John McLiam
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Alberta, Canada
Birthday: January 24, 1918
Deathday: April 16, 1994
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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First Blood
Overview: When former Green Beret John Rambo is harassed by local law enforcement and arrested for vagrancy, he is forced to flee into the mountains and wage an escalating one-man war against his pursuers.
Genres: Action Adventure Thriller War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-10-22
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Dempsey
Overview: Nominated for two primetime Emmy Awards in 1984, this made-for-TV movie follows the true story of American boxer Jack Dempsey, who became a media sensation in the 1920s as the world heavyweight champion. Based upon the book by Jack Dempsey and Barbara Piatelli Dempsey.
Genres: History Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-09-28
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The Iceman Cometh
Overview: Set in 1912, inside a dive bar named The Last Chance Saloon, its destitute patrons eagerly await the arrival of Hickey, who arrives annually and props everyone up with free drinks and spirited stories of his travels. However, when Hickey does show up this year, it is with a message of temperance and an exhortation to give up hopeless dreams and face reality.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-11-10
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The Food of the Gods
Overview: Morgan and his friends are on a hunting trip on a remote Canadian island when they are attacked by a swarm of giant wasps. Looking for help, Morgan stumbles across a barn inhabited by an enormous killer chicken. After doing some exploring, they discover the entire island is crawling with animals that have somehow grown to giant size. The most dangerous of all of these, however, are the rats, who are mobilizing to do battle with the human intruders.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-06-18
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The Missouri Breaks
Overview: When vigilante land baron David Braxton hangs one of the best friends of cattle rustler Tom Logan, Logan's gang decides to get even by purchasing a small farm next to Braxton's ranch. From there the rustlers begin stealing horses, using the farm as a front for their operation. Determined to stop the thefts at any cost, Braxton retains the services of eccentric sharpshooter Robert E. Lee Clayton, who begins ruthlessly taking down Logan's gang.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-05-19
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Monte Walsh
Overview: Monte Walsh is an aging cowboy facing the ending days of the Wild West era. As barbed wire and railways steadily eliminate the need for the cowboy, Monte and his friends are left with fewer and fewer options. New work opportunities are available to them, but the freedom of the open prarie is what they long for. Eventually, they all must say goodbye to the lives they knew, and try to make a new start.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-09-26
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Big Jake
Overview: An aging Texas cattle man who has outlived his time swings into action when outlaws kidnap his grandson.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-05-26
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Halls of Anger
Overview: An all-black inner city school has to become an integrated school. Few dozen white kids are transfered there, but the black students are aggressively opposed to this. The school then approaches a tough black teacher for help.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-04-29
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Split Decisions
Overview: When a boxer is killed because he wouldn't take a dive, his brother tries to find a way to avenge him even if only symbolically.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-06-11
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Madigan
Overview: NYPD detectives Bonaro and Madigan lose their guns to fugitive Barney Benesch. As compensation, they are given a weekend to bring Benesch to justice. While they follow various leads, Police Commissioner Russell goes about his duties, including attending functions, meeting with aggrieved relatives, and counseling the spouses of fallen officers.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-03-29
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Dead to the World
Overview: A State Department employee, who is suspected of murdering a high government official, sets out to hunt down the real killer.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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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 End of August
Overview: In the turn of the century South, a woman feels unfulfilled by marriage and motherhood and has an affair with a younger man. Later, the woman leaves her family and tries to start a new life alone.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-11-19
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The Return of the Incredible Hulk
Overview: On the run and presumed dead by the authorities, David Banner, using the name 'Benton', continues in his efforts to find a cure. He accidentally finds himself in the middle of a plot to kill a young, crippled girl so her unscrupulous relatives can inherit the family fortune.
Genres: TV Movie Action Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-11-27
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A Chant of Silence
Overview: A murdering skyjacker parachutes to safety and poses as a novice monk in an isolated New Mexico monastery.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-05-09
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Walk Like a Man
Overview: Bobo, a feral man raised by wolves, is reunited with his family by a researcher. However, this disappoints his brother, Reggie, who has no intentions of sharing the family inheritance with him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-04-17
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J. Edgar Hoover
Overview: He battled the Kennedys and Martin Luther King, encouraged McCarthy and single-handedly changed the course of history. Hired by F.D.R. to be the director of the FBI, Hoover erected the most sophisticated investigatory agency in the world.
Genres: TV Movie History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-11
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My Fair Lady
Overview: A snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-10-21
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The Ambush Murders
Overview: An African-American political activist is wrongfully imprisoned for killing two white policemen; he is unwary of yet another white lawyer who claims that he will help free him.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-01-05
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Lucky Lady
Overview: When an American booze smuggler gets murdered in Prohibition-era Mexico, his widow, a nightclub singer, joins forces with her lover and a desperate loner to become rum-runners to the U.S.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-12-25
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In Cold Blood
Overview: After a botched robbery results in the brutal murder of a rural family, two drifters elude police, in the end coming to terms with their own mortality and the repercussions of their vile atrocity.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-12-15
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The Dove
Overview: 16-year-old Robin Lee Graham aims to become the youngest person to sail around the world in a 23-foot sloop named "The Dove". On his journey, he meets and falls in love with Patti Ratteree, who is also traveling around the world. As Robin sails around the world to many beautiful locales, he grows from a boy to a man, finds himself, and finds the love of his life.
Genres: Romance Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-06-16
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Cool Hand Luke
Overview: When petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn't play by the rules of either the sadistic warden or the yard's resident heavy, Dragline, who ends up admiring the new guy's unbreakable will. Luke's bravado, even in the face of repeated stints in the prison's dreaded solitary confinement cell, "the box," make him a rebel hero to his fellow convicts and a thorn in the side of the prison officers.
Genres: Action Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-11-01
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The Culpepper Cattle Co.
Overview: Working as an assistant on a long cattle drive, the young Ben Mockridge contends between his dream of being a cowboy and the harsh truth of the Old West.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-04-15
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Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan
Overview: After three civil-rights workers are murdered in Mississippi in 1964, a team of FBI agents is sent there to find the killers.
Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-02-20
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Freedom Road
Overview: Ex-slave and former Union soldier Gideon Jackson represents other ex-slaves at the constitutional convention, and is soon elected to the U.S. Senate despite opposition from white landowners, law enforcement and the KKK. He unites with sharecropper Abner Lait, who helps Jackson unite ex-slaves and white tenant farmers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-10-29
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Farewell to the Planet of the Apes
Overview: When the astronauts Burke and Virdon, with their chimp companion Galen, are captured in a fishing village that employs human slave labor, they must prove their worth as fishermen or be sacrificed to the 'gods of the sea,' or what the men call sharks. Escaping from the forced labor camp, the trio become involved in a plot to develop a glider to drop a fragmentation bomb on the gorilla council. [The fifth of five telefilms edited from episodes of the 1974 TV series; this film combines the episodes "Tomorrow's Tide" and "Up Above the World So High"]
Genres: TV Movie Thriller Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-11-21
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Legend in Granite
Overview: Follows Vince Lombardi's football career from one of Fordham University's legendary "Seven Blocks of Granite" to one of American football's greatest professional coaches.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-12-14
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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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The Five of Me
Overview: Henry Hawksworth is a man menaced by a multiple personality. There is Dana, the conservative family man; Johnny, violent and sociopathic; Peter, creative and childish; and Phil, protective and unemotional. "Dana" falls in love with Ann and marries her. Following a crime, "Johnny" is arrested and tried. In court, Henry's multiple personalities are painfully revealed.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-05-12
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Riverrun
Overview: Independent film by early New Hollywood figure John Korty
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-10-26
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Voyager from the Unknown
Overview: It is 1984. Jeffrey Jones is an 11-year-old orphan entrusted to his uncle and aunt. One evening, Phineas Bogg crashes through his bedroom window. As the young boy's dog rushes to the intruder, he bites into the book in Bogg's hand. In the ensuing panic, while trying to snatch the book from the fangs of the animal, Jeffrey swings out the window. Bogg jumps into the void to catch him and both are projected into time. Phineas Bogg is part of a group called the "Travellers". As they try to return Jeffrey to his own time, they encounter famous people from the past — while trying not to alter the path of history.
Genres: Science Fiction TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Sleeper
Overview: Miles Monroe, a clarinet-playing health food store proprietor, is revived out of cryostasis 200 years into a future world in order to help rebels fight an oppressive government regime.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-12-17
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Shadow of Fear
Overview: A boy turns to his pets after his father dies, and on a visit to his great-uncle in the Amish country, he learns their legends and superstitions. He soon discovers he has the power to make mind contact with the animals.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-01-28
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Gallegher: The Mystery of Edward Sims
Overview: The cub reporter, Gallegher, becomes involved in a land fraud, when some valueless land is sold to a group of Cornish immigrants. A murder implicates one of the immigrants, and it is up to Gallegher to prove that a local resident is actually the murderer and the swindler is a local banker.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-03-31
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Fall From Grace
Overview: Jim Bakker establishes a large televangelical empire in the 1980s, including Heritage Village. However, they are removed from P.T.L, the ministry that they had established in 1987.
Genres: History Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-04-29
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The Reivers
Overview: In turn-of-the-century Mississippi, an 11-year-old boy comes of age as two mischievous adult friends talk him into sneaking the family car out for a trip to Memphis and a series of adventures.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-12-20
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Runaway!
Overview: A group of skiers are trapped inside a runaway train hurtling down a mountainside.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-09-29
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Delta County, USA
Overview: Delta County is a staid Southern community caught between the old traditions and a rapidly changing way of life. For teenagers Terry Nicholas, his sister McCain, and Joe Ed, the boy from the wrong side of the tracks that she's attracted to, the old traditions have little meaning in their lives. Their elders, struggling to preserve values of an older day, have personal problems that are sometimes overwhelming, such as the one facing John McCain Jr., an alcoholic whose wife Kate is having a hidden and torrid romance that sets her husband off on a vengeance-seeking spree.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-05-20
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If Tomorrow Comes
Overview: In California, a young Caucasian girl and a Japanese-American boy defy local prejudices and secretly marry on Dec. 7, 1941, minutes before Pearl Harbor is attacked.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-12-07
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Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins
Overview: Hapless driving instructor and former Gunnery Sergeant Rafferty, living in squalor near Hollywood, California, doesn't put up too much of a fight when two ladies hitch a ride and attempt to kidnap him in their attempt to get to New Orleans; while initially put off, Rafferty finds he's charmed by the kooky pair of misfits and the three of them drive to Las Vegas, Nevada and later Tucson, Arizona, where their bond eventually unravels.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-02-02
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The Legend of the Golden Gun
Overview: In Kansas during the middle of the Civil War, John Golden is left for dead and his family has been killed by the ruthless Confederate outlaw William Quantrill. Rescued by runaway slave Joshua Brown, Golden is determined to get revenge. With the help of a legendary gunfighter and a special gun, Golden must not only deal with Quantrill and his men, but has to dodge General Custer and his army, as well.
Genres: Western Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-07-05
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Bite the Bullet
Overview: At the beginning of the 20th century, a newspaper organizes an endurance horse race : 700 miles to run in a few days. 9 adventurers are competing, among them a woman, Miss Jones, a Mexican, an Englishman, a young cow-boy, an old one and two friends, Sam Clayton and Luke Matthews. All those individualists will learn to respect each other.
Genres: Action Western Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-09-26
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Mistress of Paradise
Overview: In the 19th century, a wealthy Northern woman marries a Louisiana plantation owner and then becomes suspicious about his first wife's death.
Genres: Drama Mystery Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-10-04
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Hitched
Overview: The adventures of a newly married teenage couple in the Old West.
Genres: Comedy Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-03-31
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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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