Larry Pennell
Also Known As: Larry Pennel, Ken Pennell, Ларри Пеннелл, Lawrence Kenneth Pennell
Biography: Lawrence Kenneth Pennell (February 21, 1928 – August 28, 2013) was an American television and film actor, often remembered for his role as "Dash Riprock" in the television series The Beverly Hillbillies. His career spanned half a century, including starring in the first-run syndicated adventure series Ripcord in the leading role of Skydiver Theodore "Ted" McKeever, as well as playing Keith Holden in Lassie. He was also a baseball player, playing on scholarship for the University of Southern California (USC) and later professionally for the Boston Braves organization.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Uniontown, Pennsylvania, USA
Birthday: February 21, 1928
Deathday: August 28, 2013
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Gender: Male
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Bubba Ho-tep
Overview: Bubba Ho-tep tells the "true" story of what really did become of Elvis Presley. We find Elvis as an elderly resident in an East Texas rest home, who switched identities with an Elvis impersonator years before his "death," then missed his chance to switch back. He must team up with JFK and fight an ancient Egyptian mummy for the souls of their fellow residents.
Genres: Comedy Horror Thriller Mystery Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-06-09
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Flaming Frontier
Overview: Old Surehand and his faithful old friend Old Wabble are on the trail of a cold-blooded killer with the nickname 'The General'. The brother of Old Surehand was murdered by him. On the way Old Surehand and Old Wabble are involved in the running conflict between settlers and Comanches who are likely to go on the war path. Old Surehand can count on the support of his friend and blood brother Winnetou, the amiable chief of the Apaches. Written by Robert
Genres: Adventure Western
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1965-12-14
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The Man with Bogart's Face
Overview: In this send-up of the Humphrey Bogart detective films of the 1940s, a man idolizes Bogart so much that he has his features altered to look exactly like him and then opens up a detective agency under the name Sam Marlow.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-10-03
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Mr. Baseball
Overview: Jack Elliot, a one-time MVP for the New York Yankees is now on the down side of his baseball career. With a falling batting average, does he have one good year left and can the manager of the Chunichi Dragons, a Japanese Central baseball league find it in him?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-10-01
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The FBI Story
Overview: A dedicated FBI agent recalls the agency's battles against the Klan, organized crime and Communist spies.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-10-01
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Superstition
Overview: A witch put to death in 1692 swears vengeance on her persecutors and returns to the present day to punish their descendants.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-08-26
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The Vagabond King
Overview: Louis XI of France drafts Paris's popular "king" of criminals as Provost Marshal in his fight against usurper Charles of Burgundy and the traitorous nobles who rally around him.
Genres: Romance Music History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-08-28
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The Far Horizons
Overview: Virginia, 1803. After the United States of America acquires the inmense Louisiana territory from France, a great expedition, led by William Lewis and Meriwether Clark, is sent to survey the new lands and go where no white man has gone before.
Genres: Drama History Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-07-04
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Matilda
Overview: A small-time talent agent discovers an amazing boxing kangaroo and figures to use it as his stepping-stone into the big time.
Genres: Comedy Crime Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-06-22
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Donovan's Kid
Overview: Timothy Donovan, a con-man, returns to San Francisco to see his wife and daughter. Realizing his family is under the control of his wife's domineering uncle, Timothy Donovan teams up with a fellow con-man to free them.
Genres: Western Family Adventure Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-01-07
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The Revengers
Overview: The life of peaceful rancher John Benedict is torn apart when his family is massacred by a gang of marauding outlaws and his farm is destroyed. He assembles a team of mean, lawless convicts to act as his posse as he pursues the gang responsible for the deaths of his loved ones.
Genres: Action Western Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-06-21
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The Space Children
Overview: A glowing brain-like creature arrives on a beach near a rocket test site via a teleportation beam. The alien communicates telepathically with the children of scientists. The kids start doing the alien's bidding as the adults try to find out what's happening to their unruly offspring.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-06-01
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Seven Angry Men
Overview: Rise, fall and execution of John Brown, fanatic abolitionist.
Genres: History Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-03-27
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Prehysteria! 2
Overview: A rich boy desperate for attention makes friends with the dinosaurs of "Prehysteria!". Prehysteria! 2
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-11-09
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Our Man in Jamaica
Overview: The FBI sends agents to Jamaica to investigate arms smuggling to revolutionaries in Santo Domingo.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-09-04
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City Beneath the Sea
Overview: A group of 21st-century colonists inhabit an underwater city called Pacifica. Originally intended as a purely scientific installation, the U. S. government wants to stash all its gold reserves from Fort Knox there, along with a fantastic new radioactive element. The brother of Pacifica's returning former commander plans to steal the gold and on top of that, the city faces destruction by an asteroid from outer space!
Genres: Science Fiction Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-07-16
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The Devil's Hairpin
Overview: Cocky car racer Nick Jargin has retired since he nearly caused the death of his brother at a hairpin bend on a circuit. He now holds a trendy café who keeps him busy full time until one day, Tony Boari, a new champion racer, challenges him.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-10-04
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The Great White Hope
Overview: A black champion boxer and his white female companion struggle to survive while the white boxing establishment looks for ways to knock him down.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-10-11
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Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn
Overview: A seeker named Dogen rescues Dhyana after her father is murdered by the evil Jared-Syn. To avenge her father's death, Dogen must find Jared-Syn's hideout in the mysterious "Lost City", but the only person who knows where it is an aging, burned-out seeker named Rhodes. Along the way, they will need to do battle against the hunter Baal and his Cyclopean minions for engaging Jared-Syn in a final encounter.
Genres: Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-08-19
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Marilyn: The Untold Story
Overview: The story of the life and times of the legendary Hollywood blonde bombshell, Marilyn Monroe, from her meteoric rise to stardom to her marriages and untimely death.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-11-10
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Salvage
Overview: A hotshot junkman decides to go to the moon with his two young companions in a homemade rocket to recover millions of dollars worth of discarded space equipment in this pilot to the series.
Genres: TV Movie Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-01-20
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Elvis
Overview: This biopic traces Elvis Presley’s life from his impoverished childhood to his meteoric rise to stardom to his triumphant conquering of Las Vegas.
Genres: Drama Music TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-02-10
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Journey Through Rosebud
Overview: A young draft dodger helps militant Native Americans in their protest against the government at Wounded Knee.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-03-02
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The Passing
Overview: The three Naibert children, in their teens and early twenties, inherit a vast estate from their grandmother Rebecca. But unknown to them, the family inheritance has passed from grandmother to granddaughter for centuries-and Rebecca has a long reach from the grave to assure that the line is unbroken. The first weekend in the mansion is a party for the three Naiberts and their friends-but one by one, they vanish without a trace. Is death the punishment for violating Rebecca's spell? Are the demons that beset the young people real-or only reflections of their own fear? Is it murder, violence from another dimension, or madness? The answer lives in the reflections.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-05-20
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Brother, Cry For Me
Overview: Three estranged brothers receive a mysterious letter from their late father inviting them to collect a large inheritance from an Aztec pyramid in far away Boca Nueva. Realizing that they each have a stake in their father’s fortune, the brothers become murderously competitive.
Genres: Crime Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-01-01
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Adventure in Satan's Canyon
Overview: A young man tries to master the kayak, and becomes a hero in helping to save his coach, who is badly injured in an accident. To accomplish this feat, the young man has to navigate some very dangerous rapids in his kayak, giving himself confidence.
Genres: Adventure Family Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-11-03
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The Fear: Resurrection
Overview: It's death-by-fear (aka scared-to-death) in this deceptively psychological thriller. The hero, Mike brings his friends to his grandparents' house for a Halloween party wherein they will all dress up as their innermost fears. Mike's fear is that he's inherited a homicidal legacy from his father. Mike's father was a serial killer who murdered his mother right in front of him when Mike was five before committing suicide. Mike's fear manifests itself in his inability to commit to his girlfriend of 4 1/2 years, Peg for fear that he will kill her too. Everything gets rolling when an ancient Indian totem wooden figure named Morty comes to life and starts killing off Mike's friends by making their worst fears come true. The ultimate confrontation comes when Mike has to face his greatest fear - his own father.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-05
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The Borrower
Overview: Aliens punish one of their own by sending him to earth. The alien is very violent, and when the body he occupies is damaged, he is forced to find another.
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-08-16
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Another Chance
Overview: A womanizer tries to redeem himself to win over the girl of his dreams.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-11-23
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Helter Skelter
Overview: The investigation of two horrific mass murders leads to the capture and trial of the psychotic pseudo-hippie Charles Manson and his "family".
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller TV Movie Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-04-01
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Lassie: Joyous Sound
Overview: Sally gets surgery for her hearing. Lassie gets lost after having to hide out in the back of a laundry van.
Genres: Family Adventure Action Drama TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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Personal Best
Overview: Young sprinter Chris Cahill is having difficulty reaching her potential as an athlete, until she meets established track star Tory Skinner. As Tory and her coach help Chris with her training, the two women form friendship that evolves into a romantic relationship. Their intimacy, however, becomes complicated when Chris' improvement causes them to be competitors for the Olympic team.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-02-05
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Hell's Horizon
Overview: The pilot, co-pilot, and crew of a bomber try to hit a Korean bridge in bad weather.
Genres: Action Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-12-31
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Midway
Overview: This war drama depicts the U.S. and Japanese forces in the naval Battle of Midway, which became a turning point for Americans during World War II.
Genres: Action Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-06-18
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The Night the Bridge Fell Down
Overview: A group of random individuals get stranded on a bridge that begins collapsing at both ends. Not only that, but there's a gun-wielding bank robber using the bridge as his means of escape refusing to let any of the rescuers draw near the survivors. Time is running out ...
Genres: Action Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-09-06
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Ghost Chase
Overview: In an old Hollywood mansion, the spirit of an old family retainer inhabits an old grandfather clock. When a movie company uses the mansion for a film, the spirit inhabits the body of an alien and persuades the two filmmakers to track down an old house that will resolve a family scandal.
Genres: Horror Fantasy Science Fiction Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-06-25
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