Steven Geray

Steven Geray

Born: November 10, 1904
Died: December 26, 1973
in Ungvár, Austria-Hungary, now Uzhgorod, Ukraine
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Steven Geray, born Istvan Gyergyay (10 November 1904 – 26 December 1973) was a film actor who appeared in over 100 films and dozens of television programs. Geray appeared in Spellbound (1945), Gilda (1946), In a Lonely Place (1950), All About Eve (1950), Call Me Madam (1953) and To Catch a Thief (1955).

He was born in Ungvár, Austria-Hungary (now Uzhgorod, Ukraine) and educated at the University of Budapest. He made his first stage appearance at the Hungarian National Theater under his real name and after nearly four years he made his London stage debut (as Steven Geray) in 1934, appearing in Happy Week-End!. He began appearing in English-speaking films in 1935 and moved to Hollywood in 1941. He appeared alongside his wife, Magda Kun, in the 1935 film Dance Band.

Geray was cast as the lead in a low-budget film noir So Dark the Night (1946). Even with its limited budget, it received great critical reviews and enabled its director Joseph H. Lewis to later direct A-pictures. Geray continued to work on television and in films into the 1960s. Among them a guest appearance on Perry Mason in 1962 as extortionist and murder victim Franz Moray in "The Case of the Stand-in Sister," three episodes of The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show as French dress designer Gaston Broussard in 1956, including the over the top "A Paris Creation" and various doctor roles on The Danny Thomas Show.

Geray spent some time in the late-1960s in Estes Park, Colorado, where he directed local theater (The Fantasticks). He owned and ran a bar in Estes Park from 1969 to 1970.

Movies for Steven Geray...

The Swinger
Title: The Swinger
Character: Man with Fish
Released: November 13, 1966
Type: Movie
An authoress writes a steaming sex-novel and proceeds to live out her heroine's adventures.
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Title: The Time Tunnel
Character: Perrault
Released: September 9, 1966
Type: TV
The Time Tunnel is a 1966–1967 U.S. color science fiction TV series, written around a theme of time travel adventure. The show was creator-producer Irwin Allen's third science fiction television series, released by 20th Century Fox and broadcast on ABC. The show ran for one season of 30 episodes. Reruns are viewable on cable and by internet streaming. A pilot for a new series was produced in 2002, although it was not picked up.
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Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter
Title: Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter
Character: Dr. Rudolf Frankenstein
Released: April 9, 1966
Type: Movie
Dr. Frankenstein's Granddaughter Maria, and her brother assistant Rudolph, moved to the old west because the lightning storms there are more frequent and intense, which allows them to work on the experiments of their grandfather. But the experiments are failing and Rudolph's been secretly killing the corpses afterwards. Meanwhile, the Lopez family leaves the town because of the evil going on there
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Title: I Dream of Jeannie
Character: Armand
Released: September 18, 1965
Type: TV
While on a mission, American astronaut Captain Tony Nelson is forced to make an emergency landing that will forever change his life. On a deserted South Pacific island, Captain Nelson happens upon a bottle containing a beautiful two-thousand-year-old female genie named Jeannie. Rescuing her from the bottle nets Tony the requisite three wishes, and then some, when Jeannie pledges total devotion to her new "master".
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Title: The Rogues
Character: Henri
Released: September 13, 1964
Type: TV
The Rogues is an American television series that appeared on NBC from September 13, 1964, to April 18, 1965, starring David Niven, Charles Boyer, and Gig Young as a related trio of former conmen who could, for the right price, be persuaded to trick a very wealthy and heinously unscrupulous mark. Although it won the 1964 Golden Globe award for Best Television Series, the show was cancelled after one season consisting of thirty episodes.
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Wild and Wonderful
Title: Wild and Wonderful
Character: Bartender
Released: June 9, 1964
Type: Movie
Cognac, a pampered poodle and popular star on French television, creates marital problems for his pretty owner Giselle when he becomes jealous of her new husband.
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Title: Burke's Law
Character: Dr. Alexis Crystal
Released: September 20, 1963
Type: TV
Burke's Law is an American detective series that ran on ABC from 1963 to 1965 and was revived on CBS in the 1990s. The show starred Gene Barry as Amos Burke, millionaire captain of Los Angeles police homicide division, who was chauffeured around to solve crimes in his Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud II.
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Title: The Outer Limits
Character: Jerichau
Released: September 16, 1963
Type: TV
The Outer Limits is an anthology tv series of self-contained sci-fi-horror stories, sometimes with a plot twist at the end.
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Title: The Lucy Show
Character: Dr. Fleisher
Released: October 1, 1962
Type: TV
The Lucy Show is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from 1962–68. It was Lucille Ball's follow-up to I Love Lucy. A significant change in cast and premise for the 1965–66 season divides the program into two distinct eras; aside from Ball, only Gale Gordon, who joined the program for its second season, remained. For the first three seasons, Vivian Vance was the co-star. The earliest scripts were entitled The Lucille Ball Show, but when this title was declined, producers thought of calling the show This Is Lucy or The New Adventures of Lucy, before deciding on the title The Lucy Show. Ball won consecutive Emmy Awards as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for the series' final two seasons, 1966–67 and 1967–68.
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Title: Dr. Kildare
Character: Frank Chernak
Released: September 27, 1961
Type: TV
The story of a young intern in a large metropolitan hospital trying to learn his profession, deal with the problems of his patients, and win the respect of the senior doctor in his specialty, internal medicine.
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Title: 87th Precinct
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 Islanders
Character: Marek
Released: October 2, 1960
Type: TV
The Islanders is an American adventure television series which aired on ABC from 1960 to 1961, starring William Reynolds, James Philbrook, and Diane Brewster. At the beginning of the series, Sandy Wade and Zack Malloy, co-owners of a Grumman Goose amphibious aircraft, start their one-plane airline in the Moluccas or Spice Islands of the southeastern Pacific Ocean. Throughout the series they experience a variety of adventures where seemingly harmless charter flights put them into danger. They are frequently aided in their endeavours by the unusually-named Wilhelmina ”Steamboat Willy” Vanderveer and Shipwreck Callighan. The Islanders, primarily sponsored by Liggett & Myers' Chesterfield cigarettes, aired at 9:30 Eastern time on Sunday evenings opposite The Jack Benny Program and Candid Camera on CBS and the second half of The Dinah Shore Show and the last season of The Loretta Young Show on NBC. William Reynolds stated in an interview, "The series went from being sort of like a Terry and the Pirates or a Maverick type of concept to becoming just a bunch of people skulking around. It wasn't very good." After The Islanders, Philbrook co-starred in the 1962-1963 season as a magazine publisher and the love interest of Loretta Young in her short-lived The New Loretta Young Show, which aired Mondays on CBS. Reynolds went on to star in two other ABC series,The Gallant Men, a World War II series, and The FBI with Efrem Zimbalist, Jr..
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Title: Adventures in Paradise
Character: Paul Barolle
Released: October 5, 1959
Type: TV
Adventures in Paradise is an American television series created by James Michener which ran on ABC from 1959 until 1962, starring Gardner McKay as Adam Troy, the captain of the schooner Tiki III, which sailed the South Pacific looking for passengers and adventure. USA Network aired reruns of this series between 1984 and 1988. The plots deal with the romantic and detective stories of Korean War veteran Troy. The supporting cast, varying from season to season, features George Tobias, Guy Stockwell, and Linda Lawson.
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Title: Adventures in Paradise
Character: Piet
Released: October 5, 1959
Type: TV
Adventures in Paradise is an American television series created by James Michener which ran on ABC from 1959 until 1962, starring Gardner McKay as Adam Troy, the captain of the schooner Tiki III, which sailed the South Pacific looking for passengers and adventure. USA Network aired reruns of this series between 1984 and 1988. The plots deal with the romantic and detective stories of Korean War veteran Troy. The supporting cast, varying from season to season, features George Tobias, Guy Stockwell, and Linda Lawson.
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Count Your Blessings
Title: Count Your Blessings
Character: Guide
Released: April 23, 1959
Type: Movie
Englishwoman Grace Allingham marries Frenchman Charles Edouard de Valhubert, but their marriage quickly becomes unusual. Because Charles cheats on her and lives away from his family out of professional obligation to his government, Grace ends up raising the couple's son, Sigismond, on her own. Grace and Charles are finally reunited after nearly a decade apart, and, while they seem headed for a permanent split, there's still a spark between them.
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Verboten!
Title: Verboten!
Character: le maire
Released: March 25, 1959
Type: Movie
A young American serviceman stationed in Germany after the fall of the Third Reich, jeopardises his future after falling in love with a German woman.
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Title: The Donna Reed Show
Released: September 24, 1958
Type: TV
Revolves around typical family problems, such as firing a clumsy housekeeper, throwing a retirement bash for a colleague, and finding quality time away from the children.
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A Certain Smile
Title: A Certain Smile
Character: Denis
Released: July 31, 1958
Type: Movie
A pretty Parisian law student falls in love with her boyfriend's uncle.
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Title: Alcoa Theatre
Character: Station Master
Released: September 30, 1957
Type: TV
Alcoa Theatre is a half-hour American anthology series telecast on NBC at 9:30 pm on alternate Monday nights from October 7, 1957 to September 16, 1960. The program also aired under the title Turn of Fate, with the stories depicting the difficulties faced by individuals who are suddenly thrust into unexpected and perilous dangers. Alcoa Theatre was syndicated together with Goodyear Theatre as Award Theatre. In 1955, The Alcoa Hour premiered in a one-hour format aired on Sunday nights, but it was reduced to 30 minutes, retitled Alcoa Theatre, and moved to Monday evening in 1957. The show employed an alternating rotating company of actors: David Niven, Robert Ryan, Jane Powell, Jack Lemmon and Charles Boyer. Each appeared in dramatic and light comedic roles through the first season.
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Title: Perry Mason
Character: Franz Moray
Released: September 21, 1957
Type: TV
The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.
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Title: Perry Mason
Character: Korbell
Released: September 21, 1957
Type: TV
The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.
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Stagecoach To Fury
Title: Stagecoach To Fury
Character: Nichols
Released: December 13, 1956
Type: Movie
A group of stagecoach passengers are held hostage by bandits waiting for a shipment of gold they plan to steal.
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Title: Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Character: Alex Rozky
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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Attack
Title: Attack
Character: Otto
Released: September 19, 1956
Type: Movie
Battle of the Bulge, World War II, 1944. Lieutenant Costa, an infantry company officer who must establish artillery observation posts in a strategic area, has serious doubts about Captain Cooney's leadership ability.
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Title: The Adventures of Jim Bowie
Released: September 7, 1956
Type: TV
The Adventures of Jim Bowie is an American Western television series that aired on ABC from 1956 to 1958. Its setting was the 1830s-era Louisiana Territory. The series was an adaptation of the book Tempered Blade, by Monte Barrett. The series stars Scott Forbes as the real-life adventurer Jim Bowie. The series initially portrayed Jim Bowie as something of an outdoors-man, riding his horse through the wilderness near his home in Opelousas, where he would stumble across someone needing his assistance. He was aided by the Bowie Knife, his ever-present weapon. He designed it in the first episode, The Birth of the Blade.
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Title: Dr. Fu Manchu
Released: September 3, 1956
Type: TV
The Adventures of Dr. Fu Manchu is a syndicated American television series that aired in 1956. The show was produced by Hollywood Television Service, a subsidiary of Republic Pictures.
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Title: Telephone Time
Released: April 8, 1956
Type: TV
Telephone Time is an American anthology drama series that aired on CBS in 1956, and on ABC from 1957 to 1958. The series features plays by John Nesbitt who hosted the first season. Frank C. Baxter hosted the 1957 and 1958 seasons. The program was directed by Arthur Hiller.
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Meet Mrs. Swenson
Title: Meet Mrs. Swenson
Character: Dr. Arons
Released: January 1, 1956
Type: Movie
An overworked housewife struggles to survive in an old house with an inadequate electrical supply and out-of-date appliances.
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Artists and Models
Title: Artists and Models
Character: Kurt's Associate (uncredited)
Released: November 7, 1955
Type: Movie
A struggling painter begins taking inspiration from the dreams of his friend and roommate, a comic book fan who narrates an adventure story while he sleeps, but unbeknownst to the latter, the artist of his favorite comic book lives in the same building as they do with the model for her drawings.
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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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Kiss of Fire
Title: Kiss of Fire
Character: Ship Captain Bellon
Released: September 23, 1955
Type: Movie
In 1700, a Spanish princess travels from New Mexico to California with ruthless outlaw El Tigre as guide.
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A Bullet for Joey
Title: A Bullet for Joey
Character: Raphael Garcia
Released: April 15, 1955
Type: Movie
Raoul Leduc is a police inspector trailing a spy who plots to kidnap an important American atomic scientist. Joe Victor a gangster who is hired to carry out the abduction, balks when he learns what is at stake and helps Leduc out instead.
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New York Confidential
Title: New York Confidential
Character: Morris Franklin
Released: February 15, 1955
Type: Movie
Story follows the rise and subsequent fall of the notorious head of a New York crime family, who decides to testify against his pals in order to avoid being killed by his fellow cohorts.
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Title: Climax!
Released: October 7, 1954
Type: TV
Climax! is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was hosted by William Lundigan and later co-hosted by Mary Costa. It was one of the few CBS programs of that era to be broadcast in color. Many of the episodes were performed and broadcast live.
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Title: December Bride
Released: October 4, 1954
Type: TV
December Bride is an American sitcom that aired on the CBS television network from 1954 to 1959, adapted from the original CBS radio network series that aired from June 1952 through September 1953.
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Tobor the Great
Title: Tobor the Great
Character: The Foreign Spy-Chief
Released: September 1, 1954
Type: Movie
To avoid the life-threatening dangers of manned space exploration, Professor Nordstrom creates highly advanced form of artificial intelligence capable of piloting a starship to other worlds. In order to transmit alien data, the extraordinary robot is infused with a powerful telepathic device that enables it to instantly read and even feel emotions. Danger strikes when a sinister band of covert agents kidnaps Gadge, the professor's 10-year-old grandson. But Gadge has a powerful ally. For he has developed a psychic, emotional bond with his grandfather's robot. And now Gadge's captors must suffer the wrath of his protective friend. They must face a mechanical monstrosity bent on a killing rampage of revenge and destruction.
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Knock on Wood
Title: Knock on Wood
Character: Doctor Kreuger
Released: April 6, 1954
Type: Movie
Ventriloquist Jerry Morgan has failed with another love affair. The reason: when the relationship reaches the point when it is time to discuss marriage, his two dolls become mean and jealous. Morgan's dollmaker Papinek is a member of a spy ring who has stolen the secret plans for the top-secret Lafayette airplane. Since Morgan is leaving for Zurich the same night, he decides to hide the secret plan in the heads of the dolls.
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Paris Playboys
Title: Paris Playboys
Character: Dr. Gaspard
Released: March 7, 1954
Type: Movie
Sach is the exact double of a famous French scientist who has invented a powerful rocket fuel. Enemy agents, mistaking Sach for the scientist, attempt to kidnap him and get the formula for the fuel.
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The French Line
Title: The French Line
Character: François, Ship Steward
Released: February 8, 1954
Type: Movie
Oil heiress Mame Carson takes an incognito cruise so that men will love her for her body, not her money.
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The Great Diamond Robbery
Title: The Great Diamond Robbery
Character: Van Goosen
Released: January 29, 1954
Type: Movie
Ambrose C. Park, left on a park bench as an infant with an impulsive need to find his parents, is an assistant to a diamond cutter. Shyster lawyer Remlick, in a strategy to get a fabulous uncut diamond through Ambrose, arranges for Emily Drummon, Duke Fargoh and Maggie Drummon to pose as Ambrose's long-lost parents and sister. The diamond, through many comic situations, is acquired and the gang is going to have Ambrose cut the diamond, and relieve him of the two stones and his parental illusions at the same time. But Maggie, who has no taste for the deception, tips Ambrose off and a wild chase ensues. At the end, Ambrose is very happy as he can now marry his "sister."
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Title: The Lone Wolf
Released: January 1, 1954
Type: TV
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The Royal African Rifles
Title: The Royal African Rifles
Character: Van Stede
Released: December 26, 1953
Type: Movie
A shipment of Vickers machine guns is stolen from a British warship in Bombasa Harbor, Africa, in 1914, and Denham is assigned to track them down. He poses as a hunter and follows a trail that leads him to Cunningham, a trader, who intends to sell the rifles to the Germans, and whose daughter, Jennifer, Denham loves.
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Title: The Danny Thomas Show
Character: Doctor
Released: September 29, 1953
Type: TV
Danny Thomas, an entertainer, tries to balance his home life with the needs of his career, with hilarious results.
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The Golden Blade
Title: The Golden Blade
Character: Barcus
Released: August 12, 1953
Type: Movie
Basra merchant Harun Al-Rashid avenges his father's murder in this adventure set in ancient Bagdad and inspired from the Arabic fairy tales of One Thousand and One Nights.
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Title: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Character: Hotel Manager
Released: July 14, 1953
Type: Movie
Lorelei Lee is a beautiful showgirl engaged to be married to the wealthy Gus Esmond, much to the disapproval of Gus' rich father, Esmond Sr., who thinks that Lorelei is just after his money. When Lorelei goes on a cruise accompanied only by her best friend, Dorothy Shaw, Esmond Sr. hires Ernie Malone, a private detective, to follow her and report any questionable behavior that would disqualify her from the marriage.
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The Story of Three Loves
Title: The Story of Three Loves
Character: Legay
Released: March 26, 1953
Type: Movie
Passengers on an ocean liner recall their greatest loves.
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Call Me Madam
Title: Call Me Madam
Character: Prime Minister Sebastian
Released: March 25, 1953
Type: Movie
Washington hostess Sally Adams becomes a Truman-era US ambassador to a European grand duchy.
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Title: General Electric Theater
Character: Papa Pulaski
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: General Electric Theater
Character: M. Brideau
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: Mr. & Mrs. North
Released: October 3, 1952
Type: TV
Mr. & Mrs. North is an American comedy/mystery television series that aired on CBS from October 3, 1952 to May 25, 1954. The series centers on Jerry North, a mystery magazine publisher who thinks he is a good amateur detective, and his wife, Pamela, as they solve crimes in New York City.
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Title: Cavalcade of America
Character: Bela Hovarth
Released: October 1, 1952
Type: TV
Cavalcade of America is an anthology drama series that was sponsored by the DuPont Company, although it occasionally presented a musical, such as an adaptation of Show Boat, and condensed biographies of popular composers. It was initially broadcast on radio from 1935 to 1953, and later on television from 1952 to 1957. Originally on CBS, the series pioneered the use of anthology drama for company audio advertising. Cavalcade of America documented historical events using stories of individual courage, initiative and achievement, often with feel-good dramatizations of the human spirit's triumph against all odds. This was consistent with DuPont's overall conservative philosophy and legacy as an American company dating back to 1802. The company's motto, "Maker of better things for better living through chemistry," was read at the beginning of each program, and the dramas emphasized humanitarian progress, particularly improvements in the lives of women, often through technological innovation.
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Night Without Sleep
Title: Night Without Sleep
Character: George (Uncredited)
Released: September 26, 1952
Type: Movie
Upon awaking in the morning, a man finds his thoughts clouded by the possibility that he committed a murder.
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Title: Four Star Playhouse
Character: Mr. Yen
Released: September 25, 1952
Type: TV
Four Star Playhouse is an American television anthology series that ran from 1952 to 1956, sponsored in its first bi-weekly season by The Singer Company; Bristol-Myers became an alternate sponsor when it became a weekly series in the fall of 1953. The original premise was that Charles Boyer, Ida Lupino, David Niven, and Dick Powell would take turns starring in episodes. However, several other performers took the lead from time to time, including Ronald Colman and Joan Fontaine. Blake Edwards was among the writers and directors who contributed to the series. Edwards created the recurring character of illegal gambling house operator Willie Dante for Dick Powell to play on this series. The character was later revamped and spun off in his own series starring Howard Duff, then-husband of Lupino. The pilot for Meet McGraw, starring Frank Lovejoy, aired here, as did another episode in which Lovejoy recreated his role of Chicago newspaper reporter Randy Stone, from the radio drama Nightbeat.
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Title: Four Star Playhouse
Character: Mataafa
Released: September 25, 1952
Type: TV
Four Star Playhouse is an American television anthology series that ran from 1952 to 1956, sponsored in its first bi-weekly season by The Singer Company; Bristol-Myers became an alternate sponsor when it became a weekly series in the fall of 1953. The original premise was that Charles Boyer, Ida Lupino, David Niven, and Dick Powell would take turns starring in episodes. However, several other performers took the lead from time to time, including Ronald Colman and Joan Fontaine. Blake Edwards was among the writers and directors who contributed to the series. Edwards created the recurring character of illegal gambling house operator Willie Dante for Dick Powell to play on this series. The character was later revamped and spun off in his own series starring Howard Duff, then-husband of Lupino. The pilot for Meet McGraw, starring Frank Lovejoy, aired here, as did another episode in which Lovejoy recreated his role of Chicago newspaper reporter Randy Stone, from the radio drama Nightbeat.
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Title: Adventures of Superman
Released: September 19, 1952
Type: TV
Announcer: "The Adventures of Superman. Faster than a speeding bullet! More powerful than a locomotive! Able to leap tall buildings at a single bound!" Voices: "Look up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Superman!" Announcer: "Yes, it's Superman, strange visitor from another planet who came to Earth with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men. Superman, who can change the course of mighty rivers, bend steel in his bare hands; and who, disguised as Clark Kent, mild-mannered reporter for a great metropolitan newspaper, fights a never ending battle for truth, justice, and the American way."
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The Big Sky
Title: The Big Sky
Character: "Frenchy" Jourdonnais
Released: August 19, 1952
Type: Movie
Two tough Kentucky mountaineers join a trading expedition from St. Louis up the Missouri River to trade whisky for furs with the Blackfoot Indians. They soon discover that there is much more than the elements to contend with.
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O. Henry's Full House
Title: O. Henry's Full House
Character: Boris Radolf (segment "The Last Leaf") (uncredited)
Released: August 7, 1952
Type: Movie
Five O. Henry stories, each separate. The primary one from the critics' acclaim was "The Cop and the Anthem". Soapy tells fellow bum Horace that he is going to get arrested so he can spend the winter in a nice jail cell. He fails. He can't even accost a woman; she turns out to be a streetwalker. The other stories are "The Clarion Call", "The Last Leaf", "The Ransom of Red Chief", and "The Gift of the Magi".
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Affair in Trinidad
Title: Affair in Trinidad
Character: Wittol
Released: July 29, 1952
Type: Movie
A nightclub singer enlists her brother-in-law to track down her husband's killer.
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Bal Tabarin
Title: Bal Tabarin
Character: Inspector Manet
Released: May 31, 1952
Type: Movie
Story of a girl who witnesses murder of notorious international jewel thief. Afraid that the gang will attack her, she flees to Paris.
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Lady Possessed
Title: Lady Possessed
Character: Dr. Stepanek
Released: January 26, 1952
Type: Movie
A pianist takes his ailing wife out of a London hospital at the same time that another female patient there has suffered a miscarriage. Afterwards, the second woman feels empty and withdrawn, and, thinking that getting her away from London will help, her husband takes her to live at a country estate, which turns out to be the former residence of the pianist who left after his wife died. The woman begins to get visions of the wife and her final days; is she becoming possessed by the dead wife of the pianist?
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Title: Dangerous Assignment
Released: January 1, 1952
Type: TV
A U.S. government agent travels the world on undercover missions in this 1950s series. Star Brian Donlevy originated the role on radio in the '40s.
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Title: Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Released: October 5, 1951
Type: TV
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS. Offering both comedies and drama, the series was sponsored by the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company. The title was shortened to Schlitz Playhouse, beginning with the fall 1957 season.
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Title: Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Character: Golet
Released: October 5, 1951
Type: TV
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS. Offering both comedies and drama, the series was sponsored by the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company. The title was shortened to Schlitz Playhouse, beginning with the fall 1957 season.
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Little Egypt
Title: Little Egypt
Character: Pasha
Released: October 1, 1951
Type: Movie
A belly dancer causes a scandal with her suggestive dancing at a Worlds Fair exhibition at the turn of the 20th century.
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Title: Tales of Tomorrow
Released: August 3, 1951
Type: TV
Tales of Tomorrow is an American anthology science fiction series that was performed and broadcast live on ABC from 1951 to 1953. The series covered such stories as Frankenstein, starring Lon Chaney, Jr., 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea starring Thomas Mitchell as Captain Nemo, and many others featuring such performers as Boris Karloff, Brian Keith, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger, Bruce Cabot, Franchot Tone, Gene Lockhart, Walter Abel, Leslie Nielsen, and Paul Newman. The series had many similarities to the later Twilight Zone which also covered one of the same stories, "What You Need". In total it ran for eighty-five 30-minute episodes.
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Savage Drums
Title: Savage Drums
Released: June 22, 1951
Type: Movie
There is this little small-island kingdom located off the South China coast and the United States offers a pact of economic aid and military assistance if needed.
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The House on Telegraph Hill
Title: The House on Telegraph Hill
Character: Dr. Burkhardt
Released: May 12, 1951
Type: Movie
Concentration camp survivor Victoria Kowelska finds herself involved in mystery, greed, and murder when she assumes the identity of a dead friend in order to gain passage to America.
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Target Unknown
Title: Target Unknown
Character: Jean
Released: February 8, 1951
Type: Movie
World War II drama about members of an American bomber squadron who are captured and held prisoners by the German army.
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Pygmy Island
Title: Pygmy Island
Character: Leon Marko
Released: November 22, 1950
Type: Movie
Jungle Jim searches for a female Army captain who's gone missing.
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Woman on the Run
Title: Woman on the Run
Character: Dr. Arnold Hohler
Released: November 10, 1950
Type: Movie
Frank Johnson, a sole witness to a gangland murder, goes into hiding and is trailed by Police Inspector Ferris, on the theory that Frank is trying to escape from possible retaliation. Frank's wife, Eleanor, suspects he is actually running away from their unsuccessful marriage. Aided by a newspaperman, Danny Leggett, Eleanor sets out to locate her husband. The killer is also looking for him, and keeps close tabs on Eleanor.
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All About Eve
Title: All About Eve
Character: Captain of Waiters (uncredited)
Released: November 9, 1950
Type: Movie
From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington is determined to take the reins of power away from the great actress Margo Channing. Eve maneuvers her way into Margo's Broadway role, becomes a sensation and even causes turmoil in the lives of Margo's director boyfriend, her playwright and his wife. Only the cynical drama critic sees through Eve, admiring her audacity and perfect pattern of deceit.
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A Lady Without Passport
Title: A Lady Without Passport
Character: Frenchman, Palinov's Tout
Released: August 3, 1950
Type: Movie
A secret service agent falls in love with an illegal immigrant.
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The Second Woman
Title: The Second Woman
Character: Balthazar Jones
Released: July 7, 1950
Type: Movie
In flashback from a 'Rebecca'-style beginning: Ellen Foster, visiting her aunt on the California coast, meets neighbor Jeff Cohalan and his ultramodern clifftop house. Ellen is strongly attracted to Jeff, who's being plagued by unexplainable accidents, major and minor. Bad luck, persecution...or paranoia? Warned that Jeff could be dangerous, Ellen fears that he's in danger, as the menacing atmosphere darkens.
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In a Lonely Place
Title: In a Lonely Place
Character: Paul
Released: May 17, 1950
Type: Movie
An screenwriter with a violence record is a murder suspect until his lovely neighbor clears him. However, she soon starts to have her doubts.
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Harbor of Missing Men
Title: Harbor of Missing Men
Character: Captain Corcoris
Released: March 26, 1950
Type: Movie
A smuggler hides from hit men with a Greek fisherman and his daughter.
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Tell It to the Judge
Title: Tell It to the Judge
Character: Francois, the Headwaiter (uncredited)
Released: November 18, 1949
Type: Movie
Marsha Meredith, an attorney-at-law, is nominated for a federal judgeship, but her nomination is opposed by a 'Good-Government' group that thinks her divorce makes her unfit for the job. This evolves into situations, happening in Florida, New England, Washington D.C., and the Adirondacks, such as the misunderstood husband trying to win back his wife, and the misunderstood wife trying to make her husband jealous, and one case of mistaken identity after another, after another.
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Holiday in Havana
Title: Holiday in Havana
Character: Lopez
Released: October 1, 1949
Type: Movie
While working as a hotel busboy, aspiring bandleader Carlos Estrada tries to persuade singer Lolita Valdez to join him in a rhumba contest in Havana.
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Once More, My Darling
Title: Once More, My Darling
Character: Kalzac
Released: September 10, 1949
Type: Movie
An actor is recalled to active duty with the Army's C.I.D. to find the thief who stole historical jewels in occupied Germany and the trail leads to the boyfriend of a young debutante from Bel Air.
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The Lone Wolf and His Lady
Title: The Lone Wolf and His Lady
Character: Mynher Van Groot
Released: August 11, 1949
Type: Movie
A newspaper man, and former jewel thief, is accused of gem theft.
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Sky Liner
Title: Sky Liner
Character: Bokejian
Released: July 28, 1949
Type: Movie
Travellers board a flight, unaware that other passengers might be spies and counterspies, complete with secret documents, poison and elaborate plans to engage in international espionage!
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El Paso
Title: El Paso
Character: Mexican Joe
Released: March 22, 1949
Type: Movie
Ex-confederate officer Clay Fletcher jumps at the chance to reunite with his once lady-friend, Susan Jeffers, when his father, Judge Fletcher, sends him on an errand to El Paso, Texas to get the signature of Susan's father, Judge Jeffers, on a legal document. Once there he finds the judge has become a drunk and a laughing stock, doing the bidding of local magnate Bert Donner and his running dog, Sheriff La Farge. Just as Clay starts straightening out the town's problems, events occur which force him to abandon the legal system and instead adopt the murderous tactics of a vigilante.
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Ladies of the Chorus
Title: Ladies of the Chorus
Character: Salisbury
Released: December 30, 1948
Type: Movie
Former burlesque star May and her daughter Peggy dance in the chorus. When May has a fight with featured dancer Bubbles, Bubbles leaves the show and Peggy takes her place. When Peggy falls in love with wealthy Randy, May fears class differences may lead to misery.
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The Dark Past
Title: The Dark Past
Character: Prof. Fred Linder
Released: December 22, 1948
Type: Movie
A gang hold a family hostage in their own home. The leader of the escaped cons is bothered by a recurring dream that the doctor of the house may be able to analyze.
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Port Said
Title: Port Said
Character: Alexis Tacca
Released: April 15, 1948
Type: Movie
Travel author Leslie Sears arrives in Cairo, Egypt, to meet with Greg Stewart, an old war buddy who is a theater booking agent in Port Said. Leslie telephones Greg and arranges a rendezvous, but shortly after the conversation ends, Greg is murdered.
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I Love Trouble
Title: I Love Trouble
Character: Keller
Released: January 15, 1948
Type: Movie
A wealthy man hires a detective to investigate his wife's mysterious past.
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The Crime Doctor's Gamble
Title: The Crime Doctor's Gamble
Character: Jules Daudet
Released: November 27, 1947
Type: Movie
While visiting France, a criminal psychologist tries to clear a disturbed young man of his father's murder.
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Gunfighters
Title: Gunfighters
Character: Jose aka Uncle Joe
Released: July 15, 1947
Type: Movie
Gunfighter "Brazos" Kane lays aside his guns "forever" when he is forced to shoot his best friend, and decides to join another friend, Bob Tyrell, as a cowhand on the Inskip ranch. Upon arriving there he finds the bullet-riddled body of his friend. He carries the body to the Banner ranch, the largest in the territory, and is accused by Banner of murdering Tyrell; Banner orders Deputy Sheriff Bill Yount, who is in Banner's pay, to arrest Kane. But Kane has the sympathy of Banner's daughter, Jane, who notifies Inskip of Kane's plight, and Inskip arrives in time to prevent a lynching. Sheriff Kiscade dismisses the murder charge for lack of evidence. Brazos then sets out to find the killer of his friend. Bess Bannister, Jane's sister, is in love with the Banner ranch foreman, Bard Macky, and knowing that Bard killed Tyrell and that Kane will track him down, then hampers Kane's mission somewhat by pretending to be in love with him.
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The Unfaithful
Title: The Unfaithful
Character: Martin Barrow
Released: July 1, 1947
Type: Movie
Christine Hunter kills an intruder and tells her husband and lawyer that it was an act of self-defense. It's later revealed that he was actually her lover and she had posed for an incriminating statue he created.
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Mr. District Attorney
Title: Mr. District Attorney
Character: Berotti
Released: February 20, 1947
Type: Movie
An assistant district attorney gets mixed-up with a woman who is working for the group that he is investigating.
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Blind Spot
Title: Blind Spot
Character: Lloyd Harrison
Released: February 6, 1947
Type: Movie
A mystery writer becomes the prime suspect in a murder investigation when a publisher he last saw is found dead.
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Blondie Knows Best
Title: Blondie Knows Best
Character: Dr. Schmidt
Released: October 17, 1946
Type: Movie
Dagwood Bumstead poses as his boss Mr. Dithers so that a big business deal can be consummated while Dithers avoids nearsighted process server Jim Gray. The upshot of all this is that Dagwood ends up in a lunatic asylum, forcing Blondie to come to the rescue.
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So Dark the Night
Title: So Dark the Night
Character: Henri Cassin
Released: October 10, 1946
Type: Movie
Inspector Cassin, a renowned Paris detective, departs to the country for a much-needed break. There he falls in love with the innkeeper’s daughter, Nanette, who is already betrothed to a local farmer. On the evening of their engagement party, Nanette and the farmer both disappear. Cassin takes up the case immediately to discover what happened to them and who is responsible.
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Gilda
Title: Gilda
Character: Uncle Pio
Released: April 25, 1946
Type: Movie
A gambler discovers an old flame while in Argentina, but she's married to his new boss.
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Deadline at Dawn
Title: Deadline at Dawn
Character: Edward Honig
Released: March 18, 1946
Type: Movie
A young Navy sailor has one night to find out why a woman was killed and he ended up with a bag of money after a drinking blackout.
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Cornered
Title: Cornered
Character: Señor Tomas Camargo
Released: November 23, 1945
Type: Movie
A World War II veteran hunts down the Nazi collaborators who killed his wife.
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Mexicana
Title: Mexicana
Character: Laredo
Released: November 15, 1945
Type: Movie
A Mexican crooner tries to put off fans by faking marriage to his American co-star.
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The Crimson Canary
Title: The Crimson Canary
Character: Vic Miller
Released: November 9, 1945
Type: Movie
Members of a Jazz Band come under suspicion when a beautiful nightclub singer is murdered.
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Spellbound
Title: Spellbound
Character: Dr. Graff
Released: November 8, 1945
Type: Movie
When Dr. Anthony Edwardes arrives at a Vermont mental hospital to replace the outgoing hospital director, Dr. Constance Peterson, a psychoanalyst, discovers Edwardes is actually an impostor. The man confesses that the real Dr. Edwardes is dead and fears he may have killed him, but cannot recall anything. Dr. Peterson, however is convinced his impostor is innocent of the man's murder, and joins him on a quest to unravel his amnesia through psychoanalysis.
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Tarzan and the Amazons
Title: Tarzan and the Amazons
Character: Brenner
Released: April 29, 1945
Type: Movie
A group of archaeologists asks Tarzan to help them find an ancient city in a hidden valley of women. He refuses, but Boy is tricked into doing the job. The queen of the women asks Tarzan to help them.
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Hotel Berlin
Title: Hotel Berlin
Character: Kleibert
Released: March 2, 1945
Type: Movie
An assortment of diverse characters gather at the Hotel Berlin in World War II Germany as the Third Reich falls.
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The Conspirators
Title: The Conspirators
Character: Dr. Schmitt
Released: October 24, 1944
Type: Movie
A guerilla leader falls in love with a mysterious woman in World War II Lisbon.
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In Society
Title: In Society
Character: Count Alexis
Released: August 16, 1944
Type: Movie
Two bumbling plumbers are hired by a socialite to fix a leak. A case of mistaken identity gets the pair an invitation to a fancy party and an entree into high society. As expected, things don't go too smoothly.
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Resisting Enemy Interrogation
Title: Resisting Enemy Interrogation
Character: Dr. Victor Münz - Camp Doctor
Released: August 1, 1944
Type: Movie
A downed American bomber crew quickly falls prey to the clever interrogation techniques of the Germans in this dramatic training film.
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The Seventh Cross
Title: The Seventh Cross
Character: Dr. Loewenstein
Released: July 24, 1944
Type: Movie
In Nazi Germany in 1936 seven men escape from a concentration camp. The camp commander puts up seven crosses and, as the Gestapo returns each escapee he is put to death on a cross. The seventh cross is still empty as George Heisler seeks freedom in Holland.
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The Mask of Dimitrios
Title: The Mask of Dimitrios
Character: Karel Bulic
Released: June 23, 1944
Type: Movie
A mystery writer is intrigued by the tale of notorious criminal Dimitrios Makropolous, whose dead body was found washed up on the shore in Istanbul. He decides to follow the career of Dimitrios around Europe, in order to learn more about the man. Along the way he is joined by the mysterious Mr. Peters, who has his own motivation.
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Meet the People
Title: Meet the People
Character: Uncle Felix
Released: June 1, 1944
Type: Movie
A idealistic shipyard worker interests a beautiful Hollywood star in staging a musical tribute to the war industry, but they disagree on some important issues.
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Easy Life
Title: Easy Life
Character: Batt
Released: May 20, 1944
Type: Movie
In this entry in the MGM "Crime Does Not Pay" series young Frank Davis, dropping out of school and joining a small-time hoodlum gang, finds out that leading a life of crime is not all he thought it would be.
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Whistling in Brooklyn
Title: Whistling in Brooklyn
Character: Whitey
Released: December 1, 1943
Type: Movie
Radio crime show host "The Fox" finds himself on the trail of a serial killer while a suspect himself.
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To My Unborn Son
Title: To My Unborn Son
Character: Peter Ravitch (uncredited)
Released: October 30, 1943
Type: Movie
A Yugoslav man, dying after being shot while attempting to help defend his village, writes a letter of encouragement and hope to his unborn child, explaining what he was fighting for in resisting the Nazi invasion of his homeland. A John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short.
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Phantom of the Opera
Title: Phantom of the Opera
Character: Vereheres
Released: August 12, 1943
Type: Movie
Following a tragic accident that leaves him disfigured, crazed composer Erique Claudin transformed into a masked phantom who schemes to make beautiful young soprano Christine Dubois the star of the opera and wreak revenge on those who stole his music.
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Appointment in Berlin
Title: Appointment in Berlin
Character: Henri Rader (uncredited)
Released: July 15, 1943
Type: Movie
The "war of nerves" which gripped the European continent in 1938, is the background for this war thriller starring George Sanders.
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Background to Danger
Title: Background to Danger
Character: Ludwig Rader
Released: July 3, 1943
Type: Movie
An American gets caught up in wartime action in Turkey.
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Pilot #5
Title: Pilot #5
Character: Major Eichel
Released: June 24, 1943
Type: Movie
A small group of Allied soldiers and airmen on Java are being bombed by Japanese 'planes daily. With only one working fighter of their own, and five pilots anxious to fly it, the Dutch commander chooses George Collins to fly a mission to drop a 500-lb bomb on the Japanese carrier lying offshore. As the flight progresses, the commander asks the other pilots to tell him about George. They recount his rise from brilliant law student, through the time he became involved in the corrupt machine of his state's Governor, and his attempts to redeem himself, both in his own eyes, and in Fredie, his long-time love.
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Night Plane from Chungking
Title: Night Plane from Chungking
Character: Reverend Ven Der Lieden
Released: May 31, 1943
Type: Movie
Without lights and in a driving rain, a bus is lumbering along the muddy Assam Road en route from Chunking to the Indian border. Passengers include a European of unknown nationality, a missionary a French officer, and a White Russian. There is also an ancient Chinese lady on an important diplomatic mission to Indian and her traveling companion. The trip is halted when Japanese planes bomb the road and hit a munitions truck and kill many Chinese soldiers. The Chinese commander puts the wounded soldiers on the bus and directs it to a nearby secret airport where the officer in charge is an American attached to the Chinese Air Force.
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Above Suspicion
Title: Above Suspicion
Character: Anton the Woodcarver (Uncredited)
Released: May 31, 1943
Type: Movie
Two newlyweds spy on the Nazis for the British Secret Service during their honeymoon in Europe.
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Heavenly Music
Title: Heavenly Music
Character: Ludwig van Beethoven
Released: May 1, 1943
Type: Movie
Bandleader/singer/songwriter Ted Barry arrives to heaven. The receptionist tells him that before he can take his place in the Hall of Music, a committee must review his work and decide whether he is worthy of admittance.
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Once Upon a Honeymoon
Title: Once Upon a Honeymoon
Character: Café Waiter (uncredited)
Released: November 27, 1942
Type: Movie
A radio correspondent tries to rescue a burlesque queen from her marriage to a Nazi official.
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The Moon and Sixpence
Title: The Moon and Sixpence
Character: Dirk Stroeve
Released: October 27, 1942
Type: Movie
Loosely inspired from Gauguin's life, the story of Charles Strickland, a middle-aged stockbrocker who abandons his middle-classed life, his family, his duties to start painting, what he has always wanted to do. He is from now on a awful human being, wholly devoted to his ideal: beauty.
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Eyes in the Night
Title: Eyes in the Night
Character: Mr. Anderson
Released: October 16, 1942
Type: Movie
Blind detective Duncan Maclain gets mixed up with enemy agents and murder when he tries to help an old friend with a rebellious stepdaughter.
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For the Common Defense!
Title: For the Common Defense!
Character: Heinrich Ort (uncredited)
Released: June 20, 1942
Type: Movie
This Crime Does Not Pay short shows how cooperation among all the nations of the Americas helps the war effort. In this case, a US government agent travels to Chile and Colombia. He works with local authorities to try to thwart an Axis plan to ship stolen ammunition.
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The Mad Martindales
Title: The Mad Martindales
Character: Jan Van Der Venne
Released: May 15, 1942
Type: Movie
A girl tries to pay the mortgage on a Nob Hill home and gets involved in selling her father's art treasures.
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The Wife Takes a Flyer
Title: The Wife Takes a Flyer
Character: Gestapo Agent
Released: April 28, 1942
Type: Movie
Christopher Reynolds, an American flying with the R.A.F, is shot down over German-occupied Holland and is given shelter by a Dutch family. Posing as the insane husband of the daughter of the house, Anita Wolverman, Reynolds convinces the German officer quartered there, Major Zellfritz, with the necessity for her divorce decree to be granted. After the court-hearing, Anita, goes to manage a home for retired ladies and, persuaded by Reynolds, tries to gain military information from the German Officer. When her former husband escapes from the insane-asylum his exploits are blamed on Reynolds. With the help of the old ladies and Anita, who "remarries" him, Reynolds escapes to England in a stolen German airplane.
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Secret Agent of Japan
Title: Secret Agent of Japan
Character: Alecsandri
Released: April 3, 1942
Type: Movie
World War II espionage drama, starring Preston Foster and Lynn Bari.
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Castle in the Desert
Title: Castle in the Desert
Character: Dr. Retling
Released: February 2, 1942
Type: Movie
Charlie Chan, with son Jimmy on a week's pass from the Army, takes up a request for help at a castle-home, miles from anywhere in the American desert south-west and inhabited by an eccentric, reclusive historian and his wife, a descendant of Lucrezia Borgia. Once there, he finds the request's legitimacy denied by all who are present, but still necessary as one houseguest has already been murdered, the other guests are at each other's throat, and the Borgia-related chatelain is suspected...
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A Gentleman at Heart
Title: A Gentleman at Heart
Character: Don Fernando
Released: January 16, 1942
Type: Movie
After inheriting a New York City art gallery, bookie Milton Berle and his partner Cesar Romero decide to go into the art forgery business. Director Ray McCarey's 1942 comedy also stars Carole Landis, J. Carrol Naish, Steven Geray, Richard Derr, Rose Hobart, Elisha Cook Jr., Chick Chandler, Francis Pierlot and Jerome Cowan.
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Blue, White, and Perfect
Title: Blue, White, and Perfect
Character: Vanderhoefen
Released: January 6, 1942
Type: Movie
In order to win back his girlfriend, Mike Shayne promises to give up his detective practice and get a job as riveter in an aircraft plant. He quickly finds himself investigating the theft of industrial diamonds from the plant's safe and, utilizing a variety of false identities, traces them first to a dress factory and later to a Hawaii-bound ocean liner. Escaping several attempts on his life, he is able to uncover a Nazi smuggling ring, but the location of the missing diamonds continues to elude him.
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Man at Large
Title: Man at Large
Character: Karl Botany
Released: September 26, 1941
Type: Movie
FBI agent Bob Grayson works in collaboration with Max, a British agent posing as a fugitive German aviator. Meanwhile, fearless girl reporter Dallas Dayle is assigned by her editor to track down the enemy aviator and get an exclusive story. When she catches up with Grayson and Max, Dallas is under the impression that Grayson is a rival reporter and Max is the genuine fugitive.
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Dark Streets of Cairo
Title: Dark Streets of Cairo
Character: Bellboy
Released: December 1, 1940
Type: Movie
A rapid series of murders occurs when a professor disrupts a tranquil Egyptian tomb by removing some precious jewels.
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This Man in Paris
Title: This Man in Paris
Character: Sûreté Police Officer (uncredited)
Released: July 1, 1939
Type: Movie
A British reporter and his wife, on vacation in Paris, run into a gang of counterfeiters.
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Inspector Hornleigh
Title: Inspector Hornleigh
Character: Michael Kavanos
Released: March 7, 1939
Type: Movie
When a landlady finds one of her tenants murdered, Inspector Hornleigh is sent to investigate. Inspector Hornleigh's assistant, Sergeant Bingham, soon finds an attaché case that had been stolen from the murdered man. When Hornleigh examines the case, inside it he finds a bag that was used to carry important government documents. The documents have been taken, and to make things even more confusing, a duplicate of the stolen bag soon turns up.
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Premiere
Title: Premiere
Character: Frolich
Released: January 20, 1938
Type: Movie
In Paris a leading theatre impresario is murdered on opening night, shortly after replacing his leading lady. A police Inspector in the audience takes over the investigation. The film was shot at Elstree Studios. It was a close remake of the 1937 Austrian film Premiere and re-used a number of musical scenes from the original which were dubbed into English.
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The High Command
Title: The High Command
Character: Martin Cloam
Released: August 23, 1937
Type: Movie
A general must come to terms with a crime he commited years earlier.
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Let's Make a Night of It
Title: Let's Make a Night of It
Character: Luigi
Released: June 28, 1937
Type: Movie
Unbeknown to each other, a husband and wife acquire separate nightclubs in the same London street; however, both clubs are on the brink of bankruptcy.
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A Star Fell from Heaven
Title: A Star Fell from Heaven
Character: Willi Wass
Released: June 8, 1936
Type: Movie
In this comedy, a talented singer is hired to dub the voice of a star who has lost his own. During the film's premiere, news that he sang the songs slips out and suddenly he finds that he himself has become a star. Unfortunately he soon encounters unanticipated problems. He is especially concerned about his girl friend who dumped him in favor of the voiceless star.
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Dance Band
Title: Dance Band
Character: Steve Sarel
Released: July 1, 1935
Type: Movie
Life gets complicated for bandleader Buddy when he falls for his greatest rival – the leader of an all-girl dance band!
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The Student's Romance
Title: The Student's Romance
Character: Mickey
Released: January 1, 1935
Type: Movie
A Student's Romance was based on the operetta I Lost My Heart in Heidelburg, which in turn owed a lot to that old chestnut The Student Prince. In 1825, impoverished composer Max (Patric Knowles) enrolls at Heidelburg University. Local girl Veronika (Carol Goodner) falls in love with Max, helping him to finance his education and clear his debts. Alas, Veronika is left out in the cold when Max becomes enamored with gorgeous tourist Helene (Grete Natzler). Little does he know that Helene is the daughter of the Grand Duke (Ivan Simpson), meaning of course that their romance is doomed to disappointment. Leading lady Grete Natzler later changed her screen name to Della Lynd, and under that cognomen co-starred with Laurel & Hardy in Swiss Miss (1938).
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Pardon, tévedtem
Title: Pardon, tévedtem
Released: October 23, 1933
Type: Movie
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Marie, légende hongroise
Title: Marie, légende hongroise
Character: l'intendant
Released: February 17, 1933
Type: Movie
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Spring Shower
Title: Spring Shower
Character: Intendant
Released: November 4, 1932
Type: Movie
It tells the story of Marie, an austerely beautiful young peasant girl played by the French star, Annabella. She is seduced beneath a flowering tree by the admirer of one of the daughters of the prosperous family for whom she works, becomes pregnant and is cast out.