Mark Margolis

Mark Margolis

Born: November 26, 1939
Died: August 3, 2023
in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Mark Margolis (November 26, 1939 – August 3, 2023) was an American actor, who had been making films since 1976.

Margolis went to Temple University briefly before moving to New York City, where he studied drama with Stella Adler and at the Actors Studio. He was perhaps most famous for his supporting roles in Scarface and the films of Darren Aronofsky: π, Requiem for a Dream, The Fountain, The Wrestler, and Black Swan. Aronofsky wrote the role of Father Avila in The Fountain specifically for Margolis.

He had recurring roles on numerous TV shows, including The Equalizer, HBO's Oz, Law And Order, Crossing Jordan and most recently Showtime's Californication and Breaking Bad. He also appeared in a first season episode of Quantum Leap.

In 1991, he also played Helmut Dieter in soap opera Santa Barbara.

Movies for Mark Margolis...

Every Last Secret
Title: Every Last Secret
Character: Grandpa
Released: April 1, 2022
Type: Movie
A war veteran suffering from PTSD befriends a teenage girl.
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Abe
Title: Abe
Character: Benjamin
Released: December 24, 2020
Type: Movie
The Israeli-Jewish side of his family calls him Avram. The Palestinian-Muslim side Ibrahim. His first-generation American agnostic lawyer parents call him Abraham. But the 12-year-old kid from Brooklyn who loves food and cooking, prefers, well, Abe. Just Abe.
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Title: Your Honor
Character: Carmine Conti
Released: December 6, 2020
Type: TV
New Orleans judge Michael Desiato is forced to confront his own deepest convictions when his son is involved in a hit and run that embroils an organized crime family.
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Minyan
Title: Minyan
Character: Itzik
Released: August 28, 2020
Type: Movie
In a rapidly changing New York of the 1980s, a Russian Jewish teenager wrestles with his identity, faith, and sexuality, all of which seem irreconcilable until he befriends two closeted men in his grandfather's senior housing complex.
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Title: Snowpiercer
Character: Old Ivan
Released: May 17, 2020
Type: TV
More than seven years after the world has become a frozen wasteland, the remnants of humanity inhabit a gigantic, perpetually-moving train that circles the globe as class warfare, social injustice and the politics of survival play out.
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Title: Prodigal Son
Character: Rudolph Swann
Released: September 23, 2019
Type: TV
The son of a notorious serial killer becomes an acclaimed criminal psychologist who uses his unique insight into how killers think to help the NYPD.
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Baja
Title: Baja
Character: Don Primo
Released: April 1, 2018
Type: Movie
Four 22 year-olds on a Mexican road trip seem bound for disaster until they, and their trip, are unexpectedly redeemed by a series of miraculous events.
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Valley of Bones
Title: Valley of Bones
Character: El Papa
Released: September 1, 2017
Type: Movie
A paleontologist gets a tip from an oil worker in the Badlands that may set her career back on track.
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One Fall
Title: One Fall
Character: Walter Grigg Sr.
Released: September 9, 2016
Type: Movie
Set in the rustic Midwestern town of One Fall, the film tells the story of a man, James (Marcus Dean Fuller), who miraculously survived a horrific fall from a spectacular 200 foot-high cliff and was never heard from again. However, three years after vanishing James chooses to return to his hometown of One Fall -- but he returns a changed man. For an incomprehensible reason James has developed supernatural healing abilities since the fall. He must decide whether to use his abilities to help the ones he once turned his back on, or to continue running from his mysterious past.
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A Remarkable Life
Title: A Remarkable Life
Character: Landon
Released: May 27, 2016
Type: Movie
There are many things in life that could do a number on a man's masculinity. Lenny Babbitt has his identity and manhood challenged when his wife Tracy leaves him for a female doctor named Iris who has been treating their autistic son Isaac. After losing his job, and wife to a woman no less -- Lenny's dad Jack offers him a job at his pawn shop where he must re-examine his identity, manhood and sense of self after meeting Chelsea, a young, free-spirited pistol that lives life on two wheels. In the end, Lenny realizes that there are no absolutes... only one's faith, sense of self and family -- no matter how it's constituted or defined by society.
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My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2
Title: My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2
Character: Panos
Released: March 23, 2016
Type: Movie
The continuing adventures of the Portokalos family. A follow-up to the 2002 comedy, "My Big Fat Greek Wedding."
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Nasty Baby
Title: Nasty Baby
Character: Richard
Released: October 23, 2015
Type: Movie
A gay couple enlists the help of their friend Polly to create a baby. Meanwhile, they must also contend with their homophobic neighbour who becomes a big nuisance.
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You Bury Your Own
Title: You Bury Your Own
Character: Smith
Released: October 10, 2015
Type: Movie
A soldier returns home to New York to solve the mystery behind his younger brother's sudden violent death.
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The Abandoned
Title: The Abandoned
Character: Jim
Released: June 13, 2015
Type: Movie
A troubled young woman who, in a last-ditch effort at getting her life together, takes a job working nights as a security guard at an abandoned luxury apartment building. Stuck with a brusque rent-a-cop as her partner, she tries to not let her mind play tricks on her while she patrols the empty halls. But as the night progresses strange things begin to happen - and she realizes it may not all be in her head.
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Title: Better Call Saul
Character: Hector Salamanca
Released: February 8, 2015
Type: TV
Six years before Saul Goodman meets Walter White. We meet him when the man who will become Saul Goodman is known as Jimmy McGill, a small-time lawyer searching for his destiny, and, more immediately, hustling to make ends meet. Working alongside, and, often, against Jimmy, is “fixer” Mike Ehrmantraut. The series tracks Jimmy’s transformation into Saul Goodman, the man who puts “criminal” in “criminal lawyer".
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Title: 12 Monkeys
Character: Mr. Werner
Released: January 16, 2015
Type: TV
The provocative story of Cole, a time traveler from a decimated future in a high-stakes race against the clock. Utilizing a dangerous and untested method of time travel, he journeys from 2043 to the present day on a mission to locate and eradicate the source of a deadly plague that will all but annihilate the human race.
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Northern Borders
Title: Northern Borders
Character: Whiskeyjack
Released: January 16, 2015
Type: Movie
In 1956, ten-year-old Austen Kittredge is sent to live on his grandparents’ Vermont farm, where he experiences wild adventures and uncovers long-festering family secrets.
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Title: Constantine
Character: Felix Faust
Released: October 24, 2014
Type: TV
A man struggling with his faith is haunted by the sins of his past but is suddenly thrust into the role of defending humanity from the gathering forces of darkness.
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Title: Gotham
Character: Paul Cicero
Released: September 22, 2014
Type: TV
Everyone knows the name Commissioner Gordon. He is one of the crime world's greatest foes, a man whose reputation is synonymous with law and order. But what is known of Gordon's story and his rise from rookie detective to Police Commissioner? What did it take to navigate the multiple layers of corruption that secretly ruled Gotham City, the spawning ground of the world's most iconic villains? And what circumstances created them – the larger-than-life personas who would become Catwoman, The Penguin, The Riddler, Two-Face and The Joker?
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Noah
Title: Noah
Character: Magog (voice)
Released: March 7, 2014
Type: Movie
A man who suffers visions of an apocalyptic deluge takes measures to protect his family from the coming flood.
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No Half Measures: Creating the Final Season of Breaking Bad
Title: No Half Measures: Creating the Final Season of Breaking Bad
Character: Self
Released: November 26, 2013
Type: Movie
A documentary about the making of season five of the acclaimed AMC series Breaking Bad.
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Title: The Blacklist
Character: Jakov Mitko
Released: September 23, 2013
Type: TV
Raymond "Red" Reddington, one of the FBI's most wanted fugitives, surrenders in person at FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C. He claims that he and the FBI have the same interests: bringing down dangerous criminals and terrorists. In the last two decades, he's made a list of criminals and terrorists that matter the most but the FBI cannot find because it does not know they exist. Reddington calls this "The Blacklist". Reddington will co-operate, but insists that he will speak only to Elizabeth Keen, a rookie FBI profiler.
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Beneath
Title: Beneath
Character: Mr. Parks
Released: July 19, 2013
Type: Movie
Six high school seniors celebrating with day's excursion find themselves on rowboat attacked by man-eating fish and must decide who must be sacrificed as they fight their way back to shore.
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Stand Up Guys
Title: Stand Up Guys
Character: Claphands
Released: December 14, 2012
Type: Movie
After serving 28 years in prison for accidentally killing the son of a crime boss, newly paroled gangster Val reunites with his former partners in crime, Doc and Hirsch, for a night on the town. As the three men revisit old haunts, reflect on their glory days and try to make up for lost time, one wrestles with a terrible quandary: Doc has orders to kill Val, and time is running out for him to figure out a way out of his dilemma.
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Dig
Title: Dig
Character: Heinrich Berger
Released: December 3, 2012
Type: Movie
Twenty years following his exodus from Europe, a young, Jewish Holocaust survivor comes face to face with the Nazi responsible for his family's death. After kidnapping and dragging him out to the desert, the young man drops a shovel in front the old man and orders him to dig his own grave. An exploration of morality, killing and the consequence of battling monsters, Dig's climactic ending will make you question the idea of right versus wrong. Based on a short play by J.D. Smith.
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Title: Elementary
Character: Abraham Misraki
Released: September 27, 2012
Type: TV
A modern-day drama about a crime-solving duo that cracks the NYPD's most impossible cases. Following his fall from grace in London and a stint in rehab, eccentric Sherlock escapes to Manhattan where his wealthy father forces him to live with his worst nightmare - a sober companion, Dr. Watson.
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The Courier
Title: The Courier
Character: Stitch
Released: March 29, 2012
Type: Movie
A shady FBI agent recruits a courier to deliver a mysterious package to a vengeful master criminal who has recently resurfaced with a diabolical plan.
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Immortals
Title: Immortals
Character: The New Priest (uncredited)
Released: November 10, 2011
Type: Movie
Theseus is a mortal man chosen by Zeus to lead the fight against the ruthless King Hyperion, who is on a rampage across Greece to obtain a weapon that can destroy humanity.
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Carl(a)
Title: Carl(a)
Character: Grandpa
Released: October 10, 2011
Type: Movie
Carla is a transgender person living in NYC who aspires to be a fashion designer. Making a living as a on-line sex worker Carla must deal with a family who does not accept her while she struggles with the romance of a man who loves her for who she is.
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Title: American Horror Story
Character: Sam Goodman
Released: October 5, 2011
Type: TV
An anthology horror drama series centering on different characters and locations, including a house with a murderous past, an asylum, a witch coven, a freak show, a hotel, a farmhouse in Roanoke, a cult, the apocalypse and a summer camp.
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Title: Person of Interest
Character: Gianni Moretti
Released: September 22, 2011
Type: TV
John Reese, former CIA paramilitary operative, is presumed dead and teams up with reclusive billionaire Finch to prevent violent crimes in New York City by initiating their own type of justice. With the special training that Reese has had in Covert Operations and Finch's genius software inventing mind, the two are a perfect match for the job that they have to complete. With the help of surveillance equipment, they work "outside the law" and get the right criminal behind bars. 
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Black Swan
Title: Black Swan
Character: Mr. Fithian / Patron
Released: December 3, 2010
Type: Movie
A journey through the psyche of a young ballerina whose starring role as the duplicitous swan queen turns out to be a part for which she becomes frighteningly perfect.
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Title: Blue Bloods
Character: Whitey Brennan
Released: September 24, 2010
Type: TV
A drama about a multi-generational family of cops dedicated to New York City law enforcement. Frank Reagan is the New York Police Commissioner and heads both the police force and the Reagan brood. He runs his department as diplomatically as he runs his family, even when dealing with the politics that plagued his unapologetically bold father, Henry, during his stint as Chief.
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Title: The Good Wife
Character: Jim
Released: September 22, 2009
Type: TV
Alicia Florrick boldly assumes full responsibility for her family and re-enters the workforce after her husband's very public sex and political corruption scandal lands him in jail.
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Nobody
Title: Nobody
Character: Professor Hagel
Released: January 1, 2009
Type: Movie
Lindeman, 25-year-old art student, struggles to find his inspiration, finding himself in one ridiculous situation after the other.
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Defiance
Title: Defiance
Character: Jewish Elder
Released: December 31, 2008
Type: Movie
Based on a true story, during World War II, four Jewish brothers escape their Nazi-occupied homeland of West Belarus in Poland and join the Soviet partisans to combat the Nazis. The brothers begin the rescue of roughly 1,200 Jews still trapped in the ghettos of Poland.
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The Wrestler
Title: The Wrestler
Character: Lenny
Released: September 7, 2008
Type: Movie
Aging wrestler Randy "The Ram" Robinson is long past his prime but still ready and rarin' to go on the pro-wrestling circuit. After a particularly brutal beating, however, Randy hangs up his tights, pursues a serious relationship with a long-in-the-tooth stripper, and tries to reconnect with his estranged daughter. But he can't resist the lure of the ring and readies himself for a comeback.
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Haber
Title: Haber
Character: Bremer
Released: August 5, 2008
Type: Movie
At the brink of World War I, Fritz Shimon Haber was Germany's greatest chemist. Haber's Nobel prize-winning synthetic fertilizers saved world's population from mass starvation. But as World War I broke out killing millions of German soldiers, the desperate German forces asks Shimon Haber to provide the army with new kind of weapon. Haber has already sacrificed his and his family's Jewish identity in order to become a respectable German citizen. With his decision to invent such a weapon, Haber was the first scientist in human history to unleash a weapon of mass destruction. Later he paid the ultimate price for his ambition as his wife Clara committed suicide and his invention was used for murdering millions of Jewish people during World War II.
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Title: Breaking Bad
Character: Tío Salamanca
Released: January 20, 2008
Type: TV
Walter White, a New Mexico chemistry teacher, is diagnosed with Stage III cancer and given a prognosis of only two years left to live. He becomes filled with a sense of fearlessness and an unrelenting desire to secure his family's financial future at any cost as he enters the dangerous world of drugs and crime.
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Gone Baby Gone
Title: Gone Baby Gone
Character: Leon Trett
Released: September 18, 2007
Type: Movie
When 4 year old Amanda McCready disappears from her home and the police make little headway in solving the case, the girl's aunt, Beatrice McCready hires two private detectives, Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro. The detectives freely admit that they have little experience with this type of case, but the family wants them for two reasons—they're not cops and they know the tough neighborhood in which they all live.
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Title: Californication
Character: Al Moody
Released: August 13, 2007
Type: TV
A self-loathing, alcoholic writer attempts to repair his damaged relationships with his daughter and her mother while combating sex addiction, a budding drug problem, and the seeming inability to avoid making bad decisions.
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The Girl Next Door
Title: The Girl Next Door
Character: Homeless Man Hit By Car
Released: July 19, 2007
Type: Movie
In a quiet suburban town in the summer of 1958, two recently orphaned sisters are placed in the care of their mentally unstable Aunt Ruth. But Ruth's depraved sense of discipline will soon lead to unspeakable acts of abuse and torture that involve her young sons, the neighborhood children, and one 12-year-old boy whose life will be changed forever.
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Inside The Fountain: Death and Rebirth
Title: Inside The Fountain: Death and Rebirth
Character: Himself
Released: May 15, 2007
Type: Movie
A behind-the-scenes documentary about the making of Darren Aronofsky's ‘The Fountain’.
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The Fountain
Title: The Fountain
Character: Father Avila
Released: November 22, 2006
Type: Movie
Spanning over one thousand years, and three parallel stories, The Fountain is a story of love, death, spirituality, and the fragility of our existence in this world.
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Stay
Title: Stay
Character: Bookstore Owner
Released: September 24, 2005
Type: Movie
Psychiatrist Sam Foster has a new patient, Henry Letham, who claims to be suicidal. In trying to diagnose him, Sam visits Henry's prior therapist and also finds Henry's mother -- even though Henry has said that he murdered both of his parents. As reality starts to contradict fact, Sam spirals into an unstable mental state. Then he finds a clue as to how and when Henry may try to kill himself, and races to try to stop him.
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Headspace
Title: Headspace
Character: Boris Pavlovsky
Released: September 18, 2005
Type: Movie
25-year-old Alex Borden's chance encounter with a mysterious stranger has found his intellect rapidly expanding, but as the power of his mind grows so too does the mystery of a brutal series of murders. Now, as the killer seems to set his sights on Alex, the frightened genius must use his newfound brain power to put an end to the mayhem once and for all.
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House of D
Title: House of D
Character: Mr. Pappass
Released: April 29, 2005
Type: Movie
In the present, artist Tom Warshaw recalls his traumatic coming of age. As a 13-year-old growing up in New York City in 1973, Tom hangs out with Pappass, a mentally disabled man. With Tom's mother battling depression after the death of her husband, the young boy is left to his own devices. When Tom develops a crush on schoolmate Melissa, Pappass feels abandoned and begins behaving erratically.
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Camp Hollywood
Title: Camp Hollywood
Character: Himself
Released: November 19, 2004
Type: Movie
A porn star, a bank robber and a Shakespearean actor are some of the subjects of Camp Hollywood, a feature documentary about the residents of a legendary Hollywood hotel. Seen through the eyes of a Canadian comic who's come out to L.A. for the first time, Camp Hollywood is an intimate portrait of the actors, musicians and other transients he meets during his two-month stay.
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2BPerfectlyHonest
Title: 2BPerfectlyHonest
Character: Abrams
Released: May 2, 2004
Type: Movie
Business partners Frank and Josh go bankrupt after their dot-com start-up collapses before it goes online. Frank, a bachelor and broke, reluctantly moves back home to live with his parents while Josh, a hippie computer wiz who's married and has a son, is forced to consider the unthinkable - getting a real job.
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Particles of Truth
Title: Particles of Truth
Character: Grandpa Black
Released: June 14, 2003
Type: Movie
Lilli Black, battling her painful memories and the secrets surrounding her dying father, collides into the complicated and obsessive life of Morrison Wiley on the streets of New York City. This peculiar love story exposes Lilli's internal bouts and her nightmarish "bad luck".
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Daredevil
Title: Daredevil
Character: Fallon (uncredited)
Released: February 14, 2003
Type: Movie
A man blinded in a childhood accident fights crime using his superhumanly-elevated remaining senses.
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Infested: Invasion of the Killer Bugs
Title: Infested: Invasion of the Killer Bugs
Character: Father Morning
Released: October 18, 2002
Type: Movie
Horror tale of insects which eat their victims from the inside out.
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Title: Hack
Character: Nicolai Zosimov
Released: September 27, 2002
Type: TV
Hack is a television series that aired on the American CBS television network from 2002 to 2004. The series centers on the fictional life of a former police officer, Polish-American Mike Olshansky, who left the force after being charged with corruption and now works as a taxi driver in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Angela
Title: Angela
Released: June 7, 2002
Type: Movie
Manhattan- as it is every day of the week, year in, year out. Life is pretty routine for Bob, about to turn 70, yet aching for one last fling. Maybe his shrink is right: he should place an ad in the paper and just go out and look for someone. Someone like Angela. Because: This is New York.... Anything can happen... The sky's the limit...
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Bridget
Title: Bridget
Character: Slim
Released: February 7, 2002
Type: Movie
Being addicted to alcohol, single mother Anna had to give her son to foster parents, but they would "sell" him back if she offers enough money. When she gets to know Pete, the mentally handicapped son of a wealthy author, his father asks her to marry his son for one million dollar.
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Title: Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Character: Mario Damiano
Released: September 30, 2001
Type: TV
The third installment of the “Law & Order” franchise takes viewers deep into the minds of its criminals while following the intense psychological approaches the Major Case Squad uses to solve its crimes.
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Title: Crossing Jordan
Character: Cahill
Released: September 24, 2001
Type: TV
Crossing Jordan is an American television crime/drama series that stars Jill Hennessy as Jordan Cavanaugh, M.D., a crime-solving forensic pathologist employed in the Massachusetts Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.
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Hardball
Title: Hardball
Character: Fink
Released: September 14, 2001
Type: Movie
An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of getting a loan from a friend.
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Queenie in Love
Title: Queenie in Love
Character: Spencer
Released: September 12, 2001
Type: Movie
A quirky, romantic New York comedy about the pursuit of love, life and the right to be yourself.
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Boss of Bosses
Title: Boss of Bosses
Character: Piney Armone
Released: June 3, 2001
Type: Movie
The story of the rise and fall of the powerful New York City organized crime boss, Paul Castellano.
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The Tailor of Panama
Title: The Tailor of Panama
Character: Rafi Domingo
Released: March 30, 2001
Type: Movie
A British spy is banished to Panama after having an affair with an ambassador's mistress. Once there he makes connection with a local tailor with a nefarious past and connections to all of the top political and gangster figures in Panama. The tailor also has a wife, who works for the Panamanian president and a huge debt. The mission is to learn what the President intends to do with the Canal.
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Hannibal
Title: Hannibal
Character: Perfume Expert
Released: February 8, 2001
Type: Movie
After having successfully eluded the authorities for years, Hannibal peacefully lives in Italy in disguise as an art scholar. Trouble strikes again when he's discovered leaving a deserving few dead in the process. He returns to America to make contact with now disgraced Agent Clarice Starling, who is suffering the wrath of a malicious FBI rival as well as the media.
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Starwater
Title: Starwater
Released: January 1, 2001
Type: Movie
Made by Scott William Winters, Starwater is a star-studded experimental film shot while doing the HBO series ‘Oz’.
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Requiem for a Dream
Title: Requiem for a Dream
Character: Mr. Rabinowitz
Released: October 6, 2000
Type: Movie
The hopes and dreams of four ambitious people are shattered when their drug addictions begin spiraling out of control. A look into addiction and how it overcomes the mind and body.
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Dinner Rush
Title: Dinner Rush
Character: Fitzgerald
Released: September 1, 2000
Type: Movie
One unlucky evening, Louis Cropa, a part-time bookmaker, discovers that his restaurant has become a hotbed of conflicting characters. In addition to having to please a whiny food critic, Louis must fend off a hostile takeover from a pair of gangsters, to whom his sous-chef is in debt. Further, Louis has an argument with his son, the star chef, whose culinary creativity has brought success to the business.
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Fast Food Fast Women
Title: Fast Food Fast Women
Character: Graham
Released: May 15, 2000
Type: Movie
How important is the truth when falling in love? Bella is a Manhattan café waitress, about to turn 35, stuck in a long-term affair going nowhere. Paul is a widower, facing old age alone. Bella's mother sets her up with Bruno, a novelist/cabbie who likes to bed-hop and whose ex-wife expects their two children to stay with him for awhile. While Bruno learns some maturity from his young daughter, Paul answers a personals ad placed by a "widow, 60." The two couples - along with one of Paul's older pals and a Jungian stripper - sort out how to initiate a relationship these days, what to do when someone you like disappoints you, and when to tell the truth.
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Flawless
Title: Flawless
Character: Vinnie
Released: November 26, 1999
Type: Movie
An ultraconservative police officer suffers a debilitating stroke and is assigned to a rehabilitative program that includes singing lessons - with the drag queen next door.
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End of Days
Title: End of Days
Character: Pope
Released: November 24, 1999
Type: Movie
On 28 December 1999, the citizens of New York City are getting ready for the turn of the millennium. However, Satan decides to crash the party by coming to the city and searching for his chosen bride — a 20-year-old woman named Christine York. The world will end, and the only hope lies within an atheist named Jericho Cane.
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Madonna: The Video Collection 93:99
Title: Madonna: The Video Collection 93:99
Character: Bartender (segment "Bad Girl")
Released: November 2, 1999
Type: Movie
A collection of Madonna's favorite videos from 1993-1999. Contains the 14 videos: Bad Girl, Fever, Rain, Secret, Take A Bow, Bedtime Story, Human Nature, Love Don't Live Here Anymore, Frozen, Ray Of Light, Drowned World, The Power of Goodbye, Nothing Really Matters, and Beautiful Stranger.
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Title: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Character: Rom-Baro
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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Jakob the Liar
Title: Jakob the Liar
Character: Fajngold
Released: September 16, 1999
Type: Movie
In 1944 Poland, a Jewish shop keeper named Jakob is summoned to ghetto headquarters after being caught out after curfew. While waiting for the German Kommondant, Jakob overhears a German radio broadcast about Russian troop movements. Returned to the ghetto, the shopkeeper shares his information with a friend and then rumors fly that there is a secret radio within the ghetto.
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18 Shades of Dust
Title: 18 Shades of Dust
Released: September 1, 1999
Type: Movie
18 Shades of Dust - Hitman's Journal
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Mickey Blue Eyes
Title: Mickey Blue Eyes
Character: Gene Morgansen
Released: August 16, 1999
Type: Movie
An English auctioneer proposes to the daughter of a mafia kingpin, only to realize that certain "favors" would be asked of him.
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The Thomas Crown Affair
Title: The Thomas Crown Affair
Character: Heinrich Knutzhorn
Released: August 6, 1999
Type: Movie
A very rich and successful playboy amuses himself by stealing artwork, but may have met his match in a seductive detective.
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Above Freezing
Title: Above Freezing
Released: October 1, 1998
Type: Movie
A commitment-phobic flower shop wholesale worker struggles with his live-in girl friend in this standard sitcom-styled film.
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Side Streets
Title: Side Streets
Character: Bartender
Released: September 5, 1998
Type: Movie
In 24 hours, 5 worlds collide in the forgotten neighborhoods of New York City.
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Pi
Title: Pi
Character: Sol Robeson
Released: July 10, 1998
Type: Movie
A mathematical genius discovers a link between numbers and reality, and thus believes he can predict the future.
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Title: Sex and the City
Character: Jean Paul Sandal
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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Trouble on the Corner
Title: Trouble on the Corner
Character: Mr. Borofsky
Released: October 9, 1997
Type: Movie
Jeff, a troubled therapist, suffers a breakdown when he spies on his sexy neighbor Ericca, a beautiful model that rollerblades around her apartment in red gloves and a kimono. When he confuses his erotically bizarre patients' most perverse neuroses with his own, the fine line between reality and fantasy erodes with lethal consequences. Darkly comedic, Trouble on the Corner takes you into the depths of one man's decent into madness and races toward the murderous conclusion of this tale of a modern urban nightmare.
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Title: The Practice
Character: Richard D'Ambrosio
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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Absolute Power
Title: Absolute Power
Character: Red
Released: February 14, 1997
Type: Movie
A master thief coincidentally is robbing a house where a murder—in which the President of The United States is involved—occurs in front of his eyes. He is forced to run, while holding evidence that could convict the President.
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The Pallbearer
Title: The Pallbearer
Character: Philip DeMarco
Released: May 3, 1996
Type: Movie
Aspiring architect Tom Thompson is told by mysterious Ruth Abernathy that his best friend, "Bill," has taken his own life. Except that Tom has never met Bill and neither have his incredulous friends. So when Tom foolishly agrees to give the eulogy at Bill's funeral, it sets him on a collision course with Ruth -- who is revealed to be Bill's oversexed mother -- and Julie DeMarco, the longtime crush Tom hasn't seen since they were teens.
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I Shot Andy Warhol
Title: I Shot Andy Warhol
Character: Louis Solanas
Released: May 1, 1996
Type: Movie
Based on the true story of Valerie Solanas who was a 1960s radical preaching hatred toward men in her "Scum" manifesto. She wrote a screenplay for a film that she wanted Andy Warhol to produce, but he continued to ignore her. So she shot him. This is Valerie's story.
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Squanto: A Warrior's Tale
Title: Squanto: A Warrior's Tale
Character: Captain Hunt
Released: October 28, 1994
Type: Movie
Squanto is a high-born Indian warrior from a tribe on the Atlantic coast of North America which devotes its life to hunting and rivalry with a neighboring tribe. Everything changes forever after a ship arrives from England, prospecting the region's commercial potential for the rich Sir George, who uses all his wealth and influence only for ever greater profit. When it returns, several Indians find themselves captives on board, including Squanto. The arrogant Christians consider themselves utterly superior to the 'heathen savages' and treat them as brutally as they do beasts. Squanto fights a bear in a circus, not understanding how men can be so cruel to that creature either, and manages a spectacular escape, but where must he go? He finds shelter and help in a rural monastery, where it takes his protector some effort to prevent the others considering the unknown as diabolical. In time sir George's men come looking for him most brutally...
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Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
Title: Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
Character: Mr. Shickadance
Released: February 4, 1994
Type: Movie
He's Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. Jim Carrey is on the case to find the Miami Dolphins' missing mascot and quarterback Dan Marino. He goes eyeball to eyeball with a man-eating shark, stakes out the Miami Dolphins and woos and wows the ladies. Whether he's undercover, under fire or underwater, he always gets his man… or beast!
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1492: Conquest of Paradise
Title: 1492: Conquest of Paradise
Character: Bobadilla
Released: October 9, 1992
Type: Movie
1492: Conquest of Paradise depicts Christopher Columbus’ discovery of The New World and his effect on the indigenous people.
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The Pit and the Pendulum
Title: The Pit and the Pendulum
Character: Mendoza
Released: June 27, 1991
Type: Movie
Set during the height of Spanish Inquisition. The beautiful and kind-hearted Maria is arrested as a witch when she inadvertently cries out in horror at the public whipping of a child. As Maria’s husband Antonio tries to save her, Torquemada, the Grand Inquisitor, determines to punish Maria with torture for the desire she inflames in him. Loosely based on Edgar Allen Poe's classic short story.
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Descending Angel
Title: Descending Angel
Character: Bercovici
Released: November 25, 1990
Type: Movie
A recently engaged man getting to know his future father-in-law better unearths clues that the man may have been a Nazi collaborator and a mass murderer.
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Title: Law & Order
Character: Frankie Polito
Released: September 13, 1990
Type: TV
In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place.
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Title: Law & Order
Character: Bronson
Released: September 13, 1990
Type: TV
In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place.
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Title: Law & Order
Character: George Lobrano
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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Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection
Title: Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection
Character: Gen. Olmedo
Released: August 24, 1990
Type: Movie
When DEA agents are taken captive by a ruthless South American kingpin, the Delta Force is reunited to rescue them in this sequel to the 1986 film.
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Tales from the Darkside: The Movie
Title: Tales from the Darkside: The Movie
Character: Gage (segment ‘Cat From Hell’)
Released: May 3, 1990
Type: Movie
A young boy tells three stories of horror to distract a witch who plans to eat him.
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Glory
Title: Glory
Character: 10th Connecticut Soldier
Released: December 15, 1989
Type: Movie
Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of both his own Union army and the Confederates.
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Title: Quantum Leap
Character: Adriano
Released: March 26, 1989
Type: TV
Theorizing that one could time travel within his own lifetime, Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator and vanished... He woke to find himself trapped in the past, facing mirror images that were not his own and driven by an unknown force to change history for the better. His only guide on this journey is Al, an observer from his own time, who appears in the form of a hologram that only Sam can see and hear. And so Dr. Beckett finds himself leaping from life to life, striving to put right what once went wrong and hoping each time that his next leap will be the leap home.
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Memories of Manon
Title: Memories of Manon
Character: Jimmy
Released: February 13, 1989
Type: Movie
Yvette Marcel asks her godfather Control and McCall for help dealing with her irrational father, who is intent on locating Manon, the mother she believed had been killed years before. Created by editing 2-parts of episodes of the TV series, The Equalizer.
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White Hot
Title: White Hot
Character: The Tin Man
Released: February 1, 1989
Type: Movie
A young man, short of money, is persuaided into looking after the business of a local drug dealer for a week or two. Up until then, the guy had been an honest and clean of drugs, but when he spends his days surrounded by riches and drugs, he cannot resist... and neither can his addict wife. Written by Rob Hartill
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Lady Mobster
Title: Lady Mobster
Character: Peter Colicos
Released: October 19, 1988
Type: Movie
Television account of a young woman who becomes her mobster godfather's staunchest defender.
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Title: Star Trek: The Next Generation
Character: Dr. Nel Apgar
Released: September 28, 1987
Type: TV
Follow the intergalactic adventures of Capt. Jean-Luc Picard and his loyal crew aboard the all-new USS Enterprise NCC-1701D, as they explore new worlds.
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Title: Jake and the Fatman
Character: Miracola
Released: September 26, 1987
Type: TV
Jake and the Fatman is a television crime drama starring William Conrad as prosecutor J. L. "Fatman" McCabe and Joe Penny as investigator Jake Styles. The series ran on CBS for five seasons from 1987 to 1992. Diagnosis: Murder was a spin-off of this series.
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The Rosary Murders
Title: The Rosary Murders
Character: Father Max
Released: August 28, 1987
Type: Movie
A priest is put in a dilemma when the serial killer who has been murdering priests and nuns confesses to him.
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The Secret of My Success
Title: The Secret of My Success
Character: Maintenence Man
Released: April 10, 1987
Type: Movie
Brantley Foster, a well-educated kid from Kansas, has always dreamed of making it big in New York, but once in New York, he learns that jobs - and girls - are hard to get. When Brantley visits his uncle, Howard Prescott, who runs a multi-million-dollar company, he is given a job in the company's mail room.
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The Bedroom Window
Title: The Bedroom Window
Character: Man in Phone Booth
Released: January 16, 1987
Type: Movie
Baltimore, Maryland. Sylvia sees a girl being attacked from her lover Terry's bedroom window. The assailant flees and his victim is saved. But that same night another girl is found murdered.
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Doubletake
Title: Doubletake
Character: Janitor
Released: November 24, 1985
Type: Movie
Two corpses are found in different locations with their heads severed and exchanged. Frank Janek is called on to head the team of detectives investigating. Meanwhile, Janek is trying to find out why an old friend and colleague committed suicide, which eventually leads to a romantic situation with photographer Caroline Wallace and the discovery of some major corruption among his superiors, all of which has little or nothing to do with the murder story.
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Title: The Equalizer
Character: Jimmy
Released: September 18, 1985
Type: TV
Robert McCall is a former agent of a secret government agency who is now running his own private crime fighting operation where he fashions himself as "The Equalizer." It is a service for victims of the system who have exhausted all possible means of seeking justice and have nowhere to go. McCall promises to even out the odds for them.
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I Want To Go Home
Title: I Want To Go Home
Character: Cab Driver
Released: February 13, 1985
Type: Movie
Brother and sister go on the run with their divorced mom, not realizing until later that their mom has kidnapped them from their dad.
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The Cotton Club
Title: The Cotton Club
Character: Charlie Workman (uncredited)
Released: December 14, 1984
Type: Movie
Harlem's legendary Cotton Club becomes a hotbed of passion and violence as the lives and loves of entertainers and gangsters collide.
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Far from Poland
Title: Far from Poland
Character: Adam Zarewski
Released: March 10, 1984
Type: Movie
FAR FROM POLAND is probably the first American non-fiction film (Godmilow calls it a "drama-tary") to explode cinema verite's mythic claim to be the only trustworthy mode of representation for discussing the real world, and in particular, social and political issues, on film. Refused a visa to travel to Poland, "Jillski" (her Polish nickname in the film) has to literally re-invent the documentary to deal with the Polish situation and she does so with a particular eye to deconstructing not only documentary's specific claims to objectivity, but also the bourgeois audience's desire to sit comfortably in their seats, feel compassion, feel themselves part of the solution (not part of the problem) by having felt compassion for the poor oppressed Poles, who, Godmilow would argue, are far more acutely aware of their situation and what forces oppress them than the liberal American folk in the movie house.
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Scarface
Title: Scarface
Character: Shadow
Released: December 9, 1983
Type: Movie
After getting a green card in exchange for assassinating a Cuban government official, Tony Montana stakes a claim on the drug trade in Miami. Viciously murdering anyone who stands in his way, Tony eventually becomes the biggest drug lord in the state, controlling nearly all the cocaine that comes through Miami. But increased pressure from the police, wars with Colombian drug cartels and his own drug-fueled paranoia serve to fuel the flames of his eventual downfall.
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Eddie Macon's Run
Title: Eddie Macon's Run
Character: 5:00 Bar Owner
Released: March 23, 1983
Type: Movie
Eddie Macon is running from a nightmare... running to a dream... running for his life and his time is running out. He's escaped a Texas prison for the second time (risking life imprisonment if caught) to make it back to his wife and son. Relentlessly pursued by ruthless truant officer, Carl Marzack, who feels he must prove he can still 'get his man' by returning Macon to jail at any cost.
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Title: Rage of Angels
Character: Ricky
Released: February 20, 1983
Type: TV
A young assistant district attorney is used by a ruthless attorney to get his client off. She is fired and almost disbarred, but fights back to become a top attorney, torn between two lovers.
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Diner
Title: Diner
Character: Earl Mager
Released: April 2, 1982
Type: Movie
Set in 1959, Diner shows how five young men resist their adulthood and seek refuge in their beloved Diner. The mundane, childish, and titillating details of their lives are shared. But the golden moments pass, and the men shoulder their responsibilities, leaving the Diner behind.
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Muggable Mary: Street Cop
Title: Muggable Mary: Street Cop
Character: Sgt. Meyers
Released: February 25, 1982
Type: Movie
Mary is a single mother with a disabled child who makes a living as a undercover cop catching johns, muggers, and rapists.
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The Avenging
Title: The Avenging
Character: Pedro Quintana
Released: January 1, 1982
Type: Movie
Gritty western telling the story of a family at war. One brother is out for vengeance after being kidnapped and wrongly imprisoned in Mexico.
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Arthur
Title: Arthur
Character: Wedding Guest (uncredited)
Released: July 17, 1981
Type: Movie
Arthur is a 30-year-old child who will inherit $750 million if he complies with his family's demands and marries the woman of their choosing.
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Christmas Evil
Title: Christmas Evil
Character: Man #2
Released: November 1, 1980
Type: Movie
Garbed in his red suit, Harry, a toy factory worker, decides that the only thing he can do to save the spirit of Christmas is to become Santa Claus himself and make all of the naughty townspeople pay... in blood!
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Dressed to Kill
Title: Dressed to Kill
Character: Patient at Bellvue Hospital (uncredited)
Released: July 25, 1980
Type: Movie
After witnessing a mysterious woman brutally slay a homemaker, prostitute Liz Blake finds herself trapped in a dangerous situation. While the police thinks she is the murderer, the real killer is intent on silencing her only witness.
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A Jury of Her Peers
Title: A Jury of Her Peers
Character: Mr. Hale
Released: January 1, 1980
Type: Movie
A Jury of Her Peers is a 1980 short film directed by Sally Heckel, adapted from the story by Susan Glaspell. A farm woman is accused of murdering her husband in early 1900's Midwest America. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.
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Going in Style
Title: Going in Style
Character: Prison Guard
Released: December 25, 1979
Type: Movie
Three senior citizens in their 70s who live together are slowly decaying in endless days with nothing to do but feed the birds. One of them comes up with an idea - rob a bank. They certainly could use the money if they get away with it and if they are caught, what could happen to three old men?
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The Other Side of Victory
Title: The Other Side of Victory
Character: Jemmy
Released: June 12, 1979
Type: Movie
This film dramatizes the problems facing ordinary American soldiers during the Revolutionary War, explaining why most ultimately chose to stay and fight.
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Short Eyes
Title: Short Eyes
Character: Mr. Morrison
Released: September 28, 1977
Type: Movie
A young man who is charged with child molestation is placed in New York City’s infamous Tombs prison. When the other inmates in his cell block find out what he is charged with, life becomes extremely difficult for him.
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The Opening of Misty Beethoven
Title: The Opening of Misty Beethoven
Character: Unhappy Guy on Plane (uncredited)
Released: March 1, 1975
Type: Movie
Inspired by My Fair Lady, this interpretation of Pygmalion is about a sexologist who attempts to transform Misty from a hooker into sensuous instrument of passion. Misty's big test is to seduce a homosexual artist, but during her training the relationship between Misty and her doctor grows.
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Title: Kojak
Character: First Gunman
Released: October 24, 1973
Type: TV
A bald, lollipop sucking police detective with a fiery righteous attitude battles crime in New York City.
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Title: Columbo
Character: Cosner
Released: September 15, 1971
Type: TV
Columbo is a friendly, verbose, disheveled-looking police detective who is consistently underestimated by his suspects. Despite his unprepossessing appearance and apparent absentmindedness, he shrewdly solves all of his cases and secures all evidence needed for indictment. His formidable eye for detail and meticulously dedicated approach often become clear to the killer only late in the storyline.