Roddy McDowall
Birthday: 1928-09-17
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
Biography: Roderick Andrew Anthony Jude McDowall (17 September 1928 – 3 October 1998) was an English-American actor, director, and photographer. He is best known for portraying Cornelius and Caesar in the original Planet of the Apes film series, as well as Galen in the spin-off television series.
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Planet of the Apes
Astronaut Taylor crash lands on a distant planet ruled by apes who use a primitive race of humans fo...
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The Poseidon Adventure
When their ocean liner capsizes, a group of passengers struggle to survive and escape....
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The Return of the King
Two Hobbits struggle to destroy the Ring in Mount Doom while their friends desperately fight evil Lo...
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Lassie Come Home
Hard times come for the Carraclough family and they are forced to sell their dog, Lassie, to the ric...
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Escape from the Planet of the Apes
The world is shocked by the appearance of three talking chimpanzees, who arrived mysteriously in a s...
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Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
In a futuristic world that has embraced ape slavery, a chimpanzee named Caesar resurfaces after almo...
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Battle for the Planet of the Apes
The fifth and final episode in the Planet of the Apes series. After the collapse of human civilizati...
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The Greatest Story Ever Told
From his birth in Bethlehem to his death and eventual resurrection, the life of Jesus Christ is give...
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Evil Under the Sun
An opulent beach resort provides a scenic background to this amusing whodunit as Poirot attempts to ...
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The Defector
An American scientist is sent by the CIA to East Germany to retrieve a secret microfilm from a Sovie...
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Overboard
Heiress Joanna Stayton hires carpenter Dean Proffitt to build a closet on her yacht—and refuses to p...
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The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin
To restore his family's lost wealth, a young Boston lad stows away on a ship bound for the Californi...
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5 Card Stud
The players in an ongoing poker game are being mysteriously killed off, one by one....
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Cutting Class
High school student Paula Carson's affections are being sought after by two of her classmates: Dwigh...
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That Darn Cat!
A young woman suspects foul play when her cat comes home wearing a wristwatch. Convincing the FBI, t...
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Class of 1984
Andy is a new teacher at an inner city high school that is unlike any he has seen before. There are ...
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Scavenger Hunt
An eccentric games inventor dies and leaves behind an inheritance worth hundreds of millions of doll...
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The Making of Agatha Christie's 'Evil Under the Sun'
Director Guy Hamilton and several of the stars of Agatha Christie's "Evil Under The Sun" walk you th...
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Man Hunt
Shortly before the start of WW2, renowned British big-game hunter Alan Thorndike, vacationing in Bav...
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Fright Night
Charley Brewster, a high school student, accidentally discovers the true and creepy nature of Jerry ...
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It!
After a warehouse fire, museum director Grove and assistant Pimm find everything destroyed, only one...
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Cleopatra
Determined to hold on to the throne, Cleopatra seduces the Roman emperor Julius Caesar. When Caesar ...
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Circle of Iron
In a mystical desert kingdom, young martial arts fighter Cord loses a contest to determine who will ...
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Bedknobs and Broomsticks
Three children evacuated from London during World War II are forced to stay with an eccentric spinst...
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It's My Party
Nick, a gay, HIV-positive architect, begins to display severe symptoms of AIDS and makes preparation...
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The Longest Day
The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the...
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Midnight Lace
Kit Preston begins to unravel when she receives threatening telephone calls informing her she's soon...
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The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
Outlaw and self-appointed lawmaker Judge Roy Bean rules over an empty stretch of the West that gradu...
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Murder in the Family
After a wealthy woman is killed, her extended family all fall under suspicion of murder....
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Hello Down There
Given the chance to live in a simulated underwater home for a month, a scientist convinces his famil...
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Star Hunter
Star hunters are the space monsters who hunt helpless creatures for pleasure. One night couple of hi...
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Linda Darnell: Hollywood's Fallen Angel
Linda Darnell had the looks and talent to be a great Hollywood leading lady, but never quite deliver...
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Shakma
A murderous baboon escapes from a laboratory and roams the research building, and begins to kill som...
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How Green Was My Valley
A man in his fifties reminisces about his childhood growing up in a Welsh mining village at the turn...
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The Legend of Hell House
A team consisting of a physicist, his wife, a young female psychic, and the only survivor of the pre...
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The Loved One
Newly arrived in Hollywood from England, Dennis Barlow finds he has to arrange his uncle's interment...
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Deadly Game
A group of seven strangers, including a dancer, a doctor, a teacher, and a disgraced former football...
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The Grass Harp
Based on the novel by Truman Capote, this often-witty coming-of-age drama looks at a young man growi...
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Funny Lady
Famous singer Fanny Brice has divorced her first husband Nicky Arnstein. During the Great Depression...
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Laserblast
Happy go-lucky teen Billy Duncan discovers an otherworldly laser gun in the southern California dese...
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The White Seal
In one seal herd, a young seal pup with a rare white colouring named Kotick is born. When as he matu...
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Behind the Planet of the Apes
Roddy McDowall takes you, film by film, from production meetings to make-up sessions, then right ont...
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Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen
Famous detective Charlie Chan is called out of retirement to help a San Francisco detective solve a ...
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The Keys of the Kingdom
A young priest, Father Chisholm is sent to China to establish a Catholic parish among the non-Christ...
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Fright Night Part 2
After three years of therapy Charley Brewster, now a college student, is convinced that Jerry Dandri...
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Inside Daisy Clover
A girl on the road to stardom fights the dehumanizing effects of Hollywood life....
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Cricket on the Hearth
A delightful, animated musical version of Charles Dickens' classic tale. A Cricket on the Hearth, te...
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Dirty Mary Crazy Larry
Down-on-their-luck racers Larry and Deke steal from a supermarket manager to buy a car that will hel...
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The Cat from Outer Space
A UFO is stranded on earth and impounded by the US government. Its pilot, a cat with a collar that g...
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Convict 99
A disgraced school master, Benjamin Twist, is mistaken for a tough prison governor and assigned the ...
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My Friend Flicka
Ken McLaughlin is a precocious 10-year-old who lives with his family on a remote Wyoming ranch. When...
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The Second Jungle Book: Mowgli & Baloo
In this exciting live-action adventure, young Mowgli, an orphan raised by wolves, is spotted by a sc...
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The White Cliffs of Dover
American Susan travels with her father to England for a vacation. Invited to a society ball, Susan m...
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Pretty Maids All in a Row
At Oceanfront High School, female students are being targeted by an unknown serial killer. Meanwhile...
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Dead of Winter
A fledgling actress is lured to a remote mansion for a screen-test, soon discovering she is actually...
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Thunderhead: Son of Flicka
A young boy tries to train Thunderhead, a beautiful white colt and the son of his beloved Flicka, to...
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Lord Love a Duck
From his prison cell, young Alan Musgrave relates his experiences of the previous year dedicated to ...
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Mowgli's Brothers
Mowgli's Brothers is a 1976 television animated special created by legendary animator Chuck Jones. I...
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The Forgotten City of the Planet of the Apes
Human astronauts Burke and Virdon, with their chimp companion Galen, are forced to become involved i...
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Mean Johnny Barrows
A Vietnam veteran gets caught in a mob war with a couple of double-crossers....
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The Pied Piper
Englishman Mr. Howard is on a fishing holiday in eastern France when the Germans invade in 1940. Set...
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Mirror Mirror 2: Raven Dance
A mysterious mirror is found hidden in a church orphanage, yet few realize its legacy of evil. When ...
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Confirm or Deny
Newsman Mitch and teletype operator Jennifer, whose job is to see he doesn't send inappropriate stuf...
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Carmilla
Lonely young Marie and her father live on a plantation just before the Civil War. Their placid lives...
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Rabbit Test
Lionel's life turns around after a one-night stand on top of a pinball table... he becomes the world...
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Shock Treatment
A private investigator endures the rigors of an insane asylum in order to locate $1 million in stole...
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Unlikely Angel
A country singer dies prematurely, but cannot enter heaven until she performs a good deed back on ea...
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Mary Pickford: A Life on Film
Arguably the quintessential film siren of the silent era, Mary Pickford was known as "America's Swee...
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Kidnapped
In Scotland in 1752, seventeen-year-old David Balfour is cheated out of his birthright by his evil ...
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Angel, Angel, Down We Go
The overweight debutante daughter of the world's wealthiest couple falls in with a gang of tripped o...
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Hollywood: The Dream Factory
A documentary about the glorious history of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and its decline leading to t...
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Killer Shark
A college student takes a break and goes out to sea with his father, the captain of a shark-hunting ...
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Darryl F. Zanuck: 20th Century Filmmaker
A biography of Darryl F. Zanuck, mogul and the power behind 20th Century Fox throughout the Golden A...
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Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood
Documentary about the making of 20th Century Fox's 1963 film "Cleopatra," then the most expensive fi...
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The Tempest
Prospero, the deposed Duke of Milan, who lives in exile on a remote island as a sorcerer, uses his p...
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The Third Day
A man stumbles out of a car crash with no memory of what transpired. Everyone who he meets suggests ...
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The Power and the Glory
Based on Graham Greene's novel about a flawed but devoted priest in 1930s Mexico who attempts to per...
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Embryo
A scientist doing experiments on a human fetus discovers a method to accelerate the fetus into a mat...
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Holiday in Mexico
Christine Evans, the fifteen-year-old daughter of the widowed American ambassador to Mexico Jeffrey ...
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The Story of Lassie
Documentary about canine superstar Lassie, combining film clips, still photographs, home movies, arc...
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The Alien Within
Crew of an undersea mining platform falls prey to mysterious and dangerous parasite. The parasite ha...
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The Thief of Baghdad
A resourceful thief helps a handscome prince fight an evil wizard and win the hand of a beautiful pr...
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The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood
The evil brother of Richard the Lionheart is holding the king for ransom, and only Robin Hood and hi...
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Arnold
Karen marries Arnold at his funeral and continues to get his money as long as she stays by his coffi...
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Flood!
Two helicopter pilots rush aid to a small town devastated by a flood following the collapse of an ag...
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Twilight Theatre
Television parody. Sketches include: Women Who Have Made It With Me, No-Arms Bandits, Pee-Wee's Play...
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Angel 4: Undercover
Former prostitute Molly Stewart works as a police photographer. When an old friend, a groupie in pur...
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Loss of Faith
A crime novelist searches for a missing baby at his sister's behest and makes painful discoveries ab...
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A Taste of Evil
On her way home from a stay at a mental institution after a traumatic rape, a woman realizes that so...
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The Cool Ones
A young, millionaire rock promoter creates a new boy/girl team for his teen TV dance show. Will the ...
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Last Summer in the Hamptons
Helena Mora, the head of an eccentric theatrical family, has decided to sell her large estate in the...
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Obsessed with Vertigo
A documentary about the making and restoration of Alfred Hitchcock's masterpiece "Vertigo." Narrated...
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The Subterraneans
A disillusioned writer explores the subterranean depths of San Francisco's North Beach district....
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What's a Nice Girl Like You...?
A Bronx working girl is drawn into an elaborate extortion plot after being kidnapped by a gang of so...
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The Elevator
A claustrophobic armed robber, fleeing from his latest job, finds himself trapped with a group of pe...
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Terror in the Sky
On a transcontinental flight, the flight crew suffer from food poisoning and become incapacitated. N...
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This England
Set in Claverly Village, it follows the fortunes of the Rookebys (Clements) and the ne'r-do-well App...
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Tuna Clipper
Hoping to become a lawyer, Alec (Roddy McDowall) becomes a tuna fisherman in order to pay a debt. Th...
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Dead Man's Island
Henrietta O'Dwyer Collins, called Henrie O., is a world-famous journalist and writer. She's invited ...
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The Big Country
Retired wealthy sea captain Jim McKay arrives in the Old West, where he becomes embroiled in a feud ...
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Mae West
Biography of the curvaceous and sharp-witted actress who scandalized Broadway and Hollywood in the 1...
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Earth Angel
When a prom queen dies in 1962, her only means of entering Heaven is by returning to 1990 earth, to ...
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Audrey Hepburn: The Fairest Lady
The story of how Audrey Hepburn survived World War II, became an award winning actress, and gave bac...
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Rocky
Out fishing one day, painter John Hammond and his son Chris come across Bert Hillman, the foreman of...
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Crazy About the Movies: Dennis Hopper
Hollywood's controversial creative genius, whose career spans multiple generations of moviegoers, is...
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Heads
A proofreader at a small-town newspaper decides to try to solve a series of decapitation murders, an...
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Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
Sir Arthur Blake has inherited title and lands from his brother. He also has his orphaned nephew Ben...
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The Sands of Time
Three nuns are caught up in the midst of Spanish Civil War in the 1930s....
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The Naked Target
A New York executive is handcuffed to a precious briefcase to which only his Spanish contact holds t...
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Meet Me in St. Louis: The Making of an American Classic
Documentary about the making of "Meet Me in St. Louis" (1944)....
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Miracle on 34th Street
A department store Santa tries to convince a little girl who doesn't believe in Santa Claus that he ...
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Everybody's Dancin'
Dance-hall owner Dick Lane is in dire need of some big-name acts or he will lose his business. Sever...
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Black Midnight
A young man with a love of horses, Scott Jordan (Roddy McDowall) lives on the family ranch with his ...
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Saint Joan
A television adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's play about the life, battles and subsequent trial o...
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Poison Pen
The inhabitants of a peaceful village begin receiving mysterious hate mail penned by someone with ma...
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I See Ice
George Bright is a props man in an ice ballet company, and a keen amateur photographer who accidenta...
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Remo Williams: The Prophecy
This unsold television pilot was a sequel to the 1985 movie "Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins." S...
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Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line
Born Ruby Stevens, she was orphaned when she was four. A chance audition led to a chorus job. By 17 ...
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Just William
A rascal child recruits his friends as assistants to help his father to get elected to the city coun...
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The Steel Fist
In an Iron Curtain country an idealistic student goes on the run from the Communist authorities....
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A Bug's Life
On behalf of "oppressed bugs everywhere," an inventive ant named Flik hires a troupe of warrior bugs...
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Molly and Me
A vivacious actress needing work becomes a housekeeper for a crusty retired politician, and gives hi...
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Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero
Profiling the life and career of actor Henry Fonda, who starred in such film classics as "The Grapes...
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The Big Picture
Hollywood beckons for recent film school grad Nick Chapman, who is out to capitalize on the momentum...
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Saloon Bar
A bookmaker with a fancy for detective work attempts to prevent the execution of a potentially innoc...
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Journey to Murder
Television movie that consists of two episodes from the UK TV series Journey to the Unknown (1968): ...
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Hart to Hart: Home Is Where the Hart Is
When a mentor and friend of Jennifer's dies, she and Jonathan return to the sleepy town where Jennif...
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Double Trouble
Two beefed-up twins operating on opposing sides of the law, team up to stop a nefarious crook in thi...
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Planet of the Apes: A Milestone of Science Fiction
Since its release in 1968, Planet of the Apes, the masterful film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner ...
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Farewell to the Planet of the Apes
When the astronauts Burke and Virdon, with their chimp companion Galen, are captured in a fishing vi...
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Treachery and Greed on the Planet of the Apes
The fugitives Burke, Virdon and Galen try to save the life of a human blacksmith and his son, whom g...
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Life, Liberty and Pursuit on the Planet of the Apes
When fugitive human astronaut Virdon is shot, his chimp companion Galen must charm an old flame into...
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Hey! Hey! USA
While working as a porter Benjamin Twists mistakenly ends up on a cruise ship heading for the USA. U...
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Sitcom: The Adventures of Garry Marshall
A day-in-the-life documentary with Garry Marshall. Marshall was an executive producer for ABC and wa...
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The Immigrants
The rags-to-riches saga of a young Italian immigrant who battles his way out of the San Francisco ea...
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Macbeth
Three witches predict that Macbeth will ascend to the throne of Scotland. To fulfill this prophecy, ...
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The Million Dollar Face
Tony Curtis is the ruthless head of a cosmetics firm, Kiss of Gold, locked in fierce competition wit...
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Going Under
An American submarine races to get a nuclear weapon before a Russian submarine....
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His Brother’s Keeper
“A successful human target act of two brothers is sorely tried by the efforts of a gold digging blue...
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Vincent Price: The Versatile Villain
Documentary on the life and career of actor Vincent Price, best known for horror film classics such ...
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Back to the Planet of the Apes
Astronauts Pete Burke and Allan Virdon crash on Earth in the far future and are captured by the apes...
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Elizabeth Taylor: An Intimate Portrait
Vintage 1975 documentary about the life of movie queen Elizabeth Taylor hosted by Peter Lawford, and...
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The Black Hole
The explorer craft USS Palomino is returning to Earth after a fruitless 18-month search for extra-te...
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The Memory of Eva Ryker
A young woman has spent her life tormented by the death of her mother, who was on a ship torpedoed d...
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Harold Lloyd: The Third Genius
A film about the career and methods of the master silent comedy filmmaker....
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Night Gallery
This anthology telefilm aired on NBC on November 8, 1969, and tells three strange tales: "The Cemete...
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Something to Believe In
Reports of a weeping Madonna in Italy reach Las Vegas, where blackjack dealer Maggie has just learnt...
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On the Sunny Side
Because of the war, a 12-year-old boy from England, Hugh, is sent to live with the Andrews family in...
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That's Entertainment, Part II
Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time includi...
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Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists
The careers of D.W. Griffith, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and Charlie Chaplin are chronicled c...
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This Girl for Hire
In this pilot for a proposed TV series, B.T. Brady is a flippant, but somewhat klutzy female private...
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Big Timber
A young man goes to work in a logging camp to fulfill a boyhood ambition and a jealous loggers rigs ...
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GoBots: Battle of the Rock Lords
The GoBots, television's amazing transformable super heroes, star in their first full length feature...
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The Color of Evening
An aging artist seeks his muse and a young lover in the form of a beautiful model....
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Keepers of the Frame
An exploration of film preservation and restoration in the United States....
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Sixth and Main
Monica Cord is planning to write a book about the homeless. She observes the men who attend a rescue...
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Louise Brooks: Looking for Lulu
Documentary recounting the life story of Louise Brooks in 5 sections: "Lulu in Toe Shoes"; "Lulu in ...
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Midas Run
A veteran secret service officer from Britain hijacks a government shipment of $15 million of gold o...
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You Will Remember
Biography of popular English composer Leslie Stuart (Robert Morley), who rose to fame through perfor...
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Backstory: 'How Green Was My Valley'
Documentary about how the creative energies of Darryl F. Zanuck and John Ford combined to forge an e...
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Doin' Time on Planet Earth
Ryan Richmond is an eccentric teenager living with his mother, father, sister and brother in the Hol...
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Rapunzel
A sinister witch steals the baby of a simple candlemaker and his wife and names her Rapunzel. Determ...
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Heart of Darkness
A trading company manager travels up an African river to find a missing outpost head and discovers t...
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Hollywood’s Children
A documentary about child actors, since the beginning of motion pictures (narrated by Roddy McDowell...
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Timmy's Gift: A Precious Moments Christmas
This is the story about an ordinary someone, much like you or me, who is called upon to accomplish a...
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The Evil Inside Me
The lines between past and present are mysteriously blurred when a successful real estate agent deve...
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Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years
The first half century of Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation from its beginnings under Hungarian...
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Biography: Bette Davis — If Looks Could Kill
Share the magical memories - and see clips from her Oscar winning performances - in this profile of ...
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Hart to Hart
In this pilot film, a friend of Jonathan Hart's is killed in a motor accident just after he has left...
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Hollywood on Horses
Hosted by celebrity horse enthusiast, Tab Hunter, visits the stables and homes of the Hollywood movi...
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The Wind in the Willows
The Irresponsible Toad is in a mess and needs help from his friends try and save Toad Hall....
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The Outsider
A controversial osteopath sets out to cure the daughter of a famous surgeon - and falls in love with...
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Beyond Titanic
A survey of 86 years of Titanicana in popular culture, with the emphasis on movies about (or inspire...
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The Fantastic Journey
1 hour 55 minute edited "movie" version comprised of primarily episodes 1 and 2 of TV series of same...
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Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
A study of the Group Theatre, a company that changed the face of American drama. The Group was found...
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Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
A TV special on the 100th anniversary of the birth of film....
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Stars and Stripes: Hollywood and World War II
American Movie Classics produced this original salute to those celebrities who worked to improve the...
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Hill Number One: A Story of Faith and Inspiration
The story of the Crucifixion, set within the context of the Korean War....
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Boom! Hollywood's Greatest Disaster Movies
Narrated by Bill Mumy (Will Robinson from TV's "Lost in Space"), this documentary spotlights some of...
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Buck Rogers in the 25th Century: Planet of the Slave Girls
The majority of Earth's fighter squadron becomes incapacitated after using poisoned food discs. Buck...
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When We Were Young: Growing Up on the Silver Screen
A documentary about the careers of child stars of the '40s in Hollywood, featuring movie clips with ...
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The Legend of Robin Hood
Musical version of Robin Hood and his band of Merry Men. Songs by Sammy Cahn and James Van Heusen in...
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