Tony Curtis

Tony Curtis

Born: June 3, 1925
Died: September 29, 2010
in Bronx, New York, USA
Tony Curtis (June 3, 1925 – September 29, 2010) was an American film actor whose career spanned six decades, but had his greatest popularity during the 1950s and early 1960s. He acted in over 100 films in roles covering a wide range of genres, from light comedy to serious drama. In his later years, Curtis made numerous television appearances.

Although his early film roles were partly the result of his good looks, by the later half of the 1950's he became a notable and strong screen presence. He began proving himself to be a “fine dramatic actor,” having the range to act in numerous dramatic and comedy roles. In his earliest parts he acted in a string of "mediocre" films, including swashbucklers, westerns, light comedies, sports films, and a musical. However, by the time he starred in Houdini (1953) with his wife Janet Leigh, "his first clear success," notes critic David Thomson, his acting had progressed immensely.

He won his first serious recognition as a skilled dramatic actor in Sweet Smell of Success (1957) with co-star Burt Lancaster. The following year he was nominated for an Oscar for Best Actor in another drama, The Defiant Ones (1958). Curtis then gave what many believe was his best acting, in a completely different role, the comedy Some Like It Hot (1959). Thomson calls it an "outrageous film," and it was voted the number 1 funniest film in history from a survey done by the American Film Institute. It costarred Jack Lemmon and Marilyn Monroe, and was directed by Billy Wilder. That was followed by Blake Edwards’ comedy Operation Petticoat (1959) with Cary Grant. They were both “frantic comedies,” and displayed "his impeccable comic timing." He often collaborated with Edwards on later films.

His most significant serious part came in 1968 when he starred in the true-life drama The Boston Strangler, which some consider his "last major film role." The part reinforced his reputation as a serious actor with his "chilling portrayal" of serial killer Albert DeSalvo. He gained 30 pounds and had his face "rebuilt" with a false nose to look like the real DeSalvo.

Curtis was the father of actresses Jamie Lee Curtis and Kelly Curtis by his first wife, actress Janet Leigh.

Movies for Tony Curtis...

Pamela, A Love Story
Title: Pamela, A Love Story
Character: Self (archive photo)
Released: January 30, 2023
Type: Movie
In her own words, through personal video and diaries, Pamela Anderson shares the story of her rise to fame, rocky romances and infamous sex tape scandal.
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Rat Pack
Title: Rat Pack
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 11, 2022
Type: Movie
In the 1950s, a small group of artists monopolized the attention of the cameras and the public. Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Joey Bishop and Peter Lawford together form the "rat pack": they sing the most popular hits of the moment, star in the most profitable Hollywood films and are already making a splash on television . This documentary, produced by a recognized specialist in the history of Hollywood, recounts the exceptional destiny of this informal group which flirted with the greats of this world, notably through Sinatra, personal friend of American President Kennedy.
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Title: The UnXplained
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: July 19, 2019
Type: TV
Explore the world’s most fascinating, strange and inexplicable mysteries. Each episode features compelling contributions from scientists, historians, witnesses and experiencers—each seeking to shed light on how the seemingly impossible actually can happen.
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Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire
Title: Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire
Character: Self - Actor (archive footage)
Released: September 20, 2014
Type: Movie
In his early days as an actor, Marlon Brando (1924-2004) was a shy young man with theatrical ambitions, like many others; but his charisma and superb acting skills made him truly unique, so that the doors to the starry sky of Hollywood opened for him. However, his peculiar manners, political commitment and complicated love life always overshadowed his artistic success.
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And the Oscar Goes To...
Title: And the Oscar Goes To...
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: February 1, 2014
Type: Movie
The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO... traces the history of the Academy itself, which began in 1927 when Louis B. Mayer, then head of MGM, led other prominent members of the industry in forming this professional honorary organization. Two years later the Academy began bestowing awards, which were nicknamed "Oscar," and quickly came to represent the pinnacle of cinematic achievement.
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Title: Talking Pictures
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 5, 2013
Type: TV
A look back at television appearances by legends of the silver screen, using archive footage to tell the story of their lives and careers.
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Tony Curtis: Driven to Stardom
Title: Tony Curtis: Driven to Stardom
Character: Self
Released: March 20, 2012
Type: Movie
Tony Curtis, the man who influenced Elvis Presley and James Dean. A sex symbol, a matinee idol, a powerful and magnetic actor, Tony Curtis was the original movie star.
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That's Insignificance
Title: That's Insignificance
Character: Self
Released: June 14, 2011
Type: Movie
A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Nicolas Roeg's 1985 film INSIGNIFICANCE featuring interviews with the cast.
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Tony Curtis erzählt...
Title: Tony Curtis erzählt...
Character: Self
Released: October 3, 2010
Type: Movie
The American actor Tony Curtis talks about his career.
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Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
Title: Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
Character: Eric (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: May 5, 2010
Type: Movie
In 2001 Jack Cardiff (1914-2009) became the first director of photography in the history of the Academy Awards to win an Honorary Oscar. But the first time he clasped the famous statuette in his hand was a half-century earlier when his Technicolor camerawork was awarded for Powell and Pressburger's Black Narcissus. Beyond John Huston's The African Queen and King Vidor's War and Peace, the films of the British-Hungarian creative duo (The Red Shoes and A Matter of Life and Death too) guaranteed immortality for the renowned cameraman whose career spanned seventy years.
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Marilyn Monroe: I Want to Be Loved
Title: Marilyn Monroe: I Want to Be Loved
Character: Self
Released: February 10, 2010
Type: Movie
Documentary about Marilyn Monroe.
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Marilyn Monroe: Death of an Icon
Title: Marilyn Monroe: Death of an Icon
Character: Self
Released: February 10, 2010
Type: Movie
Documentary about Marilyn Monroe
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Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel
Title: Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 2009
Type: Movie
A revealing look at the outspoken, flamboyant founder of the Playboy empire. With humor and insight, the film captures Hefner's fierce battles with the government, the religious right and militant feminists. Rare footage and compelling interviews with a remarkable who's who of 20th Century American pop culture, present a brilliant and entertaining snapshot of the life of an extraordinary man and the controversies that surrounded him.
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David & Fatima
Title: David & Fatima
Character: Mr. Schwartz
Released: June 27, 2008
Type: Movie
A retelling of Romeo and Juliet in Jerusalem involving a Palestinian woman and an Israeli man.
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Title: Shrink Rap
Character: Himself
Released: April 2, 2007
Type: TV
Actress and writer Pamela Stephenson is now a successful therapist – Dr Pamela Connolly – with a private practice in Los Angeles. She draws upon her professional training when interviewing A-list celebrities.
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Title: The Graham Norton Show
Character: Himself
Released: February 22, 2007
Type: TV
Each week celebrity guests join Irish comedian Graham Norton to discuss what's being going on around the world that week. The guests poke fun and share their opinions on the main news stories. Graham is often joined by a band or artist to play the show out.
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Title: The One Show
Character: Self - Guest
Released: August 14, 2006
Type: TV
A topical magazine-style daily television programme broadcast live on BBC One and BBC One HD. The programme is currently hosted by Alex Jones and Matt Baker from Monday-Thursday, with Chris Evans appearing instead of Baker on Fridays and relief presenters appearing when required.
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The Legacy of 'Some Like It Hot'
Title: The Legacy of 'Some Like It Hot'
Character: Self
Released: June 25, 2006
Type: Movie
A look back at the impact Billy Wilder's comedy classic "Some Like It Hot" has left since it's release in 1959.
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The Making of 'Some Like It Hot'
Title: The Making of 'Some Like It Hot'
Character: Self
Released: June 25, 2006
Type: Movie
A look back at the making of Billy Wilder's 1959 comedy classic "Some Like It Hot."
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Jerry Lewis - König der Komödianten
Title: Jerry Lewis - König der Komödianten
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: March 15, 2006
Type: Movie
A documentary about Jerry Lewis directed by Eckhart Schmidt.
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Hollywood Legenden
Title: Hollywood Legenden
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 2004
Type: Movie
Documentary about Hollywood.
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Hugh Hefner: American Playboy
Title: Hugh Hefner: American Playboy
Character: Self
Released: November 18, 2003
Type: Movie
With his magazine Hugh Hefner changed the face of publishing, combining titillation with hard-edged reporting and serving up nudity with taste. His swinging bachelor ways also made him an icon for the straight males for whom his publication was tailor-made. Join Richard Kiley in this documentary about the quintessential ladies' man. Includes footage, photos and interviews with Camille Paglia, Mel Torme, Tony Curtis and more.
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Title: Hope & Faith
Character: Morris
Released: September 23, 2003
Type: TV
Hope, a down-to-earth, happily married mother of three has her tidy world turned upside down when her celebrity sister moves in. Faith was living the Hollywood life as a soap opera star before her character was killed off.
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Title: Un film et son époque
Character: Self
Released: May 17, 2003
Type: TV
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Reflections of Evil
Title: Reflections of Evil
Character: Host
Released: March 22, 2002
Type: Movie
Julie, a teen who died from a PCP overdose in the early '70s, searches from beyond the grave for her younger brother Bob, who now in the '90s is an obese watch seller suffering with sucrose intolerance.
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Nobody's Perfect - The Making of Some Like It Hot
Title: Nobody's Perfect - The Making of Some Like It Hot
Character: Self
Released: December 31, 2001
Type: Movie
Documentary discussing the casting and making of "Some Like It Hot", the film voted as the Best Comedy ever made by the American Film Institute.
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Rescued from the Closet
Title: Rescued from the Closet
Character: Self
Released: May 29, 2001
Type: Movie
A collection of interviews recorded for the making of the 1995 documentary "The Celluloid Closet," on the subject of LGBT representation in film history.
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Tony Curtis on 'Some Like It Hot'
Title: Tony Curtis on 'Some Like It Hot'
Character: Self
Released: May 22, 2001
Type: Movie
Leonard Maltin interviews Tony Curtis on his experience filming 'Some Like It Hot'.
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Title: CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Character: Tony Curtis
Released: October 6, 2000
Type: TV
A Las Vegas team of forensic investigators are trained to solve criminal cases by scouring the crime scene, collecting irrefutable evidence and finding the missing pieces that solve the mystery.
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Play It to the Bone
Title: Play It to the Bone
Character: Tony Curtis (Ringside Fan)
Released: December 25, 1999
Type: Movie
Two aging fighters in LA, friends, get a call from a Vegas promoter because his undercard fighters for a Mike Tyson bout that night are suddenly unavailable. He wants them to box each other. They agree as long as the winner gets a shot at the middleweight title. They enlist Grace, Cesar's current and Vinnie's ex girlfriend, to drive them to Vegas.
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Roxanne's Best Christmas Ever
Title: Roxanne's Best Christmas Ever
Character: Bernard (voice)
Released: December 15, 1998
Type: Movie
Roxanne is a dog who wants a great Christmas tree. She can't find it. What will she do? Have the best Christmas ever! That's what!
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Louis & Frank
Title: Louis & Frank
Released: July 8, 1998
Type: Movie
Third-rate doo-wop singers making a comeback hook up with a campy manager who books them to perform in drag.
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Stargames
Title: Stargames
Character: King Fendel
Released: June 3, 1998
Type: Movie
A young space prince on the run from an evil space villain, stranded on Earth and waiting for his grandfather the king to rescue him, befriends an Earth child named Brian and together they evade robots, bears, and triangles.
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Title: Die Johannes B. Kerner Show
Character: Self
Released: January 22, 1998
Type: TV
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Title: The View
Character: Self
Released: August 11, 1997
Type: TV
ABC Daytime's morning chatfest, currently featuring Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, Meghan McCain, and Abby Huntsman, discussing the most exciting events of the day. Hot topics in the news, the best experts in their field, celebrity interviews and general entertainment are all part of The View.
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The Continued Adventures of Reptile Man
Title: The Continued Adventures of Reptile Man
Character: Jack Steele
Released: May 13, 1997
Type: Movie
A satire about an actor from the 1960s coming to terms with the pressures of today's entertainment industry.
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Bounty Hunters 2: Hardball
Title: Bounty Hunters 2: Hardball
Character: Wald
Released: March 30, 1997
Type: Movie
Incompatible fugitive recovery agents, the flighty Jersey Bellini and his more serious-minded female partner, B.B., have, for the last time, ticked off mobster Wald by apprehending his rather inept henchmen just as they are about to commit a robbery or kill one of Wald's enemies. That's when Wald turns their fate over to the ruthless Crazy Carlos, with the intention of having Bellini and B.B. killed. But the hapless bounty hunters keep having good luck just when they need it most.
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The Celluloid Closet
Title: The Celluloid Closet
Character: Self
Released: January 30, 1996
Type: Movie
This documentary highlights the historical contexts that gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender individuals have occupied in cinema history, and shows the evolution of the entertainment industry's role in shaping perceptions of LGBT figures. The issues addressed include secrecy – which initially defined homosexuality – as well as the demonization of the homosexual community with the advent of AIDS, and finally the shift toward acceptance and positivity in the modern era.
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Roger Moore: A Matter Of Class
Title: Roger Moore: A Matter Of Class
Character: Self
Released: November 16, 1995
Type: Movie
The story of actor Roger Moore, including clips from his movies, television shows and interviews with the actor, his family and acquaintances.
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The Immortals
Title: The Immortals
Character: Dominic
Released: October 5, 1995
Type: Movie
An elaborate heist unites 8 strangers in a simultaneous assault on targets all over the city- and explodes in a hailstorm of gunfire and high-speed chases in this powerful action-thriller. Recruited by a Mafia nightclub owner (Eric Roberts), 4 teams launch a brutal cross-town attack to retrieve suitcases full of cash. But as the violence escalates, the team members discover just who their real target has been all along - and the shocking truth they have in common.
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Title: The Mrs Merton Show
Character: Self
Released: February 10, 1995
Type: TV
The Mrs Merton Show is a mock chat show starring Caroline Aherne as the elderly host Mrs Merton. It ran from 10 February 1995 to 2 April 1998 and was produced by Granada Television and aired on the BBC. The writers included Aherne, Craig Cash, Dave Gorman and Henry Normal. Prior to TV success, Aherne's Mrs Merton character appeared on Frank Sidebottom's album "5/9/88", then made her TV debut on the 1991 Channel 4 gameshow Remote Control, hosted by Anthony H Wilson. The chat show was followed up by a sitcom, Mrs Merton and Malcolm, based on Mrs Merton and her son Malcolm, who was played by Craig Cash.
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Perry Mason: The Case of the Grimacing Governor
Title: Perry Mason: The Case of the Grimacing Governor
Character: Johnny Steele
Released: November 9, 1994
Type: Movie
The alleged suicide of a gubernatorial candidate triggers a series of mysterious deaths leading to the governor's mansion, and "Wild" Bill McKenzie, a friend of Perry Mason, is on the case.
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Beauty and the Bandit
Title: Beauty and the Bandit
Character: Lucky Bergstrom
Released: April 3, 1994
Type: Movie
Bandit, always willing to help a lady, bites off more than he can chew when he helps a lady who is on the run from the mob. Nuns and nudists cross paths with a trucker hijacked by a beauty on the run from a mobster.
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A Century of Cinema
Title: A Century of Cinema
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1994
Type: Movie
A look back at the first 100 years of the movies.
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Naked in New York
Title: Naked in New York
Character: Carl Fisher
Released: November 10, 1993
Type: Movie
Naked in New York begins in the car of grown up Jake, he is talking to us about his girlfriend, Joanne, and to whom you can turn to for help while facing life. From there it flashes back to his memories of his parents, college, house across from a squirrel infested peanut factory, best friend, writing career and Joanne.
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Title: Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
Released: September 12, 1993
Type: TV
A much more lavish version of the popular Superman television series which had first aired forty years earlier, Lois & Clark focused more on the Man of Steel's early adult years in Metropolis. With the unknowing help of Lois Lane, Clark Kent created Superman there in Metropolis after finding work at the world-famous Daily Planet newspaper, where he meets fellow reporter Lois Lane.
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The Mummy Lives
Title: The Mummy Lives
Character: Aziru / Dr. Mohassid
Released: July 10, 1993
Type: Movie
An Egyptian noble, sentenced to death for a forbidden affair, returns from the grave 3,000 years later and becomes obsessed with a woman whom he thinks is the reincarnation of his dead lover.
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Center of the Web
Title: Center of the Web
Character: Stephen Moore
Released: May 15, 1992
Type: Movie
An actor is wrongly taken as a professional killer by a band planning to murder the Governor. Then he is hired by the Security Dept. to try to unmask and to catch the leaders.
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Christmas in Connecticut
Title: Christmas in Connecticut
Character: Alexander Yardley
Released: April 13, 1992
Type: Movie
Elizabeth is the star of a successful cooking show and author of several cookbooks. But when her manager, Alexander sees forest ranger Jefferson, who lost his cabin in a fire, comment on TV about wishing he could get a home-cooked Christmas dinner, he arranges for a special live show on Christmas, for Elizabeth to cook him Christmas Dinner. Only Elizabeth can't cook, and trying to keep Jefferson and the viewing public from finding out on a live show may be a little difficult.
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Joseph Cornell: Worlds in a Box
Title: Joseph Cornell: Worlds in a Box
Character: Narrator (voice) / Self
Released: November 29, 1991
Type: Movie
This is a 1991 documentary film about the legendary artist and filmmaker, Joseph Cornell, who made those magnificent and strange collage boxes. He was also one of our great experimental filmmakers and once apparently made Salvador Dali extremely jealous at a screening of his masterpiece, Rose Hobart. In this film we get to hear people like Susan Sontag, Stan Brakhage, and Tony Curtis talk about their friendships with the artist. It turns out that Curtis was quite a collector and he seemed to have a very deep understanding of what Cornell was doing in his work.
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Prime Target
Title: Prime Target
Character: Copella
Released: September 27, 1991
Type: Movie
Maverick Cop John Bloodstone is taken off suspension to ferry a Mob Boss into custody. But all is not what it seems.....
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Thanksgiving Day
Title: Thanksgiving Day
Character: Max Schloss
Released: November 19, 1990
Type: Movie
Light-hearted spoof about a dysfunctional upper-income family who have to come to terms with family and business problems around the titular holiday.
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Lobster Man from Mars
Title: Lobster Man from Mars
Character: J.P. Shelldrake
Released: February 9, 1990
Type: Movie
Young film student tries to sell his weird movie to a desperate film producer who is in need of a tax write-off. The producer screens the film "Lobster Man From Mars". What follows is one of the most bizarre and funny film within-a-film send-ups: Mars suffers from an air leakage, and send the dreaded Lobster Man to Earth to steal its air. The plot is foiled by a mad scientist, a girl, and an army colonel. The producer buys the movie, but it makes a huge profit and the producer is sent to jail, with the film student taking his place as the studio hot shot.
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Walter and Carlo in America
Title: Walter and Carlo in America
Character: WIlly La Rouge
Released: November 24, 1989
Type: Movie
The steward Walter and the cobbler Carlo is tasked to provide not the Little, but the High Mermaid to two agents in Kennedy airport in New York. Already on arrival complicate the hapless heroes into a series of spy intrigue involving agents from both sides of the Iron Curtain
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Midnight
Title: Midnight
Character: Mr. B
Released: July 1, 1989
Type: Movie
The sultry Midnight, late-night horror movie hostess, has the highest rated show on TV. Mr. B is scheming to steal the rights to the show. The tug of war begins and soon escalates into a deadly conflict. will Midnight have to get a day job and change her name to High Noon?
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Tarzan in Manhattan
Title: Tarzan in Manhattan
Character: Archimedes Porter
Released: April 15, 1989
Type: Movie
The ape man flies to New York, where cabby Jane and her father help him rescue Cheetah from a madman.
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Title: Roseanne
Released: October 18, 1988
Type: TV
A working-class family struggles to get by on a limited income in the fictional town of Lanford, Illinois.
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Title: This Morning
Character: Self
Released: October 3, 1988
Type: TV
This Morning features a variety of news, as well as show business, fashion, beauty, lifestyle, home and garden, food, tech, live phone-ins, and competitions.
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The Passenger – Welcome to Germany
Title: The Passenger – Welcome to Germany
Character: Mr. Cornfield
Released: May 4, 1988
Type: Movie
An American filmmaker travels to modern day Berlin to make a film based on a real-life incident from 1942 in which 13 Jewish prisoners from a concentration camp were promised freedom if they appeared in a German propaganda film. Unfortunately, the Germans lied. The psychological process undergone by the modern filmmaker while shooting the story provides the basis of this arty and challenging film.
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Title: The Dame Edna Experience
Character: Self
Released: September 12, 1987
Type: TV
The Dame Edna Experience is a British television comedy talk-show hosted by Dame Edna Everage. It ran for twelve regular episodes on ITV, plus two Christmas specials. The first seven aired for the first time in 1987, the next seven in 1989. It was directed by Ian Hamilton and Alasdair MacMillan and produced by London Weekend Television. Regulars on the program, besides Dame Edna, were her "bridesmaid" Madge Allsop and Robin Houston who was the announcer, with orchestra conducted and arranged by Laurie Holloway. Each program featured several celebrity guests, usually three, but some programs included up to eight guests. There would also be other invited "guests" like Kurt Waldheim and Imelda Marcos who once introduced at stage right would fall victim to a trap door or something similar and fail to make it to their chair. The entire series was released on DVD by BBC Video in June 2004, and can now also be purchased as a complete set including the Christmas specials and the three An Audience with Dame Edna specials, plus other material. The series was released for Region 2 by Network DVD in the UK in 2007, as a 4-disc set. For reasons unknown, the Region 2 release does not include the 1989 Christmas special "The Dame Edna Satellite Experience" that ended the second series and featured Ursula Andress, Yehudi Menuhin, and Robert Kilroy-Silk. It does, however, include the one-off 1990 Christmas special A Night On Mount Edna with guests Mel Gibson, Charlton Heston, Gina Lollobrigida and Julio Iglesias.
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Sparky's Magic Piano
Title: Sparky's Magic Piano
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
A boy becomes a virtuoso pianist, but when he gets too big-headed the piano decides to teach him a lesson.
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Murder in Three Acts
Title: Murder in Three Acts
Character: Charles Cartwright
Released: October 1, 1986
Type: Movie
In Acapulco, Hercule Poirot attends a dinner party in which one of the guests clutches his throat and suddenly dies. The causes seem to be natural until another party with most of the same guests produces another corpse.
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Banter
Title: Banter
Character: Charles Foster
Released: August 25, 1986
Type: Movie
An alcoholic partier becomes a paranoid maniac when a manuscript that predicts real-life horrors takes possession of his mind.
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Club Life
Title: Club Life
Character: Hector
Released: February 20, 1986
Type: Movie
A young man from a small town goes to Hollywood to make his fortune. He gets hired as a bouncer at a disco club, but soon finds himself caught up in drugs, gangsters and eventually has to flee when his boss and another bouncer are murdered by drug dealers, who are soon after him.
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Mafia Princess
Title: Mafia Princess
Character: Sam Giancana
Released: January 19, 1986
Type: Movie
Looks at the life of mafia boss Salvatore Giancana. Especially his troubled relationship with his family.
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Insignificance
Title: Insignificance
Character: The Senator
Released: August 2, 1985
Type: Movie
Four 1950s cultural icons who conceivably could have met but probably didn't, fictionally do so in this modern fable of post-WWII America. Visually intriguing, the film has a fluid progression of flashbacks and flashforwards centering on the fictional Einstein's current observations, childhood memories, and apprehensions for the future.
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Half Nelson
Title: Half Nelson
Released: March 24, 1985
Type: Movie
Rocky Nelson is a New York cop, who after making a major bust and selling the rights of his story to Hollywood decides to try his luck out as an actor. However, when he gets there, the directors think that he is too short to be an actor. He is then approach by someone who offers him a job at a Hollywood security agency, cause he would fit in there being an ex-cop and while working there he could come in contact with some Hollywood heavy-weights who could give him the break he needs. And at the same he gets to live in Dean Martin's guest-house.
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The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal
Title: The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1985
Type: Movie
Among the legends of Hollywood, George Pal takes his place as a true visionary, an innovator and a showman who profoundly shaped the art of motion pictures. A peer of Walt Disney, Pal pioneered stop motion animation and went on to virtually invent the modern science fiction and fantasy film genres. Pal's extraordinary genius molded a dazzling array of films, which earned an incredible total of eight Academy Awards and left a cinematic legacy that served as formative inspiration for the movies of George Lucas, Steven Spielberg and Gene Roddenberry.
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Where Is Parsifal?
Title: Where Is Parsifal?
Character: Parsifal Katzanella-Boden
Released: January 1, 1984
Type: Movie
Tucked away in his castle, a hypochondriac inventor plays generous host to a revolving cast of wacky guests. But to pay off his mounting debts, he must sell either a powerful businessman or a rich gypsy on his latest creation: a laser skywriter.
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BrainWaves
Title: BrainWaves
Character: Dr. Clavius
Released: August 5, 1983
Type: Movie
After a traffic accident Kaylie is in coma for months and her doctors want to try a new procedure on her. To regain her consciousness, they stimulate her brain with the neural patterns of a woman who has just died. It works and Kaylie fully recovers. However, she begins to relive the dying moments of her donor and realizes that she was murdered! Along with her husband and mother, she tries to find out what happened.
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Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Title: Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Character: Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: February 25, 1983
Type: Movie
Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival footage make up this star-studded voyeuristic look at the Golden age of Hollywood during the 30s, 40, and 50.
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Balboa
Title: Balboa
Character: Ernie Stoddard
Released: January 2, 1983
Type: Movie
A battle between a man's determination to bring legal gambling to an island off the California coast and a local councilman's equally strong determination to stop him. The catch is they both love the same woman.
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Black Commando
Title: Black Commando
Character: Col. Iago
Released: November 15, 1982
Type: Movie
The Moorish general Othello is manipulated into thinking that his new wife Desdemona has been carrying on an affair with his lieutenant Michael Cassio when in reality it is all part of the scheme of a bitter ensign named Iago.
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Portrait of a Showgirl
Title: Portrait of a Showgirl
Character: Joey DeLeon
Released: April 9, 1982
Type: Movie
The story of three Las Vegas showgirls, each at a different stage in her career.
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Magic with the Stars
Title: Magic with the Stars
Character: Harry Houdini (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: January 17, 1982
Type: Movie
Hollywood celebrities assist magicians in a program of magic and illusion.
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The Million Dollar Face
Title: The Million Dollar Face
Character: Chester Masterson
Released: March 12, 1981
Type: Movie
Tony Curtis is the ruthless head of a cosmetics firm, Kiss of Gold, locked in fierce competition with his arch-rival, Glamour, Inc., that happens to be run by his former lover (Lee Grant), and finds his company in the grip of a power struggle among his executives (one of whom, unbeknownst to him, is the son he'd never met) when he is severely injured in a helicopter accident. This pilot to a prospective primetime soap opera failed to generate network interest.
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Title: Wetten, dass..?
Character: Self
Released: February 14, 1981
Type: TV
A long-running German-language entertainment television show based on the format of the British show You Bet! and the American show Wanna Bet?.
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Inmates: A Love Story
Title: Inmates: A Love Story
Character: Flanagan
Released: February 13, 1981
Type: Movie
Accountant Roy is sentenced to prison because he cooked up balances. He hopes that his companions, who profited from his cheat, will help him to a revision of his judgment. Meanwhile he has to adapt to a life in jail - which works out quite well, especially when he meets the self-conscious convicted thief Jane and falls in love. He starts to woo her. But then, while working in the prison's accounting department, he discovers that the prisoners' accounts are not properly kept. The director tries to keep him in her prison as long as possible.
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The Mirror Crack'd
Title: The Mirror Crack'd
Character: Martin N. Fenn
Released: September 19, 1980
Type: Movie
Jane Marple solves the mystery when a local woman is poisoned and a visiting movie star seems to have been the intended victim.
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It Rained All Night the Day I Left
Title: It Rained All Night the Day I Left
Character: Robert Talbot
Released: August 5, 1980
Type: Movie
A tough rich female ranch owner in Africa wants to cut off the water supply to the locals, since she holds them responsible for the murder of her husband. She hires two charming gunrunners as help, but they suspect her shady competitor.
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The Scarlett O'Hara War
Title: The Scarlett O'Hara War
Character: David O. Selznick
Released: May 19, 1980
Type: Movie
The trials and tribulations of David O. Selznick as he attempts to find an actress to play the role of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939).
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Little Miss Marker
Title: Little Miss Marker
Character: Blackie
Released: March 21, 1980
Type: Movie
Sorrowful Jones is a cheap bookie in the 1930s. When a gambler leaves his daughter as a marker for a bet, he gets stuck with her. His life will change a great deal with her arrival and his sudden love for a woman also involved in gambling operations.
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The Masqueraders
Title: The Masqueraders
Character: Danny Wilde
Released: January 1, 1980
Type: Movie
Two episodes of the TV series "The Persuaders" joined into a movie. Two playboys, Brett Sinclair (Roger Moore) and Danny Wilde (Tony Curtis), investigate crimes.
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Electric Blue 003
Title: Electric Blue 003
Character: Himself
Released: January 1, 1980
Type: Movie
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Title Shot
Title: Title Shot
Character: Frank Renzetti
Released: September 9, 1979
Type: Movie
In Toronto, Canada, a troubled police detective investigates fixed betting and corruption in the world of heavyweight boxing. He uncovers a plot by a crime boss to use computerised data to rig fights. Everything is resolved during an explosive finale, set during a world heavyweight championship bout
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Playboy's 25th Anniversary Celebration
Title: Playboy's 25th Anniversary Celebration
Released: May 7, 1979
Type: Movie
A salute to Playboy Magazine on the occasion of its twenty-fifth anniversary, hosted by founding publisher Hugh Hefner and an all-male guest list.
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Death Becomes Me
Title: Death Becomes Me
Character: Danny Wilde
Released: January 1, 1979
Type: Movie
Two episodes of the TV series "The Persuaders" joined into a movie. Two playboys, Brett Sinclair (Roger Moore) and Danny Wilde (Tony Curtis), investigate crimes.
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The Users
Title: The Users
Character: Randy Brent
Released: October 1, 1978
Type: Movie
A beautiful girl from a small town with dreams of making it in Hollywood marries an actor whose career is fading, then schemes to get him back into the big time - and her with him.
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Title: Vega$
Character: Roth
Released: September 20, 1978
Type: TV
Vega$ is an American detective television drama series that aired on ABC between 1978 and 1981. It was produced by Aaron Spelling. The series was filmed in its entirety in Las Vegas, Nevada. It is believed to be the first television series produced entirely in Las Vegas. The show stars Robert Urich as private detective Dan Tanna, who drove around the streets of Las Vegas in a red 1957 Ford Thunderbird solving crimes and making Las Vegas a better place for residents and tourists alike.
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The Bad News Bears Go to Japan
Title: The Bad News Bears Go to Japan
Character: Marvin Lazar
Released: June 30, 1978
Type: Movie
In this third film version of the Bad News Bears series, Tony Curtis plays a small time promotor/hustler who takes the pint-sized baseball team to Japan for a match against the country's best little league baseball team which sparks off a series of adventures and mishaps the boys come into.
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The Manitou
Title: The Manitou
Character: Harry Erskine
Released: April 28, 1978
Type: Movie
A psychic's girlfriend finds out that a lump on her back is a growing reincarnation of a 400 year-old demonic Native American spirit.
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Sextette
Title: Sextette
Character: Alexei Karansky
Released: March 3, 1978
Type: Movie
On the day of her wedding to her sixth husband, a glamorous silver screen sex symbol is asked to intervene in a political dispute between nations, which leads to chaos.
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Title: The Hollywood Greats
Released: August 4, 1977
Type: TV
Hollywood Greats was a BBC Television series, which began in 1977. The film critic Barry Norman wrote and narrated a series of in depth profiles on major Hollywood film personalities, in which he interviewed surviving associates. He later made a series called British Greats in 1980. A series of books, entitled The Hollywood Greats, The Movie Greats and The British Greats, which were authored by Norman were subsequently published. A series of the same name was later presented by Jonathan Ross from 1999 to 2006.
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The Last Appointment!
Title: The Last Appointment!
Character: Danny Wilde
Released: June 11, 1977
Type: Movie
Two jet-setting playboys, Brett Sinclair and Danny Wilde, investigate crimes. Two episodes of the TV series "The Persuaders" joined into a movie.
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Title: Bitte umblättern
Character: Self
Released: April 20, 1977
Type: TV
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Casanova & Co.
Title: Casanova & Co.
Character: Giacomo Casanova / Giacomino
Released: March 1, 1977
Type: Movie
While hiding from the royal authorities, Giacomo Casanova, the famous romancer, encounters his look-alike: Giacomino, a fugitive petty con man. Meanwhile, the Arabian Caliph and his wife are arriving in Venice for a state visit, and she insists on a night with the legendary lover. Through a series of erotic encounters and mistaken-identity comedies, Giacomo and Giacomino make their way back to Venice for their appointment with the Caliph's wife.
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The Last Tycoon
Title: The Last Tycoon
Character: Rodriguez
Released: November 18, 1976
Type: Movie
Monroe Stahr, a successful movie producer, pursues a beautiful and elusive young woman — all the while working himself to death.
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The Switch
Title: The Switch
Character: Danny Wilde
Released: June 7, 1976
Type: Movie
Our heroes find themselves at the famed Cannes Film Festival to help foil a plot to murder a former American union boss cum government witness, Kyle Sander. Suspects include the beautiful Marissa and boyfriend, who have a few surprises in store. Lord Sinclair and Danny then travel to Switzerland, where they have to help an elderly Duchess protect her jewels by finding proof of past marriage to a prince.
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The Count of Monte-Cristo
Title: The Count of Monte-Cristo
Character: Fernand Morcerf Mondego
Released: October 31, 1975
Type: Movie
A TV adaptation of the classic Alexandre Dumas novel. Edmond Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the notorious island prison, Chateau d'If. While imprisoned, he meets the Abbe Faria, a fellow prisoner whom everyone believes to be mad. The Abbe tells Edmond of a fantastic treasure hidden away on a tiny island, that only he knows the location of. After many years in prison, the old Abbe dies, and Edmond escapes disguised as the dead body. Now free, Edmond must find the treasure the Abbe told him of, so he can use the new-found wealth to exact revenge on those who have wronged him.
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Lepke
Title: Lepke
Character: Louis 'Lepke' Buchalter
Released: May 23, 1975
Type: Movie
Lepke is the feared leader of "Murder Incorporated" in this underworld drama based on the life of Louis "Lepke" Buchalter. Lepke began his criminal career as a petty thief in his teens; a stretch in prison taught him the finer points of life on the wrong side of the law. After getting out of jail, Lepke and his pal Gurrah Shapiro join a gang who hire themselves out as strikebreakers, and the vicious but clever Lepke soon rises through the ranks.
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Title: McCoy
Character: McCoy
Released: March 11, 1975
Type: TV
McCoy is an American comedy/drama series that aired on NBC during the 1975-1976 season.
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Sporting Chance
Title: Sporting Chance
Character: Danny Wilde
Released: January 1, 1975
Type: Movie
Life in the fast lane becomes deadly for Wilde and Sinclair when the mob tries to "fix" the sport of high-speed racing. Wilde then finds himself mixed up with lady luck and a network of communist killers.
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London Conspiracy
Title: London Conspiracy
Character: Danny Wilde
Released: October 4, 1974
Type: Movie
Life is never dull where Lord Brett Sinclair and Danny Wilde are concerned. But who would expect dire danger, hilarious though it may be, to face them in one of Brett's baronial homes? Even more unexpectedly, murder and black magic take place when Danny decides to own his own little piece of England and buys a tumble down old cottage. The old mansion, Greensleeves, has been in the Sinclair family for generations, but has been unoccupied for a long time except for an aged butler named Moorehead. It is only by chance that Brett discovers that it has been restored without his permission. He and Danny decide to investigate and, entering through a secret tunnel, find a letter addressed to a theatrical agent asking him to an actor who resembles Brett. Brett promptly poses as the actor and gets the job of impersonating himself. Danny and Brett have a lot to overcome before Danny can enjoy his little piece of England!
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Mission: Monte Carlo
Title: Mission: Monte Carlo
Character: Danny Wilde
Released: January 1, 1974
Type: Movie
Two episodes of the TV series "The Persuaders" joined into a movie. Two playboys investigate crimes along the French Riviera.
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The Third Girl from the Left
Title: The Third Girl from the Left
Character: Joey Jordan
Released: October 16, 1973
Type: Movie
A chorus girl comes to the realization that she is not getting any younger and that her longtime relationship with a nightclub singer is going nowhere. She finds herself attracted to an unassuming but attentive--and much younger--delivery boy.
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Title: The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Character: Self
Released: April 2, 1973
Type: TV
In 1973 the American Film Institute initiated its Life Achievement Award, to be presented to a yearly recipient whose talent has fundamentally advanced the film art; whose accomplishments have been acknowledged by scholars, critics, professional peers and the general public; and whose work has stood the test of time.
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The Persuaders!
Title: The Persuaders!
Character: Danny Wilde
Released: April 1, 1973
Type: Movie
Two episodes of the TV series "The Persuaders" joined into a movie. Two playboys, Brett Sinclair (Roger Moore) and Danny Wilde (Tony Curtis), investigate crimes along the French Riviera.
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Title: The Persuaders!
Character: Danny Wilde
Released: September 17, 1971
Type: TV
An English aristocrat and an American millionaire come together to tackle crime.
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Title: V.I.P. Schaukel
Character: Self
Released: May 9, 1971
Type: TV
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Norman Jewison, Film Maker
Title: Norman Jewison, Film Maker
Character: Self (uncredited)
Released: January 1, 1971
Type: Movie
Toronto-born Norman Jewison first gained prominence producing for Canadian television, then went on to greater success making Hollywood theatrical features. In this film he is seen directing a large international cast and crew in the film version of the musical hit 'Fiddler on the Roof'. Between scenes, Jewison talks freely about many aspects of the film industry and some of his experiences in it. A candid study of a director in action.
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Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?
Title: Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?
Character: Shannon Gambroni
Released: September 11, 1970
Type: Movie
War is brewing between the soldiers at an otherwise quiet army base and the civilians of a nearby Southern town. Brian Keith is an officer who tries to keep the peace. However, peace is hard to come by with Ernest Borgnine as a stereotypical dumb hick sheriff who's quick to call in the local militia. Tony Curtis plays a skirt-chasing sergeant who can't stay out of trouble and soon lands in jail. Brian Keith borrows a tank to release his friend from jail. Things get more chaotic after that.
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You Can't Win 'Em All
Title: You Can't Win 'Em All
Character: Adam Dyer
Released: July 23, 1970
Type: Movie
During the 1922 Turkish Civil War, two Americans and a group of foreign mercenaries offer their services to a local Turkish governor who hires them as guards for a secret transport.
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Title: Bracken's World
Released: September 19, 1969
Type: TV
Behind the scenes at the fictitious Century Studios in Hollywood, headed by the (initially) unseen John Bracken.
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Monte Carlo or Bust!
Title: Monte Carlo or Bust!
Character: Chester Schofield
Released: April 28, 1969
Type: Movie
Sequel to "Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines". This time an international car rally from England to Monte Carlo provides the comedic farce.
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The Boston Strangler
Title: The Boston Strangler
Character: Albert DeSalvo
Released: October 8, 1968
Type: Movie
Boston is being terrorized by a series of seemingly random murders of women. Based on the true story, the film follows the investigators path through several leads before introducing the Strangler as a character. It is seen almost exclusively from the point of view of the investigators who have very few clues to build a case upon.
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Rosemary's Baby
Title: Rosemary's Baby
Character: Donald Baumgart (voice) (uncredited)
Released: June 12, 1968
Type: Movie
A young couple, Rosemary and Guy, moves into an infamous New York apartment building, known by frightening legends and mysterious events, with the purpose of starting a family.
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Title: The Dick Cavett Show
Character: Self - Guest
Released: June 6, 1968
Type: TV
The Dick Cavett Show has been the title of several talk shows hosted by Dick Cavett on various television networks.
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On My Way to the Crusades, I Met a Girl Who...
Title: On My Way to the Crusades, I Met a Girl Who...
Character: Guerrando da Montone
Released: December 1, 1967
Type: Movie
A chastity belt provides an endless amount of grief for a woman whose jealous husband has gone off to the Crusades.
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Title: Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Character: Self
Released: September 9, 1967
Type: TV
An American sketch comedy television program hosted by comedians Dan Rowan and Dick Martin.
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Don't Make Waves
Title: Don't Make Waves
Character: Carlo Cofield
Released: June 20, 1967
Type: Movie
New Yorker Carlo Cofield goes on a vacation to Southern California, where he quickly becomes immersed in the easy-going local culture while getting entangled in two beachside romances.
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Arrivederci, Baby!
Title: Arrivederci, Baby!
Character: Nick Johnson
Released: December 28, 1966
Type: Movie
Nick tries to kill his wife to get her money, but when learning of this, she plans the same for him!
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Not With My Wife, You Don't
Title: Not With My Wife, You Don't
Character: Tom Ferris
Released: November 2, 1966
Type: Movie
During the Korean War, Italian nurse Virna Lisi falls in love with two American fliers, Tony Curtis and George C. Scott. Lisi marries Curtis after he convinces her that Scott has been killed in a plane crash. She soon discovers Scott is alive, but remains happily married to Curtis until Scott re-enters their lives 14 years later.
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Chamber of Horrors
Title: Chamber of Horrors
Character: Mr. Julian
Released: October 19, 1966
Type: Movie
A one-handed madman (he lost the hand while escaping a hanging) uses various detachable devices as murder weapons to gain revenge on those he believes have wronged him.
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Title: Goldene Kamera Verleihung
Character: Self
Released: January 25, 1966
Type: TV
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Boeing, Boeing
Title: Boeing, Boeing
Character: Bernard Lawrence
Released: December 22, 1965
Type: Movie
Living in Paris, journalist Bernard has devised a scheme to keep three fiancées: Lufthansa, Air France and British United. Everything works fine as long as they only come home every third day. But when there's a change in their working schedule, they will be able to be home every second day instead. Bernard's carefully structured life is breaking apart
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The Great Race
Title: The Great Race
Character: The Great Leslie
Released: July 1, 1965
Type: Movie
Professional daredevil and white-suited hero, The Great Leslie, convinces turn-of-the-century auto makers that a race from New York to Paris (westward across America, the Bering Straight and Russia) will help to promote automobile sales. Leslie's arch-rival, the mustached and black-attired Professor Fate vows to beat Leslie to the finish line in a car of Fate's own invention.
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Sex and the Single Girl
Title: Sex and the Single Girl
Character: Bob Weston
Released: December 25, 1964
Type: Movie
A womanizing reporter for a sleazy tabloid magazine impersonates his hen-pecked neighbor in order to get an expose on renowned psychologist Helen Gurley Brown.
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Goodbye Charlie
Title: Goodbye Charlie
Character: George Wellington Tracy
Released: November 18, 1964
Type: Movie
When a cavorting Hollywood writer is killed by the angry husband of a woman he was having an affair with, he comes back as a spirit in the form of a beautiful woman and moves in with his/her best friend as a base operation for enacting sweet revenge.
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Wild and Wonderful
Title: Wild and Wonderful
Character: Terry Williams
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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Paris When It Sizzles
Title: Paris When It Sizzles
Character: Maurice / Philippe (uncredited)
Released: March 16, 1964
Type: Movie
Hollywood producer Alexander Meyerheimer has hired drunken writer Richard Benson to write his latest movie. Benson has been holed up in a Paris apartment supposedly working on the script for months, but instead has spent the time living it up. Benson now has just two days to the deadline and thus hires a temporary secretary, Gabrielle Simpson, to help him complete it in time.
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Captain Newman, M.D.
Title: Captain Newman, M.D.
Character: Cpl. Jackson "Jake" Leibowitz
Released: December 25, 1963
Type: Movie
In 1944, Capt. Josiah J. Newman is the doctor in charge of Ward 7, the neuropsychiatric ward, at an Army Air Corps hospital in Arizona. The hospital is under-resourced and Newman scrounges what he needs with the help of his inventive staff, especially Cpl. Jake Leibowitz. The military in general is only just coming to accept psychiatric disorders as legitimate and Newman generally has 6 weeks to cure them or send them on to another facility. There are many patients in the ward and his latest include Colonel Norville Bliss who has dissociated from his past; Capt. Paul Winston who is nearly catatonic after spending 13 months hiding in a cellar behind enemy lines; and 20 year-old Cpl. Jim Tompkins who is severely traumatized after his aircraft was shot down. Others come and go, including Italian prisoners of war, but Newman and team all realize that their success means the men will return to their units.
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The List of Adrian Messenger
Title: The List of Adrian Messenger
Character: Organ Grinder
Released: May 23, 1963
Type: Movie
Adrian Messenger, a famous writer, asks his friend Anthony Gethryn, a former British agent, to help him investigate the whereabouts of the people who appear on a list, without asking him the reason why he should do so.
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40 Pounds of Trouble
Title: 40 Pounds of Trouble
Character: Steve McCluskey
Released: December 31, 1962
Type: Movie
Hilarity ensues when a casino manager spends a day at Disneyland with a cute but troublesome little girl.
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Taras Bulba
Title: Taras Bulba
Character: Andrei Bulba
Released: November 21, 1962
Type: Movie
Ukraine, 16th century. While the Poles dominate the Cossack steppes, Andrei, son of Taras Bulba, a Cossack leader, must choose between his love for his family and his folk and his passion for a Polish woman.
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Title: The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Character: Self
Released: October 1, 1962
Type: TV
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under The Tonight Show franchise from 1962 to 1992. It originally aired during late-night. For its first ten years, Carson's Tonight Show was based in New York City with occasional trips to Burbank, California; in May 1972, the show moved permanently to Burbank, California. In 2002, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson was ranked #12 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
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The Outsider
Title: The Outsider
Character: Ira Hamilton Hayes
Released: December 27, 1961
Type: Movie
Ira Hayes, a young Pima Indian, enlists in the Marine Corps. At boot camp, he is shunned and mocked by everyone, aside from a Marine named Sorenson, who he befriends. They happen to be two of the six marines captured in the famous photograph of Marines raising the U.S. flag on Suribachi during the battle of Iwo Jima, but Sorenson is killed soon after. Although he is hailed as a hero, Ira's life begins to spiral out of control after the war.
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The Great Impostor
Title: The Great Impostor
Character: Ferdinand Waldo Demara Jr. / Martin Donner / Dr. Gilbert / Ben. W. Stone / Dr. Joseph Mornay / Robert Boyd Hammnd
Released: December 23, 1960
Type: Movie
Fictionalized account of Ferdinand Waldo Demara Jr., who stole or created fictional identities and worked in a variety of occupations, most quite successfully.
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Pepe
Title: Pepe
Character: Tony Curtis
Released: December 21, 1960
Type: Movie
Mario "Cantinflas" Moreno is a hired hand, Pepe, employed on a ranch. A boozing Hollywood director buys a white stallion that belongs to Pepe's boss. Pepe, determined to get the horse back (as he considers it his family), decides to take off to Hollywood. There he meets film stars including Jimmy Durante, Frank Sinatra, Zsa Zsa Gabór, Bing Crosby, Maurice Chevalier and Jack Lemmon in drag as Daphne from Some Like It Hot. He is also surprised by things that were new in America at the time, such as automatic swinging doors. When he finally reaches the man who bought the horse, he is led to believe there is no hope of getting it back. However, the last scene shows both him and the stallion back at the ranch with several foals.
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Spartacus
Title: Spartacus
Character: Antoninus
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 Flintstones
Released: September 30, 1960
Type: TV
The misadventures of two modern-day Stone Age families, the Flintstones and the Rubbles.
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The Rat Race
Title: The Rat Race
Character: Pete Hammond Jr.
Released: July 10, 1960
Type: Movie
An aspiring musician arrives in New York in search of fame and fortune. He soon meets a taxi dancer, moves in with her, and before too long a romance develops.
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Who Was That Lady?
Title: Who Was That Lady?
Character: David Wilson
Released: April 8, 1960
Type: Movie
In order to get back into the good graces with his wife with whom he has had a misunderstanding, a young chemistry professor concocts a wild story that he is an undercover FBI agent. To help him with his story he enlists the aid of a friend who is a TV writer. The wife swallows the story and the film's climax takes place in the sub-basements of the Empire State Building. The professor and his friend, believing themselves prisoners on an enemy submarine, patriotically try to scuttle the vessel and succeed only in rocking the building.
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People, Hopes, Medals
Title: People, Hopes, Medals
Character: Self
Released: March 14, 1960
Type: Movie
A documentary covering the 1960 Winter Olympic Games in Squaw Valley, California.
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Operation Petticoat
Title: Operation Petticoat
Character: Lieutenant Nicholas Holden
Released: December 5, 1959
Type: Movie
A World War II submarine commander finds himself stuck with a damaged sub, a con-man executive officer, and a group of army nurses.
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Some Like It Hot
Title: Some Like It Hot
Character: Joe / Josephine
Released: March 19, 1959
Type: Movie
Two musicians witness a mob hit and struggle to find a way out of the city before they are found by the gangsters. Their only opportunity is to join an all-girl band as they leave on a tour. To make their getaway they must first disguise themselves as women, then keep their identities secret and deal with the problems this brings - such as an attractive bandmate and a very determined suitor.
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The Perfect Furlough
Title: The Perfect Furlough
Character: Cpl. Paul Hodges
Released: November 30, 1958
Type: Movie
A love-starved soldier stationed at an Arctic base wins a furlough in Paris, but a pretty, no-nonsense military psychologist is ordered to accompany him as chaperone to keep him out of trouble.
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The Defiant Ones
Title: The Defiant Ones
Character: John 'Joker' Jackson
Released: August 14, 1958
Type: Movie
Two convicts—a white racist and an angry black man—escape while chained to each other.
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Kings Go Forth
Title: Kings Go Forth
Character: Caporal Britt Harris
Released: June 28, 1958
Type: Movie
Toward the end of World War II, two American soldiers fighting in Southern France become romantically involved with a young, American woman. Her background will reveal more about them than her.
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The Vikings
Title: The Vikings
Character: Eric
Released: June 11, 1958
Type: Movie
Einar, brutal son of Ragnar and future heir to his throne, tangles with Eric, a wily slave, for the hand of a beautiful English maiden.
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Sweet Smell of Success
Title: Sweet Smell of Success
Character: Sidney Falco
Released: July 4, 1957
Type: Movie
New York City newspaper writer J.J. Hunsecker holds considerable sway over public opinion with his Broadway column, but one thing that he can't control is his younger sister, Susan, who is in a relationship with aspiring jazz guitarist Steve Dallas. Hunsecker strongly disapproves of the romance and recruits publicist Sidney Falco to find a way to split the couple, no matter how ruthless the method.
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The Midnight Story
Title: The Midnight Story
Character: Joe Martini
Released: June 4, 1957
Type: Movie
Beloved priest Father Thomasino is murdered in a San Francisco alley, and the police have few clues. But traffic cop Joe Martini becomes obsessed with finding the killer; he suspects Sylvio Malatesta. Ordered off the case, Joe turns in his badge and investigates alone. Soon he is a close friend of the Malatesta family, all delightful people, especially lovely cousin Anna. Uncertain whether Sylvio is guilty or innocent, Joe is now torn between old and new loyalties.
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Mister Cory
Title: Mister Cory
Character: Cory
Released: February 23, 1957
Type: Movie
An opportunistic young man from the slums gambles his way to wealth, power and high society.
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The Rawhide Years
Title: The Rawhide Years
Character: Ben Matthews
Released: July 1, 1956
Type: Movie
Ben Matthews gives up the flashy life of a riverboat gambler, hoping to settle down in Galena with his girlfriend, luscious entertainer Zoe. But Galena's leading citizen is murdered on the boat; Ben, on arrival, finds a lynch mob after his neck, and flees. Three years of wandering later, Zoe's letters stop coming and Ben returns to find her and attempt the hopeless task of clearing himself.
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Title: The Steve Allen Show
Character: Self - Recipient
Released: June 24, 1956
Type: TV
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Title: The Steve Allen Show
Character: Self - Guest
Released: June 24, 1956
Type: TV
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Trapeze
Title: Trapeze
Character: Tino Orsini
Released: May 30, 1956
Type: Movie
A pair of men try to perform the dangerous "triple" in their trapeze act. Problems arise when the duo is made into a trio following the addition of a sexy female performer.
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Title: The Rosemary Clooney Show
Character: Self
Released: May 22, 1956
Type: TV
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The Square Jungle
Title: The Square Jungle
Character: Eddie Quaid / Packy Glennon
Released: December 30, 1955
Type: Movie
Grocery clerk Eddie Quaid, in danger of losing his father to alcoholism and his girl Julie through lack of career prospects, goes into boxing.
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Allen in Movieland
Title: Allen in Movieland
Character: Self
Released: July 2, 1955
Type: Movie
TV goes Hollywood when Steve Allen visits Universal-International to prepare for his upcoming title role in "The Benny Goodman Story."
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The Purple Mask
Title: The Purple Mask
Character: Rene de Traviere / The Purple Mask
Released: June 15, 1955
Type: Movie
France, 1803: 11 years after the Revolution, a royalist underground is led by a new 'Scarlet Pimpernel', the Purple Mask, who rescues nobles in distress and kidnaps Napoleon's officials for ransom, aided by the spy services of a group of lovely models headed by Laurette (really the Duc de Latour's daughter). But even she doesn't know the Purple Mask's real identity as foppish dancing master Rene...
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Six Bridges to Cross
Title: Six Bridges to Cross
Character: Jerry Florea
Released: January 21, 1955
Type: Movie
Follow the evolution of a small time juvenile delinquent hood to a big time racketeer. Based on the famous 1950 Brinks Robbery in Boston that netted the crooks $2.5 million. The story delves into the psychology of the perpetrators, as well as the intricate mechanics of the hold-up.
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So This Is Paris
Title: So This Is Paris
Character: Joe Maxwell
Released: December 15, 1954
Type: Movie
Three sailors on leave head for Paris with one thing on their minds.
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A Star Is Born World Premiere
Title: A Star Is Born World Premiere
Character: Self
Released: September 28, 1954
Type: Movie
Live television broadcast of the world premiere. Described by various participants as the biggest world premiere in memory, even bigger than the Academy Awards.
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The Black Shield of Falworth
Title: The Black Shield of Falworth
Character: Myles Falworth
Released: September 2, 1954
Type: Movie
In the days of King Henry IV, stalwart young Myles and his sister Meg have been raised as peasants, without any knowledge of who their father really was. But one day, they journey to Macworth Castle. There, Myles falls in love with Lady Anne Macworth, makes friends and enemies, and learns to be a knight.
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Johnny Dark
Title: Johnny Dark
Character: Johnny Dark
Released: June 25, 1954
Type: Movie
A young auto racer competes in a Canada-to-Mexico race in a car he designed himself. Director George Sherman's 1954 film stars Tony Curtis, Piper Laurie, Don Taylor, Sidney Blackmer, Paul Kelly, Ilka Chase and Joseph Sawyer.
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Beachhead
Title: Beachhead
Character: Burke
Released: February 5, 1954
Type: Movie
On a Japanese-occupied island during World War II, only two soldiers remain alive after a mission attempt goes horribly wrong. Trapped on the island, they must escort a scientist and his daughter to the other side of the island where their ship awaits. They must battle nature, hard terrain, and advancing Japanese troops.
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Forbidden
Title: Forbidden
Character: Eddie Darrow
Released: December 2, 1953
Type: Movie
Eddie Darrow, seeking a mobster's widow in Macao, gets involved in a casino owner's affairs.
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The All American
Title: The All American
Character: Nick Bonelli
Released: October 1, 1953
Type: Movie
A family tragedy causes a college football quarterback to re-think his goals in life.
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Houdini
Title: Houdini
Character: Harry Houdini
Released: July 2, 1953
Type: Movie
By the early 1900s, the extraordinary Houdini earned an international reputation for his theatrical tricks and daring feats of extrication from shackles, ropes, handcuffs and... Scotland Yard's jails.
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Title: The Oscars
Character: Self
Released: March 19, 1953
Type: TV
An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a statuette, officially the Academy Award of Merit, that is better known by its nickname Oscar.
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Title: General Electric Theater
Character: Mario Galindo
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: David
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: This Is Your Life
Character: Self
Released: October 1, 1952
Type: TV
This Is Your Life is an American television documentary series broadcast on NBC, originally hosted by its producer, Ralph Edwards from 1952 to 1961. In the show, the host surprises a guest, and proceeds to take them through their life in front of an audience, including special guest appearances by colleagues, friends and family. Edwards revived the show in 1971-72, while Joseph Campanella hosted a version in 1983. Edwards returned for some specials in the late 1980s, before his death in 2005. The show originated as a radio show on NBC Radio airing from 1948 to 1952.
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Son of Ali Baba
Title: Son of Ali Baba
Character: Kashma Baba
Released: August 15, 1952
Type: Movie
In ancient Persia the son of Ali Baba (of forty thieves fame), Kashma Baba is a military cadet by day and a party goer by night. He falls for a girl who he later finds is an escaped slave girl belonging to the wicked Caliph. They flee to his father's palace. But alas, there's more to her than meets the eye. Will the evil schemers succeed? The sons of the Forty Thieves to the rescue!
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Flesh and Fury
Title: Flesh and Fury
Character: Paul Callan
Released: June 26, 1952
Type: Movie
Deaf boxer Paul Callan captures the interest of gold-digging blonde Sonya Bartow and retired fight manager 'Pop' Richardson. For a time, Sonya has the upper hand with Paul, but ultimately a rival appears in the shape of upper-crust reporter Ann Hollis. With a 3-way fight under way for influence over Paul, he takes matters into his own hands, but learns that getting what he wanted isn't necessarily a happy ending.
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No Room for the Groom
Title: No Room for the Groom
Character: Alvah Morrell
Released: June 13, 1952
Type: Movie
Alvah, a young GI who happens to own a vineyard, elopes to Las Vegas with Lee, his housekeeper's daughter. But Alvah's chicken pox postpone the wedding night. The rest revolves around more delays to the consummation, caused by Lee's manipulative Mama and the flock of mostly obnoxious relatives with whom she's filled the house.
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Meet Danny Wilson
Title: Meet Danny Wilson
Character: Nightclub Patron
Released: February 8, 1952
Type: Movie
A lounge singer sees his career skyrocket after he signs a contract for a mobster nightclub owner.
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Come Back Little Shiksa
Title: Come Back Little Shiksa
Released: January 1, 1952
Type: Movie
A Jerry Lewis directed home movie remake of the Burt Lancaster drama Come Back Little Sheba. Dean Martin stars as an alcoholic surgeon who fights the temptation to become sober.
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Title: Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Character: Charlie
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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The Re-Inforcer
Title: The Re-Inforcer
Character: Baffo
Released: October 4, 1951
Type: Movie
A Jerry Lewis home movie remake of Humphrey Bogart's The Enforcer. Joe Lasagna (Dean Martin)'s reign as a mob boss is threatened by new blood Baffo (Tony Curtis).
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The Prince Who Was a Thief
Title: The Prince Who Was a Thief
Character: Julna
Released: May 17, 1951
Type: Movie
An Arabian prince, kidnapped at birth and raised as a thief, plots to regain his throne from his evil uncle in this colorful costume adventure.
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Fairfax Avenue
Title: Fairfax Avenue
Released: January 1, 1951
Type: Movie
Janet Leigh commands her close-up as the faux Norma Desmond character in what an elaborate title sequence identifies as “the Jewish Sunset Boulevard.” Tony Curtis finds his inner boy-toy as the Desmond character’s companion and ostensible screenwriter, while Dean Martin defies typecasting as the Italian tenor who croons the title song.
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Kansas Raiders
Title: Kansas Raiders
Character: Kit Dalton
Released: November 15, 1950
Type: Movie
Outraged by Redleg atrocities, the James and Younger Brothers along with Kit Dalton join Quantrill's Raiders and find themselves participating in even worse war crimes.
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Title: The Colgate Comedy Hour
Character: Self
Released: September 10, 1950
Type: TV
The Colgate Comedy Hour is an American comedy-musical variety series that aired live on the NBC network from 1950 to 1955. The show starred many notable comedians and entertainers of the era, including Eddie Cantor, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, Fred Allen, Donald O'Connor, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, Bob Hope, Jimmy Durante, Ray Bolger, Gordon MacRae, Ben Blue, Robert Paige, Tony Curtis, Burt Lancaster, Broadway dancer Wayne Lamb and Spike Jones and His City Slickers.
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Winchester '73
Title: Winchester '73
Character: Doan
Released: July 12, 1950
Type: Movie
Lin McAdam rides into town on the trail of Dutch Henry Brown, only to find himself in a shooting competition against him. McAdam wins the prize, a one-in-a-thousand Winchester rifle, but Dutch steals it and leaves town. McAdam follows, intent on settling his old quarrel, while the rifle keeps changing hands and touching a number of lives.
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Sierra
Title: Sierra
Character: Brent Coulter (as Anthony Cutis)
Released: May 26, 1950
Type: Movie
Ring Hassard and his father Jeff, wild horse breakers, live in a hidden mountain eyrie as Jeff is wanted for a murder he didn't commit. Things change when they take in a lost young lady, Riley Martin, who finds that Ring has "never seen a woman close up." Jeff is injured, Ring runs afoul of horse thieves and the law, and Riley (who is a lawyer) labors to clear the Hassards (who others would prefer dead).
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I Was a Shoplifter
Title: I Was a Shoplifter
Character: Pepe
Released: May 13, 1950
Type: Movie
A police detective uses any means possible to trap a gang of shoplifters.
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Francis
Title: Francis
Character: Captain Jones
Released: February 8, 1950
Type: Movie
The truthful soldier Stirling didn't know how to lie about his source of information, the talking army Mule, Francis, so he was treated as a lunatic and led to one after another hilarious situations, where the mule was the only one that appeared in his right mind. In the process of all this, the mule assisted in uncovering a spy, Mareen, who pretended to be lost among the jungles, but was actually...
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Title: What's My Line?
Character: Self - Mystery Guest
Released: February 2, 1950
Type: TV
Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or "no" questions.
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Woman in Hiding
Title: Woman in Hiding
Character: Dave Shaw (voice) (uncredited)
Released: January 6, 1950
Type: Movie
As far as the rest of the world is concerned, mill heiress Deborah Chandler Clark is dead, killed in a freak auto accident. But Deborah is alive, if not too well. Having discovered a horrible truth about her new husband, Deborah is now a “woman in hiding,” living in mortal fear that someday her husband will catch up with her again. When a returning GI recognizes Deborah, however, she must decide whether or not she can trust him.
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The Lady Gambles
Title: The Lady Gambles
Character: Bellboy (as Anthony Curtis)
Released: May 20, 1949
Type: Movie
When Joan Boothe accompanies husband-reporter David to Las Vegas, she begins gambling to pass the time while he is doing a story. Encouraged by the casino manager, she gets hooked on gambling, to the point where she "borrows" David's expense money to pursue her addiction. This finally breaks up their marriage, but David continues trying to help her.
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Johnny Stool Pigeon
Title: Johnny Stool Pigeon
Character: Joey Hyatt (as Anthony Curtis)
Released: April 20, 1949
Type: Movie
A federal agent infiltrates a crime syndicate.
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City Across the River
Title: City Across the River
Character: Mitch (as Anthony Curtis)
Released: April 7, 1949
Type: Movie
Brooklyn youth Frank Cusack, good son and brother by day, is a gang member by night. The Dukes, seemingly likable dead-end-kids, are dangerously involved with racketeer Gaggsy Steens. Despite the efforts of Franks's parents, he and pal Benny get involved in a serious crime. Can Stan Albert, head of the community center, prevent them from becoming full-time crooks?
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Criss Cross
Title: Criss Cross
Character: Gigolo (uncredited)
Released: February 4, 1949
Type: Movie
An armored-car guard must join a robbery after being caught with his ex-wife by her gangster husband.
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How to Smuggle a Hernia Across the Border
Title: How to Smuggle a Hernia Across the Border
Released: January 1, 1949
Type: Movie
Comedy short.
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Title: The Ed Sullivan Show
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: June 20, 1948
Type: TV
The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan. It was replaced in September 1971 by the CBS Sunday Night Movie, which ran only one season and was eventually replaced by other shows. In 2002, The Ed Sullivan Show was ranked #15 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
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Title: The Ed Sullivan Show
Character: Self
Released: June 20, 1948
Type: TV
The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan. It was replaced in September 1971 by the CBS Sunday Night Movie, which ran only one season and was eventually replaced by other shows. In 2002, The Ed Sullivan Show was ranked #15 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
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Title: Bambi Awards
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1948
Type: TV
The Bambi, often called the Bambi Award and stylised as BAMBI, is a German award presented annually by Hubert Burda Media to recognize excellence in international media and television to personalities in the media, arts, culture, sports, and other fields "with vision and creativity who affected and inspired the German public that year", both domestic and foreign. First held in 1948, it is the oldest media award in Germany. The trophy is named after Felix Salten's book Bambi, A Life in the Woods and its statuettes are in the shape of the novel's titular fawn character. They were originally made of porcelain until 1958, when the organizers switched to using gold, with the casting done by the art casting workshop of Ernst Strassacker in Süßen.
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Nightmare
Title: Nightmare
Character: Tony
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
10-minute short Nightmare, with Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh.
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An Eye for an Eye
Title: An Eye for an Eye
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
An Eastman Color short with Leigh and Curtis as a couple dealing with suspicions of infidelity,