Lee J. Cobb

Lee J. Cobb

Born: December 8, 1911
Died: February 11, 1976
in New York City, New York, USA
Lee J. Cobb (December 8, 1911 - February 11, 1976) ) was an American actor best known for his performance in 12 Angry Men (1957), his Academy Award-nominated performance in On the Waterfront, and one of his last films, The Exorcist (1973). He also played the role of Willy Loman in the original Broadway production of Arthur Miller's 1949 play Death of a Salesman under the direction of Elia Kazan. On television, Cobb costarred in the first four seasons of the popular, long-running western series The Virginian. He typically played arrogant, intimidating, and abrasive characters, but often had roles as respectable figures such as judges. Born Leo Jacob in New York City, he grew up in The Bronx,  before studying at New York University and making his film debut in The Vanishing Shadow (1934).  Cobb performed in numerous theater productions and companies, including Group Theatre (New York) before serving in the First Motion Picture Unit of the Army Air Force during World War II.  

Following the war, Cobb returned to film, television and theater before being accused of being a Communist in 1951 testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee by Larry Parks, himself a former Communist Party member. Cobb was called to testify before HUAC but refused to do so for two years until, with his career threatened by the blacklist, he relented in 1953 and gave testimony in which he named 20 people as former members of the Communist Party USA. Following the hearing he resumed his career and worked with Elia Kazan and Budd Schulberg, two other HUAC "friendly witnesses", on the 1954 film On the Waterfront, which is widely seen as an allegory and apologia for testifying.  His 1968 performance as King Lear achieved the longest run (72 performances) for the play in Broadway history.  One of his final film roles was that of police detective Lt. Kinderman in the 1973 horror film The Exorcist.

Cobb died of a heart attack in February 1976 in Woodland Hills, California, and was buried in Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles. He was survived by his second wife, Mary Hirsch, and daughter, also an accomplished actress, Julie Cobb.

Movies for Lee J. Cobb...

Leap of Faith: William Friedkin on The Exorcist
Title: Leap of Faith: William Friedkin on The Exorcist
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: October 5, 2023
Type: Movie
A lyrical and spiritual cinematic essay on The Exorcist, the last film of Alexandre O. Philippe explores the uncharted depths of William Friedkin’s mind’s eye, the nuances of his filmmaking process, and the mysteries of faith and fate that have shaped his life and filmography.
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The Meanest Men in the West
Title: The Meanest Men in the West
Character: Judge Henry Garth
Released: May 4, 1978
Type: Movie
Bronson and Marvin star as murderous half-brothers who are running from the law as well as each other. A climatic confrontation proves to each of them just how mean the other can be. "The Meanest Men in the West" is actually an amalgam of two episodes of the hit 1960's TV series, "The Virginian." In one installment, a wealthy man's daughter is kidnapped by a nasty gunslinger. But the crime is only just a means for the ruffian to draw the tough title character into a blood- thirsty revenge scheme. In the second, a drifter burglarizes the Shiloh ranch. Then an unhinged girl relies on the man to aid in her flight from home.
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Cross Shot
Title: Cross Shot
Character: Dante Ragusa
Released: December 30, 1976
Type: Movie
A mobster kills a cop during a robbery and then finds himself pursued by the police, his gang, and the media.
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Title: Origins of the Mafia
Character: Bartolomeo Gramignano
Released: November 19, 1976
Type: TV
Mini series about the origins of the Italian mafia
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Nick the Sting
Title: Nick the Sting
Character: Robert Clark
Released: September 14, 1976
Type: Movie
Nick Hezard, a young con man, wants to avenge the death of a friend of his and organizes a swindle trying to cheat Robert Turner, an American businessman he thinks responsible for his friend's death. He succeeds in getting a hundred thousand swiss francs and uses them to carry out the second part of his plan.
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Mark Shoots First
Title: Mark Shoots First
Character: Il commedator Benzi
Released: December 22, 1975
Type: Movie
Mark Terzi goes to Genoa to take on the case of a serial killer who calls himself "The Sphinx".
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That Lucky Touch
Title: That Lucky Touch
Character: Henry Steedman
Released: August 7, 1975
Type: Movie
A European arms dealer meets a liberated woman journalist, who is writing a story about the ridiculous things men do with the armaments during a NATO war games meeting.
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Blood, Sweat and Fear
Title: Blood, Sweat and Fear
Character: Benzi
Released: August 1, 1975
Type: Movie
Police believe that a respectable industrialist is actually the head of drug smuggling ring in Milan.
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The Balloon Vendor
Title: The Balloon Vendor
Character: Twenty Years
Released: December 21, 1974
Type: Movie
A young boy tries to make living out of a puppet show when his mother abandons him and his father.
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The Great Ice Rip-Off
Title: The Great Ice Rip-Off
Character: Willy Calso
Released: November 6, 1974
Type: Movie
A retired cop goes up against a slick jewel thief and his gang, who have pulled a diamond heist and are trying to smuggle the diamonds cross-country.
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Trapped Beneath the Sea
Title: Trapped Beneath the Sea
Character: Victor Bateman
Released: October 22, 1974
Type: Movie
Based on an incident that occurred off the coast of Florida in 1973, this film tells the story of four men who find themselves trapped in a mini-submarine in the ocean depths.
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Dr. Max
Title: Dr. Max
Character: Maxwell Gordon
Released: April 4, 1974
Type: Movie
A small-town doctor neglects his family to look after his patients.
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The Exorcist
Title: The Exorcist
Character: Lt. Bill Kinderman
Released: December 26, 1973
Type: Movie
When a charming 12-year-old girl takes on the characteristics and voices of others, doctors say there is nothing they can do. As people begin to die, the girl's mother realizes her daughter has been possessed by the devil--and that her daughter's only possible hope lies with two priests and the ancient rite of demonic exorcism.
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The Great Kidnapping
Title: The Great Kidnapping
Character: Jovine
Released: November 16, 1973
Type: Movie
In early seventies Italy, plagued by criminality and political terrorism, a fearless police commissioner is sent to restore law and order in a northern industrial town devastated by a recent wave of violence and kidnappings..
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Double Indemnity
Title: Double Indemnity
Character: Barton Keyes
Released: October 13, 1973
Type: Movie
A scheming wife lures an insurance investigator into helping murder her husband and then declare it an accident. The investigator's boss, not knowing his man is involved in it, suspects murder and sets out to prove it.
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The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing
Title: The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing
Character: Lapchance
Released: June 28, 1973
Type: Movie
On the run from her violent husband, Catherine Crocker witnesses a train robbery and is taken prisoner by a frontier outlaw gang, led by a bandit who’s hiding a secret of his own.
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The Bull of the West
Title: The Bull of the West
Character: Judge Garth
Released: May 4, 1972
Type: Movie
Two episodes of the TV series "The Virginian" edited together: "Duel at Shiloh" (2 Jan. 1963) and "Nobility of Kings" (10 Nov. 1965).
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Heat of Anger
Title: Heat of Anger
Character: Frank Galvin
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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Lawman
Title: Lawman
Character: Vincent Bronson
Released: March 11, 1971
Type: Movie
While passing through the town of Bannock, a bunch of drunken cattlemen go overboard with their celebrating and accidentally kill an old man with a stray shot. They return home to Sabbath unaware of his death. Bannock lawman Jered Maddox later arrives there to arrest everyone involved on a charge of murder. Sabbath is run by land baron Vince Bronson, a benevolent despot, who, upon hearing of the death, offers restitution for the incident.
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Macho Callahan
Title: Macho Callahan
Character: Duffy
Released: February 28, 1971
Type: Movie
A man tricked into enlisting in the Confederate army is later thrown into a hellish stockade on desertion charges. He eventually breaks out of the prison camp, reunites with his old partner and sets out to kill the man who was responsible for his being in the camp in the first place. However, after accidentally killing a Confederate officer, he finds himself pursued by a gang of vicious bounty hunters intent on collecting the reward put up by the dead officer's widow.
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Title: The Young Lawyers
Released: September 21, 1970
Type: TV
The Young Lawyers is an American legal drama that was aired on the ABC network as part of its 1970-71 lineup.
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The Liberation of L.B. Jones
Title: The Liberation of L.B. Jones
Character: Oman Hedgepath
Released: March 18, 1970
Type: Movie
Undertaker L.B. Jones, the richest black man in his county of Tennessee, is divorcing his wife for infidelity with a white policeman. Taking a stand against racism, he is greeted with a hostile bunch of Southern bigots and other various stereotypes.
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Annie: the Women in the Life of a Man
Title: Annie: the Women in the Life of a Man
Character: Himself
Released: February 18, 1970
Type: Movie
A CBS television special, renowned for its legendary "Yma, Ava....Yma, Uta... Yma, Oona" sequence. Annie: the Women in the Life of a Man (1970), won Anne Bancroft her only Emmy for her portrayal of 14 different woman in 14 musical and comedy sketches. Bancroft's husband Mel Brooks contributed to the script and also appears onscreen.
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Title: McCloud
Released: February 17, 1970
Type: TV
Deputy Marshal Sam McCloud of the small western town of Taos, New Mexico is assigned to the metropolitan New York City Police Department (NYPD) as a special investigator.
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Mackenna's Gold
Title: Mackenna's Gold
Character: The Editor
Released: March 18, 1969
Type: Movie
A bandit kidnaps a Marshal who has seen a map showing a gold vein on Indian lands, but other groups are looking for it too, while the Apache try to keep the secret location undisturbed.
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Coogan's Bluff
Title: Coogan's Bluff
Character: Lt. McElroy
Released: October 2, 1968
Type: Movie
Coogan, an Arizona deputy sheriff goes to New York to pick up a prisoner. While escorting the prisoner to the airport, he escapes and Coogan heads into the city to recapture him.
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The Day of the Owl
Title: The Day of the Owl
Character: Don Mariano Arena
Released: February 17, 1968
Type: Movie
Set in Sicily, this violent crime drama tells the tale of an Italian cop who heads to a small island town to look into the death of a construction supplier. Once there he is shocked by the influence the Mafia has over the people and even himself.
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They Came to Rob Las Vegas
Title: They Came to Rob Las Vegas
Character: Steve Skorsky
Released: February 7, 1968
Type: Movie
After successfully assaulting an armored car between Las Vegas and Los Angeles, the ambitions of the diverse members of the intrepid criminal gang collide, causing undesirable consequences.
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In Like Flint
Title: In Like Flint
Character: Lloyd C. Cramden
Released: March 15, 1967
Type: Movie
Flint is again called out of retirement when his old boss finds that he seems to have missed 3 Minutes while golfing with the President. Flint finds that the President has been replaced by an actor (Flint's line [with a wistful look] is "An Actor as President?") Flint finds that a group of women have banded together to take over the world through subliminal brainwashing in beauty salons they own.
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Death of a Salesman
Title: Death of a Salesman
Character: Willy Loman
Released: May 7, 1966
Type: Movie
Adaptation of Arthur Miller's play.
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Our Man Flint
Title: Our Man Flint
Character: Cramden
Released: January 16, 1966
Type: Movie
When scientists use eco-terrorism to impose their will on the world by affecting extremes in the weather, Intelligence Chief Cramden calls in top agent Derek Flint.
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The Final Hour
Title: The Final Hour
Character: Judge Henry Garth
Released: May 27, 1965
Type: Movie
two episodes of the TV series "The Virginan" edited together.
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The Brazen Bell
Title: The Brazen Bell
Character: Judge Henry Garth
Released: March 18, 1964
Type: Movie
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Title: Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
Character: Ernie Wigman
Released: October 4, 1963
Type: TV
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre is an American anthology series, sponsored by Chrysler Corporation, which ran on NBC from 1963 through 1967. The show was hosted by Bob Hope, but it had a variety of formats, including musical, dramatic, and comedy.
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Come Blow Your Horn
Title: Come Blow Your Horn
Character: Harry R. Baker
Released: June 5, 1963
Type: Movie
The story of a young man's decision to leave the home of his parents for the bachelor pad of his older brother who leads a swinging '60s lifestyle.
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The Devil's Children
Title: The Devil's Children
Character: Judge Henry Garth
Released: December 5, 1962
Type: Movie
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How the West Was Won
Title: How the West Was Won
Character: Marshal Lou Ramsey
Released: November 2, 1962
Type: Movie
The epic tale of the development of the American West from the 1830s through the Civil War to the end of the century, as seen through the eyes of one pioneer family.
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Title: The Virginian
Character: Ritcher Henry Garth
Released: September 19, 1962
Type: TV
The Shiloh Ranch in Wyoming Territory of the 1890s is owned in sequence by Judge Henry Garth, the Grainger brothers, and Colonel Alan MacKenzie. It is the setting for a variety of stories, many more based on character and relationships than the usual western.
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Title: The Virginian
Character: Richter Henry Garth
Released: September 19, 1962
Type: TV
The Shiloh Ranch in Wyoming Territory of the 1890s is owned in sequence by Judge Henry Garth, the Grainger brothers, and Colonel Alan MacKenzie. It is the setting for a variety of stories, many more based on character and relationships than the usual western.
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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Title: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Character: Julio Madariaga
Released: February 7, 1962
Type: Movie
In Argentina, one daughter of patriarch Madariaga is married to a Frenchman while the other is married to a German thus leading to a crisis when Nazi Germany occupies France and some Madariaga family members fight on opposite sides.
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Exodus
Title: Exodus
Character: Barak Ben Canaan
Released: December 15, 1960
Type: Movie
Ari Ben Canaan, a passionate member of the Jewish paramilitary group Haganah, attempts to transport 600 Jewish refugees on a dangerous voyage from Cyprus to Palestine on a ship named the Exodus. He faces obstruction from British forces, who will not grant the ship passage to its destination.
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I, Don Quixote
Title: I, Don Quixote
Character: Miguel de Cervantes / Don Quixote de la Mancha / Alonso Quijana
Released: November 9, 1959
Type: Movie
The original TV play which evolved into the hit musical, "Man of La Mancha".
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Title: The DuPont Show with June Allyson
Character: Captain Maximillian Gault
Released: September 21, 1959
Type: TV
The DuPont Show with June Allyson is an American anthology drama series which aired on CBS from September 21, 1959 to April 3, 1961 with rebroadcasts continuing until June 12, 1961. The series was hosted by actress June Allyson.
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But Not for Me
Title: But Not for Me
Character: Jeremiah MacDonald
Released: August 19, 1959
Type: Movie
Out of hit ideas and seemingly in the twilight of his career, Broadway producer Russ Ward decides to give up the game. But when Russ lays off his nubile secretary, Ellie Brown, she shocks him with a declaration of love. Inspired, Ward commands playwright MacDonald to rewrite his latest show as a May-December romance starring Brown herself. Ward struggles to make a comeback as his ex-wife, Kathryn, plots to end his new relationship.
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Green Mansions
Title: Green Mansions
Character: Nuflo
Released: March 19, 1959
Type: Movie
A young Venezuelan idealist flees his native land to escape a revolution. Hoping to find peace, he goes to the mountains and the forests of the Amazon. There he encounters Rima, the Bird Girl, an orphan living a life of nature, who is feared by a local jungle tribe.
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The Trap
Title: The Trap
Character: Victor Massonetti
Released: January 28, 1959
Type: Movie
Lawyer Ralph Anderson arrives in Tula, an amazingly remote town in the desert, as reluctant emissary of mob chief Victor Massonetti, who wants the airstrip clear for his unofficial exit from the country. Ralph's arrival has a profound effect on his estranged father, the sheriff; his brother Tip, an alcoholic deputy; and his ex-sweetheart Linda, now married to Tip. Tension builds as a small army of gangsters takes over the town. Then the situation abruptly changes...
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Party Girl
Title: Party Girl
Character: Rico Angelo
Released: October 28, 1958
Type: Movie
Slick lawyer Thomas Farrell has made a career of defending mobsters in trials. It's not until he meets a lovely showgirl at a mob party that he realizes that there's more to life than winning trials. Farrell tries to quit the racket, but mob boss Rico Angelo threatens to hurt the showgirl if Farrell leaves him.
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Title: Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
Released: October 6, 1958
Type: TV
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse is an American television anthology series produced by Desilu Productions. The show ran on CBS television between 1958 and 1960. Two of its 48 episodes served as pilots for the 1950s television series The Twilight Zone and The Untouchables.
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Title: Naked City
Character: Paul Delito
Released: September 30, 1958
Type: TV
Naked City is a police drama series which aired from 1958 to 1963 on the ABC television network. It was inspired by the 1948 motion picture of the same name, and mimics its dramatic “semi-documentary” format. In 1997, the episode “Sweet Prince of Delancey Street” was ranked #93 on TV Guide’s “100 Greatest Episodes of All Time”.
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Man of the West
Title: Man of the West
Character: Dock Tobin
Released: June 20, 1958
Type: Movie
Heading east to Fort Worth to hire a schoolteacher for his frontier town home, Link Jones is stranded with singer Billie Ellis and gambler Sam Beasley when their train is held up. For shelter, Jones leads them to his nearby former home, where he was brought up an outlaw. Finding the gang still living in the shack, Jones pretends to be ready to return to a life crime.
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The Brothers Karamazov
Title: The Brothers Karamazov
Character: Fyodor Karamazov
Released: February 20, 1958
Type: Movie
Ryevsk, Russia, 1870. Tensions abound in the Karamazov family. Fyodor is a wealthy libertine who holds his purse strings tightly. His four grown sons include Dmitri, the eldest, an elegant officer, always broke and at odds with his father, betrothed to Katya, herself lovely and rich. The other brothers include a sterile aesthete, a factotum who is a bastard, and a monk. Family tensions erupt when Dmitri falls in love with one of his father's mistresses, the coquette Grushenka. Two brothers see Dmitri's jealousy of their father as an opportunity to inherit sooner. Acts of violence lead to the story's conclusion: trials of honor, conscience, forgiveness, and redemption.
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The Three Faces of Eve
Title: The Three Faces of Eve
Character: Doctor Curtis Luther
Released: December 23, 1957
Type: Movie
A doctor treats a woman suffering from multiple personality disorder.
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The Garment Jungle
Title: The Garment Jungle
Character: Walter Mitchell
Released: May 1, 1957
Type: Movie
Alan Mitchell returns to New York to work for his father Walter, the owner of a fashion house that designs and manufactures dresses. To stay non-union, Walter has hired Artie Ravidge, a hood who uses strong-arm tactics to keep the employees in line.
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12 Angry Men
Title: 12 Angry Men
Character: Juror 3
Released: April 10, 1957
Type: Movie
The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young Spanish-American is guilty or innocent of murdering his father. What begins as an open and shut case soon becomes a mini-drama of each of the jurors' prejudices and preconceptions about the trial, the accused, and each other.
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Title: Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Character: Captain Andrew Watling
Released: October 5, 1956
Type: TV
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre, sometimes simply called Zane Grey Theatre, is an American Western anthology series which ran on CBS from 1956 to 1961.
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Title: Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Character: Drifter - Frank MacKinnon
Released: October 5, 1956
Type: TV
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre, sometimes simply called Zane Grey Theatre, is an American Western anthology series which ran on CBS from 1956 to 1961.
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Miami Exposé
Title: Miami Exposé
Character: Lt. Barton 'Bart' Scott
Released: September 1, 1956
Type: Movie
A police detective baits killer gamblers with a mob witness (Patricia Medina) in the Everglades.
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The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
Title: The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
Character: Judge Bernstein
Released: April 12, 1956
Type: Movie
Tom Rath is a suburban father and husband haunted by his memories of World War II, including a wartime romance with Italian village girl Maria, which resulted in an illegitimate son he's never seen. Pressed by his unhappy wife to get a higher-paying job, Rath goes to work as a public relations man for television network president Ralph Hopkins. Drawn into poisonous office politics, Tom finds he must choose his career or his family.
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Title: Tony Awards
Character: Willy Loman (archive footage)
Released: April 1, 1956
Type: TV
The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway productions and performances, and an award is given for regional theatre.
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Title: Gunsmoke
Character: Col. Josiah Johnson
Released: September 10, 1955
Type: TV
Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West. The central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon, played by William Conrad on radio and James Arness on television.
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The Left Hand of God
Title: The Left Hand of God
Character: Mieh Yang
Released: September 2, 1955
Type: Movie
A man in priestly robes, seemingly the long-awaited Father O'Shea, arrives at a little-frequented Catholic mission in 1947 China. Though the man seems curiously uncomfortable with his priestly duties, his tough tactics prove very successful in the Seven Villages, as around them China disintegrates in civil war and revolution. But he has a secret, and his friendship with mission nurse Anne (an attractive war widow) seems to be taking on an unpriestly tone.
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The Road to Denver
Title: The Road to Denver
Character: Jim Donovan
Released: June 15, 1955
Type: Movie
The Mayhew brothers flee from one Texas town to another as older brother Bill repeatedly attempts to keep younger brother Sam out of jail. Bill finally gives up on his younger brother and heads for Colorado. He gets a job and all is well until his brother shows up and takes a job that puts them on opposite sides of the law.
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The Racers
Title: The Racers
Character: Maglio
Released: February 4, 1955
Type: Movie
An Italian daredevil turns Grand Prix driver and works his way up to Le Mans with his ballerina lover.
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Day of Triumph
Title: Day of Triumph
Character: Zadok
Released: December 25, 1954
Type: Movie
A film about the last days of Jesus Christ.
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Title: Medic
Character: Henry Fisher
Released: September 13, 1954
Type: TV
Medic is an American medical drama that aired on NBC beginning in 1954. Medic was television's first doctor drama to focus attention on medical procedures. Created by its principal writer James E. Moser, Medic tried to create realism which would typify medical shows from then on. Moser had previously written for the radio shows Dragnet and Dr. Kildare. He went on to write the television series Ben Casey.
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On the Waterfront
Title: On the Waterfront
Character: Johnny Friendly
Released: June 22, 1954
Type: Movie
A dim-witted yet kind-hearted boxer, Terry Malloy, who failed to succeed unintentionally lures a man to his death after being tricked by a criminal called Johnny Friendly whose men pick of every man who has the courage to speak up to their crimes. As he works on the waterfronts that Friendly owns, he is sent to a church meeting run by a good preacher about how to deal with the problem and runs into the dead man’s sister. Slowly, he falls in love with her and begins to feel guilt about his crime.
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Gorilla at Large
Title: Gorilla at Large
Character: Detective Sgt. Garrison
Released: May 1, 1954
Type: Movie
At a carnival called the Garden of Evil, a man is murdered, apparently by a gorilla...or someone in a gorilla suit.
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Yankee Pasha
Title: Yankee Pasha
Character: Sultan
Released: April 17, 1954
Type: Movie
Tale of an adventurer trying to rescue a damsel kidnapped by pirates.
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Title: The Oscars
Character: Self
Released: March 19, 1953
Type: TV
An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a statuette, officially the Academy Award of Merit, that is better known by its nickname Oscar.
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The Tall Texan
Title: The Tall Texan
Character: Capt. Theodore Bess
Released: February 13, 1953
Type: Movie
Groups of desperate travelers journey together throughout the Southwest and soon find trouble when they all get gold fever. The action and drama are heightened when they discover gold…on an Indian burial ground!
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Title: General Electric Theater
Character: Dominic Roma
Released: February 1, 1953
Type: TV
General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was sponsored by General Electric's Department of Public Relations.
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Title: General Electric Theater
Character: Grayson Foxhall
Released: February 1, 1953
Type: TV
General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was sponsored by General Electric's Department of Public Relations.
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Title: The Ford Television Theatre
Character: Matt Erwin
Released: October 2, 1952
Type: TV
This show started in New York City, with Broadway actors and actresses. It then moved to Hollywood, California, where Hollywood actors and actresses headed the cast.
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The Fighter
Title: The Fighter
Character: Durango
Released: May 23, 1952
Type: Movie
A boxer, in Mexico, sets out to avenge the murder of his family by using the money from his winnings to purchase weapons.
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The Family Secret
Title: The Family Secret
Character: Howard Clark
Released: October 21, 1951
Type: Movie
When his son accidentally kills someone, a lawyer must defend the man wrongly charged with the murder.
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Title: Tales of Tomorrow
Released: August 3, 1951
Type: TV
Tales of Tomorrow is an American anthology science fiction series that was performed and broadcast live on ABC from 1951 to 1953. The series covered such stories as Frankenstein, starring Lon Chaney, Jr., 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea starring Thomas Mitchell as Captain Nemo, and many others featuring such performers as Boris Karloff, Brian Keith, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger, Bruce Cabot, Franchot Tone, Gene Lockhart, Walter Abel, Leslie Nielsen, and Paul Newman. The series had many similarities to the later Twilight Zone which also covered one of the same stories, "What You Need". In total it ran for eighty-five 30-minute episodes.
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Sirocco
Title: Sirocco
Character: Col. Feroud
Released: June 13, 1951
Type: Movie
A mysterious American gets mixed up with gunrunners in Syria.
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The Man Who Cheated Himself
Title: The Man Who Cheated Himself
Character: Lt. Ed Cullen
Released: December 26, 1950
Type: Movie
A veteran homicide detective who has witnessed his socialite girlfriend kill her husband sees his inexperienced brother assigned to the case.
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Title: Lux Video Theatre
Character: Emile Zola
Released: October 2, 1950
Type: TV
Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and plays.
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Thieves' Highway
Title: Thieves' Highway
Character: Mike Figlia
Released: September 20, 1949
Type: Movie
Nick Garcos comes back from his tour of duty in World War II planning to settle down with his girlfriend, Polly Faber. He learns, however, that his father was recently beaten and burglarized by mob-connected trucker Mike Figlia, and Nick resolves to get even. He partners with prostitute Rica, and together they go after Mike, all the while getting pulled further into the local crime underworld.
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Title: Lights Out
Released: July 19, 1949
Type: TV
Lights Out was an extremely popular American old-time radio program, an early example of a network series devoted mostly to horror and the supernatural, predating Suspense and Inner Sanctum. Versions of Lights Out aired on different networks, at various times, from January 1934 to the summer of 1947 and the series eventually made the transition to television. In 1946, NBC Television brought Lights Out to TV in a series of four specials, broadcast live and produced by Fred Coe, who also contributed three of the scripts. NBC asked Cooper to write the script for the premiere, "First Person Singular", which is told entirely from the point of view of an unseen murderer who kills his obnoxious wife and winds up being executed. Variety gave this first episode a rave review ("undoubtedly one of the best dramatic shows yet seen on a television screen"), but Lights Out did not become a regular NBC-TV series until 1949.
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The Phantom Creeps
Title: The Phantom Creeps
Character: Road Crew Foreman (uncredited)
Released: June 6, 1949
Type: Movie
Not a feature, but an edited version of the 1939 serial "The Phantom Creeps" which was released to TV in 1949.
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The Dark Past
Title: The Dark Past
Character: Dr. Andrew Collins
Released: December 22, 1948
Type: Movie
A gang hold a family hostage in their own home. The leader of the escaped cons is bothered by a recurring dream that the doctor of the house may be able to analyze.
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Title: Studio One
Character: Dr. Joseph Pearson
Released: November 7, 1948
Type: TV
An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. Studio One, presented by Westinghouse, was one of the first of the anthology TV programs. The episodes were often abridged remakes of movies from years gone by and many future well-known television and movie actors appeared in the productions.
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The Luck of the Irish
Title: The Luck of the Irish
Character: David C. Augur
Released: September 15, 1948
Type: Movie
Following American reporter Stephen Fitzgerald from Ireland to New York, a grateful leprechaun acts as the newsman's servant and conscience.
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The Miracle of the Bells
Title: The Miracle of the Bells
Character: Marcus Harris
Released: March 27, 1948
Type: Movie
The body of a young actress is brought to her home town by the man who loved her. He knows that she wanted all the church bells to ring for three days after she was buried, but is told that this will cost a lot of money. The checks that he writes to the various churches all bounce, but it is the weekend and, in desperation, he prays that a miracle will happen before the banks reopen. It does, but not in the way he hoped.
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Call Northside 777
Title: Call Northside 777
Character: Brian Kelly
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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Captain from Castile
Title: Captain from Castile
Character: Juan Garcia
Released: December 25, 1947
Type: Movie
Spain, 1518: young caballero Pedro De Vargas offends his sadistic neighbor De Silva, who just happens to be an officer of the Inquisition. Forced to flee, Pedro, friend Juan Garcia, and adoring servant girl Catana join Cortez' first expedition to Mexico. Arriving in the rich new land, Cortez decides to switch from exploration to conquest...with only 500 men. Embroiled in continuous adventures and a romantic interlude, Pedro almost forgets he has a deadly enemy...
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Boomerang!
Title: Boomerang!
Character: Chief Harold F. 'Robbie' Robinson
Released: February 28, 1947
Type: Movie
When a kindly priest is murdered while waiting at a street corner in a quiet Connecticut town, the citizens are horrified and demand action from the police. All of the witnesses identify John Waldron, a nervous out-of-towner, as the killer. District Attorney Henry Harvey is then put on the case and faces political opposition in his attempt to prove Waldron's innocence.
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Johnny O'Clock
Title: Johnny O'Clock
Character: Inspector Koch
Released: January 7, 1947
Type: Movie
When an employee at an illegal gambling den dies suspiciously, her sister, Nancy, looks into the situation and falls for Johnny O'Clock, a suave partner in the underground casino. Selfish and non-committal by nature, Johnny slowly begins to return Nancy's affection and decides to run away with her, but conflict within his business threatens their plans. As Johnny tries to distance himself from the casino, his shady past comes back to haunt him.
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Anna and the King of Siam
Title: Anna and the King of Siam
Character: Kralahome
Released: August 11, 1946
Type: Movie
In 1862, a young Englishwoman becomes royal tutor in Siam and befriends the King.
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Winged Victory
Title: Winged Victory
Character: Doctor
Released: December 22, 1944
Type: Movie
Pinky Scariano, Allan Ross, and Frankie Davis all join the Army Air Forces with hopes of becoming pilots. In training, they meet and become pals with Bobby Grills and Irving Miller, and the five struggle through the rigid training and grueling tests involved in becoming pilots. Not all of them succeed, and tragedy awaits for some.
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Flight Characteristics of the P-51 Airplane
Title: Flight Characteristics of the P-51 Airplane
Character: Arthur Deeds
Released: March 13, 1944
Type: Movie
U.S. Army Air Force pilot Bob Chilton and North American Aircraft designer Arthur Deeds show an Air Force colonel and major the new P-51B aircraft, explaining the changes in this new model and taking the plane through its paces with full description of its flight characteristics.
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The Song of Bernadette
Title: The Song of Bernadette
Character: Dr. Dozous
Released: December 21, 1943
Type: Movie
In 1858 Lourdes, France, Bernadette, an adolescent peasant girl, has a vision of "a beautiful lady" in the city dump. She never claims it to be anything other than this, but the townspeople all assume it to be the Virgin Mary. The pompous government officials think she is nuts, and do their best to suppress the girl and her followers, and the church wants nothing to do with the whole matter. But as Bernadette attracts wider and wider attention, the phenomenon overtakes everyone in the the town, and transforms their lives.
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Buckskin Frontier
Title: Buckskin Frontier
Character: Jeptha Marr
Released: May 14, 1943
Type: Movie
A railroad man and the owner of a freight line battle for control of a crucial mountain pass.
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Tonight We Raid Calais
Title: Tonight We Raid Calais
Character: Bonnard
Released: April 30, 1943
Type: Movie
A British commando is on a one-man raid to destroy a bomb factory in Nazi-occupied France. He must enlist the aid of French farmers to complete his mission.
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The Moon Is Down
Title: The Moon Is Down
Character: Dr. Albert Winter
Released: March 14, 1943
Type: Movie
The story of a small town in Norway that resists German occupation during World War II. Based on a John Steinbeck novel.
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Paris Calling
Title: Paris Calling
Character: Captain Schwabe
Released: December 4, 1941
Type: Movie
Marianne Jannetier, a well-to-do Parisian, engaged to Andre Benoit, a high-ranking government official, flees the city when the goose-stepping Nazi storm-troopers arrive. When her mother dies on the road to Bordeaux as a result of Nazi bombing, she returns to Paris and joins the underground movement. Nicholas Jordan, an American member of the RAF, stranded in Paris after the evacuation is also working with the Paris underground. Marianne kills her former fiancée, a pro-Nazi informant, for the traitorous state papers he is carrying, and she and Jordan try to flee over a French seaport...
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Men of Boys Town
Title: Men of Boys Town
Character: Dave Morris
Released: April 11, 1941
Type: Movie
Father Flanagan raises funds, helps a disabled boy, and saves an older boy from reform school.
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This Thing Called Love
Title: This Thing Called Love
Character: Julio Diestro
Released: December 20, 1940
Type: Movie
Two professional people marry, but the wife insists that they be celibate for the first three months to make sure they are truly compatible.
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Golden Boy
Title: Golden Boy
Character: Mr. Bonaparte
Released: September 5, 1939
Type: Movie
Despite his talent as a musician, a city boy decides to become a boxer. He's successful as a fighter — much to the dismay of his parents. When gangsters try to by a piece of him, he begins to have second thoughts.
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The Phantom Creeps
Title: The Phantom Creeps
Character: Road Crew Foreman (archive footage)
Released: January 7, 1939
Type: Movie
A mad scientist attempts to rule the world by creating various elaborate inventions.
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Danger on the Air
Title: Danger on the Air
Character: Tony Lisotti
Released: June 30, 1938
Type: Movie
Trouble begins when a hated cad of a sponsor is found murdered during the climax of a live radio show. A radio engineer then tries to solve the murder.
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Rustlers' Valley
Title: Rustlers' Valley
Character: Cal Howard
Released: July 23, 1937
Type: Movie
Hoppy clears Lucky on a charge of bank robbery and foils the plot of a crooked lawyer to rustle a herd of pedigree cattle and take over the valley.
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North of the Rio Grande
Title: North of the Rio Grande
Character: President Wooden
Released: June 28, 1937
Type: Movie
Hoppy's brother has been murdered and he is on the trail of the murderers. To get them he makes himself seem to be a wanted man.
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The Vanishing Shadow
Title: The Vanishing Shadow
Character: Roadwork Foreman
Released: April 22, 1934
Type: Movie
A 12-episode serial in which a son avenges the death of his father at the hands of corrupt politicians. He develops a wide variety of complex devices in his crusade . . . ray guns, robots and a 'vanishing belt.'