Jack Murdock
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Biography: Jack Murdock (October 28, 1922 – April 27, 2001) was an American actor.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Ohio, USA
Birthday: October 28, 1922
Deathday: April 27, 2001
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Rain Man
Overview: When car dealer Charlie Babbitt learns that his estranged father has died, he returns home to Cincinnati, where he discovers that he has a savant older brother named Raymond and that his father's $3 million fortune is being left to the mental institution in which Raymond lives. Motivated by his father's money, Charlie checks Raymond out of the facility in order to return with him to Los Angeles. The brothers' cross-country trip ends up changing both their lives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-12-12
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Altered States
Overview: A research scientist explores the boundaries and frontiers of consciousness. Using sensory deprivation and hallucinogenic mixtures from native American shamans, he explores these altered states of consciousness and finds that memory, time, and perhaps reality itself are states of mind.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-12-25
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Big Top Pee-wee
Overview: Paul Reubens stars as Pee-wee Herman in his second full-length film about a farmer who joins the circus after a storm drops a big tent in his front yard. Pee-wee, along with an outlandish cast of animals and circus performers, puts on the best show ever.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-07-22
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Star Trek: The Next Generation - Time's Arrow
Overview: An engineering team finds evidence of an alien presence on Earth in 19th century San Francisco: Data's severed head, buried five hundred years ago. An investigation inadvertently sends Data back to 19th century San Francisco, where he meets Jack London, Mark Twain, and a younger version of the long lived Guinan. Following Data back in time the crew of the Enterprise must locate Data and prevent his death while stopping the enigmatic Devidians from destroying Earth's history.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-03-13
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Mark, I Love You
Overview: A distraught widower is caught in a bitter custody battle with his late wife's parents over his 10-year-old son, following his plans to remarry and move off to California with the boy.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-12-10
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Calamity Jane
Overview: An exploration of the myths surrounding the colorful Western heroine and both the legendary Wild Bill Hickock, with whom she had an unorthodox courtship, and the flamboyant Buffalo Bill Cody, between the 1870s and the turn of the century.
Genres: Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-03-06
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Any Which Way You Can
Overview: Philo takes part in a bare knuckle fight - as he does - to make some more money than he can earn from his car repair business. He decides to retire from fighting, but when the Mafia come along and arrange another fight, he is pushed into it. A motorcycle gang and an orangutan called Clyde all add to the 'fun'.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-12-17
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Like Normal People
Overview: An intellectually-challenged man and woman meet, fall in love, and are determined to get married, despite the initial objections of their families and friends. Based on a true story.
Genres: Romance TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-04-13
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Nick Knight
Overview: Detective Nick Knight is investigating a series of murders in which the bodies are found drained of blood - but the most recent one doesn't fit the pattern. Instead it involves the cure that Nick has been searching for for decades, so that he himself can face the light of day. Later remade as the first two episodes of Forever Knight.
Genres: Crime Drama Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-08-20
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James Dean
Overview: A dramatization of the story of legendary movie actor James Dean. The film's writer, William Bast, had roomed with Dean in the early '50s, when both were trying to break into films as actors, and was his lover for a time.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-02-17
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Cutter's Way
Overview: Richard spots a man dumping a body, and decides to expose the man he thinks is the culprit with his friend Alex Cutter.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-03-19
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The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder
Overview: After returning home from the war, Vietnam veteran Julius Vrooder resides in a veteran's hospital, where he has been vaguely diagnosed as "psychiatrically impaired." Taking the news with an air of initially lighthearted defiance, Vrooder escapes and sets up camp under a highway, where he builds a paranoia-driven booby-trapped bunker for himself. Falling in love with not-so-bright nurse Zanni, Vrooder soon plans to elope with her to a remote Canadian outpost.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-10-17
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Miracle Landing
Overview: Cracks are noticed in the ceiling of an aircraft. They widen & a large portion of the fuselage tears off & an emergency landing is attempted. Based on actual events.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-02-11
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Travis McGee
Overview: Travis McGee is a world-weary private eye trying to help boat skipper friend Van Harder salvage his reputation that sank when his boat ran aground, resulting in a death that might have been faked.
Genres: Action Drama Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-05-18
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Blue Thunder
Overview: Los Angeles, California. Officer Murphy, a veteran Metropolitan Police helicopter pilot suffering from severe trauma due to his harsh experiences during the Vietnam War, and Lymangood, his resourceful new partner, are tasked with testing an advanced and heavily armed experimental chopper known as Blue Thunder.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-02-05
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Flight 90: Disaster on the Potomac
Overview: Flight 90: Disaster on the Potomac is a true story based on the crash of Air Florida flight 90 on January 13, 1982 in Washington D.C. This movie follows the main players throughout the day, with a lot of care taken to re-create what actually went wrong, who died, and who survived. There is a lot of actual footage from the day, as well as accurate representations of aircraft type and airline.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-04-01
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