James O'Rear

James O'Rear

Born: January 4, 1914
Died: June 14, 2000
in Frankfort, Indiana, USA
James O'Rear was born on 4 January 1914 in Frankfort, Indiana, USA. He was an actor, known for Chinatown (1974), That Girl (1966) and Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (1958). He was previously married to Emily Woodruff. He died on 20 June 2000 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

Movies for James O'Rear...

Chinatown
Title: Chinatown
Character: Lawyer
Released: June 20, 1974
Type: Movie
Private eye Jake Gittes lives off of the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-World War II Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair, Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double dealings and deadly deceits, uncovering a web of personal and political scandals that come crashing together.
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Conrack
Title: Conrack
Character: Messenger
Released: March 27, 1974
Type: Movie
A young, white school teacher is assigned to Yamacraw Island, an isolated fishing community off the coast of South Carolina, populated mostly by poor black families. He finds that the basically illiterate, neglected children there know so little of the world outside their island.
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The Bait
Title: The Bait
Character: Interviewee on Street
Released: March 13, 1973
Type: Movie
Tracy Fleming is a widowed police officer, with a young son, who has risen to the role of plainclothes operative. After six women have been raped and killed, Fleming agrees to go undercover in an effort to make herself a target for the killer. The climax places her in a life-and-death struggle with the killer.
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Title: All in the Family
Character: Mr. Dundee
Released: January 12, 1971
Type: TV
Archie Bunker, a working class bigot, constantly squabbles with his family over the important issues of the day.
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Title: That Girl
Character: Clerk (as James O'Reare)
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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Mister Buddwing
Title: Mister Buddwing
Character: Dice Player
Released: July 15, 1966
Type: Movie
An amnesiac wanders the streets of Manhattan, trying to solve the mystery of who he is.
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Dear Heart
Title: Dear Heart
Character: Marvin
Released: March 7, 1965
Type: Movie
A lonely Ohio spinster hopes to find romance when she travels to New York City for a postmasters' convention.
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Title: The Andy Griffith Show
Character: Mr. Coefield
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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Title: The Chevy Mystery Show
Character: Vatsek
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 Story on Page One
Title: The Story on Page One
Character: Hauser (uncredited)
Released: December 1, 1959
Type: Movie
An adulterous couple is accused of murder after the woman's husband is shot and killed during a scuffle. A high-profile court case tells the story.
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The Search for Bridey Murphy
Title: The Search for Bridey Murphy
Character: Reverend Conway (Uncredited)
Released: October 1, 1956
Type: Movie
After being shown what hypnotism can do, a doctor starts to study it in depth. When he experiments on a friend's wife, she regresses into an early life, that of Bridey Murphy.
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Bus Stop
Title: Bus Stop
Character: Mr. Foster (uncredited)
Released: August 31, 1956
Type: Movie
Cowboys Beauregard Decker and Virgil Blessing attend a rodeo in Phoenix, where Decker falls in love with beautiful cafe singer Cherie. He wants to take Cherie back to his native Montana and marry her, but she dreams of traveling to Hollywood and becoming famous. When she resists his advances, Decker forces Cherie onto the bus back to Montana with him, but, when the bus makes an unscheduled stop due to bad weather, the tables are turned.
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Somebody Up There Likes Me
Title: Somebody Up There Likes Me
Character: Judge (uncredited)
Released: July 4, 1956
Type: Movie
The story of boxer Rocky Graziano's rise from juvenile delinquent to world champ.
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Over-Exposed
Title: Over-Exposed
Character: Roy Carver
Released: April 1, 1956
Type: Movie
This titillating bit of pulp sensationalism was the last in a string of "B" films that Cleo Moore starred in at Columbia. Moore plays Lila Crane, an ambitious clip-joint floozie turned photographer with flexible morals and a penchant for fast money.
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Julius Caesar
Title: Julius Caesar
Character: Decius
Released: August 1, 1955
Type: Movie
The assassination of the would be ruler of Rome at the hands of Brutus and his fellow Senators has tragic consequences for the idealist and the republic.
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Criss Cross
Title: Criss Cross
Character: Waxie
Released: February 4, 1949
Type: Movie
An armored-car guard must join a robbery after being caught with his ex-wife by her gangster husband.
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Brute Force
Title: Brute Force
Character: Wilson
Released: July 16, 1947
Type: Movie
Timeworn Joe Collins and his fellow inmates live under the heavy thumb of the sadistic, power-tripping guard Captain Munsey. Only Collins' dreams of escape keep him going, but how can he possibly bust out of Munsey's chains?