Buck Young
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Biography: John Otto "Buck" Young (April 12, 1920 – February 9, 2000) was an American actor who played the role as Sergeant Whipple on the Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. TV series, and Deputy Joe Watson on The Andy Griffith Show. In 1944, during World War II, Young was drafted into the US Army Air Forces. He married actress Peggy Stewart in 1953 and had two children, Grey Young and Abigail Young who each acted in one film. He was the brother-in-law of Stewart's sister, Patricia O'Rourke, and her husband, Wayne Morris. In 1962, he appeared three times in James Arness's TV Western series Gunsmoke, playing “Carl” in S7E24’s “Coventry”, “Corporal Stone” in S7E27's “Wagon Girls” & “John” in S8E1’s “Call Me Dodie”. Buck Young took the part as Sgt Whipple in the Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. TV series at the beginning of the show in 1964. He acted in a total of 95 films and the Gomer Pyle. U.S.M.C. series. Buck Young also played in Barnaby Jones in the episode titled “The Last Contract” (12/31/1974). Young died on February 9, 2000, in Los Angeles at age 79.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Winchester, Virginia, USA
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Birthday: August 12, 1920
Age: 104 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: February 09, 2000
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Stand by Your Man
Overview: The rags-to-riches tale of country western queen, Tammy Wynette, from her impoverished childhood to country's First Lady and her two rocky marriages to fellow superstar George Jones, who had been her childhood idol.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-05-13
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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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Crossfire
Overview: Vince Rossi is a cop who has been asked by the department to go undercover. Part of the process was being dismissed from the department and being branded a dirty cop. And his first job is to go after a mob boss.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-03-24
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Green Eyes
Overview: Disillusioned Vietnam veteran Lloyd Dubeck travels back to Southeast Asia in search among thousands of war orphans for the son he left behind.
Genres: Drama War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-01-03
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The Lady in Red
Overview: A farm girl's life turns upside down after she moves to Chicago and becomes trapped in a vicious cycle of prostitution and crime.
Genres: Action Crime Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-07-01
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The Magic of Lassie
Overview: Lassie is claimed from his family by a "former owner" and then braves a cross country trip to rejoin the ones that love her.
Genres: Drama Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-08-02
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The Hostage Heart
Overview: When billionaire industrialist goes into a hospital for a heart operation, some people who claim to be revolutionaries enter the operating room and draw guns and holds the man and the entire surgical staff hostage. They then demand 10 million dollars. The administrator calls the police and the FBI. The police claim jurisdiction over the matter and the man in charge is intent on taking them even if some of the hostages get killed. Eventually they learn that some of the people in hospital are with them.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-09-09
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The Wackiest Wagon Train in the West
Overview: This comical western chronicles the silly adventures of a bumbling wagonmaster and his clutzy assistant as they attempt to take seven passengers across the prairie. Among the passengers are two wealthy Bostonians, an aspiring showgirl, a teacher, and bachelor. The story is adapted from Dusty's Trail, a television sitcom.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-08-01
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Last Resort
Overview: George Lollar takes his family on vacation with "Club Sand", a shoddy and untrustworthy company. On their tropical island, they find soldiers everywhere, an unhelpful staff, inhospitable accomodation and undesirable holiday makers, but everyone except for George manages to have fun in the sun.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-03-31
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Sam's Son
Overview: Michael Landon's semi-autobiographical sketch of his earlier life. It's the story of Gene Orowitz, a high school student struggling with his identity, who finds success as a javelin thrower on the track team.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-08-17
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The $5.20 an Hour Dream
Overview: A debt-ridden divorced mother and factory worker strives to get a higher-paying job on the traditionally all-male main assembly line.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-26
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Katherine
Overview: A harrowing look at the 60s and early 70s through the eyes of Katherine Alman, a wealthy debutante who slowly, but inexorably spirals down into a fight for the causes that shook a nation, leading a path to the underground life. Written by Miguel Cane
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-10-05
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The Millionaire
Overview: Three people's lives are drastically changed when they are suddenly given one million dollars each by an eccentric billionaire in this pilot to a prospective new series which the producers hoped would equal the success of the original one that ran from 1955 to 1960.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-19
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Fun and Games
Overview: A divorcee decides to fight back after her hopes of gaining a promotion are dashed by her rejection of the advances of her boss, and it is only after he actually attacks her that her company and her union take notice.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-05-25
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The Georgia Peaches
Overview: A Southern gal who runs her family's auto repair shop, her aspiring country singer sister, and their stock-car racing friend who runs moonshine on the side are conned into working as government undercover agents to track down a dangerous criminal in this pilot to a prospective series.
Genres: Action Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-11-08
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The Killing of Randy Webster
Overview: When his teenage son is shot by the Houston police following a stolen van chase, his father undertakes a tireless investigation into the truth and uncovers the fact that the gun found with the boy's body was a "throwdown," a weapon planted by the cops.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-03-11
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Tarzan in Manhattan
Overview: The ape man flies to New York, where cabby Jane and her father help him rescue Cheetah from a madman.
Genres: TV Movie Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-04-15
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Not With My Wife, You Don't
Overview: During the Korean War, Italian nurse Virna Lisi falls in love with two American fliers, Tony Curtis and George C. Scott. Lisi marries Curtis after he convinces her that Scott has been killed in a plane crash. She soon discovers Scott is alive, but remains happily married to Curtis until Scott re-enters their lives 14 years later.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-11-02
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Angel Face
Overview: Ambulance driver Frank Jessup is ensnared in the schemes of the sensuous but dangerous Diane Tremayne.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-01-02
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Who Is Julia?
Overview: A strikingly beautiful and wealthy woman is hit by a truck and is all smashed up and nearly killed. At nearly the same time, a very plain looking lower middle class woman simply faints and suffers brain death. The beautiful womans brain is fine, so, doctors merely transplant her brain into plain Jane. Problems ensue when plain Janes husband continues to believe she is still his wife. She has no memory of him, and goes to live with the beautiful womans husband. She doesn't mix well with her new socialite friends and family. Mirrors are emotional battlefields as well.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-10-26
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The Late Liz
Overview: Religion changes a woman's attitude towards alcohol.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-09-01
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Look What's Happened to Rosemary's Baby
Overview: Baby Adrian is now all grown up and separated from his mother, wrestling with the occult influences that plague him, and trying to outrun Satan himself.
Genres: Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-10-29
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The Bamboo Saucer
Overview: A flying saucer hidden in a Red Chinese peasant village is sought by teams from the United States and U.S.S.R. On finding it, they band together to explore the saucer and take a trip into space.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-10-23
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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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The New Adventures of Heidi
Overview: The long-familiar Heidi tale is given a contemporary (and musical) setting as the young heroine leaves her familiar Swiss mountain for the bright lights of Manhattan.
Genres: Music Family Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-13
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The Jayne Mansfield Story
Overview: The story of the 1950s platinum-blonde sex symbol whose search for stardom and meteoric (if brief) career ended in an automobile accident when she was 36.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-10-29
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Rehearsal for Murder
Overview: A year after his fiancée's death, a playwright schedules a rehearsal for his new play, which proves to be a trap for her killer.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-05-26
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They Call It Murder
Overview: A small-town district attorney is saddled with several major investigations, including a gambler's murder and a possible insurance scam.
Genres: Mystery Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-12-17
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The Stranger
Overview: An astronaut enters a vortex and crash-lands on a parallel planet where he's not welcome.
Genres: TV Movie Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-02-26
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The Night the Bridge Fell Down
Overview: A group of random individuals get stranded on a bridge that begins collapsing at both ends. Not only that, but there's a gun-wielding bank robber using the bridge as his means of escape refusing to let any of the rescuers draw near the survivors. Time is running out ...
Genres: Action Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-09-06
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Mitchell
Overview: A tough-guy cop pursues two drug runners across the city to bust a large syndicate. Very much an anti-hero, Mitchell often ignores the orders of his superiors and demonstrates disdain for by-the-book development work as well as normal social graces.
Genres: Crime Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-09-10
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Claws
Overview: A grizzly bear who is wounded by three hunters in one year goes on a killing spree in the woods, taking revenge on humans as a whole. Jason and Chris Monroe, an estranged husband and wife, pursue the bear after it kills their only son, Buck.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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Mayday at 40,000 Feet
Overview: The co-pilot and engineer of a passenger jet struggle to keep the plane airborne after a marshal onboard, transporting a murderer to prison, has a heart attack and the killer uses his gun to shoot the captain and blow out the hydraulics.
Genres: Drama Action TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-04-29
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Breezy
Overview: A free-spirited young woman, Breezy, hitches a ride with an aging real estate salesman, Frank. Sensing that she just wants to use him he tries to have nothing to do with her. She's not that easy to shake, however, and over time a bond forms between them.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-11-18
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I Take These Men
Overview: Moments before being surprised at an anniversary garden party thrown by her husband and their family and friends, Carol Sherwood shocks him by saying she wants a divorce and during the course of the party, she has three separate fantasies of marriages to three different men. The first is with egotistical real estate magnate Craig Wyler. The second is with milquetoast English professor David Koenig. The third is with her best friend Elaine's husband, Phil.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-05
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The Young Warriors
Overview: In World War II, a tough sergeant is put in charge of a squad of young recruits and assigned to lead them on a mission against the Germans.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-02-03
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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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Death Wish II
Overview: Paul Kersey is again a vigilante trying to find five punks who murdered his housekeeper and daughter in Los Angeles.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-02-20
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