Karl Lukas
Also Known As: Karl Lucas
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Adult: No
Birthday: August 21, 1919
Age: 105 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: January 16, 1995
Popularity:
Known For:
The Frisco Kid
Overview: Rabbi Avram arrives in Philadelphia from Poland en route to San Francisco where he will be a congregation's new rabbi. An innocent and inexperienced traveller, he is tricked by con men to pay for the trip to go west, then they leave him and his belongings scattered along a deserted road. He is befriended by a stranger, Tommy, who is a bank robber and have many adventures during their journey.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-07-06
Popularity:
Big Trouble
Overview: Leonard Hoffman is an insurance salesman struggling to make ends meet. The fact that he has triplet sons who all want to go to Yale isn't making things any easier. Blanche Rickey is also worried about money; her husband is a millionaire with a weak heart, and she worries that he'll blow through all his cash before he finally dies. When Blanche meets Leonard, she devises a murderous plan that she claims will fix both their problems.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-05-30
Popularity:
Memories of Me
Overview: After a heart attack, Abbie Polin (Crystal), a New York doctor, goes to Los Angeles to see his father, Abe (King), who works in Hollywood as the "king of the extras." Their relationship has been strained for several years. Lisa, the romantic interest in Abbie's life, bonds with Abe, who gets along famously with everyone but his son. Abe begins having memory loss and eventually is diagnosed with a brain aneurysm. He and his son grow closer in time and, before it's too late, Abbie tries to get Abe a speaking role in a film.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-09-28
Popularity:
The Shaggy D.A.
Overview: Wilby Daniels, a successful lawyer running for District Attorney, suddenly finds himself being transformed into an English sheepdog. Somehow he has to keep his change a secret and find just what is causing it, all the while eluding the local dog catcher.
Genres: Comedy Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-12-17
Popularity:
Torpedo Run
Overview: A submarine commander is on a relentless pursuit of a Japanese aircraft carrier in the South Seas during World War II.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-10-24
Popularity:
Don't Give Up the Ship
Overview: The Navy expects a veteran to pay for the ship he commanded, as they have no record of its return.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-07-03
Popularity:
The Trap
Overview: Lawyer Ralph Anderson arrives in Tula, an amazingly remote town in the desert, as reluctant emissary of mob chief Victor Massonetti, who wants the airstrip clear for his unofficial exit from the country. Ralph's arrival has a profound effect on his estranged father, the sheriff; his brother Tip, an alcoholic deputy; and his ex-sweetheart Linda, now married to Tip. Tension builds as a small army of gangsters takes over the town. Then the situation abruptly changes...
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-01-28
Popularity:
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
Popularity:
The True Story of Lynn Stuart
Overview: When the nephews of Phyllis Carter are killed in an automobile crash while under the influence of narcotics, she persuades Police Lieutenant Jim Hahan to use her as an undercover agent.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-03-03
Popularity:
Don't Touch My Daughter
Overview: A young girl is kidnapped and molested by a classmate's father. The man she identifies is arrested and jailed, but is later released on bail. He calls the girl's mother and threatens to kidnap her daughter again, and this time kill her and make sure her body will never be found. She goes to the authorities for help, but there's nothing they can do until he actually tries something. Afraid for her daughter's life, the mother decides to take matters into her own hands.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-04-07
Popularity:
Warning Shot
Overview: Hounded by the press for shooting a doctor, an ousted Los Angeles policeman works his own case.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-01-18
Popularity:
The Slowest Gun in the West
Overview: The town of Primrose, Arizona is beset by outlaws, so the towns people hire Fletcher Bissell III (A.K.A. The Silver Dollar Kid) as their new sheriff. Fletcher is so cowardly the townsfolk are sure that the local outlaws will be too proud to gun him down. This proves to be the case, and the outlaws hire their own cowardly gunfighter, Chicken Farnsworth, to go up against The Silver Dollar Kid. Written by Jim Beaver
Genres: Western Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-05-07
Popularity:
Blazing Saddles
Overview: A town—where everyone seems to be named Johnson—stands in the way of the railroad. In order to grab their land, robber baron Hedley Lamarr sends his henchmen to make life in the town unbearable. After the sheriff is killed, the town demands a new sheriff from the Governor, so Hedley convinces him to send the town the first black sheriff in the west.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-02-07
Popularity:
Murder: By Reason of Insanity
Overview: A married couple from Poland emigrates to the U.S.,. but things don't turn out as well as they had imaged. The husband's business fails, while his wife's career really takes off. The husband, unable to cope with the pressures of his failed business, his failing marriage and the adjustments necessary to live in a completely different society, begins to take out his frustrations on his wife.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-10-01
Popularity:
Earthquake
Overview: Various interconnected people struggle to survive when an earthquake of unimaginable magnitude hits Los Angeles, California.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-11-15
Popularity:
Herbie Rides Again
Overview: The living Volkswagen Beetle helps an old lady protect her home from a corrupt developer.
Genres: Romance Comedy Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-02-12
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:
Blume in Love
Overview: Lawyer Stephen Blume, who specializes in divorces, lives a paradoxical situation when, having his own marriage break up, is still in love with his ex-wife.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-06-17
Popularity:
There Was a Crooked Man...
Overview: Arizona Territorial Prison inmate Paris Pitman, Jr. is a schemer, a charmer, and quite popular among his fellow convicts — especially with $500,000 in stolen loot hidden away and a plan to escape and recover it. New warden Woodward Lopeman has other ideas about Pitman. Each man will have the tables turned on him.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-09-18
Popularity:
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Overview: In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. "Tora! Tora! Tora!", named after the code words used by the lead Japanese pilot to indicate they had surprised the Americans, covers the days leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor, which plunged America into the Second World War.
Genres: War History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-01-26
Popularity:
Emperor of the North
Overview: Hobos encounter a sadistic railway conductor that will not let anyone "ride the rails" for free.
Genres: Adventure Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-05-23
Popularity:
Las Vegas Lady
Overview: In Las Vegas, Lucky and two of her girlfriends, Carol and Lisa, plan to steal half a million dollars from the sadistic manager of the Circus Circus Casino. A shadowy man is their contact and organizer. Each of the women could be a weak link in a scheme that has to be flawless: Lucky's boyfriend is a security officer at the casino, Lisa is a trapeze artist who's now plagued with vertigo, and Carol is in debt to a nasty thug - plus, as a Black woman, she's subject to additional harassment. Can the gals pull off the heist, or is the plan, with it's mysterious organizer, too complicated to succeed?
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-06-01
Popularity:
Under Fire
Overview: An Army lawyer defends a World War II hero and his men accused of desertion.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-09-23
Popularity:
Watermelon Man
Overview: A racist insurance agent lives in a typical suburban neighborhood, but his bigoted world of taunting and harassing black people on and off the job is turned upside down when his skin inexplicably turns dark overnight.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-05-27
Popularity:
Hustle
Overview: The body of teenager Gloria Hollinger is found dead on a Los Angeles beach, and Lt. Phil Gaines is in charge of the investigation. Gaines learns that the girl, a stripper and prostitute, committed suicide, but he ignores the connection between her and a powerful mob lawyer, Leo Sellers. Hollinger's father, however, is not satisfied with Gaines's results, and attempts to investigate the case on his own.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-12-25
Popularity: