Lane Smith

Lane Smith

Born: April 29, 1936
Died: June 13, 2005
in Memphis, Tennessee, USA
Lane Smith was born in 1936 in Memphis, Tennessee. He graduated from the Leelanau School, a boarding school in Glen Arbor, Michigan, and spent one year boarding at the Hill School in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, before going off to study at the Actors Studio in the late 1950s and early 1960s along with Dustin Hoffman and Al Pacino; he was recognized in their Hall of Fame. Smith served two years in the United States Army.

After graduating, Smith found steady work in New York theater before making his film debut in Maidstone in 1970. During the 1970s, he regularly made appearances in small film roles including Rooster Cogburn in 1975 and Network in 1976. In 1981, Smith appeared in the Sidney Lumet-directed film Prince of the City. He also acted on television, notably playing a United States Marine in Vietnam in the television miniseries A Rumor of War and in the 1980 Hallmark Hall of Fame TV movie Gideon's Trumpet starring Henry Fonda, José Ferrer and John Houseman. Smith is also credited for playing McMurphy 650 times in the 1971 Off-Broadway revival of One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest.

Smith made a major breakthrough in 1984 with significant roles in Red Dawn, Places in the Heart and the television series V. He also played on Quincy, M.E. in season 8, episode 7, "Science for Sale" as an oncologist searching for a cure to cancer. In 1989, Smith gained recognition for his portrayal of Richard Nixon in the docudrama The Final Days. Newsweek praised the performance, writing, "Smith] is such a good Nixon that his despair and sorrow at his predicament become simply overwhelming." Smith earned a Golden Globe nomination for his performance. He also appeared in the original Broadway stage production of David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross as James Lingk. He received a Drama Desk Award for his performance.

In 1990, Smith appeared in Air America playing a United States Senator, a role for which he was selected based on his resemblance to then-Minority Leader Bob Dole. Two years later, he played a small-town district attorney opposite Joe Pesci in My Cousin Vinny, followed by a role as Coach Jack Reilly in The Mighty Ducks. In 1993 Smith landed the role of Perry White in Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, which he played for four seasons until 1997. In 1994, he portrayed New York Yankees front officeman Ron in The Scout, alongside Albert Brooks and Brendan Fraser. In 1998, Smith appeared in a major role as fictional television anchorman Emmett Seaborn in the HBO miniseries From The Earth to the Moon. His final film appearance was in The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000).

Smith was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (also known as ALS, or Lou Gehrig's disease) in April 2004. He died of the disease at his home in Northridge, California on June 13, 2005 at the age of 69. He was survived by his wife, Debbie Benedict Smith and his son Robert Smith.

Movies for Lane Smith...

Well Received the Death of an Artist
Title: Well Received the Death of an Artist
Released: December 12, 2012
Type: Movie
We follow the career of failed filmmaker, Jeigh Pressley as he humorously drinks himself to death.
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Out of Order
Title: Out of Order
Character: Frank
Released: June 1, 2003
Type: Movie
A distinctive look at a modern, troubled marriage—told from the point of view of the husband who is torn between his love of a clinically depressed wife and their young son, and his attraction for another woman.
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Title: Out of Order
Character: Frank
Released: June 1, 2003
Type: TV
A husband-and-wife writing team struggle to maintain their troubled marriage and careers.
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WW 3
Title: WW 3
Character: John Sullivan
Released: July 12, 2001
Type: Movie
Terrorists release a deadly biological-warfare virus in the United States.
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Title: DAG
Released: November 14, 2000
Type: TV
DAG is an American sitcom that aired from November 2000 to May 2001 on NBC. It was named after its star, David Alan Grier, who stars as United States Secret Service agent Jerome Daggett. Daggett's name, in turn, is a back-formation. The show also stars Delta Burke as the First Lady of the United States of America.
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The Caprice
Title: The Caprice
Released: November 11, 2000
Type: Movie
A group of friends meet once a year for a weekend of partying and re
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The Legend of Bagger Vance
Title: The Legend of Bagger Vance
Character: Grantland Rice
Released: November 2, 2000
Type: Movie
World War I has left golfer Rannulph Junuh a poker-playing alcoholic, his perfect swing gone. Now, however, he needs to get it back to play in a tournament to save the financially ravaged golf course of a long-ago sweetheart. Help arrives in the form of mysterious caddy Bagger Vance.
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Title: Bull
Released: August 15, 2000
Type: TV
Bull is a short-lived American drama series created by Michael S. Chernuchin, who had worked on Law & Order and Brooklyn South in 2000. It was TNT's first original series, and was cancelled in the middle of Season 1. The show's name is in reference to the bull market, but the airing of the series coincided with the dot-com bubble crash that turned what had until then been a bull economy in the United States into a bear market.
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Title: Judging Amy
Character: Mr. Radford
Released: September 19, 1999
Type: TV
Judging Amy is an American television drama that was telecast from September 19, 1999, through May 3, 2005, on CBS-TV. This TV series starred Amy Brenneman and Tyne Daly. Its main character is a judge who serves in a family court, and in addition to the family-related cases that she adjudicates, many episodes of the show focus on her own experiences as a divorced mother, and on the experiences of her mother, a social worker who works in the field of child welfare. This series was based on the life experiences of Brenneman's mother.
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Inherit the Wind
Title: Inherit the Wind
Character: Reverend Jeremiah Brown
Released: May 29, 1999
Type: Movie
Two great lawyers argue the case for and against a science teacher accused of the crime of teaching evolution.
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The Hi-Lo Country
Title: The Hi-Lo Country
Character: Steve Shaw
Released: December 30, 1998
Type: Movie
An intimate story of the enduring bond of friendship between two hard-living men, set against a sweeping backdrop: the American West, post-World War II, in its twilight. Pete and Big Boy are masters of the prairie, but ultimately face trickier terrain: the human heart.
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Getting Personal
Title: Getting Personal
Character: Dr. Maddie
Released: June 13, 1998
Type: Movie
Young professionals Christopher and Melissa meet and fall hard for each other. As their attraction grows, it becomes apparent that in order for their relationship to succeed, they must overcome Christopher's dark secret involving his father, with the help of his best friend and a sharp-edged psychiatrist.
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Title: From the Earth to the Moon
Character: Emmett Seaborn
Released: April 5, 1998
Type: TV
The story of the United States' space program, from its beginnings in 1961 to the final moon mission in 1972.
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Alien Nation: The Udara Legacy
Title: Alien Nation: The Udara Legacy
Character: Senator Silverthorne
Released: July 29, 1997
Type: Movie
Matt and George investigate a series of strange occurrences involving newcomers, who are found to be programmed to carry out someone's dirty work. The method by which they are brainwashed dates back to the slave ship's rebellion group, the Udara, who, we discover, Susan was a part of. Susan and George's lives are further disrupted when Buck enrols in the police academy.
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Title: The Practice
Character: Judge H. Finkel
Released: March 4, 1997
Type: TV
A provocative legal drama focused on young associates at a bare-bones Boston firm and their scrappy boss, Bobby Donnell. The show's forte is its storylines about “people who walk a moral tightrope.”
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Title: King of the Hill
Character: Charlie Fortner (voice)
Released: January 12, 1997
Type: TV
Set in Texas, this animated series follows the life of propane salesman Hank Hill, who lives with his overly confident substitute Spanish teacher wife Peggy, wannabe comedian son Bobby, and naive niece Luanne. Hank has conservative views about God, family, and country, but his values and ethics are often challenged by the situations he, his family, and his beer-drinking neighbors/buddies find themselves in.
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Title: King of the Hill
Character: Nate Hashaway (voice)
Released: January 12, 1997
Type: TV
Set in Texas, this animated series follows the life of propane salesman Hank Hill, who lives with his overly confident substitute Spanish teacher wife Peggy, wannabe comedian son Bobby, and naive niece Luanne. Hank has conservative views about God, family, and country, but his values and ethics are often challenged by the situations he, his family, and his beer-drinking neighbors/buddies find themselves in.
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Title: Clueless
Released: September 20, 1996
Type: TV
CLUELESS is a television series spun off from the 1995 teen film of the same name. The series originally premiered on ABC on September 20, 1996 as a part of the TGIF lineup during its first season. The show then spent its last two seasons on UPN ending on May 25, 1999.
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Title: The Outer Limits
Character: Dr. Malcolm Boussard
Released: March 26, 1995
Type: TV
Anthology series of composed of distinct story episodes, sometimes with a plot twist at the end, with occasional recurring story elements that were often tied together during season-finale clip shows.
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The Scout
Title: The Scout
Character: Ron Wilson
Released: September 30, 1994
Type: Movie
When his star recruit botches a Major League Baseball debut, humiliated talent scout Al Percolo gets banished to rural Mexico, where he finds a potential gold mine in the arm of young phenom Steve Nebraska. Soon, the New York Yankees put a $55 million contract on the table—provided a psychiatrist can affirm Nebraska's mental stability.
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The Flight of the Dove
Title: The Flight of the Dove
Character: Stephen Hahn
Released: June 10, 1994
Type: Movie
An explosives expert fleeing his past and a beautiful spy trading sex for secrets find themselves in love and fighting the spy ring out to kill them.
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Title: Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
Character: Perry White
Released: September 12, 1993
Type: TV
A much more lavish version of the popular Superman television series which had first aired forty years earlier, Lois & Clark focused more on the Man of Steel's early adult years in Metropolis. With the unknowing help of Lois Lane, Clark Kent created Superman there in Metropolis after finding work at the world-famous Daily Planet newspaper, where he meets fellow reporter Lois Lane.
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Son in Law
Title: Son in Law
Character: Walter Warner
Released: July 2, 1993
Type: Movie
Country girl Rebecca has spent most of her life on a farm in South Dakota, and, when she goes away to college in Los Angeles, Rebecca immediately feels out of place in the daunting urban setting. She is befriended by a savvy party animal named Crawl, who convinces the ambivalent Rebecca to stay in the city. When Thanksgiving break rolls around, Rebecca, no longer an innocent farm girl, invites Crawl back to South Dakota, where he pretends to be her fiancé.
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Title: Walker, Texas Ranger
Character: Reverend Thornton Powers
Released: April 21, 1993
Type: TV
Modern-day Texas Ranger, Cordell Walker's independent crime-solving methods have their roots in the rugged traditions of the Old West. Walker's closest friend is former Ranger, C.D. Parker, who retired after a knee injury, and now owns "C.D.'s," a Country/Western saloon/restaurant. Rookie Ranger, James "Jimmy" Trivette is an ex-football player who bases his crime-solving methods on reason and uses computers and cellular phones. Alex Cahill is the Assistant DA who shares a mutual attraction with Walker, but often disagrees with his unorthodox approach to law enforcement.
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The Distinguished Gentleman
Title: The Distinguished Gentleman
Character: Dick Dodge
Released: December 4, 1992
Type: Movie
A Florida con man uses the passing of the long time Congressman from his district, who he just happens to share a name with, to get elected to his version of paradise- Congress, where the money flows from lobbyists.
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The Mighty Ducks
Title: The Mighty Ducks
Character: Jack Reilly
Released: October 2, 1992
Type: Movie
After reckless young lawyer Gordon Bombay gets arrested for drunk driving, he must coach a kids hockey team for his community service. Gordon has experience on the ice, but isn't eager to return to hockey, a point hit home by his tense dealings with his own former coach, Jack Reilly. The reluctant Gordon eventually grows to appreciate his team, which includes promising young Charlie Conway, and leads them to take on Reilly's tough players.
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Duplicates
Title: Duplicates
Character: Mr. Fryman
Released: March 18, 1992
Type: Movie
A family falls victim to a scientific institute that removes memories and transfers them to a computer.
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My Cousin Vinny
Title: My Cousin Vinny
Character: Jim Trotter III
Released: March 13, 1992
Type: Movie
Two carefree pals traveling through Alabama are mistakenly arrested, and charged with murder. Fortunately, one of them has a cousin who's a lawyer - Vincent Gambini, a former auto mechanic from Brooklyn who just passed his bar exam after his sixth try. When he arrives with his leather-clad girlfriend, to try his first case, it's a real shock - for him and the Deep South!
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False Arrest
Title: False Arrest
Character: Martin Busey
Released: November 3, 1991
Type: Movie
A luxury home, a handsome husband and terrific children. But it all comes crashing down when she is accused of being a mastermind behind a brutal triple-homicide and is arrested and handcuffed in front of her own children. A gripping story of passion and betrayal as a woman fights to clear her name and avoid the death penalty for a crime she didn't commit.
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Title: Good & Evil
Released: September 25, 1991
Type: TV
Good & Evil is a situation comedy which was broadcast in the United States by ABC from September 25, 1991 until October 30, 1991. The series was created by Susan Harris, and produced by Witt/Thomas/Harris Productions in association with Touchstone Television.
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Title: Good Sports
Character: R.J. Rappaport
Released: January 10, 1991
Type: TV
Good Sports is an American sitcom that aired on the CBS network in 1991, starring Farrah Fawcett and Ryan O'Neal. It centered around two sports anchors -- a vain, faded football star and a former Miss America -- who have a love-hate relationship both on-air and off.
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Blind Vengeance
Title: Blind Vengeance
Character: Col. Blanchard
Released: August 22, 1990
Type: Movie
A man seeks revenge on the white supremacists acquitted in the murder of his son
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Air America
Title: Air America
Character: Senator Davenport
Released: August 10, 1990
Type: Movie
Air America was the CIA's private airline operating in Laos during the Vietnam War, running anything and everything from soldiers to foodstuffs for local villagers. After losing his pilot's license, Billy Covington is recruited into it, and ends up in the middle of a bunch of lunatic pilots, gun-running by his friend Gene Ryack, and opium smuggling by his own superiors.
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Challenger
Title: Challenger
Character: Larry Mulloy
Released: February 25, 1990
Type: Movie
A profile of the astronauts, crew, and civilians who were involved in the January 28, 1986 flight of the spaceship, Challenger, that resulted in its explosion upon takeoff. The center point of the film is the safety inspections and arguments surrounding the use of the o-rings that ultimately were blamed for the explosion.
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The Final Days
Title: The Final Days
Character: Richard Nixon
Released: October 29, 1989
Type: Movie
The Final Days concerns itself with the final months of the Richard Nixon presidency.
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Night Game
Title: Night Game
Character: Whitty
Released: September 15, 1989
Type: Movie
A police detective tracks a serial killer who is stalking young women on a beach front after each game that a baseball pitcher wins.
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Killer Instinct
Title: Killer Instinct
Character: Dr. Butler
Released: November 22, 1988
Type: Movie
Woody Harrelson stars in the story of psychiatrist Lisa DaVito and her battle to save a tortured man whose past has turned him to violence. One tragic incident seals his fate and shakes Lisa's faith in her profession.
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Prison
Title: Prison
Character: Warden Eaton Sharpe
Released: December 8, 1987
Type: Movie
After Charles Forsyth was sent to the electric chair for a crime he didn't commit, he forever haunts the prison where he was executed. Flash forward several years when the prison is reopened, under the control of its new warden Eaton Sharpe, a former security guard who framed Charlie. When prisoners are ordered to break down the wall to the execution room, they unknowingly release the angry spirit of Charles Forsyth, a powerful being distributing his murderous rage to all, leading up to the Warden himself.
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Weeds
Title: Weeds
Character: Claude
Released: October 16, 1987
Type: Movie
A San Quentin inmate, sentenced to life without parole, writes a play that catches the interest of a reporter.
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A Place to Call Home
Title: A Place to Call Home
Character: Sam
Released: February 7, 1987
Type: Movie
Sam Gavin decides to relocate his family from Houston, Texas to a sheep station in Australia to protect his eleven children from the "destructive influences" of modern American society. Because of business obligations, he fails to join them and, more or less, abandons his wife, Liz, to the hardships of her new surroundings. Mother and children are determined to make a go of it.
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Native Son
Title: Native Son
Character: Britton
Released: December 24, 1986
Type: Movie
In 1940s Chicago, a young black man takes a job as a chauffeur to a white family, which takes a turn for the worse when he accidentally kills the teenage daughter of the couple and then tries to cover it up.
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Title: Kay O'Brien
Released: September 26, 1986
Type: TV
Kay O'Brien is an American television series set at fictional Manhattan General Hospital, which aired for one season on CBS during the 1986-87 television season.
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Terror at London Bridge
Title: Terror at London Bridge
Character: Anson Whitfield
Released: November 22, 1985
Type: Movie
London Bridge, London, England, 1888: Jack the Ripper dies in the Thames river. London Bridge, Lake Havasu, Arizona, 1985: the last original stone used to rebuild London Bridge is laid and all the city is happy...but then some strange murders start happening. Policeman Don Gregory has some suspects, but when he develops a theory that Jack the Ripper has been resurrected, no one believes him.
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Title: The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Robert Warren
Released: September 29, 1985
Type: TV
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents is an American anthology series that aired on NBC from 1985 to 1986, and on the USA Network from 1987 to 1989. The series is an updated re-imagining of the classic 1955 series Alfred Hitchcock Presents.
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Title: Amazing Stories
Character: Dr. Caruso
Released: September 29, 1985
Type: TV
A truly amazing, fantastical, science fiction, funny and odd, and sometimes scary, sad and endearing anthology series presented by Steven Spielberg with guest appearances by many famous actors, actresses, and directors.
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Title: The Twilight Zone
Released: September 27, 1985
Type: TV
This 1980s revival of the classic sci-fi series features a similar style to the original anthology series. Each episode tells a tale (sometimes two or three) rooted in horror or suspense, often with a surprising twist at the end. Episodes usually feature elements of drama and comedy.
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Title: Hollywood Beat
Released: September 21, 1985
Type: TV
Hollywood Beat is a mid-1980s American television police drama starring Jack Scalia, Jay Acovone, Edward Winter and John Matuszak. The series aired Saturday night at 8:00 p.m Eastern time.
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Title: MacGruder and Loud
Character: Richard
Released: January 21, 1985
Type: TV
MacGruder and Loud is an American crime drama from Aaron Spelling Productions that aired on ABC in 1985. The series stars John Getz and Kathryn Harrold as married police officers Malcolm MacGruder and Jenny Loud in a Los Angeles Police Department-styled police agency. They fought a battle every day to keep it a closely guarded secret from their boss, Sgt. Hanson. Malcolm and Jenny lived in a duplex-type apartment complex where there was a secret door behind the grandfather clock in her apartment, where Malcolm could sneak in and enjoy her company. This was one of the few failures from Aaron Spelling's production company in its history, since it was picked by ABC to debut right after the Super Bowl in 1985 and was heavily promoted during the game. The promotion resulted in high ratings at first, but following a quick decline, the series was cancelled three months into its run, after ranking 40th out of 104 programs that aired that season with an average 15.76 household rating, according to TVTango.com. Because of the frequent commercials during the Super Bowl, the following night Johnny Carson ask rhetorically during his monologue on The Tonight Show: "Did you see that new show, 'Frequent and Loud'?"
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Title: V
Character: Nathan Bates
Released: October 26, 1984
Type: TV
Once again, Earth is the battleground. But now the aliens whose human guise hides their true reptilian natures are wiser. They believe the secret to their survival on Earth lies in the DNA of the newly born half-human, half-spaceling Starchild. But that's something the world's Resistance Fighters cannot allow.
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Title: Murder, She Wrote
Character: Pol. Chief Miles Underwood
Released: September 30, 1984
Type: TV
An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.
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Places in the Heart
Title: Places in the Heart
Character: Albert Denby
Released: September 11, 1984
Type: Movie
In 1930s Texas, a widow and her family fight to save their home by harvesting cotton.
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Red Dawn
Title: Red Dawn
Character: Mayor Bates
Released: August 10, 1984
Type: Movie
It is the dawn of World War III. In mid-western America, a group of teenagers band together to defend their town—and their country—from invading Soviet forces.
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Purple Hearts
Title: Purple Hearts
Character: Cmdr. Markel
Released: March 30, 1984
Type: Movie
A Navy surgeon and a nurse fall in love while serving in Vietnam during the war. Their affection for one another provides a striking contrast to the violence of warfare.
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Something About Amelia
Title: Something About Amelia
Character: Officer Dealy
Released: January 9, 1984
Type: Movie
Counseling helps family deal with the discovery that their child was sexually abused by the closest relative.
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Title: Chiefs
Character: Hoss Spence
Released: November 13, 1983
Type: TV
Three different police chiefs in three different eras become involved in a growing mystery -- who is the mass murderer behind the killing of transient youths in and around the fictional southern town of Delano over a forty year period?
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Special Bulletin
Title: Special Bulletin
Character: Morton Sanders
Released: March 20, 1983
Type: Movie
A TV reporter and cameraman are taken hostage on a tugboat while covering a workers strike. The demands of the hostage-takers are to collect all the nuclear detonators in the Charleston, SC area so they may be detonated at sea. They threaten to detonate a nuclear device of their own of their demand isnt met.
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The American Snitch
Title: The American Snitch
Character: Chuck Maxwell
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: Movie
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The Member of the Wedding
Title: The Member of the Wedding
Character: Mr. Addams
Released: December 20, 1982
Type: Movie
12-year-old tomboy Frankie Addams dreams of going away with her brother and his bride-to-be on their upcoming honeymoon. [Taped live in performance at the James K. Polk Theater, Nashville.]
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Frances
Title: Frances
Character: Dr. Symington
Released: December 3, 1982
Type: Movie
The true story of Frances Farmer's meteoric rise to fame in Hollywood and the tragic turn her life took when she was blacklisted.
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Thou Shalt Not Kill
Title: Thou Shalt Not Kill
Character: Clarence Blake
Released: April 12, 1982
Type: Movie
A man is wrongly convicted for murder and sent to prison, where he is accused of murdering a brutal guard he killed in self-defense.
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Prime Suspect
Title: Prime Suspect
Character: Tom Keating
Released: January 20, 1982
Type: Movie
A respectable businessman becomes the prime suspect in the abduction and murder of several young girls. He is hounded by the media and disowned by his friends and neighbours.
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Dark Night of the Scarecrow
Title: Dark Night of the Scarecrow
Character: Harless Hocker
Released: October 24, 1981
Type: Movie
Bubba, an intellectually disabled man, is falsely accused of attacking a young girl. Disguised as a scarecrow, he hides in a cornfield, only to be hunted down and shot by four vigilante men. After they are acquitted due to lack of evidence, the men find themselves being stalked one by one.
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Prince of the City
Title: Prince of the City
Character: Tug Barnes
Released: August 19, 1981
Type: Movie
New York City detective Daniel Ciello agrees to help the United States Department of Justice help eliminate corruption in the police department, as long as he will not have to turn in any close friends. In doing so, Ciello uncovers a conspiracy within the force to smuggle drugs to street informants.
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Title: Hill Street Blues
Released: January 15, 1981
Type: TV
A realistic glimpse into the daily lives of the officers and detectives at an urban police station.
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Mark, I Love You
Title: Mark, I Love You
Character: Don Payer
Released: December 10, 1980
Type: Movie
A distraught widower is caught in a bitter custody battle with his late wife's parents over his 10-year-old son, following his plans to remarry and move off to California with the boy.
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The Georgia Peaches
Title: The Georgia Peaches
Character: Randolph Dukane
Released: November 8, 1980
Type: Movie
A Southern gal who runs her family's auto repair shop, her aspiring country singer sister, and their stock-car racing friend who runs moonshine on the side are conned into working as government undercover agents to track down a dangerous criminal in this pilot to a prospective series.
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Resurrection
Title: Resurrection
Character: Don
Released: September 26, 1980
Type: Movie
The story of a woman who survives the car accident which kills her husband, but discovers that she has the power to heal other people. She becomes an unwitting celebrity, the hope of those in desperate need of healing, and a lightning rod for religious beliefs and skeptics.
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Title: A Rumor of War
Character: Sgt. Willliam Holgren
Released: September 24, 1980
Type: TV
Miniseries based on the 1977 autobiography by Philip Caputo about his service in the United States Marine Corps in the early years of American involvement in the Vietnam War.
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Honeysuckle Rose
Title: Honeysuckle Rose
Character: Brag
Released: July 18, 1980
Type: Movie
Buck Bonham is a country singer on the road caught in a romantic triangle with Dyan Cannon and Amy Irving, the daughter of one of his longtime musical sidekick.
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On the Nickel
Title: On the Nickel
Character: Preacher
Released: May 8, 1980
Type: Movie
Sam, a recovering alcoholic, feels dissatisfied with his life of sobriety and goes back in search of the good times he enjoyed with his wino friends on "the Nickel" of Los Angeles' skid row.
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Gideon's Trumpet
Title: Gideon's Trumpet
Character: Fred Turner
Released: April 30, 1980
Type: Movie
True story of Clarence Gideon's fight to be appointed counsel at the expense of the state. This landmark case led to the Supreme Court's decision which extended this right to all criminal defendants.
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City in Fear
Title: City in Fear
Character: Brian
Released: March 30, 1980
Type: Movie
A psycho-on-the-loose story, about a burned-out newspaper columnist and his circulation-hungry publisher who wants him to turn the killer into Page One news.
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Disaster on the Coastliner
Title: Disaster on the Coastliner
Character: John Carlson
Released: October 28, 1979
Type: Movie
A deranged engineer, bent on revenge for the deaths of his wife and daughter, sets two passenger trains on a collision course, and con-man William Shatner puts his life on the line to ward off the crash.
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The Solitary Man
Title: The Solitary Man
Character: Jack Collins
Released: October 9, 1979
Type: Movie
A family man must make an adjustment after his wife of fifteen years one day blurts out that she wants a divorce and leaves him to construct a new life.
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Title: Hart to Hart
Released: September 22, 1979
Type: TV
Wealthy couple Jonathan and Jennifer Hart, a self-made millionaire and his journalist wife, moonlight as amateur detectives.
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Over the Edge
Title: Over the Edge
Character: Sloan
Released: May 18, 1979
Type: Movie
A group of bored teenagers rebel against authority in the community of New Granada.
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The Crash of Flight 401
Title: The Crash of Flight 401
Released: October 29, 1978
Type: Movie
True story recounting the crash of Eastern Airlines, Flight 401, which crashed in the Everglades while on approach to Miami in December 1972. Accurate in many respects, the movie goes through the events leading up to the crash, the crash itself, and the rescue effort afterwards.
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On the Yard
Title: On the Yard
Character: Blake
Released: September 16, 1978
Type: Movie
Chilly is "top con" on the yard, a title that gives him absolute power. Power to make the rules. Power to kill. When a young con confronts Chilly's power, he learns the vicious price of defiance.
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A Death in Canaan
Title: A Death in Canaan
Character: Bob Hartman
Released: March 1, 1978
Type: Movie
When a teenager is accused of his mother's murder, the community of Canaan rallies to his defense.
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Blue Collar
Title: Blue Collar
Character: Clarence Hill, Union Steward
Released: February 10, 1978
Type: Movie
Fed up with mistreatment at the hands of both management and union brass, and coupled with financial hardships on each man's end, three auto assembly line workers hatch a plan to rob a safe at union headquarters.
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Title: Lou Grant
Released: September 20, 1977
Type: TV
The trials of a former television station manager turned newspaper city editor, and his journalist staff.
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The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training
Title: The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training
Character: Officer Mackie
Released: July 8, 1977
Type: Movie
A troubled, rebellious teen drives his rambunctious baseball team out to Houston where they play an exhibition game and the boy meets his estranged father, and hires him as the teams coach.
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Between the Lines
Title: Between the Lines
Character: Roy Walsh
Released: April 27, 1977
Type: Movie
The staff of the Back Bay Mainline, a Boston underground newspaper that rose to prominence in the 1960s, struggles with the shifting social climate of the '70s amid rumors that the paper is about to be sold to a media giant.
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The Displaced Person
Title: The Displaced Person
Character: Mr. Shortley
Released: April 12, 1977
Type: Movie
A conscientious but driven Polish refugee disrupts the hierarchy of power on a Georgia farm in the 1940s.
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Network
Title: Network
Character: Robert McDonough
Released: November 14, 1976
Type: Movie
When veteran anchorman Howard Beale is forced to retire his 25-year post because of his age, he announces to viewers that he will kill himself during his farewell broadcast. Network executives rethink their decision when his fanatical tirade results in a spike in ratings.
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Title: Quincy, M.E.
Released: October 3, 1976
Type: TV
Quincy, M.E. is an American television series from Universal Studios pert in several of the later episodes.
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Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
Title: Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
Character: Tyler
Released: April 22, 1976
Type: Movie
In 1930s Alabama, nine young black men are accused of raping two white women. The judge in the case, unlike the rest of the town, comes to believe that the boys are innocent and, against all advice from his friends and family, sets them free, which turns the entire community against him.
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Valley Forge
Title: Valley Forge
Released: December 3, 1975
Type: Movie
George Washington struggles to hold his army together at a critical point during the Revolutionary War.
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Rooster Cogburn
Title: Rooster Cogburn
Character: Leroy
Released: November 1, 1975
Type: Movie
After a band of drunken thugs overruns a small Indian Nation town, killing Minister Goodnight and raping the women folk, Eula Goodnight enlists the aid of Marshal Cogburn to hunt them down and bring her father's killers to justice.
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Everybody Rides the Carousel
Title: Everybody Rides the Carousel
Character: Stage 1 (voice)
Released: June 8, 1975
Type: Movie
Everybody Rides The Carousel invites the viewer along on eight "rides" through the different stages of life. Based on the work by Erik Erikson, one of the most influential psychoanalytic theorists of this century, the film explores the inner feelings and conflicted emotions experienced during each stage of personality development. With distinctive and poetic animation, John and Faith Hubley visualize the conflicts, joys, problems and delights we all experience on the carousel of life.
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Title: The Rockford Files
Character: Willett
Released: September 13, 1974
Type: TV
Cranky but likable L.A. PI Jim Rockford pulls no punches (but takes plenty of them). An ex-con sent to the slammer for a crime he didn't commit, Rockford takes on cases others don't want, aided by his tough old man, his lawyer girlfriend and some shady associates from his past.
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Title: The Rockford Files
Character: CIA Agent Donnegan
Released: September 13, 1974
Type: TV
Cranky but likable L.A. PI Jim Rockford pulls no punches (but takes plenty of them). An ex-con sent to the slammer for a crime he didn't commit, Rockford takes on cases others don't want, aided by his tough old man, his lawyer girlfriend and some shady associates from his past.
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Man on a Swing
Title: Man on a Swing
Character: Ted Ronan
Released: February 24, 1974
Type: Movie
A small-town police chief investigating a murder is offered help by a self-described psychic. However, when the chief discovers that the "psychic" is in possession of information known only to the police, he suspects that the man may be more involved in the case than he lets on.
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Title: Kojak
Character: Clyde Regan
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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The Last American Hero
Title: The Last American Hero
Character: Rick Penny
Released: July 27, 1973
Type: Movie
A young hell raiser quits his moonshine business and tries to become the best NASCAR racer the south has ever seen. Loosely based on the true story of NASCAR driver Junior Johnson.
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Maidstone
Title: Maidstone
Released: March 9, 1971
Type: Movie
Over a booze-fueled, increasingly hectic five-day shoot in East Hampton, Norman Mailer and his cast and crew spontaneously unloaded onto film the lurid and loony chronicle of U.S. presidential candidate and filmmaker Norman T. Kingsley debating and attacking his hangers-on and enemies. This gonzo narrative, “an inkblot test of Mailer’s own subconscious” (Time), becomes something like a documentary on its own making when costar Rip Torn breaks the fourth wall in one of cinema’s most alarming on-screen outbursts.
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Unholy Matrimony
Title: Unholy Matrimony
Character: Partygoer
Released: December 28, 1966
Type: Movie
Sexual indiscretions are used as a basis for blackmail.
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Title: Hallmark Hall of Fame
Character: Spad
Released: December 24, 1951
Type: TV
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.
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Title: Hallmark Hall of Fame
Character: Fred Turner
Released: December 24, 1951
Type: TV
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.