Kurt Kasznar
Biography: Kurt Kasznar (August 12, 1913 – August 6, 1979) was a stage, film, and television actor.Kasznar's first major Broadway appearance was in The Happy Time. (He recreated his role for the film version and earned a Golden Globe nomination for his performance.) He also appeared on Broadway in Barefoot in the Park, Waiting for Godot, Six Characters in Search of an Author, and The Sound of Music, for which he was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical. Kasznar appeared in more than 80 films and television shows, and had a regular role in the television series Land of the Giants as "Alexander Fitzhugh". His feature films included Lili, Kiss Me, Kate, The Last Time I Saw Paris, My Sister Eileen, A Farewell to Arms and 55 Days at Peking. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kurt Kasznar , licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: August 13, 1913
Deathday: August 06, 1979
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Run Like a Thief
1954-09-05
Run Like a Thief
Overview: Alexander has been a faithful employee of Madame Pollard as maitre d' at her elegant resort. Eager to introduce his protege Rob, things go wrong when his wife Della finds an expensive bracelet lost by Pollard and begs to keep. The police are called and Alexander's dreams of his future begin to crumble.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-09-05
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Suddenly, Love
1978-12-04
Suddenly, Love
Overview: Young lovers — she's a child of the ghetto, determined to escape her alcoholic, bickering parents; he's a socially prominent attorney with a long-standing health problem — attempt to defy every obstacle to their romance and ultimate marriage.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-04
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Code Name: Heraclitus
1967-01-01
Code Name: Heraclitus
Overview: A man who dies on an operating table is brought back to life, but he has total amnesia. A government agent decides that he would make a perfect undercover operative.
Genres: Thriller Action TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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Casino Royale
1967-04-13
Casino Royale
Overview: Sir James Bond is called back out of retirement to stop SMERSH. In order to trick SMERSH, James thinks up the ultimate plan - that every agent will be named 'James Bond'. One of the Bonds, whose real name is Evelyn Tremble is sent to take on Le Chiffre in a game of baccarat, but all the Bonds get more than they can handle.
Genres: Adventure Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-04-13
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Legend of the Lost
1957-12-17
Legend of the Lost
Overview: American ne'er-do-well Joe January is hired to take Paul Bonnard on an expedition into the desert in search of treasure.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-12-17
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The Snoop Sisters
1972-12-18
The Snoop Sisters
Overview: A spinster and her widowed sister, both authors of murder mystery novels, try to track down the killer of a former movie star.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-12-18
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55 Days at Peking
1963-05-06
55 Days at Peking
Overview: Diplomats, soldiers and other representatives of a dozen nations fend off the siege of the International Compound in Peking during the 1900 Boxer Rebellion. The disparate interests unite for survival despite competing factions, overwhelming odds, delayed relief and tacit support of the Boxers by the Empress of China and her generals.
Genres: History War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-05-06
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Kiss Me Kate
1953-11-26
Kiss Me Kate
Overview: A pair of divorced actors are brought together to participate in a musical version of The Taming of the Shrew. Of course, the couple seem to act a great deal like the characters they play, and they must work together when mistaken identities get them mixed up with the mafia.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-11-26
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The Ambushers
1967-12-22
The Ambushers
Overview: When an experimental flying saucer crashes, secret agent Matt Helm has to bring back the secret weapons hidden on board.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-12-22
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My Sister Eileen
1955-09-22
My Sister Eileen
Overview: Ruth and her beautiful sister Eileen come to New York's Greenwich Village looking for "fame, fortune and a 'For Rent' sign on Barrow Street". They find an apartment, but fame and fortune are a lot more elusive. Ruth gets the attention of playboy publisher Bob Baker when she submits a story about her gorgeous sister Eileen. She tries to keep his attention by convincing him that she and the gorgeous, man-getting Eileen are one and the same person.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-09-22
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Lili
1953-03-10
Lili
Overview: Members of a circus troupe "adopt" Lili Daurier when she finds herself stranded in a strange town. The magician who first comes to her rescue already has romantic entanglements and thinks of her as a little girl. Who can she turn to but the puppets, singing to them her troubles, forgetting that there are puppeteers? A crowd gathers around Lili as she sings. The circus has a new act. She now has a job. Will she get her heart's desire?
Genres: Romance Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-03-10
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Lovely to Look At
1952-05-29
Lovely to Look At
Overview: Three broke Broadway producers are desperately looking for backers for a new show. When they are about to give up, one of them discovers that they are an heir to a Parisian dress salon. Off to Paris they go!
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-05-29
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Ride, Vaquero!
1953-07-17
Ride, Vaquero!
Overview: Ranchers in New Mexico have to face Indians and bandits.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-07-17
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A Farewell to Arms
1957-12-14
A Farewell to Arms
Overview: An English nurse and an American soldier on the Italian front during World War I fall in love, but the horrors surrounding them test their romance to the limit.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-12-14
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All the Brothers Were Valiant
1953-11-13
All the Brothers Were Valiant
Overview: In the South Pacific islands, two brothers, one good and one bad, fight over the same girl and over a bag of pearls.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-11-13
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The Last Time I Saw Paris
1954-11-18
The Last Time I Saw Paris
Overview: Reporter Charles Wills, in Paris to cover the end of World War II, falls for the beautiful Helen Ellswirth following a brief flirtation with her sister, Marion. After he and Helen marry, Charles pursues his novelistic ambition while supporting his new bride with a deadening job at a newspaper wire service. But when an old investment suddenly makes the family wealthy, their marriage begins to unravel — until a sudden tragedy changes everything.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-11-18
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The Journey
1959-02-11
The Journey
Overview: A Communist officer falls hard for a married woman trying to escape from Hungary.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-02-11
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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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For the First Time
1959-02-26
For the First Time
Overview: In this musical, a tempermental opera singer falls in love with a hearing-impaired young woman.
Genres: Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-02-26
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Give a Girl a Break
1953-11-13
Give a Girl a Break
Overview: When the temperamental star of a new Broadway musical revue in rehearsals walks out, director and choreographer Ted Sturgis suggests casting an unknown for the role. When it is announced in the newspapers, throngs of hopefuls show up. The revue's musical composer, Leo Belney, champions ballerina Joanna Moss, while gofer Bob Dowdy is enchanted by novice Suzy Doolittle. Then producer Felix Jordan persuades Ted's former dance partner, Madelyn Corlan, to come out of retirement to try out, much to Ted's great discomfort.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-11-13
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Valley of the Kings
1954-07-21
Valley of the Kings
Overview: Hard-boiled archeologist Mark Brandon is searching for ancient tombs in Egypt when he is approached by beautiful Ann Mercedes, who convinces him to help her fulfill her deceased father's life's ambition - to provide solid proof of the biblical Joseph's travels in ancient Egypt. As an ex-pupil of Ann's father, Mark accepts and the two embark on a search for the tomb of the Pharoah Ra Hotep, said to have had some connection with Joseph. The trail to the tomb is fraught with intrigue, betrayal, murder, and the possibility that the tomb itself has been emptied of all its artifacts by ancient looters.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-07-21
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Anything Can Happen
1952-04-03
Anything Can Happen
Overview: A quirky relationship unfolds between an immigrant and an all-American folk music fan.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-04-03
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The Great Diamond Robbery
1954-01-29
The Great Diamond Robbery
Overview: Ambrose C. Park, left on a park bench as an infant with an impulsive need to find his parents, is an assistant to a diamond cutter. Shyster lawyer Remlick, in a strategy to get a fabulous uncut diamond through Ambrose, arranges for Emily Drummon, Duke Fargoh and Maggie Drummon to pose as Ambrose's long-lost parents and sister. The diamond, through many comic situations, is acquired and the gang is going to have Ambrose cut the diamond, and relieve him of the two stones and his parental illusions at the same time. But Maggie, who has no taste for the deception, tips Ambrose off and a wild chase ensues. At the end, Ambrose is very happy as he can now marry his "sister."
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-01-29
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Arms and the Man
1958-11-20
Arms and the Man
Overview: 1865: Swiss captain Bluntschli fights as mercenary in the war between Bulgaria and Serbia. When his group's attacked by a few Bulgarian troopers, he learns that he's got the wrong ammunition for his cannon and has to flee. His flight leads him right into the bedroom of his enemy's fiancée.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1958-11-20
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Flame of the Islands
1955-12-04
Flame of the Islands
Overview: A café singer buys a gambling casino and several men fall in love with her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-12-04
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The Light Touch
1951-12-06
The Light Touch
Overview: An art thief tries to double cross his gangster boss.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-12-06
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The Happy Time
1952-10-30
The Happy Time
Overview: A violinist and his brother guide one's son through his crush on the family maid in 1920s Ottawa.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-10-30
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Jump Into Hell
1955-04-01
Jump Into Hell
Overview: Arriving in IndoChina by parachute, Captain Guy Bertrand and his comrades make a courageous stand against the Communist forces. Jump into Hell is one of the first films to deal with the ongoing conflict in Vietnam or, as it was still known in 1955, French IndoChina.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-04-01
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Glory Alley
1952-06-06
Glory Alley
Overview: A New Orleans boxer backs out of a bout and leaves his girlfriend for Korea.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-06-06
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The King's Pirate
1967-07-20
The King's Pirate
Overview: Handsome British officer, Lt. Brian Fleming is sent undercover to infiltrate a lively band of pirates.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-07-20
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The Smugglers
1968-12-24
The Smugglers
Overview: A woman and her stepdaughter attempt to sneak a few souvenirs past customs and inadvertently become the couriers for an international smuggling ring.
Genres: Mystery Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-12-24
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Anything Goes
1956-04-27
Anything Goes
Overview: Bill Benson and Ted Adams are to appear in a Broadway show together and, while in Paris, each 'discovers' the perfect leading lady for the plum female role. Each promises the prize role to the girl they selected without informing the other until they head back across the Atlantic by liner - with each man having brought his choice along! It becomes a stormy crossing as each man has to tell his 'find' that she might not get the role after all.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-04-27
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King of the Circus
1924-05-23
King of the Circus
Overview: Directed by Édouard-Émile Violet.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1924-05-23
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Waiting for Godot
1961-01-01
Waiting for Godot
Overview: Two derelicts, Vladimir and Estragon, occupy themselves as they wait for 'Godot' to make an appearance on Pozzo's estate.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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Cyrano
1974-03-06
Cyrano
Overview: Long-nosed Cyrano de Begerac helps an army officer woo Roxanne, the woman he loves in this animated version of Edmond Rostand's play.
Genres: Animation Action Drama Family TV Movie Romance Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-03-06
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Once Upon a Dead Man
1971-09-17
Once Upon a Dead Man
Overview: The wife of a San Francisco police commissioner drags him into a charity auction theft, which leads to a murder.
Genres: Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-09-17
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Androcles and the Lion
1967-11-15
Androcles and the Lion
Overview: The story of Androcles, the simple-hearted Christian tailor whose friendship with a lion saves himself and his friends from martyrdom in the Roman Colosseum.
Genres: Music TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-11-15
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Sombrero
1953-04-22
Sombrero
Overview: Mexican love stories follow a dying man, a bullfighter's sister and lovers from feuding villages.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-04-22
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The Perils of Pauline
1967-08-02
The Perils of Pauline
Overview: Pauline becomes involved in a series of adventures around the world and is aided by her ever present friend, George.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-08-02
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