William Henry

William Henry

Born: November 10, 1914
Died: August 10, 1982
in Los Angeles, California, USA
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William Albert Henry (November 10, 1914 – August 10, 1982) was an American actor working in Hollywood movies.

Born in Los Angeles in 1914, Henry started as a child actor, then was a hero in B-movies (mainly westerns), and ended his career as a character actor. He also appeared in various roles on episodes of many TV series. He was a member of the John Ford Stock Company and appeared 12 times for Ford.

Henry was active with the Pasadena Community Playhouse.

His brother was the character actor Thomas Browne Henry.

Henry was married and divorced twice. His first marriage was to Grace Durkin, with whom he had son Michael and daughter Michele. His and his second wife, Barbara Knudson, were the parents of William "Bill" Henry, Jr. (b. 1958).

Movies for William Henry...

Title: The Six Million Dollar Man
Character: Thurmond
Released: January 18, 1974
Type: TV
Follow the adventures of Steve Austin, cybernetically enhanced astronaut turned secret agent, employed by the OSI, under the command of Oscar Goldman and supervised by the scientist who created his cybernetics, Rudy Wells. Steve uses the superior strength and speed provided by his bionic arm and legs, and the enhanced vision provided by his artificial eye, to fight enemy agents, aliens, mad scientists, and a wide variety of other villains.
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Title: Marcus Welby, M.D.
Character: Executive
Released: September 23, 1969
Type: TV
Marcus Welby, M.D. is an American medical drama television program that aired on ABC from September 23, 1969, to July 29, 1976. It starred Robert Young as a family practitioner with a kind bedside manner and James Brolin as the younger doctor he often worked with, and was produced by David Victor and David J. O'Connell. The pilot, A Matter of Humanities, had aired as an ABC Movie of the Week on March 26, 1969.
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The Walls Have Eyes
Title: The Walls Have Eyes
Released: February 15, 1969
Type: Movie
The True Vue Motel is a rendezvous for couples looking for a few hours of "playtime." Unbeknownst to them, the motel's manager has hidden cameras in the rooms and films all of the encounters, then blackmails the victims.
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Title: Lancer
Released: September 24, 1968
Type: TV
Lancer is an American Western series that aired on CBS from September 1968, to May 1970. The series stars Andrew Duggan, James Stacy, and Wayne Maunder as a father with two half-brother sons, an arrangement similar to the more successful Bonanza on NBC.
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Title: Mayberry R.F.D.
Character: Mr. Wilkerson
Released: September 23, 1968
Type: TV
Mayberry R.F.D. is an American television series produced as a spin-off and direct continuation of The Andy Griffith Show. When star Andy Griffith decided to leave his series, most of the supporting characters returned for the new program, which ran for three seasons on the CBS Television Network from 1968–1971. During the final season of The Andy Griffith Show, widower farmer Sam Jones and his young son Mike are introduced and gradually become the show's focus. Sheriff Andy Taylor takes a backseat in the storylines, establishing the sequel series. The show's first episode, "Andy and Helen's Wedding", had the highest ratings in recorded television history. Sheriff Taylor and newlywed wife Helen make guest appearances on RFD until late 1969, and then relocate with Opie. Mayberry R.F.D. was popular throughout its entire run, but was canceled after its third season in CBS's infamous "rural purge" of 1971. R.F.D. stands for "Rural Free Delivery", a quaint postal depiction of the rural Mayberry community.
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Title: Hondo
Released: September 8, 1967
Type: TV
Hondo is a 17-episode Western television series starring Ralph Taeger that aired in the United States on ABC during the 1967 fall season. The series was produced by Batjac Productions, Inc., Fenady Associates, Inc., and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Television.
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El Dorado
Title: El Dorado
Character: Sheriff Dodd Draper
Released: December 17, 1966
Type: Movie
Cole Thornton, a gunfighter for hire, joins forces with an old friend, Sheriff J.P. Harrah. Together with a fighter and a gambler, they help a rancher and his family fight a rival rancher that is trying to steal their water.
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Gunpoint
Title: Gunpoint
Released: April 25, 1966
Type: Movie
A young, determined sheriff and his posse chase a gang of murderous train robbers, and a kidnapped woman into New Mexico.
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Title: The Loner
Released: September 18, 1965
Type: TV
The Loner is an American western series that ran for less than one season on CBS from 1965 to 1966, under the alternate sponsorship of Philip Morris and Procter & Gamble.
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Title: Hogan's Heroes
Released: September 17, 1965
Type: TV
Hogan's Heroes is an American television sitcom that ran for 168 episodes from September 17, 1965, to July 4, 1971, on the CBS network. The show was set in a German prisoner of war camp during World War II. Bob Crane starred as Colonel Robert E. Hogan, coordinating an international crew of Allied prisoners running a Special Operations group from the camp. Werner Klemperer played Colonel Wilhelm Klink, the commandant of the camp, and John Banner was the inept sergeant-of-the-guard, Hans Schultz. The series was popular during its six-season run. In 2013, creators Bernard Fein through his estate and Albert S. Ruddy acquired the sequel and other separate rights to Hogan's Heroes from Mark Cuban through arbitration and a movie based on the show has been planned.
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Title: Laredo
Released: September 16, 1965
Type: TV
Laredo is an American Western television series that aired on NBC from September 16, 1965, to April 7, 1967. Laredo stars Neville Brand, William Smith, Peter Brown, and Philip Carey as Texas Rangers. It is set on the Mexican border about Laredo, Texas. The program was produced by Universal Television. The pilot episode of Laredo aired on NBC's The Virginian under the title, "We've Lost a Train". It was released theatrically in 1969 under the title Backtrack. Three episodes from the first season of the series were edited into the 1968 feature film Three Guns for Texas.
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Taggart
Title: Taggart
Released: February 1, 1965
Type: Movie
Taggart's family is slaughtered by a rival rancher. Taggart mortally wounds the rancher and kills his son. Before he dies the rancher hires three bounty hunters to avenge him with the promise of $5000 as a reward. Taggart must flee into Apache territory to escape the wrath of the trio of hired killers.
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Title: Branded
Released: January 24, 1965
Type: TV
Branded is an American Western series which aired on NBC from 1965 through 1966, sponsored by Procter & Gamble in its Sunday night 8:30 p.m. Eastern Time period, and starred Chuck Connors as Jason McCord, a United States Army Cavalry captain who had been drummed out of the service following an unjust accusation of cowardice.
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Cheyenne Autumn
Title: Cheyenne Autumn
Character: Infantry Captain (uncredited)
Released: October 15, 1964
Type: Movie
A reluctant cavalry Captain must track a defiant tribe of migrating Cheyenne.
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How the West Was Won
Title: How the West Was Won
Character: Staff Officer (uncredited)
Released: November 2, 1962
Type: Movie
The epic tale of the development of the American West from the 1830s through the Civil War to the end of the century, as seen through the eyes of one pioneer family.
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Title: The Virginian
Character: Player
Released: September 19, 1962
Type: TV
The Shiloh Ranch in Wyoming Territory of the 1890s is owned in sequence by Judge Henry Garth, the Grainger brothers, and Colonel Alan MacKenzie. It is the setting for a variety of stories, many more based on character and relationships than the usual western.
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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Title: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Character: Gambler (uncredited)
Released: April 13, 1962
Type: Movie
A senator, who became famous for killing a notorious outlaw, returns for the funeral of an old friend and tells the truth about his deed.
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The Alamo
Title: The Alamo
Character: Dr. Sutherland
Released: October 23, 1960
Type: Movie
The legendary true story of a small band of soldiers who sacrificed their lives in hopeless combat against a massive army in order to prevent a tyrant from smashing the new Republic of Texas.
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Title: The Case of the Dangerous Robin
Character: Dave Holiday
Released: October 18, 1960
Type: TV
The Case of the Dangerous Robin is an American crime drama series which aired in syndication from October 1960, to July 1961. The series stars Rick Jason. It was produced by Ziv Television Productions, the company responsible for such hit series as Sea Hunt and Highway Patrol.
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Title: Bringing Up Buddy
Released: October 10, 1960
Type: TV
Bringing Up Buddy is an American situation comedy which aired on CBS during the 1960–1961 season.
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Seven Ways from Sundown
Title: Seven Ways from Sundown
Released: September 25, 1960
Type: Movie
Audie Murphy is again the kid who puts on a badge to catch the bad guy, skillfully played by Barry Sullivan. On the way back to town the two develop a curiously close relationship - Sullivan passes up several chances to get away - but in the end Sullivan "asks for it" and Murphy obliges.
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Sergeant Rutledge
Title: Sergeant Rutledge
Character: Capt. Dwyer (uncredited)
Released: May 25, 1960
Type: Movie
Respected black cavalry Sergeant Brax Rutledge stands court-martial for raping and killing a white woman and murdering her father, his superior officer.
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Title: The Rebel
Character: Ab Jason
Released: October 4, 1959
Type: TV
The Rebel is a 76-episode American western television series starring Nick Adams that debuted on the ABC network from 1959 to 1961. The Rebel was one of the few Goodson-Todman Productions outside of their game show ventures. Beginning in December 2011, The Rebel reruns began to air Saturday mornings on Me-TV.
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The Horse Soldiers
Title: The Horse Soldiers
Character: Captain
Released: June 11, 1959
Type: Movie
A Union Cavalry outfit is sent behind confederate lines in strength to destroy a rail supply center. Along with them is sent a doctor who causes instant antipathy between him and the commander. The secret plan for the mission is overheard by a southern belle who must be taken along to assure her silence.
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Title: Rawhide
Character: Bartender
Released: January 9, 1959
Type: TV
The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across the old west. Along the way they meet up with adventure and drama.
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Title: Rawhide
Character: Poker Player
Released: January 9, 1959
Type: TV
The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across the old west. Along the way they meet up with adventure and drama.
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Title: Rawhide
Character: Corey
Released: January 9, 1959
Type: TV
The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across the old west. Along the way they meet up with adventure and drama.
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Title: Rawhide
Character: Corporal
Released: January 9, 1959
Type: TV
The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across the old west. Along the way they meet up with adventure and drama.
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The Last Hurrah
Title: The Last Hurrah
Character: Votes Tallyman (uncredited)
Released: December 31, 1958
Type: Movie
In a changing world where television has become the main source of information, Adam Caulfield, a young sports journalist, witnesses how his uncle, Frank Skeffington, a veteran and honest politician, mayor of a New England town, tries to be reelected while bankers and captains of industry conspire in the shadows to place a weak and manageable candidate in the city hall.
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Gunsmoke in Tucson
Title: Gunsmoke in Tucson
Character: Sheriff Will Blaine (as Bill Henry)
Released: December 7, 1958
Type: Movie
As young boys, two brothers, Jed (AKA: Chip) and John, witness their father being hung by a vigilante gang. Chip, angry and bitter, grows up to be an outlaw and leader of the feared Blue Chip Gang. John goes the other way and becomes a U.S. Marshal. Two brothers on opposite sides of the law, destined to become embroiled in an Arizona range war between cattlemen and farmers.
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Title: Bat Masterson
Character: Sheriff Brady
Released: October 8, 1958
Type: TV
Bat Masterson is an American Western television series which showed a fictionalized account of the life of real-life marshal/gambler/dandy Bat Masterson. The title character was played by Gene Barry and the half-hour black-and-white shows ran on NBC from 1958 to 1961. The series was produced by Ziv Television Productions, the company responsible for such hit series as Sea Hunt and Highway Patrol.
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Title: Bat Masterson
Character: Sheriff Griff Hanley
Released: October 8, 1958
Type: TV
Bat Masterson is an American Western television series which showed a fictionalized account of the life of real-life marshal/gambler/dandy Bat Masterson. The title character was played by Gene Barry and the half-hour black-and-white shows ran on NBC from 1958 to 1961. The series was produced by Ziv Television Productions, the company responsible for such hit series as Sea Hunt and Highway Patrol.
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Title: Lawman
Released: October 5, 1958
Type: TV
Lawman is an American western television series originally telecast on ABC from 1958 to 1962 starring John Russell as Marshal Dan Troop and featuring Peter Brown as Deputy Marshal Johnny McKay. The series was set in Laramie, Wyoming during 1879 and the 1880s. Warner Bros. already had several western series on the air at the time, having launched Cheyenne with Clint Walker as early as 1955. The studio continued the trend in 1957 with the additions of Maverick with James Garner and Jack Kelly, Colt .45 with Wayde Preston, and Sugarfoot with Will Hutchins. One year later, Warner Bros. added Lawman and Bronco with Ty Hardin. Prior to the beginning of production, Russell and Brown and producer Jules Schermer made a pact to maintain the quality of the series so that it would not be seen as "just another western." At the start of season two, Russell and Brown were joined by Peggie Castle as Lily Merrill, the owner of the Birdcage Saloon, and a love interest for Dan.
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Title: Behind Closed Doors
Character: Herb Goodwin
Released: October 2, 1958
Type: TV
Behind Closed Doors is an American drama series set during the Cold War hosted by and occasionally starring Bruce Gordon in the role of Commander Matson. The series, which aired on NBC from October 2, 1958, to April 9, 1959, focuses, among other themes, on how the former Soviet Union stole American missile secrets and proposes steps to prevent further espionage. Behind Closed Doors is based on the files and experiences of Rear Admiral Ellis M. Zacharias, who offers comments at the end of each segment. Behind Closed Doors, a Screen Gems production, replaced Jackie Cooper's sitcom The People's Choice, followed the NBC quiz show, Twenty-One, and preceded the The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show. Its competition was The Pat Boone Chevy Show on ABC and Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater western anthology series on CBS.
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Title: Yancy Derringer
Character: Fargo
Released: October 2, 1958
Type: TV
Yancy Derringer is an American Western series
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The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold
Title: The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold
Character: Travers
Released: June 4, 1958
Type: Movie
Three Indians were brutally murdered by a gang of hooded outlaws. Each one possessed a silver medallion, which were sections cut off from a large silver plaque which served as a treasure map to a secret location where a large amount of gold is reputedly stashed. Two more medallions are unaccounted for, and the The Lone Ranger and his friend Tonto must use all their resources to intercept the gang, prevent further carnage and save the owners of the medallions.
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The Female Animal
Title: The Female Animal
Character: Delivery Man (uncredited)
Released: January 22, 1958
Type: Movie
Jaded movie star Vanessa Windsor, saved from a studio accident by handsome extra Chris Farley, pursues him, and soon he's the 'caretaker' of her beach house. Vanessa's sexy, alcoholic adult daughter Penny accidentally meets Chris, who rescues her from an 'octopus' boyfriend. Before you know it, Chris is involved with both mother and daughter, and his only way out is to take a job in a Mexican picture about man-eating orchids...
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Title: 26 Men
Released: November 1, 1957
Type: TV
26 Men is a syndicated American western television series about the Arizona Rangers, an elite group commissioned in 1901 by the legislature of the Arizona Territory and limited, for financial reasons, to twenty-six active members. Russell Hayden was the producer of the series and the co-composer of the theme song. The series aired between October 15, 1957 and June 30, 1959, for a total of 78 episodes.
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Title: Harbor Command
Released: October 11, 1957
Type: TV
Harbor Command is an American action series that aired in syndicated from October 11, 1957, to July 4, 1958. The series stars Wendell Corey as Captain Ralph Baxter, an officer of the United States Coast Guard. The series was produced by Ziv Television Programs.
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Title: Trackdown
Released: October 4, 1957
Type: TV
Trackdown is an American Western television series starring Robert Culp that aired on CBS between 1957 and 1959. More than seventy episodes of this series were produced by Dick Powell's Four Star Television and filmed at the Desilu-Culver Studio. The series was itself a spin-off of Powell's anthology series, Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater.
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Spook Chasers
Title: Spook Chasers
Character: Harry Shelby
Released: June 2, 1957
Type: Movie
Sach and the gang (Bowery Boys) find stashed cash in an old farmhouse apparently haunted.
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Man Afraid
Title: Man Afraid
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Released: April 4, 1957
Type: Movie
A preacher (George Nader) fears for his family (Phyllis Thaxter, Tim Hovey) after killing a teenage burglar whose father seeks revenge.
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Title: Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Character: Sheriff Moss
Released: October 5, 1956
Type: TV
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre, sometimes simply called Zane Grey Theatre, is an American Western anthology series which ran on CBS from 1956 to 1961.
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Title: Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Character: George Wallace
Released: October 5, 1956
Type: TV
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre, sometimes simply called Zane Grey Theatre, is an American Western anthology series which ran on CBS from 1956 to 1961.
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Title: Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Character: Collard - Bartender
Released: October 5, 1956
Type: TV
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre, sometimes simply called Zane Grey Theatre, is an American Western anthology series which ran on CBS from 1956 to 1961.
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Title: Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Character: Sheriff Jason
Released: October 5, 1956
Type: TV
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre, sometimes simply called Zane Grey Theatre, is an American Western anthology series which ran on CBS from 1956 to 1961.
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Title: Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Character: Frank Callister aka Frank Carter
Released: October 5, 1956
Type: TV
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre, sometimes simply called Zane Grey Theatre, is an American Western anthology series which ran on CBS from 1956 to 1961.
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The Harder They Fall
Title: The Harder They Fall
Character: Fight Arena Locker Room Guard (uncredited)
Released: May 9, 1956
Type: Movie
Jobless sportswriter Eddie Willis is hired by corrupt fight promoter Nick Benko to promote his current protégé, an unknown Argentinian boxer named Toro Moreno. Although Moreno is a hulking giant, his chances for success are hampered by a powder-puff punch and a glass jaw. Exploiting Willis' reputation for integrity and standing in the boxing community, Benko arranges a series of fixed fights that propel the unsophisticated Moreno to #1 contender for the championship. The reigning champ, the sadistic Buddy Brannen, harbors resentment at the publicity Toro has been receiving and vows to viciously punish him in the ring. Eddie must now decide whether or not to tell the naive Toro the truth.
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Uranium Boom
Title: Uranium Boom
Character: Joe McGinnus
Released: March 2, 1956
Type: Movie
Ex-lumberjack Brad Collins (Dennis Morgan) and mining engineer Grady Mathews (William Talman) find uranium in the Colorado badlands. While Grady guards the claim, Brad goes to register it in town, where he meets and marries Jean Williams (Patricia Medina.) Returning to the claim, Brad learns that Jean was once Grady's fiancee. Grady, as one would expect, is somewhat put out and leaves the mine in Brad's hands, while he hooks up with a confidence man and engineers a scheme to break the back of Brad's somewhat rapidly-created mining empire.
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Three Bad Sisters
Title: Three Bad Sisters
Character: Gans, the reporter
Released: January 1, 1956
Type: Movie
Following the death of a wealthy man, his three daughters squabble about who should be the principal heiress.
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Paris Follies of 1956
Title: Paris Follies of 1956
Character: Wendell
Released: November 27, 1955
Type: Movie
Trouble ensues when a new theatre-restaurant owner discovers the backer to be a harmless and moneyless lunatic.
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Title: Highway Patrol
Released: October 3, 1955
Type: TV
Highway Patrol was a syndicated, fictional police action series produced from 1955 to 1959, concerning the activities of the highway patrol and their leader, Dan Matthews (who held no rank). Although filmed in and around the Los Angeles area, the state setting for the stories was never identified, and city and street names were fictionalized.
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Title: Sergeant Preston of the Yukon
Released: September 29, 1955
Type: TV
Canadian Mountie Sgt. Preston patrols the wilds of the Yukon with his horse Rex and his faithful dog Yukon King, battling both the elements and criminals.
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Title: Navy Log
Released: September 20, 1955
Type: TV
Navy Log is an American drama anthology series that initially aired for one season on CBS. It relates the greatest survival war stories in the history of the United States Navy. This series premiered on September 20, 1955, but the following year, it was moved to ABC, where it aired until September 25, 1958. The program aired for a total of three seasons and 102 episodes.
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Title: Gunsmoke
Character: Waiter
Released: September 10, 1955
Type: TV
Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West. The central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon, played by William Conrad on radio and James Arness on television.
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Title: Gunsmoke
Character: Feeney
Released: September 10, 1955
Type: TV
Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West. The central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon, played by William Conrad on radio and James Arness on television.
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Title: Gunsmoke
Character: Dave
Released: September 10, 1955
Type: TV
Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West. The central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon, played by William Conrad on radio and James Arness on television.
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Title: The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
Released: September 6, 1955
Type: TV
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp is a television western series loosely based on the life of frontier marshal Wyatt Earp. The half-hour black-and-white program aired for 229 episodes on ABC from 1955 to 1961 and featured Hugh O'Brian in the title role.
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Mister Roberts
Title: Mister Roberts
Character: Lt. Billings
Released: July 10, 1955
Type: Movie
Mr. Roberts is as an officer who's yearning for battle but is stuck in the backwaters of World War II on a non-commissioned Navy ship run by the bullying Captain Morton.
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A Bullet for Joey
Title: A Bullet for Joey
Character: Michael (uncredited)
Released: April 15, 1955
Type: Movie
Raoul Leduc is a police inspector trailing a spy who plots to kidnap an important American atomic scientist. Joe Victor a gangster who is hired to carry out the abduction, balks when he learns what is at stake and helps Leduc out instead.
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Jungle Moon Men
Title: Jungle Moon Men
Character: Bob Prentice
Released: April 8, 1955
Type: Movie
Priestess Oma is forever young in this Jungle Jim knockoff of "She" or the La of Opar stories from "Tarzan". The Jungle Jim-type character is played by Weissmuller using his own name.
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A Life at Stake
Title: A Life at Stake
Character: Myles Norman
Released: March 1, 1955
Type: Movie
An out-of-work architect meets a married woman who has a business proposition for him. The architect begins to suspect the woman's interest in him is not just financial and may actually be deadly.
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Title: Buffalo Bill Jr.
Released: March 1, 1955
Type: TV
Buffalo Bill, Jr. is an American Western television series starring Dickie Jones that aired in syndication from March 1, 1955, until September 21, 1956.
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New Orleans Uncensored
Title: New Orleans Uncensored
Character: Joe Reilly
Released: March 1, 1955
Type: Movie
William Castle directed this Sam Katzman production, a gritty crime thriller about a newly-discharged sailor who gets a job as a longshoreman in The Big Easy. He swiftly discovers mob corruption throughout the docks, and when a friend is killed by the gangsters, he convinces the police to let him go undercover and take matters into his own hands. Filmed on location on the docks and in the French Quarter.
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Title: The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin
Released: October 15, 1954
Type: TV
The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin is an American children's television program. Beginning in October 1954 until May 1959, 166 episodes originally aired on ABC television network. It starred child actor Lee Aaker as Rusty, a boy orphaned in an Indian raid, who was being raised by the soldiers at a US Cavalry post known as Fort Apache. He and his German shepherd dog, Rin Tin Tin, helped the soldiers to establish order in the American West. Texas-born actor James Brown appeared as Lieutenant Ripley "Rip" Masters. Co-stars included veteran actor Joe Sawyer and actor Rand Brooks from Gone with the Wind fame.
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Title: Lassie
Released: September 12, 1954
Type: TV
Lassie is the pet of Jeff Miller, an 11-year-old farm boy. The two become best friends and enjoy family adventures in the American countryside, teaching each other about love, nature and commitment.
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Secret of the Incas
Title: Secret of the Incas
Character: Phillip Lang
Released: June 6, 1954
Type: Movie
Harry Steele (Charlton Heston) is a tourist guide determined to make his fortune by finding the Sunburst, an Inca treasure.
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Title: Passport to Danger
Released: April 1, 1954
Type: TV
A diplomatic courier travels to exotic locales, where danger (and women) seem ever present.
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Hollywood Thrill-Makers
Title: Hollywood Thrill-Makers
Character: Dave Wilson
Released: January 15, 1954
Type: Movie
Biplane action scenes highlight this story of the lives and loves of two Hollywood stuntmen.
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Title: Letter to Loretta
Character: Barney
Released: September 20, 1953
Type: TV
Letter to Loretta is an American anthology drama series telecast on NBC from September 1953 to June 1961 for a total of 165 episodes. The filmed show was hosted by Loretta Young who also played the lead in various episodes. Letter to Loretta was sponsored by Procter & Gamble from 1953 through 1960. The final season's sponsor was Warner-Lambert's Listerine.
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Canadian Mounties vs. Atomic Invaders
Title: Canadian Mounties vs. Atomic Invaders
Character: Don Roberts
Released: July 8, 1953
Type: Movie
A villain named Marlof attempts to set up secret missile bases inside Canada so he can launch missiles at the U.S. The Canadian Mounted Police dispatch agents to try to stop him.
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Savage Frontier
Title: Savage Frontier
Character: Deputy Dan Longley (as Bill Henry)
Released: May 15, 1953
Type: Movie
Sam is a parolee who has paid for his dirty deeds. Now determined to go straight and help take care of his hot headed brother and devoted sister, he becomes set upon by both the law, represented by Federal Marshall Rocky Lane, and by his former outlaw buddies led by the notorious William Oakes.
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Marshal of Cedar Rock
Title: Marshal of Cedar Rock
Character: Bill Anderson (as Bill Henry)
Released: February 1, 1953
Type: Movie
Banker Mason is after the ranchers land so he can resell it to the railroad for a profit. He has the railroad agent killed and replaces him with his stooge who then offers even less than Mason. But Rocky eventually suspects Mason and when Bill Anderson informs him the agent is a fake, they head out after Mason
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Title: Mr. & Mrs. North
Released: October 3, 1952
Type: TV
Mr. & Mrs. North is an American comedy/mystery television series that aired on CBS from October 3, 1952 to May 25, 1954. The series centers on Jerry North, a mystery magazine publisher who thinks he is a good amateur detective, and his wife, Pamela, as they solve crimes in New York City.
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Title: Hopalong Cassidy
Released: September 19, 1952
Type: TV
Hopalong Cassidy was television's first western program. The series aired on NBC and stared William Boyd as the cowboy Hopalong Cassidy.
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Thundering Caravans
Title: Thundering Caravans
Character: Bert Cranston (as Bill Henry)
Released: June 20, 1952
Type: Movie
Marshal Rocky Lane is sent to help the Sheriff who is under attack from both the miners whose ore wagons are disappearing and the newspaper editor for not catching the outlaws. But the editor is actually the leader of the gang and with the election forthcoming, she has a plan to make the Sheriff look bad so her son will be elected Sheriff thereby making it easy for them to continue with their robberies.
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Title: Gang Busters
Released: March 20, 1952
Type: TV
Gang Busters is a 30 minute television series, hosted by Chester Morris, that aired on NBC from March 20 to Oct. 23, 1952. The series dramatized FBI cases.
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Title: Dragnet
Released: December 16, 1951
Type: TV
Follows the cases of a dedicated Los Angeles police detective, Sergeant Joe Friday, and his partners. The show takes its name from the police term "dragnet", meaning a system of coordinated measures for apprehending criminals or suspects.
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Title: Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Released: October 5, 1951
Type: TV
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS. Offering both comedies and drama, the series was sponsored by the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company. The title was shortened to Schlitz Playhouse, beginning with the fall 1957 season.
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Title: The Adventures of Kit Carson
Released: August 11, 1951
Type: TV
The Adventures of Kit Carson is an American Western series that aired in syndication from August 1951 to November 1955, originally sponsored by Coca-Cola. It stars Bill Williams in the title role as frontier scout Christopher "Kit" Carson. Don Diamond co-starred as "El Toro", Carson's Mexican companion.
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Title: The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
Released: April 15, 1951
Type: TV
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok is an American Western television series which ran for eight seasons from 1951 through 1958. The Screen Gems series began in syndication, but ran on CBS from 1955 through 1958, and, at the same time, on ABC from 1957 through 1958.
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Fury of the Congo
Title: Fury of the Congo
Character: Ronald Cameron
Released: February 26, 1951
Type: Movie
Jungle Jim must protect rare pony-like animals whose glands produce a powerful narcotic. On the way, he fights a giant spider.
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Title: The Living Christ
Character: Andrew
Released: January 7, 1951
Type: TV
The first ever made for TV miniseries documents the story of Jesus Christ from birth to resurrection.
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The Old Frontier
Title: The Old Frontier
Character: Doctor Tom Creighton
Released: July 20, 1950
Type: Movie
Monte Hale is cast as town marshal Barney Regan. It is Barney's formidable task to round up a gang of bank robbers and expose the "Mr. Big" behind all the robberies.
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Federal Man
Title: Federal Man
Character: Agent Phil Sherrin
Released: June 21, 1950
Type: Movie
A government agent travels from the United States to Mexico to nab drug dealers.
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Motor Patrol
Title: Motor Patrol
Character: Officer Larry Collins
Released: May 12, 1950
Type: Movie
A cop poses as a member of a stolen-car ring to capture the men responsible for the murder of his fiancee's brother.
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Death Valley Gunfighter
Title: Death Valley Gunfighter
Character: Keith Ames
Released: March 29, 1949
Type: Movie
Rocky Lane hits the trail when he gets word that one of two brothers in a partner-ship mining project has been killed by outlaws trying to gain possession of the mine. The other brother Nugget Clark wants no part of the law, and is particularly set against the young sheriff courting his niece Trudy.
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The Denver Kid
Title: The Denver Kid
Character: Tim Roberts
Released: September 30, 1948
Type: Movie
When Border Patrol Lieutenant Roberts is killed, it appears that his brother Tim was the killer. To clear the Robert's name for his boss, Lieutenant Rocky Lane heads south of the border posing as an outlaw. He hopes to get in with the gang and find Tim who is using an assumed name. As always, Nugget is there to help.
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Women in the Night
Title: Women in the Night
Character: Major Von Arnheim
Released: January 2, 1948
Type: Movie
During WW2 six allied nations women at Shanghai University are arrested by the Germans accused of killing a German officer and forced to entertain the Japanese.
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Trail to San Antone
Title: Trail to San Antone
Character: Rick Malloy
Released: January 25, 1947
Type: Movie
Gene Autry is back near the saddle, trying to help out a crippled jockey. Gene is certain that the jockey can ride in the Big Race if the lad can regain his self-confidence. Meanwhile, Gene and comical sidekick Sterling Holloway have another problem on their hands: A rogue stallion has "kidnapped" Gene's prize mare. Piloting a plane, Autry seeks out and locates the stallion.
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The Fabulous Suzanne
Title: The Fabulous Suzanne
Character: William Harris
Released: December 15, 1946
Type: Movie
Suzanne, a waitress, comes up with a sure-fire method for winning at the racetrack and, later, when she inherits a fortune from a customer of the restaurant, she use the same system for investing her money. Her stock broker tries to dissuade her, but she persists and her investments increases her wealth.
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The Mysterious Mr. Valentine
Title: The Mysterious Mr. Valentine
Character: Steve Morgan
Released: September 3, 1946
Type: Movie
Janet Spencer is driving down a country road when one of her tires blows out. This seemingly innocuous, everyday occurrence leads Linda into a labyrinth of murder, blackmail and intrigue.
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The Invisible Informer
Title: The Invisible Informer
Character: Mike Reagan
Released: August 19, 1946
Type: Movie
An aristocratic but destitute southern family attempts to swindle an insurance company by faking the theft of a valuable emerald necklace. The company assigns operatives Eve Rogers and Mike Regan to the case.
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G.I. War Brides
Title: G.I. War Brides
Character: Capt. Roger Kirby
Released: August 12, 1946
Type: Movie
Linda Powell, and English girl, stows away on a ship bound for the United States in order to join the G.I. she loves. She assumes the identity of an English war bride, Joyce Giles, who has decided she no longer loves the American soldier she married and is not going to join him in the U.S. Linda arrives to find that her soldier no longer wishes to marry her...
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The Adventures of Mark Twain
Title: The Adventures of Mark Twain
Character: Charles Langdon
Released: July 20, 1944
Type: Movie
A dramatised life of Samuel Langhorn Clemens, or Mark Twain.
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Silent Partner
Title: Silent Partner
Character: Jeffrey Swales
Released: June 9, 1944
Type: Movie
A newspaper reporter uncovers a killer when he makes contact with the names listed in a dead man's address book.
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Going My Way
Title: Going My Way
Character: Doctor (uncredited)
Released: May 15, 1944
Type: Movie
Youthful Father Chuck O'Malley led a colorful life of sports, song, and romance before joining the Roman Catholic clergy. After being appointed to a run-down New York parish, O'Malley's worldly knowledge helps him connect with a gang of boys looking for direction, eventually winning over the aging, conventional Parish priest.
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The Lady and the Monster
Title: The Lady and the Monster
Character: Roger Collins
Released: April 17, 1944
Type: Movie
A millionaire's brain is preserved after his death by a scientist and his two assistants, only to create a telepathic monster.
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Call of the South Seas
Title: Call of the South Seas
Character: Agent Paul Russell
Released: April 7, 1944
Type: Movie
FBI Agent Kendall Gaige goes undercover on a South Seas island in order to expose the underhanded and exploitative business practices of Steve Landrau. In the course of his investigation Gaige is introduce to the Paris-educated native princess Tahia, who believes that he has arrived to save her people from poverty. A romance, of course, ensues as Gaige attempts to expose Landrau before his cover is blown.
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The Navy Way
Title: The Navy Way
Character: Malcolm Randall
Released: February 26, 1944
Type: Movie
The experiences of a disparate group of young men as they make their way through Navy boot camp.
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Women in Bondage
Title: Women in Bondage
Character: Heinz Radtke (as Bill Henry)
Released: December 16, 1943
Type: Movie
Women in Bondage is a 1943 World War II film about conditions for women under Hitler's regime. The plot involves two women imprisoned for speaking out against the government. It was directed by Steve Sekely and starred Gail Patrick and Nancy Kelly.
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Nearly Eighteen
Title: Nearly Eighteen
Character: Jack Leonard (as Bill Henry)
Released: November 12, 1943
Type: Movie
A singer pretends to be younger so she can enter a music school.
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Johnny Come Lately
Title: Johnny Come Lately
Character: Pete Dougherty
Released: September 3, 1943
Type: Movie
Cagney is a human dynamo as a drifter who helps save ailing Grace George from losing her newspaper. The pace is fast, and audiences of all ages will be pleased. The supporting cast, have all the small-town characterizations down pat -- with Margaret Hamilton a standout. Cagney himself, had genuine affection for this film, and listed it among his top five movie-making experiences at a retrospective the year before he died.
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Tornado
Title: Tornado
Character: Bob Ramsey
Released: August 9, 1943
Type: Movie
The owner of an Illinois coal mine struggles to keep his business in operation, all the while unaware that among his employees is a saboteur planning destruction and chaos.
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Alaska Highway
Title: Alaska Highway
Character: Steve Ormsby (as Bill Henry)
Released: June 24, 1943
Type: Movie
Pop Ormsby wins the contract from the Army Engineer Corps for the construction of the Alaska Highway connecting Alaska to Canada. The elder of his two sons, Woody Ormseby, decides he had rather fight with bullets than bulldozers but is assigned by the Army to work on the project. Woody and his younger brother Steve are both rivals for the affection of Ann Caswell, the daughter of Road Engineer Blair Caswell.
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Sarong Girl
Title: Sarong Girl
Character: Jeff Baxter
Released: June 11, 1943
Type: Movie
A dancer in a girlie show plots revenge when a judge orders her show closed.
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False Faces
Title: False Faces
Character: Don Westcott (as Bill Henry)
Released: May 28, 1943
Type: Movie
A district attorney sets out to vindicate his son who's been accused of murdering a nightclub singer.
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I Escaped from the Gestapo
Title: I Escaped from the Gestapo
Character: Gordon
Released: May 14, 1943
Type: Movie
A forger is forced to work for a Nazi spy ring. His conscience gets the better of him, though, and he secretly conspires with the FBI to turn over the gang.
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His Girl's Worst Friend
Title: His Girl's Worst Friend
Character: Terry Kelly
Released: May 14, 1943
Type: Movie
On the last day of the semester, Terry (Henry) and his pals enroll for a summer aviation course.
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Socks Appeal
Title: Socks Appeal
Character: Terry Kelly
Released: February 20, 1943
Type: Movie
Terry (Henry) is the proprietor of the college service shop; his rival tries to ruin his business and steal his girl.
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Calaboose
Title: Calaboose
Character: Tom Pendergrast (as Bill Henry)
Released: January 29, 1943
Type: Movie
A love-smitten cowpoke acciidentally causes a horse stampede.
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The Great Glover
Title: The Great Glover
Character: Terry Kelly
Released: December 26, 1942
Type: Movie
Terry (Henry) and his friends pitch in to help the Taylor College scrap drive.
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Sweater Girl
Title: Sweater Girl
Character: Happy Dudley
Released: July 13, 1942
Type: Movie
College students attempt to solve a series of murders on campus while also trying to put together the school's big show.
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Rubber Racketeers
Title: Rubber Racketeers
Character: Bill Barry (as Bill Henry)
Released: June 26, 1942
Type: Movie
Racketeer Gillin is paroled from prison and immediately goes to work trying to make an illegal buck from America's war effort. With rationing in effect the black market tire business is booming. Gillen's mob sets up car lots around town where they peddle stolen tires and "new" tires milled in the gangster's factories from cheap faulty materials. People begin to die in crashes as the defective tires fail. Bill Barry leads his fellow defense plant workers on a crusade to uncover the source of the black market rubber and bring the guilty to justice. Although clearly intended to warn the public about black market tire smuggling, Rubber Racketeers holds it own as a saga of mobsters versus an irate public.
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Stardust on the Sage
Title: Stardust on the Sage
Character: Jeff Drew
Released: May 25, 1942
Type: Movie
A singing cowboy (Gene Autry) and his partner (Bill Henry) thwart a foreman who wants their mine.
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A Gentleman After Dark
Title: A Gentleman After Dark
Character: Paul Rutherford
Released: April 16, 1942
Type: Movie
A greedy woman betrays her jewel thief husband to the police, for the reward. Her husband's friend, a detective, adopts the couple's child and raises her as his own. Eighteen years later the husband, still in prison, finds out that his ex-wife is now blackmailing their daughter. He vows to break out and put a stop to her once and for all.
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Klondike Fury
Title: Klondike Fury
Character: Jim Armstrong (as Bill Henry)
Released: March 20, 1942
Type: Movie
In this Alaskan adventure, a surgeon becomes a pilot after he messes up an operation. Unfortunately, he crashes during a storm and finds himself cared for by a lovely woman. He gets a chance to reclaim his self-esteem when her son suddenly needs the same operation the surgeon botched.
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Pardon My Stripes
Title: Pardon My Stripes
Character: Henry Platt
Released: January 26, 1942
Type: Movie
Football player Henry Platt (William Henry)mistakes a helmet for the football in his zeal to make a touchdown during a critical game, his error earns him the accolade of "Dope of the Year" award. Gambler Big George Kilraine (Harold Huber) hires him to take the $107,000 winnings of the gambler's syndicate on the game to Chicago. On the way the money bag falls out of the airplane and lands in the state penitentiary. Herry now has to figure out how to get into the prison and get the money out of the prison.
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Scattergood Meets Broadway
Title: Scattergood Meets Broadway
Character: David Drew
Released: August 22, 1941
Type: Movie
Scattergood finds out that his neighbor, Elly Drew, is going to sell her home to support her son David, an aspiring playwright, who is in New York City trying to get his play produced. Scattergood decides to loan Elly the money but things are not as David has been telling his Mother...
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Blossoms in the Dust
Title: Blossoms in the Dust
Character: Allan Keats
Released: August 15, 1941
Type: Movie
Edna marries Texan Sam Gladney, operator of a wheat mill. They have a son, who is killed when very young. Edna discovers by chance how the law treats children who are without parents and decides to do something about it. She opens a home for foundlings and orphans and begins to place children in good homes, despite the opposition of "conservative" citizens, who would condemn illegitimate children for being born out of wedlock. Eventually Edna leads a fight in the Texas legislature to remove the stigma of illegitimacy from birth records in that state, while continuing to be an advocate for homeless children.
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Dance Hall
Title: Dance Hall
Character: Joe Brooks
Released: July 18, 1941
Type: Movie
Singer Lili Brown is attracted to dance hall manager Duke till she realizes he does that to all the girls. Nice guy Duke sets her up with composer Joe Brooks.
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Cherokee Strip
Title: Cherokee Strip
Character: Tom Cross
Released: October 10, 1940
Type: Movie
Richard Dix stars as Dave Morrell, the new marshal of Goliath, Oklahoma. Immediately upon arrival, Morrell finds himself at odds with banker Coy Barrett (Victor Jory), who is actually the leader of all local criminal activities.
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The Way of All Flesh
Title: The Way of All Flesh
Character: Paul Kriza Jr.
Released: July 5, 1940
Type: Movie
Paul Kriza is a cashier of a bank in a small town, and the happy husband of Anna and the father of four children. He is sent to New York to deliver some securities for the bank. There, he is tagged as easy-pickings by a con-game gang and Mary Brown, gang accomplice, proves he is. Waking up in the morning he discovers he has been robbed of the securities and, when he confronts the gang, he is hit on the head and taken out to be left on a railroad track. He comes to, struggles with the henchman and the man is killed when a train comes roaring by. Paul escapes but his watch is found and he is reported as the dead man. But he can't go home again.
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Queen of the Mob
Title: Queen of the Mob
Character: Bert Webster
Released: June 28, 1940
Type: Movie
Ma Webster (Blanche Yurka) and her boys rob a bank on Christmas Eve; G-men stop them with Tommy guns.
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Parole Fixer
Title: Parole Fixer
Character: Scott Britton
Released: February 2, 1940
Type: Movie
This expose of the U.S. parole system, as seen through the eyes of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, takes dead aim on lawyers who manipulate the justice system in order to get undeserving convicts parole from prisons. The point is made when FBI agents are assigned to track down "Big Boy" Bradmore, who after getting an undeserved parole, via the efforts of a shyster lawyer, promptly murders an FBI agent.
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Emergency Squad
Title: Emergency Squad
Character: Peter Barton
Released: January 5, 1940
Type: Movie
Betty Bryant is an ambitious newspaper reporter in love with Dan Barton, a member of a big-city Emergency Squad who are trained to deal with riots, cave-in, explosions, fires and other emergencies where lives are at stake. Slade Wiley, an unscrupulous tunnel builder, finds that his low bid on the Newford Tunnel project is causing him to lose a lot of money, and has underworld leader Nick Burton set off blasts to frighten the stockholders into selling their shares at a low price so he can buy up the stock. Betty is investigating the deal when Wiley and Burton take her on a "tour trip" to the tunnel.
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Geronimo
Title: Geronimo
Character: Lt. John Steele, Jr.
Released: November 26, 1939
Type: Movie
The army's effort to capture Apache chief Geronimo, who is leading a band of warriors on a rampage of raiding and murder, is hampered by a feud between two officers--who are father and son.
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Television Spy
Title: Television Spy
Character: Douglas Cameron
Released: October 20, 1939
Type: Movie
A scientist invents a television device called the Iconoscope. Foreign agents hear about it and try to steal it.
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I'm from Missouri
Title: I'm from Missouri
Character: Joel Streight
Released: April 6, 1939
Type: Movie
Sweeney Bliss, champion mule raiser in Missouri, takes his prize mule Samson to London, where the British government is trying to decide whether to buy mules or tractors for its colonial troops. He is accompanied by his ritzy wife Julie who has high society aspirations and hopes to have her younger sister Lola Pike marry a British diplomat. Complicating matters is a business rival, Porgie Rowe, who is trying to sell tractors to the government and keeps knocking Sweeney's prize Missouri mules.
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The Arizona Wildcat
Title: The Arizona Wildcat
Character: Donald Clark
Released: February 11, 1939
Type: Movie
In 1870 Arizona Jane helps her foster-father ex-bandit (Carrillo) who has been accused of gold robbery.
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Persons in Hiding
Title: Persons in Hiding
Character: Agent Dan Waldron
Released: February 10, 1939
Type: Movie
During a stick-up, a woman is excited by the criminal and joins him on his crime spree.
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Ambush
Title: Ambush
Character: Charlie Hartman
Released: January 20, 1939
Type: Movie
Four bandits swoop down on a California bank and flee with $98,000, leaving a truck as the only clue to their identity. Jane Hartman, bank secretary, recognizes the truck as one on which her brother Charles worked. Fleeing to her brother, she is trapped by the gang, composed of its master-mind, Gibbs, Sidney, a gunman, and Randall, a blackballed airplane pilot. Under threat of bodily harm to her brother, she lures truck-driver Tony Andrews to the hideout, and he is forced to help them in their escape attempt.
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A Man to Remember
Title: A Man to Remember
Character: Howard Sykes
Released: October 14, 1938
Type: Movie
On the day of his funeral, a dedicated smalltown doctor is remembered by his neighbors and patients.
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Campus Confessions
Title: Campus Confessions
Character: Wayne Atterbury, Jr.
Released: September 23, 1938
Type: Movie
This comical campus romance showcases the fancy footwork of All-American basketball player Hank Luisetti while it tells the story of a dean's son who does his very best to become a good student. When he fails, he turns to playing basketball and befriends Luisetti, which makes him quite popular. This doesn't sit well with the dean, who wants academics to be more important than sports.
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Yellow Jack
Title: Yellow Jack
Character: Breen
Released: May 19, 1938
Type: Movie
A fairly accurate historical account of Walter Reed's search for the cause of "Yellow Jack" or Yellow Fever and those who risked their lives in the pursuit.
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Four Men and a Prayer
Title: Four Men and a Prayer
Character: Rodney Leigh
Released: April 29, 1938
Type: Movie
The sons of a disgraced British officer try to clear his name.
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Mama Runs Wild
Title: Mama Runs Wild
Character: Paul Fowler
Released: December 22, 1937
Type: Movie
Suburban Paradise Park becomes a heaven for social-minded Mrs. Alice Summers (Mary Boland), when she accidentally causes the apprehension of two bank robbers after walking into the bank during the robbery and one of the robbers, in taking money from her purse, left his fingerprints on the purse. She is made an honorary police captain and, with her society sisters sets about "keeping lawlessness" out of the town. From that point on, life becomes miserable for her hen-pecked husband Calvin (Ernest Truex).
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What Do You Think?
Title: What Do You Think?
Character: John Dough
Released: November 25, 1937
Type: Movie
The narrator's voice tells of John Dough, who wakes up after a late-night party and prepares to go to work. However, a few interruptions, including thinking for a moment that he sees a woman's body in his bed, having his car key not work, and thinking he hears his mother calling, delay his departure from home by almost a minute. When tragedy strikes close by, John revisits the morning's events. A phone call from his brother in Chicago confirms how odd this morning is. Did John experience telepathy or was it all coincidence? If radio waves can carry a communication, why not a mother's love?
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Madame X
Title: Madame X
Character: Hugh Fariman Jr.
Released: October 1, 1937
Type: Movie
An alcoholic woman was charged and tried for murder and a young defense attorney, unaware that she is his mother, takes the assignment to defend her in court.
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Double or Nothing
Title: Double or Nothing
Character: Egbert Clark
Released: September 17, 1937
Type: Movie
A philanthropist's will dictates that four people receive $5,000 apiece, with the stipulation that the first one who can double the amount -- without dishonesty-- will win a cool million. Hindering the four are the avaricious relatives of the late millionaire.
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Tarzan Escapes
Title: Tarzan Escapes
Character: Eric Parker
Released: November 6, 1936
Type: Movie
White hunter Captain Fry tries to take Tarzan back to civilization, caged for public display. He arrives in the jungle with Jane's cousins, Eric and Rita, who want Jane's help in claiming a fortune left her.
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The Perfect Set-Up
Title: The Perfect Set-Up
Character: Alan E. Saunders (uncredited)
Released: February 1, 1936
Type: Movie
In this MGM "Crime Does Not Pay" series short, a radio and television engineer falls into a life of crime by dismantling alarms for robberies.
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Exclusive Story
Title: Exclusive Story
Character: James Witherspoon Jr.
Released: January 17, 1936
Type: Movie
A reporter and his newspaper's attorney try to gather evidence that will put a notorious gangster behind bars.
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The Perfect Tribute
Title: The Perfect Tribute
Character: Soldier (uncredited)
Released: August 15, 1935
Type: Movie
The day after his Gettysburg Address, President Abraham Lincoln meets a wounded Confederate soldier in a hospital. The blinded rebel, not knowing his visitor's identity, regales him with memorized lines from the speech.
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China Seas
Title: China Seas
Character: Rockwell
Released: August 9, 1935
Type: Movie
Captain Alan Gaskell sails the perilous waters between Hong Kong and Singapore with a secret cargo: a fortune in British gold. That's not the only risky cargo he carries; both his fiery mistress and his refined fiancee are aboard!
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Society Doctor
Title: Society Doctor
Character: Frank Snowden
Released: January 25, 1935
Type: Movie
Two surgeons (Chester Morris, Robert Taylor) in love with a nurse (Virginia Bruce) end their rivalry in the operating room.
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A Wicked Woman
Title: A Wicked Woman
Character: Curtis 'Curt' Stroud. aka Curtis Trice
Released: December 7, 1934
Type: Movie
A woman and her children escape severe poverty and abuse. She successfully betters her family's condition while living with the secret that she killed her abusive husband in order to protect her children from him.
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The Thin Man
Title: The Thin Man
Character: Gilbert Wynant
Released: May 25, 1934
Type: Movie
A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.