Ed Koch

Ed Koch

Born: December 12, 1924
Died: February 1, 2013
in New York City, New York, USA

Movies for Ed Koch...

The Choice 2020: Trump vs. Biden
Title: The Choice 2020: Trump vs. Biden
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: September 22, 2020
Type: Movie
A look into what has shaped President Donald Trump and presidential candidate Joe Biden, where they came from and how they lead.
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Siempre, Luis
Title: Siempre, Luis
Character: Self
Released: January 25, 2020
Type: Movie
A story that embodies the tenacity and passion of the American Dream, this documentary is a portrait of the pioneering activist Luis A. Miranda Jr. Luis is a decades-long fighter for Latino communities, a key player in the New York and national political arena, and a loving father of three – including the award-winning composer, lyricist and actor, Lin-Manuel Miranda.
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Jerry Before Seinfeld
Title: Jerry Before Seinfeld
Character: Himself
Released: September 19, 2017
Type: Movie
Jerry Seinfeld returns to the club that gave him his start in the 1970s, mixing iconic jokes with stories from his childhood and early days in comedy.
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The Making of Trump
Title: The Making of Trump
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: November 30, 2015
Type: Movie
As every day of Donald Trump's presidential campaign seemingly generates new headlines, this two-hour special examines the increasingly polarizing candidate's past. Included is rarely seen footage from Trump's interviews with Phil Donahue and his comments about politics from the floor of the 1988 Republican convention. Additionally, celebrities, politicians, and people described as "close to The Donald" weigh in, including former US Senator Al D'Amato (R-N.Y.), former Atlantic City mayor Jim Whelen, boxer Mike Tyson, and notorious "Apprentice" contestant Omarosa.
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Koch
Title: Koch
Character: Self
Released: February 1, 2013
Type: Movie
A documentary on the former mayor of New York City, Ed Koch.
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The Central Park Five
Title: The Central Park Five
Character: Self - Former Mayor, New York
Released: May 24, 2012
Type: Movie
In 1989, five black and Latino teenagers from Harlem were arrested and later convicted of raping a white woman in New York City's Central Park. They spent between 6 and 13 years in prison before a serial rapist confessed that he alone had committed the crime, leading to their convictions being overturned. Set against a backdrop of a decaying city beset by violence and racial tension, this is the story of that horrific crime, the rush to judgment by the police, a media clamoring for sensational stories and an outraged public, and the five lives upended by this miscarriage of justice.
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The Undefeated
Title: The Undefeated
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: July 15, 2011
Type: Movie
A documentary that chronicles Sarah Palin's pre-political life; her tenure as Governor of Alaska, and her time spent as John McCain's running mate.
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American Swing
Title: American Swing
Character: Self
Released: October 17, 2009
Type: Movie
Chronicles the rise and fall of 1970s New York City nightclub Plato's Retreat.
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We Own the Night
Title: We Own the Night
Character: Mayor
Released: October 12, 2007
Type: Movie
A New York nightclub manager tries to save his brother and father from Russian mafia hitmen.
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Taxi Driver Stories
Title: Taxi Driver Stories
Character: Self
Released: August 14, 2007
Type: Movie
Interviews taking a look at New Your City of the 1970's through the eyes and experiences of actual taxi drivers of the era
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NY77: The Coolest Year in Hell
Title: NY77: The Coolest Year in Hell
Released: July 9, 2007
Type: Movie
New York City, 1977 - It was a time when the city had fallen into decay, with too few jobs, money, police, schools, and social services. There was a city wide blackout with major looting, a serial killer on the loose, and the Bronx was burning. And yet out of the chaos emerged one of the most creative times any city has ever encountered.
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Fahrenhype 9/11
Title: Fahrenhype 9/11
Released: October 5, 2004
Type: Movie
A documentary which refutes and debunks facts made by Michael Moore in his film "Fahrenheit 9/11".
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The Hebrew Hammer
Title: The Hebrew Hammer
Character: Himself
Released: January 23, 2003
Type: Movie
A Jewish blaxploitation hero saves Hanukkah from the clutches of Santa Claus's evil son.
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Title: New York: A Documentary Film
Character: Self - Commentator
Released: November 14, 1999
Type: TV
This eight-part, 16½-hour television event explores New York City's rich history as the premier laboratory of modern life. A sweeping narrative covering nearly 400 years and 400 square miles, it reveals a complex and dynamic city that has played an unparalleled role in shaping the nation and reflecting its ideals.
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Title: Sex and the City
Character: Ed Koch
Released: June 6, 1998
Type: TV
Based on the bestselling book by Candace Bushnell, Sex and the City tells the story of four best friends, all single and in their late thirties, as they pursue their careers and talk about their sex lives, all while trying to survive the New York social scene. 
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Title: Where's Elvis This Week?
Released: October 6, 1996
Type: TV
Where's Elvis This Week? was a short-lived, half-hour, weekly comedy television program hosted by Jon Stewart that aired on Sunday nights in the United Kingdom on BBC Two. It was filmed at the CBS Broadcast Center in New York City and featured a set of panelists—two from the United Kingdom, and two from the United States. The panelists discussed news items and cultural issues. It premiered in the UK on 6 October 1996, and five episodes aired in total. Notable panelists included Dave Chappelle, Eddie Izzard, Phil Jupitus, Nora Ephron, Craig Kilborn, Christopher Hitchens, Armando Iannucci and Norm Macdonald.
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Title: Spin City
Character: Ed Koch - The Judge
Released: September 17, 1996
Type: TV
Workaholic Mike Flaherty is the Deputy Mayor of New York City, serving as Mayor Randall Winston's key strategist and much-needed handler. Mike runs the city with the help of his oddball staff: an anxious and insecure press secretary; a sexist, boorish chief of staff; an impeccably groomed gay activist running minority affairs; a sharp and efficient, man-crazy accountant; and an idealistic young speechwriter. Like Mike, they are all professionally capable but personally challenged.
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Title: The Daily Show
Character: Self
Released: July 22, 1996
Type: TV
The World's Fakest News Team tackle the biggest stories in news, politics and pop culture.
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Eddie
Title: Eddie
Character: Ed Koch
Released: May 31, 1996
Type: Movie
Eddie is a New York limo driver and a fanatical follower of the New York Knicks professional basketball team. The team is struggling with a mediocre record when, in mid-season, "Wild Bill" Burgess, the new owner, as a public relations gimmick, stages an 'honorary coach' contest, which Eddie wins. The fans love it, so "Wild Bill" fires the coach and hires her. She takes the bunch of overpaid prima
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Title: Central Park West
Released: September 13, 1995
Type: TV
The glamorous and exciting life for the staff of trendy magazine 'Communique', owned by Allen Rush, "the Darth Vader of publishing".
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Run For Cover
Title: Run For Cover
Character: The Mayor
Released: May 12, 1995
Type: Movie
Former KGB plot a terrorist attack on New York City.
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Title: Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
Character: Happy Prince (voice)
Released: March 12, 1995
Type: TV
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child is an American anthology animated television series.
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Peter Allen: The Boy From Oz
Title: Peter Allen: The Boy From Oz
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1995
Type: Movie
The story of Peter Allen, Australia's beloved variety entertainer and songwriter. As one of the first openly gay entertainers, Allen won a unique stardom with a mainstream public which loved him for his honesty.
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Title: Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Character: Self - Guest
Released: September 13, 1993
Type: TV
Late Night with Conan O'Brien is an American late-night talk show hosted by Conan O'Brien that aired 2,725 episodes on NBC between 1993 and 2009. The show featured varied comedic material, celebrity interviews, and musical and comedy performances. The second incarnation of NBC's Late Night franchise, O'Brien's debuted in 1993 after David Letterman, who hosted the first incarnation of Late Night, moved to CBS to host Late Show opposite The Tonight Show. In 2004, as part of a deal to secure a new contract, NBC announced that O'Brien would leave Late Night in 2009 to succeed Jay Leno as the host of The Tonight Show. Jimmy Fallon began hosting his version of Late Night on March 2, 2009.
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Married to It
Title: Married to It
Character: Himself
Released: September 11, 1991
Type: Movie
Tale of three different couples (Yuppies, Hippies, and Society Folk) who find some common ground and become friends after being assigned to the same school project. Their lives are turned upside down by divorce, indictment, and sex but their friendship remains strong.
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Positive
Title: Positive
Character: Himself
Released: May 4, 1990
Type: Movie
This film powerfully documents New York City's gay community's response to the AIDS crisis as they are forced to organize themselves after the government's failure to stem the epidemic. Activists who are interviewed include playwrite Larry Kramer, People With AIDS Coalition co-founder Michael Callen (who died of AIDS in 1994), New York filmmaker and journalist Phil Zwickler, as well as representatives from ACT-UP, Queer Nation and the Gay Men's Health Crisis.
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Izzy Young: Talking Folklore Center
Title: Izzy Young: Talking Folklore Center
Character: himself
Released: December 31, 1989
Type: Movie
Izzy Young was the guru of American folk music. In this documentary covering his legendary Folklore Center in New York Izzy meets with friends and collaborators like Pete Seeger, Allen Ginsberg, The Fugs, Mayor Ed Koch to reminisce. Includes unique archival footage and folk music from the 1960s.
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Central Park
Title: Central Park
Character: Self
Released: April 1, 1989
Type: Movie
CENTRAL PARK is a film about the famous New York City landmark and the variety of ways in which people make use of it: running, boating, walking, skating, music, theatre, sports, picnics, parades and concerts. The film also illustrates the complex problems the New York City Parks Department deals with in order to maintain and preserve the park and keep it open and accessible to the public.
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New York Stories
Title: New York Stories
Character: Self
Released: March 10, 1989
Type: Movie
Get ready for a wildly diverse, star-studded trilogy about life in the big city. One of the most-talked about films in years, New York Stories features the creative collaboration of three of America's most popular directors, Martin Scorsese, Francis Coppola, and Woody Allen.
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Joan Rivers and Friends Salute Heidi Abromowitz
Title: Joan Rivers and Friends Salute Heidi Abromowitz
Released: August 16, 1988
Type: Movie
Fictional character, Heidi Abromowitz, is the butt of everyone's jokes.
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Key Exchange
Title: Key Exchange
Character: Self
Released: August 14, 1985
Type: Movie
A young woman wants to get her boyfriend to commit to her, but the most she can get him to do is exchange apartment keys.
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Empire City
Title: Empire City
Character: Self
Released: July 1, 1985
Type: Movie
A film essay contrasting the modern metropolis with its "golden age" from 1830-1930, with the participation of some of New York's leading political and cultural figures. Made at a time when the city was experiencing unprecedented real estate development on the one hand and unforeseen displacement of population and deterioration on the other. Empire City is the story of two New Yorks. The film explores the precarious coexistence of the service-based midtown Manhattan corporate headquarters with the peripheral New York of undereducated minorities living in increasing alienation.
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Night of 100 Stars II
Title: Night of 100 Stars II
Character: Self
Released: March 10, 1985
Type: Movie
This special is the second "Night of 100 Stars" to benefit The Actors Fund of America. Edited from a seven-hour live entertainment marathon that was taped February 17, 1985, at New York's Radio City Music Hall, this sequel to the 1982 "Night of 100 Stars" special features 288 celebrities.
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A Christmas Dream
Title: A Christmas Dream
Character: Self
Released: December 16, 1984
Type: Movie
In this NBC Christmas Special from 1984, Mr. T plays a street Santa Claus who meets a young boy, played by Emmanuel Lewis of TV's Webster, who doesn't share the spirit of Christmas. Mr. T sets out to change Billy's mind, taking him around the city to FAO Schwartz, where he gets a magic lesson from David Copperfield, and then to Radio City Music Hall, where he listens to Christmas songs sung by Maureen McGovern, imagines himself as one of the toy soldiers in the Rockettes' Christmas Show, meets Willie Tyler and his dummy Lester, and finally is moved to realize the true meaning of Christmas, before being reunited with his parents.
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The Muppets Take Manhattan
Title: The Muppets Take Manhattan
Character: Self (as The Honorable Edward I. Koch)
Released: June 27, 1984
Type: Movie
When the Muppets graduate from Danhurst College, they take their song-filled senior revue to New York City, only to learn that it isn't easy to find a producer who's willing to back a show starring a frog and a pig. Of course, Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy won't take no for an answer, launching a search for someone to take them to Broadway.
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Terrible Joe Moran
Title: Terrible Joe Moran
Character: Moe
Released: March 26, 1984
Type: Movie
A wheelchair-bound, former boxer deals with his long estranged granddaughter whom is seeking financial help for her writing career and helping her loser boyfriend get out of debt with the local mob.
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Style Wars
Title: Style Wars
Character: Self
Released: January 23, 1984
Type: Movie
Tony Silver and Henry Chalfant's PBS documentary tracks the rise and fall of subway graffiti in New York in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
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All By Myself: The Eartha Kitt Story
Title: All By Myself: The Eartha Kitt Story
Character: Self
Released: September 10, 1982
Type: Movie
Documentary profile of singer-actress Eartha Kitt.
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Night of 100 Stars
Title: Night of 100 Stars
Character: Self
Released: March 8, 1982
Type: Movie
The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place Friday February 19, 1982 at New York's Radio City Music Hall. The event, for which ticket-buyers paid up to $1,000 a seat (tax-deductible as a contribution to the Actors' Fund) was billed as "The Night of 100 Stars" but, actually, around 230 stars took part. And most of the audience of 5,800 had no idea in advance that they were paying to see a TV taping, complete with long waits for set and costume changes, tape rewinding, and the like. Executive producer Alexander Cohen estimated that the 5,800 Radio City Music Hall seats sold out at prices ranging from $25 to $1,000. The show itself cost about $4 million to produce and was expected to yield around $2 million for the new addition to the Actors Fund retirement home in Englewood, N. J. ABC is reputed to have paid more than $5 million for the television rights.
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Simon & Garfunkel: The Concert in Central Park
Title: Simon & Garfunkel: The Concert in Central Park
Character: Self - Mayor of New York
Released: February 21, 1982
Type: Movie
The Concert in Central Park is a live album by Simon & Garfunkel. On September 19, 1981 the folk-rock duo reunited for a free concert on the Great Lawn of New York's Central Park attended by more than 500,000 people. They released a live album from the concert the following March (Warner Brothers LP 2BSK 3654; CD 3654). It was arranged by Paul Simon and Dave Grusin, and produced by Paul Simon, Art Garfunkel, Phil Ramone and Roy Halee. The concert was also shot on videotape, televised by HBO in 1982, and subsequently released on various home video formats. The VHS and DVD contain two songs that were omitted from the live album: "The Late Great Johnny Ace" and "Late in the Evening (Reprise)". "Johnny Ace" was disrupted by a fan rushing the stage who came very close to attacking Paul. This incident was both frightening and coincidental, as the song is an elegy upon the murder of John Lennon just one year earlier.
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Title: Question Time
Character: Himself - Panellist
Released: September 25, 1979
Type: TV
This topical debate series based on Any Questions? typically features politicians from at least the three major political parties as well as other public figures who answer pre-selected questions put to them by a carefully selected audience.
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Title: Saturday Night Live
Character: Self - Cameo (uncredited)
Released: October 11, 1975
Type: TV
A late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels. The show's comedy sketches, which parody contemporary culture and politics, are performed by a large and varying cast of repertory and newer cast members. Each episode is hosted by a celebrity guest, who usually delivers an opening monologue and performs in sketches with the cast, and features performances by a musical guest.
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Title: Saturday Night Live
Character: Self - Host
Released: October 11, 1975
Type: TV
A late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels. The show's comedy sketches, which parody contemporary culture and politics, are performed by a large and varying cast of repertory and newer cast members. Each episode is hosted by a celebrity guest, who usually delivers an opening monologue and performs in sketches with the cast, and features performances by a musical guest.
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Title: Barney Miller
Character: Himself (voice) (uncredited)
Released: January 23, 1975
Type: TV
Barney Miller is an American situation comedy television series set in a New York City police station in Greenwich Village. The series originally was broadcast from January 23, 1975 to May 20, 1982 on ABC. It was created by Danny Arnold and Theodore J. Flicker. Noam Pitlik directed the majority of the episodes.
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Such Good Friends
Title: Such Good Friends
Character: First Taxi Driver (uncredited)
Released: December 16, 1971
Type: Movie
Julie Messinger is an intense woman who hides her wild emotions and desires under her conventional facade. Her husband Richard checks into the hospital for a simple mole removal that goes seriously wrong.
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Uncovering Wolfen
Title: Uncovering Wolfen
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
After the huge financial and cultural success of WOODSTOCK (1970), filmmaker and political activist Michael Wadleigh spent many years in Hollywood writing scripts that were never produced. However, WOLFEN (1981), his only other major motion picture, was. After that he would never complete another feature film again. This is the story of that film.