John Houseman

John Houseman

John Houseman (September 22, 1902 – October 31, 1988) was a Romanian-born British-American actor and film producer who became known for his highly publicized collaboration with director Orson Welles from their days in the Federal Theatre Project through to the production of Citizen Kane. He is perhaps best known for his role as Professor Charles Kingsfield in the 1973 film The Paper Chase for which he won a best supporting actor Oscar. He reprised his role as Kingsfield in the subsequent TV series adaptation of The Paper Chase. Houseman was also known for his commercials for the brokerage firm Smith Barney. He had a distinctive Mid-Atlantic English accent, in common with many actors of his generation. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Houseman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

  • Title: John Houseman
  • Popularity: 5.753
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1902-09-22
  • Place of Birth: Bucharest, Romania
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John Houseman Movies

  • 1980
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    The Fog

    The Fog

    6.723 1980 HD

    Strange things begin to occurs as a tiny California coastal town prepares to commemorate its centenary. Inanimate objects spring eerily to life; Rev....

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  • 1988
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    Another Woman

    Another Woman

    6.8 1988 HD

    Marion is a woman who has learned to shield herself from her emotions. She rents an apartment to work undisturbed on her new book, but by some...

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  • 1975
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    Rollerball

    Rollerball

    6.241 1975 HD

    In a corporate-controlled future, an ultra-violent sport known as Rollerball represents the world, and one of its powerful athletes is out to defy...

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  • 1981
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    Ghost Story

    Ghost Story

    6.021 1981 HD

    Four successful elderly gentlemen, members of the Chowder Society, share a gruesome, 50-year-old secret. When one of Edward Wanderley's twin sons...

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  • 1975
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    Three Days of the Condor

    Three Days of the Condor

    7.3 1975 HD

    A bookish CIA researcher finds all his co-workers dead, and must outwit those responsible until he figures out who he can really trust.

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  • 1980
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    Wholly Moses

    Wholly Moses

    4.7 1980 HD

    Harvey and Zoey, two tourists in Israel, discover an ancient scroll about Herschel, the man who was almost Moses. Herschel receives the command from...

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  • 1988
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    Scrooged

    Scrooged

    6.8 1988 HD

    Frank Cross is a wildly successful television executive whose cold ambition and curmudgeonly nature has driven away the love of his life. But after...

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  • 1978
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    The Cheap Detective

    The Cheap Detective

    6.2 1978 HD

    A spoof of the entire 1940s detective genre. San Francisco private detective, Lou Pekinpaugh is accused of murdering his partner at the instigation...

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  • 1973
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    The Paper Chase

    The Paper Chase

    6.78 1973 HD

    A first-year law student struggles with balancing his coursework and his relationship with the daughter of a stern professor.

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  • 1976
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    St. Ives

    St. Ives

    5.7 1976 HD

    A dabbler-in-crime and his assistant hire an ex-police reporter to recover some stolen papers.

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  • 1980
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    Gideon's Trumpet

    Gideon's Trumpet

    6.2 1980 HD

    True story of Clarence Gideon's fight to be appointed counsel at the expense of the state. This landmark case led to the Supreme Court's decision...

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  • 1980
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    A Christmas Without Snow

    A Christmas Without Snow

    6.1 1980 HD

    A divorced woman (Michael Learned) moves to San Francisco from Omaha with her young son. She's trying to re-build her life after her divorce, she...

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  • 1982
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    Murder by Phone

    Murder by Phone

    5.3 1982 HD

    A disgruntled phone company employee develops a device whereby those answering a phone can be murdered, and it's up to Nat Bridger to stop the killer.

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  • 1975
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    Beyond the Horizon

    Beyond the Horizon

    1 1975 HD

    On a Connecticut farm, James Mayo's two sons both love Ruth Atkins. Robert, the younger son, is sickly and dreams of escaping to a romantic life...

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  • 2022
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    American: An Odyssey to 1947

    American: An Odyssey to 1947

    1 2022 HD

    In the early 1930s, Orson Welles ascends to unprecedented stardom while President Franklin Delano Roosevelt navigates a nation in crisis. As WWII...

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  • 1983
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    The Skin of Our Teeth

    The Skin of Our Teeth

    10 1983 HD

    Production of Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer-winning play "The Skin of Our Teeth," the story of Mr. and Mrs. Antrobus, their children Henry and Gladys,...

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  • 2013
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    Too Much Johnson

    Too Much Johnson

    5.261 2013 HD

    This film was not intended to stand by itself, but was designed as the cinematic aspect of Welles' Mercury Theatre stage presentation of William...

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  • 1975
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    I'm a Stranger Here Myself

    I'm a Stranger Here Myself

    6.4 1975 HD

    A portrait of legendary filmmaker Nicholas Ray while he is working as a film professor at a college in upstate New York.

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  • 1964
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    Seven Days in May

    Seven Days in May

    7.247 1964 HD

    A U.S. Army colonel alerts the president of a planned military coup against him.

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  • 1975
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    Fear on Trial

    Fear on Trial

    9 1975 HD

    The story of John Henry Faulk, a radio/TV personality of the 1950s, who was blacklisted during the McCarthy era. Faulk sued the organization that was...

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  • 1977
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    The Displaced Person

    The Displaced Person

    7 1977 HD

    A conscientious but driven Polish refugee disrupts the hierarchy of power on a Georgia farm in the 1940s.

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  • 1957
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    Van Gogh: Darkness into Light

    Van Gogh: Darkness into Light

    1 1957 HD

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  • 1980
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    The Babysitter

    The Babysitter

    5.6 1980 HD

    Overprotective mother Liz Benedict meets 18-year-old orphan Joanna Redwine and hires her as house help and live-in companion to rambunctious daughter...

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  • 2018
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    Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind

    Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind

    7.9 2018 HD

    A funny, intimate and heartbreaking portrait of one of the world’s most beloved and inventive comedians, Robin Williams, told largely through...

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  • 1988
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    Bright Lights, Big City

    Bright Lights, Big City

    5.7 1988 HD

    A disillusioned young writer living in New York City turns to drugs and drinking to block out the memories of his dead mother and estranged wife.

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  • 1981
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    Writing: Plain & Fancy

    Writing: Plain & Fancy

    1 1981 HD

    A documentary about calligraphy.

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  • 1988
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    The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!

    The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!

    7.256 1988 HD

    When the incompetent Lieutenant Frank Drebin seeks the ruthless killer of his partner, he stumbles upon an attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II.

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  • 1976
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    Six Characters in Search of An Author

    Six Characters in Search of An Author

    6 1976 HD

    A rehearsal is disrupted when six figures mysteriously appear on the stage, claiming to be fictional characters from an unfinished play searching for...

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  • 1985
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    The Cradle Will Rock

    The Cradle Will Rock

    1 1985 HD

    A filmed version of the 1985 revival of the Marc Blitzstein musical. This revival was filmed at the Old Vic, with former members of The Acting...

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  • 1979
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    Old Boyfriends

    Old Boyfriends

    4.9 1979 HD

    When her marriage falls apart, a psychiatrist seeks out those of her former boyfriends who left the biggest impact on her life, mostly in a bad way.

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  • 1983
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    A Rose for Emily

    A Rose for Emily

    6 1983 HD

    Townsfolk discover a warped secret while clearing out the house of a recently deceased, aristocratic spinster.

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  • 2014
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    Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles

    Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles

    6.7 2014 HD

    The extraordinary life of Orson Welles (1915-85), an enigma of Hollywood, an irreducible independent creator: a musical prodigy, an excellent...

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  • 1981
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    The New Deal for Artists

    The New Deal for Artists

    1 1981 HD

    The Arts Project of the Work Projects Administration (1935-1942) was a USA government agency established to support writers, theater people,...

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  • 1980
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    My Bodyguard

    My Bodyguard

    6.3 1980 HD

    Clifford Peach, an easygoing teenager, is finding less than easy to fit in at his new high school, where a tough-talking bully terrorizes his...

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  • 2024
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    Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story

    Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story

    8.5 2024 HD

    Christopher Reeve portrayed the Man of Steel in four Superman films and played dozens of other roles that displayed his talent and range as an actor,...

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  • 1948
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    Letter from an Unknown Woman

    Letter from an Unknown Woman

    7.77 1948 HD

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  • 1943
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    Jane Eyre

    Jane Eyre

    6.878 1943 HD

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  • 1951
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    On Dangerous Ground

    On Dangerous Ground

    6.5 1951 HD

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  • 1952
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    The Bad and the Beautiful

    The Bad and the Beautiful

    7.3 1952 HD

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  • 1951
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    The Company She Keeps

    The Company She Keeps

    5.9 1951 HD

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  • 1949
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    They Live by Night

    They Live by Night

    6.8 1949 HD

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  • 1954
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    Her Twelve Men

    Her Twelve Men

    5.7 1954 HD

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  • 1980
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    Gideon's Trumpet

    Gideon's Trumpet

    6.2 1980 HD

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  • 1953
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    Julius Caesar

    Julius Caesar

    7 1953 HD

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  • 1956
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    Lust for Life

    Lust for Life

    7.1 1956 HD

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  • 1952
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    Holiday for Sinners

    Holiday for Sinners

    5.5 1952 HD

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  • 1983
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    Choices of the Heart

    Choices of the Heart

    5.5 1983 HD

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  • 1966
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    This Property Is Condemned

    This Property Is Condemned

    6.3 1966 HD

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  • 1955
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    The Cobweb

    The Cobweb

    5.8 1955 HD

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  • 1946
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    Miss Susie Slagle's

    Miss Susie Slagle's

    10 1946 HD

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  • 1946
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    The Blue Dahlia

    The Blue Dahlia

    6.6 1946 HD

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  • 1955
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    Moonfleet

    Moonfleet

    6.4 1955 HD

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  • 1962
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    Two Weeks in Another Town

    Two Weeks in Another Town

    5.9 1962 HD

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  • 1962
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    All Fall Down

    All Fall Down

    6.1 1962 HD

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  • 1954
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    Executive Suite

    Executive Suite

    7 1954 HD

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  • 1945
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    The Unseen

    The Unseen

    4.5 1945 HD

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  • 1966
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    Evening Primrose

    Evening Primrose

    7.6 1966 HD

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  • 1963
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    In the Cool of the Day

    In the Cool of the Day

    5.4 1963 HD

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  • 2013
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    Too Much Johnson

    Too Much Johnson

    5.261 2013 HD

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  • 1958
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    The Nutcracker

    The Nutcracker

    1 1958 HD

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  • 1976
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    The Bionic Woman

    The Bionic Woman

    6.967 1976 HD

    After fully recovering from her near fatal bout of bionic rejection, Jaime Sommers, the first female cyborg, is assigned to spy missions of her own.

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  • 1985
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    227

    227

    6.7 1985 HD

    A housewife sits on the stoop of her apartment building in a black neighborhood of Washington, D.C., and discusses all manner of things with her...

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  • 1988
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    Lincoln

    Lincoln

    7.25 1988 HD

    "Lincoln" was a 1988 American television mini-series starring Sam Waterston as Abraham Lincoln, Mary Tyler Moore as Mary Todd Lincoln, and Richard...

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  • 1951
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    Hallmark Hall of Fame

    Hallmark Hall of Fame

    8.667 1951 HD

    Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The...

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  • 1982
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    American Playhouse

    American Playhouse

    6 1982 HD

    American Playhouse is an anthology television series periodically broadcast by Public Broadcasting Service in the United States.

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  • 1988
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    Noble House

    Noble House

    6.9 1988 HD

    Despite its impressive history and reputation, the international trading company Struan's is in trouble. Overextended by the previous management, new...

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  • 1978
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    The Paper Chase

    The Paper Chase

    7.6 1978 HD

    Critically lauded drama about the life and pressures of a group of students at a prestigious Eastern law school, with a strict and domineering...

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  • 1983
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    The Winds of War

    The Winds of War

    7.3 1983 HD

    Set against the backdrop of world events that led to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, Victor "Pug" Henry is a career naval officer who,...

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  • 1977
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    Washington: Behind Closed Doors

    Washington: Behind Closed Doors

    7.3 1977 HD

    CIA director Bill Martin knows that an incoming president means a new direction for the country—and another set of eyes on the top secret...

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  • 1976
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    Captains and the Kings

    Captains and the Kings

    8.3 1976 HD

    Rags-to-riches tale of an Irish immigrant in late 1800s based on the novel by Taylor Caldwell.

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  • 1973
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    The American Film Institute Salute to ...

    The American Film Institute Salute to ...

    6.333 1973 HD

    In 1973 the American Film Institute initiated its Life Achievement Award, to be presented to a yearly recipient whose talent has fundamentally...

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  • 1979
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    The French Atlantic Affair

    The French Atlantic Affair

    7 1979 HD

    When the SS Festivale sets sail from New York to France, its 3,000 passengers include Pulitzer Prize-winning author Harold Columbine and 146 members...

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  • 1979
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    The Last Convertible

    The Last Convertible

    1 1979 HD

    A star-laden adaptation of Anton Myrer's sprawling 1978 novel tracing the lives of five Harvard roommates of the class of '44, following them...

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  • 1982
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    Silver Spoons

    Silver Spoons

    6.3 1982 HD

    Silver Spoons is an American sitcom that aired on NBC from September 25, 1982 to May 11, 1986 and in first-run syndication from September 15, 1986 to...

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  • 1985
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    A.D.

    A.D.

    4.9 1985 HD

    A 12 hours miniseries adapted from Anthony Burgess's novel The Kingdom of the Wicked.

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  • 1951
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    Hallmark Hall of Fame

    Hallmark Hall of Fame

    8.667 1951 HD

    Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The...

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  • 1974
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    The Six Million Dollar Man

    The Six Million Dollar Man

    7.238 1974 HD

    Follow the adventures of Steve Austin, cybernetically enhanced astronaut turned secret agent, employed by the OSI, under the command of Oscar Goldman...

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  • 1977
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    Aspen

    Aspen

    6 1977 HD

    This sprawling miniseries details the trial of Lee Bishop, an Aspen man who was arrested, tried, and sentenced to die for the rape and murder of a...

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  • 1968
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    The Dick Cavett Show

    The Dick Cavett Show

    6.658 1968 HD

    The Dick Cavett Show has been the title of several talk shows hosted by Dick Cavett on various television networks.

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  • 1987
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    The RKO Story: Tales From Hollywood

    The RKO Story: Tales From Hollywood

    8 1987 HD

    Ed Asner tells the story of RKO Pictures from the 1920s to the 1960s.

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  • 1982
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    Marco Polo

    Marco Polo

    6.8 1982 HD

    The life and experiences of the 13th-century explorer, who sought to connect the civilizations of China and Europe through trade.

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  • 1971
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    Great Performances

    Great Performances

    5.2 1971 HD

    The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular...

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  • 1971
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    Great Performances

    Great Performances

    5.2 1971 HD

    The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular...

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  • 1976
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    The Adams Chronicles

    The Adams Chronicles

    7.2 1976 HD

    The Adams Chronicles is a thirteen-episode miniseries by PBS that aired in 1976 to commemorate the American Bicentennial.

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  • 1970
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    The Adams Chronicles

    The Adams Chronicles

    1 1970 HD

    The Great Adventure is a historical anthology series that appeared on CBS for the 1963-1964 television season. The series, narrated each week by Van...

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  • 1970
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    The Adams Chronicles

    The Adams Chronicles

    7 1970 HD

    Fireside Theater is an American anthology drama series that ran on NBC from 1949 to 1958, and was the first successful filmed series on American...

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