Jack Lord
Also Known As: Jack Ryan, John Joseph Patrick Ryan, جک لرد
Biography: John Joseph Patrick Ryan (December 30, 1920 – January 21, 1998), best known by his stage name Jack Lord, was an American television, film, and Broadway actor. He was known for his starring role as Steve McGarrett in the American television program Hawaii Five-O from 1968 to 1980. Lord appeared in feature films earlier in his career, among them Man of the West (1958). He was the first actor to play recurring character Felix Leiter in the first James Bond film Dr. No. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jack Lord, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Birthday: December 30, 1920
Deathday: January 21, 1998
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Gender: Male
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Dr. No
Overview: Agent 007 battles mysterious Dr. No, a scientific genius bent on destroying the U.S. space program. As the countdown to disaster begins, Bond must go to Jamaica, where he encounters beautiful Honey Ryder, to confront a megalomaniacal villain in his massive island headquarters.
Genres: Adventure Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-10-07
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Man of the West
Overview: Heading east to Fort Worth to hire a schoolteacher for his frontier town home, Link Jones is stranded with singer Billie Ellis and gambler Sam Beasley when their train is held up. For shelter, Jones leads them to his nearby former home, where he was brought up an outlaw. Finding the gang still living in the shack, Jones pretends to be ready to return to a life crime.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-06-20
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God's Little Acre
Overview: In the 1950s, a poor Georgia cotton farmer and his sons search for the gold presumably buried on the farm by their grandfather but problems related to poverty, marital infidelity, unemployment and booze threaten to destroy their family.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-09-23
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The Hangman
Overview: A marshal nicknamed "The Hangman" because of his track record in hunting down and capturing wanted criminals traces a robbery suspect to a small town. However, the man is known and liked in the town, and the citizens band together to try to help him avoid capture.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-06-17
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The Ride to Hangman's Tree
Overview: Three young outlaws try to stay together and keep one step ahead of the law.
Genres: Action Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-05-01
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The Tattooed Stranger
Overview: Detectives investigate the Central Park murder of a young woman with a Marine Corps tattoo.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-02-09
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Project X
Overview: Project X was one of a cycle of anti-Red films produced in the late 1940s. Keith Andes plays an ex-Communist who is strongarmed into cooperating with the Feds. Pretending to become a "comrade" again, Andes rejoins the local Communist cell. Moving about freely, he is able to track down a gang of spies who are smuggling atomic secrets. Filmed on location in New York, Project X has the surface "feel" of a documentary, though the dialogue is strictly from the funny papers. Keep an eye out for a very young Jack Lord.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-10-14
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Tip on a Dead Jockey
Overview: Broke and about to divorce his wife, a pilot joins a smuggling scheme in postwar Madrid.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-09-06
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The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell
Overview: A dramatization of the American general and his court martial for publically complaining about High Command's dismissal and neglect of the aerial fighting forces.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-12-31
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The Name of the Game Is Kill
Overview: A desert family offers a traveling stranger its hospitality, but the stranger doesn't realize exactly what they have in store for him.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-05-01
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Cry Murder
Overview: A young actress has retired from films to marry the son of a prominent and rich politician in New York City. The father objects strongly to the marriage. The actress is being blackmailed by a second-rate artist who has stolen some letters from her that could be misconstrued. During the payoff, she is knocked unconscious, and awakens to find herself involved in a murder and the police have her marked as the number-one suspect.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-01-06
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The Counterfeit Killer
Overview: A Secret Service agent poses as a waterfront hit man to infiltrate a global ring of counterfeiters.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-05-01
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The Doomsday Flight
Overview: A bomb on board an airliner has an altitude-sensitive trigger. Unless a ransom is paid, it will explode when the plane descends to land.
Genres: TV Movie Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-12-13
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The Vagabond King
Overview: Louis XI of France drafts Paris's popular "king" of criminals as Provost Marshal in his fight against usurper Charles of Burgundy and the traitorous nobles who rally around him.
Genres: Romance Music History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-08-28
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M Station: Hawaii
Overview: In this unsold pilot, the US government hires a salvage team to recover a sunken Russian submarine, heightening Cold War tensions.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-06-10
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The True Story of Lynn Stuart
Overview: When the nephews of Phyllis Carter are killed in an automobile crash while under the influence of narcotics, she persuades Police Lieutenant Jim Hahan to use her as an undercover agent.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-03-03
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Walk Like a Dragon
Overview: California, 1870s. The cowboy Lincoln 'Linc' Bartlett finds out there's a slave auction of Chinese women in San Francisco and he intervenes and purchases the Chinese Kim Sung from the auction with the intent of setting her free. But it doesn't occur to Linc that setting her free isn't enough. Where is she going to go? Kim doesn't speak English and she's just going to be exploited by somebody else. Linc takes Kim home to serve as a housekeeper. Ma Bartlett Linc's mother, is not happy that a Chinese girl is living in her home, and even less happy when Kim and her son fall in love. Their affair also arouses the jealousy of Cheng Lu, a Chinese immigrant.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-06-01
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Williamsburg: The Story of a Patriot
Overview: Williamsburg: the Story of a Patriot tells the story of Virginia's role in American Independence (up to the point of voting to propose independence at the Second Continental Congress), from the point of view of John Fry (played by a young Jack Lord), a fictional Virginia planter elected to the House of Burgesses.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-03-29
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Five in Judgement
Overview: When two brothers traveling across country stop in a small town diner to escape a storm, they are taken to be murderers by the locals.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-04-10
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Cocoon
Overview: In this pilot film to the "Hawaii Five-0" television series, special law officer Steve McGarrett tracks down Red Chinese operatives and their spy ring in Honolulu.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-09-20
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