Ed Begley — Actor (29)
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Patterns (1956) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Patterns
director: Fielder Cook actor: Van Heflin / Everett Sloane …
other title: I giganti uccidono / Morgen trifft es dich …
To eliminate internal opposition, a cruel CEO sabotages and humiliates a good-natured executive in an effort to force his resignation — and make the reticent new hire his new yes man.
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The Violent Enemy (1967) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Violent Enemy
director: Don Sharp actor: Tom Bell / Susan Hampshire …
other title: El enemigo violento
During the troubles in Ireland an IRA bomb plot is hatched to blow up a British power station. Sean Rogan (Tom Bell) is an IRA bomb expert and escapes from prison to try and stop the destruction.
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The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
The Unsinkable Molly Brown
director: Charles Walters actor: Debbie Reynolds / Harve Presnell …
other title: Voglio essere amata in un letto d'ottone / Goldgräber-Molly …
The buoyant Molly Brown has survived the first crisis of her life—a flood. Sixteen years later she sets out to make her way in the world. She assures the Leadville saloon keeper that she can sing and play the piano, and learns quickly. Soon she marries Johnny Brown, who in a few years will be able to replace the original cigar wrapper wedding ring with a replica in gold and gemstones. The Browns head for Europe and bring a few crowned heads back to Denver for a party that turns into a ballroom brawl. Molly goes to Europe alone, returning on the Titanic. She didn't survive a flood as a baby for the story to end here.
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The Great Gatsby (1949) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
The Great Gatsby
director: Elliott Nugent actor: Alan Ladd / Betty Field …
other title: Il grande Gatsby / Der große Gatsby …
Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner now living on Long Island, finds himself fascinated by the mysterious past and lavish lifetyle of his landlord, the nouveau riche Jay Gatsby. He is drawn into Gatsby's circle, becoming a witness to obsession and tragedy.
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Patterns (1955) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Patterns
director: Fielder Cook actor: Richard Kiley / Everett Sloane …
"Patterns" was an American television play broadcast live on January 12, 1955, remade as a film the next year with some of the same cast. Fred Staples is the newest executive in a large firm. He strikes up a friendship with Andy Sloane, the Vice President to whom he nominally reports. Staples is good at his job and the company's hard-nosed president, Walter Ramsey, is pleased with his choice. Staples has a crisis of conscience when Ramsey tells him that he's been recruited to replace Sloane, someone who has devoted his entire life to the company at the expense of his family. Sloane knows what Ramsey is up to but digs in his heels and refuses to quit. Tragedy ensues forcing Staples to make a choice.
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Wyoming Mail (1950) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Wyoming Mail
director: Reginald Le Borg actor: Stephen McNally / Alexis Smith …
other title: L'assalto al treno postale / Gefährliche Mission …
In 1869, the United States begins a railroad mail service to the West Coast which proves highly tempting to train robbers, in particular an organized gang with one of the mail's supposed guardians in their pay. Prizefighter Steve Davis, a former army intelligence man, is hired to track down the gang and save the Territorial Mail Service. Steve goes undercover in territorial prison, leans Morse Code from a fellow prisoner, breaks jail, infiltrates the gang...and finds time to romance dance-hall singer Mary, who proves to have hidden depths...
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Saddle Tramp (1950) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Saddle Tramp
director: Hugo Fregonese actor: Joel McCrea / Wanda Hendrix …
other title: Vagabondo a cavallo / Ohne Gesetz …
Carefree Chuck Connor is on his way west and stops off to see an old friend and his four lads. When his host is killed in a riding accident Chuck realises he must take care of the family. They hit the road and he takes a job on a ranch, but he has to keep the children hidden as his boss hates kids. There's also tension with the neighbouring ranch, and when a girl on the run from her nasty uncle joins the family unannounced Chuck wonders what he has done to deserve all this.
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Sitting Pretty (1948) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Sitting Pretty
director: Walter Lang actor: Robert Young / Maureen O'Hara …
other title: Governante rubacuori / Belvedere räumt auf …
Tacey and Harry King are a suburban couple with three sons and a serious need of a babysitter. Tacey puts an ad in the paper for a live-in babysitter, and the ad is answered by Lynn Belvedere. But when she arrives, she turns out to be a man. And not just any man, but a most eccentric, outrageously forthright genius with seemingly a million careers and experiences behind him.
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Lone Star (1952) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Lone Star
director: Vincent Sherman actor: Clark Gable / Ava Gardner …
other title: Stella solitaria / Estrela do Destino …
Cattle baron Devereaux Burke is enlisted by an aging Andrew Jackson to dissuade Sam Houston from establishing Texas as a republic. Burke must fight state senator Thomas Craden, in the process winning the heart of Craden's newspaper-editor girlfriend Martha Ronda.
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Firecreek (1968) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Firecreek
director: Vincent McEveety actor: James Stewart / Henry Fonda …
other title: L'ora della furia / A Hora da Fúria …
A peace-loving, part-time sheriff in the small town of Firecreek must take a stand when a gang of vicious outlaws takes over his town.
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The Turning Point (1952) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Turning Point
director: William Dieterle actor: William Holden / Edmond O'Brien …
other title: Furore sulla città / Le Cran d'arrêt …
Special prosecutor John Conroy hopes to combat organized crime in his city and appoints his cop father Matt as chief investigator. John doesn't understand why Matt is reluctant, but cynical reporter Jerry McKibbon thinks he knows: he's seen Matt with mob lieutenant Harrigan. Jerry's friendship with John is tested by the question of what to do about Matt, and by his attraction to John's girl Amanda. Meanwhile, the threatened racketeers adopt increasingly violent means of defense.
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Deadline - U.S.A. (1952) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Deadline - U.S.A.
director: Richard Brooks actor: Humphrey Bogart / Ethel Barrymore …
other title: L'ultima minaccia / Die Maske runter! …
New York City newspaper The Day is in trouble. Even though editor Ed Hutcheson has worked hard running the paper, its circulation has been steadily declining. Now the publisher's widow wants to sell the paper, which will most likely mean its end. Hutcheson's only hope is to finish his exposé on a dangerous gangster before the sale is finalized.
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Hang 'em High (1968) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB Douban IMDb Skybridge WikiData
Hang 'Em High
director: 泰德·珀斯特 actor: Clint Eastwood / 英格儿·斯蒂文斯 …
other title: 吊人索 / Hang 'Em High …
Marshall Jed Cooper survives a hanging, vowing revenge on the lynch mob that left him dangling. To carry out his oath for vengeance, he returns to his former job as a lawman. Before long, he's caught up with the nine men on his hit list and starts dispensing his own brand of Wild West justice.
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Backfire (1950) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Backfire
director: Vincent Sherman actor: Viveca Lindfors / Dane Clark …
other title: Fuoco alle spalle / Pasión desenfrenada …
When he's discharged from a military hospital, ex-GI Bob Corey goes on a search for his army buddy Steve Connolly. A reformed crook, Connolly is on the lam from a trumped-up murder rap, and Corey hopes to clear his pal. Tagging along is Army nurse Julie Benson, who has fallen for Corey.
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Boomerang! (1947) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Boomerang!
director: Elia Kazan actor: Dana Andrews / Jane Wyatt …
other title: Boomerang - L'arma che uccide / Bumerang …
When a kindly priest is murdered while waiting at a street corner in a quiet Connecticut town, the citizens are horrified and demand action from the police. All of the witnesses identify John Waldron, a nervous out-of-towner, as the killer. District Attorney Henry Harvey is then put on the case and faces political opposition in his attempt to prove Waldron's innocence.
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The Street with No Name (1948) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
The Street with No Name
director: William Keighley actor: Mark Stevens / Richard Widmark …
other title: La strada senza nome / Straße ohne Namen …
After two gang-related killings in "Center City," a suspect (who was framed) is arrested, released on bail...and murdered. Inspector Briggs of the FBI recruits a young agent, Gene Cordell, to go undercover in the shadowy Skid Row area (alias George Manly) as a potential victim of the same racket. Soon, Gene meets Alec Stiles, neurotic mastermind who's "building an organization along scientific lines." Stiles recruits Cordell, whose job becomes a lot more dangerous.
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Sweet Bird of Youth (1962) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData NeoDB Douban
Sweet Bird of Youth
director: Richard Brooks actor: Paul Newman / Geraldine Page …
other title: La dolce ala della giovinezza / Corações na Penumbra …
Gigolo and drifter Chance Wayne returns to his hometown as the companion of a faded movie star, Alexandra Del Lago, whom he hopes to use to help him break into the movies. Chance runs into trouble when he finds his ex-girlfriend, the daughter of the local politician Tom "Boss" Finley, who more or less forced him to leave his daughter and the town many years ago.