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Alexander Knox (16 January 1907 – 25 April 1995) was a Canadian actor and author of adventure novels set in the Great Lakes area during the 19th century.
Born in Strathroy, Ontario, he graduated from the University of Western Ontario, and later moved to Boston, Massachusetts to perform on the stage. During the 1930s he moved to London, England where he appeared in several films. He starred opposite Jessica Tandy in the 1940 Broadway production of Jupiter Laughs. In 1944, he was chosen by Darryl F. Zanuck to star in Wilson, the biographical film about US President Woodrow Wilson, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor. However, during the McCarthy Era, he was blacklisted by the Hollywood film studio bosses and he returned to England.
He had major roles in The Sea Wolf, Over 21, Sister Kenny, The Vikings, Europa '51, None Shall Escape, and Nicholas and Alexandra, as well as supporting roles in Joshua Then and Now and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. He also wrote six adventure novels: Bride of Quietness, Night of the White Bear, The Enemy I Kill, Raider's Moon, The Kidnapped Surgeon and Totem Dream.
Actors: Steve Forner (editor), Steve Alderfer (actor), Carlos Arellano (actor), Rosalie McIntire (actress), Rosalie McIntire (actress), Jonathon Fessenden (composer), Max V. Carp (director), Max V. Carp (producer), Max V. Carp (writer), Chris Gowen (producer), Chris Gowen (actor), Luca Carp (producer), Eric Jacklin (actor), Chris Holmes (producer),
Genres: Comedy, Mystery, Short, Thriller,Actors: Caco Ciocler (actor), Thiago Luciano (producer), Thiago Luciano (actor), Thiago Luciano (director), Thiago Luciano (writer), Fausto Noro (editor), Beto Schultz (director), Beto Schultz (producer), Ricardo Dantas (actor), Beto Schultz (actor), Domingos Meira (actor), Lucy Ramos (actress), Jair Assumpcao (actor), Danny Oliveira (producer), Leandro Luna (producer),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Charles Heaphy (miscellaneous crew), Wes Craven (writer), Wes Craven (writer), Wes Craven (producer), Greg Bernstein (miscellaneous crew), Michael Barnes (miscellaneous crew), Michael Bailey Smith (actor), Jeff Kober (actor), Peter Locke (producer), Derek Mears (actor), Jay Acovone (actor), Jacob Vargas (actor), Flex Alexander (actor), Alex Matcham (miscellaneous crew), Marianne Maddalena (producer),
Plot: A team of trainees of the National Guard brings supply to the New Mexico Desert for a group of soldiers and scientists that are installing a monitoring system in Sector 16. They do not find anybody in the camp, and they receive a blurred distress signal from the hills. Their sergeant gathers a rescue team, and they are attacked and trapped by deformed cannibals, having to fight to survive.
Keywords: accidental-death, accidental-killing, anal-rape, army, axe-in-the-head, axe-murder, bare-breasts, bayonet, beaten-to-death, birth-to-monsterActors: Jean-Pierre Cassel (actor), Alex Descas (actor), Simon Abkarian (actor), Harmel Sbraire (miscellaneous crew), Béatrice Dalle (actress), Edouard Montoute (actor), Firmine Richard (actress), Léa Drucker (actress), Vincent Elbaz (actor), Josiane Morand (miscellaneous crew), Chantal Hymans (editor), Sara Martins (actress), Khalid Maadour (actor), Adrien Saint-Joré (actor), Mauricette Gourdon (actress),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Peter Locke (producer), Mamie Van Doren (actress), Avery Schreiber (actor), Donald Kushner (producer), Tim Thomerson (actor), Joyce Brothers (actress), Archie Hahn (actor), Chazz Palminteri (actor), Michael Fairman (actor), George Dzundza (actor), Tony Longo (actor), Beau Starr (actor), Tommy 'Tiny' Lister (actor), Arthur Allan Seidelman (director), Carmen Filpi (actor),
Plot: A group of former high-school buddies have a reunion in Las Vegas. Thinking to increase their alumni fund, they proceed to use it to gamble at the casinos. Of course, they lose it all. They then get together and try to figure out a way to win it all back.
Keywords: gambling, high-schoolActors: Bryan Forbes (producer), Francis Lai (composer), Penny Daniels (miscellaneous crew), Don Boyd (miscellaneous crew), Anthony Hopkins (actor), Bryan Forbes (writer), Christopher Plummer (actor), Bryan Forbes (actor), Bryan Forbes (director), Nanette Newman (actress), Tatum O'Neal (actress), Norman Wooland (actor), Margaret John (actress), Brenda Cowling (actress), Peter Barkworth (actor),
Plot: This sequel to the 1944 Elizabeth Taylor film National Velvet focuses on Sarah Brown, a young, recently orphaned American girl sent to England to live with her aunt - a now grown Velvet Brown. The troubled Sarah is only interested in one thing; horses, and has clearly inherited her aunt's talent. She and her horse Arizona Pie (son of Velvet's Grand National winning stead The Pie) work their way up through the world of eventing, finally being selected for the British Olympic Squad, growing up and finding love along the way.
Keywords: accident, airplane, aunt-niece-relationship, author, automobile-accident, based-on-novel, beach, coming-of-age, cross-country, dance-partyActors: Robert Stack (actor), Norman Alden (actor), Myron Healey (actor), Walter Brooke (actor), David L. Wolper (producer), Jim Antonio (actor), James Greene (actor), Stan Margulies (producer), Charles Aidman (actor), Richard T. Heffron (director), David Saxon (editor), Robert Symonds (actor), Bob Larson (producer), William Wintersole (actor), Lynn Carlin (actress),
Plot: The story about Sam Houston's campaign against the secession of Texas from the Union capped by his colorful career as a soldier and a politician. Houston fought with Andrew Jackson against the Creek Indians during the War of 1812, captured Mexican General Santa Anna at San Jacinto in 1836, and was twice elected president of the republic of Texas, and became Governor of the state in 1859.
Keywords: sam-houston, texasActors: Avery Schreiber (actor), Bud Yorkin (director), Bud Yorkin (producer), Fred Willard (actor), Ben Astar (actor), Bob Kaliban (actor), Johnny Haymer (actor), Jack Burns (actor), Johnny Wayne (writer), Frank Shuster (writer), Robert Fitch (actor), Roger Newman (actor), Bill Giorgio (actor), Rex Allen Jr. (actor), Arthur Abelson (actor),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Kenneth Harlan (actor), Sam Ash (actor), Duke Green (actor), Ernie Adams (actor), Roy Barcroft (actor), Brooks Benedict (actor), Johnny Arthur (actor), Duke Green (actor), Bill Cody (actor), Lester Dorr (actor), Sam Flint (actor), William Forrest (actor), Bud Geary (actor), Fred Graham (actor), Howard C. Hickman (actor),
Genres: ,Actors: Fred Graham (actor), Sam Ash (actor), Fred Graham (actor), Bud Geary (actor), Roy Barcroft (actor), Brooks Benedict (actor), Johnny Arthur (actor), Lynton Brent (actor), Ernie Adams (actor), Bill Cody (actor), John Daheim (actor), Lester Dorr (actor), Sam Flint (actor), William Forrest (actor), Fred Graham (actor),
Plot: Warrwen Hamilton and Martin Crane, chief executives if the World-Wide Insurance Company, enlist the aid of the Masked Marvel to find Mura Sakima, a former Japanese envoy, whom they suspect of being responsible for extensive sabotage of war industries. But CRane is secretly in league with Sakima, and they arrange for Hamilton's murder. The murdered man's daughter, Alice, joins the Masked Marvel and his three aides in a campaign to expose and apprehend Sakima. The Masked Marvel is one of four men - Bob Barton, Frank Jeffers, Terry Morton and Jim Arnold; he hides his identity beneath a black mask and only Alice knows he is one of the four investigators.
Keywords: 1940s, airplane-pilot, ambush, black-mask, bomb, bound-and-gagged, cafe, character-name-in-title, cigarette-smoking, cliffhanger