Richard Benedict
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Biography: Richard "Pepe" Benedict (born Riccardo Benedetto, January 8, 1920 – April 29, 1984) was an Italian-American television and film actor and director. He was born in Palermo, Italy. He appeared in dozens of television programs and movies from the 1940s to the 1960s, most notably Ace in the Hole (1951), directed by Billy Wilder. Benedict appeared with Frank Sinatra and the Rat Pack in the 1960 movie Ocean's 11 as one of the 11 men who rob five Las Vegas casinos on the same night. He also played the commander of the Mars rescue ship in the 1958 B sci-fi movie It! The Terror from Beyond Space. Benedict's television appearances included Adventures of Superman, The Lone Ranger, Perry Mason, Zorro, Dragnet, Peter Gunn and Hawaii Five-O. His directing credits included Impasse, an adventure film starring Burt Reynolds. He died of a heart attack at Studio City, Los Angeles, on April 29, 1984, and was interred in Forest Lawn – Hollywood Hills Cemetery, in the Churchyard section. He was the father of three children, including actor Nick Benedict.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Palermo, Sicily, Italy
Birthday: January 08, 1920
Deathday: April 25, 1984
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Gender: Male
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Ace in the Hole
Overview: An arrogant reporter exploits a story about a man trapped in a cave to revitalize his career.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-06-29
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Hoodlum Empire
Overview: It's a deadly play for power when a Mafia chieftain's top gun goes straight and threatens to testify against the big boss and his cruel, nationwide network of crime. The picture, which was shot in a semi-documentary style, was inspired by the Kefauver investigations of 1950-51.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-04-15
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It! The Terror from Beyond Space
Overview: The first manned expedition to Mars is invaded by an unknown life form, which stows away on the rescue ship.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-07-31
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Crossfire
Overview: A man is murdered, apparently by one of a group of soldiers just out of the army. But which one? And why?
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-08-15
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A Walk in the Sun
Overview: In the 1943 invasion of Italy, one American platoon lands, digs in, then makes its way inland to attempt to take a fortified farmhouse, as tension and casualties mount.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-12-25
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City Across the River
Overview: Brooklyn youth Frank Cusack, good son and brother by day, is a gang member by night. The Dukes, seemingly likable dead-end-kids, are dangerously involved with racketeer Gaggsy Steens. Despite the efforts of Franks's parents, he and pal Benny get involved in a serious crime. Can Stan Albert, head of the community center, prevent them from becoming full-time crooks?
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-04-07
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Backlash
Overview: In a series of flashbacks, shows that attorney John Morland has given a lift to a hitchhiker who turns out to be a murderer. As a result, Morland himself is implicated in a killing. A pair of detectives discover that Morland has been having business problems and no end of difficulties with his wife Catherine. The trail of clues leads to a surprising revelation.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-03-01
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The Guilt of Janet Ames
Overview: A hard-drinking reporter tries to help the embittered widow of the soldier who had saved his life during the war.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-03-06
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Scene of the Crime
Overview: A cop investigates the shooting of another policeman... that may have been involved in crooked activities.
Genres: Crime Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-07-28
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Smart Girls Don't Talk
Overview: A society woman gets involved with a gangster only to find he has hidden plans.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-10-09
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Beginning of the End
Overview: An attractive reporter investigating the mysterious destruction of an Illinois town stumbles upon a secret government laboratory conducting radiation experiments on vegetables. The lead scientist is eager to help find out what happened. Together they discover that giant grasshoppers are behind the devastation. Worse yet, thousands of them are headed toward Chicago! Can they be stopped... or is this the BEGINNING OF THE END?
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-06-28
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Homicide
Overview: Michael Landers, a police lieutenant, sets out to investigate an intricate murder case. But, the case is closed after the only witness is found dead. Will Michael be able to fathom the mystery?
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-04-02
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Murder Without Tears
Overview: A man hires someone to murder his wife and use a legal loophole to get away with it.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-06-14
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The Man Is Armed
Overview: Crime drama in which a man unknowingly helps a gang pull off a big heist. The gang discovers that the man is more trouble than he is worth and as a result, things don't go as smoothly as planned.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-10-19
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Race Street
Overview: A night club owner takes on the crooks who killed his best friend.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-09-11
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Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison
Overview: A warden and his assistant clash over prison reform, triggering a violent riot.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-05-18
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Streets of San Francisco
Overview: A police detective (Robert Armstrong) and his wife (Mae Clarke) adopt the wayward son (Gary Gray) of a slain gangster.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-04-15
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Woman in the Dark
Overview: A pastry-shop girl (Penny Edwards) sees a priest's (Ross Elliott) and a lawyer's (Rick Vallin) brother take part in a jewel heist.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-11-15
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Jalopy
Overview: Slip has entered the Boys' rattletrap car in a souped-up jalopy race, but has no chance of winning until Satch, with the aid of a scientist acquaintance, comes up with a chemical concoction that acts as a super-fuel; but a rival entrant in the race learns of this and tries to get the formula for himself.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-02-15
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Let's Go Navy!
Overview: The Bowery Boys join the Navy to catch some crooks who are posing as sailors.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-07-29
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The Midnight Story
Overview: Beloved priest Father Thomasino is murdered in a San Francisco alley, and the police have few clues. But traffic cop Joe Martini becomes obsessed with finding the killer; he suspects Sylvio Malatesta. Ordered off the case, Joe turns in his badge and investigates alone. Soon he is a close friend of the Malatesta family, all delightful people, especially lovely cousin Anna. Uncertain whether Sylvio is guilty or innocent, Joe is now torn between old and new loyalties.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-06-04
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Post Office Investigator
Overview: A mailman leads PO-men to a pistol-packing stamp thief and her gang.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-09-01
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Mark, I Love You
Overview: A distraught widower is caught in a bitter custody battle with his late wife's parents over his 10-year-old son, following his plans to remarry and move off to California with the boy.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-12-10
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Impasse
Overview: Adventurers search for World War II gold in the Philippines.
Genres: Action Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-05-07
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Triple Trouble
Overview: Slip and Sach take the rap for a robbery they did not commit in order to uncover the real robbers, whom they suspect are led by a convict who gives orders to his gang outside via a short-wave radio stashed somewhere in the prison.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-08-13
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Act of Love
Overview: An American soldier romances a beautiful Parisian during the final days of World War II.
Genres: Drama War Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-12-17
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The Shrike
Overview: Film version of Joseph Kramm's Pulitzer Prize play, about a Broadway playwright driven to a nervous breakdown by his shrewish wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-06-16
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Spring Reunion
Overview: A spinster finally finds the right man when she returns to her alma mater after 15 years for a class reunion.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-03-01
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O.S.S.
Overview: The (O)ffice of (S)trategic (S)ervices' Cmdr. Brady (Patric Knowles) forms Operation "Applejack" (based on a composite of actual incidents during WWII) and sends Lt. (j.g.) Philip Masson, U.S.N.R. aka John Martin as spy Philippe Martine (Alan Ladd) along with Miss Ellen Rogers posing as her college roommate, Madame Elaine Duprez (Geraldine Fitzgerald) and Robert Bouchet, Tech Sgt., A.U.S. as Albert Bernardito (Richard Benedict) to acquire secret Nazi plans. After nearly getting caught they succeed and get new identities. However they discover a secret that could change the war and risk their lives to get the information back to London before it jeopardizes their lives.
Genres: War Thriller Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-05-26
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State Penitentiary
Overview: A man wrongly accused of a crime must decide between getting involved in a prison break, or remaining in jail until his wife can prove his innocence.
Genres: Drama Adventure Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-06-08
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Somewhere in the Night
Overview: George Taylor returns from WWII with amnesia. Back home in Los Angeles, he tries to track down his old identity, stumbling into a 3-year old murder case and a hunt for a missing $2 million.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-06-12
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The Arizona Ranger
Overview: A disgraced veteran wanders the West alone until he decides to help a battered woman.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-05-14
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Till the End of Time
Overview: Three former marines have a hard time readjusting to civilian life. Perry can't deal with the loss of the use of his legs. William is in trouble with bad debts. And Cliff can't decide what he wants to do with his life, although he gets encouragement from war widow Pat Ruscomb.
Genres: Drama War Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-07-23
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Spy Chasers
Overview: Slip and the gang (Bowery Boys) foil foes of the exiled, incognito king of Truania (Sig Ruman).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-07-31
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Angels in Disguise
Overview: Slip and the gang stray from newspaper work to detective work.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-09-25
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The Window
Overview: An imaginative boy who frequently makes things up witnesses a murder, but can't get his parents or the police to believe him. The only people taking him seriously are the killers - who live upstairs, know that he saw what they did, and are out to permanently silence him.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-05-10
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Omoo-Omoo the Shark God
Overview: The curse of a shark god follows a group of people who have violated a sacred jungle idol.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-06-09
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Run for the Hills
Overview: Fearing nuclear war, an insurance man moves to a cave with his wife and family.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-06-01
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Shockproof
Overview: Jenny Marsh, recently released from prison for killing a man, finds herself under the watchful eye of her parole officer, Griff Marat, who helps her secure a job caring for his ailing mother.
Genres: Romance Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-01-25
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Josette of New Orleans
Overview: Josette of New Orleans
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-01-01
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Ocean's Eleven
Overview: Danny Ocean and his gang attempt to rob the five biggest casinos in Las Vegas in one night.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-08-10
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Breakdown
Overview: A boxer (William Bishop) jailed for murder proves his girlfriend's (Ann Richards) wealthy father and a ward boss framed him.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-07-16
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See My Lawyer
Overview: Ole and Chic are comedians employed in a nightclub, but seeking to be released from their contracts to take a better job. But the prissy nightclub owner, B. J. Wagonhorn, refuses to let them go. In reprisal, they start hurling insults at the nightclub patrons… a ploy that soon has them facing multiple lawsuits… to the delight of three struggling attorneys, Charlie Rodman, Bettty Wilson and Arthur Lane.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-03-09
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Move
Overview: A young playwright who writes porno novels to overcome a writer's block, lives the fantasies of one of his books, while trying to move with his wife from one apartment into a larger one.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-07-31
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I'll Give My Life
Overview: This story opens with John Bradford throwing a graduation party for his son, Jim, who has just earned a degree in engineering. John has planned to make his son a partner in his engineering firm for many years. However, Jim has decided to enter the ministry.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-02-03
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Wiretapper
Overview: A cash-strapped electrical engineer with a criminal past vows to go straight when he marries his longtime girlfriend, but he has second thoughts when the mob offers big money for his wiretapping services.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-08-10
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Okinawa
Overview: On the eve of their return to the states, the crew of the U.S.S. Blake is unpleasantly surprised when their new captain, Lt. Commander Hale, announces that they've been reassigned to the upcoming invasion of Okinawa. With the news turning the crew against him, Hale must rise to the occasion to keep his men inline.
Genres: War Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-02-28
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The Juggler
Overview: A Holocaust survivor moves to Israel and experiences difficulty adjusting to life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-05-11
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