Robert Coote

Robert Coote

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Robert Coote (4 February 1909 – 26 November 1982) was an English actor. He played aristocrats or British military types in many films, and created the role of Colonel Hugh Pickering in the long-running original Broadway production of My Fair Lady. Coote was born in London and educated at Hurstpierpoint College in Sussex. He began his stage career at the age of 16, performing in Britain, South Africa, and Australia before arriving in Hollywood in the late 1930s. He played a succession of pompous British types in supporting roles, including a brief but memorable turn as Sgt. Bertie Higginbotham in Gunga Din (1939). His acting career was interrupted by his service as a squadron leader in the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II. He played Bob Trubshawe in Powell and Pressburger's A Matter of Life and Death (1946), chosen for the first-ever Royal Film Performance on 1 November 1946, before he returned to Hollywood, where his films included The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947), Forever Amber (1947), The Three Musketeers (1948), and Orson Welles' Othello (1952). In 1956, Coote created the role of Colonel Pickering in the original Broadway production of My Fair Lady (1956–62), which he reprised in the musical's 1976–77 Broadway revival. He also originated the role of King Pellinore in the Broadway production of Camelot (1960–63). He was nominated for an Emmy Award for his performance as Timmy St. Clair in the NBC TV series The Rogues (1964–65). In 1966, Coote appeared with Jackie Gleason and Art Carney in an episode of The Honeymooners entitled "The Honeymooners in England", broadcast on CBS-TV from Miami. In his last feature film performance, Coote portrayed one of the critics dispatched by Vincent Price in Theatre of Blood (1973). His final role was on television, playing orchid nurse Theodore Horstmann in the 1981 NBC-TV series Nero Wolfe, starring William Conrad in the title role. In most film and TV adaptations of Nero Wolfe mysteries, before and since, Horstmann has been a very minor character, but Coote's Horstmann got considerable screen time in the series. The veteran British character actor died in his sleep at the New York Athletic Club in November 1982, at the age of 73. Coote was a close friend of actor David Niven, sharing a house with Niven for a time in the late 1930s and living in a flat over Niven's garage for several years after the Second World War.

  • Title : Robert Coote
  • Popularity : 1.913
  • Known For : Acting
  • Birthday : 1909-02-04
  • Place of Birth : London, England, UK
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Robert Coote Movies

  • 1947
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    Lured

    Lured

    6.3 1947 HD

    Sandra Carpenter is a London-based dancer who is distraught to learn that her friend has disappeared. Soon after the disappearance, she's approached...

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  • 1947
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    The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

    The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

    7.521 1947 HD

    A young British widow rents a seaside cottage and soon becomes haunted by the ghost of its former owner.

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  • 1939
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    Gunga Din

    Gunga Din

    6.513 1939 HD

    British army sergeants Ballantine, Cutter and MacChesney serve in India during the 1880s, along with their native water-bearer, Gunga Din. While...

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  • 1946
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    A Matter of Life and Death

    A Matter of Life and Death

    7.726 1946 HD

    When a young RAF pilot miraculously survives bailing out of his aeroplane without a parachute, he falls in love with an American radio operator. But...

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  • 1952
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    The Prisoner of Zenda

    The Prisoner of Zenda

    6.7 1952 HD

    An Englishman vacationing in Ruritania is recruited to impersonate his cousin, the soon-to-be-crowned king after the monarch is drugged and kidnapped.

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  • 1973
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    Theatre of Blood

    Theatre of Blood

    6.7 1973 HD

    A Shakespearean actor takes poetic revenge on the critics who denied him recognition.

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  • 1948
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    The Three Musketeers

    The Three Musketeers

    6.8 1948 HD

    Athletic adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' classic adventure about the king's musketeers and their mission to protect France.

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  • 1948
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    Berlin Express

    Berlin Express

    6.136 1948 HD

    In post-war Europe, a diverse group of passengers aboard a U.S. Army train to bombed-out Frankfurt becomes involved in a Nazi assassination plot.

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  • 1949
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    The Red Danube

    The Red Danube

    6.3 1949 HD

    A Russian ballerina in Vienna tries to flee KGB agents and defect.

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  • 1958
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    The Horse's Mouth

    The Horse's Mouth

    6.8 1958 HD

    Gulley Jimson is a boorish aging artist recently released from prison. A swindler in search of his next art project, he hunkers down in the penthouse...

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  • 1963
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    The V.I.P.s

    The V.I.P.s

    6.2 1963 HD

    Wealthy passengers fogged in at London's Heathrow Airport fight to survive a variety of personal trials.

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  • 1960
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    The League of Gentlemen

    The League of Gentlemen

    7 1960 HD

    Involuntarily-retired Colonel Hyde recruits seven other dissatisfied ex-servicemen for a special project. Each of the men has a skeleton in the...

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  • 1951
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    Othello

    Othello

    7.371 1951 HD

    When a secret marriage is planned between Othello, a Moorish general, and Desdemona, the daughter of Senator Brabantio, her old suitor Roderigo takes...

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  • 1939
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    Mr. Moto's Last Warning

    Mr. Moto's Last Warning

    5.8 1939 HD

    A Japanese man claiming to be Mr. Moto, of the International Police, is abducted and murdered soon after disembarking from a ship at Port Said in...

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  • 1958
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    Merry Andrew

    Merry Andrew

    6 1958 HD

    When eccentric English teacher Andrew Larabee needs a raise in order for his fiancée to marry him, his interest in archaeology leads him to...

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  • 1968
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    Prudence and the Pill

    Prudence and the Pill

    5.5 1968 HD

    Prudence Hardcastle is on the pill. So is her sister-in-law, but someone has been swapping aspirin for their pills. Is it the teenage niece, the...

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  • 1966
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    The Swinger

    The Swinger

    5.4 1966 HD

    An authoress writes a steaming sex-novel and proceeds to live out her heroine's adventures.

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  • 1942
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    Commandos Strike at Dawn

    Commandos Strike at Dawn

    5.3 1942 HD

    A gentle widower, enraged at Nazi atrocities against his peaceful Norwegian fishing village, escapes to Britain and returns leading a commando force...

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  • 1938
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    A Yank at Oxford

    A Yank at Oxford

    6.7 1938 HD

    A brash young American aristocrat attending Oxford University gets a chance to prove himself and win the heart of his antagonist's sister.

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  • 1947
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    Forever Amber

    Forever Amber

    6.1 1947 HD

    Amber St Clair, orphaned during the English Civil War and raised by a family of farmers, aspires to be a lady of high society; when a group of...

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  • 1978
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    Filming Othello

    Filming Othello

    7.3 1978 HD

    Filming Othello is a 1978 documentary film directed by and starring Orson Welles about the making of his award-winning 1952 production Othello. The...

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  • 1940
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    Vigil in the Night

    Vigil in the Night

    6 1940 HD

    A good nurse ruins her career by covering up for her sister's careless mistake.

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  • 1937
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    The Thirteenth Chair

    The Thirteenth Chair

    5.8 1937 HD

    A phony psychic tries to solve a murder that took place during her seance.

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  • 1952
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    The Merry Widow

    The Merry Widow

    5.8 1952 HD

    Marshovia, a small European kingdom, is on the brink of bankruptcy but the country may be saved if the wealthy American Crystal Radek, widow of a...

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  • 1967
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    The Cool Ones

    The Cool Ones

    4.9 1967 HD

    A young, millionaire rock promoter creates a new boy/girl team for his teen TV dance show. Will the ambitious go-go dancer and has-been pop star fall...

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  • 1966
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    A Man Could Get Killed

    A Man Could Get Killed

    3.8 1966 HD

    An American businessman visiting Lisbon gets mistaken for a British secret agent who stole some diamonds. As a result, he has everybody in Lisbon...

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  • 1938
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    The Girl Downstairs

    The Girl Downstairs

    4.5 1938 HD

    A wealthy playboy surreptitiously romances a scullery maid to gain access to her mistress with whom he is in love, but doesn't count on the maid...

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  • 1966
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    Alice Through the Looking Glass

    Alice Through the Looking Glass

    6 1966 HD

    Alice returns to Wonderland through the looking glass in this TV musical.

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  • 1939
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    Bad Lands

    Bad Lands

    3.7 1939 HD

    A sheriff and his posse set out to catch a murderer, but their mission proves more dangerous than anyone suspected after they become stranded in the...

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  • 1940
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    You Can't Fool Your Wife

    You Can't Fool Your Wife

    4.5 1940 HD

    Longtime school sweethearts discover married life, thanks to a disagreeable live-in mother-in-law and pressing business obligations, is more rocky...

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  • 1964
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    The Golden Head

    The Golden Head

    5.3 1964 HD

    Stevenson, the famous English criminal expert visits Hungary with his family. While he is chairing a conference on criminology, infamous art treasure...

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  • 1968
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    Kenner

    Kenner

    1 1968 HD

    Roy Kenner arrives in Bombay hot on the heels of dope smuggler Tom Jordan, the man who murdered his partner. Combing the city for clues to Jordan's...

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  • 1938
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    Blond Cheat

    Blond Cheat

    6 1938 HD

    Socially prominent Michael Ashburn, chief assistant for a London loan broker makes a large loan during a closing time to a man for a pair of...

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  • 1952
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    Scaramouche

    Scaramouche

    7.1 1952 HD

    In 18th-century France, a young man masquerades as an actor to avenge his friend's murder.

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  • 1947
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    The Exile

    The Exile

    6.1 1947 HD

    In 17th-century England, Charles II, the rightful heir to the kingdom, is driven from his country by militants working for rogue leader Oliver...

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  • 1951
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    The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel

    The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel

    6.643 1951 HD

    The life and career of Erwin Rommel and his involvement in the plot to assassinate Hitler.

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  • 1931
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    Sally in Our Alley

    Sally in Our Alley

    4.5 1931 HD

    A woman believes her boyfriend died in the First World War, but he is now looking for her

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  • 1939
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    The House of Fear

    The House of Fear

    6.5 1939 HD

    A detective goes undercover as a producer to investigate an actor's murder, which occurred during the performance of a play...

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  • 1939
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    Nurse Edith Cavell

    Nurse Edith Cavell

    6.4 1939 HD

    British nurse Edith Cavell is stationed at a hospital in Brussels during World War I. When the son of a former patient escapes from a German...

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  • 1951
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    Soldiers Three

    Soldiers Three

    4.4 1951 HD

    Kiplingesque tale of British forces in 19th-century India.

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  • 1969
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    Charley's Aunt

    Charley's Aunt

    1 1969 HD

    Adaptation of the play by Brandon Thomas.

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  • 1937
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    The Sheik Steps Out

    The Sheik Steps Out

    4 1937 HD

    In this comedy, a wealthy sheik kidnaps and falls for a snobby socialite.

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  • 1936
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    Rangle River

    Rangle River

    5.5 1936 HD

    Marion Hastings returns to her father Dan's cattle property in western Queensland after being away in Europe for fifteen years. She is treated with...

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  • 1960
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    Lord Arthur Savile's Crime

    Lord Arthur Savile's Crime

    1 1960 HD

    Saville is told by a palm reader he is doomed to become a murderer at some future time. He decides to get the inevitable out of the way before his...

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  • 1933
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    Loyalties

    Loyalties

    6 1933 HD

    A houseguest at an upper-class gathering, wealthy Jew Ferdinand de Levis, is robbed of £1,000 with evidence pointing towards the guilt of...

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  • 1955
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    The Constant Husband

    The Constant Husband

    6.9 1955 HD

    Charles Hathaway wakes up in West Wales with no recollection of who he is or how he got there. With the help of a Cardiff specialist he traces his...

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  • 1943
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    Forever and a Day

    Forever and a Day

    7.333 1943 HD

    In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble,...

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  • 1956
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    The Swan

    The Swan

    6.9 1956 HD

    Princess Beatrice's days of enjoying the regal life are numbered unless her only daughter, Princess Alexandra, makes a good impression on a distant...

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  • 1946
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    Cloak and Dagger

    Cloak and Dagger

    6.402 1946 HD

    Italian partisans help a professor sent by the OSS to find an atomic scientist held by Nazis.

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  • 1979
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    Institute for Revenge

    Institute for Revenge

    4 1979 HD

    A sophisticated computer named IFR (the film's title is its nickname) supervises an organization dedicated to correcting wrongs against the...

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  • 1950
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    The Elusive Pimpernel

    The Elusive Pimpernel

    6 1950 HD

    A British aristocrat goes in disguise to France to rescue people from The Terror of the guillotine.

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  • 1948
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    Studio One

    Studio One

    4.727 1948 HD

    An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. Studio One,...

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  • 1958
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    Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse

    Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse

    5.25 1958 HD

    Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse is an American television anthology series produced by Desilu Productions. The show ran on CBS television between 1958...

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  • 1959
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    Rawhide

    Rawhide

    7.1 1959 HD

    The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across the old west. Along the way they meet up with...

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  • 1950
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    Lux Video Theatre

    Lux Video Theatre

    6 1950 HD

    Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original...

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  • 1964
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    The Rogues

    The Rogues

    7.5 1964 HD

    The Rogues is an American television series that appeared on NBC from September 13, 1964, to April 18, 1965, starring David Niven, Charles Boyer, and...

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  • 1950
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    Robert Montgomery Presents

    Robert Montgomery Presents

    5.2 1950 HD

    Robert Montgomery Presents is an American dramatic television series which was produced by NBC from January 30, 1950 until June 24, 1957. The live...

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  • 1981
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    Nero Wolfe

    Nero Wolfe

    7.4 1981 HD

    Nero Wolfe is a television series based on the characters in Rex Stout's classic series of detective stories that aired January 16 – August 25,...

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  • 1979
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    Sweepstakes

    Sweepstakes

    1 1979 HD

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  • 1970
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    Best Of Enemies

    Best Of Enemies

    8.3 1970 HD

    A documentary about the legendary series of nationally televised debates in 1968 between two great public intellectuals, the liberal Gore Vidal and...

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  • 1967
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    The Whitehall Worrier

    The Whitehall Worrier

    1 1967 HD

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  • 1950
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    Lux Video Theatre

    Lux Video Theatre

    6 1950 HD

    Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original...

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  • 1950
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    Lux Video Theatre

    Lux Video Theatre

    6 1950 HD

    Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original...

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  • 1950
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    Robert Montgomery Presents

    Robert Montgomery Presents

    5.2 1950 HD

    Robert Montgomery Presents is an American dramatic television series which was produced by NBC from January 30, 1950 until June 24, 1957. The live...

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  • 1962
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    The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

    The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

    7.4 1962 HD

    The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under The Tonight Show franchise from 1962 to 1992. It originally...

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