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Robert Clarke is a Actor, Director and Producer American born on 1 june 1920 at Oklahoma City (USA)
Robert Irby Clarke (June 1, 1920 – June 11, 2005) was an American actor best known for his cult classic science fiction films of the 1950s.
He died June 11, 2005 in Valley Village, California from complications of diabetes.
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Robert Clarke
Birth name Robert Irby Clarke
Nationality USA
Birth 1 june 1920 at Oklahoma City (USA)
Death 11 june 2005 (at 85 years) at Valley Village, Los Angeles (USA)
Nationality USA
Birth 1 june 1920 at Oklahoma City (USA)
Death 11 june 2005 (at 85 years) at Valley Village, Los Angeles (USA)
Biography
Clarke married Alyce King in 1956. A decade later, he began appearing on TV on The King Family Show (1965), but not for his musical prowess. On the program he appeared in comedy sketches and sentimental readings. He was the father of noted actor and voice artist Cam Clarke. In the mid-1960s, he served as spokesperson for a furniture and appliance store chain called Gold's Giant Stores. His autobiography, To "B" or Not to "B": A Film Actor's Odyssey, was published in 1996.He died June 11, 2005 in Valley Village, California from complications of diabetes.
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The Naked Monster (2005)
, 1h26Directed by Ted Newsom
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Horror, Comic science fiction
Themes Comedy science fiction films
Actors Kenneth Tobey, Brinke Stevens, Forrest J Ackerman, John Agar, Jeanne Carmen, Robert Clarke
Roles Major Allison
Rating52%
A colossal series of disasters releases something monstrous from a glacier. Strange disappearances in a small California town attract the attention of a thick-headed sheriff (R.G. Wilson), his transparently uninterested scientist girlfriend (Brinke Stevens) and a visiting government agent (John Goodwin). They discover that a giant green monster is at large, the Creaturesaurus Erectus, ("He wrecked us? He nearly KILLED us!") They turn to experienced monster fighter Colonel Patrick Hendry (Kenneth Tobey), who has been locked in a government asylum for decades. With the help of other monster experts, lots of stock footage and incredibly bad special effects, humanity fights back against the "Thing from Another Time Zone".
Rated X (2000)
, 1h55Directed by Emilio Estevez
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Films about sexuality, Films about pornography
Actors Charlie Sheen, Emilio Estevez, Geoffrey Blake, Rafer Weigel, Peter Bogdanovich, Megan Ward
Rating57%
Début des années 1960, les frères Jim et Artie Mitchell montent une société de productions de films pornographiques. Ils rencontrent rapidement fortune et gloire, mais sont également confrontés aux dangers de l'argent facile et de la drogue...
Alienator (1990)
, 1h33Directed by Fred Olen Ray
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Action, Horror
Themes Robot films
Actors Jan-Michael Vincent, John Phillip Law, Teagan Clive, Ross Hagen, P. J. Soles, Dyana Ortellí
Roles Lund
Rating32%
Kol (Ross Hagen), an alien criminal, escapes from a spaceship into the woods of an American suburb. The commander (Jan-Michael Vincent) of the spaceship dispatches The Alienator (Teagan Clive) -- a deadly female gynoid, to capture Kol. He meets up with some teenagers as they are all running from fiery death at the hands of The Alienator. She relentlessly pursues Kol and the teens through a series of action sequences and low budget special effects. Kol must face the toughest decision of his life: kill or be killed.
Deadly Intentions (1985)
, 3h20Directed by Noel Black
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime, Politic
Actors Michael Biehn, Madolyn Smith, Cloris Leachman, Kevin McCarthy, Jack Kruschen, Bruce French
Roles Pharmacist
Rating69%
Originally shown in two parts, this four-hour TV movie stars Michael Biehn as the outwardly "perfect" doctor husband of Madolyn Smith. But Biehn is actually a psychopath, who is carefully plotting the murder of his wife. As the horrible truth slowly dawns upon Madolyn, she must find some way to prevent her murder—and to alert disbelieving authorities of her husband's duplicity.
Frankenstein Island (1981)
, 1h37Directed by Jerry Warren
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Themes Films about computing, Films based on science fiction novels, Frankenstein films, Cyberpunk films
Actors John Carradine, Robert Clarke, Steve Brodie, Cameron Mitchell, Andrew Duggan
Roles Dr. Hadley
Rating20%
When a hot air balloon crashes on a remote and uncharted island, the four balloonists and their dog Melvin are captured by a pair of drunken old pirates who take them to the hilltop laboratory home of Dr. Frankenstein's modern-day descendant Sheila Frankenstein (Katherine Victor) who is carrying on the family tradition by turning shipwrecked sailors into pre-programmed bloodless, black-garbed zombies who must wear sunglasses to protect their weird white eyes from light.
The Brotherhood of the Bell (1970)
, 1h40Directed by Paul Wendkos
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Glenn Ford, Dean Jagger, Rosemary Forsyth, Maurice Evans, Will Geer, Robert Pine
Roles Dr. Louis Bauier (uncredited)
Rating70%
Professor Andrew Patterson (Glenn Ford) returns to his alma mater, the College of St. George in San Francisco, for the initiation of a new member into a secret society, the Brotherhood of the Bell. The man who initiated Patterson 22 years earlier, financier Chad Harmon (Dean Jagger), is presiding at the initiation. Harmon gives him an address and instructs Patterson to go there to receive an assignment from the society; Patterson has been selected to prevent Dr. Konstantin Horvathy (Eduard Franz) from accepting a deanship at a college of linguistics. The Brotherhood wants this post for one of their own. Patterson is given dossiers of people who helped Horvathy defect to the United States, and he is to threaten to reveal these to the government of Horvathy's homeland if Horvathy accepts the new post. Against Brotherhood policy, Patterson consults Harmon about the legality and ethics of his assignment. Harmon tells Patterson to do it and be grateful that more is not asked of him.
Zebra in the Kitchen (1965)
, 1h32Directed by Ivan Tors
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about animals, Environmental films, Films about lions, Political films, Children's films
Actors Jay North, Martin Milner, Andy Devine, Joyce Meadows, Jim Davis, Vaughn Taylor
Rating53%
When Chris Carlyle (Jay North) moves with his parents from the farm to the city, he secretly takes with him his woodland friend, a full-grown mountain lion. The problems surface when the mountain lion strolls around his new neighborhood, his friendliness mistaken for predatory habits. The neighbors get into an uproar and Chris is forced to allow his friend to be relocated to the city zoo.
Terror of the Bloodhunters (1962)
Directed by Jerry Warren
Origin USA
Genres Adventure, Horror
Themes Seafaring films, Prison films, Transport films
Actors Robert Clarke
Roles Steve Duval
Rating32%
An escaped prisoner flees to the South American jungle, where he must survive not only wild animals and disease, but a ferocious Indian tribe.
Beyond the Time Barrier (1960)
, 1h15Directed by Edgar George Ulmer
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Post-apocalyptic films, Time travel films, Films about viral outbreaks, Political films, Dystopian films
Actors Robert Clarke, Darlene Tompkins, Vladimir Nikolayevich Sokoloff, Boyd 'Red' Morgan, Stephen Bekassy, John van Dreelen
Roles Major William Allison
Rating53%
U.S. Air Force test pilot Major Bill Allison flies an experimental aircraft to sub-orbital spaceflight successfully, though losing radio contact in flight. When Major Allison returns to the airbase it appears abandoned, old and deserted. Mystified by the surroundings, he sees a futuristic city on the horizon where there had been nothing standing before the flight. The Major is rendered unconscious and captured by the city inhabitants.
Cash McCall (1960)
, 1h42Directed by Joseph Pevney
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Actors James Garner, Natalie Wood, Nina Foch, Dean Jagger, E. G. Marshall, Henry Jones
Rating62%
Grant Austen (Dean Jagger), the head of Austen Plastics, yearns for retirement. So when Scofield Industries, by far his largest customer, threatens to take its business elsewhere, Austen considers selling his company. He hires a consulting firm, which finds an interested potential buyer, the notorious Cash McCall (James Garner).
Timbuktu (1959)
, 1h31Directed by Jacques Tourneur
Origin USA
Genres War, Adventure
Themes Films set in Africa, French war films, Films about terrorism
Actors Victor Mature, Yvonne De Carlo, George Dolenz, John Dehner, Robert Clarke, Paul Wexler
Roles Captain Girard
Rating56%
In 1940, France is at war with Germany. The French have removed large numbers of troops from their African possessions, leaving the way open for revolt. American soldier of fortune Mike Conway (Victor Mature) sees a chance to pay his way back to the United States by gunrunning to hostile Tuaregs.
The FBI Story (1959)
, 1h53Directed by Mervyn LeRoy, Raoul Walsh
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors James Stewart, Vera Miles, Murray Hamilton, Larry Pennell, Ann Doran, Nick Adams
Roles Bartender (uncredited)
Rating64%
John Michael ('Chip') Hardesty (James Stewart) narrates the story of a murder, which the viewer sees in a flashback. Young Jack Graham (Nick Adams), takes out life insurance on his mother and plants a bomb in her luggage for a flight that she was taking from Denver, Colorado, to Portland, Oregon, November 1, 1955.
, 1h10Directed by Jerry Warren
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Action, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Submarine films
Actors John Carradine, Robert Clarke, Phyllis Coates, Bob Carroll
Roles Craig Randall
Rating31%
Le professeur Millard Wyman (John Carradine) envoie un équipage de deux hommes, Paul Whitmore (Allen Windsor) et Craig Randall (Robert Clarke), et deux femmes Lauri Talbott (Sheila Noonan) et Dale Marshall (Phyllis Coates), jusqu'aux profondeurs de l'océan jamais avant exploré. Mais, il y a un problème technique lors du lancement. La cloche de plongée se détache du câble qui les relie à la surface et perd le contact avec la surface. La mission serait perdue.
From the Earth to the Moon (1958)
, 1h41Directed by Byron Haskin
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantasy, Adventure
Themes Space adventure films, Sur la Lune, Films based on science fiction novels, Steampunk films, Space opera
Actors Joseph Cotten, George Sanders, Debra Paget, Don Dubbins, Patric Knowles, Carl Esmond
Roles Narrator (voice)
Rating51%
Shortly after the end of the American Civil War, munitions producer Victor Barbicane
The Hideous Sun Demon (1958)
, 1h14Directed by Robert Clarke
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Actors Robert Clarke
Roles Dr. Gilbert McKenna
Rating43%
When research scientist Dr. Gilbert "Gil" McKenna falls unconscious after accidentally being exposed to radiation during an experiment with a new radioactive isotope, he is rushed to a nearby hospital. Attending physician Dr. Stern is surprised to find that Gil shows no signs of burns typical to a five-minute exposure to radiation and informs Gil's co-workers, lab assistant Ann Lansing and scientist Dr. Buckell, that he will keep the patient for several days of observation.