Ricco Ross

Ricco Ross

Born: April 16, 1960
in Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Ricco Ross (born April 16, 1960) is an American actor. Ricco was born in Chicago, Il. at Cook County Hospital, is the 5th of 8 children with three additional step sisters and another brother from his father and with his first wife. He begin acting in a local high school production. He continued with this development of a new career going to a local Community College where he majored in Theater, moving forward to Florida Atlantic University (FAU) where he received is BA in Theatre, earning a scholarship to UCLA where his career begain to develop. His first TV role was as an extra on the "Young and the Restless", then a small part on the hit series "Hill Street Blues" opening the door for more TV and Movie Roles. He played Private Frost in Aliens, and also appeared in the films Mission Impossible and Fierce Creatures. During the late 1980s and early 1990s, he lived and worked in the United Kingdom, leading to guest appearances on Doctor Who ("The Greatest Show in the Galaxy") and Jeeves and Wooster. Ross also co-starred as Nate in the film "Nate and the Colonel". He also played in Charles Bronsons "Death Wish Three", "Spies Like Us" with Dan Akroyd and Chevy Chase, the "Dirty Dozen Next Mission" with Lee Marvin. "Displaced Person" and many more films.

Ross is appearing in various commercials, as well as television shows shown throughout the United States.

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The Legend of Catclaws Mountain
Title: The Legend of Catclaws Mountain
Character: Martin Johnson
Released: May 27, 2024
Type: Movie
Mindy adopts Angel, a high-spirited pony that—according to legend—will lead its owner to gold hidden in the nearby mountains. When Angel is kidnapped by a mad treasure hunter, Mindy and her school friends head into the hills to rescue the pony and hunt for the lost gold. But Mindy meets a mountain man that warns her the treasure is part of an ancient curse—if they remove the gold, they'll destroy the beautiful forest.
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Title: As Luck Would Have It
Character: Michael
Released: August 31, 2023
Type: TV
Recently retired criminology professor turned amateur sleuth Gabbi Luck uses her classroom smarts, charm and tenacity to get to the bottom of every crime she encounters. She balances each case with daughter Lisa who is a detective and partner Rick. Gabbi is sometimes assisted by police Captain Taylor, Barbara who works at the station, husband Michael and police psychologist, Dr. Nolan.
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A Christmas for Mary
Title: A Christmas for Mary
Character: David
Released: December 1, 2020
Type: Movie
In search of a story, an up-and-coming journalist goes back to her home town and uncovers a forgotten tale of young love, inspiring her to follow her heart and find her own true love.
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Message Read
Title: Message Read
Released: September 10, 2020
Type: Movie
In the afterlife material possessions cease to exist. For those who can’t let go, there’s one stop before that final resting place and it’s called Firth. Message Read tells the story of a father who desperately misses his son and must decide between moving on to finality or spending another eternity stuck in Firth.
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Title: P-Valley
Character: Pastor Gilfield
Released: July 12, 2020
Type: TV
Down deep in the Mississippi Delta, Trap music meets film noir in this kaleidoscopic story of a little-strip-club-that-could and the big characters who come through its doors—the hopeful, the lost, the broken, the ballers, the beautiful, and the damned.
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She's In Portland
Title: She's In Portland
Released: January 16, 2020
Type: Movie
Two college friends, now in their thirties, admire each others' lives and feel trapped in their own. Wes, tied to a demanding career and responsibilities to family, extends a work trip to drag his dispirited artist friend Luke to find Luke's "one that got away."
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The Shinjuku Five
Title: The Shinjuku Five
Character: Ronny Hayes
Released: December 29, 2019
Type: Movie
Intersecting stories follow a group of criminal misfits through the violent streets of Shinjuku.
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Title: The Movies That Made Us
Character: Self
Released: November 29, 2019
Type: TV
These blockbusters brought us together and gave us the time of our lives. Meet the actors, directors and industry insiders who made them happen.
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A Brother's Honor
Title: A Brother's Honor
Character: Sheppard Granger
Released: September 18, 2019
Type: Movie
3 brothers are reunited after their grandfather suffers a heart attack. The Granger men, Jace, Caden and Dalton promise their dying grandfather that they will work together to save the family's failing business, Granger Aeronautics. The we brothers also find themselves banding together to find out who really killed their mother and subsequently, free their father, Sheppard who is serving a 30 year prison sentence for her murder. Family secrets, business mismanagement, intrigue and a little romance help to make this a great story.
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The Wrong Boy Next Door
Title: The Wrong Boy Next Door
Character: Principal Perkins
Released: July 12, 2019
Type: Movie
After troubled teen Katie is sentenced to house arrest, Katie falls for an attractive young man named John, who has just moved in next door. While their affair seems harmless at first, Katie becomes increasingly convinced there's more than meets the eye with John.
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My Christmas Grandpa
Title: My Christmas Grandpa
Character: Jim
Released: December 16, 2017
Type: Movie
The cashier at a small market is a grouchy man who never has a smile for anyone; but when a little girl asks for a Grandpa for Christmas and chooses him, he is completely transformed by the child's love and compassion.
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The Sandman
Title: The Sandman
Character: Detective Price
Released: October 14, 2017
Type: Movie
A monster from a little girl's nightmares comes to life and attacks anyone who would harm her.
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Bobbi Kristina
Title: Bobbi Kristina
Character: Uncle Ray
Released: October 8, 2017
Type: Movie
The untold story of Bobbi Kristina Brown is one of adventure, dreams, conflict, perseverance, faith, friendship, and love — a love between mother and daughter. A love often interrupted by success, emotional upheaval and drug addiction but an unshakable,
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The Possessed
Title: The Possessed
Character: Louis Laveau
Released: September 9, 2017
Type: Movie
Ruby, a private detective holds a dark secret - she is a human vessel for a demon that dwells within her. When armies of darkness and the undead begin attacking New Orleans, Ruby decides to embrace and unleash it.
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A Husband for Christmas
Title: A Husband for Christmas
Character: Roger Burke
Released: December 11, 2016
Type: Movie
Brooke and Roger, two graphic designers in a soon-to-be-merged company, help one another by agreeing to a loveless marriage of convenience, suggested by their new boss. In the process, Brooke gets to upstage the sister who just announced her engagement to Brooke's ex-boyfriend during the holidays. But, with their “marriage” in question, will Brooke and Roger find a spark they didn’t know existed?
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Opening Night
Title: Opening Night
Character: Mr. Robertson
Released: May 6, 2016
Type: Movie
Taking place entirely during the opening night of a high school's production of Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream, OPENING NIGHT chronicles the on stage disasters and off-stage drama of a group of students, their drama teacher and a visiting B-list TV star.
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Stormageddon
Title: Stormageddon
Character: Agent Travers
Released: November 18, 2015
Type: Movie
What happens when you ask the most powerful computer program, run by the most powerful computers, to follow, listen and predict human behavior? The program learns, becomes sentient and begins to behave like a human. When a master computer program, Echelon, takes over America's entire online system, our country is threatened to be brought to its knees. Hacking into DARPA, Echelon gains the ability to manipulate the weather, create earthquakes, and cause a level of destruction unlike anything the country could ever imagine. But how do you stop a computer program when it has control over any and every defense you have?
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Family Times
Title: Family Times
Character: Jasmine’s Dad
Released: August 23, 2015
Type: Movie
A short comedy film by Mike Mckee.
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Everything That Rises Must Converge
Title: Everything That Rises Must Converge
Released: February 7, 2015
Type: Movie
Everything That Rises Must Converge is a hybrid documentary/fiction film. It follows four real-life adult film performers as they start their day at home, get in their cars and drive to work in a nondescript residential house in the San Fernando Valley in Southern California. In between documentary scenes, we also encounter several fictional characters whose stories revolve around the same residential house where the performers work. Shown as a grid of four simultaneous images, the film weaves scenes of everyday life with moments of beauty, as well as the strange and absurd moments of apparent convergence.
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Story of Eva
Title: Story of Eva
Character: Detective Grind
Released: January 13, 2015
Type: Movie
Guilt ridden mother seeks to enact her vengeance against her daughter's killers. With detectives closing in, Eva transforms into a vengeful God.
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Hidden in the Woods
Title: Hidden in the Woods
Character: Ricco
Released: December 12, 2014
Type: Movie
The story of two sisters who have been raised in isolation, subjected to the torment of their abusive, drug dealing father. When they finally decide to report him to the police, he kills the two officers and is put in jail. But things go from bad to worse when the girls must answer to their Uncle Costello, a psychotic drug kingpin, who shows up looking for his missing merchandise which is hidden in the woods.
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Whipping Boy
Title: Whipping Boy
Character: Napalm's Father
Released: December 3, 2014
Type: Movie
A man who works as a human punching bag to relieve others of their stress gets caught up in a nourish mystery pertaining to a strange device that everyone's after.
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Bermuda Tentacles
Title: Bermuda Tentacles
Character: Captain Phillips
Released: April 4, 2014
Type: Movie
After Air Force One goes down during a storm over the Bermuda Triangle, the United States Navy is dispatched to find the escape pod holding the President. A giant monster beneath the ocean awakens and attacks the fleet.
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The Least Among You
Title: The Least Among You
Character: Marvin Kelly
Released: January 12, 2009
Type: Movie
Black college graduate Richard Kelly reluctantly accepts a plea bargain requiring him to spend two semesters at an all-white seminary after he's wrongly accused of crimes committed during the 1965 Watts riots. Facing bigotry on all sides, he's close to cracking until he meets an elderly custodian who helps him navigate the trials of racism.
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Nate and the Colonel
Title: Nate and the Colonel
Character: Nate Washington
Released: April 9, 2003
Type: Movie
The year is 1865, and the American Civil War has just ended. Former slave Nate Washington and his boyhood friend, Confederate Colonel Ben Loftin head west together from the South which lies in ruins. On the Western Plains, they encounter a band of Chippewa Indians who will forever change their lives. Along the way, they must deal with a renegade band of Union Cavalry with a score to settle.
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The Tower of Babble
Title: The Tower of Babble
Character: Clint
Released: February 1, 2002
Type: Movie
Three different scenarios, intercut, all using the same words but with very different meanings. A corrupt cop is more interested in the money on the criminals he catches than justice; a young woman discovers she's pregnant, and her boyfriend is unfeeling; and a young man calls a prostitute it's the first time for both, and neither can go through with it. Ultimately, all the stories come together.
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Octopus
Title: Octopus
Character: Brickman
Released: September 21, 2000
Type: Movie
During the Cuban missile crisis in 1962, a Russian submarine strays into American waters. On board is a nuclear cargo destined for Castro. The Americans attack and destroy the sub. 38 years later US submarine Roosevelt is in the same waters. An unknown object attacks and disables the sub with devastating force and drags the vessel to the bottom of the ocean. What lies on the ocean bed beggars belief: dozens of wrecks, among them the sub destroyed 38 years ago. Whatever was on board has fed a creature of unbelievable size and strength! The only way out is the emergency submersible and a passing cruise ship. Above or below the water, there is no escape from the monster mutant octopus with a nuclear diet...
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Wishmaster
Title: Wishmaster
Character: Lt. Nathanson
Released: September 19, 1997
Type: Movie
The Djinn having been released from his ancient prison seeks to capture the soul of the woman who discovered him, thereby opening a portal and freeing his fellow Djinn to take over the earth.
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Title: The Practice
Character: Reporter
Released: March 4, 1997
Type: TV
A provocative legal drama focused on young associates at a bare-bones Boston firm and their scrappy boss, Bobby Donnell. The show's forte is its storylines about “people who walk a moral tightrope.”
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Title: The Pretender
Character: Larron
Released: September 19, 1996
Type: TV
Raised in a secret facility built for experimenting on children, Jarod is a genius who can master any profession and become anyone he has to be. When he realizes as an adult that he's actually a prisoner and his captors are not as benevolent as he's been told, he breaks out. While trying to find his real identity, Jarod helps those he encounters and tries to avoid the woman sent to retrieve him.
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Mission: Impossible
Title: Mission: Impossible
Character: Denied Area Security Guard
Released: May 22, 1996
Type: Movie
When Ethan Hunt, the leader of a crack espionage team whose perilous operation has gone awry with no explanation, discovers that a mole has penetrated the CIA, he's surprised to learn that he's the No. 1 suspect. To clear his name, Hunt now must ferret out the real double agent and, in the process, even the score.
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Timelock
Title: Timelock
Character: Tibuck, New Prisoner
Released: January 1, 1996
Type: Movie
In the 23rd century, a penal colony in a distant galaxy falls into anarchy when an inmate loads a virus into the computer system. While cryonic suspension was used to control the most dangerous criminals there, with the computers down these deadly men are back in circulation and determined to cause mayhem. With a gang of brilliant but dangerous inmates in control, a petty thief and the driver of the prison shuttle must stand against these lawless men for their own survival.
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Proteus
Title: Proteus
Character: Buckley
Released: November 4, 1995
Type: Movie
Group of heroin smugglers finds shelter on abandoned oil rig after their ship had exploded. Soon they find that the oil rig was just cover for biological experiment. One of the results is Charlie - shape-shifting monster with ability to absorb the memory of its victims. However, even such creatures have their own bad habits.
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Title: JAG
Character: Injured Secret Service
Released: September 23, 1995
Type: TV
Harmon "Harm" Rabb Jr. is a former pilot turned lawyer working for the military's JAG (Judge Advocate General) division, the elite legal wing of officers that prosecutes and defends those accused of military-related crimes. He works closely with Lt. Col. Sarah Mackenzie, and together they do what needs to be done to find the truth.
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Hackers
Title: Hackers
Character: Second Reporter
Released: September 14, 1995
Type: Movie
Along with his new friends, a teenager who was arrested by the US Secret Service and banned from using a computer for writing a computer virus discovers a plot by a nefarious hacker, but they must use their computer skills to find the evidence while being pursued by the Secret Service and the evil computer genius behind the virus.
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Project Shadowchaser III
Title: Project Shadowchaser III
Character: Lennox
Released: June 3, 1995
Type: Movie
It has been 25 years since the ore spaceship Siberia was last heard from. Unfortunately, it is now on a collision course with the communications station Comstat 5 which is orbiting Mars. After one successful maneuver to avoid the Siberia, it rams Comstat 5 and the crew soon finds that the Siberia crew is dead and the reason that it has been missing for 25 years. But that reason is trying to destroy them all as it destroyed the Siberia crew.
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Title: Babylon 5
Character: Captain Frank
Released: January 26, 1994
Type: TV
Babylon 5 is a five-mile long space station located in neutral space. Built by the Earth Alliance in the 2250s, its goal is to maintain peace among the various alien races by providing a sanctuary where grievances and negotiations can be worked out among duly appointed ambassadors. A council made up of representatives from the five major space-faring civilizations - the Earth Alliance, Minbari Federation, Centauri Republic, Narn Regime, and Vorlon Empire - work with the League of Non-Aligned Worlds to keep interstellar relations under control. Aside from its diplomatic function, Babylon 5 also serves as a military post for Earth and a port of call for travelers, traders, businessmen, criminals, and Rangers.
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Passport to Murder
Title: Passport to Murder
Character: Dealer
Released: March 7, 1993
Type: Movie
After her divorce is final, socialite Helen Hollander heads to Paris and finds herself caught up in an international terrorist plot in this thriller. When Helen comes into possession of information vital to a terrorist organization, nefarious characters begin tailing her through Paris. A hunky private eye offers to help her, but Helen isn't sure whether he's on the up-and-up.
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Title: Highlander: The Series
Character: Kassim
Released: October 3, 1992
Type: TV
Duncan MacLeod cannot die -- he is a 400-year-old immortal, who has seen his share of humanity's history. Still, he risks his life in battle against other immortals and tries to save people from harm.
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Project: Shadowchaser
Title: Project: Shadowchaser
Character: Jackson
Released: July 2, 1992
Type: Movie
Set in the future, a group of terrorists with an android leader storm a hospital when the President's daughter is inside, taking her hostage. To find a way of freeing her, the police decide to consult the architect who designed the building, but he's currently in jail for some crime, and the punishment of the future is to be frozen solid for one's sentence. The cops accidentally thaw out the wrong guy, a football player who decides to keep the mistake a secret and help the police in exchange for his freedom. Will he be able to defeat the terrorists and rescue the hostages, despite not knowing the first thing about architecture?
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Title: Murder Most Horrid
Character: Gary
Released: November 14, 1991
Type: TV
A comedy that started in 1991 as a pilot, Murder Most Horrid stars Dawn French as various characters, as she embarks on a different mystery every episode. In one way or another she is involved with murder - either committing the crime herself or even getting bumped off herself!
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Sleepers
Title: Sleepers
Character: Karl Richfield
Released: April 10, 1991
Type: Movie
Amidst the thaw of glasnost, the Kremlin discovers that two Soviet agents, sent to England under deep cover in 1965, have been “lost.” A beautiful and ambitious Russian agent, sent to London to track them down, becomes embroiled in a tangle of CIA, KGB and MI-5 plots and counterplots as the two lost agents, now utterly assimilated, try to avoid detection.
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Title: Beverly Hills, 90210
Released: October 4, 1990
Type: TV
Follow the lives of a group of teenagers living in the upscale, star-studded community of Beverly Hills, California and attending the fictitious West Beverly Hills High School and, subsequently, the fictitious California University after graduation.
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Title: Jeeves and Wooster
Character: Liftman
Released: April 22, 1990
Type: TV
Jeeves and Wooster is a British comedy-drama series adapted by Clive Exton from P.G. Wodehouse's "Jeeves" stories. It aired on the ITV network from 1990 to 1993, starring Hugh Laurie as Bertie Wooster, a young gentleman with a "distinctive blend of airy nonchalance and refined gormlessness", and Stephen Fry as Jeeves, his improbably well-informed and talented valet. Wooster is a bachelor, a minor aristocrat and member of the idle rich. He and his friends, who are mainly members of The Drones Club, are extricated from all manner of societal misadventures by the indispensable valet, Jeeves. The stories are set in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1930s.
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Slipstream
Title: Slipstream
Character: 1st Man at Table
Released: June 22, 1989
Type: Movie
In the near future, where Earth has been devastated by man's pollution and giant winds rule the planet, bounty hunter Matt kidnaps a murderer out of the hands of two police officers, planning to get the bounty himself.
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Murder on the Moon
Title: Murder on the Moon
Character: Alvarado
Released: May 9, 1989
Type: Movie
After a nuclear war on Earth, the Soviet Union and the U.S. both establish outposts on the moon. When a murder occurs on the outpost, both U.S. and Soviet investigators are forced to work on the case together.
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Doctor Who: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy
Title: Doctor Who: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy
Character: Ringmaster
Released: December 14, 1988
Type: Movie
The Doctor and Ace head for the Psychic Circus on the planet Segonax, where they meet a disparate group of performers and visitors, including a self-centred explorer named Captain Cook, his companion Mags and a biker known as Nord.
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Crusoe
Title: Crusoe
Character: 2nd Victim
Released: June 30, 1988
Type: Movie
Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked and he finds himself all alone on a tropical island. With a few tools he manages to rescue from the wreck he has to learn to support himself until help arrives.
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Airbase
Title: Airbase
Character: Larry
Released: March 1, 1988
Type: Movie
Hidden beneath an airbase the elite F-111 pilots live in a secret fantasy world as they wait, primed for the ultimate war game of World War Three. The arrival of the delicious Lieutenant Madeline Kohler detonates a chain reaction of deep rooted antagonism that explodes with cataclysmic consequences.
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The Return of Sherlock Holmes
Title: The Return of Sherlock Holmes
Character: Matthew
Released: January 10, 1987
Type: Movie
Sherlock Holmes is brought back to life by Watson's female descendant after being cryogenically frozen for eighty years.
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Body Contact
Title: Body Contact
Character: Smiley
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
Rock musical set in the future, around Tottenham and Hackney. Taxi driver, Smiley, helps beautiful Dominique Renoir, who is on the run from her violent Mafia boyfriend.
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Aliens
Title: Aliens
Character: Pvt. Ricco Frost
Released: July 18, 1986
Type: Movie
Ripley, the sole survivor of the Nostromo's deadly encounter with the monstrous Alien, returns to Earth after drifting through space in hypersleep for 57 years. Although her story is initially met with skepticism, she agrees to accompany a team of Colonial Marines back to LV-426.
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Spies Like Us
Title: Spies Like Us
Character: WAMP Guard
Released: December 6, 1985
Type: Movie
Two bumbling government employees think they are U.S. spies, only to discover that they are actually decoys for nuclear war.
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Death Wish 3
Title: Death Wish 3
Character: The Cuban
Released: November 1, 1985
Type: Movie
Architect/vigilante Paul Kersey arrives back in New York City and is forcibly recruited by a crooked police chief to fight street crime caused by a large gang terrorizing the neighborhoods.
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Displaced Person
Title: Displaced Person
Character: Jackson
Released: May 6, 1985
Type: Movie
Displaced Person is a 1985 Emmy award winning drama based on a short story by Kurt Vonnegut. It was directed by Alan Bridges and adapted by Fred Barron from a story in the Welcome to the Monkey House collection.
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The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission
Title: The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission
Character: Arlen Dregors
Released: February 4, 1985
Type: Movie
Major Reisman is "volunteered" to lead another mission using convicted army soldiers, sentenced to either death or long prison terms. This time their mission is to kill a Nazi general who plans to assassinate Hitler.
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Title: The Bill
Released: October 16, 1984
Type: TV
The daily lives of the men and women at Sun Hill Police Station as they fight crime on the streets of London. From bomb threats to armed robbery and drug raids to the routine demands of policing this ground-breaking series focuses as much on crime as it does on the personal lives of its characters.
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Title: Hill Street Blues
Released: January 15, 1981
Type: TV
A realistic glimpse into the daily lives of the officers and detectives at an urban police station.
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Title: Doctor Who
Character: Ringmaster
Released: November 23, 1963
Type: TV
The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores the universe in his TARDIS, a sentient time-traveling spaceship. Its exterior appears as a blue British police box, which was a common sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired. Along with a succession of companions, The Doctor faces a variety of foes while working to save civilizations, help ordinary people, and right many wrongs.
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Title: Beauty in Black
Character: Horace
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
Follow two women leading very different lives. While Kimmie is struggling to make a living after her mother kicked her out and Mallory is running a successful business, they find themselves entangled in each other’s lives.
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Web of Fries
Title: Web of Fries
Character: Informant
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
A family man (Josh Duhamel) inquires why Taco Bell doesn't serve fries, but finds he's bitten off more than he can chew when a sinister "Big Fries" conspiracy threatens to destroy everything he holds dear.