George Sperdakos

George Sperdakos

Born: August 6, 1931
Died: July 21, 2000
in Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Movies for George Sperdakos...

Dirty Work
Title: Dirty Work
Character: Opera Critic
Released: June 12, 1998
Type: Movie
Unemployed and recently dumped, Mitch and his buddy Sam start a revenge-for-hire business to raise the $50,000 that Sam's father needs to get a heart transplant.
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Sarabande
Title: Sarabande
Character: Sammy
Released: October 24, 1997
Type: Movie
The film explores the relationships that a limousine driver, a doctor, and a real estate agent have amongst each other and with Yo-Yo Ma as he travels to Canada to perform Bach's Cello Suites.
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Murder at 1600
Title: Murder at 1600
Character: Reporter - Last Press
Released: April 18, 1997
Type: Movie
A secretary is found dead in a White House bathroom during an international crisis, and Detective Harlan Regis is in charge of the investigation. Despite resistance from the Secret Service, Regis partners with agent Nina Chance. As political tensions rise, they learn that the crime could be part of an elaborate cover-up. Framed as traitors, the pair, plus Regis' partner, break into the White House in order to expose the true culprit.
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Title: FX: The Series
Character: Ernesto
Released: September 9, 1996
Type: TV
Rollie Tyler, a special effects expert, helps his detective friend solve crimes by making criminals see what they want to see. But what is real and what is illusion?
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Deadly Matrimony
Title: Deadly Matrimony
Character: Chief Cassidy
Released: November 22, 1992
Type: Movie
Alan Masters is a despicable businessman with his hands in organized crime. He marries Diane, a kind and gentle woman, and abuses and batters her viciously. Sergeant John Reed has had enough of his city's organized crime and, against the wishes of his dirty-cop superiors, tries to get evidence against Alan Masters. After Alan finds out that Diane has been helping Reed, he beats her to death...and its up to John Reed to put him away for it, and clean up the dirty cops that want to stop him. Part I starts with Diane's death and then, in a flashback, details her struggles against abuse and Reed's struggles as he coaches her to gather evidence against Alan. Part II deals with Reed's struggles with intimidating cops.
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White Light
Title: White Light
Character: David Ramon
Released: September 20, 1991
Type: Movie
A police officer recovers from a nearly fatal injury with visions of a mysterious woman.
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Married to It
Title: Married to It
Character: Murray
Released: September 11, 1991
Type: Movie
Tale of three different couples (Yuppies, Hippies, and Society Folk) who find some common ground and become friends after being assigned to the same school project. Their lives are turned upside down by divorce, indictment, and sex but their friendship remains strong.
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Mindfield
Title: Mindfield
Character: Leo Sloukos
Released: December 15, 1989
Type: Movie
In the long shadow of an experimental CIA mind control program, Sergeant Kellen O'Reilly begins experiencing violent flashbacks of his “treatments” at the hands of the sinister Dr. Satorius. When the body count on his latest case inexplicably begins pointing toward his own fragmented past, a romance with Satorius’ criminal prosecutor raises the stakes. O'Reilly must forge a path forward through a hall-of-mirrors conspiracy stretching from the Mafia to the highest levels of the CIA, culminating in a shocking, stadium-sized confrontation.
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Cocktail
Title: Cocktail
Character: English Teacher
Released: July 29, 1988
Type: Movie
After being discharged from the Army, Brian Flanagan moves back to Queens and takes a job in a bar run by Doug Coughlin, who teaches Brian the fine art of bar-tending. Brian quickly becomes a patron favorite with his flashy drink-mixing style, and Brian adopts his mentor's cynical philosophy on life and goes for the money.
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Cross Country
Title: Cross Country
Character: Lt. Robert Welles
Released: November 18, 1983
Type: Movie
After a woman is found butchered in her New York apartment, suspicion falls on her estranged husband, an ad executive who has suddenly left town on a cross-country road trip. He takes along a beautiful girl he met in a bar and a drifter he picked up along the way. A cop sets out after the husband, but he's more interested in shaking him down than bringing him back.
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Resurrection
Title: Resurrection
Character: Dr. Hankins
Released: September 26, 1980
Type: Movie
The story of a woman who survives the car accident which kills her husband, but discovers that she has the power to heal other people. She becomes an unwitting celebrity, the hope of those in desperate need of healing, and a lightning rod for religious beliefs and skeptics.
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Jimmy B. & Andre
Title: Jimmy B. & Andre
Character: Johnny
Released: March 18, 1980
Type: Movie
Real-life story detailing the relationship between a popular Detroit restaurant owner and a young black youngster whom he tries to adopt.
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The Starlost: The Beginning
Title: The Starlost: The Beginning
Character: Jubal
Released: January 1, 1980
Type: Movie
Three farmers in Cypress Corners discover that farm life is not so simple. Discovering a hidden door in the earth, they break through it, discovering they are not on Earth, but in a giant Noah's Ark-like spaceship. The spaceship is made up of giant "domes" holding the various cultures of humanity. Eventually, they find the bridge, its crew dead and its computer complaining that the ship is off-course, heading into the path of a distant sun. The three farmers take it upon themselves to travel the ship, contacting the various cultures of humanity in search of somebody who can correct the course of the ship and save mankind.
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My Pleasure Is My Business
Title: My Pleasure Is My Business
Character: Hotel manager
Released: January 17, 1975
Type: Movie
This comedy chronicles the many crazy sexploits of Xaveria Hollander, the notorious "Happy Hooker."
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The Execution of Private Slovik
Title: The Execution of Private Slovik
Character: Sgt. McCord
Released: March 13, 1974
Type: Movie
The story of Eddie Slovik, who was executed by the Army in 1945, the only American soldier to be executed for desertion since the Civil War.
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Journey
Title: Journey
Character: Vid, blacksmith
Released: October 6, 1972
Type: Movie
A woman with a troubled past is saved from drowning in a river and brought to a strange community hidden in the woods.
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Title: Columbo
Character: Mr. Wagner
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: Columbo
Character: Thackery
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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The Psychiatrist: God Bless the Children
Title: The Psychiatrist: God Bless the Children
Character: Art
Released: December 14, 1970
Type: Movie
A hip psychiatrist teams up with an ex-addict to combat drug addiction in a small town in this pilot for "The Psychiatrist."
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Title: Land of the Giants
Character: Goldsmith
Released: September 22, 1968
Type: TV
Set fifteen years in the then-future year 1983, the series tells the tale of the crew and passengers of a sub-orbital transport ship named Spindrift. In the pilot episode, the Spindrift is en route from Los Angeles to London, on an ultra-fast sub-orbital flight. Just beyond Earth's boundary with space, the Spindrift encounters a magnetic space storm, and is dragged through a space warp to a mysterious planet where everything is twelve times larger than on Earth, whose inhabitants the Earthlings nickname "the Giants". The Spindrift crash-lands, and the damage renders it inoperable.
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Title: Mission: Impossible
Character: Lieutenant Dreis
Released: September 17, 1966
Type: TV
Mission: Impossible is an American television series that was created and initially produced by Bruce Geller. It chronicles the missions of a team of secret government agents known as the Impossible Missions Force. In the first season, the team is led by Dan Briggs, played by Steven Hill; Jim Phelps, played by Peter Graves, takes charge for the remaining seasons. A hallmark of the series shows Briggs or Phelps receiving his instructions on a recording that then self-destructs, followed by the theme music composed by Lalo Schifrin. The series aired on the CBS network from September 1966 to March 1973, then returned to television for two seasons on ABC, from 1988 to 1990, retaining only Graves in the cast. It later inspired a popular series of theatrical motion pictures starring Tom Cruise, beginning in 1996.
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The War Lover
Title: The War Lover
Character: Bragliani: Crew of 'The Body'
Released: October 25, 1962
Type: Movie
Buzz Rickson is a dare-devil World War II bomber pilot with a death wish. Failing at everything not involving flying, Rickson lives for the most dangerous missions. His crew lives with this aspect of his personality only because they know he always brings them back alive.
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Title: The Saint
Character: Ricci
Released: October 4, 1962
Type: TV
Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who recovers ill-gotten wealth and redistributes it to those in need.
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Two and Two Make Six
Title: Two and Two Make Six
Character: AP
Released: May 1, 1962
Type: Movie
An US airman stationed in the UK strikes down his commanding officer. Believing he killed him, the airman goes on the run with a girl. They run into a couple that looks like them and a mix up happens.
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The Bloody Brood
Title: The Bloody Brood
Character: Ricky
Released: October 26, 1959
Type: Movie
Nico, a drug dealer, murders a telegram messenger-boy "for kicks", egged on by partner-in-crime, TV director Francis. Cliff, the boy's older brother, investigates his death due to the slow progress made by the police.