Willard Parker
Also Known As: Worster Van Eps
Biography: Willard Parker (born Worster Van Eps, February 5, 1912 – December 4, 1996) was an American film and television actor. He was a leading man under contract to Columbia Pictures in the 1940s and starred in the TV series Tales of the Texas Rangers (1955–58).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: February 06, 1912
Age: 113 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: December 04, 1996
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You Gotta Stay Happy
Overview: Indecisive heiress Dee Dee Dillwood is pushed into marrying her sixth fiancée, but unable to face the wedding night, she flees into the adjacent hotel room of commercial pilot Marvin Payne, who just wants to sleep. She then persuades him to take her to California.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-10-28
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A Slight Case of Murder
Overview: Former bootlegger Remy Marco has a slight problem with foreclosing bankers, a prospective son-in-law, and four hard-to-explain corpses.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-26
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Kiss Me Kate
Overview: A pair of divorced actors are brought together to participate in a musical version of The Taming of the Shrew. Of course, the couple seem to act a great deal like the characters they play, and they must work together when mistaken identities get them mixed up with the mafia.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-11-26
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The Vanquished
Overview: A man returns to his home -- a post Civil-War village -- and finds the law is in the hands of a few scrupulous people.
Genres: Drama Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-06-03
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Hunt the Man Down
Overview: A lawyer uncovers secrets behind a 12-year-old murder case.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-12-26
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Apache Drums
Overview: A gambler is thrown out of a western town, but returns when the town is suddenly threatened by a band of marauding Apaches.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-04-01
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Lure of the Swamp
Overview: Simon Lute ekes out a modest living chartering his skiff to tourists and guiding them through the labyrinthine bayou.
Genres: Thriller Adventure Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-05-01
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The Earth Dies Screaming
Overview: A crack test pilot lands to find the planet has been devastated by unknown forces. There are a few survivors, so he organizes them in a plan to ward off control by a group of killer robots.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-10-14
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That Certain Woman
Overview: A gangster's widow fights for love despite society's disapproval.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-30
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Alcatraz Island
Overview: A man who has been railroaded into prison is framed for the murder of a fellow inmate and must prove his innocence.
Genres: Romance Drama Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-13
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Bodyhold
Overview: A plumber with a girlfriend turns pro wrestler for a crooked promoter.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-12-08
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Naked Gun
Overview: Don Pablo Salazar steals a fortune in jewels from an Indian tribe and an Aztec medicine man puts a curse on the jewels until they are returned. Years later, an American insurance man promises to deliver the Salazar fortune to the rightful heir...
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-11-01
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David Harding, Counterspy
Overview: A Counterspy in the US military is killed under suspicious circumstances. His friend, Jerry Baldwin, a Navy Commander, is assigned to replace him and stop a saboteur in a torpedo factory.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-07-13
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Sangaree
Overview: Lamas plays an indentured servant who rises to power in Georgia shortly after the Revolutionary War.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-05-17
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The High Powered Rifle
Overview: A private detective (Willard Parker) falls for the girlfriend (Allison Hayes) of a racketeer whom he believes has targeted him for death.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-09-01
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Young Jesse James
Overview: When Missouri farm boy Jesse James witnesses the lynching of his father by the Yankees, he forsakes his family's homestead to find his brother Frank, a soldier in Quantrill's Raiders, a renegade band of Confederates. Bent on revenge, Jesse begs to join the raiders.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-08-02
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What a Woman
Overview: An author and a literary agent become involved after selling film rights to his racy book.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-12-29
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The Great Jesse James Raid
Overview: The famed outlaw is talked into saddling up for one more bank robbery.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-07-17
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The Mating of Millie
Overview: Self-sufficient in life and successful in business, prim and proper Millie McGonigle wants just one more thing, a child. When she asks to adopt orphan Tommy Bassett, but learns that she will first have to have a husband, Millie turns to a recently fired bus driver, Doug Andrews. Though he has no interest in marriage, Doug offers to help Millie find a husband by transforming her into a beautiful and exciting woman, one who catches the eye of two eligible bachelors, including the orphanage's president.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-03-08
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Renegades
Overview: The daughter of a prominent citizen marries an outlaw's son.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-06-13
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Slightly French
Overview: A film director, in bad standing with his studio, tries to turn a local carnival dancer into a "French" movie star and pass her off as his big new discovery.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-02-02
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The Bandit Queen
Overview: Zara Montalve, half Spanish and half America, returns to her native California in time to see her parents murdered for their hacienda and gold by Sheriff Jim Harding and his gang. Posing as Lola Belmont, an American visiting from Detroit, teams up with Joaquin Murietta, posing as Carlos Del Rio, to form a Robin-Hood type band that takes vengeance on the gang and restores stolen gold to its rightful owners, aided by militia leader Dan Hinsdale.
Genres: Western Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-12-22
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Over the Goal
Overview: The Carlton State star quarterback is wrongly thrown in jail, almost guaranteeing a major loss as well as costing the college a donation which would save the school from closing.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-16
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Calamity Jane and Sam Bass
Overview: Drifter Sam Bass shows up in Denton, Texas (soon to host a great horse race) looking for work. Before long, he attracts the attention of pretty storekeeper Katherine Egan (the sheriff's sister) and that wild frontiers woman, Calamity Jane. Circumstances make Sam richer by a very fast race horse. But his seemingly good luck with horses and women leads him to disaster. Will he be forced into a life of crime?
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-09-20
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Caribbean
Overview: Francis Barclay, a former member of the British Admiralty, who was captured in the early 1700s, and sold into slavery, by Andrew McAllister, and forced into piracy, enlists the aid of Dick Lindsay, to help him invade MacAllister's fortified island. The latter falls in love with MacAllister's daughter,Christine.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-09-01
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The Great Waltz
Overview: A musical based on the life and music of Johann Strauss, Jr.
Genres: Music Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-11-01
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One Way to Love
Overview: A Chicago team of radio scriptwriters must split up when he takes a job with his bride-to-be's father, and the other must write commercial jingles.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-01-08
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Emergency Wedding
Overview: Dr. Helen Hunt is a physician married to millionaire Peter Judson Kirk Jr., who is jealous his wife is spending too much time with her male patients. He makes a fool of himself trying to prove her guilt.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-11-15
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The Invisible Menace
Overview: Army Private Eddie Pratt smuggles his new bride into camp in hopes of having a happy wedding night. Instead they discover a murder. Colonel Rogers of Army Intelligence arrives to take over the case. The prime suspect, Jevries, is well-known to Rogers, who sets out to get a confession from Jevries even though there are plenty of other suspects.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-11
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Love Is on the Air
Overview: A newscaster gets demoted for exposing the town's criminal activities over the airwaves.
Genres: Romance Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-02
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The Fighting Guardsman
Overview: A French Baron robs Louis XVI like Robin Hood.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-04-24
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Walk Tall
Overview: To keep peace, an Army captain (Willard Parker) hunts for an outlaw-gang leader (Kent Taylor) who is raiding Indians.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-09-01
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Missing Witnesses
Overview: A detective and his bumbling sidekick join the crackdown on racketeering in '30s New York City.
Genres: Romance Action Adventure Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-11
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The Devil's Saddle Legion
Overview: Tal is in a lot of trouble. Seems that his father has been murdered while he was in Montana and they put the blame on him. Also, he has been framed and sentenced to 10 years hard labor for another murder which he did not do. The crooks need convict labor to build the dam so they convict innocent people for a pool of cheap labor. But Karan believes that Tal, using the name Smith J. Brown, could not be a killer. Unknown to her, her step brother, Hub, is part of the gang.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-14
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The Zero Hour
Overview: A celebrated Broadway actress and a wealthy widowed businessman are brought together through their shared affection for a young orphan.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-26
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Relentless
Overview: A man wrongly accused of murder tracks the true culprit across the desert.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-06-15
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Air Patrol
Overview: L.A. detective Sgt. Castle and his two partners investigate the theft of a valuable Fragonard painting by a thief who pilots a helicopter.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-07-17
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The Wreck of the Hesperus
Overview: The story of an ex-sea captain who uses devious means to make his salvage company a success. Based on Longfellow's famous poem.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-02-04
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My True Story
Overview: Ann Martin is serving time as a jewel thief. Paroled and determined to stay clean, she quickly finds out that her freedom was bought by an old, vicious boss that has picked her for a job.
Genres: Romance Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-03-08
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Waco
Overview: Preacher Sam Stone and his new beautiful wife Jill stand by the grave of Sheriff Billy Kelly, who died trying to bring law-and-order to Emporia, Wyoming. Among the mourners are businessman George Gates, mayor Ned West and his daughter Patricia. The mayor rejects Gates' suggestion that he release gunfighter Waco from jail to clean up the town. When Patricia is attacked by a cowboy after leaving her boyfriend Scotty Moore, the mayor finally decides it is time accept the governor;s offer of amnesty for Waco. Jill Stone's first reaction, when learning that Waco has been released, is to leave town before Waco finds out that she, his former fiancée, has married the town preacher while Waco was in jail. Town boss Joe Gore is not overjoyed, either, but Ike and Pete Jenner eagerly await the chance to shoot Waco for the death of their brother. Written by Les Adams
Genres: Action Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-09-01
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Lone Texan
Overview: After the Civil War, a Texan who served in the Union army comes back home to find himself ostracized by his neighbors for having fought against the Confederacy. On top of that, he finds that his younger brother is now the sheriff, and is ruling the town with an iron hand.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-03-01
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The Adventurous Blonde
Overview: The third of nine Torchy Blane movies. Angry that police detective Steve McBride (Barton MacLane) is giving preferential treatment to his reporter-fiancée, Torchy Blane (Glenda Farrell), reporters from a rival newspaper plan a fake murder with the idea that Torchy's paper will print the story and look foolish. The tables are turned when the fake murder turns out to be the genuine article.
Genres: Romance Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-13
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The Secret Fury
Overview: The wedding of Ellen and David is halted by a stranger who insists that the bride is already married to someone else. Though the flabbergasted Ellen denies the charge, the interloper produces enough evidence that his accusation must be investigated. Ellen and David travel to the small coastal town where her first wedding allegedly occurred. There, they meet a number of individuals whose stories make Ellen question her own sanity.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-02-21
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