Tab Hunter

AKA: Arthur Andrew Kelm

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1931-07-11

New York City, New York, USA

Biography

Arthur Andrew Gelien (née Kelm; July 11, 1931 – July 8, 2018), known professionally as Tab Hunter, was an American actor, singer, producer and author.

Crew Roles

Hollywood on Horses

Co-Executive Producer

Dark Horse

Producer

Dark Horse

Story

Tab Hunter Confidential

Author

Tab & Tony

Book

Lust in the Dust

Producer

Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {99}

(archive footage)

1990-01-01 5.7

Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths

Welcome behind the closed doors of a Hollywood that only a select few will ever get to see -- a Hollywood of tragic lives and tragic deaths. Some of the worlds brightest stars are hiding deep, dark se ...

Genre :Documentary

Driver

1988-06-02 5.42

Out of the Dark

A deranged killer wearing a clown mask begins preying on a group of young women working at a phone-sex company. ...

Genre :Comedy, Horror, Thriller

Mr. Stuart

1982-06-11 5.209

Grease 2

It's 1961, two years after the original Grease gang graduated, and there's a new crop of seniors and new members of the coolest cliques on campus, the Pink Ladies and T-Birds. Michael Carrington is th ...

Genre :Comedy, Music, Romance

Sam Dodd

1972-12-18 6.444

The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean

Outlaw and self-appointed lawmaker Judge Roy Bean rules over an empty stretch of the West that gradually grows, under his iron fist, into a thriving town, while dispensing his his own quirky brand of ...

Genre :Western, Comedy

Cadet Wesser

1955-06-04 6.1

The Sea Chase

As the Second World War breaks out, German freighter captain Karl Ehrlich is about to leave Sydney, Australia with his vessel, the Ergenstrasse. Ehrlich, an anti-Nazi but proud German, hopes to outrun ...

Genre :War, Action, Drama

Joe Hardy

1958-09-26 6.4

Damn Yankees

Film adaptation of the George Abbott Broadway musical about a Washington Senators fan who makes a pact with the Devil to help his baseball team win the league pennant. ...

Genre :Comedy

Todd Tomorrow

1981-05-29 7.011

Polyester

Blessed with a keen sense of smell and cursed with a philandering pornographer husband, a parasitic mother, and a pair of delinquent children, the long-suffering Francine Fishpaw turns to the bottle a ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama

David Hamilton

1976-07-26 4.1

Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood

A would-be filmmaker and actress shake up the industry with a trick dog who gets discovered by a studio bus driver in the 1920s. ...

Genre :Comedy

Steamer Lane

1964-08-05 4.8

Ride the Wild Surf

A group of friends go to Hawaii during the height of surfing season, to compete with other surf bums and find girlfriends along the way. ...

Genre :Comedy

Ed Hackett

1958-07-15 6.6

Gunman's Walk

A powerful rancher always protects his wild adult son by paying for damages and bribing witnesses, until his crimes become too serious to rectify. ...

Genre :Western

Ben Harris

1965-05-26 4.9

War-Gods of the Deep

A chance discovery leads American mining engineer Ben Harris and acquaintance Harold to discover a lost city under the sea while searching for their kidnapped friend Jill. Held captive in the underwat ...

Genre :Adventure, Science Fiction, Horror

Whispering Glades Tour Guide

1965-10-11 6.2

The Loved One

Newly arrived in Hollywood from England, Dennis Barlow finds he has to arrange his uncle's interment at the highly-organised and very profitable Whispering Glades funeral parlour. His fancy is caught ...

Genre :Comedy

Frank O'Brien

1950-06-01 5.8

The Lawless

A newspaper editor takes on the cause of oppressed migrant Mexican fruit pickers. ...

Genre :Drama, Crime, Thriller

Lt. William Fowler

1959-06-01 6.565

They Came to Cordura

An army major, himself guilty of cowardice, is asked to recommended soldiers for the Congressional Medal of Honor during the Mexican Border Incursion of 1916. ...

Genre :Western

Abel Wood

1985-03-01 6

Lust in the Dust

Assaulted by outlaws, donkey-riding Rosie joins a silent drifter's search for gold in the Old West. ...

Genre :Comedy, Western

Hans Brinker

1958-02-09 0

Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates

In Holland, poor but industrious and honorable 15-year-old Hans Brinker and his younger sister yearn to participate in December's great ice skating race on the canal. ...

Genre :Family, Music, TV Movie

Henry Barclay

1982-06-13 0

And They're Off

A tender love story with Kentucky's thrilling thoroughbred racing world as the stage. ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

Pvt Dan 'Danny' Forrester

1955-02-02 5.563

Battle Cry

The dramatic story of US Marines in training, in combat, and in love, during World War II. The story centers on a major who guides the raw recruits from their training to combat. ...

Genre :War, Drama, Romance

Harold Bridges

1954-11-19 5.9

Track of the Cat

A family saga: In a stunning mountain valley ranch setting near Aspen, complex and dangerous family dynamics play out against the backdrop of the first big snowstorm of winter and an enormous panther ...

Genre :Drama, Western

Rod

1988-09-09 4.2

Grotesque

A gang of crazed punkers breaks into a family's vacation home in the mountains and slaughters the entire family, except for one daughter who gets away. As the gang pursues the girl through the snow, t ...

Genre :Horror

Owen Lansing

1988-12-02 4.65

Cameron's Closet

A father who experiments with his son's psychokinetic powers is unaware that these experiments have released a demon from hell which lives in his son's closet, preparing to take over the young boy's s ...

Genre :Horror

Trace Jordan

1956-09-01 6

The Burning Hills

When Trace Jordan's brother is murdered by members of the land-grabbing Sutton family, he vows to report this injustice to the nearest Army fort. ...

Genre :Western

Hassan

1962-09-07 4.7

The Golden Arrow

Genies help an Arabian bandit (Tab Hunter) locate a magic arrow he needs to claim heirship to the sultan's kingdom. ...

Genre :Adventure, Fantasy

Eddie Collins

1972-02-18 3.5

Sweet Kill

Horror and suspense in the story of a psychotic maniac who literally "loves" women to death. ...

Genre :Horror, Thriller

Roger Henderson

1961-06-01 6.2

The Pleasure of His Company

Biddeford "Pogo" Poole, an urbane charmer, has been absent for most of the life of his daughter, Jessica, but he pops up again as she prepares to marry a California rancher. Though Pogo's ex-wife rema ...

Genre :Comedy

Lt. Morgan Hayes

1963-03-26 3.667

Operation Bikini

The film takes place aboard an American submarine in the Pacific during World War II. The sub's commander is ordered to stop and pick up an underwater demolition team led by Lt. Hayes, whose mission i ...

Genre :Drama, War

Marine Corporal Michael J. Dugan

1952-03-20 4.8

Saturday Island

When their hospital ship sinks in the South Pacific during WWII, military nurse Elizabeth Smythe and Marine Michael Dugan find themselves stranded — and soon enough, falling in love — on an idyllic tr ...

Genre :Adventure, War, Romance

Chip Ringo

1953-07-24 6.3

Gun Belt

Gunfighter Billy Ringo decides to hang up his guns, buy a ranch and marry Arlene Reach. His brother Matt, father of Chip, the nephew Ringo is trying to keep on the straight and narrow, with three othe ...

Genre :Western

Clive Stone

1954-06-30 4.8

Return to Treasure Island

There's something to be said for finishing what you've started. That's why the gentile Captain Long John Silver is heading back to Treasure Island to see if he can unearth the cache of riches buried t ...

Genre :Adventure

Thad Walker

1958-02-28 4.444

Lafayette Escadrille

A hotshot young flyer falls for a French prostitute during World War I. ...

Genre :Drama, Romance, War

Andy L. Shaeffer

1956-10-26 3.5

The Girl He Left Behind

A young man is drafted and goes through the rigors of basic training, ultimately discovering the experience is also character-building. Director David Butler's 1956 film stars '50s teen favorites Tab ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama

Alex Carswell

1964-12-01 0

The Man with Two Faces

Tab Hunter as a scary-eyed Aryan-blonde psychopath living in London, who emerges from prison and immediately proceeds to psychologically - and eventually physically - destroy his small family. ...

Genre :Crime

Self

2014-03-26 7.3

I Am Divine

Harris Glenn Milstead, aka Divine (1945-1988) was the ultimate outsider turned underground hero. Spitting in the face of the status quos of body image, gender identity, sexuality, and preconceived not ...

Genre :Documentary

Red

1959-09-11 5.9

That Kind of Woman

A young G.I. falls in love with a kept woman on a train to New York. ...

Genre :Drama, Comedy, Romance

Mike Reno

1967-07-01 5.1

Hostile Guns

US Marshal Gid McCool leads a wagon train of convicted felons to Huntsville prison. The only female among the crooks is the dancehall girl Laura Mannon, McCool's former flame. When McCool cannot be sw ...

Genre :Western

Elliot Bender

1978-10-23 3.8

Katie: Portrait of a Centerfold

A naive Texas beauty queen, seeking Hollywood stardom, quickly learns the realities of the business after attending an unethical modeling school. ...

Genre :Drama, TV Movie

1995-06-23 0

God Save the Queens

Creative documentary on the drag queen movement and its origins in Paris, New York and Madrid. ...

Genre :

Patrick Harris

1968-07-09 0

The Last Chance

Giuseppe Rosati's first production as director and only espionage film Scacco internazionale aka The Last Chance concerns an international crime syndicate threatened by certain information given to Am ...

Genre :Crime, Thriller

Donald Bashor

1958-02-27 9

Portrait of a Murderer

Based on a true story, Donald Bashor robs and bludgeons two women to their deaths. While committing the crimes he maintans a normal existence with his girlfriend Florry. ...

Genre :Crime, TV Movie

Stanley Smith

1956-10-04 7.5

Forbidden Area

Why are so many B-99 bombers from Hibiscus Air Base crashing or simply disappearing? Colonel Price comes up with a terrifying explanation, but will anyone believe him? ...

Genre :Drama, TV Movie, Thriller

Sheriff Durango

1968-03-01 5.8

Shotgun

In a small western town our hero Durango delivers his prisoner to the jailhouse and then goes to the local saloon where the lady saloon owner Joanne has eyes only for him. But Durango only has eyes fo ...

Genre :Western

Richard

1969-07-22 4.7

Quel maledetto ponte sull'Elba

Genre :War

Perkins

1992-07-17 6.25

Dark Horse

14 year old Allison has to go to a horse farm. With all the horses and the help of the owner Susan Hadley she finds new sense in her life. ...

Genre :Family

Stayczek

1970-09-29 3.7

San Francisco International

This pilot for the TV series stars Pernell Roberts as Jim Conrad, who runs an airport, much to the chagrin of his boss, "his way." In this, two plots run - a kid whose parents are splitting up decides ...

Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Jerry

1967-06-25 3

The Fickle Finger of Fate

A U.S. engineer in Spain hunts thieves of two candlesticks, one of which is found in his suitcase. ...

Genre :Comedy

Bill Lorant

1979-09-30 5.8

The Kid from Left Field

A bat boy guides the San Diego Padres to the World Series with the secret help of his dad, a baseball has-been who now sells refreshments in the stands. ...

Genre :Comedy, Family, TV Movie

Big Swede

1975-12-31 0

Timber Tramps

A tough, hard-drinking Alaska logging foreman likes fighting only slightly less than working. ...

Genre :Adventure

Bill Larson

1953-10-09 6.4

The Steel Lady

Surviving a plane crash in the Sahara, four oilmen find and manage to repair a German Afrika Corps tank which had been buried in the sand since WWII. ...

Genre :Action, Drama

Self

1995-01-01 8

Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick

Documentary exploring the career of noted film directer William A. Wellman. ...

Genre :Documentary

Self

2015-03-15 7.3

Tab Hunter Confidential

Throughout the 1950s, Tab Hunter reigned as Hollywood’s ultimate male heartthrob. But throughout his years of stardom, Tab had a secret. Tab Hunter was gay, and spent his Hollywood years in a precario ...

Genre :Documentary

Blue Grange

1982-04-01 4.5

Pandemonium

A former high school student who always wanted to be a cheerleader decides to reopen the cheerleading program at her former high school after years of closure for being targeted by a serial killer. ...

Genre :Comedy, Horror, Mystery

Self

1987-03-13 6

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life

Documentary about James Stewart's long career as an actor and positive personal life. ...

Genre :Documentary

Tim Andrews

1971-09-26 6.1

Hacksaw

A girl goes on vacation to the mountains where she finds a wild horse named Hacksaw. With a little help, she captures the stud and it doesn't take long until the man who helped her starts wagon racing ...

Genre :Adventure, Family, TV Movie, Western

Lieutenant Porter

1966-08-13 5

Birds Do It

Melvin Byrd, who dreams of being a scientist, is a Cape Kennedy "miniscule molecular particle surveillance monitor" - in short, a janitor. His job is to keep a major rocket project completely dust-fre ...

Genre :Comedy, Action

John Truett

1959-04-26 5

Meet Me in St. Louis

A year in the life of a turn-of-the-century middle class family, leading up to the opening of the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair. ...

Genre :Comedy, Music, TV Movie

Self

2003-09-09 8.5

Rita

Biography of 1940's sex goddess Rita Hayworth. ...

Genre :Documentary, TV Movie

Self

2019-08-03 7.3

Merely Marvelous: The Dancing Genius of Gwen Verdon

Merely Marvelous is a celebration of the art and life of Broadway's greatest dancing star, Gwen Verdon. She overcame many obstacles, including rickets, the Hollywood system, a loveless first marriage ...

Genre :Documentary

Self

2008-10-14 8

Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History

The history of Hollywood musical movies, from the very beginning until the 21st century, hosted by Shirley Jones. ...

Genre :Documentary

From 'Damn Yankees' (archive footage)

1985-01-18 7

That's Dancing!

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, 30s, 40s 50s and 60s up to the break dance and the m ...

Genre :Documentary, Music

1996-08-13 0

Ballyhoo: The Hollywood Sideshow!

This documentary celebrates the ridiculous stunts used by Hollywood over the years to market its worst movies. These include the ’50s drive-in where moviegoers could drop off their dirty laundry and p ...

Genre :Documentary

Self - Presenter

1989-01-01 3

Hollywood on Horses

Hosted by celebrity horse enthusiast, Tab Hunter, visits the stables and homes of the Hollywood movie set, where you'll see first hand how Hollywood's biggest stars ride, train and discuss their passi ...

Genre :Documentary, TV Movie

Self

2019-09-17 0

Sniffing Out ‘Polyester’

Featurette on the making of John Waters' "Polyester." ...

Genre :Documentary

Self

2021-08-14 0

Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age

Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age explores the world of Broadway from 1959 through the early 1980s as recounted by a diverse cast of Broadway stars who lived through it, creating a first-hand archive of ...

Genre :Documentary

Barney Blake

1963-09-20 6

Burke's Law

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 ...

Genre :Drama

Dave King

1977-09-24 6.273

The Love Boat

Passengers who search for romantic nights aboard a beautiful ship travelling to tropical or mysterious countries, decide to pass their vacation aboard the "Love Boat", where Gopher, Dr. Bricker, Isaac ...

Genre :Drama, Comedy

Mel Burgess

1968-09-20 7.1

Hawaii Five-O

Hawaii Five-O is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and Leonard Freeman. Set in Hawaii, the show originally aired for 12 seasons from 1968 to 1980, and continues in ...

Genre :Action & Adventure, Drama

Stanley Smith

1956-10-04 7.6

Playhouse 90

Playhouse 90 is an American television anthology series that was telecast on CBS from 1956 to 1960 for a total of 133 episodes. It originated from CBS Television City in Los Angeles, California. Since ...

Genre :Drama

Bill Maddox

1976-09-22 6.7

Charlie's Angels

Beautiful, intelligent, and ultra-sophisticated, Charlie's Angels are everything a man could dream of... and way more than they could ever handle! Receiving their orders via speaker phone from their n ...

Genre :Action & Adventure

Self

1957-08-05 8.4

American Bandstand

American Bandstand was an American music-performance show that aired in various versions from 1952 to 1989 and was hosted from 1956 until its final season by Dick Clark, who also served as producer. T ...

Genre :Reality

Self

1962-10-01 6.2

The Merv Griffin Show

Genre :Talk

Del Packer

1962-10-02 7.693

Combat!

Combat! is an American television program that originally aired on ABC from 1962 until 1967. The show covered the grim lives of a squad of American soldiers fighting the Germans in France during World ...

Genre :War & Politics, Drama

Daniel

1953-02-01 6.4

General Electric Theater

General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was sponsored by General Electric's Department of Public Rel ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama

1971-09-14 6.556

Cannon

Cannon is a CBS detective television series produced by Quinn Martin which aired from March 26, 1971 to March 3, 1976. The primary protagonist is the title character, private detective Frank Cannon, p ...

Genre :Drama, Action & Adventure

Hans Brinker

1951-12-24 8.6

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of tel ...

Genre :Drama

Paul Morgan

1960-09-18 5

The Tab Hunter Show

The Tab Hunter Show is an American situation comedy starring Tab Hunter. The series ran new episodes on NBC from September 18, 1960, to April 30, 1961; rebroadcasts then aired from May until September ...

Genre :Comedy

1974-09-13 6.2

Police Woman

Sergeant “Pepper"” Anderson, an undercover cop for the Criminal Conspiracy Unit of the Los Angeles Police Department, poses undercover from mob girl to prostitute. ...

Genre :Action & Adventure, Crime, Drama

Self

1980-04-11 5.4

Fridays

Fridays is the name of ABC's weekly late-night live comedy show, which aired on Friday nights from April 11, 1980 to April 23, 1982. ...

Genre :Comedy

Jimmy Piersall

1954-10-07 3.3

Climax!

Climax! is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was hosted by William Lundigan and later co-hosted by Mary Costa. It was one of the few CBS programs of that era ...

Genre :Drama, Mystery

Self

1956-10-05 6

The Dinah Shore Chevy Show

The Dinah Shore Chevy Show is an American variety series hosted by Dinah Shore, and broadcast on NBC from October 1956 to June 1963. The series was sponsored by the Chevrolet Motor Division of General ...

Genre :Reality

1975-09-11 7.4

Ellery Queen

Ellery Queen is an American television detective mystery series based on the fictional character Ellery Queen. It aired on NBC during the 1975-76 television season and stars Jim Hutton as Ellery Queen ...

Genre :Mystery, Drama

1956-09-18 0

Conflict

Conflict is a 1956 ABC series that directly succeeded Warner Brothers Presents. It is most famous for having hosted the effective pilots of 77 Sunset Strip and Maverick. Although it assumed the same ...

Genre :

2008-05-12 7

Sex: The Revolution

Sex: The Revolution was a four-part 2008 American documentary miniseries that aired on VH1 and The Sundance Channel. It chronicled the rise of American interest in sexuality from the 1950s through the ...

Genre :Documentary

Self

1953-03-19 7

The Oscars

An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a statuette, officially the Academy Award of Merit, that is ...

Genre :

Self

1954-10-02 0

The Jimmy Durante Show

The Jimmy Durante Show is a 51-episode half-hour comedy/variety television program presented live on NBC from October 2, 1954 to June 23, 1956. ...

Genre :Comedy

Bob Herrick

1972-09-15 7.1

Ghost Story

Ghost Story is an American television anthology series that aired for one season on NBC from 1972 to 1973. Executive-produced by William Castle, it initially featured supernatural entities such as gho ...

Genre :Drama, Mystery

1977-10-03 5

Forever Fernwood

Genre :

Self

1958-02-15 5.5

The Dick Clark Show

The Dick Clark Show is an American musical variety show broadcast weekly in the United States on the ABC television network 7:30-8 PM on Saturdays from February 15, 1958 through September 10, 1960, sp ...

Genre :

1983-12-15 5

Masquerade

Masquerade is an American espionage television series that aired for a few months on ABC in the spring of 1983. ...

Genre :Action & Adventure, Drama

Self

1961-12-11 5.4

The Mike Douglas Show

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 of its first two years on the air. It then went in ...

Genre :Comedy, Talk

1959-10-06 6

Startime

Startime is an anthology show of drama, comedy, and variety, and was one of the first American television shows broadcast in color. The program was aired Tuesday nights in the United States on the NBC ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama

Arnold Blake

1974-01-18 7.269

The Six Million Dollar Man

Follow the adventures of Steve Austin, cybernetically enhanced astronaut turned secret agent, employed by the OSI, under the command of Oscar Goldman and supervised by the scientist who created his cy ...

Genre :Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Action & Adventure, Drama

Self

1948-06-20 6.8

The Ed Sullivan Show

The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan. It was ...

Genre :Comedy, Talk

Self - Guest

1956-06-24 5.6

The Steve Allen Show

Genre :Comedy

Self - Singer

1956-06-24 5.6

The Steve Allen Show

Genre :Comedy

Self

1982-09-20 7.3

Madame's Place

Madame's Place is an American sitcom that featured the misadventures of Madame, a puppet in the form of a bawdy old movie star with a naughty sense of humor. ...

Genre :

1983-09-20 5.5

Just Our Luck

Just Our Luck is a short-lived American sitcom which aired on the American Broadcasting Company in the fall of 1983. Created by brothers Lawrence and Charles Gordon, it was considered a modernized ver ...

Genre :Comedy

Self - Mystery Guest

1950-02-02 7

What's My Line?

Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or "no" questions. ...

Genre :Family, Comedy

Self - Panelist

1950-02-02 7

What's My Line?

Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or "no" questions. ...

Genre :Family, Comedy

Chip

1979-01-26 0

$weepstake$

An anthology depicting the lives of people who hope to win a large amount of money in a sweepstakes and what happens after they win — or do not win — the money. ...