Joseph La Cava

Joseph La Cava

Born: September 16, 1908
Died: February 4, 1992

Movies for Joseph La Cava...

Mame
Title: Mame
Character: Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
Released: March 7, 1974
Type: Movie
The madcap life of eccentric Mame Dennis and her bohemian, intellectual arty clique is disrupted when her deceased brother's 10-year-old son Patrick is entrusted to her care. Rather than bow to convention, Mame introduces the boy to her free-wheeling lifestyle, instilling in him her favorite credo, "Life is a banquet, and most poor sons of bitches are starving to death."
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Title: The Six Million Dollar Man
Character: Croupier
Released: January 18, 1974
Type: TV
Follow the adventures of Steve Austin, cybernetically enhanced astronaut turned secret agent, employed by the OSI, under the command of Oscar Goldman and supervised by the scientist who created his cybernetics, Rudy Wells. Steve uses the superior strength and speed provided by his bionic arm and legs, and the enhanced vision provided by his artificial eye, to fight enemy agents, aliens, mad scientists, and a wide variety of other villains.
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Black Gunn
Title: Black Gunn
Character: Waiter (uncredited)
Released: December 20, 1972
Type: Movie
A successful and popular nightclub owner who believes financial independence is the path to equality and success, must act as a go-between for militant-minded brother and the white gang syndicate his brother has attacked and robbed. Their involvements lead to a breathless race course chase, the destruction of a dopepusher and a violent waterfront climax.
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Title: Banacek
Character: Bartender (uncredited)
Released: September 13, 1972
Type: TV
Banacek is an American detective TV series starring George Peppard that aired on the NBC network from 1972 to 1974. The series was part of the rotating NBC Wednesday Mystery Movie anthology. It alternated in its time slot with several other shows but was the only one to last beyond its first season.
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Evil Roy Slade
Title: Evil Roy Slade
Character: Bank Customer (uncredited)
Released: February 18, 1972
Type: Movie
Orphaned and left in the desert as an infant, Evil Roy Slade (John Astin) grew up alone—save for his teddy bear—and mean. As an adult, he is notorious for being the "meanest villain in the West"—so he's thrown for quite a loop when he falls for sweet schoolteacher Betsy Potter (Pamela Austin). There's also Nelson L. Stool (Mickey Rooney), a railroad tycoon, who, along with his dimwitted nephew Clifford (Henry Gibson), is trying to get revenge on Evil Roy Slade for robbing him.
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Title: Columbo
Character: Medical Examiner (uncredited)
Released: September 15, 1971
Type: TV
Columbo is a friendly, verbose, disheveled-looking police detective who is consistently underestimated by his suspects. Despite his unprepossessing appearance and apparent absentmindedness, he shrewdly solves all of his cases and secures all evidence needed for indictment. His formidable eye for detail and meticulously dedicated approach often become clear to the killer only late in the storyline.
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Escape from the Planet of the Apes
Title: Escape from the Planet of the Apes
Character: Waiter (uncredited)
Released: May 20, 1971
Type: Movie
The world is shocked by the appearance of three talking chimpanzees, who arrived mysteriously in a spacecraft. Intrigued by their intelligence, humans use them for research - until the apes attempt to escape.
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Tora! Tora! Tora!
Title: Tora! Tora! Tora!
Character: Official (uncredited)
Released: January 26, 1970
Type: Movie
In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. "Tora! Tora! Tora!", named after the code words use by the lead Japanese pilot to indicate they had surprised the Americans, covers the days leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor, which plunged America into the Second World War.
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Yours, Mine and Ours
Title: Yours, Mine and Ours
Character: Wedding Guest (uncredited)
Released: April 24, 1968
Type: Movie
When a widower with ten children marries a widow with eight, can the twenty of them ever come together as one big happy family?
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Point Blank
Title: Point Blank
Character: Conventioneer (uncredited)
Released: August 30, 1967
Type: Movie
After being double-crossed and left for dead, a mysterious man named Walker single-mindedly tries to retrieve the rather inconsequential sum of money that was stolen from him.
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Frankie and Johnny
Title: Frankie and Johnny
Character: Croupier (uncredited)
Released: March 31, 1966
Type: Movie
Johnny is a riverboat entertainer with a big gambling problem. After a fortune-teller tells Johnny how he can change his luck, the appearance of a new 'lady luck' soon causes a cat fight with Johnny's girlfriend, Frankie.
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Strange Bedfellows
Title: Strange Bedfellows
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Released: February 9, 1965
Type: Movie
After a hasty wedding, Carter and Toni find that they disagree on everything. They separate and seven years later, on the eve before their divorce, meet again and spend the night together. Reality sets in when morning comes and they begin arguing again. Once again, divorce proceedings are on — until Carter finds out that an important promotion hinges on whether he's married.
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Send Me No Flowers
Title: Send Me No Flowers
Character: Commuter (uncredited)
Released: October 14, 1964
Type: Movie
At one of his many visits to his doctor, hypochondriac George Kimball mistakes a dying man's diagnosis for his own and believes he only has about two more weeks to live. Wanting to take care of his wife Judy, he doesn't tell her and tries to find her a new husband. When he finally does tell her, she quickly finds out he's not dying at all (while he doesn't) and she believes it's just a lame excuse to hide an affair, so she decides to leave him.
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Looking for Love
Title: Looking for Love
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
Released: August 5, 1964
Type: Movie
An aspiring young singer unexpectedly gets her big break by inventing a specialized clothes rack.
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Robin and the 7 Hoods
Title: Robin and the 7 Hoods
Character: Juror
Released: June 24, 1964
Type: Movie
In prohibition-era Chicago, the corrupt sheriff and Guy Gisborne, a south-side racketeer, knock off the boss Big Jim. Everyone falls in line behind Guy except Robbo, who controls the north side. Although he's out-gunned, Robbo wants to keep his own territory. A pool-playing dude from Indiana and the director of a boys' orphanage join forces with Robbo; and, when he gives some money to the orphanage, he becomes the toast of the town as a hood like Robin Hood. Meanwhile, Guy schemes to get rid of Robbo, and Big Jim's heretofore unknown daughter Marian appears and goes from man to man trying to find an ally in her quest to run the whole show. Can Robbo hold things together?
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The Incredible Mr. Limpet
Title: The Incredible Mr. Limpet
Character: Officer at Fleet Admiral's Briefing (uncredited)
Released: March 28, 1964
Type: Movie
Milquetoast Henry Limpet experiences his fondest wish and is transformed into a fish. As a talking fish he assists the US Navy in hunting German submarines during World War II.
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Viva Las Vegas
Title: Viva Las Vegas
Character: Waiter (uncredited)
Released: February 8, 1964
Type: Movie
Lucky Jackson arrives in town with his car literally in tow ready for the first Las Vegas Grand Prix - once he has the money to buy an engine. He gets the cash easily enough but mislays it when the pretty swimming pool manageress takes his mind off things. It seems he will lose both race and girl, problems made more difficult by rivalry from Elmo Mancini, fellow racer and womaniser.
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Seven Days in May
Title: Seven Days in May
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
Released: February 1, 1964
Type: Movie
A U.S. Army colonel alerts the president of a planned military coup against him.
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The Wheeler Dealers
Title: The Wheeler Dealers
Character: Waiter (uncredited)
Released: November 14, 1963
Type: Movie
Henry J. Tyroon leaves Texas, where his oil wells are drying up, and arrives in New York with a lot of oil money to play with in the stock market. He meets stock analyst Molly Thatcher, who tries to ignore the lavish attention he spends on her but, in the end, she falls for his charm.
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Johnny Cool
Title: Johnny Cool
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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Gypsy
Title: Gypsy
Character: Audience Member (uncredited)
Released: November 1, 1962
Type: Movie
Mama Rose lives to see her daughter June succeed on Broadway by way of vaudeville. When June marries and leaves, Rose turns her hope and attention to her elder, less obviously talented, daughter Louise. However, having her headlining as a stripper at Minsky's Burlesque is not what she initially has in mind.
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Sammy, the Way-Out Seal
Title: Sammy, the Way-Out Seal
Character: Waiter (uncredited)
Released: October 28, 1962
Type: Movie
Two young brothers secretly bring home a seal from their summer vacation and try to hide it from Mom and Dad. Havoc ensues as Sammy's antics disrupt the quiet town of Gatesville and its unsuspecting residents.
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Advise & Consent
Title: Advise & Consent
Character: Senator (uncredited)
Released: June 6, 1962
Type: Movie
Proposed by the President of the United States to fill the post of Secretary of State, Robert Leffingwell appears before a Senate committee, chaired by the idealistic Senator Brig Anderson, which must decide whether he is the right person for the job.
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Tender Is the Night
Title: Tender Is the Night
Character: Bartender (uncredited)
Released: January 19, 1962
Type: Movie
Against the counsel of his friends, psychiatrist Dick Diver marries Nicole Warren, a beautiful but unstable young woman from a moneyed family. Thoroughly enraptured, he forsakes his career in medicine for life as a playboy, until one day Dick is charmed by Rosemary Hoyt, an American traveling abroad. The thought of Dick possibly being attracted to someone else sends Nicole on an emotional downward spiral that threatens to consume them both.
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The Comancheros
Title: The Comancheros
Character: Dealer (uncredited)
Released: December 22, 1961
Type: Movie
Texas Ranger Jake Cutter arrests gambler Paul Regret, but soon finds himself teamed with his prisoner in an undercover effort to defeat a band of renegade arms merchants and thieves known as Comancheros.
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King of the Roaring 20's – The Story of Arnold Rothstein
Title: King of the Roaring 20's – The Story of Arnold Rothstein
Character: Waiter (uncredited)
Released: June 11, 1961
Type: Movie
Gambler Arnold Rothstein marries an actress, avenges his buddy and meets an underworld fate.
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Seven Thieves
Title: Seven Thieves
Character: Croupier (uncredited)
Released: March 11, 1960
Type: Movie
A discredited professor and a sophisticated thief decide to join together and pick a team to pull off one last job--the casino vault in Monte Carlo.
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The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond
Title: The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond
Character: Club Patron (uncredited)
Released: February 3, 1960
Type: Movie
Jack Diamond and his sickly brother arrive in prohibition New York as jewelry thieves. After a spell in jail, the coldly ambitious Diamond hits on the idea of stealing from thieves himself and sets about getting close to gangster boss Arnold Rothstein to move in on his booze, girls, gambling, and drugs operations.
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Holiday for Lovers
Title: Holiday for Lovers
Character: Bullfight spectator
Released: July 21, 1959
Type: Movie
Clifton Webb as a strict, conservative father heads the cast of this 1959 comedy, about an American family vacationing in South America. Directed by Henry Levin, the film also features Jane Wyman, Jill St. John, Carol Lynley, Paul Henreid, Gary Crosby, Henny Backus, Wally Brown, Gardner McKay and Jose Greco.
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The Monster of Piedras Blancas
Title: The Monster of Piedras Blancas
Character: Mike
Released: April 22, 1959
Type: Movie
An old lighthouse keeper who lives with his daughter secretly keeps a prehistoric fish-man by feeding it scraps and fish. One day he misses the feeding and all hell breaks loose.
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Some Like It Hot
Title: Some Like It Hot
Character: Gangster at Convention (uncredited)
Released: March 19, 1959
Type: Movie
Two musicians witness a mob hit and struggle to find a way out of the city before they are found by the gangsters. Their only opportunity is to join an all-girl band as they leave on a tour. To make their getaway they must first disguise themselves as women, then keep their identities secret and deal with the problems this brings - such as an attractive bandmate and a very determined suitor.
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The Last Hurrah
Title: The Last Hurrah
Character: Man at Campaign HQ (uncredited)
Released: December 31, 1958
Type: Movie
In a changing world where television has become the main source of information, Adam Caulfield, a young sports journalist, witnesses how his uncle, Frank Skeffington, a veteran and honest politician, mayor of a New England town, tries to be reelected while bankers and captains of industry conspire in the shadows to place a weak and manageable candidate in the city hall.
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The Joker Is Wild
Title: The Joker Is Wild
Character: Waiter (uncredited)
Released: September 26, 1957
Type: Movie
Prohibition-era nightclub crooner Joe E. Lewis has his career and nearly his life cut short when his throat is slashed as payback for leaving the employ of Chicago mob boss Georgie Parker. A broken alcoholic, Joe is brought back from the abyss by his faithful piano player, Austin Mack, who helps turn the former singer into a successful stand-up comedian. But Joe's demons plague his romantic life even as he reaches new heights of success.
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Sweet Smell of Success
Title: Sweet Smell of Success
Character: Waiter at 21 (uncredited)
Released: July 4, 1957
Type: Movie
New York City newspaper writer J.J. Hunsecker holds considerable sway over public opinion with his Broadway column, but one thing that he can't control is his younger sister, Susan, who is in a relationship with aspiring jazz guitarist Steve Dallas. Hunsecker strongly disapproves of the romance and recruits publicist Sidney Falco to find a way to split the couple, no matter how ruthless the method.
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The Harder They Fall
Title: The Harder They Fall
Character: Manager (uncredited)
Released: May 9, 1956
Type: Movie
Jobless sportswriter Eddie Willis is hired by corrupt fight promoter Nick Benko to promote his current protégé, an unknown Argentinian boxer named Toro Moreno. Although Moreno is a hulking giant, his chances for success are hampered by a powder-puff punch and a glass jaw. Exploiting Willis' reputation for integrity and standing in the boxing community, Benko arranges a series of fixed fights that propel the unsophisticated Moreno to #1 contender for the championship. The reigning champ, the sadistic Buddy Brannen, harbors resentment at the publicity Toro has been receiving and vows to viciously punish him in the ring. Eddie must now decide whether or not to tell the naive Toro the truth.
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Lightning Strikes Twice
Title: Lightning Strikes Twice
Released: April 12, 1951
Type: Movie
Sent to a dude ranch in the west to recover her health, a New York actress falls in love with a ranch owner recently acquitted of the murder of his wife.
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The Set-Up
Title: The Set-Up
Character: Fight Spectator (uncredited)
Released: March 29, 1949
Type: Movie
Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter.
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Three Daring Daughters
Title: Three Daring Daughters
Character: Bartender (uncredited)
Released: February 12, 1948
Type: Movie
Three young girls try to help their divorced mother find the right husband.
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Who Done It?
Title: Who Done It?
Character: Station Employee (uncredited)
Released: October 30, 1942
Type: Movie
Two dumb soda jerks dream of writing radio mysteries. When they try to pitch an idea at a radio station, they end up in the middle of a real murder when the station owner is killed during a broadcast.
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Ride 'Em Cowboy
Title: Ride 'Em Cowboy
Character: Poker Player (uncredited)
Released: February 13, 1942
Type: Movie
Two peanut vendors at a rodeo show get in trouble with their boss and hide out on a railroad train heading west. They get jobs as cowboys on a dude ranch, despite the fact that neither of them knows anything about cowboys, horses, or anything else.
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Hold That Ghost
Title: Hold That Ghost
Character: Little Fink (uncredited)
Released: August 8, 1941
Type: Movie
Two bumbling service station attendants are left as the sole beneficiaries in a gangster's will. Their trip to claim their fortune is sidetracked when they are stranded in a haunted house along with several other strangers.
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City for Conquest
Title: City for Conquest
Character: Dance Contestant (uncredited)
Released: September 21, 1940
Type: Movie
The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and struggle through their impoverished lives in New York City. When Peggy, hoping for something better in life for both of them, breaks off her engagement to Danny, he sets out to be a championship boxer, while she becomes a dancer paired with a sleazy partner. Will tragedy reunite the former lovers?