John Derek

John Derek

Born: August 12, 1926
Died: May 22, 1998
in Hollywood, California, USA
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John Derek (August 12, 1926 – May 22, 1998) was an American actor, director and photographer most famous for the women to whom he was married.

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Playboy Video Magazine, Volume 1
Title: Playboy Video Magazine, Volume 1
Released: January 1, 1982
Type: Movie
Playboy Video Magazine was literally a video version of the publication. It included candid celebrity interviews, video editorials, the trademark playmate pictorials, interwoven with commercial parodies and short comedy sketches. The series also covered trends in media; sex, politics, culture, and pop culture.
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Once Before I Die
Title: Once Before I Die
Character: Bailey
Released: December 1, 1966
Type: Movie
Stranded behind enemy lines when the Japanese attack the Philippines in late 1941, Lt. Bailey must lead a group of soldiers and their families to safety and the streets of Manila. During the perilous trek, Alex befriends a virginal young soldier whose only desire is to have sex once before he dies.
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Nightmare in the Sun
Title: Nightmare in the Sun
Character: Hitchhiker
Released: March 6, 1965
Type: Movie
A hitchhiker sleeps with a rancher's wife and is hunted by the sheriff for her murder.
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Title: Frontier Circus
Released: October 5, 1961
Type: TV
Frontier Circus is an American Western television series about a traveling circus roaming the American West in the 1880s. Filmed by Revue Productions, the program aired on the CBS from October 5, 1961, until September 6, 1962.
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Exodus
Title: Exodus
Character: Taha
Released: December 15, 1960
Type: Movie
Ari Ben Canaan, a passionate member of the Jewish paramilitary group Haganah, attempts to transport 600 Jewish refugees on a dangerous voyage from Cyprus to Palestine on a ship named the Exodus. He faces obstruction from British forces, who will not grant the ship passage to its destination.
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Prisoner of the Volga
Title: Prisoner of the Volga
Character: Alexej Orloff
Released: March 26, 1959
Type: Movie
A vicious play of intrigue, about love, desire and betrayal, in the dress of the military at the Cossacks around 1890.
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High Hell
Title: High Hell
Character: Craig Rhodes
Released: January 1, 1958
Type: Movie
Tempers and sexual jealousies flare when five men and a woman share a mountain cabin while mining for gold.
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Pirate of the Half Moon
Title: Pirate of the Half Moon
Character: Nadir El Krim / Paul de Vellenera
Released: December 4, 1957
Type: Movie
Gianna Maria Canale as the Duchess who is offered a banquet and requests for a hard-boiled egg. The stingy Spanish lord, who used his last gunpowder to fire a salute to the noble lady and thus has no more when a bunch of pirates, led by Nadir, launches an attack against his castle. Nadir is the dashing fiery hero.
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Omar Khayyam
Title: Omar Khayyam
Character: Prince Malik
Released: August 23, 1957
Type: Movie
Omar Khayyam was one of the greatest Persian poets. He was also a brilliant mathematician. Though his quatrains were written in the 11th century, they are still popular the world over. The details of his life are unknown, so this movie invents a biography for him and includes in it his real achievements - the invention of a new calendar and the penning of those epigrammatic poems. This film has him romancing a sultan's bride and foiling the assassin sect's plot to kill the sultan's son.
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The Flesh Is Weak
Title: The Flesh Is Weak
Character: Tony Giani
Released: August 6, 1957
Type: Movie
Giani is a pimp who preys on the naïve, ‘just off the bus’ young women who come to post-war London for fortune.
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Fury at Showdown
Title: Fury at Showdown
Character: Brock Mitchell
Released: April 18, 1957
Type: Movie
After serving a year for a killing in self-defense, gunfighter Brock Mitchell tries to help his younger brother save his ranch but a crooked lawyer has other ideas.
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Massacre at Sand Creek
Title: Massacre at Sand Creek
Character: Lt. Norman Tucker
Released: December 27, 1956
Type: Movie
A fictionalized account of the infamous massacre of Cheyenne and Arapaho at Sand Creek by a militia unit led by an extremist Colonel.
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Title: Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Character: Andy Todd
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 Ten Commandments
Title: The Ten Commandments
Character: Joshua
Released: October 5, 1956
Type: Movie
Escaping death, a Hebrew infant is raised in a royal household to become a prince. Upon discovery of his true heritage, Moses embarks on a personal quest to reclaim his destiny as the leader and liberator of the Hebrew people.
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Title: Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Character: Chet Loring
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 Leather Saint
Title: The Leather Saint
Character: Father Gil Allen
Released: June 6, 1956
Type: Movie
Episcopalian minister Gil Allen keeps up his college days interest in boxing by working out at a gym run by his friend, Tom Kelley but declines offers to fight in an actual staged bout, until he realizes he could use the prize money to purchase equipment for local polio victims. Keeping his real identity secret and hoping to step away after one big payday, Gil signs a contract to fight for greedy promoter Gus MacAuliffe.
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Run for Cover
Title: Run for Cover
Character: Davey Bishop
Released: April 29, 1955
Type: Movie
An ex-convict drifter and his flawed young partner are made sheriff and deputy of a Western town.
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An Annapolis Story
Title: An Annapolis Story
Character: Tony Scott
Released: April 10, 1955
Type: Movie
Two brothers, both cadets at Annapolis, fall in love with the same girl.
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Prince of Players
Title: Prince of Players
Character: John Wilkes Booth
Released: January 11, 1955
Type: Movie
Prince of Players is a biographical film about the 19th century American actor Edwin Booth.
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The Adventures of Hajji Baba
Title: The Adventures of Hajji Baba
Character: Hajji Baba
Released: October 1, 1954
Type: Movie
In Ispahan, Persia, Hajji Baba is leaving his father's shop to seek a greater fortune, while the Princess Fawzia is trying to talk her father, the Caliph into giving her in marriage to Nur-El-Din, a rival prince known far and wide as mean and fickle. Her father intends for Fawzia to marry a friend and ally, and makes plans to send her to him.
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The Outcast
Title: The Outcast
Character: Jet Cosgrave
Released: August 15, 1954
Type: Movie
Thanks to the chicanery of his crooked uncle Major Cosgrave, Jet has been cheated out of his father's property and branded a pariah. He spends the rest of the film trying to regain his birthright and clear his name. The two women in Jet's life are Judy Polsen, who chases him for so long that he finally catches her, and Alice Austin, Major Cosgrave's fianee.
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The Big Moment
Title: The Big Moment
Character: Avrum
Released: March 7, 1954
Type: Movie
Three individual stories that give an account of crucial moments in the lives of three different people: one is a young thief from Casablanca, another is an immigrant doctor brought to the United States and the third is a girl who survived the Holocaust. All three are given a chance to live with dignity and self-respect.
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Sea of Lost Ships
Title: Sea of Lost Ships
Character: G.R. 'Grad' Matthews
Released: October 24, 1953
Type: Movie
The son of a deceased Coast Guard hero is raised by a Coast Guard NCO, who also has a son the same age. When they get older both are accepted into the Coast Guard Academy, but the hero's son winds up being thrown out, bringing disgrace to his adopted family.
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Mission Over Korea
Title: Mission Over Korea
Character: Lt. Pete Barker
Released: August 1, 1953
Type: Movie
A rookie pilot in the Korean War wants to avenge his brother's death.
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The Last Posse
Title: The Last Posse
Character: Jed Clayton
Released: July 4, 1953
Type: Movie
A posse's pursuit of bank robbers ends with loot missing and a sheriff (Broderick Crawford) wounded.
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Ambush at Tomahawk Gap
Title: Ambush at Tomahawk Gap
Character: Kid
Released: May 1, 1953
Type: Movie
Hodiak, Brian, Derek and Teal have just been released from prison. They return to Tomahawk Gap, now a ghost town, to retrieve the money that they stole and was buried by a partner somewhere in the town. While hunting, the Indians attack, and a life and death battle ensues.
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Prince of Pirates
Title: Prince of Pirates
Character: Prince Roland
Released: March 7, 1953
Type: Movie
In a 16th century kingdom in the Netherlands, the newly crowned King Stephan concludes a secret treaty with the Spanish. This puts him at odds with his younger brother, Prince Roland, who favors a treaty with the French. Stephan orders Roland imprisoned but Roland escapes and leads a revolt.
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Thunderbirds
Title: Thunderbirds
Character: Lt. Gil Hackett
Released: November 20, 1952
Type: Movie
An Oklahoma National Guard unit, comprised mainly of Native Americans, is called up for duty at the start of World War II.
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Scandal Sheet
Title: Scandal Sheet
Character: Steve McCleary
Released: January 16, 1952
Type: Movie
A tabloid editor assigns a young reporter to solve a murder the editor committed himself.
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The Family Secret
Title: The Family Secret
Character: David Clark
Released: October 21, 1951
Type: Movie
When his son accidentally kills someone, a lawyer must defend the man wrongly charged with the murder.
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Mask of the Avenger
Title: Mask of the Avenger
Character: Capt. Renato Dimorna
Released: June 27, 1951
Type: Movie
Costume swashbuckler with heroic John Derek battling evil Anthony Quinn.
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Saturday's Hero
Title: Saturday's Hero
Character: Steve Novak
Released: March 1, 1951
Type: Movie
A talented high school football player encounters trouble in a college program.
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Title: Lux Video Theatre
Character: George Eastman
Released: October 2, 1950
Type: TV
Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and plays.
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Rogues of Sherwood Forest
Title: Rogues of Sherwood Forest
Character: Robin, Earl of Huntington
Released: June 21, 1950
Type: Movie
The son of Robin Hood carries on his late father's tradition.
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All the King's Men
Title: All the King's Men
Character: Tom Stark
Released: November 16, 1949
Type: Movie
A man of humble beginnings and honest intentions rises to power by nefarious means. Along for the wild ride are an earnest reporter, a heretofore classy society girl, and a too-clever-for-her-own-good political flack.
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Knock on Any Door
Title: Knock on Any Door
Character: Nick Romano
Released: February 22, 1949
Type: Movie
An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the court.
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A Double Life
Title: A Double Life
Character: Police Stenographer (uncredited)
Released: December 25, 1947
Type: Movie
A Shakespearian actor starring as Othello opposite his wife finds the character's jealous rage taking over his mind off-stage.
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I'll Be Seeing You
Title: I'll Be Seeing You
Character: Lt. Bruce
Released: December 31, 1944
Type: Movie
Mary Marshall, serving a six year term for accidental manslaughter, is given a Christmas furlough from prison to visit her closest relatives, her uncle and his family in a small Midwestern town. On the train she meets Zach Morgan, a troubled army sergeant on leave for the holidays from a military hospital. Although his physical wounds have healed, he is suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and is subject to panic attacks. The pair are attracted to one another and in the warm atmosphere of the Christmas season friendship blossoms into romance, but Mary is reluctant to tell him of her past and that she must shortly return to prison to serve the remainder of her sentence.
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Since You Went Away
Title: Since You Went Away
Character: Minor Role (uncredited)
Released: June 30, 1944
Type: Movie
While husband Tim is away during World War II, Anne Hilton copes with problems on the homefront. Taking in a lodger, Colonel Smollett, to help make ends meet and dealing with shortages and rationing are minor inconveniences compared to the love affair daughter Jane and the Colonel's grandson conduct.
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The Nest
Title: The Nest
Character: Boyfriend (as "Dare Harris")
Released: January 1, 1943
Type: Movie
A silent black-and-white film in which a brother (played by Bob Jones) and sister (Jo Whittaker) are examining mirrors when a third figure (Dare Harris), causes them to act violently against one another, before a magical rite takes place in which the sister's binding spell is destroyed by the brother.