Vic Tayback

Born: 1930-01-06

Victor Tayback (January 6, 1930 – May 25, 1990) was an American actor. He is best known for his role as diner owner Mel Sharples in the comedy-drama film Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974) and the television sitcom Alice (1976–1985), for which he won two consecutive Golden Globes.


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Thunderbolt and Lightfoot

as Mario Pinski
Released: 1974-05-23

With the help of an irreverent young sidekick, a bank robber gets his old gang back together to...

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All Dogs Go to Heaven

as Carface (voice)
Released: 1989-11-17

When a casino-owning dog named Charlie is murdered by his rival Carface, he finds himself in...

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as Sergeant
Released: 1973-12-13

A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful...

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Bullitt

as Pete Ross
Released: 1968-10-17

Senator Walter Chalmers is aiming to take down mob boss Pete Ross with the help of testimony...

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Emperor of the North

as Yardman
Released: 1973-05-23

Hobos encounter a sadistic railway conductor that will not let anyone "ride the rails" for free.

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Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore

as Mel
Released: 1974-12-09

After her husband dies, Alice and her son, Tommy, leave their small New Mexico town for...

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Loverboy

as Harry Bruckner
Released: 1989-04-28

Randy Bodek works as a pizza delivery boy at Señor Pizza to make a few extra bucks. Some...

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The Cheap Detective

as Lieutenant DiMaggio
Released: 1978-06-23

A spoof of the entire 1940s detective genre. San Francisco private detective, Lou Pekinpaugh is...

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The Gambler

as One
Released: 1974-10-02

New York City English professor Axel Freed outwardly seems like an upstanding citizen. But...

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The Big Bus

as Goldie
Released: 1976-06-23

The ultimate disaster film parody. A nuclear-powered bus is making its maiden non-stop trip from...

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Mansion of the Doomed

as Detective Simon
Released: 1976-10-01

An insane surgeon finds himself up to his armpits in eyeballs after guilt prompts him to begin...

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Gambit

as Plainclothes Officer at TWA Counter (uncredited)
Released: 1966-12-21

Harry Dean is a career burglar set on stealing a piece of priceless art from the world's...

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The Choirboys

as Zoony
Released: 1977-12-23

A group of Los Angeles cops decide to take off some of the pressures of their jobs by engaging...

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Special Delivery

as Wyatt
Released: 1976-07-16

A gang of thieves plan a daring bank robbery, making their escape across the rooftops of Los...

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Lepke

as Charles 'Lucky' Luciano
Released: 1975-05-23

Lepke is the feared leader of "Murder Incorporated" in this underworld drama based on the life...

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No Deposit, No Return

as Big Joe Adamo
Released: 1976-02-05

Two rich children devise a way to escape their grandfather and visit their mother. Unfortunately...

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Love with the Proper Stranger

as Cye (uncredited)
Released: 1963-12-25

Angie Rossini, an innocent New York City sales clerk from a repressive Italian-American family,...

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The Don Is Dead

as Ralph Negri
Released: 1973-11-14

After his mistress is murdered, a Mafia leader goes after the killer with a bloody vengeance....

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The Shaggy D.A.

as Eddie Roschak
Released: 1976-12-17

Wilby Daniels, a successful lawyer running for District Attorney, suddenly finds himself being...

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Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round

as Detective Merchant (uncredited)
Released: 1966-10-12

A sophisticated con man mounts an intricate plan to rob an airport bank while the Soviet premier...

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Report to the Commissioner

as Lt. Seidensticker
Released: 1975-02-05

Police officer Patty Butler, alias "Chicklet," is the live-in girlfriend of Thomas 'Stick'...

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Reel Horror

as Smedke (archive footage)
Released: 1985-10-01

Evil spirits that emerge from cans of old movie film terrorize a neighborhood.

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Criminal Act

as The Exterminator (Greengrass)
Released: 1989-09-27

Two investigative reporters track down reports of giant rats in a city sewer system.

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Mysterious Two

as Ted Randall
Released: 1982-05-31

Two Aliens visit the Earth in an effort to enlist converts to travel the universe with them.

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The Black Bird

as Warren Finley, Police Lieutenant
Released: 1975-12-25

The son of famous detective Sam Spade carries on the family tradition of getting involved with...

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Dark Victory

as Archie
Released: 1976-02-05

A TV producer with a terminal illness is given the strength to keep going by her love for her...

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The Blue Knight

as Neil Grogan
Released: 1973-11-11

Bumper Morgan is a veteran Los Angeles Police Department street cop. He is due to retire after...

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Rage!

as Tommy
Released: 1980-09-25

In an attempt to be rehabilitated, a rapist goes to therapy while in prison.

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They Call It Murder

as Jeff Poland
Released: 1971-12-17

A small-town district attorney is saddled with several major investigations, including a...

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Gangster Story

as Norm (uncredited)
Released: 1959-12-01

Gangster and cop killer Jack Martin is on the run from the law, and hides out in a small town....

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This Year's Blonde

as Harry Cohn
Released: 1980-05-18

First he seduced her. Then he made her a star. He was Johnny Hyde, 52-year-old agent, friend,...

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Gridlock

as Floyd 'Snake' Kraslowski
Released: 1980-10-02

A series of freak accidents on the Los Angeles freeway traps a cast-load of familiar TV faces in...

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The Night the City Screamed

as Morris Brustein
Released: 1980-12-14

A massive blackout plunges a major American city into a night of terror.

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Honor Thy Father

as Don A. Tirello
Released: 1973-03-01

Joseph Bologna stars as Bill Bonanno in this made-for-television adaptation of the controversial...

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Five Minutes to Live

as Fred Dorella
Released: 1961-12-07

A guitar playing killer terrorizes a housewife while his partner robs the bank where her husband...

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Maxie

as Smedke
Released: 1973-01-01

When deaf-mute Maxie (K.T. Baumann) goes to work at the local butcher shop, she senses strange...

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The Case of the Baltimore Girls

as Capt. Barney Marcus
Released: 1978-01-23

Former police captain and his assistant investigate extortion and murder at a dating service.

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George Carlin: Playin' with Your Head

as The Bad Guys
Released: 1986-06-14

George Carlin is in top form with these stand-up recorded at the Beverly Theater in Los Angeles...

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The Underachievers

as Coach
Released: 1988-06-01

Danny Warren is a former minor-league shortstop that becomes a narc to uncover drug dealing in...

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The Jesse Owens Story

as Abe Saperstein
Released: 1984-07-09

The Jesse Owens Story is a biographical film about the black athlete Jesse Owens. Dorian...

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The Alpha Caper

as Policeman
Released: 1973-10-06

A parole officer forced into retirement gets together three ex-convicts to pull off a...

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Portrait of a Stripper

as Harry Parkins
Released: 1979-10-02

A young widow, supporting herself and her pre-teen son by performing as a nightclub dancer,...

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Blood and Lace

as Calvin Carruthers
Released: 1971-03-17

After her prostitute mother and her john are beaten to death while they are asleep in bed,...

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Weekend Warriors

as Sgt. Burdge
Released: 1986-10-01

In 1961, with war looming in Berlin, an Air National Guard unit of actors, journalists and...

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Partners in Crime

as uncredited
Released: 1973-03-24

A retired judge who opens a private detective agency and her ex-con associate try to track down...

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Treasure Island

as Silver
Released: 1986-01-01

Jim is a small child who lives in an inn run by his parents. The arrival of a strange captain to...

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The Three Kings

as Harold
Released: 1987-12-17

The made-for-TV film stars Jack Warden, Lou Diamond Phillips and Stan Shaw as three patients in...

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Horseplayer

as George Samsa
Released: 1990-01-20

A blonde seduces a quirky liquor-store worker as inspiration for her artist boyfriend.

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Getting Married

as Burt Carboni
Released: 1978-05-17

A man falls madly in love with a pretty newscaster and goes all out to win her heart and her...

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T-Bird Gang

as Policeman
Released: 1959-10-16

A high school boy, out to find his father's killer, joins up with a gang of juvenile delinquents.

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Little Ladies of the Night

as Finch
Released: 1977-01-16

The sister of ex-pimp and current Los Angeles Police detective Lyle York was murdered working...

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Beverly Hills Bodysnatchers

as Lou
Released: 1989-10-11

A doctor and a mortician have teamed up to do re-animation experiments on corpses using gangster...

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Death Follows a Psycho

as uncredited
Released: 1972-01-01

Private eye Wade Griffin finds himself in an intense stand-off with a "human time-bomb", who is...

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Surftide 77

as Arms Cooper
Released: 1962-07-17

Private Eye Bernard Bingbang is hired by old lady Agatha Bungworthy to find her runaway niece...

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The New Man

as Alan Coombs
Released: 1984-09-30

A reformed alcoholic is visited by his young son, but he doesn't have a son called Jerry.

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The Mike Douglas Show

as Self
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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Columbo

as Sam Franklin
First aired: 1971-09-15

Columbo is a friendly, verbose, disheveled-looking police detective who is consistently...

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Hawaii Five-O

as Parmel
First aired: 1968-09-20

Hawaii Five-O is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and...

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Hawaii Five-O

as Martin Lynch
First aired: 1968-09-20

Hawaii Five-O is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and...

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Bewitched

as Mayor's Chauffeur
First aired: 1964-09-17

Samantha Stephens is a seemingly normal suburban housewife who also happens to be a genuine...

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The Love Boat

as Harry Stewart
First aired: 1977-09-24

Passengers who search for romantic nights aboard a beautiful ship travelling to tropical or...

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The Love Boat

as Harry Beluski
First aired: 1977-09-24

Passengers who search for romantic nights aboard a beautiful ship travelling to tropical or...

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MacGyver

as George Henderson
First aired: 1985-09-29

He's everyone's favorite action hero... but he's a hero with a difference. Angus MacGyver is a...

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Mission: Impossible

as Egan's Goon
First aired: 1966-09-17

Mission: Impossible is an American television series that was created and initially produced by...

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Murder, She Wrote

as Sal Domino
First aired: 1984-09-30

An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life...

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Tales from the Darkside

as Tippy Ryan
First aired: 1984-09-30

Tales from the Darkside is an anthology horror TV series created by George A. Romero, each...

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Tales from the Darkside

as Alan Coombs
First aired: 1984-09-30

Tales from the Darkside is an anthology horror TV series created by George A. Romero, each...

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T. J. Hooker

as Pete Benedict
First aired: 1982-03-13

Sergeant Thomas Jefferson Hooker is a tough-as-nails veteran police officer with the LCPD who...

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Star Trek

as Jojo Krako
First aired: 1966-09-08

Space. The Final Frontier. The U.S.S. Enterprise embarks on a five year mission to explore the...

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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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I Dream of Jeannie

as Turhan
First aired: 1965-09-18

While on a mission, American astronaut Captain Tony Nelson is forced to make an emergency...

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The F.B.I.

as Ed Larch
First aired: 1965-09-19

The F.B.I. is an American television series that was broadcast on ABC from 1965 to 1974. It was...

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The F.B.I.

as Neil Parks
First aired: 1965-09-19

The F.B.I. is an American television series that was broadcast on ABC from 1965 to 1974. It was...

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Crazy like a Fox

as Mo Scmidt
First aired: 1984-12-30

Crazy Like a Fox is an American television series set in San Francisco, California, that aired...

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All in the Family

as Joe Tucker
First aired: 1971-01-12

Archie Bunker, a working class bigot, constantly squabbles with his family over the important...

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The Mary Tyler Moore Show

as uncredited
First aired: 1970-09-19

30-year-old single Mary Richards moves to Minneapolis to start a new life after a romantic...

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Land of the Giants

as Hood
First aired: 1968-09-22

Set fifteen years in the then-future year 1983, the series tells the tale of the crew and...

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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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The Courtship of Eddie's Father

as Bernie
First aired: 1969-09-17

The Courtship of Eddie's Father is an American television sitcom based on the 1963 movie of the...

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Alfred Hitchcock Presents

as Man Talking to Cab Driver
First aired: 1955-10-02

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

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Finder of Lost Loves

as Thomas Velasco
First aired: 1984-09-22

The Finder of Lost Loves TV show was a 60 minute drama series on ABC about a private...

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The Mod Squad

as uncredited
First aired: 1968-09-24

The Mod Squad was the enormously successful groundbreaking "hippie" undercover cop show that ran...

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The Bill Cosby Show

as Calvin
First aired: 1969-09-14

The Bill Cosby Show is an American situation comedy that aired for two seasons on NBC's Sunday...

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My World and Welcome to It

as uncredited
First aired: 1969-09-15

My World and Welcome to It is an American half-hour television sitcom based on the humor and...

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Get Smart

as uncredited
First aired: 1965-09-18

Get Smart is an American comedy television series that satirizes the secret agent genre. Created...

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Hotel

as uncredited
First aired: 1982-08-21

Hotel is an American prime time drama series which aired on ABC from September 21, 1983 to May...

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Daniel Boone

as American Soldier
First aired: 1964-09-24

Daniel Boone is an American action-adventure television series starring Fess Parker as Daniel...

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Daniel Boone

as Hongas Hongas - Huron Indian Chief
First aired: 1964-09-24

Daniel Boone is an American action-adventure television series starring Fess Parker as Daniel...

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Mannix

as uncredited
First aired: 1967-09-16

Mannix is an American television detective series that ran from 1967 through 1975 on CBS....

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Barney Miller

as Mr. Stavochek
First aired: 1975-01-23

Barney Miller is an American situation comedy television series set in a New York City police...

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Emergency!

as Driver
First aired: 1972-01-22

The crew of Los Angeles County Fire Department Station 51, particularly the paramedic team, and...

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Cannon

as uncredited
First aired: 1971-09-14

Cannon is a CBS detective television series produced by Quinn Martin which aired from March 26,...

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The Rookies

as uncredited
First aired: 1972-09-11

The Rookies is an American crime drama series that aired on ABC from 1972 until 1976. It follows...

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Alice

as Mel Sharples
First aired: 1976-08-31

Alice is an American sitcom television series that ran from August 31, 1976 to March 19, 1985 on...

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The Monkees

as uncredited
First aired: 1966-09-12

Micky, Mike, Peter, and Davy are four young men in mid-1960s LA, members of a struggling...

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Medical Center

as uncredited
First aired: 1969-09-24

Medical Center is a medical drama series which aired on CBS from 1969 to 1976. It was produced...

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Family Affair

as uncredited
First aired: 1966-09-12

Family Affair is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from September 12, 1966 to September 9,...

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That Girl

as uncredited
First aired: 1966-09-08

That Girl is an American sitcom that ran on ABC from 1966 to 1971. It stars Marlo Thomas as the...

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Switch

as Ralph Kabelka
First aired: 1975-09-09

Switch is an American action-adventure, tongue-in-cheek detective series starring Eddie Albert...

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McCloud

as uncredited
First aired: 1970-02-17

Deputy Marshal Sam McCloud of the small western town of Taos, New Mexico is assigned to the...

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Vega$

as uncredited
First aired: 1978-09-20

Vega$ is an American detective television drama series that aired on ABC between 1978 and 1981....

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Matt Houston

as uncredited
First aired: 1982-09-26

Matt Houston is an American crime drama series that aired on ABC from 1982 to 1985. Created by...

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Felony Squad

as uncredited
First aired: 1966-09-12

Twenty-year veteran Detective Sergeant Sam Stone is paired with rookie Briggs in a large Western...

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F Troop

as uncredited
First aired: 1965-09-14

F Troop is a satirical American television sitcom that originally aired for two seasons on...

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Lancer

as uncredited
First aired: 1968-09-24

Lancer is an American Western series that aired on CBS from September 1968, to May 1970. The...

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Rawhide

as Monte
First aired: 1959-01-09

The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across...

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The Silent Force

as Capt. Al Grant
First aired: 1970-09-21

The Silent Force is a police crime drama series focused on three US Government undercover agents...

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Gunsmoke

as Gaines
First aired: 1955-09-10

Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman...

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Gunsmoke

as Rawlins
First aired: 1955-09-10

Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman...

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Gunsmoke

as Dirks
First aired: 1955-09-10

Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman...

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Gunsmoke

as Bill Hankins
First aired: 1955-09-10

Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman...

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The Outsider

as uncredited
First aired: 1968-09-18

The Outsider was the story of David Ross, a go-it-alone private investigator who's always where...

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Bronk

as uncredited
First aired: 1975-04-17

Bronk is an American television series starring Jack Palance as Detective Lieutenant Alex...

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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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Police Story

as uncredited
First aired: 1973-03-20

Police Story is an anthology television crime drama. The show was the brainchild of author and...

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Captain Nice

as uncredited
First aired: 1967-01-09

Carter Nash was a chemist in a police department who discovered a liquid which could turn him...

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The Practice

as uncredited
First aired: 1976-01-30

Sitcom about Jules Bedford, a crusty, sometimes grumpy, and somewhat absent-minded old-school...

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Occasional Wife

as uncredited
First aired: 1966-09-13

Occasional Wife is an American sitcom

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CHiPs

as uncredited
First aired: 1977-09-15

Lighthearted look at the adventures of two Highway Patrol officers in Los Angeles. The main...

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CHiPs

as Vic Tayback (uncredited)
First aired: 1977-09-15

Lighthearted look at the adventures of two Highway Patrol officers in Los Angeles. The main...

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Time Express

as uncredited
First aired: 1979-04-26

Time Express was a short-lived American fantasy TV series, broadcast April–May 1979 on CBS and...

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