Tom Aldredge
Also Known As: Thomas Aldredge
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Tom Aldredge (born February 28, 1928) is an American actor. He has achieved notice on television, in films and in theatre. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tom Aldredge, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Dayton, Ohio, USA
Birthday: February 28, 1928
Deathday: July 22, 2011
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Gender: Male
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Cold Mountain
Overview: In this classic story of love and devotion set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, a wounded Confederate soldier named W.P. Inman deserts his unit and travels across the South, aiming to return to his young wife, Ada, who he left behind to tend their farm. As Inman makes his perilous journey home, Ada struggles to keep their home intact with the assistance of Ruby, a mysterious drifter sent to help her by a kindly neighbor.
Genres: War History Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-12-24
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What About Bob?
Overview: Before going on vacation, self-involved psychiatrist Dr. Leo Marvin has the misfortune of taking on a new patient: Bob Wiley. An exemplar of neediness and a compendium of phobias, Bob follows Marvin to his family's country house. Dr. Marvin tries to get him to leave; the trouble is, everyone loves Bob. As his oblivious patient makes himself at home, Dr. Marvin loses his professional composure and, before long, may be ready for the loony bin himself.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-05-17
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Other People's Money
Overview: When a corporate raider threatens a hostile takeover of a 'mom and pop' company, the patriarch of the company enlists the help of his wife's attractive daughter—who is a lawyer—to stop the takeover. However, the raider soon becomes infatuated with her, and enjoys the legal manoeuvring as he tries to win her heart.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-10-18
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*batteries not included
Overview: In a soon to be demolished block of apartments, the residents resist the criminal methods used to force them to leave so a greedy tycoon can build his new skyscraper. When tiny mechanical aliens land for a recharge, they decide to stay and help out.
Genres: Family Comedy Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-12-18
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Intolerable Cruelty
Overview: A revenge-seeking gold digger marries a womanizing Beverly Hills lawyer with the intention of making a killing in the divorce.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-09-02
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Into the Woods
Overview: In a woods filled with magic and fairy tale characters, a baker and his wife set out to end the curse put on them by their neighbor, a spiteful witch.
Genres: Drama Music Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-03-15
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Taking Chance
Overview: Lt. Col. Michael Strobl, a volunteer military escort accompanies the body of Lance Cpl. Chance Phelps to his hometown in Wyoming.
Genres: Drama War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-09-21
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My Sassy Girl
Overview: A guy has his life planned out until he is wooed, groomed and then dumped by an elusive woman.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-05-26
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See You in the Morning
Overview: Three years after his divorce from his model-wife is the psychologist Larry Livingstone ready for a new commitment. He falls in love with the young widow Beth who has two children. But Beth and the children are still in mourning over their dead husband and father and Larry finds it a bit difficult to penetrate their reservations. Larry himself has to deal with his ex-wife and his love for his own two kids. Slowly both Beth and the children realise that they have to go on with their lives and that they have been giving a second chance.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-04-14
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The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
Overview: A mysterious stranger descends on the small town of Hadleyburg to teach its deceitful residents a lesson
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-03-17
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The Mind Snatchers
Overview: A German scientist works on a way of quelling overly aggressive soldiers by developing implants that directly stimulate the pleasure centers of the brain.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-06-28
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O Pioneers!
Overview: A young woman inherits her father's farm after he dies. Over the years, she overcomes challenges and turns it into a success, all the while yearning for her childhood love to return.
Genres: TV Movie Action Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-02-02
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The Rain People
Overview: When a housewife finds out she is pregnant, she runs out of town looking for freedom to reevaluate her life decisions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-08-27
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Passion
Overview: Giorgio, a young soldier, is in love with the married Clara and becomes her lover. But they are separated when Giorgio is posted far away, where he meets the unhappy, unhealthy, and unattractive Fosca, who develops a passionate love for Giorgio and tries to make him love her. This rendition of Stephen Sondheim's Tony Award-winning musical was recorded on the stage with it's original all-star Broadway cast. Originally broadcast as part of "American Playhouse" on PBS (season thirteen, episode six).
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-09-29
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Seize the Day
Overview: Tommy Wilhelm (Robin Williams) is a salesman. An honest, hard-working guy who has lost his job, his girlfriend, and left part of his sanity behind as he heads to New York to pick up the pieces of his life. He's always been able to sell, but caught in a downward spiral, he must, in addition, face the father who never really understood him, while trying to balance his newly precarious existence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-09-09
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Full Moon High
Overview: High-school quarterback Tony Walker is bitten by a werewolf and transforms into a growling beast that hungrily chases down beautiful girls.
Genres: Horror Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-08-04
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The American Snitch
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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Lincoln and the War Within
Overview: First few weeks of Lincoln's presidency where crucial for the direction the country would take. He had to bridge the gap between the victorious North and the jaded South and William H. Seward, his Secretary of State, played a crucial role.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-12-01
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The Stars Fell on Henrietta
Overview: The setting is early America during the oil boom. An elderly, down on his luck 'oil man', Mr. Cox finds himself in the town of Henrietta. Using unconventional methods, he convinces himself and local Don Day that there is oil on Day's land. The financially strapped Day puts everything into finding oil...but at what cost?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-09-15
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The Troublemaker
Overview: A naive chicken farmer from New Jersey moves to Greenwich Village to open a coffee house.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-06-22
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Sticks and Bones
Overview: A young man returns home from Vietnam blind. He is very bitter about the war and alienates his family and friends. This movie deals with the aftermath of war and how people react to it both veterans and their families.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-08-17
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Doubletake
Overview: Two corpses are found in different locations with their heads severed and exchanged. Frank Janek is called on to head the team of detectives investigating. Meanwhile, Janek is trying to find out why an old friend and colleague committed suicide, which eventually leads to a romantic situation with photographer Caroline Wallace and the discovery of some major corruption among his superiors, all of which has little or nothing to do with the murder story.
Genres: Action Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-11-24
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Ten Blocks on the Camino Real
Overview: A collection of ten vignettes by Tennessee Williams offering various viewpoints on life, love, and death.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-10-07
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The Blue Hotel
Overview: Nebraska in the 1880's: bleak, lonely, and far from what you'd expect The Wild West to be. But for a naive Swedish immigrant, the frontier parlor of THE BLUE HOTEL represents the quintessential western fantasy. No one can convince The Swede that his dime-store notions about The West are foolish. He sees murderous intentions all around him and in his terror he turns everybody against him. Inevitably, the Swede attracts tragedy. However, who is responsible? The negative Swede? Or the cliquish hotel guests? Jan Kadar directs this timely story of how society punishes outsiders for being different.
Genres: Drama Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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Harvest of Fire
Overview: In a small Amish community, three barns are burnt down almost simultaneously. FBI agent Sally Russwell is sent in to investigate this possible hate crime. What she finds however is a community that little trust for outsiders or "The English" as they call them. However, in her investigations, Agent Russell makes friends with one entrepreneurial widow, Annie Beiler who has her own curiosity about this stranger. Together, Annie introduces Russell in-depth to this close knit community bearing many appealing attributes. However, as Sally's investigations continue, she discovers secrets that reveal uncomfortable truths about the religious community that are linked to the arson attacks.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-04-21
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Sensibility and Sense
Overview: Three friends who bonded over their radical beliefs in the 1930s reunite after becoming estranged over a book one of them wrote.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-24
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Rounders
Overview: A young reformed gambler must return to playing big stakes poker to help a friend pay off loan sharks.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-09-11
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The Rehearsal
Overview: An indictment of the Greek military junta of 1967–1974. The film tries to give a reconstruction of the events during the students' uprising in the Athens Polytechnic (November 1973) by documents, rehearsals, interviews, songs and poems.
Genres: Drama Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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Message in a Bottle
Overview: A woman finds a romantic letter in a bottle washed ashore and tracks down the author, a widowed shipbuilder whose wife died tragically early. As a deep and mutual attraction blossoms, the man struggles to make peace with his past so that he can move on and find happiness.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-02-22
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The Storyteller
Overview: A television writer is troubled by accusations that a young boy's death resulted from actions the boy copied from the writer's teleplay.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-12-05
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King Lear
Overview: James Earl Jones delivers a riveting performance as paranoid patriarch King Lear, an aging monarch who insists that his three daughters prove their love for him, only to learn he's exalted the two who seek to destroy him. This live performance recording of Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival production deftly envisions the bard's haunting tragedy with a fine supporting cast, including Raul Julia, Paul Sorvino and Rene Auberjonois.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-02-20
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The Spy Who Returned from the Dead
Overview: Spy spoof about a double agent involved in a phony death plot. Episode of the Wide World of Mystery.
Genres: TV Movie Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-08
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Game 6
Overview: Combining real and fictional events, this movie centers around the historic 1986 World Series, and a day in the life of a playwright who skips opening night to watch the momentous game.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-03-10
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The Gentleman Bandit
Overview: Based on the real-life ordeal of Baltimore priest Bernard Pagano, who was accused of several armed robberies in the late Seventies.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-05-06
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In the Best of Families: Marriage, Pride & Madness
Overview: After a very messy divorce, a man starts suspecting his ex-wife and her new boyfriend of various crimes.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-01-16
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Who Killed Teddy Bear?
Overview: A grim police detective embarks on a one-man crusade to track down a depraved sex maniac when a nightclub deejay receives a disturbing series of obscene phone calls. Finding himself getting far too close to the victim for comfort, the hard-boiled cop must track down the unbalanced pervert before he can carry out his sick threats...
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-09-01
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A Special Friendship
Overview: During the American Civil War, two women, a wealthy white woman and a freed black slave, join forces to fight for freedom and the abolition of slavery.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-03-31
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Camouflage
Overview: Marty Mackenzie is an unsuccessful stage actor who takes an interest in private investigating. He takes a job working with Jack Potter, a crusty private eye. They both take a case in Beaver Ridge, a seedy small town where a murder is being planned against a rich gravel pit owner. Marty realizes that private investigating is not as it seemed to be.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-09
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The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Overview: Outlaw Jesse James is rumored to be the 'fastest gun in the West'. An eager recruit into James' notorious gang, Robert Ford eventually grows jealous of the famed outlaw and, when Robert and his brother sense an opportunity to kill James, their murderous action elevates their target to near mythical status.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-09-20
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Commandments
Overview: Seth Warner has reached the end of his rope. Ever since his wife died two years earlier, his world has been in turmoil. He is despondent, his career has fallen apart, even his house has been destroyed. There seems to be nothing left for him to live for. Confused and angry after two years of suffering, he finally directs his wrath at God from the rooftop of his apartment building in New York City. In the midst of a wild thunderstorm he demands to know why he has been betrayed by the god he has believed in and honored his whole life. God's answer is to strike down Seth's dog in a bolt of lightning. Pushed beyond his limits, Seth decides to respond to his years of torment by breaking each of the biblical Ten Commandments.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-05-02
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The Adventures of Huck Finn
Overview: Mischievous Huck Finn is unnerved when his father, reemerging after years away, kidnaps him in an attempt to take away a $600 inheritance from his late mother. Fearing for his life, Huck fakes his own death and escapes. He soon runs into his friend, Jim, a slave fleeing his master. Together, the pair embarks on a raft journey down the Mississippi River, staying ahead of pursuers who blame the slave for Huck's alleged murder.
Genres: Adventure Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-04-02
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All the King's Men
Overview: The story of an idealist's rise to power in the world of Louisiana politics and the corruption that leads to his ultimate downfall. Based on the 1946 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel written by Robert Penn Warren, loosely based on the story of real-life politician Huey Long.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-09-10
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Countdown at Kusini
Overview: An American musician working in Nigeria becomes involved with a patriot hunted by a mercenary in Africa.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-04-16
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The Mouse on the Moon
Overview: Sequel to The Mouse that Roared; The Tiny Country of Grand Fenwick has a hot water problem in the castle. To get the money necessary to put in a new set of plumbing, they request foreign aid from the U.S. for Space Research. The Russians then send aid as well to show that they too are for the internationalization of space. While the grand Duke is dreaming of hot baths, their one scientist is slapping together a rocket. The U.S. and Soviets get wind of the impending launch and try and beat them to the moon.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-05-07
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Barbarians at the Gate
Overview: F. Ross Johnson decides to buyout his own tobacco firm RJR Nabisco after the plans of the launch of his new product, a smokeless cigarette Premier, fail on account of market rumours.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-03-20
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Nurse
Overview: Michael Learned plays Mary Benjamin, a recently widowed woman who, confronted with her son's departure for college, decides to resume her career as a head nurse in a Manhattan hospital in this pilot movie for the short-lived TV series.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-04-09
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Lawn Dogs
Overview: In the affluent, gated community of Camelot Gardens, bored wives indiscriminately sleep around while their unwitting husbands try desperately to climb the social ladder. Trent, a 21-year-old outsider who mows the neighborhood lawns, quietly observes the infidelities and hypocrisies of this overly privileged society. When Devon, a 10-year-old daughter from one family, forges a friendship with Trent, things suddenly get very complicated.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-11-21
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Diminished Capacity
Overview: A Chicago journalist suffering from memory loss takes leaves from his job and returns to his rural hometown, where he bonds with his Alzheimer's impaired uncle Rollie and his old flame.
Genres: Action Comedy Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-07-04
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