Douglas Dirkson
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Lewistown, Montana, USA
Birthday: May 17, 1943
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Gender: Male
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Gorp
Overview: Pranksters cause trouble at a summer camp for rich kids.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-05-01
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Dirty O'Neil
Overview: A police officer has very little work as there is virtually no crime in his small California town...until three hoodlums appear and rape a young woman.
Genres: Comedy Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-05-01
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'Gator Bait
Overview: Desirée lives deep in the swamp and supports herself and her siblings by poaching. After an accident involving Deputy Billy and a friend, the Sheriff, Deputy and a family of locals go after Desirée. Soon the hunters become the hunted as she exacts her revenge for their violence against her family.
Genres: Action Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-10-12
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Modesty Blaise
Overview: Pilot for a never-made TV series based upon the popular comic strip character. Adventurer Modesty Blaise and knife thrower Willie Garvin - retired ex-criminals living in California with driver Weng - first save and then protect a young computer expert from a criminal organization, led by the evil Debbie La Forge. .
Genres: Action Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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Escape from Bogen County
Overview: A political despot controls his town and his wife Maggie. When Maggie tries to escape his control, he swears a warrant out for her arrest and sends the law after her. The arresting officer, however, takes pity on Maggie and tries to help her escape the despot's clutches.
Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-10-07
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The Blue Knight
Overview: In this pilot film that preceded the short-lived series, a street cop in his last week on the force before his retirement investigates the murder of his partner.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-05-09
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U.S. Marshals: Waco & Rhinehart
Overview: Two unorthodox, anything-goes law enforcement partners, unencumbered by regulations and the law, search for the killer of a fellow U.S. Marshal in this lighthearted, busted pilot film.
Genres: Action Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-03-27
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A Cry for Love
Overview: Divorcee Susan Blakely, with no alimony and two kids to support, begins turning to amphetamines. While at her lowest ebb, she meets an alcoholic and three-time loser in marriage -- who, incredibly, turns out to be the ideal man!
Genres: TV Movie Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-10-20
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Portrait of an Escort
Overview: Jordan West is a divorcée who moonlights at a professional dating service to make ends meet. But her secret job causes gossip among her neighbors and trouble at the real estate office where she works in the daytime, while her teenage daughter is the only one who remains oblivious to her mother's night job. When Jordan tries to quit her escort profession, she finds herself harassed by her boss/madam, Mrs. Kennedy, and then stalked by an unknown former client.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-10-08
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Angel on My Shoulder
Overview: A small-time Chicago hood, now deceased, gets a second chance at life by striking a bargain with the Devil to inhabit and attempt to corrupt a totally honest politician.
Genres: Drama Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-05-11
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The Ordeal of Bill Carney
Overview: Bill Carney has just been paralyzed from the neck down. He has been taking care of his two sons since his wife left him. Now, when word of his condition reaches her, she wants to take them away, as she feels that he is unable to care for them. And it appears that the courts agree too. So, his lawyer, also a paraplegic, begins the campaign to take his case before the Supreme Court. Will he win?
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-12-23
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Beyond Reason
Overview: An unconventional psychiatrist slowly begins to question his own sanity.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-09-26
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Taking Back Our Town
Overview: A true story about a concerned housewife, Pat Melancon, who tries to block Shintech, a massive Japanese petrochemical conglomerate, from building a plant in her toxic township already known as "cancer alley". Pat and a few newly recruited, fledgling activitsts face the full force of Shintech's wealth and influence peddling, which has bought the cooperation of the government from the local level all the way up to the Governor's office.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-12-10
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Hopscotch
Overview: When CIA operative Miles Kendig deliberately lets KGB agent Yaskov get away, his boss threatens to retire him. Kendig beats him to it, however, destroying his own records and traveling to Austria where he begins work on a memoir that will expose all his former agency's covert practices. The CIA catches wind of the book and sends other agents after him, initiating a frenetic game of cat and mouse that spans the globe.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-09-26
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She's in the Army Now
Overview: Akin to Private Benjamin, this comedy deals with the tough life of female army recruits going through basic training. Through their training they come to realize that there is more to being tough than having muscles.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-05-20
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Eye of the Tiger
Overview: Buck is a Vietnam vet, recently released from prison. He returns home to discover the town being terrorized by a vicious motorcycle gang. When the bikers murder his wife and traumatize his daughter, Buck and his friends arm themselves to the teeth and wage war against the gang to destroy them once and for all.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-07-07
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Footloose
Overview: When teenager Ren and his family move from big-city Chicago to a small town in the West, he's in for a real case of culture shock after discovering he's living in a place where music and dancing are illegal.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-02-17
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Malibu
Overview: A young couple from Milwaukee moves into the fabled, high-society Malibu beach community and becomes involved with the lives of the various people living in the community.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-23
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Inherit the Wind
Overview: Based on a real-life case in 1925, two great lawyers argue the case for and against a science teacher accused of the crime of teaching evolution.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-03-20
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Harry's War
Overview: After his aunt dies of a heart attack while fighting the IRS, Harry Johnson decides to take up the cause.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-03-06
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Portrait of a Showgirl
Overview: The story of three Las Vegas showgirls, each at a different stage in her career.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-04-09
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My Mother's Secret Life
Overview: 16 year old Tobi has just lost her father, whom she has been living with. She finds her mother's address in his papers. So Tobi builds up a fantasy of what her mother, Ellen Blake, must be like. But when she goes to see her, she finds out her mother is a high priced call-girl.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-02-05
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Streets of Justice
Overview: After bikers kill the wife and son of an auto worker (John Laughlin) and then get off with a light sentence in the court system, he decides to seek his revenge as a clandestine vigilante.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-11-10
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