Frank Silvera

Frank Silvera

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Frank Silvera (July 24, 1914 – June 11, 1970) was an American actor and theatrical director. Silvera was born in Kingston, Jamaica the son of a mixed race Jamaican mother, Gertrude Bell and Spanish Jewish father, Alfred Silvera. His family emigrated to the United States when he was six-years old, settling in Boston. Silvera became interested in acting and began performing in amateur theatrical groups and at church. He graduated from English High School of Boston and then studied at Boston University, followed by the Northeastern Law School. Silvera left Northeastern Law School in 1934, when he was cast in Paul Green's production of Roll Sweet Chariot. He next joined the New England Repertory Theatre where he appeared in productions of MacBeth, Othello and The Emperor Jones. He also worked at Federal Theatre and with the New Hampshire Repertory Theatre. In 1940, Silvera made his Broadway debut in a small role in Big White Fog. His career was interrupted in 1942, when he enlisted in the United States Navy during World War II. He was assigned to Camp Robert Smalls, where he and Owen Dodson were in charge of entertainment. Silvera directed and acted in radio programs and appeared in USO shows. Honorably discharged at the war's end in 1945, he joined the cast of Anna Lucasta and became a member of the Actors Studio. In 1952, Silvera made his film debut in the western, The Cimarron Kid. Because of his strongly Latin appearance, he was cast in a variety of ethnic roles in films and television. He was cast as General Huerta in Viva Zapata! which starred Marlon Brando. Silvera also portrayed the role in the stage production, which opened at the Regent Theatre in New York City on February 28, 1952. He appeared in two films directed by Stanley Kubrick, Fear and Desire (1953) and Killer's Kiss (1955). Silvera made guest appearances in numerous television series, mainly dramas and westerns, including Studio One in Hollywood, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Bat Masterson, Thriller, Riverboat, The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters, The Untouchables, and Bonanza. In 1962 he portrayed Dr. Koslenko in The Twilight Zone episode "Person or Persons Unknown", opposite Richard Long. That year, he also played Minarii, a Polynesian man in the 1962 film Mutiny on the Bounty, again starring Marlon Brando. In 1963, Silvera was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for playing Monsieur Duval in The Lady of the Camellias. In 1964, Silvera and Vantile Whitfield founded the Theatre of Being, a Los Angeles-based theatre dedicated to providing black actors with non-stereotypical roles. One of their first projects was producing The Amen Corner by African-American writer James Baldwin. Silvera and Whitfield financed the play themselves and with donations from friends. It opened on March 4, 1964 and would gross $200,000 within the year, moving to Broadway in April 1965. Beah Richards won critical acclaim for her performance as the lead. Silvera was killed on June 11, 1970, after accidentally electrocuting himself while repairing a garbage disposal unit in his kitchen sink. Description above from the Wikipedia article Frank Silvera, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

  • Popularity : 5.542
  • Known For : Acting
  • Birthday : 1914-07-24
  • Place of Birth : Kingston, British West Indies [now Kingston, Jamaica]
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Frank Silvera Movies

  • 1953
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    Fear and Desire

    Fear and Desire

    5.4 1953 HD

    After their airplane crashes behind enemy lines, four soldiers must survive and try to find a way back to their battalion. However, when they come...

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  • 1955
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    Killer's Kiss

    Killer's Kiss

    6.3 1955 HD

    Davey Gordon, a New York City boxer at the end of his career, falls for dancer Gloria Price. However, their budding relationship is interrupted by...

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  • 1952
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    Viva Zapata!

    Viva Zapata!

    6.909 1952 HD

    The story of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, who led a rebellion against the corrupt, oppressive dictatorship of president Porfirio...

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  • 1965
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    The Greatest Story Ever Told

    The Greatest Story Ever Told

    6.374 1965 HD

    From his birth in Bethlehem to his death and eventual resurrection, the life of Jesus Christ is given the all-star treatment in this epic retelling....

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  • 1971
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    Valdez Is Coming

    Valdez Is Coming

    6.2 1971 HD

    Old Mexican-American sheriff Bob Valdez has always been a haven of sanity in a land of madmen when it came to defending law and order. But the weapon...

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  • 1969
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    Guns of the Magnificent Seven

    Guns of the Magnificent Seven

    5.2 1969 HD

    In this third remake of legendary Japanese director Akira Kurosawa's hugely influential The Seven Samurai, the seven gunslingers (George Kennedy,...

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  • 1966
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    The Appaloosa

    The Appaloosa

    6.2 1966 HD

    A man tries to recover a horse stolen from him by a Mexican bandit.

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  • 1954
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    The Lonely Night

    The Lonely Night

    1 1954 HD

    After Caroline Cram finds herself in an analyst's office, she starts groping for the truth about her hopelessness, fears, loneliness and anxieties. A...

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  • 1967
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    The St. Valentine's Day Massacre

    The St. Valentine's Day Massacre

    6.3 1967 HD

    Chicago February 14th 1929. Al Capone finally establishes himself as the city's boss of organised crime. In a north-side garage his hoods, dressed as...

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  • 1960
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    Heller in Pink Tights

    Heller in Pink Tights

    5.7 1960 HD

    Nineteenth century Wyoming: the wild West. Mild-mannered Tom Healy has a two-wagon theater troupe hounded by creditors because Angela, his leading...

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  • 1952
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    The Cimarron Kid

    The Cimarron Kid

    6.1 1952 HD

    Audie Murphy comes into his own as a Western star in this story. Wrongly accused by crooked railroad officials of aiding a train heist by his old...

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  • 1959
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    Crime and Punishment USA

    Crime and Punishment USA

    5.2 1959 HD

    Believing he can elude justice, a California law student murders an elderly pawnbroker, then matches wits with the detective on the case.

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  • 1952
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    The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima

    The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima

    5.7 1952 HD

    In 1917, three shepherd children living just outside Fatima, Portugal have visions of a lovely lady in a cloud. The anticlerical government wishes to...

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  • 1960
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    The Mountain Road

    The Mountain Road

    6.4 1960 HD

    In 1944, in eastern part of China, U.S.Army Major Baldwin and his volunteer team of demolition engineers are left behind the retreating Chinese...

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  • 1968
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    Uptight

    Uptight

    6.5 1968 HD

    Black militants building up an arsenal of weapons in preparation for a race war are betrayed by one of their own.

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  • 1963
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    Toys in the Attic

    Toys in the Attic

    6 1963 HD

    Julian Berniers returns from Illinois with his young bride Lily Prine to the family in New Orleans. His spinster sisters Carrie and Anna welcome the...

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  • 1952
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    The Fighter

    The Fighter

    6 1952 HD

    A boxer, in Mexico, sets out to avenge the murder of his family by using the money from his winnings to purchase weapons.

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  • 1950
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    A Visit to Picasso

    A Visit to Picasso

    6 1950 HD

    In this short 20 minute black and white Belgian documentary, the director, Paul Haesaerts, visualised Pablo Picasso’s flow of imagination when...

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  • 1960
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    Key Witness

    Key Witness

    6.9 1960 HD

    An average Los Angeles citizen witnesses a gang murder when he stops to use a telephone. When he presents himself to the LAPD as the only person...

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  • 1956
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    Crowded Paradise

    Crowded Paradise

    1 1956 HD

    A Puerto Rican immigrant anxiously awaits his wedding day, but his fiancé's racist landlord intervenes.

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  • 2004
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    Beah: A Black Woman Speaks

    Beah: A Black Woman Speaks

    1 2004 HD

    Beah: A Black Woman Speaks is a 2003 documentary about the life of Academy Award nominated actress Beah Richards. Directed by Lisa Gay Hamilton, it...

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  • 1969
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    Che!

    Che!

    5.2 1969 HD

    Biography of Argentinian revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara, who helped Fidel Castro in his struggle against the corrupt Batista regime, eventually...

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  • 1955
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    Death Tide

    Death Tide

    6 1955 HD

    A ship with a cargo full of diamonds gets taken over by pirates.

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  • 1976
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    Perilous Voyage

    Perilous Voyage

    1 1976 HD

    A South American guerrilla, whose revolution is faltering, hijacks a ship carrying arms and holds all of the passengers hostage.

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  • 1968
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    The Young Loner

    The Young Loner

    1 1968 HD

    A young migrant worker is injured in an accident and ends up at a ranch to recover. He runs away, but realizes that his heart is not in traveling and...

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  • 1968
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    The Stalking Moon

    The Stalking Moon

    5.928 1968 HD

    While moving a group of Apaches to a Native American reservation in Arizona, an American scout named Sam Varner is surprised to find a white woman,...

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  • 1967
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    Hombre

    Hombre

    7 1967 HD

    John Russell, disdained by his "respectable" fellow stagecoach passengers because he was raised by Indians, becomes their only hope for survival when...

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  • 1962
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    Mutiny on the Bounty

    Mutiny on the Bounty

    7 1962 HD

    The Bounty leaves Portsmouth in 1787. Its destination: to sail to Tahiti and load bread-fruit. Captain Bligh will do anything to get there as fast as...

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  • 1971
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    The Boy from Dead Man's Bayou

    The Boy from Dead Man's Bayou

    1 1971 HD

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  • 1963
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    The Great Adventure

    The Great Adventure

    1 1963 HD

    The Great Adventure is a historical anthology series that appeared on CBS for the 1963-1964 television season. The series, narrated each week by Van...

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  • 1963
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    Kraft Suspense Theatre

    Kraft Suspense Theatre

    5.3 1963 HD

    Kraft Suspense Theatre is an American anthology series that was telecast from 1963 to 1965 on NBC. Sponsored by Kraft Foods, it was seen three weeks...

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  • 1968
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    Hawaii Five-O

    Hawaii Five-O

    7.1 1968 HD

    Hawaii Five-O is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and Leonard Freeman. Set in Hawaii, the show originally aired...

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  • 1969
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    Marcus Welby, M.D.

    Marcus Welby, M.D.

    6.5 1969 HD

    Marcus Welby, M.D. is an American medical drama television program that aired on ABC from September 23, 1969, to July 29, 1976. It starred Robert...

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  • 1963
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    The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters

    The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters

    5.3 1963 HD

    The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters is an American western television series based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name by Robert Lewis...

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  • 1955
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    Gunsmoke

    Gunsmoke

    6.5 1955 HD

    Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take...

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  • 1948
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    Studio One

    Studio One

    4.727 1948 HD

    An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. Studio One,...

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  • 1959
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    The Twilight Zone

    The Twilight Zone

    8.4 1959 HD

    A series of unrelated stories containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a...

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  • 1955
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    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    7.7 1955 HD

    A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.

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  • 1962
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    The Beachcomber

    The Beachcomber

    1 1962 HD

    The Beachcomber was an ITC Entertainment adventure TV series which ran for one series of 39 half-hour episodes in 1962. Narrated by Cameron...

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  • 1959
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    Rawhide

    Rawhide

    7.1 1959 HD

    The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across the old west. Along the way they meet up with...

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  • 1965
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    Run for Your Life

    Run for Your Life

    7.2 1965 HD

    Run for Your Life is an American television drama series starring Ben Gazzara as a man with only a short time to live. It ran on NBC from 1965 to...

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  • 1964
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    Daniel Boone

    Daniel Boone

    6.9 1964 HD

    Daniel Boone is an American action-adventure television series starring Fess Parker as Daniel Boone that aired from September 24, 1964 to September...

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  • 1967
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    The High Chaparral

    The High Chaparral

    6.5 1967 HD

    The High Chaparral is an American Western-themed television series starring Leif Erickson and Cameron Mitchell which aired on NBC from 1967 to 1971....

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  • 1960
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    Thriller

    Thriller

    6.4 1960 HD

    Thriller is an American anthology television series that aired during the 1960–61 and 1961–62 seasons on NBC. The show featured host...

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  • 1964
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    Profiles in Courage

    Profiles in Courage

    5 1964 HD

    Profiles in Courage is an American historical anthology series that was telecast weekly on NBC from November 8, 1964 to May 9, 1965. The series was...

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  • 1957
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    Decoy

    Decoy

    6.2 1957 HD

    New York City policewoman Casey Jones' assignment to fight crime often entails her going undercover in some of the seediest and most dangerous parts...

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  • 1959
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    The Rebel

    The Rebel

    5.3 1959 HD

    The Rebel is a 76-episode American western television series starring Nick Adams that debuted on the ABC network from 1959 to 1961. The Rebel was one...

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  • 1958
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    Wanted: Dead or Alive

    Wanted: Dead or Alive

    6.9 1958 HD

    Wanted: Dead or Alive is an American Western television series starring Steve McQueen as the bounty hunter Josh Randall. It aired on CBS for three...

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  • 1958
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    Bat Masterson

    Bat Masterson

    6.3 1958 HD

    Bat Masterson is an American Western television series which showed a fictionalized account of the life of real-life marshal/gambler/dandy Bat...

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  • 1966
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    The Rat Patrol

    The Rat Patrol

    7.2 1966 HD

    The exploits of four Allied soldiers — three Americans and one Englishman — who are part of a long-range desert patrol group in the North...

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  • 1963
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    Mr. Novak

    Mr. Novak

    6.5 1963 HD

    Mr. Novak is an American dramatic series starring James Franciscus in the title role, which aired on NBC for two seasons, from 1963 to 1965.

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  • 1959
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    Riverboat

    Riverboat

    6.2 1959 HD

    Riverboat is a 44-episode western television series starring Darren McGavin and Burt Reynolds broadcast on the NBC television network from September...

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  • 1961
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    The New Breed

    The New Breed

    7 1961 HD

    The New Breed is an American crime drama series that aired on ABC from October 3, 1961 to June 5, 1962, with thirty-six episodes.

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  • 1956
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    Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

    Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

    5.5 1956 HD

    Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre, sometimes simply called Zane Grey Theatre, is an American Western anthology series which ran on CBS from 1956 to...

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  • 1959
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    Johnny Ringo

    Johnny Ringo

    5.7 1959 HD

    Johnny Ringo is an American Western television series starring Don Durant that aired on CBS from October 1, 1959, until June 30, 1960. It is loosely...

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  • 1965
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    The Wild Wild West

    The Wild Wild West

    7.6 1965 HD

    The Wild Wild West is an American television series. Developed at a time when the television western was losing ground to the spy genre, this show...

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  • 1961
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    The Defenders

    The Defenders

    6.2 1961 HD

    The Defenders is an American courtroom drama series . It starred E. G. Marshall and Robert Reed as father-and-son defense attorneys who specialized...

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  • 1963
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    Kraft Suspense Theatre

    Kraft Suspense Theatre

    5.3 1963 HD

    Kraft Suspense Theatre is an American anthology series that was telecast from 1963 to 1965 on NBC. Sponsored by Kraft Foods, it was seen three weeks...

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  • 1957
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    Perry Mason

    Perry Mason

    7.7 1957 HD

    The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.

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  • 1962
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    The Beachcomber

    The Beachcomber

    1 1962 HD

    The Beachcomber was an ITC Entertainment adventure TV series which ran for one series of 39 half-hour episodes in 1962. Narrated by Cameron...

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  • 1965
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    I Spy

    I Spy

    6.5 1965 HD

    A pair of intelligence agents posing as a tennis pro and his coach go on secret missions around the world.

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  • 1958
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    The Further Adventures of Ellery Queen

    The Further Adventures of Ellery Queen

    1 1958 HD

    Make way for the reluctant detective. It's Ellery Queen, the suave, debonair and brilliant hero of the new, live, full-hour detective show. George...

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  • 1959
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    Bonanza

    Bonanza

    7.5 1959 HD

    The High-Sierra adventures of Ben Cartwright and his sons as they run and defend their ranch while helping the surrounding community.

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  • 1962
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    The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

    The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

    7.8 1962 HD

    A continuation of the anthology series “Alfred Hitchcock Presents”, hosted by the master of suspense and featuring thrillers and...

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