William Bakewell
William Bakewell (May 2, 1908 – April 15, 1993), also known as Billy Bakewell, was an American actor, who achieved his greatest fame as one of the premiere juvenile performers of the late 1920s and early 1930s. Bakewell, educated at Los Angeles Harvard Military School, began his film career as an extra in the silent movie Fighting Blood (1924), and went on to appear in some 170 films and television shows. He had supporting roles at the end of the silent era and reached the peak of his career around 1930. He is perhaps best remembered for playing German soldier Albert Kropp in the film classic All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), and Rodney Jordan, Joan Crawford's brother, in Dance, Fools, Dance (1931). He also co-starred in Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929) with Winnie Lightner and Lilyan Tashman. In 1933, he contributed to the founding of the Screen Actors Guild, and was member 44 of the original 50. He never achieved stardom after the Depression years, although he became familiar in dozens of films, including his short appearance as a mounted soldier in Gone with the Wind (1939) whom Scarlett O'Hara asks when the Yankee soldiers are coming to Atlanta. During World War II, he served in the U.S. Army with the rank of second lieutenant. He was stationed at the 73rd Evacuation Hospital and at the Radio Section of the Special Service Division as the Post Intelligence Officer. He also worked under the department that handled distribution of recorded programs to overseas station circuits. He starred in the Columbia Pictures serial Hop Harrigan (1946), where he played a top Air Corps pilot. He also portrayed Major Tobias Norton and a Keelboat Race Master of Ceremonies in the phenomenally popular Disney series Davy Crockett (1954-1955). In the 1960s, he guest starred in numerous situation comedy television series, including Guestward, Ho!, Pete and Gladys, Bringing Up Buddy, The Tab Hunter Show, Mister Ed, Leave It to Beaver, The Jack Benny Program, Petticoat Junction , and Hazel. He also was cast in episodes of Peter Gunn, Sea Hunt, Wagon Train, The Roaring 20s, The Virginian, Arrest and Trial, and 87th Precinct He played the Virginia statesman George Wythe in the episode "George Mason" in the 1965 NBC documentary series, Profiles in Courage. He made his last film in 1975. For four decades, Bakewell served on the board of Motion Picture and Television Fund. He died on April 15, 1993 of leukemia at the age of 84.
Gone with the Wind
as Mounted OfficerThe spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical...
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All Quiet on the Western Front
as Albert KroppWhen a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during World War, they are assigned to...
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Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier
as Maj. Tobias NortonLegends (and myths) from the life of famed American frontiersman Davy Crockett are depicted in...
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The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
as WintersTeenager Susan Turner, with a severe crush on playboy artist Richard Nugent, sneaks into his...
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The Capture
as Herb Tolin, Bolsa Grande OilA badly injured fugitive explains to a priest how he came to be in his present predicament.
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The Strongest Man in the World
as ProfessorMedfield College science major Dexter Riley and his classmates have been working on a new...
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Beyond Tomorrow
as David ChadwickThe ghosts of three elderly industrialists killed in an airplane crash return to Earth to help...
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The Farmer's Daughter
as WindorAfter leaving her family's farm to study nursing in the city, a young woman finds herself on an...
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Romance on the High Seas
as Dudley (Travel Agent)Georgia Garrett is sent by jealous wife Elvira Kent on an ocean cruise to masquerade as herself...
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Dance, Fools, Dance
as Rodney JordanWhen misfortune hits hard on the Jordan family of Chicago's upper class, Bonnie Jordan, a...
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The Fabulous Dorseys
as EddieThe story of Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey from their boyhood in Pennsylvania through their rise, their...
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Show of Shows
as Performer in 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number (uncredited)Now hear this. The studio that gave the cinema its voice offered 1929 audiences a chance to see...
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Not With My Wife, You Don't
as Brig. Gen. Swift (uncredited)During the Korean War, Italian nurse Virna Lisi falls in love with two American fliers, Tony...
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Zenobia
as Townsman at Zeke's RecitationA modest country doctor in the antebellum South has to contend with his daughter's upcoming...
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You Gotta Stay Happy
as Dick HebertIndecisive heiress Dee Dee Dillwood is pushed into marrying her sixth fiancée, but unable to...
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So This Is Love
as Charles, Waiter (uncredited)Film biography of opera star Grace Moore, released in 1953.
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Come Fill the Cup
as Hal OrtmanAlcoholic newspaperman Lew Marsh hits bottom, loses his job and is rehabilitated by Charley...
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Lucky Me
as Motorist (uncredited)Three struggling theatrical performers meet a famous songwriter who is trying to convince a...
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Guilty Hands
as Tommy OsgoodA district attorney commits the perfect murder when he kills his daughter's womanizing fiancé...
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The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe
as Hugh PleasantBiography of Edgar Allan Poe and the women in his life.
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Call Her Mom
as Jeremy's FatherA sexy waitress becomes a house mother in a fraternity house and involves the college in a...
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The Iron Mask
as Louis XIV / Twin BrotherKing Louis XIII of France is thrilled to have born to him a son - an heir to the throne. But...
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Three-Cornered Moon
as Douglas RimplegarElizabeth Rimplegar inhabits a household populated by virtual lunatics. Her mother, Nellie,...
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While Paris Sleeps
as Paul RenoirTo save his daughter Manon from falling into the hands of a vicious gang of pimps, convict...
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Dr. Kildare's Victory
as Mr. HubbellDr. Gillespie supports Kildare's crusade against their hospital's deal with a rival hospital.
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Radar Men from the Moon
as Ted RichardsCommando Cody, 'Sky Marshal of the Universe', works with American scientists Joan Gilbert and...
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West Point
as 'Tex' McNeilArrogant and wise-cracking Brice Wayne enrolls at the United States Military Academy at West...
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So This Is New York
as Hotel ClerkA small town man inherits a significant fortune and takes his family to New York City whereupon...
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The Higgins Family
as Eddie DavisPa Higgins' attempts at success in the advertising business are constantly frustrated by his...
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King of the Turf
as InternMason is a former race-horse owner who gave up everything and started to drink after the death...
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Seven Sinners
as EnsignBanished from various U.S. protectorates in the Pacific, a saloon entertainer uses her...
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Old Ironsides
as Young Philadelphian (uncredited)An embellished account of the 1803 expedition by famed frigate U.S.S. Constitution--a.k.a. "Old...
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Sea Spoilers
as Lieut. Commander MaysBob Randall, temporarily in command of the Coast Guard vessel Niobe, expects a promotion and the...
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Daybreak
as OttoAn Austrian soldier must choose between a wealthy fiancee and a new girl who takes his fancy.
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Jungle Menace
as Tom BanningMystery and adventure, surrounding a stolen rubber harvest.
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Lady of the Pavements
as A PianistKarl, a German diplomat in Paris, discovers that his fiancee, Diane, has been cheating on him....
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On With the Show!
as JimmyWith unpaid actors and staff, the stage show Phantom Sweetheart seems doomed. To complicate...
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The Trespasser
as Bruce ColemanStevie Carson, a newspaper reporter, and Danny Butler, the "morgue" manager on the same...
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The Quitter
as Russell TilfordWhen her husband, who founded the town's crusading local newspaper, doesn't come back from the...
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The Saint Takes Over
as Shipboard Card PlayerThe Saint Takes Over, released in 1940 by RKO Pictures, was the fifth motion picture featuring...
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Quality Street
as Lieutenant SpicerIn the 1810s, an old maid poses as her own niece in order to teach her onetime beau a lesson.
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Paid
as CarneyMary Turner gets a three years prison sentence for a crime she didn't commit. Once released, she...
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The Curtain Falls
as Barry GrahamIn this drama an older actress plays her last role. The aging thespian is terribly depressed and...
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The Battle of the Sexes
as The SonGum-chewing frizzy-haired golddigger Marie Skinner cooks up a scheme with her lover Babe Winsor,...
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Strangers All
as Dick CarterDomestic drama about an elderly woman and her four squabbling adult children.
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Back Street
as Richard SaxelA woman's love for and devotion to a married man results in her being relegated to the "back...
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Hotel Imperial
as Cadet (uncredited)It is the fate of a small frontier town, adjoining the no-man's-land where the Russians and...
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The Bat Whispers
as BrookInfamous burglar "The Bat" commits a daring jewelry theft despite heavy police presence. Soon...
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Lady Luck
as Dave HainesNew York manicurist Mamie Murphy plans to marry a rich man, so she repeatedly turns down the...
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Green Eyes
as Cliff MillerThe owner of a large mansion in the country throws a costume party for some of his friends....
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Night Wind
as Capt. KingstonA boy tries to protect his dog, a German shepherd that served with U.S. Army forces after it...
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King of the Mounties
as Cpl. Hall RossKing of the Candian riding police is up against Japs and Nazis who are about to invade Canada....
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Harold Teen
as PercivalFarmboy Harold moves to the city and there attends high school. Soon he is very popular, his...
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Arthur Takes Over
as Lawrence WhiteA young woman must find a way to break the news to her parents and a stuffy suitor that she is...
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Laddie
as Robert PryorA romance between two young lovers is complicated by their prohibitive parents.
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Davy Crockett, Indian Fighter
as Major NortonDavy Crockett seeks a truce with his Indian foes.
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I Live on Danger
as MacA cocky radio reporter sets out to prove an ex-convict is innocent in the murder of a mob boss.
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When the Redskins Rode
as ApplebyA French spy (Mary Castle) flirts with an Indian chief's son (Jon Hall) amid war in 1753...
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Wells Fargo Gunmaster
as Charlie LannonRocky Lane, Special Investigator for Wells Fargo, shows up just in time to save the stage from...
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The Postman Didn't Ring
as Robert Harwood Jr.Stolen way back in 1880, a sack of United States mail is discovered in an old attic in 1942. The...
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Lucky Devils
as Slugger JonesTwo Hollywood stuntmen compete for the same pretty extra.
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Crimson Romance
as AdolphAfter Fred von Bergen, a German immigrant in America, is forced from his job by anti-German...
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Dangerous Holiday
as Tom ConnorA young violin prodigy is assumed kidnapped after he runs away from home.
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Bruised Celluloid
as HimselfThe 1930 Hollywood-produced anti-war film "Nothing New in the West" is one of the great works in...
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Playing Around
as JackNew York girl has a dull boyfriend and seems destined for a dull marriage when she meets a rich...
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Trapped by G-Men
as Dick WithersGranite-jawed Jack Holt performs a dual role in Columbia's Trapped by G-Men.
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Reducing
as Tommy HaverlyCulture shock bombards a woman and her family when they leave their hick town to help her sister...
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Gold Diggers of Broadway
as Wally SaundersThree Broadway chorus girls seek rich husbands.
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Happiness C.O.D.
as Ken SherridanA young man, hard-pressed to pay off his mortgage and support his family, decides that he'll get...
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Straightaway
as Billy DawsonAuto race champ Tim Dawson and his brother Billy are fired by boss Turnberg when they won't...
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You Can't Buy Everything
as Don Bell (adult)A scorned woman dreams of revenge on the man who betrayed her.
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A Woman of Experience
as Count Karl RunyiIt is 1915 in Vienna and the Great War has caused many casualties. Elsa, a beautiful prostitute,...
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The Dawn Express
as Tom FieldingA Nazi spy ring is after a chemical formula that increases the power of ordinary gasoline for...
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Hop Harrigan: America's Ace of the Airways
as Hop HarriganHop Harrigan, a top Air Corps pilot, leaves the military and he and his mechanic, Tank Tinker,...
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Cheaters at Play
as Maurice PerryModest picture centering on a blunderous jewel heist aboard an ocean liner.
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Together We Live
as BillyA ham-handed cautionary fable against communism, the film concerns a group of Civil War veterans...
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Davy Crockett Goes to Congress
as NortonThe second of five programs about Davy Crockett involves him being bored with life, so he and...
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On Probation
as Bill ColemanA corrupt politician adopts a young girl. A few years later he finds himself falling in love...
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The Duke of West Point
as Committee CaptainA cocky new West Point cadet from Cambridge is given the cold shoulder by his classmates because...
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Jungle Terror
as Tom BranningRe-edited feature film version of the 1937 serial, Jungle Menace.
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King of the Bandits
as Captain Frank MasonTraveling north into Arizona, Cisco finds that someone committing robberies has been...
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Straight Is the Way
as Dr. WilkesJust out of prison, Benny Horowitz tries to go straight. Things are complicated by his former...
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Speed Wings
as JerryA kidnapping, three airplane crashes and several fist-fights adds speed to the plot in which the...
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Politics
as Benny EmersonA widow's decision to run for mayor kicks off a battle of the sexes in a small town.
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A Man of Sentiment
as John RussellA man and woman fall in love at first sight, but everyone in their universe tries to keep them...
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The Shield of Honor
as Jerry MacDowellCan Jack MacDowell, the first flying policeman on the force, save his dad from stop-at-nothing...
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The Spirit of Notre Dame
as Jim StewartStory of two friends who play football, one of whom is a self-centered quarterback who thinks...
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Sons of Steel
as Roland ChadburneChadburne Steel is run by two brothers, old men. They each have different plans for their sons....
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The Party's Over
as ClayBruce Blakely, a meek, mild-mannered certified public accountant, finally gets fed up with his...
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The Last Edition
as 'Ink' DonovanA twenty-year veteran of the printing room of The San Francisco Chronicle is passed up for a...
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Hot Stuff
as Mack MoranAn uptight society aunt sends her too sexy niece to college so she can land a man.
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Mile a Minute Love
as BobWilliam Bakewell stars as an inventor who develops a high-powered boat engine. Bakewell, of...
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Annapolis
as SkippyBill is a young man who arrives at the Naval Academy in Annapolis. He is an incorrigible...
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The Latest from Paris
as Bud DolanThe Latest from Paris takes place in New York's garment district, where business rivals Blogg...
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Bertha the Sewing Machine Girl
as SalesmanBertha Sloan loses her job as a sewing-machine girl and subsequently is employed as telephone...
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Love, American Style
as ElroyAn anthology comedy series featuring a line up of different celebrity guest stars appearing in...
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I Dream of Jeannie
as Colonel HarrisWhile on a mission, American astronaut Captain Tony Nelson is forced to make an emergency...
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The Beverly Hillbillies
as uncreditedJed Clampett's swamp is loaded with oil. When a wildcatter discovers the huge pool, Jed sells...
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Petticoat Junction
as Ralph CraigThe Bradley family are proud owners of the Shady Rest Hotel. Kate and her three young daughters...
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Petticoat Junction
as ActorThe Bradley family are proud owners of the Shady Rest Hotel. Kate and her three young daughters...
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Petticoat Junction
as HerbertThe Bradley family are proud owners of the Shady Rest Hotel. Kate and her three young daughters...
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Alias Smith and Jones
as uncreditedAlias Smith and Jones is an American Western series that originally aired on ABC from 1971 to...
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Leave It to Beaver
as uncreditedLeave It to Beaver is an American television situation comedy about an inquisitive and often...
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The Roaring 20's
as uncreditedThe adventures of a newspaper reporter covering the world of cops and gangsters in 1920s Chicago.
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Nanny and the Professor
as Carnival HostNanny and the Professor is an American fantasy situation comedy created by AJ Carothers and...
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Nanny and the Professor
as NormNanny and the Professor is an American fantasy situation comedy created by AJ Carothers and...
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Lux Video Theatre
as Major DortLux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The...
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Lux Video Theatre
as Robert CooperLux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The...
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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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The Virginian
as Sam BranchThe Shiloh Ranch in Wyoming Territory of the 1890s is owned in sequence by Judge Henry Garth,...
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The Virginian
as Nate EastmanThe Shiloh Ranch in Wyoming Territory of the 1890s is owned in sequence by Judge Henry Garth,...
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Maverick
as uncreditedMaverick is an American Western television series with comedic overtones created by Roy Huggins....
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Mister Ed
as uncreditedWilbur Post and his wife Carol move into a beautiful new home. When Wilbur takes a look in his...
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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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That Girl
as uncreditedThat Girl is an American sitcom that ran on ABC from 1966 to 1971. It stars Marlo Thomas as the...
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Green Acres
as uncreditedGreen Acres is an American sitcom starring Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor as a couple who move from...
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Sea Hunt
as uncreditedSea Hunt is an American adventure television series that aired in syndication from 1958 to 1961...
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Hazel
as uncreditedHazel is an American sitcom about a fictional live-in maid named Hazel Burke and her employers,...
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M Squad
as DetectiveLt. Frank Ballinger is a no-nonsense plain clothes cop in the elite M Squad Division. The...
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Highway Patrol
as uncreditedHighway Patrol was a syndicated, fictional police action series produced from 1955 to 1959,...
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I'm the Law
as uncreditedI'm the Law is the title of a 30-minute syndicated American television police drama series which...
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87th Precinct
as uncredited87th Precinct is an American crime drama starring Robert Lansing, Gena Rowlands, and Ron Harper,...
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Guestward, Ho!
as uncreditedGuestward, Ho! is an American situation comedy which aired on the ABC network in the 1960-1961...
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Harbor Command
as uncreditedHarbor Command is an American action series that aired in syndicated from October 11, 1957, to...
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