Ben Astar

Ben Astar

Born: June 15, 1909
Died: October 20, 1988
in Palestine [now Israel]

Movies for Ben Astar...

Blade Runner
Title: Blade Runner
Character: Abdul Ben Hassan (uncredited)
Released: June 25, 1982
Type: Movie
In the smog-choked dystopian Los Angeles of 2019, blade runner Rick Deckard is called out of retirement to terminate a quartet of replicants who have escaped to Earth seeking their creator for a way to extend their short life spans.
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The Kids Who Knew Too Much
Title: The Kids Who Knew Too Much
Character: Premier Markov
Released: April 29, 1980
Type: Movie
When a cryptic note is passed to young Bert Hale by a stranger, he and his three friends inadvertently hold the key to unravelling the sinister plot to assassinate a Russian premier visiting Los Angeles.
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Sextette
Title: Sextette
Character: Israeli Delegate
Released: March 3, 1978
Type: Movie
On the day of her wedding to her sixth husband, a glamorous silver screen sex symbol is asked to intervene in a political dispute between nations, which leads to chaos.
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Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round
Title: Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round
Character: General Mailenkoff
Released: October 12, 1966
Type: Movie
A sophisticated con man mounts an intricate plan to rob an airport bank while the Soviet premier is due to arrive.
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Walk Don't Run
Title: Walk Don't Run
Character: Dimitri
Released: June 29, 1966
Type: Movie
During the housing shortage of the Summer Olympic Games in 1964, two men and a woman share a small apartment in Tokyo, and the older man soon starts playing Cupid to the younger pair.
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Title: Batman
Character: The Moldovian Prime Minister
Released: January 12, 1966
Type: TV
Wealthy entrepreneur Bruce Wayne and his ward Dick Grayson lead a double life: they are actually crime fighting duo Batman and Robin. A secret Batpole in the Wayne mansion leads to the Batcave, where Police Commissioner Gordon often calls with the latest emergency threatening Gotham City. Racing to the scene of the crime in the Batmobile, Batman and Robin must (with the help of their trusty Bat-utility-belt) thwart the efforts of a variety of master criminals, including The Riddler, The Joker, Catwoman, and The Penguin.
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Title: Batman
Character: The Moldavian Prime Minister
Released: January 12, 1966
Type: TV
Wealthy entrepreneur Bruce Wayne and his ward Dick Grayson lead a double life: they are actually crime fighting duo Batman and Robin. A secret Batpole in the Wayne mansion leads to the Batcave, where Police Commissioner Gordon often calls with the latest emergency threatening Gotham City. Racing to the scene of the crime in the Batmobile, Batman and Robin must (with the help of their trusty Bat-utility-belt) thwart the efforts of a variety of master criminals, including The Riddler, The Joker, Catwoman, and The Penguin.
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A House Is Not a Home
Title: A House Is Not a Home
Character: Max Ludwig
Released: August 12, 1964
Type: Movie
Story follows the life of Polly Adler, who grew to become one of New York's most successful bordello madams of the 1920s.
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Bye Bye Birdie
Title: Bye Bye Birdie
Character: Ballet Manager
Released: April 4, 1963
Type: Movie
A singer goes to a small town for a performance before he is drafted.
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The Honeymoon Machine
Title: The Honeymoon Machine
Character: Russian consul
Released: August 16, 1961
Type: Movie
Lt. Fergie Howard teams up with Lt. Beau Gilliam and Navy scientist Jason Eldridge to turn a supercomputer with missile-tracking capabilities into a tool to predict where a roulette ball will land. They dock in Venice, Italy, and begin making a killing at the casino, but their shore-to-ship signals get misinterpreted as signs of attack by Adm. Fitch, putting a serious crimp in the officers' get-rich-quick scheme.
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On the Double
Title: On the Double
Character: General Zlinkov
Released: May 19, 1961
Type: Movie
American GI Ernie Williams, admittedly weak-kneed, has an uncanny resemblance to British Colonel MacKenzie. Williams, also a master of imitation and disguise, is asked to impersonate the Colonel, ostensibly to allow the Colonel to make a secret trip East. What Williams is not told is that the Colonel has recently been a target of assassins. After the Colonel's plane goes down, the plan changes and Williams maintains the disguise to confuse the Nazis about D-Day.
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Title: The Andy Griffith Show
Character: Mr. Vasilievich
Released: October 3, 1960
Type: TV
The Andy Griffith Show is an American sitcom first televised on CBS between October 3, 1960 and April 1, 1968. Andy Griffith portrays the widowed sheriff of the fictional small community of Mayberry, North Carolina. His life is complicated by an inept, but well-meaning deputy, Barney Fife, a spinster aunt and housekeeper, Aunt Bee, and a precocious young son, Opie. Local ne'er-do-wells, bumbling pals, and temperamental girlfriends further complicate his life. Andy Griffith stated in a Today Show interview, with respect to the time period of the show: "Well, though we never said it, and though it was shot in the '60s, it had a feeling of the '30s. It was when we were doing it, of a time gone by." The series never placed lower than seventh in the Nielsen ratings and ended its final season at number one. It has been ranked by TV Guide as the 9th-best show in American television history. Though neither Griffith nor the show won awards during its eight-season run, series co-stars Knotts and Bavier accumulated a combined total of six Emmy Awards. The show, a semi-spin-off from an episode of The Danny Thomas Show titled "Danny Meets Andy Griffith", spawned its own spin-off series, Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., a sequel series, Mayberry R.F.D., and a reunion telemovie, Return to Mayberry. The show's enduring popularity has generated a good deal of show-related merchandise. Reruns currently air on TV Land, and the complete series is available on DVD. All eight seasons are also now available by streaming video services such as Netflix.
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The Story of Ruth
Title: The Story of Ruth
Character: Official (uncredited)
Released: June 17, 1960
Type: Movie
Ruth is an unusual character in the Bible. First she's a female protagonist, one of a select few there. Secondly her story gets its own book in the Old Testament, a short item of only four chapters. Lastly she's the first non-Hebrew protagonist in the Bible since Abraham sired the Hebrew people. It's a simple story in the Old Testament. Ruth is one of two Moabite women who marry the sons of Elimelech and Naomi. When Elimelech and sons Mahlon and Chillion die, leaving Naomi a widow with two widowed daughters-in-law, Naomi decides to return to Israel. One daughter-in-law, Orpah, bids her goodbye. Daughter-in-law Ruth however says she will not desert her. She's going to give up the life and culture of Moab and her people will be Naomi's people in the most famous line from the Book of Ruth.
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The Man Who Understood Women
Title: The Man Who Understood Women
Character: French Doctor
Released: October 2, 1959
Type: Movie
A film director turns his actress wife into a star, leading to marital problems.
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This Earth Is Mine
Title: This Earth Is Mine
Character: Yakowitz
Released: July 8, 1959
Type: Movie
Set during the Prohibition era, when wine makers were financially challenged and had to decide whether or not they wanted to cooperate with bootleggers to survive.
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Title: Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Swiss Innkeeper
Released: October 2, 1955
Type: TV
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
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The Robe
Title: The Robe
Character: Cleander (uncredited)
Released: September 16, 1953
Type: Movie
Marcellus is a tribune in the time of Christ. He is in charge of the group that is assigned to crucify Jesus. Drunk, he wins Jesus' homespun robe after the crucifixion. He is tormented by nightmares and delusions after the event. Hoping to find a way to live with what he has done, and still not believing in Jesus, he returns to Palestine to try and learn what he can of the man he killed.
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The Desert Song
Title: The Desert Song
Character: Sheik
Released: May 30, 1953
Type: Movie
Shiek Yousseff, poses as a friend of the French while secretly plotting to overthrow them. Apposing Yousseff are the Riffs, whose secret leader, The Red Shadow, is Paul Bonnard, a professor who is studying the desert, and whose attacks on the supply trains intended for Yousseff keep the Riff villages in food. Foreign Legion General Birabeau arrives to conduct an investigation, accompanied by his daughter, Margot. Birabeau hires Bonnard to tutor her, and she is attracted to a Legionaire captain, Claud Fontaine. While the general, Bonnard and Fontaine pay a visit to Yousseff, an American newspaper man, Benji Kidd, discovers a secret way in and out of Yousseff's palace, with the aid of Azuri, a dancing girl in love with Bonnard. The latter is forced to resume his role as the Riffs leader, and kidnap Margot until he can convince her of Yousseff's treachery. But Yousseff's men attack the Riff camp and take Margot prisoner.
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Fort Ti
Title: Fort Ti
Character: François Leroy
Released: April 30, 1953
Type: Movie
Future horror-film entrepreneur William Castle warmed the director's chair for Fort Ti. Set in the 18th century, the film recounts the exploits of Rogers' Rangers, a band of adventurers devoted to seeking out a "northwest passage" through Canada. At this juncture, however, Major Rogers (Howard Petrie) is more concerned with helping the British forces at Fort Ticonderoga during a series of French and Indian raids. Top billing is bestowed upon George Montgomery as Captain Pedediah Horn, Rogers' right-hand man. The film boasts two leading ladies: Joan Vohs, as a suspected French spy, and Phyllis Fowler as a married Indian woman who falls in love with Captain Horn. Fort Ti was filmed in 3D, and in typical William Castle fashion the stereoscopic gimmick is exploited to the hilt.
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Target Hong Kong
Title: Target Hong Kong
Character: Suma
Released: February 6, 1953
Type: Movie
Yankee soldiers-of-fortune smash a spy plot aimed at seizing Hong Kong.
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The Bad and the Beautiful
Title: The Bad and the Beautiful
Character: Joe (Party Guest) (uncredited)
Released: December 25, 1952
Type: Movie
Told in flashback form, the film traces the rise and fall of a tough, ambitious Hollywood producer, Jonathan Shields, as seen through the eyes of various acquaintances, including a writer, James Lee Bartlow; a star, Georgia Lorrison; and a director, Fred Amiel. He is a hard-driving, ambitious man who ruthlessly uses everyone on the way to becoming one of Hollywood's top movie makers.
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Assignment: Paris
Title: Assignment: Paris
Character: Minister of Justice Vajos
Released: September 4, 1952
Type: Movie
Paris-based New York Herald Tribune reporter Jimmy Race (Andrews) is sent by his boss (Sanders) behind the Iron Curtain in Budapest to investigate a meeting involving the Hungarian ambassador.
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5 Fingers
Title: 5 Fingers
Character: Siebert
Released: February 22, 1952
Type: Movie
During WWII, the valet to the British Ambassador to Ankara sells British secrets to the Germans while trying to romance a refugee Polish countess.
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The Light Touch
Title: The Light Touch
Character: Hamadi Mahmoud
Released: December 6, 1951
Type: Movie
An art thief tries to double cross his gangster boss.
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Queen for a Day
Title: Queen for a Day
Character: Mr. Nalawak
Released: July 7, 1951
Type: Movie
Adapted from the TV and radio series of the same name, the producer of said show reads letters from three woman providing the framing story for this melodrama anthology film. The tales focus on parenting and family struggles.
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Smuggler's Island
Title: Smuggler's Island
Character: Port Authority Captain
Released: May 18, 1951
Type: Movie
An adventurer about to lose his sloop and diving equipment agrees to dive for illegal gold.