Birthday:
04-11-1916
Deathday:
02-16-2001 (84 years)
Birthplace:
New York City, New York, USA
Biography
Howard Winchel Koch was an American producer and director of film and television.
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Ghost
Producer
event 1990 star_border 7.2
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After a young man is murdered, his spirit stays behind to warn his lover of impending danger, with the help of a reluctant psychic.
The Manchurian Candidate
Executive Producer
event 1962 star_border 7.5
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Near the end of the Korean War, a platoon of U.S. soldiers is captured by communists and brainwashed. Following the war, the platoon is returned home, and Sergeant Raymond Shaw is lauded as a hero by the rest of his platoon. However, the platoon commander, Captain Bennett Marco, finds himself plagued by strange nightmares and soon races to uncover a terrible plot.
Dragonslayer
Executive Producer
event 1981 star_border 6.5
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A sorcerer and his apprentice are on a mission to kill an evil dragon to save the King’s daughter from being sacrificed according to a pact that the King himself made with the dragon to protect his kingdom.
Frankenstein 1970
Director
event 1958 star_border 5.4
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The baron's grandson rents the family castle to a TV crew to fund his atomic revival of the family monster.
Macabre
Producer
event 1958 star_border 5.9
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After his wife and her blind sister have died under his care, a doctor's small daughter is kidnapped and reported as buried alive, and he is given just five hours to find and rescue her.
Shield for Murder
Director
event 1954 star_border 6.6
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A crooked detective masterminds a robbery then fights to keep his money.
The Odd Couple
Producer
event 1968 star_border 7.5
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In New York, Felix, a neurotic news writer who just broke up with his wife, is urged by his chaotic friend Oscar, a sports journalist, to move in with him, but their lifestyles are as different as night and day are, so Felix's ideas about housekeeping soon begin to irritate Oscar.
The Sea Hawk
Screenplay
event 1940 star_border 7.2
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Dashing pirate Geoffrey Thorpe plunders Spanish ships for Queen Elizabeth I and falls in love with Dona Maria, a beautiful Spanish royal he captures.
The Underground Man
Executive Producer
event 1974
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A private detective goes after the kidnappers of his ex-girlfriend's son and becomes involved in a series of murders.
The Keys of the Kingdom
Assistant Director
event 1944 star_border 7
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A young priest, Father Chisholm is sent to China to establish a Catholic parish among the non-Christian Chinese. While his boyhood friend, also a priest, flourishes in his calling as a priest in a more Christian area of the world, Father Chisholm struggles. He encounters hostility, isolation, disease, poverty and a variety of set backs which humble him, but make him more determined than ever to succeed.
The Black Sleep
Producer
event 1956 star_border 6.1
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In 19th century England, a noted brain surgeon rescues a former student from being hanged on a false conviction for murder, and spirits him away to an ancient, repurposed abbey far in the countryside. There, he connives his pupil into assisting him in mapping the functions of the various parts of the human brain, using living subjects who are under a terrible animation-suspending drug called "black sleep". Subsequently, the student, along with the daughter of one of the subjects, discover that most of these subjects have survived but are being kept in a dungeon-like cellar, in various stages of physical and mental derangement...
Crime Against Joe
Producer
event 1956 star_border 5.8
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Down-and-out artist Joe Manning (John Bromfield) wakes up from a night of drunken revelry in a jail cell, where he's being held on suspicion for the murder of a nightclub singer.
A New Leaf
Producer
event 1971 star_border 7.3
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After running out of funds, Henry Graham, a carefree playboy, plots to marry and murder wealthy botanist Henrietta Lowell.
Big House, U.S.A
Director
event 1955 star_border 6.5
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A tough and realistic crime drama unfolds as merciless kidnapper Jerry Barker (Ralph Meeker) demands ransom paid against a young runaway whose fate lands Barker in Casabel Island Prison.
Voodoo Island
Producer
event 1957 star_border 4.4
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A wealthy industrialist hires the renowned hoax-buster Phillip Knight to prove that an island he plans to develop isn't voodoo cursed. However, arriving on the island, Knight soon realizes that voodoo does exist when he discovers man-eating plants and a tribe of natives with bizarre powers.
The Girl in Black Stockings
Director
event 1957 star_border 6.1
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Residents at a posh Utah hotel become suspects when a girl is found murdered during a pool party. Local sheriff Jess Holmes takes charge of the investigation and must discover who among the terrified guests and staff -- including bodacious vixen Harriet Ames, the hotel's bitter, crippled proprietor, visiting lawyer David Hewson and his secretary, Beth -- is the culprit, even as murders continue to take place.
Hell Bound
Producer
event 1957 star_border 5.9
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After WW2, a Los Angeles crime ring uses a complex scheme, involving a freight ship, a junkie, and a corrupt health officer, to smuggle drugs into the USA.
T-Men
Assistant Director
event 1947 star_border 6.8
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Two U.S. Treasury ("T-men") agents go undercover in Detroit, and then Los Angeles, in an attempt to break a U.S. currency counterfeiting ring.
Tulsa
Assistant Director
event 1949 star_border 6.3
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It's Tulsa, Oklahoma at the start of the oil boom and Cherokee Lansing's rancher father is killed in a fight with the Tanner Oil Company. Cherokee plans revenge by bringing in her own wells with the help of oil expert Brad Brady and childhood friend Jim Redbird. When the oil and the money start gushing in, both Brad and Jim want to protect the land but Cherokee has different ideas. What started out as revenge for her father's death has turned into an obsession for wealth and power.
The Last Mile
Director
event 1959 star_border 6.3
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Jail house tensions mount as a killer's execution approaches.
Badge 373
Director
event 1973 star_border 5.5
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When his partner is killed, tough Irish detective Eddie Ryan vows to avenge the death, whatever the cost. As he begins unraveling clues, his behavior becomes so outrageous that he's obliged to turn in his badge, but the experience only emboldens him. Ryan eventually learns that his partner was caught up in a Puerto Rican gun-running scheme masterminded by a crook named Sweet Willie, who wants to foment revolutionary war.
Three Bad Sisters
Producer
event 1956 star_border 4
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Following the death of a wealthy man, his three daughters squabble about who should be the principal heiress.
Untamed Youth
Director
event 1957 star_border 4
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Two sisters are arrested for skinny-dipping on their way to Los Angeles and are sentenced to labor work on a farm.
Revolt at Fort Laramie
Producer
event 1957 star_border 6.5
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At the breaking of the Civil War the garrison of Fort Laramie splits between the sympathezers of the two different factions, but when the fort is attacked by the Sioux, they unite their forces to fight them.
Violent Road
Director
event 1958 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.
Andy Hardy Comes Home
Director
event 1958 star_border 4.5
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Andy Hardy, now a grown man with a wife and children, returns to his hometown on a business trip and finds himself getting mixed up in local politics.
X-15
Executive Producer
event 1961 star_border 5.9
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X-15 is a 1961 movie that tells a fictionalized account of the X-15 research rocket plane, the men who flew it and the women who loved them.
Jungle Heat
Director
event 1957 star_border 4.3
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Japanese communists attempt to take over Hawaii and only Dr. Jim Ransom can stop them.
Born Reckless
Director
event 1958 star_border 3.4
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Rider Kelly Cobb travels to county rodeos to win money so he can buy a patch of land he wants to call his own. One night he rescues trick rider Jackie Adams from the clutches of an amorous rodeo promoter and they form a team and hit the circuit along with sidekick Cool Man.
War Drums
Producer
event 1957 star_border 5.4
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The friendship between a white man & an Apache chief is tested when they fall in love with the same woman
Bop Girl Goes Calypso
Director
event 1957 star_border 4.2
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Bop Girl Goes Calypso is a 1957 American United Artists film directed by Howard W. Koch and starring Judy Tyler. It featured Calypso music, and music by the Bobby Troup Trio and bassist Jim Aton. The calypso craze of the late 1950s drives this fun musical about grad student Bob Hilton (Bobby Troup), who sets out to prove that rock 'n' roll and bop are going the way of the dinosaur, to be replaced by the refreshing rhythms of calypso.
Fort Bowie
Director
event 1958 star_border 5.4
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Fort Bowie commander Colonel Garrett, suspecting that his wife Alison is having an affair with good-looking Captain Thompson, sends him on a dangerous mission to try to persuade renegade Indian leader Victorio to cease his attacks against white settlers and soldiers.
The Broken Star
Producer
event 1956 star_border 6.4
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A deputy sheriff defies local ranchers to investigate a Mexican's murder.
Shining Victory
Screenplay
event 1941 star_border 5.9
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In a Scottish sanitarium, a brilliant research psychiatrist works on a treatment for dementia praecox. He falls for his altruistic female lab assistant and they begin a passionate, tragic relationship.
Hot Cars
Producer
event 1956 star_border 5.7
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Story of a salesman lured into the "hot car" racket.
For Those Who Think Young
Executive Producer
event 1964 star_border 5.2
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A wealthy young man tries to woo a university student, while her two uncles work to popularize a local club.
Out of the Blue
Assistant Director
event 1947 star_border 6.6
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Set in an apartment building whose occupants include Arthur Earthleigh, a meek and mild type married to the beautiful-but-domineering Mae; a Bohemian artist, David Galleo and his always-there model, Deborah Tyler; and Olive Jensen, a Greenwich Village type who is always slightly-but-continuously inebriated, and whose motto is "love and let love." She calls on George while his wife is out, and when she passes out during his attempts to get her out before his wife returns, he thinks she is dead and deposits her on Galleo's terrace. Galleo takes advantage of the situation by using it in a blackmail scheme against Arthur, which is shaky, at best, as Olive refuses to stay dead.
Once Is Not Enough
Producer
event 1975 star_border 5.2
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An over-the-hill movie producer marries a wealthy, spiteful woman and closeted lesbian just to please his spoiled daughter who then, in an attempt to spite him, seduces both a wealthy playboy and a local screenwriter.
He Walked by Night
Assistant Director
event 1949 star_border 6.7
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Roy Martin aka Roy Morgan is a burglar and former war-time Radio & Electronics Engineer who listens in to radio police calls, allowing him to stay one step ahead of the cops.
Julius Caesar
Assistant Director
event 1953 star_border 7
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The assassination of the would be ruler of Rome at the hands of Brutus and company has tragic consequences for the idealist and the republic.
Margie
Assistant Director
event 1946 star_border 6.9
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A woman reminisces about her teenage years in the 1920s, when she fell in love with her teacher.
Robin and the 7 Hoods
Executive Producer
event 1964 star_border 6
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Set in Prohibition era Chicago, bootlegger Robbo and his cronies refuse to pay the greedy Guy Gisborne a cut of their profits after Guy shoots mob boss Big Jim and takes over. When Big Jim's daughter, Marian, gives Robbo a large sum, believing he has avenged her father's death, the gangster donates to an orphanage, cementing his reputation as a softhearted hood.
Come Blow Your Horn
Executive Producer
event 1963 star_border 4.8
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The story of a young man's decision to leave the home of his parents for the bachelor pad of his older brother who leads a swinging '60s lifestyle.
Star Spangled Girl
Producer
event 1971 star_border 5.2
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A pair of 60's hippies fall in love with the girl next door, who is exactly the kind of square that they are fighting against.
Some Kind of Hero
Producer
event 1982 star_border 5.6
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A Vietnam vet returns home from a prisoner of war camp and is greeted as a hero, but is quickly forgotten and soon discovers how tough survival is in his own country.
Beachhead
Producer
event 1954 star_border 5.3
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On a Japanese-occupied island during World War II, only two soldiers remain alive after a mission attempt goes horribly wrong. Trapped on the island, they must escort a scientist and his daughter to the other side of the island where their ship awaits. They must battle nature, hard terrain, and advancing Japanese troops.
The Pirate
Producer
event 1978 star_border 5.5
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An Israeli man, raised by a wealthy and powerful Arab, comes into conflict with his heritage when he is entrusted with managing his country's oil fortunes and must deal with a fanatical terrorist group led by his daughter.
Desert Sands
Producer
event 1955 star_border 4.4
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The French Foreign Legion battles rebellious Arabs in North Africa.
4 for Texas
Executive Producer
event 1963 star_border 5.1
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In the 1870s, two rival businessmen, Zack Thomas and Joe Jarrett, on a stagecoach heading to Galveston, Texas, must pull together to protect $100,000 from an outlaw named Matson. Once in Galveston, however, their rivalry continues, as Thomas joins up with Elya Carlson and Jarret with Maxine Richter. But Matson is still on the loose, and a scheming banker threatens both Thomas and Jarrett.
Last of the Red Hot Lovers
Producer
event 1972 star_border 5.8
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A middle aged restaurateur begins to feel the desire to roam and realizes that one day each week, his mother's apartment will be empty all afternoon. He makes several attempts at seduction, only to learn that it is much more complicated and difficult than he could have imagined.
Hostage Flight
Story
event 1985 star_border 5.9
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A plane is hijacked and bound for London. Once the terrorists begin killing hostages, the passengers take matters into their own hands.
The Naked Spur
Assistant Director
event 1953 star_border 6.9
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A bounty hunter trying to bring a murderer to justice is forced to accept the help of two less-than-trustworthy strangers.
Quincannon, Frontier Scout
Producer
event 1956 star_border 4.4
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A young woman hires a frontier scout to help her discover if her brother died in an Indian attack on a remote fort.
Escape from Bogen County
Executive Producer
event 1977
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A political despot controls his town and his wife Maggie. When Maggie tries to escape his control, he swears a warrant out for her arrest and sends the law after her. The arresting officer, however, takes pity on Maggie and tries to help her escape the despot's clutches.
Emergency Hospital
Producer
event 1956 star_border 6.5
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About the lives and loves of the staff of an emergency hospital as reflected in a single frenetic night of business-as-usual.
Side Street
Assistant Director
event 1950 star_border 6.6
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A struggling young father-to-be gives in to temptation and impulsively steals an envelope of money from the office of a corrupt attorney. Instead of a few hundred dollars, it contains $30,000, and when he decides to return the money things go wrong and that is only the beginning of his troubles.
Plaza Suite
Producer
event 1971 star_border 6
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Film version of the Neil Simon play has three separate acts set in the same hotel suite in New York's Plaza Hotel with Walter Matthau in a triple role. In the first, Karen Nash tries to get her inattentive husband Sam's attention to spruce up their failing marriage. In the second, brash film producer Jesse Kiplinger tries to get his former one-time flame Muriel to see him for what he stands for. In the third, Roy Hubley and his wife Norma try and try to get their uncertain-of-herself daughter out of the bathroom before her approaching wedding.
Rebel in Town
Producer
event 1956 star_border 7
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Ex-Confederate Bedloe Mason and his four sons ride into a small Western town with robbery in mind. Hearing a suspicious "click," Wes Mason whirls and shoots dead a boy playing with a cap pistol. The Mason clan then flees but Gray Mason, feeling remorse, decides to return to the town. He winds up at the home of John and Nora Willoughby who, unknown to him, are parents of the dead boy. Nora recognizes him as one of the Confederates but keeps quiet, wishing to avoid more violence. However, when John learns of Gray's true identity, he determines to avenge his son's death
Philo Vance Returns
Assistant Director
event 1947 star_border 5
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Playboy Larry Blendon introduces his grandmother Stella Blendon to his fiancée, radio singer Virginia Berneaux. Despite Larry's record of broken romances and divorces, Virginia decides she will marry him. Virginia is slain that night and Blandon telephones his friend, Philo Vance, to help find the killer.
Sergeants 3
Executive Producer
event 1962 star_border 5.4
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Mike, Chip, and Larry are three lusty, brawling U. S. Cavalry sergeants stationed in Indian Territory in 1870.
Something Big
Assistant Director
event 1971 star_border 5.2
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Joe Baker has a dream. He wants to do 'something big.' When he needs a Gatling gun to accomplish this, he seeks out a black marketeer. The price he wants for the gun? A woman! So Baker kidnaps a woman off of the stagecoach, only to find that she is the wife of the commandant of the local Cavalry detachment. Things get further complicated when a girl named Dover McBride shows up. She has come to force Baker to marry her and return east, as he promised to do four years earlier
The President's Analyst
Executive Producer
event 1967 star_border 5.8
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At first, Dr. Sidney Schaefer feels honored and thrilled to be offered the job of the President's Analyst. But then the stress of the job and the paranoid spies that come with a sensitive government position get to him, and he runs away. Now spies from all over the world are after him, either to get him for their own side or to kill him and prevent someone else from getting him.
Beyond Reason
Producer
event 1985
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An unconventional psychiatrist slowly begins to question his own sanity.
Telly... Who Loves Ya, Baby?
Producer
event 1976
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At the height of his KOJAK TV series fame, Telly Savalas starred in this variety special that was sponsored by Kraft Foods and shown without commercial interruption. Barbara Eden, Cloris Leachman, Diahann Carroll and others appear and join in the singing and dancing and mugging.
On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
Producer
event 1970 star_border 6.7
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Daisy Gamble, an unusual woman who hears phones before they ring, and does wonders with her flowers, wants to quit smoking to please her fiancé, Warren. She goes to a doctor of hypnosis to do it. But once she's under, her doctor finds out that she can regress into past lives and different personalities, and he finds himself falling in love with one of them.
Hawaiian Eye
Director (1 ep.)
event 1959 star_border 5.2
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Private Eyes Tom Lopaka and Tracy Steele are based out of Hawaiian Village Resort where they work both hotel security and are hired by others to look into various matters. They're helped by their trusty right-hand man Kazuo Kim who runs a taxi company and is always eager to help them.
Cheyenne
Director (1 ep.)
event 1955 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.
Maverick
Director (1 ep.)
event 1957 star_border 6.8
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The Maverick boys - Bret, Bart, Beau and Brent - are a clan of well-dressed dandies, gamblers who'd much rather make their money playing cards than messing up their fine clothing with actual work. Sly and clever, none of the Mavericks are much for acts of derring do, but they can be courageous when the situation calls for it. Most often, however, they live by their wits and considerable charm.
Johnny Ringo
Director (4 ep.)
event 1959 star_border 5.7
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Johnny Ringo is an American Western television series starring Don Durant that aired on CBS from October 1, 1959, until June 30, 1960. It is loosely based on the life of the notorious gunfighter and outlaw Johnny Ringo, also known as John Peters Ringo or John B. Ringgold, who tangled with Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and Buckskin Franklin Leslie.
The Oscars
Producer (8 ep.)
event 1953 star_border 7
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An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a statuette, officially the Academy Award of Merit, that is better known by its nickname Oscar.
Miami Undercover
Producer (38 ep.)
event 1961 star_border 6
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Jeff Thompson was a private investigator, who along with his sidekick Rocky, were hired by Miami hotel owners to fight crime in the city.
Hollywood Wives
Producer (3 ep.)
event 1985 star_border 3.8
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Hollywood Wives tells the stories of several women in Hollywood, from powerful talent agents and screenwriters to vivacious screen vixens and young, innocent newcomers.
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