Joseph Cotten

Born: 1905-05-15

Joseph Cheshire Cotten (May 15, 1905 – February 6, 1994) was an American actor of stage and film. Cotten achieved prominence on Broadway, starring in the original productions of The Philadelphia Story and Sabrina Fair. He is associated with Orson Welles, leading to appearances in Citizen Kane (1941), The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), Journey into Fear (1943), for which Cotten was also credited with the screenplay, and The Third Man (1949). He was a star in his own right with films such as Shadow of a Doubt (1943), Love Letters (1945), Portrait of Jennie (1948), and The Third Man (1949).


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Citizen Kane

as Jedediah Leland
Released: 1941-04-17

Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a...

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The Third Man

as Holly Martins
Released: 1949-08-31

In postwar Vienna, Austria, Holly Martins, a writer of pulp Westerns, arrives penniless as a...

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Soylent Green

as William R. Simonson
Released: 1973-04-18

In the year 2022, overcrowding, pollution, and resource depletion have reduced society’s...

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Tora! Tora! Tora!

as Henry L. Stimson
Released: 1970-01-26

In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant...

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Heaven's Gate

as The Reverend Doctor
Released: 1980-11-19

Harvard graduate James Averill is the sheriff of prosperous Jackson County, Wyo., when a battle...

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Touch of Evil

as Coroner (uncredited)
Released: 1958-03-30

When a car bomb explodes on the American side of the U.S./Mexico border, Mexican drug...

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F for Fake

as Self
Released: 1973-09-01

Documents the lives of infamous fakers Elmyr de Hory and Clifford Irving. De Hory, who later...

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The Magnificent Ambersons

as Eugene Morgan
Released: 1942-07-10

The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the...

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Niagara

as George Loomis
Released: 1953-01-26

Rose Loomis and her older, gloomier husband, George, are vacationing at a cabin in Niagara...

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Airport '77

as Nicholas St. Downs III
Released: 1977-03-11

Flight 23 has crashed in the Bermuda Triangle after a hijacking gone wrong. Now the surviving...

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The Last Sunset

as John Breckenridge
Released: 1961-06-08

At a Mexican ranch, fugitive O'Malley and pursuing Sheriff Stribling agree to help rancher...

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Shadow of a Doubt

as Charlie Oakley
Released: 1943-01-15

Just when Charlotte ‘Charlie’ Newton, is feeling especially frustrated by the lack of excitement...

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Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte

as Drew Bayliss
Released: 1964-12-15

An aging, reclusive Southern belle plagued by a horrifying family secret descends into madness...

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The Hellbenders

as Colonel Jonas
Released: 1967-02-02

A Southern Colonel, his three sons, and a card shark embark on an odyssey through the Southwest...

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The Abominable Dr. Phibes

as Dr. Vesalius
Released: 1971-05-18

After a team of surgeons botches his beloved wife's operation, the distraught Dr. Phibes...

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Gaslight

as Brian Cameron
Released: 1944-05-04

A newlywed fears she's going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.

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Journey into Fear

as Howard Graham
Released: 1943-01-07

An American ballistics expert in Turkey finds himself targeted by Nazi agents. Safe passage home...

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Othello

as Senator (uncredited)
Released: 1951-11-28

When a secret marriage is planned between Othello, a Moorish general, and Desdemona, the...

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Under Capricorn

as Sam Flusky
Released: 1949-09-08

A native Briton banished to Australia for murder, and his wife, Henrietta, the disturbed sister...

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Baron Blood

as Baron Otto von Kleist / Alfred Becker
Released: 1972-02-25

A young man, Peter, returns to Austria in search of his heritage. There he visits the castle of...

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Lady Frankenstein

as Baron Frankenstein
Released: 1971-10-22

When Dr. Frankenstein is killed by a monster he created, his daughter and his lab assistant...

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Two Flags West

as Col. Clay Tucker
Released: 1950-10-12

A group of confedarate prisoners is sent to a unionist fort in the west to help the local...

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Duel in the Sun

as Jesse McCanles
Released: 1946-12-31

Beautiful half-breed Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds...

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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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Island of the Fishmen

as Prof. Ernest Marvin
Released: 1979-01-18

After their prison ship sinks in the Caribbean, a group of prisoners and a doctor wash ashore on...

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Twilight's Last Gleaming

as Arthur Renfrew - Secretary of State
Released: 1977-02-09

A renegade USAF general, Lawrence Dell, escapes from a military prison and takes over an ICBM...

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Portrait of Jennie

as Eben Adams
Released: 1948-12-25

A mysterious girl inspires a struggling artist.

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The Scopone Game

as George
Released: 1972-08-28

An aging American millionairess journeys to Rome each year with her chauffeur George to play the...

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Since You Went Away

as Lieutenant Tony Willett
Released: 1944-06-30

In 1943, several people enter, re-enter, and exit the difficult life of a Midwestern family...

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The Killer Is Loose

as Detective Sam Wagner
Released: 1956-02-03

A savings-and-loan bank is robbed; later, a police wiretap identifies bank teller Leon Poole as...

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From the Earth to the Moon

as Victor Barbicane
Released: 1958-11-26

Set just after the American civil war, businessman and inventor Victor Barbicane invents a new...

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Love Letters

as Allen Quinton
Released: 1945-10-26

When a man asks another man more facile with words to do his wooing for him, there are always...

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The Halliday Brand

as Daniel Halliday
Released: 1957-01-01

Sheriff Halliday doesn't approve of his children dating or marrying half-breeds and his blind...

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The Great Sioux Massacre

as Major Marcus A. Reno
Released: 1965-04-25

Colonel Custer, an outspoken believer in fair treatment for the Indians, is ousted from his post...

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Syndicate Sadists

as Paternò
Released: 1975-08-16

A biker's brother is killed while investigating the kidnapping of a young boy, the byproduct of...

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Petulia

as Mr. Danner
Released: 1968-06-10

Dr. Archie Bollen is having a midlife crisis. He's just divorced his wife and is establishing a...

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Beyond the Forest

as Doctor Louis Moline
Released: 1949-10-21

Rosa, the self-serving wife of a small-town doctor, gets a better offer when a wealthy big-city...

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I'll Be Seeing You

as Zachary Morgan
Released: 1944-12-31

Mary Marshall, serving a six year term for accidental manslaughter, is given a Christmas...

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A Blueprint for Murder

as Whitney 'Cam' Cameron
Released: 1953-07-24

Whitney Cameron is in a quandary: he's attracted to his beautiful sister-in-law, Lynn, but also...

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The Oscar

as Kenneth Regan
Released: 1966-03-04

An amoral lowlife accidentally stumbles into an acting career that sets him on a trajectory to...

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The Farmer's Daughter

as Glenn Morley
Released: 1947-03-26

After leaving her family's farm to study nursing in the city, a young woman finds herself on an...

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Caravans

as Crandall
Released: 1978-11-02

This epic adventure-drama based on James Michener's best-selling novel concerns a young American...

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Latitude Zero

as Capt. Craig McKenzie / Cmdr. Glenn McKenzie
Released: 1969-07-26

A massive underwater volcano erupts and puts a group of investigative scientists in danger. They...

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The Hearse

as Walter Prichard
Released: 1980-06-01

A schoolteacher moves into her deceased aunt’s house in a small Californian town, and is...

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Concorde Affair

as Milland
Released: 1979-03-23

A reporter tries to stop the crash of an aircraft after uncovering an airline's plot to save...

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White Comanche

as Sheriff Logan
Released: 1968-06-21

William Shatner plays two roles: cowboy Johnny Moon and his ruthless Indian twin brother, Notah....

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Too Much Johnson

as Augustus Billings
Released: 2013-10-09

This film was not intended to stand by itself, but was designed as the cinematic aspect of...

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Untamed Frontier

as Kirk Denbow
Released: 1952-07-23

The Denbow family denies access across their land to homesteaders. To evade a murder charge,...

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Journey to Murder

as Jeff Wheeler
Released: 1971-01-01

Television movie that consists of two episodes from the UK TV series Journey to the Unknown...

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Walk Softly, Stranger

as Chris Hale aka Steve
Released: 1950-10-14

A petty crook moves to an Ohio town and courts a factory owner's disabled daughter.

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The Survivor

as Priest
Released: 1981-07-09

When a 747 crashes shortly after take-off, the sole survivor is the pilot. Virtually unhurt, he...

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September Affair

as David Lawrence
Released: 1950-10-18

An industrialist and a pianist meet on a trip and fall in love. Through a quirk of fate, they...

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City Beneath the Sea

as Dr. Ziegler
Released: 1971-07-16

A group of 21st-century colonists inhabit an underwater city called Pacifica. Originally...

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Lydia

as Michael Fitzpatrick
Released: 1941-09-18

Lydia MacMillan, a wealthy woman who has never married, invites several men her own age to her...

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Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths

as (archive footage)
Released: 1990-01-01

Welcome behind the closed doors of a Hollywood that only a select few will ever get to see -- a...

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The Steel Trap

as Jim Osborne
Released: 1952-11-12

Joseph Cotten plays an assistant bank manager who steals $1,000,000 from the safe late on a...

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The Grasshopper

as Richard Morgan
Released: 1970-05-27

A British Columbia teenager dreams of show business but winds up as a call girl in Las Vegas.

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Alexander The Great

as Antigonus
Released: 1968-01-26

An historical film that follows the life of Alexander the Great, the Macedonian king that united...

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Delusion

as Ivar Langrock
Released: 1981-01-23

Meredith Stone, a home care nurse, has been assigned the duty of looking after a wealthy invalid...

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Guyana: Crime of the Century

as Richard Gable
Released: 1979-09-20

This horrific dramatization of the Guyana tragedy traces the steps of Reverend Jim Jones, a...

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A Whisper in the Dark

as The Professor
Released: 1976-08-12

Martino is a young child who claims to have an invisible friend called Luca. His parents assume...

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The Devil's Daughter

as Judge Weatherby
Released: 1973-01-09

A young girl whose mother had sold her soul to Satan when she was born is told by Satan that she...

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The Money Trap

as Dr. Horace Van Tilden
Released: 1965-09-07

When half a million dollars disappears from a doctor office's safe, the cops assigned to the...

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Assault on the Wayne

as Admiral
Released: 1971-01-12

The U.S. submarine Anthony Wayne is underway for a top-secret mission. Onboard is a highly...

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Split Second to an Epitaph

as Dr. Ben Stern
Released: 1968-09-26

In the second "Ironside" movie, the Chief has his spine jolted during a hospital encounter with...

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The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case

as Dr. Joseph Francis Condon
Released: 1976-02-26

Fact-based story of the kidnapping of Charles Lindbergh Jr., son and namesake of the famed...

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The Screaming Woman

as George Tresvant
Released: 1972-01-29

A wealthy former mental patient goes home to her estate to rest and recuperate. While walking...

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Return to Fantasy Island

as Simon Grant
Released: 1978-01-20

A second feature-length pilot film for the wish-fulfillment series sees six lucky people having...

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A Delicate Balance

as Harry
Released: 1973-11-12

In their finely appointed Connecticut home, Agnes and Tobias have grown used to the imperfection...

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The Angel Wore Red

as Hawthorne
Released: 1960-04-14

A clergyman travels to Spain to join the Loyalist side during the Spanish Civil War and finds...

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Timber Tramps

as Greedy sawmill mogul
Released: 1975-12-31

A tough, hard-drinking Alaska logging foreman likes fighting only slightly less than working.

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The Perfect Crime

as Sir Arthur Dundee
Released: 1978-11-24

The death of a multinational company’s chairman induces the three candidates for the...

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The Man with a Cloak

as Dupin
Released: 1951-11-27

Set in 19th-century New York, this mystery begins when a Frenchwoman shows up at the home of one...

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Special Delivery

as John Adams
Released: 1955-04-07

Complications ensue when a U.S. diplomat discovers that he has a baby on his hands and an...

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Half Angel

as John Raymond Jr.
Released: 1951-05-05

Nurse Nora Gilpin plans are to marry building contractor Tim McCarey and settle down. But one...

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Jack of Diamonds

as Ace
Released: 1967-11-10

The protégé of a famous cat burglar reluctantly agrees to join forces with a lesser criminal in...

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Peking Express

as Michael Bachlin
Released: 1951-08-01

A group of refugees fleeing Chinese Communist rule via train are beset by a gang of terrifying...

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Last In, First Out

as Foster Johnson
Released: 1978-08-30

A woman on a train becomes the center of attention when she is mistaken for a spy by opposing...

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Hers to Hold

as Bill Morley
Released: 1943-07-16

Deanna Durbin is all grown up in Hers to Hold, the unofficial sequel to her "Three Smart Girls"...

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Hollywood: The Selznick Years

as Self (uncredited)
Released: 1961-12-31

Henry Fonda hosts this retrospective on the career and films of iconic filmmaker David O....

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Cutter's Trail

as General Spalding
Released: 1970-02-10

The Marshal of Santa Fe returns home to find his town almost wiped out by Mexican bandits and...

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Gangsters '70

as Destil
Released: 1968-04-29

An elderly gangster just released from prison plans one last job, and gathers a small crew to do...

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Mysteries of the Gods

as Narrator
Released: 1976-03-17

William Shatner explores the theory that the U.S. government is involved in a cover-up of...

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The Lonely Profession

as Martin Bannister
Released: 1969-10-21

Private investigator Leo Gordon is hired to trail Karen Mendaros, the mistress of a reclusive...

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The Tramplers

as Temple Cordeen
Released: 1965-12-31

After the war of secession, the aging Cordeen, who owns thousands of acres in Texas, rules his...

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Beyond Doubt: The Making of Hitchcock's Favorite Film

as Self
Released: 2000-01-03

A short documentary about the Making Of Hitchcock's "Shadow of a Doubt" (1943).

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Hollywood and the Stars

as Narrator
Released: 1964-05-04

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

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Doomsday Voyage

as Captain Jason
Released: 1972-02-01

A political extremist on the run after assassinating a corrupt politician, poses as a French...

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The Bottom of the Bottle

as Pat 'P.M.' Martin
Released: 1956-02-01

An alcoholic escaped convict asks his Arizona lawyer brother to help him cross the Mexican border.

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Casino

as Ed Booker
Released: 1980-08-01

Mike Connors is a suave gambler who owns a floating hotel/casino which takes a turn when the...

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Churchill and the Generals

as Gen. George C. Marshall
Released: 1979-09-23

The complicated relationship between Winston Churchill and the leaders of the British army...

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Do You Take This Stranger?

as Dr. Robert Carson
Released: 1971-01-18

A social climber/con artist schemes to inherit one million dollars by trading identities with a...

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Some May Live

as Colonel Woodward
Released: 1967-01-01

During the Vietnam War U.S. decoder Kate Meredith is plagued with guilt when her husband coerces...

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The Edge of Innocence

as Robert Rainey
Released: 1957-10-31

An unscrupulous criminal lawyer falls in love with a wealthy widow and becomes involved with her...

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Brighty of the Grand Canyon

as Jim
Released: 1966-11-24

At the turn of the century in the Southwest, Brighty the wild burro accompanies his friend, a...

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The Love Boat

as Colonel Van Ryker
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 uncredited
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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Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

as Ben Harper
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 Rockford Files

as Warner Jameson
First aired: 1974-09-13

Cranky but likable L.A. PI Jim Rockford pulls no punches (but takes plenty of them). An ex-con...

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Tales of the Unexpected

as Lionel
First aired: 1979-03-24

A British television anthology of stories, often with sinister and wryly comedic undertones, and...

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Tales of the Unexpected

as Edward
First aired: 1979-03-24

A British television anthology of stories, often with sinister and wryly comedic undertones, and...

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Dr. Kildare

as Charles Ladovan
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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The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries

as uncredited
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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What's My Line?

as Self - Mystery Guest
First aired: 1950-02-02

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

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The Streets of San Francisco

as uncredited
First aired: 1972-09-23

Two police officers, the older Lt. Stone and the young upstart Inspector Keller, investigate...

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77 Sunset Strip

as uncredited
First aired: 1958-10-10

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

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The Barbara Stanwyck Show

as Mac McClay
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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Cimarron Strip

as uncredited
First aired: 1967-09-07

Cimarron Strip is an American Western television series that aired on CBS from September 1967 to...

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Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse

as uncredited
First aired: 1958-10-06

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse is an American television anthology series produced by Desilu...

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Checkmate

as uncredited
First aired: 1960-09-17

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

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Kraft Music Hall

as uncredited
First aired: 1958-10-08

Kraft Music Hall is an umbrella title for several television series aired by NBC in the United...

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Alfred Hitchcock Presents

as William Callew
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 Tony Gould
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 Courtney Masterson
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 Charlie Oakley (archive footage) (uncredited)
First aired: 1955-10-02

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

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Telephone Time

as uncredited
First aired: 1956-04-08

Telephone Time is an American anthology drama series that aired on CBS in 1956, and on ABC from...

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The Great Adventure

as Captain Meehan
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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Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

as Self
First aired: 1967-09-09

An American sketch comedy television program hosted by comedians Dan Rowan and Dick Martin.

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Suspicion

as Gregg Carey
First aired: 1957-09-30

Suspicion is the title of an American television mystery drama series which aired on the NBC...

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The DuPont Show with June Allyson

as Dick Burlingame
First aired: 1959-09-21

The DuPont Show with June Allyson is an American anthology drama series which aired on CBS from...

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The DuPont Show with June Allyson

as Charles Lawrence
First aired: 1959-09-21

The DuPont Show with June Allyson is an American anthology drama series which aired on CBS from...

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Bus Stop

as uncredited
First aired: 1961-10-01

Bus Stop is a 26-episode American drama which aired on ABC from October 1, 1961, until March 25,...

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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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Origins of the Mafia

as The Envoy
First aired: 1976-11-19

Mini series about the origins of the Italian mafia

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Aspen

as Horton Paine
First aired: 1977-11-05

This sprawling miniseries details the trial of Lee Bishop, an Aspen man who was arrested, tried,...

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Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

as uncredited
First aired: 1951-10-05

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS....

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Letter to Loretta

as Self - Guest Host
First aired: 1953-09-20

Letter to Loretta is an American anthology drama series telecast on NBC from September 1953 to...

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General Electric Theater

as Paul Henty
First aired: 1953-02-01

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

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General Electric Theater

as Captain
First aired: 1953-02-01

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

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General Electric Theater

as Private Harris
First aired: 1953-02-01

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

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