Frank Birney

Frank Birney

Born: September 10, 1937
Died: June 1, 2021
in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA

Movies for Frank Birney...

Title: Great News
Character: Pop Pop
Released: April 25, 2017
Type: TV
A New Jersey mom puts her relationship with her daughter to the test when she lands an internship at the same TV station where her daughter works.
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Title: The Mick
Character: Father McCormick
Released: January 1, 2017
Type: TV
Mackenzie "Mickey" Murphy is a hard-living, foul-mouthed, cigarette-smoking woman who moves to affluent Greenwich, CT to raise the spoiled kids of her wealthy sister who fled the country to avoid a federal indictment. She quickly learns what the rest of us already know - other people's children are awful.
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Title: Hidden America with Jonah Ray
Character: Old Guy
Released: June 2, 2016
Type: TV
A travel show fronted by our intrepid host, Jonah Ray, where the places are real, but the people aren't. America's Never Been Citier...
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Title: Angie Tribeca
Character: Old Man
Released: January 17, 2016
Type: TV
Lone-wolf detective Angie Tribeca and a squad of committed LAPD detectives investigate the most serious cases, from the murder of a ventriloquist to a rash of baker suicides.
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Title: Life in Pieces
Character: Stan
Released: September 21, 2015
Type: TV
Comedy about one big happy family and their sometimes awkward, often hilarious and ultimately beautiful milestone moments as told by its various members. Of the three siblings, middle child Matt may have just found his true love, his co-worker, Colleen; his coddled youngest brother, Greg, and his wife, Jen, are overwhelmed by the birth of their first child; and the eldest, Heather, and her husband, Tim, are dreading their impending empty nest so much, they're considering having another baby. Their parents are Joan the family's adoring matriarch who would do anything for her kids - as long as she agrees with it - and John, the gregarious patriarch who's searching for ways to soften the blow of turning 70. As the family's lives unfold in four short stories each week, they try to savor these little pieces of time that flash by but stay with you forever, because these moments add up to what life's all about.
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The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards
Title: The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards
Character: Edmund
Released: March 25, 2015
Type: Movie
Seven vignettes explore the difference between fantasy and reality, memory and history, and the joy and agony of the human condition.
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Title: Silicon Valley
Character: Old Man
Released: April 6, 2014
Type: TV
In the high-tech gold rush of modern Silicon Valley, the people most qualified to succeed are the least capable of handling success. Partially inspired by Mike Judge’s own experiences as a Silicon Valley engineer in the late ‘80s, Silicon Valley is an American sitcom that centers around six programmers who are living together and trying to make it big in the Silicon Valley.
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This Is How You Die.
Title: This Is How You Die.
Character: Old Man
Released: July 1, 2013
Type: Movie
What if a machine could tell you cryptically, but with 100% accuracy, how you are going to die?
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Batman y el Titiritero
Title: Batman y el Titiritero
Character: Arnold Wesker
Released: April 10, 2012
Type: Movie
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Title: Grimm
Character: Mr. Stanton
Released: October 28, 2011
Type: TV
After Portland homicide detective Nick Burkhardt discovers he's descended from an elite line of criminal profilers known as "Grimms," he increasingly finds his responsibilities as a detective at odds with his new responsibilities as a Grimm.
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Title: New Girl
Character: Old Man
Released: September 20, 2011
Type: TV
Jessica Day is an offbeat and adorable girl in her late 20s who, after a bad breakup, moves in with three single guys. Goofy, positive, vulnerable and honest to a fault, Jess has faith in people, even when she shouldn't. Although she's dorky and awkward, she's comfortable in her own skin. More prone to friendships with women, she's not used to hanging with the boys—especially at home.
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Title: Rizzoli & Isles
Character: Professor Walter Lowell
Released: July 12, 2010
Type: TV
Perhaps their strikingly different personalities make the relationship between detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles so effective. Jane, the only female cop in Boston's homicide division, is tough, relentless and rarely lets her guard down, while the impeccably dressed Maura displays a sometimes icy temperament — she is, after all, more comfortable among the dead than the living. Together, the best friends have forged a quirky and supportive relationship; they drop the protective shield in each other's company, and combine their expertise to solve Boston's most complex cases.
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Title: Castle
Character: Father McCaskey
Released: March 9, 2009
Type: TV
After a serial killer imitates the plots of his novels, successful mystery novelist Richard "Rick" Castle receives permission from the Mayor of New York City to tag along with an NYPD homicide investigation team for research purposes.
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Wicked Lake
Title: Wicked Lake
Character: Sir Jim
Released: April 26, 2008
Type: Movie
Two clans of deranged males make the mistake of stalking four young women they assume to be easy prey, only to find out that at the stroke of midnight the tables will be turned and all hell will break loose.
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Title: The Office
Character: Old Man
Released: March 24, 2005
Type: TV
The everyday lives of office employees in the Scranton, Pennsylvania branch of the fictional Dunder Mifflin Paper Company.
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Title: Boston Legal
Character: Judge William Howe
Released: October 3, 2004
Type: TV
Alan Shore and Denny Crane lead a brigade of high-priced civil litigators in an upscale Boston law firm in a series focusing on the professional and personal lives of brilliant but often emotionally challenged attorneys. A spin-off of long-running series The Practice.
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Power Play
Title: Power Play
Character: DC
Released: February 1, 2002
Type: Movie
An investigative reporter links the deaths of three people to a high profile corporation, while scientists working on their privately funded research project are forced to look beyond their work and face realitytheir experiments may be the cause of a series of killer earthquakes. The corporation will stop at nothing to keep this secret from becoming public.
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Title: Six Feet Under
Character: Walter Kriegenthaler
Released: June 3, 2001
Type: TV
When death is your business, what is your life? For the Fisher family, the world outside of their family-owned funeral home continues to be at least as challenging as—and far less predictable than—the one inside.
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Title: Roswell
Character: Dr. Bender
Released: October 6, 1999
Type: TV
Bizarre things start happening in the little New Mexico town where UFOs were spotted in 1947. Cut to 1999, when a cute high-school student saves the life of a teenage waitress. Surrounded by cliques of clever, angst-filled classmates, the two form a bond that threatens the survival of a secret universe involving superhuman powers, a yen for hot sauce and an alien gene pool.
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Title: Providence
Released: January 8, 1999
Type: TV
Providence is an American television drama series.
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The Christmas Wish
Title: The Christmas Wish
Character: Ray Spellman
Released: December 6, 1998
Type: Movie
Returning to his home town after the death of the grandfather who raised him, slick and cynical Wall Street trader Will Martin feels decidedly out of place, and not at all in tune with the Christmas preparations being made by the local citizenry. But Will isn't really taking a sentimental journey at all: He's merely in town to modernize and streamline his family's real-estate company. While going through his grandfather's effects, Will and his grandmother come across the old man's diary--which reveals a lengthy relationship with a woman named Lillian.
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Inferno
Title: Inferno
Character: Dr. Heller
Released: October 29, 1998
Type: Movie
When a huge fireball hurtles towards the Earth the authorities have only hours to react before temperatures soar beyond human tolerance.
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Title: Charmed
Character: Father Austin
Released: October 7, 1998
Type: TV
Three sisters (Prue, Piper and Phoebe) reunite and unlock their powers to become the Charmed Ones, the most powerful good witches of all time, whose prophesied destiny is to protect innocent lives from evil beings such as demons and warlocks. Each sister possesses unique magical powers that grow and evolve, while they attempt to maintain normal lives in modern day San Francisco.
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Jane Austen's Mafia!
Title: Jane Austen's Mafia!
Character: Wedding Priest
Released: July 24, 1998
Type: Movie
Takeoff on the Godfather with the son of a mafia king taking over for his dying father.
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Title: The Practice
Character: Judge Warren West
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: 7th Heaven
Character: Burt Carberry
Released: August 26, 1996
Type: TV
Reverend Eric Camden and his wife Annie have always had their hands full caring for seven children, not to mention the friends, sweethearts and spouses that continually come and go in the Camden household.
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Norma Jean & Marilyn
Title: Norma Jean & Marilyn
Character: Preacher
Released: May 18, 1996
Type: Movie
This film follows Norma Jean from her simple, ambitious youth to her sex star pinnacle and back down. She moves from lover to lover in order to further her career. She finds fame but never happiness, only knowing seduction but not love.
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Yesterday's Target
Title: Yesterday's Target
Character: Motel Manager
Released: April 22, 1996
Type: Movie
Memory loss, separation and assassins threaten three time-travelers with special powers who are stuck in the past.
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Reflections on a Crime
Title: Reflections on a Crime
Character: Doctor
Released: June 10, 1994
Type: Movie
Seven years ago, Regina (Mimi Rogers) was tried for the death. On the night before she becomes the first woman in over 40 years to be executed in a federal penitentiary, she befriends the lone, curious prison guard Colin Reeves (Billy Zane), who has been assigned to watch over her. By telling Regina's story through flashbacks interwoven with her present situation, the film helps us understand this woman in a unique, disturbing and sympathetic way
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Title: Diagnosis: Murder
Character: Dr. Cooper
Released: October 29, 1993
Type: TV
Dr. Mark Sloan is a good-natured, offbeat physician who is called upon to solve murders.
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Trouble Shooters: Trapped Beneath the Earth
Title: Trouble Shooters: Trapped Beneath the Earth
Character: Scholar
Released: October 3, 1993
Type: Movie
A rescue team is looking for survivors in a sinking building after a devastating earthquake.
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Dave
Title: Dave
Character: Director of OMB
Released: May 7, 1993
Type: Movie
A sweet-natured Temp Agency operator and amateur Presidential look-alike is recruited by the Secret Service to become a temporary stand-in for the President of the United States.
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The Opposite Sex and How to Live with Them
Title: The Opposite Sex and How to Live with Them
Character: Priest
Released: November 26, 1992
Type: Movie
David seriously fancies smart, rich Carrie as soon as he first offends her in a Boston bar. They run into each other again and though she still finds him appalling, David manages to change her mind.
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Jennifer Eight
Title: Jennifer Eight
Character: Expert
Released: November 6, 1992
Type: Movie
John Berlin, a big-city cop from LA moves to a small-town police force and immediately finds himself investigating a murder. Using theories rejected by his colleagues, Berlin meets a young blind woman named Helena, whom he is attracted to. Meanwhile, a serial killer is on the loose—and only John knows it.
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Title: Mad About You
Character: The Waiter
Released: September 23, 1992
Type: TV
Young, urban newlyweds Paul and Jamie Buchman try to sustain their marital bliss while sidestepping the hurdles of love in the '90s.
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Title: Rachel Gunn, R.N.
Character: Butler
Released: June 28, 1992
Type: TV
The lives of head nurse Rachel Gunn and her co-workers at Little Innocence Hospital in Nebraska, where Rachel is often at odds with egotistical surgeon David Dunkel.
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Title: The Torkelsons
Character: Captain
Released: September 21, 1991
Type: TV
Millicent Torkelson does what she can to hold her family together as it shrinks to just her and her children after her husband Randy abandons the family.
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Don't Touch My Daughter
Title: Don't Touch My Daughter
Character: Judge Landis
Released: April 7, 1991
Type: Movie
A young girl is kidnapped and molested by a classmate's father. The man she identifies is arrested and jailed, but is later released on bail. He calls the girl's mother and threatens to kidnap her daughter again, and this time kill her and make sure her body will never be found. She goes to the authorities for help, but there's nothing they can do until he actually tries something. Afraid for her daughter's life, the mother decides to take matters into her own hands.
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Angel of Death
Title: Angel of Death
Character: Warden
Released: October 2, 1990
Type: Movie
Escaped convict Gary Nicholson falls in love becomes obsessed with artist Laura Hendricks. He vows to protect her and her six-year-old son from any and all antagonists.
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Title: Ferris Bueller
Character: Instructor
Released: August 23, 1990
Type: TV
Ferris Bueller is an American sitcom based on the 1986 John Hughes film Ferris Bueller's Day Off. The show stars Charlie Schlatter in the title role. The series debuted on August 23, 1990, on NBC and was cancelled within its first season, a few months after its debut. The show was produced by Maysh Ltd Productions in association with Paramount Television. Hughes was not involved in the show's production, and asked that his name not be used by Paramount Television to promote it.
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Title: Shannon's Deal
Character: Floyd Mosher
Released: April 16, 1990
Type: TV
Shannon's Deal is an American legal drama. The show centers on a successful Philadelphia corporate lawyer named Jack Shannon, who lost his family and his job to a compulsive gambling habit. The saga of Shannon, who leaves a prestigious law firm after years of becoming unhappy with the legal system and being forced to take his clients to court, and whom subsequently opens his own low-rent practice
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C.H.U.D. II: Bud the Chud
Title: C.H.U.D. II: Bud the Chud
Character: Barber
Released: May 5, 1989
Type: Movie
A military experiment to create a race of super-warriors goes awry, as legions of murderous zombies are unleashed upon a suburban neighborhood.
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Lucky Stiff
Title: Lucky Stiff
Character: Priest
Released: November 1, 1988
Type: Movie
Ron Douglas has no luck in women, and when his bride runs away on their wedding day, he goes on holiday up in the mountains, only to be reminded more of his misery when placed in the honey-moon wing of the hotel. However he finds love with Cynthia, a beautiful blonde, and his self esteem improves. Cynthia invites him for Christmas dinner, and he accepts, only to meet Cynthia's eccentric cannibal family, and finds out HE is the main course.
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Critters 2
Title: Critters 2
Character: Reverend Fisher
Released: April 29, 1988
Type: Movie
Three bounty hunters from space fly back to the town of Grovers Bend, hoping to save local residents from a new batch of Critter eggs.
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The Betty Ford Story
Title: The Betty Ford Story
Character: Benji
Released: March 2, 1987
Type: Movie
This biographical film was based on the book The Times of My Life written by Chris Chase and Betty Ford.
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Bad Guys
Title: Bad Guys
Character: Comedian
Released: March 14, 1986
Type: Movie
Two LA cops turn to professional wrestling for money and revenge after being suspended from the force for a bar brawl.
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Title: The Golden Girls
Character: Stage Manager
Released: September 14, 1985
Type: TV
Four Southern Florida seniors share a house, their dreams, and a whole lot of cheesecake. Bright, promiscuous, clueless and hilarious, these lovely, mismatched ladies form the perfect circle of friends.
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Title: Otherworld
Released: January 26, 1985
Type: TV
Otherworld is an American science fiction series that aired for only eight episodes from January 26 to March 16, 1985 on CBS. It was created by Roderick Taylor as a sort of Lost in Space on Earth. Taylor gave himself a cameo role in each episode.
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Title: Highway to Heaven
Released: September 19, 1984
Type: TV
A probationary angel is sent back to Earth to team up with an ex-cop and help people.
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The Jerk, Too
Title: The Jerk, Too
Character: Priest
Released: January 6, 1984
Type: Movie
Navin Johnson heads to Los Angeles to attend the wedding of his pen pal, Marie. On the way, he runs across a gang of hobos whose leader, Diesel, takes him to Las Vegas after learning of his skills at poker.
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Title: Night Court
Character: Doctor in Courtroom
Released: January 4, 1984
Type: TV
Night Court is an American television situation comedy that aired on NBC from January 4, 1984 to May 31, 1992. The setting was the night shift of a Manhattan court, presided over by the young, unorthodox Judge Harold T. "Harry" Stone. It was created by comedy writer Reinhold Weege, who had previously worked on Barney Miller in the 1970s and early 1980s.
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Mr. Mom
Title: Mr. Mom
Character: Exec. #4
Released: July 22, 1983
Type: Movie
Jack and Caroline are a couple making a decent living when Jack suddenly loses his job. They agree that he should stay at home and look after the house while Caroline works. It's just that he's never done it before, and really doesn't have a clue...
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The Discipline of D.E.
Title: The Discipline of D.E.
Released: December 31, 1982
Type: Movie
"The Discipline of D.E." is a short 16mm film directed by Gus Van Sant. It’s based on a story in “Exterminator!” by William Burroughs that at times reads like Buddhist noir: "DE is a way of doing. DE simply means doing whatever you do in the easiest most relaxed way you can manage which is also the quickest and most efficient way, as you will find as you advance in DE.You can start right now tidying up your flat, moving furniture or books, washing dishes, making tea, sorting papers. Don't fumble, jerk, grab an object. Drop cool possessive fingers onto it like a gentle old cop making a soft arrest.”
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Title: Knight Rider
Character: Assistant Manager
Released: September 26, 1982
Type: TV
Michael Long, an undercover police officer, is shot while investigating a case and left for dead by his assailants. He is rescued by Wilton Knight, a wealthy, dying millionaire and inventor who arranges life-saving surgery, including a new face and a new identity--that of Michael Knight. Michael is then given a special computerized and indestructible car called the Knight Industries Two Thousand (nicknamed KITT), and a mission: apprehend criminals who are beyond the reach of the law. The series depicts Michael's exploits as he and KITT battle the forces of evil on behalf of the Foundation for Law and Government.
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Pray TV
Title: Pray TV
Character: Johnson
Released: February 1, 1982
Type: Movie
A newly ordained minister accepts a summer job with a dynamic TV evangelist only to find deep conflicts between the latter's conventional activities servicing his community's spiritual needs and his power wielded as a TV celebrity.
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Modern Problems
Title: Modern Problems
Character: Man in Lobby
Released: December 25, 1981
Type: Movie
Jealous, harried air traffic controller Max Fielder, recently dumped by his girlfriend, comes into contact with nuclear waste and is granted the power of telekinesis, which he uses to not only win her back, but to gain a little revenge.
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Return of the Rebels
Title: Return of the Rebels
Character: Patrick
Released: October 17, 1981
Type: Movie
An aging motorcycle gang assembles for a 25-year reunion to help out former member Mary Beth, a widowed operator of a popular campground which is being threatened by a band of arrogant groupies.
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Miracle on Ice
Title: Miracle on Ice
Character: Mr. Sears
Released: March 1, 1981
Type: Movie
The story of the 1980 United States Olympic hockey players, a group of amateurs from around the country who were whipped into a cohesive unit by controversial coach Herb Brooks to win a gold medal at Lake Placid during the winter games.
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Fear No Evil
Title: Fear No Evil
Character: Father Daly
Released: January 19, 1981
Type: Movie
Brilliant and aloof teenager Andrew is always the butt of his classmates' jokes — but little do they know that he is actually the demon Lucifer. As the evil wells up within him, he avenges himself in acts of demonic murder and destruction. But his foe, the archangel Gabriel, has assumed the form of 18 year old student Julie.
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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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The Babysitter
Title: The Babysitter
Character: Mr. Farragut
Released: November 28, 1980
Type: Movie
Overprotective mother Liz Benedict meets 18-year-old orphan Joanna Redwine and hires her as house help and live-in companion to rambunctious daughter Tara. Liz's husband Jeff isn't too thrilled with the arrangement, and his fears soon prove justified when Joanna begins to manipulate everyone and to slowly destroy the family. Meanwhile, next-door neighbor Dr. Linquist investigates and discovers Joanna has a disturbing past.
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Portrait of an Escort
Title: Portrait of an Escort
Character: Professor Lewis
Released: October 8, 1980
Type: Movie
Jordan West is a divorcée who moonlights at a professional dating service to make ends meet. But her secret job causes gossip among her neighbors and trouble at the real estate office where she works in the daytime, while her teenage daughter is the only one who remains oblivious to her mother's night job. When Jordan tries to quit her escort profession, she finds herself harassed by her boss/madam, Mrs. Kennedy, and then stalked by an unknown former client.
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Child's Play
Title: Child's Play
Character: Butler
Released: May 17, 1980
Type: Movie
A neighborhood boy might have the solution to his problems, though. For two silver candlesticks, he promises to give Conrad a rare, vicious, growling and cunning animal with supernatural abilities, which supposedly was coveted in the past by Egyptian pharaohs, Borneo pirates and even Napoleon Bonaparte himself. Eventually the trade is made, Conrad gets the creature.
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Title: Knots Landing
Released: December 27, 1979
Type: TV
The domestic adventures, misdeeds and everyday interactions of five families living on a cul-de-sac in a small California community.
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Portrait of a Stripper
Title: Portrait of a Stripper
Character: Director
Released: October 2, 1979
Type: Movie
A young widow, supporting herself and her pre-teen son by performing as a nightclub dancer, finds the place turned into a strip joint and learns that her father-in-law is trying to prove her an unfit mother.
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Parts: The Clonus Horror
Title: Parts: The Clonus Horror
Character: Reporter Birney
Released: August 1, 1979
Type: Movie
An escaped clone tries to expose a government plot to clone everyone and make a perfect society.
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Title: Quincy, M.E.
Released: October 3, 1976
Type: TV
Quincy, M.E. is an American television series from Universal Studios pert in several of the later episodes.