
Birthday:
02-10-1910
Deathday:
10-06-1960 (50 years)
Birthplace:
Princeton, Illinois, USA
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This Island Earth
Act like The Monitor of Metaluna
event1955 star_border 6
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Aliens have landed and are hiding on Earth, but need Earth’s scientists to help them fight an inter-planetary war.
Shane
Act like Axel 'Swede' Shipstead
event1953 star_border 7.4
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A weary gunfighter attempts to settle down with a homestead family, but a smouldering settler and rancher conflict forces him to act.
River of No Return
Act like Sam Benson
event1954 star_border 6.7
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An itinerant farmer and his young son help a heart-of-gold saloon singer search for her estranged husband.
The Diary of Anne Frank
Act like Kraler
event1959 star_border 7.2
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The true, harrowing story of a young Jewish girl who, with her family and their friends, is forced into hiding in an attic in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam.
The Thing from Another World
Act like Ned 'Scotty' Scott
event1951 star_border 6.7
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Scientists and US Air Force officials fend off a blood-thirsty alien organism while investigating at a remote arctic outpost.
Monkey Business
Act like Dr. Brunner
event1952 star_border 6.7
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Research chemist Barnaby Fulton works on a fountain of youth pill for a chemical company. One of the labs chimps gets loose in the laboratory and mixes chemicals, but then pours the mix into the water cooler. When trying one of his own samples, washed down with water from the cooler, Fulton begins to act just like a twenty-year-old and believes his potion is working. Soon his wife and boss are also behaving like children.
Follow Me Quietly
Act like Phony Judge
event1949 star_border 6
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When it rains in the city, a serial killer known as "The Judge" looks for his next strangling victim. For months, the madman has been stalking at night, leaving behind clues, but police efforts have been fruitless. Constructing a life-size dummy of the murderer, police Lt. Harry Grant is growing obsessed with capturing him, and always following Grant is the relentless reporter Ann Gorman looking to break the story, but the hunt continues.
It Happens Every Spring
Act like Train Conductor (uncredited)
event1949 star_border 6.4
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A scientist discovers a formula that makes a baseball which is repelled by wood. He promptly sets out to exploit his discovery.
Night Has a Thousand Eyes
Act like Dr. Ramsdell
event1948 star_border 6.7
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When heiress Jean Courtland attempts suicide, her fiancée Elliott Carson probes her relationship with John Triton. In flashback, we see how stage mentalist Triton starts having terrifying flashes of true precognition. Now years later, he desperately tries to prevent tragedies in the Courtland family.
The Glass Wall
Act like Inspector Bailey
event1953 star_border 5.3
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Peter Kuban, a Hungarian refugee, is about to be deported after jumping ship in New York harbor. He needs to find an ex-G.I. named Tom whom he helped during the war, as Tom can prove Peter's right to legal entry into the United States. If he can't find Tom within 24 hours and prove his case, he will be branded a fugitive and will be permanently disqualified for U.S. citizenship.
The Three Faces of Eve
Act like Mr. Black
event1957 star_border 7.2
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A doctor treats a woman suffering from multiple personality disorder.
The Lost Weekend
Act like Hospital Patient Seeing Imaginary Beetles (uncredited)
event1945 star_border 7.6
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Don Birnam, a long-time alcoholic, has been sober for ten days and appears to be over the worst... but his craving has just become more insidious. Evading a country weekend planned by his brother and girlfriend, he begins a four-day bender that just might be his last - one way or another.
Pardners
Act like Smith
event1956 star_border 6.7
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Rich momma's boy Wade Kingsley Jr. an Eastern dude, tries to follow in his murdered father's footsteps by returning to the West to partner up with Slim Moseley Jr.,the son of his father's former partner. Wade overcomes Slim's initial reluctance to accept him by using his fortune to buy a prize cow and new car to help Slim in his job as foreman on the Kingsley family ranch, currently under siege by a gang of outlaws called "masked raiders." Wade generously tries to pay off the ranch's mortgage with $15,000 of his own money, but unfortunately neither "pardner" realizes that respected banker Dan Hollis, the son of their fathers' murderer, is the leader of the gang.
Houdini
Act like Simms
event1953 star_border 6.5
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By the early 1900s, the extraordinary Houdini earned an international reputation for his theatrical tricks and daring feats of extrication from shackles, ropes, handcuffs and... Scotland Yard's jails.
Short Cut to Hell
Act like Train Conductor
event1957 star_border 5.8
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A hitman is found out because he was paid off in traceable stolen money. On the run, he kidnaps the girlfriend of the police detective in charge of his pursuit; she tries to convince him to surrender before it's too late.
Man from Del Rio
Act like Sheriff Jack Tillman
event1956 star_border 6
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Mexican gunfighter Dave Robles outdraws the town's outlaw-turned-sheriff and is invited to fill the dead man's shoes. But a tin star doesn't bring automatic respectability and Robles is shunned by the town's leading citizens. His popularity with its less-savory element, particularly saloonkeeper Bannister, wanes dramatically, too, as he starts to take his job seriously. It is his love for a decent, caring woman that keeps Dave in town, but can she convince him to lay down his gun and start a new life?
The Redhead and The Cowboy
Act like Perry (Union agent)
event1951 star_border 4.9
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Gil Kyle finds himself caught up in the politics and unrest of the American Civil War and soon gets himself framed for a murder. His only alibi is Candace Bronson, who is aiding the Confederate cause and has left the territory to deliver a vital message about a Yankee gold shipment. So he sets off in pursuit, running into desperados, government agents, and guerrilla fighters, who are more interested in profit than ideals. Written by Alfred Jingle
Cole Younger, Gunfighter
Act like Marshal Fred Woodruff
event1958 star_border 6.2
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An outlaw must decide whether to stick his neck out for an innocent man.
The Big Clock
Act like Bert Finch
event1948 star_border 7.3
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Stroud, a crime magazine's crusading editor has to post-pone a vacation with his wife, again, when a glamorous blonde is murdered and he is assigned by his publishing boss Janoth to find the killer. As the investigation proceeds to its conclusion, Stroud must try to disrupt his ordinarily brilliant investigative team as they increasingly build evidence (albeit wrong) that he is the killer.
Adventure Island
Act like Prisoner sharing cell with Herrick and Lochlin (uncredited)
event1947 star_border 4.7
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Travelers find themselves marooned on an island with a maniacal self-made ruler.
Omar Khayyam
Act like Pigeon Keeper
event1957 star_border 5
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Omar Khayyam was one of the greatest Persian poets. He was also a brilliant mathematician. Though his quatrains were written in the 11th century, they are still popular the world over. The details of his life are unknown, so this movie invents a biography for him and includes in it his real achievements - the invention of a new calendar and the penning of those epigrammatic poems. This film has him romancing a sultan's bride and foiling the assassin sect's plot to kill the sultan's son.
She's Back on Broadway
Act like Lew Ludlow
event1953 star_border 5.7
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When Catherine Terris's career in Hollywood hits the skids, she heads back to the site of her first great triumphs...Broadway! She takes the lead in a play which is being directed by Gordon Evans, the man who was both her Svengali and her lover. Evans is still bitter that she walked out on him to become the toast of Hollywood years earlier. Can Terris and Evans put aside their mutual animosity long enough to make a go of this production. The way things start off, it doesn't seem likely.
Smoke Signal
Act like Garode
event1955 star_border 6.5
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Capt. Harper's cavalry patrol returns to the fort to find it besieged by Ute Indians. The apparent cause is the recapture of Army traitor Brett Halliday, who deserted to the Utes in a previous war; but Brett has a different story. With capture imminent, the only chance for the surviving men (and one woman) is to boat down a wild, uncharted river, where Harper and Halliday must pull together, like it or not.
Double Indemnity
Act like Lou Schwartz (uncredited)
event1944 star_border 8.1
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A rich woman and a calculating insurance agent plot to kill her unsuspecting husband after he signs a double indemnity policy.
Saddle the Wind
Act like Hemp Scribner
event1958 star_border 6.5
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Steve Sinclair is a world-weary former gunslinger, now living as a peaceful farmer. Things go wrong when his wild younger brother Tony arrives on the scene with his new bride Joan Blake.
The Raid
Act like Rev. Douglas
event1954 star_border 6.5
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A group of confederate prisoners escape to Canada and plan to rob the banks and set fire to the small town of Saint Albans in Vermont. To get the lie of the land, their leader spends a few days in the town and finds he is getting drawn into its life and especially into that of an attractive widow and her son.
The Unholy Wife
Act like Judge
event1957 star_border 4.6
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A woman marries a man for his wealth, then concocts a plan to kill him, take his money, and run off with her lover. Things go wrong when they accidentally kill the wrong person.
The Sins of Rachel Cade
Act like Doctor Bikel
event1961 star_border 5.5
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A female doctor in the Congo is torn between two loves.
Allegheny Uprising
Act like Prisoner in Irons
event1939 star_border 5.6
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South western Pennsylvania area of colonial America, 1760s. Colonial distaste and disapproval of the British government is starting to surface. Many local colonists have been killed by American Indians who are armed with rifles supplied by white traders.
The Day the Bookies Wept
Act like Auction Spectator (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 5
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A pigeon breeder is hired to train a racehorse that wins only when it drinks beer.
Bride of Vengeance
Act like False Physician
event1949 star_border 4.5
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The tiny independent duchy of Ferrara is located between Casare Borgia's Rome and Venice, and Borgia has plans to conquer Venice via Ferrara. He murders his sister's husband and makes it appear that Alfonso D'Este of Ferrara was behind the killing. To avenge herself against Ferrara and D'Este, Lucretia Borgia marries D'Este and intends to poison him. But...she falls in love with him.
Trapped
Act like Sam Hooker (uncredited)
event1949 star_border 5.8
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Secret Service agents make a deal with a counterfeiting inmate to be released on early parole if he will help them recover some bogus moneymaking plates, but he plans to double-cross them.
Christmas in July
Act like Man Listening to Radio (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 6.9
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An office clerk loves entering contests in the hopes of someday winning a fortune and marrying the girl he loves. His latest attempt is the Maxford House Coffee Slogan Contest. As a joke, some of his co-workers put together a fake telegram which says that he won the $25,000 grand prize.
Little Nellie Kelly
Act like Policeman in Dance Line (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 6
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Nellie Kelly, the daughter of Irish immigrants, patches up differences between her father and maternal grandfather while rising to the top on Broadway.
The Heiress
Act like Minister (uncredited)
event1949 star_border 7.8
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In 1840s New York, the uneventful and boring days of the daughter of a wealthy doctor come to an end when she meets a dashing poorer man — who may or may not be after her inheritance.
Men Against the Sky
Act like Mechanic
event1940 star_border 4.4
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A draftswoman, the sister of an aging, alcoholic pilot, secretly uses her brother's ideas to solve design problems for an experimental military plane in an attempt to save the company and salvage her brother's reputation.
Red, Hot and Blue
Act like Actor in Theatre Group (uncredited)
event1949 star_border 5.8
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In her attempts to make a splash on Broadway, a lively would-be-actress lands herself in hot water with the mob.
Lucky Partners
Act like Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 6
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Two strangers split a sweepstake prize to go on a fake honeymoon with predictable results.
The Sainted Sisters
Act like Townsman (uncredited)
event1948 star_border 7
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Two female con artists from New York City, fleeing the law with money from their latest scam, hide out in a small town in Maine, near the Canadian border. However, this small town's residents aren't quite as unsophisticated as the girls think they are.
Trouble Along the Way
Act like Father Procurator aka George
event1953 star_border 5.9
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Struggling to retain custody of his daughter following his divorce, football coach Steve Williams finds himself embroiled in a recruiting scandal at the tiny Catholic college he is trying to bring back to football respectability.
Untamed Frontier
Act like Clayton Vance
event1952 star_border 7.2
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The Denbow family denies access across their land to homesteaders. To evade a murder charge, Glenn Denbow marries Jane, the only witness who's in love with him. But the woman favors the settlers...
Something to Live For
Act like Joey (uncredited)
event1952 star_border 6.8
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Advertising executive Alan Miller, a recovered alcoholic who now does interventions on behalf of Alcoholics Anonymous, is called to help Broadway actress Jenny Carey whose developing career is threatened by an increasing dependence on alcohol. Alan's growing interest in Jenny strains his marriage to Edna, with whom he has two children.
A Man Alone
Act like Henry Slocum
event1955 star_border 5.6
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A gunfighter, stranded in the desert, comes across the aftermath of a stage robbery, in which all the passengers were killed. He takes one of the horses to ride to town to report the massacre, but finds himself accused of it. He also finds himself accused of the murder of the local banker, and winds up hiding in the basement of a house where the local sheriff, who is very sick, lives with his daughter.
The Mexican Spitfire's Baby
Act like Hotel Guest
event1941 star_border 4.3
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An advertising executive and his temperamental wife adopt a war orphan who turns out to be a beautiful woman.
Fall In
Act like Military Policeman
event1942 star_border 6
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An Army sergeant's photographic memory puts him in conflict with a Nazi spy.
A Date with the Falcon
Act like Witness at Accident (uncredited)
event1942 star_border 6.5
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In the second film of the series (and not a second part of anything), Gay Lawrence, aka The Falcon, is about to depart the city to marry his fiancée, Helen Reed, when a mystery girl, Rita Mara, asks for his aid in disposing of a secret formula for making synthetic diamonds. He deliberately allows himself to be kidnapped by the gang for which Rita works. His aide, "Goldy" Locke, trails the kidnappers and brings the police. But the head of the gang escapes, and the Falcon continues the pursuit.
Alias Nick Beal
Act like Henry T. Finch
event1949 star_border 6.9
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After straight-arrow district attorney Joseph Foster says in frustration that he would sell his soul to bring down a local mob boss, a smooth-talking stranger named Nick Beal shows up with enough evidence to seal a conviction. When that success leads Foster to run for governor, Beal's unearthly hold on him turns the previously honest man corrupt, much to the displeasure of his wife and his steadfast minister.
Princess O'Rourke
Act like Pilot (uncredited)
event1943 star_border 6.4
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A down-to-earth pilot charms a European princess on vacation in the United States.
Lady Scarface
Act like Police Secretary
event1941 star_border 5.1
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A Chicago gang led by Slade carries out an audacious brokerage robbery. Lieutenant Bill Mason takes the case, continuing his friendly-enemy relationship with crime reporter Ann Rogers. One gang member is caught; eventually, others follow. But Mason hasn't a clue to Slade, principally because he's unaware she's a woman.
A Place in the Sun
Act like Boatkeeper (uncredited)
event1951 star_border 7.3
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A young social climber wins the heart of a beautiful heiress but his former girlfriend's pregnancy stands in the way of his ambition.
Father of the Bride
Act like Fritz the Organist (uncredited)
event1950 star_border 7
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Proud father Stanley Banks remembers the day his daughter, Kay, got married. Starting when she announces her engagement through to the wedding itself, we learn of all the surprises and disasters along the way.
The Kentuckian
Act like Frome Brother (uncredited)
event1955 star_border 5.7
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A frontiersman and his son fight to build a new home in Texas.
Warpath
Act like Kelso
event1951 star_border 5.8
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John Vickers has spent eight years hunting for the three men who murdered the woman he loved. He finds one, Woodson, and kills him in a gunfight, but not before learning that the other two men have joined the U.S. Cavalry.
Come Fill the Cup
Act like Ike Bashaw
event1951 star_border 7
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Alcoholic newspaperman Lew Marsh hits bottom, loses his job and is rehabilitated by Charley Dolan. After six years on the wagon he gets his job back and devotes himself to other recovering alcoholics.
Incendiary Blonde
Act like New Years Eve Party Patron (uncredited)
event1945 star_border 5.1
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Paramount's highly-fictionalized 1945 musical biography of Texas Guinan, the Roaring '20s New York nightclub owner and celebrity with alleged underworld connections who famously greeted her customers with the phrase, "Hello, suckers!"
Kitty
Act like Guest (uncredited)
event1945 star_border 5.5
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Pickpocket Kitty's life changes when painter Thomas Gainsborough makes her portrait. The artwork gains the attention of Sir Hugh Marcy, who later decides to use her for his benefit.
Union Station
Act like Stationmaster (uncredited)
event1950 star_border 6.4
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Police catch a break when suspected kidnappers are spotted on a train heading towards Union Station. Police, train station security and a witness try to piece together the crime and get back the blind daughter of a rich business man.
The Dark Corner
Act like Deli Customer (uncredited)
event1946 star_border 6.6
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Ex-con turned private investigator Bradford Galt suspects someone is following him and maybe even trying to kill him. With the assistance of his spunky secretary, Kathleen Stewart, he dives deep into a mystery in search of answers.
Cheyenne
(1 ep.)
event1955 star_border 5.8
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Cheyenne Bodie was a big man, a former army scout who went west after the American Civil War and drifted from job to job, here a cowboy, there a lawman, and always a larger-than-life hero.
CHEYENNE is an American western television series of 108 black-and-white episodes broadcast on ABC from 1955 to 1963. The show was the first hour-long western, and in fact the first hour-long dramatic series of any kind, with continuing characters, to last more than one season. It was also the first series to be made by a major Hollywood film studio which did not derive from its established film properties, and the first of a long chain of Warner Brothers original series produced by William T. Orr.
The Twilight Zone
Act like 1st Martian (1 ep.)
event1959 star_border 8.4
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A series of unrelated stories containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist.
The Millionaire
Act like Joe Brock (1 ep.)
event1955 star_border 5
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An anthology series that explored the ways sudden and unexpected wealth changed life for better or for worse. It told the stories of people who were given one million dollars from a benefactor who insisted they never know him, with one exception.
Lux Video Theatre
Act like Jonas (1 ep.)
event1950 star_border 6
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Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and plays.
The Rebel
Act like Joe Shandell (1 ep.)
event1959 star_border 5.1
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The Rebel is a 76-episode American western television series starring Nick Adams that debuted on the ABC network from 1959 to 1961. The Rebel was one of the few Goodson-Todman Productions outside of their game show ventures. Beginning in December 2011, The Rebel reruns began to air Saturday mornings on Me-TV.
The Rifleman
(1 ep.)
event1958 star_border 7
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The Rifleman is an American Western television program starring Chuck Connors as rancher Lucas McCain and Johnny Crawford as his son, Mark McCain. It was set in the 1880s in the town of North Fork, New Mexico Territory. The show was filmed in black-and-white, half-hour episodes. "The Rifleman" aired on ABC from September 30, 1958 to April 8, 1963 as a production of Four Star Television. It was one of the first prime time series to have a widowed parent raise a child.
Wire Service
Act like Mason (1 ep.)
event1956
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Wire Service is an American drama series that aired on ABC as part of its 1956-57 season lineup.
Studio 57
(1 ep.)
event1954
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Studio 57 is an American anthology series that was broadcast on the now-defunct DuMont Television Network from September 1954 to September 1955, and in syndication from 1955 to 1956.
Bonanza
Act like Alonzo McFadden (1 ep.)
event1959 star_border 7.5
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The High-Sierra adventures of Ben Cartwright and his sons as they run and defend their ranch while helping the surrounding community.
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