Davis Roberts

Davis Roberts

Born: March 7, 1917
Died: July 18, 1993
in Mobile, Alabama, USA

Movies for Davis Roberts...

The Gifted
Title: The Gifted
Released: January 21, 1993
Type: Movie
Psychic descendents of an African tribe reunite to save Earth. 5000 years ago certain members of the Dogon tribe in West Africa were granted psychic powers by good aliens to counterbalance the effects of Ogo, a bad alien intent on taking over Earth and killing all life to remake the planet for his own purposes. Descendents of the tribe who inherit the psychic powers are given an ancient book to read and pass on. Every 32 years, in connection with the orbiting of the star Sirius B, Ogo returns to kill a few more of the psychics in his ongoing bid for power.
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To Sleep with Anger
Title: To Sleep with Anger
Character: Okra Tate
Released: October 12, 1990
Type: Movie
An enigmatic drifter from the South comes to visit an old acquaintance who now lives in South-Central LA.
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Title: The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Doc
Released: September 29, 1985
Type: TV
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents is an American anthology series that aired on NBC from 1985 to 1986, and on the USA Network from 1987 to 1989. The series is an updated re-imagining of the classic 1955 series Alfred Hitchcock Presents.
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Attack on Fear
Title: Attack on Fear
Character: Seth Anderson
Released: October 10, 1984
Type: Movie
Married journalists who run a small town newspaper expose corruption and cultism at a once respected rehab center.
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Master Ninja II
Title: Master Ninja II
Character: Harold
Released: January 20, 1984
Type: Movie
Lee Van Cleef and Timoty Van Patten are back in this "sequel" to their last "movie" about a ninja and his apprentice battling evil wherever they go. In reality, it's two episodes of failed TV show 'The Master' repackaged as a movie. Also featured in an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000.
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Title: T. J. Hooker
Character: Medical Examiner
Released: March 13, 1982
Type: TV
Sergeant Thomas Jefferson Hooker is a tough-as-nails veteran police officer with the LCPD who turns his back on a gold badge and goes back to patrolling the streets and training recuits. Along with his young partners in blue, Hooker take on Lake City's toughest criminals.
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The Ambush Murders
Title: The Ambush Murders
Character: Moran
Released: January 5, 1982
Type: Movie
An African-American political activist is wrongfully imprisoned for killing two white policemen; he is unwary of yet another white lawyer who claims that he will help free him.
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Title: The Sophisticated Gents
Character: Perkins
Released: September 29, 1981
Type: TV
The 25-year reunion of members of a black athletic-social club brings together nine of its members for the first time to honor their old coach but is marred by a murder investigation involving one of the gents.
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Honky Tonk Freeway
Title: Honky Tonk Freeway
Character: James
Released: August 21, 1981
Type: Movie
Ticlaw, a small town in Florida, has only one attraction: a safari park. The government constructs a freeway that passes near Ticlaw, but decides not to put an exit into the town. The people of Ticlaw, leaded by its Mayor, will do anything in order to convince the governor to alter the project.
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The Billion Dollar Threat
Title: The Billion Dollar Threat
Character: Doorman
Released: April 15, 1979
Type: Movie
A James Bondish superspy is assigned to thwart the devious plans of a master agent who is threatening to destroy the planet unless he is paid one billion dollars within 48 hours.
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Demon Seed
Title: Demon Seed
Character: Warner
Released: April 7, 1977
Type: Movie
A scientist creates Proteus, an organic supercomputer with artificial intelligence which becomes obsessed with human beings, and in particular the creator's wife.
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From Noon Till Three
Title: From Noon Till Three
Character: Sam
Released: August 13, 1976
Type: Movie
Bank robber Graham Dorsey spends a few hours with beautiful widow Amanda Starbuck, in which time his gang takes part in a disastrous holdup. Learning of his comrades' demise, Dorsey goes on the lam. Believing her short-term lover was killed by the law, Amanda decides to make the most of having had a liaison with the supposedly deceased desperado by writing a book about him. Much to his confusion, the still-living Dorsey watches as his name becomes legendary.
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Return to Earth
Title: Return to Earth
Released: May 14, 1976
Type: Movie
The story of Buzz Aldrin, the second astronaut to walk on the moon, and the problems he had after his return to Earth, including the breakup of his marriage, a nervous breakdown and his hospitalization for psychiatric problems.
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Demon and the Mummy
Title: Demon and the Mummy
Released: March 14, 1976
Type: Movie
The second of two Kolchak: The Night Stalker compilation TV films. It combines two episodes of the Kolchak TV series, Demon In Lace (about a succubus who murders young men to maintain her immortality) and Legacy of Terror (about an Aztec cult that seeks to resurrect their god by murdering physically perfect people) and adds new narration by Darren McGavin.
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The First 36 Hours of Dr. Durant
Title: The First 36 Hours of Dr. Durant
Character: Dr. Dorsett
Released: May 13, 1975
Type: Movie
A young doctor fresh out of medical school takes a job at a big-city hospital, and on his first day finds himself making life-and-death decisions.
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A Case of Rape
Title: A Case of Rape
Character: Officer Kane
Released: February 20, 1974
Type: Movie
When she was raped, Ellen thought it was the worst thing to ever happen to her. What was worse, was the treatment by the hospital staff, police and the court system, when she reported it, and the man was caught.
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Get Christie Love!
Title: Get Christie Love!
Character: Myron Jones
Released: January 22, 1974
Type: Movie
Get Christie Love! is a 1974 made-for-television film starring Teresa Graves as an undercover female police detective who is determined to overthrow a drug ring. This film is based on Dorothy Uhnak's crime-thriller novel, The Ledger.
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Westworld
Title: Westworld
Character: Supervisor
Released: August 15, 1973
Type: Movie
Delos is a futuristic amusement park that features themed worlds—ancient Rome, Medieval times and the Old West—populated by human-like androids. After two patrons have a run-in with a menacing gunslinger in West World, the androids at Delos all begin to malfunction, causing havoc throughout the park.
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Heat of Anger
Title: Heat of Anger
Released: March 3, 1972
Type: Movie
A woman attorney and her young associate defend a wealthy contractor accused of murdering an ironworker who was having an affair with the contractor's daughter.
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Title: Columbo
Character: Kramer
Released: September 15, 1971
Type: TV
Columbo is a friendly, verbose, disheveled-looking police detective who is consistently underestimated by his suspects. Despite his unprepossessing appearance and apparent absentmindedness, he shrewdly solves all of his cases and secures all evidence needed for indictment. His formidable eye for detail and meticulously dedicated approach often become clear to the killer only late in the storyline.
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Title: The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Character: Man from Audience
Released: September 19, 1970
Type: TV
30-year-old single Mary Richards moves to Minneapolis to start a new life after a romantic break-up. There she reacquaints with Phyllis who rents her a room, and meets her upstairs neighbor and new best friend Rhoda. Mary unexpectedly lands a job as associate producer at the TV station WJM, where she works alongside her bristly boss, Lou; the comical newswriter, Murray; and the newscast's often-incompetent anchor, Ted.
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Halls of Anger
Title: Halls of Anger
Character: Mr. Willis
Released: April 29, 1970
Type: Movie
An all-black inner city school has to become an integrated school. Few dozen white kids are transfered there, but the black students are aggressively opposed to this. The school then approaches a tough black teacher for help.
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The Challenge
Title: The Challenge
Character: Scientist
Released: February 10, 1970
Type: Movie
All-out war between the United States and an Asian country is averted when the two sides agree to settle their differences by each choosing a single soldier as champion and having the two men fight to the death on an isolated island.
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Gidget Grows Up
Title: Gidget Grows Up
Character: Bukumbu Representative
Released: December 30, 1969
Type: Movie
After spending the last two years in Europe as an exchange student, Gidget returns home to California only to discover that things have changed. The letters she had been writing to her beloved "Moondoggie" to try to make him jealous have had the wrong effect. Disillusioned with love, and after hearing a speech on television, she decides to make a real difference in the world by going to New York to become a youth worker at the United Nations. While there she has a proposal of marriage from an extremely wealthy Arabian sheik, but instead she falls for a handsome but older Australian diplomat.
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Lionheart
Title: Lionheart
Character: Corporal
Released: January 1, 1968
Type: Movie
A lion escapes from a circus but is rescued and protected by a young boy.
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Hotel
Title: Hotel
Character: Dr. Elmo Adams
Released: January 19, 1967
Type: Movie
This is the story of the clocklike movements of a giant, big city New Orleans hotel. The ambitious yet loyal manager wrestles with the round-the-clock drama of its guests. A brazen sneak thief, who nightly relieves the guests of their property, is chased through the underground passages of the hotel. The big business power play for control of the hotel and the VIP diplomat guest with a secret add to the excitement.
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Title: Mission: Impossible
Character: Anton Bouchet
Released: September 17, 1966
Type: TV
Mission: Impossible is an American television series that was created and initially produced by Bruce Geller. It chronicles the missions of a team of secret government agents known as the Impossible Missions Force. In the first season, the team is led by Dan Briggs, played by Steven Hill; Jim Phelps, played by Peter Graves, takes charge for the remaining seasons. A hallmark of the series shows Briggs or Phelps receiving his instructions on a recording that then self-destructs, followed by the theme music composed by Lalo Schifrin. The series aired on the CBS network from September 1966 to March 1973, then returned to television for two seasons on ABC, from 1988 to 1990, retaining only Graves in the cast. It later inspired a popular series of theatrical motion pictures starring Tom Cruise, beginning in 1996.
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Title: Star Trek
Character: Dr. Ozaba
Released: September 8, 1966
Type: TV
Space. The Final Frontier. The U.S.S. Enterprise embarks on a five year mission to explore the galaxy. The Enterprise is under the command of Captain James T. Kirk with First Officer Mr. Spock, from the planet Vulcan. With a determined crew, the Enterprise encounters Klingons, Romulans, time paradoxes, tribbles and genetic supermen led by Khan Noonian Singh. Their mission is to explore strange new worlds, to seek new life and new civilizations, and to boldly go where no man has gone before.
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The Chase
Title: The Chase
Character: Roy (uncredited)
Released: February 18, 1966
Type: Movie
The escape of Bubber Reeves from prison affects the inhabitants of a small Southern town.
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Title: I Dream of Jeannie
Character: Aide
Released: September 18, 1965
Type: TV
While on a mission, American astronaut Captain Tony Nelson is forced to make an emergency landing that will forever change his life. On a deserted South Pacific island, Captain Nelson happens upon a bottle containing a beautiful two-thousand-year-old female genie named Jeannie. Rescuing her from the bottle nets Tony the requisite three wishes, and then some, when Jeannie pledges total devotion to her new "master".
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Title: I Dream of Jeannie
Character: Walter
Released: September 18, 1965
Type: TV
While on a mission, American astronaut Captain Tony Nelson is forced to make an emergency landing that will forever change his life. On a deserted South Pacific island, Captain Nelson happens upon a bottle containing a beautiful two-thousand-year-old female genie named Jeannie. Rescuing her from the bottle nets Tony the requisite three wishes, and then some, when Jeannie pledges total devotion to her new "master".
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The Killers
Title: The Killers
Character: Maître D'
Released: July 7, 1964
Type: Movie
A hit man and his partner try to find out why their latest victim, a former race-car driver, did not try to get away.
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Title: Ensign O'Toole
Character: Swain
Released: September 23, 1962
Type: TV
Ensign O'Toole is a military comedy that aired on NBC from September 23, 1962, to May 5, 1963, with 31-year-old Dean Jones in the title role of a nonchalant United States Navy ensign during the early 1960s. Jones, born in 1931 in Alabama and a Navy veteran of the Korean War, played an officer aboard the fictional U.S. Navy destroyer USS Appleby, which roamed the Pacific Ocean.
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All the Fine Young Cannibals
Title: All the Fine Young Cannibals
Character: Darl (uncredited)
Released: September 15, 1960
Type: Movie
An ambitious farm girl rushes into marriage with a rich man, almost destroying four lives in the process.
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Murder by Contract
Title: Murder by Contract
Character: Hall of Records Clerk
Released: December 18, 1958
Type: Movie
Claude is a ruthless and efficient contract killer. His next target, a woman, is the most difficult.
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God's Little Acre
Title: God's Little Acre
Character: Farm Hand with Hoe
Released: September 23, 1958
Type: Movie
In the 1950s, a poor Georgia cotton farmer and his sons search for the gold presumably buried on the farm by their grandfather but problems related to poverty, marital infidelity, unemployment and booze threaten to destroy their family.
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Female Jungle
Title: Female Jungle
Character: George
Released: June 16, 1956
Type: Movie
Alcoholic detective investigating the murder of an actress starts getting worried when all fingers begin to point at him.
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The Glenn Miller Story
Title: The Glenn Miller Story
Character: Black Man (uncredited)
Released: January 4, 1954
Type: Movie
A vibrant tribute to one of America's legendary bandleaders, charting Glenn Miller's rise from obscurity and poverty to fame and wealth in the early 1940s.
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Phone Call from a Stranger
Title: Phone Call from a Stranger
Released: February 1, 1952
Type: Movie
Four strangers board a plane and become fast friends, but a catastrophic crash leaves only one survivor. He then sets off on a journey to discover who these people were, but ultimately discovers the devastating truth about himself.
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The Lion Hunters
Title: The Lion Hunters
Character: Prince Lohu
Released: March 25, 1951
Type: Movie
A lion trapper and his daughter rendezvous with their hardheaded partner in the African jungle. Bomba, with assistance from a local tribe, strives to run them off.
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No Way Out
Title: No Way Out
Character: Heckler at Riot Meeting (uncredited)
Released: August 16, 1950
Type: Movie
Two hoodlum brothers are brought into a hospital for gunshot wounds, and when one of them dies the other accuses their black doctor of murder.
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In a Lonely Place
Title: In a Lonely Place
Character: Flower Shop Employee (uncredited)
Released: May 17, 1950
Type: Movie
An screenwriter with a violence record is a murder suspect until his lovely neighbor clears him. However, she soon starts to have her doubts.
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Knock on Any Door
Title: Knock on Any Door
Character: Jim 'Sunshine' Jackson (uncredited)
Released: February 22, 1949
Type: Movie
An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the court.
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The Long Night
Title: The Long Night
Character: Freddie
Released: May 28, 1947
Type: Movie
City police surround a building, attempting to capture a suspected murderer. The suspect knows there is no escape but refuses to give in.