Harry Townes
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Biography: Harry Rhett Townes (September 18, 1914 – May 23, 2001) was an American television and movie actor. Description above from the Wikipedia article Harry Townes, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Huntsville, Alabama, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: September 18, 1914
Age: 110 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: May 23, 2001
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Heaven with a Gun
Overview: Jim Killian arrives in a small Arizona town hoping to establish a peaceful life as the local preacher, but he soon finds himself in the middle of a feud between sheep ranchers and cattlemen. Leloopa, a young Native American woman, pleads for Killian's help after her shepherd father is hung by Coke Beck, the vicious son of the head cattle rancher. Killian must weigh his actions carefully lest he perpetuate the cycle of retribution and revenge.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-05-20
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The Immigrants
Overview: The rags-to-riches saga of a young Italian immigrant who battles his way out of the San Francisco earthquake to become a shipping magnate, rise to the top of Nob Hill's society through a loveless marriage to the daughter of the city's wealthiest family, and find happiness with an Asian mistress despite the collapse of his fortune during the Wall Street crash.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-11-20
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The Brothers Karamazov
Overview: Ryevsk, Russia, 1870. Tensions abound in the Karamazov family. Fyodor is a wealthy libertine who holds his purse strings tightly. His four grown sons include Dmitri, the eldest, an elegant officer, always broke and at odds with his father, betrothed to Katya, herself lovely and rich. The other brothers include a sterile aesthete, a factotum who is a bastard, and a monk. Family tensions erupt when Dmitri falls in love with one of his father's mistresses, the coquette Grushenka. Two brothers see Dmitri's jealousy of their father as an opportunity to inherit sooner. Acts of violence lead to the story's conclusion: trials of honor, conscience, forgiveness, and redemption.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-02-20
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Screaming Mimi
Overview: A blonde night club dancer is being stalked. Will anyone believe her?
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-06-25
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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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The Warrior and the Sorceress
Overview: The mighty warrior, Kain, crosses the barren wastelands of the planet Ura, where two arch enemies, Zeg and the evil degenerate Balcaz, fight incessantly for control of the village's only well. Kain sees his opportunity and announces that his sword is for hire... but his eyes stay clearly on the beautiful captive sorceress Naja, and his newly awakened purpose.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-09-07
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The Blue Max
Overview: A young pilot in the German air force of 1918, disliked as lower-class and unchivalrous, tries ambitiously to earn the medal offered for 20 kills.
Genres: War Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-06-21
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The Hawaiians
Overview: A wanderer returns home only to find political turmoil, disease and romantic difficulties.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-06-17
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Santee
Overview: Jody Deakes joins up with his father after many years, just to discover that his dad is part of an outlaw gang on the run from a relentless bounty hunter named Santee. Jody is orphaned soon after Santee catches up to the gang, and follows Santee in hopes of taking vengeance for his father's death. Instead, however, Jody discovers that Santee is a good and loving man, tormented by the death of his young son at the hands of another outlaw gang. Santee and his wife take Jody in and a father and son relationship begins to grow. Then the gang that shot Santee's son shows up. The film was produced by Edward Platt of Get Smart fame. It was one of the first motion pictures to be shot electronically on videotape and then transferred to film.
Genres: Drama Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-09-01
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Casino
Overview: Mike Connors is a suave gambler who owns a floating hotel/casino which takes a turn when the passengers are stalked by a saboteur during the casino ship's maiden voyage.
Genres: Action Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-08-01
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The Mountains of the Moon
Overview: A religious sect, cheated by an adventurer, wants to occupy an African territory not knowing that it is inhabited by a bloodthirsty tribe. Luckily Tarzan intervenes.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-11-24
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Destination Space
Overview: 1959 television science fiction
Genres: Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-01-01
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Sanctuary
Overview: In 1920s rural Mississippi, Nancy Mannigoe, an African-American servant, is placed on death row for the murder of Temple Drake's infant child. Temple, the daughter of the governor, pleads with her father to exonerate Nancy of the charges, explaining that Nancy acted in haste to prevent her from resuming her affair with a roguish Cajun called Candy Man. Details of Temple's sordid past are uncovered as she begs mercy for her faithful servant.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-04-18
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Strategy of Terror
Overview: A reporter and a New York City cop team up to find out who is trying to assassinate a UN leader. Film was a re-edit of two Kraft Suspense Theatre episodes.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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The Specialists
Overview: Inspectors for the U.S. Public Health Service try to track down the cause of a rash of mysterious ailments suddenly appearing among the general populace.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-06
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B.J. and the Bear
Overview: In this pilot film, B.J. McKay, a guitar-playing independent trucker who travels with a fun-loving chimpanzee named Bear, finds himself caught up with a bunch of young women trying to flee a white slaver who happens to be the local sheriff.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-10-04
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Fitzwilly
Overview: When Miss Vicki's father dies, she becomes the world's greatest philanthropist. Unfortunately, she is flat broke! Her loyal butler, Claude Fitzwilliam, leads the household staff to rob from various businesses by charging goods to various wealthy people and misdirecting the shipments, all to keep Miss Vicki's standard of living.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-12-20
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The Andersonville Trial
Overview: A dramatization of the 1865 war-crimes trial of Henry Wirz, commandant of the notorious Confederate POW camp at Andersonville, Georgia.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-05-17
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Operation Manhunt
Overview: Ten years after his defection from the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa, Igor Gouzenko is hunted by Soviet agents. Based on a true story.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-10-03
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The Mountain
Overview: Selfish Chris Teller pressures his older brother, a retired climber, to accompany him on a treacherous Alpine climb to loot the bodies of plane crash victims.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-05-31
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Life, Liberty and Pursuit on the Planet of the Apes
Overview: When fugitive human astronaut Virdon is shot, his chimp companion Galen must charm an old flame into accepting that a book on human surgery is no hoax. Meanwhile, their friend Burke is captured by the ape authorities and is to be brainwashed by a brilliant ape scientist named Wanda. [The fourth of five telefilms edited from episodes of the 1974 TV series; this film combines the episodes "The Surgeon" and "The Interrogation"]
Genres: TV Movie Adventure Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-11-20
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In Enemy Country
Overview: Wartime secret agents are on a mission to destroy a deadly new type of torpedo, hidden in a Nazi stronghold in France.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-07-01
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The Kill
Overview: Jeff and his family just moved into a small, rural community. When two sinister locals tamper with Jeff's water pump, a fight breaks out among the three. Jeff is seen as a fugitive in the eyes of this bloodthirsty community...and there seems to be no way to stop them. Studio One, Season 5, Episode 1.
Genres: Thriller Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-09-22
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The Last Ride of the Dalton Gang
Overview: A light-hearted view of the Dalton Gang's legendary raid on Coffeyville, Kansas and the years leading up to it as the brothers form themselves into a gang of horse thieves and train and bank robbers with their arch enemy, Detective Will Smith, constantly on their heels.
Genres: Western Action TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-11-20
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The Check is in the Mail...
Overview: Meet Richard Jackson - a man fed up with the insanity of "plastic" suburban living. Rallying his befuddled family around him, Richard mounts an outrageously comic assault on credit card craziness, "Yuppie" status symbols and "the system" in general!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-05-02
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Angel of H.E.A.T.
Overview: A mad scientist uses an army of androids and a device that can disintegrate metal to try to steal microchips containing top secret information. The government dispatches a beautiful female agent to stop him.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-07-01
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Abraham Lincoln
Overview: The story of court-martialed Union soldier William Scott, who is slated for execution for sleeping on duty after he was sent for by Abraham Lincoln.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-05-26
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Scene of the Crime
Overview: Twenty years ago, a murder took place at the Fennel boarding house. A man was convicted of the murder and sentenced to a twenty year prison term. Now, he has returned to the scene of the crime.
Genres: TV Movie Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-06-27
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Elizabeth the Queen
Overview: In the sixteenth century, Queen Elizabeth I (Dame Judith Anderson) is the ruler of England. Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex (Charlton Heston) is her lover, best friend, and worst enemy.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-01-31
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The Other Wise Man
Overview: An adaptation of Henry Van Dyke's classic tale of Artaban, a Persian believer who spends 33 years seeking the Christ child only to finally reach him at the time of the Crucifixion.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-04-05
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