Bill Coontz

Bill Coontz

Born: August 28, 1917
Died: April 7, 1978
in Johnson, Iowa, USA

Movies for Bill Coontz...

Convoy
Title: Convoy
Character: Old Iguana
Released: June 27, 1978
Type: Movie
Trucker Rubber Duck and his buddies Pig Pen, Widow Woman and Spider Mike use their CB radios to warn one another of the presence of cops. But conniving Sheriff Wallace is hip to the truckers' tactics, and begins tricking the drivers through his own CB broadcasts. Facing constant harassment from the law, Rubber Duck and his pals use their radios to coordinate a vast convoy and rule the road.
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Kingdom of the Spiders
Title: Kingdom of the Spiders
Character: Clyde
Released: August 24, 1977
Type: Movie
Investigating the mysterious deaths of a number of farm animals, vet Rack Hansen discovers that his town lies in the path of hordes of migrating tarantulas. Before he can take action, the streets are overrun by killer spiders, trapping a small group of townsfolk in a remote hotel.
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Smoke In The Wind
Title: Smoke In The Wind
Character: Stapp Huckaby (as Bill Foster)
Released: April 1, 1975
Type: Movie
The Civil War is over but in the Ozarks of Arkansas people are not ready to forgive and forget. The Mondier brothers have returned from fighting for the Union and Mort Fagan is keeping things difficult for them in the community.
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Guns of a Stranger
Title: Guns of a Stranger
Character: Ace Gorenum
Released: May 1, 1973
Type: Movie
Forced to kill a young Abilene gunman in the line of duty, Sheriff Matthew Roberts, torn by anguish takes off his badge and leaves Kansas. Roberts becomes known as 'The Drifter', wandering restlessly through the west. In Arizona, he aids elderly rancher, Tom Duncan, Tom's granddaughter, Virginia and kid-brother Danny (Steven Tackett) in their fight to save their small ranch from a crooked banker and his gang of outlaws.
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Big Daddy
Title: Big Daddy
Released: June 11, 1969
Type: Movie
A visitor to the Everglades swamps in Florida encounters and falls in love with an uneducated girl. But he finds competition for her affections from the unlikely and mysterious A. Beauregard Lincoln. He also discovers danger from nature in the form of vicious alligators and from the mystical in the form of a voodoo witch doctor.
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Heaven with a Gun
Title: Heaven with a Gun
Character: Townsman (uncredited)
Released: May 20, 1969
Type: Movie
Jim Killian arrives in a small Arizona town hoping to establish a peaceful life as the local preacher, but he soon finds himself in the middle of a feud between sheep ranchers and cattlemen. Leloopa, a young Native American woman, pleads for Killian's help after her shepherd father is hung by Coke Beck, the vicious son of the head cattle rancher. Killian must weigh his actions carefully lest he perpetuate the cycle of retribution and revenge.
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The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band
Title: The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band
Character: Townsman (uncredited)
Released: April 19, 1968
Type: Movie
The Bower Family Band petitions the Democratic National Committee to sing a Grover Cleveland rally song at the 1888 convention, but decide instead to move to the Dakota territory on the urging of a suitor to their eldest daughter. There, Grampa Bower causes trouble with his pro-Cleveland ideas, as Dakota residents are overwhelmingly Republican, and hope to get the territory admitted as two states (North and South Dakota) rather than one in order to send four Republican senators to Washington. Cleveland opposed this plan, refusing to refer to Congress the plan to organize the Dakotas this way. When Cleveland wins the popular vote, but Harrison the presidency due to the electoral college votes, the Dakotans (particularly the feuding young couple) resolve to live together in peace, and Cleveland grants statehood to the two Dakotas before he leaves office (along with two Democrat-voting states, evening the gains for both parties).
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The Solid Gold Girl
Title: The Solid Gold Girl
Character: Barfly
Released: February 14, 1964
Type: Movie
While searching for the man who framed him for a crime he didn't commit, Harrison Destry (John Gavin) stumbles into a town where an old cell mate of his is being tried for robbery and murder. The outlaw has hidden the loot and offers to reveal the location to Destry, but instead provides the location to Patience Dailey, a gold digging saloon singer played by Tammy Grimes.
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Stakeout!
Title: Stakeout!
Character: Benny (as William Foster)
Released: October 1, 1962
Type: Movie
After serving three years in prison for a bank robbery, Joe Dasco is released and reunited with his son. Together they both go looking for work in the Texas oil fields. Not being able to hold a steady honest job, Joe Dasco along with a few men that he befriends along the way attempt to kidnap an oil baron's son. The kidnapping fails and Joe Dasco is shot and killed. His son Joey is then left alone but inherits what his father fought and died for.
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Shootout at Big Sag
Title: Shootout at Big Sag
Character: Beale Hawker
Released: May 31, 1962
Type: Movie
A man has his eyes set on controlling the Big Sag territory in Montana and hopes to achieve his goal by forcing a newly-arrived family from Texas from their land. Hoping to convince the local saloonkeeper to help him, the man sends his daughter into town with instructions for his potential partner. A storm waylays the daughter during her trip to town and she is forced to stay at the home of her father's intended victims, leading to an interesting turn or two.
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Bloodlust!
Title: Bloodlust!
Character: Insane Man
Released: September 13, 1961
Type: Movie
Two couples are on a boating trip when they come across an uncharted island. The four investigate and find themselves in the clutches of Dr. Albert Balleau, whose hobby is hunting both animals and humans… The group tries to escape only to be thwarted by Dr. Balleau and his henchmen.
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The Girl in Lovers Lane
Title: The Girl in Lovers Lane
Character: Bill Coontz
Released: June 16, 1960
Type: Movie
Two drifters contend with love and murder in a small town.
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Noose for a Gunman
Title: Noose for a Gunman
Character: Torchy (uncredited)
Released: May 1, 1960
Type: Movie
Case Britton, gunslinger and wanted man, comes to town to meet his bride-to-be, stop a stagecoach robbery, and get even with the man who killed his brother.
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Lone Texan
Title: Lone Texan
Character: Indian (uncredited)
Released: March 1, 1959
Type: Movie
After the Civil War, a Texan who served in the Union army comes back home to find himself ostracized by his neighbors for having fought against the Confederacy. On top of that, he finds that his younger brother is now the sheriff, and is ruling the town with an iron hand.
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Plunderers of Painted Flats
Title: Plunderers of Painted Flats
Character: Bill (as William Foster)
Released: January 23, 1959
Type: Movie
To scare the squatters from the cattle country he claims as his own, rancher Ed Sampson orders the Martin farm house burned. Galt Martin is killed, and his eldest son, Joe, is pistol-whipped. Timmy Martin sees the killer, Cass Becker and points him out when he and Joe are in Painted Flats. Cass forces Joe to put on a gun but Ned East, a retired gunfighter, saves the inexperienced Joe by forcing Cass to draw on him, and Ned is the winner.
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Frankenstein's Daughter
Title: Frankenstein's Daughter
Character: Loading Dock Foreman
Released: December 15, 1958
Type: Movie
Dr. Frankenstein's insane grandson attempts to create horrible monsters in modern day L.A.
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No Place to Land
Title: No Place to Land
Character: Bill
Released: October 3, 1958
Type: Movie
A cropduster pilot finds himself caught between two women—one who loves him and the other, who doesn’t handle rejection well, who’s out to destroy him.
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The Littlest Hobo
Title: The Littlest Hobo
Character: Attendant
Released: July 6, 1958
Type: Movie
When a roaming German Shepherd Dog rescues a boy's pet lamb from the slaughterhouse he struggles to reunite them, despite being chased by police and getting little cooperation from the lamb.
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She Demons
Title: She Demons
Character: Soldier
Released: January 3, 1958
Type: Movie
A couple wash up on an uncharted island where Nazi experiments are going on.
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Raiders of Old California
Title: Raiders of Old California
Character: Turk
Released: November 1, 1957
Type: Movie
A villainous cavalry officer is trying to force the owner of a hacienda to give him his land when a courageous settler comes to the rescue.
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Ride Out for Revenge
Title: Ride Out for Revenge
Character: Soldier (uncredited)
Released: October 31, 1957
Type: Movie
When an Indian chief is murdered in a hateful town, a sympathizing ex marshal tries to stop the Indians from attacking for revenge.
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Hidden Guns
Title: Hidden Guns
Character: Dave - Deputy
Released: January 30, 1956
Type: Movie
The outlaw Stragg has the town so intimidated that no one will speak against him no matter what he does. Sheriff Young heads for a nearby town, where there is a witness willing to testify. Meanwhile, Stragg hires a gunman to take care of the sheriff and the witness.
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Duel on the Mississippi
Title: Duel on the Mississippi
Character: Riverboat Patron (uncredited)
Released: September 16, 1955
Type: Movie
In bustling era of 19th-century Louisiana, sugar is as valuable as gold, and pirates like Lili Scarlet (Patricia Medina, Mr. Arkadin) will do anything to get it. After robbing Jules Tulane’s (John Dehner, The Boys from Brazil) estate of his crop, Scarlet takes over Tulane’s land debt and forces him to pay or go to prison. In exchange for postponing his debt, Scarlet allows Tulane’s son, André (Lex Barker, Robin Hood and the Pirates), to work as her servant. When André and Scarlet fall in love, it leads to jealous rage from Scarlet’s former paramour, expert swordsman Hugo (Warren Stevens, Forbidden Planet) — and when Hugo looks to raid the Tulane estate again, it is up to André and Scarlet to take him down and save the estate.
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Apache Ambush
Title: Apache Ambush
Released: August 24, 1955
Type: Movie
Two former enemies find themselves together on a cattle drive and fighting marauding Apaches and Mexican bandits.
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Wichita
Title: Wichita
Character: Cowpuncher (uncredited)
Released: July 3, 1955
Type: Movie
Former buffalo hunter and entrepreneur Wyatt Earp arrives in the lawless cattle town of Wichita Kansas. His skill as a gun-fighter makes him a perfect candidate for Marshal, but he refuses the job until he feels morally obligated to bring law and order to this wild town.
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Cattle Queen of Montana
Title: Cattle Queen of Montana
Character: Indian (uncredited)
Released: November 18, 1954
Type: Movie
Sierra Nevada Jones must fight a villainous rancher to regain the land that is rightfully hers.
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The Wild One
Title: The Wild One
Character: Cyclist (uncredited)
Released: December 30, 1953
Type: Movie
The Black Rebels Motorcycle Club ride into the small California town of Wrightsville, eager to raise hell. Brooding gang leader Johnny Strabler takes a liking to Kathie, the daughter of the local lawman, as another club rolls into town.
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Thunder Over the Plains
Title: Thunder Over the Plains
Character: Trooper (uncredited)
Released: October 27, 1953
Type: Movie
Set in 1869, after the Civil War, Texas had not yet been readmitted to the Union and carpetbaggers, hiding behind the legal protection of the Union Army of occupation, had taken over the state. Federal Captain Porter, a Texan, has to carry out orders against his own people. He brings in the rebel leader Ben Westman whom he knows is innocent of a murder that he is accused of. In trying to prove his innocence, Porter himself becomes a wanted man.
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Conquest of Cochise
Title: Conquest of Cochise
Character: Trooper (uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1953
Type: Movie
A cavalry officer tries to keep a lid on a volatile situation when Indian leader Cochise is being prodded into starting a war.
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Topeka
Title: Topeka
Character: Bill (uncredited)
Released: August 9, 1953
Type: Movie
Bill Elliot emulates his idol William S. Hart in the superior western Topeka. Elliot plays the archetypal Good Bad Man, hired to kick the crooked element out of a small town. A hard-drinking, hard-living man, Elliot entertains thoughts of taking over the town himself for the benefit of his own gang. After several reels of soul-searching, Elliot decides to honor his promise to clean up the town for its decent citizens. Evidently director Thomas Carr rented a camera crane for this Allied Artists production, since the camera performs remarkable calisthenics, the kind not normally seen in a medium-budget western.
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Fort Vengeance
Title: Fort Vengeance
Character: Mountie (uncredited)
Released: March 28, 1953
Type: Movie
Two brothers flee America and join the Canadian North West Mounted Police. One brother is good, the other bad, both men on a collision course just as trouble starts to brew with the Indians.
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Niagara
Title: Niagara
Character: Young Man (uncredited)
Released: January 26, 1953
Type: Movie
Rose Loomis and her older, gloomier husband, George, are vacationing at a cabin in Niagara Falls, N.Y. The couple befriend Polly and Ray Cutler, who are honeymooning in the area. Polly begins to suspect that something is amiss between Rose and George, and her suspicions grow when she sees Rose in the arms of another man. While Ray initially thinks Polly is overreacting, things between George and Rose soon take a shockingly dark turn.
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The Maverick
Title: The Maverick
Character: Cattleman (uncredited)
Released: December 14, 1952
Type: Movie
Wild Bill Elliott must escort a gang of killer cattleman who have been terrorizing homesteaders.
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Man from the Black Hills
Title: Man from the Black Hills
Character: Jed - Shotgun Rider (uncredited)
Released: March 29, 1952
Type: Movie
As other "B"-western series kept dropping like flies in 1952, Johnny Mack Brown kept grinding 'em out for Monogram. In Man From Black Hills, Johnny tries to help locate his saddle pal Jim Fallan's (James Ellison) long-lost father. Arriving in a small mining town, Johnny and Jim discover that Jim's father has established a financial empire--and that a local opportunist (Randy Brooks) has capitalized on this by claiming to be the old man's son.
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Buffalo Bill in Tomahawk Territory
Title: Buffalo Bill in Tomahawk Territory
Character: Foster - Henchman (uncredited)
Released: February 8, 1952
Type: Movie
Story concerns the efforts of Buffalo Bill to protect the Indian's land from a gang who want to get the gold buried there. The outlaws disguise themselves as Indians and raid and plunder the settlers in order to blame the tribe.