George Voskovec

George Voskovec

Founded Czech avantgarde theatre and film group 'Osvobozene divadlo' with actor Jan Werich in 1927. Affiliated with the Poetist movement (Karel Teige). Made succesfull comedy shows with political themes. Voskovec left Czechoslovakia after the German invasion, 1938/39 and emigrated to the US.

  • Title: George Voskovec
  • Popularity: 3.055
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1905-06-19
  • Place of Birth: Sázava, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary (now Czech Republic)
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  • Also Known As: Jiří Voskovec, Jiří Wachsmann, Jiri Voskovec, Petr Dolan , F. Formen, Иржи Восковец, Петр Долан, Джордже Восковец
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George Voskovec Movies

  • 1957
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    The 27th Day
    The 27th Day

    6.2 1957 HD

    Five individuals from five nations, including the USA, USSR, and China, suddenly find themselves on an alien saucer, where an alien gives each a...

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  • 1960
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    BUtterfield 8
    BUtterfield 8

    6.3 1960 HD

    Gloria Wandrous, a promiscuous fashion model, falls in love with Weston Liggett, the hard drinking son of a working class family who has married into...

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  • 1982
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    Barbarosa
    Barbarosa

    5.8 1982 HD

    Karl Westover, an inexperienced farm boy, runs away after unintentionally killing a neighbor, whose family pursues him for vengeance. He meets...

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  • 1968
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    The Boston Strangler
    The Boston Strangler

    6.743 1968 HD

    Boston is being terrorized by a series of seemingly random murders of women. Based on the true story, the film follows the investigators path through...

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  • 1965
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    The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
    The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

    7 1965 HD

    British agent Alec Leamas refuses to come in from the Cold War during the 1960s, choosing to face another mission, which may prove to be his final...

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  • 1973
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    The Iceman Cometh
    The Iceman Cometh

    6 1973 HD

    Set in 1912, inside a dive bar named The Last Chance Saloon, its destitute patrons eagerly await the arrival of Hickey, who arrives annually and...

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  • 1952
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    Affair in Trinidad
    Affair in Trinidad

    6.3 1952 HD

    A nightclub singer enlists her brother-in-law to track down her husband's killer.

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  • 1978
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    The Nativity
    The Nativity

    6 1978 HD

    The story of the courtship of Joseph and Mary, and of the events leading up to the first Christmas.

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  • 1952
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    The Iron Mistress
    The Iron Mistress

    4.5 1952 HD

    In this biopic, Jim Bowie goes to New Orleans, where he falls for Judalon and befriends her brother, Narcisse. Soon, Jim is forced to avenge...

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  • 1964
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    Hamlet from the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
    Hamlet from the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre

    6.5 1964 HD

    A stage production of Hamlet filmed at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in New York.

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  • 1974
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    Man on a Swing
    Man on a Swing

    5.8 1974 HD

    A small-town police chief investigating a murder is offered help by a self-described psychic. However, when the chief discovers that the "psychic" is...

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  • 1932
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    Your Money or Your Life
    Your Money or Your Life

    7 1932 HD

    A czech film that focuses on an unfaithful husband who married in to money, as well as an impoverished man who is turns to theft.

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  • 1980
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    Skag
    Skag

    1 1980 HD

    Pete "Skag" Skagska is a 56-year-old union foreman of a Pittsburgh steel mill until a crippling stroke forces him to stay home and try to put his...

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  • 1966
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    Mister Buddwing
    Mister Buddwing

    5.9 1966 HD

    An amnesiac wanders the streets of Manhattan, trying to solve the mystery of who he is.

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  • 1932
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    Powder and Petrol
    Powder and Petrol

    7 1932 HD

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  • 1937
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    The World Belongs to Us
    The World Belongs to Us

    6.8 1937 HD

    One of the few European films of the 30s to criticize the Nazis, even if they couldn't be directly named due to censorship: Gangsters with gray hats...

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  • 1960
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    Těžká Barbora
    Těžká Barbora

    6.2 1960 HD

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  • 1934
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    Heave-Ho!
    Heave-Ho!

    7 1934 HD

    A Milk-Cannery baron, Jakub Simonides, is broken by the Canned Milk-Trust and, in his wanderings with a worker, Filip Kornet, he discovers he still...

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  • 1980
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    Happy Days
    Happy Days

    1 1980 HD

    Winnie, a woman in her fifties, is buried waist-deep in a mound of scorched earth, with just a large, black shopping bag and a collapsed parasol....

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  • 1939
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    Crisis
    Crisis

    1 1939 HD

    A documentary about the conquest of Czechoslovakia by the Nazis just prior to World War 2.

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  • 1971
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    Paradise Lost
    Paradise Lost

    10 1971 HD

    Playwright Clifford Odets' portrait of the Great Depression unfolds in the modest two-family home of Leo and Clara Gordon as misfortune strikes them...

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  • 1954
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    Twelve Angry Men
    Twelve Angry Men

    8.1 1954 HD

    Twelve Angry Men is a 1954 teleplay by Reginald Rose for the Studio One anthology television series. Initially staged as a CBS live production on 20...

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  • 1972
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    Particular Men
    Particular Men

    1 1972 HD

    A fictitious but powerful look at the dawn of the nuclear age, this stage performance follows several government scientists as they develop the...

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  • 1980
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    Somewhere in Time
    Somewhere in Time

    7.5 1980 HD

    Young writer Richard Collier is met on the opening night of his first play by an old lady who begs him to "Come back to me". Mystified, he tries to...

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  • 1966
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    An Enemy of the People
    An Enemy of the People

    1 1966 HD

    Set in a Norwegian hamlet, an idealistic physician discovers that the town's hot springs are contaminated. But with the community relying on the spa...

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  • 1959
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    The Velvet Alley
    The Velvet Alley

    1 1959 HD

    Ernie Pandish has tried to be a writer for years and has never made much money out of it. But now he seems likely to hit the big-time.

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  • 1958
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    The Bravados
    The Bravados

    6.5 1958 HD

    Jim Douglass arrives in the small town of Rio Arriba in order to witness the hanging of the four men he believes murdered his wife. When the convicts...

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  • 1958
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    Wind Across the Everglades
    Wind Across the Everglades

    6.1 1958 HD

    Set in the early 20th century, the film follows a game warden who arrives in Florida to enforce conservation laws. He soon finds himself pitted...

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  • 1967
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    The Desperate Ones
    The Desperate Ones

    1 1967 HD

    In 1941, two Polish brothers escape a Soviet gulag. Their only escape route is through the impossible mountains of Afghanistan and the KGB is on...

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  • 1957
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    12 Angry Men
    12 Angry Men

    8.546 1957 HD

    The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young Spanish-American is guilty or innocent of...

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  • 1952
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    Anything Can Happen
    Anything Can Happen

    1 1952 HD

    A quirky relationship unfolds between an immigrant and an all-American folk music fan.

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  • 1962
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    Arsenic & Old Lace
    Arsenic & Old Lace

    6 1962 HD

    1962 telefilm adaptation of the classic American play about a deranged family and the string of murders they flippantly commit

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  • 1929
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    Paní Katynka z vaječného trhu
    Paní Katynka z vaječného trhu

    1 1929 HD

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  • 1928
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    Ve spárech upíra
    Ve spárech upíra

    1 1928 HD

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  • 1974
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    Nicky's World
    Nicky's World

    1 1974 HD

    A close-knit Greek-American family, jeopardized when its Manhattan bakery goes up in flames, looks desperately for ways to solve the financial...

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  • 1926
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    Pohádka máje
    Pohádka máje

    1 1926 HD

    A lyrical tale of the pure, vernal romance between a diffident, somewhat naive girl from a rural backwater and a fairly dissolute, but kind-hearted...

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  • 1927
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    Dcerušky paní Petersenové
    Dcerušky paní Petersenové

    1 1927 HD

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  • 1957
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    Uncle Vanya
    Uncle Vanya

    6 1957 HD

    A country doctor (Franchot Tone) loves but cannot have a professor's wife (Clarence Derwent) in Chekhov's play set in czarist Russia.

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  • 1967
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    Golem
    Golem

    7 1967 HD

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  • 1960
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    Těžká Barbora
    Těžká Barbora

    6.2 1960 HD

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  • 1960
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    Balada z hadrů
    Balada z hadrů

    7 1960 HD

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  • 1937
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    The World Belongs to Us
    The World Belongs to Us

    6.8 1937 HD

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  • 1932
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    Your Money or Your Life
    Your Money or Your Life

    7 1932 HD

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  • 1932
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    Powder and Petrol
    Powder and Petrol

    7 1932 HD

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  • 1932
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    Powder and Petrol
    Powder and Petrol

    7 1932 HD

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  • 1932
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    Your Money or Your Life
    Your Money or Your Life

    7 1932 HD

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  • 1934
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    Heave-Ho!
    Heave-Ho!

    7 1934 HD

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  • 1934
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    Heave-Ho!
    Heave-Ho!

    7 1934 HD

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  • 1932
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    Powder and Petrol
    Powder and Petrol

    7 1932 HD

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  • 1934
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    U nás v Kocourkově
    U nás v Kocourkově

    7.5 1934 HD

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  • 1936
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    The Golem
    The Golem

    4.8 1936 HD

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  • 1937
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    The World Belongs to Us
    The World Belongs to Us

    6.8 1937 HD

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  • 1937
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    The World Belongs to Us
    The World Belongs to Us

    6.8 1937 HD

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  • 1961
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    Cain's Hundred
    Cain's Hundred

    4.667 1961 HD

    A former underworld lawyer goes to work for the Federal Government, determined to bring 100 top criminals to justice.

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  • 1965
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    The F.B.I.
    The F.B.I.

    5.4 1965 HD

    The F.B.I. is an American television series that was broadcast on ABC from 1965 to 1974. It was sponsored by the Ford Motor Company, and the...

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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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  • 1958
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    Naked City
    Naked City

    5.3 1958 HD

    Naked City is a police drama series which aired from 1958 to 1963 on the ABC television network. It was inspired by the 1948 motion picture of the...

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  • 1967
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    Mannix
    Mannix

    6.7 1967 HD

    Mannix is an American television detective series that ran from 1967 through 1975 on CBS. Created by Richard Levinson and William Link and developed...

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  • 1948
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    Studio One
    Studio One

    4.4 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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  • 1953
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    General Electric Theater
    General Electric Theater

    5.5 1953 HD

    General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was...

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  • 1966
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    Mission: Impossible
    Mission: Impossible

    7.6 1966 HD

    Mission: Impossible is an American television series that was created and initially produced by Bruce Geller. It chronicles the missions of a team of...

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  • 1959
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    Johnny Staccato
    Johnny Staccato

    5.6 1959 HD

    Johnny Staccato is an American private detective series which ran for 27 episodes on NBC from September 10, 1959 through March 24, 1960.

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  • 1951
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    Hallmark Hall of Fame
    Hallmark Hall of Fame

    8.8 1951 HD

    Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The...

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  • 1965
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    Run for Your Life
    Run for Your Life

    7.167 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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  • 1963
    imgS4 E30

    The Fugitive
    The Fugitive

    7.2 1963 HD

    Richard Kimble is falsely convicted of his wife's murder and given the death penalty. En route to death row, Kimble's train derails and crashes,...

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  • 1963
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    Espionage
    Espionage

    1 1963 HD

    Espionage is a 1963 Associated Television series, distributed outside the UK by ITC Entertainment and networked in the United States by NBC.

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  • 1975
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    Switch
    Switch

    6.7 1975 HD

    Switch is an American action-adventure, tongue-in-cheek detective series starring Eddie Albert and Robert Wagner, who work as private eyes, for a...

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  • 1950
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    Robert Montgomery Presents
    Robert Montgomery Presents

    4.333 1950 HD

    Robert Montgomery Presents is an American dramatic television series which was produced by NBC from January 30, 1950 until June 24, 1957. The live...

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  • 1981
    imgS1 E10

    Nero Wolfe
    Nero Wolfe

    7.4 1981 HD

    Nero Wolfe is a television series based on the characters in Rex Stout's classic series of detective stories that aired January 16 – August 25,...

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  • 1961
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    Dr. Kildare
    Dr. Kildare

    5.4 1961 HD

    The story of a young intern in a large metropolitan hospital trying to learn his profession, deal with the problems of his patients, and win the...

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  • 1961
    imgS4 E30

    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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  • 1961
    imgS4 E30

    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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  • 1959
    imgS3 E12

    The Third Man
    The Third Man

    6.4 1959 HD

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  • 1963
    imgS1 E26

    Channing
    Channing

    7 1963 HD

    Professor Joe Howe is a Korean War veteran who is hired to teach English at Channing College. The dean Fred Baker is his mentor as Howe is writing a...

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  • 1958
    imgS4 E34

    Naked City
    Naked City

    5.3 1958 HD

    Naked City is a police drama series which aired from 1958 to 1963 on the ABC television network. It was inspired by the 1948 motion picture of the...

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  • 1965
    imgS9 E23

    The F.B.I.
    The F.B.I.

    5.4 1965 HD

    The F.B.I. is an American television series that was broadcast on ABC from 1965 to 1974. It was sponsored by the Ford Motor Company, and the...

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  • 1979
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    Roots: The Next Generations
    Roots: The Next Generations

    7.3 1979 HD

    Roots: The Next Generations is a television miniseries, introduced in 1979, continuing, from 1882 to the 1960s, the fictionalized story of the family...

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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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  • 1948
    imgS10 E47

    Studio One
    Studio One

    4.4 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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  • 1948
    imgS10 E47

    Studio One
    Studio One

    4.4 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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  • 1951
    imgS61 E1

    Hallmark Hall of Fame
    Hallmark Hall of Fame

    8.8 1951 HD

    Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The...

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  • 2005
    imgS1 E3

    Tři strážníci
    Tři strážníci

    1 2005 HD

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  • 1959
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    Play of the Week
    Play of the Week

    1 1959 HD

    This syndicated anthology series staged a different play every week covering all genres, dramas, comedies, musicals, fantasies, mysteries, et al,...

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  • 2012
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    Voskovec & Werich, paralelní osudy
    Voskovec & Werich, paralelní osudy

    1 2012 HD

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  • 1972
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    The Streets of San Francisco
    The Streets of San Francisco

    7 1972 HD

    Two police officers, the older Lt. Stone and the young upstart Inspector Keller, investigate murders and other serious crimes in San Francisco. Stone...

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  • 1948
    imgS10 E47

    Studio One
    Studio One

    4.4 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
    imgS4 E30

    The Untouchables
    The Untouchables

    7.838 1959 HD

    Special Agent Eliot Ness and his elite team of incorruptible agents battle organized crime in 1930s Chicago.

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  • 1963
    imgS4 E26

    Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
    Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

    5.2 1963 HD

    Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre is an American anthology series, sponsored by Chrysler Corporation, which ran on NBC from 1963 through 1967....

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  • 1971
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    Great Performances
    Great Performances

    4.9 1971 HD

    The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular...

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  • 1959
    imgS4 E30

    The Untouchables
    The Untouchables

    7.838 1959 HD

    Special Agent Eliot Ness and his elite team of incorruptible agents battle organized crime in 1930s Chicago.

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