Lionel Stander

Lionel Stander

Born: January 11, 1908
Died: November 30, 1994
in The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
Lionel Stander was an American stage, screen, radio, and television actor.

Movies for Lionel Stander...

Hart to Hart: Secrets of the Hart
Title: Hart to Hart: Secrets of the Hart
Character: Max
Released: March 6, 1995
Type: Movie
Set in San Francisco, Jonathan and Jennifer Hart are faced with the prospect of being reunited with Jonathan's long lost sister, and her nephew. Is it possible that Jonathan will finally discover a key to his past or will the "family" turn out to be after something, putting Jonathan and Jennifer in danger's past one more time?
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The Last Good Time
Title: The Last Good Time
Character: Howard Singer
Released: October 1, 1994
Type: Movie
A reclusive aging widower struggling with tax problems has a complete change in his views of life as he has a chance encounter with a young woman who moves in with him briefly.
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Hart to Hart: Old Friends Never Die
Title: Hart to Hart: Old Friends Never Die
Character: Max
Released: May 6, 1994
Type: Movie
The Harts find themselves in the middle of a dangerous murder plot, but it isn't clear if the plot it a famous author's fictional murder-mystery, or an actual murder plot, until Jonathan finds himself the unsuspecting target of a killer. It begins to look like the culprit behind the plot is an old friend, Frank Crane, but there may be a connection to a corporate takeover of Hart Industries as well.
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Hart to Hart: Crimes of the Hart
Title: Hart to Hart: Crimes of the Hart
Character: Max
Released: March 25, 1994
Type: Movie
In their very last adventure, Jonathan and Jennifer Hart travel to The Big Apple, where a play she wrote in college is being produced on Broadway. But there's sabotage going on, and when a stagehand is murdered, everyone's a suspect - even Jonathan!
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Hart to Hart: Home Is Where the Hart Is
Title: Hart to Hart: Home Is Where the Hart Is
Character: Max
Released: February 18, 1994
Type: Movie
When a mentor and friend of Jennifer's dies, she and Jonathan return to the sleepy town where Jennifer once lived and worked as a reporter. Nearly immediately, they discover that all is not right within this picturesque town. The town's economic troubles pale next to the danger the Harts find themselves in as they try to sort out whether their friend's death was murder, and what sinister secrets may lie behind the truth.
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Hart to Hart Returns
Title: Hart to Hart Returns
Character: Max
Released: November 2, 1993
Type: Movie
Jonathan Hart, the wealthy entrepreneur, and his charming investigative reporter wife, Jennifer, once again get caught up in a mystery, this time involving corrupt government contractors. Aided by their trusty servant Max, who is more family than employee, and their dog Freeway, the Harts try to resolve issues with an investigation into Jonathan’s business dealings with an old friend in the aerospace industry, and find themselves in the midst of a dark plot which will put Jonathan’s freedom, their home, and even their lives in jeopardy.
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Title: Dream On
Released: July 8, 1990
Type: TV
The family life, romantic life, and career of Martin Tupper, a divorced New York City book editor. The show distinctively interjected clips from older black and white television series to punctuate Tupper's feelings or thoughts.
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Cookie
Title: Cookie
Character: Enzo Della Testa
Released: August 2, 1989
Type: Movie
Cookie Voltecki is the illegitimate daughter of mobster Dino Capisco, who has just finished thirteen years in prison. Since being released from jail, all that Dino wants is to settle some old scores, and make up for lost time with his daughter.
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Wicked Stepmother
Title: Wicked Stepmother
Character: Sam
Released: February 3, 1989
Type: Movie
A mother/daughter pair of witches descend on a yuppie family's home and cause havoc, one at a time since they share one body & the other must live in a cat the rest of the time. Now it's up to the family's mother, a private detective, and a suspended police officer to try and stop the witches.
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BelliFreschi
Title: BelliFreschi
Character: Frank Santamaria
Released: November 19, 1987
Type: Movie
Tom and Jerry two Italian two bit actors go to America because they hope to take part in a film starring Sylvester Stallone. However when they go to his villa in Beverly Hills, Stallone gets murdered and the two are suspected of the murder. Hunted by the CIA and the FBI they flee across the USA disguised as women and end up working in a restaurant as showgirls. Here Tom meets a Mafia boss who falls in love with him and goes to Mexico with him to escape the police hunt. Some years later the two friends meet again: Tom has married the boss's ex girlfriend even if he still dresses as a woman.
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Title: CBS Summer Playhouse
Character: Sully Carson
Released: June 12, 1987
Type: TV
CBS anthology series airing unsold television pilots during the summer season.
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The Transformers: The Movie
Title: The Transformers: The Movie
Character: Kup (voice)
Released: August 8, 1986
Type: Movie
The Autobots must stop a colossal planet-consuming robot who goes after the Autobot Matrix of Leadership. At the same time, they must defend themselves against an all-out attack from the Decepticons.
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Title: Moonlighting
Character: Max
Released: March 3, 1985
Type: TV
After being duped and going bankrupt, model Maddie is convinced by David to become a partner in a detective agency. Together they solve various cases, while getting comfortable with each other.
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1941
Title: 1941
Character: Angelo Scioli
Released: December 14, 1979
Type: Movie
In the days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, panic grips California, where a military officer leads a mob chasing a Japanese sub.
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Title: Hart to Hart
Character: Max
Released: September 22, 1979
Type: TV
Wealthy couple Jonathan and Jennifer Hart, a self-made millionaire and his journalist wife, moonlight as amateur detectives.
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Hart to Hart
Title: Hart to Hart
Character: Max
Released: August 25, 1979
Type: Movie
In this pilot film, a friend of Jonathan Hart's is killed in a motor accident just after he has left a health farm, apparently committing suicide. There was no warning of him being troubled so the Harts go undercover to find out what happened at the farm.
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The Squeeze
Title: The Squeeze
Character: Sam
Released: October 25, 1978
Type: Movie
A retired safe cracker is recruited by a young conman to return to the "business" for a million dollar heist.
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Cyclone
Title: Cyclone
Character: Taylor
Released: July 21, 1978
Type: Movie
An airplane goes down in the ocean during a storm and a few survivors find refuge on a small tour boat. Swept out to sea, these people slowly starve to death in the hot sun with barely any food or clean water. With no place to turn, the boat survivors resort to cannibalism to stay alive...that is ..until the rescue planes come to pick them up and the man eating sharks decide its time to eat as well.
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Matilda
Title: Matilda
Character: Pinky Schwab
Released: June 22, 1978
Type: Movie
A small-time talent agent discovers an amazing boxing kangaroo and figures to use it as his stepping-stone into the big time.
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New York, New York
Title: New York, New York
Character: Tony Harwell
Released: June 21, 1977
Type: Movie
An egotistical saxophone player and a young singer meet on V-J Day and embark upon a strained and rocky romance, even as their careers begin a long uphill climb.
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The Cassandra Crossing
Title: The Cassandra Crossing
Character: Max, the Train Conductor
Released: December 18, 1976
Type: Movie
Passengers on a European train have been exposed to a deadly disease, and nobody will let them off the train.
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San Pasquale Baylonne, Protector of Women
Title: San Pasquale Baylonne, Protector of Women
Character: Don Gervasio
Released: March 2, 1976
Type: Movie
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The Black Bird
Title: The Black Bird
Character: Gordon Immerman
Released: December 25, 1975
Type: Movie
The son of famous detective Sam Spade carries on the family tradition of getting involved with the Maltese Falcon - and with the people who will stop at nothing, including murder, to get it.
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Who's Afraid of Zorro
Title: Who's Afraid of Zorro
Character: Father Donato
Released: July 2, 1975
Type: Movie
Spain, occupied by the French. Zorro, the intrepid swordsman, has an accident. As a result, his friend, Father Donato, is forced by oath to find a temporary replacement for him.
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Red Coat
Title: Red Coat
Character: Docteur Higgins
Released: April 23, 1975
Type: Movie
Cormack, the lawman most feared by the rugged pioneers at the turn of the century, has a mysterious bond with "Caribou," an outlaw whom he has jailed. When Caribou escapes from prison, he returns to seek revenge.
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The Novice
Title: The Novice
Character: Don Nini
Released: January 1, 1975
Type: Movie
A young man comes back to his provincial home town to visit his dying uncle who is being attended to by a night nurse and novice nun. Before long, the young man develops a deep longing for the young, beautiful nun.
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The Way of the Baboons
Title: The Way of the Baboons
Character: Fiorenza's father
Released: September 27, 1974
Type: Movie
In full marital crisis, Fiorenza, young Roman bourgeois, must travel to Eritrea to her dying father, former colonizer who made his fortune there. On the death of it, rather than return to Italy, Fiorenza decides to spend some time there, and met the extravagant Getulio, determined to make him discover Africa.
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Di mamma non ce n'è una sola
Title: Di mamma non ce n'è una sola
Released: April 4, 1974
Type: Movie
Marcello, the scion of a noble and rich family, is morbidly obsessed with his mother, Countess Elisabetta di Tarcento. When she dies, things go haywire as people around him reveal their true identity and he gets a new motherly companion.
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Innocence and Desire
Title: Innocence and Desire
Character: Salvatore Niscemi
Released: March 21, 1974
Type: Movie
A young man is temporarily home from a Seminary, but eventually falls in love with his father's young new wife.
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My Pleasure Is Your Pleasure
Title: My Pleasure Is Your Pleasure
Character: Il marchese Cavalcanti / Il cardinale di Ragusa
Released: April 14, 1973
Type: Movie
In '500 a noble Tuscan gives a banquet in which they are told bawdy stories: a cardinal tells dirty stories during a banquet that turns into a purge; a marquise is induced into temptation by an abbot; a tintora has carnal relations with a brother, and the two have a son; prisoner of Charles V , Francis I of France has a relationship with two Spanish and get an acquittal advance by the Pope; a group of cardinals contain a prostitute during a council; the Marquis Cavalcanti, rejected by the bride, vents his cravings with a syphilitic prostitute.
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The Black Hand
Title: The Black Hand
Character: Lieutenant Giuseppe Petrosino
Released: March 16, 1973
Type: Movie
Antonio, an Italian immigrant in New York finds himself drawn into the Mob when his options are limited and his desire to make a new life for himself becomes increasingly difficult.
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Increase and Multiply
Title: Increase and Multiply
Character: Commendator Zullin
Released: March 15, 1973
Type: Movie
Italian comedy
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Dirty Weekend
Title: Dirty Weekend
Character: General
Released: March 8, 1973
Type: Movie
A man and his mistress have just taken off for a weekend romp when they're kidnapped by a trio of bank robbers. They wind up becoming media "stars" as police and reporters follow them. They all wind up at the beat-up shack of a cranky old codger, with the police surrounding them and the robbers threatening to kill everybody.
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1931: Once Upon a Time in New York
Title: 1931: Once Upon a Time in New York
Character: Sparks
Released: March 3, 1973
Type: Movie
In 1931, when the late American Prohibition major bosses have now divided the territory to exploit, the family of one of them - killed in a clash - decides to send half a million dollars in Sicily hidden in the body of the deceased.
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Halleluja to Vera Cruz
Title: Halleluja to Vera Cruz
Character: Sam 'Tonaca"' Thompson
Released: March 2, 1973
Type: Movie
Two American bandits disguise themselves as priests in order to work undetected in Mexico during the revolution.
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The Sensuous Sicilian
Title: The Sensuous Sicilian
Character: Baron Castorini
Released: January 1, 1973
Type: Movie
From his youth, Paolo Castorini, a Sicilian baron, is as attracted to women as they to him. Giovanna, a servant girl, Lillian, a serious girlfriend in Rome, a hostess at a post-war party, Paolo makes love to them all. He also feels dissatisfied with a life only of the body, compared to his journalist friend Vincenzo and his own father, a sober and serious thinker. When his father is on his deathbed, Paolo learns of syphilis in the family and something of the curse of dissolution. Some years later, he resolves to marry Katrina, the pure daughter of the woman he should have married. He wants her purity to redeem him so he can make something of his life. But is it too late?
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The Adventures of Pinocchio
Title: The Adventures of Pinocchio
Character: Mangiafoco
Released: December 21, 1972
Type: Movie
Mastro Geppetto is a poor carpenter with no wife and no children. The man is very lonely, and after trading a piece of wood with his colleague Mastro Ciliegia, decides to build himself a puppet to keep him company.
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Father Jackleg
Title: Father Jackleg
Character: Stinky Manure
Released: December 5, 1972
Type: Movie
A con man inherits a gold mine. Knowing that his family are even bigger con artists than he is, he assumes the mine is worthless, and teams up with a partner in a scheme to unload it on some unsuspecting chumps. However, the other members of his family discover that the gold mine is actually worth a lot of money, and they set out to take it from him before he realizes what he has.
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Pulp
Title: Pulp
Character: Ben Dinuccio
Released: November 1, 1972
Type: Movie
A seedy writer of sleazy pulp novels is recruited by a quirky, reclusive ex-actor to help him write his biography at his house in Malta.
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Treasure Island
Title: Treasure Island
Character: Billy Bones
Released: October 1, 1972
Type: Movie
Young Jim Hawkins finds himself serving with pirate captain Long John Silver in search of a buccaneer's treasure, in this short adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale.
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Title: The Adventures of Pinocchio
Character: Mangiafoco
Released: April 8, 1972
Type: TV
Mastro Geppetto is a poor carpenter with no wife and no children. The man is very lonely, and when trading a piece of wood with his colleague Mastero Cherry, he decides to build himself a puppet to make him company.
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Don Camillo and the Contestants
Title: Don Camillo and the Contestants
Character: Peppone
Released: March 29, 1972
Type: Movie
Mayor Peppone might very well lose the elections and Don Camillo makes sure that the mayor's delinquent son gets his act together while his own niece makes Peppone think she is pregnant by his son.
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The Eroticist
Title: The Eroticist
Character: Cardinal Maravigli
Released: March 16, 1972
Type: Movie
Senator Pupis feels a strong and uncontrollable urge to grab women's bottoms, a habit than can lead to embarrassment, especially if the woman in question is head of another state and the occasion a state visit. In his desperation Pupis turns to the clergy for spiritual and psychological help.
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Caliber 9
Title: Caliber 9
Character: L'Americano / The Mikado
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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Where the Bullets Fly
Title: Where the Bullets Fly
Character: Lucky Capone
Released: January 1, 1972
Type: Movie
Young adventurer Gipo owns one fifth of a rock illustrating the location of a rich gold mine. Risking his life more than once and with the help of the beautiful hooker, Lulu Belle, our hero sets out to recover the missing pieces.
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We Are All in Temporary Liberty
Title: We Are All in Temporary Liberty
Released: December 24, 1971
Type: Movie
A judge opens an inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of an MP.
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The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight
Title: The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight
Character: Baccala
Released: December 22, 1971
Type: Movie
A Brooklyn mobster and his gang try to rub out their rivals.
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Stanza 17-17 palazzo delle tasse, ufficio imposte
Title: Stanza 17-17 palazzo delle tasse, ufficio imposte
Character: Katanga
Released: July 5, 1971
Type: Movie
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Between Miracles
Title: Between Miracles
Character: Oreste
Released: March 19, 1971
Type: Movie
Benedetto is a child who came out of an accident uninjured on his first communion's day. The people of his village attribute that to a miracle and made him undergo a strict religious upbringing. That fact will determine his life, which will be affected by inner torment caused by the confrontation between sexual desires and sacrifices of faith, sin and grace.
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How Did a Nice Girl Like You Get Into This Business?
Title: How Did a Nice Girl Like You Get Into This Business?
Character: The Admiral
Released: January 15, 1970
Type: Movie
Playboy magazine darling (and one-time playmate of Hugh Hefner) Barbi Benton is Naughty Cheerleader Lynne Keefe, a small-town, small-brained babe who gets caught up in big-time in the sex business. As a high school cheerleader who can really twirl a baton back in hometown Scranton, Lynne gets knocked up by a horny hunk on a motorcycle who then dumps her, sending her into a sexual spiral that takes her to the Catskills, to Boston, New York, Miami, and Rome.
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Boot Hill
Title: Boot Hill
Character: Zirkusdirektor Mimi
Released: December 20, 1969
Type: Movie
Victims of oppressive town boss Honey are offered help by an unusual alliance of gunmen and circus performers
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Zenabel
Title: Zenabel
Character: Pancrazio
Released: December 12, 1969
Type: Movie
Zenabel, a young woman from a humble background, discovers that she is actually the daughter of a Spanish nobleman who was killed by a ruthless don, Alonso, who took the title. So Zenable assembles a group of misfit friends to reclaim her title.
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Giacomo Casanova: Childhood and Adolescence
Title: Giacomo Casanova: Childhood and Adolescence
Character: Don Tosello
Released: October 30, 1969
Type: Movie
Through the childhood and adolescence of Signor Giacomo Casanova (from his memoirs), this is a description of how people lived in 18th-century Venice: their customs, habits, medicine, religion, and--most of all--the omnipresence of hypocrisy.
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H2S
Title: H2S
Character: The Professor
Released: September 5, 1969
Type: Movie
Young student runs away from a 1984-esque dictatorship, lives for a while with a crazy girl in a surrealistic “igloo” in snowy wilderness and then returns to lead a revolution against the oppressive system. Sci-fi tale consistent with the political climate of May 68.
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Once Upon a Time in the West
Title: Once Upon a Time in the West
Character: Innkeeper
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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Gates to Paradise
Title: Gates to Paradise
Character: The Monk
Released: May 31, 1968
Type: Movie
In 1212, a Children's Crusade is launched after a young shepherd, Jacques de Cloyes, claims to have had a vision in which it is said that the innocence of children would be able to liberate Jerusalem. A monk, returning from Holy Land, joins the crusade and hears the children's confessions, gradually realizing that most of them are taking part not for religious, but for more worldly reasons, like rejected love and hopes for freedom, the true nature of their enthusiasm is homosexual. In fact, if the children follow Jacques, it is more for romantic than religious reasons. They take literally the famous phrase: “Love one another”.
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Seven Times Seven
Title: Seven Times Seven
Character: Sam
Released: April 25, 1968
Type: Movie
A gang of prison inmates escape and rob the Royal Mint. They then sneak back to prison.
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Beyond the Law
Title: Beyond the Law
Character: Preacher
Released: April 10, 1968
Type: Movie
A thief takes the job as a town sheriff in order to rob a silver shipment before his ex-partner can grab it.
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A Dandy in Aspic
Title: A Dandy in Aspic
Character: Sobakevich
Released: April 2, 1968
Type: Movie
Double-agent Alexander Eberlin is assigned by the British to hunt out a Russian spy, known to them as Krasnevin. Only Eberlin knows that Krasnevin is none other than himself! Accompanying him on his mission is a ruthless partner, who gradually discovers his secret as Eberlin tries to maneuver himself out of a desperate situation.
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Cul-de-sac
Title: Cul-de-sac
Character: Richard
Released: June 17, 1966
Type: Movie
A wounded criminal and his dying partner take refuge at an old beachfront fortress. The owner of the fortress and his young wife, initially unwilling hosts, quickly experience their relationship with the criminal shift in a humorous and bizarre fashion.
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Promise Her Anything
Title: Promise Her Anything
Character: Sam
Released: February 22, 1966
Type: Movie
A widowed mother decides to go after the child psychologist she works for because she thinks he'll be able to provide for her toddler, the catch is her employer doesn't know about her son and he doesn't particularly care for children despite his profession.
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The Loved One
Title: The Loved One
Character: The Guru Brahmin ("Hump")
Released: October 11, 1965
Type: Movie
Newly arrived in Hollywood from England, Dennis Barlow finds he has to arrange his uncle's interment at the highly-organised and very profitable Whispering Glades funeral parlour. His fancy is caught by one of their cosmeticians, Aimee Thanatogenos. But he has three problems - the strict rules of owner Blessed Reverand Glenworthy, the rivalry of embalmer Mr Joyboy, and the shame of now working himself at The Happy Hunting Ground pets' memorial home.
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The Pistol
Title: The Pistol
Character: General Burroughs
Released: June 16, 1965
Type: Movie
A young private with a pistol deals with the aftershock of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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Title: The Wednesday Play
Character: General Burroughs
Released: September 30, 1964
Type: TV
The Wednesday Play is an anthology series of British television plays which ran on BBC1 from October 1964 to May 1970. The plays were usually written for television, although adaptations from other sources also featured. The series gained a reputation for presenting contemporary social dramas, and for bringing issues to the attention of a mass audience that would not otherwise have been discussed on screen.
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The Moving Finger
Title: The Moving Finger
Character: Anatole
Released: December 1, 1963
Type: Movie
A rare beatnik artifact of the early 1960s, one of only a few such films made before the hippies took over Hollywood. Low budget and in b&w, it's set in Greenwich Village, with what seems like a mostly improvised script. It begins as a late film noir crime tale involving a bank robbery where only one of a group of thieves escapes with his life, as well as $90,000 in loot. Injured and on the run, he hides in a local tour bus and is soon taken in by a group of bohemians who shoot him full of morphine to ease his pain and let him sleep it off on a mattress. Mason is the head beatnik. There's also the owner of both an upstairs coffeehouse and garret, where these beatniks hang out. They, in turn, bring the tourist trade in. Although the robbery is supposed to be the main focus of the plot, it quickly turns into more of a character study featuring these rebellious bon vivants and their odd lifestyle...
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Hollywood: The Selznick Years
Title: Hollywood: The Selznick Years
Character: 'A Star Is Born' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: December 31, 1961
Type: Movie
Henry Fonda hosts this retrospective on the career and films of iconic filmmaker David O. Selznick, who epitomized the era of the auteur producer in the 30s and 40s.
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Blast of Silence
Title: Blast of Silence
Character: Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Released: March 20, 1961
Type: Movie
A hired killer from Cleveland has a job to do on a second-string mob boss in New York. But a special girl from his past and a fat gun dealer with pet rats get in his way.
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St. Benny the Dip
Title: St. Benny the Dip
Character: Monk Williams
Released: August 24, 1951
Type: Movie
A gang of con artists disguise themselves as clerics in order to pull off a job, but soon find that even pretending to be religious people is having an effect on them.
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Two Gals and a Guy
Title: Two Gals and a Guy
Character: Mr. Seymour
Released: July 1, 1951
Type: Movie
A singing couple gets their own television show, and the strains of putting on a TV show every week starts to jeopardize their relationship.
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Wild and Woody!
Title: Wild and Woody!
Character: Buzz Buzzard (voice)
Released: December 31, 1948
Type: Movie
Woody Woodpecker gallops into a wild western town, which can't keep a sheriff very long due to the notorious outlaw (and sheriff-killer) Buzz Buzzard. Woody volunteers for the position but barely has time to shine up his badge before Buzz rides in with intent to do harm to Sheriff Woody. But Woody has no intentions of allowing Buzz to follow through on his intents.
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Trouble Makers
Title: Trouble Makers
Character: 'Hatchet' Moran
Released: December 10, 1948
Type: Movie
Slip and Sach are in the sidewalk star-gazing business when they see a murder committed in a room at the El Royale Hotel.
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Unfaithfully Yours
Title: Unfaithfully Yours
Character: Hugo Standoff
Released: December 10, 1948
Type: Movie
Before he left for a brief European visit, symphony conductor Sir Alfred De Carter casually asked his staid brother-in-law August to look out for his young wife, Daphne, during his absence. August has hired a private detective to keep tabs on her. But when the private eye's report suggests Daphne might have been canoodling with his secretary, Sir Alfred begins to imagine how he might take his revenge.
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Wet Blanket Policy
Title: Wet Blanket Policy
Character: Buzz Buzzard (voice)
Released: August 27, 1948
Type: Movie
Woody Woodpecker buys life insurance with the beneficiary being Buzz Buzzard who wants to collect early.
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Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven
Title: Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven
Character: Bellhop
Released: July 16, 1948
Type: Movie
Eddie Tayloe's grandfather leaves him six thousand dollars and the money belt it came in, freeing Tayloe to leave his dull newspaper job in Texas and move to New York to become a playwright. Along the way, his car breaks down and a girl walking along the highway asks for a lift. It turns out she's a nice girl, named Perry, running away from a job at a gasoline station. Soon they're off to New York together, but part ways once they arrive. Time passes and Eddie is failing to sell his play; Perry is failing to find a job. Odd circumstances, involving an old pickpocket named Mandy, bring them together again.
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Call Northside 777
Title: Call Northside 777
Character: Wiecek's Cellmate Corrigan (uncredited)
Released: February 13, 1948
Type: Movie
In 1932, a cop is killed and Frank Wiecek sentenced to life. Eleven years later, a newspaper ad by Frank's mother leads Chicago reporter P.J. O'Neal to look into the case. For some time, O'Neal continues to believe Frank guilty. But when he starts to change his mind, he meets increased resistance from authorities unwilling to be proved wrong.
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The Sin of Harold Diddlebock
Title: The Sin of Harold Diddlebock
Character: Max
Released: April 4, 1947
Type: Movie
Twenty-three years after scoring the winning touchdown for his college football team mild-mannered Harold Diddlebock, who has been stuck in a dull, dead-end book-keeping job for years, is let go by his pompous boss, advertising tycoon J.E. Wagglebury, with nothing but a tiny pension. Harold, who never touches the stuff, takes a stiff drink with his new pal... and another, and another. What happened Wednesday?
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Fair Weather Fiends
Title: Fair Weather Fiends
Character: Wolfie Wolf (voice)
Released: November 18, 1946
Type: Movie
After a storm strands them on a deserted island, Woody Woodpecker and his wolf friend end up battling themselves in a quest to find food.
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Gentleman Joe Palooka
Title: Gentleman Joe Palooka
Character: Harry Mitchell
Released: October 5, 1946
Type: Movie
In the second film of Monogram's Joe Palooka series, Joe is 'used', by two state senators scheming to obtain oil-rich lands, in a publicity campaign to get the land transferred to the state, supposedly for a park. When Joe learns that he has been used as a dupe he becomes disillusioned and leaves the prize=fighting profession. But, his manager, sparring partners, and fiancée manage to expose the land-grab scheme, clear Joe's name and discredit the crooked politicians.
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Specter of the Rose
Title: Specter of the Rose
Character: Lionel Gans
Released: July 5, 1946
Type: Movie
Ballet dancer Sanine may have murdered his first wife. A detective thinks so, and he's not the only one.
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A Boy, a Girl and a Dog
Title: A Boy, a Girl and a Dog
Character: Jim
Released: July 1, 1946
Type: Movie
During World War II, a young boy and girl, living with their respective families in an apartment house that had restrictions against pets, adopt a lost dog and hide it in a vacant apartment, which may have been the only vacant apartment in the United States at the time this movie was being filmed. A burglar breaks in and the apartment is damaged when the dog and crook have a tussle. This blows the dog's cover, but the kids enlist him in the K-9 Corps, and the dog distinguishes himself in the WWII Italian campaign
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Who's Cookin Who?
Title: Who's Cookin Who?
Character: Wolfie Wolf (voice)
Released: June 23, 1946
Type: Movie
Woody Woodpecker is sleeping. He awakens, under a blanket of snow, to find that both Winter and a hungry wolf are knocking at his door. The wolf has intentions of eating Woody...but Woody has the same thoughts regarding the wolf.
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In Old Sacramento
Title: In Old Sacramento
Character: Eddie Dodge
Released: May 31, 1946
Type: Movie
Dashing Johnny Barrett has a secret identity: Spanish Jack, the masked bandit. Always one step ahead of the law, Barrett effortlessly balances his double life--robbing by night, romancing by day and always with a smile. But when the woman he loves begins to suspect him and the young man he befriends is arrested for being him, it's time for Johnny to rethink his priorities.
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Apple Andy
Title: Apple Andy
Character: Devil
Released: April 9, 1946
Type: Movie
Andy Panda is very fond of apples and he eats a bushel of green apples, falls asleep and has a nightmare in which the devil is trying to entice him into Hades and stuffs him full of apple juice, applesauce and more apples. (In Andy's defense, since Andy was taught not to eat green apples, the devil had spray-painted the green apples red.)
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The Kid from Brooklyn
Title: The Kid from Brooklyn
Character: Spider Schultz
Released: March 21, 1946
Type: Movie
Shy milkman Burleigh Sullivan accidentally knocks out drunken Speed McFarlane, a champion boxer who was flirting with Burleigh's sister. The newspapers get hold of the story and photographers even catch Burleigh knock out Speed again. Speed's crooked manager decides to turn Burleigh into a fighter. Burleigh doesn't realize that all of his opponents have been asked to take a dive. Thinking he really is a great fighter, Burleigh develops a swelled head which puts a crimp in his relationship with pretty nightclub singer Polly Pringle. He may finally get his comeuppance when he challenges Speed for the title.
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The Loose Nut
Title: The Loose Nut
Character: Construction Worker (voice)
Released: December 17, 1945
Type: Movie
Woody Woodpecker goes to the park for a game of golf, and quickly gets at odds with some workers who are laying a cement walk.
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Watchtower Over Tomorrow
Title: Watchtower Over Tomorrow
Character: (uncredited)
Released: March 29, 1945
Type: Movie
Short documentary film about the Dumbarton Oaks plan and the proposed formation of the United Nations.
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The Big Show-Off
Title: The Big Show-Off
Character: Joe Bagley
Released: January 22, 1945
Type: Movie
A shy songwriter (Arthur Lake) pretends to be a championship wrestler known as "The Devil" in order to impress a pretty nightclub singer (Dale Evans).
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Guadalcanal Diary
Title: Guadalcanal Diary
Character: Sgt. Butch
Released: October 27, 1943
Type: Movie
Concentrating on the personal lives of those involved, a war correspondent takes us through the preparations, landing and initial campaign on Guadalcanal during WWII.
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Hangmen Also Die!
Title: Hangmen Also Die!
Character: Banya
Released: April 15, 1943
Type: Movie
During the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, surgeon Dr. Franticek Svoboda, a Czech patriot, assassinates the brutal "Hangman of Europe", Reichsprotektor Reinhard Heydrich, and is wounded in the process. In his attempt to escape, he is helped by history professor Stephen Novotny and his daughter Mascha.
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Tahiti Honey
Title: Tahiti Honey
Character: Pinkie
Released: April 6, 1943
Type: Movie
The "Eleven Brooklyn Bombshells," a band led by Mickey Monroe ('Dennis O'Keefe (I)' ), are stranded in Tahiti at the time of the fall of France to the Nazis. Suzette "Suzie" Durand (Simone Simon). a French-American girl singing in a nightclub is consumed with a desire to go to the United States. Things go from bad to worse for the band,. and they are faced with the necessity of either taking a girl singer into the group,which they all regard as bad luck, or starving. The band insists that she be dropped as soon as they can earn enough to catch a bot home. But Mickey falls in love with Suzie, and smuggles her on board the ship.
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What a Life
Title: What a Life
Character: Ferguson
Released: October 5, 1939
Type: Movie
Jackie Cooper stars in this first film in the wholesome "Henry Aldrich" series of teen comedies.
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Rhumba Rhythm at the Hollywood La Conga
Title: Rhumba Rhythm at the Hollywood La Conga
Character: Himself (uncredited)
Released: September 2, 1939
Type: Movie
Two starstruck visitors to Hollywood sneak into the famous nightclub and end up in a Conga contest and get more than they expected.
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The Ice Follies of 1939
Title: The Ice Follies of 1939
Character: Mort Hodges
Released: March 10, 1939
Type: Movie
Mary and Larry are are a modestly successful skating team. Shortly after their marriage, Mary gets a picture contract, while Larry is sitting at home, out of work.
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The Crowd Roars
Title: The Crowd Roars
Character: 'Happy' Lane
Released: August 6, 1938
Type: Movie
A young boxer gets caught between a no-good father and a crime boss when he starts dating the boss's daughter, although she doesn't know what daddy does for a living.
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Professor Beware
Title: Professor Beware
Character: Jerry
Released: July 29, 1938
Type: Movie
Egyptologist, Dean Lambert, accused of car-theft, skips bail and begins a cross-country trek to join a group in New York headed for Egypt. With the police close on his trail he gets in and out of scrapes along the way.
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No Time To Marry
Title: No Time To Marry
Character: Al Vogel
Released: February 5, 1938
Type: Movie
In this lightweight comedy, two news reporters who are engaged to be married endure romantic difficulties in their competitive pursuit of a "big scoop".
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The Last Gangster
Title: The Last Gangster
Character: Curly
Released: November 12, 1937
Type: Movie
A crime boss goes searching for his ex-wife and son after a ten-year prison stint. His old gang has other plans though, and use the child to try and make him disclose the location of the loot he hid before going to the slammer.
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The League of Frightened Men
Title: The League of Frightened Men
Character: Archie Goodwin
Released: May 25, 1937
Type: Movie
Nero Wolfe agrees to investigate a series of murders that seem to be tied in with a past Harvard hazing prank that went awry.
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A Star Is Born
Title: A Star Is Born
Character: Matt Libby
Released: April 27, 1937
Type: Movie
Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. Waitressing at a Hollywood party, she catches the eye of her idol Norman Maine, is sent for a screen test, and before long attains stardom as newly minted Vicki Lester. She and Norman marry, though his career soon dwindles to nothing due to his chronic alcoholism.
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He Was Her Man
Title: He Was Her Man
Character: Johnny Mouse (voice)
Released: January 2, 1937
Type: Movie
A Depression-era female mouse has to sell apples in the miserable cold, and then bring them home to her abusive husband. But when he abandons her and takes up with another woman, she does what any woman has the right to do.
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More Than a Secretary
Title: More Than a Secretary
Character: Ernest
Released: December 10, 1936
Type: Movie
When the co-owner of a secretarial school visits a magazine editor to find out why he runs through secretaries, she's mistaken for an applicant. Drawn to him, she accepts the position.
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They Met in a Taxi
Title: They Met in a Taxi
Character: Fingers Garrison
Released: September 8, 1936
Type: Movie
A cab driver takes in a young woman who claims to be a reluctant bride, and becomes involved in the search for a stolen necklace.
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Meet Nero Wolfe
Title: Meet Nero Wolfe
Character: Archie Goodwin
Released: July 16, 1936
Type: Movie
Rex Stout's portly detective prides himself on solving crimes without venturing outside his comfortable home; here he relies on others to do the legwork in pinpointing who among a number of suspects is responsible for two sudden deaths, which the authorities at first are not convinced were murders.
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I'm a Big Shot Now
Title: I'm a Big Shot Now
Character: Gangster Bird (voice)
Released: April 11, 1936
Type: Movie
A tough bird proclaims his hatred of cops, with serious consequences.
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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Title: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Character: Cornelius Cobb
Released: April 9, 1936
Type: Movie
Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.
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The Music Goes 'Round
Title: The Music Goes 'Round
Character: O'Casey
Released: February 27, 1936
Type: Movie
Harry Wallace (Harry Richman) is the star of a musical comedy who, while on a leave of absence from Broadway, encounters a troupe of untalented showboat players and takes them to New York City. Without letting them in on the joke, he then features them in a new revue, hoping that unintentionally-funny act will bring the house down.
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The Milky Way
Title: The Milky Way
Character: Spider Schultz
Released: February 7, 1936
Type: Movie
Timid milkman, Burleigh Sullivan, somehow knocks out a boxing champ in a brawl. The fighter's manager decides to build up the milkman's reputation in a series of fixed fights and then have the champ beat him to regain his title.
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Soak the Rich
Title: Soak the Rich
Character: Muglia
Released: January 17, 1936
Type: Movie
Tycoon Humphrey Craig is fearful that a "soak the rich" bill will pass in the United States Senate.
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If You Could Only Cook
Title: If You Could Only Cook
Character: Flash
Released: December 30, 1935
Type: Movie
An auto engineer and a professor's daughter pose as married servants in a mobster's mansion.
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I Live My Life
Title: I Live My Life
Character: Yaffitz, Bridge Player
Released: October 4, 1935
Type: Movie
A society girl tries to make a go of her marriage to an archaeologist.
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The Gay Deception
Title: The Gay Deception
Character: Gettel
Released: September 13, 1935
Type: Movie
A wide-eyed working girl wins a $5,000 sweepstakes and plunges into the lush life of New York City, where she meets a bellboy who is more than he seems.
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Page Miss Glory
Title: Page Miss Glory
Character: Nick Papadopolis
Released: September 7, 1935
Type: Movie
A country girl goes to the city and gets a job in a posh hotel, and winds up becoming an instant celebrity thanks to an ambitious photographer.
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We're in the Money
Title: We're in the Money
Character: Butch Gonzola
Released: August 17, 1935
Type: Movie
Ginger and Dixie are process servers for goofy lawyer Homer Bronson. The two friends want to quit, but they're offered a thousand dollars to serve four subpoenas in a breach of promise suit against rich C. Richard Courtney. Little does Ginger realize, C. Richard Courtney and her mysterious park bench boyfriend 'Carter' are one and the same.
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Hooray for Love
Title: Hooray for Love
Character: Chowsky
Released: June 14, 1935
Type: Movie
A wealthy young man falls hard for a beautiful showgirl, and her wily father quickly realizes the naïve boy would make the perfect investor for his daughter's new show. Comedy with music.
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The Scoundrel
Title: The Scoundrel
Character: Rothenstien
Released: April 30, 1935
Type: Movie
A ruthless, cynical, hated publisher is killed in a plane crash, doomed to be a "restless" spirit for being unloved. A heavenly power gives him a month on Earth to find one person to shed a tear for him before his fate is sealed.
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The Old Grey Mayor
Title: The Old Grey Mayor
Character: Alderman Tom Mulligan
Released: April 6, 1935
Type: Movie
Bob Hope wants to marry the mayor's daughter, but the mayor doesn't want his daughter to marry Bob Hope.
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Smoked Hams
Title: Smoked Hams
Character: Mr. Ivanitch
Released: October 20, 1934
Type: Movie
A vaudeville team convinces an agent to book their new act, which uses a Civil War theme.
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I Scream
Title: I Scream
Character: Micky Moran
Released: May 19, 1934
Type: Movie
Gus Shy, an ice cream man, gets embroiled in a vicious gangland feud.
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Pugs and Kisses
Title: Pugs and Kisses
Character: Slug Mosconi
Released: February 17, 1934
Type: Movie
A glass-jawed champ is the victim of an elaborate prank hatched by his manager in order to get him off of women and to focus on boxing.
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Mushrooms
Title: Mushrooms
Character: Bertram
Released: February 14, 1934
Type: Movie
Harry Gribbon is Horace, a man with one passion in life: Mushrooms.
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Howd' Ya Like That?
Title: Howd' Ya Like That?
Character: Customs Officer
Released: January 13, 1934
Type: Movie
Two sailors come ashore in New York with enough liquor--which was illegal at the time, due to Prohibition--to have a good time. They wind up getting involved with an actress in vaudeville and her very jealous boyfriend. Not only that, but a Customs Officer who found out they smuggled booze ashore is closing in on them.
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In the Dough
Title: In the Dough
Character: Toots (uncredited)
Released: November 15, 1933
Type: Movie
A cafeteria owner has problems with gangsters and gets more trouble by hiring 'Fatty' Arbuckle and chef.
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Salt Water Daffy
Title: Salt Water Daffy
Character: Chief Petty Officer Lambert
Released: September 16, 1933
Type: Movie
In this comedic short, two screw-ups join the Navy and make life miserable for their supervisor.