John Forsythe
Birthday: 1918-01-29
Place of Birth: Penns Grove, New Jersey, USA
Biography: John Forsythe (born Jacob Lincoln Freund; January 29, 1918 – April 1, 2010) was an American stage, television and film actor. Forsythe starred in three television series, spanning four decades and three genres: as single playboy father Bentley Gregg in the 1950s sitcom Bachelor Father (1957–1962); as the unseen millionaire Charles 'Charlie' Townsend on the 1970s crime drama Charlie's Angels (1976–1981), and as patriarch Blake Carrington on the 1980s soap opera Dynasty (1981–1989). He hosted World of Survival (1971–1977).
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Topaz
Copenhagen, Denmark, 1962. When a high-ranking Soviet official decides to change sides, a French int...
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Charlie's Angels
The captivating crime-fighting trio who are masters of disguise, espionage and martial arts are back...
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The Trouble with Harry
The trouble with Harry is that he’s dead. In a quiet Vermont village, a corpse creates unexpected ch...
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Destination Tokyo
During World War II, Captain Cassidy and his crew of submariners are ordered into Tokyo Bay on a sec...
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Scrooged
Frank Cross is a wildly successful television executive whose cold ambition and curmudgeonly nature ...
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Cruise Into Terror
An Egyptian sarcophagus that is cargo on a pleasure cruise ship has a secret - it contains the son o...
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Madame X
Holly Parker, the wife of a wealthy diplomat, is compromised by the accidental death of a man who ha...
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Kitten with a Whip
Straitlaced senatorial hopeful David Stratton has no idea what he's in for when he arrives home from...
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The Glass Web
A manipulative diva blackmails a married man and insults her secret lover, leading to her murder. As...
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We Wish You a Merry Christmas
In the tiny town of Harmony, the people have been working so hard they've forgotten music even exist...
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...And Justice for All
An ethical Baltimore defense lawyer disgusted with rampant legal corruption is forced to defend a ju...
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In Cold Blood
After a botched robbery results in the brutal murder of a rural family, two drifters elude police, i...
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Escape from Fort Bravo
A Southern belle frees a Rebel officer and his men from a Union captain's Arizona fort....
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The Deadly Tower
The real-life story of Charles Whitman's deadly shooting spree at the University of Texas is retold....
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A Bell for Adano
A U.S. army officer, the military governor of an Italian town during World War II, tries to reintrod...
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The Happy Ending
When Fred asked for Mary's hand in marriage, she thought she had the happy ending she only read abou...
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American Harvest
Shows the interdependence of all workers, jobs, and mechanization in the manufacturing process from ...
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The Ambassador's Daughter
While on leave in Paris, a G.I. pursues an ambassador's daughter. Meanwhile she's out to prove to h...
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Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
Stars celebrate Bob Hope's 50 years with NBC....
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Beatles Stories
A big fan of The Beatles growing up in the 60s, Seth Swirsky noticed that whenever he heard someone ...
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It Happens Every Thursday
New York reporter Bob MacAvoy is persuaded by pregnant wife Jane to buy a broken-down weekly newspap...
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Everything But the Truth
Upset with the prevarications of the adult world, Willie launches a truth-telling campaign at school...
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See How They Run
Three children are stalked by hired killers after they unknowingly take evidence pointing to the exi...
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Amelia Earhart
Biography follows the life of famed woman pilot Amelia Earhart, including her marriage to a famous p...
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Tail Gunner Joe
Senator Joseph McCarthy from Wisconsin accuses prominent people of Communist sympathies in order to ...
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Opposites Attract
A mayoral candidate (Barbara Eden) for a California town gets romantically involved with her opponen...
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Goodbye & Amen
As John Dannahay, a CIA agent stationed in Rome, plans the overthrow of an African government, he di...
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Never Con a Killer
Pilot to the short-lived TV series "The Feather and Father Gang" has Detective Feather Danton and he...
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On Fire
Joe is an arson investigator for the fire department. He has a loving and devoted wife and has two j...
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Mysterious Two
Two Aliens visit the Earth in an effort to enlist converts to travel the universe with them....
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With This Ring
A romantic comedy about various engaged couples and their families who, as wedding dates rapidly app...
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The Letters
Story of people whose lives were changed because of a year-long delay in the delivery of some letter...
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Murder Once Removed
Television thriller in which a scheming doctor murders once for love and then has to kill again to c...
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Night of 100 Stars II
This special is the second "Night of 100 Stars" to benefit The Actors Fund of America. Edited from a...
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Dubrovsky
Vladimir Dubrovsky returns from St. Petersburg to his family estate, where he finds his father dying...
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Shadow on the Land
Patriotic freedom fighters struggle against a fascist dictatorship in a near-future USA....
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Kraft Salutes the George Burns 90th Birthday Special
An all-star cast celebrates George Burn's 90th birthday and showcases highlights in Burns' career....
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Terror on the 40th Floor
A number of business people, keeping the Christmas Eve office party going longer than was originally...
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George Burns Celebrates 80 Years in Show Business
An all-star celebrity tribute to celebrate George Burns 80th Anniversary in show business....
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'The Trouble with Harry' Isn't Over
This is the featurette on the DVD of "The Trouble With Harry." It consists of interviews, clips of t...
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Cry Panic
A man accidentally runs over and kills a pedestrian outside a small town. He begins to suspect that ...
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Lisa, Bright and Dark
Three teenage girls try to help their girlfriend, who is having a nervous breakdown that conventiona...
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Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle
The Angels are charged with finding a pair of missing rings that are encoded with the personal infor...
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What Makes Sammy Run?
An adaptation of Budd Schulberg's incendiary 1941 novel about the rise of an unscrupulous Hollywood ...
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Sizzle
A sultry nightclub singer, a small-town girl in the big city, sets out to avenge her boyfriend's mur...
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Northern Pursuit
Canadian Mountie Steve Wagner captures a German Luftwaffe officer on a spy mission, who later escape...
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Arson, Inc.
An arson investigator goes undercover to break up a ring that sets fires in order to collect the ins...
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Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels
Shirley MacLaine was the product of a strict middle-class background from which she and her brother,...
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The Things People Want
Distinctive sales training film on the hierarchy of human needs, starring a young John Forsythe....
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Universal Studios Florida: Experience the Magic of Movies
This extraordinary video captures all the highlights of your exciting visit to Universal Studios Flo...
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The Muppets Go Hollywood
Kermit the Frog throws a glamorous party at the Cocoanut Grove nightclub to celebrate the premiere o...
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The Healers
The director of an urban medical center faces various major problems during the course of running th...
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Universal Studios Hollywood: A Universe of Cinemagic
Host John Forsythe tells the story of the variety of areas in the Universal Studios Hollywood theme ...
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The Users
A beautiful girl from a small town with dreams of making it in Hollywood marries an actor whose care...
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Disneyland's 30th Anniversary Celebration
Broadcast on NBC February 18, 1985, the Disneyland 30th Anniversary Celebration was hosted by John F...
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A Time for Miracles
Elizabeth Bayley Seton, America's first native-born saint and founder of the Sisters of Charity, is ...
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Night of 100 Stars
The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place ...
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10,000 Horses Singing
James Dean and John Forsythe star in this story of a wealthy orphan who meets a shy airline owner ab...
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Charlie's Angels
The Angels head for wine country to discover what happened to a missing man before he's declared leg...
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