James Franciscus
Also Known As: James Grover Franciscus, James Francicus, Jim Franciscus, جیمز فرانسیسکوس
Biography: James Grover Franciscus (January 31, 1934 – July 8, 1991) was an American actor, known for his roles in feature films and in four television series: Mr. Novak, The Naked City, The Investigators, and Longstreet. Description above from the Wikipedia article James Franciscus, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Clayton, Missouri, USA
Birthday: January 31, 1934
Deathday: July 08, 1991
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Gender: Male
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Beneath the Planet of the Apes
Overview: The sole survivor of an interplanetary rescue mission lands on the planet of the apes, and uncovers a horrible secret beneath the surface.
Genres: Adventure Science Fiction Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-04-23
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Secret Weapons
Overview: Soviet High School girls are sent to the U.S. where they are taught to become secret agents and use sex to find information.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-03-03
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Butterfly
Overview: Jess Tyler lives a quiet life next to an abandoned mining factory by himself in the desert. His life is turned upside down when a sexually provocative young woman comes to visit him and tells him she's his daughter. Jess finds it hard to adapt to his newfound parenting role, as a mutual attraction grows between them.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-02-05
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Marooned
Overview: After spending several months in an orbiting lab, three astronauts prepare to return to Earth only to find their de-orbit thrusters won't activate. After initially thinking they might have to abandon them in orbit, NASA decides to launch a daring rescue. Their plans are complicated by a hurricane headed towards the launch site—and a shrinking air supply in the astronauts' capsule.
Genres: Adventure Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-12-11
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The Last Shark
Overview: When a 35-foot great white shark begins to wreak havoc on a seaside town, the mayor, not wanting to endanger his gubernatorial campaign, declines to act, so a local shark hunter and horror author band together to stop the beast.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1981-04-02
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Killer Fish
Overview: Jewel thieves attempt to recover treasure from piranha infested waters. Mistrust and betrayals happen amongst the gang in the quest for gold.
Genres: Thriller Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-12-07
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The Valley of Gwangi
Overview: A turn of the century wild west show struggling to make a living in Mexico comes into the possession of a tiny prehistoric horse. This leads to an expedition to the Forbidden Valley where they discover living dinosaurs. They capture one and take it back to be put on display, leading to inevitable mayhem.
Genres: Fantasy Science Fiction Thriller Western Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-07-24
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Four Boys and a Gun
Overview: The moving story of four young men struggling against overwhelming odds to remain honest. When their crooked employer shorts their earnings; they turn to crime, their first theft ending in tragedy.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-01-11
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When Time Ran Out...
Overview: An active volcano threatens a south Pacific island resort and its guests as a power struggle ensues between the property's developer and a drilling foreman.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-03-28
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The Mugger
Overview: A police shrink tries to identify and capture an elusive mugger that scars his female victims before stealing their purse.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-11-01
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Concorde Affair
Overview: A reporter tries to stop the crash of an aircraft after uncovering an airline's plot to save their business by sabotaging Concorde flights and have them decommissioned.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-03-23
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The Man Inside
Overview: An undercover cop infiltrates a major heroin ring. He soon finds himself in a position to take $2 million without anyone knowing about it, a situation made all the more tempting because of his girlfriend's griping about their constant struggles to make ends meet and their need to change their lives for the better.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-06-25
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The Greek Tycoon
Overview: A lusty Greek shipping magnate courts the widow of an assassinated U.S. president.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-05-12
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Miracle of the White Stallions
Overview: In WWII Austria, Col. Alois Podhajsky must protect his beloved Lipizzaner stallions and make sure that they are surrendered into the right hands. But Patton's something of a horse fancier and can help...if he sees the stallions perform.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-03-29
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One of My Wives Is Missing
Overview: Vacationing in a small town, a frantic Daniel Corban shows up at the local police station, declaring that his wife has disappeared. Corban imperiously demands that the easygoing police inspector drop everything and find his missing spouse. Within a few days, a woman claiming to be his wife shows up, but Corban insists that he's never met the woman before.
Genres: Thriller Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-03-05
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Youngblood Hawke
Overview: An unknown Kentucky writer comes to New York and pursues fame and women.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-11-04
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City on Fire
Overview: An ex-employee of a city oil refinery creates an explosion at the facility which starts a chain-reaction of fires that engulf the entire city.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-07-11
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The Amazing Dobermans
Overview: An ex-con man and his five trained Dobermans help a Treasury Dept. agent stop a racketeer and his gang.
Genres: Crime Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-11-24
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Nightkill
Overview: The wife of a wealthy industrialist finds herself caught-up in a web of intrigue & murder which was created by her own deceit. When she tries to escape the results of her actions, she too falls victim to deception.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Crime Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-12-18
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The Outsider
Overview: Ira Hayes, a young Pima Indian, enlists in the Marine Corps. At boot camp, he is shunned and mocked by everyone, aside from a Marine named Sorenson, who he befriends. They happen to be two of the six marines captured in the famous photograph of Marines raising the U.S. flag on Suribachi during the battle of Iwo Jima, but Sorenson is killed soon after. Although he is hailed as a hero, Ira's life begins to spiral out of control after the war.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-12-27
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Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy
Overview: Biography of the former first lady, focusing on her years as a photojournalist and leading up to her marriage to John F. Kennedy and their moving into the White House.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-10-14
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Night Slaves
Overview: A man and his wife stumble upon a town whose inhabitants turn into zombies and head for the edge of town every night... he seems to be the only one unaffected. What is happening to the townsfolk? Who is the mysterious young women he keeps seeing? Why isn't he affected?
Genres: TV Movie Horror Science Fiction Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-09-29
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The Trial of Chaplain Jensen
Overview: Based on a true story, this film tells the story of Chaplain Andrew Jensen, the only U.S. navy chaplain ever court-martialed on charges of adultery.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-02-11
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I Passed for White
Overview: A young woman falls in love and marries, but withholds from her husband information about her family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-03-18
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Longstreet
Overview: The pilot for the 1971 - 1972 series of the same title. Mike Longstreet, an insurance investigator in New Orleans loses his sight and his wife in an explosion and is determined to track down his wife's killers.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-02-23
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Good Guys Wear Black
Overview: The former leader of a commando rescue attempt into Vietnam tries to discover why his squad members are being murdered, one-by-one, after the war is over.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-06-01
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Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey
Overview: Documentary on the legendary martial artist Bruce Lee, with a focus on the production of his unfinished film Game of Death. Using interviews and behind-the-scenes footage, Lee aficionado John Little paints a portrait of the world's most famous action hero, concluding with a new cut of Game of Death's action finale, reconstructed from Lee's notes and recently-recovered footage.
Genres: Documentary Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-10-22
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Great Transport
Overview: This WW2 epic was one of the last movies of that kind made in former Yugoslavia. It tells the true story of great transport of Partizans from Vojvodina to Bosnia in 1943.
Genres: War Drama Action
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1983-07-04
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Shadow Over Elveron
Overview: A corrupt sheriff knows the secrets of everyone in town and uses that information to go unchallenged. But after the arrest of an innocent teenager, the new doctor cannot keep quiet and tries to get the community to stand up for what is right.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-03-05
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Under the Law: The Hitchhike
Overview: After receiving an anonymous phone call, the cops pick up a young woman who is wandering around alone in the desert. She tells them that she was given a lift by a stranger, who abandoned her there. Or are there more sides to one story? Part of a series of scare movies called Under the Law, distributed by Disney in the 1970s.
Genres: Drama Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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The Pirate
Overview: An Israeli man, raised by a wealthy and powerful Arab, comes into conflict with his heritage when he is entrusted with managing his country's oil fortunes and must deal with a fanatical terrorist group led by his daughter.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-11-21
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Hell Boats
Overview: A war drama of motor torpedo boats which did much unsung work in WW2, but the naval battles merely provide an exciting story in which an even more special romantic drama is wrapped up.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-03-20
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Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Overview: Jonathan is sick and tired of the boring life in his seagull clan. He rather experiments with new, always more daring flying techniques. Since he doesn't fit in, the elders expel him from the clan. So he sets out to discover the world beyond the horizon in a quest for wisdom.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-10-23
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The Dream Makers
Overview: A college president becomes the president of a record company, and finds himself enmeshed in a payola scandal.
Genres: Music Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-07
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Puzzle
Overview: Franciscus searches for the urn that contains the remains of Buddha but instead finds danger and intrigue.
Genres: Thriller Adventure Action TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-05
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Snow Treasure
Overview: It is 1940 in Norway, a neutral, peace-loving country that is invaded by Nazi Germany. A gang of Norwegian children do what Norwegian children like best - ski. They are actually rescuing Norwegian gold from the nazi invaders. The Nazis search all adults but don't suspect children playing. The children carry the gold, one bar at a time, across the mountains to a fishing boat. It is a race against time, it is spring and the snow is melting. So they ski from dawn to dusk every day.
Genres: Action Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-10-04
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The Cat o' Nine Tails
Overview: A newsman works with a blind puzzle-solver to uncover a deadly conspiracy linked to a genetic research facility.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-02-12
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La Classe américaine
Overview: George Abitbol, the classiest man in the world, dies tragically during a cruise. The director of an American newspaper, wondering about the meaning of these intriguing final words, asks his three best investigators, Dave, Peter and Steven, to solve the mystery. (Sixteen French actors dub scenes from various Warner Bros. films to create a parody of Citizen Kane, 1941.)
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-12-31
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Secrets of Three Hungry Wives
Overview: When a millionaire playboy is murdered, suspicion falls on three married women, best friends, whom he had tried to play against each other in a game of divide and conquer.
Genres: Mystery Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-10-09
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The 500 Pound Jerk
Overview: An advertising man's dream of turning a huge hillbilly into an Olympic weightlifting champion is set back when the hillbilly falls for a Russian gymnast.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-01-02
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Aloha Means Goodbye
Overview: A young woman who is battling a rare blood disease must also fight against a greedy doctor who needs a heart-transplant donor, and has her in mind.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-10-11
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Trial Run
Overview: A slice-of-life drama involving a young lawyer, his adoring secretary who tries to help to advance his career, and his employer, a famed lawyer burdened with an unfaithful wife.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-01-18
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