William Leslie
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Biography: William Leslie was an actor who had a successful Hollywood career. Leslie began his acting career appearing in various films, such as Forever Female (1953), Johnny Dark (1954) and the Jane Wyman dramatic adaptation Magnificent Obsession (1954). He also appeared in the Frankie Laine musical Bring Your Smile Along (1955), the dramatic adaptation Queen Bee (1955) with Joan Crawford, and The Long Gray Line (1955).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Seagraves, Texas, USA
Birthday: March 27, 1928
Deathday: December 19, 2005
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Lineup
Overview: In San Francisco, a psychopathic gangster and his mentor retrieve heroin packages carried by unsuspecting travelers.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-06-11
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Queen Bee
Overview: A devilish Southern woman, married to a man who despises her, manages to manipulate those around her under the guise of being kind. But, when her sister-in-law is engaged to be married to the woman's former lover and her husband starts up an affair with her cousin, visting from New York, things start to go awry and she sets a plan to destroy it all.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-11-07
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The Night the World Exploded
Overview: With his assistant, Laura Hutchinson, Dr. David Conway develops a device to advance the fledgling science of earthquake prediction. After forecasting a large trembleor that will rock California within twenty-four hours, Conway cannot persuade the Governor to act. When the prediction proves true and further tests indicate that there are more quakes to come, Conway and Laura seek to perfect their device. Subsequent tests deep within Carlsbad Caverns discover an unknown element—E-112—that is responsible for the earthquakes and threatens to destroy the globe if it ever reaches the surface. The team determines that with only four weeks until Armageddon, the race is on to neutralize the killer element before it takes a devastating toll.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-06-14
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The Long Gray Line
Overview: The life story of a salt-of-the-earth Irish immigrant, who becomes an Army Noncommissioned Officer and spends his 50 year career at the United States Military Academy at West Point. This includes his job-related experiences as well as his family life and the relationships he develops with young cadets with whom he befriends. Based on the life of a real person.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-01-04
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The Shadow on the Window
Overview: Three delinquents murder a prosperous farmer at an isolated farm house. One witness to the crime - the dead man's secretary - is then taken hostage. The other witness - her young son - is thrown into state of shock. Can he recover soon enough to help the police - and his father - rescue his mother before it's too late?
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-03-06
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The Last Hurrah
Overview: In a changing world where television has become the main source of information, Adam Caulfield, a young sports journalist, witnesses how his uncle, Frank Skeffington, a veteran and honest politician, mayor of a New England town, tries to be reelected while bankers and captains of industry conspire in the shadows to place a weak and manageable candidate in the city hall.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-12-31
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Mutiny in Outer Space
Overview: An expedition to the lunar ice caves contracts a deadly moon-fungus. Stopping en route they contaminate a space station with the fungus, which soon begins to take over the entire place.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-03-03
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7th Cavalry
Overview: An officer accused of cowardice volunteers to bring back General Custers's body after Little Big Horn.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-12-01
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The White Squaw
Overview: A Swedish settler starts a war when he tries to drive Dakotas off their Wyoming reservation.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-11-01
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Return to Warbow
Overview: Three escaped prisoners return to the site of a robbery to find the stolen money that was never recovered. Western.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-01-15
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The Horse Soldiers
Overview: A Union Cavalry outfit is sent behind confederate lines in strength to destroy a rail supply center. Along with them is sent a doctor who causes instant antipathy between him and the commander. The secret plan for the mission is overheard by a southern belle who must be taken along to assure her silence.
Genres: Western War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-06-11
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Scorching Fury
Overview: Three masked bandits responsible for a wave of holdups and bank robberies stick up a stagecoach on its way to Boone City.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-01-01
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Hellcats of the Navy
Overview: Future "first couple" Ronald Reagan and Nancy Davis made their only joint film appearance in Hellcats of the Navy. Ronnie plays Casey Abbott, commander of a WW2 submarine, while Nancy portrays navy nurse Helen Blair, Abbott's off-and-on girlfriend. During a delicate mission in which his sub is ordered to retrieve a revolutionary new Japanese mine, Abbott is forced to leave frogman Wes Barton (Harry Lauter) behind to save the rest of his crew. But Abbott's second-in-command Don Landon (Eduard Franz) is convincing that Abbott's sacrifice of Barton was due to the fact that the dead man had been amorously pursuing Helen.
Genres: War Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-05-01
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Tricky Chicks
Overview: A pair of nightclub performers fall in love with government agents who suspect them to be foreign spies.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-10-24
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Battle Stations
Overview: The crew of a U.S. Navy ship in World War II goes into battle against the Japanese fleet.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-02-01
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Bring Your Smile Along
Overview: Nancy Willows (Constance Towers), pretty blonde high school teacher, writes song lyrics which spark the careers of struggling young pianist-composer Martin Adams (Keefe Brasselle')and would-be singer Jerry Dennis (Frankie Laine). When Nancy and Martin fall in love but quarrel over her old flame, David Parker (William Leslie), Nancy returns to her teaching job. Jerry reunites Nancy and Martin and, in turn, succumbs to the charms of his new secretary Marge Stevenson (Lucy Marlow).
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-06-22
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Andy Hardy Comes Home
Overview: Andy Hardy, now a grown man with a wife and children, returns to his hometown on a business trip and finds himself getting mixed up in local politics.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-12-22
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Buchanan Rides Alone
Overview: Passing through a border town, a man is caught up in a Mexican's murder of a member of the town's most powerful family.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-08-01
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Forever Female
Overview: An aging actress has a hard time admitting she is too old to play the ingenue role anymore.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-11-28
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Magnificent Obsession
Overview: Reckless playboy Bob Merrick crashes his speedboat, requiring emergency attention from the town’s only resuscitator while a local hero, Dr. Phillips, dies waiting for the life-saving device. Merrick then tries to right his wrongs with the doctor’s widow, Helen, falling in love with her in the process.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-08-07
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Johnny Dark
Overview: A young auto racer competes in a Canada-to-Mexico race in a car he designed himself. Director George Sherman's 1954 film stars Tony Curtis, Piper Laurie, Don Taylor, Sidney Blackmer, Paul Kelly, Ilka Chase and Joseph Sawyer.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-06-25
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The Couch
Overview: A psychopath calls the police before he kills, in between sessions with his father-figure analyst.
Genres: Drama Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-02-21
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The Red, White and Blue Line
Overview: A promotional film for United States Savings Bonds
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-06-01
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Operation Mad Ball
Overview: In this wacky military spoof, Lemmon plays a terminally bored Army private waging a war of wits as he tries to throw a party under the nose of his obnoxious commanding officer.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-08-17
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Up Periscope
Overview: Lieutenant Braden discovers that Sally, the woman he's been falling in love with, has actually been checking out his qualifications to be a U.S. Navy frogman. He must put his personal life behind him after being assigned to be smuggled into a Japanese-held island via submarine to photograph radio codes.
Genres: War Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-03-04
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Cowboy
Overview: Chicago hotel clerk Frank Harris dreams of life as a cowboy, and he gets his chance when, jilted by the father of the woman he loves, he joins Tom Reece and his cattle-driving outfit. Soon, though, the tenderfoot finds out life on the range is neither what he expected nor what he's been looking for...
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-01-23
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