Dennis Hopper

Dennis Hopper

Born: May 17, 1936
Died: May 29, 2010
in Dodge City, Kansas, USA
Dennis Lee Hopper (May 17, 1936 – May 29, 2010) was an American actor, filmmaker and artist. As a young man, Hopper became interested in acting and eventually became a student of the Actors' Studio. He made his first television appearance in 1954, and appeared in two films featuring James Dean, Rebel Without a Cause (1955) and Giant (1956). During the next 10 years, Hopper appeared frequently on television in guest roles, and by the end of the 1960s had played supporting roles in several films. He directed and starred in Easy Rider (1969), winning an award at the Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay as co-writer. "With its portrait of counterculture heroes raising their middle fingers to the uptight middle-class hypocrisies, Easy Rider became the cinematic symbol of the 1960s, a celluloid anthem to freedom, macho bravado and anti-establishment rebellion." Film critic Matthew Hays notes that "no other persona better signifies the lost idealism of the 1960s than that of Dennis Hopper." He was unable to build on his success for several years, until a featured role in Apocalypse Now (1979) brought him attention. He subsequently appeared in Rumble Fish (1983) and The Osterman Weekend (1983), and received critical recognition for his work in Blue Velvet and Hoosiers, with the latter film garnering him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. He directed Colors (1988) and played the villain in Speed (1994). Hopper's later work included a leading role in the television series Crash. Hopper's last performance was filmed just before his death: The Last Film Festival, slated for a 2011 release. Hopper was also a prolific and acclaimed photographer, a profession he began in the 1960s.

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to Crinkle their Wrist, Perfumed Splendour
Title: to Crinkle their Wrist, Perfumed Splendour
Character: Frank Booth (archive footage)
Released: November 26, 2023
Type: Movie
An omnium-gatherum of film, poem, and song excerpts contextually juxtaposed in an attempt to explore masculinity, alienation, and identity in a post-industrial society.
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Spirit of Golf
Title: Spirit of Golf
Released: July 23, 2023
Type: Movie
In his new film, Spirit of Golf, photographer and documentary filmmaker Christopher Felver traces his personal 20-year odyssey in search of the essence of the “auld Scots game.” Inspired by Michael Murphy’s book, Golf in the Kingdom, he travels to many of golf’s historic, fabled courses: St Andrews, Pebble Beach, Augusta National, among others. He interviews many of the game’s great champions and more than a few colorful characters, who are asked the question, “What is the spirit of golf?” We hear from Arnold Palmer, Tiger Woods, Jack Nicklaus, Johnny Miller, the wonderfully unique Moe Norman, Kathy Whitworth and Nancy Lopez, and notable teachers such as David Leadbetter, “Butch” Harmon and commentators Herbert Warren Wind, Jack Whitaker, and Jim Nantz. All the answers are marvelously diverse, funny, and poetic… just like the game itself.
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Hopper/Welles
Title: Hopper/Welles
Character: Self
Released: September 9, 2020
Type: Movie
Captures a 1970 meeting between the movie industry titan Orson Welles and the then-rising star Dennis Hopper, who had just made Easy Rider.
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Wim Wenders, Desperado
Title: Wim Wenders, Desperado
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: July 16, 2020
Type: Movie
"Wings Of Desire" and "Buena Vista Social Club", "Paris, Texas" and "The State Of Things": Wim Wenders is considered one of the pioneers of New German Cinema and one of the most important and influential representatives of contemporary cinema. With never before shown archive material and extraordinary encounters with companions and contemporary witnesses such as Francis Ford Coppola, Willem Dafoe, Andie MacDowell, Hanns Zischler, Patti Smith and Werner Herzog, this documentary provides unique insights into the life and work of one of the most multifaceted artists of our times. Renowned documentary filmmaker Eric Friedler ("It Must Schwing. The Blue Note Story") and his co-director Andreas Frege were given the exclusive opportunity to portray Wenders for this film. From Dusseldorf to Paris, and all the way to the desert of Texas, the film traces iconic locations and decisive moments in Wenders' work as director, producer, photographer and author.
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Jay Sebring… Cutting to the Truth
Title: Jay Sebring… Cutting to the Truth
Character: Self
Released: March 6, 2020
Type: Movie
An illuminating portrait of Jay Sebring — the long-forgotten artist, designer, and entrepreneur who created a billion-dollar hair & beauty industry and defined iconic Hollywood styles for men.
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The Other Side of the Wind
Title: The Other Side of the Wind
Character: Dennis Hopper
Released: November 2, 2018
Type: Movie
Surrounded by fans and skeptics, grizzled director J.J. "Jake" Hannaford returns from years abroad in Europe to a changed Hollywood, where he attempts to make his innovative comeback film. This film was started in 1970 but never completed during Welles lifetime.
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They'll Love Me When I'm Dead
Title: They'll Love Me When I'm Dead
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: August 31, 2018
Type: Movie
As his life comes to its end, famous Hollywood director Orson Welles puts it all on the line at the chance for renewed success with the film The Other Side of the Wind.
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Along for the Ride
Title: Along for the Ride
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: November 3, 2016
Type: Movie
A documentary chronicling the filmmaking career of Dennis Hopper.
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'Blue Velvet' Revisited
Title: 'Blue Velvet' Revisited
Character: Self
Released: October 7, 2016
Type: Movie
When David Lynch was making his film Blue Velvet, German filmmaker Peter Braatz was also on set, shooting documentary footage with a Super 8 film camera. Now, on Blue Velvet's 30th anniversary, Braatz presents his footage, along with still photographs, as a "meditation" on Lynch's work.
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The Last Film Festival
Title: The Last Film Festival
Character: Nick Twain - Producer
Released: September 16, 2016
Type: Movie
Dennis Hopper plays Nick Twain, a Hollywood Producer whose latest film is rejected by every film festival in the world except one- in Ohio. Nick will do anything to get his film distributed, including manipulating his dysfunctional cast into attending the festival. Hollywood egos and small town politics inevitably collide.
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Dennis Hopper: Uneasy Rider
Title: Dennis Hopper: Uneasy Rider
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: June 29, 2016
Type: Movie
The life & times of Dennis Hopper, showbiz maestro and Hollywood eccentric.
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Taylor & Ultra: On the 60s, The Factory, and Being a Warhol Superstar
Title: Taylor & Ultra: On the 60s, The Factory, and Being a Warhol Superstar
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: April 14, 2016
Type: Movie
Warhol Superstar Ultra Violet (Isabelle Colin Dufresne) and Lower East Side Icon Taylor Mead (Poet/Actor/Artist) share their stories of Manhattan in the 1960s.
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Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
Title: Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
Character: Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Released: December 12, 2014
Type: Movie
The extraordinary life of Orson Welles (1915-85), an enigma of Hollywood, an irreducible independent creator: a musical prodigy, an excellent painter, a master of theater and radio, a modern Shakespeare, a magician who was always searching for a new trick to surprise his audience, a romantic and legendary figure who lived only for cinema.
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Llyn Foulkes One Man Band
Title: Llyn Foulkes One Man Band
Character: Himself
Released: June 20, 2013
Type: Movie
This documentary follows painter and musician Lyn Foulkes from age 70 to 77 as he labors to complete two astonishing tableaux that demonstrate his outsider's perspective and eye for evocative imagery. As his reworking of one piece stretches into its second decade, we watch Foulkes' righteous contempt for the establishment erode, replaced by a yearning for the recognition he's due.
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Roland Klick: The Heart Is a Hungry Hunter
Title: Roland Klick: The Heart Is a Hungry Hunter
Character: Himself
Released: February 8, 2013
Type: Movie
The gritty, kinetic, visionary cinema of Roland Klick is ripe for rediscovery. After shooting with international stars, such as Mario Adorf and Dennis Hopper, Klick celebrated international success and achieved cult status. Yet after making only six features, he disappeared from the scene in a rather mysterious way. The story of an uncompromising film maniac.
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Yo! The Story of ‘Yo! MTV Raps’
Title: Yo! The Story of ‘Yo! MTV Raps’
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: June 7, 2012
Type: Movie
A provocative look into the seven-year history of the series that gave hip hop a voice and broke color barriers, integrating MTV with rap. "Yo! MTV Raps" premiered on August 6, 1988 with hosts Fab 5 Freddy, Ed Lover and Doctor Dré, and shaped the careers of many of today’s hip hop superstars, while simultaneously making groundbreaking strides in introducing hip hop to the mainstream.
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Scene Missing
Title: Scene Missing
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 2012
Type: Movie
The unfinished documentary about the making of Dennis Hopper's mostly unseen feature film The Last Movie (1971).
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Corman's World
Title: Corman's World
Character: Various Roles (archive footage)
Released: December 16, 2011
Type: Movie
A chronicle of the long career of American filmmaker Roger Corman, the most tenacious and ingenious low-budget producer and director in the US film industry, a pioneer of independent filmmaking and discoverer of new talent.
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Blue Velvet: The Lost Footage
Title: Blue Velvet: The Lost Footage
Character: Frank Booth
Released: November 8, 2011
Type: Movie
Fifty-three minutes of deleted scenes and alternate takes assembled by David Lynch.
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Stardust
Title: Stardust
Character: Self (uncredited)
Released: October 16, 2010
Type: Movie
Stardust is the second part of the trilogy where Provost films everyday life with a hidden high resolution camera and edits the images into a fiction film using cinematographic codes and narrative tools from the Hollywood film language. The award winning Plot Point (2007) that turned everyday life around Times Square into a thriller film being the first part of the trilogy, this time Provost takes his hidden camera to Las Vegas in Stardust and films real Hollywood stars - Jon Voight, Dennis Hopper and Jack Nicholson and turns the glorious and ambiguous power of the gambling capital into an exciting crime story.
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Alpha and Omega
Title: Alpha and Omega
Character: Tony (voice)
Released: September 16, 2010
Type: Movie
Two young wolves at opposite ends of their pack's social order are thrown together into a foreign land and need each other to return home, but love complicates everything.
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Beautiful Darling
Title: Beautiful Darling
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: April 2, 2010
Type: Movie
James Rasin's documentary “Beautiful Darling” honors American Transgender actress and best-known Warhol Superstar, Candy Darling, and her all-too-brief life and career, with a combination of current and vintage interview material, rarely seen archival photos and footage, and extracts from Darling's movies.
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B movie
Title: B movie
Character: Himself
Released: July 9, 2009
Type: Movie
This mini documentary features a rare interview with infamous graffiti artist Banksy, delving into how he started out as a graffiti writer up to his shift to gallery art, installations, CDs, and more. Til this day only a hand full of people know his real identity, such as friends appearing here: 3D of Massive Attack, Damien Hirst, and others.
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13 Most Beautiful… Songs for Andy Warhol's Screen Tests
Title: 13 Most Beautiful… Songs for Andy Warhol's Screen Tests
Character: Himself
Released: April 7, 2009
Type: Movie
Between 1964 and 1966, Andy Warhol shot nearly 500 Screen Tests, beautiful and revealing portraits of hundreds of different individuals, from Warhol superstars and celebrities to friends or anyone he thought had "star potential". All visitors to his studio, the Factory. Subjects were captured in stark relief by a strong keylight, and filmed by Warhol with his stationary 16mm Bolex camera on silent, black and white, 100-foot rolls of film. The resulting two-and-a-half-minute film reels were then screened in slow motion, resulting in a fascinating collection of four-minute masterpieces that startle and entrance, mesmerizing in the purest sense of the word. Songwriters Dean Wareham and Britta Phillips, formerly of the band Luna and currently recording as Dean & Britta, incorporated original compositions as well as cover songs to create new soundtracks for the 13 films.
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Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder
Title: Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder
Character: Himself
Released: April 1, 2009
Type: Movie
The poet and painter, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, is among the world's living monuments to arts and letters. For well over a half century, Ferlinghetti helped shape the currents of poetry and literature with his forceful engagement with society and an ideological position that often found him at odds with the political currents of his day. Ferlinghetti's quiet, behind the scenes demeanor and disarming mien may have assuaged, or even fooled, certain opponents, while in reality he was a literary mercenary, a rebel at the forefront of our own cultural revolution.
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No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos
Title: No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos
Character: Self
Released: January 11, 2009
Type: Movie
The artistry, triumph and lifelong friendship of the great cinematographers Laszlo Kovacs and Vilmos Zsigmond. With film school equipment, they shoot the Soviet crackdown of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. As refugees they struggle in Hollywood, finally breaking into the mainstream with their pivotal contribution to the "American New Wave."
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Palermo Shooting
Title: Palermo Shooting
Character: Frank
Released: November 20, 2008
Type: Movie
After the wild lifestyle of a famous young German photographer almost gets him killed, he goes to Palermo, Sicily to take a break. Can the beautiful city and a beautiful local woman calm him down?
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Title: Crash
Character: Ben Cendars
Released: October 17, 2008
Type: TV
Crash is an American television drama series that tells the story of how the lives of how several very diverse Southern Californians intersect.
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The Brothers Warner
Title: The Brothers Warner
Character: Self - Actor
Released: October 16, 2008
Type: Movie
An intimate portrait and saga of four film pioneers--Harry, Albert, Sam and Jack who rose from immigrant poverty through personal tragedies persevering to create a major studio with a social conscience.
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An American Carol
Title: An American Carol
Character: Judge Clarence Henderson
Released: October 3, 2008
Type: Movie
A cynical anti-American Hollywood filmmaker sets out on a crusade to abolish the 4th of July holiday. He is visited by three spirits who take him on a hilarious journey in an attempt to show him the true meaning of America.
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Not Quite Hollywood
Title: Not Quite Hollywood
Character: Self
Released: August 28, 2008
Type: Movie
As Australian cinema broke through to international audiences in the 1970s through respected art house films like Peter Weir's "Picnic At Hanging Rock," a new underground of low-budget exploitation filmmakers were turning out considerably less highbrow fare. Documentary filmmaker Mark Hartley explores this unbridled era of sex and violence, complete with clips from some of the scene's most outrageous flicks and interviews with the renegade filmmakers themselves.
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Elegy
Title: Elegy
Character: George O'Hearn
Released: August 8, 2008
Type: Movie
Cultural critic David Kepesh finds his life -- which he indicates is a state of "emancipated manhood" -- thrown into tragic disarray by Consuela Castillo, a well-mannered student who awakens a sense of sexual possessiveness in her teacher.
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Hell Ride
Title: Hell Ride
Character: Eddie Zero
Released: August 8, 2008
Type: Movie
Two rival bikers gangs, the Victors and the Six-Six-Six's, refuel their decades-old rivalry.
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Swing Vote
Title: Swing Vote
Character: Donald Greenleaf
Released: August 1, 2008
Type: Movie
In a remarkable turn of events, the result of the presidential election comes down to one man's vote.
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Chelsea on the Rocks
Title: Chelsea on the Rocks
Character: Himself
Released: May 23, 2008
Type: Movie
Chelsea on the Rocks celebrates the personalities and artistic voices that have emerged from New York’s legendary Chelsea Hotel. Once considered an untouchable, impenetrable tower for writers, artists, musicians and mavericks, it has been recently claimed as a boutique hotel venture for a management company that shows disregard for its formidable history. –Cannes Film Festival
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Sleepwalking
Title: Sleepwalking
Character: Mr. Reedy
Released: March 14, 2008
Type: Movie
When her boyfriend is arrested for marijuana possession, Joleen Reedy and her 11-year-old daughter, Tara, take refuge with Joleen's aimless brother, James. Joleen soon runs off with a truck driver, and James is unable to meet his responsibilities. After Child Protective Services takes possession of Tara, James abducts her from a foster home, and the two travel from California to Utah, where his abusive father lives.
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The Cool School
Title: The Cool School
Character: Self
Released: March 7, 2008
Type: Movie
How LA Learned to Love Modern Art. A lesson in how a few renegade artists built an art scene from scratch.
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Stanley Kramer: A Man's Search for Truth
Title: Stanley Kramer: A Man's Search for Truth
Character: Self
Released: February 12, 2008
Type: Movie
Documentary about Stanley Kramer, included on the 40th anniversary edition of Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.
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Bananaz
Title: Bananaz
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: February 7, 2008
Type: Movie
A documentary on the cryptic cartoon band, Gorillaz. From 2000-2006 director Ceri Levy filmed the creators behind the scenes, revealing the first drawings, animations and music, and following the evolution of the group through to the album Demon Days.
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The Holy Modal Rounders: Bound to Lose
Title: The Holy Modal Rounders: Bound to Lose
Character: Self
Released: December 7, 2007
Type: Movie
A look back on the weird and wasted career of the Holy Modal Rounders.
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Brando: An Icon Is Born
Title: Brando: An Icon Is Born
Character: Himself
Released: July 1, 2007
Type: Movie
A short retroperspective feature on Brando's influence on acting itself and the cultural impact of his role in "The Wild One".
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Title: Brando: The Documentary
Character: Self
Released: May 1, 2007
Type: TV
The life and legacy of Marlon Brando and how he changed acting.
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Title: The Graham Norton Show
Character: Himself
Released: February 22, 2007
Type: TV
Each week celebrity guests join Irish comedian Graham Norton to discuss what's being going on around the world that week. The guests poke fun and share their opinions on the main news stories. Graham is often joined by a band or artist to play the show out.
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Memory
Title: Memory
Character: Max Lichtenstein
Released: November 1, 2006
Type: Movie
Dr. Taylor Biggs is haunted by a past that's not his own. A hallucinatory drug gives him the power to see visions of vicious crimes, visions made all that more disturbing when he discovers that the murderous memories may belong to the father he never knew . Biggs's mother, whose own failing memory makes her powerless to help him unravel his family history.
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The Sixth Element: The Ross Clarke-Jones Story
Title: The Sixth Element: The Ross Clarke-Jones Story
Character: Narrator
Released: October 3, 2006
Type: Movie
Overview The Sixth Element By any standard, the life story of Ross Clarke-Jones qualifies as riveting. A daredevil ad extremis, Clarke-Jones learned to tackle and surmount some of the most mammoth waves on the face of the Earth. And that attitude fittingly mirrors the surfer's approach to life, colored and shaped by an insatiable restlessness and a hunger for new thrills. His drive transported him from one exotic corner of the world to another, Tasmania to the Amazon and everywhere in between. This documentary tells Clarke-Jones's amazing story, with insights from heavyweights including Jeff Bushman, Matt Hoy, Noah Johnson, Jamie Brisick, Kelly Slater and many others. The late Dennis Hopper narrates.
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Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film
Title: Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film
Character: Self
Released: September 1, 2006
Type: Movie
Ric Burns unearths rarely seen footage and offers keen observations on the life and artistic influence of Andy Warhol. [Made for and aired on PBS's American Masters series.]
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The Real James Dean
Title: The Real James Dean
Character: Self
Released: August 1, 2006
Type: Movie
Although he'd starred in just three films before his untimely death at age 24, James Dean cast a long shadow that came to define cool. Using excerpts from Dean's personal diaries, found footage from screen and wardrobe tests and interviews with those who knew him best (including Dennis Hopper, Dick Van Patten, Graham Nash and Rod Steiger), this fascinating documentary explores the screen icon's lingering mystique.
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50 Films to See Before You Die
Title: 50 Films to See Before You Die
Character: Self
Released: July 22, 2006
Type: Movie
Celebrating the relaunch of Film4 as a free-to-air TV channel, Channel4 counts down their list of the fop 50 films to see before you die, as compiled by film critics and personalities.
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Wanderlust
Title: Wanderlust
Character: Himself
Released: July 12, 2006
Type: Movie
A look at the mystique of road movies, combining interviews, film clips, music, photography, literature and a narrative storyline featuring Paul Rudd and Tom McCarthy.
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The Art of Football from A to Z
Title: The Art of Football from A to Z
Character: Self
Released: May 25, 2006
Type: Movie
Funnyman John Cleese leads viewers through an exhaustive -- and hilarious -- tour of the world of soccer, complete with the sport's most memorable goals, kicks, saves, goofs and penalties. Also included are reflections on soccer's impact on culture, including the Monty Python sketch "Philosophy Football," and interviews with celebrities Dave Stewart, Dennis Hopper and Henry Kissinger, as well as soccer icons Pelé, Mia Hamm and Thierry Henry.
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Sketches of Frank Gehry
Title: Sketches of Frank Gehry
Character: Self
Released: May 12, 2006
Type: Movie
First and foremost, Frank Gehry is an artist. Described as a young child as having golden hands, Frank begins his creation through sketch. Forming thought into substantive sculpture, the marriage of art and architechure is brought to life. Join director Sydney Pollack on a journey into the world and work of the most important architect of our Age.
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Rising Son: The Legend of Skateboarder Christian Hosoi
Title: Rising Son: The Legend of Skateboarder Christian Hosoi
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: April 7, 2006
Type: Movie
For stylish airs, no one came close to Christian Hosoi. At his peak in the mid-80s he was the "rock star" of skating, pulling down money that rivaled Tony Hawk's paycheck. Innovating crazy vertical maneuvers like the "Christ Air," Christian knew how to stoke an audience. Then it all came crashing down when Hosoi plowed into self-destruction, getting hooked on crystal meth and hitting rock bottom with a prison sentence for drug smuggling. Completely annihilated, Christian turned to the Bible for answers and found new strength. With lots of action footage and a slammin' soundtrack, this gritty, inspiring film goes deep inside the world of skateboarding as seen through the incredible highs and lows of this legend's life, revealed through never-before-released home movies and interviews with Christian's family and friends including top skaters Jason Lee, Tony Hawk, Lance Mountain, Jay Adams, Tony Alva, Mark Ragowski and many more!
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Gorillaz | Demon Days Live
Title: Gorillaz | Demon Days Live
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: March 27, 2006
Type: Movie
Demon Days: Live at the Manchester Opera House is a Grammy Award nominated live DVD by the Gorillaz, released the 27th of March 2006 in the UK. It compiles the live performances from the 1st of November to the 5th of November 2005 at the Manchester Opera House that recreated the Demon Days Studio album. It was directed by David Barnard and Grant Gee.
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10th & Wolf
Title: 10th & Wolf
Character: Matty Matello
Released: February 19, 2006
Type: Movie
A former street thug returns to his Philadelphia home after a stint in the military. Back on his home turf, he once again finds himself tangling with the mob boss who was instrumental in his going off to be a soldier.
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Hoboken Hollow
Title: Hoboken Hollow
Character: Sheriff Greer
Released: January 4, 2006
Type: Movie
As Trevor drifts through Texas on collision course with a nightmare he is still haunted by the evils of the war he recently returned from and a promise he failed to keep. When a stranger offers a ride, Trevor finds himself battling the brutal homegrown evil of the Broderick family at Hoboken Hollow,a remote West Texas ranch that many visit but few ever leave.
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Title: E-Ring
Character: Eli McNulty
Released: September 21, 2005
Type: TV
E-Ring is an American television military drama, created by Ken Robinson and David McKenna and executive produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, that premiered on NBC on September 21, 2005. The title of the show refers to the structure of The Pentagon, which is configured in five concentric rings, from "A" to "E", with E being the outermost ring. Before any military action can be taken anywhere in the world the mission must be planned and approved by the most important ring of the Pentagon, the E-ring. This is where the more high-profile work is done, all operations must be legally approved and the green light given by the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The show starred Benjamin Bratt as Major James Tisnewski, a former Delta Force operator and Dennis Hopper as Colonel Eli McNulty, as officers working in the E-ring of the Pentagon in the Special Operations Division – planning and co-ordinating covert US special operations actions around the globe. The show struggled from the onset because it was up against ABC's Top 20 hit Lost, CBS's Top 30 hit Criminal Minds, FOX's Top 10 hit American Idol and the network's Top 30 hit Unan1mous. Although NBC gave it an earlier time slot which led to better ratings, the show was pulled from the lineup during the February sweeps and officially canceled at the NBC Upfront on May 15.
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House of 9
Title: House of 9
Character: Father Duffy
Released: June 19, 2005
Type: Movie
Nine strangers wake up in a house with no recollection how they got there and no way out. The voice on the PA introduces them to a grisly game they must play. The prize is $5 million and their life.
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Land of the Dead
Title: Land of the Dead
Character: Kaufman
Released: June 18, 2005
Type: Movie
The world is full of zombies and the survivors have barricaded themselves inside a walled city to keep out the living dead. As the wealthy hide out in skyscrapers and chaos rules the streets, the rest of the survivors must find a way to stop the evolving zombies from breaking into the city.
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The Crow: Wicked Prayer
Title: The Crow: Wicked Prayer
Character: El Niño
Released: May 4, 2005
Type: Movie
When ex-convict Jimmy and his girlfriend are brutally murdered on a reservation by a local gang of satanists, he's brought back by the Crow to seek vengence.
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Champion
Title: Champion
Character: Self
Released: March 12, 2005
Type: Movie
Danny Trejo, you know the man. He has fierce tattoos, and frequently plays a thug in your favorite movies. Behind the ink and the wicked characters he plays on screen lies the story of a troubled childhood which included drug addiction, armed robbery and extensive prison time. Champion offers an intimate, one of a kind view into the life of Danny Trejo before he turned himself around and after.
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Inside Deep Throat
Title: Inside Deep Throat
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: February 11, 2005
Type: Movie
In 1972, a seemingly typical shoestring budget pornographic film was made in a Florida hotel: "Deep Throat," starring Linda Lovelace. This film would surpass the wildest expectation of everyone involved to become one of the most successful independent films of all time. It caught the public imagination which met the spirit of the times, even as the self-appointed guardians of public morality struggled to suppress it, and created, for a brief moment, a possible future where sexuality in film had a bold artistic potential. This film covers the story of the making of this controversial film, its stunning success, its hysterical opposition along with its dark side of mob influence and allegations of the on set mistreatment of the film's star.
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Americano
Title: Americano
Character: Riccardo
Released: January 7, 2005
Type: Movie
"Americano" centres around Chris McKinley (Jackson), a recent college graduate backpacking through Europe who savours his last three days of freedom before boarding the career fast track back in the United States. In Pamplona with two friends (Timm Sharp and Ruthanna Hopper), Chris meets an Australian thrill-seeker (Phil Barantini), a quintessential Spanish beauty (Varela) and an enigmatic provocateur (Dennis Hopper), all of whom encourage him to rethink his life. As the minutes and seconds until his departure tick away, Chris struggles with an age-old question: Should he follow the beaten path or risk it all on the road less travelled?
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Rebel Without a Cause: Defiant Innocents
Title: Rebel Without a Cause: Defiant Innocents
Character: Himself
Released: January 1, 2005
Type: Movie
Rebel Without a Cause: Defiant Innocents is a documentary chronicling the production of the film.
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Out of Season
Title: Out of Season
Character: Harry Barlow
Released: December 23, 2004
Type: Movie
When a young drifter is forced to stay the winter in a small seaside town, he inadvertently becomes the catalyst for deceit, double crossings and murder amongst the locals.
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Tell Them Who You Are
Title: Tell Them Who You Are
Character: Self
Released: September 6, 2004
Type: Movie
The son of acclaimed cinematographer Haskell Wexler confronts his complex father by turning the camera on him. What results is a portrait of a difficult genius and a son's path out of the shadow of a famous father.
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Title: Entourage
Released: July 18, 2004
Type: TV
Film star Vince Chase navigates the vapid terrain of Los Angeles with a close circle of friends and his trusty agent.
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The Last Ride
Title: The Last Ride
Character: Ronnie Purnell
Released: June 2, 2004
Type: Movie
After thirty years in prison, ex-con Ronnie recruits his grandson to exact revenge on Darryl, the cop who put him behind bars. Standing in their way is Ronnie's son, whom Darryl raised.
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The Keeper
Title: The Keeper
Character: Krebs
Released: May 14, 2004
Type: Movie
When an apparently exemplary cop abducts and secretly imprisons a beautiful dancer, a deadly battle of wills between captor and captive ensues.
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Dennis Hopper: The Decisive Moments
Title: Dennis Hopper: The Decisive Moments
Character: Self
Released: May 1, 2004
Type: Movie
The inevitable fat cigar between his fingers, the American actor, director and fine artist Dennis Hopper (1936) self-mockingly looks back on his chequered life and career, at the request of Dutch director, photographer and fine artist Thom Hoffman. The latter sifted through the turbulent life story of Hopper, who is primarily known from the cult film Easy Rider (1969). Hopper went through as many high as low points. In conveniently arranged chapters, Hoffman shows the decisive moments in Hopper's life and asks colleagues like Wim Wenders, David Lynch, Sean Penn and Julian Schnabel to comment on them. The documentary is richly illustrated with film excerpts, photos, newspaper articles and anecdotes. The main reason for this film was the retrospective of Dennis Hopper's art work in the Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum in 2001.
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Title: 10 Things Every Guy Should Experience
Character: Self
Released: February 2, 2004
Type: TV
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Alpha to Omega: Exposing 'The Osterman Weekend'
Title: Alpha to Omega: Exposing 'The Osterman Weekend'
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 22, 2004
Type: Movie
Testimony of the cast, the producers and other participants of the shootings of "The Osterman Weekend".
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Unspeakable
Title: Unspeakable
Character: Warden
Released: December 1, 2003
Type: Movie
Despite vocal objections from Warden Blakely, prison psychologist Diana Purlow journeys deep inside the mind of serial killer Jesse Mowat in a desperate attempt to reveal the source of his psychotic tendencies.
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Title: Las Vegas
Released: September 22, 2003
Type: TV
Ed Deline is a strict ex-CIA officer who went from being Head of Security to becoming President of Operations of the Montecito, whose job is to run the day-to-day operations of the casino. Following his departure, former Marine Danny McCoy, Ed's former protégé, becomes the Montecito's new President of Operations.
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The Night We Called It a Day
Title: The Night We Called It a Day
Character: Frank Sinatra
Released: August 14, 2003
Type: Movie
Based on the true events surrounding Frank Sinatra's tour of Australia. When Sinatra calls a local reporter a "two-bit hooker", every union in the country black-bans the star until he issues an apology.
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A Decade Under the Influence
Title: A Decade Under the Influence
Character: Self
Released: April 25, 2003
Type: Movie
A documentary examining the decade of the 1970s as a turning point in American cinema. Some of today's best filmmakers interview the influential directors of that time.
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New Scenes from America
Title: New Scenes from America
Character: Himself - Actor
Released: March 13, 2003
Type: Movie
A look at post-9/11 America by the Danish documentarian.
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Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
Title: Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
Character: Self
Released: March 9, 2003
Type: Movie
A look at 1970s Hollywood when it was known as New Hollywood, and the director was the star of the movie.
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Dennis Hopper: Create (or Die)
Title: Dennis Hopper: Create (or Die)
Character: Self
Released: February 10, 2003
Type: Movie
We are taken though the principal milestones of Hopper's biography, including his debut start in Hollywood, the meeting with James Dean and the influence he played upon him, his insubordination on sets and conflicts with the Hollywood directors which led to his black-listing, the years in New, the making of 'Easy Rider' (with an interesting connection of the ultimate road movie with the French new wave directors), 'Apocalypse Now', 'Blue Velvet', 'Colors', his fight with dependency on drugs and alcohol. We come to know Hopper as a complex artist, a valuable photographer who had always a camera on him and whose portraits or American life shots figure among the best in the genre, but also a rebel painter (who may still be rediscovered and become famous in posterity) and exquisite art collector.
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Title: Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Released: January 26, 2003
Type: TV
Jimmy Kimmel Live! is an American late-night talk show, created and hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and broadcast on ABC.
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Title: The Groovenians
Character: Dad / King Normans (voice)
Released: November 10, 2002
Type: TV
A couple, Jet and Glindy, live on a planet named Jeepers, where society is uniform and artistic qualities are shunned. Jet and Glindy, meanwhile, are artists and performers. Jet's parents do not approve, and they tell Jet and Glindy that art is not everything in life. However, another boy, named Nixon, is dropped next door from a spaceship. He had been evicted from Groovenia, which he tells Jet and Glindy is a paradise for artists.
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The Groovenians
Title: The Groovenians
Character: Dad/King Normans
Released: November 10, 2002
Type: Movie
Two space misfits named Jet and Glindy, who are searching for a planet called Groovenia.
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The Piano Player
Title: The Piano Player
Character: Robert Nile
Released: October 6, 2002
Type: Movie
A tale about the relationship between a businessman who launders money for a Mafia figure and his gangster bodyguard.
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1 Giant Leap
Title: 1 Giant Leap
Character: Self
Released: September 10, 2002
Type: Movie
1 Giant Leap is a concept band and media project consisting of the two principal artists, Jamie Catto and Duncan Bridgeman. This is the film part of their first project. The result is a flowing, loose-knit tapestry of imagery, interviews, and diverse performances. Gathering material from 25 countries and dozens of famous and not-so-famous musicians, authors, celebrities, spiritualists, philosophers, and unique individuals from nearly every cultural background, this enveloping DVD is best enjoyed as a soothing audiovisual odyssey (select "loop mode" for continuous play!). Assembling this cornucopia by theme (Time, Inspiration, Sex, God, Death, etc.), Bridgeman and Catto function as co-composers with an astonishing array of collaborators, giving 1 Giant Leap its richly international (and some might say inter-spiritual) identity. The result is a far-reaching glimpse of our world through the eyes of those who improve it by their musical presence. --Jeff Shannon
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Mysteries of Love
Title: Mysteries of Love
Character: Self
Released: June 4, 2002
Type: Movie
Isabella Rossellini, Kyle MacLachlan, Dennis Hopper, Laura Dern, and producer Fred Caruso are interviewed for this 68-minute documentary about the making of David Lynch's Blue Velvet
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Title: V Graham Norton
Character: Self
Released: May 6, 2002
Type: TV
V Graham Norton was an entertainment programme shown on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom starring Graham Norton, broadcast every weeknight as a successor to the weekly So Graham Norton. It aired from 6 May 2002 to 26 December 2003. It featured celebrities who chatted with Graham and became involved in studio games which were usually laden with sexual innuendo. The studio games were later featured on the clip show Nortonland in 2007 on digital channel Challenge. The show featured a 'webcam', a roving television camera which was randomly situated in a different place in the UK each week and which followed Graham's instructions and allowed him to interact with the public live. The feature was made technically possible using digital microwave link technology provided by Rear Window Television with the 'spontaneous' webcam feature always produced as a full quality Outside Broadcast, before being made to look like a traditional webcam at the studios.
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When Hippies Ruled The World
Title: When Hippies Ruled The World
Character: Himself
Released: April 10, 2002
Type: Movie
When Hippies Ruled The World takes a trip back to the end of the psychedelic Sixties - the dreams, trips, movies, and music - to a time that love was all that was needed. From 1967 to 1970, the hippie revolution gave us great anthems, great events, great sex and great big afghan coats. The music was by The Doors; queen of the hippies Joni Mitchell; and the world was set alight by the number 1 hit Fire by The Crazy World of Arthur Brown. Hippies dropped out at the biggest festival, Woodstock, and were turned on by LSD and free love. The whole experience was literally set on film by Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda in Easy Rider while the hippest of all looked East and followed in the trail of the Beatles to India.
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I Don't Know Jack
Title: I Don't Know Jack
Character: Self
Released: April 5, 2002
Type: Movie
Feature documentary about actor Jack Nance, who rose to prominence after starring in the cult classic 1977 film, "Eraserhead".
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Title: Flatland
Character: Smith
Released: April 1, 2002
Type: TV
This Sci-Fi adventure follows the struggle between good and evil forces in an alternate universe, and what happens when their 4,000-year-long conflict crosses over into modern-day Shanghai to endanger both worlds.
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Leo
Title: Leo
Character: Horace
Released: March 12, 2002
Type: Movie
A young mother is plagued by a tragic mistake and alienates her little boy. A brilliant writer is released from prison after serving a 15-year sentence and begins working at Vic's Diner. Their stories converge when the man must overcome obstacles of the past to save the little boy and ultimately himself.
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Title: Firestarter: Rekindled
Character: James Richardson
Released: March 10, 2002
Type: TV
A young woman who has the ability to start fires with her mind, must now face the trauma of her childhood by battling with a group of very talented children and their cruel leader, John Rainbird. Firestarter: Rekindled is a 2002 television miniseries and the sequel to the film adaptation of the Stephen King novel Firestarter. It stars Marguerite Moreau as now-grownup Charlie McGee, Danny Nucci, Dennis Hopper, and Malcolm McDowell as Charlie's old nemesis from the original story, John Rainbird. It debuted as a Sci Fi Pictures two-night miniseries on the Sci Fi Channel.
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Flatland
Title: Flatland
Character: Smith
Released: January 1, 2002
Type: Movie
In the future of 2010, three young Americans, Quentin, JT and Amy are visiting Shanghai, when they get shanghaied by mysterious Mr. Smith and taken to Flatland, a place where past and present meet, literally. The only way out for them is to agree to fight Khan for him, an evil ancient warrior who lives through his reincarnations and could destroy the world if not stopped in time. Coventry and Jagger help him, while encyclopedic Linda helps Smith in his 4000 years long quest to stop him. Smith has an alter ego, a wise Shanghai nightclub owner known as Uncle, who gives advice to those who need it.
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Knockaround Guys
Title: Knockaround Guys
Character: Benny Chains
Released: November 30, 2001
Type: Movie
Four sons of well-known New York mobsters must retrieve a bag of cash from a small Montana town ruled by a corrupt sheriff.
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Title: 24
Character: Victor Drazen
Released: November 6, 2001
Type: TV
Counterterrorism agent Jack Bauer fights the bad guys of the world, a day at a time. With each week's episode unfolding in real-time, "24" covers a single day in the life of Bauer each season.
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L.A.P.D.: To Protect And To Serve
Title: L.A.P.D.: To Protect And To Serve
Character: Captain Elsworth
Released: October 9, 2001
Type: Movie
LA's finest have crossed the thin blue line between Cop and Criminal. Based on a true story.
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Jazz Seen
Title: Jazz Seen
Character: Self
Released: October 6, 2001
Type: Movie
"Jazz Seen" is an exploration of the life of William Claxton, whose photographs turned the world of jazz on its keen and perceptive ear. Various jazz artists, photographers, and actors recount memories they had with Claxton and explore his work, while parts of his life are re-enacted by actors.
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Choke
Title: Choke
Character: Henry Clark
Released: August 14, 2001
Type: Movie
Henry, an uptight businessman who sometimes acts with questionable ethics, nevertheless rejects Ron, a scam artist who wants a partner. Ron won't let up and finds a lever to blackmail Henry, whose daughter Gina has killed a pedestrian in a hit-and-run car accident. To protect Gina, Henry disposes of Ron, but a murderous sociopath witnesses this crime. Henry and this stranger bond in an odd way, telling stories about their childhoods. Henry makes a deal with the stranger, helping to get rid of the body of one of the stranger's victims. Will this act seal a bargain between the two men and get Henry off the hook, or will the stranger threaten Henry and Gina?
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Ticker
Title: Ticker
Character: Alex Swan
Released: June 23, 2001
Type: Movie
Ray Nettles, a detective of San Francisco, and his partner Fuzzy must take up to one of the most dangerous terrorist gangs of the city. When one of the terrorists, the beautiful scientist Claire Manning is arrested, Swan, the leader of the terrorists, claims he will detonate bombs throughout the city if she is not released. Because of the possible bloodshed, Nettles calls for the help of explosive expert Frank Glass...
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Andy Warhol: The Complete Picture
Title: Andy Warhol: The Complete Picture
Character: Himself
Released: January 27, 2001
Type: Movie
Andy Warhol, one of the most influential artists of the 20th century (who also coined the immortal catchphrase "In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes"), gets the definitive treatment. This film includes a look into his inner circle and examines both his artistic and personal impact on society. From day-glo Marilyns and Elvises to Campbell's Soup cans to the groovy 1960s and '70s, step into the limelight of the Warhol world.
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Emmanuelle: A Hard Look
Title: Emmanuelle: A Hard Look
Character: Himself
Released: January 1, 2001
Type: Movie
Documentary about the Emmanuelle movies, looking at their making as well as their social and cultural impact.
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Held for Ransom
Title: Held for Ransom
Character: JD
Released: November 14, 2000
Type: Movie
Held for Ransom is a 2000 direct-to-video film about five high-school students that are kidnapped and held for ransom in a remote swamp area in Florida. It was directed and written by Lee Stanley based on the novel by Lois Duncan.
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Tycus
Title: Tycus
Character: Peter Crowford
Released: August 8, 2000
Type: Movie
An underground city is built to save a cross-section of humanity as a comet hurtles toward Earth.
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Jesus' Son
Title: Jesus' Son
Character: Bill
Released: June 16, 2000
Type: Movie
A young man turns from drug addiction and petty crime to a life redeemed by a discovery of compassion.
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The Prophet's Game
Title: The Prophet's Game
Character: Vincent Swan
Released: June 6, 2000
Type: Movie
Moving from city to city, The Prophet lures unsuspecting contestants into solving the riddles it supplies. If the contestants are wrong, somebody dies and somebody is famous.
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Title: Jason and the Argonauts
Character: Pelias
Released: May 7, 2000
Type: TV
At a young age, Jason witnesses the brutal deposement and murder of his father at the hands of his uncle Pelias. Twenty years later, Jason returns home to claim his rightful place as king, but Pelias orders him to be executed, and in order to save himself Jason is forced to go on a dangerous quest to find the legendary Golden Fleece. So Jason gathers a motley crew of men and sets sail on the Argos.
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Luck of the Draw
Title: Luck of the Draw
Character: Giani Ponti
Released: April 6, 2000
Type: Movie
Jack Sweeny is a young man just trying to get a job. Turned down at another bank due to his criminal record he meets a girl, Rebecca, but also witnesses a 3 way shootout between 2 groups of criminals and the cops over a suitcase containing perfect plates for counterfeiting bank notes. Jack grabs the plates and attempts to sell them via his friend Zippo. However with at least three different groups ready to kill him for the plates, Jack finds it's just one double cross after another.
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Spreading Ground
Title: Spreading Ground
Character: Det. Ed DeLongpre
Released: March 5, 2000
Type: Movie
Veteran Detective Ed Delopre and partner Mike McGivern have their hands full when they hit the pavement in search of a dangerous killer with five dead bodies already on his record. The mayor, in a rush to see peace restored in her city, makes a deal with the mob instead of waiting for Delopre and McGivern's results. Now that both sides of the law are involved in the killer's capture, the city is turned upside down.
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The Apostate
Title: The Apostate
Character: Lewis Garou
Released: February 23, 2000
Type: Movie
A man of the cloth finds his faith challenged both by the death of one of his closest relatives and the aftermath of the crime in this thriller. When a man is murdered under mysterious circumstances, his brother, a Catholic priest (Richard Grieco), decides to start his own investigation with the help of his uncle, a detective, in hopes of tracking down the killer.
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Lured Innocence
Title: Lured Innocence
Character: Rick Chambers
Released: February 12, 2000
Type: Movie
A reporter sent to cover a murder trial discovers a web of deceit stemming from a torrid affair.
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The Ten Commandments of Creativity
Title: The Ten Commandments of Creativity
Character: Self
Released: February 1, 2000
Type: Movie
Having struggled to crack his brief, Dennis Hopper decides the only honourable act is to throw himself off a roof. Before this final act, Sir Peter Ustinov appears and bestows the Ten Commandments of Creativity upon the desperate advertising executive. The Ten Commandments become a template to navigate the state of creativity. Featuring Tarantino, Jeff Koons, Sean Penn, and Malcolm McClaren.
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Easy Rider: Shaking the Cage
Title: Easy Rider: Shaking the Cage
Character: Self
Released: October 7, 1999
Type: Movie
Documentary about the making and history of the film "Easy Rider."
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The Pursuit of Happiness
Title: The Pursuit of Happiness
Character: Himself
Released: September 13, 1999
Type: Movie
Showtime's "In the 20th Century" is a millennium-related strand of feature-length documentaries in which famous directors take on major subjects of their choosing. In the fourth of the six films, "The Pursuit of Happiness," filmmaker Robert Zemeckis delves into the history of America's relationship with mind-altering substances over the past 100 years, presenting interviews with historians and professionals in the drug treatment field, interspersed with a treasure trove of film and television clips depicting the highs and lows of smoking, drinking and drugging in the 20th century
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The Venice Project
Title: The Venice Project
Character: Roland / Salvatore
Released: September 9, 1999
Type: Movie
Roland is an avant-garde artist in Venice, California whose sister lives on their family's estate in Venice, Italy. Their father is near death and announces that his home and priceless collection of art have been bequeathed to the Italian government.
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A Tribute To Johnny Cash
Title: A Tribute To Johnny Cash
Character: Self
Released: June 4, 1999
Type: Movie
On Sunday, April 18, 1999, the hottest names in rock and roll united with the biggest stars in country music when TNT presented "A Tribute To Johnny Cash." From humble beginnings as the son of a sharecropper to his rise to fame as a music legend, "The Man In Black" has become one of the most influential performers of the 20th century. Some of Cash's biggest fans, including Bruce Springsteen, Trisha Yearwood, and U2, performed in this star-studded concert saluting Cash's groundbreaking career and the rich legacy of his music. In his fifty year career as singer and song-writer, Cash garnered nine Grammy® Awards, a Kennedy Center Honor, and the distinction of becoming the first inductee in both the Country Music Hall of Fame and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame — an honor shared only by Elvis Presley.
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Straight Shooter
Title: Straight Shooter
Character: Frank Hector
Released: April 15, 1999
Type: Movie
After his daughter died of cancer, former French foreign legionnaire "Straight Shooter" alias Volker Bretz threatens those who financed, built, favoured and now work the nuclear power plant Atar II to kill one of them each day until the plant is shut down. His former drill sergeant, Frank Hector, who now owns several night clubs and brothels, is the only one who might be able to stop the maniac killing specialist. Frank is flown in instantly, but soon has to find out that his former comrade's actions might be a result from an event long ago.
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Edtv
Title: Edtv
Character: Henry 'Hank' Pekurny
Released: March 26, 1999
Type: Movie
Video store clerk Ed agrees to have his life filmed by a camera crew for a tv network.
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Bad City Blues
Title: Bad City Blues
Character: Cleveland Carter
Released: February 16, 1999
Type: Movie
In the aftermath of a violent robbery, a New Orleans doctor, Eugene Grimes, wakes to find a wounded woman and $2 million in cash on his doorstep. In pursuit of the thieves, police captain Clarence Jefferson discovers that Grimes is the key not only to the money but to a dark web of intrigue and vengeance stretching back to a bloody civil war in El Salvador a decade before.
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The Source
Title: The Source
Character: William S. Burroughs
Released: January 23, 1999
Type: Movie
Traces the Beats from Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac's meeting in 1944 at Columbia University to the deaths of Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs in 1997. Three actors provide dramatic interpretations of the work of these three writers, and the film chronicles their friendships, their arrival into American consciousness, their travels, frequent parodies, Kerouac's death, and Ginsberg's politicization. Their movement connects with bebop, John Cage's music, abstract expressionism, and living theater. In recent interviews, Ginsberg, Burroughs, Kesey, Ferlinghetti, Mailer, Jerry Garcia, Tom Hayden, Gary Snyder, Ed Sanders, and others measure the Beats' meaning and impact.
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Forever Hollywood
Title: Forever Hollywood
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1999
Type: Movie
Noted Hollywood stars and directors talk about the history and evolution of the film industry in Los Angeles.
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The A-Z of Separating People from their Money
Title: The A-Z of Separating People from their Money
Character: Himself
Released: October 18, 1998
Type: Movie
Pointing to the increasingly blurred distinction between reality and fiction in the world today, Dennis Hopper leads a discussion on the methods used by advertisers, as well as the responsibilities of ad-makers. The biggest names in the business have their say on shock, humour, and sex as methods of selling.
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Welcome to Hollywood
Title: Welcome to Hollywood
Character: Dennis Hopper
Released: October 1, 1998
Type: Movie
A film director (Adam Rifkin) decides to chart the course of a young actor (Tony Markes) as he tries to make it in Hollywood...
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Top of the World
Title: Top of the World
Character: Charles Atlas
Released: September 29, 1998
Type: Movie
In Las Vegas for a quicky divorce, a just-paroled ex-cop and his wife wander into the Top of the World Casino, run by the shady Charles Atlas. They win big, right as the casino is being robbed. The police believe their big win was a staged diversion, and the two of them become suspects. Over the course of the evening and next morning, the two attempt to escape to surrounded casino, and to prove their innocence, as well as to save their marriage.
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Title: The Crow: Stairway to Heaven
Character: El Niño
Released: September 25, 1998
Type: TV
The Crow: Stairway to Heaven was a 1998 Canadian television series created by Bryce Zabel spun off from the The Crow film series starring Mark Dacascos in the lead role as Eric Draven, reprising the role originally played by Brandon Lee in the 1994 film The Crow.
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Meet the Deedles
Title: Meet the Deedles
Character: Frank Slater
Released: March 27, 1998
Type: Movie
Two surfers end up as Yellowstone park rangers and have to stop a former ranger who is out for revenge.
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Vincent Price: The Versatile Villain
Title: Vincent Price: The Versatile Villain
Character: Self
Released: October 12, 1997
Type: Movie
Documentary on the life and career of actor Vincent Price, best known for horror film classics such as "House of Wax," "The Fly," and "The Pit and the Pendulum."
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Road Ends
Title: Road Ends
Character: Sheriff Ben Gilchrist
Released: October 5, 1997
Type: Movie
Real estate agent Maceda (Chris Sarandon) once testified against drug trafficker Orosco (Miguel Najera). Now Orosco is out of prison, and Maceda has a problem. He flees, hiding out at a near-vacant California Central Valley inn where innkeeper Kat (Mariel Hemingway) is happy to have him sign the register. His presence, however, arouses the suspicions of lone cop Gilchrist (Dennis Hopper). Meanwhile, Fed agent Gere (Peter Coyote) hopes to track Maceda before Orosco's thugs pick up the scent.
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Who Is Henry Jaglom?
Title: Who Is Henry Jaglom?
Character: Self
Released: July 8, 1997
Type: Movie
Hailed by some as a cinematic genius, a feminist voice and a true maverick of American cinema, dismissed by others as a voyeuristic fraud and the "world's worst director," Henry Jaglom obsessively confuses and abuses the line between life and art. Featuring scores of interviews (including Orson Welles, Dennis Hopper, Milos Forman and Peter Bogdanovich) and rare behind-the-scenes footage, this hilarious documentary explores the fascinating question of Who Is Henry Jaglom?
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The Blackout
Title: The Blackout
Character: Mickey
Released: June 11, 1997
Type: Movie
A debauched Hollywood movie actor tries to piece together one wild night in Miami years earlier which remains a drug-induced blur, and soon finds out that some questions about his past are best left unanswered.
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Cannes Man
Title: Cannes Man
Character: Self
Released: June 3, 1997
Type: Movie
Film producer Sy Lerner makes a bet with a fellow film executive that he can turn any nobody into a star at the Cannes Film Festival. A New York cab driver who is visiting the festival is chosen as the test subject to settle the bet and Sy uses his skills of hype and manipulation to try and turn the cab driver named Frank into the talk of the town. Many celebrities make cameos throughout the film.
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Title: Scene by Scene
Character: Self
Released: May 10, 1997
Type: TV
Mark Cousins invites film actors and directors to watch major scenes in their career to date, and to talk us through them.
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U2: A Year in Pop
Title: U2: A Year in Pop
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: April 26, 1997
Type: Movie
Documentary about U2's album Pop and following tour.
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Title: King of the Hill
Character: Dennis Hopper (voice)
Released: January 12, 1997
Type: TV
Set in Texas, this animated series follows the life of propane salesman Hank Hill, who lives with his overly confident substitute Spanish teacher wife Peggy, wannabe comedian son Bobby, and naive niece Luanne. Hank has conservative views about God, family, and country, but his values and ethics are often challenged by the situations he, his family, and his beer-drinking neighbors/buddies find themselves in.
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Samson and Delilah
Title: Samson and Delilah
Character: Generale Tariq
Released: December 8, 1996
Type: Movie
Biblical strongman Samson falls prey to the voluptuous Philistine temptress Delilah.
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The Fine Art of Separating People from Their Money
Title: The Fine Art of Separating People from Their Money
Character: Self - Host
Released: November 17, 1996
Type: Movie
An examination of the evolution of commercials as an artistic medium, featuring interviews with media luminaries who relate how the in-your-face stylistic conventions of commercials have influenced feature films and the visual arts. A documentary film talking about art and advertising divided in three parts: 1. Crossing Over - from cinema to ads from ads to cinema 2. Humour - How humour affects us in advertising 3. Shock - The way shock is used to sell
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The Last Days of Frankie the Fly
Title: The Last Days of Frankie the Fly
Character: Frankie
Released: October 24, 1996
Type: Movie
Dreaming of ascending the underworld ladder and gaining revenge on his sadistic boss, Sal, a Mafia flunky, Frankie, tries to take a step in the right direction by "saving" an exploited, drug-addicted porn actress, Margaret.
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Return to 'Giant'
Title: Return to 'Giant'
Character: Self
Released: September 21, 1996
Type: Movie
In the summer of 1955, an army of cameramen, lighting techs and movie stars descended on the small, west Texas town of Marfa to film what has become, "the national movie of Texas."
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Title: E! True Hollywood Story
Released: August 21, 1996
Type: TV
E! True Hollywood Story is an American documentary series on E! that deals with famous Hollywood celebrities, movies, TV shows and also well-known public figures. Among the topics covered on the program include salacious re-tellings of Hollywood secrets, show-biz scandals, celebrity murders and mysteries, porn-star biographies, and "where-are-they-now?" investigations of former child stars. It frequently features in-depth interviews, actual courtroom footage, and dramatic reenactments. When aired on the E! network, episodes will be updated to reflect the current life or status of the subject.
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Basquiat
Title: Basquiat
Character: Bruno Bischofberger
Released: August 9, 1996
Type: Movie
The brief life of Jean Michel Basquiat, a world renowned New York street artist struggling with fame, drugs and his identity.
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Title: The Daily Show
Character: Self
Released: July 22, 1996
Type: TV
The World's Fakest News Team tackle the biggest stories in news, politics and pop culture.
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Space Truckers
Title: Space Truckers
Character: John Canyon
Released: March 1, 1996
Type: Movie
John Canyon is one of the last independent space transport entrepreneurs. Rough times force him to carry suspicious cargo to Earth without questions being asked. During the flight the cargo turns out to be multitude of unstoppable and deadly killer robots.
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Carried Away
Title: Carried Away
Character: Joseph Svenden
Released: January 26, 1996
Type: Movie
Based on Jim Harrison's book, "Farmer". 47-year-old Joseph Svenden lives on the family farm with his dying mother and teaches at a two room schoolhouse with Rosealee, his lover and his best friend's widow. Joseph, who lacks a college degree, learns that he will lose his teaching job at the end of the year when the school district expands into his town. Meanwhile, he is seduced by 17-year-old Catherine, a new student in his class. His affair with Catherine and losing his teaching job forces Joseph to take a look at his previously dull life and to decide how he wants to live the rest of it.
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Rediscovering a Rebel
Title: Rediscovering a Rebel
Character: Self / Goon (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1996
Type: Movie
A documentary short on the making of Rebel Without a Cause.
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Title: Die Harald Schmidt Show
Character: Self
Released: December 5, 1995
Type: TV
The Harald Schmidt Show is a German late night talk show hosted on Sky Deutschland by comedian Harald Schmidt. The show first aired from 5 December 1995 to 23 December 2003 on Sat.1. Schmidt then moved his show to Das Erste as Harald Schmidt and Schmidt & Pocher, but he returned to Sat.1 on 13 September 2011. After cancellation on Sat.1, the show continued on Sky Deutschland in September 2012.
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Waterworld
Title: Waterworld
Character: Deacon
Released: July 28, 1995
Type: Movie
In a futuristic world where the polar ice caps have melted and made Earth a liquid planet, a beautiful barmaid rescues a mutant seafarer from a floating island prison. They escape, along with her young charge, Enola, and sail off aboard his ship. But the trio soon becomes the target of a menacing pirate who covets the map to 'Dryland'—which is tattooed on Enola's back.
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Dark and Deadly: Fifty Years of Film Noir
Title: Dark and Deadly: Fifty Years of Film Noir
Character: Himself
Released: June 1, 1995
Type: Movie
One of the first film noir documentaries, made for British Channel Four, and including interviews with Paul Schrader, Robert Wise, John Dahl, Bryan Singer, Edward Dmytryk, Dennis Hopper, John Alton.
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Search and Destroy
Title: Search and Destroy
Character: Dr. Waxling
Released: April 23, 1995
Type: Movie
A self-help guru's televised teachings inspire a down-and-out businessman to pursue his dream of making a movie.
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James Dean and Me
Title: James Dean and Me
Character: Self (uncredited)
Released: January 1, 1995
Type: Movie
A documentary about James Dean. People who knew him or had worked with him reminisce.
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Witch Hunt
Title: Witch Hunt
Character: H. Phillip Lovecraft
Released: December 10, 1994
Type: Movie
Magic and murder connect an actress, a private eye, a senator and a witch in 1950s Hollywood.
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Title: Inside the Actors Studio
Character: Self
Released: August 14, 1994
Type: TV
James Lipton sits down with some of the world's most accomplished actors and directors for penetrating, fascinating interviews.
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Marlon Brando: The Wild One
Title: Marlon Brando: The Wild One
Character: Self
Released: August 11, 1994
Type: Movie
An examination of the craft of Marlon Brando, narrated by professionals of the film industry. The film follows his career from the stage with "A Streetcar Named Desire", through the Actors Studio and professional relationships with Elia Kazan and Stella Adler to Hollywood. An actor who redefined the limits to which a professional may go in becoming the character not only intellectually but emotionally, Brando changed the meaning of film acting.
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Speed
Title: Speed
Character: Howard Payne
Released: June 9, 1994
Type: Movie
Jack Traven, an LAPD cop on SWAT detail, and veteran SWAT officer Harry Temple thwart an extortionist-bomber's scheme for a $3 million ransom. As they corner the bomber, he flees and detonates a bomb vest, seemingly killing himself. Weeks later, Jack witnesses a mass transit city bus explode and nearby a pay phone rings. On the phone is that same bomber looking for vengeance and the money he's owed. He gives a personal challenge to Jack: a bomb is rigged on another city bus - if it slows down below 50 mph, it will explode - bad enough any day, but a nightmare in LA traffic. And that's just the beginning...
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Chasers
Title: Chasers
Character: Doggie
Released: April 22, 1994
Type: Movie
Military men Rock Reilly and Eddie Devane are tasked with taking a prisoner, blonde bombshell Toni Johnson, on what becomes an unforgettable road trip. Toni, an enlistee who's in trouble for deserting her unit, soon proves that she's craftier than most inmates.
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Kris Kristofferson: His Life and Work
Title: Kris Kristofferson: His Life and Work
Character: Self
Released: December 31, 1993
Type: Movie
Interviews with celebrities such as Joan Baez, Jackson Browne, Dennis Hopper and Willie Nelson examine the remarkable career of actor-performer Kris Kristofferson, who successfully bridged the gap between Hollywood and Nashville. From his mastery of the "New Nashville" sound on his 1972 album "Jesus Was a Capricorn" to his role in the 1974 film Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, Kristofferson has shown an agility that's hard to match.
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True Romance
Title: True Romance
Character: Clifford Worley
Released: September 9, 1993
Type: Movie
Clarence marries hooker Alabama, steals cocaine from her pimp, and tries to sell it in Hollywood, while the owners of the coke try to reclaim it.
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Super Mario Bros.
Title: Super Mario Bros.
Character: King Koopa
Released: May 28, 1993
Type: Movie
Mario and Luigi, plumbers from Brooklyn, find themselves in an alternate universe where evolved dinosaurs live in hi-tech squalor. They're the only hope to save our universe from invasion by the dino dictator, Koopa.
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Willie Nelson: The Big Six-O
Title: Willie Nelson: The Big Six-O
Character: Self
Released: May 22, 1993
Type: Movie
Willie Nelson and friends celebrate his sixtieth birthday in a star-studded concert event.
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Red Rock West
Title: Red Rock West
Character: Lyle from Dallas
Released: May 14, 1993
Type: Movie
When a promised job for Texan Michael fails to materialize in Wyoming, Mike is mistaken by Wayne to be the hitman he hired to kill his unfaithful wife, Suzanne. Mike takes full advantage of the situation, collects the money, and runs. During his getaway, things go wrong, and soon get worse when he runs into the real hitman, Lyle.
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Boiling Point
Title: Boiling Point
Character: Rudolph 'Red' Diamond
Released: April 16, 1993
Type: Movie
Red is an aging scam-artist who's just been released from prison together with Ronnie, a young and not-so-bright hoodlum who is easily manipulated. Their new business is to organize fake-money sales and then kill the buyer to take his money; but when Ronnie kills an undercover secret service agent, his partner Jimmy Mercer vows revenge and is given one week to catch the killers before being transferred. Written by Giancarlo Cairella
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The Revenge of the Dead Indians
Title: The Revenge of the Dead Indians
Character: Himself
Released: January 1, 1993
Type: Movie
This is a full-length documentary honoring the life and work of American composer and artist John Cage. Cage is considered one of the most influential composers of the 20th century. This documentary features interviews with various personalities from different fields as they introduce us to the life and work of this great American artist.
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The Heart of Justice
Title: The Heart of Justice
Character: Austin Blair
Released: October 14, 1992
Type: Movie
David Leader investigates a seemingly senseless murder, and in the course of it is drawn into the labyrinth of a sinisterly unique wealthy family...
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Nails
Title: Nails
Character: Harry 'Nails' Niles
Released: July 25, 1992
Type: Movie
The wife of a wild Los Angeles police detective becomes a hostage of the heroin ring he and his partner have exposed.
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Sunset Heat
Title: Sunset Heat
Character: Carl Madson
Released: July 2, 1992
Type: Movie
A former drug-dealer photojournalist returns to Los Angeles and helps friends terrorized by his ex-partner.
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Title: HBO First Look
Released: June 12, 1992
Type: TV
HBO First Look is an American television show on HBO that chronicles up and coming movies. It first started in 1992 with a documentary on A League of Their Own starring Tom Hanks, and still airs today. The series shows behind-the-scenes looks at the filming and interviews with the actors. The show is part documentary and part advertisement. It airs on HBO with no set schedule.
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Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
Title: Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
Character: Self
Released: November 27, 1991
Type: Movie
A chronicle of the production problems — including bad weather, actors' health, war near the filming locations, and more — which plagued the filming of Apocalypse Now, increasing costs and nearly destroying the life and career of Francis Ford Coppola.
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Title: Fishing with John
Character: Self
Released: November 20, 1991
Type: TV
Musician John Lurie knows nothing about fishing, but that doesn't stop him from embarking on fishing in exotic locations with friends.
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SnowwhiteRosered
Title: SnowwhiteRosered
Character: Self
Released: October 24, 1991
Type: Movie
Documentary about the twin sister Jutta and Gisela Schmidt. In the late sixties the two women rebelled against middle class society as if they gave vent to a new kind of art. They became active in the underground communist party KPD and showed a heart-felt interest in the colour red, the aesthetics of the revolution. Soon, though, the twins quit their experiments in Germany. They left their husbands and went to Rome, where they met the fabulously wealthy Paul Getty III, and soon things got really out of hand.
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Eye of the Storm
Title: Eye of the Storm
Character: Marvin Gladstone
Released: October 3, 1991
Type: Movie
At a highway gas station/motel/diner where they live, two young brothers witness their parents murder. The younger brother is blinded in the same incident. Ten years later both brothers are still there and the tragedy may have turned one of them psychotic. When the abusive Gladstone and his young and sexy wife are stranded at the gas station it brings out the worst in everyone.
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The Indian Runner
Title: The Indian Runner
Character: Caesar
Released: September 20, 1991
Type: Movie
Two brothers cannot overcome their opposite perceptions of life. One brother sees and feels bad in everyone and everything, subsequently he is violent, antisocial and unable to appreciate or enjoy the good things which his brother desperately tries to point out to him.
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Picture This: The Times of Peter Bogdanovich in Archer City, Texas
Title: Picture This: The Times of Peter Bogdanovich in Archer City, Texas
Character: Self
Released: September 6, 1991
Type: Movie
A visceral deconstruction of Academy Award nominated Peter Bogdanovich and the nervous breakdown he nearly had while shooting THE LAST PICTURE SHOW.
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Doublecrossed
Title: Doublecrossed
Character: Barry Seal
Released: July 20, 1991
Type: Movie
Based on a true story, this made-for-cable film tells about Barry Seal, a pilot who was a drug smuggler for the infamous Medellin cartel out of Colombia. He was caught by the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and decided to turn over and help the DEA break the cartel. However, he got caught in the middle of the Reagan/Bush administration efforts to topple the Nicaraguan government in the '80s, in which Nicaraguan rebels called "contras" were allowed to smuggle cocaine into the US in exchange for their fighting against the leftist Nicaraguan government. Eventually Seal was murdered by his former Medellin employers, and some critics say it was with the tacit, if not implicit, connivance of the US administration.
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Crazy About the Movies: Dennis Hopper
Title: Crazy About the Movies: Dennis Hopper
Character: Self (uncredited)
Released: May 17, 1991
Type: Movie
Hollywood's controversial creative genius, whose career spans multiple generations of moviegoers, is profiled in "Crazy About the Movies: Dennis Hopper."
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Paris Trout
Title: Paris Trout
Character: Paris Trout
Released: April 21, 1991
Type: Movie
Paris Trout is a vile Southern bigot. He owns a store and is a loanshark. He often sues people, and so his lawyer, Harry Seagraves, eventually meets Paris' wife Hannah. A former schoolteacher, she made the mistake of her life when she married Paris, who brutalizes her. Soon Paris goes beyond the overgenerous bounds of what a man in his position can get away with even in the segregated South, leading to a spiral of perverse insanity.
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Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol
Title: Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol
Character: Self
Released: July 18, 1990
Type: Movie
Documentary portrait of Andy Warhol.
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Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Friendships & Intersections
Title: Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Friendships & Intersections
Character: Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: June 1, 1990
Type: Movie
This intimate portrait of Andy Warhol pulls together a unique library of material shot by New York film legend Jonas Mekas. Spanning from 1963 to 1990, the film features a cast of counterculture icons including Allen Ginsberg, George Maciunas, John Lennon, and Yoko Ono, as well as John and Caroline Kennedy, and Lee Radziwill (Jackie Kennedy Onassis's sister and Warhol muse)—to whom Mekas dedicates the film. The film features footage from the Velvet Underground's first public performance. A portrait of the remarkable life of arguable the twentieth century's most famous artist and leading iconographer.
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Motion and Emotion: The Films of Wim Wenders
Title: Motion and Emotion: The Films of Wim Wenders
Character: Self
Released: April 25, 1990
Type: Movie
Though very polite and British, this feature-length documentary about German filmmaker Wim Wenders offers the most penetrating insights and the best overall critique of his work that I have encountered anywhere. Paul Joyce, who directed it, has also made documentaries about Nicolas Roeg, David Cronenberg, Nagisa Oshima, and Dennis Hopper, and he knows the conventional format well enough to get the most out of it. There are good clips and interesting commentaries from the interviewed subjects, who include Wenders himself, cinematographer Robby Muller, filmmaker Sam Fuller, novelist Patricia Highsmith, musician Ry Cooder, actors Harry Dean Stanton, Peter Falk, and Hanns Zischler, and critic Kraft Wetzel, who is especially provocative. A must-see for Wenders fans, highly recommended for everyone else. –Jonathan Rosenbaum, 1989
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Chattahoochee
Title: Chattahoochee
Character: Walker Benson
Released: April 20, 1990
Type: Movie
In 1955 Florida, a Korean vet has a breakdown and is incarcerated in a "maximum security" mental health prison, where patients are abused.
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Catchfire
Title: Catchfire
Character: Milo
Released: April 3, 1990
Type: Movie
A witness to a mob assassination flees for her life from town to town, switching identities, but cannot seem to elude Milo, the chief killer out to get her.
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Flashback
Title: Flashback
Character: Huey Walker
Released: February 2, 1990
Type: Movie
A hippie radical, Huey Walker has been a fugitive for decades, accused of a crime that he may not have committed. Finally apprehended, Walker is escorted to trial by uptight 20-something FBI agent John Buckner. While the two seem to be polar opposites, it turns out that Buckner may have more in common with Walker than is initially apparent, a point that is driven home when the pair faces off against a sinister small-town sheriff.
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Rabbit Ears - The Fisherman and His Wife
Title: Rabbit Ears - The Fisherman and His Wife
Character: Storyteller (voice) (uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1989
Type: Movie
When a poor Fisherman discovers a magic flounder in the sea, he goes home to tell his wife. But, as his wife's greed for the better life comes to the point where she wants to take over the world, the fisherman soon realizes that his wife's greed will get the best of them yet.
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Blood Red
Title: Blood Red
Character: William Bradford Berrigan
Released: August 18, 1989
Type: Movie
Set in the Napa Valley in 1895, an immigrant family struggles to keep their vineyards from industrialists.
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Black Leather Jacket
Title: Black Leather Jacket
Character: Narrator
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
Based upon Mick Farren's book,'The Black Leather Jacket', this documentary explores the history of this garment from it's utilitarian beginnings through to it's 'bad boy' reputation and considers whether it has now become emasculated by pop culture.
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Title: LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Released: September 5, 1988
Type: TV
A morning talk show with A-list celebrity guests, top-notch performances and one-of-a-kind segments that are unrivaled on daytime television, plus spontaneous, hilarious and unpredictable talk.
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No Frank in Lumberton
Title: No Frank in Lumberton
Released: January 19, 1988
Type: Movie
A very surreal video shot behind the scenes during the production of Blue Velvet in Wilmington, North Carolina in 1985 by Peter Braatz.
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Santabear's High Flying Adventure
Title: Santabear's High Flying Adventure
Character: (voice)
Released: December 1, 1987
Type: Movie
Santabear's High Flying Adventure was a Christmas Special in 1987.
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The American Way
Title: The American Way
Character: Captain
Released: November 13, 1987
Type: Movie
A group of Vietnam vets disturbs television programs from a B-29 airplane. They want to sabotage Mrs Westinghouse's political campaign who is running for the Senate in support of US military involvement in South America. Mrs Westinghouse orders some nuclear missiles to be launched against the saboteurs, but they manage to avoid the impact and even succeed in exposing a big secret of hers.
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Blue Peanuts
Title: Blue Peanuts
Character: Snoopy
Released: November 5, 1987
Type: Movie
A pre-internet mash-up that mixes “Peanuts” and David Lynch’s “Blue Velvet.”
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Title: Seitenblicke
Character: self
Released: October 5, 1987
Type: TV
An Austrian magazine-TV show.
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The Pick-up Artist
Title: The Pick-up Artist
Character: Flash Jensen
Released: September 18, 1987
Type: Movie
A womanizer meets his match when he falls for the daughter of a gambling addict who is in debt to the mob.
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O.C. and Stiggs
Title: O.C. and Stiggs
Character: Sponson
Released: July 10, 1987
Type: Movie
O.C. and Stiggs aren't your average unhappy teenagers. They not only despise their suburban surroundings, they plot against it. They seek revenge against the middle class Schwab family, who embody all they detest: middle class.
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Straight to Hell
Title: Straight to Hell
Character: I.G. Farben
Released: June 26, 1987
Type: Movie
A gang of bank robbers with a suitcase full of money go to the desert to hide out. After burying the loot, they find their way to a surreal town full of cowboys who drink an awful lot of coffee.
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Black Widow
Title: Black Widow
Character: Ben Dumers
Released: February 6, 1987
Type: Movie
Federal agent Alexandra Barnes believes that Catherine Petersen is a serial killer who marries rich men and then murders them for their money. But since Catherine is seemingly a master of disguise and has multiple identities, Alexandra can't prove anything with conventional detective work. With no other option, she goes undercover, pursuing the same man as Catherine, and hoping that Catherine will slip up and reveal her true identity.
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Running Out of Luck
Title: Running Out of Luck
Character: Video Director
Released: February 2, 1987
Type: Movie
A rock singer goes to Brazil to shoot a video, but winds up getting kidnapped and enduring a number of seemingly bizarre and hilarious events.
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Out of the Blue and Into the Black
Title: Out of the Blue and Into the Black
Character: Self
Released: January 30, 1987
Type: Movie
Paul Joyce’s Out of the Blue and Into the Black is an insightful documentary surveying American independent film production post-Easy Rider and includes interviews with Peter Bogdanovich, Dennis Hopper, Monte Hellman and Roger Corman.
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Hoosiers
Title: Hoosiers
Character: Shooter
Released: November 14, 1986
Type: Movie
Failed college coach Norman Dale gets a chance at redemption when he is hired to coach a high school basketball team in a tiny Indiana town. After a teacher persuades star player Jimmy Chitwood to quit and focus on his long-neglected studies, Dale struggles to develop a winning team in the face of community criticism for his temper and his unconventional choice of assistant coach: Shooter, a notorious alcoholic.
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Blue Velvet
Title: Blue Velvet
Character: Frank Booth
Released: September 19, 1986
Type: Movie
Clean-cut Jeffrey Beaumont realizes his hometown is not so normal when he discovers a human ear in a field, the investigation soon catapulting him toward a disturbed nightclub singer and a drug-addicted sadist.
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River's Edge
Title: River's Edge
Character: Feck
Released: August 27, 1986
Type: Movie
A group of high-school friends must come to terms with the fact that one of them, Samson, killed another, Jamie. Faced with the brutality of death, each must decide whether to turn their friend in to the police, or to help him escape the consequences of his dreadful deed.
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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2
Title: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2
Character: Lieutenant 'Lefty' Enright
Released: August 22, 1986
Type: Movie
With the help of a radio DJ, Texas ranger Lefty Enright finds his way to the cannibalistic Sawyer family's underground slaughter shop, where he seeks to avenge the brutal murder of his kin.
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Stark: Mirror Image
Title: Stark: Mirror Image
Character: Lieutenant Ron Bliss
Released: May 14, 1986
Type: Movie
Sequel to the original movie about a hard-boiled Kansas City cop finds him tracking a colleague's killer to Las Vegas.
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Some Kind of Genius
Title: Some Kind of Genius
Character: Himself
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
Documentary on Dennis Hopper and how his madness can lead to being a genius.
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My Science Project
Title: My Science Project
Character: Bob Roberts
Released: August 9, 1985
Type: Movie
His high school teacher issues an ultimatum: turn in a science project or flunk. So Mike Harlan scavenges a military base's junk pile for a suitable gizmo. He finds one... and unwittingly unleashes the awesome power and energy of the unknown. Twisted dimensions. Time warps. A fantastic realm where the past, present, and future collide in a whirling vortex of startling adventure and superlative special effects.
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Stark
Title: Stark
Character: Lieutenant Ron Bliss
Released: April 10, 1985
Type: Movie
Wichita policeman, Evan Stark, goes to Las Vegas in search of his missing sister, Laura.
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A Hero of Our Time
Title: A Hero of Our Time
Character: Casey
Released: January 1, 1985
Type: Movie
Loosely based on a section of Mikhail Lermontov's classic Russian novel of the same title, the film involves a displaced cowboy (played by Kevin Jarre, the screenwriter of Rambo), a sociopathic record producer (Dennis Hopper) and, caught between them, a gum-chewing valley girl who would rather be somewhere else (Natalie Zimmerman). Lermontov's 19th century novel leaves a vapor trail on the action, but A Hero of Our Time is more precisely a portrait of contemporary Los Angeles, a tale of wayward heroism played out against a landscape of yearning and desolation. Director/writer Michael Almereyda, whose screenplay for Wim Wenders' Until the End of the World will be produced this year, completed principal photography for A Hero of Our Time in October of 1985. Dennis Hopper's participation occurred during a break in the filming of Blue Velvet.
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The Inside Man
Title: The Inside Man
Character: Miller
Released: August 31, 1984
Type: Movie
In 1981, after the successful test of a submarine tracker device developed by the Swedish scientist Paul Mandell and sponsored by the US government through his representative Miller, his industry is totally burned and the laser device is stolen. Stig Larsson from the Swedish Secret Agency suspects of an inside job and brings the Swedish Marine Thomas Kallin to investigate Paul undercover as his driver. The naive Kallin is double-crossed but continues his investigation while Larsson finds the truth about the heist.
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White Star
Title: White Star
Character: Kenneth Barlow
Released: October 27, 1983
Type: Movie
A clean-cut synth artist in Germany hopes to turn his career around with the help of a washed-up, erratic, publicity-crazed American manager.
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The Osterman Weekend
Title: The Osterman Weekend
Character: Richard Tremayne
Released: October 14, 1983
Type: Movie
The host of an investigative news show is convinced by the CIA that the friends he has invited to a weekend in the country are engaged in a conspiracy that threatens national security.
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Rumble Fish
Title: Rumble Fish
Character: Father
Released: October 9, 1983
Type: Movie
Rusty James, an absent-minded street thug, struggles to live up to his legendary older brother's reputation and longs for the days when gang warfare was going on.
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Dennis Hopper's Russian Dynamite Death Chair Act
Title: Dennis Hopper's Russian Dynamite Death Chair Act
Character: Himself
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: Movie
In 1983 Dennis Hopper went to Rice University in Houston, Texas ostensibly to screen his latest film Out Of The Blue. But little known to anyone, other than Hopper and a handful of his buddies, he had another agenda entirely. While he did indeed screen his movie, Hopper had actually come to Houston to blow himself up. After screening his movie Out Of The Blue, Hopper arranged to have the audience driven by a fleet of school buses to a racetrack on the outskirts of Houston, the Big H Speedway. Hopper and the buses arrived at the speedway just as the races were ending and a voice was announcing over the public address system 'stick around folks and watch a famous Hollywood film personality perform the Russian Dynamite Death Chair Act. That’s right, folks, he’ll sit in a chair with six sticks of dynamite and light the fuse. 'The large guy making the sign of the cross is the writer Terry Southern and the jerk threatening to blow up my camera is the German filmmaker, Wim Wenders.'
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Human Highway
Title: Human Highway
Character: Cracker / Stranger
Released: September 10, 1982
Type: Movie
The new owner of a roadside diner stuck in a town built around an always leaking nuclear power plant plans to torch the place to collect insurance. However, an assortment of bizarre characters and weird events (such as spaceships flying around) gets in his way.
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Reborn
Title: Reborn
Character: Rev. Tom Hartley
Released: September 27, 1981
Type: Movie
A man discovers that his girlfriend is a "stigmata" (someone whose hands and feet mysteriously bleed in the same places where Jesus Christ was crucified) and tries to keep her out of the hands of a greedy TV preacher who plans to exploit her to make money for himself.
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Out of the Blue
Title: Out of the Blue
Character: Don
Released: April 29, 1981
Type: Movie
A young girl whose father is an ex-convict and whose mother is a junkie finds it difficult to conform and tries to find comfort in a quirky combination of Elvis and the punk scene.
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King of the Mountain
Title: King of the Mountain
Character: Cal
Released: April 4, 1981
Type: Movie
A group of friends race their high-powered cars up and down a dangerous and deadly mountain road known as Mulholland Drive to see who can claim the title of "King of the Hill."
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Title: Wild Times
Character: Doc Holliday
Released: January 24, 1980
Type: TV
Fictional Western adventure about dime novel hero-turned-Wild West show impresario Hugh Cardiff.
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Apocalypse Now
Title: Apocalypse Now
Character: Photojournalist
Released: August 15, 1979
Type: Movie
At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter Kurtz, who has been leading his personal army on illegal guerrilla missions into enemy territory.
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Flesh Color
Title: Flesh Color
Character: Mel
Released: September 12, 1978
Type: Movie
This film was presented to the Cannes Film Festival in the parallel section in 1978. It is unreleased.
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Last In, First Out
Title: Last In, First Out
Character: Medford
Released: August 30, 1978
Type: Movie
A woman on a train becomes the center of attention when she is mistaken for a spy by opposing factions who are traveling on the same line.
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The Sorceror's Apprentice
Title: The Sorceror's Apprentice
Character: A Spy
Released: September 28, 1977
Type: Movie
A thriller in which the characters are Latin-American exiles living in Paris. It is also a comedy about artists who play at revolution rather than actually participate in one
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The American Friend
Title: The American Friend
Character: Tom Ripley
Released: June 24, 1977
Type: Movie
Tom Ripley, an American who deals in forged art, is slighted at an auction in Hamburg by picture framer Jonathan Zimmerman. When Ripley is asked by gangster Raoul Minot to kill a rival, he suggests Zimmerman, and the two, exploiting Zimmerman's terminal illness, coerce him into being a hitman.
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Tracks
Title: Tracks
Character: 1st Sgt. Jack Falen
Released: December 15, 1976
Type: Movie
A soldier returns from Vietnam on special assignment, accompanying the body of his friend by train to California for burial. During the trip, he falls in love with a gentle college student. But their relationship is shattered by his flashbacks to combat.
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Mad Dog Morgan
Title: Mad Dog Morgan
Character: Daniel Morgan
Released: July 9, 1976
Type: Movie
The true story of Irish outlaw Daniel Morgan, who is wanted, dead or alive, in Australia during the 1850s.
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To Shoot a Mad Dog
Title: To Shoot a Mad Dog
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1976
Type: Movie
A documentary about the making of the Australian feature Mad Dog Morgan (1976).
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Bloodbath
Title: Bloodbath
Character: Chicken
Released: November 29, 1975
Type: Movie
Chicken, a desperate hippie junkie living in a small Spanish village, is finding it difficult to separate fantasy and reality. This isn't helped by the villagers practising magic and child sacrifice, or his involvement with a group of boozy expatriates lost in their own dreams and regrets.
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Title: Saturday Night Live
Character: Self - Host
Released: October 11, 1975
Type: TV
A late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels. The show's comedy sketches, which parody contemporary culture and politics, are performed by a large and varying cast of repertory and newer cast members. Each episode is hosted by a celebrity guest, who usually delivers an opening monologue and performs in sketches with the cast, and features performances by a musical guest.
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James Dean: The First American Teenager
Title: James Dean: The First American Teenager
Character: Self
Released: September 30, 1975
Type: Movie
Stacy Keach narrates this documentary that chronicles the abbreviated life and career of iconic brooding bad boy James Dean, from his obscure early days working in television to his rise to stardom in films such as Rebel Without a Cause. Clips from Dean's movies are intermingled with candid interviews with the star's friends and Hollywood colleagues, including Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo, Sammy Davis Jr. and Dennis Hopper.
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Title: Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Character: Self
Released: January 12, 1975
Type: TV
A talk show presented by Michel Drucker
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Kid Blue
Title: Kid Blue
Character: Bickford Waner
Released: January 31, 1973
Type: Movie
Bickford Waner, an apparently naive young man from Fort Worth, arrives in the tiny Texas town of Dime Box and takes on a variety of menial jobs. He's befriended by Reese Ford and his wife Molly, but before long Molly has seduced Bickford. Only with the arrival of Bickford's former girlfriend Janet Conforto is it revealed that Bickford is actually the notorious train robber Kid Blue. Humiliated by a scandal arising from his affair with his friend's wife, Bickford gives up on going straight and plots a crime.
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Crush Proof
Title: Crush Proof
Character: Dennis Hopper
Released: June 4, 1972
Type: Movie
A young man recalls his affair with a young French woman who traveled with him across the United States. They began to drift apart during the trip, and eventually each had affairs with other people before realizing that their relationship had run its course.
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Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here
Title: Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here
Character: Self
Released: May 11, 1972
Type: Movie
"On John's 31st birthday, Yoko held an art exhibit, "This Is Not Here", at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, N.Y.. The show was taped and aired on U.S. TV on May 11, 1972 as "John and Yoko in Syracuse, New York."
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The Last Movie
Title: The Last Movie
Character: Kansas
Released: September 29, 1971
Type: Movie
After a film production wraps in Peru, an American wrangler decides to stay behind, witnessing how filmmaking affects the locals.
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The American Dreamer
Title: The American Dreamer
Character: Himself
Released: April 1, 1971
Type: Movie
A documentary about actor/director Dennis Hopper, showing him at his home and studio putting together his film "The Last Movie."
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Easy Rider
Title: Easy Rider
Character: Billy
Released: June 26, 1969
Type: Movie
Wyatt and Billy, two Harley-riding hippies, complete a drug deal in Southern California and decide to travel cross-country in search of spiritual truth.
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True Grit
Title: True Grit
Character: "Moon"
Released: June 11, 1969
Type: Movie
The murder of her father sends a teenage tomboy on a mission of 'justice', which involves avenging her father's death. She recruits a tough old marshal, 'Rooster' Cogburn because he has 'true grit', and a reputation of getting the job done.
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Title: The Johnny Cash Show
Character: Self
Released: June 7, 1969
Type: TV
The Johnny Cash Show was an American television music variety show hosted by Johnny Cash. The Screen Gems 58-episode series ran from June 7, 1969 to March 31, 1971 on ABC; it was taped at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee. The show reached No. 17 in the Nielsen ratings in 1970. Cash opened each show, and its regulars included members of his touring troupe, June Carter Cash and the Carter Family, The Statler Brothers, Carl Perkins, and The Tennessee Three, with Australian-born musical director-arranger-conductor Bill Walker. The Statler Brothers performed brief comic interludes. It featured many folk-country musicians, such as Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Linda Ronstadt, Kris Kristofferson, Mickey Newbury, Neil Young, Gordon Lightfoot, Merle Haggard, James Taylor and Tammy Wynette. It also featured other musicians such as jazz great Louis Armstrong, who died eight months after appearing on the show.
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Head
Title: Head
Character: Dennis Hopper (uncredited)
Released: November 6, 1968
Type: Movie
In this surrealistic and free-form follow-up to the Monkees' television show, the band frolic their way through a series of musical set pieces and vignettes containing humor and anti-establishment social commentary.
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Panic in the City
Title: Panic in the City
Character: Goff
Released: October 1, 1968
Type: Movie
An American agent is assigned to track down a renegade Soviet spy who is building an atomic device in Los Angeles and plans to destroy the city with it.
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Hang 'em High
Title: Hang 'em High
Character: Prophet
Released: April 12, 1968
Type: Movie
Marshall Jed Cooper survives a hanging, vowing revenge on the lynch mob that left him dangling. To carry out his oath for vengeance, he returns to his former job as a lawman. Before long, he's caught up with the nine men on his hit list and starts dispensing his own brand of Wild West justice.
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The Glory Stompers
Title: The Glory Stompers
Character: Chino
Released: November 22, 1967
Type: Movie
Chino is the tough leader of a motorcycle gang who starts off a war when he abducts and mistreats the leader of the enemy biker gang, Darryl, and his girlfriend Chris. Things get violent when Darryl comes back for revenge.
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Cool Hand Luke
Title: Cool Hand Luke
Character: Babalugats
Released: November 1, 1967
Type: Movie
When petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn't play by the rules of either the sadistic warden or the yard's resident heavy, Dragline, who ends up admiring the new guy's unbreakable will. Luke's bravado, even in the face of repeated stints in the prison's dreaded solitary confinement cell, "the box," make him a rebel hero to his fellow convicts and a thorn in the side of the prison officers.
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Title: The Guns of Will Sonnett
Released: September 8, 1967
Type: TV
The Guns of Will Sonnett is a Western television series
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The Trip
Title: The Trip
Character: Max
Released: August 23, 1967
Type: Movie
After his wife leaves him, a disillusioned director dives into the drug scene, trying anything his friend suggests.
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Screen Test #3
Title: Screen Test #3
Released: October 23, 1966
Type: Movie
One of Andy Warhol's screen tests, focusing on an actor's face for 4-5 mins.
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Queen of Blood
Title: Queen of Blood
Character: Paul Grant
Released: March 1, 1966
Type: Movie
A spaceship is sent to Mars after an alien distress signal is picked up. They find one survivor, but when a crew member is found drained of blood it's evident they have rescued a bloodsucking monster. Uses footage from Encounter in Space (1963).
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Andy Warhol Screen Tests
Title: Andy Warhol Screen Tests
Character: Self
Released: November 28, 1965
Type: Movie
The films were made between 1964 and 1966 at Warhol's Factory studio in New York City. Subjects were captured in stark relief by a strong key light, and filmed by Warhol with his stationary 16mm Bolex camera on silent, black and white, 100-foot rolls of film at 24 frames per second. The resulting two-and-a-half-minute film reels were then screened in 'slow motion' at 16 frames per second.
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Title: The Big Valley
Character: Jimmy Sweetwater
Released: September 15, 1965
Type: TV
The Big Valley is an American western television series which ran on ABC from September 15, 1965, to May 19, 1969. The show stars Barbara Stanwyck, as the widow of a wealthy nineteenth century California rancher. It was created by A.I. Bezzerides and Louis F. Edelman, and produced by Levy-Gardner-Laven for Four Star Television.
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Title: The Legend of Jesse James
Character: Jud Salt
Released: September 13, 1965
Type: TV
The Legend of Jesse James is an American western series starring Christopher Jones in the tile role of notorious outlaw Jesse James. The series aired on ABC from September 13, 1965, to May 9, 1966. Allen Case joined Jones as Jesse's brother, Frank James.
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The Sons of Katie Elder
Title: The Sons of Katie Elder
Character: Dave Hastings
Released: June 23, 1965
Type: Movie
The four sons of Katie Elder reunite in their Hometown of Clearwater, Texas for their Mother's funeral, and discover that the family ranch is now in the hands of Morgan Hastings, the town's gunsmith.
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The Thirteen Most Beautiful Boys
Title: The Thirteen Most Beautiful Boys
Released: November 20, 1964
Type: Movie
Inspired by a 1962 NYPD pamphlet entitled ‘The Thirteen Most Wanted [Men]’. Warhol transformed it from ‘most wanted men’ into ‘most beautiful boys’, and then began to film the very first Screen Tests, continuing to film for the series into early 1966, totalling more than 13 Screen Tests.
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Tarzan and Jane Regained... Sort of
Title: Tarzan and Jane Regained... Sort of
Character: Tarzan (Double)
Released: February 18, 1964
Type: Movie
Shot during Warhol's cross-county trip to Los Angeles during his second exhibition at the Ferus - the same trip during which he filmed the footage for Elvis at Ferus. Locations included Hollywood, Malibu, Venice, Pasadena, Topanga Canyon, the Santa Monica pier and the Beverly Hills Hotel.
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Screen Test: Dennis Hopper
Title: Screen Test: Dennis Hopper
Character: Himself
Released: January 1, 1964
Type: Movie
Screen test by Andy Warhol with Dennis Hopper as the subject.
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Title: Petticoat Junction
Character: Alan Landman
Released: September 24, 1963
Type: TV
The Bradley family are proud owners of the Shady Rest Hotel. Kate and her three young daughters do the job of running the hotel.
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Title: The Greatest Show on Earth
Released: September 17, 1963
Type: TV
Johnny Slate successfully manages his circus as it moves from town to town.
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Title: Arrest and Trial
Released: September 15, 1963
Type: TV
Arrest and Trial is a 90-minute American crime/legal drama series that ran during the 1963-1964 season on ABC, airing Sundays from 8:30-10 p.m. Eastern.
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Title: The Lieutenant
Character: Cpl. Peter Devlin
Released: September 14, 1963
Type: TV
The Lieutenant is an American television series, the first created by Gene Roddenberry. It aired on NBC on Saturday evenings in the 1963–1964 television schedule. It was produced by Arena Productions, one of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's most successful in-house production companies of the 1960s. Situated at Camp Pendleton, the West Coast base of the U.S. Marine Corps, The Lieutenant focuses on the men of the Corps in peace time with a Cold War backdrop. The title character is Second Lieutenant William Tiberius Rice, a rifle platoon leader and one of the training instructors at Camp Pendleton. An hour-long drama, The Lieutenant explores the lives of enlisted Marines and general officers alike. The series was released on DVD in two half-season sets by the Warner Archive Collection on August 14, 2012.
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Title: The Dakotas
Released: January 7, 1963
Type: TV
The Dakotas is an ABC/Warner Brothers western television series starring Larry Ward and featuring Jack Elam broadcast during 1963. The short-lived program is considered a spin-off of Clint Walker's Cheyenne. The Dakotas is perhaps most notable for the fact that it was cancelled one week after heavy viewer protest over an objectionable scene.
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Title: Combat!
Character: Zack Fielder
Released: October 2, 1962
Type: TV
Combat! is an American television program that originally aired on ABC from 1962 until 1967. The show covered the grim lives of a squad of American soldiers fighting the Germans in France during World War II. The program starred Rick Jason as platoon leader Second Lieutenant Gil Hanley and Vic Morrow as Sergeant "Chip" Saunders.
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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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Title: 87th Precinct
Character: Andrew Mason
Released: September 25, 1961
Type: TV
87th Precinct is an American crime drama starring Robert Lansing, Gena Rowlands, and Ron Harper, which aired on NBC on Monday evenings during the 1961–1962 television season.
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Title: The Defenders
Character: Jason Thomas
Released: September 16, 1961
Type: TV
The Defenders is an American courtroom drama series . It starred E. G. Marshall and Robert Reed as father-and-son defense attorneys who specialized in legally complex cases, with defendants such as neo-Nazis, conscientious objectors, civil rights demonstrators, a schoolteacher fired for being an atheist, an author accused of pornography, and a physician charged in a mercy killing.
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Title: The Defenders
Character: Alfred Carter Jr.
Released: September 16, 1961
Type: TV
The Defenders is an American courtroom drama series . It starred E. G. Marshall and Robert Reed as father-and-son defense attorneys who specialized in legally complex cases, with defendants such as neo-Nazis, conscientious objectors, civil rights demonstrators, a schoolteacher fired for being an atheist, an author accused of pornography, and a physician charged in a mercy killing.
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Night Tide
Title: Night Tide
Character: Johnny Drake
Released: July 1, 1961
Type: Movie
A young sailor falls in love with a mysterious woman performing as a mermaid on the local pier. As they become entwined, he comes to suspect the woman might be a real mermaid who lures men to a watery death during the full moon.
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Title: Surfside 6
Released: October 6, 1960
Type: TV
Surfside 6 was an ABC television series which aired from 1960 to 1962. The show centered on a Miami Beach detective agency set on a houseboat and featured Troy Donahue as Sandy Winfield II; Van Williams as Kenny Madison; and Lee Patterson as Dave Thorne. Diane McBain co-starred as socialite Daphne Dutton, whose yacht was berthed next to their houseboat. Margarita Sierra also had a supporting role as Cha Cha O'Brien, an entertainer who worked at The Boom Boom Room, a popular Miami Beach hangout at the Fontainebleau Hotel, directly across the street from Surfside 6. Surfside 6 was in fact a real address in Miami Beach, where an unrelated houseboat was moored at the time; it can also be seen in the sweeping aerial establishing shot of the Fontainebleu in 1964's Goldfinger.
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Key Witness
Title: Key Witness
Character: William "Cowby" Tomkins
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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Title: The Barbara Stanwyck Show
Character: Gerald Collins
Released: September 19, 1960
Type: TV
The Barbara Stanwyck Show is an American anthology drama television series which ran on NBC from September 1960 to September 1961. Barbara Stanwyck served as hostess, and starred in all but four of the half-hour productions. The four she did not star in were actually pilot episodes of potential series programs which never materialized. Stanwyck won the Emmy Award in 1961 for Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Series. Three of the shows in which Stanwyck starred were an attempt at spinning off a dramatic series of her own, in which she appeared as "Josephine Little", an American woman running an import-export shop in Hong Kong. The series, produced at Desilu Studios, was directed by Stuart Rosenberg. The Barbara Stanwyck Show lasted one season. It aired at 10 p.m. Eastern on Mondays opposite Jackie Cooper's military sitcom Hennesey on CBS and the second half of Gardner McKay's Adventures in Paradise on ABC.
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Title: The Twilight Zone
Character: Peter Vollmer
Released: October 2, 1959
Type: TV
A series of unrelated stories containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist.
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Title: Bonanza
Character: Dev Farnum
Released: September 12, 1959
Type: TV
The High-Sierra adventures of Ben Cartwright and his sons as they run and defend their ranch while helping the surrounding community.
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Disneyland '59
Title: Disneyland '59
Character: Self
Released: June 15, 1959
Type: Movie
Walt Disney and Art Linkletter co-host a live celebration of Disneyland's 1959 expansion that consisted of the debuts of Matterhorn Bobsleds, the Disneyland-Alweg Monorail, and the Submarine Voyage, a project so massive that it was called "The Second Opening of Disneyland". Highlights include a mammoth, star-studded parade and the official launching of the Disneyland submarines by U.S. Navy officers. Among the guests are then-Vice-President Richard Nixon and family, Clint Eastwood, and Meredith Willson, who leads the Disneyland band in his own "76 Trombones." Sponsored by Kodak, the commercial spokespersons include Ozzie and Harriet Nelson.
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The Young Land
Title: The Young Land
Character: Hatfield Carnes
Released: May 1, 1959
Type: Movie
An American gunslinger kills a Mexican man in California immediately after the Mexican-American war. The killer is arrested and put on trial for murder with the Hispanic population waiting to learn of American justice.
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Swiss Family Robinson
Title: Swiss Family Robinson
Character: Fritz
Released: October 12, 1958
Type: Movie
T.V. movie adaptation of The Swiss Family Robinson, sponsored by Rexall.
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Title: Naked City
Character: Vinnie Winford
Released: September 30, 1958
Type: TV
Naked City is a police drama series which aired from 1958 to 1963 on the ABC television network. It was inspired by the 1948 motion picture of the same name, and mimics its dramatic “semi-documentary” format. In 1997, the episode “Sweet Prince of Delancey Street” was ranked #93 on TV Guide’s “100 Greatest Episodes of All Time”.
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Title: The Rifleman
Released: September 30, 1958
Type: TV
The Rifleman is an American Western television program starring Chuck Connors as rancher Lucas McCain and Johnny Crawford as his son, Mark McCain. It was set in the 1880s in the town of North Fork, New Mexico Territory. The show was filmed in black-and-white, half-hour episodes. "The Rifleman" aired on ABC from September 30, 1958 to April 8, 1963 as a production of Four Star Television. It was one of the first prime time series to have a widowed parent raise a child.
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From Hell to Texas
Title: From Hell to Texas
Character: Tom Boyd
Released: April 29, 1958
Type: Movie
The naive cowboy Tod Lohman accidentally kills the son of the powerful land baron Hunter Boyd. Tod runs for his life, pursued by the dead man's vengeful brothers. Tod shelters on the ranch of Amos Bradley and he falls in love with his daughter Juanita. However, Tod is concerned that he'll eventually have to leave when his pursuers catch up with him.
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Sayonara
Title: Sayonara
Character: MP in Kelly's House / MP at Tokyo Airport (voice) (uncredited)
Released: December 25, 1957
Type: Movie
Air Force Major Lloyd Gruver (Marlon Brando) is reassigned to a Japanese air base, and is confronted with US racial prejudice against the Japanese people. The issue is compounded because a number of the soldiers become romantically involved with Japanese women, in defiance of US military policy. Ordinarily an officer who is by-the-book, Gruver must take a position when a buddy of his, an enlisted man Joe Kelly (Red Buttons) falls in love with a Japanese woman Katsumi (Miyoshi Umeki) and marries her. Gruver risks his position by serving as best man at the wedding ceremony.
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The Story of Mankind
Title: The Story of Mankind
Character: Napoleon Bonaparte
Released: November 8, 1957
Type: Movie
The devil and the spirit of mankind argue as to whether or not humanity is ultimately good or evil.
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Title: Sugarfoot
Character: Billy the Kid
Released: September 17, 1957
Type: TV
Sugarfoot is an American western television series that aired on ABC from 1957 to 1961. The series stars Will Hutchins as Tom Brewster, an Easterner who comes to the Oklahoma Territory to become a lawyer. Jack Elam is cast in occasional episodes as sidekick Toothy Thompson. Brewster was a correspondence-school student whose apparent lack of cowboy skills earned him the nickname "Sugarfoot", a designation even below that of a tenderfoot.
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The James Dean Story
Title: The James Dean Story
Character: Self
Released: August 13, 1957
Type: Movie
Released two years after James Dean's death, this documentary chronicles his short life and career via black-and-white still photographs, interviews with the aunt and uncle who raised him, his paternal grandparents, a New York City cabdriver friend, the owner of his favorite Los Angeles restaurant, outtakes from East of Eden, footage of the opening night of Giant, and Dean's ironic PSA for safe driving.
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Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
Title: Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
Character: Billy Clanton
Released: May 30, 1957
Type: Movie
Lawman Wyatt Earp and outlaw Doc Holliday form an unlikely alliance which culminates in their participation in the legendary Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
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Giant
Title: Giant
Character: Jordan "Jordy" Benedict III
Released: November 8, 1956
Type: Movie
Wealthy rancher Bick Benedict and dirt-poor cowboy Jett Rink both woo Leslie Lynnton, a beautiful young woman from Maryland who is new to Texas. She marries Benedict, but she is shocked by the racial bigotry of the White Texans against the local people of Mexican descent. Rink discovers oil on a small plot of land, and while he uses his vast, new wealth to buy all the land surrounding the Benedict ranch, the Benedict's disagreement over prejudice fuels conflict that runs across generations.
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New York Premiere Telecast 'Giant'
Title: New York Premiere Telecast 'Giant'
Character: Self
Released: October 9, 1956
Type: Movie
Star studded charity New York premiere of the film Giant
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Title: Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Character: Vernon 'Vern' Tippert
Released: October 5, 1956
Type: TV
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre, sometimes simply called Zane Grey Theatre, is an American Western anthology series which ran on CBS from 1956 to 1961.
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Title: Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Character: Denny Sunrise
Released: October 5, 1956
Type: TV
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre, sometimes simply called Zane Grey Theatre, is an American Western anthology series which ran on CBS from 1956 to 1961.
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I Died a Thousand Times
Title: I Died a Thousand Times
Character: Joe (uncredited)
Released: November 9, 1955
Type: Movie
After aging criminal Roy Earle is released from prison he decides to pull one last heist before retiring — by robbing a resort hotel.
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Title: Matinee Theater
Released: October 31, 1955
Type: TV
Matinee Theater is an American anthology series that aired on NBC during the Golden Age of Television, from 1955 to 1958. The series, which ran daily in the afternoon, was frequently live. It was produced by Albert McCleery, Darrell Ross, George Cahan and Frank Price with executive producer George Lowther. McCleery had previously produced the live series Cameo Theatre which introduced to television the concept of theater-in-the-round, TV plays staged with minimal sets. Jim Buckley of the Pewter Plough Playhouse recalled: When Al McCleery got back to the States, he originated a most ambitious theatrical TV series for NBC called Matinee Theater: to televise five different stage plays per week live, airing around noon in order to promote color TV to the American housewife as she labored over her ironing. Al was the producer. He hired five directors and five art directors. Richard Bennett, one of our first early presidents of the Pewter Plough Corporation, was one of the directors and I was one of the art directors and, as soon as we were through televising one play, we had lunch and then met to plan next week’s show. That was over 50 years ago, and I’m trying to think; I believe the TV art director is his own set decorator —yes, of course! It had to be, since one of McCleery’s chief claims to favor with the producers was his elimination of the setting per se and simply decorating the scene with a minimum of props. It took a bit of ingenuity.
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Rebel Without a Cause
Title: Rebel Without a Cause
Character: Goon
Released: October 27, 1955
Type: Movie
After moving to a new town, troublemaking teen Jim Stark is supposed to have a clean slate, although being the new kid in town brings its own problems. While searching for some stability, Stark forms a bond with a disturbed classmate, Plato, and falls for local girl Judy. However, Judy is the girlfriend of neighborhood tough, Buzz. When Buzz violently confronts Jim and challenges him to a drag race, the new kid's real troubles begin.
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Title: Screen Director's Playhouse
Character: Steve Redman
Released: October 5, 1955
Type: TV
Presented by Eastman Kodak, this show was a series of original scripts directed by acclaimed directors and featuring well-known performers. The stories ranged from musicals to comedies and dramas.
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Title: Highway Patrol
Released: October 3, 1955
Type: TV
Highway Patrol was a syndicated, fictional police action series produced from 1955 to 1959, concerning the activities of the highway patrol and their leader, Dan Matthews (who held no rank). Although filmed in and around the Los Angeles area, the state setting for the stories was never identified, and city and street names were fictionalized.
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Title: Cheyenne
Character: Utah Kid
Released: September 20, 1955
Type: TV
Cheyenne is an American western television series of 108 black-and-white episodes broadcast on ABC from 1955 to 1963. The show was the first hour-long western, and in fact the first hour-long dramatic series of any kind, with continuing characters, to last more than one season. It was also the first series to be made by a major Hollywood film studio which did not derive from its established film properties, and the first of a long chain of Warner Brothers original series produced by William T. Orr.
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Title: Cheyenne
Released: September 20, 1955
Type: TV
Cheyenne is an American western television series of 108 black-and-white episodes broadcast on ABC from 1955 to 1963. The show was the first hour-long western, and in fact the first hour-long dramatic series of any kind, with continuing characters, to last more than one season. It was also the first series to be made by a major Hollywood film studio which did not derive from its established film properties, and the first of a long chain of Warner Brothers original series produced by William T. Orr.
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Title: Kings Row
Released: September 13, 1955
Type: TV
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Title: Gunsmoke
Character: Billy Kimbo
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.
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Title: The Millionaire
Character: Adam Spencer
Released: January 19, 1955
Type: TV
An anthology series that explored the ways sudden and unexpected wealth changed life for better or for worse. It told the stories of people who were given one million dollars from a benefactor who insisted they never know him, with one exception.
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Title: Medic
Character: Robert
Released: September 13, 1954
Type: TV
Medic is an American medical drama that aired on NBC beginning in 1954. Medic was television's first doctor drama to focus attention on medical procedures. Created by its principal writer James E. Moser, Medic tried to create realism which would typify medical shows from then on. Moser had previously written for the radio shows Dragnet and Dr. Kildare. He went on to write the television series Ben Casey.
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Title: Letter to Loretta
Character: Ross Morton
Released: September 20, 1953
Type: TV
Letter to Loretta is an American anthology drama series telecast on NBC from September 1953 to June 1961 for a total of 165 episodes. The filmed show was hosted by Loretta Young who also played the lead in various episodes. Letter to Loretta was sponsored by Procter & Gamble from 1953 through 1960. The final season's sponsor was Warner-Lambert's Listerine.
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Title: General Electric Theater
Character: Fred Judson
Released: February 1, 1953
Type: TV
General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was sponsored by General Electric's Department of Public Relations.
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Title: Studio One
Character: Harry Wales
Released: November 7, 1948
Type: TV
An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. Studio One, presented by Westinghouse, was one of the first of the anthology TV programs. The episodes were often abridged remakes of movies from years gone by and many future well-known television and movie actors appeared in the productions.
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Title: Studio One
Character: David Williams
Released: November 7, 1948
Type: TV
An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. Studio One, presented by Westinghouse, was one of the first of the anthology TV programs. The episodes were often abridged remakes of movies from years gone by and many future well-known television and movie actors appeared in the productions.
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Art, Acting, and the Suicide Chair: Dennis Hopper
Title: Art, Acting, and the Suicide Chair: Dennis Hopper
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
George Hickenlooper interviews Dennis Hopper about his artwork and his career in film and the state of cinema in the 1980s.