William Bassett

William Bassett

Born: December 28, 1935
in Evanston, Illinois, USA

Movies for William Bassett...

Black Dynamite
Title: Black Dynamite
Character: Captain Yancy
Released: October 16, 2009
Type: Movie
This is the story of 1970s African-American action legend Black Dynamite. The Man killed his brother, pumped heroin into local orphanages, and flooded the ghetto with adulterated malt liquor. Black Dynamite was the one hero willing to fight The Man all the way from the blood-soaked city streets to the hallowed halls of the Honky House.
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Fast Girl
Title: Fast Girl
Character: Willy
Released: January 24, 2008
Type: Movie
Racing is in Alex Johnstone's blood. It was her father s life and it ultimately caused his death so her uncle Bill, who runs the local speedway, is determined not to lose his niece the way he lost his brother. But Alex is determined to prove to Bill, to the world, and especially to herself that she has what it takes to be the best in a traditionally male-dominated sport. And when she meets up with handsome professional racecar driver Darryl Sands, the emotional stakes are raised even higher. Will Alex crash and burn or can she carry on her dad s legacy and make her dreams come true?
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Demon Hunter
Title: Demon Hunter
Character: Cardinal White
Released: June 1, 2005
Type: Movie
After resolving a situation of exorcism, the half-breed demon hunter Jake Greyman (Sean Patrick Flanery) reports to Cardinal White (William Bassett) and they realize that the demon Asmodeus (Billy Drago) is impregnating many mortals trying to raise offspring. Cardinal White calls Sister Sarah Ryan (Colleen Porch) to assist Jake in his hunting for Asmodeus and his women.
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Welcome To September
Title: Welcome To September
Character: Mr. Taskey
Released: March 24, 2005
Type: Movie
Drew McCullough, a lonely young Irishman, sells carpet for a living. One night, he is transfixed by the image of a beautiful, exotic woman in a painting. Suddenly, she steps out of the painting and into his arms. For an instant, they are locked in a passionate, soul-churning kiss and then she's gone. Is she real or has he just lost his mind? He's going to find out no matter what the cost. And it costs him dearly. In his obsessive search to find her, his life is turned upside down. In the end, Welcome to September is a quirky story about fantasy, reality, obsession and love, and how all of these things are just different sides of the same coin.
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Title: Avatar: The Last Airbender
Character: Huu (voice)
Released: February 21, 2005
Type: TV
In a war-torn world of elemental magic, a young boy reawakens to undertake a dangerous mystic quest to fulfill his destiny as the Avatar, and bring peace to the world.
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Wild Roomies
Title: Wild Roomies
Character: Mr. Seeley
Released: January 1, 2004
Type: Movie
After his last girlfriend slept with his last roommate, Reno Rizzolla moves to L.A. with his new girlfriend... and chaos ensues when the debt on the house forces him to get roommates.
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House of 1000 Corpses
Title: House of 1000 Corpses
Character: Sheriff Frank Huston
Released: April 11, 2003
Type: Movie
Two teenage couples traveling across the backwoods of Texas searching for urban legends of serial killers end up as prisoners of a bizarre and sadistic backwater family of serial killers.
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Crazy As Hell
Title: Crazy As Hell
Character: Mr. Brennan
Released: October 23, 2002
Type: Movie
A famous psychiatrist (Ty Adams) takes on the job of trying to cure patients at the Sedah State Hospital, run by it's folksy doctor (Sam Delazo). All this takes a strange turn when a mysterious patient (Satan, he calls himself) enters the Hospital seeking help. Or is it just help that he wants?
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Title: Scrubs
Character: Patient
Released: October 2, 2001
Type: TV
In the unreal world of Sacred Heart Hospital, John "J.D." Dorian learns the ways of medicine, friendship and life.
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Title: The Invisible Man
Character: Benjamin Scarborough
Released: June 9, 2000
Type: TV
The Invisible Man is a Sci-Fi American television series starring Vincent Ventresca, Paul Ben-Victor, Eddie Jones, Shannon Kenny and Michael McCafferty. Somewhat more successful than previous television series involving invisible secret agents, it aired from June 9, 2000 to February 1, 2002, lasting two seasons. The plot revolves around Darien Fawkes, a thief facing life imprisonment who was recruited by a low-rent spy organization and given the power of invisibility via implantation of a special "Quicksilver gland" in his head. The gland allows Fawkes to secrete a light-bending substance called "Quicksilver" from his pores and follicles. The substance quickly coats his skin, hair, nails and clothes and renders him invisible. He can consciously release the Quicksilver, which then flakes off and disintegrates. However, the Quicksilver gland was sabotaged at its creation by scientist Arnaud DeFehrn to release a neurotoxin that accumulates in the bloodstream and causes intense pain, followed by antisocial behavior and psychosis. The host requires regular doses of "counteragent" to keep him sane and healthy, which is controlled by said government agency. This series lasted for two seasons, before being cancelled due to cost issues and internal bickering between the Sci Fi Channel and its then-parent company, USA Networks. The show's first season ran concurrently in first-run syndication as well as on Sci Fi.
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Inside: 'Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb'
Title: Inside: 'Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb'
Character: Narrator
Released: May 5, 2000
Type: Movie
A documentary on the making of Stanley Kubrick's classic 1964 film.
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The Art of Stanley Kubrick: From Short Films to Strangelove
Title: The Art of Stanley Kubrick: From Short Films to Strangelove
Character: Narrator (voice) (as William H. Bassett)
Released: April 10, 2000
Type: Movie
A documentary about the making of Stanley Kubricks 1964 film Dr Strangelove Or: How I Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb and his career leading up to this film.
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Title: Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction
Character: Alexander (segment "The Burial")
Released: November 4, 1998
Type: TV
Can you tell the difference between fact and fiction? Several stories of strange, mysterious and incredible occurrences are chronicled during each episode. It is up to the viewer to decide which stories actually happened and which were completely fabricated by the show’s writers. The answer is revealed by Jonathan Frakes at the conclusion of each episode.
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Her Costly Affair
Title: Her Costly Affair
Character: Ed Baines
Released: October 28, 1996
Type: Movie
A professor's casual fling with her graduate student turns deadly when he insists on a more permanent arrangement.
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Title: Sabrina, the Teenage Witch
Character: Roy
Released: September 27, 1996
Type: TV
On her sixteenth birthday, Sabrina Spellman discovers she has magical powers. She lives with her 600-year-old aunts Hilda and Zelda as well as talking cat Salem in the fictional town of Westbridge, Massachusetts.
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Title: 3rd Rock from the Sun
Character: Bernard
Released: January 9, 1996
Type: TV
3rd Rock from the Sun is an American sitcom that aired from 1996 to 2001 on NBC. The show is about four extraterrestrials who are on an expedition to Earth, which they consider to be a very insignificant planet. The extraterrestrials pose as a human family in order to observe the behavior of human beings.
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Spring Awakening
Title: Spring Awakening
Character: Ulf Anderson
Released: November 6, 1994
Type: Movie
The failing economic fortunes of a small turn-of-the-century Nebraska town interrupt a blossoming romance between a pair of star-crossed lovers.
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Title: Power Rangers
Character: Ghost Commander
Released: August 28, 1993
Type: TV
A team of teenagers with attitude are recruited to save Angel Grove from the evil witch, Rita Repulsa, and later, Lord Zedd, Emperor of all he sees, and their horde of monsters.
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Ring of Fire II: Blood and Steel
Title: Ring of Fire II: Blood and Steel
Character: Aaron
Released: March 17, 1993
Type: Movie
Johnny Woo and Julie play an enduring couple who survive all sorts of interference from rival kick-box gangs in their effort to put a little romance in their lives.
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Never Forget
Title: Never Forget
Character: Lewis Brandon
Released: April 8, 1991
Type: Movie
Mel and Jane Mermelstein are a true-life California couple, thrown into the spotlight of judicial history in the 1980s. Mel is a Hungarian-born Jew, sole-survivor of his family's extermination at Auschwitz, and Jane, a Southern Baptist from Tennessee. Their four children are good kids, typical Americans, with just enough orneriness to irritate each other, but enough love and class to pull together when it counts.
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The Hollywood Detective
Title: The Hollywood Detective
Character: Jerry Brazil (as William H. Bassett)
Released: October 25, 1989
Type: Movie
An actor at the end of the line who used to play a PI on TV turns to real detective work when a fan of his begs him to help her.
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The Case of the Hillside Stranglers
Title: The Case of the Hillside Stranglers
Character: Dr. Watts
Released: April 2, 1989
Type: Movie
The chilling true story of the "two of a kind" killing cousins, Angelo Buono and Kenneth Bianchi, better known as the Hillside Stranglers.
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Black Eagle
Title: Black Eagle
Character: Dean Rickert
Released: May 1, 1988
Type: Movie
One of the US Air Force's most modern tactical aircrafts, an F-100 with a new laser guidance system, crashes into the sea near Malta - a region where the Soviet forces are highly present, too. The CIA immediately sends out their best secret agent, Ken Tani, to salvage the system before it falls into enemy hands. To ensure his loyalty, they bring his two young sons to a nearby hotel on the island.
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Invaders from Mars
Title: Invaders from Mars
Character: NASA Scientist
Released: June 6, 1986
Type: Movie
In this remake of the classic 50s SF tale, a boy tries to stop an invasion of his town by aliens who take over the the minds of his parents, his least-liked schoolteacher and other townspeople. With the aid of the school nurse the boy enlists the aid of the U.S. Marines.
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The Naked Cage
Title: The Naked Cage
Character: Jordan
Released: March 1, 1986
Type: Movie
A young woman is falsely convicted of a bank robbery and sent to a maximum-security prison run by a corrupt warden, where she is forced to suffer various indignities.
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Creator
Title: Creator
Character: Dr. Sutter
Released: September 20, 1985
Type: Movie
With the help of student assistant Boris and stolen university equipment, Dr. Harry Wolper plans to clone his dead wife. But then he meets Meli, an egg donor for his experiment, and they fall in love. Faced with choosing between his deceased wife and Meli, Dr. Wolper sees his situation in a new light when Boris' own new love, Barbara, falls into a coma. Meanwhile, another professor tries shutting down the cloning project.
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Title: Hunter
Character: Park Beach Bum
Released: September 18, 1984
Type: TV
Hunter is an American police drama television series created by Frank Lupo, and starring Fred Dryer as Sgt. Rick Hunter and Stepfanie Kramer as Sgt. Dee Dee McCall, which ran on NBC from 1984 to 1991. However, Kramer left after the sixth season to pursue other acting and musical opportunities. In the seventh season, Hunter partnered with two different women officers. The titular character, Sgt. Rick Hunter, was a wily, physically imposing, and often rule-breaking homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department. The show's main characters, Hunter and McCall, resolve many of their cases by shooting dead the perpetrators. The show's executive producer during the first season was Stephen J. Cannell, whose company produced the series.
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Sam's Son
Title: Sam's Son
Character: Mr. Turner
Released: August 17, 1984
Type: Movie
Michael Landon's semi-autobiographical sketch of his earlier life. It's the story of Gene Orowitz, a high school student struggling with his identity, who finds success as a javelin thrower on the track team.
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The Karate Kid
Title: The Karate Kid
Character: Mr. Mills
Released: June 22, 1984
Type: Movie
Daniel moves to Los Angeles with his mother, Lucille, and soon strikes up a relationship with Ali. He quickly finds himself the target of bullying by a group of high school students, led by Ali's ex-boyfriend Johnny, who study karate at the Cobra Kai dojo under ruthless sensei, John Kreese. Fortunately, Daniel befriends Mr. Miyagi, an unassuming repairman who just happens to be a martial arts master himself. Miyagi takes Daniel under his wing, training him in a more compassionate form of karate for self-defense and later, preparing him to compete against the brutal Cobra Kai.
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Moonlight
Title: Moonlight
Character: Tappan Zee Man
Released: September 14, 1982
Type: Movie
A fast-food delivery man for a New York Chinese restaurant gets involved with international terrorists and is recruited by undercover agents to help track down the leader in this prospective pilot.
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Thornwell
Title: Thornwell
Character: C.I.C. Agent
Released: January 28, 1981
Type: Movie
The story of James Thornwell, whose accusation that the U.S. Army used mind control drugs on him to force him to confess to stealing secret documents while stationed in Orleans, France, in 1961, led Congress to award him $625,000 in damages nearly 20 years later.
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Old Boyfriends
Title: Old Boyfriends
Character: David Brinks
Released: March 22, 1979
Type: Movie
When her marriage falls apart, a psychiatrist seeks out those of her former boyfriends who left the biggest impact on her life, mostly in a bad way.
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The Bastard
Title: The Bastard
Character: British Officer
Released: May 22, 1978
Type: Movie
Phillipe Charboneau is the illegitimate son of an English duke. When he travels from France to England to claim his inheritance, he incurs the wrath of his father's family and is forced to flee to America, where he becomes involved in the events leading to the American Revolution. (Episodes 1 and 2 of the Kent Chronicles miniseries.)
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Title: Dallas
Character: Gurney (as William H. Bassett)
Released: April 2, 1978
Type: TV
The world's first mega-soap, and one of the most popular ever produced, Dallas had it all. Beautiful women, expensive cars, and men playing Monopoly with real buildings. Famous for one of the best cliffhangers in TV history, as the world asked "Who shot J.R.?" A slow-burner to begin with, Dallas hit its stride in the 2nd season, with long storylines and expert character development. Dallas ruled the airwaves in the 1980's.
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Title: Dallas
Character: Attorney Gurney (as William H. Bassett)
Released: April 2, 1978
Type: TV
The world's first mega-soap, and one of the most popular ever produced, Dallas had it all. Beautiful women, expensive cars, and men playing Monopoly with real buildings. Famous for one of the best cliffhangers in TV history, as the world asked "Who shot J.R.?" A slow-burner to begin with, Dallas hit its stride in the 2nd season, with long storylines and expert character development. Dallas ruled the airwaves in the 1980's.
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Keefer
Title: Keefer
Character: The Sergeant
Released: March 16, 1978
Type: Movie
An U.S. Army colonel leads a crack group of secret agents operating behind enemy lines in occupied France during World War II.
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Perfect Gentlemen
Title: Perfect Gentlemen
Character: Southern Man
Released: March 14, 1978
Type: Movie
Women whose husbands are incarcerated decide to band together to rob a hotel safe.
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Return from Witch Mountain
Title: Return from Witch Mountain
Character: Operations Officer
Released: March 10, 1978
Type: Movie
Tony and Tia are other-worldly twins endowed with telekinesis. When their Uncle Bene drops them off in Los Angeles for an earthbound vacation, a display of their supernatural skill catches the eye of the nefarious Dr. Gannon and his partner in crime, Letha, who see rich possibilities in harnessing the children's gifts. They kidnap Tony, and Tia gives chase only to find Gannon is using her brother's powers against her.
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The Night They Took Miss Beautiful
Title: The Night They Took Miss Beautiful
Character: Smitty
Released: October 24, 1977
Type: Movie
Criminals hijack an airplane carrying five beauty contest finalists, but unknowingly they've also kidnapped a government agent carrying a dangerous virus that is to be used in bacterial warfare.
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Never Con a Killer
Title: Never Con a Killer
Character: Huff Hufaker
Released: May 13, 1977
Type: Movie
Pilot to the short-lived TV series "The Feather and Father Gang" has Detective Feather Danton and her con-man father Harry teaming up to outwit Runyonesque horseplayer E.J. Valerian.
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The New Love Boat
Title: The New Love Boat
Character: Josh
Released: May 5, 1977
Type: Movie
Guest stars include Georgia Engel as a stowaway, Gary Frank and Melanie Mayron as a pair of tremulous honeymooners, Stella Stevens and Pat Harrington as an eternally bickering married couple, and Audra Lindley and Phil Silvers as, respectively, an outspoken middle-aged lady and a woebegone widower.
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Lucky Lady
Title: Lucky Lady
Character: Charley
Released: December 25, 1975
Type: Movie
When an American booze smuggler gets murdered in Prohibition-era Mexico, his widow, a nightclub singer, joins forces with her lover and a desperate loner to become rum-runners to the U.S.
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The Towering Inferno
Title: The Towering Inferno
Character: Leading Agent
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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The Cloning of Clifford Swimmer
Title: The Cloning of Clifford Swimmer
Released: November 1, 1974
Type: Movie
Clifford Swimmer, an angry and abusive man cruel to his wife and son, wants out if his marriage. With the help of a scientist he clones a replacement who takes over as head of the family while the real Clifford travels the world. The clone turns out to be a gentle and sensitive husband and father, a complete opposite of the original, and the wife and son come to love him. When the real Clifford comes back and finds his family happy with the clone he becomes angry and jealous and things take a deadly turn.
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The Lie
Title: The Lie
Character: Army Major
Released: April 24, 1973
Type: Movie
An Ingmar Bergman script. Produced for Swedish Television as "Reservatet" (1970) and for BBC as "The Lie" (1971). An American couple is trapped in their marriage and way of life. Locked up in their bourgeois inferno.
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Another Part of the Forest
Title: Another Part of the Forest
Character: Bagtry
Released: October 2, 1972
Type: Movie
A television adaptation of Lillian Hellman's play about the Hubbards, a rich Southern family of greedy, ruthless individuals.
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Title: Nancy
Character: Secret Service Agent Turner
Released: September 17, 1970
Type: TV
Nancy is an American sitcom that aired on NBC during the 1970-1971 television season. The series stars Renne Jarrett in the title role.
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The Grasshopper
Title: The Grasshopper
Character: Aaron
Released: May 27, 1970
Type: Movie
A British Columbia teenager dreams of show business but winds up as a call girl in Las Vegas.
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A Time for Dying
Title: A Time for Dying
Character: The Southerner
Released: September 15, 1969
Type: Movie
Passing through a town, a farm boy aspiring to be a bounty hunter rescues a woman who has been tricked into working in its brothel and the two travel towards his father's ranch.
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Title: The Outcasts
Released: September 23, 1968
Type: TV
The Outcasts is an American Western genre television series, appearing on ABC in the 1968-69 season. The series stars Don Murray and Otis Young. It is most notable for being the first television Western with an African American co-star.
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Title: Land of the Giants
Character: Ranger Jack
Released: September 22, 1968
Type: TV
Set fifteen years in the then-future year 1983, the series tells the tale of the crew and passengers of a sub-orbital transport ship named Spindrift. In the pilot episode, the Spindrift is en route from Los Angeles to London, on an ultra-fast sub-orbital flight. Just beyond Earth's boundary with space, the Spindrift encounters a magnetic space storm, and is dragged through a space warp to a mysterious planet where everything is twelve times larger than on Earth, whose inhabitants the Earthlings nickname "the Giants". The Spindrift crash-lands, and the damage renders it inoperable.
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The Journey of the Fifth Horse
Title: The Journey of the Fifth Horse
Character: Rubin / Narvinsky
Released: October 14, 1966
Type: Movie
Dustin Hoffman stars in this television adaptation of Ivan Turgenev's tale about Dmitri Zoditch, a simple manuscript reader at a publishing house whose grand dreams don't square with his dead-end job and miserable apartment. When he's assigned to read the diary of a nobleman, he finds bitter parallels between his own pathetic existence and the wasted life described in the journal. Michael Tolan and Charlotte Rae co-star.
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Title: I Dream of Jeannie
Character: Clem
Released: September 18, 1965
Type: TV
While on a mission, American astronaut Captain Tony Nelson is forced to make an emergency landing that will forever change his life. On a deserted South Pacific island, Captain Nelson happens upon a bottle containing a beautiful two-thousand-year-old female genie named Jeannie. Rescuing her from the bottle nets Tony the requisite three wishes, and then some, when Jeannie pledges total devotion to her new "master".
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Title: I Dream of Jeannie
Character: Sam Farrow
Released: September 18, 1965
Type: TV
While on a mission, American astronaut Captain Tony Nelson is forced to make an emergency landing that will forever change his life. On a deserted South Pacific island, Captain Nelson happens upon a bottle containing a beautiful two-thousand-year-old female genie named Jeannie. Rescuing her from the bottle nets Tony the requisite three wishes, and then some, when Jeannie pledges total devotion to her new "master".
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Title: The Chevy Mystery Show
Character: Dr. Roger Waring
Released: May 29, 1960
Type: TV
The Chevy Mystery Show is an American television anthology series featuring a different mystery each week that aired on NBC in 1960 as a summer replacement.
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The Tempest
Title: The Tempest
Character: Ferdinand
Released: February 13, 1960
Type: Movie
Prospero, the deposed Duke of Milan, who lives in exile on a remote island as a sorcerer, uses his powers to shipwreck his usurper brother on the island.