Peter Strauss

Peter Strauss

Born: February 20, 1947
in Croton-on-Hudson, New York, USA
Peter Strauss (born February 20, 1947) is an American television and movie actor, known for his roles in several television miniseries in the 1970s and 1980s. He was born in Croton-on-Hudson, New York.

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Operation Finale
Title: Operation Finale
Character: Lothar Hermann
Released: August 29, 2018
Type: Movie
In 1960, a team of Israeli secret agents is deployed to find Adolf Eichmann, the infamous Nazi architect of the Holocaust, supposedly hidden in Argentina, and get him to Israel to be judged.
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Sugar Daddies
Title: Sugar Daddies
Character: Grant Zager
Released: December 23, 2014
Type: Movie
When a girl with a promising future finds herself in financial straits, she makes an agreement with an older man and struggles to keep it secret.
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Jack's Family Adventure
Title: Jack's Family Adventure
Character: Wild Bill Cohen
Released: January 1, 2010
Type: Movie
Jacks Family inherits a cabin, they pack up for bonding vacation to the cabin. The family to begin with misses the comforts and wish to go home. However with the help of a friendly cowboy, the family begins to bond and enjoy a simpler life style.
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Kleine Fische
Title: Kleine Fische
Released: March 20, 2009
Type: Movie
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Title: Tracey Ullman's State of the Union
Released: March 30, 2008
Type: TV
Tracey Ullman's State of the Union is an American sketch-comedy series starring comedian Tracey Ullman. The series was written by Ullman along with Hollywood satirist Bruce Wagner. Gail Parent and Craig DiGregorio acted as contributing writers to the series' first season. On May 17, 2010, it was announced that State of the Union would not be returning for a fourth season. Producers stated that they felt that the show had "run its course."
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Title: Dirty Sexy Money
Released: September 26, 2007
Type: TV
The Darling family's obscene wealth and enormous power makes them easy targets for their rivals, enemies, and the tabloids. Patriarch Tripp uses his money and influence to shield his five adult children from the prying eyes of the world. As the Darlings' reluctant personal lawyer, Nick George has barely begun to discover the legal - and illegal - needs of the family. Blackmail threats. Questionable deals. Illegitimate children. Illicit affairs. It will take every trick he can think of to keep them out of the tabloids - and out of jail. But if he can solve his father's mysterious death, it might be worth the hassle. Enter a seductive world of glamorous people, exclusive parties and delicious intrigue.
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License to Wed
Title: License to Wed
Character: Mr. Jones
Released: July 4, 2007
Type: Movie
Newly engaged, Ben and Sadie can't wait to start their life together and live happily ever after. However Sadie's family church's Reverend Frank won't bless their union until they pass his patented, "foolproof" marriage prep course consisting of outrageous classes, outlandish homework assignments and some outright invasion of privacy.
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xXx: State of the Union
Title: xXx: State of the Union
Character: President James Sandford
Released: April 27, 2005
Type: Movie
Darius Stone's criminal record and extreme sports obsession make him the perfect candidate to be the newest XXX agent. He must save the U.S. government from a deadly conspiracy led by five-star general and Secretary of Defense George Deckert.
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Title: Grey's Anatomy
Character: Daniel Schwartz
Released: March 27, 2005
Type: TV
Follows the personal and professional lives of a group of doctors at Seattle’s Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital.
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Hotel
Title: Hotel
Character: Mr. Kross
Released: July 25, 2004
Type: Movie
When Irene takes a position at a hotel deep in the woods of the Austrian Alps, she soon discovers the girl she replaced vanished without a trace. Is there a murderer on site, or are there even darker forces at work?
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Strange Frequency²
Title: Strange Frequency²
Character: Ben Stanton (segment 'Soul Man')
Released: May 13, 2003
Type: Movie
Strange Frequency 2
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Title: Body & Soul
Character: Dr. Isaac Braun
Released: September 16, 2002
Type: TV
Following the death of her brother, Sister Anna takes leave from her order to return home to help save her family business. Becoming a shrewd businesswoman and meeting a man whom she grows to love, puts her life in conflict with her religious vows. Now she must decide what is really important to her.
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Murder on the Orient Express
Title: Murder on the Orient Express
Character: Samuel Ratchett
Released: April 22, 2001
Type: Movie
Agatha Christie's classic whodunit speeds into the twenty-first century. World-famous sleuth Hercule Poirot has just finished a case in Istanbul and is returning home to London onboard the luxurious Orient Express. But, the train comes to a sudden halt when a rock slide blocks the tracks ahead. And all the thrills of riding the famous train come to a halt when a man discovered dead in his compartment, stabbed nine times. The train is stranded. No one has gotten on or gotten off. That can only mean one thing: the killer is onboard, and it is up to Hercule Poirot to find him. [from imdb.com]
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A Father's Choice
Title: A Father's Choice
Character: Charlie 'Mac' McClain
Released: January 12, 2000
Type: Movie
The fast-paced city life of two sisters is turned upside down when they are sent to live in the country with their father after their mother is killed.
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Title: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Character: Kevin Burton
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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Title: Seasons of Love
Character: Thomas Linthorne
Released: July 3, 1999
Type: TV
Thomas Linthorne is a farmer, who, with his bride, Kate, settles a parcel of untilled Midwestern farmland in 1866. Linthorne is a dynamic and driven man who eventually becomes a pillar of the close-knit community. But there are trials and tribulations that eventually plague his dreams of the perfect life he has tried to create for his family. Over the span of fifty years, the Linthorne family will weather more than their share of hardship that affects each of them in dramatic ways. The Linthorne saga, set against the daily rituals and chores of life on the land, reveals the determination, strength and indomitable spirit of the families who settled America.
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Title: Joan of Arc
Character: La Hire
Released: May 16, 1999
Type: TV
Joan of Arc is born in 1412 in the village of Domrémy in the war zone of Northern France. During her youth she often witnesses the horrors of war, but her spirit is kept high by the legend of the Maiden of Lorraine. This says that a young maiden one day will unite the divided country and lead the people to freedom.
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Seasons of Love
Title: Seasons of Love
Character: Thomas Linthorne
Released: March 7, 1999
Type: Movie
Sprawling tale spanning 50 years in the life of the fictional Linthorne family as seen through the eyes of the rugged head of the clan as he and his wife weather the years of hardship on the prairie after settling on a parcel of untilled Midwestern farmland in 1866 in hopes of living a prosperous life together.
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My Father's Shadow: The Sam Sheppard Story
Title: My Father's Shadow: The Sam Sheppard Story
Character: Dr. Sam Sheppard
Released: November 17, 1998
Type: Movie
Fact-based story about the controversial conviction of Dr. Sam Sheppard (Peter Strauss) for the murder of his wife in Cleveland. The story picks up with his conviction and concentrates on his son's (Henry Czerny) efforts 40 years later to find evidence that his father was innocent of the crime. The story was the basis for the film and TV series of "The Fugitive".
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Keys to Tulsa
Title: Keys to Tulsa
Character: Chip Carlson
Released: April 11, 1997
Type: Movie
Richter Boudreau is on a bad streak: Languishing in the shadow of his celebrity mother, he loses his job as a film critic for the town paper, and now he's been approached with a dangerous proposition that ultimately leads to blackmail. Richter's friend Ronnie ropes him into a scheme to steal the inheritance of his wife, Vicky.
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Title: Moloney
Character: Dr. Nick Moloney
Released: September 19, 1996
Type: TV
Nick Moloney is a divorced psychiatrist working for the LAPD, sometimes torn between doctor-patient confidentiality and his duty to uphold the law.
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Title: The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest
Character: Lab Guard (voice)
Released: August 26, 1996
Type: TV
The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest is an American animated action-adventure television series.
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Title: The Rosie O'Donnell Show
Character: Self
Released: June 10, 1996
Type: TV
The Rosie O'Donnell Show was an American daytime television talk show hosted and produced by actress and comedian Rosie O'Donnell. It aired for six seasons from 1996 to 2002. Topics often discussed on the show include Broadway, children, extended families and charitable works, people and organizations. The show was based out of Studio 8G at NBC's Rockefeller Center studios in New York City, NY, USA and was produced and syndicated by KidRo Productions, Telepictures Productions and Warner Bros. Television.
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In the Lake of the Woods
Title: In the Lake of the Woods
Character: John Waylan
Released: March 5, 1996
Type: Movie
John Waylan is a candidate for U.S. senator; near the end of the campaign he is accused of ordering and participating in a massacre in a Vietnamese village. The accusation kills his career, and severely endangers his marriage. When he and Kathy flee to an isolated cabin, he awakes one morning to find her gone. Questions are asked, answers are given or hinted at, as the tension and suspense build.
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Nick of Time
Title: Nick of Time
Character: Brendan Grant
Released: November 22, 1995
Type: Movie
An ordinary man is suddenly forced into a plot to kill a politician in exchange for his kidnapped daughter's freedom.
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Texas Justice
Title: Texas Justice
Character: Thomas
Released: February 12, 1995
Type: Movie
When a Texas millionaire marries his mistress, a bitter divorce battle, two deaths, an FBI sting operation, and criminal trials ensue.
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Title: Santo Bugito
Character: Greenbeard McMelville (voice)
Released: January 1, 1995
Type: TV
Santo Bugito was a 1995 animated cartoon series developed by Klasky-Csupo for CBS. It ran for thirteen episodes and revolved around the goings on in a fictional community of insects. Notable achievements of this series included a revival of the insect-community genre well before Antz or A Bug's Life, and voice cameos from well known performers such as James Belushi and Johnny Cash. The regular cast included Hollywood veterans such as Henry Gibson, George Kennedy, Cheech Marin, and Joan Van Ark. The show has also aired on ITV in the United Kingdom and on ABC in Australia.
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Reunion
Title: Reunion
Character: Sam Yates
Released: December 10, 1994
Type: Movie
The undying bond between a mother and her beloved son nearly destroys the lives of an entire family. Jessie Yates (Marlo Thomas) is torn between the ghost of her son and the life she has created with her husband and family.
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Thicker Than Blood: The Larry McLinden Story
Title: Thicker Than Blood: The Larry McLinden Story
Character: Larry McLinden
Released: June 3, 1994
Type: Movie
When a couple breaks up after four years together, the man is told that the son he has raised as his own isn't his biological one. He must fight to keep him.
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The Yearling
Title: The Yearling
Character: Ezra 'Penny' Baxter
Released: April 24, 1994
Type: Movie
In 1870s Florida, a rural family struggles to survive. A lonely twelve-year-old son, Jody (Wil Horneff), the lone surviving child, against his mother's better judgment eventually persuades his parents to allow him a pet fawn, which Jody grows to love deeply. Tragic conflict arises when the fawn begins eating the family's food crops.
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Men Don't Tell
Title: Men Don't Tell
Character: Ed MacAffrey
Released: March 14, 1993
Type: Movie
This movie shows another side to spousal abuse that not too many people thought is possible--the husband being abused and the wife the abuser.
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Title: Batman: The Animated Series
Character: Dr. Steven Carlyle (voice)
Released: September 5, 1992
Type: TV
Vowing to avenge the murder of his parents, Bruce Wayne devotes his life to wiping out crime in Gotham City as the masked vigilante "Batman".
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Trial: The Price of Passion
Title: Trial: The Price of Passion
Character: Warren Blackburn
Released: May 3, 1992
Type: Movie
Down-on-his-luck lawyer Warren Blackburn defends wealthy Texan Johnnie Faye Boudreau, who is accused of murdering her husband.
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Fugitive Among Us
Title: Fugitive Among Us
Character: Max Cole
Released: February 4, 1992
Type: Movie
An increasingly obsessed detective chases an escaped rapist across the Southwest and enters into a complicated relationship with one of the victims.
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Flight of Black Angel
Title: Flight of Black Angel
Character: Lt. Col. Matthew Ryan
Released: February 23, 1991
Type: Movie
A US Air Force pilot steals a nuclear bomb and sets off on what he believes is a divine mission against an American city.
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83 Hours 'Til Dawn
Title: 83 Hours 'Til Dawn
Character: Wayne Stracton
Released: November 4, 1990
Type: Movie
A wealthy man's daughter is kidnapped and placed in a box with air for only 83 hours.
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Title: Law & Order
Character: Dr. Paul Cedars
Released: September 13, 1990
Type: TV
In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place.
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Peter Gunn
Title: Peter Gunn
Character: Peter Gunn
Released: April 23, 1989
Type: Movie
Peter Gunn, a connoisseur of beautiful women and cool jazz, is an ex-cop turned private eye who's caught in the middle of a dangerous gang war.
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Title: Brotherhood of the Rose
Character: Romulus
Released: January 22, 1989
Type: TV
Romulus and Remus were picked up at an orphanage at a young age, raised together as brothers and trained to supersede every other CIA agents.
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Proud Men
Title: Proud Men
Character: Charley MacLeod Jr.
Released: October 1, 1987
Type: Movie
A cattle rancher faces off with his estranged son. A right-wing cattle rancher wrangles with his recently returned son, a soldier who went AWOL in Vietnam. The proud men butt chins in this arid macho weepie.
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The Penalty Phase
Title: The Penalty Phase
Character: Kenneth Hoffman
Released: November 18, 1986
Type: Movie
Things looked pretty simple: the confessed murderer had all the evidence against him. The Prosecutor Jansen could not have been more relentless, conservative and incisive. Furthermore, the jury already had a verdict: guilty of the more than 30 charges against him. But suddenly Judge Kenneth Hoffman finds out that the evidence was not obtained legally, so the procedure is void. Judge Hoffman is in the middle of this legal storm, although he wants to apply the law strictly, he will find everybody against him.
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Under Siege
Title: Under Siege
Character: John Garry
Released: February 9, 1986
Type: Movie
Terrorists launch an attack against the USA. Their first strike is by a suicide squad that detonates a truckload of explosives at an army base in Washington DC. FBI probes indicate that the attack is by Arab terrorists led by Iranians. Subsequent attacks are via airplanes exploded in mid-air, crowded restaurants, and an attack on a mall. Administration cabinet heads push the President to retaliate. The director of the FBI believes that there may be more to the story than the investigation has revealed and the Secretary of Defense is the only other person urging caution.
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Title: Kane & Abel
Character: Abel Rosnovski
Released: November 17, 1985
Type: TV
Kane & Abel is a television miniseries, based on the novel of the same name written by Jeffrey Archer, that aired on CBS in 1985. It stars Peter Strauss as Rosnovski and Sam Neill as Kane.
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Title: Tender Is the Night
Character: Dick Diver
Released: September 23, 1985
Type: TV
Dennis Potter adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel about how the rich languoring on the Riviera in the 1920s are slowly drawn into the coming depression is once again filmed with Peter Strauss, Mary Steenburgen, and John Heard in the leads.
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Heart of Steel
Title: Heart of Steel
Character: Emory
Released: December 4, 1983
Type: Movie
A steel factory that employs most of the town shuts down, leaving a man desperate to keep his family and friends together while alcohol consumes him in this depressing drama.
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Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone
Title: Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone
Character: Wolff
Released: May 20, 1983
Type: Movie
Three women make an emergency landing on a planet plagued with a fatal disease, but are captured by dictator Overdog. Adventurer Wolff goes there to rescue them and meets Niki, the only Earthling left from a medical expedition. Combining their talents, they try to rescue the women.
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The Secret of NIMH
Title: The Secret of NIMH
Character: Justin (voice)
Released: June 17, 1982
Type: Movie
A widowed field mouse must move her family -- including an ailing son -- to escape a farmer's plow. Aided by a crow and a pack of superintelligent, escaped lab rats, the brave mother struggles to transplant her home to firmer ground.
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Title: Masada
Character: Eleazar Ben Yair
Released: April 5, 1981
Type: TV
A Roman general leads the epic 1st-century siege of Masada, the mountain fortress where more than 900 Jews made a heroic stand against 5,000 Roman soldiers.
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A Whale for the Killing
Title: A Whale for the Killing
Character: Charles Landon
Released: February 1, 1981
Type: Movie
A conservationst, stranded with his family at a Newfoundland coastal resort, flies in the face of custom and fights an entire community to prevent a trapped whale's slaughter with only the support of his wife and one of the locals.
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The Jericho Mile
Title: The Jericho Mile
Character: Larry "Rain" Murphy
Released: October 31, 1980
Type: Movie
A runner, serving a life sentence at Folsom Prison, works at becoming the world's fastest miler and wins a chance to compete for a spot on the Olympic team.
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Angel on My Shoulder
Title: Angel on My Shoulder
Character: Eddie Kagel
Released: May 11, 1980
Type: Movie
A small-time Chicago hood, now deceased, gets a second chance at life by striking a bargain with the Devil to inhabit and attempt to corrupt a totally honest politician.
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Young Joe, the Forgotten Kennedy
Title: Young Joe, the Forgotten Kennedy
Character: Joseph Kennedy, Jr.
Released: September 18, 1977
Type: Movie
The story of U.S. President John F. Kennedy's older brother Joseph, who undertakes a dangerous mission during World War II.
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The Last Tycoon
Title: The Last Tycoon
Character: Wylie
Released: November 18, 1976
Type: Movie
Monroe Stahr, a successful movie producer, pursues a beautiful and elusive young woman — all the while working himself to death.
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Title: Rich Man, Poor Man - Book II
Character: Rudy Jordache
Released: September 21, 1976
Type: TV
Weekly series spun off from the miniseries.
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Title: Rich Man, Poor Man
Character: Rudy Jordache
Released: February 1, 1976
Type: TV
Based on the best-selling 1969 novel by Irwin Shaw, the series follows the divergent career courses of the impoverished German American Jordache brothers.
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Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan
Title: Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan
Character: Ben Jacobs
Released: February 20, 1975
Type: Movie
After three civil-rights workers are murdered in Mississippi in 1964, a team of FBI agents is sent there to find the killers.
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The Man Without a Country
Title: The Man Without a Country
Character: Arthur Danforth
Released: April 24, 1973
Type: Movie
At his court-martial, an American Army officer renounces his country. For his punishment he is ordered to spend the rest of his life on a ship that sails all over the world, but he will never be allowed to set foot on his country's soil. nor come within site of it, nor be allowed to know anything about the country
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Title: The Streets of San Francisco
Released: September 23, 1972
Type: TV
Two police officers, the older Lt. Stone and the young upstart Inspector Keller, investigate murders and other serious crimes in San Francisco. Stone would become a second father to Keller as he learned the rigors and procedures of detective work.
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Sergeant Klems
Title: Sergeant Klems
Character: Sergeant Otto Josef Klems
Released: December 3, 1971
Type: Movie
A man masquerading as a dead soldier seeks to desert his post and join the enemy in their struggle.
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Title: Cannon
Released: September 14, 1971
Type: TV
Cannon is a CBS detective television series produced by Quinn Martin which aired from March 26, 1971 to March 3, 1976. The primary protagonist is the title character, private detective Frank Cannon, played by William Conrad. He also appeared on two episodes of Barnaby Jones. Cannon is the first Quinn Martin-produced series to be aired on a network other than ABC. A "revival" television film, The Return of Frank Cannon, was aired on November 1, 1980. In total, there were 124 episodes.
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Title: The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Character: Stephen Linder
Released: September 19, 1970
Type: TV
30-year-old single Mary Richards moves to Minneapolis to start a new life after a romantic break-up. There she reacquaints with Phyllis who rents her a room, and meets her upstairs neighbor and new best friend Rhoda. Mary unexpectedly lands a job as associate producer at the TV station WJM, where she works alongside her bristly boss, Lou; the comical newswriter, Murray; and the newscast's often-incompetent anchor, Ted.
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Soldier Blue
Title: Soldier Blue
Character: Honus Gent
Released: August 12, 1970
Type: Movie
After a cavalry group is massacred by the Cheyenne, only two survivors remain: Honus, a naive private devoted to his duty, and Cresta, a young woman who had lived with the Cheyenne two years and whose sympathies lie more with them than with the US government. Together, they must try to reach the cavalry's main base camp. As they travel onward, Honus is torn between his growing affection for Cresta.
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Hail, Hero!
Title: Hail, Hero!
Character: Frank Dixon
Released: October 4, 1969
Type: Movie
Carl Dixon decides to quit school and enlist in the Army, even though he's already run afoul of the law as a Vietnam protestor. It is our hero's intention to use love, rather than bullets, to combat the Viet Cong. Needless to say, his idealism is no match for the harsher realities of war.
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Title: Medical Center
Released: September 24, 1969
Type: TV
Medical Center is a medical drama series which aired on CBS from 1969 to 1976. It was produced by MGM Television.
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Title: Hawaii Five-O
Character: Tom Morgan
Released: September 20, 1968
Type: TV
Hawaii Five-O is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and Leonard Freeman. Set in Hawaii, the show originally aired for 12 seasons from 1968 to 1980, and continues in reruns. Jack Lord portrayed Detective Lieutenant Steve McGarrett, the head of a special state police task force which was based on an actual unit that existed under martial law in the 1940s. The theme music composed by Morton Stevens became especially popular. Many episodes would end with McGarrett instructing his subordinate to "Book 'em, Danno!", sometimes specifying a charge such as "murder one".
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Title: The Mike Douglas Show
Character: Self
Released: December 11, 1961
Type: TV
The Mike Douglas Show is an American daytime television talk show hosted by Mike Douglas that originally aired only in the Cleveland area during much of its first two years on the air. It then went into syndication in 1963 and remained on television until 1982. It was distributed by Westinghouse Broadcasting and for much of its run, originated from studios of two of the company's TV stations in Cleveland and Philadelphia.
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White Mane
Title: White Mane
Character: Narrator (English, restored version) (voice)
Released: March 31, 1953
Type: Movie
In the south of France, in a vast plain region called the Camargue, lives White Mane, a magnificent stallion and the leader of a herd of wild horses too proud to let themselves be broken by humans. Only Folco, a young fisherman, manages to tame him. A strong friendship grows between the boy and the horse, as the two go looking for the freedom that the world of men won’t allow them.