Alan Gelfant

Alan Gelfant

Born: May 21, 1957
in Syracuse, New York, USA
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Alan Gelfant (born May 21, 1957 in Syracuse, New York) is an American film actor.

Alan Gelfant has acted in more than 50 plays and dozens of TV shows and movies, including leading roles in the films Next Stop Wonderland, The Destiny of Marty Fine, Men in Scoring Position, Turn of Faith and highly acclaimed documentary Hero. As a director, he has put his interest in new plays. Consequently, he is the co-founder of the annual Stella Adler Theatre - One Act Play Festival in Los Angeles. He was hired by HBO to direct and co-write Colin Quinn’s one man show The Seven acraments.

In the Upper Valley area of New Hampshire and Vermont, Gelfant has produced, directed and acted in performances at the Parish Players, playing Eddie Carbone in A View From The Bridge.

Besides professional acting and directing for TV, movies and the stage, Alan Gelfant teaches acting, playwriting and filmmaking at high schools. Currently, he is a teacher and tutor in Writing and Rhetoric Program of Cultural Studies at Dartmouth College, focusing on research and study in making documentary films for educational use.

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Movies for Alan Gelfant...

Turn of Faith
Title: Turn of Faith
Character: Father Frank
Released: June 5, 2002
Type: Movie
The story of three friends who grew up in the same tough neighborhood and chose three very different paths. Joey became a cop, Frank became a priest, and Bobby went into the family business. No matter what happened, their loyalty was always to each other... until their friendship was given the ultimate test. Philly Russo, a father figure to the three friends, turns out not to be the man they once thought he was.
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Desert Saints
Title: Desert Saints
Character: Byron Sadowski
Released: March 10, 2002
Type: Movie
Banks is a hit man, the best, usually working for Latin American drug cartels. He picks up solitary women, uses them briefly for a job, then kills them. He's in the Southwest, headed toward Mexico, when he picks up Bennie, a woman leaving an abusive marriage, going to Paradise, Arizona. The film follows three tracks: Banks's slow recruitment of Bennie, the set-up for the hit at a swank resort in Mexico, and the FBI's close pursuit of Banks, whom they want alive in hopes he'll rat out his bosses. Bennie may not be who she seems, and there may be a chink in Banks's tough-guy armor. Guns, money, and a chance at Paradise.
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The Dogwalker
Title: The Dogwalker
Character: Glen
Released: March 3, 2002
Type: Movie
The L.A. dog walking scene provides a colorful backdrop for the story of Ellie Moore, damaged goods on the run from her latest abusive boyfriend and on the verge of transformation. She's helped along in that process by Betsy Wright, a misanthropic dog-walker in need of help with her business and struggling with her own dark past.
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Ordinary Madness
Title: Ordinary Madness
Character: Warren Funk
Released: December 22, 2001
Type: Movie
Bernardo Gigliotti directs this indie psychodrama. Looking to launch a career as a blues guitarist, Bobby (Ron Carlson) moves to Los Angeles and is immediately offered a job playing in a bar. He finds board in the home of Faye (Denise Gentile), who keeps her paralyzed husband in the attic. Things are going well until Bobby realizes that Faye is a murderer.
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Apartment 12
Title: Apartment 12
Character: Ray
Released: September 29, 2001
Type: Movie
Alex, a struggling painter, is going through a particularly bad patch. Dumped by his girlfriend and unable to get work, Alex finds his life taking a rare upswing when he moves into a new apartment and falls for his neighbor, Lori. But when things start to go wrong between Alex and Lori, their close proximity to each other proves to have an enormous downside, leading to further amusing antics.
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Monkeybone
Title: Monkeybone
Character: Dr. Edelstein
Released: February 23, 2001
Type: Movie
After a car crash sends repressed cartoonist Stu into a coma, he and the mischievous Monkeybone, his hilarious alter-ego, wake up in a wacked-out waystation for lost souls. When Monkeybone takes over Stu's body and escapes to wreak havoc on the real world, Stu has to find a way to stop him before his sister pulls the plug on reality forever!
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Title: CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Character: Scott Sommerville
Released: October 6, 2000
Type: TV
A Las Vegas team of forensic investigators are trained to solve criminal cases by scouring the crime scene, collecting irrefutable evidence and finding the missing pieces that solve the mystery.
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Title: Judging Amy
Character: Art Vandalay
Released: September 19, 1999
Type: TV
Judging Amy is an American television drama that was telecast from September 19, 1999, through May 3, 2005, on CBS-TV. This TV series starred Amy Brenneman and Tyne Daly. Its main character is a judge who serves in a family court, and in addition to the family-related cases that she adjudicates, many episodes of the show focus on her own experiences as a divorced mother, and on the experiences of her mother, a social worker who works in the field of child welfare. This series was based on the life experiences of Brenneman's mother.
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Men in Scoring Position
Title: Men in Scoring Position
Character: Mitch DiLeo
Released: January 1, 1999
Type: Movie
Longtime buddies Mitch and Danny are working-class guys in their 30s that life has slapped around ever since their glory days as high school jocks. Sick of the cycle of idle talk, half-baked plans and fears about the future, both guys finally decide to realize their dreams and find the perfect catalyst in Lucy, a mysterious new woman passing through town.
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Next Stop Wonderland
Title: Next Stop Wonderland
Character: Alan Monteiro
Released: August 21, 1998
Type: Movie
A lighthearted story about a man and a woman who seem destined to be together... and the hilarious chain of accidents that seem determined to keep them apart!
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Title: The Practice
Character: Kenneth Hanks
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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The Crow: City of Angels
Title: The Crow: City of Angels
Character: Bassett
Released: August 29, 1996
Type: Movie
A murder victim is brought back to life by a mysterious crow. With the help of a beautiful woman named Sarah, he exacts revenge on his killers -- only to realize his enemy has discovered the one weakness that can destroy him forever.
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The Destiny of Marty Fine
Title: The Destiny of Marty Fine
Character: Marty Fine
Released: March 16, 1996
Type: Movie
Marty Fine is a small-time man with a big-time dream. One night, the ex-middleweight fighter sees something he shouldn't have - a mob hit. An old gangster offers a deal: Marty can save his own skin by committing a murder, or be killed himself. When push comes to shove, Marty can't kill the mark, a scamming club owner. Now the clock is ticking and Marty is on the ropes, with one last chance to prove he is still a man with a choice.
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Title: Diagnosis: Murder
Character: Father Dominic
Released: October 29, 1993
Type: TV
Dr. Mark Sloan is a good-natured, offbeat physician who is called upon to solve murders.