Morgan Woodward
Also Known As: Thomas Morgan Woodward, مورگان وودوارد
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Morgan Woodward (born 16 September 1925 in Fort Worth, Texas) is an American actor. He is probably best known for his recurring role in Dallas as Marvin "Punk" Anderson. He also played the silent, sunglasses-wearing, "man with no eyes", Boss Godfrey (the Walking Boss) in Cool Hand Luke and holds the record for Most Guest Appearances on the long-running, western TV series, Gunsmoke, with 19. Description above from the Wikipedia article Morgan Woodward licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Fort Worth, Texas, USA
Birthday: September 16, 1925
Deathday: February 22, 2019
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Cool Hand Luke
Overview: When petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn't play by the rules of either the sadistic warden or the yard's resident heavy, Dragline, who ends up admiring the new guy's unbreakable will. Luke's bravado, even in the face of repeated stints in the prison's dreaded solitary confinement cell, "the box," make him a rebel hero to his fellow convicts and a thorn in the side of the prison officers.
Genres: Action Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-11-01
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Which Way Is Up?
Overview: Orange picker Leroy Jones inadvertently becomes a union leader and is forced out of town, leaving behind his sex-obsessed father, Rufus, and timid spouse, Annie Mae. He heads for Los Angeles, where he falls for union organizer Vanetta. Annie Mae seeks solace from local preacher Lenox Thomas, who eventually impregnates her. When Leroy catches wind, he heads home for a showdown with Lenox.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-11-04
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The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
Overview: Cosmo Vittelli, the proprietor of a sleazy, low-rent Hollywood cabaret, has a real affection for the women who strip in his peepshows and the staff who keep up his dingy establishment. He also has a major gambling problem that has gotten him in trouble before. When Cosmo loses big-time at an underground casino run by mobster Mort, he isn't able to pay up. Mort then offers Cosmo the chance to pay back his debt by knocking off a pesky, Mafia-protected bookie.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-02-15
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Battle Beyond the Stars
Overview: A young farmer assembles a band of diverse mercenaries to defend his peaceful planet from an evil tyrant.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-09-08
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Girls Just Want to Have Fun
Overview: Janey is new in town, and soon meets Lynne, who shares her passion for dancing in general, and "Dance TV" in particular. When a competition is announced to find a new Dance TV regular couple, Janey and Lynne are determined to audition. The only problem is that Janey's father doesn't approve of that kind of thing.
Genres: Comedy Family Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-04-12
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One Little Indian
Overview: An Army deserter flees by camel across the desert with a caucasian boy raised by Indians.
Genres: Family Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-06-20
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Gunsmoke: To the Last Man
Overview: Retired marshal Matt Dillon tracks Arizona rustlers and lands in the middle of the 1880s Pleasant Valley War.
Genres: TV Movie Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-10
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Supervan
Overview: A man named Clint enters a solar-powered van called Vandora into a competition called Freakout.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-03-01
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Death of a Gunfighter
Overview: In the turn-of-the century Texas town of Cottownwood Springs, marshal Frank Patch is an old-style lawman in a town determined to become modern. When he kills drunken Luke Mills in self-defense, the town leaders decide it's time for a change. That ask for Patch's resignation, but he refuses on the basis that the town on hiring him had promised him the job for as long as he wanted it. Afraid for the town's future and even more afraid of the fact that Marshal Patch knows all the town's dark secrets, the city fathers decide that old-style violence is the only way to rid themselves of the unwanted lawman.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-05-08
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Speedtrap
Overview: After a wave of unsolved car thefts, an insurance company calls in a private investigator to solve the case. While the chief of police isn't thrilled about having an outsider come and show up his men, one of the officers is a former girlfriend who's more than willing to help him out in any way she can.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-09-01
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Yuma
Overview: A down-and-dirty town is forced to shape up when a new marshal (Clint Walker) comes to town. However, when a scheme is launched to destroy the lawman's authority, he must discover the perpetrators and preserve his reputation.
Genres: Western TV Movie Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-03-02
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Final Chapter: Walking Tall
Overview: It's the final chapter in this chilling, real-life story of Sheriff Buford Pusser, a good-hearted lawman set on keeping his town safe. Still distraught over his wife's death, he blows up every moonshine still in McNairy county and burns the brothels and whiskey joints to the ground. Having gone too far, he's voted out of office, but that doesn't stop the mob from seeking their revenge. Buford soon discovers how small his town is when he runs out of highway with the mob on his trail.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-08-31
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Firecreek
Overview: A peace-loving, part-time sheriff in the small town of Firecreek must take a stand when a gang of vicious outlaws takes over his town.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-01-24
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Pistols 'n' Petticoats
Overview: Compilation of several episodes of the TV series Pistols 'n' Petticoats.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-09-05
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The Gun Hawk
Overview: When his town-drunk father is killed by the Sully brothers, gunfighter Blaine Madden exacts his revenge but has to flee, aided by a young aspiring gunslinger, when the sheriff tries to arrest him.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-08-28
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Gunpoint
Overview: A young, determined sheriff and his posse chase a gang of murderous train robbers, and a kidnapped woman into New Mexico.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-04-25
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A Small Town in Texas
Overview: A crooked sheriff in a small Southern town frames an ex-convict in a drug bust and takes his girlfriend.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-07-09
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The Hatfields and the McCoys
Overview: A retelling of the famous feud between two mountain families, the Hatfields and the McCoys, in rural Kentucky and West Virginia in the late 1800s.
Genres: Western Action Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-15
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Moonshine County Express
Overview: The three surviving daughters of a murdered moonshiner band together with a racecar driver to run high-test shine behind the corpulent backs of the local crime syndicate.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-06-01
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The Sword of Ali Baba
Overview: Supposedly up to 70 percent of this feature was taken from the 1944 Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. Frank Puglia as Prince Cassim remains from the 21-year-old footage.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-04-01
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Deadly Game
Overview: A military convoy is transporting something apparently for disposal. They pass by Sheriff Abel Marsh's town and they are passing by property that's owned by Amy Franklin who is the girlfriend of Abel's deputy, Malcolm. Before they know it, everything around the property is uninhabitable. The army returns to clean things up and make restitution. But there is one nagging question, was this an accident or was it deliberate? That is something Abel is most interested in finding out.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-12-01
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The Midnight Man
Overview: An ex-convict, and ex-cop, finds himself in the midst of drama as a murder, of a female student, is commited at the university where he works as a night watchman. He is reluctantly drawn into the criminal investigation and eventually becomes a suspect in the case. Will he be able to find the real murderer and clear his own name, or not?
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-03-07
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Gunsight Ridge
Overview: An undercover agent takes the job of sheriff in order to find the men responsible for a series of stagecoach robberies.
Genres: Western Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-09-01
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Ride in a Pink Car
Overview: A man, thought to be dead, returns to his hometown in Florida. He finds his wife re-married and the town now ruled by corrupt forces.
Genres: Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-06-21
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The Quest
Overview: Eight years ago, Cheyenne Indians attacked the Baudine Family wagon and captured Morgan, whom they renamed Two Persons. Now Two Persons, raised in the ways of the Indians, has been reunited with his brother Quentin, a doctor and a stranger to frontier ways. Together the brothers set out in search of their sister Patricia, who was also captured and who Two Persons believes is still alive.
Genres: Action Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-05-13
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Treachery and Greed on the Planet of the Apes
Overview: The fugitives Burke, Virdon and Galen try to save the life of a human blacksmith and his son, whom gorilla leader Urko has threatened with death should his horse lose another race. The trio also attempt to expose a crooked gorilla by framing him in a plot to kill Urko. [The third of five telefilms edited from episodes of the 1974 TV series; this film combines the episodes "The Horse Race" and "The Tyrant"]
Genres: TV Movie Adventure Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-11-19
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Westward Ho, The Wagons!
Overview: The pioneering trail to Oregon was littered with constant danger. Yet, the hope of the "promised land" keeps American families westward bound despite overwhelming odds. A calm, clear-thinking pioneer attempts to lead a wagon train through territory occupied by Pawnees and Sioux. Along the way, the hardy settlers face horse thieves, kidnappers, and unpredictable Indian attacks in their push to establish a new life in the rugged West.
Genres: Adventure Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-12-20
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The Last Day
Overview: The Dalton gang is riding again, forcing a retired gunman to use his weapons once more.
Genres: TV Movie Western
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1975-02-15
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The Wild Country
Overview: Uprooted from their comfortable home in Pennsylvania, James and Kate Tanner, along with their sons, Virgil and Andy, journey to the wild country of 1890s Wyoming to become farmers. Soon, they come face-to-face with tornadoes, bears and wolves. But through the hardships their love for each other endures, even when a local rancher sees the newcomers as "squatters" on his land, and will stop at nothing – including murder – to drive them out.
Genres: Adventure Family Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-12-16
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Running Wild
Overview: A photographer travels to the stunning vistas of Colorado and becomes involved in an effort to save a herd of wild horses.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-08-15
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The Devil's Bedroom
Overview: Misunderstanding and small town prejudice lead to the tragic persecution of an ordinary local man who is a "loner".
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-09-01
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The Other Side of Hell
Overview: A disturbed, but highly intelligent man is sent to a criminally insane hospital to serve time and rehabilitate. But when he arrives, he discovers it's in fact a closed world where brutality is an everyday occurrence.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-17
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A Last Cry for Help
Overview: Sharon appears to be a normal 17-year-old girl with good grades, many friends, and a wonderful personality - hardly someone you think would be considering suicide. But her home life is constrained by the pressures and expectations of her parents. She slowly spirals downward, her mother at one point telling her that she has no business being unhappy. So, she gulps down a bottle of sleeping pills. She is saved, but for how long?
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-01-19
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