Gordon Mitchell

Gordon Mitchell

Born: July 29, 1923
Died: September 20, 2003
in Denver, Colorado, USA
Gordon Mitchell was born "Charles Pendleton" in Colorado and served his country in both World War II and the Korean War (during which he was briefly a POW). Afterward he worked as a teacher in inner city schools in California and got heavily involved in personal fitness and bodybuilding. He became friends with Joe Gold (of Gold's Gym), joining Mae West's comedy act as one of her "strongmen" who would carry her on and off the stage. During this time he also found himself in demand as an extra in several Hollywood films including "Lil Abner", "The Enemy Below", and "The Ten Commandments" (in which he and Joe Gold bring Moses to Ramsey's court in chains). When the Peplum craze began in Italy and his fellow Muscle Beach star Steve Reeves became a huge star. Gordon (along with Reg Park, Mark Forrest, Brad Harris, Mickey Hargitay, and Richard Harrison) similarly jumped on the bandwagon and headed to Italy to find stardom and financially greener pastures.

Thanks to his unconventional appearance (small, sharp eyes and craggy face) and enthusiasm for his work, Mitchell found himself one of the most in-demand performers in Italy's Sword & Sandal craze of the early 60's, working with several top directors including Marino Girolami, Alberto De Martino, and Michele Lupo. Unlike most of his peers who left Italy once the genre ran its course, Mitchell stayed on to play villains in numerous Spaghetti Westerns, Giallos, War Films, and Science Fiction movies. He also had a small but key role in the Elizabeth Taylor / Marlon Brandon vehicle "Reflections in a Golden Eye" (1967) during this time though perhaps his most prestigious role would be the rogue who helps the two protagonists kidnap the noble in Fellini's "Satyricon" (1969). Mitchell used his extra cash to buy and build his own movie studio (Cave Studios) which he single-handedly constructed outside of Rome. It went largely unused except by ultra-low budget director Demofilo Fidani who would often cast Mitchell as well.

In the late 1980's when the Italian genre film industry had basically self-destructed, unable to compete with American films even for video rentals, Mitchell packed his bags and moved back to California. Once home, he re-teamed with old friend Joe Gold to manage World Gym, at which Mitchell acted as COO and lived at the top floor of its headquarters in Marina Del Rey. Continuing for years to act in low budget films purely for the fun of it, Mitchell passed away in his sleep at age 80 in 2003. Having just won the California recall election the day prior, Arnold Schwarzenegger took time out of his busy schedule to pay his respects at Mitchell's Memorial Service at the World Gym Headquarters along with many other bodybuilders who credit Mitchell with getting them into their careers.

Movies for Gordon Mitchell...

Malevolence
Title: Malevolence
Character: Don Fabrizio De Martino
Released: June 18, 2004
Type: Movie
Antonio owes the Robaldo family a hundred G's, Gray wants revenge on the street gang who mugged him, Jimmy's escaped from prison, and his brother/accomplice David has many serious mental conditions. Detective Brickley is hot on their trail willing to stop them with any means necessary, while a pair of rogue psychiatrists track them to discover the roots of David's condition. It isn't long before the paths of these characters cross with violent and tragic consequences. The result is a shocking and disturbing portrait of human nature at its worst that can only be summed up in one word: Malevolence.
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An Enraged New World
Title: An Enraged New World
Character: General Murchison
Released: March 28, 2002
Type: Movie
Three astronauts crash land on an Earth-like planet after returning from a 7-year long expedition to Ganymede. The planet however is populated by murderous psychopaths who kill two of the astronauts right away. The third, Roger Corman, flees to the alien countryside where he decides to begin a violent quest to find out the truth behind his mission.
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Kino kolossal - Herkules, Maciste & Co
Title: Kino kolossal - Herkules, Maciste & Co
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 2000
Type: Movie
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Bikini Drive-In
Title: Bikini Drive-In
Character: Goliath
Released: April 8, 1995
Type: Movie
Kim Taylor inherits her grandfather's drive-in theatre. She must raise $25,000 over one weekend or the bank will take the property from her. She also has to deal with pesky capitalist J.B. Winston.
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The Alien Within
Title: The Alien Within
Character: Dan Thorn
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
After having a feud with director Kenneth J. Hall, producer Fred Olen Ray hired Ted Newsom to shoot brand new footage (on video) to weave in with scenes from Hall's film Evil Spawn (1987).
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Overdose
Title: Overdose
Character: Costa
Released: December 8, 1989
Type: Movie
Karen, a beautiful air hostess, is implied by her fiance in international drug trafficking: drugged herself, she lets persuade to convey ten kilos of heroin from North Africa to Spain. Having narrowly escaped the police, she catches her boyfriend with another woman. Desperate and angry, she takes the drug to the sea and finds refuge with Patrick, a Spanish-American living in a castle. However, traffickers will make every effort to find her...
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Title: I promessi sposi
Character: Don Gonzalo
Released: November 12, 1989
Type: TV
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Blood Delirium
Title: Blood Delirium
Character: Hermann
Released: August 8, 1988
Type: Movie
After his beloved wife dies, an unbalanced painter who believes himself to be the reincarnation of Vincent Van Gogh goes over the edge and digs up her corpse--with the help of his necrophiliac butler--to bring it back to his castle and use it for "inspiration". He soon meets a beautiful musician who looks exactly like his late wife and brings her back to his castle. However, she eventually discovers their secret: the butler murders young women, disposes of their bodies and uses their blood--"the color of life"--for the artist's paints.
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SFX Retaliator
Title: SFX Retaliator
Character: Morgan
Released: February 1, 1988
Type: Movie
Special effects producer Steve Baker will help a woman being chased by the Mafia, but then they followed him and his wife.
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Cross of the Seven Jewels
Title: Cross of the Seven Jewels
Character: Black Mass Leader
Released: April 30, 1987
Type: Movie
A man becomes a werewolf after being cursed by a black magic society. Only a jeweled necklace he wears can stop the transformations taking place.
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Commando Invasion
Title: Commando Invasion
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
The leader of a group of American commandos has 5 days to kidnap a VC General to prove his innocence after all his men are killed in an abortive raid.
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Three Men on Fire
Title: Three Men on Fire
Released: November 4, 1986
Type: Movie
A Cameroonese police officer (Alphonse Beni) and a CIA agent (Richard Harrison) try to prevent the Pope from being assassinated by Italian terrorists during his African tour.
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Cobra Mission
Title: Cobra Mission
Character: Col. Mortimer
Released: July 31, 1986
Type: Movie
Ten years after the end of the war in Vietnam, four ex-Marines decide to return to S.E. Asia to investigate reports of American POWs still being held there. These four include Roger, whose daughter's just been married, the unemployed James, Mark, who's quit his job at an Arizona roadside tavern, and Richard, recently a patient at a mental hospital. In the jungles of S.E. Asia they discover American POWs but also find out about a U.S. Government plot to keep this knowledge a secret.
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The Mines of Kilimanjaro
Title: The Mines of Kilimanjaro
Character: Rolf
Released: July 31, 1986
Type: Movie
A World War II-era college student must journey to Africa both to find his missing archaeology professor and search for the treasured mines of Kilimanjaro. He is followed by natives as well as scheming Chinese and Nazis
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White Fire
Title: White Fire
Character: Olaf
Released: July 5, 1984
Type: Movie
While working in a diamond mine located in the desert, Bo and Ingrid, two siblings who survived a massacre as children, make a surprising discovery.
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She
Title: She
Character: Hector
Released: May 15, 1984
Type: Movie
In a backward post-apocalyptic world, She aids two brothers' quest to rescue their kidnapped sister. Along the way, they battle orgiastic werewolves, a psychic communist, a tutu-wearing giant, a mad scientist, and gladiators before standing against the odds to defeat the evil Norks.
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Se tutto va bene siamo rovinati
Title: Se tutto va bene siamo rovinati
Character: Jack Volpetti
Released: December 29, 1983
Type: Movie
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Endgame
Title: Endgame
Character: Col. Morgan
Released: November 5, 1983
Type: Movie
A telepathic mutant recruits a post World War III TV game show warrior to lead her band of mutants to safety.
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Rush
Title: Rush
Character: Yor
Released: October 28, 1983
Type: Movie
In a post-nuclear holocaust world, a survivor roams the desert, fighting bandits and the forces of an evil warlord.
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Secret Force
Title: Secret Force
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: Movie
An investigation begins when two policemen are killed in an unknown manner.
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Title: Marco Polo
Character: Arnolfo, Jailer
Released: December 5, 1982
Type: TV
Marco Polo is an American-Italian television miniseries originally broadcast by NBC in the United States, by Antenne 2 in France and by RAI in Italy in 1982. It starred Kenneth Marshall as Marco Polo, the 13th-century Venetian merchant and explorer. The series also featured appearances by Denholm Elliott, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud, Ian McShane, Leonard Nimoy, and others. It was originally broadcast in four episodes, where episodes 1 and 4 were twice as long as episodes 2 and 3. The series is sometimes divided into six equally long episodes.
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The Yellow Panther
Title: The Yellow Panther
Character: killer
Released: November 19, 1982
Type: Movie
Pasquale Bellachioma, the unfortunate Police Commissioner, creates a "master stroke" that can finally put it to light before their superiors, but the results is continuous failure.
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Diamond Connection
Title: Diamond Connection
Character: Abdul Pascha
Released: January 1, 1982
Type: Movie
Crashed and sunken in a murky sea, a passenger plane had a very special package... a briefcase full of diamonds. These illegally acquired and transported missing diamonds become an irresistible challenge to a few interest groups. They will kill, deceive, and plot to capture the diamonds for themselves.
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Curse of the Red Butterfly
Title: Curse of the Red Butterfly
Character: Brado
Released: January 1, 1982
Type: Movie
People search for an ancient jewel in Istanbul.
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The Doctor Prefers Sailors
Title: The Doctor Prefers Sailors
Character: killer russo
Released: December 1, 1981
Type: Movie
A doctor in a hotel has a lot of problems like a man repeatedly fails to commit suicide, a pair of window washers witness a murder by a hit man, a suspicious wife checks up on her husband who happens to be having an affair with her and many more...
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Nightfall
Title: Nightfall
Released: October 31, 1981
Type: Movie
Annie is a cashier in a Munich Cinema Center. Her everyday life is the complete opposite of the exciting screen adventures she sells at the box office, so she fantasizes about the movies during the day. At night, she also begins to stage her own adventure in real life.
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Trois filles dans le vent
Title: Trois filles dans le vent
Character: Gordon Mitchell
Released: March 11, 1981
Type: Movie
Sirpa Lane is being abducted by some former film actors; these ask a high ransom from the (adult) film producers.
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Umbrella Coup
Title: Umbrella Coup
Character: Moskovitz, le tueur à gages
Released: October 8, 1980
Type: Movie
Grégoire Lecomte, the unlucky actor anxious to find a "real job", goes to take a screen test for a role of a killer, but gets to mafiosi by mistake. He takes their don for a producer, and they mistake him for a hitman with whom they had an appointment. Deluded Lecomte signs contract with them. He is supposed to kill gun dealer Otto Krampe at his birthday party in Saint-Tropez by piercing him with a cap of the umbrella with a built-in syringe with potassium cyanide. Lecomte is not aware that it has to be a real murder.
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Holocaust 2
Title: Holocaust 2
Character: Felix Oppenheimer
Released: April 10, 1980
Type: Movie
A secret group of Jewish activists locate and murder the doctors and soldiers who tortured their relations in a notorious extermination camp.
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Emmanuelle: Queen of Sados
Title: Emmanuelle: Queen of Sados
Character: Robert
Released: February 1, 1980
Type: Movie
A woman struggles to keep her stepdaughter from harms way after she hires an assassin to kill her husband, but the hitman turns and blackmails her for the crime.
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Fever of 40!
Title: Fever of 40!
Character: Mr. Temple
Released: January 1, 1980
Type: Movie
A forty-year-old man spends his working days surrounded by beautiful women, but he dares not do anything with any.
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The Iron Hand of the Mafia
Title: The Iron Hand of the Mafia
Character: Don Nicola
Released: January 1, 1980
Type: Movie
Someone's bumping off the Mafia bosses of Salerno and it's down to the newly elected leader to figure out who - and rescue his son in the process.
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Porno erotico western
Title: Porno erotico western
Character: (as Charles Pendleton)
Released: September 12, 1979
Type: Movie
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Dr. Jekyll Likes Them Hot
Title: Dr. Jekyll Likes Them Hot
Character: Pretorius
Released: August 31, 1979
Type: Movie
A lusty young woman decides to use her sexual powers to "tame" the evil and murderous Dr. Jekyll.
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Strategy for a Mission of Death
Title: Strategy for a Mission of Death
Character: Paul
Released: June 26, 1979
Type: Movie
A diplomatic meeting between Western and Arab diplomats goes wrong, and a black gold dossier is firmly pushed across a desk. Against a background of hostages taken in an embassy, a covert operations agent, Benson, is given a mission in Paris. He is going into an Arab Emirate with a chosen group of operatives, and blow up an oil refinery.
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A Very Special Woman
Title: A Very Special Woman
Character: Gordon
Released: April 1, 1979
Type: Movie
Yasmine, a beautiful young newlywed, has a serious drug problem. Her low-life husband uses this addiction to manipulate her, forcing her to smuggle narcotics for him and even sleep with his gangster cronies to settle his drug debts.
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Santa Lucia
Title: Santa Lucia
Character: Amerikaner
Released: January 1, 1979
Type: Movie
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White Fang and the Kid
Title: White Fang and the Kid
Character: Morgan
Released: December 15, 1978
Type: Movie
The town drunk of Gallatin, Missouri is former outlaw Franky James, brother of Jesse James. He is reformed by a woman, a young boy and a dog. He helps rid the town of corrupt town boss Mr. Morgan.
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Operation Orient
Title: Operation Orient
Character: Haine
Released: April 25, 1978
Type: Movie
A criminal gang operating in Greece hides a large shipment of heroine inside a statue. During transportation the statue is stolen, and a member of the gang is sent to discover the culprits.
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Fists, Dollars and Spinach
Title: Fists, Dollars and Spinach
Character: Frank Stilo
Released: January 1, 1978
Type: Movie
Fists of Dollars & Spinach is a 1978 film directed by Emimmo Salvi. It is the first flesh-and-blood film about the adventures of Popeye, anticipating the Disney film Popeye (1980) by Robert Altman by two years
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Gli Uccisori
Title: Gli Uccisori
Character: Pablo
Released: September 9, 1977
Type: Movie
A young man, accused of murder and theft, escapes to Venezuela. His fiancée and her brother join him, only to find he had the loot with him. But was he guilty?
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Natascha - Todesgrüße aus Moskau
Title: Natascha - Todesgrüße aus Moskau
Character: Gooming
Released: May 13, 1977
Type: Movie
Super agents from East and West have 24 hours to foil an assassination attempt on Brezhnev. Together they hunt the terrorist No. 1. The race against the clock shows eerily realistic the practices of the secret services.
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Oil
Title: Oil
Character: Joe
Released: February 28, 1977
Type: Movie
When a huge fire erupts at an oil field in the wilds of the Sahara Desert, an American who specializes in fighting oil-field fires and his team are called in to put it out. As the fire rages out of control, the expert finds that he not only has to battle the fire but greed and political corruption as well.
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Achtung! The Desert Tigers
Title: Achtung! The Desert Tigers
Character: Kommandant von Stolzen
Released: January 15, 1977
Type: Movie
During World War II, an American major is captured by the Germans and thrown into a POW camp run by a sadistic Nazi officer, whose main pleasures are whipping the local female population and torturing prisoners. The major organizes an escape attempt using the camp's nubile female doctor as a hostage.
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Special Squad Shoots on Sight
Title: Special Squad Shoots on Sight
Character: David
Released: April 1, 1976
Type: Movie
A reporter/cop/hypnotist is blackmailed into working for criminals who are out to steal a precious artifact.
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Two .38 Magnums for a City of Carrion
Title: Two .38 Magnums for a City of Carrion
Character: Renato Proietti
Released: October 2, 1975
Type: Movie
Franco decides to kill his girlfriend’s pimp, and from there things go bad and he gets beaten up by the henchmen of Gordon Mitchell, who also kidnaps and murders his girlfriend. So Franco buys two Magnum .38’s from a guy called “The Gypsy” and . . . it’s time for revenge.
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The Tiger From the River Kwai
Title: The Tiger From the River Kwai
Character: Jack Mason
Released: September 23, 1975
Type: Movie
A secret agent from Thailand goes to the United States on a mission to find out why a Mr. Stone died and bring his ashes and fortune, a jeweled elephant, back to his homeland.
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The Man from Chicago
Title: The Man from Chicago
Character: Mike
Released: July 10, 1975
Type: Movie
In Turkey, the son of a rich manager is kidnapped. This boy finds a friend in one of the kidnapper when the adventures evolve.
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The Skin Under the Claws
Title: The Skin Under the Claws
Character: Professor Helmut
Released: May 10, 1975
Type: Movie
A series of brutal murders, the police on their toes, but they can not find a way to catch the sadistic murderer. A mad doctor experiments with ways to cheat death and confuse his pursuers with the help of a corpse identical DNA to his own. His young female victims are raped and brutally murdered with a knife. In the victims' fingernails will find the police traces of rotted human flesh.
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Seven Savage Men
Title: Seven Savage Men
Character: Cooper
Released: March 29, 1975
Type: Movie
The Cooper gang is terrorizing the town of Stanton with heinous crimes. When the gang rapes and murders an innocent young widow, the sheriff teams up with a notorious gunslinger, the brother of the murdered widow, in order to enact vengeance and justice. Because the lawman's and the gunfighter's methods are so different, two more innocent deaths occur, a friend of the sheriff and a lady friend of the gunfighter ...How will this end?
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Four for All
Title: Four for All
Character: Margherito
Released: January 31, 1975
Type: Movie
A group of men team up against a ruthless mob.
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Anasının Gözü
Title: Anasının Gözü
Released: January 1, 1975
Type: Movie
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The Household
Title: The Household
Character: General Von Werner
Released: October 4, 1974
Type: Movie
A butler for wealthy clients has a problem--he can't seem to stop getting sexually involved with the wives and daughters of his bosses.
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Little Godfather from Hong Kong
Title: Little Godfather from Hong Kong
Released: June 28, 1974
Type: Movie
Bruce Liang plays a Chinese Kung Fu movie star, who during his free time carries on a one-man crusade against drug dealers. The villains trick Liang into signing up to appear in a new martial arts movie. The plan is to kill Our Hero while the cameras are running, and make it look like an accident.
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The Sewer Rats
Title: The Sewer Rats
Character: Gordon
Released: June 5, 1974
Type: Movie
A crippled loner's car breaks down near an isolated town inhabitated by several killers.
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Frankenstein's Castle of Freaks
Title: Frankenstein's Castle of Freaks
Character: Igor
Released: February 19, 1974
Type: Movie
Mad Dr Frankenstein recruits an evil dwarf, a Neanderthal man, and others to help him put a brain in the body of a brute.
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The Fighting Fists of Shanghai Joe
Title: The Fighting Fists of Shanghai Joe
Character: Burying Sam
Released: December 28, 1973
Type: Movie
A Chinese immigrant, recently arrived in America, fights to free Mexican slaves from their cruel master.
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His Colt, Himself, His Revenge
Title: His Colt, Himself, His Revenge
Character: Martin
Released: December 19, 1973
Type: Movie
An ex-sheriff sets out to find the bandits who beat and murdered his sister.
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From the Archives of the Criminal Police
Title: From the Archives of the Criminal Police
Character: Peter Wilcox
Released: December 18, 1973
Type: Movie
A corrupt cop steals evidence of a Mafia drug ring with plans to sell it to their rivals, but is hunted by the mafia and government agents.
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Once Upon a Time in the Wild, Wild West
Title: Once Upon a Time in the Wild, Wild West
Character: Mike
Released: October 17, 1973
Type: Movie
Two brothers who continually fight with each other are sent to Stranger City by their mother to work for their brother who owns a saloon where both fall in love with saloon girls.
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My Darling Slave
Title: My Darling Slave
Character: Von Thirac
Released: October 4, 1973
Type: Movie
Demetrio Cultrera, is a young rich car dealership Sicilian bachelor who becomes engaged to the beautiful and rich Rosalba Giordano. After their wedding, Rosalba's attitude changes when she decides to try turning Demetrio into the modern husband she'd like. This causes a problem, as Demetrius prefers sticking to what he sees as more traditional gender roles. Despite her attempts, Rosalba's persistent attempts to convert him to the rituals of high society, enlightened, or feminine tastes do little more than annoy him. Strongly determined to build a stable relationship with a woman who can fulfill his visions of peaceful married life, he leaves for the Amazon, where he is offered the opportunity to choose and buy a new wife as a slave. The choice falls on the beautiful and docile Manua that he trains to act the way he'd like, then proudly shows to friends and to his former wife, attracting curiosity, envy, and his ex-wife's resentment.
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Anything for a Friend
Title: Anything for a Friend
Character: Miller
Released: February 18, 1973
Type: Movie
Two 'friends', Jonas and Mark, who live by cheating and squandering their money in saloons meet a crazy old man who tells them that gold has been discovered in the Rocky Mountains. The whole town moves, with dreams of becoming rich, but they are bitterly disappointed when on their way home they are robbed by Mulieta and his vicious gang of outlaws. Jonathan and Mark are spurred into action and decide to fight Mulieta's gang and retrive their gold.
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Slaughter Day
Title: Slaughter Day
Character: Gordon
Released: January 1, 1973
Type: Movie
Michael considers himself a genius criminal and plans the big coup. He forms three new gangs who know nothing about each other and each only know part of his plan. In the background Michael pulls the strings and mercilessly plays the actors on his stage against each other. This strategy also poses unsolvable problems for the police until something goes wrong and the house of cards collapses.
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Frankenstein '80
Title: Frankenstein '80
Character: Dr. Otto Frankenstein
Released: December 12, 1972
Type: Movie
A mad scientist creates a monster called "Mosaico," who breaks out of the laboratory to hunt down and kill beautiful women.
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Go Away! Trinity Has Arrived in Eldorado
Title: Go Away! Trinity Has Arrived in Eldorado
Character: Jonathan Duke
Released: November 12, 1972
Type: Movie
This comical spaghetti western inspired by the success of Lo Chiamavano Trinita and its sequels benefits from expansive cinematography by future cult filmmaker Aristide Massaccesi (a.k.a. Joe D'Amato). Stan Cooper and Gordon Mitchell star as a pair of bumbling conmen who wander through the West looking to make a fast buck. Their plans go awry when they run into a blustering, foul-tempered Mexican general who wants them eliminated.
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The French Sex Murders
Title: The French Sex Murders
Character: Man in nightclub
Released: June 15, 1972
Type: Movie
After a French prostitute is found dead, one of her regular clients is tried and convicted for her murder. He is eventually sentenced to death but dies in a high speed pursuit after attempting to escape custody. Soon, the witnesses that testified against him end up being systematically murdered by a mysterious killer wearing black gloves.
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My Name Is Texas Bill
Title: My Name Is Texas Bill
Character: Martin
Released: May 27, 1972
Type: Movie
Texas Bill and his sidekick “Pistola” help a small community fight an evil landowner named Martin and his gang of thugs.
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The Big Bust Out
Title: The Big Bust Out
Character: El Kadir
Released: May 25, 1972
Type: Movie
Seven beautiful women in a high security prison set the stage for a big bust out.
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A Gunman Called Dakota
Title: A Gunman Called Dakota
Character: Dakota
Released: March 5, 1972
Type: Movie
After the Civil War a former officer in the northern army helps to capture the head of a gang of outlaws who is operating under the disguise of a deputy sheriff in order to gain information on gold shipments.
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His Name Was Pot, but They Called Him Allegria
Title: His Name Was Pot, but They Called Him Allegria
Character: Ray Potter
Released: November 26, 1971
Type: Movie
Two brothers, Ray and Pot, exercise their bank robbing talents. They rob and get robbed in rapid succession. After acquiring a new partner (Steve) and accumulating a good haul, Ray is killed for the gold and Steve is captured by Lobo, a Mexican bandit.
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Savage Guns
Title: Savage Guns
Character: Gordon Mitchell
Released: November 25, 1971
Type: Movie
Sam is wounded by the Mash Flanigan gang who enters a saloon and kills everybody in sight including his brother. Walbash chases Flanigan to Golden City for revenge, leading to the obligatory showdown. One of the clever scenes is when gunfighters Gordon Mitchell, Lincoln Tate and Peter Martell interview for jobs and are introduced with their acting names Mitchell, Tate and Martell.
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Angel's Leap
Title: Angel's Leap
Character: Henry Di Fusco
Released: September 21, 1971
Type: Movie
In this French crime thriller, you can leave the mob, but the mob won't leave you. Louis (Jean Yanne) has retired to a Thailand plantation with an Asian wife and child. Back in Marseilles, however, because a no-holds-barred gang war has broken out, Louis' large collateral family is wiped out, and he is family are slated for destruction.
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Day of Judgment
Title: Day of Judgment
Character: Deputy
Released: September 9, 1971
Type: Movie
Hardin is out for revenge after his wife and child are killed and his home burned. He hunts down the gang using his son's toy drummer to signal the shootout while also in search for their leader.
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Let's Go And Kill Sartana
Title: Let's Go And Kill Sartana
Character: Greg "The Crazy Person"
Released: September 6, 1971
Type: Movie
Nebraska Clay kills a gang of outlaws in self-defense but is imprisoned for further investigation of the crime. While in jail he meets an outlaw named “Crazy Person” and escapes with him when his gang carries out a jailbreak.
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Down with Your Hands... You Scum!
Title: Down with Your Hands... You Scum!
Character: Buck/Butch Bradley
Released: August 21, 1971
Type: Movie
This audaciously dishonest spaghetti western from prolific director Demofilo Fidani (using the pseudonym "Lucky Dickerson") was created piecemeal using lengthy sequences from Fidani's previous films. The premise has legendary gunslinger Django (Hunt Powers) recounting some of his greatest adventures to a rapt Wild Bill Hickock (Gerardo Rossi as Jerry Ross) in a saloon. The stories which Django tells are entire scenes from such Fidani films as Arrivano Django e Sartana... E la Fine! (1970), Inginocchiati Straniero... i Cadaveri non Fanno Ombra (1971), and Quel Maledetto Giorno d'Inverno Django e Sartana... all'Ultimo Sangue (1971). Fidani regulars Gordon Mitchell, Dennis Colt and Lucky McMurray also appear.
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Adios Compañeros
Title: Adios Compañeros
Character: Ironhead
Released: April 17, 1971
Type: Movie
Macho Callaghan is a lieutenant in the Federal Guards and his job is to capture Butch Cassidy, Ironhead, and their band of outlaws. Getting in touch with Ironhead, Macho finds a way of being hired by the outlaws. But when the two leaders quarrel and decide to separate, Macho manages to convince Ironhead to attack Butch Cassidy.
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Coffin Full of Dollars
Title: Coffin Full of Dollars
Character: John Hamilton
Released: April 1, 1971
Type: Movie
There's a frontier feud on the border of Mexico, where outlaw Hagen's brothers have been killed by Nevada Kid's family.
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Finders Killers
Title: Finders Killers
Character: Chris Forest
Released: March 27, 1971
Type: Movie
A farmer returns home from the forest to find his family butchered. He decides to hunt down the murderers.
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Tre nel mille
Title: Tre nel mille
Released: March 6, 1971
Type: Movie
A few days after the arrival of the year 1000, bearer of great misfortune according to the Prophets, the cavalryman Fortunato and two soldiers, Pannocchia and Carestia, travel through Italy in the midst of numerous adventures: The prophetic year is marked only by the discovery on the part of the cavalryman of his wife's betrayal
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Io non spezzo... rompo
Title: Io non spezzo... rompo
Character: Joe il Rosso
Released: January 21, 1971
Type: Movie
During a drug trafficking investigation, two officers from the Rome Squad, accidentally break into a beautiful villa, inhabited by an Italian-American.
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Treasure of the Lost Desert
Title: Treasure of the Lost Desert
Released: January 1, 1971
Type: Movie
A Green Beret is sent to the Middle East to combat an Arab terrorist.
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Dead Men Don't Make Shadows
Title: Dead Men Don't Make Shadows
Character: Roger Murdock
Released: November 27, 1970
Type: Movie
Lazar, a bounty killer, teams up with a young gunfighter to blackmail Barrett, a former bandit and mine owner. At the end of the day, the bounty hunter clashes with Barrett, but something goes wrong.
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Django and Sartana Are Coming... It's the End
Title: Django and Sartana Are Coming... It's the End
Character: Black Burt Keller / Burt Kelly
Released: November 14, 1970
Type: Movie
A gang of vicious outlaws lead by the crazed Black Burt Keller abduct Jessica Colby and decide to flee to Mexico. Shrewd bounty hunter Django and saintly roving gunslinger Sartana join forces to rescue the poor lass from the gang's vile clutches.
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The Arizona Kid
Title: The Arizona Kid
Character: Coyote
Released: September 5, 1970
Type: Movie
A Filipino immigrant travels the American west searching for his relatives. Although he doesn't speak much English, he winds up getting involved with Chinese immigrants, and a beautiful blonde American girl and finds himself appointed sheriff of a small town that's having trouble with an outlaw gang.
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Lisa with the Blue Eyes
Title: Lisa with the Blue Eyes
Character: Football player
Released: December 23, 1969
Type: Movie
A university student, Mario Buongiovanni, tries to do various jobs to pay for his studies: selling encyclopedias, singing in night clubs, being a tour guide. He then became a science teacher in a female college, where he met Lisa, the daughter of a Lombard industrialist, whom he fell in love with. But Lisa's father, unfortunately, already has in mind for her a marriage with a very rich suitor ...
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I Am Sartana Your Angel of Death
Title: I Am Sartana Your Angel of Death
Character: Degueyo
Released: November 20, 1969
Type: Movie
Sartana is falsely accused of robbing a bank, and must find the real robbers and clear his name.
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Fellini Satyricon
Title: Fellini Satyricon
Character: Il predone
Released: September 18, 1969
Type: Movie
After his young lover, Gitone, leaves him for another man, Encolpio decides to kill himself, but a sudden earthquake destroys his home before he has a chance to do so. Now wandering around Rome in the time of Nero, Encolpio encounters one bizarre and surreal scene after another.
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Ora X Pattuglia Suicida
Title: Ora X Pattuglia Suicida
Released: July 20, 1969
Type: Movie
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The Wings of War
Title: The Wings of War
Released: January 1, 1969
Type: Movie
When the Germans recapture a Mediterranean Island during WWII, a squad of US soldiers is left behind to destroy an important radio base.
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Cry of Death
Title: Cry of Death
Character: Donkey / Morgan Pitt
Released: November 21, 1968
Type: Movie
A range war between cattlemen and farmers comes to a head with the arrival of a Deputy Marshal and "Mule" a famous gunfighter in the town of Houstonville, Texas.
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Dead for a Dollar
Title: Dead for a Dollar
Character: Roy Fulton
Released: August 17, 1968
Type: Movie
When the lead robber in their gang steals the money from his two companions, a cat and mouse/back and forth game plays out as the men try to get the money for themselves. But another player, the heir of the sneaky gang leader, is also on the hunt...
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Radhapura – Endstation der Verdammten
Title: Radhapura – Endstation der Verdammten
Character: Alfredo
Released: July 25, 1968
Type: Movie
Steve Weston, a diamond prospector in Ceylon, is robbed of his precious stones. Left without money, he gets hired in a mine where he finds Alfred, the man who stole his diamonds, in the guise of the ruthless overseer. He, having recognized his victim, tries to get rid of him by blaming him in turn for theft. Having thwarted the attempt, Steve organizes the escape from the mine with the complicity of other whites and the help of a guard who owes him a debt of gratitude.
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All on the Red
Title: All on the Red
Character: Erikson
Released: May 25, 1968
Type: Movie
With the help of two accomplices an underhanded gambler prepares a rigged roulette wheel with which they quickly accumulate money hand over fist. But then greed forges a wall between the three and the intrusion of ruthless competitors result in a massacre.
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Seven Times Seven
Title: Seven Times Seven
Character: Big Ben
Released: April 25, 1968
Type: Movie
A gang of prison inmates escape and rob the Royal Mint. They then sneak back to prison.
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The Killer Likes Candy
Title: The Killer Likes Candy
Character: Toni
Released: April 12, 1968
Type: Movie
Shrewd and evasive ex-Nazi and top assassin Oscar Snell is determined to rub out the King of Kafiristan. Snell's sole weakness is his sweet tooth; he leaves candy wrappers at the scene of his every crime. It's up to no-nonsense CIA agent Mark Stone to find Snell and stop him before it's too late.
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Beyond the Law
Title: Beyond the Law
Character: Burton
Released: April 10, 1968
Type: Movie
A thief takes the job as a town sheriff in order to rob a silver shipment before his ex-partner can grab it.
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Cheers... Cyanide!
Title: Cheers... Cyanide!
Character: Al Rubino
Released: April 4, 1968
Type: Movie
French / Italian espionage thriller.
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I'll Die for Vengeance
Title: I'll Die for Vengeance
Character: Clayton
Released: March 10, 1968
Type: Movie
A Mexican gang headed by vicious Pedro terrorizes the land between New Mexico and Arizona. Jeff a youth whose father has been killed by Pedro seeks revenge.
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Phenomenal and the Treasure of Tutankamen
Title: Phenomenal and the Treasure of Tutankamen
Character: Gregory Falco
Released: March 4, 1968
Type: Movie
A masked superhero searches for a magical golden relic while trying to prevent the plundering of an Egyptian tomb.
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John the Bastard
Title: John the Bastard
Character: Danite
Released: November 16, 1967
Type: Movie
Johnny Donald, a cynical seducer of women, discovers he is actually the son of Don Diego Tenorio, a wealthy Mexican landowner. Accompanied by his trusty servant Morenillo, he travels south in search of vengeance and riches, but manages to deflower and make enemies all along the way until he finally meets his match in the person of a Mormon assassin and a stone statue.
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Reflections in a Golden Eye
Title: Reflections in a Golden Eye
Character: Stables Sergeant
Released: October 13, 1967
Type: Movie
Bizarre tale of sex, betrayal, and perversion at a military post.
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Death on the Run
Title: Death on the Run
Character: The Albanian
Released: October 9, 1967
Type: Movie
On the run from the police in Athens, a man named Jason has in his possession a microfilm eagerly sought by both criminal gangs and government agencies.
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The Crazy Westerners
Title: The Crazy Westerners
Character: Häuptling Sitzender Büffel
Released: August 11, 1967
Type: Movie
Little Rita has a dream: she dreams of a better world and she believes that all the evil in the world originates from gold. So she has decided to blow up all the gold she can put her hands on. In her mission she is assisted by the Indian Chief Bisonte Seduto and by her friend Francis. Little Rita kills Ringo and Django, but she is taken prisoner by the Mexican bandit Sancho who wants to steal her gold. Black Star rescues her and seems determined to help her, but does he?
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Born to Kill
Title: Born to Kill
Character: Rod Gordon
Released: June 15, 1967
Type: Movie
Roose arrives in a town where a ruthless land baron is trying to take control of the entire area, eventually deciding to take sides with townspeople.
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Tutto Totò - Totò Ciak
Title: Tutto Totò - Totò Ciak
Character: Ringo
Released: June 7, 1967
Type: Movie
Toto participates in various samples in a study of cinema, first going in a studio where there's shooting a spy movie, then in a western scenario, where he has to play a cruel and uncouth bandit who must challenge him to a duel a cowboy.
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È mezzanotte... butta giù il cadavere
Title: È mezzanotte... butta giù il cadavere
Character: Van Himst
Released: December 23, 1966
Type: Movie
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L'Estate
Title: L'Estate
Character: Self
Released: November 17, 1966
Type: Movie
A young student joins her rich lawyer stepfather and then her mother who the selfish man does not love, for a summer vacation in Sardinia with the man's posh friends
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Kill or Be Killed
Title: Kill or Be Killed
Character: Baltimore Joe/Ringo
Released: November 1, 1966
Type: Movie
A violin-playing gunslinger accidently gets caught in a feud between two families. One of them forces him into a showdown and he kills him. He then must escape from the wrathful family and is accused wrongly for killing 2 deputies. He is saved by an old man, who helps him to get revenge and to prevent the girl he loves from marrying a murderer. Source: SWDB www.spaghetti-western.net
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Thompson 1880
Title: Thompson 1880
Character: Glenn Sheppard
Released: October 13, 1966
Type: Movie
Ray, young and destitute, reaches Desert Spring, carrying a case on top of his mule. A gang headed by Brady uses apparently legal means to prevent anyone from trading and exploits all the town's possibilities for itself. The only one who dares to protest is Sheila, the daughter of a tradesman who has been ruined by Brady. She therefore welcomes Ray, hoping to make him an ally. But the young man doesn't even known how to handle a gun. However, when Brady's men beat him up and humiliate him, Ray decides to stay.
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Star Pilot
Title: Star Pilot
Character: Murdu
Released: October 1, 1966
Type: Movie
Aliens from the constellation Hydra crash-land on the island of Sardinia. A prominent scientist, his daughter, several young technicians, and a pair of Oriental spies are taken hostage by the beings so they can use them to repair their spaceship's broken engine. With that done, they take off towards their home planet, taking the earthlings with them. However, the humans attempt to mutiny against their captors, inadvertently sending their tiny spaceship hurtling into the infinite beyond...
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Three Bullets for Ringo
Title: Three Bullets for Ringo
Character: Frank
Released: March 16, 1966
Type: Movie
Pre-American Civil War Ringo and his friends rescue a young woman from kidnappers. Ringo later marries her. With the coming of the civil War Ringo finds himself at odds with one of his friends, Frank, who has joined The South and is now in the pay of a crooked Mayor....
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Lady Morgan's Vengeance
Title: Lady Morgan's Vengeance
Character: Roger
Released: December 16, 1965
Type: Movie
A young woman is psychologically manipulated and tortured by her treacherous husband while her lost fiancé is missing, presumed dead, and only the ghosts of the castle can tell the tale.
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Erik the Viking
Title: Erik the Viking
Character: Sven
Released: September 24, 1965
Type: Movie
Viking chief Thorvald dies from a mortal combat wound. He realizes his son Erloff is not a worthy successor, but his will divides his property equally between him and Erik, the valiant son of his sister, who also gets his weapons and the mission to lead a sea-faring expedition to find new land for a settlement, crucial as their Scandinavian home village won't be able to resist the might of the Danish kingdom.
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Title: I Spy
Released: September 15, 1965
Type: TV
I Spy is an American television secret-agent adventure series. It ran for three seasons on NBC from 1965 to 1968 and teamed Robert Culp as international tennis player Kelly Robinson with Bill Cosby as his trainer, Alexander Scott. The characters' travels as ostensible "tennis bums", Robinson playing talented tennis as an amateur with the wealthy in return for food and lodging, and Scott tagging along, provided a cover story concealing their roles as top agents for the Pentagon. Their real work usually kept them busy chasing villains, spies, and beautiful women. The creative forces behind the show were writers David Friedkin and Morton Fine and cinematographer Fouad Said. Together they formed Three F Productions under the aegis of Desilu Studios where the show was produced. Fine and Friedkin were co-producers and head writers, and wrote the scripts for 16 episodes, one of which Friedkin directed. Friedkin also dabbled in acting and appeared in two episodes in the first season. Actor-producer Sheldon Leonard, best known for playing gangster roles in the 1940s and '50s, was the executive producer. He also played a gangster-villain role in two episodes and appeared in a third show as himself in a humorous cameo. In addition, he directed one episode and served as occasional second-unit director throughout the series.
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The Stone Forest
Title: The Stone Forest
Character: Hunding
Released: June 13, 1965
Type: Movie
The god Wotan gives the young Prince Sigmund of Valhalla and his sister Brunhilde, the leader of the Valkyries, the task of defending the Petrified Forest. This is threatened by the Vikings (led by the aggressive Hunding), who plans an invasion of the forest in search of the secret treasure of the Nibelung, the possession of which gives one unlimited power. After crossing the border and invading Valhalla, Hunding finds an ally in the daughter of one of Sigmund's loyal followers, Erika, who is embittered by unrequited love. She helps the Vikings raid the camp of the Valhalla residents and kill many warriors. Sigmund swears vengeance and pursues them with the remaining men. However, thanks to other traitors in Sigmund's ranks, Hunding succeeds in capturing him and his fiancée Siglinde, Erika's sister. At the end, Sigmund escapes and, with the help of the Valkiries, succeeds in stopping the invaders and defeating Hunding in a duel.
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Hercules and the Princess of Troy
Title: Hercules and the Princess of Troy
Character: Pirate Captain
Released: March 8, 1965
Type: Movie
Hercules (Gordon Scott) sets out to save the city of Troy from a horrible sea monster. Meanwhile, the city is threatened by a different kind of monster--a smarmy politician who will stop at nothing to seize the throne.
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Ali Baba and the Seven Saracens
Title: Ali Baba and the Seven Saracens
Character: Omar
Released: December 18, 1964
Type: Movie
A rebel leader returns to his city for a final confrontation with the evil king he is fighting. However, he finds himself attracted to the king's beautiful niece.
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The Revenge of the Gladiators
Title: The Revenge of the Gladiators
Character: Arminio
Released: September 24, 1964
Type: Movie
La vendetta di Spartacus (US title: Revenge of the Gladiators) is a 1965 Italian film directed by Michele Lupo. It was shot back to back with Seven Slaves Against the World.
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Seven Slaves Against the World
Title: Seven Slaves Against the World
Character: Balisten
Released: August 28, 1964
Type: Movie
Tribune Marcus Aulus, out of favor in Rome because of his alleged sympathy for Christians, arrives to take charge of an aqueduct project on the hot, arid fringes of the Empire. Centurion Gaius, cruel and corrupt, resents being replaced by Marcus. He instigates a revolt by his slave-workers, then blames the situation on Marcus. During the revolt, five muscular slaves escape. They meet up with fellow escapee Balisten, a farmer unjustly condemned to the aqueduct project. Balisten, impressed by Marcus's enlightened attitudes, has rescued the Tribune from the revolt. The six slaves, with Marcus's advice, plan to gain their freedom using their prowess as gladiators. Marcus plans to clear his name and to re-unite with his fiancée, Claudia, recently arrived from Rome. Gaius plans to kill Marcus and thus hide the truth about the slave revolt. Brawls and fights both inside and outside the arena come thick and fast.
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Brennus, Enemy of Rome
Title: Brennus, Enemy of Rome
Character: Brenno
Released: December 23, 1963
Type: Movie
AKA: Brennus, Enemy of Rome, AKA: Battle of the Valiant A 1963 film about the sack of Rome in 387 BC
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The Fury of Achilles
Title: The Fury of Achilles
Character: Achilles
Released: September 23, 1962
Type: Movie
In the tenth year of the Trojan War, tensions between Achilles and Agamemnon divide the Greek camp while giving hope to the Trojans.
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Invasion 1700
Title: Invasion 1700
Character: Ulrich
Released: July 14, 1962
Type: Movie
Set in 18th-century Eastern Europe, the film concerns the star-crossed romance between a Polish military officer and a gorgeous Slavic princess. The princess' vengeful lover cuts a path of death and destruction throughout the land.
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Kerim, Son of the Sheik
Title: Kerim, Son of the Sheik
Character: Yussuf
Released: June 29, 1962
Type: Movie
In the Middle East, circa 1860s, the evil Omar seeks to become Khadive by killing off his adversaries and by marrying the reluctant Fawzia, favorite niece of the current Khadive. Omar's brutal policies result in the death of a young woman named Laila. Laila's brother, Kerim, then becomes Omar's sworn enemy.
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Caesar Against the Pirates
Title: Caesar Against the Pirates
Character: Hamar
Released: April 23, 1962
Type: Movie
Julius Caesar flees Rome because of a conspiration against him and takes refuge by the king of Bitinia. He finds a woman there and while he escorts her to Rhodes their ship is attacked. Caught by the pirates he asks for help to get back to Rome.
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Vulcan, Son of Giove
Title: Vulcan, Son of Giove
Character: Pluto
Released: March 16, 1962
Type: Movie
A superhero battles lizard men and other monsters that are terrorizing the countryside.
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The Giant of Metropolis
Title: The Giant of Metropolis
Character: Obro
Released: October 25, 1961
Type: Movie
Obro the muscleman goes to Atlantis and sinks a death-ray king who knows the secret of immortality.
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The Centurion
Title: The Centurion
Character: General Metellus
Released: October 20, 1961
Type: Movie
A Roman soldier falls in love with the daughter of a Greek city's anti-Roman leader.
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Atlas Against the Cyclops
Title: Atlas Against the Cyclops
Character: Maciste
Released: March 29, 1961
Type: Movie
Strongman Maciste must battle the one-eyed Cyclops monster that is ravaging the land of Sadok, while at the same time fending off the advances of the evil Queen Capys, who wants to do a little ravaging of her own.
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Spartacus
Title: Spartacus
Character: Gladiator (uncredited)
Released: October 13, 1960
Type: Movie
The rebellious Thracian Spartacus, born and raised a slave, is sold to Gladiator trainer Batiatus. After weeks of being trained to kill for the arena, Spartacus turns on his owners and leads the other slaves in rebellion. As the rebels move from town to town, their numbers swell as escaped slaves join their ranks. Under the leadership of Spartacus, they make their way to southern Italy, where they will cross the sea and return to their homes.
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Title: The Twilight Zone
Character: Soldier
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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Rio Bravo
Title: Rio Bravo
Character: Bar Cowboy Watching Fistfight (uncredited)
Released: March 18, 1959
Type: Movie
The sheriff of a small town in southwest Texas must keep custody of a murderer whose brother, a powerful rancher, is trying to help him escape. After a friend is killed trying to muster support for him, he and his deputies must find a way to hold out against the rancher's hired guns until the marshal arrives. In the meantime, matters are complicated by the presence of a young gunslinger - and a mysterious beauty who just came in on the last stagecoach.
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The Young Lions
Title: The Young Lions
Character: Minor Role (uncredited)
Released: April 2, 1958
Type: Movie
The lives of three young men, a German and two Americans, during WWII.
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Around the World in Eighty Days
Title: Around the World in Eighty Days
Character: Extra (uncredited)
Released: October 17, 1956
Type: Movie
Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a very short period for those days.
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The Man with the Golden Arm
Title: The Man with the Golden Arm
Released: December 26, 1955
Type: Movie
A junkie must face his true self to kick his drug addiction.