James Brown

James Brown

Born: March 22, 1920
Died: April 11, 1992
in Desdemona, Texas, USA
James Brown (March 22, 1920 - April 11, 1992) was an American film and TV actor best known for his role as Lieutenant Ripley "Rip" Masters in The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin. In 1976, he hosted a revival of Rin Tin Tin reruns, which extended until the 1980s.

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Title: Murder, She Wrote
Character: Dr. Church
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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Miracle on Ice
Title: Miracle on Ice
Character: Reporter #1
Released: March 1, 1981
Type: Movie
The story of the 1980 United States Olympic hockey players, a group of amateurs from around the country who were whipped into a cohesive unit by controversial coach Herb Brooks to win a gold medal at Lake Placid during the winter games.
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The Swap
Title: The Swap
Character: Lt. Benson
Released: October 12, 1979
Type: Movie
Vito gets out of jail after serving ten years and tries to find out who killed his younger brother.
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The Rebels
Title: The Rebels
Character: Masters
Released: May 14, 1979
Type: Movie
This sequel to "The Bastard" continues the saga of Philip Kent, the illegitimate son of an English nobleman, who has renounced his patrician birthright to become a Colonial soldier fighting for America's independence, befriending a Southern aristocrat and his earthy buddy to help thwart a plot to assassinate George Washington. (Episodes 3 and 4 of the Kent Chronicles miniseries.)
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Title: Dallas
Character: Det. Harry McSween
Released: April 2, 1978
Type: TV
The world's first mega-soap, and one of the most popular ever produced, Dallas had it all. Beautiful women, expensive cars, and men playing Monopoly with real buildings. Famous for one of the best cliffhangers in TV history, as the world asked "Who shot J.R.?" A slow-burner to begin with, Dallas hit its stride in the 2nd season, with long storylines and expert character development. Dallas ruled the airwaves in the 1980's.
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Title: CHiPs
Character: Executive (as James L. Brown)
Released: September 15, 1977
Type: TV
Lighthearted look at the adventures of two Highway Patrol officers in Los Angeles. The main characters are Jon Baker and Frank Poncherello, two motorcycle officers always on the street to save lives.
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Adiós Amigo
Title: Adiós Amigo
Character: Sheriff
Released: December 25, 1975
Type: Movie
Two incompetent Western outlaws engineer several failed crimes, including a botched stagecoach holdup. Fred Williamson, a tough-guy perennial in blaxploitation movies, does a rare comedy turn as a blundering patsy to Richard Pryor's slick con man.
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Mean Johnny Barrows
Title: Mean Johnny Barrows
Character: Police Sergeant
Released: November 27, 1975
Type: Movie
A Vietnam veteran gets caught in a mob war with a couple of double-crossers.
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Whiffs
Title: Whiffs
Character: State Trooper
Released: October 15, 1975
Type: Movie
Elliott Gould steals Army nerve gas to help him rob banks when he’s kicked out of the military after 15 years of service as a human guinea pig in its chemical warfare experiments.
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Powderkeg
Title: Powderkeg
Character: Sheriff Lynch
Released: April 16, 1971
Type: Movie
A Mexican bandit is about to be executed in the United States, so his brother takes over a train and holds the passengers as hostages unless his brother is released. Now both the Americans and Mexicans are baffled as to what to do. One of the passengers — who wrote the letter for their captor — has a suggestion: call mercenaries Hank Brackett and Johnny Reech. They do, and as expected they do come up with a plan, but the president of the railroad is not sure if it will work.
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Targets
Title: Targets
Character: Robert Thompson Sr.
Released: August 15, 1968
Type: Movie
An aging horror-movie icon's fate intersects with that of a seemingly ordinary young man on a psychotic shooting spree around Los Angeles.
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Title: Honey West
Character: Buster Macon
Released: September 17, 1965
Type: TV
After her father's death, Honey West takes over his high-tech private-detective firm, assisted by rugged Sam Bolt--and her pet ocelot Bruce.
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Town Tamer
Title: Town Tamer
Character: Davis
Released: July 7, 1965
Type: Movie
A gunfighter is hired to clean up a wild frontier town, but there are forces afoot who want to keep the town as wide-open as it is. Lyle Bettger, Bruce Cabot and Richard Jaeckel co-star as the lawless bad guys in this Western based on a novel by Frank Gruber.
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Black Spurs
Title: Black Spurs
Character: Sheriff
Released: May 28, 1965
Type: Movie
A dissatisfied ranch hand becomes a bounty hunter. He conspires with a crooked town boss to dirty up a neighboring village where a valuable railroad franchise is headed.
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Space Probe Taurus
Title: Space Probe Taurus
Character: Col. Hank Stevens
Released: January 1, 1965
Type: Movie
In the year 2000 the spaceship Hope One sets off to find new galaxies for colonization. However, an encounter with an alien being and a swarm of meteorites sends the ship streaking off course into a sea of monsters on an uncharted world. Written by Jeremy Lunt
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The Ceremony
Title: The Ceremony
Character: Gendarme
Released: December 18, 1963
Type: Movie
A man has an affair with his condemned brother's girlfriend while plotting his escape in Tangier.
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Irma la Douce
Title: Irma la Douce
Character: Texan Customer
Released: June 5, 1963
Type: Movie
When a naive policeman falls in love with a prostitute, he doesn’t want her seeing other men and creates an alter ego who’s to be her only customer.
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Title: The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Character: Prison Guard
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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Title: The Virginian
Character: Mark Fallon
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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Gun Street
Title: Gun Street
Character: Sheriff Chuck Morton
Released: November 5, 1961
Type: Movie
A sheriff goes in pursuit of an escaped convict who is bent on paying back the people responsible for his imprisonment.
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20,000 Eyes
Title: 20,000 Eyes
Character: Jerry Manning
Released: June 14, 1961
Type: Movie
An investment counselor turns jewel thief when the gangster he embezzled funds from demands to be paid back.
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When the Clock Strikes
Title: When the Clock Strikes
Character: Sam Morgan
Released: June 10, 1961
Type: Movie
A condemned criminal's acquaintances gather at a remote lodge on the eve of his execution to search for hidden money.
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Gun Fight
Title: Gun Fight
Character: Wayne Santley
Released: April 30, 1961
Type: Movie
Action Western directed by Edward L. Cahn . After courageously protecting a pretty dance hall girl (Joan Staley) from peril, former cavalry soldier Wayne (James Brown) refuses to join his brother Brad's (Gregg Palmer) unlawful cattle rustling gang, which leads to heated disagreements, bitter betrayals and life-threatening danger.
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Wings of Chance
Title: Wings of Chance
Character: Steve Kirby
Released: March 1, 1961
Type: Movie
Red Kirby is a seasoned bush pilot. When he crash lands his plane near a remote lake in northern Alberta, he is initially optimistic that he will soon be rescued. However, as the months drag by, Kirby realizes that he must take his fate into his own hands. To combat the loneliness, he befriends a family of Canada geese.
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Police Dog Story
Title: Police Dog Story
Character: Norm Edwards
Released: February 1, 1961
Type: Movie
After exhaustive training, a police dog joins an arson investigation.
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Five Guns to Tombstone
Title: Five Guns to Tombstone
Character: Billy Wade
Released: January 7, 1961
Type: Movie
Billy Wade (James Brown) is an ex-gunslinger who is approached by his outlaw brother Matt (Robert Karnes), not long out of prison, to help him with a big-time robbery. Matt forces Billy's participation with an offer he cannot refuse, unaware that Billy is actually working on the side of the law.
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Inside the Mafia
Title: Inside the Mafia
Character: Capt. Doug Blair
Released: September 1, 1959
Type: Movie
A mob assassin holds innocent hostages at an airport in upstate New York.
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The Challenge of Rin Tin Tin
Title: The Challenge of Rin Tin Tin
Character: Lt. Ripley 'Rip' Masters
Released: August 1, 1958
Type: Movie
The 101st Cavalry discover the survivors of an Apache raid on a wagon train. Feature film from The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin TV show.
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Title: Have Gun, Will Travel
Character: Andrews - Ranch Foreman
Released: September 14, 1957
Type: TV
Have Gun – Will Travel is an American Western television series that aired on CBS from 1957 through 1963. It was rated number three or number four in the Nielsen ratings every year of its first four seasons. It was one of the few television shows to spawn a successful radio version. The radio series debuted November 23, 1958. The television show is presently shown on the Encore-Western channel. Have Gun – Will Travel was created by Sam Rolfe and Herb Meadow and produced by Frank Pierson, Don Ingalls, Robert Sparks, and Julian Claman. There were 225 episodes of the TV series, 24 written by Gene Roddenberry. Other contributors included Bruce Geller, Harry Julian Fink, Don Brinkley and Irving Wallace. Andrew McLaglen directed 101 episodes and 19 were directed by series star Richard Boone.
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Title: The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin
Released: October 15, 1954
Type: TV
The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin is an American children's television program. Beginning in October 1954 until May 1959, 166 episodes originally aired on ABC television network. It starred child actor Lee Aaker as Rusty, a boy orphaned in an Indian raid, who was being raised by the soldiers at a US Cavalry post known as Fort Apache. He and his German shepherd dog, Rin Tin Tin, helped the soldiers to establish order in the American West. Texas-born actor James Brown appeared as Lieutenant Ripley "Rip" Masters. Co-stars included veteran actor Joe Sawyer and actor Rand Brooks from Gone with the Wind fame.
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A Star Is Born
Title: A Star Is Born
Character: Glenn Williams
Released: October 1, 1954
Type: Movie
A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.
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Hazard House
Title: Hazard House
Character: Jim
Released: January 1, 1954
Type: Movie
A married couple watches a documentary program which presents the hazards children face in the home.
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Crazylegs
Title: Crazylegs
Character: Bill
Released: November 15, 1953
Type: Movie
The story of the life and career of football star Elroy "Crazylegs" Hirsch (who plays himself).
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Thunder Over the Plains
Title: Thunder Over the Plains
Character: Conrad
Released: October 27, 1953
Type: Movie
Set in 1869, after the Civil War, Texas had not yet been readmitted to the Union and carpetbaggers, hiding behind the legal protection of the Union Army of occupation, had taken over the state. Federal Captain Porter, a Texan, has to carry out orders against his own people. He brings in the rebel leader Ben Westman whom he knows is innocent of a murder that he is accused of. In trying to prove his innocence, Porter himself becomes a wanted man.
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The Charge at Feather River
Title: The Charge at Feather River
Character: Pvt. Connors
Released: July 11, 1953
Type: Movie
A frontier scout leads prisoners on a death mission to save a railroad and rescue two women.
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Woman They Almost Lynched
Title: Woman They Almost Lynched
Character: Frank James
Released: March 20, 1953
Type: Movie
Laying on the Missouri-Arkansas border, the neutral Border City, its female mayor and city council, take no side in the ongoing Civil War and they're prepared to hang any troublemaker, Yankee or Confederate, who stirs the townsfolk up.
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The Man Behind The Gun
Title: The Man Behind The Gun
Character: Lt. Catliff (uncredited)
Released: January 31, 1953
Type: Movie
This 1952 western stars Randolph Scott as an army investigator who poses as a schoolteacher while working undercover to expose a group of secessionists. Also starring Patrice Wymore, Roy Roberts, Alan Hale Jr., Lina Romay, Morris Ankrum, Dick Wesson and Philip Carey.
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Springfield Rifle
Title: Springfield Rifle
Character: Pvt. Ferguson (uncredited)
Released: October 22, 1952
Type: Movie
Major Lex Kearney, dishonourably discharged from the army for cowardice in battle, volunteers to go undercover to try to prevent raids against shipments of horses desperately needed for the Union war effort. Falling in with the gang of jayhawkers and Confederate soldiers who have been conducting the raids, he gradually gains their trust and is put in a position where he can discover who has been giving them secret information revealing the routes of the horse shipments.
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Title: Adventures of Superman
Character: Jim Carson
Released: September 19, 1952
Type: TV
Announcer: "The Adventures of Superman. Faster than a speeding bullet! More powerful than a locomotive! Able to leap tall buildings at a single bound!" Voices: "Look up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Superman!" Announcer: "Yes, it's Superman, strange visitor from another planet who came to Earth with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men. Superman, who can change the course of mighty rivers, bend steel in his bare hands; and who, disguised as Clark Kent, mild-mannered reporter for a great metropolitan newspaper, fights a never ending battle for truth, justice, and the American way."
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The Pride of St. Louis
Title: The Pride of St. Louis
Character: Moose
Released: May 2, 1952
Type: Movie
The story of Jerome "Dizzy" Dean, a major-league baseball pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals and Chicago Cubs in the 1930s and 1940s.
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The Wild Blue Yonder
Title: The Wild Blue Yonder
Character: Sgt. Pop Davis
Released: December 5, 1951
Type: Movie
Wendell Corey and Forrest Tucker star as a pair of World War II Army Air Corps officers. In between their battles over the affections of a beautiful nurse, Corey and Tucker prepare to fly a bombing mission in the South Pacific. Before boarding their B29 Superfortress, Tucker appears to be chickening out, but he's steadfastly at his cockpit post at takeoff time.
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The Sea Hornet
Title: The Sea Hornet
Character: Pete Hunter
Released: November 6, 1951
Type: Movie
"The Sea Hornet" was a merchant ship sunk, supposedly by a torpedo, less than a mile off the California Coast during World War Two. Six years later when his buddy is killed, attempting to blow up the sunken ship, on the orders of Suntan Radford and Tony Sullivan, deep-sea diver "Gunner" McNeil has his suspicions aroused... especially since Suntan is the daughter of the ship's captain that died when the ship sunk, and Sullivan was a crew member. Plus the fact the ship had over a million dollars in cash on board. During the course of his investigation, he becomes romantically involved with Ginger Sullivan
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Father Takes the Air
Title: Father Takes the Air
Character: Bob
Released: June 17, 1951
Type: Movie
In the fifth and final movie in Monogram's "Father" series, Henry Latham and Mayor Colton dream of reliving their WWI flying careers, leading to an increasingly antagonistic competition.
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The Groom Wore Spurs
Title: The Groom Wore Spurs
Character: Steve Hall
Released: March 13, 1951
Type: Movie
Pretty female attorney Abigail "AJ" Furnival is hired to keep high-flying cowboy movie star Ben Castle out of trouble in Las Vegas. Despite his many faults, Abigail falls in love with and marries Ben, with the hope that she can mold him into the virtuous hero he plays on the screen.
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Missing Women
Title: Missing Women
Character: Sgt. Mike Pernell
Released: February 23, 1951
Type: Movie
A woman becomes desperate to find a pair of car thieves after her husband -- while on their honeymoon -- is killed during a robbery.
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The Fireball
Title: The Fireball
Character: Allen
Released: November 9, 1950
Type: Movie
Johnny Casar runs away from the orphanage to start a successful career as a roller skater and after setbacks learns to curb his ruthlessness and ambition.
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Between Midnight and Dawn
Title: Between Midnight and Dawn
Character: Officer Haynes (uncredited)
Released: October 1, 1950
Type: Movie
Rocky and Dan, war buddies, are prowl car cops on night duty. Dan is a cynic who views all lawbreakers as scum; Rocky feels more lenient. Both are attracted to the radio voice of communicator Kate Mallory; but in person, Kate proves reluctant to get involved with men who just might stop a bullet. By lucky chance, Rocky and Dan cause big trouble for murderous racketeer Ritchie Garris; but when he swears vengeance, Kate's fears may prove justified.
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Chain Lightning
Title: Chain Lightning
Character: Maj. Hinkle
Released: February 18, 1950
Type: Movie
Former World War II flying ace Matt Brennan takes a position as a test pilot for a commercial aircraft corporation and bumps into his old girlfriend, Jo Holloway, who now works as a receptionist for the company.
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Montana
Title: Montana
Character: Tex Coyne
Released: January 28, 1950
Type: Movie
An Australian sheep man comes to Montana looking for grazing space, is opposed by local ranchers and a wealthy cattle-woman.
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Sands of Iwo Jima
Title: Sands of Iwo Jima
Character: PFC Charlie Bass
Released: January 1, 1950
Type: Movie
Haunted by personal demons, Marine Sgt. John Stryker is hated and feared by his men, who see him as a cold-hearted sadist. But when their boots hit the beaches, they begin to understand the reason for Stryker's rigid form of discipline.
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Yes Sir, That's My Baby
Title: Yes Sir, That's My Baby
Character: Tony Cresnovitch
Released: September 14, 1949
Type: Movie
At a college, a group of ex-GIs clash with their wives about over playing football.
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Brimstone
Title: Brimstone
Character: Bud Courteen
Released: August 15, 1949
Type: Movie
A U.S. Marshal goes undercover to stop a cattle smuggling gang, but when his cover is blown, the hunter becomes the hunted.
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Anna Lucasta
Title: Anna Lucasta
Character: Buster
Released: July 11, 1949
Type: Movie
A prostitute is thrown out of her house by her alcoholic father, and her scheming brother-in-law tries to devise a plan to marry her off and make some money in the process.
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The Younger Brothers
Title: The Younger Brothers
Character: Bob Younger
Released: May 3, 1949
Type: Movie
Brothers who rode with a notorious outlaw gang led by Frank and Jesse James decide to go straight and try to get pardons so they can return to a law-abiding life.
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The Gallant Legion
Title: The Gallant Legion
Character: Tom Banner
Released: May 24, 1948
Type: Movie
When power-hungry Faulkner and Leroux want to divide Texas into smaller sections, instead of allowing it to enter the Union as a single state, Gary Conway and the Texas Rangers must step in to thwart their chicanery.
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The Fabulous Texan
Title: The Fabulous Texan
Character: Shep Clayton
Released: November 9, 1947
Type: Movie
A couple of Confederate soldiers, returning home from the Civil War, find Texas transformed into an armed camp with a quasi-dictator gathering up land and power as fast as he can. The two former Rebels take on this despot each in his own way.
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The Big Fix
Title: The Big Fix
Character: Ken Williams
Released: April 19, 1947
Type: Movie
Ken Williams (James Brown), a star basketball player on a college team learns that a police lieutenant (Regis Toomey) is the head of a gambling ring attempting to fix basketball games by bribing the players.
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Our Hearts Were Growing Up
Title: Our Hearts Were Growing Up
Character: Avery Moore
Released: June 14, 1946
Type: Movie
Russell and Lynn are a pair of college students in the 1920s. They get mixed up with kind-hearted bootlegger Donlevy who helps them get their boy friends back.
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Objective, Burma!
Title: Objective, Burma!
Character: SSgt. Treacy
Released: February 17, 1945
Type: Movie
A group of men parachute into Japanese-occupied Burma with a dangerous and important mission: to locate and blow up a radar station. They accomplish this well enough, but when they try to rendezvous at an old air-strip to be taken back to their base, they find Japanese waiting for them, and they must make a long, difficult walk back through enemy-occupied jungle.
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Our Hearts Were Young and Gay
Title: Our Hearts Were Young and Gay
Character: Avery Moore
Released: November 2, 1944
Type: Movie
In 1923, two young ladies depart unescorted for a tour of Europe, meeting two eligible men aboard ship. Their great naïvité and efforts to seem grown-up lead them into many comic misadventures.
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Reward Unlimited
Title: Reward Unlimited
Character: Paul
Released: May 25, 1944
Type: Movie
Short film about nurse service in wartime.
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Going My Way
Title: Going My Way
Character: Ted Haines Jr.
Released: May 15, 1944
Type: Movie
Youthful Father Chuck O'Malley led a colorful life of sports, song, and romance before joining the Roman Catholic clergy. After being appointed to a run-down New York parish, O'Malley's worldly knowledge helps him connect with a gang of boys looking for direction, eventually winning over the aging, conventional Parish priest.
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Corvette K-225
Title: Corvette K-225
Character: Lt. Paul Cartwright
Released: September 29, 1943
Type: Movie
The story of a Canadian WWII naval vessel, with a dramatic subplot concerning her first captain.
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The Good Fellows
Title: The Good Fellows
Character: Tom Drayton
Released: August 11, 1943
Type: Movie
The title of Grand Caesar in the Ancient Order of Noblest Romans of Wakefield, Indiana keeps Jim "Pop" Helton so involved and distracted that he forgets to pay the family's bills, nearly makes a shambles of a real estate deal his oldest daughter, Ethel is working on, almost wrecks her romance with Captain Tom Drayson, and gets involved in a game with a pool shark in an effort to raise the remaining $75 of the $6,750 needed (that they didn't have) by the Wakefield Lodge to host the national convention of the Noblest Romans.
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Air Force
Title: Air Force
Character: Pilot Tex Rader
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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Young and Willing
Title: Young and Willing
Character: Tony Dennison
Released: February 5, 1943
Type: Movie
For those, if any, who have wondered why so many Paramount contractees appeared in United Artists' films during the war years, this is another one of the Paramount productions that was sold to United Artists in the early-40's when U.A. was having trouble meeting their exhibitor contracts because of lack of product, mainly due to their loss of production in England. A group of starving, but young and willing, actors band together to share finances and an apartment. Norman Reese (William Holden) orders no love nonsense between the boys and girls till they are set on broadway, but Marge Benson (Barbara Britton) and Tony Dennison (James Beown) are already secretly married. A friend drops in to see Dottie Coburn (Martha O'Driscoll) and is shocked to find the boys and girls sharing the same apartment and insists it is her duty to inform Dottie's father (Jay Fassett.)
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The Forest Rangers
Title: The Forest Rangers
Character: George Tracy
Released: October 21, 1942
Type: Movie
Ranger Don Stuart fights a forest fire with timber boss friend Tana 'Butch' Mason, and finds evidence of arson. He suspects Twig Dawson but can't prove it. Butch loves Don but he, poor fool, won't notice her as a woman; instead he meets socialite Celia in town and elopes with her. The action plot (Don's pursuit of the fire starter) parallels Tana's comic efforts to scare tenderfoot Celia back to the city.
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Wake Island
Title: Wake Island
Character: Wounded Marine (uncredited)
Released: August 11, 1942
Type: Movie
In late 1941, with no hope of relief or re-supply, a small band of United States Marines tries to keep the Japanese Navy from capturing their island base.