John Pleshette

John Pleshette

Born: July 27, 1942
in New York City, New York, USA

Movies for John Pleshette...

Title: Law & Order: LA
Character: Judge
Released: September 29, 2010
Type: TV
From the tony Beverly Hills to the seedy side of Hollywood, LAPD’s elite Robbery Homicide Division is on the case. Fusing classic ripped-from-the-headlines storytelling with the backdrop of LA, the series delves into the high profile crimes of the west coast.
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Kosher Pig
Title: Kosher Pig
Character: Paul Cohen
Released: January 13, 2010
Type: Movie
A young woman learns that her adoptive Jewish family rescued her from China's "one child" policy.
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Gentlemen Broncos
Title: Gentlemen Broncos
Character: Merve
Released: September 30, 2009
Type: Movie
A teenager attends a fantasy writers' convention where he discovers his idea has been stolen by an established novelist.
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Title: Eli Stone
Released: January 31, 2008
Type: TV
Many lawyers consider themselves prophets, but Eli Stone may be the real deal. Eli has built a successful career at a top law firm in San Francisco representing only the biggest and richest corporations that make a habit of screwing over the little guy. But after experiencing a series of odd hallucinations, Eli seeks to find a deeper meaning to life while trying not to lose his job and destroy his relationship with the bosses' daughter. When Eli discovers an aneurysm in his brain, he wonders if his condition is truly medical or if perhaps he now has a higher calling.
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The Failures
Title: The Failures
Character: Principal Holbrock
Released: October 14, 2004
Type: Movie
In this dark comedy, a teenage misfit helps a depressed loser try to end his life. But her plan gets complicated when love gets in the way.
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Helter Skelter
Title: Helter Skelter
Character: Mr. Krenwinkle
Released: July 23, 2004
Type: Movie
The rise of Charles Manson and his "family," who are responsible for a series of famous murders in the late 1960s. Manson, a magnetic and mysterious man, attracts road-weary single mother Linda Kasabian to join his collection of outcasts on a ranch outside of Los Angeles. After murdering actress Sharon Tate, Manson and his followers are investigated by district attorney Vincent Bugliosi.
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Title: NCIS
Character: Tom Crawley
Released: September 23, 2003
Type: TV
From murder and espionage to terrorism and stolen submarines, a team of special agents investigates any crime that has a shred of evidence connected to Navy and Marine Corps personnel, regardless of rank or position.
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Detonator
Title: Detonator
Character: Stuart Newman
Released: February 23, 2003
Type: Movie
A former FBI agent must stop a crazy man from blowing up bombs.
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James Dean
Title: James Dean
Character: Billy Rose
Released: August 4, 2001
Type: Movie
The man behind the legend and a knowing look at the 1950's Hollywood are revealed in this dynamic bioepic of the meteoric star whose troubled life echoed his gut-grabbing performances in East of Eden, Rebel Without A Cause and Giant.
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Title: Curb Your Enthusiasm
Character: Therapist
Released: October 15, 2000
Type: TV
The off-kilter, unscripted comic vision of Larry David, who plays himself in a parallel universe in which he can't seem to do anything right, and, by his standards, neither can anyone else.
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Title: The Sopranos
Character: Dr. Ira Fried
Released: January 10, 1999
Type: TV
The story of New Jersey-based Italian-American mobster Tony Soprano and the difficulties he faces as he tries to balance the conflicting requirements of his home life and the criminal organization he heads. Those difficulties are often highlighted through his ongoing professional relationship with psychiatrist Jennifer Melfi. The show features Tony's family members and Mafia associates in prominent roles and story arcs, most notably his wife Carmela and his cousin and protégé Christopher Moltisanti.
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The Truman Show
Title: The Truman Show
Character: Network Executive
Released: June 4, 1998
Type: Movie
Truman Burbank is the star of The Truman Show, a 24-hour-a-day reality TV show that broadcasts every aspect of his life without his knowledge. His entire life has been an unending soap opera for consumption by the rest of the world. And everyone he knows, including his wife and his best friend, is really an actor, paid to be part of his life.
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The Day Lincoln Was Shot
Title: The Day Lincoln Was Shot
Character: William Henry Seward
Released: April 12, 1998
Type: Movie
A dramatization of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Based on the book by Jim Bishop.
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Title: Mike Hammer, Private Eye
Released: September 28, 1997
Type: TV
Mike Hammer, Private Eye is an American syndicated television program based on the adventures of the fictitious private detective Mike Hammer, created by novelist Mickey Spillane. The show starred Stacy Keach and was seen as an attempt to revive the character he had played in Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer and The New Mike Hammer - two moderately successful syndicated CBS series from the 1980s. Mike Hammer, Private Eye premiered on September 27, 1997. The show failed to gain a wide audience and, as a result, it was canceled after only one season. The final show of the series aired on June 14, 1998.
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Title: The Practice
Released: March 4, 1997
Type: TV
A provocative legal drama focused on young associates at a bare-bones Boston firm and their scrappy boss, Bobby Donnell. The show's forte is its storylines about “people who walk a moral tightrope.”
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The Curse of Inferno
Title: The Curse of Inferno
Character: Mr. Wizzard
Released: December 30, 1996
Type: Movie
A rather dull minded bank robber suddenly suffers from a change of heart and decides to give the money back. However, he then learns that getting the money back into the bank is much more difficult than taking it out.
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Title: The Pretender
Character: Sean Flanagan
Released: September 19, 1996
Type: TV
Raised in a secret facility built for experimenting on children, Jarod is a genius who can master any profession and become anyone he has to be. When he realizes as an adult that he's actually a prisoner and his captors are not as benevolent as he's been told, he breaks out. While trying to find his real identity, Jarod helps those he encounters and tries to avoid the woman sent to retrieve him.
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Title: The Sentinel
Character: Brother Christopher
Released: March 20, 1996
Type: TV
The Sentinel is a Canadian-produced television series. In the jungles of peru, the fight for survival heightened his senses. Now, Detective Jim Ellison is a sentinel in the fight for justice. Anthropologist Blair Sandburg works side by side with Jim, helping him develop these senses.
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Title: Murder One
Character: Gary Blondo
Released: September 20, 1995
Type: TV
Theodore 'Teddy' Hoffman is a highly-regarded defense attorney in a prestigious Los Angeles law firm. Having successfully defended the wealthy but suspicious Richard Cross in a much-publicised murder trial, he is now involved in the defense of Neil Avedon, a famous young actor who has been suffering from severe drug and alcohol problems - and has been charged with the murder for which Cross was acquitted.
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Born to Be Wild
Title: Born to Be Wild
Character: Donald Carr
Released: March 31, 1995
Type: Movie
Rick Heller is a juvenile delinquent who keeps getting himself into trouble. To keep him out of trouble his mother puts him to work cleaning the cage of a gorilla named Katie which she is teaching to communicate through the use of sign language. When the owner of the gorilla takes her back to become a flea market freak Rick takes it upon himself to break Katie out and take her on an adventurous journey to get her out of the country.
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Title: ER
Character: Stuart (voice)
Released: September 19, 1994
Type: TV
ER explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by the dedicated physicians and staff of its overburdened emergency room.
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Title: Diagnosis: Murder
Character: Dr. John Foster
Released: October 29, 1993
Type: TV
Dr. Mark Sloan is a good-natured, offbeat physician who is called upon to solve murders.
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Title: Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
Character: Dr. Emil Hamilton
Released: September 12, 1993
Type: TV
A much more lavish version of the popular Superman television series which had first aired forty years earlier, Lois & Clark focused more on the Man of Steel's early adult years in Metropolis. With the unknowing help of Lois Lane, Clark Kent created Superman there in Metropolis after finding work at the world-famous Daily Planet newspaper, where he meets fellow reporter Lois Lane.
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Percy & Thunder
Title: Percy & Thunder
Character: Bill Slocum
Released: September 7, 1993
Type: Movie
A veteran trainer takes a promising fighter under his wing and lives his dreams through his protégé.
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Eye of the Stranger
Title: Eye of the Stranger
Character: Joe
Released: April 23, 1993
Type: Movie
A stranger comes into town and causes a stir when he stands up for the townfolk, in the face of the intimidation tactics from Mayor Howard Baines. The scheming mayor wants to buy up all the local properties, and has hired two thugs to help 'persuade' the owners to sell.
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Bloodlines: Murder in the Family
Title: Bloodlines: Murder in the Family
Character: Neil Woodman
Released: March 1, 1993
Type: Movie
Stewart and Neil Woodman plot to have their parents murdered.
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Calendar Girl, Cop, Killer? The Bambi Bembenek Story
Title: Calendar Girl, Cop, Killer? The Bambi Bembenek Story
Released: May 18, 1992
Type: Movie
Story of attractive cop Laurencia Bembenek, who, in 1982, was sentenced to prison for killing her husband's ex-wife in Milwaukee, WI.
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Title: Civil Wars
Character: Al Noonan
Released: November 20, 1991
Type: TV
Civil Wars is an American legal drama that aired on ABC from November 1991 to March 1993. The series was produced by Steven Bochco, known for his work on NYPD Blue, L.A. Law and Hill Street Blues. After a brief syndicated run on the FX Network in the mid 90s, the series has not aired since.
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Deadly Game
Title: Deadly Game
Character: Charley Sloan
Released: July 10, 1991
Type: Movie
A group of seven strangers, including a dancer, a doctor, a teacher, and a disgraced former football player, are brought together on an island owned by the mysterious Osirus. There they are told that at some point in their lives, they crossed Osirus and now must face his revenge. The seven must reach a boat on the opposite side of the island before Osirus and his hunters track them down and kill them.
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Vietnam Texas
Title: Vietnam Texas
Released: March 9, 1990
Type: Movie
A priest (Robert Ginty) learns that he fathered a child during his tour of duty in Vietnam and that the mother and child has relocated to Houston, Texas in the Little Saigon quarters. Searching for them, he also finds massive prejudice against the Vietnamese people, particularly among the fishing community in which they are trying to work. Setting out to right the wrongs, the priest tends to use more fisticuffs than friendly, priestly persuasion.
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Murder in Paradise
Title: Murder in Paradise
Character: Wagner Thorne
Released: January 19, 1990
Type: Movie
A stressed-out, big-city cop seeks refuge in Hawaii, only to become embroiled in a serial murder case that appears to be identical to his last case in New York City.
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Paramedics
Title: Paramedics
Character: Doctor Lido
Released: June 1, 1988
Type: Movie
Two paramedics are transferred to the nasty part of the city where a gang is killing people to sell their organs.
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Shattered Innocence
Title: Shattered Innocence
Character: Mel Erman
Released: March 9, 1988
Type: Movie
A high school graduate leaves behind her modest life and finds work in the sex industry, but it ends in disaster. A dramatized account of the life of the adult actress Shauna Grant.
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Title: The Wonder Years
Character: Charlie Barrett
Released: January 31, 1988
Type: TV
The story of Kevin Arnold facing the trials and tribulations of youth while growing up during the 1960s and 70s. Told through narration from an adult Kevin, Kevin faces the difficulties of maintaining relationships and friendships on his enthralling journey into adulthood.
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Title: Beauty and the Beast
Released: September 25, 1987
Type: TV
Beauty and the Beast is an American drama series which first aired on CBS in 1987. Creator Ron Koslow's updated version of the fairy tale has a double focus: the relationship between Vincent, a mythic, noble man-beast, and Catherine, a savvy Assistant District Attorney in New York; and a secret Utopian community of social outcasts living in a subterranean sanctuary. Through an empathetic bond, Vincent senses Catherine's emotions, and becomes her guardian.
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Title: L.A. Law
Character: Mark Kumpel
Released: September 15, 1986
Type: TV
L.A. Law is an American television legal drama series that ran for eight seasons on NBC from September 15, 1986, to May 19, 1994. Created by Steven Bochco and Terry Louise Fisher, it contained many of Bochco's trademark features including a large number of parallel storylines, social drama and off-the-wall humor. It reflected the social and cultural ideologies of the 1980s and early 1990s, and many of the cases featured on the show dealt with hot-topic issues such as abortion, racism, gay rights, homophobia, sexual harassment, AIDS, and domestic violence. The series often also reflected social tensions between the wealthy senior lawyer protagonists and their less well-paid junior staff. The show was popular with audiences and critics, and won 15 Emmy Awards throughout its run, four of which were for Outstanding Drama Series.
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Mrs. Delafield Wants to Marry
Title: Mrs. Delafield Wants to Marry
Character: David Eilas
Released: March 30, 1986
Type: Movie
A rich widow shocks her snobbish WASP family when she decides to marry her Jewish, divorced, doctor. His family is equally shocked.
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Welcome Home, Bobby
Title: Welcome Home, Bobby
Character: John Hammill
Released: February 22, 1986
Type: Movie
When a Chicago teen is arrested for drug possession, the ensuing investigation reveals that he has had sexual contact with an older man. Discovering his sexual encounter, other students start shunning him and call for his expulsion from school. His father as his conservative blue-collar dad also rejects him, while his mother does try to offer support.
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Title: MacGyver
Character: Lancer / Benson
Released: September 29, 1985
Type: TV
He's everyone's favorite action hero... but he's a hero with a difference. Angus MacGyver is a secret agent whose wits are his deadliest weapon. Armed with only a knapsack filled with everyday items he picks up along the way, he improvises his way out of every peril the bad guys throw at him. Making a bomb out of chewing gum? Fixing a speeding car's breaks... while he's riding in it? Using soda pop to cook up tear gas? That's all in a day's adventures for MacGyver. He's part Boy Scout, part genius. And all hero.
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Stormin' Home
Title: Stormin' Home
Character: Al Singer
Released: April 5, 1985
Type: Movie
An aging motor-cross racer, already having lost his wife and daughter to his footlooseness and now about to have his semi-tractor cab repossessed, vows to make one last go of it on his bike in the race of his career.
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Malice in Wonderland
Title: Malice in Wonderland
Character: Tommy Gallep
Released: January 1, 1985
Type: Movie
Struggling actress Hedda Hopper can't get a break in Hollywood, even though an acquaintence of hers is the extremely powerful gossip monger Louella Parsons - maker and breaker of careers (and lives) through her daily syndicated newspaper column. The big movie moguls, fed up with Parson's power over their stars, decide to de-claw her by setting up gossip Hopper as a competitor in the rumour industry. What they couldn't forsee was that Hopper would become as big as Parsons -- and every bit as much of a pain. Based on the true life stories of two of the most powerful (and arguably dangerous) women of Hollywood's hay-day.
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Micki + Maude
Title: Micki + Maude
Character: Hap Ludlow
Released: December 21, 1984
Type: Movie
TV reporter Rob Salinger longs for a baby. But his career-minded wife, Micki, is too busy for motherhood. A romantic fling with a seductive cellist, Maude, leads to her pregnancy. Rob receives another shock when Micki announces that she's also expecting! In love with both women, he marries Maude and starts leading a double life full of complicated and riotous situations.
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Title: Murder, She Wrote
Character: Nicky Saperstein
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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Burning Rage
Title: Burning Rage
Character: Frank Vandenberg
Released: September 21, 1984
Type: Movie
While coal fires burn beneath a depressed mining town a greedy businessman stops at nothing to buy up the mineral rights.
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Title: Highway to Heaven
Released: September 19, 1984
Type: TV
A probationary angel is sent back to Earth to team up with an ex-cop and help people.
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Title: Hunter
Character: Ron Nieman
Released: September 18, 1984
Type: TV
Hunter is an American police drama television series created by Frank Lupo, and starring Fred Dryer as Sgt. Rick Hunter and Stepfanie Kramer as Sgt. Dee Dee McCall, which ran on NBC from 1984 to 1991. However, Kramer left after the sixth season to pursue other acting and musical opportunities. In the seventh season, Hunter partnered with two different women officers. The titular character, Sgt. Rick Hunter, was a wily, physically imposing, and often rule-breaking homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department. The show's main characters, Hunter and McCall, resolve many of their cases by shooting dead the perpetrators. The show's executive producer during the first season was Stephen J. Cannell, whose company produced the series.
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The Kid with the Broken Halo
Title: The Kid with the Broken Halo
Character: Jeff McNulty
Released: April 5, 1982
Type: Movie
Andy LeBeau is a fallen angel of sorts. He keeps messing up and causing trouble in angel training. The archangel, Michael, decides to give him one more shot. His mission: Help out the problems of three cases. First, the Desautel family, who are on the edge of breaking up. Then, the McNulty family, who are workaholics. Finally, Dorothea Powell who is a secluded, grumpy old woman. Andy's guide on earth is Blake, who is none too thrilled to work with Andy.
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Title: Simon & Simon
Released: November 24, 1981
Type: TV
Simon & Simon is an American detective television series that originally ran from November 24, 1981 to January 21, 1989. The series was broadcast on CBS and starred Gerald McRaney and Jameson Parker as two brothers who run a private detective agency together.
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Title: Magnum, P.I.
Released: December 11, 1980
Type: TV
A private investigator who works when he wants, lives in a beachfront estate in Hawaii, drives a posh Ferrari, runs up an unlimited tab at a swank bar, and charms attractive women in peril - that's the lifestyle of Thomas Magnum, aka Magnum, P.I.
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Title: Tenspeed and Brown Shoe
Released: January 27, 1980
Type: TV
Tenspeed and Brown Shoe is an American detective/comedy series originally broadcast by the ABC network between January and June 1980. The series was created and executive produced by Stephen J. Cannell.
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Once Upon a Family
Title: Once Upon a Family
Character: Willie Hedges
Released: January 22, 1980
Type: Movie
A father tries to make it as a single parent when his wife walks out on him and the children.
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Title: Knots Landing
Character: Richard Avery
Released: December 27, 1979
Type: TV
The domestic adventures, misdeeds and everyday interactions of five families living on a cul-de-sac in a small California community.
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Rocky II
Title: Rocky II
Character: Director (uncredited)
Released: June 15, 1979
Type: Movie
After Rocky goes the distance with champ Apollo Creed, both try to put the fight behind them and move on. Rocky settles down with Adrian but can't put his life together outside the ring, while Creed seeks a rematch to restore his reputation. Soon enough, the "Master of Disaster" and the "Italian Stallion" are set on a collision course for a climactic battle that is brutal and unforgettable.
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The Users
Title: The Users
Character: Kip Nathan
Released: October 1, 1978
Type: Movie
A beautiful girl from a small town with dreams of making it in Hollywood marries an actor whose career is fading, then schemes to get him back into the big time - and her with him.
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House Calls
Title: House Calls
Character: Theatrical Agent
Released: March 15, 1978
Type: Movie
Charley is a surgeon who's recently lost his wife; he embarks on a tragicomic romantic quest with one woman after another until he meets up with Ann, a singular woman, closer to his own age, who immediately and unexpectedly captures his heart.
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The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald
Title: The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald
Character: Lee Harvey Oswald
Released: September 30, 1977
Type: Movie
The bizarre story behind the man accused of assassinating John F. Kennedy and what might have happened had he been brought to trial.
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Title: The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries
Released: January 30, 1977
Type: TV
The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries is a television series which aired for three seasons on ABC. The series starred Parker Stevenson and Shaun Cassidy as amateur sleuth brothers Frank and Joe Hardy, respectively, and Pamela Sue Martin as girl detective Nancy Drew. The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries was unusual in that it often dealt with the characters individually, in an almost anthological style. That is, some episodes featured only the Hardy Boys and others only Nancy Drew.
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Rocky
Title: Rocky
Character: Aftershave Commercial Director (uncredited)
Released: November 21, 1976
Type: Movie
An uneducated collector for a Philadelphia loan shark is given a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to fight against the world heavyweight boxing champion.
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Title: Doctors' Hospital
Character: Dr. Danvers
Released: September 10, 1975
Type: TV
Doctors' Hospital is an American medical drama that ran on NBC during the 1975–1976 season.
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Title: The Rockford Files
Character: Julius 'Jay' Rockfelt
Released: September 13, 1974
Type: TV
Cranky but likable L.A. PI Jim Rockford pulls no punches (but takes plenty of them). An ex-con sent to the slammer for a crime he didn't commit, Rockford takes on cases others don't want, aided by his tough old man, his lawyer girlfriend and some shady associates from his past.
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Title: The Rockford Files
Character: Danny Green
Released: September 13, 1974
Type: TV
Cranky but likable L.A. PI Jim Rockford pulls no punches (but takes plenty of them). An ex-con sent to the slammer for a crime he didn't commit, Rockford takes on cases others don't want, aided by his tough old man, his lawyer girlfriend and some shady associates from his past.
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Title: The Rockford Files
Character: Danny Green / Jackie Tetuska
Released: September 13, 1974
Type: TV
Cranky but likable L.A. PI Jim Rockford pulls no punches (but takes plenty of them). An ex-con sent to the slammer for a crime he didn't commit, Rockford takes on cases others don't want, aided by his tough old man, his lawyer girlfriend and some shady associates from his past.
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Title: Kojak
Character: Resident
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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Parades
Title: Parades
Character: Murray
Released: July 23, 1972
Type: Movie
An American soldier sent to Vietnam goes AWOL and returns to his hometown. His parents turn him over to military authorities. He is court-martialled and sent to the toughest military prison...
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End of the Road
Title: End of the Road
Character: Finkle
Released: February 10, 1970
Type: Movie
After a catatonic episode on a railway station platform, Jacob Horner is taken to "The Farm"...
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Her Name Was Ellie, His Name Was Lyle
Title: Her Name Was Ellie, His Name Was Lyle
Character: Bruce
Released: September 25, 1967
Type: Movie
In New York City, a relationship is threatened when a young man discovers he's caught syphilis from a tryst with a waitress named Ellie. This threatens his relationship with a new girl. Film critic Amy Taubin co-stars as the new girl who gets the bad news. The director is apparently the same man who edited Fritz Lang's The Testament of Dr. Mabuse.
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Title: The Patty Duke Show
Released: September 18, 1963
Type: TV
The Patty Duke Show is an American sitcom which ran on ABC from September 18, 1963 to April 27, 1966, with reruns airing through August 31, 1966. The show was created as a vehicle for rising star Patty Duke. A total of 104 episodes were produced, most written by Sidney Sheldon.