Harry Belafonte rose to fame in the 1950s as a singer and actor, bringing the Caribbean sounds of calypso music to the charts...
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2012
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The documentary Oscar Peterson: The Life of a Legend delves into the life story of Peterson, a man widely regarded as one of...
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2010
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This profile on pop star Michael Jackson tells the story of the singer's life, with commentary from his peers and...
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2009
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When people talk about the music scene in Seattle, Washington, most folks think about the grunge rock explosion of the...
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2009
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The annual Montreux Jazz Festival always attracts big names, but a truly impressive roster showed up to celebrate Quincy...
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2008
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Interviews with Wyclef Jean, Quincy Jones, and Andy Garcia offer insight into the rich legacy of legendary Cuban vocalist...
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2008
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Photographer Herman Leonard has enjoyed a distinguished career by any standards -- getting his start as an apprentice with...
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2007
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As originally screened at the Tribeca Film Festival, at the Cannes Film Festival, and on Turner Classic Movies, the mammoth,...
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2007
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Hip-hop star 50 Cent makes his movie debut in this hard-edged urban drama inspired by the rapper's own life. Marcus (Curtis...
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Composer (Music Score)
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2005
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Rockin' the Corps documents a music and comedy concert held to honor Marines returning from Iraq. The concert offers a...
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Executive Producer
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2005
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In this release offering highlights from three seasons of the popular weekly sketch comedy series Mad TV, the whole cast...
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Executive Producer
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2005
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The Art of 16 Bars features interviews with major hip-hop stars that involve them discussing how they rose to prominence....
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Executive Producer
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2005
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The biggest names in show business come together to offer their opinions on one of the most inflammatory words in the English...
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2004
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This documentary compiles 20 different film and television appearances by the distinctive singer Peggy Lee. She is seen and...
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2004
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Mike Myers' phenomenally successful spy spoof gains a few more characters, a slew of celebrity cameos, and even more...
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2002
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Executive Producer
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2001
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Initially released to IMAX theaters at the crescendo of millennial fever and 60 years after the original Fantasia, Fantasia...
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Narrator
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2000
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Christina Peters directs this wacky comedy about a trio of evil teens. Based at Wisconsin's Lindenhurst Academy, Jefferson...
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Executive Producer
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2000
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Set in the institutionally segregated New Orleans of 1965, the made-for-cable Passing Glory is the story of black priest...
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Executive Producer
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1999
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Low-rent, poorly-lit superhero action is the order of the day in this film from television director Kenneth Johnson -- who...
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Producer
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1997
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In 1976, Stevie Wonder released {^Songs in the Key of Life}, a stunningly ambitious two-record-set that is still regarded as...
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1997
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Quincy Jones and Friends: 50 Years in Music features the legendary musician performing with a variety of special guests...
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1996
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1996
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The History of Rock 'n' Roll, Volume Eight: The 70's is part of the ten-volume Time-Warner History of Rock 'n' Roll set. Each...
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Executive Producer
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1995
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Oscar Peterson: Music in the Key of Oscar documents the career of the respected jazz pianist Oscar Peterson. The film...
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1995
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Volume Seven of this 10-part series has interviews and profiles of such greats as Hendrix, Page, Townsend, and Van Halen;...
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Executive Producer
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1995
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A Great Day in Harlem is a wonderful documentary about a seemingly ho-hum subject -- the taking of a photograph. Even when...
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1995
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Produced by Time Life Video & Television, History of Rock 'n' Roll: My Generation is part 6 in a 10-tape documentary series...
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Executive Producer
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1995
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In the conclusion of the series' two-part Season Five opener, up-and-coming singer Ashley (Tatyana M. Ali) has put her future...
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1994
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The biggest surprise surrounding The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air's obligatory "It's a Wonderful Life" parody is that the episode...
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1993
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Miles Davis was a restless musical innovator who had little use for revisiting the music he had made in the past, but in the...
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1991
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The extraordinary life of Quincy Jones -- one of the 20th century's most influential and talented composers, musicians and...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1990
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An informative presentation that includes a guide to recycling. Includes an information booklet and stars a large group of...
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1990
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In the conclusion of a two-part story (originally telecast as a single one hour special), Will (Will Smith) and the Banks...
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1990
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African American entertainer Will Smith graduated from rap-music stardom to TV sitcom superstardom in the long-running NBC...
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Executive Producer
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1990
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Host/Musical Guest
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1990
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Narrated by Burt Lancaster, Benny Carter: Symphony in Riffs provides a comprehensive overview of the life and career of jazz...
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1989
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This routine film should have been called the "rock singer's husband" because it is about the life of a baseball player...
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Songwriter
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1985
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Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Alice Walker, The Color Purple spans the years 1909 to 1949, relating the life...
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Composer (Music Score), Producer
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1985
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Writer-director Richard Brooks' final film features a weak script and poor acting but high energy direction in a tale of...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1985
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1985
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Initially influenced by the jazz stylings of, among others, crooner Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra (1915-1998) developed his own...
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1985
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1983
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Sidney Lumet's The Wiz is the film version of the popular Broadway musical that retells the events of L. Frank Baum's classic...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1978
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This award-winning six-part historical epic was one of the first examples of the miniseries format and one of the...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1977
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Season six of Sanford and Son was launched on September 24, 1976, with the series' only two-part episode -- and also one of...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1976
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Beginning its fifth successful season on Friday, September 12, 1975, Sanford and Son was essentially the mixture as before...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1975
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Season four of Sanford and Son was ushered in on Friday, September 13, 1974, with wonderful news for longtime fans of the...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1974
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This concert documentary chronicles the many acts that appeared during Jesse Jackon's Operation PUSH exposition held in 1972...
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1973
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Still riding high in the ratings, Sanford and Son returned to its by then traditional Friday-night NBC time slot for a third...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1973
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Wheelchair-bound detective Robert T. Ironside shows no signs of slowing down his battle against crime, corruption and...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1973
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Composer (Music Score)
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1972
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Joseph Wambaugh's best-seller about patrol-car cops in urban Los Angeles is given a competent yet antiseptic treatment by...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1972
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Composer (Music Score)
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1972
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Season Six of Ironside opens with the two-part "Five Days in the Death of Sgt. Brown, in which the title character (played by...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1972
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Composer (Music Score)
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1972
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Peter Yates directs the early '70s comedy caper The Hot Rock, based on the Donald Westlake novel and adapted for the screen...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1972
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Composer (Music Score), Screenwriter, Songwriter
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1972
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A confirmed hit in its inaugural 14-episode season, the NBC sitcom Sanford and Son returned to its familiar Friday-night...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1972
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Season Five of Ironside opens with the two-hour "The Priest Killer", which is actually the pilot for the George Kennedy TV...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1971
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Composer (Music Score)
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1971
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Honky chronicles the public outcry that greets an interracial relationship between a white teen (John Nielson) and an...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1971
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This breathlessly paced high-tech thriller stars Sean Connery as Anderson, a career criminal who's just been released from...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1971
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Composer (Music Score), Songwriter
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1971
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This western is notable for having Bill Cosby in a dramatic role in his first feature film. Caleb Rivers (Cosby) is a black...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1971
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In this drama, the second in the "Ironside" series, the Chief becomes marked for murder after he witnesses the execution of...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1970
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Brazen, determined CEO of the Mother Knows Best Toy Company, Julie Newmar, goes to extremes to convince introverted, sexually...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1970
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Sidney Poitier reprises his role as Virgil Tibbs in this crime drama, a story unrelated to that of the earlier film In the...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1970
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Sidney Poitier stars as John Kane, a heavenly emissary who pays a visit to the Alabama town where he was born. Making it his...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1970
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Season Four of Ironside finds the titular wheelchair-bound detective (Raymond Burr) continuing to hunt down criminals and...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1970
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1969
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The quintessential British caper film of the 1960s, The Italian Job is a flashy, fast romp that chases a team of career...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1969
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Goldie Hawn won an Oscar for her performance as a Greenwich Village free spirit in Cactus Flower. Middle-aged dentist Winston...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1969
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Ohio businessman Jack Lemmon is offered a golden job opportunity; all he has to do is relocate himself and wife Sandy Dennis...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1969
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"Consider the possibilities," read the ads for Paul Mazursky's 1969 satirical comedy about what happens when the sexual...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1969
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John and Mary attracted a great deal of press coverage in 1969 for being the one of the first American films in which the...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1969
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Mackenna's Gold is a colorful, action-packed western feature with an all-star cast. Mackenna (Gregory Peck) has committed to...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1969
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In this depressing slice of Southern decadence, Myrtle (Lynn Redgrave) is a woman of questionable virtue who marries an...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1969
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Wheelchair-bound detective Robert T. Ironside (Raymond Burr) continues to round up miscreants and champion the underdog in...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1969
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Jason Higgs (Sidney Poitier) is an angry black man who plans to rob a factory payroll. With the help of his accomplices...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1969
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In this thriller, Jonathan Fields (Bradford Dillman) awakens in a strange apartment and finds a dead woman floating in the...
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Composer (Music Score), Songwriter
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1968
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Director Anthony Mann's final film (Mann died during the filming, and the production was completed by the film's star,...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision, Songwriter
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1968
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When it was released in 1968, For Love of Ivy was the first mainstream Hollywood film to depict a mature romantic...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1968
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Two former World War II pilots take to running an air-freight company in South Africa after the war. They get mixed up with...
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Composer (Music Score), Songwriter
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1968
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Drug pushers, thrill killers, civil-rights militants, college activists, illegal abortionists, phony psychics, and good cops...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1968
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This action drama is adapted from a TV movie, The Faceless Man. The story centers around a secret service agent who goes...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1968
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A pair of crooks conspire to rob the ticket booth at the Los Angeles Coliseum during a Rams game. Before they can perform the...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1968
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Richard Brooks wrote and directed this stark black-and-white (with brilliantly evocative cinematography by Conrad Hall) study...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1967
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Composer (Music Score)
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1967
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It was a decided advantage for Ironside that the two-hour TV movie which launched the series in March of 1967 was so popular....
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Composer (Music Score)
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1967
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The winner of the 1967 Oscar for Best Picture (as well as four other Oscars), In the Heat of the Night is set in a small...
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Composer (Music Score), Songwriter
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1967
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Carl Reiner's semi-autobiographical novel Enter Laughing makes a largely successful transition to the screen. Reni Santoni...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1967
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In this 2-hour "NBC World Premiere" pilot film for the TV series Ironside, we learn how San Francisco chief-of-detectives...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1967
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An exclusive LA country club provides the setting for this sudsy melodrama that centers on a handsome assistant golf pro and...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1967
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Advice columnist Francesca Kirby (Lee Grant) is being plagued by death threats and attempts on her life, prompting...
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1967
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A dazed man, David Stillwell (Gregory Peck), wanders down the stairs of a New York skyscraper during a power blackout, only...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1966
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Cary Grant made his last film appearance before retiring from the screen in this agreeable piece of fluff based on the 1943...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1966
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After this show originally aired in 1965 on a closed-circuit TV transmission under the title The Frank Sinatra Spectacular,...
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Conductor
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1965
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Sidney Pollack marked his feature film directing debut with this taut suspense drama, based upon an actual incident reported...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1965
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Critically acclaimed Rod Steiger plays Sol Nazerman, a Jewish pawnbroker who survived imprisonment in a Nazi concentration...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1964
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