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Henry Rowland (December 28, 1913 - April 26, 1984) was an American film and television actor.
He appeared six times on the western series Annie Oakley, starring Gail Davis and Brad Johnson. He was also cast in the television series Brave Eagle, Fury, The Lone Ranger, Zorro, The Rifleman, Tales of Wells Fargo (episode "Laredo"), and Gunsmoke.
For his contribution to the television industry, Henry Rowland has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6328 Hollywood Boulevard.
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Birth name Wolfram Von Bock
Nationality USA
Birth 28 december 1913 at Omaha (USA)
Death 26 april 1984 (at 70 years) at Northridge (USA)
Nationality USA
Birth 28 december 1913 at Omaha (USA)
Death 26 april 1984 (at 70 years) at Northridge (USA)
Henry Rowland (December 28, 1913 - April 26, 1984) was an American film and television actor.
Biography
Rowland (born Wolfram Von Bock) had heavily Teutonic facial features, making him an invaluable commodity in wartime films, even though he was born in the American Midwest. Rowland "heiled" and "achtunged" his way through a variety of films, ranging from Casablanca to Russ Meyer's Supervixens. Conversely, he showed up as an American flight surgeon in 1944's Winged Victory, billed under his Army rank as Corporal Henry Rowland. In his last years, Rowland had continued playing such Germanic characters as the Amish farmer in The Frisco Kid (1975).He appeared six times on the western series Annie Oakley, starring Gail Davis and Brad Johnson. He was also cast in the television series Brave Eagle, Fury, The Lone Ranger, Zorro, The Rifleman, Tales of Wells Fargo (episode "Laredo"), and Gunsmoke.
For his contribution to the television industry, Henry Rowland has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6328 Hollywood Boulevard.
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The Frisco Kid (1979)
, 1h54Directed by Robert Aldrich
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure, Western
Themes Films about religion, Films about Jews and Judaism, Buddy films
Actors Gene Wilder, Harrison Ford, Ramon Bieri, Val Bisoglio, George DiCenzo, David Bradley
Roles 1st Farmer (Amish Man)
Rating62%
Rabbi Avram Belinski (Wilder) arrives in Philadelphia from Poland en route to San Francisco where he will be a congregation's new rabbi. He has with him a Torah scroll for the San Francisco synagogue. Belinski, an innocent, trusting, and inexperienced traveler, falls in with three con men, the brothers Matt and Darryl Diggs and their partner Mr. Jones, who trick him into helping pay for a wagon and supplies to go west, then brutally rob him and leave him and most of his belongings scattered along a deserted road in Pennsylvania.
, 1h33Directed by Russ Meyer
Origin USA
Genres Erotic, Comedy
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Sexploitation films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Kitten Natividad, Uschi Digard, Stuart Lancaster, Henry Rowland, Steve Tracy, Russ Meyer
Roles Martin Bormann
Rating53%
The movie starts with introductions to the people of Small Town, USA. Among them are the huge breasted evangelical radio preacher Eufaula Roop (Ann Marie) who mounts Martin Bormann inside a coffin; a salesman who gives oral pleasure to a large breasted housewife (Candy Samples); and the very large African American Junkyard Sal (June Mack) who sleeps with her working class employees. Finally, there is Lamar, who anally rapes his large breasted wife Lavonia (Kitten Natividad) after she tries having vaginal sex. Afterwards, she kicks him in the groin.
Supervixens (1975)
, 1h46Directed by Russ Meyer
Origin USA
Genres Erotic, Comedy
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Sexploitation films
Actors Charles Napier, Shari Eubank, Christy Hartburg, Uschi Digard, Henry Rowland, Haji
Roles Martin Bormann
Rating58%
Gas station attendant Clint Ramsey, who works at Martin Bormann's Super Service in the desert, finds himself too irresistible to a series of girls, all of whom have the word "Super" in their given names. In the beginning, he is married to the hypersexual, demanding, and jealous SuperAngel (Shari Eubank), who constantly harasses him at work. She orders him home at once when she calls Clint and overhears a female customer, SuperLorna (Christy Hartburg), hitting on him at work. Clint finds SuperAngel's constant accusations and arguing a turnoff and, back at home, they fight after he rejects her aggressive advances. A neighbor calls the police as Clint leaves for a local bar, where the bartender is the very scantily clad SuperHaji (Haji).
Diamonds Are Forever (1971)
, 2hDirected by Guy Hamilton
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Spy
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about children, Space adventure films, Spy films, Films about terrorism, Transport films, Satellite
Actors Sean Connery, Jill St John, Charles Gray, Lana Wood, Jimmy Dean, Bernard Lee
Roles Dr. Tynan (uncredited)
Rating64%
James Bond—agent 007—pursues Ernst Stavro Blofeld and eventually finds him at a facility where Blofeld look-alikes are being created through surgery. Bond kills a test subject, and later the "real" Blofeld, by drowning him in a pool of superheated mud.
, 1h50Directed by Russ Meyer, David S. Hall
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Erotic, Thriller, Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about sexuality, Films about television, Bisexuality-related films, Erotic films, Sexploitation films, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, Musical films, Children's films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Cynthia Myers, Erica Gavin, Edy Williams, John LaZar, Michael Blodgett, Charles Napier
Roles Otto
Rating61%
Three young women—Kelly MacNamara (Dolly Read), Casey Anderson (Cynthia Myers), and Petronella "Pet" Danforth (Marcia McBroom)—perform in a rock band, The Kelly Affair, managed by Harris Allsworth (David Gurian), Kelly's boyfriend. The four travel to Los Angeles to find Kelly's estranged aunt, Susan Lake (Phyllis Davis), heiress to a family fortune.
36 Hours (1964)
, 1h55Directed by George Seaton
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Thriller
Themes Spy films, Medical-themed films, Prison films, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities, Political films
Actors James Garner, Rod Taylor, Eva Marie Saint, Werner Peters, John Banner, Russell Thorson
Roles German Soldier
Rating72%
Having attended General Eisenhower's final briefing on the Normandy landings (D-Day), U.S. Army Major Jeff Pike (James Garner) is sent to Lisbon to confirm with an informant that the Nazis still expect the invasion in the wrong place (Pas de Calais). However, Pike falls into a trap; he is drugged into unconsciousness and transported to Germany.
, 1h36Directed by Charles Barton
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Circus films, Children's films
Actors Kevin Corcoran, Henry Calvin, Bob Sweeney, Gene Sheldon, Richard Eastham, James Drury
Roles Circus Cook
Rating67%
Overhearing stern Uncle Daniel describe him as a "millstone", hurt and insulted, Toby Tyler runs away from his foster home to join the circus. There he soon befriends Mr. Stubbs, the frisky chimpanzee. However, the circus isn't all fun and games. Harry Tupper, the evil candy vendor, convinces Toby that his Aunt Olive and Uncle Daniel don't love him or want him back. Devastated, Toby resigns himself to circus life, even scoring himself a much bigger role. When he discovers, with the help of Mr. Stubbs, that Harry lied to him about Aunt Olive and Uncle Daniel, who truly do love him, he departs the circus for home. On the way, Toby finds that Mr. Stubbs has followed him, and decides to take the chimp home with him, for safe keeping. Soon after though, Mr. Stubbs gets chased by a hunter's dog. The hunter, Jim Weaver, accidentally shoots Mr. Stubbs just as Harry arrives to haul Toby back to the circus.
Seven Ways from Sundown (1960)
, 1h36Directed by Harry Keller
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Audie Murphy, Barry Sullivan, John McIntire, Venetia Stevenson, Kenneth Tobey, Mary Field
Rating66%
Seven Jones (Murphy), is a young Texas Ranger on his first assignment, assigned to bring in the outlaw Jim Flood (Sullivan) well known for his flashy lifestyle. Despite his inexperience Seven manages to capture the outlaw, but finds his efforts to bring his prisoner to jail complicated by people who for various reasons are out to kill him, and other people who consider Flood to be a hero and want to rescue him.
The Left Handed Gun (1958)
, 1h42Directed by Arthur Penn
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Action, Western
Themes Gangster films
Actors Paul Newman, John Dehner, Hurd Hatfield, Fiery Lita Milan, James Best, Colin Keith-Johnston
Roles Man on Street with Deputy
Rating63%
Drifter William Bonney (Paul Newman), known as "Billy the Kid", befriends a cattle boss named John Tunstall, who is known as "The Englishman". Tunstall is murdered by corrupt rival cattlemen led by the local sheriff in the Lincoln County War. Bonney plans to avenge the crime by hunting down those responsible and killing them in provoked gunfights. His violent actions endanger his surviving friends and the territorial amnesty proclaimed by New Mexico Territory governor Lew Wallace. Billy's former friend, Pat Garrett, becomes a sheriff and sets out to hunt him down.
My Man Godfrey (1957)
, 1h32Directed by Henry Koster
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors June Allyson, David Niven, Jessie Royce Landis, Robert Keith, Herbert Anderson, Eva Gabor
Roles Ship Manifest Officer (uncredited)
Rating61%
Une héritière un peu loufoque prend pitié d'un homme qu'elle croit être à la rue. Elle insiste pour qu'il vienne avec elle et lui offre l'emploi de majordome, au grand dam de son père, surtout quand il devient clair qu'elle est en train de tomber amoureuse de lui. Mais ce nouveau majordome a un secret : il est en fait un riche aristocrate.
Looking for Danger (1957)
, 1h2Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Huntz Hall, Stanley Clements, David Gorcey, Lili Kardell, Dick Elliott, Richard Avonde
Roles Sgt. Wetzel
Rating54%
Duke recounts the days of when he and the rest of the Bowery Boys served in World War II. During the war, the boys' sergeant, who gets fed up with Duke and Sach, gladly gives them the duties of a suicide mission. The duo go under cover as German soldiers to deliver a message to a sultan.
The Girl in the Kremlin (1957)
, 1h21Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Political films
Actors Lex Barker, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Maurice Manson, Jeffrey Stone, William Schallert, Michael Fox
Roles Policeman (uncredited)
Rating50%
In Moscow, four terrified women prisoners are brought to the office of Joseph Stalin, who chooses Dasha, the smallest and most beautiful, and punishes her by shaving off her long hair. Moments later, plastic surgeon Dr. Petrov leads Stalin into the operating room and transforms his face so that he is unrecognizable. After his handlers announce publicly that Stalin has died, they secret him away to a hideout, where Greta Grisenko serves as his nurse. Meanwhile, Greta's twin sister Lili continues searching for her, as she has been ever since Russian troops invaded their home country of Lithuania and took Greta, against her will, to Moscow. Earlier, Lili had engaged private investigator Steve Anderson, an American living in Berlin, to find Greta, and now locates him there and asks why he has failed to contact her with information about her sister. Steve has discovered that Greta is working in Moscow and, despising Communists, refuses to work with Lili until she convinces him that her sister is an innocent victim of the Russians.
Gun Duel In Durango (1957)
Directed by Sidney Salkow
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors George Montgomery, Ann Robinson, Steve Brodie, Frank Ferguson, Don "Red" Barry, Henry Rowland
Roles Roy
Rating59%
Will Sabre, an outlaw, decides to reform and ride to a new territory to begin a new life. This angers the gang's leader, Jake Dunsten, who gives chase.
Chicago Confidential (1957)
Directed by Sidney Salkow
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Crime
Actors Brian Keith, Beverly Garland, Dick Foran, Douglas Kennedy, Paul Langton, Elisha Cook, Jr.
Roles Milt (uncredited)
Rating60%
Hot Shots (1956)
, 1h1Directed by Jean Yarbrough
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Huntz Hall, Stanley Clements, David Gorcey, Joi Lansing, Queenie Smith, Robert Shayne
Roles Karl
Rating55%
A spoiled child television star steals Sach and Duke's car. After retrieving the vehicle, the duo "teach the kid a lesson". Television executives, who are disgruntled by the child, are impressed by the duo who are then hired to watch after the boy. The child's uncle/manager is not happy with Sach and Duke's influence over the child so he gets the two fired and then kidnaps the boy for ransom, to cover up his stealing the boys earnings. Sach and Duke then rescue him.