Peter Adams

Peter Adams

Born: September 22, 1917
Died: January 8, 1987
in Los Angeles, California, USA

Movies for Peter Adams...

Funny Girl
Title: Funny Girl
Character: Card Player (uncredited)
Released: September 19, 1968
Type: Movie
The life of Fanny Brice, famed comedian and entertainer of the early 1900s. We see her rise to fame as a Ziegfeld girl, her subsequent career, and her personal life, particularly her relationship with Nick Arnstein.
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The Magnificent Stranger
Title: The Magnificent Stranger
Character: Lieutenant Pauling
Released: August 26, 1966
Type: Movie
Rowdy Yates is accused of murder, and has to alert the Army to a bandit assault.
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Lord Love a Duck
Title: Lord Love a Duck
Character: Frank (uncredited)
Released: February 21, 1966
Type: Movie
From his prison cell, young Alan Musgrave relates his experiences of the previous year dedicated to fulfilling every whim of beautiful and self-absorbed high school senior Barbara Ann Greene.
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Midnight Lace
Title: Midnight Lace
Character: Man at American Consulate
Released: October 13, 1960
Type: Movie
Kit Preston begins to unravel when she receives threatening telephone calls informing her she's soon to be murdered.
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The Big Fisherman
Title: The Big Fisherman
Character: Herod Phillip
Released: August 4, 1959
Type: Movie
Drama that focuses on the later life of Peter, one of the closest disciples of Jesus.
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Title: Rawhide
Character: Burt Wells
Released: January 9, 1959
Type: TV
The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across the old west. Along the way they meet up with adventure and drama.
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Title: Rawhide
Character: Lt. Pauling
Released: January 9, 1959
Type: TV
The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across the old west. Along the way they meet up with adventure and drama.
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Bullwhip
Title: Bullwhip
Character: John Parnell
Released: May 25, 1958
Type: Movie
In order to avoid the hangman's noose, a cowboy agrees to marry a beautiful but fiery redhead.
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Title: Zorro
Character: Capitan Arturo Toledano
Released: October 10, 1957
Type: TV
Diego de la Vega, the son of a wealthy landowner, returns from his studies in Spain and discovers that Los Angeles is under the command of Capitan Monastario, a cruel man who relishes in the misuse of his power for personal gain. Knowing that he cannot hope to single-handedly defeat Monastario and his troops, Diego resorts to subterfuge. He adopts the secret identity of Zorro, a sinister figure dressed in black, and rides to fight Monastario's injustice.
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Title: Casey Jones
Character: Doctor John Morton
Released: October 8, 1957
Type: TV
Television version of the classic train story of Casey Jones, the engineer of the steam-engine powered "Cannonball Express".
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Title: Perry Mason
Character: Ned Thompson
Released: September 21, 1957
Type: TV
The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.
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Omar Khayyam
Title: Omar Khayyam
Character: Master Herald
Released: August 23, 1957
Type: Movie
Omar Khayyam was one of the greatest Persian poets. He was also a brilliant mathematician. Though his quatrains were written in the 11th century, they are still popular the world over. The details of his life are unknown, so this movie invents a biography for him and includes in it his real achievements - the invention of a new calendar and the penning of those epigrammatic poems. This film has him romancing a sultan's bride and foiling the assassin sect's plot to kill the sultan's son.
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Hell on Devil's Island
Title: Hell on Devil's Island
Character: Jacques Boucher
Released: August 4, 1957
Type: Movie
An ex-con from Devil's Island enlists the support of the governor's daughter in exposing a prison mining operation.
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Title: Meet McGraw
Released: June 17, 1957
Type: TV
Meet McGraw is an American dramatic television series starring Frank Lovejoy in the role of the hard-hitting detective McGraw, a man specifically given no first name in the program. Forty-one half-hour episodes aired on NBC during the 1957-1958 season, sponsored by Procter & Gamble. The series was produced by the Desilu Studios, most of whose productions were broadcast by CBS. The theme song for the series is "One For My Baby" by Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer. Meet McGraw preceded The Bob Cummings Show on Tuesday evenings on NBC. It aired at 9:00pm ET/PT opposite John Lupton’s Western series, Broken Arrow on ABC and Bud Collyer's To Tell the Truth quiz show on CBS. After its cancellation, Meet McGraw was repeated as The Adventures of McGraw on ABC in 1958-1959, but not in prime time. A number of episodes of the series, including "Mohave" and "Lady in Limbo," are available on DVD.
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Ransom!
Title: Ransom!
Character: George Portalis (uncredited)
Released: January 24, 1956
Type: Movie
A rich man stuns his wife and town with a televised threat to his son's kidnapper.
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Title: Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Tim Grady
Released: October 2, 1955
Type: TV
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
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The Scarlet Coat
Title: The Scarlet Coat
Character: Lt. Blair
Released: July 29, 1955
Type: Movie
An American officer goes undercover to unmask a Revolutionary War traitor.
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Title: Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color
Character: Wingate (uncredited)
Released: October 27, 1954
Type: TV
Walt Disney Productions has produced an anthology television series under several different titles since 1954. The original version of the series premiered on ABC, Wednesday night, October 27, 1954. The same basic show has since appeared on several networks, with its latest revival debuting in 2012 on Disney Junior. The show is the second longest showing prime-time program on American television, behind its rival, Hallmark Hall of Fame. However, Hallmark Hall of Fame was a weekly program only during its first five seasons, while Disney remained a weekly program for more than forty years.
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Title: Public Defender
Character: Preston Carstairs
Released: March 11, 1954
Type: TV
The Public Defender is a half-hour 69-episode television dramatic series starring Reed Hadley as Bart Matthews, an attorney for the indigent. The series aired on CBS from March 11, 1954 to June 23, 1955, a season and a half.
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Donovan's Brain
Title: Donovan's Brain
Character: Mr. Webster
Released: September 30, 1953
Type: Movie
A scientist takes the brain of dead man and revives it via electrodes as it lays suspended in a tank of liquid. Soon, the brain grows to possess enormous psychic powers and inflicts its personality upon the doctor who saved it, creating a "Jekyll and Hyde" paradigm.
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Project Moon Base
Title: Project Moon Base
Character: Captain Carmody
Released: September 4, 1953
Type: Movie
In the future (1970) the US sends a mission to the moon to investigate the building of a moon base.
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The War of the Worlds
Title: The War of the Worlds
Character: Pine Summit Fire Watcher (uncredited)
Released: August 13, 1953
Type: Movie
The residents of a small town are excited when a flaming meteor lands in the hills, until they discover it is the first of many transport devices from Mars bringing an army of invaders invincible to any man-made weapon, even the atomic bomb.
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Turnabout
Title: Turnabout
Character: Photographer (uncredited)
Released: May 17, 1940
Type: Movie
Bickering husband and wife Tim and Sally Willows mutter a few angry words to a statue of Buddha and wind up living each other's life.