Michael Emerson

Michael Emerson

Born: September 7, 1954
in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA
Michael Emerson (born September 7, 1954) is an American actor best known for his role as Benjamin Linus on Lost as well as fictional serial killer William Hinks in The Practice.

Movies for Michael Emerson...

Getting LOST
Title: Getting LOST
Character: Self
Released: September 22, 2024
Type: Movie
A documentary about the TV show Lost.
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Man and Witch: The Dance of a Thousand Steps
Title: Man and Witch: The Dance of a Thousand Steps
Character: The Evil Wizard
Released: July 28, 2024
Type: Movie
Three Mysterious Curses, two lost souls... and one incredibly difficult dance. A lowly goatherd seeks out a reclusive witch to break the evil enchantment that has long kept him from taking a wife. When he completes the three impossible trials the witch prescribes, the man earns the hand of the legendary Princess, only heir of the Old King of the Cursed Kingdom. But when he arrives at the altar with a perfect fairytale ending hanging in the balance, both the goatherd and mysterious witch who helped transform him into the perfect eligible bachelor find that there is one enchantment they can't figure out how to break... true love.
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Title: Fallout
Character: Wilzig
Released: April 10, 2024
Type: TV
The story of haves and have-nots in a world in which there’s almost nothing left to have. 200 years after the apocalypse, the gentle denizens of luxury fallout shelters are forced to return to the irradiated hellscape their ancestors left behind — and are shocked to discover an incredibly complex, gleefully weird, and highly violent universe waiting for them.
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Title: My Adventures with Superman
Character: Brainiac (voice)
Released: July 7, 2023
Type: TV
Twenty-somethings Clark Kent, the bright and driven Lois Lane, and their best friend Jimmy Olsen begin to discover who they are and everything they can accomplish together as an investigative reporting team at the Daily Planet.
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Glimpse
Title: Glimpse
Character: Reg
Released: May 5, 2022
Type: Movie
Three people are up for the same job. Their lives are turning inside out under the pressure. And someone is watching the whole thing. More than one person, in fact. And someone else is watching them watch. A sorrowful and comedic examination of our fall into the surveillance culture.
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Title: Evil
Character: Dr Leland Townsend
Released: September 26, 2019
Type: TV
Skeptical female clinical psychologist Kristen Bouchard joins a priest-in-training and a blue-collar contractor as they investigate supposed miracles, demonic possessions, and other extraordinary occurrences to see if there’s a scientific explanation or if something truly supernatural is at work.
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Title: The Name of the Rose
Character: Abo of Fossanova - The Abbot
Released: March 4, 2019
Type: TV
Northern Italy, 1327. The Franciscan monk William of Baskerville and his young apprentice Adso of Melk reach an isolated Benedictine abbey on the Alps to aid in a dispute between the Franciscan Order and the Avignon papacy. Upon arrival at the abbey, the two find themselves involved in a chain of mysterious deaths.
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Title: The Mystery of Matter: Search for the Elements
Character: Narrator
Released: August 19, 2015
Type: TV
An exciting three-part series about one of the great adventures in the history of science: the long and continuing quest to understand what the world is made of. Three hour-long episodes tell the story of seven of history’s most important scientists as they seek to identify, understand and organize the basic building blocks of matter.
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Title: Mozart in the Jungle
Character: Morton Norton
Released: February 6, 2014
Type: TV
In the tradition of Anthony Bourdain's "Kitchen Confidential" and Gelsey Kirkland's "Dancing on my Grave" comes an insider’s look into the secret world of classical musicians. From her debut recital at Carnegie Recital Hall to the Broadway pits of "Les Miserables" and "Miss Saigon," Blair Tindall has played with some of the biggest names in classical music for twenty-five years. Now in "Mozart in the Jungle," Tindall exposes the scandalous rock and roll lifestyles of the musicians, conductors, and administrators who inhabit the insular world of classical music.
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Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
Title: Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
Character: Joker (voice)
Released: October 8, 2013
Type: Movie
Batman has not been seen for ten years. A new breed of criminal ravages Gotham City, forcing fifty-five-year-old Bruce Wayne back into the cape and cowl, but does he still have what it takes to fight crime in a new era?
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Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 2
Title: Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 2
Character: Joker (voice)
Released: January 3, 2013
Type: Movie
Batman has stopped the reign of terror that The Mutants had cast upon his city. Now an old foe wants a reunion and the government wants The Man of Steel to put a stop to Batman.
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Title: Arrow
Character: Cayden James
Released: October 10, 2012
Type: TV
Spoiled billionaire playboy Oliver Queen is missing and presumed dead when his yacht is lost at sea. He returns five years later a changed man, determined to clean up the city as a hooded vigilante armed with a bow.
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Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 1
Title: Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 1
Character: Joker (voice)
Released: August 21, 2012
Type: Movie
Batman has not been seen for ten years. A new breed of criminal ravages Gotham City, forcing 55-year-old Bruce Wayne back into the cape and cowl. But, does he still have what it takes to fight crime in a new era?
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Title: Person of Interest
Character: Harold Finch
Released: September 22, 2011
Type: TV
John Reese, former CIA paramilitary operative, is presumed dead and teams up with reclusive billionaire Finch to prevent violent crimes in New York City by initiating their own type of justice. With the special training that Reese has had in Covert Operations and Finch's genius software inventing mind, the two are a perfect match for the job that they have to complete. With the help of surveillance equipment, they work "outside the law" and get the right criminal behind bars. 
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Saw 3D
Title: Saw 3D
Character: Zep Hindle (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: October 22, 2010
Type: Movie
As a deadly battle rages over Jigsaw's brutal legacy, a group of Jigsaw survivors gathers to seek the support of self-help guru and fellow survivor Bobby Dagen, a man whose own dark secrets unleash a new wave of terror.
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The New Man in Charge
Title: The New Man in Charge
Character: Benjamin Linus
Released: August 24, 2010
Type: Movie
Epilogue to the TV series Lost.
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Goldstar, Ohio
Title: Goldstar, Ohio
Character: Steve Harper
Released: March 23, 2010
Type: Movie
Four families and a chief of police recount the day marine casualty officers came to their respective small towns in Ohio.
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Title: Parenthood
Character: Andy Fitzgerald
Released: March 2, 2010
Type: TV
The trials and tribulations of the very large, colorful and imperfect Braverman family.
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Title: Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
Character: Self
Released: March 2, 2009
Type: TV
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon is an American late-night talk show airing weeknights at 12:35 am Eastern/11:35 pm Central on NBC in the United States. The hour-long show premiered on March 2, 2009, and is hosted by actor, comedian and performer Jimmy Fallon, an alumnus of Saturday Night Live. Hip hop/neo soul band The Roots serve as the show's house band, and Steve Higgins is the show's announcer. The third incarnation of the Late Night franchise originated by David Letterman, the program originates from NBC Studio 6B in the GE Building at 30 Rockefeller Center in New York City. The show typically opens with a brief monologue from Fallon, followed by a comedy "desk piece," as well as prerecorded segments and audience competitions. The next segment is devoted to a celebrity interview, with guests ranging from actors and musicians to media personalities and political figures. The show then closes with either a musical or comedy performance. The show frequently employs digital media into its comedy, which has become crucial to its success. Fallon has been appointed to become the next host of The Tonight Show, where he will succeed the current host Jay Leno at the conclusion of the 2014 Winter Olympics, with fellow SNL alum Seth Meyers slated to replace Fallon.
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Ready? OK!
Title: Ready? OK!
Character: Charlie New
Released: April 17, 2008
Type: Movie
When 10-year-old Joshua (Lurie Poston) decides to join the cheerleading squad at his Catholic school, he faces an uphill battle -- and opposition from his single mom, Andy (Carrie Preston), who struggles to understand her Hollywood musical- and pom-pom-loving son. With the help of sympathetic neighbor Charlie (Michael Emerson), Andy attempts to embrace her son for who he is, not who she wants him to be. James Vasquez directs this touching comedy.
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Lost: Missing Pieces: Room 23
Title: Lost: Missing Pieces: Room 23
Character: Ben Linus
Released: December 11, 2007
Type: Movie
Sometime during days 45 to 49, Walt Lloyd is being kept in Room 23. Juliet shows Ben several birds that have died outside Room 23.
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Lost: Missing Pieces: King of the Castle
Title: Lost: Missing Pieces: King of the Castle
Character: Ben Linus
Released: November 20, 2007
Type: Movie
Sometime during days 75 to 79 when Jack is living with the Others in the Barracks, Jack and Ben play chess. Ben tells Jack that the island might not let him leave and if he does, Jack may regret it someday.
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Title: Lost: Missing Pieces
Character: Ben Linus
Released: November 5, 2007
Type: TV
Lost: Missing Pieces is a series of thirteen never-before-seen stories taken from the 'Lost' Flashbacks. The Missing Pieces retains many of the cast members from the television series and gives more clues about the past days of the island characters.
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Title: Rachael Ray
Released: September 18, 2006
Type: TV
Rachael Ray, also known as The Rachael Ray Show, is an American talk show starring Rachael Ray that debuted in syndication in the United States and Canada on September 18, 2006. It is filmed at Chelsea Television Studios in New York City. The show's 8th season premiered on September 9, 2013, and became the last Harpo show in syndication to switch to HD with a revamped studio. In January 2012, CBS Television Distribution announced a two-year renewal for the show, taking it through the 2013–14 season.
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Jumping Off Bridges
Title: Jumping Off Bridges
Character: Frank Nelson
Released: March 10, 2006
Type: Movie
When a 17-old boy loses his mother to suicide, he struggles with her death and the secret that plagued their family.
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Full Disclosure Report
Title: Full Disclosure Report
Character: Zep Hindle
Released: October 31, 2005
Type: Movie
A faux documentary set in the world of 'Saw' that sees reporters investigate the mysterious case around Jigsaw. Universe expanding video and extra-feature on the DVD of "Saw"
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The Legend of Zorro
Title: The Legend of Zorro
Character: Harrigan
Released: October 24, 2005
Type: Movie
Having spent the last 10 years fighting injustice and cruelty, Alejandro de la Vega is now facing his greatest challenge: his loving wife Elena has thrown him out of the house! Elena has filed for divorce and found comfort in the arms of Count Armand, a dashing French aristocrat. But Alejandro knows something she doesn't: Armand is the evil mastermind behind a terrorist plot to destroy the United States. And so, with his marriage and the county's future at stake, it's up to Zorro to save two unions before it's too late.
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Title: The Inside
Released: June 8, 2005
Type: TV
The Inside is an American crime drama television series created by Tim Minear and Howard Gordon and produced by Imagine Television. The Inside follows the work of the FBI's Los Angeles Violent Crimes Unit, a division dedicated to investigating particularly dangerous crimes. The Inside initially aired on the Fox Network from June 8 to July 13, 2005. Although thirteen episodes were produced, Fox aired only seven episodes before canceling the series. All thirteen episodes were subsequently aired on Britain's ITV4 in 2006.
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29th and Gay
Title: 29th and Gay
Character: Gorilla
Released: April 29, 2005
Type: Movie
Following a year in the life of James Sanchez, it's a story about a guy rapidly approaching thirty, who doesn't have a six-pack, full head of hair or a boyfriend. While his best friend Roxy, an actress-turned-activist, struggles with showing him there's life beyond the glitz of the disco ball, his other friend, Brandon, one of those gay boys comfortable in his own gay skin, works on getting James to at least talk to a boy. Feeling out of place in the world of circuit boys, caught between his Hispanic-American heritage and being gay, we watch James find his place in the world, realizing that life is in the journey, not the destination.
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Saw
Title: Saw
Character: Zep Hindle
Released: October 1, 2004
Type: Movie
Two men wake up to find themselves shackled in a grimy, abandoned bathroom. As they struggle to comprehend their predicament, they discover a disturbing tape left behind by the sadistic mastermind known as Jigsaw. With a chilling voice and cryptic instructions, Jigsaw informs them that they must partake in a gruesome game in order to secure their freedom.
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Title: Lost
Character: Henry Gale
Released: September 22, 2004
Type: TV
Stripped of everything, the survivors of a horrific plane crash must work together to stay alive. But the island holds many secrets.
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Title: Lost
Character: Ben
Released: September 22, 2004
Type: TV
Stripped of everything, the survivors of a horrific plane crash must work together to stay alive. But the island holds many secrets.
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Title: Lost
Character: Benjamin Linus
Released: September 22, 2004
Type: TV
Stripped of everything, the survivors of a horrific plane crash must work together to stay alive. But the island holds many secrets.
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Straight Jacket
Title: Straight Jacket
Character: Victor
Released: February 1, 2004
Type: Movie
In 1950's Hollywood, movie star Guy Stone must marry a studio secretary in order to conceal his homosexuality. Sally has no idea her marriage is a sham, though, and turns Guy's life upside-down. However, soon after the wedding, Guy develops feelings for a writer named Rick.
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Title: Best Week Ever
Released: January 23, 2004
Type: TV
Best Week Ever is a weekly television program on the United States cable/satellite network VH1. It started airing in 2004 and was put on hiatus in the summer of 2009. In January 2010, it was announced that the show was cancelled. On August 3, 2012, VH1 announced the return of Best Week Ever. New weekly episodes began January 18, 2013. On the show, comedians analyze the previous week's developments in pop culture, including recent happenings in entertainment and celebrity gossip. The show's tagline is, "It's everything you love, everything you missed, and all the stuff you need to see again."
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Title: Without a Trace
Character: Stuart Wesmar
Released: September 26, 2002
Type: TV
The series follows the ventures of a Missing Persons Unit of the FBI in New York City.
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Unfaithful
Title: Unfaithful
Character: Josh
Released: May 10, 2002
Type: Movie
Connie is a wife and mother whose 11-year marriage to Edward has lost its sexual spark. When Connie literally runs into handsome book collector Paul, he sweeps her into an all-consuming affair. But Edward soon becomes suspicious and decides to confront the other man.
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The Laramie Project
Title: The Laramie Project
Character: Reverend
Released: January 10, 2002
Type: Movie
"The Laramie Project" is set in and around Laramie, Wyoming, in the aftermath of the murder of 21-year-old Matthew Shepard. To create the stage version of "The Laramie Project," the eight-member New York-based Tectonic Theatre Project traveled to Laramie, Wyoming, recording hours of interviews with the town's citizens over a two-year period. The film adaptation dramatizes the troupe's visit, using the actual words from the transcripts to create a portrait of a town forced to confront itself.
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Sounds from a Town I Love
Title: Sounds from a Town I Love
Released: October 20, 2001
Type: Movie
Short film celebrating New York City after the events of September 11.
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Title: Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Character: Gerry Rankin
Released: September 30, 2001
Type: TV
The third installment of the “Law & Order” franchise takes viewers deep into the minds of its criminals while following the intense psychological approaches the Major Case Squad uses to solve its crimes.
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Title: The Education of Max Bickford
Released: September 23, 2001
Type: TV
The Education of Max Bickford is a television drama that aired from 2001 to 2002 on CBS. It starred Richard Dreyfuss as the title character, a college professor of American Studies at Chadwick College, an all-women's school in New Jersey. Also starring was child actor Eric Ian Goldberg, who portrayed the young Lester Bickford, Max's son. Max's colleagues included Marcia Gay Harden as Andrea Haskell, his former student who had recently joined the faculty, and Helen Shaver as his best friend Erica, previously known as Steve before her transition. Max's daughter Nell, played by Katee Sackhoff, attended the college.
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Title: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Character: Allan Shaye
Released: September 20, 1999
Type: TV
In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.
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For Love of the Game
Title: For Love of the Game
Character: Gallery Doorman
Released: September 17, 1999
Type: Movie
A baseball legend almost finished with his distinguished career at the age of forty has one last chance to prove who he is, what he is capable of, and win the heart of the woman he has loved for the past four years.
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I'll Take You There
Title: I'll Take You There
Character: Tom
Released: September 3, 1999
Type: Movie
Still nursing wounds from a breakup, a woman is forced by her sister into a blind date that turns into a nightmare.
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Playing by Heart
Title: Playing by Heart
Character: Bosco
Released: December 30, 1998
Type: Movie
A sexy, romantic comedy about modern couples coming together in funny and unexpected ways. Paul and Hannah discover that even after 40 years of marriage, they can still learn some very surprising things about each other. Meredith is a serious theatre director who isn't looking for a relationship... but has one looking for her in the person of the funny, persistent Trent. Then there's Joan and Keenan, young people searching for love in an L.A. club scene where the rules of dating seem to change every night.
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Grace & Glorie
Title: Grace & Glorie
Character: Arnold Dudley
Released: December 13, 1998
Type: Movie
When a lonely ex-New Yorker moves into the home of a rural senior to act as a hospice worker, the two initially couldn't seem to be less alike. However, as time passes, the two find much kinship including a lost child. Slowly the two build a bond and learn about life.
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The Impostors
Title: The Impostors
Character: Burtom's Assistant
Released: October 2, 1998
Type: Movie
Wrongly accused of physically abusing a fellow actor, starving thespians Arthur and Maurice find themselves pursued by the law aboard a cruise ship.
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Title: The Practice
Character: William Hinks (voice)
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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Title: The Practice
Character: William Hinks
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 Journey
Title: The Journey
Character: Michael
Released: January 1, 1997
Type: Movie
Kishan Singh. a retired teacher from India, comes out to the US to visit his son Raj. Raj's American-bom wife Laura used to write poetry but 'Life gets in the way of art'. Kishan's presence and the problems raised from gender and cultural expectations cause tension. When Kishan decides to stay indefinitely, conflict erupts. A series of poignant episodes help Laura appreciate Kishan's zest for life and at the same time enable Raj and Laura to examine their lives in a new light.
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Title: The X-Files
Character: Oliver Martin
Released: September 10, 1993
Type: TV
The exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files: marginalized, unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena. Mulder believes in the existence of aliens and the paranormal while Scully, a skeptic, is assigned to make scientific analyses of Mulder's discoveries that debunk Mulder's work and thus return him to mainstream cases.
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Orpheus Descending
Title: Orpheus Descending
Character: Clown
Released: June 1, 1990
Type: Movie
Val Xavier is a drifter in 1940's Mississippi who brings new life to an Italian immigrant woman trapped in a loveless marriage.
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Title: Hallmark Hall of Fame
Character: Arnold Dudley
Released: December 24, 1951
Type: TV
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.
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Title: Dead Talk Live
Character: Self - Guest
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
Film/TV Entertainment TV Talk Show Featuring Celebrity Guest Interviews.