David Hurst
Also Known As: Heinrich Theodor Hirsch
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Berlin, Germany
Birthday: May 08, 1926
Deathday: September 15, 2019
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Skokie
Overview: A dramatization of the controversial trial concerning the right for Neo-Nazis to march in the predominantly Jewish community of Skokie, Illinois.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-11-17
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Always a Bride
Overview: Set against the glitz and glamour of the French Riviera, this comedy follows the misadventures of a father and daughter con artist team (Ronald Squire and Peggy Cummins) who pose as a married couple and swindle wealthy clients at the region's swankiest resorts. But their scams take on a whole new dimension when daughter Clare falls for a British government bureaucrat (Terence Morgan) who may have a secret or two of his own. [Netflix]
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-08-12
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Kelly's Heroes
Overview: A misfit group of World War II American soldiers goes AWOL to rob a bank behind German lines.
Genres: Adventure Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-06-22
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Mother Riley Meets the Vampire
Overview: The legendary Bela Lugosi as "the Vampire" teams up with Britain's much-loved "Mother Riley" in this hilarious comedy adventure. The Vampire plans to control the world with the help of his robot, which accidentally gets shipped to Mother Riley. Through radar control, he contacts the robot and orders it to come to him, bringing along Mother Riley! But his life is turned upside down when he holds this most meddling of mothers captive.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-07-11
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So Little Time
Overview: During World War II, German soldiers occupy the home of a beautiful Belgian girl and her mother.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-04-18
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Top Secret
Overview: A British Sanitary Engineer, goes on holiday with a set of plans for a new secret weapon which he has mistaken for his new plumbing invention. Everyone is hunting for him, including the Russians. The Russians find him and offer him a job in the Kremlin doing research (on plumbing he believes). He accepts, arrives in Russia and falls in love with Tania, a secret agent. And then discovers the true nature of the plans he is carrying...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-11-10
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Hello, Dolly!
Overview: Dolly Levi is a strong-willed matchmaker who travels to Yonkers, New York in order to see the miserly "well-known unmarried half-a-millionaire" Horace Vandergelder. In doing so, she convinces his niece, his niece's intended, and Horace's two clerks to travel to New York City.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-12-12
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As Long as They're Happy
Overview: The suburban peace of the Bentley household is shattered when John Bentley is informed by his wife Stella that their two married daughters, Pat and Corrine are in trouble and need funds to come home and bring their husbands, Peter, a penniless Parisian artist and Barnaby, a Texas cowboy, with them. And the youngest daughter, Gwen, has tricked an American singer, Bobby Denver, into visiting them on the pretext that it is the home of a noted British film magnate. When all the women in the household --- including the maid --- fall for the singer's charms, Bentley consults a crackpot psychiatrist, Dr. Schneider, who almost succeeds in ousting, not the singer, but Bentley's wife, with his advice to Bentley to make her jealous by living it up with Pearl, a showgirl recruited for the purpose.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-03-15
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Paradise Lost
Overview: Playwright Clifford Odets' portrait of the Great Depression unfolds in the modest two-family home of Leo and Clara Gordon as misfortune strikes them and the people running with them. Opened on Broadway in 1935, it became one of the Group Theatre's most controversial plays and Odets' favorite.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-02-25
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After the Ball
Overview: The life and loves of Music hall singer Vesta Tilley, who married into the nobility
Genres: Music History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-08-13
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Rough Shoot
Overview: An American military officer and his wife move to a cottage in what they think is the peaceful English countryside, only to discover the area is a hotbed of spies and secret agents.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-03-30
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Nero Wolfe
Overview: Gourmet Nero Wolfe interrupts his orchid-tending to take on the case of a lady tycoon who wants to know why she's under investigation by the FBI, only to find himself enmeshed in a puzzling murder-mystery. TV movie based on Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe series.
Genres: Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-12-19
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Smart Alec
Overview: A young artist plots "the perfect murder" in order to inherit his wealthy uncle's fortune.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-03-01
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The Boys from Brazil
Overview: Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman discovers a sinister and bizarre plot to rekindle the Third Reich.
Genres: Drama Mystery Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-10-05
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Mad About Men
Overview: Flirtatious mermaid Miranda swaps places with a schoolteacher who has gone on holiday. All is well until she falls in love with a human.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-11-16
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River Beat
Overview: British diamond smugglers use the radiowoman (Phyllis Kirk) from a freighter docked on the Thames to unwittingly "mule" their swag, hidden in cigarettes, past customs, not knowing that she has befriended an Inspector for the Thames River Patrol.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-02-01
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All for Mary
Overview: In a Swiss Alpine resort shortly after the War an army officer and upper-class Humpy Miller both set their sights on Mary, the landlord's daughter. When the two come down with chicken pox they are put in the charge of fellow guest Miss Cartwright, who turns out to be Humpy's old nanny. The two Englishmen unite not only against her tyranny but against a dense Greek who is also after Mary.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-12-21
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Venetian Bird
Overview: Private eye Edward Mercer travels to Venice to locate a man due a reward for his aid in the war. Shortly after arriving, he becomes the prime suspect in the murder of his local contact. In his quest to clear his name, Mercer uncovers a conspiracy. Even the local magistrate seems to be working against him, and Mercer begins to suspect the man he came to find is behind it all.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-10-01
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Soho Conspiracy
Overview: The plans of a publicity agent to put on a charity concert are nearly wrecked by a lawyer who wants to take over a restaurant, but the situation is saved by local co-operation.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-10-01
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One Good Turn
Overview: Norman is the oldest orphan at Greenwood Children's Home and now acts as their caretaker. All the orphans are very happy and well cared for. The adventures start when a nasty property developer (boo hiss) who is also the chairman of the orphanage board wants to close the orphanage and build a factory on the site. The children are sent to Brighton for the day and Norman is very excited because he's "Never seen the Sea". When they get back they discover the plan to close the orphanage and have to decide what to do
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-01-04
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To Die in Paris
Overview: In occupied France during World War II, a resistance leader is accused of betraying his own side.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Child of Glass
Overview: Alexander Armsworth and his family move to an authentic antebellum mansion which once was owned by a river pirate. Alexander is drawn into a century-old mystery when he sees the ghost of a little girl and she asks for his help in finding the "child of glass" by reciting a riddle. He has only a day or two to solve the riddle...or be haunted for the rest of his life!
Genres: Drama Family Fantasy TV Movie Horror Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-05-14
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The Perfect Woman
Overview: In need of cash, Roger Cavendish and his valet take a job escorting the perfect woman for a night on the town. She is in fact the robotic creation of Professor Belman, but it turns out rather to be the Professor's niece Penelope doing a pretty good imitation of the perfect Olga who winds up with them in the bridal suite at the Hotel Splendide.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-05-23
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The Confession
Overview: Madame Rinaldi, owner of a bordello, helps thief Mario Forni locate an ancient buried treasure.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-05-22
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