Barry Shear
Nacimiento : 1923-03-23, Los Angeles, California
Muerte : 1979-06-13
Historia
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Barry Shear (March 23, 1923 in Los Angeles, California - June 13, 1979 in New York City) was an American film director and producer.
He directed films such as The Todd Killings in 1971 (based on the serial killer Charles Schmid), and the blaxploitation film Across 110th Street in 1972.
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Loosely based on the life of Jimmy Hoffa, this traces the rise of Tommy Vanda (Joe Don Baker) from a Chicago dock worker to an influential labor leader who, like Hoffa, finds himself behind bars in a federal prison, and not long after, taken for a ride by shady men never to be seen again.
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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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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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True story recounting the crash of Eastern Airlines flight 401, which crashed in the Everglades while on approach to Miami in December 1972. Accurate in many respects, the movie goes through the events leading up to the crash, the crash itself, and the rescue effort afterwards.
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An U.S. Army colonel leads a crack group of secret agents operating behind enemy lines in occupied France during World War II.
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Pilot for the short-lived TV series centers on five rough-and-tumble guys living on a leaky boat where they try to collar a gang of waterfront toughs after a robbery of which their buddy was the victim.
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Various comedy sketches with the Master of Insults, Don Rickles.
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A young couple in a car exactly like Starsky's is killed by hitmen and word is out on the street that there's a contract out on Starsky and Hutch. This is a TV-pilot that was an ABC Movie of the Week and later turned into the TV-series.
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Un equipo formado por un agente del F.B.I., un oficial de policía de Nueva York y un policía del estado, se enfrentan a una poderosa red de narcotraficantes que no les pondrán las cosas nada fáciles.
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When a woman dies in a car accident, her former husband (a traveling circus worker) learns that his wife was pregnant when she divorced him many years earlier. The now teen-aged daughter enters his life. Can they form a relationship?
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Un pacífico sheriff deja de serlo cuando una banda de forajidos a los que busca, toman a su mujer y a su hijo como rehenes y los matan. El sheriff los perseguirá hasta México para vengar la muerte de su familia.
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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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Un banda de gángsters negros se propone controlar el barrio de Harlem.
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Un banda de gángsters negros se propone controlar el barrio de Harlem.
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Eight people have to find their way out of a New York subway after being trapped following an earthquake.
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Detective Ellery Queen has to solve a series of murders where the victims were killed in numerically descending ages, the male victims were strangled with blue cords and the female victims with pink ones.
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Based on the true story of '60s thrill-killer Charles Schmidt ("The Pied Piper of Tucson"), Skipper Todd (Robert F. Lyons) is a charismatic 23-year old who charms his way into the lives of high school kids in a small California town. Girls find him attractive and are only too willing to accompany him to a nearby desert area to be his "girl for the night." Not all of them return, however. Featuring Richard Thomas as his loyal hanger-on and a colorful assortment of familiar actors in vivid character roles including Barbara Bel Geddes, Gloria Grahame, Edward Asner, Fay Spain, James Broderick and Michael Conrad.
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Based on the true story of '60s thrill-killer Charles Schmidt ("The Pied Piper of Tucson"), Skipper Todd (Robert F. Lyons) is a charismatic 23-year old who charms his way into the lives of high school kids in a small California town. Girls find him attractive and are only too willing to accompany him to a nearby desert area to be his "girl for the night." Not all of them return, however. Featuring Richard Thomas as his loyal hanger-on and a colorful assortment of familiar actors in vivid character roles including Barbara Bel Geddes, Gloria Grahame, Edward Asner, Fay Spain, James Broderick and Michael Conrad.
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Jeff Dillon decides to revisit the scenes of his impoverished youth, and learns sadly that "you can't go home again".
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This anthology telefilm aired on NBC on November 8, 1969, and tells three strange tales: "The Cemetery," directed by Boris Sagal; "Eyes," directed by Steven Spielberg; and "The Escape Route," directed by Barry Shear. This film also served as a backdoor pilot for the TV series of the same name, which premiered on December 16, 1970.
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Después de fugarse de casa prendiendo fuego al coche de sus padres a los quince años y convertirse en multimillonario a los diecinueve gracias a su banda de rock, con cuyos eclécticos componentes vive en Beverly Hills, Max Frost se convierte en presidente de los Estados Unidos con veinticuatro años. Una posición que le otorga el poder suficiente para crear una nación a su imagen y semejanza, donde más de la mitad de la población tiene menos de 25 años, los congresistas fuman LSD y todo es libertad. Sin embargo, aunque parezca difícil de creer, incluso esta utópica sociedad tiene consecuencias negativas, algunas de ellas muy graves.
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Los agentes de CIPOL Napoleon Solo e Ilya Kuryakin viajan alrededor del mundo en un esfuerzo por conseguir una fórmula secreta que fue dividida en cuatro partes por un científico agonizante y repartida entre sus cuatro hijas que viven en distintos países.
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Made-for-TV musical inspired by the real-life travels of a celebrated 1800s female newspaper columnist.
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Tiny Grimes performs "Never Too Old to Swing".
