Murray Matheson
Also Known As: Sidney Murray Matheson
Biography: Sidney Murray Matheson (1 July 1912 - 25 April 1985) was an American-based Australian actor. He appeared on stage and in films and television programs until 1983.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Casterton, Victoria, Australia
Adult: No
Birthday: July 01, 1912
Age: 112 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: April 25, 1985
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Rabbit Test
Overview: Lionel's life turns around after a one-night stand on top of a pinball table... he becomes the world's first pregnant man!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-04-09
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How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Overview: A young but bright former window cleaner rises to the top of his company by following the advice of a book about ruthless advancement in business.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-03-09
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Tail Gunner Joe
Overview: Senator Joseph McCarthy from Wisconsin accuses prominent people of Communist sympathies in order to give him a national power base when he later planned to run for President.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-02-06
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Assault on a Queen
Overview: A group of adventurers refloat a WWII German submarine and prepare to use it to pull a very large heist; The Queen Mary which they plan to rob on the high seas.
Genres: Adventure Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-06-15
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King of the Khyber Rifles
Overview: Freshly arrived Sandhurst-trained Captain Alan King, better versed in Pashtun then any of the veterans and born locally as army brat, survives an attack on his escort to his Northwest Frontier province garrison near the Khyber pass because of Ahmed, a native Afridi deserter from the Muslim fanatic rebel Karram Khan's forces. As soon as his fellow officers learn his mother was a native Muslim which got his parents disowned even by their own families, he falls prey to stubborn prejudiced discrimination, Lieutenant Geoffrey Heath even moves out of their quarters, except from half-Irish Lt. Ben Baird.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-12-23
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Theatre 62: Rebecca
Overview: A self-conscious bride is tormented by the memory of her husband's dead first wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-04-08
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Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
Overview: A widowed doctor of both Chinese and European descent falls in love with a married American correspondent in Hong Kong during China's Communist revolution.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-08-18
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Botany Bay
Overview: Based on the story of the start of Australia's colonisation. An American medical student is falsely convicted of robbery, with his sentence involving the torturous voyage with other prisoners to the new penal colony at Botany Bay. Because of his attempt to escape, evil Captain Gilbert decides to return him to England on charges of mutiny.
Genres: Adventure Romance Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-12-26
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The Bamboo Prison
Overview: A communist POW sides with his North Korean guards against his fellow prisoners.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-06-15
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Twilight Zone: The Movie
Overview: An anthology film presenting remakes of three episodes from the "Twilight Zone" TV series—"Kick the Can", "It's a Good Life" and "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet"—and one original story, "Time Out."
Genres: Horror Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-06-24
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Arnold
Overview: Karen marries Arnold at his funeral and continues to get his money as long as she stays by his coffin. Meanwhile, various oddball relatives after Arnold's wealth are being killed in a creative variety of ways.
Genres: Thriller Horror Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-11-16
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Flight to Tangier
Overview: At the Tangier airport, a group of people await the arrival of a mysterious plane from behind the Iron Curtain. The reception committee includes Susan, an American; Gil Walker, a free-booting pilot; Danzer, a black market operator; and Danzer's girlfriend, Nicki. The plane crashes and burns. No survivors are found, nor are any corpses. Soon the search begins for a missing courier worth $3 million.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-11-20
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Explosion
Overview: During the height of the Vietnam war, a hippie and a draft dodger get together and hatch a plan to flee to Canada. They steal a car and head towards Vancouver, but the trip doesn't go as smoothly as they planned, and before long they're being chased by the police, accused of murdering several police officers.
Genres: Drama Crime War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-12-05
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The Notorious Landlady
Overview: An American junior diplomat in London rents a house from, and falls in love with, a woman suspected of murder.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-04-13
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Wall of Noise
Overview: The lives and loves behind the scenes at the racetrack are detailed in this thoroughbred soap opera. An ambitious young trainer, Joel Tarrant (Ty Hardin), enters into an illicit affair with the stable owner's wealthy wife, hot-to-trot Laura Rubio (Suzanne Pleshette), in the hope that someday he'll have enough dough to buy his own horses and stable.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-09-04
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Jamaica Run
Overview: Promoter William Montague wants to buy the estate owned by the Daceys, Mrs. Dacey and her daughter Ena and son Todd, in order to build a resort hotel. When they turn him down, he produces a couple of distant relatives, Janice and Robert Clayton, and sets about to prove that the estate rightfully belongs to them. The identity of the rightful heirs is thought to be buried in a sunken ship off of the Jamaican shore and the search begins, led by a schooner skipper, Patrick Fairlie, who is in love with Ena.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-04-21
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Mary and Joseph: A Story of Faith
Overview: A religious drama about Christ's parents, the events leading up to his birth, and the effect on the lives of the well-known biblical figures of the time.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-12-09
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The Million Dollar Face
Overview: Tony Curtis is the ruthless head of a cosmetics firm, Kiss of Gold, locked in fierce competition with his arch-rival, Glamour, Inc., that happens to be run by his former lover (Lee Grant), and finds his company in the grip of a power struggle among his executives (one of whom, unbeknownst to him, is the son he'd never met) when he is severely injured in a helicopter accident. This pilot to a prospective primetime soap opera failed to generate network interest.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-03-12
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The Woman I Love
Overview: The love of King Edward VIII for American divorcée Wallis Warfield Simpson eventually leads to his abdication.
Genres: TV Movie Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-09-09
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The Way to the Stars
Overview: Life on a British bomber base, and the surrounding towns, from the opening days of the Battle of Britain, to the arrival of the Americans, who join in the bomber offensive. The film centres around Pilot Officer Peter Penrose, fresh out of a training unit, who joins the squadron, and quickly discovers about life during war time. He falls for Iris, a young girl who lives at the local hotel, but he becomes disillusioned about marriage, when the squadron commander dies in a raid, and leaves his wife, the hotel manageress, with a young son to bring up. As the war progresses, Penross comes to terms that he has survived, while others have been killed.
Genres: Drama War Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-06-16
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Angel on My Shoulder
Overview: A small-time Chicago hood, now deceased, gets a second chance at life by striking a bargain with the Devil to inhabit and attempt to corrupt a totally honest politician.
Genres: Drama Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-05-11
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Hurricane Smith
Overview: South Sea freebooters fight for hidden treasure and the love of the beautiful Luana.
Genres: Adventure Action Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-10-02
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The Twilight Zone Christmas Classics
Overview: The Christmas Fantasy "Night of the Meek" starring Art Carney as a drunken department-store Santa who experiences quite an epiphany on Christmas Eve. And “Five Characters in search of an exit”.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-10-07
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Signpost to Murder
Overview: An escaped mental patient, reported to be homicidal, hides out in a woman's rural home.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-12-04
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A Tale of Two Cities
Overview: A dramatization originally for TV on the Plymouth Playhouse. A retelling of the Charles Dickens story.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-05-03
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School for Secrets
Overview: Wartime tale of a group of British scientists efforts to develop the first radar system. They did it just in time for it to be used in the Battle of Britain against the might of the Nazi Luftwaffe. Without it the little island could well have been overrun.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-23
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Journey Together
Overview: Two Englishmen (Richard Attenborough, Jack Watling) train with the Royal Air Force, ending with a bombing raid on Berlin.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-10-01
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The Secret Tunnel
Overview: Storyline Roger Henderson, the young son of a wealthy British gentleman, lives in one of those grand British country estates surrounded by huge gardens. When a Rembrandt painting is stolen from the vault in the basement of the mansion, Roger and John Wilson (young son of the butler) discover a secret tunnel leading from the vault to another building on the estate. They then set out on a dangerous mission to bring the smugglers to justice.
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-12-15
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Lieutenant Schuster's Wife
Overview: After a policeman is murdered in an ambush, rumors surface that he was on the take. His widow sets out to catch the killers and clear her husband's name.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-10-11
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The Moon and Sixpence
Overview: A staid, dull Englishman abruptly deserts his wife and children to become a painter in the South Seas.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-10-30
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