William Murphy
Also Known As: Bill Murphy, William Joseph Murphy
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: January 09, 1921
Age: 104 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: November 06, 1989
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It Happens Every Spring
Overview: A scientist discovers a formula that makes a baseball which is repelled by wood. He promptly sets out to exploit his discovery.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-06-10
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Hoodlum Empire
Overview: It's a deadly play for power when a Mafia chieftain's top gun goes straight and threatens to testify against the big boss and his cruel, nationwide network of crime. The picture, which was shot in a semi-documentary style, was inspired by the Kefauver investigations of 1950-51.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-04-15
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Six Bridges to Cross
Overview: Follow the evolution of a small time juvenile delinquent hood to a big time racketeer. Based on the famous 1950 Brinks Robbery in Boston that netted the crooks $2.5 million. The story delves into the psychology of the perpetrators, as well as the intricate mechanics of the hold-up.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-01-21
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A Foreign Affair
Overview: In occupied Berlin, a US Army Captain is torn between an ex-Nazi cafe singer and the US Congresswoman investigating her.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-08-20
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Bone Eater
Overview: Ancient Native American legend of the Bone Eater rises up and begins terrorizing the local townspeople
Genres: Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-02-15
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Thumb Tripping
Overview: Gary and Shay are two happy-go-lucky flower children who hitchhike in the beautiful Big Sur-Monterey area of California.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-10-01
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Salty O'Rourke
Overview: A gambler and his buddy find a wise-guy jockey for their long-shot horse.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-03-22
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Fast and Foolish
Overview: Gil Lamb's got a rival for his girl.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-11-16
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Jungle Patrol
Overview: Eight fighter pilots hold off constant Japanese attacks during the construction of an airstrip in New Guinea.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-11-01
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Fair Wind to Java
Overview: The Dutch East Indies, at the end of the nineteenth century. An adventurous captain of an American merchant vessel is looking for a sunken Dutch vessel containing 10,000 precious diamonds. Unfortunately, he's not the only one and then there's also that volcano on the nearby island of Krakatau, waiting to explode in its historical, disastrous eruption...
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-01-28
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Red Skies of Montana
Overview: When a large forest fire breaks out in the mountains of Montana, a squad of 'Smoke Jumpers', the paratroop-corps of fire-fighters in the U. S. Forest Service, is flown to the scene from their regional headquarters in Missoula, Montana. The Forest Rangers, under Cliff Mason, put out the blaze, but several of the fire-fighters are killed. Ed Miller, son of one of the dead rangers, thinks he died because Mason was a coward, and sets out to prove it.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-01-23
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I Was a Male War Bride
Overview: After marrying an American lieutenant with whom he was assigned to work in post-war Germany, a French captain attempts to find a way to accompany her back to the States under the terms of the War Bride Act.
Genres: Comedy Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-08-26
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The Big Heat
Overview: After the suspicious suicide of a fellow cop, tough homicide detective Dave Bannion takes the law into his own hands when he sets out to smash a vicious crime syndicate.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-10-14
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Sands of Iwo Jima
Overview: Haunted by personal demons, Marine Sgt. John Stryker is hated and feared by his men, who see him as a cold-hearted sadist. But when their boots hit the beaches, they begin to understand the reason for Stryker's rigid form of discipline.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-01-01
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Faces in the Fog
Overview: Tom and Cora Elliott love their active social life so much that they neglect their daughter Mary and son Les. Fred Mason, Tom's neighbor and the doctor at the defense plant employing Tom, worries about the effect that Tom and Cora's drinking and socializing have on the children....
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-11-30
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I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now
Overview: A biopic of the career of Joe Howard (12 Feb.,1878 - 19 May, 1961), famous songwriter of the early 20th Century. Howard wrote the title song, Goodbye, My Lady Love; and Hello, My Baby among many others. Mark Stevens was dubbed by Buddy Clark, well known singer of the 30's and 40's
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-07-31
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Secrets of a Sorority Girl
Overview: In this crime drama, a sorority girl is photographed hanging around with known criminals in illicit gambling dens. The resulting pictures are then used to blackmail her father, a district attorney.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-08-15
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The Prairie
Overview: The Prairie is set at the time of the Louisiana Purchase. Hoping to find their destiny in the new territory, the Bush Family heads southward in a covered wagon. Sharing the family's numerous dangers and hardships are Ellen Wade (Lenore Aubert), sole survivor of an Indian attack, and army mapmaker Paul Hover (Alan Baxter). Cousins Abiram (Russ Vincent) and Asa (Jack Mitchum) duke it out over Ellen's affections
Genres: Romance Adventure Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-11-27
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Outlaw Queen
Overview: Christina, the daughter of a Greek-immigrant family who does not share their belief that a woman's place is with her husband at the fireside, is a trick-shot artist. With her Uncle Jim, a strolling troubadour, and his sidekick Andy, a mandolin player, heads west to make her fortune.
Genres: Western Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-04-27
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The Burning Cross
Overview: Recently returned from WWII combat, unable to find a job, finding his sweetheart engaged to another man, and generally aware of the changes which have occurred in his hometown while he was away, a young man becomes easily talked into joining the Ku Klux Klan. Banned by the Virginia Board of Censors, and financed independently because no bank would loan money for it.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-09-01
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Fighting Coast Guard
Overview: Story of how the Coast Guard trained to help win World War II.
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-05-31
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Story of G.I. Joe
Overview: War correspondent Ernie Pyle joins Company C, 18th Infantry as this American army unit fights its way across North Africa in World War II. He comes to know the soldiers and finds much human interest material for his readers back in the States. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation in 2000.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-07-13
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No Down Payment
Overview: The marital difficulties of four couples living in a southern California housing development become intertwined. Among the unhappy couples are ne'er-do-well Jerry Flagg and his long-suffering wife Isabelle, flirtatious Leola Boone and her sadistic husband Troy, hard-working Herman Kreitzer and his understanding wife Betty, and newlyweds Jean and David Martin.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-10-30
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Young Widow
Overview: A young bride tries to rebuild her life after she learns her husband has been killed in the war.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-03-01
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The Jungle Captive
Overview: Once again Paula the ape woman is brought back to life, this time by a mad doctor and his disfigured assistant, who also kidnaps a nurse in order to have a female blood donor.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-06-25
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Ain't Misbehavin'
Overview: Rowdy young girl crashes high society when wealthy older man falls for her.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-06-30
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