Chuck Courtney
Also Known As: Charles Courtney
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: July 23, 1930
Age: 94 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: January 19, 2000
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Code Name: Heraclitus
Overview: A man who dies on an operating table is brought back to life, but he has total amnesia. A government agent decides that he would make a perfect undercover operative.
Genres: Thriller Action TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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Stars in My Crown
Overview: Civil War veteran Josiah Grey comes to a small town to be a gospel minister. In time, he has a family and many friends but also finds friction with a few of his parishioners.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-05-11
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Rio Lobo
Overview: After the Civil War, a former Union colonel searches for the two traitors whose perfidy led to the loss of a close friend.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-04-01
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Billy the Kid Versus Dracula
Overview: Dracula travels to the American West, intent on making a beautiful ranch owner his next victim. Her fiance, outlaw Billy the Kid, finds out about it and rushes to save her.
Genres: Horror Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-04-10
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Santee
Overview: Jody Deakes joins up with his father after many years, just to discover that his dad is part of an outlaw gang on the run from a relentless bounty hunter named Santee. Jody is orphaned soon after Santee catches up to the gang, and follows Santee in hopes of taking vengeance for his father's death. Instead, however, Jody discovers that Santee is a good and loving man, tormented by the death of his young son at the hands of another outlaw gang. Santee and his wife take Jody in and a father and son relationship begins to grow. Then the gang that shot Santee's son shows up. The film was produced by Edward Platt of Get Smart fame. It was one of the first motion pictures to be shot electronically on videotape and then transferred to film.
Genres: Drama Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-09-01
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Teenage Thunder
Overview: Teenagers rebel and race cars.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-01-01
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Flying Leathernecks
Overview: Major Daniel Kirby takes command of a squadron of Marine fliers just before they are about to go into combat. While the men are well meaning, he finds them undisciplined and prone to always finding excuses to do what is easy rather than what is necessary. The root of the problem is the second in command, Capt. Carl 'Griff' Griffin. Griff is the best flier in the group but Kirby finds him a poor commander who is not prepared to make the difficult decision that all commanders have to make - to put men in harm's way knowing that they may be killed.
Genres: War Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-08-28
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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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Teenage Monster
Overview: In a little Western town, a boy is subjected to rays from a meteor. As a result, he grows into a teenaged, hairy, psychopathic killer. His mother hides him in her basement.
Genres: Western Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-01-08
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5 Against the House
Overview: Former war-time Army buddies now students in college decide to rip off a Reno casino.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-06-10
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Louisa
Overview: Architect Hal Norton and wife Meg invite his widowed mother Louisa to move in with them, only to discover the sweet elderly lady is romantically involved with what seems to be every old coot in town.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-05-31
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The Asphalt Jungle
Overview: Recently paroled from prison, legendary burglar "Doc" Riedenschneider, with funding from Alonzo Emmerich, a crooked lawyer, gathers a small group of veteran criminals together in the Midwest for a big jewel heist.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-05-12
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Born to the Saddle
Overview: A naïve, recently-orphaned young man discovers he's being used as a pawn in a crooked gambler's plan to rig a July 4 horserace. Western.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-03-15
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The Food of the Gods
Overview: Morgan and his friends are on a hunting trip on a remote Canadian island when they are attacked by a swarm of giant wasps. Looking for help, Morgan stumbles across a barn inhabited by an enormous killer chicken. After doing some exploring, they discover the entire island is crawling with animals that have somehow grown to giant size. The most dangerous of all of these, however, are the rats, who are mobilizing to do battle with the human intruders.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-06-18
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Spartacus
Overview: The rebellious Thracian Spartacus, born and raised a slave, is sold to Gladiator trainer Batiatus. After weeks of being trained to kill for the arena, Spartacus turns on his owners and leads the other slaves in rebellion. As the rebels move from town to town, their numbers swell as escaped slaves join their ranks. Under the leadership of Spartacus, they make their way to southern Italy, where they will cross the sea and return to their homes.
Genres: History War Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-10-13
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Peacemaker
Overview: Two aliens arrive on Earth trying to kill each other. This is not easy, since they seem to be able to regenerate lost body parts and survive bullet wounds. Both of them happen to meet a young pathologist Dori Caisson, and each alien tells her that he is a peacemaker (an intergalactic cop) and that the other one is a bad guy. Whom can she trust?
Genres: Science Fiction Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-07-02
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Friendly Persuasion
Overview: The story of a family of Quakers in Indiana in 1862. Their religious sect is strongly opposed to violence and war. It's not easy for them to meet the rules of their religion in everyday life but when Southern troops pass the area they are in real trouble. Should they fight, despite their peaceful attitude?
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-11-25
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Cow Country
Overview: A hired hand gets caught between a noble rancher and ruthless land grabbers.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-04-25
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Two Guns and a Badge
Overview: In the last of his four western programmers for Allied Artists, Wayne Morris plays frontiersman Jim Bisby. Mistaken for a notorious gunslinger, Jim is appointed deputy sheriff of a wide-open cattle town. Playing along, our hero gets down to business -- and by the time his true identity is revealed, it hardly matters, since most of the bad guys are pushing up daisies on boot hill.
Genres: Western
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-09-11
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Some Came Running
Overview: A former novelist returns to his small Midwest town after serving in the Army during WWII, to the chagrin of his social-climbing brother, and becomes close with an easy-going professional gambler and torn between two very different women.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-12-25
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Insurance Investigator
Overview: When a businessman who has had a double indemnity policy taken out on him dies mysteriously, his insurance company sends an undercover investigator to town to determine exactly what happened.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-03-23
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Pet Sematary
Overview: After the Creed family's cat is accidentally killed, a friendly neighbor advises its burial in a mysterious nearby cemetery.
Genres: Horror Drama Fantasy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-04-21
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Tea and Sympathy
Overview: A sensitive young man recalls his time in boarding school when the only person who seemed compassionate towards with him was his housemaster's wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-09-27
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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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Assassin
Overview: A retired agent from an Intelligence Agency is contacted by the Agency in order to stop an ultra-secret robot who is killing some government officials. That will be not an easy task, because the robot looks human and it was specifically built to be an efficient killer, not to mention that it is almost invulnerable.
Genres: TV Movie Science Fiction Action Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-03-19
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El Dorado
Overview: Cole Thornton, a gunfighter for hire, joins forces with an old friend, Sheriff J.P. Harrah. Together with a fighter and a gambler, they help a rancher and his family fight a rival rancher that is trying to steal their water.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-12-17
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The Gumball Rally
Overview: A group of people from different backgrounds have one thing in common: when they hear the world "gumball" whispered by one of the others, they know that it's time for the Gumball Rally: a no-holds barred, secret, winner-take-all rally across the USA.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-07-28
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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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