Henry Silva

Henry Silva

Born: September 23, 1926
Died: September 14, 2022
in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Henry Silva (September 23, 1926 – September 14, 2022) was an American actor. A prolific character actor, Silva was a regular staple of international genre cinema, usually playing criminals or gangsters. His notable film appearances include ones in Ocean's 11 (1960), The Manchurian Candidate (1962), Johnny Cool (1963), Sharky's Machine (1981), and Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999).

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Eurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the '70s
Title: Eurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the '70s
Character: Self
Released: March 30, 2012
Type: Movie
A documentary concerning the violent Italian 'poliziotteschi' cinematic movement of the 1970s which, at first glance, seem to be rip-offs of American crime films like DIRTY HARRY or THE GODFATHER, but which really address Italian issues like the Sicilian Mafia and red terrorism. Perhaps even more interesting than the films themselves were the rushed methods of production (stars performing their own stunts, stealing shots, no live sound) and the bleed-over between real-life crime and movie crime.
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Ocean's Eleven
Title: Ocean's Eleven
Character: Self
Released: December 7, 2001
Type: Movie
Less than 24 hours into his parole, charismatic thief Danny Ocean is already rolling out his next plan: In one night, Danny's hand-picked crew of specialists will attempt to steal more than $150 million from three Las Vegas casinos. But to score the cash, Danny risks his chances of reconciling with ex-wife, Tess.
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Frank Sinatra Memorial
Title: Frank Sinatra Memorial
Character: Self
Released: May 16, 2000
Type: Movie
Frank Sinatra, the greatest entertainer of the 20th century, is remembered by some of the brightest stars in Hollywood in this television memorial which celebrates his life and mourns his passing. Exclusive flashback interviews with Sinatra, his friends and his family, reveal little known facts about his overwhelming generosity and the sensationalized image created by the press. * In-depth interviews with those who knew him best... Ed McMahon, Tommy Sands, Shecky Green, Phyllis McGuire, Quincy Jones, & Betty Garrett, among others. * See highlights from some of Sinatra’s last films and farewell perfomances.
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Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
Title: Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
Character: Ray Vargo
Released: October 6, 1999
Type: Movie
An African-American Mafia hit man who models himself after the samurai of ancient Japan finds himself targeted for death by the mob.
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Justice
Title: Justice
Character: Sal the Joker
Released: January 14, 1999
Type: Movie
A lawyer and her partner run from the Colombian Mafia and the corrupt U.S. marshals and attorneys assigned to protect them.
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Title: The New Batman Adventures
Character: Bane (voice)
Released: September 13, 1997
Type: TV
The New Batman Adventures is a continuation of the acclaimed Batman: The Animated Series. Stories in this series tend to give more focus to Batman's supporting cast, which include fellow crimefighters Robin, Nightwing, and Batgirl, among others. The show also features guest stars such as Supergirl, Etrigan, and The Creeper; characters who would later appear with Batman in Justice League and Justice League Unlimited.
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The End of Violence
Title: The End of Violence
Character: Juan-Emilio
Released: May 11, 1997
Type: Movie
Mike Max is a Hollywood producer who became powerful and rich thanks to brutal and bloody action films. His ignored wife Paige is close to leaving him. Suddenly Mike is kidnapped by two bandits, but escapes and hides out with his Mexican gardener's family for a while. At the same time, surveillance expert Ray Bering is looking for what happens in the city, but it is not clear what he wants. The police investigation for Max's disappearance is led by detective Doc Block, who falls in love with actress Cat who is playing in ongoing Max's production.
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Mad Dog Time
Title: Mad Dog Time
Character: Sleepy Joe Carlisle
Released: November 8, 1996
Type: Movie
With his boss in the madhouse, a mobster is temporary boss of the criminal empire just as vicious rivals threaten the control of the empire.
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Title: Superman: The Animated Series
Character: Bane (voice)
Released: September 6, 1996
Type: TV
Superman, an incredibly powerful alien from the planet Krypton, defends Metropolis from supercriminals. Superman hides his identity behind the glasses of Clark Kent; a mild-mannered reporter for the newspaper the Daily Planet. At the Daily Planet Superman works with fellow reporter Lois Lane and photographer Jimmy Olsen.
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Drifting School
Title: Drifting School
Character: General Stearn
Released: January 1, 1995
Type: Movie
A spy satellite has malfunctioned and is going to crash into the Earth. The US government bring on line a power laser. When the laser strikes the satellite, it causes a rip and time and sends Monroe High school 200 years into the future, including teachers, students and an escaping criminal. The students find themselves in a barren world, where they are set upon by the escaped criminal and a fierce monster.
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Twisted Fate
Title: Twisted Fate
Character: Gene Serino
Released: January 1, 1995
Type: Movie
A FBI agent going back to his home town. He have to decide if he should be true to his job or take care of his brother who is on the wrong side of the law.
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Possessed by the Night
Title: Possessed by the Night
Character: Scott Lindsey
Released: May 25, 1994
Type: Movie
A horror writer buys an odd looking mutant embryo creature, pickled in a jar, from a shop in Chinatown, hoping it will be a creative inspiration for his work. Instead, the odd mutation provokes a rage of violence and lust to envelop the suburban villa where the writer lives with his wife and sexy secretary.
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The Silence of the Hams
Title: The Silence of the Hams
Character: Police Chief
Released: March 11, 1994
Type: Movie
The federal agent Joe Dee Foster is currently investigating a serial killer, helped by doctor Animal who is isolated in a maximum security jail.
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The Harvest
Title: The Harvest
Character: Detective Topo
Released: November 5, 1993
Type: Movie
A screenwriter is sent to Mexico to develop a story that can be used to wrap up a movie presently in production. Given a very short time allotment, the writer immerses himself in the seamier side of a Mexican beach resort, but soon finds himself involved in a 'body organ for profit' operation. Drugged, he has one of his own kidneys removed, and then, with a woman he isn't sure he can trust, he sets out to expose the ring...
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South Beach
Title: South Beach
Character: Santiago
Released: August 4, 1993
Type: Movie
Former NFL star Mack Derringer now works as a private detective. Someone is out to get Derringer and his ex-wife. Can Derringer put the pieces of this deadly puzzle together before its too late?
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Three Days To A Kill
Title: Three Days To A Kill
Character: Perez
Released: November 25, 1992
Type: Movie
At a Chicago-area naval base, an ambassador is kidnapped. Later, a Navy officer calls his friend Cal for help. A Colombian drug lord is holding the ambassador, and the officer wants Cal to rescue the man. Cal convinces the officer to get a pardon for imprisoned explosives expert Rick, and together Cal and Rick form an uneasy partnership. They travel to meet Yolanda, a stripper who supposedly knows the location of this drug lord, named Perez (who looks like a creation out of Madame Tussaud's). Our threesome then sets about to rescue the ambassador. Cal, Rick, and Yolanda meet resistance at every turn; apparently Perez's men have the drop on them. After multiple shootouts, Cal convinces Yolanda to use her son as a pawn to draw Perez away from his home, and then all hell breaks loose.
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Title: Batman: The Animated Series
Character: Bane (voice)
Released: September 5, 1992
Type: TV
Vowing to avenge the murder of his parents, Bruce Wayne devotes his life to wiping out crime in Gotham City as the masked vigilante "Batman".
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Fists Of Steel
Title: Fists Of Steel
Character: Shogi
Released: January 1, 1991
Type: Movie
Today's street violence is the result of a permissive market for drugs. Affluent criminal societies paralyze! This is the story of one man who stands up...who believes he is responsible for the quality of the world he lives in. Internationally organized terrorists murder his father and pour into the country; Carlos burns with inner rage. Like many Americans, he perfected his commando skills in Asian jungles, but now the war has been brought home, and this family man hides his child, cleans his weapons, and takes care of business. Searching and destroying the psychopaths who brutally assault our society, this is a man that you can understand...a man you will cheer!!
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Dick Tracy
Title: Dick Tracy
Character: Influence
Released: April 5, 1990
Type: Movie
The comic strip detective finds his life vastly complicated when Breathless Mahoney makes advances towards him while he is trying to battle Big Boy Caprice's united mob.
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The Last Match
Title: The Last Match
Character: Warden Yashin
Released: February 1, 1990
Type: Movie
The daughter of a star quarterback is falsely accused of drug smuggling while visiting a small Caribbean island. After his attempts to get her out of jail fail, his coach and teammates show up in full football gear and armed to the teeth, ready to free her by any means necessary.
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The Hard Way
Title: The Hard Way
Character: Wesson
Released: November 29, 1989
Type: Movie
A special forces team infiltrate the 'Golden Triangle' between Brazil and Colombia to kidnap notorious drug baron.
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Trained To Kill
Title: Trained To Kill
Character: Ace Duran
Released: June 7, 1989
Type: Movie
From the fields of Cambodia to the mean streets of L.A., there's no escaping death and it's blinding revenge.
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Cy-Warrior
Title: Cy-Warrior
Character: Hammer
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
An accident causes the activation of the top-secret Cyber Warrior or 'Cyw' before his programming has been completed. Concerned that the Cyw may fall into the hands of enemies, prove unable to control or simply receive unwanted attention from the public or foreign powers, the military dispatches a crack squad led by Colonel Hammer to bring back the Cyw one way or another. (from Giallo Fever blog)
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Bulletproof
Title: Bulletproof
Character: Col. Kartiff
Released: April 20, 1988
Type: Movie
A group of dangerous terrorists succeeds to get hold of a tank of the army and all its crew.
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Above the Law
Title: Above the Law
Character: Kurt Zagon
Released: April 8, 1988
Type: Movie
Nico Toscani is an Italian immigrant, American patriot, ex-CIA agent, aikido specialist and unorthodox Chicago policeman. He is as committed to his job as he is to his personalized brand of justice—expert and thorough bone-crushing.
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Amazon Women on the Moon
Title: Amazon Women on the Moon
Character: Henry Silva
Released: September 18, 1987
Type: Movie
Acclaimed director John Landis (Animal House, The Blues Brothers) presents this madcap send-up of late night TV, low-budget sci-fi films and canned-laughter-filled sitcoms packed with off-the-wall sketches that will have you in stitches. Centered around a television station which features a 1950s-style sci-fi movie interspersed with a series of wild commercials, wacky shorts and weird specials, this lampoon of contemporary life and pop culture skewers some of the silliest spectacles ever created in the name of entertainment. A truly outrageous look at the best of the worst that television has to offer.
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Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold
Title: Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold
Character: Agon
Released: December 17, 1986
Type: Movie
After his brother Robeson disappears without a trace while exploring Africa in search of a legendary 'white tribe', Allan Quatermain decides to follow in his footsteps to learn what became of him. Soon after arriving, he discovers the Lost City of Gold, controlled by the evil lord Agon, and mined by his legions of white slaves.
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Code of Silence
Title: Code of Silence
Character: Luis Comacho
Released: May 3, 1985
Type: Movie
A Chicago cop is caught in the middle of a gang war while his own comrades shun him because he wants to take an irresponsible cop down.
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Lust in the Dust
Title: Lust in the Dust
Character: Bernardo
Released: March 1, 1985
Type: Movie
Assaulted by Third World outlaws, donkey-riding Rosie joins a silent drifter's search for gold.
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Killer vs Killers
Title: Killer vs Killers
Character: Sterling
Released: January 1, 1985
Type: Movie
A businessman recruits some thieves to steal a valuable chemical formula kept in an well guarded industrial site. The raid is successful, but once he has the formula, the man tries to get rid of those who worked for him.
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The Manhunt
Title: The Manhunt
Character: Prison Boss
Released: December 9, 1984
Type: Movie
A young man buys two horses at an Arizona race track but fails to get a receipt. Later, when riding across the land of a rancher named Robeson, he's accused of stealing the two horses. Unable to prove ownership, the young man is then sentenced to prison where he's forced to do chain-gang type work. He escapes, is recaptured, and escapes again as he tries to locate the man who sold him the horses.
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Cannonball Run II
Title: Cannonball Run II
Character: Slim
Released: June 29, 1984
Type: Movie
When a wealthy sheikh puts up $1 million in prize money for a cross-country car race, there is one person crazy enough to hit the road hard with wheels spinning fast. Legendary driver J.J. McClure enters the competition along with his friend Victor and together they set off across the American landscape in a madcap action-adventure destined to test their wits and automobile skills.
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The Violent Breed
Title: The Violent Breed
Character: Kirk Cooper
Released: February 24, 1984
Type: Movie
A military group led by Henry Silva and Woody Strode are bound by their honor, to execute their orders to kill as many enemies as possible.
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The Outsider
Title: The Outsider
Character: Sauveur Meccacci
Released: October 26, 1983
Type: Movie
Philippe Jordan is a policeman prone to advancing the cause of justice by any means necessary. On his agenda is a powerful drug cartel working out of Paris and Marseilles, with a drug lord who is essentially inaccessible -- but not immortal.
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Happy
Title: Happy
Character: Sinclair
Released: October 26, 1983
Type: Movie
A former child show host misses the good old days. He and his sidekick from the show are doing a gig when the place gets robbed and the sidekick murdered. The host is the only one who saw the robber well so the robber goes after him.
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Escape from the Bronx
Title: Escape from the Bronx
Character: Floyd Wrangler
Released: August 15, 1983
Type: Movie
A ragtag group of people have to fight extermination squads amid their ruined city.
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Chained Heat
Title: Chained Heat
Character: Lester
Released: May 27, 1983
Type: Movie
Linda Blair plays Carol, a young woman who must serve 18 months in prison after driving drunk and killing a man. The prison turns out to be brimming with decadence, corruption and sleaze, where the other female inmates are sadistic crack-selling lesbian rapists and the guards and warden are no better.
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MegaForce
Title: MegaForce
Character: Guerera
Released: June 25, 1982
Type: Movie
MegaForce is an elite multi-national military unit that does the jobs that individual governments wont. When the peaceful Republic of Sardun in under threat from their more aggressive neighbor, the beautiful Major Zara and General Byrne-White see the help of Ace Hunter and MegaForce.
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Trapped
Title: Trapped
Character: Henry Chatwill
Released: May 28, 1982
Type: Movie
A group of college students accidentally see a local redneck kill his wife. A deadly game of cat-and-mouse ensues, with the students trying to escape the area while the killer sets out to eliminate the witnesses who can tie him to the murder.
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Wrong Is Right
Title: Wrong Is Right
Character: Rafeeq
Released: April 16, 1982
Type: Movie
Political double-talk, dirty tricks, hidden microphones, spy satellites, bugging the Oval Office and a nuclear bomb for sale are all ingredients in this swift, funny and frightening look at the possibilities in today's political arenas. Sean Connery stars as TV Newsman Patrick Hale on an international chase to track two suitcase sized nuclear weapons and to uncover the twisting maze of apparent involvement of US Government agencies.
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Sharky's Machine
Title: Sharky's Machine
Character: Billy Score
Released: December 18, 1981
Type: Movie
Police officer Tom Sharky gets busted back to working vice, where he happens upon a scandalous conspiracy involving a local politician. Sharky's new 'machine' gathers evidence while Sharky falls in love with a woman he has never met.
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Alligator
Title: Alligator
Character: Brock
Released: July 2, 1980
Type: Movie
A baby alligator is flushed down a toilet and survives by eating discarded lab animals that have been injected with growth hormones. The now gigantic animal escapes the city sewers and goes on a rampage, pursued by a cop and a big-game hunter.
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Virus
Title: Virus
Character: General Garland
Released: June 26, 1980
Type: Movie
Scientists in Antarctica desperately try to find a cure to a military virus that was released in a plane crash and has wiped out the rest of the world.
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Day of the Assassin
Title: Day of the Assassin
Character: Police Chief Jorge Gomez
Released: December 15, 1979
Type: Movie
Treasure hunters from around the world race to Mexico after a Middle Eastern luxury yacht explodes, sending a Shah's fortune and mysterious document to the bottom of the ocean.
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Thirst
Title: Thirst
Character: Dr. Gauss
Released: September 28, 1979
Type: Movie
The descendant of Elizabeth Bathory is abducted by a cult of self-proclaimed supermen who achieve this state of superiority by drinking from the "blood cows" kept at the "dairy farm", and they try to get her to join them.
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Title: Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
Character: Kane
Released: September 20, 1979
Type: TV
20th-century astronaut Buck Rogers awakens in the 25th century after a freak accident puts him in suspended animation for 500 years. Upon returning to Earth and discovering the planet is recovering from a nuclear war, Buck uses his combat skills and ingenuity to protect Earth and fight evil throughout the galaxy alongside starfighter pilot Colonel Wilma Deering and robot companion Twiki.
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Love and Bullets
Title: Love and Bullets
Character: Vittorio Farroni
Released: April 5, 1979
Type: Movie
Jackie Pruit is the girlfriend of notorious gangster Joe Bomposa. When it looks as if Bomposa's goons are threatening Jackie's life, the FBI moves in to protect her, hoping that she'll have incriminating evidence. Veteran agent Charlie Congers is assigned to watch over Jackie, and while it soon becomes apparent that she knows almost nothing about Bomposa that would be of any use to the FBI, he falls in love with her. Bomposa decides it would be more convenient to have Jackie out of the way, ordering her to be executed. Bomposa's henchmen slip through FBI security and murder her, but now they have to answer the angry and vengeful Congers.
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Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
Title: Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
Character: Kane
Released: March 2, 1979
Type: Movie
Capt. William "Buck" Rogers is a jovial space cowboy who is accidentally time-warped from 1987 to 2491. Earth is engaged in interplanetary war following a global holocaust, and Buck's piloting skills make him an ideal starfighter recruit for the Earth Defense Directorate, where his closest colleagues are Dr. Huer (Tim O'Connor), squadron leader Col. Wilma Deering (former model Erin Gray), the wisecracking robot Twiki (voiced by cartoon legend Mel Blanc), and a portable computer-brain named Dr. Theopolis.
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Foxbat
Title: Foxbat
Character: Mike Saxon
Released: December 15, 1977
Type: Movie
In Hong Kong, a Chinese cook swallows a microfilm by accident and becomes a target.
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Contract on Cherry Street
Title: Contract on Cherry Street
Character: Roberto Obregon
Released: November 19, 1977
Type: Movie
A policeman devises an unorthodox plan for bringing criminals to justice after his partner is brutally gunned down.
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Weapons of Death
Title: Weapons of Death
Character: Santoro
Released: February 22, 1977
Type: Movie
When a crime boss sends out his thugs to terrorize an entire city, they do whatever they want, which includes anything from petty theft to robbing the police station in broad daylight. Napoli spara! (internationally released as Weapons of Death and Naples shoots) is a "poliziottesco" film directed by Mario Caiano in 1977. It is an unofficial sequel of Napoli violenta, of which reprises the character of Gennarino (still played by Massimo Deda).
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Free Hand for a Tough Cop
Title: Free Hand for a Tough Cop
Character: Brescianelli
Released: August 27, 1976
Type: Movie
A cop recruits a criminal and his cohorts to help track down a violent crime lord who has kidnapped the ill daughter of a rich family.
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Crimebusters
Title: Crimebusters
Character: Altieri
Released: June 17, 1976
Type: Movie
Major Paolo Altieri of the Paratroopers Corps foils the kidnapping of child, but becomes the victim himself of a violent assault by the bandits. He realises that the criminals have used an experimental machine gun that's used only in his own Corps. Altieri begins to take part in police raids on criminal activities, and ultimately discovers a conspiracy to overthrow the democratic government.
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Shoot
Title: Shoot
Character: Zeke
Released: May 28, 1976
Type: Movie
When boredom, pride and a mad second of misjudgement leaves a hunter shot dead by one of five combat veterans also hunting in the Canadian hills, it is expected a police investigation will follow, but when the veterans discover the incident has not been reported, the leader of the team, Major Rex suspects the other party maybe plotting revenge. Convinced that he, his party, and their families will be targets themselves he decides to beat his suspected assailants at their own game, grouping together more army comrades and stocking up an arsenal of weapons for the forthcoming battle.
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Title: Switch
Character: Kirk Shaw
Released: September 9, 1975
Type: TV
Switch is an American action-adventure, tongue-in-cheek detective series starring Eddie Albert and Robert Wagner, who work as private eyes, for a deceptive sting operation. It was broadcast on the CBS network for three seasons between September 9, 1975 and August 20, 1978, bumping the Hawaii Five-O detective series to Friday nights.
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Manhunt in the City
Title: Manhunt in the City
Character: David Vannucchi
Released: May 8, 1975
Type: Movie
A man's daughter is killed by thieves during a bank robbery. Due to the incompetence of the corrupt authorities, he decides to take to law into his own hands and track down the killers.
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White Fang to the Rescue
Title: White Fang to the Rescue
Character: Mr. Nelson
Released: February 9, 1975
Type: Movie
Set at the end of the 19th century in Canada's gold rush Klondike area, wolf-dog White Fang teams up with a prospector when his master is killed. Together they try to avenge his death.
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Almost Human
Title: Almost Human
Character: Commissario Walter Grandi
Released: August 8, 1974
Type: Movie
A psychotic small-time criminal realizes that the everyday robberies, rapes and murders he commits aren't profitable enough, so he figures to hit the big time by kidnapping the daughter of a rich man.
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Cry of a Prostitute
Title: Cry of a Prostitute
Character: Tony Aniante
Released: April 4, 1974
Type: Movie
The gangster Tony Aniante in the middle of a feud between two mafia families. He manipulates both families into believing he is on their side and are just waiting for the right moment to take the initiative...
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Kidnap
Title: Kidnap
Character: Commissioner Caprile
Released: March 8, 1974
Type: Movie
This crime drama follows an Italian police commissioner as he races to rescue the 6-year-old daughter of an important businessman. Also hoping to save her is Frank Salvatore, the old-school Mafia don accused of the crime. Caprile leans on a low-level thug for information and is led to Salvatore, who considers children to be off-limits as targets and hopes to restore his reputation
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Battle of the Godfathers
Title: Battle of the Godfathers
Character: Luca Messina
Released: November 30, 1973
Type: Movie
Hamburg business man Otto Westermann is also the boss of organized crime in the city. His reign as godfather is in danger, though, as an ambitious Sicilian mafioso enters the fray. His goal is clear and simple: he wants to take over Hamburg. But Westermann isn't as easy to defeat as the Sicilian expects. And soon Hamburg is on the verge of a bloody mob war.
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Killing in the Sun
Title: Killing in the Sun
Character: Everett
Released: March 15, 1973
Type: Movie
The murder of a Parisian mobster starts a war within the world of organized crime.
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The Boss
Title: The Boss
Character: Nick Lanzetta
Released: February 1, 1973
Type: Movie
A hitman finds himself embroiled in the middle of a Mafia war between the Sicilians and the Calabrians.
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The Insolent
Title: The Insolent
Character: Emmanuel Ristack dit 'L'insolent'
Released: January 25, 1973
Type: Movie
Having escaped from prison Ristack contacts his partner, to organize an attack on a van full of gold. The heist goes well but each man is trying to keep all the loot for himself...
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Drive Hard, Drive Fast
Title: Drive Hard, Drive Fast
Character: Deek LaCosta
Released: January 1, 1973
Type: Movie
A race-car driver finds himself in a romantic triangle and a machete-swinging stranger trying to kill him.
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Title: The Streets of San Francisco
Character: Lee Wilson
Released: September 23, 1972
Type: TV
Two police officers, the older Lt. Stone and the young upstart Inspector Keller, investigate murders and other serious crimes in San Francisco. Stone would become a second father to Keller as he learned the rigors and procedures of detective work.
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The Italian Connection
Title: The Italian Connection
Character: Dave Catania
Released: September 2, 1972
Type: Movie
When a shipment of heroin disappears between Italy and New York, a small-time pimp in Milan is framed for the theft. Two professional hitmen are dispatched from New York to find him, but the real thieves want to get rid of him before the New York killers get to him to eliminate any chance of them finding out he's the wrong man.
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Title: The Sixth Sense
Character: Linchou
Released: January 15, 1972
Type: TV
The Sixth Sense is an American paranormal thriller television
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Black Noon
Title: Black Noon
Character: Moon
Released: November 5, 1971
Type: Movie
Reverend John Keyes and his wife, Lorna, on their way to a new congregation out west, break down in the desert and are rescued by the residents of a nearby town. At first warm and welcoming, the townspeople become more and more solicitous of John and insistent that he stay on as their minister, against the wishes of Lorna, who goes unheeded and slowly becomes deathly ill. Will John realize the danger before it is too late?
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Man and Boy
Title: Man and Boy
Character: Caine
Released: June 23, 1971
Type: Movie
At the beginning of the 19th century a man and his son settle in Arizona which used to be a frontier state and full of criminals at that time.
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Title: Night Gallery
Character: Pandit Chola (segment "The Doll")
Released: December 16, 1970
Type: TV
Rod Serling narrates an anthology of fantasy, horror and sci-fi stories from a set resembling a macabre museum. A chilling work of art serves as the connective link between the stories.
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The Animals
Title: The Animals
Character: Chatto
Released: March 9, 1970
Type: Movie
A woman tracks down the three men who raped her, helped by an Apache. Traveling through the Old West to her new home, young schoolteacher Alice McAndrew is abducted by five outlaws headed by robber Pudge Elliott. The thugs rape Alice before leaving her for dead, but she is rescued by Chatto, an Apache chief. He restores her health and aids her in her bloodthirsty quest for revenge. With her sanity wavering, will Alice be able to find the men who tortured her?
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Possibility Zero
Title: Possibility Zero
Character: Duke
Released: May 17, 1969
Type: Movie
Set in Norway and has a crack team of Allies sent to blow up an underground Nazi factory where the Germans have taken a crashed Spitfire that contains a new radar system that the krauts want to copy.
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Title: Hawaii Five-O
Character: Elpidio Acuna
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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Never a Dull Moment
Title: Never a Dull Moment
Character: Frank Boley
Released: June 26, 1968
Type: Movie
When practicing for a role, actor Jack is mistaken for the killer Ace. He doesn't realize this until it's too late and is carried off to gangster boss Leo Smooth, who wants Ace to do a job for him. Fearing for his life, Jack plays his role, but always searching for a way out of the well-guarded house.
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Frame Up
Title: Frame Up
Character: Inspector Sterling
Released: April 13, 1968
Type: Movie
Henry Silva is the police inspector Sterling who is devastated when a gang of robbers kill his son. He then becomes accused of having killed a police informer and is kicked out of the police department. His life seems ruined. To clear his name he will have to take the law into his own hands, and excitement will ensue!
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The Enemy
Title: The Enemy
Character: Bob Rome
Released: November 20, 1967
Type: Movie
During the Battle of the Bulge, word goes out to watch for German soldiers dressed as GIs. That's when black sergeant Chris Christiansen begins wondering if the GI who befriended him is really a friend--or the enemy.
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Title: The High Chaparral
Character: Santos Castaneda
Released: September 10, 1967
Type: TV
The High Chaparral is an American Western-themed television series starring Leif Erickson and Cameron Mitchell which aired on NBC from 1967 to 1971. The series, made by Xanadu Productions in association with NBC Productions, was created by David Dortort, who had previously created the hit Bonanza for the network. The theme song was also written and conducted by Bonanza scorer David Rose, who also scored the two-hour pilot.
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Title: Cimarron Strip
Character: Coffin
Released: September 7, 1967
Type: TV
Cimarron Strip is an American Western television series that aired on CBS from September 1967 to March 1968. Starring Stuart Whitman as Marshal Jim Crown, the series was produced by the creators of Gunsmoke. Reruns of the original show were aired in the summer of 1971. Cimarron Strip was one of only three 90-minute weekly Western series that aired during the 1960s, and the only 90-minute series of any kind to be centered primarily around one lead character. Cimarron Strip was set in the Oklahoma Panhandle, which comprises, east to west, Beaver, Texas, and Cimarron counties in Oklahoma. The show is set in 1888, just as the continuous frontier of the West, which once ran from the Canadian to the Mexican border, was closing. In less than five years there would no longer be that "continuous frontier," only pockets of undeveloped land. This was the late "Wild West" that Marshall Jim Crown was called to defend.
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Assassination
Title: Assassination
Character: John Chandler / Philip Chandler
Released: August 18, 1967
Type: Movie
John Chandler is sentenced to death only to re-emerge as his own brother, courtesy of the CIA who have arranged the subterfuge so they can use him as a double agent.
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Matchless
Title: Matchless
Character: Hank Norris
Released: August 13, 1967
Type: Movie
A secret agent possesses a ring that makes him invisible for a short time, once every 10 hours. He is in pursuit of an evil criminal mastermind but, at the same time, must evade an enemy agent who also wants the ring.
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Title: Mission: Impossible
Character: Norvan Kruger
Released: September 17, 1966
Type: TV
Mission: Impossible is an American television series that was created and initially produced by Bruce Geller. It chronicles the missions of a team of secret government agents known as the Impossible Missions Force. In the first season, the team is led by Dan Briggs, played by Steven Hill; Jim Phelps, played by Peter Graves, takes charge for the remaining seasons. A hallmark of the series shows Briggs or Phelps receiving his instructions on a recording that then self-destructs, followed by the theme music composed by Lalo Schifrin. The series aired on the CBS network from September 1966 to March 1973, then returned to television for two seasons on ABC, from 1988 to 1990, retaining only Graves in the cast. It later inspired a popular series of theatrical motion pictures starring Tom Cruise, beginning in 1996.
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The Hills Run Red
Title: The Hills Run Red
Character: Garcia Mendez
Released: September 9, 1966
Type: Movie
After the Civil War ends, two soldiers return home with a cache of stolen money. They are caught by Union troops. One escapes, but the other is sent to prison for five years. When he gets out and goes home, he finds that his wife has died in poverty because his partner kept all the money, and is now a major power in the area with an army of deadly gunmen to back him up.
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Title: Tarzan
Character: Ivor Merrick
Released: September 8, 1966
Type: TV
Tarzan is a series that aired on NBC from 1966 – 1968. The series portrayed Tarzan as a well-educated character, one who, tired of civilization, had returned to the jungle where he had been raised. The show retained many of the trappings of the classic movie series, including Cheeta, while excluding other elements, such as Jane, as part of the "new look" for the fabled apeman that producer Sy Weintraub had introduced in previous motion pictures starring Gordon Scott, Jock Mahoney, and Mike Henry. CBS aired repeat episodes the program during the summer of 1969.
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The Plainsman
Title: The Plainsman
Character: Crazy Knife
Released: August 1, 1966
Type: Movie
Calamity Jane tries to help Buffalo Bill Cody and Wild Bill Hickock stop an Indian war.
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The Return of Mr. Moto
Title: The Return of Mr. Moto
Character: Mr. Moto
Released: December 1, 1965
Type: Movie
Mr. Moto goes undercover to find out who has been blowing up oil wells and trying to gain total control of all the oil leases from a petroleum-rich Middle Eastern country.
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Title: The F.B.I.
Character: Richard Macklin
Released: September 19, 1965
Type: TV
The F.B.I. is an American television series that was broadcast on ABC from 1965 to 1974. It was sponsored by the Ford Motor Company, and the characters almost always drove Ford vehicles in the series. Alcoa was co-sponsor of Season One only.
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Title: The F.B.I.
Character: Stan Chasen
Released: September 19, 1965
Type: TV
The F.B.I. is an American television series that was broadcast on ABC from 1965 to 1974. It was sponsored by the Ford Motor Company, and the characters almost always drove Ford vehicles in the series. Alcoa was co-sponsor of Season One only.
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Title: The F.B.I.
Character: Chard
Released: September 19, 1965
Type: TV
The F.B.I. is an American television series that was broadcast on ABC from 1965 to 1974. It was sponsored by the Ford Motor Company, and the characters almost always drove Ford vehicles in the series. Alcoa was co-sponsor of Season One only.
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Title: Laredo
Character: Gen. Shen Ti
Released: September 16, 1965
Type: TV
Laredo is an American Western television series that aired on NBC from September 16, 1965, to April 7, 1967. Laredo stars Neville Brand, William Smith, Peter Brown, and Philip Carey as Texas Rangers. It is set on the Mexican border about Laredo, Texas. The program was produced by Universal Television. The pilot episode of Laredo aired on NBC's The Virginian under the title, "We've Lost a Train". It was released theatrically in 1969 under the title Backtrack. Three episodes from the first season of the series were edited into the 1968 feature film Three Guns for Texas.
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The Reward
Title: The Reward
Character: Joaquin
Released: September 15, 1965
Type: Movie
A crash-landed crop-duster betrays a fugitive and his girlfriend to Mexican bounty hunters.
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Title: Run for Your Life
Character: Carl Torre
Released: September 13, 1965
Type: TV
Run for Your Life is an American television drama series starring Ben Gazzara as a man with only a short time to live. It ran on NBC from 1965 to 1968. The series was created by Roy Huggins, who had previously explored the "man on the move" concept with The Fugitive.
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Hail! Mafia
Title: Hail! Mafia
Character: Schaft
Released: August 10, 1965
Type: Movie
A couple of hit men set out to kill an old friend.
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Title: Daniel Boone
Character: Zapotec
Released: September 24, 1964
Type: TV
Daniel Boone is an American action-adventure television series starring Fess Parker as Daniel Boone that aired from September 24, 1964 to September 10, 1970 on NBC for 165 episodes, and was made by 20th Century Fox Television. Ed Ames co-starred as Mingo, Boone's Cherokee friend, for the first four seasons of the series. Albert Salmi portrayed Boone's companion Yadkin in season one only. Dallas McKennon portrayed innkeeper Cincinnatus. Country Western singer-actor Jimmy Dean was a featured actor as Josh Clements during the 1968–1970 seasons. Actor and former NFL football player Rosey Grier made regular appearances as Gabe Cooper in the 1969 to 1970 season. The show was broadcast "in living color" beginning in fall 1965, the second season, and was shot entirely in California and Kanab, Utah.
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The Secret Invasion
Title: The Secret Invasion
Character: John Durrell
Released: September 16, 1964
Type: Movie
During World War II, convicts are recruited by the Allies for an extremely hazardous mission.
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Johnny Cool
Title: Johnny Cool
Character: Johnny Cool / Salvatore Giordano
Released: October 2, 1963
Type: Movie
A deported gangster trains an Italian convict to take over his operations in the U.S.
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Title: The Outer Limits
Character: Chino Rivera
Released: September 16, 1963
Type: TV
The Outer Limits is an anthology tv series of self-contained sci-fi-horror stories, sometimes with a plot twist at the end.
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Title: The Outer Limits
Character: General Juan Mercurio
Released: September 16, 1963
Type: TV
The Outer Limits is an anthology tv series of self-contained sci-fi-horror stories, sometimes with a plot twist at the end.
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Title: Arrest and Trial
Character: Frank Vose
Released: September 15, 1963
Type: TV
Arrest and Trial is a 90-minute American crime/legal drama series that ran during the 1963-1964 season on ABC, airing Sundays from 8:30-10 p.m. Eastern.
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A Gathering of Eagles
Title: A Gathering of Eagles
Character: Col. Joe Garcia
Released: June 21, 1963
Type: Movie
Rock Hudson plays an Air Force Colonel who has just been re-assigned as a cold war B-52 commander who must shape up his men to pass a grueling inspection that the previous commander had failed, and had been fired for. He is also recently married, and as a tough commanding officer doing whatever he has to do to shape his men up, his wife sees a side to him that she hadn't seen before.
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The Manchurian Candidate
Title: The Manchurian Candidate
Character: Chunjin
Released: October 24, 1962
Type: Movie
Near the end of the Korean War, a platoon of U.S. soldiers is captured by communists and brainwashed. Following the war, the platoon is returned home, and Sergeant Raymond Shaw is lauded as a hero by the rest of his platoon. However, the platoon commander, Captain Bennett Marco, finds himself plagued by strange nightmares and soon races to uncover a terrible plot.
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Title: Stoney Burke
Character: Matt Elder
Released: October 1, 1962
Type: TV
Stoney Burke is an American western television series broadcast on ABC from October 1, 1962 until May 20, 1963. Six years before the premiere of his CBS crime drama, Hawaii Five-0, Jack Lord starred in the title role.
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Title: The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Character: Bill Grant
Released: September 20, 1962
Type: TV
A continuation of the anthology series “Alfred Hitchcock Presents”, hosted by the master of suspense and featuring thrillers and mysteries.
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Sergeants 3
Title: Sergeants 3
Character: Mountain Hawk
Released: February 10, 1962
Type: Movie
Mike, Chip, and Larry are three lusty, brawling U. S. Cavalry sergeants stationed in Indian Territory in 1870.
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Title: Dr. Kildare
Character: Ed Carson
Released: September 27, 1961
Type: TV
The story of a young intern in a large metropolitan hospital trying to learn his profession, deal with the problems of his patients, and win the respect of the senior doctor in his specialty, internal medicine.
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Title: Cain's Hundred
Character: Ray Riley
Released: September 19, 1961
Type: TV
A former underworld lawyer goes to work for the Federal Government, determined to bring 100 top criminals to justice.
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Cinderfella
Title: Cinderfella
Character: Maximilian
Released: December 18, 1960
Type: Movie
When his father dies, poor Fella is left at the mercy of his snobbish stepmother and her two no-good sons Maximilian and Rupert. As he slaves away for his nasty step-family, Maximilian and Rupert attempt to find a treasure Fella's father has supposedly hidden on the estate. Hoping to restore her dwindling fortunes, the stepmother plans a fancy ball in honor of the visiting Princess Charmein whom she hopes will marry Rupert. Eventually, Fella's Fairy Godfather shows up to convince him that he has a shot at winning the Princess himself.
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Title: The Islanders
Character: Helmuth Mansing
Released: October 2, 1960
Type: TV
The Islanders is an American adventure television series which aired on ABC from 1960 to 1961, starring William Reynolds, James Philbrook, and Diane Brewster. At the beginning of the series, Sandy Wade and Zack Malloy, co-owners of a Grumman Goose amphibious aircraft, start their one-plane airline in the Moluccas or Spice Islands of the southeastern Pacific Ocean. Throughout the series they experience a variety of adventures where seemingly harmless charter flights put them into danger. They are frequently aided in their endeavours by the unusually-named Wilhelmina ”Steamboat Willy” Vanderveer and Shipwreck Callighan. The Islanders, primarily sponsored by Liggett & Myers' Chesterfield cigarettes, aired at 9:30 Eastern time on Sunday evenings opposite The Jack Benny Program and Candid Camera on CBS and the second half of The Dinah Shore Show and the last season of The Loretta Young Show on NBC. William Reynolds stated in an interview, "The series went from being sort of like a Terry and the Pirates or a Maverick type of concept to becoming just a bunch of people skulking around. It wasn't very good." After The Islanders, Philbrook co-starred in the 1962-1963 season as a magazine publisher and the love interest of Loretta Young in her short-lived The New Loretta Young Show, which aired Mondays on CBS. Reynolds went on to star in two other ABC series,The Gallant Men, a World War II series, and The FBI with Efrem Zimbalist, Jr..
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Title: Thriller
Character: Toby Wolfe
Released: September 13, 1960
Type: TV
Thriller is an American anthology television series that aired during the 1960–61 and 1961–62 seasons on NBC. The show featured host Boris Karloff introducing a mix of self-contained, macabre weird-horror and morbid, hitchockian crime stories, in some of which he also starred.
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Ocean's Eleven
Title: Ocean's Eleven
Character: Roger Corneal
Released: August 10, 1960
Type: Movie
Danny Ocean and his gang attempt to rob the five biggest casinos in Las Vegas in one night.
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Title: The Untouchables
Character: Little Charlie Sebastino
Released: October 15, 1959
Type: TV
Special Agent Eliot Ness and his elite team of incorruptible agents battle organized crime in 1930s Chicago.
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The Jayhawkers!
Title: The Jayhawkers!
Character: Lordan
Released: October 15, 1959
Type: Movie
Before the U.S. Civil War rebel leader Luke Darcy sees himself as leader of a new independent Republic of Kansas but the military governor sends an ex-raider to capture Darcy.
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Title: Adventures in Paradise
Character: Raoul Marquette
Released: October 5, 1959
Type: TV
Adventures in Paradise is an American television series created by James Michener which ran on ABC from 1959 until 1962, starring Gardner McKay as Adam Troy, the captain of the schooner Tiki III, which sailed the South Pacific looking for passengers and adventure. USA Network aired reruns of this series between 1984 and 1988. The plots deal with the romantic and detective stories of Korean War veteran Troy. The supporting cast, varying from season to season, features George Tobias, Guy Stockwell, and Linda Lawson.
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Green Mansions
Title: Green Mansions
Character: Kua-Ko
Released: March 19, 1959
Type: Movie
A young Venezuelan idealist flees his native land to escape a revolution. Hoping to find peace, he goes to the mountains and the forests of the Amazon. There he encounters Rima, the Bird Girl, an orphan living a life of nature, who is feared by a local jungle tribe.
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Ride a Crooked Trail
Title: Ride a Crooked Trail
Character: Sam Teeler
Released: November 23, 1958
Type: Movie
After robbing a bank Murphy assumes the identity of his pursuer, a famous US Marshal, when he stumbles into a town and is confronted by the local judge, Matthau. Murphy is forced to remain as the new Marshal; an old flame, Scala, nearly unmasks him by accident, only to be forced to assume the ruse of being Murphy's wife. The "couple" given a house and respectability, which neither has had before. They maintain the charade to avoid hurting a young orphan boy, Matthau's ward. Scala is torn by her loyalty to boyfriend planning to rob the bank and growing feelings for Murphy
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The Bravados
Title: The Bravados
Character: Lujan
Released: June 25, 1958
Type: Movie
Jim Douglass arrives in the small town of Rio Arriba in order to witness the hanging of the four men he believes murdered his wife. When the convicts escape, Jim tracks them into Mexico, determined to see that justice is done. But the farther Jim goes in his quest for vengeance, the more merciless he becomes, losing himself in an unrelenting spiral of hatred and violence.
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The Law and Jake Wade
Title: The Law and Jake Wade
Character: Rennie
Released: June 6, 1958
Type: Movie
Jake Wade breaks Clint Hollister out of jail to pay off an old debt, though it's clear there is some pretty deep hostility between them. They part, and Jake returns to his small-town marshal's job and his fiancée only to find he has been tracked there by Hollister. It seems they were once in a gang together and Jake knows where the proceeds of a bank hold-up are hidden. Hollister and his sidekicks make off into the hills, taking along the trussed-up marshal and his kidnapped bride-to-be to force the lawman to show them where the loot is.
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Title: Suspicion
Character: Dick
Released: September 30, 1957
Type: TV
Suspicion is the title of an American television mystery drama series which aired on the NBC from 1957 through 1959. The executive producer of Suspicion was film director Alfred Hitchcock.
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Title: Alcoa Theatre
Character: Tom Longman
Released: September 30, 1957
Type: TV
Alcoa Theatre is a half-hour American anthology series telecast on NBC at 9:30 pm on alternate Monday nights from October 7, 1957 to September 16, 1960. The program also aired under the title Turn of Fate, with the stories depicting the difficulties faced by individuals who are suddenly thrust into unexpected and perilous dangers. Alcoa Theatre was syndicated together with Goodyear Theatre as Award Theatre. In 1955, The Alcoa Hour premiered in a one-hour format aired on Sunday nights, but it was reduced to 30 minutes, retitled Alcoa Theatre, and moved to Monday evening in 1957. The show employed an alternating rotating company of actors: David Niven, Robert Ryan, Jane Powell, Jack Lemmon and Charles Boyer. Each appeared in dramatic and light comedic roles through the first season.
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A Hatful of Rain
Title: A Hatful of Rain
Character: Mother
Released: July 17, 1957
Type: Movie
A Korean War veteran's morphine addiction wreaks havoc upon his family.
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The Tall T
Title: The Tall T
Character: Chink
Released: April 2, 1957
Type: Movie
An independent former ranch foreman and an heiress are kidnapped by a trio of ruthless outlaws.
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Title: West Point
Character: Cadet Joe Simpson
Released: October 5, 1956
Type: TV
The West Point Story is a dramatic anthology television series shown in the United States by Columbia Broadcasting System during the 1956-57 season and by ABC during the 1957-58 season. The West Point Story, produced with the full cooperation of the United States Department of Defense and the United States Military Academy, was said to be based on actual files documenting many of the real-life dramatic occurrences at West Point over the years. Names and dates were altered in order to protect the privacy of the real people portrayed, however. The program was at first hosted by a fictional cadet, Charles C. Thompson, but this device was discontinued prior to the end of 1956. During its second season on ABC, The West Point Story was in competition with NBC's The Californians, set in San Francisco during the gold rush of the 1850s, and with The $64,000 Question quiz series on CBS. The West Point Story was replaced on the summer schedule in 1958 by Jack Wyatt's Confession, which continued to air during the first half of the 1958-1959 season in the 10 p.m. Tuesday evening time slot. At the time that The West Point Story was broadcast, four other military dramas aired either through syndication or on the major networks: Harbor Command, Navy Log, The Silent Service, and Men of Annapolis.
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Crowded Paradise
Title: Crowded Paradise
Released: June 21, 1956
Type: Movie
A Puerto Rican immigrant anxiously awaits his wedding day, but his fiancé's racist landlord intervenes.
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Title: Cinépanorama
Character: Self
Released: February 4, 1956
Type: TV
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Title: Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Harry Silver
Released: October 2, 1955
Type: TV
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
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Title: Climax!
Character: Slayer
Released: October 7, 1954
Type: TV
Climax! is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was hosted by William Lundigan and later co-hosted by Mary Costa. It was one of the few CBS programs of that era to be broadcast in color. Many of the episodes were performed and broadcast live.
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Title: Climax!
Character: Marc
Released: October 7, 1954
Type: TV
Climax! is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was hosted by William Lundigan and later co-hosted by Mary Costa. It was one of the few CBS programs of that era to be broadcast in color. Many of the episodes were performed and broadcast live.
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Viva Zapata!
Title: Viva Zapata!
Character: Hernandez (uncredited)
Released: February 7, 1952
Type: Movie
The story of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, who led a rebellion against the corrupt, oppressive dictatorship of president Porfirio Díaz in the early 20th century.