Rod Taylor

Rod Taylor

Born: January 11, 1930
Died: January 7, 2015
in Sydney - New South Wales - Australia
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Rodney Sturt "Rod" Taylor (born 11 January 1930  – 7 January 2015) was an Australian-born American actor of film and television. He appeared in over 50 films, including leading roles in The Time Machine, Seven Seas to Calais, The Birds, Sunday in New York, Young Cassidy, Dark of the Sun, The Liquidator, and The Train Robbers.

Movies for Rod Taylor...

Rod Taylor: Pulling No Punches
Title: Rod Taylor: Pulling No Punches
Character: Himself
Released: April 17, 2017
Type: Movie
Documentary about the life and career of Australian actor Rod Taylor.
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Inglourious Basterds
Title: Inglourious Basterds
Character: Winston Churchill
Released: August 2, 2009
Type: Movie
In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds, lead by Lt. Aldo Raine soon cross paths with a French-Jewish teenage girl who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers.
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Not Quite Hollywood
Title: Not Quite Hollywood
Character: Self
Released: August 28, 2008
Type: Movie
As Australian cinema broke through to international audiences in the 1970s through respected art house films like Peter Weir's "Picnic At Hanging Rock," a new underground of low-budget exploitation filmmakers were turning out considerably less highbrow fare. Documentary filmmaker Mark Hartley explores this unbridled era of sex and violence, complete with clips from some of the scene's most outrageous flicks and interviews with the renegade filmmakers themselves.
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Kaw
Title: Kaw
Character: Doc
Released: April 7, 2007
Type: Movie
On the last working day of Sheriff Wayne, his small town is attacked by blood thirsty ravens that eat human flesh. Meanwhile his wife Cynthia visits a farm where a Mennonite family lives to say farewell to her friend Gretchen and discloses a dark secret about the origin of the fierce ravens.
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Title: Legends
Character: Mike Harper (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: November 17, 2006
Type: TV
The story of the big names that have shaped the musical genres, plus an occasional stopgap for the new rock 'n' roll - comedy.
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All About 'The Birds'
Title: All About 'The Birds'
Character: Self
Released: May 28, 2000
Type: Movie
A wonderfully informative 80-minute documentary combining current interviews with archival materials and scenes from the film. Hitchcock's daughter Pat, production designer Robert Boyle, screenwriter Evan Hunter, matte artist Albert Whitlock's colleagues Syd Dutton and Bill Taylor, storyboard artist Harold Michelson, Hitchcock collaborator Hilton Green, actors Tippi Hedren, Veronica Cartwright and Rod Taylor, filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich, author Robin Wood, makeup artist Howard Smit, and composer Bernard Herrmann biographer Steven Smith all contribute valuable input to Hitchcock's memorable classic.
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Welcome to Woop Woop
Title: Welcome to Woop Woop
Character: Daddy-O
Released: August 13, 1998
Type: Movie
A con artist escapes a deal gone wrong in New York and winds up in the Aussie outback in a strange town whose inhabitants are an oddball collection of misfits.
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The Warlord: Battle for the Galaxy
Title: The Warlord: Battle for the Galaxy
Character: General Sorenson
Released: September 20, 1996
Type: Movie
The time is the 21st century, after the fall of the Galactic Republic. Technology is at a standstill, families have been dismantled, and those who have survived the destruction now live in a savage age ruled by evil warlords. When a young sister of an outlaw is kidnapped and held captive in another galaxy, an interplanetary scheme is hatched - one that threatens the future.
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Title: Water Rats
Character: Coach
Released: February 12, 1996
Type: TV
Water Rats is an Australian TV police procedural broadcast on the Nine Network from 1996 to 2001.
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Open Season
Title: Open Season
Character: Billy Patrick
Released: January 14, 1995
Type: Movie
When the television ratings machines suddenly malfunction, public television suddenly, but mistakenly, soars to #1 in this humorous satire.
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The Point of Betrayal
Title: The Point of Betrayal
Character: Ted Kitteridge
Released: January 1, 1995
Type: Movie
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Time Machine: The Journey Back
Title: Time Machine: The Journey Back
Character: Himself / Narrator / H.G. Welles
Released: August 25, 1993
Type: Movie
Documentary/Sequel to 1960 adaptation of "The Time Machine"
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Title: Walker, Texas Ranger
Character: Gordon Cahill
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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Grass Roots
Title: Grass Roots
Character: Gen. Willoughby
Released: February 24, 1992
Type: Movie
This sequel to the 1983 miniseries, "Chiefs," continues the saga of the Lee family with Will Lee, an ambitious Georgia lawyer running for the U.S. Senate at the same time he is forced by a local judge to defend a young man in a murder trial. On top of this, he becomes the target of an assassin hired by a white-supremacist organization.
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Palomino
Title: Palomino
Character: Bill King
Released: October 21, 1991
Type: Movie
After the break up of her marriage, photographer Samantha Taylor retreats to the sanctuary of friend Caroline Lord's California ranch. Samantha falls in love with ranch hand Tate Jordan, and they share a deep and passionate love until Tate finds out that Samantha's ex-husband is popular and wealthy news anchor Warren Taylor. Ashamed he leaves the ranch, Samantha is heartbroken. Samantha breaks her back in an accident and is paralysed, and must learn how to walk - and ride - again. Caroline Lord tragically dies but leaves her ranch to Samantha, who turns it into a riding school for paralysed children. Through this enterprise, she begins to heal from the pain of Tate's desertion, the loss of her friend and her own paralysis. Tate returns to the ranch after hearing of Caroline's death and finds Samantha there. Can they both overcome their own demons and learn to love each other again??
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Title: Outlaws
Released: December 28, 1986
Type: TV
Outlaws is a short-lived action-adventure American television series which aired Saturday nights on CBS. Five cowboys are sent forward through time from 1886 to 1986, and fight crime. The original series began as a 2-hour pilot movie, and was followed by eleven one-hour episodes.
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Mask of Murder
Title: Mask of Murder
Character: Supt. Bob McLaine
Released: October 15, 1985
Type: Movie
In a Canadian village are women being killed by a psychopath. Chief Rich and Inspector McLane have no clue until McLane shoots a suspicious man. Now the killing seems to have ended, but the killer picks yet another victim...
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Marbella
Title: Marbella
Character: Commander W.P. Anderson
Released: October 13, 1985
Type: Movie
Comedy thriller directed by Miguel Hermoso.
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Half Nelson
Title: Half Nelson
Released: March 24, 1985
Type: Movie
Rocky Nelson is a New York cop, who after making a major bust and selling the rights of his story to Hollywood decides to try his luck out as an actor. However, when he gets there, the directors think that he is too short to be an actor. He is then approach by someone who offers him a job at a Hollywood security agency, cause he would fit in there being an ex-cop and while working there he could come in contact with some Hollywood heavy-weights who could give him the break he needs. And at the same he gets to live in Dean Martin's guest-house.
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The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal
Title: The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1985
Type: Movie
Among the legends of Hollywood, George Pal takes his place as a true visionary, an innovator and a showman who profoundly shaped the art of motion pictures. A peer of Walt Disney, Pal pioneered stop motion animation and went on to virtually invent the modern science fiction and fantasy film genres. Pal's extraordinary genius molded a dazzling array of films, which earned an incredible total of eight Academy Awards and left a cinematic legacy that served as formative inspiration for the movies of George Lucas, Steven Spielberg and Gene Roddenberry.
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Terror in the Aisles
Title: Terror in the Aisles
Character: Mitch Brenner (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: October 26, 1984
Type: Movie
A non-stop roller coaster ride through the scariest moments of the greatest terror films of all time.
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Title: Murder, She Wrote
Character: Inspector Rory Lanahan
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: Tom Dempsey
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: Masquerade
Character: Lavender
Released: December 15, 1983
Type: TV
Masquerade is an American espionage television series that aired for a few months on ABC in the spring of 1983.
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On the Run
Title: On the Run
Character: Mr. Payatta
Released: September 2, 1983
Type: Movie
1) A man becomes a target after witnessing an assassination. 2) Mr. Payatta is a coldhearted professional hitman who travels the world to take out notorious bad guys. When he's forced to take in his orphaned French nephew, he leaves the boy to his estate caretaker Harry who must protect him from harm.
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Disney's Halloween Treat
Title: Disney's Halloween Treat
Character: Pongo (voice) (archive footage)
Released: October 30, 1982
Type: Movie
Contains memorable scenes from "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," "Fantasia," "Lady and the Tramp," "Peter Pan," "One Hundred and One Dalmatians," and "The Sword in the Stone."
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Charles & Diana: A Royal Love Story
Title: Charles & Diana: A Royal Love Story
Character: Edward Adeane
Released: September 17, 1982
Type: Movie
Dramatization of the romance and July 1981 wedding of Great Britain's Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer.
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A Time To Die
Title: A Time To Die
Character: Jack Bailey
Released: March 26, 1982
Type: Movie
A World War II vet sets out in 1948 to avenge the death of his wife at the hands of Nazis. His targets are four Germans, a Sicilian, and a Hungarian who committed the atrocities. He is aided by a CIA operative, who has another agenda. One of the targeted men is being groomed by the US to become the West German chancellor and is to be protected. Along the way, a third person joins the team.
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Title: Falcon Crest
Released: December 4, 1981
Type: TV
Falcon Crest is an American primetime television soap opera which aired on the CBS network for nine seasons, from December 4, 1981 to May 17, 1990. A total of 227 episodes were produced. The series revolves around the feuding factions of the wealthy Gioberti/Channing family in the Californian wine industry. Jane Wyman starred as Angela Channing, the tyrannical matriarch of the Falcon Crest Winery, alongside Robert Foxworth as Chase Gioberti, Angela's nephew who returns to Falcon Crest following the death of his father. The series was set in the fictitious Tuscany Valley northeast of San Francisco.
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Title: Falcon Crest
Character: Frank Agretti
Released: December 4, 1981
Type: TV
Falcon Crest is an American primetime television soap opera which aired on the CBS network for nine seasons, from December 4, 1981 to May 17, 1990. A total of 227 episodes were produced. The series revolves around the feuding factions of the wealthy Gioberti/Channing family in the Californian wine industry. Jane Wyman starred as Angela Channing, the tyrannical matriarch of the Falcon Crest Winery, alongside Robert Foxworth as Chase Gioberti, Angela's nephew who returns to Falcon Crest following the death of his father. The series was set in the fictitious Tuscany Valley northeast of San Francisco.
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Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy
Title: Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy
Character: 'Black Jack' Bouvier
Released: October 14, 1981
Type: Movie
Biography of the former first lady, focusing on her years as a photojournalist and leading up to her marriage to John F. Kennedy and their moving into the White House.
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Hellinger's Law
Title: Hellinger's Law
Character: Clint Tolliver
Released: March 10, 1981
Type: Movie
A flamboyant criminal lawyer named Nick Hellinger takes on the case of a syndicate's accountant (actually a Justice Department agent who has infiltrated the mob) accused of murdering a local TV newscaster.
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Cry of the Innocent
Title: Cry of the Innocent
Character: Steve Donegin
Released: June 15, 1980
Type: Movie
An American insurance executive, who sees his wife and children die when a plane crashes into their vacation cottage on the Irish coast, uncovers a series of suspicious clues indicating that it was no accident after a pretty financial reporter who resembles his dead wife turns up.
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Jamaican Gold
Title: Jamaican Gold
Character: Marian Casey
Released: December 31, 1979
Type: Movie
A chance meeting leads two former college friends into a search for sunken treasure, a search which involves them with the double dealing Landers, supporter of their expedition treasures is discovered, but Landers traps them in an underwater cave.
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Title: Tales of the Unexpected
Character: Paul Duveen
Released: March 24, 1979
Type: TV
A British television anthology of stories, often with sinister and wryly comedic undertones, and a twist at the end. With early episodes written and presented by Roald Dahl, the series featured a plethora of big name guest stars.
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Title: The Oregon Trail
Character: Evan Thorpe
Released: September 21, 1977
Type: TV
The Oregon Trail is a 14-episode NBC western television series starring Rod Taylor as the widower Evan Thorpe, who leaves his Illinois farm in 1842 to take the Oregon Trail to the Pacific Northwest. The show also starred Andrew Stevens, Tony Becker, and Gina Marie Smika as Thorpe's children. Darleen Carr starred as Margaret Devlin, one of the passengers on the wagon train, and Charles Napier portrayed Luther Sprague, a frontier scout recruited by Thorpe. The series was filmed in the Flagstaff, Arizona area.
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US Against the World
Title: US Against the World
Character: Self
Released: September 7, 1977
Type: Movie
This NBC Special from 1977 pitted celebrities from the worlds of film and TV in the United States against stars from the U.K. and the rest of the World. Three teams of five men and three women representing their native land, competed in a series of nine events during this fast paced and exciting 2 hour TV Special. Sporting events included bowling, darts, rowing, swimming and running relays and soccer goal kicking.
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The Picture Show Man
Title: The Picture Show Man
Character: Palmer
Released: May 5, 1977
Type: Movie
A man, his son and a piano player travel around Australia showing the first silent movies
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Vortex
Title: Vortex
Character: Christopher Tauling
Released: January 14, 1976
Type: Movie
Rod Taylor plays a United Nations bio-warfare disarmament expert whose lonely wife (Catherine Jourdan) has a steamy affair while she's away in France. But soon she finds out the hard way that her lover is not quite the charming and stable guy she thought he was, and starts to fear him and wonder about his true motives.
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A Matter of Wife... and Death
Title: A Matter of Wife... and Death
Character: Shamus McCoy
Released: May 3, 1975
Type: Movie
A private investigator is confronted by the police AND the mob about the killing of a former private-eye associate.
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Hell River
Title: Hell River
Character: Marko
Released: July 17, 1974
Type: Movie
Yugoslav partisans battle Nazi invaders in a series of bloody confrontations which eventually culminate in the Battle at Hell River.
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The Deadly Trackers
Title: The Deadly Trackers
Character: Frank Brand
Released: December 21, 1973
Type: Movie
Sheriff Sean Kilpatrick is a pacifist. Frank Brand is the leader of a band of killers. When their paths cross Kilpatrick is compelled to go against everything he has stood for to bring death to Brand and his gang. Through his hunt into Mexico he is challenged by a noble Mexican Sheriff interested only in carrying out the law - not vengeance.
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Trader Horn
Title: Trader Horn
Character: Trader Horn
Released: June 1, 1973
Type: Movie
During the First World War a Hunter and trader in Africa joins forces with a couple looking for a source of platinum try to survive while fleeing British soldiers, dealing with German slavers and troops, natives and cannibals.
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The Heroes
Title: The Heroes
Character: Lieutenant Bob Robson
Released: February 23, 1973
Type: Movie
Four soldiers and a beautiful Greek nurse, thrown together in North Africa during World War II, team up to pull off a heist of two-million pounds in boxes marked "plasma."
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Wayne Train
Title: Wayne Train
Character: Self
Released: February 7, 1973
Type: Movie
A short documentary on the making of THE TRAIN ROBBERS
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The Train Robbers
Title: The Train Robbers
Character: Grady
Released: February 7, 1973
Type: Movie
A gunhand named Lane is hired by a widow, Mrs. Lowe, to find gold stolen by her husband so that she may return it and start fresh.
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Family Flight
Title: Family Flight
Character: Jason Carlyle
Released: October 25, 1972
Type: Movie
A bitterly divided family is forced to cooperate when their holiday plane crash-lands in the California wilderness. Overcoming their differences, they concentrate on repairing the plane and attempt to build a makeshift runway which will help them escape the unforgiving terrain.
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Title: Bearcats!
Character: Hank Brackett
Released: September 16, 1971
Type: TV
Bearcats! is an American television series broadcast on the CBS television network during the Fall 1971 television season. It starred Rod Taylor and Dennis Cole as troubleshooters in the period before America entered World War I. Bearcats! was produced by Filmways Inc.. It was co-produced by Rodlor, Rod Taylor's production firm.
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Powderkeg
Title: Powderkeg
Character: Hank Brackett
Released: April 16, 1971
Type: Movie
A Mexican bandit is about to be executed in the United States, so his brother takes over a train and holds the passengers as hostages unless his brother is released. Now both the Americans and Mexicans are baffled as to what to do. One of the passengers — who wrote the letter for their captor — has a suggestion: call mercenaries Hank Brackett and Johnny Reech. They do, and as expected they do come up with a plan, but the president of the railroad is not sure if it will work.
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Darker Than Amber
Title: Darker Than Amber
Character: Travis McGee
Released: August 14, 1970
Type: Movie
Professional beach bum and 'knight errant' Travis McGee goes up against psychotic body-builder Terry Bartell. McGee pulls out all the stops when he joins a Caribbean cruise to bring the killer to justice.
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The Man Who Had Power Over Women
Title: The Man Who Had Power Over Women
Character: Peter Reaney
Released: August 12, 1970
Type: Movie
A successful talent agent enjoys the good life until his wife leaves him. Moving in with his friend and igniting an affair with the man's wife, he also acquires a difficult new client whose public image must be preserved at any cost.
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Zabriskie Point
Title: Zabriskie Point
Character: Lee Allen
Released: March 26, 1970
Type: Movie
Anthropology student Daria, who's helping a property developer build a village in the Los Angeles desert, and dropout Mark, who's wanted by the authorities for allegedly killing a policeman during a student riot, accidentally encounter each other in Death Valley and soon begin an unrestrained romance.
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The Hell with Heroes
Title: The Hell with Heroes
Character: Brynie MacKay
Released: August 28, 1968
Type: Movie
In 1946 North Africa, two former US Air Force pilots are forced to work for an international smuggler to get money needed for their return to civilian life after fighting in World War II.
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Nobody Runs Forever
Title: Nobody Runs Forever
Character: Scobie Malone
Released: August 22, 1968
Type: Movie
Detective Scobie Malone accepts a mission to fly to London to arrest Sir James Quentin, a high-level commissioner wanted down under for murder. But when Malone arrives, he finds that the amiable Quentin is not only the key in groundbreaking peace negotiations, but also the target of an assassin himself.
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Dark of the Sun
Title: Dark of the Sun
Character: Curry
Released: February 8, 1968
Type: Movie
A band of mercenaries led by Captain Curry travel through war-torn Congo across deadly terrain, battling rival armies, to steal $50 million in uncut diamonds. But infighting, sadistic rebels and a time lock jeopardize everything.
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Chuka
Title: Chuka
Character: Chuka
Released: July 23, 1967
Type: Movie
A group under siege at an Army fort grapple with painful memories.
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Hotel
Title: Hotel
Character: Peter McDermott
Released: January 19, 1967
Type: Movie
This is the story of the clocklike movements of a giant, big city New Orleans hotel. The ambitious yet loyal manager wrestles with the round-the-clock drama of its guests. A brazen sneak thief, who nightly relieves the guests of their property, is chased through the underground passages of the hotel. The big business power play for control of the hotel and the VIP diplomat guest with a secret add to the excitement.
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The Glass Bottom Boat
Title: The Glass Bottom Boat
Character: Bruce Templeton
Released: June 9, 1966
Type: Movie
Bruce, the owner of a aerospace company, is infatuated with Jennifer and hires her to be his biographer so that he can be near her and win her affections. Is she actually a Russian spy trying to obtain aerospace secrets?
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Every Girl's Dream
Title: Every Girl's Dream
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1966
Type: Movie
Nancy Bernard, the 1966 Maid of Cotton, is shown walking through various sets and sound stages at the MGM Studios. Her various cotton outfits are described by the narrator. She also attends the "screen test" of the costumes designed by Ray Aghayan for The Glass Bottom Boat (1966). The clothing is modeled by the film's stars, Doris Day and Rod Taylor.
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Do Not Disturb
Title: Do Not Disturb
Character: Mike Harper
Released: December 22, 1965
Type: Movie
American Mike Harper, sent to do business in England, moves there with his wife, Janet. But she soon becomes convinced that Mike is carrying on with his attractive new assistant, Claire. Mike also has been spending a considerable amount of time with his British bachelor buddies. Vexed and lonely, Claire hires charming antiques expert Paul to decorate the Harper home and maybe make Mike jealous in the process.
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The Liquidator
Title: The Liquidator
Character: Brian Ian "Boysie" Oakes
Released: November 1, 1965
Type: Movie
Spy spoof about Boysie Oakes, a British secret agent who specialises in Liquidating. In actual fact he contracts out the work and pretends it is was himself. This leads to complications.
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Young Cassidy
Title: Young Cassidy
Character: John Cassidy
Released: February 25, 1965
Type: Movie
In Dublin circa 1911, John Cassidy (Rod Taylor), an impoverished idealist, whose ambitions are restricted by the demands of looking after his family, journeys through the social injustices of Dublin life, involving himself with the rowdy tramway-men strike, dawdling with prostitute Daisy Battles (Julie Christie), and seeking a better life. He falls in love with bookshop assistant Nora (Dame Maggie Smith) who encourages him toward a life of writing. Finding success at the Abbey Theatre, his unorthodox views estrange him from family, friends, and his own past.
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36 Hours
Title: 36 Hours
Character: Major Walter Gerber
Released: November 26, 1964
Type: Movie
Germans kidnap an American major and try to convince him that World War II is over, so that they can get details about the Allied invasion of Europe out of him.
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Fate Is the Hunter
Title: Fate Is the Hunter
Character: Captain Jack Savage
Released: November 8, 1964
Type: Movie
A man refuses to believe that pilot error caused a fatal crash, and persists in looking for another reason. Airliner crashes near Los Angeles due to unusual string of coincidences. Stewardess, who is sole survivor, joins airline executives in discovering the causes of the crash.
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Sunday in New York
Title: Sunday in New York
Character: Mike Mitchell
Released: November 13, 1963
Type: Movie
An innocent upstarter visits her airline pilot brother and meets a stranger she tries to seduce.
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The V.I.P.s
Title: The V.I.P.s
Character: Les Mangrum
Released: September 1, 1963
Type: Movie
Wealthy passengers fogged in at London's Heathrow Airport fight to survive a variety of personal trials.
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A Gathering of Eagles
Title: A Gathering of Eagles
Character: Col. Hollis Farr
Released: June 21, 1963
Type: Movie
Rock Hudson plays an Air Force Colonel who has just been re-assigned as a cold war B-52 commander who must shape up his men to pass a grueling inspection that the previous commander had failed, and had been fired for. He is also recently married, and as a tough commanding officer doing whatever he has to do to shape his men up, his wife sees a side to him that she hadn't seen before.
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The Birds
Title: The Birds
Character: Mitch Brenner
Released: March 28, 1963
Type: Movie
Thousands of birds flock into a seaside town and terrorize the residents in a series of deadly attacks.
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Seven Seas to Calais
Title: Seven Seas to Calais
Character: Sir Francis Drake
Released: December 22, 1962
Type: Movie
Sir Francis Drake fights to take over Spain's treasure routes for Queen Elizabeth I.
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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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One Hundred and One Dalmatians
Title: One Hundred and One Dalmatians
Character: Pongo (voice)
Released: January 25, 1961
Type: Movie
When a litter of dalmatian puppies are abducted by the minions of Cruella De Vil, the parents must find them before she uses them for a diabolical fashion statement. In a Disney animation classic, Dalmatian Pongo is tired of his bachelor-dog life. He spies lovely Perdita and maneuvers his master, Roger, into meeting Perdita's owner, Anita. The owners fall in love and marry, keeping Pongo and Perdita together too. After Perdita gives birth to a litter of 15 puppies, Anita's old school friend Cruella De Vil wants to buy them all. Roger declines her offer, so Cruella hires the criminal Badun brothers to steal them -- so she can have a fur coat.
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Colossus and the Amazon Queen
Title: Colossus and the Amazon Queen
Character: Pirro
Released: September 8, 1960
Type: Movie
Two muscle-men come up against a tribe of Amazon women.
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The Time Machine
Title: The Time Machine
Character: H. George Wells
Released: May 25, 1960
Type: Movie
A Victorian Englishman travels to the far future and finds that humanity has divided into two hostile species.
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Title: Hong Kong
Released: March 1, 1960
Type: TV
Hong Kong is a 26-episode adventure/drama series which aired on ABC television during the 1960–1961 season and helped to catapult Australian actor Rod Taylor into a major film star, primarily in the 1960s, beginning with his role in Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds. The series was a production of 20th Century Fox Television, and the final credit of each episode stated: "Filmed by Twentieth Century Fox Television Inc. at its Hollywood studios and in the Crown Colony of Hong Kong".
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Title: The Twilight Zone
Character: Clegg Forbes
Released: October 2, 1959
Type: TV
A series of unrelated stories containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist.
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Ask Any Girl
Title: Ask Any Girl
Character: Ross Taford
Released: August 21, 1959
Type: Movie
Meg is a young wide-eyed girl who is endures many calamities in her search for a husband in modern-day New York. After losing her suitcase at Penn Station, being kicked out by her roommate, and changing bosses because her boss made a pass at her, she finds herself looking for work at a Manhattan motivational research agency run by punctilious Miles Doughton and his playboy brother, Evan.
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Separate Tables
Title: Separate Tables
Character: Charles
Released: December 18, 1958
Type: Movie
Boarders at an English resort struggle with emotional problems.
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Title: Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
Released: October 6, 1958
Type: TV
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse is an American television anthology series produced by Desilu Productions. The show ran on CBS television between 1958 and 1960. Two of its 48 episodes served as pilots for the 1950s television series The Twilight Zone and The Untouchables.
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Step Down to Terror
Title: Step Down to Terror
Character: Mike Randall
Released: September 1, 1958
Type: Movie
Pursued by detectives, Johnny Walters leaves the city to visit his family in a small California town. Among the household: his dead brother's luscious widow Helen, who soon is attracted to him. Ominous events and conflicting evidence leave Helen suspicious, but uncertain about her brother-in-law as tension builds...
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The Great Gatsby
Title: The Great Gatsby
Character: Nick Carraway
Released: June 26, 1958
Type: Movie
Adaptation of the 1925 novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald for "Playhouse 90." A Midwesterner becomes fascinated with his wealthy neighbor, who obsesses over his lost love.
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Raintree County
Title: Raintree County
Character: Garwood B. Jones
Released: December 20, 1957
Type: Movie
In 1859, idealist John Wickliff Shawnessey, a resident of Raintree County, Indiana, is distracted from his high school sweetheart Nell Gaither by Susanna Drake, a rich New Orleans girl. This love triangle is further complicated by the American Civil War, and dark family history.
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Title: Suspicion
Character: Jim
Released: September 30, 1957
Type: TV
Suspicion is the title of an American television mystery drama series which aired on the NBC from 1957 through 1959. The executive producer of Suspicion was film director Alfred Hitchcock.
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Giant
Title: Giant
Character: Sir David Karfrey
Released: November 8, 1956
Type: Movie
Wealthy rancher Bick Benedict and dirt-poor cowboy Jett Rink both woo Leslie Lynnton, a beautiful young woman from Maryland who is new to Texas. She marries Benedict, but she is shocked by the racial bigotry of the White Texans against the local people of Mexican descent. Rink discovers oil on a small plot of land, and while he uses his vast, new wealth to buy all the land surrounding the Benedict ranch, the Benedict's disagreement over prejudice fuels conflict that runs across generations.
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Title: Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Character: Jed Harper
Released: October 5, 1956
Type: TV
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre, sometimes simply called Zane Grey Theatre, is an American Western anthology series which ran on CBS from 1956 to 1961.
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The Catered Affair
Title: The Catered Affair
Character: Ralph Halloran
Released: June 14, 1956
Type: Movie
An Irish cabby in the Bronx watches his wife go overboard planning their daughter's wedding.
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World Without End
Title: World Without End
Character: Herbert Ellis
Released: March 25, 1956
Type: Movie
Four astronauts returning from man's first mission to Mars enter a time warp and crash on a 26th Century Earth devastated by atomic war. At first unaware where they are, but finding the atmosphere safe to breathe, they start exploring and find themselves in a divided future where disfigured mutants living like cavemen inhabit the surface, while the normals live comfortably below the surface but are dying as a race from lack of natural water, air and sunlight.
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Hell on Frisco Bay
Title: Hell on Frisco Bay
Character: John Brodie Evans (as Rodney Taylor)
Released: December 31, 1955
Type: Movie
A cop framed for a murder he did not commit hunts the San Francisco waterfront for the Mob racketeers who are responsible.
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Top Gun
Title: Top Gun
Character: Lem Sutter
Released: December 1, 1955
Type: Movie
A gunslinger returns to his hometown to warn of an impending outlaw gang attack, but he's met with hatred and fear for his previous killings.
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Title: Cheyenne
Character: Clancy
Released: September 20, 1955
Type: TV
Cheyenne is an American western television series of 108 black-and-white episodes broadcast on ABC from 1955 to 1963. The show was the first hour-long western, and in fact the first hour-long dramatic series of any kind, with continuing characters, to last more than one season. It was also the first series to be made by a major Hollywood film studio which did not derive from its established film properties, and the first of a long chain of Warner Brothers original series produced by William T. Orr.
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The Virgin Queen
Title: The Virgin Queen
Character: Cpl. Gwilym
Released: July 22, 1955
Type: Movie
Sir Walter Raleigh overcomes court intrigue to win favor with the Queen in order to get financing for a proposed voyage to the New World.
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Long John Silver
Title: Long John Silver
Character: Israel Hands
Released: December 16, 1954
Type: Movie
In this sequel to Treasure Island, Long John hopes to rescue his friend Jim from a rival pirate and return for more treasure.
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Title: Studio 57
Released: September 21, 1954
Type: TV
Studio 57 is an American anthology series that was broadcast on the now-defunct DuMont Television Network from September 1954 to September 1955, and in syndication from 1955 to 1956.
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King of the Coral Sea
Title: King of the Coral Sea
Character: Jack Janiero
Released: August 12, 1954
Type: Movie
A body is found floating in the Torres Strait and pearler Ted King is asked to investigate. He discovers the murder is connected to a people smuggling ring and involves one of his men, Yusep. He is helped by Peter Merriman, the playboy owner of King's company who romances King's daughter Rusty. Yusep kidnaps Rusty but Merriman and King rescue her.
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Title: General Electric Theater
Character: Sam Tipton
Released: February 1, 1953
Type: TV
General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was sponsored by General Electric's Department of Public Relations.
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Title: General Electric Theater
Character: Fred Gauman
Released: February 1, 1953
Type: TV
General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was sponsored by General Electric's Department of Public Relations.
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Title: Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Character: Boyd Harland
Released: October 5, 1951
Type: TV
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS. Offering both comedies and drama, the series was sponsored by the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company. The title was shortened to Schlitz Playhouse, beginning with the fall 1957 season.
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Title: Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Released: October 5, 1951
Type: TV
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS. Offering both comedies and drama, the series was sponsored by the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company. The title was shortened to Schlitz Playhouse, beginning with the fall 1957 season.
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Inland with Sturt
Title: Inland with Sturt
Character: George McLeay
Released: January 23, 1951
Type: Movie
Inland with Sturt is a 1951 documentary from Film Australia consisting of the 1950-51 re-enactment of Captain Charles Sturt's 1829-30 expedition down the Murrumbidgee and Murray Rivers. The re-enactment was part of Australia's 1951 Commonwealth Jubilee Celebrations, commemorating 50 years of Federation.
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Title: Lux Video Theatre
Character: Mr. Gilbert
Released: October 2, 1950
Type: TV
Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and plays.
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Title: Lux Video Theatre
Character: Baxter
Released: October 2, 1950
Type: TV
Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and plays.
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Title: Studio One
Character: Anthony Fouche
Released: November 7, 1948
Type: TV
An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. Studio One, presented by Westinghouse, was one of the first of the anthology TV programs. The episodes were often abridged remakes of movies from years gone by and many future well-known television and movie actors appeared in the productions.