
Birthday:
09-16-1903
Deathday:
03-17-1985 (81 years)
Birthplace:
San Francisco, California, USA
Biography
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Irving Asher (1903–1985) was an American film producer. Born in San Francisco in September 1903, he began his film production career in Hollywood in 1919. After joining the staff of Warner Brothers he was sent over to England as the managing director of their subsidiary Teddington Studios in Middlesex in the mid 1930s (where he is credited for discovering and seeing the potential of Errol Flynn when he was a young unknown actor who was hanging around Teddington Studios at the time looking for a way into the movies). Flynn played his first significant part as the lead in the now-lost Murder at Monte Carlo (1935), which was produced by Asher. Asher went on to join Alexander Korda's London Film Productions where he worked on the epic The Four Feathers (1939). Subsequently he returned to Hollywood to work as a producer for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, where he earned his only Academy Award nomination for the 1941 Greer Garson film Blossoms in the Dust.
Later in his career, he was head of production for 20th Century Fox Television.
He married the actress Laura La Plante in 1934.
Asher died in California in March 1985.
Irving Asher (1903–1985) was an American film producer. Born in San Francisco in September 1903, he began his film production career in Hollywood in 1919. After joining the staff of Warner Brothers he was sent over to England as the managing director of their subsidiary Teddington Studios in Middlesex in the mid 1930s (where he is credited for discovering and seeing the potential of Errol Flynn when he was a young unknown actor who was hanging around Teddington Studios at the time looking for a way into the movies). Flynn played his first significant part as the lead in the now-lost Murder at Monte Carlo (1935), which was produced by Asher. Asher went on to join Alexander Korda's London Film Productions where he worked on the epic The Four Feathers (1939). Subsequently he returned to Hollywood to work as a producer for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, where he earned his only Academy Award nomination for the 1941 Greer Garson film Blossoms in the Dust.
Later in his career, he was head of production for 20th Century Fox Television.
He married the actress Laura La Plante in 1934.
Asher died in California in March 1985.
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Crime Unlimited
Producer
event1935 star_border 5.8
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A young Scotland Yard police academy recruit tries to break up a gang of thieves.
Elephant Walk
Producer
event1954 star_border 5.8
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Colonial tea planter John Wiley (Peter Finch), visiting England at the end of World War II, wins and weds lovely English rose Ruth (Dame Elizabeth Taylor) and takes her home to Elephant Walk, Ceylon, where the local elephants have a grudge against the plantation. Ruth's delight with the tropical wealth and luxury of her new home is tempered by isolation as the only white woman in the district; her husband's occasional imperious arrogance; a mutual physical attraction with plantation manager Dick Carver (Dana Andrews), and the hovering, ominous menace of the hostile elephants.
The Turning Point
Producer
event1952 star_border 6.3
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Special prosecutor John Conroy hopes to combat organized crime in his city and appoints his cop father Matt as chief investigator. John doesn't understand why Matt is reluctant, but cynical reporter Jerry McKibbon thinks he knows: he's seen Matt with mob lieutenant Harrigan. Jerry's friendship with John is tested by the question of what to do about Matt, and by his attraction to John's girl Amanda. Meanwhile, the threatened racketeers adopt increasingly violent means of defense.
Nazi Agent
Producer
event1942 star_border 6.6
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Humble stamp dealer Otto Becker has little to do with international politics, so when he receives a surprise visit from his estranged twin brother and Nazi spy, Baron Hugo von Detner, his world is thrown into turmoil. Threatening Becker with deportation, Hugo forces him to use his shop as a front for espionage.
Where's Sally?
Producer
event1936
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'Honeymoon wife learns of husband's past and runs away.' (British Film Catalogue)
Faithful
Producer
event1936
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A musical drama about two pupils from a provincial music conservatory who elope, marry, and move to London to try their luck. The husband becomes a singer in a nightclub, and is soon targeted by a predatory socialite. They start an affair, the wife finds out about it and decides to leave her husband, until matters are smoothed over by a third-party who wishes the couple well.
The Spy in Black
Producer
event1939 star_border 6.4
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A German submarine is sent to the Orkney Isles in 1917 to sink the British fleet.
Below the Line
Assistant Director
event1925 star_border 10
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Slasher falls off the train that is carrying him. He is found, broken in spirit, by Donald Cass. The dog is regenerated by Donald's love.
Mr. Cohen Takes a Walk
Executive Producer
event1935 star_border 6.5
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Old Mr. Cohen (Paul Graetz) simply walks away from his London department store, leaving his sons to run it.
Thank Evans
Executive Producer
event1938
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An impoverished racetrack tout discovers that a crooked trainer is about to throw a race involving a nobleman's horse.
Help Yourself
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event1932
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British comedy directed by John Daumery ...
Get Off My Foot
Executive Producer
event1935
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A Smithfield porter becomes a butler, and later finds himself heir to a fortune.
Ten Days in Paris
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event1940 star_border 7.5
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Bob Stevens awakens in a hospital with a gunshot wound to his head, and is told that he has been in Paris for ten days. However, this cannot be true because he insists that he crashed his plane and has no recollection of being anywhere for ten days. Bob decides to follow a note found in his jacket, to the woman who wrote it, "Miss D", and get to the bottom of the whole strange situation.
You Live and Learn
Executive Producer
event1937
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American chorus-girl Mamie Wallace (Farrell) travels to Paris with a ramshackle touring musical revue. The company runs out of money, and it looks as though Mamie and her dancing colleagues are going to be stranded in Europe with no way home. Luckily, she meets a handsome, well-spoken Englishman Peter Millett (Hulbert), who falls in love with her and proposes marriage. Under the impression that he is a man of means, she readily accepts, imagining an entrée to English high society. The couple return to England and Mamie discovers to her horror that not only is her new home a decrepit farmhouse out in the sticks, but that Peter is a widower and his three children also come as part of the package.
As Good as New
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event1933
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A woman, disappointed in love, becomes increasingly cynical and attempts to marry a wealthy man.
The Bermondsey Kid
Producer
event1933
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A newsboy enters a boxing championship where he is matched with a sick friend.
Her Imaginary Lover
Producer
event1933
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A New York socialite Celia invents an aristocratic English fiancé named Lord Michael Ware to deflect the tedious attention of would-be suitors. Celia travels to London to claim an inheritance...and meets an aristocratic Englishman called Lord Michael Ware. The imaginary romance becomes real.
High Finance
Producer
event1933
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Self-made businessman Sir Grant Rayburn is obsessed with making money to the exclusion of all else. He shows little interest in his daughter Jill and is irritated when she falls in love with, and wishes to marry, a young man named Tom. Sir Grant does not believe Tom is a suitable match for Jill as he does not come from a moneyed background. He suspects that Tom is a chancer with an eye on access to Jill's money....
I Adore You
Producer
event1933
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Norman Young wants to marry Margot Grahame but a contract with a producer prohibits her from marrying during a five year period. Norman spends millions to take over the contact.
Mayfair Girl
Producer
event1933
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An American girl is framed for killing a cad while drunk.
Q Planes
Producer
event1939 star_border 5.8
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In England, an eccentric police inspector, an earnest test pilot and a spunky female reporter team up to solve the mystery of a series of test aircraft which have disappeared without a trace while over the ocean on their maiden flights; unaware, as they are, that a spy ring has been shooting the planes down with a ray machine hidden aboard a salvage vessel which is on hand to haul the downed aircraft aboard, crews and all.
A Notorious Affair
Assistant Director
event1930 star_border 4.4
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A scheming musician seduces a wealthy woman for love and money.
The Black Mask
Producer
event1935 star_border 8
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British crime film directed by Ralph Ince
The Aviator
Producer
event1929
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Misadventures of a bogus flyer.
Blossoms in the Dust
Producer
event1941 star_border 6.5
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Edna marries Texan Sam Gladney, operator of a wheat mill. They have a son, who is killed when very young. Edna discovers by chance how the law treats children who are without parents and decides to do something about it. She opens a home for foundlings and orphans and begins to place children in good homes, despite the opposition of "conservative" citizens, who would condemn illegitimate children for being born out of wedlock. Eventually Edna leads a fight in the Texas legislature to remove the stigma of illegitimacy from birth records in that state, while continuing to be an advocate for homeless children.
Here Comes the Groom
Associate Producer
event1951 star_border 5.2
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Foreign correspondent Pete Garvey has 5 days to win back his former fiancée, or he'll lose the orphans he adopted.
Lucky Ladies
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event1932
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Some sisters inherit a large sum of money.
Murder on the Second Floor
Producer
event1932
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A novelist imagines the murders of his fellow tenants...
Billy the Kid
Producer
event1941 star_border 4.7
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Billy Bonney is a hot-headed gunslinger who narrowly skirts a life of crime by being befriended and hired by a peaceful rancher, Eric Keating. When Keating is killed, Billy seeks revenge on the men who killed him, even if it means opposing his friend, Marshal Jim Sherwood.
Her Night Out
Producer
event1932
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A married couple accidentally become mixed up with a bank robber.
High Society
Producer
event1932
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A British comedy film directed by John Rawlins
The River House Ghost
Producer
event1932
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A gang of criminals masquerading as ghosts are eventually exposed.
The Silver Greyhound
Producer
event1932
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A British crime thriller film directed by William C. McGann
A Voice Said Goodnight
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event1932
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A British crime film directed by William C. McGann
This Acting Business
Producer
event1933
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A British comedy film directed by John Daumery
The Brown Wallet
Executive Producer
event1936
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Publisher John Gillespie faces a financial crisis after his business partner skips town with all the firm's assets. Facing ruin, he reluctantly approaches a wealthy aunt for assistance but is met with a stony-faced refusal.
Educated Evans
Producer
event1936
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Cockney racing tipster Evans (Miller) is asked by a nouveau riche and socially aspirant couple to train a racehorse they have bought.
Don't Get Me Wrong
Executive Producer
event1937
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Don't Get Me Wrong is a 1937 British comedy film co-directed by Arthur B. Woods and Reginald Purdell and starring Max Miller and George E. Stone. It was made at Teddington Studios with sets designed by Peter Proud. Unlike several of Miller's Teddington films which are now lost, this still survives. Miller plays a fairground performer who meets a professor who claims to have invented a cheap substitute for petrol. They team up and persuade a millionaire to finance them to develop and market the product, while unsavoury elements are keen to steal the formula and try all means to get their hands on it, involving slapstick chases and double-crosses. It then turns out that the miracle fluid is diluted coconut oil, and the genius professor is an escaped lunatic. The millionaire finds himself taking the brunt of the disappointment.
So You Won't Talk
Producer
event1935
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The owner of a small Italian restaurant in central London is left a million pound inheritance, the only stipulation to the will being that he cannot speak or write anything for a period of one month.
The Church Mouse
Producer
event1934 star_border 4.7
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When a meek secretary goes to work for her new boss, she becomes a sophisticated lady.
Transatlantic Trouble
Producer
event1937
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Max Miller plays a boxer's manager who fails to get fights for his simple-minded boxer. The manager sets up a scene in an American nightclub whereby his fighter gets the chance to knock down the reigning champion. The ruse fails to get the fighter a job but a female acquaintance of the champion takes a fancy to his opponent. The plot develops aboard a ship back to England.
Mr. What's-His-Name?
Producer
event1935
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A beautician meets and falls in love with a young man, and they soon marry. What she doesn't know, however, is that her new husband is actually a millionaire who is suffering from amnesia—and he already has a wife.
No Escape
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event1934
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“Crime film set in Malaya concerning the pursuit of a planter framed for poisoning his partner and suspected of carrying plague.” - BFI.
What’s in a Name?
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event1935
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“Comedy concerning a clerk pretending to be a European composer who falls in love with a woman who poses as an actress.” - BFI.
A Glimpse of Paradise
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event1935
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“Ex-convict saves his estranged daughter from a blackmailer.” - BFI.
The Singing Cop
Executive Producer
event1938
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“Spy comedy with operatic background.” - BFI.
The Dark Stairway
Producer
event1938
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“Professional jealousy over the discovery of a formula for an anaesthetic leads to murder in a hospital.” - BFI.
Call Me Mame
Producer
event1933
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Call Me Mame is a 1933 British comedy film directed by John Daumery and starring Ethel Irving, John Batten and Dorothy Bartlam. It was made at Teddington Studios as a quota quickie.
The Silver Spoon
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event1934
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“A homeless gentleman confesses to a Lord's murder to protect a woman they both love.” - BFI.
The Office Wife
Producer
event1934
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“The reconciliation of a divorced couple following the publisher husband's marriage to his secretary.” - BFI.
Double or Quits
Producer
event1938
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A reporter on a transatlantic cruise finds himself accused of the theft of valuable stamps. Knowing that he didn't do it, he sets out to find the real thief, but isn't prepared for what he discovers.
Mayfair Melody
Producer
event1937
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“Romantic comedy of a motor factory mechanic encouraged to train his voice by the daughter of the magnate.” - BFI.
The Windmill
Executive Producer
event1937
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The German adopted-daughter of a Belgian innkeeper is threatened with internment by him if she reveals to the British billetees that he is a spy. However, she is in love with one of them and helps them.
Thistledown
Producer
event1938
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The Viennese bride of a Scottish peer is driven away by suspicion and unfriendliness from his family. Famous, she buys the estate and her husband returns to be reconciled with her and the son of whom he never knew.
Hello, Sweetheart
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event1935
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A young poultry farmer is flattered and persuaded into financing a film production. He attempts to interfere in the direction, is swindled and left in the lurch but eventually manages to turn the tables on his former associates.
Father and Son
Producer
event1935
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A bank clerk takes the blame for a theft which he believes was committed by his ex-convict father.
The Vulture
Executive Producer
event1937
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An amateur detective tracks down a gang of diamond thieves to Chinatown.
The Girl in Possession
Producer
event1934
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An American woman is fooled into thinking that she is the heiress to an estate in England.
The Viper
Executive Producer
event1938
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Crime comedy sequel to The Vulture (1937). Amateur sleuth, Cedric Gull, takes on another case.
The Girl in the Crowd
Producer
event1935
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“Bookseller David Gordon's new wife Marian has never met David's friend Bob but by telephone advises him on how to meet women by following the first attractive girl he sees. Unfortunately, the girl turns out to be Marian and Bob is arrested.” - Steve Crook
Someday
Producer
event1935
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“Curley Blake is a lift operator in a block of flats. He is in love with Emily, the cleaning girl. When Emily returns from a stay in hospital, Curley arranges to treat her to dinner in one of the flats. Unfortunately, the owner returns early.” - Steve Crook.
Simply Terrific
Producer
event1938
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Two young men start a business selling a homemade hangover recipe.
Quiet, Please
Executive Producer
event1938
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“Comedy of a little man forced by chance into a big jewel robbery.” - BFI.
Hail and Farewell
Executive Producer
event1936
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“A troopship bringing home a battalion from Bermuda docks at Southampton and the men are granted only 6 hours leave. The film shows how some of the men spend this precious time.” - BFI.
It’s Not Cricket
Executive Producer
event1937
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“Light farcical comedy with humour of the Old School brand. A young French woman married to a selfish games-fan Englishman is the centre of the story.” - BFI.
Fair Exchange
Producer
event1936
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“Criminologist stages the theft of a picture to thwart his son's ambitions to be a detective.” - BFI.
Side Street Angel
Executive Producer
event1937
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“Comedy of a rich man who poses as a poor man and is taken by a convict into a hostel and given a job by the chief assistant.” - BFI.
The Compulsory Wife
Executive Producer
event1937
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“Two young men and an attractive girl are invited to spend a week-end at a cottage of mutual friends. The hosts are delayed and so the guests remain unattended. A burglar breaks in and ensuing complications compel the girl to pose as a wife.” - BFI.
The Man Who Made Diamonds
Executive Producer
event1937
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“Professor Calthrop, actuated only by scientific motives, and his assistant, out for his own gain, have invented a system for the manufacture of diamonds.” - BFI.
Man of the Moment
Executive Producer
event1935 star_border 5
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Love blossoms after a young man rescues a pretty girl who attempted to drown herself.
Gaol Break
Producer
event1936
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“Jim Oakley hears in prison that his son is to be made a substitute by a gang for a rich American family's son who was kidnapped years back. He breaks jail to rescue his son but after seeing how happy his son will be with the family, he renounces his claim to boy and returns to finish his sentence in jail.” - BFI.
Something Always Happens
Producer
event1934 star_border 6
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Unemployed car salesman Peter is encouraged by his girlfriend Cynthia to approach the head of a petrol company with his plan for making petrol stations more attractive to customers. When the man rejects the idea Peter joins a rival company and becomes a great success.
The Four Feathers
Associate Producer
event1939 star_border 7
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A disgraced officer risks his life to help his childhood friends in battle.
Tennessee Johnson
Producer
event1942 star_border 6.1
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The tumultuous presidency of 19th-president Andrew Johnson is chronicled in this biopic. The story begins with Johnson's boyhood and covers his early life. During the Civil War, Johnson stays a staunch Unionist and upon Lincoln's reelection in 1864, becomes his Vice President. After Lincoln's assassination, Johnson becomes the President and became the first U.S. president ever to be impeached.
Mr. and Mrs. North
Producer
event1942 star_border 4.5
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Married sleuths (Gracie Allen, William Post Jr.) find a corpse in their closet and round up suspects.
The Thirteenth Candle
Producer
event1933
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Investigation into the murder of a village squire.
Gypsy
Producer
event1936
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Gypsy dancer Hassina falls in love with lion tamer Brazil and travels to London to find him. Brazil is supposedly working at the Crystal Palace, but he is not there when Hassina arrives. After fainting from lack of food, Hassina is taken into the home of wealthy middle-aged bachelor Alan Brooks, who falls in love with her.
Broken Arrow
Producer (71 ep.)
event1956 star_border 5
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Broken Arrow is a Western series which ran on ABC-TV in prime time from 1956 through 1958 on Tuesdays at 9 p.m. Eastern time. Repeat episodes were shown by ABC on Sunday afternoons during the 1959–60 season. Selected repeats were then shown once again in prime time during the summer of 1960.
How to Marry a Millionaire
Producer (52 ep.)
event1957 star_border 6
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How to Marry a Millionaire is an American sitcom that aired in syndication from September 1957 to August 1959. The series is based on the 1953 film of the same name starring Marilyn Monroe, Betty Grable, and Lauren Bacall.
The series stars Lori Nelson, Merry Anders, and Barbara Eden. Lisa Gaye joined the cast in the second season after Lori Nelson left the series. How to Marry a Millionaire was the first series that Barbara Eden was featured in as a regular cast member. Eden would go on to play one of her more notable roles, "Jeannie" in the NBC sitcom I Dream of Jeannie. During the series' first season, Eden was billed third. After Lori Nelson left the series, Eden was billed first.
Man Without a Gun
Executive Producer (33 ep.)
event1957 star_border 7.5
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Man Without a Gun, is an American western television series produced by 20th Century Fox television and presented in first-run syndication in the United States from 1957 to 1959. Set in the town of Yellowstone near Yellowstone National Park in the then Dakota Territory during the 1870s, the program starred Rex Reason as newspaper editor Adam MacLean, who brought miscreants to justice without the use of violence or gunplay but through his Yellowstone Sentinel. The co-star was Mort Mills, as Marshal Frank Tallman, who intervened when the "pen" proved not to be "mightier than the sword".Harry Harvey, Sr., was cast in twenty-one episodes as Yellowstone Mayor George Dixon.
The program is considered to have been unique because it showcased MacLean's moral ethics and common sense to bring outlaws to justice. The show was also used as a schoolroom to teach the youngsters of the 1950s about decency and the differences between right and wrong.
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