Woodrow Parfrey
Also Known As: Woody Parfrey, Sydney Woodrow Parfrey
Biography: Sydney Woodrow Parfrey (October 5, 1922 – July 29, 1984) was an American film and television actor from the 1950s to the early 1980s. He is often remembered as "one of TV's great slimeball villains".
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Birthday: October 05, 1922
Deathday: July 29, 1984
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Planet of the Apes
Overview: Astronaut Taylor crash lands on a distant planet ruled by apes who use a primitive race of humans for experimentation and sport. Soon Taylor finds himself among the hunted, his life in the hands of a benevolent chimpanzee scientist.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-02-07
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Dirty Harry
Overview: When a madman dubbed 'Scorpio' terrorizes San Francisco, hard-nosed cop, Harry Callahan – famous for his take-no-prisoners approach to law enforcement – is tasked with hunting down the psychopath.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-12-23
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Stay Hungry
Overview: A dishonest businessman asks rich layabout Craig Blake to help him buy a gym, which will be demolished for a development project in Alabama. But after spending time with weightlifter Joe Santo and gym worker Mary Tate Farnsworth, Craig wants out of the deal. The property negotiations turn ugly, causing a brawl at the gym and a spectacle at a big bodybuilding meet, as Craig learns that it's not easy to turn your back on fair-weather friends.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-04-23
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When Every Day Was the Fourth of July
Overview: A little girl convinces her attorney father to defend a mute war veteran accused of murdering a store owner.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-03-12
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The Seduction
Overview: A beautiful newscaster is stalked and tormented by a photographer obsessed with her beauty.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-01-22
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Papillon
Overview: A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful prison island, which inspires the man to plot his escape.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-12-16
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Cold Turkey
Overview: Reverend Brooks leads the town in a contest to stop smoking for a month, But some tobacco executives don't want them to win, and try everything they can to make them smoke. If townspeople don't go nuts, from wanting a cigarette, or kill each other from irritation and frustration, they will win a huge prize.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-02-19
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Sam Whiskey
Overview: A widow hires an ex-gambler to retrieve gold bars from a sunken river boat in Colorado and discreetly return them to the Federal Mint, from where they had been stolen by her dead husband.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-04-01
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Charley Varrick
Overview: Charley Varrick robs a bank in a small town with his friends, but instead of obtaining a small amount of money, they discover they stole a very large amount of money belonging to the mob. Charley must now come up with a plan to not only evade the police but the mob as well.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-09-19
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The War Lord
Overview: A knight in the service of a duke goes to a coastal village where an earlier attempt to build a defensive castle has failed. He begins to rebuild the duke's authority in the face of the barbarians at the border and is making progress until he falls in love with one of the local women.
Genres: History Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-11-17
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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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The Seniors
Overview: Four college seniors open a bogus sex clinic, which unexpectedly mushrooms into a multi-million dollar business.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-06-30
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Frances
Overview: The true story of Frances Farmer's meteoric rise to fame in Hollywood and the tragic turn her life took when she was blacklisted.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-12-03
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The New Maverick
Overview: Gambling brothers Bret (James Garner) and Bart Maverick (Jack Kelly) are, as usual, hot on the trail of a fast buck.
Genres: TV Movie Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-09-03
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Cattle King
Overview: A rich landowner of Wyoming fights to prevent the Texas herds from trampling his rich meadows.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-07-08
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The Sunshine Patriot
Overview: An American spy tries desperately to get out from behind the Iron Curtain with some crucial microfilm with the Communist security police close on his heels.
Genres: Action Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-12-16
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The Family Nobody Wanted
Overview: A minister and his wife take in poor and troubled children that nobody else wants and soon they find themselves with a family of a dozen kids.
Genres: Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-02-19
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The King's Pirate
Overview: Handsome British officer, Lt. Brian Fleming is sent undercover to infiltrate a lively band of pirates.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-07-20
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This Is the West That Was
Overview: A lighthearted look at the saga of Wild Bill Hickok and his relationship with Calamity Jane as he is targeted for revenge by some tough gunfighters.
Genres: Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-12-17
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B.J. and the Bear
Overview: In this pilot film, B.J. McKay, a guitar-playing independent trucker who travels with a fun-loving chimpanzee named Bear, finds himself caught up with a bunch of young women trying to flee a white slaver who happens to be the local sheriff.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-10-04
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Wyoming Mail
Overview: In 1869, the United States begins a railroad mail service to the West Coast which proves highly tempting to train robbers, in particular an organized gang with one of the mail's supposed guardians in their pay. Prizefighter Steve Davis, a former army intelligence man, is hired to track down the gang and save the Territorial Mail Service. Steve goes undercover in territorial prison, leans Morse Code from a fellow prisoner, breaks jail, infiltrates the gang...and finds time to romance dance-hall singer Mary, who proves to have hidden depths...
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-10-18
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The Outlaw Josey Wales
Overview: After avenging his family's brutal murder, Wales is pursued by a pack of soldiers. He prefers to travel alone, but ragtag outcasts are drawn to him - and Wales can't bring himself to leave them unprotected.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-06-30
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Silent Night, Lonely Night
Overview: Over the Christmas holidays in a small New England college town, a man and a woman share a brief interlude. He is there to visit his wife, who is a mental patient at the university, and she is there visiting her son, who is a student, after discovering her husband's infidelity.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-12-16
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The Movie Murderer
Overview: An experienced arson investigator takes along his young associate as they try to find an arsonist who is burning down movie sets.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-02-02
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Melvin Purvis G-Man
Overview: Agent Melvin Purvis is placed in charge of running down notorious killer Machine Gun Kelly, and sets out to do just that.
Genres: TV Movie Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-02-28
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Bronco Billy
Overview: An idealistic, modern-day cowboy struggles to keep his Wild West show afloat in the face of hard luck and waning interest.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-06-11
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The Flim-Flam Man
Overview: A veritable master of the trade, con man Mordecai Jones has taken part in his fair share of scams. When he happens upon a young army deserter, Curley, Jones decides to pass on his knowledge of swindling to the likable novice. As the two blaze through the rural South, Curley meets Bonnie Lee Packard, a girl of privilege, who helps the two crooks evade the local sheriff. But Curley soon questions his newfound profession.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-08-22
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The Incredible Journey of Doctor Meg Laurel
Overview: A big-city female doctor returns to her roots in the backwoods of the Blue Ridge Mountains to bring modern medicine to the local folks in the Appalachia of the 1930s and finds herself at odds with the homespun ways of the resident medicine woman.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-01-02
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Used Cars
Overview: When the owner of a struggling used car lot is killed, it's up to the lot's hot-shot salesman to save the property from falling into the hands of the owner's ruthless brother and used-car rival.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-07-11
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How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life
Overview: Wealthy playboy David Sloane wrongly believes good girl Carol Corman is his best friend's mistress.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-01-17
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Hearts of the West
Overview: Lewis Tater writes Wild West dime novels and dreams of actually becoming a cowboy. When he goes west to find his dream he finds himself in possession of the loot box of two crooks who tried to rob him.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-10-08
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The Homecoming: A Christmas Story
Overview: It's Christmas Eve, early 1930s on Walton's Mountain. As the family prepares for the holiday, they anxiously await Pa's return home from his job in the city some 50 miles away. He is late, and Ma and the grandparents hear on the radio a report of a bus accident that worries them. Oldest son John-Boy must step up to help grandfather cut down a Christmas tree, and upon learning the concern about Daddy sets out to find him.
Genres: Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-12-19
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It's a Mile from Here to Glory
Overview: A high school track star is involved in a life-threatening accident and now must learn to depend on others for his day-to-day living.
Genres: Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-05-05
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Johnny Gunman
Overview: Set over the course of one night in New York, Johnny Gunman follows a tense battle between two mob boss hopefuls.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-12-01
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The Return of the World's Greatest Detective
Overview: A Los Angeles cop falls off his motorcycle, strikes his head and wakes up believing himself to be Sherlock Holmes. Along with the social worker who is treating him, he sets out to solve the murder of an embezzler.
Genres: Crime Mystery Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-06-16
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The Andersonville Trial
Overview: A dramatization of the 1865 war-crimes trial of Henry Wirz, commandant of the notorious Confederate POW camp at Andersonville, Georgia.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-05-17
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The Rag Jungle
Overview: Charlie, working in the garment industry, refuses to pay the protection money demanded by racketeers. After his father Vito is beaten up Charlie organizes the other clothing manufacturers into standing together against the mob.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-11-20
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The Sting II
Overview: Hooker and Gondorf pull a con on Macalinski, an especially nasty mob boss with the help of Veronica, a new grifter. They convince this new victim that Hooker is a somewhat dull boxer who is tired of taking dives for Gondorf. There is a ringer. Lonigan, their victim from the first movie, is setting them up to take the fall.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-02-18
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Back to the Planet of the Apes
Overview: Astronauts Pete Burke and Allan Virdon crash on Earth in the far future and are captured by the apes. The men befriend a chimp named Galen who helps them to escape. In the hopes of finding a way to get back to their own time, the astronauts search for a computer in an earthquake-threatened city, with which they will be able to access their flight records. [The first of five telefilms edited from episodes of the 1974 TV series; this film combines the episodes "Escape from Tomorrow" and "The Trap"]
Genres: Action Thriller Adventure Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-11-17
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Crowhaven Farm
Overview: A couple, Maggie and Ben Porter, inherit an old farmhouse and move in, hoping to reinvigorate their marriage. When they learn the home was occupied long ago by a woman who was executed for practicing witchcraft, Maggie begins to have nightmares about her.
Genres: Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-11-24
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Carny
Overview: Tired of being a small-town waitress, Donna departs with the latest carnival show, living with entertainers Frankie and Patch in a tense, emotional triangle.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-05-23
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No Place to Run
Overview: An adopted boy's parents are killed, and to keep him from returning to the state's custody, he and his grandfather run away.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-09-19
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Oklahoma Crude
Overview: In 1913, in Oklahoma, oil derrick owner Lena Doyle, aided by her father and a hobo, is stubbornly drilling for oil despite the pressure from major oil companies to sell her land.
Genres: Comedy Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-07-03
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A Very Missing Person
Overview: An ex-schoolteacher is asked by the police to help locate a missing heiress.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-03-04
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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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Valley Forge
Overview: George Washington struggles to hold his army together at a critical point during the Revolutionary War.
Genres: Drama War TV Movie History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-12-03
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Jinxed!
Overview: Harold, a professional gambler, and his girlfriend Bonita, a lounge singer, follow Willie, a young blackjack dealer, around the western U.S. Harold has a jinx on Willie and can't lose with him. Bonita and Willie meet and fall for each other and plot to do away with Harold and collect on his life insurance.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-10-22
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Who Killed the Mysterious Mr. Foster?
Overview: An alcoholic drifter decides to run for sheriff in a small town. However, in order to get elected, he must find out who killed a visiting preacher.
Genres: Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-02-01
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Wake Me When the War Is Over
Overview: During the latter days of WWII an American Lieutenant accidentally falls out of an airplane into German territory. He is taken in by a Baroness who becomes smitten with him and doesn't want him to leave, so she doesn't tell him that the war has ended...for five years!
Genres: Comedy War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-10-14
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The Alpha Caper
Overview: A parole officer forced into retirement gets together three ex-convicts to pull off a $30-million armored car robbery.
Genres: TV Movie Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-10-06
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The Tenth Month
Overview: An unmarried, middle-aged woman accidentally gets pregnant by an internationally renowned pianist and decides to keep and raise the baby on her own.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-09-16
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Hunter
Overview: A fatal crash at a racetrack injures a government agent and exposes an enemy brainwashing scheme.
Genres: TV Movie Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-01-09
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