Lonny Chapman
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Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Lonny Chapman (October 1, 1920 – October 12, 2007) was an American television actor best known for his numerous guest star appearances on detective dramas, including Quincy, M.E., The A-Team, Murder, She Wrote, Matlock, and NYPD Blue. He also appeared as a guest star on the CBS adventure/drama Harbourmaster, starring Barry Sullivan, and on the same network's anthology series The Lloyd Bridges Show. He guest starred too in several episodes of NBC's McCloud, which starred his long-time friend Dennis Weaver, whom Chapman had originally urged to go into show business. He also appeared in at least one episode of Gunsmoke opposite Dennis Weaver. In 1966, he appeared in the episode "Lone Woman" of Barry Sullivan's NBC western series, The Road West. In 1977, Chapman appeared in the episode "The Waterhole" of the short-lived Rod Taylor western series The Oregon Trail on NBC. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lonny Chapman, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
Birthday: October 01, 1920
Deathday: October 12, 2007
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Gender: Male
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The Birds
Overview: Thousands of birds flock into a seaside town and terrorize the residents in a series of deadly attacks.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-03-28
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Hour of the Gun
Overview: Marshal Wyatt Earp kills a couple of men of the Clanton-gang in a fight. In revenge Clanton's thugs kill the marshal's brother. Thus, Wyatt Earp starts to chase the killers together with his friend Doc Holliday.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-11-01
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Where the Red Fern Grows
Overview: Billy Coleman works hard and saves his earnings for two years to achieve his dream of buying two red-bone coonhound pups. He develops a new trust in life as he faces overwhelming challenges in adventure and tragedy roaming the river bottoms of Cherokee country with his dogs, Old Dan and Little Ann.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-06-21
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Young at Heart
Overview: The lives and romances of three sisters in a musical family; the youngest daughter's life is complicated by the subsequent arrival of a charming composer and a cynical music arranger.
Genres: Romance Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-12-01
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When Time Ran Out...
Overview: An active volcano threatens a south Pacific island resort and its guests as a power struggle ensues between the property's developer and a drilling foreman.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-03-28
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52 Pick-Up
Overview: Harry Mitchell is a successful Los Angeles manufacturer whose wife is running for city council. His life is turned upside down when three blackmailers confront him with a videotape of him with his young mistress and demand $100,000. Fearing that the story will hurt his wife's political campaign if he goes to the police, Harry pretends that he will pay the men, but does not follow through.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-11-07
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Cotter
Overview: A rodeo rider is killed because Cotter is too drunk to distract the raging bull.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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Terror Out of the Sky
Overview: TV sequel to "The Savage Bees" featuring more rampaging insects. This time a marching band and a school bus get in the path of the bees.
Genres: Horror Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-26
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Police Story: No Margin for Error
Overview: Two policemen are suspected of excessive violence and causing two deaths. The investigation brings to light, little by little, the whole truth.
Genres: Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-04-30
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The Witch Who Came from the Sea
Overview: Anger stemming from being abused as a child drives an alcoholic's daughter to kill as an adult.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-02-06
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A Covenant with Death
Overview: An innocent man is found guilty of murder and sentenced to death, but as he's about to be hanged he accidentally kills his executioner. He now faces a new trial, presided over by a young and inexperienced judge.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-02-15
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Visions...
Overview: A professor who has visions of the future informs the police that someone is about to plant a bomb. He then discovers that the police consider him the prime suspect.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-10-10
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Big Rose
Overview: Rose Winters, a private detective out of Los Angeles, teams with Ed Mills, a somewhat inexperienced young detective, to find out who is blackmailing a wealthy contractor.
Genres: Mystery Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-03-26
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Norma Rae
Overview: Norma Rae is a southern textile worker employed in a factory with intolerable working conditions. This concern about the situation gives her the gumption to be the key associate to a visiting labor union organizer. Together, they undertake the difficult, and possibly dangerous, struggle to unionize her factory.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-03-02
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Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn
Overview: In this sequel to Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway, Alexander's story is told in both the past and the present. Alexander's parents send him away from home for being too sensitive and not helping enough on their farm. He goes to Los Angeles in hopes of going to art school, but when he can't find a job as a minor, he turns to prostitution. After being arrested, he wants to head to Arizona to marry Dawn, but he falls into a lucrative job/relationship with a gay football star.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-05-16
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Running Scared
Overview: It's 1961. Two servicemen smuggle a box of military gear to USA. Leroy tries out a military camera and accidentally takes a picture of some military facilities. Army finds one of the pictures and thinks they're communist spies.
Genres: Drama Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-11-01
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Nightwatch
Overview: A law student takes a job as a night watchman at a morgue and begins to discover clues that implicate him as the suspect in a series of murders.
Genres: Drama Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-31
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Baby Doll
Overview: Archie Lee Meighan is a failing cotton gin owner who is married to Baby Doll, a 19-year old childlike beauty whose father arranged the marriage for financial reasons. As Archie awaits the arrival of Baby Doll's 20th birthday, the day that they are supposed to consummate their marriage, he faces interference from business rival Silva Vacarro, who plots to seduce Baby Doll away from Meighan.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-12-29
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Moving Violation
Overview: A young drifter and small-town waitress witness a corrupt sheriff murder his own deputy. Framed for the murder and pursued by the sheriff, they run for their life to try and stay alive.
Genres: Drama Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-07-16
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The Dangerous Days Of Kiowa Jones
Overview: A dying marshal deputizes a drifter to deliver the two killers in his custody to prison. However, the new deputy must elude a pair of bounty hunters who want to deliver the prisoners themselves to collect the reward and would think nothing of killing the deputy to get them.
Genres: Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-12-25
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The Rape of Doctor Willis
Overview: A drama directed by Lou Antonio.
Genres: Thriller Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-11-03
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The Bad News Bears Go to Japan
Overview: A small time promotor/hustler takes the pint-sized baseball team to Japan for a match against the country's best little league baseball team which sparks off a series of adventures and mishaps the boys come into.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-06-30
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The Reivers
Overview: In turn-of-the-century Mississippi, an 11-year-old boy comes of age as two mischievous adult friends talk him into sneaking the family car out for a trip to Memphis and a series of adventures.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-12-20
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The Steeler and the Pittsburgh Kid
Overview: The award-winning Coke commercial becomes a heart-warming story!
Genres: Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-11-15
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Reindeer Games
Overview: After assuming his dead cellmate's identity to get with his girlfriend, an ex-con finds himself the reluctant participant in a casino heist.
Genres: Thriller Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-02-25
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Earthquake
Overview: Various interconnected people struggle to survive when an earthquake of unimaginable magnitude hits Los Angeles, California.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-11-15
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East of Eden
Overview: In the Salinas Valley in and around World War I, Cal Trask feels he must compete against overwhelming odds with his brother for the love of their father. Cal is frustrated at every turn, from his reaction to the war, how to get ahead in business and in life, and how to relate to his estranged mother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-04-10
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Amy
Overview: A woman leaves her husband after the death of her child to teach deaf children how to speak. Her own child was deaf and although she has no formal training she successfully teaches one boy.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-03-20
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The Border
Overview: A corrupted border agent decides to clean up his act when an impoverished woman's baby is put up for sale on the black market.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-01-29
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Return of the Big Cat
Overview: A boy, Leroy McClaren, trains a wild dog to hunt the cougar that has been threatening the family.
Genres: Adventure Family Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-10-06
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Phantoms
Overview: In the peaceful Colorado town of Snowfield, something evil has wiped out the community. And now, it's up to a group of people to stop it, or at least get out of Snowfield alive.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-23
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Take the Money and Run
Overview: Virgil Starkwell is intent on becoming a notorious bank robber. Unfortunately for Virgil and his not-so-budding career, he is completely incompetent.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-08-18
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Welcome Home, Soldier Boys
Overview: Danny, Shooter, Fatback, and the Kid. They learned a trade in the army. Killing.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-12-10
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Run, Cougar, Run
Overview: In this nature adventure, a courageous cougar must struggle to survive after a cruel human hunter kills her mate.
Genres: Western Family Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-10-18
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Who Will Love My Children?
Overview: Lucile Fray has 10 children and terminal cancer. As her ne'er-do-well alcoholic husband, isn't capable enough to handle raising them, there's only one option left. As her last act on earth, Fray is determined to make sure her children have a secure future.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-02-13
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Lawman Without a Gun
Overview: During the 1960s' civil rights movement, a black civil rights worker returns to his small Southern town and runs for sheriff against the incumbent, a popular segregationist.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-05-30
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The Rainmaker
Overview: Traveling rainmaker Starbuck arrives at the drought-ridden Curry place, promising rain for the farm and perhaps a romance for 'spinster sister' Lizzie.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-10-23
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The Screaming Woman
Overview: A wealthy former mental patient goes home to her estate to rest and recuperate. While walking the grounds one day she hears the screams of a woman coming from underneath the ground. Her family, however, refuses to believe her story, and sees the incident as an opportunity to prove the woman's mind has snapped so they can take control of her money.
Genres: Drama Horror Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-29
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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 Hunted
Overview: In the wilderness of British Columbia, two hunters are tracked and viciously murdered by Aaron Hallam. A former Special Operations instructor is approached and asked to apprehend Hallam—his former student—who has 'gone rogue' after suffering severe battle stress from his time in Kosovo.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-03-11
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Hanging by a Thread
Overview: A group of old friends on an outing re-live various traumas and tragedies via flashback whilst trapped high above a ravine in a disabled cable-car.
Genres: Action Thriller Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-05-08
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East of Eden: Art in Search of Life
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-05-31
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The Stalking Moon
Overview: While moving a group of Apaches to a Native American reservation in Arizona, an American scout named Sam Varner is surprised to find a white woman, Sarah Carver, living with the tribe. When Sam learns that she was taken captive by an Indian named Salvaje ten years ago, he attempts to escort Sarah and her half-Native American son to his home in New Mexico. However, it soon becomes clear that Salvaje is hot on their trail.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-12-25
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The Cowboys
Overview: When his cattlemen abandon him for the gold fields, rancher Wil Andersen is forced to take on a collection of young boys as his cowboys in order to get his herd to market in time to avoid financial disaster. The boys learn to do a man's job under Andersen's tutelage, however, neither he nor the boys know that a gang of cattle thieves is stalking them.
Genres: Western Adventure Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-13
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Cave-In!
Overview: A party of tourists -- including a state senator, a park ranger who was her one-time lover, a cantankerous professor, and an escaped convict -- are trapped deep inside the caverns of an unnamed national park, rescued briefly, and then caught in a second cave-in.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-06-19
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The China Lake Murders
Overview: A small town sheriff has his suspicions in a murder case which involves a rogue cop who goes on a murder spree.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-31
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The Whiz Kid and the Mystery at Riverton
Overview: A 13-year-old brainiac invents an ingenious listening device, which he uses to bring a crooked city official and his pals to justice
Genres: Mystery Family Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-06
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Hunter
Overview: A fatal crash at a racetrack injures a government agent and exposes an enemy brainwashing scheme.
Genres: TV Movie Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-01-09
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