Robert Donner
Biography: Robert Donner (April 27, 1931 – June 8, 2006) was an American television and film actor.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: April 27, 1931
Deathday: June 08, 2006
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Known For
Cool Hand Luke
1967-11-01
Cool Hand Luke
Overview: When petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn't play by the rules of either the sadistic warden or the yard's resident heavy, Dragline, who ends up admiring the new guy's unbreakable will. Luke's bravado, even in the face of repeated stints in the prison's dreaded solitary confinement cell, "the box," make him a rebel hero to his fellow convicts and a thorn in the side of the prison officers.
Genres: Action Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-11-01
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El Dorado
1966-12-17
El Dorado
Overview: Cole Thornton, a gunfighter for hire, joins forces with an old friend, Sheriff J.P. Harrah. Together with a fighter and a gambler, they help a rancher and his family fight a rival rancher that is trying to steal their water.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-12-17
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Alien Nation: Dark Horizon
1994-10-25
Alien Nation: Dark Horizon
Overview: Followup movie to the TV series about 250,000 aliens, or "newcomers" as they are known, who have by now settled alongside the humans in California. Most of the newcomers were slaves, and the slave masters are now looking for them. They send Aponso to earth to locate the slaves ready for the aliens to pick them up.
Genres: TV Movie Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-10-25
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Catalina Caper
1967-12-01
Catalina Caper
Overview: A group of swingin' teens take time out from having fun in the sun to try to foil a group of crooks searching for a stolen scroll.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-12-01
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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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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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Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold
1986-12-17
Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold
Overview: After his brother Robeson disappears without a trace while exploring Africa in search of a legendary 'white tribe', Allan Quatermain decides to follow in his footsteps to learn what became of him. Soon after arriving, he discovers the Lost City of Gold, controlled by the evil lord Agon, and mined by his legions of white slaves.
Genres: Adventure Action Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-12-17
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Damnation Alley
1977-09-10
Damnation Alley
Overview: Following World War III, four survivors at an desert military installation attempt to drive across the desolate wasteland of America to Albany, where they hope more survivors are living, using a specially built vehicles to protect themselves against the freakish weather, mutated plant and animal life, and other dangers encountered along the way.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-09-10
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Bite the Bullet
1975-09-26
Bite the Bullet
Overview: At the beginning of the 20th century, a newspaper organizes an endurance horse race : 700 miles to run in a few days. 9 adventurers are competing, among them a woman, Miss Jones, a Mexican, an Englishman, a young cow-boy, an old one and two friends, Sam Clayton and Luke Matthews. All those individualists will learn to respect each other.
Genres: Action Western Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-09-26
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Rio Lobo
1970-04-01
Rio Lobo
Overview: After the Civil War, a former Union colonel searches for the two traitors whose perfidy led to the loss of a close friend.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-04-01
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Skidoo
1968-12-19
Skidoo
Overview: Ex-gangster Tony Banks is called out of retirement by mob kingpin God to carry out a hit on fellow mobster "Blue Chips" Packard. When Banks demurs, God kidnaps his daughter Darlene on his luxury yacht.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-12-19
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The Magnificent Stranger
1966-08-26
The Magnificent Stranger
Overview: Rowdy Yates is accused of murder, and has to alert the Army to a bandit assault.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-08-26
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The Spirit Is Willing
1967-07-07
The Spirit Is Willing
Overview: When Ben and Kate Powell rent a haunted New England house by the sea, their son Steve gets blamed for the destruction caused by three unruly ghosts.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-07-07
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The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing
1973-06-28
The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing
Overview: On the run from her violent husband, Catherine Crocker witnesses a train robbery and is taken prisoner by a frontier outlaw gang, led by a bandit who’s hiding a secret of his own.
Genres: Western Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-06-28
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Take a Hard Ride
1975-10-29
Take a Hard Ride
Overview: After his cattle rancher boss dies, right-hand man Pike is given the job of returning $86,000 to some families who live across the border in Sonora, Mexico. Honest Pike is joined on the trip through the wilderness by a dishonest gambler named Tyree.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-10-29
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Territorial Men
1976-07-30
Territorial Men
Overview: The story of Sara Yarnell, a schoolteacher who moves from Philadelphia to the Western frontier to start a new life. She becomes the only teacher in a one-room schoolhouse in Independence, Colorado.
Genres: Family Western Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-07-30
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Chisum
1970-07-23
Chisum
Overview: Cattle baron John Chisum joins forces with Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett to fight the Lincoln County Land War in the New Mexico Territory of 1878.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-07-23
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Under the Rainbow
1981-07-31
Under the Rainbow
Overview: In World War II era Los Angeles, the manager of the Culver Hotel leaves his nephew in charge for a weekend. The nephew changes the name to the Hotel Rainbow and overbooks with royalty, assassins, secret agents, Japanese tourists, and munchkins. Secret Service agent Bruce Thorpe and casting director Annie Clark find romance amidst the intrigue and confusion.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-07-31
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The Undefeated
1969-10-04
The Undefeated
Overview: After the Civil War, ex-Union Colonel John Henry Thomas and ex-Confederate Colonel James Langdon are leading two disparate groups of people through strife-torn Mexico. John Henry and company are bringing horses to the unpopular Mexican government for $35 a head while Langdon is leading a contingent of displaced southerners, who are looking for a new life in Mexico after losing their property to carpetbaggers. The two men are eventually forced to mend their differences in order to fight off both bandits and revolutionaries, as they try to lead their friends and kin to safety.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-10-04
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A Day for Thanks on Waltons Mountain
1982-11-22
A Day for Thanks on Waltons Mountain
Overview: Most of the Waltons have split up in the days approaching Thanksgiving 1947. But most of the family begins to arrive at Walton's Mountain begging with John-Boy recovering from a case of writers block in New York followed by Jason now a struggling musician as well as John Walton whom tries to get everyone together for the special event for Elizabeth, while newlyweds Erin and Paul plan to move out of the Walton homestead.
Genres: Family Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-11-22
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Hysterical
1982-12-22
Hysterical
Overview: Frederic Lansing is a writer who hopes to find inspiration while vacationing in Hellview, Oregon; however, the lighthouse in which he's staying is haunted by the ghost of Venetia, who had killed herself 100 years ago and now wants to use Lansing as a vessel for her dead husband, Captain Howdy. When Howdy's ghost starts killing people, two bumbling scientists are brought in to investigate the history of the lighthouse and solve the case.
Genres: Horror Comedy Fantasy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-12-22
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Zig Zag
1970-05-01
Zig Zag
Overview: A dying man frames himself for murder so his widow can collect the reward.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-05-01
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Santee
1973-09-01
Santee
Overview: Jody Deakes joins up with his father after many years, just to discover that his dad is part of an outlaw gang on the run from a relentless bounty hunter named Santee. Jody is orphaned soon after Santee catches up to the gang, and follows Santee in hopes of taking vengeance for his father's death. Instead, however, Jody discovers that Santee is a good and loving man, tormented by the death of his young son at the hands of another outlaw gang. Santee and his wife take Jody in and a father and son relationship begins to grow. Then the gang that shot Santee's son shows up. The film was produced by Edward Platt of Get Smart fame. It was one of the first motion pictures to be shot electronically on videotape and then transferred to film.
Genres: Drama Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-09-01
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One More Train to Rob
1971-02-19
One More Train to Rob
Overview: Harker Flet and compatriots Timothy X. Nolan and Katy, along with three other men, steal $40,000 in money and jewelry from a California train in the gold-mining country of the 1880's. The six split up and while they are hiding out awaiting the rendezvous to divide the loot, Hark is cornered, framed and sent to prison. He is released after two-and-a-half years and sets out to find Katy and Nolan and get his share of the loot.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-02-19
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The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell
1968-05-08
The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell
Overview: Sgt. O'Farrell an Army soldier on an island in the South Pacific during World War II is trying to bring the two basics of life to his fellow servicemen, women and beer. The supply ship carrying the beer is torpedoed and the contingent of nurses consists of six males and ugly nurse Nellie Krause. If he could at least try to salvage the shipment of beer.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-05-08
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Five Days from Home
1978-07-30
Five Days from Home
Overview: A man escapes from a Louisiana prison to be at the California hospital bedside of his ailing son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-07-30
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Pickup on 101
1972-05-01
Pickup on 101
Overview: An elderly wanderer, a sexy young girl running away from home and a folk singer looking for stardom hitch-hike their way cross-country, trying to get to California.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-05-01
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Leslie Nielsen's Stupid Little Golf Video
1997-01-01
Leslie Nielsen's Stupid Little Golf Video
Overview: Stupid Little Golf Video (released as Leslie Nielsen's Stupid Little Golf Video in the United States) is the third and last of the how-to-golf-badly trilogy. (The other two are Bad Golf Made Easier and Bad Golf My Way.) It is the only one that is released on DVD.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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Red Line 7000
1965-11-09
Red Line 7000
Overview: The lives and passions of a stock car team are revealed against the turbulent backdrop of the professional racing world.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-11-09
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Fools' Parade
1971-08-18
Fools' Parade
Overview: When a trio of ex-convicts led by Mattie Appleyard is released from prison, they hope to open a general store using money Mattie has saved during his 40-year sentence. This attempt is met with great resistance from a corrupt prison official and the banker who issued Mattie the check.
Genres: Comedy Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-08-18
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Standing Tall
1978-01-21
Standing Tall
Overview: Set in Montana in the year 1934, a half-breed rancher and his wife are harassed by a ruthless land robber, who forces them to stand tall and defend their land, life and dignity.
Genres: Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-21
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Nakia
1974-04-17
Nakia
Overview: An American Indian deputy sheriff is caught in the middle of a community dispute when the tribe tries to save an historic mission from a housing developer. This TV pilot film was an ABC Movie of the Week and later became a TV series.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-04-17
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The Nutty Professor
1963-06-04
The Nutty Professor
Overview: A timid, nearsighted chemistry teacher discovers a magical potion that can transform him into a suave and handsome Romeo. The Jekyll and Hyde game works well enough until the concoction starts to wear off at the most embarrassing times.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-06-04
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Something Big
1971-11-19
Something Big
Overview: 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
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-11-19
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Agent for H.A.R.M.
1966-01-05
Agent for H.A.R.M.
Overview: The head of the Human Aetiological Relations Machine pits an agent against a flesh-to-fungus spore gun.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-01-05
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Leslie Nielsen's Bad Golf Made Easier
1993-11-03
Leslie Nielsen's Bad Golf Made Easier
Overview: Leslie Nielsen teaches frustrated rookie golfer Billy how to bend the rules of golf to his advantage.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-11-03
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Rio Bravo
1959-03-18
Rio Bravo
Overview: A small-town sheriff in the American West enlists the help of a disabled man, a drunk, and a young gunfighter in his efforts to hold in jail the brother of the local bad guy.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-03-18
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Lassie: Well of Love
1970-01-01
Lassie: Well of Love
Overview: In this touching drama a disparate group of people rally together to save a dog that has fallen into a deep well.
Genres: TV Movie Action Drama Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-01-01
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The Intruders
1970-11-10
The Intruders
Overview: The James and Younger outlaw gangs ride into town, and it is up to the local marshal, who has lost both his nerve and his gun skills, to stop them.
Genres: TV Movie Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-11-10
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Rocket Boy
1989-06-01
Rocket Boy
Overview: In this Sci-fi Comedy a gentle video clerk has a secret double life as an intergalactic crime-fighter who must stop an evil alien from stealing the hair off human heads.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-06-01
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The Last Hard Men
1976-04-22
The Last Hard Men
Overview: In 1909 Arizona, retired lawman Sam Burgade's life is thrown upside-down when his old enemy Provo and six other convicts escape a chain-gang in the Yuma Territorial Prison and come gunning for Burgade.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-04-22
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No Place to Run
1972-09-19
No Place to Run
Overview: An adopted boy's parents are killed, and to keep him from returning to the state's custody, he and his grandfather run away.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-09-19
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The Hit Man
1991-06-29
The Hit Man
Overview: When a desperate kid tries to steal the car of a famous movie director to help his family pay their debt to a predatory lender, the director and his special effects crew decide to help the kid teach the greedy man a lesson.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-06-29
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The Horror at 37,000 Feet
1973-02-13
The Horror at 37,000 Feet
Overview: A commercial-jet captain (Chuck Connors) has ghosts on board from stones of an English abbey being shipped overseas.
Genres: TV Movie Horror Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-02-13
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Mrs. Sundance
1974-01-15
Mrs. Sundance
Overview: The girlfriend of the Sundance Kid is on the run, with a price on her head, when she hears rumors that Sundance may still be alive.
Genres: Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-15
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Young Pioneers' Christmas
1976-12-17
Young Pioneers' Christmas
Overview: A young couple and their neighbors celebrate Christmas in 1874 on the Dakota prairie. Despite tragedy and an ongoing battle with the railway company, Christmas is a homespun and overly sentimental affair.
Genres: Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-12-17
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Trail of Danger
1978-03-12
Trail of Danger
Overview: Two men taking horses to market run afoul of angry sheep herders and are hampered by a lack of water for the horses.
Genres: Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-03-12
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Leslie Nielsen's Bad Golf My Way
1994-01-01
Leslie Nielsen's Bad Golf My Way
Overview: Leslie Nielsen and his caddy decide to drive a jerky golf player, Brad, insane by playing a round with him and making up rules, distracting him, and filling him with paranoia.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Mrs. Pollifax — Spy
1971-02-17
Mrs. Pollifax — Spy
Overview: Mrs. Emily Pollifax of New Jersey goes to the CIA to volunteer for spy duty, being in her own opinion, expendable now that the children are grown and she's widowed. And being just what the department needed (someone who looks and acts completely unlike a spy), she's assigned to simple courier duty to pick up a book in Mexico City. But when the pickup doesn't go as planned, Mrs. Pollifax finds herself handcuffed to a handsome stranger on a plane bound for an Albanian prison. And it's up to her to get them out.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-02-17
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Hoot
2006-11-03
Hoot
Overview: A young man moves from Montana to Florida with his family, where he's compelled to engage in a fight to protect a population of endangered owls.
Genres: Family Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-11-03
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Young Pioneers
1976-03-01
Young Pioneers
Overview: Pilot for TV series of the same name released in 1978. The film told the tale of Molly and David Beaton, two teenage newlyweds, homesteading in the Dakota Territory in the 1870s.
Genres: Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-03-01
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