Biography: Simon Oakland |
A former violinist, character actor Simon Oakland made his Broadway debut in 1948's The Skipper Next to God. Oakland's later stage credits include Light Up the Sky, The Shrike and Inherit the Wind. In films from 1957, Oakland was often cast as an... more
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Cast: Carol Lynley Claude Akins
Tags: Thriller Horror Comedy Horror Comedy Detective Film
Length: 74min
Seedy newspaper reporter Carl Kolchak (Darren McGavin) is assigned the Las Vegas police beat by his boss Tony Vincenzo (Simon Oakland). A series of murders has been plaguing the Glitter Capital; the victims, all beautiful showgirls, have had the blood...
Cast: Charles Bronson Jack Palance
Tags: Revisionist Western Action Crime Western
Length: 100min
Charles Bronson stars in this revisionist western directed by Michael Winner. The film concerns an Apache half-breed, Pardon Chato (Charles Bronson), who finds himself pursued by a relentless posse, headed by Joshua Everette (Jack Palance), after...
Cast: Candice Bergen Gene Hackman Don Medford
Tags: Western Psychological Western
Length: 108min
This infamously violent British Western stars Gene Hackman as Brandt Ruger, a wealthy rancher who goes away on a hunting trip with a group of friends. While he's gone, a thug named Frank Calder (Oliver Reed) kidnaps Melissa (Candice Bergen), Brandt's...
Cast: Jerry Goldsmith Robert Wagner
Tags: Mystery Police Detective Film
Length: 96min
Also known as Cross Current, The Cable Car Murder emulates the 1971 theatrical feature Tick, Tick, Tick by teaming a black homicide lieutenant (Robert Hooks) with a white partner (Jeremy Slate). Simon Oakland costars as the team's apoplectic superior...
On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (1970)
Cast: Barbra Streisand Vincente Minnelli Yves Montand Bob Newhart Jack Nicholson Alan Jay Lerner
Tags: Musical Musical Comedy Romantic Comedy
Length: 129min
Vincente Minnelli directed, and Alan Jay Lerner adapted the stage musical he had written with Burton Lane, for this this feature film version. Barbra Streisand stars as Daisy Gamble, a chain smoker who, at the urging of her uptight fiance Warren...
Cast: Ann Sothern
Tags: Drama Romance Coming-of-Age
Length: 100min
Chubasco (Christopher Jones) is a wayward youth who is given a choice by the presiding judge. His choices are go to jail or take an honest job on a fishing boat. He chooses to set sail, leaving behind his girl Bunny (Susan Strasberg) and her father...
Cast: Frank Sinatra Gena Rowlands
Tags: Thriller Detective Film Mystery
Length: 110min
Frank Sinatra brings a sneering Rat Pack ethos to his first hard-boiled detective role in Tony Rome. Tony is an ex-cop who lives on a houseboat off Miami, accepting fees for private-eye work. His former partner, Ralph Turpin (Robert J. Wilke), asks...
Cast: Buzz Kulik
Length: 57min
Murray Brock (Simon Oakland) is a crusading New York district attorney out to prove that young Eddie Dickenson (Richard Jordan) is innocent of murder in this uneven crime drama. With the help of legal assistant Dave Ryan (Karl Held), he tries to keep...
Cast: Dorothy Provine
Tags: Drama Sports Drama
Length: 112min
This film about characters who hang around a horseracing focuses on the darker side rather than the limelight of the winner's circle. Joey (Ty Hardin) is an ambitious horse trainer who is sleeping with the boss' wife Laura (Susan Pleshette). When...
Tags: Drama
Length: 82min
In this drama, a young mother refuses to marry her son's father because he is too violent. The young father has a secret brother, a mute, whom his ashamed parents have locked away in an insane asylum. One day a cruel guard turns a hose upon him and,...
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