George Zucco

Born: 1886-01-10

From Wikipedia George Zucco (11 January 1886 – 27 May 1960) was an English character actor who appeared, almost always in supporting roles, in 96 films during a career spanning two decades, from 1931 to 1951. In his horror films, he often played a suave villain or a mad doctor.


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The Hunchback of Notre Dame

as Procurator
Released: 1939-12-29

Paris, France, 1482. Frollo, Chief Justice of benevolent King Louis XI, gets infatuated by the...

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House of Frankenstein

as Prof. Bruno Lampini
Released: 1944-12-01

Deranged scientist, Gustav Niemann, escapes from prison and overtakes the director of a...

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Topper Returns

as Dr. Jeris
Released: 1941-03-21

Topper is once again tormented by a fun-loving spirit. This time, it's Gail Richards,...

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Sherlock Holmes in Washington

as Heinrich Hinckel aka Richard Stanley
Released: 1943-03-24

In World War II, a British secret agent carrying a vitally important document is kidnapped en...

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David and Bathsheba

as Egyptian Ambassador (uncredited)
Released: 1951-08-10

King David enters into an adulterous affair with the beautiful Bathsheba, which has tragic...

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Joan of Arc

as Constable of Clervaux
Released: 1948-12-22

In the 15th Century, France is a defeated and ruined nation after the One Hundred Years War...

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The Secret Garden

as Dr. Fortescue
Released: 1949-04-30

When Cholera takes the parents of Mary Lennox, she is shipped from India to England to live with...

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The Pirate

as The Viceroy
Released: 1948-06-11

A girl is engaged to the local richman, but meanwhile she has dreams about the legendary pirate...

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After the Thin Man

as Dr. Adolph Kammer
Released: 1936-12-25

Nick and Nora Charles investigate when Nora's cousin reports her disreputable husband is...

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The Black Swan

as Lord Denby
Released: 1942-12-04

When notorious pirate Henry Morgan is made governor of Jamaica, he enlists the help of some of...

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Captain from Castile

as Marquis De Carvajal
Released: 1947-12-25

Spain, 1518: young caballero Pedro De Vargas offends his sadistic neighbor De Silva, who just...

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The Cat and the Canary

as Lawyer Crosby
Released: 1939-10-27

Ten years after the death of millionaire Cyrus Norman, his will is to be read out to his six...

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

as Professor Moriarty
Released: 1939-09-01

Having once again avoided criminal conviction, Professor Moriarity develops a murderous plan to...

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Lured

as H.R. Barrett
Released: 1947-08-28

Sandra Carpenter is a London-based dancer who is distraught to learn that her friend has...

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The Mummy's Hand

as Professor Andoheb
Released: 1940-09-20

A couple of young, out-of-work archaeologists in Egypt discover evidence of the burial place of...

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The Mummy's Tomb

as Andoheb
Released: 1942-10-23

A high priest of Karnak travels to America with the living mummy Kharis (Lon Chaney Jr.) to kill...

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The Mummy's Ghost

as Andoheb, High Priest of Arkan
Released: 1944-07-07

An Egyptian high priest travels to America to reclaim the bodies of ancient Egyptian princess...

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Dead Men Walk

as Lloyd Clayton / Elwyn Clayton
Released: 1943-04-12

When a small town doctor buries his twin brother, a practitioner of the black arts, he believes...

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Marie Antoinette

as Governor of Conciergerie (uncredited)
Released: 1938-08-26

The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of...

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The Monster and the Girl

as Dr. Parry
Released: 1941-02-28

After a young woman is coerced into prostitution and her brother framed for murder by an...

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A Woman's Face

as Defense Attorney
Released: 1941-05-09

A female blackmailer with a disfiguring facial scar meets a plastic surgeon who offers her the...

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Charlie Chan in Honolulu

as Dr. Cardigan
Released: 1938-12-30

While Charlie is distracted with the birth of his first grandchild, son Jimmy impersonates his...

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Tarzan and the Mermaids

as Palanth, the High Priest
Released: 1948-05-15

A high priest tries to force a young beauty to marry a pearl trader who is masquerading as the...

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New Moon

as Vicomte Ribaud
Released: 1940-06-28

A revolutionary leader romances a French aristocrat in Louisiana.

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Saratoga

as Dr. Bierd
Released: 1937-07-23

A horse breeder's granddaughter falls in love with a gambler in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.

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Madame Bovary

as Dubocage
Released: 1949-08-25

A frivolous country girl married to a naïve small-town doctor goes down the path of destruction...

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The Barkleys of Broadway

as The Judge
Released: 1949-05-04

Josh and Dinah Barkley are a successful musical-comedy team, known for their stormy but...

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Scared to Death

as Dr. Josef Van Ee
Released: 1947-02-01

A woman is married to the son of a doctor, the proprietor of a private sanatorium, where she is...

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The Bride Wore Red

as Count Armalia
Released: 1937-10-08

A poor singer in a bar masquerades as a rich society woman thanks to a rich benefactor.

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Souls at Sea

as Woodley
Released: 1937-09-03

Michael 'Nuggin' Taylor and Powdah save lives during a sea tragedy in this story about the slave...

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Sudan

as Horadef
Released: 1945-04-18

A desert pickpocket, his sidekick, and an escaped slave help an incognito queen in danger.

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Captain Fury

as Arnold Trist
Released: 1939-05-26

An Irish convict sentenced to hard labor in Australia escapes into the outback, and organizes a...

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Fast Company

as Otto Brockler
Released: 1938-07-05

Married book-dealers Joel & Garda Sloane try to clear a friend in the murder of a rival book-seller.

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The Man Who Could Work Miracles

as The Colonel's Butler
Released: 1936-07-23

An ordinary man, while vigorously asserting the impossibility of miracles, suddenly discovers...

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Confidential Agent

as Detective Geddes
Released: 1945-11-02

During the Spanish Civil War, an agent on a mission to purchase coal meets with murder and...

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The Seventh Cross

as Fahrenburg
Released: 1944-07-24

In Nazi Germany in 1936 seven men escape from a concentration camp. The camp commander puts up...

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The Firefly

as Secret Service Chief
Released: 1937-11-05

Nina Maria Azara is the beautiful and alluring singing spy for Spain during the Napoleonic Wars....

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Suez

as Prime Minister
Released: 1938-10-28

Ferdinand de Lesseps, disappointed in love, is sent as a junior diplomat to the Isthmus of Suez,...

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Moss Rose

as Craxton
Released: 1947-05-30

When a music-hall dancer is murdered, a moss rose marks the page of a Bible next to her body....

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Fog Island

as Leo Grainger
Released: 1945-02-15

Leo, a former convict, is living in seclusion on an island with his step-daughter, the daughter...

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What Happened Then?

as Inspector Hull
Released: 1934-09-24

Young Raymond Rudford,sculptor, is on trial for slitting the throat of his uncle, who had...

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The Mad Monster

as Lorenzo Cameron
Released: 1942-05-15

A mad scientist changes his simple-minded handyman into a werewolf in order to prove his...

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The Flying Serpent

as Prof. Andrew Forbes
Released: 1946-02-01

A demented archaeologist discovers a living, breathing serpent creature known to the Aztecs as...

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Rosalie

as General Maroff
Released: 1937-12-24

West Point cadet Dick Thorpe falls in love with a girl, who turns out to be a princess from an...

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The Mad Ghoul

as Dr. Alfred Morris
Released: 1943-11-12

A university chemistry professor experiments with an ancient Mayan gas on a medical student,...

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Desire Me

as Father Donnard
Released: 1947-10-31

A war widow falls in love with the man who informed her of her husband's death.

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International Lady

as Webster
Released: 1941-10-16

Tim Hanley, an American agent, posing as a lawyer with the United States Embassy in London, and...

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Voodoo Man

as Nicholas
Released: 1944-02-21

A mad doctor (Bela Lugosi) and his helpers (John Carradine, George Zucco) lure girls to his lab...

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Arise, My Love

as Prison Governor
Released: 1940-11-08

A dashing pilot and a vivacious reporter have romantic and dramatic adventures in Europe as...

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My Favorite Blonde

as Dr. Hugo Streger
Released: 1942-04-02

Larry Haines, a mediocre vaudeville entertainer, boards a train for Los Angeles. Aboard, he...

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Lord Jeff

as James 'Jim' Hampstead
Released: 1938-06-17

Spoiled child Geoffrey Bramer teams up with a pair of small time crooks to pose as an aristocrat...

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Madame X

as Dr. LaFarge
Released: 1937-10-01

An alcoholic woman was charged and tried for murder and a young defense attorney, unaware that...

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Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring

as Dr. Edwin L. Jannery
Released: 1941-11-18

The benefactor of the Stack Memorial Hospital dies after an operation. Ellery Queen investigates...

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Here I Am a Stranger

as James K. Spaulding
Released: 1939-09-29

The story of a young man's discovery of his father.

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The Midshipmaid

as Lord Dore
Released: 1932-12-08

Sir Percy Newbiggin visits the fleet to find ways to economize Naval expenditures. Daughter...

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The Magnificent Fraud

as Dr. Luis Virgo
Released: 1939-07-19

A Chicago con man pays an actor to pose as a slain South American dictator.

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The Man from Toronto

as Squire
Released: 1933-01-01

According to the terms of a will two strangers must marry. Leila (Jessie Matthews) is an...

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Who Killed Doc Robbin?

as Doc Robbin
Released: 1948-04-09

A group of people find themselves trapped in a creepy mansion, complete with secret passageways,...

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London by Night

as Inspector Jefferson
Released: 1937-07-30

A newspaperman, his canine companion, and an adventurous socialite investigate an...

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Half Way to Shanghai

as Peter van Hoost
Released: 1942-09-18

A murder occurs on a train bound for Shanghai during World War II.

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The First Legion

as Father Robert Stuart
Released: 1951-05-04

A Catholic priest fights against his colleagues' immediate acceptance of an ambiguous “miracle”.

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The Black Raven

as Amos Bradford
Released: 1943-05-31

One dark and stormy night, an escaped convict, an embezzler, a runaway daughter, her intended...

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Week-End at the Waldorf

as Bey of Aribajan
Released: 1945-10-04

Anything can happen during a weekend at New York's Waldorf-Astoria: a glamorous movie star meets...

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There Goes the Bride

as Prosecutor (uncredited)
Released: 1932-10-25

A businessman's daughter runs away from an arranged marriage, only to find herself penniless and...

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Let's Dance

as Judge Mackenzie
Released: 1950-11-29

Years after the death of her husband, Kitty McNeil takes her son and flees from the home of her...

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Parnell

as Sir Charles Arthur Russell
Released: 1937-06-04

Irish politician Charles Stewart Parnell struggles to free his country from English rule, but...

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Arrest Bulldog Drummond

as Rolf Alferson
Released: 1938-11-25

The invention of a machine that can cause remote explosions brings the attention of Scotland...

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The Good Companions

as Fauntley
Released: 1933-02-28

Film musical taken from JB Priestley's novel about three musicians joining together to save a...

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Return of the Ape Man

as Ape Man
Released: 1944-07-17

The discovery of a perfectly preserved caveman prompts a mad scientist to attempt a daring brain...

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Something Always Happens

as Proprietor of the Maison de Paris
Released: 1934-12-10

Unemployed car salesman Peter is encouraged by his girlfriend Cynthia to approach the head of a...

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It's a Bet

as Convict
Released: 1935-02-01

A young English reporter makes a bet with a wealthy publisher that he can disappear for a month....

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The Horror of It All

as Dr. Cameron (archive footage)
Released: 1983-02-23

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

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Hold That Blonde!

as Dr. Pavel Storasky
Released: 1945-11-23

Ogden Spencer Trulow III is a wealthy kleptomaniac who turned to stealing when he was spurned by...

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The Imperfect Lady

as Mr. Mallam
Released: 1946-11-29

A British peer's romance with a ballerina courts scandal in 1890s London.

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Holy Matrimony

as Mr. Crepitude
Released: 1943-08-24

An artist returning from years abroad takes the identity of his dead valet and gets married, but...

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Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook

as Dr. Joseph Van Ee (archive footage)
Released: 1991-01-01

A history of the famous vampire of books and movies, using film clips, previews and other methods.

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Doom of Dracula

as Prof. Lampini
Released: 1966-01-01

An EIGHT minute excerpt from the 1944 feature, House of Frankenstein, released in the 1960's to...

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Having Wonderful Crime

as King aka The Great Movel
Released: 1945-04-12

Newlyweds (George Murphy, Carole Landis) drag their lawyer friend (Pat O'Brien) to a mountain...

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Sinner Take All

as Crowley Bascomb
Released: 1936-12-18

A young lawyer is determined to identify who is murdering members of a wealthy New York...

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Where There's Life

as Paul Stertorius
Released: 1947-11-21

In a far off country, their king is critically wounded after an assassination attempt and the...

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Dark Streets of Cairo

as Abbadi
Released: 1940-12-01

A rapid series of murders occurs when a professor disrupts a tranquil Egyptian tomb by removing...

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Watchtower Over Tomorrow

as Security Council Chair
Released: 1945-03-29

Short documentary film about the Dumbarton Oaks plan and the proposed formation of the United...

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Vacation from Love

as Dr. Waxton
Released: 1938-09-29

A socialite dumps her fiancé on their wedding day and runs off with a saxophone player. Comedy.

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Arsène Lupin Returns

as Prefect of Police
Released: 1938-02-25

A woman and a man vying for a woman's affection: the usual love trio? Not quite so since the...

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Midnight Manhunt

as Jelke
Released: 1945-07-27

Two reporters search for a missing body in a wax museum.

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Dr. Renault's Secret

as Dr. Robert Renault
Released: 1942-10-19

A remake of the 1927 horror film "The Wizard". Dr. Larry Forbes arrives in a remote French...

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Flame Of Stamboul

as The Voice
Released: 1951-03-05

An American agent working undercover as a cafe pianist in Cairo sets out to capture a notorious...

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Never a Dull Moment

as Tony Rocco
Released: 1943-11-19

Nightclub gangsters hire a vaudeville act called the Three Funny Bunnies (Ritz Brothers).

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The Roof

as James Renton
Released: 1933-01-01

Inspector Darrow investigates the death of a wealthy man.

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Shadows in the Night

as Frank Swift
Released: 1944-07-27

A criminal psychologist tries to help a beautiful heiress going mad in a haunted mansion.

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Autumn Crocus

as Revered Mayne
Released: 1934-02-01

A teacher falls in love with the married owner of the guest house in which she is staying during...

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Abdul the Damned

as Officer of the Firing Squad
Released: 1935-08-05

In 1908, Sultan Abdul Hamid rules the Turkish Empire, but he is faced with the threat of revolt...

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Terror in the Pharaoh's Tomb

as Dr. Moriarty (archive footage)
Released: 2007-03-10

Our intrepid adventurers Ace Zucco and Mike Flannigan from Terror in the Tropics return for...

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The Lady Is Willing

as Bailiff
Released: 1934-08-10

In this comedy-mystery, a private detective helps three businessmen get even with the man who...

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Dreyfus

as Jacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac
Released: 1931-04-18

In 1894, French officer Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted for the treasonous acts of another...

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Secret Service Investigator

as Otto Dagoff
Released: 1948-05-31

Lloyd Bridges plays a flying ace war hero who gets sucked into a counterfeiting scheme by...

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Harbor of Missing Men

as H.G. Danziger
Released: 1950-03-26

A smuggler hides from hit men with a Greek fisherman and his daughter.

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