John Huston

Born: 1906-08-05

John Marcellus Huston (August 5, 1906 – August 28, 1987) was an American film director, screenwriter, actor, and visual artist. He wrote the screenplays for most of the 37 feature films he directed, many of which are today considered classics: The Maltese Falcon (1941), The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), The Asphalt Jungle (1950), The African Queen (1951), The Misfits (1961), Fat City (1972), The Man Who Would Be King (1975) and Prizzi's Honor (1985). In his early years, Huston studied and worked as a fine art painter in Paris. He explored the visual aspects of his films throughout his career, sketching each scene on paper beforehand, then carefully framing his characters during the shooting. While most directors rely on post-production editing to shape their final work, Huston instead created his films while they were being shot, with little editing needed. Some of Huston's films were adaptations of important novels, often depicting an "heroic quest," as in Moby Dick, or The Red Badge of Courage. In many films, different groups of people, while struggling toward a common goal, would become doomed, forming "destructive alliances," giving the films a dramatic and visual tension. Many of his films involved themes such as religion, meaning, truth, freedom, psychology, colonialism, and war. Huston has been referred to as "a titan", "a rebel", and a "renaissance man" in the Hollywood film industry. Author Ian Freer describes him as "cinema's Ernest Hemingway"—a filmmaker who was "never afraid to tackle tough issues head on." During his 46-year career, Huston received 15 Oscar nominations, winning twice. He directed both his father, Walter Huston, and daughter, Anjelica Huston, to Oscar wins. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Huston, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.


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as The Lawgiver
Released: 1973-06-15

The fifth and final episode in the Planet of the Apes series. After the collapse of human...

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Annie

as Actor on Radio (uncredited)
Released: 1982-05-21

An orphan in a facility run by the mean Miss Hannigan, Annie believes that her parents left her...

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Chinatown

as Noah Cross
Released: 1974-06-20

Private eye Jake Gittes lives off of the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-World War II...

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The Black Cauldron

as Narrator (voice)
Released: 1985-07-24

Taran is an assistant pigkeeper with boyish dreams of becoming a great warrior. However, he has...

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The Bible: In the Beginning...

as Noah
Released: 1966-09-28

Covering only the first 22 chapters of the Book of Genesis, vignettes include: Adam and Eve...

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Moby Dick

as Barman / Ship's Lookout (voice) (uncredited)
Released: 1956-06-27

In 1841, young Ishmael signs up for service aboard the Pequod, a whaler sailing out of New...

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The Misfits

as Extra in Blackjack Scene (uncredited)
Released: 1961-02-01

While filing for a divorce, beautiful ex-stripper Roslyn Taber ends up meeting aging...

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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

as American in Tampico in White Suit (uncredited)
Released: 1948-01-15

Two jobless Americans convince a prospector to travel to the mountains of Mexico with them in...

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The Hobbit

as Gandalf the Grey (voice)
Released: 1977-11-27

Bilbo Baggins the Hobbit was just minding his own business, when his occasional visitor Gandalf...

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Casino Royale

as M / General MacTarry
Released: 1967-04-13

Sir James Bond is called back out of retirement to stop SMERSH. In order to trick SMERSH, James...

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The Return of the King

as Gandalf (voice)
Released: 1980-05-11

Two Hobbits struggle to destroy the Ring in Mount Doom while their friends desperately fight...

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Candy

as Dr. Arnold Dunlap
Released: 1968-12-17

A high school girl encounters a variety of kookie characters and humorous sexual situations...

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The Wind and the Lion

as John Hay
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 Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean

as Grizzly Adams
Released: 1972-12-18

Outlaw and self-appointed lawmaker Judge Roy Bean rules over an empty stretch of the West that...

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The Other Side of the Wind

as J.J. "Jake" Hannaford
Released: 2018-11-02

Surrounded by fans and skeptics, grizzled director J.J. "Jake" Hannaford returns from years...

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Momo

as Meister Hora
Released: 1986-07-16

Momo is a young orphan girl who lives in the ruins of an old Roman amphitheater and becomes...

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Tentacles

as Ned Turner
Released: 1977-02-25

Several people disappear from and at the sea. Their bodies are found gnawed to the skeleton,...

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The List of Adrian Messenger

as Lord Ashton (uncredited)
Released: 1963-05-23

Adrian Messenger, a famous writer, asks his friend Anthony Gethryn, a former British agent, to...

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The Kremlin Letter

as Admiral
Released: 1970-02-01

After an unauthorized letter suggesting U.S. support for a Russian attack on China is sent to...

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The Bermuda Triangle

as Edward
Released: 1978-02-10

The passengers and crew of a boat on a summer cruise in the Caribbean stray into the famed...

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The Visitor

as Jerzy Colsowicz
Released: 1979-03-14

An ancient intergalactic warrior arrives on Earth to put a stop to a demonic child's plot to...

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Freud: The Secret Passion

as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Released: 1962-12-12

An examination of Austrian psychologist Sigmund Freud's career when he began to treat patients...

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The Cardinal

as Kardinal Glennon
Released: 1963-12-12

A young Catholic priest from Boston confronts bigotry, Nazism, and his own personal conflicts as...

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Man in the Wilderness

as Captain Filmore Henry
Released: 1971-11-24

In the early 1800s, a group of fur trappers and Indian traders are returning with their goods to...

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San Pietro

as Narrator
Released: 1945-05-03

This documentary movie is about the battle of San Pietro, a small village in Italy. Over 1,100...

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Breakout

as Harris Wagner
Released: 1975-05-21

A bush pilot is hired for $50,000 to go to Mexico to free an innocent prisoner.

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Wise Blood

as Grandfather
Released: 1979-10-24

A Southerner--young, poor, ambitious but uneducated--determines to become something in the...

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Myra Breckinridge

as Buck Loner
Released: 1970-06-24

Myron Breckinridge flies to Europe to get a sex-change operation and is transformed into the...

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They'll Love Me When I'm Dead

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2018-08-31

As his life comes to its end, famous Hollywood director Orson Welles puts it all on the line at...

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The Biggest Battle

as Sean O'Hara
Released: 1978-02-07

A story of how World War II affected the lives of a German family and an American family, both...

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And the Oscar Goes To...

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2014-02-01

The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND...

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Winter Kills

as Pa Kegan
Released: 1979-05-11

The younger brother of an assassinated US President is led down a rabbit hole of conspiracies...

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The Red Badge of Courage

as Grizzled Union Veteran (uncredited)
Released: 1951-09-27

Henry Fleming is a young Union soldier in the American Civil War. During his unit's first...

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Babenco: Tell Me When I Die

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2020-11-26

Besieged by cancer and nearing the end, the genius Argentine-Brazilian filmmaker Héctor Babenco...

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George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey

as Self
Released: 1985-03-03

Biography of the legendary filmmaker directed by his son.

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The Deserter

as General Miles
Released: 1970-12-04

A young cavalry officer finds his woman tortured by the Apaches and blames the Army for not...

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Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles

as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Released: 2014-12-12

The extraordinary life of Orson Welles (1915-85), an enigma of Hollywood, an irreducible...

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John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1989-01-01

Biography of risk-taker and raconteur John Huston from his childhood to become one of the most...

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De Sade

as The Abbe
Released: 1969-08-27

The 18th-century French marquis recalls his sadomasochistic experiments and goes to jail for...

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Report from the Aleutians

as Narrator (voice)
Released: 1943-07-30

A documentary propaganda film produced by the U.S. Army Signal Corps about the Aleutian Islands...

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Cannery Row

as Narrator
Released: 1982-02-12

Doc, who has just moved to Cannery Row, realizes that the only entertainment is the brothel....

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Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker

as Glennon (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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Sherlock Holmes in New York

as Professor Moriarty
Released: 1976-10-18

An affectionate bow to the master sleuth in this lavishly produced original that has Holmes...

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Embracing Chaos: Making The African Queen

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2010-03-23

The epic story of how the film The African Queen (1951), directed by John Huston and starring...

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A Walk with Love and Death

as Robert the Elder
Released: 1969-10-05

During France’s Hundred Years’ War, a Parisian student seeks refuge by the sea and falls in love...

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Ava Gardner: Life Is Bigger Than the Movies

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2017-06-09

A barefoot contessa, a screwed-up princess, an exquisite drunk, a bawdy aristocrat, a nightmare...

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Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2010-05-05

In 2001 Jack Cardiff (1914-2009) became the first director of photography in the history of the...

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Jaguar Lives!

as Ralph Richards
Released: 1979-08-09

The world's newest kung fu legend, Joe Lewis, takes on evil gangsters and saves the world.

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Five Came Back

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2017-03-31

The extraordinary story of how Hollywood changed World War II – and how World War II changed...

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Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies

as Self
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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Arthur Miller: Writer

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2017-12-08

One of the greatest playwrights of the 20th century, Arthur Miller created such celebrated works...

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Hollywood and the Stars

as Self
Released: 1964-05-04

NBC's pioneering documentary series, produced by the David L. Wolper Production Company, in...

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Lovesick

as Larry Geller, M.D.
Released: 1983-02-18

Sigmund Freud's ghost advises a married New York psychiatrist in love with a patient.

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Intimate Portrait: Sean Connery

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1998-10-02

Oscar-winning actor Sean Connery is profiled in this segment of "Intimate Portrait." Includes...

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Hell's Heroes

as Church Member (uncredited)
Released: 1929-12-27

Three bank robbers on the run happen across a woman about to give birth in an abandoned covered...

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Agee

as Self
Released: 1980-11-14

A documentary on the life of author and screenwriter James Agee.

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We Were Strangers

as Señor Muñoz (uncredited)
Released: 1949-04-27

China Valdes joins the Cuban underground after her brother is killed by the chief of the secret...

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Bogart: The Untold Story

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1997-01-05

Stephen H. Bogart narrates the rise to fame of his father, Humphrey Bogart through the use of...

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Hollywood on Trial

as Narrator
Released: 1976-11-01

A detailed look at the events leading up to the blacklisting of Hollywood writers and artists....

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Epic

as The Narrator (US version)
Released: 1985-05-13

During a massive flood, two children are rescued by a family of dingoes, which subsequently...

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Directed by William Wyler

as Self
Released: 1986-05-01

Documentary about the famed Hollywood director.

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Filmmakers vs. Tycoons

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2005-07-17

How the cinema industry does not respect the author's work as it was conceived, how manipulates...

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John Huston: Adventures of a Free Soul

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2021-11-28

The portrait of a whimsical and rebellious, yet cultured and cosmopolitan actor, screenwriter...

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Federico Fellini's Autobiography

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2000-09-05

Federico Fellini was one of the most individual and thought provoking directors who based most...

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Observations Under the Volcano

as Self
Released: 1984-07-03

Documentary on the making of the movie Under the Volcano.

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Circasia

as Ringmaster
Released: 1976-04-08

Happenings in a small Irish traveling circus.

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The Legend of Marilyn Monroe

as Narrator
Released: 1966-11-30

The Legend of Marilyn Monroe is a 1966 American documentary film chronicling the life and career...

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Welles' Language

as Self
Released: 1990-01-01

Orson Welles acted in Brazilian culture and music by deeply researching Brazil's historical...

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Angela

as Hogan
Released: 1977-11-10

A war vet finds out that a former prostitute had his baby. Doubting it's his, he gives it away,...

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Discovering Treasure: The Story of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2003-09-30

An overview of the making of John Huston's 1948 classic "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre."

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A Minor Miracle

as Father Cardenas
Released: 1983-05-31

A group of orphans and their guardian get together to try to save their orphanage.

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Mr. Corbett's Ghost

as Soul Collector
Released: 1987-12-31

Mr Corbett is a cruel employer to Ben Partridge. One night on New Years Eve Ben is sent out to...

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Anjelica Huston on James Joyce: A Shout in the Street

as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Released: 2017-12-13

An account of the life and work of Irish writer James Joyce (1882-1941) narrated by US actress...

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The Bridge in the Jungle

as Sleigh
Released: 1971-01-01

Gale (Charles Robinson) is an idealistic and naive young hunter who ignores warnings that no one...

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Rocky Road to Dublin

as Self
Released: 1968-09-30

Irish-born journalist Peter Lennon examines the contemporary (1967) state of the Republic of...

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Making 'The Misfits'

as Self - Director (archive footage)
Released: 2002-10-02

A behind-the-scenes and in-depth look at the making of John Huston's The Misfits (1961).

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Notes from Under the Volcano

as Self
Released: 1984-09-09

A behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of John Huston's "Under the Volcano" (1984).

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Buñuel

as Self
Released: 1984-01-01

Completed a year after his death in 1983, this program presents the definitive biography of...

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Happy Birthday, Marilyn!

as Self
Released: 1980-01-01

A mediocre countryside actress is invited to a Budapest casting call. She hopes she might become...

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B.Traven: A Mystery Solved

as Self
Released: 1978-12-19

B. Traven is one of the most mysterious figures of the 20th century. He wrote The Treasure of...

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City Lights: John Huston

as Self
Released: 1979-10-10

American film director John Huston is interviewed in this episode of a Canadian television series.

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On the Trail of the Iguana

as Self
Released: 1964-04-30

Behind the scenes documentary of the filming of Tennessee Williams' The Night of the Iguana.

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Bogart: Here's Looking at You, Kid

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1997-01-05

This documentary, originally presented on the television series The South Bank Show, covers...

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American Caesar

as Self - Host
Released: 1983-01-01

Documentary of Douglas MacArthur

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The Unfinished Journey of Robert Kennedy

as Narrator
Released: 1970-02-17

A documentary story of a man of our times- In a period when his country was tormented by...

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The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents

as Carlos / Narrator (segment "Man from the South")
Released: 1985-05-05

Television film that served as a pilot for the reboot of "Alfred Hitchcock Presents." Four...

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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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The Merv Griffin Show

as Self
First aired: 1962-10-01

The Merv Griffin Show is an American television talk show, starring Merv Griffin. The series ran...

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Spécial cinéma

as Self
First aired: 1974-09-25

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Spécial cinéma

as Self (archive footage)
First aired: 1974-09-25

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The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents

as Carlos / Narrator
First aired: 1985-09-29

The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents is an American anthology series that aired on NBC from 1985 to...

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The Oscars

as Self
First aired: 1953-03-19

An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The...

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The Ed Sullivan Show

as Self (archive footage)
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 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 Word

as Nathan Randall
First aired: 1978-11-12

A document is discovered that appears to be an ancient eyewitness account of the life of Jesus...

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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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National Geographic Specials

as Narrator (voice)
First aired: 1965-09-10

National Geographic Specials

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The Rhinemann Exchange

as Ambassador Henderson Granville
First aired: 1977-03-10

During World War II, an intelligence officer is dispatched by the U.S. government to arrange an...

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