Phil Adams

Phil Adams

Born: April 14, 1935
in Los Angeles, California, USA

Movies for Phil Adams...

The Patent Scam
Title: The Patent Scam
Character: 1920s Patent Examiner
Released: August 15, 2017
Type: Movie
The corruption runs deeper than you'd ever imagine. A multi-billion dollar industry you've never heard of. This is the world Patent Trolls thrive in: A world created for them by our own U. S. Patent system. You can be sued for clicking on a hyperlink, using your own scanner, or sharing your Wi-Fi! It sounds insane, but the reality is even crazier. Patent Trolls look for obvious ideas, patent them, and then sue anyone they claim is infringing on their idea. People's lives and businesses are being destroyed.. and they have no way out. “The Patent Scam” exposes the underbelly of this system, and the people that commit this practice.
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Title: Xena: Warrior Princess
Character: Centaur
Released: September 4, 1995
Type: TV
Xena is an infamous warrior on a quest to seek redemption for her past sins against the innocent. Accompanied by her comrade-in-arms Gabrielle, the campy couple use their formidable fighting skills to help those who are unable to defend themselves.
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Title: Tour of Duty
Character: Chaplain
Released: September 24, 1987
Type: TV
The trials of a U.S. Army platoon serving in the field during the Vietnam War.
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Raw Deal
Title: Raw Deal
Character: FBI Agent
Released: June 6, 1986
Type: Movie
Mark Kaminsky is kicked out of the FBI for his rough treatment of a suspect. He winds up as the sheriff of a small town in North Carolina. FBI Chief Harry Shannon, whose son has been killed by a mobster named Patrovina, enlists Kaminsky in a personal vendetta with a promise of reinstatement into the FBI if Patrovina is taken down. To accomplish this, he must go undercover and join Patrovina's gang.
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Title: Matlock
Character: Cop
Released: March 3, 1986
Type: TV
Matlock is an American television legal drama, starring Andy Griffith in the title role of criminal defense attorney Ben Matlock. The show, produced by The Fred Silverman Company, Dean Hargrove Productions, Viacom Productions and Paramount Television originally aired from September 23, 1986 to May 8, 1992 on NBC; and from November 5, 1992 until May 7, 1995 on ABC. The show's format is similar to that of CBS's Perry Mason, with Matlock identifying the perpetrators and then confronting them in dramatic courtroom scenes. One difference, however, was that whereas Mason usually exculpated his clients at a pretrial hearing, Matlock usually secured an acquittal at trial, from the jury.
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Commando
Title: Commando
Character: Officer in Galleria
Released: October 3, 1985
Type: Movie
John Matrix, the former leader of a special commando strike force that always got the toughest jobs done, is forced back into action when his young daughter is kidnapped. To find her, Matrix has to fight his way through an array of punks, killers, one of his former commandos, and a fully equipped private army. With the help of a feisty stewardess and an old friend, Matrix has only a few hours to overcome his greatest challenge: finding his daughter before she's killed.
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Racing with the Moon
Title: Racing with the Moon
Character: Bill's Shipmate
Released: March 23, 1984
Type: Movie
In a small coastal California town, Henry and Nicky are pals from blue collar families with only a short time before they ship off to World War II. Henry begins romancing new-to-town Caddie Winger, believing her to be wealthy. Mischievous and irresponsible, Nicky gets into trouble which forces the other two to become involved, testing their relationship, as well as the friendship between the boys.
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To Be or Not to Be
Title: To Be or Not to Be
Character: Airport Sentry
Released: December 16, 1983
Type: Movie
A bad Polish actor is just trying to make a living when Poland is invaded by the Germans in World War II. His wife has the habit of entertaining young Polish officers while he's on stage, which is also a source of depression to him. When one of her officers comes back on a Secret Mission, the actor takes charge and comes up with a plan for them to escape.
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My Favorite Year
Title: My Favorite Year
Character: Stagehand #1
Released: October 1, 1982
Type: Movie
Fledgling comic Benjy Stone can't believe his luck when his childhood hero, the swashbuckling matinee idol Alan Swann, gets booked to appear on the variety show he writes for. But when Swann arrives, he fails to live up to his silver screen image. Instead, he's a drunken womanizer who suffers from stage fright. Benjy is assigned to look after him before the show, and it's all he can do to keep his former idol from going completely off the rails.
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Title: Hill Street Blues
Character: Uniform #1
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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Underground Aces
Title: Underground Aces
Character: Chef
Released: January 2, 1981
Type: Movie
The escapades of a crew of zany parking lot attendants.
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Christmas Miracle in Caufield, U.S.A.
Title: Christmas Miracle in Caufield, U.S.A.
Character: 1st Member Rescue
Released: December 26, 1977
Type: Movie
Based on the true story of coal miners who became trapped underground in a cave-in on Christmas Eve, 1951.
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Shanks
Title: Shanks
Character: Beethoven
Released: October 9, 1974
Type: Movie
Malcolm Shanks is a sad and lonely man, deaf, mute and living with his cruel sister and her husband, who delight in making him miserable. His only pleasure, it seems, is in making and controlling puppets. Thanks to his skill, he is offered a job as a lab assistant to Dr. Walker, who is working on ways to re-animate dead bodies by inserting electrodes at key nerve points and manipulating the bodies as if they were on strings. When the professor suddenly dies one night, Shanks gets the idea to apply their experimental results to a human body, and then to start exacting some revenge.
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Blume in Love
Title: Blume in Love
Character: Guest at Buccieri's (uncredited)
Released: June 17, 1973
Type: Movie
Lawyer Stephen Blume, specialized in divorces, lives a paradoxical situation when, having his own marriage break up, is still in love with his ex-wife.
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Buck and the Preacher
Title: Buck and the Preacher
Character: Frank
Released: March 17, 1972
Type: Movie
A wagon master and a con-man preacher help freed slaves dogged by cheap-labor agents out West.
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Kelly's Heroes
Title: Kelly's Heroes
Character: Third Tank Commander
Released: June 22, 1970
Type: Movie
A misfit group of World War II American soldiers goes AWOL to rob a bank behind German lines.
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In the Heat of the Night
Title: In the Heat of the Night
Character: 1st Tough
Released: August 2, 1967
Type: Movie
African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bill Gillespie, the racist police chief of tiny Sparta, Mississippi. After Tibbs proves not only his own innocence but that of another man, he joins forces with Gillespie to track down the real killer. Their investigation takes them through every social level of the town, with Tibbs making enemies as well as unlikely friends as he hunts for the truth.
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Tobruk
Title: Tobruk
Released: February 7, 1967
Type: Movie
In September 1942, the German Afrika Korps under Rommel have successfully pushed the Allies back into Egypt. A counter-attack is planned, for which the fuel dumps at Tobruk are a critical impediment. In order to aid the attack, a group of British commandos and German Jews make their way undercover through 800 miles of desert, to destroy the fuel dumps starving the Germans of fuel.
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Title: 12 O'Clock High
Character: German Sergeant
Released: September 18, 1964
Type: TV
This series chronicles the adventures--in the air and on the ground--of the men of the 918th Bombardment Group of the U.S. Eighth Air Force. First commanded by irascible General Frank Savage--and later by Colonel Joe Gallagher, the son of a Pentagon General--the Group is stationed in England, and flies long-range bombing missions into German-held Europe.
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The Wackiest Ship in the Army
Title: The Wackiest Ship in the Army
Character: Crewman (uncredited)
Released: December 29, 1960
Type: Movie
Lieutenant Rip Crandall is hoodwinked into taking command of the "Wackiest Ship in the Navy" – a real garbage scow with a crew of misfits who don't know a jib from a jigger. What none of them knows, including Crandall, is that this ship has a very important top-secret mission to complete in waters patrolled by the Japanese fleet. Their mission will save hundreds of allied lives – if only they can get there in one piece.
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Sergeant Rutledge
Title: Sergeant Rutledge
Character: Court Guard (uncredited)
Released: May 25, 1960
Type: Movie
Respected black cavalry Sergeant Brax Rutledge stands court-martial for raping and killing a white woman and murdering her father, his superior officer.
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The Last Hurrah
Title: The Last Hurrah
Character: Man (uncredited)
Released: December 31, 1958
Type: Movie
In a changing world where television has become the main source of information, Adam Caulfield, a young sports journalist, witnesses how his uncle, Frank Skeffington, a veteran and honest politician, mayor of a New England town, tries to be reelected while bankers and captains of industry conspire in the shadows to place a weak and manageable candidate in the city hall.
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Lafayette Escadrille
Title: Lafayette Escadrille
Character: Landram Ovington (uncredited)
Released: February 28, 1958
Type: Movie
A hotshot young flyer falls for a French prostitute during World War I.
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Darby's Rangers
Title: Darby's Rangers
Character: Ranger (uncredited)
Released: February 12, 1958
Type: Movie
Stationed in Scotland, Maj. William Darby and the men under his command are trained by British commandos, becoming the U.S. Army's 1st Ranger Battalion. Their drilling period is rigorous, but the men find time to romance local women before being deployed to fight the Nazis. U.S. forces battle from French North Africa to Italy, but when a surprise attack decimates the 1st and 3rd Battalions at the Battle of Cisterna, Darby and the 4th Battalion must come to their aid.