Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor - Miniseries or a Movie: Nominees

Patterns is a feature film starring Van Heflin, Everett Sloane, and Ed Begley. Directed by Fielder Cook, the film was released March 27, 1956. The screenplay by Rod Serling was an adaptation of his teleplay Patterns originally telecast January 12,...

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x Year:: 1956

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor - Miniseries or a Movie

x Award Nominee:: Everett Sloane

The Caine Mutiny Court Martial

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x Year:: 1956

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor - Miniseries or a Movie

x Award Nominee:: Barry Sullivan

x Year:: 1956

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor - Miniseries or a Movie

x Award Nominee:: Lloyd Nolan

Fearful Decision

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x Year:: 1956

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor - Miniseries or a Movie

x Award Nominee:: Ralph Bellamy

Cyrano de Bergerac

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x Year:: 1956

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor - Miniseries or a Movie

x Award Nominee:: José Ferrer

The Big Slide

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x Year:: 1957

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor - Miniseries or a Movie

x Award Nominee:: Red Skelton

Dino

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x Year:: 1957

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor - Miniseries or a Movie

x Award Nominee:: Sal Mineo

Requiem for a Heavyweight

Requiem for a Heavyweight was originally a teleplay written by Rod Serling and produced for the live television show Playhouse 90 on October 11, 1956.

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x Year:: 1957

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor - Miniseries or a Movie

x Award Nominee:: Jack Palance

x Year:: 1957

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor - Comedy Series

x Award Nominee:: Ed Wynn

Dodsworth

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x Year:: 1957

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor - Miniseries or a Movie

x Award Nominee:: Fredric March

x Year:: 1957

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress - Miniseries or a Movie

x Award Nominee:: Claire Trevor

Tragedy in a Temporary Town

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x Year:: 1957

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor - Miniseries or a Movie

x Award Nominee:: Lloyd Bridges

Omnibus

Omnibus was an arts-based BBC television documentary series, broadcast on BBC One in the United Kingdom. It was first shown in 1967, and ended in 2003. One of the series most famous documentaries was Cracked Actor, which was a documentary film about...

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x Year:: 1958

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor - Miniseries or a Movie

x Award Nominee:: Peter Ustinov

The Comedian

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x Year:: 1958

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor - Miniseries or a Movie

x Award Nominee:: Mickey Rooney

No Deadly Medicine (Part 1)

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x Year:: 1958

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor - Miniseries or a Movie

x Award Nominee:: Lee J. Cobb

Suspicion

Suspicion is the title of a American television mystery drama series which aired on the NBC from 1957 through 1959. Suspicion was created by Alfred Hitchcock in 1957. The program was hosted by actor Dennis O'Keefe from 1957 through 1958. In 1959,...

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x Year:: 1958

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor - Miniseries or a Movie

x Award Nominee:: David Wayne

On Borrowed Time

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x Year:: 1958

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor - Miniseries or a Movie

x Award Nominee:: Ed Wynn

An Evening With Fred Astaire

An Evening with Fred Astaire was a one-hour live television special starring Fred Astaire, broadcast on NBC on October 17, 1958. It was highly successful, winning nine Emmy awards and spawning three further specials, and technically innovative, as...

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x Year:: 1959

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor - Miniseries or a Movie

x Award Nominee:: Fred Astaire

Child of our Time

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x Year:: 1959

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor - Miniseries or a Movie

x Award Nominee:: Robert Crawford

A Town Has Turned to Dust

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x Year:: 1959

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor - Miniseries or a Movie

x Award Nominee:: Rod Steiger

The Last Clear Chance

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x Year:: 1959

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor - Miniseries or a Movie

x Award Nominee:: Paul Muni

Eddie

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x Year:: 1959

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor - Miniseries or a Movie

x Award Nominee:: Mickey Rooney

The Moon and Sixpence

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x Year:: 1960

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor - Miniseries or a Movie

x Award Nominee:: Laurence Olivier

Project Immortality

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x Year:: 1960

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor - Miniseries or a Movie

x Award Nominee:: Lee J. Cobb

The Wicked Scheme of Jebal Deeks

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x Year:: 1960

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor - Miniseries or a Movie

x Award Nominee:: Alec Guinness

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television. It has had a historically long run, beginning in 1951 and still continuing today. From 1954 onward, all of their productions have been shown in color, although color television...

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x Year:: 1961

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor - Miniseries or a Movie

x Award Nominee:: Maurice Evans

x Year:: 1959

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor - Miniseries or a Movie

x Award Nominee:: Christopher Plummer

The Man in the Funny Suit

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x Year:: 1961

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor - Miniseries or a Movie

x Award Nominee:: Ed Wynn

The Two Worlds of Charlie Gordon

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x Year:: 1961

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor - Miniseries or a Movie

x Award Nominee:: Cliff Robertson

The Dick Powell Show

The Dick Powell Show is a television anthology series that ran on NBC from 1961- 1963, primarily sponsored by the Reynolds Metals Company. It was hosted by longtime film star Dick Powell until his death from lymphatic cancer in January 1963, then by...

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x Year:: 1962

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor - Miniseries or a Movie

x Award Nominee:: Mickey Rooney

x Year:: 1962

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor - Miniseries or a Movie

x Award Nominee:: Milton Berle

x Year:: 1962

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor - Miniseries or a Movie

x Award Nominee:: Peter Falk

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Victoria Regina

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x Year:: 1962

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor - Comedy Series

x Award Nominee:: Barry Jones

x Year:: 1962

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor - Miniseries or a Movie

x Award Nominee:: James Donald

x Year:: 1962

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress - Drama Series

x Award Nominee:: Pamela Brown

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People Need People

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x Year:: 1962

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor - Miniseries or a Movie

x Award Nominee:: Lee Marvin

Sam Benedict

Sam Benedict is a legal drama from MGM Television, starring a 47-year-old Edmond O'Brien, which ran on NBC during the 1962–1963 television season. O'Brien played the experienced, flamboyant San Francisco attorney Sam Benedict. Richard Rust portrayed...

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x Year:: 1963

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor - Miniseries or a Movie

x Award Nominee:: Joseph Schildkraut

The Invincible Mr. Disraeli

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x Year:: 1963

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor - Comedy Series

x Award Nominee:: Hurd Hatfield

x Year:: 1963

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor - Miniseries or a Movie

x Award Nominee:: Trevor Howard

The Voice of Charlie Pont

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x Year:: 1963

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor - Comedy Series

x Award Nominee:: Robert Redford

x Year:: 1963

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor - Miniseries or a Movie

x Award Nominee:: Bradford Dillman

Big Deal in Laredo

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x Year:: 1963

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor - Miniseries or a Movie

x Award Nominee:: Walter Matthau

The Defenders

The Defenders is an Emmy-winning American courtroom drama series which ran on CBS from 1961–1965. It starred E. G. Marshall and Robert Reed as father-and-son defense attorneys who specialized in legally complex cases, with defendants such as neo...

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x Year:: 1964

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor - Miniseries or a Movie

x Award Nominee:: Jack Klugman

x Year:: 1963

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor - Drama Series

x Award Nominee:: E. G. Marshall

x Year:: 1963

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor - Miniseries or a Movie

x Award Nominee:: Don Gordon

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East Side/West Side

East Side/West Side is an hour-long American drama series starring George C. Scott, Elizabeth Wilson, Cicely Tyson, and later on, Linden Chiles. The series aired for only one season (1963 – 1964) and was shown Monday nights on CBS. The series...

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x Year:: 1964

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor - Comedy Series

x Award Nominee:: George C. Scott

x Year:: 1964

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor - Miniseries or a Movie

x Award Nominee:: James Earl Jones

x Year:: 1964

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress - Miniseries or a Movie

x Award Nominee:: Diana Sands

Arrest and Trial

Arrest and Trial is a 90-minute American crime drama that aired one season on ABC. The show was set in Los Angeles and aired Sundays from 8:30-10 p.m. Eastern during the 1963-64 season. Each week's program was actually two 45-minute segments. The...

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x Year:: 1964

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor - Miniseries or a Movie

x Award Nominee:: Roddy McDowall

The Nurses

The Nurses is a serialized primetime medical drama which aired on CBS from September 27, 1962 to May 11, 1965. It was originally called The Nurses when it premiered in 1962; for the second season, the title was expanded to The Doctors and the Nurses...

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x Year:: 1964

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor - Drama Series

x Award Nominee:: Carl Lee

x Year:: 1964

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor - Miniseries or a Movie

x Award Nominee:: Harold J. Stone

x Year:: 1964

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress - Miniseries or a Movie

x Award Nominee:: Ruby Dee

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A Slow Fade to Black

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x Year:: 1964

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor - Miniseries or a Movie

x Award Nominee:: Rod Steiger

Abe Lincoln in Illinois

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x Year:: 1964

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor - Miniseries or a Movie

x Award Nominee:: Jason Robards

The Game

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x Year:: 1966

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor - Miniseries or a Movie

x Award Nominee:: Cliff Robertson

Inherit the Wind

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x Year:: 1966

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor - Miniseries or a Movie

x Award Nominee:: Melvyn Douglas

x Year:: 1966

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor - Miniseries or a Movie

x Award Nominee:: Ed Begley

x Year:: 1966

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress - Drama Series

x Award Nominee:: Diane Baker

Eagle in a Cage

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x Year:: 1966

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor - Drama Series

x Award Nominee:: James Daly

x Year:: 1966

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor - Miniseries or a Movie

x Award Nominee:: Trevor Howard

x Year:: 1966

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress - Drama Series

x Award Nominee:: Pamela Franklin

Hamlet

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x Year:: 1966

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor - Miniseries or a Movie

x Award Nominee:: Christopher Plummer

Death of a Salesman

Death of a Salesman was a 1966 television production starring Stanley Adams as Stanley.

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x Year:: 1967

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor - Miniseries or a Movie

x Award Nominee:: Lee J. Cobb

The Love Song of Barney Kempinski

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x Year:: 1967

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor - Miniseries or a Movie

x Award Nominee:: Alan Arkin

Barefoot in Athens

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x Year:: 1967

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor - Miniseries or a Movie

x Award Nominee:: Peter Ustinov

The Final War of Olly Winter

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x Year:: 1967

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor - Miniseries or a Movie

x Award Nominee:: Ivan Dixon

x Year:: 1967

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress - Drama Series

x Award Nominee:: Tina Chen

Mark Twain Tonight!

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x Year:: 1967

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor - Miniseries or a Movie

x Award Nominee:: Hal Holbrook

Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night

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x Year:: 1968

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor - Drama Series

x Award Nominee:: Lawrence Dobkin

x Year:: 1968

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor - Miniseries or a Movie

x Award Nominee:: Melvyn Douglas

Dear Friends

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x Year:: 1968

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor - Miniseries or a Movie

x Award Nominee:: Eli Wallach

x Year:: 1968

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress - Miniseries or a Movie

x Award Nominee:: Anne Jackson

A Case of Libel

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x Year:: 1968

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor - Miniseries or a Movie

x Award Nominee:: Van Heflin

The Crucible

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x Year:: 1968

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor - Miniseries or a Movie

x Award Nominee:: George C. Scott

x Year:: 1968

x Award:: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress - Miniseries or a Movie

x Award Nominee:: Colleen Dewhurst

Julia

Julia is an American sitcom best remembered as being one of the first weekly series to depict an African American woman in a non-stereotypical role. Previous television series featured African American lead characters, but the characters were...

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