William Holden

William Holden

Born: April 17, 1918
Died: November 12, 1981
in O'Fallon, Illinois, USA
William Holden (April 17, 1918 – November 12, 1981) was an American actor. Holden won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1953 and the Emmy Award for Best Actor in 1974. One of the biggest box office draws of the 1950s, he was named one of the "Top 10 Stars of the Year" six times (1954–1958, 1961) and appeared on the American Film Institute's AFI's 100 Years…100 Stars list as #25.   Description above from the Wikipedia article William Holden, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Movies for William Holden...

Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
Title: Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: July 27, 2018
Type: Movie
A deliciously scandalous portrait of unsung Hollywood legend Scotty Bowers, whose bestselling memoir chronicled his decades spent as sexual procurer to the stars.
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Mr. Yunioshi:  An Asian Perspective
Title: Mr. Yunioshi: An Asian Perspective
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 13, 2009
Type: Movie
Mr. Yunioshi: An Asian Perspective provides some insightful commentary of how far we've come concerning Asian characterizations in Hollywood movies from earlier eras.
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Grace Kelly: Destiny of a Princess
Title: Grace Kelly: Destiny of a Princess
Character: Self - Actor (archive footage)
Released: September 16, 2006
Type: Movie
In 1956, actress and Hollywood star Grace Kelly (1929-82), then at the height of her film career, unexpectedly dropped everything to marry Prince Rainier III of Monaco. Jinx, an American journalist and friend of the future princess, accompanied her on her journey to the wedding and covered the sensational event.
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The Making of 'Network'
Title: The Making of 'Network'
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: February 28, 2006
Type: Movie
An engrossing feature-length documentary about the making of Sidney Lumet's classic film "Network."
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Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
Title: Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: July 25, 2004
Type: Movie
An account of the life and work of American film director Sam Peckinpah (1925-84), a tortured artist whose genius and inner demons changed the Western genre forever.
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Edith Head: The Paramount Years
Title: Edith Head: The Paramount Years
Character: (archive footage)
Released: November 26, 2002
Type: Movie
A tribute to the legendary costume designer Edith Head during her years providing costumes for the films of Paramount studio which includes Sunset Boulevard, Roman Holiday and many others during her distinguished career that lasted more than six decades and earned her eight Academy Awards wins in between more than 30 nominations.
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The Making of 'The Bridge on the River Kwai'
Title: The Making of 'The Bridge on the River Kwai'
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: November 21, 2000
Type: Movie
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Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line
Title: Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: May 12, 1997
Type: Movie
Born Ruby Stevens, she was orphaned when she was four. A chance audition led to a chorus job. By 17 she was a Ziegfeld Girl. At 20 she earned excellent reviews for a bit part in a Broadway play — and she had a new name: Barbara Stanwyck.
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Sad?
Title: Sad?
Character: (archive footage)
Released: January 18, 1996
Type: Movie
Set in the mid sixties and shot with more black than white, ‘SAD?’ is a dark ten minute film that explores the time that we spend alone watching television, and the good and sad effects it can have on you. The film has a timeless, forgotten feel about it, a study of a world and time detached from the norm, a life filled with both laughter and loneliness, escapism and escapees...
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Audrey Hepburn: Remembered
Title: Audrey Hepburn: Remembered
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: August 11, 1993
Type: Movie
Audrey Hepburn was one of the movies' best-loved stars, blessed with beauty, talent, an elegant sophistication and an enduring aura of youthful innocence. As Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF, she spoke for the world's suffering children and families, earning an affection and admiration that only increased with news of her untimely death. From the star herself we learn of her career and the family and friendships that were her priority.
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Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
Title: Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
Character: Donald Gresham (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: October 28, 1991
Type: Movie
This documentary, hosted by actor Burgess Meredith, explores the life and career of movie director Otto Preminger, whose body of work includes such memorable films as Anatomy of a Murder, Exodus, Laura, Forever Amber, Advise and Consent, In Harm's Way, The Moon Is Blue, The Man with the Golden Arm, and many other movies made from the '30s through the '70s. Interviews with actors Frank Sinatra, Vincent Price, James Stewart, Michael Caine, and others who worked with the flamboyant and sometimes control-obsessed director add information and insight to the story.
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Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
Title: Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: July 15, 1991
Type: Movie
Actress Sally Field looks at the dramatic life and successful career of the superb actress Barbara Stanwyck (1907-90), a Hollywood legend.
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Sally's Beauty Spot
Title: Sally's Beauty Spot
Character: Robert Lomax (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
A large black mole above an Asian woman's breast serves as a metaphor for cultural and racial difference in this engaging experimental film. Off-screen women's voices and scenes from THE WORLD OF SUZIE WONG parallel and counterpoint Sally's own interracial relationships and emerging self-awareness. A provocative and stylish meditation on Asian femininity.
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William Holden: The Golden Boy
Title: William Holden: The Golden Boy
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: December 13, 1989
Type: Movie
It was said of him that in more than 70 films, he never once gave a bad performance.
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Grace Kelly: The American Princess
Title: Grace Kelly: The American Princess
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: June 8, 1987
Type: Movie
A biography of American actress Grace Kelly from her early days as an aspiring actress to her death as Princess of Monaco.
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Bring Me the Head of Charlie Brown
Title: Bring Me the Head of Charlie Brown
Character: Charlie Brown (voice) (archive sound)
Released: June 27, 1986
Type: Movie
Charlie Brown is on the run from the Peanuts Gang after the Great Pumpkin puts a bounty on his head in this wild animated student short by Jim Reardon.
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S.O.B.
Title: S.O.B.
Character: Tim Culley
Released: July 1, 1981
Type: Movie
A movie producer who made a huge flop tries to salvage his career by revamping his film as an erotic production, where its family-friendly star takes her top off.
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The Earthling
Title: The Earthling
Character: Patrick Foley
Released: July 24, 1980
Type: Movie
Recently diagnosed with a terminal illness, a man returns home to Australia to die in the wilderness. His plans become complicated when he comes across a young boy whose parents have been killed and decides to take him under his wing.
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When Time Ran Out...
Title: When Time Ran Out...
Character: Shelby Gilmore
Released: March 28, 1980
Type: Movie
An active volcano threatens a south Pacific island resort and its guests as a power struggle ensues between the property's developer and a drilling foreman.
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Escape to Athena
Title: Escape to Athena
Character: POW (uncredited)
Released: May 21, 1979
Type: Movie
During the World War II, the prisoners of a German camp in a Greek island are trying to escape. They not only want their freedom, but also seek an ineffable treasure hidden in a monastery at the summit of the island's mountain.
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Ashanti
Title: Ashanti
Character: Jim Sandell
Released: February 21, 1979
Type: Movie
Dr. Anansa Linderby is kidnapped in a medical mission in Africa by a slave trader. From this moment, her husband will do anything to recover her and to punish the bad guys, but that will be not an easy task.
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Fedora
Title: Fedora
Character: Barry Detweiler
Released: June 29, 1978
Type: Movie
An ambitious Hollywood hustler becomes involved with a reclusive female star, whom he tries to lure out of retirement.
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Damien: Omen II
Title: Damien: Omen II
Character: Richard Thorn
Released: June 9, 1978
Type: Movie
Since the sudden and suspicious deaths of his parents, young Damien has been in the charge of his wealthy aunt and uncle and enrolled in a military school. Widely feared to be the Antichrist, he relentlessly plots to seize control of his uncle's business empire — and the world.
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21 Hours at Munich
Title: 21 Hours at Munich
Character: Manfred Schreiber
Released: December 25, 1976
Type: Movie
A dramatization of the incident in 1972 when Arab terrorists broke into the Olympic compound in Munich and murdered 11 Israeli athletes.
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Network
Title: Network
Character: Max Schumacher
Released: November 14, 1976
Type: Movie
When veteran anchorman Howard Beale is forced to retire his 25-year post because of his age, he announces to viewers that he will kill himself during his farewell broadcast. Network executives rethink their decision when his fanatical tirade results in a spike in ratings.
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The Towering Inferno
Title: The Towering Inferno
Character: Jim Duncan
Released: December 14, 1974
Type: Movie
At the opening party of a colossal—but poorly constructed—skyscraper, a massive fire breaks out, threatening to destroy the tower and everyone in it.
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Open Season
Title: Open Season
Character: Hal Wolkowski
Released: August 1, 1974
Type: Movie
Three Vietnam vets have become so conditioned to violence that they have developed psychotic tendencies. They kidnap people, brutalize them, then turn them loose and hunt them like animals. However the father of one of their earlier victims is plotting a vicious revenge against them.
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Breezy
Title: Breezy
Character: Frank Harmon
Released: November 18, 1973
Type: Movie
A free-spirited young woman, Breezy, hitches a ride with an aging real estate salesman, Frank. Sensing that she just wants to use him he tries to have nothing to do with her. She's not that easy to shake, however, and over time a bond forms between them.
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The Blue Knight
Title: The Blue Knight
Character: Bumper Morgan
Released: November 11, 1973
Type: Movie
Bumper Morgan is a veteran Los Angeles Police Department street cop. He is due to retire after 20 years on the job, but is not letting up on the criminal element on his beat.
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The Revengers
Title: The Revengers
Character: John Benedict
Released: June 21, 1972
Type: Movie
The life of peaceful rancher John Benedict is torn apart when his family is massacred by a gang of marauding outlaws and his farm is destroyed. He assembles a team of mean, lawless convicts to act as his posse as he pursues the gang responsible for the deaths of his loved ones.
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Wild Rovers
Title: Wild Rovers
Character: Ross Bodine
Released: June 23, 1971
Type: Movie
Ross Bodine and Frank Post are cowhands on Walt Buckman's R-Bar-R ranch. Bodine is older and broods a bit about how he will get along when he's too old to cowboy. Post is young and rambunctious and ambitious for a better life than wrangling cows. When one of their fellow cowboys is killed in a corral accident, Post suggests a way into a better life for himself and his friend: robbing a bank. Bodine reluctantly joins in the plan and the two contrive to rob the local bank. They make good their escape initially, but Walt Buckman and his two sons, John and Paul, are incensed at this betrayal by their own trusted employees. John and Paul set out to bring Bodine and Post to justice.
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The Christmas Tree
Title: The Christmas Tree
Character: Laurent Ségur
Released: September 25, 1969
Type: Movie
A French-American millionaire, his girlfriend and his war buddy try to grant his dying son's every wish.
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The Wild Bunch
Title: The Wild Bunch
Character: Pike Bishop
Released: June 19, 1969
Type: Movie
An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappearing around them.
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The Dean Martin Christmas Show
Title: The Dean Martin Christmas Show
Character: Self - Guest (uncredited)
Released: December 19, 1968
Type: Movie
A Classic Holiday Celebration with Dean and Friends.
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Title: The Dick Cavett Show
Character: Self - Guest
Released: June 6, 1968
Type: TV
The Dick Cavett Show has been the title of several talk shows hosted by Dick Cavett on various television networks.
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The Devil's Brigade
Title: The Devil's Brigade
Character: Lt. Col. Robert T. Frederick
Released: May 15, 1968
Type: Movie
At the onset of World War II, American Lt. Col. Robert Frederick is put in charge of a unit called the 1st Special Service Force, composed of elite Canadian commandos and undisciplined American soldiers. With Maj. Alan Crown leading the Canadians and Maj. Cliff Bricker the acting head of the American contingent, there is initial tension -- but the team comes together when given a daunting mission that few would dare to attempt.
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Casino Royale
Title: Casino Royale
Character: Ransome
Released: April 13, 1967
Type: Movie
Sir James Bond is called back out of retirement to stop SMERSH. In order to trick SMERSH, James thinks up the ultimate plan - that every agent will be named 'James Bond'. One of the Bonds, whose real name is Evelyn Tremble is sent to take on Le Chiffre in a game of baccarat, but all the Bonds get more than they can handle.
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Alvarez Kelly
Title: Alvarez Kelly
Character: Alvarez Kelly
Released: October 6, 1966
Type: Movie
In 1864, during the American Civil War, Mexican cattleman Alvarez Kelly supplies the Union with cattle until unexpected circumstances force him to change his customers.
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The 7th Dawn
Title: The 7th Dawn
Character: Major Ferris
Released: September 2, 1964
Type: Movie
Political and personal intrigues surround a group of characters in Malaya, after the close of the Second World War.
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Paris When It Sizzles
Title: Paris When It Sizzles
Character: Richard Benson / Rick
Released: March 16, 1964
Type: Movie
Hollywood producer Alexander Meyerheimer has hired drunken writer Richard Benson to write his latest movie. Benson has been holed up in a Paris apartment supposedly working on the script for months, but instead has spent the time living it up. Benson now has just two days to the deadline and thus hires a temporary secretary, Gabrielle Simpson, to help him complete it in time.
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Title: The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Character: Self
Released: October 1, 1962
Type: TV
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under The Tonight Show franchise from 1962 to 1992. It originally aired during late-night. For its first ten years, Carson's Tonight Show was based in New York City with occasional trips to Burbank, California; in May 1972, the show moved permanently to Burbank, California. In 2002, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson was ranked #12 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
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The Lion
Title: The Lion
Character: Robert Hayward
Released: August 19, 1962
Type: Movie
Young Tina lives with her mother and stepfather on a wildlife reserve in Kenya. While her stepfather believes this is a wonderful environment for her to grow up in, her mother becomes increasingly concerned by her behaviour. These concerns are reinforced when it is revealed that her daughter's best friend in the whole world is a fully grown lion. Worried that her daughter may be turning into a savage, she sends for her former husband, Tina's biological father, in the hope that he can take her back to civilization (in this case rural Connecticut). But it seems as though Tina's mother wants something more than a civilized upbringing for her daughter.
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The Counterfeit Traitor
Title: The Counterfeit Traitor
Character: Eric Erickson
Released: April 17, 1962
Type: Movie
Blacklisted in modern day WW2, a Swedish oil trader opts to assist British Allies, by means of infiltrating and surveying Nazi Germany.
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Satan Never Sleeps
Title: Satan Never Sleeps
Character: Father O'Banion
Released: February 22, 1962
Type: Movie
A priest arrives at a mission-post in China accompanied by a young native girl who has joined him along the way. His job is to relieve the existing priest, who is now too old and weak to continue with the upkeep of the church. However, Communist soldiers arrive at the mission and seize it as a command post. Their leader rapes the native girl and impregnates her, only later to realize that Communism is no good for him. In the end, the foursome flee to the border, but are pursued by Communist forces along the way.
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Title: The Mike Douglas Show
Character: Self
Released: December 11, 1961
Type: TV
The Mike Douglas Show is an American daytime television talk show hosted by Mike Douglas that originally aired only in the Cleveland area during much of its first two years on the air. It then went into syndication in 1963 and remained on television until 1982. It was distributed by Westinghouse Broadcasting and for much of its run, originated from studios of two of the company's TV stations in Cleveland and Philadelphia.
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The World of Suzie Wong
Title: The World of Suzie Wong
Character: Robert Lomax
Released: November 10, 1960
Type: Movie
A Hong Kong prostitute tries modeling and falls for the artist who's painting her.
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The Horse Soldiers
Title: The Horse Soldiers
Character: Major 'Hank' Kendall
Released: June 11, 1959
Type: Movie
A Union Cavalry outfit is sent behind confederate lines in strength to destroy a rail supply center. Along with them is sent a doctor who causes instant antipathy between him and the commander. The secret plan for the mission is overheard by a southern belle who must be taken along to assure her silence.
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The Key
Title: The Key
Character: Capt. David Ross
Released: May 28, 1958
Type: Movie
In wartime England, circa 1941, poorly-armed tugs are sent into "U-Boat Alley" to rescue damaged Allied ships. An American named David Ross arrives to captain one of these tugs. He's given a key by a fellow tugboat-man -- a key to an apartment and its pretty female resident. Should something happen to the friend, Ross can use the key.
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The Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant
Title: The Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1958
Type: Movie
A behind-the-scenes look at the building of the bridge in the film The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) and the preparations for its destruction.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai
Title: The Bridge on the River Kwai
Character: Cmdr. Shears
Released: October 11, 1957
Type: Movie
The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence officers conspire to blow up the structure, but Col. Nicholson, the commander who supervised the bridge's construction, has acquired a sense of pride in his creation and tries to foil their plans.
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Toward the Unknown
Title: Toward the Unknown
Character: Maj. Lincoln Bond
Released: September 27, 1956
Type: Movie
Tortured into a false confession while a POW in Korea, Major Lincoln Bond returns to active service as a test pilot. Determined to clear his name, Bond battles a hard-nosed base commander, prejudiced officers and his own insecurities.
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Title: The Steve Allen Show
Character: Self - Set of 'The Bridge on the River Kwai'
Released: June 24, 1956
Type: TV
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The Proud and Profane
Title: The Proud and Profane
Character: Lt. Col. Colin Black
Released: June 13, 1956
Type: Movie
In this romantic drama, beautiful Red Cross volunteer Lee Ashley arrives on the South Pacific island of New Caledonia to learn more about the circumstances surrounding the death of her husband, Howard, in the Battle of Guadalcanal. There, Ashley falls for the gruff, seductive Marine Lt. Col. Colin Buck, but struggle and tragedy follow when the widow learns about the reality of Buck's life back home.
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Picnic
Title: Picnic
Character: Hal Carter
Released: November 18, 1955
Type: Movie
Labor Day in a small Kansas farm town. Hal, a burly and resolute drifter, jumps off a dusty freight train car with the purpose of visiting Alan, a former college classmate and son of the richest man in town.
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Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
Title: Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
Character: Mark Elliott
Released: August 18, 1955
Type: Movie
A widowed doctor of both Chinese and European descent falls in love with a married American correspondent in Hong Kong during China's Communist revolution.
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The Country Girl
Title: The Country Girl
Character: Bernie Dodd
Released: December 15, 1954
Type: Movie
An ex-theater actor is given one more chance to star in a musical yet his alcoholism may prevent it from happening.
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The Bridges at Toko-Ri
Title: The Bridges at Toko-Ri
Character: Lt. Harry Brubaker
Released: December 1, 1954
Type: Movie
A naval aviator is assigned to bomb a group of heavily defended bridges during the Korean War.
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Sabrina
Title: Sabrina
Character: David Larrabee
Released: September 10, 1954
Type: Movie
Linus and David Larrabee are the two sons of a very wealthy family. Linus is all work – busily running the family corporate empire, he has no time for a wife and family. David is all play – technically he is employed by the family business, but never shows up for work, spends all his time entertaining, and has been married and divorced three times. Meanwhile, Sabrina Fairchild is the young, shy, and awkward daughter of the household chauffeur, who goes away to Paris for two years, and returns to capture David's attention, while falling in love with Linus.
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Executive Suite
Title: Executive Suite
Character: McDonald Walling
Released: April 30, 1954
Type: Movie
When the head of a large manufacturing firm dies suddenly from a stroke, his vice-presidents vie to see who will replace him.
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The Girl on The Roof
Title: The Girl on The Roof
Character: A tourist
Released: December 16, 1953
Type: Movie
A comedy of manners, the film centers on virtuous actress Patty O'Neill, who meets playboy architect Donald Gresham on the observation deck of the Empire State Building and accepts his invitation to join him for drinks and dinner in his apartment. There she meets Donald's upstairs neighbors, his ex-fiancée Cynthia and her father, roguish David Slader. Both men are determined to bed the young woman, but they quickly discover Patty is more interested in engaging in spirited discussions about the pressing moral and sexual issues of the day than surrendering her virginity to either one of them. After resisting their amorous advances throughout the night, Patty leaves and returns to the Empire State Building, where Donald finds her and proposes marriage.
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Escape from Fort Bravo
Title: Escape from Fort Bravo
Character: Captain Roper
Released: December 4, 1953
Type: Movie
A Southern belle frees a Rebel officer and his men from a Union captain's Arizona fort.
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Forever Female
Title: Forever Female
Character: Stanley Krown
Released: November 28, 1953
Type: Movie
An aging actress has a hard time admitting she is too old to play the ingenue role anymore.
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The Moon Is Blue
Title: The Moon Is Blue
Character: Donald Gresham
Released: July 8, 1953
Type: Movie
Two aging playboys are both after the same attractive young woman, but she fends them off by claiming that she plans to remain a virgin until her wedding night. Both men determine to find a way around her objections.
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Stalag 17
Title: Stalag 17
Character: Sgt. J.J. Sefton
Released: May 29, 1953
Type: Movie
It's a dreary Christmas 1944 for the American POWs in Stalag 17 and the men in Barracks 4, all sergeants, have to deal with a grave problem—there seems to be a security leak.
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Title: The Oscars
Character: Self
Released: March 19, 1953
Type: TV
An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a statuette, officially the Academy Award of Merit, that is better known by its nickname Oscar.
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The Turning Point
Title: The Turning Point
Character: Jerry McKibbon
Released: July 12, 1952
Type: Movie
Special prosecutor John Conroy hopes to combat organized crime in his city and appoints his cop father Matt as chief investigator. John doesn't understand why Matt is reluctant, but cynical reporter Jerry McKibbon thinks he knows: he's seen Matt with mob lieutenant Harrigan. Jerry's friendship with John is tested by the question of what to do about Matt, and by his attraction to John's girl Amanda. Meanwhile, the threatened racketeers adopt increasingly violent means of defense.
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Boots Malone
Title: Boots Malone
Character: Boots Malone
Released: January 11, 1952
Type: Movie
An agent for horse jockeys faces his greatest challenge.
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Submarine Command
Title: Submarine Command
Character: Lt. Cmdr. Ken White
Released: November 1, 1951
Type: Movie
Submarine commander Ken White is forced to suddenly submerge, leaving his captain and another crew member to die outside the sub during WW II. Subsequent years of meaningless navy ground assignments and the animosity of a former sailor, leave White (now a captain) feeling guilty and empty. His life spirals downward and his wife is about to leave him. Suddenly, he is forced into a dangerous rescue situation at the start of the Koren War.... reassigned to the same submarine where all of his problems began.
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Title: I Love Lucy
Character: William Holden
Released: October 15, 1951
Type: TV
Cuban Bandleader Ricky Ricardo would be happy if his wife Lucy would just be a housewife. Instead she tries constantly to perform at the Tropicana where he works, and make life comically frantic in the apartment building they share with landlords Fred and Ethel Mertz, who also happen to be their best friends.
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Force of Arms
Title: Force of Arms
Character: Sgt. Joe 'Pete' Peterson
Released: August 13, 1951
Type: Movie
During the winter of 1943, the German Army halted the American advance in the mountains of Italy; back-and-forth combat decimates Joe Peterson's platoon. On leave in Naples, Joe meets WAC lieutenant Eleanor MacKay; initially cool, she begins to melt during a bombing raid. Their romance develops despite Joe's periodic returns to the front. But whether he'll come back in the end becomes more than doubtful.
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Born Yesterday
Title: Born Yesterday
Character: Paul Verrall
Released: December 26, 1950
Type: Movie
Uncouth, loud-mouth junkyard tycoon Harry Brock descends upon Washington D.C. to buy himself a congressman or two, bringing with him his mistress, ex-showgirl Billie Dawn.
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Title: The Jack Benny Program
Character: William Holden
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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Union Station
Title: Union Station
Character: Lt. William Calhoun
Released: October 4, 1950
Type: Movie
Police catch a break when suspected kidnappers are spotted on a train heading towards Union Station. Police, train station security and a witness try to piece together the crime and get back the blind daughter of a rich business man.
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Title: The Colgate Comedy Hour
Character: Self
Released: September 10, 1950
Type: TV
The Colgate Comedy Hour is an American comedy-musical variety series that aired live on the NBC network from 1950 to 1955. The show starred many notable comedians and entertainers of the era, including Eddie Cantor, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, Fred Allen, Donald O'Connor, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, Bob Hope, Jimmy Durante, Ray Bolger, Gordon MacRae, Ben Blue, Robert Paige, Tony Curtis, Burt Lancaster, Broadway dancer Wayne Lamb and Spike Jones and His City Slickers.
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Sunset Boulevard
Title: Sunset Boulevard
Character: Joe Gillis
Released: August 10, 1950
Type: Movie
A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.
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You Can Change The World
Title: You Can Change The World
Character: Self
Released: February 25, 1950
Type: Movie
Comedian Jack Benny has his butler, Rochester, call several of his celebrity friends over to the house. Benny introduces them to a Catholic priest, who speaks to them about doing a film for a group called the Christophers. The Christophers are an organization that wants to use different mediums such radio, TV, and film to inspire young people to change the world for the better by pursuing careers in public service like teaching and government work. The priest gives the celebrities a history lesson about the founding of the U.S. and God's role in it, and he asks for their help.
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Father Is a Bachelor
Title: Father Is a Bachelor
Character: Johnny Rutledge
Released: February 22, 1950
Type: Movie
Johnny Rutledge is a drifter who comes to and discovers a cabin in the forest where five kids: January, February, March, April, and May are living without parents. Their parents died a while ago, and they want to keep that secret from the townspeople, especially the young school teacher, Prudence Millett, to avoid being sent to a children's home and eventual separation. Johnny moves in with the kids and poses as their uncle to take care of them while romancing Prudence. But in order to keep the children, he has to get married.
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Title: What's My Line?
Character: Self - Mystery Guest
Released: February 2, 1950
Type: TV
Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or "no" questions.
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Dear Wife
Title: Dear Wife
Character: Bill Seacroft
Released: November 15, 1949
Type: Movie
In this sequel to Dear Ruth, teenaged Miriam starts a political campaign to nominate Bill Seacroft, her brother-in-law, for state senator in opposition to the local political machine. Unknown to Miriam, said machine nominates her father, Judge Wilkins. As support grows for Bill, the presence of rival candidates under one roof poses problems, especially for Ruth, wife to Bill and daughter of the judge.
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Miss Grant Takes Richmond
Title: Miss Grant Takes Richmond
Character: Dick Richmond
Released: October 20, 1949
Type: Movie
A bookie uses a phony real estate business as a front for his betting parlor. To further keep up the sham, he hires dim-witted Ellen Grant as his secretary figuring she won't suspect any criminal goings-on. When Ellen learns of some friends who are about to lose their homes, she unwittingly drafts her boss into developing a new low-cost housing development.
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Streets of Laredo
Title: Streets of Laredo
Character: Jim Dawkins
Released: May 27, 1949
Type: Movie
Texas, 1878: cheerful outlaw-buddies Jim, Lorn and Wahoo rescue spunky orphan Rannie Carter from rustling racketeers, then are forced to separate. Lorn goes on to bigger and better robberies, while Jim and Wahoo are (at first reluctantly) maneuvered into joining the Texas Rangers. For friendship's sake, the three try to keep out of direct conflict, but a showdown begins to look inevitable. And Rannie, now grown into lovely young womanhood, must choose between Lorn and Jim
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The Dark Past
Title: The Dark Past
Character: Al Walker
Released: December 22, 1948
Type: Movie
A gang hold a family hostage in their own home. The leader of the escaped cons is bothered by a recurring dream that the doctor of the house may be able to analyze.
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Apartment for Peggy
Title: Apartment for Peggy
Character: Jason Taylor
Released: September 30, 1948
Type: Movie
Professor Henry Barnes decides he's lived long enough and contemplates suicide. His attitude is changed by Peggy Taylor, a chipper young mother-to-be who charms him into renting out his attic as an apartment for her and her husband Jason, a former GI struggling to finish college.
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Rachel and the Stranger
Title: Rachel and the Stranger
Character: David “Big Davey" Harvey
Released: September 18, 1948
Type: Movie
A widowed farmer takes an indentured servant as his new wife, but the arrival of a passing stranger threatens their burgeoning relationship.
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The Man from Colorado
Title: The Man from Colorado
Character: Capt. Del Stewart
Released: August 7, 1948
Type: Movie
Two friends return home after their discharge from the army after the Civil War. However, one of them has had deep-rooted psychological damage due to his experiences during the war, and as his behavior becomes more erratic--and violent--his friend desperately tries to find a way to help him.
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Title: The Ed Sullivan Show
Character: Self
Released: June 20, 1948
Type: TV
The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan. It was replaced in September 1971 by the CBS Sunday Night Movie, which ran only one season and was eventually replaced by other shows. In 2002, The Ed Sullivan Show was ranked #15 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
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Title: The Ed Sullivan Show
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: June 20, 1948
Type: TV
The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan. It was replaced in September 1971 by the CBS Sunday Night Movie, which ran only one season and was eventually replaced by other shows. In 2002, The Ed Sullivan Show was ranked #15 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
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Variety Girl
Title: Variety Girl
Character: William Holden
Released: August 29, 1947
Type: Movie
Dozens of star and character-actor cameos and a message about the Variety Club (a show-business charity) are woven into a framework about two hopeful young ladies who come to Hollywood, exchange identities, and cause comic confusion (with slapstick interludes) throughout the Paramount studio.
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Dear Ruth
Title: Dear Ruth
Character: Lt. William Seacroft
Released: June 10, 1947
Type: Movie
Lt. William Seacroft, on leave from the Italian front, arrives at the New York home of Ruth Wilkins, with whom he has been corresponding. Unknown to both Ruth and Bill, Ruth's younger sister, Miriam, has been writing the letters and signing Ruth's name as part of a program to keep up soldiers' morale. Although Ruth has just gotten engaged to a coworker, she agrees to see Bill and pretend she wrote the letters.
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Blaze of Noon
Title: Blaze of Noon
Character: Colin McDonald
Released: May 2, 1947
Type: Movie
In this aerial melodrama, four brothers working as stunt pilots for a flying circus leave their jobs to become mail pilots. Because their job requires that they constantly travel, they are advised to not settle down with wives and kids. Still, one pilot falls in love and marries. Unfortunately, the woman dislikes his brothers and constantly worries that he will be killed during a flight. Her fears are not unfounded and much tragedy ensues as the story unfolds.
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Wings Up
Title: Wings Up
Character: Himself
Released: May 27, 1943
Type: Movie
Clark Gable stars in this propaganda short about the Officers Candidate School of the Army Air Forces.
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Young and Willing
Title: Young and Willing
Character: Norman Reese
Released: February 5, 1943
Type: Movie
For those, if any, who have wondered why so many Paramount contractees appeared in United Artists' films during the war years, this is another one of the Paramount productions that was sold to United Artists in the early-40's when U.A. was having trouble meeting their exhibitor contracts because of lack of product, mainly due to their loss of production in England. A group of starving, but young and willing, actors band together to share finances and an apartment. Norman Reese (William Holden) orders no love nonsense between the boys and girls till they are set on broadway, but Marge Benson (Barbara Britton) and Tony Dennison (James Beown) are already secretly married. A friend drops in to see Dottie Coburn (Martha O'Driscoll) and is shocked to find the boys and girls sharing the same apartment and insists it is her duty to inform Dottie's father (Jay Fassett.)
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Reconnaissance Pilot
Title: Reconnaissance Pilot
Character: Lt. Packard A. Cummings
Released: January 25, 1943
Type: Movie
Documentary/training film depicting the duties of a pilot in the Pacific Theatre of the Second World War as he flies reconnaissance missions over enemy-held islands.
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Meet the Stewarts
Title: Meet the Stewarts
Character: Michael "Mike" Stewart
Released: May 21, 1942
Type: Movie
A young, newlywed couple learns to make their marriage work—on a budget.
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The Remarkable Andrew
Title: The Remarkable Andrew
Character: Andrew Long
Released: March 5, 1942
Type: Movie
When Andrew Long, hyper-efficient small town accountant, finds a $1240 discrepancy in the city budget, his superiors try to explain it away. When he insists on pursuing the matter, he's in danger of being blamed himself. In his trouble, the spirit of Andrew Jackson, whom he idolizes, visits him, and in turn, summons much high-powered talent from American history...which only Andrew can see.
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The Fleet's In
Title: The Fleet's In
Character: Casey Kirby
Released: January 24, 1942
Type: Movie
Shy sailor Casey Kirby suddenly becomes known as a sea wolf when his picture is taken with a famous actress. Things get complicated when bets are placed on his prowess with the ladies.
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Texas
Title: Texas
Character: Dan Thomas
Released: October 9, 1941
Type: Movie
Two Virginians are heading for a new life in Texas when they witness a stagecoach being held up. They decide to rob the robbers and make off with the loot. To escape a posse, they split up and don't see each other again for a long time. When they do meet up again, they find themselves on different sides of the law. This leads to the increasing estrangement of the two men, who once thought of themselves as brothers.
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I Wanted Wings
Title: I Wanted Wings
Character: Al Ludlow
Released: March 26, 1941
Type: Movie
Told in flashback, this drama follows the training and personal lives of three recruits in the Army Air Corps: a wealthy playboy, a college jock, and an auto mechanic. Love interest is supplied by a female photographer and a sultry blonde.
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Arizona
Title: Arizona
Character: Peter Muncie
Released: December 25, 1940
Type: Movie
Phoebe Titus is a tough, swaggering pioneer woman, but her ways become decidedly more feminine when she falls for California bound Peter Muncie. But Peter won't be distracted from his journey and Phoebe is left alone and plenty busy with villains Jefferson Carteret and Lazarus Ward plotting at every turn to destroy her freighting company. She has not seen the last of Peter, however.
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Those Were the Days!
Title: Those Were the Days!
Character: P. J. "Petey" Simmons
Released: July 14, 1940
Type: Movie
At a family gathering, an elderly man reflects on the follies of his youth during his freshman year at college.
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Our Town
Title: Our Town
Character: Georges Gibbs
Released: May 24, 1940
Type: Movie
Change comes slowly to a small New Hampshire town in the early 20th century. We see birth, life and death in this small community.
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Invisible Stripes
Title: Invisible Stripes
Character: Tim Taylor
Released: December 30, 1939
Type: Movie
A gangster is unable to go straight after returning home from prison.
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Golden Boy
Title: Golden Boy
Character: Joe Bonaparte
Released: September 5, 1939
Type: Movie
Despite his talent as a musician, a city boy decides to become a boxer. He's successful as a fighter — much to the dismay of his parents. When gangsters try to by a piece of him, he begins to have second thoughts.
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Million Dollar Legs
Title: Million Dollar Legs
Character: Graduate Who Says 'Thank You' (uncredited)
Released: July 13, 1939
Type: Movie
At Middleton College, controlled by rich donor Melton, only paying sports are allowed. But Freddie Frye, conniving student body president, has to get a letter in some sport to win back his girl Susie; he schemes to revive crew boat racing. Sinking boats, no money, and his own waistline stand in his way. Can they win the big race with State University?
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Prison Farm
Title: Prison Farm
Character: Prisoner
Released: June 17, 1938
Type: Movie
Shirley Ross plays an innocent young girl convicted for complicity in a crime committed by her boy friend (Lloyd Nolan). The male crook is sentence to six months on a prison farm populated by both men and women (segregated, of course). Ross is also incarcerated, suffering the cruelties of the sadistic male and female guards (including J. Carroll Naish and future "Ma Kettle" Marjorie Main!)