William Boyett
Also Known As: Harry William Boyett, Bill Boyett
Biography: William Boyett was born on January 3, 1927 in Akron, Ohio, USA as Harry William Boyett. He is known for his work on Adam-12 (1968), Hôpital Central (1963) and Highway Patrol (1955). He was married to Joan Reynolds and Willagene Wither. He died on December 29, 2004 in Mission Hills, California, USA. Served in the Pacific with the US Navy during World War II. After university and service in the military, he was in various stage productions in New York City and Los Angeles before he started working in television and movies. Started acting on radio after winning a high school Shakespearean competition. Attended the University of Southern California. Born in Ohio, he was raised in Waco, Texas, before his family moved to Los Angeles in the early 1940s. Children: Suzy and Kevin. In the early 1950s, William Boyett was a weather forecaster (weatherman) on KCEN-TV Channel 6 in Waco-Temple TX.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Akron - Ohio - USA
Birthday: January 03, 1927
Deathday: December 20, 2004
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Gender: Male
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Shield for Murder
Overview: A crooked detective masterminds a robbery then fights to keep his money.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-08-27
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Big House, U.S.A
Overview: A tough and realistic crime drama unfolds as merciless kidnapper Jerry Barker (Ralph Meeker) demands ransom paid against a young runaway whose fate lands Barker in Casabel Island Prison.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-03-03
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Strange Lady in Town
Overview: Julia Garth, a female doctor, plans to introduce modern techniques of medicine to old Santa Fe in 1880, but is opposed by an established doctor, Rourke O'Brien.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-04-12
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As Young As We Are
Overview: Scandal erupts in a small town when a high school teacher is romantically linked with one of her male students. Newly minted teacher Kim (Pippa Scott) is thrilled to land her first job, even though the principal warns her that the school has a rough reputation. Before classes begin, Kim dates a local, Hank (Robert Harland), and is horrified to learn that he's one of her students.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-09-01
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The Bogus Green
Overview: Advance man Brass McGannon is nearly arrested for passing counterfeit money while promoting his circus' next stop. Returning to the circus, he learns that the Treasury Department suspects someone in the circus is responsible for the bogus dough appearing wherever the circus visits and suspicion falls on the show's newest employees. Meanwhile the alcoholic sideshow barker falls off the wagon when his beautiful daughter returns unexpectedly.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-07-06
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Every Girl Should Have One
Overview: A merry who-done-it diamond caper unfolds after a woman's million dollar necklace is stolen while she is having her portrait done.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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Confessions of the D.A. Man
Overview: A dangerous campus radical may go free if the District Attorney's office can't locate any witnesses for the prosecution.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-20
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Who Was That Lady?
Overview: In order to get back into the good graces with his wife with whom he has had a misunderstanding, a young chemistry professor concocts a wild story that he is an undercover FBI agent. To help him with his story he enlists the aid of a friend who is a TV writer. The wife swallows the story and the film's climax takes place in the sub-basements of the Empire State Building. The professor and his friend, believing themselves prisoners on an enemy submarine, patriotically try to scuttle the vessel and succeed only in rocking the building.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-04-08
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Which Witch is Which?
Overview: The Ranger is throwing a big Halloween party and Buttons and Rusty wanna come, but instead they gotta thwart the evil plans of two criminals camping out in the park.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-10-14
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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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Rosetti and Ryan: Men Who Love Women
Overview: A couple of resourceful, free-wheeling criminal attorneys with an eye for the ladies confront a no-nonsense judge while trying to clear an heiress in the slaying of her husband, although her explanation of a mysterious intruder provides them with a rather weak case.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-05-19
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Mobile Two
Overview: A TV reporter whose career was ruined by his drinking gets another chance when he is hired by a TV news program.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-09-02
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The Rocketeer
Overview: A stunt pilot comes across a prototype jetpack that gives him the ability to fly. However, evil forces of the world also want this jetpack at any cost.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-06-21
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Period of Adjustment
Overview: A newlywed couple on their honeymoon visit friends who are having marital problems of their own.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-10-31
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Cocoon
Overview: In this pilot film to the "Hawaii Five-0" television series, special law officer Steve McGarrett tracks down Red Chinese operatives and their spy ring in Honolulu.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-09-20
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When a Stranger Calls
Overview: A student babysitter has her evening disturbed when the phone rings. So begins a series of increasingly terrifying and threatening calls that lead to a shocking revelation.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-09-28
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Forbidden Planet
Overview: Starship C57D travels to planet Altair 4 in search of the crew of spaceship "Bellerophon," a scientific expedition that has been missing for twenty years. They find themselves unwelcome by the expedition's lone survivor and warned of destruction by an invisible force if they don't turn back immediately.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-03-23
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Girls in Prison
Overview: Framed for the murder of a record company president in 1952 Hollywood, young, aspiring singer Aggie O'Hanlon is sentenced to life in prison and tries to adjust to her life life behind bars in a hellish womens prison where she is befriended by other "lifer" inmates who help her out when Aggie finds herself marked for murder by an unknown source who thinks she knows more about the murder than she does.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-08-19
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Space Raiders
Overview: A futuristic, sensitive tale of adventure and confrontation when a 10 year old boy is accidentally kidnapped by a spaceship filled with a motley crew of space pirates.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-07-01
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Blood Run
Overview: A workaholic cop begins to suspect that his new lover may also be a serial killer.
Genres: TV Movie Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Sam Whiskey
Overview: A widow hires an ex-gambler to retrieve gold bars from a sunken river boat in Colorado and discreetly return them to the Federal Mint, from where they had been stolen by her dead husband.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-04-01
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Strays
Overview: A young married couple and their daughter are terrorized by a pride of ferocious feral felines.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-12-18
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The Hidden
Overview: When average, law-abiding citizens suddenly turn to a life of hedonistic behavior and violent crime, Detective Tom Beck is tasked with helping young FBI agent Lloyd Gallagher determine the cause.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller Action Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-10-30
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Inside Detroit
Overview: Gus Linden, former racketeer head of a Detroit local of the United Automobile Workers of America, A.F.L, attempts to destroy his successor, Blair Vicker, so he can put his old rackets back into the auto factories. Vickers fights him off, ultimately winning help from Linden's attractive daughter Barbara and from Joni Calvin, Vickers' moll.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-01-01
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Ricochet
Overview: An army sergeant blames himself for causing a rookie's death during training.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-10-03
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Gypsy Angels
Overview: Vanna White is a stripper who falls for a stunt pilot who develops amnesia after a crash.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-06-08
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The Turkey Caper
Overview: It is Thanksgiving at Chucklewood Park and Buttons and Rusty are worried. They desire to rescue their friends, the wild turkeys of the forest who have been captured. Every turkey is rescued with the support of Ranger Jones. Buttons and Rusty enjoy a grand holiday celebration with their family.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-11-09
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Vice Squad
Overview: A Los Angeles police captain (Edward G. Robinson) ties the case of a slain policeman to a bank robbery, all in a day.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-07-31
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Last Clear Chance
Overview: On the day young Alan receives his driver's license, Officer Hal Jackson visits the Dixon farm to sternly lecture the family on the dangers of carelessness at railroad crossings.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-01-01
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Ike
Overview: Eisenhower the military man is the focus of this mini-series, his relationships with the other wartime leaders, and, very discreetly, his personal relationship with his driver, Kay Summersby.
Genres: Drama History War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-05-03
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Somebody Up There Likes Me
Overview: The story of boxer Rocky Graziano's rise from juvenile delinquent to world champ.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-07-04
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The Deliberate Stranger
Overview: Based on a true story, this film depicts the life of Ted Bundy, the serial killer. In 1974, after having murdered several young women, he leaves Seattle for Utah, where he is a law student and where other girls disappear. It takes the cooperation of a number of police forces to work efficiently on this case. Soon, but not soon enough, the police eliminate endless possibilities and close in on him. Bundy is tried in the media and his good-boy attitude brings him sympathy but also the hatred of many.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-05-04
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Getting Physical
Overview: The world of female bodybuilding provides the backdrop for this tale of an aspiring young actress who initially becomes interested in the sport as a means of self-defense following a physical attack by two men, but then finds that while concentrating on building up her body her relationship with her parents, with whom she is living, and her new-found boyfriend, a young cop, is breaking down. Several noted bodybuilders and iron-pumpers, male and female, put in appearances to give this production an added authenticity.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-03-20
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Bloody Birthday
Overview: In 1970, three children are born at the height of a total eclipse. Due to the sun and moon blocking Saturn, which controls emotions, they have become heartless killers ten years later, and are able to escape detection because of their youthful and innocent facades. A boy and his teenage sister become endangered when they stumble onto the bloody truth.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-04-28
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The Golden Gate Murders
Overview: An elderly, venerable priest goes over the side of the Golden Gate Bridge and everyone except his nurse, Sister Benecia, believes that it was suicide. Sister Benecia finally manages to convince the police department to assign a detective, the cynical, irascible Paul Silver, to investigate. The "Mad Nun" and the "Mad Cop" become a formidable investigative team -- and much, much more.
Genres: Crime Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-10-03
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Theodore Rex
Overview: In an alternate futuristic society, a tough female police detective is paired with a talking dinosaur to find the killer of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals leading them to a mad scientist bent on creating a new Armageddon.
Genres: Fantasy Science Fiction Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-12-14
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Fighting Trouble
Overview: An overambitious shutterbug almost gets his lights put out permanently when he decides to snap a picture of a mob boss.
Genres: Crime Adventure Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-09-16
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Newsies
Overview: A week in the life of the exploited, child newspaper sellers in turn-of-the-century New York. When their publisher, Joseph Pulitzer, tries to squeeze a little more profit out of their labours, they organize a strike, only to be confronted with the Pulitzer's hard-ball tactics.
Genres: Drama Music History Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-04-10
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Until They Sail
Overview: Four sisters in New Zealand fall for soldiers en route to the Pacific theater in WWII.
Genres: Romance Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-10-08
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Tarawa Beachhead
Overview: A soldier is expected to never question the actions of his commanding officer, but when a Marine sees his CO breaking the law, he finds himself facing a difficult dilemma in this provocative war drama.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-11-02
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Private Hell 36
Overview: In New York, a bank robbery of $300,000 goes unsolved for a year, until some of the marked bills are found in a Los Angeles drugstore theft. Police detectives Cal Bruner and Jack Farnham investigate and are led from the drugstore to a nightclub, where singer Lili is another recipient of a stolen bill. With Lili's help, the partners track down the remaining money, but both Lili and Frank are dismayed when Cal decides he wants to keep part of it.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-09-03
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Airport
Overview: Melodrama about a bomber on board an airplane, an airport almost closed by snow, and various personal problems of the people involved.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-03-25
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The Wish That Changed Christmas
Overview: Ivy, an orphan wants a grandmother and a doll for Christmas. She mistakes a sign greeting her into a town, she jumps off a bus and shouts, "It's me, Ivy!". In the cold she looks for a grandma unsucessfully. She finally finds a woman who always wanted children and a doll, Holly. Based on the book The Story of Holly and Ivy.
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-12-20
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