James Gregory
Also Known As: Robert Dixon, Jim Gregory
Biography: One of the most beloved actors of all, James Gregory was born December 23, 1911, in the Bronx and grew up in New Rochelle, NY. In high school, he was elected president of the Drama Club. He went to work on Wall Street as a runner shortly after the 1929 crash. James Gregory performed in drama groups and achieved pro status as a summer stock player in 1935. He performed in plays throughout New York, New Jersey and Maryland. His troupe of performers toured small towns in Pennsylvania and West Virginia, towing a trailer full of theatre props; they performed in school gyms, churches and YMCAs, earning $25 for a week of one-night stands. In 1939, James Gregory made his Broadway debut in a production of "Key Largo". Over the next 16 years, he performed in approximately 25 Broadway productions. (His career was interrupted by WWII; he served for 3 years in the Navy and Marine Corps. His tour of duty took him to the Pacific where he spent 83 days on Okinawa). One good thing that came out of the war years is that he married Anne in 1944, and they would stay together always. During his Broadway career, James Gregory earned consistently favorable reviews by drama critics from the New York Press, Boston Globe, New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Hollywood Reporter and Variety. James Gregory did a few TV spots as early as 1951, and in 1955 he made the transition from the Broadway stage to live television. The following year, after a couple of earlier uncredited movie appearances, he would also begin his movie career in earnest. He worked steadily throughout the early years of TV, working for major live television productions from New York to Hollywood. In 1959, James Gregory made television history by costarring in the pilot episode of the The Twilight Zone (1959); the episode "Where Is Everybody?" concerning the relevant topic of the USA winning the space race by sending a manned spaceship to the moon sold the series. James Gregory would play Dean Martin's exasperated boss MacDonald in the first 3 of the Matt Helm movies: The Silencers (1966), Murderers' Row (1966) and The Ambushers (1967). But he won his biggest acclaim as Inspector Frank Luger for the entire run of the TV series Barney Miller (1974) (1975-1982). This was his signature role; as the Inspector, he would be lovable, irritating, ingratiating, exasperating and humorous, sometimes all at the same time. He was Barney's buddy for 7 years, and the series ended with the Inspector getting himself a mail-order bride. James Gregory retired from acting in 1983, with over 100 TV and movie credits. He has entertained, uplifted and captivated us with his performances. He has endeared himself to a legion of fans. When asked to define his life's work, he simply said, "I am an actor". Fans would disagree with him. James Gregory is so much more -- role model and inspiration.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Bronx, New York, USA
Birthday: December 23, 1911
Deathday: September 16, 2002
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Gender: Male
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The Manchurian Candidate
Overview: Near the end of the Korean War, a platoon of U.S. soldiers is captured by communists and brainwashed. Following the war, the platoon is returned home, and Sergeant Raymond Shaw is lauded as a hero by the rest of his platoon. However, the platoon commander, Captain Bennett Marco, finds himself plagued by strange nightmares and soon races to uncover a terrible plot.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-10-24
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A Town Has Turned to Dust
Overview: The weakling sheriff of a small southwestern town allows a Mexican teenager to be lynched by a local mob for a crime he may not have committed.
Genres: Western Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-06-19
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The Frogmen
Overview: The new commander of a Navy Underwater Demolition Team--nicknamed "Frogmen"--must earn the respect of the men in his unit, who are still grieving over the death of their former commander and resentful of the new one.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-01-25
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The Silencers
Overview: Matt Helm is called out of retirement to stop the evil Big O organization who plan to explode an atomic bomb over Alamagordo, NM, and start WW III.
Genres: Comedy Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-02-18
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The Bastard
Overview: Phillipe Charboneau is the illegitimate son of an English duke. When he travels from France to England to claim his inheritance, he incurs the wrath of his father's family and is forced to flee to America, where he becomes involved in the events leading to the American Revolution. (Episodes 1 and 2 of the Kent Chronicles miniseries.)
Genres: History Drama War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-05-22
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The Secret War of Harry Frigg
Overview: When 5 allied generals are captured in Italy in WWII, it is a propaganda nightmare for the allies. The generals are all 1 star and refuse to take orders from each other in order to plan an escape. Harry Frigg is a private who has escaped from the guard house dozens of times. He is promoted to Major General and ordered to get the generals out once he is captured. Harry is willing to escape, but then he meets the countess...
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-02-29
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Captain Newman, M.D.
Overview: In 1944, Capt. Josiah J. Newman is the doctor in charge of Ward 7, the neuropsychiatric ward, at an Army Air Corps hospital in Arizona. The hospital is under-resourced and Newman scrounges what he needs with the help of his inventive staff, especially Cpl. Jake Leibowitz. The military in general is only just coming to accept psychiatric disorders as legitimate and Newman generally has 6 weeks to cure them or send them on to another facility. There are many patients in the ward and his latest include Colonel Norville Bliss who has dissociated from his past; Capt. Paul Winston who is nearly catatonic after spending 13 months hiding in a cellar behind enemy lines; and 20 year-old Cpl. Jim Tompkins who is severely traumatized after his aircraft was shot down. Others come and go, including Italian prisoners of war, but Newman and team all realize that their success means the men will return to their units.
Genres: Comedy Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-12-25
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The Flight of Dragons
Overview: The realm of magic is being threatened by the realm of logic, so Carolinus, the green wizard decides to shield it for all time. Ommadon, the evil red wizard, stands in his way. Carolinus then calls for a quest that is to be led by a man named Peter Dickinson, who is the first man of both the realms of science and magic. It is Peter's job to defeat Ommadon.
Genres: Animation Fantasy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-08-17
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PT 109
Overview: Dramatization of President John F. Kennedy's war time experiences during which he captained a PT boat, took it to battle and had it sunk by a Japanese destroyer. He and the survivors had to make their way to an island, find food and shelter and signal the Navy for rescue.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-06-26
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Nightfall
Overview: An innocent man turns fugitive as he reconstructs events that implicate him for a murder and robbery he did not commit.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-11-09
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The Main Event
Overview: A bankrupt entrepreneur attempts to recoup some of her losses by getting a washed-out boxer she picked up as a tax loss back into the ring — an idea her protégé isn't fond of.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-06-22
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Murderers' Row
Overview: The handsome top agent Matt dies a tragic death in his bath tub - the women mourn about the loss. However it's just faked for his latest top-secret mission: He shall find Dr. Solaris, inventor of the Helium laser beam, powerful enough to destroy a whole continent. It seems Dr. Solaris has been kidnapped by a criminal organization. The trace leads to the Cote D'Azur.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-12-20
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The Ambushers
Overview: When an experimental flying saucer crashes, secret agent Matt Helm has to bring back the secret weapons hidden on board.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-12-22
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Al Capone
Overview: In this unusually accurate biography, small-time hood Al Capone comes to Chicago at the dawn of Prohibition to be the bodyguard of racketeer Johnny Torrio. Capone's rise in Chicago gangdom is followed through murder, extortion, and political fraud. He becomes head of Chicago's biggest "business," but moves inexorably toward his downfall and ignominious end.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-03-25
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Two Weeks in Another Town
Overview: After spending three years in an asylum, a washed-up actor views a minor assignment from his old director in Rome as a chance for personal and professional redemption.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-08-17
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The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Overview: A writer reflects on his life as he lies dying from an infection after a safari in the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro, after Earnest Hemingway's short story.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-03-25
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The Sons of Katie Elder
Overview: The four sons of Katie Elder reunite in their hometown of Clearwater, Texas for their mother's funeral, and discover that the family ranch is now in the hands of Morgan Hastings, the town's gunsmith.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-06-23
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A Distant Trumpet
Overview: In 1883, US Cavalry lieutenant Matthew Hazard, newly graduated from West Point, is assigned to isolated Fort Delivery on the Mexican border of Arizona, where he meets commanding officer Teddy Mainwarring's wife Kitty, whom he later rescues from an Indian attack.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-05-20
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The Big Caper
Overview: A con artist moves into a small town to spearhead a payroll robbery.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-03-28
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The Scarlet Hour
Overview: An unhappy wife uses her powers of manipulation to draw an infatuated man into an ill-fated jewelry heist.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-04-01
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Shoot Out
Overview: Clay Lomax, a bank robber, gets out of jail after an 7 year sentence. He is looking after Sam Foley, the man who betrayed him. Knowing that, Foley hires three men to pay attention of Clay's steps. The things get complicated when Lomax, waiting to receive some money from his ex-lover, gets only the notice of her death and an 7 year old girl, sometimes very annoying, presumed to be his daughter.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-07-02
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A Rage to Live
Overview: Grace Caldwell, a young Pennsylvania newspaper heiress living with her widowed mother, has trouble restraining herself when it comes to the amorous attentions of young men. As word starts to spread about her behavior, Grace becomes a major source of heartache for her mother and a big source of concern to her brother.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-10-20
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The Young Stranger
Overview: The lack of communication between a wealthy film producer and his troubled teenage son after the boy is involved in an altercation at a movie theater leads to even more trouble.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-02-01
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Knife in the Dark
Overview: A tormented convict must take a stand against the violent inmate who murdered his best friend.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-12-07
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Gun Glory
Overview: An ex-gunslinger shunned by townsfolk is the only one who knows how to stop a ruthless cattleman.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-07-19
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Quick, Before It Melts
Overview: A reporter and a photographer become entwined with women, marriage, and a defecting Russian scientist while on an expedition to Antarctica for their magazine.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-01-20
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Twilight of Honor
Overview: A young lawyer defends a drifter accused of murder that he has already confessed to. He asks a retired, legendary lawyer for help.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-11-13
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The Weekend Nun
Overview: Drama based on the life of Joyce Duco, with Joanna Pettet as a young nun torn between the reality of her secular job as a daytime juvenile probation officer and the vows she has taken with the church.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-12-21
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Hey Boy! Hey Girl!
Overview: Meant primarily as TV fare, this standard, song-filled romantic drama stars Louis Prima as himself, and his real-life wife Keely Smith as Dorothy Spencer, a devout woman with a good singing voice. Dorothy is active in her local parish which like all parishes, is constantly thinking of ways to raise funds. One of the needy projects is a boys' camp, so when Dorothy is approached by Louis Prima to sing with his band she agrees only on one condition -- that he perform a concert benefit for the parish church and boys' camp. The interactions between Dorothy and Prima lead toward romance and a happy ending, as well as a popular album with the same title song featured in this film. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi (NY Times Review).
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-08-05
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Underwater Warrior
Overview: Based upon the life of Commander Francic D. Fane (USNR), UnderWater Warrior follows the evolution of the US Navy's Underwater Demolition Unit from its inception near the end of World War II through its acceptance and finally successful utilization in Korea. Landmark underwater camera work makes Underwater Warrior a milestone in cinematic history.
Genres: History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-02-14
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The Hunted
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1967-10-05
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Wait Till Your Mother Gets Home
Overview: An award winning high school football coach finds himself out of work, and switching roles with his wife for the summer when she goes back to work for the first time in 15 years.
Genres: Comedy Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-17
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Goldie and the Boxer Go to Hollywood
Overview: In this sequel to 1979's "Goldie and the Boxer," the ingratiating twosome, heavyweight champ and his 10-year-old manager, flee to California when a vengeful promoter who lost a bundle on the title fight wants retribution.
Genres: Action Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-02-19
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X-15
Overview: X-15 is a 1961 movie that tells a fictionalized account of the X-15 research rocket plane, the men who flew it and the women who loved them.
Genres: Action Drama History
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1961-12-22
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Beneath the Planet of the Apes
Overview: The sole survivor of an interplanetary rescue mission lands on the planet of the apes, and uncovers a horrible secret beneath the surface.
Genres: Adventure Science Fiction Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-04-23
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Miracle on 34th Street
Overview: A department store Santa tries to convince a little girl who doesn't believe in Santa Claus that he is Santa Claus, and winds up going on trial to prove who he is.
Genres: Drama Family Fantasy TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-12-14
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The Hawaiians
Overview: A wanderer returns home only to find political turmoil, disease and romantic difficulties.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-06-17
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The Comeback Kid
Overview: A down-on his-luck baseball pitcher finds a new set of rewards coaching a gang of underprivileged youngsters and romancing a career-oriented playground supervisor who, against her better judgment, put the kids in his charge.
Genres: Comedy Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-04-11
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Gridlock
Overview: A series of freak accidents on the Los Angeles freeway traps a cast-load of familiar TV faces in an astounding traffic tie-up, with the entire system caught in a gridlock that John Beck, as a traffic expert, endeavors to unsnarl.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-10-02
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Clambake
Overview: The heir to an oil fortune trades places with a water-ski instructor at a Florida hotel to see if girls will like him for himself, rather than his father's money.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-12-04
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Onionhead
Overview: An irresponsible student enlists in the Coast Guard expecting to sit out World War II.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-10-25
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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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Five in Judgement
Overview: When two brothers traveling across country stop in a small town diner to escape a storm, they are taken to be murderers by the locals.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-04-10
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The Late Liz
Overview: Religion changes a woman's attitude towards alcohol.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-09-01
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At This Moment
Overview: The story of America's railroads and the conglomeration of lines that comes together to connect the cities across the land.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-01-01
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The Strongest Man in the World
Overview: Medfield College science major Dexter Riley and his classmates have been working on a new vitamin compound when a lab accident creates a supercharged mix that ends up in Dexter's cereal box, giving him superhuman strength. The powerful formula comes to the attention of the college dean and two rival cereal companies, touching off a hilarious chain of events.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-02-06
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The Love God?
Overview: Ornithologist Abner Peacock sells off his modest-selling birdwatching periodical to a charlatan who turns it into a girlie mag, making it a massive financial success. After Peacock and the magazine are taken to court on obscenity charges, he unwillingly becomes a reluctant hero and ends up a swinging libertine.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-08-01
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A Very Missing Person
Overview: An ex-schoolteacher is asked by the police to help locate a missing heiress.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-03-04
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The Million Dollar Duck
Overview: Professor Dooley takes home a duck from his research laboratory as a toy for his son, but soon finds out that it lays golden eggs.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-06-30
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The Abduction of Saint Anne
Overview: A cynical detective and a Roman Catholic bishop team up to investigate the reported miraculous powers of a 17-year-old girl being held captive in the home of her father, an ailing syndicate kingpin.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-21
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The Naked City
Overview: After a former model is drowned in her bathtub, Detective James Halloran and Lieutenant Dan Muldoon attempt to piece together her murder.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-03-04
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The Things People Want
Overview: Distinctive sales training film on the hierarchy of human needs, starring a young John Forsythe.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-01-01
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Cocoon
Overview: In this pilot film to the "Hawaii Five-0" television series, special law officer Steve McGarrett tracks down Red Chinese operatives and their spy ring in Honolulu.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-09-20
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The Marshal of Madrid
Overview: A gang of smugglers headed by an oil dealer are brought to justice by a lawman.
Genres: Action Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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