Sig Ruman
Sig Ruman was a German-American actor known for his portrayals of pompous and often stereotypical Teutonic officials or villains. Ruman made his film debut in Lucky Boy (1929). He became a favorite of the Marx Brothers, appearing in A Night at the Opera, A Day at the Races, and A Night in Casablanca. His German accent and large stature kept him busy during World War II, playing sinister Nazi characters in a series of wartime thrillers. During this period, he also appeared in several films by director Ernst Lubitsch including Ninotchka and To Be or Not to Be. Ruman continued playing over-the-top German characters later in his career for Billy Wilder in The Emperor Waltz, Stalag 17, and The Fortune Cookie.
Stalag 17
as Sgt. Johann Sebastian SchulzIt's a dreary Christmas 1944 for the American POWs in Stalag 17 and the men in Barracks 4, all...
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Ninotchka
as Comrade IranoffA stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who...
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White Christmas
as Landlord (uncredited)Two talented song-and-dance men team up after the war to become one of the hottest acts in show...
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One, Two, Three
as Count von Droste Schattenburg (voice) (uncredited)C.R. MacNamara is a managing director for Coca Cola in West Berlin during the Cold War, just...
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Nothing Sacred
as Dr. Emil Eggelhoffer (as Sig Rumann)When a small-town girl is incorrectly diagnosed with a rare, deadly disease, an unknowing...
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A Night in Casablanca
as Count Pfefferman / Heinrich StubelThe Marx Brothers are employed at a hotel in postwar Casablanca, where a ring of Nazis is trying...
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Heidi
as Police CaptainHeidi is orphaned and her uncaring maternal Aunt Dete takes her to the mountains to live with...
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To Be or Not to Be
as Col. EhrhardtDuring the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's...
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The Fortune Cookie
as Professor WinterhalterA cameraman is knocked over during a football game. His brother-in-law, as the king of the...
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A Night at the Opera
as GottliebThe Marx Brothers take on high society and the opera world to bring two lovers together. A sly...
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The Glenn Miller Story
as W. KranzA vibrant tribute to one of America's legendary bandleaders, charting Glenn Miller's rise from...
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Robin and the 7 Hoods
as Hammacher (uncredited)In prohibition-era Chicago, the corrupt sheriff and Guy Gisborne, a south-side racketeer, knock...
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Only Angels Have Wings
as DutchyA traveling performer arrives at a remote South American port town where the head of an air...
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Houdini
as SchultzBy the early 1900s, the extraordinary Houdini earned an international reputation for his...
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A Day at the Races
as Dr. Leopold X. SteinbergDoctor Hugo Hackenbush, Tony, and Stuffy try and save Judy's farm by winning a big race with her...
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The Song of Bernadette
as Louis BourietteIn 1858 Lourdes, France, Bernadette, an adolescent peasant girl, has a vision of "a beautiful...
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The Wings of Eagles
as ManagerThe story of Frank W. "Spig" Wead - a Navy-flyer turned screenwriter.
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Seventh Heaven
as Durand (as Sig Rumann)A Parisian sewer worker longs for a rise in status and a beautiful wife. He rescues a girl from...
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36 Hours
as German GuardGermans kidnap an American major and try to convince him that World War II is over, so that they...
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Tarzan Triumphs
as SergeantZandra, white princess of a lost civilization, comes to Tarzan for help when Nazis invade the...
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That Uncertain Feeling
as Kafka (as Sig Rumann)A happily married woman sees a psychoanalyst and develops doubts about her husband.
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House of Frankenstein
as Burgomeister HussmanDeranged scientist, Gustav Niemann, escapes from prison and overtakes the director of a...
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It Happened Tomorrow
as Mr. BecksteinA young turn-of-the-century newspaper man finds he can get hold of the next day's paper. This...
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Confessions of a Nazi Spy
as KrogmanFBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-War espionage activities of the German-American Bund.
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The Errand Boy
as Baron Elston CarteblancheParamutual Pictures wants to know where all the money is going so they hire Morty to be their...
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Living It Up
as Dr. Emile EgelhoferHomer Flagg (Lewis) is a railroad worker in the small town of Desert Hole, New Mexico. One day...
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Love Crazy
as Dr. WutheringCircumstance, an old flame and a mother-in-law drive a happily married couple to the verge of...
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The World in His Arms
as General Ivan VorashilovA boisterous sea captain in the Pacific Coast, circa 1850, has a plan to buy Alaska from the...
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Marie Galante
as BrogardOn the French coast, unlucky Marie Galante is abducted and forced to board an American cargo...
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Suez
as Sergeant PellerinFerdinand de Lesseps, disappointed in love, is sent as a junior diplomat to the Isthmus of Suez,...
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O. Henry's Full House
as Menkie (segment "The Gift of the Magi") (uncredited)Five O. Henry stories, each separate. The primary one from the critics' acclaim was "The Cop and...
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Many Rivers to Cross
as Spectacle ManRobert Taylor and Eleanor Parker star as a Kentucky backwoodsman and the woman who will NOT let...
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Night and Day
as WilowskiSwellegant and elegant. Delux and delovely. Cole Porter was the most sophisticated name in...
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Comrade X
as Emil Von HoferAn American reporter smuggling news out of Soviet Moscow is blackmailed into helping a beautiful...
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Summer Storm
as KuzmaIt's a tale of power and passions when a Russian siren, who wants the finer things in life,...
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Bitter Sweet
as Herr SchlickIn order to avoid an arranged marriage with a man she doesn't love, Sarah Millick runs off to...
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Crossroads
as Dr. Alex DubrocA French diplomat who's recovered from amnesia is blackmailed over crimes he can't remember.
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3 Ring Circus
as Fritz SchlitzJerry and Pete are two friends with no money and are looking for a job. They finally find...
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Government Girl
as AmbassadorAn aviation engineer and a government secretary are thrown together by the war effort.
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Desperate Journey
as PreussDuring WWII, when an allied bomber is shot down over Germany, the five surviving crew are...
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The Great Waltz
as WertheimerComposer Johann Strauss risks his marriage over his infatuation with a beautiful singer.
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I'll Give a Million
as Anatole PrimeroseAfter saving a tramp from suicide, a millionaire takes his clothing and disappears. Word is out...
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Lancer Spy
as Lt. Col. Gottfried HollenAn Englishman impersonates an imprisoned German officer and "returns" to Germany to become a...
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Paradise for Three
as Mr. BoldA businessman mingles with German laborers to learn more about their lives.
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A Royal Scandal
as General RonskyCatherine the Great falls in love with an army officer who is plotting against her.
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The Bold Caballero
as Commandante Sebastian GolleThe Commandant is making life rough for the colonials in Spanish California. While trying to...
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Border Incident
as Hugo Wolfgang UlrichThe story concerns two agents, one Mexican (PJF) and one American, who are tasked to stop the...
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Faithful in My Fashion
as Professor Boris RiminoffskyA U.S. Army sergeant is home on leave to reconnect with his girlfriend he hopes to marry....
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The Wagons Roll at Night
as Hoffman the GreatAn escaped circus lion provides the impetus for the meeting of carnival owner Nick Coster and...
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Think Fast, Mr. Moto
as Nicolas MarloffWhen his import/export business infiltrated by international diamond smugglers, Mr. Moto must...
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Men in Her Diary
as Mme. IreneSinger/Dancer Peggy Ryan neither sings nor dances in this comedy in which she plays a secretary,...
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Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
as Dr. Hans WolfertTrue story of the doctor who considered it was not immoral to search for a drug that would cure...
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Way... Way Out
as Russian DelegateA platonically wed American couple run a lunar weather station near an unwed Soviet couple.
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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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On the Avenue
as Herr HanfstangelA new Broadway show starring Gary Blake shamelessly lampoons the rich Carraway family. To get...
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Carolina Cannonball
as StefanJudy and her grandpa run a trolley between a train depot and a ghost town in Nevada, near the...
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The Wedding Night
as Mr. Jan NovakWhile working on a novel in his country home in Connecticut, married writer Tony Barrett...
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Thin Ice
as Prime MinisterA Swiss hotel ski instructor falls in love with a man who goes skiing every morning.
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Spy Chasers
as King RinkoSlip and the gang (Bowery Boys) foil foes of the exiled, incognito king of Truania (Sig Ruman).
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The Emperor Waltz
as Dr. ZwiebackAt the turn of the 20th century, travelling salesman Virgil Smith journeys to Vienna in the hope...
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Mother Wore Tights
as PapaIn this chronicle of a vaudeville family, Myrtle McKinley (class of 1900) goes to San Francisco...
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China Girl
as JarubiTwo-fisted newsreel photographer Johnny Williams is stationed in Burma and China in the early...
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The Man Who Lost Himself
as Dr. Simms (as Sig Rumann)John Evans encounters his lookalike, Malcolm Scott. When Scott is killed in an accident, Evans...
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Breakdowns of 1941
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1941.
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Shining Victory
as Professor Herman Von ReiterIn a Scottish sanitarium, a brilliant research psychiatrist works on a treatment for dementia...
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This Is My Affair
as GusPresident McKinley asks Lt. Richard L. Perry to go underground to identify some obviously very...
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Thank You, Mr. Moto
as Colonel TchernovMr. Moto Heads to China on a quest for seven ancient scrolls that reveal the location of Genghis...
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World Premiere
as Franz von BushmasterA movie-making publicity man screwball comedy about a movie producer who wants to create...
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Girls on Probation
as Roger HeathA dizzy young girl falls into crime but wins her lawyer's heart.
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Remember?
as Dr. SchmidtSky and Linda meet on vacation and become engaged. When Sky introduces Linda to his best friend,...
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Honolulu
as PsychiatristWanting a break from his overzealous fans, a famous movie star hires a Hawaiian plantation owner...
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The Great Hospital Mystery
as Dr. TaggertA nurse's brother who's pursued by the mob, hides out in a hospital by pretending to be a patient.
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Father Is a Bachelor
as Jericho SchlosserJohnny Rutledge is a drifter who comes to and discovers a cabin in the forest where five kids:...
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Spring Tonic
as Matt ConklinBetty Ingals walks out on her fiancé in search of adventure. She gets more than she bargained...
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Berlin Correspondent
as Dr. DietrichDana Andrews plays Bill Roberts, an American radio commentator station in Berlin in the months...
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The Farmer Takes a Wife
as Blacksmith (as Siegfried Rumann)A farmer tries to convince a girl to leave her life on a canal boat to live with him on his farm.
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The Princess Comes Across
as SteindorfA Swedish princess boards an ocean liner in Europe en route to an acting career in America and...
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Maytime
as Fanchon (as Sig Rumann)An opera star's manager tries to stop her romance with a penniless singer.
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Victory
as Mr. SchombergA hermit's idyllic life on an island is disturbed by the arrival of a bunch of cutthroats.
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Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation
as Cyrus KraftThe Kettles are in Paris along with their daughter-in-law's parents the Parkers. Pa tries to buy...
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Love Under Fire
as General MonteroA suspense-thriller-comedy set against the backdrop of the Spanish Civil War.
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They Came to Blow Up America
as Dr. Herman HolgerBased on a true incident that occurred in 1942 when nine Nazi saboteurs were put ashore on the...
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Midnight Taxi
as John B. RuddA federal agent goes to work for a taxi company believing it to be a front for a gang of...
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The Saint in New York
as Hutch RellinA crime spree in New York forces the police commissioner to turn to Englishman Simon Templar,...
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Servants' Entrance
as Hans Hansen (as Siegfried Rumann)Heiress Hedda Nillson certain that her family is about to lose all its money, takes a job as a...
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On the Riviera
as GapeauxIn this fast-paced remake of the Maurice Chevalier vehicle Folies Bergère, talented Danny Kaye...
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The World Moves On
as Baron von Gerhardt (as Siegfried Rumann)Two families, cotton merchants in England and America, with branches in France and Prussia swear...
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Four Sons
as NewmannFour Sons is a 1940 film directed by Archie Mayo. It stars Don Ameche and Eugenie Leontovich. It...
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The Dolly Sisters
as Ignatz TsimmisTwo sisters from Hungary become famous entertainers in the early 1900s. Fictionalized biography...
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Under Pressure
as DoctorTwo members of a crew of "sandhogs", men who work on an underwater tunnel project, battle each...
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I Was an Adventuress
as Herr ProtzPosing as the fabulously glamorous Countess Tanya Vronsky, a poor young ballet dancer and her...
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If You Knew Susie
as Count AlexisIn the small town of Brookford, everybody can trace their ancestors back to the Revolutionary...
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Remember Pearl Harbor
as Dirk Van HoortenA man tries to redeem himself after ducking out on his comrades before the fatal attack.
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Enemy Agents Meet Ellery Queen
as Heinrich, Spy LeaderDetective Ellery Queen aids Free Dutch agents battle Nazi spies over a prize of industrial diamonds.
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The Girl on The Roof
as uncreditedA comedy of manners, the film centers on virtuous actress Patty O'Neill, who meets playboy...
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The Hitler Gang
as General von HindenburgThe Hitler Gang adopts the style of a gangster film as it charts Adolf Hitler’s rise from...
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Outside the Three-Mile Limit
as Van CleveGovernment Agent Conway, posing as a crew member of a ship, is investigating the flood of...
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Never Say Die
as Poppa IngleborgBob Hope is being stalked by a predatory widow who is a widow of wealthy husbands many times...
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Sweet Rosie O'Grady
as Joe FlugelmanAn American singer becomes engaged to an English duke, but is continuously pestered over her...
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She Went to the Races
as Dr. GurkeA group of scientists develop a system to pick winners at the racetrack. Comedy.
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So Ends Our Night
as AmmersAn anti-Nazi on the run and a young Jewish couple race across Europe trying to escape Hitler's...
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This Woman Is Mine
as John Jacob AstorThree seafaring fur traders fall in love with a female stowaway they discover aboard their ship....
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The Last of the Secret Agents?
as Prof. Werner von KoenigMarty and Steve, American tourists in France, are given a multipurpose umbrella and pitted...
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Give My Regards to Broadway
as Arthur DinkelA family vaudeville act is threatened when the eldest son is offered a contract to play...
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East of Java
as Hans MullerSurvivors of a shipwreck find refuge on a tropical island--but so do the ship's cargo of lions...
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Doom of Dracula
as The BurgomasterAn EIGHT minute excerpt from the 1944 feature, House of Frankenstein, released in the 1960's to...
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One Step Beyond
as Franz SchuldorfAlcoa Presents: One Step Beyond is an American anthology series created by Merwin Gerard. The...
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Petticoat Junction
as Professor LieberschmitThe Bradley family are proud owners of the Shady Rest Hotel. Kate and her three young daughters...
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The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
as uncreditedThe Many Loves of Dobie Gillis is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from 1959 to 1963. The...
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The Addams Family
as Eric Von BissellA satirical inversion of the ideal of the perfect American nuclear family, they are an eccentric...
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The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
as SelfThe Dinah Shore Chevy Show is an American variety series hosted by Dinah Shore, and broadcast on...
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The Danny Kaye Show
as SelfThe Danny Kaye Show is an American variety show hosted by Danny Kaye that aired on CBS from 1963...
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Daniel Boone
as Van CootDaniel Boone is an American action-adventure television series starring Fess Parker as Daniel...
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Pete and Gladys
as uncreditedPete and Gladys is an American situation comedy television series starring Harry Morgan and Cara...
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Maverick
as uncreditedMaverick is an American Western television series with comedic overtones created by Roy Huggins....
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Maverick
as Capt. SteegerMaverick is an American Western television series with comedic overtones created by Roy Huggins....
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Lawman
as uncreditedLawman is an American western television series originally telecast on ABC from 1958 to 1962...
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General Electric Theater
as Dr. HaegendorffGeneral Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was...
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Hank
as uncreditedHank is an American situation comedy which is perhaps most notable for being an early example of...
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Johnny Staccato
as uncreditedJohnny Staccato is an American private detective series which ran for 27 episodes on NBC from...
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