Jeffrey DeMunn

Jeffrey DeMunn

Born: April 25, 1947
in Buffalo, New York, USA
Jeffrey DeMunn (born April 25, 1947) is an American theatre, film and television actor.He is known as a favorite of director Frank Darabont, who has cast him in all four of his films, The Green Mile, The Shawshank Redemption, The Majestic and The Mist (he also appeared in the 1988 remake of The Blob, which Darabont co-wrote). He also has an extensive television résumé, appearing in shows such as Kojak, Law & Order, and two of its spin-offs, SVU and Trial by Jury.

He has been involved in more Stephen King adaptations than any other actor. He has acted in film adaptations of Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile, The Mist and the T.V. miniseries Storm of the Century. He also narrated the audiobooks for Dreamcatcher and The Colorado Kid.

In 1995, he won a CableACE Award as Best Supporting Actor in a Movie or Miniseries for his portrayal of serial killer Andrei Chikatilo in the HBO film Citizen X.

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Movies for Jeffrey DeMunn...

The 8th Year of the Emergency
Title: The 8th Year of the Emergency
Character: Ed
Released: July 22, 2019
Type: Movie
Lil is eight years into her struggle with Alzheimer's and sometimes she can't find the right words. But, a visit from her family inspires a moment of ecstatic clarity.
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The Amaranth
Title: The Amaranth
Character: Richard Kendrick
Released: October 26, 2018
Type: Movie
Lily and Richard move to a luxurious and cult-like community, where Lily becomes unsettled by the transformation she observes in her older husband and in her own physiology, leading her to wonder if there's something more sinister at play.
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Marshall
Title: Marshall
Character: Dr. Sayer
Released: October 13, 2017
Type: Movie
Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American Supreme Court Justice, battles through one of his career-defining cases.
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Halfway
Title: Halfway
Character: Walt
Released: April 21, 2017
Type: Movie
A recently released convict finds himself trapped between his urban criminal past and his new life on probation as the only black man in a conservative white Wisconsin farming town.
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A Tree. A Rock. A Cloud.
Title: A Tree. A Rock. A Cloud.
Character: Old boy
Released: March 11, 2017
Type: Movie
Set at a roadside café in the early morning in the Spring of 1947, a young boy and an older man meet by chance. The man relates a luminous tale of personal heartbreak and loss, and of his hard won understanding of the nature of love
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Title: Billions
Character: Charles Rhoades, Sr.
Released: January 17, 2016
Type: TV
A complex drama about power politics in the world of New York high finance. Shrewd, savvy U.S. Attorney Chuck Rhoades and the brilliant, ambitious hedge fund king Bobby "Axe" Axelrod are on an explosive collision course, with each using all of his considerable smarts, power and influence to outmaneuver the other. The stakes are in the billions in this timely, provocative series.
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Walking the Mile
Title: Walking the Mile
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: December 9, 2014
Type: Movie
Full-length documentary about the making of Frank Darabont's drama, The Green Mile, based on Stephen King's novel.
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Adult Beginners
Title: Adult Beginners
Character: Bill
Released: September 8, 2014
Type: Movie
A young, hipster entrepreneur crashes and burns on the eve of his company’s big launch. With his entire life in disarray, he leaves Manhattan to move in with his estranged pregnant sister, brother-in-law and three year-old nephew in the suburbs — only to become their manny. Faced with real responsibility, he may finally have to grow up — but not without some bad behavior first.
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Title: Mob City
Character: Hal Morrison
Released: December 4, 2013
Type: TV
The true story of a decades-long conflict between the Los Angeles Police Department, under the determined leadership of Police Chief William Parker, and ruthless criminal elements led by Mickey Cohen, a one-time boxer who rose to the top of L.A.'s criminal world. The series is a fast-paced crime drama set in Los Angeles during the 1940s and '50s. It's a world of glamorous movie stars, powerful studio heads, returning war heroes, a powerful and corrupt police force and an even more dangerous criminal network determined to make L.A. its West Coast base.
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Title: Chicago Fire
Character: Peter
Released: October 10, 2012
Type: TV
An edge-of-your-seat view into the lives of everyday heroes committed to one of America's noblest professions. For the firefighters, rescue squad and paramedics of Chicago Firehouse 51, no occupation is more stressful or dangerous, yet so rewarding and exhilarating. These courageous men and women are among the elite who forge headfirst into danger when everyone else is running the other way and whose actions make the difference between life and death.
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Another Happy Day
Title: Another Happy Day
Character: Lee
Released: November 18, 2011
Type: Movie
A wedding at her parents' Annapolis estate hurls high-strung Lynn into the center of touchy family dynamics.
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Title: The Walking Dead
Character: Dale Horvath
Released: October 31, 2010
Type: TV
Sheriff's deputy Rick Grimes awakens from a coma to find a post-apocalyptic world dominated by flesh-eating zombies. He sets out to find his family and encounters many other survivors along the way.
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The Making of The Walking Dead
Title: The Making of The Walking Dead
Character: Self
Released: July 31, 2010
Type: Movie
The Making of the TV Series The Walking Dead.
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6 Souls
Title: 6 Souls
Character: Dr. Harding
Released: March 27, 2010
Type: Movie
A female forensic psychiatrist discovers that all of one of her patient's multiple personalities are murder victims. She will have to find out what's happening before her time is finished.
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Title: The Good Wife
Character: Chief Justice Virgil Ryvlan
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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Cayman Went
Title: Cayman Went
Character: Rodgers Bowman
Released: June 5, 2009
Type: Movie
Cayman Went is the story of Josh Anders, a fading Hollywood underwater action star whose life takes on new meaning when he's forced to spend time with the eccentric, endearing inhabitants of Cayman Brac and their local dive community.
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Burn After Reading
Title: Burn After Reading
Character: Cosmetic Surgeon
Released: September 5, 2008
Type: Movie
When a disc containing memoirs of a former CIA analyst falls into the hands of gym employees, Linda and Chad, they see a chance to make enough money for Linda to have life-changing cosmetic surgery. Predictably, events whirl out of control for the duo, and those in their orbit.
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When Darkness Came: The Making of 'The Mist'
Title: When Darkness Came: The Making of 'The Mist'
Character: Self
Released: March 25, 2008
Type: Movie
Behind the scenes documentary on the making of the film.
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Title: Cashmere Mafia
Released: January 6, 2008
Type: TV
Four ambitious and sexy women, who've been best friends since business school, try to balance their glamorous and demanding careers with their complex personal lives in the city that never sleeps. They've created their own "boys club" to protect each other and discuss their ups and downs as they try to have it all. What good is it to break the glass ceiling without girlfriends to share in your success?
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The Mist
Title: The Mist
Character: Dan Miller
Released: November 21, 2007
Type: Movie
After a violent storm, a dense cloud of mist envelops a small Maine town, trapping artist David Drayton and his five-year-old son in a local grocery store with other people. They soon discover that the mist conceals deadly horrors that threaten their lives, and worse, their sanity.
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Hollywoodland
Title: Hollywoodland
Character: Art Weissman
Released: August 31, 2006
Type: Movie
When Hollywood superstar George Reeves dies in his home, private detective Louis Simo is hired to investigate his death and gets caught in a web of lies involving a big studio executive's wife.
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Title: Covert One: The Hades Factor
Character: Steven Haldane
Released: April 9, 2006
Type: TV
While in a retrieve operation of a virus in Berlin, the Covert One agent Rachel Russell is double-crossed by two dirty agents; she kills them and escapes, trying to find a hiding place and someone to trust to protect the vials. Meanwhile, the former Covert One agent Dr. Jon Smith is also in Berlin with his beloved fiancée Sophie Amsden participating in a congress. When three persons die with bleeding, the doctors disclose a Hades virus outbreak, an extreme rare Ebola variant. Jon and Sophie return to the USA to research a cure, and Jon discovers a huge combination of bio-terrorism and conspiracy.
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Title: Empire Falls
Character: Horace
Released: May 28, 2005
Type: TV
The humorous, poignant story of a declining New England town and its inhabitants, whose lives are deeply rooted in and influenced by the Knox River and its vacant mills, their class differences, and ghosts of the past.
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Title: Law & Order: Trial by Jury
Character: Norman Rothenberg
Released: March 3, 2005
Type: TV
The inner workings of the judicial system, beginning with the arraignment, and continuing through the prosecutors' complicated process of building a case, investigating leads and preparing witnesses for trial.
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Our Town
Title: Our Town
Character: Mr. Webb
Released: May 24, 2003
Type: Movie
Our Town is a three-act play by American playwright Thornton Wilder. It is a character story about an average town's citizens in the early twentieth century as depicted through their everyday lives. Using metatheatrical devices, Wilder sets the play in a 1930s theater. He uses the actions of the Stage Manager to create the town of Grover's Corners for the audience. Scenes from its history between the years of 1901 and 1913 play out. Originally broadcast on the Showtime Network, then as part of the PBS series "Masterpiece Theatre" (season 33, episode 1).
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The Lucky Ones
Title: The Lucky Ones
Character: Simon
Released: January 1, 2003
Type: Movie
While looking into a strange spiritual ritual, Lorenzo discovers his virtues and unlocks his demons, taking him from a shameless, shallow existence to a psychological crossroads that may alter his life.
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The Majestic
Title: The Majestic
Character: Mayor Ernie Cole
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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Noriega: God's Favorite
Title: Noriega: God's Favorite
Character: Nuncio
Released: March 4, 2000
Type: Movie
The story of Panamanian dictator, Manuel Noriega.
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The Green Mile
Title: The Green Mile
Character: Harry Terwilliger
Released: December 10, 1999
Type: Movie
A supernatural tale set on death row in a Southern prison, where gentle giant John Coffey possesses the mysterious power to heal people's ailments. When the cell block's head guard, Paul Edgecomb, recognizes Coffey's miraculous gift, he tries desperately to help stave off the condemned man's execution.
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Title: The West Wing
Character: Kenneth Sean 'Ken' O'Neal
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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Title: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Character: Senior ADA Charlie Phillips
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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Title: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Character: Chief Assistant DA Charlie Phillips
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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Harvest
Title: Harvest
Character: Jake Yates
Released: March 12, 1999
Type: Movie
A DEA agent and a local sheriff have to wrestle with their consciences as they start raids on local farmers, who have started growing marijuana simply to keep their farms operational. Story focuses on a young man, who accidentally discovers that his straight-laced parents are involved in the marijuana cultivation.
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Title: Storm of the Century
Character: Town Manager Robbie Beals
Released: February 14, 1999
Type: TV
When a blizzard hits an isolated island town it brings with it a mysterious stranger intent on terrorizing the people for a sinister purpose.
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Black Cat Run
Title: Black Cat Run
Character: Bill Grissom
Released: September 18, 1998
Type: Movie
A girl is in love with a gas station attendant and sees him against her father's wishes. The father is the sheriff and shortly after a confrontation with the boy friend, he is killed by escaped convicts and the daughter is kidnapped. Everyone, including the deputy, is convinced that the boy friend committed the murder and ran away with the girl. This sets up a chase of the convicts by the boy friend and of the boy friend by the police.
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The X Files
Title: The X Files
Character: Bronschweig
Released: June 19, 1998
Type: Movie
Mulder and Scully, now taken off the FBI's X Files cases, must find a way to fight the shadowy elements of the government to find out the truth about a conspiracy that might mean the alien colonization of Earth.
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A Christmas Memory
Title: A Christmas Memory
Character: Seabone
Released: December 21, 1997
Type: Movie
A new version of Truman Capote's 1956 tale based on his own bittersweet upbringing in Alabama. The story deals with a seven-year-old who forms a special friendship with his simple, older cousin whose two sisters and bachelor brother feel he needs better influences and role models and decide to send him to military school after the Christmas holidays.
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RocketMan
Title: RocketMan
Character: Paul Wick
Released: October 10, 1997
Type: Movie
Fred Z. Randall is geeky and obnoxious spacecraft designer, who gets the chance to make his dream come true and travel to Mars as a member of the first manned flight there.
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The Trial of Adolf Eichmann
Title: The Trial of Adolf Eichmann
Character: Moshe Beisky / Martin Földi (voices)
Released: April 30, 1997
Type: Movie
David Brinkley hosts this shattering two-hour documentary about the trial of the man whose role in deporting the Jews of Europe for extermination made him the target of a 15-year manhunt by Israeli agents. Rare videotapes of the trial, exclusive interviews with courtroom witnesses, prosecutors, and others recount the emotionally explosive proceedings.
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Title: The Practice
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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Turbulence
Title: Turbulence
Character: Brooks
Released: January 9, 1997
Type: Movie
On a flight transporting dangerous convicts, murderer Ryan Weaver manages to break free and cause complete chaos throughout the plane. As various people on board fall victim to Weaver, it is ultimately down to flight attendant Teri Halloran to keep the aircraft from crashing, with on-ground support from an air traffic controller. While Halloran struggles to pilot the plane, Weaver continues to terrorize the surviving members of the crew.
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Killer: A Journal of Murder
Title: Killer: A Journal of Murder
Character: Sam Lesser
Released: September 6, 1996
Type: Movie
Carl Panzram is sent to Leavenworth Prison for burglary. While there, he is brutally beaten by a guard. Neophyte guard Henry Lesser feels sympathy for Panzram, befriends him, and gets him to write his life story. Lesser learns that Panzram's past is much more violent than he thought, but also that he's capable of being a much better person than the rest of the prison staff believes - or so Lesser thinks.
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Phenomenon
Title: Phenomenon
Character: Professor Ringold
Released: July 5, 1996
Type: Movie
An ordinary man sees a bright light descend from the sky, and discovers he now has super-intelligence and telekinesis.
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Ebbie
Title: Ebbie
Character: Jake Marley
Released: December 4, 1995
Type: Movie
In this updated retelling of Dickens' "A Christmas Carol," ruthless business-woman and shopping store owner Elizabeth "Ebbie" Scrooge is taught the true spirit of Christmas by three Spirits who visit her.
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Down Came a Blackbird
Title: Down Came a Blackbird
Character: Rob Rubenstein
Released: October 22, 1995
Type: Movie
A woman struggles with the death of her lover. He was killed by South-American fascists.
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Almost Golden: The Jessica Savitch Story
Title: Almost Golden: The Jessica Savitch Story
Character: Mel Korn
Released: September 4, 1995
Type: Movie
The story of one of America's first female reporters.
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Title: The Outer Limits
Character: Dr. Adam Pike
Released: March 26, 1995
Type: TV
Anthology series of composed of distinct story episodes, sometimes with a plot twist at the end, with occasional recurring story elements that were often tied together during season-finale clip shows.
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Citizen X
Title: Citizen X
Character: Andrei Chikatilo
Released: February 25, 1995
Type: Movie
Based on the true story of a Russian serial killer who, over many years, claimed victim to over 50 people. His victims were mostly under the age of 17. In what was then a communists state, the police investigations were hampered by bureaucracy, incompetence and those in power. The story is told from the viewpoint of the detective in charge of the case.
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Safe Passage
Title: Safe Passage
Character: Doctor
Released: December 1, 1994
Type: Movie
Recently estranged from her husband, and mother of seven sons, Mag Singer stands poised to pursue a whole new way of life. But when one of her children is involved in an explosion while on duty in the Middle East, Mag must rexamine everything she cherishes.
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The Shawshank Redemption
Title: The Shawshank Redemption
Character: 1946 D.A.
Released: September 23, 1994
Type: Movie
Framed in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his long stretch in prison, Dufresne comes to be admired by the other inmates -- including an older prisoner named Red -- for his integrity and unquenchable sense of hope.
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Title: ER
Character: Treatment Center Doctor
Released: September 19, 1994
Type: TV
ER explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by the dedicated physicians and staff of its overburdened emergency room.
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Betrayal of Trust
Title: Betrayal of Trust
Character: Dick Shelton
Released: January 3, 1994
Type: Movie
A woman has been to a psychiatrist for years for drug and alcohol addiction, and whose treatment includes being injected with a drug that knocks her out. One day, she was coming around when she notices that the doctor is molesting her. She then tries to get some justice by suing him, and reporting him to the licensing bureau, and the American psychiatric association. And also seeing another psychiatrist to try and figure out what's wrong with her.
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Barbarians at the Gate
Title: Barbarians at the Gate
Character: H. John Greeniaus
Released: March 20, 1993
Type: Movie
A television movie based upon the book by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar, about the leveraged buyout (LBO) of RJR Nabisco.
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Newsies
Title: Newsies
Character: Mayer Jacobs
Released: April 10, 1992
Type: Movie
A week in the life of the exploited, child newspaper sellers in turn-of-the-century New York. When their publisher, Joseph Pulitzer, tries to squeeze a little more profit out of their labours, they organize a strike, only to be confronted with the Pulitzer's hard-ball tactics.
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Eyes of an Angel
Title: Eyes of an Angel
Character: Georgie
Released: July 26, 1991
Type: Movie
John Travolta is a downtrodden single father raising his daughter under difficult circumstances in Chicago. The young girl comes upon and then nurses a wounded Doberman used for fighting, back to health. Duped by underworld types he was working as a courier for, father and daughter leave the dog and flee cross-country to Los Angeles with both canine and mobsters in pursuit.
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The Haunted
Title: The Haunted
Character: Jack Smurl
Released: May 6, 1991
Type: Movie
When the Smurl family moves into a duplex, they find out it's haunted.
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Crash: The Mystery of Flight 1501
Title: Crash: The Mystery of Flight 1501
Character: Scott Cody
Released: November 18, 1990
Type: Movie
Diane and Greg Halstead were once happily married, even deciding to try and have a baby in later years, despite the fact that she had already suffered two miscarriages. She has no luck in becoming pregnant and this leads to an estrangement from her husband. On his latest flight, Greg, a professional pilot, finds out about a bomb threat. The person carrying the bomb supposedly wants to kill another passenger, a politician with an outspoken opinion on abortion. Unknown to the killer, however, the politician has already left the plane because it had an hour and a half delay. Greg decides to make an emergency landing in Dayton, Ohio, but during the heavy weather, the plane crashes, killing almost everyone on board.
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Title: Law & Order
Character: Norman Rothenberg
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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By Dawn's Early Light
Title: By Dawn's Early Light
Character: Harpoon
Released: May 19, 1990
Type: Movie
A nuclear warhead launched by Soviet insurgents protesting the waning Cold War destroys the Ukrainian city of Donetsk. The destruction sets off a race between American and Soviet politicians to prevent a nuclear holocaust. While the U.S. president feverishly works to keep the military and political machine from going into overdrive, various subordinates panic. When the president is believed to be killed in a helicopter crash, zealous advisers take over.
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Sensibility and Sense
Title: Sensibility and Sense
Character: Peter
Released: January 24, 1990
Type: Movie
Three friends who bonded over their radical beliefs in the 1930s reunite after becoming estranged over a book one of them wrote.
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Blaze
Title: Blaze
Character: Eldon Tuck
Released: December 15, 1989
Type: Movie
This movie tells the story of the latter years of Earl Long, a flamboyant governor of Louisiana. The aging Earl, an unapologetic habitue of strip joints, falls in love with young stripper Blaze Starr. When Earl and Blaze move in together, Earl's opponents use this to attack his controversial political program, which included civil rights for blacks in the 1950's.
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Settle the Score
Title: Settle the Score
Character: Dr. Josh Longcrest
Released: October 30, 1989
Type: Movie
Katherine Whately, a tough, young Chicago cop, comes home to her small town to settle her teenage rape. She is welcomed by her brother but shunned by her father. Josh, the town doctor, is her only ally in her quest for the truth. Together Katherine and Josh find the bloody trail of a serial murderer and shatter the lie that is two decades old.
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Title: Dear John
Character: Neil Cramer
Released: October 6, 1988
Type: TV
Dear John starred Judd Hirsch as easygoing Drake Prep high school teacher John Lacey who is dumped by his wife, Wendy, via a Dear John letter. Wendy ends up with everything in the divorce settlement, including custody of the couple's son, forcing John to move into an apartment in Ozone Park, Queens. John soon joins the One-2-One Club, a self help group for divorced, widowed or lonely people. The group is led by Louise (Jane Carr), a sex-obsessed British woman. Other members of the group include Kate McCarron (Isabella Hofmann), a sweet divorcée; Kirk Morris (Jere Burns), a cocky ladies' man; Ralph Drang (Harry Groener), a shy and neurotic tollbooth collector; Bonnie Philbert (Billie Bird), a feisty senior citizen; and Tom, Mrs. Philbert's quiet boyfriend (Tom Willett).
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Betrayed
Title: Betrayed
Character: Flynn
Released: August 26, 1988
Type: Movie
An FBI agent posing as a combine driver becomes romantically involved with a Midwest farmer who lives a double life as a white supremacist.
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The Blob
Title: The Blob
Character: Sheriff Herb Geller
Released: August 5, 1988
Type: Movie
In Arborville, California, three high school students try to protect their hometown from a gelatinous alien life form that engulfs everything it touches. The first to discover the substance and live to tell about it, the trio witness the Blob destroying an elderly man, then it growing to a terrifying size. But no one else has seen the goo, and the police refuse to believe the kids without proof.
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Title: Lincoln
Character: William Herndon
Released: March 27, 1988
Type: TV
"Lincoln" was a 1988 American television mini-series starring Sam Waterston as Abraham Lincoln, Mary Tyler Moore as Mary Todd Lincoln, and Richard Mulligan as William H. Seward. It was directed by Lamont Johnson and was based on Gore Vidal’s novel. It covers the time period running from Lincoln’s election as President of the United States to the time of his assassination. When released for home entertainment, the title was changed to "Gore Vidal's Lincoln" Lamont Johnson won an Emmy for directing Lincoln. The film was shot almost entirely in Richmond, Virginia and it cost $8 million to produce.
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Pigeon Feathers
Title: Pigeon Feathers
Character: George
Released: February 17, 1988
Type: Movie
From the pen of Pulitzer Prize winning author John Updike ("Witches of Eastwick," "Rabbit Run"), comes the story of a young man's search through the questions of life and death, and the wondrous discovery of living in the soaring beauty of one of nature's simplest creations. A family returns to life on a farm and finds some answers to the paradox of living.
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Young Harry Houdini
Title: Young Harry Houdini
Character: Adult Harry Houdini
Released: March 14, 1987
Type: Movie
This biographical movie depicts the youth of the magician Harry Houdini (1874 - 1926). As a boy his name was Eric Weiss and his father wanted him to become a locksmith. But he ran away and joined the traveling show of Dr. Grimaldi, where he learned the tricks of a magician and a little mystery from his Indian assistant, too.
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Kojak: The Price of Justice
Title: Kojak: The Price of Justice
Character: Marsucci
Released: February 21, 1987
Type: Movie
Top New York cop Theo Kojak finds himself trapped in a tangled web of false trials, jealousies and murderous scheming as he investigates the death of two young boys. Their bodies are discovered in a Harlem river, the boys mother is the major suspect. But what appears to be an open shut case soon becomes something much more sinister.
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Who Is Julia?
Title: Who Is Julia?
Character: Dr. David Matthews
Released: October 26, 1986
Type: Movie
A strikingly beautiful and wealthy woman is hit by a truck and is all smashed up and nearly killed. At nearly the same time, a very plain looking lower middle class woman simply faints and suffers brain death. The beautiful womans brain is fine, so, doctors merely transplant her brain into plain Jane. Problems ensue when plain Janes husband continues to believe she is still his wife. She has no memory of him, and goes to live with the beautiful womans husband. She doesn't mix well with her new socialite friends and family. Mirrors are emotional battlefields as well.
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Title: L.A. Law
Character: Peter Reynolds
Released: September 15, 1986
Type: TV
L.A. Law is an American television legal drama series that ran for eight seasons on NBC from September 15, 1986, to May 19, 1994. Created by Steven Bochco and Terry Louise Fisher, it contained many of Bochco's trademark features including a large number of parallel storylines, social drama and off-the-wall humor. It reflected the social and cultural ideologies of the 1980s and early 1990s, and many of the cases featured on the show dealt with hot-topic issues such as abortion, racism, gay rights, homophobia, sexual harassment, AIDS, and domestic violence. The series often also reflected social tensions between the wealthy senior lawyer protagonists and their less well-paid junior staff. The show was popular with audiences and critics, and won 15 Emmy Awards throughout its run, four of which were for Outstanding Drama Series.
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The Hitcher
Title: The Hitcher
Character: Captain Esteridge
Released: January 17, 1986
Type: Movie
On a stormy night, young Jim, who transports a luxury car from Chicago to California to deliver it to its owner, feeling tired and sleepy, picks up a mysterious hitchhiker, who has appeared out of nowhere, thinking that a good conversation will help him not to fall asleep. He will have enough time to deeply regret such an unmeditated decision.
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Title: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Character: Bottom
Released: December 19, 1985
Type: Movie
Theseus has defeated Hippolyta in battle, and now claims her as his bride. But before the nuptials begin, a pair of young lovers flee into the forest to be married, pursued by a pair of not-lovers. There, in the forest, live the fairies whose lives are in turmoil, due to the heated lovers' quarrels between their rulers, Oberon and Titania. Between the fairies, an ass's head, the lovers, a troupe of unsuspecting would-be actors, and a magic flower that can make people fall in love at first sight, it's a merry night of chaos and comedy until everything is put to rights.
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Doubletake
Title: Doubletake
Character: Andrew Lane
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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A Time to Live
Title: A Time to Live
Character: Larry Weisman
Released: October 27, 1985
Type: Movie
The problems of a mother who helps her son in his struggles against muscular dystrophy. From the true story of Peter and Mary-Lou Weisman.
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Title: The Twilight Zone
Released: September 27, 1985
Type: TV
This 1980s revival of the classic sci-fi series features a similar style to the original anthology series. Each episode tells a tale (sometimes two or three) rooted in horror or suspense, often with a surprising twist at the end. Episodes usually feature elements of drama and comedy.
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Title: Spenser: For Hire
Released: September 20, 1985
Type: TV
Mystery and suspense series based on Robert Parker's "Spenser" novels. Spenser, a private investigator living in Boston, gets involved in a new murder mystery each episode.
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Warning Sign
Title: Warning Sign
Character: Dr. Dan Fairchild
Released: August 23, 1985
Type: Movie
An accident occurs in an ultra-secret government biological weapons laboratory spreading a sinister bacteria.
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Title: Moonlighting
Character: Roger Clements
Released: March 3, 1985
Type: TV
After being duped and going bankrupt, model Maddie is convinced by David to become a partner in a detective agency. Together they solve various cases, while getting comfortable with each other.
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The Joy That Kills
Title: The Joy That Kills
Character: Brently Mallard
Released: January 28, 1985
Type: Movie
Adaptation of Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour," about a woman feeling relief at the news of her husband's death.
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Windy City
Title: Windy City
Character: Bobby
Released: September 21, 1984
Type: Movie
The lives of a group of young Chicago men, as seen through the eyes of one of them, a writer.
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When She Says No
Title: When She Says No
Character: Brian Garvey
Released: January 30, 1984
Type: Movie
After divorced college professor Rose Michaels invites three of her male colleagues to her room during a teacher's convention, she later accuses them of rape, but the men say otherwise.
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Sessions
Title: Sessions
Character: Dr. Walter Hemmings
Released: September 26, 1983
Type: Movie
High-priced call girl Lee Churchill, is examining her life via therapy "sessions". Her double life is unknown to her parents, sister and "straight" man with whom she falls in love.
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The Face of Rage
Title: The Face of Rage
Character: Jeff Hammil
Released: March 20, 1983
Type: Movie
Filmed in quasi-documentary fashion, the made-for-TV The Face of Rage is set in a rehabilitation facility. Here a group of rapists are required to confront their victims face-to-face. The film concentrates on the bitter verbal sparring session between assaulter Richard (Graham Bechel) and assaultee Rebecca (Dianne Weist). Director Donald Wrye co-wrote the screenplay for Face of Rage with Hal Sitowicz, drawing much of the dialogue from real-life transcripts. The film was first aired as an "ABC Theatre" presentation on March 20, 1983, preceded with an all too appropriate "parental guidance" proviso.
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Keeping On
Title: Keeping On
Character: Teddy
Released: February 8, 1983
Type: Movie
A preacher teams up with a labor union organizer to help unionize the mill where he worked.
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I Married Wyatt Earp
Title: I Married Wyatt Earp
Character: Doc Holliday
Released: January 10, 1983
Type: Movie
Based on the memoirs of Josephine Marcus Earp, a young opera singer from San Francisco, this docudrama tells the story of how she became the wife of legendary lawman Wyatt Earp.
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Enormous Changes at the Last Minute
Title: Enormous Changes at the Last Minute
Character: Ricardo
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: Movie
This film is made up of three segments that share no plot but have a general thematic relationship. In the first segment, Virginia and her three children are left by her shiftless husband and she is courted by an old beau who is now divorced. In the second, a divorced woman reacts to some unexpected revelations from her aged father. In the third, a childless, middle-aged social worker is swept into an affair with a young cab driver and finds herself pregnant.
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Frances
Title: Frances
Character: Clifford Odets
Released: December 3, 1982
Type: Movie
The true story of Frances Farmer's meteoric rise to fame in Hollywood and the tragic turn her life took when she was blacklisted.
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Ragtime
Title: Ragtime
Character: Harry Houdini
Released: November 20, 1981
Type: Movie
A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York City.
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Title: Hill Street Blues
Released: January 15, 1981
Type: TV
A realistic glimpse into the daily lives of the officers and detectives at an urban police station.
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Word of Honor
Title: Word of Honor
Character: Dist. Atty. Jim Burke
Released: January 6, 1981
Type: Movie
A reporter refuses to reveal his source in the case of the murder of a young girl. As a result, he and his family are shunned by the residents of the small town in which they live. Virtually no one comes to his daughter's wedding, and at his office, the police search his desk, and his boss threatens to fire him.
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Christmas Evil
Title: Christmas Evil
Character: Philip Stadling
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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The First Deadly Sin
Title: The First Deadly Sin
Character: Corelli
Released: October 3, 1980
Type: Movie
A serial killer is stalking New York. Inspector Edward X. Delaney is an NYPD detective, nearing retirement, who is trying to put together the pieces of the case. Are the victims somehow linked? What does the brutal method of death signify?
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Resurrection
Title: Resurrection
Character: Joe
Released: September 26, 1980
Type: Movie
The story of a woman who survives the car accident which kills her husband, but discovers that she has the power to heal other people. She becomes an unwitting celebrity, the hope of those in desperate need of healing, and a lightning rod for religious beliefs and skeptics.
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King Crab
Title: King Crab
Character: Sam Campana
Released: June 15, 1980
Type: Movie
Two brothers take over the family seafood business, and battle each other for control of the company - and their father's attention.
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Sanctuary of Fear
Title: Sanctuary of Fear
Character: Whitney Fowler
Released: April 23, 1979
Type: Movie
A Manhattan priest with a penchant for solving crimes goes to the aid of a young actress. She is becoming enmeshed in a series of bizarre incidents she can't explain, and her complaints to the police have gone ignored.
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Title: Mourning Becomes Electra
Character: Adam
Released: December 6, 1978
Type: TV
In a Greek tragedy updated to the 1860s, young New Englanders exact vengeance after the murder of their father.
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The Last Tenant
Title: The Last Tenant
Character: Vinnie
Released: June 25, 1978
Type: Movie
Family members face hard decisions about the care of their elderly father who needs constant care and can no longer safely live alone, which particularly affects the eldest son's life, placing his impending marriage in jeopardy.