Richard Denning

Richard Denning

Born: March 27, 1914
Died: October 11, 1998
in Poughkeepsie, New York, USA
Richard Denning (March 27, 1914 – October 11, 1998) was an American actor who starred in such movies as Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) and An Affair to Remember (1957), and on radio with Lucille Ball as her husband George Cooper in My Favorite Husband (1948–1951), the forerunner of television's I Love Lucy, for which Denning was replaced by Ball's real-life husband, Desi Arnaz.

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Mary, Queen of Scots
Title: Mary, Queen of Scots
Character: Francis, King of France
Released: December 22, 1971
Type: Movie
Mary Stuart, who was named Queen of Scotland when she was only six days old, is the last Roman Catholic ruler of Scotland. She is imprisoned at the age of 23 by her cousin Elizabeth Tudor, the English Queen and her arch adversary. Nineteen years later the life of Mary is to be ended on the scaffold and with her execution the last threat to Elizabeth's throne has been removed. The two Queens with their contrasting personalities make a dramatic counterpoint to history.
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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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I Sailed to Tahiti with an All Girl Crew
Title: I Sailed to Tahiti with an All Girl Crew
Character: Commodore
Released: December 31, 1968
Type: Movie
It's silliness on the high seas as two sneaky sailors race across the South Pacific in this fast-paced and campy comedy. The fun begins when one bets the other $20,000 that he, with an all girl crew, be the first to Tahiti in a sailboat race. The other, not to be outdone, has a few monkeyshines up his sleeve and actually wins the race. The beaten bettor then makes the claim, that he can beat the victor to the mainland using a crew comprised of baboons. That is too much to resist for the other and the race is on.
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Title: Hawaii Five-O
Character: The Governor
Released: September 20, 1968
Type: TV
Hawaii Five-O is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and Leonard Freeman. Set in Hawaii, the show originally aired for 12 seasons from 1968 to 1980, and continues in reruns. Jack Lord portrayed Detective Lieutenant Steve McGarrett, the head of a special state police task force which was based on an actual unit that existed under martial law in the 1940s. The theme music composed by Morton Stevens became especially popular. Many episodes would end with McGarrett instructing his subordinate to "Book 'em, Danno!", sometimes specifying a charge such as "murder one".
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Title: Hawaii Five-O
Character: Governor
Released: September 20, 1968
Type: TV
Hawaii Five-O is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and Leonard Freeman. Set in Hawaii, the show originally aired for 12 seasons from 1968 to 1980, and continues in reruns. Jack Lord portrayed Detective Lieutenant Steve McGarrett, the head of a special state police task force which was based on an actual unit that existed under martial law in the 1940s. The theme music composed by Morton Stevens became especially popular. Many episodes would end with McGarrett instructing his subordinate to "Book 'em, Danno!", sometimes specifying a charge such as "murder one".
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The Movie Orgy
Title: The Movie Orgy
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1968
Type: Movie
Clips from assorted television programs, B-movies, commercials, music performances, newsreels, bloopers, satirical short films and promotional and government films of the 1950s and 1960s are intercut together to tell a single story of various creatures and societal ills attacking American cities.
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Alice Through the Looking Glass
Title: Alice Through the Looking Glass
Character: Alice's Father
Released: November 6, 1966
Type: Movie
Alice returns to Wonderland through the looking glass in this TV musical.
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Title: Karen
Character: Steve Scott
Released: October 5, 1964
Type: TV
Karen is one of three NBC sitcoms set in a California apartment complex located at 90 Bristol Court. It stars Debbie Watson in the title role of 16-year-old Karen Scott, and Gina Gillespie as the tomboyish little sister Mimi.
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Twice-Told Tales
Title: Twice-Told Tales
Character: Jonathan Maulle
Released: September 1, 1963
Type: Movie
3 horror stories based on the writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne. In the 1st story titled "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment", Heidegger attempts to restore the youth of three elderly friends. In "Rappaccini's Daughter", a demented father is innoculating his daughter with poison so she may never leave her garden of poisonous plants. In the final story "The House of the Seven Gables", The Pyncheon family suffers from a hundred year old curse and while in the midst of arguing over inheritance, a stranger arrives.
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Title: Going My Way
Released: October 3, 1962
Type: TV
Going My Way is an American comedy-drama series
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Title: Michael Shayne
Character: Michael Shayne
Released: September 30, 1960
Type: TV
Michael Shayne is an American detective television series starring Richard Denning that aired on NBC from September 30, 1960 to May 19, 1961.
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No Greater Love
Title: No Greater Love
Character: Dr. George Lund
Released: January 1, 1960
Type: Movie
A dentist and his wife join Christian missionaries for duty in Africa.
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Title: The Flying Doctor
Released: September 13, 1959
Type: TV
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Desert Hell
Title: Desert Hell
Character: Sgt. Major Pierre Benet
Released: June 25, 1958
Type: Movie
This melodrama tells the tale of a great battle between the French Foreign Legion and the rebellious Arab tribe, the Tuaregs, who fight it out upon the blistering Sahara sands. Just before the Legionnaires embark upon their dangerous mission, the commander discovers that he is being cuckolded by his lieutenant. Because the mission is urgent, there is no time to fight over the commander's wife. Unfortunately, as they travel, the tension between the two mounts and they begin squabbling over how to plan the attack. Their inability to work together results in tragedy.
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The Lady Takes a Flyer
Title: The Lady Takes a Flyer
Character: Al Reynolds
Released: January 30, 1958
Type: Movie
Change of pace comedy casts Lana Turner and Jeff Chandler as competing pilots who fall in love.
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The Black Scorpion
Title: The Black Scorpion
Character: Hank Scott
Released: October 11, 1957
Type: Movie
Volcanic activity frees giant scorpions from the earth who wreak havoc in the rural countryside and eventually threaten Mexico City.
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An Affair to Remember
Title: An Affair to Remember
Character: Kenneth Bradley
Released: July 11, 1957
Type: Movie
A couple falls in love and agrees to meet in six months at the Empire State Building - but will it happen?
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The Buckskin Lady
Title: The Buckskin Lady
Character: Dr. Bruce Merritt
Released: July 1, 1957
Type: Movie
Patricia Medina plays the title character in The Buckskin Lady. Medina is cast as female gambler Angela Medley, who is forced by circumstances to align herself with outlaw Slinger. But Angela has never gotten over her love for honest frontier doctor Bruce Merritt, and at the first opportunity she redeems herself by catching a bullet intended for the doc. Henry Hull delivers the film's most memorable performance as Angela's drunken wretch of a father. Per the title, Buckskin Lady affords the viewer ample opportunity to see Patricia Medina in form-fitting western garb.
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Naked Paradise
Title: Naked Paradise
Character: Duke Bradley
Released: January 1, 1957
Type: Movie
Gangster Zac Cotton and his two henchmen, Mitch and Sonny, try to get a boat to get off a tropical island after a botched robbery heist.
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Assignment Redhead
Title: Assignment Redhead
Character: Major Gregory Keen
Released: October 1, 1956
Type: Movie
An American army officer working for British intelligence comes to post-war Berlin to solve a murder. His investigation is compromised when he falls for a nightclub singer, not realising she is an agent of the criminal mastermind he is on the trail of.
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Girls in Prison
Title: Girls in Prison
Character: Rev. Fulton
Released: July 1, 1956
Type: Movie
An inmate is persuaded to take part in a breakout by cellmates anxious to cash in on loot they believe she has hidden.
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The Oklahoma Woman
Title: The Oklahoma Woman
Character: Steve Ward
Released: June 15, 1956
Type: Movie
After six years in jail Steve returns to claim a ranch left him in a will. The town is in the middle of a rough election masterminded by saloon owner Marie. Steve is soon on the side of the opposition candidate and his pretty daughter. The town's tough sheriff is on no-one's side, least of all Steve's
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Day the World Ended
Title: Day the World Ended
Character: Rick
Released: December 1, 1955
Type: Movie
After a nuclear attack, an unlikely group of survivors, including a geologist, a crook and his moll, and a prospector, find temporary shelter in the remote-valley home of a survivalist and his beautiful daughter, but soon have to deal with the spread of radioactivity - and its effects on animal life, including humans.
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The Crooked Web
Title: The Crooked Web
Character: Frank Daniel
Released: November 30, 1955
Type: Movie
Following WWII, ex-G.I. Stan opened up a drive-in restaurant. His girlfriend, Joanie, is one of the car hops. They want to get married someday, but the less-than-stellar business the restaurant takes in puts a hold on that plan. One day, Joanie's ne’er-do-well brother Frank blows into town with a money-making scheme. She's against it, but Stan - an inveterate gambler - finds the promise of riches too seductive to resist…
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Title: Cheyenne
Released: September 20, 1955
Type: TV
Cheyenne is an American western television series of 108 black-and-white episodes broadcast on ABC from 1955 to 1963. The show was the first hour-long western, and in fact the first hour-long dramatic series of any kind, with continuing characters, to last more than one season. It was also the first series to be made by a major Hollywood film studio which did not derive from its established film properties, and the first of a long chain of Warner Brothers original series produced by William T. Orr.
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The Gun That Won the West
Title: The Gun That Won the West
Character: 'Dakota' Jack Gaines
Released: September 1, 1955
Type: Movie
In the late 1880s, Colonel Carrington and his command are assigned the job of constructing a chain of forts in the Sious Indian territory of Wyoming. Carrington recruits former cavalry scouts Jim Bridger and "Dakota Jack" Gaines to lead the project. Bridger and Gaines are friendly with Sioux chief Red Cloud, and they feel a peace treaty with the Indians can be made. If an Indian-war breaks out, the cavalry is depending on getting a new type of Springfield rifle. Bridger, Gaines and Gaines wife, Maxine, arrive at the fort for the conference. Gaines, in a drunken fit, tries to intimidate the Indians unto signing a treaty. Chied Red Fox threatens war if his territory is invaded by any troops building forts.
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Creature with the Atom Brain
Title: Creature with the Atom Brain
Character: Dr. Chet Walker
Released: July 1, 1955
Type: Movie
Murders, with victims dying from spines broken by brute strength, erupt in the city and the killers, when encountered, walk away unharmed by police bullets which strike them. A police doctor's investigation of the deaths leads to the discovery of an army of dead criminal musclemen restored to life, remotely controlled by a vengeful former crime boss and a former Nazi scientist, from the latter's laboratory hidden in the suburbs.
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The Magnificent Matador
Title: The Magnificent Matador
Character: Mark Russell
Released: May 24, 1955
Type: Movie
Karen Harrison is a spoiled, rich, American predator who falls head-over-heels for the brooding, tormented, about-to-retire matador, Luis Santos who has inexplicably run away prior to a corrida that was to occasion the "alternativa" of a young, up-and-coming bullfighter.
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Air Strike
Title: Air Strike
Character: Stanley Blair
Released: May 6, 1955
Type: Movie
Tasked with training a group of untested new recruits, a no-nonsense Navy commander faces a host of challenges as he attempts to transform the greenhorns into a squadron of crackerjack jet pilots. Don Haggerty co-stars as the unit's second-in-command who clashes bitterly with the cocky young upstart of the team after the lad shows off with some reckless aerial acrobatics.
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Target Earth
Title: Target Earth
Character: Frank Brooks
Released: November 7, 1954
Type: Movie
Giant robots from Venus invade Chicago. Stranded in the deserted city are Frank and Nora (who has recently attempted suicide). They meet a celebrating couple at a café, Vicki Harris and Jim Wilson. The quartet escape the robot patrol and take refuge in a large hotel. There, they encounter a new danger in Davis, a psychopathic killer.
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Battle of Rogue River
Title: Battle of Rogue River
Character: Stacey Wyatt
Released: June 15, 1954
Type: Movie
In 1850 Oregon is trying to gain statehood, but a truce is needed with the Indians before it can be accomplished. A new Army commander, Major Archer, is dispatched to bring order and peace to the territory.
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Creature from the Black Lagoon
Title: Creature from the Black Lagoon
Character: Dr. Mark Williams
Released: March 5, 1954
Type: Movie
When scientists exploring the Amazon River stumble on a “missing link” connecting humans and fish, they plan to capture it for later study. But the Creature has plans of his own, and has set his sights on the lead scientist's beautiful fiancée, Kay.
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Jivaro
Title: Jivaro
Character: Jerry Russell
Released: February 12, 1954
Type: Movie
At Rio Galdez's remote Brazilian trading post live assorted outcast Americans and Europeans, including Jerry Russell, ex-engineer who became obsessed with the Jivaro headhunters' treasure, quit his job, and took up with the bottle and local girl Maroa. But he still gets letters from his nominal fiancée in California, and unexpectedly the shapely, glamorous Alice Parker arrives, expecting to marry a rich planter. Disillusioned, Alice is almost ready to fall into Rio's arms when news comes that Jerry is missing in Jivaro country.
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The Glass Web
Title: The Glass Web
Character: Dave Markson
Released: November 11, 1953
Type: Movie
The ice-cold diva Paula ruthlessly exploits the guys she dates. While blackmailing the married Don with a recent one-night-stand, she has a secret affair with Henry, who works as researcher for the weekly authentic TV show "Crime of the Week", which Don writes for. When Henry fails to help her to a role, she insults him deadly... and ends up dead herself. Now Don desperately tries to hide his traces, but Henry sabotages his efforts and suggests he write the unsolved murder case for next week's show...
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The 49th Man
Title: The 49th Man
Character: Chief Investigator Paul Reagan
Released: May 20, 1953
Type: Movie
Two federal agents do not believe an atomic-bomb threat is just another war game.
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Target Hong Kong
Title: Target Hong Kong
Character: Mike Lassiter
Released: February 6, 1953
Type: Movie
Yankee soldiers-of-fortune smash a spy plot aimed at seizing Hong Kong.
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Title: General Electric Theater
Character: Dr. Mark Andrews
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: Jim Kendall
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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Hangman's Knot
Title: Hangman's Knot
Character: Lee Kemper
Released: November 15, 1952
Type: Movie
In 1865, a troop of Confederate soldiers led by Major Matt Stewart attack the wagon of gold escorted by Union cavalry and the soldiers are killed. The only wounded survivor tells that the war ended one month ago, and the group decides to take the gold and meet their liaison that knew that the war ended but did not inform the troop. The harsh Rolph Bainter kills the greedy man and the soldiers flee in his wagon driven by Major Stewart. When they meet a posse chasing them, Stewart gives wrong information to misguide the group; however, they have an accident with the wagon and lose the horses. They decide to stop a stagecoach and force the driver to transport them, but the posse returns and they are trapped in the station with the passenger. They realize that the men are not deputies and have no intention to bring them to justice but take the stolen gold.
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Title: Mr. & Mrs. North
Released: October 3, 1952
Type: TV
Mr. & Mrs. North is an American comedy/mystery television series that aired on CBS from October 3, 1952 to May 25, 1954. The series centers on Jerry North, a mystery magazine publisher who thinks he is a good amateur detective, and his wife, Pamela, as they solve crimes in New York City.
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Title: Cavalcade of America
Character: Col. Patterson
Released: October 1, 1952
Type: TV
Cavalcade of America is an anthology drama series that was sponsored by the DuPont Company, although it occasionally presented a musical, such as an adaptation of Show Boat, and condensed biographies of popular composers. It was initially broadcast on radio from 1935 to 1953, and later on television from 1952 to 1957. Originally on CBS, the series pioneered the use of anthology drama for company audio advertising. Cavalcade of America documented historical events using stories of individual courage, initiative and achievement, often with feel-good dramatizations of the human spirit's triumph against all odds. This was consistent with DuPont's overall conservative philosophy and legacy as an American company dating back to 1802. The company's motto, "Maker of better things for better living through chemistry," was read at the beginning of each program, and the dramas emphasized humanitarian progress, particularly improvements in the lives of women, often through technological innovation.
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Scarlet Angel
Title: Scarlet Angel
Character: Malcolm Bradley
Released: June 20, 1952
Type: Movie
After robbing a sea captain in New Orleans, a beautiful saloon girl flees and assumes a dead woman's identity.
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Okinawa
Title: Okinawa
Character: Lt. Phillips
Released: February 28, 1952
Type: Movie
On the eve of their return to the states, the crew of the U.S.S. Blake is unpleasantly surprised when their new captain, Lt. Commander Hale, announces that they've been reassigned to the upcoming invasion of Okinawa. With the news turning the crew against him, Hale must rise to the occasion to keep his men inline.
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Week-End with Father
Title: Week-End with Father
Character: Don Adams
Released: December 1, 1951
Type: Movie
Two single parents shock their children by falling in love.
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Title: Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Released: October 5, 1951
Type: TV
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS. Offering both comedies and drama, the series was sponsored by the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company. The title was shortened to Schlitz Playhouse, beginning with the fall 1957 season.
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Why Men Leave Home
Title: Why Men Leave Home
Character: Dr. John Waldron
Released: July 16, 1951
Type: Movie
A housewife, suspecting her husband of having an affair with a younger woman, enlists the help of a make-up artist to become more attractive to him.
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Insurance Investigator
Title: Insurance Investigator
Character: Tom Davison
Released: March 23, 1951
Type: Movie
When a businessman who has had a double indemnity policy taken out on him dies mysteriously, his insurance company sends an undercover investigator to town to determine exactly what happened.
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Flame Of Stamboul
Title: Flame Of Stamboul
Character: Larry Wilson
Released: March 5, 1951
Type: Movie
An American agent working undercover as a cafe pianist in Cairo sets out to capture a notorious spy and jewel thief known as "The Voice". Director Ray Nazarro's 1951 drama stars Richard Denning, Lisa Ferraday, Norman Lloyd, George Zucco, Nestor Paiva, Donald Randolph and Dick Elliott.
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Double Deal
Title: Double Deal
Character: Buzz Doyle
Released: December 1, 1950
Type: Movie
An oil engineer surrounded by foul play helps an heiress bring in a well.
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Title: Lux Video Theatre
Character: Jeff
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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Harbor of Missing Men
Title: Harbor of Missing Men
Character: Jim 'Brooklyn' Gannon
Released: March 26, 1950
Type: Movie
A smuggler hides from hit men with a Greek fisherman and his daughter.
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No Man of Her Own
Title: No Man of Her Own
Character: Hugh Harkness
Released: February 21, 1950
Type: Movie
A penniless pregnant woman adopts the identity of a rich woman killed in a train crash.
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Disaster
Title: Disaster
Character: Bill Wyatt
Released: December 3, 1948
Type: Movie
A construction worker wanted by the authorities is vindicated by virtue of his heroism when an airplane crashes into a skyscraper.
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Title: Studio One
Character: Jack Marshall
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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Unknown Island
Title: Unknown Island
Character: John Fairbanks
Released: October 15, 1948
Type: Movie
Adventure-seeker Ted Osborne has convinced his finacee Carole to finance his expedition to an uncharted South Pacific island supposedly populated with dinosaurs...
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Lady at Midnight
Title: Lady at Midnight
Character: Peter Wiggins
Released: August 15, 1948
Type: Movie
A couple's adopted daughter has an inheritance someone else wants.
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Caged Fury
Title: Caged Fury
Character: Blaney Lewis
Released: March 5, 1948
Type: Movie
Big cats are killing people... after being trained by a twisted lion tamer.
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Seven Were Saved
Title: Seven Were Saved
Character: Capt Allen Danton
Released: March 28, 1947
Type: Movie
A nurse is taking an amnesia victim, who was imprisoned by the Japanese during WW II, to the United States in a plane piloted by Richard Denning. The passengers include a Japanese colonel on his way to Manila to face war-crime charges, and a couple who were married on the day they were liberated from a Japanese prison camp. During the flight, the colonel breaks away from his guards, causes the plane to go out of control, and it crashes into the sea. The survivors get into a rubber boat and go through a minor-league version of "Lifeboat, with no Alfred Hitchcock sightings, until Air-Sea Rescue pilot Jim Willis rides to the rescue.
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The Fabulous Suzanne
Title: The Fabulous Suzanne
Character: Rex
Released: December 15, 1946
Type: Movie
Suzanne, a waitress, comes up with a sure-fire method for winning at the racetrack and, later, when she inherits a fortune from a customer of the restaurant, she use the same system for investing her money. Her stock broker tries to dissuade her, but she persists and her investments increases her wealth.
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Black Beauty
Title: Black Beauty
Character: Bill Dixon
Released: August 29, 1946
Type: Movie
Based on Anna Sewell's novel. In rural England of the 1880's, widower Squire Wendon is rearing his young daughter Anne. Her father has forbidden her to be present when their mare, "Duchess," gives birth. Anne sneaks out to the stable, however, and is discovered by her father who forbids her ever to ride Duchess again. Despite this punishment, he gives Anne Duchess's colt because it is her birthday, and she names him "Black Beauty."
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Quiet Please, Murder
Title: Quiet Please, Murder
Character: Hal McByrne
Released: March 19, 1943
Type: Movie
A forger steals and kills for a rare book from a library in order to make forgeries to sell to rich suckers.
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Ice Capades Revue
Title: Ice Capades Revue
Character: Jeff Stewart
Released: December 24, 1942
Type: Movie
Promoter Ann Porter decides to start her own Ice Show despite the efforts of ex-racketeer Duke Baldwin who owns a rival show. Jeff Stewart, a rich, suave young Broadwayite, falls in love with Ann and aids her in her fight against Baldwin.
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The Glass Key
Title: The Glass Key
Character: Taylor Henry
Released: September 8, 1942
Type: Movie
A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.
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Beyond the Blue Horizon
Title: Beyond the Blue Horizon
Character: Jackra the Magnificent
Released: June 25, 1942
Type: Movie
A young girl's parents are killed on a tropical island, and the girl is raised and protected by the jungle animals. When she is found, as a grown woman, she is taken back to the United States to claim her inheritance. There are several people, with vested interests, who stand to gain something if she is shown not to be the missing heir.
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West Point Widow
Title: West Point Widow
Character: Lt. Rhody Graves
Released: June 20, 1941
Type: Movie
In this romance, a hospital nurse marries a West Point football hero. She soon gets pregnant, but this doesn't stop her from annulling the marriage so as not to interfere with her husband's military career.
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Adam Had Four Sons
Title: Adam Had Four Sons
Character: Jack Stoddard
Released: March 27, 1941
Type: Movie
Emilie has been hired to care for the four sons of wealthy Adam Stoddard and his wife, Molly. After Molly dies, Adam and the boys grow to depend on Emilie even more. At the same time, Emilie falls in love with Adam. The boys grow up, but Adam insists that Emilie stay on as part of the family. Her relationships with both the boys and Adam become strained after one son marries a gold-digging viper named Hester. Written by Daniel Bubbeo
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Love Thy Neighbor
Title: Love Thy Neighbor
Character: Joe
Released: December 27, 1940
Type: Movie
Capitalizing on the famous radio 'feud' between comedians Jack Benny and Fred Allen. The two stars play versions of themselves, constantly at each other's throats due to real and imagined slights.
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North West Mounted Police
Title: North West Mounted Police
Character: Constable Thornton
Released: October 22, 1940
Type: Movie
Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers ("Isn't that a contradiction in terms?", another character asks him) travels to Canada in the 1880s in search of Jacques Corbeau, who is wanted for murder. He wanders into the midst of the Riel Rebellion, in which Métis (people of French and Native heritage) and Natives want a separate nation. Dusty falls for nurse April Logan, who is also loved by Mountie Jim Brett. April's brother is involved with Courbeau's daughter Louvette, which leads to trouble during the battles between the rebels and the Mounties. Through it all Dusty is determined to bring Corbeau back to Texas (and April, too, if he can manage it.)
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Golden Gloves
Title: Golden Gloves
Character: Bill Crane
Released: August 2, 1940
Type: Movie
An amateur boxer's girlfriend inspires him to face a ring pro entered by a gangster.
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Queen of the Mob
Title: Queen of the Mob
Character: Charlie Webster
Released: June 28, 1940
Type: Movie
Ma Webster (Blanche Yurka) and her boys rob a bank on Christmas Eve; G-men stop them with Tommy guns.
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The Farmer's Daughter
Title: The Farmer's Daughter
Character: Dennis Crane
Released: March 29, 1940
Type: Movie
Broadway producer Nickie North and press agent Scoop Trimble find an investor for their next show who insists that they cast his ex-girlfriend, Clarice Sheldon, in the lead role and rehearse out of town. The crew set up on a family farm, and all is well until the leading man falls for the farmer's daughter, Patience Bingham. When flighty starlet Sheldon finds out he has a new girlfriend, she takes off, leaving North and Trimble to find a new leading lady.
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Parole Fixer
Title: Parole Fixer
Character: Bruce Eaton
Released: February 2, 1940
Type: Movie
This expose of the U.S. parole system, as seen through the eyes of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, takes dead aim on lawyers who manipulate the justice system in order to get undeserving convicts parole from prisons. The point is made when FBI agents are assigned to track down "Big Boy" Bradmore, who after getting an undeserved parole, via the efforts of a shyster lawyer, promptly murders an FBI agent.
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Emergency Squad
Title: Emergency Squad
Character: Dan Barton
Released: January 5, 1940
Type: Movie
Betty Bryant is an ambitious newspaper reporter in love with Dan Barton, a member of a big-city Emergency Squad who are trained to deal with riots, cave-in, explosions, fires and other emergencies where lives are at stake. Slade Wiley, an unscrupulous tunnel builder, finds that his low bid on the Newford Tunnel project is causing him to lose a lot of money, and has underworld leader Nick Burton set off blasts to frighten the stockholders into selling their shares at a low price so he can buy up the stock. Betty is investigating the deal when Wiley and Burton take her on a "tour trip" to the tunnel.
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The Night of Nights
Title: The Night of Nights
Character: Call Boy (uncredited)
Released: December 1, 1939
Type: Movie
A playwright has his career ruined when he is drunk on the first night. His wife dies having left him, and when his daughter triumphs in the revival of the play he dies contented.
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Geronimo
Title: Geronimo
Character: Lt. Larned
Released: November 26, 1939
Type: Movie
The army's effort to capture Apache chief Geronimo, who is leading a band of warriors on a rampage of raiding and murder, is hampered by a feud between two officers--who are father and son.
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Television Spy
Title: Television Spy
Character: Dick Randolph
Released: October 20, 1939
Type: Movie
A scientist invents a television device called the Iconoscope. Foreign agents hear about it and try to steal it.
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Million Dollar Legs
Title: Million Dollar Legs
Character: Hunk Jordan
Released: July 13, 1939
Type: Movie
At Middleton College, controlled by rich donor Melton, only paying sports are allowed. But Freddie Frye, conniving student body president, has to get a letter in some sport to win back his girl Susie; he schemes to revive crew boat racing. Sinking boats, no money, and his own waistline stand in his way. Can they win the big race with State University?
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Grand Jury Secrets
Title: Grand Jury Secrets
Character: Murph
Released: June 23, 1939
Type: Movie
A newspaper reporter gets involved with shady stock promoters when he listens in on a jury room session.
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Undercover Doctor
Title: Undercover Doctor
Character: Frank Oliver
Released: June 9, 1939
Type: Movie
Dr. Bartley Morgan covers up his profitable illegalities with the respectable veneer of a posh, highly profitable private practice, he runs with his nurse Margaret Hopkins. The FBI agent Robert Anders has to catch on to Morgan's illicit activities.
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The Gracie Allen Murder Case
Title: The Gracie Allen Murder Case
Character: Fred
Released: June 2, 1939
Type: Movie
The zany plot follows nitwit Gracie Allen trying to help master sleuth Philo Vance solve a murder.
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Some Like It Hot
Title: Some Like It Hot
Character: Mr. Weems
Released: May 19, 1939
Type: Movie
Nicky Nelson is a fast-talking sideshow barker with a wax-and-alive concession on Atlantic City's boardwalk. Even with the band of his friend, struggling musician Gene Krupa, playing on the sidewalk to attract the customers, "The Living Corpse" and other low-rent acts aren't enough to lure the seen-it-all boardwalk strollers, and the landlord closes the show in lieu of never-paid rent. Nicky, always promoting, goes to Stephen Hanratty, head of the pier's Dance Pavilion, to plug Krupa's band as an attraction, but Hanratty won't even listen to them. But, while there, he meets singer Lily Racquel, who knows he is a phoney but might have the ability to to talk a radio-station manager into giving her an audition. She gives him a ring to help finance the project; he promptly loses it in a crap-game.
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Hotel Imperial
Title: Hotel Imperial
Character: (uncredited)
Released: May 11, 1939
Type: Movie
It is the fate of a small frontier town, adjoining the no-man's-land where the Russians and Austrians are fighting out one of the final campaigns of World War I, to be occupied one day by the Russians, the next by the Austrians, and the inhabitants soon acquire a complacent view of the changing allegiances. To the town comes Ann Warschaska, intent on avenging the suicide of her sister, who has killed herself after being betrayed by an Austrian officer. She knows no more about his identity than the number of his room at the "Hotel Imperial".
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Union Pacific
Title: Union Pacific
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Released: May 5, 1939
Type: Movie
One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing it. Chief troubleshooter Jeff Butler has his hands full fighting Barrows' agent, gambler Sid Campeau; Campeau's partner Dick Allen is Jeff's war buddy and rival suitor for engineer's daughter Molly Monahan. Who will survive the effort to push the railroad through at any cost?
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Sudden Money
Title: Sudden Money
Character: Johnny Jordan
Released: March 31, 1939
Type: Movie
Promises of happier times dawn for the financially distressed Patterson family when father Sweeney and brother-in-law Archibald "Doc" Finney win a $150,000 grand prize in the sweepstake contest. With their windfall, each member of the family decides to pursue a dream.
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King of Chinatown
Title: King of Chinatown
Character: Interne
Released: March 17, 1939
Type: Movie
A Chinese-American surgeon faces a moral dilemma after operating on the mob boss in charge of vice and protection rackets in her city's Chinatown.
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Persons in Hiding
Title: Persons in Hiding
Character: Powder, Henchman
Released: February 10, 1939
Type: Movie
During a stick-up, a woman is excited by the criminal and joins him on his crime spree.
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Ambush
Title: Ambush
Character: Police Garage Mechanic
Released: January 20, 1939
Type: Movie
Four bandits swoop down on a California bank and flee with $98,000, leaving a truck as the only clue to their identity. Jane Hartman, bank secretary, recognizes the truck as one on which her brother Charles worked. Fleeing to her brother, she is trapped by the gang, composed of its master-mind, Gibbs, Sidney, a gunman, and Randall, a blackballed airplane pilot. Under threat of bodily harm to her brother, she lures truck-driver Tony Andrews to the hideout, and he is forced to help them in their escape attempt.
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Say It in French
Title: Say It in French
Character: Elevator Passenger
Released: November 25, 1938
Type: Movie
An American golf pro falls in love with a woman while visiting France; before long they are married and in the US. Upon their arrival, they are dismayed to discover that the golfer's parents have arranged for him to marry a wealthy socialite so they can use her money to support their business....
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Illegal Traffic
Title: Illegal Traffic
Character: Silk Patterson
Released: November 2, 1938
Type: Movie
G-Man Charles Bent Martin is sent out to break up a nationwide racket. A transport company is aiding fugitives making a getaway in exchange for the lion's share of their loot. Through an old friend, whom he once barnstormed in an air circus, Martin joins the gang as a pilot. He becomes interested in Carol Butler, a beautiful girl involved with the gang through the activities of her ne'er-do-well father.
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King of Alcatraz
Title: King of Alcatraz
Character: Harry Vay
Released: September 30, 1938
Type: Movie
A convict who has just escaped from Alcatraz Prison takes over a passenger ship. Two of the ship's crew hatch a plot to overpower him and rescue the ship's passengers.
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Campus Confessions
Title: Campus Confessions
Character: Buck Hogan
Released: September 23, 1938
Type: Movie
This comical campus romance showcases the fancy footwork of All-American basketball player Hank Luisetti while it tells the story of a dean's son who does his very best to become a good student. When he fails, he turns to playing basketball and befriends Luisetti, which makes him quite popular. This doesn't sit well with the dean, who wants academics to be more important than sports.
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Her Jungle Love
Title: Her Jungle Love
Character: Pilot
Released: April 15, 1938
Type: Movie
While searching the South Pacific for a missing aviator, Bob Mitchell and Jimmy Wallace are caught in a typhoon and crack up on an island, escaping unharmed with the aid of Tura, a beautiful jungle girl who is the only inhabitant of the island and is believed a goddess by the natives of the adjoining islands. The three are about to leave the island on a make-shift raft when a gang of savage tribesman land, headed by Kuasa, a half-mad potentate who informs them that all whites are his mortal enemies because an Englishwoman once spurned his love and he got his revenge by stealing her daughter, who is Tura.
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The Buccaneer
Title: The Buccaneer
Character: Captain Reid
Released: February 4, 1938
Type: Movie
French pirate Jean Lafitte rescues a girl and joins the War of 1812.
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Wells Fargo
Title: Wells Fargo
Character: Minor Role
Released: December 31, 1937
Type: Movie
In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, will secure an important contract if he delivers fresh oysters to Buffalo from New York City. When he rescues Justine Pryor and her mother, who are stranded in a broken wagon on his route, he doesn't let them slow him down and gives the ladies an exhilirating ride into Buffalo. He arrives in time to obtain the contract and is then sent by company president Henry Wells to St. Louis to establish a branch office.
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Hold 'Em Navy
Title: Hold 'Em Navy
Character: Midshipman Jepson
Released: November 4, 1937
Type: Movie
Two football players fight over the same girl.