William Beckley
Also Known As: William Francis Beckley
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
Birthday: January 15, 1930
Deathday: March 11, 2015
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Farewell to the Planet of the Apes
Overview: When the astronauts Burke and Virdon, with their chimp companion Galen, are captured in a fishing village that employs human slave labor, they must prove their worth as fishermen or be sacrificed to the 'gods of the sea,' or what the men call sharks. Escaping from the forced labor camp, the trio become involved in a plot to develop a glider to drop a fragmentation bomb on the gorilla council. [The fifth of five telefilms edited from episodes of the 1974 TV series; this film combines the episodes "Tomorrow's Tide" and "Up Above the World So High"]
Genres: TV Movie Thriller Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-11-21
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The Killing of Sister George
Overview: When June Buckridge arrives at her London flat and announces 'They are going to murder me', her long-time lover and doll-cuddling flat mate Alice 'Childie' McNaught realizes that things are going to change. For June is referring to her character 'Sister George', a lovable nurse she portrays in a popular daytime serial. To make matters worse, the widowed executive at the BBC responsible for the decision to kill off Sister George - Mercy Croft is also a predatory lesbian who is after Childie and will stop at nothing to get what she wants.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-09-01
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Sextette
Overview: On the day of her wedding to her sixth husband, a glamorous silver screen sex symbol is sought to intervene in a political dispute between nations, which leads to chaos.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-03-03
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A Time for Love
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Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1974-07-19
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Casino
Overview: Mike Connors is a suave gambler who owns a floating hotel/casino which takes a turn when the passengers are stalked by a saboteur during the casino ship's maiden voyage.
Genres: Action Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-08-01
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Hard Knocks
Overview: A suspenseful and romantic tale of a young man, Guy Montgomery (Michael Christian), whose whole life thus far has been a desperate escape from a tragic and dangerous past. Idealistic as he tries to be, a series of unfortunate incidents in the neon jungle of Hollywood lead him deeper and deeper into the mire of its seamier side until one terrifying evening at the home of a famous actress (Josette Banzet) Guy gets into a fight with her husband and beats him up so badly that he thinks he has killed the man. Once again, Guy is running from his past toward an uncertain future.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-04-01
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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex *But Were Afraid to Ask
Overview: A collection of seven vignettes, which each address a question concerning human sexuality. From aphrodisiacs to sexual perversion to the mystery of the male orgasm, characters like a court jester, a doctor, a queen and a journalist adventure through lab experiments and game shows, all seeking answers to common questions that many would never ask.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-08-06
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Escape from the Planet of the Apes
Overview: The world is shocked by the appearance of three talking chimpanzees, who arrived mysteriously in a spacecraft. Intrigued by their intelligence, humans use them for research - until the apes attempt to escape.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-05-20
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The Legend of Lylah Clare
Overview: A dictatorial film director hires an unknown actress to play the lead role in a planned movie biography of a late, great Hollywood star.
Genres: Drama Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-08-21
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The Gentleman Tramp
Overview: A film about the life and work of the master comedy filmmaker, Charles Chaplin.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-10-10
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My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Legend of Errol Flynn
Overview: The life and wanton times of Errol Flynn
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-21
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High Risk
Overview: A troupe of former circus performers plot to steel a valuable artifact from an embassy in Washington, DC.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-05-15
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Young Lady Chatterley
Overview: Cynthia inherits a large estate and moves in. She reads her aunt's diary and finds out how she was taught in the ways of love by her gardener in 1901 at the age of 21. She decides to continue the fruitful relationship and gets it on with the handsome young gardener herself.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-05-15
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The President's Analyst
Overview: At first, Dr. Sidney Schaefer feels honored and thrilled to be offered the job of the President's Analyst. But then the stress of the job and the paranoid spies that come with a sensitive government position get to him, and he runs away. Now spies from all over the world are after him, either to get him for their own side or to kill him and prevent someone else from getting him.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-12-21
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Rex Harrison Presents Stories of Love
Overview: Pilot for a proposed television anthology series with stories about love, either dramatic or comedic. In this pilot, there were three different segments: in the first, a computer falls in love with its programmer; in the second, a World War II vet falls in love with a murderer; in the third, a woman falls in love with a penniless painter.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-05-01
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The Open Window
Overview: A man travels to the country house of a distant aunt in search of peace and quiet. But when he arrives, he learns of a tragedy that happened there which keeps the house and the family frozen in time.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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The Woman I Love
Overview: The love of King Edward VIII for American divorcée Wallis Warfield Simpson eventually leads to his abdication.
Genres: TV Movie Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-09-09
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Back to the Planet of the Apes
Overview: Astronauts Pete Burke and Allan Virdon crash on Earth in the far future and are captured by the apes. The men befriend a chimp named Galen who helps them to escape. In the hopes of finding a way to get back to their own time, the astronauts search for a computer in an earthquake-threatened city, with which they will be able to access their flight records. [The first of five telefilms edited from episodes of the 1974 TV series; this film combines the episodes "Escape from Tomorrow" and "The Trap"]
Genres: Action Thriller Adventure Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-11-17
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Daughter of the Mind
Overview: Professor Samuel Hale Constable is a government expert in the field of cybernetics. He and his wheelchair-bound wife Lenore became parents late in life, only to lose their daughter Mary before she reached adolescence. Now their daughter's spirit seems to be reaching out to her grief-stricken father from beyond the grave, encouraging him to give up the important project on which he's been working.
Genres: Horror Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-12-09
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Overview: Adaptation of the novel by Oscar Wilde.
Genres: Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-04-22
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Too Late the Hero
Overview: A WWII film set on a Pacific island. Japanese and allied forces occupy different parts of the island. When a group of British soldiers are sent on a mission behind enemy lines, things don't go exactly to plan. This film differs in that some of the 'heroes' are very reluctant, but they come good when they are pursued by the Japanese who are determined to prevent them returning to base.
Genres: Drama Action War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-05-20
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The Deadly Volley
Overview: Members of a professional tennis team are suspected in the attempted murder of the team's owner.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie Drama Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-27
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My Fair Lady
Overview: A snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-10-21
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Death Race
Overview: In the North African desert in World War II, a crippled American fighter plane that is unable to take off tries to evade and destroy a pursuing Nazi tank.
Genres: War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-11-10
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The Memory of Eva Ryker
Overview: A young woman has spent her life tormented by the death of her mother, who was on a ship torpedoed during World War II. When her father hires an investigator to look into the circumstances of the mother's death 30 years prior, it triggers a new rash of emotional turmoil for the young woman and uncovers a heinous crime.
Genres: Action Drama Mystery War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-05-05
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