John Karlen
Also Known As: John Adam Karlewicz, John Karlin
Biography: John Karlen (born John Adam Karlewicz) was an American character actor who played multiple roles (Willie Loomis, Carl Collins, William H. Loomis, Desmond Collins, Alex Jenkins, and Kendrick Young) on the ABC serial Dark Shadows, in various episodes which aired from 1966 to 1971. Karlen also played Harvey Lacey, husband of Mary Beth Lacey (played by Tyne Daly), on the CBS crime series Cagney & Lacey (1982–88).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Birthday: May 28, 1933
Deathday: January 22, 2020
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Frankenstein
Overview: A scientist obsessed with creating life steals body parts to put together his "creation." Released as a feature on video, this was originally shown in two installments on TV as part of the Wide World of Entertainment series.
Genres: Horror TV Movie Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-01-16
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Surf Ninjas
Overview: Two Asian-American "surfer-dude" brothers discover they are the long lost princes from a China Sea Island. Part of their inheritance includes magically-induced martial arts prowess and seeing the future. Using their new powers, they act to overthrow the island's current dictator, a despotic madman with a metal face!
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-08-12
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MacShayne: Winner Takes All
Overview: MacShayne is a gambler and small time con-man. After serving a short stretch in jail, he goes to Las Vegas to see his son, but when he gets there, his ex-wife is no longer where she use to live and work and left no forwarding address. Leggett, a recently retired cop, approaches him and tells him that he will help him find his son, if he does something for him. It seems that he is planning to rob a hotel casino and he needs three guys to pull it off. Now two of the guys he recruited has agreed to it but the third is uncertain, so he sets up a poker game wherein MacShayne is suppose to clean him out thus giving Leggett some leverage on him. After doing that he discovers that Leggett is duplicitous and is going stab everybody in the back. So he decides to turn the tables on him.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Impulse
Overview: After a small earthquake in a small and quiet town, local citizens start to have a bizarre, violent and self-destructive behavior...
Genres: Horror Mystery Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-09-28
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Trilogy of Terror
Overview: A horror anthology containing three stories: a female college professor is aggressively pursued by one of her students; a prudish brunette determines that her free-spirited blonde sister is evil; and a woman's night turns upside down after she purchases an ancient Zuni fetish doll.
Genres: Horror Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-03-04
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Daughters of Darkness
Overview: Ostend, Belgium. In a decadent seaside hotel, Stefan and Valerie, a newlywed couple, meet the mysterious Countess Báthory and Ilona, her secretary.
Genres: Drama Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-10-02
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Pennies from Heaven
Overview: During the Great Depression, a sheet music salesman seeks to escape his dreary life through popular music and a love affair with an innocent school teacher.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-12-11
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Racing with the Moon
Overview: In a small coastal California town, Henry and Nicky are pals from blue collar families with only a short time before they ship off to World War II. Henry begins romancing new-to-town Caddie Winger, believing her to be wealthy. Mischievous and irresponsible, Nicky gets into trouble which forces the other two to become involved, testing their relationship, as well as the friendship between the boys.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-03-23
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Killer's Delight
Overview: A detective tracks a serial killer through San Francisco.
Genres: Drama Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-04-28
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House of Dark Shadows
Overview: The story of vampire Barnabas Collins, the possible cure offered him by Dr. Julia Hoffman, and his search for love amidst the horror.
Genres: Drama Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-09-09
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Night of Dark Shadows
Overview: A newlywed painter and his wife move into his family's ancestral home and find themselves plagued by spirits of past residents.
Genres: Drama Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-08-04
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Perry Mason: The Case of the Glass Coffin
Overview: David Katz is a world famous magician and he comes to Denver with his group to perform for a charity gala for disabled children. Also there is Perry and Della as all three are supporters of the charity. Kate Ford, an assistant with an arrogant attitude, tells David that she is, from now on, going to do an illusion in which an assistant is raised in a glass coffin only to disappear when the coffin is opened up in the air (while the assistant climbs out before the coffin is raised.) After a one night stand with David, Kate is pregnant and she blackmails David with this. David and his wife Judy can't have children so that comes as a double blow to them. However Kate, with her attitude, creates much hatred at her from the rest of the group. At the gala, the glass coffin is raised but when it opens Kate's dead body falls to the ground - strangled.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-05-14
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Night of Terror
Overview: A hired killer hunts down a schoolteacher to get something she has. She doesn't know what it is, but he's already killed twice to get it.
Genres: TV Movie Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-10-10
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Downpayment on Murder
Overview: About an estranged husband who, in an explosive rage, decides to have his wife murdered by a hired killer.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-18
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Calendar Girl, Cop, Killer? The Bambi Bembenek Story
Overview: Story of attractive cop Laurencia Bembenek, who, in 1982, was sentenced to prison for killing her husband's ex-wife in Milwaukee, WI.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-05-18
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The Return of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer
Overview: After two attempts to kidnap a little girl Mike Hammer is hired to protect her.
Genres: Crime Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-04-18
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A Small Town in Texas
Overview: A crooked sheriff in a small Southern town frames an ex-convict in a drug bust and takes his girlfriend.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-07-09
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The Cover Girl and the Cop
Overview: Julia Duffy is the cover girl and Dinah Manoff the cop in this made-for-TV contrivance.
Genres: Comedy Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-16
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Cagney & Lacey: The View Through the Glass Ceiling
Overview: Cagney and Lacey work a case involving police corruption and document forgery. Chris seeks a prestigious promotion, while Mary Beth has to deal with the return of her sickly, aged father.
Genres: TV Movie Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-10-25
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Delancey Street: The Crisis Within
Overview: The story of Delancey Street Foundation, a self-help group devoted to reclaiming ex-junkies, ex-convicts, and others.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-04-19
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Nightmare at 43 Hillcrest
Overview: Police looking for drug dealers mistakenly raid the house of a typical suburban family. However, rather than admit their mistake and jeopardize their careers, several of the police officers decide to plant heroin in the family's house, and change the records of the raid to make it look like the family was the target of their investigation all along. Based on a true story.
Genres: Mystery Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-08-20
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Welcome Home, Bobby
Overview: When a Chicago teen is arrested for drug possession, the ensuing investigation reveals that he has had sexual contact with an older man. Discovering his sexual encounter, other students start shunning him and call for his expulsion from school. His conservative blue-collar dad also rejects him, while his mother does try to offer support.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-02-22
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Native Son
Overview: In 1940s Chicago, a young black man takes a job as a chauffeur to a white family, which takes a turn for the worse when he accidentally kills the teenage daughter of the couple and then tries to cover it up.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-12-24
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Melvin Purvis G-Man
Overview: Agent Melvin Purvis is placed in charge of running down notorious killer Machine Gun Kelly, and sets out to do just that.
Genres: TV Movie Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-02-28
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The Invasion of Carol Enders
Overview: Television thriller about a woman is possessed after a brutal attack.
Genres: TV Movie Horror Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-11-05
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Rosie: The Rosemary Clooney Story
Overview: The story of singer Rosemary Clooney's rise to fame, her marriage to Jose Ferrer, and her nervous breakdown.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-12-08
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American Dream
Overview: A family moves from an affluent Chicago suburb to the mixed inner-city neighborhood where the father grew up, with the idea of giving the kids, who are becoming materialistic snobs, the feel of a big city environment.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-04-26
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Date Rape
Overview: Teenage girl is raped after accepting a date from the most popular boy in school.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-09-15
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Hostage Flight
Overview: A plane is hijacked and bound for London. Once the terrorists begin killing hostages, the passengers take matters into their own hands.
Genres: TV Movie Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-11-17
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The Kansas City Massacre
Overview: Gangsters free one of their colleagues being escorted to prison and kill several FBI agents and local police officers in the attempt. FBI agent Melvin Purvis puts together a special squad to track down and capture the men responsible.
Genres: TV Movie Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-09-19
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Nightmare on the 13th Floor
Overview: In this made-for-cable television horror thriller, a travel writer visits a historic hotel to write a story about it and inadvertently finds herself on the 13th floor where she witnesses a Satanic rite and tangles with an axe-wielding killer. She escapes, but no one believes her story because the hotel has no 13th floor.
Genres: Horror Thriller Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-10-31
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Overview: Adaptation of the novel by Oscar Wilde.
Genres: Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-04-22
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Daddy
Overview: Two high schoolers are unprepared for the reality of parenthood when the girl becomes pregnant.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-04-14
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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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The Return of Mod Squad
Overview: Pete, Linc and Julie are called back to the force when a series of sniper attacks are made on their old boss. But the three soon discover that they themselves are the intended targets of a gunman who lives in their old "flower child" world of the 1960s.
Genres: Action Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-05-18
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The Cloning of Clifford Swimmer
Overview: Clifford Swimmer, an angry and abusive man cruel to his wife and son, wants out if his marriage. With the help of a scientist he clones a replacement who takes over as head of the family while the real Clifford travels the world. The clone turns out to be a gentle and sensitive husband and father, a complete opposite of the original, and the wife and son come to love him. When the real Clifford comes back and finds his family happy with the clone he becomes angry and jealous and things take a deadly turn.
Genres: Horror Mystery Science Fiction Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-11-01
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The Long Days of Summer
Overview: In this sequel to his 1978 "When Every Day Was the Fourth of July" (and a pilot to a prospective series), producer/director Dan Curtis recalls more of his youth during the late '30, and follows a fictionalized family where the father has jeopardized a promising law career to defend a Jewish immigrant against the prejudices of a staid New England town.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-05-23
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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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Roseanne: An Unauthorized Biography
Overview: Behind the headlines... Behind the laughter... there's an unforgettable story you've never heard before.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-10-11
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Police Story: Burnout
Overview: A veteran vice cop has a hard time dealing with her partner's suicide.
Genres: Action Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-11-26
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Master of Dark Shadows
Overview: Revealing the fascinating impact of the ground-breaking Gothic drama Dark Shadows with a compelling blend of rare footage and behind-the-scenes stories exploring the diverse talents of creator-producer-director Dan Curtis.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-04-16
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Babycakes
Overview: Grace is an overweight mortuary cosmetician who falls in love with Rob, a handsome subway train conductor who doesn't even know she exists. When she finally devises a way to meet him, they discover that although they are physically different, they have a lot more in common than they think.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-02-14
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Without Warning: Terror in the Towers
Overview: Massive rescue efforts are mobilized to save occupants of New York City's World Trade Center after a terrorist bombing. Based on the events surrounding the bombing of the World Trade Center towers in February 1993.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-05-26
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Cagney & Lacey: The Return
Overview: 1994. Cagney, now a Lieutenant, re-teams with Lacey, who has left the force, to search for a cache of missing firearms.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-11-06
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Cagney & Lacey: Together Again
Overview: New York's toughest lady detectives re-team to solve the murder of a homeless transient who had been terrorizing the residents of a posh apartment building with screaming threats, insults and physical intimidation. Though the cops think the culprit is another street person, Cagney and Lacey believe the real killer is one of the tenants, many of whom have ample reason to have murdered the boorish bum.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-05-02
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Cagney & Lacey: True Convictions
Overview: Detectives Cagney and Lacey come face-to-face with their true feelings about capital punishment when they're assigned to the city's first capital murder case in 10 years.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-29
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Colorado C.I.
Overview: Mark and Pete Gunnison, members of the Criminal Investigation Unit of the Colorado State Police, seek to crack a multi-million dollar real estate swindle.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-05-26
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Shirts/Skins
Overview: Six businessmen who have a weekly after-hours basketball game get caught up in a bet about a hide-and-seek contest.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-10-09
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