Aldo Ray

Aldo Ray

Born: September 25, 1926
Died: March 27, 1991
in Pen Argyl, Pennsylvania, USA
Aldo Ray was born in the borough of Pen Argyl, in Northampton County, Pennsylvania on 25 September 1926. He attended the University of California at Berkeley, served as a US Navy frogman during WWII and saw action on Iwo Jima.

While constable of Crockett, California, he drove his brother Guido to an audition for the film Idols in the Dust (1951). Director David Miller hired him for a small role as a cynical football player. Ray's husky frame, thick neck and raspy voice made him perfect for playing tough sexy roles. He was the star of George Cukor's The Marrying Kind (1952) and starred opposite Rita Hayworth in Miss Sadie Thompson (1953). Ray was the none-too-bright boxer in Cukor's Pat and Mike (1952) and an escaped convict in 'Michael Curtiz"s We're No Angels (1955). His career started downhill in the 1970s, with him appearing in a string of low-budget films as a character actor. His last film was Shock 'Em Dead (1991).

Ray was married three times, with one daughter Claire born in 1951 to his first wife Shirley Green whom he married on on 20 June 1947. Ray was then briefly married to actress Jeff Donnell and then had two sons and a daughter with his third wife, Johanna Ray, one of whom is the actor Eric DaRe. Aldo Ray died of throat cancer on 27 March 1991.

Movies for Aldo Ray...

3-D Rarities
Title: 3-D Rarities
Character: Sgt. Phil O'Hara (archive footage)
Released: June 11, 2015
Type: Movie
Selections include Kelley's Plasticon Pictures, the earliest extant 3-D demonstration film from 1922 with incredible footage of Washington and New York City; New Dimensions, the first domestic full color 3-D film originally shown at the World’s Fair in 1940; Thrills for You, a promotional film for the Pennsylvania Railroad; Stardust in Your Eyes, a hilarious standup routine by Slick Slavin; trailer for The Maze, with fantastic production design by William Cameron Menzies; Doom Town, a controversial anti-atomic testing film mysteriously pulled from release; puppet cartoon The Adventures of Sam Space, presented in widescreen; I’ll Sell My Shirt, a burlesque comedy unseen in 3-D for over 60 years; Boo Moon, an excellent example of color stereoscopic animation…and more!
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Shock 'Em Dead
Title: Shock 'Em Dead
Character: Tony
Released: January 31, 1991
Type: Movie
Martin is a total loser, who nobody cares for. When he fails to get a position as guitar player in Lindsay's band and loses his job on the way, he makes a deal with a Voodoo priestess. She promises him the fulfillment of all his dreams if he swears obedience to her. He becomes a rock star and has many women - but to stay alive, he has to kill other people.
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Young Rebels
Title: Young Rebels
Character: Sheriff
Released: October 31, 1989
Type: Movie
From Amir Shervan, the director of SAMURAI COP, comes another great 90's action classic. One man (Johnny Greene) teams up with another (Tadashi Yamashita) to take down the cartel run and its evil leader (Robert Z'Dar).
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Terror Night
Title: Terror Night
Character: Captain Ned
Released: October 1, 1989
Type: Movie
Lance Hayward, a silent movie star, appears as various characters, killing quite a handful of unfortunates, using various weapons.
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Blood Red
Title: Blood Red
Character: Father Stassio
Released: August 18, 1989
Type: Movie
Set in the Napa Valley in 1895, an immigrant family struggles to keep their vineyards from industrialists.
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Crime of Crimes
Title: Crime of Crimes
Character: Johnson
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
A Latino family new to Los Angeles find itself in trouble when the husband is arrested for a murder he didn't commit. His pregnant wife winds up in the hospital, and his little daughter is kidnapped by a child molester.
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Night Shadow
Title: Night Shadow
Character: Gene Krebelski
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
Alex, an up-and-coming TV journalist, returns to her hometown of Danford as local police attempt to cope with a series of brutal murders. The small town plunges into a state of panic and the murders--clearly the work of a monster, more beast than man--continue... until Alex comes face to face with the evil itself.
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The Shooters
Title: The Shooters
Character: General Makepeace
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
A group of misfit U.S. Army soldiers are chosen to represent their base at the annual war games competition where they are not expected to win.
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Drug Runners
Title: Drug Runners
Character: Victor Lazzaro
Released: March 10, 1988
Type: Movie
After his beloved partner is killed, a DEA agent chases a drug king pin to his operation in Mexico and kills him with the help of a sexy-ish undercover CIA agent and a leather jacket wearing Federale.
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Hollywood Cop
Title: Hollywood Cop
Character: Mr. Fong
Released: September 22, 1987
Type: Movie
A detective tries to get back a child who has been kidnapped by gangsters.
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Hateman
Title: Hateman
Character: Sheriff Benny
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
A woman is gang raped by backwoods locals and a crazed Vietnam veteran comes to her rescue.
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Star Slammer
Title: Star Slammer
Character: The Inquisitor
Released: October 10, 1986
Type: Movie
Two women who have been unjustly confined to a prison planet plot their escape, all the while having to put up with unhinged guards, crazed wardens and mutant rodents.
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To Kill a Stranger
Title: To Kill a Stranger
Character: Inspector Benedict
Released: February 6, 1986
Type: Movie
Cristina Carver (Angelica Maria) finds herself in dire straits after she arrives to spend some time with her TV-reporter husband (Dean Stockwell) who is visiting a Latin American country run by a military dictator. After a car accident one day, Cristina brings the helpful Col. Kostik (Donald Pleasence) home and then kills him in self-defense when he violently attempts to rape and murder her. Terrified, she covers up her act and hides the body, yet in spite of her husband's efforts to protect her, a local police detective starts to figure out what really happened.
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Terror on Alcatraz
Title: Terror on Alcatraz
Character: Frank Morris
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
Frank Morris, returning decades later to the scene of his escape from Alcatraz, scours his old prison cell for a map to a safety deposit box key. But his plans are interrupted by a number of youths unlawfully partying it up on The Rock, and when they get in his way, he removes them, one by one...
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Evils of the Night
Title: Evils of the Night
Character: Fred
Released: October 10, 1985
Type: Movie
Sex-hungry teens are kidnapped by auto mechanics, who take them to a rural hospital run by aliens who need their blood as the key to their own longevity.
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Biohazard
Title: Biohazard
Character: General Randolph
Released: August 3, 1985
Type: Movie
A group of skeptical government officials headed by General Randolph are brought to a remote laboratory for a demonstration in "Psychic Materialization", a successful side effect of an experimental drug. But the project scientists had warned that not enough testing had been completed to access safety concerns. In a freak accident during the demonstration to the politicians, a vicious creature is created! Unable to contain the monster, it unleashes unbelievable havoc & destruction against mankind! Reproducing itself at an alarming rate, and all known weapons seemingly powerless against the creature, the scientists are gravely concerned for the survival of mankind!
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Flesh and Bullets
Title: Flesh and Bullets
Character: Police Lieutenant
Released: May 8, 1985
Type: Movie
Two men who meet in a bar in Las Vegas discover that they have one big problem in common, their wives. They decide to do something drastic about it.
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The Executioner Part II
Title: The Executioner Part II
Character: Police Commissioner
Released: June 1, 1984
Type: Movie
Someone is killing off LA's most vicious criminals and the police are powerless to do anything about it. As the commissioner enlists the help of his top lieutenant, Roger, to solve the case, Roger begins to suspect that the mysterious Executioner might be his old friend from Vietnam.
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Sam Fuller & the Big Red One
Title: Sam Fuller & the Big Red One
Character: Narrator
Released: February 4, 1984
Type: Movie
A documentary shot during the production of Samuel Fuller's film The Big Red One.
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Frankenstein's Great Aunt Tillie
Title: Frankenstein's Great Aunt Tillie
Character: Bürgermeister Niederhangen
Released: January 1, 1984
Type: Movie
The descendants of Baron Frankenstein return to the family castle to search for the family fortune that is supposed to be hidden there.
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Vultures
Title: Vultures
Character: Wally
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: Movie
A dying wealthy patriarch, Ramon summons his relatives to his bedside, setting the tone for intriguing suspense when a bizarre set of murders occurs. The terror begins with the arrival of the old man's sister and her lover. Blood and gore are a regular state of affairs. The first suspect is Carl who, despite his protests of his innocence, is hounded by the local detective. But the morbid killings continue... so is he the murderer, or isn't he?
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Mongrel
Title: Mongrel
Character: Bouchard
Released: August 23, 1982
Type: Movie
At a boarding house, a vicious dog gets loose from his chain and chews up a tenant's ass that was teasing him with a piece of raw meat. As a result, the dog is shot to death. Another tenant, a very high strung book editor, is picked on a lot. Soon he starts having dreams that the dog has returned and dead chewed up tenants begin popping up everywhere.
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When I Am King
Title: When I Am King
Character: The Manager
Released: July 8, 1982
Type: Movie
Two children move to a dream world of magicians, witches and an evil Gypsy.
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The Secret of NIMH
Title: The Secret of NIMH
Character: Sullivan (voice)
Released: June 17, 1982
Type: Movie
A widowed field mouse must move her family -- including an ailing son -- to escape a farmer's plow. Aided by a crow and a pack of superintelligent, escaped lab rats, the brave mother struggles to transplant her home to firmer ground.
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Dark Sanity
Title: Dark Sanity
Character: Larry Craig
Released: January 1, 1982
Type: Movie
A woman with psychic visions and an alcoholic past moves into a house where the previous occupant was mysteriously decapitated, and soon suspects the visions she's seeing are her own future.
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Title: Falcon Crest
Released: December 4, 1981
Type: TV
Falcon Crest is an American primetime television soap opera which aired on the CBS network for nine seasons, from December 4, 1981 to May 17, 1990. A total of 227 episodes were produced. The series revolves around the feuding factions of the wealthy Gioberti/Channing family in the Californian wine industry. Jane Wyman starred as Angela Channing, the tyrannical matriarch of the Falcon Crest Winery, alongside Robert Foxworth as Chase Gioberti, Angela's nephew who returns to Falcon Crest following the death of his father. The series was set in the fictitious Tuscany Valley northeast of San Francisco.
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Don't Go Near the Park
Title: Don't Go Near the Park
Character: Taft
Released: September 1, 1981
Type: Movie
In the prehistory of man, 12,000 years ago, two members of a superhuman tribe abuse the treasured secret of eternal youth. They use the methods of ritual cannibalism on the children of their own tribe and when discovered by the 'Queen' of the tribe, they are cursed to an eternity of old age with no chance to ever die. Now, in present day Los Angeles, their only hope to recapture eternal youth is the ritualistic sacrifice of a 16-year-old female virgin. Their existence is discovered by an investigative reporter and a young runaway child and this leads to an unexplained and terrifying confrontation
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The Great Skycopter Rescue
Title: The Great Skycopter Rescue
Character: Sheriff Burgess
Released: December 31, 1980
Type: Movie
When oil is discovered in a small-town, some greedy prospectors hire a gang of wild bikers to scare the townsfolk away. However, when a group of young pilots stumble across the underhanded plot, they plan an effective retaliation.
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The Glove
Title: The Glove
Character: Tiny
Released: December 1, 1979
Type: Movie
In this actioner, a bounty hunter is assigned to bring back an enormous and angry ex-convict who wears a deadly glove made of leather and steel. Rock'em sock'em mayhem ensues.
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Human Experiments
Title: Human Experiments
Character: Mat Tibbs
Released: October 19, 1979
Type: Movie
A demented prison doctor performs gruesome shock therapy experiments on inmates.
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Sweet Savage
Title: Sweet Savage
Character: Banner
Released: September 1, 1979
Type: Movie
A young Indian girl falls in love with a local white cowboy. The racist element in town doesn't approve of that, so they kidnap the girl and gang-rape her. The girl's brother hears about it, and he and other members of the tribe kidnap a white girl from town and gang-rape her. Things go downhill from there.
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Bog
Title: Bog
Character: Sheriff Neal Rydholm
Released: May 1, 1979
Type: Movie
Dynamite fishing in a rural swamp revives a prehistoric gill monster that must have the blood of human females in order to survive.
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Title: Women in White
Character: Frederick Thaler
Released: February 8, 1979
Type: TV
Soap opera set in a big-city hospital where dedication and professionalism vie with jealousy, romance and rivalry among staff members, and the newly appointed Chief of Staff attempts to run the place despite her personal problems.
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Title: Sweepstakes
Released: January 26, 1979
Type: TV
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Death Dimension
Title: Death Dimension
Character: Verde
Released: July 1, 1978
Type: Movie
The Pig has a plan to eradicate some people with a freeze bomb that instantly freezes people to death. It is up to Detective Ash to stop him and protect the woman with the secret to the ice bomb embedded in a microdot under the skin of her forehead.
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The Lucifer Complex
Title: The Lucifer Complex
Character: Karl Krauss
Released: January 1, 1978
Type: Movie
An intelligence agent discovers a Nazi plot to revive the Third Reich by using clones.
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Title: CHiPs
Released: September 15, 1977
Type: TV
Lighthearted look at the adventures of two Highway Patrol officers in Los Angeles. The main characters are Jon Baker and Frank Poncherello, two motorcycle officers always on the street to save lives.
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Haunted
Title: Haunted
Character: Andrew
Released: March 4, 1977
Type: Movie
In Arizona during the Civil War, a woman is accused of witchcraft, tied to a horse and left to die in the desert. One hundred years later, the descendants of the woman's accusers start being killed off, and the townspeople suspect the woman has come back as an evil spirit.
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Mission to Glory: A True Story
Title: Mission to Glory: A True Story
Character: Mine Boss
Released: January 1, 1977
Type: Movie
Father Kino , a 17th-century Jesuit missionary, dedicated his life to helping Native Americans in the Southwest by teaching them agricultural skills as well as building missions and spreading Christianity. An explorer, astronomer and map maker, Father Kino surmounted numerous challenges as he journeyed through California, Arizona and Mexico.
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Haunts
Title: Haunts
Character: Sheriff Peterson
Released: August 27, 1976
Type: Movie
A woman is haunted by psychosexual nightmares while a maniac commits a series of brutal scissor murders. The local smalltown sheriff must find the connection before it's too late.
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Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
Title: Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
Character: Stubby Stebbins
Released: July 26, 1976
Type: Movie
A would-be filmmaker and actress shake up the industry with a trick dog who gets discovered by a studio bus driver in the 1920s.
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Title: The Quest
Released: May 13, 1976
Type: TV
The Quest is an American Western series which aired on NBC from September to December 1976. The series stars Kurt Russell and Tim Matheson. The Quest's pilot episode aired as a television film on May 13, 1976.
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Psychic Killer
Title: Psychic Killer
Character: Lt. Dave Anderson
Released: December 1, 1975
Type: Movie
Mental patient Arnold Masters, hospitalized for a murder he didn't commit, learns astral projection--the art of leaving one's physical body and transporting the soul someplace else--from a fellow inmate. Upon his release, Arnold uses his new powers to bump off the people he holds responsible for his arrest, his mother's death while he was imprisoned and the price of meat! Lt. Morgan and Lt. Anderson are the cops on his trail, while his caring shrink, Dr. Scott, tries to prevent any more deaths.
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Inside Out
Title: Inside Out
Character: M.Sgt. Prior
Released: October 19, 1975
Type: Movie
An American ex-WW II POW returns to Germany 30 years after the war. He teams up with the former commander of his prison camp. Together they spring a Nazi war criminal from jail. He's the only one left who knows where a secret wartime cache of gold is hidden.
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Gone with the West
Title: Gone with the West
Character: Mimmo, Stage Robber
Released: September 1, 1975
Type: Movie
After being framed, a cowboy is sent to jail. After his time is served, he leaves with vengeance in his heart. Soon he meets a young Native American woman and together they go to settle their score with a small town and its corrupt leader.
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The Man Who Would Not Die
Title: The Man Who Would Not Die
Character: Frank Keefer
Released: June 1, 1975
Type: Movie
A boat captain in the Caribbean becomes part of a bond theft/murder cover up.
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Promise Him Anything
Title: Promise Him Anything
Character: Cop
Released: May 15, 1975
Type: Movie
A young bachelor using a dating service picks a woman whose information card read "Anything goes." When he takes her out and finds out that she didn't live up to her description, he sues her for breach of contract.
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Title: S.W.A.T.
Released: February 24, 1975
Type: TV
S.W.A.T. is an American action/crime drama series about the adventures of a Special Weapons And Tactics team operating in an unidentified California city. A spin-off of The Rookies, the series aired on ABC from February 1975 to April 1976. Like The Rookies, S.W.A.T. was produced by Aaron Spelling and Leonard Goldberg.
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Seven Alone
Title: Seven Alone
Character: Dr. Dutch
Released: December 20, 1974
Type: Movie
A fictionalized account of the real-life adventure of the Sager family. Travelling with a wagon train from Missouri to Oregon, things are going well for the Sagers, until father Sager dies from blood poisoning following an Indian attack, and mother Sager dies soon afterward from pneumonia. The leaders of the wagon train decide to send the children back, but the oldest, John (who had been described by all the adults as lazy and worthless), decides to lead his siblings through the wilderness to complete the journey their parents started.
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The Centerfold Girls
Title: The Centerfold Girls
Character: Ed Walker
Released: August 8, 1974
Type: Movie
Police try to halt a psychotic killer's (Andrew Prine) rampage against women who posed nude in men's magazines.
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The Dynamite Brothers
Title: The Dynamite Brothers
Character: Burke
Released: May 1, 1974
Type: Movie
Young black man teams up with a Chinese kung-fu expert to fight a drug ring.
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The Bad Bunch
Title: The Bad Bunch
Character: Lt. Stans
Released: October 1, 1973
Type: Movie
A white ex-GI goes to a black ghetto to deliver a letter from his buddy, a black soldier who died in Vietnam. When he arrives there he encounters hostility and trouble from all sides.
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And Hope to Die
Title: And Hope to Die
Character: Mattone
Released: September 15, 1972
Type: Movie
A crook on the run hooks up with a criminal gang to commit a kidnapping. However, things don't go quite as planned.
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Title: The Houndcats
Released: September 9, 1972
Type: TV
The Houndcats is an American Saturday morning cartoon series produced by DePatie-Freleng Enterprises. The series was broadcast by NBC from September 9 to December 2, 1972, with reruns continuing until September 1, 1973. Thirteen episodes were produced.
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Angel Unchained
Title: Angel Unchained
Character: Sheriff
Released: December 9, 1970
Type: Movie
Angel is the biker who joins a commune of hippies near a small town. When the town rednecks attack them, Angel calls up some of his bad biker buddies to exact revenge.
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Deadlock
Title: Deadlock
Character: Edward Logan
Released: February 22, 1969
Type: Movie
The murder of a journalist, coming shortly after the killings of a black teenager and a white cop, threatens to inflame passions in the city. To prevent a riot, Lieutenant Sam Danforth and District Attorney Leslie Washburn are determined to find the killer, even though they do not exactly get along with each other and disagree over procedure.
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Suicide Commando
Title: Suicide Commando
Character: Seargent Cloadec
Released: October 9, 1968
Type: Movie
World War 2 - a British commando squad is tasked with attacking the "secret" German airfield from which German fighters have been attacking bombers which are trying to stop German tanks from reinforcing the D Day defences.
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Title: The Outsider
Released: September 18, 1968
Type: TV
The Outsider was the story of David Ross, a go-it-alone private investigator who's always where the action is. Darren McGavin played Ross, a man living in an off-beat, always-dangerous world. The series aired for one season on NBC and was a precursor of sorts to The Rockford Files in that it featured a loner private detective who had previously done time in prison for a crime he didn't commit and who never quite fit into a rapidly changing environment.
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The Green Berets
Title: The Green Berets
Character: Sgt. Muldoon
Released: July 4, 1968
Type: Movie
Col. Mike Kirby picks two teams of crack Green Berets for two missions in South Vietnam. The first is to strengthen a camp that is trying to be taken by the enemy. The second is to kidnap a North Vietnamese General.
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The Power
Title: The Power
Character: Bruce
Released: February 21, 1968
Type: Movie
One by one members of a special project team are being killed by telekinesis - the ability to move things with the power of the mind alone. The race is on to determine which of the remaining team members is the murderer and to stop them.
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A Torn Page of Glory
Title: A Torn Page of Glory
Character: Major Comack
Released: January 1, 1968
Type: Movie
US soldiers in Vietnam have flashbacks to civilian life
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Kill a Dragon
Title: Kill a Dragon
Character: Vigo
Released: December 6, 1967
Type: Movie
Chinese villagers hire a mercenary and his team of karate experts to help rid them of a gangster and his henchman who are threatening their island.
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The Violent Ones
Title: The Violent Ones
Character: Joe Vorzyck
Released: October 1, 1967
Type: Movie
When a girl in a town that's populated by Hispanics is attacked, the only thing she says before falling into a coma is that her attacker is an outsider, a Caucasian. So the sheriff arrests the only outsiders there are. All he can do is hope that one of them will admit to being the attacker or that the girl can wake up long enough to identify him. But at the same time her father is preparing a lynch mob.
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Welcome to Hard Times
Title: Welcome to Hard Times
Character: Man from Bodie
Released: April 30, 1967
Type: Movie
A sociopathic stranger all but destroys a small hardscrabble town but the 'mayor' convinces its survivors to stay and rebuild.
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Riot on Sunset Strip
Title: Riot on Sunset Strip
Character: Lieutenant Walt Lorimer
Released: March 1, 1967
Type: Movie
A police captain is caught between businesses operating on the Los Angeles Sunset Strip who don't like the punks hanging out, and his belief in allowing the kids their rights. But when his daughter gets involved with an unruly bunch, his attitude starts to change.
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Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round
Title: Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round
Character: Eddie Hart
Released: October 12, 1966
Type: Movie
A sophisticated con man mounts an intricate plan to rob an airport bank while the Soviet premier is due to arrive.
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What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?
Title: What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?
Character: Sergeant Rizzo
Released: August 31, 1966
Type: Movie
A by-the-book Captain is ordered to capture a strategic village in Italy. The Italian soldiers are willing to surrender, if they can have a festival first. The lieutenant convinces the Captain this is the only way. Because of aerial reconnaissance, they must look like they are fighting. To sort this out an intelligence officer is sent in. Meanwhile the festival gets complicated with the Mayors daughter.
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Title: Run for Your Life
Character: Vince Murdock
Released: September 13, 1965
Type: TV
Run for Your Life is an American television drama series starring Ben Gazzara as a man with only a short time to live. It ran on NBC from 1965 to 1968. The series was created by Roy Huggins, who had previously explored the "man on the move" concept with The Fugitive.
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Nightmare in the Sun
Title: Nightmare in the Sun
Character: Sheriff
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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Sylvia
Title: Sylvia
Character: Jonas Karoki
Released: February 10, 1965
Type: Movie
Sylvia West (Carroll Baker) may not be who she says she is. Her fiancé, the very well-to-do Frederick Summers (Peter Lawford), hires an investigator named Alan Maklin (George Maharis) to do some digging, and what he finds out about her life prior to becoming a writer is quite shocking. Will the newfound knowledge ruin the marriage? Gordon Douglas (Young at Heart) directs this drama, which is based on E.V. Cunningham's book.
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Title: Daniel Boone
Character: Benton
Released: September 24, 1964
Type: TV
Daniel Boone is an American action-adventure television series starring Fess Parker as Daniel Boone that aired from September 24, 1964 to September 10, 1970 on NBC for 165 episodes, and was made by 20th Century Fox Television. Ed Ames co-starred as Mingo, Boone's Cherokee friend, for the first four seasons of the series. Albert Salmi portrayed Boone's companion Yadkin in season one only. Dallas McKennon portrayed innkeeper Cincinnatus. Country Western singer-actor Jimmy Dean was a featured actor as Josh Clements during the 1968–1970 seasons. Actor and former NFL football player Rosey Grier made regular appearances as Gabe Cooper in the 1969 to 1970 season. The show was broadcast "in living color" beginning in fall 1965, the second season, and was shot entirely in California and Kanab, Utah.
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Title: Kraft Suspense Theatre
Character: Sam Kimber
Released: October 10, 1963
Type: TV
Kraft Suspense Theatre is an American anthology series that was telecast from 1963 to 1965 on NBC. Sponsored by Kraft Foods, it was seen three weeks out of every four and was pre-empted for Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall specials once monthly. Como's production company, Roncom Films, also produced Kraft Suspense Theatre. Writer, editor, critic and radio playwright Anthony Boucher served as consultant on the series. Later syndicated under the title Crisis, it was one of the few suspense series telecast in color at the time. While most of NBC's shows were in color then, all-color network line-ups did not become the norm until the 1966-67 season.
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Title: Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
Released: October 4, 1963
Type: TV
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre is an American anthology series, sponsored by Chrysler Corporation, which ran on NBC from 1963 through 1967. The show was hosted by Bob Hope, but it had a variety of formats, including musical, dramatic, and comedy.
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Title: Burke's Law
Character: Mister Harold
Released: September 20, 1963
Type: TV
Burke's Law is an American detective series that ran on ABC from 1963 to 1965 and was revived on CBS in the 1990s. The show starred Gene Barry as Amos Burke, millionaire captain of Los Angeles police homicide division, who was chauffeured around to solve crimes in his Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud II.
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Title: The Virginian
Character: Jacob 'Jake' Walker
Released: September 19, 1962
Type: TV
The Shiloh Ranch in Wyoming Territory of the 1890s is owned in sequence by Judge Henry Garth, the Grainger brothers, and Colonel Alan MacKenzie. It is the setting for a variety of stories, many more based on character and relationships than the usual western.
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Title: The Virginian
Character: Frank Krause
Released: September 19, 1962
Type: TV
The Shiloh Ranch in Wyoming Territory of the 1890s is owned in sequence by Judge Henry Garth, the Grainger brothers, and Colonel Alan MacKenzie. It is the setting for a variety of stories, many more based on character and relationships than the usual western.
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Musketeers of the Sea
Title: Musketeers of the Sea
Character: Moreau
Released: February 23, 1962
Type: Movie
Three pirates are saved from a shipwreck and seize a galleon bound for Maracaibo, where they will save the governor from a conspiracy. Italian adventure movie directed by Steno.
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Title: Ben Casey
Released: October 2, 1961
Type: TV
Ben Casey is an American medical drama series which ran on ABC from 1961 to 1966. The show was known for its opening titles, which consisted of a hand drawing the symbols "♂, ♀, ✳, †, ∞" on a chalkboard, as cast member Sam Jaffe intoned, "Man, woman, birth, death, infinity." Neurosurgeon Joseph Ransohoff was a medical consultant for the show and may have influenced the personality of the title character.
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Johnny Nobody
Title: Johnny Nobody
Character: Mark Wheeler (aka Johnny Nobody)
Released: October 1, 1961
Type: Movie
When the atheistic ranting of Irish-American author James Mulcahy upsets the inhabitants of the Irish village to which he has retired, a mob threatens him. But moments after he has dared God to strike him dead, a stranger appears and does so. The man, dubbed "Johnny Nobody" by the press, claims no knowledge of Mulcahy or even of himself. He asks the help of the village priest, Father Carey, in his upcoming trial for Mulcahy's murder. While the amnesiac Johnny goes to trial, Father Carey mulls questions of belief raised by the case. And then, the good father learns a little more about Johnny Nobody...
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The Day They Robbed the Bank of England
Title: The Day They Robbed the Bank of England
Character: Charles Norgate
Released: September 4, 1960
Type: Movie
London at the turn of the century. Three men are on a mission from the IRA to steal all the gold in the vaults of the Bank of England. Norgate, their leader, discovers the bank's weak spot: an old forgotten sewer straight under the vaults.
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Title: Riverboat
Character: Hunk Farber
Released: September 13, 1959
Type: TV
Riverboat is a 44-episode western television series starring Darren McGavin and Burt Reynolds broadcast on the NBC television network from September 13, 1959 until January 2, 1961. It was produced by Revue Studios.
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The Siege of Pinchgut
Title: The Siege of Pinchgut
Character: Matt Kirk
Released: August 1, 1959
Type: Movie
An escaped prisoner is trying to clear his name.
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Title: Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
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: Elvin Rhodes
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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God's Little Acre
Title: God's Little Acre
Character: Bill Thompson
Released: September 23, 1958
Type: Movie
In the 1950s, a poor Georgia cotton farmer and his sons search for the gold presumably buried on the farm by their grandfather but problems related to poverty, marital infidelity, unemployment and booze threaten to destroy their family.
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The Naked and the Dead
Title: The Naked and the Dead
Character: Sam Croft
Released: August 6, 1958
Type: Movie
Fighting men in World War II learn the value of courage and quickness at the risk of losing their lives.
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Men in War
Title: Men in War
Character: Sgt. Montana
Released: June 7, 1957
Type: Movie
In Korea, on 6 September 1950, Lieutenant Benson's platoon finds itself isolated in enemy-held territory after a retreat. Soon they are joined by Sergeant Montana, whose overriding concern is caring for his catatonic colonel. Benson and Montana can't stand each other, but together they must get the survivors to Hill 465, where they hope the division is waiting. It's a long, harrowing march, fraught with all the dangers the elusive enemy can summon.
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Nightfall
Title: Nightfall
Character: James Vanning / Art Rayburn
Released: November 9, 1956
Type: Movie
An innocent man turns fugitive as he reconstructs events that implicate him for a murder and robbery he did not commit.
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Title: The Steve Allen Show
Character: Self
Released: June 24, 1956
Type: TV
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Three Stripes in the Sun
Title: Three Stripes in the Sun
Character: Hugh O'Reilly
Released: November 23, 1955
Type: Movie
A racist sergeant stationed in post-war Japan finds himself softening towards the children and falling for a local woman.
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Title: Hollywood Preview
Character: Self
Released: September 14, 1955
Type: TV
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We're No Angels
Title: We're No Angels
Character: Albert
Released: July 7, 1955
Type: Movie
Three convicts escape from prison on Devil's Island just before Christmas and arrive at a nearby French colonial town. They go to the store of the Ducotels, the only store that gives supplies on credit. They initially intend to take advantage of them but have a change of heart after they find the family is in financial troubles.
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Battle Cry
Title: Battle Cry
Character: Andy Hookens
Released: February 2, 1955
Type: Movie
The dramatic story of US marines in training, in combat and in love during World War II. The story centres on a major who guides the raw recruits from their training to combat. Based on the novel by Leon Uris.
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Miss Sadie Thompson
Title: Miss Sadie Thompson
Character: Sgt. Phil O'Hara
Released: December 23, 1953
Type: Movie
Sadie Thompson winds up stranded on an island and while her boat is being quarantined, she manages to stir up the blood of every marine on the base.
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Let's Do It Again
Title: Let's Do It Again
Character: Frank McGraw
Released: June 16, 1953
Type: Movie
Composer Gary Stuart (Ray Milland) and his wife, Connie (Jane Wyman), have an argument over her alleged affair with Courtney Craig (Tom Helmore). The Stuarts agree to get divorced, and each tries to move on to a new love: Gary with socialite Deborah Randolph (Karin Booth) and Connie with businessman Frank McGraw (Aldo Ray). However, they start to realize that they still have strong feelings for each other. The Stuarts must make a decision before their divorce is final.
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Pat and Mike
Title: Pat and Mike
Character: Davie Hucko
Released: June 13, 1952
Type: Movie
Pat Pemberton is a brilliant athlete, except when her domineering fiancé is around. The ladies golf championship is in her reach until she gets flustered by his presence at the final holes. He wants them to get married and forget the whole thing, but she cannot give up on herself that easily. She enlists the help of Mike Conovan, a slightly shady sports promoter. Together they face mobsters, a jealous boxer, and a growing mutual attraction.
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The Marrying Kind
Title: The Marrying Kind
Character: 'Chet' Keefer
Released: February 1, 1952
Type: Movie
Florence and Chet Keefer have had a troublesome marriage. Whilst in the middle of a divorce hearing the judge encourages them to remember the good times they have had hoping that the marriage can be saved.
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The Barefoot Mailman
Title: The Barefoot Mailman
Character: Theron Henchman (uncredited)
Released: December 3, 1951
Type: Movie
Sylvanus Hurley is a swindler who's been swindled: he's been given a deed to a large plot of mangrove swamp in the out-of-the-way community. So he decides to con the locals, some of whom are not as honest as he....
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My True Story
Title: My True Story
Character: Mark Foster (as Aldo DaRe)
Released: March 8, 1951
Type: Movie
Ann Martin is serving time as a jewel thief. Paroled and determined to stay clean, she quickly finds out that her freedom was bought by an old, vicious boss that has picked her for a job.
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Saturday's Hero
Title: Saturday's Hero
Character: Gene Hausler (as Aldo DaRe)
Released: March 1, 1951
Type: Movie
A talented high school football player encounters trouble in a college program.
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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.