Chip Zien

Chip Zien

Born: March 20, 1947
in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Chip Zien is an American stage and screen actor. He is a graduate from the University of Pennsylvania, where he was the president of "Mask & Wig", the nation's oldest all-male collegiate musical comedy troupe.

Movies for Chip Zien...

Simchas and Sorrows
Title: Simchas and Sorrows
Character: Mortimer
Released: September 16, 2022
Type: Movie
An atheist actress attempts to convert to Judaism to marry the man she loves.
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Title: Ghosts
Character: Lenny
Released: October 7, 2021
Type: TV
Samantha and Jay throw caution to the wind when they convert their recently inherited country estate into a bed-and-breakfast. Call it mislaid plans. Not only is the place falling apart, but it’s also inhabited by spirits of previous residents -- whom only Samantha can see and hear.
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Take Me to the World: A Sondheim 90th Birthday Celebration
Title: Take Me to the World: A Sondheim 90th Birthday Celebration
Character: Self - Performer
Released: April 26, 2020
Type: Movie
To celebrate the 90th birthday of Broadway songwriting great Stephen Sondheim, an A-list group of performers sing songs of inspiration from his songbook in a concert event filmed in their homes. Hosted and co-produced by Raúl Esparza, the acclaimed one-night-only event was created as a benefit for ASTEP (Artists Striving to End Poverty).
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Title: Stars in the House
Character: Self
Released: March 16, 2020
Type: TV
In the wake of the Coronavirus pandemic and theatres across the world closing their curtains indefinitely, SiriusXM host Seth Rudetsky and his husband, producer James Wesley have created Stars in the House, a daily live streamed series to support The Actors Fund and its services.
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Title: Hunters
Character: Levi Libstein
Released: February 20, 2020
Type: TV
A diverse band of Nazi Hunters living in 1977 New York City discover that hundreds of high ranking Nazi officials are living among us and conspiring to create a Fourth Reich in the U.S. The eclectic team of Hunters set out on a bloody quest to bring the Nazis to justice and thwart their new genocidal plans.
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Title: Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist
Character: Alan Richman
Released: January 7, 2020
Type: TV
After an unusual event, Zoey Clarke, a whip-smart computer coder forging her way in San Francisco, suddenly starts to hear the innermost wants, thoughts and desires of the people around her through popular songs.
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Little Evil
Title: Little Evil
Character: Stepdad Therapist
Released: August 8, 2017
Type: Movie
Gary, who has just married Samantha, the woman of his dreams, discovers that her six-year-old son may be the Antichrist.
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Approaching a Breakthrough
Title: Approaching a Breakthrough
Character: Dr. Zeitland
Released: March 1, 2017
Type: Movie
As Norman and his girlfriend storm into Central Park, bickering, Norman is cornered by a string of characters from his past, appearing from all sides of the park — from two of his former therapists to his Mormon ex-girlfriend. Despite his best efforts to run away from his problems, Norman, who has recently returned from LA, can’t seem to escape them.
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Title: The Night Of
Character: Dr. Katz
Released: July 10, 2016
Type: TV
After a night of partying with a female stranger, a man wakes up to find her stabbed to death and is charged with her murder.
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Title: Mozart in the Jungle
Character: Larry the Night Watchman
Released: February 6, 2014
Type: TV
In the tradition of Anthony Bourdain's "Kitchen Confidential" and Gelsey Kirkland's "Dancing on my Grave" comes an insider’s look into the secret world of classical musicians. From her debut recital at Carnegie Recital Hall to the Broadway pits of "Les Miserables" and "Miss Saigon," Blair Tindall has played with some of the biggest names in classical music for twenty-five years. Now in "Mozart in the Jungle," Tindall exposes the scandalous rock and roll lifestyles of the musicians, conductors, and administrators who inhabit the insular world of classical music.
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Title: Chicago P.D.
Character: Judge Lurman
Released: January 8, 2014
Type: TV
A riveting police drama about the men and women of the Chicago Police Department's District 21 who put it all on the line to serve and protect their community. District 21 is made up of two distinctly different groups: the uniformed cops who patrol the beat and go head-to-head with the city's street crimes and the Intelligence Unit that combats the city's major offenses - organized crime, drug trafficking, high profile murders and beyond.
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Title: House of Cards
Character: Dr. Charles Rosen
Released: February 1, 2013
Type: TV
Set in present day Washington, D.C., House of Cards is the story of Frank Underwood, a ruthless and cunning politician, and his wife Claire who will stop at nothing to conquer everything. This wicked political drama penetrates the shadowy world of greed, sex and corruption in modern D.C.
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Sondheim! The Birthday Concert
Title: Sondheim! The Birthday Concert
Character: Self
Released: November 16, 2010
Type: Movie
Join us for a rousing celebration of the life and works of one of Broadway's greatest legends — the one and only Stephen Sondheim. For the master composer and lyricist's 80th birthday, many of musical theater's brightest stars gathered in March of 2010 to perform more than two dozen sensational numbers from Sondheim's illustrious career, and several of these enduring songs are performed by the original Broadway cast members. David Hyde Pierce hosts this magical event with Stephen Sondheim's longtime collaborator Paul Gemignani conducting the New York Philharmonic. Originally broadcast as an episode of the PBS series "Great Performances" (season 38, episode 2).
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Title: The Good Wife
Character: Judge Lee Sutman
Released: September 22, 2009
Type: TV
Alicia Florrick boldly assumes full responsibility for her family and re-enters the workforce after her husband's very public sex and political corruption scandal lands him in jail.
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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Undead
Title: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Undead
Released: January 19, 2009
Type: Movie
Julian Marsh is an out of work ladies' man who lands a job directing a bizarre adaptation of Hamlet. After casting his best friend and his ex-girlfriend in the show, Julian finds himself in the middle of a two thousand year old conspiracy that explains the connection between Shakespeare, the Holy Grail and some seriously sexy vampires. It turns out that the play was actually written by a master vampire name Theo Horace and it's up to Julian to recover the Grail in order to reverse the vampire's curse...If only being undead wasn't so much God-damned fun!
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Title: Lipstick Jungle
Released: February 7, 2008
Type: TV
Lipstick Jungle is an American comedy-drama television series created by DeAnn Heline and Eileen Heisler for NBC Universal Television Studio. The hour-long series was based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Candace Bushnell, who also served as executive producer alongside showrunner/head writer Oliver Goldstick. The pilot was directed by Gary Winick.
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Title: Ugly Betty
Character: Frank
Released: September 28, 2006
Type: TV
Betty Suarez is smart, tough and tenacious, but also sensitive and loving. She hopes these skills will help her to get a job within the Meade Publishing Corporation. The fact that she isn’t traditionally attractive initially keeps her from getting hired by fashion bible, Mode. The magazine, however, is in flux, with power-hungry executives vying for dominance. Hoping to control the situation, the publisher gives his inexperienced son, Daniel, the position of Editor-in-Chief. He hires Betty as Daniel’s assistant after catching him in a compromising position with his secretary on his first day on the job. After a tough start, in which Daniel tries to force Betty into quitting by treating her terribly, he realizes her worth and the two pair up to be an effective team.
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United 93
Title: United 93
Character: Mark Rothenberg
Released: April 28, 2006
Type: Movie
A real-time account of the events on United Flight 93, one of the planes hijacked on 9/11 that crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania when passengers foiled the terrorist plot.
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Title: CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Character: Lawyer
Released: October 6, 2000
Type: TV
A Las Vegas team of forensic investigators are trained to solve criminal cases by scouring the crime scene, collecting irrefutable evidence and finding the missing pieces that solve the mystery.
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Title: Madigan Men
Released: October 6, 2000
Type: TV
Madigan Men is an American television comedy that premiered on ABC in the U.S. on October 6, 2000. The show performed poorly in the ratings and among critics and was canceled on December 18, 2000.
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Title: Deadline
Released: October 2, 2000
Type: TV
Deadline is a television series which was shown on NBC in the 2000–2001 season. It starred Oliver Platt as Wallace Benton, who worked for the fictional New York Ledger. This was a daily newspaper which was seen in many episodes of Law & Order.
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Title: Son of the Beach
Released: March 14, 2000
Type: TV
A parody of "Baywatch" featuring Malibu Adjacent's Notch Johnson, the world's greatest lifeguard (hardly), and his unit SPF-30.
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Title: Now and Again
Released: September 24, 1999
Type: TV
Now and Again is an American television series that aired in the US from September 24, 1999 until May 5, 2000 on CBS. The story revolves around the United States government engineering the perfect human body for use in espionage, but not being able to yet perfect the brain. In an attempt to get the project up and running, they take the brain of overweight family man Michael Wiseman, who is killed by a train. Given a new life, Michael is kept in an apartment where he is trained by government experts, led by Dr. Theodore Morris, in the art of espionage. Despite his new life and new abilities, Michael longs to return to his wife Lisa and daughter Heather, who are themselves discovering that not all is as it seems with Michael's death.
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Title: Now and Again
Character: Gerald Misenbach
Released: September 24, 1999
Type: TV
Now and Again is an American television series that aired in the US from September 24, 1999 until May 5, 2000 on CBS. The story revolves around the United States government engineering the perfect human body for use in espionage, but not being able to yet perfect the brain. In an attempt to get the project up and running, they take the brain of overweight family man Michael Wiseman, who is killed by a train. Given a new life, Michael is kept in an apartment where he is trained by government experts, led by Dr. Theodore Morris, in the art of espionage. Despite his new life and new abilities, Michael longs to return to his wife Lisa and daughter Heather, who are themselves discovering that not all is as it seems with Michael's death.
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Title: Judging Amy
Character: Dr. Ken Baker
Released: September 19, 1999
Type: TV
Judging Amy is an American television drama that was telecast from September 19, 1999, through May 3, 2005, on CBS-TV. This TV series starred Amy Brenneman and Tyne Daly. Its main character is a judge who serves in a family court, and in addition to the family-related cases that she adjudicates, many episodes of the show focus on her own experiences as a divorced mother, and on the experiences of her mother, a social worker who works in the field of child welfare. This series was based on the life experiences of Brenneman's mother.
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Breakfast of Champions
Title: Breakfast of Champions
Character: Andy Wojeckowzski
Released: February 18, 1999
Type: Movie
An unhappy car dealer believes that a dime-store philosopher has the answers to life's important questions.
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The Siege
Title: The Siege
Character: Chief of Staff
Released: November 6, 1998
Type: Movie
The secret US abduction of a suspected terrorist from his Middle East homeland leads to a wave of terrorist attacks in New York. An FBI senior agent and his team attempt to locate and decommission the enemy cells, but must also deal with an Army General gone rogue and a female CIA agent of uncertain loyalties.
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Snake Eyes
Title: Snake Eyes
Character: Mickey Alter
Released: August 7, 1998
Type: Movie
All bets are off when shady homicide cop Rick Santoro witnesses a murder during a boxing match. It's up to him and lifelong friend, Naval intelligence agent Kevin Dunne to uncover the conspiracy behind the killing. At every turn, Santoro makes increasingly shocking discoveries that even he can't turn a blind eye to.
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Title: Cosby
Released: September 16, 1996
Type: TV
Cosby is an American situation comedy television series broadcast on CBS from September 16, 1996 to April 28, 2000, loosely based on the British sitcom One Foot in the Grave. The program stars Bill Cosby and Phylicia Rashād, who previously worked with Cosby in the 1984–1992 NBC sitcom The Cosby Show. Madeline Kahn portrayed their neighbor, Pauline, until her death in 1999.
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Cagney & Lacey: True Convictions
Title: Cagney & Lacey: True Convictions
Character: Assistant District Attorney Trayne
Released: January 29, 1996
Type: Movie
Detectives Cagney and Lacey come face-to-face with their true feelings about capital punishment when they're assigned to the city's first capital murder case in 10 years.
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Cagney & Lacey: The View Through the Glass Ceiling
Title: Cagney & Lacey: The View Through the Glass Ceiling
Character: Assistant DA Douglas Trayne
Released: October 25, 1995
Type: Movie
Cagney and Lacey work a case involving police corruption and document forgery. Chris seeks a prestigious promotion, while Mary Beth has to deal with the return of her sickly, aged father.
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The Real Shlemiel
Title: The Real Shlemiel
Character: Treitel / The Donkey (voice)
Released: October 11, 1995
Type: Movie
When God distributed wiseness and foolishness through a newly created world, one of the cherubs accidentally dropped all the foolishness on a tiny village called Chelm. So everyone in the village is very dumb. Recently orphaned boy Aaron and his friendly goat Zlateh live there with Aaron's uncle Shlemiel. When an evil sorcerer and his monster attack the village, Aaron and Zlateh have to defend it themselves.
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Title: Almost Perfect
Character: Gary Karp
Released: September 17, 1995
Type: TV
Almost Perfect is an American situation comedy that aired on the CBS television network from September 17, 1995 until October 30, 1996. The series focused on the professional life of the female executive producer of a television cop show, her witty, zany staff which doubled as her family, and initially, how she balanced her high-powered role with that of her newfound romance with a busy assistant D.A. The series was created by Ken Levine, David Isaacs and Robin Schiff, and produced by Levine & Isaacs Productions and Robin Schiff Productions, in association with Paramount Television. Levine and Isaacs were previously known for their work as writers and producers on the long-running Paramount-produced Cheers, as well as on its Paramount stablemate Wings. Like the latter shows, Almost Perfect featured a tight-knit ensemble aspect between the cast, which in this case was formed by the production staff of the fictional cop show. CBS canceled the series just four episodes into its second season. Six leftover episodes aired on Lifetime in December 1997, followed by reruns of the entire series surfacing on USA Network's weekday morning lineup between 1998 and 2001.
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Anyone Can Whistle
Title: Anyone Can Whistle
Character: Treasurer Cooley
Released: January 1, 1995
Type: Movie
The story of an economically depressed town whose corrupt mayor decides to create a fake miracle in order to attract tourists. The phony miracle draws the attention of an emotionally inhibited nurse, a crowd of inmates from a local asylum, and a doctor with secrets of his own.
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Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
Title: Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
Character: Franklin P. Adams
Released: September 7, 1994
Type: Movie
Dorothy Parker remembers the heyday of the Algonquin Round Table, a circle of friends whose barbed wit, like hers, was fueled by alcohol and flirted with despair.
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Quiet Killer
Title: Quiet Killer
Character: Dr. Lionel Katz
Released: March 24, 1992
Type: Movie
On her way home in a plane to New York, the teenage Sarah gets very ill. She realizes too late that it's more than a cold and with her parents still on vacation, she breaks down in the middle of the street and dies shortly after in a hospital -- by the plague, as the terrified coroners find out. While trying to keep this from the public to avoid a panic, epidemic commissioner Dr. Nora Hart has to investigate Sarah's identity and find everyone who had contact with her. If she misses a single person, the plague could kill half the city in a few days!
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Into the Woods
Title: Into the Woods
Character: Baker
Released: March 15, 1991
Type: Movie
In this Tony Award-winning musical by Stephen Sondheim, several fairy tale characters learn the hard way that the 'Happily Ever After' they sought isn't necessarily so happy after all.
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Title: Law & Order
Character: Mr. Green
Released: September 13, 1990
Type: TV
In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place.
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Title: Law & Order
Character: Homeless Man
Released: September 13, 1990
Type: TV
In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place.
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Title: Law & Order
Character: Defense Attorney Steven Cromwell
Released: September 13, 1990
Type: TV
In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place.
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Title: Wings
Character: Bippy the Clown
Released: April 19, 1990
Type: TV
Brothers Brian and Joe Hackett attempt to run an airline on the New England island of Nantucket while surrounded by their various wacky friends and employees.
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Hello Again
Title: Hello Again
Character: Reporter #4
Released: November 6, 1987
Type: Movie
A suburban housewife chokes to death and is brought back to life by a spell cast by her wacky sister.
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Title: thirtysomething
Released: September 29, 1987
Type: TV
Thirtysomething is an American television drama about a group of baby boomers in their late thirties. It was created by Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick for MGM/UA Television Group and The Bedford Falls Company, and aired on ABC. It premiered in the U.S. on September 29, 1987. It lasted four seasons, with the last of its 85 episodes airing on May 28, 1991. The title of the show was designed as thirtysomething by Kathie Broyles, who combined the words of the original title, Thirty Something. In 1997, "The Go Between" and "Samurai Ad Man" were ranked #22 on TV Guide′s 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time. In 2002, Thirtysomething was ranked #19 on TV Guide′s 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time, and in 2013 TV Guide ranked it #10 in its list of The 60 Greatest Dramas of All Time.
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Title: Shell Game
Released: January 8, 1987
Type: TV
Shell Game is an American Comedy-drama television series that aired from January 8 until February 12, 1987.
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Howard the Duck
Title: Howard the Duck
Character: Howard T. Duck (voice)
Released: August 1, 1986
Type: Movie
A scientific experiment unknowingly brings extraterrestrial life forms to the Earth through a laser beam. First is the cigar smoking drake Howard from the duck's planet. A few kids try to keep him from the greedy scientists and help him back to his planet. But then a much less friendly being arrives through the beam...
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Grace Quigley
Title: Grace Quigley
Character: Dr. Herman
Released: May 17, 1985
Type: Movie
Grace Quigley is nearing the end of her life, living alone in her New York apartment. On the day she's being evicted, she witnesses a murder being committed by a top hit-man, Seymour Flint. She proposes to blackmail him into killing her, however, she has one or two friends she wants him to get rid of first.
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The House of God
Title: The House of God
Character: Eat-My-Dust-Eddie
Released: January 1, 1984
Type: Movie
Comedy about a couple of interns in a hospital named 'The House of God'.
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Title: Reggie
Character: C.J. Wilcox
Released: August 2, 1983
Type: TV
Reggie is the story of Reggie Potter, a 47-year-old executive of Fun Time Ice Cream Desserts headquartered in Little Neck, Long Island, who confronts middle age through Walter Mitty-like fantasies. It is an American sitcom television series that aired on ABC from August 2 until September 1, 1983. Based on the British sitcom The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin.
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Oh, Boy! Babies!
Title: Oh, Boy! Babies!
Character: Jake
Released: October 5, 1982
Type: Movie
Boys learn to take care of babies.
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Title: Newhart
Released: October 2, 1982
Type: TV
Dick Loudon and his wife Joanna decide to leave life in New York City and buy a little inn in Vermont. Dick is a how-to book writer, who eventually becomes a local TV celebrity as host of "Vermont Today." George Utley is the handyman at the inn and Leslie Vanderkellen is the maid, with ambitions of being an Olympic Ski champion; she is later replaced by her cousin Stephanie, an heiress who hates her job. Her boyfriend is Dick's yuppie TV producer, Michael Harris. There are many other quirky characters in this fictional little town, including Dick's neighbors Larry, Darryl, and Darryl...three brothers who buy the Minuteman Cafe from Kirk Devane. Besides sharing a name, Darryl and Darryl never speak.
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Title: Cheers
Released: September 30, 1982
Type: TV
The story about a blue-collar Boston bar run by former sports star Sam Malone and the quirky and wonderful people who worked and drank there.
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Title: Love, Sidney
Character: Jason Stoller
Released: October 28, 1981
Type: TV
A middle-aged gay artist shares his New York apartment with a single mother and her little girl. Based on a short story written by Marilyn Cantor Baker, which was subsequently adapted into a TV movie entitled Sidney Shorr: A Girl's Best Friend. Love, Sidney was the first program on American television to feature a gay character as the central lead, although for the series, Sidney's homosexuality was almost entirely downplayed from its subtle yet unmistakable presence in the two-hour pilot.
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The Rose
Title: The Rose
Character: Reporter
Released: November 7, 1979
Type: Movie
Rock-and-roll singer Mary Rose Foster's romantic relationships and mental health are continuously imperilled by the demands of life on the road.
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Title: CHiPs
Released: September 15, 1977
Type: TV
Lighthearted look at the adventures of two Highway Patrol officers in Los Angeles. The main characters are Jon Baker and Frank Poncherello, two motorcycle officers always on the street to save lives.