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Severn Teakle Darden Jr. (November 9, 1929 – May 27, 1995) was an American comedian and actor, and a founding member of The Second City Chicago-based comedy troupe as well as its predecessor, the Compass Players. He is known from his film appearances for playing the human leader Kolp in the fourth and fifth Planet of the Apes films. His live comedy improv skit under the character of "Walther von der Vogelweide" was influential with two generations of comic performers.
Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, he attended the University of Chicago, where he was a "campus legend" according to poet Paul Carroll. Darden’s offbeat and intellectual sense of humor was a major element in the style of The Second City at that time, and is evident throughout his work. Carroll described him as a combination of surrealistic New Orleans and tough, caustic "Chicago Style" comedy. An example of his offbeat humor is the way he squeezed the phrase "Know thyself" into the seven-character limitation of a New Mexico license plate: NOYOSEF.
Darden was a core comedian in Paul Sills' Compass Players, the first improvisation theater in the US; it performed around the Chicago area during the mid-1950s. Sills went on to found The Second City in 1959 and brought in many of the comedians from Compass Players, including Darden.
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06 August 1969
In Alexandria, in 1938, Darley, a young British schoolmaster and poet, makes friends through Pursewarden, the British consular officer, with Justine, the beautiful and mysterious wife of a Coptic banker.
19 August 1982
A physically small police psychologist and a physically large insurance detective team up on an arson case.
03 December 1983
The Maida family has moved to Oregon, and daughter Tami wants to play quarterback for the high school football team.
11 August 1971
A biker gang visits a monastery where they encounter black-robed monks engaged in worshipping Satan. When the monks try to persuade one of the female bikers, Helen, to become a satanic sacrifice the bikers smash up the monastery and leave.
26 September 1980
When CIA operative Miles Kendig deliberately lets KGB agent Yaskov get away, his boss threatens to retire him.
03 October 1972
Two divorced men meet and become friends, but unbeknownst to each other, start dating each other's ex-wives.
21 October 1979
"Once Upon a Midnight Scary" is a 1979 television program that aired as part of a CBS television anthology series.
12 October 1966
A sophisticated con man mounts an intricate plan to rob an airport bank while the Soviet premier is due to arrive.
22 January 1988
Crazy out of work actress Vashti Blue spends all her time in her small apartment with her pet owl and her telephone, which she uses to try and solve all her problems with life.
13 April 1973
A painter who surfaces after having disappeared for seven years finds himself contending with art forgeries and a crooked art dealer.
24 March 1985
Rocky Nelson is a New York cop, who after making a major bust and selling the rights of his story to Hollywood decides to try his luck out as an actor.
22 December 1979
A dedicated social worker organizes a train trip for a group of slum orphans in 1894, taking them from New York City to the Midwest in search of new families and new lives.
21 December 1967
At first, Dr. Sidney Schaefer feels honored and thrilled to be offered the job of the President's Analyst.
29 June 1972
In a futuristic world that has embraced ape slavery, a chimpanzee named Caesar resurfaces after almost twenty years of hiding from the authorities, and prepares for a revolt against humanity.
12 March 1980
In the late 1960s, three Harvard students Jessica, Leo and Nick grow close as they undergo personal changes, but their friendship is jeopardized by romantic feelings both men develop for Jessica.
02 February 1970
An experienced arson investigator takes along his young associate as they try to find an arsonist who is burning down movie sets.
15 June 1973
The fifth and final episode in the Planet of the Apes series. After the collapse of human civilization, a community of intelligent apes led by Caesar lives in harmony with a group of humans.
25 March 1970
An American playwright living in Rome consults a quack psychiatrist to combat his fears of balding and save his failing marriage.
15 January 1971
Kowalski works for a car delivery service, and takes delivery of a 1970 Dodge Challenger to drive from Colorado to San Francisco.
10 December 1969
In the midst of the Great Depression, manipulative emcee Rocky enlists contestants for a dance marathon offering a $1,500 cash prize.
17 November 1976
In 1926, celebrated evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson mysteriously disappeared. She turned up several weeks later and recounted the details of her kidnapping and escape to authorities.
19 January 1974
The passengers in an aerial tramway are trapped when the tramway breaks down 8,500 feet in the air.
13 June 1986
Self-made millionaire Thornton Melon decides to get a better education and enrolls at his son Jason's college.
11 August 1971
Harry Collings returns home to his farm after drifting with his friend, Arch. His wife, who had given up on him, reluctantly allows him to stay, and soon believes that all will be well again.
07 August 1985
When teenage geniuses Mitch Taylor and Chris Knight, working on an advanced laser project, learn that the military wants to use it as a weapon, they decide to thwart the plan.
07 May 1965
A fable about an old man with an odd effect on those he encounters.
10 October 1969
A scientist develops an unusual pair of eyeglasses which allows the wearer's mind to see things objectively rather than the usual subjective manner.
11 November 1979
Two small-town sisters go to Hollywood and find themselves seduced by the glamor of the big time and big money as high-priced professional escorts.
01 November 1972
Clearly influenced by the darker, more sinister style of spaghetti westerns, Dirty Little Billy offers a unique insight into the beginnings of the notorious outlaw Billy The Kid.
26 July 1967
Depressed by the direction his life is taking, Harry decides to take his own life by jumping off the Manhattan Bridge.
20 October 1980
Divorcee Susan Blakely, with no alimony and two kids to support, begins turning to amphetamines. While at her lowest ebb, she meets an alcoholic and three-time loser in marriage -- who, incredibly, turns out to be the ideal man!
11 February 1969
While trying to raise money to prevent his car from being repossessed, George is attracted to Lola, a Frenchwoman who works in a "model shop", an establishment that rents out beautiful pin-up models to photographers.
01 February 1974
A roaming hillbilly, on a quest to defy the Devil, encounters several supernatural characters and does battle with his silver-stringed guitar.
14 January 1972
A down on his luck former drug dealer is forced by a corrupt LAPD policeman to sell 100 kilos of confiscated marijuana in one weekend.
29 September 1971
After a film production wraps in Peru, an American wrangler decides to stay behind, witnessing how filmmaking affects the locals.
30 October 1981
After his family moves to a new house, a young boy discovers a mysterious book that details a curse hanging over the date of Saturday the 14th.
19 October 1972
Burned-out B-movie actress Maria, depressed and frustrated with her loveless marriage to an ambitious film director, Carter Lang, who would rather work on his career than on his relationship with her, numbs herself with drugs and sex with strangers.
10 December 1969
A country boy arrives in Chicago, gets killed by some gangsters, and returns to life with superhuman powers in this satirical look at movie genres.
26 May 1976
To beat out competing ambulance services, an ace driver, an office secretary/paramedic and a suspended cop resort to some outrageous behavior to help people in distress.
19 December 1973
A marine biologist teaches his dolphins to communicate in English but shady characters plan to kidnap the trained mammals for a more sinister purpose.
01 December 1975
Oliver is in trouble. He's been caught embezzling money from his father's company, and unless he can pay back the $250,000 he took (which he can't), he will be fired from his job, arrested and probably sent to jail.
22 December 1976
The film is based on an actual event: Operation Entebbe and the freeing of Israeli hostages at Entebbe Airport (now Entebbe International Airport) in Uganda.
31 March 1976
A young woman stumbles into a nightmare land of hijacking and humiliation while driving cross-country from California to New York.
01 May 1969
Ellen Hardy gets a rude awakening when she discovers that her brother and sister are scheduled to leave their mental institution.
01 June 1979
In the American Southwest of the 1950s, middle-aged vagabond Beaudray Demerille survives as a cardsharp who moves from town to town.
01 June 1972
A sarcastic near-sighted cartoonist, averse to commitment, falls for a single mother of three — the only woman who can stand his strong anti-feminist opinions.
10 August 1980
Cletus is a compulsive liar. He prefers the term 'fabrication' to lie though. When Cletus becomes a social worker he's assigned the case of a boy called Jorge (with a 'J') who was taken from his mother.
18 November 1968
The President of the U.S. is suceeded by his naive, wide-eyed son, and his advisors try to take advantage of the situation by planning to drop an atomic bomb on Manhattan and blaming it on the Red Chinese.
27 March 1968
Reluctant New York City private eye P.J. Detweiler is hired as a bodyguard to protect Maureen Preble, the mistress of shady millionaire William Orbison.
02 December 1978
An advertising executive finds herself in a small-town jail after being terrorized on a drive from Los Angeles to New York by two hitchhikers who steal her car and leave her unconscious by the roadside.
26 June 1969
"Mama" Cass Elliott of 1960s vocal group The Mamas and the Papas stars in this television variety special, performing comic sketches with Buddy Hackett and other Hollywood stars and singing solo versions of hit songs such as "California Dreamin'.
23 February 1981
Aspiring actress Eva Duarte rises from a minor celebrity to the wife of a powerful Argentine dictator, but her all consuming fiery rage, ambition, and hatred eventually become her downfall.
26 September 1980
A naive monk, named Brother Ambrose, is sent by the abbot on a mission to raise $5,000 in order to save their monastery from closing.
13 May 1977
Pilot to the short-lived TV series "The Feather and Father Gang" has Detective Feather Danton and her con-man father Harry teaming up to outwit Runyonesque horseplayer E.
11 August 1986
There was once a very serious kingdom. So serious, that the King demanded to be addressed as Your Seriousness.
01 January 1970
An oddball picture about legendary kooky and colorful Los Angeles fringe eccentric cult figure Bongo Wolf.
31 December 1965
Interesting and sometimes funny adaptation of a Mark Twain short story. Hatfield is a carpetbagger who marries the daughter of a prominent plantation owner in order to humiliate him.
11 July 1979
A madcap family caters to assorted unpredictable guests availing themselves of the title resort's advertised bliss in this pilot to a prospective series.
01 October 1966
A short documentary about cigarette smoking and health, designed to give young people a wholly new way of looking at cigarette smoking and its health hazards.
