Diane Baker

Diane Baker

Born: February 25, 1938
in Hollywood, California, USA
Diane Carol Baker (born February 25, 1938) is an American actress, producer and educator who has appeared in motion pictures and on television since 1959.

Movies for Diane Baker...

Robert Osborne's 20th Anniversary Tribute
Title: Robert Osborne's 20th Anniversary Tribute
Character: Self
Released: April 14, 2015
Type: Movie
Friends and family surprise Turner Classic Movies host Robert Osborne at the 2014 TCM Classic Film Festival with a tribute to his twenty years with the network.
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Private Screenings: Robert Osborne
Title: Private Screenings: Robert Osborne
Character: Self
Released: January 6, 2014
Type: Movie
TCM host Robert Osborne discusses his life and career with guest interviewer Alec Baldwin in commemoration of Osborne's 20 years with the network.
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The Surrogate
Title: The Surrogate
Character: Louise
Released: January 1, 2013
Type: Movie
A married couple, struggling to have a child, hires a young woman to be their surrogate, but soon discovers she has a bizarre and deadly agenda.
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Hemingway & Gellhorn
Title: Hemingway & Gellhorn
Character: Mrs. Gellhorn
Released: August 27, 2012
Type: Movie
Writer Ernest Hemingway begins a romance with fellow scribe Martha Gellhorn.
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Harrison Montgomery
Title: Harrison Montgomery
Character: Mrs. Cutsworth
Released: January 1, 2008
Type: Movie
In a rundown apartment complex in San Francisco's Tenderloin, a septuagenarian seer is waiting for his final message. For decades the eccentric recluse has chronicled the phrases of the Wheel of Fortune and deciphered their hidden meaning - the details of a mission to save his neighbors from their troubles.
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Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story
Title: Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story
Character: Self
Released: November 8, 2007
Type: Movie
Chronicles the last great American showman, filmmaker William Castle, a master of ballyhoo who became a brand name in movie horror with his outrageous audience participation gimmicks.
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The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam
Title: The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam
Character: Miss Taylor
Released: June 10, 2005
Type: Movie
Kamran is a 12 year old boy in the present day who discovers that his ancestor is the 11th Century Mathematician, Astronomer, Poet of Persia, Omar Khayyam. The story has been passed down in his family from one generation to another, and now it is his responsibility to keep the story alive for future generations. The film takes us from the modern day to the epic past where the relationship between Omar Khayyam, Hassan Sabbah (the original creator of the sect of Assassins) and their mutual love for a beautiful woman separate them from their eternal bond of friendship. Filmed almost entirely on location in Samarkand and Bukhara, Uzbekistan.
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Title: House
Character: Blythe House
Released: November 16, 2004
Type: TV
Dr. Gregory House, a drug-addicted, unconventional, misanthropic medical genius, leads a team of diagnosticians at the fictional Princeton–Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in New Jersey.
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A Mighty Wind
Title: A Mighty Wind
Character: Supreme Folk Defense Lawyer
Released: April 16, 2003
Type: Movie
Director Christopher Guest reunites the team from "Best In Show" and "Waiting for Guffman" to tell the story of '60s-era folk musicians, who, inspired by the death of their former manager, get back on the stage for one concert in New York City's Town Hall.
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Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star
Title: Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star
Character: Self - Actress
Released: August 1, 2002
Type: Movie
In this documentary on the life of Joan Crawford, we learn why she should be remembered as the great actress she was, and not only as "mommie dearest." caricature she has become. Friends, fellow actors, directors, and others reminisce about their association with her, and numerous film clips show off her talent from her start in silents to bad science fiction/horror movies at the end of her career.
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Battle-Axe: the Making of 'Strait-Jacket'
Title: Battle-Axe: the Making of 'Strait-Jacket'
Character: Self
Released: April 2, 2002
Type: Movie
A look back at the classic 1964 film of horror and suspense starring Joan Crawford as an axe-murderer just released from the mental hospital. Includes footage of the filming and interviews with several of those involved, as well as a look at the movies it was influenced by and those that were in turn influenced by it.
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Title: First Monday
Released: January 15, 2002
Type: TV
A newcomer to the Supreme Court finds himself a pivotal force on an often deadlocked bench, frequently at odds over hot-button cases in this earnest but brief legal drama.
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Inside the Labyrinth: The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs'
Title: Inside the Labyrinth: The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs'
Character: Self
Released: August 21, 2001
Type: Movie
A behind-the-scenes look at the making of this Oscar winning thriller, prepared for its tenth anniversary. Includes interviews with star Anthony Hopkins, as well as other members of the cast and crew, giving their views on the experience of creating this masterpiece of terror and suspense.
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Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
Title: Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
Character: Rose Kennedy
Released: November 4, 2000
Type: Movie
Told in flashbacks as Jackie reflects on her life, mini is divided in two parts: Life as a Kennedy and life after Camelot.
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Harrison's Flowers
Title: Harrison's Flowers
Character: Mary Francis
Released: September 23, 2000
Type: Movie
1991. Harrison Lloyd, a renowned photojournalist covering the war in Yugoslavia, is reported missing. Sarah, his wife, convinced that he is not dead, decides to go to Bosnia to find him.
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The Trouble with 'Marnie'
Title: The Trouble with 'Marnie'
Character: Self
Released: May 30, 2000
Type: Movie
This hour long documentary on the making of Alfred Hitchcock's "Marnie" incorporates the usual melange of contemporary interviews with surviving participants and liberal helpings of film clips and production shots. It also presents a nice selection of script pages and memos as well. In the former category we find cast members 'Tippi' Hedren, Diane Baker, and Louise Latham, rejected screenwriters Joseph Stefano and Evan Hunter, final screenwriter Jay Presson Allen, daughter Pat Hitchcock O'Connell, production designer Robert Boyle, makeup artist Howard Smit, unit manager Hilton Green, Hitchcock historian Robin Wood, composer Bernard Herrmann biographer Steven C. Smith, and Hitchcock fan/filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich. An entertaining account of the film's production, the participants offer loads of valuable information and anecdotes. Highly enjoyable for Hitchcock fans and the film's growing number of admirers.
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Title: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Character: Margo Nelson
Released: September 20, 1999
Type: TV
In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.
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About Sarah
Title: About Sarah
Character: Lila Hollingsworth
Released: October 4, 1998
Type: Movie
When the matriarch of the family suddenly dies, custody of a mentally disabled mother is inherited by her normal daughter.
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Murder at 1600
Title: Murder at 1600
Character: Kitty Neil
Released: April 18, 1997
Type: Movie
A secretary is found dead in a White House bathroom during an international crisis, and Detective Harlan Regis is in charge of the investigation. Despite resistance from the Secret Service, Regis partners with agent Nina Chance. As political tensions rise, they learn that the crime could be part of an elaborate cover-up. Framed as traitors, the pair, plus Regis' partner, break into the White House in order to expose the true culprit.
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Joan Crawford: Always the Star
Title: Joan Crawford: Always the Star
Character: Self
Released: September 30, 1996
Type: Movie
Glamorous and hugely popular Joan Crawford raised herself from brutal poverty to Academy Award-winning stardom by guts, determination and hard work. During her 50-year career, she made over 80 films. But her obsessive perfectionism led to the later caricature of coat-hanger-wielding harridan that even the adoration of fans could not counter. Still, she has endured as one of the most popular icons of the movies, an early role model to a million young women who aspired to her image of stylish magnetic power and unquestioned independence.
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Courage Under Fire
Title: Courage Under Fire
Character: Louise Boylar
Released: July 4, 1996
Type: Movie
A US Army officer, who made a "friendly fire" mistake that was covered up, has been reassigned to a desk job. He is tasked to investigate a female chopper commander's worthiness to be awarded the Medal of Honor. At first all seems in order. But then he begins to notice inconsistencies between the testimonies of the witnesses...
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The Cable Guy
Title: The Cable Guy
Character: Steven's Mother
Released: June 10, 1996
Type: Movie
When recently single Steven moves into his new apartment, cable guy Chip comes to hook him up—and doesn't let go. Initially, Chip is just overzealous in his desire to be Steven's pal, but when Steven tries to end the 'friendship', Chip shows his dark side. He begins stalking Steven, who's left to fend for himself because no one else can believe Chip's capable of such behaviour.
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The Net
Title: The Net
Character: Mrs. Bennett
Released: July 28, 1995
Type: Movie
Angela Bennett is a freelance software engineer who lives in a world of computer technology. When a cyber friend asks Bennett to debug a new game, she inadvertently becomes involved in a conspiracy that will soon turn her life upside down and make her the target of an assassination.
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A Walton Wedding
Title: A Walton Wedding
Character: Charlotte Gilchrist
Released: February 12, 1995
Type: Movie
In 1964, John-Boy Walton is planning his wedding to Janet Gilchrist, the editor of a New York fashion magazine and the daughter of a diplomat. The two of them plan a small wedding and he invites the family and friends from Walton's Mountain to come to New York for the celebration. However, Janet's Aunt Flo has other ideas and begins to take over their wedding preparations. Added to the wedding plan stress, John-Boy is also trying to write an article about his Grandma, but decides that he needs to go home to escape the wedding preparations, as well as to reunite with his grandmother and fill in some gaps leaving Janet in New York trying to prevent her wedding from getting out of hand. But she too leaves the city and heads for Walton's Mountain to plan their wedding there.
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Imaginary Crimes
Title: Imaginary Crimes
Character: Abigail Tate
Released: October 14, 1994
Type: Movie
A recently widowed, small-time hustler struggles to raise his two daughters on his own and still make a dishonest living in 1960s Portland, Oregon.
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Title: ER
Character: Louise Duffy
Released: September 19, 1994
Type: TV
ER explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by the dedicated physicians and staff of its overburdened emergency room.
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Title: Chicago Hope
Released: September 18, 1994
Type: TV
Chicago Hope is an American medical drama television series, created by David E. Kelley. It ran on CBS from September 18, 1994, to May 4, 2000. The series is set in a fictional private charity hospital in Chicago, Illinois. The show is set to return in the fall of 2013 on TVGN in reruns.
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Title: The Nanny
Character: Roberta
Released: November 3, 1993
Type: TV
Fran, fresh out of her job as a bridal consultant in her boyfriend’s shop, first appears on the doorstep of Broadway producer Maxwell Sheffield peddling cosmetics, and quickly stumbled upon the opportunity to become The Nanny for his three children. But soon Fran, with her offbeat nurturing and no-nonsense honesty, touches Maxwell as well as the kids.
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Twenty Bucks
Title: Twenty Bucks
Character: Ruth Adams
Released: October 21, 1993
Type: Movie
A story about the life of a twenty dollar bill as it weaves in and out of the various lives of several people.
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The Joy Luck Club
Title: The Joy Luck Club
Character: Mrs. Jordan
Released: September 8, 1993
Type: Movie
Through a series of flashbacks, four Chinese women born in America and their respective mothers born in feudal China explore their pasts.
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The Shot
Title: The Shot
Character: Sylvia
Released: April 26, 1993
Type: Movie
A freelance celebrity photographer tracks down his most elusive subject - a singer who went into hiding 10 years ago.
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Perry Mason: The Case of the Heartbroken Bride
Title: Perry Mason: The Case of the Heartbroken Bride
Character: Laura Parrish
Released: October 30, 1992
Type: Movie
Perry Mason is invited to the marriage of the daughter of an old friend of his. But after the ceremony the uncle of the bride is dead. Certainly this is a case for Perry Mason.
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The Haunted
Title: The Haunted
Character: Lorraine Warren
Released: May 6, 1991
Type: Movie
When the Smurl family moves into a duplex, they find out it's haunted.
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The Silence of the Lambs
Title: The Silence of the Lambs
Character: Senator Ruth Martin
Released: February 14, 1991
Type: Movie
Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI's training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist who is also a violent psychopath, serving life behind bars for various acts of murder and cannibalism. Crawford believes that Lecter may have insight into a case and that Starling, as an attractive young woman, may be just the bait to draw him out.
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The Closer
Title: The Closer
Character: Beatrice Grant
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
Aiello plays a powerful salesman whose world is falling apart.
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Title: A Woman of Substance
Character: Laura O'Neill
Released: January 2, 1985
Type: TV
The life of Emma Harte, from kitchen maid at the beginning of the twentieth century, to respected business woman and grandmother in the 1980s. From humble beginnings, Emma Harte starts her business with a small shop, but over the next twenty years, she expands her stores and invests in the growing textile industry in Leeds.
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Title: Murder, She Wrote
Character: Eleanor Thane
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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Title: Murder, She Wrote
Character: Mary Forsythe
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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Title: The Blue and the Gray
Character: Evelyn Hale
Released: November 14, 1982
Type: TV
The Blue and the Gray is a television miniseries that first aired on CBS in three installments on November 14, November 16, and November 17, 1982. Set during the American Civil War, the series starred John Hammond, Stacy Keach, Lloyd Bridges, and Gregory Peck as President Abraham Lincoln. It was executive produced by Larry White and Lou Reda, in association with Columbia Pictures Television, then owned by The Coca-Cola Company.
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The Pilot
Title: The Pilot
Character: Pat Simpson
Released: November 26, 1980
Type: Movie
Mike Hagan is a pilot in passenger service and candidate for the honor "Best Pilot of the Year". Nobody knows that he's got private sorrows - he's an alcoholic. A stewardess notices his regular visits of the toilet and reports it.
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Fugitive Family
Title: Fugitive Family
Character: Ellen 'Ellie' Roberts
Released: October 1, 1980
Type: Movie
To the world Brian Roberts looks like a successful businessman, with a lovely wife and two children all living in a dream home. Nevertheless, he has really been working undercover for the Justice Department to snare a mob boss. When his cover is blown, he has to break the news to his family about the nature of his real job and, worse, that they are now in real danger! Consequently, they are forced into the federal government's Witness Relocation Program. However, the trauma to the family does not stop there, as the gangsters he double-crossed are determined he and his family shall not escape 'mob justice.'
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Title: CBS Schoolbreak Special
Character: Helen Welker-Summers
Released: April 19, 1980
Type: TV
CBS Schoolbreak Special is an American anthology series for teenagers that aired on CBS from April 1980 to January 1996. The series began under the title CBS Afternoon Playhouse, and was changed during the 1984 - 85 season. The concept was very similar to ABC's Afterschool Special.
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Title: The Love Boat
Character: Ruth Newman
Released: September 24, 1977
Type: TV
Passengers who search for romantic nights aboard a beautiful ship travelling to tropical or mysterious countries, decide to pass their vacation aboard the "Love Boat", where Gopher, Dr. Bricker, Isaac, Julie, and Captain Stubing try their best to please them, and sometimes help them fall in love. Things are not always so easy, but in the end, love wins.
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Baker's Hawk
Title: Baker's Hawk
Character: Jenny Baker
Released: December 12, 1976
Type: Movie
When a young boy nurses an injured hawk back to health, he gains newfound courage and confidence on his own.
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Halfway to Danger
Title: Halfway to Danger
Released: December 9, 1975
Type: Movie
A woman rents a mansion to use as a halfway house for delinquent girls but a killer shows up.
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The Last Survivors
Title: The Last Survivors
Character: Marilyn West
Released: March 4, 1975
Type: Movie
When a passenger ship sinks, a ship's officer must decide which passengers in an overcrowded lifeboat must be sacrificed so the rest can survive an approaching typhoon.
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The Dream Makers
Title: The Dream Makers
Character: Mary Stone
Released: January 7, 1975
Type: Movie
A college president becomes the president of a record company, and finds himself enmeshed in a payola scandal.
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Title: Police Woman
Released: September 13, 1974
Type: TV
Sergeant “Pepper"” Anderson, an undercover cop for the Criminal Conspiracy Unit of the Los Angeles Police Department, poses undercover from mob girl to prostitute.
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Title: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Character: Katie Nolan
Released: March 27, 1974
Type: Movie
The story of a family living in a New York City slum in 1912, headed by a loving but alcoholic father and a strong-willed mother.
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Title: Kojak
Character: Irene Van Patten
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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Title: Here We Go Again
Character: Susan Standish-Evans
Released: January 20, 1973
Type: TV
Here We Go Again is an American sitcom that aired on ABC from January to April 1973 on Saturday Night at 8:00pm. The show, produced by Metromedia/Bobka Productions, ran for 13 episodes.
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Title: The Streets of San Francisco
Released: September 23, 1972
Type: TV
Two police officers, the older Lt. Stone and the young upstart Inspector Keller, investigate murders and other serious crimes in San Francisco. Stone would become a second father to Keller as he learned the rigors and procedures of detective work.
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Killer by Night
Title: Killer by Night
Character: Tracey Morrow
Released: January 7, 1972
Type: Movie
A doctor trying to fight a diphtheria epidemic comes into conflict with a police captain who is using all his resources to track down a cop-killer.
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A Little Game
Title: A Little Game
Character: Elaine Hamilton
Released: October 31, 1971
Type: Movie
A hostile youngster who will stop at nothing to break up his mother's marriage is suspected of homicide, and his stepfather fears that he may be the boy's next victim.
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Congratulations, It's a Boy!
Title: Congratulations, It's a Boy!
Character: Eydie
Released: September 21, 1971
Type: Movie
A bachelor's life is interrupted by the appearance of a teenager who claims to be his son.
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Title: Columbo
Character: Joanna Clay
Released: September 15, 1971
Type: TV
Columbo is a friendly, verbose, disheveled-looking police detective who is consistently underestimated by his suspects. Despite his unprepossessing appearance and apparent absentmindedness, he shrewdly solves all of his cases and secures all evidence needed for indictment. His formidable eye for detail and meticulously dedicated approach often become clear to the killer only late in the storyline.
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Sarge: The Badge or the Cross
Title: Sarge: The Badge or the Cross
Character: Carol Swanson
Released: February 22, 1971
Type: Movie
After his wife is murdered, a veteran cop quits the police department and becomes a priest. Several years later he is assigned to a parish where he meets the man who killed his wife -- and discovers that the killer was gunning for him instead. The first of two feature-length pilots for the series "Sarge."
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Do You Take This Stranger?
Title: Do You Take This Stranger?
Character: Rachel Jarvis
Released: January 17, 1971
Type: Movie
A social climber/con artist schemes to inherit one million dollars by trading identities with a dying man.
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Title: Night Gallery
Character: Lynn Alcott (segment "They're Tearing Down Tim Riley's Bar")
Released: December 16, 1970
Type: TV
Rod Serling narrates an anthology of fantasy, horror and sci-fi stories from a set resembling a macabre museum. A chilling work of art serves as the connective link between the stories.
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The Old Man Who Cried Wolf
Title: The Old Man Who Cried Wolf
Character: Peggy Pulska
Released: October 13, 1970
Type: Movie
Emile Pulska is visiting his old friend Abe Stillman. During the visit they are attacked and Emile is struck senseless. When he wakes up he is told that Abe is dead, dead by natural causes, the doctors tell him. When Emile insists that they were attacked, his relatives try to give him psychiatric help. Emile decides to try to find the killers himself, but someone is watching his every step...
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The D.A.: Murder One
Title: The D.A.: Murder One
Character: Mary Brokaw
Released: December 8, 1969
Type: Movie
A Deputy District Attorney suspects that a nurse has been murdering her rich husbands and relatives by giving them unneeded insulin doses, but his superiors don't believe him.
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Title: Medical Center
Released: September 24, 1969
Type: TV
Medical Center is a medical drama series which aired on CBS from 1969 to 1976. It was produced by MGM Television.
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Title: Medical Center
Character: Sandra Polk
Released: September 24, 1969
Type: TV
Medical Center is a medical drama series which aired on CBS from 1969 to 1976. It was produced by MGM Television.
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Trial Run
Title: Trial Run
Character: Carole Trenet
Released: January 18, 1969
Type: Movie
A slice-of-life drama involving a young lawyer, his adoring secretary who tries to help to advance his career, and his employer, a famed lawyer burdened with an unfaithful wife.
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Krakatoa, East of Java
Title: Krakatoa, East of Java
Character: Laura Travers
Released: December 26, 1968
Type: Movie
A team of maritime salvage workers are about to embark on a recovery dive. However the 1883 Krakatoa Volcano eruption provides more pressing problems.
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The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit
Title: The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit
Character: Suzie 'S.J' Clemens
Released: December 16, 1968
Type: Movie
Frederick Bolton has to solve two problems. First, his boss has instructed him to come up with a reasonable campaign to promote a new product, a stomach pill named "Aspercel" - by tomorrow. The second problem is Fred's daugther, Helen. She is absolutely fond of horses, takes riding classes and has already had decent success in some competitions. Her biggest wish is to own a horse herself, a dream her father cannot afford at all. Now Fred tries to solve both problems at once by simply combining them: A horse named "Aspercel", ridden by his daugther should bring the name of the pill into the papers and make Helen happy, too. But there's still one more obstacle: Helen and Aspercel of course have to win a few prices to make this idea work...
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Title: The Name of the Game
Character: Elaine Brennan
Released: September 20, 1968
Type: TV
The Name of the Game is an American television series starring Tony Franciosa, Gene Barry, and Robert Stack that ran from 1968 to 1971 on NBC, totaling 76 episodes of 90 minutes. It was a pioneering wheel series, setting the stage for The Bold Ones and the NBC Mystery Movie in the 1970s. The show had an extremely large budget for a television series.
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Title: The Invaders
Character: Kathy Adams
Released: January 10, 1967
Type: TV
The Invaders, alien beings from a dying planet. Their destination: the Earth. Their purpose: to make it their world. David Vincent has seen them, for him it began one lost night on a lonely country road, looking for a shortcut that he never found. It began with a closed deserted diner, and a man too long without sleep to continue his journey. It began with the landing of a craft from another galaxy. Now, David Vincent knows that the Invaders are here, that they have taken human form. Somehow he must convince a disbelieving world that the nightmare has already begun.
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The Dangerous Days Of Kiowa Jones
Title: The Dangerous Days Of Kiowa Jones
Character: Amilia Rathmore
Released: December 25, 1966
Type: Movie
A dying marshal deputizes a drifter to deliver the two killers in his custody to prison. However, the new deputy must elude a pair of bounty hunters who want to deliver the prisoners themselves to collect the reward and would think nothing of killing the deputy to get them.
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Title: Mission: Impossible
Released: September 17, 1966
Type: TV
Mission: Impossible is an American television series that was created and initially produced by Bruce Geller. It chronicles the missions of a team of secret government agents known as the Impossible Missions Force. In the first season, the team is led by Dan Briggs, played by Steven Hill; Jim Phelps, played by Peter Graves, takes charge for the remaining seasons. A hallmark of the series shows Briggs or Phelps receiving his instructions on a recording that then self-destructs, followed by the theme music composed by Lalo Schifrin. The series aired on the CBS network from September 1966 to March 1973, then returned to television for two seasons on ABC, from 1988 to 1990, retaining only Graves in the cast. It later inspired a popular series of theatrical motion pictures starring Tom Cruise, beginning in 1996.
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Inherit the Wind
Title: Inherit the Wind
Character: Rachel Brown
Released: November 18, 1965
Type: Movie
A young man, Bert Cates, is arrested in a small Bible Belt town for teaching the theory of Evolution in the public school. Two of the finest legal minds in the U.S. are called to the trial: Henry Drummond for the defense, and Matthew Harrison Brady for the prosecution. The trial proceeds on three levels, the guilt or innocence of Cates, the issue of the Bible vs. Darwin, and finally, the personal confrontation between Drummond and Brady.
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Mirage
Title: Mirage
Character: Shela
Released: October 29, 1965
Type: Movie
In New York City, David Stillwell struggles to recover his memory before the people who are trying to kill him succeed. Who is he, who are they, and why is he surrounded by murder?
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Title: The F.B.I.
Character: Anna Frehling
Released: September 19, 1965
Type: TV
The F.B.I. is an American television series that was broadcast on ABC from 1965 to 1974. It was sponsored by the Ford Motor Company, and the characters almost always drove Ford vehicles in the series. Alcoa was co-sponsor of Season One only.
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Title: The F.B.I.
Character: Lisa
Released: September 19, 1965
Type: TV
The F.B.I. is an American television series that was broadcast on ABC from 1965 to 1974. It was sponsored by the Ford Motor Company, and the characters almost always drove Ford vehicles in the series. Alcoa was co-sponsor of Season One only.
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Title: The F.B.I.
Character: Elyse Colton
Released: September 19, 1965
Type: TV
The F.B.I. is an American television series that was broadcast on ABC from 1965 to 1974. It was sponsored by the Ford Motor Company, and the characters almost always drove Ford vehicles in the series. Alcoa was co-sponsor of Season One only.
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Title: The Big Valley
Character: Hester
Released: September 15, 1965
Type: TV
The Big Valley is an American western television series which ran on ABC from September 15, 1965, to May 19, 1969. The show stars Barbara Stanwyck, as the widow of a wealthy nineteenth century California rancher. It was created by A.I. Bezzerides and Louis F. Edelman, and produced by Levy-Gardner-Laven for Four Star Television.
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Della
Title: Della
Character: Jenny Chappell
Released: August 8, 1964
Type: Movie
Della Chappell is a very wealthy and incredibly reclusive woman. When a big company wants to develop some land that Della owns, the town sends out Barney Stafford to talk to her. She invites Barney over to negotiate the proposal. Barney soon takes a liking to Della's equally reclusive daughter Jenny Chappell. After spending some time with Jenny, he realizes that Della has a dark secret, one that keeps them from the outside world.
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Marnie
Title: Marnie
Character: Lil Mainwaring
Released: July 17, 1964
Type: Movie
Marnie is a thief, a liar, and a cheat. When her new boss, Mark Rutland, catches on to her routine kleptomania, she finds herself being blackmailed.
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Sands of Beersheba
Title: Sands of Beersheba
Character: Susan
Released: July 15, 1964
Type: Movie
During the Palestinian War of 1948, an American falls in love with her late fiance's friend, an Israeli gunrunner.
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Strait-Jacket
Title: Strait-Jacket
Character: Carol Harbin
Released: January 19, 1964
Type: Movie
After a twenty-year stay at an asylum for a double murder, a mother returns to her estranged daughter where suspicions arise about her behavior.
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The Ghost of Sierra de Cobre
Title: The Ghost of Sierra de Cobre
Character: Vivia Mandore
Released: January 1, 1964
Type: Movie
Terrified of being buried alive, a woman installs a phone in her crypt. A few days after her death, the phone suddenly rings and paranormal investigator Nelson Orion is brought in to probe the case.
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The Prize
Title: The Prize
Character: Emily Stratman
Released: December 25, 1963
Type: Movie
A group of Nobel laureates descends on Stockholm to accept their awards. Among them is American novelist Andrew Craig, a former literary luminary now writing pulp detective stories to earn a living. Craig, who is infamous for his drinking and womanizing, formulates a wild theory that physics prize winner Dr. Max Stratman has been replaced by an impostor, embroiling Craig and his chaperone in a Cold War kidnapping plot.
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Title: Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
Released: October 4, 1963
Type: TV
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre is an American anthology series, sponsored by Chrysler Corporation, which ran on NBC from 1963 through 1967. The show was hosted by Bob Hope, but it had a variety of formats, including musical, dramatic, and comedy.
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Stolen Hours
Title: Stolen Hours
Character: Ellen
Released: October 2, 1963
Type: Movie
A woman diagnosed with a brain tumor falls in love with her doctor.
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Title: Mr. Novak
Character: Mildred Chase
Released: September 24, 1963
Type: TV
Mr. Novak is an American dramatic series starring James Franciscus in the title role, which aired on NBC for two seasons, from 1963 to 1965.
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Title: The Fugitive
Character: Jean Carlisle
Released: September 17, 1963
Type: TV
Richard Kimble is falsely convicted of his wife's murder and given the death penalty. En route to death row, Kimble's train derails and crashes, allowing him to escape and begin a cross-country search for the real killer, a "one-armed man". At the same time, Dr. Kimble is hounded by the authorities, most notably dogged by Police Lieutenant Philip Gerard.
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Nine Hours to Rama
Title: Nine Hours to Rama
Character: Sheila
Released: April 30, 1963
Type: Movie
José Ferrer and Horst Buchholz star in this fictionalised account of events leading up to the assassination of Indian spiritual leader and independence campaigner Mahatma Gandhi.
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Title: The Virginian
Character: Linda Valence
Released: September 19, 1962
Type: TV
The Shiloh Ranch in Wyoming Territory of the 1890s is owned in sequence by Judge Henry Garth, the Grainger brothers, and Colonel Alan MacKenzie. It is the setting for a variety of stories, many more based on character and relationships than the usual western.
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The 300 Spartans
Title: The 300 Spartans
Character: Ellas
Released: August 1, 1962
Type: Movie
Essentially true story of how Spartan king Leonidas led an extremely small army of Greek Soldiers (300 of his personal body guards from Sparta) to hold off an invading Persian army now thought to have numbered 250,000.
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Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man
Title: Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man
Character: Carolyn
Released: July 25, 1962
Type: Movie
Young and restless Nick Adams, the only son of a domineering mother and a weak but noble doctor father, leaves his rural Michigan home to embark on an eventful cross-country journey. He is touched and affected by his encounters with a punch-drunk ex-boxer, a sympathetic telegrapher, and an alcoholic advanceman for a burlesque show. After failing to get a job as reporter in New York, he enlists in the Italian army during World War I as an ambulance driver. His camaraderie with fellow soldiers and a romance with a nurse he meets after being wounded propel him to manhood.
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Title: The Mike Douglas Show
Character: Self
Released: December 11, 1961
Type: TV
The Mike Douglas Show is an American daytime television talk show hosted by Mike Douglas that originally aired only in the Cleveland area during much of its first two years on the air. It then went into syndication in 1963 and remained on television until 1982. It was distributed by Westinghouse Broadcasting and for much of its run, originated from studios of two of the company's TV stations in Cleveland and Philadelphia.
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Title: Bus Stop
Released: October 1, 1961
Type: TV
Bus Stop is a 26-episode American drama which aired on ABC from October 1, 1961, until March 25, 1962, starring Marilyn Maxwell as Grace Sherwood, the owner of a bus station and diner in the fictitious town of Sunrise in the Colorado Rockies. The program was adapted from William Inge's play, Bus Stop, and Inge was a script consultant for the series, which followed the lives of travelers passing through the bus station and the diner. Maxwell's co-stars were Richard Anderson as District Attorney Glenn Wagner, Rhodes Reason as Sheriff Will Mayberry, Joan Freeman as waitress Elma Gahrigner, Bernard Kates as Ralph the coroner, and Buddy Ebsen as Virge Blessing.
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Title: Dr. Kildare
Character: Emma Swader
Released: September 27, 1961
Type: TV
The story of a young intern in a large metropolitan hospital trying to learn his profession, deal with the problems of his patients, and win the respect of the senior doctor in his specialty, internal medicine.
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Title: Dr. Kildare
Character: Amy Post
Released: September 27, 1961
Type: TV
The story of a young intern in a large metropolitan hospital trying to learn his profession, deal with the problems of his patients, and win the respect of the senior doctor in his specialty, internal medicine.
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The Wizard of Baghdad
Title: The Wizard of Baghdad
Character: Princess Yasmin
Released: March 3, 1961
Type: Movie
A genie turned mortal after his many failures is sent to Baghdad. As his last chance to prove himself he must help a prince and princess fulfill a prophecy.
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Tess of the Storm Country
Title: Tess of the Storm Country
Character: Tess MacLean
Released: December 8, 1960
Type: Movie
Fourth reworking of the classic Grace Miller White novel, this time updated to the 60s, with young Scottish lassie Tess (Diane Baker) becoming embroiled in a conflict about a toxic chemical plant near her new home in Pennsylvania.
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Title: Route 66
Released: October 7, 1960
Type: TV
Route 66 is an American TV series in which two young men traveled across America in a Chevrolet Corvette sports car. The show ran weekly on Fridays on CBS from October 7, 1960 to March 20, 1964. It starred Martin Milner as Tod Stiles and, for the first two and a half seasons, George Maharis as Buz Murdock. Maharis was ill for much of the third season, during which time Tod was shown traveling on his own. Tod met Lincoln Case, played by Glenn Corbett, late in the third season, and traveled with him until the end of the fourth and final season. Among the series more notable aspects were the featured Corvette convertible, and the program's instrumental theme song, which became a major pop hit.
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Journey to the Center of the Earth
Title: Journey to the Center of the Earth
Character: Jenny Lindenbrook
Released: December 15, 1959
Type: Movie
An Edinburgh professor and assorted colleagues follow an explorer's trail down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the earth's center.
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The Best of Everything
Title: The Best of Everything
Character: April Morrison
Released: October 9, 1959
Type: Movie
An exposé of the lives and loves of Madison Avenue working girls and their higher-ups.
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Title: Adventures in Paradise
Character: Danielle Arnoux
Released: October 5, 1959
Type: TV
Adventures in Paradise is an American television series created by James Michener which ran on ABC from 1959 until 1962, starring Gardner McKay as Adam Troy, the captain of the schooner Tiki III, which sailed the South Pacific looking for passengers and adventure. USA Network aired reruns of this series between 1984 and 1988. The plots deal with the romantic and detective stories of Korean War veteran Troy. The supporting cast, varying from season to season, features George Tobias, Guy Stockwell, and Linda Lawson.
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Title: Adventures in Paradise
Character: Veronica Sanders
Released: October 5, 1959
Type: TV
Adventures in Paradise is an American television series created by James Michener which ran on ABC from 1959 until 1962, starring Gardner McKay as Adam Troy, the captain of the schooner Tiki III, which sailed the South Pacific looking for passengers and adventure. USA Network aired reruns of this series between 1984 and 1988. The plots deal with the romantic and detective stories of Korean War veteran Troy. The supporting cast, varying from season to season, features George Tobias, Guy Stockwell, and Linda Lawson.
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Title: Bonanza
Character: Norma O'Casey
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: Mary Wharton
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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The Diary of Anne Frank
Title: The Diary of Anne Frank
Character: Margot Frank
Released: March 18, 1959
Type: Movie
The true, harrowing story of a young Jewish girl who, with her family and their friends, is forced into hiding in an attic in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam.
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Title: Hallmark Hall of Fame
Character: Rachel Brown
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.