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W.C. Fields and Me (1976)
Character: Parker
In 1920s New York City, W. C. Fields is a successful headlining entertainer, but when his girlfriend leaves him and his broker loses his money, Fields begins anew in California. Working at a wax museum, Fields eventually lands a film role that ascends him to stardom. Back in the limelight and palling around with John Barrymore and the like, Fields meets an aspiring actress Carlotta Monti at a party, with whom he forms a rocky relationship.
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Baby Blue Marine (1976)
Character: Buick Driver
A would-be Marine fails basic training, and is sent home wearing the "baby blue" fatigues of a washout. En route, he is mugged by a battle-fatigued Marine Raider, who leaves him to hitch-hike home in an undeserved hero's uniform. A small Colorado town takes him in, treating him like the hero he appears to be.
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Captain Fathom (1955)
Character: Jack Clyde
While traveling in enemy waters, Captain Fathom and his crew detect an anomalous reading of radioactivity. The submariners investigate and discover a huge bomb lying on the ocean bottom. While Fathom fastens an explosive to destroy the atomic device, his ship is attacked by an enemy submarine. He orders the vessel to flee leaving the Captain and his team of scuba divers behind with a dwindling supply of oxygen in their tanks.
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The Naked Monster (2005)
Character: Col. Patrick Hendry
Using soundtracks and extensive footage from many old movies, this spoof/homage of 1950's science-fiction films brings back many favorite actors from these classic movies, some reprising their former roles, to help destroy a giant stop-motion monster that is threatening to destroy Los Angeles.
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Coffee, Tea or Me? (1973)
Character: Captain
An airline stewardess juggles a life that includes a husband in Los Angeles and another one in London.
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Vincent Price's Dracula (1986)
Character: Buck Donnelly - (archive footage)
Vincent Price hosts this documentary exploring the historical myths surrounding vampires.
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Gregory Peck: His Own Man (1988)
Character: Self
Talented and enduring Academy Award-winning star, Gregory Peck, tells how it was when studios ruled and a shy boy from a broken family could rise to become a famous leading man. Unfashionably modest, Peck describes his fascinating journey from early theater roles, through his first films, to Hollywood’s elder statesman.
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Nowhere to Run (1978)
Character: Mohr
Harry's married to Marian and things are not going all that well, so he wants out but somehow feels that a divorce is not the answer. After developing a winning blackjack system, he hatches a plan that takes years of preparation: to fake his death, assume a new identity and win $500,000 at blackjack.
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Breakout (1970)
Character: Ranger
A prison inmate comes up with a plan to break out in order to be near his wife--and also the $50,000 in stolen cash for which he was originally imprisoned.
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Terror in the Sky (1971)
Character: Capt. Wilson
On a transcontinental flight, the flight crew suffer from food poisoning and become incapacitated. Now it's up to one of the passengers to safely land the plane.
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Wild and Wooly (1978)
Character: Mark Hannah
A Western adventure — a "Charlie's Angels" on horseback — involving three comely females who meet in a territorial prison, engineer a daring escape, and find themselves in a race against time to prevent the assassination of Teddy Roosevelt.
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The Murder That Wouldn't Die (1980)
Character: Chuck Parks
William Conrad stars as a retired L.A.P.D. detective who has moved to Hawaii and taken a job as a college security chief and assistant football coach in this pilot to a post-"Cannon" series to have been called "Battles." With the aid of his niece, the school's star football player, a local tough-turned-college student, and the college dean, he investigates two related murders that occurred nearly 40 years apart.
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My Friend Irma Goes West (1950)
Character: Pilot
Singer Steve, friend Seymour and fiance Jane, along with her dizzy blonde room mate Irma, have a series of misadventures on a California-bound train and end up involved with a gang of murderous gangsters in Las Vegas.
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Fighter Attack (1953)
Character: George
World War II film set in German occupied Italy. A US fighter pilot is shot down in enemy territory during a raid against a German supply depot. He receives from Italian partisans in laying the groundwork for a new attack by his squadron.
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The Vampire (1957)
Character: Buck Donnelly
A small town doctor mistakenly ingests an experimental drug made from the blood of vampire bats which transforms the kindly medic into a bloodthirsty monster.
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The Thing from Another World (1951)
Character: Captain Patrick Hendry
Scientists and US Air Force officials fend off a blood-thirsty alien organism while investigating at a remote arctic outpost.
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Marlowe (1969)
Character: Fred Beifus
Mysterious Orfamay Quest hires Los Angeles private investigator Philip Marlowe to find her missing brother. Though the job seems simple enough, it leads Marlowe into the underbelly of the city, turning up leads who are murdered with ice picks, exotic dancers, blackmailed television stars and self-preserving gangsters. Soon, Marlowe's life is on the line right along with his case.
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Rage (1972)
Character: Col. Alan A. Nickerson
An accidental nerve gas leak by the military kills not only a rancher's livestock, but also his son. When he tries to hold the military accountable for their actions, he runs up against a wall of silence.
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Angel Face (1953)
Character: Bill Crompton
Ambulance driver Frank Jessup is ensnared in the schemes of the sensuous but dangerous Diane Tremayne.
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It Came from Beneath the Sea (1955)
Character: Cmdr. Pete Mathews
A giant octopus, whose feeding habits have been affected by radiation from H-Bomb tests, rises from the Mindanao Deep to terrorize the California Coast.
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Three Secrets (1950)
Character: Officer (uncredited)
A five-year-old boy is the sole survivor of a devastating plane crash in the mountains of California. When the newspapers reveal the boy was adopted and that the crash occurred on his birthday, three women begin to ponder if it's the son each gave up for adoption. As the three await news of his rescue at a mountain cabin, they recall incidents from five years earlier and why they were forced to give up their son.
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Gremlins (1984)
Character: Mobil Gas Station Attendant (uncredited)
When Billy Peltzer is given a strange but adorable pet named Gizmo for Christmas, he inadvertently breaks the three important rules of caring for a Mogwai, unleashing a horde of mischievous gremlins on a small town.
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Billy Jack (1971)
Character: Deputy Mike
Ex-Green Beret hapkido expert saves wild horses from being slaughtered for dog food and helps protect a desert "freedom school" for runaways.
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40 Guns to Apache Pass (1967)
Character: Cpl. Bodine
The Apaches are on the warpath and the Army must defend them. Murphy's mission is to get a shipment of rifles, but it's stolen by greedy white traders with the help of mutinous soldiers
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Big Top Pee-wee (1988)
Character: Sheriff
Paul Reubens stars as Pee-wee Herman in his second full-length film about a farmer who joins the circus after a storm drops a big tent in his front yard. Pee-wee, along with an outlandish cast of animals and circus performers, puts on the best show ever.
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Task Force (1949)
Character: Capt. Ken Willliamson (uncredited)
After learning the finer points of carrier aviation in the 1920s, career officer Jonathan Scott and his pals spend the next two decades promoting the superiority of naval air power. But military and political "red tape" continually frustrate their efforts, prompting Scott to even consider leaving the Navy for a more lucrative civilian job. Then the world enters a second World War and Scott finally gets the opportunity to prove to Washington the valuable role aircraft carriers could play in winning the conflict. But what will it cost him and his comrades personally?
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I Was a Male War Bride (1949)
Character: Red (uncredited)
After marrying an American lieutenant with whom he was assigned to work in post-war Germany, a French captain attempts to find a way to accompany her back to the States under the terms of the War Bride Act.
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The Lost Empire (1984)
Character: Capt. Hendry
A police officer and her two companions battle an evil genius with diabolical plans to destroy the world. Whoever can find the three sacred jewels can anticipate total power.
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The Steel Cage (1954)
Character: Steinberg, Convict Painter, segment "The Face"
Drama set in San Quentin prison.
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Hellraiser: Bloodline (1996)
Character: Hologram Priest (uncredited)
Three generations of the same family deal with the consequences of unleashing the forces of hell.
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The Gunfighter (1950)
Character: Swede (uncredited)
The fastest gun in the West tries to escape his reputation.
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The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953)
Character: Col. Evans
The controlled explosion of an atomic bomb in the Arctic Circle awakens a frozen dinosaur that will wreak havoc in New York City.
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Dirty Mary Crazy Larry (1974)
Character: Carl Donahue
Down-on-their-luck racers Larry and Deke steal from a supermarket manager to buy a car that will help them advance their racing chances. Their escape does not go as planned when Larry's one-night stand, Mary, tags along for the ride.
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Homebodies (1974)
Character: Construction Boss
When a quiet group of pensioners learn that their homes are to be torn down to make way for a block of flats, they decide to take action. What starts as an attempt to discourage the developers soon escalates into wholesale murder of both the developers and the construction workers.
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Free For All (1949)
Character: Pilot
The discovery of a way of turning petrol into water makes a fortune and romance for the young inventor.
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X-15 (1961)
Character: Col. Craig Brewster
X-15 is a 1961 movie that tells a fictionalized account of the X-15 research rocket plane, the men who flew it and the women who loved them.
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MacArthur (1977)
Character: Admiral Halsey
The film portrays MacArthur's life from 1942, before the Battle of Bataan, to 1952, the time after he had been removed from his Korean War command by President Truman for insubordination, and is recounted in flashback as he visits West Point.
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Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957)
Character: Bat Masterson
Lawman Wyatt Earp and outlaw Doc Holliday form an unlikely alliance which culminates in their participation in the legendary Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
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The Bigamist (1953)
Character: Tom Morgan, Defense Attorney
San Francisco businessman Harry Graham and his wife and business partner, Eve, are in the process of adopting a child. When private investigator Mr. Jordan uncovers the fact that Graham has another wife, Phyllis, and a small child in Los Angeles, he confesses everything.
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Ghost Writer (1989)
Character: Cop #2
A writer moves into a Malibu beach house, and comes up against the ghost of an actress who supposedly had committed suicide there 30 years previously, but had been murdered by her boyfriend. The ghost asks the writer's help in proving her boyfriend the killer.
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Ben (1972)
Character: Engineer
A lonely boy becomes good friends with Ben, a rat. This rat is also the leader of a pack of vicious killer rats, killing lots of people.
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Body Shot (1994)
Character: Arthur Lassen
Paparazzi photographer Mickey Dane is obsessed with elusive pop singer Chelsea, and his attempts to capture her on film often land him in trouble.
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Twelve O'Clock High (1949)
Character: Sgt. Keller
In the early days of daylight bombing raids over Germany, General Frank Savage must take command of a 'hard luck' bomber group. Much of the story deals with his struggle to whip his group into a disciplined fighting unit in spite of heavy losses, and withering attacks by German fighters over their targets.
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The Candidate (1972)
Character: Floyd J. Starkey
Bill McKay is a candidate for the U.S. Senate from California. He has no hope of winning, so he is willing to tweak the establishment.
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The Crooked Hearts (1972)
Character: Fisherman
A charming but somewhat larcenous widow attempts to snare a rich bachelor through a lonely hearts club, but her scheme boomerangs into a deadly cat-and-mouse game. This marked the TV-movie debut of both Rosalind Russell and Douglas Fairbanks Jr., and was sadly also Russell's last film role.
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Rage at Dawn (1955)
Character: Monk Claxton
In this film's version of the story, four of the Reno Brothers are corrupt robbers and killers while a fifth, Clint is a respected Indiana farmer. A sister, Laura, who has inherited the family home, serves the outlaw brothers as a housekeeper and cook. One brother is killed when they go after a bank, the men of the town appear to have been waiting for them…
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He Walked by Night (1949)
Character: Detective Questioning Pete (uncredited)
Roy Morgan aka Roy Morgan (Richard Basehart) is a burglar and former war-time Radio & Electronics Engineer who listens in to radio police calls, allowing him to stay one step ahead of the cops.
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A Time for Killing (1967)
Character: Sgt. Cleehan
During the Civil War, Confederate soldiers escape from a Union prison and head for the Mexican border. Along the way, they kill a Union courier bearing the news that the war is over. Keeping the message a secret, the captain has his men go on and they soon find themselves in a battle with the Union search party who also is unaware of the war's end.
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Gus (1976)
Character: Asst. Warden
The California Atoms are in last place with no hope of moving up. But by switching the mule from team mascot to team member, (He can kick 100 yard field goals!) they start winning, and move up in the rankings, Hurrah! The competition isn't so happy.
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The Wild McCullochs (1975)
Character: Larry Carpenter
A story about the rich McCulloch Family, their overbearing father and the children's misguided blaming him for everything that doesn't go right.
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The Howling (1981)
Character: Older Cop
After a bizarre and near fatal encounter with a serial killer, a newswoman is sent to a rehabilitation center whose inhabitants may not be what they seem.
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Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)
Character: Projectionist
Young sweethearts Billy and Kate move to the Big Apple, land jobs in a high-tech office park and soon reunite with the friendly and lovable Gizmo. But a series of accidents creates a whole new generation of Gremlins. The situation worsens when the devilish green creatures invade a top-secret laboratory and develop genetically altered powers, making them even harder to destroy!
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The Steel Jungle (1956)
Character: Dr. Lewy
The tale of a young bookie, married to a beautiful woman who goes to jail, and becomes involved with hoodlums.
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Desire and Hell at Sunset Motel (1992)
Character: Captain Holiday
Right after Disneyland opens in Anaheim, California, in 1955, a toy salesman in town for a convention brings his wife with him so they can both go to Disneyland. They stay at a rundown place called the Sunset Motel nearby. Soon the wife is having an affair with a man staying at the motel. The husband hires a psychotic criminal to spy on them, the wife and her lover plan to murder the husband, and the voyeuristic motel manager is spying on everybody.
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Davy Crockett's Keelboat Race (1955)
Character: Jocko
Davy and Georgie end a particularly successful season of trapping and hunting with the hopes of easy sales, only for such hopes to be dashed by the self-proclaimed "King of the River", Mike Fink, and a band of renegade Indians that have been notorious for attacking passing boats.
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One Way Street (1950)
Character: Cop at Second Accident (uncredited)
After stealing a gangster's money and his girlfriend, a doctor heads for a small village in Mexico to hide out.
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Ring of Fear (1954)
Character: Shreveport
Mystery writer Mickey Spillane tries to help Clyde Beatty deal with a plot to sabotage his circus.
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Strange Invaders (1983)
Character: Arthur Newman
Alien beings, who settle in a small midwestern town, are disturbed by a young professor determined to rescue his daughter from their clutches.
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Beyond Glory (1948)
Character: Bit Role (uncredited)
Thinking he may have caused the death of his commanding officer Captain Daniels in Tunisia, Rocky visits Daniels' widow. She falls for him, he falls for her, she encourages him to go to West Point. While there he faces serious disciplinary review for having forced a plebe into resigning. He may even be court-martialled.
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Airplane! (1980)
Character: Air Controller Neubauer
An ex-fighter pilot forced to take over the controls of an airliner when the flight crew succumbs to food poisoning.
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The Search for Bridey Murphy (1956)
Character: Rex Simmons
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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Goodbye, Franklin High (1978)
Character: Police Captain
Comic melodrama following the day-to-day life of high school senior Will, a promising but naive athlete struggling with choices that could determine his future, romance and family difficulties.
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A Man Called Adam (1966)
Character: Club Owner
A famous jazz trumpeter finds himself unable to cope with the problems of everyday life.
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The Alpha Caper (1973)
Character: Police Captain
A parole officer forced into retirement gets together three ex-convicts to pull off a $30-million armored car robbery.
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The Death Squad (1974)
Character: Hartman
When petty criminals start turning up murdered, a detective discovers they are being killed by a group of his fellow officers who think the criminals were treated too leniently by the courts.
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Cry Terror! (1958)
Character: Agent Frank Cole
A mad bomber holds an innocent family hostage.
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Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (1950)
Character: Detective Tobey
Ralph Cotter, a ruthless criminal, escapes violently from a farm prison. Then, he seduces a dead inmate’s sister, gets back quickly into the crime business, faces corrupt local cops who run the city’s underworld and meets a powerful tycoon’s whimsical daughter.
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Hero at Large (1980)
Character: Firechief Palmer
An idealistic but struggling actor finds his life unexpectedly complicated when he stops a robbery while wearing the costume of Captain Avenger, a superhero character of a film he is hired to to promote. He decides to dabble at being a superhero only to find that it is more difficult and dangerous than he ever imagined.
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Honey, I Blew Up the Kid (1992)
Character: Smitty
Wayne Szalinski is at it again. But instead of shrinking things, he tries to make a machine that can make things grow. As in the first one, his machine isn't quite accurate. But when he brings Nick & his toddler son Adam to see his invention, the machine unexpectedly starts working. And when Adam comes right up to the machine, he gets zapped along with his stuffed bunny.
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Rawhide (1951)
Character: Lt. Wingate (uncredited)
At a desolate relay station in the west, a stagecoach attendant and a stranded woman traveller are held captive by a band of escaped convicts.
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The File on Thelma Jordon (1949)
Character: Police Photographer (Uncredited)
Cleve Marshall, an assistant district attorney, falls for Thelma Jordon, a mysterious woman with a troubled past. When Thelma becomes a suspect in her aunt's murder, Cleve tries to clear her name.
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Stark Fear (1962)
Character: Kane
A marriage falls apart after a dutiful wife becomes the breadwinner after her husband loses his job. This angers him and after reveling in her humiliation, he leaves her. Fortunately, the wife lands on her feet, but not before she obtains closure with her brutish husband.
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Davy Crockett and the River Pirates (1956)
Character: Jocko
Davy Crockett and his sidekick Georgie compete against boastful Mike Fink ("King of the River") in a boat race to New Orleans. Later, Davy and Georgie, allied with Fink, battle a group of river pirates trying to pass themselves off as Native Americans.
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The Andersonville Trial (1970)
Character: Board of Military Judges
A dramatization of the 1865 war-crimes trial of Henry Wirz, commandant of the notorious Confederate POW camp at Andersonville, Georgia.
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Right Cross (1950)
Character: Reporter #3
A sportswriter forms a ring triangle with a fight manager's daughter and her Mexican-American boxer.
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When Willie Comes Marching Home (1950)
Character: Lt. K. Geiger (uncredited)
When Willie leaves home to join the war effort he is all ready to become a hero, but he is only frustrated when his posting ends up to be in his home town, and he is recruited into training, keeping him from the action. However, when he finds himself accidently behind enemy lines he unexpectedly becomes a hero after all.
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The Great Locomotive Chase (1956)
Character: Anthony Murphy
During the Civil War, a Union spy, Andrews, is asked to lead a band of Union soldiers into the South so that they could destroy the railway system. However, things don't go as planned when the conductor of the train that they stole is on to them and is doing everything he can to stop them. Based on a true story.
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Walking Tall (1973)
Character: Augie McCullah
Ex-wrestler and Tennessee Sheriff Buford Pusser walks tall and carries a big stick as he tussles with county-wide corruption and moonshining thugs.
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Davy Crockett at the Alamo (1955)
Character: James Bowie
The third of five programs about Davy Crockett involves him, Georgie and a riverboat gambler they meet searching for a new adventure, which leads them to the Alamo, which they must defend.
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Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier (1955)
Character: Col. Jim Bowie
Legends (and myths) from the life of famed American frontiersman Davy Crockett are depicted in this feature film edited from television episodes. Crockett and his friend George Russel fight in the Creek Indian War. Then Crockett is elected to Congress and brings his rough-hewn ways to the House of Representatives. Finally, Crockett and Russell journey to Texas and the last stand at the Alamo.
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The Wings of Eagles (1957)
Character: Capt. Herbert Allen Hazard
The story of Frank W. "Spig" Wead - a Navy-flyer turned screenwriter.
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Innerspace (1987)
Character: Man in Restroom
Test pilot Tuck Pendleton volunteers to test a special vessel for a miniaturization experiment. Accidentally injected into a neurotic hypochondriac, Jack Putter, Tuck must convince Jack to find his ex-girlfriend, Lydia Maxwell, to help him extract Tuck and his ship and re-enlarge them before his oxygen runs out.
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Seven Ways from Sundown (1960)
Character: Lieutenant Herly
A Texas Ranger must capture an outlaw and take him-in, while tangling with savage Apaches and greedy bounty-hunters on the way back to jail.
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Freeway (1988)
Character: Monsignor Kavanaugh
A deeply disturbed man goes on a murderous nighttime rampage across Los Angeles.
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