Basil Ruysdael
Also Known As: Basil Milspaugh Ruysdael, Basil Spaulding Millspaugh
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Basil Ruysdael (July 24, 1888 - October 10, 1960) was an American film actor and opera singer. Description above from the Wikipedia article Basil Ruysdael, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia. He started his career as a baritone singer for the Metropolitan Opera Company in the early 1900's and appeared on the New York stage in 1918. Moving to California in 1923, he was a voice teacher for many actors. Encouraged to try acting himself, he made his big screen debut in "Cocoanuts" (1929). For the next 30 years he was a frequent character performer in films to include "Come to the Stable" (1949), "Broken Arrow" (1950), "People Will Talk" (1951), "The Last Hurrah" (1958) and "The Horse Soldiers" (1960). He also did voice over in "101 Dalmatians" (1961) and appeared on the TV shows "Perry Mason", "Official Detective", "Father knows Best" and "Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color. He at the age of 72 of complications following surgery.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
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Birthday: July 23, 1888
Age: 136 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: October 10, 1960
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The Story of Ruth
Overview: Ruth is one of two Moabite women who marry the sons of Elimelech and Naomi. When Elimelech and sons Mahlon and Chillion die, leaving Naomi a widow with two widowed daughters-in-law, Naomi decides to return to Israel. One daughter-in-law, Orpah, bids her goodbye. Daughter-in-law Ruth however says she will not desert her.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-06-17
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The Cocoanuts
Overview: During the Florida land boom, the Marx Brothers run a hotel, auction off some land and thwart a jewel robbery.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-05-23
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Blackboard Jungle
Overview: Richard Dadier is a teacher at North Manual High School, an inner-city school where many of the pupils frequently engage in anti-social behavior. Dadier makes various attempts to engage the students' interest in education, challenging both the school staff and the pupils. He is subjected to violence as well as duplicitous schemes.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-03-25
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The File on Thelma Jordon
Overview: Cleve Marshall, an assistant district attorney, falls for Thelma Jordon, a mysterious woman with a troubled past. When Thelma becomes a suspect in her aunt's murder, Cleve tries to clear her name.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-11-04
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Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier
Overview: Legends (and myths) from the life of famed American frontiersman Davy Crockett are depicted in this feature film edited from television episodes. Crockett and his friend George Russel fight in the Creek Indian War. Then Crockett is elected to Congress and brings his rough-hewn ways to the House of Representatives. Finally, Crockett and Russell journey to Texas and the last stand at the Alamo.
Genres: Adventure Family Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-05-25
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Colorado Territory
Overview: After escaping from jail, outlaw Wes McQueen is convinced by his old partner in crime to do one last heist.
Genres: Western Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-06-11
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One Way Street
Overview: After stealing a gangster's money and his girlfriend, a doctor heads for a small village in Mexico to hide out.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-04-01
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The Scarf
Overview: A man who is believed to have murdered a woman, escapes from the insane asylum to find if he was the one to actually kill her using the scarf she was wearing.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-04-06
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Diane
Overview: Asked by Francis I to tutor his son, Diane de Poitiers becomes the future King Henry II's mistress in 1500s France.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-01-12
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Broken Arrow
Overview: Indian scout Tom Jeffords is sent out to stem the war between the Whites and Apaches in the late 1870s. He learns that the Indians kill only to protect themselves, or out of retaliation for white atrocities.
Genres: Western Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-07-21
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Carrie
Overview: Carrie's dreams of adventure in the big city are quickly squashed as she discovers all that awaits her there is a bleak life of grueling and poorly paid factory work—that is, until a traveling salesman named Drouet steps into her life and changes her outlook.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-07-17
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The Violent Men
Overview: A former Union Army officer plans to sell out to Anchor Ranch and move east with his fiancée, but the low price offered by Anchor's crippled owner and the outfit's bullying tactics make him reconsider. When one of his hands is murdered he decides to stay and fight, utilizing his war experience. Not all is well at Anchor with the owner's wife carrying on with his brother who also has a Mexican woman in town.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-01-26
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These Wilder Years
Overview: A man tries to find a son he gave up for adoption years ago.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-08-17
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Gambling House
Overview: A gambler faces deportation when he gets mixed up with murder.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-12-27
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The Horse Soldiers
Overview: A Union Cavalry outfit is sent behind confederate lines in strength to destroy a rail supply center. Along with them is sent a doctor who causes instant antipathy between him and the commander. The secret plan for the mission is overheard by a southern belle who must be taken along to assure her silence.
Genres: Western War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-06-11
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The Last Hurrah
Overview: In a changing world where television has become the main source of information, Adam Caulfield, a young sports journalist, witnesses how his uncle, Frank Skeffington, a veteran and honest politician, mayor of a New England town, tries to be reelected while bankers and captains of industry conspire in the shadows to place a weak and manageable candidate in the city hall.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-12-31
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The Romance of Iron and Steel
Overview: Armco presents a promotional film that follows the process of turning iron ore into steel.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-01
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Davy Crockett Goes to Congress
Overview: The second of five programs about Davy Crockett involves him being bored with life, so he and Georgie plan to resettle their families and file their claims. In town, Davy wins a gunfight against the town bully, Big Foot Mason, and, as a result, he becomes the town lawman.
Genres: Adventure Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-01-26
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High Lonesome
Overview: When a sudden spurt of murders occurs in the Big Bend country, suspicion immediately falls on a young drifter who just moved to the area.
Genres: Western Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-09-01
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Half Angel
Overview: Nurse Nora Gilpin plans are to marry building contractor Tim McCarey and settle down. But one night a sleepwalking Nora slips into a provocative dress and goes to the home of startled lawyer John Raymond, for whom she doesn't care much during the day. She does not reveal her name and he cannot figure out where they have met, but they spend several hours together until she gets away before John notices.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-05-05
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Pearl of the South Pacific
Overview: Two beachcombers with a yacht join woman-with-a-past Rita on a quest for black pearls on a secret island. Arrived, they find another white man has made himself high priest; but George, the latter's handome son, is fair game for Rita, who lands in the guise of a missionary! The inevitable conflict over the pearls brings violence and corruption to the quiet island.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-09-16
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Come to the Stable
Overview: Two nuns arrive unannounced in the small New England town of Bethlehem, where they recruit various townspeople to help them build a children's hospital.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-07-27
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Boots Malone
Overview: An agent for horse jockeys faces his greatest challenge.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-01-11
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Raton Pass
Overview: Raton Pass is a curious western based on the rules of Community Property. Dennis Morgan and Patricia Neal portray a recently married husband and wife, each of whom owns half of a huge cattle ranch. Neal is a tad more ambitious than her husband, and with the help of a little legal chicanery she tries to obtain Morgan's half of the spread. He balks, so she hires a few gunslingers to press the issue. In a 1951 western, the greedy party usually came to a sorry end; Raton Pass adheres strictly to tradition.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-04-07
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The Shanghai Story
Overview: Shanghai, China. The last expatriate Westerners still living in the city are imprisoned in a hotel by the communist authorities in order to find the spy hiding among them.
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-09-01
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Jubal
Overview: Jubal Troop is a cowboy who is found in a weakened condition, without a horse. He is given shelter at Shep Horgan's large ranch, where he quickly makes an enemy in foreman Pinky, a cattleman who accuses Jubal of carrying the smell of sheep.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-02-25
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The Archives
Overview: A Washington Parade reel....
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-23
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Pinky
Overview: Pinky, a light skinned black woman, returns to her grandmother's house in the South after graduating from a Northern nursing school. Pinky tells her grandmother that she has been "passing" for white while at school in the North. In addition, she has fallen in love with a young white doctor, who knows nothing about her black heritage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-09-28
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Dr. Terror's House of Horrors
Overview: A man of mystery known only as Doctor Terror recounts seven stories from his casebook of personal encounters with evil and the supernatural.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-02-10
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The Doctor and the Girl
Overview: Dr. Michael Corday, a recent graduate of the Harvard Medical School, is the son of Dr. John Corday, an eminent New York City surgeon who has a tendency to continue to direct the lives of his grown children. The daughter, Fabienne, runs away from home, and Michael, after first following his father's advice of being callous to the point of cruelty toward patients, changes when he falls in love with a patient, marries her and sets up his practice on the lower East Side in New York.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-09-29
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People Will Talk
Overview: Successful and well-liked, Dr. Noah Praetorius becomes the victim of a witchhunt at the hands of Professor Elwell, who disdains Praetorius's unorthodox medical views and also questions his relationship with the mysterious, ever-present Mr. Shunderson.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-08-29
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Davy Crockett, Indian Fighter
Overview: Davy Crockett seeks a truce with his Indian foes.
Genres: TV Movie Adventure Family Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-12-15
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My Forbidden Past
Overview: An 1890s New Orleans heiress tries to buy a married doctor's love with her tainted family fortune.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-04-25
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Dealers in Death
Overview: This documentary film is a pacifistic polemic that presents the argument that the world's largest munitions works, principally those in Europe, work in conjunction with one another, even when their countries are wartime enemies. These munitions works, in the interest of making money, manipulate wartime conditions to prolong wars.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-01-01
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Clippers at War
Overview: The history of how Pan American World Airways served the Allied cause during the Second World War, especially in the Pacific and China-Burma-India theaters.
Genres: Documentary War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-12-07
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