Robert Taylor

Born: 1911-08-05

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Robert Taylor (born Spangler Arlington Brugh; August 5, 1911 – June 8, 1969) was an American film and television actor who was one of the most popular leading men of his time. Taylor began his career in films in 1934 when he signed with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. He won his first leading role the following year in Magnificent Obsession. His popularity increased during the late 1930s and 1940s with appearances in A Yank at Oxford (1938), Waterloo Bridge (1940), and Bataan (1943). During World War II, he served in the United States Naval Air Corps, where he worked as a flight instructor and appeared in instructional films. From 1959 to 1962, he starred in the ABC series The Detectives Starring Robert Taylor. In 1966, he took over hosting duties from his friend Ronald Reagan on the series Death Valley Days. Taylor was married to actress Barbara Stanwyck from 1939 to 1951. He married actress Ursula Thiess in 1954, and they had two children. A chain smoker, Taylor was diagnosed with lung cancer in October 1968. He died of the disease on June 8, 1969 at the age of 57.


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Ivanhoe

as Wilfred of Ivanhoe
Released: 1952-07-31

Sir Walter Scott's classic story of the chivalrous Ivanhoe who joins with Robin of Locksley in...

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Quo Vadis

as Marcus Vinicius
Released: 1951-11-08

After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage...

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Return of the Gunfighter

as Ben Wyatt
Released: 1967-03-25

A gunfighter and a cowboy help a Mexican girl avenge the land-related murder of her parents.

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Camille

as Armand Duval
Released: 1936-12-26

Life in 1847 Paris is as spirited as champagne and as unforgiving as the gray morning after. In...

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Waterloo Bridge

as Roy Cronin
Released: 1940-05-17

On the eve of World War II, a British officer revisits Waterloo Bridge and recalls the young man...

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Westward the Women

as Buck Wyatt
Released: 1951-12-16

There's a deficit of good, honest women in the West, and Roy Whitman wants to change that. His...

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Party Girl

as Tommy Farrell
Released: 1958-10-28

Slick lawyer Thomas Farrell has made a career of defending mobsters in trials. It's not until he...

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Murder in the Fleet

as Lieutenant Tom Randolph
Released: 1935-05-24

A traitor is lurking somewhere aboard the USS Carolina, and Lt. Tom Randolph is determined to...

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Private Number

as Richard Winfield
Released: 1936-06-05

Ellen Neal, a young and inexperienced maid, becomes romantically involved with her employers son...

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High Wall

as Steven Kenet
Released: 1947-12-17

Steven Kenet, suffering from a recurring brain injury, appears to have strangled his wife....

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A Yank at Oxford

as Lee Sheridan
Released: 1938-02-18

A brash young American aristocrat attending Oxford University gets a chance to prove himself and...

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The Night Walker

as Barry Moreland
Released: 1964-12-30

A woman is haunted by recurring nightmares, which seem to be instigated by her late husband who...

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Knights of the Round Table

as Lancelot
Released: 1953-12-22

In Camelot, kingdom of Arthur and Merlin, Lancelot is well known for his courage and honor. But...

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Johnny Eager

as Johnny Eager
Released: 1941-12-09

A charming racketeer seduces the DA's stepdaughter for revenge, then falls in love.

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The Law and Jake Wade

as Jake Wade
Released: 1958-06-06

Jake Wade breaks Clint Hollister out of jail to pay off an old debt, though it's clear there is...

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Billy the Kid

as Billy Bonney
Released: 1941-05-30

Billy Bonney is a hot-headed gunslinger who narrowly skirts a life of crime by being befriended...

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Bataan

as Sgt. Bill Dane
Released: 1943-06-03

During Japan's invasion of the Philippines in 1942, Capt. Henry Lassiter, Sgt. Bill Dane and a...

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Ambush

as Ward Kinsman
Released: 1950-01-13

A Westerner searches for a white woman held by the Apaches.

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Cattle King

as Sam Brassfield
Released: 1963-07-08

A rich landowner of Wyoming fights to prevent the Texas herds from trampling his rich meadows.

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Devil's Doorway

as Lance Poole
Released: 1950-09-15

A Native American Civil War hero returns home to fight for his people.

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The House of the Seven Hawks

as John Nordley
Released: 1959-10-29

A ship's captain gets mixed up with murder during the hunt for lost Nazi treasure.

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Many Rivers to Cross

as Bushrod Gentry
Released: 1955-02-04

Robert Taylor and Eleanor Parker star as a Kentucky backwoodsman and the woman who will NOT let...

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The Last Hunt

as Charlie Gilson
Released: 1956-04-30

A buffalo hunter has a falling-out with his partner, who kills for fun.

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Saddle the Wind

as Steve Sinclair
Released: 1958-03-20

Steve Sinclair is a world-weary former gunslinger, now living as a peaceful farmer. Things go...

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A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound

as Self
Released: 1940-10-24

This short documentary, presented and directed by MGM sound engineer Douglas Shearer, goes...

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The Gorgeous Hussy

as 'Bow' Timberlake
Released: 1936-08-28

It's the early nineteenth century Washington. Young adult Margaret O'Neal, Peggy to most that...

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The Bribe

as Rigby
Released: 1949-02-03

United States Federal agent Rigby travels to the Central American island Carlotta to investigate...

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The Hangman

as Mackenzie Bovard
Released: 1959-06-17

A marshal nicknamed "The Hangman" because of his track record in hunting down and capturing...

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Undercurrent

as Alan Garroway
Released: 1946-11-11

After a rapid engagement, a dowdy daughter of a chemist weds an industrialist, knowing little of...

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That's Entertainment, Part II

as (archive footage)
Released: 1976-05-16

Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time...

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The Youngest Profession

as Robert Taylor
Released: 1943-02-26

Joan Lyons and her friend Patricia Drew are autograph hounds spending most of their day bumping...

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A Wicked Woman

as Bill Renton
Released: 1934-12-07

A woman and her children escape severe poverty and abuse. She successfully betters her family's...

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D-Day the Sixth of June

as Capt. Brad Parker
Released: 1956-05-29

En route to Normandy, an American and a British officer reminisce in flashback about their...

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Three Comrades

as Erich Lohkamp
Released: 1938-06-02

A love story centered on the lives of three young German soldiers in the years following World...

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Killers of Kilimanjaro

as Robert Adamson
Released: 1959-10-01

An American engineer reaches Mombasa to finish the works of an African railroad and to find his...

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Above and Beyond

as Lt. Col Paul W. Tibbets
Released: 1953-01-02

The story of Colonel Paul Tibbets, the pilot that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Although...

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His Brother's Wife

as Chris Claybourne
Released: 1936-08-07

Epidemiologist Cliff Claybourne falls in love with Rita Wilson in a gambling house. They want to...

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Savage Pampas

as Captain Martín
Released: 1966-07-07

An army captain in Argentina learns why his lonely men are deserting to an outlaw's gaucho gang.

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Ride, Vaquero!

as Rio
Released: 1953-07-17

Ranchers in New Mexico have to face Indians and bandits.

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Remember?

as Jeff Holland
Released: 1939-12-19

Sky and Linda meet on vacation and become engaged. When Sky introduces Linda to his best friend,...

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The Crowd Roars

as 'Killer' McCoy
Released: 1938-08-06

A young boxer gets caught between a no-good father and a crime boss when he starts dating the...

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Stand by for Action

as Lieut. Gregg Masterman
Released: 1942-12-31

U. S. Navy Lieutenant Gregg Masterman, of The Harvard and Boston Back Bay Mastermans, learned...

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Lucky Night

as Bill Overton
Released: 1939-05-05

Cora, an heiress who gives it all up for the excitement of looking for a job and living on her...

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Lady of the Tropics

as William 'Bill' Carey
Released: 1939-08-11

Playboy Bill Carey woos a half-caste beauty in French Indochina, but her second-class legal...

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West Point of the Air

as 'Jasky' Jaskarelli
Released: 1935-03-23

An army sergeant inspires his son to become an ace flyer.

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Flight Command

as Ens. Alan Drake
Released: 1940-12-27

A rookie flyer, Ens. Alan Drake, joins the famous Hellcats Squadron right out of flight school...

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Song of Russia

as John Meredith
Released: 1944-02-10

American conductor John Meredith and his manager, Hank Higgins, go to Russia shortly before the...

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I Love Melvin

as Himself, Cameo Appearance in Judy's Dream
Released: 1953-03-20

Melvin Hoover, a budding photographer for Look magazine, accidentally bumps into a young actress...

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Hollywood Goes to Town

as Self
Released: 1938-07-07

This short shows how Hollywood gets ready for the world premiere of an "important" movie. The...

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Tip on a Dead Jockey

as Lloyd Tredman
Released: 1957-09-06

Broke and about to divorce his wife, a pilot joins a smuggling scheme in postwar Madrid.

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Rogue Cop

as Det. Sgt. Christopher Kelvaney
Released: 1954-09-17

A police detective on the take tries to catch his brother's killer.

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The Fighting Lady

as Narrator
Released: 1944-12-21

Oscar winner William Wyler directed this 1944 "newsdrama," narrated by Lieut. Robert Taylor,...

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Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1997-05-12

Born Ruby Stevens, she was orphaned when she was four. A chance audition led to a chorus job. By...

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La Fiesta de Santa Barbara

as Self
Released: 1935-12-07

La Fiesta de Santa Barbara is a 1935 American comedy short film directed by Louis Lewyn. It was...

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Hollywood: Style Center of the World

as Self
Released: 1940-05-29

This short promotes the premise that movies often create a demand for the fashions seen in them....

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Conspirator

as Major Michael Curragh
Released: 1949-07-28

A newlywed suspects her husband of being a Communist spy.

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Broadway Melody of 1938

as Steve Raleigh
Released: 1937-08-20

Steve Raleight wants to produce a show on Broadway. He finds a backer, Herman Whipple and a...

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Quentin Durward

as Quentin Durward
Released: 1955-09-09

During the 15th century reign of France's King Louis XI, a young Scottish man is sent by his...

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Johnny Tiger

as George Dean
Released: 1966-06-15

Teacher George Dean (Robert Taylor) packs up his children to accept a job instructing Native...

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The Secret Land

as Narrator
Released: 1948-10-22

This documentary, filmed entirely by military photographers, recounts the U.S. Navy's 1946-47...

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All the Brothers Were Valiant

as Joel Shore
Released: 1953-11-13

In the South Pacific islands, two brothers, one good and one bad, fight over the same girl and...

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When Ladies Meet

as Jimmy Lee
Released: 1941-08-29

Mary, a writer working on a novel about a love triangle, is attracted to her publisher. Her...

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The Power and the Prize

as Cliff Barton
Released: 1956-09-26

An ambitious executive jeopardizes his career to marry a European refugee.

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Miracle of the White Stallions

as Col. Podhajsky
Released: 1963-03-29

In WWII Austria, Col. Alois Podhajsky must protect his beloved Lipizzaner stallions and make...

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Escape

as Mark Preysing
Released: 1940-11-01

An American goes to pre-war Germany to find his mother and discovers her in a concentration...

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Hollywood: The Dream Factory

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1972-01-10

A documentary about the glorious history of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and its decline leading...

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Small Town Girl

as Dr. Robert 'Bob' Dakin
Released: 1936-04-10

Kay is a girl living in a small rural town whose life is just too dull and repetitious to bear....

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Society Doctor

as Dr. Ellis
Released: 1935-01-25

Two surgeons (Chester Morris, Robert Taylor) in love with a nurse (Virginia Bruce) end their...

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Personal Property

as Raymond Dabney
Released: 1937-03-19

Raymond Dabney returns to his family after trouble with the law. He convinces the sheriff to...

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Magnificent Obsession

as Dr. Robert Merrick
Released: 1935-12-30

A playboy tries to redeem himself after his careless behavior causes a great man's death.

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The Spectacle Maker

as The Duchess's Paramour
Released: 1934-09-20

A parable about magic glasses involving on the nature of beauty, truth, good, and evil set in...

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Hondo and the Apaches

as Gallagher
Released: 1967-09-08

Two episodes from the TV series "Hondo" edited together and released as a feature.

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The Romance of Celluloid

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1937-08-27

Several behind the scenes aspects of the movie-making business, which results in the enjoyment...

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Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows

as Mr. Farriday: The 'In' Group
Released: 1968-04-10

Mother Superior of St. Francis Academy is challenged by a modern young nun when they take the...

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The Glass Sphinx

as Prof. Karl Nichols
Released: 1967-05-31

An archaeologist is in danger because of his discoveries.

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Valley of the Kings

as Mark Brandon
Released: 1954-07-21

Hard-boiled archeologist Mark Brandon is searching for ancient tombs in Egypt when he is...

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Buried Loot

as Albert 'Al' Douglas (uncredited)
Released: 1935-01-19

An embezzler who expects to serve his time in prison and then pick up his buried loot is in for...

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Stand Up and Fight

as Blake Cantrell
Released: 1939-01-06

A southern aristocrat clashes with a driver transporting stolen slaves to freedom.

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Broadway Melody of 1936

as Robert Gordon
Released: 1935-09-18

Lovely, gifted Irene Foster hopes that her childhood sweetheart-turned Broadway producer Robert...

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This Is My Affair

as Lt. Richard L. Perry
Released: 1937-05-28

President McKinley asks Lt. Richard L. Perry to go underground to identify some obviously very...

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There's Always Tomorrow

as Arthur White
Released: 1934-11-01

Ignored by his ever-busy wife and children, a middle-aged businessman finds companionship with a...

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Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1991-07-15

Actress Sally Field looks at the dramatic life and successful career of the superb actress...

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Times Square Lady

as Steve Gordon
Released: 1935-03-08

A young Iowa woman inherits her late estranged father's New York business, but the dead man's...

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Film Stars Help Greece

as Self
Released:

Hollywood holds a star-studded event, all proceeds went to Greece.

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The Day the Hot Line Got Hot

as Anderson
Released: 1968-01-01

The most ultra-secret telephone number of all is that of the "Hot'Line' that links the heads of...

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Performers arrive in Hampshire

as Self
Released: 1947-12-12

Movie stars are interviewed on a boat in 1947 in Hampshire, United Kingdom.

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A House Is Not a Home

as Frank Costigan
Released: 1964-08-12

Story follows the life of Polly Adler, who grew to become one of New York's most successful...

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The Big Parade of Comedy

as Raymond Dabney in 'Personal Property' (archive footage)
Released: 1964-09-02

Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.

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Her Cardboard Lover

as Terry Trindale
Released: 1942-07-16

A flirt tries to make her fiancée jealous by hiring a gigolo.

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Trifles of Importance

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1940-07-13

Part of John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series, this short shows how three seemingly unimportant...

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Handy Andy

as Lloyd Burmeister
Released: 1934-07-19

A small-town druggist is henpecked by his social-climbing wife to sell his pharmacy to a...

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Rome, the Eternal City

as Self
Released: 1951-01-21

A Traveltalk style documentary look at Rome.

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The Mike Douglas Show

as Self - Co-Host
First aired: 1961-12-11

The Mike Douglas Show is an American daytime television talk show hosted by Mike Douglas that...

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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 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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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 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 Thin Man

as uncredited
First aired: 1957-09-20

Nick Charles was a private detective who married the wealthy Nora and decided to settle down and...

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The Detectives

as Captain Matt Holbrook
First aired: 1959-10-16

The Detectives is an American crime drama series which ran on ABC during its first two seasons,...

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Hondo

as uncredited
First aired: 1967-09-08

Hondo is a 17-episode Western television series starring Ralph Taeger that aired in the United...

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Death Valley Days

as Self - Host
First aired: 1952-10-01

Death Valley Days is an American radio and television anthology series featuring true stories of...

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Death Valley Days

as Shanghai Kelly
First aired: 1952-10-01

Death Valley Days is an American radio and television anthology series featuring true stories of...

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