Simon Oakland — Actor (25)
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Crosscurrent (1971) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Crosscurrent
director: Jerry Thorpe actor: Robert Hooks / Jeremy Slate …
Two San Francisco detectives investigating a murder committed on one of the city's famous cable cars discover that the victim was the son of a shipping tycoon. The trail leads to a drug dealer, a shady physician and a nervous police captain
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Scandalous John (1971) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Scandalous John
director: Robert Butler actor: Brian Keith / Alfonso Arau …
other title: L'ultimo eroe del West / Cowboy John …
A crotchety old ranch owner fights to be able to live his life the way he wants to, and not the way other people--and the law--tell him he has to.
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Wall of Noise (1963) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Wall of Noise
director: Richard Wilson actor: Suzanne Pleshette / Ty Hardin …
other title: Il muro dei dollari / Zwei Frauen um Joe …
The lives and loves behind the scenes at the racetrack are detailed in this thoroughbred soap opera. An ambitious young trainer, Joel Tarrant (Ty Hardin), enters into an illicit affair with the stable owner's wealthy wife, hot-to-trot Laura Rubio (Suzanne Pleshette), in the hope that someday he'll have enough dough to buy his own horses and stable.
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Evening in Byzantium (1978) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Evening in Byzantium
director: Jerry London actor: Glenn Ford / Eddie Albert …
other title: Abend in Byzanz / Noite em Bizâncio
While the prestigious Cannes Film Festival goes on around him, American movie producer Jesse Craig struggles to develop a pitch-worthy thriller about a terrorist plot. Before long, Craig becomes concerned that a shocking act of real-life terrorism already may be underway. Meanwhile, radical actor Bret Easton works in cahoots with a group of extremists to coordinate the hijacking of a trio of passenger planes in a devastating, multi-city nuclear attack.
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The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond (1960) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond
director: Budd Boetticher actor: Ray Danton / Karen Steele …
other title: Jack Diamond gangster / J.D., der Killer …
Jack Diamond and his sickly brother arrive in prohibition New York as jewelry thieves. After a spell in jail, the coldly ambitious Diamond hits on the idea of stealing from thieves himself and sets about getting close to gangster boss Arnold Rothstein to move in on his booze, girls, gambling, and drugs operations.
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Who Was That Lady? (1960) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Who Was That Lady?
director: George Sidney actor: Tony Curtis / Dean Martin …
other title: Chi era quella signora? / Wer war die Dame? …
In order to get back into the good graces with his wife with whom he has had a misunderstanding, a young chemistry professor concocts a wild story that he is an undercover FBI agent. To help him with his story he enlists the aid of a friend who is a TV writer. The wife swallows the story and the film's climax takes place in the sub-basements of the Empire State Building. The professor and his friend, believing themselves prisoners on an enemy submarine, patriotically try to scuttle the vessel and succeed only in rocking the building.
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The Sand Pebbles (1966) [Movie] IMDb TMDB Skybridge WikiData
The Sand Pebbles
director: Robert Wise actor: Steve McQueen / Richard Attenborough …
other title: Quelli della San Pablo / Kanonbåden San Pablo …
Engineer Jake Holman arrives aboard the gunboat USS San Pablo, assigned to patrol a tributary of the Yangtze in the middle of exploited and revolution-torn 1926 China. His iconoclasm and cynical nature soon clash with the 'rice-bowl' system which runs the ship and the uneasy symbiosis between Chinese and foreigner on the river. Hostility towards the gunboat's presence reaches a climax when the boat must crash through a river-boom and rescue missionaries upriver at China Light Mission.
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Kolchak: The Night Stalker (1974) [TV] WikiData TMDB IMDb
Kolchak: The Night Stalker
director: Jeffrey Grant Rice actor: Darren McGavin / Simon Oakland …
other title: Der Nachtjäger / Dossiers Brûlants …
Kolchak: The Night Stalker is an American television series that aired on ABC during the 1974–1975 season. It featured a fictional Chicago newspaper reporter who investigated mysterious crimes with unlikely causes, particularly those that law enforcement authorities would not follow up. These often involved the supernatural or even science fiction, including fantastic creatures.
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Third of a Man (1962) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Third of a Man
director: Robert Lewin actor: Simon Oakland / James Drury …
A prominent man in a small U.S. town, tries to forget his brother in a mental home, but the director of the hospital sets about his rehabilitation.
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Crackle of Death (1976) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Crackle of Death
director: Alexander Grasshoff / Don Weis actor: Darren McGavin / Simon Oakland …
The first of two Kolchak: The Night Stalker compilation TV films. It combines two episodes of the Kolchak TV series, Firefall (about the ghost of an arsonist that tries to take over a renowned conductor's body as his doppelgänger) and The Energy Eater (about a Native American bear-spirit haunting a newly built hospital) and adds new narration by Darren McGavin.
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I Want to Live! (1958) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
I Want to Live!
director: Robert Wise actor: Susan Hayward / Simon Oakland …
other title: Non voglio morire / Laßt mich leben …
Brazen perpetual offender Barbara Graham tries to go straight but she finds herself implicated in a murder and sent to death row.
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The Satan Bug (1965) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Satan Bug
director: John Sturges actor: George Maharis / Ed Asner …
other title: Stazione 3 - Top Secret / Alarm fra center 3 …
A US government germ warfare lab has had an accident. The first theory is that one of the germs has been released and killed several scientists. The big fear is that a more virulent strain, named The Satan Bug because all life can be killed off by it should it escape, may have been stolen.
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Tony Rome (1967) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Tony Rome
director: Gordon Douglas actor: Frank Sinatra / Jill St. John …
other title: L'investigatore / Der Schnüffler …
Tony Rome, a tough Miami PI living on a houseboat, is hired by a local millionaire to find jewelry stolen from his daughter, and in the process has several encounters with local hoods as well as the Miami Beach PD.
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The Hunting Party (1971) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Hunting Party
director: Don Medford actor: Oliver Reed / Candice Bergen …
other title: Il giorno dei lunghi fucili / Leise weht der Wind des Todes …
A ruthless rancher, and his gang, use extremely long range rifles to kill the men who kidnapped his wife.
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The Night Strangler (1973) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Night Strangler
director: Dan Curtis actor: Darren McGavin / Jo Ann Pflug …
other title: Lo strangolatore della notte / El estrangulador de la noche
After being run out of Las Vegas, reporter Carl Kolchak heads for Seattle and another reporting job with the local paper. It's not long before he’s on the trail of another string of bizarre murders. It seems that every 21 years, for the past century, a killer murders a certain number of people, drains them of their blood, and then disappears into the night. Kolchak is on his trail, but can he stop him?
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Happy Mother's Day, Love George (1973) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Happy Mother's Day, Love George
director: Darren McGavin actor: Patricia Neal / Cloris Leachman …
other title: Happy Mother's Day / Schönen Muttertag – Dein George
An adopted teen runs away to what he believes to be his birth town and mother, in the hopes of putting together the missing pieces of his identity. He arrives during a wave of disappearances and murders, only to encounter New England aloofness and some very eccentric relatives.
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24 Hour Psycho (1993) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
24 Hour Psycho
director: Douglas Gordon actor: Anthony Perkins / Vera Miles …
24 Hour Psycho is the title of an art installation created by artist Douglas Gordon in 1993. The work consists entirely of an appropriation of Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 Psycho slowed down to approximately two frames a second, rather than the usual 24. As a result it lasts for exactly 24 hours, rather than the original 109 minutes. The film was an important work in Gordon's early career, and is said to introduce themes common to his work, such as "recognition and repetition, time and memory, complicity and duplicity, authorship and authenticity, darkness and light."
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The Night Stalker (1972) [Movie] TMDB Douban IMDb WikiData
The Night Stalker
director: John Llewellyn Moxey actor: Darren McGavin / Carol Lynley …
other title: Una storia allucinante / Una historia alucinante
Wisecracking reporter Carl Kolchak investigates a string of murders in Las Vegas and suspects the culprit is a vampire. His editor thinks he's crazy and the police think he's a nuisance, so Kolchak takes matters into his own hands.