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Pictura (1951)
Character: Narrator: Gauguin episode (voice)
Pictura is a documentary film directed by seven famous directors, and narrated by several famous Hollywood actors. The film attempts to give the general filmgoing public a taste of art history and art appreciation.
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The Making of the President: 1964 (1966)
Character: Narrator (voice)
Acclaimed producer David L. Wolper presents this landmark documentary (based on Theodore H. White's best-selling book) that analyzes Democrat Lyndon B. Johnson's landslide victory over Republican Barry Goldwater in the 1964 presidential election.
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The Crimebusters (1961)
Character: George Vincent
Government agents hunt America's most dangerous crooks. Based on the "Cain's Hundred" TV series.
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The Right Man (1960)
Character: William Jennings Bryant
Film on presidential campaigns and the right to vote. Used as educational material in American classrooms.
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Harvey (1972)
Character: Judge Omar Gaffney
Elwood P. Dowd's constant companion is Harvey, a six-foot tall invisible rabbit. To his sister, his obsession with Harvey has been a thorn in her plans to marry off her daughter. However, when she decides to put Elwood in a mental institution, a mix-up occurs, and she finds herself committed instead. It's now up to Elwood and "Harvey" to straighten out the mess.
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There Was a Crooked Man... (1970)
Character: Warden LeGoff
Arizona Territorial Prison inmate Paris Pitman, Jr. is a schemer, a charmer, and quite popular among his fellow convicts — especially with $500,000 in stolen loot hidden away and a plan to escape and recover it. New warden Woodward Lopeman has other ideas about Pitman. Each man will have the tables turned on him.
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The First Deadly Sin (1980)
Character: Christopher Langley
A serial killer is stalking New York. Inspector Edward X. Delaney is an NYPD detective, nearing retirement, who is trying to put together the pieces of the case. Are the victims somehow linked? What does the brutal method of death signify?
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Divorce American Style (1967)
Character: Dr. Zenwinn
After 17 years of marriage in American suburbia, Richard and Barbara Harmon step into the new world of divorce.
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M (1951)
Character: Charlie Marshall
Remake of the 1931 Fritz Lang original. In the city, someone is murdering children. The Police search is so intense, it is disturbing the 'normal' criminals, and the local hoods decide to help find the murderer as quickly as possible.
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Lord Love a Duck (1966)
Character: T. Harrison "Harry" Belmont (uncredited)
From his prison cell, young Alan Musgrave relates his experiences of the previous year dedicated to fulfilling every whim of beautiful and self-absorbed high school senior Barbara Ann Greene.
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The Power and the Glory (1963)
Character: Chief of Police
Based on Graham Greene's novel about a flawed but devoted priest in 1930s Mexico who attempts to perform his duties while eluding a police lieutenant determined to capture him.
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Goodbye Charlie (1964)
Character: Morton Craft
When a cavorting Hollywood writer is killed by the angry husband of a woman he was having an affair with, he comes back as a spirit in the form of a beautiful woman and moves in with his/her best friend as a base operation for enacting sweet revenge.
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Contract on Cherry Street (1977)
Character: Bob Waldman
A policeman devises an unorthodox plan for bringing criminals to justice after his partner is brutally gunned down.
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Marnie (1964)
Character: Sidney Strutt
Marnie is a thief, a liar, and a cheat. When her new boss, Mark Rutland, catches on to her routine kleptomania, she finds herself being blackmailed.
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Smile Jenny, You're Dead (1974)
Character: Meade De Ruyter
David Janssen (The Fugitive) portrays dogged detective Harry in the telefilm that was the second of two pilots preceding his memorable Harry O series. Among the highlights: young Jodie Foster as Liberty, the wise-beyond-her-years homeless waif Harry befriends.
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The Front Page (1974)
Character: Dr. Max J. Eggelhofer
A journalist suffering from burn-out wants to finally say goodbye to his office – but his boss doesn’t like the idea one bit.
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Lady in Cement (1968)
Character: Al Mungar
While diving for sunken treasure, street-smart gumshoe Tony Rome finds the body of a gorgeous blonde, her feet stuck in a block of cement. Soon after, tough guy Waldo Gronski hires him to find a missing woman named Sandra Lomax, and Rome wonders if there's a connection. He sets about trying to locate the woman, and in no time finds himself mixed up with a beautiful party girl and a slippery racketeer.
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Tip on a Dead Jockey (1957)
Character: Bert Smith
Broke and about to divorce his wife, a pilot joins a smuggling scheme in postwar Madrid.
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Fourteen Hours (1951)
Character: Dr. Strauss
A young man, morally destroyed by his parents not loving him and by the fear of being not capable to make his girlfriend happy, rises on the ledge of a building with the intention of committing suicide. A policeman makes every effort to argue him out of it.
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The James Dean Story (1957)
Character: Narrator
Released two years after James Dean's death, this documentary chronicles his short life and career via black-and-white still photographs, interviews with the aunt and uncle who raised him, his paternal grandparents, a New York City cabdriver friend, the owner of his favorite Los Angeles restaurant, outtakes from East of Eden, footage of the opening night of Giant, and Dean's ironic PSA for safe driving.
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Deadline - U.S.A. (1952)
Character: Tomas Rienzi
With three days before his paper folds, a crusading editor tries to expose a vicious gangster.
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The Thief (1952)
Character: Mr. Bleek
A chance accident causes a nuclear physicist, who's selling top secret material to the Russians, to fall under FBI scrutiny and go on the run.
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