Brian Keith

Born: 1921-11-14

Brian Keith (November 14, 1921 – June 24, 1997) was an American film, television, and stage actor who in his four decade-long career gained recognition for his work in movies such as the 1961 Disney family film The Parent Trap, the 1966 comedy The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming, and the 1975 adventure saga The Wind and the Lion, in which he portrayed Theodore Roosevelt. On television, two of his best known roles were that of a widowed uncle turned bachelor: Bill Davis, in the 1960s sitcom Family Affair, and a tough judge in the 1980s drama Hardcastle and McCormick. Description above from the Wikipedia article Brian Keith, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.


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The Parent Trap

as Mitch Evers
Released: 1961-05-13

Two identical twin sisters, separated at birth by their parents' divorce, are reunited years...

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Young Guns

as Buckshot Roberts
Released: 1988-02-17

A group of young gunmen, led by Billy the Kid, become deputies to avenge the murder of the...

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Meteor

as Dr. Dubov
Released: 1979-10-19

After a collision with a comet, a nearly 8km wide piece of the asteroid "Orpheus" is heading...

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Way... Way Out

as Gen. 'Howling Bull' Hallenby
Released: 1966-10-26

A platonically wed American couple run a lunar weather station near an unwed Soviet couple.

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The Wind and the Lion

as Theodore Roosevelt
Released: 1975-05-22

At the beginning of the 20th century an American woman is abducted in Morocco by Berbers, and...

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The Yakuza

as George Tanner
Released: 1974-12-21

American private eye Harry Kilmer returns to Japan to rescue a friend's kidnapped daughter from...

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The Second Civil War

as General Buford
Released: 1997-12-04

When a planeload of Pakistani orphans are shipped to his state for permanent relocation, the...

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Hooper

as Jocko Doyle
Released: 1978-07-28

Legendary stunt man Sonny Hooper remains one of the top men in his field, but due to too many...

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Sharky's Machine

as Papa
Released: 1981-12-18

Police officer Tom Sharky gets busted back to working vice, where he happens upon a scandalous...

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The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!

as Police Chief Link Mattocks
Released: 1966-05-25

When a Soviet submarine gets stuck on a sandbar off the coast of a New England island, its...

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Reflections in a Golden Eye

as Lt. Col. Morris Langdon
Released: 1967-10-13

Bizarre tale of sex, betrayal, and perversion at a military post.

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The Alamo: Thirteen Days to Glory

as Colonel Davy Crockett
Released: 1987-11-11

Against orders and with no help of relief Texas patriots led by William Travis, Jim Bowie, and...

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5 Against the House

as Brick
Released: 1955-06-10

Former war-time Army buddies now students in college decide to rip off a Reno casino.

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The Rare Breed

as Alexander Bowen
Released: 1966-02-02

When her husband dies en route to America, Martha Price and her daughter Hilary are left to...

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Nevada Smith

as Jonas Cord
Released: 1966-06-10

Nevada Smith is the young son of an Indian mother and white father. When his father is killed by...

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The Violent Men

as Cole Wilkison
Released: 1955-01-26

A former Union Army officer plans to sell out to Anchor Ranch and move east with his fiancée,...

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Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen

as Police Chief Baxter
Released: 1981-02-13

Famous detective Charlie Chan is called out of retirement to help a San Francisco detective...

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The Mountain Men

as Henry Frapp
Released: 1980-06-01

The story concerns two grizzled mountain men -- Bill Tyler and Henry Frapp -- during the dying...

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Nickelodeon

as H.H. Cobb
Released: 1976-12-21

In the silent film era, attorney Leo Harrigan and gunslinger Buck Greenway are hired to stop an...

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The Hallelujah Trail

as Frank Wallingham
Released: 1965-06-23

A wagon train heads for Denver with a cargo of whisky for the miners. Chaos ensues as the...

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Fourteen Hours

as Extra (uncredited)
Released: 1951-04-01

A young man, morally destroyed by his parents not loving him and by the fear of being not...

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Boomerang!

as Man in Mob Behind Courthouse
Released: 1947-02-28

When a kindly priest is murdered while waiting at a street corner in a quiet Connecticut town,...

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Krakatoa, East of Java

as Connerly
Released: 1968-12-26

A team of maritime salvage workers are about to embark on a recovery dive. However the 1883...

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Nightfall

as John
Released: 1956-11-09

An innocent man turns fugitive as he reconstructs events that implicate him for a murder and...

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With Six You Get Eggroll

as Jake Iverson
Released: 1968-08-07

Abby McClure, a widow with three sons, and Jake Iverson, a widower with a teenage daughter,...

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Moon Pilot

as Maj. Gen. John M. Vanneman
Released: 1962-04-05

An Air Force captain inadvertently volunteers to make the first manned flight around the moon....

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Tight Spot

as Vince Striker
Released: 1955-03-19

A former model, serving time in prison, becomes a key witness in a trial against a notorious...

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In the Matter of Karen Ann Quinlan

as Joe Quinlan
Released: 1977-09-26

Based on a true case, this tells the story of two parents in New Jersey whose daughter has...

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The Deadly Companions

as Yellowleg
Released: 1961-06-06

Ex-army officer accidentally kills a woman's son, tries to make up for it by escorting the...

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Those Calloways

as Cam Calloway
Released: 1965-01-28

Story of Cam Calloway and his family, who live in a densely wooded area in New England. Cam...

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Arrowhead

as Capt. Bill North
Released: 1953-08-03

Director Charles Marquis Warren's 1953 western stars Charlton Heston and Jack Palance. Chief of...

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Run of the Arrow

as Captain Clark
Released: 1957-09-05

When the South loses the war, Confederate veteran O'Meara goes West, joins the Sioux, takes a...

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The McKenzie Break

as Captain Jack Connor
Released: 1970-10-28

A German U-Boat commander plans a daring escape from a PoW camp in Scotland.

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The Young Philadelphians

as Mike Flanagan
Released: 1959-05-21

Up and coming young lawyer Anthony Lawrence faces several ethical and emotional dilemmas as he...

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Storm Center

as Paul Duncan
Released: 1956-07-31

Politicians go after a small-town librarian when she refuses to ban a book. She's quickly...

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Something Big

as Col. Morgan
Released: 1971-11-19

Joe Baker has a dream. He wants to do 'something big.' When he needs a Gatling gun to accomplish...

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Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story

as Cardinal
Released: 1996-09-27

The firebrand reporter, feminist and philanthropist Dorothy Day co-founds The Catholic Worker...

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Perry Mason: The Case of the Lethal Lesson

as Frank Wellman Sr.
Released: 1989-02-12

Ken Malansky, a law student of Perry Mason's, is accused of murdering a fellow student. Perry is...

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Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2004-07-25

An account of the life and work of American film director Sam Peckinpah (1925-84), a tortured...

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The Bull of the West

as Johnny Wade
Released: 1972-05-04

Two episodes of the TV series "The Virginian" edited together: "Duel at Shiloh" (2 Jan. 1963)...

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Jivaro

as Tony
Released: 1954-02-12

At Rio Galdez's remote Brazilian trading post live assorted outcast Americans and Europeans,...

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Savage Sam

as Uncle Beck Coates
Released: 1963-06-01

Travis, Arliss, and Lisbeth are captured by Apaches while Old Yeller's son, Sam, tracks their trail.

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Cry for the Strangers

as Chief Whalen
Released: 1982-02-11

The little coastal town of Clark's Harbor seems like the perfect place for psychiatrist Brad...

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Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?

as Officer Michael M. Nace
Released: 1970-09-11

War is brewing between the soldiers at an otherwise quiet army base and the civilians of a...

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Scandalous John

as John McCanless
Released: 1971-06-22

A crotchety old ranch owner fights to be able to live his life the way he wants to, and not the...

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Appointment with a Shadow

as Lt. Spencer
Released: 1957-09-01

George Nader plays a reporter whose career is ruined by liquor. A comeback opportunity presents...

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The Loneliest Runner

as Arnold Curtis
Released: 1976-12-20

A young boy who still wets the bed finds escapism from his abusive mother and his own...

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Chicago Confidential

as Jim Fremont
Released: 1957-08-30

In the Windy City, the mob infiltrates a powerful union.

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Gaily, Gaily

as Francis Sullivan
Released: 1969-12-16

After runaway Ben Young is robbed and left on his own, he is taken in by Lil, the head of a...

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The Seekers

as Elijah Weatherby
Released: 1979-12-03

This follow-up to "The Bastard" and "The Rebels" continues the account of Philip Kent's life and...

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The Quest

as Tank Logan
Released: 1976-05-13

Eight years ago, Cheyenne Indians attacked the Baudine Family wagon and captured Morgan (Kurt...

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Knute Rockne All American

as Student at Train Station (uncredited)
Released: 1940-10-05

The story of legendary Notre Dame football player and coach Knute Rockne.

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Wind Dancer

as Truman Richards
Released: 1993-01-01

When a young girl is injured by a riding accident, she overcomes her injury with the help of her...

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Ten Who Dared

as William Dunn
Released: 1960-11-01

The John Wesley Powell expedition of 1869 explores the dangerous Colorado River, withstands...

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Power

as Charles Kandell
Released: 1980-01-14

Loosely based on the life of Jimmy Hoffa, this traces the rise of Tommy Vanda (Joe Don Baker)...

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Dino

as Larry Sheridan
Released: 1957-07-21

A juvenile delinquent on parole receives support from a social worker and a girl from a slum.

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Fort Dobbs

as Clett
Released: 1958-04-18

An escaped prisoner helps a mother and her son flee marauding Indians. Director Gordon Douglas'...

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A Tiger Walks

as Sheriff Pete Williams
Released: 1964-04-12

A tiger escapes from a circus truck as it passes by a small town, and hides itself in the...

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After the Rain

as Byron Monroe
Released: 1988-09-23

A father disowns his daughter, Annie, because of her choice to marry a neighboring woodsman. The...

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Violent Road

as Mitch Barton
Released: 1958-05-10

Following the crash and explosion of a test rocket, which killed several people, six men...

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Welcome Home

as Harry Robins
Released: 1989-09-29

Jake died in Vietnam; his family mourned him, then moved on. When he reappears, quite alive, the...

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Walking Thunder

as Narrator
Released: 1997-01-01

In the 1850's, a young boy and his family on their way West become stranded in the Rockies. With...

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Sierra Baron

as Jack McCrackin
Released: 1958-07-01

Director James B. Clark's western, set in 1848 California, is about a brother and sister...

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The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer

as Allan Jacobson - Defense Attorney
Released: 1977-12-01

General Custer is on trial for the deaths of his men at the Battle of Little Bighorn.

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The B.R.A.T. Patrol

as General Newmeyer
Released: 1986-10-26

A group of military brats uncovers a plot to steal base equipment.

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The Return of Hunter: Everyone Walks in L.A.

as Pete Morgan
Released: 1995-03-06

Lieutenant Rick Hunter's girlfriend is murdered.

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Death Before Dishonor

as Col. Halloran
Released: 1987-02-20

Gunnery Sergeant Burns reports for duty to an American Embassy in the Middle East. However due...

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Second Chance

as Geoff Smith
Released: 1972-02-08

A rich stockbroker buys a Nevada ghost town as a community for people who need a second chance...

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Follow Your Heart

as Roddy Thompson
Released: 1999-01-26

When an eight year old girl loses her mother to cancer, her mother's last wish is for her to...

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The Pleasure Seekers

as Paul Barton
Released: 1964-12-25

A trio of gorgeous American tourists hope to find love while vacationing in Spain. Secretary...

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The Raiders

as McElroy
Released: 1963-12-01

Wild Bill Hickok, Buffalo Bill and Calamity Jane help a Texas rancher against the railroad.

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Lady in a Corner

as David Henderson
Released: 1989-12-11

Grace Guthrie tries to stave off the hostile take over of her publishing empire. While fighting...

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Lightning

as Tappan
Released: 1995-10-01

Against the backdrop of California’s 19th century Gold Rush, Brian Keith plays a lucky digger in...

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Hell Canyon Outlaws

as Happy Waters
Released: 1957-10-05

In this western, a sheriff attempts to exact his revenge against the desperadoes who cost him...

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Villa!!

as Bill Harmon
Released: 1958-10-01

Biographical south-of-the-border cowboy western adventure thriller of Mexican revolutionary...

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Desert Hell

as Capt. Robert Edwards
Released: 1958-06-25

This melodrama tells the tale of a great battle between the French Foreign Legion and the...

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Alaska Seas

as Jim Kimmerly
Released: 1954-01-27

A crooked salmon fisherman tries to steal his best friend's fiancée and put him out of business.

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The Silent Lovers

as Mauritz Stiller
Released: 1980-05-20

The story of the ill-fated romance between Greta Garbo and John Gilbert.

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Johnny Shiloh

as Sgt. Gabe Trotter
Released: 1963-01-20

Johnny Shiloh is a 1963 made for TV film that originally aired in two parts on the Wonderful...

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The Bamboo Prison

as Cpl. Brady
Released: 1954-06-15

A communist POW sides with his North Korean guards against his fellow prisoners.

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Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer!

as Mike Hammer
Released: 1954-12-31

In this half-hour unsold pilot, private eye Mike Hammer embarks on a righteous quest for...

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Bristle Face

as Lue Swank
Released: 1964-01-26

In the rolling, wooded hills of Tennessee in the 1920s, a 14-year-old orphan, Jace, comes to...

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The Tenderfoot

as Mose Carson
Released: 1964-11-08

Based on author James H. Tevis' Arizona in the 50s, The Tenderfoot stars Brandon De Wilde as...

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Rapids Ahead/Bear Country

as uncredited
Released: 1960-10-16

The first half is a salute to John Wesley Powell, the first man to explore the Colorado River....

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The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

as Self
First aired: 1962-10-01

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under The Tonight...

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The Fugitive

as Edward Welles
First aired: 1963-09-17

Richard Kimble is falsely convicted of his wife's murder and given the death penalty. En route...

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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

as Mullibok
First aired: 1993-01-03

At Deep Space Nine, a space station located next to a wormhole in the vicinity of the liberated...

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The Virginian

as Johnny Wade
First aired: 1962-09-19

The Shiloh Ranch in Wyoming Territory of the 1890s is owned in sequence by Judge Henry Garth,...

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Climax!

as Sam Pryce
First aired: 1954-10-07

Climax! is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was...

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Murder, She Wrote

as Caleb McCallum
First aired: 1984-09-30

An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life...

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Robert Montgomery Presents

as Harry
First aired: 1950-01-30

Robert Montgomery Presents is an American dramatic television series which was produced by NBC...

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The Untouchables

as Jim Martinson
First aired: 1959-10-15

Special Agent Eliot Ness and his elite team of incorruptible agents battle organized crime in...

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Spider-Man

as Uncle Ben (voice)
First aired: 1994-11-19

Bitten by a neogenetic spider, Peter Parker develops spider-like superpowers. He uses these to...

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Dr. Kildare

as Alfred Freely
First aired: 1961-09-27

The story of a young intern in a large metropolitan hospital trying to learn his profession,...

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Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

as Dave Blassingame
First aired: 1956-10-05

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre, sometimes simply called Zane Grey Theatre, is an American...

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The Commish

as uncredited
First aired: 1991-09-28

Tony Scali is a former Brooklyn cop now the Police Commissioner of a small upstate city. But for...

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The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

as Jim Mallory
First aired: 1962-09-20

A continuation of the anthology series “Alfred Hitchcock Presents”, hosted by the master of...

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Walker, Texas Ranger

as Del Forman
First aired: 1993-04-21

Modern-day Texas Ranger, Cordell Walker's independent crime-solving methods have their roots in...

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Touched by an Angel

as Leonard Pound
First aired: 1994-09-21

Monica, an angel, is tasked with bringing guidance and messages from God to various people who...

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Laramie

as uncredited
First aired: 1959-09-15

Laramie is an American Western television series that aired on NBC from 1959 to 1963. A Revue...

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Family Affair

as Bill Davis
First aired: 1966-09-12

Family Affair is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from September 12, 1966 to September 9,...

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Pacific Blue

as Mac McNamara
First aired: 1996-03-02

Pacific Blue is an American crime drama series about a team of police officers with the Santa...

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Rawhide

as Tod Macauley
First aired: 1959-01-09

The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across...

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Kraft Suspense Theatre

as Andy Bastian
First aired: 1963-10-10

Kraft Suspense Theatre is an American anthology series that was telecast from 1963 to 1965 on...

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Duckman

as uncredited
First aired: 1994-03-05

Duckman: Private Dick/Family Man is an American animated sitcom that aired from 1994–1997,...

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Studio 57

as uncredited
First aired: 1954-09-21

Studio 57 is an American anthology series that was broadcast on the now-defunct DuMont...

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The Ford Television Theatre

as Dan Crawford
First aired: 1952-10-02

This show started in New York City, with Broadway actors and actresses. It then moved to...

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The Ford Television Theatre

as Mano
First aired: 1952-10-02

This show started in New York City, with Broadway actors and actresses. It then moved to...

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Burke's Law

as Norman Hope
First aired: 1994-01-07

Burke's Law, a revival of the 1960s cop television series of the same name, aired on CBS from...

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Cybill

as uncredited
First aired: 1995-01-02

Cybill is an American television sitcom created by Chuck Lorre, which aired on CBS from January...

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Hardcastle and McCormick

as Milton Hardcastle
First aired: 1983-09-18

Hardcastle and McCormick is an American action/drama television series from Stephen J. Cannell...

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77 Sunset Strip

as Sgt. Patrick Cohan
First aired: 1958-10-10

Stu Bailey and Jeff Spencer are the wisecracking, womanizing private-detective heroes of this...

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Outlaws

as uncredited
First aired: 1960-09-26

Outlaws is an NBC Western television series, starring Barton MacLane as U.S. marshal Frank...

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The Great Adventure

as Henry Bergh
First aired: 1963-09-27

The Great Adventure is a historical anthology series that appeared on CBS for the 1963-1964...

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Suspense

as Johnny
First aired: 1949-01-06

An anthology series adapted from the radio program of the same name. Like the radio program,...

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Suspense

as Lt. Jim Connor
First aired: 1949-01-06

An anthology series adapted from the radio program of the same name. Like the radio program,...

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Suspense

as uncredited
First aired: 1949-01-06

An anthology series adapted from the radio program of the same name. Like the radio program,...

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Suspense

as Idaho
First aired: 1949-01-06

An anthology series adapted from the radio program of the same name. Like the radio program,...

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Suspense

as Kip Caley
First aired: 1949-01-06

An anthology series adapted from the radio program of the same name. Like the radio program,...

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Alfred Hitchcock Presents

as Dave Rainey
First aired: 1955-10-02

A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.

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Alfred Hitchcock Presents

as Arnold Shawn
First aired: 1955-10-02

A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.

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Alfred Hitchcock Presents

as Herbert Morrison
First aired: 1955-10-02

A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.

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Alfred Hitchcock Presents

as Vernon Wedge
First aired: 1955-10-02

A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.

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Tales of Tomorrow

as uncredited
First aired: 1951-08-03

Tales of Tomorrow is an American anthology science fiction series that was performed and...

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Sam Benedict

as uncredited
First aired: 1962-09-15

Sam Benedict is an American legal drama that aired on NBC from September 1962 to March 1963. The...

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The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour

as Self
First aired: 1969-01-22

The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour is an American network television music and comedy variety show...

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Target: The Corruptors!

as uncredited
First aired: 1961-09-29

Target: The Corruptors! is an American crime drama series starring Stephen McNally which aired...

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The Westerner

as Dave Blassingame
First aired: 1960-09-30

The Westerner is an American Western series that aired on NBC from September to December 1960....

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Centennial

as Sheriff Axel Dumire
First aired: 1978-10-01

The economic and cultural growth of town of Centennial, Colorado, through the intertwining lives...

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The Wonderful World of Disney

as Shadrach O'Reilly
First aired: 1954-10-27

Walt Disney Productions has produced an anthology television series under several different...

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The Wonderful World of Disney

as Sergeant Gabe Trotter
First aired: 1954-10-27

Walt Disney Productions has produced an anthology television series under several different...

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The Wonderful World of Disney

as Lue Swank
First aired: 1954-10-27

Walt Disney Productions has produced an anthology television series under several different...

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The Wonderful World of Disney

as Gen. Newmeyer
First aired: 1954-10-27

Walt Disney Productions has produced an anthology television series under several different...

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The Quest

as Tank Logan
First aired: 1976-05-13

The Quest is an American Western series which aired on NBC from September to December 1976. The...

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The Brian Keith Show

as Dr. Sean Jamison
First aired: 1972-09-15

The Brian Keith Show is an American sitcom that aired on NBC from September 1972 to March 1974....

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The Wonderful World of Disney

as uncredited
First aired: 1961-09-24

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The Chisholms

as Andrew Blake
First aired: 1979-03-29

The Chisholms is a CBS western miniseries starring Robert Preston, which aired from March 29,...

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Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Prosecuting Attorney
First aired: 1951-12-24

Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark...

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World War III

as Secretary General Gorny
First aired: 1982-01-31

When starving mobs begin rioting in the streets of Moscow, Soviet leaders believe they have no...

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Rough Riders

as President William McKinley
First aired: 1997-07-20

Explores the journey of the cavalry group led by Theodore Roosevelt in a charge up San Juan Hill...

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The Zoo Gang

as Stephen "The Fox" Halliday
First aired: 1974-04-05

Six resistance fighters, known by their animal-based code names, fought during World War II....

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Heartland

as B.L. McCutcheon
First aired: 1989-03-20

An old-fashioned Nebraska farmer moves in with his daughter, son-in-law and their family.

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