J. Don Ferguson
Also Known As: Don Ferguson
Biography: J. Don Ferguson, sometimes credited as "Don Ferguson", was an American character actor who appeared in feature films and television programs. He was a prominent stage actor in Savannah, Georgia, regional stage theater productions. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Savannah, Georgia, USA
Birthday: November 21, 1933
Deathday: October 01, 2008
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Gender: Male
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The Long Riders
Overview: The origins, exploits and the ultimate fate of the James gang is told in a sympathetic portrayal of the bank robbers made up of brothers who begin their legendary bank raids because of revenge.
Genres: Western Action Crime Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-05-16
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The Prize Fighter
Overview: "Bags" the boxer (funnyman Tim Conway) and his manager, Shake (Don Knotts), are quite a pair: One is a dim bulb, and the other has a mean streak. Times are tough and they must save their gym, so they line up some moneymaking fights. But when Bags and Shake discover that the bouts have been rigged, they end up with their backs to the wall and must fight back -- literally.
Genres: Comedy Crime Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-11-02
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Summer of My German Soldier
Overview: Patty Bergen is a teenager in a Jewish family living in the American South during World War II. Patty feels like an outcast even in her own family and is unable to understand why her father can't seem to love her. Her town eventually becomes host to a prisoner of war camp. A young German soldier escapes from this camp, and Patty finds him hiding in her secret place in the woods outside of town. After getting to know him, she ends up harboring him from his captors and, in the way of many adolescents, falls in love with him. Patty knows what she is risking by helping him, but in his company, she feels important, special, and respected as she has never been. In the end, his regard lifts her self-esteem and helps her to face the heartbreaking events to come.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-10-30
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Final Cut
Overview: When an unscrupulous law officer's underhanded activities are uncovered by a movie film crew, people begin to disappear.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-09
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My Cousin Vinny
Overview: Two carefree pals from Brooklyn traveling through rural Alabama on their way back to college are mistakenly arrested, and charged with murder. Fortunately, one of them has a cousin who's a lawyer - Vincent Gambini, a former auto mechanic from Brooklyn who just passed his bar exam after his sixth try. When he arrives with his leather-clad girlfriend, to try his first case, it's a real shock - for him and the Deep South!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-03-13
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Major League: Back to the Minors
Overview: At the behest of Roger Dorn -- the Minnesota Twins' silver-tongued new owner -- washed-up minor league hurler Gus Cantrell steps up to the plate to take over as skipper of the club's hapless farm team. But little does he know that Dorn has an ulterior motive to generate publicity with a grudge match between the big leaguers and their ragtag Triple A affiliate.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-04-17
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Muay Thai Chaiya
Overview: After learning the art of muay thai fighting from skilled masters, small town friends Piak and Phao move their passion to Bangkok, where they become active in underground activities that put what they've learned to the test. But in the process of fighting for their lives, they also resurrect the sport and cement the bonds of their lifelong friendship.
Genres: Action Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: th
Release Date: 2007-08-30
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Fled
Overview: During a routine prison work detail, convict Piper is chained to Dodge, a cyberhacker, when gunfire breaks out. Apparently, the attack is related to stolen money that the Mafia is after, and some computer files that somebody wants desperately to bury. The pair, who don't exactly enjoy each other's company, escape and must work together if they are to reach Atlanta alive. Luckily, they meet a woman who may be willing to help them.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-07-19
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The Lincoln Conspiracy
Overview: Speculative hokum about John Wilkes Booth, murderer of Abraham Lincoln, escaped to Canada instead of being tracked down and killed soon after the assassination.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-10-01
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The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia
Overview: An aspiring country singer and his feisty younger sister/manager struggle to reach their dreams of Nashville stardom-as long as she can keep her brother out of trouble with the ladies and the law-in this drama "inspired by," but not really connected to, the hit '70s ballad.
Genres: Drama Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-06-05
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In the Line of Duty: Manhunt in the Dakotas
Overview: From the "In the Line of Duty" made-for-television movie series, Manhunt in the Dakotas is based on the true story of cop-killer/white supremacist Gordon Kahl.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-05-12
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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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The Longest Yard
Overview: A football player-turned-convict organizes a team of inmates to play against a team of prison guards. His dilemma is that the warden asks him to throw the game in return for an early release, but he is also concerned about the inmates' lack of self-esteem.
Genres: Comedy Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-08-21
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The Substitute: Failure Is Not an Option
Overview: A former mercenary joins a military academy as a teacher. He soon discovers a neo-Nazi group, code-named Werewolves, formed among the cadets. He also quickly finds that they have military leadership among the officers at the Academy.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-04-24
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Radioland Murders
Overview: A series of mysterious crimes threatens the existence of a new radio network.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-10-21
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Little Darlings
Overview: Two 15-year-old girls from different sides of the tracks compete to see who will be first to lose their virginity while at camp.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-03-21
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Running Mates
Overview: Main opponents at the mayor's election in Nashville are the middle-class Jones and rich Adams. Their children, 21 years old Thommy Lee and 17 years old Elisabeth Adams, meet each other in a bar and are immediately sympathetic. But when her father sees him on a party of her's, he almost throws him out - afraid of being spied on - and later prohibits her any further contact. The two continue meeting nevertheless and develop a romantic relationship. But they can't keep it secret for very long and eventually get drawn into an intrigue against Elizabeth's father.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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Something to Talk About
Overview: Grace King Bichon, who is managing her father's riding-stable, discovers that her husband Eddie is deceiving her with another woman. After confronting him in the middle of the night on the streets of their small home town, she decides to stay at her sister Emma Rae's house for a while to make up her mind. Breaking out of her everyday life, she starts to question the authority of everyone.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-08-04
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Never Give Up: The Jimmy V Story
Overview: The biography of Jimmy Valvano, American sports reporter and basketball coach, who died of cancer in 1993.
Genres: Action Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-04-02
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Murder in Coweta County
Overview: Wallace a wealthy landowner in Meriwether County, Georgia, has virtually unlimited power in the county, including having the sheriff under his control. When he murders a share cropper he thinks that he is powerful enough to get away with it. Because the act of murder took place in Coweta County, it is under the jurisdiction of the Coweta County sheriff who hunts the murderer without trepidation.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-02-15
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The Loveless
Overview: Trouble ensues when a motorcycle gang stops in a small southern town while heading to the races at Daytona.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-20
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Nightmare in Columbia County
Overview: The recounting of a terrible crime that wracked a family and galvanized police in South Carolina in the 1980's. Southern beauty pageant winner Dawn Smith is targeted by a sadistic stalker whose obsession with her leads him to kidnap her younger sister.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-12-10
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When Will I Be Loved?
Overview: Three disillusioned wives who are contemplating divorce compare notes on their stormy marriages.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-12-03
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Fast Food
Overview: Auggie and his pals are living it up as perpetual college students. When the dean decides teh only way to stop their schemes and antics is to graduate them, they have to go out and find real work. Auggie hears that Samantha is planning on selling her father's garage to fast food king Wrangler Bob, and comes up with one final scheme; a risky bank loan to turn the garage into stiff competition for Bob. When it looks like Bob will win after all, they develop a very special sauce that keeps the crowds coming because it has the effect of being an aphrodisiac. Bob doesn't like to lose, so he sends his "spy" Dixie Love to infiltrate the restaurant and find out their secret. The ensuing FDA investigation culminates into a hilarious case of disorder in the court!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-04-28
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Overview: Based on writer Maya Angelou's eloquent reminiscences of her days as a gifted youngster growing up in the South during the Depression years where she and her older brother were raised by their grandmother after the divorce of their parents.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-04-28
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The Second Chance
Overview: Ethan Jenkins and Jake Sanders are both passionate pastors who worship the same God from the same book--but that's where the similarity ends. When they are suddenly thrown together in a tough neighborhood and forced to work side by side, Ethan discovers there is no boundary between the streets and the sanctuary.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-02-17
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Remember the Titans
Overview: After leading his football team to 15 winning seasons, coach Bill Yoast is demoted and replaced by Herman Boone – tough, opinionated and as different from the beloved Yoast as he could be. The two men learn to overcome their differences and turn a group of hostile young men into champions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-09-29
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Linda
Overview: Two couples, friends for a long time, decide to go away together. Things soon take a turn for the worse when Linda and Jeff spend far too much time together instead of with their respective spouses, Paul and Stella.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-10-08
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In the Line of Duty: Street War
Overview: In this gritty cops-and-crooks drama, two detectives hunt a gang leader suspected of murdering a New York cop. The detectives enlist the help of the dead cop's partner, who is also the brother of the gangster. There's nothing civil about this war that has two brothers squaring off against each other. The strong cast includes Mario Van Peebles, Ray Sharkey and Peter Boyle.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-10-25
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Maximum Overdrive
Overview: When a comet passes close to the earth, machines all over the world come alive and go on homicidal rampages. A group of people at a desolate truck stop are held hostage by a gang of homicidal 18-wheelers. The frightened people set out to defeat the killer machines ... or be killed by them.
Genres: Horror Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-07-25
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I Know What You Did Last Summer
Overview: After an accident on a winding road, four teens make the fatal mistake of dumping their victim's body into the sea. Exactly one year later, the deadly secret resurfaces as they're stalked by a hook-handed figure.
Genres: Horror Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-17
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The Return of Swamp Thing
Overview: The Swamp Thing returns to battle the evil Dr. Arcane, who has a new science lab full of creatures transformed by genetic mutation, and chooses Heather Locklear as his new object of affection.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-05-11
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Murder in Mississippi
Overview: In 1964, members of the Ku Klux Klan murdered three Civil Rights workers who had traveled to the South to encourage African-American voter registration. Examines the last three weeks in the lives of the slain activists.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-02-05
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Gator
Overview: After his release from prison, notorious ex-con and moonshine distiller Gator McKlusky moves in with his father in a cabin in the Okefenokee Swamp. His bootlegging plans are cut short, however, when a federal agent tells McKlusky that he will lose custody of his 9-year-old daughter unless he helps bring down local crime lord Bama McCall. McKlusky enlists the help of reporter Aggie Maybank and a few local eccentrics to bring down McCall's empire.
Genres: Drama Crime Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-08-25
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When the Circus Came to Town
Overview: When the Circus Came to Town chronicles the life of Mary Flynn (Montgomery), a woman nearing middle age living in a small town. When the circus comes through town, she realizes nothing will ever change unless she does something different, so she leaves her boring sheltered life to run away and join the circus. While adapting to her new life, she finds herself challenged, and in the end, happy with her new life.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-01-20
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The Greatest Gift
Overview: Reverend Holvak, a weak rural preacher from the 1940s, fights stiff-necked church deacons along with a violent, bullying sheriff whilst protecting his loved ones.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-11-04
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Solomon Northup's Odyssey
Overview: This is based on a true story. Solomon Northrop is a black man in the mid 19th century before slavery was abolished. He's a born free man who works as a carpenter and is also a part time musician. One day he is approached by some men who want him to play for them. However, that is not their intention; they have kidnapped him and sold him into slavery. Now he has to endure the hardships that he has been spared because of his status as a free man. And his family who don't know what happened to him is searching for him but where do they go? And Solomon also wishes to let them know where he is so that they could get him but unfortunately no one believes his story or is willing to help him.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-12-10
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A Kiss to Die For
Overview: William, a Harvard psychology professor is having trouble dealing with life after the death of his wife when he meets a beautiful woman named Ali. As their relationship grows, he begins to question her secretive past, which he discovers is linked to a series of murders that the police are investigating. Tim Matheson (Animal House, The West Wing) stars.
Genres: Thriller Crime Mystery Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-12-06
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