Josef Sommer

Josef Sommer

Born: June 26, 1934
in Greifswald, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
Maximilian Josef Sommer (born June 26, 1934) is a German-American retired stage, television, and film actor. His best known roles are as The President in X-Men: The Last Stand, Senator Jessup in The Sum of All Fears, Peter Lassiter in The Family Man, Curtis Flemming in Shaft, Dr. Eaton in Patch Adams, Phelps Bowen in The Chamber, Clive Peoples Jr. in Nobody's Fool, Mr. Duckworth in The Mighty Ducks, Chief Paul Schaefer in Witness, Max Richter in Silkwood, Sam Taylor in Independence Day, Rothko in Dirty Harry, and narrator for the film Sophie's Choice.

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Stop-Loss
Title: Stop-Loss
Character: Senator Orton Worrell
Released: March 28, 2008
Type: Movie
A veteran soldier returns from his completed tour of duty in Iraq, only to find his life turned upside down when he is arbitrarily ordered to return to field duty by the Army.
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The Invasion
Title: The Invasion
Character: Dr. Henryk Belicec
Released: August 17, 2007
Type: Movie
Washington, D.C. psychologist Carol Bennell and her colleague Dr. Ben Driscoll are the only two people on Earth who are aware of an epidemic running rampant through the city. They discover an alien virus aboard a crashed space shuttle that transforms anyone who comes into contact with it into unfeeling drones while they sleep. Carol realizes her son holds the key to stopping the spread of the plague and she races to find him before it is too late.
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X-Men: The Last Stand
Title: X-Men: The Last Stand
Character: The President
Released: May 24, 2006
Type: Movie
When a cure is found to treat mutations, lines are drawn amongst the X-Men—led by Professor Charles Xavier—and the Brotherhood, a band of powerful mutants organised under Xavier's former ally, Magneto.
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The Elephant King
Title: The Elephant King
Character: Bill Hunt
Released: April 26, 2006
Type: Movie
The story of two brothers who lead totally different lives. Jake Hunt enjoys life to the fullest in Thailand, while his shy brother Oliver deals with his own depressions back home in the USA. Their dominant mother wants Jake back home and for this reason, Oliver is sent to Thailand to retrieve his brother. Once there, Oliver finds himself in Jake's bizarre life and falls in love with a beautiful girl, Lek. However, it is not a coincidence that she and Oliver have met
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Title: Without a Trace
Character: Peter Ducek
Released: September 26, 2002
Type: TV
The series follows the ventures of a Missing Persons Unit of the FBI in New York City.
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Searching for Paradise
Title: Searching for Paradise
Character: Carl Greenslate
Released: June 24, 2002
Type: Movie
A young woman, coping with the death of her father, embarks on a quest to meet a Hollywood star with whom she has become obsessed.
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The Sum of All Fears
Title: The Sum of All Fears
Character: Senator Jessup
Released: May 31, 2002
Type: Movie
When the president of Russia suddenly dies, a man whose politics are virtually unknown succeeds him. The change in political leaders sparks paranoia among American CIA officials, so CIA director Bill Cabot recruits a young analyst to supply insight and advice on the situation. Then the unthinkable happens: a nuclear bomb explodes in a U.S. city, and America is quick to blame the Russians.
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Title: The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones
Character: Woodrow Wilson
Released: January 13, 2002
Type: TV
The boyhood adventures of the greatest action hero of all time: Indiana Jones. Young Indy travels the world, meeting some of the greatest figures of the early 20th century, and participating in the events that helped shape history.
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Title: Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Character: Spencer Durning
Released: September 30, 2001
Type: TV
The third installment of the “Law & Order” franchise takes viewers deep into the minds of its criminals while following the intense psychological approaches the Major Case Squad uses to solve its crimes.
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The Family Man
Title: The Family Man
Character: Peter Lassiter
Released: December 12, 2000
Type: Movie
Jack's lavish, fast-paced lifestyle changes one Christmas night when he stumbles into a grocery store holdup and disarms the gunman. The next morning he wakes up in bed lying next to Kate, his college sweetheart he left in order to pursue his career, and to the horrifying discovery that his former life no longer exists. As he stumbles through this alternate suburban universe, Jack finds himself at a crossroad where he must choose between his high-power career and the woman he loves.
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change
Title: The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change
Character: Woodrow Wilson
Released: September 20, 2000
Type: Movie
In the nineteenth film in the series, in May 1919, Indy is working as a translator at the historic Paris Peace Conference. He meets up with T.E. Lawrence once more, but finds his ideals have changed a lot since the start of the war. Indy then decides to finally head home to Princeton - even though it means having to face his father. He gets reacquainted with his childhood friend Paul Robeson, who becomes the target of racism when they visit New York City.
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Shaft
Title: Shaft
Character: Curt Flemming
Released: June 15, 2000
Type: Movie
New York police detective John Shaft arrests Walter Wade Jr. for a racially motivated slaying. But the only eyewitness disappears, and Wade jumps bail for Switzerland. Two years later Wade returns to face trial, confident his money and influence will get him acquitted -- especially since he's paid a drug kingpin to kill the witness.
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The Next Best Thing
Title: The Next Best Thing
Character: Richard Whittaker
Released: March 3, 2000
Type: Movie
A comedy-drama about best friends - one a straight woman, Abbie, the other a gay man, Robert - who decide to have a child together. Five years later, Abbie falls in love with a straight man and wants to move away with her and Robert's little boy Sam, and a nasty custody battle ensues.
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Title: The West Wing
Character: Steve Gaines
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: Patrick Rumsey
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: The Hunt For The Unicorn Killer
Released: May 9, 1999
Type: TV
Based on true events, The Hunt For The Unicorn Killer tells the shocking story of Ira Einhorn, a respected American peace activist in 1970s America. He lives with Holly Maddux (Naomi Watts), but when he tries to leave him in 1977, she suddenly disappears under mysterious circumstances. Somewhat later, her lifeless body is found in a suitcase in the flat of Einhorn, who has meanwhile fled the country and in the following years cleverly manages to stay one step ahead of the authorities. However, Holly's father remains determined to bring justice in his daughter's name and after a lengthy manhunt, he finds the 'unicorn killer' in France in 1997.
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The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer
Title: The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer
Released: May 9, 1999
Type: Movie
An account of early 1970s social activist Ira Einhorn, who allegedly murdered his girlfriend and then fled the country.
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Title: Providence
Character: Thomas Wheelock
Released: January 8, 1999
Type: TV
Providence is an American television drama series.
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Patch Adams
Title: Patch Adams
Character: Dr. Eaton
Released: December 25, 1998
Type: Movie
The true story of Dr. Hunter "Patch" Adams, who in the 1970s found that humor is the best medicine, and was willing to do just anything to make his patients laugh—even if it meant risking his own career.
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Bulworth
Title: Bulworth
Character: Doctor (uncredited)
Released: May 15, 1998
Type: Movie
A suicidally disillusioned liberal politician puts a contract out on himself and takes the opportunity to be bluntly honest with his voters by affecting the rhythms and speech of hip-hop music and culture.
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Title: Ally McBeal
Released: September 8, 1997
Type: TV
Ally McBeal is a young lawyer working at the Boston law firm Cage and Fish. Ally's lives and loves are eccentric, humorous, dramatic with an incredibly overactive imagination that's working overtime!
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Hidden in America
Title: Hidden in America
Character: Edward Millerton
Released: December 1, 1996
Type: Movie
Story of a man whose pride in being the head of his family won't let him accept help from his sick daughters doctor. He has to prove to his kids that even with the death of his wife and the loss of his job that they can and will survive. After hitting brick wall after brick wall comes a glimmer of hope.
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Mistrial
Title: Mistrial
Character: Nick Mirsky
Released: November 2, 1996
Type: Movie
When a cop-killer goes free, a detective's search for personal justice veers dangerously out of control. Declaring a mistrial, he takes the accused, the judge and the jury hostage...and begins a trial of his own.
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The Chamber
Title: The Chamber
Character: Phelps Bowen
Released: October 11, 1996
Type: Movie
Idealistic young attorney Adam Hall takes on the death row clemency case of his racist grandfather, Sam Cayhall, a former Ku Klux Klan member he has never met.
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Title: Early Edition
Released: September 28, 1996
Type: TV
Gary Hobson thinks he may even be losing his mind when tomorrow's newspaper mysteriously arrives today giving him a disconcerting look into the future. What will he do with tomorrow's news?
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Strange Days
Title: Strange Days
Character: Palmer Strickland
Released: October 13, 1995
Type: Movie
Former policeman Lenny Nero has moved into a more lucrative trade: the illegal sale of virtual reality-like recordings that allow users to experience the emotions and past experiences of others. While they typically contain tawdry incidents, Nero is shocked when he receives one showing a murder.
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Moonlight and Valentino
Title: Moonlight and Valentino
Character: Thomas Trager
Released: September 29, 1995
Type: Movie
A young widow still grieving over the death of her husband finds herself being comforted by a local housepainter.
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Letter to My Killer
Title: Letter to My Killer
Released: August 9, 1995
Type: Movie
A letter is found by a demolition worker that reveals a cover up and a murder that is over 30 years old. The victim is the author of the letter that also contains evidence that leads to the killers. The demolition worker and his wife complicate things when they decide to blackmail the killers, who are wealthy and upstanding citizens of the community, of course.
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Kansas
Title: Kansas
Character: Joseph 'Joe' Farley
Released: July 27, 1995
Type: Movie
When a single mother and high-powered Chicago ad executive returns to her home town in Kansas to care for her ailing father, she rediscovers the joys and hardships of farm life.
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Nobody's Fool
Title: Nobody's Fool
Character: Clive Peoples Jr.
Released: December 23, 1994
Type: Movie
Sully is a rascally ne'er-do-well approaching retirement age. While he is pressing a worker's compensation suit for a bad knee, he secretly works for his nemesis, Carl, and flirts with Carl's young wife Toby. Sully's long- forgotten son and family have moved back to town, so Sully faces unfamiliar family responsibilities. Meanwhile, Sully's landlady's banker son plots to push through a new development and evict Sully from his mother's life.
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Don't Drink the Water
Title: Don't Drink the Water
Character: Ambassador Magee
Released: December 18, 1994
Type: Movie
Somewhere behind the early 1960s cold-war iron curtain, the Hollander family cause an international spying incident when Walter photographs a sunset in a sensitive region. In order to stay out of jail, the Hollanders take refuge in the American Embassy, which is temporarily being run by the absent Ambassador's diplomatically incompetent son, Axel.
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The Enemy Within
Title: The Enemy Within
Character: Defence Secretary Charles Potter
Released: August 24, 1994
Type: Movie
A officer with the Joint Chiefs of Staff uncovers a planned military coup of the U.S. government and has only one week to prevent the takeover.
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Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker
Title: Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker
Character: Col. Morrow
Released: February 26, 1994
Type: Movie
The story of Johnson Whittaker, one of the first African-American cadets admitted to West Point. Tied down and beaten by his fellow cadets
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Malice
Title: Malice
Character: Atty. Lester Adams
Released: September 29, 1993
Type: Movie
A tale about a happily married couple who would like to have children. Tracy teaches infants, Andy's a college professor. Things are never the same after she is taken to hospital and operated upon by Jed, a "know all" doctor.
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An American Story
Title: An American Story
Character: Henry Meade
Released: November 29, 1992
Type: Movie
World War II has ended and many soldiers return to their houses and families. But three of them find themselves with big problems when they arrive at their home village.
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The Mighty Ducks
Title: The Mighty Ducks
Character: Mr. Ducksworth
Released: October 2, 1992
Type: Movie
After reckless young lawyer Gordon Bombay gets arrested for drunk driving, he must coach a kids hockey team for his community service. Gordon has experience on the ice, but isn't eager to return to hockey, a point hit home by his tense dealings with his own former coach, Jack Reilly. The reluctant Gordon eventually grows to appreciate his team, which includes promising young Charlie Conway, and leads them to take on Reilly's tough players.
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Hostages
Title: Hostages
Character: Tom Sutherland
Released: September 23, 1992
Type: Movie
True account of the six men held hostage by religious extremists in Beirut during the Reagan-Bush era.
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Citizen Cohn
Title: Citizen Cohn
Character: Albert Cohn
Released: August 22, 1992
Type: Movie
As lawyer and power broker Roy Cohn lies dying of AIDS in a private hospital room, ghosts from his past visit him as he reflects on his life and loves.
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Shadows and Fog
Title: Shadows and Fog
Character: Priest
Released: December 5, 1991
Type: Movie
With a serial strangler on the loose, a bookkeeper wanders around town searching for the vigilante group intent on catching the killer.
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Title: A Woman Named Jackie
Character: Joseph Kennedy Sr.
Released: October 13, 1991
Type: TV
This biographical miniseries, based on the best seller by C. David Heymann, starts when Jackie Kennedy was working after college; and spans her life through the Presidency of John F. Kennedy and her marriage to Aristotle Onassis after the assassination of President Kennedy.
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Title: Under Cover
Character: Stewart Merriman
Released: January 7, 1991
Type: TV
Under Cover is an American secret agent drama series that premiered on ABC on January 7, 1991. The series starred Anthony John Denison and Linda Purl as Dylan and Kate Del'Amico, a husband and wife who share the same day job—as spies for a fictional US intelligence agency. Under Cover follows the couple's adventures as they attempt to balance the demands of a sometimes deadly profession while raising two children. The series co-starred John Rhys-Davies as Flynn, the team's gadget man who is also a deadly assassin. Although well received by critics and launched with a high-rated made-for-TV movie, Under Cover was adversely affected by the outbreak of the 1991 Persian Gulf War. A two-part episode had been produced involving the Del'Amicos infiltrating Iraq in the wake of its invasion of Kuwait, and culminated with an American military strike on the country. The night the first episode was scheduled to air, real-life hostilities erupted. The two-part storyline was postponed indefinitely and the series itself was effectively cancelled. Following the end of the war, the series resumed for several more episodes, but it was soon officially cancelled, though not before the pulled Iraq episode was finally broadcast. Several episodes have subsequently been edited together as TV-movies and syndicated.
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When Will I Be Loved?
Title: When Will I Be Loved?
Character: Martin Ransil
Released: December 3, 1990
Type: Movie
Three disillusioned wives who are contemplating divorce compare notes on their stormy marriages.
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William Shakespeare's Hamlet
Title: William Shakespeare's Hamlet
Character: Polonius
Released: November 2, 1990
Type: Movie
A Danish prince and university student avenges his father's murder by his uncle, who stole the crown and married his mother.
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Title: Law & Order
Character: Defense Attorney Patrick Rumsey
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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Title: Law & Order
Character: Judge Lawrence Hellman
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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Title: The Kennedys of Massachusetts
Character: Franklin D. Roosevelt
Released: February 18, 1990
Type: TV
The Kennedys of Massachusetts is a 1990 TV miniseries that aired on ABC. Focusing mainly on the fifty-four year marriage of Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. and Rose Kennedy. The events depicted in the series are based upon the book by Doris Kearns Goodwin titled The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys : An American Saga. The series aired across three nights, an earned an Emmy and Golden Globe.
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Money, Power, Murder.
Title: Money, Power, Murder.
Character: Jack Finley
Released: December 10, 1989
Type: Movie
Peter Finley is a cable-TV newsman who is led into a network of sin and conspiracy when he has interest in a missing anchorwoman's story.
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Bloodhounds of Broadway
Title: Bloodhounds of Broadway
Character: Waldo Winchester
Released: November 3, 1989
Type: Movie
This musical is based on four short stories by Damon Runyon. In one tale, gambler Feet Samuels sells his body to science just as he realizes that Hortense loves him and that he would rather live than die. In another story, Harriet's parrot is killed, and she has problems dealing with her loss. Then, there is a gambler, "Regret", who has bloodhounds on his trail when he becomes a murder suspect. Finally, "The Brain" is bleeding profusely, and his friends search for a way to save his life through a blood transfusion.
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Forced March
Title: Forced March
Character: Richard Kline
Released: November 3, 1989
Type: Movie
Ben Kline is an American television star and a bankable name, who is cast to portray the Hungarian writer Miklos Radnoti, whose journal of poems was found with his body, buried in one of Hungary’s mass graves. Kline is also the son of a Holocaust survivor and has long resented his father’s refusal to speak about the War. Now given the opportunity to play the role of a hero, but faced with the reality of a victim, the boundaries between truth and illusion begin to blur.
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Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman
Title: Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman
Character: Charles Estiman
Released: April 30, 1989
Type: Movie
The Bionic Woman and the Six-Million-Dollar Man reunite--with a few younger bionic assistants--and try to catch a bionic spy.
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Bridge to Silence
Title: Bridge to Silence
Character: Al Duffield
Released: April 9, 1989
Type: Movie
A hearing impaired woman suffers a mental breakdown when a drunk-driving accident kills her husband and she finds herself in a struggle with her mother over the fate of her young daughter.
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Chances Are
Title: Chances Are
Character: Judge Fenwick
Released: March 10, 1989
Type: Movie
Louie Jeffries is happily married to Corinne. On their first anniversary, Louie is killed crossing the road. Louie is reincarnated as Alex Finch, and twenty years later, fate brings Alex and Louie's daughter, Miranda, together. It's not until Alex is invited to Louie's home that he begins to remember his former life, wife and best friend. Of course, there's also the problem that he's attracted to Louie's/his own daughter.
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Dracula's Widow
Title: Dracula's Widow
Character: Lannon
Released: July 2, 1988
Type: Movie
Dracula's wife, Vanessa, comes back to life and attacks Raymond who has a waxworks museum, where he displays notorious monsters and murderers.
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Title: Hothouse
Character: Dr. Sam Garrison
Released: June 30, 1988
Type: TV
A medical drama set in a New England psychiatric clinic includes father-and-son discord between the head of the facility and its business manager.
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The Rosary Murders
Title: The Rosary Murders
Character: Lieutenant Koznicki
Released: August 28, 1987
Type: Movie
A priest is put in a dilemma when the serial killer who has been murdering priests and nuns confesses to him.
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A Special Friendship
Title: A Special Friendship
Character: General Winder
Released: March 31, 1987
Type: Movie
During the American Civil War, two women, a wealthy white woman and a freed black slave, join forces to fight for freedom and the abolition of slavery.
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The Betty Ford Story
Title: The Betty Ford Story
Character: President Gerald Ford
Released: March 2, 1987
Type: Movie
This biographical film was based on the book The Times of My Life written by Chris Chase and Betty Ford.
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Double Image
Title: Double Image
Character: James Angleton
Released: April 6, 1986
Type: Movie
This film tells the true-life story of Yuri Nosenko, a top Soviet KGB agent who defected to the West at the height of the Cold War in 1962.
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The Execution of Raymond Graham
Title: The Execution of Raymond Graham
Character: Jim Neal
Released: November 17, 1985
Type: Movie
A young man, convicted of the murder of a clerk, who has been on death row for five years and now awaits his execution while his family desperately seek a reprieve.
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Target
Title: Target
Character: Barney Taber
Released: November 8, 1985
Type: Movie
A Texan with a secret past searches Europe with his son after the KGB kidnaps his wife.
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Title: The Equalizer
Released: September 18, 1985
Type: TV
Robert McCall is a former agent of a secret government agency who is now running his own private crime fighting operation where he fashions himself as "The Equalizer." It is a service for victims of the system who have exhausted all possible means of seeking justice and have nowhere to go. McCall promises to even out the odds for them.
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D.A.R.Y.L.
Title: D.A.R.Y.L.
Character: Dr. Jeffrey Stewart
Released: June 14, 1985
Type: Movie
Daryl is a normal 10-year-old boy in many ways. However, unbeknown to his foster parents and friends, Daryl is actually a government-created robot with superhuman reflexes and mental abilities. Even his name has a hidden meaning -- it's actually an acronym for Data Analyzing Robot Youth Life-form. When the organization that created him deems the "super soldier" experiment a failure and schedules Daryl to be disassembled, it is up to a few rogue scientists to help him escape.
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Brotherly Love
Title: Brotherly Love
Character: Mr. Rafferty
Released: May 28, 1985
Type: Movie
A businessman is stalked by his murderous twin brother, who has just been released from a mental hospital.
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Witness
Title: Witness
Character: Chief Paul Schaeffer
Released: February 8, 1985
Type: Movie
A sheltered Amish child is the sole witness of a brutal murder in a restroom at a Philadelphia train station, and he must be protected. The assignment falls to a taciturn detective who goes undercover in a Pennsylvania Dutch community. On the farm, he slowly assimilates despite his urban grit, and forges a romantic bond with the child's beautiful mother.
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Iceman
Title: Iceman
Character: Whitman
Released: April 13, 1984
Type: Movie
A team of Arctic researchers find a 40,000 year-old man frozen in ice and bring him back to life. Anthropologist Dr. Stanley Shephard wants to befriend the Iceman and learn about the man's past while Dr. Diane Brady and her surgical team want to discover the secret that will allow man to live in a frozen state.
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Silkwood
Title: Silkwood
Character: Max Richter
Released: December 14, 1983
Type: Movie
The story of Karen Silkwood, a metallurgy worker at a plutonium processing plant who was purposefully contaminated, psychologically tortured and possibly murdered to prevent her from exposing blatant worker safety violations at the plant.
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Saigon: Year Of The Cat
Title: Saigon: Year Of The Cat
Character: Jack Ockham
Released: November 29, 1983
Type: Movie
The year is 1974, and Barbara Dean (Judi Dench), a British assistant manager in a foreign bank in Saigon, begins a relationship with American Bob Chesneau (Frederic Forrest). She quickly realises that he works for the CIA and he knows that the fall of South Vietnam is very near.
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Sparkling Cyanide
Title: Sparkling Cyanide
Character: George Barton
Released: November 5, 1983
Type: Movie
One year ago on November 2, seven people sat down to dinner at the Luxembourg. One of them, Rosemary Barton, never got up. She was thought to have committed suicide due to post-flu depression.
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Title: Scarecrow and Mrs. King
Released: October 3, 1983
Type: TV
Scarecrow and Mrs. King is an American television series that aired from October 3, 1983, to May 28, 1987 on CBS. The show stars Kate Jackson and Bruce Boxleitner as divorced housewife Amanda King and top-level "Agency" operative Lee Stetson who begin a strange association, and eventual romance, after encountering one another in a train station.
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Independence Day
Title: Independence Day
Character: Sam Taylor
Released: January 21, 1983
Type: Movie
Mary Ann Taylor loves the comforts of her hometown in Mercury, Texas. She has a steady job as a waitress in her father's diner, yet she can't help but feel unfulfilled by a life of pouring coffee and grilling hamburgers. Mary Ann's real passion is photography, but pursuing her dream of becoming a photographer means leaving Mercury behind.
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Sophie's Choice
Title: Sophie's Choice
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: December 8, 1982
Type: Movie
Stingo, a young writer, moves to Brooklyn in 1947 to begin work on his first novel. As he becomes friendly with Sophie and her lover Nathan, he learns that she is a Holocaust survivor. Flashbacks reveal her harrowing story, from pre-war prosperity to Auschwitz. In the present, Sophie and Nathan's relationship increasingly unravels as Stingo grows closer to Sophie and Nathan's fragile mental state becomes ever more apparent.
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Still of the Night
Title: Still of the Night
Character: George Bynum
Released: November 19, 1982
Type: Movie
When one of his patients is found murdered, psychiatrist Dr. Sam Rice is visited by the investigating officer but refuses to give up any information. He's then visited by the patient's mistress, Brooke Reynolds, whom he quickly falls for despite her being a likely murder suspect. As the police pressure on him intensifies, Rice decides to attempt solving the case on his own and soon discovers that someone is trying to kill him as well.
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Hanky Panky
Title: Hanky Panky
Character: Adrian Pruitt
Released: June 4, 1982
Type: Movie
Naïve Michael Jordon is drawn into a web of government secrets when a girl carrying a mysterious package gets into a taxi with him. When she's later murdered, Michael becomes the chief suspect and goes on the run.
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Reds
Title: Reds
Character: State Department Official
Released: December 25, 1981
Type: Movie
An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed, who shared his adventurous professional life with his radical commitment to the socialist revolution in Russia, his dream of spreading its principles among the members of the American working class, and his troubled romantic relationship with the writer Louise Bryant.
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Absence of Malice
Title: Absence of Malice
Character: McAdam
Released: November 19, 1981
Type: Movie
Megan Carter is a reporter duped into running an untrue story on Michael Gallagher, a suspected racketeer. He has an alibi for the time his crime was allegedly committed—but it involves an innocent party. When he tells Carter the truth and the newspaper runs it, tragedy follows, forcing Carter to face up to the responsibilities of her job when she is confronted by Gallagher.
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Rollover
Title: Rollover
Character: Roy Lefcourt
Released: October 11, 1981
Type: Movie
An Arab oil organization devises a plan to wreck the world economy in order to cause anarchy and chaos.
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The Henderson Monster
Title: The Henderson Monster
Character: Dr. Martin Grossman
Released: May 27, 1980
Type: Movie
A small town becomes gripped by an ethical debate when the community discovers a moody, egotistical scientist is experimenting with DNA and the creation of new life.
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Hide in Plain Sight
Title: Hide in Plain Sight
Character: Jason R. Reid
Released: March 21, 1980
Type: Movie
True story of a man in search of his children after his ex-wife enters the Witness Protection Program.
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Doctor Franken
Title: Doctor Franken
Character: Mr. Parker
Released: January 13, 1980
Type: Movie
This variation of the Frankenstein legend, set in a brownstone in present-day Manhattan, has Robert Vaughn as a determined New York surgeon bringing "parts" home from work -- the hospital where he does experimental research -- to painstakingly rebuild the shattered body of an anonymous patient with organs from various donors.
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Too Far to Go
Title: Too Far to Go
Character: Henry Mills
Released: March 12, 1979
Type: Movie
Love and passion, anger and heartbreak, laughter and happiness, all complex textures woven into the fabric so many have come to know as marriage. For behind the seemingly comfortable well-trimmed hedges of suburban Americana, live and often love, Richard and Joan Maple. Adapted from a series of stories appearing in the New Yorker Magazine over a period of twenty three years by Pulitzer Prize winning author John Updike ("The Witches of Eastwick", "Rabbit Run"), "Too Far To Go" garnered overwhelming critical praise in its theatrical debut. With its exceptional cast, this film envelops us in a poignant, sometimes funny, sometimes exasperating journey through this most important relationship.
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Title: The Scarlet Letter
Character: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Released: March 3, 1979
Type: TV
The Scarlet Letter is a 1979 miniseries based on the novel of the same name that aired on WGBH from March 3, 1979 to March 24, 1979. The series is four episodes long, 60 minutes each. Part 2 won the 1979 Emmy Award for Outstanding Video Tape Editing for a Limited Series or Special for film editors Ken Denisoff, Janet McFadden, and Tucker Wiard. In 1979, when most literary programs were being produced in the United Kingdom, Boston public television station WGBH decided to produce a homegrown literary classic of its own. The result is this epic version of Nathaniel Hawthorne's enduring novel of Puritan America in search of its soul. Hester Prynne overcomes the stigma of adultery to emerge as the first great heroine in American literature. Hawthorne's themes, the nature of sin, social hypocrisy, and community repression, still reverberate through American society. Meg Foster brings a quiet strength to the role of Hester, the adulteress condemned to wear a scarlet "A" for the rest of her life. As her partner in crime, the Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, John Heard writhes in private torment most convincingly. Kevin Conway completes this grim triangle as the mysterious, maleficent Roger Chillingworth. The costumes and scenery are simple, so as not to detract from the dialogue as each character grapples with the meaning of sin, forgiveness, and redemption.
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Oliver's Story
Title: Oliver's Story
Character: Dr. Dienhart
Released: December 15, 1978
Type: Movie
Oliver Barrett IV is emotionally devastated by the death of his wife Jenny, and, while he tries to lose himself in his work as a lawyer, the long hours don't ease his pain, especially when he finds that his leftist views conflict with those of the senior partners at the firm. Eventually, Oliver's inconsolable grief begins to alienate those around him, until he finds new love with Marcie Bonwit, the wealthy and beautiful heiress to the Bonwit Teller fortune. Despite his affection for her, Oliver finds it difficult to leave the memory of Jenny behind, which causes major problems in their relationship.
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Title: Mourning Becomes Electra
Character: Ezra Mannon
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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Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Title: Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Character: Larry Butler
Released: December 14, 1977
Type: Movie
After an encounter with UFOs, an electricity linesman feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in the wilderness where something spectacular is about to happen.
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Title: The Andros Targets
Character: Benson Fisher
Released: January 31, 1977
Type: TV
James Sutorious star as Mike Andros, a newspaper investigative reporter who seeks out corruption and injustice in this this action-drama series.
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The Front
Title: The Front
Character: Committee Chairman
Released: September 17, 1976
Type: Movie
A cashier poses as a writer for blacklisted talents to submit their work through, but the injustice around him pushes him to take a stand.
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Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
Title: Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
Character: Pomeroy
Released: April 22, 1976
Type: Movie
In 1930s Alabama, nine young black men are accused of raping two white women. The judge in the case, unlike the rest of the town, comes to believe that the boys are innocent and, against all advice from his friends and family, sets them free, which turns the entire community against him.
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Valley Forge
Title: Valley Forge
Released: December 3, 1975
Type: Movie
George Washington struggles to hold his army together at a critical point during the Revolutionary War.
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The Stepford Wives
Title: The Stepford Wives
Character: Ted Van Sant
Released: February 12, 1975
Type: Movie
Joanna Eberhart has come to the quaint little town of Stepford, Connecticut with her family, but soon discovers there lies a sinister truth in the all too perfect behavior of the female residents.
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Man on a Swing
Title: Man on a Swing
Character: Pete Russell
Released: February 24, 1974
Type: Movie
A small-town police chief investigating a murder is offered help by a self-described psychic. However, when the chief discovers that the "psychic" is in possession of information known only to the police, he suspects that the man may be more involved in the case than he lets on.
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Enemies
Title: Enemies
Character: Nikolai
Released: January 23, 1974
Type: Movie
In a sun-dappled garden in provincial Russia in 1905, some factory owners and their wives discuss the unrest among the workers. Rather than submit to a strike, they decide to close down the factory. When an owner is slain in a scuffle with a workman, the ensuing investigation uncovers the socialist fervor that is sweeping the countryside.
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The Witches of Salem: The Horror and the Hope
Title: The Witches of Salem: The Horror and the Hope
Released: January 1, 1972
Type: Movie
A bizarre series of events focused on young women in the village of Salem causes paranoia in the late 1600s. It ends with the lynching of the accused and subsequent releases from jail. Dark and gritty, but not frightening.
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Dirty Harry
Title: Dirty Harry
Character: Rothko
Released: December 23, 1971
Type: Movie
When a madman dubbed 'Scorpio' terrorizes San Francisco, hard-nosed cop, Harry Callahan – famous for his take-no-prisoners approach to law enforcement – is tasked with hunting down the psychopath. Harry eventually collars Scorpio in the process of rescuing a kidnap victim, only to see him walk on technicalities. Now, the maverick detective is determined to nail the maniac himself.
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Title: Great Performances
Character: Nikolai
Released: January 28, 1971
Type: TV
The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular song, musical theater, dance, drama, and performance documentaries.
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Title: Great Performances
Character: Polonius
Released: January 28, 1971
Type: TV
The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular song, musical theater, dance, drama, and performance documentaries.
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Title: Hallmark Hall of Fame
Character: Brig. Gen. Varnum
Released: December 24, 1951
Type: TV
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.