John Holland

John Holland

John Holland (May 16, 1908 – May 21, 1993) was an American actor and singer. John Holland was born Harold Boggess in Fremont, Nebraska. He adopted his grandfather's name John Holland as a stage name. He began acting in Hollywood films in 1937, and later appeared on numerous television series, including Hawaiian Eye, Wagon Train, and Perry Mason. His most notable film credits were My Fair Lady (1964), How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1967), and Chinatown (1974). In addition to film and television, Holland acted in musical theater, such as the Broadway production of Peter Pan (1954), and in plays, such as the touring company of The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial. He received positive reviews for his performance in a concert titled "The California Night of Music" in Los Angeles in September 1937. He often gave free concerts during visits to his parents in Alton, Illinois, accompanied by his father, organist Newton Boggess. John Holland died on May 21, 1993 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles at age 85. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

  • Title: John Holland
  • Popularity: 4.312
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1908-05-17
  • Place of Birth: Fremont, Nebraska, USA
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  • Also Known As: John Boggess, Harold Boggess
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John Holland Movies

  • 1940
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    Phantom of Chinatown

    Phantom of Chinatown

    6.1 1940 HD

    In the middle of a pictorial lecture on his recent expedition to the Mongolian Desert, Dr. John Benton,the famous explorer, drinks from the water...

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  • 1942
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    Take a Letter, Darling

    Take a Letter, Darling

    6.5 1942 HD

    A struggling painter takes a job as a secretary to a female advertising executive. While working to obtain an account from a tobacco company, they...

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  • 1948
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    Blonde Ice

    Blonde Ice

    5.6 1948 HD

    A golddigging femme fatale leaves a trail of men behind her, rich and poor, alive and dead.

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  • 1957
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    The Girl in Black Stockings

    The Girl in Black Stockings

    6.1 1957 HD

    Residents at a posh Utah hotel become suspects when a girl is found murdered during a pool party. Local sheriff Jess Holmes takes charge of the...

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  • 1942
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    Invisible Agent

    Invisible Agent

    5.813 1942 HD

    The Invisible Man's grandson uses his secret formula to spy on Nazi Germany in this comedy-thriller.

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  • 1963
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    A Gathering of Eagles

    A Gathering of Eagles

    5.4 1963 HD

    Rock Hudson plays an Air Force Colonel who has just been re-assigned as a cold war B-52 commander who must shape up his men to pass a grueling...

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  • 1940
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    Up in the Air

    Up in the Air

    5.5 1940 HD

    A none-too-popular (nor good) radio singer, Rita Wilson is murdered while singing on the air in a radio studio. Radio page boy, Frankie Ryan, and his...

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  • 1963
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    The Madmen of Mandoras

    The Madmen of Mandoras

    3 1963 HD

    A group of Nazi survivors save Hitler's brain keeping it alive in a huge jar hooked up to a machine. The Nazis plan to release a deadly gas...

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  • 1954
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    King Richard and the Crusaders

    King Richard and the Crusaders

    6.3 1954 HD

    Based on Sir Walter Scott's The Talisman, this is the story of the romantic adventures of Christians and Muslims during the battle for the Holy Land...

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  • 1965
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    My Blood Runs Cold

    My Blood Runs Cold

    4.5 1965 HD

    Wealthy, reckless Californian Julie Merriday, accompanied by her boyfriend Harry Lindsay, an attorney, narrowly avoids crashing into a motorcycle...

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  • 1960
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    The High Powered Rifle

    The High Powered Rifle

    6 1960 HD

    A private detective (Willard Parker) falls for the girlfriend (Allison Hayes) of a racketeer whom he believes has targeted him for death.

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  • 1968
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    They Saved Hitler's Brain

    They Saved Hitler's Brain

    2.2 1968 HD

    At the end of WWII, Nazi officials spirited the living head of Adolf Hitler out of Germany to a hiding place in the South American country of...

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  • 1937
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    Join the Marines

    Join the Marines

    3 1937 HD

    New York City cop Phil Donlon leaves the force to join the U.S. Olympic team. When he falls for a Marine colonel's daughter he gets kicked off the...

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  • 1941
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    Uncle Joe

    Uncle Joe

    6 1941 HD

    A pretty Chicago teenager (Gale Storm), who's being courted by an older man, is sent by her worried parents to live with her uncle on his Iowa farm.

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  • 1937
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    Paradise Express

    Paradise Express

    7 1937 HD

    A small railroad is being squeezed out of business by the tactics of a trucking company owned by gangsters.

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  • 1964
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    My Fair Lady

    My Fair Lady

    7.501 1964 HD

    A snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.

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  • 1974
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    Chinatown

    Chinatown

    7.913 1974 HD

    Private eye Jake Gittes lives off of the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-World War II Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite to...

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  • 1976
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    From Noon Till Three

    From Noon Till Three

    6 1976 HD

    Bank robber Graham Dorsey spends a few hours with beautiful widow Amanda Starbuck, in which time his gang takes part in a disastrous holdup. Learning...

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  • 1950
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    Second Chance

    Second Chance

    1 1950 HD

    A bank president and his wife, facing a crisis in their life and both nearing the age of fifty, look back on what has happened to them over the years...

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  • 1974
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    Lost in the Stars

    Lost in the Stars

    6.4 1974 HD

    A black South African minister searches the unfamiliar back alleys and shantytowns of Johannesburg for his son.

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  • 1937
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    Circus Girl

    Circus Girl

    4 1937 HD

    A jealous trapeze star decides he must eliminate his romantic rival.

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  • 1941
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    Pot o' Gold

    Pot o' Gold

    5.5 1941 HD

    Jimmy, the owner of a failed music shop, goes to work with his uncle, the owner of a food factory. Before he gets there, he befriends an Irish family...

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  • 1947
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    The Voice of the Turtle

    The Voice of the Turtle

    6.6 1947 HD

    An aspiring Broadway actress falls in love with a soldier on leave during a weekend in New York City.

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  • 1939
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    Balalaika

    Balalaika

    4.2 1939 HD

    A Russian prince disguised as a worker and a cafe singer secretly involved in revolutionary activities fall in love.

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  • 1947
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    Big Town After Dark

    Big Town After Dark

    5.5 1947 HD

    A crusading newspaper reporter battles big-city gambling interests.

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  • 1948
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    Behind Locked Doors

    Behind Locked Doors

    6.2 1948 HD

    Behind the locked doors of a mental institution resides crooked politico Judge Drake, free from prosecution so long as he pretends to be crazy. To...

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  • 1948
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    My Dear Secretary

    My Dear Secretary

    5.9 1948 HD

    A budding young writer thinks it's her lucky day when she is chosen to be the new secretary for Owen Waterbury, famous novelist. She is soon...

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  • 1950
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    Rio Grande Patrol

    Rio Grande Patrol

    5 1950 HD

    Fowler is smuggling guns across the border and his buyer is the outlaw Bragg. The guns are hidden in the luggage of the girls that come to work in...

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  • 1940
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    The Green Hornet Strikes Again!

    The Green Hornet Strikes Again!

    6.2 1940 HD

    Second serial featuring The Green Hornet and Kato.

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  • 1981
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    Fear No Evil

    Fear No Evil

    4.6 1981 HD

    Brilliant and aloof teenager Andrew is always the butt of his classmates' jokes — but little do they know that he is actually the demon...

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  • 1949
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    Massacre River

    Massacre River

    6.2 1949 HD

    Two Cavalry Officers clash over the Colonel's Daughter at a remote outpost with Indian troubles.

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  • 1948
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    The Three Musketeers

    The Three Musketeers

    6.8 1948 HD

    Athletic adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' classic adventure about the king's musketeers and their mission to protect France.

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  • 1941
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    Our Wife

    Our Wife

    5.7 1941 HD

    A musician's ex-wife wants him back after he finds love and success.

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  • 1942
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    House of Errors

    House of Errors

    1 1942 HD

    Former silent screen comic Harry Langdon earned above-title billing for the final time in his long career in this roughhewn but amusing World War II...

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  • 1962
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    Air Patrol

    Air Patrol

    3 1962 HD

    L.A. detective Sgt. Castle and his two partners investigate the theft of a valuable Fragonard painting by a thief who pilots a helicopter.

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  • 1950
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    Rock Island Trail

    Rock Island Trail

    6 1950 HD

    A greedy businessman tries to block the building of a new railroad in his area.

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  • 1942
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    Lucky Legs

    Lucky Legs

    1 1942 HD

    Chorus girl Gloria Carroll inherits one million dollars from Broadway playboy Herbert Dinwiddle. Producer Ned McLane persuades her to advance him the...

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  • 1942
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    Call of the Canyon

    Call of the Canyon

    7 1942 HD

    A radio saleswoman helps a singing cattleman trap a shady meat buyer with a bogus broadcast.

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  • 1948
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    Sons of Adventure

    Sons of Adventure

    1 1948 HD

    This western mystery offers a behind-the-scenes look at movie making. The trouble begins when a cowboy star is mysteriously killed on the set. A...

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  • 1949
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    Law of the Golden West

    Law of the Golden West

    6 1949 HD

    Young Buffalo Bill Cody goes after the murderer of his father and uncovers a land-grab conspiracy.

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  • 1942
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    Don Winslow of the Navy

    Don Winslow of the Navy

    1 1942 HD

    A movie serial in 12 Chapters: US naval officer Don Winslow is given command of Tangita Island, near Pearl Harbor, where a ring of saboteurs is...

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  • 1941
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    Sky Raiders

    Sky Raiders

    6.3 1941 HD

    Captain Bob Dayton and Lieutenant Ed Carey are partners in a company called "Sky Raiders" which seeks US government contracts for its inventions. ...

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  • 1958
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    Lust to Kill

    Lust to Kill

    6 1958 HD

    A cowboy escapes from jail with the help of his girlfriend, and goes after the men he believes are responsible for his brother being shot down by...

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  • 1975
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    The Strongest Man in the World

    The Strongest Man in the World

    6.1 1975 HD

    Medfield College science major Dexter Riley and his classmates have been working on a new vitamin compound when a lab accident creates a supercharged...

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  • 1965
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    The Naked Brigade

    The Naked Brigade

    1 1965 HD

    A British girl is trapped on the island of Crete when the Germans invade it.

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  • 1964
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    Open the Door and See all the People

    Open the Door and See all the People

    5 1964 HD

    Based on Jerome Hill's unpublished novel, Peacock Feathers, this ensemble piece focuses on the relationship between two aging sisters.

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  • 1949
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    State Department: File 649

    State Department: File 649

    5 1949 HD

    Kenneth Seeley, member of the U. S. State Department's Foreign Service Bureau, and Marge Weldon, a morale worker with the bureau, are assigned to an...

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  • 1960
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    Peter Pan

    Peter Pan

    6.658 1960 HD

    In this magical tale about the boy who refuses to grow up, Peter Pan and his mischievous fairy sidekick Tinkerbell visit the nursery of Wendy,...

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  • 1948
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    Romance on the High Seas

    Romance on the High Seas

    6.8 1948 HD

    Georgia Garrett is sent by jealous wife Elvira Kent on an ocean cruise to masquerade as herself while she secretly stays home to catch her husband...

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  • 1941
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    Dangerous Lady

    Dangerous Lady

    4.5 1941 HD

    Private detective 'Duke' Martindale and his wife, Phyllis, an attorney, are working together to clear a girl falsely convicted of murdering a judge....

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  • 1942
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    She's in the Army

    She's in the Army

    1 1942 HD

    A socialite joins the Womens Ambulance Corps as both a publicity stunt and to win a bet with a newspaper columnist, who wagered $5000 that she...

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  • 1963
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    Police Nurse

    Police Nurse

    1 1963 HD

    While investigating his wife's sudden death, a policeman becomes involved with shady doctors and black-market racketeers.

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  • 1967
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    How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying

    How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying

    6.8 1967 HD

    A young but bright former window cleaner rises to the top of his company by following the advice of a book about ruthless advancement in business.

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  • 1959
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    The Twilight Zone

    The Twilight Zone

    8.447 1959 HD

    A series of unrelated stories containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a...

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  • 1970
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    The Mary Tyler Moore Show

    The Mary Tyler Moore Show

    7.5 1970 HD

    30-year-old single Mary Richards moves to Minneapolis to start a new life after a romantic break-up. There she reacquaints with Phyllis who rents her...

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  • 1957
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    Wagon Train

    Wagon Train

    6.4 1957 HD

    The series initially starred veteran movie supporting actor Ward Bond as the wagon master, later replaced upon his death by John McIntire, and Robert...

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  • 1957
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    Perry Mason

    Perry Mason

    7.6 1957 HD

    The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.

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  • 1973
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    Adam's Rib

    Adam's Rib

    5 1973 HD

    Adam's Rib is an American situation comedy broadcast on ABC-TV from September 14 to December 28, 1973. It was produced by MGM Television and had 13...

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  • 1965
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    Honey West

    Honey West

    7 1965 HD

    After her father's death, Honey West takes over his high-tech private-detective firm, assisted by rugged Sam Bolt--and her pet ocelot Bruce.

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  • 1955
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    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    7.728 1955 HD

    A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.

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  • 1978
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    Battlestar Galactica

    Battlestar Galactica

    7.1 1978 HD

    When the 12 Colonies of Man are wiped out by a cybernetic race called the Cylons, Commander Adama and the crew of the battlestar Galactica lead a...

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