Allan Arbus
Also Known As: Аллан Арбус
Biography: Allan Franklin Arbus (February 15, 1918 – April 19, 2013) was an American actor and photographer. He was the former husband of photographer Diane Arbus. He is known for his role as psychiatrist Dr. Sidney Freedman on the CBS television series M*A*S*H.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, USA
Birthday: February 15, 1918
Deathday: April 10, 2013
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Gender: Male
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The Electric Horseman
Overview: A former champion rodeo rider is reduced to using his saddle skills to promote a breakfast cereal in a gaudy Las Vegas show. When he's asked to perform with a $12 million horse, he discovers it is being doped to remain docile. He flees into the desert astride the beast in an act of defiance. A story-hungry female reporter gives chase.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-12-21
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Coffy
Overview: After her younger sister gets involved in drugs and is severely injured by contaminated heroin, a nurse sets out on a mission of vengeance and vigilante justice, killing drug dealers, pimps, and mobsters who cross her path.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-06-13
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W.C. Fields and Me
Overview: In 1920s New York City, W. C. Fields is a successful headlining entertainer, but when his girlfriend leaves him and his broker loses his money, Fields begins anew in California. Working at a wax museum, Fields eventually lands a film role that ascends him to stardom. Back in the limelight and palling around with John Barrymore and the like, Fields meets an aspiring actress Carlotta Monti at a party, with whom he forms a rocky relationship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-03-31
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Volunteers
Overview: After his rich father refuses to pay his debt, compulsive gambler Lawrence Bourne III joins the Peace Corps to evade angry creditors. In Thailand, he is assigned to build a bridge for the local villagers with the help of American-As-Apple-Pie WSU Grad Tom Tuttle and the beautiful and down-to earth Beth Wexler. What they don't realize is that the bridge is coveted by the U.S. Army, a local Communist force, and a powerful drug lord. Together with the help of At Toon, the only English speaking native, they must fight off the three opposing forces and find out what is right for the villagers, as well as themselves.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-08-16
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Too Much Sun
Overview: A multimillionaire, whose son is gay and daughter a lesbian, leaves a will with one clause: His children will inherit his money only if at least one of them produces him a grandchild within a year of his death.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-10-10
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The Young Nurses
Overview: Sexy young nurses apply special therapy in their daily rounds, as they work against a drug ring operating out of the hospital
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-01
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Crossroads
Overview: A wanna-be blues guitar virtuoso seeks a long-lost song by legendary musician, Robert Johnson.
Genres: Drama Music Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-03-14
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Hey, Let's Twist!
Overview: Film about the creation of New York's famous Peppermint Lounge, where the Twist became a dance craze.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-12-31
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The Lie
Overview: An Ingmar Bergman script. Produced for Swedish Television as "Reservatet" (1970) and for BBC as "The Lie" (1971). An American couple is trapped in their marriage and way of life. Locked up in their bourgeois inferno.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-04-24
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Gangster Wars
Overview: The film tells the story of three teenagers, based on real life gangsters Charles "Lucky" Luciano (Michael Nouri), Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel (Joe Penny) and Michael Lasker (Brian Benben) (a fictional character who was most likely modeled after Meyer Lansky), growing up in New York's ghettos during the early 1900s to their rise though organized crime.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-04-09
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In Dark Places
Overview: A vengeful woman lures her half brother into a game that may leave her the sole heir to their abusive father's fortune.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-14
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Scream, Pretty Peggy
Overview: A sculptor hires young college girls to take care of his elderly mother and his supposedly insane sister, both of whom live in the old family mansion with him.
Genres: Drama Horror Mystery Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-11-24
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Lieberman in Love
Overview: Joe Lieberman is attracted to Shaleen. They begin a professional relationship, which continues even after Joe develops a romantic interest in a woman named Kate, who is married.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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The Law
Overview: An examination of the workings of a big city's legal system as seen through the eyes of people involved in a sensational murder trial.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-10-22
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Young Lust
Overview: The reunion of Garytown High School’s class of ‘71 is a catalyst for a series of comic crises involving sex, drugs, murder and anatomical oddities.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-04-27
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The Last Married Couple in America
Overview: Jeff and Mari Thompson are contently married, but they are stunned to see many of their friends and neighbors going through separations and divorces. Seemingly surrounded by people with domestic problems, Jeff and Mari begin to question their own relationship.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-04-03
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Greaser's Palace
Overview: A parable based on the life of Christ. This ain't your father's Bible story, full of references about the destruction of the world through massive constipation and a New Mexican setting.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-07-31
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Putney Swope
Overview: Swope—the only black man on the executive board of an advertising firm—is accidentally put in charge after the death of the chairman.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-07-10
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When He's Not a Stranger
Overview: At a California university, Lyn goes to meet her best friend Melanie in the dorm room of Melanie's boyfriend Ron, a football star. When Lyn arrives, Melanie is not there. Ron forces himself on Lyn. When she resists, Ron throws her on the bed and rapes her. Lyn initially tries to forget about it, but when she does decide to pursue a university hearing, the pressure of Melanie, Ron, and the school is brought to bear...
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-11-06
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Daniel and the Towers
Overview: The story of Simon Rodia, the real-life artist who spent 30 years constructing Los Angeles' Watts Towers, a monument to Christopher Columbus, and his fictional relationship with Daniel, a young boy.
Genres: Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-04-18
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Americathon
Overview: In a story told in narrative flashbacks, a young TV consultant is hired by the President of a bankrupt USA to organize a telethon in order to prevent the country from being repossessed by wealthy Native Americans.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-08-10
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Law and Disorder
Overview: In crime ridden New York of the seventies two cops has had enough. They decide to take justice into their own hands. Things turn exciting and humorous. No hoodlum goes safe.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-10-09
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Judgment: The Trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
Overview: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg died for betraying atomic secrets. Were they guilty beyond a reasonable doubt?
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-28
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Damien – Omen II
Overview: Since the sudden and suspicious deaths of his parents, young Damien has been in the charge of his wealthy aunt and uncle and enrolled in a military school. Widely feared to be the Antichrist, he relentlessly plots to seize control of his uncle's business empire — and the world.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-06-09
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Chief Zabu
Overview: An outrageous social comedy about a New York realtor who dreams of having political influence by taking over a new Polynesian nation.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-10-28
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A Fighting Choice
Overview: Bright teenager afflicted with epilepsy sues his parents for the right to have "split brain" surgery in order to cure his seizures.
Genres: Adventure Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-04-12
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The Christian Licorice Store
Overview: A tennis champ falls in with the Hollywood crowd, finds himself being corrupted by the life in the fast lane.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-11-01
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From the Hip
Overview: Apprentice lawyer Robin Weathers turns a civil suit into a headline grabbing charade. He must reexamine his scruples after his shenanigans win him a promotion in his firm, and he must now defend a college professor who is appearantly guilty of murder.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-02-06
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M*A*S*H: 30th Anniversary Reunion
Overview: The M*A*S*H 30th Anniversary Reunion Special is a retrospective documentary on the CBS-TV series M*A*S*H that aired on the FOX TV network on May 17, 2002. The progam features interviews with past cast members, producers, and writers who contributed to the series, which originally aired on CBS-TV from September 17, 1972 to February 28, 1983.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-05-17
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Raid on Entebbe
Overview: Based on a true operation by Israeli commandos. An Air France flight is hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The airplane landed in Uganda. The terrorists released some passengers, keeping 94 Jews and 12 air crew hostage. The Israeli government would not negotiate. A rescue plan was devised, and less than 100 commandos were flown across Africa to rescue the passengers in surprisingly successful operation.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-12-26
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Don Camillo
Overview: A priest helps the small town he's stationed in to resolve conflicts by working together.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1984-02-08
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Law and Order
Overview: Story follows three generations of a family in the New York City Police Department.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-05-06
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Cinderella Liberty
Overview: A lonely Navy sailor falls in love with a Seattle hooker and becomes a surrogate father figure for her son during an extended liberty due to his service records being lost.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-12-18
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Cisco Pike
Overview: A down on his luck former drug dealer is forced by a corrupt LAPD policeman to sell 100 kilos of confiscated marijuana in one weekend.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-14
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Stalk the Wild Child
Overview: A young boy who had been abandoned as a child and raised by wild dogs is taken to a university where a team attempts to teach him civilized behavior.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-11-03
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