George Sawaya
Also Known As: George C. Sawaya, George Sawaja
Biography: George Sawaya (August 14, 1923 – September 17, 2003) was an American stuntman and actor. He acted in almost one hundred different films and television episodes, but always as minor characters. His careerwas relatively consistent from the 1950s to the 1980s. Sawaya acted in the original Star Trek several times, first as Chief Humboldt in "The Menagerie, Part I" and then as Klingons in "Errand of Mercy" and "Day of the Dove".
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, USA
Birthday: August 14, 1923
Deathday: September 17, 2003
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Gender: Male
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The Black Sleep
Overview: In 19th century England, a noted brain surgeon rescues a former student from being hanged on a false conviction for murder, and spirits him away to an ancient, repurposed abbey far in the countryside. There, he connives his pupil into assisting him in mapping the functions of the various parts of the human brain, using living subjects who are under a terrible animation-suspending drug called "black sleep". Subsequently, the student, along with the daughter of one of the subjects, discover that most of these subjects have survived but are being kept in a dungeon-like cellar, in various stages of physical and mental derangement...
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-06-15
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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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The Devil's Rain
Overview: A Satanist cult leader is burnt alive by the local church. He vows to come back to hunt down and enslave every descendant of his congregation, by the power of the book of blood contracts, in which they sold their souls to the devil.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-07-01
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Hands of a Stranger
Overview: A concert pianist loses his hands in a car crash, but a surgeon gives him new ones. The experimental medical procedure goes awry when the new hands drive the pianist mad.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-04-22
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Convict Stage
Overview: A cowboy whose sister has been murdered by a gang of vicious outlaws seeks his revenge. But a venerable old lawman is about to teach the vigilante a lesson about taking the law into one's own hands.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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The Don Is Dead
Overview: After his mistress is murdered, a Mafia leader goes after the killer with a bloody vengeance. Soon after the hunt begins, a gang war ensues.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-11-14
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Private Duty Nurses
Overview: A trio of beautiful private-duty nurses that practice more than the medical arts must confront underground drug traffickers, racism and murder in their local hospital.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-09-01
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Panic in the City
Overview: An American agent is assigned to track down a renegade Soviet spy who is building an atomic device in Los Angeles and plans to destroy the city with it.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-10-01
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The Money Trap
Overview: When half a million dollars disappears from a doctor office's safe, the cops assigned to the burglary case, Joe and Pete, decide to find the money and keep it for themselves.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-09-07
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Everything's Ducky
Overview: Everything's Ducky is a 1961 film directed by Don Taylor and starring Buddy Hackett, Mickey Rooney, and Jackie Cooper. Two sailors sneak a talking duck aboard their ship. Complications ensue. The duck waddles all over the ship until he escapes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-12-20
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Dragnet
Overview: Two homicide detectives try to find just the facts behind a mobster's brutal murder.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-09-04
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Day of Triumph
Overview: A film about the last days of Jesus Christ.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-12-25
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Curse of the Faceless Man
Overview: A stone-encrusted body is unearthed at Pompeii, and people left alone with it keep dying of crushed skulls...
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-08-14
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Fort Courageous
Overview: In this western, a cavalry sergeant is wrongly court-martialed. To reclaim his good name, he takes over a patrol that just lost its leader in an Indian attack. He leads the regiment to Fort Courageous, but is appalled to discover that the Indians attacked and massacred all but one of its inhabitants. The hardy little group must now fight the renegades on their own. The ex-sergeant plans a brilliant strategy that culminates in winning the Indian's respect. They leave the fort alone and peace is restored.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-05-01
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The Prodigal
Overview: A wealthy young Hebrew traveling in Damascus renounces his faith after he is seduced by an alluring pagan priestess and cheated of his fortune by the High Priest as well.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-05-06
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Blazing Saddles
Overview: A town—where everyone seems to be named Johnson—stands in the way of the railroad. In order to grab their land, robber baron Hedley Lamarr sends his henchmen to make life in the town unbearable. After the sheriff is killed, the town demands a new sheriff from the Governor, so Hedley convinces him to send the town the first black sheriff in the west.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-02-07
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Batman
Overview: The Dynamic Duo faces four super-villains who plan to hold the world for ransom with the help of a secret invention that instantly dehydrates people.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-07-30
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Earthquake
Overview: Various interconnected people struggle to survive when an earthquake of unimaginable magnitude hits Los Angeles, California.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-11-15
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Beggarman, Thief
Overview: In this sequel to "Rich Man, Poor Man," moviemaker Gretchen Jordache, the until-now unseen sister, strives to pull the family together after the murder of brother Tom and the disappearance of brother Rudy by first reestablishing contact with her soldier son, and then patching things up with her sister-in-law, Kate, Tom's widow.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-11-26
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Sam Whiskey
Overview: A widow hires an ex-gambler to retrieve gold bars from a sunken river boat in Colorado and discreetly return them to the Federal Mint, from where they had been stolen by her dead husband.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-04-01
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Drums of Africa
Overview: David Moore is in East Africa to get to his employer's railway construction site. He's accompanied by the owner's son Brian and they've lined up Jack Cuortemayn, reputedly the best guide available, to take them there. Cuortemayn refuses as he doesn't care for the impact the railroad will have on the local inhabitants. While Moore tries to make other arrangements, he meets Ruth Knight who has lived there for many years working with her father in a medical clinic. There will be adventures along the way but when Ruth is captured by slave traders, it's up to the others to rescue her.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-05-15
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Hot Cars
Overview: Story of a salesman lured into the "hot car" racket.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-11-02
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Emergency Hospital
Overview: About the lives and loves of the staff of an emergency hospital as reflected in a single frenetic night of business-as-usual.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-11-02
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The Lollipop Cover
Overview: After learning of his sister's suicide, Nick, a small-time boxer, decides to pay a visit to his sister's junkie lover in Los Angeles, collect some money and pursue an early retirement in Mexico. Along the way, he meets a 9-year-old girl who's been abandoned by her father and together they hitchhike south.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-11-01
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Moon of the Wolf
Overview: After several locals are viciously murdered, a Louisiana sheriff starts to suspect he may be dealing with a werewolf.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-09-26
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Repo Man
Overview: A down and out young punk gets a job working with a seasoned repo man, but what awaits him in his new career is a series of outlandish adventures revolving around aliens, the CIA, and a most wanted '64 Chevy.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-03-02
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The Concorde... Airport '79
Overview: Aviation disaster-prone Joe Patroni must contend with nuclear missiles, the French Air Force and the threat of the plane splitting in two over the Alps.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-08-17
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St. Ives
Overview: A dabbler-in-crime and his assistant hire an ex-police reporter to recover some stolen papers.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-02-24
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Sol Madrid
Overview: Government agent Sol Madrid travels to Mexico with hooker Stacey to bring mobster Villanova and drug kingpin Dietrich to justice.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-02-07
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Curse of the Faceless Man
Overview: A stone-encrusted body is unearthed at Pompeii, and people left alone with it keep dying of crushed skulls...
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-08-14
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