Michael Murphy

Michael Murphy

Born: May 5, 1938
in Los Angeles, California, USA
Michael Murphy is an American film and television actor.

Movies for Michael Murphy...

Evolutions: The Making of Phase IV
Title: Evolutions: The Making of Phase IV
Character: Self
Released: February 27, 2024
Type: Movie
A brand new documentary by Elijah Drenner featuring interviews with Jeffrey Bass, co-star Michael Murphy, screenwriter Mayo Simon, archivist Sean Savage and design historian/Saul Bass biographer Pat Kirkham.
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Monster Hunters
Title: Monster Hunters
Character: Pilot
Released: August 25, 2020
Type: Movie
When an alien prison ship crash lands and unleashes creature after creature in the California desert, they make quick work of the army that tries to stop them. Now, the only hope of stopping the aliens rests with a secret branch of the government specializing in alien weaponry. But with the team untested in actual combat, the battle for Earth will be brutal.
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The Man Who Tried to Feed the World
Title: The Man Who Tried to Feed the World
Character: narrator
Released: April 21, 2020
Type: Movie
The Man Who Tried to Feed the World recounts the story of Norman Borlaug, a man who not only solved India's famine problem but would go on to lead a "Green Revolution" of worldwide agriculture programs estimated to have saved one billion lives. He was awarded the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize for his work but spent the rest of his life watching his methods and achievements come under increasing fire.
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Title: 바다 탐험대 옥토넛 탐험선 보고
Character: Vegimals
Released: February 14, 2020
Type: TV
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The Feud
Title: The Feud
Character: Narrator
Released: September 10, 2019
Type: Movie
The feud between the Hatfields and McCoys is perhaps the most famous family conflict in American history. As legend has it, two neighboring families in the backwoods of Appalachia waged a crude and bloody war against each other over a stolen hog, an illicit romance, and longstanding grudges. Yet the events that took place near the end of the 19th century between the Hatfields and McCoys are part of a much richer and more complex narrative of the American experience.
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Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
Title: Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
Character: The Politician
Released: June 11, 2019
Type: Movie
Part documentary, part concert film, part fever dream, this film captures the troubled spirit of America in 1975 and the joyous music that Dylan performed during the fall of that year.
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The Circus
Title: The Circus
Character: Narrator
Released: October 9, 2018
Type: Movie
Drawing upon a vast and richly visual archive and featuring a host of performers, historians and aficionados, this four-hour mini-series follows the rise and fall of the gigantic, traveling tented railroad circus and brings to life an era when Circus Day would shut down a town and its stars were among the most famous people in the country.
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Indian Horse
Title: Indian Horse
Character: Father Quinney
Released: April 13, 2018
Type: Movie
Follows the life of Native Canadian Saul Indian Horse as he survives residential school and life amongst the racism of the 1970s. A talented hockey player, Saul must find his own path as he battles stereotypes and alcoholism.
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The Race Underground
Title: The Race Underground
Character: Narrator
Released: January 31, 2017
Type: Movie
Based on Doug Most's acclaimed non-fiction book of the same name, The Race Underground tells the dramatic story of how Boston overcame a litany of challenges, the greed-driven interests of businessmen, and the great fears of its citizenry to create America’s first subway.
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The Battle Of Chosin
Title: The Battle Of Chosin
Character: Narrator
Released: November 1, 2016
Type: Movie
An amazingly harrowing story of the 17 day engagement of bloody combat and heroic survival in subartic temperatures. UN forces largely outnumbered and surrounded, due to a surprise attack led by 120,000 Chinese troops.
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Tesla
Title: Tesla
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: October 18, 2016
Type: Movie
Meet Nikola Tesla, the genius engineer and tireless inventor whose technology revolutionized the electrical age of the 20th century. Although eclipsed in fame by Edison and Marconi, it was Tesla's vision that paved the way for today's wireless world. His fertile but undisciplined imagination was the source of his genius but also his downfall, as the image of Tesla as a mad scientist came to overshadow his reputation as a brilliant innovator.
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Way Out on a Limb
Title: Way Out on a Limb
Character: Self
Released: October 11, 2016
Type: Movie
Documentary with several of director Robert Altman's longtime collaborators, as they discuss making the film McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971), the style and themes of the story and working with Altman.
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Close Encounters with Vilmos Zsigmond
Title: Close Encounters with Vilmos Zsigmond
Character: Self
Released: May 13, 2016
Type: Movie
A very special encounter between legendary American cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond and young French director Pierre Filmon. A personal journey with the brightest shadowmaker and his friends.
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Space Men
Title: Space Men
Character: Narrator
Released: February 9, 2016
Type: Movie
In the 1950s and early '60s, a small band of high-altitude pioneers exposed themselves to the extreme forces of the space age long before NASA's acclaimed Mercury 7 would make headlines. Though largely forgotten today, balloonists were the first to venture into the frozen near-vacuum on the edge of our world, exploring the very limits of human physiology and human ingenuity in this lethal realm.
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Murder of a President
Title: Murder of a President
Character: Narrator
Released: February 2, 2016
Type: Movie
The life of President James Garfield, including his rise to power and the aftermath of his assassination.
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The Forgotten Plague
Title: The Forgotten Plague
Character: Himself - Narrator (voice)
Released: February 10, 2015
Type: Movie
Tuberculosis is the deadliest killer in human history, responsible for one in four deaths for almost two centuries. While it shaped medical pursuits, social habits, economic development and public policy, TB and its impact are poorly understood.
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Edison
Title: Edison
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: January 20, 2015
Type: Movie
By the time he died in 1931, Thomas Alva Edison was one of the most famous men in the world. The holder of more patents than any other inventor in history, Edison had achieved glory as the genius behind such revolutionary inventions as sound recording, motion pictures, and electric light. Born on the threshold of America's burgeoning industrial empire, Edison's curiosity led him to its cutting edge. With just three months of formal schooling, he took on one seemingly impossible technical challenge after another, and through intuition, persistence, and a unique team approach to innovation, invariably solved it. Driven and intensely competitive, Edison was often neglectful in his private life and could be ruthless in business. Challenged by competition in the industry he'd founded, Edison launched an ugly propaganda campaign against his rivals, and used his credibility as an electrical expert to help ensure that high-voltage electrocution became a form of capital punishment.
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Fall
Title: Fall
Character: Father Sam Ryan
Released: September 30, 2014
Type: Movie
An aging Roman Catholic Priest living contentedly at a Niagara Falls parish, receives a letter forcing his complacent life into a downward spiral.
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Altman
Title: Altman
Character: Self
Released: August 1, 2014
Type: Movie
Robert Altman's life and career contained multitudes. This father of American independent cinema left an indelible mark, not merely on the evolution of his art form, but also on the western zeitgeist. With its use of rare interviews, representative film clips, archival images, and musings from his family and most recognizable collaborators, Altman is a dynamic and heartfelt mediation on an artist whose expression, passion and appetite knew few bounds.
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They Came Together
Title: They Came Together
Character: Roger
Released: June 27, 2014
Type: Movie
A small business owner is about to lose her shop to a major corporate development.
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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Title: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Character: Narrator
Released: February 11, 2014
Type: Movie
The historical account of outlaws Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, whose turn of the last century exploits made headlines, led them to be pursued by Pinkerton detectives hired by the railroads, and inspired a hit 1969 film.
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White House Down
Title: White House Down
Character: Vice President Hammond
Released: June 27, 2013
Type: Movie
Capitol Policeman John Cale has just been denied his dream job with the Secret Service of protecting President James Sawyer. Not wanting to let down his little girl with the news, he takes her on a tour of the White House, when the complex is overtaken by a heavily armed paramilitary group. Now, with the nation's government falling into chaos and time running out, it's up to Cale to save the president, his daughter, and the country.
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Title: Rogue
Character: George Kelly
Released: April 3, 2013
Type: TV
Grace, a morally and emotionally-conflicted undercover detective, is tormented by the possibility that her own actions contributed to her son’s death. Grace’s search for the truth is further complicated by her forbidden relationship with Jimmy, the crime boss who may have played a hand in the crime.
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Silicon Valley
Title: Silicon Valley
Character: Narrator
Released: February 5, 2013
Type: Movie
In 1957, decades before Steve Jobs dreamed up Apple or Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook, a group of eight brilliant young men defected from the Shockley Semiconductor Company in order to start their own transistor business. Their leader was 29-year-old Robert Noyce, a physicist with a brilliant mind and the affability of a born salesman who would co-invent the microchip — an essential component of nearly all modern electronics today, including computers, motor vehicles, cell phones and household appliances. SILICON VALLEY tells the story of the pioneering scientists who transformed rural Santa Clara County into the hub of technological ingenuity we now know as Silicon Valley.
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Custer's Last Stand
Title: Custer's Last Stand
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: January 17, 2012
Type: Movie
Follow General George Armstrong Custer from his memorable, wild charge at Gettysburg to his lonely, untimely death on the windswept Plains of the West. On June 26, 1876, Custer, a reputation for fearless and often reckless courage ordered his soldiers to drive back a large army of Lakota and Cheyenne warriors. By day's end, Custer and nearly a third of his army were dead.
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Billy the Kid
Title: Billy the Kid
Character: Narrator
Released: January 10, 2012
Type: Movie
Documentary on the life of the famous outlaw.
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Title: Person of Interest
Character: Congressman Jim Hallen
Released: September 22, 2011
Type: TV
John Reese, former CIA paramilitary operative, is presumed dead and teams up with reclusive billionaire Finch to prevent violent crimes in New York City by initiating their own type of justice. With the special training that Reese has had in Covert Operations and Finch's genius software inventing mind, the two are a perfect match for the job that they have to complete. With the help of surveillance equipment, they work "outside the law" and get the right criminal behind bars. 
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Triangle Fire
Title: Triangle Fire
Character: narrator
Released: March 1, 2011
Type: Movie
The Triangle Fire chronicles the 1911 fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City killing one hundred and forty-eight young women and forever changed the relationship between labor and industry in the United States.
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Dinosaur Wars
Title: Dinosaur Wars
Character: Narrator
Released: January 17, 2011
Type: Movie
Dinosaur Wars is the story of two talented scientists, O.C. Marsh and Edward Cope, whose once professional rivalry soured into a bitter personal feud. Together, Marsh and Cope were responsible for identifying more than 142 different species and for introducing dinosaurs into the American imagination, but their legacy would be forever marred by two decades of ruthless infighting, espionage, and sabotage.
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Robert E. Lee
Title: Robert E. Lee
Character: Narrator
Released: January 3, 2011
Type: Movie
This two-hour film examines the life and reputation of the Confederacy's pre-eminent general, whose military successes made him the scourge of the Union and the hero of the Confederacy during the Civil War, and who was elevated to almost god-like status by his admirers after his death.
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The Trotsky
Title: The Trotsky
Character: Frank McGovern
Released: May 5, 2010
Type: Movie
Leon Bronstein is not your average Montreal West high school student. For one thing, none of his peers can claim to be the reincarnation of early 20th century Soviet iconoclast and Red Army hero, Leon Trotsky. When his father sends Leon to public school as punishment for starting a hunger strike at Papa's clothing factory, Leon quickly lends new meaning to the term 'student union', determined as he is to live out his pre-ordained destiny to the fullest and change the world.
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Title: The Bridge
Character: Ed Wycoff
Released: March 5, 2010
Type: TV
The Bridge was a Canadian police drama commissioned by CTV and CBS starring Aaron Douglas. The name of the series is derived from the bridge which connects the wealthy Rosedale neighborhood of Toronto with one of its poorest, St. James Town. The initial order is for 11 episodes, produced by Entertainment One. After CTV ordered the pilot to series in November 2008, CTV later shared the pilot with CBS. This series premiered on CTV on March 5, 2010 and premiered on July 10, 2010 on CBS. It has been canceled in the US after three episodes due to low ratings. CTV announced on June 3, 2010 that the series will return for a second season during the 2010–2011 season. However, on January 13, 2011, star Aaron Douglas tweeted that the series has been officially canceled after only one season.
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Wyatt Earp
Title: Wyatt Earp
Character: Narrator
Released: January 25, 2010
Type: Movie
Wyatt Earp has been portrayed in countless movies and television shows by some of Hollywood's greatest actors, including Henry Fonda, Jimmy Stewart, and more recently, Kevin Costner, but these popular fictions often belie the complexities and flaws of a man whose life is a lens on politics, justice and economic opportunity in the American frontier.
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According to Greta
Title: According to Greta
Character: Joseph
Released: November 25, 2009
Type: Movie
Dumped on her grandparents for the summer by her indifferent mother, acerbic and self-destructive teenager Greta disrupts the elderly couple's staid life on the Jersey Shore. Eventually, a romance helps Greta face down her demons.
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Depression: Out of the Shadows
Title: Depression: Out of the Shadows
Character: Himself - Narrator
Released: May 21, 2008
Type: Movie
This PBS documentary explores depression, a debilitating disease that affects millions of Americans. Touching the lives of people from diverse backgrounds, depression still carries a stigma that causes some sufferers to go without treatment. Real people with depression talk about their experiences, and scientists offer commentary to shed light on the disease, including its diagnosis, treatment and current research.
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Kit Carson
Title: Kit Carson
Character: Self - Narrator (voice)
Released: February 18, 2008
Type: Movie
An illiterate mountain man, Kit Carson was fluent in Spanish and five Indian languages; he twice married Native American women, yet led a brutal war against the Navajo. When the West was a mystery to most Americans, Carson mastered it, and his expertise made him not only famous, but also sought after. Eventually, by helping to spur a migration that would change the West forever, he unwittingly became an agent in the destruction of the life he loved.
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Away from Her
Title: Away from Her
Character: Aubrey
Released: May 4, 2007
Type: Movie
Fiona and Grant have been married for nearly 50 years. They have to face the fact that Fiona’s absent-mindedness is a symptom of Alzheimer’s disease. She must go to a specialized nursing home, where she slowly forgets Grant and turns her affection to Aubrey, another patient in the home.
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The Wind in the Willows
Title: The Wind in the Willows
Character: Judge
Released: December 18, 2006
Type: Movie
Matt Lucas as a marvellous Toad, Mark Gatiss as a spiky rat, Lee Ingleby as a nervous Mole, and Bob Hoskins as a grumpy old Badger make a classy cast within yet another version of Kenneth Grahame's classic book.
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Title: The Path to 9/11
Character: William Cohen
Released: September 10, 2006
Type: TV
Beginning with the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center and ending on the morning of 9/11, the draws on detailed information from the 9/11 Commission Report to take viewers on an unforgettable journey through the events that presaged that fateful day -- to understand what went right and wrong, and what can be learned from this crucial eight-year period.
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X-Men: The Last Stand
Title: X-Men: The Last Stand
Character: Warren Worthington II
Released: May 24, 2006
Type: Movie
When a cure is found to treat mutations, lines are drawn amongst the X-Men—led by Professor Charles Xavier—and the Brotherhood, a band of powerful mutants organised under Xavier's former ally, Magneto.
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Playing House
Title: Playing House
Character: Hubbard
Released: March 24, 2006
Type: Movie
A young, ambitious editor finds out she's pregnant just as she lands her big break.
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Jesse James
Title: Jesse James
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: February 6, 2006
Type: Movie
He's one of America's most cherished myths... and one of its most wrong-headed. America's Robin Hood who robbed not only the rich but the poor and defenseless as well, always saving the treasure for himself.
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Las Vegas: An Unconventional History: Part 2 - American Mecca
Title: Las Vegas: An Unconventional History: Part 2 - American Mecca
Character: Narrator
Released: November 15, 2005
Type: Movie
The continued story of the circumstances that led to the founding of what would become a huge tourist destination in the desert.
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Las Vegas: An Unconventional History: Part 1 - Sin City
Title: Las Vegas: An Unconventional History: Part 1 - Sin City
Character: Narrator
Released: November 14, 2005
Type: Movie
Traces the often surprising, endlessly entertaining history of the country's most outrageous playground. Interviews with Las Vegas insiders as well as everyday citizens in search of the American Dream chronicle how Las Vegas transformed itself from remote frontier way station into the Depression-era "Gateway to the Hoover Dam," then into the mid-century gangster metropolis known as "Sin City," and finally into a family vacation destination and the fastest-growing city in the United States.
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Mayday
Title: Mayday
Character: Captain Randall Williams
Released: October 2, 2005
Type: Movie
Twelve miles above the Pacific Ocean, an errant missile strikes a state of the art passenger jet. The flight crew is crippled or dead. Now, defying both nature and man, a handful of survivors must achieve the impossible: Land the airplane.
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Heights
Title: Heights
Character: Jesse
Released: July 15, 2005
Type: Movie
'Heights' follows five characters over 24 hours on a fall day in New York City. Isabel, a photographer, is having second thoughts about her upcoming marriage to Jonathan, a lawyer. On the same day, Isabel's mother Diana learns that her husband has a new lover and begins to re-think her life choices and her open marriage. Diana and Isabel's paths cross with Alec, a young actor, and with Peter, a journalist. As the interrelated stories proceed, the connections between the lives of the five characters begin to reveal themselves and their stories unravel. Isabel, Jonathan, Diana, Alec, and Peter must choose what kind of lives they will lead before the sun comes up on the next day.
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Title: Tilt
Character: Jimmy Molloy
Released: February 17, 2005
Type: TV
Young poker players must navigate their past along with the best players in the world to win.
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Title: H2O
Character: U.S. Ambassador Conrad
Released: October 31, 2004
Type: TV
H2O is a Canadian political drama two-part miniseries that first aired on the CBC Television October 31, 2004. It starred Paul Gross and Leslie Hope, with former politician Belinda Stronach making a cameo appearance. Written by Gross and John Krizanc and directed by Charles Binamé, it was nominated for five Gemini Awards and four DGC Craft Awards. It won one Golden Nymph Award for best actor.
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H2O
Title: H2O
Character: U.S. Ambassador Conrad
Released: October 31, 2004
Type: Movie
When Canada's Prime Minister drowns in what appears to be a boating accident, his son takes office and is drawn into a deceptive world of power and corruption.
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Title: Tanner on Tanner
Character: Jack Tanner
Released: October 5, 2004
Type: TV
Sixteen years ago, Jack Tanner's bid for the White House ended at the 1988 Democratic convention. Now the former congressman is the subject of a documentary film directed by his daughter Alex focusing on the toll paid by failed contenders.
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Silver City
Title: Silver City
Character: Senator Judson Pilager
Released: September 17, 2004
Type: Movie
The discovery of a corpse threatens to unravel a bumbling local politician's campaign for governor of Colorado.
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Title: LAX
Released: September 13, 2004
Type: TV
LAX is a television drama set at the Los Angeles International Airport and draws its name from the airport's IATA airport code, "LAX". On May 17, 2004 NBC announced that they had picked up the pilot to series. This show was not renewed for season two.
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Childstar
Title: Childstar
Character: Reed Harrison
Released: September 10, 2004
Type: Movie
An experimental filmmaker takes a job as a driver for a foul-mouthed child actor and his ambitious stage mother.
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Tricks
Title: Tricks
Character: Arthur
Released: April 22, 2004
Type: Movie
Laurel, Jane and Candy. We meet them as children, we know them as prostitutes and we come to understand them as women. The town is Chicago and the girls are from all walks of life. This is love at a price.
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The Rise & Fall of Penn Station
Title: The Rise & Fall of Penn Station
Character: Narrator
Released: February 18, 2004
Type: Movie
In 1910, the Pennsylvania Railroad successfully accomplished the enormous engineering feat of building tunnels under New York City's Hudson and East Rivers, connecting the railroad to New York and New England, knitting together the entire eastern half of the United States. The tunnels terminated in what was one of the greatest architectural achievements of its time, Pennsylvania Station. Penn Station covered nearly eight acres, extended two city blocks, and housed one of the largest public spaces in the world. But just 53 years after the station’s opening, the monumental building that was supposed to last forever, to herald and represent the American Empire, was slated to be destroyed.
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Title: This Is Wonderland
Character: Judge Maxwell Fraser
Released: January 12, 2004
Type: TV
This Is Wonderland was a Canadian television series which aired on CBC Television. The series was a legal drama with comedic elements, or a comedy-drama. It was created by playwright George F. Walker, his writing partner Dani Romain, and Osgoode Hall Law School graduate and longtime Canadian TV producer Bernard Zukerman. The first season aired in 2004, the second season began on January 25, 2005 and the third season began on November 23, 2005. On February 13, 2006, the CBC declined to order a fourth season, effectively cancelling the show. The final episode aired on March 15, 2006. Repeats of the first and second season currently air on Canadian digital specialty channel, bold, as well as on VisionTV.
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Footsteps
Title: Footsteps
Character: Robbie
Released: October 11, 2003
Type: Movie
Daisy Lowendahl is a best-selling suspense novelist who finds herself at her isolated beach house with a local young fan who knows almost everything about her, and two men — one of whom may be trying to kill her, the other of whom could save her life, causing Daisy to be thrown into the middle of a real-life drama.
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The Transcontinental Railroad
Title: The Transcontinental Railroad
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: January 27, 2003
Type: Movie
Documentary filmmakers offer a fascinating look at one of the most spectacular engineering feats of the 19th Century as the story of the Transcontinental Railroad comes to life in a film that's sure to appeal to historians and railroad enthusiasts alike. As legions of tireless workers toiled for six years to realize the vision of shady entrepreneurs and imaginative engineers, the remarkable railway dream slowly became a reality. But not everyone was so pleased with the remarkable achievement. Despite the devastating effect that the tremendous transportation breakthrough would have on the Native American population, the lasting impact of the Transcontinental Railroad on the politics and culture of a rapidly expanding country would forever mark it as an invaluable component of the American success story.
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Live from Baghdad
Title: Live from Baghdad
Character: Tom Johnson
Released: December 7, 2002
Type: Movie
A group of CNN reporters wrestle with journalistic ethics and the life-and-death perils of reporting during the Gulf War.A Directors Guild Award-winning movie for director Mick Jackson, starring Michael Keaton and Helena Bonham Carter. In 1990, CNN was a 24-hour news network in search of a 24-hour story. They were about to find it in Baghdad. Veteran CNN producer Robert Wiener and his longtime producing partner Ingrid Formanek find themselves in Iraq on the eve of war. Up against the big three networks, Weiner and his team are rebels with a cause, willing to take risks to get the biggest stories and - unlike their rivals - take them live at a moment's notice. As Baghdad becomes an inevitable US target, one by one the networks pull out of the city until only the crew from CNN remains. With a full-scale war soon to be launched all around them, and CNN ready to broadcast whatever happens 24 hours a day, Wiener and Formanek are about to risk their lives for the story of a lifetime.
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The Day Reagan Was Shot
Title: The Day Reagan Was Shot
Character: Michael Deaver
Released: December 9, 2001
Type: Movie
The Day Reagan Was Shot is a 2001 film made for television directed by Cyrus Nowrasteh. The film stars Richard Dreyfuss as Alexander Haig and Richard Crenna as Ronald Reagan.
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Title: Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Character: Judge Peter Blakemore
Released: September 30, 2001
Type: TV
The third installment of the “Law & Order” franchise takes viewers deep into the minds of its criminals while following the intense psychological approaches the Major Case Squad uses to solve its crimes.
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Tart
Title: Tart
Character: Mike Storm
Released: April 23, 2001
Type: Movie
A student will do anything to become part of the "in-crowd" at the exclusive school she attends in New York.
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The Art of War
Title: The Art of War
Character: Politician (uncredited)
Released: August 25, 2000
Type: Movie
When ruthless terrorists threaten to bring down the United Nations, they frame the one man they believe can stop them: an international security expert named Shaw. Now he must run from his own allies and become a solitary force for good, as he tries to stop what could become World War III.
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Enlisted: The Story of 'M*A*S*H'
Title: Enlisted: The Story of 'M*A*S*H'
Character: Self
Released: January 8, 2000
Type: Movie
A behind the scenes look at the making of the movie M*A*S*H. The documentary reveals all of the chaos, politics, and conflict that was going on behind the scenes during production of the movie through new interviews done with director Robert Altman as well as Richard Zanuck, who was head of production for 20th Century Fox at the time, and others.
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Magnolia
Title: Magnolia
Character: Alan Kligman Esq.
Released: December 10, 1999
Type: Movie
An epic mosaic of many interrelated characters in search of happiness, forgiveness, and meaning in the San Fernando Valley.
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Title: Family Law
Released: September 20, 1999
Type: TV
Family attorney and mom Lynn Holt has had to scramble to keep her family and her law firm together since her husband left her and took most of their joint law practice with him. Although the attorneys are carting plenty of life's baggage, they're all determined to make the most of this unexpected second chance—and make each month's mortgage payment.
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Title: Judging Amy
Character: Judge Alistair McNeil
Released: September 19, 1999
Type: TV
Judging Amy is an American television drama that was telecast from September 19, 1999, through May 3, 2005, on CBS-TV. This TV series starred Amy Brenneman and Tyne Daly. Its main character is a judge who serves in a family court, and in addition to the family-related cases that she adjudicates, many episodes of the show focus on her own experiences as a divorced mother, and on the experiences of her mother, a social worker who works in the field of child welfare. This series was based on the life experiences of Brenneman's mother.
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Indiscretion of an American Wife
Title: Indiscretion of an American Wife
Character: Russell Burton
Released: March 9, 1998
Type: Movie
An American diplomat's wife meets an Italian vintner at an embassy soirée. He sees her as more than just her "husband's hostess". Her husband has been so focused on advancing his career that he has forgotten how to see her as a woman, which the Italian reminds her that she is.
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Sleeping Dogs Lie
Title: Sleeping Dogs Lie
Character: Edgar Trott
Released: January 1, 1998
Type: Movie
In 1919 theatre owner Ambrose Small sold his business and vanished. but who , if anyone, was responsible for his disappearance?
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Breaking the Surface: The Greg Louganis Story
Title: Breaking the Surface: The Greg Louganis Story
Character: Pete Louganis
Released: March 19, 1997
Type: Movie
Breaking the Surface is about the tough times Greg Louganis had on his way to becoming one of the world's top Olympic divers.
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Private Parts
Title: Private Parts
Character: Roger Erlick
Released: March 7, 1997
Type: Movie
The auto-biographical story of Howard Stern, the radio-rebel who is now also a TV-personality, an author and a movie star.
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Kansas City
Title: Kansas City
Character: Henry Stilton
Released: August 16, 1996
Type: Movie
A pair of kidnappings expose the complex power dynamics within the corrupt and unpredictable workings of 1930s Kansas City.
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Special Report: Journey to Mars
Title: Special Report: Journey to Mars
Character: Dean Rumplemeyer
Released: March 25, 1996
Type: Movie
When the world's first spaceship is close to its goal (Mars), the TV-network GNN begins its live coverage of the last two hours of the mission and then the problems start. The landing-computer malfunctions, the captain Eugene Slader gets very sick and back on Earth it is discovered that big financial corporations have an interest in the failure of the mission - and we, the viewers, can see it all live on television.
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The Ultimate Lie
Title: The Ultimate Lie
Character: Malcolm McGrath
Released: March 18, 1996
Type: Movie
A spoiled young rich girl rebels against her parents by becoming a call girl. However, one night she arrives at a hotel for a "rendezvous" with a client and discovers to her horror that he is none other than her father.
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Truman
Title: Truman
Character: Dinner Speaker (uncredited)
Released: September 9, 1995
Type: Movie
Biographical account of America's President for the latter part of WWII. Shows Truman's rise from small-town nobody to leader of the USA, his decision to use the Atomic Bomb against Japan, and subsequent election as the US' post-war President.
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The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
Title: The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
Character: Self
Released: June 5, 1995
Type: Movie
Based on the first centenary of the largest exporter of films in the world, that is Hollywood, is the story told by its protagonists, actors and writers and other people who made life in this business, interspersing images of famous movies.
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Bad Company
Title: Bad Company
Character: William V. 'Smitty' Smithfield (uncredited)
Released: January 20, 1995
Type: Movie
CIA operative Nelson Crowe is tasked with a deadly assignment: infiltrate a highly secret industrial espionage firm. Once inside, he teams with Margaret Wells, a master spy and seductive manipulator, in a plot to overthrow the organization's sinister president, which leads them into a darkly mysterious web of intrigue -- and shocking murder!
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Clean Slate
Title: Clean Slate
Character: Dr. Doover
Released: May 6, 1994
Type: Movie
Pogue is a private eye with a problem: every morning when he wakes up, he has total amnesia, waking up with a 'blank slate'. Since he is in the middle of a hot investigation and has a developing romance, this is less than convenient.
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Dead Ahead: The Exxon Valdez Disaster
Title: Dead Ahead: The Exxon Valdez Disaster
Character: Bill Reilly - Presidential Delegation
Released: September 13, 1992
Type: Movie
The real-life struggle to contain the environmental and financial damage caused to Alaska by the oil spill from the Exxon Valdez is dramatized.
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Batman Returns
Title: Batman Returns
Character: Mayor
Released: June 19, 1992
Type: Movie
While Batman deals with a deformed man calling himself the Penguin, an employee of a corrupt businessman transforms into the Catwoman.
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Folks!
Title: Folks!
Character: Ed
Released: May 1, 1992
Type: Movie
A slightly self absorbed yuppie takes in his parents including his senile father, after their home burns down. But his personal and professional life fall apart soon after.
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Title: Law & Order
Character: Nolan Tinsdale
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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Tailspin: Behind the Korean Airliner Tragedy
Title: Tailspin: Behind the Korean Airliner Tragedy
Character: Richard Burt
Released: August 20, 1989
Type: Movie
Chronicle of the shooting down of a Korean passenger plane by Soviet air force on 1st September 1983. Over 280 people died in this incident.
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Shocker
Title: Shocker
Character: Lt. Don Parker
Released: March 23, 1989
Type: Movie
About to be electrocuted for a catalog of heinous crimes, the unrepentant Horace Pinker transforms into a terrifying energy source. Only young athlete Jonathan Parker, with an uncanny connection to him through bizarre dreams, can fight the powerful demon.
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Title: American Experience
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: October 4, 1988
Type: TV
TV's most-watched history series brings to life the compelling stories from our past that inform our understanding of the world today.
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The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
Title: The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
Character: Captain Blakely
Released: May 8, 1988
Type: Movie
A full-length adaptation, originally staged as a play, of the court-martial segment from the novel "The Caine Mutiny".
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Title: Tanner '88
Character: Jack Tanner
Released: February 15, 1988
Type: TV
In 1988, renegade filmmaker Robert Altman and Pulitzer Prize–winning Doonesbury cartoonist Garry Trudeau created a presidential candidate, ran him alongside the other hopefuls during the primary season, and presented their media campaign as a cross between a soap opera and TV news. The result was the groundbreaking Tanner ’88, a piercing satire of media-age American politics.
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Title: Hard Copy
Released: January 25, 1987
Type: TV
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Title: L.A. Law
Character: Bobby Lewis
Released: September 15, 1986
Type: TV
L.A. Law is an American television legal drama series that ran for eight seasons on NBC from September 15, 1986, to May 19, 1994. Created by Steven Bochco and Terry Louise Fisher, it contained many of Bochco's trademark features including a large number of parallel storylines, social drama and off-the-wall humor. It reflected the social and cultural ideologies of the 1980s and early 1990s, and many of the cases featured on the show dealt with hot-topic issues such as abortion, racism, gay rights, homophobia, sexual harassment, AIDS, and domestic violence. The series often also reflected social tensions between the wealthy senior lawyer protagonists and their less well-paid junior staff. The show was popular with audiences and critics, and won 15 Emmy Awards throughout its run, four of which were for Outstanding Drama Series.
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Salvador
Title: Salvador
Character: Ambassador Thomas Kelly
Released: April 23, 1986
Type: Movie
In 1980, an American journalist covering the Salvadoran Civil War becomes entangled with both the leftist guerrilla groups and the right-wing military dictatorship while trying to rescue his girlfriend and her children.
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Mesmerized
Title: Mesmerized
Character: Wilson
Released: November 18, 1985
Type: Movie
An orphan weds an older man in circa-1900 New Zealand, then finds out he's a miser who spies on her.
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Countdown to Looking Glass
Title: Countdown to Looking Glass
Character: Bob Calhoun
Released: October 14, 1984
Type: Movie
A fictional confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over the Strait of Hormuz, the gateway to the Persian Gulf. The narrative of the film details the events that lead up to the initial exchange of nuclear weapons from the perspective of an on-going news broadcast.
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Cloak & Dagger
Title: Cloak & Dagger
Character: Rice
Released: June 1, 1984
Type: Movie
11-year-old Davey's mother is dead and his father doesn't spend nearly enough time with him. So the boy loses himself in video games--and even has an imaginary friend, a super-resourceful secret agent. When he accidentally comes into possession of a spy group's secret plans, and winds up on the run from them, he must learn to rely on himself and his imaginary pal to save his skin.
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Talk to Me
Title: Talk to Me
Character: Ross
Released: January 10, 1984
Type: Movie
Richard, a successful New York accountant, has a chronic stuttering problem that causes great exhaustion and personal strife for him. After trying a number of different therapies to alleviate his condition, Richard travels to Roanoke, Virginia, where he enters the Hollins Institute, a treatment center devoted to the research and cure for stuttering. Here, Richard's painful memories form the core of this poignant drama.
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Hot Money
Title: Hot Money
Character: Burt / Tom
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: Movie
Burt, a clever ex-con, has changed his identity and has managed to land a job as a deputy in small town in upstate New York. On the 4th of July, while the drunken Sheriff Paisley is busy with the local parade and festivities, Burt quietly steals a million dollars in cash from the cellar safe in the local rich old widow's house. Unsuspected, Burt makes plans to live the rest of his life in the lap of luxury in a far off place with his attractive girlfriend, local hash house waitress Jeanette. But when a crisis of conscience hits him like a wave of ice cold water, he starts to think twice about his dastardly deed, and how that purloining of the old lady's money is wrongly affecting his friends as well as innocent locals. But will Burt do the right thing?
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The Year of Living Dangerously
Title: The Year of Living Dangerously
Character: Pete Curtis
Released: December 17, 1982
Type: Movie
Australian journalist Guy Hamilton travels to Indonesia to cover civil strife in 1965. There—on the eve of an attempted coup—he befriends a Chinese Australian photographer with a deep connection to and vast knowledge of the Indonesian people, and also falls in love with a British national.
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The Rules of Marriage
Title: The Rules of Marriage
Character: Alan Murray
Released: May 10, 1982
Type: Movie
A seemingly perfect marriage disintegrates, as both husband and wife become involved in a series of affairs.
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Strange Behavior
Title: Strange Behavior
Character: John Brady
Released: October 16, 1981
Type: Movie
When the teenagers in a small Illinois town start getting murdered, the police chief makes a connection to the mysterious scientific experiments being done at the local university and must stop them before his own son is dragged into the deadly scheme.
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O Youth and Beauty!
Title: O Youth and Beauty!
Character: Cash Bentley
Released: October 31, 1979
Type: Movie
Cash Bentley and his wife Louise lead an average upper-middle-class life in suburbia, with a nice home and two fine children. But Cash grows increasingly unsettled in his life, yearning for the glories of his athletic youth and watching them fade further in the distance with accumulating age. Louise worries about him as his difficulties with mid-life pull him further away from happiness and comfort with his family.
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Manhattan
Title: Manhattan
Character: Yale
Released: April 25, 1979
Type: Movie
Manhattan explores how the life of a middle-aged television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress.
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The Class Of Miss MacMichael
Title: The Class Of Miss MacMichael
Character: Martin
Released: January 27, 1979
Type: Movie
A dedicated teacher tries to reach out to juvenile delinquent students at a London alternative school.
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The Great Bank Hoax
Title: The Great Bank Hoax
Character: Reverend Everett Manigma
Released: November 1, 1978
Type: Movie
When the prominent citizens of a small town discover that the officers of the local bank have been embezzling money from it, they decide to rob the bank themselves.
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An Unmarried Woman
Title: An Unmarried Woman
Character: Martin Benton
Released: May 24, 1978
Type: Movie
A wealthy woman from Manhattan's Upper East Side struggles to deal with her new identity and her sexuality after her husband of 16 years leaves her for a younger woman.
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The Front
Title: The Front
Character: Alfred Miller
Released: September 17, 1976
Type: Movie
A cashier poses as a writer for blacklisted talents to submit their work through, but the injustice around him pushes him to take a stand.
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Nashville
Title: Nashville
Character: John Triplette
Released: June 11, 1975
Type: Movie
The intersecting stories of twenty-four characters—from country star to wannabe to reporter to waitress—connect to the music business in Nashville, Tennessee.
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Title: Baretta
Character: Mike Parsons
Released: January 17, 1975
Type: TV
Baretta is an American detective television series which ran on ABC from 1975 to 1978. The show was a milder version of a successful 1973–74 ABC series, Toma, starring Tony Musante as chameleon-like, real-life New Jersey police officer David Toma. While popular, Toma received intense criticism at the time for its realistic and frequent depiction of police and criminal violence. When Musante left the series after a single season, the concept was retooled as Baretta, with Robert Blake in the title role.
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Phase IV
Title: Phase IV
Character: James R. Lesko
Released: September 1, 1974
Type: Movie
Arizona ants mock the food chain on their way to a desert lab to get two scientists and a woman.
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I Love You...Good-bye
Title: I Love You...Good-bye
Character: Alec Shield
Released: February 12, 1974
Type: Movie
A suburban wife begins to resent the pressures she sees society putting on her as a wife and mother, and leaves her family to find the meaning of her life.
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The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
Title: The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
Character: Quentin Lerner
Released: January 31, 1974
Type: Movie
In February, 1962, as the civil rights movement reaches Bayonne, Louisiana, a New York journalist arrives to interview Jane Pittman, who has just turned 110. She tells him her story dating back to her earliest memories before slavery ended. In between the chapters of her life, the present-day struggles of Blacks in Bayonne, urged on by Jimmy, are dramatized.
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The Thief Who Came to Dinner
Title: The Thief Who Came to Dinner
Character: Ted
Released: March 1, 1973
Type: Movie
A computer programmer decides to become a thief. And when he starts making waves, an insurance investigator hounds him. He also meets a woman who becomes his accomplice.
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The Crooked Hearts
Title: The Crooked Hearts
Character: Frank Adamic
Released: November 8, 1972
Type: Movie
A charming but somewhat larcenous widow attempts to snare a rich bachelor through a lonely hearts club, but her scheme boomerangs into a deadly cat-and-mouse game. This marked the TV-movie debut of both Rosalind Russell and Douglas Fairbanks Jr., and was sadly also Russell's last film role.
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What's Up, Doc?
Title: What's Up, Doc?
Character: Mr. Smith
Released: March 9, 1972
Type: Movie
The accidental mix-up of four identical plaid overnight bags leads to a series of increasingly wild and wacky situations.
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Title: The Sixth Sense
Released: January 15, 1972
Type: TV
The Sixth Sense is an American paranormal thriller television
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McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Title: McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Character: Eugene Sears
Released: June 24, 1971
Type: Movie
A gambler and a prostitute become business partners in a remote Old West mining town, and their enterprise thrives until a large corporation arrives on the scene.
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Brewster McCloud
Title: Brewster McCloud
Character: Shaft
Released: December 5, 1970
Type: Movie
Brewster is an owlish, intellectual boy who lives in a fallout shelter of the Houston Astrodome. He has a dream: to take flight within the confines of the stadium. Brewster tells those he trusts of his dream, but displays a unique way of treating others who do not fit within his plans.
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Count Yorga, Vampire
Title: Count Yorga, Vampire
Character: Paul
Released: June 10, 1970
Type: Movie
Sixties couples Michael and Donna and Paul and Erica become involved with the intense Count Yorga at a Los Angeles séance, the Count having latterly been involved with Erica's just-dead mother. After taking the Count home, Paul and Erica are waylayed, and next day a listless Erica is diagnosed by their doctor as having lost a lot of blood. When she is later found feasting on the family cat the doctor becomes convinced vampirism is at work, and that its focus is Count Yorga and his large isolated house.
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The Lawyer
Title: The Lawyer
Character: Intern in Legal Office (uncredited)
Released: March 10, 1970
Type: Movie
Tony Petrocelli, a bright young lawyer practicing in the rich cattle town of Baker, becomes embroiled in a murder case.
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M*A*S*H
Title: M*A*S*H
Character: Me Lai Marston
Released: February 18, 1970
Type: Movie
The staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor and hijinks to keep their sanity in the face of the horror of war.
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The Arrangement
Title: The Arrangement
Character: Father Draddy
Released: November 18, 1969
Type: Movie
An adman attempts to rebuild his shattered life after suffering a nervous breakdown.
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That Cold Day in the Park
Title: That Cold Day in the Park
Character: The Rounder
Released: June 8, 1969
Type: Movie
Frances Austen, a young, wealthy spinster, invites a mute teenager into her apartment after finding him freezing in the park next to where she lives. Despite her best efforts, their lack of communication only increases her sense of loneliness, as her possessiveness spirals into frightening new realms.
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The Legend of Lylah Clare
Title: The Legend of Lylah Clare
Character: Mark Peter Sheean
Released: August 21, 1968
Type: Movie
A dictatorial film director hires an unknown actress to play the lead role in a planned movie biography of a late, great Hollywood star.
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Countdown
Title: Countdown
Character: Rick
Released: August 20, 1967
Type: Movie
Desperate to land a man on the moon before Russia does, NASA hastily preps a would-be spaceman for a mission that would leave him alone in a lunar shelter for a year.
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Double Trouble
Title: Double Trouble
Character: Morley
Released: April 5, 1967
Type: Movie
When singer Guy Lambert goes on tour in Europe, he is pursued by two beautiful women, bumbling jewel thieves, and a mysterious killer.
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Title: Hogan's Heroes
Character: Corporal Walter Comminsky
Released: September 17, 1965
Type: TV
Hogan's Heroes is an American television sitcom that ran for 168 episodes from September 17, 1965, to July 4, 1971, on the CBS network. The show was set in a German prisoner of war camp during World War II. Bob Crane starred as Colonel Robert E. Hogan, coordinating an international crew of Allied prisoners running a Special Operations group from the camp. Werner Klemperer played Colonel Wilhelm Klink, the commandant of the camp, and John Banner was the inept sergeant-of-the-guard, Hans Schultz. The series was popular during its six-season run. In 2013, creators Bernard Fein through his estate and Albert S. Ruddy acquired the sequel and other separate rights to Hogan's Heroes from Mark Cuban through arbitration and a movie based on the show has been planned.
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Title: 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.