William Bassett
Also Known As: William H. Bassett, William Henry Bassett
Biography: William Bassett (born December 28, 1935) is an American actor.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Evanston, Illinois, USA
Birthday: December 28, 1935
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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House of 1000 Corpses
Overview: Two teenage couples traveling across the backwoods of Texas searching for urban legends of serial killers end up as prisoners of a bizarre and sadistic backwater family of serial killers.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-04-11
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The Bastard
Overview: Phillipe Charboneau is the illegitimate son of an English duke. When he travels from France to England to claim his inheritance, he incurs the wrath of his father's family and is forced to flee to America, where he becomes involved in the events leading to the American Revolution. (Episodes 1 and 2 of the Kent Chronicles miniseries.)
Genres: History Drama War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-05-22
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Wild Roomies
Overview: After his last girlfriend slept with his last roommate, Reno Rizzolla moves to L.A. with his new girlfriend... and chaos ensues when the debt on the house forces him to get roommates.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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Creator
Overview: With the help of student assistant Boris and stolen university equipment, Dr. Harry Wolper plans to clone his dead wife. But then he meets Meli, an egg donor for his experiment, and they fall in love. Faced with choosing between his deceased wife and Meli, Dr. Wolper sees his situation in a new light when Boris' own new love, Barbara, falls into a coma. Meanwhile, another professor tries shutting down the cloning project.
Genres: Comedy Romance Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-09-20
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Return from Witch Mountain
Overview: Tony and Tia are other-worldly twins endowed with telekinesis. When their Uncle Bene drops them off in Los Angeles for an earthbound vacation, a display of their supernatural skill catches the eye of the nefarious Dr. Gannon and his partner in crime, Letha, who see rich possibilities in harnessing the children's gifts. They kidnap Tony, and Tia gives chase only to find Gannon is using her brother's powers against her.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Science Fiction Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-03-10
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Black Eagle
Overview: One of the US Air Force's most modern tactical aircrafts, an F-100 with a new laser guidance system, crashes into the sea near Malta - a region where the Soviet forces are highly present, too. The CIA immediately sends out their best secret agent, Ken Tani, to salvage the system before it falls into enemy hands. To ensure his loyalty, they bring his two young sons to a nearby hotel on the island.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-05-01
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Demon Hunter
Overview: After resolving a situation of exorcism, the half-breed demon hunter Jake Greyman (Sean Patrick Flanery) reports to Cardinal White (William Bassett) and they realize that the demon Asmodeus (Billy Drago) is impregnating many mortals trying to raise offspring. Cardinal White calls Sister Sarah Ryan (Colleen Porch) to assist Jake in his hunting for Asmodeus and his women.
Genres: Horror Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-06-01
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Crazy As Hell
Overview: A famous psychiatrist (Ty Adams) takes on the job of trying to cure patients at the Sedah State Hospital, run by it's folksy doctor (Sam Delazo). All this takes a strange turn when a mysterious patient (Satan, he calls himself) enters the Hospital seeking help. Or is it just help that he wants?
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-09-27
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Fast Girl
Overview: Racing is in Alex Johnstone's blood. It was her father s life and it ultimately caused his death so her uncle Bill, who runs the local speedway, is determined not to lose his niece the way he lost his brother. But Alex is determined to prove to Bill, to the world, and especially to herself that she has what it takes to be the best in a traditionally male-dominated sport. And when she meets up with handsome professional racecar driver Darryl Sands, the emotional stakes are raised even higher. Will Alex crash and burn or can she carry on her dad s legacy and make her dreams come true?
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-01-24
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The Grasshopper
Overview: A British Columbia teenager dreams of show business but winds up as a call girl in Las Vegas.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-05-27
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Keefer
Overview: An U.S. Army colonel leads a crack group of secret agents operating behind enemy lines in occupied France during World War II.
Genres: TV Movie War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-03-16
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The Lie
Overview: An Ingmar Bergman script. Produced for Swedish Television as "Reservatet" (1970) and for BBC as "The Lie" (1971). An American couple is trapped in their marriage and way of life. Locked up in their bourgeois inferno.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-04-24
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The Case of the Hillside Stranglers
Overview: The chilling true story of the "two of a kind" killing cousins, Angelo Buono and Kenneth Bianchi, better known as the Hillside Stranglers.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-04-02
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Sam's Son
Overview: Michael Landon's semi-autobiographical sketch of his earlier life. It's the story of Gene Orowitz, a high school student struggling with his identity, who finds success as a javelin thrower on the track team.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-08-17
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Black Dynamite
Overview: This is the story of 1970s African-American action legend Black Dynamite. The Man killed his brother, pumped heroin into local orphanages, and flooded the ghetto with adulterated malt liquor. Black Dynamite was the one hero willing to fight The Man all the way from the blood-soaked city streets to the hallowed halls of the Honky House.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-10-16
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Never Con a Killer
Overview: Pilot to the short-lived TV series "The Feather and Father Gang" has Detective Feather Danton and her con-man father Harry teaming up to outwit Runyonesque horseplayer E.J. Valerian.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-05-13
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The New Love Boat
Overview: Guest stars include Georgia Engel as a stowaway, Gary Frank and Melanie Mayron as a pair of tremulous honeymooners, Stella Stevens and Pat Harrington as an eternally bickering married couple, and Audra Lindley and Phil Silvers as, respectively, an outspoken middle-aged lady and a woebegone widower.
Genres: Comedy Adventure Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-05-05
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Moonlight
Overview: A fast-food delivery man for a New York Chinese restaurant gets involved with international terrorists and is recruited by undercover agents to help track down the leader in this prospective pilot.
Genres: Action Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-09-14
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Never Forget
Overview: Mel and Jane Mermelstein are a true-life California couple, thrown into the spotlight of judicial history in the 1980s. Mel is a Hungarian-born Jew, sole-survivor of his family's extermination at Auschwitz, and Jane, a Southern Baptist from Tennessee. Their four children are good kids, typical Americans, with just enough orneriness to irritate each other, but enough love and class to pull together when it counts.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-04-08
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Ring of Fire II: Blood and Steel
Overview: Johnny Woo and Julie play an enduring couple who survive all sorts of interference from rival kick-box gangs in their effort to put a little romance in their lives.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-03-17
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The Naked Cage
Overview: A young woman is falsely convicted of a bank robbery and sent to a maximum-security prison run by a corrupt warden, where she is forced to suffer various indignities.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-03-01
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Another Part of the Forest
Overview: A television adaptation of Lillian Hellman's play about the Hubbards, a rich Southern family of greedy, ruthless individuals.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-10-02
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Inside: 'Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb'
Overview: A documentary on the making of Stanley Kubrick's classic 1964 film.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-05-05
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Thornwell
Overview: The story of James Thornwell, whose accusation that the U.S. Army used mind control drugs on him to force him to confess to stealing secret documents while stationed in Orleans, France, in 1961, led Congress to award him $625,000 in damages nearly 20 years later.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-01-28
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Old Boyfriends
Overview: When her marriage falls apart, a psychiatrist seeks out those of her former boyfriends who left the biggest impact on her life, mostly in a bad way.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-03-22
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The Journey of the Fifth Horse
Overview: Dustin Hoffman stars in this television adaptation of Ivan Turgenev's tale about Dmitri Zoditch, a simple manuscript reader at a publishing house whose grand dreams don't square with his dead-end job and miserable apartment. When he's assigned to read the diary of a nobleman, he finds bitter parallels between his own pathetic existence and the wasted life described in the journal. Michael Tolan and Charlotte Rae co-star.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-10-14
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The Hollywood Detective
Overview: An actor at the end of the line who used to play a PI on TV turns to real detective work when a fan of his begs him to help her.
Genres: TV Movie Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-10-25
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Invaders from Mars
Overview: In this remake of the classic 1950s sci-fi tale, a boy tries to stop an invasion of his town by aliens who take over the the minds of his parents, his least-liked schoolteacher and other townspeople. With the aid of the school nurse the boy enlists the aid of the U.S. Marines.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-06-06
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The Towering Inferno
Overview: At the opening party of a colossal—but poorly constructed—skyscraper, a massive fire breaks out, threatening to destroy the tower and everyone in it.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-12-14
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The Karate Kid
Overview: Daniel LaRusso moves to Los Angeles with his mother, Lucille, and soon strikes up a relationship with Ali. He quickly finds himself the target of bullying by a group of high school students, led by Ali's ex-boyfriend Johnny, who study karate at the Cobra Kai dojo under ruthless sensei, John Kreese. Fortunately, Daniel befriends Mr. Miyagi, an unassuming repairman who just happens to be a martial arts master himself. Miyagi takes Daniel under his wing, training him in a more compassionate form of karate for self-defense and, later, preparing him to compete against the brutal Cobra Kai.
Genres: Action Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-06-22
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The Cloning of Clifford Swimmer
Overview: Clifford Swimmer, an angry and abusive man cruel to his wife and son, wants out if his marriage. With the help of a scientist he clones a replacement who takes over as head of the family while the real Clifford travels the world. The clone turns out to be a gentle and sensitive husband and father, a complete opposite of the original, and the wife and son come to love him. When the real Clifford comes back and finds his family happy with the clone he becomes angry and jealous and things take a deadly turn.
Genres: Horror Mystery Science Fiction Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-11-01
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Her Costly Affair
Overview: A professor's casual fling with her graduate student turns deadly when he insists on a more permanent arrangement.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-10-28
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Lucky Lady
Overview: When an American booze smuggler gets murdered in Prohibition-era Mexico, his widow, a nightclub singer, joins forces with her lover and a desperate loner to become rum-runners to the U.S.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-12-25
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The Art of Stanley Kubrick: From Short Films to Strangelove
Overview: A documentary about the making of Stanley Kubricks 1964 film Dr Strangelove Or: How I Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb and his career leading up to this film.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-04-10
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The Night They Took Miss Beautiful
Overview: Criminals hijack an airplane carrying five beauty contest finalists, but unknowingly they've also kidnapped a government agent carrying a dangerous virus that is to be used in bacterial warfare.
Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-10-24
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Welcome To September
Overview: Drew McCullough, a lonely young Irishman, sells carpet for a living. One night, he is transfixed by the image of a beautiful, exotic woman in a painting. Suddenly, she steps out of the painting and into his arms. For an instant, they are locked in a passionate, soul-churning kiss and then she's gone. Is she real or has he just lost his mind? He's going to find out no matter what the cost. And it costs him dearly. In his obsessive search to find her, his life is turned upside down. In the end, Welcome to September is a quirky story about fantasy, reality, obsession and love, and how all of these things are just different sides of the same coin.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-03-24
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Perfect Gentlemen
Overview: Women whose husbands are incarcerated decide to band together to rob a hotel safe.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-03-14
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The Tempest
Overview: Prospero, the deposed Duke of Milan, who lives in exile on a remote island as a sorcerer, uses his powers to shipwreck his usurper brother on the island.
Genres: Drama Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-02-13
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A Time for Dying
Overview: Passing through a town, a farm boy aspiring to be a bounty hunter rescues a woman who has been tricked into working in its brothel and the two travel towards his father's ranch.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-09-15
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Spring Awakening
Overview: The failing economic fortunes of a small turn-of-the-century Nebraska town interrupt a blossoming romance between a pair of star-crossed lovers.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-11-06
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Unwed Father
Overview: A teenage boy fathers a child with his girlfriend. He then fights his parents, the girlfriend, the girl's parents and the courts in an attempt to get custody of the child.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-02-27
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My Father's House
Overview: Recovering from a heart attack, a workaholic editor recalls the simple days of his youth. Robertson adds an emotional center to this messy, flashback-filled 'heavy' dramatic piece. Plenty of co-star talent.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-06-01
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