
Birthday:
12-31-1890
Deathday:
11-09-1967 (76 years)
Birthplace:
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Biography
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Charles Bickford (January 1, 1891 – November 9, 1967) was an American actor best known for his supporting roles. He was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, for The Song of Bernadette (1943), The Farmer's Daughter (1947), and Johnny Belinda (1948). Other notable roles include Whirlpool (1948), A Star is Born (1954) and The Big Country (1958).
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Charles Bickford (January 1, 1891 – November 9, 1967) was an American actor best known for his supporting roles. He was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, for The Song of Bernadette (1943), The Farmer's Daughter (1947), and Johnny Belinda (1948). Other notable roles include Whirlpool (1948), A Star is Born (1954) and The Big Country (1958).
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The Dark Wave
event1956
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A young girl, normal in every way, is affected with severe epilepsy.
A Star Is Born
Act like Oliver Niles
event1954 star_border 7.1
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A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.
Rose Hobart
Act like Man (archive footage) (uncredited)
event1936 star_border 5.3
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Cornell employs clips from 1931's jungle melodrama East of Borneo – more specifically, clips of its lead actress, Rose Hobart – to disquieting effect. Through Cornell's collage editing, Hobart becomes a singular object of desire and dread, trapped in an exotic paradise.
The Unforgiven
Act like Zeb Rawlins
event1960 star_border 6.2
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The neighbors of a frontier family turn on them when it is suspected that their beloved adopted daughter was stolen from the Kiowa tribe.
Duel in the Sun
Act like Sam Pierce
event1946 star_border 6.3
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Beautiful half-breed Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself torn between her sons, one good and the other bad.
Fallen Angel
Act like Mark Judd
event1945 star_border 6.4
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An unemployed drifter, Eric Stanton wanders into a small California town and begins hanging around the local diner. While Eric falls for the lovely waitress Stella, he also begins romancing a quiet and well-to-do woman named June Mills. Since Stella isn't interested in Eric unless he has money, the lovelorn guy comes up with a scheme to win her over, and it involves June. Before long, murder works its way into this passionate love triangle.
Days of Wine and Roses
Act like Ellis Arnesen
event1963 star_border 7.5
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An alcoholic falls in love with and gets married to a young woman, whom he systematically addicts to booze so they can share his "passion" together.
Gangs of New York
Act like Rocky Thorpe / John Franklin
event1938 star_border 4.8
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An undercover cop infiltrates a powerful New York based crime syndicate.
The Big Country
Act like Major Henry Terrill
event1958 star_border 7.6
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Retired wealthy sea captain Jim McKay arrives in the Old West, where he becomes embroiled in a feud between his future father-in-law, Major Terrill, and the rough and lawless Hannasseys over a valuable patch of land.
Winterset
Act like Judge Gaunt
event1959
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Immigrant radical Bartolomeo Romagna is falsely condemned and executed for a payroll robbery. Years later, his son Mio sets out to find the truth of the crime and to bring to account the gangster Trock Estrella.
Tarzan's New York Adventure
Act like Buck Rand
event1942 star_border 6.3
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Circus owner Buck Rand kidnaps Boy to perform in his show. He forces a pilot to fly him, Boy and his animal trainer out of the jungle. Tarzan and Jane follow them to New York.
Brute Force
Act like Gallagher
event1947 star_border 7.3
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Timeworn Joe Collins and his fellow inmates live under the heavy thumb of the sadistic, power-tripping guard Captain Munsey. Only Collins' dreams of escape keep him going, but how can he possibly bust out of Munsey's chains?
Whirlpool
Act like Lt. James Colton
event1950 star_border 6.4
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The wife of a psychoanalyst falls prey to a devious quack hypnotist when he discovers she is an habitual shoplifter. Then one of his previous patients now being treated by the real doctor is found murdered, with her still at the scene, and suspicion points only one way.
Anna Christie
Act like Matt Burke
event1930 star_border 6.2
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Old sailor Chris Christofferson eagerly awaits the arrival of his grown daughter Anna, whom he sent at five years old to live with relatives in Minnesota. He has not seen her since, but believes her to be a decent and respectably employed young woman. When Anna arrives, however, it is clear that she has lived a hard life in the dregs of society, and that much of spirit has been extinguished. She falls in love with a young sailor rescued at sea by her father, but dreads to reveal to him the truth of her past. Both father and young man are deluded about her background, yet Anna cannot quite bring herself to allow them to remain deluded.
The Woman on the Beach
Act like Tod Butler
event1947 star_border 6
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A sailor suffering from post-traumatic stress becomes involved with a beautiful and enigmatic seductress married to a blind painter.
Jim Thorpe – All-American
Act like Glenn S. 'Pop' Warner
event1951 star_border 6.2
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The triumph and tragedy of Native American Jim Thorpe, who, after winning both the pentathlon and decathlon in the same Olympics, is stripped of his medals on a technicality.
A Big Hand for the Little Lady
Act like Benson Tropp
event1966 star_border 7.1
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A naive traveler in Laredo gets involved in a poker game between the richest men in the area, jeopardizing all the money he has saved for the purpose of settling with his wife and child in San Antonio.
Little Miss Marker
Act like Big Steve Halloway
event1934 star_border 6.4
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Big Steve Halloway, gambler and proprietor of New York's Horseshoe Cabaret, is in desperate need of money. He arranges for his fellow bookies, especially Sorrowful Jones, to each pay him $1,000 for his racehorse, Dream Prince, to lose. With all bets being placed at the window, Sorrowful encounters a gambler, having lost $500, wanting to place his bet but unable to come up with $20. Instead, he places his little girl, Marthy Jane, as security, or in bookie's terms a "marker". "Marky", as she comes to be known, winds up under the care of Sorrowful Jones and his lady friend, singer Bangles Carson.
The Babe Ruth Story
Act like Brother Matthias
event1948 star_border 5.8
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The baseball player goes from wayward youth to Boston Red Sox pitcher to New York Yankees home-run hero.
The Farmer's Daughter
Act like Joseph Clancy
event1947 star_border 6.9
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After leaving her family's farm to study nursing in the city, a young woman finds herself on an unexpected path towards politics.
The Song of Bernadette
Act like Father Peyramale
event1943 star_border 7
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In 1858 Lourdes, France, Bernadette, an adolescent peasant girl, has a vision of "a beautiful lady" in the city dump. She never claims it to be anything other than this, but the townspeople all assume it to be the Virgin Mary. The pompous government officials think she is nuts, and do their best to suppress the girl and her followers, and the church wants nothing to do with the whole matter. But as Bernadette attracts wider and wider attention, the phenomenon overtakes everyone in the the town, and transforms their lives.
The Plainsman
Act like John Lattimer
event1936 star_border 6.3
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Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane and Buffalo Bill go up against Indians and a gunrunner.
The Raging Tide
Act like Hamil Linder
event1951 star_border 5.2
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A San Francisco hood is rubbed out by rival Bruno Felkin, who himself reports the crime to Homicide Lt. Kelsey in an alibi scheme which fails. To escape, he stows away on a fishing boat. At sea, skipper Hamil Linder receives Bruno kindly, teaching him fishing; Bruno enlists Hamil's wayward son Carl to tend his slot machines. Then Carl takes an interest in Bruno's girl Connie. Climax in a storm at sea.
Johnny Belinda
Act like Black MacDonald
event1948 star_border 6.8
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A small-town doctor helps a deaf-mute farm girl learn to communicate.
Reap the Wild Wind
Act like Mate of the 'Tyfib'
event1942 star_border 6.4
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The Florida Keys in 1840, where the implacable hurricanes of the Caribbean scream, where the salvagers of Key West, like the intrepid and beautiful Loxi Claiborne and her crew, reap, aboard frail schooners, the harvest of the wild wind, facing the shark teeth of the reefs to rescue the sailors and the cargo from the shipwrecks caused by the scavengers of the sea.
Four Faces West
Act like Pat Garrett
event1948 star_border 5.6
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Cowboy Ross McEwen arrives in town. He asks the banker for a loan of $2000. When the banker asks about securing a loan that large, McEwen shows him his six-gun collateral. The banker hands over the money in exchange for an I.O.U., signed "Jefferson Davis". McEwen rides out of town and catches a train, but not before being bitten by a rattler. On the train, a nurse, Miss Hollister, tends to his wound. A posse searches the train, but McEwen manages to escape notice. However a mysterious Mexican has taken note of the cowboy, and that loudmouthed brat is still nosing around. Who will be the first to claim the reward for the robber's capture?
Mr. Lucky
Act like Hard Swede
event1943 star_border 6.9
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A conman poses as a war relief fundraiser, but when he falls for a charity worker, his conscience begins to trouble him.
Wing and a Prayer
Act like Captain Waddell
event1944 star_border 6.5
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An aircraft carrier is sent on a decoy mission around the Pacific, with orders to avoid combat, thus lulling Japanese alertness before the battle of Midway.
High, Wide and Handsome
Act like Red Scanlon
event1937 star_border 6.3
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The setting is a small town in 1870s Pennsylvania. Sally Waterson and her father have stopped in town with their traveling medicine show, but when their wagon catches fire, they find themselves stranded. They're taken in by Mrs. Cortlandt and her grandson, Peter, who is trying to set up a pipeline that will supply oil throughout the state. Sally and Peter soon fall in love and marry. Neither their marriage nor Peter's pipe dreams flow too smoothly.
Of Mice and Men
Act like Slim
event1939 star_border 7.3
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An intellectually disabled giant and his level headed guardian find work at a sadistic cowboy's ranch in depression era America.
Not as a Stranger
Act like Dr. Dave W. Runkleman
event1955 star_border 6.2
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Lucas Marsh, an intern bent upon becoming a first-class doctor, not merely a successful one. He courts and marries the warm-hearted Kristina, not out of love but because she is highly knowledgeable in the skills of the operating room and because she has frugally put aside her savings through the years. She will be, as he shrewdly knows, a supportive wife in every way. She helps make him the success he wants to be and cheerfully moves with him to the small town in which he starts his practice. But as much as he tries to be a good husband to the undemanding Kristina, Marsh easily falls into the arms of a local siren and the patience of the long-sorrowing Kristina wears thin.
You Can't Run Away from It
Act like A.A. Andrews
event1956 star_border 4.3
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A reporter stumbles on a runaway heiress whose story could salvage his career.
Daughter of Shanghai
Act like Otto Hartman
event1937 star_border 5.4
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A Chinese-American woman tries to expose an illegal alien smuggling ring.
Riding High
Act like J.L. Higgins
event1950 star_border 5.8
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A horse trainer who has fallen on hard times looks to his horse, Broadway Bill, to finally win the big race.
This Day and Age
Act like Louis Garrett
event1933 star_border 1
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A modern-day tale of gangsterism and revenge. After a notorious mobster murders a Jewish tailor and is let off for the crime, a band of outraged high-school students turns into vigilante crusaders hell-bent on punishing the wrongdoers. Memorable pre-Code moment: the students torturing a gangster by dangling him over a pit filled with rats.
The Last Posse
Act like Sampson Drune
event1953 star_border 6
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A posse's pursuit of bank robbers ends with loot missing and a sheriff (Broderick Crawford) wounded.
East of Borneo
Act like Allan Clark
event1931 star_border 5
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Mrs. Linda Randolph treks through darkened jungles to the land of Maradu to find her missing husband Allan, who'd left her years before when he believed she was in love with another. She finds Allan the drunken court physician to a devious prince-- Whose designs on the pair don't include a happy ending.
Stand Up and Fight
Act like Arnold
event1939 star_border 5.8
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A southern aristocrat clashes with a driver transporting stolen slaves to freedom.
The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell
Act like Gen. Jimmy Guthrie
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.
Scandal for Sale
Act like Jerry Strong
event1932 star_border 7
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A man is promised $25,000 if he can bring the circulation of a newspaper up to one million.
Mister Cory
Act like Jeremiah Des Plains 'Biloxi' Caldwell
event1957 star_border 5.7
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An opportunistic young man from the slums gambles his way to wealth, power and high society.
Panama Flo
Act like Pearl
event1932 star_border 7
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An engineer makes a thieving entertainer work off her debts as a housekeeper at his jungle mining camp.
Branded
Act like Mr. Lavery
event1950 star_border 5.8
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A gunfighter takes part in a scheme to bilk a wealthy cattle family out of half a million dollars by pretending to be their son, who was kidnapped as child.
The Pagan Lady
Act like Dingo Mike
event1931 star_border 2.5
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Dot starts out as a bartender in Havana when in walks Dingo Mike (Charles Bickford) and orders up a drink that sounds like something you'd consume on a dare. He drinks the concoction down in one swallow and also manages to outsmart Dot's boss and his rum-running hooligans. You see, Dingo is a bootlegger himself. He literally sweeps the lady off her feet and they set up housekeeping in a tropical hotel full of colorful characters, some of whom are in the bootlegging business too.
The Squaw Man
Act like Cash Hawkins
event1931 star_border 5.4
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Jim Wyngate, an English aristocrat, comes to the American West under a cloud of suspicion for embezzlement actually committed by his cousin Lord Henry. In Wyoming, Wyngate runs afoul of cattle rustler Cash Hawkins by rescuing the Indian girl Naturich from Hawkins. Wyngate marries Naturich, but then learns that his cousin Lord Henry has been killed and has cleared his name before dying. As Wyngate has long loved Lady Diana, Lord Henry's wife, he is perplexed at his situation. But fate takes a hand and resolves matters as Wyngate could not have predicted.
Hell's Heroes
Act like Bob Sangster
event1929 star_border 6.9
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Three bank robbers on the run happen across a woman about to give birth in an abandoned covered wagon. Before she dies, she names the three bandits as her newborn son's godfathers. Remade as Three Godfathers (1936) and 3 Godfathers (1949).
White Woman
Act like Ballister
event1933 star_border 5.7
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A nightclub singer marries the rich owner of a rubber plantation. When she returns with him to his estate in Malaysia, she finds out that he is cruel, vicious and insanely jealous. She and the plantation's overseer develop a mutual attraction, but are terrified at what will happen if her husband finds out.
Dynamite
Act like Hagon Derk
event1929 star_border 6.3
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Wealthy Cynthia is in love with not-so-wealthy Roger, who is married to Marcia. The threesome is terribly modern about the situation, and Marcia will gladly divorce Roger if Cynthia agrees to a financial settlement. But Cynthia's wealth is in jeopardy because her trust fund will expire if she is not married by a certain date. To satisfy that condition, Cynthia arranges to marry Hagon Derk, who is condemned to die for a crime he didn't commit. She pays him so he can provide for his little sister. But at the last minute, Derk is freed when the true criminal is discovered. Expecting to be a rich widow, Cynthia finds herself married to a man she doesn't know and doesn't want to.
The Farmer Takes a Wife
Act like Jotham Klore
event1935 star_border 6.1
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A farmer tries to convince a girl to leave her life on a canal boat to live with him on his farm.
The Sea Bat
Act like Reverend Sims
event1930 star_border 4.6
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The sister of a sponge diver killed by a stingray loves an escaped convict posing as a priest.
Passion Flower
Act like Dan Wallace
event1930 star_border 5.6
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A bored society woman invites scandal and heartache when she falls in love with her low-born chauffeur.
A Wicked Woman
Act like Pat Naylor
event1934 star_border 5
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A woman and her children escape severe poverty and abuse. She successfully betters her family's condition while living with the secret that she killed her abusive husband in order to protect her children from him.
Valley of the Giants
Act like Howard Fallon
event1938 star_border 6
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A lumberman takes on a sleezy corporate giant wanting to move in and do whatever it takes to drive everyone else out of business.
Roseanna McCoy
Act like Devil Anse Hatfield
event1949 star_border 6.1
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It's the Hatfields vs. the McCoys in this 1949 film, with Farley Granger and Joan Evans as the hillbilly Romeo and Juliet whose forbidden romance rekindles a long-standing feud between their respective families.
No Other Woman
Act like Jim Stanley
event1933 star_border 5.2
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A steelworker and his aspiring wife make millions when they become partners in a dyeworks. Unfortunately, success does not bring happiness.
Queen of the Yukon
Act like Ace Rincon
event1940 star_border 5
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The owner of an Alaskan gambling boat and her business partner help thwart a crooked businessman who attempts to steal claims from local miners.
Della
Act like Hugh Stafford
event1964 star_border 7.2
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Della Chappell is a very wealthy and incredibly reclusive woman. When a big company wants to develop some land that Della owns, the town sends out Barney Stafford to talk to her. She invites Barney over to negotiate the proposal. Barney soon takes a liking to Della's equally reclusive daughter Jenny Chappell. After spending some time with Jenny, he realizes that Della has a dark secret, one that keeps them from the outside world.
Elopement
Act like Tom Reagan
event1951 star_border 5
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Two sets of parents frantically race to stop their eloping children's wedding.
River's End
Act like Keith / Conniston
event1930 star_border 6.2
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Sgt. Conniston and his alcoholic guide O'Toole are on the trail of an escaped murderer named Keith. When they catch up with him in the farthest reaches of Northern Canada, Keith turns out to be a dead ringer for Conniston. On the way back, the sled overturns, Keith grabs the gun and leaves them to die in the snow. After second thoughts he comes back and brings them to safety at an RCMP emergency cabin. Conniston dies of a frozen lung and Keith takes his place.
Men in Her Life
Act like Flashy Madden
event1931 star_border 6
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A wealthy ex-bootlegger comes to the rescue of a formerly rich society girl after her gold-digging fiancé leaves her stranded when he finds out she's broke. The bootlegger proposes a deal: he will settle her debts if she teaches him how to be "a gentleman".
A Notorious Gentleman
event1935 star_border 6
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A lawyer sets out to commit the perfect murder.
Red Wagon
Act like Joe Prince
event1933
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Adapted from Lady Eleanor Smith’s novel, this 1934 feature tells the story of Joe Prince, an orphan child of circus people who, after many struggles, achieves his life-long ambition of owning a circus.
Forbidden Area
Act like Gen. Keaton
event1956 star_border 7
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Why are so many B-99 bombers from Hibiscus Air Base crashing or simply disappearing? Colonel Price comes up with a terrifying explanation, but will anyone believe him?
Thunder Below
Act like Walt
event1932
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Story of an unhappy wife of oil rigger who labors in a Central American oil field. The bored Susan falls in love with Walt's good friend Ken but keeps her husband in the dark about her feelings... until he's plunged into darkness for real when he loses his eyesight. Susan finds her attentions then wandering yet another man, Davis, and Ken urges her to return to Walt.
Under Pressure
Act like Nipper Moran
event1935 star_border 5
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Two members of a crew of "sandhogs", men who work on an underwater tunnel project, battle each other over the same woman and a rival team of sandhogs to see who will finish their half of the tunnel first, with the winning team getting more money and guaranteed future work.
Vanity Street
Act like Brian Murphy
event1932 star_border 6.8
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A New York policeman helps a hungry and penniless young woman start life anew by arranging to get her a job in "The Follies".
Guilty of Treason
Act like Cardinal Joszef Mindszenty
event1950 star_border 6
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The story of Cardinal Josef Mindzhenty, a Roman Catholic cardinal from Hungary who spoke out against both the Nazi occupation of his country during World War II and the Communist regime that replaced it after the war.
Mutiny in the Big House
Act like Father Joe Collins
event1939 star_border 4.4
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A young man forges a check in order to help his mother, but is caught and sentenced to 14 years in prison...
Girl from God's Country
Act like Bill Bogler
event1940
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Jim Holden, a young doctor practicing in Alaska, eagerly awaits the arrival of his new nurse, Anne Webster. All of his previous left within a few weeks by the rigors of the Alaskan winter....
Night Club Scandal
Act like Det. Capt. McKinley
event1937 star_border 4
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When Dr. Ernest Tindal's wife is murdered, evidence mounts to convict her lover, Frank Marian. But Frank knows he didn't do it.....
Rose of the Rancho
Act like Joe Kincaid
event1936
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It is California in 1852 that only recently being surrendered by Mexico to the United States and admitted into the union. Most of the land-owners of California were the descendants of the Dons who had colonized it a hundred years before and whose title deeds bore the signature and seal of a long-dead Spanish king. But, by a loop-hole in the law, the title-deeds of the Dons could not be recognized, and this opened the door of organized gangs of land-grabbers, such as the one led by Joe Kincaid, to operate with a prime excuse for legitimate plunder and robbery. In most cases the law was unable to cope with the situation. Then Rosita Castro, the daughter of Don Pasqual Castro, masked and disguised as a man, organized a band of vigilantes to fight against the tyranny of the outlaws, aided by an undercover federal agent, Jim Kearney.
Our Leading Citizen
Act like Shep Muir
event1939
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Lem Schofield, a lawyer in a one-time small-town turned industrialized big city, runs his firm on examples set by Abraham Lincoln and is a friend to the poor. Clay Clinton, his late partner's son joins the firm but is anxious for fast success and considers Schofield's old-fashioned principles antiquated. Being in love with Schofield's daughter and impatient for success he moves to offices supplied by the city's most powerful industrialist, J.T. Tapley, who has plans to use Clay's good family lineage as a stepping stone to political power. The unscrupulous Tapley precipitates a strike in his factory mill which causes a rupture between the former partners. Schofield sets out to bring Tapley and his political henchmen to justice.
Thunder Trail
Act like Lee Tate
event1937 star_border 6
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A wagon train is robbed by a gang of bandits who kill everyone but a pair of young brothers. Years later, the brothers join force to bring the bandits' leader to justice.
Burma Convoy
Act like Cliff Weldon
event1941
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A truck convoy traveling the Burma Road is menaced by a group of smugglers.
Street of Missing Men
Act like Cash Darwin
event1939 star_border 9
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An ex-con vows vengeance on the newspaper responsible for putting him behind bars, but has a change of heart when another racketeer threatens to bring the paper down..
Thou Shalt Not Kill
Act like Rev. Chris Saunders
event1939
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Thou Shalt Not Kill (1939)
Riders of Death Valley
Act like Wolf Reade
event1941 star_border 6.5
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The Saturday matinee crowd got two cowboy stars for the price of one in this lavishly budgeted western serial starring former singing cowboy Dick Foran and Buck Jones. The latter contributed deadpan humor to the proceedings, making Jones perhaps the highest paid B-western comedy relief in history. The two heroes defend the Death Valley borax miners from an outlaw gang headed by Wolf Reade. An extraordinarily strong cast -- for a serial, at least -- supported the stars, headed by Charles Bickford as Reade, Leo Carillo, Lon Chaney, Jr., and silent screen star Monte Blue. Leading lady Jeanne Kelly later changed her name to Jean Brooks and starred in the atmospheric RKO thriller The Seventh Victim (1943). Universal claimed to have spent $1 million on this serial and made sure to get their money's worth by endlessly recycling the action footage in serials and B-westerns for years to come.
Song of the Eagle
Act like Joe (Nails) Anderson
event1933
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This drama centers on the fight for certain post-Prohibitionist groups to gain total control over the liquor industry. Much of the tale is focused upon a family endeavoring to keep their little brewery.
South Sea Rose
Act like Capt. Briggs
event1929
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A French girl raised in the south seas is brought to prim and proper New England by her New England born and bred sea captain husband. She wears short skirts and shocks the puritanical New Englanders in her new home with her wild candid ways...
Romance of the Redwoods
Act like Steve Blake
event1939 star_border 6
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June Martin is a dishwasher in a California logging camp boarding house. Steve Blake fights Jed Malone for her and loses, thus casting suspicion on himself when Malone dies under cloudy circumstances.
Lincoln's Doctor's Dog
Act like Dr. Stone
event1955
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During the dark days of the Civil War, a doctor gives President Lincoln a puppy to buoy his spirits.
Captain Eddie
Act like William Rickenbacker
event1945 star_border 6
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WWI flyer Eddie Rickenbaker remembers his life which brought him from a car salesman, race driver and pilot in WWI, to an important person in the early years of civil airline service, after his plane crashed in the South Pacific in late 1942.
Prince of Players
Act like Dave Prescott
event1955 star_border 4.7
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Prince of Players is a biographical film about the 19th century American actor Edwin Booth.
Command Decision
Act like Elmer Brockhurst
event1948 star_border 6.6
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High-ranking officers struggle with the decision to prioritize bombing German factories producing new jet fighters over the extremely high casualties the mission will cost.
The Storm
Act like Bob "Sparks" Roberts
event1938
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A passenger ship unexpectedly runs into a typhoon.
Complicated Women
Act like Self (archive footage)
event2003 star_border 6.7
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Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, until 1934 when the Hays Code virtually neutered film content. No longer portrayed as virgins or vamps, the liberated female of the pre-code films had dimensions. Good girls had lovers and babies and held down jobs, while the bad girls were cast in a sympathetic light. And they did it all without apology.
Pride of the Marines
Act like Steve Riley
event1936 star_border 6
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A Marine sacrifices his adopted son and his girlfriend so that they might find a new and more prosperous life.
East of Java
Act like Red McGovern / Harvey Bowers
event1935 star_border 6
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Survivors of a shipwreck find refuge on a tropical island--but so do the ship's cargo of lions and tigers.
Woman on the Run
event1959 star_border 4
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Pilot episode, directed by Dick Powell.
Days of Wine and Roses
Act like Ellis Arnesen
event1958 star_border 7
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An alcoholic falls in love with and gets married to a young woman whom he systematically addicts to booze so they can share his "passion" together.
South to Karanga
Act like Jeff Worthing
event1940
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Passengers bound to an African copper mine at Karanga to quell a native uprising encounter murder and intrigue on the way.
One Hour To Live
Act like Insp. Sid Brady
event1939
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Gangsters and police cross each other, including murder, in an attempt to cover up crimes.
The Farmer's Daughter
Act like Clancy
event1962
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Young Swedish-American Katrin "Katie" Holstrom leaves her family farm in Minnesota, headed for nursing school. After her tuition money runs out, she is forced to take a job as a maid in the home of Congressman Glenn Morley. Holstrom endears herself to the genteel Morley, and begins to show a surprising aptitude for politics herself. She launches a campaign for Congress, and, as right-wing reactionaries plot against her, a romance develops.
Playhouse 90
Act like Gen. Keaton (1 ep.)
event1956 star_border 7.5
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Playhouse 90 is an American television anthology series that was telecast on CBS from 1956 to 1960 for a total of 133 episodes. It originated from CBS Television City in Los Angeles, California. Since live anthology drama series of the mid-1950s were usually hour-long shows, the title highlighted the network's intention to present something unusual, a weekly series of hour-and-a-half dramas rather than 60-minute plays. Playhouse 90 began as a pitch by Frank Stanton—the formidable, forward-thinking right-hand man to CBS chairman William S. Paley—during a brainstorming session for program ideas. The project was ultimately developed by Hubbell Robinson, a CBS vice president who received no screen credit on Playhouse 90 but is often described as its creator.
The Man Behind the Badge
Act like Narrator (90 ep.)
event1953 star_border 5.5
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The Man Behind the Badge is the title of a half-hour American television police drama series which aired on the CBS from 1953-1955 starring and hosted by character actor Charles Bickford. Years later, Bickford appeared as one of the owners of Shiloh Ranch in the NBC western series, The Vrginian.
In its first season, The Man Behind the Badge aired on Sundays at 9:30 p.m. EST opposite ABC's Jukebox Jury.
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
Act like Isaiah B. Richardson (1 ep.)
event1960 star_border 6.2
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The Barbara Stanwyck Show is an American anthology drama television series which ran on NBC from September 1960 to September 1961. Barbara Stanwyck served as hostess, and starred in all but four of the half-hour productions. The four she did not star in were actually pilot episodes of potential series programs which never materialized. Stanwyck won the Emmy Award in 1961 for Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Series.
Three of the shows in which Stanwyck starred were an attempt at spinning off a dramatic series of her own, in which she appeared as "Josephine Little", an American woman running an import-export shop in Hong Kong.
The series, produced at Desilu Studios, was directed by Stuart Rosenberg. The Barbara Stanwyck Show lasted one season. It aired at 10 p.m. Eastern on Mondays opposite Jackie Cooper's military sitcom Hennesey on CBS and the second half of Gardner McKay's Adventures in Paradise on ABC.
Bambi Awards
Act like Self (archive footage) (1 ep.)
event1948 star_border 9
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The Bambi, often called the Bambi Award and stylised as BAMBI, is a German award presented annually by Hubert Burda Media to recognize excellence in international media and television to personalities in the media, arts, culture, sports, and other fields "with vision and creativity who affected and inspired the German public that year", both domestic and foreign. First held in 1948, it is the oldest media award in Germany. The trophy is named after Felix Salten's book Bambi, A Life in the Woods and its statuettes are in the shape of the novel's titular fawn character. They were originally made of porcelain until 1958, when the organizers switched to using gold, with the casting done by the art casting workshop of Ernst Strassacker in Süßen.
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