Frank Gerstle

Frank Gerstle

Born: September 27, 1915
Died: February 2, 1970
in New York City, New York, USA

Movies for Frank Gerstle...

The Christine Jorgensen Story
Title: The Christine Jorgensen Story
Character: Reporter at Airport
Released: October 29, 1970
Type: Movie
Christine Jorgensen goes to 1950s Denmark and makes headlines for having the first sex-change operation.
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San Francisco International
Title: San Francisco International
Character: Congressman
Released: September 29, 1970
Type: Movie
This pilot for the TV series stars Pernell Roberts as Jim Conrad, who runs an airport, much to the chagrin of his boss, "his way." In this, two plots run - a kid whose parents are splitting up decides to take off in a little red prop plane (and Conrad talks him down), and thieves played by the handsome Tab Hunter and his truly ugly sidekicks try to steal a money shipment. Roberts was replaced by Lloyd Bridges when the show went to series.
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The Bamboo Saucer
Title: The Bamboo Saucer
Character: Technician at Radio (uncredited)
Released: October 23, 1968
Type: Movie
A flying saucer hidden in a Red Chinese peasant village is sought by teams from the United States and U.S.S.R. On finding it, they band together to explore the saucer and take a trip into space.
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If He Hollers, Let Him Go!
Title: If He Hollers, Let Him Go!
Character: Sergeant
Released: October 8, 1968
Type: Movie
James Lake (Raymond St. Jacques) is an escaped black convict imprisoned for a murder he didn't commit. Leslie Whitlock (Kevin McCarthy) offers James money to kill his wife, Ellen (Dana Wynter). He declines and tries to look up his old flame Lily (Barbara McNair), but discovers his own brother is now married to the sultry nightclub singer. James returns to Leslie, and the trio travel towards a mountain retreat. James and Ellen escape and try to find the murderer who had framed James years before.
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A Bell for Adano
Title: A Bell for Adano
Character: Col. Middleton
Released: November 11, 1967
Type: Movie
A U.S. army officer, the military governor of an Italian town during World War II, tries to reintroduce democracy, but his efforts are hindered by his commanding general. Placing his career in jeopardy, the governor decides to replace the town's bell, which had been looted by the Fascists.
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Hell on Wheels
Title: Hell on Wheels
Character: Ben
Released: September 1, 1967
Type: Movie
Two brothers, one a popular race car driver that all the women love and the other a brilliant mechanic who makes the winning possible, become enemies when one messes with the other's girlfriend
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Title: Ironside
Character: Eddie Burns
Released: March 28, 1967
Type: TV
When an assassin's bullet confines him to a wheelchair for life ending his career as Chief of Detectives, Robert T. Ironside becomes a consultant to the police department. Detective Sergeant Ed Brown and policewoman Eve Whitfield join with him to crack varied and fascinating cases. Ex-con Mark Sanger is employed by the chief as home help but eventually becomes a fully fledged member of the team also. Officer Whitfield leaves after 4 years service, and is replaced by Officer Fran Belding.
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Title: Dragnet
Character: Albert Marks
Released: January 12, 1967
Type: TV
Police Detective Sgt. Joe Friday and his partners investigate crimes in Los Angeles.
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Murderers' Row
Title: Murderers' Row
Character: Furnas (uncredited)
Released: December 20, 1966
Type: Movie
The handsome top agent Matt dies a tragic death in his bath tub - the women mourn about the loss. However it's just faked for his latest top-secret mission: He shall find Dr. Solaris, inventor of the Helium laser beam, powerful enough to destroy a whole continent. It seems Dr. Solaris has been kidnapped by a criminal organization. The trace leads to the Cote D'Azur.
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Title: The Green Hornet
Character: Mel Hurk
Released: September 9, 1966
Type: TV
The Green Hornet is a television series on the ABC US television network that aired for the 1966–1967 TV season starring Van Williams as the Green Hornet/Britt Reid and Bruce Lee as Kato.
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The Wild Angels
Title: The Wild Angels
Character: Hospital Policeman
Released: July 20, 1966
Type: Movie
A motorcycle gang arrives in a small town in search of a motorcycle that has been stolen by a rival gang; but, pursued by the police, one of its members is injured, an event that will cause an orgy of violence and destruction.
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The Silencers
Title: The Silencers
Character: Frazer
Released: February 18, 1966
Type: Movie
Matt Helm is called out of retirement to stop the evil Big O organization who plan to explode an atomic bomb over Alamagordo, NM, and start WW III.
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Title: Hogan's Heroes
Character: Gen. Aloysius Barton
Released: September 17, 1965
Type: TV
Hogan's Heroes is an American television sitcom that ran for 168 episodes from September 17, 1965, to July 4, 1971, on the CBS network. The show was set in a German prisoner of war camp during World War II. Bob Crane starred as Colonel Robert E. Hogan, coordinating an international crew of Allied prisoners running a Special Operations group from the camp. Werner Klemperer played Colonel Wilhelm Klink, the commandant of the camp, and John Banner was the inept sergeant-of-the-guard, Hans Schultz. The series was popular during its six-season run. In 2013, creators Bernard Fein through his estate and Albert S. Ruddy acquired the sequel and other separate rights to Hogan's Heroes from Mark Cuban through arbitration and a movie based on the show has been planned.
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Title: Honey West
Character: Director
Released: September 17, 1965
Type: TV
After her father's death, Honey West takes over his high-tech private-detective firm, assisted by rugged Sam Bolt--and her pet ocelot Bruce.
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Young Dillinger
Title: Young Dillinger
Character: Watchman
Released: April 28, 1965
Type: Movie
The 1930s outlaw teams up with Pretty Boy Floyd, Baby Face Nelson and Homer Van Meter.
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The Quick Gun
Title: The Quick Gun
Character: George Keely
Released: April 1, 1964
Type: Movie
Gunslinger Murphy helps an ungrateful town fight off a raid by his former gang.
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Shock Corridor
Title: Shock Corridor
Character: Police Lieutenant
Released: September 25, 1963
Type: Movie
With the help of his girlfriend Cathy and Dr. Fong, a psychiatrist, ambitious journalist Johnny Barrett poses as a madman in order to be admitted to a mental institution where a bloody murder has been committed.
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Monstrosity
Title: Monstrosity
Character: Dr. Otto Frank
Released: September 1, 1963
Type: Movie
A rich but unscrupulous old woman plots with a scientist to have her brain implanted in the skull of a sexy young woman.
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Kid Galahad
Title: Kid Galahad
Character: Romero's Manager (uncredited)
Released: November 29, 1962
Type: Movie
After completing his military service, Walter Gulick takes a job as a sparring partner at a gym, the owner of which sees potential in Walter as a professional fighter—and takes him under his wing.
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13 West Street
Title: 13 West Street
Character: Mr. Johnson
Released: February 23, 1962
Type: Movie
Walt Sherill is attacked and beat down by a group of juvenile delinquents on his way home from work one night. The boys who attacked him are not previously known by the police and are therefore hard to track down. As Sherill starts getting impatient he begins his own investigation. Meanwhile, Detective Sergeant Koleski does his best to track down the culprits.
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The Nun and the Sergeant
Title: The Nun and the Sergeant
Character: Sergeant in Charge of the Brig
Released: January 1, 1962
Type: Movie
A weary sergeant in Korea commands military prisoners on a dangerous mission and is joined by a nun and a group of schoolgirls in enemy territory.
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Title: The Andy Griffith Show
Character: Dirksen
Released: October 3, 1960
Type: TV
The Andy Griffith Show is an American sitcom first televised on CBS between October 3, 1960 and April 1, 1968. Andy Griffith portrays the widowed sheriff of the fictional small community of Mayberry, North Carolina. His life is complicated by an inept, but well-meaning deputy, Barney Fife, a spinster aunt and housekeeper, Aunt Bee, and a precocious young son, Opie. Local ne'er-do-wells, bumbling pals, and temperamental girlfriends further complicate his life. Andy Griffith stated in a Today Show interview, with respect to the time period of the show: "Well, though we never said it, and though it was shot in the '60s, it had a feeling of the '30s. It was when we were doing it, of a time gone by." The series never placed lower than seventh in the Nielsen ratings and ended its final season at number one. It has been ranked by TV Guide as the 9th-best show in American television history. Though neither Griffith nor the show won awards during its eight-season run, series co-stars Knotts and Bavier accumulated a combined total of six Emmy Awards. The show, a semi-spin-off from an episode of The Danny Thomas Show titled "Danny Meets Andy Griffith", spawned its own spin-off series, Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., a sequel series, Mayberry R.F.D., and a reunion telemovie, Return to Mayberry. The show's enduring popularity has generated a good deal of show-related merchandise. Reruns currently air on TV Land, and the complete series is available on DVD. All eight seasons are also now available by streaming video services such as Netflix.
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Vice Raid
Title: Vice Raid
Character: Capt. William Brennan
Released: December 1, 1959
Type: Movie
A prostitute sets out to frame a cop.
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Beloved Infidel
Title: Beloved Infidel
Character: Frank (uncredited)
Released: November 17, 1959
Type: Movie
Toward the end of his life F. Scott Fitzgerald is writing for Hollywood studios to be able to afford the cost of an asylum for his wife. He is also struggling against alcoholism. Into his life comes the famous gossip columnist.
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The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake
Title: The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake
Character: Det. Lee Coulter
Released: November 13, 1959
Type: Movie
Jonathan Drake, while attending his brother's funeral, is shocked to find the head of the deceased is missing. When his brother's skull shows up later in a locked cabinet, Drake realizes an ancient curse placed upon his grandfather by a tribe of South American Jivaro Indians is still in effect and that he himself is the probable next victim.
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The Wasp Woman
Title: The Wasp Woman
Character: Les Hellman
Released: October 30, 1959
Type: Movie
The head of a major cosmetics company experiments on herself with a youth formula made from royal jelly extracted from wasps, but the formula's side effects have deadly consequences.
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Inside the Mafia
Title: Inside the Mafia
Character: Julie
Released: September 1, 1959
Type: Movie
A mob assassin holds innocent hostages at an airport in upstate New York.
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I, Mobster
Title: I, Mobster
Character: District Attorney
Released: February 1, 1959
Type: Movie
The rise and fall of gang lord Joe Sante. A crime boss appears before a Senate subcommittee. A flashbacks tell his story.
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Destination Space
Title: Destination Space
Character: Member of Senate Investigating Committee (uncredited)
Released: January 1, 1959
Type: Movie
1959 television science fiction
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Submarine Seahawk
Title: Submarine Seahawk
Character: Capt. Boardman
Released: December 1, 1958
Type: Movie
For his first command in the Pacific war a by-the-book officer is ordered to take his submarine on a reconnaissance mission to locate a fleet of Japanese fighting ships the Allies have lost track of. At first, the rest of the crew resent his distant manner and the way he keeps avoiding taking on the Japs.
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Title: Man with a Camera
Character: Jan
Released: October 10, 1958
Type: TV
Man with a Camera is an American 1950s television crime drama starring Charles Bronson. Former combat cameraman Mike Kovac (Bronson) is now a freelance photographer in New York City, specializing in difficult and dangerous assignments where he can get the kinds of pictures that other photographers can't, or won't take. He sometimes gets help, often reluctantly, from his contact in the police department, Lt. Donovan, and advice from his immigrant father Anton. Throughout the 1950s, Bronson spent most of his early acting career performing in TV shows as well as small parts in films, until he landed the lead in this ABC series. This is the only series in which he played the lead role. He would go on to have supporting roles either as a guest star or a recurring character in dozens of TV shows after this series was cancelled.
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Ambush at Cimarron Pass
Title: Ambush at Cimarron Pass
Character: Capt. Sam Precott
Released: March 1, 1958
Type: Movie
A small Army patrol unit and a couple of former Confederates reluctantly throw in their lot together after being attacked by a band of Native Americans.
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No Down Payment
Title: No Down Payment
Released: October 30, 1957
Type: Movie
The marital difficulties of four couples living in a southern California housing development become intertwined. Among the unhappy couples are ne'er-do-well Jerry Flagg and his long-suffering wife Isabelle, flirtatious Leola Boone and her sadistic husband Troy, hard-working Herman Kreitzer and his understanding wife Betty, and newlyweds Jean and David Martin.
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Under Fire
Title: Under Fire
Character: Col. Dundee
Released: September 23, 1957
Type: Movie
An Army lawyer defends a World War II hero and his men accused of desertion.
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Title: Perry Mason
Character: Sgt. Steve Toland
Released: September 21, 1957
Type: TV
The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.
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The River's Edge
Title: The River's Edge
Character: Harry Castleton
Released: April 11, 1957
Type: Movie
A murderous thief on the run with stolen loot forces a poor rancher to guide him across the desert into Mexico. Accompanying them is the rancher's wife, who happens to be the killer's former girlfriend.
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Autumn Leaves
Title: Autumn Leaves
Character: Mr. Ramsey
Released: August 1, 1956
Type: Movie
A woman falls for a younger man with severe mental problems.
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Magnificent Roughnecks
Title: Magnificent Roughnecks
Character: Chuck Evans
Released: July 22, 1956
Type: Movie
Two oilmen coax a cook, an oilwoman and a gusher in South America.
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The Proud Ones
Title: The Proud Ones
Character: Tim (uncredited)
Released: May 15, 1956
Type: Movie
Robert Ryan plays an aging sheriff responsible for law and order in a frontier cattle town. Virginia Mayo plays his fiancee. As if handling wild cattle drovers isn't enough, a crooked casino operator from Ryan's past comes to town. An early scuffle in the casino leaves Ryan with vision problems that interfere with his duties. Jeffrey Hunter who came to town with a cattle drive encounters Ryan, who killed Hunter's father when Hunter was young. Feelings of animosity soon change as Hunter begins to sense Ryan is telling the truth about his father. What follows is a plot that continues to thicken to the inevitable showdown.
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The Steel Jungle
Title: The Steel Jungle
Character: Kadinski
Released: March 10, 1956
Type: Movie
The tale of a young bookie, married to a beautiful woman who goes to jail, and becomes involved with hoodlums.
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The Killer is Loose
Title: The Killer is Loose
Character: Holdup Man (uncredited)
Released: February 3, 1956
Type: Movie
A savings-and-loan bank is robbed; later, a police wiretap identifies bank teller Leon Poole as the inside man. In capturing him, detective Sam Wagner accidentally kills Poole's young wife, and at his trial Poole swears vengeance against Wagner. Poole begins his plans to get revenge when he escapes his captors.
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Title: Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Police Sgt. Mack
Released: October 2, 1955
Type: TV
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
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Gang Busters
Title: Gang Busters
Character: Det. Fuller
Released: June 17, 1955
Type: Movie
A life-long criminal continues his practice of breaking out of Oregon State Prison - much to the frustration of the police.
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5 Against the House
Title: 5 Against the House
Character: Robbery Suspect (uncredited)
Released: June 10, 1955
Type: Movie
Former war-time Army buddies now students in college decide to rip off a Reno casino.
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I Cover the Underworld
Title: I Cover the Underworld
Character: Dum-Dum Wilson
Released: May 19, 1955
Type: Movie
Gunner O'Hara is about to be released from prison after serving a five-year sentence, and receives a visit from his twin brother John, a divinity student soon to be ordained as a priest. Aware that Gunner plans to resume his criminal career, John decides to stop him.
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Tight Spot
Title: Tight Spot
Character: Jim Hornsby (uncredited)
Released: March 19, 1955
Type: Movie
A former model, serving time in prison, becomes a key witness in a trial against a notorious gangster. She is put under protective watch by the District Attorney in a posh hotel, but the crime kingpin makes attempts to get to her.
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Drum Beat
Title: Drum Beat
Released: November 10, 1954
Type: Movie
President Grant orders Indian fighter MacKay to negotiate with the Modocs of northern California and southern Oregon. On the way he must escort Nancy Meek to the home of her aunt and uncle. After Modoc renegade Captain Jack engages in ambush and other atrocities, MacKay must fight him one-on-one with guns, knives and fists.
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Killers from Space
Title: Killers from Space
Character: Dr. Curt Kruger
Released: January 23, 1954
Type: Movie
Atomic scientist/pilot Doug Martin is missing after his plane crashes on an reconnaissance mission after a nuclear test. Miraculously appearing unhurt at the base later, he is given sodium amethol, but authorities are skeptical of his story that he was captured by aliens determined to conquer the Earth with giant monsters and insects. Martin vows to use existing technology to destroy them.
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Vicki
Title: Vicki
Character: Detective (uncredited)
Released: October 5, 1953
Type: Movie
A supermodel gets murdered. While investigating the case the story of a waitress turned glamor girl is revealed.
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Title: The Danny Thomas Show
Character: Danny’s Publicity Man
Released: September 29, 1953
Type: TV
Danny Thomas, an entertainer, tries to balance his home life with the needs of his career, with hilarious results.
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The Neanderthal Man
Title: The Neanderthal Man
Character: Mr. Wheeler, hunter
Released: June 19, 1953
Type: Movie
A scientist develops a formula which will cause animals to regress to the form of their primitive ancestors, and tries it on himself with disastrous results.
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The Magnetic Monster
Title: The Magnetic Monster
Character: Col. Willis
Released: February 18, 1953
Type: Movie
The Office of Scientific Investigations tracks down the source of increased magnetism and radioactivity in Los Angeles, and discovers that a man-made isotope is consuming available energy from nearby mass every few hours, doubling its size in the process. Although microscopic, it will soon become big enough to destroy Earth; and how to stop it is yet to be determined. The film's Deltatron special effects footage is taken from the 1934 German sci-fi film GOLD.
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The Bad and the Beautiful
Title: The Bad and the Beautiful
Character: Gabby Agent at the Party (uncredited)
Released: December 25, 1952
Type: Movie
Told in flashback form, the film traces the rise and fall of a tough, ambitious Hollywood producer, Jonathan Shields, as seen through the eyes of various acquaintances, including a writer, James Lee Bartlow; a star, Georgia Lorrison; and a director, Fred Amiel. He is a hard-driving, ambitious man who ruthlessly uses everyone on the way to becoming one of Hollywood's top movie makers.
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Title: Four Star Playhouse
Character: Mr. Braun
Released: September 25, 1952
Type: TV
Four Star Playhouse is an American television anthology series that ran from 1952 to 1956, sponsored in its first bi-weekly season by The Singer Company; Bristol-Myers became an alternate sponsor when it became a weekly series in the fall of 1953. The original premise was that Charles Boyer, Ida Lupino, David Niven, and Dick Powell would take turns starring in episodes. However, several other performers took the lead from time to time, including Ronald Colman and Joan Fontaine. Blake Edwards was among the writers and directors who contributed to the series. Edwards created the recurring character of illegal gambling house operator Willie Dante for Dick Powell to play on this series. The character was later revamped and spun off in his own series starring Howard Duff, then-husband of Lupino. The pilot for Meet McGraw, starring Frank Lovejoy, aired here, as did another episode in which Lovejoy recreated his role of Chicago newspaper reporter Randy Stone, from the radio drama Nightbeat.
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Title: Four Star Playhouse
Character: Tender
Released: September 25, 1952
Type: TV
Four Star Playhouse is an American television anthology series that ran from 1952 to 1956, sponsored in its first bi-weekly season by The Singer Company; Bristol-Myers became an alternate sponsor when it became a weekly series in the fall of 1953. The original premise was that Charles Boyer, Ida Lupino, David Niven, and Dick Powell would take turns starring in episodes. However, several other performers took the lead from time to time, including Ronald Colman and Joan Fontaine. Blake Edwards was among the writers and directors who contributed to the series. Edwards created the recurring character of illegal gambling house operator Willie Dante for Dick Powell to play on this series. The character was later revamped and spun off in his own series starring Howard Duff, then-husband of Lupino. The pilot for Meet McGraw, starring Frank Lovejoy, aired here, as did another episode in which Lovejoy recreated his role of Chicago newspaper reporter Randy Stone, from the radio drama Nightbeat.
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Blackhawk
Title: Blackhawk
Character: Dawson [Chs. 7-8]
Released: July 24, 1952
Type: Movie
Based on a successful comic book that began in 1941, the Blackhawks were seven flyers who banded together during WW II to fight the Nazis. After the war, they continued to fight evil where ever they find it. In this movie, they are battling a group of spies and saboteurs bent on destroying democracy. The Blackhawks foil a succession of plots, with a cliff hanger ending in each episode.
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Young Man with Ideas
Title: Young Man with Ideas
Character: Bill Collector (uncredited)
Released: May 2, 1952
Type: Movie
A Montana lawyer gets distracted after moving to California with his wife and children.
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The Unknown Man
Title: The Unknown Man
Released: November 9, 1951
Type: Movie
A scrupulously honest lawyer discovers that the client he's gotten off was really guilty.
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The Blue Veil
Title: The Blue Veil
Character: Doctor (Uncredited)
Released: October 26, 1951
Type: Movie
A World War I widow loses her only child and spends the rest of her life as a children's nurse.
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Title: I Love Lucy
Character: Helicopter Pilot
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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Title: I Love Lucy
Character: Indian #1
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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You Never Can Tell
Title: You Never Can Tell
Character: Detective
Released: September 23, 1951
Type: Movie
Ex-police/army dog King inherits a fortune from an eccentric millionaire. But someone poisons him for his fortune. He gets to go back to earth as a human detective to bring his killer to justice and protect the girl who used to look after him.
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The Next Voice You Hear...
Title: The Next Voice You Hear...
Character: Plant Worker in Locker Room (uncredited)
Released: June 29, 1950
Type: Movie
The Next Voice You Hear... (1950) is a drama film in which a voice claiming to be that of God preempts all radio programs for days all over the world. It stars James Whitmore and Nancy Davis as Joe and Mary Smith, a typical American couple. It was based on a short story of the same name by George Sumner Albee.
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Outside the Wall
Title: Outside the Wall
Character: Stick-Up Man (uncredited)
Released: February 8, 1950
Type: Movie
Larry Nelson, paroled from prison after serving nearly half of his thirty-year sentence, is determined to not fall into the clutches of the law again, and takes a quiet job at a country sanitarium. Thete, he meets and falls for a nurse, Charlotte Maynard, and he knows the only way to enter her web is to have a lot of money, for Miss Maynard is somewhat of a gold-digger.
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D.O.A.
Title: D.O.A.
Character: Dr. MacDonald
Released: December 23, 1949
Type: Movie
Frank Bigelow is about to die, and he knows it. The accountant has been poisoned and has only 24 hours before the lethal concoction kills him. Determined to find out who his murderer is, Frank, with the help of his assistant and girlfriend, Paula, begins to trace back over his last steps. As he frantically tries to unravel the mystery behind his own impending demise, his sleuthing leads him to a group of crooked businessmen and another murder.