Ralph Meeker

Ralph Meeker

Ralph Meeker (born Ralph Rathgeber; November 21, 1920 – August 5, 1988) was an American actor. He first rose to prominence for his roles in the Broadway productions of Mister Roberts (1948–1951) and Picnic (1953), the former of which earned him a Theatre World Award for his performance. In film, Meeker is perhaps best known for his portrayal of Mike Hammer in Robert Aldrich's 1955 Kiss Me Deadly. Meeker went on to play a series of roles that used his husky and macho screen presence, including a lead role in Stanley Kubrick's military courtroom drama Paths of Glory (1957), as a troubled mechanic opposite Carroll Baker in Something Wild (1961), as a World War II captain in The Dirty Dozen (1967), and in the gangster film The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1967). Other credits include supporting roles in I Walk the Line (1970) and Sidney Lumet's The Anderson Tapes (1971). He also had a prolific career in television, appearing as Sergeant Steve Dekker on the series Not for Hire (1959–1960), and in the television horror film The Night Stalker (1972). After suffering a stroke in 1980, Meeker was forced to retire from acting, and died eight years later of a heart attack in Los Angeles, California. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ralph Meeker, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

  • Title: Ralph Meeker
  • Popularity: 8.512
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1920-11-21
  • Place of Birth: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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  • Also Known As: Ralph Rathgeber
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Ralph Meeker Movies

  • 1957
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    Paths of Glory

    Paths of Glory

    8.266 1957 HD

    A commanding officer defends three scapegoats on trial for a failed offensive that occurred within the French Army in 1916.

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  • 1967
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    The Dirty Dozen

    The Dirty Dozen

    7.589 1967 HD

    12 American military prisoners in World War II are ordered to infiltrate a well-guarded enemy château and kill the Nazi officers vacationing...

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  • 1953
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    The Naked Spur

    The Naked Spur

    6.879 1953 HD

    A bounty hunter trying to bring a murderer to justice is forced to accept the help of two less-than-trustworthy strangers.

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  • 1971
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    The Anderson Tapes

    The Anderson Tapes

    6.1 1971 HD

    Thief Duke Anderson—just released from ten years in jail—takes up with his old girlfriend in her posh apartment block, and makes plans to...

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  • 1957
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    Run of the Arrow

    Run of the Arrow

    6.2 1957 HD

    When the South loses the war, Confederate veteran O'Meara goes West, joins the Sioux, takes a wife and refuses to be an American but he must choose a...

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  • 1956
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    A Woman's Devotion

    A Woman's Devotion

    4.5 1956 HD

    An artist suffering from mental problems from his experiences during the war goes to Acapulco on his honeymoon. Soon young women are turning up dead...

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  • 1978
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    The Alpha Incident

    The Alpha Incident

    3.4 1978 HD

    A space probe brings back a micro-organism from Mars which terrorizes passengers at a railhead.

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  • 1953
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    Jeopardy

    Jeopardy

    6.6 1953 HD

    A woman is kidnapped when she goes to get help for her husband who is trapped on a beach with the tide coming in to surely drown him.

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  • 1979
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    Winter Kills

    Winter Kills

    5.809 1979 HD

    The younger brother of an assassinated US President is led down a rabbit hole of conspiracies and dead ends after learning of a man claiming to be...

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  • 1976
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    The Food of the Gods

    The Food of the Gods

    4.981 1976 HD

    Morgan and his friends are on a hunting trip on a remote Canadian island when they are attacked by a swarm of giant wasps. Looking for help, Morgan...

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  • 1975
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    The Dead Don't Die

    The Dead Don't Die

    5.8 1975 HD

    In the 1930s, a sailor trying to prove that his brother was wrongly executed for murder finds himself becoming drawn into the occult world.

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  • 1968
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    The Detective

    The Detective

    6 1968 HD

    Police detective Joe Leland investigates the murder of a gay man.

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  • 1967
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    The St. Valentine's Day Massacre

    The St. Valentine's Day Massacre

    6.3 1967 HD

    Chicago February 14th 1929. Al Capone finally establishes himself as the city's boss of organised crime. In a north-side garage his hoods, dressed as...

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  • 1972
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    The Night Stalker

    The Night Stalker

    6.79 1972 HD

    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...

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  • 1955
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    Big House, U.S.A

    Big House, U.S.A

    6.5 1955 HD

    A tough and realistic crime drama unfolds as merciless kidnapper Jerry Barker (Ralph Meeker) demands ransom paid against a young runaway whose fate...

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  • 1980
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    Without Warning

    Without Warning

    5.236 1980 HD

    Sandy and Greg are teenagers who go camping, despite warnings not to, with their friends. They soon encounter aliens, who are using the area as a...

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  • 1953
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    Code Two

    Code Two

    6.2 1953 HD

    Three young men train to become motorcycle cops.

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  • 1955
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    Kiss Me Deadly

    Kiss Me Deadly

    7.2 1955 HD

    One evening, Hammer gives a ride to Christina, an attractive hitchhiker on a lonely country road, who has escaped from the nearby lunatic asylum....

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  • 1975
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    Johnny Firecloud

    Johnny Firecloud

    5.4 1975 HD

    An American Indian war veteran avenges the hanging of his grandfather by local thugs.

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  • 2004
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    Los Angeles Plays Itself

    Los Angeles Plays Itself

    7.7 2004 HD

    From its distinctive neighborhoods to its architectural homes, Los Angeles has been the backdrop to countless movies. In this dazzling work, Andersen...

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  • 1961
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    Something Wild

    Something Wild

    6.2 1961 HD

    A young rape victim tries desperately to pick up the pieces of her life, only to find herself at the mercy of a would-be rescuer.

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  • 1970
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    I Walk the Line

    I Walk the Line

    5.7 1970 HD

    Henry Tawes, a middle-aged sheriff in a rural Tennessee town, is usually the first man to criticize others for their bad behavior. Miserable in his...

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  • 1974
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    The Girl on the Late, Late Show

    The Girl on the Late, Late Show

    5.5 1974 HD

    A television producer decides to find out the whereabouts of a former movie actress whose career has long since faded, then discovers that his...

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  • 1973
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    Birds of Prey

    Birds of Prey

    5 1973 HD

    Harry Walker, a former military pilot, works as a helicopter pilot and traffic reporter for a Salt Lake City radio station. One day while working he...

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  • 1972
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    The Mind Snatchers

    The Mind Snatchers

    5.9 1972 HD

    A German scientist works on a way of quelling overly aggressive soldiers by developing implants that directly stimulate the pleasure centers of the...

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  • 1957
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    The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown

    The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown

    6 1957 HD

    When beautiful blonde movie star Laurel Stevens is kidnapped on the verge of the premiere of her film “The Kidnapped Bride”, everyone...

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  • 1961
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    Ada

    Ada

    6.1 1961 HD

    A popular but naive country singer is elected governor of a southern state and, once in office, decides to dismantle the corrupt political machine...

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  • 1952
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    Shadow in the Sky

    Shadow in the Sky

    6.6 1952 HD

    Burt, a Marine suffering from Battle Fatigue, is deathly afraid of rain and confined to an asylum, but showing improvement. He wants to live with his...

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  • 1969
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    The Devil's Eight

    The Devil's Eight

    5.1 1969 HD

    The Devil's 8 is a 1969 film from American International Pictures. It is about a Federal agent (Christopher George) who recruits six convicts to bust...

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  • 1955
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    Desert Sands

    Desert Sands

    4.4 1955 HD

    The French Foreign Legion battles rebellious Arabs in North Africa.

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  • 1952
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    Somebody Loves Me

    Somebody Loves Me

    8.5 1952 HD

    Backstage musical biography of nightclub star Blossom Seeley that charts her rocky relationship with vaudeville singer Benny Fields.

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  • 1978
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    My Boys Are Good Boys

    My Boys Are Good Boys

    7.2 1978 HD

    Teenagers at a correctional facility devise a plan to rob an armored van.

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  • 1951
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    Teresa

    Teresa

    5.7 1951 HD

    An Italian war bride has problems dealing with her husband's possessive mother.

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  • 1952
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    Glory Alley

    Glory Alley

    5.9 1952 HD

    A New Orleans boxer backs out of a bout and leaves his girlfriend for Korea.

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  • 1973
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    You'll Never See Me Again

    You'll Never See Me Again

    7 1973 HD

    After a couple have an argument, the wife disappears. The husband searches for her, only to discover evidence that implicates him in her murder.

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  • 1970
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    Lost Flight

    Lost Flight

    3.7 1970 HD

    The captain of a downed airliner must help his crew and passengers survive on a deserted jungle island in the midst of a power struggle - an adult...

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  • 2002
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    The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller

    The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller

    5.8 2002 HD

    Samuel Fuller discusses his career as a filmmaker, illustrated by plenty of clips.

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  • 1967
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    Gentle Giant

    Gentle Giant

    1 1967 HD

    The Story of a boy and his bear.

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  • 1971
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    The Reluctant Heroes

    The Reluctant Heroes

    1 1971 HD

    An army tale about an egghead ninety-day-wonder who relies on ancient tactics he remembers from the history books to save his beleaguered squad on an...

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  • 1978
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    Hi-Riders

    Hi-Riders

    5.1 1978 HD

    Story of a group of drag races and the young boy and girl who join them.

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  • 1963
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    Wall of Noise

    Wall of Noise

    3.6 1963 HD

    The lives and loves behind the scenes at the racetrack are detailed in this thoroughbred soap opera. An ambitious young trainer, Joel Tarrant (Ty...

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  • 1975
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    Brannigan

    Brannigan

    5.876 1975 HD

    A hard-nosed Chicago cop is sent to London to bring back an American mobster being held for extradition. Brannigan in his Irish-American way brings...

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  • 1951
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    Four in a Jeep

    Four in a Jeep

    5.4 1951 HD

    Soviet, British, French and American allies patrol post-war Vienna.

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  • 1961
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    A Holster Full Of Law

    A Holster Full Of Law

    1 1961 HD

    Slaughter’s cattle are rustled, and when the sheriff is powerless to do anything about it, Slaughter is elected sheriff himself. With a band of...

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  • 1974
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    Cry Panic

    Cry Panic

    6.6 1974 HD

    A man accidentally runs over and kills a pedestrian outside a small town. He begins to suspect that the locals, including the sheriff, are keeping...

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  • 1973
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    Love Comes Quietly

    Love Comes Quietly

    5.2 1973 HD

    Love Comes Quietly (aka Angela) tells the story of a free-spirited girl who was born in the wrong place at the wrong time. In the 1920s, even the...

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  • 1974
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    Night Games

    Night Games

    6 1974 HD

    A Harvard-educated, big-city lawyer moves to a small Arizona town to set up practice. His first case is defending a beautiful socialite accused of...

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  • 1978
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    My Boys Are Good Boys

    My Boys Are Good Boys

    7.2 1978 HD

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  • 1977
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    CHiPs

    CHiPs

    6.8 1977 HD

    Lighthearted look at the adventures of two Highway Patrol officers in Los Angeles. The main characters are Jon Baker and Frank Poncherello, two...

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  • 1972
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    The Rookies

    The Rookies

    6.9 1972 HD

    The Rookies is an American crime drama series that aired on ABC from 1972 until 1976. It follows the exploits of three rookie police officers working...

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  • 1963
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    Kraft Suspense Theatre

    Kraft Suspense Theatre

    5.3 1963 HD

    Kraft Suspense Theatre is an American anthology series that was telecast from 1963 to 1965 on NBC. Sponsored by Kraft Foods, it was seen three weeks...

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  • 1965
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    The F.B.I.

    The F.B.I.

    5.4 1965 HD

    The F.B.I. is an American television series that was broadcast on ABC from 1965 to 1974. It was sponsored by the Ford Motor Company, and the...

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  • 1960
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    Route 66

    Route 66

    6.4 1960 HD

    Route 66 is an American TV series in which two young men traveled across America in a Chevrolet Corvette sports car. The show ran weekly on Fridays...

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  • 1978
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    Kaz

    Kaz

    5 1978 HD

    Kaz is an American crime drama series that aired on CBS from September 10, 1978 to April 22, 1979.

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  • 1969
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    Room 222

    Room 222

    5.7 1969 HD

    Room 222 is an American comedy-drama television series produced by 20th Century Fox Television. The series aired on ABC for 112 episodes from...

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  • 1948
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    Studio One

    Studio One

    4.727 1948 HD

    An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. Studio One,...

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  • 1973
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    The Evil Touch

    The Evil Touch

    5.5 1973 HD

    The Evil Touch is an Australian-produced television series, originally broadcast in Australia in 1973. It was an anthology series where each episode...

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  • 1971
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    Cannon

    Cannon

    6.5 1971 HD

    Cannon is a CBS detective television series produced by Quinn Martin which aired from March 26, 1971 to March 3, 1976. The primary protagonist is the...

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  • 1974
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    Run, Joe, Run

    Run, Joe, Run

    6.2 1974 HD

    Run, Joe, Run was a Saturday morning television program that aired on NBC from 1974 to 1976. It centered around Joe, a German Shepherd in the...

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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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  • 1967
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    Ironside

    Ironside

    6.9 1967 HD

    When an assassin's bullet confines him to a wheelchair for life ending his career as Chief of Detectives, Robert T. Ironside becomes a consultant to...

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  • 1955
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    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    7.7 1955 HD

    A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.

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  • 1962
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    Going My Way

    Going My Way

    5 1962 HD

    Going My Way is an American comedy-drama series

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  • 1974
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    Harry O

    Harry O

    4.6 1974 HD

    After being shot in the line of duty, Harry Orwell was forced to retire from the San Diego Police Department. To supplement his police pension, Harry...

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  • 1974
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    Police Woman

    Police Woman

    6.2 1974 HD

    Sergeant “Pepper"” Anderson, an undercover cop for the Criminal Conspiracy Unit of the Los Angeles Police Department, poses undercover...

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  • 1973
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    Police Story

    Police Story

    7.1 1973 HD

    Police Story is an anthology television crime drama. The show was the brainchild of author and former policeman Joseph Wambaugh and represented a...

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  • 1967
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    The High Chaparral

    The High Chaparral

    6.5 1967 HD

    The High Chaparral is an American Western-themed television series starring Leif Erickson and Cameron Mitchell which aired on NBC from 1967 to 1971....

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  • 1950
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    Lux Video Theatre

    Lux Video Theatre

    6 1950 HD

    Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original...

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  • 1951
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    Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

    Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

    7 1951 HD

    Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS. Offering both comedies and drama, the series was...

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  • 1954
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    Climax!

    Climax!

    3 1954 HD

    Climax! is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was hosted by William Lundigan and later co-hosted by Mary...

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  • 1955
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    The 20th Century Fox Hour

    The 20th Century Fox Hour

    5.167 1955 HD

    The 20th Century Fox Hour is an American drama anthology series televised in the United States on CBS from 1955 to 1957. Some of the shows in this...

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  • 1966
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    Tarzan

    Tarzan

    6.7 1966 HD

    Tarzan is a series that aired on NBC from 1966 – 1968. The series portrayed Tarzan as a well-educated character, one who, tired of...

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  • 1958
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    Wanted: Dead or Alive

    Wanted: Dead or Alive

    6.9 1958 HD

    Wanted: Dead or Alive is an American Western television series starring Steve McQueen as the bounty hunter Josh Randall. It aired on CBS for three...

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  • 1975
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    Barbary Coast

    Barbary Coast

    5 1975 HD

    Barbary Coast is an American television series that aired on ABC. The pilot movie first aired on May 4, 1975 and the series itself premiered...

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  • 1973
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    Toma

    Toma

    7.8 1973 HD

    Toma is an American crime drama series that ran on ABC in 1973 and 1974.

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  • 1958
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    The Texan

    The Texan

    5.5 1958 HD

    The Texan was a Western television series starring popular B movie actor Rory Calhoun, which aired on the CBS television network from 1958 to 1960.

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  • 1956
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    Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

    Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

    5.5 1956 HD

    Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre, sometimes simply called Zane Grey Theatre, is an American Western anthology series which ran on CBS from 1956 to...

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  • 1967
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    Custer

    Custer

    6 1967 HD

    Custer, also known as The Legend of Custer, is a 17-episode military-western television series which ran on ABC from September 6 to December 27,...

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  • 1961
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    The Defenders

    The Defenders

    6.2 1961 HD

    The Defenders is an American courtroom drama series . It starred E. G. Marshall and Robert Reed as father-and-son defense attorneys who specialized...

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  • 1963
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    The Outer Limits

    The Outer Limits

    7.8 1963 HD

    The Outer Limits is an anthology tv series of self-contained sci-fi-horror stories, sometimes with a plot twist at the end.

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  • 1953
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    Letter to Loretta

    Letter to Loretta

    6.2 1953 HD

    Letter to Loretta is an American anthology drama series telecast on NBC from September 1953 to June 1961 for a total of 165 episodes. The filmed show...

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  • 1978
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    The Eddie Capra Mysteries

    The Eddie Capra Mysteries

    5 1978 HD

    The Eddie Capra Mysteries is an American mystery television series starring Vincent Baggetta that aired on NBC from September 8, 1978, to January 12,...

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  • 1961
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    Tallahassee 7000

    Tallahassee 7000

    1 1961 HD

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  • 1959
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    Not for Hire

    Not for Hire

    1 1959 HD

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  • 1966
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    The Green Hornet

    The Green Hornet

    7.2 1966 HD

    The Green Hornet is a television series on the ABC US television network that aired for the 1966–1967 TV season starring Van Williams as the...

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  • 1971
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    Primus

    Primus

    5 1971 HD

    Primus is a syndicated sea adventure series which aired in 1971–1972. It told the adventures of Carter Primus. The series was produced by Ivan...

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  • 1965
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    The F.B.I.

    The F.B.I.

    5.4 1965 HD

    The F.B.I. is an American television series that was broadcast on ABC from 1965 to 1974. It was sponsored by the Ford Motor Company, and the...

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  • 1965
    imgS9 E23

    The F.B.I.

    The F.B.I.

    5.4 1965 HD

    The F.B.I. is an American television series that was broadcast on ABC from 1965 to 1974. It was sponsored by the Ford Motor Company, and the...

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  • 1953
    imgS8 E31

    Letter to Loretta

    Letter to Loretta

    6.2 1953 HD

    Letter to Loretta is an American anthology drama series telecast on NBC from September 1953 to June 1961 for a total of 165 episodes. The filmed show...

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  • 1953
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    Letter to Loretta

    Letter to Loretta

    6.2 1953 HD

    Letter to Loretta is an American anthology drama series telecast on NBC from September 1953 to June 1961 for a total of 165 episodes. The filmed show...

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  • 1953
    imgS8 E31

    Letter to Loretta

    Letter to Loretta

    6.2 1953 HD

    Letter to Loretta is an American anthology drama series telecast on NBC from September 1953 to June 1961 for a total of 165 episodes. The filmed show...

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  • 1950
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    Lux Video Theatre

    Lux Video Theatre

    6 1950 HD

    Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original...

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  • 1951
    imgS2 E33

    Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

    Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

    7 1951 HD

    Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS. Offering both comedies and drama, the series was...

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  • 1948
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    The Ed Sullivan Show

    The Ed Sullivan Show

    6.632 1948 HD

    The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by...

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  • 1968
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    The Name of the Game

    The Name of the Game

    6.8 1968 HD

    The Name of the Game is an American television series starring Tony Franciosa, Gene Barry, and Robert Stack that ran from 1968 to 1971 on NBC,...

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  • 1955
    imgS7 E39

    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    7.7 1955 HD

    A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.

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  • 1955
    imgS7 E39

    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    7.7 1955 HD

    A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.

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  • 1955
    imgS7 E39

    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    7.7 1955 HD

    A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.

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  • 1948
    imgS10 E47

    Studio One

    Studio One

    4.727 1948 HD

    An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. Studio One,...

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  • 1954
    imgS4 E37

    Climax!

    Climax!

    3 1954 HD

    Climax! is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was hosted by William Lundigan and later co-hosted by Mary...

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