Don Keefer
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Highspire, Pennysylvania, USA
Birthday: August 18, 1916
Deathday: September 07, 2014
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Gender: Male
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Golden Gate
Overview: A venerable San Francisco publishing family becomes embroiled in a bitter power struggle between the iron-fisted, but ailing, patriarch's son and a ruthless businessman who tries for a takeover.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-09-25
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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Overview: As the west rapidly becomes civilized, a pair of outlaws in 1890s Wyoming find themselves pursued by a posse and decide to flee to South America in hopes of evading the law.
Genres: Western Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-09-23
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The Way We Were
Overview: Two desperate people have a wonderful romance, but their political views and convictions drive them apart.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-10-17
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Fire Sale
Overview: Benny and his wife Ruthie are getting set to drive down to Florida, but Benny needs someone to look after his department store while he's gone. Though he doesn't think much of him, Benny hands the responsibility over to his son, Russell. While Russell doesn't get much respect from his parents, he's better off than his brother, Ezra, whom Benny has gone so far as to disown. Ezra is currently battling with his work (coach of a high school basketball team that hasn't won in ages) and his wife (who keeps nagging him that she wants to have a baby as soon as possible) at the same time.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-06-09
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Amos
Overview: Amos Lasher loses his wife and home in an accident, finding himself in the care of the state, or specifically speaking, the Sunset Nursing Home. Here he finds the head nurse, Daisy Daws, ruling the cowed patients with an iron hand, but as his determination to get out of Sunset grows, the more sinister his situation becomes.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-09-29
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Riot in Cell Block 11
Overview: A prisoner leads his counterparts in a protest for better living conditions which turns violent and ugly.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-02-18
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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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The Immigrants
Overview: The rags-to-riches saga of a young Italian immigrant who battles his way out of the San Francisco earthquake to become a shipping magnate, rise to the top of Nob Hill's society through a loveless marriage to the daughter of the city's wealthiest family, and find happiness with an Asian mistress despite the collapse of his fortune during the Wall Street crash.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-11-20
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The Human Jungle
Overview: Danforth is assigned to take over the police department in a section of a large city saddled with juvenile delinquency, petty crimes, graft and also a recent unsolved murder of a strip-tease dancer. Recognizing the laxity of the department he implements many changes and soon finds himself under fire by the newspapers, the attorney of a racket leader and the denizens of this human jungle.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-10-03
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Away All Boats
Overview: The story of USS 'Belinda', a U.S. naval ship, and its crew during the battle of the Pacific 1943-1945, as it prepares for action and landing troops on enemy beachheads.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-08-16
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Torpedo Run
Overview: A submarine commander is on a relentless pursuit of a Japanese aircraft carrier in the South Seas during World War II.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-10-24
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Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan
Overview: After three civil-rights workers are murdered in Mississippi in 1964, a team of FBI agents is sent there to find the killers.
Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-02-20
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Incident in an Alley
Overview: A policeman is accused of manslaughtering a 14-year-old boy but is acquitted of all charges. Still, he feels a lot of guilt and begins to doubt if he really is innocent after all.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-05-16
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R.P.M.
Overview: R.P.M. stands for (political) revolutions per minute. Anthony Quinn plays a liberal college professor at a west coast college during the hedy days of campus activism in the late 1960s. Radical students take over the college, the president resigns, and Quinn's character, who has always been a champion of student activism, is appointed president. As the students continue to push the envelope of revolution, Quinn's character is faced with the challenge of restoring order or abetting the descent into anarchy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-09-16
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Walking Tall
Overview: Ex-wrestler and Tennessee Sheriff Buford Pusser walks tall and carries a big stick as he tussles with county-wide corruption and moonshining thugs.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-02-22
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The Clown and the Kid
Overview: The Clown and the Kid is a 1961 film. When Moko the Clown (Don Keefer) passes away, his newly orphaned son Shawn (Michael McGreevey) takes up with mysterious wanderer Peter (John Lupton), and the two strangers become close friends and partners until a closely guarded secret rips them apart.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-12-27
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Date with Dizzy
Overview: A Hubley stand-in instructs iconic trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie on scoring a short commercial for an instant rope ladder.
Genres: Animation Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-01-01
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El juicio
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1968-01-04
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Ace Eli and Rodger of the Skies
Overview: The story of Ace Eli Walford, a 1920s stunt flyer who barnstorms around the country, taking his eleven-year-old son Rodger with him as he goes from town to town. The place is rural Kansas, and the time is midsummer in the early nineteen-twenties, not long after World War I. Eli (Cliff Robertson), a barn storming pilot who has the emotional make-up of an 11-year-old, and Rodger (Eric Shea), his 11-year-old son who possesses the wisdom of the ancients, set off to see the world, which means flying all the way to San Willow. To Eli, San Willow seems to be as fabled as Xanadu and quite as remote. In essence, "Ace Eli and Rodger of the Skies" is about the adventures of Rodger and Eli getting from nowhere to nowhere. Eli, a killer with the ladies at first, always leaves them unsatisfied. He seems to have a sex problem. Rodger spends a lot of his time getting his dad out of scrapes. He also drinks, smokes and goes to sleep at night crying for his deceased mom.
Genres: Romance Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-31
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Sleeper
Overview: Miles Monroe, a clarinet-playing health food store proprietor, is revived out of cryostasis 200 years into a future world in order to help rebels fight an oppressive government regime.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-12-17
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The Percentage
Overview: Eddie Slovak meets an old Army buddy named Pete who once saved his life. He intends to repay his friend, but Pete refuses.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-01-05
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Lanigan's Rabbi
Overview: In this pilot film, an Irish Catholic police chief and a Jewish rabbi join together to solve the murder of a housekeeper whose body was discovered by the front entrance of the rabbi's synagogue.
Genres: Crime Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-06-17
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An Annapolis Story
Overview: Two brothers, both cadets at Annapolis, fall in love with the same girl.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-04-10
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Death of a Salesman
Overview: Willy Loman is an aging salesman who was recently fired from his job. Dealing with feelings of failure, Willy begins to relive events from the past that involve his older son, Biff, and his wife, Linda. Willy tries to learn from past mistakes and works to make amends with his family, but his biggest struggle is to make peace with himself over a failed dream of financial success.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-12-20
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The Scarlett O'Hara War
Overview: The trials and tribulations of David O. Selznick as he attempts to find an actress to play the role of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939).
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-05-19
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Marathon
Overview: A bemused, mild-mannered accountant takes up jogging and a lithesome, young woman sprints into his life, inspiring him to enter a marathon, to the annoyance of his non-running wife.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-30
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Who Is the Black Dahlia?
Overview: In 1947 Los Angeles, a police detective tries to solve the shocking and grisly murder of 22-year-old aspiring actress Elizabeth Short.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-03-01
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Candy Stripe Nurses
Overview: Young, sexy nurses and their hospital adventures: free-loving Sandy tries to cure a rock star of his sexual problems, uptight Dianne has an affair with a druggie star college basketball player all while trying to expose another doctor's malpractice, and juvenile delinquent Marisa has an affair with an accused man, in turn also trying to prove his innocence.
Genres: Comedy Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-05-01
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The Young Nurses
Overview: Sexy young nurses apply special therapy in their daily rounds, as they work against a drug ring operating out of the hospital
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-01
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The Grissom Gang
Overview: The Grissom Gang is a remake of the notorious 1949 British melodrama No Orchids For Miss Blandish. Kim Darby plays a 1920s-era debutante who is kidnapped and held for ransom. Her captors are the Grissoms, a family comprised of sadists and morons, and headed by Ma Barker clone Irene Dailey. One of the Grissoms, played by Scott Wilson, takes a liking to his prisoner, which results in a bloody breakdown of the family unit. Both The Grissom Gang and the original No Orchids For Miss Blandish were inspired by the best-seller by James Hadley Chase, though neither film retains Chase's original ending.
Genres: Crime Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-05-28
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Lucy & Desi: Before the Laughter
Overview: Lucy & Desi: Before the Laughter is described by CBS as "a dramatic love story" about the lives of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-02-10
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The Five of Me
Overview: Henry Hawksworth is a man menaced by a multiple personality. There is Dana, the conservative family man; Johnny, violent and sociopathic; Peter, creative and childish; and Phil, protective and unemotional. "Dana" falls in love with Ann and marries her. Following a crime, "Johnny" is arrested and tried. In court, Henry's multiple personalities are painfully revealed.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-05-12
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Hellcats of the Navy
Overview: Future "first couple" Ronald Reagan and Nancy Davis made their only joint film appearance in Hellcats of the Navy. Ronnie plays Casey Abbott, commander of a WW2 submarine, while Nancy portrays navy nurse Helen Blair, Abbott's off-and-on girlfriend. During a delicate mission in which his sub is ordered to retrieve a revolutionary new Japanese mine, Abbott is forced to leave frogman Wes Barton (Harry Lauter) behind to save the rest of his crew. But Abbott's second-in-command Don Landon (Eduard Franz) is convincing that Abbott's sacrifice of Barton was due to the fact that the dead man had been amorously pursuing Helen.
Genres: War Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-05-01
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The Caine Mutiny
Overview: When a US Naval captain shows signs of mental instability that jeopardize his ship, the first officer relieves him of command and faces court martial for mutiny.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-06-24
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Mirrors
Overview: A newlywed couple checks into an old hotel in New Orleans where the wife begins having dreams in which she encounters a sinister group of people who seem to want her for some nefarious purpose. When people around her start dying, she realizes she is not dreaming.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-02-01
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The Girl in the Empty Grave
Overview: The police chief of a small town begins an investigation after a young woman, who was supposed to have died several months previously, starts appearing around town just before her parents are found mysteriously dead.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-09-20
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The Girl in White
Overview: The first female doctor in New York City comes up against prejudice from male counterparts who feel threatened by her skills. Eventually, though, they come to respect her and romance blossoms between her and the head doctor.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-05-23
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Rabbit, Run
Overview: Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom comes home one day from his dead-end job to find his pregnant wife Janice asleep, splayed in front of the TV, highball glass in hand. After a moment's contemplation, he decides to leave. Taking his coat and car keys, he's off and running on a rambling, aimless journey.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-10-01
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Who Will Love My Children?
Overview: Lucile Fray has 10 children and terminal cancer. As her ne'er-do-well alcoholic husband, isn't capable enough to handle raising them, there's only one option left. As her last act on earth, Fray is determined to make sure her children have a secure future.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-02-13
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The Kid from Not-So-Big
Overview: A young girl is left to run her grandfather's frontier newspaper. She finds out about a group of conmen and a devious swindle and tries to expose them.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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The Car
Overview: The Utah community of Santa Ynez is being terrorized by a mysterious black coupe that appears out of nowhere and begins running people down. After the car kills off the town sheriff, Captain Wade Parent is determined to stop the murderous driver.
Genres: Horror Action Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-05-12
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Samurai
Overview: Lee Cantrell, a young San Francisco attorney by day, at night becomes a samurai warrior, and battles a crazed multi-millionaire who is planning to destroy the city with an earthquake machine.
Genres: Action Crime Adventure TV Movie Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-04-30
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The Bait
Overview: Tracy Fleming is a widowed police officer, with a young son, who has risen to the role of plainclothes operative. After six women have been raped and killed, Fleming agrees to go undercover in an effort to make herself a target for the killer. The climax places her in a life-and-death struggle with the killer.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-13
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Ready for the People
Overview: In a barroom fight over Connie Zelenko, Eddie Dickinson is badly wounded and Connie's boyfriend is killed. Witnesses claim Dickinson is the killer, but he maintains his innocence despite public prosecutor Murray Brock's advice that he plead guilty and take a life-imprisonment sentence rather than risk capital punishment. When Connie comes out of hiding, she confirms the other witnesses' stories, but Brock believes Dickinson is innocent. Dickinson sticks to his story at his trial but receives the death sentence. In the death house, Dickinson continues to maintain his innocence, but after the execution of the sentence, Brock receives a letter from Dickinson confessing to the murder.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-10-01
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Liar Liar
Overview: Fletcher Reed, a fast-talking, habitual liar, divorced father, is an incredibly successful lawyer who has built his career by lying. He is used to giving priority to his job and always breaking promises to be with his young son Max, but Fletcher often lets Max down, by missing his son's birthday party. But even then at 8:15 Max decides to make him an honest man as he wishes for a whole day where his father can't lie. When his son Max blows out the candles on his fifth birthday, he only has one wish - for his father to stop lying for 24 hours. When Max's wish comes true, Fletcher discovers that his mouth has suddenly become his biggest obstacle
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-03-21
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The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!
Overview: When a Soviet submarine gets stuck on a sandbar off the coast of a New England island, its commander orders his second-in-command, Lieutenant Rozanov, to get them moving again before there is an international incident. Rozanov seeks assistance from the island locals, including the police chief and a vacationing television writer, while trying to allay their fears of a Communist invasion by claiming he and his crew are Norwegian sailors.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-05-25
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The Last Word
Overview: When politicians try to force out a renter in a corrupt real-estate deal, the man decides to take matters into his own hands. He takes a police officer hostage, hoping to expose the scam and save his home.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-10-10
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A Rainy Day
Overview: A television star goes home to Texas for her father's funeral and spends time with her mother for the first time in five years. Reminiscing about her childhood allows the daughter to work through lifelong resentments and to forgive her mother.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-04-06
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All I Need Is a Conference!
Overview: American Industrial Film produced by General Electric. A businessman tries to get everyone he needs together to address an issue.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-01-01
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