Ken Swofford
Also Known As: Kenneth Charles Swofford
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Ken Swofford (July 25, 1933 - November 1, 2018) was an American film and television actor noted for his red hair and ruddy complexion. He was often cast as "everyman", villains, or policemen. Between 1962 and 1995, Swofford's film credits included The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson, Thelma and Louise, Black Roses and The Andromeda Strain, while his TV career during the same period was prolific. Appearing repeatedly as a guest and/or in recurring roles, he is best remembered as Quentin Morlock in Fame, Lt. Griffin in Switch, Cutler in The Oregon Trail, Al Barber in Rich Man, Poor Man Book II, Lt. Catalano in Murder, She Wrote and columnist Frank Flanagan in Ellery Queen.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: DuQuoin - Illinois - USA
Adult: No
Birthday: July 25, 1933
Age: 91 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: November 01, 2018
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Common Law Cabin
Overview: After stealing a fortune in unclaimed jewelry, ex-detective Barney Rickert arrives at a run-down dude ranch in Arizona to hide out. When the owner, Dewey Hoople, refuses to sell the land to Rickert, he proceeds to win over the female inhabitants by seducing them one by one which leads to one refusing his advances and a dangerous game played out in which Rickert ruthlessly sets out to get what he wants.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-07-01
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The Domino Principle
Overview: Roy Tucker, a Vietnam war veteran with excellent shooting skills, is serving a long prison sentence when a mysterious visitor promises him that he will be released if he agrees to carry out a dangerous assignment.
Genres: Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-03-23
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The Taking of Beverly Hills
Overview: A chemical spill has caused the occupants of Beverly Hills to be forcibly evacuated. A retiring football player left behind, finds that the toxic gas emulating from the spill is a bogus front for a heist set up by fired police officers out to plunder the city of all its valuables. Finding himself siding with a corrupt cop who was once apart of the plan until he discovered the city's mayor had just been blown away, by one of the chief crooks in charge. Now both on the run with no help in sight...both must do whatever they can to stop these murderous looters.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-10-10
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One Little Indian
Overview: An Army deserter flees by camel across the desert with a caucasian boy raised by Indians.
Genres: Family Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-06-20
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Gunsmoke: To the Last Man
Overview: Retired marshal Matt Dillon tracks Arizona rustlers and lands in the middle of the 1880s Pleasant Valley War.
Genres: TV Movie Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-10
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Skyjacked
Overview: A crazed Vietnam vet bomber hijacks a Boeing 707 and demands to be taken to Russia.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-05-24
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Sultan and the Rock Star
Overview: Paul Winters, a rock star burnout, flees his fame and ends up by chance on an island where he comes face to face with Sultan, a domesticated Bengal tiger left there to be hunted by a wealthy businessman. He then befriends the animal and decides to do everything to save him...
Genres: Adventure Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-04-20
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The Lawyer
Overview: Tony Petrocelli, a bright young lawyer practicing in the rich cattle town of Baker, becomes embroiled in a murder case.
Genres: Crime Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-03-10
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A Case of Rape
Overview: When she was raped, Ellen thought it was the worst thing to ever happen to her. What was worse, was the treatment by the hospital staff, police and the court system, when she reported it, and the man was caught.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-02-20
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Terror at London Bridge
Overview: London Bridge, London, England, 1888: Jack the Ripper dies in the Thames river. London Bridge, Lake Havasu, Arizona, 1985: the last original stone used to rebuild London Bridge is laid and all the city is happy...but then some strange murders start happening. Policeman Don Gregory has some suspects, but when he develops a theory that Jack the Ripper has been resurrected, no one believes him.
Genres: Horror Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-11-22
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Captain Newman, M.D.
Overview: In 1944, Capt. Josiah J. Newman is the doctor in charge of Ward 7, the neuropsychiatric ward, at an Army Air Corps hospital in Arizona. The hospital is under-resourced and Newman scrounges what he needs with the help of his inventive staff, especially Cpl. Jake Leibowitz. The military in general is only just coming to accept psychiatric disorders as legitimate and Newman generally has 6 weeks to cure them or send them on to another facility. There are many patients in the ward and his latest include Colonel Norville Bliss who has dissociated from his past; Capt. Paul Winston who is nearly catatonic after spending 13 months hiding in a cellar behind enemy lines; and 20 year-old Cpl. Jim Tompkins who is severely traumatized after his aircraft was shot down. Others come and go, including Italian prisoners of war, but Newman and team all realize that their success means the men will return to their units.
Genres: Comedy Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-12-25
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The Gambler: The Adventure Continues
Overview: Brady Hawkes, Billy Montana, and Jeremiah Hawkes are on a train bound for a huge gambling event when the train is taken over by a gang of vicious killers in search of money. As ransom, the gang takes young Jeremiah hostage. Brady and Billy embark on a quest to rescue him and form a small gang of their own along the way.
Genres: Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-11-28
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Captain America II: Death Too Soon
Overview: Crimefighting Captain America rights more wrongs by doing battle with a fanatical terrorist who uses his deadly drug that causes accelerated aging to finance his world revolution.
Genres: Action Drama Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-11-23
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A Cry for Help
Overview: A talk-radio host, who specializes in abusing and insulting his audience, gets a call from a disturbed teenage girl who says she is going to commit suicide. After first encouraging her, he has a change of heart and frantically tries to get his listeners to help find the girl before she makes good on her threat.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-02-12
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Sky Heist
Overview: A husband and wife come up with a plan to steal $10 million in gold, using the hijacking of a police helicopter as a diversion.
Genres: Action Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-05-26
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Man on the Outside
Overview: A retired police captain storms angrily out of retirement when his son is shot down before his eyes and his grandson is kidnapped by a syndicate killer in this pilot for Lorne Greene's brief "Griff" series, which went off the air 18 months before this film was aired.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-06-29
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Scott Free
Overview: A professional gambler finds himself on the run from the mob, the federal government, and a band of Indians, all of whom have an interest in a piece of land he won in a poker game.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-10-13
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Crisis in Sun Valley
Overview: Semi-follow up to "The Deadly Triangle" dealing with a sheriff and his deputy in a sleepy ski town involved with a group of urbanites planning a dangerous mountain climb as well as investigating sabotage in a condominium development.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-03-29
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Black Roses
Overview: Teens in a small conservative town are turned into evil demons thanks to the music of the titular heavy metal band.
Genres: Horror Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-11-01
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Thelma & Louise
Overview: Taking a break from their dreary lives, close friends Thelma and Louise embark on a short weekend trip that ends in unforeseen incriminating circumstances. As fugitives, both women rediscover the strength of their bond and their newfound resilience.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-05-24
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Overview: In this pilot film that led to the series, an ex-con and a retired cop, partners in a private investigation agency, try to prove that a safecracker has been framed for a diamond robbery.
Genres: Action Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-03-21
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Murder in High Places
Overview: A small Colorado mountain town elects as its mayor a writer whom some residents consider "eccentric" and others don't care for because he's a former hippie. Complications ensue when soon after the election, a dead body crashes through the skylight of a local building, and the body turns out to be the new mayor's ex-wife.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-06-02
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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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First to Fight
Overview: Jack is the sole survivor of a Japanese attack on his squad at Guadalcanal. Because of his heroism and the fact that he is still alive, he becomes a Medal of Honor hero. He returns to train new recruits for the Marines and falls for a girl named Peggy. When training and marriage leave him with an empty feeling, he decides on a transfer back to the front lines. Soon he will find that marriage and life will change his outlook on the grueling battles that lie ahead.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-01-25
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Father Goose
Overview: During World War II, South Sea beachcomber Walter Eckland is persuaded to spy on planes passing over his island. He gets more than he bargained for as schoolteacher Catherine Frenau arrives on the run from the Japanese with her pupils in tow!
Genres: Adventure Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-12-10
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Hunter's Blood
Overview: Five "city boys" travel to the country to relax by doing some hunting, drinking Bud, and generally having good time. However, the local inbred backwoods psychos turn the hunters to be the hunted, and they need all the ammo and wits they have to get out of the woods alive.
Genres: Horror Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-09-26
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The Andromeda Strain
Overview: When virtually all of the residents of Piedmont, New Mexico, are found dead after the return to Earth of a space satellite, the head of the US Air Force's Project Scoop declares an emergency. A group of eminent scientists led by Dr. Jeremy Stone scramble to a secure laboratory and try to first isolate the life form while determining why two people from Piedmont - an old alcoholic and a six-month-old baby - survived. The scientists methodically study the alien life form unaware that it has already mutated and presents a far greater danger in the lab, which is equipped with a nuclear self-destruct device designed to prevent the escape of dangerous biological agents.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-03-12
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Bless the Beasts & Children
Overview: A group of social misfits at a summer camp for boys run away to save penned-in buffaloes from a rifle club's slaughter.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-08-01
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All God's Children
Overview: Big city judge Parke Denison is involved in a forced busing dispute at the climax of his long career. The friendship between two families -- one white, one black -- and their sons, who are buddies, provides the microcosm of this major social issue that has been argued for several decades.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-04-28
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The Intruders
Overview: The James and Younger outlaw gangs ride into town, and it is up to the local marshal, who has lost both his nerve and his gun skills, to stop them.
Genres: TV Movie Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-11-10
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Cops n Roberts
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Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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Recess: School's Out
Overview: The school year is finally ending, and T.J. Detweiler is looking forward to summer. But boredom quickly sets in when his friends leave for camp — until T.J. uncovers an evil plot to do away with summer vacation! A crazy former principal, Dr. Benedict, is planning to use a laser beam to alter the weather and create permanent winter. Faced with the dire threat of year-round school, T.J. rounds up the RECESS gang and bands together with some unexpected allies — Miss Finster and Principal Prickly — in a nonstop adventure to save everyone's summer break. As the kids discover the heroes inside themselves, a platoon of wacky characters, far-out music, and sci-fi surprises turn this madcap mission into a major victory for fun!
Genres: Family Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-02-16
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Annie
Overview: An orphan in a facility run by the mean Miss Hannigan, Annie believes that her parents left her there by mistake. When a rich man named Oliver "Daddy" Warbucks decides to let an orphan live at his home to promote his image, Annie is selected. While Annie gets accustomed to living in Warbucks' mansion, she still longs to meet her parents. So Warbucks announces a search for them and a reward, which brings out many frauds.
Genres: Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-05-21
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M.A.D.D.: Mothers Against Drunk Drivers
Overview: A mother relentlessly tries to spearhead a movement for national anti-drunk driver legislation after her own daughter becomes the victim of a hit-and-run by a drunk driver.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-03-13
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Young Joe, the Forgotten Kennedy
Overview: The story of U.S. President John F. Kennedy's older brother Joseph, who undertakes a dangerous mission during World War II.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-09-18
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Teacher's Pet
Overview: Meet Spot, a clever little dog with big dreams of becoming a real boy. When Spot finds out that a crazy scientist can make his wish come true, he takes a cross-country trek with Leonard, his best friend and master, and their mom. However, Dr. Krank's experiments are a little less than perfect, and it will take Leonard and his pet pals to right this genetic wrong.
Genres: Animation Family Music Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-01-16
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Cutter's Trail
Overview: The Marshal of Santa Fe returns home to find his town almost wiped out by Mexican bandits and enlists the help of a young Mexican boy and his mother to track them down.
Genres: Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-02-10
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To Kill a Cop
Overview: Earl Eischied is a man with his hands full. As the Chief of Detectives in New York City he is trying to break up a group of black militants that are on a crime spree including the killing of a police officer. He is also trying to battle with a mayor and police commissioner that want him out of his job.
Genres: Crime Drama Action TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-04-10
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Shadow on the Land
Overview: Patriotic freedom fighters struggle against a fascist dictatorship in a near-future USA.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-12-04
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Rewrite for Murder
Overview: Unaired CBS television pilot from 1991 starring George Clooney and Pam Dawber was an attempt at a breezy comedy/mystery in the style of Moonlighting about a pair of mismatched writers on a television mystery program who have to solve a real-life murder.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-09-14
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Judgment: The Court Martial of the Tiger of Malaya — General Yamashita
Overview: Dramatization of the trial of General Yamashita.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-06-11
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S.O.B.
Overview: A movie producer who made a huge flop tries to salvage his career by revamping his film as an erotic production, where its family-friendly star takes her top off.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-07-01
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The Boy and the Bronc Buster
Overview: An orphan teen (Vincent Van Patten) follows a rider (Earl Holliman) on the rodeo circuit, unaware his hero is wanted for murder.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-18
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