José Ferrer

José Ferrer

Born: January 8, 1912
Died: January 26, 1992
in Santurce, Puerto Rico
José Ferrer (January 8, 1912 – January 26, 1992), was a Puerto Rican actor and director. He was the first Hispanic actor to win an Academy Award.

Movies for José Ferrer...

3-D Rarities
Title: 3-D Rarities
Character: Alfred Davidson (archive footage)
Released: June 11, 2015
Type: Movie
Selections include Kelley's Plasticon Pictures, the earliest extant 3-D demonstration film from 1922 with incredible footage of Washington and New York City; New Dimensions, the first domestic full color 3-D film originally shown at the World’s Fair in 1940; Thrills for You, a promotional film for the Pennsylvania Railroad; Stardust in Your Eyes, a hilarious standup routine by Slick Slavin; trailer for The Maze, with fantastic production design by William Cameron Menzies; Doom Town, a controversial anti-atomic testing film mysteriously pulled from release; puppet cartoon The Adventures of Sam Space, presented in widescreen; I’ll Sell My Shirt, a burlesque comedy unseen in 3-D for over 60 years; Boo Moon, an excellent example of color stereoscopic animation…and more!
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Bogart: The Untold Story
Title: Bogart: The Untold Story
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 5, 1997
Type: Movie
Stephen H. Bogart narrates the rise to fame of his father, Humphrey Bogart through the use of film clips, written material and interviews of friends and co-workers.
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The Best Of Danny Kaye - The Television Years
Title: The Best Of Danny Kaye - The Television Years
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: July 1, 1993
Type: Movie
Legendary showman Danny Kaye's greatest moments have been handpicked by Kaye's daughter, Dena, in this lighthearted compilation. Highlights ranging from Kaye's many television and film appearances are featured in all of their old Hollywood splendor, among them including his performance as a painfully shy man with the duty of escorting Lucille Ball to a restaurant, duets with Louis Armstrong and Harry Belafonte, and the famous tongue-twisting segment from The Court Jester.
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Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
Title: Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
Character: Self
Released: October 28, 1991
Type: Movie
This documentary, hosted by actor Burgess Meredith, explores the life and career of movie director Otto Preminger, whose body of work includes such memorable films as Anatomy of a Murder, Exodus, Laura, Forever Amber, Advise and Consent, In Harm's Way, The Moon Is Blue, The Man with the Golden Arm, and many other movies made from the '30s through the '70s. Interviews with actors Frank Sinatra, Vincent Price, James Stewart, Michael Caine, and others who worked with the flamboyant and sometimes control-obsessed director add information and insight to the story.
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The Perfect Tribute
Title: The Perfect Tribute
Character: Edward Everett
Released: April 21, 1991
Type: Movie
A boy risks life and limb to travel across the war-torn southern states of America during the height of hostilities in the Civil War, hoping to visit his wounded brother in a field hospital on the other side of the country. His accidental meeting with Abraham Lincoln helps the disheartened president understand just how important the Gettysburg Address really is.
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Hired to Kill
Title: Hired to Kill
Character: Rallis
Released: November 10, 1990
Type: Movie
A fashion photographer and seven models travel to a South American island fortress, ostensibly to do a fashion shoot. In reality, the photographer is a mercenary and their job is to free an imprisoned rebel leader
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Old Explorers
Title: Old Explorers
Character: Warner Watney
Released: September 28, 1990
Type: Movie
Two elderly friends trade stories of adventure with each other.
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Mother's Day
Title: Mother's Day
Character: Judge Leatham
Released: May 13, 1989
Type: Movie
A young black man is arrested for a crime. Now the police and the D.A. are convinced that he is guilty, but his mother doesn't believe this and sets out to prove his innocence.
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Young Harry Houdini
Title: Young Harry Houdini
Character: Dr. Tybalt Grimaldi
Released: March 14, 1987
Type: Movie
This biographical movie depicts the youth of the magician Harry Houdini (1874 - 1926). As a boy his name was Eric Weiss and his father wanted him to become a locksmith. But he ran away and joined the traveling show of Dr. Grimaldi, where he learned the tricks of a magician and a little mystery from his Indian assistant, too.
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The Sun and the Moon
Title: The Sun and the Moon
Released: January 2, 1987
Type: Movie
Her deepening affair with a separatist spurs a wealthy Manhattanite to return to the Bronx, where she grew up, and reevaluate her Puerto Rican cultural roots.
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Title: Blood & Orchids
Character: Walter Bergman
Released: February 23, 1986
Type: TV
Blood & Orchids is a 1986 made-for-TV crime-drama film. Written for the screen by Norman Katkov, it was an adaptation of Katkov's own novel which, in turn, was inspired by the 1932 Massie Trial in Honolulu, Hawaii. It was typical of many crime dramas produced during the period.
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Blood & Orchids
Title: Blood & Orchids
Character: Walter Bergman
Released: February 23, 1986
Type: Movie
Hester Murdoch is found naked and nearly beaten to death by four young Hawaiian men on the beach and taken to the hospital. Some of the men didn't want to get involved, fearing they might be blamed, because she was white, but do so anyway. Almost immediately everyone suspects they are to blame. When Hester's politically influential mother Doris finds out what really happened, she fearing a scandal, forces her daughter to blame the men who rescued her, of raping and beating her. It's up to detective Curt Maddox, to find out what really happened, and their Hawaiian lawyer to do the impossible. Convince a white court of law, that they are innocent.
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Raíces eternas
Title: Raíces eternas
Character: English Narrator
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
A journey through the boundaries that form the picture of Puerto Rican cultural identity. It includes recreations of the 1918 earthquake, the Spanish conquest of the Taínos, among other milestones in the history of Puerto Rico.
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Covenant
Title: Covenant
Character: Victor Noble
Released: August 5, 1985
Type: Movie
A powerful family that controls the world's banks has made a deal with Satan to help the forces of evil take over the world. An underground group named The Judges bands together to try to stop them.
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Jacques Cousteau: The First 75 Years
Title: Jacques Cousteau: The First 75 Years
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: June 23, 1985
Type: Movie
Documentary about the life of explorer Jacques Cousteau.
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Seduced
Title: Seduced
Character: James Killian
Released: March 12, 1985
Type: Movie
Cybill Shephard stars as Vicky, a woman married to a rich old man, who has one foot in the grave. Gregory Harrison plays Mike Riordon a district attorney, who is young, handsome and living at home with his Irish mom for the most. Vicky's husband Arthur gets Mike involved in a merger of two companies...or something like that even though he knows that Mike and Vicky were a couple and that she had dumped him. Whilst Mike and Vicky are attending a party, Arthur is alone at home when a burglar appears out of nowhere and shoots him point blank.
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Hitler's SS : Portrait In Evil
Title: Hitler's SS : Portrait In Evil
Character: Prof. Ludwig Rosenberg
Released: February 17, 1985
Type: Movie
The two-part TV movie Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil crystallizes that evil by concentrating on two Berlin brothers. In 1931, Helmut Hoffman a brilliant student and self-styled opportunist, joins Hitler's SS. At the same time, his younger brother Karl, a top athlete and idealist, becomes a chauffeur for the "S.A.".
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Dune
Title: Dune
Character: Padisha Emperor Shaddam IV
Released: December 14, 1984
Type: Movie
In the year 10,191, the most precious substance in the universe is the spice Melange. The spice extends life. The spice expands consciousness. The spice is vital to space travel. The spice exists on only one planet in the entire universe, the vast desert planet Arrakis, also known as Dune. Its native inhabitants, the Fremen, have long held a prophecy that a man would come, a messiah who would lead them to true freedom.
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Title: Murder, She Wrote
Character: Cagliostro
Released: September 30, 1984
Type: TV
An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.
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Title: George Washington
Character: Governor Dinwiddie
Released: April 8, 1984
Type: TV
This 1984 miniseries chronicles the life of George Washington, the 1st President of the United States, from age 11 to age 51. Based on the biography by James Thomas Flexner.
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Samson and Delilah
Title: Samson and Delilah
Character: The High Priest
Released: March 31, 1984
Type: Movie
A tale of passion and betrayal in which Samson, a judge of Israel who fled with his tribe during the Great Exodus from Egypt, uses his herculean strength in the fight against the Philistine oppressors. He is seduced by Delilah, a Philistine courtesan, who uses her cunning to discover the secret of her lover's great power and then betrays him.
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The Evil That Men Do
Title: The Evil That Men Do
Character: Dr. Hector Lomelin
Released: March 14, 1984
Type: Movie
Professional killer Holland is forced out of retirement to break a Central American government's political torture ring when one of his friends, a Latin American journalist, is killed. The murderer, Doctor Clement Molloch, is the master sadist behind the political torture of innocent victims. Posing as a journalist, Holland lures Molloch out of his fortress-like headquarters by using his murdered friend's wife and daughter as bait. When Holland kidnaps Molloch's sister, the doctor is led on a wild chase that takes him to an abandoned opal mine where he finally comes face to face with Holland.
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To Be or Not to Be
Title: To Be or Not to Be
Character: Prof. Siletski
Released: December 16, 1983
Type: Movie
A bad Polish actor is just trying to make a living when Poland is invaded by the Germans in World War II. His wife has the habit of entertaining young Polish officers while he's on stage, which is also a source of depression to him. When one of her officers comes back on a Secret Mission, the actor takes charge and comes up with a plan for them to escape.
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The Wind in the Willows
Title: The Wind in the Willows
Character: Badger (voice)
Released: November 18, 1983
Type: Movie
The Irresponsible Toad is in a mess and needs help from his friends try and save Toad Hall.
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The Being
Title: The Being
Character: Mayor Gordon Lane
Released: November 18, 1983
Type: Movie
Toxic waste dumping in a small Idaho town turns a young boy into horrible mutant monster. The town's police chief and a government scientist team up to stop the monster, which is quickly killing off the town's citizenry.
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Blood Feud
Title: Blood Feud
Character: Edward Bennett Williams
Released: April 25, 1983
Type: Movie
Made for TV movie about Bobby Kennedy's campaign to bring Jimmy Hoffa to justice.
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The Horror of It All
Title: The Horror of It All
Character: Self / Narrator
Released: February 23, 1983
Type: Movie
A collection of film clips from horror movies and interviews with the actors and directors who made them.
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This Girl For Hire
Title: This Girl For Hire
Character: Harrison Wooly
Released: January 11, 1983
Type: Movie
In this pilot for a proposed TV series, B.T. Brady is a flippant, but somewhat klutzy female private detective in Hollywood who sets out to solve the murder of a obnoxious mystery writer. Along the way, Brady gets help from her flamboyant mother Zandra, a washed-up actress, as well as Brady's live-in boyfriend Wolfe who runs a memorabilia shop.
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Title: Newhart
Character: Arthur Vanderkellen
Released: October 2, 1982
Type: TV
Dick Loudon and his wife Joanna decide to leave life in New York City and buy a little inn in Vermont. Dick is a how-to book writer, who eventually becomes a local TV celebrity as host of "Vermont Today." George Utley is the handyman at the inn and Leslie Vanderkellen is the maid, with ambitions of being an Olympic Ski champion; she is later replaced by her cousin Stephanie, an heiress who hates her job. Her boyfriend is Dick's yuppie TV producer, Michael Harris. There are many other quirky characters in this fictional little town, including Dick's neighbors Larry, Darryl, and Darryl...three brothers who buy the Minuteman Cafe from Kirk Devane. Besides sharing a name, Darryl and Darryl never speak.
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Blood Tide
Title: Blood Tide
Character: Nereus
Released: September 24, 1982
Type: Movie
An adventurer hunting for treasure in Greece accidentally frees a monster that forces local villagers to sacrifice virgins.
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A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy
Title: A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy
Character: Leopold
Released: July 16, 1982
Type: Movie
A nutty inventor, his frustrated wife, a philosopher cousin, his much younger fiancée, a randy doctor, and a free-thinking nurse spend a summer weekend in and around a stunning - and possibly magical - country house.
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And They're Off
Title: And They're Off
Character: Martin Craig
Released: June 13, 1982
Type: Movie
A tender love story with Kentucky's thrilling thoroughbred racing world as the stage.
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Night of 100 Stars
Title: Night of 100 Stars
Character: Self
Released: March 8, 1982
Type: Movie
The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place Friday February 19, 1982 at New York's Radio City Music Hall. The event, for which ticket-buyers paid up to $1,000 a seat (tax-deductible as a contribution to the Actors' Fund) was billed as "The Night of 100 Stars" but, actually, around 230 stars took part. And most of the audience of 5,800 had no idea in advance that they were paying to see a TV taping, complete with long waits for set and costume changes, tape rewinding, and the like. Executive producer Alexander Cohen estimated that the 5,800 Radio City Music Hall seats sold out at prices ranging from $25 to $1,000. The show itself cost about $4 million to produce and was expected to yield around $2 million for the new addition to the Actors Fund retirement home in Englewood, N. J. ABC is reputed to have paid more than $5 million for the television rights.
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Bloody Birthday
Title: Bloody Birthday
Character: Doctor
Released: April 28, 1981
Type: Movie
In 1970, three children are born at the height of a total eclipse. Due to the sun and moon blocking Saturn, which controls emotions, they have become heartless killers ten years later, and are able to escape detection because of their youthful and innocent facades. A boy and his teenage sister become endangered when they stumble onto the bloody truth.
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Title: Peter and Paul
Character: Gamaliel
Released: April 12, 1981
Type: TV
Peter and Paul assume leadership of the Church as they struggle against violent opposition to the teachings of Christ and their own personal conflicts.
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Berlin Tunnel 21
Title: Berlin Tunnel 21
Character: Martin Komansky
Released: March 25, 1981
Type: Movie
In Berlin in 1961, an American soldier and a German engineer join forces to build a tunnel under the Berlin Wall in order to smuggle out refugees, including the soldier's East German girlfriend.
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Evita Peron
Title: Evita Peron
Character: Agustin Magaldi
Released: February 23, 1981
Type: Movie
Aspiring actress Eva Duarte rises from a minor celebrity to the wife of a powerful Argentine dictator, but her all consuming fiery rage, ambition, and hatred eventually become her downfall.
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Pleasure Palace
Title: Pleasure Palace
Character: 'Pokey'
Released: October 22, 1980
Type: Movie
Story of a professional gambler, connoisseur, gourmet and sportsman who sets out to help a Las Vegas hotel-casino owner from losing his controlling interest to a business syndicate but finds his reputation is on the line when he runs into a mystery lady who seems to operate on both sides of the law.
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The Big Brawl
Title: The Big Brawl
Character: Dominici
Released: August 18, 1980
Type: Movie
A young Asian American martial artist is forced to participate in a brutal formal street-fight competition.
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Title: The Dream Merchants
Character: George Pappas
Released: May 12, 1980
Type: TV
This star-laden adaptation of Harold Robbins' best-selling 1949 novel about the birth of the movies features Mark Harmon as a drifter who comes under the wing of visionary nickelodeon operator Vincent Gardenia and goes on to become a pioneer in the incipient film business, facing the good times and the bad over a 20-year period.
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Gideon's Trumpet
Title: Gideon's Trumpet
Character: Abe Fortas
Released: April 30, 1980
Type: Movie
True story of Clarence Gideon's fight to be appointed counsel at the expense of the state. This landmark case led to the Supreme Court's decision which extended this right to all criminal defendants.
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The Murder That Wouldn't Die
Title: The Murder That Wouldn't Die
Character: Jeff Briggs
Released: March 9, 1980
Type: Movie
William Conrad stars as a retired L.A.P.D. detective who has moved to Hawaii and taken a job as a college security chief and assistant football coach in this pilot to a post-"Cannon" series to have been called "Battles." With the aid of his niece, the school's star football player, a local tough-turned-college student, and the college dean, he investigates two related murders that occurred nearly 40 years apart.
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Title: The French Atlantic Affair
Character: Pres. Aristide Brouchard
Released: November 15, 1979
Type: TV
When the SS Festivale sets sail from New York to France, its 3,000 passengers include Pulitzer Prize-winning author Harold Columbine and 146 members of the Church of the Cosmic Path, led by Father Craig Dunleavy, their charismatic messiah. Seizing control of the ship, Dunleavy demands $70 million in gold, intending to kill everyone onboard once it's paid. Without knowing which passengers are cultists and warned that 12 will die for every hijacker harmed, Columbine and the captain search for a way to save 3,000 lives before Dunleavy makes good on his threat. Based on a novel by screenwriter Ernest Lehman, this mini-series was broadcast over three nights in November 1979.
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Natural Enemies
Title: Natural Enemies
Character: Harry Rosenthal
Released: November 1, 1979
Type: Movie
Paul Steward, editor of a scientific journal, is a failed husband, a failed father, he considers his entire life a failure. His decision is made, there's only one escape: to kill his family and himself.
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The Fifth Musketeer
Title: The Fifth Musketeer
Character: Athos
Released: April 6, 1979
Type: Movie
King Louis XIV has without his knowledge a twin brother, Philippe, but when he is told, he immediately locks up his brother in the Bastille. The king wants to increase his popularity and stages an assassination against himself where Philippe is dressed as king Louis. But Philippe manages to escape the assassination and everybody believes him to be the real king...
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Title: Tales of the Unexpected
Character: Carlos
Released: March 24, 1979
Type: TV
A British television anthology of stories, often with sinister and wryly comedic undertones, and a twist at the end. With early episodes written and presented by Roald Dahl, the series featured a plethora of big name guest stars.
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UFOs: It Has Begun
Title: UFOs: It Has Begun
Released: January 1, 1979
Type: Movie
A documentary exploring the existence of UFOs and extra-terrestrial beings. Hosted by the LEGENDARY Rod Serling. This was considered his "coming out the closet" in regards to his deep belief in UFOs just before his death from cancer.
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Life of Sin
Title: Life of Sin
Released: January 1, 1979
Type: Movie
The film dramatizes the life of Isabel "la Negra" Luberza Oppenheimer. Pablo, a Caribbean peasant, and Isabel, a politician's mistress, open a brothel that becomes internationally famous. Though they gain wealth and power, the one thing that Isabel seeks continues to elude her.
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The Swarm
Title: The Swarm
Character: Dr. Andrews
Released: July 14, 1978
Type: Movie
Scientist Dr. Bradford Crane and army general Thalius Slater join forces to fight an almost invisible enemy threatening America; killer bees that have deadly venom and attack without reason. Disaster movie-master Irwin Allen's film contains spectacular special effects, including a train crash caused by the eponymous swarm.
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Fedora
Title: Fedora
Character: Doctor Vando
Released: June 29, 1978
Type: Movie
An ambitious Hollywood hustler becomes involved with a reclusive female star, whom he tries to lure out of retirement.
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The Amazing Captain Nemo
Title: The Amazing Captain Nemo
Character: Captain Nemo
Released: May 12, 1978
Type: Movie
Captain Nemo (José Ferrer) is found in suspended animation under the sea and revived by modern-day Navy men in order to battle a fiendish mad scientist (Burgess Meredith).
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Fame
Title: Fame
Character: Francesco
Released: January 2, 1978
Type: Movie
A waiter becomes a sudden overnight success as a playwright, and then begins negotiations with an Italian movie director to turn his play into a film. The results are unexpected.
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Simple Gifts
Title: Simple Gifts
Character: Narrator (segment "A Memory of Christmas") (voice)
Released: December 3, 1977
Type: Movie
A collection of animated Christmas shorts: An original Maurice Sendak piece about a boy with nothing to give for Christmas -- An excerpt from the early part of Virginia Woolf's "Orlando" set in a time of extreme cold in Tudor England -- A short based on the Toonerville Trolley -- A bittersweet excerpt from Moss Hart's autobiography "Act One" narrated by Jose Ferrer -- A reading from the Christmas day entry from the diary of 11-year-old Teddy Roosevelt -- A reading of a letter by Captain Edward James Hulse describing the surprising Christmas Truce of 1914 -- An animated version by R.O. Blechman of his own book "Tutto Esaurito" (No Vacancy) about the travels of Mary and Joseph.
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The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover
Title: The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover
Character: Lionel McCoy
Released: December 1, 1977
Type: Movie
The files that escaped the shredder have become an incredible motion picture. From the Kennedys to Martin Luther King. From cab drivers to Congressmen. From housewives to hostesses. He had something on 58 million people. It was all in his files. Now you can see how he used it.
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Title: The Love Boat
Character: Deke Donner
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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Exo-Man
Title: Exo-Man
Character: Kermit Haas
Released: June 18, 1977
Type: Movie
A professor, who has been paralyzed in an attack by mob hitmen, builds a suit that enables him to walk and fight crime.
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Dracula's Dog
Title: Dracula's Dog
Character: Inspector Branco
Released: May 8, 1977
Type: Movie
A Romanian vampire-hunter tracks Dracula's servant to Los Angeles, home of the last of his line.
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Who Has Seen the Wind
Title: Who Has Seen the Wind
Character: The Ben
Released: April 20, 1977
Type: Movie
The coming-of-age of adolescent Brian O'Connal in small town Depression-era Saskatchewan is told. The son of the local pharmacist Gerald O'Connal, Brian is in many ways a typical boy, who dislikes school if only because of his run-ins with the nervous schoolteacher, Miss MacDonald, and who tries to catch gophers with his friends, Artie and Forbsie. His best friend and protector is slightly older Jonathan Ben, better known as The Young Ben (as his father is referred to as The Ben), who is highly regarded as a problem by those in town who see themselves as the moral authority if only because of The Young Ben's association to The Ben, the town still keeper and drunk. Brian's life takes a turn when his parents have to leave town temporarily, while Brian stays on his Uncle Sean's farm. That stint leads to a series of events which make Brian see life around him through slightly older and wiser eyes.
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Title: The Rhinemann Exchange
Character: Erich Rhinemann
Released: March 10, 1977
Type: TV
During World War II, an intelligence officer is dispatched by the U.S. government to arrange an exchange in Argentina of industrial diamonds needed by the Germans for a secret gyroscope needed by the Allies.
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The Sentinel
Title: The Sentinel
Character: Priest of the Brotherhood
Released: January 7, 1977
Type: Movie
When a beautiful model, Alison Parker, rents an apartment in a gloomy New York brownstone, little does she realize that an unspeakable horror awaits her behind its doors... a mysterious gateway to hell.
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Crash!
Title: Crash!
Character: Marc Denne
Released: December 24, 1976
Type: Movie
Jealous invalid husband tries to kill sexy blond wife, who uses occult powers and devices to try to kill him.
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Voyage of the Damned
Title: Voyage of the Damned
Character: Manuel Benitez
Released: December 22, 1976
Type: Movie
A luxury liner carries Jewish refugees from Hitler's Germany in a desperate fight for survival.
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The Big Bus
Title: The Big Bus
Character: Ironman
Released: June 23, 1976
Type: Movie
The ultimate disaster film parody. A nuclear-powered bus is making its maiden non-stop trip from New York to Denver. The journey is plagued by disasters due to the machinations of a mysterious group allied with the oil lobby. Will the down-on-his-luck driver, with a reputation for eating his passengers, be able to complete the journey?
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Paco
Title: Paco
Character: Fermin Flores
Released: June 4, 1976
Type: Movie
Paco is an orphaned Colombian boy who leaves the family farm to search for his uncle in the big big city. When he gets to the city, he discovers his uncle is running a gang of young jewel thieves.
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The Art of Crime
Title: The Art of Crime
Character: Beckwith Sloan
Released: December 3, 1975
Type: Movie
A Romani antique dealer, who is also a private detective, gets involved in a murder case when one of his colleagues is accused of committing the murder.
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Rickles
Title: Rickles
Released: November 19, 1975
Type: Movie
Various comedy sketches with the Master of Insults, Don Rickles.
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Medical Story
Title: Medical Story
Character: Dr. William Knowland
Released: September 4, 1975
Type: Movie
A young intern goes up against three older surgeons as to whether or not a young actress should get a hysterectomy.
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Order to Kill
Title: Order to Kill
Character: Inspector Reed
Released: April 22, 1975
Type: Movie
An action drama about an assassin who is ordered to kill an old friend and the repercussions when he refuses. At the same time, although it has nothing to do with the plot, there seems to be a relentless undercurrent of sadism and masochism with a homosexual aura.
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Forever Young, Forever Free
Title: Forever Young, Forever Free
Character: Father Alberto
Released: March 24, 1975
Type: Movie
"e’Lollipop" is the extraordinary story of two inseparable South African children, Tsepo and his orphaned friend Jannie. Jannie is sent to a missionary station in Tsepo’s village where they become best friends as Jannie finds his place in his new home. Life is full of childhood fun and antics until tragedy strikes: Jannie, now 10 years old, is seriously injured. In the face of much adversity, Tsepo and his community pull together so that Jannie can get specialised medical treatment. A daunting challenge lies ahead... At what cost will Jannie survive? Tsepo and Jannie’s inspirational story unfolds against the breathtaking backdrops of a dramatic African landscape and New York City in the mid-1970s. "e’Lollipop" is a life-changing story that reminds us of the true value of friendship, community, sacrifice and family - despite our color or creed.
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The Missing Are Deadly
Title: The Missing Are Deadly
Released: January 8, 1975
Type: Movie
An emotionally disturbed teenager whose father is a research scientist takes a rat from his father's laboratory that is infected with an incurable virus that can kill 100 million people in three weeks.
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Cyrano
Title: Cyrano
Character: Cyrano de Bergerac (voice)
Released: March 6, 1974
Type: Movie
Long-nosed Cyrano de Begerac helps an army officer woo Roxanne, the woman he loves in this animated version of Edmond Rostand's play.
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Title: Kojak
Character: Jake Weinhaus
Released: October 24, 1973
Type: TV
A bald, lollipop sucking police detective with a fiery righteous attitude battles crime in New York City.
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The Marcus-Nelson Murders
Title: The Marcus-Nelson Murders
Character: Jake Weinhaus
Released: March 8, 1973
Type: Movie
A homicide detective begins to suspect that the black teenager accused of murdering two white girls is being framed by his fellow detectives.
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Crosscurrent
Title: Crosscurrent
Character: Dr. Charles Bedford
Released: November 19, 1971
Type: Movie
Two San Francisco detectives investigating a murder committed on one of the city's famous cable cars discover that the victim was the son of a shipping tycoon. The trail leads to a drug dealer, a shady physician and a nervous police captain
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Title: Columbo
Character: Marshall Cahill
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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Gideon
Title: Gideon
Character: Angel of the Lord
Released: March 25, 1971
Type: Movie
The Angel of God and an ordinary shepherd named Gideon debate obedience versus disobedience to God.
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Banyon
Title: Banyon
Character: Lee Jennings
Released: March 15, 1971
Type: Movie
Miles C. Banyon is a private investigator in 1930s Los Angeles. In this TV movie—which served as the pilot episode for the short-lived TV show—Banyon's new client, a young woman, is found dead in his office...shot with his own gun.
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The Aquarians
Title: The Aquarians
Character: Dr. Alfred Vreeland
Released: October 24, 1970
Type: Movie
A scientist and his team of underwater explorers search for the culprit who has stolen the world's supply of nerve gas and hidden it somewhere in the ocean.
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The Little Drummer Boy
Title: The Little Drummer Boy
Character: Ben Haramed (voice)
Released: December 19, 1968
Type: Movie
After being kidnapped and escaping, young drummer boy Aaron searches for his camel and finds him in the Nativity of the Baby Jesus. Aaron gives Baby Jesus the only gift he has, a song on his drum.
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Cervantes
Title: Cervantes
Character: Hassan Bey
Released: November 2, 1967
Type: Movie
This epic Spanish biopic chronicles the life of Cervantes, Spain's great novelist, playwright and poet, during the 16th-century, when as a young man he goes to Italy to become a soldier for the Pope. Later he helps the Pope's emissary wage war against the Spanish Moors. His exploits win him great favor. He falls in love with a famous Italian courtesan and she with him. Unfortunately, the Pope splits them apart with his newest decree which demands that all prostitutes leave the city. Upset, Cervantes goes to fight in the famed sea battle of Lepanto and comes back a hero. Later he is captured by Barbary pirates and ransomed by Trinitarian friars.
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Kismet
Title: Kismet
Character: Hajj
Released: October 24, 1967
Type: Movie
The story follows one fateful day as a beggar-poet and his daughter cross paths with a wicked wazir, a wily temptress, a handsome prince, a magical curse, opulent sets and exotic adventure. Adapted from the Broadway musical.
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Enter Laughing
Title: Enter Laughing
Character: Harrison B. Marlowe
Released: February 25, 1967
Type: Movie
A machinist's apprentice in Depression-era New York, David dreams of becoming the new Ronald Colman. Defying the wishes of his parents, David lands a nonpaying job in a seedy theatrical production directed by broken-down ham Marlowe.
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Ship of Fools
Title: Ship of Fools
Character: Rieber
Released: July 29, 1965
Type: Movie
Passengers on a ship traveling from Mexico to Europe in the 1930s represent society at large in that era. The crew is German, including the ship's Dr. Schumann, who falls in love with one of the passengers, La Condesa. A young American woman, Jenny, is traveling with the man she loves, David. Jenny is fascinated and puzzled by just who some of the other passengers are.
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The Greatest Story Ever Told
Title: The Greatest Story Ever Told
Character: Herod Antipas
Released: April 9, 1965
Type: Movie
From his birth in Bethlehem to his death and eventual resurrection, the life of Jesus Christ is given the all-star treatment in this epic retelling. Major aspects of Christ's life are touched upon, including the execution of all the newborn males in Egypt by King Herod; Christ's baptism by John the Baptist; and the betrayal by Judas after the Last Supper that eventually leads to Christ's crucifixion and miraculous return.
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Cyrano and d'Artagnan
Title: Cyrano and d'Artagnan
Character: Cyrano de Bergerac
Released: October 22, 1964
Type: Movie
Duelist and poet Cyrano de Bergerac and musketeer d'Artagnan meet and team up to stop the conspiracy against King Louis XIII of France.
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Title: The Danny Kaye Show
Character: Self
Released: September 25, 1963
Type: TV
The Danny Kaye Show is an American variety show hosted by Danny Kaye that aired on CBS from 1963 to 1967 on Wednesday nights. Directed by Robert Scheerer, the show premiered in black-and-white, but later switched to color broadcasts. At the time, Kaye was at the height of his popularity, having starred in a string of successful films in the 1940s and '50's, made successful personal appearances at such venues as the London Palladium, and appeared many times on television. His most recent films had been considered disappointing, but the television specials he starred in were triumphant, leading to this series. Prior to his television and film career, Kaye had made a name for himself with his own radio show, and numerous other guest appearances on other shows.
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Stop Train 349
Title: Stop Train 349
Character: Cowan the Reporter
Released: June 26, 1963
Type: Movie
Cold War drama about an East German man trying to escape to the West via a U.S. military train passing through the Soviet Occupation Zone of Germany.
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Nine Hours to Rama
Title: Nine Hours to Rama
Character: Superintendent Das
Released: April 30, 1963
Type: Movie
José Ferrer and Horst Buchholz star in this fictionalised account of events leading up to the assassination of Indian spiritual leader and independence campaigner Mahatma Gandhi.
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Lawrence of Arabia
Title: Lawrence of Arabia
Character: Turkish Bey
Released: December 11, 1962
Type: Movie
The story of British officer T.E. Lawrence's mission to aid the Arab tribes in their revolt against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. Lawrence becomes a flamboyant, messianic figure in the cause of Arab unity but his psychological instability threatens to undermine his achievements.
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The High Cost of Loving
Title: The High Cost of Loving
Character: Jim Fry
Released: May 16, 1958
Type: Movie
Middle-aged middle-manager Jim Fry, with the same company for fifteen years, is in a comfortable rut. But life becomes less predictable when he doesn't receive an invitation to an important luncheon being held by the new company president. Convinced that he's about to lose his job, Jim begins to mull over his limited prospects when his wife confirms that she's pregnant.
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I Accuse!
Title: I Accuse!
Character: Captain Alfred Dreyfus
Released: March 5, 1958
Type: Movie
Alfred Dreyfus, a German-Jewish captain serving in the French Army, is falsely accused of treason and made a scapegoat for military espionage in an act of institutional anti-Semitism. Sent to prison, he becomes a cause célèbre for the novelist Émile Zola, who dubs it the "Dreyfus Affair." Eventually, Dreyfus is pardoned when the military cover-up is made public, and he returns to France. But his name is forever tarnished by the accusations of treason.
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Title: The Lux Show
Character: Self
Released: September 26, 1957
Type: TV
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Four Girls in Town
Title: Four Girls in Town
Character: Director
Released: January 16, 1957
Type: Movie
Four young starlets, from various parts of the world, are called to Hollywood to test for the lead in a major film. Each is romantically pursued by the director, composer, playboy, and actor. Which one of an international quartette of beauties will replace Universal's glamour star in an upcoming Biblical epic?
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The Great Man
Title: The Great Man
Character: Joe Harris
Released: December 1, 1956
Type: Movie
Joe Harris, preparing a eulogy for popular radio commentator Herb Fuller, finds that nobody has a good word to say about him.
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Title: The Rosemary Clooney Show
Character: Self
Released: May 22, 1956
Type: TV
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The Cockleshell Heroes
Title: The Cockleshell Heroes
Character: Major Stringer
Released: November 16, 1955
Type: Movie
During WW2, German ships are "safely" docked upriver at Bordeaux, but the British send a team of kayakers to attack them.
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The Shrike
Title: The Shrike
Character: Jim Downs
Released: June 16, 1955
Type: Movie
Film version of Joseph Kramm's Pulitzer Prize play, about a Broadway playwright driven to a nervous breakdown by his shrewish wife.
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Deep in My Heart
Title: Deep in My Heart
Character: Sigmund Romberg
Released: December 9, 1954
Type: Movie
Biographic movie about the American composer Sigmund Romberg.
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Title: Producers' Showcase
Released: October 18, 1954
Type: TV
Producers' Showcase is an American anthology television series that was telecast live during the 1950s in compatible color by NBC. With top talent, the 90-minute episodes, covering a wide variety of genres, aired under the title every fourth Monday at 8 p.m. ET for three seasons, beginning October 18, 1954. The final episode, the last of 37, was broadcast May 27, 1957. Showcase Productions, Inc., packaged and produced the series, which received seven Emmy Awards, including the 1956 award for Best Dramatic Series.
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The Caine Mutiny
Title: The Caine Mutiny
Character: Lt. Barney Greenwald
Released: June 24, 1954
Type: Movie
When a US Naval captain shows signs of mental instability that jeopardize his ship, the first officer relieves him of command and faces court martial for mutiny.
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Miss Sadie Thompson
Title: Miss Sadie Thompson
Character: Alfred Davidson
Released: December 23, 1953
Type: Movie
Sadie Thompson winds up stranded on an island and while her boat is being quarantined, she manages to stir up the blood of every marine on the base.
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Moulin Rouge
Title: Moulin Rouge
Character: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Released: December 23, 1952
Type: Movie
Born into aristocracy, Toulouse-Lautrec moves to Paris to pursue his art as he hangs out at the Moulin Rouge where he feels like he fits in being a misfit among other misfits. Yet, because of the deformity of his legs from an accident, he believes he is never destined to experience the true love of a woman. But that lack of love in his life may change as he meets two women
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Anything Can Happen
Title: Anything Can Happen
Character: Giorgi Papashvily
Released: April 3, 1952
Type: Movie
A quirky relationship unfolds between an immigrant and an all-American folk music fan.
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Cyrano de Bergerac
Title: Cyrano de Bergerac
Character: Cyrano de Bergerac
Released: November 16, 1950
Type: Movie
France, 1640. Cyrano, the charismatic swordsman-poet with the absurd nose, hopelessly loves the beauteous Roxane; she, in turn, confesses to Cyrano her love for the handsome but tongue-tied Christian. The chivalrous Cyrano sets up with Christian an innocent deception, with tragic results.
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Crisis
Title: Crisis
Character: Raoul Farrago
Released: July 7, 1950
Type: Movie
An American doctor gets caught in the middle of a revolution when he's forced to operate on a South American dictator.
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The Secret Fury
Title: The Secret Fury
Character: José (uncredited)
Released: February 21, 1950
Type: Movie
The wedding of Ellen and David is halted by a stranger who insists that the bride is already married to someone else. Though the flabbergasted Ellen denies the charge, the interloper produces enough evidence that his accusation must be investigated. Ellen and David travel to the small coastal town where her first wedding allegedly occurred. There, they meet a number of individuals whose stories make Ellen question her own sanity.
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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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Whirlpool
Title: Whirlpool
Character: David Korvo
Released: January 13, 1950
Type: Movie
The wife of a psychoanalyst falls prey to a devious quack hypnotist when he discovers she is an habitual shoplifter. Then one of his previous patients now being treated by the real doctor is found murdered, with her still at the scene, and suspicion points only one way.
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Joan of Arc
Title: Joan of Arc
Character: The Dauphin, Charles VII, later King of France
Released: December 22, 1948
Type: Movie
In the 15th Century, France is a defeated and ruined nation after the One Hundred Years War against England. The fourteen-year-old farm girl Joan of Arc claims to hear voices from Heaven asking her to lead God's Army against Orleans and crowning the weak Dauphin Charles VII as King of France. Joan gathers the people with her faith, forms an army, and conquers Orleans.
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Title: The Ed Sullivan Show
Character: Self (archive footage)
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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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.