From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Charles Hoffman (September 28, 1911, San Francisco, California – April 8, 1972, Los Angeles, California) was a film and television writer and film producer. His writing credits include That Hagen Girl (1947), The Blue Gardenia (1953), and the 1960s television series Batman and The Green Hornet.
The episodes "A Piece of the Action" and "Batman's Satisfaction" have been edited together, along with other scenes and period TV promos of the 1966 television show "Batman" and 1967's "The Green Hornet" for this interesting feature film.
Release Date: 2020-01-01
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 1
After the superstardom and early death of Bruce Lee, 20th Century Fox decided to cobble together a couple of theatrical feature films from this property, of which this 1974 effort is the first. The bulk of the film consists of four episodes crudely spliced together. Scattered throughout are bizarrely irrelevant fight scenes from other episodes, which make the already disjointed plotting quite surreal. The television image was cropped to make a widescreen film, which means the tops of heads and hats are lopped off the frame with alarming regularity.
Release Date: 1974-03-21
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 34
When widower Mike Brady marries a lovely lady widow Carol Ann, their two families become one. These are the misadventures of this new couple, their six children, a dog named Tiger, and quirky housekeeper Alice.
Release Date: 1969-09-26
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 3
Vote Count: 145
The Green Hornet is a television series on the ABC US television network that aired for the 1966–1967 TV season starring Van Williams as the Green Hornet/Britt Reid and Bruce Lee as Kato.
Release Date: 1966-09-09
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 68
Wealthy entrepreneur Bruce Wayne and his ward Dick Grayson lead a double life: they are actually crime fighting duo Batman and Robin. A secret Batpole in the Wayne mansion leads to the Batcave, where Police Commissioner Gordon often calls with the latest emergency threatening Gotham City. Racing to the scene of the crime in the Batmobile, Batman and Robin must (with the help of their trusty Bat-utility-belt) thwart the efforts of a variety of master criminals, including The Riddler, The Joker, Catwoman, and The Penguin.
Release Date: 1966-01-12
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 19
Vote Count: 546
The adventures of the 10-year-old son of a government scientist.
Release Date: 1964-09-18
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 4
Vote Count: 60
The Rogues is an American television series that appeared on NBC from September 13, 1964, to April 18, 1965, starring David Niven, Charles Boyer, and Gig Young as a related trio of former conmen who could, for the right price, be persuaded to trick a very wealthy and heinously unscrupulous mark. Although it won the 1964 Golden Globe award for Best Television Series, the show was cancelled after one season consisting of thirty episodes.
Release Date: 1964-09-13
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 5
Burke's Law is an American detective series that ran on ABC from 1963 to 1965 and was revived on CBS in the 1990s. The show starred Gene Barry as Amos Burke, millionaire captain of Los Angeles police homicide division, who was chauffeured around to solve crimes in his Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud II.
Release Date: 1963-09-20
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 11
Surfside 6 was an ABC television series which aired from 1960 to 1962. The show centered on a Miami Beach detective agency set on a houseboat and featured Troy Donahue as Sandy Winfield II; Van Williams as Kenny Madison; and Lee Patterson as Dave Thorne. Diane McBain co-starred as socialite Daphne Dutton, whose yacht was berthed next to their houseboat. Margarita Sierra also had a supporting role as Cha Cha O'Brien, an entertainer who worked at The Boom Boom Room, a popular Miami Beach hangout at the Fontainebleau Hotel, directly across the street from Surfside 6. Surfside 6 was in fact a real address in Miami Beach, where an unrelated houseboat was moored at the time; it can also be seen in the sweeping aerial establishing shot of the Fontainebleu in 1964's Goldfinger.
Release Date: 1960-10-06
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 2
"Bourbon Street Beat" is a private detective series produced by Warner Brothers Television which aired on the ABC network from October 5, 1959, to July 4, 1960. It featured Richard Long as Rex Randolph, Andrew Duggan as Cal Calhoun, Van Williams as Kenny Madison, and Arlene Howell as Melody Lee Mercer, the secretary at the New Orleans detective agency in which they worked. The show is set in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA and revolves around the lives of Rex Randolph (Long) and Cal Calhoun (Duggan), who run a detective agency called Randolph and Calhoun — Special Services. The agency is based in the Absinthe House, a French Quarter nightclub on Bourbon Street.
Release Date: 1959-10-05
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 3
Vote Count: 1
A minister arrives at a run-down mining town to take over the church there. He finds he has his work cut out for him, especially when an earthquake causes a flood in the mineshaft and traps some of the local children.
Release Date: 1959-07-29
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
A lonely boy finds companionship with a horse.
Release Date: 1959-03-01
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Stu Bailey and Jeff Spencer are the wisecracking, womanizing private-detective heroes of this Warner Brothers drama. They work out of an office located at 77 Sunset Strip in Los Angeles, California, right next door to a snazzy restaurant where Kookie works as a valet. The finger-snapping, slang-talking Kookie occasionally helps Stu and Jeff with their cases, and eventually becomes a full-fledged member of the detective agency. Rex Randolph and J.R. Hale also join the firm, and Suzanne is their leggy secretary.
Release Date: 1958-10-10
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 3
Vote Count: 22
Peter Gunn is an American private eye television series. Filmed in a film noir atmosphere and featuring Henry Mancini music that could tell you the action with your eyes closed, Peter Gunn worked in style. Known as Pete to his friends and simply as Gunn to his enemies, he did his job in a calm cool way.
Release Date: 1958-09-22
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 18
In present-day U.S., Dr. Michael Parker, a prominent surgeon, unexpectedly runs into his German-born wife whom he thought was dead. Victor, an artist and his "dead" wife's now boyfriend, berates Dr. Parker for "killing" her. The bulk of the story flashes back to Austria during World War II as we learn how Dr. Parker met and married his wife, and the one mistake that may have cost him his family.
Release Date: 1956-03-10
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 16
In 1899 Alaska, miners have to protect themselves from a phony legal team trying to steal their gold claims.
Release Date: 1955-12-23
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 6
In 1880, Osawkie, Kansas is feuding with rival town Mandaroon over which will be county seat, keeping the town's men away from home most of the time. The last straw is when Matt Davis feels compelled to go on a new foray on his wedding night; his bride Liza (just call her Lysistrata) takes teacher Cassie's advice and organizes a marital strike to make the men-folk stop their nonsense.
Release Date: 1955-09-30
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 1
A husband and wife are driving on a trip to Palm Springs. They stop for gas and are kidnapped by a pair of criminals, who have just killed a store clerk during a robbery. They plan to flee to Mexico and need the couple to help get them through police roadblocks.
Release Date: 1955-05-08
Department: Writing
Job: Story
Three sailors on leave head for Paris with one thing on their minds.
Release Date: 1954-12-15
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 2
Upon waking up to the news that the man she’d gone on a date with the previous night has been murdered, a young woman with only a faint memory of the night’s events begins to suspect that she murdered him while attempting to resist his advances.
Release Date: 1953-03-20
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 88
My Little Margie is an American situation comedy starring Gale Storm and Charles Farrell that alternated between CBS and NBC from 1952 to 1955.
Release Date: 1952-06-16
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 1
A Broadway director helps the West Point cadets put on a show, aided by two lovely ladies and assorted complications.
Release Date: 1950-11-25
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 9
Ice-cold college dean Susan Middlecott feels there's no room in her life for romance. Enter Prof. Alec Stevenson, British lecturer on astronomy, touring North America and in possession of a keepsake of Susan's he wants to return. Desperate for publicity, lecture bureau press agent Teddy Evans magnifies this into a great romance. The efforts of both dignified principals to quash the story have the opposite effect; matters get more and more involved.
Release Date: 1950-03-16
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 4
An aspiring Broadway actress falls in love with a soldier on leave during a weekend in New York City.
Release Date: 1947-12-25
Department: Crew
Job: Additional Dialogue
Vote Count: 9
Mary Hagen lives in a small town in Ohio and goes to Jordon Junior College. For years, there has been whispers, rumors and gossip about who are her real parents. When Tom Bates returns to town, he takes over the house and practice that Judge Merrivale left him when he died. As Tom has been away a number of years, this leads to more gossip and Mary believes that he is her father. The popular and rich Ken loves Mary, but his family and friends constantly remind him that she is 'not one of us'. Julia, a teacher at school encourages Mary but Mary cannot get a break in anything she does, or is accused of doing. Tom knows the answer to her true identity, and he is silent.
Release Date: 1947-11-01
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 7
The secretary of an affably suave radio mystery host mysteriously commits suicide after his wealthy young niece disappears.
Release Date: 1947-10-11
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 52
Balkan Prince Henry has two wishes, to meet Lauren Bacall and see the "real" America. He befriends cabbie Buzz Williams and, without knowing the microphone is live, the two stage a debate on democracy versus monarchy broadcast back to the Prince's homeland. A plebiscite there puts Henry out of a job. Flying to Milwaukee to become a beer salesman, he meets Bacall on the seat next to his, but a tap on his shoulder means he must give up his seat (and dream) to Bogie.
Release Date: 1946-07-26
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 7
When his first stage show fails, songwriter Cole Porter goes off to fight in WWI until, injured, he lands in a hospital. He impresses nurse Linda Lee with his creativity, but their budding romance must wait as Cole heads home. Back in New York, he mounts a series of popular shows, and when his work brings him back to Europe, he eventually marries Linda. But success doesn't spare him from marital complications or bad news about a beloved relative.
Release Date: 1946-07-02
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 33
Shiftless playboy Tom Collier lives to jump from party to party — until he meets photographer Christie Sage. Through Christie, Tom takes over the ownership of The Bantam, a liberal magazine that opposes everything his family represents. As Tom and Christie's relationship deepens, love blooms and he proposes to her. Realizing that she could never fit in with Tom's social circle, Christie says no, a decision she later regrets. But Tom isn't left alone for long — scheming gold-digger Cecelia Henry wastes no time in catching Tom on the rebound and forcing him into a disastrous marriage.
Release Date: 1946-05-24
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 4
A singer can't choose between a charismatic gangster and an honest newspaperman.
Release Date: 1946-05-11
Department: Writing
Job: Original Story
Vote Count: 6
Judy Jones can claim inheritance only if she marries a genius.
Release Date: 1946-03-09
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 3
With a war on and most men being drafted, Howard Oil Supply Company has no salesmen left. So daughter Jean hits the road and does not make one sale. She finally gets one tentative sale with the Black Hills Oil Co., but Earl wants dinner with her. With the shortage of housing due to the war, Jean needs a military husband to get a place to stay in Clayfield, which is next to Camp Clay. She gets Lt. Mallory to act as her husband just to register. Then things go wrong as his commanding officer is there and believes them to be married. It gets worse as Don's mother shows up and then Jean's father.
Release Date: 1945-06-09
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 12
Teenage Janie falls in love with a private from an Army base opposed by her editor father.
Release Date: 1944-09-02
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 4
Journalist brothers feud over a woman they both fall for while covering World War II in the far east.
Release Date: 1942-08-27
Department: Writing
Job: Story
Vote Count: 12
In this comedy/mystery a milquetoast ad man finds his good ideas constantly copped by ambitious coworkers. His boss doesn't even seem to see him. The ad man's wife pushes her husband into confronting his boss during a party. Unfortunately, the timid fellow finds himself accused of murder after a corpse is found in the trunk of his car. He is quickly incarcerated for the crime. Meanwhile his wife begins investigating in an attempt to prove his innocence.
Release Date: 1939-06-08
Department: Writing
Job: Story
Vote Count: 1
Annabel Allison, star of Wonder Pictures, is irked at her poor publicity, especially when a rival gets engaged to a Marquis; so she makes studio head Webb re-hire disgraced publicity agent Morgan for her personal appearance tour. The trip proceeds with a flurry of Morgan's crazy, slapstick publicity stunts. Then Annabel has her chance to "bag" a real Viscount.
Release Date: 1938-11-10
Department: Writing
Job: Characters
Vote Count: 2
Wonder Pictures has been striking out at the box office lately, causing the seedy PR man to involve main star Annabel in ever outrageous stunts for publicity.
Release Date: 1938-09-09
Department: Writing
Job: Story
Vote Count: 3