Biff McGuire
Also Known As: William Biff McGuire
Biography: William "Biff" McGuire (October 25, 1926 – March 9, 2021) was an American actor, best known as Inspector Kramer in Nero Wolfe (1979).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Birthday: October 25, 1926
Deathday: March 09, 2021
Adult: No
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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You're in the Navy Now
Overview: When Lt. John Harkness is assigned as the new skipper of a submarine chaser equipped with an experimental steam engine, he hopes that the U.S.S. Teakettle's veterans will afford him enough help to accomplish the ship's goals. Unfortunately, he finds the crew and its officers share his novice status or only have experience in diesel engines.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-02-23
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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Overview: Singer is a deaf-mute whose small world brings him in contact with a young girl, Mick, who cherishes a seemingly hopeless dream of becoming a concert pianist. At first hostile, Mick soon becomes friends with Singer, hoping to enlarge his small world. Three other central characters come to Singer for help also, each of them seeing in him a powerful force.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-07-31
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Serpico
Overview: Frank Serpico is an idealistic New York City cop who refuses to take bribes, unlike the rest of the force. Frank's actions get him shunned by the other officers, and often placed in dangerous situations by his partners. When his superiors ignore his accusations of corruption, Frank decides to go public with the allegations. Although this causes the Knapp Commission to investigate his claims, Frank has also placed a target on himself.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-12-18
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The Phenix City Story
Overview: A crime-busting lawyer and his initially reluctant attorney father take on the forces that run gambling and prostitution in their small Southern town.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-07-19
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Child of Glass
Overview: Alexander Armsworth and his family move to an authentic antebellum mansion which once was owned by a river pirate. Alexander is drawn into a century-old mystery when he sees the ghost of a little girl and she asks for his help in finding the "child of glass" by reciting a riddle. He has only a day or two to solve the riddle...or be haunted for the rest of his life!
Genres: Drama Family Fantasy TV Movie Horror Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-05-14
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Station Six-Sahara
Overview: A beautiful blonde joins a small group of men running an oil station in the Sahara Desert and starts the emotions soaring.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-01-11
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Hollywood Seagull
Overview: An adaptation of the play by Anton Chekhov.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-05-01
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Nero Wolfe
Overview: Gourmet Nero Wolfe interrupts his orchid-tending to take on the case of a lady tycoon who wants to know why she's under investigation by the FBI, only to find himself enmeshed in a puzzling murder-mystery. TV movie based on Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe series.
Genres: Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-12-19
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Hogan's Goat
Overview: A young Irish ward boss has a chance to be elected mayor, but the disgraced current mayor makes sure the candidate's wife learns about his affair with a just-deceased rich girl.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-10-18
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Act of Violence
Overview: A liberal-minded, divorced newswriter is the victim of a brutal mugging. Robbed of her confidence, she finds her life cloaked in fear and paranoia, causing her to reevaluate her lifelong beliefs.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-11-10
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Kingston
Overview: In this pilot for the "Kingston: Confidential" series, an investigative reporter, backed by the head of a newspaper and TV chain, uncovers a plot to utilize nuclear power plants in a scheme to take over the world.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-09-15
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Roger & Harry: The Mitera Target
Overview: A millionaire hires a pair of private investigators, who specialize in recovering lost and stolen objects, to find his daughter, who has apparently been smuggled out of the country.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-05-02
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The Turning Point of Jim Malloy
Overview: The son of a small-town doctor returns to his hometown after being kicked out of Yale, and begins a new career on the town's newspaper.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-04-12
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Paradise Lost
Overview: Playwright Clifford Odets' portrait of the Great Depression unfolds in the modest two-family home of Leo and Clara Gordon as misfortune strikes them and the people running with them. Opened on Broadway in 1935, it became one of the Group Theatre's most controversial plays and Odets' favorite.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-02-25
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Destination Space
Overview: 1959 television science fiction
Genres: Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-01-01
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In the Matter of Karen Ann Quinlan
Overview: Based on a true case, this tells the story of two parents in New Jersey whose daughter has lapsed into a coma from which doctors say she will never recover. The parents must decide whether to keep her alive on life support systems, or to disconnect them and let her die with some dignity left.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-09-26
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The Last Word
Overview: When politicians try to force out a renter in a corrupt real-estate deal, the man decides to take matters into his own hands. He takes a police officer hostage, hoping to expose the scam and save his home.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-10-10
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Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident
Overview: The story of Francis Gary Powers, a U-2 pilot for the CIA who was shot down in his spy plane over Russia, captured and imprisoned.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-09-29
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A Cry For Justice
Overview: Due to hasty investigations and questionable methods of two police sergeants, two hoodlums are convicted for a robbery in which a patrolman was seriously injured. Years later, one of the two cops gets on the trail of the real culprits. To enforce justice, he makes himself unpopular with his department and his colleague, who want to cover up the embarrassing mistake
Genres: Drama Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-05-23
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The Underground Man
Overview: A private detective goes after the kidnappers of his ex-girlfriend's son and becomes involved in a series of murders.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-05-06
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Midway
Overview: This war drama depicts the U.S. and Japanese forces in the naval Battle of Midway, which became a turning point for Americans during World War II.
Genres: Action Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-06-18
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Law and Order
Overview: Story follows three generations of a family in the New York City Police Department.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-05-06
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Crime Club
Overview: A Washington DC club comprises specialists who band together to combat crime.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-04-03
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Have I Got a Christmas for You
Overview: Members of a town's Jewish community decide to substitute for their Christian friends and neighbors so they can enjoy Christmas. The good folk humorously attempt jobs they have never done before.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-12-16
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The Werewolf of Washington
Overview: After being unknowingly inflicted with the bite of a werewolf while on a visit to Europe, White House press secretary Jack Whittier begins to turn into a deadly beast by night, terrorizing Washington D.C. and presenting a very deadly threat to the President.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-10-01
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The Hemingway Play
Overview: A novel portrait of author Ernest Hemingway, in which four versions of the man from different points of his life exist simultaneously.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-03-11
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Diary of a Swinger
Overview: Jeannie relates her life story to her shrink.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-09-15
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The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer
Overview: General Custer is on trial for the deaths of his men at the Battle of Little Bighorn.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-12-01
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