James Noble
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Biography: The son of a Dallas wholesale coal dealer, Noble spent much of his youth attending pool halls and movie houses. He retained his expertise with a pool cue throughout his life, while his stronger interest in acting (fueled by movies) manifested itself in local stage productions and drama studies at Southern Methodist University. Following Navy service in World War II, Noble went to New York to study at the Actors Studio, then went on to a stage revival of Pygmalion wherein he met his future wife, actress Carolyn Coates. The actor appeared on such TV soap operas as As the World Turns (1956), A World Apart (1970) and such Broadway productions as "1776" (a role he took to the movie 1776 (1972)), spending much of his spare time in psychotherapy to handle his ongoing feelings of self-doubt. In films from the mid '70s, Noble principally played small roles as authority figures and politicians (Being There (1979), The Nude Bomb (1980)), with occasional larger roles. such as Bo Derek's father in 10 (1979). In 1979, Noble was cast as the genially absent-minded "Governor Gene Gatling" on the sitcom, Benson (1979), a role in which he remained until the series' 1986 cancellation. Two years later, he resurfaced on TV in the role of a Nebraska-based recording engineer on the very short-lived sitcom, First Impressions (1988).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Dallas, Texas, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: March 05, 1922
Age: 103 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: March 28, 2016
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Breaking Up
Overview: JoAnn Hammil faces a harrowing fight to rediscover her personal identity when her husband of 15 years announces that he is leaving her and their children to search for the indefinable joy he feels he is missing from his life.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-02
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Dempsey
Overview: Nominated for two primetime Emmy Awards in 1984, this made-for-TV movie follows the true story of American boxer Jack Dempsey, who became a media sensation in the 1920s as the world heavyweight champion. Based upon the book by Jack Dempsey and Barbara Piatelli Dempsey.
Genres: History Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-09-28
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10
Overview: A Hollywood songwriter goes through a mid-life crisis and becomes infatuated with a sexy blonde newlywed.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-10-05
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The Day My Kid Went Punk
Overview: A nerdy teen makes himself over as a punk rocker, embarrassing his conservative parents in the process.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-10-23
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Summer of My German Soldier
Overview: Patty Bergen is a teenager in a Jewish family living in the American South during World War II. Patty feels like an outcast even in her own family and is unable to understand why her father can't seem to love her. Her town eventually becomes host to a prisoner of war camp. A young German soldier escapes from this camp, and Patty finds him hiding in her secret place in the woods outside of town. After getting to know him, she ends up harboring him from his captors and, in the way of many adolescents, falls in love with him. Patty knows what she is risking by helping him, but in his company, she feels important, special, and respected as she has never been. In the end, his regard lifts her self-esteem and helps her to face the heartbreaking events to come.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-10-30
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The Sporting Club
Overview: The wealthy members of an exclusive backwoods retreat face an existential threat from both a disgruntled former manager as well as a subversive, anarchistic current member.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-02-28
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Dragonfly
Overview: A man, recently released from a mental hospital, tries to track down his family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-03-01
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What's So Bad About Feeling Good?
Overview: A new infection that simply makes people feel happy is treated as a threat by the authorities while its "victims" work to spread it to others.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-05-24
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Paramedics
Overview: Two paramedics are transferred to the nasty part of the city where a gang is killing people to sell their organs.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-06-01
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Lovey: A Circle of Children, Part II
Overview: A sequel to "A Circle of Children" (1977). A teacher of "emotionally disturbed" children takes on a new student who is considered to be "untrainable" by public school authorities, psychiatrists, and medical doctors. Even the child's own mother, who is very loving, does not have the tools to reach her "hopeless" child. This is the further story of a teacher who understood what it was like to be eight years old and hurt and angry and confused; a teacher who saw these children for who they were, rather than who they seemed to be.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-13
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Being There
Overview: A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-12-19
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This Is Kate Bennett...
Overview: In this pilot for a prospective TV series, Kate Bennett is an investigative TV news reporter whose life is imperiled, along with that of her young daughter Jennifer, after she doggedly pursues the story of a sniper attack on several nurses.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-05-28
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The Absent-Minded Professor: Trading Places
Overview: Henry Crawford is tricked into job swapping by an old friend with an evil plan.
Genres: Adventure Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-02-26
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You Talkin' To Me?
Overview: A young actor's fascination with Rober De Niro's TAXI DRIVER persona leads him into a morass of strange and obsessional behaviors.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-09-25
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Baby Comes Home
Overview: In this sequel to "And Baby Makes Six," a middle-aged couple deals with familial upheaval after giving birth to an unplanned fourth baby --- 17 years after their last child.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-10-16
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Bang
Overview: A young woman in L.A. is having a bad day: she's evicted, an audition ends with a producer furious she won't trade sex for the part, and a policeman nabs her for something she didn't do, demanding fellatio to release her. She snaps, grabs his gun, takes his uniform, and leaves him cuffed to a tree where he's soon having a defenseless chat with a homeless man. She takes off on the cop's motorcycle and, for an afternoon, experiences a cop's life. She talks a young man out of suicide and then is plunged into violence after a friendly encounter with two "vatos." She is torn between self-protection and others' expectations. Is there any resolution for her torrent of feelings?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-09-09
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Night of 100 Stars II
Overview: This special is the second "Night of 100 Stars" to benefit The Actors Fund of America. Edited from a seven-hour live entertainment marathon that was taped February 17, 1985, at New York's Radio City Music Hall, this sequel to the 1982 "Night of 100 Stars" special features 288 celebrities.
Genres: Comedy Music TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-03-10
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Who?
Overview: After an American scientist is severely injured and scarred in a car crash along the border with East Germany, he is captured by East German military. The scientists use metal implants to save him. Once he's back in the States, no one can tell if it's really him, so an intelligence specialist must determine who is under the "mask".
Genres: Mystery Thriller Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-04-18
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1776
Overview: Colonial representatives gather in Philadelphia with the aim of establishing a set of governmental rules for the burgeoning United States. Benjamin Franklin and John Adams charge Thomas Jefferson with the task of writing a statement announcing the new country's emancipation from British rule.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-11-09
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When the Bough Breaks
Overview: A Los Angeles psychiatrist testifies for the prosecution in the trial of an accused child molester. Later the defendant, who is out on bail, is found dead in the psychiatrist's office, in what appears to be a suicide. Shaken, the psychiatrist moves to the mountains outside of L.A. Not long afterwards a detective he knows comes to him for help. A seven-year-old girl saw someone kill both of her parents, but is so traumatized by the event that she can't remember anything, and the detective wants the doctor to help jar her memory. Soon, however, the doctor and the detective discover that the parents' murder and the pedophiles "suicide" may be linked to a shadowy group of wealthy and influential pedophiles, and that the child isn't the only one whose life is in danger.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-10-12
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Cinderella
Overview: An oppressed young woman finds happiness when she secretly attends the royal ball.
Genres: Romance Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-08-14
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Archie: To Riverdale and Back Again
Overview: The classic comic book characters created by John L. Goldwater are brought to tv in a slightly older version. Here the characters are adults returning to their high school reunion and remembering old times and romances from good old Riverdale High
Genres: TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-05-06
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Promises in the Dark
Overview: A young doctor, Alexandra Kendall, seeking change while recovering from a recent heartbreak, moves from Chicago, Illinois to Hartford, Connecticut. She joins the West Hartford medical practice of Dr. Walter McInterny, a doctor approaching retirement age. 17-year-old Elizabeth "Buffy" Koenig is a precocious student at West Hartford's William Hall High School. Her boyfriend Gerry is a football player at Hall High. While Dr. McInterny is away on vacation, longtime patient Buffy hurts her leg while harmlessly kicking a soccer ball during Gerry's nearby football practice. At the hospital, Dr. Kendall finds that not only is the leg broken, but the bone was also weakened by cancer. Dr. Kendall treats Buffy and the two develop a bond that extends beyond the doctor-patient relationship; Dr. Kendall is drawn to Buffy's humor and raw honesty.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-11-02
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A Tiger's Tale
Overview: A young man falls for his girlfriend's mother.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-02-12
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Chances Are
Overview: Louie Jeffries is happily married to Corinne. On their first anniversary, Louie is killed crossing the road. Louie is reincarnated as Alex Finch, and twenty years later, fate brings Alex and Louie's daughter, Miranda, together. It's not until Alex is invited to Louie's home that he begins to remember his former life, wife and best friend. Of course, there's also the problem that he's attracted to Louie's/his own daughter.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-03-10
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Fake
Overview: Daniel Jakor is one of the most prolific and successful artists the world has never heard of. Struggling to sell his own art, he soon finds his true genius lies not in the creation of his own work but in the forgery of the great masters that have come before him- artists like Picasso, Monet, Degas and Renoir. And with the help of a Tay Murphy, corrupt gallery owner in Boston, Daniel soon learns the intricacies of the art world as he becomes a true master himself. But Tay's life is spiraling out of control and his personal demons have brought him to the edge where he hangs on by a thread. Indebted to the mob for more than he can possibly pay back, Tay gets Daniel roped into working for Seamus White, the head of the Irish "family" in New England and an avid art collector. As Seamus's schemes become bolder and bolder, not only pushing the boundaries of Daniel's ability but the limits of forgery itself...
Genres: Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-05-09
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Deadly Deception
Overview: Laurie Shoat, a young mother, struggling with post-partum depression, is found dead and her baby is missing. The police assume it was a murder-suicide, but her husband Jack isn't convinced. He believes that his baby may still be alive and begins a search to clear his wife's name and to find the infant.
Genres: Mystery Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-03-08
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Death Play
Overview: Low-budget mystery centers on a murder committed during the premier of a Broadway show.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-09-01
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The Woman Who Willed a Miracle
Overview: Based on the true story of May Lemke. Her adopted son Leslie was born with cerebral palsy. May teaches him basic survival skills through the years. In his teens, he suddenly manifests an ability to play classical music on the piano.
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-02-09
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Perry Mason: The Case of the Murdered Madam
Overview: Perry investigates the murder of a former madam and uncovers a multimillion dollar banking fraud in the process.
Genres: Mystery Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-10-04
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Born Kicking
Overview: Roxanne (known as Roxy) is a star performer in her local soccer team. Her natural talent is noticed by local team owner Victor Grace who signs her up. However it's not so easy being the only female professional soccer star in the country.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-09-20
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Airplane II: The Sequel
Overview: A faulty computer causes a passenger space shuttle to head straight for the sun, and man-with-a-past Ted Striker must save the day and get the shuttle back on track – again – all the while trying to patch up his relationship with Elaine.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-12-10
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Hart to Hart
Overview: In this pilot film, a friend of Jonathan Hart's is killed in a motor accident just after he has left a health farm, apparently committing suicide. There was no warning of him being troubled so the Harts go undercover to find out what happened at the farm.
Genres: Action Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-08-25
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Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me
Overview: Free-thinking student tries to put up with life at a straight-laced college in 1958.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-09-15
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Faerie Tale Theatre: Cinderella
Overview: Faerie Tale Theatre's "Cinderella" more than lives up to the series' stellar legacy of creative fairytale adaptations. Featuring a cast which includes Jennifer Beals, Jean Stapleton and Matthew Broderick it shines with intelligence and romance. It even subtly improves on the Disney classic by giving the prince a proper name; that of Henry. Jennifer Beals does admirable work as the title heroine, humanizing(as much as she can)one of the archetypal figures in mythical storytelling. Matthew Broderick infuses Prince Henry with undeniable charm while still maintaining a palpable shyness which perceptively suits the character as he finds true love. Jean Stapleton's boisterous Fairy Godmother befits the character's role as an agent for dynamic change in the story.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-08-08
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They Bite
Overview: Aliens who've come to earth to spawn deep beneath the ocean begin terrorizing a Florida beach community. An ichthyologist and a young filmmaker team up to uncover the mystery of these monsters from the deep--before they strike again.
Genres: Comedy Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-04-02
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