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William Beckley is a Actor American born on 15 january 1930
William Beckley (January 15, 1930 – March 11, 2015) was an American actor, best known for his role as Gerard the butler in the television series Dynasty.
Other TV credits include: Combat!, Batman, Mission: Impossible, Hogan's Heroes, Night Gallery, Marcus Welby, M.D., Planet of the Apes, Charlie's Angels, Kojak, Fantasy Island, Hawaii Five-O, General Hospital, and The Rockford Files.
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William Beckley (January 15, 1930 – March 11, 2015) was an American actor, best known for his role as Gerard the butler in the television series Dynasty.
Other TV credits include: Combat!, Batman, Mission: Impossible, Hogan's Heroes, Night Gallery, Marcus Welby, M.D., Planet of the Apes, Charlie's Angels, Kojak, Fantasy Island, Hawaii Five-O, General Hospital, and The Rockford Files.
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The Memory of Eva Ryker (1980)
, 2h24Directed by Walter Grauman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action
Actors Natalie Wood, Robert Foxworth, Ralph Bellamy, Roddy McDowall, Bradford Dillman, Jean-Pierre Aumont
Roles Leeds
Rating65%
William E. Ryker engage Norman Hall pour enquêter sur les circonstances de la mort de sa femme Eva durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale afin d'aider sa fille Claire. Cette dernière est, selon les médecins, perturbée par ce qu'elle a vécu enfant en lien avec la mort d'Eva. Le détective va trouver bien plus en mettant à jour une conspiration ayant comme objet le vol de bijoux inestimables.
Sextette (1978)
, 1h31Directed by Ken Hughes
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Théâtre, Musical films, Films based on plays
Actors Mae West, Dom DeLuise, Timothy Dalton, Tony Curtis, Ringo Starr, George Hamilton
Roles Desk Clerk
Rating38%
The legendary American movie star and sex symbol Marlo Manners (Mae West) is in London, England, where she has just married for the sixth time. She and her new husband, Sir Michael Barrington (Timothy Dalton), then depart for a honeymoon suite at a posh and exclusive hotel that has been reserved for them by her manager, Dan Turner (Dom DeLuise).
Young Lady Chatterley (1977)
Directed by Alan Roberts
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films
Actors Harlee McBride, Lawrence Montaigne, William Beckley, Mary Forbes
Roles Philip - Fiancée
Rating52%
Cynthia inherits her aunt's estate. She finds her aunt's diary and learns that she had an affair with her gardener in 1901. Cynthia decides to continue this relationship to the present day and has an affair with her handsome young gardener.
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1973)
Origin USA
Genres Fantastic, Action, Horror
Themes Peinture
Actors Shane Briant, Nigel Davenport, Fionnula Flanagan, Charles Aidman, John Karlen, Linda Kelsey
Roles Syme
Rating62%
D'après Le Portrait de Dorian Gray d’Oscar Wilde.
, 1h27Directed by Woody Allen
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Anthology film
Themes Films about animals, Films about sexuality, Erotic films
Actors Woody Allen, Louise Lasser, John Carradine, Tony Randall, Burt Reynolds, Lou Jacobi
Roles King's Herald
Rating66%
Des aphrodisiaques permettent à un fou du roi (Woody Allen) de trouver la clé qui lui ouvrira les portes du cœur de la reine (Lynn Redgrave), avant de s'apercevoir que la clé de sa ceinture de chasteté lui serait tout de même plus utile.
, 1h38Directed by Don Taylor
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Action, Adventure, Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction
Themes Films about animals, Films about computing, Post-apocalyptic films, Films about religion, Time travel films, Films based on science fiction novels, Films set in the future, Films about apes, Political films, Cyberpunk films, Dystopian films, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère, Disaster films
Actors Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, Bradford Dillman, Natalie Trundy, Eric Braeden, Sal Mineo
Roles British News Anchor (uncredited)
Rating63%
The preceding film, Beneath the Planet of the Apes, ends with the apes' future Earth being destroyed by a nuclear weapon.
Too Late the Hero (1970)
, 2h13Directed by Robert Aldrich, Oscar Rudolph
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films
Actors Michael Caine, Cliff Robertson, Henry Fonda, Ken Takakura, Denholm Elliott, Ian Bannen
Roles Pvt. Currie
Rating65%
In the 1942 Pacific War theater of World War II, Lieutenant Sam Lawson, USN (Robertson), is a Japanese language interpreter who — so far — has avoided combat. His commanding officer (Henry Fonda in a cameo role) unexpectedly cancels his leave and informs Lawson that he is to be assigned to a British infantry commando unit in the New Hebrides Islands for a combat mission.
Daughter of the Mind (1969)
Directed by Walter Grauman
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror
Actors Don Murray, Ray Milland, Gene Tierney, Edward Asnere, Pamelyn Ferdin, Ivor Barry
Roles Arnold Watson Bessmer
Rating62%
At the request of a colleague (Ivor Barry), psychologist and ESP researcher Alex Lauder (Don Murray) investigates a leading cybernetic expert's (Dr. Samuel Constable, played by Ray Milland) report that he has seen and spoken with his young daughter, Mary (Pamelyn Ferdin) — who died 13 weeks before. Keeping an open mind, Lauder decides to take the case and see wherever it may lead.
The Legend of Lylah Clare (1968)
, 2h10Directed by Robert Aldrich
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Films about films, Films about religion, Films about television
Actors Peter Finch, Kim Novak, Ernest Borgnine, Michael Murphy, Milton Selzer, Valentina Cortese
Roles Zarkan
Rating57%
Elsa Brinkmann (Novak), is hired by producer Barney Sheean (Borgnine), who wishes to make a film about the life of 1930s movie star Lylah Clare (also Novak).
The Killing of Sister George (1968)
, 2h18Directed by Robert Aldrich
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films about sexuality, Films about television, LGBT-related films, Films based on plays, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Beryl Reid, Susannah York, Coral Browne, Ronald Fraser, Patricia Medina, Hugh Paddick
Roles Floor Manager
Rating69%
Sur le petit écran, June est Sister George, religieuse infiniment vertueuse et loyale. Mais dans le privé, June est une actrice "has been", lesbienne dominatrice (la scène de la poupée et du cigare), toxicomane, grossière, alimentant la presse à scandale à tel point que les autorités religieuses font pression sur la chaîne pour que Sister George soit exécutée. June n'en a pas fini de chuter...
The President's Analyst (1967)
, 1h43Directed by Theodore J. Flicker
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Comedy, Spy
Themes Spy films, Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Political films
Actors James Coburn, Godfrey Cambridge, Severn Darden, Pat Harrington, Jr., Eduard Franz, Will Geer
Roles 2nd Puddlian
Rating67%
Dr. Sidney Schaefer (James Coburn), a psychiatrist, is chosen by the U.S. Government to act as the President’s top-secret personal psychoanalyst, through Don Masters (Godfrey Cambridge), a Central Enquiries Agency (CEA) assassin who vetted Dr. Schaefer while undergoing psychoanalysis. The decision to choose Schaefer is against the advice of Henry Lux (Walter Burke), the director of the all-male, under-five-foot-six-inch Federal Bureau of Regulation (FBR). (Lux, like Hoover, was once a famous line of vacuum cleaner.) Dr. Schaefer is given a home in affluent Georgetown and assigned a comfortable office connected to the White House by a tunnel. From this location he is to be on call at all hours to fit the President's hectic schedule. However, the President's Analyst has one problem: There is no one to whom he can talk about the President's ultra-top-secret and personal problems. As he steadily becomes overwhelmed by stress, Schaefer begins to feel that he is being watched everywhere — which is actually true — until he becomes clinically paranoid; he even suspects his sweet girlfriend Nan (Joan Delaney) of spying on him — also true — as an agent of the CEA.
The Collector (1965)
, 1h59Directed by William Wyler
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Terence Stamp, Samantha Eggar, Mona Washbourne, Maurice Dallimore, Kenneth More, William Beckley
Roles Crutchley
Rating74%
Frederick Clegg (Terence Stamp) is a lonely, unbalanced young man who stalks, kidnaps, and imprisons a pretty, young art student, Miranda Grey (Samantha Eggar). One day after following her in his van, Frederick kidnaps and chloroforms Miranda, locking her in the windowless stone cellar that he has prepared with a bed, some furnishings, and an electric heater. When Frederick proclaims his love for Miranda, she fakes appendicitis as a ploy to escape, but is caught. Many weeks go by, and Miranda realizes just how unstable Frederick is, and that she will never leave alive. While being taken from the house to the cellar in the rain, she seizes a nearby shovel and strikes Frederick in the head with it. Frederick is wounded, but he manages to pull her back into the cellar, breaking the heater during their struggles. Miranda remains locked in the cold cellar, soaking wet. Frederick returns three days later to find Miranda terribly ill, and he goes into town to get medicine. When Frederick returns, he finds Miranda dead. In a voice over, he says it was Miranda's fault for not trying to get to know him and for losing his respect, and that his only mistake was choosing a woman who was much too clever and of a different social background. The final scene shows Frederick back behind the wheel of his van, stalking a young nurse.
My Fair Lady (1964)
, 2h46Directed by George Cukor, David S. Hall
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films based on mythology, Théâtre, Musical films, Films based on Greco-Roman mythology, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals, Children's films, Films based on Greco-Roman mythology
Actors Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Stanley Holloway, Marni Nixon, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Gladys Cooper
Roles Footman (uncredited)
Rating76%
In Edwardian London, Professor Henry Higgins (Rex Harrison), a scholar of phonetics, believes that the accent and tone of one's voice determines a person's prospects in society. In Covent Garden one evening he boasts to a new acquaintance, Colonel Hugh Pickering (Wilfrid Hyde-White), himself an expert in phonetics, that he could teach any person to speak in a way that he could pass them off as a duke or duchess at an embassy ball. Higgins selects as an example a young flower seller, Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn), who has a strong Cockney accent. Eliza's ambition is to work in a flower shop, but her thick accent makes her unsuitable. Having come from India to meet Higgins, Pickering is invited to stay with the professor. The following morning, Eliza shows up at Higgins' home, seeking lessons. Pickering is intrigued and offers to cover all expenses if the experiment should be successful.
The Devil's Claim (1920)
Directed by Charles Swickard
Origin USA
Actors Sessue Hayakawa, Colleen Moore, Rhea Mitchell, William Beckley
Roles Spencer Wellington
Rating45%