Harry Guardino
Also Known As: Harold Vincent "Harry" Guardino, Harold Vincent Guardino
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Harry Guardino (December 23, 1925—July 17, 1995) was an American actor whose career spanned from the early 1950s to the early 1990s. In 1964, he was cast in a short-lived CBS series entitled The Reporter, a drama about a hard-hitting investigative journalist named Danny Taylor. His principal co-star was Gary Merrill as city editor Lou Sheldon. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Guardino appeared on stage, in films, and on television. His Broadway theatre credits included A Hatful of Rain, One More River (earning a Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his performance), Anyone Can Whistle, The Rose Tattoo, The Seven Descents of Myrtle, and Woman of the Year. Guardino's other film credits include Houseboat, Pork Chop Hill (about the Korean War), The Five Pennies, King of Kings, Madigan, Lovers and Other Strangers, and Dirty Harry. He was nominated twice for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor. He guest starred on John Cassavetes's 1959-1960 series, Johnny Staccato, the story of a pianist/private detective in New York City. In 1960, Guardino appeared as Johnny Caldwell in the episodes "Perilous Passage", "The O'Mara's Ladies", and "Daughter of the Sioux" in the NBC western series Overland Trail starring William Bendix and Doug McClure. McClure two years later would join the long-running The Virginian series on NBC after a preceding stint on the CBS detective series Checkmate (TV series). Guardino had a continuing role as Perry Mason's nemesis, Hamilton Burger, in the 1973 television series The New Perry Mason and a recurring role on Angela Lansbury's Murder, She Wrote. He made guest appearances in dozens of television series, including Studio One, Target: The Corruptors!, The Eleventh Hour, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Kraft Television Theatre, Playhouse 90, Dr. Kildare, The Lloyd Bridges Show, Route 66, Ben Casey, Hawaii Five-O, Love, American Style, The Greatest Show on Earth, Kojak, The Streets of San Francisco, Jake and the Fatman, and Cheers. He had the lead role of Det. Lee Gordon in the 1969 made-for-television suspense film The Lonely Profession. Guardino died at the age of sixty-nine of lung cancer in Palm Springs, California. Description above from the Wikipedia article Harry Guardino, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Birthday: December 23, 1925
Deathday: July 17, 1995
Adult: No
Gender: Male
Popularity:
Known For:
Dirty Harry
Overview: When a madman dubbed 'Scorpio' terrorizes San Francisco, hard-nosed cop, Harry Callahan – famous for his take-no-prisoners approach to law enforcement – is tasked with hunting down the psychopath.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-12-23
Popularity:
Houseboat
Overview: An Italian socialite on the run signs on as housekeeper for a widower with three children.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-11-19
Popularity:
The Enforcer
Overview: Dirty Harry Callahan returns again, this time saddled with a rookie female partner. Together, they must stop a terrorist group consisting of angry Vietnam veterans.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-12-16
Popularity:
The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin
Overview: To restore his family's lost wealth, a young Boston lad stows away on a ship bound for the California Gold Rush. When their very proper butler gives chase, all roads lead to nonstop adventure, wild and woolly characters, and a lucky punch that leads to a bonanza of belly laughs!
Genres: Action Comedy Drama Family Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-03-08
Popularity:
Madigan
Overview: NYPD detectives Bonaro and Madigan lose their guns to fugitive Barney Benesch. As compensation, they are given a weekend to bring Benesch to justice. While they follow various leads, Police Commissioner Russell goes about his duties, including attending functions, meeting with aggrieved relatives, and counseling the spouses of fallen officers.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-03-29
Popularity:
Hell Is for Heroes
Overview: World War II drama where the action centers around a single maneuver by a squad of GIs in retaliation against the force of the German Siegfried line. Reese joins a group of weary GIs unexpectedly ordered back into the line when on their way to a rest area. While most of the men withdraw from their positions facing a German pillbox at the far side of a mine-field, half a dozen men are left to protect a wide front. By various ruses, they manage to convince the Germans that a large force is still holding the position. Then Reese leads two of the men in an unauthorized and unsuccessful attack on the pillbox, in which the other two are killed; and when the main platoon returns, he is threatened with court-martial. Rather that face the disgrace, and in an attempt to show he was right, he makes a one-man attack on the pillbox.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-06-26
Popularity:
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
Popularity:
King of Kings
Overview: Who is Jesus, and why does he impact all he meets? He is respected and reviled, emulated and accused, beloved, betrayed, and finally crucified. Yet that terrible fate would not be the end of the story.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-10-11
Popularity:
Pork Chop Hill
Overview: Korean War, April 1953. Lieutenant Clemons, leader of the King company of the United States Infantry, is ordered to recapture Pork Chop Hill, occupied by a powerful Chinese Army force, while, just seventy miles away, at nearby the village of Panmunjom, a tense cease-fire conference is celebrated.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-05-29
Popularity:
St. Ives
Overview: A dabbler-in-crime and his assistant hire an ex-police reporter to recover some stolen papers.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-02-24
Popularity:
They Only Kill Their Masters
Overview: An enigmatic young woman has been murdered in a small California coast town. The investigation by the local sheriff uncovers a complex web of relationships centering on the victim; the scattered trail of evidence ranges from a mysterious photograph to the victim's own dog. During the investigation, the sheriff meets and becomes romantically involved with a woman whose connection to the murder is ambiguous.
Genres: Mystery Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-11-22
Popularity:
Any Which Way You Can
Overview: Philo takes part in a bare knuckle fight - as he does - to make some more money than he can earn from his car repair business. He decides to retire from fighting, but when the Mafia come along and arrange another fight, he is pushed into it. A motorcycle gang and an orangutan called Clyde all add to the 'fun'.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-12-17
Popularity:
The Five Pennies
Overview: Dixieland cornetist Red Nichols runs into opposition to his sound, but breaks through to success. He marries a warm, patient woman and even finds time to raise a family. Then tragedy strikes when their daughter contracts polio.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-06-18
Popularity:
Capone
Overview: Young Al Capone catches the eye of Johnny Torrio, a criminal visiting New York from Chicago. Torrio invites Capone to move to Illinois to help run his Prohibition-era alcohol sales operation. Capone rises through the ranks of Torrio's gang and eventually takes over. On top, he works to consolidate his power by eliminating his enemies, fixing elections to his advantage and getting rich. In his spare time, Capone courts the principled Iris Crawford.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-04-16
Popularity:
Police Story: No Margin for Error
Overview: Two policemen are suspected of excessive violence and causing two deaths. The investigation brings to light, little by little, the whole truth.
Genres: Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-04-30
Popularity:
Fist of Honor
Overview: As two rival Godfathers view to take control of the city, a hot-tempered family member kills two relatives of the opposing family, breaking the "Truce of Honor". Now the war begins! As a young boxer seeks revenge for his fiancée's death, the streets become a real-life battlefield... to settle the score!
Genres: Adventure Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-05-19
Popularity:
Indict and Convict
Overview: A prosecutor must try his friend, a deputy district attorney, who has been charged with murdering his wife and her lover.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-06
Popularity:
The Treasure of San Gennaro
Overview: A pair of Americans want to perform the greatest robbery: the treasure of San Gennaro, in Napoli.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-11-25
Popularity:
Flesh and Fury
Overview: Deaf boxer Paul Callan captures the interest of gold-digging blonde Sonya Bartow and retired fight manager 'Pop' Richardson. For a time, Sonya has the upper hand with Paul, but ultimately a rival appears in the shape of upper-crust reporter Ann Hollis. With a 3-way fight under way for influence over Paul, he takes matters into his own hands, but learns that getting what he wanted isn't necessarily a happy ending.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-06-26
Popularity:
Matilda
Overview: A small-time talent agent discovers an amazing boxing kangaroo and figures to use it as his stepping-stone into the big time.
Genres: Comedy Crime Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-06-22
Popularity:
Contract on Cherry Street
Overview: A policeman devises an unorthodox plan for bringing criminals to justice after his partner is brutally gunned down.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-11-19
Popularity:
Under Surveillance
Overview: Two insurance investigators try to find out why the ex-partner of one of them was murdered.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-01
Popularity:
The Pigeon That Took Rome
Overview: An American Infantry officer assigned to a cloak-and-dagger role in Rome uses homing pigeons for outside contact, with humorous results.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-06-19
Popularity:
Get Christie Love!
Overview: Get Christie Love! is a 1974 made-for-television film starring Teresa Graves as an undercover female police detective who is determined to overthrow a drug ring. This film is based on Dorothy Uhnak's crime-thriller novel, The Ledger.
Genres: Thriller Action Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-22
Popularity:
The Neon Empire
Overview: New York mobster Junior Moloff begins plans to transform Las Vegas into a mecca of prostitution and gambling.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-12-03
Popularity:
The Last Child
Overview: In a badly-overpopulated future, where each couple is only allowed one child and where people over 65 are forbidden medical care under a very draconian set of laws, a young couple, pregnant with their second child (the first died shortly after birth) enlist the help of an elderly former US Senator to help them escape to Canada.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-10-05
Popularity:
Five Branded Women
Overview: Five Yugoslav women who consorted with the German occupiers are publicly humiliated and banished by the Yugoslav partisans but they take up arms to fend for themselves.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-03-15
Popularity:
Jigsaw
Overview: After inadvertently ingesting some sugar laced with LSD, a man wakes up with amnesia and in the middle of a murder plot.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-06-05
Popularity:
Dirty Harry's Way
Overview: A promotional short on the movie Dirty Harry (1971) , which compares it to such classics as 'G' Men (1935) or The Big Sleep (1946), focusing on the toughness of those movies' main characters.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-12-23
Popularity:
Whiffs
Overview: Elliott Gould steals Army nerve gas to help him rob banks when he’s kicked out of the military after 15 years of service as a human guinea pig in its chemical warfare experiments.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-10-15
Popularity:
Hold Back Tomorrow
Overview: A condemned murderer, scheduled to hang in the morning, asks for the company of a woman in his final hours.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-11-01
Popularity:
The Big Tip Off
Overview: A newspaper man uses a mobster's tips to get the scoop on gangster activities.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-03-20
Popularity:
Sirocco
Overview: A mysterious American gets mixed up with gunrunners in Syria.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-06-13
Popularity:
The Hell with Heroes
Overview: In 1946 North Africa, two former US Air Force pilots are forced to work for an international smuggler to get money needed for their return to civilian life after fighting in World War II.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-08-28
Popularity:
Rhino!
Overview: A zoologist working to save the endangered animals of africa has problems with poachers and local tribesmen who don't understand his methods. But, with the help of the local district nurse,...
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-05-20
Popularity:
Moving Target
Overview: A police detective initially believed to have died in an accident is found to have been murdered, and suspicion arises the killer is a fellow officer.
Genres: TV Movie Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-05-22
Popularity:
Red Sky at Morning
Overview: Before going off to World War II, Frank Arnold (Richard Crenna) relocates his wife, Ann (Claire Bloom), and son, Joshua (Richard Thomas), to New Mexico. Joshua has a difficult time fitting in, finding himself a minority in a predominantly Latino community, and his mother doesn't fare much better, treating her loneliness with increasing quantities of alcohol. At length, Joshua makes some friends and begins to adjust, but bad news from overseas threatens to spoil what he's accomplished.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-05-12
Popularity:
Street Killing
Overview: In this detective drama, a prosecutor investigates a murder and finds that it is connected to a recent mugging. In the end, he is led to convict a high-ranking crime lord.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-09-12
Popularity:
Lovers and Other Strangers
Overview: Mike Vecchio and Susan Henderson are preparing for their upcoming wedding. However, they seem to be the only two people at the wedding that are happy. Mike's brother Richie and his wife Joan are going through a divorce, which is upsetting his overly devout Catholic mother Beatrice. Also, Susan's father is carrying on an affair and her sex starved older sister Wilma is going through her troubles with her husband Johnny. All this is going on while Mike's best friend Jerry is trying to bed the maid of honor, Susan's cousin Brenda.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-08-12
Popularity:
Valley of Mystery
Overview: A Meridian Airlines flight from Miami to Caracas crashes in the Venezuelan jungle, stranding 130 passengers and crew in hostile surroundings.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-09-29
Popularity:
Pleasure Cove
Overview: The story of a posh seaside vacation resort, and the lives and adventures of its guests and staff.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-01-03
Popularity:
Every Which Way but Loose
Overview: Philo Beddoe is your regular, easygoing, truck-driving guy. He's also the best bar-room brawler west of the Rockies. And he lives with a 165-pound orangutan named Clyde. Like other guys, Philo finally falls in love - with a flighty singer who leads him on a screwball chase across the American Southwest. Nothing's in the way except a motorcycle gang, some cops, and legendary brawler Tank Murdock.
Genres: Action Comedy Adventure Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-16
Popularity:
The Lonely Profession
Overview: Private investigator Leo Gordon is hired to trail Karen Mendaros, the mistress of a reclusive billionaire. When they meet, Gordon and Mendaros hit it off and check in at a motel. Gordon wakes up the next morning and discovers that Mendaros had been murdered during the night. Gordon opens his own investigation of Mendaros' past in an attempt to determine who killed Mendaros and why he's been set up as the fall guy.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-10-21
Popularity:
Goldengirl
Overview: A neo-Nazi Doctor tries to make a superwoman of his daughter who has been specially fed, exercised & Conditioned since she was a child to run in the Olympics.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-10-06
Popularity:
Evening in Byzantium
Overview: While the prestigious Cannes Film Festival goes on around him, American movie producer Jesse Craig struggles to develop a pitch-worthy thriller about a terrorist plot. Before long, Craig becomes concerned that a shocking act of real-life terrorism already may be underway. Meanwhile, radical actor Bret Easton works in cahoots with a group of extremists to coordinate the hijacking of a trio of passenger planes in a devastating, multi-city nuclear attack.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-08-14
Popularity:
The Killers of Mussolini
Overview: As the Salo Republic crumbles around him, Mussolini, along with his mistress and several of his ministers flee with retreating Nazi soldiers, but are caught at the town of Dongo by red partisans. All are brutally executed without trial.
Genres: Drama TV Movie History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-06-04
Popularity:
Partners in Crime
Overview: A retired judge who opens a private detective agency and her ex-con associate try to track down $750,000 in bank robbery loot.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-24
Popularity:
Having Babies
Overview: The story of four couples who are about to have children using the Lamaze method.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-10-17
Popularity:
Night of 100 Stars
Overview: The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place Friday February 19, 1982 at New York's Radio City Music Hall. The event, for which ticket-buyers paid up to $1,000 a seat (tax-deductible as a contribution to the Actors' Fund) was billed as "The Night of 100 Stars" but, actually, around 230 stars took part. And most of the audience of 5,800 had no idea in advance that they were paying to see a TV taping, complete with long waits for set and costume changes, tape rewinding, and the like. Executive producer Alexander Cohen estimated that the 5,800 Radio City Music Hall seats sold out at prices ranging from $25 to $1,000. The show itself cost about $4 million to produce and was expected to yield around $2 million for the new addition to the Actors Fund retirement home in Englewood, N. J. ABC is reputed to have paid more than $5 million for the television rights.
Genres: Comedy Music TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-03-08
Popularity:
Purple Heart Diary
Overview: A trio of singers entertaining hospitalized soldiers during WWII encourage a wounded soldier in his love for a nurse.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-11-12
Popularity: