
Jackson Beck
Actor · 1912 – 2004 · Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jackson Beck was an American actor best known as the announcer on radio's The Adventures of Superman and the voice of Bluto in the Famous era Popeye theatrical shorts.
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Movie6.6AnimationActionG.I. Joe faces a new enemy as an ancient society of snake people known as Cobra-La try to forcefully take back the earth from those who drove them underground eons ago.
G.I. Joe: The Movie
1987 · 122 votes
Movie7.0ComedyDramaThe Narrator tells us how the radio influenced his childhood in the days before TV. In the New York City of the late 1930s to the New Year's Eve 1944, this coming-of-age tale mixes the narrator's experiences with contemporary anecdotes and urban legends of the radio stars.
Radio Days
1987 · 674 votes
Movie7.1ComedyCrimeVirgil Starkwell is intent on becoming a notorious bank robber. Unfortunately for Virgil and his not-so-budding career, he is completely incompetent.
Take the Money and Run
1969 · 808 votes
Movie5.9DramaPete St. John is a powerful and successful political consultant, with clients spread around the country. When his long-time friend and client Ohio senator Sam Hastings decides to quit politics, he is rapidly drafted to help with the campaign of the man destined to succeed him, unknown and mysterious businessman Jerome Cade...
Power
1986 · 77 votes
- Movie8.0Animation
Little Lulu's daddy gives her a blue posey to exhibit at a flower show. She loses it on the way and a bulldog prevents her from reacquiring it, but she outwits him and proceeds to the show. There she breaks the stalk when she uses her bean-shooter at a hummingbird. She tosses the flower in a barrel of Vigaro and the flower suddenly bursts into bloom again.
Daffydilly Daddy
1945 · 1 votes
Movie7.5AnimationComedyThe story of a town where everything is topsy-turvy.
Crazytown
1954 · 2 votes
Movie5.4AnimationComedyBluto builds a Popeye puppet and manipulates it to treat Olive rudely. Then he comes in and takes Olive away. When Popeye discovers the ruse, knocks Bluto out and ties puppet strings to him.
Puppet Love
1944 · 5 votes
Movie6.2AnimationComedyPopeye and Bluto stop by to see Olive and fix her leaky faucet. Popeye does it better, and Bluto gets jealous, so he starts rerouting Olive's plumbing and causing all sorts of leaks.
Floor Flusher
1954 · 6 votes
Movie6.0AnimationActionSuperman vs. Japanese spies hijacking a new super-bomber.
Japoteurs
1942 · 45 votes
Movie6.5ActionAnimationSuperman has to thwart wartime saboteurs tampering with things at the Metropolis Munitions Plant...who have captured Lois Lane and loaded her into a torpedo!
Destruction Inc.
1942 · 40 votes
Movie8.1AnimationActionG.I. Joe: The Revenge of Cobra is the second G.I. Joe miniseries based on the successful Hasbro Toys and Marvel Comics property. Using a laser core stolen from G.I.Joe, Cobra activates the Weather Dominator, an incredible weapon which controls the forces of Nature itself, Cobra Commander targets Washington for destruction, but the Joe team repels the attack and the Weather Dominator explodes into three parts setting off a chain reaction of natural disasters around the world. Can G.I.Joe recover the Weather Dominator in time to beat Cobra and save the world. It aired in 1984 and most of the 1984 and even some 1985 products are given plenty of screen time. Like the first miniseries, A Real American Hero, The Revenge of Cobra was written by Ron Friedman who created the series for television, and wrote all four miniseries.
G.I. Joe: The Revenge of Cobra
1984 · 12 votes
Movie6.7AnimationComedyPopeye and Bluto are taxi drivers; they are, of course, competing for fares - and Olive, in particular.
Taxi-Turvy
1954 · 9 votes
Movie6.5AnimationCasper the Friendly Ghost befriends a Boy Scout.
Boo Scout
1951 · 6 votes
Movie6.5ActionAnimationCriminals with rocket powered car loot and extort the city, and only Superman can stop them!
The Bulleteers
1942 · 50 votes
Movie7.0DocumentaryA multi-studio effort to show the newsreel audience the progress of the Hollywood war effort.
Show-Business at War
1943 · 4 votes
Movie6.9ActionAnimationAfter The Daily Planet receives a letter from a mad scientist threatening to wreak destruction with his Electrothanasia Ray, Lois Lane heads out in the hopes of getting more information for a news story.
Superman
1941 · 127 votes
Movie6.4ActionAdventureA Real American Hero is the first G.I. Joe miniseries, in it the G.I. Joe Special Missions Force must contend with COBRA who, after the successful theft of a special broadcast satellite now threaten the world with a teleportation machine called the M.A.S.S. Device. G.I. Joe tracks down the original designer who advises that the only way to counter the weapon is to build a M.A.S.S. Device of their own. However to power the device properly three rare catalytic elements are needed. Now it's a race around the world and against the clock as G.I. Joe and COBRA go M.A.S.S. to M.A.S.S.
G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero
1983 · 24 votes
Movie10.0AnimationPopeye follows along behind the Mayflower in his own rowboat. He washes up on Plymouth Rock.
Wigwam Whoopee
1948 · 2 votes
Movie5.1AnimationComedyPopeye and Bluto both plan to marry Olive Oyl, but Popeye proposes first. When Olive says, "Yes!" to Popeye, Bluto sets out to make Popeye look bad, break up the wedding, and win Olive over.
Nearlyweds
1957 · 14 votes
Movie7.0ActionAnimationSuperman battles a criminal mastermind and his robot army.
The Mechanical Monsters
1941 · 72 votes
Movie6.9FantasyAnimationA frozen Tyrannosaurus rex is found and put on display in a museum, but when he thaws out and revives, Superman has to stop his rampage!
The Arctic Giant
1942 · 56 votes
Movie4.5ComedyCrimePrivate detective Jack Masters takes on a case and gets mixed up in murder, sex and blackmail.
Cry Uncle!
1971 · 20 votes
Movie10.0AnimationComedyHerman battles Katnip in a costume epic satirizing the Robin Hood story. Katnip is the offical tax collector. Taxes have gone up 100%. The first place that Katnip hits is Povertyville. No money there... only Robin Hood Herman. Herman follows Katnip back to the castle and recovers the money for the mice after a battle. Katnip gets sliced clean down the middle with a fancy medieval executioner's axe!
Robin Rodenthood
1955 · 1 votes
Movie7.0AnimationActionRobbers target a special train carrying a billion dollars worth of gold, and the only one who can stop them is Superman!
Billion Dollar Limited
1942 · 58 votes
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TV7.1DramaFamilyLaura Holt, a licensed private detective, opens a detective agency but finds that potential clients refuse to hire a woman, however qualified. To solve the problem, Laura invents a fictitious male superior whom she names Remington Steele. Through a series of events that unfold in the first episode, "License to Steele," a former thief and con man, whose real name is never revealed, assumes the identity of Remington Steele. Behind the scenes, Laura remains firmly in charge.
Remington Steele
1982 · 147 votes
TV7.6AnimationAction & AdventureAn elite team of soldiers thwart the evil Cobra organization's desire for world domination at every turn, cleverly stopping them from controlling the weather, creating unstoppable weapons, and genetically engineering super-warriors.
G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero
1983 · 86 votes
TV7.1AnimationKidsFollows the adventures of the famed spinach-eating sailor man. Popeye is one of the most popular cartoon characters of all time. This spunky but loveable spinach-eating sailor continues to delight young and old with his comic adventures, and the entire gang is around to provide plenty of rousing fun and action: Olive Oyl, Swee'Pea, Wimpy and Bluto.
Popeye the Sailor
1960 · 429 votes
TV7.3Action & AdventureSteve Canyon is a commander for the U.S. air force. His assignment is to go to various bases to troubleshoot problems
Steve Canyon
1958 · 3 votes
TV6.2AnimationThe New Adventures of Superman is a series of six-minute animated Superman adventures produced by Filmation that were broadcast on CBS between 1966 and 1970. The 68 segments appeared as part of three different programs during that time, packaged with similar shorts featuring The Adventures of Superboy and other DC Comics superheroes.
The New Adventures of Superman
1966 · 23 votes
TV6.0AnimationComedyTennessee Tuxedo and His Tales is a semi-educational animated cartoon TV series that originally aired on CBS from 1963 to 1966. It was produced by Total Television, the same company that produced the earlier King Leonardo and the later Underdog, and primarily sponsored by General Mills. The title is a play on “tuxedo and tails” formal wear.
Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales
1963 · 5 votes
TV6.8AnimationThe Superman/Aquaman Hour of Adventure is a Filmation animated series that aired on CBS from 1967 to 1968. Premiering on September 9, 1967, this 60-minute program included a series of six-minute adventures featuring various DC Comics superheroes.
The Superman/Aquaman Hour of Adventure
1967 · 10 votes
TV5.2Action & AdventureAnimationThe Adventures of Superboy is a series of six-minute animated Superboy cartoons produced by Filmation that were broadcast on CBS between 1966 and 1969. The 34 segments appeared as part of three different programs during that time, packaged with similar shorts featuring The New Adventures of Superman other DC Comics superheroes. These adventures marked the animation debut of Superboy, as well as his teenage alter ego Clark Kent, who acted as the bespectacled, mild-mannered disguise for the young hero, Lana Lang, and Krypto the super-powered dog who would accompany his master on every dangerous mission. Other characters such as Pa and Ma Kent, foster parents of the Boy of Steel, and the town of Smallville were also faithfully recreated from comic book adventures. As a result of the production's budget, the show featured a great amount of stock animation as well as limited movement from the characters.
The Adventures of Superboy
1966 · 5 votes
TVAnimationAction & AdventureThe 1941 Superman cartoon series is a landmark set of 17 theatrical Technicolor short films produced by Fleischer Studios and released by Paramount Pictures. Renowned for their fluid rotoscoped animation, realistic shadows, and cinematic lighting, animation historians consistently rank them among the greatest animated shorts ever made. Paramount originally budgeted the first short at a massive $50,000, with later episodes costing around $30,000 each (far more than typical cartoons of the era). Directed primarily by Dave Fleischer and produced by Max Fleischer, the series marked Superman's very first appearance in animation.
Superman
1941
TV6.7FamilyAnimationKing Leonardo and his Short Subjects is an animated cartoon series released in 1960 by Total Television, sponsored by General Mills.
King Leonardo and His Short Subjects
1960 · 3 votes