George Maharis
Also Known As: George Maharias
Biography: George Maharis was an American actor who portrayed Buz Murdock in the first three seasons of the TV series Route 66. Maharis also recorded numerous pop music albums at the height of his fame, and later starred in the short-lived TV series The Most Deadly Game.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Astoria, Queens, New York City, New York, USA
Birthday: September 01, 1928
Deathday: May 24, 2023
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Gender: Male
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Land Raiders
Overview: An outlaw committing a string of robberies and murders manages to blame the crimes on Apaches, bringing about an Indian war.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-07-27
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The Satan Bug
Overview: A US government germ warfare lab has had an accident. The first theory is that one of the germs has been released and killed several scientists. The big fear is that a more virulent strain, named The Satan Bug because all life can be killed off by it should it escape, may have been stolen.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-03-26
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Escape to Mindanao
Overview: Two American POWs break out of a Japanese jungle prison camp with their captors' secret decoding device and try to reach freedom despite being slowed by an opportunistic sea captain, his pretty daughter, and a black marketeer.
Genres: Action War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-12-07
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Doppelganger
Overview: After being implicated in a murder, a young woman flees New York City and moves to Los Angeles, where she rents a room from a writer. They begin an affair, but it seems she's been followed by a homicidal duplicate of herself.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-03-01
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The Happening
Overview: A group of young drifters kidnap wealthy businessman Roc Delmonico just for kicks. They keep him captive, demanding a ransom for his safe release. However there is no one - wife, Mafia associates or mother - willing to part with the $200,000 ransom. Demonico is dismayed that no one appears unduly concerned about his fate and joins forces with the kidnappers to plot his revenge, blackmailing his once nearest and dearest into parting with $3,000,000 in hush money.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-05-17
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Sylvia
Overview: Sylvia West (Carroll Baker) may not be who she says she is. Her fiancé, the very well-to-do Frederick Summers (Peter Lawford), hires an investigator named Alan Maklin (George Maharis) to do some digging, and what he finds out about her life prior to becoming a writer is quite shocking. Will the newfound knowledge ruin the marriage? Gordon Douglas (Young at Heart) directs this drama, which is based on E.V. Cunningham's book.
Genres: Drama Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-02-10
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Murder on Flight 502
Overview: On a flight to London, a note is found stating that there will be murders taking place on the airliner before it lands.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-11-21
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Quick, Before It Melts
Overview: A reporter and a photographer become entwined with women, marriage, and a defecting Russian scientist while on an expedition to Antarctica for their magazine.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-01-20
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The Victim
Overview: A woman is trapped during a storm in a house with no electricity or phone. A killer has murdered her sister, stuffed the body in the basement, and is now after her.
Genres: Crime Drama Horror Mystery Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-11-14
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Look What's Happened to Rosemary's Baby
Overview: Baby Adrian is now all grown up and separated from his mother, wrestling with the occult influences that plague him, and trying to outrun Satan himself.
Genres: Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-10-29
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Come Die With Me
Overview: A man kills his older brother when he is refused a loan and then is held in bondage by the housekeeper who knows of the murder.
Genres: Drama Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-05-14
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The Monk
Overview: Underworld attorney Leo Barnes hires Gus Monk to safeguard a valuable envelope containing information on a mobster. Monk refuses — until he meets Mrs. Barnes and jumps on a merry-go-round of viciousness and murder.
Genres: Mystery Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-10-22
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A Covenant with Death
Overview: An innocent man is found guilty of murder and sentenced to death, but as he's about to be hanged he accidentally kills his executioner. He now faces a new trial, presided over by a young and inexperienced judge.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-02-15
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SST: Death Flight
Overview: On its maiden flight, the crew of America's first supersonic transport learns that it may not be able to land, due to an act of sabotage and a deadly flu onboard.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-02-25
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The Mugger
Overview: A police shrink tries to identify and capture an elusive mugger that scars his female victims before stealing their purse.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-11-01
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Return to Fantasy Island
Overview: A second feature-length pilot film for the wish-fulfillment series sees six lucky people having their dreams fulfilled on the luxury resort island. Career woman Margo Dean's assistant, Lowell Benson, hopes to romance her; Brian and Lucy Faber want to see the daughter they gave up for adoption; Janet Fleming, who lost her memory on her honeymoon, wants to relive it to cure her amnesia.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-20
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The Desperados
Overview: A Confederate and his sons become postwar marauders and face another son who left them, in Texas.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-02-28
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The Last Day of the War
Overview: The war in Europe is ending, but the American troops have to find a scientist on the run who is also chased by some surviving SS forces.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-08-10
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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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The Crash of Flight 401
Overview: True story recounting the crash of Eastern Airlines, Flight 401, which crashed in the Everglades while on approach to Miami in December 1972. Accurate in many respects, the movie goes through the events leading up to the crash, the crash itself, and the rescue effort afterwards.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-10-29
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Mon Petit Chou
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1961-11-24
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Death in Space
Overview: The commander of a spaceship orbiting 250 miles above Earth disappears through the airlock and is ejected into space. Although at first it appears to have been an accident, some of the crew come to suspect that it may have actually been a murder.
Genres: Science Fiction Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-06-17
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The Sword and the Sorcerer
Overview: A mercenary with a three-bladed sword rediscovers his royal heritage when he is recruited to help a princess foil a brutal tyrant and a powerful sorcerer's plans to conquer the land.
Genres: Action Adventure Fantasy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-04-01
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A Small Rebellion
Overview: An angry young man of the theatre, who has written a play that could be a hit, if actress Sara Lescaut agrees to play the lead. Kolinos, however, is determined not to alter one word of his script to make it a more commercial vehicle.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-02-09
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Death to Sister Mary
Overview: The cast of a British soap opera are attacked by a mad fan who confuses them with their TV roles.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-05-21
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Marty
Overview: Marty Pilletti is a 36-year-old butcher who lives with his mother, who is always asking him why he doesn't find a nice girl and get married. The truth is Marty is lonely and would like nothing better, but he has low self-esteem and admits to his mother that he's ugly and no one wants him. He's tired of going to the Saturday night dance with his buddies and then going home more depressed than he was when the evening started. But at one of those dances he meets Clara. They have a great deal in common but Marty will have to overcome peer pressure if he and Clara are to have a relationship.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-05-24
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