Mickey Shaughnessy
Also Known As: Joseph C. Shaughnessy
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Joseph Michael "Mickey" Shaughnessy (August 5, 1920 - July 23, 1985) was an Irish American character actor who specialized in playing lovable, but not-too-bright lugs. One of his best-known roles was as the tough, experienced mentor of Elvis Presley's character in Jailhouse Rock. The New York City-born Shaughnessy died at the age of 64 of lung cancer at Cape May Court House, New Jersey. Description above from the Wikipedia article Mickey Shaughnessy, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Birthday: August 05, 1920
Deathday: July 23, 1985
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Gender: Male
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Pocketful of Miracles
Overview: A New York gangster and his girlfriend attempt to turn street beggar Apple Annie into a society lady when the peddler learns her daughter is marrying royalty.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-12-18
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North to Alaska
Overview: After striking gold in Alaska, the romantic George sends his womanizing partner Sam to bring his fiancée up from Seattle. When Sam finds that she has already married, he returns instead with Angel, a dancer originally from France.
Genres: Western Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-11-07
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From Here to Eternity
Overview: In 1941 Hawaii, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his captain's wife and second in command are falling in love.
Genres: War Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-08-28
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Never a Dull Moment
Overview: When practicing for a role, actor Jack is mistaken for the killer Ace. He doesn't realize this until it's too late and is carried off to gangster boss Leo Smooth, who wants Ace to do a job for him. Fearing for his life, Jack plays his role, but always searching for a way out of the well-guarded house.
Genres: Action Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-06-26
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Conquest of Space
Overview: A team of American astronauts leave their space station on the first mission to Mars, but the captain's religious beliefs may get in the way.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-04-20
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Designing Woman
Overview: A sportswriter who marries a fashion designer discovers that their mutual interests are few, although each has an intriguing past which makes the other jealous.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-05-16
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The Burglar
Overview: Burglar Nat Harbin and his two associates set their sights on wealthy spiritualist Sister Sarah, who has inherited a fortune -- including a renowned emerald necklace -- from a Philadelphia financier. Using Nat's female ward, Gladden, to pose as an admirer and case the mansion where the woman lives, they set up a perfect break-in. Things get complicated afterwards.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-06-01
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Last of the Comanches
Overview: It's 1876 and all the Indians are at peace except the Comanches lead by Black Cloud. When Black Cloud wipes out a town, only six soldiers are left and they head for the nearest fort. In the desert they are reinforced by members of a stagecoach and find some water at a deserted mission. Pinned down by Black Cloud they send an Indian boy who was Black Cloud's prisoner on to the fort while they try to bargain with Black Cloud whom they learn is without water.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-02-01
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The Boatniks
Overview: Young and awkward, The Coast-Guard's ensign Thomas Garland suffers from the comparison with his late father, a war hero. Which does not prevent him from falling for pretty Kate Fairchild, a young woman who runs a sailing school. Of course the way he expresses his deep sympathy for the lady leaves to be desired. And the situation does not improve when a trio of bumbling jewel thieves interferes.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-07-01
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Gunman's Walk
Overview: A powerful rancher always protects his wild adult son by paying for damages and bribing witnesses, until his crimes become too serious to rectify.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-07-01
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King of the Roaring 20's – The Story of Arnold Rothstein
Overview: Gambler Arnold Rothstein marries an actress, avenges his buddy and meets an underworld fate.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-06-11
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Overview: From chicken thief to cabin boy, riverboat pilot to circus performer, Huck Finn outsmarts everyone on his way down the muddy Mississippi.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-07-21
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Jailhouse Rock
Overview: After serving time for manslaughter, young Vince Everett becomes a teenage rock star.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-11-08
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My Dog, the Thief
Overview: As ratings for Jack Crandall's lifeless airborne traffic reports plummet, a super-size St. Bernard on the lam stows away in his chopper. Crandall's new co-pilot helps send ratings sky-high, but the canine's chronic kleptomania generates girl trouble, jewel thievery, and loads of laughs.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-09-21
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College Confidential
Overview: Sociology professor Steve MacInter is conducting a survey at Collins College about the mores and lifestyles of the young people. Some of the good citizens begin to find exception to his sociological survey when they find out it includes questions about sex. Reporter Betty Ducayne receives an anonymous tip that the good professor is engaging in corruption of youth and when Steve's past comes up to haunt him, all heck breaks loose.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-08-26
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Slaughter on 10th Avenue
Overview: A rookie assistant DA is assigned to investigate the murder of a longshoreman, killed for exposing gangster involvement on the piers, and meets up with a "code of silence" amongst all potential witnesses.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-09-01
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Edge of Eternity
Overview: Helped by socialite Janice Kendon and barkeeper Scott O'Brien, Arizona deputy sheriff Les Martin works to solve three brutal murders in and around the Grand Canyon. His efforts leads to the killer fleeing with Janice as a hostage and a chase by car and helicopter lead to a climax on a miner's bucket on cables a mile above the canyon floor.
Genres: Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-11-02
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A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed
Overview: Two bunglers (Tom Ewell, Mickey Rooney) rob a bank and buy a racehorse, then try to rob another bank.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-12-01
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Don't Go Near the Water
Overview: Madison Avenue-trained Navy men handle public relations on a South Pacific island during World War II.
Genres: Comedy Adventure Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-11-14
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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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Don't Give Up the Ship
Overview: The Navy expects a veteran to pay for the ship he commanded, as they have no record of its return.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-07-03
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Sex Kittens Go to College
Overview: Collins College needs a new department head for their science department, so Doctors Carter and Zorch consult Thinko, the campus computer, and come up with Dr. Mathilda West, who has degrees in lots of things, but turns out to be disruptively attractive as well.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-08-24
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A House Is Not a Home
Overview: Story follows the life of Polly Adler, who grew to become one of New York's most successful bordello madams of the 1920s.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-08-12
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The Sheepman
Overview: A stranger in a Western cattle-town behaves with remarkable self-assurance, establishing himself as a man to be reckoned with. The reason appears with his stock: a herd of sheep, which he intends to graze on the range. The horrified inhabitants decide to run him out at all costs.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-05-01
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Dondi
Overview: World War II GIs adopt an Italian war orphan.
Genres: Comedy Drama Family Music War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-03-26
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The Hangman
Overview: A marshal nicknamed "The Hangman" because of his track record in hunting down and capturing wanted criminals traces a robbery suspect to a small town. However, the man is known and liked in the town, and the citizens band together to try to help him avoid capture.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-06-17
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Until They Sail
Overview: Four sisters in New Zealand fall for soldiers en route to the Pacific theater in WWII.
Genres: Romance Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-10-08
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How the West Was Won
Overview: The epic tale of the development of the American West from the 1830s through the Civil War to the end of the century, as seen through the eyes of one pioneer family.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-11-02
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Primal Scream
Overview: In the future, a private detective tries to stop a large corporation from mining an element whose side effects include igniting human flesh and destroying internal body parts.
Genres: Horror Action Science Fiction Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-09-29
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Ask Any Girl
Overview: Meg is a young wide-eyed girl who is endures many calamities in her search for a husband in modern-day New York. After losing her suitcase at Penn Station, being kicked out by her roommate, and changing bosses because her boss made a pass at her, she finds herself looking for work at a Manhattan motivational research agency run by punctilious Miles Doughton and his playboy brother, Evan.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-08-21
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A Boy Called Nuthin’
Overview: A boy doesn’t find the life he expects out West when he leaves Chicago to find his uncle. The West has changed–it is no longer “cowboys and Indians.” He finds his uncle living in a shack, and in trying to be accepted and help out, the boy gets himself into all sorts of trouble, causing his uncle to refer to him as “good for nuthin’,” a nickname that sticks. Eventually the two see that they need each other.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-12-10
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Vernon's Volunteers
Overview: A small American town provides the setting for a look at the antics of a group of volunteers who comprise the area's only fire department.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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