Ross Bellah
Nacimiento : 1907-01-27, Blum, Texas, USA
Muerte : 2004-02-02
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Ross Bellah (January 27, 1907 – February 2, 2004) was an American art director, primarily for Columbia Pictures. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film The Solid Gold Cadillac. He also worked on most if not all television series produced by Screen Gems, the television subsidiary of Columbia Pictures such as The Donna Reed Show, Dennis the Menace, Hazel, Bewitched, I Dream of Jeannie and The Partridge Family.
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Thriller/Drama about LAPD detectives tracking down two serial killers who are murdering hookers.
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A beautiful woman married to a successful lawyer and the perfect suburban mother turns out to be a closeted bulimic.
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Marguerite Sydney is a celebrated Hollywood star attempting a comeback after a stay in a mental hospital, as well as trying to re-establish a relationship with her teenage son, and risking a romance with a mysterious stranger.
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Private eye Mike Hammer probes his long-lost love's death while seeking their daughter.
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O.J. Simpson plays Michael Brennen, a San Francisco private eye who gets dragged into a drug-smuggling operation while searching for the girlfriend of a deal client, leading Brennen to a politically prominent family.
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A coroner's assistant, who is also a law student, gets involved in a strange case involving his girlfriend's place of employment (a hospital), prostitutes, a defrocked priest, and vampires.
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Los hermanos Traven, Mac (Tom Selleck, Un Vaquero sin Rumbo) y Dal (Sam Elliott, Tombstone, La Leyenda de Wyatt Earp), regresan a su lugar de origen encontrándose con una ciudad devastada, tras la Guerra de Secesión, por los rebeldes confederados que se resisten a rendirse...
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Twelve year old Jennifer is unhappy with her widowed mom's relationship with a family friend. Feeling lonely, she readily accepts the friendship of an adult man named Howie and joins the softball team he coaches. Soon, Howie is convincing Jennifer to pose for photographs which become more and more revealing. Howie turns out to be a pedophile who works in child pornography and he plans to make Jennifer a "star". Will Jennifer's mother be able to help her daughter before it's too late?
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In this sequel to 1979's "Goldie and the Boxer," the ingratiating twosome, heavyweight champ and his 10-year-old manager, flee to California when a vengeful promoter who lost a bundle on the title fight wants retribution.
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Susan Blakey plays Sally Jo Purkey, a factory worker who leads a rebellion among her co-workers for equal rights by forming a company football team for women and hires a down-on-his-luck coach (Eddie Albert) to make them winners.
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A young man wishes to adopt a problematical eight-year-old boy being kept in an institution. Simply because he is single, he has an uphill battle with the government bureaucracy, and particularly with a power-hungry administrator. After many delays, they deny his application. Then, he finds a way to turn the tables on them for the boy's own good.
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Computer genius and chess champion Ted Danson is lured into service by secret agent Eleanor Parker and becomes a reluctant hero thanks to a number of exploits with villainous Christopher Lee and his army of lethal blue-eyed blonde women.
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A homicidal dune-buggy trio terrorizes a busload of Las Vegas bound tourists with the intent to kidnap one of them.
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Lighthearted tale of a 10-year-old girl who, when her boxer father dies, strikes up a relationship with a struggling fighter who was his sparring partner and takes on the job of managing him from obscurity to the championship.
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The true story of University of New Mexico track star John Baker who, dying of cancer, spent his remaining time coaching a losing girls' track team to a winning season.
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The true story of Gary Thomas Rowe, Jr., who worked undercover for the FBI to infiltrate a Ku Klux Klan group in his Alabama hometown and later testified as a key prosecution witness during the trial of several Klansmen for crimes of destruction and murder.
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Six buddies spend the summer together at a Malibu beach house after each has separated from his wife at about the same time.
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Un joven agricultor y un equipo esclavo fugitivo hasta localizar el legendario guerrillero confederado William Quantrill. En el camino, se encuentran con el legendario pistolero, un joven granjero que enseñó a disparar y le da un arma especial que dispara la ronda siete, séptimo, que debe utilizar para luchar contra el mal.
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A James Bondish superspy is assigned to thwart the devious plans of a master agent who is threatening to destroy the planet unless he is paid one billion dollars within 48 hours.
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A young divorcee struggles to provide for her young son and make a new life for herself in the backstage jungle of a TV talk show, becoming fast friends with its head writer whose job it is to see that its host, a woman-chasing egomaniac, stays at the top of the ratings.
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A young mother battles to get her children back after her ex-husband kidnaps them and the law won't help her in her efforts.
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A sophisticated computer named IFR (the film's title is its nickname) supervises an organization dedicated to correcting wrongs against the defenseless and assigns human operatives to track down the evildoers and bring them to justice non-violently.
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A hotshot junkman decides to go to the moon with his two young companions in a homemade rocket to recover millions of dollars worth of discarded space equipment in this pilot to the series.
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Astronomers discover a comet that they believe will crash into Phoenix, Arizona. They attempt to warn officials, but without 100% certainty, the governor of Arizona is reticent to cause a panic. Even after a television news reporter discovers the truth and threatens to go live with it, the response is understated enough to doom some residents of Phoenix to certain death.
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The lives and loves of a group of U.S. Air Force test pilots on a sprawling airbase called "Joshua Tree."
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A lighthearted Western about a peppery New England lady who goes west to seek her fortune by writing about her experiences, and the attractive widow of a cavalry officer, both of whom go in search of Billy the Kid, teaming up to outwit gamblers, bounty hunters, and rough-and-tumble lawmen.
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Earl Eischied is a man with his hands full. As the Chief of Detectives in New York City he is trying to break up a group of black militants that are on a crime spree including the killing of a police officer. He is also trying to battle with a mayor and police commissioner that want him out of his job.
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Semi-follow up to "The Deadly Triangle" dealing with a sheriff and his deputy in a sleepy ski town involved with a group of urbanites planning a dangerous mountain climb as well as investigating sabotage in a condominium development.
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Two heart surgeons clash over personal issues and medical ethics in a big-city hospital.
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The story of Caryl Chessman, a convicted California rapist who spent 12 years on death row before finally being executed.
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A white female detective is partnered with a black male detective to find the person who is committing a series of particularly vicious murders. During the course of the investigation the two begin to develop an attraction to each other, but the situation is complicated by the fact that he is married.
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A wealthy socialite is accused of killing her husband. She claims self-defense as a battered wife, and the district attorney plans to go along with that. However, an assistant district attorney files capital murder charges against her, as he believes she's not quite the innocent, abused wife she portrays herself to be. This was a pilot film for a proposed series that did not get picked up.
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Two beautiful fashion models work undercover as secret agents.
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Pilot to the short-lived TV series "The Feather and Father Gang" has Detective Feather Danton and her con-man father Harry teaming up to outwit Runyonesque horseplayer E.J. Valerian.
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A millionaire hires a pair of private investigators, who specialize in recovering lost and stolen objects, to find his daughter, who has apparently been smuggled out of the country.
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The ex-girlfriend of a laywer, who left him for a lesbian lover, asks him to defend her lover in a murder case.
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Los dos hermanos Beaudine rechazan la oferta del ranchero Hatcher para ir a conducir su ganado; pero cambian de opinión cuando él es disparado. Salen con seis jinetes, y en el camino se enfrentarán a los indios y diferentes obstáculos y accidentes.
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A female investigator in the district attorney's office sets out to track down the person who murdered a young schoolteacher.
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In this pilot film for the later series, a former secret agent, now a private investigator, is hired to protect a beautiful film star and gets involved with black marketeers and gun runners.
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An aging street cop goes after a gang of toughs involved in several robbery-rapes on his beat in this pilot (a spin-off from "Police Story") for the 1975-76 series. The veteran cop concept also was the basis for "The Blue Knight" series at the same time — and that, too, was based on a Joseph Wambaugh creation. Also known as "The Return of Joe Forrester."
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A private investigator is confronted by the police AND the mob about the killing of a former private-eye associate.
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A high school girl who needs a ride accepts one from a boy she doesn't know. He then forces her to participate in a robbery, in which a clerk is killed. They are soon caught, and the girl, despite her protestations of innocence, is convicted of first-degree murder and sent to prison. Once she gets there, she finds out that her troubles are just beginning.
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A thinly-disguised version of the life of Marilyn Monroe, detailing her ups and downs in life and how her erratic behavior contributed to her deteriorating career.
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An American Indian deputy sheriff is caught in the middle of a community dispute when the tribe tries to save an historic mission from a housing developer. This TV pilot film was an ABC Movie of the Week and later became a TV series.
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In the midst of the Depression, a crotchety doctor, whose practice is in the Brooklyn slums, takes an interest in a local teenager, whose hostility and erratic behavior the doctor believes is due to more than just his environment.
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A private investigator specializing in fine arts tries to track down some missing rare Biblical scrolls TV Drama - Glenn Ford, Anthony Quayle, Forrest Tucker
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Based on the real-life relationship between teammates Brian Piccolo and Gale Sayers and the bond established when Piccolo discovers that he is dying.
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Reverend John Keyes and his wife, Lorna, on their way to a new congregation out west, break down in the desert and are rescued by the residents of a nearby town. At first warm and welcoming, the townspeople become more and more solicitous of John and insistent that he stay on as their minister, against the wishes of Lorna, who goes unheeded and slowly becomes deathly ill. Will John realize the danger before it is too late?
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A rape case opens racial divisions in a small town. A black sheriff and his white deputy investigate allegations that a wealthy white businessman raped a black college student.
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A dedicated women's libber and a male chauvinist cop become roommates.
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After spending the last two years in Europe as an exchange student, Gidget returns home to California only to discover that things have changed. The letters she had been writing to her beloved "Moondoggie" to try to make him jealous have had the wrong effect. Disillusioned with love, and after hearing a speech on television, she decides to make a real difference in the world by going to New York to become a youth worker at the United Nations. While there she has a proposal of marriage from an extremely wealthy Arabian sheik, but instead she falls for a handsome but older Australian diplomat.
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In this romantic comedy, an unwed couple who run a wedding planning business discover, to their horror, that the Justice of the Peace who had officiated their first three weddings was only an actor. Hilarity ensues as they set about trying to get these marrieds married...again.
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Patriotic freedom fighters struggle against a fascist dictatorship in a near-future USA.
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This Western is a pilot for the series "The Iron Horse," in which a dapper frontier gambler wins a railroad line in a poker game and has his hands full holding it from the clutches of various conniving bad guys.
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Tras ser plantado por su chica, un deprimido Herbert H. Herbert (Jerry Lewis) reniega de las relaciones románticas, y está decidido a vivir toda su vida como un soltero redomado. Entonces, encuentra trabajo en una residencia para señoritas en Hollywood, ¡y las residentes se vuelven locas con el nuevo ayudante! Es entonces cuando el desventurado Herbert pasa de ser un simple manitas a convertirse en...¡"El terror de las chicas"!
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Drama de infidelidad entre dos adultos cuyas respectivas parejas no les prestan mucha atención. El arquitecto Larry Coe, casado y con dos hijos, se siente atraído por Margaret Gault desde el momento en que la ve en la parada del autobús escolar. El hijo de Margaret es compañero del hijo menor de Larry. Margaret admira a Larry desde que vio en una revista la casa por la que le dieron un premio. Y también se siente atraída por él. La primera cita es un paseo hasta el terreno en que se levantará la casa que Larry está proyectando.
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Due to an accident while swimming in the sea, Francis meets the surfer Moondoggie. She's fascinated with his sport and starts to hang out with his clique. Although they make fun of her at first, they teach her to surf and soon she's accepted and given the nickname "Gidget". But it's hard work to become more than a friend to Moondoggie.
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Tras el robo de una maleta en una estación de tren, la policía descubre un alijo de droga oculto en una figurita de porcelana. Dos hombres llegan a la ciudad con la intención de recuperar dicho alijo sin saber que la policía está al acecho.
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When the nephews of Phyllis Carter are killed in an automobile crash while under the influence of narcotics, she persuades Police Lieutenant Jim Hahan to use her as an undercover agent.
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Biopic sobre la estrella de Broadway de los años 20 Jeanne Eagels (1894-1929). Aunque Eagels aspira a ser una gran actriz, acepta un trabajo como bailarina en un pequeño local neoyorquino. Cuando llega a "La Gran Manzana", recibe clases de la estricta Madame Neilson, logrando así debutar en Broadway en 1922.
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Tres hombres y dos mujeres de distintos orígenes son llevados a un platillo volante donde un extraterrestre les explica que su pueblo vive en un planeta moribundo y necesita a la Tierra. Sin embargo, su código ético no les permite conquistarla. ¿La solución? Que sean los propios humanos quienes aceleren su propia destrucción. Para ello les da a cada uno tres cápsulas capaces de destruir la vida humana en un radio de 2.500 kilómetros. Los cinco elegidos disponen de 27 días para utilizarlas.
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A Swedish settler (David Brian) starts a war when he tries to drive Dakotas off their Wyoming reservation.
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Una artista sin trabajo consigue un empleo en una importante compañía de negocios, pero pronto descubre que la corrupción afecta a los principales ejecutivos de la empresa.
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La más intrigante y malévola mujer de la sociedad sureña manipula la vida de aquellos a su alrededor logrando inesperados resultados. Eva Phillips está casada con Avery, dueño de un próspero molino que vive amargado y orillado al alcohol por la rudeza, maquinaciones egoístas y franca infidelidad de su esposa. Cuando la hermana de Avery, Carol Lee, anuncia su compromiso, Crawford trama prevenir la boda con Judson Prentiss, el amante secreto de la abeja reina.
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Ex-Pony Express rider Autry ties to protect his US mail franchise as the Pony Express gives way to stage coach mail and the telegraph. Gene's last film appearance as a singing cowboy.
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La joven Jennifer coge la diligencia para reunirse con su novio Ben. Con ella viajan dos bandidos disfrazados de honorables caballeros, pero, en el momento oportuno, descubren sus intenciones: se apoderan del oro que transporta la diligencia y huyen con el botín, llevándose a Jennifer como rehén.
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Yankee soldiers-of-fortune smash a spy plot aimed at seizing Hong Kong.
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Mientras Paula conduce su coche, sufre un accidente en el que resulta herido un muchacho y, asustada, huye del lugar, dejándolo abandonado a su suerte. Cuando el sentimiento de culpa la lleva a interesarse por el estado de salud del chico, averigua que ha perdido la facultad de hablar. A partir de ese momento, pondrá todo su empeño en ayudarle a recuperar el don de la palabra.
