John Hillerman
Biography: John Benedict Hillerman (December 20, 1932 – November 9, 2017) was an American actor best known for his starring role as Jonathan Quayle Higgins III on the television series Magnum, P.I. that aired from 1980 to 1988. For his role as Higgins, Hillerman earned five Golden Globe nominations, winning in 1981, and four Emmy nominations, winning in 1987. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Hillerman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: December 20, 1932
Deathday: November 09, 2017
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Real Men Don't Eat Gummi Bears
1989-08-17
Real Men Don't Eat Gummi Bears
Overview: In this wacky comedy, teen-aged Tony (Bentley C. Mitchum) has never known who is father is. Together with his best buddies Peter and Susan, he tracks down the clues he has as well as he can.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1989-08-17
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Chinatown
1974-06-20
Chinatown
Overview: Private eye Jake Gittes lives off of the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-World War II Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair, Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double dealings and deadly deceits, uncovering a web of personal and political scandals that come crashing together.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-06-20
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At Long Last Love
1975-03-01
At Long Last Love
Overview: Four socialites unexpectedly clash: heiress Brooke Carter runs into gambler Johnny Spanish at the race track while playboy Michael O. Pritchard nearly runs into stage star Kitty O'Kelly with his car. Backstage at Kitty's show, it turns out she and Brooke are old friends who attended public school together. The foursome do the town, accompanied by Brooke's companion Elizabeth, who throws herself at Michael's butler and chauffeur Rodney James.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-03-01
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Paper Moon
1973-05-09
Paper Moon
Overview: A bible salesman finds himself saddled with a young girl who may or may not be his daughter, and the two forge an unlikely partnership as a money-making con team in Depression-era Kansas.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-05-09
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What's Up, Doc?
1972-03-09
What's Up, Doc?
Overview: The accidental mix-up of four identical plaid overnight bags leads to a series of increasingly wild and wacky situations.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-03-09
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High Plains Drifter
1973-04-19
High Plains Drifter
Overview: A gunfighting stranger comes to the small settlement of Lago. After gunning down three gunmen who tried to kill him, the townsfolk decide to hire the Stranger to hold off three outlaws who are on their way.
Genres: Western Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-04-19
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The Last Picture Show
1971-10-03
The Last Picture Show
Overview: High school seniors and best friends, Sonny and Duane, live in a dying Texas town. The handsome Duane is dating a local beauty, while Sonny is having an affair with the coach's wife. As graduation nears and both boys contemplate their futures, Duane eyes the army and Sonny takes over a local business. Each struggles to figure out if he can escape this dead-end town and build a better life somewhere else.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-10-03
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Beane's of Boston
1979-05-05
Beane's of Boston
Overview: To keep from being fired by his father, Franklin Beane has a bright idea for a theme week for the Mens and Ladies Wear department of Beane's of Boston department store. Pilot episode for a US remake of "Are You Being Served?"
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-05-05
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The Nickel Ride
1975-01-15
The Nickel Ride
Overview: A world-weary crime boss is losing his grip on his organization.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-15
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Up the Creek
1984-04-06
Up the Creek
Overview: Bob McGraw is in his 12th year of college, goofing his way through life. Bob, Irwing, Gonzer and Max are the four losers forced and bribed to represent their university in an intercollegiate raft race. Forced and bribed into this role, they make some friends, the lovely Heather Merriweather, but mostly enemies, among others a whole team of marines, and preppy IVY-leaguers determined to win.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-04-06
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Audrey Rose
1977-04-06
Audrey Rose
Overview: A man is convinced that a young girl is the reincarnation of his own daughter Audrey Rose, who died in a fiery car accident, along with his wife, two minutes before the girl was born.
Genres: Drama Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-04-06
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Back in the Saddle
2001-06-19
Back in the Saddle
Overview: The cast of "Blazing Saddles" discusses salient points of the movie and its place in modern culture.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-06-19
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The Thief Who Came to Dinner
1973-03-01
The Thief Who Came to Dinner
Overview: A computer programmer decides to become a thief. And when he starts making waves, an insurance investigator hounds him. He also meets a woman who becomes his accomplice.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-01
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Skyjacked
1972-05-24
Skyjacked
Overview: A crazed Vietnam vet bomber hijacks a Boeing 707 and demands to be taken to Russia.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-05-24
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Hands of a Murderer
1990-05-16
Hands of a Murderer
Overview: Sherlock Holmes must track down his nemesis, Professor Moriarty, after the villain kidnaps Holmes' brother, Mycroft. The evil doctor is forcing his captive to decode highly classified military documents.
Genres: Adventure Action Thriller Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-05-16
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Sunburn
1979-08-10
Sunburn
Overview: A model and a private eye help a New York insurance investigator on a deadly case in Acapulco.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-08-10
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Assault and Matrimony
1987-09-27
Assault and Matrimony
Overview: Silvia and Edgar have been married for a long time, but can't stand each other now. But a divorce would mean having to sell their dream house, which both of them want to keep. Instead they both secretly decide the answer is to kill the other.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-09-27
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The Carey Treatment
1972-03-29
The Carey Treatment
Overview: A doctor uncovers a hotbed of corruption when he tries to clear a colleague of a murder charge.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-03-29
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They Call Me Mister Tibbs!
1970-07-10
They Call Me Mister Tibbs!
Overview: A police detective's investigation of a prostitute's murder points to his best friend.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-07-10
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The Law
1974-10-22
The Law
Overview: An examination of the workings of a big city's legal system as seen through the eyes of people involved in a sensational murder trial.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-10-22
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Kill Me If You Can
1977-09-25
Kill Me If You Can
Overview: The story of Caryl Chessman, a convicted California rapist who spent 12 years on death row before finally being executed.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-09-25
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Ellery Queen: Too Many Suspects
1975-03-23
Ellery Queen: Too Many Suspects
Overview: When a famous fashion designer is found murdered, Inspector Richard Queen of the NYPD is baffled by her dying clue, prompting him to bring in his son, mystery writer Ellery Queen, to help in the investigation. This was the pilot film for the short-lived TV series.
Genres: Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-03-23
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The Murder That Wouldn't Die
1980-03-09
The Murder That Wouldn't Die
Overview: William Conrad stars as a retired L.A.P.D. detective who has moved to Hawaii and taken a job as a college security chief and assistant football coach in this pilot to a post-"Cannon" series to have been called "Battles." With the aid of his niece, the school's star football player, a local tough-turned-college student, and the college dean, he investigates two related murders that occurred nearly 40 years apart.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-03-09
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Blazing Saddles
1974-02-07
Blazing Saddles
Overview: A town—where everyone seems to be named Johnson—stands in the way of the railroad. In order to grab their land, robber baron Hedley Lamarr sends his henchmen to make life in the town unbearable. After the sheriff is killed, the town demands a new sheriff from the Governor, so Hedley convinces him to send the town the first black sheriff in the west.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-02-07
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Relentless
1977-09-14
Relentless
Overview: An Arizona state trooper, who is also an Indian, pursues a gang of paramilitary-type robbers into the mountains. The gang has killed the trooper's uncle and taken a woman hostage, and the trooper must use his tracking and hunting skills to find the gang and rescue the hostage.
Genres: Adventure Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-09-14
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Institute for Revenge
1979-01-22
Institute for Revenge
Overview: A sophisticated computer named IFR (the film's title is its nickname) supervises an organization dedicated to correcting wrongs against the defenseless and assigns human operatives to track down the evildoers and bring them to justice non-violently.
Genres: Thriller Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-01-22
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Honky
1971-11-26
Honky
Overview: Black girl from rich family loves white boy from poor family.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-11-26
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The Naked Ape
1973-08-01
The Naked Ape
Overview: Somewhat based on Desmond Morris's fascinating book of pop anthropology, this partially animated satirical docudrama produced by Playboy Magazine publisher Hugh Hefner, traces the evolution of human kind and offers insight into the reasons why we behave the way we do. Though often dealing with sexuality, nothing in the film is terribly offensive or graphic. A prime example of mainstream experimental film-making from the early 70's featuring a young and breathtakingly lovely Victoria Principal.
Genres: Animation Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-08-01
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2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift
2010-08-03
2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift
Overview: The team of smart-talkin' toddlers known as Everything Is Terrible! have once again emerged from their VHS cocoons to conjure a jam on culture so culture-jamtastic that we're sorry we can't be there to hold your hand as you watch in dazed amazement. Thousands of hours of brain-boiling footage have been concentrated into an impenetrable jewel of an experience, teach us once and for all that loving well is the best revenge.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-08-03
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Lucky Lady
1975-12-25
Lucky Lady
Overview: When an American booze smuggler gets murdered in Prohibition-era Mexico, his widow, a nightclub singer, joins forces with her lover and a desperate loner to become rum-runners to the U.S.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-12-25
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A Guide for the Married Woman
1978-10-13
A Guide for the Married Woman
Overview: A seriocomic look at the life of Julie Walker. Bored with her marriage, and encouraged by her friends, she contemplates an affair. Fantasy and reality mix often, leading to complications and headaches.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-10-13
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History of the World: Part I
1981-06-12
History of the World: Part I
Overview: An uproarious version of history that proves nothing is sacred – not even the Roman Empire, the French Revolution and the Spanish Inquisition.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-06-12
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Marathon
1980-01-30
Marathon
Overview: A bemused, mild-mannered accountant takes up jogging and a lithesome, young woman sprints into his life, inspiring him to enter a marathon, to the annoyance of his non-running wife.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-30
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The Invasion of Johnson County
1976-07-31
The Invasion of Johnson County
Overview: A free-spirited Bostonian recently arrived in the West teams up with a crusty Wyoming cowboy to stop a land baron's attempts to drive out a group of small ranchers and take over their property.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-07-31
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The Day of the Locust
1975-05-07
The Day of the Locust
Overview: Hollywood, 1930s. Tod Hackett, a young painter who tries to make his way as an art director in the lurid world of film industry, gets infatuated with his neighbor Faye Greener, an aspiring actress who prefers the life that Homer Simpson, a lone accountant, can offer her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-05-07
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A Very Brady Sequel
1996-08-23
A Very Brady Sequel
Overview: A man claiming to be Carol Brady's long-lost first husband, Roy Martin, shows up at the suburban Brady residence one evening. An impostor, the man is actually determined to steal the Bradys' familiar horse statue, a $20-million ancient Asian artifact.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-08-23
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Lawman
1971-03-11
Lawman
Overview: While passing through the town of Bannock, a bunch of drunken cattlemen go overboard with their celebrating and accidentally kill an old man with a stray shot. They return home to Sabbath unaware of his death. Bannock lawman Jered Maddox later arrives there to arrest everyone involved on a charge of murder. Sabbath is run by land baron Vince Bronson, a benevolent despot, who, upon hearing of the death, offers restitution for the incident.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-03-11
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Sink the Bismarck!
1996-02-01
Sink the Bismarck!
Overview: Detailed and fascinating documentary telling the history of the famous German battleship of World War II. The urgent British hunt and the German ship's efforts to escape are described through vintage film and recollections of both British and German veterans of the battles.
Genres: Documentary War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-02-01
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The Outside Man
1972-12-21
The Outside Man
Overview: A French hit man is hired by a crime family to end the life of a rival mobster, but things fall apart when the boss who hired him is killed.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-12-21
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The Great Man's Whiskers
1972-05-02
The Great Man's Whiskers
Overview: A young girl writes to President Abraham Lincoln to advise him to grow a beard.
Genres: Comedy History TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-05-02
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Betrayal
1978-11-13
Betrayal
Overview: Dramatization of the 1971 case involving a young woman who sued her psychiatrist for luring her into a sexual relationship with him under the guise of therapy.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-11-13
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The Last Angry Man
1974-04-16
The Last Angry Man
Overview: In the midst of the Depression, a crotchety doctor, whose practice is in the Brooklyn slums, takes an interest in a local teenager, whose hostility and erratic behavior the doctor believes is due to more than just his environment.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-04-16
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Money Hunt: The Mystery of the Missing Link
1984-01-01
Money Hunt: The Mystery of the Missing Link
Overview: In this film noir comedy, detective Cash Hunt follows clues to solve a difficult puzzle. The producers offered a prize of $100,000 for the first viewer who could find the solution.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Street of Dreams
1988-10-07
Street of Dreams
Overview: The film follows a laid-back private investigator Kyd Thomas who gets thrust into Hollywood's world of crime after he meets Laura Cassidy. Laura is a cocaine addict who Kyd saves from being beaten and raped.
Genres: Action Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-10-07
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