Charles Haid

Charles Haid

Born: June 2, 1943
in San Francisco, California, USA
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Charles Maurice Haid III (born June 2, 1943) is an American actor and director, with notable work in both movies and television. He is known for his portrayal of Officer Andy Renko in Hill Street Blues.

Haid was born in San Francisco, California, the son of Grace Marian (née Folger) and Charles Maurice Haid, Jr. He attended Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University), where he met Steven Bochco. He was associate producer of the original stage production of Godspell in 1971, which was developed at CMU.

Haid's acting credits include the 1976/1977 police drama series Delvecchio as Sgt. Paul Schonski and the 1980s police drama series Hill Street Blues, as Officer Andy Renko, and as Dr. Mason Parrish in the 1980 movie Altered States. His directing credits include an episode of ER which earned him a Directors Guild Award, and DGA nominations for the TV-movie Buffalo Soldiers and an episode of NYPD Blue. He is a regular director on the FX series Nip/Tuck. He has also directed for the FX series Sons of Anarchy. He is a regular director for the CBS series Criminal Minds. He also portrayed serial killer Randall Garner (aka "The Fisher King") on Criminal Minds.

During a visit to New Zealand in the 1980s, Haid was interviewed for a television news program, and surprised many viewers when he discussed his Shakespearean background, and love of live stage work.

In 2004-2005 Haid played C. T. Finney, a corrupt New York police captain on the sixth season of the NBC show Third Watch.

Haid provided the voice of the one-legged rabbit "Lucky Jack" in the 2004 Disney animated film Home On The Range. Twenty years earlier, Haid voiced main character "Montgomery Moose" in the pilot episode of The Get Along Gang, produced by Nelvana. He was replaced by Sparky Marcus for the subsequent series.

Haid is a cousin of television talk show host Merv Griffin.

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Movies for Charles Haid...

Sensitivity Training
Title: Sensitivity Training
Character: Glenn
Released: June 5, 2016
Type: Movie
A grumpy microbiologist is forced into sensitivity training at work and forms an unlikely friendship with her overly vivacious coach.
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Title: Defying Gravity
Released: August 2, 2009
Type: TV
In the very near future, a team of eight astronauts embarking on a six-year journey to explore Venus and other planets in the solar system, find their lives and destinies intertwined and carefully directed, not only by Mission Control officials on Earth, but also by an unseen force which is much closer and far more powerful.
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Home on the Range
Title: Home on the Range
Character: Lucky Jack (voice)
Released: April 2, 2004
Type: Movie
When a greedy outlaw schemes to take possession of the "Patch Of Heaven" dairy farm, three determined cows, a karate-kicking stallion and a colorful corral of critters join forces to save their home. The stakes are sky-high as this unlikely animal alliance risk their hides and match wits with a mysterious band of bad guys.
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Title: Nip/Tuck
Released: July 22, 2003
Type: TV
Hotshot plastic surgeons Dr. Sean McNamara and Dr. Christian Troy experience full-blown midlife crises as they confront career, family and romance problems.
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Title: The Division
Released: January 7, 2001
Type: TV
The Division is an American crime drama television series created by Deborah Joy LeVine and starring Bonnie Bedelia. The series focused on a team of women police officers in the San Francisco Police Department. The series premiered on Lifetime on January 7, 2001 and ended on June 28, 2004 after 88 episodes.
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Title: Third Watch
Released: September 23, 1999
Type: TV
The exploits of a group of men and women who serve the City of New York as police officers, firemen, and paramedics, all working the same fictional 55th precinct during the 3pm to 11pm shift - the 'Third Watch'.
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The Third Miracle
Title: The Third Miracle
Character: Bishop Cahill
Released: September 13, 1999
Type: Movie
The Vatican sends a priest to verify some miracles, performed by a woman who has been nominated for sainthood...
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Broken Trust
Title: Broken Trust
Character: Judge Harold Ashley
Released: August 6, 1995
Type: Movie
A scrupulously honest judge finds he's a pawn in a federal sting to ferret out corrupt members of the bench, many of whom are his friends.
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Title: The Fire Next Time
Character: Buddy Eckhard
Released: April 18, 1993
Type: TV
In the near future, the unrelenting heat waves and coastal flooding brought on by the greenhouse effect are ravaging the Earth. While scientists and politicians argue and lay blame, ordinary citizens pay the price for a world sickened by pollution and economic disaster. The Fire Next Time is the story of an American family forced to confront this ruinous legacy. Emmy Award-winning actor Craig T. Nelson leads his embattled family through a Grapes of Wrath for the modern era. Through this harrowing odyssey, the Morgan family stands as a paradigm of courage, faith, and family unity in the face of adversity on a cataclysmic scale.
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For Their Own Good
Title: For Their Own Good
Character: Hank
Released: April 5, 1993
Type: Movie
A factory worker gets an ultimatum from her employer that she agree to be sterilized or be fired.
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Cooperstown
Title: Cooperstown
Character: Little Eddie Mcvee
Released: January 26, 1993
Type: Movie
A retired baseball player reflects on the mistakes and problems of the past 35 years when he is overlooked for induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
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Storyville
Title: Storyville
Character: Abe Choate
Released: August 26, 1992
Type: Movie
While investigating his own blackmailing, a young politician uncovers his family's deep secrets.
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Freeze Frame
Title: Freeze Frame
Character: Dr Michael Scott
Released: August 1, 1992
Type: Movie
The highly intelligent Lindsay wants to become a reporter; Already in highschool she works for their paper. During her inquiries she discovers a big scandal, which seems to involve even the governor candidate Reinardt. Soon she and her friends are chased by dangerous criminals, but no one believes their accusations
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The Dreamer of Oz
Title: The Dreamer of Oz
Character: Al Badham / Cowardly Lion
Released: December 10, 1990
Type: Movie
The film is the biography of Frank Baum, the children's book author and creator of the fantasy world Oz.
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In the Line of Duty: A Cop for the Killing
Title: In the Line of Duty: A Cop for the Killing
Character: Tommy Quinn
Released: November 25, 1990
Type: Movie
A look at the dangerous and bizarre life of an undercover cop who lives on the edge and the strife and heartbreak that comes with the job. There is also a tremendous amount of guilt and psychological pain when an undercover sting goes bad and they lose a comrade in the line of duty.
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Fire and Rain
Title: Fire and Rain
Character: Bob
Released: October 26, 1990
Type: Movie
This movie is based on the actual events on the tragic day of August 2nd, 1985. Delta Airlines flight 191 en route to Los Angeles Via Dallas Ft Worth took off from Ft Lauderdale, Fl. When the plane was landing in Ft Worth wind-shear from a strong thunderstorm caused the plane to crash.
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Nightbreed
Title: Nightbreed
Character: Captain Eigerman
Released: February 16, 1990
Type: Movie
Set up as the fall guy in a string of slasher murders, Boone decides he'll hide by crossing the threshold that separates "us" from "them" and sneak into the forbidden subterranean realm of Midian.
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A Deadly Silence
Title: A Deadly Silence
Character: Jim Pierson
Released: April 16, 1989
Type: Movie
The father of three children was killed when he left his house. This provokes a lot of sentimental emotions in the neighbourhood because the people know nothing about his dark past.
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The Revenge of Al Capone
Title: The Revenge of Al Capone
Character: Alex Conners
Released: February 26, 1989
Type: Movie
After Al Capone is imprisoned, he still continues to run his empire, and plots to assassinate the mayor of Chicago.
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Man Against the Mob: The Chinatown Murders
Title: Man Against the Mob: The Chinatown Murders
Character: Buddy Bunnucci
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
Honest cop in corrupt 1940s Los Angeles fights against gangsters who are kidnapping and selling women into prostitution.
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Title: The Great Escape II: The Untold Story
Character: MacKenzie
Released: November 6, 1988
Type: TV
A former POW leads a special task force to hunt down the culprits responsible for carrying out the orders to murder 50 of the 76 escapees from Stalag Luft III.
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The Great Escape II: The Untold Story
Title: The Great Escape II: The Untold Story
Character: Sgt. MacKenzie
Released: November 5, 1988
Type: Movie
Allied prisoners tunnel out of a stalag, then return to avenge fellow escapees executed by the Nazis.
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The Rescue
Title: The Rescue
Character: Cmdr. Howard
Released: August 5, 1988
Type: Movie
A team of Navy Seals are sent to destroy a disabled submarine so it will not fall into the "wrong" hands. They complete their mission, but are captured before they can return to their base. The U.S. Government will not mount a rescue mission to free the soldiers, so their teenage children take over. The kids find a way to venture into the foreign country and then must overcome many obstacles.
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Cop
Title: Cop
Character: Delbert W. 'Whitey' Haines
Released: February 5, 1988
Type: Movie
An obsessive, insubordinate homicide cop is convinced a serial killer is loose in the Hollywood area and disobeys orders in order to catch him.
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Weekend War
Title: Weekend War
Character: Sgt. Kupjack
Released: February 1, 1988
Type: Movie
A group of reservists ("weekend warriors") are sent to Honduras to build a runway. Shortly after arriving an engineering group is sent to a small village to repair a bridge as a favor for the US Ambassador; at this point Captain John Deason begins to question who he is really building the bridge for...
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Six Against the Rock
Title: Six Against the Rock
Character: Sam Shockley
Released: May 18, 1987
Type: Movie
In May of 1946, Alcatraz inmate Bernie Coy initiates a carefully thought out plan to escape the island prison. His plan, carried out with five accomplices, falls apart when they can't obtain a key to unlock a door leading to the yard.
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A Program for Vietnam Veterans...and Everyone Else Who Should Care
Title: A Program for Vietnam Veterans...and Everyone Else Who Should Care
Character: Self - Moderator
Released: May 28, 1986
Type: Movie
Thirteen veterans are given an opportunity to reveal their experiences in Vietnam and to talk about the frustrations they have encountered upon returning home.
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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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Code of Vengeance
Title: Code of Vengeance
Character: Jim Blanton
Released: June 30, 1985
Type: Movie
A Vietnam veteran who has become a drifter helps a young, single mother avenge her brother's murder and finds himself the target of a gang of dope smugglers on the Mexican border.
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Children in the Crossfire
Title: Children in the Crossfire
Character: Fred Chandler
Released: December 3, 1984
Type: Movie
For the children of Northern Ireland, violence and hatred are a way of life passed from one generation to the next. In "Children in the Crossfire" four children from both sides of the conflict come to America through a special project, and discover each other away from the ravages of their homeland.
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Title: Murder, She Wrote
Character: Joe Briscoe
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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The Adventures of the Get Along Gang
Title: The Adventures of the Get Along Gang
Character: Montgomery Moose (voice)
Released: May 6, 1984
Type: Movie
The Gang participates in the annual scavenger hunt to win their own ice cream flavor but the stakes are made even higher when Bingo makes a bet with Catchum that if he wins, he and Leland get the Gang's clubhouse.
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The House of God
Title: The House of God
Character: Fats
Released: January 1, 1984
Type: Movie
Comedy about a couple of interns in a hospital named 'The House of God'.
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Title: The Hitchhiker
Character: Coach
Released: November 1, 1983
Type: TV
A young hitchhiker introduces characters who are about to experience a frightening and sometimes supernatural incident of some kind in this moody anthology series.
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Barry Norman in Celebrity City
Title: Barry Norman in Celebrity City
Character: Self
Released: September 14, 1982
Type: Movie
Hollywood is still the home of the American Dream - the place where fame and fortune can be achieved overnight. Or so the story goes. For some it does come true. In this status conscious town Barry Norman looks at the attitudes towards success and failure among the famous and not quite so famous.
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Working
Title: Working
Character: Gas Man
Released: April 13, 1982
Type: Movie
This musical adaptation of the Studs Terkel book examines the average worker's viewpoint--showing that he or she is anything but average. Based on a series of interviews with real working people--construction workers, waitresses, firemen, secretaries, and cleaning women, Working is both an exploration of the individuals' occupations and a lament for lost hopes and dreams.
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Divorce Wars: A Love Story
Title: Divorce Wars: A Love Story
Character: Fred Bemous
Released: March 1, 1982
Type: Movie
Successful divorce lawyer Jack Sturgess discovers that his own marriage is falling apart and must juggle his domestic conflicts with his clients' problems.
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Twirl
Title: Twirl
Character: Matt Jordan
Released: October 25, 1981
Type: Movie
Best friends compete for the title of "Miss Twirl" (similar to a Miss America contest with the primary category of competition being (what else?) twirling!). The real test, however, is whether their friendship will survive through the contest with the pressure and interference from their parents to win.
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Title: Hill Street Blues
Character: Andy Renko
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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Altered States
Title: Altered States
Character: Mason Parrish
Released: December 25, 1980
Type: Movie
A research scientist explores the boundaries and frontiers of consciousness. Using sensory deprivation and hallucinogenic mixtures from native American shamans, he explores these altered states of consciousness and finds that memory, time, and perhaps reality itself are states of mind.
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Pray TV
Title: Pray TV
Character: Buck Sunday
Released: May 23, 1980
Type: Movie
A failing television station is bought out by a slick TV evangelist and starts making mountains of money in the guise of religious programming, which is actually just an excuse to sell merchandise.
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Title: B. J. and the Bear
Released: February 10, 1979
Type: TV
B.J. and the Bear is an American comedy series which aired on NBC from 1979 to 1981. Created by Christopher Crowe and Glen A. Larson, the series stars Greg Evigan and Claude Akins.
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Title: Sweepstakes
Released: January 26, 1979
Type: TV
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Oliver's Story
Title: Oliver's Story
Character: Stephen Simpson
Released: December 15, 1978
Type: Movie
Oliver Barrett IV is emotionally devastated by the death of his wife Jenny, and, while he tries to lose himself in his work as a lawyer, the long hours don't ease his pain, especially when he finds that his leftist views conflict with those of the senior partners at the firm. Eventually, Oliver's inconsolable grief begins to alienate those around him, until he finds new love with Marcie Bonwit, the wealthy and beautiful heiress to the Bonwit Teller fortune. Despite his affection for her, Oliver finds it difficult to leave the memory of Jenny behind, which causes major problems in their relationship.
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Title: Grandpa Goes to Washington
Released: September 7, 1978
Type: TV
A grouchy, retired political-science professor gets elected to the U.S. Senate, where his no-nonsense style clashes with the establishment.
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Who'll Stop the Rain
Title: Who'll Stop the Rain
Character: Eddie Peace
Released: August 2, 1978
Type: Movie
John, a disillusioned Vietnam War journalist, turns to heroin smuggling. He cons Ray, an equally burnt out veteran into delivering the drugs stateside to his wife. Everything soon falls apart and Ray ends up on the run with John's wife trying to evade crooked narcotics agents.
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Deathmoon
Title: Deathmoon
Character: Earl Wheelie
Released: May 31, 1978
Type: Movie
An overworked executive vacationing in Hawaii finds that his romance with an attractive businesswoman he meets there is threatened by the supernatural powers of a strange native curse on his bloodline.
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The Bastard
Title: The Bastard
Character: George Lumden
Released: May 22, 1978
Type: Movie
Phillipe Charboneau is the illegitimate son of an English duke. When he travels from France to England to claim his inheritance, he incurs the wrath of his father's family and is forced to flee to America, where he becomes involved in the events leading to the American Revolution. (Episodes 1 and 2 of the Kent Chronicles miniseries.)
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Title: The Amazing Spider-Man
Released: April 5, 1978
Type: TV
The first live-action TV series based on the popular comic book.
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A Death in Canaan
Title: A Death in Canaan
Character: Sgt. Case
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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The Choirboys
Title: The Choirboys
Character: Nick Yanov
Released: December 23, 1977
Type: Movie
A group of Los Angeles cops decide to take off some of the pressures of their jobs by engaging in various forms of after-hours debauchery.
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Title: Battle of the Network Stars
Released: November 13, 1976
Type: TV
Battle of the Network Stars was a series of competitions where television stars from ABC, CBS, and NBC would compete in various sporting events. A total of nineteen of these competitions were held, all of which were aired by ABC. In 2013, the show appeared in TV Guide's list of the 60 greatest game shows ever.
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Alex & the Gypsy
Title: Alex & the Gypsy
Character: Second Goon
Released: October 3, 1976
Type: Movie
A bail bondsman falls in love with one of his "customers" — a gypsy girl, who's been accused of attempted murder.
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Title: Delvecchio
Character: Sgt. Paul Shonski
Released: September 9, 1976
Type: TV
Delvecchio is an American television series that aired on CBS during the 1976-77 season. It starred Judd Hirsch as the title character, Dominick Delvecchio, an Italian-American detective who worked for the LAPD and also studied to become a lawyer. A writer of eight episodes of the series, Stephen Bochco, would later import cast members Charles Haid and Michael Conrad, along with guest-stars James B. Sikking and George Wyner, to his masterpiece Hill Street Blues. One episode of the Delvecchio series was made available on the 2006 DVD release, "Brilliant But Cancelled TV Dramas," along with an episode each of Gideon Oliver, Johnny Staccato, and Touching Evil.
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Foster & Laurie
Title: Foster & Laurie
Character: Sgt. Bray
Released: November 13, 1975
Type: Movie
The story of two New York City police officers, one white and one black, their ambush and murder by black revolutionaries and the efforts to hunt down and capture their killers.
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Title: Wonder Woman
Character: Bob Baker
Released: November 7, 1975
Type: TV
With the strength of Hercules, the wisdom of Athena, the speed of Mercury and the beauty of Aphrodite, she’s Wonder Woman. Beautiful Amazon princess Wonder Woman travels to 1940s America disguised as Diana Prince, assistant to handsome but trouble-prone Major Steve Trevor. Using her golden belt, which imbues her with astonishing strength, her bullet-deflecting bracelets, a golden lasso that dispels dishonesty and an invisible supersonic plane, Wonder Woman combats evil.
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Title: Kate McShane
Character: Ed McShane
Released: September 10, 1975
Type: TV
Kate McShane is an American legal drama television series that aired from September 10 until November 12, 1975. Kate McShane was the first series to feaure a female lawyer in the lead role.
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Title: Switch
Character: Pepper
Released: September 9, 1975
Type: TV
Switch is an American action-adventure, tongue-in-cheek detective series starring Eddie Albert and Robert Wagner, who work as private eyes, for a deceptive sting operation. It was broadcast on the CBS network for three seasons between September 9, 1975 and August 20, 1978, bumping the Hawaii Five-O detective series to Friday nights.
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Kate McShane [Pilot]
Title: Kate McShane [Pilot]
Character: Ed McShane
Released: April 11, 1975
Type: Movie
A flamboyant Denver lady lawyer, with the help of her father, a retired cop who does the legwork for her investigations, and her brother, a Jesuit priest and university law professor, unravels a murder case of a society woman who allegedly stabbed her husband. This was the pilot for Anne Meara's short-lived series.
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Things in Their Season
Title: Things in Their Season
Character: Willie McCreevy
Released: November 27, 1974
Type: Movie
The son in a close-knit family of Wisconsin dairy farmers decides to get married and move out of the house, just as his mother discovers she has incurable leukemia and only a short time to live.
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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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Title: Harry O
Released: September 12, 1974
Type: TV
After being shot in the line of duty, Harry Orwell was forced to retire from the San Diego Police Department. To supplement his police pension, Harry runs a private detective agency out of his beach house... The series starred David Janssen and was executive produced by Jerry Thorpe.
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Remember When
Title: Remember When
Character: Jimmy
Released: March 23, 1974
Type: Movie
An uncle's (Jack Warden) memories give strength to a New England family with four sons fighting in World War II.
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The Execution of Private Slovik
Title: The Execution of Private Slovik
Character: Brockmeyer
Released: March 13, 1974
Type: Movie
The story of Eddie Slovik, who was executed by the Army in 1945, the only American soldier to be executed for desertion since the Civil War.
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Title: Kung Fu
Released: October 14, 1972
Type: TV
The adventures of a Shaolin Monk as he wanders the American West armed only with his skill in Kung Fu.
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Title: The Waltons
Released: September 14, 1972
Type: TV
The Waltons live their life in a rural Virginia community during the Great Depression and World War II.
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Title: Cannon
Released: September 14, 1971
Type: TV
Cannon is a CBS detective television series produced by Quinn Martin which aired from March 26, 1971 to March 3, 1976. The primary protagonist is the title character, private detective Frank Cannon, played by William Conrad. He also appeared on two episodes of Barnaby Jones. Cannon is the first Quinn Martin-produced series to be aired on a network other than ABC. A "revival" television film, The Return of Frank Cannon, was aired on November 1, 1980. In total, there were 124 episodes.
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Title: Gunsmoke
Character: Lem Hargis
Released: September 10, 1955
Type: TV
Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West. The central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon, played by William Conrad on radio and James Arness on television.