Lawrence Dobkin
Also Known As: Larry Dobkin
Biography: Lawrence Dobkin (September 16, 1919 – October 28, 2002) was an American television director, character actor and screenwriter whose career spanned seven decades.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: September 16, 1919
Age: 105 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: October 28, 2002
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The Restless Sea
Overview: The Restless Sea is a 1964 educational animated feature-length film. It was produced by Disney as the final entry in the Bell Telephone Science Hour series. Animated sequences illustrate the work of oceanographers in searching out complex and interwoven relationships of nature in the sea integrating the marine applications of many sciences. Filmed action from above and below the surface shows instruments which plunge through layers of sediment to obtain geological records and oceanographic equipment ranging from underwater television to research vessels.
Genres: Documentary Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-01-24
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Not Wanted
Overview: After a beautiful but unsophisticated girl is seduced by a worldly piano player and gives up her out-of-wedlock baby, her guilt compels her to kidnap another child.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-06-24
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Patton
Overview: "Patton" tells the tale of General George S. Patton, famous tank commander of World War II. The film begins with Patton's career in North Africa and progresses through the invasion of Germany and the fall of the Third Reich. Side plots also speak of Patton's numerous faults such his temper and habit towards insubordination.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-01-25
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Julius Caesar
Overview: The assassination of the would-be ruler of Rome at the hands of Brutus and company has tragic consequences for the idealist and for the republic.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-06-04
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Rock Hudson
Overview: Biography of actor Rock Hudson focuses on his struggle with his homosexuality. Based on the book by his ex-wife, Phyllis Gates, and on the court records from the civil suit brought by his former lover, Marc Christian.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-08
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The Defiant Ones
Overview: Two convicts—a white racist and an angry black man—escape while chained to each other.
Genres: Crime Drama Action Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-08-14
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The Ten Commandments
Overview: Escaping death, a Hebrew infant is raised in a royal household to become a prince. Upon discovery of his true heritage, Moses embarks on a personal quest to reclaim his destiny as the leader and liberator of the Hebrew people.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-10-05
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The Gene Krupa Story
Overview: The story of legendary jazz drummer, Gene Krupa. Since his youth, all Gene ever wanted to do is play the drums and make music. This is something his parents would not approve of- they want him to be a priest. When Gene's father dies he promises to enter the priesthood. He soon realizes that he doesn't belong there and leaves to join his friend, Eddie's band. Ethel, Eddie's girlfriend, convinces Gene to go to New York and make it big. The 3 of them head to New York. Here Ethel and Gene soon fall in love and Gene makes a name for himself. Gene starts to live in the fast lane, with drugs, alcohol, women and parties. Ethel, unhappy with Gene's lifestyle, leaves him. Gene soon "hits rock bottom" where he has to face reality and choose where to take his life.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-12-01
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Geronimo
Overview: In 1883, the Apache Indians lead by Geronimo reluctantly surrender to the attacks of American and Mexican troops, in exchange for a territory and food for their warriors. Soon though, Geronimo escapes the camps and declares war against the Americans.
Genres: Western History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-04-27
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Portland Exposé
Overview: The owner of a tavern is pressured by the local mob to go into business with them, and figures it's better all around if he does that rather than cause trouble. However, when he starts to see what kind of place his nice little neighborhood bar is turning into, and when one of the mob's goons tries to rape his daughter, he decides to fight them.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-08-11
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Twelve O'Clock High
Overview: In the early days of daylight bombing raids over Germany, General Frank Savage must take command of a 'hard luck' bomber group. Much of the story deals with his struggle to whip his group into a disciplined fighting unit in spite of heavy losses, and withering attacks by German fighters over their targets.
Genres: War Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-12-21
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Illegal
Overview: A hugely successful DA goes into private practice after sending a man to the chair -- only to find out later he was innocent. Now the drunken attorney only seems to represent criminals and low lifes.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-10-09
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D.O.A.
Overview: Frank Bigelow is about to die, and he knows it. The accountant has been poisoned and has only 24 hours before the lethal concoction kills him. Determined to find out who his murderer is, Frank, with the help of his assistant and girlfriend, Paula, begins to trace back over his last steps. As he frantically tries to unravel the mystery behind his own impending demise, his sleuthing leads him to a group of crooked businessmen and another murder.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-12-23
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Above and Beyond
Overview: The story of Colonel Paul Tibbets, the pilot that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Although unaware of the full potential of this new weapon, he knows that it can do tremendously more damage than any other weapon used before, and that the death toll resulting from it will be huge. He is reluctant to be the person who will end so many lives, but as time goes on, the pressure upon him only increase.
Genres: Action Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-01-02
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Loan Shark
Overview: A vicious loan shark ring has been preying on factory workers. When several workers at a tire factory suffer violence at the hands of the loan sharkers, a union leader and the factory owner try to recruit ex-con Joe Gargan to infiltrate to the gang. At first Joe does not want to get involved, but changes his mind when his brother-in-law dies at the hands of a savage loan shark hood. Joe works his way into the mob, but in order to keep his cover, Joe can't tell anyone what he is up to. This results in him being disowned by his sister and girl friend.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-05-23
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Johnny Yuma
Overview: Infidelity, murder, and betrayal lies at the center of this violent Spaghetti western. A scheming wife does away with her husband, causing the man's heir to seek revenge. A number of double-crosses and bloody gun battles follow, eventually driving the woman to flee into the desert.
Genres: Action Drama Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-08-11
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The Lost Missile
Overview: A missile from parts unknown enters an orbit only 5 miles above Earth's surface and, due to friction from its intense speed through our atmosphere, proceeds to incinerate everything in its immediate wake.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-12-01
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Kiss of Fire
Overview: In 1700, a Spanish princess travels from New Mexico to California with ruthless outlaw El Tigre as guide.
Genres: History Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-09-23
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Never Fear
Overview: A dancer who has just gotten engaged to her partner and choreographer and is about to embark on a major career is devastated to learn that she has contracted polio.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-01-04
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The Cabinet of Caligari
Overview: A delirious young woman feels trapped in a remote mansion at the mercy of a madman.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-05-25
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The Killer Is Loose
Overview: A savings-and-loan bank is robbed; later, a police wiretap identifies bank teller Leon Poole as the inside man. In capturing him, detective Sam Wagner accidentally kills Poole's young wife, and at his trial Poole swears vengeance against Wagner. Poole begins his plans to get revenge when he escapes his captors.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-02-03
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Hotwire
Overview: Car thieves go to work.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-09-01
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The Best Years of Our Lives
Overview: It's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return home. For three WWII veterans, the day has arrived. But for each man, the dream is about to become a nightmare.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-25
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Tokyo After Dark
Overview: An American serviceman stationed in Tokyo, who's engaged to a local singer, faces both a military court-martial and a trial in the Japanese courts after an accidental shooting in which a teenager is killed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-02-01
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The Badge of Marshal Brennan
Overview: Jim Davis is a man on the run. He comes across the body of a dead man wearing the badge of a marshal. He buries the body and takes the badge and rides on. At the next town, he is mistaken for the dead man, a legendary marshal named Brennan. The town sent for Marshal Brennan because they were facing a crisis that includes among other things an epidemic. The Stranger decides to stay as a way of hiding from the men chasing him. What he does not realize is that when he takes on the Badge of Marshal Brennan, he takes on the responsibilities of Marshal Brennan.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-04-14
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Frenchie
Overview: Frenchie Fontaine sells her successful business in New Orleans to come West. Her reason? Find the men who killed her father, Frank Dawson. But she only knows one of the two who did and she's determined to find out the other.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-12-25
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Jump Into Hell
Overview: Arriving in IndoChina by parachute, Captain Guy Bertrand and his comrades make a courageous stand against the Communist forces. Jump into Hell is one of the first films to deal with the ongoing conflict in Vietnam or, as it was still known in 1955, French IndoChina.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-04-01
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The Big Operator
Overview: A power-mad union boss resorts to murder to eliminate witnesses scheduled to testify against him. The eclectic cast includes Mickey Rooney, Mamie Van Doren, Mel Torme, Jay North, Vampira, Charles Chaplin Jr., Jackie Coogan and Norman Grabowski.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-08-01
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Bannerline
Overview: A young crusading reporter in a small town tackles civic corruption.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-10-12
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Day of Triumph
Overview: A film about the last days of Jesus Christ.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-12-25
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Curiosity Kills
Overview: An apartment block janitor stumbles upon a deadly secret after one of the residents seemingly commits suicide and a mysterious new tenant arrives.
Genres: Thriller Action TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-06-27
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Underground
Overview: An American intelligence agent attempts to kidnap a top Nazi general.
Genres: Thriller Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-10-07
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The Big Moment
Overview: Three individual stories that give an account of crucial moments in the lives of three different people: one is a young thief from Casablanca, another is an immigrant doctor brought to the United States and the third is a girl who survived the Holocaust. All three are given a chance to live with dignity and self-respect.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-03-07
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Wild Heritage
Overview: Travails of a family heading West in a covered wagon.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-07-23
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The Rape of Doctor Willis
Overview: A drama directed by Lou Antonio.
Genres: Thriller Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-11-03
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Sweet Smell of Success
Overview: New York City newspaper writer J.J. Hunsecker holds considerable sway over public opinion with his Broadway column, but one thing that he can't control is his younger sister, Susan, who is in a relationship with aspiring jazz guitarist Steve Dallas. Hunsecker strongly disapproves of the romance and recruits publicist Sidney Falco to find a way to split the couple, no matter how ruthless the method.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-07-04
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In Search of Historic Jesus
Overview: Re-created Biblical tableaux mixed with interviews.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-08-01
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The Plot to Kill Stalin
Overview: In late 1952, an aging and increasingly paranoid Stalin puts in motion a purge against his doctors, with antisemitic overtones. His lackeys, including Khrushchev, Molotov and Beria, fear it will spread to the Politburo, and plan to strike first.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama Mystery Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-09-25
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Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Overview: Peter Schermann is angry at the world after his children move him into a nursing home. Still physically and mentally strong, he searches for a meaning to his life in a new and uncompromising world.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-10-17
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The Midnight Man
Overview: An ex-convict, and ex-cop, finds himself in the midst of drama as a murder, of a female student, is commited at the university where he works as a night watchman. He is reluctantly drawn into the criminal investigation and eventually becomes a suspect in the case. Will he be able to find the real murderer and clear his own name, or not?
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-03-07
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North by Northwest
Overview: Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.
Genres: Thriller Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-07-08
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5 Fingers
Overview: During WWII, the valet to the British Ambassador to Ankara sells British secrets to the Germans while trying to romance a refugee Polish countess.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-02-22
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Red Skies of Montana
Overview: When a large forest fire breaks out in the mountains of Montana, a squad of 'Smoke Jumpers', the paratroop-corps of fire-fighters in the U. S. Forest Service, is flown to the scene from their regional headquarters in Missoula, Montana. The Forest Rangers, under Cliff Mason, put out the blaze, but several of the fire-fighters are killed. Ed Miller, son of one of the dead rangers, thinks he died because Mason was a coward, and sets out to prove it.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-01-23
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The Streets of San Francisco
Overview: SFPD Detective Lieutenant Michael Stone (Karl Malden) is partnered with a young college-educated Inspector, Steven Keller (Michael Douglas), as they investigate a girl found dead in the water, with a lawyer she knew as the primary suspect.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-09-16
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Mysteries from Beyond Earth
Overview: Narrator Lawrence Dobkin examines unusual paranormal activities and conspiracy theories in several eerie segments. Subjects include flying saucers and alien encounters, the disappearance of Atlantis, the Bermuda Triangle and the origins of Bigfoot, telekinesis, witchcraft, and the unusual notion that human evolution and technology might have been moved forward with assistance from intelligent extraterrestrial beings.
Genres: Mystery Documentary Science Fiction Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-12-01
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The Silver Chalice
Overview: A Greek artisan is commissioned to cast the cup of Christ in silver and sculpt around its rim the faces of the disciples and Jesus himself. He travels to Jerusalem and eventually to Rome to complete the task. Meanwhile, a nefarious interloper is trying to convince the crowds that he is the new Messiah by using nothing more than cheap parlor tricks.
Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-12-20
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Roswell
Overview: Based on the book "UFO Crash at Roswell" by Kevin Randle and Donald Schmitt, Roswell follows the attempts of Major Jesse Marcel to discover the truth about strange debris found on a local rancher's field in July of 1947. Told by his superiors that what he has found is nothing more than a downed weather balloon, Marcel maintains his military duty until the weight of the truth, however out of this world it may be, forces him to piece together what really occurred.
Genres: Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-07-31
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Raiders of Old California
Overview: A villainous cavalry officer is trying to force the owner of a hacienda to give him his land when a courageous settler comes to the rescue.
Genres: Drama Western History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-11-01
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Remains to Be Seen
Overview: A singer and her apartment manager get mixed up in a creepy Park Avenue murder and find themselves facing danger at every turn.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Crime Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-05-15
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Deadline - U.S.A.
Overview: With three days before his paper folds, a crusading editor tries to expose a vicious gangster.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-03-14
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Riders to the Stars
Overview: Three men gamble their lives in space to change the history of the world
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-01-14
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Whirlpool
Overview: The wife of a psychoanalyst falls prey to a devious quack hypnotist when he discovers she is an habitual shoplifter. Then one of his previous patients now being treated by the real doctor is found murdered, with her still at the scene, and suspicion points only one way.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-01-13
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Sabaka
Overview: A fire worshipping cult of Indian is disbanded by a man, his elephant and tiger.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-02-02
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Young Man with Ideas
Overview: A Montana lawyer gets distracted after moving to California with his wife and children.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-05-02
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The Killers of Mussolini
Overview: As the Salo Republic crumbles around him, Mussolini, along with his mistress and several of his ministers flee with retreating Nazi soldiers, but are caught at the town of Dongo by red partisans. All are brutally executed without trial.
Genres: Drama TV Movie History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-06-04
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People Will Talk
Overview: Successful and well-liked, Dr. Noah Praetorius becomes the victim of a witchhunt at the hands of Professor Elwell, who disdains Praetorius's unorthodox medical views and also questions his relationship with the mysterious, ever-present Mr. Shunderson.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-08-29
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African Manhunt
Overview: Kirby, Davis and Drover escort the wanted criminal Rene Carvel from central Africa to the coast, stopping every so often to watch wild animals attack one another.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-01-05
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Chain of Circumstance
Overview: A childless couple adopts a baby girl, but a crime committed by the husband's secretary could cause them to lose custody of the infant.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-08-23
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A Fire Called Jeremiah
Overview: This is the story of the “smoke jumpers,” specially trained by the Forest Service to reach forest fires when they are in the inaccessible areas of US National Forests. A cabin in the woods is set on fire after an over stimulated kitten upsets an oil lantern.
Genres: Adventure Family Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-12-03
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Steel and America
Overview: A short film by Disney in which Donald Duck is involved in showing the history of Steel and America.
Genres: Animation History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-09-01
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