Pernell Roberts
Also Known As: Пернелл Робертс
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Pernell Elvin Roberts, Jr. (May 18, 1928 – January 24, 2010) was an American stage, movie and television actor as well as singer. In addition to guest starring in over 60 television series, he was widely known for his roles as Ben Cartwright's eldest son, Adam Cartwright, on the western series Bonanza, a role he played from 1959 to 1965 — and as chief surgeon Dr. John McIntyre, the title character on Trapper John, M.D. (1979–1986). He was also widely known for his life-long activism, which included participation in the Selma to Montgomery marches in 1965 and pressuring NBC to refrain from hiring whites to portray minority characters. Description above from the Wikipedia article Pernell Roberts, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Waycross, Georgia, U.S.
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Birthday: May 18, 1928
Age: 97 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: January 24, 2010
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Ride Lonesome
Overview: On the way to pick up the bounty on a wanted murderer, a bounty hunter stops at a staging post where he is forced to continue his journey with two outlaws who want the murderer for their own reasons and a recently-widowed woman, with the murderer's brother and his men in hot pursuit.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-02-01
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Checkered Flag
Overview: Unsold TV pilot about two young race car drivers compete on and off the track.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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The Night Train to Kathmandu
Overview: A young girl leaves for Nepal with her parents and brother. She is unhappy to leave her home at first, but soon isn't when she meets a handome young man. The story unfolds into a romantic and daring quest in search of the "Invisible City."
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-06-05
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The Deadly Tower
Overview: The real-life story of Charles Whitman's deadly shooting spree at the University of Texas is retold. In August 1966, after killing his wife and mother, Whitman climbed to the top of the school's tower and opened fire on passers-by, killing 13 and wounding many others.
Genres: Drama Thriller Action TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-10-18
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Four Rode Out
Overview: In this western, a Mexican desperado tries to flee his partner, a determined girl friend, and a US Marshal.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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Desire Under the Elms
Overview: Ephraim Cabot is an old man of amazing vitality who loves his New England farm with a greedy passion. Hating him, and sharing his greed, are the sons of two wives Cabot has overworked into early graves. Most bitter is Eben, whose mother had owned most of the farm, and who feels who should be sole heir. When the old man brings home a new wife, Anna, she becomes a fierce contender to inherit the farm. Two of the sons leave when Eben gives them the fare in return for their shares of the farm. Meanwhile, Anna tries to cause some sparks by rubbing up against Eben.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-03-12
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Realm of the Alligator
Overview: Eerie, forbidding, and darkly beautiful - Okefenokee is ruled by a relative of the dinosaur: the fearsome alligator. Day and night the alligator glides silently through its steamy realm, stony eyes just above the waterline, mouth held in a seemingly perpetual smile.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-04-28
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The Adventures of Nick Carter
Overview: Detective discovers that a colleague's death is tied into the disappearance of a wealthy playboy's wife.
Genres: TV Movie Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-02-20
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The Bravos
Overview: The commander of an isolated frontier cavalry post tries to stop an Indian war and find his son, who has been kidnapped.
Genres: TV Movie Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-09
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The Silent Gun
Overview: A gunfighter with a reputation as a fast gun almost kills an innocent child. He makes up his mind that he is not going to carry around loaded weapons anymore, but when he's asked to become sheriff of a lawless town, he compromises by carrying an unloaded pistol and relying on his reputation to keep order.
Genres: TV Movie Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-12-16
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Dead Man on the Run
Overview: A government agent who is investigating a colleague's murder discovers a conspiracy to cover up a political assassination.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-04-02
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Perry Mason: The Case of the All-Star Assassin
Overview: A hockey player of friend of Ken Malansky's is accused of murdering a team owner. Perry takes the case.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-11-09
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Hot Rod
Overview: A freewheeling drag racer enters a local championship meet and finds himself head-to-head with the tyrannical town boss who has already arranged for his own son to win.
Genres: Action Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-05-25
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High Noon, Part II: The Return of Will Kane
Overview: Former Marshal Will Kane and his Amish bride, Amy, return to Hadleyville a year after he resigned and find the town in the grip of a bounty-hunting marshal and his two trigger-happy deputies.
Genres: Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-11-15
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San Francisco International
Overview: This pilot for the TV series stars Pernell Roberts as Jim Conrad, who runs an airport, much to the chagrin of his boss, "his way." In this, two plots run - a kid whose parents are splitting up decides to take off in a little red prop plane (and Conrad talks him down), and thieves played by the handsome Tab Hunter and his truly ugly sidekicks try to steal a money shipment. Roberts was replaced by Lloyd Bridges when the show went to series.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-09-29
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The Night Rider
Overview: "The Mark of Zorro" was updated for this pilot for a prospective series that tells of a New Orleans gentleman who turns masked rider to fight for law and order and avenge his family's killing by four men who wanted their silver mine.
Genres: Action Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-05-11
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Desperado
Overview: Duell McCall finds himself in the middle of a deadly feud in a small mining town. Framed for the murder of Sheriff John Whaley, McCall is forced to wander the wild frontier in search of the one man who can clear him.
Genres: Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-04-27
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Paco
Overview: Paco is an orphaned Colombian boy who leaves the family farm to search for his uncle in the big big city. When he gets to the city, he discovers his uncle is running a gang of young jewel thieves.
Genres: Crime Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-06-04
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Night of 100 Stars II
Overview: This special is the second "Night of 100 Stars" to benefit The Actors Fund of America. Edited from a seven-hour live entertainment marathon that was taped February 17, 1985, at New York's Radio City Music Hall, this sequel to the 1982 "Night of 100 Stars" special features 288 celebrities.
Genres: Comedy Music TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-03-10
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The Sheepman
Overview: A stranger in a Western cattle-town behaves with remarkable self-assurance, establishing himself as a man to be reckoned with. The reason appears with his stock: a herd of sheep, which he intends to graze on the range. The horrified inhabitants decide to run him out at all costs.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-05-01
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The Kashmiri Run
Overview: One step ahead of Chinese communists, a couple of friends hook up with an American adventurer who promises to lead them safely out of Tibet through the Himalayas.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-06-13
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The Immigrants
Overview: The rags-to-riches saga of a young Italian immigrant who battles his way out of the San Francisco earthquake to become a shipping magnate, rise to the top of Nob Hill's society through a loveless marriage to the daughter of the city's wealthiest family, and find happiness with an Asian mistress despite the collapse of his fortune during the Wall Street crash.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-11-20
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Charlie Cobb: Nice Night for a Hanging
Overview: A California rancher hires a private detective to deliver the rancher's long-lost daughter to him. However, several people, including the rancher's new wife, his foreman and a crooked sheriff, don't want the girl--who would inherit the rancher's large spread if he died--to make it to the ranch alive.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-06-09
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The Magic of Lassie
Overview: Lassie is claimed from his family by a "former owner" and then braves a cross country trip to rejoin the ones that love her.
Genres: Drama Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-08-02
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Carousel
Overview: In a Maine coastal village toward the end of the 19th century, the swaggering, carefree carnival barker, Billy Bigelow, captivates and marries the naive millworker, Julie Jordan. Billy loses his job just as he learns that Julie is pregnant and, desperately intent upon providing a decent life for his family, he is coerced into being an accomplice to a robbery. Caught in the act and facing the certainty of prison, he takes his own life and is sent 'up there.' Billy is allowed to return to earth for one day fifteen years later, and he encounters the daughter he never knew. She is a lonely, friendless teenager, her father's reputation as a thief and bully having haunted her throughout her young life. How Billy instills in both the child and her mother a sense of hope and dignity is a dramatic testimony to the power of love.
Genres: Drama Music Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-05-07
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Alien Lover
Overview: An orphaned teenager becomes involved with an alien who was beamed to Earth from another galaxy in a TV signal. Is the alien a dream come true or a harbinger of doom? Originally broadcast as part of "The Wide World of Mystery."
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Horror Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-11-25
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Donor
Overview: Dr. Kristine Lipton finds that something strange is happening in the hospital she works for when a friend is strangled by an elderly patient, who runs away but has an accident and dies. Kristine tries to find out more about this man, but discovers that all the personnel (including the hospital's director), are hiding something.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-12-09
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The Lives of Jenny Dolan
Overview: A newspaper reporter's life is endangered when she is assigned to investigate a political assassination.
Genres: Thriller Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-10-27
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Incident at Crestridge
Overview: A woman campaigns for and wins election as sheriff in a crusade against the ineptitude and outright corruption of the local law enforcement in a small town in the West.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-12-29
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Night of 100 Stars
Overview: The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place Friday February 19, 1982 at New York's Radio City Music Hall. The event, for which ticket-buyers paid up to $1,000 a seat (tax-deductible as a contribution to the Actors' Fund) was billed as "The Night of 100 Stars" but, actually, around 230 stars took part. And most of the audience of 5,800 had no idea in advance that they were paying to see a TV taping, complete with long waits for set and costume changes, tape rewinding, and the like. Executive producer Alexander Cohen estimated that the 5,800 Radio City Music Hall seats sold out at prices ranging from $25 to $1,000. The show itself cost about $4 million to produce and was expected to yield around $2 million for the new addition to the Actors Fund retirement home in Englewood, N. J. ABC is reputed to have paid more than $5 million for the television rights.
Genres: Comedy Music TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-03-08
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