Desi Arnaz (1917–1986) |
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Desiderio Alberto Arnaz y de Acha III was born in Santiago, Cuba on March 2, 1917. His father was the mayor of Santiago. The 1933 revolution led by Fulgencio Batista had landed his father in jail and stripped the family of its wealth, property and power. His father was released because of the intercession of U.S. officials who believed him to be ...
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Born:in Santiago, CubaDied:(age 69) in Del Mar, California, USA |
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Producer (66 credits)
Producer (66 credits)
1973-1976
ABC Late Night
(TV Series documentary) (executive producer - 24 episodes)
- Getting Married
(1976)
... (executive producer - uncredited)
- Assasinations: An American Nightmare
(1975)
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- Your Hit Parade 25th Anniversary
(1975)
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- A Salute to Daytime Dramas
(1975)
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- What's My Line? At 25
(1975)
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1963-1975
You Don't Say
(TV Series) (executive producer - 493 episodes)
- Elaine Joyce, Rex Reed, Robert Ridgely, Betty White
(1975)
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- June Lockhart, Larry Hovis, Rex Reed, Conny Van Dyke - Day 2
(1975)
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- Abby Dalton, Ron Glass, Robert Morse, Bernadette Peters
(1975)
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- Ann Elder, Mickey Manners, Robert Ridgely, Conny Van Dyke
(1975)
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- Joyce Bulifant, Meredith MacRae, Mickey Manners, Greg Morris
(1975)
... (executive producer - uncredited)
1967-1975
Mannix
(TV Series) (executive producer - 194 episodes)
- Hardball
(1975)
... (executive producer - uncredited)
- Search for a Dead Man
(1975)
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- Design for Dying
(1975)
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- Bird of Prey: Part 2
(1975)
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- Bird of Prey: Part 1
(1975)
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1966-1973
Mission: Impossible
(TV Series) (executive producer - 171 episodes)
- Imitation
(1973)
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- The Western
(1973)
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- The Pendulum
(1973)
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- Speed
(1973)
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- The Fighter
(1973)
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1966-1969
Star Trek
(TV Series) (executive producer - 80 episodes)
- Turnabout Intruder
(1969)
... (executive producer - uncredited)
- All Our Yesterdays
(1969)
... (executive producer - uncredited)
- The Savage Curtain
(1969)
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- The Cloud Minders
(1969)
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- The Way to Eden
(1969)
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1967-1969
The Mothers-In-Law
(TV Series) (executive producer - 56 episodes)
- The Not-So-Grand Opera
(1969)
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- The Charge of the Wife Brigade
(1969)
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- Show Business Is No Business
(1969)
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- Take Her, He's Mine
(1969)
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- Two on the Aisle
(1969)
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The Lucy Show
(TV Series) (executive producer - 155 episodes, 1962 - 1968) (producer - 1 episode, 1962)
- Lucy and 'The Boss of the Year' Award
(1968)
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- Lucy and Sid Caesar
(1968)
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- Lucy and the Lost Star
(1968)
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- Lucy Helps Ken Berry
(1968)
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- Lucy and Phil Harris
(1968)
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1967
Music City USA
(TV Series) (executive producer - 1 episode)
- Episode #1.6
(1967)
... (executive producer - uncredited)
1963-1967
Vacation Playhouse
(TV Series) (executive producer - 44 episodes)
- Heaven Help Us
(1967)
... (executive producer - uncredited)
- Alfred of the Amazon
(1967)
... (executive producer - uncredited)
- My Boy Googie
(1967)
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- You're Only Young Twice
(1967)
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- Off We Go!
(1966)
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1963-1964
The Greatest Show on Earth
(TV Series) (executive producer - 30 episodes)
- You're All Right, Ivy
(1964)
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- There Are No Problems, Only Opportunities
(1964)
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- This Train Don't Stop Till It Gets There
(1964)
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- Love the Giver
(1964)
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- The Glorious Days of the Used to Be
(1964)
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1953-1964
The Danny Thomas Show
(TV Series) (executive producer - 343 episodes)
- The Persistent Cop
(1964)
... (executive producer - uncredited)
- Rusty and the Chorus Girl
(1964)
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- Call Off the Hounds
(1964)
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- Beautiful Lady
(1964)
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- Pupa Loves Rusty
(1964)
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1963
Glynis
(TV Series) (executive producer - 13 episodes)
- Crime After a Fashion
(1963)
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- This One Will Kill You
(1963)
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- Catsa Nostra
(1963)
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- The Body Guards
(1963)
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- Two Way Stretch
(1963)
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1961-1963
Kraft Mystery Theater
(TV Series) (executive producer - 47 episodes)
- Man Without a Witness
(1963)
... (executive producer - uncredited)
- Pattern of Guilt
(1963)
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- Go Look at the Roses
(1963)
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- Ordeal in Darkness
(1963)
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- Talk to My Partner
(1963)
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1959-1963
The Untouchables
(TV Series) (executive producer - 119 episodes)
- A Taste for Pineapple
(1963)
... (executive producer - uncredited)
- Line of Fire
(1963)
... (executive producer - uncredited)
- The Torpedo
(1963)
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- The Jazz Man
(1963)
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- The Charlie Argos Story
(1963)
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1962-1963
Fair Exchange
(TV Series) (executive producer - 27 episodes)
- My Fair Scot
(1963)
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- How You Gonna Get 'Em Back from the Farm
(1963)
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- Weddings Are for Parents
(1963)
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- Neville, the Pearlie
(1963)
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- Never Trust a Banjo Player
(1963)
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1960-1962
Here's Hollywood
(TV Series) (executive producer - 571 episodes)
- Episode #3.80
(1962)
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- Episode #3.79
(1962)
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- Episode #3.78
(1962)
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- Episode #3.77
(1962)
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- Episode #3.76
(1962)
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1953-1962
General Electric Theater
(TV Series) (executive producer - 303 episodes)
- Go Fight City Hall
(1962)
... (executive producer - uncredited)
- The Roman Kind
(1962)
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- The First Hundred Years
(1962)
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- Somebody Please Help Me!
(1962)
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- Acres and Pains
(1962)
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1960-1961
Harrigan and Son
(TV Series) (executive producer - 34 episodes)
- The Testimonial
(1961)
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- On Broadway
(1961)
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- Roommates
(1961)
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- The Legacy
(1961)
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- Hello - Goodbye
(1961)
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1958-1961
The Ann Sothern Show
(TV Series) (executive producer - 93 episodes)
- The Invitation
(1961)
... (executive producer - uncredited)
- The Beginning
(1961)
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- The Wedding
(1961)
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- Vamp 'Til Ready
(1961)
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- Pandora
(1961)
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1960-1961
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
(TV Series) (executive producer - 37 episodes)
- A Man's Game
(1961)
... (executive producer - uncredited)
- Big Jake
(1961)
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- The Hitch-Hiker
(1961)
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- Triple C
(1961)
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- The Assassin
(1961)
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1960-1961
Guestward Ho!
(TV Series) (executive producer - 38 episodes)
- No Place Like Home
(1961)
... (executive producer - uncredited)
- The Beatniks
(1961)
... (executive producer - uncredited)
- The Wild West Show
(1961)
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- Hooten's Second Car
(1961)
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- The Hootons Versus Hawkeye
(1961)
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1959-1960
Grand Jury
(TV Series) (executive producer - 40 episodes)
- The Perfect Crime
(1960)
... (executive producer - uncredited)
- The Magazine Scandal
(1960)
... (executive producer - uncredited)
- The Juke Box Story
(1960)
... (executive producer - uncredited)
- The Guilty Victim
(1960)
... (executive producer - uncredited)
- The Escapee
(1960)
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1959-1960
Pony Express
(TV Series) (executive producer - 35 episodes)
- Reclaim
(1960)
... (executive producer - uncredited)
- We Ourselves
(1960)
... (executive producer - uncredited)
- Duel at Devil's Canyon
(1960)
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- Bandito
(1960)
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- Mail for a Male
(1960)
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1958-1960
U.S. Marshal
(TV Series) (executive producer - 51 episodes)
- Destination Nowhere
(1960)
... (executive producer - uncredited)
- High Fence
(1960)
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- The Man Who Never Was
(1960)
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- The Man Who Lived Twice
(1960)
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- Murder, My Darling
(1960)
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1958-1960
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
(TV Series) (executive producer - 42 episodes)
- Dr. Kate
(1960)
... (executive producer - uncredited)
- Murder Is a Private Affair
(1960)
... (executive producer - uncredited)
- City in Bondage
(1960)
... (executive producer - uncredited)
- The Man in the Funny Suit
(1960)
... (executive producer - uncredited)
- Circle of Evil
(1960)
... (executive producer - uncredited)
1958-1960
The Texan
(TV Series) (executive producer - 79 episodes)
- Episode #2.42
(1960)
... (executive producer - uncredited)
- 24 Hours to Live
(1960)
... (executive producer - uncredited)
- Badman
(1960)
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- Mission to Monterey
(1960)
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- The Accuser
(1960)
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1957-1960
The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour
(TV Series) (executive producer - 13 episodes)
- Lucy Meets the Mustache
(1960)
... (executive producer)
- The Ricardos Go to Japan
(1959)
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- Milton Berle Hides at the Ricardos
(1959)
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- Lucy's Summer Vacation
(1959)
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- Lucy Wants a Career
(1959)
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1957-1960
Whirlybirds
(TV Series) (executive producer - 111 episodes)
- Four Little Indians
(1960)
... (executive producer - uncredited)
- Time Limit
(1959)
... (executive producer - uncredited)
- Dead Wrong
(1959)
... (executive producer - uncredited)
- Man, You Kill Me
(1959)
... (executive producer - uncredited)
- Shoot Out
(1959)
... (executive producer - uncredited)
1957-1959
The Walter Winchell File
(TV Series) (executive producer - 38 episodes)
- Death Comes in a Small Package: File #37
(1959)
... (executive producer - uncredited)
- Muggy Night on Times Square: File #39
(1958)
... (executive producer - uncredited)
- The Box Men: File #38
(1958)
... (executive producer - uncredited)
- A Thing of Beauty: File #29
(1958)
... (executive producer - uncredited)
- The Night Prowlers: File #35
(1958)
... (executive producer - uncredited)
1958-1959
Yancy Derringer
(TV Series) (executive producer - 34 episodes)
- Two Tickets to Promontory
(1959)
... (executive producer - uncredited)
- Gone But Not Forgotten
(1959)
... (executive producer - uncredited)
- The Quiet Firecracker
(1959)
... (executive producer - uncredited)
- V as in Voodoo
(1959)
... (executive producer - uncredited)
- Outlaw at Liberty
(1959)
... (executive producer - uncredited)
1954-1959
December Bride
(TV Series) (executive producer - 157 episodes)
- Bald Baby
(1959)
... (executive producer - uncredited)
- Lily the Example
(1959)
... (executive producer - uncredited)
- Lily Helps Twilly
(1959)
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- Linda on TV
(1959)
... (executive producer - uncredited)
- Lily Goes Fishing
(1959)
... (executive producer - uncredited)
1958
This Is Alice
(TV Series) (executive producer - 39 episodes)
- When the Bough Breaks
(1958)
... (executive producer - uncredited)
- Weight Lifter
(1958)
... (executive producer - uncredited)
- Two Yanks in Georgia
(1958)
... (executive producer - uncredited)
- Trial Balloon
(1958)
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- Too Many Fathers
(1958)
... (executive producer - uncredited)
1958
Colgate Theatre
(TV Series) (executive producer - 8 episodes)
- If You Knew Tomorrow
(1958)
... (executive producer - uncredited)
- Welcome to Washington
(1958)
... (executive producer - uncredited)
- Macreedy's Woman
(1958)
... (executive producer - uncredited)
- Fountain of Youth
(1958)
... (executive producer - uncredited)
- Mr. Tutt
(1958)
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1956-1958
The Adventures of Jim Bowie
(TV Series) (executive producer - 76 episodes)
- The Puma
(1958)
... (executive producer - uncredited)
- Man on the Street
(1958)
... (executive producer - uncredited)
- The Cave
(1958)
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- A Night in Tennessee
(1958)
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- Bad Medicine
(1958)
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1954-1958
Shower of Stars
(TV Series) (executive producer - 31 episodes)
- Episode #4.7
(1958)
... (executive producer - uncredited)
- Jack Benny, Hermione Gingold, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Gogi Grant, Van Johnson, Patty McCormack
(1958)
... (executive producer - uncredited)
- Episode #4.4
(1958)
... (executive producer - uncredited)
- Jack Benny Celebrates His 40th Birthday
(1958)
... (executive producer - uncredited)
- Jack Benny, George Burns, Ed Wynn, Jo Stafford, Tommy Sands, Paul Weston, Chiquita Johnson
(1958)
... (executive producer - uncredited)
1957-1958
Official Detective
(TV Series) (executive producer - 40 episodes)
- The Combination
(1958)
... (executive producer - uncredited)
- The Cover-Up
(1958)
... (executive producer - uncredited)
- The Taxi Killers
(1958)
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- Trail of Terror
(1958)
... (executive producer - uncredited)
- The Policeman's Gun
(1958)
... (executive producer - uncredited)
1956-1958
The Sheriff of Cochise
(TV Series) (executive producer - 68 episodes)
- Woman Escapes
(1958)
... (executive producer - uncredited)
- Social Service Case
(1958)
... (executive producer - uncredited)
- Looters
(1957)
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- Deputy's Wife
(1957)
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- Border Sanctuary
(1957)
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1955-1957
Those Whiting Girls
(TV Series) (executive producer - 26 episodes)
- A Man in the House
(1957)
... (executive producer - uncredited)
- Margaret Whiting's Sister
(1957)
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- The Army Camp Show
(1957)
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- Margaret's Romance
(1957)
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- What Price Publicity?
(1957)
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1956-1957
Wire Service
(TV Series) (executive producer - 39 episodes)
- Escape to Freedom
(1957)
... (executive producer - uncredited)
- Rehearsal for Sabotage
(1957)
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- The Nameless
(1957)
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- Death at Twin Pines
(1957)
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- The Washington Stars
(1957)
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I Love Lucy
(TV Series) (executive producer - 155 episodes, 1951 - 1956) (producer - 27 episodes, 1956 - 1957)
- The Ricardos Dedicate a Statue
(1957)
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- Lucy Raises Tulips
(1957)
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- Country Club Dance
(1957)
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- Building a Bar-B-Q
(1957)
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- Housewarming
(1957)
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1952-1957
Cavalcade of America
(TV Series) (executive producer - 132 episodes)
- Chicago 2-1-2
(1957)
... (executive producer - uncredited)
- Shark of the Mountain
(1957)
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- Episode #5.26
(1957)
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- The Last Signer
(1957)
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- The Widow Was Willing
(1957)
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1955-1956
Theatre Royal
(TV Series) (executive producer - 34 episodes)
- Episode in Paris
(1956)
... (executive producer - uncredited)
- Forecast Unsettled
(1956)
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- The Ends of Justice
(1956)
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- The Gloves
(1956)
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- Dead or Alive
(1956)
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1952-1956
Our Miss Brooks
(TV Series) (executive producer - 130 episodes)
- Travel Crazy
(1956)
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- Principal for a Day
(1956)
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- The $350,000 Question
(1956)
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- White Lies
(1956)
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- Geraldine
(1956)
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1954-1955
Willy
(TV Series) (executive producer - 39 episodes)
- Willy and Hurricane Harvey
(1955)
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- Willy and Eccentric Henrietta
(1955)
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- Willy and El Flamenco
(1955)
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- Franklin's Shoe Business
(1955)
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- Willy's Painting
(1955)
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Desiderio ArnazHeight:
5' 9½" (1.77 m)Parents:
Desiderio Alberto Arnaz II | Dolores de Acha
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