John Derek
Also Known As: Dare Harris, Derek Delevan Harris
Biography: John Derek (1926-1998) was an American actor, filmmaker, and photographer most famous for the women to whom he was married; namely Bo Derek, Linda Evans, Ursula Andress, and Pati Behrs.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Hollywood, California, USA
Birthday: August 12, 1926
Deathday: May 22, 1998
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Gender: Male
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Exodus
Overview: Ari Ben Canaan, a passionate member of the Jewish paramilitary group Haganah, attempts to transport 600 Jewish refugees on a dangerous voyage from Cyprus to Palestine on a ship named the Exodus. He faces obstruction from British forces, who will not grant the ship passage to its destination.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-12-15
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A Double Life
Overview: A Shakespearian actor starring as Othello opposite his wife finds the character's jealous rage taking over his mind off-stage.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-12-25
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I'll Be Seeing You
Overview: Mary Marshall, serving a six year term for accidental manslaughter, is given a Christmas furlough from prison to visit her closest relatives, her uncle and his family in a small Midwestern town. On the train she meets Zach Morgan, a troubled army sergeant on leave for the holidays from a military hospital. Although his physical wounds have healed, he is suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and is subject to panic attacks. The pair are attracted to one another and in the warm atmosphere of the Christmas season friendship blossoms into romance, but Mary is reluctant to tell him of her past and that she must shortly return to prison to serve the remainder of her sentence.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-12-31
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The Ten Commandments
Overview: Escaping death, a Hebrew infant is raised in a royal household to become a prince. Upon discovery of his true heritage, Moses embarks on a personal quest to reclaim his destiny as the leader and liberator of the Hebrew people.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-10-05
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All the King's Men
Overview: A man of humble beginnings and honest intentions rises to power by nefarious means. Along for the wild ride are an earnest reporter, a heretofore classy society girl, and a too-clever-for-her-own-good political flack.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-11-16
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Scandal Sheet
Overview: A tabloid editor assigns a young reporter to solve a murder the editor committed himself.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-01-16
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Knock on Any Door
Overview: An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the court.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-02-22
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Run for Cover
Overview: An ex-convict drifter and his flawed young partner are made sheriff and deputy of a Western town.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-04-29
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The Flesh Is Weak
Overview: Giani is a pimp who preys on the naïve, ‘just off the bus’ young women who come to post-war London for fortune.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-08-06
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Rogues of Sherwood Forest
Overview: The son of Robin Hood carries on his late father's tradition.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-06-21
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Nightmare in the Sun
Overview: A hitchhiker sleeps with a rancher's wife and is hunted by the sheriff for her murder.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-03-06
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The Adventures of Hajji Baba
Overview: In Ispahan, Persia, Hajji Baba is leaving his father's shop to seek a greater fortune, while the Princess Fawzia is trying to talk her father, the Caliph into giving her in marriage to Nur-El-Din, a rival prince known far and wide as mean and fickle. Her father intends for Fawzia to marry a friend and ally, and makes plans to send her to him.
Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-10-01
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Ambush at Tomahawk Gap
Overview: Hodiak, Brian, Derek and Teal have just been released from prison. They return to Tomahawk Gap, now a ghost town, to retrieve the money that they stole and was buried by a partner somewhere in the town. While hunting, the Indians attack, and a life and death battle ensues.
Genres: Western Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-05-01
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The Last Posse
Overview: A posse's pursuit of bank robbers ends with loot missing and a sheriff (Broderick Crawford) wounded.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-07-04
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Prince of Players
Overview: Prince of Players is a biographical film about the 19th century American actor Edwin Booth.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-01-11
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High Hell
Overview: Tempers and sexual jealousies flare when five men and a woman share a mountain cabin while mining for gold.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-01-01
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Fury at Showdown
Overview: After serving a year for a killing in self-defense, gunfighter Brock Mitchell tries to help his younger brother save his ranch but a crooked lawyer has other ideas.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-04-18
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Once Before I Die
Overview: Stranded behind enemy lines when the Japanese attack the Philippines in late 1941, Lt. Bailey must lead a group of soldiers and their families to safety and the streets of Manila. During the perilous trek, Alex befriends a virginal young soldier whose only desire is to have sex once before he dies.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-12-01
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The Leather Saint
Overview: Episcopalian minister Gil Allen keeps up his college days interest in boxing by working out at a gym run by his friend, Tom Kelley but declines offers to fight in an actual staged bout, until he realizes he could use the prize money to purchase equipment for local polio victims. Keeping his real identity secret and hoping to step away after one big payday, Gil signs a contract to fight for greedy promoter Gus MacAuliffe.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-06-06
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Mask of the Avenger
Overview: Costume swashbuckler with heroic John Derek battling evil Anthony Quinn.
Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-06-27
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Saturday's Hero
Overview: A talented high school football player encounters trouble in a college program.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-03-01
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The Outcast
Overview: Thanks to the chicanery of his crooked uncle Major Cosgrave, Jet has been cheated out of his father's property and branded a pariah. He spends the rest of the film trying to regain his birthright and clear his name. The two women in Jet's life are Judy Polsen, who chases him for so long that he finally catches her, and Alice Austin, Major Cosgrave's fianee.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-08-15
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Omar Khayyam
Overview: Omar Khayyam was one of the greatest Persian poets. He was also a brilliant mathematician. Though his quatrains were written in the 11th century, they are still popular the world over. The details of his life are unknown, so this movie invents a biography for him and includes in it his real achievements - the invention of a new calendar and the penning of those epigrammatic poems. This film has him romancing a sultan's bride and foiling the assassin sect's plot to kill the sultan's son.
Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-08-23
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Prince of Pirates
Overview: In a 16th century kingdom in the Netherlands, the newly crowned King Stephan concludes a secret treaty with the Spanish. This puts him at odds with his younger brother, Prince Roland, who favors a treaty with the French. Stephan orders Roland imprisoned but Roland escapes and leads a revolt.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-03-07
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An Annapolis Story
Overview: Two brothers, both cadets at Annapolis, fall in love with the same girl.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-04-10
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The Family Secret
Overview: When his son accidentally kills someone, a lawyer must defend the man wrongly charged with the murder.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-10-21
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The Nest
Overview: A silent black-and-white film in which a brother (played by Bob Jones) and sister (Jo Whittaker) are examining mirrors when a third figure (Dare Harris), causes them to act violently against one another, before a magical rite takes place in which the sister's binding spell is destroyed by the brother.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-01
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Pirate of the Half Moon
Overview: Gianna Maria Canale as the Duchess who is offered a banquet and requests for a hard-boiled egg. The stingy Spanish lord, who used his last gunpowder to fire a salute to the noble lady and thus has no more when a bunch of pirates, led by Nadir, launches an attack against his castle. Nadir is the dashing fiery hero.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-12-04
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The Big Moment
Overview: Three individual stories that give an account of crucial moments in the lives of three different people: one is a young thief from Casablanca, another is an immigrant doctor brought to the United States and the third is a girl who survived the Holocaust. All three are given a chance to live with dignity and self-respect.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-03-07
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Prisoner of the Volga
Overview: A vicious play of intrigue, about love, desire and betrayal, in the dress of the military at the Cossacks around 1890.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-03-26
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Mission Over Korea
Overview: A rookie pilot in the Korean War wants to avenge his brother's death.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-08-01
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Since You Went Away
Overview: In 1943, several people enter, re-enter, and exit the difficult life of a Midwestern family whose patriarch has been called up to war, leaving behind his wife and two teen daughters.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-06-30
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Thunderbirds
Overview: An Oklahoma National Guard unit, comprised mainly of Native Americans, is called up for duty at the start of World War II.
Genres: War Romance Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-11-20
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Massacre at Sand Creek
Overview: A fictionalized account of the infamous massacre of Cheyenne and Arapaho at Sand Creek by a militia unit led by an extremist Colonel.
Genres: TV Movie Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-12-27
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Sea of Lost Ships
Overview: The son of a deceased Coast Guard hero is raised by a Coast Guard NCO, who also has a son the same age. When they get older both are accepted into the Coast Guard Academy, but the hero's son winds up being thrown out, bringing disgrace to his adopted family.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-10-24
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Playboy Video Magazine, Volume 1
Overview: Playboy Video Magazine was literally a video version of the publication. It included candid celebrity interviews, video editorials, the trademark playmate pictorials, interwoven with commercial parodies and short comedy sketches. The series also covered trends in media; sex, politics, culture, and pop culture.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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