Charles Tyner
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Biography: Charles Tyner (June 8, 1923 – November 8, 2017) was an American film, television and stage character actor best known, principally, for his performances in the films Harold and Maude (1971), Emperor of the North Pole (1973), The Stone Killer (1973), The Longest Yard (1974), Evilspeak (1982), Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987) and Pulse (1988).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Danville, Virginia, USA
Birthday: June 08, 1925
Deathday: November 08, 2017
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Gender: Male
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Harold and Maude
Overview: The young Harold lives in his own world of suicide-attempts and funeral visits to avoid the misery of his current family and home environment. Harold meets an 80-year-old woman named Maude who also lives in her own world yet one in which she is having the time of her life. When the two opposites meet they realize that their differences don’t matter and they become best friends and love each other.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-12-20
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The Stone Killer
Overview: A Los Angeles detective is sent to New York where he must solve a case involving an old Sicilian Mafia family feud.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-08-08
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Fuzz
Overview: Police in Boston search for a mad bomber trying to extort money from the city.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-07-14
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Pete's Dragon
Overview: Pete, a young orphan, runs away to a Maine fishing town with his best friend a lovable, sometimes invisible dragon named Elliott! When they are taken in by a kind lighthouse keeper, Nora, and her father, Elliott's prank playing lands them in big trouble. Then, when crooked salesmen try to capture Elliott for their own gain, Pete must attempt a daring rescue.
Genres: Fantasy Animation Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-11-03
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Emperor of the North
Overview: Hobos encounter a sadistic railway conductor that will not let anyone "ride the rails" for free.
Genres: Adventure Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-05-23
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Lassie: The New Beginning
Overview: The Stratton kids, Samantha and Chip, and their grandmother, Ada, drive to visit their Uncle Stuart. Grandma collapses and dies in a strange town, leaving the kids and Lassie on their own.
Genres: Adventure Family Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-09-01
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Sometimes a Great Notion
Overview: Hank Stamper and his father, Henry, own and operate the family business by cutting and shipping logs in Oregon. The town is furious when they continue working despite the town going broke and the other loggers go on strike ordering the Stampers to stop, however Hank continues to push his family on cutting more trees. Hank's wife wishes he would stop and hopes that they can spend more time together. When Hank's half brother Leland comes to work for them, more trouble starts.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-12-17
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The Traveling Executioner
Overview: Jonas Candide performs his job as state executioner in early 20th century Mississippi like a combination preacher and carnival barker, persuading condemned men to accept their deaths before electrocuting them on his electric chair. After he's assigned his first woman to execute, however, Jonas' sense of purpose is shaken.
Genres: Comedy Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-10-01
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Evilspeak
Overview: Bullied by classmates, a pudgy military-school student fights back by computer with the devil.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-08-22
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Monte Walsh
Overview: Monte Walsh is an aging cowboy facing the ending days of the Wild West era. As barbed wire and railways steadily eliminate the need for the cowboy, Monte and his friends are left with fewer and fewer options. New work opportunities are available to them, but the freedom of the open prarie is what they long for. Eventually, they all must say goodbye to the lives they knew, and try to make a new start.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-09-26
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Hamburger: The Motion Picture
Overview: Russell has been expelled from several schools for lewd, crude and nude conduct. Busterburger University is his last chance at education and satisfying his disappointed parents
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-31
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That Kind of Woman
Overview: A young G.I. falls in love with a kept woman on a train to New York.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-09-11
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Sarge: The Badge or the Cross
Overview: After his wife is murdered, a veteran cop quits the police department and becomes a priest. Several years later he is assigned to a parish where he meets the man who killed his wife -- and discovers that the killer was gunning for him instead. The first of two feature-length pilots for the series "Sarge."
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-02-22
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Motorama
Overview: A ten year old boy gets tired of life with abusive parents and cashes in his piggy bank and steals a Mustang. He rides off into a surreal America playing "Motorama," a game sponsored by Chimera Gas Company. He has various encounters with different people, and eventually reaches the Chimera Gas Company where he finds they are not playing by the rules of the game.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-09-10
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The Reivers
Overview: In turn-of-the-century Mississippi, an 11-year-old boy comes of age as two mischievous adult friends talk him into sneaking the family car out for a trip to Memphis and a series of adventures.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-12-20
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The Outlaw Josey Wales
Overview: After avenging his family's brutal murder, Wales is pursued by a pack of soldiers. He prefers to travel alone, but ragtag outcasts are drawn to him - and Wales can't bring himself to leave them unprotected.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-06-30
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Jeremiah Johnson
Overview: A mountain man who wishes to live the life of a hermit becomes the unwilling object of a long vendetta by Indians when he proves to be the match of their warriors in one-to-one combat on the early frontier.
Genres: Adventure Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-09-10
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Best Seller
Overview: Hit man Cleve approaches writer/cop Dennis about a story for his next book: How Cleve made a living, working for one of the most powerful politicians in the country. To get the story right, they travel around the country to gather statements and evidence, while strong forces use any means they can to keep the story untold.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-09-25
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Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Overview: An irritable marketing executive, Neal Page, is heading home to Chicago for Thanksgiving when a number of delays force him to travel with a well meaning but overbearing shower curtain ring salesman, Del Griffith.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-11-26
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The Midnight Man
Overview: An ex-convict, and ex-cop, finds himself in the midst of drama as a murder, of a female student, is commited at the university where he works as a night watchman. He is reluctantly drawn into the criminal investigation and eventually becomes a suspect in the case. Will he be able to find the real murderer and clear his own name, or not?
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-03-07
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The Incredible Journey of Doctor Meg Laurel
Overview: A big-city female doctor returns to her roots in the backwoods of the Blue Ridge Mountains to bring modern medicine to the local folks in the Appalachia of the 1930s and finds herself at odds with the homespun ways of the resident medicine woman.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-01-02
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The Stalking Moon
Overview: While moving a group of Apaches to a Native American reservation in Arizona, an American scout named Sam Varner is surprised to find a white woman, Sarah Carver, living with the tribe. When Sam learns that she was taken captive by an Indian named Salvaje ten years ago, he attempts to escort Sarah and her half-Native American son to his home in New Mexico. However, it soon becomes clear that Salvaje is hot on their trail.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-12-25
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I'll Be Home for Christmas
Overview: The Bundy family try to have a good family Christmas, despite World War II.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-12-12
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Peter Lundy and the Medicine Hat Stallion
Overview: A teenage boy gets a job as a Pony Express rider in the Nebraska Territory not long before the Civil War breaks out.
Genres: Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-11-05
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A Matter of Life and Death
Overview: The true story of a nurse who spent her life caring for terminally ill patients.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-01-13
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Pulse
Overview: An intelligent pulse of electricity moves from house to house, terrorizing occupants through their own appliances. Having already destroyed one household in a quiet neighborhood, the pulse finds itself in the home of a boy and his divorced father.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-03-04
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Winter Kill
Overview: Someone is shooting the residents of a mountain resort town. Sheriff McNeill (Andy Griffith) must figure out the connection that links the victims and find the sniper before he (or she) kills again, and before the town council relieves him of duty.
Genres: Thriller Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-04-15
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Fail Safe
Overview: Because of a technical defect an American bomber team mistakenly orders the destruction of Moscow. The President of the United States has but little time to prevent an atomic catastrophe from occurring.
Genres: Thriller Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-10-07
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Cool Hand Luke
Overview: When petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn't play by the rules of either the sadistic warden or the yard's resident heavy, Dragline, who ends up admiring the new guy's unbreakable will. Luke's bravado, even in the face of repeated stints in the prison's dreaded solitary confinement cell, "the box," make him a rebel hero to his fellow convicts and a thorn in the side of the prison officers.
Genres: Action Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-11-01
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The Cheyenne Social Club
Overview: Two cowboys inherit a "social club" specializing in satisfying men.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-06-12
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Family Plot
Overview: Spiritualist Blanche Tyler and her cab-driving boyfriend encounter a pair of serial kidnappers while trailing a missing heir in California.
Genres: Comedy Crime Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-04-09
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The Moonshine War
Overview: A federal agent attempts to make some real money before the alcohol ban is lifted so he sets his sights on the whiskey cache of an old army buddy.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-06-30
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The Sound of Anger
Overview: Two teenagers who have been engaged in pre-marital sex become the prime suspects when the girl's disapproving father is mysteriously murdered.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-12-10
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The Longest Yard
Overview: A football player-turned-convict organizes a team of inmates to play against a team of prison guards. His dilemma is that the warden asks him to throw the game in return for an early release, but he is also concerned about the inmates' lack of self-esteem.
Genres: Comedy Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-08-21
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Enid Is Sleeping
Overview: Enid only looks like she's sleeping. In fact, she's dead. Shortly after Enid caught her husband Harry in bed with her sister June, a row ensued, whereupon June accidently killed Enid. June's problem now is to hide the truth from the authorities, including her police-officer husband Floyd. Then she decides to reveal Enid's demise, albeit rearranging the damning evidence to make the whole thing look like the accident it really was.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-05-25
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Gaily, Gaily
Overview: After runaway Ben Young is robbed and left on his own, he is taken in by Lil, the head of a Chicago brothel. Acting as a surrogate mother for Ben, who thinks she runs a boardinghouse, Lil gets him a job with Francis Sullivan at the local newspaper. As Ben is exposed to the workings of the big city, he realizes the extent of government corruption and sets out on the daunting task of reforming Chicago politics, finding several allies along the way.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-12-16
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Deadly Messages
Overview: When Laura unearths an old Ouija board in her closet, her roommate, Cindy, uses it and encounters the spirit of a man that had been murdered in their apartment. After Laura later witnesses Cindy being strangled to death, the authorities arrive to find Cindy missing and no evidence of a crime. Laura sets out to convince everyone that the murder was real while evading the man she feels is Cindy's killer.
Genres: Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-02-21
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Shadow of Fear
Overview: A boy turns to his pets after his father dies, and on a visit to his great-uncle in the Amish country, he learns their legends and superstitions. He soon discovers he has the power to make mind contact with the animals.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-01-28
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Lawman
Overview: While passing through the town of Bannock, a bunch of drunken cattlemen go overboard with their celebrating and accidentally kill an old man with a stray shot. They return home to Sabbath unaware of his death. Bannock lawman Jered Maddox later arrives there to arrest everyone involved on a charge of murder. Sabbath is run by land baron Vince Bronson, a benevolent despot, who, upon hearing of the death, offers restitution for the incident.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-03-11
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The Cowboys
Overview: When his cattlemen abandon him for the gold fields, rancher Wil Andersen is forced to take on a collection of young boys as his cowboys in order to get his herd to market in time to avoid financial disaster. The boys learn to do a man's job under Andersen's tutelage, however, neither he nor the boys know that a gang of cattle thieves is stalking them.
Genres: Western Adventure Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-13
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The Greatest Gift
Overview: Reverend Holvak, a weak rural preacher from the 1940s, fights stiff-necked church deacons along with a violent, bullying sheriff whilst protecting his loved ones.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-11-04
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Bad Company
Overview: After Drew Dixon, an upright young man, is sent west by his religious family to avoid being drafted into the Civil War, he drifts across the land with a loose confederation of young vagrants.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-10-08
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Young Pioneers
Overview: Pilot for TV series of the same name released in 1978. The film told the tale of Molly and David Beaton, two teenage newlyweds, homesteading in the Dakota Territory in the 1870s.
Genres: Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-03-01
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