John Forsythe
Date of Birth: 29 Jan 1918
Country: USA
Total Credits at Criticker: 43 (Actor)
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A trio of elite private investigators (Diaz, Barrymore, Liu) armed with the latest in high-tech tools track down a kidnapped computer ace and keep his top-secret voice-identification software out of lethal hands. (Columbia Pictures)
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In the Angels' new adventure, the captivating trio once again demonstrates their expertise as masters of espionage, martial arts, and disguise. (Sony)
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Originally released in 1967, In Cold Blood is the powerful, true story of a callous murder, based upon the best-selling novel by Truman Capote. (Sony)
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A cynically selfish TV executive gets haunted by three spirits bearing lessons on Christmas Eve.
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A French Man and his family involved in the cold war between Russians and Americans. (imdb)
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The trouble with Harry is that he's dead, and everyone seems to have a different idea of what needs to be done with his body... (imdb)
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An ethical Baltimore defense lawyer disgusted with rampant legal corruption is asked to defend a judge he despises in a rape trial. But if he doesn't do it, the judge will have him disbarred. (imdb)
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A ruthless Union captain is renowned throughout his prison fort as the toughest soldier in the business, capable of capturing every escaped convict under his supervision. However, when he falls in love with a visiting woman some of the prisoners seize the advantage and try to escape while he is in a more "mellow" mood. (imdb)
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Jody (Ann-Margret), a juvenile delinquent, escapes from reform school by stabbing a matron and attempting to burn down the building and then takes refuge in a house owned by an ambitious politician David Patton (John Forsythe). Despite the hellcat's ample charms, the would-be officeholder wants nothing to do with her and tries to drive her away... (imdb)
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In order to provide information for the first air raid over Tokyo, a U.S. submarine sneaks into Tokyo Bay and places a spy team ashore. (IMDb)
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Mysterious Two (1982) - TV Movie
Two Aliens visit the Earth in an effort to enlist converts to travel the universe with them. (imdb)
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A fallen woman on trial for murder is defended by the son she abandoned years earlier. (TCM.com)
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One of several early-1950s films to capitalize on the Kefauver Committee's investigation of organized crime, The Captive City stars John Forsythe as crusading editor Jim Austin. While Austin prepares his testimony before the Committee, the film flashes back to the events which led to this courageous act.
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Canadian Mountie Steve Wagner captures a German Luftwaffe officer on a spy mission, who later escapes from the prison camp. To catch the spy ring, the Mounties employ a ruse so that the spies, believing Steve to be sympathetic, enlist him in their plans.
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The ice-cold diva Paula ruthlessly exploits the guys she dates. While blackmailing the married Don with a recent one-night-stand, she has a secret affair with Henry who works as researcher for the weekly authentic TV show "Crime of the Week," which Don writes for. When Henry fails to help her to a role, she insults him deadly and ends up dead herself. Now Don desperately tries to hide his traces, but Henry sabotages his efforts and suggests he write the unsolved murder case for next week's show. (imdb)
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Cruise Into Terror (1978) - TV Movie
An Egyptian sarcophagus that is cargo on a pleasure cruise ship has a secret - it contains the son of Satan, and its effects start to make the ship's passengers behave strangely. (imdb)
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A middle-aged woman walks out on her husband and family in an desperate attempt to find herself. (imdb)
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The Deadly Tower (1975) - TV Movie
The infamous story of Charles Whitman, "America's favourite sniper" (in Stephen King's words), is told here once again. (imdb)
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Joan Fisk, daughter of the American ambassador to France, is bored with entertaining the wives of visiting V.I.P.s and decides to conduct an experiment. She accepts a date with an American G.I. and tries to prove to her father and his friends that not all soldiers are wolves. But by the end of their first date, when wine, music and the young man's charms have swept her off her feet, she realizes that she may have won more than the bet. (imdb)
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Cry Panic (1974) - TV Movie
A man accidentally runs over and kills a pedestrian outside a small town. He begins to suspect that the locals, including the sheriff, are keeping secrets about the victim. (imdb)
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While a CIA agent prepares to assist in the overthrow of an African nation, he discovers that his friend is interfering in the country's politics. (allrovi.com)
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Sizzle (1981) - TV Movie
Set in Prohibition era Chicago, Forsythe plays a cold-hearted gangster who succumbs to the innocent charms and curvaceous body of a small-town girl.
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Amelia Earhart (1976) - TV Movie
Biography follows the life of famed woman pilot Amelia Earhart, including her marriage to a famous publisher and her disappearance during a flight in 1937. (imdb)
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Dynasty: The Reunion (1991) - TV Movie
This movie picks up where the series ended; well not exactly where it ended. Instead of continuing where we were when the series ended, we are now two years later. Blake Carrington has just been released from prison and he is trying to reclaim his empire. And he is also reunited with his beloved Krystle, who until recently was in a coma for sometime. For years he has suspected a foreign consortium of being behind his downfall, and it is true, and these men have brainwashed Krystle to kill him. (imdb)
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Lisa Bright and Dark (1973) - TV Movie
Unhappy at school and at home, Lisa is on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Three of her classmates come to her rescue. They submit Lisa to their own interpretation of a group therapy session, learning a lot about themselves in the process. (cduniverse.com)
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Shadow on the Land (1968) - TV Movie
Underground fighters versus totalitarian federal government in near future USA.
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Dynasty (1981) - TV Series
The saga of a wealthy Denver family in the oil business: Blake Carrington, the patriarch; Krystle, his former secretary and wife; his children: Adam, lost in childhood after a kidnapping; Fallon, pampered and spoiled; Steven, openly gay; and Amanda, hidden from him by his ex-wife, the conniving Alexis. Most of the show features the conflict between 2 large corporations, Blake's Denver Carrington and Alexis' ColbyCo.
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Teahouse of the August Moon (1962) - TV Movie
This comedy-drama is partially a gentle satire on America's drive to change the world in the post-war years. One year after World War II, Captain Fisby is sent to the village of Tobiki in Okinawa to teach the people democracy. The first step is to build a school -- but the wily Okinawans know what they really want. They tell him about their culture and traditions -- and persuade him to build something they really want instead: a teahouse.
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The Letters (1973) - TV Movie
Story of people whose lives were changed because of a year-long delay in the delivery of some letters.
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Terror on the 40th Floor (1974) - TV Movie
A number of businesspeople, keeping the Christmas Eve office party going longer than was originally intended, are beset by a fire that starts in the basement of their office building and creeps up at them from floor to floor. (imdb)
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See How They Run (1964) - TV Movie
Three children are stalked by hired killers after they unknowingly take evidence pointing to the existence of a corrupt international cartel, which has just murdered their father. This was the first made for TV movie. It debuted on NBC on October 7, 1964.
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Tail Gunner Joe (1977) - TV Movie
A dramatization of the life of Joe McCarthy, the alcoholic senator from Wisconsin whose tactics of accusing prominent people of Communist sympathies were initially designed to give him a national power base when he later planned to run for President.
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American Harvest (1951) - Short Film
Shows the interdependence of all workers, jobs, and mechanization in the manufacturing process from raw materials to finished product, focusing on the car industry, and argues that this leads to greater personal independence and freedom.
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Derrick contre Superman (1992) - TV Special
Derrick and his deputy, Harry Klein, back from holidays, discover that french TV channel 5 is dead. They'll have to build a plan to create a new "new 5 channel". They'll be helped by Starsky & Hutch, Matt Houston, Captain Kirk or french inspector Navarro, while Superman, assisted by Number 6 and Roger Moore, will try to thwart their plan. (imdb)
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Murder Once Removed (1971) - TV Movie
A doctor and the wife of one of his wealthy patients hatch a plot to get rid of her husband so they can be together and get his money. (imdb)
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Bachelor Father (1957) - TV Series
The misadventures of a single adoptive father raising a teenage niece with the help of his manservant. (imdb)
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The Powers That Be (1992) - TV Series
The exploits of a clueless American senator and the eccentric, morally corrupt people who are closest to him. (imdb)
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