Jack Starrett
Biography: Jack Starrett (November 2, 1936 – March 27, 1989) was an American actor and film director. He is credited as Claude Ennis Starrett, Jr. in some of his films. Starrett is perhaps best known for his role as Gabby Johnson, a parody of Gabby Hayes, in the 1974 classic parody film Blazing Saddles and is also known for his role as the brutal deputy Galt in the 1982 action film First Blood. He also played the cruel foreman Swick in The River. Starrett was often typecast as a tough-talking police officer and played essentially the same character in a trio of biker films: The Born Losers (the film that introduced Billy Jack), Hells Angels on Wheels (both from 1967), and Angels from Hell (1968). He acted in another biker film, Hell's Bloody Devils (1970), and directed two more: Run, Angel, Run in 1969 and Nam's Angels (1970). Description above from the Wikipedia article Jack Starrett, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: November 02, 1936
Deathday: March 27, 1989
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First Blood
1982-10-22
First Blood
Overview: When former Green Beret John Rambo is harassed by local law enforcement and arrested for vagrancy, he is forced to flee into the mountains and wage an escalating one-man war against his pursuers.
Genres: Action Adventure Thriller War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-10-22
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Race with the Devil
1975-06-01
Race with the Devil
Overview: Two couples vacationing together in an R.V. from Texas to Colorado are terrorized after they witness a murder during a Satanic ritual.
Genres: Action Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-06-01
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The Losers
1970-06-08
The Losers
Overview: Some bikers are hired by the CIA during the Vietnam War to rescue a captured agent from the clutches of the Red Chinese army. After a round of drinking, fighting, and whoring around, the cycle gang, led by Big Bill Smith, fix up their Yamahas with machine guns, grenades and armor plating, and storm the enemy camp.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-06-08
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Hell's Bloody Devils
1970-05-28
Hell's Bloody Devils
Overview: Bikers, Nazis, Mafiosi, and the FBI all clash in this wild and wooly exploitation picture from director Al Adamson. Mark Adams (John Gabriel) is an FBI agent who has been assigned to infiltrate an organized crime ring that has obtained a set of printing plates that will allow them to produce nearly perfect counterfeit 20-dollar bills. The plates were made in Germany during World War II, and were discovered by a radical right-wing group hoping to restore the Nazi Party to power. The American gangsters are in cahoots with a group of wealthy American neo-Nazis sympathetic to the new German cause, led by fugitive war criminal Count von Delberg (Kent Taylor); the count has in turn recruited a vicious motorcycle gang, the Bloody Devils, to do his dirty work.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-05-28
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The Born Losers
1967-07-12
The Born Losers
Overview: A ruthless motorcycle gang rides into a California town and terrorizes its denizens.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-07-12
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Death Chase
1988-03-12
Death Chase
Overview: After a man's sister is killed by two gunmen who seemingly come out of nowhere, he manages to find and kill them. He then discovers that the men he killed were part of a multi-millionaire's bizarre "death game", where someone is hunted through the streets of Los Angeles by teams of killers who get a big-money prize for killing their quarry--and he realizes that now he is "it".
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-03-12
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Nightwish
1989-12-05
Nightwish
Overview: A professor and four graduate students journey to a crumbling mansion to investigate paranormal activity and must battle ghosts, aliens and satanic entities.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-12-05
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Cry Blood Apache
1970-09-01
Cry Blood Apache
Overview: Telling the story of his early life in flashback, a former prospector (Joel McCrea, with flashback sequences featuring son Jody) explains his brutal massacre of a tribe of Indians. The only survivor (Marie Gahua) agrees to lead him to a secret gold mine.
Genres: Western Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-09-01
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Grizzly II: Revenge
2020-02-17
Grizzly II: Revenge
Overview: All hell breaks loose when a giant grizzly, reacting to the slaughter of her cubs by poachers, attacks a massive rock concert in the National Park. [This sequel to "Grizzly" (1976) was left unfinished after production wrapped prematurely in 1983, and was not officially released until 2020, though a bootleg workprint version had been in circulation for some years prior to this.]
Genres: Horror Music Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-02-17
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The Girls from Thunder Strip
1970-11-11
The Girls from Thunder Strip
Overview: A vicious gang of murderous bikers goes up against a trio of beautiful bootlegging sisters.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-11-11
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Angels from Hell
1968-06-05
Angels from Hell
Overview: Mike, a biker, returns to California after serving in Vietnam. He uses his war-hero experience to organize a new, united super outlaw gang. When one member is shot by police because he killed a girl at a pot orgy, an all-out cop vs. biker war results.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-06-05
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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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Hollywood Heartbreak
1988-01-01
Hollywood Heartbreak
Overview: A wannabe writer who's just moved to Hollywood tries to pitch his script idea to various producers who won't give him the time of day.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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The River
1984-12-01
The River
Overview: Tom and Mae Garvey are a Tennessee farming couple battling violent floods to save their land. In addition to natural disasters, the Garveys fight to stop a selfish land developer and a local corporation from foreclosing on their farm. While Mae stays at home to care for their children and tend to the crops, Tom finds work as a scab at a steel mill to preserve his family's property.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-12-01
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The Gay Deceivers
1969-07-30
The Gay Deceivers
Overview: Two men try to avoid military service by pretending to be gay, but they must act the part when the recruiting officer doesn't buy it.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-07-30
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Brothers in Arms
1988-10-21
Brothers in Arms
Overview: Two brothers on a hike in the woods, one of them with a hidden motive, get in trouble with hillbillies, when they save a girl from rape.
Genres: Thriller Action Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-10-21
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The Dion Brothers
1974-06-16
The Dion Brothers
Overview: Two rural West Virginia brothers leave home, rob an armored car and become fugitives.
Genres: Comedy Action Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-06-16
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Family Reunion
1989-09-01
Family Reunion
Overview: Tom Andrews, his wife Kathy, their two children & Tom's Father Henry are all driving to a town called Silversprings on Christmas Eve to visit relatives. On the way, they decide to stop at a ghost town called Sutterville which by a strange coincidence Tom has had nightmares about every year around Christmas for his whole life. Tom's father is wary & begs them not to go; however Tom's car develops a mind of it's own & takes them there only to break down so that they can't leave. Meanwhile a man arrested for vagrancy by local police is identified as Clarence McCoughlin who supposedly died in Sutterville 40 years ago, not to mention he seems to have some sort of demonic power. As the Andrews family explore the town a feeling of unease starts to takeover, Clarence escapes jail & heads back to Sutterville for a sinister family reunion...
Genres: Fantasy Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-09-01
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Hells Angels on Wheels
1967-06-01
Hells Angels on Wheels
Overview: At first gas station attendant Poet is happy when the rockers gang “Hell’s Angels” finally accepts him. But he’s shocked when he learns how brutal they are – not even murder is a taboo to them. He gets himself in trouble when the leader’s girlfriend falls in love with him – and he welcomes her approaches.
Genres: Adventure Drama Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-06-01
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A Small Town in Texas
1976-07-09
A Small Town in Texas
Overview: A crooked sheriff in a small Southern town frames an ex-convict in a drug bust and takes his girlfriend.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-07-09
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Nowhere to Hide
1977-06-05
Nowhere to Hide
Overview: A special unit of the U.S. Marshal's Service is assigned to protect a syndicate hitman who is to testify against his former bosses, who have put out a contract on his life.
Genres: Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-06-05
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Mr. Horn
1979-02-01
Mr. Horn
Overview: Western saga based on the legend of frontier folk hero Tom Horn, including his role in the trackdown of Geronimo in the 1880s with his mentor and pal, Al Sieber, the fabled Indian scout, his later days as a Pinkerton detective, and the way he was used by both sides in turn-of-the-century cattle wars, leading to his tragic death.
Genres: Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-02-01
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Kid Blue
1973-01-31
Kid Blue
Overview: Bickford Waner, an apparently naive young man from Fort Worth, arrives in the tiny Texas town of Dime Box and takes on a variety of menial jobs. He's befriended by Reese Ford and his wife Molly, but before long Molly has seduced Bickford. Only with the arrival of Bickford's former girlfriend Janet Conforto is it revealed that Bickford is actually the notorious train robber Kid Blue. Humiliated by a scandal arising from his affair with his friend's wife, Bickford gives up on going straight and plots a crime.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-01-31
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The Rose
1979-11-07
The Rose
Overview: Rock-and-roll singer Mary Rose Foster's romantic relationships and mental health are continuously imperilled by the demands of life on the road.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-11-07
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