Karl Swenson
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Karl Swenson (July 23, 1908 – October 8, 1978) was an American theatre, radio, film, and television actor. Early in his career, he was credited as Peter Wayne Swenson was born in Brooklyn, New York, of Swedish parentage. Planning to be a doctor, he enrolled at Marietta College and undertook pre-medical studies but left that field to pursue acting. Swenson appeared extensively on the radio from the 1930s through the 1950s. Swenson entered the film industry in 1943 with two wartime documentary shorts, December 7 and The Sikorsky Helicopter, followed by more than thirty-five roles in feature films and television movies. No Name on the Bullet (1959) is only one of the many westerns in which he performed for both film and television. Swenson is remembered for his role as the doomsayer in the diner in Alfred Hitchcock's classic The Birds (1963) and had roles in The Prize (1963), Major Dundee (1965), The Sons of Katie Elder (1965), The Cincinnati Kid (1965) and Seconds (1966). In 1967, Swenson appeared in the western Hour of the Gun, and played the role of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt in the western film Brighty of the Grand Canyon, with co-stars Pat Conway and Joseph Cotten. His later film appearances included roles in ...tick...tick...tick... (1970), The Wild Country (1970), Vanishing Point (1971) and Ulzana's Raid (1972). Swenson was married to actress Joan Tompkins. Swenson died of a heart attack at Charlotte Hungerford Hospital in Torrington, Connecticut on October 8, 1978, shortly after filming the Little House on the Prairie episode in which his character dies. The episode aired on October 16, 1978, eight days after Swenson's death. Swenson was interred at Center Cemetery in New Milford, Connecticut. CLR
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Birthday: July 23, 1908
Deathday: October 08, 1978
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The Cincinnati Kid
1965-10-15
The Cincinnati Kid
Overview: An up-and-coming poker player tries to prove himself in a high-stakes match against a long-time master of the game.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-10-15
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The Birds
1963-03-28
The Birds
Overview: Thousands of birds flock into a seaside town and terrorize the residents in a series of deadly attacks.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-03-28
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Judgment at Nuremberg
1961-12-18
Judgment at Nuremberg
Overview: In 1947, four German judges who served on the bench during the Nazi regime face a military tribunal to answer charges of crimes against humanity. Chief Justice Haywood hears evidence and testimony not only from lead defendant Ernst Janning and his defense attorney Hans Rolfe, but also from the widow of a Nazi general, an idealistic U.S. Army captain and reluctant witness Irene Wallner.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-12-18
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The Prize
1963-12-25
The Prize
Overview: A group of Nobel laureates descends on Stockholm to accept their awards. Among them is American novelist Andrew Craig, a former literary luminary now writing pulp detective stories to earn a living. Craig, who is infamous for his drinking and womanizing, formulates a wild theory that physics prize winner Dr. Max Stratman has been replaced by an impostor, embroiling Craig and his chaperone in a Cold War kidnapping plot.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-12-25
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Seconds
1966-10-05
Seconds
Overview: An unhappy middle-aged banker agrees to a procedure that will fake his death and give him a completely new look and identity – one that comes with its own price.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-10-05
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North to Alaska
1960-11-07
North to Alaska
Overview: After striking gold in Alaska, the romantic George sends his womanizing partner Sam to bring his fiancée up from Seattle. When Sam finds that she has already married, he returns instead with Angel, a dancer originally from France.
Genres: Western Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-11-07
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Vanishing Point
1971-01-15
Vanishing Point
Overview: Kowalski works for a car delivery service, and takes delivery of a 1970 Dodge Challenger to drive from Colorado to San Francisco. Shortly after pickup, he takes a bet to get the car there in less than 15 hours.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-01-15
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The Sword in the Stone
1963-12-25
The Sword in the Stone
Overview: Wart is a young boy who aspires to be a knight's squire. On a hunting trip he falls in on Merlin, a powerful but amnesiac wizard who has plans for him beyond mere squiredom. He starts by trying to give him an education, believing that once one has an education, one can go anywhere. Needless to say, it doesn't quite work out that way.
Genres: Animation Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-12-25
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Major Dundee
1965-04-07
Major Dundee
Overview: During the last winter of the Civil War, cavalry officer Amos Dundee leads a contentious troop of Army regulars, Confederate prisoners and scouts on an expedition into Mexico to destroy a band of Apaches who have been raiding U.S. bases in Texas.
Genres: Western War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-04-07
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Ulzana's Raid
1972-10-27
Ulzana's Raid
Overview: A report reaches the US Army Cavalry that the Apache leader Ulzana has left his reservation with a band of followers. A compassionate young officer, Lieutenant DeBuin, is given a small company to find him and bring him back; accompanying the troop is McIntosh, an experienced scout, and Ke-Ni-Tay, an Apache guide. Ulzana massacres, rapes and loots across the countryside; and as DeBuin encounters the remains of his victims, he is compelled to learn from McIntosh and to confront his own naivity and hidden prejudices.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-10-27
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Lonely are the Brave
1962-05-24
Lonely are the Brave
Overview: A fiercely independent cowboy arranges to have himself locked up in jail in order to then escape with an old friend who has been sentenced to the penitentiary.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-05-24
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The Hanging Tree
1959-02-19
The Hanging Tree
Overview: Joseph "Doc" Frail is a doctor with a past he's trying to outrun. While in Montana, he comes across a mining camp with a hanging tree and rescues a man named Rune from the noose. With Rune as his servant, Frail decides to settle down, and he takes over as town doctor. He meets Elizabeth, who is suffering from shock, and the two soon fall in love. But when Elizabeth is attacked, Frail's attempt to help her lands them both in trouble.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-02-19
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Walk on the Wild Side
1962-03-21
Walk on the Wild Side
Overview: At a 1930s New Orleans bordello, Hallie is the main attraction for both clients and the shrewd madam. The arrival of Dove Linkhorn, her lovesick sweetheart from three years ago, disrupts the normal and triggers a chain of events involving a number of people, including the young woman he travelled with, who is now the Doll House's newest employee.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-03-21
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The Sons of Katie Elder
1965-06-23
The Sons of Katie Elder
Overview: The four sons of Katie Elder reunite in their hometown of Clearwater, Texas for their mother's funeral, and discover that the family ranch is now in the hands of Morgan Hastings, the town's gunsmith.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-06-23
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Hour of the Gun
1967-11-01
Hour of the Gun
Overview: Marshal Wyatt Earp kills a couple of men of the Clanton-gang in a fight. In revenge Clanton's thugs kill the marshal's brother. Thus, Wyatt Earp starts to chase the killers together with his friend Doc Holliday.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-11-01
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Ice Palace
1960-01-02
Ice Palace
Overview: Alaska: America's last great wilderness frontier. A land of primitive grandeur, of glaciers, mountains and ice-fields. And of ambitious cannery tycoon Zeb "Czar" Kennedy and rugged activist leader Thor Storm, two rough-hewn men whose bitter 40-year rivalry mirrored their powerful land's struggle for statehood.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-01-02
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Flaming Star
1960-12-20
Flaming Star
Overview: Sam Burton's second wife is a Kiowa, and their son is therefore born mixed-race. When a struggle starts between the whites and the native Kiowas, the Burton family is split between loyalties.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-12-20
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No Name on the Bullet
1959-02-01
No Name on the Bullet
Overview: When hired killer John Gant rides into Lordsburg, the town's folk become paranoid as each leading citizen has enemies capable of using the services of a professional killer for personal revenge.
Genres: Action Thriller Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-02-01
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Kings Go Forth
1958-06-28
Kings Go Forth
Overview: When Harris applies for the position of a radioman in Loggins' army unit, he is hired immediately. While on a mission together in France, they both fall in love with Monique.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-06-28
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Disney Sing-Along Songs: Colors of the Wind
1995-07-21
Disney Sing-Along Songs: Colors of the Wind
Overview: Sing, dance, and play along with your favorite Disney songs! It's fun and easy as you read the on-screen lyrics and join your favorite characters in their most memorable musical moments! Celebrate the music and learn your favorite songs from Disney's 33rd animated hit, Pocahontas! This colorful musical celebration includes "Just Around the Riverbend" and "Colors of the Wind". Plus, a new "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" montage from The Lion King, "The Work Song", and other popular Disney songs performed by your favorite Disney characters!
Genres: Animation Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-07-21
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The Man from Galveston
1963-12-18
The Man from Galveston
Overview: Circuit-riding Texas lawyer Timothy Higgins defends a former girlfriend against a murder charge stemming from an extortionist's threat to reveal her shady past. Through adroit courtroom work, Higgins is able to acquit her and reveal who actually shot the fatal bullet.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-12-18
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The New Healers
1972-03-27
The New Healers
Overview: The small town hospital staff is trying to gain the confidence of the local farmers and merchants.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-03-27
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Alice in Wonderland
1955-10-22
Alice in Wonderland
Overview: A young girl named Alice falls down a rabbit-hole and finds herself in Wonderland, a fantasy land of strange characters and ideas.
Genres: Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-10-22
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Pericles on 31st Street
1962-04-12
Pericles on 31st Street
Overview: Racial tensions break out on 31st Street, a multi-ethnic community. Sam Peckinpah directed this original adaptation of the Harry Mark Petrakis novel for NBC, and the project became an hour-long presentation for NBC's The Dick Powell Theatre, premiering on Apr. 12, 1962.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-04-12
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A Howling in the Woods
1971-11-05
A Howling in the Woods
Overview: A disillusioned housewife on a vacation in the woods is disturbed by her husband continually trying to get her to come home and, more ominously, a mysterious howling at night.
Genres: Horror Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-11-05
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Strangers All
1935-04-01
Strangers All
Overview: Domestic drama about an elderly woman and her four squabbling adult children.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-01
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Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
1967-10-17
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Overview: Peter Schermann is angry at the world after his children move him into a nursing home. Still physically and mentally strong, he searches for a meaning to his life in a new and uncompromising world.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-10-17
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The Gallant Hours
1960-06-13
The Gallant Hours
Overview: A semi-documentary dramatization of five weeks in the life of Vice Admiral William F. "Bull" Halsey, Jr., from his assignment to command the U.S. naval operations in the South Pacific to the Allied victory at Guadalcanal.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-06-13
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The Gun and the Pulpit
1974-04-03
The Gun and the Pulpit
Overview: In the days of the "Wild West," a gunslinger, with a price on his head, discovers the body of a traveling minister who has been killed in an ambush. Fearing those who are following him, he assumes the dead minister's identity.
Genres: Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-04-03
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Tick... Tick... Tick...
1970-01-09
Tick... Tick... Tick...
Overview: Racial tensions threaten to explode when a black man is elected sheriff of a small, racially divided town in the Deep South.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-01-09
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One Foot in Hell
1960-09-11
One Foot in Hell
Overview: Mitch Barrett becomes embittered because his wife is allowed to die when he can't pay for the medicine she needs. The remorseful townspeople hire Mitch to be a deputy sheriff, thereby enabling him to plot an elaborate bank robbery with the help of an artist, a pickpocket, a gunslinger and a bar-girl.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-09-11
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Gateways to the Mind
1958-10-23
Gateways to the Mind
Overview: The film presents how the human body recognizes and becomes aware of its surroundings. The various information pathways to the brain such as sight, sound, smell, taste and touch are explored in a accurate but simple manner via human impression and cartoon characters!
Genres: Documentary Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-10-23
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Brighty of the Grand Canyon
1966-11-24
Brighty of the Grand Canyon
Overview: At the turn of the century in the Southwest, Brighty the wild burro accompanies his friend, a prospector named Old Timer, on a hunt for gold. A claim jumper robs the pair of their strike, killing Old Timer in the process. Brighty then sets out on a quest -- befriending a mountain lion hunter along the way -- to bring Old Timer's murderer to justice in this drama based on the best-seller by Marguerite Henry.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-11-24
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How the West Was Won
1962-11-02
How the West Was Won
Overview: The epic tale of the development of the American West from the 1830s through the Civil War to the end of the century, as seen through the eyes of one pioneer family.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-11-02
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December 7th
1943-03-01
December 7th
Overview: "Docudrama" about the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941 and its results, the recovering of the ships, the improving of defense in Hawaii and the US efforts to beat back the Japanese reinforcements.
Genres: History War Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-03-01
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The Wild Country
1970-12-16
The Wild Country
Overview: Uprooted from their comfortable home in Pennsylvania, James and Kate Tanner, along with their sons, Virgil and Andy, journey to the wild country of 1890s Wyoming to become farmers. Soon, they come face-to-face with tornadoes, bears and wolves. But through the hardships their love for each other endures, even when a local rancher sees the newcomers as "squatters" on his land, and will stop at nothing – including murder – to drive them out.
Genres: Adventure Family Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-12-16
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Disney's Halloween Treat
1982-10-30
Disney's Halloween Treat
Overview: Contains memorable scenes from "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," "Fantasia," "Lady and the Tramp," "Peter Pan," "One Hundred and One Dalmatians," and "The Sword in the Stone."
Genres: Family Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-10-30
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The Spiral Road
1962-08-03
The Spiral Road
Overview: A selfish and prideful young Dutch doctor, through a series of circumstances, comes to learn that he does indeed "need" a higher spiritual being and other people.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-08-03
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Four Boys and a Gun
1957-01-11
Four Boys and a Gun
Overview: The moving story of four young men struggling against overwhelming odds to remain honest. When their crooked employer shorts their earnings; they turn to crime, their first theft ending in tragedy.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-01-11
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Disney's Greatest Villains
1977-05-15
Disney's Greatest Villains
Overview: The Slave in the Magic Mirror is the host of this show, designed to explain that all heroes need villains to balance things out. Without villains, there would be no heroes. Villains from Disney films abound here.
Genres: Animation Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-05-15
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Disney's Sing-Along Songs: Under the Sea
1990-08-14
Disney's Sing-Along Songs: Under the Sea
Overview: Dive with some unforgettable Disney characters as Professor Ludwig Von Drake takes you to a Sing-Along on some watery tunes with on-screen lyrics. Each Disney song is featured through movie clips from The Little Mermaid, Peter Pan, The Sword In The Stone, 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, The Rescuers, and some Disney scenes.
Genres: Family Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-08-14
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