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Troy Donahue (born Merle Johnson Jr., January 27, 1936 – September 2, 2001) was an American film and television actor and singer. He was a popular sex symbol in the 1950s and 1960s.
His father was Merle Johnson, the manager of the motion-picture department of General Motors. His mother, Edith Johnson, was a retired stage actress. Donahue attended a New York military academy, where he met Francis Ford Coppola. When Donahue was 18, he moved to New York and got a job as a messenger in a film company founded by his father. He was fired, he says, because he was too young to join the union. He attended Columbia University and studied journalism. He trained briefly with Ezra Stone, and then moved to Hollywood.
The big break of Donahue's career came when he was cast opposite Sandra Dee in A Summer Place, made by Warner Bros. in 1959. The director was Delmer Daves. Warner signed him to a long-term contract. They put him to work guest-starring in episodes of their Western TV series, such as Colt .45 (1959), Maverick (1959), Sugarfoot (1959), The Alaskans (1960), and Lawman (1960).
In 1968, Donahue signed a long-term contract with Universal Studios for films and TV. This lasted a year and saw him get four roles: guest shots on Ironside (1968), The Name of the Game (1968), and The Virginian (1969), and an appearance in the TV movie The Lonely Profession (1969).
Donahue declared bankruptcy in 1968 and eventually lost his home. In 1969, Donahue moved from Los Angeles to New York City. By this time, Donahue's drug addiction and alcoholism had ruined him financially. In May 1982, he joined Alcoholics Anonymous, which he credited for helping him achieve and maintain sobriety.
Donahue continued to act in films throughout the 1980s and into the late 1990s. Donahue's final film role was in the 2000 comedy film The Boys Behind the Desk, directed by Sally Kirkland.
On August 30, 2001, Donahue suffered a heart attack and was admitted to Saint John's Health Center in Santa Monica. He died three days later, on September 2, at the age of 65.
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20 December 1974
In the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in 1910s New York.
03 August 1984
Life in the small town of Grandview, Illinois is one that is just like any other city or town. Tim Pearson, soon to be graduating high school wants to go to Florida to study oceanography.
31 October 1990
A woman marries wealthy men, then arranges for them to have "accidental" deaths.
24 March 1981
The Godfather 1901–1959: The Complete Epic is a reduced, 386-minute version of the 1977 television miniseries, "Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television," released to video in 1981.
13 July 1967
Phineas T. Barnum and friends finance the first flight to the moon but find the task a little above them.
01 March 1998
A Russian immigrant finds himself in bed with the mob after buying a sexual novelties shop.
20 May 1964
In 1883, US Cavalry lieutenant Matthew Hazard, newly graduated from West Point, is assigned to isolated Fort Delivery on the Mexican border of Arizona, where he meets commanding officer Teddy Mainwarring's wife Kitty, whom he later rescues from an Indian attack.
18 November 1959
A self-made businessman rekindles a romance with a former flame while their two teenage children begin a romance of their own with drastic consequences for both couples.
12 October 1989
When the mysterious and sexy Ms. Xenobia takes over the biology class at the local college, the dating life of supergeek Wesley Littlejohn takes a serious turn.
11 November 1992
Pamela is a young actress who has moved into New York City from the midwest. She meets up with Carl who is middle-aged tailor of women's clothings and is going through a "mid-life crisis".
15 August 1957
The turbulent life and professional career of vaudeville actor and silent screen horror star Lon Chaney (1883-1930), the man of a thousand faces; bearer of many personal misfortunes that even his great success could not mitigate.
05 June 1987
Rick has developed the ultimate motorcycle, the Cyclone. It is a $5 million bike equipped with rocket launchers and laser guns.
13 August 1958
Jim Burton, chronic alcoholic, is cared for by Ellen, his incredibly patient, sexy, hard-working wife.
06 April 1990
A prim and proper schoolgirl goes against her society grandmother's wishes when she dates a motorcycle-riding juvenile delinquent.
08 November 1961
A pregnant teen allows her mother to pass her secret baby off as her own.
01 September 1971
Sandra Barlow is a 70's girl looking for kicks in the form of sex and drugs. One day, she decides to have an orgy drug party and invite some "freaks" led by Moon to entertain her and her rich friends.
18 April 1998
This future-set sci-adventure follows a band of brave soldiers in an epic battle against a government-created monster.
01 April 1958
A teenager finds her wayward sister running with thieves in San Francisco.
17 December 1958
A college paleontology professor acquires a newly discovered specimen of a coelecanth, but while examining it, he is accidentally exposed to its blood, and finds himself periodically turning into a murderous Neanderthal man.
24 June 1997
This movie is a great compilation of the very silliest clips from some of the most awful "bimbo movies" of the past twenty years.
26 June 1959
In 1940s New York, a white widow who dreams of being on Broadway has a chance encounter with a black single mother, who becomes her maid.
26 September 1968
In the second "Ironside" movie, the Chief has his spine jolted during a hospital encounter with a narcotics pusher, not only raising the possibility for an operation that might cure his paralysis but also putting him in jeopardy because he can identify the man who had just shot a guard.
05 July 1984
Katy Caterpillar lives in a cherry tree deep in the forest, but she longs to see the wide world. When she finally gets her chance, she meets lots of fascinating characters along the way.
01 December 1957
Rocks from a meteor which grow when in contact with water threaten a sleepy Southwestern desert community.
21 April 1962
Prudence resigns from her teaching position after being criticized for giving a student her copy of a romance novel.
10 March 1958
A neighborhood rock band gets a job playing at a summer camp.
31 January 1991
Martin is a total loser, who nobody cares for. When he fails to get a position as guitar player in Lindsay's band and loses his job on the way, he makes a deal with a Voodoo priestess.
24 March 1965
Wealthy, reckless Californian Julie Merriday, accompanied by her boyfriend Harry Lindsay, an attorney, narrowly avoids crashing into a motorcycle driven by young Ben Gunther.
23 January 1989
Ex-San Francisco vice cop Samantha Roarke and Hollywood homicide detective Ryan Hayes team up to investigate an international drug cartel in Los Angeles, leading them to an ex-CIA operative turned drug kingpin who's organizing a heroin distribution center in the city.
15 November 1974
A disturbed author's house party becomes a scene of carnage when three of his homicidal creations appear.
01 January 1989
The bodies at a cryogenic centre are defrosted by accident and turn into cannibalistic zombies.
04 May 1961
Parrish McLean lives with his mother Ellen on Sala Post's tobacco plantation in the Connecticut River Valley.
23 July 1958
Travails of a family heading West in a covered wagon.
01 January 1989
A secret agent tries to prevent World War III.
30 April 1970
The Phantom Gunslinger is set in the town of "Tucca Flats." The peaceful life of the town is disrupted by the arrival of a gang of bandits, including Algernon, Big Sam, Cookie, and some others.
14 February 1992
Two beefed-up twins operating on opposing sides of the law, team up to stop a nefarious crook in this actioner.
23 January 1983
A young couple from Milwaukee moves into the fabled, high-society Malibu beach community and becomes involved with the lives of the various people living in the community.
30 April 1977
Legendary Quick-shot Frank Woods is caught in a shootout and kills three drunks in self-defense. In fear for his life, Frank escapes to the Arizona desert.
01 January 1988
A young boy named John is tormented by his grandfather concerning vampires and werewolves, until he believes his grandfather is actually a vampire.
05 November 1963
Set in Palm Springs during a long, fun-filled weekend where several Los Angeles college students flock to spring break, centering on Jim who finds romance with Bunny, the daughter of Palm Springs harred, stressful police chief.
04 April 1957
A preacher (George Nader) fears for his family (Phyllis Thaxter, Tim Hovey) after killing a teenage burglar whose father seeks revenge.
01 March 1990
The world of high fashion takes a deadly turn when a vicious killer stalks beautiful models.
23 September 1983
Ken Ota is a Japanese-American GI. He comes to Hiroshima after WW2 looking for his big sister, but finds Keiko, a bomb victim with a keloid scar on her shoulder.
04 December 1990
Two friends use the casting couch to seduce women while pretending to be movie producers.
16 December 1989
A detective investigates a of case of a beautiful woman murdered along with lover.
30 November 1958
A love-starved soldier stationed at an Arctic base wins a furlough in Paris, but a pretty, no-nonsense military psychologist is ordered to accompany him as chaperone to keep him out of trouble.
01 April 1986
Joe Wong is a private investigator who goes in search of a young girl kidnapped by a religious cult. Destined to save her, he teams up with a Vietnam vet, a pro-boxing champ and a former cop to save her.
01 March 1991
A mob messenger and a call girl attempt to steal, and get away, from mobsters with a million dollars worth of stolen diamonds.
01 August 1974
A man who trains fighting cocks vows to remain silent until one of his birds wins a championship.
01 January 1983
A young man, born deaf, invents a computer so he can hear and speak with others.
18 January 1967
Set amidst the steamy underworld of Bermuda and Jamaica, this spy adventure chronicles the exploits of a female spy trying to investigate the mysterious murders of two colleagues before an important meeting between the world's most powerful leaders.
21 November 1957
In the 1930s, once-great World War I pilot Roger Shumann performs as a daredevil barnstorming pilot at aerial stunt shows while his wife, LaVerne, works as a parachutist.
18 June 1958
Janet Blake leaves a party when her boss drunkenly makes passes at her and is offered a ride to the subway with Bill Tremaine.
01 May 1989
In Los Angeles, photographer Peter Mitchell learns that he has inherited a palatial estate in Sweden from his unknown relative, Annie Holst.
19 September 1974
Two shipwrecked men on South Sea island help natives battle vicious modern pirates bent on rape and mayhem.
22 September 1987
A detective tries to get back a child who has been kidnapped by gangsters.
19 July 1990
The year is 1999. John Travis is the toughest cop alive... In fact the only cop alive. He and his elite force stand between murderous mutants and the remains of humanity.
03 August 1989
Ritchie Spencer and his friends have a problem. They are the only four members of their fraternity, and they are all graduating.
10 November 1977
Daniel, art professor, has a car accident which results into a paranoia. He gets better, falls in love with one of his students and they decide to move away from civilization to the house in the mountains.
