Steve Cochran

Steve Cochran

He is perhaps best remembered for his role of Big Ed Somers, the power hungry gangster pal of James Cagney in "White Heat" (1949). Born Robert Alexander Cochran in Eureka, California, he was the son of a California lumberjack, who moved the family to Wyoming in the 1920s, where Cochran grew to adulthood. After graduating from the University of Wyoming in 1939, Cochran began working steadily as a Wyoming cowboy, while developing his acting skills working in summer stock and regional theaters and gradually moving on to Broadway. In 1945, he signed with MGM, and for the next several years, played mostly secondary roles as gangsters or boxers. He made his film debut with "Boston Blackie Booked on Suspicion" (1945) and quickly followed with "Wonder Man" (1945). Released from his contract in 1948, he returned to Broadway where he worked with Mae West; the next year he signed on with Warner Brothers, where he earned leading roles in such films as "The Damned Don't Cry" (1950), "Highway 301" (1950) and "Tomorrow is Another Day" (1951). Warner Brothers often had him playing the villain in several of its western films, such as "Dallas" (1950), and "Back to God's Country" (1953). With the end of his contract in 1953, he began his own film company, Robert Alexander Productions, while also freelancing for other studios and moving on to guest star roles on television shows. He would show up in such television shows as Death Valley Days, Burke's Law, The Untouchables, Naked City, The Twilight Zone, Route 66, and The Virginian. A notorious womanizer, Cochran was married and divorced three times, and was often in the Hollywood tabloids reportedly having affairs with such actresses as Mae West, Jayne Mansfield, Joan Crawford, Merle Oberon, Ida Lupino and Mamie Van Doren. Cochran died under mysterious circumstances. In May 1965, Cochran had revived his production company, and together with three women, whom he had hired as his assistants, boarded his 40-foot yacht to travel to Central and South America to look for filming locations. On June 25, 1965, the yacht drifted into Port Champerico, Guatemala, with three alive but very distraught women aboard and the body of Steve Cochran, who had died ten days earlier. The women did not know how to operate the boat, and were dependent upon its drifting to shore after his death. There were numerous rumors of murder and poisoning, and actress / former lover Merle Oberon used her influence to push for further police investigation, but no evidence of foul play was ever determined. The official cause of his death was given as Acute Infectious Edema (lung infection).

  • Title: Steve Cochran
  • Popularity: 6.51
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1917-05-25
  • Place of Birth: Eureka, California
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  • Also Known As: Стив Кокран, Robert Alexander Cochran
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Steve Cochran Movies

  • 1946
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    The Best Years of Our Lives

    The Best Years of Our Lives

    7.8 1946 HD

    It's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return home. For three WWII veterans, the day has...

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  • 1951
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    Storm Warning

    Storm Warning

    6.6 1951 HD

    A fashion model witnesses the brutal assassination of an investigative journalist by the Ku Klux Klan while traveling to a small town to visit her...

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  • 1957
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    Il Grido

    Il Grido

    7.5 1957 HD

    A sugar-refinery worker flees his Northern Italy town after a woman refuses his marriage proposal.

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  • 1946
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    The Chase

    The Chase

    6.2 1946 HD

    Chuck Scott gets a job as chauffeur to tough guy Eddie Roman; but Chuck's involvement with Eddie's fearful wife becomes a nightmare.

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  • 1956
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    The Weapon

    The Weapon

    5.9 1956 HD

    A boy accidentally shoots a friend with a gun he found in the rubble of a destroyed building. The gun turns out to be a clue in a ten-year-old murder...

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  • 1954
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    Private Hell 36

    Private Hell 36

    6.2 1954 HD

    In New York, a bank robbery of $300,000 goes unsolved for a year, until some of the marked bills are found in a Los Angeles drugstore theft. Police...

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  • 1950
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    The Damned Don't Cry

    The Damned Don't Cry

    7.1 1950 HD

    Fed up with her small-town marriage, a woman goes after the big time and gets mixed up with the mob.

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  • 1951
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    Tomorrow Is Another Day

    Tomorrow Is Another Day

    6.5 1951 HD

    A man who spent his formative years in prison for murder is released, and struggles to adjust to the outside world and escape his lurid past. He gets...

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  • 1950
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    Highway 301

    Highway 301

    6.6 1950 HD

    The "Tri-State" gang goes on a successful bank robbing streak causing local authorities to turn up the heat on the daring career criminals.

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  • 1959
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    The Beat Generation

    The Beat Generation

    4.9 1959 HD

    A group of beatniks unwittingly harbor a serial rapist. A cop goes after him after his wife is attacked.

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  • 1954
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    Carnival Story

    Carnival Story

    4.6 1954 HD

    In search of a better life, a German girl named Willi joins an American carnival passing through Munich. While traveling from town to town, she is...

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  • 1949
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    White Heat

    White Heat

    7.649 1949 HD

    A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and then leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist. After...

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  • 1961
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    The Deadly Companions

    The Deadly Companions

    5.614 1961 HD

    Ex-army officer accidentally kills a woman's son, tries to make up for it by escorting the funeral procession through dangerous Indian territory.

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  • 1947
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    Copacabana

    Copacabana

    5.354 1947 HD

    A talent agent sells his girlfriend to a nightclub – as two separate acts. The deception and constant costume changes are too much for his...

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  • 1945
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    Boston Blackie's Rendezvous

    Boston Blackie's Rendezvous

    4.667 1945 HD

    Blackie helps the police rescue hostage from an escaped maniac on a killing spree.

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  • 1965
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    Tell Me In The Sunlight

    Tell Me In The Sunlight

    1 1965 HD

    A sailor and a stripper fall in love on the beaches of Nassau in this romance. Unfortunately, the exotic dancer already has a lover.

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  • 1951
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    Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison

    Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison

    6.4 1951 HD

    A warden and his assistant clash over prison reform, triggering a violent riot.

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  • 1959
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    I, Mobster

    I, Mobster

    6.5 1959 HD

    The rise and fall of gang lord Joe Sante. A crime boss appears before a Senate subcommittee. A flashbacks tell his story.

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  • 1957
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    Slander

    Slander

    6.3 1957 HD

    A tabloid magazine threatens to ruin a television performer's career.

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  • 1946
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    The Kid from Brooklyn

    The Kid from Brooklyn

    6.2 1946 HD

    Shy milkman Burleigh Sullivan accidentally knocks out drunken Speed McFarlane, a champion boxer who was flirting with Burleigh's sister. The...

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  • 1951
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    The Tanks Are Coming

    The Tanks Are Coming

    8.3 1951 HD

    An American tank crew fights its way into Germany in World War II.

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  • 1964
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    Mozambique

    Mozambique

    5 1964 HD

    An American pilot assists the Portuguese colonial police who are battling a gang of criminals involved in drug smuggling from Lisbon to Mozambique to...

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  • 1950
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    Dallas

    Dallas

    6.4 1950 HD

    After the Civil War, Confederate soldier Blayde Hollister travels to Dallas to avenge the savage murder of his family. Discovering his enemy is now...

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  • 1958
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    Quantrill's Raiders

    Quantrill's Raiders

    4.5 1958 HD

    A Civil War guerilla gang plans an attack on a Kansas arsenal.

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  • 1953
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    Back to God's Country

    Back to God's Country

    6 1953 HD

    In a small village in the icy wilderness of Alaska Captain Peter Keith has to defend himself against two especially mean villains, who are after his...

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  • 1952
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    The Lion and the Horse

    The Lion and the Horse

    5.7 1952 HD

    After selling it to a cruel rodeo owner, a cowboy attempts to buy back the wild stallion he snared.

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  • 1953
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    The Desert Song

    The Desert Song

    6.5 1953 HD

    Shiek Yousseff, poses as a friend of the French while secretly plotting to overthrow them. Apposing Yousseff are the Riffs, whose secret leader, The...

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  • 1951
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    Raton Pass

    Raton Pass

    4.8 1951 HD

    Raton Pass is a curious western based on the rules of Community Property. Dennis Morgan and Patricia Neal portray a recently married husband and...

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  • 1952
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    Operation Secret

    Operation Secret

    5 1952 HD

    After assisting the French Underground during WWII, an American Officer is later accused of murder and subversive activities by former colleagues....

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  • 1959
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    The Big Operator

    The Big Operator

    5.8 1959 HD

    A power-mad union boss resorts to murder to eliminate witnesses scheduled to testify against him. The eclectic cast includes Mickey Rooney, Mamie Van...

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  • 1956
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    Fremont: The Trailblazer

    Fremont: The Trailblazer

    1 1956 HD

    Fremont: The Trailblazer was a television pilot episode that never aired.

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  • 1953
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    She's Back on Broadway

    She's Back on Broadway

    5.7 1953 HD

    When Catherine Terris's career in Hollywood hits the skids, she heads back to the site of her first great triumphs...Broadway! She takes the lead in...

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  • 1945
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    Wonder Man

    Wonder Man

    6.6 1945 HD

    Boisterous nightclub entertainer Buzzy Bellew was the witness to a murder committed by gangster Ten Grand Jackson. One night, two of Jackson's thugs...

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  • 1963
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    Of Love and Desire

    Of Love and Desire

    5 1963 HD

    American engineer Steve Corey comes to Mexico to work at one of the mining projects owned by Katherine Beckman and her half-brother Paul. He meets...

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  • 1956
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    Come Next Spring

    Come Next Spring

    6 1956 HD

    Matt Ballot has returned home after 12 years of hard-drinking in all 48 states. His wife has managed to raise their 14-year-old daughter and...

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  • 1945
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    Boston Blackie Booked on Suspicion

    Boston Blackie Booked on Suspicion

    5.5 1945 HD

    Blackie is implicated in a murder when he accidently sells a phony Charles Dickens first edition at an auction.

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  • 1951
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    Jim Thorpe – All-American

    Jim Thorpe – All-American

    6 1951 HD

    The triumph and tragedy of Native American Jim Thorpe, who, after winning both the pentathlon and decathlon in the same Olympics, is stripped of his...

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  • 1953
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    Shark River

    Shark River

    1 1953 HD

    Nobody has an easy time of it in the costume actioner Shark River. Wanted for murder, Clay Webley (Warren Stevens) and his wounded cellmate Curtis...

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  • 1948
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    A Song Is Born

    A Song Is Born

    6.439 1948 HD

    The story of seven scholars in search of an expert to teach them about swing music. They seem to have found the perfect candidate in winsome...

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  • 1945
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    The Gay Senorita

    The Gay Senorita

    1 1945 HD

    Romance with a lovely senorita convinces a contractor to abandon his plans to take over a Mexican housing district.

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  • 2007
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    Jimmy Carter: Man from Plains

    Jimmy Carter: Man from Plains

    6.4 2007 HD

    A chronicle of the former president's tour recent for his book "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid."

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  • 1965
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    Tell Me In The Sunlight

    Tell Me In The Sunlight

    1 1965 HD

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  • 1965
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    Tell Me In The Sunlight

    Tell Me In The Sunlight

    1 1965 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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  • 1960
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    Route 66

    Route 66

    6.4 1960 HD

    Route 66 is an American TV series in which two young men traveled across America in a Chevrolet Corvette sports car. The show ran weekly on Fridays...

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  • 1958
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    Naked City

    Naked City

    5.3 1958 HD

    Naked City is a police drama series which aired from 1958 to 1963 on the ABC television network. It was inspired by the 1948 motion picture of the...

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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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  • 1953
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    General Electric Theater

    General Electric Theater

    6 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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  • 1959
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    The Twilight Zone

    The Twilight Zone

    8.446 1959 HD

    A series of unrelated stories containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a...

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  • 1961
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    Bus Stop

    Bus Stop

    1 1961 HD

    Bus Stop is a 26-episode American drama which aired on ABC from October 1, 1961, until March 25, 1962, starring Marilyn Maxwell as Grace Sherwood,...

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  • 1962
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    The Virginian

    The Virginian

    6.429 1962 HD

    The Shiloh Ranch in Wyoming Territory of the 1890s is owned in sequence by Judge Henry Garth, the Grainger brothers, and Colonel Alan MacKenzie. It...

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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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  • 1951
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    Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

    Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

    7 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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  • 1954
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    Climax!

    Climax!

    3 1954 HD

    Climax! is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was hosted by William Lundigan and later co-hosted by Mary...

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  • 1950
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    Robert Montgomery Presents

    Robert Montgomery Presents

    5.167 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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    Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

    Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

    5.5 1956 HD

    Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre, sometimes simply called Zane Grey Theatre, is an American Western anthology series which ran on CBS from 1956 to...

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  • 1962
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    Stoney Burke

    Stoney Burke

    5.7 1962 HD

    Stoney Burke is an American western television series broadcast on ABC from October 1, 1962 until May 20, 1963. Six years before the premiere of his...

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  • 1964
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    Mr. Broadway

    Mr. Broadway

    1 1964 HD

    Mr. Broadway is an American 13-episode CBS adventure and drama television series starring Craig Stevens as New York City public relations specialist...

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  • 1953
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    Letter to Loretta

    Letter to Loretta

    6.2 1953 HD

    Letter to Loretta is an American anthology drama series telecast on NBC from September 1953 to June 1961 for a total of 165 episodes. The filmed show...

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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 1954
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    Climax!

    Climax!

    3 1954 HD

    Climax! is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was hosted by William Lundigan and later co-hosted by Mary...

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