Macon McCalman
Also Known As: Sonny McCalman, Macon McCallman
Biography: Macon McCalman was born on December 30, 1932 in Memphis, Tennessee, USA. He was an actor, known for Smokey and the Bandit (1977), Fried Green Tomatoes (1991) and Deliverance (1972). He died on November 29, 2005 in Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Memphis, Tennessee, USA
Birthday: December 30, 1932
Deathday: November 29, 2005
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Strange Possession of Mrs. Oliver
Overview: A houswife, tired of her everyday routine, makes changes in her hair, her wardrobe and her makeup, and begins to take on the personality of a woman who had died five years earlier.
Genres: Drama Horror Mystery Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-02-28
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The New Maverick
Overview: Gambling brothers Bret (James Garner) and Bart Maverick (Jack Kelly) are, as usual, hot on the trail of a fast buck.
Genres: TV Movie Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-09-03
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A Question of Love
Overview: A lesbian mother fights to keep her son when a custody suit is brought by her ex-husband.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-11-26
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Comes a Horseman
Overview: Ella Connors is a single woman who gets pressured to sell her failing cattle farm to her corrupt ex-suitor, Jacob Ewing. She asks for help from her neighbor, Frank Athearn. As Ella and Frank fight back through stampedes, jealousy, betrayal, and sabotage... they eventually find love.
Genres: Western Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-10-25
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The Pirate
Overview: An Israeli man, raised by a wealthy and powerful Arab, comes into conflict with his heritage when he is entrusted with managing his country's oil fortunes and must deal with a fanatical terrorist group led by his daughter.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-11-21
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Honkytonk Man
Overview: During the Great Depression, a young boy leaves his family's Oklahoma farm to travel with his country musician uncle who is trying out for the Grand Ole Opry.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-12-15
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Valentino Returns
Overview: On a Saturday night, in a small 1950s Californian town, a young man, whose parents are an inch from a divorce, takes his brand new pink Cadillac for a spin to meet girls. He hooks up with the daughter of the town's radical preacher.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-07-21
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Splendor in the Grass
Overview: Two teenagers, in love in pre-Depression Kansas, cope with parental pressure and the strict sexual mores of the day.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-10-26
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Cold Feet
Overview: Three criminals run into complications when they attempt to smuggle emeralds across the Mexican border.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-05-19
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Allison Sydney Harrison
Overview: The story, set in San Francisco, depicts the adventures of Allison Sydney Harrison, a high-school student who teams with her wealthy private-detective father David Harrison to solve crimes. In the pilot, Allison and David team to solve the murder of a beautiful woman. The prime suspect is their chauffeur, Pat Rosetti.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-08-19
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A Winner Never Quits
Overview: Raised in a poor Pennsylvania mining town by his immigrant parents, Pete Grey lost his right arm while still a young boy. But through the encouragement of his father and the constant coaching of his older brother, Pete never gives up on his dream of playing professional baseball. Driven by anger, he finally makes it to the big leagues. But it isn't until he agrees to meet a handicapped youngster who idolizes him that Pete finally becomes a genuine American hero.
Genres: Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-04-13
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Fleshburn
Overview: A soldier who deserted because of spiritual beliefs was tried and evaluated by four psychiatrists, and they all concluded that he was unable to distinguish right from wrong, so he was sentenced to a mental hospital. One day, he escapes and kidnaps them and leaves them all in the middle of the desert.
Genres: Horror Crime Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-05-25
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Attack on Fear
Overview: Married journalists who run a small town newspaper expose corruption and cultism at a once respected rehab center.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-10-10
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Topper
Overview: A deceased couple affectionately haunt a living friend while trying to get into heaven.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-11-09
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The Gambler: The Adventure Continues
Overview: Brady Hawkes, Billy Montana, and Jeremiah Hawkes are on a train bound for a huge gambling event when the train is taken over by a gang of vicious killers in search of money. As ransom, the gang takes young Jeremiah hostage. Brady and Billy embark on a quest to rescue him and form a small gang of their own along the way.
Genres: Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-11-28
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The Sky Is Gray
Overview: From Ernest J. Gaines, author of "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman," comes a deceptively simple, yet emotionally complex tale of a young boy's discovery of what it's like to be black in Louisiana during the 1940's. James, the boy in question, has a raging toothache that necessitates a trip to the dentist. His mother (played by Emmy-winner Olivia Cole), accompanies James to town on an eye-opening odyssey where the boy gains valuable insights into poverty, racism - and his own sense of pride. With an exciting musical score by Webster Lewis, this multi-award winning film explores a child's discovery that the world is a complicated place... where things are never truly black or white... only shades of gray.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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The Last of Mrs. Lincoln
Overview: The Last of Mrs. Lincoln depicts the final seventeen years of Mary Todd Lincoln's life, following her husband's assassination.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-09-16
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Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann
Overview: Lyle Swann is a successful off-road racer who mistakenly gets sent back in time 100 years. When a band of outlaws robs Swann of his motorcycle, he's forced to outfox the gangsters and give in to the seductions of a gorgeous local lady. With only his smarts and a map from an Exxon station, Lyle must try to make it out of the Old West alive and find a way back to modern times.
Genres: Science Fiction Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-08-27
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Callie & Son
Overview: A fictional drama, covering a 30-year period, about a poverty-stricken teenager forced to give up her illegitimate son at birth, and the climb to wealth and power as the wife of a newspaper publisher who helps her locate her son, in whose future she becomes obsessed.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-10-13
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The Falcon and the Snowman
Overview: The true story of a disillusioned military contractor employee and his drug pusher childhood friend who became walk-in spies for the Soviet Union.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-25
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The Ultimate Impostor
Overview: A series pilot about a secret agent who is armed with skills learned by a computer-brain link-up -- lasting only 72 hours at a time -- and is sent to rescue a Russian submarine commander, a defector who has been kidnapped by an agent for another nation.
Genres: Action TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-05-12
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See Jane Run
Overview: Jane Ravenson finds herself in the middle of a grocery store with $10,000 in her coat pockets and no memory of her life or who she is. Her husband eventually finds her and she starts to believe that her family life is fine until she feels a deep, nightmarish paranoia that something is horribly and terribly wrong.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-08
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Overview: An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexuality and his real feelings for his football buddy who died after an ambiguous accident. His wife is crucified by her desperation to make him desire her: but he resists the affections of his wife. His reunion with his father—who is dying of cancer—jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-08-19
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Independence
Overview: A dedicated sheriff in the 1880s who, after his first family is ravaged by a gang of renegades, gets a chance for revenge years later when the same outlaws threaten his new family and the frontier town he single handedly tamed.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-03-28
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The Winter of Our Discontent
Overview: This story tells those self-denials of an honest man what necessary to reach his object of life.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-12-06
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Separate But Equal
Overview: A dramatization of the events of Brown vs. Board of Education, the American court case that destroyed the legal validity of racial segregation.
Genres: History TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-04-07
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Carbon Copy
Overview: A middle-aged married wealthy white corporate executive is surprised to discover that he has a working-class black teen-age son who wants to be adopted into the almost-exclusively-white upper-middle-class community of San Marino, California.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-08-06
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Life of the Party: The Story of Beatrice
Overview: A dramatization of the life of the founder of Los Angeles's first alcoholic recovery center for women, Beatrice O'Reilly.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-09-29
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Doc Hollywood
Overview: After leaving Washington D.C. hospital, plastic surgeon Ben Stone heads for California, where a lucrative practice in Beverly Hills awaits. After a car accident, he's sentenced to perform as the community's general practitioner.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-08-02
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Deliverance
Overview: Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's turned into one huge lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a river-rafting trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country.
Genres: Drama Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-08-18
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The Deliberate Stranger
Overview: Based on a true story, this film depicts the life of Ted Bundy, the serial killer. In 1974, after having murdered several young women, he leaves Seattle for Utah, where he is a law student and where other girls disappear. It takes the cooperation of a number of police forces to work efficiently on this case. Soon, but not soon enough, the police eliminate endless possibilities and close in on him. Bundy is tried in the media and his good-boy attitude brings him sympathy but also the hatred of many.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-05-04
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Dead & Buried
Overview: After a series of gory murders commited by mobs of townspeople against visiting tourists, the corpses appear to be coming back to life and living normally as locals in the small town.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-05-29
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The Incredible Shrinking Woman
Overview: After being exposed to a bizarre mixture of household chemicals, Pat Kramer begins to shrink. This baffles scientists, makes parenting difficult, warms the hearts of Americans, and captures the attention of a group of people who want to take over the world. This evil group plots to kidnap Pat and perform experiments on her so that they can eventually shrink everyone.
Genres: Comedy Family Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-01-30
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The Client
Overview: A street-wise kid, Mark Sway, sees the suicide of Jerome Clifford, a prominent Louisiana lawyer, whose current client is Barry 'The Blade' Muldano, a Mafia hit-man. Before Jerome shoots himself, he tells Mark where the body of a Senator is buried. Clifford shoots himself and Mark is found at the scene, and both the FBI and the Mafia quickly realize that Mark probably knows more than he says.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-07-20
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Falling Down
Overview: An ordinary man frustrated with the various flaws he sees in society begins to psychotically and violently lash out against them.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-02-26
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Friendly Fire
Overview: In March 1970, a U.S. Army officer arrived at the Iowa farm of Peg and Gene Mullen and informed them that their son Michael had been killed in Vietnam by "friendly fire." Their determined attempts to learn more about the circumstances of their son's death are the subject of this true account film.
Genres: Drama War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-11-09
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A Walk in the Clouds
Overview: World War II vet Paul Sutton falls for a pregnant and unwed woman who persuades him -- during their first encounter -- to pose as her husband so she can face her family.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-05-27
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Fried Green Tomatoes
Overview: Amidst her own personality crisis, southern housewife Evelyn Couch meets Ninny, an outgoing old woman who tells her the story of Idgie Threadgoode and Ruth Jamison, two young women who experienced hardships and love in Whistle Stop, Alabama in the 1920s.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-12-27
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Scattered Dreams
Overview: It is about a loving couple which trying to make a living in 1951 Florida. When they are arrested, for a crime they didn't commit. The pair are given long jail terms and ripped from their children, so they begin a stunning fight for justice that has them facing the ruthless sheriff responsible for their incarceration.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-12-19
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Perry Mason: The Case of the Grimacing Governor
Overview: The alleged suicide of a gubernatorial candidate triggers a series of mysterious deaths leading to the governor's mansion, and "Wild" Bill McKenzie, a friend of Perry Mason, is on the case.
Genres: Mystery Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-11-09
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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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Marie: A True Story
Overview: In 1978 Tennessee, a single mother and political appointee risks her career and her life to blow the whistle on rampant corruption in the penal system.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-09-27
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The Concorde... Airport '79
Overview: Aviation disaster-prone Joe Patroni must contend with nuclear missiles, the French Air Force and the threat of the plane splitting in two over the Alps.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-08-17
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Rollover
Overview: An Arab oil organization devises a plan to wreck the world economy in order to cause anarchy and chaos.
Genres: Drama Mystery Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-10-11
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