Harvey Lembeck
Biography: Harvey Lembeck (April 15, 1923 – January 5, 1982) was an American comedic actor best remembered for his role as Cpl. Rocco Barbella on The Phil Silvers Show (a.k.a. Sgt. Bilko) in the late 1950s, and as the stumbling, overconfident outlaw biker Eric Von Zipper in the beach party movie series during the 1960s. He also turned in noteworthy performances in both the stage and screen versions of Stalag 17. He was the father of actor/director Michael Lembeck and actress Helaine Lembeck. Description above from the Wikipedia article Harvey Lembeck, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: April 15, 1923
Deathday: January 05, 1982
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Stalag 17
1953-05-29
Stalag 17
Overview: It's a dreary Christmas 1944 for the American POWs in Stalag 17 and the men in Barracks 4, all sergeants, have to deal with a grave problem—there seems to be a security leak.
Genres: Comedy Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-05-29
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Finders Keepers
1952-01-01
Finders Keepers
Overview: A curious toddler creates trouble when he finds bank robbers' loot
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-01-01
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How to Stuff a Wild Bikini
1965-07-14
How to Stuff a Wild Bikini
Overview: When he's stationed in Tahiti, a sailor hires a witch doctor to keep an eye on his girlfriend.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-07-14
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Beach Blanket Bingo
1965-04-14
Beach Blanket Bingo
Overview: In the fourth of the highly successful Frankie and Annette beach party movies, a motorcycle gang led by Eric Von Zipper kidnaps singing star Sugar Kane managed by Bullets, who hires sky-diving surfers Steve and Bonnie from Big Drop for a publicity stunt. With the usual gang of kids and a mermaid named Lorelei.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-04-14
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Beach Party
1963-08-07
Beach Party
Overview: Anthropology Professor Robert Orwell Sutwell and his secretary Marianne are studying the sex habits of teenagers. The surfing teens led by Frankie and Dee Dee don't have much sex but they sing, battle the motorcycle rats and mice led by Eric Von Zipper and dance to Dick Dale and the Del Tones.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-08-07
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The Spirit Is Willing
1967-07-07
The Spirit Is Willing
Overview: When Ben and Kate Powell rent a haunted New England house by the sea, their son Steve gets blamed for the destruction caused by three unruly ghosts.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-07-07
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The Unsinkable Molly Brown
1964-06-11
The Unsinkable Molly Brown
Overview: The buoyant Molly Brown has survived the first crisis of her life—a flood. Sixteen years later she sets out to make her way in the world. She assures the Leadville saloon keeper that she can sing and play the piano, and learns quickly. Soon she marries Johnny Brown, who in a few years will be able to replace the original cigar wrapper wedding ring with a replica in gold and gemstones. The Browns head for Europe and bring a few crowned heads back to Denver for a party that turns into a ballroom brawl. Molly goes to Europe alone, returning on the Titanic. She didn't survive a flood as a baby for the story to end here.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-06-11
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Bikini Beach
1964-07-22
Bikini Beach
Overview: A millionaire sets out to prove his theory that his pet chimpanzee is as intelligent as the teenagers who hang out on the local beach, where he is intending to build a retirement home.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-07-22
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Sail A Crooked Ship
1961-12-01
Sail A Crooked Ship
Overview: A bungling burglar, determined to go down in the annals of crime as a genius, steals a ship in New York in order to rob a bank in Boston.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-12-01
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Love with the Proper Stranger
1963-12-25
Love with the Proper Stranger
Overview: Angie Rossini, an innocent New York City sales clerk from a repressive Italian-American family, engages in a short-lived affair with a handsome jazz musician named Rocky Papasano. When Angie becomes pregnant, she tracks down Rocky hoping he'll pay for her abortion.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-12-25
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Pajama Party
1964-11-11
Pajama Party
Overview: A Martian teenager sent to prepare for an invasion falls in love with an Earth girl.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-11-11
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Sergeant Deadhead
1965-08-18
Sergeant Deadhead
Overview: An astronaut goes into space with a chimpanzee. When they return to Earth after their orbit, it is discovered that the chimp has the brains of the astronaut, and the astronaut has the brains of the chimp. Complications ensue.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-08-18
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Fireball 500
1966-06-07
Fireball 500
Overview: Stock car racer Dave Owens plays into the hands of whiskey runners by agreeing to drive in a cross-country road race.
Genres: Drama Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-06-07
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The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini
1966-04-06
The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini
Overview: A corpse has 24 hours to mastermind a good deed without leaving his crypt, to go "up there" and have his youth restored.
Genres: Music Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-04-06
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The Command
1954-02-13
The Command
Overview: Once the commanding officer of a cavalry patrol is killed, the ranking officer who must take command is an army doctor.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-02-13
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Keep in Step
1959-01-23
Keep in Step
Overview: An hour of music and comedy sketches hosted by Phil Silvers. Sponsored by Pontiac automobiles.
Genres: Comedy Music TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-01-23
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Girls in the Night
1953-01-15
Girls in the Night
Overview: Juvenile delinquents (Joyce Holden, Glenda Farrell, Harvey Lembeck) trap a neighborhood hoodlum in New York.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-01-15
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A View from the Bridge
1962-01-19
A View from the Bridge
Overview: Eddie Carbone, a Brooklyn longshoreman is unhappily married to Beatrice and unconsciously in love with Catherine, the niece that they have raised from childhood. Into his house come two brothers, illegal immigrants, Marco and Rodolpho. Catherine falls in love with Rudolpho; and Eddie, tormented but unable to admit even to himself his quasi-incestuous love, reports the illegal immigrants to the authorities.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-01-19
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The Frogmen
1951-01-25
The Frogmen
Overview: The new commander of a Navy Underwater Demolition Team--nicknamed "Frogmen"--must earn the respect of the men in his unit, who are still grieving over the death of their former commander and resentful of the new one.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-01-25
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You're in the Navy Now
1951-02-23
You're in the Navy Now
Overview: When Lt. John Harkness is assigned as the new skipper of a submarine chaser equipped with an experimental steam engine, he hopes that the U.S.S. Teakettle's veterans will afford him enough help to accomplish the ship's goals. Unfortunately, he finds the crew and its officers share his novice status or only have experience in diesel engines.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-02-23
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Back at the Front
1952-10-01
Back at the Front
Overview: Further misadventures of comic soldiers Willie and Joe, now in Japan.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-10-01
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The Last Time I Saw Archie
1961-05-27
The Last Time I Saw Archie
Overview: Two Air Force friends have fun during their enlistment.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-05-27
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Horowitz in Dublin
1973-12-12
Horowitz in Dublin
Overview: A New York cop, Dan Horowitz, arrives in Dublin to pay respects to the Irish parents of his young wife who had recently died. He suddenly finds himself called upon by the police to help solve a recent murder case. A character driven comedy-suspense feature entertainment, starring Harvey Lembeck, Sinead Cusack, Al Lettieri, Cesare Danova and Cyril Cusack.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-12-12
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Lily: Sold Out
1981-02-02
Lily: Sold Out
Overview: After taking her successful Broadway show to Las Vegas, Lily Tomlin is faced with a tough decision: soften her act for mass appeal, or keep her material the way she originally intended?
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-02-02
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Fourteen Hours
1951-04-01
Fourteen Hours
Overview: A young man, morally destroyed by his parents not loving him and by the fear of being not capable to make his girlfriend happy, rises on the ledge of a building with the intention of committing suicide. A policeman makes every effort to argue him out of it.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-04-01
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Mission Over Korea
1953-08-01
Mission Over Korea
Overview: A rookie pilot in the Korean War wants to avenge his brother's death.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-08-01
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There Is No 13
1974-06-01
There Is No 13
Overview: In this wartime drama, a young soldier spends much of stint in Vietnam remembering his life and his 12 love affairs. The story ends before he can have a 13th.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-06-01
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Kiss Me, Kate
1958-11-20
Kiss Me, Kate
Overview: Broadcast live on the Hallmark Hall of Fame series on NBC, 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: Comedy Music Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-11-20
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Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine
1965-11-06
Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine
Overview: In this campy spy movie spoof Dr. Goldfoot (Vincent Price) has invented an army of bikini-clad robots who are programmed to seek out wealthy men and charm them into signing over their assets. Secret agent Craig Gamble (Frankie Avalon) and millionaire Todd Armstrong set out to foil his fiendish plot.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-11-06
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Between Heaven and Hell
1956-10-11
Between Heaven and Hell
Overview: Sam Gifford remembers : In prewar years he was an arrogant southern cotton plantation owner, married to the daughter of a colonel. At the beginning of the war he was mobilized with his National Guard unit as a sergeant. Came the day when, revolted by the cowardice of his lieutenant, who had fired at his own men, he hit him. Downgraded, he was sent to a disciplinary battalion. Sam now discovers his new detachment, his new commanding officer, just another cowardly brute, Captain Waco Grimes. While in combat, Sam will gradually become closer to the privates, working-class people he used to despise. He will become another man, a better man.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-10-11
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The Wild Weird World of Dr. Goldfoot
1965-11-18
The Wild Weird World of Dr. Goldfoot
Overview: Dr. Goldfoot schemes to use his Bikini Machine to kidnap a young man with infinite information stored in his head by the government.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-11-18
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Raid on Entebbe
1976-12-26
Raid on Entebbe
Overview: Based on a true operation by Israeli commandos. An Air France flight is hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The airplane landed in Uganda. The terrorists released some passengers, keeping 94 Jews and 12 air crew hostage. The Israeli government would not negotiate. A rescue plan was devised, and less than 100 commandos were flown across Africa to rescue the passengers in surprisingly successful operation.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-12-26
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Hello Down There
1969-01-01
Hello Down There
Overview: Given the chance to live in a simulated underwater home for a month, a scientist convinces his family to take advantage of the offer. Once the family agrees to move in, underwater mayhem occurs!
Genres: Comedy Music Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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Just Across the Street
1952-06-15
Just Across the Street
Overview: A plumber's secretary poses as the daughter of a prominent society couple.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-06-15
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It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman!
1975-02-21
It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman!
Overview: TV adaptation of the campy 1960s Broadway musical about the Man of Steel, his friends, his enemies, and his self-image problems.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie Science Fiction Action Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-02-21
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