David Spielberg
Biography: David Spielberg (March 6, 1939 – June 1, 2016) was an American television and film actor. Spielberg was born in Weslaco, Texas, and was a resident of Mercedes, Texas. His father was a Romanian-Jewish immigrant, and his mother was a Mexican-American teacher. After serving in the United States Navy for two years, he enrolled in the University of Texas. Two summers' acting experience in New York City led him to drop out of the university and move to New York to pursue a career in acting. He was not related to American film director Steven Spielberg. Spielberg's screen debut was in The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (1972). He also appeared in Newman's Law (1974), Law and Disorder (1974), Hustle (1975), American Raspberry (1977), The Choirboys (1977), Real Life (1979), Winter Kills (1979), Christine (1983), The Stranger (1987), Alice (1990), and Red Ribbon Blues (1996).
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Birthday: March 06, 1939
Deathday: June 01, 2016
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Alice
1990-12-25
Alice
Overview: Alice Tate, mother of two, with a marriage of 16 years, finds herself falling for a handsome sax player, Joe. Stricken with a backache, she consults herbalist Dr. Yang, who realizes that her problems are not related to her back, but in her mind and heart. Dr. Yang's magical herbs give Alice wondrous powers, taking her out of her well-established rut.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-12-25
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Christine
1983-12-09
Christine
Overview: Nerdy high schooler Arnie Cunningham falls for Christine, a rusty 1958 Plymouth Fury, and becomes obsessed with restoring the classic automobile to her former glory. As the car changes, so does Arnie, whose newfound confidence turns to arrogance behind the wheel of his exotic beauty. Arnie's girlfriend Leigh and best friend Dennis reach out to him, only to be met by a Fury like no other.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-12-09
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Winter Kills
1979-05-11
Winter Kills
Overview: The younger brother of an assassinated US President is led down a rabbit hole of conspiracies and dead ends after learning of a man claiming to be the real shooter.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-05-11
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American Raspberry
1977-09-12
American Raspberry
Overview: Some unknown source has interrupted all television transmissions around the world. In place of the regular broadcasts, a lineup of extremely tasteless programs and commercials have been substituted. Included in the mix are such show as The Shitheads, The Charles Whitman Invitational, and commercials for a number of improbable products.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-09-12
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Night of Terror
1972-10-10
Night of Terror
Overview: A hired killer hunts down a schoolteacher to get something she has. She doesn't know what it is, but he's already killed twice to get it.
Genres: TV Movie Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-10-10
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Silent Predators
1999-06-13
Silent Predators
Overview: In 1979, a delivery truck makes its way up a lonely southern California highway in a storm, bound for the San Diego Zoo with a deadly tropical rattlesnake as cargo. When the truck suffers a blowout, the driver loses control and hits a tree, shattering the snake's aquarium in the back and the window separating the snake from the driver. The snake slithers into the front of the truck, kills the driver with its bite and then moves off into the forest. Flash forward to 1999. The small southern California town of San Vicente has grown from 6,000 to 30,000, and the rattler, which escaped nearby years ago, has bred. There are now 25,000 of these hybrid rattlesnakes, and they are slowly making their way downhill into the town, attracted by the movement of the blasting as the town paves its way toward progress. Progress, in this case, brings terror, in this tale originally penned by John Carpenter.
Genres: Horror Thriller TV Movie Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-06-13
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The Henderson Monster
1980-05-27
The Henderson Monster
Overview: A small town becomes gripped by an ethical debate when the community discovers a moody, egotistical scientist is experimenting with DNA and the creation of new life.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-05-27
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The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
1972-12-20
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
Overview: Middle-aged widow Beatrice Hunsdorfer and her daughters Ruth and Matilda are struggling to survive in a society they barely understand. Beatrice dreams of opening an elegant tea room but does not have the wherewithal to achieve her lofty goal. Epileptic Ruth is a rebellious adolescent, while shy but highly intelligent and idealistic Matilda seeks solace in her pets and school projects, including one designed to show how small amounts of radium affect marigolds.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-12-20
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Obsessed with a Married Woman
1985-02-11
Obsessed with a Married Woman
Overview: Jane Seymour makes a six-course meal of her starring role as a magazine editor in Obsessed With a Married Woman--indeed, her performance is the only tangible reason for sitting through this artistically bankrupt TV movie. The story contrives to have Seymour, happily married and the mother of a wise-lipped son, fall into the sack with her star reporter Tim Matheson. It seems that Jane has assigned Matheson to do a series of articles on mistresses. He does his homework so well that Jane takes him on as her own "male mistress."
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-02-11
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Stone
1979-08-26
Stone
Overview: Dennis Weaver is a Joseph Wambaugh-type novelist cop and Pat Hingle is his hard-nosed superior who wants him to stick to police work or get off the force in this pilot to the short-lived series.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-08-26
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The Last to Go
1991-01-21
The Last to Go
Overview: Tyne Daly plays a woman who sees the dreams of her youth change over a 22-year period as, first, her surgeon husband leaves her for another relationship, and then, her children, on reaching adulthood, go their separate ways. Adapted from the 1988 novel by Rand Richards Cooper.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-21
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Mother Knows Best
1997-04-13
Mother Knows Best
Overview: A woman urges her daughter to get married. And when her daughter does, she doesn't think that she made a good choice. So she goes out and hires a killer to kill her son-in-law.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-04-13
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Maid in America
1982-09-22
Maid in America
Overview: An unemployed worker answers a personal ad for a housekeeper to a crusading female lawyer, and then takes her to court to force her to accept him into her home, claiming sex discrimination.
Genres: Comedy Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-09-22
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Policewoman Centerfold
1983-10-17
Policewoman Centerfold
Overview: A policewoman loses her job after she poses naked for an erotic magazine. Based on a true story.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-10-17
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The Stranger
1987-12-04
The Stranger
Overview: Bonnie Bedilia stars in this psychological thriller about a woman who witnesses a murder and then flees. During her escape, she has a car accident. She becomes an amnesia victim and although, she doesn't know her own identity, is able to describe the murder, but doesn't remember where it occurred or who was involved.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-12-04
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The Hunter
1980-08-01
The Hunter
Overview: During his long career, bounty hunter Ralph "Papa" Thorson has caught over 5,000 criminals. Now, while he is working on apprehending fugitives in Illinois, Texas and Nebraska, he himself is being hunted by a psychotic killer.
Genres: Thriller Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-08-01
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Sergeant Matlovich vs. the U.S. Air Force
1978-08-21
Sergeant Matlovich vs. the U.S. Air Force
Overview: The true story of Leonard Matlovich, a U.S. Air Force sergeant who, in 1975, publicly divulged his homosexuality and fought to remain in service.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-08-21
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Games Mother Never Taught You
1982-11-27
Games Mother Never Taught You
Overview: Hard-working career wife Laura becomes the first female executive in an all-male office and is dismayed to find she now has to learn the rules of the corporate game.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-11-27
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Real Life
1979-03-02
Real Life
Overview: A pushy, narcissistic filmmaker persuades a Phoenix family to let him and his crew film their everyday lives, in the manner of the ground-breaking PBS series "An American Family".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-03-02
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The Best Little Girl in the World
1981-05-11
The Best Little Girl in the World
Overview: Casey Powell is a teenage girl who is secretly suffering from anorexia nervosa, a mental and physical illness of deliberately starving herself or self-inducing vomiting, because of her inability to cope with family stress and because of social pressures.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-05-11
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Sworn to Silence
1987-04-06
Sworn to Silence
Overview: A lawyer who is defending an accused murderer, is told by his client the whereabouts of the bodies. However, being his lawyer, he is unable to reveal this information.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-04-06
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Where Are My Children?
1994-09-18
Where Are My Children?
Overview: Based upon a true story, Marg Helgenberger stars as a single mother mysteriously arrested by the FBI and separated from her children, thus beginning a 25-year struggle to be reunited with them.
Genres: Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-09-18
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In the Matter of Karen Ann Quinlan
1977-09-26
In the Matter of Karen Ann Quinlan
Overview: Based on a true case, this tells the story of two parents in New Jersey whose daughter has lapsed into a coma from which doctors say she will never recover. The parents must decide whether to keep her alive on life support systems, or to disconnect them and let her die with some dignity left.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-09-26
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The Storyteller
1977-12-05
The Storyteller
Overview: A television writer is troubled by accusations that a young boy's death resulted from actions the boy copied from the writer's teleplay.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-12-05
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A Desperate Exit
1986-09-19
A Desperate Exit
Overview: Teenager is stunned when his best friend commits suicide, and is left with one unanswered question - Why?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-09-19
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Us
1991-09-20
Us
Overview: When the police finds a necklace with some criminal, a detective remembers that it was missing evidence in a murderer case many years ago. So it turns out that Jeff Hayes, sentenced to life-long prison, was innocent. After 18 years in jail he's finally released - but has problems finding back into normal life. There's his father who believed him guilty and his ex-wife Ellen, who told their son Kerry and her new husband Paul Kramer his father had died.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-09-20
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Law and Disorder
1974-10-09
Law and Disorder
Overview: In crime ridden New York of the seventies two cops has had enough. They decide to take justice into their own hands. Things turn exciting and humorous. No hoodlum goes safe.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-10-09
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Judgment: The Trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
1974-01-28
Judgment: The Trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
Overview: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg died for betraying atomic secrets. Were they guilty beyond a reasonable doubt?
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-28
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Mr. Murder
1998-09-21
Mr. Murder
Overview: A group of scientists are trying to produce the perfect soldier by cloning. The day the clone is born, Marty Stillwater, a mystery novel writer, feels that something strange is going on inside his body and mind. Seven years later, Marty discovers that his double has his same physical appearance but has the personality of a murderer.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-09-21
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A Place for Annie
1994-05-01
A Place for Annie
Overview: Baby Annie is HIV positive and has been left in the clinic by her drug addicted mother. To prevent that she's deported to a home where they'd just wait for her to die, nurse Susan takes charge of Annie at her home. Two years later she plans too adopt her -- but suddenly Annie's mother reappears and demands her back. And under the law, Susan, as foster-mother, has no claim to the child.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-05-01
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Deadline for Murder: From the Files of Edna Buchanan
1995-05-08
Deadline for Murder: From the Files of Edna Buchanan
Overview: Inspired by the the life of Pulitzer Prize-winning, Miami-based journalist, Edna Buchanan, who investigates the murder of a man with ties to the Miami mafia.
Genres: Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-05-08
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The Corpse Had a Familiar Face
1994-03-27
The Corpse Had a Familiar Face
Overview: The Corpse had a Familiar Face is a 1994 American TV-Movie with Elizabeth Montgomery, playing Edna Buchanan, a Miami's criminal journalist.
Genres: Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-03-27
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Force Five
1975-03-28
Force Five
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Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-03-28
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The Choirboys
1977-12-23
The Choirboys
Overview: A group of Los Angeles cops decide to take off some of the pressures of their jobs by engaging in various forms of after-hours debauchery.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-12-23
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Nervous Ticks
1992-03-01
Nervous Ticks
Overview: A comedy about a man (Bill Pullman), who is on the run after his mistress (Julie Brown) confesses to her husband (Peter Boyle) that the two of them have been having an affair.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-03-01
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A Murderous Affair: The Carolyn Warmus Story
1992-09-13
A Murderous Affair: The Carolyn Warmus Story
Overview: A married man meets a beautiful woman and they begin an affair.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-09-13
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Bloodlines: Murder in the Family
1993-03-01
Bloodlines: Murder in the Family
Overview: Stewart and Neil Woodman plot to have their parents murdered.
Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-03-01
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Newman's Law
1974-08-21
Newman's Law
Overview: LAPD Officer Newman has not gotten the reputation of a straight arrow by avoiding conflict when fighting for right. In this police drama, his honesty is put to the test when he and his partner discover an international drug ring involving some of the department's highest ranking officers.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-08-21
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Final Draft
2003-02-10
Final Draft
Overview: Marty, an anti-social realist, and Harry, a passionate ideologist, are two young writers who have come to Hollywood to make it as successful screenwriters.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-02-10
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Act of Love
1980-09-24
Act of Love
Overview: A tragic motorcycle accident leaves one brother paralyzed while the other brother is left guilt-ridden. Seeing his brother struggle with his new life of limited mobility and function, the young man finds his own life weighed down by his thoughts and feelings about the accident. Motivated by his emotions and the suffering of his brother, the young man performs an "act of love" which creates more chaos for him.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-09-24
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Story Theatre
1969-11-28
Story Theatre
Overview: Brothers Grimm tales like "The Golden Goose," "The Bremen Town Musicians" and "The Blue Light" come to life in this stripped-down stage production, which forgoes elaborate sets and costumes in favor of creative acting techniques and storytelling.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-11-28
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The 3,000 Mile Chase
1977-06-16
The 3,000 Mile Chase
Overview: Secret courier Matt Considine accepts the mission to escort chief witness Dvorak and his wife from San Francisco to a trial in New York. They have to cover 3,000 dangerous miles, because the drug mob wants to kill them at any price.
Genres: Action Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-06-16
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Flight of the Living Dead
2007-04-06
Flight of the Living Dead
Overview: On a flight from Los Angeles to Paris, a mad scientist on the run from the CIA is transporting a coffin containing the body of a colleague infected with a genetically modified virus. While the 747 crosses a violent thunderstorm, the instability of the aircraft allows the corpse to get out of its container.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-04-06
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War and Love
1985-09-13
War and Love
Overview: Jacek, who is Jewish, miraculously manages to survive World War II in Nazi-occupied Poland. As a subplot to Jacek's story, which also involves a love affair with Haling ( Kyra Sedgwick ) and German soldiers' repeated attempts to kill him, is a tale of how young kids in the Warsaw ghetto devise their own method of fighting oppression.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-09-13
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Hustle
1975-12-25
Hustle
Overview: The body of teenager Gloria Hollinger is found dead on a Los Angeles beach, and Lt. Phil Gaines is in charge of the investigation. Gaines learns that the girl, a stripper and prostitute, committed suicide, but he ignores the connection between her and a powerful mob lawyer, Leo Sellers. Hollinger's father, however, is not satisfied with Gaines's results, and attempts to investigate the case on his own.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-12-25
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Toma
1973-03-21
Toma
Overview: This TV-pilot, later made into a TV-series, is about a cop in Newark, New Jersey, who defies his superiors to try to bring down the head of a Mafia numbers racket.
Genres: Action Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-21
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