Lee Aaker
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Inglewood, California, USA
Birthday: September 25, 1943
Deathday: April 01, 2021
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Hondo
Overview: Army despatch rider Hondo Lane discovers a woman and her son living in the midst of warring Apaches, and he becomes their protector.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-11-26
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Jeopardy
Overview: A woman is kidnapped when she goes to get help for her husband who is trapped on a beach with the tide coming in to surely drown him.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-03-30
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Rin-Tin-Tin: Hero of the West
Overview: Rin-Tin-Tin and his master Rusty as heroes in the old west. Cut from 1950s TV series.
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-04-11
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The Atomic City
Overview: Spies hold the son of a nuclear physicist (Gene Barry) hostage in exchange for the Los Alamos bomb formula.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-05-01
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Desperate Search
Overview: A man (Howard Keel), his wife (Jane Greer) and his famous-aviator ex-wife (Patricia Medina) search for their two children lost with a cougar.
Genres: Adventure Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-11-19
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Arena
Overview: Left by his wife, a vain rodeo star picks up a floozy and rides a bad Brahman bull.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-06-24
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Take Me to Town
Overview: Saloon entertainer Vermilion O'Toole and her former partner in crime Newt Cole escape from a train ride to prison and hide out in logging town Timberline. Meanwhile, the three sons of widower Will Hall come to town in search of a wife for their dad. Vermilion needs to lay low to escape the marshal, so she accepts the boys' offer to visit pioneer community Pine Grove. Once there, she annoys local Mrs. Grundys but eventually starts to fit in.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-06-19
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Benjy
Overview: Benjy is a 1951 American short documentary film directed by Fred Zinnemann. It won an Oscar in 1952 for Documentary Short Subject. Henry Fonda narrates this short film about a boy who was handicapped from birth. An orthopedic pediatrician wants to provide a therapeutic regimen that could cure the child, a scoliosis patient, but first he needs to convince the boy's parents, who have rejected the child because of his disabilities.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-01-01
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Hans Christian Andersen
Overview: A small-town shoemaker with a knack for spinning yarns, Hans encounters happiness and heartbreak on his road to becoming a full-fledged writer.
Genres: Music Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-12-19
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The Raid
Overview: A group of confederate prisoners escape to Canada and plan to rob the banks and set fire to the small town of Saint Albans in Vermont. To get the lie of the land, their leader spends a few days in the town and finds he is getting drawn into its life and especially into that of an attractive widow and her son.
Genres: Western War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-08-04
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O. Henry's Full House
Overview: Five O. Henry stories, each separate. The primary one from the critics' acclaim was "The Cop and the Anthem". Soapy tells fellow bum Horace that he is going to get arrested so he can spend the winter in a nice jail cell. He fails. He can't even accost a woman; she turns out to be a streetwalker. The other stories are "The Clarion Call", "The Last Leaf", "The Ransom of Red Chief", and "The Gift of the Magi".
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-08-07
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High Noon
Overview: Will Kane, the sheriff of a small town in New Mexico, learns a notorious outlaw he put in jail has been freed, and will be arriving on the noon train. Knowing the outlaw and his gang are coming to kill him, Kane is determined to stand his ground, so he attempts to gather a posse from among the local townspeople.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-06-09
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Mister Scoutmaster
Overview: Snobby TV star, Robert Jordan, worries that he is out of touch with the younger generation and that's why his TV show is failing. He becomes a Boy Scout leader in an effort to "get in touch." Overnight hikes and other adventures follow, all centered around one small boy who takes a liking to the old curmudgeon.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-09-02
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The Greatest Show on Earth
Overview: To ensure a full profitable season, circus manager Brad Braden engages The Great Sebastian, though this moves his girlfriend Holly from her hard-won center trapeze spot. Holly and Sebastian begin a dangerous one-upmanship duel in the ring, while he pursues her on the ground.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-02-16
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No Room for the Groom
Overview: A young GI elopes to Las Vegas with his housekeeper’s daughter, but delays to their wedding night arise from illness, her manipulative mother, and a house full of relatives.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-06-13
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Black Tuesday
Overview: Vicious gangster Vincent Canelli pulls off a daring prison escape just moments before going to the electric chair, taking with him Peter Manning – a bank robber and cop killer who was to die right after him. Taking several hostages along, they try to get their hands on the loot from Manning’s robbery to finance their escape from the country.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-12-31
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A Lion Is in the Streets
Overview: A charismatic peddler from the Bayous finds his true calling in politics. Is he a demagogue in the making?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-09-23
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Ricochet Romance
Overview: Marjorie Main is the whole show in the Universal programmer Ricochet Romance. Playing the outspoken new cook at a rundown dude ranch, Marjorie forces everyone around her to pitch in and bring some life back into the place. She also sets her sights on old layabout Chill Wills, scheming to rope the critter into marriage. Veteran comedy director Charles W. Lamont moves the proceedings along with style, never missing an opportunity for a low-comedy slapstick turn. The most surprising aspect of Ricochet Romance is that it is not an entry in Marjorie Main's Ma and Pa Kettle series.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-11-01
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Destry
Overview: Western remake of "Destry Rides Again", starring Audie Murphy, Mari Blanchard, Thomas Mitchell, Lori Nelson and Lyle Bettger.
Genres: Western War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-12-01
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The Challenge of Rin Tin Tin
Overview: The 101st Cavalry discover the survivors of an Apache raid on a wagon train. Feature film from The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin TV show.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-08-01
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Moochie of the Little League
Overview: A young newspaper boy who is on a Little League team works hard to persuade an elderly Englishman, with whom he had a previous run-in, to donate land for a baseball diamond.
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-10-02
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Mooncussers
Overview: A young boy discovers the existence of a group called the Mooncussers - a gang of pirates that work at night and sends out false homing signals to ships at sea. The ships then crash on the shore, where they are looted by the gang.
Genres: Adventure Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-12-02
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Her Twelve Men
Overview: An inexperienced female teacher is hired at a private elite school for boys where she raises a few eyebrows among the all-male faculty.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-08-11
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Bye Bye Birdie
Overview: A singer goes to a small town for a performance before he is drafted.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-04-04
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