Luke Askew
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Luke Askew (born 1932 in Macon, Georgia, U.S.) is an American actor best known for his role in the 1969 film Easy Rider. Askew was born in Macon, Georgia. He made his film debut in Otto Preminger's Hurry Sundown (1967), but was first noticed as an actor for his role in the 1967 film Cool Hand Luke. He was one of the first actors daring to wear long hair in this era, which he had to hide under a hat during the filming of this movie. The next year he worked with John Wayne in The Green Berets (with his hair cut short). The following year he worked with Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda in Easy Rider. This film set him on the road to becoming a cult figure of modern cinema. Askew has continued to work as an actor since then, predominantly appeared as an actor on television series. This includes work on such series as: Bonanza, Mission: Impossible, The Rockford Files, The Six Million Dollar Man, T. J. Hooker, L.A. Law, MacGyver,Walker, Texas Ranger and HBO's Big Love. He has appeared frequently with Bill Paxton. He also took part in Easy Rider: Shaking the Cage (1999), a documentary about the making of the film on the Easy Rider DVD.[1] Askew sang Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf and Jimmy Reed songs at The Gaslight Cafe. According to Bob Dylan, Luke, when he sang at The Gaslight Cafe, was a "guy who sounded like Bobby Blue Bland" Description above from the Wikipedia article Luke Askew licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: March 26, 1932
Deathday: March 29, 2012
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Cool Hand Luke
1967-11-01
Cool Hand Luke
Overview: When petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn't play by the rules of either the sadistic warden or the yard's resident heavy, Dragline, who ends up admiring the new guy's unbreakable will. Luke's bravado, even in the face of repeated stints in the prison's dreaded solitary confinement cell, "the box," make him a rebel hero to his fellow convicts and a thorn in the side of the prison officers.
Genres: Action Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-11-01
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Easy Rider
1969-06-26
Easy Rider
Overview: Wyatt and Billy, two Harley-riding hippies, complete a drug deal in Southern California and decide to travel cross-country in search of spiritual truth.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-06-26
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Will Penny
1967-12-19
Will Penny
Overview: Will Penny, an aging cowpoke, takes a job on a ranch which requires him to ride the line of the property looking for trespassers or, worse, squatters. He finds that his cabin in the high mountains has been appropriated by a woman whose guide to Oregon has deserted her and her son. Too ashamed to kick mother and child out just as the bitter winter of the mountains sets in, he agrees to share the cabin until the spring thaw. But it isn't just the snow that slowly thaws; the lonely man and woman soon forget their mutual hostility and start developing a deep love for one another.
Genres: Western Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-12-19
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Rolling Thunder
1977-11-02
Rolling Thunder
Overview: A Vietnam veteran, Charles Rane, returns home after years in a POW camp and is treated as a hero. He has a hard time adjusting, and things go badly. A movie about the walking dead, before that meant just flesh-eating zombies.
Genres: Action Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-11-02
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Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
1973-05-23
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
Overview: Pat Garrett is hired as a lawman on behalf of a group of wealthy New Mexico cattle barons to bring down his old friend Billy the Kid.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-05-23
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The Green Berets
1968-07-04
The Green Berets
Overview: Col. Mike Kirby picks two teams of crack Green Berets for two missions in South Vietnam. The first is to strengthen a camp that is trying to be taken by the enemy. The second is to kidnap a North Vietnamese General.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-07-04
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Traveller
1997-04-18
Traveller
Overview: A young man, Pat, visits the clan of gypsy-like grifters (Irish Travellers) in rural North Carolina from whom he is descended. He is at first rejected, but cousin Bokky takes him on as an apprentice. Pat learns the game while Bokky falls in love and desires a different life. Written by Jeff Hole
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-04-18
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The Devil's Brigade
1968-05-15
The Devil's Brigade
Overview: At the onset of World War II, American Lt. Col. Robert Frederick is put in charge of a unit called the 1st Special Service Force, composed of elite Canadian commandos and undisciplined American soldiers. With Maj. Alan Crown leading the Canadians and Maj. Cliff Bricker the acting head of the American contingent, there is initial tension -- but the team comes together when given a daunting mission that few would dare to attempt.
Genres: Action Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-05-15
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The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid
1972-05-12
The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid
Overview: The gangs of Jesse James and Cole Younger join forces to rob the First National Bank in Northfield, Minnesota, but things do not go as planned.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-05-12
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The Culpepper Cattle Co.
1972-04-15
The Culpepper Cattle Co.
Overview: Working as an assistant on a long cattle drive, the young Ben Mockridge contends between his dream of being a cowboy and the harsh truth of the Old West.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-04-15
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No Retreat, No Surrender 3: Blood Brothers
1990-01-25
No Retreat, No Surrender 3: Blood Brothers
Overview: Two feuding brothers (one a policeman, the other a martial arts expert) of different political views, join forces to avenge the death of their father, a retired agent, killed by the mafia.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-25
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The Magnificent Seven Ride!
1972-08-01
The Magnificent Seven Ride!
Overview: Marshal Chris Adams turns down a friend's request to help stop the depredations of a gang of Mexican bandits. When his wife is killed by bank robbers and his friend is killed capturing the last thief, Chris feels obligated to take up his friend's cause and recruits a writer and five prisoners to destroy the desperadoes.The last in the original series of four "Magnificent Seven" movies.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-08-01
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Posse
1975-06-04
Posse
Overview: A tough marshal with political ambitions leads an elite posse to capture a notorious train robber and his gang.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-06-04
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Wanda Nevada
1979-06-01
Wanda Nevada
Overview: In the American Southwest of the 1950s, middle-aged vagabond Beaudray Demerille survives as a cardsharp who moves from town to town. But his latest victory brings him unwanted spoils in the form of Wanda Nevada, a fiery 13-year-old. At first Beaudray does everything he can to ditch Wanda -- until the girl chances upon a treasure map. But Wanda and Beaudray aren't the only ones after the loot, and they must contend with a ruthless pair of crooks.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-06-01
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The Warrior and the Sorceress
1984-09-07
The Warrior and the Sorceress
Overview: The mighty warrior, Kain, crosses the barren wastelands of the planet Ura, where two arch enemies, Zeg and the evil degenerate Balcaz, fight incessantly for control of the village's only well. Kain sees his opportunity and announces that his sword is for hire... but his eyes stay clearly on the beautiful captive sorceress Naja, and his newly awakened purpose.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-09-07
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Legend of the White Horse
1987-07-13
Legend of the White Horse
Overview: A satire of Cold war politics, where Red bureaucrats meet U.S. corporate greed - and a witch and a dragon.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-07-13
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Kung Fu: The Movie
1986-02-01
Kung Fu: The Movie
Overview: In his travels, Caine meets up with an old man who has several surprises for him. The first being the destruction of the Shaolin order, the second being that the man is the father of the Emperor's nephew whom he killed in China, and the third is that he seeks his revenge using the son Caine never knew he had sired as the instrument of his death. It will take all of Caine's skill and wisdom to find a solution to this deadly predicament.
Genres: Drama Western Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-02-01
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Angel Unchained
1970-12-09
Angel Unchained
Overview: Angel is the biker who joins a commune of hippies near a small town. When the town rednecks attack them, Angel calls up some of his bad biker buddies to exact revenge.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-12-09
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Walking Tall Part II
1975-09-28
Walking Tall Part II
Overview: The Walking Tall legacy continues with Bo Svenson as Sheriff Buford Pusser, a one-man army trying to rid his town of corruption. Out to avenge his wife's death at the hand of the mob, Sheriff Pusser blows up their moonshine operation. With Buford breathing down their necks, the syndicate hires two hitmen; one a maniacal race car driver, the other a deadly gunslinger. Any other man would've hightailed it out of there, but then Pusser is no ordinary man.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-09-28
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The Happening
1967-05-17
The Happening
Overview: A group of young drifters kidnap wealthy businessman Roc Delmonico just for kicks. They keep him captive, demanding a ransom for his safe release. However there is no one - wife, Mafia associates or mother - willing to part with the $200,000 ransom. Demonico is dismayed that no one appears unduly concerned about his fate and joins forces with the kidnappers to plot his revenge, blackmailing his once nearest and dearest into parting with $3,000,000 in hush money.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-05-17
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The Newton Boys
1998-03-26
The Newton Boys
Overview: The four Newton brothers are a poor farmer family in the 1920s. One day, the oldest of them, Willis, realizes that there's no future in the fields and offers his brothers to become bank robbers. Soon the family agrees. They become very famous robbers and execute the greatest train robbery in American history five years later.
Genres: Crime Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-03-26
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Manhunter
1974-02-26
Manhunter
Overview: Pilot movie for the short-lived TV series set in the 1930's about a World War I ex-marine-turned-bounty-hunter, named Dave Barrett, who goes after two Bonnie-and-Clyde style bank robbers who murdered his former girlfriend.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-02-26
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Vendetta
1999-09-12
Vendetta
Overview: Based on a true story, Vendetta tells the shocking and tragic story of a group of Sicilian immigrants working on the New Orleans docks in the 1890's. After the Chief of Police was brutally murdered, much of the city's Sicilian population was rounded up and brought in for questioning. Eventually, thirteen were formally tried for murder and nine went to trial, and while they were acquitted, a series of brutal lynchings showed they had as much to fear from the city's general populace as they did from the corrupt police force.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-09-12
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Flareup
1969-11-10
Flareup
Overview: A Las Vegas go-go dancer moves to Los Angeles to escape the psycho who has killed her partners.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-11-10
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Savage
1997-02-07
Savage
Overview: After his family is murdered, and he's left for dead, a farmer awakens in the desert and finds himself transformed into a savage warrior, with all the powers and skills of the ancient gods. Guided by his "spirit masters" he's given a mission; destroy Tital Corporation, the world's most powerful high-tech computer company and its ambitious leader, Michael Burroughs. Burrough's has discovered the technological remains of an ancient race and a secret that will allow him to open the Vortex and achieve immortality. Out in the desert, ancient powers collide with sophisticated technology as the Savage and Burroughs meet in a titanic struggle that could destroy mankind.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-02-07
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Night of the Serpent
1969-12-23
Night of the Serpent
Overview: Hernandez, the sheriff of a small Mexican village, joins a group of townsmen with the intention of killing young orphan Manuel and robbing him of his inheritance. Killer Luke, now an alcoholic for having murdered his own son by mistake, who is chosen for the task, instead decides to take the defence of the poor child.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-12-23
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Hurry Sundown
1967-02-09
Hurry Sundown
Overview: Post-WWII, a corporation seeks Georgia farmland, but two owners—a white veteran and a black man—refuse to sell, forming an alliance against the greedy husband of the majority landowner.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-02-09
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The Quest
1976-05-13
The Quest
Overview: Eight years ago, Cheyenne Indians attacked the Baudine Family wagon and captured Morgan, whom they renamed Two Persons. Now Two Persons, raised in the ways of the Indians, has been reunited with his brother Quentin, a doctor and a stranger to frontier ways. Together the brothers set out in search of their sister Patricia, who was also captured and who Two Persons believes is still alive.
Genres: Action Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-05-13
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Dune Warriors
1991-01-18
Dune Warriors
Overview: After the end of the world, Earth is a thirsty planet ruled by vicious warlords. One woman is brave enough to fight back; she bands together five warriors to save her town and their precious water
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-18
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Father & Son: Dangerous Relations
1993-04-19
Father & Son: Dangerous Relations
Overview: An estranged father and son are paroled from the same maximum-security prison with one unusual condition, they must become roommates. Their severed bonds are strained as the father battles to keep his son free from the lures of street life.
Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-04-19
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Back to Back
1989-01-01
Back to Back
Overview: Modern day western about two very different brothers, who join forces to clear their family name, from the shadow of their dead brother's blame for a bloody unsolved robbery.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Frailty
2002-04-12
Frailty
Overview: A mysterious man arrives at the offices of an FBI agent and recounts his childhood: how his religious fanatic father received visions telling him to kill people who were in fact "demons."
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-04-12
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Bulletproof
1988-04-20
Bulletproof
Overview: A group of dangerous terrorists succeeds to get hold of a tank of the army and all its crew.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-04-20
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This Is the West That Was
1974-12-17
This Is the West That Was
Overview: A lighthearted look at the saga of Wild Bill Hickok and his relationship with Calamity Jane as he is targeted for revenge by some tough gunfighters.
Genres: Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-12-17
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Frank & Jesse
1994-10-21
Frank & Jesse
Overview: At the end of the Civil War, Frank and Jesse James and other former guerillas who rode with Quantrill and Bill Anderson take the oath of allegiance to the Union. Feeling oppressed by Chicago railroad investors, the James and Younger brothers, Bob and Charlie Ford, Clell Miller and Arch Clements take to robbing banks, trains and coaches, with Pinkerton sworn to bringing them to justice.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-10-21
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The Glass House
1972-02-04
The Glass House
Overview: Adapted from a story by Truman Capote ("In Cold Blood"), the world of the prison convict is open to the viewer. As the story develops, one thing becomes clear. As in the outside world, there is a "system"; and just as on the outside, there is accommodation, honesty, cynicism, violence and all the other factors that make up our society. The film follows the three newcomers, it records the grim, terrifying, sometimes fascinating events that occur.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-02-04
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Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan
1975-02-20
Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan
Overview: After three civil-rights workers are murdered in Mississippi in 1964, a team of FBI agents is sent there to find the killers.
Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-02-20
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Easy Rider: Shaking the Cage
1999-10-07
Easy Rider: Shaking the Cage
Overview: Documentary about the making and history of the film "Easy Rider."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-07
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The Beast Within
1982-02-12
The Beast Within
Overview: A horrified teen mutates into a crazed cannibalistic swamp creature, and must uncover the terrifying secret identity of his father before his nasty natural tendencies force him to make jambalaya out of the locals.
Genres: Horror Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-02-12
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Night Games
1974-03-16
Night Games
Overview: A Harvard-educated, big-city lawyer moves to a small Arizona town to set up practice. His first case is defending a beautiful socialite accused of murdering her husband. This is the pilot TV movie for what would become the Petrocelli TV series.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-03-16
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Mackintosh and T.J.
1975-11-21
Mackintosh and T.J.
Overview: Roy is a ranch hand and a drifter. He takes a young man into his care and helps him to grow up.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-11-21
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The Greatest Game Ever Played
2005-09-30
The Greatest Game Ever Played
Overview: A biopic of 20-year-old Francis Ouimet who defeated his golfing idol and 1900 US Open Champion, Harry Vardon.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-30
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Slipstream
1973-01-01
Slipstream
Overview: A reclusive Albertan DJ runs his popular pirate radio station in a remote farmhouse but begins to feel pressure from his romantic relationship with a fan and his producer who wants more mainstream content.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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A Matter of Wife... and Death
1975-05-03
A Matter of Wife... and Death
Overview: A private investigator is confronted by the police AND the mob about the killing of a former private-eye associate.
Genres: Crime Mystery Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-05-03
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