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Independence (1987)
Character: Sterling Mott
A dedicated sheriff in the 1880s who, after his first family is ravaged by a gang of renegades, gets a chance for revenge years later when the same outlaws threaten his new family and the frontier town he single handedly tamed.
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Inside Out (1987)
Character: Lewis Curlson
An agoraphobic must give up his sheltered life and venture outside after a series of personal and financial problems.
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Blinded by the Light (1980)
Character: Max
When teenager David Bowers renounces his home and family to run off with a quasi-religious cult, his sister, Janet, sets out to bring him back, very nearly becoming brainwashed herself.
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Eye on the Sparrow (1987)
Character: Harv Hollars
True story of a blind couple who fought the authorities to acquire the right to adopt a child.
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My Mother's Secret Life (1984)
Character: Frank
16 year old Tobi has just lost her father, whom she has been living with. She finds her mother's address in his papers. So Tobi builds up a fantasy of what her mother, Ellen Blake, must be like. But when she goes to see her, she finds out her mother is a high priced call-girl.
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Having Babies II (1977)
Character: Sam
The story of various couples who get caught up in the personal and emotional crises of birth, adoption and hospitalization, and also of the hospital and health care workers who take care of them.
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Scruples (1981)
Character: Josh Hillman
Sequel to the 1980 mini-series, taking up the plot where it -- and Judith Krantz's source novel -- left off. Billy Ikehorn (Shelley Smith) is the owner of a chic Beverly Hills boutique against which romantic, corporate and political power plays unfold in the classic soap opera tradition. It was the pilot to a prospective series.
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Delta County, USA (1977)
Character: Chief Doughly
Delta County is a staid Southern community caught between the old traditions and a rapidly changing way of life. For teenagers Terry Nicholas, his sister McCain, and Joe Ed, the boy from the wrong side of the tracks that she's attracted to, the old traditions have little meaning in their lives. Their elders, struggling to preserve values of an older day, have personal problems that are sometimes overwhelming, such as the one facing John McCain Jr., an alcoholic whose wife Kate is having a hidden and torrid romance that sets her husband off on a vengeance-seeking spree.
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The Taking of Flight 847: The Uli Derickson Story (1988)
Character: Captain Testrake
This made-for-television film documents the takeover of the TWA airliner in flight from Athens to Rome in 1985. The focus is on the flight attendant, Uli Derickson, whose courage and hope helped save all but one of the passengers on the plane. The movie chronicles the first 2 days and the aftermath.
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Ruby and Oswald (1978)
Character: District Attorney Wade
The most accurate portrait ever made of the events surrounding the Kennedy assassination and the subsequent assassination of Lee Harvey Oswald.
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Fighting Back: The Story of Rocky Bleier (1980)
Character: Bob Bleier
Based on Bleier's 1975 autobiography of the same name, it tells the story of how, after becoming a running back for the Steelers in 1968, he was then drafted by the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War.
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Pine Canyon Is Burning (1977)
Character: Pete Madison
A widowed firefighter with two children manages to get transferred to a one-man fire/rescue station in the Los Angeles foothills in order to be able to be home at night with his kids.
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Coopersmith: Sweet Scent of Murder (1992)
Character: Roy Beauford
Prospective series pilot about a maverick, motorcycling insurance investigator who uses unorthodox methods to smoke out the truth behind every claim that crosses his desk, and here looks into a life insurance claim when the wife of a second-rate race car driver appears to have died in an accident.
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The Two-Five (1978)
Character: Ralston
A police show pilot movie dealing with two eager-beaver cops who try to set up a major narcotics bust anonymously because their eccentric commander wants to keep his precinct out of the limelight.
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Solar Crisis (1992)
Character: Gurney
A huge solar flare is predicted to fry the Earth. Astronauts aboard the spaceship Helios must go to the Sun to drop a bomb equipped with an Artificial Intelligence and a Japanese pilot at the right time so the flare will point somewhere else.
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Not With My Wife, You Don't! (1966)
Character: Sgt. Millican (uncredited)
During the Korean War, Italian nurse Virna Lisi falls in love with two American fliers, Tony Curtis and George C. Scott. Lisi marries Curtis after he convinces her that Scott has been killed in a plane crash. She soon discovers Scott is alive, but remains happily married to Curtis until Scott re-enters their lives 14 years later.
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Tarantulas: The Deadly Cargo (1981)
Character: N/A
An airplane carring coffee beans from South America has some unpleasant stowaways: a hoard of tarantulas which overcome the pilots as the airplane is flying over an orange-producing town in California. The airplane crashes, and the unlucky inhabitants of the town release the poisonous spiders into their midst. Once the town's officials discover that the tarantulas are responsible for several deaths, the tarantulas have already descended upon the town's only orange-processing factory. The town's citizens risk their lives to remove the tarantulas from the factory while the poisonous pests are rendered motionless by the transmitted sound of buzzing bees
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Kelly's Heroes (1970)
Character: Second Tank Commander
A misfit group of World War II American soldiers goes AWOL to rob a bank behind German lines.
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Mysterious Island of Beautiful Women (1979)
Character: Stu
The all-male crew of an oil company makes an emergency landing on an island and finds itself at the mercy of a tribe of hostile women programmed to kill all men.
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Shadow on the Land (1968)
Character: Ben
Patriotic freedom fighters struggle against a fascist dictatorship in a near-future USA.
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Disaster on the Coastliner (1979)
Character: Hennessey
A deranged engineer, bent on revenge for the deaths of his wife and daughter, sets two passenger trains on a collision course, and con-man William Shatner puts his life on the line to ward off the crash.
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Born to Ride (1991)
Character: Col. James E. Devers (CO, 36th Div.)
The US Army has decided to modernize its cavalry, so Colonel James E. Devers is ordered by a general to convert a horse unit to motorcycles, but his men are easily outclassed as riders by a pack of rowdies, especially Grady Westfall; when he is arrested risking a long jail term, he's given one way out: enlisting as Corporal, assigned as driving instructor. Unit commander Captain Jack Hassler reviles his unorthodox boyish methods as undermining discipline and tradition, not to mention flirting with the Colonels daughter Beryl Ann, but he's needed, especially when his unit is deployed on a secret mission in Spain.
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Final Chapter: Walking Tall (1977)
Character: Lloyd Tatum
It's the final chapter in this chilling, real-life story of Sheriff Buford Pusser, a good-hearted lawman set on keeping his town safe. Still distraught over his wife's death, he blows up every moonshine still in McNairy county and burns the brothels and whiskey joints to the ground. Having gone too far, he's voted out of office, but that doesn't stop the mob from seeking their revenge. Buford soon discovers how small his town is when he runs out of highway with the mob on his trail.
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No Place to Hide (1981)
Character: Sgt. Newman
A young art student frantically tries to prove that she is being stalked by a mysterious man who has threatened her life, and finds her sanity questioned by her stepmother, the family attorney, and even a psychiatrist.
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The Boston Strangler (1968)
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Boston is being terrorized by a series of seemingly random murders of women. Based on the true story, the film follows the investigators path through several leads before introducing the Strangler as a character. It is seen almost exclusively from the point of view of the investigators who have very few clues to build a case upon.
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Kentucky Woman (1983)
Character: N/A
A woman faces harassment and humiliation when she goes to work as a coal miner to support her small son and ailing dad.
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The Wild McCullochs (1975)
Character: Rad
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 Onion Field (1979)
Character: Mr. Powell
An LA police officer is murdered in the onion fields outside of Bakersfield. However, legal loopholes could keep his kidnappers from receiving justice, and his partner is haunted by overwhelming survivor's guilt.
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Belle Starr (1980)
Character: Sheriff Pratt
Belle Star is a bandit with an itch to ride with the outlaw legends, the James gang, the Youngers and the Dalton boys.
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Fear Stalk (1989)
Character: Richard
A producer from Beverly Hills is shocked when someone steals all of her belongings out of her purse. The thief begins to make threatening phone calls and withdraws money from her accounts. The stalker becomes more and more dangerous until he finally tries to kill the producer.
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Ode to Billy Joe (1976)
Character: Glenn 'Papa' Hartley
Set in sultry 1950s Mississippi, two teenagers grapple with surging hormones and the enticing promise of love, unknowing of the tragedy that looms ahead.
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The Cincinnati Kid (1965)
Character: Poker Player (uncredited)
An up-and-coming poker player tries to prove himself in a high-stakes match against a long-time master of the game.
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Incident at Crestridge (1981)
Character: Robert Davis
A woman campaigns for and wins election as sheriff in a crusade against the ineptitude and outright corruption of the local law enforcement in a small town in the West.
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The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing (1973)
Character: Ben
On the run from her violent husband, Catherine Crocker witnesses a train robbery and is taken prisoner by a frontier outlaw gang, led by a bandit who’s hiding a secret of his own.
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Patton (1970)
Character: Correspondent
"Patton" tells the tale of General George S. Patton, famous tank commander of World War II. The film begins with Patton's career in North Africa and progresses through the invasion of Germany and the fall of the Third Reich. Side plots also speak of Patton's numerous faults such his temper and habit towards insubordination.
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Nasty Boys (1989)
Character: Chief Bradley
When a narcotics team sent to bust some drug dealers are massacred. The police department form a special unit of undercover cops whose identities are withheld from the brass, and are only accountable to the leader, a Lieutenant. While they try to bust the dealers, the Lieutenant tries to find out who gave the dealers the information about the bust. And he suspects that it's someone in the DEA.
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Marilyn and Me (1991)
Character: Darryl F. Zanuck
Aspiring writer Robert Slatzer befriends Norma Jean Baker in 1946, the year she becomes Marilyn Monroe.
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The Osterman Weekend (1983)
Character: Walter Stennings
The host of an investigative news show is convinced by the CIA that the friends he has invited to a weekend in the country are engaged in a conspiracy that threatens national security.
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