Criswell

Acting

Criswell

Born — Died

1907-08-18 — 1982-10-04

Place of birth

Princeton, Indiana, USA

Known for

Acting

Credits

8 titles

Jeron Criswell King (1907 – 1982), known by his stage-name The Amazing Criswell, was an American psychic known for wildly inaccurate predictions.

Known for

Tonight Starring Jack Paar poster
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Tonight Starring Jack Paar is an American talk show hosted by Jack Paar under The Tonight Show franchise from 1957 to 1962. It originally aired during late-night. During most of its run it was broadcast from Studio 6B inside the RCA Building. The same studio would also host early episodes of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, and Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. Its theme song was an instrumental version of "Everything's Coming Up Roses", and the closing theme was "So Until I See You" by Al Lerner.

Tonight Starring Jack Paar

1957

Plan 9 from Outer Space poster
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In California, an old man grieves the loss of his wife, and dies the day after she is buried. However, the space soldier Eros and his mate Tanna use an electric device to resurrect them both, alongside the strong Inspector Clay, who was murdered by the alien-controlled dead couple. When the populations of Hollywood and Washington D.C. see flying saucers on the sky, a colonel, a police lieutenant, a commercial pilot, his wife, and a policeman try to stop the aliens.

Plan 9 from Outer Space

1957

Orgy of the Dead poster
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Horror novelist John and his girlfriend Shirley are taking a night drive, in search of an eerie graveyard that will hopefully inspire John to come up with his next story, but instead stumble into the wild rituals conducted by The Dark Master and his faithful servants.

Orgy of the Dead

1965

Revenge of the Dead poster
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Reports of strange activities out by the Old Willow's place signal new adventures for Kelton the Cop & Co. An apparent mystic, Dr. Acula is engaging in rituals designed to raise the dead. But he may get more than he bargained for...

Revenge of the Dead

1959

Dad Made Dirty Movies poster
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Chronicles Stephen C. Apostolof's rise from Eastern-European fugitive to producer and director of sexploitation films in the 60's and 70's, his turbulent relationship with infamous Ed Wood and his downfall in the late 70's with advent of hardcore pornography.

Dad Made Dirty Movies

2011

The Weird World of Weird poster
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Exploitation documentary, not to be confused with the Something Weird compilation of the same name, which amongst others contains a copy of this film.

The Weird World of Weird

1970

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