Lester Matthews

Lester Matthews

Born: June 5, 1900
Died: June 6, 1975
in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, UK
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Lester Matthews (June 6, 1900 - June 5, 1975) was an English actor born in Nottingham, England, UK. In his career, he made more than 180 appearances in film and on television. He was on occasion erroneously credited as Lester Mathews and especially in later years was sometimes known as Les Matthews. He died on the 6 June 1975 in Los Angeles, California. He was cremated. His ashes were scattered into the Pacific Ocean. He appeared on television many times including an episode of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour entitled "Completely Foolproof" (original air date: March 29, 1965).

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Savage Intruder
Title: Savage Intruder
Character: Ira Jaffee
Released: January 1, 1970
Type: Movie
An enigmatic young man manipulates his way into working at the decaying mansion of a once prolific, but now reclusive and alcoholic, movie star named Katharine Packard. While the rest of the house staff become suspicious of Vic's intentions, the aging movie queen is smitten. But as Vic begins behaving in more and more erratic ways, it becomes clear that he's far more sinister than his demeanor implies.
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Title: Adam-12
Character: Gregory Benton
Released: September 21, 1968
Type: TV
Adam-12 is a television police drama that followed two police officers of the Los Angeles Police Department, Pete Malloy and Jim Reed, as they patrolled the streets of Los Angeles in their patrol unit, 1-Adam-12.
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Title: The Name of the Game
Character: Sir Winston More
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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The Scorpio Letters
Title: The Scorpio Letters
Character: Mr. Harris
Released: September 1, 1967
Type: Movie
A spy thriller involving an American who is enlisted by British intelligence to replace one of its recently murdered agents and smash a ring of blackmailers -- James Bond style -- headed by a nefarious figure known as Scorpio.
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Title: Family Affair
Released: September 12, 1966
Type: TV
Family Affair is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from September 12, 1966 to September 9, 1971. The series explored the trials of well-to-do civil engineer and bachelor Bill Davis as he attempted to raise his brother's orphaned children in his luxury New York City apartment. Davis' traditional English gentleman's gentleman, Mr. Giles French, also had adjustments to make as he became saddled with the responsibility of caring for 15-year-old Cissy and the 6-year-old twins, Jody and Buffy. The show ran for 138 episodes. Family Affair was created and produced by Don Fedderson, also known for My Three Sons and The Millionaire.
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Title: The Pruitts of Southampton
Character: Butler
Released: September 6, 1966
Type: TV
The Pruitts of Southampton is a situation comedy that aired during the 1966-67 season on the ABC network. The show was based on the novel House Party by Patrick Dennis. It was ABC's futile attempt to turn female stand-up comic Phyllis Diller into a sitcom comedienne very much in the style of Lucille Ball. The program starred Diller as Phyllis Pruitt, and featured Gypsy Rose Lee and Richard Deacon in supporting roles with Diller feeling the series was an inverted version of The Beverly Hillbillies. The show's producers originally sought comic actress Beatrice Lillie in the Diller role. The premise was that the Pruitts, a supposedly incredibly wealthy family living on Long Island in the Hamptons, were approached by the Internal Revenue Service about overdue taxes. An audit revealed that the Pruitts were in fact broke; rather than reveal this fact publicly and cause the economic depression which would presumably result from this revelation, an improbably charitable IRS allowed them to continue living in their mansion and maintaining the pretensions of great wealth, which was difficult given their reduced circumstances. By mid-season, in order to raise more money, Phyllis had opened the mansion to boarders, attracting a "nutty" collection of tenants as well, a group that included Paul Lynde as her hopeless brother, John Astin as her brother-in-law, and Marty Ingels as a handyman.
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Assault on a Queen
Title: Assault on a Queen
Character: Doctor
Released: June 15, 1966
Type: Movie
A group of adventurers refloat a WWII German submarine and prepare to use it to pull a very large heist; The Queen Mary which they plan to rob on the high seas.
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Mary Poppins
Title: Mary Poppins
Character: Mr. Tomes (uncredited)
Released: December 17, 1964
Type: Movie
Mr Banks is looking for a nanny for his two mischievous children and comes across Mary Poppins, an angelic nanny. She not only brings a change in their lives but also spreads happiness.
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Title: Daniel Boone
Character: Major
Released: September 24, 1964
Type: TV
Daniel Boone is an American action-adventure television series starring Fess Parker as Daniel Boone that aired from September 24, 1964 to September 10, 1970 on NBC for 165 episodes, and was made by 20th Century Fox Television. Ed Ames co-starred as Mingo, Boone's Cherokee friend, for the first four seasons of the series. Albert Salmi portrayed Boone's companion Yadkin in season one only. Dallas McKennon portrayed innkeeper Cincinnatus. Country Western singer-actor Jimmy Dean was a featured actor as Josh Clements during the 1968–1970 seasons. Actor and former NFL football player Rosey Grier made regular appearances as Gabe Cooper in the 1969 to 1970 season. The show was broadcast "in living color" beginning in fall 1965, the second season, and was shot entirely in California and Kanab, Utah.
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Title: The Rogues
Character: Bailiff
Released: September 13, 1964
Type: TV
The Rogues is an American television series that appeared on NBC from September 13, 1964, to April 18, 1965, starring David Niven, Charles Boyer, and Gig Young as a related trio of former conmen who could, for the right price, be persuaded to trick a very wealthy and heinously unscrupulous mark. Although it won the 1964 Golden Globe award for Best Television Series, the show was cancelled after one season consisting of thirty episodes.
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Title: The Lucy Show
Character: Lord Van Cleve
Released: October 1, 1962
Type: TV
The Lucy Show is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from 1962–68. It was Lucille Ball's follow-up to I Love Lucy. A significant change in cast and premise for the 1965–66 season divides the program into two distinct eras; aside from Ball, only Gale Gordon, who joined the program for its second season, remained. For the first three seasons, Vivian Vance was the co-star. The earliest scripts were entitled The Lucille Ball Show, but when this title was declined, producers thought of calling the show This Is Lucy or The New Adventures of Lucy, before deciding on the title The Lucy Show. Ball won consecutive Emmy Awards as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for the series' final two seasons, 1966–67 and 1967–68.
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Title: The Beverly Hillbillies
Character: Mr. Fleming Pendleton
Released: September 26, 1962
Type: TV
Jed Clampett's swamp is loaded with oil. When a wildcatter discovers the huge pool, Jed sells his land to the O.K. Oil Company and at the urging of cousin Pearl, moves his family to a 35-room mansion in Beverly Hills, California.
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Title: Hazel
Character: Reginald Archibald
Released: September 28, 1961
Type: TV
Hazel is an American sitcom about a fictional live-in maid named Hazel Burke and her employers, the Baxters. The five-season, 154-episode series aired in primetime from September 28, 1961 until April 11, 1966 and was produced by Screen Gems. The show aired on NBC for its first four seasons, and then on CBS for its final season. The first season, except for one color episode was in black and white, the remainder in color. The show was based on the popular single-panel comic strip by cartoonist Ted Key, which appeared in the Saturday Evening Post.
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By Love Possessed
Title: By Love Possessed
Character: Club Patron (uncredited)
Released: July 19, 1961
Type: Movie
An unhappily married woman engages in an affair with her husband's law partner.
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Title: Surfside 6
Character: Inspector Campbell
Released: October 6, 1960
Type: TV
Surfside 6 was an ABC television series which aired from 1960 to 1962. The show centered on a Miami Beach detective agency set on a houseboat and featured Troy Donahue as Sandy Winfield II; Van Williams as Kenny Madison; and Lee Patterson as Dave Thorne. Diane McBain co-starred as socialite Daphne Dutton, whose yacht was berthed next to their houseboat. Margarita Sierra also had a supporting role as Cha Cha O'Brien, an entertainer who worked at The Boom Boom Room, a popular Miami Beach hangout at the Fontainebleau Hotel, directly across the street from Surfside 6. Surfside 6 was in fact a real address in Miami Beach, where an unrelated houseboat was moored at the time; it can also be seen in the sweeping aerial establishing shot of the Fontainebleu in 1964's Goldfinger.
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Title: Angel
Character: Charles
Released: October 6, 1960
Type: TV
Angel is an American sitcom that aired on CBS during the 1960–1961 television season. The series was created and executive produced by Jess Oppenheimer, and stars Annie Fargé as the title character.
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Title: Coronado 9
Released: September 6, 1960
Type: TV
Dan Adams, former Naval Intelligence officer, works in San Diego as a private detective.
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Walk Like a Dragon
Title: Walk Like a Dragon
Character: Peter Mott
Released: June 1, 1960
Type: Movie
California, 1870s. The cowboy Lincoln 'Linc' Bartlett finds out there's a slave auction of Chinese women in San Francisco and he intervenes and purchases the Chinese Kim Sung from the auction with the intent of setting her free. But it doesn't occur to Linc that setting her free isn't enough. Where is she going to go? Kim doesn't speak English and she's just going to be exploited by somebody else. Linc takes Kim home to serve as a housekeeper. Ma Bartlett Linc's mother, is not happy that a Chinese girl is living in her home, and even less happy when Kim and her son fall in love. Their affair also arouses the jealousy of Cheng Lu, a Chinese immigrant.
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Title: Philip Marlowe
Released: October 6, 1959
Type: TV
Philip Marlowe is a 1959-1960 half-hour ABC crime series, featuring Philip Carey as Marlowe, the fictional detective originally created by Raymond Chandler. The private detective Marlowe of Carey, departed very much from the original character. The show first aired October 6, 1959 with the episode: "The Ugly Duckling" with Virginia Gregg and Rhys Williams.
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Title: The Dennis O'Keefe Show
Released: September 22, 1959
Type: TV
The Dennis O'Keefe Show is a 1959-1960 sitcom produced by United Artists Television which aired on CBS for sponsor General Motors' Oldsmobile division. It was not a ratings success during its original run, and was largely forgotten until a "Best Of" DVD release by Alpha Video during 2004. Certain episodes of the show can also be seen at the Internet Archive. It appears the series has entered the public domain.
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Title: Bonanza
Character: Forrester
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: One Step Beyond
Character: Prison Governor
Released: January 20, 1959
Type: TV
Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond is an American anthology series created by Merwin Gerard. The original series ran for three seasons on ABC from January 1959 to July 1961.
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Title: One Step Beyond
Character: Civil Defense Man
Released: January 20, 1959
Type: TV
Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond is an American anthology series created by Merwin Gerard. The original series ran for three seasons on ABC from January 1959 to July 1961.
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Title: Rawhide
Character: Larkins
Released: January 9, 1959
Type: TV
The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across the old west. Along the way they meet up with adventure and drama.
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Title: 77 Sunset Strip
Character: Mr. Craythrope
Released: October 10, 1958
Type: TV
Stu Bailey and Jeff Spencer are the wisecracking, womanizing private-detective heroes of this Warner Brothers drama. They work out of an office located at 77 Sunset Strip in Los Angeles, California, right next door to a snazzy restaurant where Kookie works as a valet. The finger-snapping, slang-talking Kookie occasionally helps Stu and Jeff with their cases, and eventually becomes a full-fledged member of the detective agency. Rex Randolph and J.R. Hale also join the firm, and Suzanne is their leggy secretary.
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Title: 77 Sunset Strip
Character: Pillsbury
Released: October 10, 1958
Type: TV
Stu Bailey and Jeff Spencer are the wisecracking, womanizing private-detective heroes of this Warner Brothers drama. They work out of an office located at 77 Sunset Strip in Los Angeles, California, right next door to a snazzy restaurant where Kookie works as a valet. The finger-snapping, slang-talking Kookie occasionally helps Stu and Jeff with their cases, and eventually becomes a full-fledged member of the detective agency. Rex Randolph and J.R. Hale also join the firm, and Suzanne is their leggy secretary.
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Title: 77 Sunset Strip
Character: Inspector T. Carnahan
Released: October 10, 1958
Type: TV
Stu Bailey and Jeff Spencer are the wisecracking, womanizing private-detective heroes of this Warner Brothers drama. They work out of an office located at 77 Sunset Strip in Los Angeles, California, right next door to a snazzy restaurant where Kookie works as a valet. The finger-snapping, slang-talking Kookie occasionally helps Stu and Jeff with their cases, and eventually becomes a full-fledged member of the detective agency. Rex Randolph and J.R. Hale also join the firm, and Suzanne is their leggy secretary.
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Title: Yancy Derringer
Character: Jerrison Ames
Released: October 2, 1958
Type: TV
Yancy Derringer is an American Western series
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Title: Behind Closed Doors
Character: Colonel Brookston
Released: October 2, 1958
Type: TV
Behind Closed Doors is an American drama series set during the Cold War hosted by and occasionally starring Bruce Gordon in the role of Commander Matson. The series, which aired on NBC from October 2, 1958, to April 9, 1959, focuses, among other themes, on how the former Soviet Union stole American missile secrets and proposes steps to prevent further espionage. Behind Closed Doors is based on the files and experiences of Rear Admiral Ellis M. Zacharias, who offers comments at the end of each segment. Behind Closed Doors, a Screen Gems production, replaced Jackie Cooper's sitcom The People's Choice, followed the NBC quiz show, Twenty-One, and preceded the The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show. Its competition was The Pat Boone Chevy Show on ABC and Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater western anthology series on CBS.
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Title: How to Marry a Millionaire
Released: October 7, 1957
Type: TV
How to Marry a Millionaire is an American sitcom that aired in syndication from September 1957 to August 1959. The series is based on the 1953 film of the same name starring Marilyn Monroe, Betty Grable, and Lauren Bacall. The series stars Lori Nelson, Merry Anders, and Barbara Eden. Lisa Gaye joined the cast in the second season after Lori Nelson left the series. How to Marry a Millionaire was the first series that Barbara Eden was featured in as a regular cast member. Eden would go on to play one of her more notable roles, "Jeannie" in the NBC sitcom I Dream of Jeannie. During the series' first season, Eden was billed third. After Lori Nelson left the series, Eden was billed first.
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Title: Richard Diamond, Private Detective
Character: Frank Grace
Released: July 1, 1957
Type: TV
Richard Diamond, Private Detective is an American detective drama which aired on radio from 1949 to 1953, and on television from 1957 to 1960.
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Title: Dr. Fu Manchu
Character: Sir Denis Nayland Smith
Released: September 3, 1956
Type: TV
The Adventures of Dr. Fu Manchu is a syndicated American television series that aired in 1956. The show was produced by Hollywood Television Service, a subsidiary of Republic Pictures.
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Flame of the Islands
Title: Flame of the Islands
Character: Gus
Released: December 4, 1955
Type: Movie
A café singer buys a gambling casino and several men fall in love with her.
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The Far Horizons
Title: The Far Horizons
Character: Mr. Hancock
Released: July 4, 1955
Type: Movie
Virginia, 1803. After the United States of America acquires the inmense Louisiana territory from France, a great expedition, led by William Lewis and Meriwether Clark, is sent to survey the new lands and go where no white man has gone before.
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Moonfleet
Title: Moonfleet
Character: Major Hennishaw
Released: June 24, 1955
Type: Movie
Set in the eighteenth century, Moonfleet is about John Mohune, a young orphan who is sent to the Dorset village of Moonfleet to stay with an old friend of his mother's, Jeremy Fox. Fox is a morally ambiguous character, an elegant gentleman involved with smugglers and pirates.
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Ten Wanted Men
Title: Ten Wanted Men
Character: Adam Stewart
Released: February 1, 1955
Type: Movie
When his ward seeks protection with rival cattleman John Stewart, embittered, jealous rancher Wick Campbell hires ten outlaws to help him seize power in the territory.
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Title: December Bride
Released: October 4, 1954
Type: TV
December Bride is an American sitcom that aired on the CBS television network from 1954 to 1959, adapted from the original CBS radio network series that aired from June 1952 through September 1953.
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Title: Father Knows Best
Character: Major Alden
Released: October 3, 1954
Type: TV
Family man Jim Anderson copes with the everyday problems among his wife Margaret and their three children as they experience day-to-day changes.
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King Richard and the Crusaders
Title: King Richard and the Crusaders
Character: Archbishop of Tyre / Narrator
Released: August 7, 1954
Type: Movie
Based on Sir Walter Scott's The Talisman, this is the story of the romantic adventures of Christians and Muslims during the battle for the Holy Land in the time of King Richard the Lionheart.
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Jungle Man-Eaters
Title: Jungle Man-Eaters
Character: Comm. Kingston
Released: June 1, 1954
Type: Movie
Jungle Jim does battle with a would-be diamond smuggler and a renegade tribe.
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Title: Passport to Danger
Character: U.S. Consul Charlie Edmunds
Released: April 1, 1954
Type: TV
A diplomatic courier travels to exotic locales, where danger (and women) seem ever present.
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Title: Public Defender
Character: Mr. Harrington
Released: March 11, 1954
Type: TV
The Public Defender is a half-hour 69-episode television dramatic series starring Reed Hadley as Bart Matthews, an attorney for the indigent. The series aired on CBS from March 11, 1954 to June 23, 1955, a season and a half.
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Title: Public Defender
Character: Ben Pearce
Released: March 11, 1954
Type: TV
The Public Defender is a half-hour 69-episode television dramatic series starring Reed Hadley as Bart Matthews, an attorney for the indigent. The series aired on CBS from March 11, 1954 to June 23, 1955, a season and a half.
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Bad for Each Other
Title: Bad for Each Other
Character: Dr. Homer Gleeson
Released: December 24, 1953
Type: Movie
A doctor returned from the Korean War must choose between joining a glamorous practice and helping the poor.
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Man in the Attic
Title: Man in the Attic
Character: Chief Insp. Melville
Released: December 23, 1953
Type: Movie
London, 1888: on the night of the third Jack the Ripper killing, soft-spoken Mr. Slade, a research pathologist, takes lodgings with the Harleys, including a gloomy attic room for "experiments." Mrs. Harley finds Slade odd and increasingly suspects the worst; her niece Lily (star of a decidedly Parisian stage revue) finds him interesting and increasingly attractive. Is Lily in danger, or are her mother's suspicions merely a red herring?
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Young Bess
Title: Young Bess
Character: Sir William Paget
Released: May 29, 1953
Type: Movie
The mother died under the executioner's axe; the daughter rose to become England's greatest monarch -- the brilliant and cunning Queen Elizabeth I. Jean Simmons portrays young Bess in this rich tapestry of a film that traces the tumultuous, danger-fraught years from Elizabeth's birth to her unexpected ascension to the throne at a mere 25. Charles Laughton reprises his Academy Award®-winning* role as her formidable father Henry VIII. Deborah Kerr plays her last stepmother (and Henry's last of six wives), gentle Catherine Parr. And Simmons' then real-life husband, Stewart Granger, adds heroics as Lord Admiral Thomas Seymour. In a resplendent world of adventure, romance and court intrigue, Young Bess reigns.
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The Desert Rats
Title: The Desert Rats
Character: Foreign Secretary (uncredited)
Released: May 20, 1953
Type: Movie
In North Africa, German Field Marshal Rommel and his troops have successfully fended off British forces, and now intend to take Tobruk, an important port city. A ramshackle group of Australian reinforcements sent to combat the Germans is put under the command of British Captain MacRoberts. The unruly Aussies immediately clash with MacRoberts, a gruff, strict disciplinarian, however this unorthodox team must band together to protect Tobruk from the German forces.
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Sangaree
Title: Sangaree
Character: Gen. Victor Darby
Released: May 17, 1953
Type: Movie
Lamas plays an indentured servant who rises to power in Georgia shortly after the Revolutionary War.
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Fort Ti
Title: Fort Ti
Character: Lord Jeffrey Amherst
Released: April 30, 1953
Type: Movie
Future horror-film entrepreneur William Castle warmed the director's chair for Fort Ti. Set in the 18th century, the film recounts the exploits of Rogers' Rangers, a band of adventurers devoted to seeking out a "northwest passage" through Canada. At this juncture, however, Major Rogers (Howard Petrie) is more concerned with helping the British forces at Fort Ticonderoga during a series of French and Indian raids. Top billing is bestowed upon George Montgomery as Captain Pedediah Horn, Rogers' right-hand man. The film boasts two leading ladies: Joan Vohs, as a suspected French spy, and Phyllis Fowler as a married Indian woman who falls in love with Captain Horn. Fort Ti was filmed in 3D, and in typical William Castle fashion the stereoscopic gimmick is exploited to the hilt.
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Trouble Along the Way
Title: Trouble Along the Way
Character: Cardinal William Patrick O'Shea
Released: April 4, 1953
Type: Movie
Struggling to retain custody of his daughter following his divorce, football coach Steve Williams finds himself embroiled in a recruiting scandal at the tiny Catholic college he is trying to bring back to football respectability.
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Savage Mutiny
Title: Savage Mutiny
Character: Maj. Walsh
Released: February 3, 1953
Type: Movie
Jungle Jim (Johnny Weissmuller) battles enemy agents while helping a local tribe relocate from an atomic test bomb site.
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Title: You Are There
Released: February 1, 1953
Type: TV
You Are There is an American historical educational television and radio series broadcast over the CBS Radio and CBS Television networks.
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Niagara
Title: Niagara
Character: Doctor (uncredited)
Released: January 26, 1953
Type: Movie
Rose Loomis and her older, gloomier husband, George, are vacationing at a cabin in Niagara Falls, N.Y. The couple befriend Polly and Ray Cutler, who are honeymooning in the area. Polly begins to suspect that something is amiss between Rose and George, and her suspicions grow when she sees Rose in the arms of another man. While Ray initially thinks Polly is overreacting, things between George and Rose soon take a shockingly dark turn.
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Against All Flags
Title: Against All Flags
Character: Sir Cloudsley
Released: December 24, 1952
Type: Movie
A British naval officer fights pirates in Madagascar.
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Operation Secret
Title: Operation Secret
Character: Robbins
Released: November 5, 1952
Type: Movie
After assisting the French Underground during WWII, an American Officer is later accused of murder and subversive activities by former colleagues. Based on the actual exploits of Lieutenant Colonel Peter Ortiz.
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Title: The Ford Television Theatre
Character: Carlton
Released: October 2, 1952
Type: TV
This show started in New York City, with Broadway actors and actresses. It then moved to Hollywood, California, where Hollywood actors and actresses headed the cast.
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Captain Pirate
Title: Captain Pirate
Character: Col. Ramsey
Released: August 27, 1952
Type: Movie
In 1690, years have passed since Captain Blood was pardoned by the Crown for his daring deeds against the Spanish on the Spanish Main, and he is living quietly on his plantation in the West Indies, practicing medicine and planning his marriage to Isabella. But his peaceful existence is shattered when Hilary Evans arrives and arrests him on a piracy charge. Somebody has been raiding the islands, and making it appear it was Captain Blood. In order to prove his innocence, Captain Blood has to sail again under the "Jolly Roger."
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Les Miserables
Title: Les Miserables
Character: Mentou Sr. (uncredited)
Released: August 14, 1952
Type: Movie
Jean Valjean, a Frenchman of good character, has nevertheless been convicted for the minor crime of stealing bread. A minor infraction leads to his pursuit by the relentless policeman Javert, a pursuit that consumes both men's lives for many years.
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Lady In The Iron Mask
Title: Lady In The Iron Mask
Character: Prime Minister Rochard
Released: July 4, 1952
Type: Movie
A female version of the man in the iron mask. In this version the mask is put on a princess (patricia medina) rather than a prince as in the original book by Alexander Dumas.
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The Brigand
Title: The Brigand
Character: Dr. Lopez
Released: June 24, 1952
Type: Movie
Carlos Delargo, the banished son of a royal princess of Mandorra, is returned to the kingdom to be tried for a murder change. However, he is freed by King Lorenzo, whom bears a remarkable resemblance to Delargo. When the king is wounded by assassins sent by Napoleon, Delargo takes over the throne at the request of the Prime Minister in a plot to thwart the traitors. He also falls in love with Princess Teresa, the king's fiancée.
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Jungle Jim in the Forbidden Land
Title: Jungle Jim in the Forbidden Land
Character: Commissioner Kingston
Released: March 17, 1952
Type: Movie
Jungle Jim is forced to lead anthropologist Dr. Edwards into a land inhabited by giant people.
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5 Fingers
Title: 5 Fingers
Released: February 22, 1952
Type: Movie
During WWII, the valet to the British Ambassador to Ankara sells British secrets to the Germans while trying to romance a refugee Polish countess.
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The Son of Dr. Jekyll
Title: The Son of Dr. Jekyll
Character: Sir John Utterson
Released: October 31, 1951
Type: Movie
The son of the notorious Dr. Henry Jekyll is determined to prove that his father's reputation has been unjustly deserved. He sets out to develop his father's formula in order to prove that he was a brilliant scientist rather than a murderous monster.
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The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
Title: The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
Character: British Officer (uncredited)
Released: October 16, 1951
Type: Movie
The life and career of Erwin Rommel and his involvement in the plot to assassinate Hitler.
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Title: The Red Skelton Show
Character: Sylvester
Released: September 30, 1951
Type: TV
The Red Skelton Show is an American variety show that was a television staple for two decades, from 1951 to 1971. It was second to Gunsmoke and third to The Ed Sullivan Show in the ratings during that time. Skelton, who had previously been a radio star, had appeared in several motion pictures as well. Although his television series is largely associated with CBS, where it appeared for more than fifteen years, it actually began and ended on NBC. During its run, the program received three Emmy Awards, for Skelton as best comedian and the program as best comedy show during its initial season, and an award for comedy writing in 1961.
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The Lady and the Bandit
Title: The Lady and the Bandit
Character: Ridgely, Joyce's Interrogator
Released: August 13, 1951
Type: Movie
Highwayman Dick Turpin rides 200 miles to save his wife from the gallows in 18th-century England.
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Title: Racket Squad
Released: June 7, 1951
Type: TV
Racket Squad is an American TV crime drama series starring Reed Hadley as Captain John Braddock, a fictional detective working for the San Francisco, California Police Department. The show aired in syndication for a season before being picked up by CBS for three seasons. The series was filmed at Hal Roach Studios in Culver City, California, and was sponsored by cigarette manufacturer Philip Morris, hence there was a pack of the sponsor's brand on Braddock's desk at the beginning and end of the episode, as well as occasional scenes of him or other characters "lighting up".
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Lorna Doone
Title: Lorna Doone
Character: King Charles II
Released: May 31, 1951
Type: Movie
An English farmer leads a village uprising against their corrupt landlords.
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Title: The Jack Benny Program
Character: Referee
Released: October 28, 1950
Type: TV
Laugh along with funnyman Jack Benny as he brings his underplayed humor to TV along with regular performers from his radio show days.
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Title: The Jack Benny Program
Character: Sponsor
Released: October 28, 1950
Type: TV
Laugh along with funnyman Jack Benny as he brings his underplayed humor to TV along with regular performers from his radio show days.
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Title: The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show
Character: Mr. Larkin
Released: October 12, 1950
Type: TV
Burns and Allen, an American comedy duo consisting of George Burns and his wife, Gracie Allen, worked together as a comedy team in vaudeville, films, radio and television and achieved great success over four decades.
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Title: The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show
Character: Mr. Burke
Released: October 12, 1950
Type: TV
Burns and Allen, an American comedy duo consisting of George Burns and his wife, Gracie Allen, worked together as a comedy team in vaudeville, films, radio and television and achieved great success over four decades.
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Title: The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show
Character: Mr. Thomas Marshall
Released: October 12, 1950
Type: TV
Burns and Allen, an American comedy duo consisting of George Burns and his wife, Gracie Allen, worked together as a comedy team in vaudeville, films, radio and television and achieved great success over four decades.
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Title: The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show
Character: Professor Hopkins
Released: October 12, 1950
Type: TV
Burns and Allen, an American comedy duo consisting of George Burns and his wife, Gracie Allen, worked together as a comedy team in vaudeville, films, radio and television and achieved great success over four decades.
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Title: The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show
Character: Mr. Fortune
Released: October 12, 1950
Type: TV
Burns and Allen, an American comedy duo consisting of George Burns and his wife, Gracie Allen, worked together as a comedy team in vaudeville, films, radio and television and achieved great success over four decades.
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Title: The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show
Character: Mr. Duffy
Released: October 12, 1950
Type: TV
Burns and Allen, an American comedy duo consisting of George Burns and his wife, Gracie Allen, worked together as a comedy team in vaudeville, films, radio and television and achieved great success over four decades.
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Title: The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show
Character: Mr. Buzby
Released: October 12, 1950
Type: TV
Burns and Allen, an American comedy duo consisting of George Burns and his wife, Gracie Allen, worked together as a comedy team in vaudeville, films, radio and television and achieved great success over four decades.
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Title: Lux Video Theatre
Character: John Hillgrove
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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Rogues of Sherwood Forest
Title: Rogues of Sherwood Forest
Character: Alan-A-Dale
Released: June 21, 1950
Type: Movie
The son of Robin Hood carries on his late father's tradition.
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Title: Cameo Theatre
Released: May 16, 1950
Type: TV
Cameo Theatre was an American anthology series that aired on NBC during the Golden Age of Television, from 1950 to 1955.
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Tyrant of the Sea
Title: Tyrant of the Sea
Character: Horatio Nelson
Released: February 22, 1950
Type: Movie
In 1803, the only thing standing between Napoleon and his plan of world domination is England and the British Navy. The admiralty, learning that Napoleon has assembled an invasion fleet decides to send out one of its vessels to destroy it the French flagship under cover of fog. Forced out of retirement, ruthless, tyrannical and temperamental Captain William Blake is put in command. He wields his command with sadistic fury until an epidemic of scurvy attacks the crew and, when he refuses to go ashore for needed provision, mutiny and insubordination results...and, then, the French flagship arrives.
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Montana
Title: Montana
Character: George Forsythe
Released: January 28, 1950
Type: Movie
An Australian sheep man comes to Montana looking for grazing space, is opposed by local ranchers and a wealthy cattle-woman.
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Free For All
Title: Free For All
Character: Mr. Aberson
Released: November 1, 1949
Type: Movie
The discovery of a way of turning petrol into water makes a fortune and romance for the young inventor.
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Title: Ford Theatre
Released: October 17, 1948
Type: TV
Ford Theatre, spelled Ford Theater for the radio version and known as Ford Television Theatre for the TV version, was a radio and television anthology series broadcast in the United States in the 1940s and 1950s. At various times the television series appeared on all three major television networks, while the radio version was broadcast on two separate networks and on two separate coasts. Ford Theatre was named for its sponsor, the Ford Motor Company, which had an earlier success with its concert music series, The Ford Sunday Evening Hour.
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The Exile
Title: The Exile
Character: Robbins
Released: October 17, 1947
Type: Movie
In 17th-century England, Charles II, the rightful heir to the kingdom, is driven from his country by militants working for rogue leader Oliver Cromwell. Charles ends up in the Netherlands, where he falls for local beauty Katie and spends his days happily in the quiet countryside. Unfortunately, Cromwell's associate Col. Ingram and his men track Charles down, and the would-be monarch must resort to swashbuckling his way to freedom.
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Monsieur Verdoux
Title: Monsieur Verdoux
Character: Prosecutor (uncredited)
Released: September 26, 1947
Type: Movie
The film is about an unemployed banker, Henri Verdoux, and his sociopathic methods of attaining income. While being both loyal and competent in his work, Verdoux has been laid-off. To make money for his wife and child, he marries wealthy widows and then murders them. His crime spree eventually works against him when two particular widows break his normal routine.
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Dark Delusion
Title: Dark Delusion
Character: Wyndham Grace
Released: June 24, 1947
Type: Movie
Spoiled socialite Cynthia Grace is suffering from a blood clot. Not unexpectedly, Tommy Coalt falls in love with Cynthia, much to her parents' dismay. Soon he's drawing up plans to marry the girl and setting up private practice in a smaller town.
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Bulldog Drummond at Bay
Title: Bulldog Drummond at Bay
Character: Shannon Eskdale
Released: May 15, 1947
Type: Movie
"Bulldog" Drummond is vacationing in his country home in England, and his house if rifled by two thieves. After they leave he finds a card marked with some mysterious letters. Doris Meredith comes by the next day, pretending her car has broken down. Drummond knows better but plays along with her. Drummond calls Scotland Yard Inspector Holmes, and is informed that some of the letters comprise the code-name for a Yard-man who disappeared while carrying some diamonds from France to England. Doris tells Drummond the man is her brother. Drummond uses a decoy to lure the thieves out of hiding, but they adduct Doris.
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Two O'Clock Courage
Title: Two O'Clock Courage
Character: Mark Evans
Released: April 13, 1945
Type: Movie
After nearly running over him with her cab, Patty Mitchell picks up a fare who claims to have amnesia. As he fumbles to remember the basic facts of his identity, Patty becomes interested in the stranger and decides to help him in his search. But as the pieces of the puzzle begin to fall into place, and Patty's interest becomes more personal, the stranger finds that he is the prime suspect in a murder case.
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Salty O'Rourke
Title: Salty O'Rourke
Character: Salesman
Released: March 22, 1945
Type: Movie
A gambler and his buddy find a wise-guy jockey for their long-shot horse.
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Objective, Burma!
Title: Objective, Burma!
Character: British Maj. Fitzpatrick
Released: February 17, 1945
Type: Movie
A group of men parachute into Japanese-occupied Burma with a dangerous and important mission: to locate and blow up a radar station. They accomplish this well enough, but when they try to rendezvous at an old air-strip to be taken back to their base, they find Japanese waiting for them, and they must make a long, difficult walk back through enemy-occupied jungle.
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I Love a Mystery
Title: I Love a Mystery
Character: Justin Reeves / Mr. G
Released: January 25, 1945
Type: Movie
In San Francisco, detective partners Jack Packard and Doc Long are hired by socialite Jefferson Monk who believes someone is following him with the aim to kill him.
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Jungle Queen
Title: Jungle Queen
Character: Commissioner Braham Chatterton
Released: January 22, 1945
Type: Movie
A young girl journeys to Africa to find her father, an explorer who vanished in the jungle.
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Shadows in the Night
Title: Shadows in the Night
Character: Stanley Carter
Released: July 27, 1944
Type: Movie
A criminal psychologist tries to help a beautiful heiress going mad in a haunted mansion.
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The Invisible Man's Revenge
Title: The Invisible Man's Revenge
Character: Sir Jasper Herrick
Released: June 9, 1944
Type: Movie
A fugitive, dangerous madman reaches an English village where he confronts his former partner who left him for dead in the jungle after their discovery of a diamond mine. When the former partner also claims to have since lost the mine and all its wealth, which he took all for himself, and though the partmer is still living in a state of luxury , the madman takes up an offer from a crazed scientist to make him invisible, something the scientist has already done with experimental animals, so that he can take revenge.
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Between Two Worlds
Title: Between Two Worlds
Character: Steamship Dispatcher (uncredited)
Released: May 20, 1944
Type: Movie
Passengers on an ocean liner can't recall how they got onboard or where they are going. Soon it becomes apparent that they all have something in common.
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Four Jills in a Jeep
Title: Four Jills in a Jeep
Character: Capt. Lloyd (uncredited)
Released: March 17, 1944
Type: Movie
Reenactments of actual USO experiences of its female stars entertaining troops overseas.
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Nine Girls
Title: Nine Girls
Character: Horace Canfield
Released: February 17, 1944
Type: Movie
One of the members of a sorority is found murdered. Although the police are called in to investigate, some of the girls decide to do some sleuthing on their own to unmask the killer.
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Northern Pursuit
Title: Northern Pursuit
Character: Colonel (uncredited)
Released: November 7, 1943
Type: Movie
Canadian Mountie Steve Wagner captures a German Luftwaffe officer on a spy mission, who later escapes from the prison camp. To catch the spy ring, the Mounties employ a ruse so that the spies, believing Steve to be sympathetic, enlist him in their plans.
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Corvette K-225
Title: Corvette K-225
Character: British Captain
Released: September 29, 1943
Type: Movie
The story of a Canadian WWII naval vessel, with a dramatic subplot concerning her first captain.
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Appointment in Berlin
Title: Appointment in Berlin
Character: Air Marshal (uncredited)
Released: July 15, 1943
Type: Movie
The "war of nerves" which gripped the European continent in 1938, is the background for this war thriller starring George Sanders.
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Two Tickets to London
Title: Two Tickets to London
Character: Treathcote (uncredited)
Released: June 14, 1943
Type: Movie
Accused of helping an enemy submarine, a man escapes and joins a beautiful girl in trying to find the real traitors.
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The Mysterious Doctor
Title: The Mysterious Doctor
Character: Dr. Frederick Holmes
Released: March 3, 1943
Type: Movie
The citizens of a tiny Cornish village are tormented during World War II by a headless ghost which is haunting the local tin mine.
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London Blackout Murders
Title: London Blackout Murders
Character: Oliver Madison
Released: January 15, 1943
Type: Movie
A young girl, Mary Tillet, is forced to find a new place to live due to her London home being bombed during World War II. Her tobacconist landlord, Jack Rawling, tries to help her turn her new apartment into a home. Meanwhile the newspapers are reporting news of the "London Blackout Murders," a murder spree being committed against a ring of suspected Nazi spies, and Mary must determine if her kind landlord is an assassin.
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Manila Calling
Title: Manila Calling
Character: Wayne Ralston
Released: October 16, 1942
Type: Movie
During WWII, a group of brave Americans spy on the Japanese after their invasion of the Philippines and became the first U.S. Guerrilla fighters.
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Across the Pacific
Title: Across the Pacific
Character: Canadian Major
Released: September 4, 1942
Type: Movie
Rick Leland makes no secret of the fact he has no loyalty to his home country after he is court-marshaled out of the army and boards a Japanese ship for the Orient in late 1941. But has Leland really been booted out, or is there some other motive for his getting close to fellow passenger Doctor Lorenz? Any motive for getting close to attractive traveller Alberta Marlow would however seem pretty obvious.
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The Pied Piper
Title: The Pied Piper
Character: Mr. Cavanaugh
Released: August 21, 1942
Type: Movie
Englishman Mr. Howard is on a fishing holiday in eastern France when the Germans invade in 1940. Setting off to try and get back home he is persuaded to take along the two Cavanaugh children, and as his journey progresses his family keeps growing in size. Once in German-occupied northern France a new problem arises — the risk of being heard speaking English.
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Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
Title: Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
Character: Prosecutor
Released: January 29, 1942
Type: Movie
Sir Arthur Blake has inherited title and lands from his brother. He also has his orphaned nephew Benjamin working for him as a bonded servant. While he believes the lad was born out of wedlock and so cannot claim the inheritance, he is taking no chances. Benjamin eventually rebels against his uncle and sets sail to try and make his fortune. This may enable him to return to prove his claim to being the rightful heir to the estate.
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A Yank in the R.A.F.
Title: A Yank in the R.A.F.
Character: Group Captain
Released: September 26, 1941
Type: Movie
An American pilot impulsively joins His Majesty's Royal Air Force in Britain in an attempt to impress his ex-girlfriend.
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Man Hunt
Title: Man Hunt
Released: June 13, 1941
Type: Movie
Shortly before the start of WW2, renown British big-game hunter Thorndike vacationing in Bavaria has Hitler in his gun sight. He is captured, beaten, left for dead, and escapes back to London where he is hounded by Nazi agents and aided by a young woman.
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The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date
Title: The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date
Character: Mr. Lee
Released: November 2, 1940
Type: Movie
Complicated plot involving missing stamp collection and kidnapped businessman, with the Lone Wolf keeping one step ahead of the police in Havana trying to solve the crime and make a profit.
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The Sea Hawk
Title: The Sea Hawk
Character: Guard Officer
Released: August 10, 1940
Type: Movie
Dashing pirate Geoffrey Thorpe plunders Spanish ships for Queen Elizabeth I and falls in love with Dona Maria, a beautiful Spanish royal he captures.
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The Biscuit Eater
Title: The Biscuit Eater
Character: Mr. Ames
Released: May 24, 1940
Type: Movie
Two little boys have faith in a dog they name Promise, so much faith that they enter him in the championship trials for bird dogs. The favorite is Georgia Boy bred and trained by the boys' fathers. And if Georgia Boy doesn't win, the fathers may both lose their jobs.
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Gaucho Serenade
Title: Gaucho Serenade
Character: Frederick Willoughby
Released: May 9, 1940
Type: Movie
Gene Autry and sidekick Frog Millhouse depart Madison Square Garden and NYC heading west for home in their car and a horse trailer carrying Gene's horse, Champion. They discover that Ronnie Willoughby, a young boy just off the boat from school in England, has hitched a ride, thinking that Gene and Frog were sent by his father to meet him. Ronnie thinks his father is a big rancher in the west and doesn't know that his father, Alfred Willoughby, is serving time in San Quentin prison because of a frame-up by the officials of a packing company. To keep the father from testifying against them, the packing company officials, Carter, Jenkins and Martin, have arranged for the boy to be kidnapped. Along the way a runaway bride, Joyce Halloway, and her young sister Patsy join the troupe.
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Northwest Passage
Title: Northwest Passage
Character: Sam Livermore
Released: February 23, 1940
Type: Movie
Based on the Kenneth Roberts novel of the same name, this film tells the story of two friends who join Rogers' Rangers, as the legendary elite force engages the enemy during the French and Indian War. The film focuses on their famous raid at Fort St. Francis and their marches before and after the battle.
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British Intelligence
Title: British Intelligence
Character: Henry Thompson
Released: November 10, 1939
Type: Movie
During WWI pretty German master spy Helene von Lorbeer is sent undercover to London to live with the family of a high-placed British official where she is to rendezvous with the butler Valdar, also a spy, and help him transmit secret war plans back to Germany.
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Rulers of the Sea
Title: Rulers of the Sea
Character: Lieut. Roberts
Released: November 8, 1939
Type: Movie
The struggle of a man to build a steam ship to take him across the Atlantic in spite of all setbacks, and his win against a crack sailing boat in the early 19th century.
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Conspiracy
Title: Conspiracy
Character: Gair - Henchman
Released: August 1, 1939
Type: Movie
American Steve Kendall, a freighter's radio officer, discovers seaman Carlson sending an unauthorized message ashore as the ship approaches his war-poised homeland. Carlson is shot in cold blood when he jumps ship and Kendall, implicated in the espionage, swims ashore to avoid arrest. A woman he meets at the dock hides him in her apartment, where he learns Carlson was her brother, and they both work in a sabotage ring. Nedra is a singer at Tio's Cafe, and she approaches Tio for help when both the saboteurs and the secret police try to capture Steve.
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Susannah of the Mounties
Title: Susannah of the Mounties
Character: Harlan Chambers
Released: June 13, 1939
Type: Movie
This classic family drama stars Shirley Temple as young orphan Susannah Sheldon, the sole survivor of a brutal Indian attack who's befriended by Canadian Mountie Angus Montague (Randolph Scott) and his girlfriend, Vicky (Margaret Lockwood). The couple takes Susannah under their wing and soon learn that having a precocious child around can come in handy; when the Indians return, the girl uses her charm to broker peace.Shirley is the orphaned survivor of an Indian attack in the Canadian West. A Mountie and his girlfriend take her in...
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Should a Girl Marry?
Title: Should a Girl Marry?
Character: Dr. White
Released: June 7, 1939
Type: Movie
A young woman and her doctor husband are victims of a blackmail scheme when it is discovered that she was born in prison.
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The Three Musketeers
Title: The Three Musketeers
Character: Duke of Buckingham
Released: February 17, 1939
Type: Movie
A parodic remake of the story of the young Gascon D'Artagnan, who arrives in Paris, his heart set on joining the king's Musketeers. He is taken under the wings of three of the most respected and feared Musketeers, Porthos, Aramis, and Athos. Together they fight to save France and the honor of a lady from the machinations of the powerful Cardinal Richelieu.
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I Am a Criminal
Title: I Am a Criminal
Character: District Attorney George Lane
Released: December 7, 1938
Type: Movie
In this crime drama, a gangster uses an innocent newsboy to manipulate the jury just prior to his manslaughter trial. The 10-year-old newsboy idolizes the gangster. Eventually the lad's admiration comes to deeply affect the gangster who begins to soften up. Meanwhile his moll plans to rob him. The newsboy intervenes and stops her.
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If I Were King
Title: If I Were King
Character: General Saliere
Released: September 28, 1938
Type: Movie
King Louis XI masquerades as a commoner in Paris, seeking out the treachery he is sure lurks in his kingdom. At a local tavern, he overhears the brash poet François Villon extolling why he would be a better king. Annoyed yet intrigued, the King bestows on Villon the title of Grand Constable. Soon Villon begins work and falls for a lovely lady-in-waiting, but then must flee execution when the King turns on him.
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Time Out for Murder
Title: Time Out for Murder
Character: Phillip Gregory
Released: September 25, 1938
Type: Movie
A bank runner is accused of killing a woman for whom he deposited a large amount. Reporter and bank official investigate.
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Mysterious Mr. Moto
Title: Mysterious Mr. Moto
Character: Sir Charles Murchison
Released: September 17, 1938
Type: Movie
The Japanese detective rounds up a league of assassins for Scotland Yard.
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Three Loves Has Nancy
Title: Three Loves Has Nancy
Character: Dr. Alonzo Z. Stewart
Released: September 2, 1938
Type: Movie
A small-town country homebody goes to New York to find her missing fiancé and gets romantically involved with two sophisticated men.
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Think It Over
Title: Think It Over
Character: Ring Leader
Released: July 24, 1938
Type: Movie
A gang of 'professional torches' burn down stores for the insurance money.
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The Adventures of Robin Hood
Title: The Adventures of Robin Hood
Character: Sir Ivor
Released: May 13, 1938
Type: Movie
Robin Hood fights nobly for justice against the evil Sir Guy of Gisbourne while striving to win the hand of the beautiful Maid Marian.
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There's Always a Woman
Title: There's Always a Woman
Character: Walter Fraser
Released: April 20, 1938
Type: Movie
An investigator for the District Attorney's office quits to open his own detective agency. However, business is so bad that he finally decides to give it up and go back to his old job. As his wife is at his office closing up, a wealthy society matron walks in with a case: she wants to know if her husband is having an affair with his ex-girlfriend, who is now married. The wife accepts what looks to be an easy case, figuring than she can then persuade her husband to re-start the agency. However, when the client's husband is found murdered, she decides to investigate the murder herself. Her husband has also been assigned by the D.A. to investigate the murder, and he doesn't know that his wife is also on the case. Complications ensue.
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Lancer Spy
Title: Lancer Spy
Character: Capt. Neville
Released: October 8, 1937
Type: Movie
An Englishman impersonates an imprisoned German officer and "returns" to Germany to become a national hero. A female German spy is assigned to check him out but falls in love with him.
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The Prince and the Pauper
Title: The Prince and the Pauper
Character: St. John
Released: April 30, 1937
Type: Movie
Two boys – the prince Edward and the pauper Tom – are born on the same day. Years later, when young teenage Tom sneaks into the palace garden, he meets the prince. They change clothes with one another before the guards discover them and throw out the prince thinking he's the urchin. No one believes them when they try to tell the truth about which is which. Soon after, the old king dies and the prince will inherit the throne.
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Crack-Up
Title: Crack-Up
Character: Sidney Grant
Released: December 14, 1936
Type: Movie
Betrayal and espionage abound as an experimental aircraft is readied for its maiden voyage.
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Lloyd's of London
Title: Lloyd's of London
Character: Captain Hardy
Released: November 25, 1936
Type: Movie
Norfolk, England, 1770. The nephew of an innkeeper and the son of a reverend maintain a very close friendship until, after living a great adventure, they must separate their paths. The former will head his footsteps to London and bound his destiny to Lloyd's, a thriving insurance company; the latter will eventually become one of the greatest heroes in the history of the British Empire.
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15 Maiden Lane
Title: 15 Maiden Lane
Character: Gilbert Lockhart
Released: October 16, 1936
Type: Movie
Insurance investigator Trevor pretends to be a thief to enter a gang of jewel thieves.
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Thank You, Jeeves!
Title: Thank You, Jeeves!
Character: Elliott Manville
Released: October 4, 1936
Type: Movie
Jeeves tries to keep his young master out of trouble.
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Too Many Parents
Title: Too Many Parents
Character: Mark Stewart
Released: March 19, 1936
Type: Movie
Boys are sent to military school in order to get them out of the way of their too-busy-to-bother parents or guardians. Lonely young Philip Stewart writes himself letters his father should be writing. When his hoax is discovered, Philip attempts suicide.
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Song and Dance Man
Title: Song and Dance Man
Character: C. B. Nelson
Released: March 11, 1936
Type: Movie
Julia and Hap are a dance team. He drinks and gambles, she succeeds for a while with the help of producer Alan.
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Professional Soldier
Title: Professional Soldier
Character: Prince Edric
Released: December 27, 1935
Type: Movie
Mercenary Donovan is hired to kidnap King Peter II. He learns that the party in power is evil and that the King is in danger, so kidnaps the King to keep him safe while a revolution is planned.
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The Raven
Title: The Raven
Character: Dr. Jerry Holden
Released: July 8, 1935
Type: Movie
A brilliant but deranged neurosurgeon becomes obsessively fixated on a judge's daughter. With the help of an escaped criminal whose face he has surgically deformed, the mad man lures her, her father, and her fiancé to his isolated castle-like home, where he has created a torture chamber with the intent of torturing them for having 'tortured' him.
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Werewolf of London
Title: Werewolf of London
Character: Paul Ames
Released: May 13, 1935
Type: Movie
A strange animal attack turns a botanist into a bloodthirsty monster.
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Borrowed Clothes
Title: Borrowed Clothes
Character: Sir Harry Torrent
Released: March 1, 1934
Type: Movie
Lady Torrent attempts to sell some of her best Parisian gowns to get back into her husband's good books. Confusion ensues following a misunderstanding over an advertisement.
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Blossom Time
Title: Blossom Time
Character: Schwindt
Released: January 1, 1934
Type: Movie
World-renowned tenor Richard Tauber features in a dramatisation of the life of Schubert, focusing on the composer's unrequited love for a dance master's daughter.
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On Secret Service
Title: On Secret Service
Character: Coloneilo Romanelli
Released: December 15, 1933
Type: Movie
Greta Nissen stars as an Italian noblewoman living a dangerous double life as a spy. A remake of the celebrated German thriller Spione am Werk. Co-starring noted German actor Karl Ludwig Diehl and American matinee idol Don Alvarado. The film takes place in Vienna, 1912. When an Austrian staff officer is implicated by association with a known Italian spy he goes on the run. Three years later - as the Great War gets into full swing - he returns and begs the Austrian Secret Service to allow him to clear his name from suspicion.
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Called Back
Title: Called Back
Character: Gilbert Vaughan
Released: June 5, 1933
Type: Movie
'Spain. Revolutionary doctor foiled by blind man and amnesiac girl.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Facing The Music
Title: Facing The Music
Character: Becker
Released: January 1, 1933
Type: Movie
A joyful medley of farce, romance, song and slapstick starring Stanley Lupino as an impressionable youth whose pursuit of an opera singer’s niece lands him in trouble!
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The Song You Gave Me
Title: The Song You Gave Me
Character: Max Winter
Released: January 1, 1933
Type: Movie
Set in Vienna, this lively musical comedy stars Bebe Daniels as an actress who falls in love with her secretary, but has difficulty in persuading him to propose to her.
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Her Night Out
Title: Her Night Out
Character: Gerald Vickery
Released: October 11, 1932
Type: Movie
A married couple accidentally become mixed up with a bank robber.
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Indiscretions of Eve
Title: Indiscretions of Eve
Character: Ralph
Released: September 12, 1932
Type: Movie
Eve and Peter fall in love at first sight at a New Year's Eve party, but are separated by Eve's jealous fiancé, Ralph. With neither knowing the other's name, they both spend the following day searching frantically for each other around London. Peter's only clue is a set of shop mannequins, all perfect likenesses of Eve - and all made by Ralph's factory.
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Fires of Fate
Title: Fires of Fate
Character: Lt. Col Egerton
Released: September 6, 1932
Type: Movie
In Egypt a colonel with a year to live saves a girl from an Arab prince.
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The Old Man
Title: The Old Man
Character: Keith Keller
Released: December 15, 1931
Type: Movie
'Charlady helps unmask man who stabbed lady's blackmailer.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Gipsy Blood
Title: Gipsy Blood
Character: Zuniga
Released: October 30, 1931
Type: Movie
In 1931, Sir Malcolm Sargent – then a rising young conductor – acted as musical director for this first filmed musical version of Prosper Mérimée’s classic story of passion and fatal jealousy, Carmen. With a score based on Bizet’s opera, Gipsy Blood features celebrated American soprano Marguerite Namara as the capricious gypsy girl from the cigarette factory; her co-performers include Thomas Burke as Carmen’s tormented lover, Don José, and New Zealand-born baritone Lance Fairfax as his rival, the toreador Escamillo.
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The Wickham Mystery
Title: The Wickham Mystery
Character: Charles Wickham
Released: October 19, 1931
Type: Movie
'Crooks steal pearls and helicopter plans.' (British Film Catalogue)
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The Man at Six
Title: The Man at Six
Character: Campbell Edwards
Released: August 1, 1931
Type: Movie
A butler is found murdered in an unfurnished mansion house.
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Creeping Shadows
Title: Creeping Shadows
Character: Brian Nash
Released: July 28, 1931
Type: Movie
Three victims plot to murder a retired informer.