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Writing
Sam Rolfe
Born February 18, 1924
Died July 10, 1993 · aged 69
No biography available.
Known For
The Naked Spur · 1953The Naked Spur
★ 7.01953
MovieWestern
A bounty hunter trying to bring a murderer to justice is forced to accept the help of two less-than-trustworthy strangers.
Manhunter · 1974Manhunter
★ 6.71974
MovieCrimeDrama
Pilot movie for the short-lived TV series set in the 1930's about a World War I ex-marine-turned-bounty-hunter, named Dave Barrett, who goes after two Bonnie-and-Clyde style bank robbers who murdered his former girlfriend.
Hardcase · 1972Hardcase
★ 6.31972
MovieWesternTV Movie
A man thought-dead comes home to find that his wife has sold their ranch and married a Mexican revolutionary.
The Delphi Bureau: The Merchant of Death Assignment · 1972The Delphi Bureau: The Merchant of Death Assignment
★ 9.01972
MovieActionThriller
The Delphi Bureau is a top-secret spy cadre answerable only to the U.S. president. The organization may have just one field operative, a supposed researcher named Glenn Garth Gregory. He gets his orders from an in-the-know Washington, D.C. socialite, and he relies on a resource that makes him a one-of-a-kind asset: his photographic memory. This adventure-packed, tongue-in-cheek pilot sets the pace and style for the 1972-73 series it launched. In it, Gregory sets out to find who's behind the disappearance of jets, tanks and other surplus weaponry. He'll be variously hunted by an assassin, tossed in jail for murder, half-buried inside a grain elevator and forced to cling to the undercarriage of a tractor while the driver tries to shred him under its tilling blades. One breathless escape after another invariably seems to land our hero in another jam.
The Mask of Sheba · 1970The Mask of Sheba
1970
MovieAdventureTV Movie
Intrigue, romance, and the customary angry natives are the major elements in this tale of a hunt for a priceless gold mask in the jungles of Ethiopia.
Pillars of the Sky · 1956Pillars of the Sky
★ 5.41956
MovieWestern
First Sergeant Emmett Bell faces off with Apache chieftain Kamiakin in this nuanced portrayal of racial tensions between Native Americans and white settlers in 1860s Oregon Country.
The Spy in the Green Hat · 1967The Spy in the Green Hat
★ 6.61967
MovieActionAdventure
"Spy in the Green Hat, The (1966)" on the other hand, is both exciting AND funny. Especially the scene where Napoleon Solo (Robert Vaughn) hides from THRUSH agents under a young woman's (the incredibly cute Letícia Román) bed and is caught by the woman's grandmother (Penny Santon), who is forcing Solo to marry the young woman. He successfully escapes, but is hunted by a legion of stereotyped Italian gangsters. Now that's comedy.
Bombers B-52 · 1957Bombers B-52
★ 5.81957
MovieDramaRomance
Sgt. Chuch Brennan always disliked playboy and hotshot, Col. Jim Herlihy. Now Chuck has even more reason to, Jim is dating his daughter, Lois.
Movies
The Naked Spur · 1953The Naked Spur
★ 7.01953
MovieWestern
A bounty hunter trying to bring a murderer to justice is forced to accept the help of two less-than-trustworthy strangers.
Manhunter · 1974Manhunter
★ 6.71974
MovieCrimeDrama
Pilot movie for the short-lived TV series set in the 1930's about a World War I ex-marine-turned-bounty-hunter, named Dave Barrett, who goes after two Bonnie-and-Clyde style bank robbers who murdered his former girlfriend.
Hardcase · 1972Hardcase
★ 6.31972
MovieWesternTV Movie
A man thought-dead comes home to find that his wife has sold their ranch and married a Mexican revolutionary.
The Delphi Bureau: The Merchant of Death Assignment · 1972The Delphi Bureau: The Merchant of Death Assignment
★ 9.01972
MovieActionThriller
The Delphi Bureau is a top-secret spy cadre answerable only to the U.S. president. The organization may have just one field operative, a supposed researcher named Glenn Garth Gregory. He gets his orders from an in-the-know Washington, D.C. socialite, and he relies on a resource that makes him a one-of-a-kind asset: his photographic memory. This adventure-packed, tongue-in-cheek pilot sets the pace and style for the 1972-73 series it launched. In it, Gregory sets out to find who's behind the disappearance of jets, tanks and other surplus weaponry. He'll be variously hunted by an assassin, tossed in jail for murder, half-buried inside a grain elevator and forced to cling to the undercarriage of a tractor while the driver tries to shred him under its tilling blades. One breathless escape after another invariably seems to land our hero in another jam.
The Mask of Sheba · 1970The Mask of Sheba
1970
MovieAdventureTV Movie
Intrigue, romance, and the customary angry natives are the major elements in this tale of a hunt for a priceless gold mask in the jungles of Ethiopia.
Pillars of the Sky · 1956Pillars of the Sky
★ 5.41956
MovieWestern
First Sergeant Emmett Bell faces off with Apache chieftain Kamiakin in this nuanced portrayal of racial tensions between Native Americans and white settlers in 1860s Oregon Country.
The Spy in the Green Hat · 1967The Spy in the Green Hat
★ 6.61967
MovieActionAdventure
"Spy in the Green Hat, The (1966)" on the other hand, is both exciting AND funny. Especially the scene where Napoleon Solo (Robert Vaughn) hides from THRUSH agents under a young woman's (the incredibly cute Letícia Román) bed and is caught by the woman's grandmother (Penny Santon), who is forcing Solo to marry the young woman. He successfully escapes, but is hunted by a legion of stereotyped Italian gangsters. Now that's comedy.
Bombers B-52 · 1957Bombers B-52
★ 5.81957
MovieDramaRomance
Sgt. Chuch Brennan always disliked playboy and hotshot, Col. Jim Herlihy. Now Chuck has even more reason to, Jim is dating his daughter, Lois.
The Spy with My Face · 1965The Spy with My Face
★ 5.61965
MovieAdventure
Napoleon Solo is captured by Thrush and replaced with a double.
The McConnell Story · 1955The McConnell Story
★ 6.81955
MovieDramaWar
Joe McConnell was sure that he was meant to be a pilot, but was stuck as a restless army private. It seemed that his ambition was blocked at every step.
Target Zero · 1955Target Zero
★ 6.11955
MovieWar
International soldiers fight to ignore their differences while holding a hill during the Korean War.
To Trap a Spy · 1965To Trap a Spy
★ 5.91965
MovieAdventure
The men from U.N.C.L.E. must stop the assassination of an African head of state with the help of a simple housewife.
The Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E.: The Fifteen Years Later Affair · 1983The Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E.: The Fifteen Years Later Affair
★ 5.81983
MovieActionCrime
When THRUSH steals a nuclear weapon and demands a ransom delivered by Napoleon Solo, UNCLE recalls him and his partner to duty.
They Call It Murder · 1971They Call It Murder
★ 6.31971
MovieMysteryDrama
A small-town district attorney is saddled with several major investigations, including a gambler's murder and a possible insurance scam.
Law of the Land · 1976Law of the Land
★ 3.81976
MovieCrimeWestern
A frontier sheriff and his young deputies search for a serial killer who is murdering prostitutes.
Killjoy · 1981Killjoy
★ 7.91981
MovieMysteryThriller
A romantic rivalry leads to an innocent woman's murder. Or is it a hoax crime, part of a cunning deception? At City General Hospital, two young doctors engage in a move-and-countermove rivalry over Laury Medford. It may be more than Laury's beauty that motivates the men. Her father is the hospital's chairman of the board. Marrying her would be an inside track to the chief of staff post. Meanwhile, a senior hospital staffer, who is the mother of one of the two doctors, plots to enhance her son's chances, a mysterious outsider who says he knew the dead woman tails the two men, and Laury may be more than she appears. Murder? Hoax? The answer isn't revealed till the final freeze-frame.
Matt Helm · 1975Matt Helm
1975
MovieActionCrime
In this pilot film for the later series, a former secret agent, now a private investigator, is hired to protect a beautiful film star and gets involved with black marketeers and gun runners.
Rosetti and Ryan: Men Who Love Women · 1977Rosetti and Ryan: Men Who Love Women
★ 10.01977
MovieCrimeDrama
A couple of resourceful, free-wheeling criminal attorneys with an eye for the ladies confront a no-nonsense judge while trying to clear an heiress in the slaying of her husband, although her explanation of a mysterious intruder provides them with a rather weak case.
Climb an Angry Mountain · 1972Climb an Angry Mountain
★ 10.01972
MovieDrama
Sheriff Elisha Cooper has to work with New York City officer Nelson after his son is taken hostage by a fugitive who is hiding out on California's Mount Shasta.
Relentless · 1977Relentless
★ 7.31977
MovieAdventureCrime
An Arizona state trooper, who is also an Indian, pursues a gang of paramilitary-type robbers into the mountains. The gang has killed the trooper's uncle and taken a woman hostage, and the trooper must use his tracking and hunting skills to find the gang and rescue the hostage.
This Is the West That Was · 1974This Is the West That Was
★ 9.01974
MovieWesternTV Movie
A lighthearted look at the saga of Wild Bill Hickok and his relationship with Calamity Jane as he is targeted for revenge by some tough gunfighters.
Enigma · 1977Enigma
★ 7.01977
MovieTV MovieAction
The exploits of secret agent Andrew Icarus who works for a world wide crime-fighting organization.
TV Shows
Star Trek: The Next Generation · 1987Star Trek: The Next Generation
★ 8.41987
SeriesSci-Fi & Fantasy
Follow the intergalactic adventures of Capt. Jean-Luc Picard and his loyal crew aboard the all-new USS Enterprise NCC-1701D, as they explore new worlds.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine · 1993Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
★ 7.91993
SeriesSci-Fi & Fantasy
At Deep Space Nine, a space station located next to a wormhole in the vicinity of the liberated planet of Bajor, Commander Sisko and crew welcome alien visitors, root out evildoers and solve all types of unexpected problems that come their way.
Quantum Leap · 1989Quantum Leap
★ 8.01989
SeriesSci-Fi & Fantasy
Theorizing that one could time travel within his own lifetime, Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator and vanished... He woke to find himself trapped in the past, facing mirror images that were not his own and driven by an unknown force to change history for the better. His only guide on this journey is Al, an observer from his own time, who appears in the form of a hologram that only Sam can see and hear. And so Dr. Beckett finds himself leaping from life to life, striving to put right what once went wrong and hoping each time that his next leap will be the leap home.
The Twilight Zone · 1959The Twilight Zone
★ 8.51959
SeriesSci-Fi & FantasyMystery
An anthology series containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist.
Have Gun, Will Travel · 1957Have Gun, Will Travel
★ 7.31957
SeriesWestern
Have Gun – Will Travel is an American Western television series that aired on CBS from 1957 through 1963. It was rated number three or number four in the Nielsen ratings every year of its first four seasons. It was one of the few television shows to spawn a successful radio version. The radio series debuted November 23, 1958.
The television show is presently shown on the Encore-Western channel.
Have Gun – Will Travel was created by Sam Rolfe and Herb Meadow and produced by Frank Pierson, Don Ingalls, Robert Sparks, and Julian Claman. There were 225 episodes of the TV series, 24 written by Gene Roddenberry. Other contributors included Bruce Geller, Harry Julian Fink, Don Brinkley and Irving Wallace. Andrew McLaglen directed 101 episodes and 19 were directed by series star Richard Boone.
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. · 1964The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
★ 7.11964
SeriesComedy
Agents Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin work for a secret intelligence service working under the auspices of the U.N.
Their immediate superior is Mr. Waverly.
Together they operate out of a secret base beneath the streets of New York City, and accesses through several cover business such as Del Floria's Tailor Shop and the Masque Club.
This secret intelligence service is called U.N.C.L.E.
United Network Command for Law and Enforcement.
Matt Helm · 1975Matt Helm
★ 7.81975
SeriesDrama
Matt Helm is an American mystery television series which aired on the ABC Network during the 1975-1976 season. The title character was played by Anthony Franciosa.
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. · 1966The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
★ 6.91966
Series
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. is an American spy-fi TV series that aired on NBC for one season from September 16, 1966 to April 11, 1967. The series was a spin-off from The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and used the same theme music composed by Jerry Goldsmith, which was rearranged into a slightly different, harder-edged arrangement by Dave Grusin.
The Eleventh Hour · 1962The Eleventh Hour
★ 6.71962
SeriesDrama
The Eleventh Hour is an American medical drama about psychiatry starring Wendell Corey, Jack Ging, and Ralph Bellamy, which aired sixty-two new episodes plus selected rebroadcasts on NBC from October 3, 1962, to September 9, 1964.
Delvecchio · 1976Delvecchio
★ 7.01976
SeriesCrimeDrama
Dominick Delvecchio is an Italian-American detective who worked for the LAPD and also studied to become a lawyer.
Delphi Bureau · 1972Delphi Bureau
★ 8.01972
SeriesDrama
The Delphi Bureau is an American dramatic television series aired in the United States by ABC as one of three elements of The Men, a wheel series shown as part of its 1972-73 schedule.
The Delphi Bureau starred Laurence Luckinbill as Glenn Garth Gregory, a man with a photographic memory, whose obscure United States Government "agency" ostensibly did obscure research for the President of the United States. Its actual role was counter-espionage and its main operative was Gregory, whose liaison with the group's unnamed superiors was Sybil Van Lowreen, a Washington D.C. society hostess.
A framing design for each episode involved a limerick, a single new line of which was added for each segment of the show, until the entire limerick was completed in the final segment.
Big Shamus, Little Shamus · 1979Big Shamus, Little Shamus
★ 7.01979
SeriesDrama
Big Shamus, Little Shamus is an American detective drama series that aired on CBS from September 29, 1979 to October 6, 1979. The Series focused on Arnie Sutter, the veteran house detective at The Ansonia Hotel in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and his thirteen-year-old son Max, who solved crimes at the hotel casino relating to legalized gambling.
Dundee and the Culhane · 1967Dundee and the Culhane
★ 5.31967
SeriesWesternDrama
Dundee and the Culhane is an American Western television series starring John Mills and Sean Garrison that aired on the CBS television network from September 7 to December 13, 1967.