Walter Brooke
出生 : 1914-10-13, New York City, New York, U.S.
死亡 : 1986-08-20
略歴
Walter Brooke (October 23, 1914 – August 20, 1986) was an American actor. Brooke is best known for playing Mr. McGuire in The Graduate, where he said his famous line, "Plastics".
He is also remembered for playing district attorney Frank Scanlon in the television series The Green Hornet. Brooke appeared on stage in the 1957 production of Hide and Seek at the Shubert Theatre in Washington, D.C.
Brooke died from emphysema on August 20, 1986, aged 71.
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Duane Bendix
やり手の女弁護士にグレン・クローズ、彼女が弁護する被告人にジェフ・ブリッジスが扮した法廷サスペンス。ラヴ・ロマンスの要素も巧みに盛り込まれ、二転三転するストーリーは必見だ。リチャード・マーカンド監督作。
Walter Sheehan
A failed pilot for a series centering on Maggie Dale, an advice columnist. This was somewhat in the tradition of shows like Fantasy Island. When she receives a letter, the writer's situation is played out for us, then she writes her advice and the writer reads her response and does his/her best to act upon it.
Dr. Rutgers
Sequel to the 1980 mini-series, taking up the plot where it -- and Judith Krantz's source novel -- left off. Billy Ikehorn (Shelley Smith) is the owner of a chic Beverly Hills boutique against which romantic, corporate and political power plays unfold in the classic soap opera tradition. It was the pilot to a prospective series.
Lawrence Stevens
A wife unhappy in her marriage begins an affair with an art student, unaware that her husband, a race driver, is also having an affair.
Glenn Harris
Joyce Windsor is a woman who gets involved in the real estate game after the husband she helped put through law school dumps her. But she has to deal with Pete Strickland, the "King" of Beverly Hills real estate, who wants more than she cares to give for teaching her the ins and outs of the business.
American Intelligence Agent
In this sequel to "Rich Man, Poor Man," moviemaker Gretchen Jordache, the until-now unseen sister, strives to pull the family together after the murder of brother Tom and the disappearance of brother Rudy by first reestablishing contact with her soldier son, and then patching things up with her sister-in-law, Kate, Tom's widow.
Dr. Samuel Shaw
A wealthy widow, a restless housewife, and a former model seek to reshape themselves through cosmetic surgery to please the men in their lives.
Doctor
A semi-fictional account of life as a professional football player. Loosely based on the Dallas Cowboys team of the early 1970s.
Joseph of Arimathea
Re-created Biblical tableaux mixed with interviews.
Cousin Tobias
Heidi leaves the mountains of Switzerland for a trip to New York City.
Mr. Mason
Three orphans from very different backgrounds find themselves living with the same foster couple while waiting to be adopted.
Mr. Weeks
When an upwardly mobile couple find themselves unemployed and in debt, they turn to armed robbery in desperation.
Fowler
An Israeli anti-terrorist agent must stop a disgruntled Vietnam vet cooperating in a Black September PLO plot to commit a terrorist attack at the Super Bowl.
Dr. Grovenor
An unconventional psychiatrist slowly begins to question his own sanity.
Mr. Ames
The ultimate disaster film parody. A nuclear-powered bus is making its maiden non-stop trip from New York to Denver. The journey is plagued by disasters due to the machinations of a mysterious group allied with the oil lobby. Will the down-on-his-luck driver, with a reputation for eating his passengers, be able to complete the journey?
Dr. Stafford
When a novel virus devastates the world in 1976, Dr. Earnshaw notices that it resembles a virus that a Dr. Henderson found a cure for in 1871 Chicago. However, the doctor perished and his notes were destroyed in the Great Chicago Fire. Earnshaw is approached by a government agent, Jeffrey Adams, who informs him of a Top Secret time traveling technology and asks for his assistance in finding Dr. Henderson and his cure. But their adventure becomes a race against time when a glitch sends them back to the day before the fire instead of the planned four days.
Mickey
A dabbler-in-crime and his assistant hire an ex-police reporter to recover some stolen papers.
Dean
One year before the Olympics, Jill Kinmont, an 18-year-old skiing champion, suffers a fall during competition and is left paralyzed. With her life now completely altered, she undergoes an exhausting fight to regain some of what she has lost.
Sen. Tatum
Joe Don Baker plays a gambler who is framed for a crime he did not commit. A corrupt legal system leads him into a plea bargain and four years behind bars. By the time he gets out of prison, he's determined to put together the pieces of his frame-up and dole out the justice he was denied to those responsible.
Whitehead
E.J. Mackernutt, Jr., an 11-year-old boy who has always been fascinated by space and astronauts, sneaks into Cape Kennedy and becomes a stowaway on a spaceship scheduled for a lunar landing. After he is discovered, NASA at first cancels the landing, but E.J. and the astronauts convince them to go forward with it. Problems arise when one of the astronauts is incapacitated by illness and the other two are stranded on the moon's surface, but E.J. is able to command the space capsule and save the day.
Police looking for drug dealers mistakenly raid the house of a typical suburban family. However, rather than admit their mistake and jeopardize their careers, several of the police officers decide to plant heroin in the family's house, and change the records of the raid to make it look like the family was the target of their investigation all along. Based on a true story.
Sam Grove
Stanley, Harry, Sheila and Beth, four students from the 'free sex' Harrad College, spend the summer together to meet their families.
Dr. Simon
A father finds himself taking care of a family that, in addition to his son and three daughters, also consists of two sons-in-law and his youngest daughter's Chinese boyfriend.
Ben
Someone is shooting the residents of a mountain resort town. Sheriff McNeill (Andy Griffith) must figure out the connection that links the victims and find the sniper before he (or she) kills again, and before the town council relieves him of duty.
Mr. Denver
A young woman searching for her birth parents in order to fulfill her sense of identity joins with an organization that fights the bureaucracy keeping adoption records sealed.
Smythe
Rogue intelligence agents, right-wing politicians, greedy capitalists, and free-lance assassins plot and carry out the JFK assassination in this speculative agitprop.
Tom Everett
An elaborate deception emerges when an American astronaut is lost on a mission to Mars. Space agency officials fearful of losing public support and government funding decide to cover up the accident by employing an exact double for the lost astronaut. The ruse begins to unravel when the wife of the lost astronaut realizes she is living with a different man. Although angered by the deception, the woman has fallen in love with the replacement and plans to keep the secret. They both have a change of heart and decide to reveal the secret when they discover a new Mars mission is underway.
Lt. Preston
A detective discovers his son-in-law is cheating on his wife. He confronts the other woman and accidentally kills her, then tries to pin the crime on a local derelict.
Bill Nelson
Count Yorga continues to prey on the local community while living by a nearby orphanage. He also intends to take a new wife, while feeding his bevy of female vampires.
Party Guest (uncredited)
A frustrated pianist himself, music journalist Myles Clarkson is thrilled to interview virtuoso Duncan Ely. Duncan, however, is terminally ill and not much interested in Myles until noticing that Myles' hands are ideally suited for piano. Suddenly, he can't get enough of his new friend, and Myles' wife, Paula, becomes suspicious of Duncan's intentions. Her suspicions grow when Duncan dies and Myles mysteriously becomes a virtuoso overnight.
アメリカ中西部の小さな町に人工衛星が墜落。機体に付着した未知のウイルスが原因で、住人は生まれたばかりの赤ん坊と、アル中の老人を除いて全滅。遺体の血液は全て粉末状に変化していた。細菌汚染の拡大を恐れた軍部は、科学者の中から各分野のスペシャリストを召集。ストーン博士をリーダーとする研究班を組織して、砂漠の地下施設へと送り込むが・・・。
Luther Harris
While passing through the town of Bannock, a bunch of drunken cattlemen go overboard with their celebrating and accidentally kill an old man with a stray shot. They return home to Sabbath unaware of his death. Bannock lawman Jered Maddox later arrives there to arrest everyone involved on a charge of murder. Sabbath is run by land baron Vince Bronson, a benevolent despot, who, upon hearing of the death, offers restitution for the incident.
Rector
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Clifford Foster Evans
This pilot for the TV series stars Pernell Roberts as Jim Conrad, who runs an airport, much to the chagrin of his boss, "his way." In this, two plots run - a kid whose parents are splitting up decides to take off in a little red prop plane (and Conrad talks him down), and thieves played by the handsome Tab Hunter and his truly ugly sidekicks try to steal a money shipment. Roberts was replaced by Lloyd Bridges when the show went to series.
William Enders
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Adam Mercer
A dying man frames himself for murder so his widow can collect the reward.
Network Commentator
ジョン・スタージェス監督によるSFサスペンス。宇宙船の故障で宇宙に取り残されてしまった飛行士たちの姿と、彼らを何とか救出しようとする管制センターの奮闘を描く。グレゴリー・ペックら豪華スターが共演。
Jerry Wolfe
A mentally disturbed man stalks a woman who had once aborted the child he had fathered.
Haskell Wax
All-American couple who try to bridge the generation gap with their free-spirited son on a trip, frisky business and misunderstandings galore ensue, all funny, vibrant and charming.
Howard Beardsley
When a widower with ten children marries a widow with eight, can the twenty of them ever come together as one big happy family?
Col. Arthur Merriam
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Mr. McGuire
大学を卒業し前途洋々のベンジャミン。彼は、祝賀パーティの席で誘惑をかけてきた中年女性ロビンソン夫人と逢瀬を重ねることに。だが彼女の娘エレインが現れた事で、その関係は崩れていく。親の勧めで不承不承エレインと付き合うことになるベンジャミンは、彼女に惹かれていったのだ。一方、そんな若い2人に嫉妬するロビンソン夫人。やがて、彼女とベンジャミンの関係がエレインの知るところとなるのだが……。
The Mayor (segment "The Cobbler and the Elves")
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Dean Gerrard
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Mr. Webster
Troubled teenagers, ineffectual parents, and a climactic tragedy.
Gen. Samuel T. Merritt
A team of American astronauts leave their space station on the first mission to Mars, but the captain's religious beliefs may get in the way.
Johnny Brice
A hearse driver is drawn into a plot by a beautiful blonde to haul away a man she's murdered and take the body to a cemetery.
Joe
A customs agent follows a jewel smuggler's trail of corpses from Paris to New York.
Cab Driver (uncredited)
An unhappy, self-centered woman runs off with her sister's husband, wreaking havoc and ruining the lives of those around her.
Reporter (uncredited)
The trustees of Midwestern University have forced three teachers out of their jobs for being suspected communists. Trustee Ed Keller has also threatened mild mannered English Professor Tommy Turner, because he plans to read a controversial piece of prose in class. Tommy is upset that his wife Ellen also suggested he not read the passage. Meanwhile, Ellen's old boyfriend, the football player Joe Ferguson, comes to visit for the homecoming weekend. He takes Ellen out dancing after the football rally, causing Tommy to worry that he will lose her to Joe.
Trooper Walter Leary
Dr. Steven Bishop is taken to the hideout of Frank Dillon and his gang to treat the wounded Joe Madison. Joe's nurse sister Nora Madison is also taken. Dillon tells Bishop that if Joe dies, he will be killed, but Bishop knows he will be either way. Joe dies, but Nora and Steve conceal it from Dillon and send a plea for help in a prescription that Bishop writes in Latin.
Cadet Rosser (uncredited)
スー族の前に全滅した、第七騎兵隊を率いるカスター将軍の半生記。士官学校への入学に始まり、南北戦争を経て、リトル・ビッグ・ホーンで部隊が全滅するまでを描く。
1857年、米国陸軍士官学校に入学したカスターは、開校以来の問題児だったが、戦士としての才能はあった。南北戦争が勃発し、北軍として出兵した彼は、勇敢な戦いぶりでやがて将軍にまで昇進。凱旋したカスターは、恋人リビーと結婚したが、退役軍人の生活に飽き足らず、ダコタのリンカーン砦(とりで)にある第七騎兵隊の指揮官となるが…。
