Conrad Bain
Also Known As: Conrad Stafford Bain
Biography: Conrad Bain was an actor who appeared in many movies and TV shows. He most notably known for his role as Mr. Drummond on the TV series Diff'rent Strokes.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
Adult: No
Birthday: February 04, 1923
Age: 102 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: January 14, 2013
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Postcards from the Edge
Overview: Substance-addicted Hollywood actress, Suzanne Vale is on the skids. After a spell at a detox centre her film company insists as a condition of continuing to employ her that she live with her mother, herself once a star and now a champion drinker. Such a set-up is bad news for Suzanne who has struggled for years to get out of her mother's shadow, and who still treats her like a child. Despite these and other problems, Suzanne begins to see the funny side of her situation, and also realises that not only do daughters have mothers—mothers do too.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-09-14
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The Anderson Tapes
Overview: Thief Duke Anderson—just released from ten years in jail—takes up with his old girlfriend in her posh apartment block, and makes plans to rob the entire building. What he doesn't know is that his every move is being recorded on audio and video, although he is not the subject of any surveillance.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-06-17
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A Lovely Way to Die
Overview: A cop quits the force after too much disappointment in the system. He becomes a bodyguard of a rich recent widow. She is on trial for her husband's murder. He decides to help her clear her name... and get over her husband.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-04-19
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Last Summer
Overview: During summer vacation on Fire Island, three young people become very close. When an uncool girl tries to infiltrate the trio's newly found relationship, they construct an elaborate plot that has violent results.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-06-10
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C.H.O.M.P.S.
Overview: A young man invents a robot dog that has super strength, x-ray vision and can detect crimes being committed. A greedy businessman tries to steal the boy's invention from him.
Genres: Family Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-12-21
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Madigan
Overview: NYPD detectives Bonaro and Madigan lose their guns to fugitive Barney Benesch. As compensation, they are given a weekend to bring Benesch to justice. While they follow various leads, Police Commissioner Russell goes about his duties, including attending functions, meeting with aggrieved relatives, and counseling the spouses of fallen officers.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-03-29
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Coogan's Bluff
Overview: Coogan, an Arizona deputy sheriff goes to New York to pick up a prisoner. While escorting the prisoner to the airport, he escapes and Coogan heads into the city to recapture him.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-10-02
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Twigs
Overview: Three middle-aged sisters and their grouchy mother confront issues with men in their lives.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-03-06
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I Never Sang for My Father
Overview: Hackman plays a New York professor who wants a change in his life, and plans to get married to his girlfriend and move to California. His mother understands his need to get away, but warns him that moving so far away could be hard on his father. Just before the wedding, the mother dies. Hackman's sister (who has been disowned by their father for marrying a Jewish man) advises him to live his own life, and not let himself be controlled by their father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-10-18
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Jump
Overview: A Southern stock-car driver puts his rising career in the hands of a race promoter.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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Star!
Overview: Gertrude Lawrence rises to stage stardom at the cost of happiness.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-07-18
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Who Killed Mary Whats'ername?
Overview: A prostitute is murdered on the streets of a tough, low-income neighborhood. A diabetic retired boxer who knew her is appalled by the lack of interest shown in the case by the police or anybody else in the neighborhood, and decides to investigate the case himself.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-12-11
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Bananas
Overview: When a bumbling New Yorker is dumped by his activist girlfriend, he travels to a tiny Latin American nation and becomes involved in its latest rebellion.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-04-28
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Men of Crisis: The Harvey Wallinger Story
Overview: Dr. Harvey Wallinger is one of Nixon's aides who rises through the ranks to become the "real" power behind the president.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-12-31
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A New Leaf
Overview: After running out of funds, Henry Graham, a carefree playboy, plots to marry and murder wealthy botanist Henrietta Lowell.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-03-11
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Lovers and Other Strangers
Overview: Mike Vecchio and Susan Henderson are preparing for their upcoming wedding. However, they seem to be the only two people at the wedding that are happy. Mike's brother Richie and his wife Joan are going through a divorce, which is upsetting his overly devout Catholic mother Beatrice. Also, Susan's father is carrying on an affair and her sex starved older sister Wilma is going through her troubles with her husband Johnny. All this is going on while Mike's best friend Jerry is trying to bed the maid of honor, Susan's cousin Brenda.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-08-12
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Up the Sandbox
Overview: Bored with day-to-day life in New York City and neglected by her husband, a young wife and mother slips into increasingly outrageous fantasies: her mother breaking into the apartment, an explorer's demonstration of tribal fertility music at a party causing strange transformations, and joining terrorists to plant explosives in the Statue of Liberty.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-12-21
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A Pleasure Doing Business
Overview: In this comedy, three middle-aged men renew their boyhood friendship at a stag party and hatch a crazy scheme that involves making money off of a luscious prostitute.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-08-31
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Child Bride of Short Creek
Overview: A dramatization of the true account of a fundamentalist sect in Arizona that practices polygamy, and a returning Korean War veteran's rebellion against his father when he learns that the latter plans to increase his stable of wives by adding the 15-year-old girl with whom his son is romantically involved.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-12-07
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The Borgia Stick
Overview: A suburban couple discovers that they are pawns for a powerful crime syndicate. They try to break away from the cartel and go legitimate, but the syndicate doesn't want to give them up so easily.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-02-25
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A Fan's Notes
Overview: A writer has a mental breakdown, unable to deal with the society around him.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-07-02
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