Abner Biberman
Also Known As: Abner Warren Biberman
Biography: Abner Warren Biberman (April 1, 1909 – June 20, 1977) was an American actor, director, and screenwriter. Ruthless-looking, he was in demand to portray a wide variety of heavies and foreign nationalities during the Golden Years of Hollywood. He later developed a successful career as a prolific director of episodic TV, spanning wide genres from Gilligan’s Island to Hawaii Five-O (1968 TV series). Biberman was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, later moving to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He gained early acting experience as a student at the Tome School for Boys prep school. He also attended the University of Pennsylvania.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: April 01, 1909
Age: 116 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: June 20, 1977
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His Girl Friday
Overview: Walter Burns is an irresistibly conniving newspaper publisher desperate to woo back his paper’s star reporter, who also happens to be his estranged wife. She’s threatening to quit and settle down with a new beau, but, as Walter knows, she has a weakness: she can’t resist a juicy scoop.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-18
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Gunga Din
Overview: British army sergeants Ballantine, Cutter and MacChesney serve in India during the 1880s, along with their native water-bearer, Gunga Din. While completing a dangerous telegraph-repair mission, they unearth evidence of the suppressed Thuggee cult. When Gunga Din tells the sergeants about a secret temple made of gold, the fortune-hunting Cutter is captured by the Thuggees, and it's up to his friends to rescue him.
Genres: Adventure War Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-26
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The Leopard Man
Overview: When a leopard escapes during a publicity stunt, it triggers a series of murders.
Genres: Horror Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-05-19
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Winchester '73
Overview: Lin McAdam rides into town on the trail of Dutch Henry Brown, only to find himself in a shooting competition against him. McAdam wins the prize, a one-in-a-thousand Winchester rifle, but Dutch steals it and leaves town. McAdam follows, intent on settling his old quarrel, while the rifle keeps changing hands and touching a number of lives.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-07-12
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Elephant Walk
Overview: Colonial tea planter John Wiley (Peter Finch), visiting England at the end of World War II, wins and weds lovely English rose Ruth (Dame Elizabeth Taylor) and takes her home to Elephant Walk, Ceylon, where the local elephants have a grudge against the plantation. Ruth's delight with the tropical wealth and luxury of her new home is tempered by isolation as the only white woman in the district; her husband's occasional imperious arrogance; a mutual physical attraction with plantation manager Dick Carver (Dana Andrews), and the hovering, ominous menace of the hostile elephants.
Genres: Romance Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-04-21
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Betrayal from the East
Overview: A carnival showman tries to keep Japanese spies from sabotaging the Panama Canal.
Genres: Thriller Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-04-24
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The Roaring Twenties
Overview: After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Eddie builds a fleet of cabs through delivery of bootleg liquor and hires Lloyd as his lawyer. George becomes Eddie's partner and the rackets flourish until love and rivalry interfere.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-28
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Submarine Alert
Overview: Nazi spies use a stolen shortwave transmitter prototype to broadcast top secret shipping info to an offshore Japanese sub. To nab the spy ring, the Government has the West Coast's top radio engineers fired and shadowed to see if the Nazis recruit them to complete work on the prototype radio. Radio engineer Lew Deerhold, a resident alien without a job to pay for his adorable little ward Gina's life-saving operation, falls prey to the spy ring, and is swept up in a maelstrom of deceit and danger.
Genres: Action Thriller War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-06-28
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Back to Bataan
Overview: An Army colonel leads a guerrilla campaign against the Japanese in the Philippines.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-05-30
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The Monster and the Girl
Overview: After a young woman is coerced into prostitution and her brother framed for murder by an organized crime syndicate, retribution in the form of an ape visits the mobsters.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-02-28
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Viva Zapata!
Overview: The story of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, who led a rebellion against the corrupt, oppressive dictatorship of president Porfirio Díaz in the early 20th century.
Genres: History Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-02-07
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Whispering Ghosts
Overview: A detective (Milton Berle) who solves cases on the radio investigates the mysterious decade-old murder of a sea captain.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-17
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Broadway
Overview: Gangsters, nightclubs and the Roaring '20s.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-08
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Dragon Seed
Overview: The lives of a small Chinese village are turned Upside down when the Japanese invade it. An heroic young Chinese woman leads her fellow villagers in an uprising against Japanese Invaders.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-07-20
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Overview: A rope bridge over a gorge in the Peruvian Andes snaps, sending five people plunging to their deaths. A priest sets out to find out more about the life of each of the victims.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-02-11
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Devil Pays Off
Overview: A former Navy man attempts to redeem his honor by exposing a shipping tycoon's dealings with the enemy.
Genres: Crime War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-10
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South of Pago Pago
Overview: Sent by cutthroat pirates to turn Kehane’s head while they loot his island paradise of a fortune in pearls, Ruby instead falls for the young chief. Together, the two save Kehane’s people and their island home from the rapacious picaroons but at the tragic cost of their own future together.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-19
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Panama Patrol
Overview: A U.S. agent attempts to track down a spy ring working to destroy the Panama Canal.
Genres: Mystery Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-20
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Two-Man Submarine
Overview: Medical researchers Jerry Evans and Walt Hedges are assigned by a pharmaceutical company to work at a secret laboratory on a remote South Pacific Island in order to produce penicillium, the mold from which the magic drug penicillin is derived.
Genres: Action Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-03-16
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The Golden Mistress
Overview: Ann Dexter, daughter of an itinerant Haiti waterfront character, Carl Dexter, brings a golden idol, which her father her stolen at a voodoo ceremony, to Bill Buchanan, who is known along the waterfront as a man eternally on a treasure hunt. He agrees to let Ann accompany him in search of the treasure after a native he befriended gives him directions and certain voodoo secret charms. They follow an underwater passage to an island where they find a Pagan tribe. They learn that the golden idol is a burial symbol representing the dead and that hundreds of idols are at the bottom of the sacred burial lake.
Genres: Adventure Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-10-29
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Singapore Woman
Overview: A fallen woman seeks redemption at a Singapore rubber plantation. Melodrama.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-05-17
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Another Thin Man
Overview: Not even the joys of parenthood can stop married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles from investigating a murder on a Long Island estate.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-17
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Each Dawn I Die
Overview: A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the reporter for manslaughter in order to silence him.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-19
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Lady of the Tropics
Overview: Playboy Bill Carey woos a half-caste beauty in French Indochina, but her second-class legal status makes a formidable barrier.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-11
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The Rains Came
Overview: Indian aristocrat Rama Safti returns from medical training in the U.S. to give his life to the poor folk of Ranchipur. Lady Edwina and her drunken artist ex-lover Tom Ransome get in the way, but everyone shapes up when faced by earthquake, flooding, and plague.
Genres: Drama Romance Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-15
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Balalaika
Overview: A Russian prince disguised as a worker and a cafe singer secretly involved in revolutionary activities fall in love.
Genres: Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-15
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The Gay Vagabond
Overview: Farce of identical twins and a wife who takes up real estate business.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-05-12
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Knock on Wood
Overview: Ventriloquist Jerry Morgan has failed with another love affair. The reason: when the relationship reaches the point when it is time to discuss marriage, his two dolls become mean and jealous. Morgan's dollmaker Papinek is a member of a spy ring who has stolen the secret plans for the top-secret Lafayette airplane. Since Morgan is leaving for Zurich the same night, he decides to hide the secret plan in the heads of the dolls.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-04-06
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Beyond the Blue Horizon
Overview: A young girl's parents are killed on a tropical island, and the girl is raised and protected by the jungle animals. When she is found, as a grown woman, she is taken back to the United States to claim her inheritance. There are several people, with vested interests, who stand to gain something if she is shown not to be the missing heir.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Drama Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-06-25
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Roaring City
Overview: A San Francisco private eye finds himself under suspicion while investigating a prizefighter's murder.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-05-04
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Enemy Agent
Overview: A man is framed for being a spy. After he is released, he sets out to find who the real spies are.
Genres: Mystery Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-04-18
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Salome, Where She Danced
Overview: During the Austrian-Prussian war, Anna Marie is a dancer who is forced to flee her country after she is accused of being a spy. She ends up in a lawless western town in Arizona, where she uses her charms and dancing skills to transform herself into "Salome" during her dance routines.
Genres: Western War Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-04-17
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South of Tahiti
Overview: Three men survive a plane crashes on an uncharted Pacific island, south of Tahiti. One falls in love with the the daughter of the tribe's leader, heiress to the throne after the death of her brother, who is as savage as her pet leopard. The others try to devise a plan to rob the tribe's gold.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-17
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The Marines Fly High
Overview: Marine lieutenants Dan and Jim fight bandits in the South American jungle, while competing for the attention of beautiful Joan Grant.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-04
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This Woman Is Mine
Overview: Three seafaring fur traders fall in love with a female stowaway they discover aboard their ship. Many adventures follow.
Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-08-22
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King of the Mounties
Overview: King of the Candian riding police is up against Japs and Nazis who are about to invade Canada. They just want to clear the way with a new futuristic plane called "The Falcon" first, but that's not gonna happen if Kig has his way.
Genres: Western Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-17
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Strange Conquest
Overview: Two doctors try to find the cure for a fatal disease, while battling each other for the affection of a beautiful woman doctor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-04-01
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The Magnificent Fraud
Overview: A Chicago con man pays an actor to pose as a slain South American dictator.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-07-19
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Behind the Rising Sun
Overview: A Japanese publisher urges his American-educated son to side with the Axis.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-08-01
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Bombardier
Overview: A documentary/drama about the training of bombardiers during WWII. Major Chick Davis proves to the U.S. Army the superiority of high altitude precision bombing, and establishes a school for bombardiers. Training is followed in semi-documentary style, with personal dramas in subplots. The climax is a spectacular sequence.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-05-14
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Panama Lady
Overview: A weary dance-hall girl in a Panama saloon is given the choice of jail or going with a rough-and-tumble oil driller's jungle oil-field in order to pay him back for being slipped a mickey and robbed.
Genres: Action Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-12
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Soak the Rich
Overview: Tycoon Humphrey Craig is fearful that a "soak the rich" bill will pass in the United States Senate.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-17
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Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President
Overview: Joe and Ethel Turp are up in arms when their faithful old mailman is fired. Unable to get satisfaction on a municipal level, Joe and Ethel plead their mailman's case to the President himself.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-01
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Captain Kidd
Overview: Cutthroat pirate William Kidd captures Admiral Blayne's treasure ship and hides the bounty in a cave. Three years later, Kidd, posing as a respectable merchant captain, offers his services to the King of England. Seeking a social position, Kidd also negotiates for Blayne's title and lands, provided he can prove Blayne was associated with piracy. Launched upon his royal mission, Kidd is unaware that Blayne's son Adam is among the crew, determined to clear his father's name.
Genres: Action Adventure History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-11-22
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Zanzibar
Overview: A beautiful young woman organizes an expedition to Africa to search for a sacred skull that is worshiped by the locals.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-08
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South to Karanga
Overview: Passengers bound to an African copper mine at Karanga to quell a native uprising encounter murder and intrigue on the way.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-02
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Girl from Havana
Overview: Rebels and a singer cause trouble for two U.S. oil-drillers in South America...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-11
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Ski Patrol
Overview: In 1939, a group of Finnish soldiers defend the border from Russian invaders.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-09
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