Lawrence Dobkin
Birthday: 1919-09-16
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Biography: Lawrence Dobkin (September 16, 1919 – October 28, 2002) was an American television director, character actor and screenwriter whose career spanned seven decades.
Movies
The Restless Sea
The Restless Sea is a 1964 educational animated feature-length film. It was produced by Disney as th...
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Not Wanted
After a beautiful but unsophisticated girl is seduced by a worldly piano player and gives up her out...
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Patton
"Patton" tells the tale of General George S. Patton, famous tank commander of World War II. The film...
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Julius Caesar
The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassi...
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Rock Hudson
Biography of actor Rock Hudson focuses on his struggle with his homosexuality. Based on the book by ...
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The Defiant Ones
Two convicts—one white, one black—escape while chained to each other....
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The Ten Commandments
Escaping death, a Hebrew infant is raised in a royal household to become a prince. Upon discovery of...
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The Gene Krupa Story
The story of legendary jazz drummer, Gene Krupa. Since his youth, all Gene ever wanted to do is play...
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Geronimo
In 1883, the Apache Indians lead by Geronimo reluctantly surrender to the attacks of American and Me...
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Portland Exposé
The owner of a tavern is pressured by the local mob to go into business with them, and figures it's ...
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Twelve O'Clock High
In the early days of daylight bombing raids over Germany, General Frank Savage must take command of ...
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Illegal
A hugely successful DA goes into private practice after sending a man to the chair -- only to find o...
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D.O.A.
Frank Bigelow is about to die, and he knows it. The accountant has been poisoned and has only 24 hou...
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Above and Beyond
The story of Colonel Paul Tibbets, the pilot that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Although una...
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Loan Shark
A vicious loan shark ring has been preying on factory workers. When several workers at a tire factor...
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Johnny Yuma
Infidelity, murder, and betrayal lies at the center of this violent Spaghetti western. A scheming wi...
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The Lost Missile
A missile from parts unknown enters an orbit only 5 miles above Earth's surface and, due to friction...
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Kiss of Fire
In 1700, a Spanish princess travels from New Mexico to California with ruthless outlaw El Tigre as g...
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Never Fear
A dancer who has just gotten engaged to her partner and choreographer and is about to embark on a ma...
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The Cabinet of Caligari
A delirious young woman feels trapped in a remote mansion at the mercy of a madman....
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The Killer Is Loose
A savings-and-loan bank is robbed; later, a police wiretap identifies meek bank teller Leon Poole as...
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Hotwire
A hard drinking old man and a cocky street-wise drifter are blackmailed into repossessing a Rolls-Ro...
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The Best Years of Our Lives
It's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return...
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Tokyo After Dark
An American serviceman stationed in Tokyo, who's engaged to a local singer, faces both a military co...
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The Badge of Marshal Brennan
Jim Davis is a man on the run. He comes across the body of a dead man wearing the badge of a marshal...
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Frenchie
Frenchie Fontaine sells her successful business in New Orleans to come West. Her reason? Find the me...
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Jump Into Hell
Arriving in IndoChina by parachute, Captain Guy Bertrand and his comrades make a courageous stand ag...
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The Big Operator
A power-mad union boss resorts to murder to eliminate witnesses scheduled to testify against him. Th...
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Curiosity Kills
An apartment block janitor stumbles upon a deadly secret after one of the residents seemingly commit...
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The Big Moment
Three individual stories that give an account of crucial moments in the lives of three different peo...
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Sweet Smell of Success
New York City newspaper writer J.J. Hunsecker holds considerable sway over public opinion with his B...
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In Search of Historic Jesus
This examination of historical sources speculates on the accuracy of the biblical depiction of Jesus...
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The Plot to Kill Stalin
In late 1952, an aging and increasingly paranoid Stalin puts in motion a purge against his doctors, ...
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Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Peter Schermann is angry at the world after his children move him into a nursing home. Still physica...
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The Midnight Man
An ex-convict, and ex-cop, finds himself in the midst of drama as a murder, of a female student, is ...
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North by Northwest
Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase....
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5 Fingers
During WWII, the valet to the British Ambassador to Ankara sells British secrets to the Germans whil...
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Red Skies of Montana
When a large forest fire breaks out in the mountains of Montana, a squad of 'Smoke Jumpers', the par...
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The Streets of San Francisco
SFPD Detective Lieutenant Michael Stone (Karl Malden) is partnered with a young college-educated Ins...
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Mysteries from Beyond Earth
Narrator Lawrence Dobkin examines unusual paranormal activities and conspiracy theories in several e...
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The Silver Chalice
A Greek artisan is commissioned to cast the cup of Christ in silver and sculpt around its rim the fa...
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Roswell
Based on the book "UFO Crash at Roswell" by Kevin Randle and Donald Schmitt, Roswell follows the att...
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Raiders of Old California
A villainous cavalry officer is trying to force the owner of a hacienda to give him his land when a ...
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Remains to Be Seen
A singer and her apartment manager get mixed up in a creepy Park Avenue murder and find themselves f...
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Deadline - U.S.A.
With three days before his paper folds, a crusading editor tries to expose a vicious gangster....
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Riders to the Stars
Three men gamble their lives in space to change the history of the world...
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Whirlpool
The wife of a psychoanalyst falls prey to a devious quack hypnotist when he discovers she is an habi...
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Sabaka
A fire worshipping cult of Indian is disbanded by a man, his elephant and tiger....
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Young Man with Ideas
A Montana lawyer gets distracted after moving to California with his wife and children....
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The Killers of Mussolini
As the Salo Republic crumbles around him, Mussolini, along with his mistress and several of his mini...
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People Will Talk
A successful, unorthodox doctor befriends a young woman with suicidal ideations due to her pregnancy...
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African Manhunt
Kirby, Davis and Drover escort the wanted criminal Rene Carvel from central Africa to the coast, sto...
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Chain of Circumstance
A childless couple adopts a baby girl, but a crime committed by the husband's secretary could cause ...
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A Fire Called Jeremiah
This is the story of the “smoke jumpers,” specially trained by the Forest Service to reach forest fi...
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Steel and America
A short film by Disney in which Donald Duck is involved in showing the history of Steel and America....
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Sizeman and Son
Morris Sizeman is a successful garment manufacturer in New York City. His son, Harold Sizeman, retur...
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