Edward Andrews
Also Known As: Edward Bryan Andrews Jr.
Biography: Edward Andrews (October 9, 1914 – March 8, 1985) was an American actor, one of the most recognizable character actors on television and films between the 1950s and the 1980s. His stark white hair, portly build and horn-rimmed glasses added to the type of roles he received, as he was often cast as an ornery boss, a cagey businessman, or a strict disciplinarian of some type. Description above from the Wikipedia article Edward Andrews, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Griffin, Georgia, USA
Birthday: October 09, 1914
Deathday: March 08, 1985
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Gender: Male
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Gremlins
Overview: When Billy Peltzer is given a strange but adorable pet named Gizmo for Christmas, he inadvertently breaks the three important rules of caring for a Mogwai, unleashing a horde of mischievous gremlins on a small town.
Genres: Fantasy Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-06-08
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Good Neighbor Sam
Overview: To help his divorced neighbor claim a substantial inheritance, a family man poses as her husband. The ruse spills over into his career in advertising, and his recent promotion relies on his wholesome and moral appearance.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-07-22
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Tora! Tora! Tora!
Overview: In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. "Tora! Tora! Tora!", named after the code words used by the lead Japanese pilot to indicate they had surprised the Americans, covers the days leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor, which plunged America into the Second World War.
Genres: War History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-01-26
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Elmer Gantry
Overview: A charismatic charlatan begins a business — and eventually romantic — relationship with a roadside evangelist to sell religion to 1920s America. Based on Sinclair Lewis' novel of the same name.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-07-07
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The Thrill of It All
Overview: A housewife's sudden rise to fame as a soap spokesperson leads to chaos in her home life.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-07-17
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The Photographer
Overview: A murder story with a comedic twist. A famous photographer uses his models for more than taking pictures. He needs them as victims to satisfy his blood-lust. Each murder becomes more bizarre than the next.
Genres: Drama Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-12-05
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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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The Harder They Fall
Overview: Jobless sportswriter Eddie Willis is hired by corrupt fight promoter Nick Benko to promote his current protégé, an unknown Argentinian boxer named Toro Moreno. Although Moreno is a hulking giant, his chances for success are hampered by a powder-puff punch and a glass jaw. Exploiting Willis' reputation for integrity and standing in the boxing community, Benko arranges a series of fixed fights that propel the unsophisticated Moreno to #1 contender for the championship. The reigning champ, the sadistic Buddy Brannen, harbors resentment at the publicity Toro has been receiving and vows to viciously punish him in the ring. Eddie must now decide whether or not to tell the naive Toro the truth.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-05-08
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The Phenix City Story
Overview: A crime-busting lawyer and his initially reluctant attorney father take on the forces that run gambling and prostitution in their small Southern town.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-07-19
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Friendly Persuasion
Overview: The story of a family of Quakers in Indiana in 1862. Their religious sect is strongly opposed to violence and war. It's not easy for them to meet the rules of their religion in everyday life but when Southern troops pass the area they are in real trouble. Should they fight, despite their peaceful attitude?
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-11-25
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Sixteen Candles
Overview: With the occasion all but overshadowed by her sister's upcoming wedding, angst-ridden Samantha faces her 16th birthday with typical adolescent dread. Samantha pines for studly older boy Jake, but worries that her chastity will be a turnoff for the popular senior. Meanwhile, she must constantly rebuff the affections of nerdy Ted, who is unfortunately the only boy in school who seems to take an interest in her.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-05-04
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Tea and Sympathy
Overview: A sensitive young man recalls his time in boarding school when the only person who seemed compassionate towards with him was his housemaster's wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-09-27
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How to Frame a Figg
Overview: Don Knotts is Hollis Figg, the dumbest bookkeeper in town. When the city fathers buy a second-hand computer to cover up their financial shenanigans, they promote Figg to look after things, knowing he'll never catch on. Their plan backfires when Figg becomes self-important and accidentally discovers their plot.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-02-01
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The Trouble with Girls
Overview: Chautauqua manager Walter Hale and his loyal business manager struggle to keep their traveling troupe together in small town America.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-06-24
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These Wilder Years
Overview: A man tries to find a son he gave up for adoption years ago.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-08-17
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A Tiger Walks
Overview: A tiger escapes from a circus truck as it passes by a small town, and hides itself in the surrounding woods. This throws the town into a panic and everyone wants the animal killed immediately, except for the daughter of the sheriff. She wants to capture the tiger and put it in a zoo, thereby saving the tiger's life. Her determination starts a nationwide campaign among children to raise the money to buy the tiger from the circus, but first, she, her father and an Indian tiger trainer must find the tiger before the National Guard do, who have orders to kill it on sight.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-04-12
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Advise & Consent
Overview: Proposed by the President of the United States to fill the post of Secretary of State, Robert Leffingwell appears before a Senate committee, chaired by the idealistic Senator Brig Anderson, which must decide whether he is the right person for the job.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-06-06
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The Absent-Minded Professor
Overview: Bumbling professor Ned Brainard accidentally invents flying rubber, or "Flubber", an incredible material that gains energy every time it strikes a hard surface. It allows for the invention of shoes that can allow jumps of amazing heights and enables a modified Model-T to fly. Unfortunately, no one is interested in the material except for Alonzo Hawk, a corrupt businessman who wants to steal the material for himself.
Genres: Comedy Family Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-03-16
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The Seniors
Overview: Four college seniors open a bogus sex clinic, which unexpectedly mushrooms into a multi-million dollar business.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-06-30
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Tension at Table Rock
Overview: When the owner of a stagecoach station is killed, a gunman takes his place.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-10-03
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The Unguarded Moment
Overview: A high-school music teacher is the victim of a student who writes indecent notes and assaults women.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-12-27
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The Young Savages
Overview: A district attorney investigates the racially charged case of three teenagers accused of the murder of a blind Puerto Rican boy.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-05-24
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The Tattered Dress
Overview: After a wild night, wealthy Michael Reston's adulterous wife Charleen comes home with her ripe young body barely concealed by a dress in rags; murder results. Top New York defense lawyer J.G. Blane, whose own marriage exists in name only, arrives in Desert View, Nevada to find the townsfolk and politically powerful Sheriff Hoak distinctly hostile to the Restons. In due course, Blane discovers he's been "taken for a ride," and that quiet desert communities can be deadly.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-03-14
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Adam's Rib
Overview: A woman's attempted murder of her uncaring husband results in everyday quarrels in the lives of Adam and Amanda, a pair of happily married lawyers who end up on opposite sides of the case in court.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-11-18
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Hot Summer Night
Overview: An out-of-work reporter (Leslie Nielsen) seeks out a bank robber, and his bride (Colleen Miller) has to rescue him.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-02-15
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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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The Fiend Who Walked The West
Overview: Lawmen free a convict to hunt his ex-cellmate.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-08-01
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Trooper Hook
Overview: When Apache chief Nanchez is captured by the cavalry, his white squaw and infant son are returned to civilization by Sergeant Hook, but Nanchez escapes custody and attempts to re-claim his son.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-07-12
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Doris Day: It's Magic
Overview: When the cameras rolled, Doris Day wore a happy face, never hinting at the pain she endured in her personal life. This documentary brings viewers close to the real Doris Day through the eyes of her friends and family members and with the help of film footage, newsreels and photographs. What surfaces is a complex picture of an equally complicated woman who faced problems far more formidable than her cinematic image revealed.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-18
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The Man from Galveston
Overview: Circuit-riding Texas lawyer Timothy Higgins defends a former girlfriend against a murder charge stemming from an extortionist's threat to reveal her shady past. Through adroit courtroom work, Higgins is able to acquit her and reveal who actually shot the fatal bullet.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-12-18
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The Young Doctors
Overview: An aging doctor's resentment of his young assistant could lead to tragedy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-08-23
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Fluffy
Overview: A college professor gets into trouble when he tries to prove any animal can be domesticated, including an African lion.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-06-27
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Kisses for My President
Overview: A hapless husband takes a back seat to his wife, the first female president of the United States.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-08-21
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Inside O.U.T.
Overview: Agents from The Office of Unusual Tactics (aka O.U.T.), a secret government agency, clean up snafus created by other government organizations.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-03-22
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Don't Push, I'll Charge When I'm Ready
Overview: During World War II, an Italian POW is accidentally drafted into the American army.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-12-18
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The Intruders
Overview: The James and Younger outlaw gangs ride into town, and it is up to the local marshal, who has lost both his nerve and his gun skills, to stop them.
Genres: TV Movie Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-11-10
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Three Brave Men
Overview: A lawyer takes the case of a Navy clerk who sues after he's fired for suspected Communist beliefs.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-12-01
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Murder by Proxy
Overview: The president of an electronic's corporation dies and a mysterious caller tells officials at his company that they will be dead soon too.
Genres: TV Movie Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-04-23
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Lacy and the Mississippi Queen
Overview: This lighthearted Western was an unsuccessful series pilot in which two sisters -- a gun-toting tomboy and a beauty with an engaging smile -- team up to track down a pair of train robbers, suspects in the shooting of their father.
Genres: Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-05-17
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Death of a Salesman
Overview: Adaptation of Arthur Miller's play.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-05-07
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40 Pounds of Trouble
Overview: Hilarity ensues when a casino manager spends a day at Disneyland with a cute but troublesome little girl.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-12-31
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Undercover with the KKK
Overview: The true story of Gary Thomas Rowe, Jr., who worked undercover for the FBI to infiltrate a Ku Klux Klan group in his Alabama hometown and later testified as a key prosecution witness during the trial of several Klansmen for crimes of destruction and murder.
Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-10-23
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The Brass Bottle
Overview: A genie tends to get his master into more predicaments than he gets him out of.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-05-20
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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 Streets of San Francisco
Overview: SFPD Detective Lieutenant Michael Stone (Karl Malden) is partnered with a young college-educated Inspector, Steven Keller (Michael Douglas), as they investigate a girl found dead in the water, with a lawyer she knew as the primary suspect.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-09-16
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Rushin' Art
Overview: An expert on Russian art apparently doesn't know as much about it as he thinks he does.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-01
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Charley and the Angel
Overview: Charley is a workaholic family man that finds out from an angel that his "number's up" and he will be dying soon so he tries to change his ways and be a better husband and father with the time he has left.
Genres: Family Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-23
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The Army Game
Overview: Danny considers his time in the army a waste and pretends to be crazy to get a psychiatric discharge.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-07-03
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Send Me No Flowers
Overview: At one of his many visits to his doctor, hypochondriac George Kimball mistakes a dying man's diagnosis for his own and believes he only has about two more weeks to live. Wanting to take care of his wife Judy, he doesn't tell her and tries to find her a new husband. When he finally does tell her, she quickly finds out he's not dying at all (while he doesn't) and she believes it's just a lame excuse to hide an affair, so she decides to leave him.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-10-14
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Son of Flubber
Overview: Beleaguered professor Ned Brainard has already run into a pile of misfortunes with his discovery of the super-elastic substance "Flubber." Now he hopes to have better luck with a gravity-busting derivative he's dubbed "Flubbergas." Ned's experiments, constantly hampered by government obstruction, earn the consternation of his wife, Betsy. But a game-winning modification to a football uniform may help Ned make the case for his fantastic new invention.
Genres: Comedy Family Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-01-16
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Express to Terror
Overview: A gambling addict, mobsters, movie producers and others are plagued with murder while aboard a high-speed rail train. This pilot episode for the short-lived "Supertrain" series (which lasted just 9 episodes) was released to home video as a independent feature.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-02-07
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Now You See Him, Now You Don't
Overview: Dexter Riley is a science student at Medfield College who inadvertently invents a liquid capable of rendering objects and people invisible. Before Dexter and his friends, Debbie and Richard Schuyler, can even enjoy their spectacular discovery, corrupt businessman A.J. Arno plots to get his greedy hands on it. Slapstick hijinks ensue as Dexter and his pals try to thwart the evil Arno before he can use the invisibility spray to rob a bank.
Genres: Comedy Family Science Fiction Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-07-12
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Travis Logan, D.A.
Overview: Sand devises a scheme to murder his former business partner and maintains his innocence throughout the trial, as he is prosecuted by District Attorney Travis Logan.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-03-11
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The Million Dollar Duck
Overview: Professor Dooley takes home a duck from his research laboratory as a toy for his son, but soon finds out that it lays golden eggs.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-06-30
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The Young Loner
Overview: A young migrant worker is injured in an accident and ends up at a ranch to recover. He runs away, but realizes that his heart is not in traveling and that he needs to settle down, so he returns to a job as shepherd at the ranch.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-02-25
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Avanti!
Overview: A successful businessman goes to Italy to arrange for the return of his tycoon-father's body only to discover dad died with his mistress of long standing.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-12-17
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The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Chinese Junk
Overview: The Hardy Boys become owners of the Chinese junk Hai Hau. They head to New York City and go spelunking to break up a gang of criminals.
Genres: Adventure Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-09-08
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Birds Do It
Overview: Melvin Byrd, who dreams of being a scientist, is a Cape Kennedy "miniscule molecular particle surveillance monitor" - in short, a janitor. His job is to keep a major rocket project completely dust-free, and this he does with his own hilariously fantastic inventions - including a literal attack on dirt by a "knight on a white horse". In his work, he meets Judy, a chimp involved in a top-secret project, which leads Melvin into the one room strictly off-limits to him. Not until he has entered the project room does Melvin learn that any man entering it will be negatively ionized - making him fly like a bird.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-08-13
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The Over the Hill Gang
Overview: A retired Texas Ranger and three aged pals help to clean up a town run by a crooked mayor, a drunken judge and a trigger-happy sheriff.
Genres: Western Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-07-06
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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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How to Break Up a Happy Divorce
Overview: A divorced woman comes up with a scheme to make her ex-husband jealous, so she can get him back.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-10-06
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