John McGiver
Also Known As: John Irwin McGiver
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia John Irwin McGiver (November 5, 1913 – September 9, 1975) was a character actor who made more than a hundred appearances in television and motion pictures over a two-decade span from 1955 to 1975. The owl-faced, portly actor with the mid-Atlantic accent was known for his performances as the religious fanatic Mr. O'Daniel in the film Midnight Cowboy; as the kindly Tiffany's salesman in Breakfast at Tiffany's; and as the ill-fated, but honorable Senator Jordan in the original film version of The Manchurian Candidate. He also appeared on many TV shows and commercials, including a Baggies spot in the 1960s, as well as the first of a popular series of commercials for the American Express charge card ("Do you know me?"). Description above from the Wikipedia article John McGiver, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Birthday: November 05, 1913
Deathday: September 09, 1975
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Gender: Male
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Breakfast at Tiffany's
Overview: Holly Golightly is an eccentric New York City playgirl determined to marry a Brazilian millionaire. But when young writer Paul Varjak moves into her apartment building, her past threatens to get in their way.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-10-06
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The Manchurian Candidate
Overview: Near the end of the Korean War, a platoon of U.S. soldiers is captured by communists and brainwashed. Following the war, the platoon is returned home, and Sergeant Raymond Shaw is lauded as a hero by the rest of his platoon. However, the platoon commander, Captain Bennett Marco, finds himself plagued by strange nightmares and soon races to uncover a terrible plot.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-10-24
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The Gazebo
Overview: TV writer Elliott Nash buries a blackmailer under the new gazebo in his suburban backyard. But the nervous man can't let the body rest there.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-01-15
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Midnight Cowboy
Overview: Joe Buck is a wide-eyed hustler from Texas hoping to score big with wealthy New York City women; he finds a companion in Enrico "Ratso" Rizzo, an ailing swindler with a bum leg and a quixotic fantasy of escaping to Florida.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-05-25
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'Twas the Night Before Christmas
Overview: When a town learns that Santa Claus has struck it off his delivery schedule due to an insulting letter, a way must be found to change his mind.
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-12-08
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The Glass Bottom Boat
Overview: Bruce, the owner of an aerospace company, is infatuated with Jennifer and hires her to be his biographer so that he can be near her and win her affections. Is she actually a Russian spy trying to obtain aerospace secrets?
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-06-09
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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 Spirit Is Willing
Overview: When Ben and Kate Powell rent a haunted New England house by the sea, their son Steve gets blamed for the destruction caused by three unruly ghosts.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-07-07
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Who's Minding the Store?
Overview: Jerry Lewis plays Norman Phiffer, a proud man in a humble life, who doesn't know that his girlfriend, Barbara, is heir to the Tuttle Department Store dynasty. Mrs. Tuttle, Barbara's mother, is determined to split the two lovers, and hires Norman in an attempt to humiliate him enough that Barbara leaves him. Will she ruin their love, or will he ruin her store?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-11-28
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The Littlest Angel
Overview: Adapted from the book by Charles Tazewell. Michael, a shepherd boy living in Biblical times, finds himself transported to Heaven on his eighth birthday. Michael doesn't fully understand where he is, or why he's there. A guardian angel named Patience is given the task of showing Michael the joys of Heaven and helping him find his place in the Hereafter.
Genres: Family Music TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-12-06
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Lawman
Overview: While passing through the town of Bannock, a bunch of drunken cattlemen go overboard with their celebrating and accidentally kill an old man with a stray shot. They return home to Sabbath unaware of his death. Bannock lawman Jered Maddox later arrives there to arrest everyone involved on a charge of murder. Sabbath is run by land baron Vince Bronson, a benevolent despot, who, upon hearing of the death, offers restitution for the incident.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-03-11
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Period of Adjustment
Overview: A newlywed couple on their honeymoon visit friends who are having marital problems of their own.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-10-31
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Take Her, She's Mine
Overview: After reluctantly packing up his daughter, Mollie, and sending her away to study art at a Paris college, Frank Michaelson gives new meaning to the term "concerned parent." Reading Mollie's letters describing her counter-culture experiences and beatnik friends, Frank eventually grows so paranoid that he boards a plane to Paris to see firsthand the kind of lessons his daughter is learning with her new artist amour.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-11-13
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Man's Favorite Sport?
Overview: Roger Willoughby is a renowned fishing expert, who, unbeknownst to his friends, co-workers, or boss, has never cast a line in his life. One day, he crosses paths with Abigail Paige, a sweetly annoying girl who has just badgered his boss into signing Roger up for an annual fishing tournament.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-01-31
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Love in the Afternoon
Overview: Lovestruck conservatory student Ariane pretends to be just as much a cosmopolitan lover as the worldly mature Frank Flannagan hoping that l’amour will take hold.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-05-29
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Johnny Cool
Overview: A deported gangster trains an Italian convict to take over his operations in the U.S.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-10-02
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I Married a Woman
Overview: Advertising executive Marshall Briggs finds his work in conflict with his love-life with fashion model Janice Blake.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-03-01
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A Global Affair
Overview: Bob Hope becomes surrogate father to a baby found abandoned at the United Nations. Director Jack Arnold's 1964 comedy also stars Yvonne De Carlo, Robert Sterling, John McGiver and Lilo Pulver.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-01-30
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Made in Paris
Overview: A pretty fashion buyer visiting Paris on business is courted by a famous designer. Boris Sagal's 1966 romantic comedy stars Ann-Margret, Louis Jourdan, Richard Crenna, Chad Everett, Edie Adams, John McGiver, Reta Shaw and Count Basie.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-02-09
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Arnold
Overview: Karen marries Arnold at his funeral and continues to get his money as long as she stays by his coffin. Meanwhile, various oddball relatives after Arnold's wealth are being killed in a creative variety of ways.
Genres: Thriller Horror Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-11-16
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My Six Loves
Overview: A celebrated actress discovers six runaway children living on her country property.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-04-03
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Bachelor in Paradise
Overview: A bachelor author of sleazy books moves to a family-oriented subdivision where he becomes an unofficial relationship advisor to unhappy local housewives, to the dismay of their respective husbands who suspect him of sexual misconduct.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-11-01
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Marriage on the Rocks
Overview: Ad-agency president Dan Edwards goes to Mexico to celebrate his nineteenth wedding anniversary and winds up getting divorced by mistake, whereupon his wife Valerie marries his best friend Ernie Brewer by mistake.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-09-24
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The Man in the Raincoat
Overview: In the absence of his wife, a clarinet player is induced by a friend to meet a call girl, but arrived after a crime. Perceived by some people leaving the scene of the crime covered by his raincoat, he became the only suspect for the police. His only hope is to discover the murderer before is name is mentionned publicly, specially in front of his wife.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-02-22
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The Feminist and the Fuzz
Overview: A dedicated women's libber and a male chauvinist cop become roommates.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-01-26
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Harvey
Overview: Elwood P. Dowd's constant companion is Harvey, a six-foot tall invisible rabbit. To his sister, his obsession with Harvey has been a thorn in her plans to marry off her daughter. However, when she decides to put Elwood in a mental institution, a mix-up occurs, and she finds herself committed instead. It's now up to Elwood and "Harvey" to straighten out the mess.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-03-20
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Who's Got the Action?
Overview: A lawyer begins to win after his wife secretly becomes his bookie to save their money.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-12-25
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Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation
Overview: Banker Roger Hobbs wants to spend his vacation alone with his wife, Peggy, but she insists on a family vacation at a California beach house that turns out to be ugly and broken down. Daughter Katey, embarrassed by her braces, refuses to go to the beach, as does TV-addicted son Danny. When the family is joined by Hobbs' two unhappily married daughters and their husbands, he must help everyone with their problems to get some peace.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-06-15
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Mame
Overview: The madcap life of eccentric Mame Dennis and her bohemian, intellectual arty clique is disrupted when her deceased brother's 10-year-old son Patrick is entrusted to her care. Rather than bow to convention, Mame introduces the boy to her free-wheeling lifestyle, instilling in him her favorite credo, "Life is a banquet, and most poor sons of bitches are starving to death."
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-03-07
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Once Upon a Horse...
Overview: Two zany cowboys steal a herd of cattle only to discover it costs more to feed them than they are worth.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-09-01
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Love in a Goldfish Bowl
Overview: Two platonic college friends spend a weekend away together. One is romanced by a member of the coast guard.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-07-12
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The Apple Dumpling Gang
Overview: A roving bachelor gets saddled with three children and a wealth of trouble when the youngsters stumble upon a huge gold nugget. They join forces with two bumbling outlaws to fend off the greedy townspeople and soon find themselves facing a surly gang of sharpshooters.
Genres: Comedy Family Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-07-01
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Who Killed the Mysterious Mr. Foster?
Overview: An alcoholic drifter decides to run for sheriff in a small town. However, in order to get elected, he must find out who killed a visiting preacher.
Genres: Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-02-01
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Tom Sawyer
Overview: Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, two friends in a Mississippi River town, have one adventure after another - including attending their own funeral and being pursued by a murderer.
Genres: Family Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-23
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Big Deal in Laredo
Overview: A timid man with money problems gets into a big card game with some high-rollers.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-10-07
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The Great Man's Whiskers
Overview: A young girl writes to President Abraham Lincoln to advise him to grow a beard.
Genres: Comedy History TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-05-02
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The Stingiest Man in Town
Overview: This is a musical version of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol". Ebenezer Scrooge is given a chance to reform and save his soul. He is visited by 4 ghosts and is shown visions of his past life and the consequences of his life on others.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-12-23
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Something's Got to Give
Overview: Remake of "My Favorite Wife," unfinished because of star Marilyn Monroe's firing, rehiring, and sudden August 1962 death.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-01-01
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Mirror, Mirror Off the Wall
Overview: A down-on-his-luck writer publishes a best-selling, but lurid novel under a pseudonym and discovers that his fictional personae has suddenly appeared and taken on a life of his own.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-11-21
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