Pete Hamill

Pete Hamill

Born: June 24, 1935
Died: August 5, 2020
in Brooklyn, New York, USA
Pete Hamill was an American journalist, novelist, essayist and editor. During his career as a New York City journalist, he was described as "the author of columns that sought to capture the particular flavors of New York City's politics and sports and the particular pathos of its crime."

Movies for Pete Hamill...

Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists
Title: Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists
Character: Self
Released: November 15, 2018
Type: Movie
Directors Jonathan Alter, John Block and Steve McCarthy bring New York columnists Jimmy Breslin and Pete Hamill’s courageous writing to life, celebrating the acclaimed journalists and the city they loved.
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If These Knishes Could Talk: The Story of the NY Accent
Title: If These Knishes Could Talk: The Story of the NY Accent
Character: Self
Released: May 16, 2013
Type: Movie
The story of the New York accent, as told by New Yorkers.
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Title: Prohibition
Character: Self - Historian
Released: October 2, 2011
Type: TV
The history of the rise, rule and fall of the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution and the entire era it encompassed (1920-33). After nearly a century of activism, Prohibition was intended to improve the lives of all citizens by protecting individuals, families and society at large from the devastating effects of alcohol abuse; but paradoxically it made millions of people rethink their definition of morality.
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Home
Title: Home
Released: October 26, 2006
Type: Movie
Young Irish immigrant, Alan Cooke contemplates the great metropolis New York City, and the very meaning of home itself. A vivid moving and poetic portrayal of life in contemporary New York featuring a host of celebrities, native New Yorkers and immigrants via candid interviews.
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Timescapes: A Multimedia Portrait of New York, 1609-Today
Title: Timescapes: A Multimedia Portrait of New York, 1609-Today
Character: Additional Voices
Released: June 1, 2005
Type: Movie
The Museum of the City of New York’s award-winning short documentary explores how New York City grew from a settlement of a few hundred Europeans, Africans, and Native Americans into the metropolis we know today and features animated maps and archival photographs, prints, and paintings from the Museum’s collections. Now expanded and updated, the film's final chapter captures the astonishing – if sometimes challenging – transformations the city has experienced in the first decades of the 21st century.
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Ring of Fire: The Emile Griffith Story
Title: Ring of Fire: The Emile Griffith Story
Character: Self
Released: January 20, 2005
Type: Movie
A story of violence, love, sex, politics and media centered around the life of Griffith, a six-time world welterweight champion.
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The Insider
Title: The Insider
Character: NY Times Reporter
Released: October 28, 1999
Type: Movie
A research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he decides to appear in a 60 Minutes exposé on Big Tobacco.
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One Fine Day
Title: One Fine Day
Character: Frank Burroughs
Released: December 20, 1996
Type: Movie
Melanie Parker, an architect and mother of Sammy, and Jack Taylor, a newspaper columnist and father of Maggie, are both divorced. They meet one morning when overwhelmed Jack is left unexpectedly with Maggie and forgets that Melanie was to take her to school. As a result, both children miss their school field trip and are stuck with the parents. The two adults project their negative stereotypes of ex-spouses on each other, but end up needing to rely on each other to watch the children as each must save his job. Humor is added by Sammy's propensity for lodging objects in his nose and Maggie's tendency to wander.
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King of New York
Title: King of New York
Character: Pete Hamill
Released: July 18, 1990
Type: Movie
A former drug lord returns from prison determined to wipe out all his competition and distribute the profits of his operations to New York's poor and lower classes in this stylish and ultra violent modern twist on Robin Hood.
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Exposed
Title: Exposed
Character: Guest at Party
Released: April 22, 1983
Type: Movie
Wisconsin farm girl Elizabeth Carlson leaves family and her English teacher lover behind and escapes to New York. There she soon makes a career for herself as a fashion model. During a vernissage she's approached by a mysterious man whose motives are unclear...
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From Corleone to Brooklyn
Title: From Corleone to Brooklyn
Character: Man in Restaurant (uncredited)
Released: April 13, 1979
Type: Movie
Maurizio Merli takes up a familiar role as Commissioner Berni; a cop who puts his life on the line to transport a witness from Corleone to New York City in order to testify against a mob boss on trial for murder. Along the way, Berni and his prisoner face a series of traps set up by the Mafia.
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Badge 373
Title: Badge 373
Released: July 25, 1973
Type: Movie
When his partner is killed, tough Irish detective Eddie Ryan vows to avenge the death, whatever the cost. As he begins unraveling clues, his behavior becomes so outrageous that he's obliged to turn in his badge, but the experience only emboldens him. Ryan eventually learns that his partner was caught up in a Puerto Rican gun-running scheme masterminded by a crook named Sweet Willie, who wants to foment revolutionary war.