Wayne Tippit
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Biography: Wayne Tippit (December 19, 1932 – August 28, 2009) was an American television and stage character actor. He was best known to television audiences for playing Ted Adamson on the 1970s and 1980s CBS soap opera, Search for Tomorrow, for five years. He later portrayed Palmer Woodward, the father of Heather Locklear's character, Amanda Woodward, on the Fox primetime soap opera, Melrose Place, during the 1990s.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Lubbock, Texas, USA
Birthday: December 19, 1932
Deathday: August 28, 2009
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Gender: Male
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Rollercoaster
Overview: A young terrorist kills and injures patrons of a Norfolk amusement park by placing homemade explosives on the track of one of its roller coasters. After staging a similar incident in Pittsburgh, he sends a tape to a meeting of major amusement park executives in Chicago, demanding $1 million to make him stop.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-06-10
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Honor Thy Mother
Overview: Lieth Von Stein and his wife, Bonnie Von Stein are attacked while sleeping in their Smallwood home in North Carolina. Bonnie Von Stein survived. Lieth was not so lucky. Bonnie has trouble dealing with the fact that her own son, Christopher Pritchard, along with two friends consipired to have her and her husband killed. Neal Henderson and Christopher Pritchard plead guilty and testified at the trial of James Upchurch, who was convicted and sentenced to die. Several years later, however, his sentence was vacated and Upchurch is now serving a life sentence.
Genres: TV Movie Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-03-26
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Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon
Overview: Junie Moon is in the hospital after her face has been disfigured by her deranged boyfriend. There she meets two other patients — Arthur, an epileptic, and Warren, who is gay and uses a wheelchair. The unlikely trio of outcasts decides to move in together and manages to enjoy a series of adventures as they endure various forms of prejudice and struggle with their own issues.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-05-11
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Vengeance: The Story of Tony Cimo
Overview: A true story of the lives of a family from South Carolina torn apart after the murder of Bill and Myrtle Moon. Although the killer is caught the judicial system takes too long for the Moon's devoted stepson and he takes matter into his own hands.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-11-01
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Illusions
Overview: An American fashion designer is told that her husband has been killed in an air crash near France. However, she starts to believe that everything is not as it appears.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-18
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Money, Power, Murder.
Overview: Peter Finley is a cable-TV newsman who is led into a network of sin and conspiracy when he has interest in a missing anchorwoman's story.
Genres: Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-12-10
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Follow Your Heart
Overview: An ex-marine, in search of some defining life direction, unexpectedly faces a hurdle when his jeep breaks down in a sparsely populated Wyoming town. While waiting for parts to repair the vehicle he takes a temporary job as a rest area attendant and moves onto a ranch run by a one-legged widow with a mentally handicapped son. When an abandoned Vietnamese girl joins the group, the scene is ready for confrontation and tragedy.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-04-02
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The Ernest Green Story
Overview: Follows the story of Ernest Green, one of the Little Rock Nine who were the first blacks to integrate into an all white school.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-01-17
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Pipe Dreams
Overview: A woman trails her estranged husband to the Alaskan pipeline in hope of averting their impending divorce.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-11-11
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The Black Box Murders
Overview: A group of interested parties searching for stolen campaign money in a deserted house learn a murderer is among them.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-13
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Running Against Time
Overview: Hoping to prevent his brother's Vietnam death and to prevent the JFK assassination, a time-traveling college professor goes back to the '60s but can't find his way out. Trapped in a time warp, he can't effect a change because he can't return to his present time
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-09-12
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When We Were Young
Overview: Prospective series pilot about eight 1959 high school graduates in a Northern California town preparing to go off into the world.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-07-17
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Dancer, Texas Pop. 81
Overview: Four guys, best friends, have grown up together in DANCER, TEXAS POP. 81, a tiny town in West Texas. Years ago, they made a solemn vow to leave town together as soon as they graduate. Now, it's that weekend and the time has come to "put up or shut up." The clock is ticking and as all 81 people in the town watch, comment, offer advice and place bets, these four very different boys with unique backgrounds struggle with the biggest decision of their lives... whether to stay or leave home.
Genres: Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-05-01
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JFK
Overview: Follows the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy led by New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison.
Genres: Drama Thriller History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-12-20
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Nurse Betty
Overview: What happens when a person decides that life is merely a state of mind? If you're Betty, a small-town waitress and soap opera fan from Fair Oaks, Kansas, you refuse to believe that you can't be with the love of your life just because he doesn't really exist. After all, life is no excuse for not living. Traumatized by a savage event, Betty enters into a fugue state that allows -- even encourages -- her to keep functioning... in a kind of alternate reality.
Genres: Comedy Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-08-30
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MadHouse
Overview: The luxurious villa of Mark and Jessie Bannister, a yuppie couple, is overrun by loads of uninvited guests who turn the house up side down.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-02-16
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LifeStories: Steve Burdick
Overview: Steve Burdick is closeted television anchorman whose lover dies of an AIDS-related illness. Steve decides to come out and then tells his story about being gay and battling AIDS during a special segment of the nightly news. Originally episode eight of LifeStories, it was moved to later in the season due to the subject matter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-12-18
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The Final Days
Overview: The Final Days concerns itself with the final months of the Richard Nixon presidency.
Genres: History TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-10-29
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Noon Wine
Overview: The drama, adapted from a story by Katherine Anne Porter, tells of a Swedish immigrant who arrives on a small Texas farm at the turn of the century for work, is hired, and subsequently, and inadvertently, causes the downfall of his employer when a suspicious visitor comes to call.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-21
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