Douglas Dick

Douglas Dick

Born: November 20, 1920
Died: December 19, 2015
in Charleston, West Virginia, USA
Douglas Dick (November 20, 1920 - December 19, 2015) was a retired American actor and occasional screenwriter. His most famous role came in the 1948 film Rope. In 1971, Dick left the entertainment industry to work as a psychologist.

Movies for Douglas Dick...

Rope Unleashed
Title: Rope Unleashed
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: March 6, 2001
Type: Movie
A short documentary about the filming of Alfred Hitchcock's 'Rope'. Interviews with screenwriter Arthur Laurents delve into the troubles of secretly making a movie about gay murderers in the 1940s.
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Flaming Star
Title: Flaming Star
Character: Will Howard
Released: December 20, 1960
Type: Movie
Sam Burton's second wife is a Kiowa, and their son is therefore born mixed-race. When a struggle starts between the whites and the native Kiowas, the Burton family is split between loyalties.
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North to Alaska
Title: North to Alaska
Character: Lieutenant
Released: November 7, 1960
Type: Movie
After striking gold in Alaska, the romantic George sends his womanizing partner Sam to bring his fiancée up from Seattle. When Sam finds that she has already married, he returns instead with Angel, a dancer originally from France.
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Title: Alcoa Theatre
Character: Gordon Kennedy
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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Title: Perry Mason
Character: Ted Harberson
Released: September 21, 1957
Type: TV
The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.
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Title: Perry Mason
Character: Peter Caine
Released: September 21, 1957
Type: TV
The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.
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The Oklahoman
Title: The Oklahoman
Character: Mel Dobie
Released: May 19, 1957
Type: Movie
After his wife dies in childbirth, a doctor settles down in the small Oklahoma town of Cherokee Wells to raise his newborn daughter. Unfortunately, not all the citizens there are hospitable, especially when the doctor hires a pretty Indian teenager as his child's nanny.
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Footsteps in the Night
Title: Footsteps in the Night
Character: Henry Johnson
Released: April 14, 1957
Type: Movie
Two detectives investigate the strangulation murder of a man whom everyone seemed to like.
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Day is Done
Title: Day is Done
Character: Cpl. Carlson
Released: October 12, 1955
Type: Movie
During the 1951 rout of the American army in Korea, a battle-hardened sergeant tries to reinvigorate his men with a bugle picked up by the side of the road.
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Title: Waterfront
Character: Carl Herrick
Released: August 21, 1954
Type: TV
Waterfront is an 1954-1955 American series following the adventures of tugboat captain John Herrick, played by Preston Foster.
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The Gambler from Natchez
Title: The Gambler from Natchez
Character: Claude St. Germaine
Released: August 4, 1954
Type: Movie
A discharged army Captain returns home to New Orleans to take revenge on the men who murdered his father.
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So This Is Love
Title: So This Is Love
Character: Bryan Curtis
Released: July 15, 1953
Type: Movie
Film biography of opera star Grace Moore, released in 1953.
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The Iron Mistress
Title: The Iron Mistress
Character: Narcisse de Bornay
Released: November 19, 1952
Type: Movie
In this biopic, Jim Bowie goes to New Orleans, where he falls for Judalon and befriends her brother, Narcisse. Soon, Jim is forced to avenge Narcisse's murder, but Judalon takes up with another man. Jim eventually has another romantic interlude with Judalon and is forced to kill one of her suitors in self-defense. Jim leaves town, and falls for the daughter of a Texas politician, but his entanglement with Judalon continues to bedevil him.
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A Yank in Indo-China
Title: A Yank in Indo-China
Released: April 2, 1952
Type: Movie
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Something to Live For
Title: Something to Live For
Character: Baker
Released: March 7, 1952
Type: Movie
Advertising executive Alan Miller, a recovered alcoholic who now does interventions on behalf of Alcoholics Anonymous, is called to help Broadway actress Jenny Carey whose developing career is threatened by an increasing dependence on alcohol. Alan's growing interest in Jenny strains his marriage to Edna, with whom he has two children.
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The Red Badge of Courage
Title: The Red Badge of Courage
Character: The Lieutenant
Released: September 27, 1951
Type: Movie
Truncated adaptation of Stephen Crane's novel about a Civil War Union soldier who stuggles to find the courage to fight in the heat of battle.
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Home of the Brave
Title: Home of the Brave
Character: Major Robinson
Released: May 12, 1949
Type: Movie
A sensitive, educated black man's World War II-time problems. This is essentially the duplicate of his peace-time problems which are pointed up in a flashback of his life, and primarily of his war-time adventures with four white soldiers on a dangerous reconnaissance mission on a Japanese-held island.
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The Accused
Title: The Accused
Character: Bill Perry
Released: January 12, 1949
Type: Movie
A prim psychology professor fights to hide a murder she committed in self-defense.
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Casbah
Title: Casbah
Character: Carlo
Released: April 1, 1948
Type: Movie
Pepe Le Moko leads a gang of jewel thieves in the Casbah of Algiers, where he has exiled himself to escape imprisonment in his native France.
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Rope
Title: Rope
Character: Kenneth Lawrence
Released: March 11, 1948
Type: Movie
Two men murder a man in cold blood for the thrill and invite his parents over for a celebration to prove they have committed the perfect crime, but they also have to deal with their former schoolmaster, who becomes suspicious.
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Saigon
Title: Saigon
Character: Captain Mike Perry
Released: December 5, 1947
Type: Movie
After World War II Larry learns that his flying buddy Mike will only live a short time despite the efforts of the doctors. He takes on a profitable flying job for profiteers Maris to finance a good time for his buddy. As the plane takes off he shoves Maris' secretary Susan on board. When Mike falls for her, Larry tells her to play along for Mike's sake. She, of course, falls for Larry.
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The Searching Wind
Title: The Searching Wind
Character: Sam Hazen
Released: August 9, 1946
Type: Movie
With a screenplay adapted by Lillian Hellman from her own play, director William Dieterle's 1946 drama stars Robert Young as a U.S. ambassador in Europe in the years before WW2.