee) is running down the darkened streets of London's Limehouse district, pursued by two men with guns. He finds a public phone and puts a call through to Dick Barton (Don Stannard), but before he can report, a shot rings out. Barton must piece together what Phillips found out that got him killed. Phillips had been assigned to protect Professor Mitchell (Percy Walsh) and his new development, a ray capable of exploding any unstable element aboard an aircraft in flight. Mitchell has been targeted for kidnapping by Serge Volkoff (Meinhart Maur), a foreign agent from Eastern Europe, as part of a larger, much more sinister plot to destroy England and cripple Western Europe. Complicating matters further is that Mitchell's daughter (Joyce Linden) has also been kidnapped, and Barton must contend with Volkoff's crafty female companion Anna (Tamara Desni).
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The Girl Is Mine
Title: The Girl Is Mine
Character: Hugh Hurcombe
Released: April 1, 1950
Type: Movie
The crew of a naval pinnacle struggle to pay the rates required to keep the boat afloat.
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Hamlet
Title: Hamlet
Character: Extra (uncredited)
Released: December 10, 1948
Type: Movie
Winner of four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor, Sir Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet continues to be the most compelling version of Shakespeare’s beloved tragedy. Olivier is at his most inspired—both as director and as the melancholy Dane himself—as he breathes new life into the words of one of the world’s greatest dramatists.
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Title: Studio One
Character: Bill Cheever
Released: November 7, 1948
Type: TV
An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. Studio One, presented by Westinghouse, was one of the first of the anthology TV programs. The episodes were often abridged remakes of movies from years gone by and many future well-known television and movie actors appeared in the productions.
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The Fatal Night
Title: The Fatal Night
Character: Tony
Released: April 12, 1948
Type: Movie
A young American accepts a bet to spend a night in a haunted house in Mayfair.
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Wuthering Heights
Title: Wuthering Heights
Character: Edgar Linton
Released: March 7, 1948
Type: Movie
Tale of love and revenge set against the backdrop of the Yorkshire Moors.
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Morning Departure
Title: Morning Departure
Character: Stoker Marks
Released: December 1, 1946
Type: Movie
At the end of World War II, a Royal Navy submarine on routine patrol strikes and detonates a mine. The subsequent explosion sinks the submarine, killing most of its crew. Frantic efforts are taken to rescue those remaining alive.