Paul Burke
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Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Paul Burke (July 21, 1926 – September 13, 2009) was an American actor best known for his lead roles in two 1960s ABC television series, Naked City and Twelve O'Clock High. He was twice nominated for an Emmy Award for his portrayal of New York Police Department detective Adam Flint in Naked City. Description above from the Wikipedia article Paul Burke (actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia. Date of Death 13 September 2009, Palm Springs, California (leukemia and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma)
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Birthday: July 21, 1926
Deathday: September 13, 2009
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Gender: Male
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The Thomas Crown Affair
Overview: Young businessman Thomas Crown is bored and decides to plan a robbery and assigns a professional agent with the right information to the job. However, Crown is soon betrayed yet cannot blow his cover because he’s in love.
Genres: Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-06-26
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Valley of the Dolls
Overview: In New York City, bright but naive New Englander Anne Welles becomes a secretary at a theatrical law firm, where she falls in love with attorney Lyon Burke. Anne befriends up-and-coming singer Neely O'Hara, whose dynamic talent threatens aging star Helen Lawson and beautiful but talentless actress Jennifer North. The women experience success and failure in love and work, leading to heartbreak, addiction and tragedy.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-12-27
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Spy Chasers
Overview: Slip and the gang (Bowery Boys) foil foes of the exiled, incognito king of Truania (Sig Ruman).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-07-31
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Fixed Bayonets!
Overview: The story of a platoon during the Korean War. One by one, Corporal Denno's superiors are killed until it comes to the point where he must try to take command responsibility.
Genres: War Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-11-21
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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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Psychic Killer
Overview: Mental patient Arnold Masters, hospitalized for a murder he didn't commit, learns astral projection--the art of leaving one's physical body and transporting the soul someplace else--from a fellow inmate. Upon his release, Arnold uses his new powers to bump off the people he holds responsible for his arrest, his mother's death while he was imprisoned and the price of meat! Lt. Morgan and Lt. Anderson are the cops on his trail, while his caring shrink, Dr. Scott, tries to prevent any more deaths.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-12-01
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The Rookies
Overview: Three new officers in a large metropolitan police department adjust to their new jobs and way of life. This is another TV-pilot that was first aired as an ABC Movie of the Week before becoming a TV-series.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-03-07
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Once You Kiss a Stranger...
Overview: A woman seduces a professional golfer, then offers to kill his opponent if the golfer will kill her psychiatrist, who wants her committed.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-11-12
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Screaming Eagles
Overview: A group of young soldiers parachute into France in preparation for D-Day.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-05-27
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Daddy's Gone A-Hunting
Overview: A mentally disturbed man stalks a woman who had once aborted the child he had fathered.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-05-13
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South Sea Woman
Overview: Marine Sergeant James O'Hearn is being tried at the San Diego Marine base for desertion, theft, scandalous conduct and destruction of property in time of war. He refuses to testify or plead guilty or not guilty to the charges. Showgirl Ginger Martin takes the stand against his protest. She testifies O'Hearn won't talk because he is protecting the name of his pal, Marine Private Davey White. Ginger tells how she, broke and stranded, met the two marines in Shanghai two weeks before Pearl Harbor.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-06-27
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The Disembodied
Overview: When men on a photo safari stumble into a misanthropic doctor’s remote camp with a wounded comrade, the doctor's restless wife supplements her usual pursuit (voodoo, especially as a way to off her husband) with a new one: seduction. As men lose their hearts (sometimes literally) to the alluring voodoo priestess, she embarks on a killing spree that turns the jungle blood red.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-08-25
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Della
Overview: Della Chappell is a very wealthy and incredibly reclusive woman. When a big company wants to develop some land that Della owns, the town sends out Barney Stafford to talk to her. She invites Barney over to negotiate the proposal. Barney soon takes a liking to Della's equally reclusive daughter Jenny Chappell. After spending some time with Jenny, he realizes that Della has a dark secret, one that keeps them from the outside world.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-08-08
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Francis in the Navy
Overview: In the U. S. Army intelligence office, bumbling lieutenant Peter Stirling receives a coded message from his friend, Francis, a talking mule. The note urges Pete to hurry to the Coronado, California naval base, where Francis is about to be sold as surplus. Pete rushes to the train station, but before he can board, nurse Betsy Donevan mistakes him for her shell-shocked brother, Navy boatswain Slicker Donevan. She tries to forcibly remove his uniform so he will not get into trouble for impersonating an Army officer. Finally she realizes that Pete is not Slicker but merely his mirror image.
Genres: Comedy Family Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-08-24
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Little Ladies of the Night
Overview: The sister of ex-pimp and current Los Angeles Police detective Lyle York was murdered working the streets a few years ago. Since his reform, he has teamed with Officer Russ Garfield to clear the streets of underage girls working in prostitution. Pretty, young runaway Hailey Atkins has been turned out. Down deep she wants to go straight but has had great difficulty escaping her pimp and doesn't even have a place to go. York and Garfield go out on a limb to try and help.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-01-16
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Five Fingers : Dossier
Overview: From the TV series Five Fingers. Released theatrically in the UK in August 1961 as supporting film to Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-08-01
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Five Fingers: The Judas Goat
Overview: In Hungary, Sebastian searches for a traitor who betrays his people after promising them freedom. An episode of the spy show Five Fingers edited for theaters. Released theatrically in the UK in October 1961 as supporting film to The Queen's Guards.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-10-01
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Advice to the Lovelorn
Overview: A failed pilot for a series centering on Maggie Dale, an advice columnist. This was somewhat in the tradition of shows like Fantasy Island. When she receives a letter, the writer's situation is played out for us, then she writes her advice and the writer reads her response and does his/her best to act upon it.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-11-30
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Maharlika
Overview: The (alleged) heroic World War Two adventures of Ferdinand Marcos, fighting against the Japanese occupation of the Philippines.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-04-09
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Killing at Hell's Gate
Overview: A whitewater rafting party is terrorized by a group of loggers who, after accidentally killing one of the rafters in a drunken session of target practice, decide to eliminate the rest of the witnesses.
Genres: Action Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-10-31
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An Echo of Theresa
Overview: American businessman Brad Hunter and his wife Suzy are visiting England for the first time. Meeting a business contact, Brad introduces his wife as "Theresa." But it seems to be more than an innocent slip of the tongue. Brad begins behaving strangely and knows more about specific locations in London than he would as a first time visitor. Suzy hires private detective Matthew Earp to look into the reasons behind her husbands sudden change in personality. This aired on British TV as part of the "Thriller" series (under the title "An Echo of Theresa") but was issued as a featured on home video in the U.S. as "Anatomy of Terror."
Genres: Mystery Drama TV Movie Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-01-15
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The Red-Light Sting
Overview: Government agent Frank Powell is determined to bring down racketeering crime lord Oliver Sully but cannot find any evidence. Powell concocts a plan to have the Justice Department buy a brothel, set up a professional call girl named Kathy Dunn as a hostess, and get the crime boss on extortion.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-03-05
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Valley of the Dolls: A World Premiere Voyage
Overview: The maiden cruise of the ocean liner Italia travels from Italy to California for the premiere of the motion picture "Valley of the Dolls."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-12-20
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Crime Club
Overview: A group of public and private investigators looks into the suspicious death of the son of one of its members' wealthy girlfriends.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-06
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Wild and Wooly
Overview: A Western adventure — a "Charlie's Angels" on horseback — involving three comely females who meet in a territorial prison, engineer a daring escape, and find themselves in a race against time to prevent the assassination of Teddy Roosevelt.
Genres: Western TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-02-20
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Beach Patrol
Overview: Jan Plummer, a policewoman recently transferred from LA narcotics to a beach patrol unit, spots a fugitive drug kingpin on the beach and becomes a target for murder.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-04-30
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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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