Ben Murphy
Also Known As: Benjamin Edward Castleberry Jr., Ben Castleberry, Benjamin Edward Murphy
Biography: Ben Murphy (born Benjamin Edward Castleberry Jr.) is an American actor. He has appeared primarily in television roles and is best known for his role as Kid Curry in the 1971-1973 ABC television series Alias Smith and Jones.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Jonesboro, Arkansas, USA
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Death Follows a Psycho
Overview: Private eye Wade Griffin finds himself in an intense stand-off with a "human time-bomb", who is holding four people hostage and will kill them all unless Griffin delivers the person that the bomber really wants dead.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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Time Walker
Overview: From deep within the tomb of the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun, Professor Douglas McCadden ships the coffin of Ankh-Vanharis to the California Institute of Sciences where X-rays reveal five diamond-like crystals hidden within the coffin. Technician Peter Sharpe steals the crystals but doesn't notice that the powerful X-ray has revived a green fungus. When the coffin is opened at a university press conference, the reporters uncover more than they bargained for. The mummy has disappeared... and the Time Walker is alive again!
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-11-01
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Sidecar Racers
Overview: You're going to get us both killed with your grandstanding...! Two guys, one girl, and no brakes! Death defying daredevils burning up the track in thrill-a-minute action. Burning the track like its never been burned before!
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-04-30
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Yours, Mine and Ours
Overview: When a widower with ten children marries a widow with eight, can the twenty of them ever come together as one big happy family?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-04-24
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The Thousand Plane Raid
Overview: In 1943, Colonel Greg Brandon, stationed at an United States Army Air Forces 8th Air Force, 103rd Bomb Group base in England, repeatedly attempts to persuade superiors that massive daylight bombing will hasten the end of World War II. In spite of the mission's extreme difficulty, his plan is finally put into effect against a German aircraft factory. During preparation for the raid, Brandon alienates his men by insisting that normal bombing operations continue. His disdain for cautious Lieutenant Archer and brash RAF Wing Commander Trafton Howard further antagonizes his associates, including his girl friend, WAC Lieutenant Gabrielle Ames. When his bomber crashes the morning of the mission, Brandon boards a bomber manned by Archer and Howard. During the effective air raid, he is impressed by Archer's courage and Howard's judgment.
Genres: Adventure War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-07-15
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The Case of the Baltimore Girls
Overview: Former police captain and his assistant investigate extortion and murder at a dating service.
Genres: Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-23
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Runaway!
Overview: A group of skiers are trapped inside a runaway train hurtling down a mountainside.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-09-29
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Heatwave!
Overview: A devastating heatwave hits the Los Angeles area and a young expecting couple try to evade it by escaping to a mountain resort town.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-27
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The Graduate
Overview: A disillusioned college graduate finds himself torn between his older lover and her daughter.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-12-21
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This Is the West That Was
Overview: A lighthearted look at the saga of Wild Bill Hickok and his relationship with Calamity Jane as he is targeted for revenge by some tough gunfighters.
Genres: Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-12-17
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Riding with Death
Overview: Agent Sam Casey is in a satellite explosion and the radiation turns him invisible. He gets a watch that keeps him visible, and he uses it to switch from visible to invisible. He is assigned to transport a chemical called Tripolydine, which is purported to be the most efficient fuel; when the cover is blown on that and he uncovers and stops the Tripolydine fraud, he must then stop a terrorist from blowing up race cars.
Genres: Science Fiction TV Movie Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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The Secret War of Jackie's Girls
Overview: This prospective pilot to a series tells the improbable story of five American female pilots recruited into the British RAF, before the USA joined the war, to fly a new top-secret aircraft -- the helicopter.
Genres: Action Drama War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-11-29
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Uncommon Valor
Overview: The pilot for an unsold weekly series, Uncommon Valor stresses the courage and resourceful of a team of firefighters in Salt Lake City, Utah. Headed by dauntless battalion chief Tom Riordan (Mitchell Ryam), the unit tries to drench a raging conflagration at County General Hospital (a disaster enhanced by some pretty good special effects). They also have to battle the villain of the piece, discreetly described in the original network press release as a "deranged arsonist."
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-22
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McBride: Semper Fi
Overview: Mike McBride is a curmudgeon with a heart of gold. He takes cases based on their merit rather than on their monetary value, which often leads to terse notices from bill collectors. A disillusioned member of the LAPD, McBride left the force after twelve years and went back to school to become a lawyer. With the aid of his ever-present sidekick, Phil Newberry, and his former girlfriend, Detective Roberta Hansen, McBride and his team solve crimes the old-fashioned way.
Genres: Mystery Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-01-18
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Anatomy of a Crime
Overview: Private detective David Ross has two apparently unconnected cases to investigate in the same day. In the first he is hired by a millionaire who paid a large ransom for his kidnapped daughter twelve years before, but she was never seen again. Now a woman has come forward who claims the young girl she raised is the millionaire's missing daughter. Later, Ross is contacted by a retired burlesque dancer who's about to publish her memoirs and possibly reveal the secrets of some important people, but someone is determined to stop her.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-06-13
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The Letters
Overview: Story of people whose lives were changed because of a year-long delay in the delivery of some letters.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-03
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Bridger
Overview: The story of famous frontiersman Jim Bridger, who is given 40 days to cut a trail through the Rocky Mountains to the California coast and told that if he can't do it, the territory will be lost to England.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-09-10
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The Cradle Will Fall
Overview: Kathy DeMaio checks into the hospital and thinks she sees a body being loaded into the trunk of a car. When the body turns up later and the murderer, Dr. Highley, thinks that DeMaio can identify him, her life is put in jeopardy. Originally made for television and adapted from a novel by Mary Higgins Clark, the interesting twist to this thriller is that several cast members of the daytime soap opera "Guiding Light" play those same roles here.
Genres: Thriller Horror Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-05-24
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Stark: Mirror Image
Overview: Sequel to the original movie about a hard-boiled Kansas City cop finds him tracking a colleague's killer to Las Vegas.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-05-14
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Gidget's Summer Reunion
Overview: Former beach bunny/girl surfer Francine “Gidget” Lawrence is an adult and married to her long-term beau Jeff “Moondoggie” Griffin. She deals with a variety of marital spats, as well as running her own travel agency, running interferences with her teenage niece, and trying to arrange a reunion of her husband’s old surfing friends. Meanwhile, Jeff works as an architect and must fend off romantic advances from his beautiful and lascivious boss. Gidget’s niece wants to learn how to surf and gets too much when she sneaks out to see a suave, self-serving beach bum behind the back of her nerdy boyfriend.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-06-01
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The Day They Hanged Kid Curry
Overview: Hayes visits con-artist Silky O'Sullivan at his San Francisco mansion and discovers that Kid Curry is on trial for murder in Colorado. Heyes rushes to the town and sees Curry in the audience; the man on trial is an impostor who didn't commit the murder he's accused of. Originally a longer duration episode of the TV series Alias Smith and Jones (1971). It occasionally appeared in syndication as a TV movie, under its own name, with the series title bluntly edited out of the regular series' opening credits.
Genres: Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-09-16
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