Donald Pleasence — Actor (101)
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The Night of the Generals (1967) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Night of the Generals
director: Anatole Litvak actor: Peter O'Toole / Omar Sharif …
other title: La notte dei generali / Generalernes nat …
A German intelligence officer investigates a prostitute's killing in Warsaw during World War II. He lands on three major Nazi generals as suspects, two of whom are also involved in a plot to kill Adolf Hitler.
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The Black Windmill (1974) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Black Windmill
director: Don Siegel actor: Michael Caine / Donald Pleasence …
other title: Il caso Drabble / Die schwarze Windmühle …
A British agent's son is kidnapped and held for a ransom of diamonds. The agent finds out that he can't even count on the people he thought were on his side to help him, so he decides to track down the kidnappers himself.
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Race for the Yankee Zephyr (1981) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Race for the Yankee Zephyr
director: David Hemmings actor: Ken Wahl / Lesley Ann Warren …
other title: Il tesoro dello Yankee Zephyr / Ein Teufelskerl …
In a lake high in the mountains of New Zealand hunter Gibbie Gibson discovers a plane wreck from WW2. When he tells it around, a gang of crooks follows and threatens him and his daughter, because they know there are 50 million dollars in the wreck. Helicopter pilot Barney helps Gibbie against them, risking his life thereby.
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The Ambassador (1985) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Ambassador
director: J. Lee Thompson actor: Robert Mitchum / Ellen Burstyn …
other title: I guerrieri del vento / Farligt brændpunkt …
An American ambassador to Israel tries to bring peace to the Middle East conflict through unconventional methods, but his efforts are hampered at every turn and his personal life threatened.
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Nothing Underneath (1985) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Sotto il vestito niente
director: Carlo Vanzina actor: Tom Schanley / Renée Simonsen …
other title: Sotto il vestito niente / The Last Shot …
Bob Crane has long maintained a psychic connection to his twin sister, Jessica, who works as a fashion model in Milan. When Bob senses that his sister might be injured or killed, he travels to Italy to look for her, only to discover that she's vanished without a trace. Enlisting the help of about-to-retire Commissioner Danesi, Bob soon finds himself embroiled in a web of mystery and terror, when a scissors wielding killer begins to strike and all clues lead back to Jessica...
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The Eagle Has Landed (1976) [Movie] IMDb Skybridge TMDB WikiData
The Eagle Has Landed
director: John Sturges actor: Michael Caine / Donald Sutherland …
other title: La notte dell'aquila / Ørnen er landet …
When the Nazi high command learns in late 1943 that Winston Churchill will be spending time at a country estate in Norfolk, it hatches an audacious scheme to kidnap the prime minister and spirit him to Germany for enforced negotiations with Hitler.
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Warrior Queen (1987) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Warrior Queen
director: Chuck Vincent actor: Sybil Danning / Donald Pleasence …
other title: La reina guerrera
In ancient Pompeii, slaves are bought and sold for household chores and sex. A mysterious queen moves among the elite, meantime secretly helping the slaves to escape. Eventually her life is also in jeopardy, and as the volcano erupts she and the slaves attempt to escape while being chased by the military.
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Buried Alive (1989) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Buried Alive
director: Gérard Kikoïne actor: Robert Vaughn / Donald Pleasence …
other title: Sepolti vivi / Lost Girls - Verloren in der Dunkelheit …
A young woman goes to teach at the Ravenscroft Institute, a spooky old girls' school overrun by ants and staffed by some unusual types. Spurred on by a series of horrific hallucinations, she begins to investigate the mysterious disappearances of several students.
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Reel Horror (1985) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Reel Horror
director: Ross Hagen actor: Alexandra / John Hayden …
Evil spirits that emerge from cans of old movie film terrorize a neighborhood.
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Suspect (1960) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Suspect
director: Roy Boulting / John Boulting actor: Tony Britton / Virginia Maskell …
other title: Sospechosos
A government team researching cures for plague find their results put on the Official Secrets list. One of their number is so incensed by this that he lets the maimed and jealous companion of a female colleague draw him into what, technically, could be a treasonable act.
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The Passover Plot (1976) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Passover Plot
director: Michael Campus actor: Harry Andrews / Hugh Griffith …
other title: Jesus von Nazareth
Yeshua of Nazareth carefully plans his own crucifixion — and subsequent resurrection — to strengthen his political position against the Roman occupation of Palestine.
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The Madwoman of Chaillot (1969) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Madwoman of Chaillot
director: Bryan Forbes actor: Katharine Hepburn / Charles Boyer …
other title: La pazza di Chaillot / Die Irre von Chaillot …
An eccentric Parisian woman's optimistic perception of life begins to sound more rational than the traditional beliefs of others. The story is set in a 20th-century society endangered by power and greed and imagines the rebellion of the "little people" against corrupt and soulless authority.
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Alice Through the Looking Box (1960) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Alice Through the Looking Box
director: Michael Mills actor: Bernard Braden / Barbara Kelly …
A Christmas TV special in which Alice does not go through a looking glass, but through a TV set.
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Spare the Rod (1961) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Spare the Rod
director: Leslie Norman actor: Max Bygraves / Geoffrey Keen …
It is London in the year 1960 and John Saunders enthusiastically begins his new teaching career at a tough slum-area school. His class are bored pupils in their last term before leaving. Will he handle the grave problems that lie ahead?
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1973) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
director: David Winters actor: Kirk Douglas / Susan George …
other title: Dr. Jekyll und Mr. Hyde / Dr Jekyll et Mr Hyde …
Musical version of the story in which Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.
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Warrior of the Lost World (1983) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Warrior of the Lost World
director: David Worth actor: Robert Ginty / Persis Khambatta …
other title: I predatori dell'anno Omega / The Last Warrior …
A nomad mercenary on a high-tech motorcycle helps bring about the downfall of the evil Orwellian government, the Omega.