Davis Roberts
Also Known As: Robert A. Davis, Robert Davis, David Roberts
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Mobile, Alabama, USA
Birthday: March 07, 1917
Deathday: July 18, 1993
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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From Noon Till Three
Overview: Bank robber Graham Dorsey spends a few hours with beautiful widow Amanda Starbuck, in which time his gang takes part in a disastrous holdup. Learning of his comrades' demise, Dorsey goes on the lam. Believing her short-term lover was killed by the law, Amanda decides to make the most of having had a liaison with the supposedly deceased desperado by writing a book about him. Much to his confusion, the still-living Dorsey watches as his name becomes legendary.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-08-01
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God's Little Acre
Overview: In the 1950s, a poor Georgia cotton farmer and his sons search for the gold presumably buried on the farm by their grandfather but problems related to poverty, marital infidelity, unemployment and booze threaten to destroy their family.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-09-23
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The Long Night
Overview: City police surround a building, attempting to capture a suspected murderer. The suspect knows there is no escape but refuses to give in.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-05-28
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Female Jungle
Overview: Alcoholic detective investigating the murder of an actress starts getting worried when all fingers begin to point at him.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-06-16
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The Ambush Murders
Overview: An African-American political activist is wrongfully imprisoned for killing two white policemen; he is unwary of yet another white lawyer who claims that he will help free him.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-01-05
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Demon Seed
Overview: A scientist creates Proteus, an organic supercomputer with artificial intelligence which becomes obsessed with human beings, and in particular the creator's wife.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-04-07
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The Killers
Overview: A hit man and his partner try to find out why their latest victim, a former race-car driver, did not try to get away.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-07-07
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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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Knock on Any Door
Overview: An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the court.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-02-22
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Halls of Anger
Overview: An all-black inner city school has to become an integrated school. Few dozen white kids are transfered there, but the black students are aggressively opposed to this. The school then approaches a tough black teacher for help.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-04-29
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The First 36 Hours of Dr. Durant
Overview: A young doctor fresh out of medical school takes a job at a big-city hospital, and on his first day finds himself making life-and-death decisions.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-05-13
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The Lion Hunters
Overview: A lion trapper and his daughter rendezvous with their hardheaded partner in the African jungle. Bomba, with assistance from a local tribe, strives to run them off.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-03-25
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Attack on Fear
Overview: Married journalists who run a small town newspaper expose corruption and cultism at a once respected rehab center.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-10-10
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Murder by Contract
Overview: Claude is a ruthless and efficient contract killer. His next target, a woman, is the most difficult.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-12-18
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In a Lonely Place
Overview: A screenwriter with a violent temper is a murder suspect until his lovely neighbor clears him. However, she soon starts to have her doubts.
Genres: Drama Romance Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-05-17
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Heat of Anger
Overview: A woman attorney and her young associate defend a wealthy contractor accused of murdering an ironworker who was having an affair with the contractor's daughter.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-03-03
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Gidget Grows Up
Overview: After spending the last two years in Europe as an exchange student, Gidget returns home to California only to discover that things have changed. The letters she had been writing to her beloved "Moondoggie" to try to make him jealous have had the wrong effect. Disillusioned with love, and after hearing a speech on television, she decides to make a real difference in the world by going to New York to become a youth worker at the United Nations. While there she has a proposal of marriage from an extremely wealthy Arabian sheik, but instead she falls for a handsome but older Australian diplomat.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-12-30
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Master Ninja II
Overview: Lee Van Cleef and Timoty Van Patten are back in this "sequel" to their last "movie" about a ninja and his apprentice battling evil wherever they go. In reality, it's two episodes of failed TV show 'The Master' repackaged as a movie. Also featured in an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000.
Genres: Action TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-20
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Phone Call from a Stranger
Overview: Four strangers board a plane and become fast friends, but a catastrophic crash leaves only one survivor. He then sets off on a journey to discover who these people were, but ultimately discovers the devastating truth about himself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-02-01
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The Billion Dollar Threat
Overview: A James Bondish superspy is assigned to thwart the devious plans of a master agent who is threatening to destroy the planet unless he is paid one billion dollars within 48 hours.
Genres: Action Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-04-15
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The Chase
Overview: The escape of Bubber Reeves from prison affects the inhabitants of a small Southern town.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-02-18
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Chattanooga Choo Choo
Overview: The owner of a professional football team must restore the titular train and run it from Tennessee to NYC in 24 hours if he is to inherit $1 million in this comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-05-18
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The Red Ball Express
Overview: August 1944: proceeding with the invasion of France, Patton's Third Army has advanced so far toward Paris that it cannot be supplied. To keep up the momentum, Allied HQ establishes an elite military truck route.
Genres: Action Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-05-29
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Detroit 9000
Overview: After a fundraiser for a black politician is robbed, Detroit police put two detectives, one white and one black, on the case, who try to work together under boiling political pressure.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-08-01
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Westworld
Overview: Delos is a futuristic amusement park that features themed worlds—ancient Rome, Medieval times and the Old West—populated by human-like androids. After two patrons have a run-in with a menacing gunslinger in West World, the androids at Delos all begin to malfunction, causing havoc throughout the park.
Genres: Adventure Science Fiction Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-08-15
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The Gifted
Overview: Psychic descendents of an African tribe reunite to save Earth. 5000 years ago certain members of the Dogon tribe in West Africa were granted psychic powers by good aliens to counterbalance the effects of Ogo, a bad alien intent on taking over Earth and killing all life to remake the planet for his own purposes. Descendents of the tribe who inherit the psychic powers are given an ancient book to read and pass on. Every 32 years, in connection with the orbiting of the star Sirius B, Ogo returns to kill a few more of the psychics in his ongoing bid for power.
Genres: Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-01-21
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Return to Earth
Overview: The story of Buzz Aldrin, the second astronaut to walk on the moon, and the problems he had after his return to Earth, including the breakup of his marriage, a nervous breakdown and his hospitalization for psychiatric problems.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-05-14
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No Way Out
Overview: Two hoodlum brothers are brought into a hospital for gunshot wounds, and when one of them dies the other accuses their black doctor of murder.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-08-16
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Honky Tonk Freeway
Overview: Ticlaw, a small town in Florida, has only one attraction: a safari park. The government constructs a freeway that passes near Ticlaw, but decides not to put an exit into the town. The people of Ticlaw, leaded by its Mayor, will do anything in order to convince the governor to alter the project.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-08-21
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Get Christie Love!
Overview: Get Christie Love! is a 1974 made-for-television film starring Teresa Graves as an undercover female police detective who is determined to overthrow a drug ring. This film is based on Dorothy Uhnak's crime-thriller novel, The Ledger.
Genres: Thriller Action Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-22
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The Glenn Miller Story
Overview: A vibrant tribute to one of America's legendary bandleaders, charting Glenn Miller's rise from obscurity and poverty to fame and wealth in the early 1940s.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-01-04
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To Sleep with Anger
Overview: An enigmatic drifter from the South comes to visit an old acquaintance who now lives in South-Central LA.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-10-12
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Hotel
Overview: This is the story of the clocklike movements of a giant, big city New Orleans hotel. The ambitious yet loyal manager wrestles with the round-the-clock drama of its guests. A brazen sneak thief, who nightly relieves the guests of their property, is chased through the underground passages of the hotel. The big business power play for control of the hotel and the VIP diplomat guest with a secret add to the excitement.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-01-19
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The Challenge
Overview: All-out war between the United States and an Asian country is averted when the two sides agree to settle their differences by each choosing a single soldier as champion and having the two men fight to the death on an isolated island.
Genres: War Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-02-10
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All the Fine Young Cannibals
Overview: An ambitious farm girl rushes into marriage with a rich man, almost destroying four lives in the process.
Genres: Romance Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-09-15
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Demon and the Mummy
Overview: The second of two Kolchak: The Night Stalker compilation TV films. It combines two episodes of the Kolchak TV series, Demon In Lace (about a succubus who murders young men to maintain her immortality) and Legacy of Terror (about an Aztec cult that seeks to resurrect their god by murdering physically perfect people) and adds new narration by Darren McGavin.
Genres: TV Movie Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-03-14
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