Rand Brooks
Arlington Rand Brooks Jr. (September 21, 1918 – September 1, 2003) was an American film and television actor. Brooks was born in Wright City, Missouri. He was the son of Arlington Rand Brooks, a farmer. His mother and he moved to Los Angeles when he was four, though he continued to spend summers in Wright City. Brooks continued to make visits to his hometown of Wright City into the 1950s, up to and following the death of his father in 1950. His mother and his grandfather were actors. After leaving school, Brooks got a screen test at MGM and was given a bit part in Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938). His big fame came with his part as Charles Hamilton in Gone with the Wind (1939), a role which he later admitted he despised; he wanted to play more macho parts. He made $100 per week under contract at MGM, but when he was on loan to Selznick International Pictures for Gone with the Wind, he made $500 per week. After Gone With the Wind, he had relatively small parts in other movies including Babes in Arms, then a regular role as Lucky in the Hopalong Cassidy series of Westerns in the mid-1940s; Brooks succeeded Russell Hayden in the role. Among the films, which starred William Boyd as Hopalong, were Hoppy's Holiday, The Dead Don't Dream, and Borrowed Trouble. He received positive notice for his work in Fool's Gold, with Variety reporting that he did "an excellent job." In edited, half-hour versions of some of the films, he appeared in 12 of the 52 episodes of the Hopalong Cassidy television series. In 1948, he co-starred with Adele Jergens and Marilyn Monroe in the low-budget, black-and-white Columbia Pictures film, Ladies of the Chorus. Brooks became the first actor to share an on-screen kiss with Monroe, who in a few years was one of the world's biggest movie stars. Filmed in just 10 days, the film was released soon after its completion. Variety called his performance in the 1952 film The Steel Fist "capable." Television brought new opportunities, again often in Westerns. He played Cpl. Randy Boone in the 1950s television series, The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin. Brooks had guest roles in 1950s Western series, including Mackenzie's Raiders, The Lone Ranger, Maverick, Gunsmoke, and Bonanza. He appeared twice on the syndicated adventure series, Rescue 8, as well as on CBS's Perry Mason courtroom drama series. In 1962, he directed and produced a movie about brave dogs, Bearheart, but the film was entangled in legal troubles due to his business manager's involvement in crimes such as forgery and graft. The film was finally released in 1978, under the title Legend of the Northwest. After he left show business, Brooks ran a private ambulance company in Glendale, California. He commented that he "died in more pictures than almost anyone" and that though he was never very big in show business, he was willing to return to it. Brooks sold the ambulance company in 1994, and retired to his ranch in the Santa Ynez Valley, where he bred champion Andalusian horses. He attended a Gone with the Wind reunion for Clark Gable's birthday, along with Ann Rutherford and Fred Crane, in Cadiz, Ohio, in 1992. On September 1, 2003, Brooks died in Santa Ynez, California.
Gone with the Wind
as Charles HamiltonThe spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical...
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Joan of Arc
as Jean d'Arc, Joan's older brotherIn the 15th Century, France is a defeated and ruined nation after the One Hundred Years War...
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In Like Flint
as Missle Control Officer (uncredited)Flint is again called out of retirement when his old boss finds that he seems to have missed 3...
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The Last Hurrah
as Votes Tallyman (uncredited)In a changing world where television has become the main source of information, Adam Caulfield,...
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Comanche Station
as Station ManA white man trades with the Comanche for the release of a female stranger and the pair cross...
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Ladies of the Chorus
as Randy CarrollFormer burlesque star May and her daughter Peggy dance in the chorus. When May has a fight with...
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Lady Scarface
as James 'Jimmy' PowellA Chicago gang led by Slade carries out an audacious brokerage robbery. Lieutenant Bill Mason...
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Air Force
as Co-Pilot (uncredited)The crew of an Air Force bomber arrives in Pearl Harbor in the aftermath of the Japanese attack...
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Northwest Passage
as Eben TowneBased on the Kenneth Roberts novel of the same name, this film tells the story of two friends...
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Babes in Arms
as Jeff SteeleMickey Moran, son of two vaudeville veterans, decides to put up his own vaudeville show with his...
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Niagara Falls
as HoneymoonerThe nosy antics of a honeymooner puts an unwed couple in the same room.
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Riding High
as Henry EarlyA horse trainer who has fallen on hard times looks to his horse, Broadway Bill, to finally win...
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Dancing Co-Ed
as Steve (uncredited)After discovering his star dancer is expecting and can't perform, film producer H.W. Workman and...
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Balalaika
as Crying Soldier (uncredited)A Russian prince disguised as a worker and a cafe singer secretly involved in revolutionary...
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The Old Maid
as JimThe lives of two cousins are complicated by the return of an ex-boyfriend and an illegitimate child.
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The Son of Monte Cristo
as Hans MirbachRightful owner of the kingdom, the Duchess of Zona, is engaged in a power struggle with the evil...
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Life with Henry
as Daniel Gordon (uncredited)Henry Aldrich wants to win a trip to Alaska.
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Love Finds Andy Hardy
as Young Man on Bandstand (uncredited)Andy Hardy becomes entangled with three different girls all at the same time.
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Laddie
as Peter DoverHandsome Laddie Stanton courts neighbor Pamela Pryor, meeting opposition from her stern military...
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Crash of Moons
as AndrewsA three-part episode from the TV series Rocky Jones, Space Ranger edited together and released...
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The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine
as uncreditedA New York radio personality travels to the small town of Fernville to oversee a contest to...
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Yukon Manhunt
as Len KaufmanIn this North Woods adventure, the Mounties investigate a series of payroll robberies and...
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Kilroy Was Here
as Rodney Meadows"Kilroy Was Here" was a popular expression during World War II, but it's not much fun to John J....
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Unexpected Guest
as Lucky JenkinsAt the reading of his late cousin's will, California learns the estate will be divied among...
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Thunder Afloat
as Listener (uncredited)A tugboat captain serves under his rival as a U-boat chaser in World War I.
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Dramatic School
as Pasquel Jr.Aspiring actress Louise Muban attends the prestigious Paris School of Drama during the day and...
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Silent Conflict
as Lucky JenkinsOne of Hoppy's Bar 20 ranch hands is tricked into participating in nefarious activities after...
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Florian
as VictorSet against the backdrop of WWI Europe, a man and woman of different classes are brought...
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Sinister Journey
as Lucky JenkinsLee Garvin has eloped with the daughter of a railroad man who didn't approve of the marriage....
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Born to the Saddle
as John GrantA naïve, recently-orphaned young man discovers he's being used as a pawn in a crooked gambler's...
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Montana Incident
as Dave ConnorsWhip is surveying land for a railroad but a land baron and one of his daughters stands in the way.
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Fingers at the Window
as Young Reporter (uncredited)In Chicago, an unemployed actor aims to solve the mystery concerning a string of ax murders,...
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Bunco Squad
as Robert (uncredited)Police sergeants Johnson and McManus take on Los Angeles confidence tricksters. Con man Tony...
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Waco
as AlAfter killing a man in self defense over a poker game, Wild Bill Elliott turns outlaw in order...
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The Great Morgan
as Film Character (uncredited)Frank Morgan is hired to put together a movie using odds and ends from the MGM vaults. He does...
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The Wyoming Bandit
as Jimmy HowardWyoming Dan (Trevor Bardette) returns home after 20 years evading the law for a crime he didn't...
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Lady in the Dark
as BenA neurotic editor sees a psychoanalyst about the advertising man, movie star and other man in...
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Behind Southern Lines
as Captain LoomisTwo episodes of the TV series "Wild Bill Hickok" edited together and released as a feature.
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The Dead Don't Dream
as Lucky JenkinsHoppy, California and Lucky arrive at a remote inn, where Lucky expects to be married - but...
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The Gunman
as Jud CalvertTerrorized citizens send for a Texas lawman to rid their town of bandits.
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High Explosive
as Jimmy BakerMike Douglas (Barry Sullivan), owner of a nitroglycerin concern hires his old friend "Buzz"...
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And One Was Beautiful
as Joe HavensA teenager falls hard for an irresponsible playboy.
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False Paradise
as Lucky JenkinsA banker is trying to cheat people out of their silver-rich land. Hoppy learns that the banker...
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Silver Needle in the Sky
as Ranger AndrewsRocky Jones tries to free the hostages and thwart the plans of the evil Queen Cleolantha.
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Stagecoach to Dancers' Rock
as Quint RuckerFive passengers in a stagecoach are abandoned by their driver in the desert. Trying to survive,...
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Resisting Enemy Interrogation
as PilotA downed American bomber crew quickly falls prey to the clever interrogation techniques of the...
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The Sex Symbol
as Edward Kelly (voice)A thinly-disguised version of the life of Marilyn Monroe, detailing her ups and downs in life...
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The Marauders
as Lucky JenkinsHoppy, California and Lucky take refuge from a storm inside a supposedly abandoned church...
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Black Midnight
as Daniel JordanA young man with a love of horses, Scott Jordan (Roddy McDowall) lives on the family ranch with...
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The Girl from Avenue A
as SteveA tough girl raised in the streets finds that her dialect and manners are helpful as source...
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The Sombrero Kid
as Philip MartinA well-acted, well-paced entry in the Don "Red" Barry Western series from Republic Pictures, The...
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Rin-Tin-Tin: Hero of the West
as Cpl. BooneRin-Tin-Tin and his master Rusty as heroes in the old west. Cut from 1950s TV series.
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Strange Gamble
as Lucky JenkinsHoppy and his pals arrive in a remote town to investigate the counterfeiting of both U.S. and...
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Heart of the Rockies
as Jim CorleyRoy is put in charge of a highway construction project. A rancher tries to stop Roy from putting...
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Cowboy Serenade
as Jim AgnewGene Autry heads a cattlemen's association and calls on the inexperienced Jim Agnew to negotiate...
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Fool's Gold
as Lucky JenkinsThe son of an Army friend is about the join an outlaw gang. Hoppy prevents this and brings the...
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Borrowed Trouble
as Lucky JenkinsFinishing a trail drive, Hoppy and the boys head to town and immediately get caught up in the...
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Man from the Black Hills
as Fake Jimmy FallonAs other "B"-western series kept dropping like flies in 1952, Johnny Mack Brown kept grinding...
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The Vanishing Westerner
as Sanderson's First VictimPosing as wanted men, Chris and Waldorf get hired by Sanderson. He sends them to kill the...
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The Devil's Playground
as Lucky JenkinsHoppy finds a wounded girl and later finds Judge Morton who claims the girl is his daughter and...
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Hoppy's Holiday
as Lucky JenkinsHoppy, California, and Lucky travel to Mesa City for a short vacation. California buys new...
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The Steel Fist
as Captain Giorg NicholoffIn an Iron Curtain country an idealistic student goes on the run from the Communist authorities.
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The Maverick
as Trooper BarnhamWild Bill Elliott must escort a gang of killer cattleman who have been terrorizing homesteaders.
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Dangerous Venture
as Lucky JenkinsSue Morgan gets Hoppy and his friends to join their expedition looking for Indian artifacts....
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Sundown in Santa Fe
as Tom WyattSundown in Santa Fe is an adventure film directed by R.G. Springsteen in 60. A dagger has been...
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Stump Run
as uncreditedTwo Moonshiners find love and laughs in the Oregon outskirts. Featuring a medley of comic...
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The Challenge of Rin Tin Tin
as uncreditedThe 101st Cavalry discover the survivors of an Apache raid on a wagon train. Feature film from...
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Adam-12
as Mr. EdwardsAdam-12 is a television police drama that followed two police officers of the Los Angeles Police...
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Adam-12
as Bus DriverAdam-12 is a television police drama that followed two police officers of the Los Angeles Police...
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Adam-12
as Mr. MarshallAdam-12 is a television police drama that followed two police officers of the Los Angeles Police...
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Perry Mason
as TrainerThe cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most...
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Bonanza
as CowboyThe High-Sierra adventures of Ben Cartwright and his sons as they run and defend their ranch...
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Columbo
as Jerry - Wine Lab Assistant (uncredited)Columbo is a friendly, verbose, disheveled-looking police detective who is consistently...
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Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Banker WilsonDick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre, sometimes simply called Zane Grey Theatre, is an American...
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My Three Sons
as uncreditedA widower and aeronautical engineer named Steven Douglas raises three sons with the help of his...
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The Munsters
as The ManA family of friendly monsters that have misadventures all while never quite understanding why...
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Petticoat Junction
as Ernest BeldenThe Bradley family are proud owners of the Shady Rest Hotel. Kate and her three young daughters...
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The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
as Sheriff Del MatheyThe Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp is a television western series loosely based on the life of...
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The Lone Ranger
as Dick LarrabeeThe Lone Ranger is an American western television series that ran from 1949 to 1957, starring...
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The Lone Ranger
as Deputy Jim TylerThe Lone Ranger is an American western television series that ran from 1949 to 1957, starring...
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The Lone Ranger
as Marshal Roy BellThe Lone Ranger is an American western television series that ran from 1949 to 1957, starring...
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The Lone Ranger
as Private PhillipsThe Lone Ranger is an American western television series that ran from 1949 to 1957, starring...
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The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
as uncreditedThe Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok is an American Western television series which ran for eight...
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The Virginian
as HenryThe Shiloh Ranch in Wyoming Territory of the 1890s is owned in sequence by Judge Henry Garth,...
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The Gene Autry Show
as Jeff ElwoodThe Gene Autry Show is an American western/cowboy television series which aired for 91 episodes...
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The Gene Autry Show
as Young DeputyThe Gene Autry Show is an American western/cowboy television series which aired for 91 episodes...
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Lux Video Theatre
as Uncle GeorgeLux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The...
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The Real McCoys
as uncreditedThe Real McCoys is an American situation comedy co-produced by Danny Thomas' "Marterto...
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The Green Hornet
as ConwayThe Green Hornet is a television series on the ABC US television network that aired for the...
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The Adventures of Kit Carson
as uncreditedThe Adventures of Kit Carson is an American Western series that aired in syndication from August...
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Lassie
as uncreditedLassie is the pet of Jeff Miller, an 11-year-old farm boy. The two become best friends and enjoy...
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Wagon Train
as Thomas PopeThe series initially starred veteran movie supporting actor Ward Bond as the wagon master, later...
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The Cisco Kid
as Clint RileyThe Cisco Kid is a half-hour American Western television series starring Duncan Renaldo in the...
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Maverick
as Second at Duel (uncredited)Maverick is an American Western television series with comedic overtones created by Roy Huggins....
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Maverick
as Jack BlairMaverick is an American Western television series with comedic overtones created by Roy Huggins....
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Combat!
as G.I. LieutenantCombat! is an American television program that originally aired on ABC from 1962 until 1967. The...
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Peter Gunn
as uncreditedPeter Gunn is an American private eye television series. Filmed in a film noir atmosphere and...
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Sergeant Preston of the Yukon
as uncreditedCanadian Mountie Sgt. Preston patrols the wilds of the Yukon with his horse Rex and his faithful...
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The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin
as uncreditedThe Adventures of Rin Tin Tin is an American children's television program. Beginning in October...
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The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin
as Cpl. BooneThe Adventures of Rin Tin Tin is an American children's television program. Beginning in October...
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Hawaiian Eye
as uncreditedPrivate Eyes Tom Lopaka and Tracy Steele are based out of Hawaiian Village Resort where they...
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Bat Masterson
as Willard WynantBat Masterson is an American Western television series which showed a fictionalized account of...
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M Squad
as PurserLt. Frank Ballinger is a no-nonsense plain clothes cop in the elite M Squad Division. The...
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Gunsmoke
as RandGunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman...
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Gunsmoke
as ManGunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman...
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The Roy Rogers Show
as uncreditedRoy Rogers is the owner of the RR Ranch in the Mineral City area, which he runs with the help of...
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The Millionaire
as Allan CarterAn anthology series that explored the ways sudden and unexpected wealth changed life for better...
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City Detective
as uncreditedCrime drama starring Rod Cameron as 43-year-old Bart Grant, a tough 1950s New York City police...
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Tightrope
as Young ManTightrope is an American crime drama series that aired on CBS from September 1959 to September...
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