Douglas Seale
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Biography: Douglas Seale (28 October 1913 – 13 June 1999) was an English film and stage actor.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
Birthday: October 28, 1913
Deathday: June 13, 1999
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Gender: Male
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Amadeus
Overview: Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the hedonistic and remarkably talented young Viennese composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Genres: History Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-09-19
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Aladdin
Overview: In the boorish city of Agrabah, kind-hearted street urchin Aladdin and Princess Jasmine fall in love, although she can only marry a prince. He and power-hungry Grand Vizier Jafar vie for a magic lamp that can fulfill their wishes.
Genres: Animation Family Adventure Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-11-25
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The Rescuers Down Under
Overview: A lawless poacher wants to capture a majestic and rare golden eagle, so he kidnaps the boy who knows where to find the bird. Not to worry -- the Rescue Aid Society's top agents, heroic mice Miss Bianca and Bernard, fly to Australia to save the day. Accompanying the fearless duo are bumbling albatross Wilbur and local field operative Jake the Kangaroo Rat.
Genres: Animation Adventure Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-11-16
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Ernest Saves Christmas
Overview: When Santa Claus decides to retire and pass on his magic bag of Christmas surprises to a new Saint Nick, he enlists the aid of a hilarious assortment of characters. A perky teen runaway and hapless taxi driver Ernest P. Worrell must convince a skeptical kiddie-show host to take over the post of Father Christmas.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-11-11
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Almost an Angel
Overview: Terry Dean is an electronics wizard and thief. After he is released from jail, he is hit by a car while saving a little girl's life. While in the hospital, he dreams that God visits him and tells him he's an Angel, and must start doing good things to make up for his past life. Not believing it at first, he soon becomes convinced he must be an Angel. Not having any Angel powers yet, he must use his own experiences and talents to make good things happen.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-12-21
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Palookaville
Overview: Jerry and his two pals, Russ and Syd, are just looking for some easy money to help them break out of their nowhere lives in their nowhere town. Despite a bungled jewelry store heist which exposes their incompetence as criminals, a fateful event (and an old black-and-white film) convinces them that they can pull off an armored-truck robbery. While they are busy plotting their caper, their dysfunctional families spin out of control, all around them.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-09-07
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Bees on the Boat-Deck
Overview: Television broadcast of Bees on the Boat-Deck by J.B. Priestley.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-11
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Heaven Help Us
Overview: Sixteen-year-old Michael Dunn arrives at St. Basil's Catholic Boys School in Brooklyn circa 1965. There, he befriends all of the misfits in his class as they collide with the repressive faculty and discover the opposite sex as they come of age.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-02-08
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Ghostbusters II
Overview: Having lost their status and credibility five years after covering New York City with gooey roasted marshmallows in Ghostbusters (1984), the city's former heroes and once-popular spirit-hunters struggle to keep afloat, forced to work odd jobs. However, when Dana and her baby have yet another terrifying encounter with the paranormal, it is up to Peter Venkman and his fearless team of supernatural crime fighters to step up and save the day. Once more, humankind is in danger, as rivers of slimy psycho-reactive ectoplasm, paired with the dreadful manifestation of evil sixteenth-century tyrant Vigo the Carpathian, threaten to plunge the entire city into darkness. Is the world ready to believe? Can the Ghostbusters save us for the second time?
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-06-16
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Howard
Overview: Though legendary lyricist Howard Ashman died far too young, his impact on Broadway, movies, and the culture at large were incalculable. Told entirely through rare archival footage and interviews with Ashman’s family, friends, associates, and longtime partner Bill Lauch, Howard is an intimate tribute to a once-in-a-generation talent and a rousing celebration of musical storytelling itself.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-04-22
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ALF Loves a Mystery
Overview: ALF (short for Alien Life Form) and Benji Gregory explore an shabby mansion hoping to find hidden treasure. During their search, they manage to preview the NBC's Saturday morning schedule of 1987.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-09-12
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Haunted by Her Past
Overview: While staying at an inn in a colonial-recreation village for her anniversary, a young woman becomes possessed by her murderous ancestor through an antique mirror and compelled to murder her husband.
Genres: Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-10-05
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A More Perfect Union
Overview: Become an eyewitness to the Constitutional Convention of 1787. This stirring 2-hour film will bring the Founding Fathers to life as you witness the struggles and the miracles that produced the Constitution of the United States and the freest nation on earth. Filmed on location at Independence Hall; Williamsburg, Virginia; and other historical sites, it dramatically chronicles how America became a nation. It is exciting drama of the best kind-fact, rather than fiction. "It brings the history books to life," writes one reviewer. "Dramatically moving, and visually handsome," says another. Officially recognized by the Commission on the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution, who cited the film as being "of exceptional merit."
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-07
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Amazing Stories: The Movie II
Overview: This anthology gathers four episodes of the 1985-87 television series "Amazing Stories." Santa Claus (Douglas Seale) gets arrested when a burglar alarm goes off as he's delivering presents. A lonely bachelor (John Lithgow) buys a mysterious doll. A museum thief (Danny DeVito) gives a purloined ring to his wife (Rhea Perlman), unaware that the previous owner's ghost inhabits it, and 75 years after he accidentally caused a train to crash, an old man (Roberts Blossom) waits for his penance.
Genres: Fantasy Horror
Original Language: en
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A Smoky Mountain Christmas
Overview: A country-western singer on a trip through the Tennessee mountains runs into a reclusive backwoodsman — and a witch.
Genres: Music Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-12-14
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Mr. Destiny
Overview: Larry Burrows is unhappy and feels powerless over his life. He believes his entire life could have turned out differently had he not missed that shot in a baseball game when was a kid. One night he meets this mysterious man, who could change his fate by offering him that alternative life he always dreamed of. But as Burrows embarks on this journey of self discovery he realises that even this new life has its problems and drawbacks..
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Science Fiction Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-10-12
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For Love or Money
Overview: New York concierge Doug Ireland wants to go into business for himself and refurbish a hotel on Roosevelt Island, N.Y., but he needs an investor. With a few weeks left before his option on the site runs out, Doug agrees to help wealthy Christian Hanover conceal his affair with salesgirl Andy Hart from his wife. Despite his own attraction to Andy, Doug tries to stay focused on getting Christian to invest $3 million in his project.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-10-01
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Stop Press Girl
Overview: A young woman leaves her backwards hometown to go to London to find a runaway suitor. What she doesn't know is that she has inherited a strange ability; if she's in the vicinity of a machine for more than fifteen minutes, it stops working.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-06-02
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