Ross Martin
Biography: Born in Grodek, Poland, Ross Martin grew up on New York City's Lower East Side. He spoke Yiddish, Polish, and Russian before even learning English and later added French, Spanish, and Italian to his amazing repertoire. Despite academic training (and receiving honors in) business, instruction, and law, M. Martin chose a career of acting. His first film was the George Pal production Conquest of Space (1955). Soon after, he caught the eye of Blake Edwards who cast him in a number of widely varied roles, culminating with a fantastic part in The Great Race (1965).
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: March 22, 1920
Deathday: July 03, 1981
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Mitzi & 100 Guys
1975-03-24
Mitzi & 100 Guys
Overview: Mitzi Gaynor in a song and dance hour with an all-male, star-studded ensemble featuring her main guests Michael Landon (Little House on the Prairie) and Jack Albertson (Chico and the Man), plus 28 celebrities as her "Million Dollar Chorus." Songs performed include: "I Got the Music in Me," "The Most Beautiful Guy in the World," and "You Are the Sunshine of My Life."
Genres: Music Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-03-24
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The Great Race
1965-07-01
The Great Race
Overview: Professional daredevil and white-suited hero, The Great Leslie, convinces turn-of-the-century auto makers that a race from New York to Paris (westward across America, the Bering Straight and Russia) will help to promote automobile sales. Leslie's arch-rival, the mustached and black-attired Professor Fate vows to beat Leslie to the finish line in a car of Fate's own invention.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-07-01
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Freedom 2000
1974-01-01
Freedom 2000
Overview: Aliens visiting Earth wax enthusiastic about the benefits of American democracy, capitalism and the free enterprise system, believing the United States' democratic and economic systems to be the greatest achievement in the history of Earth.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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The Crooked Hearts
1972-11-08
The Crooked Hearts
Overview: A charming but somewhat larcenous widow attempts to snare a rich bachelor through a lonely hearts club, but her scheme boomerangs into a deadly cat-and-mouse game. This marked the TV-movie debut of both Rosalind Russell and Douglas Fairbanks Jr., and was sadly also Russell's last film role.
Genres: Crime Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-11-08
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Conquest of Space
1955-04-20
Conquest of Space
Overview: A team of American astronauts leave their space station on the first mission to Mars, but the captain's religious beliefs may get in the way.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-04-20
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Geronimo
1962-04-27
Geronimo
Overview: In 1883, the Apache Indians lead by Geronimo reluctantly surrender to the attacks of American and Mexican troops, in exchange for a territory and food for their warriors. Soon though, Geronimo escapes the camps and declares war against the Americans.
Genres: Western History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-04-27
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The Colossus of New York
1958-06-26
The Colossus of New York
Overview: A brilliant surgeon encases his dead son's brain in a large robot body, with unintended results...
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-06-26
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More Wild Wild West
1980-10-07
More Wild Wild West
Overview: Robert Conrad and Ross Martin reprise their roles as Secret Service agents of the 1890s.
Genres: Western Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-10-07
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The Wild Wild West Revisited
1979-05-09
The Wild Wild West Revisited
Overview: The intrepid team of Old West government intelligence agents are brought out of retirement after 10 years to hunt down a cunning new adversary, the son of their former archenemy, who is suspected of cloning imposters to be substituted for the crowned heads of Europe and perhaps even the President of the United States.
Genres: Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-05-09
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Dying Room Only
1973-09-18
Dying Room Only
Overview: A married couple are traveling on a deserted desert road at night. They stop at a diner and the husband goes to the men's room. He never returns and the wife begins to suspect serious foul play.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-09-18
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The Man from Button Willow
1965-04-03
The Man from Button Willow
Overview: In 1869, Justin Eagle lives on his ranch called "The Eagle's Nest" near the town of Button Willow, California. In addition to being a rancher, Juston is a trouble-shooter for the U. S. Government which calls for him to act as an undercover operative and thwart the forces of evil in the rapidly-growing West. He is sent to San Franciso to find missing U. S. Senaator Freeman, who has disappeared while fighting the efforts of Montgomery Blaine, a villain who has been, with the aid of his henchman, "The Whip," forcing settlers to sell their land to him, not knowing that the land is in the path of a proposed railroad, from Utah, that will link the western United States to the East. Senator Freeman is the leader of an effort to veer the railroad southward to bypass Blaine's land and, for his efforts, is kidnapped by Bliane's henchmen and shanghaied from the San Francisco waterfront. Justin Eagle's job is to find and return him safely.
Genres: Animation Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-04-03
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The Ceremony
1963-12-18
The Ceremony
Overview: A man has an affair with his condemned brother's girlfriend while plotting his escape in Tangier.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-12-18
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Gulliver's Travels
1979-11-23
Gulliver's Travels
Overview: Gulliver washes ashore on Lilliput and attempts to prevent war between that tiny kingdom and its equally minuscule rival, Blefuscu. This version of Gulliver's Travels aired in 1979 on CBS as part of "Famous Classic Tales".
Genres: Animation TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-11-23
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Skyway to Death
1974-01-19
Skyway to Death
Overview: The passengers in an aerial tramway are trapped when the tramway breaks down 8,500 feet in the air.
Genres: Adventure Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-19
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Icarus Montgolfier Wright
1962-08-22
Icarus Montgolfier Wright
Overview: The film focuses on the thoughts inside the head of a man, an astronaut scheduled to go to the Moon. As he ponders the flight, he laments having an “ordinary” name he fears will not resonate throughout history. His thoughts lead him to consider some of the pioneers of flight-Icarus and his wings, the Montgolfier brothers and their balloon and the Wright brothers and heavier than air flight.
Genres: Science Fiction Animation Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-08-22
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Underwater Warrior
1958-02-14
Underwater Warrior
Overview: Based upon the life of Commander Francic D. Fane (USNR), UnderWater Warrior follows the evolution of the US Navy's Underwater Demolition Unit from its inception near the end of World War II through its acceptance and finally successful utilization in Korea. Landmark underwater camera work makes Underwater Warrior a milestone in cinematic history.
Genres: History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-02-14
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Experiment in Terror
1962-04-12
Experiment in Terror
Overview: A man with an asthmatic voice telephones and assaults clerk Kelly Sherwood at home and coerces her into helping him steal a large sum from her bank.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-04-12
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Yesterday's Child
1977-02-03
Yesterday's Child
Overview: A young couple's three-year-old daughter is kidnapped and no trace is ever found of her. Fourteen years later, a young woman claiming to be that girl shows up at the parents' house.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-02-03
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Abraham's Sacrifice
1979-05-22
Abraham's Sacrifice
Overview: Tale of Abraham who battles a King for his land and who seeks revenge on Abraham for killing his son. And the birth of his son, Isaac and the scheming of a slave who wishes for his freedom and is willing to do whatever to get it. And eventually his test where he has to sacrifice Issac.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-05-22
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I Married Wyatt Earp
1983-01-10
I Married Wyatt Earp
Overview: Based on the memoirs of Josephine Marcus Earp, a young opera singer from San Francisco, this docudrama tells the story of how she became the wife of legendary lawman Wyatt Earp.
Genres: Drama Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-10
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The Return of Charlie Chan
1973-07-01
The Return of Charlie Chan
Overview: Charlie Chan comes out of retirement to investigate a murder case aboard the yacht of a wealthy Greek shipping tycoon.
Genres: Drama Mystery Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-07-01
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The Return of Mod Squad
1979-05-18
The Return of Mod Squad
Overview: Pete, Linc and Julie are called back to the force when a series of sniper attacks are made on their old boss. But the three soon discover that they themselves are the intended targets of a gunman who lives in their old "flower child" world of the 1960s.
Genres: Action Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-05-18
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Donovan's Kid
1979-01-07
Donovan's Kid
Overview: Timothy Donovan, a con-man, returns to San Francisco to see his wife and daughter. Realizing his family is under the control of his wife's domineering uncle, Timothy Donovan teams up with a fellow con-man to free them.
Genres: Western Family Adventure Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-01-07
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The Seekers
1979-12-03
The Seekers
Overview: This follow-up to "The Bastard" and "The Rebels" continues the account of Philip Kent's life and career from his emigration to colonial Massachusetts through the American Revolutionary War and concludes the family saga with the story of his two sons and their children as they arrive in the unexplored Northwest Territory. (Episodes 5 and 6 of the Kent Chronicles miniseries.)
Genres: Drama History War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-12-03
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The Last of the Curlews
1972-10-04
The Last of the Curlews
Overview: After being hunted to near-extinction, the last male Eskimo curlew searches for a mate while making the annual migration from the arctic tundra to the nesting grounds in Argentina.
Genres: Animation Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-10-04
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Wild and Wooly
1978-02-20
Wild and Wooly
Overview: A Western adventure — a "Charlie's Angels" on horseback — involving three comely females who meet in a territorial prison, engineer a daring escape, and find themselves in a race against time to prevent the assassination of Teddy Roosevelt.
Genres: Western TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-02-20
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The Sheriff
1971-03-30
The Sheriff
Overview: A rape case opens racial divisions in a small town. A black sheriff and his white deputy investigate allegations that a wealthy white businessman raped a black college student.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-03-30
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The Adventures of Marco Polo
1956-04-14
The Adventures of Marco Polo
Overview: Venetian merchant Marco Polo travels to the East and the court of Kublai Khan who makes him an emissary and sends him on diplomatic missions throughout his empire. Over many years, Polo learns new cultures and languages, but he is haunted by the face of a mysterious woman whom he had met before leaving Venice and encounters her face in every woman he sees. Eventually returning to Venice to share his exotic and esoteric knowledge, Marco Polo once again finds the woman of his dreams. The Adventures of Marco Polo was an original, live television musical which was broadcast on NBC on April 14, 1956.
Genres: TV Movie Music Romance Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-04-14
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Mitzi's 2nd Special
1969-10-13
Mitzi's 2nd Special
Overview: Mitzi Gaynor opens her second special with a dazzling performance of "Let Go." Additional songs include "Poor Papa," and "What'll I Do." She welcomes guest star Ross Martin (The Wild, Wild, West) for a musical-comedy spoof of Gone with the Wind. Other comedy skits include Mitzi as "The Kid" describing a school recital, and as a Hungarian Gypsy performing "Those Were the Days."
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-10-13
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Popcorn
1974-01-01
Popcorn
Overview: The new plant manager at a popcorn factory, an Air Force Reservist, learns that the CEO is a great admirer of the Reserves' work.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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