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Harve Presnell
Born: 14th Sep 1933 Modesto, California, USA - Died 30th Jun 2009
Dept: Acting
Harve Presnell (September 14, 1933 – June 30, 2009) was an American actor and singer. He began his career in the mid 1950s as a classical baritone, singing with orchestras and opera companies throughout the United States. His career reoriented away from classical music to musical theatre in 1960 after Meredith Willson cast him in the lead role of his new Broadway musical The Unsinkable Molly Brown. His portrayal of "Leadville Johnny" was a resounding success and he reprised the role in the 1964 film version of the musical, winning a Golden Globe Award for his portrayal.
Presnell went on to star in a few more films during the 1960s, but by the early 1970s that aspect of his career came to a standstill. From 1970 to 1995 he mostly worked as a musical theatre performer on Broadway, the West End, and in touring productions out of New York. In his early 60s, Presnell saw a resurgence in his movie career which lasted until his death. He portrayed character roles in films like Fargo (1996), Saving Private Ryan (1998), and Flags of Our Fathers (2006). He also appeared on television as Mr. Parker in The Pretender and Lew Staziak in Andy Barker, P.I.. He had recurring roles on Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman and Dawson's Creek.
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 68
Film: 34 (50%)
Television: 34 (50%)
Remaining genres not in graph: War, Documentary, Western, Fantasy, Music, Talk, Science Fiction, Thriller, War & Politics, Adventure, Soap, Kids, Horror
Filmography
2010
Story of a couple that starts the first legal brothel in Nevada and a boxer they own a piece of. ... view
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Dr. Smathers
2008
Its Barbershop for Rednecks. Bill is a bait shop owner who has to make a balloon payment of $15,000 or else the bank will close his shop. Unable to ma ... view
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Jack
2007
God contacts Junior Congressman Evan Baxter and tells him to build an ark in preparation for a great flood. ... view
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Congressman Burrows
Mar 2007 (first aired)
Certified public accountant Andy Barker reluctantly becomes a private investigator after he is mistaken for the former office tenant, who was a privat ... view
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Lew Staziak (6 ep.)
2006
Women who have played orphans in "Annie" are brought together in this documentary. ... view
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Self
2006
There were five Marines and one Navy Corpsman photographed raising the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi by Joe Rosenthal on February 23, 1945. This is the s ... view
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Dave Severance
Feb 2005 (first aired)
The series focuses on an eccentric motley crew that is the Smith family and their three housemates: Father, husband, and breadwinner Stan Smith; his b ... view
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Frank, the Judge (voice) (2 ep.)
Sep 2003 (first aired)
The Philadelphia homicide squad's lone female detective finds her calling when she is assigned cases that have never been solved. Detective Lilly Rush ... view
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Harry Kemp Jr. (2009) (1 ep.)
Sep 2003 (first aired)
John "Jack" Turner is a maverick scion from an American political dynasty, a "true believer," who must reconcile his passion for the purity of law in ... view
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Unknown/various (1 ep.)
2003
Three friends attempt to recapture their glory days by opening up a fraternity near their alma mater. ... view
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Mr. Springbrook
2003
Elle Woods strives to achieve her dreams of becoming a lawyer. An unsold television pilot for ABC created by the same people who made the 2001 movie. ... view
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Henry Whitehouse
Jul 2002 (first aired)
Adrian Monk was once a rising star with the San Francisco Police Department, legendary for using unconventional means to solve the department's most b ... view
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Zach Ellinghouse (1 ep.)
2002
When Longfellow Deeds, a small-town pizzeria owner and poet, inherits $40 billion from his deceased uncle, he quickly begins rolling in a different ki ... view
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Preston Blake
2002
The rivalry between two door-to-door vacuum cleaner distributors gets out of hand as competing sales teams race to sell the most in 30 days. ... view
Character:
Winslow Schnaebelt
2001
Jarod takes a keen interest in an ancient symbol that may unlock secrets about his family. But Miss Parker is hot on Jarod's trail and about to make d ... view
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Mr. Parker
Mar 2001 (first aired)
The stories of three women who married into America's royal family, and lived in the glory and the glare of the political spotlight. ... view
Character:
Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. (2 ep.)
2001
On the eve of deer-hunting season in Michigan, a family of hunters contends with the shame of their eldest son never having shot his own buck. ... view
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Albert Soady
2001
Picking up where the television series left off, "The Pretender 2001" features even deeper explorations in the show's mythology, including a revealing ... view
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Mr. Parker
2000
Jack's lavish, fast-paced lifestyle changes one Christmas night when he stumbles into a grocery store holdup and disarms the gunman. The next morning ... view
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Big Ed
2000
World War I has left golfer Rannulph Junuh a poker-playing alcoholic, his perfect swing gone. Now, however, he needs to get it back to play in a tourn ... view
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John Invergordon
Jul 2000 (first aired)
The lives of staff in the womens' health clinic of a fictitious hospital in Philadelphia. ... view
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Andrew 'Andy' March (1 ep.)
1999
An elderly widow befriends an orphaned juvenile delinquent. ... view
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Finner
1998
The true story of Dr. Hunter "Patch" Adams, who in the 1970s found that humor is the best medicine, and was willing to do just anything to make his pa ... view
Character:
Dean Anderson
Oct 1998 (first aired)
Three sisters (Prue, Piper and Phoebe) reunite and unlock their powers to become the Charmed Ones, the most powerful good witches of all time, whose p ... view
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Captain Black Jack Cutting (1 ep.)
Sep 1998 (first aired)
The Lionhearts is an animated series from MGM that aired on Saturday and Sunday mornings in syndication from 1998 to 2000. ... view
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(voice) (8 ep.)
1998
As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fourth trapped behind enemy lines. Ranger captain Joh ... view
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General Marshall
1998
His son's critical injury forces a Montana man (Dennis Quaid) to reconsider priorities as he struggles to retain family land. ... view
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Garth
1998
Something in his past keeps career Army man John Paul Vann from advancing past colonel. He views being sent to Vietnam as part of the US military advi ... view
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MACV General
Apr 1998 (first aired)
The story of the United States' space program, from its beginnings in 1961 to the final moon mission in 1972. ... view
Character:
Harve (1 ep.)
Mar 1998 (first aired)
Welcome to Beacon Street Pizza, the perfect workplace and hangout for aimless wise-guy Berg, neurotic Pete and campus beauty Sharon. Pete and Berg are ... view
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Edgar J. Hagerty (1 ep.)
Jan 1998 (first aired)
Dawson's Creek is an American teen drama that portrays the fictional lives of a close-knit group of teenagers through high school and college. ... view
Character:
Arthur Brooks (9 ep.)
Sep 1997 (first aired)
George & Leo is a short-lived American sitcom starring Bob Newhart and Judd Hirsch. Set on Martha's Vineyard, the series aired on CBS from September 1 ... view
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Unknown/various (1 ep.)
1997
Christian Slater is a stranger who comes to a small town. The local citizens think he's up to no good. After bothering him for a while, he blurts out ... view
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Mayor Henry Leech
1997
In order to foil a terrorist plot, an FBI agent undergoes facial transplant surgery and assumes the identity of a criminal mastermind. The plan turns ... view
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Victor Lazarro
Mar 1997 (first aired)
A provocative legal drama focused on young associates at a bare-bones Boston firm and their scrappy boss, Bobby Donnell. The show's forte is its story ... view
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Judge Dickem (1 ep.)
1997
A retired and disgruntled scientist is brought out of retirement to explain why tidal waves are wiping out coastal communities. But is he part of the ... view
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Stanley Schiff
1996
Idealistic young attorney Adam Hall takes on the death row clemency case of his racist grandfather, Sam Cayhall, a former Ku Klux Klan member he has n ... view
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Attorney General Roxburgh
Sep 1996 (first aired)
Raised in a secret facility built for experimenting on children, Jarod is a genius who can master any profession and become anyone he has to be. When ... view
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Mr. Parker (5 ep.)
1996
In 1930s Texas, pulp fiction master Robert E. Howard is introduced to Novalyne Price, a teacher with aspirations of becoming an author herself, and th ... view
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Dr. Howard
Aug 1996 (first aired)
The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest is an American animated action-adventure television series. ... view
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Doug (voice) (1 ep.)
1996
Motivational Speaker Jack Corcoran is determined to get his career off the ground, but the biggest gigs he can get are the ones nobody wants. One day, ... view
Character:
Trowbridge Bowers
Mar 1996 (first aired)
Fun-loving San Francisco Police Department investigator Nash Bridges is part of the elite Special Investigations Unit. He tackles crime using his keen ... view
Character:
Corick McMillan (1 ep.)
1996
Jerry, a small-town Minnesota car salesman is bursting at the seams with debt... but he's got a plan. He's going to hire two thugs to kidnap his wife ... view
Character:
Wade Gustafson
Sep 1995 (first aired)
The Client is an American television series that aired on CBS from September 18, 1995 to August 16, 1996. The series was based on the 1994 film The Cl ... view
Character:
Buddy Hutchinson (1 ep.)
Mar 1995 (first aired)
Anthology series of composed of distinct story episodes, sometimes with a plot twist at the end, with occasional recurring story elements that were of ... view
Character:
Greg Matheson (1 ep.)
Jan 1995 (first aired)
Pulled to the far side of the galaxy, where the Federation is 75 years away at maximum warp speed, a Starfleet ship must cooperate with Maquis rebels ... view
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Colonel Q (1 ep.)
Sep 1994 (first aired)
ER explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by the dedicated physicians and staff of its overburdened e ... view
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Mr. Venema (1 ep.)
Mar 1994 (first aired)
Together with Cornfed, his portly, porcine partner in crime solving, this defective detective amazingly manages to solve crimes and be a single parent ... view
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Sir Declan McManus (voice) (1 ep.)
Sep 1993 (first aired)
After many years spent at the “Cheers” bar, Frasier moves back home to Seattle to work as a radio psychiatrist after his policeman father gets sho ... view
Character:
Mike Shaw (1 ep.)
Sep 1993 (first aired)
A much more lavish version of the popular Superman television series which had first aired forty years earlier, Lois & Clark focused more on the Man o ... view
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Dr. Sam Lane (5 ep.)
1985
A documentary film about dancing on the screen, from it's orgins after the invention of the movie camera, over the movie musical from the late 20s, 30 ... view
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From 'The Unsinkable Molly Brown' (archive footage)
1975
The actors for a horror movie go out to dinner one evening with their director and tell horror stories to each other. ... view
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Peter Brown
Sep 1972 (first aired)
The Julie Andrews Hour is a television variety series starring Julie Andrews that was produced by ATV and distributed by ITC Entertainment. It aired o ... view
Character:
Self (1 ep.)
1972
A young girl writes to President Abraham Lincoln to advise him to grow a beard. ... view
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Ballad Singer
1969
A Michigan farmer and a prospector form a partnership in the California gold country. Their adventures include buying and sharing a wife, hijacking a ... view
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"Rotten Luck Willie"
1965
A playboy helps a young woman turn her father's Nevada ranch into a haven for divorcees. ... view
Character:
Danny Churchill
1965
Though a fictionalized Western based on George Armstrong Custer's 7th Cavalry Regiment at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, the film is almost a gene ... view
Character:
Sol Rogers
1964
The buoyant Molly Brown has survived the first crisis of her life—a flood. Sixteen years later she sets out to make her way in the world. She assure ... view
Character:
Johnny Brown
1964
This short film looks at the extensive wardrobe department that clothed the casts of MGM films into the 1960s. ... view
Character:
Self
Sep 1963 (first aired)
The Danny Kaye Show is an American variety show hosted by Danny Kaye that aired on CBS from 1963 to 1967 on Wednesday nights. Directed by Robert Schee ... view
Character:
Self (1 ep.)
Oct 1962 (first aired)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under The Tonight Show franchise from 1962 to 1992. It originally aired ... view
Character:
Self (1 ep.)
Dec 1961 (first aired)
The Mike Douglas Show is an American daytime television talk show hosted by Mike Douglas that originally aired only in the Cleveland area during much ... view
Character:
Self (1 ep.)
Jan 1959 (first aired)
“The Bell Telephone Hour” was a musical variety show that aired on “NBC” TV from 12 January 1959 to 14 June 1968 that showcased the best in Br ... view
Character:
Self (2 ep.)
Oct 1955 (first aired)
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries. ... view
Character:
Mitch (uncredited) (1 ep.)
Mar 1953 (first aired)
An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a statuett ... view
Character:
Self (1 ep.)
Feb 1953 (first aired)
General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was sponso ... view
Character:
Dismas (2 ep.)