David Huddleston

David Huddleston

Born: September 17, 1930
Died: August 2, 2016
in Vinton, Virginia, USA
David William Huddleston (September 17, 1930 – August 2, 2016) was an American actor. An Emmy Award nominee, Huddleston had a prolific television career, and appeared in many films, including Rio Lobo, Blazing Saddles, Crime Busters, Santa Claus: The Movie, and The Big Lebowski.

Movies for David Huddleston...

Locker 13
Title: Locker 13
Character: Floyd Marley
Released: March 29, 2014
Type: Movie
The story of Skip, a young ex-convict who takes a position as a night janitor at an old-west theme park. His supervisor Archie, teaches him the ropes, but more importantly attempts to convey critical philosophical messages through a series of four stories: a down and out boxer is given the opportunity to become a real golden gloves killer; an assassin kidnaps three people in order to find out who hired him for his latest hit; a new recruit is initiated into a lodge of fez-wearing businessmen where hazing can take a malevolent turn; and a member of a suicide club introduces real fear into a man about to jump to his death.
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A Very Sunny Christmas
Title: A Very Sunny Christmas
Character: Eugene Hamilton
Released: November 17, 2009
Type: Movie
Dennis and Dee decide to teach Frank a lesson "A Christmas Carol"-style, and Mac and Charlie learn some shocking things about their childhood Christmas traditions.
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Postal
Title: Postal
Character: Peter
Released: October 18, 2007
Type: Movie
The story begins with a regular Joe who tries desperately to seek employment, but embarks on a violent rampage when he teams up with cult leader Uncle Dave. Their first act is to heist an amusement park, only to learn that the Taliban are planning the same heist as well. Chaos ensues, and now the Postal Dude must not only take on terrorists but also political figures.
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Title: Jericho
Character: E.J. Green
Released: September 20, 2006
Type: TV
Jericho is an American action/drama series that centers on the residents of the fictional town of Jericho, Kansas, in the aftermath of nuclear attacks on 23 major cities in the contiguous United States.
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The Producers
Title: The Producers
Character: Judge
Released: December 25, 2005
Type: Movie
After putting together another Broadway flop, down-on-his-luck producer Max Bialystock teams up with timid accountant Leo Bloom in a get-rich-quick scheme to put on the world's worst show.
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Title: It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Character: Eugene Hamilton
Released: August 4, 2005
Type: TV
Four egocentric friends run a neighborhood Irish pub in Philadelphia and try to find their way through the adult world of work and relationships. Unfortunately, their warped views and precarious judgments often lead them to trouble, creating a myriad of uncomfortable situations that usually only get worse before they get better.
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Title: Gilmore Girls
Character: Harry Porter
Released: October 5, 2000
Type: TV
Set in the charming town of Stars Hollow, Connecticut, the series follows the captivating lives of Lorelai and Rory Gilmore, a mother/daughter pair who have a relationship most people only dream of.
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Title: The West Wing
Character: Senator Max Lobell
Released: September 22, 1999
Type: TV
The West Wing provides a glimpse into presidential politics in the nation's capital as it tells the stories of the members of a fictional presidential administration. These interesting characters have humor and dedication that touches the heart while the politics that they discuss touch on everyday life.
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Title: The West Wing
Character: Sen. Max Lobell, R
Released: September 22, 1999
Type: TV
The West Wing provides a glimpse into presidential politics in the nation's capital as it tells the stories of the members of a fictional presidential administration. These interesting characters have humor and dedication that touches the heart while the politics that they discuss touch on everyday life.
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Title: Judging Amy
Character: L. Barton Connelly
Released: September 19, 1999
Type: TV
Judging Amy is an American television drama that was telecast from September 19, 1999, through May 3, 2005, on CBS-TV. This TV series starred Amy Brenneman and Tyne Daly. Its main character is a judge who serves in a family court, and in addition to the family-related cases that she adjudicates, many episodes of the show focus on her own experiences as a divorced mother, and on the experiences of her mother, a social worker who works in the field of child welfare. This series was based on the life experiences of Brenneman's mother.
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Title: The Wild Thornberrys
Character: Sea Tortoise (voice)
Released: September 1, 1998
Type: TV
The Wild Thornberrys is an American animated television series that aired on Nickelodeon.
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Title: The Wild Thornberrys
Character: Tlingit Elder (voice)
Released: September 1, 1998
Type: TV
The Wild Thornberrys is an American animated television series that aired on Nickelodeon.
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The Big Lebowski
Title: The Big Lebowski
Character: The Big Lebowski
Released: March 6, 1998
Type: Movie
Jeffrey 'The Dude' Lebowski, a Los Angeles slacker who only wants to bowl and drink White Russians, is mistaken for another Jeffrey Lebowski, a wheelchair-bound millionaire, and finds himself dragged into a strange series of events involving nihilists, adult film producers, ferrets, errant toes, and large sums of money.
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Title: The Practice
Character: Judge Richard Bender
Released: March 4, 1997
Type: TV
A provocative legal drama focused on young associates at a bare-bones Boston firm and their scrappy boss, Bobby Donnell. The show's forte is its storylines about “people who walk a moral tightrope.”
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The Man Next Door
Title: The Man Next Door
Character: Sheriff Dawkins
Released: January 1, 1997
Type: Movie
A community is shocked to learn that their new neighbor is a convicted sex offender who has been paroled.
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Joe's Apartment
Title: Joe's Apartment
Character: P.I. Smith
Released: July 26, 1996
Type: Movie
A nice guy has just moved to New York and discovers that he must share his run-down apartment with a couple thousand singing, dancing cockroaches.
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Title: The Naked Truth
Character: Ulysses
Released: September 13, 1995
Type: TV
The Naked Truth is an American television sitcom that aired on ABC from 1995 to 1996, and on NBC from 1996 to 1998. The series stars Téa Leoni and co-starred Holland Taylor. The show took place at the office of a tabloid news publication.
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Something to Talk About
Title: Something to Talk About
Character: Jack "Mad Dog" Pierce (uncredited)
Released: August 4, 1995
Type: Movie
Grace King Bichon, who is managing her father's riding-stable, discovers that her husband Eddie is deceiving her with another woman. After confronting him in the middle of the night on the streets of their small home town, she decides to stay at her sister Emma Rae's house for a while to make up her mind. Breaking out of her everyday life, she starts to question the authority of everyone.
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Life with Mikey
Title: Life with Mikey
Character: Herr Corcoran
Released: June 4, 1993
Type: Movie
Michael Chapman, a former child TV star, runs a struggling talent agency specilizing in child acts. When a young girl off the street puts on a real performance after he catches her picking his pocket, he may have just found the next big thing.
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Title: Walker, Texas Ranger
Character: Ferris Clayton
Released: April 21, 1993
Type: TV
Modern-day Texas Ranger, Cordell Walker's independent crime-solving methods have their roots in the rugged traditions of the Old West. Walker's closest friend is former Ranger, C.D. Parker, who retired after a knee injury, and now owns "C.D.'s," a Country/Western saloon/restaurant. Rookie Ranger, James "Jimmy" Trivette is an ex-football player who bases his crime-solving methods on reason and uses computers and cellular phones. Alex Cahill is the Assistant DA who shares a mutual attraction with Walker, but often disagrees with his unorthodox approach to law enforcement.
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James Cagney: Top of the World
Title: James Cagney: Top of the World
Character: Self
Released: July 5, 1992
Type: Movie
Documentary on the life and career of James Cagney
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Title: In a Child's Name
Character: Zach Taylor
Released: November 17, 1991
Type: TV
A true story about a woman who fights her brother-in-law's parents for custody of her deceased sister's baby upon learning that her brother-in-law murdered her sister.
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Margaret Bourke-White
Title: Margaret Bourke-White
Character: Remis
Released: April 24, 1989
Type: Movie
A biographical account of pioneering photographer Margaret Bourke-White's career.
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The Tracker
Title: The Tracker
Character: Lane Crawford
Released: March 26, 1988
Type: Movie
After a series of vicious crimes by a renegade group of cowboys, led by "Red Jack" Stilwell, a legendary tracker, Noble Adams is pulled out of retirement to capture Stilwell, dead or alive. Reluctantly, needing more men, he allows his son, Tom to tag along, revealing to Tom a whole brutal side of ruthlessness Noble thought he left behind.
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Frantic
Title: Frantic
Character: Peter
Released: February 19, 1988
Type: Movie
The wife of an American doctor suddenly vanishes in Paris and, to find her, he navigates a puzzling web of language, locale, laissez-faire cops, triplicate-form filling bureaucrats and a defiant, mysterious waif who knows more than she tells.
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Title: The Wonder Years
Character: Grandpa Arnold
Released: January 31, 1988
Type: TV
The story of Kevin Arnold facing the trials and tribulations of youth while growing up during the 1960s and 70s. Told through narration from an adult Kevin, Kevin faces the difficulties of maintaining relationships and friendships on his enthralling journey into adulthood.
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Title: Star Trek: The Next Generation
Character: The Conductor
Released: September 28, 1987
Type: TV
Follow the intergalactic adventures of Capt. Jean-Luc Picard and his loyal crew aboard the all-new USS Enterprise NCC-1701D, as they explore new worlds.
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Title: J.J. Starbuck
Released: September 26, 1987
Type: TV
J.J. Starbuck is an American crime drama series that aired on NBC from September 1987 to June 1988. The series follows cornpone-spouting Jerome Jeremiah "J.J." Starbuck, a billionaire Texan who wears ten-gallon hats, cowboy boots and fancy western shirts. He drives a flashy limousine with steer horns on the hood and a horn that plays "The Eyes of Texas," and spouts a steady stream of folksy homilies.
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Spot Marks the X
Title: Spot Marks the X
Character: Doc Ross
Released: October 17, 1986
Type: Movie
A dog trained to be a thief is the only member of a gang of bank robbers who knows where a quarter of a million dollars is hidden.
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When the Bough Breaks
Title: When the Bough Breaks
Character: Vicar McCaffrey
Released: October 12, 1986
Type: Movie
A Los Angeles psychiatrist testifies for the prosecution in the trial of an accused child molester. Later the defendant, who is out on bail, is found dead in the psychiatrist's office, in what appears to be a suicide. Shaken, the psychiatrist moves to the mountains outside of L.A. Not long afterwards a detective he knows comes to him for help. A seven-year-old girl saw someone kill both of her parents, but is so traumatized by the event that she can't remember anything, and the detective wants the doctor to help jar her memory. Soon, however, the doctor and the detective discover that the parents' murder and the pedophiles "suicide" may be linked to a shadowy group of wealthy and influential pedophiles, and that the child isn't the only one whose life is in danger.
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Title: Blacke's Magic
Released: January 5, 1986
Type: TV
Blacke's Magic is an American crime drama series that aired on NBC from January to May 1986. The series stars Hal Linden as magician Alexander Blacke who, with some help from his con-man father Leonard, solves mysteries that get in the way of his performances. The series aired for a total of thirteen episodes and featured crimes that tested logic against seemingly magical crimes. The stories were not so much whodunits as "how-he-do-its," for Alex Blacke often had to turn detective to solve the mysteries.
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Santa Claus: The Making of the Movie
Title: Santa Claus: The Making of the Movie
Character: Santa Claus
Released: December 1, 1985
Type: Movie
This behind-the-scenes documentary follows Team Salkind as they set out to bring Santa's "true" story to the screen. Dudley Moore (Patch) hosts; David Huddleston intros in character as Santa.
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Santa Claus: The Movie
Title: Santa Claus: The Movie
Character: Santa Claus
Released: October 29, 1985
Type: Movie
In ancient times, a man named Claus, who delivers toys in his small village, fulfils his destiny to become Santa Claus after meeting an expert toy-making elf, Patch, in the North Pole. In the present day, Santa Claus has become overwhelmed by his workload, and the disgruntled Patch flees the workshop to New York City. There, Patch unknowingly threatens the fate of Christmas by taking a job at a failing toy company run by a scheming businessman.
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Finnegan Begin Again
Title: Finnegan Begin Again
Character: Jack Archer
Released: February 24, 1985
Type: Movie
A schoolteacher in her early 40s, involved in a dead-end love affair with a married mortician, drifts into a relationship with an aging newspaperman.
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The Act
Title: The Act
Character: Corky
Released: August 1, 1984
Type: Movie
Comedy directed by Sig Shore.
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M.A.D.D.: Mothers Against Drunk Drivers
Title: M.A.D.D.: Mothers Against Drunk Drivers
Character: Steve Blankenship
Released: March 13, 1983
Type: Movie
A mother relentlessly tries to spearhead a movement for national anti-drunk driver legislation after her own daughter becomes the victim of a hit-and-run by a drunk driver.
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Go for It
Title: Go for It
Character: Tiger, Chef des C. I. A.
Released: February 1, 1983
Type: Movie
After Doug picks up hitchhiking Rosco with his truck, they are mistaken for two bank robbers by the traffic police. They manage to escape only to be confused for two secret agents while trying to take a flight at the airport.
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Amy and the Angel
Title: Amy and the Angel
Character: Edgar Watson
Released: September 22, 1982
Type: Movie
Amy, a depressed seventeen year old high school girl, is visited by her guardian angel Oliver after wishing she had never been born. Oliver shows Amy how important she is to the people in her life.
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Computercide
Title: Computercide
Character: Chief Sorrenson
Released: August 1, 1982
Type: Movie
The year is 1995 and Michael Stringer is the only private eye left on Earth. One day, he is assigned by a woman to investigate Eden Isle, a complex for people who want a perfect life started by an industrialist named Korter. Interestingly, Korter is found on a beach and is 20 years younger than he was before. When he gets into the complex, he is caught in a web of mystery.
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Family Reunion
Title: Family Reunion
Character: Sen. Chester Winfield
Released: October 11, 1981
Type: Movie
Elizabeth Winfield is a retired teacher, who desperately tries to keep her family together. While she's traveling through the country and meeting her relatives, back in her hometown, a group of shopping mall developers are planning to take over her family land in order to begin their ambitious project. Now she needs to find ways to stop this construction in time before the town's annual festivities.
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The Oklahoma City Dolls
Title: The Oklahoma City Dolls
Character: J.D. Hines
Released: January 23, 1981
Type: Movie
Susan Blakey plays Sally Jo Purkey, a factory worker who leads a rebellion among her co-workers for equal rights by forming a company football team for women and hires a down-on-his-luck coach (Eddie Albert) to make them winners.
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Title: Magnum, P.I.
Released: December 11, 1980
Type: TV
A private investigator who works when he wants, lives in a beachfront estate in Hawaii, drives a posh Ferrari, runs up an unlimited tab at a swank bar, and charms attractive women in peril - that's the lifestyle of Thomas Magnum, aka Magnum, P.I.
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Smokey and the Bandit II
Title: Smokey and the Bandit II
Character: John Conn
Released: August 15, 1980
Type: Movie
The Bandit goes on another cross-country run, transporting an elephant from Florida to Texas. And, once again, Sheriff Buford T. Justice is on his tail.
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Gorp
Title: Gorp
Character: Walrus
Released: May 1, 1980
Type: Movie
Pranksters cause trouble at a summer camp for rich kids.
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Title: Benson
Released: September 13, 1979
Type: TV
A butler deals with life at the governor's mansion.
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Title: Hizzonner
Released: May 10, 1979
Type: TV
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Title: Vega$
Released: September 20, 1978
Type: TV
Vega$ is an American detective television drama series that aired on ABC between 1978 and 1981. It was produced by Aaron Spelling. The series was filmed in its entirety in Las Vegas, Nevada. It is believed to be the first television series produced entirely in Las Vegas. The show stars Robert Urich as private detective Dan Tanna, who drove around the streets of Las Vegas in a red 1957 Ford Thunderbird solving crimes and making Las Vegas a better place for residents and tourists alike.
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Title: Kaz
Released: September 10, 1978
Type: TV
Kaz is an American crime drama series that aired on CBS from September 10, 1978 to April 22, 1979.
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Zero to Sixty
Title: Zero to Sixty
Character: Harold Finch
Released: June 23, 1978
Type: Movie
A divorced man hooks up with a street-smart 16-year-old who makes her living by repossessing cars from their owners.
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Kate Bliss and the Ticker Tape Kid
Title: Kate Bliss and the Ticker Tape Kid
Character: Sheriff
Released: May 26, 1978
Type: Movie
A turn-of-the-century investigator named Kate Bliss goes to the wide-open spaces of the wild west to capture a gang of outlaws led by a charming "Robin Hood of the plains," leading a band of dispossessed ranchers against a stuffy English land baron who has cheated them out of their property.
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The World's Greatest Lover
Title: The World's Greatest Lover
Character: Bakery Owner
Released: December 18, 1977
Type: Movie
When frustrated movie studio mogul Adolph Zitz announces a talent search for a romantic leading man to rival the great Rudolph Valentino, thousands of hopefuls decend upon Hollywood. Rudy Valentine, a neurotic baker from Milwaukee, knows little about romance or acting. But when his wife leaves him for the real Valentino, Rudy goes to outrageous lengths to win the role of a lifetime and win back the love of his life.
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Capricorn One
Title: Capricorn One
Character: Hollis Peaker
Released: December 10, 1977
Type: Movie
In order to protect the reputation of the American space program, a team of NASA administrators turn the first Mars mission into a phony Mars landing. Under threat of harm to their families the astronauts play their part in the deception on a staged set in a deserted military base. But once the real ship returns to Earth and burns up on re-entry, the astronauts become liabilities. Now, with the help of a crusading reporter, they must battle a sinister conspiracy that will stop at nothing to keep the truth hidden.
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Title: The Kallikaks
Released: August 3, 1977
Type: TV
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The Greatest
Title: The Greatest
Character: Cruikshank
Released: May 17, 1977
Type: Movie
Muhammad Ali's life story up to the late 1970s, which includes his Olympic triumphs as Cassius Clay, his conversion to Islam, his refusal of the Army draft and the legal battle after being stripped of his World Title.
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Crime Busters
Title: Crime Busters
Character: Captain McBride
Released: April 1, 1977
Type: Movie
An attempted robbery turns to be an unexpected recruitment when two unemployed men mistakenly break into a police office instead of a store.
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Sherlock Holmes in New York
Title: Sherlock Holmes in New York
Character: Inspector Lafferty NYPD
Released: October 18, 1976
Type: Movie
An affectionate bow to the master sleuth in this lavishly produced original that has Holmes rushing to New York City after discovering that his old nemesis, Moriarty, has kidnapped the son of the detective's long-time love, actress Irene Adler.
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Title: Charlie's Angels
Character: Sheriff Clint
Released: September 22, 1976
Type: TV
Beautiful, intelligent, and ultra-sophisticated, Charlie's Angels are everything a man could dream of... and way more than they could ever handle! Receiving their orders via speaker phone from their never seen boss, Charlie, the Angels employ their incomparable sleuthing and combat skills, as well as their lethal feminine charm, to crack even the most seemingly insurmountable of cases.
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Title: Spencer's Pilots
Released: September 17, 1976
Type: TV
Spencer's Pilots is an American adventure series that aired on CBS from September 17 to November 19, 1976. The series stars Gene Evans as Spencer Parish, the owner of Spencer Aviation.
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Shark Kill
Title: Shark Kill
Character: Bearde
Released: May 20, 1976
Type: Movie
Two adventurers set sail to find a giant man-eating great white shark.
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Title: Good Heavens
Released: February 29, 1976
Type: TV
Good Heavens was an ABC comedy anthology series produced by Columbia Pictures Television that aired between February 29 to June 26, 1976. It ranked #17 in the Nielsen ratings during the 1975-76 television season. The main character was Mr. Angel, who was an Emissary of Heaven that came down to Earth to grant wishes to those who had performed a good deed. Episodes featured actors such as Don Ameche, Susan Dey, Sandy Duncan, Pat Harrington Jr., Florence Henderson, Alex Karras, Penny Marshall, Hugh O'Brian, Loretta Swit, Brenda Vaccaro, and Fred Willard.
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Title: The Practice
Released: January 30, 1976
Type: TV
Sitcom about Jules Bedford, a crusty, sometimes grumpy, and somewhat absent-minded old-school doctor with a genuine concern for people.
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Breakheart Pass
Title: Breakheart Pass
Character: Dr. Molyneux
Released: December 9, 1975
Type: Movie
At the height of the frontier era, a train races through the Rocky Mountains on a classified mission to a remote army post. But one by one the passengers are being murdered, and their only hope is the mysterious John Deakin, who's being transported to face trial for murder.
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Title: Bronk
Released: April 17, 1975
Type: TV
Bronk is an American television series starring Jack Palance as Detective Lieutenant Alex Bronkov. The series is set in the fictional Ocean City, California. 24 episodes were aired from September 21, 1975 to March 28, 1976 on CBS. The series lasted only one season.
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The Klansman
Title: The Klansman
Character: Mayor Hardy Riddle
Released: October 25, 1974
Type: Movie
A small southern town has just been rocked by a tragedy: a young white woman has been raped by a black man. When young black man Garth witnesses the Ku Klux Klan's violent retaliation against his innocent friend, Garth declares a one-man war on the Klan and hunts them down one-by-one.
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Nightmare Honeymoon
Title: Nightmare Honeymoon
Character: Pete Carroll aka Barnett
Released: September 20, 1974
Type: Movie
Sadistic low-budget thriller about newlyweds Dack Rambo and Rebecca Danna Smith who are pursued and terrorized by a pair of rural killer rapists.
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Title: Police Woman
Released: September 13, 1974
Type: TV
Sergeant “Pepper"” Anderson, an undercover cop for the Criminal Conspiracy Unit of the Los Angeles Police Department, poses undercover from mob girl to prostitute.
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Title: The Rockford Files
Character: Sherm
Released: September 13, 1974
Type: TV
Cranky but likable L.A. PI Jim Rockford pulls no punches (but takes plenty of them). An ex-con sent to the slammer for a crime he didn't commit, Rockford takes on cases others don't want, aided by his tough old man, his lawyer girlfriend and some shady associates from his past.
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Title: Paper Moon
Released: September 12, 1974
Type: TV
Paper Moon is a short-lived situation comedy which aired on ABC during the fall of 1974, starring Christopher Connelly and Jodie Foster in the roles of Moses Pray and his presumed daughter, Addie. The series is based on the 1973 Peter Bogdanovich film of the same name starring Ryan O'Neal and real-life daughter Tatum O'Neal, which was based on Joe David Brown's 1971 novel entitled Addie Pray.
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Title: Petrocelli
Character: Lieutenant Ponce
Released: September 11, 1974
Type: TV
Petrocelli is an American legal drama which ran for two seasons on NBC from September 11, 1974 to March 31, 1976. Tony Petrocelli is an Italian-American Harvard-educated lawyer who gave up the big money and frenetic pace of major-metropolitan life to practice in a sleepy city in the American Southwest. He and wife Maggie live in a trailer in the country while waiting for their new house to be built, and travel around in a beat-up old pickup truck. For a quiet rural area, Petrocelli seems to have no trouble running into his share of murderers to defend.
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The Gun and the Pulpit
Title: The Gun and the Pulpit
Character: Mr. Ross
Released: April 3, 1974
Type: Movie
In the days of the "Wild West," a gunslinger, with a price on his head, discovers the body of a traveling minister who has been killed in an ambush. Fearing those who are following him, he assumes the dead minister's identity.
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Billy Two Hats
Title: Billy Two Hats
Character: Copeland
Released: March 7, 1974
Type: Movie
After a bank robbery, runaway Scottish outlaw Arch Deans and his young half-breed Kiowa partner Billy Two Hats develop a father-son relationship, but Sheriff Henry Gifford is determined to capture or kill them.
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Blazing Saddles
Title: Blazing Saddles
Character: Olson Johnson
Released: February 7, 1974
Type: Movie
A town—where everyone seems to be named Johnson—stands in the way of the railroad. In order to grab their land, robber baron Hedley Lamarr sends his henchmen to make life in the town unbearable. After the sheriff is killed, the town demands a new sheriff from the Governor, so Hedley convinces him to send the town the first black sheriff in the west.
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Heatwave!
Title: Heatwave!
Character: Arnold Brady
Released: January 27, 1974
Type: Movie
A devastating heatwave hits the Los Angeles area and a young expecting couple try to evade it by escaping to a mountain resort town.
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McQ
Title: McQ
Character: Pinky
Released: January 4, 1974
Type: Movie
Police Lieutenant Lon McQ investigates the killing of his best friend and uncovers corrupt elements of the police department dealing in confiscated drugs.
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Title: Tenafly
Character: Lieutenant Sam Church
Released: October 10, 1973
Type: TV
Tenafly is a crime-drama series that was part of the NBC Mystery Movie wheel for the 1973-74 season. It was created by Richard Levinson and William Link, the creators of popular mystery television shows such as Columbo and Murder, She Wrote. It was the one of the first television series that season to star an African-American character as the main protagonist. Due to low ratings, Tenafly only lasted one season.
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Title: Hawkins
Character: Joseph Harrelson
Released: March 13, 1973
Type: TV
Hawkins is a television series which aired for one season on CBS between 1973 and 1974. The mystery, created by Robert Hamner and David Karp, starred James Stewart as rural-bred lawyer Billy Jim Hawkins, who investigated the cases he was involved in, similarly to Stewart's earlier smash hit movie Anatomy of a Murder. Despite being critically well received and winning a Golden Globe Award, the series was cancelled after one season consisting of seven 90-minute episodes. Stewart requested the cancellation since he believed that the quality of scripts and directors in television could not continuously measure up to the level to which he was accustomed with theatrical films. Seen as part of The New CBS Tuesday Night Movies, it alternated with the TV movie adaptations of Shaft. Contemporary analysts suggested that since the two shows appealed to vastly different audience bases, alternating them only served to confuse fans of both series, giving neither one the time to build up a large viewership.
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Brock's Last Case
Title: Brock's Last Case
Character: Jack Dawson
Released: March 5, 1973
Type: Movie
A New York City cop who has retired to a small Western town is drawn into the local case of an Indian who is accused of murdering a sheriff.
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Country Blue
Title: Country Blue
Character: Angus Wages
Released: January 1, 1973
Type: Movie
Bobby Lee (Jack Conrad) has just been released from jail and wants to make a better life for he and girlfriend Ruthie (Rita George).
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Title: Kung Fu
Released: October 14, 1972
Type: TV
The adventures of a Shaolin Monk as he wanders the American West armed only with his skill in Kung Fu.
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Bad Company
Title: Bad Company
Character: Big Joe
Released: October 8, 1972
Type: Movie
After Drew Dixon, an upright young man, is sent west by his religious family to avoid being drafted into the Civil War, he drifts across the land with a loose confederation of young vagrants.
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Title: The Waltons
Released: September 14, 1972
Type: TV
The Waltons live their life in a rural Virginia community during the Great Depression and World War II.
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Title: Temperatures Rising
Character: Charlie Brings
Released: September 12, 1972
Type: TV
Temperatures Rising is an American television sitcom that ran from September 12, 1972 to August 29, 1974 on the ABC network. The network had a good deal of faith in the low-rated series, which went through three cast changes, two different formats, and two time slots during its run.
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Title: The Rookies
Released: September 11, 1972
Type: TV
The Rookies is an American crime drama series that aired on ABC from 1972 until 1976. It follows the exploits of three rookie police officers working in an unidentified city for the fictitious Southern California Police Department.
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Title: Emergency!
Released: January 22, 1972
Type: TV
The crew of Los Angeles County Fire Department Station 51, particularly the paramedic team, and Rampart Hospital respond to emergencies in their operating area.
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Title: The Sixth Sense
Released: January 15, 1972
Type: TV
The Sixth Sense is an American paranormal thriller television
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Title: Sanford and Son
Released: January 14, 1972
Type: TV
The misadventures of a cantankerous junk dealer and his frustrated son.
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The Homecoming: A Christmas Story
Title: The Homecoming: A Christmas Story
Character: Sheriff Ep Bridges
Released: December 19, 1971
Type: Movie
It's Christmas Eve, early 1930s on Walton's Mountain. As the family prepares for the holiday, they anxiously await Pa's return home from his job in the city some 50 miles away. He is late, and Ma and the grandparents hear on the radio a report of a bus accident that worries them. Oldest son John-Boy must step up to help grandfather cut down a Christmas tree, and upon learning the concern about Daddy sets out to find him.
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Brian's Song
Title: Brian's Song
Character: Ed McCaskey
Released: November 30, 1971
Type: Movie
Based on the real-life relationship between teammates Brian Piccolo and Gale Sayers and the bond established when Piccolo discovers that he is dying.
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Something Big
Title: Something Big
Character: Malachi Morton
Released: November 19, 1971
Type: Movie
Joe Baker has a dream. He wants to do 'something big.' When he needs a Gatling gun to accomplish this, he seeks out a black marketeer. The price he wants for the gun? A woman! So Baker kidnaps a woman off of the stagecoach, only to find that she is the wife of the commandant of the local Cavalry detachment. Things get further complicated when a girl named Dover McBride shows up. She has come to force Baker to marry her and return east, as he promised to do four years earlier
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Suddenly Single
Title: Suddenly Single
Character: Bennie
Released: October 19, 1971
Type: Movie
A newly divorced man finds it difficult to get used to the single world.
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Title: McMillan and Wife
Released: September 29, 1971
Type: TV
McMillan & Wife is a lighthearted American police procedural that aired on NBC from September 17, 1971 to April 24, 1977. Starring Rock Hudson and Susan Saint James in the title roles, the series premiered in 90-minute episodes as part of the wheel series NBC Mystery Movie, in rotation with Columbo and McCloud. Initially airing on Wednesday night, the original line-up was shifted to Sundays in the second season, where it aired for the rest of its run. This was the first element to be created specially for the Mystery Movie strand.
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Title: The Partners
Released: September 18, 1971
Type: TV
The Partners is an American sitcom that aired on September 18, 1971 through September 8, 1972 on NBC.
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Title: Columbo
Character: Mayor
Released: September 15, 1971
Type: TV
Columbo is a friendly, verbose, disheveled-looking police detective who is consistently underestimated by his suspects. Despite his unprepossessing appearance and apparent absentmindedness, he shrewdly solves all of his cases and secures all evidence needed for indictment. His formidable eye for detail and meticulously dedicated approach often become clear to the killer only late in the storyline.
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Title: Cannon
Character: Jimmy Winters
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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Fools' Parade
Title: Fools' Parade
Character: Homer Grindstaff
Released: August 18, 1971
Type: Movie
When a trio of ex-convicts led by Mattie Appleyard is released from prison, they hope to open a general store using money Mattie has saved during his 40-year sentence. This attempt is met with great resistance from a corrupt prison official and the banker who issued Mattie the check.
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Sarge: The Badge or the Cross
Title: Sarge: The Badge or the Cross
Character: Tyler
Released: February 22, 1971
Type: Movie
After his wife is murdered, a veteran cop quits the police department and becomes a priest. Several years later he is assigned to a parish where he meets the man who killed his wife -- and discovers that the killer was gunning for him instead. The first of two feature-length pilots for the series "Sarge."
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Plimpton! Shoot-Out at Rio Lobo
Title: Plimpton! Shoot-Out at Rio Lobo
Character: Self
Released: December 9, 1970
Type: Movie
George Plimpton got a job playing one of the bad guys in the Howard Hawks-directed John Wayne Western "Rio Lobo." In this special we see him talking to Hawks about whether he'll be killed off or not, to Wayne about how to cultivate a special walk to make oneself a star in movies and to himself as he attempts to rehearse his tiny part and while doing so is caught in the frame of a setup for another scene and chastised by Wayne. Wayne calls Plimpton "Pimpleton" throughout this special.
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Norwood
Title: Norwood
Character: Uncle Lonnie
Released: November 24, 1970
Type: Movie
A Vietnam veteran returns to his Texas home but feels restless and decides to become a radio singer.
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Title: The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Character: Freddy
Released: September 19, 1970
Type: TV
30-year-old single Mary Richards moves to Minneapolis to start a new life after a romantic break-up. There she reacquaints with Phyllis who rents her a room, and meets her upstairs neighbor and new best friend Rhoda. Mary unexpectedly lands a job as associate producer at the TV station WJM, where she works alongside her bristly boss, Lou; the comical newswriter, Murray; and the newscast's often-incompetent anchor, Ted.
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Rio Lobo
Title: Rio Lobo
Character: Dr. Ivor Jones
Released: April 1, 1970
Type: Movie
After the Civil War, a former Union colonel searches for the two traitors whose perfidy led to the loss of a close friend.
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Title: Then Came Bronson
Released: September 17, 1969
Type: TV
Then Came Bronson is an American adventure/drama television series starring Michael Parks that aired on NBC from 1969 to 1970, and was produced by MGM Television. The series, created by Denne Bart Petitclerc, began with a movie pilot on Monday, March 24, 1969. The series was approved for one year and began its first run on September 17, 1969. The pilot was also released in Europe as a feature film.
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Title: Room 222
Released: September 11, 1969
Type: TV
Room 222 is an American comedy-drama television series produced by 20th Century Fox Television. The series aired on ABC for 112 episodes from September 17, 1969 until January 11, 1974. The show was broadcast on Wednesday evenings at 9:00 for its first two seasons before settling into its best-remembered time slot of Friday evenings at 9:00, following The Brady Bunch and The Partridge Family, and preceding The Odd Couple and Love, American Style. In 1970, Room 222 earned Emmy Awards in three categories: Outstanding New Series, Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series, and Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series.
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Slaves
Title: Slaves
Character: Holland
Released: July 2, 1969
Type: Movie
A Kentucky slave fights for his freedom from cruel overseer whose mistress eventually joins Davis and the other slaves in their revolt.
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Title: Adam-12
Character: Station Attendant
Released: September 21, 1968
Type: TV
Adam-12 is a television police drama that followed two police officers of the Los Angeles Police Department, Pete Malloy and Jim Reed, as they patrolled the streets of Los Angeles in their patrol unit, 1-Adam-12.
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Title: Hawaii Five-O
Character: Vincent Rhoads
Released: September 20, 1968
Type: TV
Hawaii Five-O is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and Leonard Freeman. Set in Hawaii, the show originally aired for 12 seasons from 1968 to 1980, and continues in reruns. Jack Lord portrayed Detective Lieutenant Steve McGarrett, the head of a special state police task force which was based on an actual unit that existed under martial law in the 1940s. The theme music composed by Morton Stevens became especially popular. Many episodes would end with McGarrett instructing his subordinate to "Book 'em, Danno!", sometimes specifying a charge such as "murder one".
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A Lovely Way to Die
Title: A Lovely Way to Die
Character: Man in Bar (uncredited)
Released: April 19, 1968
Type: Movie
A cop quits the force after too much disappointment in the system. He becomes a bodyguard of a rich recent widow. She is on trial for her husband's murder. He decides to help her clear her name... and get over her husband.
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Title: Ironside
Released: March 28, 1967
Type: TV
When an assassin's bullet confines him to a wheelchair for life ending his career as Chief of Detectives, Robert T. Ironside becomes a consultant to the police department. Detective Sergeant Ed Brown and policewoman Eve Whitfield join with him to crack varied and fascinating cases. Ex-con Mark Sanger is employed by the chief as home help but eventually becomes a fully fledged member of the team also. Officer Whitfield leaves after 4 years service, and is replaced by Officer Fran Belding.
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Title: Bewitched
Released: September 17, 1964
Type: TV
Samantha Stephens is a seemingly normal suburban housewife who also happens to be a genuine witch, with all the requisite magical powers. Her husband Darrin insists that Samantha keep her witchcraft under wraps, but situations invariably require her to indulge her powers while keeping her bothersome mother Endora at bay.
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Black Like Me
Title: Black Like Me
Released: January 1, 1964
Type: Movie
Black Like Me is the true account of John Griffin's experiences when he passed as a black man.
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All the Way Home
Title: All the Way Home
Character: Small Part (uncredited)
Released: October 17, 1963
Type: Movie
In the early 1900's Tennessee, a loving family undergoes the shock of the father's sudden, accidental death. The widow and her young son must endure the heartache of life following the tragedy, but slowly rise up from the ashes to face the hope of renewed life.
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Title: Bonanza
Character: Doc Scully
Released: September 12, 1959
Type: TV
The High-Sierra adventures of Ben Cartwright and his sons as they run and defend their ranch while helping the surrounding community.
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Title: Bonanza
Character: Myles Johnson
Released: September 12, 1959
Type: TV
The High-Sierra adventures of Ben Cartwright and his sons as they run and defend their ranch while helping the surrounding community.
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Title: Gunsmoke
Character: Arno
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: Gunsmoke
Character: Dad Goodpastor
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: Gunsmoke
Character: Asa
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: Gunsmoke
Character: Emmett Cassinger
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.