Melvyn Douglas
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Melvyn Douglas (born Melvyn Edouard Hesselberg, April 5, 1901 – August 4, 1981) was an American actor. Douglas came to prominence in the 1930s as a suave leading man, perhaps best typified by his performance in the 1939 romantic comedy Ninotchka with Greta Garbo. Douglas later played mature and fatherly characters, as in his Academy Award–winning performances in Hud (1963) and Being There (1979) and his Academy Award–nominated performance in I Never Sang for My Father (1970). In the last few years of his life Douglas appeared in films with supernatural stories involving ghosts. Douglas appeared as "Senator Joseph Carmichael" in The Changeling in 1980 and Ghost Story in 1981 in his final completed film role. Description above from the Wikipedia article Melvyn Douglas, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
The Tenant
as Monsieur ZyA quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in France where he finds himself drawn into a...
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Being There
as Benjamin RandA simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an...
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The Changeling
as Senator CarmichaelAfter a tragic event happens, composer John Russell moves to Seattle to try to overcome it and...
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Hud
as Homer BannonHud Bannon is a ruthless young man who tarnishes everything and everyone he touches. Hud...
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The Americanization of Emily
as Admiral William JessupAmerican sailor Charlie Madison falls for a pretty Englishwoman while trying to avoid a...
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Ninotchka
as Count Leon d'AlgoutA stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who...
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Captains Courageous
as Frank Burton CheyneHarvey, the arrogant and spoiled son of an indulgent absentee-father, falls overboard from a...
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The Old Dark House
as PenderelIn a remote region of Wales, five travelers beset by a relentless storm find shelter in an old...
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Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
as Bill ColeAn advertising executive dreams of getting out of the city and building a perfect home in the...
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Ghost Story
as Dr. John JaffreyFour successful elderly gentlemen, members of the Chowder Society, share a gruesome, 50-year-old...
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The Candidate
as John J. McKayBill McKay is a candidate for the U.S. Senate from California. He has no hope of winning, so he...
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Billy Budd
as The Dansker, SailmakerBilly is an innocent, naive seaman in the British Navy in 1797. When the ship's sadistic...
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The Vampire Bat
as Karl BrettschneiderA German village is stricken by a series of murders that appear to be the work of vampires.
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Angel
as Anthony 'Tony' HaltonA woman and her husband take separate vacations, and she falls in love with another man.
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Tell No Tales
as Michael CassidyA newspaper editor turns a kidnapping into the banner headlines and exclusive story that could...
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That's Entertainment, Part II
as (archive footage)Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time...
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A Woman's Secret
as Luke JordanA popular singer, Marian Washburn, suddenly and unexplainably loses her voice, causing a...
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Our Wife
as Jerome 'Jerry' MarvinA musician's ex-wife wants him back after he finds love and success.
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Theodora Goes Wild
as Michael GrantThe small-town prudes of Lynnfield are up in arms over 'The Sinner,' a sexy best-seller. They...
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Twilight's Last Gleaming
as Zachariah GuthrieA renegade USAF general, Lawrence Dell, escapes from a military prison and takes over an ICBM...
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A Woman's Face
as Dr. Gustaf SegertA female blackmailer with a disfiguring facial scar meets a plastic surgeon who offers her the...
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Two-Faced Woman
as Lawrence 'Larry' BlakeA woman pretends to be her own twin sister to win back her straying husband.
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That Uncertain Feeling
as Larry BakerA happily married woman sees a psychoanalyst and develops doubts about her husband.
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Rapture
as Frederick LarbaudAgnes, a lonely teenage girl, and her father befriend an escaped convict, named Joseph, who...
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Old Man
as Self - HostIn the South, convicts get a temporary release to help during a flood.
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The Sea of Grass
as Brice ChamberlainA St. Louis woman marries a New Mexico cattleman who is seen as a tyrant by the locals.
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The Big Parade of Comedy
as Leon (archive footage)Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.
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Hotel
as Warren TrentThis is the story of the clocklike movements of a giant, big city New Orleans hotel. The...
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Too Many Husbands
as Henry LowndesLong-missing Bill Cardew returns to find his wife Vicky remarried...and in no hurry to settle...
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Advance to the Rear
as Col. Claude BrackenburyAs punishment for their incompetence in battle, disgraced Union soldier Capt. Jared Heath and...
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The Great Sinner
as Armand De GlasseA young man succumbs to gambling fever.
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The Amazing Mr. Williams
as Kenny WilliamsKenny Williams, a lieutenant on the homicide squad, is engaged to Maxine Carroll, the Mayor's...
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Annie Oakley
as Jeff HogarthAwkward Annie (Barbara Stanwyck) loves her sharpshooting rival (Preston Foster) in Buffalo...
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There's Always a Woman
as William H. ReardonAn investigator for the District Attorney's office quits to open his own detective agency....
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Three Hearts for Julia
as Jeff SeabrookWhen his wife threatens him with divorce, a reporter courts her again.
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The Shining Hour
as Henry LindenA nightclub dancer shakes the foundations of a wealthy farming family after she marries into it.
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The Seduction of Joe Tynan
as Senator BirneyRespected liberal Senator Joe Tynan is asked to to lead the opposition to a Supreme Court...
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Hollywood: The Selznick Years
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)Henry Fonda hosts this retrospective on the career and films of iconic filmmaker David O....
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I'll Take Romance
as James GuthrieTheater manager James Guthrie's (Melvyn Douglas) career depends on famed soprano Elsa Terry...
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My Forbidden Past
as Paul BeaurevelAn 1890s New Orleans heiress tries to buy a married doctor's love with her tainted family fortune.
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Fast Company
as Joel SloaneMarried book-dealers Joel & Garda Sloane try to clear a friend in the murder of a rival book-seller.
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The Greer Case
as Howard HoaglandWhen a rich woman dies without signing her new will, all kinds of problems ensue.
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as Jeff ThompsonMagazine editor Margot Merrick pretends to be married in order to avoid advances from male...
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Woman in the Dark
as Tony RobsonA recently released prisoner lives alone in his cabin so that his bad temper won't get him back...
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The Broken Wing
as Philip 'Phil' MarvinIn a little Mexican village by the American border. However powerful big shot Captain Innocencio...
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The Crucible
as Deputy Governor DanforthLandmark TV adaptation of the Arthur Miller play. Nominated for 3 Emmy awards.
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Mary Burns, Fugitive
as Barton PowellA young woman who owns a coffee shop falls for a handsome young customer, unaware that he is a...
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The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
as Self (archive footage)This documentary revisits the making of Gone with the Wind via archival footage, screen tests,...
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Disco and Atomic War
as Count Leon d'Algout (archive footage)A different history of the Cold War: how Estonians under Soviet tyranny began to feel the breeze...
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One Is a Lonely Number
as Joseph ProvoA young woman has difficulty understanding why her husband walks out on her. Alone for the first...
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The Guilt of Janet Ames
as Smithfield 'Smitty' CobbA hard-drinking reporter tries to help the embittered widow of the soldier who had saved his...
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The Gorgeous Hussy
as John RandolphIt's the early nineteenth century Washington. Young adult Margaret O'Neal, Peggy to most that...
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I Never Sang for My Father
as Tom GarrisonHackman plays a New York professor who wants a change in his life, and plans to get married to...
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Tonight or Never
as Jim FletcherA young opera singer finds her career stalled because of her cold and passionless performances,...
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That Certain Age
as Vincent BullittDashing reporter Vincent Bullit has just returned from covering the Spanish Civil War. His boss,...
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Hunters Are for Killing
as Keller FloranA man comes home after serving time in prison to claim his share of his deceased mother's...
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Hollywood: The Dream Factory
as Self (archive footage)A documentary about the glorious history of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and its decline leading...
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As You Desire Me
as Count Bruno VarelliBar entertainer Zara is a discontented alcoholic who is pursued by many men but lives with...
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Intimate Strangers
as Donald's FatherThe pressures of problems at home and at work are taking a tremendous toll on a middle-aged...
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The Hot Touch
as Max ReichA master art forger and his partner in crime, an art expert who can vouch for the authenticity...
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And So They Were Married
as Stephen BlakeA bitter widow and a grumpy widower find themselves stuck in a hotel that is cut off from the...
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Dangerous Corner
as Charles StantonFriends uncover a dark secret when they compare notes about a theft and suicide.
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Women of Glamour
as Richard 'Dick' StarkA girl with a reputation falls for a wealthy playboy.
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Good Girls Go to Paris
as Ronald BrookeJenny Swanson, a waitress on a college campus, is dying to visit Paris. Thanks to English...
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Counsellor at Law
as Roy DarwinA successful lawyer struggles to deal with his wife's unfaithfulness and his own hidden past.
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Arsène Lupin Returns
as Rene Farrand aka Arsene LupinA woman and a man vying for a woman's affection: the usual love trio? Not quite so since the...
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This Thing Called Love
as Tice CollinsTwo professional people marry, but the wife insists that they be celibate for the first three...
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Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
as SelfThis 1940 presentation features highlights of earlier (1928 onward) Oscar ceremonies including...
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They All Kissed the Bride
as Michael 'Mike' HolmesMargaret Drew runs her trucking company single-mindedly, if not ruthlessly. The only thorn in...
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Tell Me a Riddle
as DavidTouching story of elderly couple David and Eva who go on one last journey across the USA when...
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Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To
as (archive footage)This tribute to Myrna Loy is organized chronologically with a few photographs, many film clips,...
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Nagana
as Dr. Walter TradnorA doctor searches for the cure for nagana, the sleeping sickness caused by the tsetse fly.
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Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
as Peter SchermannPeter Schermann is angry at the world after his children move him into a nursing home. Still...
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She Married Her Boss
as Richard BarclayA super-efficient secretary at a department store falls for and marries her boss, but finds out...
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Companions in Nightmare
as Dr. Lawrence StrelsonOne of the patients in a group-therapy session conducted by a famous psychiatrist is a murderer.
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Murder or Mercy
as Dr. Paul HarelsonAn attorney comes out of retirement to defend a prominent doctor, who has been accused of the...
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We Were Dancing
as Nicholas PraxA penniless former princess weds an equally cash-strapped baron, so they support themselves by...
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He Stayed for Breakfast
as Paul BolietSet in Paris, this romantic comedy revolves around the beautiful estranged wife of a wealthy...
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Once Upon a Tractor
as MartinShort film directed by Leopoldo Torre Nilsson.
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Death Takes a Holiday
as Judge Earl ChapmanDeath takes a human form and visits Earth to try to find out why humans want so desperately to...
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My Own True Love
as Clive HeathFollowing World War II, a woman tries to help her fiance understand his son's traumatic...
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The Wiser Sex
as David RolfeA young woman goes undercover to gather evidence to free her boyfriend, an attorney who has been...
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The Plot to Kill Stalin
as StalinIn late 1952, an aging and increasingly paranoid Stalin puts in motion a purge against his...
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as George R. 'Traps' StuartMoney was what gangster Vince M. Falcone wanted most and he did lay hands on millions of dollars...
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The Toy Wife
as George SartorisA Southern belle finds herself torn between two suitors.
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Prestige
as Capt. Andre VerlaineA woman joins her fiance at a Malaysian prison camp only to discover he's become an alcoholic.
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There's That Woman Again
as William 'Bill' ReardonBill Reardon, a private detective, is working on a case involving stolen items from a local...
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I Met Him in Paris
as George PotterKay Denham is off for a fling in Paris, leaving her suitor Berk behind. There, she meets two new...
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Inherit the Wind
as Henry DrummondA young man, Bert Cates, is arrested in a small Bible Belt town for teaching the theory of...
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The Lone Wolf Returns
as Michael LanyardOnce a jewel thief always a jewel thief? Yes and no. Yes if you consider the fact that Michael...
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The Death Squad
as Police Captain Earl KreskiWhen petty criminals start turning up murdered, a detective discovers they are being killed by a...
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The Making of a President
as uncreditedIn wartime Sault Ste. Marie, the mayor invites the president of the Jewish congregation to speak...
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On the Loose
as Frank BradleyAfter years of living in her selfish parents' (Melvyn Douglas and Lynn Bari) egotistical...
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The Dick Cavett Show
as Self - GuestThe Dick Cavett Show has been the title of several talk shows hosted by Dick Cavett on various...
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The Philco Television Playhouse
as Richard GordonThe Philco Television Playhouse is an American anthology series that was broadcast live on NBC...
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The Philco Television Playhouse
as The StrangerThe Philco Television Playhouse is an American anthology series that was broadcast live on NBC...
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What's My Line?
as Self - Mystery GuestFour panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while...
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What's My Line?
as Self - PanelistFour panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while...
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The Fugitive
as Dr. Mark RyderRichard Kimble is falsely convicted of his wife's murder and given the death penalty. En route...
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The Ed Sullivan Show
as SelfThe Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June...
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Ghost Story
as GrandpaGhost Story is an American television anthology series that aired for one season on NBC from...
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Your Show of Shows
as uncreditedYour Show of Shows was a live 90-minute variety show that was broadcast weekly in the United...
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Lux Video Theatre
as James StricklandLux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The...
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Studio One
as Cyril RitchardAn American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher...
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Ben Casey
as uncreditedBen Casey is an American medical drama series which ran on ABC from 1961 to 1966. The show was...
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Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Henry DrummondHallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark...
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Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Galileo GalileiHallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark...
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Lights Out
as uncreditedLights Out was an extremely popular American old-time radio program, an early example of a...
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Playhouse 90
as Gen. ParkerPlayhouse 90 is an American television anthology series that was telecast on CBS from 1956 to...
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The Lives of Benjamin Franklin
as Stateman Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin is a 1974 American television miniseries that chronicles the life of Benjamin...
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General Electric Theater
as Professor Arthur BarrisGeneral Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was...
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