Mel Stewart
Also Known As: Melvin Stewart, Melvin Stuart, Mel Stuart
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Birthday: September 19, 1929
Deathday: February 24, 2002
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Odds Against Tomorrow
Overview: An old-time crook plans a heist. When one of his two partners is found out to be a black man tensions flare.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-10-15
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Greenwich Village Story
Overview: A struggling writer dumps a pregnant dancer for a well-off socialite. Later, he realizes his true feelings and opts to make amends.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-07-11
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The Outlaws
Overview: Eugene Griswold is an average, suburban nine-to-five guy tired of working long hours for his income. Then Eugene gets mixed up in his inventor friend Stanley Flynn's get-rich-quick scheme which lands them both in prison and eventually leads to a series of misadventures when they are caught up in a bizarre prison breakout made by other prisoners which they are blamed for mastermining it and now must run from the law.
Genres: Comedy Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-07-09
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Bride of Re-Animator
Overview: Unperturbed by the disastrous outcome of his previous meddling with the dead, Dr. West continues his research into the phenomenon of re-animation; only this time, he plans to create life – starting with the heart of his young protégé Dan's dearly deceased Meg Halsey.
Genres: Horror Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-09-01
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Funnyman
Overview: An improvisational comedian, working with The Committee improv group in San Francisco, struggles to be taken seriously.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-09-23
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Nothing But a Man
Overview: A proud black man and his school-teacher wife face discriminatory challenges in 1960s America.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-12-27
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Let's Do It Again
Overview: Clyde Williams and Billy Foster are a couple of blue-collar workers in Atlanta who have promised to raise funds for their fraternal order, the Brothers and Sisters of Shaka. However, their method for raising the money involves travelling to New Orleans and rigging a boxing match.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-10-11
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Baby Comes Home
Overview: In this sequel to "And Baby Makes Six," a middle-aged couple deals with familial upheaval after giving birth to an unplanned fourth baby --- 17 years after their last child.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-10-16
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Deadlock
Overview: The murder of a journalist, coming shortly after the killings of a black teenager and a white cop, threatens to inflame passions in the city. To prevent a riot, Lieutenant Sam Danforth and District Attorney Leslie Washburn are determined to find the killer, even though they do not exactly get along with each other and disagree over procedure.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-02-22
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Petulia
Overview: Dr. Archie Bollen is having a midlife crisis. He's just divorced his wife and is establishing a new life for himself. One night, he catches the eye of Petulia Danner, a charming, free-spirited young woman. Petulia's vibrant personality hides her fear of her abusive husband, David, whose father is a powerful society figure. As Petulia and Archie's feelings for each other grow, they must decide what it is they truly want.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-06-10
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Stone
Overview: Dennis Weaver is a Joseph Wambaugh-type novelist cop and Pat Hingle is his hard-nosed superior who wants him to stick to police work or get off the force in this pilot to the short-lived series.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-08-26
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The Kid with the 200 I.Q.
Overview: A 13-year-old genius goes to college and tries to cope not only with campus social life, but also with his professor.
Genres: Drama Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-02-06
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Booker
Overview: Booker tells the true story of Booker T. Washington, who, as a young slave, dreams of learning to read and write. After the Civil War frees him, Booker is forced to work long hours in a salt furnace to help his family survive. But with hard work and persistence, Booker finds a way to learn and gain the freedom that comes with education.
Genres: Family Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-10-01
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The Death of Ocean View Park
Overview: A group of celebrants find themselves trapped in an amusement park that is being torn apart by a hurricane during a Fourth of July holiday. The real Ocean View Park in Norfolk, Virginia, scheduled for demolition by the city, actually was blown up and burned down during the filming.
Genres: Action Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-10-19
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Trick Baby
Overview: Two Philadelphia con men try to evade gangsters they have conned and cops who are trying to put them in jail.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-12-22
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Bride of Re-Animator Documentary
Overview: This follows various actors, directors, special effects team ETC. through the making of the second installment of Re-animator
Genres: Documentary Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-03-03
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Dead Heat
Overview: Detective Roger Mortis is killed in action while investigating a string of mysterious robberies: until he's brought back from the dead with a chemical company's secret re-animation technology. Now he has twelve hours to solve the case of his own death before he dies: And stays dead.
Genres: Action Horror Science Fiction Thriller Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-05-06
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Scorpio
Overview: Cross is an old hand at the CIA who often teams up with Frenchman Jean “Scorpio” Laurier, a gifted freelance operative. After their last mission together, the CIA orders Scorpio to eliminate Cross, leaving him no choice but to obey.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-04-11
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Hammer
Overview: Hotheaded laborer B.J. Hammer can't go long without ending up in a fight, and, after he comes out on top in a particularly impressive workplace scuffle, word of his brawling skills makes its way to Davis, a top boxing manager. Hammer is hired by Davis and begins a lucrative career in the ring, only to find out that his new employer wants him to throw a fight and take part in other illicit activities. Hammer reacts to this news violently, and the feud is on.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-07-04
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The Last Survivors
Overview: When a passenger ship sinks, a ship's officer must decide which passengers in an overcrowded lifeboat must be sacrificed so the rest can survive an approaching typhoon.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-03-04
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The Landlord
Overview: At the age of twenty-nine, Elgar Enders "runs away" from home. This running away consists of buying a building in a black ghetto in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn. Initially, his intention is to evict the black tenants and convert the building into a posh flat. But Elgar is not one to be bound by yesterday's urges, and soon he has other thoughts on his mind.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-05-20
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The Big Stuffed Dog
Overview: A large stuffed Snoopy toy goes astray at an airport baggage area, and gets involved with various travelers.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-02-08
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Newman's Law
Overview: LAPD Officer Newman has not gotten the reputation of a straight arrow by avoiding conflict when fighting for right. In this police drama, his honesty is put to the test when he and his partner discover an international drug ring involving some of the department's highest ranking officers.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-08-21
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Ring of Passion
Overview: Fact-based drama about the two Joe Louis-Max Schmeling heavyweight fights and the way both boxers unwillingly became symbols of political ideologies just prior to World War II.
Genres: Action Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-02-04
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Cry Uncle!
Overview: Private detective Jack Masters takes on a case and gets mixed up in murder, sex and blackmail.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-08-17
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The Invisible Woman
Overview: In a research lab, a scientist's pet chimpanzee mixes up an invisibility formula. A young woman accidentally drinks the solution and becomes invisible.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-02-13
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A Session with the Committee
Overview: A Session with the Committee
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-08-11
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Steelyard Blues
Overview: A group of misfits decide to leave for a place that they can all be free. Their mode of transportation is a PBY flying boat. The only problem is that the PBY needs a lot of work and they will need jobs to pay for the parts. When they find that they have only 10 days before the PBY is sold for scrap, they decide on borrowing the parts for their trip
Genres: Drama Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-01-31
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Marriage Is Alive and Well
Overview: A talented wedding photographer, at a crossroads with his own marriage, reflects on tales of past clients and the hope, adversity and romance that holy matrimony brings. Starring as the photographer, football great Joe Namath narrates the unconventional tales of three couples: Judd Hirsch and Melinda Dillon as a twosome who have married and divorced multiple times and who are on the verge of repeating their mistake; an anxious newlywed who prefers the "freedom" that living together allows; and Jack Albertson as an aging comedian who wants to marry his much younger secretary despite the disapproval of his son.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-25
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Whose Life Is It Anyway?
Overview: Ken Harrison is an artist that lives to make sculptures. One day he is involved in a car accident, and is paralyzed from his neck down. All he can do is talk and move his head, and he wants to die. Whilst he is in hospital he makes friends with some of the staff, and they support him when he goes to trial to be allowed to die.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-12-02
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The Dalton Gang
Overview: When their brother Frank is killed by an outlaw, brothers Bob Dalton, Emmett Dalton and Gray Dalton join their local sheriff's department. When they are cheated by the law, they turn to crime, robbing trains and anything else they can steal from over the course of two years in the early 1890's. Trying to out do Jesse James, they attempt to rob two banks at once in October of 1892, and things get ugly
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-11-02
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Kid Blue
Overview: Bickford Waner, an apparently naive young man from Fort Worth, arrives in the tiny Texas town of Dime Box and takes on a variety of menial jobs. He's befriended by Reese Ford and his wife Molly, but before long Molly has seduced Bickford. Only with the arrival of Bickford's former girlfriend Janet Conforto is it revealed that Bickford is actually the notorious train robber Kid Blue. Humiliated by a scandal arising from his affair with his friend's wife, Bickford gives up on going straight and plots a crime.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-01-31
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Shadows
Overview: The relationship between Lelia, a light-skinned black woman, and Tony, a white man is put in jeopardy when Tony meets Lelia’s darker-skinned jazz singer brother, Hugh, and discovers that her racial heritage is not what he thought it was.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-10-14
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Made in America
Overview: A young black woman discovers that her father was a sperm donor, and if that wasn't bad enough, he's white.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-01-06
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