Frank Wolff

Frank Wolff

Born: May 11, 1928
Died: December 12, 1971
in San Francisco, California, USA
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Walter Frank Hermann Wolff (May 11, 1928 —December 12, 1971) was a versatile American actor whose prolific movie career began with roles in five 1958-61 Roger Corman productions and ended a decade later in Rome, after scores of appearances in European-made films, most of which were lensed in Italy.

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Filming Silenzio
Title: Filming Silenzio
Character: (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 2017
Type: Movie
Featurette about the making of Sergio Corbucci's 'Il grande silenzio' consisting mostly of footage from 'Western Italian Style'.
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Praunheim Memoires
Title: Praunheim Memoires
Character: Self
Released: March 27, 2014
Type: Movie
The filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim remembers his humble origins from the unglamorous district of Frankfurt Praunheim.
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The Man in a Looking Glass
Title: The Man in a Looking Glass
Character: Frank Martin
Released: October 20, 1972
Type: Movie
A robbery is prevented by an undercover art dealer pretending to be a criminal. Edited from TV series, The Baron.
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When Women Lost Their Tails
Title: When Women Lost Their Tails
Character: Grr
Released: February 24, 1972
Type: Movie
Filli and the cavemen from "When Women Had Tails" are living a carefree life inside a dinosaur skeleton. But when conman Ham introduces them to the concept of currency and economics, their lives fall apart. On top of that, Filli starts to fall in love with Ham.
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Caliber 9
Title: Caliber 9
Character: Police Commissioner
Released: February 15, 1972
Type: Movie
Just out of prison, ex-con Ugo Piazza meets his former employer, a psychopathic gangster Rocco who enjoys sick violence and torture. Both the gangsters and the police believe Ugo has hidden $300,000 that should have gone to an American drug syndicate boss.
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Death Walks on High Heels
Title: Death Walks on High Heels
Character: Dr. Robert Matthews
Released: November 30, 1971
Type: Movie
Exotic dancer Nicole finds herself terrorized by a black-clad assailant determined on procuring her murdered father's stolen gems. Fleeing Paris in hopes of evading her knife-wielding pursuer, Nicole arrives in England only to discover that death stalks her at every corner.
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Cold Eyes of Fear
Title: Cold Eyes of Fear
Character: Arthur Welt
Released: April 6, 1971
Type: Movie
Against a backdrop of Swingin' 60s London a young playboy type "steals" a beautiful Italian girl from her elderly date and suggests she comes back to his place for some good times. "His place" being owned by his father, a rich and respected solicitor. Unfortunately a couple of criminals have plans of their own, one for money, the other for revenge, and the lovers end up prisoners in a tense siege situation
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Transplant of a Brain
Title: Transplant of a Brain
Character: Dr. Chambers
Released: December 23, 1970
Type: Movie
An affluent judge with an incurable brain disease with only months to live decides to become the guinea pig for a new brain transplant technique. The operation is a success, but the unfortunate brain donor was a young man with unfinished business, and soon the memories and desires of this young man overwhelm the judge.
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When Women Had Tails
Title: When Women Had Tails
Character: Grr
Released: October 15, 1970
Type: Movie
Seven orphan cavemen grow up on a little island all by themselves. After a fire burns all vegetation they set out to find a new place to live.
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The Lickerish Quartet
Title: The Lickerish Quartet
Character: Castle owner
Released: October 13, 1970
Type: Movie
A jaded, wealthy couple watch a blue movie in their castle home along with her adult son. The son is testy, so they go into town and watch a circus-like thrill ride. The daredevil woman in the show looks exactly like one of the women in the movie, so the man invites her to join them for a nightcap. Tensions among the family seem to rise. She stays overnight, and during her 24 hours in the castle, each of its three residents involves her in a fantasy. She, in turn, keeps asking, "Who has the gun?" Will there be violence before it's over?
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Corbari
Title: Corbari
Character: Ulianov
Released: September 25, 1970
Type: Movie
The real story of the partisan Silvio Corbari (Giuliano Gemma). Silvio forms a band of partisans in Northern Italy, completely independent from the Italian organized resistance (CLN). Ines (Tina Aumont), leaves her husband to join the band and becomes Silvio's lover. Silvio seems to suceed in creating a free-zone, his personal republic, independent from Nazi-occupied Italy, in a little village called Tregnano.
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Death Occurred Last Night
Title: Death Occurred Last Night
Character: Duca Lamberti
Released: September 5, 1970
Type: Movie
A chief police inspector investigates the disappearance of a 25-year-old woman, the daughter of a lonely widower. After she turns up dead, the cops race to find the killers before the grieving father does
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Metello
Title: Metello
Character: Betto
Released: March 10, 1970
Type: Movie
The story of a young man of the working class, who has grown up practically an orphan due to his father’s repeated jailings for anarchistic activism. Struggling with life in 19th-century Italy, Metello Salani is determined to change his situation for the better - but love, marriage and politics complicate things considerably...
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L'amica
Title: L'amica
Character: Guido Nervi
Released: December 23, 1969
Type: Movie
The beautiful but neglected wife of a brilliant architect from Milan, betrayed by her husband and mocked by her friend who manages the amorous adventures that she dreams of having, decides to take vengeance of the two, seducing her friend's husband and her young son.
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I Am Sartana Your Angel of Death
Title: I Am Sartana Your Angel of Death
Character: Buddy Ben / Bear
Released: November 20, 1969
Type: Movie
Sartana is falsely accused of robbing a bank, and must find the real robbers and clear his name.
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The Tough and the Mighty
Title: The Tough and the Mighty
Character: Spina
Released: September 23, 1969
Type: Movie
Based on the story of real life Sardinian bandit Graziano Mesina.
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Desert Assault
Title: Desert Assault
Character: Red Wiley
Released: July 30, 1969
Type: Movie
Allied and German forces are stranded in desert during WW II and attempt to surrender each other.
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The Damned Of The Earth
Title: The Damned Of The Earth
Character: Fausto
Released: April 19, 1969
Type: Movie
Upon his death, a young African director, Abramo Malonga, bequeathed his first and last unfinished film to his former teacher, the Italian director Fausto Morelli. Morelli, who after seeing the work, is confronted with a confusing, complex and, in part, incomprehensible work. Helped by the young widow of Abramo Malonga and by the notes left by his deceased friend, and again by his personal memories, the Italian director attempts to reconstruct and complete the film. Fausto's work progresses with difficulty, not only because of the problems the film poses for him, but because of the problems that arise in his daily life. After a long crisis, after which he returns to Pisa with his former party companions and abandons himself to love and his own solitude, Fausto takes up the work of his African friend, closing it with a final invention, in which , with a bold metaphor, has refigured the human condition of our time.
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Carnal Circuit
Title: Carnal Circuit
Character: Frank Donovan
Released: January 1, 1969
Type: Movie
We follow the Journal reporter Paulo whose close friend mysteriously been taken out of the way and it's now up to Paulo to figure out who the culprits are. The film is set in a drug-scented and "swinging" Los Angeles, where orgies and violence seem to be commonplace, and it soon appears that Paulo is on someone's hit list.
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Behold Man - The Survivors
Title: Behold Man - The Survivors
Character: Quentin
Released: January 1, 1969
Type: Movie
Having survived a terrible nuclear war that destroyed the human race, a family of three persons, Jean, his wife Anna and Patrick, lives in a trailer by the sea.
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Besieged
Title: Besieged
Character: Vallauri
Released: January 1, 1969
Type: Movie
Story of a student in the town of Trieste, shaken up by the economic crisis.
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Kill Them All and Come Back Alone
Title: Kill Them All and Come Back Alone
Character: Captain Lynch
Released: December 31, 1968
Type: Movie
During the American Civil War, a Confederate prisoner, Clyde McKay, attempts to steal a box of gold from a Union prison camp. He is aided by a group of prisoners and a prison guard but he is double-crossed along the way.
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The Libertine
Title: The Libertine
Character: Dr. Giulio
Released: December 23, 1968
Type: Movie
A sexy widow discovers her late husband had a secret apartment where he cheated on her. Now she decides to use the same apartment to explore her own sexuality.
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Once Upon a Time in the West
Title: Once Upon a Time in the West
Character: Brett McBain
Released: December 21, 1968
Type: Movie
As the railroad builders advance unstoppably through the Arizona desert on their way to the sea, Jill arrives in the small town of Flagstone with the intention of starting a new life.
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One Dollar Too Many
Title: One Dollar Too Many
Character: Edwin Kean
Released: August 12, 1968
Type: Movie
Suave gambler Clay Watson, cocky sharpshooter Moses Lang, and wily thespian Edwin Kean are a trio of criminals in the Old West. The motley threesome are forced to form an uneasy alliance in order to find $400,000 dollars in stolen money.
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Villa Rides
Title: Villa Rides
Character: Ramirez
Released: May 29, 1968
Type: Movie
Pulled into the Mexican Revolution by his own greed, Texas gunrunner and pilot Lee Arnold joins bandit-turned-patriot Pancho Villa and his band of dedicated men in a march across Mexico battling the Colorados and stealing women's hearts as they go. But each has a nemesis among his friends: Arnold is tormented by Fierro, Villa's right-hand-man; and Villa must face possible betrayal by his own president's naiveté
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Sardinia Kidnapped
Title: Sardinia Kidnapped
Character: Osilo
Released: March 14, 1968
Type: Movie
Christina Fisher arrives in Sardinia to spend a holiday with her university friend, Francesco. As they are touring the island, they are trapped by mountain terrorists. Francesco is kidnapped, but Christina is permitted to leave. She is determined to contact the police, but is persuaded not to by Francesco's best friend, Gambino. Together they try to find the kidnappers, but she becomes suspicious of everyone including Gambino. Confused and paranoid, she sets out alone to contact the police.
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The Great Silence
Title: The Great Silence
Character: Sheriff Burnett
Released: February 21, 1968
Type: Movie
A mute gunslinger fights in the defense of a group of outlaws and a vengeful young widow, against a group of ruthless bounty hunters.
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Eat It - Mangiala
Title: Eat It - Mangiala
Character: Commendatore / Mister Eat it
Released: January 1, 1968
Type: Movie
An industrialist tries to find an advertising gimmick for his canned meat product "Eat it!". In the fields he finds a savage individual who has reduced himself to two functions only: eating huge amounts of food and making love. So he uses this savage man for his advertising purposes by making the public believe that his meat is an aphrodisiac. Some time later the strange being loses his "gifts". The industrialist tries to replace him, but the incredible amounts of meat he eats turns him into a cow! (Digitmovies)
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Western, Italian Style
Title: Western, Italian Style
Character: Narrator / Self
Released: January 1, 1968
Type: Movie
A featurette (most likely shot for American television) about the Spaghetti Western genre during the late 60's and how it had affected Italy at that particular point in time. Contains behind-the-scenes footage from the films "Il Grande Silenzio" "Vado, Vedo e Sparo" "Ammazza Tutti e Torna Solo" and "Corri, Uomo, Corri" and interviews with their directors and cast.
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God Forgives... I Don't!
Title: God Forgives... I Don't!
Character: Bill San Antonio
Released: October 31, 1967
Type: Movie
In this violent spaghetti western a murderous robber hijacks a payroll train, murders everyone aboard and then stashes his loot. A gunslinger learns about it and decides he wants the money for himself and so hatches an elaborate plot to get at it. He lures the crook into a rigged poker game, and afterward a gunfight ensues. The quick-drawing gunman makes short work of the robber, then teams up with an insurance agent to look for the hidden fortune. Unbeknownst to them, the robber had an ace up his sleeve...
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Anyone Can Play
Title: Anyone Can Play
Character: Paola's husband
Released: September 21, 1967
Type: Movie
In this delightful romantic comedy, four beautiful women attempt to deal with their sexual frustrations in fashionable Rome society.
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Last of the Badmen
Title: Last of the Badmen
Character: Joshua Tracy/The Black One
Released: August 2, 1967
Type: Movie
Kitosch is charged with a crime he did not commit and joins up with Joshua Tracy, a vicious outlaw. When Tracy kidnaps and blackmails his former employer Kitosch redeems himself by saving them.
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Please Don't Shoot Your Gun
Title: Please Don't Shoot Your Gun
Character: Paul Lefèvre
Released: May 3, 1967
Type: Movie
A criminal organization commits to the highly skilled thief Paul Lefèvre the theft of a revolutionary invention.
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A Stranger in Town
Title: A Stranger in Town
Character: Aguilar
Released: January 10, 1967
Type: Movie
Unknown to anybody else but himself The Stranger arrives in an abandoned town where he witnesses the slaughter of Mexican soldiers by a gang led by Aguila. The Stranger threatens Aguila to denounce him if he does not accept to let him take part in the theft of a shipment of gold. The plan is a success but when The Stranger claims his due, he gets a good beating instead. However The Stranger manages to escape with the gold. The bandits, who want his skin, pursue him. But The Stranger is not the kind to get caught so easily...
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Non faccio la guerra, faccio l'amore
Title: Non faccio la guerra, faccio l'amore
Character: Charlie Morgan
Released: December 23, 1966
Type: Movie
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A Few Dollars for Django
Title: A Few Dollars for Django
Character: Jim/Trevor Norton
Released: September 9, 1966
Type: Movie
Django, bounty killer, hunter and repentant bandit wants to start a new life. No more bullets and blood, after years of killing and horror. Django wants to replace the sherrif and restore law and order to lawless land, but faces the history and bloodshed of his own past. Helped by the love of the daughter of a bandit Django can finally bring his life of violence to and end and spend his days in peace... If he can live that long!
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Ringo, the Mark of Vengeance
Title: Ringo, the Mark of Vengeance
Character: Tricky
Released: August 26, 1966
Type: Movie
Director Mario Caiano, best known for horror films like Amanti d' Oltretomba, co-wrote this much-parodied spaghetti western. Another in a long line of films titled for Lorne Greene's 1964 hit song "Ringo". Antonio De Teffe and Eduardo Fajardo star as two friends who rescue bumbling bandit Fidel (Armando Calvo) from a shootout. While patching him up, they discover half of a treasure map tattooed on his back. Learning that the other half is tattooed on the back of someone else, they set about trying to put the two halves together while being joined by card sharp and all round trickster Frank Wolff, who discovers their secret and wants in on the deal. American director Paul Bartel put a bizarre spin on the story in his comedic western, Lust in the Dust.
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Agent 3S3, Massacre in the Sun
Title: Agent 3S3, Massacre in the Sun
Character: Ivan Mikhailovic
Released: May 20, 1966
Type: Movie
The island paradise of San Felipe has undergone a revolution! The charismatic General Siqueiros has assumed control! Those assisting him though have an agenda far beyond a simple dictatorship of a inconsequential banana republic! They’re scheming to put the entire world at their mercy through the mad scientist Karlesten’s efforts to develop a deadly missile-carried gas! And only one man can stop him! Walter Ross, Agent 3S3! And he not only has a license to kill, but also a license to spank!
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Judith
Title: Judith
Character: Eli
Released: January 20, 1966
Type: Movie
A Jewish woman is recruited to help track down a German commander who was her former husband.
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Situation Hopeless -- But Not Serious
Title: Situation Hopeless -- But Not Serious
Character: Quartermaster Sergeant
Released: October 13, 1965
Type: Movie
A lonely German clerk captures two American flyers and keeps them as prisoners in his basement long after WWII has ended. Director Gottfried Reinhardt's 1965 comedy stars Alec Guinness, Robert Redford and Michael Connors.
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Once Upon a Tractor
Title: Once Upon a Tractor
Character: Truck Driver
Released: September 9, 1965
Type: Movie
Short film directed by Leopoldo Torre Nilsson.
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Amori pericolosi
Title: Amori pericolosi
Character: The husband (segments "Il passo" and "La ronda")
Released: August 14, 1964
Type: Movie
Three episodes of varying pitch and quality. In the first a maid plans the elimination of her lover's wife with him, but she doesn't enjoy the fruits of victory. In the second (The patrol) a soldier of the Foreign Legion neglects his duties for running after a prostitute. The third segment has as its protagonist a general of the belle époque that goes on a date.
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Il passo
Title: Il passo
Released: August 13, 1964
Type: Movie
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Via Veneto
Title: Via Veneto
Released: April 23, 1964
Type: Movie
A young man who lives on scams and deceptions manages to convince a wealthy industrialist who has come from the province to finance a film. Having received an adequate advance, he begins to lead an expensive life among luxury cars and beautiful women.
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The Demon
Title: The Demon
Character: Antonio
Released: January 31, 1964
Type: Movie
Purif is distraught when her lover is betrothed to another. When she summons the old ways to curse him, her erratic behavior is interpreted as demonic possession, and the villagers turn against her with physical and sexual violence.
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America America
Title: America America
Character: Vartan Damadian
Released: December 15, 1963
Type: Movie
A young Anatolian Greek, entrusted with his family's fortune, loses it en route to Istanbul and dreams of going to America.
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The Verona Trial
Title: The Verona Trial
Character: Count Galeazzo Ciano
Released: March 2, 1963
Type: Movie
This film is the moving story of Edda Ciano, the daughter of Italian dictator Mussolini, who was unable to prevent the atrocious assassination of her husband by fanatics of her father.
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The Four Days of Naples
Title: The Four Days of Naples
Character: Salvatore
Released: November 16, 1962
Type: Movie
September 1943. After Italy surrenders to the Allies, most people in Naples believe the war is finally over, but soon realize Germans are still in control—and as ruthless as ever. Armed with makeshift weapons, the Neapolitan civilians spontaneously rise up en masse against their occupants—and overwhelming odds, driving them from the city after four days of fighting.
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Title: The Saint
Character: Jim Reston
Released: October 4, 1962
Type: TV
Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who recovers ill-gotten wealth and redistributes it to those in need.
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Salvatore Giuliano
Title: Salvatore Giuliano
Character: Gaspare Pisciotta
Released: March 1, 1962
Type: Movie
Sicilian bandit Salvatore Giuliano's bullet-riddled corpse is found facedown in a courtyard in Castelvetrano, a handgun and rifle by his side. Local and international press descend upon the scene, hoping to crack open the true story behind the death of this young man, who, at the age of twenty-seven, had already become Italy’s most wanted criminal and celebrated hero.
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Atlas
Title: Atlas
Character: Proximates the Tyrant
Released: May 1, 1961
Type: Movie
Evil king Praximedes convinces superhero Atlas to fight for him, but Atlas eventually sees the king's true nature and turns against him.
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The Subterraneans
Title: The Subterraneans
Character: Bearded Man (uncredited)
Released: June 23, 1960
Type: Movie
A disillusioned writer explores the subterranean depths of San Francisco's North Beach district.
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Ski Troop Attack
Title: Ski Troop Attack
Character: Sgt. Potter
Released: April 8, 1960
Type: Movie
An American patrol has to cross behind enemy lines by skis in order to blow up an important railroad bridge. The task is made harder by conflicts between the platoon's veteran sergeant and its inexperienced lieutenant and by constant attacks by pursuing German troops.
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The Wasp Woman
Title: The Wasp Woman
Character: First Delivery Man
Released: October 30, 1959
Type: Movie
The head of a major cosmetics company experiments on herself with a youth formula made from royal jelly extracted from wasps, but the formula's side effects have deadly consequences.
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Beast from Haunted Cave
Title: Beast from Haunted Cave
Character: Alexander Ward
Released: October 30, 1959
Type: Movie
A gold thief and his gang use a skier's lodge and meet a monster covered with cobwebs.
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Title: The Twilight Zone
Character: Baron
Released: October 2, 1959
Type: TV
A series of unrelated stories containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist.
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Title: Lock-Up
Released: September 28, 1959
Type: TV
Lock-Up is an American legal drama series that premiered in syndication in September 1959 and concluded in June 1961. The half-hour episodes had little time for character development or subplots and presented a compact story without embellishment.
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The Wild and the Innocent
Title: The Wild and the Innocent
Character: Henchman
Released: May 27, 1959
Type: Movie
Charming tale of mountaineer-trapper Murphy's first taste "big city" life with young, sweet Sandra Dee in tow. She flees her family, which tried to trade her for some of Murphy's beaver pelts, and tags along with the reluctant Murphy. They get into all manner of trouble in town, and Murphy has to shoot the sheriff to rescue Dee from her job as a dancehall girl.
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Title: The Lawless Years
Released: April 16, 1959
Type: TV
The Lawless Years is an American crime drama series that aired on NBC from April 16 1959, to September 22, 1961. The series is the first of its kind set set during the Roaring 20s, having predated ABC's far more successful The Untouchables by six months. The series stars James Gregory and Robert Karnes.
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Title: Rawhide
Released: January 9, 1959
Type: TV
The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across the old west. Along the way they meet up with adventure and drama.
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Title: Sea Hunt
Released: January 4, 1958
Type: TV
Sea Hunt is an American adventure television series that aired in syndication from 1958 to 1961 and was popular in syndication for decades afterwards. The series originally aired for four seasons, with 155 episodes produced. It stars Lloyd Bridges as ex-Navy frogman Mike Nelson, and was produced by Ivan Tors.
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Title: General Electric Theater
Character: Cab Driver
Released: February 1, 1953
Type: TV
General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was sponsored by General Electric's Department of Public Relations.