Raoul Walsh

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Raoul Walsh (March 11, 1887 – December 31, 1980) was an American film director, actor, founding member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) and the brother of silent screen actor George Walsh. He was known for portraying John Wilkes Booth in the silent classic Birth of a Nation (1915) and for directing such films as High Sierra (1941) starring Ida Lupino and Humphrey Bogart and White Heat (1949) with James Cagney and Edmond O'Brien. His last directorial effort came in 1964.

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Raoul Walsh

biography: Raoul Walsh war ein US-amerikanischer Filmregisseur, Schauspieler, Gründungsmitglied der Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) und Bruder des Stummfilmschauspielers George Walsh. Er war bekannt für seine Rolle als John Wilkes Booth im Stummfilmklassiker Die Geburt einer Nation (1915) und für die Regie von Filmen wie Entscheidung in der Sierra (1941) sowie Sprung in den Tod (1949). Seine letzte Regiearbeit war 1964 Die blaue Eskadron.

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biography: Raoul Walsh, nascut Albert Edward Walsh (Nova York, 11 de març de 1887 – Simi Valley, Califòrnia, 31 de desembre de 1980), va ser un actor i director de cinema estatunidenc. Al llarg de la seva trajectòria, va dirigir més d'un centenar de pel·lícules dels gèneres més diversos, encara que va destacar sobretot com a director de pel·lícules d'aventures. Es va retirar el 1964, després de rodar el seu últim film, "Una trompeta llunyana" (A Distant Trumpet, 1964).

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拉烏爾·沃爾什

biography: 拉烏爾·沃爾什（1887 年 3 月 11 日 — 1980 年 12 月 31 日）是美國電影導演、演員，美國電影藝術與科學學院創始成員，也是默片演員喬治·沃爾什的兄長。他以在默片經典《一個國家的誕生》（1915 年）中飾演約翰·威爾克斯·布斯而聞名，並執導了多部影史佳作，如由艾達·盧皮諾和亨弗萊·鮑嘉主演的《高山》（1941 年），以及由詹姆斯·卡格尼和埃德蒙·奧布萊恩聯袂出演的《白熱》（1949 年）。他的最後一部導演作品完成於 1964 年。

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拉乌尔·沃尔什

biography: 拉乌尔·沃尔什（1887年3月11日—1980年12月31日）是美国电影导演、演员，美国电影艺术与科学学院创始成员，也是默片演员乔治·沃尔什的兄长。他以在默片经典《一个国家的诞生》（1915年）中饰演约翰·威尔克斯·布斯而闻名，并执导了多部影史佳作，如由艾达·卢皮诺和亨弗莱·鲍嘉主演的《高山》（1941年），以及由詹姆斯·卡格尼和埃德蒙·奥布莱恩联袂出演的《白热》（1949年）。他的最后一部导演作品完成于1964年。

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Albert Edward Walsh
A.E. Walsh
R.A. Walsh
Raoul A. Walsh
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title: The Rebellion of Kitty Belle

overview: Kitty, the pretty young wife of a Texas businessman, feels neglected and unwanted as her husband pays more attention to his business interests than he does to her and spends more and more time away from home. A handsome young neighbor notices her emotional state and decides to try to take advantage of it. In her confused and lonely condition, Kitty finds herself attracted to the man and begins to think about running away with him.

character: Bud Parker

original_title: The Rebellion of Kitty Belle

title: It's a Great Feeling

overview: A waitress at the Warner Brothers commissary is anxious to break into pictures. She thinks her big break may have arrived when actors Jack Carson and Dennis Morgan agree to help her.

character: Raoul Walsh (uncredited)

original_title: It's a Great Feeling

title: Sadie Thompson

overview: A young, beautiful prostitute named Sadie Thompson arrives on the South Pacific island of Pago Pago looking for honest work and falls for Timothy O'Hara, an American sailor who is unfazed by her unsavory past. However, Mr. Davidson, a missionary who arrived on the island at the same time, aims to "save" Sadie from her sinful life and petitions to have her separated from her beau and deported back to San Francisco.

character: Sergeant Timothy 'Tim' O'Hara

original_title: Sadie Thompson

title: Life in Hollywood No. 5

overview: Part of a 7-part series exploring all aspects of Hollywood.

original_title: Life in Hollywood No. 5

title: The Mystery of the Hindu Image

overview: John Stafford is unjustly arrested on the eve of his marriage for the murder of an old gentleman whose body was found in his guardian's library. The young man is taken to the penitentiary, but eludes his guards and escapes. His sweetheart engages a noted detective who finds a small Hindu image in the hand of the dead man.

character: The Detective

original_title: The Mystery of the Hindu Image

title: The Angel of Contention

overview: Nettie is beloved by all the boys in the mining camp. Magoon, a big, jovial miner, loves her most of all, however, and asks her to become his wife. Nettie is in love with Colter, a young Easterner, and though it pains her to do so, tells Magoon of the fact. Magoon leaves town to become sheriff of the adjoining county. A murder is committed in the mining camp, and Colter is unjustly accused. Nettie rescues him from jail and sends him to Magoon. The sheriff with admirable self-sacrifice hides his rival, and, when the posse arrives, points out what Nettie has done for the boys of the mining camp. Colter is released, and all the boys escort him back to Nettie.

character: Jack Colter

original_title: The Angel of Contention

title: The Men Who Made the Movies: Raoul Walsh

overview: In 1972 and '73, film critic Richard Schickel made an 8-part series for American public television: 'The Men Who Made the Movies'. Each episode featured a prominent Hollywood director discussing his career in an on-camera monologue (actually an interview, with Schickel's questions edited out), interspersed with generous clips from his most famous films, accompanied by somewhat overwrought narration (written by Schickel and spoken by Cliff Robertson). It's regrettable that Schickel did not include Fritz Lang, William Wyler and John Ford in this series: all three were alive at the time, although Ford was quite ill.

character: Self

original_title: The Men Who Made the Movies: Raoul Walsh

title: The Second Mrs. Roebuck

overview: Mabel Mack's mother is deserted by her father and the mother dies. All that Mabel retains of her family history is a group photograph of her father, mother and herself, in a locket which she always wears.

character: Francis Carryl

original_title: The Second Mrs. Roebuck

title: Sierra Jim's Reformation

overview: Sierra Jim, wounded and desperate, flees from the sheriff and is given refuge in the cabin of a young girl, the sweetheart of the pony express rider.

character: Sierra Jim

original_title: Sierra Jim's Reformation

title: The Exposure

overview: Helen and Joe are in love. He receives a letter from his uncle offering him a good position in his law office. He shows Helen the letter and she shows him one from the Standard, also a check for a short story. They have a quarrel over a slight thing and he leaves for his uncle's place. Six years go by and Helen is now a very successful writer on a large daily.

character: Joe Reed

original_title: The Exposure

title: Sands of Fate

overview: Society man Arthur Lee is in love with society belle Helen Robinson, who is also admired by James Holden, a wealthy mine owner from the West. At her father's country place, Lee is unhappy because of her popularity but is appeased when she finally accepts his proposal and ring. Holden interrupts and claims a moment's talk. Telling Lee to wait for her in a favorite nook of the veranda, she goes with Holden while Lee strolls in the garden to await her. After proposing, Holden leaves her and hastens to the nook, seating himself with his back to the French windows. Lee is nearby in the garden finishing his smoke. He sees Holden in his chair, by the light of the latter's cigarette, and then sees Helen come from the lighted ballroom, approach the chair and throw her arms about Holden, sit in his lap and kiss him. Lee turns away in despair and anger and leaves the grounds.

character: James Holden

original_title: Sands of Fate

title: The Availing Prayer

overview: William Rock, assistant cashier in a business concern, has a sick daughter. The doctor urges that she be taken immediately to another climate, and Rock, unable to get an advance on his pay, is desperate. He has been in the habit of taking the deposits to the bank every Saturday, and then going direct from the bank home. He determines that week to steal the money. On Saturday Rock is followed on the street by a couple of crooks. He goes into a telephone booth to phone his daughter May and her fiancé, a young physician, that they can start south with the younger sister at once. Taking the money out of the bank satchel, he stuffs it in his inside vest pocket and leaves with the empty bag in his hand. He goes down an alleyway to get rid of the satchel, but is assaulted by the gunmen and the bag taken from him.

character: The Doctor

original_title: The Availing Prayer

title: Murnau, Borzage and Fox

overview: Documentary focusing on the film careers F.W. Murnau, Frank Borzage and William Fox and their impact on the history of cinema.

character: Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

original_title: Murnau, Borzage and Fox

title: The Birth of a Nation

overview: Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwine. When Confederate colonel Ben Cameron is captured in battle, nurse Elsie Stoneman petitions for his pardon. In Reconstruction-era South Carolina, Cameron founds the Ku Klux Klan, battling Elsie's congressman father and his African-American protégé, Silas Lynch.

character: John Wilkes Booth (uncredited)

original_title: The Birth of a Nation

title: The Life of General Villa

overview: Silent biographical action–drama film starring Pancho Villa as himself. The movie incorporates both staged scenes and authentic live footage from real battles during the Mexican Revolution.

character: Villa as a young man

original_title: The Life of General Villa

title: Filmmakers vs. Tycoons

overview: How the cinema industry does not respect the author's work as it was conceived, how manipulates the motion pictures in order to make them easier to watch by an undemanding audience or even how mutilates them to adapt the original formats and runtimes to the restrictive frame of the television screen and the abusive requirements of advertising. (Followed by “Filmmakers in Action.”)

character: Self (archive footage)

original_title: Cineastes contra magnats

original_language: ca

title: The Little Country Mouse

overview: Country girl May loses at cards and must borrow $250 from Captain Stiles, but the wealthy roué's loan does not come without an expectation of repayment.

character: The Designing Guest

original_title: The Little Country Mouse

title: You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story

overview: Jack L. Warner, Harry Warner, Albert Warner and Sam Warner were siblings who were born in Poland and emigrated to Canada near the turn of the century. In 1903, the brothers entered the budding motion picture business. In time, the Warner Brothers moved into film production and would open their own studio in 1923.

original_title: You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story

title: They Never Knew

overview: Ben Wilson takes a vacation to his father's farm and is reunited with his childhood sweetheart, Rose Meadows. The prospects for an early marriage are bright until a family feud separates the lovers and Ben returns to the city to seek solace in wild behavior. One night he visits a roadhouse where Rose has been lured by Carrol Walker, a playboy of the worst kind.

character: Carrol Walker

original_title: They Never Knew

title: Out of the Deputy's Hands

overview: Deputy Sheriff Martin of Arizona is in love with Lola a waitress at the Gold Dollar restaurant. However, complications arise when Martin encounters James Kinney, a wanted murderer working under an assumed name in the local mine. Deputy Martin discovers that Kinney is also interested in Lola, fueling a rivalry between the two men. During a mine accident, Kinney is placed in a dangerous situation and Martin must decide whether to act on his personal feelings or uphold his duty as a lawman.

character: Kinney

original_title: Out of the Deputy's Hands

title: The Pseudo Prodigal

overview: The spoiled son of an indulgent father gives up his home and career after a quarrel and leaves home. He drifts down the path of life with vice and degradation as his companions. He meets a girl in a saloon whose life has always been in the depths and falls in love with her. This girl meets a sister of charity, who tells her of "The Light About the Throne," and urges her to reform, giving her a card and telling her to call on her at any time she needs help.

character: The Prodigal's Rival

original_title: The Pseudo Prodigal

title: 100 Years at the Movies

overview: Commemorates the centennial of American movies with a montage of clips and music scores from the most important movies of the century.

original_title: 100 Years at the Movies

title: Life in Hollywood

overview: A 1927 silent-era series of Hollywood studio tours, these short subjects go behind the scenes at major studios and showcase famous stars, directors, and landmarks of the movie capital.

original_title: Life in Hollywood

job: Editor

title: The Birth of a Nation

department: Editing

job: Director

title: Manpower

overview: Hank McHenry and Johnny Marshall work as power company linesmen. Hank is injured in an accident and subsequently promoted to foreman of the gang. Tensions start to show in the road crew as rivalry between Hank and Johnny increases.

department: Directing

original_title: Manpower

title: Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.

overview: Captain Horatio Hornblower leads his ship HMS Lydia on a perilous transatlantic voyage, during which his faithful crew battle both a Spanish warship and a ragged band of Central American rebels.

original_title: Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.

title: Going Hollywood

overview: Sylvia is a French teacher at an all-girls school who wants to find love. When she hears Bill Williams on the radio, she decides to go visit and thank him. However, difficult problems lie ahead when Lili gets in the way.

title: The Man I Love

overview: Tough torch singer Petey Brown, visiting her family, finds a nest of troubles: her sister, brother, and the neighbor's wife are involved in various ways with shady nightclub owner Nicky Toresca. Petey has what it takes to handle Nicky, but then she meets San Thomas, a formerly great jazz pianist now on the skids, and falls hard for him.

title: Background to Danger

overview: An American gets caught up in wartime action in Turkey.

title: Pursued

overview: A boy haunted by nightmares about the night his entire family was murdered is brought up by a neighboring family in the 1880s. He falls for his lovely adoptive sister but his nasty adoptive brother and mysterious uncle want him dead.

title: High Sierra

overview: Given a pardon from jail, Roy Earle gets back into the swing of things as he robs a swanky resort.

title: Colorado Territory

overview: After escaping from jail, outlaw Wes McQueen is convinced by his old partner in crime to do one last heist.

title: Dark Command

overview: When transplanted Texan Bob Seton arrives in Lawrence, Kansas he finds much to like about the place, especially Mary McCloud, daughter of the local banker. Politics is in the air however. It's just prior to the civil war and there is already a sharp division in the Territory as to whether it will remain slave-free. When he gets the opportunity to run for marshal, Seton finds himself running against the respected local schoolteacher, William Cantrell. Not is what it seems however. While acting as the upstanding citizen in public, Cantrell is dangerously ambitious and is prepared to do anything to make his mark, and his fortune, on the Territory. When he loses the race for marshal, he forms a group of raiders who run guns into the territory and rob and terrorize settlers throughout the territory. Eventually donning Confederate uniforms, it is left to Seton and the good citizens of Lawrence to face Cantrell and his raiders in one final clash.

title: The Thief of Bagdad

overview: A recalcitrant thief vies with a duplicitous Mongol ruler for the hand of a beautiful princess.

title: Sadie Thompson

title: Sadie Thompson

title: Sadie Thompson

title: The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw

overview: English gunsmith Jonathon Tibbs travels to the American West in the 1880s to sell firearms to the locals. He inadvertently acquires a reputation of quickness on the draw due to his wrist mounted Derringer style weapon. Soon gaining the post of sheriff, he endeavours to clean up the town using what skills he has—and by multilateral diplomacy.

title: The Big Trail

overview: Young scout Breck Coleman leads a wagon train along the dangerous trail to Oregon as he tries to get the affection of the beautiful pioneer Ruth Cameron and plans his revenge on the harsh scoundrels who murdered a friend of his in the past.

title: The Naked and the Dead

overview: Fighting men in World War II learn the value of courage and quickness at the risk of losing their lives.

title: The King and Four Queens

overview: Opportunistic con man Dan Kehoe ingratiates himself with the cantankerous mother of four outlaws and their beautiful widows in order to find their hidden gold.

title: Band of Angels

overview: Living in Kentucky prior to the Civil War, Amantha Starr is a privileged young woman. Her widowed father, a wealthy plantation owner, dotes on her and sends her to the best schools. When he dies suddenly Amantha's world is turned upside down. She learns that her father had been living on borrowed money and that her mother was actually a slave and her father's mistress.

title: The Tall Men

overview: Two brothers discharged from the Confederate Army join a businessman for a cattle drive from Texas to Montana where they run into raiding Jayhawkers, angry Sioux, rough terrain and bad weather.

title: Gun Fury

overview: After a stagecoach holdup, Frank Slayton's notorious gang leave Ben Warren for dead and head off with his fiancée. Warren follows, and although none of the townspeople he comes across are prepared to help, he recruits two others who have sworn revenge on the ruthless Slayton.

title: Objective, Burma!

overview: A group of men parachute into Japanese-occupied Burma with a dangerous and important mission: to locate and blow up a radar station. They accomplish this well enough, but when they try to rendezvous at an old air-strip to be taken back to their base, they find Japanese waiting for them, and they must make a long, difficult walk back through enemy-occupied jungle.

title: Gentleman Jim

overview: As bare-knuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of the boxing world.

title: Distant Drums

overview: After destroying a Seminole fort, American soldiers and their rescued companions must face the dangerous Everglades and hostile Indians in order to reach safety

title: Along the Great Divide

overview: US marshal Len Merrick saves Tim Keith from lynching at the hands of the Roden clan, and hopes to get him to Santa Loma for trial. Vindictive Ned Roden, whose son Ed was killed, still wants personal revenge, and Tim would like to escape before Ned catches up with him again. Can the marshal make it across the desert with Tim and his daughter? Even if he makes it, will justice be served?

title: The Horn Blows at Midnight

overview: A trumpet player in a radio orchestra falls asleep during a commercial and dreams he's Athanael, an angel deputized to blow the Last Trumpet at exactly midnight on Earth, thus marking the end of the world.

title: The Roaring Twenties

overview: After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Eddie builds a fleet of cabs through delivery of bootleg liquor and hires Lloyd as his lawyer. George becomes Eddie's partner and the rackets flourish until love and rivalry interfere.

title: They Drive by Night

overview: Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck business. The Fabrini boys constantly battle distributors, rivals and loan collectors, while trying to make a success of their transport company.

title: White Heat

overview: A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and then leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist. After the heist, events take a crazy turn.

title: Silver River

overview: Unjustly booted out of the cavalry, Mike McComb strikes out for Nevada, and deciding never to be used again, ruthlessly works his way up to becoming one of the most powerful silver magnates in the west. His empire begins to fall apart as the other mining combines rise against him and his stubbornness loses him the support of his wife and old friends.

title: They Died with Their Boots On

overview: The story follows General George Armstrong Custer's adventures from his West Point days to his death. He defies orders during the Civil War, trains the 7th Cavalry, appeases Chief Crazy Horse and later engages in bloody battle with the Sioux nation.

title: A Distant Trumpet

overview: In 1883, US Cavalry lieutenant Matthew Hazard, newly graduated from West Point, is assigned to isolated Fort Delivery on the Mexican border of Arizona, where he meets commanding officer Teddy Mainwarring's wife Kitty, whom he later rescues from an Indian attack.

title: Me and My Gal

overview: Jaunty young policeman Danny Dolan falls in love with waterfront cafe waitress Helen Riley.

title: Battle Cry

overview: The dramatic story of US Marines in training, in combat, and in love, during World War II. The story centers on a major who guides the raw recruits from their training to combat.

title: Big Brown Eyes

overview: Sassy manicurist Eve Fallon is recruited as an even more brassy reporter and she helps police detective boyfriend Danny Barr break a jewel theft ring and solve the murder of a baby.

title: Desperate Journey

overview: A British bomber crew, including Australian Flight Lt. Terry Forbes (Flynn) and American Flight Officer Johnny Hammond (Reagan), crash-lands in Germany after a bombing run. They escape with secret information and must make a desperate trek to the UK, battling Nazis along the way.  During WWII, when an allied bomber is shot down over Germany, the five surviving crew are captured but cleverly escape detention after learning secret information. The five make their way across a perilous Germany, intent on reaching the UK with the secrets they have learned.

title: Sailor's Luck

overview: U.S. sailor Jimmy Harrigan, on shore leave in San Pedro, meets and falls for Sally Brent She promises to wait for him when he ships out to San Francisco, but Jimmy becomes jealous and tells her off when he learns Sally has entered a marathon dance contest sponsored by a lecherous snake named Baron Portola. Along with several of his Navy pals, Jimmy goes to the ballroom the night of the dance marathon, to try to change Sally's mind and win her back.

title: Northern Pursuit

overview: Canadian Mountie Steve Wagner captures a German Luftwaffe officer on a spy mission, who later escapes from the prison camp. To catch the spy ring, the Mounties employ a ruse so that the spies, believing Steve to be sympathetic, enlist him in their plans.

title: Uncertain Glory

overview: In occupied France, a convicted thief and murderer escapes the guillotine when a bombing raid strikes the prison, but is quickly re-captured by the inspector of the Surete responsible for his original arrest. Fearing the guillotine more than his actual death, the convict inveigles the inspector to help him with a plan to rescue 100 Frenchmen taken by the Gestapo following an act of sabotage: he will confess to being the saboteur and allow himself to be executed by firing squad, the Gestapo's method of execution, thus freeing the 100 men.

title: The World in His Arms

overview: A boisterous sea captain in the Pacific Coast, circa 1850, has a plan to buy Alaska from the Russians… if they don’t kill him first.

title: Klondike Annie

overview: Singer Rose Carlton, otherwise known as 'The San Francisco Doll', accidentally kills her controlling boyfriend when he tries to prevent her from leaving. To evade the police, Rose sets sail for Nome with captain Bull Bracket. When the ship takes on another passenger, reformer Annie Alden, Carlton's life is changed forever, and she sets out to honor a deeply personal debt.

title: The Strawberry Blonde

overview: Biff Grimes is desperately in love with Virginia, but his best friend Hugo marries her and manipulates Biff into becoming involved in his somewhat nefarious businesses. Hugo appears to have stolen Biff's dreams, and Biff has to deal with the realisation that having what he wants and wanting what another has can be very different things.

title: The Regeneration

overview: At 10 years old, Owen becomes a ragged orphan when his mother dies. Abusive next-door neighbors the Conways take him in, and by 17, Owen has learned that might is right. At 25, he's a career gangster: loitering, gambling and drinking in dens of iniquity. Marie Deering arrives in Owen's area, eager to empower the impoverished, gang-affiliated youth through education. Owen slowly but surely leaves his old life behind, choosing the narrow path- all the while falling in love with Marie. Skinny, who's taken over Owen's role in the gang, reappears to him, spelling trouble.

title: Hitting a New High

overview: A Paris cabaret singer dreams of becoming a Metropolitan Opera singer.  A press agent arranges her Manhattan debut by way of Africa.

title: The Lawless Breed

overview: After being released from prison, ex-gunfighter John Wesley Hardin hopes to have his autobiography published in order to rehabilitate his tarnished reputation.

title: Blackbeard, the Pirate

overview: Honest Robert Maynard finds himself serving as ship's surgeon under the infamous pirate Blackbeard.

title: The Yellow Ticket

overview: A young Russian girl is forced into a life of prostitution in Czarist Russia, and she and a British journalist find their lives endangered when she reveals to him information regarding the social crimes rampant in her country.

title: Fighter Squadron

overview: During World War II, an insubordinate fighter pilot finds the shoe on the other foot when he's promoted.

title: The Revolt of Mamie Stover

overview: In the early ’40s, a San Francisco prostitute is run out of town just as World War II has begun to intensify. She settles down in Hawaii, hoping to start a new life.

title: A Lion Is in the Streets

overview: A charismatic peddler from the Bayous finds his true calling in politics. Is he a demagogue in the making?

title: What Price Glory

overview: U.S. Marine sergeants Quirt and Flagg are inveterate romantic rivals on peacetime assignments in China and the Philippines. In 1917, W.W. I brings them to France, where Flagg, now a captain, takes up with flirtatious Charmaine, inn-keeper's daughter. Of course, Quirt has to arrive and spoil his fun. But the harsh realities of war and the threat of a shotgun marriage give the two men a common cause...

title: Sea Devils

overview: Gilliatt, a fisherman-turned-smuggler on the isle of Guernsey, agrees to transport a beautiful woman to the French coast in the year 1800. She tells him she hopes to rescue her brother from the guillotine. Gilliatt finds himself falling in love and so feels betrayed when he later learns this woman is a countess helping Napoleon plan an invasion of England. In reality, however, the "countess" is an English agent working to thwart this invasion. When Gilliatt finds this out, he returns to France to rescue the woman who's true purpose has been discovered by the French.

title: College Swing

overview: Gracie Alden tries to graduate from college to get an inheritance.

title: Salty O'Rourke

overview: A gambler and his buddy find a wise-guy jockey for their long-shot horse.

title: St. Louis Blues

overview: A Broadway musical comedy star tires of the same old grind and flees the city. She runs into the skipper of a showboat who befriends her, and they make plans to put together a musical revue. But a competing carnival owner hatches a scheme to put an end to the show before it begins.

title: The Bowery

overview: "In the Gay Nineties New York had grown up into bustles and balloon Sleeves ... but The Bowery had grown younger, louder and more rowdy until it was known as the 'Livest Mile on the face of the globe' ... the cradle of men who were later to be famous.

title: Saskatchewan

overview: Story of blood brothers whose bonds are tested when marauding Sioux Indians cross the border to enlist the peaceful Cree in a battle against the Great White Father.

title: Women of All Nations

overview: Marines Flagg and Quirt fought together in WWI and Panama. After some time in New York they go to Sweden and compete for the love of Else. Next they go to Nicaragua and help earthquake victims. Then to Egypt where Else is now in Prince Hassan's harem.

title: The Man Who Came Back

overview: A spoiled carefree rich kid gets into too much trouble for his father who sends him out on his own to prove himself capable of making a respectable man of himself.

title: Come September

overview: Robert Talbot, an American millionaire, arrives early for his annual vacation at his luxurious Italian villa. His long-time girlfriend Lisa has given up waiting for him and has decided to marry another man. Meanwhile, his sneaky business associate Maurice secretly misappropriates the villa as a hotel while Talbot is away. The current guests of the "hotel" are a group of young American girls.

title: Wild Girl

overview: Salomy Jane, a California mountain girl, is sought after by a number of men in the nearby small town of Redwood City. She is affected when two criminals are pursued by authorities: one for killing a hypocritical mayoral candidate, the other for robbing the stagecoach.

title: Artists & Models

overview: An ad man gets his model girlfriend to pose as a debutante for a new campaign.

title: Jump for Glory

overview: A London cat burglar falls for the girlfriend of a stockbroker who used to be his partner.

title: Evangeline

overview: In the Canadian province of Acadia, young Evangeline is betrothed to Gabriel. But before their wedding can take place, the British imprison the men and send them into exile with their lands forfeit to the Crown Evangeline follows the exiled men in hopes of finding her beloved, but even after he and the other Acadians are released in Louisiana, she cannot find him, always arriving at some locale just after he has departed. But she dedicates her life to searching the continent for the man she loves.

title: Evangeline

title: Cheyenne

overview: Slick gambler James Wylie is apprehended by the law and given the option to forgo a prison sentence if he poses as a bandit. His mission is to uncover the identity of the Poet, a notorious outlaw who has been holding up bank-owned stagecoaches and leaving verses at the crime scenes to taunt the authorities. James finds time to woo the Poet's lovely wife, Ann, who initially cold-shoulders him. But, as a romance develops, they partner up to find the robber.

title: O.H.M.S.

overview: American racketeer Jimmie Dean travels to England, where he assumes the identity of a Canadian whom he has been falsely accused of murdering. Jimmie is then forced to join the British army in the dead man's place. He falls in love with the Canadian's childhood playmate, Sally Briggs, and becomes a hero after saving an isolated English colony in China.

title: The Red Dance

overview: Tasia (Dolores del Río), a beautiful dancer lower class of Russia, falls heir to the throne Prince, Grand Duke Eugene (Charles Farrell), but only admired from a distance. At the outbreak of the Russian Revolution, the Duke falls in captivity and this allows Tasia be near him.

title: The Life of General Villa

title: Esther and the King

overview: Recently widowed Persian King Ahasuerus wants to marry the beautiful Esther. But Esther is a Jewess, and Haman, the king's evil minister, is spreading hatred against the Jews.

title: Glory Alley

overview: A New Orleans boxer leaves the ring to fight his inner demons.

title: The Monkey Talks

overview: In 1927 Olive Borden starred in Fox drama The Monkey Talks directed by Raoul Walsh. She played a circus performer who meets a man pretending to be a talking monkey.

title: One Sunday Afternoon

overview: The third film version of James Hagan's play, this time with songs added, starring Dennis Morgan as a dentist who marries patient and loyal Dorothy Malone despite his constant infatuation with sexy flirt Janis Paige.

title: Every Night at Eight

overview: Three young girls working in an agency have build a singing trio. They want to "lease" the Dictaphone of their boss to make a record of their singing, but they are caught and fired. When they are not able to pay their rent any longer, they decide to try it on an amateur contest at a radio station.

title: Spendthrift

overview: A profligate, polo-playing playboy (Henry Fonda) is married to a beautiful but superficial heiress (Mary Brian). They divorce, and the wife gets all the money. But the humbled (and impoverished) Fonda finds true love in the arms of Pat Paterson, who cares nothing for material things.

title: Spendthrift

title: Hello, Sister!

overview: While Peggy deeply falls in love with Jimmy, her best friend Millie becomes increasingly frustrated with men and very jealous with Peggy, so she tries everything to destroy the new love.

title: A Private's Affair

overview: Luigi, Jerry, and Mike are in boot camp when they are presented with a chance to represent their unit in competition on a national television show. The three guys are up to the challenge, which begins a chain of unusual circumstances that not only have them singing and dancing at the proper times, but also running into a trio of alluring young women.

title: Baby Face Harrington

overview: Thanks to a series of comic mishaps, a timid, small-town office clerk finds himself wanted by the police and labeled by the media as "Public Enemy No. 2."

title: I'll Say So

overview: Hearing that the United States has just declared war on Germany, Bill Durham hurries to a recruiting station to enlist, but because he has flat feet, he is rejected. He falls in love with Barbara Knowles, whose guardian, August Myers, unknown to Barbara, is a German agent. When Bill learns that Myers plans to stir up trouble on the border of the United States and Mexico, he catches the train to New Mexico and routs out Myers' gang of bandits.

title: Serenade

overview: In the Spanish town of Magdalena live María and her sweetheart, Pancho, son of the governor. When the town is captured by brigands led by Ramírez, the governor is deposed, and Don Domingo Maticas is appointed in his place. Ramón, son of the new governor, becomes infatuated with María. She repulses him, but he is encouraged by her mother.

title: The Spaniard

overview: In England, Don Pedro de Barrego meets Dolores Annesley, and he decides he must have her. Dolores, however, refuses to have anything to do with him. Later, when she visits Spain, she discovers he is a famous bullfighter.

title: Lost and Found on a South Sea Island

overview: Faulke, a swindling white trader who persuaded Madge to leave Captain Blackbird, insists that her daughter, Lorna, marry Waki, a native leader, although Lorna loves Lloyd Warren. While in search of a doll for his other daughter, Baby Madge, Captain Blackbird comes to Pago Pago and gruffly refuses to aid Lloyd and Lorna, whom he does not recognize. A chance encounter with Faulke, however, reveals the trader's evil doings and Lorna's identity. The captain and his men rush to the island and rescue Lorna from the warring natives.

title: Under Pressure

overview: Two members of a crew of "sandhogs", men who work on an underwater tunnel project, battle each other over the same woman and a rival team of sandhogs to see who will finish their half of the tunnel first, with the winning team getting more money and guaranteed future work.

title: Kindred of the Dust

overview: Discovering that her husband is a bigamist, Nan returns with her child to her Puget Sound logging town. She is treated as an outcast by all save Donald, her childhood sweetheart, the son of a millionaire....

title: Kindred of the Dust

title: The Prussian Cur

overview: A German spy who is married to Lillian, the sister of Rosie O'Grady.

title: The Prussian Cur

title: The Prussian Cur

title: Hot for Paris

overview: Rough sea dog John Patrick Duke has a weakness for women and strong drink. Little does he know that he won a million dollars on Longchamp with the horses. Earlier, he caused a riot in a French hotel. He therefore thinks he is being pursued when officials try to inform him of that cash prize. In the end, John and his friend Axel are forced to take the money. This allows them to have a party with their French friends. The film is believed to be lost.

title: Hot for Paris

title: East of Suez

overview: After being educated in England, Daisy Forbes returns to China, the country of her birth, and discovers that her father has recently died and that she has become a social outcast, owing to the public revelation that the oriental nurse who raised her was actually her mother...

title: The Strongest

overview: Harle, a successful French businessman, is so absorbed with his factory that he neglects his wife Claire. One day, Harle's old friend Henri, the Marquis de Puymaufray, comes to visit, and Claire falls in love with the cultured and sensitive man. Several months after his departure, Claire gives birth to a baby girl, Claudia, and dies shortly afterward from neglect and depression. Twenty years pass and Claudia has grown into a beautiful woman. Her father wishes her to wed a count, but she loves Maurice, a young American. During a labor dispute, Claudia is abducted by her father's disgruntled employees and held for ransom. The marquis, who has long watched over the girl, loses his life in a rescue attempt, but Maurice finally succeeds in liberating his sweetheart. After the marquis' death, it is revealed that Claudia actually was his daughter, and Harle, crushed, retires to his country estate, freeing the girl to voyage to America with the man she loves. A lost film.

title: The Deep Purple

overview: Doris Moore is a country girl who is conned by two crooks, Harry Leland and Pop Clark. They convince the naive girl to come with them to New York City and play the badger game on William Lake. But the intervention of Kate Fallon, who runs the gang's New York home, saves the innocent and traps the guilty. Instead of tricking Lake, Doris marries him.

title: The Serpent

overview: Peasant girl Vania is assaulted by a duke who murders her lover and sends her away to London.

title: On the Jump

overview: In this propaganda film, athletic silent star George Walsh plays reporter Jack Bartlett, who interviews President Wilson regarding the Fourth Liberty Loan. The story never appears in the paper, however, because its new owner, Otto Crumley, is pro-German. So Jack quits his job and begins canvassing for the Liberty Loans. In the midst of his vigorous campaigning he also halts Crumley's plans to inspire a strike at a munitions plant.

title: On the Jump

title: The Cock-Eyed World

overview: Two Marines are sent to South Sea island where they fight over a local island girl.

title: The Cock-Eyed World

title: Marines, Let's Go

overview: Following combat duty in Korea, a group of United States Marines (Tom Tryon, David Hedison and Tom Reese) are given a furlough in Japan.

title: Marines, Let's Go

title: Marines, Let's Go

title: The Loves of Carmen

overview: Carmen, a gypsy, working in a Spanish cigar factory, is flaunted by Escamillo, the bullfighter, but infatuates José, a soldier, who aids her to escape from jail and follows her to the gypsy camp. Tiring of his love, Carmen finally fascinates Escamillo and the love-crazed José kills her at a bull fight just as Escamillo is being proclaimed by the audience.

title: Me, Gangster

overview: Told in the form of a diary, the story details the rise and fall of gangster boss Jimmy Williams.

title: Me, Gangster

title: The Lucky Lady

overview: Convent-bred to assume her position of nobility when the time comes, Princess Antoinette plays hooky from school one day to attend a theatrical performance. Here she meets a handsome young American, and it's love at first sight. Meanwhile, in the Princess' home country, the Prime Minister plots to quell a rebellion by arranging a marriage between Antoinette and the Grand Duke.

title: The Lucky Lady

title: The Life of General Villa

title: The Lady of the Harem

overview: Rafi arrives in the city in search of Pervaneh who was taken by the Sultan. He is joined by Hassan the confectioner. Rafi is captured by the Sultan, but Hassan leads a surprise attack on the palace and the lovers are united.

title: The Woman and the Law

overview: Jack La Salle marries South American heiress Blanquetta Del Castillo, and the two settle into a happy life in New York City. Following the birth of their son, Jack, Jr., however, Jack becomes involved in an affair with the notorious Josie Sabel and thereafter ignores his wife. Outraged upon learning that Jack has taken their son to Josie's apartment, Blanquetta files for divorce, the court finally ruling that the boy must live with each parent for a portion of the year. As the time of little Jack's departure from his father approaches, Jack, Sr. declares that he will never return the boy to his mother, whereupon the tortured Blanquetta shoots and kills her faithless husband.

title: The Woman and the Law

title: Every Mother's Son

overview: When the United States enters World War I, a mother sends her two eldest sons off to the battlefields with a smile, although her heart is breaking.

title: Every Mother's Son

title: The Yellow Ticket

title: The Man Who Came Back

title: Dangerous Business

overview: Clarence Brooks is a shy, timid man working for Mr. Flavell. He is love with Flavell's daughter, Nancy. Nancy is shallow and fickle, always chasing after other, less-upstanding men. Clarence enlists when World War I erupts. While Clarence is off defending his country, Nancy's mother arranges for her daughter to marry the wealthy Mr. Braille. When Braille is drafted, Nancy's mother starts arranging a rush wedding, against Nancy's wishes. Nancy claims that she and Clarence are already secretly married. When the war is over and Clarence returns home, he refuses to be a part of her charade. When Clarence declines the offer to marry Nancy for real, she must mature to win his affections back. A lost film.

title: Carmen

overview: A Spanish soldier falls under the spell of a fiery gypsy girl named Carmen. His obsession with her leads to his ruin.

title: The Honor System

overview: A potentially lost film, this film tells the story of a man is convicted unjustly of a crime and then subjected to inhumane torment in a prison run by corrupt administrators.

title: The Honor System

title: Pillars of Society

title: Big Brown Eyes

title: The Life of General Villa

title: Carmen

title: The Regeneration

title: The Birth of a Nation

title: Battle Cry

title: In Old Arizona

overview: Army Sergeant Mickey Dunn sets out in pursuit of the Cisco Kid, a notorious if kind-hearted and charismatic bandit of the Old West. The Kid spends much of his loot on Tonia, the woman he loves, not realizing that she is being unfaithful to him in his absence. Soon, with her oblivious paramour off plying his trade, Tonia falls in with Dunn, drawn by the allure of a substantial reward for the Kid's capture -- dead or alive. Together, they concoct a plan to ambush and do away with the Cisco Kid once and for all.

title: The Conqueror

overview: The life of Sam Houston, soldier, statesman, patriot and one of the founders of the Republic of Texas, is depicted.

title: The Conqueror

title: Esther and the King

title: Rosita

overview: The King tosses Rosita in jail and when Don Diego, who Rosita loves, tries to defend her, he too is thrown in jail. While Don Diego is sentenced to be executed, the King lusts after Rosita and decides to put her up in a luxurious villa. To give her a title, he marries her to a masked nobleman, who turns out to be Don Diego.

title: The Wanderer

overview: Jether, a shepherd, is lured from his home by Tisha, priestess of the goddess Ishtar. He journeys to the city of Babylon, where he lavishes Tisha with gifts and spends his share of his father's wealth on riotous living.

title: Regeneration

overview: Remembering the miserable end of his father who had died a drunkard's death, George resolves to conquer the terrible craving he has inherited.

title: Regeneration

title: The Big Trail

overview: A large caravan of settlers attempt to cross the Oregon Trail. German-language version of The Big Trail (1930) with an alternate cast and co-director. Bill Coleman (named Breck Coleman in the U.S. version) leads settlers in covered wagons Westward, across the prairie and mountains.

title: Esther and the King

title: The Deep Purple

title: Peer Gynt

overview: A fantasy from Ibsen's verse drama. Ne'er-do-well and braggart Peer Gynt has many adventures in varied countries, making and losing money, gaining fortune at others' expense, until he finds salvation in the love of Solveig.

title: The Strongest

title: The Serpent

title: Should a Husband Forgive?

overview: After Mary Carroll's husband learns that she has had an affair, he challenges her former lover to a duel and is killed. Mary is thrown out by her husband's wealthy family and separated from her little boy, John Carroll, Jr. Years later, John Jr. falls in love with Ruth Fulton, the daughter of the horse trainer for Rex Burleigh. When her father dies, Ruth accepts Rex's offer to care for her, but she leaves the expensive apartment he has provided when she learns his true motives.

title: Should a Husband Forgive?

title: Out of the Deputy's Hands

title: This Is the Life

overview: At his father’s insistence Billy Drake heads to the family’s South American ammunition company as an emissary. Before leaving, however, the movie-struck Billy spots a beautiful woman standing in front of a theater and imagines that she is a film star. To his delight, he finds the woman on board his ship, as well as political agitator Count Von Nuttenburg who has stolen a movie camera, thinking that it is a new brand of machine gun. Von Nuttenburg shows the camera to Billy. Thinking the Count is a director, and the ship a set for a movie melodrama when the boat lands at a port torn by revolution, Billy insists that the guns and soldiers are part of the show. Not until he and the girl are seized by the rebels and threatened with death, does he admit his error. By a clever ruse, he escapes from his captors and with the help of Federal troops defeats the Count and wins the heart of his pretty shipmate.

title: This Is the Life

title: The Innocent Sinner

overview: An innocent country girl, Mary Ellen Ellis, moves to the city with an experienced man, Walter Benton, under the promise of marriage. Once in the city, she finds herself in a "world of crime" but reforms a burglar named Bull Clark. Clark, in turn, saves her from another criminal called "The Weasel," and repays her with his gratitude.

title: The Innocent Sinner

title: Serenade

title: Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.

title: The Big Trail

title: The Pride of New York

overview: Harold Whitley, a member of New York's idle rich, is upset when the United States enters World War I. Upon learning that married men are exempt from the Selective Draft, Harold urges his fiancée Mary to wed him quickly, but Mary indignantly threatens to break their engagement.

title: The Pride of New York

title: The Silent Lie

overview: Lady Lou is forced by Hatfield, her cruel foster father, into the dance hall life at a brutal lumber camp. Through the efforts of a stranger who is secretly in love with her, Lou escapes to a neighboring camp where she meets and marries the lumberjack Conahan without telling him of her past.

title: From Now On

overview: Dave Henderson, an orphan who has become the beneficiary of a rich man's will, falls in with race-track crooks Martin Tydeman and Bokky Sharvan who bilk him out of his $100,000 inheritance. In retaliation, Dave steals the money from Tydeman's safe, but is caught and sentenced to five years in jail. In prison, Dave becomes friendly with Millman, who is about to be released, and reveals the money's hiding place to him, arranging to rendezvous at the end of Dave's term. Once released, Dave is hounded by members of Tydeman's gang as well as the police, who are waiting for him to retrieve his bounty.

title: From Now On

title: The Pseudo Prodigal

title: Evangeline

title: The Enforcer

overview: After years of investigation, Assistant District Attorney Martin Ferguson has managed to build a solid case against an elusive gangster whose top lieutenant is about to testify.

title: The Rebellion of Kitty Belle

title: It's a Great Feeling

title: Sadie Thompson

title: Life in Hollywood No. 5

title: The Mystery of the Hindu Image

title: The Angel of Contention

title: The Second Mrs. Roebuck

title: Sierra Jim's Reformation

title: The Exposure

title: Sands of Fate

title: The Availing Prayer

title: Murnau, Borzage and Fox

title: The Birth of a Nation

title: The Life of General Villa

title: Filmmakers vs. Tycoons

title: The Little Country Mouse

title: They Never Knew

title: Out of the Deputy's Hands

title: The Pseudo Prodigal

title: 100 Years at the Movies

title: Life in Hollywood

title: The Birth of a Nation

title: Manpower

title: Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.

title: Going Hollywood

title: The Man I Love

title: Background to Danger

title: Pursued

title: High Sierra

title: Colorado Territory

title: Dark Command

title: The Thief of Bagdad

title: Sadie Thompson

title: Sadie Thompson

title: Sadie Thompson

title: The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw

title: The Big Trail

title: The Naked and the Dead

title: The King and Four Queens

title: Band of Angels

title: The Tall Men

title: Gun Fury

title: Objective, Burma!

title: Gentleman Jim

title: Distant Drums

title: Along the Great Divide

title: The Horn Blows at Midnight

title: The Roaring Twenties

title: They Drive by Night

title: White Heat

title: Silver River

title: They Died with Their Boots On

title: A Distant Trumpet

title: Me and My Gal

title: Battle Cry

title: Big Brown Eyes

title: Desperate Journey

title: Sailor's Luck

title: Northern Pursuit

title: Uncertain Glory

title: The World in His Arms

title: Klondike Annie

title: The Strawberry Blonde

title: The Regeneration

title: Hitting a New High

title: The Lawless Breed

title: Blackbeard, the Pirate

title: The Yellow Ticket

title: Fighter Squadron

title: The Revolt of Mamie Stover

title: A Lion Is in the Streets

title: What Price Glory

title: Sea Devils

title: College Swing

title: Salty O'Rourke

title: St. Louis Blues

title: The Bowery

title: Saskatchewan

title: Women of All Nations

title: The Man Who Came Back

title: Come September

title: Wild Girl

title: Artists & Models

title: Jump for Glory

title: Evangeline

title: Evangeline

title: Cheyenne

title: O.H.M.S.

title: The Red Dance

title: The Life of General Villa

title: Esther and the King

title: Glory Alley

title: The Monkey Talks

title: One Sunday Afternoon

title: Every Night at Eight

title: Spendthrift

title: Spendthrift

title: Hello, Sister!

title: A Private's Affair

title: Baby Face Harrington

title: I'll Say So

title: Serenade

title: The Spaniard

title: Lost and Found on a South Sea Island

title: Under Pressure

title: Kindred of the Dust

title: Kindred of the Dust

title: The Prussian Cur

title: The Prussian Cur

title: The Prussian Cur

title: Hot for Paris

title: Hot for Paris

title: East of Suez

title: The Strongest

title: The Deep Purple

title: The Serpent

title: On the Jump

title: On the Jump

title: The Cock-Eyed World

title: The Cock-Eyed World

title: Marines, Let's Go

title: Marines, Let's Go

title: Marines, Let's Go

title: The Loves of Carmen

title: Me, Gangster

title: Me, Gangster

title: The Lucky Lady

title: The Lucky Lady

title: The Life of General Villa

title: The Lady of the Harem

title: The Woman and the Law

title: The Woman and the Law

title: Every Mother's Son

title: Every Mother's Son

title: The Yellow Ticket

title: The Man Who Came Back

title: Dangerous Business

title: Carmen

title: The Honor System

title: The Honor System

title: Pillars of Society

title: Big Brown Eyes

title: The Life of General Villa

title: Carmen

title: The Regeneration

title: The Birth of a Nation

title: Battle Cry

title: In Old Arizona

title: The Conqueror

title: The Conqueror

title: Esther and the King

title: Rosita

title: The Wanderer

title: Regeneration

title: Regeneration

title: The Big Trail

title: Esther and the King

title: The Deep Purple

title: Peer Gynt

title: The Strongest

title: The Serpent

title: Should a Husband Forgive?

title: Should a Husband Forgive?

title: Out of the Deputy's Hands

title: This Is the Life

title: This Is the Life

title: The Innocent Sinner

title: The Innocent Sinner

title: Serenade

title: Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.

title: The Big Trail

title: The Pride of New York

title: The Pride of New York

title: The Silent Lie

title: From Now On

title: From Now On

title: The Pseudo Prodigal

title: Evangeline

title: The Enforcer


Annie Potts

biography:
Anne Hampton Potts (born October 28, 1952) is an American actress. She was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Corvette Summer (1978) and won a Genie Award for Heartaches (1981), before appearing in Ghostbusters (1984), Pretty in Pink (1986), Jumpin' Jack Flash (1986), Who's Harry Crumb? (1989), Ghostbusters II (1989), Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021), and Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024). She voiced Bo Peep in the first, second and fourth films of the Toy Story franchise (1995, 1999, and 2019) and in various Disney video games.

On television, she played Mary Jo Jackson Shively on the CBS sitcom Designing Women (1986–1993). She was nominated for a 1994 Primetime Emmy Award for playing Dana Palladino on the CBS sitcom Love & War (1993–1995), she played teacher Louanne Johnson on ABC drama Dangerous Minds for one season 1996–1997, and was nominated for Screen Actors Guild Awards in 1998 and 1999 for playing Mary-Elizabeth "M.E" Sims in the Lifetime drama series Any Day Now (1998–2002). Her other television credits include GCB (2012), The Fosters (2013–2018), and Young Sheldon (2017–2024).

She was married to her 1st husband Steven Hartley from 1973 to 1978; her 2nd husband, actor Greg Antonacci from 1978 to 1980; and her 3rd husband Scott Senechal from 1981 to 1989, and they have 1 son. She married her 4th husband, director/producer James Hayman in 1990 and they have 2 sons.  From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Magnum, P.I.

overview: A private investigator who works when he wants, lives in a beachfront estate in Hawaii, drives a posh Ferrari, runs up an unlimited tab at a swank bar, and charms attractive women in peril - that's the lifestyle of Thomas Magnum, aka Magnum, P.I.

character: Tracy Spencer

original_name: Magnum, P.I.

original_language: en

Remington Steele

overview: Laura Holt, a licensed private detective, opens a detective agency but finds that potential clients refuse to hire a woman, however qualified. To solve the problem, Laura invents a fictitious male superior whom she names Remington Steele. Through a series of events that unfold in the first episode, "License to Steele," a former thief and con man, whose real name is never revealed, assumes the identity of Remington Steele. Behind the scenes, Laura remains firmly in charge.

character: Annie Carpenter

original_name: Remington Steele

Amazing Stories

overview: A truly amazing, fantastical, science fiction, funny and odd, and sometimes scary, sad and endearing anthology series presented by Steven Spielberg with guest appearances by many famous actors, actresses, and directors.

character: Mrs. Bev Binford (voice)

original_name: Amazing Stories

Designing Women

overview: Julia Sugarbaker, Mary Jo Shively, Charlene Frazier-Stillfield and Suzanne Sugarbaker are associates at their design firm, Sugarbaker and Associates. Julia is the owner and is very outspoken and strong-willed. Mary Jo is a divorced single-parent whom is just as strong-willed as Julia, but isn't as self-confident. Charlene is the naive and trusting farm girl from Poplar Bluff, Missouri. Suzanne is the self-centered ex-beauty queen whom has a number of wealthy ex-husbands.

character: Mary Jo Shively

original_name: Designing Women

Joan of Arcadia

overview: Joan Girardi has begun acting a little strange since her family moved to the city of Arcadia. No one knows that various people keep introducing themselves as God, and then giving the teenager specific directions to do things. Unsure of what God wants, and if she's even sane, Joan tentatively begins to follow God's cryptic directives, all the while trying to retain a "normal" teen-aged existence.

character: Lieutenant Lucy Preston

original_name: Joan of Arcadia

The Twilight Zone

overview: This 1980s revival of the classic sci-fi series features a similar style to the original anthology series. Each episode tells a tale (sometimes two or three) rooted in horror or suspense, often with a surprising twist at the end. Episodes usually feature elements of drama and comedy.

character: (segment "Wordplay")

original_name: The Twilight Zone

Men in Trees

overview: Relationship coach Marin Frist knows what to look for, what to avoid and what will make her happy. As the many fans of her two bestselling books could tell you, we're all in charge of our own happiness. But like many people full of advice, she fails to apply it to herself. On her way to a speaking engagement in Alaska, she learns that her fiancé has cheated on her. Slapped in the face with personal failure, a snowstorm then leaves her stuck in a small town full of the one thing she really doesn't need—available men.

character: Mary Alice O'Donnell

original_name: Men in Trees

The View

overview: ABC Daytime's morning chatfest, currently featuring Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, Sara Haines, Alyssa Farah Griffin, and Ana Navarro discussing the most exciting events of the day. Hot topics in the news, the best experts in their field, celebrity interviews and general entertainment are all part of The View.

original_name: The View

Two and a Half Men

overview: A hedonistic jingle writer's free-wheeling life comes to an abrupt halt when his brother and 10-year-old nephew move into his beach-front house.

character: Lenore

original_name: Two and a Half Men

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

overview: In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.

character: Sophie Devere

original_name: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Any Day Now

overview: Any Day Now is an American drama series that aired on the Lifetime network from 1998 to 2002. The show stars Annie Potts and Lorraine Toussaint as best friends of different races who grew up in Birmingham, Alabama, in the 1960s during the peak of the Civil Rights Movement.  In every episode, contemporary storylines are interwoven with a storyline from their shared past.

character: Mary Elizabeth Sims

original_name: Any Day Now

Ugly Betty

overview: Wannabe writer Betty Suarez is a plain girl from Queens, who is smart, hardworking and savvy but lacks a fashionable sense of style. When publishing mogul Bradford Meade puts his son Daniel in charge of Mode magazine, he hires Betty to be Daniel's new assistant -- mostly because he knows that she may be the only woman in Manhattan with whom the younger man won't sleep.

character: Linda

original_name: Ugly Betty

Boston Legal

overview: Alan Shore and Denny Crane lead a brigade of high-priced civil litigators in an upscale Boston law firm in a series focusing on the professional and personal lives of brilliant but often emotionally challenged attorneys. A spin-off of long-running series The Practice.

character: Joy Espenson

original_name: Boston Legal

Goodtime Girls

overview: Goodtime Girls is an American situation comedy which ran on ABC from January 22, 1980 until August 29, 1980. It was created by Leonora Thuna, and produced by Thomas L. Miller, Edward K. Milkis and Robert L. Boyett, in association with Garry Marshall's Henderson Productions and Paramount Television. It is a period piece comedy set during World War II, which was the producers' 1940s answer to their top 1950s-themed hits Happy Days and Laverne & Shirley.

character: Edith Bedelmeyer

original_name: Goodtime Girls

Love & War

overview: A woman running a bar in New York City while trying to maintain a romance with an egotistical opinionated columnist.

character: Dana Palladino

original_name: Love & War

Lime Street

overview: Lime Street is an American action/drama series that aired on the ABC television network during the 1985 television season. The series was created by Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, who also served as executive producer alongside husband Harry Thomason and series star Robert Wagner. Robert Wagner is half of a crackerjack team of insurance investigators. A colorful British bachelor (John Standing) is the other half, and he resides in a castle outside London. This Lloyd's of London-type duo travel all over the world to crack some of the toughest insurance cases ever devised by a scriptwriter. Lew Ayres is Wagner's dapper Virginia countrygentleman father and the grandfather to Bob's motherless children.

original_name: Lime Street

Dangerous Minds

overview: Dangerous Minds is an American drama television series that aired on ABC network between September 1996 and March 1997. The series is based on the motion picture film, Dangerous Minds. Annie Potts stars in the lead role originated by Michelle Pfeiffer.

character: Louanne Johnson

original_name: Dangerous Minds

Busting Loose

overview: Busting Loose is a 1977 United States comedic television series starring Adam Arkin which centers around a young man in New York City who has moved out of his parents' house to live on his own for the first time. The show aired on CBS between January 17, 1977, and November 16, 1977

original_name: Busting Loose

Over the Top

overview: Over the Top is an American sitcom starring Tim Curry, Annie Potts, and Steve Carell. The series premiered on ABC on October 21, 1997. Although 12 episodes were produced, the series was canceled after only three episodes had aired.

character: Hadley Martin

original_name: Over the Top

GCB

overview: Amanda Vaughn, once the ultimate high school "mean girl," is forced to return home in disgrace after her marriage ends in scandal. As Amanda and her teenage kids try to adjust to their new lives, the ladies from her past alternate between sympathy and scheming.

character: Gigi Stopper

original_name: GCB

I Heart Arlo

overview: Arlo and his newfound crew set up shop in an abandoned seaside neighborhood and help bring it back to life.

character: Edmee (voice)

original_name: I Heart Arlo

Marry Me

overview: Rae Ann Carter always wanted the fairytale where she meets a prince, falls in love and gets married, but feared that dream would never come true. Suddenly, Rae goes from having no man in her life to having three – charming Luke, passionate Adam, and sophisticated Harry – all in love with Rae and asking to marry her. Which man will she choose?

character: Vivienne Carter

original_name: Marry Me

origin_country: US CN

The Talk

overview: A panel of well-known news and entertainment personalities discussing current events, pop culture, contemporary issues, family, celebrity and the trending topics of the day.

original_name: The Talk

The Fosters

overview: Stef Foster, a dedicated police officer, and her partner Lena Adams, a school vice principal, have built a close-knit, loving family with Stef's biological son from a previous marriage, Brandon, and their adopted twins, Mariana and Jesus. Their lives are disrupted in unexpected ways when Lena meets Callie, a hardened teen with an abusive past who has spent her life in and out of foster homes. Lena and Stef welcome Callie and her brother, Jude, into their home thinking it's just for a few weeks, until a more permanent placement can be found. But life has something else in store for the Fosters.

character: Sharon Elkin

original_name: The Fosters

Fish Hooks

overview: This inventive animated comedy series, set inside a giant fish tank in Bud's Pet Shop, presents high school life as seen through the eyes of three BFFs (best fish friends), Bea, Milo and Oscar. Together they experience the typical life challenges and triumphs, including friendship, dating and sports, along with more atypical situations such as giant lobster attacks and, with the use of special land suits, school field trips to the hamster cages. The series was created by children's book illustrator Noah Z. Jones and features a notable voice cast. It's produced using an innovative mixture of digital animation and photo collage

character: Nurse Fishington (voice)

original_name: Fish Hooks

Chicago Med

overview: An emotional thrill ride through the day-to-day chaos of the city's most explosive hospital and the courageous team of doctors who hold it together. They will tackle unique new cases inspired by topical events, forging fiery relationships in the pulse-pounding pandemonium of the emergency room.

character: Helen

original_name: Chicago Med

Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja

overview: Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja is an American animated television series created by Jed Elinoff and Scott Thomas for Disney XD. It is produced by Titmouse, Inc. and Boulder Media Limited. Many of the character designs were supplied by Jhonen Vasquez, the creator of Invader Zim. The series premiered on September 17, 2012.

character: Tawny Zingwald (voice)

original_name: Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja

The Rosie O'Donnell Show

overview: The Rosie O'Donnell Show was an American daytime television talk show hosted and produced by actress and comedian Rosie O'Donnell. It aired for six seasons from 1996 to 2002. Topics often discussed on the show include Broadway, children, extended families and charitable works, people and organizations. The show was based out of Studio 8G at NBC's Rockefeller Center studios in New York City, NY, USA and was produced and syndicated by KidRo Productions, Telepictures Productions and Warner Bros. Television.

original_name: The Rosie O'Donnell Show

Young Sheldon

overview: The early life of child genius Sheldon Cooper, later seen in The Big Bang Theory.

character: Connie Tucker

original_name: Young Sheldon

Scandal

overview: Everyone has secrets and Olivia Pope has dedicated her life to protecting and defending the public images of the elite by keeping those secrets under wraps. Pope and her team are at the top of their game when it comes to getting the job done for their clients, but it becomes apparent that these "gladiators in suits," who specialize in fixing the lives of other people, have trouble fixing those closest at hand -- their own.

character: Louise Baker

original_name: Scandal

Grey's Anatomy

overview: Follows the personal and professional lives of a group of doctors at Seattle's Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital.

character: Joyce Bosco

original_name: Grey's Anatomy

Sherri

overview: Sherri Shepherd, actress, comic, and Emmy Award-winning longtime co-host of "The View", appears before a live audience with a daily dose of pop culture, comedy, conversations, and daytime talk staples, including celebrity and human interest interviews.

character: Self - Guest

original_name: Sherri

The Movies That Made Us

overview: These blockbusters brought us together and gave us the time of our lives. Meet the actors, directors and industry insiders who made them happen.

character: Janine Melnitz (archive footage)

original_name: The Movies That Made Us

The Jennifer Hudson Show

overview: Talented entertainer and newly-minted EGOT Jennifer Hudson takes on the daytime talk show landscape.

original_name: The Jennifer Hudson Show

Stars in the House

overview: In the wake of the Coronavirus pandemic and theatres across the world closing their curtains indefinitely, SiriusXM host Seth Rudetsky and his husband, producer James Wesley have created Stars in the House, a daily live streamed series to support The Actors Fund and its services.

NCIS: New Orleans

overview: A drama about the local field office that investigates criminal cases affecting military personnel in The Big Easy, a city known for its music, entertainment and decadence.

Reunited Apart

overview: Josh Gad reunites the cast and crews of various classic movies, and discusses the the films in hilarious yet heartfelt conversations.

Animal Practice

overview: Dr. George Coleman is a top veterinarian with an impressive list of famous animal patients at the Crane Animal Hospital—a bustling New York City veterinary practice where it often seems as if the patients are running the place. Much to his chagrin, George recently learned that his ex-girlfriend, Dorothy Crane, has inherited the family business and is now George's boss.

Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage

overview: Georgie and Mandy raise their young family in Texas while navigating the challenges of adulthood, parenting, and marriage.

The Comedy Factory

overview: The Comedy Factory (no known affiliation with the comedy club of the same name) was a live-action, scripted comedy series that ran during the summers of 1985 and 1986 on ABC in the United States and CTV in Canada (who also oversaw production). The show revolved around comedians and actors acting out scenes from television pilots that had been passed on previously by ABC. Further information on the show is scarce and nearly every episode of the show is presumed lost; only the premiere episode, "Honey, It's the Mayor," is known to survive in its entirety (uploaded to YouTube).

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

overview: The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under The Tonight Show franchise from 1962 to 1992. It originally aired during late-night. For its first ten years, Carson's Tonight Show was based in New York City with occasional trips to Burbank, California; in May 1972, the show moved permanently to Burbank, California. In 2002, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson was ranked #12 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.

Royal Pains

overview: A young E.R. doctor who, after being wrongly blamed for a patient's death, moves to the Hamptons and becomes the reluctant "doctor for hire" to the rich and famous. When the attractive administrator of the local hospital asks him to treat the town's less fortunate, he finds himself walking the line between doing well for himself and doing good for others.

Best Medicine

overview: Martin Best is a brilliant surgeon who abruptly leaves his illustrious career in Boston to become the general practitioner in a quaint East Coast fishing village where he spent summers as a child. Unfortunately, Martin's blunt and borderline rude bedside manner rubs the quirky, needy locals the wrong way, and he quickly alienates the town, even though he's all they’ve got.

Instant Mom

overview: Martini Mondays and tequila Tuesdays take a back seat to new step-motherhood when former party girl Stephanie marries Charlie, an older dad with three kids. Becoming an instant mom doesn't come with a rulebook, but it does come with a dose of humor as Stephanie traverses the fine line between being a friend and being a responsible parent.

People's Choice Awards

overview: An American awards show recognizing people in entertainment, voted online by the general public and fans.

The Kelly Clarkson Show

overview: Kelly Clarkson presents the biggest newsmakers and names in film, television and music; as well as emerging new talent and everyday people who are beacons of hope in their communities.

Deutsch

biography:
Annie Potts (* 28. Oktober 1952 in Nashville, Tennessee) ist eine US-amerikanische Schauspielerin.

Die bekanntesten Rollen von Annie Potts sind die der Janine Melnitz in Ghostbusters – Die Geisterjäger (1984) und der Mary Jo Shively in der Fernsehserie Mann muss nicht sein (1986–1993). Für ihren Part in Zwei heiße Typen auf dem Highway (1978) wurde sie für den Golden Globe Award als Beste Nachwuchsdarstellerin nominiert.

Annie Potts ist in vierter Ehe mit dem Regisseur James Hayman verheiratet, mit dem sie zwei Söhne hat. Ein weiterer Sohn stammt aus einer früheren Ehe.

Français

biography: Annie Potts est une actrice et productrice américaine née le 28 octobre 1952, principalement connue pour avoir incarné Janine Melnitz la réceptionniste des SOS Fantômes et Mari Jo Shively dans la série Femmes d'affaires et dames de cœur. Elle a également prêté sa voix à la bergère dans les deux volets de Toy Story. Depuis 2017, elle incarne la grand-mère de Sheldon Cooper dans le spin-off de la série à succès The Big Bang Theory, Young Sheldon.

Magyar

biography:
Anne Hampton Potts (Nashville, Tennessee, 1952. október 28. –), ismertebb nevén Annie Potts amerikai színésznő. Karrierje a Száguldó nyár (1978) című filmben kezdődött, amelyért Golden Globe-díjra jelölték. Az 1981-es Szívfájdalom című filmmel megnyerte a kanadai Genie Awards-díjat. Ezután több filmben és televíziós sorozatban feltűnt, például a Szellemirtókban (1984) és annak 1989-es folytatásában, illetve ő volt Bo Peep hangja is a Toy Story-franchise első, második és negyedik részében. Az ifjú Sheldon című sorozatban főszerepet játszik.

A Tennessee állambeli Nashville-ben született, Dorothy Harris és Powell Grisette Potts gyermekeként. Nővérei Mary Eleanor (Potts) Hovious és Elizabeth Grissette "Dollie" Potts. A Kentucky állambeli Franklinben nőttek fel; Annie 1970-ben érettségizett a Franklin-Simpson High School tanulójaként.

A Stephens College tanulójaként diplomázott.

普通话

安妮·波茨

biography: 安妮·波茨，本名为安妮·汉普顿·波茨，是一位美国女演员。在出演《捉鬼敢死队》、《红粉佳人》、《东西战争》、《通天神探》以及《捉鬼敢死队2》之前，她已经凭《勇闯终极禁区》获得金球奖提名，并凭《潇洒姐妹行》赢得吉尼奖。她在《玩具总动员系列电影》的第一、第二和第四部电影中为宝贝配音。

普通话

安妮·波茨

biography: 安妮·波茨，本名為安妮·漢普頓·波茨，是一位美國女演員。在出演《捉鬼敢死隊》、《紅粉佳人》、《東西戰爭》、《通天神探》以及《捉鬼敢死隊 2》之前，她已經憑《勇闖終極禁區》獲得金球獎提名，並憑《瀟灑姐妹行》贏得吉尼獎。她在《玩具總動員系列電影》的第一、第二和第四部電影中為寶貝配音。

also_known_as:
Anne Hampton "Annie" Potts
Anne Hampton Potts
安妮·帕茲
애니 포츠
آنی پاتس

title: Toy Story 2

overview: Andy heads off to Cowboy Camp, leaving his toys to their own devices. Things shift into high gear when an obsessive toy collector named Al McWhiggen, owner of Al's Toy Barn kidnaps Woody. Andy's toys mount a daring rescue mission, Buzz Lightyear meets his match and Woody has to decide where he and his heart truly belong.

title: Toy Story

overview: Led by Woody, Andy's toys live happily in his room until Andy's birthday brings Buzz Lightyear onto the scene. Afraid of losing his place in Andy's heart, Woody plots against Buzz. But when circumstances separate Buzz and Woody from their owner, the duo eventually learns to put aside their differences.

title: Ghostbusters

overview: After losing their university jobs, three parapsychologists start a ghost-catching business in New York City and uncover a supernatural threat that could destroy the world.

title: Ghostbusters II

overview: The discovery of a massive river of ectoplasm and a resurgence of spectral activity allows the staff of Ghostbusters to revive the business.

title: King of the Gypsies

overview: Zharko, leader of the Romanis in NYC,  passes his position of leadership on to his unwilling grandson, Dave, leading to infighting between Dave and his father.

title: Pretty in Pink

overview: Andie is an outcast, hanging out either with her older boss, who owns the record store where she works, or her quirky high school classmate Duckie, who has a crush on her. When one of the rich and popular kids at school, Blane, asks Andie out, it seems too good to be true. As Andie starts falling for Blane, she begins to realize that dating someone from a different social sphere is not easy.

title: Who's Harry Crumb?

overview: Harry Crumb is a bumbling and inept private investigator who is hired to solve the kidnapping of a young heiress which he's not expected to solve because his employer is the mastermind behind the kidnapping.

title: Corvette Summer

overview: Ken loves to design and build exotic cars. When the High School shop class project car, a fully tricked out dream Corvette, is stolen, he begins searching for it. His search leads him to Las Vegas, where Vanessa, a teenaged prostitute wannabe, helps him try to track it down.

title: Crimes of Passion

overview: Fashion designer Joanna Crane leads a double life. By night she is China Blue, a prostitute who's attracted the attention of a sexually frustrated private detective, and a psychopathic priest in possession of a murderous sex toy.

title: Don't You Forget About Me

overview: Throughout the ’80s John Hughes defined the teen movie genre and spoke not only to that generation’s teens, but every generation that has followed. Then in 1991 he hung up his director’s hat and disappeared into obscurity ala J.D Salinger. In 2008, a group of young Canadian filmmakers set out to complete a documentary about the man with what they hoped would culminate with an interview, which would be his first since 1999.

title: Elvis Has Left the Building

overview: Harmony had an encounter early in life with the young Elvis, and can't seem to shake his influence. Now a Pink Lady selling cosmetics, she seems to inadvertently bring harm to any Elvis impersonators she encounters. After a bizarre car accident leaves a slew of them dead, Harmony goes on the run from the authorities, hooking up with a downtrodden ad exec who has Elvis troubles of his own.

title: It Came Upon the Midnight Clear

overview: Retired cop Mike Halligan decides to show his grandson, who has never seen snow before, what a real white Christmas in New York is like. But a sudden fatal heart attack derails those plans, and Halligan makes a deal with the Archangel of Heaven to return to Earth for a week until Christmas in order to give his grandson the seasonal glories of New York City.

title: Texasville

overview: Summer, 1984: 30 years after Duane captained the high school football team and Jacy was homecoming queen, this Texas town near Wichita Falls prepares for its centennial. Oil prices are down, banks are failing, and Duane's $12 million in debt. His wife Karla drinks too much, his children are always in trouble, and he tom-cats around with the wives of friends. Jacy's back in town, after a mildly successful acting career, life in Italy, and the death of her son. Folks assume Duane and Jacy will resume their high school romance. And Sonny is "tired in his mind," causing worries for his safety. Can these friends find equilibrium in middle age?

title: Queen Sized

overview: Maggie Baker has a weight problem, and her high school classmates won't let her forget it. They shamelessly ridicule her, and even go so far as to nominate her for Homecoming Queen as a joke. Maggie, however, decides to take the nomination seriously, collects the required signatures and starts campaigning. A number of students get behind her, threatening the chances of the popular clique -- who resolve to sabotage Maggie's campaign by any means necessary.

title: Pass the Ammo

overview: A corrupt television preacher and his congregation are held hostage by a woman, her lover, and her two cousins in an attempt to avenge the theft of her inheritance. A quirky look at the dishonesty of the televangelist industry.

title: Flatbed Annie & Sweetie Pie: Lady Truckers

overview: This engaging made-for-television movie follows the adventures of Ginny "Sweetie Pie" LaRosa (Kim Darby), who needs money after her trucker husband, Jack (Fred Willard), is shot by hijackers. Fortunately, she finds a partner in Flatbed Annie (Annie Potts), a freewheelin' driver. The women form an unlikely but profitable friendship while fending off the repo man who wants the truck and the criminals who are after the cocaine hidden in it.

original_title: Flatbed Annie & Sweetie Pie: Lady Truckers

title: Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire

overview: The Spengler family returns to where it all started - the iconic New York City firehouse - to team up with the original Ghostbusters, who've developed a top-secret research lab to take busting ghosts to the next level. But when the discovery of an ancient artifact unleashes an evil force, Ghostbusters new and old must join forces to protect their home and save the world from a second Ice Age.

title: The Music Teacher

overview: Music Teacher revolves around Alyson Daley (Potts), a high school music teacher who is on the brink of losing her beloved school music program because of district budget cuts. In an effort to spare the program, Daley's former students band together to stage a musical to raise money to keep the program alive.

title: Defending Our Kids: The Julie Posey Story

overview: After a paedophile approaches her daughter in an on-line chat room, a homemaker (Annie Potts) poses as a lonely teenager to help expose sexual predators.

original_title: Defending Our Kids: The Julie Posey Story

title: Freshman Father

overview: When high school sweethearts John and Kathy find out Kathy is pregnant, they decide to get married and move to Cambridge so John can fulfill his scholarship to Harvard. But faced with the harsh reality of their situation, Kathy leaves John behind, compelling him to rent a room from Dorothy, a psychic who encourages him as he struggles to balance school and fatherhood.

title: Why Me?

overview: An Air Force nurse about to leave the service is badly disfigured about her face in a car accident in which she also loses her baby.

title: The Man Who Fell to Earth

overview: An alien lands on Earth, and decides that he needs to a job in order to raise money to build a spaceship so he can return to his home planet.

title: Cleanin' Up the Town: Remembering Ghostbusters

overview: The documentary that tells us the full story from where it all started through to the future of the "Ghostbusters" franchise.

original_title: Cleanin' Up the Town: Remembering Ghostbusters

title: Chu and Blossom

overview: A militant performance-artist and a tall Korean foreign-exchange student become trapped in a small Southern town.

title: Her Deadly Rival

overview: A man's life and marriage fall apart when he is stalked and harassed by a mysterious secret admirer -- a woman he claims he has never met, in this fact-based variation on "Fatal Attraction."

title: Holbrook/Twain: An American Odyssey

overview: Hal Holbrook's Mark Twain is an icon of American theater. Since first walking on stage in 1954, Holbrook has performed his one-man show Mark Twain Tonight! for millions on and off Broadway, in all fifty states, in twenty countries, before five U.S. presidents and behind the Iron Curtain. Countless actors and Twain scholars have been influenced by Holbrook's work and his Tony and Emmy Award-winning masterpiece.

title: Making 'Toy Story'

overview: Documentary of the making of the groundbreaking Disney/Pixar animated hit movie.

title: Cowboy

overview: A man from the city returns to his small home town in the countryside to live like a farmer. He finds couple of friends among the locals, but people running the town want his land.

title: The Scarlett O'Hara War

overview: The trials and tribulations of David O. Selznick as he attempts to find an actress to play the role of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939).

title: Bayou Romance

overview: Lily, an energetic and charming artist, leaves the city life for a sprawling plantation she's inherited in Louisiana. Unfortunately, it's inhabited by a band of gypsies, and she's drawn, perhaps by magic, to the handsome and rugged Zanko. But that's only the beginning. An old fashioned love affair blooms between her and a Creole doctor in a nearby town, and events are even further complicated when she discovers a secret link between her family and the steamy, romantic bayou.

title: Hanna-Barbera's 50th

overview: The special is hosted by Tony Danza and Annie Potts celebrating 50 years of William Hanna and Joseph Barbera's partnership in animation. This is the first animated project to be broadcast in Dolby Surround sound system.

title: The Sunday Man

overview: The misadventures of a remarkably peculiar man, who has some very unusual ideas about who he is.

title: Izzy Gets the F*ck Across Town

overview: A woman at rock bottom must find her way across Los Angeles in order to crash her ex-boyfriend's engagement party.

title: Heartaches

overview: A young wife becomes pregnant, but the child's father is not her husband. Afraid to tell him, she leaves home, and meets an outgoing, free-spirited woman on a bus. Although the two are polar opposites, the wife moves in with the young woman, and finds out that they have much more in common than she realized.

title: Ghostbusters

overview: Following a ghost invasion of Manhattan, paranormal enthusiasts Erin Gilbert and Abby Yates, nuclear engineer Jillian Holtzmann, and subway worker Patty Tolan band together to stop the otherworldly threat.

title: Five

overview: An anthology of five short films exploring the impact of breast cancer on people's lives.

title: The Designing Women Reunion

overview: This five principal original cast members (plus a handful of recurring guests) from the popular sitcom Designing Women (1986) reunite for the first time since 1991 to reminisce and discuss the show.

title: Happy Anniversary

overview: A quirky couple spends their three-year dating anniversary looking back at their relationship and contemplating whether they should break up.

title: Humor Me

overview: With an interminable case of writer's block and a personal family crisis, playwright Nate is forced to move into his father's retirement community.

title: The Story Behind 'Toy Story'

overview: The documentary short of Toy Story of why and how the feature length blockbuster sleeper movie became a success and helps to boost Pixar's popularity of making one of the few animation movie production companies in the world today, especially in North America.

title: As Good As You

overview: Jo's world is thrown into utter disarray when her wife Amanda passes away and she starts chasing a dream that she and Amanda had once shared - starting a family together. Jo asks her late wife's brother, Jamie, to be her sperm donor and craziness ensues.

title: She's Having a Baby

overview: Jake and Kristy Briggs are newlyweds. Being young, they are perhaps a bit unprepared for the full reality of marriage and all that it (and their parents) expect from them. Do they want babies? Their parents certainly want them to. Is married life all that there is? Things certainly aren't helped by Jake's friend Davis, who always seems to turn up just in time to put a spanner in the works.

title: Black Market Baby

overview: A young college girl becomes pregnant, and she and the baby's father are targeted by a black-market adoption ring that is out to get the baby.

title: Jumpin' Jack Flash

overview: Terry works for a bank, and uses computers to communicate with clients all over the world. One day, she gets a strange coded message from an unknown source. After decoding the message, Terry becomes embroiled in an espionage ring. People are killed, and Terry is chased. Throughout, she remains in contact with this mysterious person, who needs Terry's help save his life.

title: Toy Story 4

overview: Woody has always been confident about his place in the world, devoted to taking care of his kid—whether that's Andy or Bonnie. But after Bonnie creates a reluctant new toy called "Forky", a road trip adventure alongside old and new friends challenges everything Woody believes about loyalty, purpose, and what it truly means to be a toy.

title: Lamp Life

overview: Bo Peep explains what happened to herself and her sheep between the events of Toy Story 2 and Toy Story 4.

title: Ghostbusters: Afterlife

overview: When single mom Callie and her two kids Trevor and Phoebe arrive in a small Oklahoma town, they begin to discover their connection to the original Ghostbusters and the secret legacy their grandfather left behind.

title: Breaking the Rules

overview: Two friends take their dying buddy on one last road trip.

title: Arlo the Alligator Boy

overview: Upon learning that he is from New York City, a wide-eyed boy, who is half human and half alligator, decides to leave his sheltered life in the swamp and search for his long lost father. A musical adventure.

title: Something So Right

overview: Joey lives with his mother. His father isn't around, he doesn't like school, he is bored and doesn't take orders from anyone. In other words he is a real little scamp. Being at one's wit's end, his mother decides to look for a "big brother" (sort of surrogate father) for Joey. At first this clumsy Arnie doesn't know how to handle Joey but after a while everything changes and not only for Joey ...

title: Toy Story at 20: To Infinity and Beyond

overview: Retrospective looking at the revolutionary computer-animated feature film Toy Story.

title: 40 Dates and 40 Nights

overview: Burned out on dating and ready to quit, Leah accepts her grandma's outrageous challenge: 40 dates in 40 nights for a full year of rent. From awkward dinners to unexpected sparks, she discovers the biggest obstacle to love might just be herself.

title: Toy Story 5

overview: When Bonnie receives a Lilypad tablet as a gift and becomes obsessed, Buzz, Woody, Jessie and the rest of the gang's jobs become exponentially harder when they have to go head to head with the all-new threat to playtime.

title: Meggamorphosis

overview: A 3D animated journey through the life of an egg

title: Toy Story 2

title: Toy Story

title: Ghostbusters

title: Ghostbusters II

title: King of the Gypsies

title: Pretty in Pink

title: Who's Harry Crumb?

title: Corvette Summer

title: Crimes of Passion

title: Don't You Forget About Me

title: Elvis Has Left the Building

title: It Came Upon the Midnight Clear

title: Texasville

title: Queen Sized

title: Pass the Ammo

title: Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire

title: The Music Teacher

title: Freshman Father

title: Why Me?

title: The Man Who Fell to Earth

title: Chu and Blossom

title: Her Deadly Rival

title: Holbrook/Twain: An American Odyssey

title: Making 'Toy Story'

title: Cowboy

title: The Scarlett O'Hara War

title: Bayou Romance

title: Hanna-Barbera's 50th

title: The Sunday Man

title: Izzy Gets the F*ck Across Town

title: Heartaches

title: Ghostbusters

title: Five

title: The Designing Women Reunion

title: Happy Anniversary

title: Humor Me

title: The Story Behind 'Toy Story'

title: As Good As You

title: She's Having a Baby

title: Black Market Baby

title: Jumpin' Jack Flash

title: Toy Story 4

title: Lamp Life

title: Ghostbusters: Afterlife

title: Breaking the Rules

title: Arlo the Alligator Boy

title: Something So Right

title: Toy Story at 20: To Infinity and Beyond

title: 40 Dates and 40 Nights

title: Toy Story 5

title: Meggamorphosis


Robert Stigwood

The Story of Musicals

overview: A three-part series exploring how the British musical became a driving force behind musical theatre around the world — a tale of shows, daring, rivalries, talent and fortunes are set in just a single square mile.

character: Self

original_name: The Story of Musicals

English

iso_639_1: en

iso_3166_1: US

english_name: English

Deutsch

Robert Stigwood

biography: Robert Stigwood (* 16. April 1934 in Adelaide, South Australia; † 4. Januar 2016 in London, England) war ein australischer Musik- und Filmproduzent, der 1955 nach Großbritannien übersiedelte.

iso_639_1: de

iso_3166_1: DE

english_name: German

title: Saturday Night Fever: The Ultimate Disco Movie

overview: John Travolta, Barry Gibb and the Saturday Night Fever cast and crew tell the story behind the mega-hit film. Bruno Tonioli goes through the disco steps that made movie history.

character: Self (archive footage)

title: The Brian Epstein Story

overview: Documentary on the life of Brian Epstein, the man who brought The Beatles to fame.  A Documentary examining the turbulent life and career of Beatles manager Brian Epstein. Gay when homosexuality was illegal, a gambler, shopkeeper and failed actor, he was also pop king with a Midas touch who, in the 60s, was as well known as the band he managed. Broadcast in two episodes on the BBC Series Arena

original_title: The Brian Epstein Story

title: The Fabulous Allan Carr

overview: Armed with a limitless Rolodex and a Benedict Canyon enclave with its own disco, Allan Carr threw the Hollywood parties that defined the 1970s. A producer, manager, and marketing genius, Carr built his bombastic reputation amid a series of successes including the mega-hit musical film "Grease," until it all came crashing down after he produced the 1989 Academy Awards, a notorious debacle.

character: Self (archive)

original_title: The Fabulous Allan Carr

title: The Time, the Place, the Motion: Remembering Grease

overview: A behind-the-scenes documentary featuring interviews with the original cast and crew (such as Stockard Channing and Patricia Birch) detailing the magic of the 1978 film.

character: Self – Producer

job: Producer

title: Grease

overview: Australian good girl Sandy and greaser Danny fell in love over the summer. But when they unexpectedly discover they're now in the same high school, will they be able to rekindle their romance despite their eccentric friends?

department: Production

original_title: Grease

title: Staying Alive

overview: It's five years later and Tony Manero's Saturday Night Fever is still burning. Now he's strutting toward his biggest challenger yet - making it as a dancer on the Broadway stage.

original_title: Staying Alive

title: Saturday Night Fever

overview: Tony spends his Saturdays at a disco where his stylish moves raise his popularity among the patrons. But his life outside the disco is not easy and things change when he gets attracted to Stephanie.

original_title: Saturday Night Fever

title: Tommy

overview: After a series of traumatic childhood events, a psychosomatically deaf, dumb and blind boy becomes a master pinball player and the object of a religious cult.

original_title: Tommy

title: Gallipoli

overview: Two Australian sprinters face the brutal realities of war when they are sent to fight in the Gallipoli campaign in the Ottoman Empire during World War I.

original_title: Gallipoli

title: Grease 2

overview: It's 1961, two years after the original Grease gang graduated, and there's a new crop of seniors and new members of the coolest cliques on campus, the Pink Ladies and T-Birds. Michael Carrington is the new kid in school - but he's been branded a brainiac. Can he fix up an old motorcycle, don a leather jacket, avoid a rumble with the leader of the T-Birds, and win the heart of Pink Lady Stephanie?

original_title: Grease 2

job: Executive Producer

title: Bugsy Malone

overview: New York, 1929, a war rages between two rival gangsters, Fat Sam and Dandy Dan. Dan is in possession of a new and deadly weapon, the dreaded "splurge gun". As the custard pies fly, Bugsy Malone, an all-round nice guy, falls for Blousey Brown, a singer at Fat Sam's speakeasy. His designs on her are disrupted by the seductive songstress Tallulah who wants Bugsy for herself.

original_title: Bugsy Malone

title: Evita

overview: The hit musical based on the life of Evita Duarte, an Argentinian actress who eventually became the wife of Argentinian president Juan Perón, and the most beloved and hated woman in Argentina.

original_title: Evita

title: Jesus Christ Superstar

overview: As played out by a theatre troupe, the last days of Jesus Christ are depicted from the perspective of Judas Iscariot, his betrayer. As Jesus' following increases, Judas begins to worry that Jesus is falling for his own hype, forgetting the principles of his teachings and growing too close to the prostitute Mary Magdalene.

original_title: Jesus Christ Superstar

title: The Fan

overview: A record store clerk is an obsessed fan of an actress of stage and screen. However, when faced with rejection, the fan strikes out in increasingly violent ways.

original_title: The Fan

title: Young Lust: A Soap Opera

overview: The reunion of Garytown High School’s class of ‘71 is a catalyst for a series of comic crises involving sex, drugs, murder and anatomical oddities.

original_title: Young Lust: A Soap Opera

title: Times Square

overview: When a 13-year-old girl befriends a defiant antisocial child of the streets, the mismatched runaways set off to the Big Apple to find their own adventure.

original_title: Times Square

title: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

overview: A small town band makes it big, but loses track of their roots, as they get caught up into the big-time machinations of the music biz. Now, they must thwart a plot to destroy their home town. Built around the music of The Beatles, this musical uses some big name groups like Peter Frampton and Aerosmith.

original_title: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

title: Moment by Moment

overview: Trisha Rawlings, a Beverly Hills socialite suffering from loneliness following the separation from her womanizing husband, develops a May–December romance with a young drifter named Strip.

original_title: Moment by Moment

title: Cucumber Castle

overview: On his death bed, The King orders his kingdom divided into two halves, the Kingdom of Jelly and the Kingdom of Cucumbers. Before the king even dies, Prince Frederick declares himself "King of Cucumbers" and Prince Marmaduke becomes the “King of Jelly”.

original_title: Cucumber Castle

job: Presenter

title: Gallipoli

department: Crew

place_of_birth: Adelaide, Australia

media_type: movie

title: The Brian Epstein Story

title: The Fabulous Allan Carr

The Story of Musicals

media_type: tv

title: Grease

title: Staying Alive

title: Saturday Night Fever

title: Tommy

title: Gallipoli

title: Grease 2

title: Bugsy Malone

title: Evita

title: Jesus Christ Superstar

title: The Fan

title: Young Lust: A Soap Opera

title: Times Square

title: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

title: Moment by Moment

title: Cucumber Castle

title: Gallipoli