Biography: Jared Christopher Martin was an American film and television actor. He was best known for his role as Steven "Dusty" Farlow in the 1978 series Dallas and for roles on two science fiction TV series, The Fantastic Journey and War of the Worlds. Martin was born in Manhattan to Charles Elmer Martin, a cover artist and cartoonist for The New Yorker, and his wife, Florence Taylor, an artist and homemaker. He began acting at the age of ten in a local children's theater group. After graduating from the Putney School and Columbia University, where his roommate was Brian De Palma, he spent a summer apprenticing with Joseph Papp's Shakespeare in the Park. After graduating, he worked for a couple of years at The New York Times as a copy boy and thumbnail book reviewer for the Sunday edition. This page is based on a Wikipedia article written by contributors. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: December 21, 1941
Deathday: May 24, 2017
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1984-01-28
Overview: In the future, two television networks compete for ratings by producing violent game shows. One network produces a modern day version of the Roman gladiators, only on motorcycles instead of chariots, and uses convicted murderers as the participants, The network decides it needs a champion for this sport, so they frame a constant winner from another game for murder, and place him on the show.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1984-01-28
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2008-03-06
Overview: This documentary examines the life and legacy of controversial Italian filmmaker Lucio Fulci through interviews with his colleagues, each of whom answers the question, "What is your fondest memory of Lucio Fulci?". The responses are as varied as the people who knew the late writer-director, providing a nuanced look at the man behind such gory grindhouse classics as City of the Living Dead and The House by the Cemetery.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-03-06
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1968-05-01
Overview: Naive young Karen wants to help her struggling amateur filmmaker boyfriend Christopher raise enough money so he can divorce his wife. Meanwhile, jolly psycho-prankster Otto stalks the building where Christopher is shooting a low-grade adult movie in order to keep himself afloat.
Genres: Horror Thriller Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-05-01
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1994-10-01
Overview: An evil business executive is releasing dangerous toxins and the Barbarian Brothers set out to stop his evil work.
Genres: Comedy Family Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-10-01
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1986-11-08
Overview: This actioner is set in a remote, heavily forested area in Northern California where marijuana growers raise their illegal crops and run whole communities with their terrorist tactics and wealth. The tale centers on the efforts of a fearless New York cop to free one such community from the tyranny of the pot growers. It begins with a surveyor who is leading the town's crooked sheriff to a small marijuana field he has just discovered. The surveyor is killed before he can get there. Joshua, a small boy, sees the execution and tries to get back in time to tell his parents. Unfortunately, the killers murder his family and throw him off a cliff. The boy's aunt, worried at not hearing from her family, gets suspicious and asks an old flame, NY cop Joe Dillon, to investigate. The town sheriff is not pleased by his intrusion and warns him to stay out of it. Dillon disobeys, and that is where all the action comes in.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1986-11-08
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1985-04-26
Overview: A serpent, created by radioactivity, threatens a Spanish coastal town.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1985-04-26
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1974-10-04
Overview: Jared Martin plays an aspiring film maker obsessed with the idea of Christ as a woman, and tries to film his vision with Sondra Locke as his subject. 'Based' on a song by Leonard Cohen.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-10-04
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1980-06-10
Overview: In this unsold pilot, the US government hires a salvage team to recover a sunken Russian submarine, heightening Cold War tensions.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-06-10
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1983-10-01
Overview: Townsfolk discover a warped secret while clearing out the house of a recently deceased, aristocratic spinster.
Genres: Drama Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-10-01
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1987-09-03
Overview: Anthony is in the Phillipines visiting his father. He inadvertently interferes with the affairs of local gangster Quino, who also happens to be a champion Karate fighter. After embarrassing Quino near a local tournament, Anthony is beaten up and left for dead. An old monk nurses Anthony back to health and teaches him the ways of martial arts so he may go back and fight Quino again.
Genres: Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1987-09-03
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1983-10-02
Overview: A young screenwriter allows others to exploit her in the hopes of "making it" in Hollywood.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-10-02
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1972-10-08
Overview: Delia Peletier has been paid to have a child for a wealthy man who wants an heir. She has the baby and turns it over to her "employer," but subsequently decides she wants the child back. She hires three men to kidnap the child. The quartet hides out in the house of Bernard Lapin, a nuclear scientist they believe to be away on business. Lapin returns, however, and becomes romantically involved with Delia. Meanwhile, her three kidnappers turn on her when they learn she actually wants the child and not the ransom money as she claimed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-10-08
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1973-08-15
Overview: Delos is a futuristic amusement park that features themed worlds—ancient Rome, Medieval times and the Old West—populated by human-like androids. After two patrons have a run-in with a menacing gunslinger in West World, the androids at Delos all begin to malfunction, causing havoc throughout the park.
Genres: Adventure Science Fiction Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-08-15
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1974-03-20
Overview: Two men and a woman, all friends and martial arts experts, visit Hong Kong, where they grew up. When the woman disappears, the men find out that she has been kidnapped by white slavers, and find themselves battling a gang of kung-fu killers in an attempt to rescue their friend.
Genres: Action Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-03-20
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1987-10-25
Overview: The spirit of a comatose teenage girl possesses the body of a newcomer to her girls' boarding school in order to enact bloody revenge against the elitist, lingerie-clad coeds responsible for her condition.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1987-10-25
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1980-04-29
Overview: When a cryptic note is passed to young Bert Hale by a stranger, he and his three friends inadvertently hold the key to unravelling the sinister plot to assassinate a Russian premier visiting Los Angeles.
Genres: Thriller Drama TV Movie Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-04-29
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1977-02-03
Overview: 1 hour 55 minute edited "movie" version comprised of primarily episodes 1 and 2 of TV series of same name available on Tubi. Travelers are stranded in the Bermuda Triangle. On an island, they meet Varian, a man from the future, and Liana, an Atlantean. Together, they journey through different worlds, in hopes of returning home.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-02-03
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