Richard Avonde

Richard Avonde

Born: May 22, 1914
Died: January 24, 1981
in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Movies for Richard Avonde...

The Female Animal
Title: The Female Animal
Character: Lily's Gigolo Pepe (uncredited)
Released: January 22, 1958
Type: Movie
Jaded movie star Vanessa Windsor, saved from a studio accident by handsome extra Chris Farley, pursues him, and soon he's the 'caretaker' of her beach house. Vanessa's sexy, alcoholic adult daughter Penny accidentally meets Chris, who rescues her from an 'octopus' boyfriend. Before you know it, Chris is involved with both mother and daughter, and his only way out is to take a job in a Mexican picture about man-eating orchids...
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Looking for Danger
Title: Looking for Danger
Character: Col. Ahmed Tabari
Released: October 6, 1957
Type: Movie
Sach and the gang (Bowery Boys) fool Nazis and a sultan in North Africa.
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Title: The Adventures of Jim Bowie
Character: Count Victor De Nivernais
Released: September 7, 1956
Type: TV
The Adventures of Jim Bowie is an American Western television series that aired on ABC from 1956 to 1958. Its setting was the 1830s-era Louisiana Territory. The series was an adaptation of the book Tempered Blade, by Monte Barrett. The series stars Scott Forbes as the real-life adventurer Jim Bowie. The series initially portrayed Jim Bowie as something of an outdoors-man, riding his horse through the wilderness near his home in Opelousas, where he would stumble across someone needing his assistance. He was aided by the Bowie Knife, his ever-present weapon. He designed it in the first episode, The Birth of the Blade.
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The Purple Mask
Title: The Purple Mask
Character: Roger
Released: June 15, 1955
Type: Movie
France, 1803: 11 years after the Revolution, a royalist underground is led by a new 'Scarlet Pimpernel', the Purple Mask, who rescues nobles in distress and kidnaps Napoleon's officials for ransom, aided by the spy services of a group of lovely models headed by Laurette (really the Duc de Latour's daughter). But even she doesn't know the Purple Mask's real identity as foppish dancing master Rene...
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Secret of Outlaw Flats
Title: Secret of Outlaw Flats
Character: Dick Howard
Released: November 15, 1953
Type: Movie
Two episodes from the "Wild Bill Hickok" TV series edited together and released as a feature.
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Vigilante Terror
Title: Vigilante Terror
Character: Artie
Released: November 15, 1953
Type: Movie
Vigilante Terror was one of the last of the "Wild Bill" Elliot westerns for Columbia. This time, Elliot comes to rescue an imperiled storekeeper. A band of masked vigilantes is laying waste to the countryside, and the storekeeper is blamed. Wild Bill saves the day by going undercover -- or under hood, as it were
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Shadows of Tombstone
Title: Shadows of Tombstone
Character: Deputy Todd
Released: September 18, 1953
Type: Movie
Rancher Rex Allen captures a bandit, Delgado, a henchman for crooked Sheriff Webb and saloon owner Mike, who run the town to suit themselves, but Rex forces the sheriff to jail Delgado. When Marge, who runs the town newspaper tells Rex she is afraid to attack the sheriff in print, Rex decides to run for sheriff. Webb and Mike frame Rex and his partner Slim on a murder charge and they are jailed.
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The 49th Man
Title: The 49th Man
Character: Buzz Olin
Released: May 20, 1953
Type: Movie
Two federal agents do not believe an atomic-bomb threat is just another war game.
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Savage Frontier
Title: Savage Frontier
Character: Cherokee Kid
Released: May 15, 1953
Type: Movie
Sam is a parolee who has paid for his dirty deeds. Now determined to go straight and help take care of his hot headed brother and devoted sister, he becomes set upon by both the law, represented by Federal Marshall Rocky Lane, and by his former outlaw buddies led by the notorious William Oakes.
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Fangs of the Arctic
Title: Fangs of the Arctic
Character: Henchman Cheval
Released: January 18, 1953
Type: Movie
Canadian Mounties Corporal Rod Webb and Constable Mike Kelly, along with Rod's dog Chinook, are sent to the Blackfoot Crossing country to find a killer.
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Dead Man's Trail
Title: Dead Man's Trail
Character: Henchman Stewart
Released: July 19, 1952
Type: Movie
Johnny Mack Brown was nearing the end of his starring career when he appeared in the Monogram oater Dead Man's Trail. Brown and his youthful sidekick Jimmy Ellison come to the aid of imperiled Barbara Allen. At this point, Johnny was too long in tooth and thick around the middle to qualify as a romantic lead, hence the presence of Ellison.
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Outlaw Women
Title: Outlaw Women
Character: Frank Slater
Released: April 28, 1952
Type: Movie
A old west town run by women. All the town's business is controlled by a woman gambler who tries not to succumb to the allure of a handsome and persistent cowboy.
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Wild Horse Ambush
Title: Wild Horse Ambush
Character: Juan Reyes (aka Jalisco)
Released: April 15, 1952
Type: Movie
A man has kidnaped an engraver and has him forging Mexican bills. He captures wild horses supposedly to sell for hides but uses them to transport the bills across the border. Police captain Juan Reyes (Richard Avonde) is posing as a bandit to uncover the counterfeiters smuggling fake pesos into Mexico, and is assisted by feisty youngsters Red (Michael Chapin) and Judy (Eilene Janssen), who are trying to protect the wild horses being used by the gang. The kids suspect that rancher Big John Harkins (Roy Barcroft) is the leader of the gang and that he is forcing Mexican artist Espinosa (Julian Rivero) to help him.
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Waco
Title: Waco
Character: Pedro
Released: February 24, 1952
Type: Movie
After killing a man in self defense over a poker game, Wild Bill Elliott turns outlaw in order to escape a lynch mob.
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The Gunman
Title: The Gunman
Character: Henchman Curt Blake
Released: January 1, 1952
Type: Movie
Terrorized citizens send for a Texas lawman to rid their town of bandits.
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Lawless Cowboys
Title: Lawless Cowboys
Character: Ace Malloy
Released: November 7, 1951
Type: Movie
Monogram's Whip Wilson western series was in its final year of existence when Lawless Cowboys hit the screen. Set in the contemporary West, the film casts Wilson as a Texas Ranger on the trail of a crooked gambling ring.
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Oklahoma Justice
Title: Oklahoma Justice
Character: Henchman Hartley
Released: August 18, 1951
Type: Movie
Johnny Mack Brown goes up against a lady bank robber in this average Mack Brown series late-entry from Monogram. The lady, played by Barbara Allen, is of course called "Ma." In order to get the goods on "Ma" and her "brood," Mack Brown must masquerade as a lone bandit.
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Cyrano de Bergerac
Title: Cyrano de Bergerac
Character: Marquis
Released: November 16, 1950
Type: Movie
France, 1640. Cyrano, the charismatic swordsman-poet with the absurd nose, hopelessly loves the beauteous Roxane; she, in turn, confesses to Cyrano her love for the handsome but tongue-tied Christian. The chivalrous Cyrano sets up with Christian an innocent deception, with tragic results.
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Captain Carey, U.S.A.
Title: Captain Carey, U.S.A.
Character: Count Carlo de Cresci
Released: February 21, 1950
Type: Movie
Near the end of World War II, a secret American raid on an enemy transportation hub goes very wrong when a turncoat warns the enemy. Led by Capt. Webster Carey, the mission causes the deaths of many bystanders -- among them, Carey believes, his Italian girlfriend, Giulia de Graffi. Back home, Carey stumbles across evidence that might uncover the identity of the informant. But, when he returns to Italy to get even, Carey is stunned by what he finds.
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Tuna Clipper
Title: Tuna Clipper
Character: Pete
Released: April 11, 1949
Type: Movie
Hoping to become a lawyer, Alec (Roddy McDowall) becomes a tuna fisherman in order to pay a debt. This turn of events puts Alec on the outs with his taciturn family. Eventually, the lad proves himself on all fronts, and is welcomed back into the family fold.