Joan Van Ark
Also Known As: Joan Van Arc
Biography: Joan Van Ark (born June 16, 1943) is an American actress, most notable for her role as Valene Ewing, which she originated on the CBS hit series Dallas and continued for thirteen seasons on its long-running spin-off, Knots Landing. Van Ark has also received a Theatre World Award and been nominated for a Tony Award for her stage work. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joan Van Ark, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Birthday: June 16, 1943
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Gender: Female
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Frogs
Overview: Jason Crockett is an aging, grumpy, physically disabled millionaire who invites his family to his island estate for his birthday celebration. Pickett Smith is a free-lance photographer who is doing a pollution layout for an ecology magazine. Jason Crockett hates nature, poisoning anything that crawls on his property. On the night of his birthday the frogs and other members of nature begin to pay Crockett back.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-03-10
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The Last Dinosaur
Overview: Wealthy big game hunter (Boone), along with his group, gets trapped in pre-historic times where they are stalked by a ferocious dinosaur.
Genres: Adventure Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-07-07
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Tornado Warning
Overview: A scientist (Gerald McRaney) perfects a tornado-warning system and tries to convince residents of a nearby town that a deadly twister is approaching.
Genres: TV Movie Action
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2002-09-13
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Big Rose
Overview: Rose Winters, a private detective out of Los Angeles, teams with Ed Mills, a somewhat inexperienced young detective, to find out who is blackmailing a wealthy contractor.
Genres: Mystery Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-03-26
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Held for Ransom
Overview: Held for Ransom is a 2000 direct-to-video film about five high-school students that are kidnapped and held for ransom in a remote swamp area in Florida. It was directed and written by Lee Stanley based on the novel by Lois Duncan.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-11-14
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A Mother's Deception
Overview: Nora McGill has great pain. Desperatly searching for help she finds Dr. Allen. He reduces her pain, but she has to pay a high price for it ...
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-10-17
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Joan Rivers and Friends Salute Heidi Abromowitz
Overview: Fictional character, Heidi Abromowitz, is the butt of everyone's jokes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-08-16
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Tainted Blood
Overview: After a 17-year-old shoots his parents dead and then turns the gun on himself, an investigative reporter makes a disturbing discovery. The adopted boy was born to a mother who, as a teen, inexplicably murdered her parents as well. Even more alarming is the discovery that the dead boy has a twin, who may also be genetically predisposed to kill.
Genres: Mystery Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-03-03
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Menu for Murder
Overview: Joanne Mayfield, head of the parental school commission, behaves like a dictator and makes all the other women her enemies. But when she suddenly falls dead on a party after having a sandwich, the main suspect is Susan, who served her the food. The handsome detective Joe Russo interrogates her repeatedly and they become friends. He invites her to help him with the investigation, what she happily accepts - too happily, says her husband.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-12-04
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Night of 100 Stars III
Overview: A celebrity benefit for The Actors' Fund of America, featuring music, songs, dance and comedy.
Genres: Comedy Music TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-05-21
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Red Flag: The Ultimate Game
Overview: Two fighter pilots, Phil Clark and Jay Rivers, who flew together in Vietnam are assigned to the elite Air Force Fighter Weapons School (known as "Red Flag") at Nellis AFB, Nevada, about a decade after the war. Brash, self-confident Clark is an instructor, while quieter, family man Rivers is the student. At first, the two men resume their friendship. But as the student starts to show the master a thing or two, tensions develop. Can their relationship survive the stresses of one of the military's top schools?
Genres: Action Drama War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-10-03
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Shakedown on the Sunset Strip
Overview: Ambitious police sergeant, Charles Stoker, takes on prostitution in 1948 Los Angeles to make a name for himself. Madam, Brenda Allen, however has the 'whole city' on her payroll and his crusade proves difficult.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-04-22
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Watercolor Postcards
Overview: A Hollywood actress and a former NFL star strive to save a troubled Texas town while bonding over their shared love of a very special 10-year-old girl who has found herself alone in the world for the very first time.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-01-01
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Night of 100 Stars II
Overview: This special is the second "Night of 100 Stars" to benefit The Actors Fund of America. Edited from a seven-hour live entertainment marathon that was taped February 17, 1985, at New York's Radio City Music Hall, this sequel to the 1982 "Night of 100 Stars" special features 288 celebrities.
Genres: Comedy Music TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-03-10
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The Judge and Jake Wyler
Overview: A retired lady judge runs a private detective agency with a charming ex-con as her leg man and various parolees helping in the day-to-day operation.
Genres: Mystery Crime Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-12-02
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Always Remember I Love You
Overview: Just after he turns sixteen, Robert finds out that he is adopted. His parents find to their horror that he was kidnaped from his real parents. They decide to tell him about this, even though they fear they might lose him. Robert runs away to find his real parents. He finds and gets close to them, without revealing his true identity. Eventually he must decided where he belongs.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-12-23
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Diamond Zero
Overview: A daft doctor concocts an offbeat scheme to make millions after he happens upon a method of turning cremated human remains into diamonds. But when the sawbones hires a pair of hapless thieves to collect the raw material, a string of calamities ensues in their insane efforts to pilfer the ashes of prominent and historic figures. Tippi Hedren, Bronson Pinchot, Richard Moll and Joan Van Ark head the cast in this inky morality yarn.
Genres: Action Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-05-24
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My First Love
Overview: Widow Jean Miller thinks she's ready for a new romance with her high school sweetheart, Sam Morrissey, a physician of considerable means. The only thing standing in the way of rekindling this first love is the presence of his very attractive, very together 39-year-old girlfriend, Claire.
Genres: Romance Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-12-04
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Loyal Opposition
Overview: When a terrorist surfaces, the Chairman of the Joint Chief urges the President for military response. However, the President prefers to try negotiating. So, the General takes the President prisoner and launches an offensive of his own. And the Vice President is the only one who can do something about it. And the Vice President's a woman.
Genres: Thriller Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-03-08
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When the Dark Man Calls
Overview: A famous radio talk-show host finds herself being stalked by the man convicted of murdering her husband, who has finished his 25-year sentence and is out of prison. Her situation is made even more dire when it turns out that he isn't the only problem she has.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-06-14
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Psycho Wedding Crasher
Overview: Since she started working as a dressmaker for her Aunt Daisy, Jenna has seen dozens of brides getting happily married in her gorgeous wedding gowns. Jenna longs to have a white wedding of her own and to find a handsome man who will take her away from her abusive Aunt.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-10-03
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Net Games
Overview: The successful publicist Adam Vance of the SFC is in the middle of a campaign to get an important Japanese client and is needy of sex because his traumatized wife Jennifer Vance was raped one year ago and is totally frigid, refusing to have sex. His close friend and colleague Ray Walters suggests Adam to visit the porn site cyber chat.net, where lonely people have erotic conversation. Adam meets Angel, a luscious woman and hacker while his wife is visiting her rapist in the prison with her therapist as part of her treatment. When Adam decides to finish his virtual affair with Angel, he is chased and blackmailed by the deranged sexy killer.
Genres: Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-02-02
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Cyrano
Overview: Long-nosed Cyrano de Begerac helps an army officer woo Roxanne, the woman he loves in this animated version of Edmond Rostand's play.
Genres: Animation Action Drama Family TV Movie Romance Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-03-06
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Channels
Overview: A writer/producer is about to make a big career jump and has a lot of activity going on in his life. But, emotionally, he's dead. Through a fantastical event, he meets someone. They fall in love. She wants to defy logic and hop on the passing train of time with him. He lets his mind rationalize and hesitates. She is gone and he finds himself in a desperate race to get her back. Will the magic that brought them together be strong enough to reunite them, or is it too long?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-01-01
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The Rules of the Game
Overview: Dramatist Luigi Pirandello's mordant comedy of manners tells the tale of upper-crust Italians Silia Gala and her sneering spouse, Leone, who finds his impassivity tested when he has to duel his wife's frustrated paramour.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-04-30
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Shell Game
Overview: A convicted con artist sets out to expose the head of a charity fund who has been embezzling money to cover his huge gambling losses.
Genres: Comedy Crime Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-05-09
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In the Shadows, Someone's Watching
Overview: There are a bunch on children in a suburban neighborhood getting hurt in unusual ways. One mother's child gets hurt and she goes looking for answers and finds them but its with twist no one would expect.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-10-04
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Terror on Track 9
Overview: A New York detective tracks a serial killer who injects his victims with poison at Grand Central Station.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-09-20
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It's the Pied Piper, Charlie Brown
Overview: Based on the legend of the Pied Piper, it stars Snoopy as the title character, who tries to rid the Peanuts' gang's hometown of mice by playing his concertina, in return for a year's supply of dog food.
Genres: Comedy Family Adventure Animation TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-09-12
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The Last of the Mohicans
Overview: An animated adaptation of the classic story. A young scout is befriended by a tribe of Mohawks.
Genres: Adventure Animation Family History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-11-27
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UP, Michigan!
Overview: Rivalries are renewed and love is rekindled when a group of old friends return to the U.P. for their high school reunion.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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