Bud Cort

Bud Cort

Born: March 29, 1948
in Rye, New York, USA
Bud Cort (born Walter Edward Cox on March 29, 1948) is an American film and stage actor, writer, and director. He is best known for his portrayals of Harold in Hal Ashby's 1971 film Harold and Maude and the titular hero in Robert Altman's 1970 film Brewster McCloud. Both films have large cult followings today.

Movies for Bud Cort...

Affections
Title: Affections
Released: January 22, 2016
Type: Movie
A comedy about isolation and loneliness, Affections follows a young woman, adrift, seeking intimacy in the most unlikely places.
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The Little Prince
Title: The Little Prince
Character: The King (voice)
Released: July 29, 2015
Type: Movie
Based on the best-seller book 'The Little Prince', the movie tells the story of a little girl that lives with resignation in a world where efficiency and work are the only dogmas. Everything will change when accidentally she discovers her neighbor that will tell her about the story of the Little Prince that he once met.
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The Source Family
Title: The Source Family
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: May 1, 2013
Type: Movie
A feature documentary film set in Hollywood, examining a radical experiment in '70s utopian living. The Source Family were the darlings of the Sunset Strip until their communal living, outsider ideals and spiritual leader Father Yod's 13 wives became an issue with local authorities. They fled to Hawaii, leading to their dramatic demise.
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The Number 23
Title: The Number 23
Character: Dr. Sirius Leary
Released: February 23, 2007
Type: Movie
Walter Sparrow is an animal control officer that becomes obsessed with a mysterious book that seems to be based on his own life. As soon as he opens the book, he notices strange parallels between what he reads and what he's experienced. But now he's worried that a fictional murder might materialize.
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This Is an Adventure
Title: This Is an Adventure
Character: Self
Released: May 10, 2005
Type: Movie
During production on the film "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou", documentary filmmakers followed the cast and crew of a film which depicts other documentary filmmakers who follow animal life. In this film, we get a first hand look at the sets and come very close to many of the cast and crew members at work, especially Bill Murray and Wes Anderson.
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Matthew Gray Gubler's Life Aquatic Intern Journal
Title: Matthew Gray Gubler's Life Aquatic Intern Journal
Character: Self
Released: May 9, 2005
Type: Movie
Documentary created by Matthew Gray Gubler during, and about, his time on the set of The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. (Released in 2005)
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The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Title: The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Character: Bill Ubell
Released: December 10, 2004
Type: Movie
Renowned oceanographer Steve Zissou has sworn vengeance upon the rare shark that devoured a member of his crew. In addition to his regular team, he is joined on his boat by Ned, a man who believes Zissou to be his father, and Jane, a journalist pregnant by a married man. They travel the sea, all too often running into pirates and, perhaps more traumatically, various figures from Zissou's past, including his estranged wife, Eleanor.
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Title: Justice League Unlimited
Character: Toyman (voice)
Released: July 31, 2004
Type: TV
Justice League Unlimited is an American animated television series that was produced by Warner Bros. Animation and aired on Cartoon Network. Featuring a wide array of superheroes from the DC Comics universe, and specifically based on the Justice League superhero team, it is a direct sequel to the previous Justice League animated series.
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Title: Arrested Development
Character: Himself
Released: November 2, 2003
Type: TV
The story of a wealthy family that lost everything, and the one son who had no choice but to keep them all together.
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The Big Empty
Title: The Big Empty
Character: Neely
Released: May 16, 2003
Type: Movie
Struggling actor John Person agrees to drive a blue suitcase from Los Angeles to the small town of Baker, Calif., and hand it over to a mysterious cowboy in return for having his credit card debt of $27,000 paid off. Upon his arrival, John can't find the cowboy but receives an ominously head-shaped package he's supposed to hang onto. While waiting, John gets close to Ruthie, whose psychotic boyfriend, Randy, keeps threatening to kill him.
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Raw Iron: The Making of 'Pumping Iron'
Title: Raw Iron: The Making of 'Pumping Iron'
Character: Himself (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 2002
Type: Movie
A documentary on the making of "Pumping Iron" to celebrate its 25th anniversary. Aired on Cinemax.
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Title: Static Shock
Character: Toyman (voice)
Released: September 23, 2000
Type: TV
The adventures of a teenage superhero who fights crime in Dakota City.
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Pollock
Title: Pollock
Character: Howard Putzel
Released: September 6, 2000
Type: Movie
In August of 1949, Life Magazine ran a banner headline that begged the question: "Jackson Pollock: Is he the greatest living painter in the United States?" The film is a look back into the life of an extraordinary man, a man who has fittingly been called "an artist dedicated to concealment, a celebrity who nobody knew." As he struggled with self-doubt, engaging in a lonely tug-of-war between needing to express himself and wanting to shut the world out, Pollock began a downward spiral.
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Coyote Ugly
Title: Coyote Ugly
Character: Romero
Released: July 30, 2000
Type: Movie
Graced with a velvet voice, 21-year-old Violet Sanford heads to New York to pursue her dream of becoming a songwriter only to find her aspirations sidelined by the accolades and notoriety she receives at her "day" job as a barmaid at Coyote Ugly. The "Coyotes" as they are affectionately called tantalize customers and the media alike with their outrageous antics, making Coyote Ugly the watering hole for guys on the prowl.
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But I'm a Cheerleader
Title: But I'm a Cheerleader
Character: Peter
Released: July 7, 2000
Type: Movie
Megan is an all-American girl. A cheerleader. She has a boyfriend. But Megan doesn't like kissing her boyfriend very much. And she's pretty touchy with her cheerleader friends. Her conservative parents worry that she must be a lesbian and send her off to "sexual redirection" school, where she must, with other lesbians and gays learn how to be straight.
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The Million Dollar Hotel
Title: The Million Dollar Hotel
Character: Shorty
Released: February 9, 2000
Type: Movie
The Million Dollar Hotel starts with a jump from a roof top that clears up a death in a hotel that was burning to the ground where a lot of strange people had been living.
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South of Heaven, West of Hell
Title: South of Heaven, West of Hell
Character: Agent Otts
Released: January 28, 2000
Type: Movie
Valentine Casey is a Marshal in the desolate Tucson territory of the early 1900s. On Christmas Eve, his outlaw family pays him a disturbing visit. He must confront the sins of his past. He and his partner, U.S. Christmas, journey through the desert to a small town that the ruthless Henry Clan has hit in order to save Casey's love, Adelyne.
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Dogma
Title: Dogma
Character: John Doe Jersey
Released: November 12, 1999
Type: Movie
The latest battle in the eternal war between Good and Evil has come to New Jersey in the late, late 20th Century. Angels, demons, apostles and prophets (of a sort) walk among the cynics and innocents of America and duke it out for the fate of humankind.
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I Woke Up Early the Day I Died
Title: I Woke Up Early the Day I Died
Character: Shopkeeper
Released: September 13, 1998
Type: Movie
A mental patient escapes from the looney bin in drag, robs a bank, and goes on the lam!
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Sweet Jane
Title: Sweet Jane
Character: Dr. Geiler
Released: February 1, 1998
Type: Movie
Jane, an HIV-positive heroin addict, meets Tony, a young AIDS victim with no family, and the two form a bond.
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Jitters
Title: Jitters
Character: Michael
Released: May 5, 1997
Type: Movie
An independent, professional woman has second thoughts about getting married.
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Title: Superman: The Animated Series
Character: The Toyman (voice)
Released: September 6, 1996
Type: TV
Superman, an incredibly powerful alien from the planet Krypton, defends Metropolis from supercriminals. Superman hides his identity behind the glasses of Clark Kent; a mild-mannered reporter for the newspaper the Daily Planet. At the Daily Planet Superman works with fellow reporter Lois Lane and photographer Jimmy Olsen.
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Heat
Title: Heat
Character: Solenko, Restaurant Manager (uncredited)
Released: December 15, 1995
Type: Movie
Obsessive master thief Neil McCauley leads a top-notch crew on various daring heists throughout Los Angeles while determined detective Vincent Hanna pursues him without rest. Each man recognizes and respects the ability and the dedication of the other even though they are aware their cat-and-mouse game may end in violence.
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Theodore Rex
Title: Theodore Rex
Character: Spinner
Released: December 14, 1995
Type: Movie
In an alternate futuristic society, a tough female police detective is paired with a talking dinosaur to find the killer of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals leading them to a mad scientist bent on creating a new Armageddon.
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Girl in the Cadillac
Title: Girl in the Cadillac
Character: Bud
Released: October 24, 1995
Type: Movie
A runaway teenage girl and a drifter rob a bank, hit the road to elude the Texas Rangers and find love on the run.
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Crazy for a Kiss
Title: Crazy for a Kiss
Character: Dr. Webb
Released: April 23, 1995
Type: Movie
On a hot sunny day in Kansas, 1973, Mike Kinross's parents tell him he's going on holiday to his Uncle Dan's house. But instead they drop him off at the juvenile unit of the local mental institution.
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And the Band Played On
Title: And the Band Played On
Character: Antique Shop Owner
Released: September 11, 1993
Type: Movie
The story of the discovery of the AIDS epidemic and the political infighting of the scientific community hampering the early fight with it.
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Carol Leifer: Gaudy, Bawdy & Blue
Title: Carol Leifer: Gaudy, Bawdy & Blue
Character: Squid Jr.
Released: December 5, 1992
Type: Movie
Carol Leifer stars as Rusty Berman, a 1950's burlesque queen with an outrageous, risque act.
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Title: Batman: The Animated Series
Character: Josiah Wormwood (voice)
Released: September 5, 1992
Type: TV
Vowing to avenge the murder of his parents, Bruce Wayne devotes his life to wiping out crime in Gotham City as the masked vigilante "Batman".
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Title: Jack's Place
Released: May 26, 1992
Type: TV
Jack Evans is a retired jazz musician who runs a restaurant where romances tend to start.
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Ted & Venus
Title: Ted & Venus
Character: Ted Whitley
Released: August 8, 1991
Type: Movie
Ted is a 1970s Venice Beach poet who spends his days drifting along the boardwalk, reciting his poetry to anyone who will listen. His life changes when a bikini-clad beauty named Linda strolls by him. Instantly, Ted believes he's found his "Venus" and becomes obsessed with Linda. He tries to woo her with poetry, obscene phone calls and romantic overtures, all to disastrous effect.
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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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Brain Dead
Title: Brain Dead
Character: Jack Halsey
Released: January 16, 1990
Type: Movie
In a battle of man versus machine, Martin, a top neurosurgeon who's studying brain malfunctions that cause mental illness, delves deep into his own mind to save himself from a megalomaniacal corporation.
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The Chocolate War
Title: The Chocolate War
Character: Brother Jacques
Released: November 18, 1988
Type: Movie
Jerry, a new student at an elite Catholic prep school, must face the hazing practices handed down by the Vigils, a group of powerful students. When teacher Brother Leon pushes the students to sell chocolates for a fundraiser, the head of the Vigils, Archie, gets Jerry to reject selling for 10 days. However, Jerry decides to keep up the refusal past the original time frame, which pits him against the Vigils and the school staff.
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Out of the Dark
Title: Out of the Dark
Character: Doug Stringer
Released: June 2, 1988
Type: Movie
A deranged killer wearing a clown mask begins preying on a group of young women working at a phone-sex company.
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Out of the Dark
Title: Out of the Dark
Character: Stringer
Released: June 2, 1988
Type: Movie
A deranged killer wearing a clown mask begins preying on a group of young women working at a phone-sex company.
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Martini Ranch: Reach
Title: Martini Ranch: Reach
Character: Crazy Local
Released: January 16, 1988
Type: Movie
Music video for Bill Paxton's band Martini Ranch where an outlaw biker arrives at a rough small western town to visit his gal in the local brothel. What he doesn't know is that an all-female posse of bounty hunters is coming for him.
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Love at Stake
Title: Love at Stake
Character: Parson Babcock
Released: August 1, 1987
Type: Movie
Salem, 1692. The mayor and judge are accusing land owner of witchery in order to grab their land. No one knows that are handsome stranger is a real witch and has evil plans for the town.
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Bates Motel
Title: Bates Motel
Character: Alex West
Released: July 5, 1987
Type: Movie
A mentally disturbed man, who roomed with the late Norman Bates at a psychiatric facility, inherits the infamous Bates Motel after his death and attempts to fix it up as a respectable business.
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Title: Sledge Hammer!
Released: September 23, 1986
Type: TV
Sledge Hammer! is an American satirical police sitcom produced by New World Television that ran for two seasons on ABC from 1986 to 1988. The series was created by Alan Spencer and stars David Rasche as Inspector Sledge Hammer, a preposterous caricature of the standard "cop on the edge" character. Al Jean and Mike Reiss, best known for their work on The Simpsons, wrote for the show and worked as story editors.
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Invaders from Mars
Title: Invaders from Mars
Character: Mark Weinstein
Released: June 6, 1986
Type: Movie
In this remake of the classic 50s SF tale, a boy tries to stop an invasion of his town by aliens who take over the the minds of his parents, his least-liked schoolteacher and other townspeople. With the aid of the school nurse the boy enlists the aid of the U.S. Marines.
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Telephone
Title: Telephone
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
An emotionally-distraught and suicidal woman dials a random telephone number and gets a lonely man on the phone. With pistol in hand, she threatens to kill herself over the phone unless he can talk her out of it within one minute.
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Title: The Twilight Zone
Released: September 27, 1985
Type: TV
This 1980s revival of the classic sci-fi series features a similar style to the original anthology series. Each episode tells a tale (sometimes two or three) rooted in horror or suspense, often with a surprising twist at the end. Episodes usually feature elements of drama and comedy.
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Maria's Lovers
Title: Maria's Lovers
Character: Harvey
Released: October 3, 1984
Type: Movie
When her teenage sweetheart Ivan returns home from WWII, Maria eagerly accepts his marriage proposal, looking forward to a lifetime of happiness. But her joy is short-lived when Ivan’s dark past shrouds their wedding night in misery, driving a wedge between them that neither knows how to remove. Confused and depressed, Maria attempts to mend her true love’s heart despite the advances of other suitors. But when a traveling musician hits the right note, Maria struggles to justify her unfulfilling life. Is her passion too powerful to be contained within the sanctity of marriage?
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Title: Tales from the Darkside
Character: Abe North
Released: September 30, 1984
Type: TV
Tales from the Darkside is an anthology horror TV series created by George A. Romero, each episode was an individual short story that ended with a plot twist. The series' episodes spanned the genres of horror, science fiction, and fantasy, and some episodes featured elements of black comedy or more lighthearted themes.
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Electric Dreams
Title: Electric Dreams
Character: Edgar (voice)
Released: July 20, 1984
Type: Movie
Miles buys himself a state-of-the-art computer that starts expressing thoughts and emotions after having champagne spilled on it. Things start getting out of hand when both Miles and Edgar, the computer, fall in love with Madeline, an attractive neighbor.
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The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud
Title: The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud
Character: Sigmund Freud
Released: January 1, 1984
Type: Movie
Screwball account of the legendary psychologist's life leading up to his ground-breaking theories.
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Title: The Hitchhiker
Character: Wax
Released: November 1, 1983
Type: TV
A young hitchhiker introduces characters who are about to experience a frightening and sometimes supernatural incident of some kind in this moody anthology series.
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The Nightingale
Title: The Nightingale
Character: Music Master
Released: May 10, 1983
Type: Movie
A kitchen maid and a nightingale help save an emperor with the power of song and friendship.
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Love Letters
Title: Love Letters
Character: Danny
Released: April 1, 1983
Type: Movie
After discovering a box of old love letters sent to her mother by a mysterious stranger, Anna, a young radio deejay, begins a torrid affair with a married man. Burning attraction brings them together, but the reality does not come close to the passion expressed in the letters.
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Hysterical
Title: Hysterical
Character: Dr. John
Released: December 22, 1982
Type: Movie
Frederic Lansing is a writer who hopes to find inspiration while vacationing in Hellview, Oregon; however, the lighthouse in which he's staying is haunted by the ghost of Venetia, who had killed herself 100 years ago and now wants to use Lansing as a vessel for her dead husband, Captain Howdy. When Howdy's ghost starts killing people, two bumbling scientists are brought in to investigate the history of the lighthouse and solve the case.
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Rumpelstiltskin
Title: Rumpelstiltskin
Character: The Page
Released: October 16, 1982
Type: Movie
Desperate to save her life, a miller's daughter makes a bargain with a strange character - After which, she must find a way to get out of this dangerous bargain.
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Title: Faerie Tale Theatre
Character: Music Master
Released: September 11, 1982
Type: TV
A live-action children's television anthology series retelling popular fairy tales.
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Title: Faerie Tale Theatre
Character: The Page
Released: September 11, 1982
Type: TV
A live-action children's television anthology series retelling popular fairy tales.
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Night of 100 Stars
Title: Night of 100 Stars
Character: Self
Released: March 8, 1982
Type: Movie
The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place Friday February 19, 1982 at New York's Radio City Music Hall. The event, for which ticket-buyers paid up to $1,000 a seat (tax-deductible as a contribution to the Actors' Fund) was billed as "The Night of 100 Stars" but, actually, around 230 stars took part. And most of the audience of 5,800 had no idea in advance that they were paying to see a TV taping, complete with long waits for set and costume changes, tape rewinding, and the like. Executive producer Alexander Cohen estimated that the 5,800 Radio City Music Hall seats sold out at prices ranging from $25 to $1,000. The show itself cost about $4 million to produce and was expected to yield around $2 million for the new addition to the Actors Fund retirement home in Englewood, N. J. ABC is reputed to have paid more than $5 million for the television rights.
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She Dances Alone
Title: She Dances Alone
Character: film director
Released: September 19, 1981
Type: Movie
Director Robert Dornhelm casts Bud Cort for alter-ego purposes in She Dances Alone. Cort plays a documentary director, seeking to produce a film on the life of controversial ballet star Vaslav Nijinsky. He finds his goal of objectivity blocked by Nijinsky's elderly real-life daughter Kyra, who is as stocky as her father was sylph-like. Kyra's uncompromising insistence on total control over the project literally shapes (and frequently distorts) the film before our eyes. Adding to the Pirandellian atmosphere of the Australian-produced She Dances Alone is Max Von Sydow, also playing "himself."
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Die Laughing
Title: Die Laughing
Character: Mueller
Released: April 1, 1980
Type: Movie
A San Francisco cab driver find himself in possession of a monkey that is carrying a formula for turning atomic waste into a plutonium bomb. He finds himself framed for a murder and chased…
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Brave New World
Title: Brave New World
Character: Bernard Marx
Released: March 7, 1980
Type: Movie
A man who grew up in a primitive society educating himself by reading Shakespeare is allowed to join the futuristic society where his parents are from. However, he cannot adapt to their repressive ways.
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Title: Tales of the Unexpected
Character: Newt
Released: March 24, 1979
Type: TV
A British television anthology of stories, often with sinister and wryly comedic undertones, and a twist at the end. With early episodes written and presented by Roald Dahl, the series featured a plethora of big name guest stars.
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Son of Hitler
Title: Son of Hitler
Character: Willi Hitler
Released: January 1, 1979
Type: Movie
The leader of a right-wing German political party discovers that an illiterate woodcarver is actually the son of Adolf Hitler.
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Why Shoot the Teacher?
Title: Why Shoot the Teacher?
Character: Max Brown
Released: June 23, 1977
Type: Movie
It's the winter of 1935 and Max Brown is newly arrived in Willowgreen, Saskatchewan - a rural Canadian prairie town - on his first teaching job in a one room schoolhouse. He quickly realizes that this is not a dream situation: the winter is harsher than he's ever experienced, he's living in the basement of the school, the older of his students treat him poorly and his wages are paltry if and when he ever does get paid.
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Pumping Iron
Title: Pumping Iron
Character: Self
Released: January 18, 1977
Type: Movie
Amateur and professional bodybuilders prepare for the 1975 Mr. Olympia and Mr. Universe contests as five-time champion Arnold Schwarzenegger defends his Mr. Olympia title against Serge Nubret and the shy young Lou Ferrigno.
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Bernice Bobs Her Hair
Title: Bernice Bobs Her Hair
Character: Warren
Released: October 6, 1976
Type: Movie
Bernice, a shy young woman, leaves her safe home to go visit her flapper cousin. When her cousin tries to teach Bernice how to be much more modern, Bernice gives her much more than she bargained for.
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Hallucination Strip
Title: Hallucination Strip
Character: Massimo Monaldi
Released: December 18, 1975
Type: Movie
The story is about a youth named Massimo Monaldi, who, living in Rome, is a part-time college student who has some involvement in the protests that occur at his university. Massimo is also involved with drugs and he sometimes steals to make a living and support his habit (the theft of a tobacco box is very important to the story). Among his associates are his girlfriend, Cinzia, who comes from a wealthy family, and he has a wealthy male friend named Rudy who is very naive as well as strangely pampered by his overly-doting mother. Both families don't approve of their relationship with Massimo.
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Harold and Maude
Title: Harold and Maude
Character: Harold Parker Chasen
Released: December 20, 1971
Type: Movie
The young Harold lives in his own world of suicide-attempts and funeral visits to avoid the misery of his current family and home environment. Harold meets an 80-year-old woman named Maude who also lives in her own world yet one in which she is having the time of her life. When the two opposites meet they realize that their differences don’t matter and they become best friends and love each other.
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Brewster McCloud
Title: Brewster McCloud
Character: Brewster
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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The Traveling Executioner
Title: The Traveling Executioner
Character: Jimmy Croft
Released: October 1, 1970
Type: Movie
Jonas Candide performs his job as state executioner in early 20th century Mississippi like a combination preacher and carnival barker, persuading condemned men to accept their deaths before electrocuting them on his electric chair. After he's assigned his first woman to execute, however, Jonas' sense of purpose is shaken.
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Gas! -Or- It Became Necessary to Destroy the World in Order to Save It.
Title: Gas! -Or- It Became Necessary to Destroy the World in Order to Save It.
Character: Hooper
Released: September 4, 1970
Type: Movie
A gas is let loose upon the world that kills anyone over 25 years old.
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The Strawberry Statement
Title: The Strawberry Statement
Character: Elliot
Released: August 28, 1970
Type: Movie
A college student joins a group of revolutionaries to meet girls but ends up committed to their goals.
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M*A*S*H
Title: M*A*S*H
Character: Warren Boone
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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Sweet Charity
Title: Sweet Charity
Character: Flower Child (uncredited)
Released: February 25, 1969
Type: Movie
Taxi dancer Charity continues to have faith in the human race despite apparently endless disappointments at its hands, and hope that she will finally meet the nice young man to romance her away from her sleazy life. Maybe, just maybe, handsome Oscar will be the one to do it.
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Up the Down Staircase
Title: Up the Down Staircase
Character: Student
Released: June 28, 1967
Type: Movie
Sylvia, a novice schoolteacher, is hired to teach English in a high school, but she’s met with an apathetic faculty, a delinquent student body and an administration that drowns its staff in paperwork. The following days go from bad to worse as Sylvia struggles to reach her most troubled students.