James Coco
Also Known As: 詹姆斯·可可, Джеймс Коко
Biography: James Coco was an American character actor.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: March 21, 1930
Age: 95 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: February 25, 1987
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Murder by Death
Overview: Lionel Twain invites the world's five greatest detectives to a 'dinner and murder'. Included are a blind butler, a deaf-mute maid, screams, spinning rooms, secret passages, false identities and more plot turns and twists than are decently allowed.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-06-23
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Scavenger Hunt
Overview: An eccentric games inventor dies and leaves behind an inheritance worth hundreds of millions of dollars - which will only be given to the person or team, amongst his family and hired help, who wins a madcap scavenger hunt.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-12-21
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The Power and the Glory
Overview: Based on Graham Greene's novel about a flawed but devoted priest in 1930s Mexico who attempts to perform his duties while eluding a police lieutenant determined to capture him.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-05-31
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The Muppets Take Manhattan
Overview: When the Muppets graduate from Danhurst College, they take their song-filled senior revue to New York City, only to learn that it isn't easy to find a producer who's willing to back a show starring a frog and a pig. Of course, Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy won't take no for an answer, launching a search for someone to take them to Broadway.
Genres: Romance Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-06-27
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Hunk
Overview: A "devilish" tale about an ordinary guy who is visited by a beautiful apparition promising him popularity and drop-dead good looks in exchange for his soul. Transformed overnight into a "hunk," he soon discovers there may be hell to pay for his new lifestyle!
Genres: Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-03-06
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Wholly Moses
Overview: Harvey and Zoey, two tourists in Israel, discover an ancient scroll about Herschel, the man who was almost Moses. Herschel receives the command from God to free his people from slavery, but Moses keeps getting all the credit.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-06-13
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Only When I Laugh
Overview: A boozy Broadway actress comes out of a 12-week cure to face the problems of her best friends as well as her needy daughter. She tries to balance the terrors of returning to work with the demands of all around her with humor and insight, while staying off the booze.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-09-25
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Bye Bye Monkey
Overview: In metahistorical New York city electrotechnician Lafayette deals with a megalomaniac director of a wax museum of ancient Rome, an italian lonely anarchist, a group of feminist actresses - including Angelica who falls in love with him - and a small adopted chimpanzee.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-02-24
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The Cheap Detective
Overview: A spoof of the entire 1940s detective genre. San Francisco private detective, Lou Pekinpaugh is accused of murdering his partner at the instigation of his mistress—his partner's wife.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-06-23
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The Littlest Angel
Overview: Adapted from the book by Charles Tazewell. Michael, a shepherd boy living in Biblical times, finds himself transported to Heaven on his eighth birthday. Michael doesn't fully understand where he is, or why he's there. A guardian angel named Patience is given the task of showing Michael the joys of Heaven and helping him find his place in the Hereafter.
Genres: Family Music TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-12-06
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A New Leaf
Overview: After running out of funds, Henry Graham, a carefree playboy, plots to marry and murder wealthy botanist Henrietta Lowell.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-03-11
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Man of La Mancha
Overview: In the 16th century, poet, playwright and part-time actor Miguel de Cervantes has been arrested, together with his manservant, by the Spanish Inquisition. They're accused of presenting an entertainment offensive to the Inquisition. Inside the huge dungeon into which they have been cast, the other inmates gang up on Cervantes and his manservant, staging a mock trial, with the intention of stealing or burning his possessions. Cervantes wishes to desperately save a manuscript he carries with him and stages, with costumes, makeup, and the participation of the other prisoners, an unusual defense—the story of Don Quixote.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-12-12
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The Strawberry Statement
Overview: A college student joins a group of revolutionaries to meet girls but ends up committed to their goals.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-08-28
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The Diary of Anne Frank
Overview: The story of a 13-year-old Jewish girl and her family who are forced into hiding by the Nazis during World War II.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-11-17
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Lily for President?
Overview: Comedian Lily Tomlin stars in this comical farce which deals with her experiences running for the office of President of the United States.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-05-20
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Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon
Overview: The story of three wildly neurotic characters: a facially disfigured girl, a homosexual paraplegic, and an introvert epileptic who, after leaving the hospital, set up housekeeping together in a cottage where they support each other.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-05-11
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Generation
Overview: Newlyweds shock the bride's father with plans for natural childbirth in a Greenwich Village loft.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-12-15
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The Wild Party
Overview: An aging silent movie comic star throws a lavish party to try and save his failing career.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-03-01
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Such Good Friends
Overview: Julie Messinger, a repressed woman, grapples with her hidden passions when a routine hospital visit for her husband, Richard, spirals into chaos. As secrets unravel, her quest for authenticity clashes with societal expectations.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-12-16
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The Chair
Overview: A psychologist, a psychiatrist and a prison warden open up a long-closed prison, unaware that the ghost of an electrocuted convict haunts it.
Genres: Horror Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-10-08
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The Trouble With People
Overview: The overall title for five short sketches by Neil Simon. 1: "The Greasy Diner." The story of a couple who enter a diner, take one look around, then wish they had never entered. 2: "The Man Who Got a Ticket." The story of a driver who is issued 369 summonses by a confused computer. 3: "The Night Visitor." The efforts of a detective to catch an elusive prowler. 4: "The Office Sharers." The story of Ernie and Ben, friends who have worked side by side for eight years without an argument until... 5: "Double Trouble." The story of a husband who wrenches his back while closing the window for his wife who has the chills.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-11-12
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Alice in Wonderland
Overview: From the elaborate Broadway revival of the 1932 Eva Le Gallienne/Florida Friebus production comes a whimsical retelling of the Lewis Carroll classic.
Genres: Fantasy Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-10-03
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The Stepford Children
Overview: Steven and Laura Harding, along with their kids David and Mary, have moved to the quiet community of Stepford. Steven joins the men's club, which is still assimilating their wives into robots. This time, they have begun to turn their out of control teens into robots as well. Once they are assimilated, they are obedient, homework loving, big band dancing droids. Laura, David, and Mary stumble onto this mystery, and they must avoid Steven's plans to turn them into robots.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Thriller TV Movie Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-03-15
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There Must Be a Pony
Overview: Marguerite Sydney is a celebrated Hollywood star attempting a comeback after a stay in a mental hospital, as well as trying to re-establish a relationship with her teenage son, and risking a romance with a mysterious stranger.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-10-05
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That's Adequate
Overview: This mockumentary about fictional movie studio Adequate Pictures boasts an interesting cast. Tony Randall hosts, and James CoCo (practically on his deathbed) stars as head of the studio. Includes parodies of everything from silent comedies to porn, including an ultra violent "three stooges" style comedy team who put a new spin on the eye poking gag.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-20
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The Curious Case Of Santa Claus
Overview: On Christmas Eve, Santa Claus visits a psychiatrist to find out who he is and why there are so many of him ringing bells on street corners.
Genres: Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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Ensign Pulver
Overview: 1945, on an old cargo ship somewhere deep in the Pacific ocean: Captain Morton strives to become commander, so he demands the maximum quality of work from his crew, without granting them any freedom or favors - ignoring that they're thousand of miles away from the front. In one word: he drives his crew crazy. They are near mutiny, but no-one dares to do the first step. Until Ensign Pulver plays a prank on the captain that triggers fatal consequences...
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-07-31
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Charleston
Overview: Charleston is a 1977 Italian comedy film written and directed by Marcello Fondato. It reprises the style of the film The Sting.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-03-05
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End of the Road
Overview: Moments after receiving his graduate diploma, Jacob waits at a train station. The future lies ahead, but life abruptly intervenes. Images flash in Jacob's mind: of war, injustice, assassination, protest, the entire spectrum of 1960s angst and anger - sending Jacob into a catatonic state. What follows during his bizarre rehab and its aftermath will be another form of madness.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-02-10
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From Raquel with Love
Overview: Musical Special designed to showcase the minimal talents of Raquel Welch. Highlights include: a scene featuring Welch and Mickey Rooney, portraying a cab driver with seemingly magical abilities; a scene featuring Welch in a subway station performing a medley and dance sequence; a scene wherein Welch attempts to sing “Money Makes the World Go Round”; Raquel performing a version of “We Are Family” in a martial arts training class; Rooney and Welch performing “Heaven on Earth”; Welch performing “Don’t Rain on My Parade” while escaping from a straitjacket; Welch performing “A Quiet Thing”; and Welch and Rooney performing “They Can’t Take That Away from Me.”
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-11-23
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On the Flip Side
Overview: "On the Flip Side" is an episode of ABC Stage 67 starring James Coco, Tyrone Cooper, and James Dybas. A spirit and her musical combo are assigned to help a washed-up singer make a comeback. The original score for this program was composed by Burt Bacharach and Hal David, with musical direction by Peter Matz.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-12-07
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Debby Boone... One Step Closer
Overview: A musical comedy special hosted by Debby Boone, about a company of singers and dancers preparing to open in a Broadway show. Taped at a theater in Detroit where Debby Boone and the rest of the cast were actually preparing a Broadway-bound adaptation of "Seven Brides For Seven Brothers."
Genres: Music TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-04-28
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Night of 100 Stars
Overview: The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place Friday February 19, 1982 at New York's Radio City Music Hall. The event, for which ticket-buyers paid up to $1,000 a seat (tax-deductible as a contribution to the Actors' Fund) was billed as "The Night of 100 Stars" but, actually, around 230 stars took part. And most of the audience of 5,800 had no idea in advance that they were paying to see a TV taping, complete with long waits for set and costume changes, tape rewinding, and the like. Executive producer Alexander Cohen estimated that the 5,800 Radio City Music Hall seats sold out at prices ranging from $25 to $1,000. The show itself cost about $4 million to produce and was expected to yield around $2 million for the new addition to the Actors Fund retirement home in Englewood, N. J. ABC is reputed to have paid more than $5 million for the television rights.
Genres: Comedy Music TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-03-08
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The Blue Bird
Overview: Peasant children Mytyl and Tyltyl are led on a magical quest for the fabulous Blue Bird of Happiness by the fairy Berylune. On their journey, they're accompanied by the anthropomorphized presences of a Dog, a Cat, Light, Fire, and Bread, among other entities.
Genres: Adventure Family Fantasy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-04-30
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