William Bendix

William Bendix

William Bendix (January 14, 1906 – December 14, 1964) was an American film, radio, and television actor, best remembered in movies for the title role in the movie The Babe Ruth Story and for portraying clumsily earnest aircraft plant worker Chester A. Riley in radio and television's The Life of Riley. He also received an Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actor for Wake Island (1942). Description above from the Wikipedia article William Bendix, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

  • Title : William Bendix
  • Popularity : 3.714
  • Known For : Acting
  • Birthday : 1906-01-14
  • Place of Birth : New York City, New York, USA
  • Homepage :
  • Also Known As : Уильям Бендикс
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William Bendix Movies

  • 1968
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    The Movie Orgy

    The Movie Orgy

    6.2 1968 HD

    Clips from assorted television programs, B-movies, commercials, music performances, newsreels, bloopers, satirical short films and promotional and...

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  • 1951
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    Detective Story

    Detective Story

    7 1951 HD

    Tells the story of one day in the lives of the various people who populate a police detective squad. An embittered cop, Det. Jim McLeod, leads a...

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  • 1942
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    Woman of the Year

    Woman of the Year

    6.9 1942 HD

    Rival reporters Sam Craig and Tess Harding fall in love and get married, only to find their relationship strained when Sam comes to resent Tess'...

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  • 1946
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    The Dark Corner

    The Dark Corner

    6.4 1946 HD

    Ex-con turned private investigator Bradford Galt suspects someone is following him and maybe even trying to kill him. With the assistance of his...

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  • 1952
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    Macao

    Macao

    6.2 1952 HD

    Nick Cochran, an American in exile in Macao, has a chance to restore his name by helping capture an international crime lord. Undercover, can he...

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  • 1946
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    Calcutta

    Calcutta

    6.2 1946 HD

    Neale and Pedro fly cargo between Chungking and Calcutta. When their buddy Bill is murdered they investigate. Neale meets Bill's fiancée...

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  • 1955
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    Crashout

    Crashout

    6.6 1955 HD

    Convict Van Duff engineers a large-scale prison break; the six survivors hide out in a forgotten mine working near the prison, then set out on a...

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  • 1944
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    Lifeboat

    Lifeboat

    7.4 1944 HD

    During World War II, a small group of survivors is stranded in a lifeboat together after the ship they were traveling on is destroyed by a German...

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  • 1962
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    Boys' Night Out

    Boys' Night Out

    5.8 1962 HD

    Fred, George, Doug and Howie are quickly reaching middle-age. Three of them are married, only Fred is still a bachelor. They want something different...

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  • 1947
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    The Web

    The Web

    7 1947 HD

    A brash young lawyer takes a short-term, high-paying job as bodyguard for a slick business exec being threatened by a former partner, and quickly...

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  • 1949
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    A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

    A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

    6.4 1949 HD

    A bump on the head sends Hank Martin, 1912 mechanic, to Arthurian Britain, 528 A.D., where he is befriended by Sir Sagramore le Desirous and gains...

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  • 1948
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    The Babe Ruth Story

    The Babe Ruth Story

    5.8 1948 HD

    The baseball player goes from wayward youth to Boston Red Sox pitcher to New York Yankees home-run hero.

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  • 1943
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    Guadalcanal Diary

    Guadalcanal Diary

    5.6 1943 HD

    Concentrating on the personal lives of those involved, a war correspondent takes us through the preparations, landing and initial campaign on...

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  • 1942
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    Wake Island

    Wake Island

    5.6 1942 HD

    In late 1941, with no hope of relief or re-supply, a small band of United States Marines tries to keep the Japanese Navy from capturing their island...

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  • 1949
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    Cover Up

    Cover Up

    6.7 1949 HD

    Insurance investigator Sam Donovan is looking into the apparent suicide of a man in a small Midwestern town. All clues leads him into suspecting...

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  • 1946
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    The Blue Dahlia

    The Blue Dahlia

    6.6 1946 HD

    Soon after a veteran's return from war his cheating wife is found dead. He evades police in an attempt to find the real murderer.

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  • 1950
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    Gambling House

    Gambling House

    6.1 1950 HD

    A gambler faces deportation when he gets mixed up with murder.

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  • 1947
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    Where There's Life

    Where There's Life

    5.6 1947 HD

    In a far off country, their king is critically wounded after an assassination attempt and the only heir is a timid New York radio personality,...

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  • 1942
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    The Glass Key

    The Glass Key

    6.6 1942 HD

    A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.

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  • 1942
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    Who Done It?

    Who Done It?

    6.9 1942 HD

    Two dumb soda jerks dream of writing radio mysteries. When they try to pitch an idea at a radio station, they end up in the middle of a real murder...

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  • 1949
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    The Big Steal

    The Big Steal

    6.5 1949 HD

    Army Lieutenant Halliday, accused of stealing the Army payroll, pursues the real thief on a frantic chase through Mexico aided by the thief's...

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  • 2004
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    Los Angeles Plays Itself

    Los Angeles Plays Itself

    7.6 2004 HD

    From its distinctive neighborhoods to its architectural homes, Los Angeles has been the backdrop to countless movies. In this dazzling work, Andersen...

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  • 1948
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    Race Street

    Race Street

    5.8 1948 HD

    A night club owner takes on the crooks who killed his best friend.

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  • 1952
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    A Girl in Every Port

    A Girl in Every Port

    4.8 1952 HD

    After two sailors are conned into buying a lame race-horse, they go ashore to sort out the problem, but when they realize that the horse is one of a...

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  • 1948
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    The Time of Your Life

    The Time of Your Life

    5.8 1948 HD

    Joe spends a lot of his time at Nick's Pacific Street Saloon. Tom, who credits Joe with once saving his life, stops by regularly to run errands for...

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  • 1942
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    Brooklyn Orchid

    Brooklyn Orchid

    1 1942 HD

    Two taxi-fleet operators rescue a girl and she follows them to a mountain resort.

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  • 1958
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    The Deep Six

    The Deep Six

    5.4 1958 HD

    The conflict between duty and conscience is explored in the WWII drama The Deep Six. Alan Ladd stars as Naval gunnery officer Alec Austin, a Quaker...

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  • 1942
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    Star Spangled Rhythm

    Star Spangled Rhythm

    5.9 1942 HD

    Pop, a security guard at Paramount has told his son that he's the head of the studio. When his son arrives in Hollywood on shore leave with his...

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  • 1952
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    Blackbeard, the Pirate

    Blackbeard, the Pirate

    5.8 1952 HD

    Honest Robert Maynard finds himself serving as ship's surgeon under the infamous pirate Blackbeard.

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  • 1947
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    I'll Be Yours

    I'll Be Yours

    6 1947 HD

    A small-town girl tells a small fib to a wealthy businessman; complications ensue.

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  • 1946
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    White Tie and Tails

    White Tie and Tails

    7 1946 HD

    When his employer goes to Florida, a butler masquerades as a millionaire and winds up marrying an heiress.

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  • 1951
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    Submarine Command

    Submarine Command

    5.6 1951 HD

    Submarine commander Ken White is forced to suddenly submerge, leaving his captain and another crew member to die outside the sub during WW II....

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  • 1950
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    Kill the Umpire

    Kill the Umpire

    6.2 1950 HD

    Ex-baseball player Bill Johnson, failing at many jobs when his ball-playing days are over, reluctantly takes the advice of his father-in-law, Jonah...

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  • 1954
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    Dangerous Mission

    Dangerous Mission

    5.8 1954 HD

    A policeman tries to protect a young woman against a hit man, when she flees New York after witnessing a mob killing.

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  • 1944
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    The Hairy Ape

    The Hairy Ape

    5.5 1944 HD

    Aboard ship, a spoiled woman (Susan Hayward) insults the brutish stoker (William Bendix) while watching him work.

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  • 1947
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    Variety Girl

    Variety Girl

    6.1 1947 HD

    Dozens of star and character-actor cameos and a message about the Variety Club (a show-business charity) are woven into a framework about two hopeful...

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  • 1949
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    Streets of Laredo

    Streets of Laredo

    5.9 1949 HD

    Texas, 1878: cheerful outlaw-buddies Jim, Lorn and Wahoo rescue spunky orphan Rannie Carter from rustling racketeers, then are forced to separate....

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  • 1945
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    A Bell for Adano

    A Bell for Adano

    5.5 1945 HD

    Major Joppolo and his men are assigned to restore order to the war-torn Italian town of Adano. He has to manage getting supplies into town without...

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  • 1943
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    China

    China

    6.8 1943 HD

    Shortly before Pearl Harbor, American opportunist Jones and partner Johnny are in China to sell oil to the invading Japanese army. Cynical about the...

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  • 1942
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    The McGuerins from Brooklyn

    The McGuerins from Brooklyn

    5 1942 HD

    Tim McGuerin and Eddie Corbett operates a big taxi-fleet company together and because of a misunderstanding Tim's wife Sadie thinks he is having an...

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  • 1943
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    Taxi, Mister

    Taxi, Mister

    3 1943 HD

    The owner (William Bendix) of a cab company tries to foil a racketeer.

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  • 1949
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    Johnny Holiday

    Johnny Holiday

    7 1949 HD

    A guard (William Bendix) befriends a wayward youth (Allen Martin Jr.) sent to the Indiana Boys School.

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  • 1964
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    Young Fury

    Young Fury

    5.6 1964 HD

    A group of young thugs rides into the town of Dawson and take it over. When the cowardly sheriff is unable to restore control, the parents of the...

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  • 1944
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    Greenwich Village

    Greenwich Village

    6 1944 HD

    In 1922, a would-be classical composer gets involved with people putting on a musical revue.

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  • 1943
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    The Crystal Ball

    The Crystal Ball

    5.8 1943 HD

    A young woman pretends to be a fortune teller in order to find romance.

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  • 1944
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    Abroad with Two Yanks

    Abroad with Two Yanks

    6 1944 HD

    Biff and Jeff, two American G.I.'s on furlough in Australia during The Second World War, are enjoying their time the way most soldiers on leave do....

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  • 1964
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    Law of the Lawless

    Law of the Lawless

    6.1 1964 HD

    A former gunfighter, now a circuit court judge, faces his father's killer in a small post-Civil War Kansas town.

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  • 1943
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    Hostages

    Hostages

    6 1943 HD

    After the mysterious disappearance of a German soldier from a Prague cafe, the staff and customers are held captive by the Nazis accused of murder...

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  • 1949
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    The Life of Riley

    The Life of Riley

    7 1949 HD

    Inspired by the popular '40s radio show of the same title, director Irving Brecher's 1949 comedy stars William Bendix as a hard-working...

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  • 1945
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    Don Juan Quilligan

    Don Juan Quilligan

    6 1945 HD

    When a an overly romantic barge captain marries two women, each reminding him of his mother, he finds himself resorting to prison to escape them.

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  • 1947
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    Blaze of Noon

    Blaze of Noon

    5 1947 HD

    In this aerial melodrama, four brothers working as stunt pilots for a flying circus leave their jobs to become mail pilots. Because their job...

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  • 1963
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    For Love or Money

    For Love or Money

    5.3 1963 HD

    Wealthy Chloe Brasher has three beautiful daughters; Bonnie, Kate, and Jan. Chloe pays attorney Deke Gentry to fix them up with three suitable...

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  • 1946
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    Sentimental Journey

    Sentimental Journey

    6.4 1946 HD

    An actress becomes taken with Hitty, a young orphan prone to dreaming. Julie soon finds out that she is ill and has only a short time to live. She...

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  • 1959
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    The Rough and the Smooth

    The Rough and the Smooth

    5.8 1959 HD

    Young blonde woman seems to destroy everyone she comes in contact with.

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  • 1946
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    Two Years Before the Mast

    Two Years Before the Mast

    6.2 1946 HD

    In 1834, Charles Stewart (Alan Ladd), the spoiled, dissolute son of a shipping magnate, is shanghaied aboard the Pilgrim, one of his father's own...

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  • 1959
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    Idol on Parade

    Idol on Parade

    7 1959 HD

    A rock'n'roll idol is drafted into the wrong regiment.

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  • 1944
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    Skirmish on the Home Front

    Skirmish on the Home Front

    1 1944 HD

    Promotional short extolling the virtues of the American government's wartime Economic Stabilization Plan.

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  • 1991
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    Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star

    Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star

    7 1991 HD

    A retrospective on the career of Robert Mitchum through interviews with friends and co-workers, scenes from his films and the actor himself.

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  • 1945
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    It's in the Bag!

    It's in the Bag!

    5 1945 HD

    The ringmaster of a flea circus inherits a fortune...if he can find which chair it's hidden in.

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  • 1963
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    The Young and the Brave

    The Young and the Brave

    5.8 1963 HD

    A drama of the Korean War. Four American Army POWs escape behind enemy lines and try to make their way back to their units in the South. Along the...

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  • 1956
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    Battle Stations

    Battle Stations

    5.6 1956 HD

    The crew of a U.S. Navy ship in World War II goes into battle against the Japanese fleet.

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  • 1948
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    10,000 Kids and a Cop

    10,000 Kids and a Cop

    6 1948 HD

    A documentary showing the constructive approach taken by the Lou Costello, Jr. Youth Foundation in Los Angeles toward prevention of juvenile...

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  • 1940
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    They Drive by Night

    They Drive by Night

    6.9 1940 HD

    Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck business. The Fabrini boys constantly battle...

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  • 1961
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    Johnny Nobody

    Johnny Nobody

    6.5 1961 HD

    When the atheistic ranting of Irish-American author James Mulcahy upsets the inhabitants of the Irish village to which he has retired, a mob...

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  • 1959
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    The Ransom of Red Chief

    The Ransom of Red Chief

    10 1959 HD

    Based upon a famous O. Henry short story, two crooks think they have an opportunity to make a quick buck by kidnapping a rich man's son. Ironically,...

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  • 1956
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    High Air

    High Air

    1 1956 HD

    A father and his estranged son, both tunnel workers in New York City, are forced to deal with each other during a dangerous collapse.

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  • 1959
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    A Luz vem do Alto

    A Luz vem do Alto

    1 1959 HD

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  • 1963
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    Burke's Law

    Burke's Law

    6 1963 HD

    Burke's Law is an American detective series that ran on ABC from 1963 to 1965 and was revived on CBS in the 1990s. The show starred Gene Barry as...

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  • 1950
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    The Colgate Comedy Hour

    The Colgate Comedy Hour

    7 1950 HD

    The Colgate Comedy Hour is an American comedy-musical variety series that aired live on the NBC network from 1950 to 1955. The show starred many...

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  • 1948
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    The Ed Sullivan Show

    The Ed Sullivan Show

    6.529 1948 HD

    The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by...

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  • 1953
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    General Electric Theater

    General Electric Theater

    5.5 1953 HD

    General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was...

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  • 1958
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    Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse

    Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse

    4.333 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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  • 1950
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    Lux Video Theatre

    Lux Video Theatre

    5.5 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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  • 1951
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    Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

    Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

    6.5 1951 HD

    Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS. Offering both comedies and drama, the series was...

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  • 1950
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    Truth or Consequences

    Truth or Consequences

    7 1950 HD

    Truth or Consequences is an American television show originally hosted on NBC radio by Ralph Edwards and later on television by Edwards, Jack Bailey,...

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  • 1948
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    The Philco Television Playhouse

    The Philco Television Playhouse

    5.6 1948 HD

    The Philco Television Playhouse is an American anthology series that was broadcast live on NBC from 1948 to 1955. Produced by Fred Coe, the series...

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  • 1956
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    The Dinah Shore Chevy Show

    The Dinah Shore Chevy Show

    4 1956 HD

    The Dinah Shore Chevy Show is an American variety series hosted by Dinah Shore, and broadcast on NBC from October 1956 to June 1963. The series was...

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  • 1959
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    Riverboat

    Riverboat

    6.3 1959 HD

    Riverboat is a 44-episode western television series starring Darren McGavin and Burt Reynolds broadcast on the NBC television network from September...

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  • 1950
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    Robert Montgomery Presents

    Robert Montgomery Presents

    4.333 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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  • 1956
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    The Steve Allen Show

    The Steve Allen Show

    4 1956 HD

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  • 1963
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    Vacation Playhouse

    Vacation Playhouse

    1 1963 HD

    The concept of the series was the showing of unaired and unsold television pilots that did not make the television lineup for CBS. The show was...

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  • 1949
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    Lights Out

    Lights Out

    5.3 1949 HD

    Lights Out was an extremely popular American old-time radio program, an early example of a network series devoted mostly to horror and the...

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  • 1960
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    Overland Trail

    Overland Trail

    5.3 1960 HD

    Overland Trail was a short lived television western about the adventures of an earthy stage coach line superintendent and his young partner as they...

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  • 1957
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    Wagon Train

    Wagon Train

    6.4 1957 HD

    The series initially starred veteran movie supporting actor Ward Bond as the wagon master, later replaced upon his death by John McIntire, and Robert...

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  • 1950
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    Lux Video Theatre

    Lux Video Theatre

    5.5 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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  • 1951
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    Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

    Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

    6.5 1951 HD

    Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS. Offering both comedies and drama, the series was...

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  • 1963
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    Burke's Law

    Burke's Law

    6 1963 HD

    Burke's Law is an American detective series that ran on ABC from 1963 to 1965 and was revived on CBS in the 1990s. The show starred Gene Barry as...

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  • 1957
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    The Lux Show

    The Lux Show

    6 1957 HD

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  • 1953
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    The Life Of Riley

    The Life Of Riley

    6 1953 HD

    Riley worked in an aircraft plant in California, but viewers usually saw him at home, cheerfully disrupting life with his malapropisms and ill timed...

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  • 1955
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    Screen Director's Playhouse

    Screen Director's Playhouse

    6.5 1955 HD

    Presented by Eastman Kodak, this show was a series of original scripts directed by acclaimed directors and featuring well-known performers. The...

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  • 1952
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    The Ford Television Theatre

    The Ford Television Theatre

    6 1952 HD

    This show started in New York City, with Broadway actors and actresses. It then moved to Hollywood, California, where Hollywood actors and actresses...

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  • 1961
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    Mister Ed

    Mister Ed

    6.7 1961 HD

    Wilbur Post and his wife Carol move into a beautiful new home. When Wilbur takes a look in his new barn, he finds that the former owner left his...

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  • 1956
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    The Steve Allen Show

    The Steve Allen Show

    4 1956 HD

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  • 1950
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    What's My Line?

    What's My Line?

    6.6 1950 HD

    Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or...

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  • 1959
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    The Untouchables

    The Untouchables

    7.835 1959 HD

    Special Agent Eliot Ness and his elite team of incorruptible agents battle organized crime in 1930s Chicago.

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  • 1950
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    What's My Line?

    What's My Line?

    6.6 1950 HD

    Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or...

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  • 1955
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    The 20th Century Fox Hour

    The 20th Century Fox Hour

    4.2 1955 HD

    The 20th Century Fox Hour is an American drama anthology series televised in the United States on CBS from 1955 to 1957. Some of the shows in this...

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