Sorrell Booke (January 4, 1930 – February 11, 1994) was an
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actorAn actor or actress is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
who performed on stage, screen, and television. He is best-known for his role as the heavyset, corrupt politician
"Boss" Jefferson Davis HoggJ.D. Hogg is a fictional character featured in the American television series The Dukes of Hazzard. He was the greedy, unethical commissioner of Hazzard County. A stereotypical villainous glutton, Boss Hogg always wore an all-white suit with a white cowboy hat and regularly smoked cigars...
in the television show
The Dukes of Hazzard.
Life and early acting career
Booke was born in
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, a cousin of
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of Woodstock fame. Fluent in five languages (including Japanese), Booke earned degrees from both
ColumbiaColumbia University in the City of New York is a private university in the United States and a member of the Ivy League. Columbia's main campus lies in the Morningside Heights neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan, in New York City...
and
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University, and later served in the
Korean WarThe Korean War is a war that started between North Korea and South Korea on 25 June 1950 and paused with an armistice signed 27 July, 1953...
as a counterintelligence officer. During his early Hollywood acting career, Booke had started to gain acclaim for notable supporting parts in noteworthy 1960s films such as
Black Like MeBlack Like Me is a non-fiction book by journalist John Howard Griffin first published in 1961. Griffin was a white native of Mansfield, Texas and the book describes his six-week experience travelling on Greyhound buses throughout the racially segregated states of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama...
,
A Fine MadnessA Fine Madness is a motion picture comedy based on the 1964 novel by Elliott Baker that tells the story of Samson Shillitoe, a frustrated poet unable to finish a grand tome. It stars Sean Connery , Joanne Woodward, Jean Seberg, Patrick O'Neal and Clive Revill...
, and
Fail-SafeFail-Safe is a 1964 film directed by Sidney Lumet, based on the 1963 novel of the same name by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler. It tells the story of a fictional Cold War nuclear crisis, and the US President's attempt to end it.-Plot:...
before focusing primarily on television parts in the 1970s and 1980s, and voice acting roles in the 1980s and early 1990s.
Television Works
Booke earned himself an Emmy
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for his appearance in the TV series
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in the episode entitled, "What's God to Julius?" He can also be seen in an episode of
Mission: ImpossibleMission: Impossible is an American television series which was created and initially produced by Bruce Geller. It chronicled the missions of a team of secret American government agents known as the Impossible Missions Force...
from the first season in 1966. Booke also appeared in two early episodes of
M*A*S*HM*A*S*H is an American television series developed by Larry Gelbart, adapted from the 1970 feature film MASH . The series is a medical drama/black comedy that was produced in association with 20th Century Fox Television for CBS...
, as General Barker in "Requiem For A Lightweight" and "Chief Surgeon Who?", the latter marked the debut of the character
Corporal KlingerCorporal Maxwell Q. Klinger is a fictional character from the M*A*S*H television series played by American actor Jamie Farr. A Lebanese-American hailing from Toledo, Ohio , Klinger serves as an orderly/corpsman assigned to the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital unit during the Korean War...
, whom Booke's character had previously dealt with. Additionally, he had a recurring role in
Norman Lear'sNorman Milton Lear is an American television writer and producer who produced such '70s sitcoms as All in the Family, Sanford and Son, One Day at a Time, The Jeffersons, Good Times and Maude.-Early life:...
groundbreaking sitcom
All in the FamilyAll in the Family is an American situation comedy that was originally broadcast on the CBS television network from January 12, 1971 to April 8, 1979. In September 1979, the show was revamped, and given a new title, Archie Bunker's Place...
as Mr. Sanders, personnel manager at Archie Bunker's workplace, Pendergast Tool and Die.
The Dukes of Hazzard (1979-1985)
His most notable role was in
The Dukes of Hazzard as the humorously wicked antagonist to Bo and Luke Duke,
J.D. "Boss" HoggJ.D. Hogg is a fictional character featured in the American television series The Dukes of Hazzard. He was the greedy, unethical commissioner of Hazzard County. A stereotypical villainous glutton, Boss Hogg always wore an all-white suit with a white cowboy hat and regularly smoked cigars...
. The series ran on CBS-TV for seven seasons, from 1979–85 and even spawned an animated series,
The DukesThe Dukes is an animated series which ran on CBS in 1983.-Synopsis:Based directly on the popular live-action television series The Dukes of Hazzard, this Saturday morning cartoon featured the Duke cousins in an automobile race around the world against Boss Hogg, in a duel over the ownership of...
(1983), two reunion TV specials, and a big screen
feature filmThe Dukes of Hazzard is a 2005 film loosely based on the American television series of the same name. The film was directed by Jay Chandrasekhar and released to theaters in the US on August 5, 2005 by Warner Bros. Pictures...
(2005). Booke was actually only slightly overweight and wore a fat suit during the entire run of the series, which caused his girth to measure five feet around. Booke also once conducted the
Buffalo Philharmonic OrchestraThe Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra is an American orchestra located in Buffalo, New York. Its primary performing venue is Kleinhans Music Hall, which is a National Historic Landmark. Its regular concert season features gala concerts, classics programming of core repertoire, Pops concerts,...
.
Later Career and Death
In his final years, Booke had stopped appearing physically in acting roles, but continued to in voice work on several television shows and movies, occasionally as narrator, and sometimes as a cartoon character's voice, in such movies as
Scooby-Doo Meets the Boo BrothersScooby-Doo Meets the Boo Brothers is a 1987 television movie produced by Hanna-Barbera for the Superstars 10 block starring characters from the Saturday morning cartoon series, Scooby-Doo.- Plot :...
(1987 TV movie),
Gravedale HighGravedale High is an animated series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and NBC Productions. The series premiered in the fall of 1990 on NBC and lasted thirteen episodes, under the title of Rick Moranis in Gravedale High....
(1990 television series), and
Rock-A-DoodleRock-a-Doodle is a 1991 animated re-telling of Geoffry Chaucer's Chanticleer and Edmond Rostand's comedy, Chantecler. This film was directed by Don Bluth, produced by Goldcrest Films for The Samuel Goldwyn Company, and originally released in the United Kingdom on 2 August 1991 and in the United...
(1991).
Booke continued to work professionally until he succumbed to
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in Sherman Oaks, California at age 64. His tombstone reads, "Beloved Pa, Grandpa, Brother and Boss." He is interred in the
Hillside Memorial Park CemeteryThe Hillside Memorial Park and Mortuary is located at 6001 W. Centinela Avenue, in Culver City, California, USA. A number of prominent individuals of the Jewish faith, including a number from the entertainment industry, are buried or entombed here, such as:...
in
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.
Family life and Personal
Booke was married to the former Miranda Knickerbocker from 1958 to 1973. His ex-wife is also the daughter of Hubert Renfro (H.R.) Knickerbocker (1898-1949), a Pulitzer prize-winning war correspondent They had two children, Alexandra and Nicholas. Booke also has a brother, Fred.
Filmography
- Rock-A-Doodle
Rock-a-Doodle is a 1991 animated re-telling of Geoffry Chaucer's Chanticleer and Edmond Rostand's comedy, Chantecler. This film was directed by Don Bluth, produced by Goldcrest Films for The Samuel Goldwyn Company, and originally released in the United Kingdom on 2 August 1991 and in the United...
(1991)
- The Cat from Outer Space
The Cat from Outer Space is a 1978 Buena Vista Distribution film, starring Ken Berry and Sandy Duncan.-Synopsis:An unidentified flying object makes an emergency landing on Earth and is taken into custody by the United States government...
(1978)
- Record City (1978)
- The Other Side of Midnight
The Other Side of Midnight is a 1973 novel by Sidney Sheldon. The book reached No.1 on the New York Times Best Seller list. It was made into a 1977 motion picture of the same name, directed by Charles Jarrott. The cast included Marie-France Pisier, John Beck, Susan Sarandon, Christian Marquand and...
(1977)
- Freaky Friday
Freaky Friday is a 1976 American comedy film starring Jodie Foster as Annabel Andrews and Barbara Harris as her mother.The film is based on the novel of the same name by Mary Rodgers, in which mother and daughter switch bodies and get a taste of each others' lives. The cause of the switch is left...
(1976)
- Special Delivery (1976)
- Mastermind
Mastermind is another word for genius. Mastermind or Masterminds may also refer to:In psychology:* Mastermind , one of the 16 role variants that the Keirsey Temperament Sorter is based on...
(1976)
- The Manchu Eagle Murder Caper Mystery (1975)
- Bank Shot
-References:Bank Shot is a 1974 film directed by Gower Champion and written by Wendell Mayes . The film stars George C. Scott, Joanna Cassidy, Sorrell Booke, and G. Wood.-Plot:...
(1974)
- Devil Times Five (1974)
- The Take
The Take is a Canadian documentary film released in 2004 by the wife and husband team of Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis. It tells the story of workers in Buenos Aires, Argentina who reclaim control of a closed Forja auto plant where they once worked and turn it into a worker cooperative, or as could be...
(1974)
- The Iceman Cometh
The Iceman Cometh is a play written by American playwright Eugene O'Neill in 1939. First published in 1940 the play premiered on Broadway at the Martin Beck Theatre on 9 October 1946, directed by Eddie Dowling where it ran for 136 performances to close on 15 March 1947.-Characters:* Harry Hope –...
(1973)
- Slaughterhouse-Five
Slaughterhouse-Five is an award-winning 1972 film adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's novel of the same name. The screenplay is by Stephen Geller and the film was directed by George Roy Hill. It stars Michael Sacks, Ron Leibman, and Valerie Perrine, and features Eugene Roche, Sharon Gans, Holly Near, and...
(1972)
- What's Up, Doc?
What's Up, Doc? is a 1972 screwball comedy film directed by Peter Bogdanovich and starring Barbra Streisand, Ryan O'Neal, and Madeline Kahn...
(1972)
- Bye Bye Braverman
Bye Bye Braverman is a 1968 American comedy film directed by Sidney Lumet. The screenplay by Herbert Sargent was adapted from the 1964 novel To An Early Grave by Wallace Markfield...
(1968)
- Up the Down Staircase
Up the Down Staircase is a humorous novel written by Bel Kaufman, and published in 1965.-Plot summary:The plot revolves around Sylvia Barrett, a young idealistic English teacher at an inner-city high school who hopes to nurture her students' interest in classic literature and writing...
(1967)
- A Fine Madness
A Fine Madness is a motion picture comedy based on the 1964 novel by Elliott Baker that tells the story of Samson Shillitoe, a frustrated poet unable to finish a grand tome. It stars Sean Connery , Joanne Woodward, Jean Seberg, Patrick O'Neal and Clive Revill...
(1966)
- Matchless
Matchless is one of the oldest marques of British motorcycles with the first models manufactured at the start of the 20th century. Produced in Plumstead, London from 1899 to 1966, a wide range of models were produced under the Matchless name ranging from small two-strokes to 750 cc four-stroke...
(1966)
- Les Félins (1964)
- Fail-Safe
Fail-Safe is a 1964 film directed by Sidney Lumet, based on the 1963 novel of the same name by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler. It tells the story of a fictional Cold War nuclear crisis, and the US President's attempt to end it.-Plot:...
(1964)
- Black Like Me
Black Like Me is a non-fiction book by journalist John Howard Griffin first published in 1961. Griffin was a white native of Mansfield, Texas and the book describes his six-week experience travelling on Greyhound buses throughout the racially segregated states of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama...
(1964)
- Gone are the Days! (1963)
Television work Filmography
- Bonkers
Bonkers is an animated American television series that aired from September 4, 1993 to December 21, 1995 in first-run syndication . The syndicated run was available both separately, and as part of The Disney Afternoon...
(1993)
- The New Adventures of Captain Planet (1993)
- Droopy, Master Detective
Droopy, Master Detective is an animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera and originally aired on FOX for one season .The show is a spin-off from Tom and Jerry Kids, the only other H-B show to air in first-run on FOX...
(1993)
- Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation
Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation is a direct-to-video animated movie made in 1991, and released in 1992 from Warner Bros. Animation and Amblin Entertainment. The animation was done by Tokyo Movie Shinsha, a current Japanese animation studio...
(1992)
- Capitol Critters
Capitol Critters is an animated television series about the lives of mice, rats, and roaches who reside in the basement and walls of the White House in Washington, D.C...
(1992)
- Civil Wars (1991)
- Don Coyote & Sancho Panda (1990)
- Tom and Jerry Kids Show
Tom & Jerry Kids is an animated television series, featuring the famous cat-and-mouse duo as children. The show premiered on part of the Fox Kids lineup on FOX on September 8, 1990 and continued airing until October 2, 1993...
(1990)
- Gravedale High
Gravedale High is an animated series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and NBC Productions. The series premiered in the fall of 1990 on NBC and lasted thirteen episodes, under the title of Rick Moranis in Gravedale High....
(1990)
- Full House
Full House is an American television sitcom that ran from September 22, 1987 to May 23, 1995 on ABC. Set in San Francisco, California, it chronicles widowed father Danny Tanner who, after the death of his wife in a car accident caused by a drunk driver, enlists his best friend Joey Gladstone and...
(1989)
- Fantastic Max
Fantastic Max is an animated cartoon series created by Mike Young. An American/Welsh co-production, the series was produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and Kalato Ltd in association with S4C...
(1988)
- Yogi and the Invasion of the Space Bears
Yogi and the Invasion of the Space Bears is an animated television movie that premiered in 1988 as part of the Hanna-Barbera Superstars 10. It was the last time Daws Butler voiced Yogi.-Plot:...
(1988)
- Scooby-Doo Meets the Boo Brothers
Scooby-Doo Meets the Boo Brothers is a 1987 television movie produced by Hanna-Barbera for the Superstars 10 block starring characters from the Saturday morning cartoon series, Scooby-Doo.- Plot :...
(1987)
- You Again?
You Again? is an American situation comedy that was broadcast by NBC from February 27, 1986 to March 30, 1987 for two seasons.-Plot:You Again? starred Jack Klugman as Henry Willows, a man still embittered from his divorce 10 years earlier, who had made no effort to see his son Matt during that time...
(1986)
- Crazy Like a Fox
Crazy Like a Fox may refer to:* Crazy Like a Fox , an American television series * Still Crazy Like a Fox, a 1987 American television movie that was a spinoff of the television series...
(1986)
- The Pound Puppies (1985)
- The Dukes
The Dukes is an animated series which ran on CBS in 1983.-Synopsis:Based directly on the popular live-action television series The Dukes of Hazzard, this Saturday morning cartoon featured the Duke cousins in an automobile race around the world against Boss Hogg, in a duel over the ownership of...
(1983)
- Alice
Alice is an American sitcom television series which ran from August 31, 1976 to July 2, 1985 on CBS in the USA. The series was based on the 1974 film Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore. The show stars Linda Lavin in the title role, a widow who moves with her young son to start her life over again,...
(1983)
- The Smurfs (1981)
- The Love Boat
The Love Boat is an American television series set on a cruise ship, which aired on the ABC Television Network from September 24, 1977 until May 24, 1986. The show starred Gavin MacLeod as the ship's captain, who encourages his customers to find romance...
(1980)
- The Dukes of Hazzard (1979-85)
- Bigfoot and Wildboy
Bigfoot and Wildboy was a Sid and Marty Krofft live action children's television series on ABC. It began in 1976 as a part of The Krofft Supershow on Saturday mornings. Each episode was 15 minutes long. It became its own series in 1979 with twelve 30-minute episodes. There were a total of 20...
(1979)
- Greatest Heroes of the Bible (1978)
- Soap
Soap is an American sitcom that originally ran on ABC from 1977 to 1981.The show was created as a parody of daytime soap operas, presented as a weekly half-hour long primetime comedy...
(1978)
- Good Times
Good Times is an American sitcom that originally aired from February 8, 1974, until August 1, 1979, on the CBS television network. It was created by Eric Monte and Michael Evans and produced by Norman Lear...
(1978)
- Little House on the Prairie
Little House on the Prairie is a children's book by Laura Ingalls Wilder that was published in 1935. It is part of a series of books known collectively as the Little House series....
(1978)
- What's Happening!!
What's Happening!! is an American television sitcom that aired on ABC from August 5, 1976 to April 28, 1979. The show premiered in August 1976 as a summer series. With good ratings and reviews, and after the failure of several other shows on the network, What's Happening!! returned in November 1976...
(1978)
- The Rockford Files
The Rockford Files is an American detective television drama originally aired on the NBC television network between September 13, 1974 and January 10, 1980; it has remained in constant syndication to the present day. The show is notable for the quality of its writing, largely from Stephen J...
(1978)
- The Greatest Thing that Almost Happened (1977)
- Columbo: The Bye-Bye Sky High I.Q. Murder Case (1977)
- The Amazing Howard Hughes
The Amazing Howard Hughes is a 1977 television movie about American aviation pioneer and filmmaker Howard Hughes, based on the book by Hughes' business partner Noah Dietrich. The film starred Tommy Lee Jones, Ed Flanders, and Tovah Feldshuh....
(1977)
- Baa Baa Black Sheep: Season 1, episode 21 (1977)
- Soap
Soap is an American sitcom that originally ran on ABC from 1977 to 1981.The show was created as a parody of daytime soap operas, presented as a weekly half-hour long primetime comedy...
(1977)
- Rich Man, Poor Man Book II
Rich Man, Poor Man Book II is an American television miniseries that aired on ABC in one-hour episodes at 9:00pm ET/PT on Tuesday nights between September 21, 1976 and March 8, 1977...
(1976)
- Brenda Starr
Brenda Starr may refer to:* Brenda K. Starr, musician* Brenda Starr * Brenda Starr , a 1989 film based on the comic strip...
(1976)
- The Streets of San Francisco
The Streets of San Francisco is a 1970s television police drama filmed on location in San Francisco, California, USA, and produced by Quinn Martin Productions, with the first season produced in association with Warner Bros...
(1975)
- Adventures of the Queen (1975)
- The Last Angry Man
The Last Angry Man is a 1959 film which tells the story of a television producer who profiles the life of a physician. It stars Paul Muni, David Wayne, Betsy Palmer, Billy Dee Williams and Godfrey Cambridge....
(1974)
- The New Dick Van Dyke Show
The New Dick Van Dyke Show is an American sitcom starring Dick Van Dyke that aired on CBS from 1971 to 1974. This was Van Dyke's first return to series television since The Dick Van Dyke Show.-Production:...
(1974)
- Dr. Max (1974)
- Columbo: Swan Song (1974)
- Kolchak The Nightstalker (1974)
- M*A*S*H
M*A*S*H is an American television series developed by Larry Gelbart, adapted from the 1970 feature film MASH . The series is a medical drama/black comedy that was produced in association with 20th Century Fox Television for CBS...
(1972)
- The Manhunter
The Manhunter is an American crime drama that was part of CBS' lineup for the 1974 - 1975 television season. The series was produced by Quinn Martin and starred Ken Howard as Dave Barret, a 1930s-era private investigator from Idaho...
(1972)
- Gunshot
A gunshot is the discharge of a firearm, and the sound effect thereof; the term can also refer to a wound caused by such a discharge.-Gunshot sound:...
(1972)
- Alias Smith and Jones
Alias Smith and Jones is a Western television series that originally aired on ABC from 1971 to 1973. It starred Pete Duel as Hannibal Heyes and Ben Murphy as Kid Curry, a pair of Western outlaws trying to reform....
(1972)
- Adventures of Nick Carter (1972)
- All in the Family
All in the Family is an American situation comedy that was originally broadcast on the CBS television network from January 12, 1971 to April 8, 1979. In September 1979, the show was revamped, and given a new title, Archie Bunker's Place...
(1971)
- Owen Marshall, Counsellor at Law (1971)
- The Guiding Light (1952)
- The Borgia Stick
The Borgia Stick, is a 1967 American TV film starring Don Murray, and Inger Stevens,featuring Fritz Weaver, Barry Nelson, Barnard Hughes, Conrad Bain and Sorrell Booke in support,and directed by David Lowell Rich.Shot in New York City,the film was one of the highest rated events of the 1966-1967...
(1967)
- The Million Dollar Incident (1961)
- The Iceman Cometh
The Iceman Cometh is a play written by American playwright Eugene O'Neill in 1939. First published in 1940 the play premiered on Broadway at the Martin Beck Theatre on 9 October 1946, directed by Eddie Dowling where it ran for 136 performances to close on 15 March 1947.-Characters:* Harry Hope –...
(1960)
- The Streets of San Francisco
The Streets of San Francisco is a 1970s television police drama filmed on location in San Francisco, California, USA, and produced by Quinn Martin Productions, with the first season produced in association with Warner Bros...
(1975)
- Hawaii Five-O
Hawaii Five-O is an American television series that starred Jack Lord in the lead role for a fictional Hawaii state police department. The show ran for 12 seasons, from 1968 to 1980. The twelfth season was repackaged into syndication under the title McGarrett.-Overview:The CBS television network...
The Double Wall (1970)
- Mission: Impossible
Mission: Impossible is an American television series which was created and initially produced by Bruce Geller. It chronicled the missions of a team of secret American government agents known as the Impossible Missions Force...
(1967)
- New York Television Theatre (1965)
- The Iceman-Cometh (1960)
- Brenner
Brenner might refer to:* The Brenner Pass, one of the major passes through the Alps, linking Italy and Austria* Brenner, Italy, in the province of Bolzano-Bozen* Brenner Base Tunnel railway tunnel through the base of the Brenner massiv.* Brenner...
(1959)
Stage appearances
- Morning, Noon and Night
Morning, Noon and Night is a 1995 novel by Sidney Sheldon.- Plot :Harry Stanford is a rich businessman. While travelling on his yacht, he mysteriously falls overboard owing to a storm, leaving his entire fortune, estimated to be around six to seven billion dollars to his three children-Tyler, a...
(1968)
- Come Live with Me
Come Live with Me is a 1941 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer romantic comedy film starring James Stewart and Hedy Lamarr.-Cast:*James Stewart as Bill Smith*Hedy Lamarr as Johnny Jones*Ian Hunter as Barton Kendrick*Verree Teasdale as Diana Kendrick...
(1967)
- The White House (1964)
- Purlie Victorious (1961–62)
- Finian's Rainbow
Finian's Rainbow is a musical with a book by E.Y. Harburg and Fred Saidy, lyrics by Harburg, and music by Burton Lane. The 1947 Broadway production ran for 725 performances. Several revivals and a 1968 film version followed. A new Broadway revival is scheduled to begin on October 8, 2009...
(1960)
- Caligula
Caligula is a play written by Albert Camus, begun in 1938 and published for the first time in May 1944 by Éditions Gallimard. The play was later the subject of numerous revisions. It was part of what the author called the "Cycle of the Absurd", with the novel The Stranger and the essay The Myth...
(1960)
- Fiorello!
Fiorello! is a Pulitzer Prize-winning musical about New York City mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia, a reform Republican who took on Tammany Hall. The book is by Jerome Weidman and George Abbott, with lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and music by Jerry Bock...
(1959–61) (Replacement)
- Heartbreak House
Heartbreak House is a play written by George Bernard Shaw in 1919. According to A. C. Ward, the work argues that "cultured, leisured Europe" was drifting toward destruction, and that "Those in a position to guide Europe to safety failed to learn their proper business of political navigation"....
(1959)
- Nature's Way
Nature's Way may refer to:* Nature's Way , Gary Larson's first comic strip, the predecessor to The Far Side* "Nature's Way", a song by Spirit from their 1970 album Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus...
(1957)
- The Sleeping Prince (1956)
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