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Charles Drake (October 2, 1917 – September 10, 1994) was an American actor.Drake was born as Charles Ruppert in New York City. He graduated from Nichols College and became a salesman. In 1939, he turned to acting and signed a contract with Warner Brothers. He wasn't immediately successful. World War II interrupted his career; soon after his military service was complete, Drake returned to Hollywood in 1945, his contract with Warner Brothers ended. In the 1940s, he did some freelance work, like A Night in Casablanca. In 1949 he moved to Universal Studios. In 1955, Drake turned to television as one of the stock-company players on Robert Montgomery Presents and three years later he became the host of the British TV espionage weekly Rendezvous. In 1959, he starred in the Western film, No Name on the Bullet, where he played a doctor dedicated to saving a small town from a dangerous assassin. In 1967 he played the part of Oliver Greer in The Fugitive episode The One That Got Away. He played in 83 films between 1939 and 1975, including Scream, Pretty Peggy. More than 50 were dramas, but he also acted in comedies, science fiction, horror and film noir. He died on September 10, 1994 in East Lyme, Connecticut, aged 76.
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01 July 1950
Professor Brookfield along with daughters Peggy and Susan move to small town Pasadena, California. Their new neighbor Mrs.
07 July 1939
Set in a tiny midwestern town, this sentimental drama centers on the rivalry between two life-long acquaintances whose early friendship falls apart when they woo the same woman.
15 December 1967
When four geologists who form a combine of five industrial companies turn up dead, the race is on to determine whether the culprit is a group of high-powered industrial interests or the government.
07 March 1942
Dr. Steven Bishop is taken to the hideout of Frank Dillon and his gang to treat the wounded Joe Madison.
01 November 1941
Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.
19 March 1974
A police lieutenant’s routine Sunday afternoon is interrupted by the deaths of a hoodlum and a socialite.
12 March 1942
The trustees of Midwestern University have forced three teachers out of their jobs for being suspected communists.
01 October 1951
A belly dancer causes a scandal with her suggestive dancing at a Worlds Fair exhibition at the turn of the 20th century.
22 September 1955
The true WWII story of Audie Murphy, the most decorated soldier in U.S. history. Based on the autobiography of Audie Murphy who stars as himself in the film.
01 March 1952
Young David, orphaned en route to California, falls into the hands of medicine-show rascal Baltimore Dan.
04 October 1969
Carl Dixon decides to quit school and enlist in the Army, even though he's already run afoul of the law as a Vietnam protestor.
23 September 1951
Ex-police/army dog King inherits a fortune from an eccentric millionaire. But someone poisons him for his fortune.
04 August 1965
A man stumbles out of a car crash with no memory of what transpired. Everyone who he meets suggests that he is a ruthless man with an aggressive temper.
31 August 1939
Paris, France, 1482. Frollo, Chief Justice of benevolent King Louis XI, gets infatuated by the beauty of Esmeralda, a young Romani girl.
04 July 1945
War hero flier Bob Collins goes on a war bond selling tour with two buddies, and substitute "chaperone" Ivy Hotchkiss.
03 May 1963
A cowboy has to get 12,000 dollars in stolen bonds from the ex-girlfriend of his partner, or the gang holding him hostage will kill him.
20 May 1953
Zachary Hallock and his son Joshua are farmers who live in a frontier town that suffers the assaults of a band of outlaws.
04 May 1953
Kittridge is hired by the villans but turns to defend the rancher Saxon after learning the true situation.
25 January 1946
When beautiful Mary returns to her "whistle stop" hometown, long-standing feelings of animosity between two of her old boyfriends leads to robbery and murder.
11 October 1961
Ambitious but thwarted, Rae Smith meets handsome Marine Paul Saxon, (of the Saxon department store chain), as he passes through Lincoln, Nebraska, on his way home from World War II.
01 May 1968
A Secret Service agent poses as a waterfront hit man to infiltrate a global ring of counterfeiters.
18 October 1941
A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a beautiful liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette.
14 March 1951
A group of cadets have assorted problems at the U.S. Air Force Pilot Training Academy.
06 May 1975
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.
06 July 1950
Lin McAdam rides into town on the trail of Dutch Henry Brown, only to find himself in a shooting competition against him.
26 December 1953
A thrilling Cavalry-versus-Indians adventure starring Jeff Chandler as an Army official recruiting Seminole allies, against his superior's wishes, to stop a planned Kiowa attack.
31 May 1950
Architect Hal Norton and wife Meg invite his widowed mother Louisa to move in with them, only to discover the sweet elderly lady is romantically involved with what seems to be every old coot in town.
11 August 1947
Story of an investment agent who embezzles a large sum from an estate, hoping to cover his crime by marrying the estate's heiress.
27 December 1967
Lured by their dreams of fame and fortune, three ambitious young women enter the world of show business and discover how easy it is to sink into a celebrity nightmare of ego, alcohol and pills — the beloved "dolls.
04 December 1950
The story of Elwood P. Dowd who makes friends with a spirit taking the form of a human-sized rabbit named Harvey that only he sees (and a few privileged others on occasion also.
03 January 1948
A progressive pastor takes on thoughtless brutality (and constitutional scruples against search and seizure) in order to promote animal cruelty protection laws.
13 March 1987
Documentary about James Stewart's long career as an actor and positive personal life.
27 September 1941
Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is then called to serve his country and despite deep religious and moral objections to fighting becomes one of the most celebrated American heroes of WWI.
19 September 1942
A sergeant saves the day when Axis agents plant a bomb on a bus bound for California oil fields.
09 August 1968
A man spends a summer day swimming home via all the pools in his quiet suburban neighborhood.
25 August 1955
Two different social classes collide when Cary Scott, a wealthy upper-class widow, falls in love with her much younger and down-to-earth gardener, prompting disapproval and criticism from her children and country club friends.
22 October 1942
A woman suffers a nervous breakdown and from an oppressive mother before being freed by the love of a man she meets on a cruise.
28 May 1942
Winning Your Wings is a 1942 short American World War II recruitment film produced by Warner Bros. Studios for the US Army Air Forces, starring Jimmy Stewart.
13 January 1943
Helen Chernen pushes her younger sister Katherine into show business in order to escape their small town poverty.
02 May 1955
In an old Louisiana plantation, the furnishings and the once great family are fading fast.The matriarch desperately tries to hold on to the gazebo that's slated for destruction as part of a building project, as well as holding her daughter to an unwanted marriage, even though she loves the builder.
27 October 1975
A newspaper reporter's life is endangered when she is assigned to investigate a political assassination.
18 November 1969
An adman attempts to rebuild his shattered life after suffering a nervous breakdown.
26 July 1961
Tammy leaves the river in Mississippi to attend college, developing a relationship with Tom Freeman (John Gavin).
24 November 1973
A sculptor hires young college girls to take care of his elderly mother and his supposedly insane sister, both of whom live in the old family mansion with him.
01 September 1958
Pursued by detectives, Johnny Walters leaves the city to visit his family in a small California town.
04 January 1954
A vibrant tribute to one of America's legendary bandleaders, charting Glenn Miller's rise from obscurity and poverty to fame and wealth in the early 1940s.
05 June 1953
Author and amateur astronomer John Putnam and schoolteacher Ellen Fields witness an enormous meteorite come down near a small town in Arizona.
24 December 1941
A New York City doctor tries to rescue a young woman from Nazi agents.
01 February 1959
When hired killer John Gant rides into Lordsburg, the town's folk become paranoid as each leading citizen has enemies capable of using the services of a professional killer for personal revenge.
04 September 1942
Rick Leland makes no secret of the fact he has no loyalty to his home country after he is court-martialed out of the army and boards a Japanese ship for the Orient in late 1941.
20 March 1943
The crew of an Air Force bomber arrives in Pearl Harbor in the aftermath of the Japanese attack and is sent on to Manila to help with the defense of the Philippines.
29 January 1972
A wealthy former mental patient goes home to her estate to rest and recuperate. While walking the grounds one day she hears the screams of a woman coming from underneath the ground.
10 May 1946
The Marx Brothers are employed at a hotel in postwar Casablanca, where a ring of Nazis is trying to recover a cache of stolen treasure.
01 May 1950
White settlers plan to defy the agreement between the government and the Comanche to mine for silver on Comanche lands, while scout Jim Bowie tries to keep the peace in the territory.
24 December 1941
An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in indefinitely with a Midwestern family.
29 May 1952
August 1944: proceeding with the invasion of France, Patton's Third Army has advanced so far toward Paris that it cannot be supplied.
01 September 1956
Indian Agent sent to try new approach to peace with Apache based on respect for autonomy rather than submission to Army.
20 April 1949
A federal agent infiltrates a crime syndicate.
15 June 1945
Unhappily married Richard Mason concocts a meticulous scheme to kill his shrewish wife so that he'll be free to marry her sister.
14 June 1941
A Brooklyn pier racketeer bullies boat-owners into paying protection money but two fed-up fishermen decide to eliminate the gangster themselves rather than complain to the police.
