Harve Presnell
Also Known As: George Harvey Presnell
Biography: Harve Presnell (September 14, 1933 – June 30, 2009) was an American actor and singer. He began his career in the mid 1950s as a classical baritone, singing with orchestras and opera companies throughout the United States. His career reoriented away from classical music to musical theatre in 1960 after Meredith Willson cast him in the lead role of his new Broadway musical The Unsinkable Molly Brown. His portrayal of "Leadville Johnny" was a resounding success and he reprised the role in the 1964 film version of the musical, winning a Golden Globe Award for his portrayal. Presnell went on to star in a few more films during the 1960s, but by the early 1970s that aspect of his career came to a standstill. From 1970 to 1995 he mostly worked as a musical theatre performer on Broadway, the West End, and in touring productions out of New York. In his early 60s, Presnell saw a resurgence in his movie career which lasted until his death. He portrayed character roles in films like Fargo (1996), Saving Private Ryan (1998), and Flags of Our Fathers (2006). He also appeared on television as Mr. Parker in The Pretender and Lew Staziak in Andy Barker, P.I.. He had recurring roles on Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman and Dawson's Creek. Description above from the Wikipedia article Harve Presnell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Modesto, California, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: September 14, 1933
Age: 91 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: June 30, 2009
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Fargo
Overview: Jerry, a small-town Minnesota car salesman is bursting at the seams with debt... but he's got a plan. He's going to hire two thugs to kidnap his wife in a scheme to collect a hefty ransom from his wealthy father-in-law. It's going to be a snap and nobody's going to get hurt... until people start dying. Enter Police Chief Marge, a coffee-drinking, parka-wearing - and extremely pregnant - investigator who'll stop at nothing to get her man. And if you think her small-time investigative skills will give the crooks a run for their ransom... you betcha!
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-03-08
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Face/Off
Overview: In order to foil a terrorist plot, an FBI agent undergoes facial transplant surgery and assumes the identity of a criminal mastermind. The plan turns sour when the criminal wakes up prematurely and seeks revenge.
Genres: Action Crime Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-06-27
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Patch Adams
Overview: The true story of Dr. Hunter "Patch" Adams, who in the 1970s found that humor is the best medicine, and was willing to do just anything to make his patients laugh—even if it meant risking his own career.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-12-25
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Mr. Deeds
Overview: When Longfellow Deeds, a small-town pizzeria owner and poet, inherits $40 billion from his deceased uncle, he quickly begins rolling in a different kind of dough. Moving to the big city, Deeds finds himself besieged by opportunists all gunning for their piece of the pie. Babe, a television tabloid reporter, poses as an innocent small-town girl to do an exposé on Deeds.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-06-28
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Paint Your Wagon
Overview: A Michigan farmer and a prospector form a partnership in the California gold country. Their adventures include buying and sharing a wife, hijacking a stage, kidnapping six prostitutes, and turning their mining camp into a boom town. Along the way there is plenty of drinking, gambling, and singing. They even find time to do some creative gold mining.
Genres: Comedy Western Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-10-15
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The Chamber
Overview: Idealistic young attorney Adam Hall takes on the death row clemency case of his racist grandfather, Sam Cayhall, a former Ku Klux Klan member he has never met.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-10-11
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The Unsinkable Molly Brown
Overview: The buoyant Molly Brown has survived the first crisis of her life—a flood. Sixteen years later she sets out to make her way in the world. She assures the Leadville saloon keeper that she can sing and play the piano, and learns quickly. Soon she marries Johnny Brown, who in a few years will be able to replace the original cigar wrapper wedding ring with a replica in gold and gemstones. The Browns head for Europe and bring a few crowned heads back to Denver for a party that turns into a ballroom brawl. Molly goes to Europe alone, returning on the Titanic. She didn't survive a flood as a baby for the story to end here.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-06-11
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The Glory Guys
Overview: Though a fictionalized Western based on George Armstrong Custer's 7th Cavalry Regiment at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, the film is almost a generic war story covering the enlistment, training, and operational deployment of a group of recruits that could take place in any time period.
Genres: Drama Action Western Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-07-07
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Tidal Wave: No Escape
Overview: A retired and disgruntled scientist is brought out of retirement to explain why tidal waves are wiping out coastal communities. But is he part of the problem?
Genres: Action Science Fiction Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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The Whole Wide World
Overview: In 1930s Texas, pulp fiction master Robert E. Howard is introduced to Novalyne Price, a teacher with aspirations of becoming an author herself, and they begin a unique relationship filled with conversation and imagination. Although the possibility exists for romance, Howard's obsession with his work and dedication to his sick mother leads Price to look elsewhere for love, leaving Howard feeling betrayed and alone.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-09-08
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Julian Po
Overview: Christian Slater is a stranger who comes to a small town. The local citizens think he's up to no good. After bothering him for a while, he blurts out in frustration, that he is there to kill himself.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-09-05
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Blood Bath
Overview: The actors for a horror movie go out to dinner one evening with their director and tell horror stories to each other.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-10-17
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Flags of Our Fathers
Overview: There were five Marines and one Navy Corpsman photographed raising the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi by Joe Rosenthal on February 23, 1945. This is the story of three of the six surviving servicemen - John 'Doc' Bradley, Pvt. Rene Gagnon and Pvt. Ira Hayes - who fought in the battle to take Iwo Jima from the Japanese.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-10-19
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The Legend of Bagger Vance
Overview: World War I has left golfer Rannulph Junuh a poker-playing alcoholic, his perfect swing gone. Now, however, he needs to get it back to play in a tournament to save the financially ravaged golf course of a long-ago sweetheart. Help arrives in the form of mysterious caddy Bagger Vance.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-11-02
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When the Boys Meet the Girls
Overview: A playboy helps a young woman turn her father's Nevada ranch into a haven for divorcees.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-10-10
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Larger Than Life
Overview: Motivational Speaker Jack Corcoran is determined to get his career off the ground, but the biggest gigs he can get are the ones nobody wants. One day, he receives a telegram that his circus clown father has passed away and left a "huge" inheritance: an elephant that was his father's pride and joy. His main intention to sell the pachyderm off, Jack must choose between loud and rude zookeeper Mo or attractive animal show owner Terry. As the two trek through the country Jack and the elephant develop a bond, and it changes his approach to life for the better.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-07-26
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The Story of a Dress
Overview: This short film looks at the extensive wardrobe department that clothed the casts of MGM films into the 1960s.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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Bait Shop
Overview: Its Barbershop for Rednecks. Bill is a bait shop owner who has to make a balloon payment of $15,000 or else the bank will close his shop. Unable to make the payment from the proceeds of the shop, Bill must compete in the annual Bass Tournament, which he pathetically loses every year, to win the money.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-09-02
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Jackie, Ethel, Joan: The Women of Camelot
Overview: They were more than Washington wives. They were part of an American dream known as Camelot. With strength and cunning they upheld their public image by concealing their private truths. Jackie, Ethel and Joan had little choice. They were Kennedy women. What really unfolded behind the monolith of Kennedy power is revealed for the first time: the true story of the Kennedy reign told through the eyes of the three women who lived it.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-03-04
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Everything That Rises
Overview: His son's critical injury forces a Montana man (Dennis Quaid) to reconsider priorities as he struggles to retain family land.
Genres: Drama Western Adventure Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-07-12
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The Pretender 2001
Overview: Picking up where the television series left off, "The Pretender 2001" features even deeper explorations in the show's mythology, including a revealing look back at how Jarod originally espaced from the Centre. But now he must infiltrate the NSA to capture a ruthless assassin who might be a fellow Pretender from his past!
Genres: TV Movie Action Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-22
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The Pretender: Island of the Haunted
Overview: Jarod takes a keen interest in an ancient symbol that may unlock secrets about his family. But Miss Parker is hot on Jarod's trail and about to make discoveries of her own. Their investigation leads to a remote Island off the Scottish coast, where a set of sacred scrolls, vital to the Centre, have been hidden – and protected – for centuries.
Genres: TV Movie Action Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-12-10
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Escanaba in da Moonlight
Overview: A macho man in a family on the eve of deer-hunting season must deal with the eldest son's curse of never having bagged a buck.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-26
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Saving Private Ryan
Overview: As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fourth trapped behind enemy lines. Ranger captain John Miller and seven men are tasked with penetrating German-held territory and bringing the boy home.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-07-24
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Evan Almighty
Overview: God contacts Junior Congressman Evan Baxter and tells him to build an ark in preparation for a great flood.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-06-09
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Love Ranch
Overview: Story of a couple that starts the first legal brothel in Nevada and a boxer they own a piece of.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-06-30
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Walking Across Egypt
Overview: An elderly widow befriends an orphaned juvenile delinquent.
Genres: Drama Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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That's Dancing!
Overview: A documentary film about dancing on the screen, from it's orgins after the invention of the movie camera, over the movie musical from the late 20s, 30s, 40s 50s and 60s up to the break dance and the music videos from the 80s.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-18
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Super Sucker
Overview: Two door to door vaccuum cleaner salesmen hilariously compete against each other.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-02-24
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The Family Man
Overview: Jack's lavish, fast-paced lifestyle changes one Christmas night when he stumbles into a grocery store holdup and disarms the gunman. The next morning he wakes up in bed lying next to Kate, his college sweetheart he left in order to pursue his career, and to the horrifying discovery that his former life no longer exists. As he stumbles through this alternate suburban universe, Jack finds himself at a crossroad where he must choose between his high-power career and the woman he loves.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-12-12
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The Great Man's Whiskers
Overview: A young girl writes to President Abraham Lincoln to advise him to grow a beard.
Genres: Comedy History TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-05-02
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Old School
Overview: Three friends attempt to recapture their glory days by opening up a fraternity near their alma mater.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-02-21
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Life After Tomorrow
Overview: Women who have played orphans in "Annie" are brought together in this documentary.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-12-24
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A Bright Shining Lie
Overview: Something in his past keeps career Army man John Paul Vann from advancing past colonel. He views being sent to Vietnam as part of the US military advisory force a stepping stone to promotion. However, he disagrees vocally (and on the record) with the way the war is being run and is forced to leave the military. Returning to Vietnam as a civilian working with the Army, he comes to despise some South Vietnamese officers while he takes charge of some of the U.S. forces and continues his liaisons with Vietnamese women.
Genres: Drama War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-05-30
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