Ralph Bellamy

Ralph Bellamy

Born: June 17, 1904
Died: November 29, 1991
in Chicago, Illinois, USA
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Ralph Rexford Bellamy (June 17, 1904 – November 29, 1991) was an American actor whose career spanned 62 years on stage, screen and television. During his career, he played leading roles as well as supporting roles, garnering acclaim and awards, including an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for The Awful Truth (1937).

His film career began with The Secret Six (1931) starring Wallace Beery and featuring Jean Harlow and Clark Gable. By the end of 1933, he had already appeared in 22 movies, most notably Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1932) and the second lead in the action film Picture Snatcher with James Cagney (1933). He played in seven more films in 1934 alone, including Woman in the Dark, based on a Dashiell Hammett story, in which Bellamy played the lead, second-billed under Fay Wray. Bellamy kept up the pace through the decade, receiving a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in The Awful Truth (1937) with Irene Dunne and Cary Grant, and played a similar part, that of a naive boyfriend competing with the sophisticated Grant character, in His Girl Friday (1940). He portrayed detective Ellery Queen in a few films during the 1940s, but as his film career did not progress, he returned to the stage, where he continued to perform throughout the 1950s. Bellamy appeared in other movies during this time, including Dance, Girl, Dance (1940) with Maureen O'Hara and Lucille Ball, and the horror classic The Wolf Man (1941) with Lon Chaney, Jr. and Evelyn Ankers. He also appeared in The Ghost of Frankenstein in 1942 with Chaney and Bela Lugosi.

Bellamy appeared in numerous television series. In 1949, Bellamy starred in the television noir private eye series Man Against Crime (also known as Follow That Man) on the DuMont Television Network; initially telecast live in its earliest seasons, the program lasted until 1956 and was simulcast for a season on Dumont and NBC, and ran on CBS during a different year. The lead role was taken by Frank Lovejoy in 1956, who subsequently starred in NBC's Meet McGraw detective series.

An Emmy Award nomination for the mini-series The Winds of War (1983) – in which Bellamy reprised his Sunrise at Campobello role of Franklin D. Roosevelt – brought him back into the spotlight.

Highly regarded within the industry, Bellamy served as a four-term President of Actors' Equity from 1952–1964. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ralph Bellamy, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Movies for Ralph Bellamy...

Cary Grant: A Class Apart
Title: Cary Grant: A Class Apart
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: June 1, 2004
Type: Movie
Documentary that explores the life and career of leading man Cary Grant through film clips and interviews. Produced as S18E03 of the long running series American Masters.
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Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics
Title: Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics
Character: Bruce Baldwin (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: May 19, 1994
Type: Movie
James Earl Jones hosts this film based on two stories by the late Rod Serling, who wrote the stories of the original 'The Twilight Zone' (1959) series. In "The Theater," a young woman attends a movie theater only to find that her life story is being revealed on the screen. In "Where the Dead Are," a Boston surgeon in 1868 searches for a scientist who may have the answer to a medical mystery.
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Pretty Woman
Title: Pretty Woman
Character: James Morse
Released: March 23, 1990
Type: Movie
When a millionaire wheeler-dealer enters a business contract with a Hollywood hooker Vivian Ward, he loses his heart in the bargain.
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Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge
Title: Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: February 2, 1990
Type: Movie
Abandoned by his father, he was a reform school kid with nothing going for him and a giant chip on his shoulder. He joined the Marines but never stayed far from trouble. Then he discovered acting — and the woman who would be with him for most of his meteoric career. He was Steve McQueen, one of Hollywood's highest paid stars — and one of its most difficult, most rebellious and, when he wished, most charming.
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Title: Christine Cromwell
Released: November 11, 1989
Type: TV
Talented female attorney, Christine Cromwell, searches for justice, and the truth, when her friends and clients are accused of murder.
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Title: War and Remembrance
Character: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Released: November 13, 1988
Type: TV
War and Remembrance is an American miniseries based on the novel of the same name by Herman Wouk. It is the sequel to highly successful The Winds of War.
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The Good Mother
Title: The Good Mother
Character: Grandfather Frank
Released: November 4, 1988
Type: Movie
After finding a sexually liberated boyfriend, a divorced woman gets sued over daughter's custody, by her ex, who claims that her lover has a bad influence on the kid.
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Coming to America
Title: Coming to America
Character: Randolph Duke / Homeless Man #1 (uncredited)
Released: June 29, 1988
Type: Movie
An African prince decides it’s time for him to find a princess... and his mission leads him and his most loyal friend to Queens, New York. In disguise as an impoverished immigrant, the pampered prince quickly finds himself a new job, new friends, new digs, new enemies and lots of trouble.
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Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man
Title: Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man
Character: Self
Released: June 5, 1988
Type: Movie
A retrospective of the life and career of actor Cary Grant, including clips from his films and interviews with his friends and co-workers.
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Amazon Women on the Moon
Title: Amazon Women on the Moon
Character: Mr. Gower
Released: September 18, 1987
Type: Movie
Acclaimed director John Landis (Animal House, The Blues Brothers) presents this madcap send-up of late night TV, low-budget sci-fi films and canned-laughter-filled sitcoms packed with off-the-wall sketches that will have you in stitches. Centered around a television station which features a 1950s-style sci-fi movie interspersed with a series of wild commercials, wacky shorts and weird specials, this lampoon of contemporary life and pop culture skewers some of the silliest spectacles ever created in the name of entertainment. A truly outrageous look at the best of the worst that television has to offer.
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Disorderlies
Title: Disorderlies
Character: Albert Dennison
Released: August 14, 1987
Type: Movie
As not-quite-orderlies who're downright Disorderlies, rap-music favorites The Fat Boys rule. Playing the freewheeling caretakers of the frail Dennison, they stir up a comedic culture clash in Palm Beach society that only proves laughter is the best medicine this side of a tax refund.
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Title: L.A. Law
Character: August Redding
Released: September 15, 1986
Type: TV
L.A. Law is an American television legal drama series that ran for eight seasons on NBC from September 15, 1986, to May 19, 1994. Created by Steven Bochco and Terry Louise Fisher, it contained many of Bochco's trademark features including a large number of parallel storylines, social drama and off-the-wall humor. It reflected the social and cultural ideologies of the 1980s and early 1990s, and many of the cases featured on the show dealt with hot-topic issues such as abortion, racism, gay rights, homophobia, sexual harassment, AIDS, and domestic violence. The series often also reflected social tensions between the wealthy senior lawyer protagonists and their less well-paid junior staff. The show was popular with audiences and critics, and won 15 Emmy Awards throughout its run, four of which were for Outstanding Drama Series.
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Title: Matlock
Released: March 3, 1986
Type: TV
Matlock is an American television legal drama, starring Andy Griffith in the title role of criminal defense attorney Ben Matlock. The show, produced by The Fred Silverman Company, Dean Hargrove Productions, Viacom Productions and Paramount Television originally aired from September 23, 1986 to May 8, 1992 on NBC; and from November 5, 1992 until May 7, 1995 on ABC. The show's format is similar to that of CBS's Perry Mason, with Matlock identifying the perpetrators and then confronting them in dramatic courtroom scenes. One difference, however, was that whereas Mason usually exculpated his clients at a pretrial hearing, Matlock usually secured an acquittal at trial, from the jury.
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Title: The Twilight Zone
Released: September 27, 1985
Type: TV
This 1980s revival of the classic sci-fi series features a similar style to the original anthology series. Each episode tells a tale (sometimes two or three) rooted in horror or suspense, often with a surprising twist at the end. Episodes usually feature elements of drama and comedy.
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Title: Space
Character: Paul Stidham
Released: April 14, 1985
Type: TV
Space is a television mini-series. It is based on a novel of the same name by James A. Michener published in 1982.
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The Fourth Wise Man
Title: The Fourth Wise Man
Character: Abgarus
Released: March 30, 1985
Type: Movie
Artaban is a young Magus (Wise Man) who desires to follow the star to the birthplace of the coming King, against the counsel of his friends and family. Carrying three precious jewels to give to the baby Messiah, Artaban and his reluctant servant Orontes set off to join the caravan of the three other wise men. They miss the caravan, but Artaban continues the search for his King, always one step behind. Artaban spends much of his remaining wealth and all of his energy helping the poor and unfortunate people he meets, until at the end of his life he finally finds Jesus--at His trial! Has Artaban wasted his life in a foolish quest? Will he ever get the chance to present his gifts to the King?
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Lugosi: The Forgotten King
Title: Lugosi: The Forgotten King
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1985
Type: Movie
A one hour documentary on the life of one of Hollywood's neglected horror icons, hosted by fear fan extraordinare Forrest J Ackerman & interviews with Hollywood legends John Carradine, Ralph Bellamy, Carroll Borland and B-movie producer Alex Gordon.
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Terror in the Aisles
Title: Terror in the Aisles
Character: Dr. Sapirstein (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: October 26, 1984
Type: Movie
A non-stop roller coaster ride through the scariest moments of the greatest terror films of all time.
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Love Leads the Way: A True Story
Title: Love Leads the Way: A True Story
Character: Sen. Christi
Released: October 7, 1984
Type: Movie
Based on the true story of Morris Frank and the first U.S. Seeing Eye Dog, Buddy.
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Trading Places
Title: Trading Places
Character: Randolph Duke
Released: June 7, 1983
Type: Movie
A snobbish investor and a wily street con-artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.
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Title: The Winds of War
Character: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Released: February 6, 1983
Type: TV
Set against the backdrop of world events that led to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, Victor "Pug" Henry is a career naval officer who, along with his family, learns to navigate the waters of his dangerous times in the late 1930s.
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Errol Flynn: Portrait of a Swashbuckler
Title: Errol Flynn: Portrait of a Swashbuckler
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: Movie
Narrated by actor Christopher Lee, this documentary details the life of timeless Hollywood adventure hero and sex symbol Errol Flynn, who swung his way into the hearts of the world's moviegoers with a sword and an errant grin. Interviews with friends and family balance a collection of clips from classic films such as The Adventures of Robin Hood, The Charge of the Light Brigade and Captain Blood, revealing the man behind the movie star.
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Title: Hotel
Released: August 21, 1982
Type: TV
Hotel is an American prime time drama series which aired on ABC from September 21, 1983 to May 5, 1988 in the timeslot following Dynasty. Based on Arthur Hailey's 1965 novel of the same name, the series was produced by Aaron Spelling and set in the elegant and fictitious St. Gregory Hotel in San Francisco. Establishing shots of the hotel were filmed in front of The Fairmont San Francisco atop the Nob Hill neighborhood. Episodes followed the activities of passing guests, as well as the personal and professional lives of the hotel staff.
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Title: Aloha Paradise
Released: February 25, 1981
Type: TV
Aloha Paradise is an American comedy series that aired on ABC on Wednesday night from February 25, 1981 to April 22, 1981. Aloha Paradise follows Sydney Chase, general manager of the Kona village resort in Hawaii where people meet and fall in love under the swaying palm trees and omnipresent sun. There's an assortment of assistants to direct traffic and play cupid— Sydney's bumbling file clerk Curtis, her perky social director Fran, he-guy lifeguard Richard and economy-sized bartender Evelyn. Aloha Paradise was executive produced by Douglas S. Cramer and Aaron Spelling, the same team that produced The Love Boat which the series bore a resemblance to.
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The Memory of Eva Ryker
Title: The Memory of Eva Ryker
Character: William E. Ryker
Released: May 5, 1980
Type: Movie
A young woman has spent her life tormented by the death of her mother, who was on a ship torpedoed during World War II. When her father hires an investigator to look into the circumstances of the mother's death 30 years prior, it triggers a new rash of emotional turmoil for the young woman and uncovers a heinous crime.
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Title: Condominium
Character: Lee Messenger
Released: April 6, 1980
Type: TV
An impending hurricane threatens to destroy the Silver Sands Condominium in Fiddler Key, Florida.
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Power
Title: Power
Character: Ben Frelinghuysen
Released: January 14, 1980
Type: Movie
Loosely based on the life of Jimmy Hoffa, this traces the rise of Tommy Vanda (Joe Don Baker) from a Chicago dock worker to an influential labor leader who, like Hoffa, finds himself behind bars in a federal prison, and not long after, taken for a ride by shady men never to be seen again.
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The Billion Dollar Threat
Title: The Billion Dollar Threat
Character: Miles Larson
Released: April 15, 1979
Type: Movie
A James Bondish superspy is assigned to thwart the devious plans of a master agent who is threatening to destroy the planet unless he is paid one billion dollars within 48 hours.
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The Millionaire
Title: The Millionaire
Character: George Mathews
Released: December 19, 1978
Type: Movie
Three people's lives are drastically changed when they are suddenly given one million dollars each by an eccentric billionaire in this pilot to a prospective new series which the producers hoped would equal the success of the original one that ran from 1955 to 1960.
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The Clone Master
Title: The Clone Master
Character: Ezra Louthin
Released: September 14, 1978
Type: Movie
In order to test the validity of his experiments on cloning, a scientist makes clones of himself, but it causes problems that he didn't foresee.
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Title: Wheels
Character: Lowell Baxter
Released: May 7, 1978
Type: TV
Based on the 1971 novel by Arthur Hailey, Wheels is about the automobile industry and the day-to-day pressures involved in its operation. The plot lines follow many of the topical issues of the day, including race relations, corporate politics, and business ethics. The auto company of the novel is a little-disguised Ford Motor Company and some of the characters are recognizable to company insiders.
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Oh, God!
Title: Oh, God!
Character: Sam Raven
Released: October 7, 1977
Type: Movie
When God appears to an assistant grocery manager as a good natured old man, the Almighty selects him as his messenger for the modern world.
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Title: The Love Boat
Character: Arnold Hamilton
Released: September 24, 1977
Type: TV
Passengers who search for romantic nights aboard a beautiful ship travelling to tropical or mysterious countries, decide to pass their vacation aboard the "Love Boat", where Gopher, Dr. Bricker, Isaac, Julie, and Captain Stubing try their best to please them, and sometimes help them fall in love. Things are not always so easy, but in the end, love wins.
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Charlie Cobb: Nice Night for a Hanging
Title: Charlie Cobb: Nice Night for a Hanging
Character: McVea
Released: June 9, 1977
Type: Movie
A California rancher hires a private detective to deliver the rancher's long-lost daughter to him. However, several people, including the rancher's new wife, his foreman and a crooked sheriff, don't want the girl--who would inherit the rancher's large spread if he died--to make it to the ranch alive.
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Title: Hunter
Character: Harold Baker (uncredited)
Released: February 18, 1977
Type: TV
Global espionage with an American agent and his sexy partner.
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Title: Hunter
Released: February 18, 1977
Type: TV
Global espionage with an American agent and his sexy partner.
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Title: Arthur Hailey's The Moneychangers
Character: Jerome Patterson
Released: December 4, 1976
Type: TV
Two ambitious vice presidents become rivals when an imminent board room vacancy arises.
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Title: Once an Eagle
Character: Ed Caldwell
Released: December 2, 1976
Type: TV
Once An Eagle is a 1976 nine-hour American television mini-series directed by Richard Michaels and E.W. Swackhamer. The picture was written by Peter S. Fischer and based on the 1968 Anton Myrer novel of the same name. The first and last installments of the seven-part series were each two-hour broadcasts, while the interim episodes were 60 minutes. The mini-series concerns the thirty year careers of two military men, from the outbreak of World War I to the aftermath of World War II.
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The Boy in the Plastic Bubble
Title: The Boy in the Plastic Bubble
Character: Dr. Gunther
Released: November 12, 1976
Type: Movie
Tod Lubitch is born with a deficient immune system. As such, he must spend the rest of his life in a completely sterile environment. His room is completely hermetically sealed against bacteria and virus, his food is specially prepared, and his only human contact comes in the form of gloved hands. The movie follows his life into a teenager.
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Nightmare in Badham County
Title: Nightmare in Badham County
Character: Judge
Released: November 5, 1976
Type: Movie
Two UCLA coeds have engine trouble in small Southern town. When they spurn the local sheriff's advances he arranges for them to be taken to the women's prison on trivial charges (the judge is a cousin), where they must endure atrocities at the hands of the administrators of the prison and the prison guards.
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Return to Earth
Title: Return to Earth
Character: Col. Edwin E. Aldrin
Released: May 14, 1976
Type: Movie
The story of Buzz Aldrin, the second astronaut to walk on the moon, and the problems he had after his return to Earth, including the breakup of his marriage, a nervous breakdown and his hospitalization for psychiatric problems.
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Title: McNaughton's Daughter
Character: Moses Bellman
Released: March 24, 1976
Type: TV
Series pilot about a female deputy district attorney assigned the task of trying to pin a murder rap on a "saint," a beloved religious crusader accused of killing her young lover.
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Murder on Flight 502
Title: Murder on Flight 502
Character: Dr. Kenyon Walker
Released: November 21, 1975
Type: Movie
On a flight to London, a note is found stating that there will be murders taking place on the airliner before it lands.
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Title: Medical Story
Released: September 4, 1975
Type: TV
Medical Story is an American anthology series that aired on NBC from September 4, 1975 until January 8, 1976.
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Search for the Gods
Title: Search for the Gods
Character: Dr. Henderson
Released: March 9, 1975
Type: Movie
A valuable medallion believed to prove that aliens from outer space visited Earth in prehistoric times is sought.
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Adventures of the Queen
Title: Adventures of the Queen
Character: J.L. Dundeen
Released: February 14, 1975
Type: Movie
A madman hijacks the luxury cruise liner, S.S. Queen, and threatens to blow it up unless a millionaire pays him the the contents of a safe deposit box. The crew regains control of the ship, but the hijacker dies, taking the codes to disarm the bomb with him.
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The Log of the Black Pearl
Title: The Log of the Black Pearl
Character: Capt. Fitzsimmons
Released: January 4, 1975
Type: Movie
A young stockbroker, Christopher Sand, inherits an old ship named "Black Pearl" along with a medallion that is the key to a sunken Nazi treasure. But there are other people looking for the sunken treasure, people who will stop at nothing to gain access to the medallion.
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The Missiles of October
Title: The Missiles of October
Character: U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson
Released: December 18, 1974
Type: Movie
Based in part on Robert F. Kennedy's book, "Thirteen Days," this film profiles the Kennedy Administration's actions during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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Title: The Missiles of October
Character: Adlai Stevenson - US Ambassador to UN
Released: September 18, 1974
Type: TV
The Missiles of October is a 1974 docudrama made-for-television play about the Cuban missile crisis. The title evokes the book The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman about the missteps among the great powers and the failed chances to give an opponent a graceful way out, which led to the First World War. The teleplay introduced William Devane as John F. Kennedy and cast Martin Sheen as United States Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy. The script is based on Robert Kennedy's book Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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Title: Little House on the Prairie
Released: September 11, 1974
Type: TV
Little House on the Prairie is an American Western drama television series, starring Michael Landon, Melissa Gilbert, and Karen Grassle, about a family living on a farm in Walnut Grove, Minnesota, in the 1870s and 1880s.
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Cancel My Reservation
Title: Cancel My Reservation
Character: John Ed
Released: September 21, 1972
Type: Movie
Bob Hope is a stressed out talk show host who is sent on a vacation to Arizona on doctor's orders and has to play Sherlock Holmes with his wife, the lovely Eva Marie Saint, to solve a series of murders that has Bob as the prime suspect.
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Title: The Bob Newhart Show
Character: Alan Dreeben
Released: September 16, 1972
Type: TV
The Bob Newhart Show is an American situation comedy produced by MTM Enterprises, which aired 142 original episodes on CBS from September 16, 1972, to April 1, 1978. Comedian Bob Newhart portrays a psychologist having to deal with his patients and fellow office workers. The show was filmed before a live audience.
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Something Evil
Title: Something Evil
Character: Harry Lincoln
Released: January 21, 1972
Type: Movie
A young couple moves into a farmhouse in rural Pennsylvania. What they don't know is that there is an unseen presence in the house, and that it wants to take possession of the wife.
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Title: Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
Released: September 16, 1971
Type: TV
Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law is an American legal drama, jointly created by David Victor and former law professor Jerry McNeely, that starred actor Arthur Hill. The series was broadcast on ABC from 1971 to 1974. A two-hour pilot movie had aired as a 1971 ABC Movie of the Week entry prior to the series run.
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Title: Cannon
Released: September 14, 1971
Type: TV
Cannon is a CBS detective television series produced by Quinn Martin which aired from March 26, 1971 to March 3, 1976. The primary protagonist is the title character, private detective Frank Cannon, played by William Conrad. He also appeared on two episodes of Barnaby Jones. Cannon is the first Quinn Martin-produced series to be aired on a network other than ABC. A "revival" television film, The Return of Frank Cannon, was aired on November 1, 1980. In total, there were 124 episodes.
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Doctors' Wives
Title: Doctors' Wives
Character: Jake Porter
Released: February 3, 1971
Type: Movie
The wives of several high-powered doctors feel neglected due to their husbands' focus on their careers, so they embark on a regimen of sex, drugs and booze.
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Title: The Most Deadly Game
Character: Ethan Arcane
Released: October 10, 1970
Type: TV
The Most Deadly Game is an American drama television series
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The Immortal
Title: The Immortal
Character: Dr. Matthew Pearce
Released: September 30, 1969
Type: Movie
A professional race-car driver discovers that there are certain properties in his blood that will make him, basically, immortal. A dying multi-millionaire also finds out about the racer's blood, and is determined to get it to keep himself alive. This pilot film preceded the later TV series.
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Title: Medical Center
Released: September 24, 1969
Type: TV
Medical Center is a medical drama series which aired on CBS from 1969 to 1976. It was produced by MGM Television.
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Title: Harold Robbins' The Survivors
Released: September 22, 1969
Type: TV
The Survivors is a high-profile prime time soap opera aired by the ABC television network as part of its Fall 1969 lineup. This program is probably most noted now for having been the only appearance as a regular series character of major Hollywood actress Lana Turner, and also starred other "big names" such as Jan-Michael Vincent, Ralph Bellamy, Diana Muldaur, George Hamilton, Clu Gulager, and Natalie Schafer. Despite their presence, and that above the title of bestselling author Harold Robbins, since the characters were from his novel of the same name, the program was a ratings fiasco, losing badly to Mayberry R.F.D. and The Doris Day Show on CBS and The NBC Monday Movie on NBC. A program as expensive to produce as this one must garner large ratings in order to be successful, so it was cancelled at midseason, although it was rerun the following summer in an attempt to recoup at least some of the investment.
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The Last of the Powerseekers
Title: The Last of the Powerseekers
Character: Baylor Carlyle
Released: January 1, 1969
Type: Movie
When a bank president requests his son-in-law's resignation, chaos ensues complete with blackmail, accidents and death.
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Rosemary's Baby
Title: Rosemary's Baby
Character: Dr. Sapirstein
Released: June 12, 1968
Type: Movie
A young couple, Rosemary and Guy, moves into an infamous New York apartment building, known by frightening legends and mysterious events, with the purpose of starting a family.
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Wings of Fire
Title: Wings of Fire
Character: Doug Sanborn
Released: February 14, 1967
Type: Movie
A headstrong aviatrix enters an international air race to save her father's foundering business and to soothe the heart of an old flame who returned home with a new wife in tow.
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Title: The Invaders
Character: Morgan Tate
Released: January 10, 1967
Type: TV
The Invaders, alien beings from a dying planet. Their destination: the Earth. Their purpose: to make it their world. David Vincent has seen them, for him it began one lost night on a lonely country road, looking for a shortcut that he never found. It began with a closed deserted diner, and a man too long without sleep to continue his journey. It began with the landing of a craft from another galaxy. Now, David Vincent knows that the Invaders are here, that they have taken human form. Somehow he must convince a disbelieving world that the nightmare has already begun.
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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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The Professionals
Title: The Professionals
Character: Grant
Released: November 1, 1966
Type: Movie
An arrogant Texas millionaire hires four adventurers to rescue his kidnapped wife from a notorious Mexican bandit.
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The Wolf Man
Title: The Wolf Man
Character: Colonel Paul Montford
Released: January 1, 1966
Type: Movie
An abbreviated 8 minute version of the 1941 Universal Monsters classic, released on 8mm film in the 1960s.
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Title: The F.B.I.
Character: Mark Dryden
Released: September 19, 1965
Type: TV
The F.B.I. is an American television series that was broadcast on ABC from 1965 to 1974. It was sponsored by the Ford Motor Company, and the characters almost always drove Ford vehicles in the series. Alcoa was co-sponsor of Season One only.
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Title: The F.B.I.
Character: Captain Jennerson
Released: September 19, 1965
Type: TV
The F.B.I. is an American television series that was broadcast on ABC from 1965 to 1974. It was sponsored by the Ford Motor Company, and the characters almost always drove Ford vehicles in the series. Alcoa was co-sponsor of Season One only.
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Title: Run for Your Life
Character: Cal Phillips
Released: September 13, 1965
Type: TV
Run for Your Life is an American television drama series starring Ben Gazzara as a man with only a short time to live. It ran on NBC from 1965 to 1968. The series was created by Roy Huggins, who had previously explored the "man on the move" concept with The Fugitive.
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Title: Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
Released: October 4, 1963
Type: TV
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre is an American anthology series, sponsored by Chrysler Corporation, which ran on NBC from 1963 through 1967. The show was hosted by Bob Hope, but it had a variety of formats, including musical, dramatic, and comedy.
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Title: The Eleventh Hour
Character: Dr. Theodore Bassett
Released: October 3, 1962
Type: TV
The Eleventh Hour is an American medical drama about psychiatry starring Wendell Corey, Jack Ging, and Ralph Bellamy, which aired sixty-two new episodes plus selected rebroadcasts on NBC from October 3, 1962, to September 9, 1964.
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Title: The Eleventh Hour
Character: Dr. L. Richard Starke
Released: October 3, 1962
Type: TV
The Eleventh Hour is an American medical drama about psychiatry starring Wendell Corey, Jack Ging, and Ralph Bellamy, which aired sixty-two new episodes plus selected rebroadcasts on NBC from October 3, 1962, to September 9, 1964.
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Title: The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Character: Self
Released: October 1, 1962
Type: TV
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under The Tonight Show franchise from 1962 to 1992. It originally aired during late-night. For its first ten years, Carson's Tonight Show was based in New York City with occasional trips to Burbank, California; in May 1972, the show moved permanently to Burbank, California. In 2002, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson was ranked #12 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
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Westinghouse Presents: The Dispossessed
Title: Westinghouse Presents: The Dispossessed
Character: Lambertson
Released: October 23, 1961
Type: Movie
In 1879, the American Indian lived under severe handicaps: having no legal status as a human being and with the requirement to stay on reservations. Defying the law, Ponca Chief Standing Bear leads his people off their disease-ridden reservation. Though they're captured, the Poncas are given three days to find a lawyer and find a legal way to become their own people once again.
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Title: Dr. Kildare
Character: Dr. L Richard Starke
Released: September 27, 1961
Type: TV
The story of a young intern in a large metropolitan hospital trying to learn his profession, deal with the problems of his patients, and win the respect of the senior doctor in his specialty, internal medicine.
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Who Killed Julie Greer?
Title: Who Killed Julie Greer?
Character: Judge Hansen
Released: September 26, 1961
Type: Movie
Amos Burke is an L.A. cop who's inherited millions and usually arrives at crime scenes in a chauffeur-driven Rolls-Royce. Investigating the death of actress Julie Greer, he finds lots of suspects - but the killer's identity surprises him.
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The 10 from Texas
Title: The 10 from Texas
Character: (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1961
Type: Movie
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Sunrise at Campobello
Title: Sunrise at Campobello
Character: Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Released: September 28, 1960
Type: Movie
The story of Franklin Roosevelt's bout with polio at age 40 in 1921 and how his family (and especially wife Eleanor) cope with his illness. From being stricken while vacationing at Campobello to his triumphant nominating speech for Al Smith's presidency in 1924, the story follows the various influences on his life and his determination to recover - based on the award winning Broadway play of the same name.
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Title: The Barbara Stanwyck Show
Character: Dobson
Released: September 19, 1960
Type: TV
The Barbara Stanwyck Show is an American anthology drama television series which ran on NBC from September 1960 to September 1961. Barbara Stanwyck served as hostess, and starred in all but four of the half-hour productions. The four she did not star in were actually pilot episodes of potential series programs which never materialized. Stanwyck won the Emmy Award in 1961 for Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Series. Three of the shows in which Stanwyck starred were an attempt at spinning off a dramatic series of her own, in which she appeared as "Josephine Little", an American woman running an import-export shop in Hong Kong. The series, produced at Desilu Studios, was directed by Stuart Rosenberg. The Barbara Stanwyck Show lasted one season. It aired at 10 p.m. Eastern on Mondays opposite Jackie Cooper's military sitcom Hennesey on CBS and the second half of Gardner McKay's Adventures in Paradise on ABC.
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Title: Checkmate
Character: Governor Tom Barker
Released: September 17, 1960
Type: TV
Checkmate is an American detective television series starring Anthony George, Sebastian Cabot, and Doug McClure. The show aired on CBS Television from 1960 to 1962 for a total of 70 episodes and was produced by Jack Benny's production company, "JaMco Productions" in co-operation with Revue Studios. Guest stars included Charles Laughton, Peter Lorre, and Lee Marvin, among many other commensurately prominent performers.
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Title: The DuPont Show with June Allyson
Character: Willard Mitchell
Released: September 21, 1959
Type: TV
The DuPont Show with June Allyson is an American anthology drama series which aired on CBS from September 21, 1959 to April 3, 1961 with rebroadcasts continuing until June 12, 1961. The series was hosted by actress June Allyson.
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Title: Rawhide
Character: Judge Quince
Released: January 9, 1959
Type: TV
The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across the old west. Along the way they meet up with adventure and drama.
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Title: Rawhide
Character: Marshal Hanson Dickson
Released: January 9, 1959
Type: TV
The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across the old west. Along the way they meet up with adventure and drama.
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The Christmas Tree
Title: The Christmas Tree
Character: Theron
Released: December 14, 1958
Type: Movie
The Christmas Tree is a 1958 Hallmark Hall of Fame made-for-television film that was broadcast on NBC on December 14, 1958. It is based on the short story "An Affair at the Inn" by Charles J. Finger. A number of stars in short skits, including Carol Channing and Cyril Ritchard on skates.
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Title: Suspicion
Character: Detective Thorpe
Released: September 30, 1957
Type: TV
Suspicion is the title of an American television mystery drama series which aired on the NBC from 1957 through 1959. The executive producer of Suspicion was film director Alfred Hitchcock.
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The Defender (Studio One)
Title: The Defender (Studio One)
Character: Walter Preston
Released: February 25, 1957
Type: Movie
The pilot for the television series, "The Defenders." The story of Walter and Kenneth Pearson, a father-and-son legal team. Broadcast as two segments of "Studio One," the story relates how the Pearsons defend a young man accused of killing a woman during a robbery attempt.
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Title: The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
Character: Self
Released: October 5, 1956
Type: TV
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show is an American variety series hosted by Dinah Shore, and broadcast on NBC from October 1956 to June 1963. The series was sponsored by the Chevrolet Motor Division of General Motors and its theme song, sung by Shore, was "See the U.S.A. in Your Chevrolet", which continued to be used in Chevrolet advertising for several more years after the cancellation of the show.
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Title: Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Character: Joel Todd
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 Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell
Title: The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell
Character: Congressman Frank R. Reid
Released: December 31, 1955
Type: Movie
A dramatization of the American general and his court martial for publically complaining about High Command's dismissal and neglect of the aerial fighting forces.
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Title: Playwrights '56
Released: October 4, 1955
Type: TV
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Title: Gunsmoke
Character: Sheriff Bassett
Released: September 10, 1955
Type: TV
Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West. The central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon, played by William Conrad on radio and James Arness on television.
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Title: Climax!
Character: Hap Kennelly
Released: October 7, 1954
Type: TV
Climax! is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was hosted by William Lundigan and later co-hosted by Mary Costa. It was one of the few CBS programs of that era to be broadcast in color. Many of the episodes were performed and broadcast live.
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Title: Climax!
Character: Damon Runyon
Released: October 7, 1954
Type: TV
Climax! is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was hosted by William Lundigan and later co-hosted by Mary Costa. It was one of the few CBS programs of that era to be broadcast in color. Many of the episodes were performed and broadcast live.
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Title: Climax!
Character: Phillip Hardecker, Sr.
Released: October 7, 1954
Type: TV
Climax! is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was hosted by William Lundigan and later co-hosted by Mary Costa. It was one of the few CBS programs of that era to be broadcast in color. Many of the episodes were performed and broadcast live.
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Title: The United States Steel Hour
Released: October 27, 1953
Type: TV
The United States Steel Hour is an anthology series which brought hour-long dramas to television from 1953 to 1963. The television series and the radio program that preceded it were both sponsored by the United States Steel Corporation.
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Title: General Electric Theater
Character: Col. Tom Wheeler
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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Title: Hallmark Hall of Fame
Character: Theron
Released: December 24, 1951
Type: TV
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.
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Title: Hallmark Hall of Fame
Character: Pastor Anderson
Released: December 24, 1951
Type: TV
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.
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Title: Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Character: Joe McQuade
Released: October 5, 1951
Type: TV
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS. Offering both comedies and drama, the series was sponsored by the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company. The title was shortened to Schlitz Playhouse, beginning with the fall 1957 season.
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24 Hours of Progress
Title: 24 Hours of Progress
Character: Narrator
Released: December 31, 1950
Type: Movie
Linking free enterprise with freedom and democracy, 24 Hours of Progress shows the oil industry at work and Americans using oil-based products.
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Title: The Colgate Comedy Hour
Character: Self
Released: September 10, 1950
Type: TV
The Colgate Comedy Hour is an American comedy-musical variety series that aired live on the NBC network from 1950 to 1955. The show starred many notable comedians and entertainers of the era, including Eddie Cantor, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, Fred Allen, Donald O'Connor, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, Bob Hope, Jimmy Durante, Ray Bolger, Gordon MacRae, Ben Blue, Robert Paige, Tony Curtis, Burt Lancaster, Broadway dancer Wayne Lamb and Spike Jones and His City Slickers.
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The Maya Through the Ages
Title: The Maya Through the Ages
Character: Narrator
Released: August 22, 1950
Type: Movie
Documentary on the Mayan culture.
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Title: Your Show of Shows
Released: February 25, 1950
Type: TV
Your Show of Shows was a live 90-minute variety show that was broadcast weekly in the United States on NBC, from February 25, 1950, until June 5, 1954, featuring Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca. Other featured performers were Carl Reiner, Howard Morris, Bill Hayes, Judy Johnson, The Hamilton Trio and the soprano Marguerite Piazza. José Ferrer made several guest appearances on the series. The series was telecast from the now-demolished International Theatre at 5 Columbus Circle and the Century Theater, now demolished, in New York. During 2002, Your Show of Shows was ranked #30 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
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Title: What's My Line?
Character: Self - Mystery Guest
Released: February 2, 1950
Type: TV
Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or "no" questions.
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Title: What's My Line?
Character: Self - Panelist
Released: February 2, 1950
Type: TV
Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or "no" questions.
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Title: Man Against Crime
Character: Mike Barnett
Released: October 7, 1949
Type: TV
Man Against Crime, one of the first television programs about private eyes, ran on CBS, the DuMont Television Network and NBC from October 7, 1949 to August 26, 1956. The show was created by Lawrence Klee and Paul Alter and was broadcast live until 1952. It was also directed by Paul Alter. The series was one of the few television programs ever to have been simulcast on more than one network: the program aired on both NBC and DuMont during the 1953-1954 television season.
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Title: Studio One
Character: Todd McNeill
Released: November 7, 1948
Type: TV
An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. Studio One, presented by Westinghouse, was one of the first of the anthology TV programs. The episodes were often abridged remakes of movies from years gone by and many future well-known television and movie actors appeared in the productions.
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Title: Studio One
Character: Walter Preston
Released: November 7, 1948
Type: TV
An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. Studio One, presented by Westinghouse, was one of the first of the anthology TV programs. The episodes were often abridged remakes of movies from years gone by and many future well-known television and movie actors appeared in the productions.
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Title: The Philco Television Playhouse
Released: October 3, 1948
Type: TV
The Philco Television Playhouse is an American anthology series that was broadcast live on NBC from 1948 to 1955. Produced by Fred Coe, the series was sponsored by Philco. It was one of the most respected dramatic shows of the Golden Age of Television, winning a 1954 Peabody Award and receiving eight Emmy nominations between 1951 and 1956.
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Title: The Philco Television Playhouse
Character: Tice Collins
Released: October 3, 1948
Type: TV
The Philco Television Playhouse is an American anthology series that was broadcast live on NBC from 1948 to 1955. Produced by Fred Coe, the series was sponsored by Philco. It was one of the most respected dramatic shows of the Golden Age of Television, winning a 1954 Peabody Award and receiving eight Emmy nominations between 1951 and 1956.
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Title: The Ed Sullivan Show
Character: Self
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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Seeds of Destiny
Title: Seeds of Destiny
Character: Narrator
Released: January 1, 1946
Type: Movie
Oscar winning postwar propaganda film in support of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. Strident but poignant, focusing on children. The film surveys the Nazi/Japanese atrocities, post-war devastation and the early relief efforts. This film was responsible for raising over $200,000,000, making it a top moneymaking film.
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Lady on a Train
Title: Lady on a Train
Character: Jonathan Waring
Released: August 3, 1945
Type: Movie
While watching from her train window, Nikki Collins witnesses a murder in a nearby building. When she alerts the police, they think she has read one too many mystery novels. She then enlists a popular mystery writer to help her solve the crime on her own, but her sleuthing attracts the attentions of suitors and killers.
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Delightfully Dangerous
Title: Delightfully Dangerous
Character: Arthur Hale
Released: March 31, 1945
Type: Movie
Young Sherry Williams dreams of having a singing career, and she idolizes her older sister Josephine, who has gone to New York to perform on the stage. When Sherry is distraught just before performing at her school, a visiting Broadway producer encourages her by telling her positive things about her sister. Soon afterwards, Sherry decides to make a surprise trip to New York to visit Josephine - but what she finds there is not at all what she expected
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Library of Congress
Title: Library of Congress
Character: Narrator
Released: January 1, 1945
Type: Movie
A 1945 Oscar nominated short documentary about the Library of Congress. It is one of 26 documentary shorts produced between 1942 and 1945 by the U.S. Overseas Film Bureau, and intended to show foreign viewers something about America and it's values, this one focuses on the important institution in Washington D.C. which preserves written and other works that have been copyrighted, as part of the country's heritage.
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Guest in the House
Title: Guest in the House
Character: Douglas Proctor
Released: December 8, 1944
Type: Movie
Evelyn, an emotionally vulnerable and unstable woman, stays at the home of her doctor Dan Proctor. There she meets and falls in love with his brother, Douglas, who is happily married to Ann. Evelyn then sets forth to break up the happy marriage and win the love of Douglas.
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Stage Door Canteen
Title: Stage Door Canteen
Character: Ralph Bellamy
Released: June 24, 1943
Type: Movie
A young soldier on a pass in New York City visits the famed Stage Door Canteen, where famous stars of the theater and films appear and host a recreational center for servicemen during the war. The soldier meets a pretty young hostess and they enjoy the many entertainers and a growing romance
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The Great Impersonation
Title: The Great Impersonation
Character: Sir Edward Dominey / Baron Leopold von Ragenstein
Released: December 18, 1942
Type: Movie
An Englishman kills a German look-alike and poses as a Nazi spy in London.
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Men of Texas
Title: Men of Texas
Character: Major Lamphere
Released: July 3, 1942
Type: Movie
A Chicago reporter (Robert Stack) and photographer focus on a Confederate outlaw (Brod Crawford) in post-Civil War Texas.
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Lady in a Jam
Title: Lady in a Jam
Character: Stanley Gardner
Released: June 19, 1942
Type: Movie
A psychiatrist's patient, a nutty heiress, travels west to find gold in her grandfather's abandoned mine. The psychiatrist, unable to talk her out of it, decides to follow her out there.
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The Ghost of Frankenstein
Title: The Ghost of Frankenstein
Character: Erik Ernst
Released: March 13, 1942
Type: Movie
Frankenstein's unscrupulous colleague, Dr. Bohmer, plans to transplant Ygor's brain so he can rule the world using the monster's body, but the plan goes sour when he turns malevolent and goes on a rampage.
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The Wolf Man
Title: The Wolf Man
Character: Colonel Montford
Released: December 12, 1941
Type: Movie
After his brother's death, Larry Talbot returns home to his father and the family estate. Events soon take a turn for the worse when Larry is bitten by a werewolf.
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Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring
Title: Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring
Character: Ellery Queen
Released: November 18, 1941
Type: Movie
The benefactor of the Stack Memorial Hospital dies after an operation. Ellery Queen investigates when it is revealed the cause of death was murder by strangulation.
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Dive Bomber
Title: Dive Bomber
Character: Lance Rogers
Released: August 30, 1941
Type: Movie
A military surgeon teams with a ranking navy flyer to develop a high-altitude suit which will protect pilots from blacking out when they go into a steep dive.
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Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime
Title: Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime
Character: Ellery Queen
Released: August 14, 1941
Type: Movie
Several days after one of his company's dams burst, ruining the life savings of several investors, a shady power company president is found stabbed to death. Ellery Queen gets to the bottom of the mystery.
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Affectionately Yours
Title: Affectionately Yours
Character: Owen Wright
Released: May 10, 1941
Type: Movie
A married reporter's assignments carry him all over the world, which gives him ample opportunity to put the moves on the local females.
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Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery
Title: Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery
Character: Ellery Queen
Released: March 24, 1941
Type: Movie
Chinese ventriloquist Gordon Cobb is murdered by a gang of jewel thieves. Baffled by the contradictory clues, Inspector Queen asks his son Ellery to help out.
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Footsteps in the Dark
Title: Footsteps in the Dark
Character: Dr. R.L. Davis
Released: March 8, 1941
Type: Movie
A high-society gent has a secret life - he writes murder mysteries and hangs out with the police attempting to solve crimes. This causes him no end of problems when his wife wants to know about his little disappearances and exceptionally late nights out.
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Ellery Queen, Master Detective
Title: Ellery Queen, Master Detective
Character: Ellery Queen
Released: November 30, 1940
Type: Movie
Famed detective and crime novelist Ellery Queen solves a case involving the suspicious death of a rich man whose inheritors fight over his estate.
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Meet the Wildcat
Title: Meet the Wildcat
Character: Lt. Brad Williams
Released: October 22, 1940
Type: Movie
Magazine photographer Ann Larkin is snapping photos at Mexico's National Museum when she sees Brod Williams steal a painting from its frame. Convinced that Brod is the notorious art thief known as "The Wildcat," Ann follows him into the street and accuses him of being the thief. Even though the police attest that Brod is a New York City police detective, Ann remains dubious.
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Public Deb No. 1
Title: Public Deb No. 1
Character: Bruce Fairchild
Released: September 13, 1940
Type: Movie
When a waiter gives a society girl a public spanking for attending a Communist rally, her soup-tycoon uncle makes the waiter a vice-president of his company.
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Dance, Girl, Dance
Title: Dance, Girl, Dance
Character: Steve Adams
Released: August 30, 1940
Type: Movie
Judy O'Brien is an aspiring ballerina in a dance troupe. Also in the company is Bubbles, a brash mantrap who leaves the struggling troupe for a career in burlesque. When the company disbands, Bubbles gives Judy a thankless job as her stooge. The two eventually clash when both fall for the same man.
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Queen of the Mob
Title: Queen of the Mob
Character: Agent Scott Langham
Released: June 28, 1940
Type: Movie
Ma Webster (Blanche Yurka) and her boys rob a bank on Christmas Eve; G-men stop them with Tommy guns.
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Brother Orchid
Title: Brother Orchid
Character: Clarence P. Fletcher
Released: June 7, 1940
Type: Movie
When retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill him, he finds solace in a monastery and reinvents himself as a pious monk.
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Flight Angels
Title: Flight Angels
Character: Bill Graves
Released: May 18, 1940
Type: Movie
Federal Airlines ace pilot Chick Faber is grounded by Flight Superintendent Bill Graves when a doctor says his eyesight is failing. Aided by Mary Norvell and Nan Hudson, Graves persuades Chick to take a job as teacher in the school for airline hostesses, and Chick and Mary get married. He learns that the Army is going to test a stratosphere plane that he and Artie Dixon designed and feels that he should make the first flight but permission is refused.
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His Girl Friday
Title: His Girl Friday
Character: Bruce Baldwin
Released: January 18, 1940
Type: Movie
Walter Burns is an irresistibly conniving newspaper publisher desperate to woo back his paper’s star reporter, who also happens to be his estranged wife. She’s threatening to quit and settle down with a new beau, but, as Walter knows, she has a weakness: she can’t resist a juicy scoop.
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Coast Guard
Title: Coast Guard
Character: Lt. Raymond 'Ray' Dower
Released: August 4, 1939
Type: Movie
Steady, dependable Coast Guard Lieutenant Raymond "Ray" Dower and reckless aviator Thomas "Speed" Bradshaw are the closest of friends. Ray saves the life of Captain Tobias Bliss, tramp steamer skipper, in a daring rescue at sea. Speed flies the injured man back to the base hospital, where the two officers later visit him. There Ray meets Nancy Bliss, Bliss' grand-daughter, and falls in love with her. Speed meets her at a dance and urges Ray to propose before some other guy does. Ray is assigned to flood rescue duty, and Speed and Nancy start going out together and discover they are in love.
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Blind Alley
Title: Blind Alley
Character: Dr. Shelby
Released: May 11, 1939
Type: Movie
A gangster takes a doctor and his family hostage.
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Let Us Live
Title: Let Us Live
Character: Lieutenant Everett
Released: March 29, 1939
Type: Movie
When a confused eyewitness identifies New York City cabbie Brick Tennant as a killer, he is sentenced to death for a murder that he wasn't involved in. Though no one is willing to listen to the innocent prisoner's pleas for freedom, Brick's faithful fiancée, Mary, knows that her lover is innocent because she was with him when the crime was committed. As the scheduled execution draws ever nearer, Mary begins to investigate the murder herself.
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Breakdowns of 1938
Title: Breakdowns of 1938
Character: Philip Chester (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: December 31, 1938
Type: Movie
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1938.
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Smashing the Spy Ring
Title: Smashing the Spy Ring
Character: John Baxter
Released: December 29, 1938
Type: Movie
G-Men in Washington break up a powerful spy ring and capture the ringleaders.
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Trade Winds
Title: Trade Winds
Character: Ben Blodgett
Released: December 28, 1938
Type: Movie
After committing a murder, Kay assumes a new identity and boards a ship. But, Kay is unaware that Sam, a skirt chasing detective, is following her and must outwit him to escape imprisonment.
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Girls' School
Title: Girls' School
Character: Michael Hendragin
Released: September 30, 1938
Type: Movie
Wealthy high school girls are sent to a boarding school to learn proper etiquette. Linda Simpson stays out all night. She tells her roommate, Betty Fleet, that it was because she's planning to elope. Linda gets in trouble when the faculty finds out from a monitor's report submitted by reluctant Natalie Freeman, a poor girl attending on scholarship.
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Carefree
Title: Carefree
Character: Stephen Arden
Released: September 2, 1938
Type: Movie
Dr. Tony Flagg's friend Steven has problems in the relationship with his fiancée Amanda, so he persuades her to visit Tony. After some minor misunderstandings, she falls in love with him. When he tries to use hypnosis to strengthen her feelings for Steven, things get complicated.
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Boy Meets Girl
Title: Boy Meets Girl
Character: C. Elliott 'C.F.' Friday
Released: August 27, 1938
Type: Movie
Two lazy screenwriters need a story for the studio's cowboy star. A studio waitress turns out to be pregnant. This gives them the idea for a movie about a cowboy and a baby. The waitress's baby becomes the star. The cowboy and his agent run off with the waitress and her valuable asset. The writers retaliate by hiring an unemployed extra to impersonate the baby's father. But the extra already knows the waitress...
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Fools for Scandal
Title: Fools for Scandal
Character: Phillip Chester
Released: April 16, 1938
Type: Movie
An incognito Hollywood star (Carole Lombard) in Paris meets a penniless nobleman (Fernand Gravet) who follows her to London.
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The Crime of Doctor Hallet
Title: The Crime of Doctor Hallet
Character: Dr. Paul Hallet
Released: March 12, 1938
Type: Movie
Doctor in jungle works on cure for fever.
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The Awful Truth
Title: The Awful Truth
Character: Dan Leeson
Released: October 20, 1937
Type: Movie
Unfounded suspicions lead a married couple to begin divorce proceedings, whereupon they start undermining each other's attempts to find new romance.
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Screen Snapshots: Series 16, No. 12
Title: Screen Snapshots: Series 16, No. 12
Character: Self (uncredited)
Released: August 13, 1937
Type: Movie
A tour of Hollywood, featuring such star frequented spots as the Vendome, the Lakeside Golf Club, the West Side Tennis Club, the Santa Anita Racetrack, the Ambassador Hotel's Cocoanut Grove, the Biltmore Bowl, and the American Legion Stadium.
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It Can't Last Forever
Title: It Can't Last Forever
Character: Russ Matthews
Released: July 15, 1937
Type: Movie
Russ Matthews, a theatrical agent who is not above pulling off a hoax or two or more to further the career of his clients (and himself), and a newspaper gossip-columnist, Carol Wilson, get involved with gangsters when one of Larry's radio-program future-predicting cons gets out of hand.
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Let's Get Married
Title: Let's Get Married
Character: Kirk Duncan
Released: April 14, 1937
Type: Movie
Let's Get Married is a 1937 American comedy film starring Ida Lupino, who plays the daughter of a political consultant, Joe Quinn. From Wikipedia
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Counterfeit Lady
Title: Counterfeit Lady
Character: Johnny Pierce
Released: December 31, 1936
Type: Movie
Phyllis Fowler claims to be just a "simple little country girl" trying to get by in the wicked big-city, and she takes a big getting-by step when she pulls a scam that gains her a $17,000 diamond from an exclusive jewelry store. Soon, a private-detective, who has a dupe gem matching the stolen one, the police, and two gangster buddies of the jeweler are all racing each other to get the diamond back from Phyllis. The country-girl provides them all with a wild chase.
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Wild Brian Kent
Title: Wild Brian Kent
Character: Brian Kent
Released: November 6, 1936
Type: Movie
Polo player Brian stops in a Kansas town and find a girl and her aunt needing money to keep their ranch. He also finds his new real estate partner is the crook trying to do the women out of their ranch.
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The Man Who Lived Twice
Title: The Man Who Lived Twice
Character: Dr. James Blake / 'Slick' Rawley
Released: September 25, 1936
Type: Movie
A hardened criminal is transformed into a responsible member of society after he undergoes plastic surgery.
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Straight from the Shoulder
Title: Straight from the Shoulder
Character: Curt Hayden
Released: August 28, 1936
Type: Movie
A mob witness is hiding in a remote mountain cabin together with his young son.
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The Final Hour
Title: The Final Hour
Character: John Vickery
Released: July 7, 1936
Type: Movie
A down-and-out lawyer gets back on his feet with help from a singer who later retains him to defend her on a murder charge.
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Roaming Lady
Title: Roaming Lady
Character: Daniel S. 'Dan' Bailey
Released: May 2, 1936
Type: Movie
Joyce Reid, a wealthy young debutante, stows away on a cargo ship to China, carrying as passengers her dashing aviator sweetheart, Dan Bailey and and her munitions-producing father, E. J. Reid and an assortment of the usual south-seas characters along with some Asians with varying agendas. The cargo included a shipment of bombs and machine guns. She soon finds herself being held hostage and they will free her only if Dan agrees to pilot a bombing plane for some Chinese bandits.
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Hands Across the Table
Title: Hands Across the Table
Character: Allen Macklyn
Released: October 18, 1935
Type: Movie
A manicurist and an engaged loafer, both planning to marry money, meet and fall in love.
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Navy Wife
Title: Navy Wife
Character: Dr. Quentin Harden
Released: September 17, 1935
Type: Movie
A Hawaiian naval nurse weds a widowed officer partly because he has a crippled daughter.
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The Healer
Title: The Healer
Character: Dr. Holden
Released: June 14, 1935
Type: Movie
A young doctor running a health farm for polio victims is dazzled by a pretty and wealthy society girl, to the detriment of his patients and the woman who really loves him.
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Air Hawks
Title: Air Hawks
Character: Barry Eldon
Released: May 7, 1935
Type: Movie
A small, independent air delivery service is menaced by a mad scientist with a death ray machine that blows up planes in mid-flight.
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Eight Bells
Title: Eight Bells
Character: Steve Andrews
Released: April 10, 1935
Type: Movie
A trustworthy captain is reduced in rank so that the owner's daughter's fiancé may take charge.
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The Wedding Night
Title: The Wedding Night
Character: Fredrik Sobieski
Released: March 8, 1935
Type: Movie
While working on a novel in his country home in Connecticut, married writer Tony Barrett (Cooper) becomes attracted to Manya (Sten), the daughter of a neighboring farmer. Manya is unhappily engaged to Frederik (Bellamy). Due to a snowstorm, Tony and Manya are trapped together in his house overnight. The next day, Manya's father insists her wedding to Frederik take place in spite of Manya's misgivings. Drunkenness and jealousy result in tragedy at the wedding reception that night.
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Gigolette
Title: Gigolette
Character: Terry Gallagher
Released: February 15, 1935
Type: Movie
Kay Parrish, a society girl, finds she is penniless when her father dies. However she persuades Terry Gallagher to give her a hostess job at his New York City clip-joint, which he operates on the theory that if the suckers want it he'll give it to them, albeit he does apply some principles regarding the matter. A Broadway playboy, Greg Emerson, falls in love with Kay and proposes but his high-society parents object strongly. Terry. although he also has fallen in love with Kay and doesn't realize she feels the same about him, sets out to provide a happy ending for the couple.
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Rendezvous at Midnight
Title: Rendezvous at Midnight
Character: Commissioner Robert Edmonds
Released: February 11, 1935
Type: Movie
There are plenty of suspects when an unscrupulous, blackmailing businessman turns up dead, especially the Police Commissioner's current paramour, who actually confessed to the killing before it was committed.
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Helldorado
Title: Helldorado
Character: J.F. Van Avery
Released: January 5, 1935
Type: Movie
Arthur T. Ryan, a hitchhiker, gets a ride from haughty, society girl Glenda Wynant and her fiance, wealthy J. F. Van Avery after he helps them to replace the top of their convertible when it begins to rain. As they approach a bridge, Art notices a few stalled cars, and when the storm worsens, the bridge washes away, leaving Art, Glenda, Van and several others stranded in a canyon.
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Woman in the Dark
Title: Woman in the Dark
Character: John Bradley
Released: November 8, 1934
Type: Movie
A recently released prisoner lives alone in his cabin so that his bad temper won't get him back in any more trouble, but his peaceful existence is disrupted when a mysterious woman arrives.
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Girl in Danger
Title: Girl in Danger
Character: Insp. Steve Trent
Released: September 11, 1934
Type: Movie
Inspector Steve Trent tracks the stolen Cortez emerald, last pilfered by a murdered gangster.
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One Is Guilty
Title: One Is Guilty
Character: Insp. Steve Trent
Released: May 3, 1934
Type: Movie
Police Inspector Steve Trent is called to the Radford Arms, a high-rise apartment building that has been taken over by a bank and its apartments now-unoccupied.
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The Crime of Helen Stanley
Title: The Crime of Helen Stanley
Character: Insp. Steve Trent
Released: April 20, 1934
Type: Movie
An actress is murdered in the midst of shooting a dance sequence for her latest picture, with Inspector Steve Trent on the case.
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This Man Is Mine
Title: This Man Is Mine
Character: Jim Dunlap
Released: April 13, 1934
Type: Movie
The seemingly happy relationship between Tony and Jim is threatened when his manipulative, drama-queen ex-wife visits.
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Once to Every Woman
Title: Once to Every Woman
Character: Dr. James Barclay
Released: March 24, 1934
Type: Movie
An able nurse clashes with a new doctor at her hospital.
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Spitfire
Title: Spitfire
Character: George Fleetwood
Released: March 8, 1934
Type: Movie
Dirt-poor mountain girl Trigger Hicks is a loner. Her faith-healing is mistaken for witchcraft by the community. She falls for an engineer building a dam, who protects her.
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Before Midnight
Title: Before Midnight
Character: Insp. Steve Trent
Released: November 18, 1933
Type: Movie
A detective tries to figure out who killed a man who predicted his own death.
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Ever in My Heart
Title: Ever in My Heart
Character: Jeff
Released: October 28, 1933
Type: Movie
World War I brings tribulations to an American woman married to a German.
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Ace of Aces
Title: Ace of Aces
Character: Captain Blake
Released: October 20, 1933
Type: Movie
A sculptor who doesn't want to have any part of World War I is shamed by his girlfriend into joining the army. He becomes a fighter pilot, and undergoes a complete personality change.
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Blind Adventure
Title: Blind Adventure
Character: Jim Steele
Released: August 18, 1933
Type: Movie
Richard Bruce, an American in fog bound London stumbles into the midst of international intrigue, with Rose Thorne, an innocent dupe. Together they try to unravel the mystery, enlisting the aid of a cat burglar named Holmes, who they bump into along the way.
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Headline Shooter
Title: Headline Shooter
Character: Hal
Released: July 28, 1933
Type: Movie
A newsreel photographer neglects his love life to get the perfect shot.
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Flying Devils
Title: Flying Devils
Character: 'Speed' Hardy
Released: July 14, 1933
Type: Movie
A trio of veteran pilots joins an aerial circus.
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The Narrow Corner
Title: The Narrow Corner
Character: Eric Whittenson
Released: July 8, 1933
Type: Movie
An Englishman sought for murder, tries to escape fate to South Seas island.
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Picture Snatcher
Title: Picture Snatcher
Character: J.R. 'Al' McLean
Released: May 6, 1933
Type: Movie
An ex-con uses his street smarts to become a successful photojournalist.
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Destination Unknown
Title: Destination Unknown
Character: Stowaway
Released: April 1, 1933
Type: Movie
A group of people are stuck on a schooner in the middle of the Pacific with no wind.
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Below the Sea
Title: Below the Sea
Character: McCreary
Released: March 28, 1933
Type: Movie
A wealthy woman funds an underwater expedition to explore for marine life, but what she doesn't know is that her "colleagues" have other intentions.
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Parole Girl
Title: Parole Girl
Character: Joseph B. 'Joe' Smith
Released: March 4, 1933
Type: Movie
A woman convicted of fraud aims to take her revenge on the man who put her inside after being released on parole.
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Wild Girl
Title: Wild Girl
Character: Jack Marbury
Released: November 9, 1932
Type: Movie
Salomy Jane, a California mountain girl, is sought after by a number of men in the nearby small town of Redwood City. She is affected when two criminals are pursued by authorities: one for killing a hypocritical mayoral candidate, the other for robbing the stagecoach.
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Air Mail
Title: Air Mail
Character: Mike Miller
Released: November 3, 1932
Type: Movie
A group of air mail pilots risk their lives to deliver important mail through bad weather conditions.
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Almost Married
Title: Almost Married
Character: Deene Maxwell
Released: July 17, 1932
Type: Movie
Russian beauty Anita Mellikovna, traveling by train with a forged passport and carrying jewels, finds the police on her tail.
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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Title: Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Character: Dr Ladd
Released: July 3, 1932
Type: Movie
A young girl from Sunnybrook goes to live with her wealthy relatives and falls in love with a doctor. Adapted from Kate Douglas Wiggin's famous novel.
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The Woman in Room 13
Title: The Woman in Room 13
Character: John Bruce
Released: May 15, 1932
Type: Movie
Divorcee Laura marries Paul but his employer is also enamored with Laura and sends Paul on a business trip during which a murder is committed and he is accused of the crime.
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Young America
Title: Young America
Character: Judge Blake
Released: April 17, 1932
Type: Movie
Mrs. Doray sits with a Juvenile Court Judge to learn more about problem children and what to do about them. One of the cases involves 13 year old Arthur, "the worst kid in town", who moves cars away from fiire-plugs without the knowledge of the owners. The judge gives Arthur and friend Nutty another chance. However they run into further trouble when they break into Mr. Doray's drugstore to get medicine for Nutty's grandmother. Mr. Doray is not sympathetic and completely against his wife's plan to become Arthur's guardian. More incidents occur with Mr. Doray quick to judge prior to getting all of the facts. Mrs. Doray must choose between her marriage and Arthur.
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Disorderly Conduct
Title: Disorderly Conduct
Character: Captain Tom Manning
Released: March 20, 1932
Type: Movie
When motorcycle cop Dick Fay gives a ticket to Phyllis Crawford, her father's graft-fed influence leads to his demotion to foot patrolman.
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Forbidden
Title: Forbidden
Character: Holland
Released: January 8, 1932
Type: Movie
On a cruise to Cuba, Lulu Smith falls in love with Bob Grover. Back home, she breaks off the romance when he tells her he is married. Lulu has a baby, but doesn't tell Bob, who turns out to be a rising politician. She passes herself off as the baby's nanny. When Bob learns what is going on, he adopts the little girl, not telling his wife or anyone else where she came from. Lulu gets a job at a newspaper. Things get complicated when the editor gets the dirt on Grover, but also wants to marry Lulu
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Surrender
Title: Surrender
Character: Captain Ebbing
Released: December 6, 1931
Type: Movie
Story of French prisoner in Germany who falls in love with a German general's daughter. From the novel "Axelle" by Pierre Benoit.
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West of Broadway
Title: West of Broadway
Character: Mac - The Ranch Foreman
Released: November 28, 1931
Type: Movie
A wealthy soldier returns home after WWI, discovers his socialite fiancee no longer wants to marry him, and weds an admitted gold-digger he's just met after a night of drinking and partying.
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The Magnificent Lie
Title: The Magnificent Lie
Character: Bill Childers
Released: July 25, 1931
Type: Movie
A nightclub singer, taking pity on a blind soldier, pretends that she is the woman he once loved before he was wounded.
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The Secret Six
Title: The Secret Six
Character: Johnny Franks
Released: April 18, 1931
Type: Movie
Bootlegger/cafe owner, Johnny Franks recruits crude working man Scorpio to join his gang, masterminded by crooked criminal defense lawyer Newton. Scorpio eventually takes over Frank's operation, beats a rival gang, becomes wealthy and dominates the city for several years until a secret group of 6 masked businessmen have him prosecuted and sent to the electric chair.