The Big Operator (a.k.a. Anatomy of the Syndicate) is a black and white 1959 American crime/drama film starring Mickey Rooney as a corrupt union boss,...
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The Big Operator may refer to: The Big Operator (1976 film), a 1976 French comedy film The Big Operator (1959 film), a 1959 crime/drama film This disambiguation...
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The year 1959 in film involved some significant events, with Ben-Hur winning a record 11 Academy Awards. The top ten 1959 released films by box office...
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Maila Nurmi (category American film actresses)
despite not playing the character, in the 1959 films The Beat Generation, where she plays a beatnik poet, and crime film The Big Operator. She was portrayed...
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Bing Russell (category American male film actors)
in the film Cavalry Patrol, and had some uncredited roles in his early career. Best known as Deputy Clem Foster on Bonanza (1959) and Robert in The Magnificent...
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The following is a list of films originally produced and/or distributed theatrically by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and released in the 1950s. Owned by StudioCanal...
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Rosanna Arquette (category 1959 births)
10, 1959) is an American actress. She was nominated for an Emmy Award for her performance in the TV film The Executioner's Song (1982) and won the BAFTA...
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Collection. The film was originally released in the Soviet Union on November 1, 1957. The film was re-released with an English soundtrack in 1959, 1993, and...
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bought Big Boy in 1967. One of the larger franchise operators, Elias Brothers, purchased the chain from Marriott in 1987, moved the headquarters of the company...
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Rodrigo García (director) (category 1959 births)
August 1959) is a Colombian and Mexican television and film director, screenwriter, author and former cinematographer, best known for his films Nine Lives...
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Claude Akins (category American male film actors)
series about a trucking team, Sheriff Lobo on the 1979–1981 television series, and a variety of other film and television roles. Akins was born in Nelson...
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Yamaguchi Aldrich later said he first wrote the story in 1959 with Robert Sherman. That year, when he was making films in Europe, he said he was going to scout...
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The American films of 1959 are listed in a table of the films which were made in the United States and released in 1959. The film Ben-Hur won the Academy...
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" The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote that the film was "virtually a one-woman revue, a series of turns—Mame as hostess, shopgirl, telephone operator, counterfeit...
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Günter Meisner (category German male film actors)
and French-language films. Born in Bremen, Meisner briefly worked at a steel foundry before training as a radio operator with the Luftwaffe's Fallschirmjäger...
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Justine Miceli (category 1959 births)
Justine Miceli (born April 30, 1959) is a retired American actress, known for her role as Det. Adrienne Lesniak in the ABC police drama series, NYPD Blue...
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Lake Jindabyne). Filming began in 1959. Zinnemann spent 12 weeks filming scenery and sheep droving before the cast arrived in October. The weather made location...
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Piccadilly Incident (category Template film date with 1 release date)
British Sound Films: The Studio Years 1928–1959 David Quinlan rated the film as "average", writing: "A big box-office hit, it established the stars as one...
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William Boyett (category American male film actors)
well-known short public safety film entitled Last Clear Chance (1959) as Patrolman Hal Jackson. Interest in the film was renewed by its appearance in...
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Adam Williams (actor) (category American male film actors)
notable film roles include the psychiatrist in Fear Strikes Out (1957) and Valerian in Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest (1959). During the 1950s and...
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Connie Gilchrist (category American film actresses)
(uncredited) (final film role) Leave It to Beaver (1957) as Minerva, a maid, in the episode "Captain Jack" The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (1959) as Pinkie Thomason...
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Kentley The film is one of Hitchcock's most experimental and "one of the most interesting experiments ever attempted by a major director working with big box-office...
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On February 3, 1959, American rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and "The Big Bopper" J. P. Richardson were all killed in a plane crash...
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and other operators. She also invented the term rumpology, which, according to her, is an art similar to that of palm reading except that the procedure...
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the same name by William Faulkner (the previous adaptation, directed by Martin Ritt, was released in 1959). The film stars Franco, Tim Blake Nelson, Scott...
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business. In the late 1940s, Wian licensed two operators in the East to sell his Big Boy hamburger, Frisch's Big Boy in Cincinnati and Eat'n Park Big Boy in...
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Charlie Murphy (actor) (category 1959 births)
Murphy (July 12, 1959 – April 12, 2017) was an American stand-up comedian and actor. He was best known as a writer and cast member of the Comedy Central...
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Ray Danton (category American male film actors)
Strip. He returned to MGM to star in two films for Albert Zugsmith: The Beat Generation and The Big Operator. Warners gave him supporting roles in Yellowstone...
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Steve Cochran (category American male film actors)
Mobster (1959), a Roger Corman gangster film. Albert Zugsmith used him for the lead roles in The Beat Generation (1959) and The Big Operator (1959). In late...
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The Untouchables is an American crime drama produced by Desilu Productions that ran from 1959 to 1963 on the ABC television network. Based on the memoir...
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