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Robert Karnes is a Actor American born on 19 june 1917 at Paducah (USA)

Robert Karnes

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Birth name Robert A. Karnes
Nationality USA
Birth 19 june 1917 at Paducah (USA)
Death 4 december 1979 (at 62 years) at Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles (USA)

Robert A. Karnes (June 19, 1917 – December 4, 1979) was a prolific television actor who also appeared in some films early in his career, including mostly uncredited parts in The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), Miracle on 34th Street (1947), Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (1950), and From Here to Eternity (1953). A Kentucky native, Karnes was living in Arizona at the time he procured his Social Security number.

He was a costar with James Gregory in the NBC crime drama The Lawless Years, having appeared as Max Fields in fifteen episodes between 1959 and 1961. The program, set during the Roaring 20s preceded the more successful The Untouchables by a half-season. Karnes even appeared twice on The Untouchables. He appeared eight times on the half-hour or hour-long versions of the Alfred Hitchcock program on CBS.

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Filmography of Robert Karnes (47 films)

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The Last Ride of the Dalton Gang, 3h
Directed by Dan Curtis
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Western
Actors Cliff Potts, Randy Quaid, Larry Wilcox, Royal Dano, Mills Watson, Sharon Farrell
Roles Poker Player
Rating56% 2.8044652.8044652.8044652.8044652.804465
À la suite de l'assassinat de leur frère aîné, Frank, les Dalton commencent une nouvelle vie tout en poursuivant leur quête de fortune qui finira par le raid de la ville de Coffeyville dans le Kansas. Avec à leur poursuite le détective Will Smith.
Billy Jack Goes to Washington, 2h35
Directed by Tom Laughlin
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Political films
Actors Tom Laughlin, E. G. Marshall, Lucie Arnaz, Delores Taylor, Suzanne Somers, Sam Wanamaker
Rating44% 2.222262.222262.222262.222262.22226
Billy Jack (Tom Laughlin) is appointed a United States Senator to fill out the remaining term of another Senator. It is hoped that he will quietly vote the party line, but his term in the Senate runs into trouble when he proposes a bill to fund a national youth camp which happens to be on the property where a nuclear power plant is also being proposed. His fellow Senator Joseph Paine (E. G. Marshall) claims to oppose nuclear power but is secretly taking graft to influence his votes in favor, and moves to try to keep Billy Jack out of the way when the bill is being debated.
Gable and Lombard, 2h11
Directed by Sidney J. Furie
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Romance
Themes Films about television
Actors James Brolin, Jill Clayburgh, Morgan Brittany, Melanie Mayron, Allen Garfield, Red Buttons
Roles Gable's Director
Rating51% 2.5600052.5600052.5600052.5600052.560005
The pair meet at a Hollywood party, where rugged leading man Gable eschews evening wear and screwball comedienne Lombard arrives in an ambulance that wrecks his car. They argue. He threatens to spank her. She punches him on the jaw. The two clearly dislike each other, and intensely so, but as fate conspires to bring them together again and again, they begin to admire each other and fall in love.
A Case of Rape, 1h15
Directed by Boris Sagal
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Elizabeth Montgomery, Ronny Cox, Cliff Potts, William Daniels, Rosemary Murphy, Kenneth C. Swofford
Roles Judge
Rating77% 3.8599153.8599153.8599153.8599153.859915
Ellen appears to have a happy marriage to David, although his frequent work-related absences are beginning to take a toll on her. While taking night school classes with her neighbor and best friend, Marge Bracken, she is introduced to Larry Retzliff.
Executive Action, 1h31
Directed by David Miller
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Historical, Crime
Themes Films about families, Political films
Actors Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan, Will Geer, Gilbert Green, John Anderson, Paul Carr
Roles Man at Rifle Range
Rating66% 3.346323.346323.346323.346323.34632
A narrator states that when President Lyndon Johnson was asked about the Kennedy Assassination and the Warren Commission report, he said he doubted the findings of the Commission. The narration ends with the mention that the segment did not run on television and was cut from a program about Johnson. The narration does not actually include the quote: "Kennedy was trying to get Castro, but Castro got to him first."
The Failing of Raymond
Directed by Boris Sagal
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Jane Wyman, Dean Stockwell, Dana Andrews, Paul Henreid, Murray Hamilton, Katey Sagal
Roles City Editor
Rating66% 3.310673.310673.310673.310673.31067
On the day before she retires, a teacher discovers that a student she had flunked ten years previously is out to kill her.
Tora! Tora! Tora!, 2h24
Directed by Richard Fleischer, Kinji Fukasaku, Toshio Masuda
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Adventure, Historical
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Aviation films, Political films, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors Martin Balsam, Joseph Cotten, Sō Yamamura, E. G. Marshall, James Whitmore, Jason Robards
Roles Maj. John H. Dillon (uncredited)
Rating74% 3.747653.747653.747653.747653.74765
In 1941, the newly appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto (Sō Yamamura) and his predecessor, Zengo Yoshida (Junya Usami), discuss America's embargo that starves Japan of raw materials. While both agree that a war with the United States would be a complete disaster, army hotheads and politicians push through an alliance with Germany and start planning for war. With the U.S. Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor, Yamamoto orders the planning of a preventive strike, believing Japan's only hope is to annihilate the American Pacific fleet at the outset of hostilities.
The Helicopter Spies, 1h35
Directed by Boris Sagal
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Adventure, Spy, Crime
Themes Spy films
Actors Robert Vaughn, David McCallum, Bradford Dillman, Carol Lynley, Lola Albright, Leo G. Carroll
Roles Ship's Captain
Rating57% 2.850132.850132.850132.850132.85013
U.N.C.L.E. agents Napoleon Solo, (Robert Vaughn) and Illya Kuryakin (David McCallum) witness the aerial destruction wrought on an African village by Dr. Kharmusi using his newly developed “thermal prism”. U.N.C.L.E. then seeks out notorious safe cracker (and former thermal prism researcher himself) Luther Sebastian to help them obtain the device from Dr. Kharmusi. Sebastian is on an island among a religious group called “The Third Way”, a mystical organization with disciples having – except for Sebastian – platinum white hair and all having a belief that when the “Old Man” in their group finally speaks after twenty years of silence The Third Way will have dominion over the world. Wanted in nearly two dozen countries Sebastian agrees to leave the island and help U.N.C.L.E. in return for world-wide immunity from prosecution.
One Spy Too Many, 1h42
Directed by Joseph Sargent
Origin USA
Genres Adventure, Crime
Themes Spy films
Actors Robert Vaughn, James Hong, David McCallum, Rip Torn, Dorothy Provine, Leo G. Carroll
Roles Col. Hawks
Rating57% 2.8988152.8988152.8988152.8988152.898815
The film opens with Alexander (Rip Torn) stealing a chemical weapon from a military base. The weapon causes an enemy’s troops to lose the will to fight, thereby making conquest in battle far easier. This is part of Alexander’s dual goal: to conquer the world in the manner of Alexander the Great and to break each of the major moral codes in so doing (which essentially means the ten commandments as detailed throughout the movie).
Apache Rifles, 1h32
Directed by William Witney
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Audie Murphy, Michael Dante, L. Q. Jones, Linda Lawson, Ken Lynch, J. Pat O'Malley
Roles George, the Sheriff
Rating63% 3.198213.198213.198213.198213.19821
Captain Stanton is a renowned Indian Fighter with his animosity stirred by the fact that his career officer father was forced to resign after trusting a group of Indians who broke their word to him. Stanton is sent to the field to relieve the commander of a troop unsuccessfully hunting Apaches who have fled their reservation. Stanton quickly meets with success by having his new troop drop their excess equipment to move faster and longer. He defeats a war party of Apache by luring them with an unescorted wagon loaded with hidden soldiers who engage the enemy until Stanton's mounted troop surround and defeat them. Stanton captures Red Hawk, the son of Chief Victorio and uses him to negoitate a truce with the Apaches promising to stay on their reservation in return for white miners not trespassing on their land to mine gold.
Apache Rifles, 1h33
Directed by William Witney
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Audie Murphy, Guy Stockwell, Michael Dante, Linda Lawson, L. Q. Jones, BarBara Luna
Roles George, the Sheriff
Rating48% 2.4282952.4282952.4282952.4282952.428295
Lured by Apache gold, two cavalry troopers desert their post, killing some of their fellow troopers in order to steal a Gatling Gun. The devious two use a pacifist pastor to bring the weapon across the country. A pursuing cavalry patrol kills one of the deserters and captures the other, however the recovered weapon has been made inoperable.
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, 2h34
Directed by Stanley Kramer, Carey Loftin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Transport films, Films about automobiles, Road movies, Heist films, Chase films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, Dorothy Provine, Moe Howard
Roles Sammy, a Santa Rosita Police Department officer in helicopter
Rating74% 3.7462153.7462153.7462153.7462153.746215
"Smiler" Grogan (Jimmy Durante), wanted by police in a tuna factory robbery fifteen years ago and on the run from the police, careens his 1957 Ford Victoria off twisting, mountainous State Highway 74 near Palm Springs in Southern California and crashes. Five motorists stop to help him - Melville Crump (Sid Caesar), a dentist, Lennie Pike (Jonathan Winters), a furniture mover, Dingy Bell (Mickey Rooney) and Benjy Benjamin (Buddy Hackett), two friends on their way to Las Vegas, and J. Russell Finch (Milton Berle), who owns Pacific Edible Seaweed Company in Fresno. Just before he dies, Grogan tells the five about $350,000 buried in Santa Rosita State Park near the Mexican border under a mysterious "big W".
Bachelor Flat, 1h31
Directed by Frank Tashlin
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Tuesday Weld, Richard Beymer, Terry-Thomas, Celeste Holm, Howard McNear, Stephen Bekassy
Roles Police Officer
Rating58% 2.9022052.9022052.9022052.9022052.902205
A charming British anthropology Professor Bruce Patterson (Terry-Thomas) has to live with Helen Bushmill (Celeste Holm), his fiancée. Helen is away traveling, and has failed to tell him that she has a seventeen-year-old daughter Libby (Tuesday Weld), who shows up at her mother's home unaware that Helen is engaged. Meanwhile he has to resist the advances of the neighbourhood ladies who barge in unexpectedly. At the same time, Patterson must deal with the continual invasions of his cynical neighbor, and law student, Mike (Richard Beymer), who soon develops a crush on Libby. Intertwined in the story is Mike's persistent dachshund, determined to bury the professor's prize possession of a rare dinosaur bone.