Lucille Benson
Also Known As: Lucille Bensen
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Lucille Benson (July 17, 1914 – February 17, 1984) was an American actress known for her roles in commercials, television, and movies in the 1970s and 1980s. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lucille Benson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Scottsboro, Alabama, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: July 17, 1914
Age: 110 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: February 17, 1984
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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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1941
Overview: In the days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, panic grips California, where a military officer leads a mob chasing a Japanese sub.
Genres: Comedy War Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-12-14
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Private Parts
Overview: In the sleaziest corner of Los Angeles, the King Edward Hotel has a new arrival in the form of Cheryl, a runaway teen. She's hoping to put her life back together but somewhere in the musty halls of the King Edward lurks another guest — who just loves to chop people apart!
Genres: Comedy Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-09-01
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Slaughterhouse-Five
Overview: Billy Pilgrim, a veteran of the Second World War, finds himself mysteriously detached from time, so that he is able to travel, without being able to help it, from the days of his childhood to those of his peculiar life on a distant planet called Tralfamadore, passing through his bitter experience as a prisoner of war in the German city of Dresden, over which looms the inevitable shadow of an unspeakable tragedy.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-03-15
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Lassie: The New Beginning
Overview: The Stratton kids, Samantha and Chip, and their grandmother, Ada, drive to visit their Uncle Stuart. Grandma collapses and dies in a strange town, leaving the kids and Lassie on their own.
Genres: Adventure Family Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-09-01
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Little Fauss and Big Halsy
Overview: The friendship between two Arizona dirt bike racers is tested when they both lust for an attractive runaway young woman who joins them on the racing circuit.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-10-21
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The Fugitive Kind
Overview: Val Xavier, a drifter of obscure origins, arrives at a small town and gets a job in a store run by Lady Torrence. Her husband, Jabe M. Torrance, is dying of cancer. Val is pursued by Carol Cutere, the enigmatic local tramp-of-good-family.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-04-14
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Wanted: The Sundance Woman
Overview: Katharine Ross repeats her portrayal of Etta Place (from "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid") in this adventure of the fugitive who, alone and desperate following the deaths of Butch and Sundance, seeks help from Pancho Villa in exchange for guns and ammunition.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-10-01
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The Killer Who Wouldn't Die
Overview: After his wife is killed in a mysterious bomb explosion, a cop leaves the department and starts a charter boat service. When an undercover agent who is a close friend is killed, he is asked to look into it, and discovers a web of espionage and murder.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-04-04
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Reflections of Murder
Overview: The wife and mistress of the abusive headmaster of a boy's school plot and carry out his murder. They dump his body in the murky swimming pool at the school and await for it to surface. After several days, some unusual circumstances point to clues that he is not dead after all.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-11-24
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The Devil's Daughter
Overview: A young girl whose mother had sold her soul to Satan when she was born is told by Satan that she must marry a fellow demon.
Genres: Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-01-09
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Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur
Overview: U.S. President Harry S Truman and his commander in the Korean War, General Douglas MacArthur, disagree on war strategy. Their conflict comes to a head when Truman relieves the insubordinate MacArthur from command.
Genres: War Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-01-04
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Cactus in the Snow
Overview: A young soldier attempts to lose his virginity before he leaves for Vietnam.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-12-01
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The Strange Possession of Mrs. Oliver
Overview: A houswife, tired of her everyday routine, makes changes in her hair, her wardrobe and her makeup, and begins to take on the personality of a woman who had died five years earlier.
Genres: Drama Horror Mystery Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-02-28
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Charleston
Overview: Stella Farrell is a southern belle in 1860's Charleston, South Carolina who is determined to hang onto her aristocratic family's mansion following the Civil War.
Genres: Drama War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-01-15
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Tom Sawyer
Overview: Tom Sawyer and his pal Huckleberry Finn have great adventures on the Mississippi River, pretending to be pirates, attending their own funeral, and witnessing a murder.
Genres: Family Music Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-15
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Mame
Overview: The madcap life of eccentric Mame Dennis and her bohemian, intellectual arty clique is disrupted when her deceased brother's 10-year-old son Patrick is entrusted to her care. Rather than bow to convention, Mame introduces the boy to her free-wheeling lifestyle, instilling in him her favorite credo, "Life is a banquet, and most poor sons of bitches are starving to death."
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-03-07
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Heat of Anger
Overview: A woman attorney and her young associate defend a wealthy contractor accused of murdering an ironworker who was having an affair with the contractor's daughter.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-03-03
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The Greatest
Overview: Muhammad Ali's life story up to the late 1970s, which includes his Olympic boxing triumphs as Cassius Clay, his conversion to Islam, his refusal of the Army draft and the legal battle after being stripped of his World Title.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-05-17
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The Day the Earth Moved
Overview: An aerial photography team tries to alert a small town about an impending earthquake, but no one believes the duo until the tremors start and the walls begin to collapse.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-09-18
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Concrete Cowboys
Overview: Two Montana saddletramps head to Nashville to open up a detective agency. At first, the agency begins on a lark but, soon, they get involved in a case involving a kidnapped singer and an intricate blackmail scheme.
Genres: Crime Action TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-10-17
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The Blue Knight
Overview: Bumper Morgan is a veteran Los Angeles Police Department street cop. He is due to retire after 20 years on the job, but is not letting up on the criminal element on his beat.
Genres: Action TV Movie Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-11-11
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Amy
Overview: A woman leaves her husband after the death of her child to teach deaf children how to speak. Her own child was deaf and although she has no formal training she successfully teaches one boy.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-03-20
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Silver Streak
Overview: A somewhat daffy book editor on a rail trip from Los Angeles to Chicago thinks that he sees a murdered man thrown from the train. When he can find no one who will believe him, he starts doing some investigating of his own. But all that accomplishes is to get the killer after him.
Genres: Comedy Crime Romance Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-12-03
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The Delphi Bureau
Overview: A government agent with a photographic memory is assigned to solve the disappearance of an entire fleet of old Air Force planes. Pilot for short-lived TV series
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-03-06
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Murder in Music City
Overview: A brash songwriter who buys a detective agency as a tax shelter finds himself and his photographer's model bride involved in a puzzling murder, when a dead body turns up in their honeymoon suite, and on a trail that leads them to Nashville.
Genres: Comedy Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-01-16
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The Adventures of Pollyanna
Overview: Pollyanna’s Aunt Polly wants the girl to spend her time studying, but Pollyanna has other ideas. She joins a secret club with a group of orphans, and they spy on a mysterious new resident in town, only to learn that her standoffishness is because of her desire to shield a retarded son. Pollyanna helps the town accept the boy and his mother.
Genres: Adventure Family Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-04-10
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When Your Lover Leaves
Overview: Comedy about a woman dumped by her married boyfriend who gets involved in a short-lived relationship with a neighbor. When that also doesn't work out, she decides she must first do something to please herself.
Genres: Drama Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-10-31
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Ebony, Ivory and Jade
Overview: In this prospective pilot, Mick Jade, a tennis bum-turned-Las Vegas-song-and-dance man, doubles as a private eye with two female dancers, Ebony and Ivory. The trio go undercover to protect a lady scientist from international hitmen as she heads for Washington D.C. from the near-East with her super-secret formula.
Genres: Action Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-08-03
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Message to My Daughter
Overview: A confused teenager discovers a stack of tapes recorded years earlier by her dying mother.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-12-13
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Halloween II
Overview: After failing to kill stubborn survivor Laurie and taking a bullet or six from former psychiatrist Dr. Sam Loomis, Michael Myers has followed Laurie to the Haddonfield Memorial Hospital, where she's been admitted for Myers' attempt on her life. The institution proves to be particularly suited to serial killers, however, as Myers cuts, stabs and slashes his way through hospital staff to reach his favorite victim.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-10-30
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Escape
Overview: A scientist's experiment could lead to the first man-made, functioning, living organism. An elite escape artist-private investigator is working to stop him.
Genres: TV Movie Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-04-06
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Huckleberry Finn
Overview: Huckleberry Finn is a 15-year-old boy who has had a difficult relationship with his often violent father for a long time. When Dad tried to kidnap him, Huck decides to run away from home, and heads out of town on a raft. Huck is soon joined by Jim, a runaway slave who is no more eager to see his master than Huck is to see his father. As the two friends make their way down the Mississippi, they're faced with a variety of challenges and adventures.
Genres: Music Family Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-05-24
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Black Market Baby
Overview: A young college girl becomes pregnant, and she and the baby's father are targeted by a black-market adoption ring that is out to get the baby.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-10-18
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Women in Chains
Overview: A parole officer goes undercover to investigate prison brutality but is trapped when the only person on the outside who knows why she's there is killed.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-25
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Betrayal
Overview: Wealthy widow Helen Mercer hires a young woman, Gretchen Addison, to act as her personal assistant and companion. Unfortunately, Helen is a poor judge of character, as Gretchen is part of a murderous extortionist duo with her boyfriend, Jay. However, Gretchen has second thoughts when she develops genuine affection for Helen. When Gretchen informs Jay that she wants to call off their plot, he refuses and carries on with the plan. Now both Helen and Gretchen may be in grave danger.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-12-03
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The Young Runaways
Overview: Heartless parents C.L. Doyle and his wife take two of their older children, Rosebud & Joseph T. Doyle, on a family vacation to Alaska, but dump their younger ones, Freddy & Margaret Jean, in a Los Angeles foster home. Infuriated by this, Rosebud talks Joseph T. into running away with her so that they can break their younger siblings out of the system, which sparks a manhunt, and an outburst of sympathy among kids everywhere.
Genres: Adventure Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-05-28
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Liza’s Pioneer Diary
Overview: The story of a gentle, unsure young woman who grows in maturity and self-reliance as she travels across the American plains in 1848 in a wagon train with her young husband and his family.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-11-17
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