Billy Gray
Biography: Billy Gray (born William Thomas Gray) is an American actor known for Father Knows Best (1954), The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), and The Seven Little Foys (1955).
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: January 13, 1938
Deathday: N/A
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The Day the Earth Stood Still
1951-09-28
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Overview: An alien and a robot land on Earth after World War II and tell mankind to be peaceful or face destruction.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-09-28
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A Present with a Future
1943-12-01
A Present with a Future
Overview: In a short scene a mother explains to her children, Jenny and Billy, why they received war bonds as Christmas presents, even though the mother can afford to give them more expensive gifts. Davis then steps out of character and asks moviegoers to buy war bonds and stamps.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-12-01
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Suspense
1946-06-15
Suspense
Overview: The proprietor of an ice-skating revue promotes a peanut-vendor to a management position based on suggestions he made to improve the act of the show's star, who also happens to be the owner's wife. However, he soon begins to notice that his new manager is paying more attention to his wife than he believes is appropriate.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-06-15
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Father Knows Best: Home for Christmas
1977-12-18
Father Knows Best: Home for Christmas
Overview: The original cast of "Father Knows Best" returns for the second reunion movie. After learning that none of the children will be home for Christmas, Jim and Margaret decide to sell their house.
Genres: Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-12-18
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The Seven Little Foys
1955-09-30
The Seven Little Foys
Overview: Vaudeville entertainer Eddie Foy, who has vowed to forever keep his act a solo, falls in love with and marries Italian ballerina Madeleine. While they continue to tour the circuit, they begin a family and before long have seven little Foys to clutter the wings. After tragedy threatens to stall Eddie's career, he comes to realize that his little terrors are worth their weight in gold. - Chris Stone
Genres: Music Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-09-30
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Kill the Umpire
1950-04-27
Kill the Umpire
Overview: Ex-baseball player Bill Johnson, failing at many jobs when his ball-playing days are over, reluctantly takes the advice of his father-in-law, Jonah Evans, a retired umpire, and enters an umpire-training school. Assigned to the Texas League, he does fine until the championship play-offs when a riot develops over one of his calls. The involved player is knocked unconscious in the proceedings and cannot verify that Bill made the correct call. Despite lynch mob plans to at least tar-and-feather him, Bill's family - his daughters Lucy (Gloria Henry and Susan and his wife Betty - help Bill reach the ballpark safely the next day through a series of hair-raising encounters.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-04-27
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On Moonlight Bay
1951-07-26
On Moonlight Bay
Overview: The Winfield family moves into a new house in a small town in Indiana. Tomboy Marjorie Winfield begins a romance with William Sherman who lives across the street. Marjorie has to learn how to dance and act like a proper young lady. Unfortunately William Sherman has unconventional ideas for the time. His ideas include not believing in marriage or money, which causes friction with Marjorie's father, who is the local bank vice president
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-07-26
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Singing Guns
1950-02-28
Singing Guns
Overview: Notorious stagecoach robber Rhiannon is unintentionally appointed as deputy when he saves the sheriff's life and must wear two hats between his new job that he enjoys and his old occupation that he misses.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-02-28
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The Girl Next Door
1953-05-13
The Girl Next Door
Overview: Stage-and-night club star Jeannie Laird buys her first home, and everyone who is anyone comes to her first garden party only to be blinded by smoke from next door. Jeannie charges next door to bawl out her new neighbor and meets comic-strip artist Bill Carter. Bill has devoted himself to his strip, and raising his ten-year-old son Joe since the death of his wife. Joe bases his strip on the everyday happenings of he and his son and is proud of keeping it scrupulously honest. When Jeannie and Bill fall in love, young Joe is hurt, especially when Bill starts using a lot of the father-son time to be with Jeannie. Bill cancels a father-son trip to Canada, and Joe decides to write a letter to Bill's syndicate pointing out that the current plot line of the script being set in Canada isn't honest, since they didn't go.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-05-13
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To Each His Own
1946-03-12
To Each His Own
Overview: During World War I, small-town girl Josephine Norris has an illegitimate son by an itinerant pilot. After a scheme to adopt him ends up giving him to another family, she devotes her life to loving him from afar.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-03-12
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Werewolves on Wheels
1971-08-11
Werewolves on Wheels
Overview: A biker gang visits a monastery where they encounter black-robed monks engaged in worshipping Satan. When the monks try to persuade one of the female bikers, Helen, to become a satanic sacrifice the bikers smash up the monastery and leave. The monks have the last laugh, though, as Helen, as a result of the satanic rituals, is now possessed and at night changes into a werewolf, with dire results for the biker gang.
Genres: Action Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-08-11
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Specter of the Rose
1946-07-05
Specter of the Rose
Overview: Ballet dancer Sanine may have murdered his first wife. A detective thinks so, and he's not the only one.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-07-05
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Two for the Seesaw
1962-11-21
Two for the Seesaw
Overview: After leaving his wife, lawyer Jerry Ryan moves from Omaha, Nebraska to New York City to start a new life. While studying for the New York Bar Examination and working to finalize his divorce, Ryan meets dancer Gittel Mosca, and the two begin a cautious courtship. However, Ryan feels that he must come to terms with his failed marriage and overcome his lingering attachment to his ex-wife before he can redefine himself and embrace his budding romance.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-11-21
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Talk About a Stranger
1952-04-18
Talk About a Stranger
Overview: Small-town gossips rage over the arrival of a mysterious stranger.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-04-18
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The Navy vs. the Night Monsters
1966-11-01
The Navy vs. the Night Monsters
Overview: US Navy battles monsters unearthed from the frozen arctic.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-11-01
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The Outlaw Stallion
1954-07-03
The Outlaw Stallion
Overview: A young boy and a veterinarian in a red convertible help thwart a gang of horse thieves. Director Fred F. Sears' 1954 outdoor drama stars Billy Gray, Phil Carey, Roy Roberts, Dorothy Patrick, Gordon Jones, Trevor Bardette and Morris Ankrum.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-07-03
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Curley
1947-08-23
Curley
Overview: The students of Lakeview Elementary devise comedic ways to torment their new teacher.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-08-23
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Parlor, Bedroom and Wrath
1948-12-16
Parlor, Bedroom and Wrath
Overview: Wally intends to have a nice quiet day at home, until his brother-in-law Eddie shows up with his kids.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-12-16
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Abandoned
1949-10-26
Abandoned
Overview: A Los Angeles newspaperman seeks a woman's sister and finds a black-market baby ring.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-10-26
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The Ping-Pong Match
1968-01-01
The Ping-Pong Match
Overview: A short film that was directed by Toni Basil.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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The Guy Who Came Back
1951-08-16
The Guy Who Came Back
Overview: Former football star Harry Joplin is down on his luck, both in his career and in his married life. He seems convinced of his own unworthiness, but a chance to play in a charity football game helps him see his life in a new light.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-08-16
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Porklips Now
1980-10-01
Porklips Now
Overview: This spoof of 'Apocalypse Now' has health inspector Will Dullard travelling by car "uptown" with two friends to have a meeting with a certain Mertz, the owner of a meat processing shop, to "investigate with extreme prejudice."
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-10-01
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Fighting Father Dunne
1948-05-12
Fighting Father Dunne
Overview: A dedicated priest tries to reform a group of homeless boys in turn-of-the-century St. Louis.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-05-12
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The Vampyre Wars
1996-01-01
The Vampyre Wars
Overview: 1996 horror movie starring Chris Sarandon and Robert Englund
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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In a Lonely Place
1950-05-17
In a Lonely Place
Overview: A screenwriter with a violent temper is a murder suspect until his lovely neighbor clears him. However, she soon starts to have her doubts.
Genres: Drama Romance Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-05-17
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The Scarlet Hour
1956-04-01
The Scarlet Hour
Overview: An unhappy wife uses her powers of manipulation to draw an infatuated man into an ill-fated jewelry heist.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-04-01
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Mister 880
1950-09-29
Mister 880
Overview: The Skipper is a charming old man loved by all his neighbors. What they don't know is that he is also Mr. 880, an amateurish counterfeiter who has amazingly managed to elude the Secret Service for 20 years.
Genres: Comedy Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-09-29
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Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff
1949-05-26
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff
Overview: Lost Caverns Hotel bellhop Freddie Phillips is suspected of murder. Swami Talpur tries to hypnotize Freddie into confessing, but Freddie is too stupid for the plot to work. Inspector Wellman uses Freddie to get the killer (and it isn't the Swami).
Genres: Comedy Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-05-26
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Gene Autry and the Mounties
1951-01-30
Gene Autry and the Mounties
Overview: Montana Marshals Gene and Scat are tracking some bank robbers. When the baddies cross into Canada, the Mounties are called upon to help.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-01-30
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Making The Earth Stand Still
2001-06-30
Making The Earth Stand Still
Overview: A documentary about the 1951 sci-fi film "The Day the Earth Stood Still," featuring clips from the film and interviews with some of the cast and crew about the making of the film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-06-30
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The Judge Steps Out
1947-12-15
The Judge Steps Out
Overview: A judge flees the pressures of professional and family life for a job as a short-order cook.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-12-15
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Her First Romance
1951-05-04
Her First Romance
Overview: A teenager experiences her first crush while attending a summer camp. Director Seymour Friedman's 1951 film stars Margaret O'Brien, Allen Martin Jr., Sharyn Moffett, Jimmy Hunt, Elinor Donahue, Ann Doran, Lloyd Corrigan, Atthur Space and Maudie Prickett.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-05-04
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Between Midnight and Dawn
1950-10-01
Between Midnight and Dawn
Overview: Rocky and Dan, war buddies, are prowl car cops on night duty. Dan is a cynic who views all lawbreakers as scum; Rocky feels more lenient. Both are attracted to the radio voice of communicator Kate Mallory; but in person, Kate proves reluctant to get involved with men who just might stop a bullet. By lucky chance, Rocky and Dan cause big trouble for murderous racketeer Ritchie Garris; but when he swears vengeance, Kate's fears may prove justified.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-10-01
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Father Is a Bachelor
1950-02-22
Father Is a Bachelor
Overview: Johnny Rutledge is a drifter who comes to and discovers a cabin in the forest where five kids: January, February, March, April, and May are living without parents. Their parents died a while ago, and they want to keep that secret from the townspeople, especially the young school teacher, Prudence Millett, to avoid being sent to a children's home and eventual separation. Johnny moves in with the kids and poses as their uncle to take care of them while romancing Prudence. But in order to keep the children, he has to get married.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-02-22
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The Strange Woman
1946-10-25
The Strange Woman
Overview: In early 19th century New England, an unscrupulous woman uses her beauty and wits to seduce, deceive and control the men around her.
Genres: Drama Thriller History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-10-25
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Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists!
2021-02-13
Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists!
Overview: A comprehensive story of Hollywood's horror and science fiction films of the 1950s, told by the people who made them.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-02-13
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The Good Humor Man
1950-03-24
The Good Humor Man
Overview: Biff Jones is a driver/salesman for the Good Humor ice-cream company. He hopes to marry his girl Margie, who works as a secretary for Stuart Nagel, an insurance investigator. Margie won't marry Biff, though, because she is the sole support of her kid brother, Johnny. Biff gets involved with Bonnie, a young woman he tries to rescue from gangsters. But Biff's attempts to help her only get him accused of murder. When the police refuse to believe his story, it's up to Biff and Johnny to prove Biff's innocence and solve the crime.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-03-24
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Lust for Gold
1949-06-10
Lust for Gold
Overview: A man determined to track down the fabled Arizona gold mine known as The Lost Dutchman has an affair with a married treasure hunter, whose pursuit of the mine has lead her to double-cross her husband.
Genres: Action Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-06-10
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By the Light of the Silvery Moon
1953-03-26
By the Light of the Silvery Moon
Overview: Marjorie Winfield's engagement to Bill Sherman, who has just arrived home from fighting in World War I, serves as the backdrop for the trials and tribulations of her family.
Genres: Comedy Family Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-03-26
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Sierra Passage
1950-12-31
Sierra Passage
Overview: When young Johnny York witnesses the murder of his father, he joins a travelling variety troupe and trains up as a sharpshooter so he might one day get his revenge.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-12-31
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The Father Knows Best Reunion
1977-05-15
The Father Knows Best Reunion
Overview: First of two reunion movies starring the original cast of the popular 1950's series "Father Knows Best." Jim and Margaret Anderson invite their children and grandchildren for a visit to celebrate their wedding anniversary.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-05-15
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All I Desire
1953-07-03
All I Desire
Overview: In 1910, a stage actress re-visits her husband and children she deserted ten years ago.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-07-03
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Our Old Car
1946-06-11
Our Old Car
Overview: In this John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short, a man traces his history by the succession of cars his father owned. [This short appears in its entirety during MGM's short feature "The Great Morgan".]
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-06-11
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Rendezvous with Annie
1946-07-22
Rendezvous with Annie
Overview: A homesick American soldier stationed in England during World War II makes an unauthorized trip to see his wife and returns to England with only two people knowing he was home for a few hours. When she learns that she is pregnant, she does not disclose that her husband had paid her a visit as to not get him into trouble. The townspeople are unanimous in their condemnation of her. But, after his discharge, he enlists the aid of a nightclub singer, the only other person who knew he came home.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-07-22
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Backlash
1947-03-01
Backlash
Overview: In a series of flashbacks, shows that attorney John Morland has given a lift to a hitchhiker who turns out to be a murderer. As a result, Morland himself is implicated in a killing. A pair of detectives discover that Morland has been having business problems and no end of difficulties with his wife Catherine. The trail of clues leads to a surprising revelation.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-03-01
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The Killer That Stalked New York
1950-10-06
The Killer That Stalked New York
Overview: In New York, Sheila Bennet and her spouse, Matt Krane, are trying to unload a trove of rare jewels they smuggled into America from Cuba, but the police are hot on the couple's trail. Meanwhile, government officials begin a desperate search for an unknown individual who is infecting the city with smallpox.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-10-06
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Adventures of Rusty
1945-09-06
Adventures of Rusty
Overview: Fearing that his recently-acquired step-mother, Ann Dennis, is competing with him for his father's affections, and saddened by the death of his dog, young Danny Mitchell seeks consolation in the companionship of a ferocious, Nazi-trained police dog, Rusty, brought to the U.S. by a returning WWII-veteran. The step-mother, with tender understanding, eventually wins Danny over while Danny pacifies his new dog.
Genres: Family Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-09-06
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Love and Bullets
1979-04-05
Love and Bullets
Overview: Jackie Pruit is the girlfriend of notorious gangster Joe Bomposa. When it looks as if Bomposa's goons are threatening Jackie's life, the FBI moves in to protect her, hoping that she'll have incriminating evidence. Veteran agent Charlie Congers is assigned to watch over Jackie, and while it soon becomes apparent that she knows almost nothing about Bomposa that would be of any use to the FBI, he falls in love with her. Bomposa decides it would be more convenient to have Jackie out of the way, ordering her to be executed. Bomposa's henchmen slip through FBI security and murder her, but now they have to answer the angry and vengeful Congers.
Genres: Crime Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-04-05
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The House Across the Street
1949-09-10
The House Across the Street
Overview: Dave Joslin, the managing editor of a big-city newspaper, is demoted and moved to the Miss Lonely Hearts column-writing department by the newspaper's publisher, J. B. Grennell, because Joslin refuses to desist in printing stories linking a gangster, Matthew Keever, to a murder. But Joslin, aided by Kit Williams, a newspaper woman with whom he is in love, investigate the murder case on their own time.
Genres: Comedy Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-09-10
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Dusty and Sweets McGee
1971-07-14
Dusty and Sweets McGee
Overview: A "straight" couple dabbles in drugs and become heroin addicts.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-07-14
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Cluny Brown
1946-06-02
Cluny Brown
Overview: Amateur plumber Cluny Brown gets sent off by her uncle to work as a servant at an English country estate.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-06-02
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The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry
1945-08-17
The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry
Overview: George Sanders stars in this engrossing melodrama about a very domineering sister who holds a tight grip on her brother -- especially when he shows signs of falling in love.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-08-17
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