Donald Moffat
Also Known As: Donald Moffatt
Biography: Was an English actor with decades long career in film and stage in the United States. He began his acting career on and off Broadway which included appearances in The Wild Duck and Right You Are If You Think You Are, earning a Tony Award nomination for both, as well as Painting Churches for which he received an Obie Award. Moffat also appeared in several feature films including The Thing and The Right Stuff, along with his guest appearances in the television series Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman and The West Wing. Description above from the Wikipedia article Donald Moffat, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Plymouth, Devon, England, UK
Adult: No
Birthday: December 26, 1930
Age: 94 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: December 20, 2018
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The Thing
Overview: In the winter of 1982, a twelve-man research team at a remote Antarctic research station discovers an alien buried in the snow for over 100,000 years. Soon unfrozen, the form-changing creature wreaks havoc, creates terror... and becomes one of them.
Genres: Horror Mystery Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-06-25
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Music Box
Overview: A lawyer defends her father accused of war crimes, but there is more to the case than she suspects.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-12-22
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Overview: Successful surgeon Tomas leaves Prague for an operation, meets a young photographer named Tereza, and brings her back with him. Tereza is surprised to learn that Tomas is already having an affair with the bohemian Sabina, but when the Soviet invasion occurs, all three flee to Switzerland. Sabina begins an affair, Tom continues womanizing, and Tereza, disgusted, returns to Czechoslovakia. Realizing his mistake, Tomas decides to chase after her.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-02-05
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Housesitter
Overview: After building his dream house, architect Newton Davis proposes marriage to his girlfriend, only to be summarily rejected. He seeks solace in a one-night stand with a waitress, never imagining that a woman he slept with once would end up posing as his wife. Gwen's ruse is so effective that by the time Newton learns of his "marriage," the entire town feels like they know him.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-06-12
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Popeye
Overview: Popeye is a super-strong, spinach-scarfing sailor man who's searching for his father. During a storm that wrecks his ship, Popeye washes ashore and winds up rooming at the Oyl household, where he meets Olive. Before he can win her heart, he must first contend with Olive's fiancé, Bluto.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-12-12
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The Best of Times
Overview: A small-town loser determines to have one more shot at the big time by winning a football game.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-31
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Trapped in Paradise
Overview: Residents of a friendly Pennsylvania town foil three brothers' plan to rob a bank on Christmas Eve.
Genres: Comedy Crime Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-12-02
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The Right Stuff
Overview: As the Space Race ensues, seven pilots set off on a path to become the first American astronauts to enter space. However, the road to making history brings forth momentous challenges.
Genres: Drama History Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-10-20
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The Bonfire of the Vanities
Overview: After his mistress runs over a black teen, a Wall Street hotshot sees his life unravel in the spotlight; A down-and-out reporter breaks the story and opportunists clamber to use it to their advantage.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-12-21
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Clear and Present Danger
Overview: Agent Jack Ryan becomes acting Deputy Director of Intelligence for the CIA when Admiral Greer is diagnosed with cancer. When an American businessman, and friend of the president, is murdered on his yacht, Ryan starts discovering links between the man and drug dealers. As former CIA agent John Clark is sent to Colombia to kill drug cartel kingpins in retaliation, Ryan must fight through multiple cover-ups to figure out what happened and who's responsible.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-08-03
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Sergeant Matlovich vs. the U.S. Air Force
Overview: The true story of Leonard Matlovich, a U.S. Air Force sergeant who, in 1975, publicly divulged his homosexuality and fought to remain in service.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-08-21
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The Terminal Man
Overview: As the result of a head injury, brilliant computer scientist Harry Benson begins to experience violent seizures. In an attempt to control the seizures, Benson undergoes a new surgical procedure in which a microcomputer is inserted into his brain. The procedure is not entirely successful.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-06-19
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The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid
Overview: The gangs of Jesse James and Cole Younger join forces to rob the First National Bank in Northfield, Minnesota, but things do not go as planned.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-05-12
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Rachel, Rachel
Overview: Rachel is a 35-year-old school teacher who has no man in her life and lives with her mother. When a man from the big city returns and asks her out, she begins to have to make decisions about her life and where she wants it to go.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-08-26
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Of Mice and Men
Overview: Two ranch workers, one of them simple-minded, look for work and happiness during the Great Depression, but luck is not in their cards.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-01-31
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Monster in the Closet
Overview: After several people and a dog are found dead in their closets a "mild-mannered" reporter, a college professor, her son and a befuddled professor band together to uncover the mystery but not without involving the U.S. Army and mass panic.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-05-15
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Love, Cheat & Steal
Overview: Paul Harrington thinks he has the perfect wife... stunning, kind, and ambitious. Yet behind Lauren's pretty face lies a wicked person who sent her former boyfriend to jail by setting him up. Reno Adams has lost seven years of his life in Jail and wants revenge. After escaping, he tracks Lauren down and intends to make her and her husband's life a living hell.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-12-05
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HealtH
Overview: At a luxury Florida resort, health food lobbyists choose their new president at their annual convention. As the conference progresses, underhanded tricks, backroom corruption and bizarre personal behavior threaten to undermine the entire affair.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-09-12
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The Battle of the River Plate
Overview: In the early years of the World War II, the Royal Navy is fighting a desperate battle to keep the Atlantic convoy routes open to supply the British Isles, facing the great danger posed by the many German warships, such as the Admiral Graf Spee, which are scouring the ocean for cargo ships to sink.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-10-30
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Far North
Overview: After generations of being apart, an accident brings a family back together and they begin to cope with their original issues.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-11-09
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The Great Pretender
Overview: A newspaper reporter, who has just won a trial against his newspaper which had fired him, suffers dangerous reprisals at his work.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-04-14
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R.P.M.
Overview: R.P.M. stands for (political) revolutions per minute. Anthony Quinn plays a liberal college professor at a west coast college during the hedy days of campus activism in the late 1960s. Radical students take over the college, the president resigns, and Quinn's character, who has always been a champion of student activism, is appointed president. As the students continue to push the envelope of revolution, Quinn's character is faced with the challenge of restoring order or abetting the descent into anarchy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-09-16
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The Gift of Love
Overview: Inspired by O. Henry's short story about a young bride and groom, each of whom foolishly--but quite lovingly--sacrifices a treasured possession to buy the perfect Christmas gift for their mate.
Genres: Romance Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-08
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The File on Devlin
Overview: A young woman finds herself engulfed in Cold War intrigue when her father, a Nobel Prize-winning author, vanishes while travelling near the Russian border. Entrusted by her father with an unfinished book he was working on before his trip, the young woman becomes engaged in a power struggle over the material with her estranged stepmother. Suspiciously befriended by a journalist in the midst of the crisis, the young woman ultimately learns that no one is to be trusted - as her father's work is of interest to the intelligence departments of several countries.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-11-21
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Alamo Bay
Overview: A despondent Vietnam veteran in danger of losing his livelihood is pushed to the edge when he sees Vietnamese immigrants moving into the fishing industry in a Texas bay town.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-04-03
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Houston: The Legend of Texas
Overview: Sam Elliot stars as Sam Houston, the visionary who nearly single-handedly forged the state of Texas into a powerful entity in its own right. Refusing to forget the Alamo (as if anyone could), Houston led the military in Texas' rebellion against Mexico. G.D. Spradlin co-stars as President Andrew Jackson, with Michael Beck appearing as Jim Bowie, James Stephens as Stephen Austin, and Richard Yniguez as Mexican General Santa Anna. Lensed on location in the Lone Star state, this sweeping made-for-TV film originally occupied three hours' screen time on November 22, 1986. Its title at that time was Houston: The Legend of Texas. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Genres: Western Drama History War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-11-22
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Kaleidoscope
Overview: A family friend hires gumshoe John Chapman to find and reunite three sisters estranged by fate for 30 years. The circuitous trail leads Chapman from the Big Apple to Beantown to the City of Light. His investigation, however, opens the door to disturbing revelations about a forgotten past.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-10-15
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The Devil and Miss Sarah
Overview: A notorious outlaw being escorted to prison by a homesteader and his wife turns out to have satanic powers. He uses them on the man's wife to try to possess her and help him escape.
Genres: Horror Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-12-04
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Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter
Overview: A woman, who had left home 20 years previously under acrimonious circumstances, finds out that she is terminally ill. She returns home and tries to rebuild her relationship with her embittered mother before she dies.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-05-13
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A Touch of the Poet
Overview: Cornelius "Con" Melody is an Irish tavern keeper in New England who lives in reverence of his former days as a nobleman and decorated officer in the British army during the Napoleonic wars. Impoverished now, he struts about in his uniform and plots to make money by manipulating the love of his daughter for the son of a wealthy manufacturer. His daughter sees through his façade and his chicanery and begins to plot for herself.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-02
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Regarding Henry
Overview: Respected lawyer Henry Turner survives a convenience-store shooting only to find he has lost his memory, and has serious speech and mobility issues. After also losing his job—where he no longer 'fits in'—his loving wife and daughter give him all their love and support.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-07-10
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The White Lions
Overview: A college professor, his wife, and daughter go the the wilds of Africa to live, and study the rare white lions of the region.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-12-31
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The Sleep Room
Overview: At the height of the cold war, the C.I.A. secretly funded Dr. Ewen Cameron, director of the Allan Memorial Institute, and his experimental research into brainwashing techniques. Twenty-five years later, the last nine survivors of those gruesome experiments fight to expose the truth...of The Sleep Room.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-03-31
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Cookie's Fortune
Overview: Conflict arises in the small town of Holly Springs when an old woman's death causes a variety of reactions among family and friends.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-03-24
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Desperado
Overview: Duell McCall finds himself in the middle of a deadly feud in a small mining town. Framed for the murder of Sheriff John Whaley, McCall is forced to wander the wild frontier in search of the one man who can clear him.
Genres: Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-04-27
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Majority Rule
Overview: A war heroine returns to the US to run for president and ends up facing enemies worse than those in the battle: corruption and the dangerous game of power.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-10-27
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Is There Life Out There?
Overview: Lily Marshall has a loving, supportive husband, two great kids and an unfulfilled dream: to return to college and get the degree she always wanted. "Is there life beyond her family and home?", Lily wonders. The hole in Lily's life is soon filled by too much. There's a confusing new social life on campus, schoolwork keeping her up late, a part-time job keeping her from her husband and kids whose mom is turning into a stranger. Lily's strength, love and perseverance are the only things that can help her now.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-10-09
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Exo-Man
Overview: A professor, who has been paralyzed in an attack by mob hitmen, builds a suit that enables him to walk and fight crime.
Genres: Action Science Fiction TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-06-18
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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
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Class Action
Overview: A liberal activist lawyer alienated his daughter Maggie years ago when she discovered his many affairs. Now a conservative corporate lawyer, Maggie agrees to go up against her father in court. To gain promotion, she must defend an auto manufacturer against charges that their explosion-prone station wagons are unsafe. As her mother begs for peace, Maggie takes on her dad in a trial that turns increasingly personal and nasty.
Genres: Drama Crime History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-03-15
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When the Time Comes
Overview: A terminally ill woman seeks assistance in taking her life when her husband refuses.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-05-28
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Babe Ruth
Overview: A film based on the home-run legend's life.
Genres: TV Movie Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-10-06
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The Battle of the River Plate
Overview: In the early years of the World War II, the Royal Navy is fighting a desperate battle to keep the Atlantic convoy routes open to supply the British Isles, facing the great danger posed by the many German warships, such as the Admiral Graf Spee, which are scouring the ocean for cargo ships to sink.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-10-30
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Forget-Me-Not Lane
Overview: A college professor remembers the humor and sorrow of his youth in World War II Britain.
Genres: Music Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-03-12
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Roger Williams: Founder Of Rhode Island
Overview: Recreates the conflict of Roger Williams with the Puritan leaders of New England, including his attempts to achieve separation of church and state, freedom of conscience, and protection for minority groups; the heresy trial resulting in his banishment from the Massachusetts Bay Colony; and his decision to establish the new colony of Rhode Island. Starring Donald Moffat.
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Original Language: en
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Ebony, Ivory and Jade
Overview: In this prospective pilot, Mick Jade, a tennis bum-turned-Las Vegas-song-and-dance man, doubles as a private eye with two female dancers, Ebony and Ivory. The trio go undercover to protect a lady scientist from international hitmen as she heads for Washington D.C. from the near-East with her super-secret formula.
Genres: Action Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-08-03
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Mrs. R's Daughter
Overview: When a young woman is brutally raped and beaten, her mother sets out to find justice for her.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-09-19
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Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy
Overview: Biography of the former first lady, focusing on her years as a photojournalist and leading up to her marriage to John F. Kennedy and their moving into the White House.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-10-14
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The Evening Star
Overview: Continuing the story of Aurora Greenway in her latter years. After the death of her daughter, Aurora struggled to keep her family together, but has one grandson in jail, a rebellious granddaughter, and another grandson living just above the poverty line.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-12-25
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Showdown
Overview: Two men who have been friends since childhood find themselves on opposite ends of the law.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-06-20
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Who Will Love My Children?
Overview: Lucile Fray has 10 children and terminal cancer. As her ne'er-do-well alcoholic husband, isn't capable enough to handle raising them, there's only one option left. As her last act on earth, Fray is determined to make sure her children have a secure future.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-09-19
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Tartuffe
Overview: Donald Moffat stars in Moliere's classic comedy about lovable scoundrel Tartuffe, who befriends the wealthy Orgon and then attempts to seduce both his new friend's wife and daughter in this TV presentation from the Broadway Theatre Archive. Tartuffe pretends to be a pious man whose faith convinces Orgon and his family to succumb to his influence, but he's undone when his womanizing ways make it clear that his piety is a charade.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-05-31
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Through Naked Eyes
Overview: A musician living in an apartment building likes to check out the residents of the building opposite him--until he finds out one day that an attractive woman in that building is checking him out. He strikes up a relationship with her. Soon afterwards a string of serial killings occurs in the neighborhood, and suspicion begins to fall on the musician.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-12-11
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A Smile Like Yours
Overview: A comedy about a couple who cannot conceive a baby
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-08-27
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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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Art, what is it? Why is it?
Overview: John Canaday analyzes the place of art among the humanities as an expression of man's attempt to define what it means to be a human being. Mr. Canaday shows how the masterworks of art and architecture have formed a visual history of man's thought, ideals, and most fondly-held beliefs.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-01-01
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Necessary Parties
Overview: Fifteen-year-old Chris Mills isn't too happy with his divorcing parents. In fact, he doesn't want them to split at all, so he hires car repair shop owner -- and former attorney -- Archie Corelli to run interference for him and put a stop to the proceedings. It's a match made in heaven because Chris and Archie both have a deep desire to see the right thing done.
Genres: Family Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years
Overview: The story of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt during their 12-year stay at the White House.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-03-13
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Mary White
Overview: The true story of the relationship between famed author William Allen White and his teenaged daughter Mary, who died in a horseback-riding accident at age 16, and the powerful effect the tragedy had on the life of her father.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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Rex Harrison Presents Stories of Love
Overview: Pilot for a proposed television anthology series with stories about love, either dramatic or comedic. In this pilot, there were three different segments: in the first, a computer falls in love with its programmer; in the second, a World War II vet falls in love with a murderer; in the third, a woman falls in love with a penniless painter.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-05-01
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The Long Days of Summer
Overview: In this sequel to his 1978 "When Every Day Was the Fourth of July" (and a pilot to a prospective series), producer/director Dan Curtis recalls more of his youth during the late '30, and follows a fictionalized family where the father has jeopardized a promising law career to defend a Jewish immigrant against the prejudices of a staid New England town.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-05-23
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On the Nickel
Overview: Sam, a recovering alcoholic, feels dissatisfied with his life of sobriety and goes back in search of the good times he enjoyed with his wino friends on "the Nickel" of Los Angeles' skid row.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-05-08
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Overview: In 1961, Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle played for the New York Yankees. One, Mantle, was universally loved, while the other, Maris, was universally hated. Both men started off with a bang, and both were nearing Babe Ruth's 60 home run record. Which man would reach it?
Genres: TV Movie Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-04-28
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A Son's Promise
Overview: An iron-willed Georgia boy accepts the burden of a man on his young shoulders. Fifteen-year-old Terry O'Kelly is fatherless and his remaining parent, his mother, is dying. Anguished, the soon-to-be orphan makes a surprising grown-up decision: Terry promises to care for his six brothers and vows to keep the family together. Steadfast to his word, Terry takes on the struggles of parenthood, which yields some difficult and unpleasant surprises.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-03-05
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A House Divided: Denmark Vessey's Rebellion
Overview: Story of Denmark Vesey, who was raised as a slave but bought his freedom. He organized a plot to seize the city and free the black slaves, but this failed and he and others were hanged. Set in Charleston in 1822.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-02-17
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License to Kill
Overview: A grieving family whose daughter was killed in a car crash with a drunken driver is outraged and frustrated as they encounter the inevitable bureaucratic delays in bringing the case to trial. Once in the courtroom, they are horror-stricken as the young, hard-pressed district attorney seems unable to overcome the technicalities and maneuverings that the driver's attorney uses to keep his client out of jail and still on the streets as a legal driver. When the judge is forced to rule time and again in favor of the defense, it appears that the driver might escape punishment altogether.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-12-16
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Teamster Boss: The Jackie Presser Story
Overview: For a generation, the mobs main money machine was the Teamsters Union. When Jimmy Hoffa disappeared, the fight was on to see who could follow him. Jackie Presser was the son of a long time union board member and when he retired, Jackie was elevated to one of the most powerful position in the country; President of the Teamsters Union.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-09-12
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Kojak: Flowers For Matty
Overview: Kojak charms his way into high society to investigate art thefts that are tied to munitions smuggling and murder.
Genres: Thriller Drama TV Movie Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-04
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The Call of the Wild
Overview: A prospector, a trapper and their sled dog battle the Klondike elements on their journey to get to the gold country.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-05-22
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Lily
Overview: Lily Miniver is an eccentric, intrepid young woman whose job as associate curator at the prestigious Jeffersonian Museum in Washington, D.C. takes her around the globe. When a unique Aztec necklace, on loan from the British Museum, is slightly tarnished, she quickly deduces that it's a fake, and she is sent to London by her boss to determine how a substitute necklace showed up at the Jeffersonian.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-06-14
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