Eli Wallach

Eli Wallach

Born: December 7, 1915
Died: June 24, 2014
in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Eli Herschel Wallach (December 7, 1915 – June 24, 2014) was an American film, television and stage actor, who gained fame in the late 1950s. For his performance in Baby Doll he won a BAFTA Award for Best Newcomer and a Golden Globe nomination. One of his most famous roles is that of Tuco in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966). Other roles include his portrayal of Don Altobello in The Godfather Part III, Calvera in The Magnificent Seven, and Arthur Abbott in The Holiday. Wallach has received BAFTA Awards, Tony Awards and Emmy Awards for his work. Wallach also has a cameo as a liquor store owner in Clint Eastwood's Mystic River. Wallach received an Honorary Academy Award at the 2nd Annual Governors Awards, presented on November 13, 2010.

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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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The Train
Title: The Train
Character: Andre
Released: August 6, 2015
Type: Movie
A meeting with a holocaust survivor teaches a self-consumed and preoccupied young man that life can change in a moment.
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Showing Up
Title: Showing Up
Character: Self
Released: February 25, 2014
Type: Movie
An unprecedented look at the audition, compiled from more than 50 interviews with notable artists including Kristin Chenoweth, Richard Griffiths, Zoe Kazan, Nathan Lane, Chris Messina, Sam Rockwell and Eli Wallach.
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Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
Title: Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
Character: Julie Steinhardt
Released: September 20, 2010
Type: Movie
As the global economy teeters on the brink of disaster, a young Wall Street trader partners with disgraced former Wall Street corporate raider Gordon Gekko on a two tiered mission: To alert the financial community to the coming doom, and to find out who was responsible for the death of the young trader's mentor.
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Ahead of Time: The Extraordinary Journey of Ruth Gruber
Title: Ahead of Time: The Extraordinary Journey of Ruth Gruber
Character: Mordechai Rossman (voice)
Released: September 10, 2010
Type: Movie
Brooklyn-born Ruth Gruber became the youngest PhD in the world before going on to become an international foreign correspondent and photojournalist at age 24. She defied tradition in an extraordinary career that spanned several decades. The first journalist to enter the Soviet Arctic in 1935, Ruth also traveled to Alaska as a member of the Roosevelt administration in 1942, escorted Holocaust refugees to America in 1944, covered the Nuremberg trials in 1946, and documented the Haganah ship 'Exodus' in 1947. Her relationships with world leaders gave her unique access and insight. This documentary interweaves verite scenes with archival footage.
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The Ghost Writer
Title: The Ghost Writer
Character: Old man
Released: February 12, 2010
Type: Movie
A writer stumbles upon a long-hidden secret when he agrees to help former British Prime Minister Adam Lang complete his memoirs on a remote island after the politician's assistant drowns in a mysterious accident.
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The Toe Tactic
Title: The Toe Tactic
Character: Maestro
Released: January 29, 2009
Type: Movie
Mona is nearly overwhelmed by grief and depression. After her father's death, she's cut herself off: leaving teaching - she now temps as an office assistant, ignoring her mother's calls, talking to herself in mirrors, and rejecting any offered intimacy. She's watched over by comic extraterrestrial beings whom we see as cartoon squiggles. They ensure that random acts bring her connections - with a neighbor boy, his mother, and his surreptitious piano teacher (the lad wants to surprise his mom). She also meets an elevator operator in the building where she temps for Ms. Hadaway, a widow with perfect diction. Can Mona take a few steps on the road to expressing emotion?
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New York, I Love You
Title: New York, I Love You
Character: Abe
Released: September 6, 2008
Type: Movie
New York, I Love You delves into the intimate lives of New Yorkers as they grapple with, delight in and search for love. Journey from the Diamond District in the heart of Manhattan, through Chinatown and the Upper East Side, towards the Village, into Tribeca, and Brooklyn as lovers of all ages try to find romance in the Big Apple.
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Il falso bugiardo
Title: Il falso bugiardo
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: July 3, 2008
Type: Movie
Based upon Vincenzoni's biography, "Pane e cinema", the documentary traces the story of the screen play writer who invented many stories that became blockbusters throughout the world.
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Vote and Die: Liszt for President
Title: Vote and Die: Liszt for President
Character: Joe Nightingale
Released: March 7, 2008
Type: Movie
A charismatic Billionaire runs for president as an independent candidate. His platform is simple: KILL EVERYONE NOW!!!
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Title: The War
Character: Narrator
Released: March 5, 2008
Type: TV
The story of the Second World War through the personal accounts of a handful of men and women from four American towns. The war touched the lives of every family on every street in every town in America and demonstrated that in extraordinary times, there are no ordinary lives.
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Mama's Boy
Title: Mama's Boy
Character: Seymour Warburton
Released: December 14, 2007
Type: Movie
A twenty-nine year-old slacker who lives with his mom realizes his sweet set-up is threatened when she hears wedding bells with her self-help guru beau.
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The Holiday
Title: The Holiday
Character: Arthur Abbott
Released: December 8, 2006
Type: Movie
Two women, one from the United States and one from the United Kingdom, swap homes at Christmas time after bad breakups with their boyfriends. Each woman finds romance with a local man but realizes that the imminent return home may end the relationship.
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The Hoax
Title: The Hoax
Character: Noah Dietrich
Released: October 14, 2006
Type: Movie
In what would cause a fantastic media frenzy, Clifford Irving sells his bogus biography of Howard Hughes to a premiere publishing house in the early 1970s.
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Title: Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
Character: Eli Weinraub
Released: September 18, 2006
Type: TV
A behind-the-scenes look at a fictional sketch-comedy TV show.
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The Real James Dean
Title: The Real James Dean
Character: Self
Released: August 1, 2006
Type: Movie
Although he'd starred in just three films before his untimely death at age 24, James Dean cast a long shadow that came to define cool. Using excerpts from Dean's personal diaries, found footage from screen and wardrobe tests and interviews with those who knew him best (including Dennis Hopper, Dick Van Patten, Graham Nash and Rod Steiger), this fascinating documentary explores the screen icon's lingering mystique.
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Baby Doll: See No Evil
Title: Baby Doll: See No Evil
Character: Self
Released: May 2, 2006
Type: Movie
A documentary on the filming of the controversial film Baby Doll (1956).
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Sergio Leone: The Way I See Things
Title: Sergio Leone: The Way I See Things
Character: Self
Released: March 8, 2006
Type: Movie
Documentary about Sergio Leone
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The Linen Book: Lost Images From 'The Magnificent Seven'
Title: The Linen Book: Lost Images From 'The Magnificent Seven'
Character: Self
Released: January 10, 2006
Type: Movie
A review of a photo archive from the film and the memories from its making
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A Taste Of Jupiter
Title: A Taste Of Jupiter
Released: September 15, 2005
Type: Movie
Everybody and their brother in Little Italy has a story. But few bring together a celestial event, a one of a kind ring, a mysterious man in a white suit, petty jealousy, loving larceny, a would be gondolier, a duel, and a very full spittoon. Eight people's lives are about to change as Jupiter and Venus come together in the night sky for a once in a lifetime event. A Taste of Jupiter is a whimsical romance set under the stars.
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Steve McQueen: The Essence of Cool
Title: Steve McQueen: The Essence of Cool
Character: Self
Released: June 1, 2005
Type: Movie
Friends, family, co-stars and admirers of actor Steve McQueen talk about his life and his movie career.
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James Dean: Sense Memories
Title: James Dean: Sense Memories
Character: Self
Released: May 11, 2005
Type: Movie
Documentary exploring the last 18 months of James Dean's acting career.
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The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation
Title: The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation
Character: Father
Released: January 5, 2005
Type: Movie
An animated documentary that explores the terrain of father/son relationships, as seen through Canemaker's own turbulent relationship with his father.
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The Easter Egg Adventure
Title: The Easter Egg Adventure
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: September 5, 2004
Type: Movie
The idyllic Egg Town is the location for the The Easter Egg Adventure, which sees the beautiful location under threat from some dastardly thieves. Making off with the collection of Easter Egg's the town has managed to collate, it's up to some brave residents to retrieve them from the evil doers. A wonderfully touching children's tale, The Easter Egg Adventure is a heartwarming seasonal story.
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Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
Title: Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
Character: Other Voices (voice)
Released: September 4, 2004
Type: Movie
The story of Jack Johnson, the first African American Heavyweight boxing champion.
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Title: Stroker and Hoop
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: August 1, 2004
Type: TV
Stroker and Hoop is an American Flash animated television series on Cartoon Network's late night programming block, Adult Swim. The series is a parody of buddy cop films and television series such as Starsky & Hutch, and features the voices of Jon Glaser as Stroker and Timothy "Speed" Levitch as Hoop. This might also be a parody of the two Burt Reynolds characters: "Stroker Ace" and "Hooper". Stroker and Hoop premiered on August 1, 2004, and ended on December 25, 2005, with 13 episodes. Adult Swim continues to air reruns of Stroker and Hoop on an infrequent basis.
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King of the Corner
Title: King of the Corner
Character: Sol Spivak
Released: June 8, 2004
Type: Movie
Leo Spivak is drifting through life without a compass. His father is aging fast, his teenage daughter is rebelling, his protégé is after his job and his wife is losing her patience. A twist of fate and some bizarre wisdom from a "freelance rabbi" help Leo navigate the murky waters of his life and turn his crisis into a second-chance.
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Reconstructing 'The Good, The Bad And The Ugly'
Title: Reconstructing 'The Good, The Bad And The Ugly'
Character: Self
Released: April 7, 2004
Type: Movie
Overview of the initial edits and cuts to the film and effort made to restore the missing footage
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Leone's West
Title: Leone's West
Character: Self
Released: April 7, 2004
Type: Movie
Making-of documentary for Sergio Leone's landmark spaghetti western "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly."
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Por un puñado de sueños
Title: Por un puñado de sueños
Character: Self - Interviewee
Released: January 1, 2004
Type: Movie
In the 60s and half of the 70s, Almeria was the Hollywood of the South Europe.
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Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip
Title: Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip
Character: Other Voices (voice)
Released: October 6, 2003
Type: Movie
In the spring of 1903, on a whim and a fifty-dollar bet, Dr. Horatio Nelson Jackson set off from San Francisco in a 20-horsepower Winton touring car hoping to become the first person to cross the United States in the new-fangled "horseless carriage." Most people doubted that the automobile had much of a future. Jackson's trip would prove them wrong.
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Rita
Title: Rita
Character: Self
Released: September 9, 2003
Type: Movie
Biography of 1940's sex goddess Rita Hayworth.
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The Education of Gore Vidal
Title: The Education of Gore Vidal
Character: Self
Released: June 30, 2003
Type: Movie
A contrarian and wickedly funny man, this PBS American Masters special explores Gore Vidal's extraordinary life and work, joining him at his cliff-side villa in Ravello, Italy.
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Mystic River
Title: Mystic River
Character: Mr. Loonie (uncredited)
Released: March 3, 2003
Type: Movie
The lives of three men who were childhood friends are shattered when one of them suffers a family tragedy.
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Title: Veritas: The Quest
Character: Rabbi
Released: January 27, 2003
Type: TV
Veritas: The Quest is a television program that aired in 2003. It follows a rebellious but intelligent teenager, Nikko Zond, discovering that his father Solomon's profession is much more mystical and adventurous than he previously thought. Solomon and his team search for the answers to some of the world's mysteries, a quest began because of the mysterious disappearance of Nikko's mother during an archaeological dig. Thus begins Nikko's fantastical journey into an Indiana Jones-style adventure with his father and his colleagues in trying to follow in his mother's footsteps to discover what strange secrets she was uncovering.
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Time Machine: When Cowboys Were King
Title: Time Machine: When Cowboys Were King
Character: Self / Narrator
Released: January 1, 2003
Type: Movie
Take a nostalgic ride through movie history and relive the glory days of the Western -- when kids spent their Saturdays watching double-feature matinees and eating popcorn that cost a nickel. Through movie clips and interviews with film critics, actors and fans, this tribute to a bygone era explores the genre from the early days of the Thomas Edison Studios to the heyday of cowboy stars Tom Mix, Hoot Gibson and Gene Autry and the Singing Cowboys.
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Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
Title: Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 2003
Type: Movie
Broadway: The Golden Age is the most important, ambitious and comprehensive film ever made about America's most celebrated indigenous art form. Award-winning filmmaker Rick McKay filmed over 100 of the greatest stars ever to work on Broadway or in Hollywood. He soon learned that great films can be restored, fine literature can be kept in print - but historic Broadway performances of the past are the most endangered. They leave only memories that, while more vivid, are more difficult to preserve. In their own words — and not a moment too soon — Broadway: The Golden Age tells the stories of our theatrical legends, how they came to New York, and how they created this legendary century in American theatre. This is the largest cast of legends ever in one film.
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Making 'The Misfits'
Title: Making 'The Misfits'
Character: Self
Released: October 2, 2002
Type: Movie
A behind-the-scenes and in-depth look at the making of John Huston's The Misfits (1961).
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Cinerama Adventure
Title: Cinerama Adventure
Character: Self
Released: August 30, 2002
Type: Movie
A nostalgic and compelling look into the legendary three camera, three projector process that revolutionized motion pictures and led the industry into the widescreen era.
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Monday Night Mayhem
Title: Monday Night Mayhem
Character: Leonard Goldenson
Released: January 14, 2002
Type: Movie
The early years of a television sports powerhouse are chronicled as ABC becomes a player in the NFL coverage by putting their full resources into a major showcase. Executive Roone Arledge (John Heard) recruits former Dallas Cowboys quarterback 'Dandy' Don Meredith (Brad Beyer), along with Keith Jackson (Shuler Hensley), and the combative Howard Cosell (John Turturro) as commentators for the broadcasts, which become funny, odd trio events to millions of viewers. Jackson departs the show after the first year to take over the network's focus on college football, and former New York Giants star Frank Gifford (Kevin Anderson) takes his place, ruffling Cosell's feathers. Then things get really crazy!
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Title: The Job
Character: Mr. Weiss
Released: March 14, 2001
Type: TV
Mike McNeil is a decorated New York City detective whose toughest assignment is himself. He's struggling to balance a challenging personal life with a job that leaves him wondering on a daily basis if he is the last sane person in New York. His unconventional approach to his job makes him a great cop, even on the most trying days. The only thing he can't figure out is why, if he's the only sane guy around, everyone's always looking at him like he's crazy.
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Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
Title: Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
Character: Self
Released: September 27, 2000
Type: Movie
Hollywood careers are full of make-or-break moments. For Clint Eastwood, one such moment came when studio powers agreed to let him make his directing debut. That story and others comprise this portrait of the famed Hollywood icon. His career is explored via an array of film clips, interviews and more.
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Uninvited
Title: Uninvited
Character: Alan Strasser
Released: May 19, 2000
Type: Movie
A man is accused of murdering his childhood love and her entire family.
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Guns for Hire: The Making of 'The Magnificent Seven'
Title: Guns for Hire: The Making of 'The Magnificent Seven'
Character: Self
Released: May 13, 2000
Type: Movie
A documentary about 'The Magnificent Seven'.
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Keeping the Faith
Title: Keeping the Faith
Character: Rabbi Ben Lewis
Released: April 14, 2000
Type: Movie
Best friends since they were kids, Rabbi Jacob Schram and Father Brian Finn are dynamic and popular young men living and working on New York's Upper West Side. When Anna Reilly, once their childhood friend and now grown into a beautiful corporate executive, suddenly returns to the city, she reenters Jake and Brian's lives and hearts with a vengeance. Sparks fly and an unusual and complicated love triangle ensues.
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The Bookfair Murders
Title: The Bookfair Murders
Character: Erich Schmidt
Released: January 1, 2000
Type: Movie
Mystery starring Samantha Bond, Linda Kash, Bernd Michael Lade
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Naked City: Justice with a Bullet
Title: Naked City: Justice with a Bullet
Character: Deluca
Released: October 4, 1998
Type: Movie
A pair of taxi-driving NYC detectives take up the case of tourists who are robbed of their money and luggage by a shady limo driver. Things get dicey when the tourists accidentally get mixed up in a drug dealer's murder and money heist, while the detectives go after a hit man posing as a friend from the `hood'.
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The Trial of Adolf Eichmann
Title: The Trial of Adolf Eichmann
Character: Pinchas Freudiger / David Ben-Gurion (voices)
Released: April 30, 1997
Type: Movie
David Brinkley hosts this shattering two-hour documentary about the trial of the man whose role in deporting the Jews of Europe for extermination made him the target of a 15-year manhunt by Israeli agents. Rare videotapes of the trial, exclusive interviews with courtroom witnesses, prosecutors, and others recount the emotionally explosive proceedings.
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Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years
Title: Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years
Character: Self
Released: January 21, 1997
Type: Movie
The first half century of Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation from its beginnings under Hungarian immigrant William Fox to it emergence as a major studio.
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The Associate
Title: The Associate
Character: Donald Fallon
Released: October 25, 1996
Type: Movie
Laurel Ayres is a businesswoman trying to make it but unfortunately she works at a investment firm where she does all the work but all the senior investors like Frank Peterson grab all the credit. She then leaves and starts her own firm. While trying to find clients Laurel pretends that she has a male partner named Robert Cutty. And when she starts to do well all of her clients wants to meet Cutty which is difficult since he doesn't exist.
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Title: The West
Character: Self
Released: September 15, 1996
Type: TV
The West, sometimes marketed as Ken Burns Presents: The West, is a documentary film about the American Old West. It was directed by Stephen Ives and the executive producer was Ken Burns. The film originally aired on PBS in September 1996.
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O. Henry's Christmas
Title: O. Henry's Christmas
Character: Behrman ("The Last Leaf")
Released: June 3, 1996
Type: Movie
Three episodes based on O. Henry's texts. The first deals with the friendship between a painter and two young women. The second, a young man who receives an insignificant amount of his uncle, as an inheritance. The third concerns two people who make it all possible when they give themselves love as Christmas presents.
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Honey Sweet Love
Title: Honey Sweet Love
Character: Don Siro
Released: May 8, 1996
Type: Movie
A British commander falls in love with a local Sicilian girl during World War II.
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The Search for Dracula
Title: The Search for Dracula
Character: Narrator
Released: January 1, 1996
Type: Movie
In an age of science, one tale of the supernatural continues to seduce us: the legend of the vampire. At last, scientists are digging vampires out of their tombs to take a good, long look at them. What they're finding is a surprising factual side to the ancient legend. Fact may be stranger than fiction!
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Sex, Censorship and the Silver Screen
Title: Sex, Censorship and the Silver Screen
Character: Quote Reader
Released: January 1, 1996
Type: Movie
Explores sexuality and censorship over a hundred years of motion pictures.
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Two Much
Title: Two Much
Character: Sheldon
Released: December 1, 1995
Type: Movie
Art Dodge is a painter-turned-gallerist drowning in debt. He gets in over his head when a con job leads to an engagement with a rich divorcee. He gets in deeper when he falls for her sister, and invents a twin brother to be her beau; and deeper still when his fiancée's ex-husband comes looking for revenge.
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Elia Kazan: A Director's Journey
Title: Elia Kazan: A Director's Journey
Character: Narrator
Released: August 14, 1995
Type: Movie
This documentary on the life and work of Academy award-winning director Elia Kazan highlights his colorful life on Broadway and in film, which is exemplified by such classic movies as East of Eden,A Streetcar Named Desire, On the Waterfront, and Gentleman's Agreement. Kazan's life outside the movie set is equally noteworthy, and this film utilizes various interviews to illustrate his controversial appearance before the House Un-American Activities Committee in the '50s. Elia Kazan is one of America's most respected directors, and this video provides a unique glimpse into the life of a man who has left a lasting mark on the worlds of both cinema and theatre. ~ Dan Macintosh, Rovi
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American Cinema
Title: American Cinema
Character: Narrator
Released: January 23, 1995
Type: Movie
The history of Hollywood and filmmaking comes alive in this spectacular nine hour celebration of movie magic. It's a mesmerizing, epic analysis that combines rare archival film, key scenes from immortal movies, interviews with leading filmmakers and commentary from noted film scholars and critics. As seen on PBS, this highly acclaimed series is the definitive chronicle of the American cinema, from its beginning to today. Includes interviews with Robert Altman, Clint Eastwood, Harrison Ford, Spike Lee, George Lucas, Sidney Lumet, Julia Roberts, Martin Scorsese, Gene Siskel, Steven Spielberg, Oliver Stone, Quentin Tarantino, and many more. A New York Center for Visual History Production in co-production with KCET and the BBC
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Yul Brynner: The Man Who Was King
Title: Yul Brynner: The Man Who Was King
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1995
Type: Movie
There is only one Yul Brynner. No other actor had his looks, his range of talents, his energy and his capacity to draw others into the spell of his charm. A true sophisticate of deliberately mysterious origins, Yul Brynner was at home in a wide variety of languages and social environments.
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It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein
Title: It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein
Character: Narrator
Released: October 25, 1994
Type: Movie
Mary Shelley created a monster in 1818, and writers, actors and filmmakers haven't been able to get enough of it ever since. The history of the creature on and off the screen includes clips from Thomas Edison's 1910 filmization to Kenneth Branagh's 1994 treatment, plus interviews with Robert De Niro, Mel Brooks, Roger Corman and others. Hosted by Roger Moore; narrated by Eli Wallach.
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Marilyn Monroe: The Mortal Goddess
Title: Marilyn Monroe: The Mortal Goddess
Character: Self
Released: October 17, 1994
Type: Movie
An account of the life and career of Marilyn Monroe, one of Hollywood's most famous and glamorous movie stars.
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Title: ER
Character: Mr. Langston
Released: September 19, 1994
Type: TV
ER explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by the dedicated physicians and staff of its overburdened emergency room.
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Title: Baseball
Character: Various (voice)
Released: September 18, 1994
Type: TV
The history of the sport of baseball in America, told through archival photos, film footage, and the words of those who contributed to the game in each era. Writers, historians, players, baseball personnel, and fans review key events and the significance of the game in America's history.
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Title: Inside the Actors Studio
Character: Self
Released: August 14, 1994
Type: TV
James Lipton sits down with some of the world's most accomplished actors and directors for penetrating, fascinating interviews.
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Martha Graham: The Dancer Revealed
Title: Martha Graham: The Dancer Revealed
Character: Self
Released: May 13, 1994
Type: Movie
Released on DVD as part of The Criterion Collection's "Martha Graham: Dance on Film" collection.
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The Man Who Drew Bug-Eyed Monsters
Title: The Man Who Drew Bug-Eyed Monsters
Character: Self - Narrator (voice)
Released: April 12, 1994
Type: Movie
This documentary celebrates the work of illustrator Reynold Brown, whose colorful and compelling art graced over 300 movie posters during the 1950s and '60s, ranging from star-studded westerns and studio epics to sensational creature features and low-budget B-movies. Art historians, writers, and movie producers discuss Brown's art within the context of the post-war social climate and an ever-changing movie industry.
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Vendetta II: The New Mafia
Title: Vendetta II: The New Mafia
Character: Frank Latella
Released: November 28, 1993
Type: Movie
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Title: Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Character: Self - Guest
Released: September 13, 1993
Type: TV
Late Night with Conan O'Brien is an American late-night talk show hosted by Conan O'Brien that aired 2,725 episodes on NBC between 1993 and 2009. The show featured varied comedic material, celebrity interviews, and musical and comedy performances. The second incarnation of NBC's Late Night franchise, O'Brien's debuted in 1993 after David Letterman, who hosted the first incarnation of Late Night, moved to CBS to host Late Show opposite The Tonight Show. In 2004, as part of a deal to secure a new contract, NBC announced that O'Brien would leave Late Night in 2009 to succeed Jay Leno as the host of The Tonight Show. Jimmy Fallon began hosting his version of Late Night on March 2, 2009.
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Lincoln
Title: Lincoln
Character: William Crook (voice)
Released: December 26, 1992
Type: Movie
Famous actors read testimonies from people close to Lincoln about him and his actions during the Civil War.
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The Donner Party
Title: The Donner Party
Character: voice
Released: October 28, 1992
Type: Movie
Doomed attempt to get to California in 1846. More than just a riveting tale of death, endurance and survival. The Donner Party's nightmarish journey penetrated to the very heart of the American Dream at a crucial phase of the nation's "manifest destiny." Touching some of the most powerful social, economic and political currents of the time, this extraordinary narrative remains one of the most compelling and enduring episodes to come out of the West.
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Night and the City
Title: Night and the City
Character: Peck
Released: October 11, 1992
Type: Movie
Looking to get rich quick, an unsuccessful lawyer uses dishonest means to try to become a boxing promoter.
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Teamster Boss: The Jackie Presser Story
Title: Teamster Boss: The Jackie Presser Story
Character: Bill Presser
Released: September 12, 1992
Type: Movie
For a generation, the mobs main money machine was the Teamsters Union. When Jimmy Hoffa disappeared, the fight was on to see who could follow him. Jackie Presser was the son of a long time union board member and when he retired, Jackie was elevated to one of the most powerful position in the country; President of the Teamsters Union.
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Mistress
Title: Mistress
Character: George Lieberhof
Released: July 24, 1992
Type: Movie
A comedy about a screenwriter (Wuhl) whose old movie script is read by a producer (Landau) and the search for financial backers begins. But it seems that each money source (Aiello, DeNiro, Wallach) has his own mistress that he wants put into the film. Gradually, the screenwriter is forced to make changes to his script to accommodate these backers until he finally sees no semblance of his original ideas in the writing.
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Nonsense and Lullabyes: Poems
Title: Nonsense and Lullabyes: Poems
Character: (voice)
Released: June 10, 1992
Type: Movie
This animated anthology is comprised of eighteen updated nursery rhymes and features such celebrity narrators as Eli Wallach, Linda Hunt and Karen Allen.
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Legacy of Lies
Title: Legacy of Lies
Character: Moses Resnick
Released: April 22, 1992
Type: Movie
A famous orchestra director was killed by the mafia when he left a restaurant. But the policeman who is in charge of this case discovers that there is more but just an assassination because it was an error.
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Article 99
Title: Article 99
Character: Sam Abrams
Released: March 13, 1992
Type: Movie
Dr. Richard Sturgess leads a team of compassionate doctors at a veteran's hospital. Along with Drs. Morgan, Handleman and Van Dorn, he fights to deliver adequate care to needy veterans in the face of funding cuts and a corrupt administration. To succeed, the staff may have to bend the rules and circumvent the villainous "Article 99," a bureaucratic loophole that prevents veterans from receiving the benefits they deserve.
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Nonsense and Lullabyes: Nursery Rhymes
Title: Nonsense and Lullabyes: Nursery Rhymes
Character: (voice)
Released: February 1, 1992
Type: Movie
This animated anthology is comprised of eighteen updated nursery rhymes and features such celebrity narrators as Eli Wallach, Linda Hunt and Karen Allen.
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Coney Island
Title: Coney Island
Character: Self - Actor
Released: February 4, 1991
Type: Movie
Before there was Disneyland, there was Coney Island. By the turn of the century, this tiny piece of New York real estate was internationally famous. On summer Sundays, three great pleasure domes--Steeplechase, Luna Park and Dreamland--competed for the patronage of a half-million people. By day it was the world's most amazing amusement park, by night, an electric "Eden".
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The Godfather Part III
Title: The Godfather Part III
Character: Don Altobello
Released: December 25, 1990
Type: Movie
In the midst of trying to legitimize his business dealings in 1979 New York and Italy, aging mafia don, Michael Corleone seeks forgiveness for his sins while taking a young protege under his wing.
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Title: Law & Order
Character: Simon Vilanis
Released: September 13, 1990
Type: TV
In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place.
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Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret
Title: Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret
Character: Self
Released: August 27, 1990
Type: Movie
A leading acting teacher who trained some of the most famous performers of the stage and screen, Sanford Meisner was a founding member of the Group Theatre. The Group Theatre, a cooperative theater ensemble, became a leading force in the theater world of the 30s. Meisner performed in many of the group’s most memorable productions.
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The Two Jakes
Title: The Two Jakes
Character: Cotton Weinberger
Released: August 10, 1990
Type: Movie
Real estate developer Jake Berman hires private investigator and war veteran Jake Gittes for some run-of-the-mill matrimonial work. After Berman shoots his wife's lover, who happens to be his business partner, Gittes is drawn into a web of conspiracy and deceit involving the oil reserves beneath Los Angeles. While investigating, Gittes hears a voice from his past that causes him to revisit a traumatic case in Chinatown.
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The Godfather Family: A Look Inside
Title: The Godfather Family: A Look Inside
Character: Self / Don Altobello
Released: July 12, 1990
Type: Movie
A documentary on the making of the three Godfather films, with interviews and recollections from the film makers and cast. This feature also includes the original screen tests of some of the actors for "The Godfather" film, and some candid moments on the set of "The Godfather: Part III."
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Hello Actors Studio
Title: Hello Actors Studio
Character: Self
Released: November 9, 1988
Type: Movie
After Lee Strasberg’s death in 1982, the most prestigious talents from the Actors Studio assumed the leadership of this exceptional organization. For the first time ever, filmmakers have been allowed to film their work.
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Funny
Title: Funny
Character: Self
Released: April 1, 1988
Type: Movie
People are asked to tell their favorite jokes.
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Hollywood Uncensored
Title: Hollywood Uncensored
Character: Self
Released: December 1, 1987
Type: Movie
Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Peter Fonda host an examination of the history of decency standards for movies from the early 1920s onwards.
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The Impossible Spy
Title: The Impossible Spy
Character: Yacov
Released: November 28, 1987
Type: Movie
This is the true story of an Israeli civilian who was recruited into Israel's Secret Intelligence Agency to become a spy in Damascus, where he spent years infiltrating the Syrian political establishment. Israel's national hero, Eli Cohen, successfully entered the upper echelons of the Syrian government as a double-agent. The secrets he obtained became crucial in Israel's victory in the 1967 Six Day War.
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Nuts
Title: Nuts
Character: Dr. Herbert A. Morrison
Released: November 20, 1987
Type: Movie
A high-class call girl accused of murder fights for the right to stand trial rather than be declared mentally incompetent.
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Spark Among the Ashes: A Bar Mitzvah in Poland
Title: Spark Among the Ashes: A Bar Mitzvah in Poland
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
The incredible story of the 1985 bar mitzvah of American Eric Strom in Cracow, the first bar mitzvah to be held in Poland in thirty-five years.
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Something In Common
Title: Something In Common
Character: Norman Voss
Released: November 2, 1986
Type: Movie
A young man and a nice woman in her forties fall in love. His mother goes berserk when he tells her about it and when the girlfriend comes to meet the mother, she wants to jump out of her skin. Accepting her son's choice won't be easy.
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Tough Guys
Title: Tough Guys
Character: Leon B. Little
Released: October 3, 1986
Type: Movie
Harry Doyle and Archie Lang are two old-time train robbers, who held up a train in 1956 and have been incarcerated for thirty years. After serving their time, they are released from jail and have to adjust to a new life of freedom. and soon realize that they still have the pizzazz when, picking up their prison checks at a bank, they foil a robbery attempt.
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Rocket to the Moon
Title: Rocket to the Moon
Character: Mr. Prince
Released: May 5, 1986
Type: Movie
In 1938 New York City, a dentist finds his business and marriage failing as he embarks on a love affair with a young dental assistant.
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Murder: By Reason of Insanity
Title: Murder: By Reason of Insanity
Character: Dr. Huffman
Released: October 1, 1985
Type: Movie
A married couple from Poland emigrates to the U.S.,. but things don't turn out as well as they had imaged. The husband's business fails, while his wife's career really takes off. The husband, unable to cope with the pressures of his failed business, his failing marriage and the adjustments necessary to live in a completely different society, begins to take out his frustrations on his wife.
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Title: The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Yosef Kandinsky
Released: September 29, 1985
Type: TV
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents is an American anthology series that aired on NBC from 1985 to 1986, and on the USA Network from 1987 to 1989. The series is an updated re-imagining of the classic 1955 series Alfred Hitchcock Presents.
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Title: Our Family Honor
Character: Vincent Danzig
Released: September 11, 1985
Type: TV
Launched as a two-hour TV-movie, Our Family Honor is about two New York City families who had known each other since their childhoods and who were involved in competing "family businesses" – the McKay family mostly worked for the New York City Police Department, where Patrick was Commissioner, while the Danzigs were deeply involved in organized crime, with patriarch Vincent filling the role of "godfather". Barbara Stuart played Vincent's wife, Marianne Danzig. Detective Sergeant Frank McKay was Patrick's often hot-headed son, while Vincent's cruel but inept son, Augie, was nonetheless his heir apparent. Liz McKay, Patrick's niece, was a newly-graduated officer now partnered with Officer Ed Santini. She was romantically involved with Vincent's other son, Jerry, who wanted out of his father's business and used the name "Jerry Cole" in order to minimize any connection with his father's family. Another story line involved Vincent's murder of his wife's lover, carried out by Augie; when Frank came to arrest Augie for this crime, Augie died in the ensuing fight. The effect of Augie's death was not revealed.
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Embassy
Title: Embassy
Character: Joe Verga
Released: April 21, 1985
Type: Movie
US ambassador in Rome must protect US interests and secrets from mob, spies and curious girlfriends who may be more than what they seem.
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Title: Christopher Columbus
Character: Padre Fernando De Talavera
Released: March 7, 1985
Type: TV
After his proposal to sail west to the East Indies is rejected by Portugal, Columbus overcomes court intrigue in Spain to gain support for his expedition.
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Title: Murder, She Wrote
Character: Salvatore Gambini
Released: September 30, 1984
Type: TV
An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.
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Title: Highway to Heaven
Character: Timothy Charles
Released: September 19, 1984
Type: TV
A probationary angel is sent back to Earth to team up with an ex-cop and help people.
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Sam's Son
Title: Sam's Son
Character: Sam Orowitz
Released: August 17, 1984
Type: Movie
Michael Landon's semi-autobiographical sketch of his earlier life. It's the story of Gene Orowitz, a high school student struggling with his identity, who finds success as a javelin thrower on the track team.
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Anatomy of an Illness
Title: Anatomy of an Illness
Character: Dr. William Hitzig
Released: May 15, 1984
Type: Movie
Biopic of Saturday Review editor and political journalist Norman Cousins who developed and promoted a self-made health therapy consisting of intake of large quantities of vitamin C and making oneself laugh as much as possible.
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Title: Reading Rainbow
Character: Himself - Narrator (voice)
Released: June 6, 1983
Type: TV
Journey to exciting places and build a lasting connection with your favorite books. Each episode centers on a theme from a book, or other children's literature, which is explored through a number of segments or stories.
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The Executioner's Song
Title: The Executioner's Song
Character: Vern Damico
Released: September 10, 1982
Type: Movie
In this fact-based made-for TV film, Gary Gilmore, an Indiana man who just finished serving a lengthy stay in prison, tries to start anew by moving to Utah. Before long, Gary begins an ill-advised romance with the troubled Nicole Baker, a teenage single mother. As their relationship quickly deteriorates, Gary goes on a murderous rampage, leaving two dead. During his trial, he demands capital punishment; a media circus ensues and outsiders look to profit from his story.
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Title: Wogan
Character: Self
Released: May 4, 1982
Type: TV
Wogan is a British television chat show
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The Wall
Title: The Wall
Character: Mauritzi Apt
Released: February 16, 1982
Type: Movie
A dramatic re-enactment of the Warsaw Ghetto Jewish uprising in April 1943 were 650 armed members of the Jewish Fighting Organization of Poland held off a 3,000 strong Nazi force in which only a handful of Jews survived. Tom Conti plays Dolek Berson, a Jewish smuggler who joins the resistance movement and is aided on the Aryan side of the wall by a former teacher named Regina Kowalski played by Rachel Roberts in her final role.
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Title: American Playhouse
Character: Mr. Prince
Released: January 12, 1982
Type: TV
American Playhouse is an anthology television series periodically broadcast by Public Broadcasting Service in the United States.
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Skokie
Title: Skokie
Character: Bert Silverman
Released: November 17, 1981
Type: Movie
A dramatization of the controversial trial concerning the right for Neo-Nazis to march in the predominantly Jewish community of Skokie, Illinois.
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The Salamander
Title: The Salamander
Character: General Leporello
Released: April 25, 1981
Type: Movie
An Italian policeman investigates a series of murders involving people in prominent positions. Left behind at each murder scene is a drawing of a salamander. The policeman begins to suspect these murders are linked to a plot to seize control of the government.
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The Pride of Jesse Hallam
Title: The Pride of Jesse Hallam
Character: Sal Galucci
Released: March 3, 1981
Type: Movie
Jesse Hallum sells the family farm to see that his daughter receives the medical care she needs at the Cincinnati Children's Hospital. The big city challenges him, though, especially when his illiteracy is exposed.
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Fugitive Family
Title: Fugitive Family
Character: Olan Vacio
Released: October 1, 1980
Type: Movie
To the world Brian Roberts looks like a successful businessman, with a lovely wife and two children all living in a dream home. Nevertheless, he has really been working undercover for the Justice Department to snare a mob boss. When his cover is blown, he has to break the news to his family about the nature of his real job and, worse, that they are now in real danger! Consequently, they are forced into the federal government's Witness Relocation Program. However, the trauma to the family does not stop there, as the gangsters he double-crossed are determined he and his family shall not escape 'mob justice.'
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Guri
Title: Guri
Released: August 9, 1980
Type: Movie
Docudrama that shows life and country games in Uruguay at the beginning of the last century, through the adventures of a child. With country and gaucho themes, it was co-produced by the National Directorate of Public Relations (DINARP). The film is based on texts by Serafín García.
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The Hunter
Title: The Hunter
Character: Ritchie Blumenthal
Released: August 1, 1980
Type: Movie
During his long career, bounty hunter Ralph "Papa" Thorson has caught over 5,000 criminals. Now, while he is working on apprehending fugitives in Illinois, Texas and Nebraska, he himself is being hunted by a psychotic killer.
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Memoirs of a Movie Palace: The Kings of Flatbush
Title: Memoirs of a Movie Palace: The Kings of Flatbush
Character: Self - Narrator (voice)
Released: April 1, 1980
Type: Movie
When Brooklyn's Kings Theater, one of five "Wonder Theaters" in the New York area, closed its doors in 1977, a neighborhood mourned. In a series of interviews, local aficionados of the palace as well as its projectionist, its organist, and former employees, reminisce about the Kings and its charmed days gone by.
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Winter Kills
Title: Winter Kills
Character: Joe Diamond
Released: May 11, 1979
Type: Movie
The younger brother of an assassinated US President is led down a rabbit hole of conspiracies and dead ends after learning of a man claiming to be the real shooter.
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Firepower
Title: Firepower
Character: Sal Hyman
Released: April 27, 1979
Type: Movie
A mercenary is hired by the FBI to track down a powerful recluse criminal, a woman is also trying to track him down for her own personal vendetta.
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Title: Tales of the Unexpected
Character: Gerry Williams
Released: March 24, 1979
Type: TV
A British television anthology of stories, often with sinister and wryly comedic undertones, and a twist at the end. With early episodes written and presented by Roald Dahl, the series featured a plethora of big name guest stars.
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The Pirate
Title: The Pirate
Character: Ben Ezra
Released: November 21, 1978
Type: Movie
An Israeli man, raised by a wealthy and powerful Arab, comes into conflict with his heritage when he is entrusted with managing his country's oil fortunes and must deal with a fanatical terrorist group led by his daughter.
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Movie Movie
Title: Movie Movie
Character: Vince Marlow / Pop
Released: November 1, 1978
Type: Movie
Three movie genres of the 1930s, boxing films, WWI aviation dramas, and backstage Broadway musicals, are satirized using the same cast.
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Little Italy
Title: Little Italy
Character: Don Gerolamo Giarra
Released: October 10, 1978
Type: Movie
Undercover cop Nico Giraldi travels to New York and Las Vegas to find a crooked cop who gave his squadron back in Italy a bad name.
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Girlfriends
Title: Girlfriends
Character: Rabbi Gold
Released: August 11, 1978
Type: Movie
A photographer and her best friend are roommates. She is stuck with small-change shooting jobs and dreams of success. When her roommate decides to get married and leave, she feels hurt and has to learn how to deal with living alone.
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Circle of Iron
Title: Circle of Iron
Character: Man-in-Oil
Released: July 25, 1978
Type: Movie
In a mystical desert kingdom, young martial arts fighter Cord loses a contest to determine who will journey to take the powerful Book of All Knowedge from Zetan, an evil wizard. Despite his lack of a sponsor, Cord's rule-breaking nature leads him to try retrieving the book anyway. Help is offered by a mysterious blind man who gives advice as Cord fights his way through multiple opponents, discovering more about himself as he gets closer to Zetan.
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Title: The Hollywood Greats
Character: Self
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 Deep
Title: The Deep
Character: Adam Coffin
Released: June 17, 1977
Type: Movie
A pair of young vacationers are involved in a dangerous conflict with treasure hunters when they discover a way into a deadly wreck in Bermuda waters.
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The Domino Principle
Title: The Domino Principle
Character: Gen. Reser
Released: March 23, 1977
Type: Movie
Roy Tucker, a Vietnam war veteran with excellent shooting skills, is serving a long prison sentence when a mysterious visitor promises him that he will be released if he agrees to carry out a dangerous assignment.
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Title: Seventh Avenue
Character: Gus Farber
Released: February 10, 1977
Type: TV
A poor young man from New York's Lower East Side determines to overcome his status, and through hard work rises to become a power in the garment industry.
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Nasty Habits
Title: Nasty Habits
Character: Monsignor
Released: January 28, 1977
Type: Movie
In a Philadelphia convent, two nuns battle it out to be elected to the position of head abbess, and neither is about to let anything stand in the way of getting what she wants.
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The Sentinel
Title: The Sentinel
Character: Detective Gatz
Released: January 7, 1977
Type: Movie
When a beautiful model, Alison Parker, rents an apartment in a gloomy New York brownstone, little does she realize that an unspeakable horror awaits her behind its doors... a mysterious gateway to hell.
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Plot of Fear
Title: Plot of Fear
Character: Peter Struwwel
Released: September 17, 1976
Type: Movie
Plot of Fear tells the story of a decadent weekend party full of orgies and drugs on the outskirts of Milan. After two deaths occur Inspector Lomenzo interrogates one of the guests, a fashion model who becomes his informant, as well as his lover. Clery reveals that after a “wildlife orgy”one of the hosts tried to jokingly feed one of the prostitutes to a tiger but she got so frightened that she died of heart attack. In his attempt to find a connection between the victims, he investigates a cutting-edge security and surveillance firm whose director has secrets of his own to hide.
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Independence
Title: Independence
Character: Benjamin Franklin
Released: July 4, 1976
Type: Movie
John Huston directs this film giving relevance and life to the hallowed buildings and ground making up Independence National Historical Park. Through vignettes, the people and events are re-created for the present-day visitor. Featuring Eli Wallach as Benjamin Franklin.
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Eye of the Cat
Title: Eye of the Cat
Character: Cesare
Released: October 19, 1975
Type: Movie
Ras (Eli Wallach) is a ruler or dictator who covets another man's wife (Mariangela Melato) as his own. He gets what he wants, but Ras wants more: in this case, to humiliate Marcello (Nino Manfredi), a dedicated musician whose life he has already ruined by leaving his cat and taking his wife. He forces Marcello to seek an annulment to his marriage through the Vatican. Ras gets everything, but Marcello's wife, Giulia, and Marcello have other ideas.
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Shoot First… Ask Questions Later
Title: Shoot First… Ask Questions Later
Character: Sheriff Edward Gideon / aka Black Jack
Released: January 17, 1975
Type: Movie
The White, the Yellow, and the Black (Italian: Il bianco, il giallo, il nero, also known as Shoot First… Ask Questions Later) is a 1975 Spaghetti Western comedy film. It is the last spaghetti western directed by Sergio Corbucci. Differently from his previous western films, this is openly parodic.
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Houston, We've Got a Problem
Title: Houston, We've Got a Problem
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: March 2, 1974
Type: Movie
NASA must devise a strategy to return Apollo 13 to Earth safely after the spacecraft undergoes massive internal damage putting the lives of the three astronauts on board in jeopardy.
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Crazy Joe
Title: Crazy Joe
Character: Don Vittorio
Released: February 8, 1974
Type: Movie
The rise and fall of a Mafia gangster, based on the life of murdered New York gangster "Crazy" Joey Gallo.
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Indict and Convict
Title: Indict and Convict
Character: DeWitt Foster
Released: January 6, 1974
Type: Movie
A prosecutor must try his friend, a deputy district attorney, who has been charged with murdering his wife and her lover.
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Cinderella Liberty
Title: Cinderella Liberty
Character: Lynn Forshay
Released: December 18, 1973
Type: Movie
A lonely Navy sailor falls in love with a Seattle hooker and becomes a surrogate father figure for her son during an extended liberty due to his service records being lost.
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Title: Kojak
Character: Lee Curtin
Released: October 24, 1973
Type: TV
A bald, lollipop sucking police detective with a fiery righteous attitude battles crime in New York City.
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Stateline Motel
Title: Stateline Motel
Character: Joe
Released: September 14, 1973
Type: Movie
After robbing a jewellery shop in Canada, two Americans arrange a meeting near the US borders in order to split the loot. One of them has an accident with his car on his way there and gets stuck in an isolated motel until his car is fixed. The owner of the motel, a sexy woman in her thirties, falls in love with him, but her suspicions about him begin to multiply, as the police arrive at the motel...
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A Cold Night's Death
Title: A Cold Night's Death
Character: Frank Enari
Released: January 30, 1973
Type: Movie
Two scientists suspect that there is someone other than their research primates inhabiting their polar station.
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Don't Turn the Other Cheek
Title: Don't Turn the Other Cheek
Character: Maz Lozoya
Released: December 22, 1971
Type: Movie
A spaghetti western in which three adventurers team up during the Mexican Revolution. Mary O'Donnell, a radical Irish journalist, wants to foment a peasant revolt in Mexico. She enlists the help of a seedy bandit, Lozoya, by saving him from a death sentence in Utah. They meet a man calling himself Prince Dmitri Vassilovich Orlowsky, who claims to be a Russian prince, not to mention a man of the cloth. Wallach pretends to be a Mexican folk hero. The trio crosses the border, the two men seeking a cache of gold while O'Donnell pursues her revolution.
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The Typists
Title: The Typists
Character: Paul Cunningham
Released: October 7, 1971
Type: Movie
Real-life couple Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson star in this 1971 television adaptation of Murray Schisgal's moving play, in which married law student Paul Cunningham takes a job as a typist for an ad agency, where he meets lonely spinster Sylvia. Through a series of flashbacks and flash-forwards, the story of their relationship and developing romance unfolds. Emmy Award winner Glenn Jordan directs this volume from the Broadway Theater Archive.
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Romance of a Horsethief
Title: Romance of a Horsethief
Character: Kifke
Released: August 11, 1971
Type: Movie
Since time immemorial, the simple-minded boisterous people of Malava, a small Polish town near the border of imperial Russia, have lived on horse-stealing, horse-trading and horse-smuggling. Life changes abruptly when a Russian garrison, commanded by Captain Stoloff, occupies the town and, in the name of the Czar, requisitions all the horses for the Russian-Japanese War. With no more horses to steal, Kifke cannot afford to marry Estusha and all the young men in the village are likely to be incorporated into the Russian army. This state of affairs cannot continue and Zavill will take care of things. Written by Guy Bellinger (IMDB)
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Paradise Lost
Title: Paradise Lost
Character: Leo Gordon
Released: February 25, 1971
Type: Movie
Playwright Clifford Odets' portrait of the Great Depression unfolds in the modest two-family home of Leo and Clara Gordon as misfortune strikes them and the people running with them. Opened on Broadway in 1935, it became one of the Group Theatre's most controversial plays and Odets' favorite.
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Title: Great Performances
Character: Self
Released: January 28, 1971
Type: TV
The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular song, musical theater, dance, drama, and performance documentaries.
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The People Next Door
Title: The People Next Door
Character: Arthur Mason
Released: August 26, 1970
Type: Movie
A married couple struggle with the realities of their imperfect marriage as they fight to save and rehabilitate their teenage daughter from a life of drug addiction and ultimate committal to a mental ward.
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The Angel Levine
Title: The Angel Levine
Character: Delicatessen Clerk
Released: July 28, 1970
Type: Movie
Morris Mishkin is a elderly religious Jew in New York. His wife Fanny is very ill. He's a tailor, but he can't work because his back has given out. He doesn't even have enough money for Fanny's medicine. Finally, a black fellow appears from nowhere in the Mishkin kitchen. He says he's an angel from God, sent to help Mishkin. The black angel is even Jewish, named Alex Levine? But will Morris believe in the angel? And can the angel perform the miracle that he promises?
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The Adventures of Gerard
Title: The Adventures of Gerard
Character: Napoleon Bonaparte
Released: July 3, 1970
Type: Movie
Based on satirical short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle about a vain, egotistical Etienne Gerard, a French brigadier serving during the Napoleonic Wars. He thinks he's the best soldier and lover that ever lived and intends to prove it.
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Zig Zag
Title: Zig Zag
Character: Mario Gambretti
Released: May 1, 1970
Type: Movie
A dying man frames himself for murder so his widow can collect the reward.
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The Reason Why
Title: The Reason Why
Character: Charles
Released: January 2, 1970
Type: Movie
A meditation on My Lai.
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Mackenna's Gold
Title: Mackenna's Gold
Character: Ben Baker
Released: March 18, 1969
Type: Movie
A bandit kidnaps a Marshal who has seen a map showing a gold vein on Indian lands, but other groups are looking for it too, while the Apache try to keep the secret location undisturbed.
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The Brain
Title: The Brain
Character: Frankie Scannapieco, parrain de la mafia italienne
Released: March 7, 1969
Type: Movie
Arthur and Anatole are two little robbers. They want to rob money, money that will travel in a special train from Paris to Bruxelles. They don't know that other people have planned to do the same thing.
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Ace High
Title: Ace High
Character: Cacopoulos
Released: October 2, 1968
Type: Movie
After Cacopoulos manages to save himself from being hung on a false charge, he robs Cat Stevens and Hutch Bessy of a lot of money and steals their horses. This results in a merry chase and Stevens and Bessy become unwilling allies in Cacopoulus' revenge against the people who deserted him and framed him to get their money back.
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A Lovely Way to Die
Title: A Lovely Way to Die
Character: Tennessee Fredericks
Released: April 19, 1968
Type: Movie
A cop quits the force after too much disappointment in the system. He becomes a bodyguard of a rich recent widow. She is on trial for her husband's murder. He decides to help her clear her name... and get over her husband.
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How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life
Title: How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life
Character: Harry Hunter
Released: January 17, 1968
Type: Movie
Wealthy playboy David Sloane wrongly believes good girl Carol Corman is his best friend's mistress.
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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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The Tiger Makes Out
Title: The Tiger Makes Out
Character: Ben Harris
Released: August 18, 1967
Type: Movie
During a typically disaster-filled day, Ben Harris, an angry and frustrated bachelor mailman living in a cluttered Greenwich Village basement, learns he has been paying rent to a woman who hasn't owned his building in 6 years. No longer able to endure the injustices of society, he decides to activate the ferocious tiger within himself by abducting a helpless female and dragging her back to his lair.
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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Title: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Character: Tuco Ramirez
Released: December 22, 1966
Type: Movie
While the Civil War rages on between the Union and the Confederacy, three men – a quiet loner, a ruthless hitman, and a Mexican bandit – comb the American Southwest in search of a strongbox containing $200,000 in stolen gold.
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Title: CBS Playhouse
Character: Douglas Lambert
Released: December 8, 1966
Type: TV
CBS Playhouse is an American anthology drama series that aired on CBS from 1967 to 1970. Airing twelve plays over the course of its run, the series was nominated for a number of awards and featured many noteworthy actors and playwrights.
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How to Steal a Million
Title: How to Steal a Million
Character: Davis Leland
Released: July 13, 1966
Type: Movie
A woman must steal a statue from a Paris museum to help conceal her father's art forgeries.
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Poppies Are Also Flowers
Title: Poppies Are Also Flowers
Character: 'Happy' Locarno
Released: May 20, 1966
Type: Movie
A special United Nations bureau organises a campaign to trace a drug-smuggling ring across Europe to its source on the Afghanistan-Iran border.
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Title: Batman
Character: Mister Freeze
Released: January 12, 1966
Type: TV
Wealthy entrepreneur Bruce Wayne and his ward Dick Grayson lead a double life: they are actually crime fighting duo Batman and Robin. A secret Batpole in the Wayne mansion leads to the Batcave, where Police Commissioner Gordon often calls with the latest emergency threatening Gotham City. Racing to the scene of the crime in the Batmobile, Batman and Robin must (with the help of their trusty Bat-utility-belt) thwart the efforts of a variety of master criminals, including The Riddler, The Joker, Catwoman, and The Penguin.
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Genghis Khan
Title: Genghis Khan
Character: Shah of Khwarezm
Released: April 15, 1965
Type: Movie
This is the story of the shy Mongol boy Temujin who,during the 13th century, becomes the fearless Mongol leader Genghis Khan that unites all Mongol tribes and conquers India,China,Persia,Korea and parts of Rusia,Europe and Middle-East.
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Lord Jim
Title: Lord Jim
Character: The General
Released: February 15, 1965
Type: Movie
After being discredited as a coward, a 19th century seaman lives for only one purpose: to redeem himself.
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Kisses for My President
Title: Kisses for My President
Character: Raphael Valdez Jr.
Released: August 21, 1964
Type: Movie
A hapless husband takes a back seat to his wife, the first female president of the United States.
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The Moon-Spinners
Title: The Moon-Spinners
Character: Stratos
Released: July 8, 1964
Type: Movie
Young English girl Nikky and her aunt arrive at the Moon-Spinners, a hotel on Crete, to a less than enthusiastic welcome. The coolness of the owner is only out-done by the surliness of her brother Stratos, recently back from London. But then there is nice English lad Mark to make friends with, at least until Stratos and his pal take a shot at him one night. When Nikky helps him hide she finds the Greeks are after her too.
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Act One
Title: Act One
Character: Warren Stone
Released: December 26, 1963
Type: Movie
This autobiographical story traces the career of playwright Moss Hart. Moss struggles as a dramatic writer until he concentrates his efforts on writing comedy. He suffers through a series of professional and romantic failures before a meeting with George S. Kaufman which changes his fortunes.
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The Victors
Title: The Victors
Character: Sgt. Craig
Released: November 22, 1963
Type: Movie
Intercutting dramatic vignettes with newsreel footage, the story follows the characters from an infantry squad as they make their way from Sicily to Germany during the end of World War II.
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How the West Was Won
Title: How the West Was Won
Character: Charlie Gant
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 Merv Griffin Show
Character: Self
Released: October 1, 1962
Type: TV
The Merv Griffin Show is an American television talk show, starring Merv Griffin. The series ran from October 1, 1962 to March 29, 1963 on NBC, September 20, 1965 to August 15, 1969 in first-run syndication, from August 18, 1969 to February 11, 1972 at 11:30 PM ET weeknights on CBS and again in first-run syndication from February 14, 1972 to September 5, 1986.
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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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Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man
Title: Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man
Character: John
Released: July 25, 1962
Type: Movie
Young and restless Nick Adams, the only son of a domineering mother and a weak but noble doctor father, leaves his rural Michigan home to embark on an eventful cross-country journey. He is touched and affected by his encounters with a punch-drunk ex-boxer, a sympathetic telegrapher, and an alcoholic advanceman for a burlesque show. After failing to get a job as reporter in New York, he enlists in the Italian army during World War I as an ambulance driver. His camaraderie with fellow soldiers and a romance with a nurse he meets after being wounded propel him to manhood.
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Title: The Mike Douglas Show
Character: Self
Released: December 11, 1961
Type: TV
The Mike Douglas Show is an American daytime television talk show hosted by Mike Douglas that originally aired only in the Cleveland area during much of its first two years on the air. It then went into syndication in 1963 and remained on television until 1982. It was distributed by Westinghouse Broadcasting and for much of its run, originated from studios of two of the company's TV stations in Cleveland and Philadelphia.
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Title: The Dick Powell Show
Character: Manny Jacobs
Released: September 26, 1961
Type: TV
The Dick Powell Show is an American anthology series that ran on NBC from 1961- 1963, primarily sponsored by the Reynolds Metals Company. It was hosted by longtime film star Dick Powell until his death from lymphatic cancer on January 2, 1963, then by a series of guest hosts until the series ended. The first of these was Gregory Peck, who began the January 8 program with a tribute to Powell, recognizing him as "a great and good friend to our industry." Peck was followed by fellow actors such as Robert Mitchum, Frank Sinatra, Glenn Ford, Charles Boyer, Jackie Cooper, Rock Hudson, Milton Berle, Jack Lemmon, Dean Martin, Robert Taylor, Steve McQueen, David Niven, Danny Thomas, Robert Wagner and John Wayne.
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The Misfits
Title: The Misfits
Character: Guido
Released: February 1, 1961
Type: Movie
While filing for a divorce, beautiful ex-stripper Roslyn Taber ends up meeting aging cowboy-turned-gambler Gay Langland and former World War II aviator Guido Racanelli. The two men instantly become infatuated with Roslyn and, on a whim, the three decide to move into Guido's half-finished desert home together. When grizzled ex-rodeo rider Perce Howland arrives, the unlikely foursome strike up a business capturing wild horses.
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The Magnificent Seven
Title: The Magnificent Seven
Character: Calvera
Released: October 12, 1960
Type: Movie
An oppressed Mexican peasant village hires seven gunfighters to help defend their homes.
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Title: Outlaws
Released: September 26, 1960
Type: TV
Outlaws is an NBC Western television series, starring Barton MacLane as U.S. marshal Frank Caine, who operated in a lawless section of Oklahoma Territory about Stillwater. The program aired 50 one-hour episodes from September 29, 1960, to May 10, 1962. The first season was shot in black-and-white, the second in color. Co-starring with MacLane in the 1960–1961 season was Don Collier as deputy marshal Will Foreman. In the second season, MacLane left the program, and Collier was promoted to full marshal, with Bruce Yarnell joining the cast as deputy marshal Chalk Breeson. Jock Gaynor appeared in the first season as deputy Heck Martin, the on-screen nephew of Will Foreman. Slim Pickens appeared as "Slim" in the second season. Judy Lewis also appeared the second season as Connie Masters, an employee of the Wells Fargo office in Stillwater. The dog who appeared in Walt Disney's Old Yeller was also cast in The Outlaws. Others who appeared on the program on at least three occasions were Vic Morrow, Cliff Robertson, Pippa Scott, and Harry Townes. In addition, John Anderson, Edgar Buchanan, Jackie Coogan, Bruce Gordon, Robert Harland, Robert Lansing Cloris Leachman, Robert Karnes, Brian Keith, Larry Pennell, Chris Robinson, William Shatner, Ray Walston, Jack Warden, and David Wayne each appeared twice in the series.
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Seven Thieves
Title: Seven Thieves
Character: Poncho
Released: March 11, 1960
Type: Movie
A discredited professor and a sophisticated thief decide to join together and pick a team to pull off one last job--the casino vault in Monte Carlo.
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Lullaby
Title: Lullaby
Character: Johnny Horton
Released: January 18, 1960
Type: Movie
Truck driver Johnny Horton and cigarette girl Eadie elope after a hasty romance, but after the wedding, the couple realizes they don't know each other very well. Soon Johnny's overbearing mother becomes the third wheel in their marriage, threatening its fragile existence.
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I, Don Quixote
Title: I, Don Quixote
Character: Sancho Panza / Cervantes' Manservant
Released: November 9, 1959
Type: Movie
The original TV play which evolved into the hit musical, "Man of La Mancha".
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
Title: For Whom the Bell Tolls
Character: Rafael
Released: March 12, 1959
Type: Movie
During the Spanish Civil War, an American allied with the Republicans finds romance during a desperate mission to blow up a strategically important bridge.
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Title: The David Susskind Show
Character: Self
Released: January 18, 1959
Type: TV
The David Susskind Show is an American television talk show hosted by David Susskind. The program began its existence in 1958 as Open End, and was broadcast by WNTA-TV in New York City. The title referred to the fact that the program continued until Susskind or his guests were too tired to continue late on a Sunday night.
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The Gift of the Magi
Title: The Gift of the Magi
Character: Narrator
Released: December 9, 1958
Type: Movie
A musical version of O. Henry's famous Christmas story.
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Title: Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
Character: Raymond Perez
Released: October 6, 1958
Type: TV
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse is an American television anthology series produced by Desilu Productions. The show ran on CBS television between 1958 and 1960. Two of its 48 episodes served as pilots for the 1950s television series The Twilight Zone and The Untouchables.
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Title: Naked City
Character: Georgie
Released: September 30, 1958
Type: TV
Naked City is a police drama series which aired from 1958 to 1963 on the ABC television network. It was inspired by the 1948 motion picture of the same name, and mimics its dramatic “semi-documentary” format. In 1997, the episode “Sweet Prince of Delancey Street” was ranked #93 on TV Guide’s “100 Greatest Episodes of All Time”.
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Title: Naked City
Character: Det. Peter Bane
Released: September 30, 1958
Type: TV
Naked City is a police drama series which aired from 1958 to 1963 on the ABC television network. It was inspired by the 1948 motion picture of the same name, and mimics its dramatic “semi-documentary” format. In 1997, the episode “Sweet Prince of Delancey Street” was ranked #93 on TV Guide’s “100 Greatest Episodes of All Time”.
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The Plot to Kill Stalin
Title: The Plot to Kill Stalin
Character: Poskrebyshev
Released: September 25, 1958
Type: Movie
In late 1952, an aging and increasingly paranoid Stalin puts in motion a purge against his doctors, with antisemitic overtones. His lackeys, including Khrushchev, Molotov and Beria, fear it will spread to the Politburo, and plan to strike first.
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The Lineup
Title: The Lineup
Character: Dancer
Released: June 11, 1958
Type: Movie
In San Francisco, a psychopathic gangster and his mentor retrieve heroin packages carried by unsuspecting travelers.
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Title: Suspicion
Released: September 30, 1957
Type: TV
Suspicion is the title of an American television mystery drama series which aired on the NBC from 1957 through 1959. The executive producer of Suspicion was film director Alfred Hitchcock.
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Title: Tonight Starring Jack Paar
Character: Self
Released: July 29, 1957
Type: TV
Tonight Starring Jack Paar is an American talk show hosted by Jack Paar under The Tonight Show franchise from 1957 to 1962. It originally aired during late-night. During most of its run it was broadcast from Studio 6B inside the RCA Building. The same studio would also host early episodes of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, and Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. Its theme song was an instrumental version of "Everything's Coming Up Roses", and the closing theme was "So Until I See You" by Al Lerner.
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The Lark
Title: The Lark
Character: Dauphin
Released: February 10, 1957
Type: Movie
Adaptation of Jean Anouilh's 1952 play about Joan of Arc, the young girl who led the French to victory against the English in the Hundred Years' War.
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Baby Doll
Title: Baby Doll
Character: Silva Vacarro
Released: December 29, 1956
Type: Movie
Archie Lee Meighan is a failing cotton gin owner who is married to Baby Doll, a 19-year old childlike beauty whose father arranged the marriage for financial reasons. As Archie awaits the arrival of Baby Doll's 20th birthday, the day that they are supposed to consummate their marriage, he faces interference from business rival Silva Vacarro, who plots to seduce Baby Doll away from Meighan.
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Title: Playhouse 90
Character: Rafael
Released: October 4, 1956
Type: TV
Playhouse 90 is an American television anthology series that was telecast on CBS from 1956 to 1960 for a total of 133 episodes. It originated from CBS Television City in Los Angeles, California. Since live anthology drama series of the mid-1950s were usually hour-long shows, the title highlighted the network's intention to present something unusual, a weekly series of hour-and-a-half dramas rather than 60-minute plays. Playhouse 90 began as a pitch by Frank Stanton—the formidable, forward-thinking right-hand man to CBS chairman William S. Paley—during a brainstorming session for program ideas. The project was ultimately developed by Hubbell Robinson, a CBS vice president who received no screen credit on Playhouse 90 but is often described as its creator.
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Title: Tony Awards
Character: Self - Presenter
Released: April 1, 1956
Type: TV
The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway productions and performances, and an award is given for regional theatre.
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Title: Climax!
Character: Albert Anastasia
Released: October 7, 1954
Type: TV
Climax! is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was hosted by William Lundigan and later co-hosted by Mary Costa. It was one of the few CBS programs of that era to be broadcast in color. Many of the episodes were performed and broadcast live.
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Title: Hallmark Hall of Fame
Character: Dauphin
Released: December 24, 1951
Type: TV
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.
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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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Title: Lights Out
Character: Giovanni
Released: July 19, 1949
Type: TV
Lights Out was an extremely popular American old-time radio program, an early example of a network series devoted mostly to horror and the supernatural, predating Suspense and Inner Sanctum. Versions of Lights Out aired on different networks, at various times, from January 1934 to the summer of 1947 and the series eventually made the transition to television. In 1946, NBC Television brought Lights Out to TV in a series of four specials, broadcast live and produced by Fred Coe, who also contributed three of the scripts. NBC asked Cooper to write the script for the premiere, "First Person Singular", which is told entirely from the point of view of an unseen murderer who kills his obnoxious wife and winds up being executed. Variety gave this first episode a rave review ("undoubtedly one of the best dramatic shows yet seen on a television screen"), but Lights Out did not become a regular NBC-TV series until 1949.
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Title: Studio One
Character: Peter Hendon
Released: November 7, 1948
Type: TV
An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. Studio One, presented by Westinghouse, was one of the first of the anthology TV programs. The episodes were often abridged remakes of movies from years gone by and many future well-known television and movie actors appeared in the productions.
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Title: Studio One
Character: Ozep
Released: November 7, 1948
Type: TV
An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. Studio One, presented by Westinghouse, was one of the first of the anthology TV programs. The episodes were often abridged remakes of movies from years gone by and many future well-known television and movie actors appeared in the productions.
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Title: The Philco Television Playhouse
Character: Nacho
Released: October 3, 1948
Type: TV
The Philco Television Playhouse is an American anthology series that was broadcast live on NBC from 1948 to 1955. Produced by Fred Coe, the series was sponsored by Philco. It was one of the most respected dramatic shows of the Golden Age of Television, winning a 1954 Peabody Award and receiving eight Emmy nominations between 1951 and 1956.
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Title: The Philco Television Playhouse
Released: October 3, 1948
Type: TV
The Philco Television Playhouse is an American anthology series that was broadcast live on NBC from 1948 to 1955. Produced by Fred Coe, the series was sponsored by Philco. It was one of the most respected dramatic shows of the Golden Age of Television, winning a 1954 Peabody Award and receiving eight Emmy nominations between 1951 and 1956.
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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.