T.J. Castronovo

T.J. Castronovo

Born: July 14, 1932
Died: March 21, 2021
in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Movies for T.J. Castronovo...

Frank and Ava
Title: Frank and Ava
Character: Tommy
Released: December 7, 2020
Type: Movie
Frank & Ava joins the wild ride of the tempestuous relationship between icons, Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner showing their multi-year love affair and subsequent marriage. In 1949, a downcast Frank, his career on the wane because of a faltering voice, a failing marriage, and a tarnished off-screen reputation falls in love with rising star, Ava, by consensus, the most beautiful woman in Hollywood. While their love was incandescent, they were hapless as a couple; often pursued by reporters such as Hedda Hopper who played them off against each other in the tabloids; casting Frank as an adulterer and Ava as a home wrecker while Frank!s wife, Nancy Barbato, refused to grant him a divorce. Once married in 1951 the tabloids then paraded their sorted affairs whenever their careers separated them. (Often it was Ava who went off to Europe or Africa to make a movie, leaving Frank behind). In the meantime, Frank, career hanging by a thread, is desperately trying to land the acting job that he ...
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Chicanery
Title: Chicanery
Character: Sal Carlito
Released: April 29, 2017
Type: Movie
Darren Flare is an Emmy Award-winning, slightly dim newscaster, who is about to stumble on the story of the decade: the capture of the FBI's most wanted terrorist, the Imam Abdul Mohammed Zaleeka.
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Rivers 9
Title: Rivers 9
Character: Big Lou
Released: June 30, 2015
Type: Movie
When a Native American casino controlled by the mob begins to destroy a close-knit rural town, a band of lovable low-tech misfits hatch a plan to beat them at their own game by pulling off an audacious casino heist.
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L.A. Superheroes
Title: L.A. Superheroes
Released: November 8, 2013
Type: Movie
Helena, a beautiful immigrant actress/model, way too old for modeling and too old for acting without credits finally lands a big job but overseas. Out of desperation and advice of her LA friends she commits a federal fraud to get her traveling documents. To escape jail time she gives out names. In this comedic/dramatic piece as she is still wondering where her career is going she needs to watch over her back wondering if she is going to end up getting whacked by the people she ratted out.
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Citizen Jane
Title: Citizen Jane
Character: Lyle Sanders
Released: September 12, 2009
Type: Movie
Jane Alexander's idyllic life in San Francisco is shattered when her beloved, elderly aunt is brutally murdered. But when her fiancé, Tom O'Donnell, becomes the main suspect, Jane must put aside her grief to aid the police before the chance at justice is lost forever.
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Jane Doe: Til Death Do Us Part
Title: Jane Doe: Til Death Do Us Part
Character: Armand Nordstrom
Released: March 11, 2005
Type: Movie
When a ruthless arms Kingpin stages an ingenious escape from prison, Jane Doe and Frank Darnell, NSA head, realize he's bent on a vengeance killin. Who the prospective victim is remains to be seen.
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Gone But Not Forgotten
Title: Gone But Not Forgotten
Character: Chief Shunt
Released: January 1, 2005
Type: Movie
An Oregon woman vanishes. In her wake remains a single black rose & a note reading gone but not forgotten. Now a man stands accused: a private eye has gone missing: a detective knows more than she lets on: & a tough female attorney has entered a web of duplicity revenge & multiple murder.
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Deep Family Secrets
Title: Deep Family Secrets
Character: Man at Restaurant
Released: April 15, 1997
Type: Movie
A tale of hidden family scandals. A young woman journeys back to her birthplace and discovers that much of what she had always taken for granted concerning her family life was a lie.
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Project: Metalbeast
Title: Project: Metalbeast
Character: Oarsman
Released: January 3, 1995
Type: Movie
With the medical breakthrough of a metal-based synthetic skin called "bio-ferron" the prospect for pioneering surgeries for burn victims and cancer patients seems set to occur but for the warped head scientist in charge...it's a opportunist chance to reactivate a long forgotten classified project...that has been left frozen in a set of cryogenic chambers deep beneath the bowels of government laboratory. Convincing the other in the research team to start work on putting this living 'metal' skin on corpses, he now has the perfect test patients waiting on ice for them to work on. But there was a reason three of these stiffs in particular where left to chill. Due to an experiment gone bad these three only look human on the outside and none of them are as dead as everyone believes they are.
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Fugitive Nights: Danger in the Desert
Title: Fugitive Nights: Danger in the Desert
Character: John Lugo
Released: November 19, 1993
Type: Movie
A lady private eye on her first job working a routine divorce case teams up with a cynical, heavy-drinking police detective after inadvertently stumbling upon a much bigger caper involving a mysterious fugitive.
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Under Surveillance
Title: Under Surveillance
Character: Wheelchair Man
Released: January 1, 1991
Type: Movie
Two insurance investigators try to find out why the ex-partner of one of them was murdered.
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Double Revenge
Title: Double Revenge
Character: Businessman
Released: October 18, 1988
Type: Movie
An innocent bystander goes on a vendetta against a bank robber.
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Distortions
Title: Distortions
Character: Harry Cory
Released: May 10, 1987
Type: Movie
A man goes to speak with a gigolo and is promptly beaten for his trouble. Soon afterward, his wife is told that he burned to death in a car wreck and is shown the body...and that's when she starts seeing strange men at the corner of her vision, while her friend does all she can to convince her she's going insane!
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Title: Tales from the Darkside
Character: Eddie Minelli
Released: September 30, 1984
Type: TV
Tales from the Darkside is an anthology horror TV series created by George A. Romero, each episode was an individual short story that ended with a plot twist. The series' episodes spanned the genres of horror, science fiction, and fantasy, and some episodes featured elements of black comedy or more lighthearted themes.
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Ninja III: The Domination
Title: Ninja III: The Domination
Character: Sgt. Cane
Released: September 14, 1984
Type: Movie
Aerobics instructor Christie Ryder becomes possessed by the spirit of an evil ninja when she comes to his aid after he was shot down.
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The Baltimore Bullet
Title: The Baltimore Bullet
Character: Ernie
Released: April 1, 1980
Type: Movie
A tale of two hustlers trying to set up a big game.
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Like Normal People
Title: Like Normal People
Character: Customer in Bar
Released: April 13, 1979
Type: Movie
An intellectually-challenged man and woman meet, fall in love, and are determined to get married, despite the initial objections of their families and friends. Based on a true story.
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Fyre
Title: Fyre
Character: Harry (as T.J. Castronova)
Released: February 1, 1979
Type: Movie
After an innocent country girl is violently raped, her family is killed in a car accident before she can come to terms with what happened. As her feelings of shame grow into self-degradation, she turns to prostitution
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Title: Taxi
Character: Tommy Jeffries (uncredited)
Released: September 12, 1978
Type: TV
Louie De Palma is a cantankerous, acerbic taxi dispatcher in New York City. He tries to maintain order over a collection of varied and strange characters who drive for him. As he bullies and insults them from the safety of his “cage,” they form a special bond among themselves, becoming friends and supporting each other through the inevitable trials and tribulations of life.
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Title: Taxi
Character: Tommy Jeffries
Released: September 12, 1978
Type: TV
Louie De Palma is a cantankerous, acerbic taxi dispatcher in New York City. He tries to maintain order over a collection of varied and strange characters who drive for him. As he bullies and insults them from the safety of his “cage,” they form a special bond among themselves, becoming friends and supporting each other through the inevitable trials and tribulations of life.
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Lepke
Title: Lepke
Character: Policeman
Released: May 23, 1975
Type: Movie
Lepke is the feared leader of "Murder Incorporated" in this underworld drama based on the life of Louis "Lepke" Buchalter. Lepke began his criminal career as a petty thief in his teens; a stretch in prison taught him the finer points of life on the wrong side of the law. After getting out of jail, Lepke and his pal Gurrah Shapiro join a gang who hire themselves out as strikebreakers, and the vicious but clever Lepke soon rises through the ranks.
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Dirty Mary Crazy Larry
Title: Dirty Mary Crazy Larry
Character: Steve
Released: May 17, 1974
Type: Movie
Down-on-their-luck racers Larry and Deke steal from a supermarket manager to buy a car that will help them advance their racing chances. Their escape does not go as planned when Larry's one-night stand, Mary, tags along for the ride.
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Title: Kojak
Character: Mr. Burke
Released: October 24, 1973
Type: TV
A bald, lollipop sucking police detective with a fiery righteous attitude battles crime in New York City.
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Title: Kojak
Character: Frenchy Du Bois
Released: October 24, 1973
Type: TV
A bald, lollipop sucking police detective with a fiery righteous attitude battles crime in New York City.
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Title: Columbo
Character: Policeman
Released: September 15, 1971
Type: TV
Columbo is a friendly, verbose, disheveled-looking police detective who is consistently underestimated by his suspects. Despite his unprepossessing appearance and apparent absentmindedness, he shrewdly solves all of his cases and secures all evidence needed for indictment. His formidable eye for detail and meticulously dedicated approach often become clear to the killer only late in the storyline.
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Title: The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Character: Moving Man (as Tom Castronova)
Released: September 19, 1970
Type: TV
30-year-old single Mary Richards moves to Minneapolis to start a new life after a romantic break-up. There she reacquaints with Phyllis who rents her a room, and meets her upstairs neighbor and new best friend Rhoda. Mary unexpectedly lands a job as associate producer at the TV station WJM, where she works alongside her bristly boss, Lou; the comical newswriter, Murray; and the newscast's often-incompetent anchor, Ted.
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Hallucination Generation
Title: Hallucination Generation
Character: (as Tom Castronova)
Released: December 1, 1966
Type: Movie
A juvenile is mad at his mom so he leaves his home in San Francisco to join a charismatic LSD guru's cult in Spain and turns on, tunes in, and drops out. He also gets involved in murder.
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Title: Batman
Character: Meanie
Released: January 12, 1966
Type: TV
Wealthy entrepreneur Bruce Wayne and his ward Dick Grayson lead a double life: they are actually crime fighting duo Batman and Robin. A secret Batpole in the Wayne mansion leads to the Batcave, where Police Commissioner Gordon often calls with the latest emergency threatening Gotham City. Racing to the scene of the crime in the Batmobile, Batman and Robin must (with the help of their trusty Bat-utility-belt) thwart the efforts of a variety of master criminals, including The Riddler, The Joker, Catwoman, and The Penguin.
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Mad Dog Coll
Title: Mad Dog Coll
Character: Ralphie
Released: May 12, 1961
Type: Movie
Killer Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll moves in on gangster Dutch Schultz in 1920s New York.