Dick Wesson

Dick Wesson

Born: November 19, 1922
Died: April 25, 1996
in Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Movies for Dick Wesson...

Title: Makin' It
Released: February 1, 1979
Type: TV
Makin' It is an American sitcom starring David Naughton as a disco dancer in the late 1970s. The series only lasted nine episodes, airing on Fridays at 8:00PM on ABC from February 1 through March 23, 1979 before being canceled. It also aired in the United Kingdom on ITV from April 25 through June 13, 1979. In 2002, TV Guide ranked it number 40 on its TV Guide's 50 Worst TV Shows of All Time list.
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Dog and Cat
Title: Dog and Cat
Character: Zink Kauffen
Released: July 22, 1977
Type: Movie
A veteran detective loses his partner in a shooting while they are investigating a gangster who is controlling the local porno rackets. He is stunned to discover that the new partner he is assigned is not only a rookie, but a female.
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Rollercoaster
Title: Rollercoaster
Character: Tourist Father
Released: June 10, 1977
Type: Movie
A young terrorist kills and injures patrons of a Norfolk amusement park by placing homemade explosives on the track of one of its roller coasters. After staging a similar incident in Pittsburgh, he sends a tape to a meeting of major amusement park executives in Chicago, demanding $1 million to make him stop.
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Title: Tabitha
Released: May 7, 1977
Type: TV
Tabitha Stephens is the daughter of the bewitching Samantha and her mortal husband, Darrin Stephens. As a young, single working witch, Tabitha adds a little magic and fun to the lives of her relatives and friends.
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Title: Quincy, M.E.
Released: October 3, 1976
Type: TV
Quincy, M.E. is an American television series from Universal Studios pert in several of the later episodes.
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Title: Starsky & Hutch
Released: September 10, 1975
Type: TV
Streetwise Detective David Starsky partners up with a more intellectual partner, Kenneth 'Hutch' Hutchinson, to protect citizens and patrol the streets of Bay City.
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Title: Paul Sand in Friends and Lovers
Released: September 14, 1974
Type: TV
Paul Sand in Friends and Lovers is a 1974-1975 United States comedic television series starring Paul Sand which centers around a musician in Boston, Massachusetts, and his personal relationships. It was Sand's only starring role in a television series. The show aired from September 14, 1974, to January 4, 1975.
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Title: That Girl
Released: September 8, 1966
Type: TV
That Girl is an American sitcom that ran on ABC from 1966 to 1971. It stars Marlo Thomas as the title character Ann Marie, an aspiring actress, who moves from her hometown of Brewster, New York to try to make it big in New York City. Ann has to take a number of offbeat "temp" jobs to support herself in between her various auditions and bit parts. Ted Bessell played her boyfriend Donald Hollinger, a writer for Newsview Magazine; Lew Parker and Rosemary DeCamp played Lew Marie and Helen Marie, her concerned parents. Bernie Kopell, Ruth Buzzi and Reva Rose played Ann and Donald's friends. That Girl was developed by writers Bill Persky and Sam Denoff, who had served as head writers on The Dick Van Dyke Show earlier in the 1960s.
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Title: The Beverly Hillbillies
Released: September 26, 1962
Type: TV
Jed Clampett's swamp is loaded with oil. When a wildcatter discovers the huge pool, Jed sells his land to the O.K. Oil Company and at the urging of cousin Pearl, moves his family to a 35-room mansion in Beverly Hills, California.
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The Errand Boy
Title: The Errand Boy
Character: The A.D.
Released: November 28, 1961
Type: Movie
Paramutual Pictures wants to know where all the money is going so they hire Morty to be their spy. Morty works for Mr. Sneak and gets a job in the mail room so that he can have access to the lot. But all that Morty ever finds is that he can cause havoc no matter what he does.
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On Vacation with Mickey Mouse and Friends
Title: On Vacation with Mickey Mouse and Friends
Character: The Boss (voice)
Released: March 7, 1956
Type: Movie
Walt Disney, who is on vacation, gives Jiminy Cricket a phone call to take over hosting duties for one TV episode while he is away. Jiminy decides to gather the other Disney stars together to help him out. Unfortunately, they, too, are on vacation, but how they are spending their respective vacations helps put the show together for him.
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The Goofy Success Story
Title: The Goofy Success Story
Character: Announcer (voice)
Released: December 7, 1955
Type: Movie
A look at Goofy's rise to stardom, leading into several of his cartoons-Moving Day, Moose Hunters, How to Ride a Horse, and Motor Mania.
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Paris Follies of 1956
Title: Paris Follies of 1956
Character: Chuck Russell
Released: November 27, 1955
Type: Movie
Trouble ensues when a new theatre-restaurant owner discovers the backer to be a harmless and moneyless lunatic.
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Title: The People's Choice
Character: Rollo 'Hex' Hexley
Released: October 6, 1955
Type: TV
The People's Choice is an American television sitcom that aired on NBC from 1955 to 1958, primarily sponsored by The Borden Company. It stars Jackie Cooper as Socrates "Sock" Miller, an ex-Marine and a young politician in fictitious New City, California. Sock has a basset hound named "Cleo", whose thoughts, as she balefully observes Sock's dilemmas, are recorded on the soundtrack for the viewers' amusement. Cleo's real name was Bernadette. Much of Cleo's dialog consists of wisecracks. The popularity of the basset hound breed increased markedly with the run of the show. During the last season of The People's Choice, Croft began her eight-year role as Clara Randolph on ABC's The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet. The versatile Croft had also been a semi-regular on Our Miss Brooks and I Love Lucy and a regular on The Lucy Show and Here's Lucy.
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Calamity Jane
Title: Calamity Jane
Character: Francis Fryer
Released: November 4, 1953
Type: Movie
Sharpshooter Calamity Jane takes it upon herself to recruit a famous actress and bring her back to the local saloon, but jealousy soon gets in the way.
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The Charge at Feather River
Title: The Charge at Feather River
Character: Pvt. Cullen
Released: July 11, 1953
Type: Movie
A frontier scout leads prisoners on a death mission to save a railroad and rescue two women.
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The Desert Song
Title: The Desert Song
Character: Benjamin 'Benjy' Kidd
Released: May 30, 1953
Type: Movie
Shiek Yousseff, poses as a friend of the French while secretly plotting to overthrow them. Apposing Yousseff are the Riffs, whose secret leader, The Red Shadow, is Paul Bonnard, a professor who is studying the desert, and whose attacks on the supply trains intended for Yousseff keep the Riff villages in food. Foreign Legion General Birabeau arrives to conduct an investigation, accompanied by his daughter, Margot. Birabeau hires Bonnard to tutor her, and she is attracted to a Legionaire captain, Claud Fontaine. While the general, Bonnard and Fontaine pay a visit to Yousseff, an American newspaper man, Benji Kidd, discovers a secret way in and out of Yousseff's palace, with the aid of Azuri, a dancing girl in love with Bonnard. The latter is forced to resume his role as the Riffs leader, and kidnap Margot until he can convince her of Yousseff's treachery. But Yousseff's men attack the Riff camp and take Margot prisoner.
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The Man Behind The Gun
Title: The Man Behind The Gun
Character: Sgt. 'Monk' Walker
Released: January 31, 1953
Type: Movie
This 1952 western stars Randolph Scott as an army investigator who poses as a schoolteacher while working undercover to expose a group of secessionists. Also starring Patrice Wymore, Roy Roberts, Alan Hale Jr., Lina Romay, Morris Ankrum, Dick Wesson and Philip Carey.
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About Face
Title: About Face
Character: Dave Crouse
Released: May 23, 1952
Type: Movie
Three friends enter military school together, but 2 of them don't know that the 3rd one is secretly married.
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Starlift
Title: Starlift
Character: Sgt. Mike Nolan
Released: December 14, 1951
Type: Movie
To impress a movie star, a U.S. Air Force crewman pretends he is soon to see combat. When his lie gets out, chaos ensues.
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Sunny Side of the Street
Title: Sunny Side of the Street
Character: Dave Gibson
Released: September 1, 1951
Type: Movie
A TV worker has fickle designs on an aspiring singer for whom she arranges an audition.
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Jim Thorpe – All-American
Title: Jim Thorpe – All-American
Character: Ed Guyac
Released: August 24, 1951
Type: Movie
The triumph and tragedy of Native American Jim Thorpe, who, after winning both the pentathlon and decathlon in the same Olympics, is stripped of his medals on a technicality.
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Force of Arms
Title: Force of Arms
Character: Kleiner
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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Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison
Title: Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison
Character: Tinker
Released: May 18, 1951
Type: Movie
A warden and his assistant clash over prison reform, triggering a violent riot.
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Breakthrough
Title: Breakthrough
Character: Pvt. Sammy Hansen
Released: November 17, 1950
Type: Movie
Filmed with the full cooperation of the U.S. Army, Breakthrough is a lean, no-nonsense war film set during the 1944 invasion of the continent.
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Destination Moon
Title: Destination Moon
Character: Joe Sweeney
Released: June 27, 1950
Type: Movie
A team composed of an aerospace scientist, an ex-Air Force general, and an industrialist conceives an ambitious plan to land Americans on the moon. From their base in the Mojave Desert, they construct and successfully launch a spacecraft named "Luna" that contains a cargo of four astronauts. But a critical miscalculation of needed power to escape the moon's gravitational pull may put the astronauts' lives in danger.