Dana Andrews

Born: 1909-01-01

Carver Dana Andrews (January 1, 1909 – December 17, 1992) was an American actor. A leading man during the 1940s, he continued acting in less prestigious roles and character parts into the 1980s. He is best known for his portrayal of obsessed police detective Mark McPherson in the noir Laura (1944) and his critically acclaimed performance as World War II veteran Fred Derry in The Best Years of Our Lives (1946). Description above from the Wikipedia article Dana Andrews, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.


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Airport 1975

as Scott Freeman
Released: 1974-10-18

When an in-flight collision incapacitates the pilots of an airplane bound for Los Angeles,...

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Where the Sidewalk Ends

as Det. Sgt. Mark Dixon
Released: 1950-07-07

A police detective's violent nature keeps him from being a good cop.

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The North Star

as Kolya Simonov
Released: 1943-11-04

A Ukrainian village must suddenly contend with the Nazi invasion of June 1941. Later re-edited...

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In Harm's Way

as Admiral Broderick
Released: 1965-04-06

A naval officer reprimanded after Pearl Harbor is later promoted to rear admiral and gets a...

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The Best Years of Our Lives

as Fred Derry
Released: 1946-12-25

It's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally...

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Battle of the Bulge

as Colonel Pritchard
Released: 1965-12-16

In the winter of 1944, the Allied Armies stand ready to invade Germany at the coming of a New...

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The Ox-Bow Incident

as Donald Martin
Released: 1943-03-11

A posse discovers a trio of men they suspect of murder and cow theft and are split between...

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Laura

as Det. Lt. Mark McPherson
Released: 1944-10-11

A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating.

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Night of the Demon

as Dr. John Holden
Released: 1957-11-09

American professor John Holden arrives in London for a conference on parapsychology only to...

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Ball of Fire

as Joe Lilac
Released: 1941-12-02

A group of academics have spent years shut up in a house working on the definitive encyclopedia....

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The Westerner

as Hod Johnson
Released: 1940-09-18

Drifter Cole Harden is accused of stealing a horse and faces hanging by self-appointed Judge Roy...

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The Last Tycoon

as Red Ridingwood
Released: 1976-11-18

Monroe Stahr, a successful movie producer, pursues a beautiful and elusive young woman — all the...

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While the City Sleeps

as Edward Mobley
Released: 1956-04-19

Newspaper men compete against each other to find a serial killer dubbed "The Lipstick Killer".

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Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

as Tom Garrett
Released: 1956-09-13

A newspaper publisher, wanting to prove a point about the insufficiency of circumstantial...

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The Devil's Brigade

as Brig. Gen. Walter Naylor
Released: 1968-05-15

At the onset of World War II, American Lt. Col. Robert Frederick is put in charge of a unit...

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Fallen Angel

as Eric Stanton
Released: 1945-11-15

An unemployed drifter, Eric Stanton wanders into a small California town and begins hanging...

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Boomerang!

as State's Attorney Henry L. Harvey
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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Good Guys Wear Black

as Edgar Harolds
Released: 1978-06-01

The former leader of a commando rescue attempt into Vietnam tries to discover why his squad...

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Crack in the World

as Dr. Stephen Sorenson
Released: 1965-04-15

Dr. Steven Sorenson plans to tap the geothermal energy of the Earth's interior by means of a...

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The Frogmen

as Jake Flannigan
Released: 1951-01-25

The new commander of a Navy Underwater Demolition Team--nicknamed "Frogmen"--must earn the...

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The Satan Bug

as Gen. Williams
Released: 1965-03-26

A US government germ warfare lab has had an accident. The first theory is that one of the germs...

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The Loved One

as Gen. Buck Brinkman
Released: 1965-10-11

Newly arrived in Hollywood from England, Dennis Barlow finds he has to arrange his uncle's...

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Canyon Passage

as Logan Stuart
Released: 1946-07-17

In 1850s Oregon, a businessman is torn between his love of two very different women and his...

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My Foolish Heart

as Walt Dreiser
Released: 1950-01-19

After a long absence, Mary Jane visits her schoolfriend Eloise, and Eloise's daughter Ramona....

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The Iron Curtain

as Igor Gouzenko
Released: 1948-06-16

The Iron Curtain is based on the actual 1945 case of Soviet cipher clerk Igor Gouzenko, (Dana...

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Zero Hour!

as Lt. Ted Stryker
Released: 1957-11-13

In 1950s Canada, during a commercial flight, the pilots and some passengers suffer food...

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A Walk in the Sun

as Sgt. Bill Tyne
Released: 1945-12-25

In the 1943 invasion of Italy, one American platoon lands, digs in, then makes its way inland to...

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State Fair

as Pat Gilbert
Released: 1945-08-29

During their annual visit to the Iowa State Fair, the Frake family enjoy many adventures. Proud...

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Belle Starr

as Thomas Crail
Released: 1941-09-12

After her family's mansion is burned down by Yankee soldiers for hiding the rebel leader Captain...

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Elephant Walk

as Dick Carver
Released: 1954-04-21

Colonial tea planter John Wiley (Peter Finch), visiting England at the end of World War II, wins...

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Take a Hard Ride

as Morgan
Released: 1975-10-29

After his cattle rancher boss dies, right-hand man Pike is given the job of returning $86,000 to...

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December 7th

as Ghost of US sailor killed at Pearl Harbor
Released: 1943-03-01

"Docudrama" about the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941 and its results, the...

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Daisy Kenyon

as Dan O'Mara
Released: 1947-12-25

Daisy Kenyon is a Manhattan commercial artist having an affair with an arrogant and overbearing...

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Edge of Doom

as Thomas Roth
Released: 1950-08-03

A priest sets out to catch the man who killed one of his colleagues.

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Three Hours to Kill

as Jim Guthrie
Released: 1954-11-04

After three years on the run, Jim Guthrie returns with the scar of a rope burn on his neck. In a...

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Wing and a Prayer

as Edward Moulton
Released: 1944-01-01

An aircraft carrier is sent on a decoy mission around the Pacific, with orders to avoid combat,...

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Smoke Signal

as Brett Halliday
Released: 1955-03-01

Capt. Harper's cavalry patrol returns to the fort to find it besieged by Ute Indians. The...

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Crash Dive

as Lt. Cdr. Dewey Connors
Released: 1943-04-22

A US Navy submarine, the USS Corsair, is operating in the North Atlantic, hunting German...

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Sealed Cargo

as Pat Bannon
Released: 1951-05-19

A Newfoundland fishingboat comes to the aid of a wrecked Danish sailing ship and tows it to a...

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Kit Carson

as Captain John C. Fremont
Released: 1940-08-30

Frontiersman Kit Carson fights off Indian attacks on the trail to California.

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Tobacco Road

as Capt. Tim Harmon
Released: 1941-02-20

Shiftless Jeeter Lester and his family of sharecroppers live in rural Georgia where their...

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Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker

as Det. Lt. Mark McPherson (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: 1991-10-28

This documentary, hosted by actor Burgess Meredith, explores the life and career of movie...

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Sword in the Desert

as Mike Dillon
Released: 1949-08-24

First American film about the conflict between Jewish nationalists and the British in the...

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The Purple Heart

as Capt. Harvey Ross
Released: 1944-02-25

This is the story of the crew of a downed bomber, captured after a run over Tokyo, early in the...

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Johnny Reno

as Johnny Reno
Released: 1966-03-09

The townsfolk are set on lynching an accused killer held in the town lockup. But US Marshal...

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Born Again

as Tom Phillips
Released: 1978-10-01

Having been imprisoned for his part in the Watergate scandal, Charles Colson undergoes a...

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Strange Lady in Town

as Dr. Rourke O'Brien
Released: 1955-04-12

Julia Garth, a female doctor, plans to introduce modern techniques of medicine to old Santa Fe...

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Up in Arms

as Joe Nelson
Released: 1944-02-17

Hypochondriac Danny Weems gets drafted and accidentally smuggles his girlfriend aboard his...

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The Crowded Sky

as Dick Barnett
Released: 1960-09-02

When Navy pilot Dale Heath takes off, he doesn't expect his navigational equipment to fail and...

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The Fearmakers

as Alan Eaton
Released: 1958-10-01

A Korean War veteran returns to Washington D.C. only to discover his business partner had died...

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Comanche

as Jim Read
Released: 1956-03-01

Common efforts of the U.S. government and the Comanche nation to negotiate a peace treaty are...

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Brainstorm

as Cort Benson
Released: 1965-05-05

Scientist Jim Grayam saves his boss' wife from suicide but then falls in love with her.

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No Diamonds for Ursula

as Il gioielliere
Released: 1967-08-06

A beautiful, but naive, young woman kills a rapist in self defense. But her degenerate,...

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Armored Attack!

as Kolya Simonov
Released: 1957-01-01

A Ukrainian village must suddenly contend with the Nazi invasion of June 1941. Re-edited version...

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Swamp Water

as Ben Ragan
Released: 1941-11-16

A hunter happens upon a fugitive and his daughter living in a Georgia swamp. He falls in love...

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Ike

as Gen. George C. Marshall
Released: 1979-05-03

Eisenhower the military man is the focus of this mini-series, his relationships with the other...

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Assignment: Paris

as Jimmy Race
Released: 1952-09-04

Paris-based New York Herald Tribune reporter Jimmy Race (Andrews) is sent by his boss (Sanders)...

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I Want You

as Martin Greer
Released: 1951-12-22

The scene is a small town in the Eastern United States, where the outbreak of hostilities in...

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Spy in Your Eye

as Col. Lancaster
Released: 1965-09-17

A secret agent is assigned ot rescue the daughter of a deceased East German scienist, who...

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The Art Director

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: 1949-11-12

A film's art director is in charge of the set, from conception to construction to furnishing....

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Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2001-10-07

The life and work of Samuel Goldwyn, a Polish-born glove salesman who became one of Hollywood's...

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The Frozen Dead

as Dr. Norberg
Released: 1966-10-15

A crazed scientist keeps the heads of Nazi war criminals alive until he can find appropriate...

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Innocent Bystanders

as Blake
Released: 1972-09-01

Washed-up agent John Craig is given the task of proving his worth by tracking down a Russian...

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Madison Avenue

as Clint Lorimer
Released: 1961-04-13

An adman and an adwoman put a dangerous milk tycoon in line for the White House.

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Deep Waters

as Hod Stillwell
Released: 1948-07-22

A state welfare agent persuades a Maine lobsterman to take a troubled orphan boy aboard.

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Hot Rods to Hell

as Tom Phillips
Released: 1967-01-27

While on a business trip, Tom Phillips is in a car accident caused by a reckless driver. Tom...

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Sailor's Lady

as Scrappy Wilson
Released: 1940-07-05

Sailor is going to marry his girlfriend when he returns, but she becomes foster mother to baby...

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Berlin Correspondent

as Bill Roberts
Released: 1942-08-17

Dana Andrews plays Bill Roberts, an American radio commentator station in Berlin in the months...

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The First 36 Hours of Dr. Durant

as Dr. Hutchins
Released: 1975-05-13

A young doctor fresh out of medical school takes a job at a big-city hospital, and on his first...

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Town Tamer

as Tom Rosser
Released: 1965-07-07

A gunfighter is hired to clean up a wild frontier town, but there are forces afoot who want to...

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The Pilot

as Randolph Evers
Released: 1980-11-26

Mike Hagan is a pilot in passenger service and candidate for the honor "Best Pilot of the Year"....

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Enchanted Island

as Abner "Ab" Bedford
Released: 1958-11-08

Two 19th-century sailors jump ship only to discover their tropical paradise is a cannibal...

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The Last Hurrah

as Roger Shanley
Released: 1977-11-16

The longtime head of a powerful political machine is determined to win a fourth election and...

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The Forbidden Street

as Henry Lambert / Gilbert Lauderdale
Released: 1949-03-31

In Victorian London, young Adelaide is born into luxury, but marries starving artist Henry. His...

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Shadow in the Street

as Len Raeburn
Released: 1975-01-28

An ex-convict trying to straighten his life out takes a job as a parole agent in an experimental...

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Duel in the Jungle

as Scott Walters
Released: 1954-06-30

An American insurance investigator is sent to Rhodesia to investigate the mysterious death of a...

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The Horror of It All

as Self
Released: 1983-02-23

A collection of film clips from horror movies and interviews with the actors and directors who...

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Lucky Cisco Kid

as Sergeant Dunn
Released: 1940-06-28

Cisco and Gordito arrive to find there is an outlaw operating in the area who is assumed to be...

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The Failing of Raymond

as Allan McDonald
Released: 1971-09-27

On the day before she retires, a teacher discovers that a student she had flunked ten years...

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Spring Reunion

as Fred Davis
Released: 1957-03-01

A spinster finally finds the right man when she returns to her alma mater after 15 years for a...

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The Ten Million Dollar Grab

as George Kimmins
Released: 1967-02-09

A thief fakes his death in order to steal a 10 million dollar Diamond from his former employer....

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Prince Jack

as The Cardinal
Released: 1985-12-01

A dramatic look at the inner workings of the Kennedy administration.

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Night Song

as Dan Evans
Released: 1948-01-20

A socialite pretends to be poor and blind in her plan to help a blinded pianist.

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No Minor Vices

as Perry Ashwell
Released: 1948-11-12

Perry Ashwell is a self-satisfied child psychologist who takes his colleagues and wife somewhat...

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Showbiz Goes to War

as (archive footage)
Released: 1982-12-31

While a few Hollywood celebrities such as James Stewart and Clark Gable saw combat during World...

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The Cobra

as Capt. Kelly
Released: 1967-03-25

A disgraced treasury agent Mike Rand, who teams with his boss to halt a Red Chinese plot to...

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Falcon Crest

as Elliot McKay
First aired: 1981-12-04

Falcon Crest is an American primetime television soap opera which aired on the CBS network for...

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The Love Boat

as Mr. Paul Gerber
First aired: 1977-09-24

Passengers who search for romantic nights aboard a beautiful ship travelling to tropical or...

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Ironside

as Courtenay Eliot
First aired: 1967-03-28

When an assassin's bullet confines him to a wheelchair for life ending his career as Chief of...

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Ben Casey

as Dr. Ernest Farrow
First aired: 1961-10-02

Ben Casey is an American medical drama series which ran on ABC from 1961 to 1966. The show was...

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The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries

as Townley
First aired: 1977-01-30

The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries is a television series which aired for three seasons on ABC....

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The Twilight Zone

as Paul Driscoll
First aired: 1959-10-02

A series of unrelated stories containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science...

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Night Gallery

as Paul Koch (segment "The Different Ones")
First aired: 1970-12-16

Rod Serling narrates an anthology of fantasy, horror and sci-fi stories from a set resembling a...

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The Dick Cavett Show

as Self - Guest
First aired: 1968-06-06

The Dick Cavett Show has been the title of several talk shows hosted by Dick Cavett on various...

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What's My Line?

as Self - Panelist
First aired: 1950-02-02

Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while...

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Family Affair

as Harv Mullen
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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Playhouse 90

as Mark Bragg
First aired: 1956-10-04

Playhouse 90 is an American television anthology series that was telecast on CBS from 1956 to...

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Playhouse 90

as Leo Bass
First aired: 1956-10-04

Playhouse 90 is an American television anthology series that was telecast on CBS from 1956 to...

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The Barbara Stanwyck Show

as Clint Evans
First aired: 1960-09-19

The Barbara Stanwyck Show is an American anthology drama television series which ran on NBC from...

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Checkmate

as Judge Leland McIntyre
First aired: 1960-09-17

Checkmate is an American detective television series starring Anthony George, Sebastian Cabot,...

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Ellery Queen

as Lewis Marshall
First aired: 1975-09-11

Ellery Queen is an American television detective mystery series based on the fictional character...

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The Ed Sullivan Show

as Self
First aired: 1948-06-20

The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June...

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The Dick Powell Show

as Paul Oakland
First aired: 1961-09-26

The Dick Powell Show is an American anthology series that ran on NBC from 1961- 1963, primarily...

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The Dick Powell Show

as Nat Keough
First aired: 1961-09-26

The Dick Powell Show is an American anthology series that ran on NBC from 1961- 1963, primarily...

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Bright Promise

as Thomas Boswell
First aired: 1969-09-29

Bright Promise is an American daytime soap opera that ran on NBC from September 29, 1969 to...

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Get Christie Love!

as Sarge
First aired: 1974-01-22

Adventures of sexy & sassy black undercover cop Christie Love.

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The American Film Institute Salute to ...

as Self
First aired: 1973-04-02

In 1973 the American Film Institute initiated its Life Achievement Award, to be presented to a...

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The American Girls

as Phillips
First aired: 1978-09-23

The American Girls is an American drama series that aired on CBS on Saturday night from...

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Ike

as Gen. George C. Marshall
First aired: 1979-05-03

Made-for-TV biography of General Dwight D. Eisenhower.

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Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Roger Shanley
First aired: 1951-12-24

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

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The DuPont Show of the Week

as Cdr. Jason Vanning
First aired: 1961-09-17

The DuPont Show of the Week is an American anthology drama series which aired for three seasons...

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The DuPont Show of the Week

as Narrator
First aired: 1961-09-17

The DuPont Show of the Week is an American anthology drama series which aired for three seasons...

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General Electric Theater

as Carl Anderson
First aired: 1953-02-01

General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was...

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