Jack Betts

Jack Betts

Born: April 11, 1929
in Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
Jack Betts was born on April 11, 1929 in Jersey City, New Jersey, USA. He is an actor, known for Spider-Man (2002), Falling Down (1993) and 8MM (1999).

Movies for Jack Betts...

D-Railed
Title: D-Railed
Character: The Conductor
Released: December 1, 2018
Type: Movie
Passengers on a murder mystery train that crashes into a river must decide whether to risk waiting for help in the wreckage or take their chances in the murky depths below.
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Garlic and Gunpowder
Title: Garlic and Gunpowder
Character: Bookstore Owner
Released: March 16, 2018
Type: Movie
Depending on who's talking, a comet is on track to destroy the planet. Sonny and Archie, two Mafia wise guys, plan on stashing their valuables and retiring just in case they survive.
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The Red Maple Leaf
Title: The Red Maple Leaf
Character: Alfonso Palermo's LA Driver
Released: February 24, 2017
Type: Movie
A detective, who is deeply grieving over the tragic loss of his wife and daughter, becomes determined to find the kidnapped daughter of the U.S. Ambassador, no matter what the cost.
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Silver Skies
Title: Silver Skies
Character: Mickey
Released: September 22, 2016
Type: Movie
A group of eccentric retirees' lives are turned upside down when their beloved apartment complex is suddenly sold out from under them.
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The Secret of Joy
Title: The Secret of Joy
Character: Merlin / Grampa
Released: April 1, 2016
Type: Movie
A girl's dream in King Arthur's world, a land populated by valiant knights, beautiful fairies, little elves and monsters to be defeated. A world of beauty only a child can imagine; a tale that enchants the viewers.
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Title: Recovery Road
Character: Grandpa Joe Ashby
Released: January 25, 2016
Type: TV
Maddie is a teenage girl dealing with addiction who has a reputation as a party girl who doesn’t think she has a problem, until she’s confronted one day by her school guidance counselor and is forced to choose between expulsion and rehab. Maddie makes the difficult decision to live with other recovering addicts at a sober living facility while facing the daily pressures of her teenage life. Based on the popular young adult novel by Blake Nelson.
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Job's Daughter
Title: Job's Daughter
Character: Sam Morrison
Released: January 1, 2016
Type: Movie
A troubled teenager walks into a grocery store carrying assault rifles killing many people. An investigation is held to answer questions as to why the teenager did this? How did a minor teenager get his hands on all those assault weapons?
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To Dust Return
Title: To Dust Return
Character: Mr. Owen
Released: July 10, 2015
Type: Movie
Sam Jaeger and Jennifer Morrison play a couple struggling to cope with the death of their newborn son. In his despair, the husband must transform how he sees his wife and find a way to accept her dark wisdom.
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Title: The Mentalist
Character: Other Mobster
Released: September 23, 2008
Type: TV
Patrick Jane, a former celebrity psychic medium, uses his razor sharp skills of observation and expertise at "reading" people to solve serious crimes with the California Bureau of Investigation.
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Being Michael Madsen
Title: Being Michael Madsen
Character: James J. Perry
Released: September 28, 2007
Type: Movie
Actor Michael Madsen turns the tables on notorious paparazzo, Billy Dant, by hiring a trio of documentary filmmakers to chronicle Dant's life, loves, and troubles.
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Title: The Unit
Released: March 7, 2006
Type: TV
A covert team of special forces operatives risk their lives on undercover missions around the globe, while their wives maintain the homefront, protecting their husbands' secrets.
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Title: My Name Is Earl
Character: Prosecutor
Released: September 20, 2005
Type: TV
When petty criminal Earl Hickey wins the lottery, he sets off on a quest to repair his questionable karma.
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Title: Zoey 101
Character: Mr. Hodges
Released: January 9, 2005
Type: TV
Zoey 101 is an American television series which originally aired on Nickelodeon from January 9, 2005 until May 2, 2008. It focuses on the lives of teenager Zoey Brooks and her friends as they attend Pacific Coast Academy, a fictional boarding school in Southern California. It was created by Dan Schneider. It was initially filmed at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California, then at stages in Valencia, California beginning in season 3. It was nominated for an "Outstanding Children's Program" Emmy in 2005. Zoey 101 was the most expensive production ever for Nickelodeon series, as it was shot completely on location in Malibu. It was also Nickelodeon's best performance for a series premiere in almost eight years. Despite this, many critics have made negative comments about the show, its setting, and its characters.
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Irish Eyes
Title: Irish Eyes
Character: Jack McGuire
Released: July 22, 2004
Type: Movie
"Irish Eyes" explores the relationship between two Irish-American brothers in Boston born to immigrant parents and raised in a rough, working class Irish neighborhood. After watching their father being gunned down in front of their eyes as children, Thomas and Sean Phelan grow up building their lives on opposite ends of the law. Thomas, the studious and responsible brother, creates a better life for himself through education and hard, honest work. Eventually, he builds a successful career as a US Attorney. Sean, the more rebellious of the two, gets caught up in a life of crime and rises through the ranks to become the head of the Irish Mob.
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The Commission
Title: The Commission
Character: Allen Dulles
Released: November 7, 2003
Type: Movie
Using transcripts from the Warren Commission Report, this film documents the workings of the Warren Commission, which investigated the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963.
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Title: Monk
Character: Cowboy Hank
Released: July 12, 2002
Type: TV
Adrian Monk was once a rising star with the San Francisco Police Department, legendary for using unconventional means to solve the department's most baffling cases. But after the tragic (and still unsolved) murder of his wife Trudy, he developed an extreme case of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Now working as a private consultant, Monk continues to investigate cases in the most unconventional ways.
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Spider-Man
Title: Spider-Man
Character: Henry Balkan
Released: May 1, 2002
Type: Movie
After being bitten by a genetically altered spider at Oscorp, nerdy but endearing high school student Peter Parker is endowed with amazing powers to become the superhero known as Spider-Man.
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Critical Mass
Title: Critical Mass
Character: Atty. Gen. Ames
Released: July 4, 2001
Type: Movie
Jeffers works security at a nuclear power plant. The plant is being decommissioned, and a politician is touring the plant and videotaping his comments regarding the closing. A terrorist group led by Samson gets inside the gates, with their ultimate goal the detonation of a nuclear bomb inside the plant. After local policemen and the other plant workers are killed, Jeffers and Janine alone must confront and halt Samson and his terrorist squad. Written by Ken Miller
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Mockingbird Don't Sing
Title: Mockingbird Don't Sing
Character: Wes Standon
Released: May 4, 2001
Type: Movie
The tragic true story of one of the worst cases of child abuse ever documented (in which a girl was locked in a room without social contact for nearly thirteen years) and what happened when she was finally rescued.
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Title: The District
Character: Priest
Released: October 7, 2000
Type: TV
The District is a television police drama which aired on CBS from October 7, 2000 to May 1, 2004. The show followed the work and personal life of the chief of Washington, D.C.'s Police Department.
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The Next Best Thing
Title: The Next Best Thing
Character: Vernon
Released: March 3, 2000
Type: Movie
A comedy-drama about best friends - one a straight woman, Abbie, the other a gay man, Robert - who decide to have a child together. Five years later, Abbie falls in love with a straight man and wants to move away with her and Robert's little boy Sam, and a nasty custody battle ensues.
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8MM
Title: 8MM
Character: Butler
Released: February 26, 1999
Type: Movie
A small, seemingly innocuous plastic reel of film leads surveillance specialist Tom Welles down an increasingly dark and frightening path. With the help of the streetwise Max, he relentlessly follows a bizarre trail of evidence to determine the fate of a complete stranger. As his work turns into obsession, he drifts farther and farther away from his wife, family and simple life as a small-town PI.
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Office Space
Title: Office Space
Character: Judge
Released: February 19, 1999
Type: Movie
A depressed white-collar worker tries hypnotherapy, only to find himself in a perpetual state of devil-may-care bliss that prompts him to start living by his own rules, and hatch a hapless attempt to embezzle money from his soul-killing employers.
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Gods and Monsters
Title: Gods and Monsters
Character: Boris Karloff
Released: January 21, 1998
Type: Movie
It's 1957, and James Whale's heyday as the director of "Frankenstein," "Bride of Frankenstein" and "The Invisible Man" is long behind him. Retired and a semi-recluse, he lives his days accompanied only by images from his past. When his dour housekeeper, Hannah, hires a handsome young gardener, the flamboyant director and simple yard man develop an unlikely friendship, which will change them forever.
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The Scottish Tale
Title: The Scottish Tale
Character: Syd
Released: January 1, 1998
Type: Movie
A Scottish rendition of Macbeth. Mack is a humble poet who goes to Scotland to visit his three eccentric aunts. He expects them to simply greet him, but they tell him that he must marry Beth, the daughter of a rich lawyer. However, despite what Mack wants, Mack's brother Ian is marrying Beth, and so he must attend his brother's wedding. In order to persuade Mack to marry, the aunts prophecize certain strange events that would supposedly delay the wedding so that they could be married. Mack tries to stop them in order to show support for his brother, but it turns out that he never had to bother. For there are other secrets involved in the two families that delay the wedding anyway, and give enough time for the truth to be revealed about the love in the forthcoming wedding.
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Alien Avengers II
Title: Alien Avengers II
Character: Elder
Released: October 25, 1997
Type: Movie
Weird things are happening in the town of Justice, Arizona: three sheriffs have disappeared, and someone is killing the rancher's livestock in a bizarre, ritualistic fashion. Locals believe the incidents were caused by aliens... But a visiting couple, Charlie and Rhonda, knows better – because they're aliens themselves. When no one else will, Charlie and Rhonda volunteer to be the new sheriffs to get to bottom of the crimes. Hiding behind the power of the badge, the two make their own rules, punishing wrong-doers with their own form of "eye-for-an-eye" alien vengeance. Follow this twisted, outer space "Bonnie and Clyde" as they attempt to bring Justice the justice it deserves.
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The Big Fall
Title: The Big Fall
Character: Tyre
Released: October 14, 1997
Type: Movie
L.A. private detective is hired to investigate the disappearance of an alluring woman's brother. Surrounded by double-crossing deals and dangerous relation, Rybeck will have to plunge headfirst into his deadliest case ever.
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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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Batman & Robin
Title: Batman & Robin
Character: Party Guest
Released: June 20, 1997
Type: Movie
Batman and Robin deal with relationship issues while preventing Mr. Freeze and Poison Ivy from attacking Gotham City.
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Title: Everybody Loves Raymond
Character: Walter
Released: September 13, 1996
Type: TV
Ray Barone is a successful sportswriter living on Long Island with his wife Debra, daughter Ally, and twin sons, Geoffrey and Michael. That's the good news. The bad news? Ray's meddling parents, Frank and Marie, live directly across the street and embrace the motto "Su casa es mi casa," infiltrating their son's home to an extent unparalleled in television history.
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Power 98
Title: Power 98
Character: Waldo Marcel
Released: May 17, 1996
Type: Movie
A controversial talk show host becomes involved in the murder of a beautiful woman in a war for ratings.
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Title: MADtv
Character: Judge
Released: October 14, 1995
Type: TV
MADtv is an American sketch comedy television series originally inspired by Mad magazine. The one-hour show aired Saturday nights on Fox.
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Title: Sherman Oaks
Released: July 16, 1995
Type: TV
Sherman Oaks is an adult comedy that premiered on Showtime in the summer of 1995. A second season ran in the summer of 1996. The show focused on the Sanford Baker Family of earthquake ravaged Sherman Oaks, California.
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Batman Forever
Title: Batman Forever
Character: Fisherman
Released: June 16, 1995
Type: Movie
Batman must battle a disfigured district attorney and a disgruntled former employee with help from an amorous psychologist and a young circus acrobat.
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Title: Friends
Character: Tom
Released: September 22, 1994
Type: TV
Six young people from New York City, on their own and struggling to survive in the real world, find the companionship, comfort and support they get from each other to be the perfect antidote to the pressures of life.
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Fugitive Nights: Danger in the Desert
Title: Fugitive Nights: Danger in the Desert
Character: Doc Morton
Released: November 19, 1993
Type: Movie
A lady private eye on her first job working a routine divorce case teams up with a cynical, heavy-drinking police detective after inadvertently stumbling upon a much bigger caper involving a mysterious fugitive.
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Title: Frasier
Character: Ian
Released: September 16, 1993
Type: TV
After many years spent at the “Cheers” bar, Frasier moves back home to Seattle to work as a radio psychiatrist after his policeman father gets shot in the hip on duty.
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Title: Power Rangers
Character: Councilor Brody
Released: August 28, 1993
Type: TV
A team of teenagers with attitude are recruited to save Angel Grove from the evil witch, Rita Repulsa, and later, Lord Zedd, Emperor of all he sees, and their horde of monsters.
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Marilyn & Bobby: Her Final Affair
Title: Marilyn & Bobby: Her Final Affair
Character: Director
Released: August 4, 1993
Type: Movie
The 1960s. Bobby Kennedy is in power in Washington. Marilyn Monroe is a legendary film star. For years there has been widespread speculation and rumors of a secret romance between Marilyn and Bobby. Now that story is told for the first time in this account of two very public figures whose brief romance fired the imaginations of millions and fueled debate over their mysterious and untimely deaths.
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Falling Down
Title: Falling Down
Character: Frank (Golfer)
Released: February 26, 1993
Type: Movie
An ordinary man frustrated with the various flaws he sees in society begins to psychotically and violently lash out against them.
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White Trash
Title: White Trash
Character: CC's father
Released: February 20, 1992
Type: Movie
About the day after a young hustler named CC has died of AIDS. Like him, his pals Casino, Rio and girlfriend Rita, pregnant with his child, are all street prostitutes caught up in high-risk sex and drug-taking in West Hollywood.
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Dead Men Don't Die
Title: Dead Men Don't Die
Character: Alex Cavanaugh
Released: September 8, 1990
Type: Movie
A reporter investigating a drug dealing ring is murdered. Brought back to life by the voodoo spell of a cleaning woman, he goes after his killers.
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Title: Seinfeld
Character: Mr. Green
Released: July 5, 1989
Type: TV
A stand-up comedian and his three offbeat friends weather the pitfalls and payoffs of life in New York City in the '90s. It's a show about nothing.
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Title: Generations
Character: Hugh Gardner
Released: March 27, 1989
Type: TV
Generations is an American soap opera that aired on NBC from March 27, 1989, to January 25, 1991. The show was groundbreaking in that it was the first soap opera to feature from its inception an African-American family.
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The Chair
Title: The Chair
Character: Detective
Released: October 8, 1988
Type: Movie
A psychologist, a psychiatrist and a prison warden open up a long-closed prison, unaware that the ghost of an electrocuted convict haunts it.
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Title: Remington Steele
Character: Walter Gallen
Released: October 1, 1982
Type: TV
Laura Holt, a licensed private detective, opens a detective agency but finds that potential clients refuse to hire a woman, however qualified. To solve the problem, Laura invents a fictitious male superior whom she names Remington Steele. Through a series of events that unfold in the first episode, "License to Steele," a former thief and con man, whose real name is never revealed, assumes the identity of Remington Steele. Behind the scenes, Laura remains firmly in charge.
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Title: Falcon Crest
Released: December 4, 1981
Type: TV
Falcon Crest is an American primetime television soap opera which aired on the CBS network for nine seasons, from December 4, 1981 to May 17, 1990. A total of 227 episodes were produced. The series revolves around the feuding factions of the wealthy Gioberti/Channing family in the Californian wine industry. Jane Wyman starred as Angela Channing, the tyrannical matriarch of the Falcon Crest Winery, alongside Robert Foxworth as Chase Gioberti, Angela's nephew who returns to Falcon Crest following the death of his father. The series was set in the fictitious Tuscany Valley northeast of San Francisco.
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Court Martial
Title: Court Martial
Released: February 12, 1974
Type: Movie
When an army lieutenant is sent on a secret mission and his contact is shot and killed, he is charged with the crime and court-martialed. He learns he was set up by his commanding officer and escapes to prove his innocence.
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Title: Kojak
Character: Paul Lawford
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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A.A.A. Masseuse, Good-Looking, Offers Her Services
Title: A.A.A. Masseuse, Good-Looking, Offers Her Services
Character: Enrico Graziani (as Hunt Powers)
Released: July 28, 1972
Type: Movie
Cristina turns eighteen and leaves her bourgeois family to become a call-girl. But soon, her clients start turning up dead, their throats slashed. Who is responsible?
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And His Name Was Holy Ghost
Title: And His Name Was Holy Ghost
Character: Foster
Released: November 26, 1971
Type: Movie
After gaining his freedom with the help of an old friend of his father, Spirito Santo/Holy Ghost recovers in an abandoned mine the gold fruit of a previous robbery and makes preparations for a new job recruiting a strange sacristan armed with a machine-gun. Meanwhile a Native American sheriff is on his trail.
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Rum Runners
Title: Rum Runners
Character: Renner
Released: October 13, 1971
Type: Movie
During the prohibition era, Cornelius, a bootlegger, is on the run from the American coastguards. He comes across a silent film actress, Linda, on the set of a movie and falls in love with her.
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Down with Your Hands... You Scum!
Title: Down with Your Hands... You Scum!
Character: Django/Halleluia
Released: August 21, 1971
Type: Movie
This audaciously dishonest spaghetti western from prolific director Demofilo Fidani (using the pseudonym "Lucky Dickerson") was created piecemeal using lengthy sequences from Fidani's previous films. The premise has legendary gunslinger Django (Hunt Powers) recounting some of his greatest adventures to a rapt Wild Bill Hickock (Gerardo Rossi as Jerry Ross) in a saloon. The stories which Django tells are entire scenes from such Fidani films as Arrivano Django e Sartana... E la Fine! (1970), Inginocchiati Straniero... i Cadaveri non Fanno Ombra (1971), and Quel Maledetto Giorno d'Inverno Django e Sartana... all'Ultimo Sangue (1971). Fidani regulars Gordon Mitchell, Dennis Colt and Lucky McMurray also appear.
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Adios Compañeros
Title: Adios Compañeros
Character: Butch Cassidy
Released: April 17, 1971
Type: Movie
Macho Callaghan is a lieutenant in the Federal Guards and his job is to capture Butch Cassidy, Ironhead, and their band of outlaws. Getting in touch with Ironhead, Macho finds a way of being hired by the outlaws. But when the two leaders quarrel and decide to separate, Macho manages to convince Ironhead to attack Butch Cassidy.
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Coffin Full of Dollars
Title: Coffin Full of Dollars
Character: Tamayo
Released: April 1, 1971
Type: Movie
There's a frontier feud on the border of Mexico, where outlaw Hagen's brothers have been killed by Nevada Kid's family.
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Dead Men Don't Make Shadows
Title: Dead Men Don't Make Shadows
Character: Lazar Peacock/Sabata
Released: November 27, 1970
Type: Movie
Lazar, a bounty killer, teams up with a young gunfighter to blackmail Barrett, a former bandit and mine owner. At the end of the day, the bounty hunter clashes with Barrett, but something goes wrong.
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Django and Sartana Are Coming... It's the End
Title: Django and Sartana Are Coming... It's the End
Character: Sartana
Released: November 14, 1970
Type: Movie
A gang of vicious outlaws lead by the crazed Black Burt Keller abduct Jessica Colby and decide to flee to Mexico. Shrewd bounty hunter Django and saintly roving gunslinger Sartana join forces to rescue the poor lass from the gang's vile clutches.
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One Damned Day at Dawn... Django Meets Sartana!
Title: One Damned Day at Dawn... Django Meets Sartana!
Character: Django (as Hunt Powers)
Released: June 13, 1970
Type: Movie
The small desert town of Black City is held in a reign of terror by a nasty gang of criminals lead by the ruthless Bud Willer. Earnest, but inexperienced Sheriff Jack Ronson arrives in town to establish law and order. Mysterious bounty hunter Django helps Ronson out.
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Sugar Colt
Title: Sugar Colt
Character: Dr. Tom Cooper / Rocco
Released: November 29, 1967
Type: Movie
In order to avenge a friend and to fulfill his last wish, Rocco has to find out what happened to an army corps that has mysteriously disappeared. He therefore puts on the disguise of a doctor and starts investigating in a somewhat uncomfortable town
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Halleluja for Django
Title: Halleluja for Django
Character: Padre Santo / David Phaylard
Released: October 28, 1967
Type: Movie
After robbing $500,000, the Jarret gang hides in a small isolated western town, where they are waiting for a scout to take them through the desert to Mexico. But the unresolved conflicts between Jarret and El Santo, the brains of the bandits, who has also an eye on Jarret's girlfriend, become a problem amongst the bandits. And there is also an underestimated scalawag named Billy Rum and his friend Mark, who are trying to help the captured citizens.
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Title: The F.B.I.
Character: Defense Attorney Barker
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: Woods
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: Allen Cole
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: Another World
Released: May 4, 1964
Type: TV
Another World is an American television soap opera that ran on NBC for 35 years from May 4, 1964 to June 25, 1999. Set in the fictional town of Bay City, the show in its early years opens with announcer Bill Wolff intoning its epigram, “We do not live in this world alone, but in a thousand other worlds,” which Phillips said represented the difference between “the world of events we live in, and the world of feelings and dreams that we strive for.” Another World focused less on the conventional drama of domestic life as seen in other soap operas, and more on exotic melodrama between families of different classes and philosophies.
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The Bloody Brood
Title: The Bloody Brood
Character: Cliff
Released: October 26, 1959
Type: Movie
Nico, a drug dealer, murders a telegram messenger-boy "for kicks", egged on by partner-in-crime, TV director Francis. Cliff, the boy's older brother, investigates his death due to the slow progress made by the police.
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Title: The Detectives
Released: October 16, 1959
Type: TV
The Detectives is an American crime drama series which ran on ABC during its first two seasons, and on NBC during its third and final season. The series, starring motion picture star Robert Taylor, was produced by Four Star Television.
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Title: Perry Mason
Character: Bruce Strickland
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: Bert Nickols
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: George Parsons
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: Enos Watterton
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: Gunsmoke
Character: Cowboy
Released: September 10, 1955
Type: TV
Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West. The central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon, played by William Conrad on radio and James Arness on television.