William Redfield
Also Known As: Billy Redfield
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. William Redfield (January 26, 1927 – August 17, 1976) was an American actor and author who appeared in numerous theatrical, film, radio, and television roles. Description above from the Wikipedia article William Redfield (actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Birthday: January 25, 1927
Deathday: August 16, 1976
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Overview: A petty criminal fakes insanity to serve his sentence in a mental ward rather than prison. He soon finds himself as a leader to the other patients—and an enemy to the cruel, domineering nurse who runs the ward.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-11-19
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Duel at Diablo
Overview: In Apache territory, a supply Army column heads for the next fort, an ex-scout searches for the killer of his Native wife, and a housewife abandons her husband to rejoin her Apache lover's tribe.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-06-15
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Fantastic Voyage
Overview: In order to save an assassinated scientist, a submarine and its crew are shrunk to microscopic size and injected into his bloodstream.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-08-24
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For Pete's Sake
Overview: Henrietta Robbins borrows money from a loan shark to finance her husband's investment in the stock market. However, when their stock plummets, she scrambles to find a way to pay the money back.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-06-26
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Conquest of Space
Overview: A team of American astronauts leave their space station on the first mission to Mars, but the captain's religious beliefs may get in the way.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-04-20
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Death Wish
Overview: After his wife is murdered by street punks, a pacifistic New York City architect becomes a one-man vigilante squad, prowling the streets for would-be muggers after dark.
Genres: Crime Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-07-24
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The Proud and Profane
Overview: In this romantic drama, beautiful Red Cross volunteer Lee Ashley arrives on the South Pacific island of New Caledonia to learn more about the circumstances surrounding the death of her husband, Howard, in the Battle of Guadalcanal. There, Ashley falls for the gruff, seductive Marine Lt. Col. Colin Buck, but struggle and tragedy follow when the widow learns about the reality of Buck's life back home.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-06-13
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Mr. Billion
Overview: An Italian mechanic finds that he has inherited a billion-dollar company from his dead uncle, but he needs to be in San Francisco in 20 days to sign over the will. In the meantime, he is chased by kidnappers and the affected corporation's president.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-03-03
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Back Door to Heaven
Overview: The life of a young kid, who starts stealing small things to fit in with the "cool crowd".
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-19
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Family Affair
Overview: Short film produced by the Bell Telephone Company to encourage the effective use of their phones.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-04-05
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The Connection
Overview: A title card announces that the film is a result of found footage assembled by cameraman J.J. Burden working for the acclaimed documentary filmmaker Jim Dunn, who has disappeared. Leach, a heroin addict, introduces the audience to his apartment where other heroin addicts, a mix of current and former jazz musicians, are waiting for Cowboy, their drug connection, to appear. Things go out of control as the men grow increasingly nervous and the cameraman keeps recording.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-05-03
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I Married a Woman
Overview: Advertising executive Marshall Briggs finds his work in conflict with his love-life with fashion model Janice Blake.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-03-01
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Instant Love
Overview: Rhonda Fleming shines as Pamela, an American film star who falls in love with coffee grower Claudio (Rossano Brazzi) while in Brazil. When the two are hastily married, Pamela finds herself entwined in a clash of cultures in this rarely seen romantic comedy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1964-07-01
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Hamlet from the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
Overview: A stage production of Hamlet filmed at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in New York. It was deliberately staged in the style of a "dress rehearsal", but performed in front of a live audience.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-09-23
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The Sidelong Glances of a Pigeon Kicker
Overview: After a young man graduates from a prestigious college, he rebels by preferring a carefree existence rather than the life of fighting the rungs within the treacherous American corporate ladder. For his means of survival he becomes a New York cab driver.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-10-28
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Dragon Country
Overview: Producer-director Glenn Jordan brought together two Tennessee Williams plays, written twenty years apart, that examine the theme of isolation with searching clarity. The joint presentation, entitled "Dragon Country," features the world premiere of "I Can't Imagine Tomorrow," starring Kim Stanley and William Redfield, and a much earlier work, "Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen," starring Lois Smith and Alan Mixon. Together, the dramas delve into "a land of endured but unendurable pain, where each one is so absorbed, deafened, blinded by his own journey across it, he sees, he looks for, no one else crawling across it with him."
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-01-02
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The Hot Rock
Overview: Dortmunder and his pals plan to steal a huge diamond from a museum. But this turns out to be only the first time they have to steal it...
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-26
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All Woman
Overview: Sex. Drugs. Deviance. More sex. And at least one bad mustache.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-09-20
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Companions in Nightmare
Overview: One of the patients in a group-therapy session conducted by a famous psychiatrist is a murderer.
Genres: Mystery Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-11-23
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A New Leaf
Overview: After running out of funds, Henry Graham, a carefree playboy, plots to marry and murder wealthy botanist Henrietta Lowell.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-03-11
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Mary Cassatt: Impressionist From Philadelphia
Overview: This documentary portrait is the first to celebrate the only American member of the French Impressionist school and the first American woman to become a famous painter. 'Mary Cassatt Impressionist From Philadelphia' is not only a biography of the artist’s life and work; the film sees both in the context of the status of the woman painter in Victorian America in the second half of the 19th century.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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Fear on Trial
Overview: The story of John Henry Faulk, a radio/TV personality of the 1950s, who was blacklisted during the McCarthy era. Faulk sued the organization that was behind the blacklisting, and the resultant trial, and Faulk's victory, helped to put an end to the blacklisting period.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-10-02
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Morituri
Overview: A German living in India during World War II is blackmailed by the English to impersonate an SS officer on board a cargo ship leaving Japan for Germany carrying a large supply of rubber for tyres. His mission is to disable the scuttling charges so the captain cannot sink the ship if they are stopped by English warships.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-08-24
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Such Good Friends
Overview: Julie Messinger, a repressed woman, grapples with her hidden passions when a routine hospital visit for her husband, Richard, spirals into chaos. As secrets unravel, her quest for authenticity clashes with societal expectations.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-12-16
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Androcles and the Lion
Overview: The story of Androcles, the simple-hearted Christian tailor whose friendship with a lion saves himself and his friends from martyrdom in the Roman Colosseum.
Genres: Music TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-11-15
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