Robert Nichols
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Biography: Born in Oakland, Robert Nichols (20 July 1924 - 21 March 2013) was an American actor and entertainer. His career started as an entertainer during the Second World War and went on to study at London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art before finding his first film role in the 1949 feature; I Was a Male War Bride. He has since starred in dozens of films throughout his career.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Oakland, California, USA
Birthday: July 20, 1924
Deathday: March 21, 2013
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Gender: Male
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Giant
Overview: Wealthy rancher Bick Benedict and dirt-poor cowboy Jett Rink both woo Leslie Lynnton, a beautiful young woman from Maryland who is new to Texas. She marries Benedict, but she is shocked by the racial bigotry of the White Texans against the local people of Mexican descent. Rink discovers oil on a small plot of land, and while he uses his vast, new wealth to buy all the land surrounding the Benedict ranch, the Benedict's disagreement over prejudice fuels conflict that runs across generations.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-11-08
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This Island Earth
Overview: Aliens have landed and are hiding on Earth, but need Earth’s scientists to help them fight an inter-planetary war.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-06-01
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Don't Go Near the Water
Overview: Madison Avenue-trained Navy men handle public relations on a South Pacific island during World War II.
Genres: Comedy Adventure Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-11-14
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The Thing from Another World
Overview: Scientists and US Air Force officials fend off a blood-thirsty alien organism while investigating at a remote arctic outpost.
Genres: Drama Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-04-05
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The Out-of-Towners
Overview: George & Gwen Kellerman make a trip to New York, where George is going to start a new job, it turns out to be a trip to hell.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-05-28
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A Billion for Boris
Overview: In this family-friendly sequel to Freaky Friday, teenaged Boris realizes that his television set is somehow receiving broadcasts from the future, so he starts betting piles of cash on horse races and making himself outrageously rich. Boris is on top of the world...until he discovers that something this good doesn't come without a price.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Jennifer
Overview: A young woman is hired to take care of an eerie old mansion, where she finds herself entangled with an enigmatic murderer.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-10-25
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Follow the Boys
Overview: Four women create mayhem as they follow their Navy partners around the Riviera.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-02-27
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They Only Kill Their Masters
Overview: An enigmatic young woman has been murdered in a small California coast town. The investigation by the local sheriff uncovers a complex web of relationships centering on the victim; the scattered trail of evidence ranges from a mysterious photograph to the victim's own dog. During the investigation, the sheriff meets and becomes romantically involved with a woman whose connection to the murder is ambiguous.
Genres: Mystery Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-11-22
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The Night They Robbed Big Bertha's
Overview: Big Bertha is the popular, full-figured owner of the community's most successful whorehouse and moonshine racketeering enterprise. Some guys decide to rob Big Bertha’s stash of money, but the local cops just happen to coincidentally be "visiting" the joint. With her money missing, Big Bertha announces the closure of her whorehouse, but nobody in town will let that happen!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-06-01
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The Command
Overview: Once the commanding officer of a cavalry patrol is killed, the ranking officer who must take command is an army doctor.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-02-13
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Monkey Business
Overview: Research chemist Barnaby Fulton works on a fountain of youth pill for a chemical company. One of the labs chimps gets loose in the laboratory and mixes chemicals, but then pours the mix into the water cooler. When trying one of his own samples, washed down with water from the cooler, Fulton begins to act just like a twenty-year-old and believes his potion is working. Soon his wife and boss are also behaving like children.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-09-03
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Battle Circus
Overview: A young Army nurse, Lt Ruth McGara, newly assigned to the 66th MASH during the Korean War, attracts the sexual attention of the unit's commander Dr. (MAJ) Jed Webbe. Webbe, who has a drinking problem, at first wants a "no strings" relationship. McGara is warned by the other nurses of Webbe's womanizing ways. Despite these initial handicaps, their love flourishes against a background of war, enemy attacks, death and injury. The relationship deepens and uplifts both characters.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-03-06
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Soldier's Home
Overview: Harold Krebs went off to fight in World War I, "the war to end all wars." But when he comes home, Harold finds that he doesn't fit in any more. He needs peace and quiet to figure out what has happened to him and who he has become, but his mother pressures him to rejoin society.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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Tight Spot
Overview: A former model, serving time in prison, becomes a key witness in a trial against a notorious gangster. She is put under protective watch by the District Attorney in a posh hotel, but the crime kingpin makes attempts to get to her. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc. in 1997.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-03-19
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Overview: Lorelei Lee is a beautiful showgirl engaged to be married to the wealthy Gus Esmond, much to the disapproval of Gus' rich father, Esmond Sr., who thinks that Lorelei is just after his money. When Lorelei goes on a cruise accompanied only by her best friend, Dorothy Shaw, Esmond Sr. hires Ernie Malone, a private detective, to follow her and report any questionable behavior that would disqualify her from the marriage.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-07-14
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Hold That Line
Overview: The Bowery Boys are enrolled in a fancy college by a pair of rich snobs who think they can turn the Boys into classy guys. Sach becomes a football star, and is kidnapped by gangsters to keep him out of the big game.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-03-23
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God Told Me To
Overview: A repressed Catholic NYPD detective uncovers a netherworld of deranged faith, alien insemination and his own unholy connection to a homicidal messiah with a perverse plan for the soul of mankind.
Genres: Crime Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-10-22
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The Yellow Rolls-Royce
Overview: One Rolls-Royce belongs to three vastly different owners, starting with Lord Charles, who buys the car for his wife as an anniversary present. The next owner is Paolo Maltese, a mafioso who purchases the car during a trip to Italy and leaves it with his girlfriend while he returns to Chicago. Finally, the car is owned by American widow Gerda, who joins the Yugoslavian resistance against the invading Nazis.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-12-31
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Sally and Saint Anne
Overview: An Irish-American girl asks the saint to guide her family and save them from an alderman.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-07-01
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Westworld
Overview: Delos is a futuristic amusement park that features themed worlds—ancient Rome, Medieval times and the Old West—populated by human-like androids. After two patrons have a run-in with a menacing gunslinger in West World, the androids at Delos all begin to malfunction, causing havoc throughout the park.
Genres: Adventure Science Fiction Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-08-15
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Red Skies of Montana
Overview: When a large forest fire breaks out in the mountains of Montana, a squad of 'Smoke Jumpers', the paratroop-corps of fire-fighters in the U. S. Forest Service, is flown to the scene from their regional headquarters in Missoula, Montana. The Forest Rangers, under Cliff Mason, put out the blaze, but several of the fire-fighters are killed. Ed Miller, son of one of the dead rangers, thinks he died because Mason was a coward, and sets out to prove it.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-01-23
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I Was a Male War Bride
Overview: After marrying an American lieutenant with whom he was assigned to work in post-war Germany, a French captain attempts to find a way to accompany her back to the States under the terms of the War Bride Act.
Genres: Comedy Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-08-26
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So I Married an Axe Murderer
Overview: Just after a bad breakup, Charlie MacKenzie falls for lovely butcher Harriet Michaels and introduces her to his parents. But, as voracious consumers of sensational tabloids, his parents soon come to suspect that Harriet is actually a notorious serial killer -- "Mrs. X" -- wanted in connection with a string of bizarre honeymoon killings. Thinking his parents foolish, Charlie proposes to Harriet. But while on his honeymoon with her, he begins to fear they were right.
Genres: Comedy Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-07-30
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Hold Back The Night
Overview: A Marine officer (John Payne) goes through Korea with the bottle of Scotch that his wife (Mona Freeman) gave him in the last war.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-07-29
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The Red Badge of Courage
Overview: Henry Fleming is a young Union soldier in the American Civil War. During his unit's first engagement, Henry flees the battlefield in fear. When he learns that the Union actually won the battle, shame over his cowardice leads him to lie to his friend Tom and the other soldiers, saying that he had been injured in battle. However, when he learns that his unit will be leading a charge against the enemy, Henry takes the opportunity to face his fears and redeem himself.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-09-27
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Johnny Dark
Overview: A young auto racer competes in a Canada-to-Mexico race in a car he designed himself. Director George Sherman's 1954 film stars Tony Curtis, Piper Laurie, Don Taylor, Sidney Blackmer, Paul Kelly, Ilka Chase and Joseph Sawyer.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-06-25
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Eight Iron Men
Overview: During the World War II in Italy, Sergeant Joe Mooney is leading his small squad on the front-lines but is ordered to avoid rescuing a soldier trapped in no man's land.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-12-01
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Bombers B-52
Overview: Sgt. Chuch Brennan always disliked playboy and hotshot, Col. Jim Herlihy. Now Chuck has even more reason to, Jim is dating his daughter, Lois.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-11-22
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The Trouble with Girls
Overview: Chautauqua manager Walter Hale and his loyal business manager struggle to keep their traveling troupe together in small town America.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-06-24
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We Joined the Navy
Overview: Lt Commander Badger, RN: an exceptionally likeable fellow, the Artful Bodger has one besetting sin a shining honesty which compels him to say the right thing at entirely the wrong time! When untimely remarks to some new recruits are splashed across the tabloids, the rush is on to find him a new posting somewhere far away.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-05-17
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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 Amorous Prawn
Overview: While her husband, the General is abroad, Lady Fitzadam decides to convert their army residence into a fishing resort for rich American tourists in order to raise money for their dream retirement cottage.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-11-26
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Don't Bother to Knock
Overview: An Edinburgh travel agent loses his keys and his fiancé in one night. A friend finds the keys and makes loads of copies with his address attached as a joke. She gives them to him as he leaves for a holiday. He gives the keys to several women he romances across the continent. He gets engaged again by phone and arranges to meet his fiancé at his flat, but the flat isn't empty...
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-05-28
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Second Chance
Overview: A rich stockbroker buys a Nevada ghost town as a community for people who need a second chance in life.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-02-08
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Man in the Middle
Overview: In a remote jungle outpost in the Far Eastern theater of World War II, a hotheaded American soldier murders an allied British sergeant in cold blood. Stalwart American Lt. Colonel Barney Adams (Mitchum) is dispatched to defend him in the ensuing court martial. But when Lt. Adams starts encountering roadblocks in his search for evidence, and his key witnesses start disappearing one after another, he soon realizes he's merely a pawn in a mysterious conspiracy that could extend to the highest levels of military power.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-01-27
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The Blue Veil
Overview: A World War I widow loses her only child and spends the rest of her life as a children's nurse.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-10-26
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The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock
Overview: In one of his rare performances without Bud Abbott, Lou Costello plays a delivery boy who invents a machine which turns his girlfriend into a giantess.
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-08-06
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Navy Wife
Overview: Japanese women, seeng how well American soldiers stationed in their country treat their wives, demand the same from their husbands.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-05-20
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Under Siege
Overview: A disgruntled ex-CIA operative, his assistant and their assembled group of terrorists seize a battleship with nuclear blackmail in mind. They've planned for every contingency but ignore the ship's cook, former Navy SEAL Casey Ryback—an error that could be fatal.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-10-08
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The Lady and the Rocket
Overview: Romance, music, and 1952 Oldsmobiles.
Genres: Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-01-01
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