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Bert Freed is a Actor American born on 3 november 1919 at the Bronx (USA)

Bert Freed

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Nationality USA
Birth 3 november 1919 at the Bronx (USA)
Death 2 august 1994 (at 74 years) at Sechelt (Canada)

Bert Freed (November 3, 1919 – August 2, 1994) was a prolific American character actor, voice over actor, and the first actor to portray "Detective Columbo" on television.

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Filmography of Bert Freed (44 films)

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Norma Rae
Norma Rae (1979)
, 1h50
Directed by Martin Ritt
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Feminist films, Films about the labor movement, Political films, Children's films
Actors Sally Field, Beau Bridges, Ron Leibman, Pat Hingle, Morgan Paull, Barbara Baxley
Roles Sam Dakin
Rating72% 3.6479053.6479053.6479053.6479053.647905
Norma Rae Webster is a minimum-wage worker in a cotton mill that has taken too much of a toll on the health of her family for her to ignore their poor working conditions. After hearing a speech by a New York union organizer, Reuben Warshowsky, Norma Rae decides to join the effort to unionize her shop. This causes conflict at home when Norma Rae's husband, Sonny, says she's not spending enough time in the home.
Barracuda
Barracuda (1978)

Directed by Wayne Crawford
Genres Thriller, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Films about sharks, Natural horror films
Actors Wayne Crawford, Jason Evers, Cliff Emmich, Bert Freed, Matt King
Roles Jack
Rating41% 2.063952.063952.063952.063952.06395
Dans un petit port de Floride, des barracudas agressifs se mettent brusquement à attaquer des plongeurs. Cette catastrophe laisse les habitants et les touristes dans une incompréhension totale jusqu'au jour où un biologiste, Mike Carfield fait une troublante découverte. L'usine chimique Jack Chemical Co. qui se trouve à proximité des eaux serait-elle à l'origine de cette menace ?
Barracuda
Barracuda (1978)
, 1h30
Directed by Wayne Crawford
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Horror, Romance
Themes Films about animals, Seafaring films, Transport films, Natural horror films, Mise en scène d'un poisson
Actors Jason Evers, Wayne Crawford, Cliff Emmich, Bert Freed
Roles Jack
Rating41% 2.063952.063952.063952.063952.06395
Dans un petit port de Floride, la vie des habitants est tranquille, jusqu'au jour où des barracudas attaquent les plongeurs. Confronté à l'agressivité des habitants, le biologiste Mike Canfield découvre d'une usine chimique déverse dans l'océan une substance qui développe considérablement l'appétit de quiconque l'ingère. Mais ce secret-là est jalousement gardé par quelques hauts fonctionnaires commanditaires d'un programme de recherches classé confidentiel et ne doit donc pas être rendu public. En suite, l'enquête se perd, abandonnant les recherches et le film plonge dans une magnifique histoire d'amour qui commencera à énerver un certain Akira Kimonodedjudo...
Billy Jack
Billy Jack (1971)
, 1h54
Directed by Tom Laughlin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films
Actors Tom Laughlin, Delores Taylor, Victor Izay, Kenneth Tobey, Bert Freed, Howard Hesseman
Roles Mr. Stuart Posner
Rating61% 3.0993.0993.0993.0993.099
Billy Jack is a "half-breed" American Navajo Indian, a Green Beret Vietnam War veteran, and a hapkido master. The character made his début in The Born Losers (1967), a "biker film" about a motorcycle gang terrorizing a California town. Billy Jack rises to the occasion to defeat the gang when defending a college student with evidence against them for gang rape.
Evel Knievel, 1h28
Directed by Marvin J. Chomsky
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Biography, Action
Actors George Hamilton, Sue Lyon, Bert Freed, Rod Cameron, Dub Taylor, Ron Masak
Roles Doc Kincaid
Rating52% 2.6051352.6051352.6051352.6051352.605135
Biographie du célèbre casse-cou de moto, dont une grande partie a été filmé dans sa ville natale de Butte, Montana. Le film dépeint Knievel réflexion sur les grands événements dans sa vie juste avant un grand saut.
There Was a Crooked Man..., 2h6
Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Action, Western
Themes Prison films, Évasion
Actors Kirk Douglas, Henry Fonda, Burgess Meredith, Arthur O'Connell, Hume Cronyn, Warren Oates
Roles Skinner
Rating68% 3.4472053.4472053.4472053.4472053.447205
Paris Pitman has pulled off a $500,000 robbery and is the only one who knows where the money is hidden. He is seen in a bordello and is captured, tried, convicted and sentenced to an Arizona penitentiary.
Hang 'em High, 1h54
Directed by Ted Post
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Western
Themes Prison films, Films about capital punishment
Actors Clint Eastwood, Inger Stevens, Ed Begley, Pat Hingle, Charles McGraw, Ben Johnson
Roles Schmidt
Rating69% 3.4983653.4983653.4983653.4983653.498365
The story is set in Oklahoma Territory in 1889. It opens with Jed Cooper driving a small herd of cattle across a stream. When the men in a posse ( Capt. Wilson (Ed Begley), Reno (Joseph Sirola), Miller (Bruce Dern), Jenkins (Bob Steele), Matt Stone (Alan Hale, Jr.), Charlie Blackfoot (Ned Romero), Maddow (Russell Thorson), Tommy (Jonathan Lippe) and Loomis (L. Q. Jones)) surround him and accuse him of rustling the herd, he shows them a receipt for the cattle, but the man he bought them from was a rustler who killed the herd's owners. Cooper explains that he knew nothing about the murder, but only Jenkins expresses doubts about his guilt. After Reno takes Cooper's saddle and Miller takes his wallet, the men hang him from a tree and ride away, leaving him for dead.
P.J.
P.J. (1968)
, 1h49
Directed by John Guillermin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Actors George Peppard, Raymond Burr, Gayle Hunnicutt, Brock Peters, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Jason Evers
Roles Police Lieutenant
Rating63% 3.1871853.1871853.1871853.1871853.187185
New York City private eye P.J. (Peter Joseph) Detweiler needs the work, so he accepts an offer to be a bodyguard to protect Maureen Preble, the mistress of shady millionaire William Orbison.
Wild in the Streets, 1h34
Directed by Barry Shear
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical, Politic
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about music and musicians, Politique, Films about drugs, Musical films, Political films, Dystopian films
Actors Christopher Jones, Shelley Winters, Richard Pryor, Diane Varsi, Hal Holbrook, Millie Perkins
Roles Max Jacob Flatow Sr.
Rating59% 2.950692.950692.950692.950692.95069
Christopher Jones stars as rock singer and aspiring revolutionary Max Frost (born Max Jacob Flatow Jr.; his first public act of violence was blowing up his family's new car). Frost's band, The Troopers, live together with him, their women, and others in a sprawling Los Angeles mansion. The band includes his 15-year-old genius attorney Billy Cage (Kevin Coughlin) on lead guitar, ex-child actor and girlfriend Sally LeRoy (Diane Varsi) on keyboards, hook-handed Abraham Salteen (Larry Bishop) on bass guitar and trumpet, and anthropologist Stanley X (Richard Pryor) on drums.
Madigan
Madigan (1968)
, 1h41
Directed by Don Siegel
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda, Harry Guardino, Inger Stevens, James Whitmore, Susan Clark
Roles Chief of Detectives Hap Lynch
Rating64% 3.2460353.2460353.2460353.2460353.246035
In New York City's Spanish Harlem, police detectives Dan Madigan and Rocco Bonaro break into a sleazy apartment and arrest Barney Benesch, a hoodlum wanted for questioning by a Brooklyn precinct. Momentarily distracted by the suspect's nude girl friend, the two detectives are outwitted by Benesch, who escapes with their guns.
Nevada Smith, 2h8
Directed by Henry Hathaway
Origin USA
Genres Action, Western
Themes Films about animals, Assassinat, Films about snakes, Reptile
Actors Steve McQueen, Karl Malden, Brian Keith, John Arthur Kennedy, Suzanne Pleshette, Raf Vallone
Roles Quince
Rating68% 3.448323.448323.448323.448323.44832
In the West of the 1890s, a trio of outlaws, Bill Bowdre (Arthur Kennedy), Jesse Coe (Martin Landau) and Tom Fitch (Karl Malden), robs, tortures and brutally kills the white father and Indian mother of young Max Sand (Steve McQueen). Max sets out to avenge their deaths. Fitch keeps a tobacco pouch made from the breast of Max's mother, that contains a piece of beaded deerskin from her shirt. Max uses this clue to help him find the men.
The Swinger, 1h21
Directed by George Sidney
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Ann-Margret, Anthony Franciosa, Robert Coote, Yvonne Romain, Nydia Westman, Horace McMahon
Roles Police Captain
Rating53% 2.660382.660382.660382.660382.66038
Kelly Olsson is an aspiring writer, but Girl-Lure magazine keeps rejecting her racy submissions. Kelly decides to show the magazine boys what they're missing. She creates a fake identity for herself, pretending that a story about a young woman's wild ways is actually about herself.
Fate Is the Hunter, 1h46
Directed by Ralph Nelson
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Disaster films, American disaster films, Films about aviation accidents or incidents
Actors Glenn Ford, Nancy Kwan, Rod Taylor, Suzanne Pleshette, Jane Russell, Constance Towers
Roles Dillon
Rating67% 3.3938553.3938553.3938553.3938553.393855
Pilot Jack Savage (Rod Taylor) is suspected of drinking and causing an airliner crash that kills 53 people and leaves only a single survivor, Martha Webster (Susanne Pleshette), a flight attendant. The captain's wartime buddy, airline executive Sam C. McBane (Glenn Ford), is convinced of his friend's innocence and investigates doggedly. Flashbacks deal with both Jack's past and Sam meeting him, plus others they used to know.
Shock Treatment, 1h34
Directed by Denis Sanders
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Musical
Themes Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Films about psychiatry, Films set in psychiatric hospitals
Actors Stuart Whitman, Carol Lynley, Ossie Davis, Roddy McDowall, Lauren Bacall, Timothy Carey
Roles Frank Josephson
Rating65% 3.2942753.2942753.2942753.2942753.294275
A crazed gardener (Roddy McDowall) is sent to a mental hospital after he goes berserk and beheads his wealthy boss.
Invitation to a Gunfighter, 1h32
Directed by Richard Wilson
Origin USA
Genres Action, Romance, Western
Actors Yul Brynner, Janice Rule, George Segal, Brad Dexter, Alfred Ryder, Pat Hingle
Roles Sheriff
Rating62% 3.144833.144833.144833.144833.14483
Confederate veteran Matt Weaver (George Segal) returns home to New Mexico after the Civil War and discovers his farm was sold by a banker named Brewster (Pat Hingle). His fiancee Ruth (Janice Rule) has married another man in his absence.