
Birthday:
01-26-1906
Deathday:
04-28-1987 (81 years)
Birthplace:
Ravia, Indian Territory, Oklahoma, USA
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Hollywood: The Dream Factory
Act like Self (archive footage)
event1972 star_border 6
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A documentary about the glorious history of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and its decline leading to the sale of its back lot and props. By extension this provides a general history of Hollywood's Golden Age and the legendary studio system.
The Great Profile
Act like Member of Acrobatic Troupe
event1940 star_border 6.3
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An alcoholic film star attempts a comeback. Director Walter Lang's 1940 comedy stars John Barrymore, Mary Beth Hughes, Anne Baxter, John Payne, Lionel Atwill and Edward Brophy.
Confirm or Deny
Act like Acrobat
event1941 star_border 3.8
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Newsman Mitch and teletype operator Jennifer, whose job is to see he doesn't send inappropriate stuff out of the country, dodge bombs during the blitz of London while falling in love.
How to Break 90 #5: Impact
Act like Himself
event1933
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Bobby Jones attempts to undo the damage done by a meddling old fool.
That's My Boy
Act like Pinkie
event1932
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Featuring members of the 1931 National Champion football team from the University of Southern California Trojans, with team members Russell Saunders and Oscar "Dutch" Hendrian also cast in roles other than just team members.
House of Women
Assistant Director
event1962 star_border 5.4
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An innocent, pregnant prison inmate (Shirley Knight) becomes the bad warden's (Andrew Duggan) personal favorite.
I Died a Thousand Times
Second Unit Director
event1955 star_border 6.1
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After aging criminal Roy Earle is released from prison he decides to pull one last heist before retiring — by robbing a resort hotel.
The Left Handed Gun
Assistant Director
event1958 star_border 6
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When a crooked sheriff murders his employer, William "Billy the Kid" Bonney decides to avenge the death by killing the man responsible, throwing the lives of everyone around him into turmoil, and endangering the General Amnesty set up by Governor Wallace to bring peace to the New Mexico Territory.
The Extraordinary Seaman
Unit Production Manager
event1969 star_border 2.6
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Marooned sailors discover a World War II ship haunted by its late captain.
Black Fury
Assistant Director
event1935 star_border 6.4
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A simple Pennsylvania coal miner is drawn into the violent conflict between union workers and management.
Top Secret Affair
Assistant Director
event1957 star_border 4.6
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A publisher uses her magazine and charm to derail a general on the Washington fast track.
The Happening
Production Manager
event1967 star_border 5.9
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A group of young drifters kidnap wealthy businessman Roc Delmonico just for kicks. They keep him captive, demanding a ransom for his safe release. However there is no one - wife, Mafia associates or mother - willing to part with the $200,000 ransom. Demonico is dismayed that no one appears unduly concerned about his fate and joins forces with the kidnappers to plot his revenge, blackmailing his once nearest and dearest into parting with $3,000,000 in hush money.
The Stalking Moon
Unit Production Manager
event1968 star_border 5.9
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While moving a group of Apaches to a Native American reservation in Arizona, an American scout named Sam Varner is surprised to find a white woman, Sarah Carver, living with the tribe. When Sam learns that she was taken captive by an Indian named Salvaje ten years ago, he attempts to escort Sarah and her half-Native American son to his home in New Mexico. However, it soon becomes clear that Salvaje is hot on their trail.
The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell
Second Unit Director
event1955 star_border 6.8
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A dramatization of the American general and his court martial for publically complaining about High Command's dismissal and neglect of the aerial fighting forces.
Walk Don't Run
Unit Production Manager
event1966 star_border 6.3
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During the housing shortage of the Summer Olympic Games in 1964, two men and a woman share a small apartment in Tokyo, and the older man soon starts playing Cupid to the younger pair.
The Strawberry Blonde
Assistant Director
event1941 star_border 6.9
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Biff Grimes is desperately in love with Virginia, but his best friend Hugo marries her and manipulates Biff into becoming involved in his somewhat nefarious businesses. Hugo appears to have stolen Biff's dreams, and Biff has to deal with the realisation that having what he wants and wanting what another has can be very different things.
Pursued
Assistant Director
event1947 star_border 6.5
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A boy haunted by nightmares about the night his entire family was murdered is brought up by a neighboring family in the 1880s. He falls for his lovely adoptive sister but his nasty adoptive brother and mysterious uncle want him dead.
Arsenic and Old Lace
Assistant Director
event1944 star_border 7.6
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Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright, and author known for his diatribes against marriage, suddenly falls in love and gets married; but when he makes a quick trip home to tell his two maiden aunts, he finds out his aunts' hobby - killing lonely old men and burying them in the cellar!
The Chase
Assistant Director
event1966 star_border 7.1
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The escape of Bubber Reeves from prison affects the inhabitants of a small Southern town.
Dangerous
Assistant Director
event1935 star_border 6.7
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Dan Bellows finds former stage star Joyce Heath a penniless drunk and takes her to his Connecticut home for rehabilitation. He asks his fiancée Gail to free him and offers to sponsor Joyce in a play.
Toward the Unknown
Second Unit Director
event1956 star_border 5.6
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Tortured into a false confession while a POW in Korea, Major Lincoln Bond returns to active service as a test pilot. Determined to clear his name, Bond battles a hard-nosed base commander, prejudiced officers and his own insecurities.
Bonnie and Clyde
Production Manager
event1967 star_border 7.5
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In the 1930s, bored waitress Bonnie Parker falls in love with an ex-con named Clyde Barrow and together they start a violent crime spree through the country, stealing cars and robbing banks.
The Secret Bride
Assistant Director
event1934 star_border 6.3
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Before Ruth Vincent, daughter of a state governor, and state attorney general Robert Sheldon can announce their marriage, the governor is accused of bribe-taking. To avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest, they decide to keep their marriage secret. The political intrigue becomes more involved, and no one is quite what they seem. Soon Sheldon and Ruth must decide between saving the governor's career and an innocent person's life.
We're in the Money
Assistant Director
event1935 star_border 5.5
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Ginger and Dixie are process servers for goofy lawyer Homer Bronson. The two friends want to quit, but they're offered a thousand dollars to serve four subpoenas in a breach of promise suit against rich C. Richard Courtney. Little does Ginger realize, C. Richard Courtney and her mysterious park bench boyfriend 'Carter' are one and the same.
Hollywood Hotel
Assistant Director
event1938 star_border 5.4
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After losing a coveted role in an upcoming film to another actress, screen queen Mona Marshall (Lola Lane) protests by refusing to appear at her current movie's premiere. Her agent discovers struggling actress Virginia Stanton (Rosemary Lane) -- an exact match for Mona -- and sends her to the premiere instead, with young musician Ronnie Bowers (Dick Powell). After various mishaps, including a case of mistaken identity, Ronnie and Virginia struggle to find success in Hollywood.
Torchy Blane in Panama
Assistant Director
event1938 star_border 5.3
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Torchy, Steve, and Gahagan are on the trail of a bank robber aboard an ocean liner traveling from New York to L.A. via the Panama Canal.
It All Came True
Assistant Director
event1940 star_border 5.8
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After crooked nightclub owner murders a police informant, he blackmails his piano player to allow him to stay at his eccentric mother's boarding house.
Violent Road
Assistant Director
event1958 star_border 6
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Following the crash and explosion of a test rocket, which killed several people, six men volunteer to take explosive rocket-fuel chemical components, in three trucks, over back roads in rugged terrain to a remote missile base. Uncredited "remake" of The Wages of Fear.
This Woman Is Dangerous
Assistant Director
event1952 star_border 5.7
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A crime gang leader is losing her sight, so while her lover goes into hiding, she checks in to the hospital for extensive surgery to recover her eyesight. There she is treated by a handsome young doctor. As expected not only does the doctor successfully open her eyes, he also opens her heart for him.
Manpower
Assistant Director
event1941 star_border 6.7
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Hank McHenry and Johnny Marshall work as power company linesmen. Hank is injured in an accident and subsequently promoted to foreman of the gang. Tensions start to show in the road crew as rivalry between Hank and Johnny increases.
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Assistant Director
event1935 star_border 6.5
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Four young people escape Athens to a forest where the king and queen of the fairies are quarreling, while meanwhile, a troupe of amateur actors rehearses a play. When the fairy Puck uses a magic flower to make people fall in love, the whole thing becomes a little bit confused...
Torchy Runs for Mayor
Assistant Director
event1939 star_border 5.8
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Torchy conducts a one woman campaign against a corrupt mayor and crime boss, and when the reform candidate is murdered, she takes up the banner.
On Dress Parade
Assistant Director
event1939 star_border 6.3
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The final feature in the "Dead End Kids" film series finds a youth trying to adjust to life at a military school.
White Heat
Assistant Director
event1949 star_border 7.7
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A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and then leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist. After the heist, events take a crazy turn.
The Liberation of L.B. Jones
Unit Production Manager
event1970 star_border 5.8
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A successful African American businessman has a quarrel with a white policeman, suspecting that he is having an affair with his wife. The policeman's colleagues are seeking to avoid publicity.
They Died with Their Boots On
Assistant Director
event1941 star_border 6.6
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The story follows General George Armstrong Custer's adventures from his West Point days to his death. He defies orders during the Civil War, trains the 7th Cavalry, appeases Chief Crazy Horse and later engages in bloody battle with the Sioux nation.
Love Begins at Twenty
Assistant Director
event1936 star_border 6
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A henpecked husband tries to help his daughter marry the man she loves and his wife loathes.
Gentleman Jim
Assistant Director
event1942 star_border 7.2
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As bare-knuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of the boxing world.
The Sins of Rachel Cade
Assistant Director
event1961 star_border 5.5
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A female doctor in the Congo is torn between two loves.
The Driver
Production Manager
event1978 star_border 7.2
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The Driver specializes in driving getaway cars for robberies. His exceptional talent has prevented him from being caught yet. After another successful flight from the police a self-assured detective makes it his primary goal to catch the Driver. He promises pardons to a gang if they help to convict him in a set-up robbery. The Driver seeks help from The Player to mislead the detective.
High Sierra
Assistant Director
event1941 star_border 7
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Given a pardon from jail, Roy Earle gets back into the swing of things as he robs a swanky resort.
Fools' Parade
Unit Production Manager
event1971 star_border 6.8
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When a trio of ex-convicts led by Mattie Appleyard is released from prison, they hope to open a general store using money Mattie has saved during his 40-year sentence. This attempt is met with great resistance from a corrupt prison official and the banker who issued Mattie the check.
Operation Pacific
Assistant Director
event1951 star_border 6
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During WWII, Duke E. Gifford is second in command of the USS Thunderfish, a submarine which is firing off torpedoes that either explode too early or never explode at all. It's a dilemma that he'll eventually take up personally. Even more personal is his quest to win back his ex-wife, a nurse; but he'll have to win her back from a navy flier who also happens to be his commander's little brother.
Cheyenne Autumn
Assistant Director
event1964 star_border 6.7
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A reluctant cavalry Captain must track a defiant tribe of migrating Cheyenne.
From Noon Till Three
Assistant Director
event1976 star_border 6
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Bank robber Graham Dorsey spends a few hours with beautiful widow Amanda Starbuck, in which time his gang takes part in a disastrous holdup. Learning of his comrades' demise, Dorsey goes on the lam. Believing her short-term lover was killed by the law, Amanda decides to make the most of having had a liaison with the supposedly deceased desperado by writing a book about him. Much to his confusion, the still-living Dorsey watches as his name becomes legendary.
Battle Cry
Assistant Director
event1955 star_border 5.7
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The dramatic story of US Marines in training, in combat, and in love, during World War II. The story centers on a major who guides the raw recruits from their training to combat.
The Go-Getter
Assistant Director
event1937 star_border 5.8
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A Navy veteran with one leg fights to make himself a success.
The Walking Dead
Assistant Director
event1936 star_border 6.2
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Down-on-his-luck John Ellman is framed for a judge's murder. After he's convicted and sentenced to death, witnesses come forth and prove his innocence. But it was too late for a stay to be granted and Ellman is executed. A doctor uses an experimental procedure to restore him to life, though the full outcome is other than expected.
A Fugitive from Justice
Assistant Director
event1940 star_border 3.5
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Leslie is being chased by the gangsters, the police and the insurance investigators. He is on the run. Falsely accused of a murder, he embarks upon a life-and-death journey to save his family.
King Rat
Assistant Director
event1965 star_border 7
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When Singapore surrendered to the Japanese in 1942, the Allied POWs, mostly British but including a few Americans, were incarcerated in Changi prison. Among the American prisoners is Cpl. King, a wheeler-dealer who has managed to establish a pretty good life for himself in the camp. King soon forms a friendship with an upper-class British officer who is fascinated with King's enthusiastic approach to life.
Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase
Assistant Director
event1939 star_border 6.8
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Nancy helps two aging spinsters fulfill the byzantine provisions of their father's will, but the murder of their chauffeur complicates matters.
Nancy Drew... Reporter
Assistant Director
event1939 star_border 6.2
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While participating in a contest at a local newspaper in which school children are asked to submit a news story, local attorney Carson Drew's daughter Nancy intercepts a real story assignment. She "covers" the inquest of the death of a woman who was poisoned. Nancy doesn't think the young woman accused of the crime is guilty and corrals her neighbor Ted into searching for a vital piece of evidence and stumbles onto the identity of the real killer.
Lost Horizon
Second Unit Director
event1973 star_border 5.4
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While escaping war-torn China, a group of Europeans crash in the Himalayas, where they are rescued and taken to the mysterious Valley of the Blue Moon, Shangri-La.
A Gunfight
Production Manager
event1971 star_border 5.8
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Will Tenneray and Abe Cross are two aging, famous gunfighters, both in need of money. Tenneray comes up with the idea to stage a duel to the death in a bullfight arena, with the ticket proceeds going to the winner.
Which Way to the Front?
Production Manager
event1970 star_border 4.8
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Brendan Byers III, one of the richest men in America, has been pronounced 4-F and can't serve his country in its war against Hitler. Byers does not take "No" for an answer and recruits other 4-F's to fight against Hitler.
Stripes
Production Manager
event1981 star_border 6.6
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John Winger, an indolent sad sack in his 30s, impulsively joins the US Army after losing his job, his girlfriend and his apartment.
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