Fred Melamed

Fred Melamed

Born: May 13, 1956
in New York City, New York, USA
Fred Melamed (born May 13, 1956 in New York City) is an American actor and writer. He received his theatrical training at Hampshire College and the Yale School of Drama. At Yale, he was a Samuel F. B. Morse College Graduate Fellow. He was also a nominee for the Irene Ryan Award, a prize conferred upon the most promising young actors in the United States. While still at Yale, he was an instructor at the well-known performing arts camp, Stagedoor Manor.

Movies for Fred Melamed...

Little Death
Title: Little Death
Character: Augustus
Released: January 19, 2024
Type: Movie
A middle-aged filmmaker on the verge of a breakthrough. Two kids in search of a lost backpack. A small dog a long way from home.
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Cat Person
Title: Cat Person
Character: Dr. Resnick
Released: October 6, 2023
Type: Movie
When Margot, a college sophomore, goes on a date with the older Robert, she finds that IRL Robert doesn’t live up to the Robert she has been flirting with over texts.
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Peak Season
Title: Peak Season
Character: George
Released: March 12, 2023
Type: Movie
New York yuppies Amy & Max arrive in the wealthy resort town of Jackson Hole, Wyoming for a summer vacation. When Max is called away on business, Amy finds a friend in Loren, a local wilderness guide. They spend the week together exploring the Tetons. Both lonely and lost in their own lives, Amy & Loren share an instant connection. As her bond with Loren grows into something more than friendship, Amy questions whether she’ll return to NYC with Max after all.
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Fuzzy Head
Title: Fuzzy Head
Character: The Quadruped
Released: January 20, 2023
Type: Movie
Insomnia-ridden Marla is on the run after the murder of her mother. Now, Marla must confront her everlasting void to find out the truth of what really happened and at last, undo all that's been done.
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Title: Reboot
Character: Alan
Released: September 20, 2022
Type: TV
When Hulu reboots an early 2000s family sitcom, its dysfunctional cast is forced back together and now must deal with their unresolved issues in today’s fast-changing world.
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Diary of a Spy
Title: Diary of a Spy
Character: James
Released: July 14, 2022
Type: Movie
Anna is a washed-up intelligence officer whose last mission left 7 people dead. Drunk, broke, and alone she is given the chance for one last mission: to seduce and recruit a valuable asset connected to the Saudi Royal Family. As she gets closer and closer to her target, Anna finds she is in over her head and she must decide between accomplishing her mission or finding a way to save herself.
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Rumble
Title: Rumble
Character: Mayor (voice)
Released: December 15, 2021
Type: Movie
In a world where monster wrestling is a global sport and monsters are superstar athletes, teenage Winnie seeks to follow in her father’s footsteps by coaching a loveable underdog monster into a champion.
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Together Together
Title: Together Together
Character: Marty
Released: April 23, 2021
Type: Movie
When young loner Anna is hired as the surrogate for Matt, a single man in his 40s, the two strangers come to realize this unexpected relationship will quickly challenge their perceptions of connection, boundaries and the particulars of love.
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Shiva Baby
Title: Shiva Baby
Character: Joel
Released: April 2, 2021
Type: Movie
College student Danielle must cover her tracks when she unexpectedly runs into her sugar daddy at a shiva - with her parents, ex-girlfriend and family friends also in attendance.
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Title: Marvel Studios Assembled
Character: Self - Arthur Hart
Released: March 12, 2021
Type: TV
Go behind the scenes of the shows and movies of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, following the filmmakers, cast and crew, and Marvel heroes every step of the way.
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Title: WandaVision
Character: Todd Davis (a.k.a. Arthur Hart) (uncredited)
Released: January 15, 2021
Type: TV
Wanda Maximoff and Vision—two super-powered beings living idealized suburban lives—begin to suspect that everything is not as it seems.
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Title: WandaVision
Character: Todd David (a.k.a. Arthur Hart)
Released: January 15, 2021
Type: TV
Wanda Maximoff and Vision—two super-powered beings living idealized suburban lives—begin to suspect that everything is not as it seems.
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The Vigil
Title: The Vigil
Character: Dr. Kohlberg
Released: July 1, 2020
Type: Movie
A man providing overnight watch to a deceased member of his former Orthodox Jewish community finds himself opposite a malevolent entity.
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Title: Medical Police
Character: Professor Waters
Released: January 10, 2020
Type: TV
Doctors Owen Maestro and Lola Spratt leave Children's Hospital and join a secret arm of the CDC to investigate and destroy a deadly global virus.
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Title: The Morning Show
Character: Mitch's Agent
Released: November 1, 2019
Type: TV
A behind-the-scenes look at the lives of the people who help America wake up in the morning, exploring the unique challenges faced by the men and women who carry out this daily televised ritual.
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Lying and Stealing
Title: Lying and Stealing
Character: Dimitri
Released: July 12, 2019
Type: Movie
Hoping to leave his criminal lifestyle behind him, a successful art thief teams up with a sexy con woman to pull off the ultimate heist and set himself free.
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Title: Black Monday
Character: Not Milken #2
Released: January 20, 2019
Type: TV
Travel back to October 19, 1987 – aka Black Monday, the worst stock market crash in Wall Street history – this is the story of how a group of outsiders took on the blue-blood, old-boys club of Wall Street and ended up crashing the world’s largest financial system, a Lamborghini limousine, Don Henley’s birthday party and the glass ceiling.
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Silver Lake
Title: Silver Lake
Character: Howard
Released: October 21, 2018
Type: Movie
The story centers on Nathan (Starr) as he examines his life and relationships with friends, his girlfriend Mary (Woll) and her young daughters, plus his larger-than-life mentor (Fred Melamed).
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Dragged Across Concrete
Title: Dragged Across Concrete
Character: Mr. Edmington
Released: September 3, 2018
Type: Movie
Two policemen, one an old-timer, the other his volatile younger partner, find themselves suspended when a video of their strong-arm tactics becomes the media's cause du jour. Low on cash and with no other options, these two embittered soldiers descend into the criminal underworld to gain their just due, but instead find far more than they wanted awaiting them in the shadows.
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The Spy Who Dumped Me
Title: The Spy Who Dumped Me
Character: Roger
Released: August 2, 2018
Type: Movie
A couple of thirtysomething best friends unwittingly become entangled in an international conspiracy when one’s ex-boyfriend shows up at their apartment with a team of deadly assassins on his trail.
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Title: Summer Camp Island
Character: Monk Receptionist / Additional Voices (voice)
Released: July 7, 2018
Type: TV
Oscar and Hedgehog are dropped off at a strange summer camp, full of fantastical things ranging from magical camp counselors to sticky notes that are portals to other dimensions.
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Title: Summer Camp Island
Character: Monk Receptionist (voice)
Released: July 7, 2018
Type: TV
Oscar and Hedgehog are dropped off at a strange summer camp, full of fantastical things ranging from magical camp counselors to sticky notes that are portals to other dimensions.
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Title: Barry
Character: Tom Posorro
Released: March 25, 2018
Type: TV
A listless hitman is enthralled by theatre acting and becomes eager to leave his old life behind in pursuit of a new career.
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Brawl in Cell Block 99
Title: Brawl in Cell Block 99
Character: Mr Irving
Released: September 23, 2017
Type: Movie
After working as a drug courier and getting into a brutal shootout with police, a former boxer finds himself at the mercy of his enemies as they force him to instigate violent acts that turn the prison he resides in into a battleground.
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Kid Gambled
Title: Kid Gambled
Character: Repair Man
Released: August 16, 2017
Type: Movie
Peer-pressured to steal a case of beer by his hooligan friends, a stoned anxiety-stricken teenager wobbles through the aisles of a Las Vegas convenience store battling his own self doubts and wild hallucinations. Featuring Fred Melamed (A Serious Man, In a World, Lady Dynamite).
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Title: Room 104
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: July 28, 2017
Type: TV
An anthology series set in a single hotel room, where every guest who comes to stay reveals a unique set of circumstances and quirks.
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Chicanery
Title: Chicanery
Character: Arthur Schekner
Released: April 29, 2017
Type: Movie
Darren Flare is an Emmy Award-winning, slightly dim newscaster, who is about to stumble on the story of the decade: the capture of the FBI's most wanted terrorist, the Imam Abdul Mohammed Zaleeka.
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Title: Trial & Error
Character: Howard Mankiewicz
Released: March 14, 2017
Type: TV
A bright-eyed New York lawyer takes his first big case defending an eccentric poetry professor accused of murdering his wife.
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Lemon
Title: Lemon
Character: Howard
Released: January 22, 2017
Type: Movie
A man watches his life unravel after he is left by his blind girlfriend.
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Passengers
Title: Passengers
Character: Observatory (voice)
Released: December 21, 2016
Type: Movie
A spacecraft traveling to a distant colony planet and transporting thousands of people has a malfunction in its sleep chambers. As a result, two passengers are awakened 90 years early.
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Hail, Caesar!
Title: Hail, Caesar!
Character: Communist Writer
Released: February 5, 2016
Type: Movie
When a Hollywood star mysteriously disappears in the middle of filming, the studio sends their fixer to get him back.
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Title: American Crime Story
Character: William H. 'Bill' Ginsberg
Released: February 2, 2016
Type: TV
An anthology series centered around some of history's most famous criminal investigations.
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Title: Superstore
Character: Richard
Released: November 30, 2015
Type: TV
A hilarious workplace comedy about a unique family of employees at a super-sized mega store. From the bright-eyed newbies and the seen-it-all veterans to the clueless summer hires and the in-it-for-life managers, together they hilariously tackle the day-to-day grind of rabid bargain hunters, riot-causing sales and nap-worthy training sessions.
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Bone Tomahawk
Title: Bone Tomahawk
Character: Clarence
Released: October 23, 2015
Type: Movie
During a shootout in a saloon, Sheriff Hunt injures a suspicious stranger. The doctor's assistant, wife of the local foreman, tends to him in prison. That night, the town is attacked and they both disappear—only the arrow of a cannibal tribe is found. Hunt and a few of his men go in search of the prisoner and the foreman's wife.
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Title: Life in Pieces
Character: Dr. Dave Collins
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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Some Kind of Beautiful
Title: Some Kind of Beautiful
Character: Piggott
Released: July 16, 2015
Type: Movie
By day, Richard Haig is a successful and well-respected English professor at renowned Trinity College in Cambridge. By night, Richard indulges his own romantic fantasies with a steady stream of beautiful undergraduates. But Richard has grown tired of the game and is looking for something more meaningful and lasting. So when Kate, Richard’s tanned, athletic, 25-year-old American girlfriend tells him that she is pregnant, Richard is thrilled. He looks forward to having a family of his own, being a father his children could be proud of, not some sex-fueled bobcat. There is only one problem. Richard’s not in love with Kate. Richard is in love with Kate’s sister, Olivia. He had been in love with her ever since he first saw her.
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You Are Whole
Title: You Are Whole
Character: Norman
Released: June 20, 2015
Type: Movie
A spiritual missionary is mistaken for a serial killer in a sleepy British seaside town.
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Smart Pipe
Title: Smart Pipe
Character: Andrew Gold
Released: November 17, 2014
Type: Movie
Everything in our lives is connected to the internet, so why not our toilets? Take a tour of Smart Pipe, the hot new tech startup that turns your waste into valuable information and fun social connectivity.
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Title: Benched
Character: Judge Don Nelson
Released: October 28, 2014
Type: TV
Nina is a dedicated, career driven corporate attorney who has a very public nervous breakdown after getting passed up for an expected promotion and now finds herself working as a public defender. Her personal and professional worlds are turned upside down when she joins the ranks of the legal world’s underdogs and very quickly realizes that the law isn't quite as fair as she once thought.
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Adult Beginners
Title: Adult Beginners
Character: Story Book Reader (voice)
Released: September 8, 2014
Type: Movie
A young, hipster entrepreneur crashes and burns on the eve of his company’s big launch. With his entire life in disarray, he leaves Manhattan to move in with his estranged pregnant sister, brother-in-law and three year-old nephew in the suburbs — only to become their manny. Faced with real responsibility, he may finally have to grow up — but not without some bad behavior first.
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Get on Up
Title: Get on Up
Character: Syd Nathan
Released: August 1, 2014
Type: Movie
A chronicle of James Brown's rise from extreme poverty to become one of the most influential musicians in history.
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Dinner with Friends with Brett Gelman and Friends
Title: Dinner with Friends with Brett Gelman and Friends
Character: Fred
Released: April 24, 2014
Type: Movie
You are cordially invited to join Brett Gelman and his Hollywood friends for a lively night of dining, tasty showbiz chit-chat, and psychological torture.
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Title: Fargo
Character: Howard Zimmerman
Released: April 15, 2014
Type: TV
A close-knit anthology series dealing with stories involving malice, violence and murder based in and around Minnesota.
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Hairbrained
Title: Hairbrained
Character: Benny Greenberg
Released: November 25, 2013
Type: Movie
A fourteen-year-old genius gets rejected by Harvard and ends up at a much lower ranked school where he makes friends with a mature student.
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Title: Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Character: D.C. Parlov
Released: September 17, 2013
Type: TV
A single-camera ensemble comedy following the lives of an eclectic group of detectives in a New York precinct, including one slacker who is forced to shape up when he gets a new boss.
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In a World...
Title: In a World...
Character: Sam Sotto
Released: August 9, 2013
Type: Movie
An underachieving vocal coach is motivated by her father, the king of movie-trailer voice-overs, to pursue her aspirations of becoming a voice-over star. Amidst pride, sexism and family dysfunction, she sets out to change the voice of a generation.
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Blumenthal
Title: Blumenthal
Character: Jimmy Basmati
Released: August 3, 2013
Type: Movie
A comedy that follows the relatives of Harold Blumethal, a legendary playwright who made his career parodying his family in his work and died laughing at his own joke.
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Fred Won't Move Out
Title: Fred Won't Move Out
Character: Bob
Released: September 21, 2012
Type: Movie
Fred (Elliott Gould) lives with his Alzheimers' struggling wife, Susan in their home of over fifty years. Fred's grown up children try to convince him to move into a care home alongside Susan, however, he does not approve of this idea.
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The Dictator
Title: The Dictator
Character: Head Nuclear Scientist
Released: May 15, 2012
Type: Movie
The heroic story of a dictator who risks his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country he so lovingly oppressed.
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Title: New Girl
Character: J. Cronkite Valley-Forge
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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A Serious Man
Title: A Serious Man
Character: Sy Ableman
Released: September 30, 2009
Type: Movie
It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik, a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been informed by his wife Judith that she is leaving him. She has fallen in love with one of his more pompous acquaintances Sy Ableman.
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Title: Childrens Hospital
Character: Leonard Hillman
Released: December 8, 2008
Type: TV
A hospital isn't a place for lazy people. It's a place for smart people who take care of people who aren't smart enough to keep themselves healthy. So begins Children's Hospital, a parody series that follows the lives, loves and laughs of a hospital staff.
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Title: 30 Rock
Character: Jack (voice)
Released: October 11, 2006
Type: TV
Liz Lemon, the head writer for a late-night TV variety show in New York, tries to juggle all the egos around her while chasing her own dream.
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Title: In Search of Shakespeare
Character: Announcer
Released: June 28, 2003
Type: TV
Complete four part series exploring the life of the world's greatest and most famous writer. Presenter-led, mixing travel, adventure, live action interviews and specially shot documentary and live action sequences with the RSC on the road. A history series - it focuses not on the plays, but on the history and sets the life of the poet in the extraordinary times in which he lived. We are introduced to the dark world of Queen Elizabeth's police state - a time of surveillance, militarism and foreign wars. We are reminded that Shakespeare lived through the Spanish Armada, the Gunpowder Plot, the colonisation of the New World and the beginnings of British power in America. But most importantly Shakespeare also lived through England’s Cultural Revolution: an enforced split with the old medieval English spirit world which was to lead the English people into a brave new Protestant future.
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Hollywood Ending
Title: Hollywood Ending
Character: Pappas
Released: May 3, 2002
Type: Movie
Woody Allen stars as Val Waxman, a two-time Oscar winner turned washed-up, neurotic director in desperate need of a comeback. When it comes, Waxman finds himself backed into a corner: Work for his ex-wife Ellie or forfeit his last shot. Is Val blinded by love when he opts for the reconnect? Is love blind when it comes to Ellie's staunch support? Literally and figuratively, the proof is the picture.
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Title: Curb Your Enthusiasm
Character: Dr. Thurgood
Released: October 15, 2000
Type: TV
The off-kilter, unscripted comic vision of Larry David, who plays himself in a parallel universe in which he can't seem to do anything right, and, by his standards, neither can anyone else.
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Title: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Character: Dan Goldberg
Released: September 20, 1999
Type: TV
In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.
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Husbands and Wives
Title: Husbands and Wives
Character: Mel (uncredited)
Released: September 18, 1992
Type: Movie
When Jack and Sally announce that they're splitting up, this comes as a shock to their best friends Gabe and Judy. Maybe mostly because they also are drifting apart and are now being made aware of it. So while Jack and Sally try to go on and meet new people, the marriage of Gabe and Judy gets more and more strained, and they begin to find themselves being attracted to other people.
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Shadows and Fog
Title: Shadows and Fog
Character: Undesirables Onlooker
Released: December 5, 1991
Type: Movie
With a serial strangler on the loose, a bookkeeper wanders around town searching for the vigilante group intent on catching the killer.
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Title: Law & Order
Character: Bertram Hill
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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Crimes and Misdemeanors
Title: Crimes and Misdemeanors
Character: The Dean (uncredited)
Released: October 13, 1989
Type: Movie
An ophthalmologist's mistress threatens to reveal their affair to his wife, while a married documentary filmmaker is infatuated by another woman.
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Another Woman
Title: Another Woman
Character: Patient's Voice / Engagement Party Guest
Released: October 13, 1988
Type: Movie
Marion is a woman who has learned to shield herself from her emotions. She rents an apartment to work undisturbed on her new book, but by some acoustic anomaly she can hear all that is said in the next apartment in which a psychiatrist holds his office. When she hears a young woman tell that she finds it harder and harder to bear her life, Marion starts to reflect on her own life. After a series of events she comes to understand how her unemotional attitude towards the people around her affected them and herself.
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Sticky Fingers
Title: Sticky Fingers
Character: The Cop (voice) (uncredited)
Released: May 6, 1988
Type: Movie
Two dippy roommates, struggling musicians Lolly and Hattie are asked by a drug-dealing friend-of-a-friend Diane to baby-sit a bag containing nearly a million dollars while she scoots out of town in order to avoid trouble. Once the money is in their possession, however, temptation proves too much for them.
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Suspect
Title: Suspect
Character: Morty Rosenthal
Released: October 23, 1987
Type: Movie
When a Supreme Court judge commits suicide and his secretary is found murdered, all fingers point to Carl Anderson, a homeless veteran who's deaf and mute. But when public defender Kathleen Riley is assigned to his case, she begins to believe that Anderson may actually be innocent. Juror Eddie Sanger, a Washington lobbyist, agrees, and together the pair begins their own investigation of events.
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The Pick-up Artist
Title: The Pick-up Artist
Character: George
Released: September 18, 1987
Type: Movie
A womanizer meets his match when he falls for the daughter of a gambling addict who is in debt to the mob.
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Ishtar
Title: Ishtar
Character: Caid of Assari
Released: May 15, 1987
Type: Movie
Two terrible lounge singers get booked to play a gig in a Moroccan hotel but somehow become pawns in an international power play between the CIA, the Emir of Ishtar, and the rebels trying to overthrow his regime.
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Radio Days
Title: Radio Days
Character: Bradley (uncredited)
Released: January 30, 1987
Type: Movie
The Narrator tells us how the radio influenced his childhood in the days before TV. In the New York City of the late 1930s to the New Year's Eve 1944, this coming-of-age tale mixes the narrator's experiences with contemporary anecdotes and urban legends of the radio stars.
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The Mission
Title: The Mission
Character: Don Cabeza (voice) (uncredited)
Released: September 24, 1986
Type: Movie
When a Spanish Jesuit goes into the South American wilderness to build a mission in the hope of converting the Indians of the region, a slave hunter is converted and joins his mission. When Spain sells the colony to Portugal, they are forced to defend all they have built against the Portuguese aggressors.
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The Manhattan Project
Title: The Manhattan Project
Character: Howard
Released: June 13, 1986
Type: Movie
Named after the World War II-era program, the plot revolves around a gifted high school student who decides to construct a nuclear bomb for a national science fair. The film's underlying theme involves the Cold War of the 1980s when government secrecy and mutually assured destruction were key political and military issues.
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Hannah and Her Sisters
Title: Hannah and Her Sisters
Character: Dr. Grey
Released: February 7, 1986
Type: Movie
Between two Thanksgivings, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her sister Holly.
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Lovesick
Title: Lovesick
Character: Analyst
Released: February 18, 1983
Type: Movie
Sigmund Freud's ghost advises a married New York psychiatrist in love with a patient.
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Don't Trip
Title: Don't Trip
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
A struggling screenwriter falls into a dangerous relationship with a powerful producer's son.
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Interpersonal Exopolitics
Title: Interpersonal Exopolitics
Character: Hank
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Mankind's relationship with Extraterrestrials, itself, and its vices are explored through sex, song & soda.
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Title: Viral Vignettes
Character: Neil
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
Twelve one-act comedies that introduced us to 21 unique characters – stuck at home during the pandemic, trying to make sense of an unprecedented situation. A once-in-a-lifetime snapshot, capturing that period in all of its strangeness and unexpected humor.