Sharon Acker
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Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Sharon Acker (April 2, 1935 - March 16, 2023) was a film, stage and television actress. Acker began her acting career in theatre and made her film debut when she recreated her stage role in Lucky Jim (1957). Her first American film appearance was in the Lee Marvin action film, Point Blank (1967). Description above from the Wikipedia article Sharon Acker, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Toronto, Canada
Birthday: April 02, 1935
Deathday: March 16, 2023
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Gender: Female
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Point Blank
Overview: After being double-crossed and left for dead, a mysterious man named Walker single-mindedly tries to retrieve the rather inconsequential sum of money that was stolen from him.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-08-30
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Happy Birthday to Me
Overview: Virginia is proud that she belongs to a clique. The best students at a private school. But before her 18th birthday, a gruesome set of murders take place and her friends are the ones who are falling prey. Could it be her? She suffers from blackouts due to a freak accident one year earlier. We soon learn the truth behind her accident and what is going on.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-05-15
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The Hanged Man
Overview: A gunfighter who survives his own hanging helps a young widow who is trying to keep a ruthless land baron from taking her ranch.
Genres: Action Western TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-03-13
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The Hostage Heart
Overview: When billionaire industrialist goes into a hospital for a heart operation, some people who claim to be revolutionaries enter the operating room and draw guns and holds the man and the entire surgical staff hostage. They then demand 10 million dollars. The administrator calls the police and the FBI. The police claim jurisdiction over the matter and the man in charge is intent on taking them even if some of the hostages get killed. Eventually they learn that some of the people in hospital are with them.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-09-09
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The Century Turns
Overview: An old-fashioned western lawman coming to grips with the "modern technology" of the 20th century. He teams up with college-educated criminologist to solve a tricky mystery.
Genres: Western Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-10-08
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Threshold
Overview: Celebrated heart surgeon Thomas Vrain supports the research of an offbeat scientist who has invented an artificial heart. Against the advice of the Ethics Committee, Dr. Vrain decides to perform the first artificial heart transplant.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-09-19
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Lucky Jim
Overview: Jim Dixon feels anything but lucky. At the university he has to do the bidding of absent-minded and boring Professor Welch to have any hope of keeping his job. Worse, he has managed to get entangled with unexciting but neurotic Margaret Peel, a friend of the Professor's. All-in-all, the pub is the only friendly place to be. His misery is completed at a dreadful weekend gathering of the Welch clan by the arrival of son Bertrand. Not so much that Betrand is loud-mouthed and boorish - which he is - but that he has as companion Christine Callaghan, the sort of marvellous and unattainable woman Jim can only dream about.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-09-17
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Anne of Green Gables
Overview: Anne Shirley, an orphan is housed with Matthew Cuthbert and sister Marilla. They were expecting a boy to help with the chores, but got Anne.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-11-18
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The Murder That Wouldn't Die
Overview: William Conrad stars as a retired L.A.P.D. detective who has moved to Hawaii and taken a job as a college security chief and assistant football coach in this pilot to a post-"Cannon" series to have been called "Battles." With the aid of his niece, the school's star football player, a local tough-turned-college student, and the college dean, he investigates two related murders that occurred nearly 40 years apart.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-03-09
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The Stranger
Overview: An astronaut enters a vortex and crash-lands on a parallel planet where he's not welcome.
Genres: TV Movie Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-02-26
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Dead on Target
Overview: Dead on Target is the third and final film in the Our Man Flint movie trilogy. The film originally aired on ABC on March 17, 1976. The TV movie was also a pilot for a possible weekly series, but it did not get good enough ratings to warrant such, and Dead On Target became the last Derek Flint movie.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-03-16
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Don't Let the Angels Fall
Overview: The lives of a businessman and his family begin to spiral downward after he has an affair at an insurance convention.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-06-07
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Conquest of the Earth
Overview: A compilation of Battlestar Galactica episodes 1–3 and 7–9, with alternate footage. The Galactica and its ragtag fleet of ships finally arrive on Earth, only to discover that the planet is not prepared for the inevitable Cylon invasion.
Genres: TV Movie Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-12-31
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Act of the Heart
Overview: A woman's peculiar religious convictions lead her on a self-destructive path.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-09-24
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The First Time
Overview: With the coming of summer, three high school buddies--Kenny Leeds, Mike Decker, and Tommy Kingsley--anticipate their initiation into the pleasures of manhood. But Kenny is separated from his friends and sent to stay with his grandparents in Buffalo while his father, a widowed salesman, leaves on a business trip with his secretary-fiancée. Bored and alone in a strange city, Kenny writes his two friends letters about his adventures at "Rosie's," a fictitious brothel across the Canadian border in Niagara Falls. His lie quickly backfires.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-06-11
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1+1: Exploring The Kinsey Reports
Overview: A college professor lectures on the recently published Kinsey Report, as Americans are stunned by the shocking sexual truths revealed by the statistics. Five audience members reflect on their own sex lives, which flesh out the research with real life experience. A young couple ponder the repercussions of pre-marital sex. Returning home from overseas, a man learns that his neglected wife has been unfaithful. Anguish follows a divorcee's romantic fling. Having had sex with no one but his wife in his entire life, a man attempts to sow some belated wild oats. A young girl considering abortion is horrified by the filthy illegal back-door 'clinics' that are her only option.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-08-23
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The Rock
Overview: A promotional two-part short for John Boorman's "Point Blank" shot on and around Alcatraz. Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson and former inmate Joe Giles share their thoughts on the former prison.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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Waiting for Caroline
Overview: An indecisive young woman with an abnormal devotion to her father can't decide on which of her two boyfriends she should end her relationship with.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-06-21
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A Clear and Present Danger
Overview: The son of a U.S. Senator takes on the cause of clean air when a friend dies of emphysema.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-03-21
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A Cry For Justice
Overview: Due to hasty investigations and questionable methods of two police sergeants, two hoodlums are convicted for a robbery in which a patrolman was seriously injured. Years later, one of the two cops gets on the trail of the real culprits. To enforce justice, he makes himself unpopular with his department and his colleague, who want to cover up the embarrassing mistake
Genres: Drama Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-05-23
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