George Cisar
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia George Cisar (July 28, 1912 — June 13, 1979) was an American actor who performed in more than one hundred roles in two decades as a character actor in film and television, often in prominent Hollywood productions. He frequently played background parts such as policemen or bartenders. In 1949, Cisar co-starred with a young Mike Wallace in the short-lived police drama Stand By for Crime. Among Cisar's more frequent roles was from 1960 to 1963 as Sgt. Theodore Mooney in thirty-one episodes of CBS's Dennis the Menace. Oddly, series co-star Gale Gordon took the name "Theodore Mooney" and added the middle initial "J." for his character, Theodore J. Mooney, a tough-minded banker on Lucille Ball's second sitcom, The Lucy Show.[1] Cisar portrayed character Donald Hollinger's father in That Girl, the Marlo Thomas sitcom which aired on ABC, and Cyrus Tankersley on CBS's The Andy Griffith Show and its sequel Mayberry, R.F.D. Unbilled in his first film, 1948's Call Northside 777, he was credited at the bottom of the cast list in his next feature, 1949's Johnny Holiday. His final film appearance, also near the end of the list, was as Joe the barber in the 1970 Southern racial drama, ...tick...tick...tick.... Nine years later, Cisar died in Los Angeles, at the age of 66 CLR
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: July 28, 1912
Deathday: June 13, 1979
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Call Northside 777
1948-02-13
Call Northside 777
Overview: In 1932, a cop is killed and Frank Wiecek sentenced to life. Eleven years later, a newspaper ad by Frank's mother leads Chicago reporter P.J. O'Neal to look into the case. For some time, O'Neal continues to believe Frank guilty. But when he starts to change his mind, he meets increased resistance from authorities unwilling to be proved wrong.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-02-13
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Viva Las Vegas
1964-02-08
Viva Las Vegas
Overview: Lucky Jackson arrives in town with his car literally in tow ready for the first Las Vegas Grand Prix - once he has the money to buy an engine. He gets the cash easily enough but mislays it when the pretty swimming pool manageress takes his mind off things. It seems he will lose both race and girl, problems made more difficult by rivalry from Elmo Mancini, fellow racer and womaniser.
Genres: Music Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-02-08
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The Crooked Web
1955-11-30
The Crooked Web
Overview: Following WWII, ex-G.I. Stan opened up a drive-in restaurant. His girlfriend, Joanie, is one of the car hops. They want to get married someday, but the less-than-stellar business the restaurant takes in puts a hold on that plan. One day, Joanie's ne’er-do-well brother Frank blows into town with a money-making scheme. She's against it, but Stan - an inveterate gambler - finds the promise of riches too seductive to resist…
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-11-30
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The Brothers Rico
1957-09-01
The Brothers Rico
Overview: Eddie Rico, the erstwhile bookkeeper for a big Mafia boss, is now making a living as an honest merchant in Florida with his family. Things go sour when the police start a search for his syndicate-linked brothers who are on the lam after a big hit, forcing Eddie to get involved with the Mafia again.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-09-01
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Attack of the Giant Leeches
1959-10-01
Attack of the Giant Leeches
Overview: A backwoods game warden and a local doctor discover that giant leeches are responsible for disappearances and deaths in a local swamp, but the local police don't believe them.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-10-01
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Vice Raid
1959-12-01
Vice Raid
Overview: A prostitute sets out to frame a cop.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-12-01
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Married Too Young
1962-01-01
Married Too Young
Overview: Two high-school sweethearts get married, then find that married life isn't what they thought it would be. In their desperation, they get mixed up with a gang of car thieves.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-01-01
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Jet Attack
1958-02-15
Jet Attack
Overview: A Soviet nurse helps a U.S. pilot, his buddies and a scientist escape from North Korea. American International Pictures originally distributed this film as a double feature with "Suicide Battalion".
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-02-15
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Billy the Kid Versus Dracula
1966-04-10
Billy the Kid Versus Dracula
Overview: Dracula travels to the American West, intent on making a beautiful ranch owner his next victim. Her fiance, outlaw Billy the Kid, finds out about it and rushes to save her.
Genres: Horror Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-04-10
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Teen-Age Crime Wave
1955-11-01
Teen-Age Crime Wave
Overview: A delinquent girl involves an innocent friend in an armed robbery followed by a jail-break and hostage-taking with her equally delinquent boyfriend.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-11-01
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Cell 2455 Death Row
1955-04-19
Cell 2455 Death Row
Overview: A Death Row inmate uses his prison law studies to fight for his life. Based on a true story.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-04-19
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The Buckskin Lady
1957-07-01
The Buckskin Lady
Overview: Patricia Medina plays the title character in The Buckskin Lady. Medina is cast as female gambler Angela Medley, who is forced by circumstances to align herself with outlaw Slinger. But Angela has never gotten over her love for honest frontier doctor Bruce Merritt, and at the first opportunity she redeems herself by catching a bullet intended for the doc. Henry Hull delivers the film's most memorable performance as Angela's drunken wretch of a father. Per the title, Buckskin Lady affords the viewer ample opportunity to see Patricia Medina in form-fitting western garb.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-07-01
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Elmer Gantry
1960-07-07
Elmer Gantry
Overview: A charismatic charlatan begins a business — and eventually romantic — relationship with a roadside evangelist to sell religion to 1920s America. Based on Sinclair Lewis' novel of the same name.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-07-07
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Chicago Confidential
1957-08-30
Chicago Confidential
Overview: In the Windy City, the mob infiltrates a powerful union.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-08-30
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A House Is Not a Home
1964-08-12
A House Is Not a Home
Overview: Story follows the life of Polly Adler, who grew to become one of New York's most successful bordello madams of the 1920s.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-08-12
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Teacher's Pet
1958-04-01
Teacher's Pet
Overview: A rugged city editor poses as a journalism student and flirts with the professor.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-04-01
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Nightfall
1956-11-09
Nightfall
Overview: An innocent man turns fugitive as he reconstructs events that implicate him for a murder and robbery he did not commit.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-11-09
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5 Against the House
1955-06-10
5 Against the House
Overview: Former war-time Army buddies now students in college decide to rip off a Reno casino.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-06-10
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The Harder They Fall
1956-05-08
The Harder They Fall
Overview: Jobless sportswriter Eddie Willis is hired by corrupt fight promoter Nick Benko to promote his current protégé, an unknown Argentinian boxer named Toro Moreno. Although Moreno is a hulking giant, his chances for success are hampered by a powder-puff punch and a glass jaw. Exploiting Willis' reputation for integrity and standing in the boxing community, Benko arranges a series of fixed fights that propel the unsophisticated Moreno to #1 contender for the championship. The reigning champ, the sadistic Buddy Brannen, harbors resentment at the publicity Toro has been receiving and vows to viciously punish him in the ring. Eddie must now decide whether or not to tell the naive Toro the truth.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-05-08
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Inside Detroit
1956-01-01
Inside Detroit
Overview: Gus Linden, former racketeer head of a Detroit local of the United Automobile Workers of America, A.F.L, attempts to destroy his successor, Blair Vicker, so he can put his old rackets back into the auto factories. Vickers fights him off, ultimately winning help from Linden's attractive daughter Barbara and from Joni Calvin, Vickers' moll.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-01-01
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A Very Special Favor
1965-08-02
A Very Special Favor
Overview: The long-lost father of a frigid, uptight Freudian psychologist contracts a wealthy American playboy who owes him a favor to woo his daughter.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-08-02
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The Giant Claw
1957-06-01
The Giant Claw
Overview: Global panic ensues when it is revealed that a mysterious UFO is actually a giant turkey-like bird that flies at supersonic speed and has no regard for life or architecture.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-06-01
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The Shadow on the Window
1957-03-06
The Shadow on the Window
Overview: Three delinquents murder a prosperous farmer at an isolated farm house. One witness to the crime - the dead man's secretary - is then taken hostage. The other witness - her young son - is thrown into state of shock. Can he recover soon enough to help the police - and his father - rescue his mother before it's too late?
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-03-06
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Edge of Eternity
1959-11-02
Edge of Eternity
Overview: Helped by socialite Janice Kendon and barkeeper Scott O'Brien, Arizona deputy sheriff Les Martin works to solve three brutal murders in and around the Grand Canyon. His efforts leads to the killer fleeing with Janice as a hostage and a chase by car and helicopter lead to a climax on a miner's bucket on cables a mile above the canyon floor.
Genres: Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-11-02
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I, Mobster
1959-02-01
I, Mobster
Overview: The rise and fall of gang lord Joe Sante. A crime boss appears before a Senate subcommittee. A flashbacks tell his story.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-02-01
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The Werewolf
1956-07-01
The Werewolf
Overview: The arrival in a small mountain town of a dissheveled stranger launches a series of murders committed by some sort of animal. As the town doctor and his daughter attempt to help the stranger, the sheriff investigates the murders; and they uncover a sinister experiment involving two rogue scientists, a car accident victim, his wife and children, and a serum that causes a man to turn into a ravaging werewolf.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-07-01
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Somebody Up There Likes Me
1956-07-04
Somebody Up There Likes Me
Overview: The story of boxer Rocky Graziano's rise from juvenile delinquent to world champ.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-07-04
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The Glass Bottom Boat
1966-06-09
The Glass Bottom Boat
Overview: Bruce, the owner of an aerospace company, is infatuated with Jennifer and hires her to be his biographer so that he can be near her and win her affections. Is she actually a Russian spy trying to obtain aerospace secrets?
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-06-09
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7 Faces of Dr. Lao
1964-03-18
7 Faces of Dr. Lao
Overview: An old Chinese man rides into the town of Abalone, Arizona and changes it forever, as the citizens see themselves reflected in the mirror of Lao's mysterious circus of mythical beasts.
Genres: Fantasy Family Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-03-18
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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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Johnny Holiday
1949-11-18
Johnny Holiday
Overview: A guard (William Bendix) befriends a wayward youth (Allen Martin Jr.) sent to the Indiana Boys School.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-11-18
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Emergency Hospital
1956-11-02
Emergency Hospital
Overview: About the lives and loves of the staff of an emergency hospital as reflected in a single frenetic night of business-as-usual.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-11-02
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Designing Woman
1957-05-16
Designing Woman
Overview: A sportswriter who marries a fashion designer discovers that their mutual interests are few, although each has an intriguing past which makes the other jealous.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-05-16
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Some Came Running
1958-12-25
Some Came Running
Overview: A former novelist returns to his small Midwest town after serving in the Army during WWII, to the chagrin of his social-climbing brother, and becomes close with an easy-going professional gambler and torn between two very different women.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-12-25
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Batman
1966-07-30
Batman
Overview: The Dynamic Duo faces four super-villains who plan to hold the world for ransom with the help of a secret invention that instantly dehydrates people.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-07-30
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The Opposite Sex
1956-11-15
The Opposite Sex
Overview: Former radio singer Kay learns from her gossipy friends that her husband, Steve, has had an affair with chorus girl Crystal. Devastated, Kay tries to ignore the information, but when Crystal performs one of her musical numbers at a charity benefit, she breaks down and goes to Reno to file for divorce. However, when she hears that gold-digging Crystal is making Steve unhappy, Kay resolves to get her husband back. The Opposite Sex is a remake of the 1939 comedy The Women.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-11-15
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Johnny Cool
1963-10-02
Johnny Cool
Overview: A deported gangster trains an Italian convict to take over his operations in the U.S.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-10-02
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The Abductors
1957-07-01
The Abductors
Overview: Two men (Victor McLaglen, George Macready) botch the kidnapping of a warden's daughter (Fay Spain), then plot to ransom Abraham Lincoln's corpse.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-07-01
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Don't Knock The Rock
1956-12-14
Don't Knock The Rock
Overview: Rock-and-roller Arnie Haynes returns to his hometown as a hero to the teenagers. However, the mayor and other concerned adults have banned him from performing in his hometown because they consider him and his music a negative influence on the youth. But with the help of disc jockey/publicist Alan Freed and fellow artists (including Bill Haley and the Comets and Little Richard), they hope to convince everyone that rock and roll is not as dangerous as the adults think.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-12-14
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The Split
1968-11-04
The Split
Overview: A group of thieves attempt a daring robbery of a football stadium.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-11-04
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All the Fine Young Cannibals
1960-09-15
All the Fine Young Cannibals
Overview: An ambitious farm girl rushes into marriage with a rich man, almost destroying four lives in the process.
Genres: Romance Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-09-15
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Terror At Black Falls
1962-05-23
Terror At Black Falls
Overview: A Mexican gunslinger is injured trying to save his son and is put into prison. When he's released, he's got revenge on his mind.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-05-23
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