Jerry Paris
Also Known As: William Gerald Paris
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jerry Paris (July 25, 1925 – March 31, 1986) was an American actor and director best known for playing Jerry Helper, the dentist and next door neighbor of Rob and Laura Petrie, on The Dick Van Dyke Show. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jerry Paris, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: San Francisco, California, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: July 25, 1925
Age: 99 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: March 31, 1986
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The Caine Mutiny
Overview: When a US Naval captain shows signs of mental instability that jeopardize his ship, the first officer relieves him of command and faces court martial for mutiny.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-06-24
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Good Morning, Miss Dove
Overview: Miss Dove is a prim New England school teacher who is treasured by her students in the small town of Liberty Hill. When she falls ill, a kindly doctor, who is a former student of Miss Dove's, comes to her aid. As many of her pupils, present and past, come to see her in the hospital, they reveal how Miss Dove has greatly impacted their lives over the years. These visitors include a police officer, a playwright, a banker, a convict, and an unmarried mother.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-11-23
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Cyrano de Bergerac
Overview: France, 1640. Cyrano, the charismatic swordsman-poet with the absurd nose, hopelessly loves the beauteous Roxane; she, in turn, confesses to Cyrano her love for the handsome but tongue-tied Christian. The chivalrous Cyrano sets up with Christian an innocent deception, with tragic results.
Genres: Romance Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-11-16
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Drive a Crooked Road
Overview: A mechanic gets caught up with the mob when he falls for a gangster's girlfriend.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-03-10
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The Glass Wall
Overview: Peter Kuban, a Hungarian refugee, is about to be deported after jumping ship in New York harbor. He needs to find an ex-G.I. named Tom whom he helped during the war, as Tom can prove Peter's right to legal entry into the United States. If he can't find Tom within 24 hours and prove his case, he will be branded a fugitive and will be permanently disqualified for U.S. citizenship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-03-19
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Not as a Stranger
Overview: Lucas Marsh, an intern bent upon becoming a first-class doctor, not merely a successful one. He courts and marries the warm-hearted Kristina, not out of love but because she is highly knowledgeable in the skills of the operating room and because she has frugally put aside her savings through the years. She will be, as he shrewdly knows, a supportive wife in every way. She helps make him the success he wants to be and cheerfully moves with him to the small town in which he starts his practice. But as much as he tries to be a good husband to the undemanding Kristina, Marsh easily falls into the arms of a local siren and the patience of the long-sorrowing Kristina wears thin.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-07-01
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Marty
Overview: Marty, a butcher who lives in the Bronx with his mother is unmarried at 34. Good-natured but socially awkward he faces constant badgering from family and friends to get married but has reluctantly resigned himself to bachelorhood. Marty meets Clara, an unattractive school teacher, realising their emotional connection, he promises to call but family and friends try to convince him not to.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-04-11
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No Name on the Bullet
Overview: When hired killer John Gant rides into Lordsburg, the town's folk become paranoid as each leading citizen has enemies capable of using the services of a professional killer for personal revenge.
Genres: Action Thriller Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-02-01
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Outrage
Overview: A young woman who has just become engaged has her life completely shattered when she is raped while on her way home from work.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-09-27
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Zero Hour!
Overview: In 1950s Canada, during a commercial flight, the pilots and some passengers suffer food poisoning, thus forcing an ex-WW2 fighter pilot to try to land the airliner in heavy fog.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-11-13
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Bonzo Goes to College
Overview: When Bonzo turns out to be the answer to the football teams troubles, the only solution is to enroll him into a college.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-09-11
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Sabre Jet
Overview: The story of jet pilots flying over Korea by day, from their Itazuke Air Base in Japan, and of their wives, on station with them, who have dinner ready when they return. Jane Carter (Coleen Gray), a reporter for a large newspaper syndicate arrives... she's also the estranged wife of the assistant squadron commander, Colonel Gil Manton (Robert Stack.) At first, she goes at her assignment of getting a story on the pilots wives with the same ruthlessness and persistence that broke up her marriage - but a mirror isn't needed to peek around the corner to where this one is headed.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-09-04
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The Naked Street
Overview: To make an honest woman of his pregnant sister, Rosalie, callous New York mobster Phil Regal intimidates witnesses and bribes a store clerk to get Rosalie’s condemned boyfriend, Nicky Bradna, out of prison. But Regal’s meddling deeds soon backfire.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-08-01
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The Lady Takes a Flyer
Overview: Change of pace comedy casts Lana Turner and Jeff Chandler as competing pilots who fall in love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-01-30
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Man on the Prowl
Overview: A neglected wife (Mala Powers) unknowingly places her family in danger when she becomes friends with a psychologically disturbed deliveryman (James Best).
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-12-01
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I've Lived Before
Overview: Seeing a certain woman makes an airline pilot think he is a reincarnated World War I pilot.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-09-01
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Never Say Goodbye
Overview: In present-day U.S., Dr. Michael Parker, a prominent surgeon, unexpectedly runs into his German-born wife whom he thought was dead. Victor, an artist and his "dead" wife's now boyfriend, berates Dr. Parker for "killing" her. The bulk of the story flashes back to Austria during World War II as we learn how Dr. Parker met and married his wife, and the one mistake that may have cost him his family.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-03-10
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D.O.A.
Overview: Frank Bigelow is about to die, and he knows it. The accountant has been poisoned and has only 24 hours before the lethal concoction kills him. Determined to find out who his murderer is, Frank, with the help of his assistant and girlfriend, Paula, begins to trace back over his last steps. As he frantically tries to unravel the mystery behind his own impending demise, his sleuthing leads him to a group of crooked businessmen and another murder.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-12-23
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Monkey Business
Overview: Research chemist Barnaby Fulton works on a fountain of youth pill for a chemical company. One of the labs chimps gets loose in the laboratory and mixes chemicals, but then pours the mix into the water cooler. When trying one of his own samples, washed down with water from the cooler, Fulton begins to act just like a twenty-year-old and believes his potion is working. Soon his wife and boss are also behaving like children.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-09-03
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Prisoner of War
Overview: American soldiers, captured by North Korean's, are periodically brainwashed into giving up their capitalist ways to join the communist movement.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-05-04
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Career
Overview: Playwright James Lee adapted his off-Broadway play for the screen in this high-strung adaptation, directed by Joseph Anthony. In this simplistic, backroom show-business-success saga, Anthony Franciosa plays Sam, a struggling young actor who will forsake his family and take any type of menial job in order to become a Broadway star. Dean Martin is on hand as Maury, an aspiring director also trying to claw his way up the ladder of success. When Maury gets his big break, Sam wants a part in his show, but when Maury, who is unwilling to cast Sam in the production, turns down Sam's request, Sam seduces and marries Maury's girlfriend (Shirley MacLaine). In spite of everything, Maury wants his girl back, and Sam agrees to a divorce on the stipulation that Maury cast him as the star in his next show. Once again, Maury reneges and, before Sam can exact his revenge, Uncle Sam comes to the rescue and he is drafted into the army.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-10-08
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The Flying Missile
Overview: A Navy commander experiments with launching missiles from submarines.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-12-24
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The Female Animal
Overview: Jaded movie star Vanessa Windsor, saved from a studio accident by handsome extra Chris Farley, pursues him, and soon he's the 'caretaker' of her beach house. Vanessa's sexy, alcoholic adult daughter Penny accidentally meets Chris, who rescues her from an 'octopus' boyfriend. Before you know it, Chris is involved with both mother and daughter, and his only way out is to take a job in a Mexican picture about man-eating orchids...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-01-22
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Sing Boy Sing
Overview: The teenage son of a rural preacher becomes a huge Elvis-like rock 'n' roll star, but he has trouble adjusting to fame and success.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-02-21
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The View from Pompey's Head
Overview: Anson Page, a lawyer with Southern roots leaves New York, his wife and his kids for Georgia. His assignment is to investigate the case of Garvin Wales, a famous writer, now nearly blind and embittered, whose royalties have apparently never reached him. Back in his native South, Page finds himself immediately exposed to what he had fled : racial and class prejudices. But he also meets his former love, Dinah, now married to go-getter uncouth businessman Mickey Higgins. Will he find out whatever happened to 2,000 dollars in rights Wales did not cash? Will Dinah and Anson renew their love story?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-11-04
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Frenchie
Overview: Frenchie Fontaine sells her successful business in New Orleans to come West. Her reason? Find the men who killed her father, Frank Dawson. But she only knows one of the two who did and she's determined to find out the other.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-12-25
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The Great Impostor
Overview: Fictionalized account of Ferdinand Waldo Demara Jr., who stole or created fictional identities and worked in a variety of occupations, most quite successfully.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-12-23
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The Wild One
Overview: The Black Rebels Motorcycle Club ride into the small California town of Wrightsville, eager to raise hell. Brooding gang leader Johnny Strabler takes a liking to Kathie, the daughter of the local lawman, as another club rolls into town.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-12-30
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Bright Victory
Overview: A soldier blinded in war returns home and attempts to adjust to civilian life.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-08-01
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How Sweet It Is!
Overview: All-American couple who try to bridge the generation gap with their free-spirited son on a trip, frisky business and misunderstandings galore ensue, all funny, vibrant and charming.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-08-21
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Her First Romance
Overview: A teenager experiences her first crush while attending a summer camp. Director Seymour Friedman's 1951 film stars Margaret O'Brien, Allen Martin Jr., Sharyn Moffett, Jimmy Hunt, Elinor Donahue, Ann Doran, Lloyd Corrigan, Atthur Space and Maudie Prickett.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-05-04
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Evil Roy Slade
Overview: Orphaned and left in the desert as an infant, Evil Roy Slade (John Astin) grew up alone—save for his teddy bear—and mean. As an adult, he is notorious for being the "meanest villain in the West"—so he's thrown for quite a loop when he falls for sweet schoolteacher Betsy Potter (Pamela Austin). There's also Nelson L. Stool (Mickey Rooney), a railroad tycoon, who, along with his dimwitted nephew Clifford (Henry Gibson), is trying to get revenge on Evil Roy Slade for robbing him.
Genres: TV Movie Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-02-18
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The Hired Man
Overview: The LA County sheriff's department is on the hunt for a man who approaches his victims as a prospective used car buyer. Directed by Don Siegel for the "Code 3" TV series.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-09-10
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Woman in Hiding
Overview: As far as the rest of the world is concerned, mill heiress Deborah Chandler Clark is dead, killed in a freak auto accident. But Deborah is alive, if not too well. Having discovered a horrible truth about her new husband, Deborah is now a “woman in hiding,” living in mortal fear that someday her husband will catch up with her again. When a returning GI recognizes Deborah, however, she must decide whether or not she can trust him.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-01-06
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Unchained
Overview: This fact-based prison drama tells the tale of a band of prisoners living in the innovative 2,600-acre prison at Chino, California. The place takes a humanistic approach to reform and there are no armed guards, no lockups and no uniforms. The underlying philosophy is that if these things are not there, the prisoners will not want to escape, and will instead accept their punishment. A new inmate arrives and soon accustoms himself to the new idea. The story includes the Oscar nominated song Unchained Melody.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-08-25
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Sitcom: The Adventures of Garry Marshall
Overview: A day-in-the-life documentary with Garry Marshall. Marshall was an executive producer for ABC and was responsible for such hit shows as Laverne and Shirley, Happy Days, and Mork and Mindy. This tape features several behind the scenes segments from these shows' productions. Marshall is also interviewed about the nature of television production and comedy.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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Police Academy 3: Back in Training
Overview: When police funding is cut, the Governor announces he must close one of the academies. To make it fair, the two police academies must compete against each other to stay in operation. Mauser persuades two officers in Lassard's academy to better his odds, but things don't quite turn out as expected...
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-03-20
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The Naked and the Dead
Overview: Fighting men in World War II learn the value of courage and quickness at the risk of losing their lives.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-08-06
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D-Day the Sixth of June
Overview: En route to Normandy, an American and a British officer reminisce in flashback about their romances with the same woman.
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-05-29
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The Dark Side of the Earth
Overview: A drama set in 1956, during the unsuccessful Hungarian uprising against the Russians.
Genres: Drama War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-09-19
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The Reformer and the Redhead
Overview: A small-town politician falls for an idealistic zookeeper.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-05-05
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Submarine Command
Overview: Submarine commander Ken White is forced to suddenly submerge, leaving his captain and another crew member to die outside the sub during WW II. Subsequent years of meaningless navy ground assignments and the animosity of a former sailor, leave White (now a captain) feeling guilty and empty. His life spirals downward and his wife is about to leave him. Suddenly, he is forced into a dangerous rescue situation at the start of the Koren War.... reassigned to the same submarine where all of his problems began.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-11-01
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Hell's Horizon
Overview: The pilot, co-pilot, and crew of a bomber try to hit a Korean bridge in bad weather.
Genres: Action Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-12-31
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But I Don't Want to Get Married!
Overview: An accountant is widowed after 18 years of marriage. He is dumbfounded to have a herd of marriage-minded women descend upon him.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-10-06
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Every Man Needs One
Overview: A chauvinistic architect is pressured into hiring a feminist as his assistant, and soon finds himself falling for her.
Genres: Comedy Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-12-13
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My Foolish Heart
Overview: After a long absence, Mary Jane visits her schoolfriend Eloise, and Eloise's daughter Ramona. Eloise drinks too much and is unhappily married to Lew Wengler. Eloise falls asleep and remembers her time with her true love, Walt Dreiser, at the beginning of the Second World War. She recalls the events that lead up to her split with Mary Jane, and how Lew married Eloise rather than Mary Jane.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-01-19
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