Chick Hearn
Also Known As: Francis Dayle Hearn, Francis Hearn
Biography: Francis Dayle "Chick" Hearn (November 27, 1916 – August 5, 2002) was an American sportscaster who was the play-by-play announcer for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association for 41 years. Hearn is remembered for his rapid-fire, staccato broadcasting style, associated with colorful phrases such as slam dunk, air ball, and no harm, no foul that has become common basketball vernacular. Hearn broadcast 3,338 consecutive Lakers games starting on November 21, 1965. Most of Hearn's games in the television era were simulcast on both radio and television, even after most teams chose to use different announcers for the different media.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Buda, Illinois, U.S.
Adult: No
Birthday: November 27, 1916
Age: 108 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: August 05, 2002
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The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island
Overview: The Harlem Globetrotters' chartered plane crash lands on the atoll inhabited by the happily marooned Gilligan and fellow castaways, and they all must play basketball against a specially programmed squad of robots controlled by a mad scientist.
Genres: Comedy Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-05-15
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The Loved One
Overview: Newly arrived in Hollywood from England, Dennis Barlow finds he has to arrange his uncle's interment at the highly-organised and very profitable Whispering Glades funeral parlour. His fancy is caught by one of their cosmeticians, Aimee Thanatogenos. But he has three problems - the strict rules of owner Blessed Reverand Glenworthy, the rivalry of embalmer Mr Joyboy, and the shame of now working himself at The Happy Hunting Ground pets' memorial home.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-10-11
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The Grand Opening of Walt Disney World
Overview: A celebrity-filled look at the opening festivities for Walt Disney World in Florida.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-10-29
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Cry for Happy
Overview: Army photographers on leave in Japan take over a geisha house.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-03-03
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Busting
Overview: Defying orders to lay-off the case, two Los Angeles vice-squad cops go after a local mobster and use unorthodox methods to achieve results.
Genres: Crime Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-02-27
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Fletch
Overview: When investigative reporter Irwin "Fletch" Fletcher goes undercover to write a piece on the drug trade at a local beach, he's approached by wealthy businessman Alan Stanwyk, who offers him $50,000 to murder him. With sarcastic wit and a knack for disguises, Fletch sets out to uncover Stanwyk's story.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-05-31
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Body Slam
Overview: M. Harry Smilac is a down-on-his-luck music manager who is having a hard time attracting talent and booking gigs for his band, Kicks (The most recent of the gigs is a Dairy Queen opening!!). When making arrangements for a campaign fund-raiser, he mistakes Rick Roberts, a professional wrestler, for a musician and hires him. At that moment he becomes a wrestling manager and starts to book matches for him and his teammate Tonga Tom. The team is a success, and Harry decides to take his wrestlers and his band on a "Rock n' Wrestling" tour. The tour is a success, and Harry feels what it is like to be a winner again.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-11-21
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Big Business
Overview: In the 1940s in the small town of Jupiter Hollow, two sets of identical twins are born in the same hospital on the same night. One set to a poor local family and the other to a rich family just passing through. The dizzy nurse on duty accidentally mixes the twins unbeknown to the parents. Our story flashes forward to the 1980s where the mismatched sets of twins are about to cross paths.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-06-10
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Airborne
Overview: Good-natured teen surfer Mitchell Goosen finds himself staying with his aunt and uncle in Cincinnati, Ohio when his parents head to Australia for work. There he meets his cousin, Wiley, and together they try to navigate the perils of high school—avoid the bullies, get the girl, and win a little respect.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-09-17
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Wrongfully Accused
Overview: Ryan Harrison, a violin god, superstar and sex symbol does not want to cheat on sexy Lauren Goodhue's husband with her. Mr. Goodhue is found murdered and Ryan suddenly finds himself being the main suspect. After being sentenced to death he manages to flee while being transferred to his execution site. Now, all the world is after him as he stumbles from one unfortunate incident to the next in order to prove himself innocent - by finding a mysterious one-eyed, one-armed, one-legged man...
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-07-23
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Longshot
Overview: Teen Alex Taylor and his older brother Jack live in L.A. where Jack is a personal fitness trainer. Jack had an affair with Mitzi Price, a very powerful business man's wife. Her husband, Laszlo Price, then blackmails Jack into going to New York City to get information from Rachel Montgomery, about who she is selling her company to. Jack brings Alex with him to make sure that he will be safe. Jack and Rachel fall in love while Alex falls in love Rachel's daughter Kelly. Eventually Jack tells Rachel why he was sent to New York, and the two work together to bring Laszlo Price down. Rachel needs to have two million dollars in order to not sell her company. Alex wins the money in a halftime contest at a basketball game. They provide information about Laszlo Price to the police, and he is arrested.
Genres: Action Comedy Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-10-25
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Love & Basketball
Overview: Monica Wright and Quincy McCall grew up in the same neighborhood and have known each other since childhood. As they grow into adulthood, they fall in love, but they also share another all-consuming passion: basketball. As Quincy and Monica struggle to make their relationship work, they follow separate career paths though high school and college basketball and, they hope, into stardom in big-league professional ball.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-04-21
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...All the Marbles
Overview: A two-bit promoter tries to take a women's wrestling team to the top.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-03-01
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Burden Of Truth
Overview: Joe and Ella Mae Hamilton, having just moved into a new neighborhood, are confronted by an angry, jeering mob of whites outside their house. Joe thinks back on his life. According to press materials, the film's story was based on an idea "expressed by [United Steelworkers of America Union, distributor of the film] President David J. McDonald in a speech on civil rights given by him" in Los Angeles in September 1956.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-01-01
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Heart Condition
Overview: Racist police officer Jack Moony has a vendetta against Napoleon Stone, a charismatic black lawyer who is sleeping with Jack's old flame Crystal Gerrity. Jack has a heart attack, but his life is saved when he receives Stone's heart, since Stone died mysteriously the same night as Jack was stricken. Stone is not completely gone, however, and as a ghost he is all too happy to give Jack advice on how he should do his job and live his life.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-02-02
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The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh
Overview: The Pittsburgh basketball team is hopeless. Maybe with the aid of an astrologer, and some new astrologically compatible players, they can become winners.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-11-06
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Heaven Can Wait
Overview: Joe Pendleton is a quarterback preparing to lead his team to the superbowl when he is almost killed in an accident. An overanxious angel plucks him to heaven only to discover that he wasn't ready to die, and that his body has been cremated. A new body must be found, and that of a recently-murdered millionaire is chosen. His wife and accountant—the murderers—are confused by this development, as he buys the L.A. Rams in order to once again quarterback them into the Superbowl.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-06-28
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Half Nelson
Overview: Rocky Nelson is a New York cop, who after making a major bust and selling the rights of his story to Hollywood decides to try his luck out as an actor. However, when he gets there, the directors think that he is too short to be an actor. He is then approach by someone who offers him a job at a Hollywood security agency, cause he would fit in there being an ex-cop and while working there he could come in contact with some Hollywood heavy-weights who could give him the break he needs. And at the same he gets to live in Dean Martin's guest-house.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-03-24
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Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault
Overview: A dramatization of the life of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault (Don Cheadle), with a lot of factual based occurrences. A reformed junkie returns from prison to clean up his act and devote the rest of his life to the young kids of Harlem. 1996 was the 25th anniversary of the first tournament named after him.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-11-23
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The Love Bug
Overview: Down-on-his-luck race car driver Jim Douglas teams up with a little VW Bug that has a mind of its own, not realizing Herbie's worth until a sneaky rival plots to steal him.
Genres: Comedy Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-12-23
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Volunteers
Overview: After his rich father refuses to pay his debt, compulsive gambler Lawrence Bourne III joins the Peace Corps to evade angry creditors. In Thailand, he is assigned to build a bridge for the local villagers with the help of American-As-Apple-Pie WSU Grad Tom Tuttle and the beautiful and down-to earth Beth Wexler. What they don't realize is that the bridge is coveted by the U.S. Army, a local Communist force, and a powerful drug lord. Together with the help of At Toon, the only English speaking native, they must fight off the three opposing forces and find out what is right for the villagers, as well as themselves.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-08-16
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The Gambler
Overview: New York City English professor Axel Freed outwardly seems like an upstanding citizen. But privately Freed is in the clutches of a severe gambling addiction that threatens to destroy him.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-10-02
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Kobe Bryant's Muse
Overview: Documentary that goes behind the stats to reveal the story of Kobe Bryant's career, exploring the mentorships, allies and rivalries that have helped shape his stellar 18-year tenure in the NBA, and offering access to his daily experiences, his lifelong inspirations and the battle with his greatest personal challenge yet.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-02-28
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Sport Goofy in Soccermania
Overview: Uncle Scrooge donates an old beat-up trophy for Huey, Dewey and Louie's soccer tournament. But when he finds out that it is actually worth a million dollars, he has to put together a ragtag team, led by Goofy to win it back.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-05-27
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Los Angeles Lakers: '87 The Drive For Five
Overview: The video takes you threw the Lakers run to the 1987 NBA Finals! This video includes Lakers summary threw the regular season. All-Star weekend. Playoffs. And NBA Finals Lakers vs Celtics with the lakers climbing on top 4-2.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-10-10
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White Men Can't Jump
Overview: Two street basketball hustlers try to con each other, then team up for a bigger score.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-03-27
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