James Gavin

James Gavin

Born: December 21, 1919
Died: September 18, 2008
in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.

Movies for James Gavin...

The Great Cash Giveaway Getaway
Title: The Great Cash Giveaway Getaway
Released: April 21, 1980
Type: Movie
Two teenagers on the run with a quarter of a million dollars belonging to an illegal drug ring are pursued by a suave crime czar and, after they gain a celebrity of sorts, by the whole country, which wants to partake of their largesse in their coast-to-coast spending spree.
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Nightmare
Title: Nightmare
Character: Doorman
Released: January 8, 1974
Type: Movie
A murder witness can't convince the police that the killer lives in the apartment across the courtyard from him, and he realizes he is the sniper's next victim.
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In Search of America
Title: In Search of America
Character: Helicopter Pilot
Released: March 23, 1971
Type: Movie
Michael (Jeff Bridges) drops out of college with the intention of finding himself. When his parents (Carl Betz and Vera Miles) balk, he talks them into joining him in traveling the country and educating themselves about the state of things. They, along with Grandma (Ruth McDevitt) trick out an old Greyhound bus and hit the road. The picaresque plotline brings the family into contact with a variety of colorful characters. The producers of In Search of America never declared outright that the made-for-TV film was intended as a series pilot, but it ends on an ambiguous note with plenty of loose plot ends. In Search of America was first telecast March 23, 1971.
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The Other Man
Title: The Other Man
Character: George Dunning
Released: October 19, 1970
Type: Movie
The neglected wife of an ambitious district attorney starts an affair with an ex-convict he had sent to prison. When her lover is found murdered, she begins to suspect that her husband did it.
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Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?
Title: Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?
Character: Helicopter Pilot
Released: September 11, 1970
Type: Movie
War is brewing between the soldiers at an otherwise quiet army base and the civilians of a nearby Southern town. Brian Keith is an officer who tries to keep the peace. However, peace is hard to come by with Ernest Borgnine as a stereotypical dumb hick sheriff who's quick to call in the local militia. Tony Curtis plays a skirt-chasing sergeant who can't stay out of trouble and soon lands in jail. Brian Keith borrows a tank to release his friend from jail. Things get more chaotic after that.
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Coogan's Bluff
Title: Coogan's Bluff
Character: Ferguson
Released: October 2, 1968
Type: Movie
Coogan, an Arizona deputy sheriff goes to New York to pick up a prisoner. While escorting the prisoner to the airport, he escapes and Coogan heads into the city to recapture him.
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My Blood Runs Cold
Title: My Blood Runs Cold
Character: Pilot
Released: March 24, 1965
Type: Movie
Wealthy, reckless Californian Julie Merriday, accompanied by her boyfriend Harry Lindsay, an attorney, narrowly avoids crashing into a motorcycle driven by young Ben Gunther. Ben temporarily abandons his damaged cycle and accepts a ride from Julie but insists upon calling her Barbara. Later, at the Merriday beach house, Julie's Aunt Sarah tells Julie that her great great grandmother was named Barbara, and furthermore, that ancestress had an illegitimate child fathered by one Benjamin Gunther.
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Key Witness
Title: Key Witness
Character: Policeman
Released: October 6, 1960
Type: Movie
An average Los Angeles citizen witnesses a gang murder when he stops to use a telephone. When he presents himself to the LAPD as the only person willing to identify the culprits, he opens himself up to a campaign of intimidation from the gang involved.
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The Gazebo
Title: The Gazebo
Character: Sgt. Drucker
Released: January 15, 1960
Type: Movie
TV writer Elliott Nash buries a blackmailer under the new gazebo in his suburban backyard. But the nervous man can't let the body rest there.
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Face of a Fugitive
Title: Face of a Fugitive
Character: Stockton (uncredited)
Released: May 1, 1959
Type: Movie
A man who was falsly accused for murder escapes the sheriffs and starts a new life in a town at the border of the States to Mexico. But he cannot settle in peace as his chasers are trying to find him.
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Title: Rawhide
Character: Cowhand
Released: January 9, 1959
Type: TV
The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across the old west. Along the way they meet up with adventure and drama.
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Title: Rawhide
Character: Grady
Released: January 9, 1959
Type: TV
The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across the old west. Along the way they meet up with adventure and drama.
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Three Violent People
Title: Three Violent People
Character: Man
Released: December 1, 1956
Type: Movie
A rancher, his shady bride and his one-armed brother fight amid carpetbaggers in Texas.
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The Werewolf
Title: The Werewolf
Character: Mack Fanning
Released: July 1, 1956
Type: Movie
The arrival in a small mountain town of a dissheveled stranger launches a series of murders committed by some sort of animal. As the town doctor and his daughter attempt to help the stranger, the sheriff investigates the murders; and they uncover a sinister experiment involving two rogue scientists, a car accident victim, his wife and children, and a serum that causes a man to turn into a ravaging werewolf.
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High Tor
Title: High Tor
Character: Patsy
Released: March 10, 1956
Type: Movie
High Tor is a 1936 play by Maxwell Anderson. Twenty years after the original production, Anderson adapted it into a television musical with Arthur Schwartz. Anderson first considered a musical adaptation of High Tor for television in 1949. He and John Monks Jr. adapted the play as a made-for-television musical fantasy in 1955, with music by Arthur Schwartz and lyrics by Anderson. High Tor was filmed in November 1955 by Desilu Productions at the RKO-Pathé Studio and broadcast March 10, 1956 on the CBS television network, as a 90-minute episode of the series Ford Star Jubilee. Bing Crosby, Julie Andrews, Nancy Olson, Hans Conreid, and Keenan Wynn starred in the film, produced by Arthur Schwartz, and directed by James Neilson.
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Fremont: The Trailblazer
Title: Fremont: The Trailblazer
Character: Kit Carson
Released: January 1, 1956
Type: Movie
Fremont: The Trailblazer was a television pilot episode that never aired.