Joe Turkel

Joe Turkel

Born: July 15, 1927
Died: June 27, 2022
in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Joseph Turkel was a prolific American character actor. He was noted for his craggy Bronx looks and distinctive, penetrating voice. Turkel worked steadily from 1949 - 1998 in both films and television. He retired in 1998. He still made the occasional appearance at fan conventions even at the age of 90+.

Movies for Joe Turkel...

The Chickening
Title: The Chickening
Character: (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: September 10, 2015
Type: Movie
It’s hard for a boy not to get excited when his dad gets a new job as Senior Chief Night Manager at Charbay’s Chicken World and Restaurant Resort, the world’s largest fast-food entertainment complex in North America. But things quickly get very, very clucked.
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Dangerous Days: Making 'Blade Runner'
Title: Dangerous Days: Making 'Blade Runner'
Character: Self
Released: December 18, 2007
Type: Movie
The definitive 3½-hour documentary about the troubled creation and enduring legacy of the science fiction classic 'Blade Runner', culled from 80 interviews and hours of never-before-seen outtakes and lost footage.
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Fashion Forward: Wardrobe and Styling
Title: Fashion Forward: Wardrobe and Styling
Character: Self
Released: December 3, 2007
Type: Movie
A look back to the 2019 fashions, costumes and make-up as seen in Ridley Scott's Blade Runner.
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On the Edge of 'Blade Runner'
Title: On the Edge of 'Blade Runner'
Character: Self
Released: July 15, 2000
Type: Movie
This is the rare UK Channel 4 documentary about Blade Runner, giving insights into it's history with interviews of Ridley Scott, the writers and nearly all the cast. Interviews with production staff, including Ridley, give details into the creative process and turmoil during preproduction. Stories from Paul M. Sammon and Fancher provide insight into Philip K. Dick and the origins of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Interweaved are cast interviews with the notable exceptions of Harrison Ford and Sean Young. Through these interviews we get a sense of how difficult and frustrating the film was to make as a result of an exacting director without allies and hot, wet, smoggy conditions; which added to the high pressure atmosphere everyone increasingly felt as the film went over budget. There is also a tour of some locations, most notably the Bradbury Building and the Warner Brothers backlot that was the LA 2019 streets, which look very different from Ridley's dark version.
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The Dark Side of the Moon
Title: The Dark Side of the Moon
Character: Paxton Warner
Released: May 30, 1990
Type: Movie
It is the year 2022. A mysterious systems failure causes the crew of a spaceship to be stranded on the dark side of the moon, while rapidly running out of fuel and oxygen. They are surprised to discover a NASA space shuttle floating in space, and board it in the hope of salvaging some supplies. One by one, the crew is possessed and killed, and it is up to Paxton Warner to find the links between the dark side of the moon, the Bermuda Triangle, and the Devil himself.
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Levitation
Title: Levitation
Character: Kharma (as Joseph Turkel)
Released: May 19, 1985
Type: Movie
Two young hecklers goad once-great circus magician into reviving his legendary wireless levitation trick, which he abandoned years ago because it went horribly wrong.
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Reel Horror
Title: Reel Horror
Character: Harry (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1985
Type: Movie
Evil spirits that emerge from cans of old movie film terrorize a neighborhood.
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Title: Tales from the Darkside
Character: Kharma
Released: September 30, 1984
Type: TV
Tales from the Darkside is an anthology horror TV series created by George A. Romero, each episode was an individual short story that ended with a plot twist. The series' episodes spanned the genres of horror, science fiction, and fantasy, and some episodes featured elements of black comedy or more lighthearted themes.
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Title: Miami Vice
Released: September 16, 1984
Type: TV
The story of the Miami Police Department's vice squad and its efforts to end drug trafficking and prostitution, centered on the unlikely partnership of Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs - who first meet when Tubbs is undercover in a drug cartel.
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Blade Runner
Title: Blade Runner
Character: Dr. Eldon Tyrell
Released: June 25, 1982
Type: Movie
In the smog-choked dystopian Los Angeles of 2019, blade runner Rick Deckard is called out of retirement to terminate a quartet of replicants who have escaped to Earth seeking their creator for a way to extend their short life spans.
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The Shining
Title: The Shining
Character: Lloyd
Released: May 23, 1980
Type: Movie
Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prepared for the madness that lurks within.
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Which Way Is Up?
Title: Which Way Is Up?
Character: Harry Boatwright
Released: November 4, 1977
Type: Movie
Orange picker Leroy Jones inadvertently becomes a union leader and is forced out of town, leaving behind his sex-obsessed father, Rufus, and timid spouse, Annie Mae. He heads for Los Angeles, where he falls for union organizer Vanetta. Annie Mae seeks solace from local preacher Lenox Thomas, who eventually impregnates her. When Leroy catches wind, he heads home for a showdown with Lenox.
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The Commitment
Title: The Commitment
Character: Jules
Released: January 1, 1976
Type: Movie
A salesman's marriage is at stake due to his increasing gambling debts.
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The Hindenburg
Title: The Hindenburg
Character: Detective Moore
Released: December 25, 1975
Type: Movie
Colonel Franz Ritter, a former hero pilot now working for military intelligence, is assigned to the great Hindenburg airship as its chief of security. As he races against the clock to uncover a possible saboteur aboard the doomed zeppelin he finds that any of the passengers and crew could be the culprit.
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Title: Joe Forrester
Released: September 9, 1975
Type: TV
Joe Forrester is an American Crime/Drama TV series, starring Lloyd Bridges.
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The Prisoner of Second Avenue
Title: The Prisoner of Second Avenue
Character: Man Upstairs (voice) (uncredited)
Released: March 14, 1975
Type: Movie
Mel Edison has just lost his job after many years and now has to cope with being unemployed at middle age during an intense NYC heat wave.
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The Sex Symbol
Title: The Sex Symbol
Character: Director
Released: September 17, 1974
Type: Movie
A thinly-disguised version of the life of Marilyn Monroe, detailing her ups and downs in life and how her erratic behavior contributed to her deteriorating career.
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Title: Kojak
Character: Swampgas
Released: October 24, 1973
Type: TV
A bald, lollipop sucking police detective with a fiery righteous attitude battles crime in New York City.
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Title: Police Story
Released: March 20, 1973
Type: TV
Police Story is an anthology television crime drama. The show was the brainchild of author and former policeman Joseph Wambaugh and represented a major step forward in the realistic depiction of police work and violence on network TV. Although it was an anthology, there were certain things that all episodes had in common; for instance, the main character in each episode was a police officer. The setting was always Los Angeles and the characters always worked for some branch of the LAPD. Notwithstanding the anthology format, there were recurring characters. Scott Brady appeared in more than a dozen episodes as "Vinnie," a former cop who, upon retirement, had opened a bar catering to police officers, and who acted as a sort of Greek chorus during the run of the series, commenting on the characters and plots.
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Savage Abduction
Title: Savage Abduction
Character: Harry
Released: January 1, 1973
Type: Movie
A serial killer murders a businessman's wife, then blackmails the man into procuring young girls for him to murder. The businessman hires a gang of renegade motor-cyclists to kidnap girls for him.
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Six Hundred and Sixty-Six
Title: Six Hundred and Sixty-Six
Character: Col. Ferguson
Released: June 15, 1972
Type: Movie
A group of people inside an underground complex which possesses high tech computers which tracks world events consider all options as nuclear war is at hand, air supplies may last only eight days and Biblical prophesy unfolds.
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Wild in the Sky
Title: Wild in the Sky
Character: Corazza
Released: March 1, 1972
Type: Movie
Three anti-war activists hijack a B-52 bomber.
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The Animals
Title: The Animals
Character: Peyote
Released: March 9, 1970
Type: Movie
A woman tracks down the three men who raped her, helped by an Apache. Traveling through the Old West to her new home, young schoolteacher Alice McAndrew is abducted by five outlaws headed by robber Pudge Elliott. The thugs rape Alice before leaving her for dead, but she is rescued by Chatto, an Apache chief. He restores her health and aids her in her bloodthirsty quest for revenge. With her sanity wavering, will Alice be able to find the men who tortured her?
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Scream Free!
Title: Scream Free!
Released: October 15, 1969
Type: Movie
A man flees with his girlfriend from a love-in and motorcycles to Mexico with drug smugglers.
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The Devil's Eight
Title: The Devil's Eight
Character: Sam
Released: May 14, 1969
Type: Movie
The Devil's 8 is a 1969 film from American International Pictures. It is about a Federal agent (Christopher George) who recruits six convicts to bust a moonshine ring.
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Title: Land of the Giants
Character: Sergeant
Released: September 22, 1968
Type: TV
Set fifteen years in the then-future year 1983, the series tells the tale of the crew and passengers of a sub-orbital transport ship named Spindrift. In the pilot episode, the Spindrift is en route from Los Angeles to London, on an ultra-fast sub-orbital flight. Just beyond Earth's boundary with space, the Spindrift encounters a magnetic space storm, and is dragged through a space warp to a mysterious planet where everything is twelve times larger than on Earth, whose inhabitants the Earthlings nickname "the Giants". The Spindrift crash-lands, and the damage renders it inoperable.
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Title: Adam-12
Character: Vince Warren
Released: September 21, 1968
Type: TV
Adam-12 is a television police drama that followed two police officers of the Los Angeles Police Department, Pete Malloy and Jim Reed, as they patrolled the streets of Los Angeles in their patrol unit, 1-Adam-12.
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The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
Title: The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
Character: Jake 'Greasy Thumb' Guzik
Released: June 30, 1967
Type: Movie
Chicago February 14th 1929. Al Capone finally establishes himself as the city's boss of organised crime. In a north-side garage his hoods, dressed as policemen, surprise and mow down with machine-guns the key members of Bugs Moran's rival gang. The film traces the history of the incident, and the lives affected and in some cases ended by it.
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Title: Ironside
Released: March 28, 1967
Type: TV
When an assassin's bullet confines him to a wheelchair for life ending his career as Chief of Detectives, Robert T. Ironside becomes a consultant to the police department. Detective Sergeant Ed Brown and policewoman Eve Whitfield join with him to crack varied and fascinating cases. Ex-con Mark Sanger is employed by the chief as home help but eventually becomes a fully fledged member of the team also. Officer Whitfield leaves after 4 years service, and is replaced by Officer Fran Belding.
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The Sand Pebbles
Title: The Sand Pebbles
Character: Bronson
Released: December 20, 1966
Type: Movie
Engineer Jake Holman arrives aboard the gunboat USS San Pablo, assigned to patrol a tributary of the Yangtze in the middle of exploited and revolution-torn 1926 China. His iconoclasm and cynical nature soon clash with the 'rice-bowl' system which runs the ship and the uneasy symbiosis between Chinese and foreigner on the river. Hostility towards the gunboat's presence reaches a climax when the boat must crash through a river-boom and rescue missionaries upriver at China Light Mission.
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Title: The Rat Patrol
Character: Capt. Bruener
Released: September 12, 1966
Type: TV
The exploits of four Allied soldiers — three Americans and one Englishman — who are part of a long-range desert patrol group in the North African campaign during World War II. Their mission: "to attack, harass and wreak havoc on Field Marshal Rommel's vaunted Afrika Korps".
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Title: Felony Squad
Released: September 12, 1966
Type: TV
Twenty-year veteran Detective Sergeant Sam Stone is paired with rookie Briggs in a large Western metropolis.
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King Rat
Title: King Rat
Character: Dino
Released: October 27, 1965
Type: Movie
When Singapore surrendered to the Japanese in 1942, the Allied POWs, mostly British but including a few Americans, were incarcerated in Changi prison. Among the American prisoners is Cpl. King, a wheeler-dealer who has managed to establish a pretty good life for himself in the camp. King soon forms a friendship with an upper-class British officer who is fascinated with King's enthusiastic approach to life.
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Village of the Giants
Title: Village of the Giants
Character: Sheriff
Released: October 20, 1965
Type: Movie
"Genius" accidentally invents "goo" which causes living things to rapidly grow to an enormous size. Seeing an opportunity to get rich, some delinquent teenagers steal the "goo" and, as a result of a sophomoric dare, consume it themselves and become thirty feet tall. They then take over control of the town by kidnapping the sheriff's daughter and dancing suggestively.
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Johnny Cool
Title: Johnny Cool
Character: Hoodlum
Released: October 2, 1963
Type: Movie
A deported gangster trains an Italian convict to take over his operations in the U.S.
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The Yellow Canary
Title: The Yellow Canary
Character: Policeman
Released: May 15, 1963
Type: Movie
Andy is an arrogant pop singer about to be divorced by his wife who treats his staff badly. On the same night he starts a job at a theater in Los Angeles his infant son is kidnapped. Despite requests from the lead police officer on the case, Lieutenant Bonner, Paxton plays along with the kidnappers as they string him along even though they are willing to kill.
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Title: Combat!
Character: Klimmer
Released: October 2, 1962
Type: TV
Combat! is an American television program that originally aired on ABC from 1962 until 1967. The show covered the grim lives of a squad of American soldiers fighting the Germans in France during World War II. The program starred Rick Jason as platoon leader Second Lieutenant Gil Hanley and Vic Morrow as Sergeant "Chip" Saunders.
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Title: Ben Casey
Released: October 2, 1961
Type: TV
Ben Casey is an American medical drama series which ran on ABC from 1961 to 1966. The show was known for its opening titles, which consisted of a hand drawing the symbols "♂, ♀, ✳, †, ∞" on a chalkboard, as cast member Sam Jaffe intoned, "Man, woman, birth, death, infinity." Neurosurgeon Joseph Ransohoff was a medical consultant for the show and may have influenced the personality of the title character.
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Portrait of a Mobster
Title: Portrait of a Mobster
Character: Joe Noe
Released: April 19, 1961
Type: Movie
A vicious hood rises to the top of the rackets in Depression-era New York in this account of the life of Dutch Schultz.
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Title: The Asphalt Jungle
Released: April 2, 1961
Type: TV
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Title: Tallahassee 7000
Released: January 24, 1961
Type: TV
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Title: The Roaring 20's
Released: October 15, 1960
Type: TV
The adventures of a newspaper reporter covering the world of cops and gangsters in 1920s Chicago.
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Title: The Andy Griffith Show
Character: Fred
Released: October 3, 1960
Type: TV
The Andy Griffith Show is an American sitcom first televised on CBS between October 3, 1960 and April 1, 1968. Andy Griffith portrays the widowed sheriff of the fictional small community of Mayberry, North Carolina. His life is complicated by an inept, but well-meaning deputy, Barney Fife, a spinster aunt and housekeeper, Aunt Bee, and a precocious young son, Opie. Local ne'er-do-wells, bumbling pals, and temperamental girlfriends further complicate his life. Andy Griffith stated in a Today Show interview, with respect to the time period of the show: "Well, though we never said it, and though it was shot in the '60s, it had a feeling of the '30s. It was when we were doing it, of a time gone by." The series never placed lower than seventh in the Nielsen ratings and ended its final season at number one. It has been ranked by TV Guide as the 9th-best show in American television history. Though neither Griffith nor the show won awards during its eight-season run, series co-stars Knotts and Bavier accumulated a combined total of six Emmy Awards. The show, a semi-spin-off from an episode of The Danny Thomas Show titled "Danny Meets Andy Griffith", spawned its own spin-off series, Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., a sequel series, Mayberry R.F.D., and a reunion telemovie, Return to Mayberry. The show's enduring popularity has generated a good deal of show-related merchandise. Reruns currently air on TV Land, and the complete series is available on DVD. All eight seasons are also now available by streaming video services such as Netflix.
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Tormented
Title: Tormented
Character: Nick
Released: September 22, 1960
Type: Movie
A jazz pianist is haunted by his dead ex-lover's crawling hand and floating head.
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Title: The Aquanauts
Character: Danny
Released: September 14, 1960
Type: TV
The Aquanauts is an American adventure/drama series that aired on CBS in the 1960-1961 season. The series stars Keith Larsen, Jeremy Slate and Ron Ely.
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The Boy and the Pirates
Title: The Boy and the Pirates
Character: Abu the Genie
Released: April 13, 1960
Type: Movie
Jimmy desires to be a pirate when one day he discovers a magic bottle on the beach. He makes a wish and suddenly finds himself aboard Blackbeard's ship. Soon he realizes that being a pirate isn't what he expected.
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The Purple Gang
Title: The Purple Gang
Character: Eddie Olsen
Released: December 18, 1959
Type: Movie
The story of the infamous Purple Gang - a ring of bootleggers, hijackers and killers in 1920's Detroit.
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Title: The Detectives
Released: October 16, 1959
Type: TV
The Detectives is an American crime drama series which ran on ABC during its first two seasons, and on NBC during its third and final season. The series, starring motion picture star Robert Taylor, was produced by Four Star Television.
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Title: The Untouchables
Character: Gobo Karsh
Released: October 15, 1959
Type: TV
Special Agent Eliot Ness and his elite team of incorruptible agents battle organized crime in 1930s Chicago.
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Title: The Untouchables
Character: Garvin
Released: October 15, 1959
Type: TV
Special Agent Eliot Ness and his elite team of incorruptible agents battle organized crime in 1930s Chicago.
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Title: The Untouchables
Character: Birdie Yates
Released: October 15, 1959
Type: TV
Special Agent Eliot Ness and his elite team of incorruptible agents battle organized crime in 1930s Chicago.
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Title: Bonanza
Character: Thug #1
Released: September 12, 1959
Type: TV
The High-Sierra adventures of Ben Cartwright and his sons as they run and defend their ranch while helping the surrounding community.
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Title: Bonanza
Character: Lupe
Released: September 12, 1959
Type: TV
The High-Sierra adventures of Ben Cartwright and his sons as they run and defend their ranch while helping the surrounding community.
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Title: Bonanza
Character: Private Peters
Released: September 12, 1959
Type: TV
The High-Sierra adventures of Ben Cartwright and his sons as they run and defend their ranch while helping the surrounding community.
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Title: Tightrope
Released: September 8, 1959
Type: TV
Tightrope is an American crime drama series that aired on CBS from September 1959 to September 1960, under the alternate sponsorship of the J.B. Williams Company, and American Tobacco. Produced by Russell Rouse and Clarence Greene in association with Screen Gems, the series stars Mike Connors as an undercover agent named "Nick" who was assigned to infiltrate criminal gangs. The show was to have originally been titled Undercover Man but it was changed before going to air.
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Here Come the Jets
Title: Here Come the Jets
Character: Henley
Released: June 1, 1959
Type: Movie
The rehabilitation of a Korean War veteran coincides with the advent of passenger jets.
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Warlock
Title: Warlock
Character: Chet Haggin (uncredited)
Released: May 15, 1959
Type: Movie
A band of murderous cowboys has imposed a reign of terror on the town of Warlock. With the sheriff humiliatingly run out of town, the residents hire the services of Clay Blaisedell as de facto town marshal. He arrives along with his friend, Tom Morgan, and sets about restoring law and order on his own terms whilst also overseeing the establishment of a gambling house and saloon.
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Verboten!
Title: Verboten!
Character: Infantryman
Released: March 25, 1959
Type: Movie
A young American serviceman stationed in Germany after the fall of the Third Reich, jeopardises his future after falling in love with a German woman.
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Title: Bat Masterson
Character: Joe Turkel
Released: October 8, 1958
Type: TV
Bat Masterson is an American Western television series which showed a fictionalized account of the life of real-life marshal/gambler/dandy Bat Masterson. The title character was played by Gene Barry and the half-hour black-and-white shows ran on NBC from 1958 to 1961. The series was produced by Ziv Television Productions, the company responsible for such hit series as Sea Hunt and Highway Patrol.
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Title: Bat Masterson
Character: Woody Larkin
Released: October 8, 1958
Type: TV
Bat Masterson is an American Western television series which showed a fictionalized account of the life of real-life marshal/gambler/dandy Bat Masterson. The title character was played by Gene Barry and the half-hour black-and-white shows ran on NBC from 1958 to 1961. The series was produced by Ziv Television Productions, the company responsible for such hit series as Sea Hunt and Highway Patrol.
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Title: The Texan
Character: Evan McBeem
Released: September 29, 1958
Type: TV
The Texan was a Western television series starring popular B movie actor Rory Calhoun, which aired on the CBS television network from 1958 to 1960.
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The Case Against Brooklyn
Title: The Case Against Brooklyn
Character: Henchman Monte
Released: June 1, 1958
Type: Movie
A rookie cop takes on criminals who have the local government in their pocket.
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The Bonnie Parker Story
Title: The Bonnie Parker Story
Character: Chuck Darrow
Released: May 28, 1958
Type: Movie
In the 1930s, amoral blonde tommy-gun girl Bonnie Parker cut a swath of bodies across the South-West. Starting out on gas stations and bars with side-kick Guy Darrow she graduated to bank hold-ups with Darrow's brother and, after bloodily springing him, her jailed husband. But there was never any doubt who was in charge.
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Title: Jefferson Drum
Character: Tom
Released: April 25, 1958
Type: TV
Jefferson Drum, also known as The Pen and the Quill, is an American Western television series starring Jeff Richards that aired on the NBC network from April 25 to December 11, 1958.
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The Beast of Budapest
Title: The Beast of Budapest
Character: Martin
Released: February 23, 1958
Type: Movie
Archival footage combined with new footage re-creates the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. It is also a love story between a devout communist woman and the liberal son of a prominent professor. Because of their political differences, the two can never be together.
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Paths of Glory
Title: Paths of Glory
Character: Pvt. Pierre Arnaud
Released: October 25, 1957
Type: Movie
A commanding officer defends three scapegoats on trial for a failed offensive that occurred within the French Army in 1916.
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Title: Wagon Train
Character: Eddie
Released: September 18, 1957
Type: TV
The series initially starred veteran movie supporting actor Ward Bond as the wagon master, later replaced upon his death by John McIntire, and Robert Horton as the scout, subsequently replaced by lookalike Robert Fuller a year after Horton had decided to leave the series. The series was inspired by the 1950 film Wagon Master directed by John Ford and starring Ben Johnson, Harry Carey Jr. and Ward Bond, and harkens back to the early widescreen wagon train epic The Big Trail starring John Wayne and featuring Bond in his first major screen appearance playing a supporting role. Horton's buckskin outfit as the scout in the first season of the television series resembles Wayne's, who also played the wagon train's scout in the earlier film.
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House of Numbers
Title: House of Numbers
Character: Bradville - Convict
Released: September 12, 1957
Type: Movie
Story of twin brothers - one trying to help another escape from prison.
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Jeanne Eagels
Title: Jeanne Eagels
Character: Eddie, Reporter (uncredited)
Released: August 2, 1957
Type: Movie
Biographical film based loosely on the life of 1920s stage star Jeanne Eagels.
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The Midnight Story
Title: The Midnight Story
Character: Lothario at Dance (uncredited)
Released: June 4, 1957
Type: Movie
Beloved priest Father Thomasino is murdered in a San Francisco alley, and the police have few clues. But traffic cop Joe Martini becomes obsessed with finding the killer; he suspects Sylvio Malatesta. Ordered off the case, Joe turns in his badge and investigates alone. Soon he is a close friend of the Malatesta family, all delightful people, especially lovely cousin Anna. Uncertain whether Sylvio is guilty or innocent, Joe is now torn between old and new loyalties.
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Hellcats of the Navy
Title: Hellcats of the Navy
Character: Chick (as Joseph Turkel)
Released: May 1, 1957
Type: Movie
Future "first couple" Ronald Reagan and Nancy Davis made their only joint film appearance in Hellcats of the Navy. Ronnie plays Casey Abbott, commander of a WW2 submarine, while Nancy portrays navy nurse Helen Blair, Abbott's off-and-on girlfriend. During a delicate mission in which his sub is ordered to retrieve a revolutionary new Japanese mine, Abbott is forced to leave frogman Wes Barton (Harry Lauter) behind to save the rest of his crew. But Abbott's second-in-command Don Landon (Eduard Franz) is convincing that Abbott's sacrifice of Barton was due to the fact that the dead man had been amorously pursuing Helen.
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The Shadow on the Window
Title: The Shadow on the Window
Character: Lounger (uncredited)
Released: March 6, 1957
Type: Movie
Three delinquents murder a prosperous farmer at an isolated farm house. One witness to the crime - the dead man's secretary - is then taken hostage. The other witness - her young son - is thrown into state of shock. Can he recover soon enough to help the police - and his father - rescue his mother before it's too late?
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Title: Official Detective
Released: January 1, 1957
Type: TV
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Friendly Persuasion
Title: Friendly Persuasion
Character: Poor Loser (uncredited)
Released: November 25, 1956
Type: Movie
The story of a family of Quakers in Indiana in 1862. Their religious sect is strongly opposed to violence and war. It's not easy for them to meet the rules of their religion in everyday life but when Southern troops pass the area they are in real trouble. Should they fight, despite their peaceful attitude?
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The Killing
Title: The Killing
Character: Tiny
Released: June 6, 1956
Type: Movie
Career criminal Johnny Clay recruits a sharpshooter, a crooked police officer, a bartender and a betting teller named George, among others, for one last job before he goes straight and gets married. But when George tells his restless wife about the scheme to steal millions from the racetrack where he works, she hatches a plot of her own.
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Inside Detroit
Title: Inside Detroit
Character: Pete Link (as Joseph Turkel)
Released: January 1, 1956
Type: Movie
Gus Linden, former racketeer head of a Detroit local of the United Automobile Workers of America, A.F.L, attempts to destroy his successor, Blair Vicker, so he can put his old rackets back into the auto factories. Vickers fights him off, ultimately winning help from Linden's attractive daughter Barbara and from Joni Calvin, Vickers' moll.
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Title: Highway Patrol
Released: October 3, 1955
Type: TV
Highway Patrol was a syndicated, fictional police action series produced from 1955 to 1959, concerning the activities of the highway patrol and their leader, Dan Matthews (who held no rank). Although filmed in and around the Los Angeles area, the state setting for the stories was never identified, and city and street names were fictionalized.
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Title: Navy Log
Released: September 20, 1955
Type: TV
Navy Log is an American drama anthology series that initially aired for one season on CBS. It relates the greatest survival war stories in the history of the United States Navy. This series premiered on September 20, 1955, but the following year, it was moved to ABC, where it aired until September 25, 1958. The program aired for a total of three seasons and 102 episodes.
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Title: The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
Released: September 6, 1955
Type: TV
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp is a television western series loosely based on the life of frontier marshal Wyatt Earp. The half-hour black-and-white program aired for 229 episodes on ABC from 1955 to 1961 and featured Hugh O'Brian in the title role.
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The Naked Street
Title: The Naked Street
Character: Shimmy
Released: August 1, 1955
Type: Movie
To make an honest woman of his pregnant sister, Rosalie, callous New York mobster Phil Regal intimidates witnesses and bribes a store clerk to get Rosalie’s condemned boyfriend, Nicky Bradna, out of prison. But Regal’s meddling deeds soon backfire.
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Mad at the World
Title: Mad at the World
Character: Pete Johnson (as Joseph Turkel)
Released: May 13, 1955
Type: Movie
A neighborhood is terrorized by group of young juvenile delinquents called The WolfPack. When a young father's infant child is seriously injured because of the WolfPack, he decides that the police aren't working fast enough to catch the ones who hurt his baby and sets out to infiltrate the gang himself and mete out the punishment they deserve.
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Cell 2455 Death Row
Title: Cell 2455 Death Row
Character: Curly
Released: April 19, 1955
Type: Movie
A Death Row inmate uses his prison law studies to fight for his life. Based on a true story.
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The Human Jungle
Title: The Human Jungle
Character: Delinquent Hood
Released: October 3, 1954
Type: Movie
Danforth is assigned to take over the police department in a section of a large city saddled with juvenile delinquency, petty crimes, graft and also a recent unsolved murder of a strip-tease dancer. Recognizing the laxity of the department he implements many changes and soon finds himself under fire by the newspapers, the attorney of a racket leader and the denizens of this human jungle.
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Return from the Sea
Title: Return from the Sea
Character: Sailor
Released: July 28, 1954
Type: Movie
A hardened career navel officer must come to terms with adapting to civilian life with the help of a waitress that can see through his tough veneer.
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The Bamboo Prison
Title: The Bamboo Prison
Character: P.O.W.
Released: June 15, 1954
Type: Movie
A communist POW sides with his North Korean guards against his fellow prisoners.
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Gypsy Colt
Title: Gypsy Colt
Character: Chuck
Released: April 2, 1954
Type: Movie
In this trans-species remake of Lassie, Come Home, a faithful horse undertakes a perilous journey to return to the family it loves.
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Duffy of San Quentin
Title: Duffy of San Quentin
Character: Frank Roberts
Released: March 16, 1954
Type: Movie
San Quentin's new warden crusades for reform and for a framed inmate who loves a nurse.
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Title: Public Defender
Character: Leo Jackson
Released: March 11, 1954
Type: TV
The Public Defender is a half-hour 69-episode television dramatic series starring Reed Hadley as Bart Matthews, an attorney for the indigent. The series aired on CBS from March 11, 1954 to June 23, 1955, a season and a half.
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Man Crazy
Title: Man Crazy
Character: Ray
Released: December 2, 1953
Type: Movie
Three women come to Hollywood to break into the movies.
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Title: Letter to Loretta
Character: Logan
Released: September 20, 1953
Type: TV
Letter to Loretta is an American anthology drama series telecast on NBC from September 1953 to June 1961 for a total of 165 episodes. The filmed show was hosted by Loretta Young who also played the lead in various episodes. Letter to Loretta was sponsored by Procter & Gamble from 1953 through 1960. The final season's sponsor was Warner-Lambert's Listerine.
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A Slight Case of Larceny
Title: A Slight Case of Larceny
Character: Holdup Man
Released: June 5, 1953
Type: Movie
Two nitwits decide to open a gas station.
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The Glass Wall
Title: The Glass Wall
Character: Freddie Zakoyla (as Joseph Turkel)
Released: March 19, 1953
Type: Movie
Peter Kuban, a Hungarian refugee, is about to be deported after jumping ship in New York harbor. He needs to find an ex-G.I. named Tom whom he helped during the war, as Tom can prove Peter's right to legal entry into the United States. If he can't find Tom within 24 hours and prove his case, he will be branded a fugitive and will be permanently disqualified for U.S. citizenship.
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Down Among the Sheltering Palms
Title: Down Among the Sheltering Palms
Character: Pvt. Harris
Released: March 1, 1953
Type: Movie
War-weary Captain Willoby and his men are the occupation force on an island of lovely women...and are forbidden to fraternize.
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Title: I'm the Law
Released: February 13, 1953
Type: TV
I'm the Law is the title of a 30-minute syndicated American television police drama series which aired in 1953 starring George Raft as Lt. George Kirby, a NYPD detective involved in solving a variety of crimes in New York City. The series first aired on February 13, 1953 and ended on July 31, 1953.
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Title: General Electric Theater
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: I Led Three Lives
Released: January 1, 1953
Type: TV
I Led Three Lives is an American drama series which was syndicated by Ziv Television Programs from October 1, 1953 to January 1, 1956. The series stars Richard Carlson. The show was a companion piece of sorts to the radio drama I Was a Communist for the FBI, which dealt with a similar subject and was also syndicated by Ziv from 1952 to 1954.
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Title: Four Star Playhouse
Character: Willie
Released: September 25, 1952
Type: TV
Four Star Playhouse is an American television anthology series that ran from 1952 to 1956, sponsored in its first bi-weekly season by The Singer Company; Bristol-Myers became an alternate sponsor when it became a weekly series in the fall of 1953. The original premise was that Charles Boyer, Ida Lupino, David Niven, and Dick Powell would take turns starring in episodes. However, several other performers took the lead from time to time, including Ronald Colman and Joan Fontaine. Blake Edwards was among the writers and directors who contributed to the series. Edwards created the recurring character of illegal gambling house operator Willie Dante for Dick Powell to play on this series. The character was later revamped and spun off in his own series starring Howard Duff, then-husband of Lupino. The pilot for Meet McGraw, starring Frank Lovejoy, aired here, as did another episode in which Lovejoy recreated his role of Chicago newspaper reporter Randy Stone, from the radio drama Nightbeat.
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Title: Dangerous Assignment
Released: January 1, 1952
Type: TV
A U.S. government agent travels the world on undercover missions in this 1950s series. Star Brian Donlevy originated the role on radio in the '40s.
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Title: Dragnet
Released: December 16, 1951
Type: TV
Follows the cases of a dedicated Los Angeles police detective, Sergeant Joe Friday, and his partners. The show takes its name from the police term "dragnet", meaning a system of coordinated measures for apprehending criminals or suspects.
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Starlift
Title: Starlift
Character: Litter Case (uncredited)
Released: December 14, 1951
Type: Movie
To impress a movie star, a U.S. Air Force crewman pretends he is soon to see combat. When his lie gets out, chaos ensues.
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Fixed Bayonets!
Title: Fixed Bayonets!
Character: Soldier (uncredited)
Released: November 21, 1951
Type: Movie
The story of a platoon during the Korean War. One by one, Corporal Denno's superiors are killed until it comes to the point where he must try to take command responsibility.
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Title: The Adventures of Boston Blackie
Released: September 8, 1951
Type: TV
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Halls of Montezuma
Title: Halls of Montezuma
Character: Marine
Released: January 4, 1951
Type: Movie
Richard Widmark leads an all star cast of marine leathernecks including Jack Palance, Robert Wagner, Karl Malden, Richard Boone and Jack Webb into battle on a heavily fortified island. This action-packed story follows the squad as they pick their way through enemy-infested jungles on a time sensitive mission to find the source of the enemy rockets. As the mission progresses, the squad and leader overcome many challenges as they are transformed into an effective and efficient fighting unit.
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Southside 1-1000
Title: Southside 1-1000
Character: Frankie
Released: November 16, 1950
Type: Movie
The U.S. Secret Service goes after a counterfeiting ring by placing one of its agents in a criminal mob.
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Triple Trouble
Title: Triple Trouble
Character: Benny the Blood (as Joseph Turkel)
Released: August 13, 1950
Type: Movie
Slip and Sach take the rap for a robbery they did not commit in order to uncover the real robbers, whom they suspect are led by a convict who gives orders to his gang outside via a short-wave radio stashed somewhere in the prison.
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Federal Man
Title: Federal Man
Character: Jack 'Sneeze' Norton
Released: June 21, 1950
Type: Movie
A government agent travels from the United States to Mexico to nab drug dealers.
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Lucky Losers
Title: Lucky Losers
Character: Johnny Angelo
Released: May 14, 1950
Type: Movie
Slip and Sach's boss, David J. Thurston, has allegedly committed suicide. Slip finds a book of matches with the name of a local nightclub on his boss' desk and finds out from Gabe that a gambling casino is being run out of it. Slip comes to the conclusion that the club had something to do with his boss' death and sets out to find his murderer. The boys get jobs at the club and Louie poses as a rich cattlemen as they gather the information to convict the murderers.
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Angels in Disguise
Title: Angels in Disguise
Character: Henchman Johnny Martin
Released: September 25, 1949
Type: Movie
Slip and the gang stray from newspaper work to detective work.
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Sword in the Desert
Title: Sword in the Desert
Character: Haganah Soldier (uncredited)
Released: August 24, 1949
Type: Movie
First American film about the conflict between Jewish nationalists and the British in the creation of the state of Israel.
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City Across the River
Title: City Across the River
Character: Shimmy Stockton
Released: April 7, 1949
Type: Movie
Brooklyn youth Frank Cusack, good son and brother by day, is a gang member by night. The Dukes, seemingly likable dead-end-kids, are dangerously involved with racketeer Gaggsy Steens. Despite the efforts of Franks's parents, he and pal Benny get involved in a serious crime. Can Stan Albert, head of the community center, prevent them from becoming full-time crooks?