Howard Wright

Howard Wright

Born: September 30, 1896
Died: July 2, 1990
in San Diego, California, USA

Movies for Howard Wright...

The Legend of Earl Durand
Title: The Legend of Earl Durand
Released: October 8, 1974
Type: Movie
The Legend Of Earl Durand was the story of a young child whose family lived near DuBois, Wyoming and made Earl live in a hut in the wild because they thought he had a contagious disease. When the local Aboriginal people discovered his plight, they took him under their wing so he grew up as a sort of wild man, completely able to live off the land. He was known as the "Robin Hood" of the West because he hunted game on Federal land which was very illegal and gave the meat to the poor.
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What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice?
Title: What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice?
Character: Mourner
Released: August 20, 1969
Type: Movie
An aging widow hides a deadly secret which she will do anything to keep buried.
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The Chase
Title: The Chase
Character: Mr. Crain (uncredited)
Released: February 18, 1966
Type: Movie
The escape of Bubber Reeves from prison affects the inhabitants of a small Southern town.
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Apache Rifles
Title: Apache Rifles
Character: Indian Agent Thompson
Released: November 26, 1964
Type: Movie
A young cavalry officer is assigned the job of bringing in a band of Apaches who have been terrorizing the countryside.
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The Solid Gold Girl
Title: The Solid Gold Girl
Character: The Old Crook
Released: February 14, 1964
Type: Movie
While searching for the man who framed him for a crime he didn't commit, Harrison Destry (John Gavin) stumbles into a town where an old cell mate of his is being tried for robbery and murder. The outlaw has hidden the loot and offers to reveal the location to Destry, but instead provides the location to Patience Dailey, a gold digging saloon singer played by Tammy Grimes.
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Five Minutes to Live
Title: Five Minutes to Live
Character: Pop
Released: December 7, 1961
Type: Movie
A guitar playing killer terrorizes a housewife while his partner robs the bank where her husband works.
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Young Jesse James
Title: Young Jesse James
Character: Storekeeper Jenkins
Released: August 2, 1960
Type: Movie
When Missouri farm boy Jesse James witnesses the lynching of his father by the Yankees, he forsakes his family's homestead to find his brother Frank, a soldier in Quantrill's Raiders, a renegade band of Confederates. Bent on revenge, Jesse begs to join the raiders.
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Title: The Twilight Zone
Character: Judge
Released: October 2, 1959
Type: TV
A series of unrelated stories containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist.
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Title: The Twilight Zone
Character: Hardy
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: Johnny Ringo
Character: Bledsoe
Released: October 2, 1959
Type: TV
Johnny Ringo is an American Western television series starring Don Durant that aired on CBS from October 1, 1959, until June 30, 1960. It is loosely based on the life of the notorious gunfighter and outlaw Johnny Ringo, also known as John Peters Ringo or John B. Ringgold, who tangled with Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and Buckskin Franklin Leslie.
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The Legend of Tom Dooley
Title: The Legend of Tom Dooley
Character: Sheriff Joe Dobbs
Released: July 1, 1959
Type: Movie
Tom Dooley and Country Boy are on the run after killing an enemy soldier not knowing the war is over. The Command refuses to give them some slack for making this tragic but honest mistake and sends a lawman after them.
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The Louisiana Hussy
Title: The Louisiana Hussy
Character: Cob
Released: April 1, 1959
Type: Movie
Cajun newlyweds must deal with the jealousy of his brother, who also loved her, and the arrival of a mysterious seductress in their bayou backwater.
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Title: Black Saddle
Character: Mr. Turley
Released: January 10, 1959
Type: TV
Black Saddle is an American Western television series starring Peter Breck that aired 44 episodes on ABC from January 10, 1959 to May 6, 1960. The half-hour program was produced by Dick Powell's Four Star Television, and the original pilot was an episode of CBS's Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater, with Chris Alcaide portraying the principal character, Clay Culhane. For syndicated reruns, Black Saddle was combined with three other Western series from the same company, Law of the Plainsman starring Michael Ansara, Johnny Ringo starring Don Durant and Mark Goddard, and the critically acclaimed creation of Sam Peckinpah, The Westerner with Brian Keith, under the umbrella title, The Westerners, with new hosting sequences by Keenan Wynn.
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The Spider
Title: The Spider
Character: Jake
Released: September 1, 1958
Type: Movie
Teenagers from a small town and their high school science teacher join forces to battle a giant mutant spider, living in a cave nearby and getting hungry.
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War of the Colossal Beast
Title: War of the Colossal Beast
Character: Medical Research Official
Released: June 4, 1958
Type: Movie
Glenn Manning, "The Amazing Colossal Man," believed dead after falling from the Hoover Dam, reemerges in rural Mexico, brain damaged, disfigured, and very angry.
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The Bonnie Parker Story
Title: The Bonnie Parker Story
Character: Old Man (uncredited)
Released: May 28, 1958
Type: Movie
In the 1930s, amoral blonde tommy-gun girl Bonnie Parker cut a swath of bodies across the South-West. Starting out on gas stations and bars with side-kick Guy Darrow she graduated to bank hold-ups with Darrow's brother and, after bloodily springing him, her jailed husband. But there was never any doubt who was in charge.
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Title: Perry Mason
Character: Conductor
Released: September 21, 1957
Type: TV
The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.
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Cha-Cha-Cha Boom!
Title: Cha-Cha-Cha Boom!
Character: Harry Teasdale
Released: October 2, 1956
Type: Movie
A programmer with a Latin American beat.
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Title: Hey, Jeannie!
Character: Lt. Gen. Jordan
Released: September 8, 1956
Type: TV
Hey, Jeannie! is an American situation comedy starring Jeannie Carson as a young Scottish woman living in New York City. Twenty-six episodes aired on CBS from September 8, 1956 to May 4, 1957 in the Saturday slot following The Gale Storm Show and preceding the western series Gunsmoke. Six additional episodes aired in 1958 in syndication. Reruns of Hey, Jeannie! aired during the summer of 1960 under the title The Jeannie Carson Show.
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Title: Hey, Jeannie!
Character: Lynch
Released: September 8, 1956
Type: TV
Hey, Jeannie! is an American situation comedy starring Jeannie Carson as a young Scottish woman living in New York City. Twenty-six episodes aired on CBS from September 8, 1956 to May 4, 1957 in the Saturday slot following The Gale Storm Show and preceding the western series Gunsmoke. Six additional episodes aired in 1958 in syndication. Reruns of Hey, Jeannie! aired during the summer of 1960 under the title The Jeannie Carson Show.
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Stranger at My Door
Title: Stranger at My Door
Character: 'Doc' Parks
Released: April 6, 1956
Type: Movie
Notorious outlaw Clay Anderson and gang rob the town bank and flee in separate directions. Riding hard, Clay's horse goes lame and he is forced to pull-up at a nearby farm. He soon discovers that the place belongs to local preacher Hollis Jarret, his new wife, and a son from a previous marriage. Clay, posing as a weary traveler, tries to insinuate himself into a secure hideout, but the reverend isn't fooled. He agrees to allow Clay to remain at the farm for a few days, but his motive isn't the preservation of his family's safety. Hollis reasons that, with time, patience and a lot of faith, he can convince the outlaw to turn over a new leaf. But Clay's criminal tendencies may run deeper than the preacher had imagined
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Headline Hunters
Title: Headline Hunters
Character: Harry Bradley
Released: September 15, 1955
Type: Movie
A rookie reporter in pursuit of an expose gets tangled up with big-time mobsters.
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The Gun That Won the West
Title: The Gun That Won the West
Character: General Pope
Released: September 1, 1955
Type: Movie
In the late 1880s, Colonel Carrington and his command are assigned the job of constructing a chain of forts in the Sious Indian territory of Wyoming. Carrington recruits former cavalry scouts Jim Bridger and "Dakota Jack" Gaines to lead the project. Bridger and Gaines are friendly with Sioux chief Red Cloud, and they feel a peace treaty with the Indians can be made. If an Indian-war breaks out, the cavalry is depending on getting a new type of Springfield rifle. Bridger, Gaines and Gaines wife, Maxine, arrive at the fort for the conference. Gaines, in a drunken fit, tries to intimidate the Indians unto signing a treaty. Chied Red Fox threatens war if his territory is invaded by any troops building forts.
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One Desire
Title: One Desire
Character: Judge Congin
Released: July 20, 1955
Type: Movie
The "one desire" of ex-gambler Clint Saunders and bar woman Tacey Cromwell is to escape their shady former lives and settle down to respectability. With Clint's younger brother and an orphaned girl in tow, the couple moves to a Colorado mining town where their love is tested by Judith Watrous, daughter of the town banker, who has her sights on Clint.
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Seminole Uprising
Title: Seminole Uprising
Released: May 1, 1955
Type: Movie
An angry Seminole chief wages war after his tribe is relocated from Florida to the American West.
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Cell 2455 Death Row
Title: Cell 2455 Death Row
Character: Judge
Released: April 19, 1955
Type: Movie
A Death Row inmate uses his prison law studies to fight for his life. Based on a true story.
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The Raid
Title: The Raid
Character: Sheriff (uncredited)
Released: August 4, 1954
Type: Movie
A group of confederate prisoners escape to Canada and plan to rob the banks and set fire to the small town of Saint Albans in Vermont. To get the lie of the land, their leader spends a few days in the town and finds he is getting drawn into its life and especially into that of an attractive widow and her son.
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Tennessee Champ
Title: Tennessee Champ
Character: Mr. Robinson
Released: March 3, 1954
Type: Movie
A boxer desperate for money falls in with a shady promoter.
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Last of the Pony Riders
Title: Last of the Pony Riders
Character: Banker Clyde Vesey
Released: November 3, 1953
Type: Movie
Ex-Pony Express rider Autry ties to protect his US mail franchise as the Pony Express gives way to stage coach mail and the telegraph. Gene's last film appearance as a singing cowboy.