George Grizzard
Also Known As: George Cooper Grizzard Jr.
Biography: George Grizzard (April 1, 1928 – October 2, 2007) was an American actor of film and stage. He appeared in more than 40 films, dozens of television programs and a number of Broadway plays.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: April 01, 1928
Age: 97 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: October 02, 2007
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Wrong Is Right
Overview: Political double-talk, dirty tricks, hidden microphones, spy satellites, bugging the Oval Office and a nuclear bomb for sale are all ingredients in this swift, funny and frightening look at the possibilities in today's political arenas. Sean Connery stars as TV Newsman Patrick Hale on an international chase to track two suitcase sized nuclear weapons and to uncover the twisting maze of apparent involvement of US Government agencies.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-04-16
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Bachelor Party
Overview: On the eve of his wedding to his longtime girlfriend, unassuming nice guy Rick is dragged out for a night of debauchery by his friends.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-06-29
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Seems Like Old Times
Overview: After being falsely accused of robbing a bank, a writer seeks the help of his lawyer ex-wife to clear his name. However, hilarity ensues when he must hide from her husband, who’s throwing a party for law enforcement officials.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-12-19
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Small Time Crooks
Overview: A loser of a crook and his wife strike it rich when a botched bank job's cover business becomes a spectacular success.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-05-19
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Comes a Horseman
Overview: Ella Connors is a single woman who gets pressured to sell her failing cattle farm to her corrupt ex-suitor, Jacob Ewing. She asks for help from her neighbor, Frank Athearn. As Ella and Frank fight back through stampedes, jealousy, betrayal, and sabotage... they eventually find love.
Genres: Western Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-10-25
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From the Terrace
Overview: Alfred Eaton, an ambitious young executive, climbs to the top of New York's financial world as his marriage crumbles. At the brink of attaining his career goals, he is forced to choose between business success, married to the beautiful, but unfaithful Mary and starting over with his true love, the much younger Natalie.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-07-15
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Advise & Consent
Overview: Proposed by the President of the United States to fill the post of Secretary of State, Robert Leffingwell appears before a Senate committee, chaired by the idealistic Senator Brig Anderson, which must decide whether he is the right person for the job.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-06-06
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Firepower
Overview: A mercenary is hired by the FBI to track down a powerful recluse criminal, a woman is also trying to track him down for her own personal vendetta.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-04-27
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Happy Birthday, Wanda June
Overview: A hunter back from years in the Amazon finds his wife and life changed.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-12-09
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The Deliberate Stranger
Overview: Based on a true story, this film depicts the life of Ted Bundy, the serial killer. In 1974, after having murdered several young women, he leaves Seattle for Utah, where he is a law student and where other girls disappear. It takes the cooperation of a number of police forces to work efficiently on this case. Soon, but not soon enough, the police eliminate endless possibilities and close in on him. Bundy is tried in the media and his good-boy attitude brings him sympathy but also the hatred of many.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-05-04
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David
Overview: The true story of David Rothenberg whose disturbed father set him on fire.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-10-25
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Warning Shot
Overview: Hounded by the press for shooting a doctor, an ousted Los Angeles policeman works his own case.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-01-18
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Caroline?
Overview: Hallmark Hall of Fame presents the story of a mysterious woman claiming to be the deceased daughter of a rich man tries to solve the problems of his untrusting son and supposedly physically and mentally handicaped daughter. But one question stands in her way: is she really Caroline?
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-04-29
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Flags of Our Fathers
Overview: There were five Marines and one Navy Corpsman photographed raising the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi by Joe Rosenthal on February 23, 1945. This is the story of three of the six surviving servicemen - John 'Doc' Bradley, Pvt. Rene Gagnon and Pvt. Ira Hayes - who fought in the battle to take Iwo Jima from the Japanese.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-10-19
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Not in My Family
Overview: Veronica Ricci is bombarded by strange feelings and fleeting involuntary memories about her childhood after giving birth to her first child. She seeks help from her estranged sister and soon realizes that these memories connect to childhood abuse that the sister underwent. Based on a true story.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-02-28
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Sisters and Other Strangers
Overview: A woman (Joanna Kerns), at odds with her eccentric sister (Debrah Farentino) over a real-estate deal, becomes the prime suspect when the latter is found dead.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-05-06
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Teacher, Teacher
Overview: Hamilton Cade is an alcoholic teacher striving to put his life back together. He accepts a job tutoring an "exceptional child" only to find that young Freddie is mentally retarded. A black man who works for Freddie's father also becomes interested in teaching the child and becomes a second role model for him.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-02-05
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Pueblo
Overview: Dramatization showing the 1968 seizure of the spy ship, Pueblo, by the North Koreans and the treatment of the Pueblo's crew during their year of captivity through flashbacks during the 1969 investigation of the affair.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-28
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The Two Deaths of Sean Doolittle
Overview: A man has absolutely no fear of dying because he believes he has found a doctor who is able to bring him back to life after he dies.
Genres: TV Movie Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-04-04
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Wonder Boys
Overview: Grady is a 50-ish English professor who hasn't had a thing published in years—not since he wrote his award winning 'Great American Novel' 7 years ago. This weekend proves even worse than he could imagine as he finds himself reeling from one misadventure to another in the company of a new wonder boy author.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-02-22
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A String of Beads
Overview: An ordinary girl's life is radically changed by the mistaken receipt of a $60,000 strand of pearls.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-02-07
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Midas Valley
Overview: Set in Silicon Valley, California, follows the lives of a group of people involved in the competitive world of computer electronics and the greed, passion and intrigue amongst them.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-06-27
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The Night Rider
Overview: "The Mark of Zorro" was updated for this pilot for a prospective series that tells of a New Orleans gentleman who turns masked rider to fight for law and order and avenge his family's killing by four men who wanted their silver mine.
Genres: Action Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-05-11
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A Memory of Two Mondays
Overview: Workers in an auto parts warehouse in 1933 New York City inhabit a bleak, dead-end world in the depths of the Depression where, at least, they have jobs. Introduced by its playwright, Arthur Miller, it was the first in a series of NET Playhouse programs concerning life in America during the Depression years.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-01-28
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The Stranger Within
Overview: Who is the father of Ann Collins’ baby? Her husband had a vasectomy years ago. And Ann hasn’t been with another man. Even more mysterious: as the baby grows inside her, Ann begins to change. She is beset by strange illnesses, pours tablespoons of salt on her food, turns the thermostat to 50 degrees, speed-reads academic tomes. But much bigger shocks are yet to come. Barbara Eden stars in this hypnotic, swiftly paced blend of horror and sci-fi from Richard Matheson, the popular and prolific writer who also penned the novel I AM LEGEND and several notable THE TWILIGHT ZONE scripts.
Genres: TV Movie Mystery Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-10-01
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Embassy
Overview: US ambassador in Rome must protect US interests and secrets from mob, spies and curious girlfriends who may be more than what they seem.
Genres: Action TV Movie Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-04-21
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International Airport
Overview: Manager of a large metropolitan airport tries to deal with the stress of his job, and the various characters that work for him.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-05-25
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Under Siege
Overview: Terrorists launch an attack against the USA. Their first strike is by a suicide squad that detonates a truckload of explosives at an army base in Washington DC. FBI probes indicate that the attack is by Arab terrorists led by Iranians. Subsequent attacks are via airplanes exploded in mid-air, crowded restaurants, and an attack on a mall. Administration cabinet heads push the President to retaliate. The director of the FBI believes that there may be more to the story than the investigation has revealed and the Secretary of Defense is the only other person urging caution.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-02-09
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The Oldest Living Graduate
Overview: Henry Fonda stars as Col. J. C. Kincaid, crusty patriarch of a Texas family. Kincaid's weak-willed son Floyd (George Grizzard) wants to get into the old man's good graces so that he can develop the Colonel's vast land ownings. Floyd arranges a city-wide celebration lauding Kincaid as the oldest living graduate of a nearby military academy. The festivities serve only to make the already sour Kincaid even more truculent and miserable. Adapted from Preston Jones' 1974 play and originally telecast live from Dallas' Southern Methodist University on April 7, 1980.
Genres: Drama Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-04-07
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Iran: Days of Crisis
Overview: Follows the events of Iran hostage crisis of 1979 and people who were held as hostages in the US embassy in Tehran, Iran for over 400 days.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-09-30
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Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan
Overview: After three civil-rights workers are murdered in Mississippi in 1964, a team of FBI agents is sent there to find the killers.
Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-02-20
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Attica
Overview: Acclaimed dramatization recreating the incidents surrounding the 1971 revolt in New York's Attica State Prison that lasted for 23 days and resulted in the greatest casualty toll between Americans since the Civil War.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-03-02
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Indict and Convict
Overview: A prosecutor must try his friend, a deputy district attorney, who has been charged with murdering his wife and her lover.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-06
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Travis Logan, D.A.
Overview: Sand devises a scheme to murder his former business partner and maintains his innocence throughout the trial, as he is prosecuted by District Attorney Travis Logan.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-03-11
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Not in Front of the Children
Overview: Divorced for two years, Nancy Caruthers, asks her new lover, Paul Adams, a medical student, to move in. She has custody of her two daughters, but this new living arrangement prompts her ex-husband, Richard to sue for custody, based on moral grounds. He does not really want the girls to live with him, but his strict religious background will not allow him to stand by and let them be raised in an atmosphere of 'sin.'
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-10-26
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The Shady Hill Kidnapping
Overview: John Cheever's wry comedy of errors comes to the screen in this filmed presentation from the Broadway Theatre Archive. An upper-middle-class suburb is turned upside-down by the apparent kidnapping of Toby Wooster (Garrett Hanf). Unaware that the whole thing is a setup, the town swings into action to raise funds to meet the kidnappers' ransom demands. George Grizzard, Polly Holliday, Katharine Balfour and Celeste Holm star.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-01-12
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Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
Overview: This documentary, hosted by actor Burgess Meredith, explores the life and career of movie director Otto Preminger, whose body of work includes such memorable films as Anatomy of a Murder, Exodus, Laura, Forever Amber, Advise and Consent, In Harm's Way, The Moon Is Blue, The Man with the Golden Arm, and many other movies made from the '30s through the '70s. Interviews with actors Frank Sinatra, Vincent Price, James Stewart, Michael Caine, and others who worked with the flamboyant and sometimes control-obsessed director add information and insight to the story.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-10-28
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Perry Mason: The Case of the Scandalous Scoundrel
Overview: Perry is suing a gutter trash newspaper that is running a story about a love affair between him and Della. The editor also has "dirt" files on an Army General, his banker and other "clients". All of them make little-concealed verbal threats to him at a party but the person that hated him most is a female reporter who the editor had just fired from the paper for attempting to write a serious story. She threatens him and soon after the editor is found, floating in his pool, shot. The reporter is arrested for the crime and Perry, who has a personal stake in this matter, with the aid of Della and Paul set out to solve the mystery. But the other suspects just want the case over with and will go to any lengths to protect their pasts and their secrets
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-11-15
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The Lives of Jenny Dolan
Overview: A newspaper reporter's life is endangered when she is assigned to investigate a political assassination.
Genres: Thriller Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-10-27
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Haskett's Chance
Overview: A murdered politician is given a second chance at life after he's reincarnated in a lower form.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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The Country Girl
Overview: Frank Elgin's career in the theater is all washed up — but his friend Bernie thinks he can make a comeback, as long as his wife Georgie doesn't interfere.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-02-05
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Triumph Over Disaster: The Hurricane Andrew Story
Overview: Relationship problems between a father and son are intensified by Hurricane Andrew.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-05-24
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