Eddie Firestone
Also Known As: Eddie Firestone Jr.
Biography: Eddie Firestone (December 11, 1920 – March 1, 2007) was an American radio, television, and film actor who accumulated over 200 total credits during his performing career.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: San Francisco, California, USA
Birthday: December 11, 1920
Deathday: March 01, 2007
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Stone Killer
Overview: A Los Angeles detective is sent to New York where he must solve a case involving an old Sicilian Mafia family feud.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-08-08
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Duel
Overview: Traveling businessman David Mann angers the driver of a rusty tanker while crossing the California desert. A simple trip turns deadly, as Mann struggles to stay on the road while the tanker plays cat and mouse with his life.
Genres: Action Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-11-13
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The Scarface Mob
Overview: Story of how a group of incorruptible federal lawmen helped put 1920s' Chicago gangster Al Capone in prison.
Genres: Crime Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-04-19
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The Great Locomotive Chase
Overview: During the Civil War, a Union spy, Andrews, is asked to lead a band of Union soldiers into the South so that they could destroy the railway system. However, things don't go as planned when the conductor of the train that they stole is on to them and is doing everything he can to stop them. Based on a true story.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Family War Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-06-08
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Scalplock
Overview: This Western is a pilot for the series "The Iron Horse," in which a dapper frontier gambler wins a railroad line in a poker game and has his hands full holding it from the clutches of various conniving bad guys.
Genres: Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-04-10
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A Man Called Gannon
Overview: A seasoned cowboy takes a young tender-foot under his wing. They become embroiled in a range war, and end up on opposite sides.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-03-08
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Play It as It Lays
Overview: Burned-out B-movie actress Maria, depressed and frustrated with her loveless marriage to an ambitious film director, Carter Lang, who would rather work on his career than on his relationship with her, numbs herself with drugs and sex with strangers. Only her friendship with a sensitive gay movie producer, B.Z., offers a semblance of solace. But even that relationship proves to be fleeting amidst the empty decadence of Hollywood.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-10-19
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Two for the Seesaw
Overview: After leaving his wife, lawyer Jerry Ryan moves from Omaha, Nebraska to New York City to start a new life. While studying for the New York Bar Examination and working to finalize his divorce, Ryan meets dancer Gittel Mosca, and the two begin a cautious courtship. However, Ryan feels that he must come to terms with his failed marriage and overcome his lingering attachment to his ex-wife before he can redefine himself and embrace his budding romance.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-11-21
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Joe Butterfly
Overview: The staff of "Yank" magazine are among the first American troops into Tokyo after the Japanese surrender. Their mission: produce an issue of the magazine...in three days. To accomplish the seeming impossible, they reluctantly enlist the aid of black marketeer and arch-conniver Joe Butterfly, who sets them up in a palatial private mansion, complete with lovely daughter -- strictly against regulations. How much trouble can our heroes talk their way out of?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-05-29
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The Destructors
Overview: Foreign agents are after a substance called "laser rubies" that can power a killer laser beam. Government agents are dispatched to protect the rubies and eliminate the foreign agents.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-05-03
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We're Not Married!
Overview: A Justice of the Peace performed weddings a few days before his license was valid. A few years later five couples learn they have never been legally married.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-07-11
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Ironside
Overview: Citizens of San Francisco are stunned by the news that Robert Ironside, the city's hard-nosed, tough-talking chief of detectives, has been shot and left for dead while vacationing at his friend the Police Commissioner's rural retreat. Ironside survives the murder attempt, but the bullet has damaged nerves in his spine, leaving him a paraplegic. Unable to gain reinstatement as chief of detectives, Ironside gets permission to continue investigating criminal cases as a citizen volunteer. With the assistance of two former protegees, Det. Sgt. Ed Brown and Officer Eve Whitfield, and a newly-hired aide/driver, Mark Sanger, Ironside sets out to solve his first case as a civilian by finding the people responsible for the attempt on his life.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-03-28
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Dragnet
Overview: Also known as "Dragnet 1966," this TV movie was originally the pilot for the 1967 relaunch of the original 1950s "Dragnet" radio show and TV show (which also had its own movie in 1954, from the same creative team). However, the pilot wasn't actually aired until 1969. In this feature-length entry, Sgt. Joe Friday is called back from vacation to work with his partner, Officer Bill Gannon, on a missing persons case. Two amateur female models and a young war widow have vanished, having been last seen with one J. Johnson. In the course of tracking down Johnson and the young ladies, the detectives wind up with two different descriptions of the suspect, one of which closely resembles a dead body found in a vacant lot. But the dead man, later identified as Charles LeBorg of France, proves not to be J. Johnson, when a third young model disappears.
Genres: Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-01-27
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The Mountain Road
Overview: In 1944, in eastern part of China, U.S.Army Major Baldwin and his volunteer team of demolition engineers are left behind the retreating Chinese forces. Their task is to slow down the Japanese advance into eastern China by blowing up bridges, roads, airfields and munitions dumps. They start by blowing up an American airfield and ammo dump. They receive the order to destroy a vital bridge over a mountain pass.The team uses a few army trucks to move around. At the bridge, they encounter a Nationalist Chinese Army unit in charge of guarding the bridge. Thanks to an American soldier who speaks some Chinese, Major Baldwin requests the permission, from the Chinese commander, to blow up the bridge.The Chinese colonel agrees but asks the American Major to do him a favor by also destroying a munitions dump located at some distance away.He also requests that Madame Sue-Mei Hung, the widow of a Chinese colonel, be transported by the American demolition team to the nearest major town.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-06-15
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Bailout at 43,000
Overview: An Air Force major feels a volatile mixture of relief and anger when he is excused from performing a dangerous test in a new aircraft.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-05-01
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The Law and Jake Wade
Overview: Jake Wade breaks Clint Hollister out of jail to pay off an old debt, though it's clear there is some pretty deep hostility between them. They part, and Jake returns to his small-town marshal's job and his fiancée only to find he has been tracked there by Hollister. It seems they were once in a gang together and Jake knows where the proceeds of a bank hold-up are hidden. Hollister and his sidekicks make off into the hills, taking along the trussed-up marshal and his kidnapped bride-to-be to force the lawman to show them where the loot is.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-06-06
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Angel Baby
Overview: A woman who believes she has been chosen by God to heal people is taken in by a greedy promoter and his shrewish wife to make the rounds of the rural South.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-05-14
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The Revolt of Mamie Stover
Overview: In the early ’40s, a San Francisco prostitute is run out of town just as World War II has begun to intensify. She settles down in Hawaii, hoping to start a new life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-05-11
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The Todd Killings
Overview: Based on the true story of '60s thrill-killer Charles Schmidt ("The Pied Piper of Tucson"), Skipper Todd (Robert F. Lyons) is a charismatic 23-year old who charms his way into the lives of high school kids in a small California town. Girls find him attractive and are only too willing to accompany him to a nearby desert area to be his "girl for the night." Not all of them return, however. Featuring Richard Thomas as his loyal hanger-on and a colorful assortment of familiar actors in vivid character roles including Barbara Bel Geddes, Gloria Grahame, Edward Asner, Fay Spain, James Broderick and Michael Conrad.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-10-20
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The Astral Factor
Overview: Demonstrating that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, a convicted strangler studies the paranormal and finds a way to render himself invisible. Once he escapes, he sets out to find and eliminate five women who remind him of the mother he murdered. A police lieutenant sets out to safeguard them and bring the invisible killer to justice.
Genres: Science Fiction Crime Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-02-01
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The Brass Legend
Overview: During a ride with his new pony Sinoya, the young Clay Gibson by chance finds the secret housing of the multiple murderer Tris Hatten. He reports immediately to Sheriff Adams, who strongly recommends him not to tell anybody about it. Unfortunately Clay talks to his father nevertheless. He believes Adams just wanted fame and reward for himself and accuses him in the newspaper. Thereby he endangers his son, who's now targeted by a killer which Tris' girlfriend Winnie hired for revenge. Written by Tom Zoerner
Genres: Western Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-12-01
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Standing Tall
Overview: Set in Montana in the year 1934, a half-breed rancher and his wife are harassed by a ruthless land robber, who forces them to stand tall and defend their land, life and dignity.
Genres: Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-21
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Pickup on 101
Overview: An elderly wanderer, a sexy young girl running away from home and a folk singer looking for stardom hitch-hike their way cross-country, trying to get to California.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-05-01
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Cry Panic
Overview: A man accidentally runs over and kills a pedestrian outside a small town. He begins to suspect that the locals, including the sheriff, are keeping secrets about the victim.
Genres: Mystery Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-02-06
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Honky Tonk
Overview: In the wild west con-man 'Candy' Johnson heads to Nevada to set up his own gambling den and teams up with Lucy Cotton, a young woman he meets there. This failed television pilot film is loosely based on Honky Tonk (1941), which starred Clark Gable.
Genres: Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-04-01
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A Matter of Wife... and Death
Overview: A private investigator is confronted by the police AND the mob about the killing of a former private-eye associate.
Genres: Crime Mystery Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-05-03
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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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Behind the Scenes with Fess Parker
Overview: Fess Parker heads to the set of The Great Locomotive Chase in the Blue Ridge Mountains.
Genres: TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-05-30
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