Bernie Hamilton
Also Known As: Берни Хэмилтон, Берни Гамильтон
Biography: Solid character actor that for various reasons never became a star. He is perhaps best known for his role as the tough police captain in the hit 1970s television series, "Starsky and Hutch." Other notable credits include Luis Buñuel's English-language film, "The Young One" (1960) where he plays a jazz musician who flees a lynch mob, and "One Potato, Two Potato" (1964), where he got a chance to show a softer side as a man fighting to obtain parental rights of his stepdaughter.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: East Los Angeles, California, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: June 12, 1928
Age: 96 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: December 30, 2008
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The Young One
Overview: A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-09-05
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Scream Blacula Scream
Overview: After an aging voodoo priestess dies, her arrogant son Willis Daniel's believes he is next in line to lead. He is outraged when Lisa, his mother's adopted apprentice is chosen as the leader. Willis seeks revenge by reviving the African prince Blacula — but soon finds that he cannot control him.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-06-27
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Hammer
Overview: Hotheaded laborer B.J. Hammer can't go long without ending up in a fight, and, after he comes out on top in a particularly impressive workplace scuffle, word of his brawling skills makes its way to Davis, a top boxing manager. Hammer is hired by Davis and begins a lucrative career in the ring, only to find out that his new employer wants him to throw a fight and take part in other illicit activities. Hammer reacts to this news violently, and the feud is on.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-07-04
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The Organization
Overview: After a group of young revolutionaries break into a company's corporate headquarters and steal $5,000,000 worth of heroin to keep it off the street, they call on San Francisco Police Lieutenant Virgil Tibbs for assistance.
Genres: Drama Action Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-10-20
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Bucktown
Overview: Duke Johnson visits a small Southern town, intent on burying his brother. After the funeral, he learns that he must stay for 60 days, for the estate to be processed. A few locals convince Duke to reopen his late brother's nightclub, and soon the local redneck policemen are intimidating Duke with threats of violence. Duke refuses to pay the bribes they demand, so then he and his lady friend Aretha are threatened and attacked by the crooked cops. Rather than take them on himself, Duke calls on his old pal Roy. Roy brings a few buddies to Bucktown, and they bring justice to the small town. With the redneck cops out of the way, Duke lets his guard down. Then the situation gets out of hand again. Finally, Duke must settle the score himself.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-07-02
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The Losers
Overview: Some bikers are hired by the CIA during the Vietnam War to rescue a captured agent from the clutches of the Red Chinese army. After a round of drinking, fighting, and whoring around, the cycle gang, led by Big Bill Smith, fix up their Yamahas with machine guns, grenades and armor plating, and storm the enemy camp.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-06-08
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One Potato, Two Potato
Overview: Study of interracial marriage in the 1960s. A white divorcée falls in love with and marries an African-American man. When her ex-husband sues for custody of her child, arguing that a mixed household is an improper place to raise the girl, the new husband fights for his parental rights in court, fighting against a judge who represents the prejudices of the era.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-07-29
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13 West Street
Overview: Walt Sherill is attacked and beat down by a group of juvenile delinquents on his way home from work one night. The boys who attacked him are not previously known by the police and are therefore hard to track down. As Sherill starts getting impatient he begins his own investigation. Meanwhile, Detective Sergeant Koleski does his best to track down the culprits.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-02-23
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Jungle Man-Eaters
Overview: Jungle Jim does battle with a would-be diamond smuggler and a renegade tribe.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-06-01
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The Lost Man
Overview: A gang of black militants plots to rob a factory to finance their "revolutionary struggle."
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-07-11
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The Girl He Left Behind
Overview: A young man is drafted and goes through the rigors of basic training, ultimately discovering the experience is also character-building. Director David Butler's 1956 film stars '50s teen favorites Tab Hunter and Natalie Wood, with supporting roles played by Jim Backus, Jessie Royce Landis, Murray Hamilton, Henry Jones, James Garner, Alan King, Ernestine Wade, David Janssen and Raymond Bailey.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-10-26
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Carmen Jones
Overview: At an all-Black army camp, civilian parachute maker and "hot bundle" Carmen Jones is desired by many of the men. Naturally, she wants Joe, who's engaged to sweet Cindy Lou and about to go into pilot training for the Korean War.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-10-28
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Kismet
Overview: A silver-tongued poet and self-proclaimed "King of the Beggars" searches old Baghdad for a rich bachelor to marry his dreamy daughter, Marsinah. Along the way, he poses as the renowned sorcerer Hajj and gets in and out of scrapes with an elderly thief, a dim-witted wazir, and his wife. Meanwhile, his daughter develops feelings for a handsome caliph.
Genres: Music Romance Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-10-08
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The Harlem Globetrotters
Overview: All-American basketball player, Billy signs up with the world-famous "Harlem Globetrotters", an all-Negro professional team. Billy struggles with important life decisions and their consequences.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-05-30
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Underworld U.S.A.
Overview: A bitter young man sets out to get back at the gangsters who murdered his father.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-02-22
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Up Periscope
Overview: Lieutenant Braden discovers that Sally, the woman he's been falling in love with, has actually been checking out his qualifications to be a U.S. Navy frogman. He must put his personal life behind him after being assigned to be smuggled into a Japanese-held island via submarine to photograph radio codes.
Genres: War Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-03-04
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Take a Giant Step
Overview: This pioneering film in the history of African-American cinema, released two years before "A Raisin In The Sun", is the coming-of-age story of a Black high-school student living in a middle-class white neighborhood in the late '50s.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-12-01
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Stranger on the Run
Overview: A drifter finds himself wrongly accused of murder by a power-crazed sheriff. The sheriff gives him a horse, some supplies, and a one-hour head start into the desert before sending his murderous posse after him.
Genres: TV Movie Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-10-31
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Cry Tough
Overview: After getting out of prison, a Latino criminal tries to go straight.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-08-01
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Walk the Walk
Overview: A young black theological student battles against his heroin addiction and alcoholism.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-07-01
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Congo Crossing
Overview: Congotanga, West Africa, has no extradition laws; the government is controlled by foreign gangsters, headed by Carl Rittner. The latest plane from Europe carries lovely Louise Whitman, fleeing a French murder charge, and Mannering, who pays resident hit man O'Connell to kill her. Through a chain of circumstances Louise, O'Connell, and heroic surveyor David Carr end up alone in the jungle on Carr's mission to determine the true border of Congotanga... in which Rittner is keenly interested.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-07-01
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Bright Victory
Overview: A soldier blinded in war returns home and attempts to adjust to civilian life.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-08-01
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Full Moon High
Overview: High-school quarterback Tony Walker is bitten by a werewolf and transforms into a growling beast that hungrily chases down beautiful girls.
Genres: Horror Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-08-04
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The Devil at 4 O'Clock
Overview: A crusty, eccentric priest recruits three reluctant convicts to help him rescue a children's leper colony from a Pacific island menaced by a smoldering volcano.
Genres: Adventure Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-10-18
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Captain Sindbad
Overview: After completing his voyages Sindbad the Sailor and his hearty crew have come home to find a palace coup d'etat has occurred and his home city is being run by a brutal dictator played by Pedro Armendariz. He's got designs on the beautiful young princess, Heidi Bruhl both lustful and political.
Genres: Fantasy Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-04-12
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Tarzan and the Perils of Charity Jones
Overview: Jai, the orphaned boy adopted by the Monkey Man, helps missionary Charity Jones bring an organ to a friendly tribe, but they are captured by hostile natives.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-10-04
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Let No Man Write My Epitaph
Overview: Nick Romano lives in a poor tenement building on the south side of Chicago with his well-meaning but drug-addicted mother, Nellie. She encourages him to pursue his piano-playing talent in hopes that it will bring him a better life. Nellie's neighbors, like the alcoholic ex-lawyer who secretly loves her, help her in keeping Nick away from Louie, the resident drug dealer. But a chance meeting between Nick and Louie could change things forever.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-11-10
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The Swimmer
Overview: A man spends a summer day swimming home via all the pools in his quiet suburban neighborhood.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-08-09
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Mysterious Island
Overview: It is 1865 and Union prisoners use a military balloon to escape a Southern prison camp near the end of the Civil War. The balloon drifts for days and finally lands on a mysterious volcanic island with very unusual inhabitants. Also landing, in a better aircraft, is Rulu, a visitor from Mercury. She seeks a radio-active material that will enable her to manufacture an explosive that will destroy the world or, at least, the portion known as Earth in this 15 Chapter Serial from the 1950s.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure Action Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-09-13
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Sullivan's Empire
Overview: Three grown brothers journey to Brazil to rescue their plane-wrecked father who has been kidnapped by a revolutionary guerrilla.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-08-04
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The Jackie Robinson Story
Overview: Biography of Jackie Robinson, the first black major league baseball player in the 20th century. Traces his career in the negro leagues and the major leagues.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-05-16
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Synanon
Overview: A dramatization of the goings on at a drug rehabilitation home. Filmed at the original Synanon House in Santa Monica, California.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-05-05
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A Clear and Present Danger
Overview: The son of a U.S. Senator takes on the cause of clean air when a friend dies of emphysema.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-03-21
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Tarzan and the Four O'Clock Army
Overview: Tarzan has to deal with slave traders who are making raids into African villages to get slaves.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-03-01
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