Wallace Rooney
Also Known As: Walter Rooney
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Plattsburgh, New York, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: December 29, 1910
Age: 114 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: October 10, 1996
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World in My Corner
Overview: A scrappy fighter from Jersey City named Tommy Shea -- "born in a dump, educated in an alley" -- catches the eye of wealthy businessman, Robert Mallinson, who allows him to train at his Long Island estate. Shea soon falls for Mallinson's daughter, Dorothy, but fears he doesn't have the money to support her in proper style. To get this money, Shea decides to work with crooked fight-promoter Harry Cram, even though this means dropping his honest manager, Dave Bernstein. As the big fight approaches, however, Shea begins to have second thoughts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-03-01
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Senior Year
Overview: Pilot for the short-lived series "Sons and Daughters" set in a high school in the 1950's and seen through the eyes of five carefree seniors.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-03-22
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The Gun
Overview: The odyssey of an American handgun and the dramatic way it reshapes the lives of its various owners.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-11-13
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The Exorcist
Overview: When a charming 12-year-old girl takes on the characteristics and voices of others, doctors say there is nothing they can do. As people begin to die, the girl's mother realizes her daughter has been possessed by the Devil. Her daughter's only possible hope lies with two priests and the ancient rite of demonic exorcism.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-12-26
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Say Yes
Overview: A wealthy man leaves all his money to his grandson on the condition that he marries within 24 hours. If not the money will go to the boy's father...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-06-12
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Secrets of a Mother and Daughter
Overview: A widowed mother, Ava Pryce (Katharine Ross) and daughter Susan Decker (Linda Hamilton) clash over the same man, a West Coast restaurant the owner named Alex Shepherd (Michael Nouri).
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-10-04
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Rehearsal for Murder
Overview: A year after his fiancée's death, a playwright schedules a rehearsal for his new play, which proves to be a trap for her killer.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-05-26
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Charlie Cobb: Nice Night for a Hanging
Overview: A California rancher hires a private detective to deliver the rancher's long-lost daughter to him. However, several people, including the rancher's new wife, his foreman and a crooked sheriff, don't want the girl--who would inherit the rancher's large spread if he died--to make it to the ranch alive.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-06-09
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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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Desperate Characters
Overview: Sophie and Otto Bentwood are a middle-aged, middle class, childless Brooklyn Heights couple trapped in a loveless marriage. He is an attorney, she a translator of books. Their existence is affected not only by their disintegrating relationship but by the threats of urban crime and vandalism that surround them everywhere they turn, leaving them feeling paranoid, scared, and desperately helpless.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-09-22
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Louis Armstrong - Chicago Style
Overview: The story of how jazz great Louis Armstrong got his start playing in Chicago clubs, how he was framed on a drug charge, and his travels throughout Europe, where he first gained worldwide fame.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-01-25
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Damn Yankees
Overview: Joe Boyd, an aging Washington Senators fan, would sell his soul for the Senators to beat the New York Yankees and win the pennant. Enter Mr. Applegate, who offers to turn Boyd into Joe Hardy, a powerful young baseball player, in exchange for his soul. When Boyd agrees, he becomes Hardy and leads the Senators on a winning streak. When he starts to miss his wife, though, and questions the deal, Applegate sends temptress Lola into the mix.
Genres: Comedy Music Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-04-08
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Foster & Laurie
Overview: The story of two New York City police officers, one white and one black, their ambush and murder by black revolutionaries and the efforts to hunt down and capture their killers.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-11-13
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