David Bauer
Also Known As: David Wolfe , Dave Wolfe, Herman Waldman, Herman Bernard Waldman
Biography: David Bauer (born Herman Bernard Waldman, March 6, 1917 – February 8 or 13, 1973 was an American film, television, and stage actor who, from November 1958 until his death, was based primarily in Britain.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Birthday: March 06, 1917
Deathday: February 13, 1973
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Patton
Overview: "Patton" tells the tale of General George S. Patton, famous tank commander of World War II. The film begins with Patton's career in North Africa and progresses through the invasion of Germany and the fall of the Third Reich. Side plots also speak of Patton's numerous faults such his temper and habit towards insubordination.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-01-25
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Flaming Fury
Overview: A Los Angeles fire captain (Roy Roberts) sends an arson-squad rookie (George Cooper) undercover.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-07-28
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Dark of the Sun
Overview: A band of mercenaries led by Captain Curry travel through war-torn Congo across deadly terrain, battling rival armies, to steal $50 million in uncut diamonds. But infighting, sadistic rebels and a time lock jeopardize everything.
Genres: War Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-02-08
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Endless Night
Overview: Shiftless dreamer Michael Rogers fantasizes about a lifestyle above his means and marries a wealthy, young girl who just came of age. They hire a famous architect to build their dream home amidst a series of suspicious incidents. The spouse has dark intentions toward his naive, inexperienced bride. Secrets from his past and sinister ties to their house guest Greta lead to a terrible turn of unexpected events.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-10-05
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Kansas Raiders
Overview: Outraged by Redleg atrocities, the James and Younger Brothers along with Kit Dalton join Quantrill's Raiders and find themselves participating in even worse war crimes.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-11-15
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The Cimarron Kid
Overview: Audie Murphy comes into his own as a Western star in this story. Wrongly accused by crooked railroad officials of aiding a train heist by his old friends the Daltons, he joins their gang and becomes an active participant in other robberies. Betrayed by a fellow gang member, Murphy becomes a fugitive in the end. Seeking refuge at the ranch of a reformed gang member, he hopes to flee with the man's daughter to South America, but he's captured in the end and led off to jail. The girl promises to wait.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-01-13
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A Dangerous Profession
Overview: A cop-turned-bail bondsman gets involved in a murder investigation involving a former flame.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-12-10
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Smuggler's Island
Overview: An adventurer about to lose his sloop and diving equipment agrees to dive for illegal gold.
Genres: Adventure Romance Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-05-18
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The Scarf
Overview: A man who is believed to have murdered a woman, escapes from the insane asylum to find if he was the one to actually kill her using the scarf she was wearing.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-04-06
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The Vicious Circle
Overview: In Hungary, a rich baron discovers that there are extensive oil deposits underneath nearby properties owned by villagers. He manages to convince all the property owners to sell to him, except for a few properties owned by Jewish families. Infuriated at their refusal to sell to him, he attempts, with the help of some corrupt local police, to have the men charged with the murder of a local woman, who in reality actually committed suicide.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-07-21
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Where the Sidewalk Ends
Overview: A police detective's violent nature keeps him from being a good cop.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-07-07
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Salt of the Earth
Overview: At New Mexico's Empire Zinc mine, Mexican-American workers protest the unsafe work conditions and unequal wages compared to their Anglo counterparts. Ramon Quintero helps organize the strike, but he is shown to be a hypocrite by treating his pregnant wife, Esperanza, with a similar unfairness. When an injunction stops the men from protesting, however, the gender roles are reversed, and women find themselves on the picket lines while the men stay at home.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-03-14
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Afternoon of a Nymph
Overview: An agent invites his young starlet to a party, to meet all the right people. A chance to move on from the commercials she has been doing, to bigger roles and maybe stardom. However while she is there, she realizes there is a price to pay...
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-09-30
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The Royal Hunt of the Sun
Overview: The Spanish explorer Pizarro captures the Inca god-chief Atahualpa and promises to free him upon the delivery of a hoard of gold. But Pizarro finds himself torn between his desire for conquest and his sense of honor after friendship and respect develops between captive and captor.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-10-05
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Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie
Overview: At the fiftieth anniversary of his town's founding, the town's first barber recalls his long-dead, spirited bride and the flaw in his own character that helped bring about her loss and several others.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-06-27
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Crooks and Coronets
Overview: Two crooks are hired to rob an eccentric old lady's estate, but once they get to know her, they can't bring themselves to do it.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-04-02
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The Ambassadors
Overview: Lambert Strether goes to France to rescue a young American from a European adventuress - only to fall under the spell of Europe himself. 1965 BBC adaptation of the Henry James novel.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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The Franchise Trail
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Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Diamonds Are Forever
Overview: Diamonds are stolen only to be sold again in the international market. James Bond infiltrates a smuggling mission to find out who's guilty. The mission takes him to Las Vegas where Bond meets his archenemy Blofeld.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-12-14
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Live It Up!
Overview: A young postman, who fronts a pop group, dreams of being bigger than The Beatles. They record a demo tape, but things seem to be going pear shaped when he loses the tape. There is also his father to contend with who thinks he's wasting his time with all that pop music nonsense.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-11-29
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Torture Garden
Overview: Five people visit a fairground sideshow run by the sinister Dr. Diabolo. Having shown them a handful of haunted-house-style attractions, he promises them a genuinely scary experience if they will pay extra.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-11-01
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Tokyo Joe
Overview: An American veteran returns to Tokyo to try to pick up the threads of his pre-World War II life there, but finds himself squeezed between criminals and the authorities.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-10-26
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5 Fingers
Overview: During WWII, the valet to the British Ambassador to Ankara sells British secrets to the Germans while trying to romance a refugee Polish countess.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-02-22
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Road Movie
Overview: Gil and Hank are two independent truckers who run into problems when they are forced to pay off traffic managers to get loads. They also have to pay off highway cops when their rigs are overweight and bank loans but consider themselves lucky just to be able to keep up the interest payments. Add to that a small, frizzy-wigged highway hooker named Janice, who tempts them with her lurid charms.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-02-03
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Inspector Clouseau
Overview: Detective Inspector Jacques Clouseau is borrowed from the Surete on special assignment for Scotland Yard in hopes that a fresh outlook will help the government recover the loot from the Great Train Robbery, which is being used to underwrite a new crime wave. What they don't count on, however, is having more than one Clouseau on the job.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-07-19
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Appointment with Danger
Overview: Al Goddard, a detective who works for the United States Postal Inspection Service, is assigned to arrest two criminals who've allegedly murdered a U.S. postal detective.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-03-31
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Embassy
Overview: A KGB assassin infiltrates the American embassy in Beirut in an attempt to eliminate a Russian defector being protected by the CIA.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-03-02
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Danger Route
Overview: Jonas Wilde, a British secret agent licensed to kill, wants to resign from his murderous work, but his superiors pressure him into taking on a new assignment-the assassination of a defecting Soviet scientist. In the course of the dangerous mission, he discovers a mole has infiltrated British intelligence.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-10-01
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The Double Man
Overview: In a complex piece of espionage the Russian secret service attempts to kidnap a high ranking officer in the CIA and replace him with a double of its own.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-04-25
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Bagdad
Overview: An Arab sheik's daughter (Maureen O'Hara) avenges his death, blamed on Hassan (Paul Christian) and his Black Riders.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-11-23
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Walk a Tightrope
Overview: Meet Ellen Sheppard, an American living in Britain. Her English husband, Jason Sheppard, has been killed and she's under suspicion despite the appearance of a happy marriage. Jason's friend assists Ellen go over the facts to see if they can find the real killer.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-08-26
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Fun and Games
Overview: The daughter of a British prison governor returns from an American finishing school, and chases after the inmates of her Dad's prison.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-10-01
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Man in the Middle
Overview: In a remote jungle outpost in the Far Eastern theater of World War II, a hotheaded American soldier murders an allied British sergeant in cold blood. Stalwart American Lt. Colonel Barney Adams (Mitchum) is dispatched to defend him in the ensuing court martial. But when Lt. Adams starts encountering roadblocks in his search for evidence, and his key witnesses start disappearing one after another, he soon realizes he's merely a pawn in a mysterious conspiracy that could extend to the highest levels of military power.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-01-27
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Bloodhounds of Broadway
Overview: A musical comedy based on several Damon Runyon short stories. When a bookie on the run, Robert 'Numbers' Foster, falls for a pretty country songbird, Emily Ann Stackerlee , he'll do anything to help her make it big -- including a stint in jail to pay for his crimes. But will the tough guy's sacrifice of the heart pay off when it comes to his girlfriend's singing career?
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-11-14
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House of Strangers
Overview: Gino Monetti is a ruthless Italian-American banker who is engaged in a number of criminal activities. Three of his four grown sons refuse to help their father stay out of prison after he's arrested for his questionable business practices. Three of the sons take over the business but kick their father out. Max, a lawyer, is the only son that stays loyal to his father.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-07-01
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Sword in the Desert
Overview: First American film about the conflict between Jewish nationalists and the British in the creation of the state of Israel.
Genres: Action War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-08-24
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Prisoners in Petticoats
Overview: Joan Grey is a young pianist that falls for the good manners and nice clothes of a gang of mobsters. She is warned by Mark Hampton, an investigator, that she is associating with gangsters and she is heading for trouble. She refuses to believe him and becomes innocently involved in some robberies and killings.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-09-18
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The Undercover Man
Overview: Frank Warren is a treasury agent assigned to put an end to the activities of a powerful mob crime boss. Frank works undercover, posing as a criminal to seek information, but is frustrated when all he finds are terrified witnesses and corrupt police officers.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-03-21
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