William Devane
William Joseph Devane (born September 5, 1937) is an American film, television and theater actor, known for his role as Greg Sumner on the primetime soap opera Knots Landing and as James Heller on the Fox serial drama 24, the role he reprised in Live Another Day. He is also known for his supporting roles in films such as McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Family Plot), Marathon Man, Rolling Thunder and Space Cowboys.
Devane began his acting career with the New York Shakespeare Festival where he performed in 15 plays. In 1966, Devane portrayed Robert F. Kennedy in the Off-Broadway spoof MacBird. He gained acclaim for his role as President John F. Kennedy in a television docudrama about the Cuban Missile Crisis, The Missiles of October, and again when he played blacklisted radio personality John Henry Faulk in the Emmy Award-winning TV movie Fear on Trial. He is widely known for his ten years as the ambitious and hardnosed politician-turned-corporate titan Greg Sumner on Knots Landing.
In 1994, Devane appeared as Al Capone in Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman in an episode entitled "That Old Gang of Mine". He also had a recurring role on the CBS show Early Edition as the lead character's father. Devane appeared in the films McCabe & Mrs. Miller; Lady Liberty; Family Plot; Marathon Man; Rolling Thunder; Yanks; Testament; Timestalkers; Forgotten Sins; Exception to the Rule; Payback; Hollow Man and Space Cowboys.
Devane has played members of the Presidential Cabinet on two evening dramas. In 2004, on The West Wing, he guest-starred as the Secretary of State and potential Vice-Presidential nominee. Devane appeared in several scenes with Martin Sheen; they also appeared together as President John F. Kennedy and his brother Robert, respectively, 30 years earlier in The Missiles of October. In 2005, he joined the cast of 24 as Secretary of Defense James Heller for seasons 4, 5 and 6.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 2.5502 |
| Birthday | 1939-09-05 |
| Place of Birth | Albany, New York, USA |
| Also Known As | William Joseph Devane, Γουίλιαμ Ντιβέιν, ویلیام دیوان, |
2002
The Badge
5.63/54
A sheriff begins an investigation into the death of a local transsexual after hearing that high ranking politicians may have been involved. Although h...
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The Badge
1999
Payback
6.835/2083
With friends like these, who needs enemies? That's the question bad guy Porter is left asking after his wife and partner steal his heist money and lea...
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Payback
1976
Marathon Man
7.173/1272
A graduate student and obsessive runner in New York is drawn into a mysterious plot involving his brother, a member of the secretive Division.
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Marathon Man
2000
Space Cowboys
6.389/1583
Frank Corvin, ‘Hawk’ Hawkins, Jerry O'Neill and ‘Tank’ Sullivan were hotdog members of Project Daedalus, the US Air Force's test program for space tra...
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Space Cowboys
1977
Rolling Thunder
6.773/269
A recently-returned Vietnam POW loses his family and his right hand during a violent home invasion, and seeks retribution against those responsible.
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Rolling Thunder
1979
Yanks
5.9/67
During WWII, the United States set up army bases in Great Britain as part of the war effort. Against their proper sensibilities, many of the Brits don...
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Yanks
1976
Family Plot
6.8/520
Spiritualist Blanche Tyler and her cab-driving boyfriend encounter a pair of serial kidnappers while trailing a missing heir in California.
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Family Plot
2002
A Christmas Visitor
5.4/21
The Boyajian family learned of 18-year-old John's death in the Persian Gulf War on Christmas Eve eleven years earlier and have not celebrated Christma...
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A Christmas Visitor
2008
Stargate: Continuum
7.127/622
Ba'al travels back in time and prevents the Stargate program from being started. SG-1 must somehow restore history.
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Stargate: Continuum
1971
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
7.154/467
A gambler and a prostitute become thriving business partners in a remote Old West mining town until a large corporation arrives on the scene.
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McCabe & Mrs. Miller
1975
Report to the Commissioner
6.6/29
Police officer Patty Butler, alias "Chicklet," is the live-in girlfriend of Thomas 'Stick' Henderson to gather evidence. Detective Bo Lockley is instr...
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Report to the Commissioner
2003
Monte Walsh
6.085/47
Monte Walsh and Chet Rollins are long-time cowhands, working whatever ranch work comes their way, but "nothing they can't do from a horse." Their live...
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Monte Walsh
2010
The Kane Files: Life of Trial
4.8/17
Scott Kane (Drew Fuller), a man with a checkered past is trying to live a clean life. When his son Owen falls ill, Kane finds his only option is to tu...
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The Kane Files: Life of Trial
2000
Poor White Trash
4.571/21
Mike and Lenny are two buddies who dream of getting out of the trailer park. Out of desperation they resort to burglary as a means of financing Mike's...
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Poor White Trash
1995
Night Watch
4.638/40
UN agents Mike Graham and Sabrina Carver are sent by their director Nick Caldwell to investigate the theft of Rembrandt's painting, "The Night Watch"....
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Night Watch
1990
Murder C.O.D.
8.125/4
Someone is killing people in Portland, Oregon, and later blackmails the relatives, who profit most from the death, to pay him for this "service". Capt...
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Murder C.O.D.
1990
Vital Signs
4.9/20
As they enter their third year of medical school, a group of young students must prepare to decide what they intend to specialize in. Somehow, they mu...
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Vital Signs
2009
The Least Among You
4/3
Black college graduate Richard Kelly reluctantly accepts a plea bargain requiring him to spend two semesters at an all-white seminary after he's wrong...
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The Least Among You
1977
The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training
5.8/48
A troubled, rebellious teen drives his rambunctious baseball team out to Houston where they play an exhibition game and the boy meets his estranged fa...
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The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training
1987
Timestalkers
5.362/47
History professor Scott McKenzie makes an anachronistic discovery in a photograph from the Old West and he is soon joined by beautiful time-traveler G...
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Timestalkers
1995
Freefall: Flight 174
5.705/22
True story of a brand-new Canadian airliner running out of fuel in-flight and forced to glide to the nearest airfield.
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Freefall: Flight 174
1974
The Missiles of October
7.467/15
Based in part on Robert F. Kennedy's book, "Thirteen Days," this film profiles the Kennedy Administration's actions during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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The Missiles of October
2011
Jesse Stone: Innocents Lost
6.472/88
Jesse investigates the suspicious death of a young friend while the police force deals with the arrogant new police chief who is the son-in-law of a t...
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Jesse Stone: Innocents Lost
2012
Leprechaun's Revenge
5.085/59
An evil leprechaun who has been imprisoned within the roots of a majestic old oak tree, is accidentally set loose on St. Patrick's Day. Once free, he...
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Leprechaun's Revenge
1979
The Dark
4.638/40
At night the Mangler stalks the streets of Los Angeles, killing and mutilating random victims. On the trail are a TV reporter, the father of one of th...
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The Dark
1990
Chips, the War Dog
8.3/3
In this made-for-tv movie, misfits Danny Stauffer and Chips (a chicken-chasing German shepherd) are teamed up in the Army's "Dogs for Defense" program...
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Chips, the War Dog
1994
For the Love of Nancy
7.1/24
The parents of an anorexic woman fight to save her life.
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For the Love of Nancy
2012
Jesse Stone: Benefit of the Doubt
6.826/92
Jesse finds himself struggling to get his job back as the Paradise police chief, and he is forced to rely on his cop intuition to sort through a maze...
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Jesse Stone: Benefit of the Doubt
2011
Flag of My Father
6/1
Serving her country is an honour for Judith (GiGi Erneta: Friday NIght Lights, Vernonica Mars), an army nurse whose Vietnam veteran father (William De...
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Flag of My Father
1992
Obsessed
6.2/10
Lorie Brindel works at an insurance company and falls in love with one of her clients, the much older Ed Bledsoe. Spending weeks of passion together,...
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Obsessed
1993
Prophet of Evil: The Ervil LeBaron Story
5.625/8
The take-down of an infamous leader of a small polygamous Mormon fundamentalist group, who ordered assassinations of his opponents.
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Prophet of Evil: The Ervil LeBaron Story
1977
Red Alert
5.333/3
A computer at a nuclear power plant malfunctions and receives erroneous information of a radiation leak. It seals off the compound, trapping the crew...
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Red Alert
2009
The Dealership
0/0
'The Dealership' is about the dysfunctional world of Carson Luxury Auto Gallery, a family-owned, used-car dealership. Market collapse, credit crisis,...
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The Dealership
2014
50 to 1
6.663/86
A misfit group of New Mexico cowboys find themselves on the journey of a lifetime when they learn their crooked-footed racehorse qualifies to run in t...
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50 to 1
2014
Bad Turn Worse
5.401/86
Three teenage friends get in way over their head when they cross a down-home crime syndicate. They hope to make a break for it and escape their dead-e...
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Bad Turn Worse
1971
Lady Liberty
5.537/27
An Italian woman faces challenges at JFK Airport when Customs confiscates the mortadella sausage she brought as a gift for her fiancé, leading to a hu...
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Lady Liberty
2001
Miracle on the Mountain: The Kincaid Family Story
4.55/10
A staunch professional executive and his wife coerce their rebellious teens and their older sister to take a plane trip for a weekend in the mountains...
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Miracle on the Mountain: The Kincaid Family Story
1973
The Bait
6.5/6
Tracy Fleming is a widowed police officer, with a young son, who has risen to the role of plainclothes operative. After six women have been raped and...
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The Bait
1994
Lady in Waiting
3.125/12
A divorced cop investigating the sadistic murders of high-class prostitutes discovers that the prime suspect is his ex-wife's new boyfriend...
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Lady in Waiting
2001
Race to Space
5.98/25
In the 1960s a young woman works at NASA as an animal trainer responsible for the chimpanzee who will go into space.
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Race to Space
1975
Fear on Trial
9/1
The story of John Henry Faulk, a radio/TV personality of the 1950s, who was blacklisted during the McCarthy era. Faulk sued the organization that was...
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Fear on Trial
1983
Testament
6.412/144
It's just another day in the small town of Hamlin until something disastrous happens. Suddenly, news breaks that a series of nuclear warheads has been...
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Testament
2014
Interstellar
8.487/41192
The adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the va...
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Interstellar
1996
Forgotten Sins
5.5/2
A county sheriff is accused by his daughter of having abused her. Her accusation gets more and more elaborate, involving satanic rituals. As nearly ev...
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Forgotten Sins
1997
Doomsday Rock
5.3/7
Dr. Paul Sorenson, a noted astronomer, believes that an approaching comet will collide with earth based on his study of an ancient civilization's prop...
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Doomsday Rock
1991
Victim of Beauty
6.6/10
The recounting of a terrible crime that wracked a family and galvanized police in South Carolina in the 1980's. Southern beauty pageant winner Dawn Sm...
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Victim of Beauty
1981
The Other Victim
8/1
After his wife is raped, a man struggles to find ways to express the anger and helplessness which the crime has instilled in him.
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The Other Victim
1981
Red Flag: The Ultimate Game
5.333/3
Two fighter pilots, Phil Clark and Jay Rivers, who flew together in Vietnam are assigned to the elite Air Force Fighter Weapons School (known as "Red...
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Red Flag: The Ultimate Game
2000
The Man Who Used to Be Me
5.8/4
A burned-out ex-cop travels back in time and teams up with his younger self to catch his father's murderer.
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The Man Who Used to Be Me
1997
Exception to the Rule
3.571/7
An aggressive woman tries to blackmail a married gem trader who had an affair with her.
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Exception to the Rule
1983
Hadley's Rebellion
4.75/4
After he transfers to a new school, Hadley is victimized and ostracized by his too-cool classmates. To prove his worth, our hero takes up wrestling, a...
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Hadley's Rebellion
2004
Deceit
4.167/6
Ellen's life is turned upside down after her wealthy hubby vanishes at sea. Everyone close to her is a liar - especially Ellen's missing spouse. Was t...
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Deceit
2009
The Fall
5.5/2
Two brothers are forced to confront a terrible crime that was hidden in their past.
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The Fall
2000
Hollow Man
5.98/2922
Cocky researcher Sebastian Caine is working on a project to make living creatures invisible. Determined to achieve the ultimate breakthrough, Caine pu...
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Hollow Man
2015
Jesse Stone: Lost in Paradise
6.614/114
Police Chief Jesse Stone now presides over the quiet, seaside village of Paradise, Massachusetts. When the facts don't add up in a brutal Boston-area...
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Jesse Stone: Lost in Paradise
2012
The Dark Knight Rises
7.798/24958
Following the death of District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman assumes responsibility for Dent's crimes to protect the late attorney's reputation and is...
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The Dark Knight Rises
2011
Good Morning, Killer
4.923/13
Follows FBI Special Agent Ana Gray as she hunts for a kidnapper. As Ana develops a rapport with the kidnapper's latest victim, the suspect suddenly ch...
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Good Morning, Killer
2007
Jesse Stone: Sea Change
6.966/116
Police Chief Jesse Stone's relationship with his ex-wife worsens, and he fears he's relapsing into alcoholism. To get his mind off his problems, Jesse...
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Jesse Stone: Sea Change
1967
In the Country
8/2
During the Vietnam War, a young revolutionary, isolated with his lover in a country house, struggles to comprehend his self-inflicted inactivity and h...
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In the Country
2010
Jesse Stone: No Remorse
6.835/109
Police Chief Jesse Stone, who was suspended by the Paradise, Mass. Town Council, begins moonlighting for his friend, State Homicide Commander Healy, b...
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Jesse Stone: No Remorse
2002
Threat of Exposure
5/5
A man poses as a hypnotherapist's patient to find the truth about his missing brother.
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Threat of Exposure
1992
Ancient Secrets of the Bible
8/1
Jesus Christ is the center of the worldwide Christian faith. Is there any historical, archaeological, or scientific confirmation that Jesus did in fac...
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Ancient Secrets of the Bible
1989
The Preppie Murder
5.6/8
This is the story of a young woman who was found dead. Now the police investigate, and evidence points to a man she was seen leaving a party with. Now...
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The Preppie Murder
2001
Plotting 'Family Plot'
6.875/4
Documentary about the making of Alfred Hitchcock's "Family Plot".
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Plotting 'Family Plot'
1971
My Old Man's Place
6.833/3
Two soldiers return from Vietnam with serious PTSD. They decide to go for a couple of days to a peaceful farm owned by the father of one of the men. A...
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My Old Man's Place
2009
Jesse Stone: Thin Ice
6.862/98
Jesse Stone and Captain Healy are shot during an unauthorized stake-out in Boston. Meanwhile, a cryptic letter sent from Paradise leads the mother of...
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Jesse Stone: Thin Ice
2006
Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise
6.912/130
When Jesse Stone looks into the murder of a teen-age girl whose body is found floating in a local lake, it brings him up against the Boston mob and in...
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Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise
1972
The Irish Whiskey Rebellion
5.5/2
An Irish radical turns East Coast bootlegger during Prohibition.
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The Irish Whiskey Rebellion
1997
The Absolute Truth
4.5/4
A TV news producer learns that a Presidential candidate sexually harassed one of her friends.
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The Absolute Truth
1973
Crime Club
10/1
A group of public and private investigators looks into the suspicious death of the son of one of its members' wealthy girlfriends.
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Crime Club
2015
Truth
6.546/535
As a renowned producer and close associate of Dan Rather, Mary Mapes believes she’s broken the biggest story of the 2004 election: revelations of a si...
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Truth
1992
The President's Child
9/2
James Guthrie is a candidate for the presidency of the United States. Eight years ago he fell in love with Elizabeth Hemming, nowadays a famous hostes...
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The President's Child
1981
Honky Tonk Freeway
5.37/27
Ticlaw, a small town in Florida, has only one attraction: a safari park. The government constructs a freeway that passes near Ticlaw, but decides not...
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Honky Tonk Freeway
1995
Virus
4.846/13
Who could have deliberately released a rare and deadly African plague that is now spreading uncontrollably throughout America's largest urban areas? A...
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Virus
1971
The 300-Year Weekend
4.333/3
A doctor spends 24 hours in a clinic with a group of patients. Each character has his or her own story to tell, about their fathers, mothers, or spous...
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The 300-Year Weekend
2010
The River Why
5.28/88
A young man abandons his family for a solitary life of fly-fishing. His goal was to find his own way in the fishing world and thereby find himself and...
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The River Why
1993
Rubdown
4/4
A rich man offers his masseur, a former baseball player with damaged knees, $50,000 to have an affair with his wife so she'll be in violation of their...
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Rubdown
1983
Jane Doe
6.5/2
A young amnesiac who was left for dead following a brutal assault is now being stalked by her assailant who wants to finish the job before she can rem...
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Jane Doe
1971
The Pursuit of Happiness
6.176/17
William Popper is the son of a stockbroker and is thoroughly disenchanted with "the system." So much so that even though he can prove that he ran over...
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The Pursuit of Happiness
1984
With Intent to Kill
6.5/2
A high school football hero Bo Reinecker tries to piece together the events leading up to murder of his girl friend Lisa Nolen. Claiming to have exper...
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With Intent to Kill
1974
Judgment: The Court Martial of the Tiger of Malaya — General Yamashita
8/1
Dramatization of the trial of General Yamashita.
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Judgment: The Court Martial of the Tiger of Malaya — General Yamashita
1982
Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady
6/1
An all-star tribute to Natalie Wood by some of her friends and co-workers.
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Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady
2009
Chasing the Green
4.6/4
Inspired by a true story, "Chasing the Green" tells the story of two young brothers who become millionaires during the early 1990s. Their ambition and...
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