Charles Aidman
Biography: Charles Aidman originally planned a career as an attorney, but was sidetracked during World War II and naval officer training at DePaul university. During a speech class the instructor, who also headed the drama department, saw Aidman as ideal for a role in an upcoming play. "I did the play and enjoyed it. It was the first play I was in, in my life...I've been acting ever since."
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: January 21, 1925
Deathday: November 07, 1993
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When Every Day Was the Fourth of July
1978-03-12
When Every Day Was the Fourth of July
Overview: A little girl convinces her attorney father to defend a mute war veteran accused of murdering a store owner.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-03-12
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Hour of the Gun
1967-11-01
Hour of the Gun
Overview: Marshal Wyatt Earp kills a couple of men of the Clanton-gang in a fight. In revenge Clanton's thugs kill the marshal's brother. Thus, Wyatt Earp starts to chase the killers together with his friend Doc Holliday.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-11-01
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War Hunt
1962-05-01
War Hunt
Overview: Dispatched to the front lines during the Korean War, an idealistic American soldier discovers the horrors of combat and comes at odds with a psychopathic member of his platoon.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-05-01
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Uncommon Valor
1983-12-16
Uncommon Valor
Overview: A group of Vietnam War veterans re-unite to rescue one of their own left behind and taken prisoner by the Vietnamese.
Genres: Drama War Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-12-16
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Countdown
1967-08-20
Countdown
Overview: Desperate to land a man on the moon before Russia does, NASA hastily preps a would-be spaceman for a mission that would leave him alone in a lunar shelter for a year.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-08-20
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Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here
1969-10-31
Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here
Overview: While confronting the disapproving father of his girlfriend Lola, Native American man Willie Boy kills the man in self-defense, triggering a massive manhunt, led by Deputy Sheriff Christopher Cooper.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-10-31
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Pork Chop Hill
1959-05-29
Pork Chop Hill
Overview: Korean War, April 1953. Lieutenant Clemons, leader of the King company of the United States Infantry, is ordered to recapture Pork Chop Hill, occupied by a powerful Chinese Army force, while, just seventy miles away, at nearby the village of Panmunjom, a tense cease-fire conference is celebrated.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-05-29
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The Wrong Man
1956-12-22
The Wrong Man
Overview: In 1953, an innocent man named Christopher Emmanuel "Manny" Balestrero is arrested after being mistaken for an armed robber.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-12-22
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Zoot Suit
1981-10-02
Zoot Suit
Overview: Part fact and part fiction, Zoot Suit is the film version of Luis Valdez's critically acclaimed play, based on the actual Sleepy Lagoon murder case and the zoot suit riots of 1940s Los Angeles. Henry Reyna is the leader of a group of Mexican-Americans being sent to San Quentin without substantial evidence for the death of a man at Sleepy Lagoon. As part of the defense committee, Alice Bloomfield and George Shearer fight the blatant miscarriage of justice for the freedom of Henry and his friends.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-10-02
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Twilight's Last Gleaming
1977-02-09
Twilight's Last Gleaming
Overview: A renegade USAF general, Lawrence Dell, escapes from a military prison and takes over an ICBM silo near Montana and threatens to provoke World War 3 unless the President reveals details of a secret meeting held just after the start of the Vietnam War between Dell and the then President's most trusted advisors.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-02-09
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The House of the Dead
1978-11-22
The House of the Dead
Overview: When a philandering husband accidentally finds himself lost during a rainstorm, he’s taken in by an elderly mortician and is forced to learn the ghastly origins of four freshly arrived corpses.
Genres: Horror Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-11-22
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Angel, Angel, Down We Go
1969-08-19
Angel, Angel, Down We Go
Overview: The overweight debutante daughter of the world's wealthiest couple falls in with a gang of tripped out, skydiving pseudo-reactionary pop stars, who take their beliefs of the American ideal to profoundly impossible heights.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-08-19
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Prime Suspect
1982-01-20
Prime Suspect
Overview: A respectable businessman becomes the prime suspect in the abduction and murder of several young girls. He is hounded by the media and disowned by his friends and neighbours.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-01-20
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Deliver Us from Evil
1973-09-11
Deliver Us from Evil
Overview: Several men hiking in the mountains discover an injured skyjacker who parachuted from a plane with $600,000. They kill him, then start fighting each other over the money.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-09-11
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Walt Disney: One Man's Dream
1981-12-12
Walt Disney: One Man's Dream
Overview: Various entertainers and artists look at how Walt Disney influenced these areas through his work in a variety of fields.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-12-12
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A Chant of Silence
1973-05-09
A Chant of Silence
Overview: A murdering skyjacker parachutes to safety and poses as a novice monk in an isolated New Mexico monastery.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-05-09
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Amelia Earhart
1976-10-25
Amelia Earhart
Overview: Biography follows the life of famed woman pilot Amelia Earhart, including her marriage to a famous publisher and her disappearance during a flight in 1937.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-10-25
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Destination Space
1959-01-01
Destination Space
Overview: 1959 television science fiction
Genres: Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-01-01
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The Invasion of Carol Enders
1973-11-05
The Invasion of Carol Enders
Overview: Television thriller about a woman is possessed after a brutal attack.
Genres: TV Movie Horror Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-11-05
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Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story
1980-11-05
Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story
Overview: Filmed on location at Alcatraz Island, this two-part "whole story" actually concentrates on a handful of the denizens behind the cold grey walls of "The Rock". Michael Beck plays the real-life Clarence Carnes, an Oklahoma Choctaw Indian said to be the youngest man ever incarcerated in the notorious maximum security prison. Serving a 99-year sentence for a gas station holdup and murder, Carnes makes periodic attempts to escape, the final attempt being the most violent. Many of the subordinate characters are fictional (as are most of the details concerning Carnes' escape efforts); the one exception is Robert Stroud, the "Birdman of Alcatraz", here portrayed by Art Carney as a gentle, kindly philosopher. Telly Savalas, a costar of the Burt Lancaster vehicle Birdman of Alcatraz, also guest starred in the 1980 film. Originally titled Alcatraz and Clarence Carnes, this made-for-TV movie wavers between gritty realism and "I'm bustin' outta here!" artifice.
Genres: Crime Drama Action TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-11-05
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Marian Rose White
1982-01-19
Marian Rose White
Overview: Marian Rose White is placed in a State Home for the feeble-minded by her uncaring mother when her father dies. She is a young teenager and there is nothing wrong with her except for some clumsiness, mostly caused by poor vision. State law (in 1934) requires sterilization of all inmates. Sympathetic nurse, Bonnie McNeil, befriends Marian and protests her treatment.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-01-19
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Kotch
1971-09-17
Kotch
Overview: When retired salesman Joseph Kotcher begins to feel pressure to move out of the house he shares with the family of his son, he opts to embark on a road trip instead of settling in a retirement home. Befriending Erica, a young pregnant woman and his grandson's former nanny, Kotch begins to finds new meaning in life as he helps her prepare to welcome her baby into the world.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-09-17
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The Tragedy of King Lear
1982-12-31
The Tragedy of King Lear
Overview: Mike Kellin as Lear.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-12-31
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The Devil's Children
1962-12-05
The Devil's Children
Overview: An old farmer, who has raised his daughter and son with the utmost severity, is soon faced with a mess in the family: the daughter sets fire to a barn, is shot while trying to escape, the son becomes an avenging murderer and almost sends an innocent. man to jail...
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-12-05
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Menace on the Mountain
1970-03-01
Menace on the Mountain
Overview: A period piece about the McIver family trying to protect there home from Civil War deserters. Actor Jodie Foster, then approximately 8, plays Suellen McIver. Actor Mitch Vogel, Jamie, is their protector.
Genres: War Family History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-03-01
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
1973-04-22
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Overview: Adaptation of the novel by Oscar Wilde.
Genres: Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-04-22
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Adam at Six A.M.
1970-09-22
Adam at Six A.M.
Overview: A disenchanted young Professor of Semantics at a California college learns of a distant relative's death in Missouri. He journeys cross-country to the funeral, then decides to spend the summer there and work as a laborer for a power-line company. In time, he meets a girl and falls in love but then faces an important decision as to which direction he wants his life to go.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-09-22
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Secrets of the Pirate's Inn
1969-11-23
Secrets of the Pirate's Inn
Overview: A gang of kids helps a sea captain search for a pirate’s treasure that’s rumored to be hidden somewhere in the old dilapidated inn the sea captain just inherited from his dead brother. Along the way, they unravel a series of clues which lead to a variety of hidden passages and trap doors. But they are not alone in their quest for Jean Lafitte’s pirate goodies!
Genres: Adventure Family Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-11-23
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Dirty Little Billy
1972-11-01
Dirty Little Billy
Overview: Clearly influenced by the darker, more sinister style of spaghetti westerns, Dirty Little Billy offers a unique insight into the beginnings of the notorious outlaw Billy The Kid.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-11-01
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The New Adventures of Heidi
1978-12-13
The New Adventures of Heidi
Overview: The long-familiar Heidi tale is given a contemporary (and musical) setting as the young heroine leaves her familiar Swiss mountain for the bright lights of Manhattan.
Genres: Music Family Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-13
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The Sound of Anger
1968-12-10
The Sound of Anger
Overview: Two teenagers who have been engaged in pre-marital sex become the prime suspects when the girl's disapproving father is mysteriously murdered.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-12-10
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The Long Days of Summer
1980-05-23
The Long Days of Summer
Overview: In this sequel to his 1978 "When Every Day Was the Fourth of July" (and a pilot to a prospective series), producer/director Dan Curtis recalls more of his youth during the late '30, and follows a fictionalized family where the father has jeopardized a promising law career to defend a Jewish immigrant against the prejudices of a staid New England town.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-05-23
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Sergeant Ryker
1968-02-01
Sergeant Ryker
Overview: During the Korean War Sergeant Paul Ryker is accused of defecting to Communist China and then returning to his unit as a spy. He's court-martialed and sentenced to death but his attorney believes Ryker's innocent and asks for a new trial.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-02-01
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The Last Song
1980-10-23
The Last Song
Overview: An aspiring singer unwittingly comes into possession of several tapes for which her engineer husband and his partner, in their electronic eavesdropping business, were murdered, and discovers that she and her daughter are now being stalked by the killers.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-10-23
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