Ivan Dixon
Biography: Ivan Nathaniel Dixon III was an American actor, director, and producer best known for his series role in the 1960s sitcom Hogan's Heroes, and for his starring roles in the 1964 independent drama Nothing But a Man and the 1967 television film The Final War of Olly Winter.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: April 06, 1931
Deathday: March 16, 2008
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To Trap a Spy
1964-01-01
To Trap a Spy
Overview: The men from U.N.C.L.E. are off to Africa to stop the assassination of a president.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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A Patch of Blue
1965-12-10
A Patch of Blue
Overview: A blind, uneducated white girl is befriended by a black man, who becomes determined to help her escape her impoverished and abusive home life.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-12-10
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Car Wash
1976-10-22
Car Wash
Overview: This day-in-the-life cult comedy focuses on a group of friends working at Sully Boyar's Car Wash in the Los Angeles ghetto. The team meets dozens of eccentric customers -- including a smooth-talking preacher, a wacky cab driver and an ex-convict -- while cracking politically incorrect jokes to a constant soundtrack of disco and funk. Some of the workers find romance as the day moves along, but most are just happy to get through another shift.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-10-22
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Nothing But a Man
1964-12-27
Nothing But a Man
Overview: A proud black man and his school-teacher wife face discriminatory challenges in 1960s America.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-12-27
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Fer-de-Lance
1974-10-18
Fer-de-Lance
Overview: An American submarine leaves Tierra Del Fuego, and one of its crew has secretly brought aboard a container full of poisonous snakes which escape storage and bite key personnel on the submarine, causing an accident that cripples the vehicle so that it drops to the bottom of the Southern Ocean. Worse still, the snakes are still at large on the submarine and complicate the efforts of the crew to escape the sunken vessel.
Genres: Horror Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-10-18
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Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?
1970-09-11
Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?
Overview: War is brewing between the soldiers at an otherwise quiet army base and the civilians of a nearby Southern town. Brian Keith is an officer who tries to keep the peace. However, peace is hard to come by with Ernest Borgnine as a stereotypical dumb hick sheriff who's quick to call in the local militia. Tony Curtis plays a skirt-chasing sergeant who can't stay out of trouble and soon lands in jail. Brian Keith borrows a tank to release his friend from jail. Things get more chaotic after that.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-09-11
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Too Late Blues
1961-11-01
Too Late Blues
Overview: Ghost is an ideological musician and leader of a jazz band who would rather play his blues in the park to the birds than compromise himself. His peripatetic performances lead him to cross paths with a singer, while his masculinity is thrown into question following a violent brawl.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-11-01
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The Murder Men
1961-01-01
The Murder Men
Overview: Melodrama of the attempt to smash a drug ring and to promote a former addict singer's rehabilitation. Edited from TV series, Cain's Hundred
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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Porgy and Bess
1959-06-24
Porgy and Bess
Overview: In the early 1900s, the fictional Catfish Row section of Charleston, South Carolina serves as home to a black fishing community. Crippled beggar Porgy, who travels about in a goat-drawn cart, loves the drug-addicted Bess, who lives with stevedore Crown, the local bully.
Genres: Music Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-06-24
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A Raisin in the Sun
1961-05-28
A Raisin in the Sun
Overview: Walter Lee Younger is a young man struggling with his station in life. Sharing a tiny apartment with his wife, son, sister and mother, he seems like an imprisoned man. Until, that is, the family gets an unexpected financial windfall.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-05-28
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Battle at Bloody Beach
1961-06-20
Battle at Bloody Beach
Overview: This is only the second Audie Murphy movie set in WWII after his autobiographical "To Hell and Back." Here Murphy steps out of his usual kid-Western role to play a civilian working for the Navy helping supply guerilla insurgents in the Philippines. His sole motive is not politics nor bravery, but to find his bride from whom he was separated during the Japanese invasion two years before
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-06-20
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Clay Pigeon
1971-08-01
Clay Pigeon
Overview: An ex-soldier is recruited by the FBI to go undercover in L.A. and find other ex-soldiers who are part of a drug-dealing gang.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-08-01
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Something of Value
1957-05-08
Something of Value
Overview: As Kenya's Mau Mau uprising tears the country apart, former childhood friends Kimani (Sidney Poitier), a native, and Peter (Rock Hudson), a British colonist, find themselves on opposite sides of the struggle in this provocative drama. Though each is devoted to his cause, both wish for a more moderate path -- but their hopes for a peaceful resolution are thwarted by rage, colonial arrogance and escalating violence on both sides.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-05-08
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Where's Jack?
1969-04-01
Where's Jack?
Overview: Based on the adventures of Jack Sheppard, the thief and jail-breaker who became a folk hero in 1720s London.
Genres: Adventure Crime History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-04-01
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Perry Mason: The Case of the Shooting Star
1986-11-08
Perry Mason: The Case of the Shooting Star
Overview: An actor rigs a fake shooting on TV with the connivance of his friend, the show's host, but the practical joke goes wrong when the gun turns out to contain a live round.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-11-08
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Claudine
1974-04-22
Claudine
Overview: Claudine is a single mother in New York City who endures an exhausting commute to the suburbs where she works as a maid for wealthy families. In one carefully tended white community, she meets Roop, a charismatic but irresponsible garbage collector. Romance quickly ensues, but Claudine doubts that their relationship is good for her six children, and Rupert, despite his good nature, is reluctant to take on fatherhood.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-04-22
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Bing Crosby Color Christmas Show
1965-12-25
Bing Crosby Color Christmas Show
Overview: Bing emcees and performs in this special Christmas show packed with guest stars including the cast of Hogan's Heroes, a comedy dog, and more.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-12-25
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