Bob Balaban

Bob Balaban

Born: August 16, 1945
in Chicago, Illinois, USA
Robert Elmer Balaban, Born: August 16, 1945, Chicago, Illinois, U.S (Height: 5' 5" [1.65 m]). is an American actor, author, comedian, director, and producer. He is best known for his appearances in the Christopher Guest mockumentary comedies Waiting for Guffman (1996), Best in Show (2000), A Mighty Wind (2003), and For Your Consideration (2006), as well as his roles in the films Midnight Cowboy (1969), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Altered States (1980), 2010 (1984), Deconstructing Harry (1997), and Capote (2005). Balaban has also directed three feature films, in addition to numerous television episodes and films. He is also an author of children's novels.

Balaban began his career in the 1960s, appearing in small roles in films and television shows. He made his breakthrough role in the 1969 film Midnight Cowboy, playing a young hustler who befriends an aging rodeo cowboy. In the 1970s, Balaban appeared in a number of popular films, including Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Altered States (1980), and 2010 (1984). He also continued to work in television, appearing in recurring roles on the shows Lou Grant and Designing Women.

In the 1990s, Balaban began a long and fruitful collaboration with filmmaker Christopher Guest. He appeared in all of Guest's mockumentary comedies, including Waiting for Guffman (1996), Best in Show (2000), A Mighty Wind (2003), and For Your Consideration (2006). Balaban's performances in these films were widely praised, and he earned a reputation as one of the most reliable comedic actors in Hollywood.

In addition to his work in film and television, Balaban has also directed three feature films: The Last Shot (1999), Bernie (2011), and A Little Help (2010). He is also a successful author of children's novels, and he has won several awards for his writing.

Balaban is a respected and versatile actor who has enjoyed a long and successful career in the entertainment industry. He is known for his sharp wit, his impeccable comedic timing, and his ability to create memorable characters. He is a true Renaissance man, and he is sure to continue to entertain audiences for many years to come.

Balaban has been nominated for numerous awards throughout his career. He has won two Primetime Emmy Awards, for his work on the television shows Lou Grant and Designing Women. He has also been nominated for two Tony Awards, for his performances in the Broadway plays The Norman Conquests and The Plough and the Stars.

Balaban is a recipient of the American Film Institute's Lifetime Achievement Award. He is also a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Balaban is married to Lynn Grossman, and they have two children together. He is a resident of New York City.

Movies for Bob Balaban...

Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy
Title: Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy
Character: Self
Released: June 23, 2023
Type: Movie
This is not a documentary about the making of Midnight Cowboy. It is about a humane and groundbreaking masterpiece and the flawed but gifted people who made it. It is about a troubled era of cultural ferment, social and political change, about broken dreams and strivers, then and now. It is about an era that made a movie and a movie that made an era.
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Asteroid City
Title: Asteroid City
Character: Larkings Executive
Released: June 8, 2023
Type: Movie
In an American desert town circa 1955, the itinerary of a Junior Stargazer/Space Cadet convention is spectacularly disrupted by world-changing events.
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80 for Brady
Title: 80 for Brady
Character: Mark
Released: February 3, 2023
Type: Movie
A quartet of elderly best friends decide to live life to the fullest by taking a wild trip to the Super Bowl LI to see their hero Tom Brady play.
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How Dare You Want More: The Short Film
Title: How Dare You Want More: The Short Film
Released: June 14, 2022
Type: Movie
A short film sequel to the six-episode web miniseries “Thank You and Sorry.”
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The French Dispatch
Title: The French Dispatch
Character: Uncle Nick
Released: October 21, 2021
Type: Movie
The staff of an American magazine based in France puts out its last issue, with stories featuring an artist sentenced to life imprisonment, student riots, and a kidnapping resolved by a chef.
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Title: The Chair
Character: Elliot Rentz
Released: August 20, 2021
Type: TV
At a major university, the first woman of color to become chair tries to meet the dizzying demands and high expectations of a failing English department.
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How Moving
Title: How Moving
Character: Uncle Aaron
Released: June 17, 2021
Type: Movie
With some apprehension, Jared (Richard Ellis) flew across the country to move in with his boyfriend, Owen (writer-director Owen Thiele). On top of the expected challenges of move-in day, they're faced with a practical one that puts their relationship to the test.
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Title: Space Force
Character: Ron (voice)
Released: May 29, 2020
Type: TV
A four-star general begrudgingly teams up with an eccentric scientist to get the U.S. military's newest agency — Space Force — ready for lift-off.
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Title: The Politician
Character: Keaton Hobart
Released: September 27, 2019
Type: TV
Payton has known since childhood that he's going to be president. First he'll have to navigate the most treacherous political landscape: high school.
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Carl Laemmle
Title: Carl Laemmle
Character: Himself
Released: January 15, 2019
Type: Movie
A documentary about the life of Carl Laemmle, early cinema pioneer and founder of Universal Studios, documenting his life in Hollywood and his efforts in the 1930s to save Jewish families in Nazi Germany.
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An L.A. Minute
Title: An L.A. Minute
Character: Shelley
Released: August 24, 2018
Type: Movie
Best-selling author Ted Gold faces a moral dilemma when Velocity, an avant-garde performance artist and the living embodiment of integrity, rocks his 1% world.
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Title: Summer Camp Island
Character: Gerald (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: Condor
Character: Reuel Abbott
Released: June 6, 2018
Type: TV
Young CIA analyst Joe Turner has his idealism tested when he learns that the CIA has been using an algorithm he developed to spy on American citizens, leading the organization to a terrorist plot that threatens the lives of millions. Inspired by Sydney Pollack’s 1975 political thriller Three Days of the Condor.
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Title: James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction
Released: April 29, 2018
Type: TV
Explore the evolution of sci-fi from its origins as a small genre with a cult following to the blockbuster pop-cultural phenomenon we know today. In each episode, James Cameron introduces one of the “Big Questions” that humankind has contemplated throughout the ages and reaches back into sci-fi’s past to better understand how our favorite films, TV shows, books, and video games were born.
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Isle of Dogs
Title: Isle of Dogs
Character: King (voice)
Released: March 23, 2018
Type: Movie
In the future, an outbreak of canine flu leads the mayor of a Japanese city to banish all dogs to an island used as a garbage dump. The outcasts must soon embark on an epic journey when a 12-year-old boy arrives on the island to find his beloved pet.
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Spielberg
Title: Spielberg
Character: Self
Released: October 5, 2017
Type: Movie
A documentary on the life and career of one of the most influential film directors of all time, Steven Spielberg.
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Mascots
Title: Mascots
Character: Sol Lumpkin
Released: October 11, 2016
Type: Movie
Eager contestants don big heads and furry suits to vie for the title of World's Best Mascot.
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I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House
Title: I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House
Character: Mr. Waxcap
Released: September 10, 2016
Type: Movie
A young nurse takes care of an elderly author who lives in a haunted house.
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Eva Hesse
Title: Eva Hesse
Character: Wilhelm Hesse (voice)
Released: April 27, 2016
Type: Movie
German American artist Eva Hesse (1936 – 1970) created her innovative art in latex and fiberglass in the whirling aesthetic vortex of 1960s New York. Her flowing forms were in part a reaction to the rigid structures of then-popular minimalism, a male-dominated movement. Hesse’s complicated personal life encompassed not only a chaotic 1930s Germany, but also illness and the immigrant culture of New York in the 1940s. One of the twentieth century’s most intriguing artists, she finally receives her due in this film, an emotionally gripping journey with a gifted woman of great courage.
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Starring Austin Pendleton
Title: Starring Austin Pendleton
Released: April 1, 2016
Type: Movie
A quirky and inspirational documentary film on the philosophical approach to the life and work of character actor, Austin Pendleton.
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Mike Nichols: An American Master
Title: Mike Nichols: An American Master
Character: Self
Released: January 29, 2016
Type: Movie
With charm and wit, Nichols discusses his life and 50-year career as a performer and director.
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Everything Is Copy
Title: Everything Is Copy
Character: Self
Released: September 29, 2015
Type: Movie
A candid portrait of writer/director Nora Ephron, directed by her son, journalist Jacob Bernstein.
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Exploring the Set of 'Moonrise Kingdom'
Title: Exploring the Set of 'Moonrise Kingdom'
Character: Self / The Narrator
Released: September 22, 2015
Type: Movie
Martin Scali, who was Wes Anderson's assistant on "Fantastic Mr. Fox", shot this short documentary in Newport, Rhode Island, during the filming of "Moonrise Kingdom".
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Hitchcock/Truffaut
Title: Hitchcock/Truffaut
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: September 4, 2015
Type: Movie
Filmmakers discuss the legacy of Alfred Hitchcock and the book “Hitchcock/Truffaut” (“Le cinéma selon Hitchcock”), written by François Truffaut and published in 1966.
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Title: Show Me a Hero
Character: Leonard B. Sand
Released: August 16, 2015
Type: TV
Mayor Nick Wasicsko took office in 1987 during Yonkers' worst crisis when federal courts ordered public housing to be built in the white, middle class side of town, dividing the city in a bitter battle fueled by fear, racism, murder and politics.
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Title: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Character: Self
Released: April 27, 2014
Type: TV
A half-hour satirical look at the week in news, politics and current events.
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The Grand Budapest Hotel
Title: The Grand Budapest Hotel
Character: Monsieur Martin
Released: February 26, 2014
Type: Movie
The Grand Budapest Hotel tells of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars and his friendship with a young employee who becomes his trusted protégé. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting, the battle for an enormous family fortune and the slow and then sudden upheavals that transformed Europe during the first half of the 20th century.
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The Monuments Men
Title: The Monuments Men
Character: Pvt. Preston Savitz
Released: January 24, 2014
Type: Movie
Based on the true story of the greatest treasure hunt in history, The Monuments Men is an action drama focusing on seven over-the-hill, out-of-shape museum directors, artists, architects, curators, and art historians who went to the front lines of WWII to rescue the world’s artistic masterpieces from Nazi thieves and return them to their rightful owners. With the art hidden behind enemy lines, how could these guys hope to succeed?
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Title: Broad City
Character: Arthur Wexler
Released: January 22, 2014
Type: TV
Broad City follows two women throughout their daily lives in New York City, making the smallest and mundane events hysterical and disturbing to watch all at the same time.
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Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight
Title: Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight
Character: Lawyer
Released: October 4, 2013
Type: Movie
Muhammad Ali’s historic Supreme Court battle from behind closed doors. When Ali was drafted into the Vietnam War at the height of his boxing career, his claim to conscientious objector status led to a controversial legal battle that rattled the U.S. judicial system right up to the highest court in the land.
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Fading Gigolo
Title: Fading Gigolo
Character: Sol
Released: September 7, 2013
Type: Movie
Fioravante decides to become a professional Don Juan as a way of making money to help his cash-strapped friend, Murray. With Murray acting as his "manager", the duo quickly finds themselves caught up in the crosscurrents of love and money.
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Moonrise Kingdom: Welcome to the Island of New Penzance
Title: Moonrise Kingdom: Welcome to the Island of New Penzance
Character: Self
Released: October 16, 2012
Type: Movie
Narrator Bob Balaban briefly profiles Murray, Willis, Norton, and Anderson. There's some lovely behind-the-scenes clips here, and a few laughs.
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Girl Most Likely
Title: Girl Most Likely
Character: Maxwell
Released: September 7, 2012
Type: Movie
A failed New York playwright stages a suicide in an attempt to win back her ex, only to wind up in the custody of her gambling-addict mother.
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Do You Like to Read?
Title: Do You Like to Read?
Character: The Narrator
Released: June 8, 2012
Type: Movie
The librarian of the town of New Penzance introduces six animated segments illustrating Suzy's favorite books.
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Moonrise Kingdom
Title: Moonrise Kingdom
Character: The Narrator
Released: May 16, 2012
Type: Movie
Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, Moonrise Kingdom tells the story of two twelve-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness. As various authorities try to hunt them down, a violent storm is brewing off-shore – and the peaceful island community is turned upside down in more ways than anyone can handle.
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Title: Girls
Character: Therapist
Released: April 15, 2012
Type: TV
The assorted humiliations, disasters and rare triumphs of four very different twenty-something girls: Hannah, an aspiring writer; Marnie, an art gallery assistant and cousins Jessa and Shoshanna.
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Thin Ice
Title: Thin Ice
Character: Leonard Dahl
Released: February 17, 2012
Type: Movie
A dishonest insurance salesman's life quickly disintegrates during a Wisconsin winter when he teams up with a psychopath to steal a rare violin at the home of a reclusive farmer.
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A Monster in Paris
Title: A Monster in Paris
Character: Pâté
Released: October 12, 2011
Type: Movie
Paris, 1910. Emile, a shy movie projectionist, and Raoul, a colourful inventor, find themselves embarked on the hunt for a monster terrorizing citizens. They join forces with Lucille, the big-hearted star of the Bird of Paradise cabaret, an eccentric scientist and his irascible monkey to save the monster, who turns out to be an oversized but harmless flea, from the city's ruthlessly ambitious police chief.
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Title: Web Therapy
Character: Ted Mitchell
Released: July 19, 2011
Type: TV
Fiona Wallice is a therapist with little patience for her patients. Tired of hearing about people's problems for fifty long minutes, she devises a new treatment, the three-minute video chat. And still, the sessions end up being largely about her. If she's your therapist, you've got problems.
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The Five Stages of Grief
Title: The Five Stages of Grief
Character: Voice of Daniel's father
Released: January 1, 2011
Type: Movie
Daniel's father died yesterday. He seems to be totally fine. Luckily his friends can teach him to be miserable.
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Title: Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood
Character: Self
Released: November 1, 2010
Type: TV
Each installment focuses on a different era of American movie history, from the invention of the first moving pictures to the revolutionary, cutting-edge films of the 1960s.
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Howl
Title: Howl
Character: Judge Clayton Horn
Released: August 26, 2010
Type: Movie
It's San Francisco in 1957, and an American masterpiece is put on trial. Howl, the film, recounts this dark moment using three interwoven threads: the tumultuous life events that led a young Allen Ginsberg to find his true voice as an artist, society's reaction (the obscenity trial), and mind-expanding animation that echoes the startling originality of the poem itself. All three coalesce in a genre-bending hybrid that brilliantly captures a pivotal moment-the birth of a counterculture.
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F--k
Title: F--k
Character: Bob
Released: April 7, 2010
Type: Movie
Some people will do anything to find the location.
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Rage
Title: Rage
Character: Mr. White
Released: September 24, 2009
Type: Movie
A schoolboy uses his cellphone camera to shoot intimate interviews with people working at a New York fashion house and secretly posts them on the internet. Result: a bitterly funny expose of an industry in crisis, during a week in which an accident on the runway becomes a murder investigation, and denial leads to devastation.
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The Windmill Movie
Title: The Windmill Movie
Character: Self
Released: June 17, 2009
Type: Movie
Filmmaker Richard P. Rogers tried for twenty years to make a documentary about his own life. He died in 2001, leaving the project unfinished, until his widow, acclaimed photographer Susan Meiselas, commissioned his former student Alexander Olch to make a film out of the pieces. Starting in the Hamptons, in the town of Wainscott, the film weaves Rogers' footage into a journey through childhood memories, a less than encouraging mother, a family background of privilege, and Rogers' persistent, dogged attempts to document his own life. Rogers' friend, actor and writer Wallace Shawn, joins in the process, as the film investigates the differences between documentary and fiction, and tells the tragic story of Rogers' life.
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Title: Web Therapy
Character: Ted Mitchell
Released: September 22, 2008
Type: TV
Fiona Wallice is a therapist with limited patience for others' problems.
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Recount
Title: Recount
Character: Ben Ginsberg
Released: May 25, 2008
Type: Movie
In 2000, the election of the U.S. Presidential boiled down to a few precious votes in the state of Florida — and a recount that would add "hanging chad" to every American's vocabulary.
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Dedication
Title: Dedication
Character: Arthur Planck
Released: August 24, 2007
Type: Movie
A modern love story in which a misanthropic, emotionally complex author of a hit children's book is forced to team with a beautiful illustrator after his best friend and collaborator passes away. As Henry struggles with letting go of the ghosts of love and life, he discovers that sometimes you have to take a gamble at life to find love.
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License to Wed
Title: License to Wed
Character: Jewelry Store Clerk (uncredited)
Released: July 4, 2007
Type: Movie
Newly engaged, Ben and Sadie can't wait to start their life together and live happily ever after. However Sadie's family church's Reverend Frank won't bless their union until they pass his patented, "foolproof" marriage prep course consisting of outrageous classes, outlandish homework assignments and some outright invasion of privacy.
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No Reservations
Title: No Reservations
Character: Therapist
Released: June 15, 2007
Type: Movie
Master chef Kate Armstrong runs her life and her kitchen with intimidating intensity. However, a recipe for disaster may be in the works when she becomes the guardian of her young niece while crossing forks with the brash sous-chef who just joined her staff. Though romance blooms in the face of rivalry, Kate needs to look outside the kitchen to find true happiness.
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Prince of the City: The Real Story
Title: Prince of the City: The Real Story
Released: January 1, 2007
Type: Movie
The true story behind the Prince of the City.
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For Your Consideration
Title: For Your Consideration
Character: Philip Koontz
Released: November 17, 2006
Type: Movie
The possibility of Oscar gold holds the cast and crew of an independent film in its grip after the performance of its virtually unknown, veteran star generates awards buzz.
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Lady in the Water
Title: Lady in the Water
Character: Harry Farber
Released: July 20, 2006
Type: Movie
Apartment building superintendent Cleveland Heep rescues what he thinks is a young woman from the pool he maintains. When he discovers that she is actually a character from a bedtime story who is trying to make the journey back to her home, he works with his tenants to protect his new friend from the creatures that are determined to keep her in our world.
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Controversy and Acclaim: The Timelessness of a Groundbreaking Film
Title: Controversy and Acclaim: The Timelessness of a Groundbreaking Film
Character: Self
Released: February 21, 2006
Type: Movie
Documentary featuring the contentious news surrounding the movie "Midnight Cowboy" (1969), including its Oscar win for feature film.
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Capote
Title: Capote
Character: William Shawn
Released: September 30, 2005
Type: Movie
A biopic of writer Truman Capote and his assignment for The New Yorker to write the non-fiction book "In Cold Blood".
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Trust the Man
Title: Trust the Man
Character: Tobey's Therapist
Released: September 1, 2005
Type: Movie
Overachieving actress Rebecca must come to grips with her failing marriage to stay-at-home dad Tom. While Rebecca's slacker brother Tobey can't seem to commit to his aspiring-novelist girlfriend, Elaine. As both relationships spin out of control, the two couples embark on a quest to rediscover the magic and romance of falling in love in New York.
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Title: Hopeless Pictures
Released: August 19, 2005
Type: TV
Hopeless Pictures is an American animated comedy series starring the voice of Friends actress Lisa Kudrow, Seinfeld guest actor Bob Balaban, and produced and broadcast by the IFC. The cartoon follows fictional film producer Mel Wax, voiced by Michael McKean, in a spoof of the Hollywood movie industry. Stylistically the show makes use of the audio from scripted telephone conversations combined with on-screen gags surrounding the cartoon characters speaking.
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Title: Tom Goes to the Mayor
Character: Walt Pickle (voice)
Released: November 14, 2004
Type: TV
Tom Goes to the Mayor is an American animated television series created by Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim for Cartoon Network's late night programming block, Adult Swim. It premiered on November 14, 2004 and ended on September 25, 2006, with a total of thirty episodes.
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Scene Stealers
Title: Scene Stealers
Character: Jonathan Crouch Esq.
Released: March 4, 2004
Type: Movie
Billy Bottomsly, a struggling artist, is plagiarised by a Hollywood mogul. He involves his "typecast" friends in a star-jacking retribution plan. Billy's own dark comedy of errors becomes the ground floor in a pyramid of deception; each revelation an unsettling reminder that control is indeed an illusion.
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Marie and Bruce
Title: Marie and Bruce
Character: Roger
Released: January 19, 2004
Type: Movie
A day in the life of a couple trapped in a sadomasochistic relationship. When Marie decides to break up with Bruce, their conversation devolves into a torrent of foul-mouthed rippings and ferociously humorous musings on their marriage, love, hate and committment.
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A Mighty Wind
Title: A Mighty Wind
Character: Jonathan Steinbloom
Released: April 16, 2003
Type: Movie
Director Christopher Guest reunites the team from "Best In Show" and "Waiting for Guffman" to tell the story of '60s-era folk musicians, who, inspired by the death of their former manager, get back on the stage for one concert in New York City's Town Hall.
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The Tuxedo
Title: The Tuxedo
Character: Winton Chalmers (uncredited)
Released: September 27, 2002
Type: Movie
Cabbie-turned-chauffeur Jimmy Tong learns there is really only one rule when you work for playboy millionaire Clark Devlin : Never touch Devlin's prized tuxedo. But when Devlin is temporarily put out of commission in an explosive accident, Jimmy puts on the tux and soon discovers that this extraordinary suit may be more black belt than black tie. Paired with a partner as inexperienced as he is, Jimmy becomes an unwitting secret agent.
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The Making of 'Gosford Park'
Title: The Making of 'Gosford Park'
Character: Self
Released: June 18, 2002
Type: Movie
A documentary giving film fans a behind-the-scenes look at the making this Robert Altman film about a murder at an English country estate. Includes interviews with the cast and crew, who relate some of their experiences with making the film, as well as giving their views on all the work that went into it.
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The Majestic
Title: The Majestic
Character: Elvin Glyde
Released: December 21, 2001
Type: Movie
Set in 1951, a blacklisted Hollywood writer gets into a car accident, loses his memory and settles down in a small town where he is mistaken for a long-lost son.
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Gosford Park
Title: Gosford Park
Character: Morris Weissman
Released: November 7, 2001
Type: Movie
In 1930s England, a group of pretentious rich and famous gather together for a weekend of relaxation at a hunting resort. But when a murder occurs, each one of these interesting characters becomes a suspect.
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Ghost World
Title: Ghost World
Character: Enid's Dad
Released: July 20, 2001
Type: Movie
Two quirky, cynical teenaged girls try to figure out what to do with their lives after high school graduation. After they play a prank on an eccentric, middle aged record collector, one of them befriends him, which causes a rift in the girls' friendship.
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The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'
Title: The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'
Character: Self
Released: May 8, 2001
Type: Movie
A documentary film on the making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'
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The Mexican
Title: The Mexican
Character: Bernie Nayman
Released: March 1, 2001
Type: Movie
Jerry Welbach, a reluctant bagman, has been given two ultimatums: The first is from his mob boss to travel to Mexico and retrieve a priceless antique pistol, known as "the Mexican"... or suffer the consequences. The second is from his girlfriend Samantha to end his association with the mob. Jerry figures alive and in trouble with Samantha is better than the more permanent alternative, so he heads south of the border.
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Plan B
Title: Plan B
Character: James Foster
Released: January 1, 2001
Type: Movie
A bookkeeper who thinks she killed three mobsters is subsequently promoted by her boss to be a hitman.
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Best in Show
Title: Best in Show
Character: Dr. Theodore W. Millbank, III
Released: September 29, 2000
Type: Movie
The tension is palpable, the excitement is mounting and the heady scent of competition is in the air as hundreds of eager contestants from across America prepare to take part in what is undoubtedly one of the greatest events of their lives -- the Mayflower Dog Show. The canine contestants and their owners are as wondrously diverse as the great country that has bred them.
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Tex, the Passive/Aggressive Gunslinger
Title: Tex, the Passive/Aggressive Gunslinger
Character: Tex
Released: May 1, 2000
Type: Movie
The legend of Tex, who never lost a gunfight.
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Cradle Will Rock
Title: Cradle Will Rock
Character: Harry Hopkins
Released: December 10, 1999
Type: Movie
A true story of politics and art in the 1930s USA, centered around a leftist musical drama and attempts to stop its production.
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Three to Tango
Title: Three to Tango
Character: Decker
Released: October 22, 1999
Type: Movie
Oscar and Peter land a career-making opportunity when a Chicago tycoon chooses them to compete for the design of a cultural center. The tycoon mistakenly believes that Oscar is gay and has him spy on his mistress Amy. Oscar goes along with it and ends up falling in love with Amy.
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Title: Now and Again
Released: September 24, 1999
Type: TV
Now and Again is an American television series that aired in the US from September 24, 1999 until May 5, 2000 on CBS. The story revolves around the United States government engineering the perfect human body for use in espionage, but not being able to yet perfect the brain. In an attempt to get the project up and running, they take the brain of overweight family man Michael Wiseman, who is killed by a train. Given a new life, Michael is kept in an apartment where he is trained by government experts, led by Dr. Theodore Morris, in the art of espionage. Despite his new life and new abilities, Michael longs to return to his wife Lisa and daughter Heather, who are themselves discovering that not all is as it seems with Michael's death.
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Title: The West Wing
Character: Ted Marcus
Released: September 22, 1999
Type: TV
The West Wing provides a glimpse into presidential politics in the nation's capital as it tells the stories of the members of a fictional presidential administration. These interesting characters have humor and dedication that touches the heart while the politics that they discuss touch on everyday life.
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Jakob the Liar
Title: Jakob the Liar
Character: Kowalsky
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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Swing Vote
Title: Swing Vote
Character: Justice Eli MacCorckle
Released: April 19, 1999
Type: Movie
A newly-appointed Supreme Court Justice must settle a controversial moral and legal dilemma with his tie-breaking decision which may also have serious implications on his own family's harmony.
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The Monster Hunter
Title: The Monster Hunter
Character: Dr. William Powell
Released: January 1, 1999
Type: Movie
Residents of an East Texas town react strangely when a serial killer invades their small town world.
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Giving Up the Ghost
Title: Giving Up the Ghost
Character: Bob
Released: September 7, 1998
Type: Movie
After a woman's husband dies while jogging in the park, the young widow's deep grief helps to awaken his ghost. The ghost urges her to commit suicide to join him in the afterlife. While the young woman is making up her mind about suicide, her husband's ghost helps with a current murder case.
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Deconstructing Harry
Title: Deconstructing Harry
Character: Richard
Released: December 12, 1997
Type: Movie
Writer Harry Block draws inspiration from people he knows, and from events that happened to him, sometimes causing these people to become alienated from him as a result.
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The Definite Maybe
Title: The Definite Maybe
Character: Wolfe Rollins
Released: July 4, 1997
Type: Movie
When 25-year-old New Yorker Eric Traber gets fired from his job and kicked out of his apartment, he fears the worst. But his best friend, Ziggy, shows up A.W.O.L. from the Peace Corps and leads him out to the swank Hamptons for Easter weekend in search of betterment and understanding. Once there, they confront the adult roles of life for the first time; fraud, attempted murder, two-faced disloyalty and well-catered cocktail parties!
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Clockwatchers
Title: Clockwatchers
Character: Milton Lasky
Released: June 12, 1997
Type: Movie
The relationship between four female temps all working for the same credit company is threatened with the arrival of a new hire, who lands a permanent position one of the women was vying for.
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Conversation with the Beast
Title: Conversation with the Beast
Character: Mr. Webster
Released: February 20, 1997
Type: Movie
An American historian (Mr Webster) comes to Berlin to visit an old man who claims to be the real Adolf Hitler and to be 103 years old. The Hitler who died in 1945, the old man says, was just one of his six doubles - one for each weekday - while Hitler himself retired into a bunker below the S-Bahn tracks and married a second time.
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Waiting for Guffman
Title: Waiting for Guffman
Character: Lloyd Miller
Released: August 21, 1996
Type: Movie
Aspiring director Corky St. Clair and the marginally talented amateur cast of his hokey small-town musical production go overboard when they learn that Broadway theater agent Mort Guffman will be in attendance.
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The Late Shift
Title: The Late Shift
Character: Warren Littlefield
Released: February 24, 1996
Type: Movie
David Letterman vies with Jay Leno and his manager to succeed Johnny Carson, retiring from "The Tonight Show."
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Pie in the Sky
Title: Pie in the Sky
Character: Paul Entamen
Released: February 9, 1996
Type: Movie
A young man obsessed with traffic patterns attempts to reunite with his first love.
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Title: Legend
Released: April 18, 1995
Type: TV
The irresistible and charming Ernest Pratt is a dime-store novelist who is living out the adventures of his fictional character Nicodemus Legend in the Old West. Alongside Janos Bartok, a brilliant scientist, the duo teams up to fight for justice using Legend's celebrity and Bartok's outlandish inventions to make a real legend.
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Title: Friends
Character: Frank Buffay Sr.
Released: September 22, 1994
Type: TV
Six young people from New York City, on their own and struggling to survive in the real world, find the companionship, comfort and support they get from each other to be the perfect antidote to the pressures of life.
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City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold
Title: City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold
Character: Dr. Jeffrey Sanborn (uncredited)
Released: June 10, 1994
Type: Movie
Mitch Robbins' 40th birthday begins quite well until he returns home and finds his brother Glen, the black sheep of the family, in his sofa. Nevertheless he is about to have a wonderful birthday-night with his wife when he discovers a treasure map of Curly by chance. Together with Phil and unfortunately Glen he tries to find the hidden gold of Curly's father in the desert of Arizona.
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Greedy
Title: Greedy
Character: Ed
Released: March 4, 1994
Type: Movie
Meet the McTeagues. They've come to stake a claim in their wealthy uncle's will… only he's not dead yet!
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For Love or Money
Title: For Love or Money
Character: Ed Drinkwater
Released: October 1, 1993
Type: Movie
New York concierge Doug Ireland wants to go into business for himself and refurbish a hotel on Roosevelt Island, N.Y., but he needs an investor. With a few weeks left before his option on the site runs out, Doug agrees to help wealthy Christian Hanover conceal his affair with salesgirl Andy Hart from his wife. Despite his own attraction to Andy, Doug tries to stay focused on getting Christian to invest $3 million in his project.
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Amos & Andrew
Title: Amos & Andrew
Character: Dr. R. A. (Roy) Fink
Released: March 5, 1993
Type: Movie
When Andrew Sterling, a successful black urbanite writer, buys a vacation home on a resort in New England the police mistake him for a burglar. After surrounding his home with armed men, Chief Tolliver realizes his mistake and to avoid the bad publicity offers a thief in his jail, Amos Odell a deal.
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Bob Roberts
Title: Bob Roberts
Character: Cutting Edge Producer
Released: September 4, 1992
Type: Movie
Mock documentary about an upstart candidate for the U.S. Senate written and directed by actor Tim Robbins. Bob Roberts is a folksinger with a difference: He offers tunes that protest welfare chiselers, liberal whining, and the like. As the filmmakers follow his campaign, Robbins gives needle-sharp insight into the way candidates manipulate the media.
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Unnatural Pursuits
Title: Unnatural Pursuits
Character: Lou Finkleberg
Released: January 1, 1992
Type: Movie
An English playwright sacrifices his health waiting for his play's make-or-break opening on Broadway.
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Little Man Tate
Title: Little Man Tate
Character: Quizmaster
Released: September 6, 1991
Type: Movie
Dede is a sole parent trying to bring up her son Fred. When it is discovered that Fred is a genius, she is determined to ensure that Fred has all the opportunities that he needs, and that he is not taken advantage of by people who forget that his extremely powerful intellect is harboured in the body and emotions of a child.
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Alice
Title: Alice
Character: Sid Moscowitz
Released: December 25, 1990
Type: Movie
Alice Tate, mother of two, with a marriage of 16 years, finds herself falling for the handsome sax player, Joe. Stricken with a backache, she consults herbalist Dr. Yang, who realizes that her problems are not related to her back, but in her mind and heart. Dr. Yang's magical herbs give Alice wondrous powers, taking her out of well-established rut.
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The Face of Fear
Title: The Face of Fear
Character: Ira Preduski
Released: September 30, 1990
Type: Movie
Graham Harris was once one of the world's foremost mountain climbers, until a fall five years earlier left him with a lame leg, a fear of heights...and a frightening psychic ability in which he can see murders as they are happening.
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Title: The Simpsons
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: December 17, 1989
Type: TV
Set in Springfield, the average American town, the show focuses on the antics and everyday adventures of the Simpson family; Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie, as well as a virtual cast of thousands. Since the beginning, the series has been a pop culture icon, attracting hundreds of celebrities to guest star. The show has also made name for itself in its fearless satirical take on politics, media and American life in general.
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Title: Seinfeld
Character: Russell Dalrymple
Released: July 5, 1989
Type: TV
A stand-up comedian and his three offbeat friends weather the pitfalls and payoffs of life in New York City in the '90s. It's a show about nothing.
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Dead Bang
Title: Dead Bang
Character: Elliott Webley
Released: March 24, 1989
Type: Movie
Los Angeles homicide detective Jerry Beck searches for the murderer who killed a police officer on Christmas Eve. The investigation takes Beck inside the violent world of hate groups and white supremacists, who are hatching a deadly plot to attack even more innocent people. Beck must also confront his own personal demons, including his growing problem with alcohol, if he wants to track down and stop the violent neo-Nazis before it is too late.
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Funny
Title: Funny
Character: Self
Released: April 1, 1988
Type: Movie
People are asked to tell their favorite jokes.
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End of the Line
Title: End of the Line
Character: Warren Gerber
Released: August 28, 1987
Type: Movie
When the closure of a railway is announced, employees commandeer a locomotive to get to corporate headquarters and confront the president.
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Title: Amazing Stories
Character: Jo-Jo Gillespie
Released: September 29, 1985
Type: TV
A truly amazing, fantastical, science fiction, funny and odd, and sometimes scary, sad and endearing anthology series presented by Steven Spielberg with guest appearances by many famous actors, actresses, and directors.
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2010
Title: 2010
Character: Dr. R. Chandra
Released: December 6, 1984
Type: Movie
While planet Earth poises on the brink of nuclear self-destruction, a team of Russian and American scientists aboard the Leonov hurtles to a rendezvous with the still-orbiting Discovery spacecraft and its sole known survivor, the homicidal computer HAL.
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Title: Miami Vice
Released: September 16, 1984
Type: TV
The story of the Miami Police Department's vice squad and its efforts to end drug trafficking and prostitution, centered on the unlikely partnership of Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs - who first meet when Tubbs is undercover in a drug cartel.
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Nothing Lasts Forever
Title: Nothing Lasts Forever
Character: Guy with Sunglasses in Espresso Bar
Released: September 6, 1984
Type: Movie
An artist fails a test and is required to direct traffic in New York City's Holland Tunnel. He winds up falling in love with a beautiful woman, who takes him to the moon on a Lunar Cruiser.
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Whose Life Is It Anyway?
Title: Whose Life Is It Anyway?
Character: Carter Hill
Released: December 2, 1981
Type: Movie
Ken Harrison is an artist that lives to make sculptures. One day he is involved in a car accident, and is paralyzed from his neck down. All he can do is talk and move his head, and he wants to die. Whilst he is in hospital he makes friends with some of the staff, and they support him when he goes to trial to be allowed to die.
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Absence of Malice
Title: Absence of Malice
Character: Elliott Rosen
Released: November 19, 1981
Type: Movie
Megan Carter is a reporter duped into running an untrue story on Michael Gallagher, a suspected racketeer. He has an alibi for the time his crime was allegedly committed—but it involves an innocent party. When he tells Carter the truth and the newspaper runs it, tragedy follows, forcing Carter to face up to the responsibilities of her job when she is confronted by Gallagher.
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Prince of the City
Title: Prince of the City
Character: Santimassino
Released: August 19, 1981
Type: Movie
New York City detective Daniel Ciello agrees to help the United States Department of Justice help eliminate corruption in the police department, as long as he will not have to turn in any close friends. In doing so, Ciello uncovers a conspiracy within the force to smuggle drugs to street informants.
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Altered States
Title: Altered States
Character: Arthur Rosenberg
Released: December 25, 1980
Type: Movie
A research scientist explores the boundaries and frontiers of consciousness. Using sensory deprivation and hallucinogenic mixtures from native American shamans, he explores these altered states of consciousness and finds that memory, time, and perhaps reality itself are states of mind.
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Girlfriends
Title: Girlfriends
Character: Martin
Released: August 11, 1978
Type: Movie
A photographer and her best friend are roommates. She is stuck with small-change shooting jobs and dreams of success. When her roommate decides to get married and leave, she feels hurt and has to learn how to deal with living alone.
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Title: Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Character: David Laughlin
Released: December 14, 1977
Type: Movie
After an encounter with UFOs, an electricity linesman feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in the wilderness where something spectacular is about to happen.
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Report to the Commissioner
Title: Report to the Commissioner
Character: Joey Egan
Released: February 5, 1975
Type: Movie
Police officer Patty Butler, alias "Chicklet," is the live-in girlfriend of Thomas 'Stick' Henderson to gather evidence. Detective Bo Lockley is instructed to try to find her, not knowing she's also a cop.
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The Bank Shot
Title: The Bank Shot
Character: Victor Karp
Released: July 31, 1974
Type: Movie
A bank temporarily housed in a mobile home while a new building is built, looks like an easy target to break into. On the other hand, why not steal the whole bank, and rob it in a safer location.
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Title: Maude
Character: Ambrose Riley
Released: September 12, 1972
Type: TV
Well-educated and upper middle class, Maude Findlay is the archetypal feminist of her generation. She lives in suburban Tuckahoe, New York, with her fourth husband, Walter, their divorced daughter, Carol, and grandson Phillip.
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Marriage: Year One
Title: Marriage: Year One
Character: Bernie
Released: October 15, 1971
Type: Movie
A medical student marries a millionaire's daughter but insists they live on the money he earns.
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Making It
Title: Making It
Character: Wilkie
Released: March 21, 1971
Type: Movie
In this coming of age comedy, a cocky high school student thinks nothing of using the people around him to satisfy his self-centered needs, until someone in his life gets pregnant.
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The Strawberry Statement
Title: The Strawberry Statement
Character: Elliot
Released: August 28, 1970
Type: Movie
A college student joins a group of revolutionaries to meet girls but ends up committed to their goals.
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Catch-22
Title: Catch-22
Character: Capt. Orr
Released: June 24, 1970
Type: Movie
A bombardier in World War II tries desperately to escape the insanity of the war. However, sometimes insanity is the only sane way to cope with a crazy situation.
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Title: Love, American Style
Character: Nick
Released: September 29, 1969
Type: TV
An anthology comedy series featuring a line up of different celebrity guest stars appearing in anywhere from one, two, three, and four short stories or vignettes within an hour about versions of love and romance.
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Title: Room 222
Released: September 11, 1969
Type: TV
Room 222 is an American comedy-drama television series produced by 20th Century Fox Television. The series aired on ABC for 112 episodes from September 17, 1969 until January 11, 1974. The show was broadcast on Wednesday evenings at 9:00 for its first two seasons before settling into its best-remembered time slot of Friday evenings at 9:00, following The Brady Bunch and The Partridge Family, and preceding The Odd Couple and Love, American Style. In 1970, Room 222 earned Emmy Awards in three categories: Outstanding New Series, Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series, and Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series.
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Me, Natalie
Title: Me, Natalie
Character: Morris
Released: July 13, 1969
Type: Movie
Since she was a child, Natalie Miller has always thought she was an ugly ducking. Despite her mother's encouragement that she will grow up to be pretty, Natalie has never believed it will happen. She rents a Greenwich Village apartment from an eccentric landlady and gets a job at the Topless Bottom Club. She rides a motorcycle to work, decorates her loft with a moose head, and rides up and down a dumbwaiter to get to her apartment. There Natalie meets David an artist, and the two have a love affair before she discovers he is married.
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Midnight Cowboy
Title: Midnight Cowboy
Character: The Young Student
Released: May 25, 1969
Type: Movie
Joe Buck is a wide-eyed hustler from Texas hoping to score big with wealthy New York City women; he finds a companion in Enrico "Ratso" Rizzo, an ailing swindler with a bum leg and a quixotic fantasy of escaping to Florida.
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Title: The Mod Squad
Released: September 24, 1968
Type: TV
The Mod Squad was the enormously successful groundbreaking "hippie" undercover cop show that ran on ABC from September 24, 1968, until August 23, 1973. It starred Michael Cole as Pete Cochren, Peggy Lipton as Julie Barnes, Clarence Williams III as Linc Hayes, and Tige Andrews as Captain Adam Greer. The executive producers of the series were Aaron Spelling and Danny Thomas. The iconic counter-culture police series earned six Emmy nominations, four Golden Globe nominations plus one win for Peggy Lipton, one Directors Guild of America award, and four Logies. In 1997 the episode "Mother of Sorrow" was ranked #95 on TV Guide's 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time.
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Title: Hank
Released: September 24, 1965
Type: TV
Hank is an American situation comedy which is perhaps most notable for being an early example of a program with a true series finale, in which the underlying premise of the series reaches a natural conclusion with its final episode.