Arthur Kennedy

Arthur Kennedy

Born: February 17, 1914
Died: January 5, 1990
in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
John Arthur Kennedy (February 17, 1914 – January 5, 1990) was an American stage and film actor known for his versatility in supporting film roles and his ability to create "an exceptional honesty and naturalness on stage", especially in the original casts of Arthur Miller plays on Broadway. He won the 1949 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for Miller's Death of a Salesman. He also won the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor for the 1955 film Trial, and was a five-time Academy Award nominee.

Movies for Arthur Kennedy...

Grandpa
Title: Grandpa
Released: September 7, 1990
Type: Movie
The strained relationship between a grandfather and his grandson and the young woman who smooths the troubled waters
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Signs of Life
Title: Signs of Life
Character: Owen Coughlin
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
The closing of a small shipbuilder in New England places stresses on the people involved.
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James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Title: James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: November 22, 1988
Type: Movie
Documentary about James Stewart's long career as an actor and positive personal life.
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The Humanoid
Title: The Humanoid
Character: Dr. Kraspin
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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Dirty World
Title: Dirty World
Character: Senator Merelli
Released: August 8, 1978
Type: Movie
Senator Alberici tries to approach the secretariat of his party with a campaign against immorality. In reality the politician is a pervert with homosexual tendencies that he expresses with men and women.
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Cyclone
Title: Cyclone
Character: Priest
Released: July 21, 1978
Type: Movie
An airplane goes down in the ocean during a storm and a few survivors find refuge on a small tour boat. Swept out to sea, these people slowly starve to death in the hot sun with barely any food or clean water. With no place to turn, the boat survivors resort to cannibalism to stay alive...that is ..until the rescue planes come to pick them up and the man eating sharks decide its time to eat as well.
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Cave of the Sharks
Title: Cave of the Sharks
Character: Mr. Jackson
Released: June 28, 1978
Type: Movie
When Andres and his partner are hired to recover some valuables from an airplane that went down in the Bermuda Triangle, they face not only human treachery but also the mysterious powers of an underwater civilization.
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Last Angels
Title: Last Angels
Character: Il nonno
Released: May 5, 1978
Type: Movie
Elisabeth and Massimo have been separated for two years and decide to affirm their independence with a divorce. The person who suffers the most from the situation is their son Marco, who normally lives with his father in a beautiful, but lonely country house. Marco's only satisfaction comes from riding his horse Socrates around the countryside, but Massimo sends the horse to his father-in-law in Sicily when, tired of solitude, he decides to sell everything and move into town. At this point, Marco, who has by chance witnessed the kidnapping and release of Gilberto, decides to flee and pretend he has been kidnapped to gain his parents' attention. His journey to Sicily, where his maternal grandfather lives near Ragusa, is crammed full of adventures, but the child makes it in the end, thanks to Rocco, a Neapolitan street urchin, who befriends him.
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Covert Action
Title: Covert Action
Character: CIA Chief of Station, Athens
Released: March 3, 1978
Type: Movie
Janssen plays an ex-CIA agent who has become an author, writing both non-fiction exposes (Phillip Agee was in the news at this time) and fiction spy novels. The CIA is on his case, in the person of Arthur Kennedy, CIA chief in Athens, where Janssen is staying. Janssen is pursuing a case that interests him, while dodging the traps set for him by Kennedy and trying to help Maurizio Merli, a former colleague with personal problems.
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Nine Guests for a Crime
Title: Nine Guests for a Crime
Character: Uberto
Released: January 12, 1977
Type: Movie
Nine members of an extremely rich and hateful family have decided to have a reunion on a remote island in the Mediterranean. No sooner than their arrival, old grudges, resentments, and feuds make themselves known, along with allusions to some more macabre events in their past. But when their boats are sabotaged, thus stranding them without any connection to the mainland, it becomes clear that someone is not willing to let old wounds heal, a fact made all the more clear as bodies start to pile up...
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The Sentinel
Title: The Sentinel
Character: Monsignor Franchino
Released: January 7, 1977
Type: Movie
When a beautiful model, Alison Parker, rents an apartment in a gloomy New York brownstone, little does she realize that an unspeakable horror awaits her behind its doors... a mysterious gateway to hell.
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Rome, Armed to the Teeth
Title: Rome, Armed to the Teeth
Character: Vice questore Ruini
Released: October 10, 1976
Type: Movie
A tough, violent cop who doesn't mind bending the law goes after a machine-gun-carrying, hunchbacked psychotic killer.
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Emmanuelle on Taboo Island
Title: Emmanuelle on Taboo Island
Character: Antonio
Released: May 14, 1976
Type: Movie
Shipwrecked on a tropical island, partying biker Daniel finds an increasingly threatening family living in the forest.
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Blackmail Chase
Title: Blackmail Chase
Character: Mike Jannacone
Released: April 2, 1976
Type: Movie
A couple of friends aspiring to join film land get mixed up in a robbery, ordered by a mafia boss who wants to seize the evidence he needs to blackmail an American politician.
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Killer Cop
Title: Killer Cop
Character: Armando Di Federico
Released: March 27, 1975
Type: Movie
The investigation of the bombing of a hotel lobby as seen through the eyes of a young detective.
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The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue
Title: The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue
Character: The Inspector
Released: November 28, 1974
Type: Movie
When a series of murders hit the remote English countryside, a detective suspects a pair of travelers when it is actually the work of the undead, jarred back to life by an experimental ultra-sonic radiation machine used by the Ministry of Agriculture to kill insects.
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The Antichrist
Title: The Antichrist
Character: Bishop Ascanio Oderisi
Released: November 22, 1974
Type: Movie
An Italian nobleman seeks help after his paralyzed daughter becomes possessed by the spirit of a malevolent ancestress.
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Title: Nakia
Released: September 21, 1974
Type: TV
A deputy sheriff in New Mexico finds his Navajo heritage at odds with his law-enforcement duties. Filmed in and around Albuquerque, the series lasted only 13 episodes.
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Nakia
Title: Nakia
Character: Sheriff Sam Jericho
Released: April 17, 1974
Type: Movie
An American Indian deputy sheriff is caught in the middle of a community dispute when the tribe tries to save an historic mission from a housing developer. This TV pilot film was an ABC Movie of the Week and later became a TV series.
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The Man from Independence
Title: The Man from Independence
Character: Tom Pendergast
Released: March 11, 1974
Type: Movie
The Story of Harry S. Truman as he begins his political career in 1929.
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The President's Plane Is Missing
Title: The President's Plane Is Missing
Character: Gunther Damon
Released: October 23, 1973
Type: Movie
When the President's plane mysteriously disappears with him on board, it is left to the seemingly weak Vice President to try to avert a nuclear exchange with the Chinese.
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Ricco
Title: Ricco
Character: Don Vito
Released: August 27, 1973
Type: Movie
Fresh out of the joint, young Ricco is eager to get home to see his family. He was cut loose a year early for good behavior, but it certainly wasn't good behavior that got him in the big house in the first place. Two years prior, Ricco took it upon himself to go after Don Avito, the man who killed his pappy and took his girlfriend. Yet Ricco came out of prison a changed man. He had a lot of time to think, and the anger and thirst for revenge is no longer there, much to his mother's chagrin. She is quite upset that her son is not interested in paying back Don Avito for his deeds, and she needles Ricco relentlessly until he reluctantly gives in to her demands.
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Family Killer
Title: Family Killer
Character: Don Angelino Ferrante
Released: February 23, 1973
Type: Movie
Stefano, son of the Mafia Don Angelino Ferrante, is killed by Gaspare Ardizzone (John Saxon) for refusing to sell some valuable land. The old don sends for Ferrante Santino Billeci from America, in the hope that he'll be able to help in getting revenge. But Gaspar, meanwhile, is becoming the most powerful and ruthless boss of the area...
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Crawlspace
Title: Crawlspace
Character: Albert Graves
Released: February 11, 1972
Type: Movie
A childless middle-age couple adopt a troubled youth they find living in their crawlspace and attempt to get him to rejoin society with tragic results.
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A Death of Innocence
Title: A Death of Innocence
Character: Mark Hirsch
Released: November 26, 1971
Type: Movie
A mother travels to New York to see her daughter who is awaiting trial for murder. The mother is totally convinced of her daughter's innocence and does all she can to help her. As the trial progresses however, the mother begins to have doubts.
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My Old Man's Place
Title: My Old Man's Place
Character: Walter Pell
Released: June 29, 1971
Type: Movie
Two soldiers return from Vietnam with serious PTSD. They decide to go for a couple of days to a peaceful farm owned by the father of one of the men. A psychotic sergeant who also did tours in Nam, joins them. Personalities clash hard.
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The Movie Murderer
Title: The Movie Murderer
Character: Angus MacGregor
Released: February 2, 1970
Type: Movie
An experienced arson investigator takes along his young associate as they try to find an arsonist who is burning down movie sets.
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Shark
Title: Shark
Character: Doc
Released: October 8, 1969
Type: Movie
A gunrunner loses his cargo near a small coastal Sudanese town so he's stuck there. When a woman hires him to raid a sunken ship in the shark-infested waters, he sees a chance to compensate for his losses. He's not the only one.
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Hail, Hero!
Title: Hail, Hero!
Character: Albert Dixon
Released: October 4, 1969
Type: Movie
Carl Dixon decides to quit school and enlist in the Army, even though he's already run afoul of the law as a Vietnam protestor. It is our hero's intention to use love, rather than bullets, to combat the Viet Cong. Needless to say, his idealism is no match for the harsher realities of war.
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Anzio
Title: Anzio
Character: Maj. Gen. Jack Lesley
Released: July 24, 1968
Type: Movie
American troops land unopposed on Italian beaches during World War II, but instead of pushing on to Rome, they dig in and the Germans fight back ferociously.
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Day of the Evil Gun
Title: Day of the Evil Gun
Character: Owen Forbes
Released: March 1, 1968
Type: Movie
Two men on a desperate search to save a woman only one of them could have!
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A Minute to Pray, a Second to Die
Title: A Minute to Pray, a Second to Die
Character: Tuscosa Marshal Roy W. Colby
Released: February 8, 1968
Type: Movie
A famous gunman decides to change his life around and turn himself in when amnesty is declared by the new governor of the New Mexico Territory, but a vindictive sheriff sets out to stop him from reaching the Territory.
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Monday's Child
Title: Monday's Child
Character: Peter Richardson
Released: June 8, 1967
Type: Movie
The daughter of an American marriage in Puerto Rico forces her parents to find a doll that her father mistakenly sent in a box of aid during a flood.
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Title: CBS Playhouse
Released: December 8, 1966
Type: TV
CBS Playhouse is an American anthology drama series that aired on CBS from 1967 to 1970. Airing twelve plays over the course of its run, the series was nominated for a number of awards and featured many noteworthy actors and playwrights.
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Title: ABC Stage 67
Character: Lieutenant Hammond
Released: September 14, 1966
Type: TV
ABC Stage 67 is the umbrella title for a series of 26 weekly shows that included dramas, variety shows, documentaries, and original musicals. It premiered on American Broadcasting Company on September 14, 1966 with Murray Schisgal's The Love Song of Barney Kempinksi, directed by Stanley Prager and starring Alan Arkin as a man enjoying the sights and sounds of New York City in his last remaining hours of bachelorhood. Arkin was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Single Performance By An Actor in a Leading Role in a Drama and the program was nominated as Outstanding Dramatic Program. Future programs included appearances by Petula Clark, Bobby Darin, Sir Laurence Olivier, Albert Finney, Peter Sellers, David Frost, and Jack Paar. ABC's effort to bring culture to the masses was a noble but unsuccessful experiment. Scheduled first against I Spy on Wednesdays and then The Dean Martin Show on Thursdays, the show consistently received low ratings. Its last production, an adaptation of Jean Cocteau's one-woman play The Human Voice starring Ingrid Bergman, aired on May 4, 1967. "Stage 67" was not actually a part of the primary ABC facilities in Los Angeles. It was produced at the old Monogram Studios backlot that was later sold to KCET.
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Fantastic Voyage
Title: Fantastic Voyage
Character: Dr. Duval
Released: August 24, 1966
Type: Movie
In order to save an assassinated scientist, a submarine and its crew are shrunk to microscopic size and injected into his bloodstream.
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Nevada Smith
Title: Nevada Smith
Character: Bill Bowdre
Released: June 10, 1966
Type: Movie
Nevada Smith is the young son of an Indian mother and white father. When his father is killed by three men over gold, Nevada sets out to find them and kill them. The boy is taken in by a gun merchant. The gun merchant shows him how to shoot and to shoot on time and correct.
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Joy in the Morning
Title: Joy in the Morning
Character: Patrick Brown
Released: May 5, 1965
Type: Movie
Carl Brown and Annie McGairy are in love. Their Irish immigrant parents knew each other in the old country - and Carl's parents want better for their son than Annie, who was raised in the slums. When Annie runs away to marry Carl while he's at college, they have many difficulties, including a college Dean that frowns upon married couples, Carl's angry parents, Carl's jealousy, and Annie's own problems with her sexuality.
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Murieta
Title: Murieta
Character: Capt. Love
Released: February 1, 1965
Type: Movie
The fictionalized story of Joaquin Murrieta, a real life Mexican bandit who terrorized California with his gang of raiders and cutthroats during the first half of the 19th century. Some saw him as a murderous outlaw, others as the Mexican Robin Hood.
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Title: F.D.R.
Character: Narrator
Released: January 8, 1965
Type: TV
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The Battle of the Bulge... The Brave Rifles
Title: The Battle of the Bulge... The Brave Rifles
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: January 1, 1965
Type: Movie
Hitler's last offensive in 1944 in the Ardennes, with which he desperately tried to stop the allies thereof, to reach Antwerp.
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Cheyenne Autumn
Title: Cheyenne Autumn
Character: Doc Holliday
Released: October 15, 1964
Type: Movie
A reluctant cavalry Captain must track a defiant tribe of migrating Cheyenne.
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Attack and Retreat
Title: Attack and Retreat
Character: Ferro Maria Ferri
Released: September 16, 1964
Type: Movie
Chronicle of the unheralded and unsuccessful invasion of the Soviet Union by the Italian army during World War II.
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Title: Kraft Suspense Theatre
Character: Dr. Walter Meade Taylor
Released: October 10, 1963
Type: TV
Kraft Suspense Theatre is an American anthology series that was telecast from 1963 to 1965 on NBC. Sponsored by Kraft Foods, it was seen three weeks out of every four and was pre-empted for Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall specials once monthly. Como's production company, Roncom Films, also produced Kraft Suspense Theatre. Writer, editor, critic and radio playwright Anthony Boucher served as consultant on the series. Later syndicated under the title Crisis, it was one of the few suspense series telecast in color at the time. While most of NBC's shows were in color then, all-color network line-ups did not become the norm until the 1966-67 season.
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Lawrence of Arabia
Title: Lawrence of Arabia
Character: Jackson Bentley
Released: December 11, 1962
Type: Movie
The story of British officer T.E. Lawrence's mission to aid the Arab tribes in their revolt against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. Lawrence becomes a flamboyant, messianic figure in the cause of Arab unity but his psychological instability threatens to undermine his achievements.
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Title: The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Character: Keith Hollands
Released: September 20, 1962
Type: TV
A continuation of the anthology series “Alfred Hitchcock Presents”, hosted by the master of suspense and featuring thrillers and mysteries.
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Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man
Title: Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man
Character: Dr. Henry Adams
Released: July 25, 1962
Type: Movie
Young and restless Nick Adams, the only son of a domineering mother and a weak but noble doctor father, leaves his rural Michigan home to embark on an eventful cross-country journey. He is touched and affected by his encounters with a punch-drunk ex-boxer, a sympathetic telegrapher, and an alcoholic advanceman for a burlesque show. After failing to get a job as reporter in New York, he enlists in the Italian army during World War I as an ambulance driver. His camaraderie with fellow soldiers and a romance with a nurse he meets after being wounded propel him to manhood.
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Barabbas
Title: Barabbas
Character: Pontius Pilate
Released: December 23, 1961
Type: Movie
Epic account of the thief Barabbas, who was pardoned for his crimes and spared crucifixion when Pilate offered the Israelites a choice to pardon Barabbas or Jesus. Struggling with his spirituality, Barabbas goes through many ordeals leading him to the gladiatorial arena, where he tries to win his freedom and confront his inner demons, ultimately becoming a follower of the man who was crucified in his place.
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Murder She Said
Title: Murder She Said
Character: Paul Quimper
Released: September 26, 1961
Type: Movie
Miss Marple believes she's seen a murder in a passing-by train, yet when the police find no evidence she decides to investigate it on her own.
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Claudelle Inglish
Title: Claudelle Inglish
Character: Clyde Inglish
Released: September 20, 1961
Type: Movie
A young daughter of poor farmers is forced by her mother to ditch her young boyfriend in order to marry an old rich neighbor but the girl rebels by becoming the town's harlot.
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Elmer Gantry
Title: Elmer Gantry
Character: Jim Lefferts
Released: July 7, 1960
Type: Movie
When hedonistic but charming con man Elmer Gantry meets the beautiful Sister Sharon Falconer, a roadside revivalist, he feigns piousness to join her act as a passionate preacher. The two make a successful onstage pair, and their chemistry extends to romance. Both the show and their relationship are threatened, however, when one of Gantry's ex-lovers decides that she has a score to settle with the charismatic performer.
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A Summer Place
Title: A Summer Place
Character: Bart Hunter
Released: November 18, 1959
Type: Movie
A self-made businessman rekindles a romance with a former flame while their two teenage children begin a romance of their own with drastic consequences for both couples.
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Home Is the Hero
Title: Home Is the Hero
Character: Willie O'Reilly
Released: March 3, 1959
Type: Movie
This well-acted drama about an Irishman just released from jail is filled with rich characterization. The story is adapted from a stage play by Walter Macken who also plays the role of the ex-convict Paddo in this screen version. Direction is by J. Fielder Cook. Once Paddo returns home after being sentenced to five years for killing a man, his old friends try to put him back in their niche of local hero but Paddo will have none of it. He is disillusioned and changed. His son Willie (Arthur Kennedy) walks with a limp that keeps him too self-conscious to assert himself as he would like with the young woman of his dreams. While other people come in and out of Paddo's life, from his taciturn friend the trapper to the local tinker, it is Paddo's son Willie suffering from his own disability who makes the difference in his father's life.
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Some Came Running
Title: Some Came Running
Character: Frank Hirsh
Released: December 25, 1958
Type: Movie
A former novelist returns to his small Midwest town after serving in the Army during WWII, to the chagrin of his social-climbing brother, and becomes close with an easy-going professional gambler and torn between two very different women.
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Twilight for the Gods
Title: Twilight for the Gods
Character: First Mate Ramsay
Released: August 4, 1958
Type: Movie
An alcoholic captain sails a two-master through danger with a call girl and others on board.
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Peyton Place
Title: Peyton Place
Character: Lucas Cross
Released: December 13, 1957
Type: Movie
In the outwardly respectable New England community of Peyton Place, shopkeeper Constance McKenzie tries to make up for a past indiscretion -- which resulted in her illegitimate daughter Allison -- by adopting a chaste, prudish attitude towards all things sexual. In spite of herself, Constance can't help but be attracted to handsome new teacher Michael Rossi. Meanwhile, the restless Allison, who'd like to be as footloose and fancy-free as the town's "fast girl" Betty Anderson, falls sincerely in love with mixed-up mama's boy Norman Page.
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Title: Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Character: Sam Carter
Released: October 5, 1956
Type: TV
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre, sometimes simply called Zane Grey Theatre, is an American Western anthology series which ran on CBS from 1956 to 1961.
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The Rawhide Years
Title: The Rawhide Years
Character: Rick Harper
Released: July 1, 1956
Type: Movie
Ben Matthews gives up the flashy life of a riverboat gambler, hoping to settle down in Galena with his girlfriend, luscious entertainer Zoe. But Galena's leading citizen is murdered on the boat; Ben, on arrival, finds a lynch mob after his neck, and flees. Three years of wandering later, Zoe's letters stop coming and Ben returns to find her and attempt the hopeless task of clearing himself.
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The Naked Dawn
Title: The Naked Dawn
Character: Santiago
Released: November 2, 1955
Type: Movie
Santiago, a jolly modern bandito, has just lost his partner when he happens on the isolated farm of young Manuel and Maria Lopez...
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Trial
Title: Trial
Character: Barney Castle
Released: October 7, 1955
Type: Movie
A Mexican boy accused of rape and murder becomes a pawn for Communists and red-baiters. A courtroom drama set in 1947 and underlying post-WW2 acute problems facing the USA such as stormy race relations and the growing threat of local communism.
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The Desperate Hours
Title: The Desperate Hours
Character: Deputy Sheriff Jesse Bard
Released: October 5, 1955
Type: Movie
Escaped convicts terrorize a suburban family they're holding hostage.
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The Man from Laramie
Title: The Man from Laramie
Character: Vic Hansbro
Released: August 19, 1955
Type: Movie
Will Lockhart arrives in Coronado, an isolated town in New Mexico, in search of someone who sells rifles to the Apache tribe, finding himself unwillingly drawn into the convoluted life of a local ranching family whose members seem to have a lot to hide.
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Crashout
Title: Crashout
Character: Joe Quinn
Released: March 1, 1955
Type: Movie
Convict Van Duff engineers a large-scale prison break; the six survivors hide out in a forgotten mine working near the prison, then set out on a long, dangerous journey by foot, car, train and truck to retrieve Duff's bank loot. En route, as they touch the lives of "regular folks," each has his own rendezvous with destiny.
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Impulse
Title: Impulse
Character: Alan Curtis
Released: January 1, 1954
Type: Movie
An American realtor living in England is dissatisfied with what he believes to be his humdrum life. One weekend while his wife is out of town, he gives a ride to a woman he sees stranded on the road. One thing leads to another, and he soon finds himself enmeshed in a plot involving a diamond robbery, gangsters and murder.
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Title: General Electric Theater
Character: Whitney Barton
Released: February 1, 1953
Type: TV
General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was sponsored by General Electric's Department of Public Relations.
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The Lusty Men
Title: The Lusty Men
Character: Wes Merritt
Released: October 24, 1952
Type: Movie
Retired rodeo champion Jeff McCloud agrees to mentor novice rodeo contestant Wes Merritt against the wishes of Merritt's wife who fears the dangers of this rough sport.
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The Girl in White
Title: The Girl in White
Character: Dr. Ben Barringer
Released: May 23, 1952
Type: Movie
The first female doctor in New York City comes up against prejudice from male counterparts who feel threatened by her skills. Eventually, though, they come to respect her and romance blossoms between her and the head doctor.
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Rancho Notorious
Title: Rancho Notorious
Character: Vern Haskell
Released: March 6, 1952
Type: Movie
A man in search of revenge infiltrates a ranch, hidden in an inhospitable region, where its owner, Altar Keane, gives shelter to outlaws fleeing from the law in exchange for a price.
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Bend of the River
Title: Bend of the River
Character: Emerson Cole
Released: January 23, 1952
Type: Movie
Two men with questionable pasts, Glyn McLyntock and his friend Cole, lead a wagon-train load of homesteaders from Missouri to the Oregon territory...
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Red Mountain
Title: Red Mountain
Character: Lane Waldron
Released: November 1, 1951
Type: Movie
Towards the end of the American Civil War, a rebel captain flees to Colorado to join a band of Southern mercenaries. He drags an innocent gold prospecting couple into trouble when the husband is accused of a murder he committed.
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Bright Victory
Title: Bright Victory
Character: Larry Nevins
Released: August 1, 1951
Type: Movie
A soldier blinded in war returns home and attempts to adjust to civilian life.
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The Glass Menagerie
Title: The Glass Menagerie
Character: Tom Wingfield
Released: September 28, 1950
Type: Movie
An aging Southern Belle makes life horrible for her ambitious son and crippled daughter because of her dreams of what life should be.
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Chicago Deadline
Title: Chicago Deadline
Character: Tommy Ditman
Released: November 3, 1949
Type: Movie
On Chicago's South Side reporter Ed Ames finds the body of a dead girl. Her address book leads to a host of names of men frightened by her death but claiming never to have known her. Ames comes to know quite a lot, dangerously so.
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Too Late for Tears
Title: Too Late for Tears
Character: Alan Palmer
Released: July 17, 1949
Type: Movie
Through a fluke circumstance, a ruthless woman stumbles across a suitcase filled with $60,000, and is determined to hold onto it even if it means murder.
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The Window
Title: The Window
Character: Ed Woodry
Released: May 10, 1949
Type: Movie
An imaginative boy who frequently makes things up witnesses a murder, but can't get his parents or the police to believe him. The only people taking him seriously are the killers - who live upstairs, know that he saw what they did, and are out to permanently silence him.
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Champion
Title: Champion
Character: Connie Kelly
Released: April 9, 1949
Type: Movie
An unscrupulous boxer fights his way to the top, but eventually alienates all of the people who helped him on the way up.
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The Walking Hills
Title: The Walking Hills
Character: Chalk
Released: March 5, 1949
Type: Movie
A study in greed in which treasure hunters seek a shipment of gold buried in Death Valley.
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Title: The Ed Sullivan Show
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: June 20, 1948
Type: TV
The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan. It was replaced in September 1971 by the CBS Sunday Night Movie, which ran only one season and was eventually replaced by other shows. In 2002, The Ed Sullivan Show was ranked #15 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
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Cheyenne
Title: Cheyenne
Character: The Sundance Kid
Released: June 6, 1947
Type: Movie
Slick gambler James Wylie (Dennis Morgan) is apprehended by the law and given the option to forgo a prison sentence if he poses as a bandit. His mission is to uncover the identity of the Poet, a notorious outlaw who has been holding up bank-owned stagecoaches and leaving verses at the crime scenes to taunt the authorities. James finds time to woo the Poet's lovely wife, Ann (Jane Wyman), who initially cold-shoulders him. But, as a romance develops, they partner up to find the robber.
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Boomerang!
Title: Boomerang!
Character: John Waldron
Released: February 28, 1947
Type: Movie
When a kindly priest is murdered while waiting at a street corner in a quiet Connecticut town, the citizens are horrified and demand action from the police. All of the witnesses identify John Waldron, a nervous out-of-towner, as the killer. District Attorney Henry Harvey is then put on the case and faces political opposition in his attempt to prove Waldron's innocence.
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It's Your America
Title: It's Your America
Character: Soldier / Narrator (uncredited)
Released: July 25, 1946
Type: Movie
This short--long rumored to have been directed by John Ford--was produced by the US government specifically for veterans returning home from World War II, showing them what their responsibilities as citizens were now that they were returning to civilian life.
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Devotion
Title: Devotion
Character: Branwell Brontë
Released: April 5, 1946
Type: Movie
In Victorian England, literary siblings Emily and Charlotte Brontë vie for the affection of the Rev. Arthur Nicholls. Along with their sister Anne, Emily and Charlotte also try to help their tormented brother Branwell, a gifted artist whose life is being destroyed by alcohol.
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Target - Invisible
Title: Target - Invisible
Character: Air Force Officer / Narrator
Released: December 12, 1945
Type: Movie
Documentary short film depicting the uses of radar in high-level bombing during World War II. B-29 bombers are shown delivering bombs over Japan and using radar to make pinpoint accurate target assessments despite overcast conditions.
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The Last Bomb
Title: The Last Bomb
Character: Crewman (voice)
Released: December 1, 1945
Type: Movie
Documentary of the planning and delivery of the last great bomber attack on the city of Tokyo by the U.S. Army Air Forces in World War II.
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Resisting Enemy Interrogation
Title: Resisting Enemy Interrogation
Character: Sgt. Alfred Mason
Released: August 1, 1944
Type: Movie
A downed American bomber crew quickly falls prey to the clever interrogation techniques of the Germans in this dramatic training film.
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The Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress
Title: The Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress
Character: (uncredited)
Released: April 13, 1944
Type: Movie
This WW2 documentary centers on the crew of the American B-17 Flying Fortress Memphis Belle as it prepares to execute a strategic bombing raid on Nazi submarine pens in Wilhelmshaven, Germany.
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Troop Carrier Airplanes: Cockpit Procedure
Title: Troop Carrier Airplanes: Cockpit Procedure
Character: Capt. Mathews
Released: March 13, 1944
Type: Movie
This U.S. Army Air Forces documentary short film depicts training methods and instructions for pilots of the C-47 Skytrain troop carrier aircraft. Lieutenant Warren is shown being put through his training paces by his instructor, Captain Mathews, who shows Warren the correct procedures and checklists for preparation for takeoff, takeoff, automatic pilot functioning, feathering a malfunctioning engine, and landing on one engine. Upon landing, Lt. Warren is instructed in taxiing and shut-down of the aircraft.
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Flight Characteristics of the P-51 Airplane
Title: Flight Characteristics of the P-51 Airplane
Character: Bob Chilton
Released: March 13, 1944
Type: Movie
U.S. Army Air Force pilot Bob Chilton and North American Aircraft designer Arthur Deeds show an Air Force colonel and major the new P-51B aircraft, explaining the changes in this new model and taking the plane through its paces with full description of its flight characteristics.
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Ditch and Live
Title: Ditch and Live
Character: Captain Scott H. Reynolds
Released: January 1, 1944
Type: Movie
Lt. Scott Reynolds is co-pilot on a B-17 bomber. When his ship is forced to ditch at sea, only Reynolds survives. The nine other crew members died as a result of insufficient training in ditching procedure. Sent back to the States and promoted, Captain Reynolds takes command of a new B-17 and indoctrinates his crew carefully in the proper methods of preparation for ditching and for survival at sea thereafter.
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Air Force
Title: Air Force
Character: Bombardier
Released: March 20, 1943
Type: Movie
The crew of an Air Force bomber arrives in Pearl Harbor in the aftermath of the Japanese attack and is sent on to Manila to help with the defense of the Philippines.
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Reconnaissance Pilot
Title: Reconnaissance Pilot
Character: Decoration Announcer (voice)
Released: January 25, 1943
Type: Movie
Documentary/training film depicting the duties of a pilot in the Pacific Theatre of the Second World War as he flies reconnaissance missions over enemy-held islands.
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How to Fly the B-17 (Part 1, Ground Operations)
Title: How to Fly the B-17 (Part 1, Ground Operations)
Character: Instructor
Released: January 24, 1943
Type: Movie
Military training film in which an instructor takes a new B-17 bomber pilot through preflight inspections of the aircraft and preparation for departure.
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How to Fly the B-17 (Part 2, Flight Operations)
Title: How to Fly the B-17 (Part 2, Flight Operations)
Character: Instructor
Released: January 24, 1943
Type: Movie
Military training film in which an instructor trains a new B-17 bomber pilot in proper procedure and technique while airborne.
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Breakdowns of 1942
Title: Breakdowns of 1942
Character: Self
Released: December 31, 1942
Type: Movie
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1942.
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Desperate Journey
Title: Desperate Journey
Character: Flight Officer Jed Forrest
Released: September 26, 1942
Type: Movie
During WWII, when an allied bomber is shot down over Germany, the five surviving crew are captured but cleverly escape detention after learning German secret information and knocking out a Nazi major. With the angry major in hot pursuit, aided by military personnel, Gestapo agents and Hitler-loyal citizens, the five wend their way across perilous Germany, intent on reaching the UK with the secrets they have learned.
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They Died with Their Boots On
Title: They Died with Their Boots On
Character: Ned Sharp
Released: November 20, 1941
Type: Movie
The story follows General George Armstrong Custer's adventures from his West Point days to his death. He defies orders during the Civil War, trains the 7th Cavalry, appeases Chief Crazy Horse and later engages in bloody battle with the Sioux nation.
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Highway West
Title: Highway West
Character: George Foster
Released: August 7, 1941
Type: Movie
A young woman marries a man who turns out to be a bank robber.
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Bad Men of Missouri
Title: Bad Men of Missouri
Character: Jim Younger
Released: July 26, 1941
Type: Movie
The Younger brothers return to Missouri after the Civil War with intent to avenge the misdeeds of William Merrick, a crooked banker who has been buying up warrants on back-taxes and dispossessing the farmers.
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Strange Alibi
Title: Strange Alibi
Character: Sgt. Joe Geary
Released: April 19, 1941
Type: Movie
An undercover cop finds himself on the wrong side of the law when the mob discovers his true identity.
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Knockout
Title: Knockout
Character: Johnny Rocket
Released: March 29, 1941
Type: Movie
Johnny Rocket (Arthur Kennedy) needs to fight one more match to have enough money to get married to Angela (Olympe Bradna) and start on his dream to run and then own a gym. However, his manager makes sure that this does not happen and eventually Johnny embraces being a fighter, but Angela becomes increasingly unhappy.
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High Sierra
Title: High Sierra
Character: Red
Released: January 23, 1941
Type: Movie
Given a pardon from jail, Roy Earle gets back into the swing of things as he robs a swanky resort.
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City for Conquest
Title: City for Conquest
Character: Eddie Kenny
Released: September 21, 1940
Type: Movie
The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and struggle through their impoverished lives in New York City. When Peggy, hoping for something better in life for both of them, breaks off her engagement to Danny, he sets out to be a championship boxer, while she becomes a dancer paired with a sleazy partner. Will tragedy reunite the former lovers?