Norman Bartold
Also Known As: Norm Bartold
Biography: Norman Hillman Bartold (August 6, 1928 – May 28, 1994) was an American film and television actor. He played Mr. Brody in eight episodes of the American television sitcom Teachers Only. He also played the District Attorney Donahue in the short-lived television series Adam's Rib.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Berkeley, California, USA
Birthday: August 06, 1928
Deathday: May 28, 1994
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Gender: Male
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Overview: After an encounter with UFOs, an electricity linesman feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in the wilderness where something spectacular is about to happen.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-12-14
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Westworld
Overview: Delos is a futuristic amusement park that features themed worlds—ancient Rome, Medieval times and the Old West—populated by human-like androids. After two patrons have a run-in with a menacing gunslinger in West World, the androids at Delos all begin to malfunction, causing havoc throughout the park.
Genres: Adventure Science Fiction Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-08-15
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The Littlest Hobo
Overview: When a roaming German Shepherd Dog rescues a boy's pet lamb from the slaughterhouse he struggles to reunite them, despite being chased by police and getting little cooperation from the lamb.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-07-06
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Breezy
Overview: A free-spirited young woman, Breezy, hitches a ride with an aging real estate salesman, Frank. Sensing that she just wants to use him he tries to have nothing to do with her. She's not that easy to shake, however, and over time a bond forms between them.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-11-18
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Suddenly, Love
Overview: Young lovers — she's a child of the ghetto, determined to escape her alcoholic, bickering parents; he's a socially prominent attorney with a long-standing health problem — attempt to defy every obstacle to their romance and ultimate marriage.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-04
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Battered
Overview: Gritty drama of three interweaving stories of three women of various backgrounds and ages whose marriages are complicated by spouse-abuse by their husbands.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-09-26
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Darktown Strutters
Overview: When a prominent abortion clinic owner goes missing along with a string of other black community leaders, her singing daughter and her fellow female biker gang members investigate.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-10-07
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Panic in Echo Park
Overview: A young doctor tries to convince everyone about an impending epidemic, but he is accused of creating panic.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-06-23
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She's Working Her Way Through College
Overview: Shapely burlesque dancer Hot Garters Gertie aka Angela Gardner meets her future drama professor. Her new landlady proves to be the professor's wife. Angela helps breath life into the annual school stage show...but someone has discovered her secret past.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-07-09
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Lady Sings the Blues
Overview: Chronicles the rise and fall of legendary blues singer Billie Holiday, beginning with her traumatic youth. The story depicts her early attempts at a singing career and her eventual rise to stardom, as well as her difficult relationship with Louis McKay, her boyfriend and manager. Casting a shadow over even Holiday's brightest moments is the vocalist's severe drug addiction, which threatens to end both her career and her life.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-10-12
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Real Life
Overview: A pushy, narcissistic filmmaker persuades a Phoenix family to let him and his crew film their everyday lives, in the manner of the ground-breaking PBS series "An American Family".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-03-02
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Blood Legacy
Overview: In order to qualify to inherit the family fortune, the four heirs must spend the night in the family estate. However, during the night someone starts killing them off.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-03-17
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Group Marriage
Overview: Chris is not getting along with boyfriend Sandor and has an affair with parole officer Dennis. Dennis invites the couple to dinner with his ex-girlfriend Jan. At a picnic on the beach, Jan meets lifeguard Phil, who later sleeps with Chris and moves in with the other five. Phil brings in a person, lawyer Elaine. The "group marriage" of the six of them attracts media attention, which brings trouble and prejudice.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-01
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Something Evil
Overview: A young couple moves into a farmhouse in rural Pennsylvania. What they don't know is that there is an unseen presence in the house, and that it wants to take possession of the wife.
Genres: TV Movie Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-21
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The California Kid
Overview: A sadistic small-town sheriff has a habit of deliberately forcing speeders to their deaths on the mountain roads leading into town. The brother of one of the victims rolls into town in his hot rod to investigate his brother's death.
Genres: Action Thriller Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-09-25
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Capricorn One
Overview: In order to protect the reputation of the American space program, a team of NASA administrators turn the first Mars mission into a phony Mars landing. Under threat of harm to their families the astronauts play their part in the deception on a staged set in a deserted military base. But once the real ship returns to Earth and burns up on re-entry, the astronauts become liabilities. Now, with the help of a crusading reporter, they must battle a sinister conspiracy that will stop at nothing to keep the truth hidden.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-12-10
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Friendly Fire
Overview: In March 1970, a U.S. Army officer arrived at the Iowa farm of Peg and Gene Mullen and informed them that their son Michael had been killed in Vietnam by "friendly fire." Their determined attempts to learn more about the circumstances of their son's death are the subject of this true account film.
Genres: Drama War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-11-09
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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 Busy Body
Overview: Sid Caesar is a bumbling gopher to a mob boss who must recover a fortune in cash stowed in the suit of a corpse.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-03-12
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Raise the Titanic
Overview: To obtain a supply of a rare mineral, a ship raising operation is conducted for the only known source, the Titanic.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-08-01
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Madame X
Overview: Thrown out of her home by a jealous husband, a woman sinks into degradation. Twenty years later, she is charged with killing a man bent on harming her daughter. The daughter, unaware of who the woman is, takes the assignment to defend her in court.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-03-16
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In God We Tru$t
Overview: A naive monk, named Brother Ambrose, is sent by the abbot on a mission to raise $5,000 in order to save their monastery from closing. He goes to Hollywood where he encounters a number of eccentric characters.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-09-26
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The Sky's the Limit
Overview: A family is thrown into turmoil when a grandson convinces his grandfather to teach him to fly.
Genres: Adventure Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-19
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Rescue from Gilligan's Island
Overview: When a decaying Russian satellite crashes on the island, the Professor uses a key component for a barometer. With that device, he learns that a massive wave is going to swamp the island. In desperation, the castaways lash their huts together into one structure in order to have any chance to ride the disaster out.
Genres: Comedy Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-10-14
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A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story
Overview: One of the most moving stories in the annals of sports is presented in this true drama documenting the love affair of baseball immortal Lou Gehrig and his wife Eleanor. Their romance spans the time period from his days of glory with Babe Ruth and the New York Yankees to his unsuccessful battle with an incurable disease. As the story begins, the talented but shy Gehrig is already a popular Yankee slugger when he meets the outgoing Eleanor. Their romance begins hesitantly, but blossoms as they exchange letters while Gehrig is on the road with the team. However, Gehrig's possessive mother becomes a formidable obstacle, first to their marriage and later to their happiness. But their love for one another proves triumphant. In the midst of their happiness, when Gehrig is at the peak of his career, he learns that he is suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. The courage and dignity exhibited by the Gehrigs during this crisis make this a powerful, memorable film.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-15
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The Whiz Kid and the Mystery at Riverton
Overview: A 13-year-old brainiac invents an ingenious listening device, which he uses to bring a crooked city official and his pals to justice
Genres: Mystery Family Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-06
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