Tom Bower

Tom Bower

Born: January 5, 1938
in Denver, Colorado, USA
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Tom Bower (born January 1938) is an American actor who has appeared in a wide variety of television and film roles from 1973 to present. He played physician-husband Curt on The Waltons. He has held a number of prominent supporting roles including Dan Miller in the 2000 film Pollock and the gas station attendant in the 2006 film The Hills Have Eyes. He also plays the barkeep in the Battlestar Galactica episode, "Taking a Break from All Your Worries". He has also had many notable roles in films such as River's Edge, Beverly Hills Cop II, Die Hard 2, Clear and Present Danger, Nixon, and The Negotiator. His 2008-09 roles include Appaloosa, with Ed Harris and Viggo Mortensen, Gospel Hill, with Danny Glover and Angela Bassett, as well as playing Pat McDonough, the father of Nicolas Cage's character, in Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, Sheriff Bob Maples in The Killer Inside Me, with Casey Affleck, and Crazy Heart with Jeff Bridges. Bower is also an award-winning stage actor.

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Double Down South
Title: Double Down South
Character: Old Nick
Released: January 19, 2024
Type: Movie
In a world of illegal, high-stakes gambling, Nick owns a run-down plantation house. He is enamored with the smart, tough and charming ace Diana's intent to win big and is determined to stake her.
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We Have a Ghost
Title: We Have a Ghost
Character: Ernest Scheller
Released: February 24, 2023
Type: Movie
After Kevin finds a ghost named Ernest haunting his new home, he becomes an overnight social media sensation. But when Kevin and Ernest go rogue to investigate the mystery of the latter's past, they become targets of the CIA.
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Raymond & Ray
Title: Raymond & Ray
Character: Harris
Released: October 14, 2022
Type: Movie
Half brothers Raymond and Ray reunite when their estranged father dies—and discover that his final wish was for them to dig his grave. Together, they process who they’ve become as men, both because of their father and in spite of him.
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Two Ways Home
Title: Two Ways Home
Character: Walter
Released: December 29, 2020
Type: Movie
Soul-touching and moving, TWO WAYS HOME compassionately follows Kathy (Tanna Frederick), a woman newly diagnosed with bipolar disorder who is released from prison on good behavior and returns to her country home in Iowa to reconnect with her estranged 12-year-old daughter (Rylie Behr) and her cantankerous elderly grandfather (Tom Bower). Her return home is turbulent and a rough, unwelcome transition in which Kathy must come to terms with her diagnosis and its implications on her identity, while also realizing that her family was happier when she was gone. Conflict with her family intensifies as she struggles to keep her head above water, putting her self-worth and well-being to the ultimate test.
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Fully Realized Humans
Title: Fully Realized Humans
Character: Richard
Released: August 8, 2020
Type: Movie
Parents-to-be Jackie and Elliott embark on a quest for self-actualization before the imminent birth of their first child in this strikingly honest and hilarious portrait of parents and children.
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El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
Title: El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
Character: Lou
Released: October 11, 2019
Type: Movie
In the wake of his dramatic escape from captivity, Jesse Pinkman must come to terms with his past in order to forge some kind of future.
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Senior Love Triangle
Title: Senior Love Triangle
Character: William Selig
Released: September 8, 2019
Type: Movie
An 84-year old charming but delusional WWII veteran forms relationships with two elderly women and goes on a crusade to save them from the isolation of their retirement homes in East Hollywood.
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Light of My Life
Title: Light of My Life
Character: Tom
Released: August 9, 2019
Type: Movie
Parent and child journey through the outskirts of society a decade after a pandemic has wiped out half the world's population. As a father struggles to protect his child, their bond—and the character of humanity—is tested.
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Making a Deal with the Devil
Title: Making a Deal with the Devil
Character: MacGivens
Released: June 20, 2019
Type: Movie
A fascinating and dramatic tale of a behind the scenes plot developed by the FBI as they work secretly with the mob to eradicate corruption and crime in USA.
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The Last Big Save
Title: The Last Big Save
Character: Robert
Released: May 18, 2019
Type: Movie
A professional hockey player who is only happy when he is miserable signs a long-term contract that covers his entire career only to ruin it in his first year due to substance abuse and alcoholism. He rides his good luck in the final month of the final year of his contract when he gets a last chance at redemption in the seventh game of the finals.
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As You Like It
Title: As You Like It
Character: Jaques
Released: September 15, 2017
Type: Movie
A modern-day, all-male re telling of Shakespeare’s comedy classic about lovelorn lads, vengeful men, shameless hussies and mind games. Set in the contemporary American west, with original language.
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Title: Ice
Character: Jonah Kreshman
Released: November 16, 2016
Type: TV
A diamond dealer navigates the culturally diverse and treacherous world of the diamond business.
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Title: Goliath
Released: October 13, 2016
Type: TV
Once a powerful lawyer, Billy McBride is now burned out and washed up, spending more time in a bar than a courtroom. When he reluctantly agrees to pursue a wrongful death lawsuit against the biggest client of Cooperman & McBride, the massive law firm he helped create, Billy and his ragtag team uncover a vast and deadly conspiracy, pitting them all in a life or death trial against the ultimate Goliath.
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Lamb
Title: Lamb
Character: Foster
Released: October 20, 2015
Type: Movie
Lamb, based on the novel by Bonnie Nadzam, traces the self-discovery of David Lamb in the weeks following the disintegration of his marriage and the death of his father. Hoping to regain some faith in his own goodness, he turns his attention to Tommie, an awkward and unpopular eleven-year-old girl. Lamb is convinced that he can help her avoid a destiny of apathy and emptiness, and takes Tommie for a road trip from Chicago to the Rockies, planning to initiate her into the beauty of the mountain wilderness. The journey shakes them in ways neither expects.
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Digging for Fire
Title: Digging for Fire
Character: Tom the Neighbor
Released: August 21, 2015
Type: Movie
Tim and Lee are married with a young child. The chance to stay at a fancy home in the Hollywood Hills is complicated by Tim's discovery of a bone and a rusty old gun in the yard. Tim is excited by the idea of a mystery, but Lee doesn't want him to dig any further, preferring that he focus on the family taxes, which he promised to do weeks ago. This disagreement sends them on separate and unexpected adventures over the course of a weekend, as Tim and his friends seek clues to the mystery while Lee searches for answers to the bigger questions of marriage and parenthood.
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Runoff
Title: Runoff
Character: Scratch
Released: June 26, 2015
Type: Movie
The beauty of the land cannot mask the brutality of a farm town. As harvest draws near, Betty confronts a terrifying new reality and will go to desperate lengths to save her family when they are threatened with being forced from their land.
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The Ever After
Title: The Ever After
Character: Father O'Meara
Released: February 13, 2015
Type: Movie
Ava and Thomas live--to outside eyes--the good life, complete with a child and a lovely home in Los Angeles, but something is lost. Ava has placed her acting career on hold to play the mother and good wife, while Thomas' job as a fashion photographer puts him in dangerously tempting situations. When trauma strikes, they must confront their innermost vulnerabilities to recover their disintegrating marriage.
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Title: Bosch
Character: John Caffrey
Released: January 14, 2015
Type: TV
Based on Michael Connelly's best-selling novels, these are the stories of relentless LAPD homicide Detective Harry Bosch who pursues justice at all costs. But behind his tireless momentum is a man who is haunted by his past and struggles to remain loyal to his personal code: “Everybody counts or nobody counts.”
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13 Sins
Title: 13 Sins
Character: Father
Released: April 11, 2014
Type: Movie
Drowning in debt as he's about to get married, a bright but meek salesman receives a mysterious phone call informing him that he's on a hidden-camera game show where he must execute 13 tasks to receive a multi-million dollar cash prize.
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Out of the Furnace
Title: Out of the Furnace
Character: Dan Dugan
Released: November 9, 2013
Type: Movie
Two brothers live in the economically-depressed Rust Belt, when a cruel twist of fate lands one in prison. His brother is then lured into one of the most violent crime rings in the Northeast.
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Dark Around the Stars
Title: Dark Around the Stars
Character: Silky
Released: September 13, 2013
Type: Movie
Glen is on a drunken road trip when he plots to commit suicide on his birthday. His decision sends him on a spirited adventure.....
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Title: Ray Donovan
Character: Judge Roger Wettick
Released: June 30, 2013
Type: TV
Set in the sprawling mecca of the rich and famous, Ray Donovan does the dirty work for LA's top power players, and makes their problems disappear. His father's unexpected release from prison sets off a chain of events that shakes the Donovan family to its core.
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I Melt with You
Title: I Melt with You
Character: Captain Bob
Released: December 9, 2011
Type: Movie
Former college friends meet up for a reunion that leads them to face the apparent disillusionment that defines their lives. After a week of excessive drug and alcohol abuse, events lead them to contemplate fulfilling a self destructive pact they made when they were young.
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Title: Mr. Sunshine
Character: General Mitch Tompkins
Released: February 9, 2011
Type: TV
Ben Donovan is a self-involved manager of a second-rate San Diego sports arena who begins to re-evaluate his life on his 40th birthday. Working alongside him is his boss and arena owner, Crystal--attractive, powerful and highly erratic; Alice--the cute, tomboyish marketing director and Ben's friend with benefits; Alonzo--a former basketball player, handsome and unbelievably happy; Ben's assistant, Heather--pretty, sweet, but terrifying because she once lit a boyfriend on fire; Crystal's son, Roman--sweet-faced, clueless and Ben's newest employee; and a hapless operations crew whom Ben refers to collectively as the "Steves."
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Session
Title: Session
Character: Dr. Albert Solomon
Released: January 20, 2011
Type: Movie
A psychological suspense drama-thriller where a psychologist becomes obsessed with one of his patients. The lines between dreams and reality blend.
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Black Limousine
Title: Black Limousine
Character: Mr. Esteridge
Released: October 19, 2010
Type: Movie
A ghost story set in the city of dreams (IMDb.com).
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Title: Rizzoli & Isles
Character: Redmond Jones
Released: July 12, 2010
Type: TV
Perhaps their strikingly different personalities make the relationship between detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles so effective. Jane, the only female cop in Boston's homicide division, is tough, relentless and rarely lets her guard down, while the impeccably dressed Maura displays a sometimes icy temperament — she is, after all, more comfortable among the dead than the living. Together, the best friends have forged a quirky and supportive relationship; they drop the protective shield in each other's company, and combine their expertise to solve Boston's most complex cases.
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The Killer Inside Me
Title: The Killer Inside Me
Character: Sheriff Bob Maples
Released: February 19, 2010
Type: Movie
Deputy Sheriff Lou Ford is a pillar of the community in his small west Texas town, patient and apparently thoughtful. Some people think he is a little slow and maybe boring, but that is the worst they say about him. But then nobody knows about what Lou calls his "sickness": He is a brilliant, but disturbed sociopathic sadist.
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After the Denim
Title: After the Denim
Character: James Packer
Released: January 2, 2010
Type: Movie
"After the Denim" is the story of James Packer, a retired accountant and recovering alcoholic who transforms from a bristly, argumentative, resentful man stuck in the routines of his own preferences into a husband capable of compassion for others.
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Crazy Heart
Title: Crazy Heart
Character: Bill Wilson
Released: December 16, 2009
Type: Movie
When reporter Jean Craddock interviews Bad Blake—an alcoholic, seen-better-days country music legend—they connect, and the hard-living crooner sees a possible saving grace in a life with Jean and her young son.
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Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans
Title: Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans
Character: Pat McDonagh
Released: September 11, 2009
Type: Movie
Terrence McDonagh is a New Orleans Police sergeant, who recieves a medal and a promotion to lieutenant for heroism during Hurricane Katrina. Due to his heroic act, McDonagh injures his back and becomes addicted to prescription pain medication. He then finds himself involved with a drug dealer who is suspected of murdering a family of African immigrants.
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Appaloosa
Title: Appaloosa
Character: Abner Raines
Released: September 19, 2008
Type: Movie
Two friends hired to police a small town that is suffering under the rule of a rancher find their job complicated by the arrival of a young widow.
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Gospel Hill
Title: Gospel Hill
Character: Jack Herrod
Released: February 9, 2008
Type: Movie
Gospel Hill tells the intersecting story of two men in the fictional South Carolina town of Julia. Danny Glover plays John Malcolm, the son of a slain civil rights activist. Jack Herrod (Tom Bower) is the former sheriff who never got to the bottom of the murder. Their paths begin to cross when a development corporation comes to town with plans to raze Julia's historic Gospel Hill.
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Title: Breaking Bad
Character: Lou
Released: January 20, 2008
Type: TV
Walter White, a New Mexico chemistry teacher, is diagnosed with Stage III cancer and given a prognosis of only two years left to live. He becomes filled with a sense of fearlessness and an unrelenting desire to secure his family's financial future at any cost as he enters the dangerous world of drugs and crime.
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Familiar Strangers
Title: Familiar Strangers
Released: January 1, 2008
Type: Movie
"Familiar Strangers" asks the question. "Is it really possible to relate to ones parents and siblings after being replaced by the family dog? . . . Perhaps as friends - weird friends?" An off beat - funny - heartfelt story of family negotiating the changing relationships between parents and children, especially as those children grow into adulthood.
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Undoing
Title: Undoing
Character: Don
Released: December 5, 2007
Type: Movie
A crime drama set in LA's Koreatown, UNDOING introduces us to Samuel, who returns after a mysterious absence to reconcile the death of his best friend exactly one year ago.
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Pain Within
Title: Pain Within
Character: Joseph
Released: March 30, 2007
Type: Movie
A drama about child abuse and its long term effects on its victims.
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Feel
Title: Feel
Character: Buck
Released: December 1, 2006
Type: Movie
Over the course of a single day, four different men visit a massage parlor looking for some kind of emotional or physical connection. Simultaneously, the film explores the complex emotional experiences of the women who work there.
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Flannel Pajamas
Title: Flannel Pajamas
Character: Bill
Released: November 17, 2006
Type: Movie
A study of a relationship that starts quickly, burns bright, and then gets rocky, not from any one thing, but from an accumulation of civilization and its discontents. Stuart is glib and generous, Nicole is shy and forthright. Is love enough to see them through?
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Brothers of the Head
Title: Brothers of the Head
Character: Eddie Pasqua
Released: July 28, 2006
Type: Movie
In the 1970s a music promoter plucks Siamese twins from obscurity and grooms them into a freakish rock'n'roll act. A dark tale of sex, strangeness and rock music.
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The Amateurs
Title: The Amateurs
Character: Floyd
Released: April 28, 2006
Type: Movie
Sex sells in America and these guys know it. The Amateurs follows a small town band of loveable losers who hit upon an idea that can make their dreams and fantasies come true. Thinking they've found the road to riches and fame they decide to make the world's most innocent adult film. Everyman's fantasy turns into a hilarious misadventure when they find they're in way over their heads.
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The Hills Have Eyes
Title: The Hills Have Eyes
Character: Gas Station Attendant
Released: March 10, 2006
Type: Movie
Based on Wes Craven's 1977 suspenseful cult classic, The Hills Have Eyes is the story of a family road trip that goes terrifyingly awry when the travelers become stranded in a government atomic zone. Miles from nowhere, the Carter family soon realizes the seemingly uninhabited wasteland is actually the breeding ground of a blood-thirsty mutant family...and they are the prey.
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Title: It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Character: Pop-Pop
Released: August 4, 2005
Type: TV
Four egocentric friends run a neighborhood Irish pub in Philadelphia and try to find their way through the adult world of work and relationships. Unfortunately, their warped views and precarious judgments often lead them to trouble, creating a myriad of uncomfortable situations that usually only get worse before they get better.
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Title: Grey's Anatomy
Character: Mr. Schultz
Released: March 27, 2005
Type: TV
Follows the personal and professional lives of a group of doctors at Seattle’s Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital.
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Title: The Office
Character: Heinrich
Released: March 24, 2005
Type: TV
The everyday lives of office employees in the Scranton, Pennsylvania branch of the fictional Dunder Mifflin Paper Company.
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North Country
Title: North Country
Character: Gray Suchett
Released: February 12, 2005
Type: Movie
A fictionalized account of the first major successful sexual harassment case in the United States -- Jenson vs. Eveleth Mines, where a woman who endured a range of abuse while working as a miner filed and won the landmark 1984 lawsuit.
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Title: Battlestar Galactica
Character: Joe
Released: October 18, 2004
Type: TV
When an old enemy, the Cylons, resurface and obliterate the 12 colonies, the crew of the aged Galactica protect a small civilian fleet - the last of humanity - as they journey toward the fabled 13th colony, Earth.
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Title: NCIS
Character: Miller Thompson
Released: September 23, 2003
Type: TV
From murder and espionage to terrorism and stolen submarines, a team of special agents investigates any crime that has a shred of evidence connected to Navy and Marine Corps personnel, regardless of rank or position.
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The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story
Title: The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story
Character: Tom Fender
Released: May 24, 2003
Type: Movie
The Tulse Luper Suitcases reconstructs the life of Tulse Luper, a professional writer and project-maker, caught up in a life of prisons. He was born in 1911 in Newport, South Wales and presumably last heard of in 1989. His life is reconstructed from the evidence of 92 suitcases found around the world - 92 being the atomic number of the element Uranium. The project includes three feature films, a TV series, 92 DVDs, CD-ROMs, and books.
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The Badge
Title: The Badge
Character: Bull Hardwick
Released: September 7, 2002
Type: Movie
A sheriff begins an investigation into the death of a local transsexual after hearing that high ranking politicians may have been involved. Although he is homophobic, his investigation causes him to be rejected by others, forcing him to seek help from the people he once despised.
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Title: Monk
Character: Bennie Wentworth
Released: July 12, 2002
Type: TV
Adrian Monk was once a rising star with the San Francisco Police Department, legendary for using unconventional means to solve the department's most baffling cases. But after the tragic (and still unsolved) murder of his wife Trudy, he developed an extreme case of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Now working as a private consultant, Monk continues to investigate cases in the most unconventional ways.
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High Crimes
Title: High Crimes
Character: FBI Agent Mullins
Released: April 5, 2002
Type: Movie
A female attorney learns that her husband is really a marine officer awol for fifteen years and accused of murdering fifteen civilians in El Salvador. Believing her husband when he tells her that he's being framed as part of a U.S. Military cover-up, the attorney defends him in a military court.
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The Laramie Project
Title: The Laramie Project
Character: Father Roger Schmit
Released: January 10, 2002
Type: Movie
"The Laramie Project" is set in and around Laramie, Wyoming, in the aftermath of the murder of 21-year-old Matthew Shepard. To create the stage version of "The Laramie Project," the eight-member New York-based Tectonic Theatre Project traveled to Laramie, Wyoming, recording hours of interviews with the town's citizens over a two-year period. The film adaptation dramatizes the troupe's visit, using the actual words from the transcripts to create a portrait of a town forced to confront itself.
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Hearts in Atlantis
Title: Hearts in Atlantis
Character: Len Files
Released: September 28, 2001
Type: Movie
A widowed mother and her son change when a mysterious stranger enters their lives.
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Going Greek
Title: Going Greek
Character: Bill
Released: August 4, 2001
Type: Movie
Loner freshman Jake Taylor is forced to join the wildest fraternity on campus when the frat brothers refuse to accept his geeky cousin/roommate unless Jake agrees to pledge with him. As the semester progresses, Jake struggles to maintain his grades as well as his affair with Paige, a beautiful sophomore who hates all fraternities. Through naked scavenger hunts, sorority ass-signings and all night
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Pollock
Title: Pollock
Character: Dan Miller
Released: September 6, 2000
Type: Movie
In August of 1949, Life Magazine ran a banner headline that begged the question: "Jackson Pollock: Is he the greatest living painter in the United States?" The film is a look back into the life of an extraordinary man, a man who has fittingly been called "an artist dedicated to concealment, a celebrity who nobody knew." As he struggled with self-doubt, engaging in a lonely tug-of-war between needing to express himself and wanting to shut the world out, Pollock began a downward spiral.
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The Million Dollar Hotel
Title: The Million Dollar Hotel
Character: Hector
Released: February 9, 2000
Type: Movie
The Million Dollar Hotel starts with a jump from a roof top that clears up a death in a hotel that was burning to the ground where a lot of strange people had been living.
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Title: Roswell
Character: Everett Hubble
Released: October 6, 1999
Type: TV
Bizarre things start happening in the little New Mexico town where UFOs were spotted in 1947. Cut to 1999, when a cute high-school student saves the life of a teenage waitress. Surrounded by cliques of clever, angst-filled classmates, the two form a bond that threatens the survival of a secret universe involving superhuman powers, a yen for hot sauce and an alien gene pool.
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Malevolence
Title: Malevolence
Character: Jim Bradley
Released: February 1, 1999
Type: Movie
A young prisoner tells his story to an FBI agent. How unjust judicial system, systematic abuse inside and political corruption and machinations outside turn someone who killed in defense into a hardened criminal.
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A Slipping Down Life
Title: A Slipping Down Life
Character: Mr. Decker
Released: January 22, 1999
Type: Movie
A young woman becomes obsessed with a small-time North Carolina rock singer.
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Monday After the Miracle
Title: Monday After the Miracle
Character: Uncle Ed
Released: November 15, 1998
Type: Movie
Movie based on the true story of Helen Keller, now an adult, and her teacher, Annie Sullivan. Their close relationship is threatened when John Macy, a caring young professor at the college Helen attends, comes between them. John and Annie fall in love and marry and the two women must choose what is more important — the love between a man and woman or the bond between the two of them.
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The Negotiator
Title: The Negotiator
Character: Omar (uncredited)
Released: July 29, 1998
Type: Movie
The police try to arrest expert hostage negotiator Danny Roman, who insists he's being framed for his partner's murder in what he believes is an elaborate conspiracy. Thinking there's evidence in the Internal Affairs offices that might clear him, he takes everyone in the office hostage and demands that another well-known negotiator be brought in to handle the situation and secretly investigate the conspiracy.
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Poodle Springs
Title: Poodle Springs
Character: Arnie Burns
Released: July 25, 1998
Type: Movie
Private eye Philip Marlowe and his bride move to a desert town, where he uncovers a land scheme.
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Buffalo Soldiers
Title: Buffalo Soldiers
Character: Gen. Pike
Released: December 7, 1997
Type: Movie
They've ridden dusty miles without end and fought fierce battles. Yet when these brave African-American cavalrymen enter a scraggly frontier town, they must walk through it instead of ride. The town dishonors them but the soldiers' Native-American foes do not. Apache leader Victoria and other warriors give the horsemen a name of honor and strength: "Buffalo Soldiers". The troopers' daring hunt for Victorio frames this stirring tribute to the former slaves and other African-Americans of the 9th and 10th U.S. Calvary Regiments. Danny Glover, Mykelti Williamson, Glynn Turman, Carl Lumbly and Michael Warren star in an adventure bringing to light that largely unknown story and the unique moral dilemma the men faced. Atten-hut! "Buffalo Soldiers are riding" through town.
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The Killing Jar
Title: The Killing Jar
Released: May 27, 1997
Type: Movie
Michael Sanford and his wife move to his old town so he can take over the family business. However, gruesome murders of children start to happen. Meanwhile, Michael starts to become slowly insane, after he may have witnessed one of the murders and reports it to the police. Is he the murderer, or is it something of his past?
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Follow Me Home
Title: Follow Me Home
Character: Larry
Released: February 28, 1997
Type: Movie
Three muralists (one Chicano, one Black, one American Indian) and the socially-maladjusted cousin of the Chicano muralist set off on a road trip with the intent of painting their images on the White House. Along the way they meet a mysterious Black woman. Together, these four men and one woman encounter racism, sexism, internal conflicts, and finally redemption as they discover their common humanity and their internal ability to conquer the societal ills that effect them all.
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Shaughnessy: The Iron Marshal
Title: Shaughnessy: The Iron Marshal
Character: Marshall
Released: June 20, 1996
Type: Movie
Irish immigrant Tommy Shaughnessy leaves 19th-century New York City for Kansas and becomes a small-town sheriff.
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Nixon
Title: Nixon
Character: Frank Nixon
Released: December 22, 1995
Type: Movie
A look at President Richard M. Nixon—a man carrying the fate of the world on his shoulders while battling the self-destructive demands from within—spanning his troubled boyhood in California to the shocking Watergate scandal that would end his Presidency.
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White Man's Burden
Title: White Man's Burden
Character: Stanley
Released: December 1, 1995
Type: Movie
The story takes place in alternative America where the blacks are members of social elite, and whites are inhabitants of inner city ghettos. Louis Pinnock is a white worker in a chocolate factory, loving husband and father of two children. While delivering a package for black CEO Thaddeus Thomas, he is mistaken for a voyeur and, as a result, loses his job, gets beaten by black cops and his family gets evicted from their home. Desperate Pinnock takes a gun and kidnaps Thomas, demanding justice.
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Georgia
Title: Georgia
Character: Erwin Flood
Released: May 19, 1995
Type: Movie
Sadie looks up to her older sister Georgia, a successful folk singer who's happily married with children, but can't break out of the bar-band circuit and hit the big time she desperately covets. It's in part due to her attraction to drugs and booze, and also to her own unwise choice in men. Finally, though, Sadie's Achilles heel is a rough, unlovely voice very different than her sister's crowd-pleasing singing.
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The Avenging Angel
Title: The Avenging Angel
Character: Bill Hickman
Released: January 22, 1995
Type: Movie
Miles Utley is a professional Mormon commando/bodyguard who is forced to turn renegade and to question his faith as he investigates a scandal involving assassination and land speculation.
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Far from Home: The Adventures of Yellow Dog
Title: Far from Home: The Adventures of Yellow Dog
Character: John Gale
Released: January 13, 1995
Type: Movie
Teenager Angus adopts a stray dog and names him Yellow. Several days later, while travelling along the coast of British Columbia with Angus's father, John, the boy and dog become stranded when turbulent waters capsize their boat. Angus's parents relentlessly badger rescue teams. Angus, schooled by his father in wilderness survival skills, and assisted by the intelligent Yellow Dog, tries to attract rescuers.
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Against the Wall
Title: Against the Wall
Character: Ed
Released: March 26, 1994
Type: Movie
In 1971, a warden at Attica Penitentiary is caught up in a hostage crisis when inmates take over the prison to demand better living conditions.
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Shimmer
Title: Shimmer
Character: Mr. Speck
Released: October 1, 1993
Type: Movie
The solo actor in Shimmer tells the story by becoming each character in turn. The play takes place in 1956, in a harsh Midwestern juvenile detention center, where two boys befriend each other.
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Title: The X-Files
Character: Sheriff Harden
Released: September 10, 1993
Type: TV
The exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files: marginalized, unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena. Mulder believes in the existence of aliens and the paranormal while Scully, a skeptic, is assigned to make scientific analyses of Mulder's discoveries that debunk Mulder's work and thus return him to mainstream cases.
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Teenage Bonnie and Klepto Clyde
Title: Teenage Bonnie and Klepto Clyde
Character: Peter Baker
Released: August 27, 1993
Type: Movie
The Bonnie & Clyde story is re-told from a contemporary viewpoint. Clyde in this movie is a high school nerd working in the local burger joint. Urges to steal things are inflamed when he runs into Bonnie, the bored daughter of the local police commissioner, who is running with a street gang led by Kirk. Clyde immediately senses a kindred spirit in Bonnie. Initially she ignores him, but he rescues her from a shop-lifting charge and offers her a ride in a stolen van. Soon the two have taken guns from her father's home and go off on a bloody crime spree...
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The Ballad of Little Jo
Title: The Ballad of Little Jo
Character: Lyle Hogg (uncredited)
Released: August 20, 1993
Type: Movie
After being thrown out of her home, a young woman decides to disguise herself as a man to survive the ruthless Wild West.
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Relentless 3
Title: Relentless 3
Character: Captain Phelan
Released: August 18, 1993
Type: Movie
Sam Dietz, the relentless police detective, returns to Los Angeles from a self-imposed exile to help the police solve another series of brutal killings committed by another crafty serial killer whom targets Dietz's latest love interest.
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Love Can Be Murder
Title: Love Can Be Murder
Character: Mike Riordan
Released: December 14, 1992
Type: Movie
Elizabeth Bentley is a successful lawyer who suddenly has some "punkish" daydreams of being "Rambo" right around the time her clueless boyfriend Brad asks her to marry him. After a therapy session, she quits her job to the surprise of her family and Brad, and goes into the detective business, opening her own private-eye office. Unfortunately, the ghost of the private-eye who owned the office still lingers and Elizabeth's the only one who can see or hear him. At first, she becomes an unwilling partner in Nick Peyton's unfinished investigation, but then she finds herself falling for the salty, but dead, guy.
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Revenge on the Highway
Title: Revenge on the Highway
Character: Officer Russell Yates
Released: December 2, 1992
Type: Movie
At his wedding Claude Sams has an argument with his son about his life-style; in anger Paul leaves. Together with a friend he sets out for Vegas to search a job. While changing a tire on the highway, he's killed by a passing truck. The police believes it's been an accident, but Claude doesn't accept this and frantically searches for a yellow truck and it's crazy driver at all truck stations.
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Raising Cain
Title: Raising Cain
Character: Sgt, Cully
Released: August 7, 1992
Type: Movie
When neighborhood kids begin vanishing, Jenny suspects her child psychologist husband, Carter, may be resuming the deranged experiments his father performed on Carter when he was young. Now, it falls to Jenny to unravel the mystery. And as more children disappear, she fears for her own child's safety.
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Talent for the Game
Title: Talent for the Game
Character: Rev. Bodeen
Released: April 26, 1991
Type: Movie
Major League Baseball scout must find promising young player to save his job and his team.
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Title: Love, Lies and Murder
Character: Leverette
Released: February 17, 1991
Type: TV
Love, Lies, and Murder is a 1991 American miniseries starring Clancy Brown, Sheryl Lee, Moira Kelly, Tom Bower, John Ashton, and Cynthia Nixon. It is based on the 1985 murder of Linda Bailey Brown. The names were not changed for the film. The miniseries is four hours long and aired on NBC in two parts, the first on February 16, 1991 and the second on February 18, 1991. Lifetime airs the miniseries.
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Dillinger
Title: Dillinger
Character: Captain Matt Leach
Released: January 6, 1991
Type: Movie
Crime drama based on the real-life story of US gangster John Dillinger, who was hunted by the FBI after a string of armed bank robberies during the Great Depression. When Dillinger's attacks on banks threaten to make him a dangerous folk hero, the pressure mounts on the FBI – even from the White House – for his capture.
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Title: Law & Order
Character: Whitten
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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Die Hard 2
Title: Die Hard 2
Character: Marvin
Released: July 3, 1990
Type: Movie
Off-duty cop John McClane is gripped with a feeling of déjà vu when, on a snowy Christmas Eve in the nation’s capital, terrorists seize a major international airport, holding thousands of holiday travelers hostage. Renegade military commandos led by a murderous rogue officer plot to rescue a drug lord from justice and are prepared for every contingency except one: McClane’s smart-mouthed heroics.
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The Road to Terror
Title: The Road to Terror
Character: Himself - Reporter
Released: December 24, 1989
Type: Movie
In The Road to Terror, revolutionaries tell how their dream descended into a nightmare of terror and execution. They speak as exiles in Paris, a city that is preparing to celebrate the glories of the first mass revolution of 1978. Behind its strange images, the struggle for power in the Iranian revolution has followed a pattern uncannily similar to many of the great revolutions of the past: just as 200 years ago in France, the Iranian revolution has gone down the old road from liberation to repression, the road to terror.
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Desperado: The Outlaw Wars
Title: Desperado: The Outlaw Wars
Character: Billy Dobbs
Released: October 10, 1989
Type: Movie
Duell McCall visits his old girlfriend, Nora, and learns that she gave birth to his child. He wants to stay but he is still a wanted man. So, Sheriff Campbell suggests that if he brings in this notorious criminal, who has been plaguing the territory, he might be able to get a pardon.
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Wired
Title: Wired
Character: Detective
Released: August 25, 1989
Type: Movie
The ghost of John Belushi looks back on his troubled life and career.
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Nightbreaker
Title: Nightbreaker
Character: Dan Cutter
Released: March 8, 1989
Type: Movie
Dr. Alexander Brown arrives in Las Vegas, awarded for his recent medical invention. An ex-G.I. tells Brown he was a test subject during the 1950's, exposed to atomic bomb radiation in the Nevada desert-- will Brown help the man uncover the truth? In 1950's Nevada, Brown is a young psychiatrist and a guest of the U.S. Army, where soldiers were routinely exposed to excessive radiation. The young Brown and a colleague interview soldiers, who show their ignorance and insouciance in the face of this danger. The movie intercuts scenes between the young Alexander Brown and older Alexander Brown, some thirty years after the nuclear tests. Will the decorated psychiatrist finally speak out on the atrocity he witnessed?
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True Believer
Title: True Believer
Character: Cecil Skell
Released: February 17, 1989
Type: Movie
Eddie Dodd is a burnt out former civil rights lawyer who now specializes in defending drug dealers. Roger Baron, newly graduated from law school, has followed Eddie's great cases and now wants to learn at his feet. With Roger's idealistic prodding, Eddie reluctantly takes on a case of a young Korean man who, according to his mother, has been in jail for eight years for a murder he didn't commit.
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Distant Thunder
Title: Distant Thunder
Character: Louis
Released: November 11, 1988
Type: Movie
A troubled Vietnam war vet deserts his wife and child shortly after he returns from the war. He returns after 10 years, where he's been living like an animal in the forest. He finds himself unprepared for the changes that he will have to cope with, and when the vet tries to contact his son, he realizes that he has caused more damage than he had imagined.
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Promised a Miracle
Title: Promised a Miracle
Character: Michael Elliot
Released: May 19, 1988
Type: Movie
True story of a couple charged with manslaughter when their rejection of modern medicine in favor of religion to treat their diabetic child resulted in his death.
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Lady in White
Title: Lady in White
Character: Sheriff Saunders
Released: April 22, 1988
Type: Movie
Locked in a school closet during Halloween 1962, young Frank witnesses the ghost of a young girl and the man who murdered her years ago. Shortly afterward he finds himself stalked by the killer and is soon drawn to an old house where a mysterious Lady In White lives. As he discovers the secret of the woman he soon finds that the killer may be someone close to him.
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What Price Victory
Title: What Price Victory
Character: Eldon Ray
Released: January 18, 1988
Type: Movie
What Price Victory is about the effect that unscrupulous college football recruiting practices have on two star high school athletes.
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Family Sins
Title: Family Sins
Character: Sheriff
Released: October 25, 1987
Type: Movie
Gordon has a loving wife and two sons, Bryan and Keith, but he favors his spoiled younger son Keith over Bryan, who is defiant and not good at sports. As Gordon begins to yell and hit Bryan, Bryan's behavior slips towards the psychotic side and he takes it out on beings who can't defend themselves until he goes way too far one day during a summer camping trip.
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Beverly Hills Cop II
Title: Beverly Hills Cop II
Character: Russ Fielding
Released: May 18, 1987
Type: Movie
Axel Foley returns to the land of sunshine and palm trees to investigate the near-fatal shooting of police Captain Andrew Bogomil. With the help of Sgt. Taggart and Det. Rosewood, they soon uncover that the shooting is associated with a series of "alphabet" robberies masterminded by a heartless weapons kingpin—and the chase is on.
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River's Edge
Title: River's Edge
Character: Bennett
Released: August 27, 1986
Type: Movie
A group of high-school friends must come to terms with the fact that one of them, Samson, killed another, Jamie. Faced with the brutality of death, each must decide whether to turn their friend in to the police, or to help him escape the consequences of his dreadful deed.
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The Lightship
Title: The Lightship
Released: December 14, 1985
Type: Movie
A trio of robbers, two brothers and their twisted genius leader, invade a lightship, but don't reckon on the crew fighting back.
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Title: Crazy like a Fox
Character: Trumble
Released: December 30, 1984
Type: TV
Crazy Like a Fox is an American television series set in San Francisco, California, that aired on CBS from December 30, 1984 to May 3, 1986.
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Title: Murder, She Wrote
Character: Jonathan Bailey
Released: September 30, 1984
Type: TV
An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.
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Massive Retaliation
Title: Massive Retaliation
Character: Kirk Fredericks
Released: September 1, 1984
Type: Movie
Three families that are best friends head to their secret retreat when WW3 seems to be nearing. The adults arrive at the retreat and must endure the stress to come while the children are separated from the adults and have their own troubles along the way.
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Wildrose
Title: Wildrose
Character: Rick
Released: May 4, 1984
Type: Movie
June Lorich works at the Mesabi Mine on Minnesota's iron range. After an emotionally and physically abusive marriage, June is determined to make it on her own. But the worsening steel industry forces major cutbacks and June is bumped down to an all-male pit. She becomes the brunt of the other workers' hostilities and is forced to fight against them -- and the man she loves -- to save her job.
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The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez
Title: The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez
Character: Boone Chate
Released: August 19, 1983
Type: Movie
Forced to run from Texas Rangers after a heated misunderstanding leads to the death of a lawman, Mexican American farmer Gregorio Cortez sets off in desperate flight, evading a massive manhunt on horseback for days. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts in 2016.
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Life of the Party: The Story of Beatrice
Title: Life of the Party: The Story of Beatrice
Character: Tom
Released: September 29, 1982
Type: Movie
A dramatization of the life of the founder of Los Angeles's first alcoholic recovery center for women, Beatrice O'Reilly.
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Tales of the Apple Dumpling Gang
Title: Tales of the Apple Dumpling Gang
Character: Eli Nugent
Released: January 16, 1982
Type: Movie
A remake of the 1975 feature film. Donavan arrives in town and soon finds he is the legal guardian to two kids, Clovis and Celia. He tries to decline but the sheriff insists...
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When Hell Was in Session
Title: When Hell Was in Session
Character: Lt. Jim Norton
Released: October 8, 1979
Type: Movie
This film describes Navy Commander Jeremiah Denton's 7-and-a-half years as a prisoner of war. Held in numerous, brutal POW camps, he faced starvation, torture and terrible living conditions brought on by his North Vietnamese captors in an effort to keep communication alive between the prisoners. His wife, Jane, is also arranging a POW wives league in the U.S. in order to popularize their plight.
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The Winds of Kitty Hawk
Title: The Winds of Kitty Hawk
Character: William Tate
Released: December 17, 1978
Type: Movie
The story of the Wright Brothers and their efforts to invent, build, and fly the world's first successful motor-operated airplane.
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Title: The Dain Curse
Character: Sgt. O'Gar
Released: May 22, 1978
Type: TV
Hard-boiled private dick Hamilton Nash is hired to investigate a case of stolen diamonds, which leads him to a lovely and odd young woman named Gabrielle, who believes she has been stricken with the ancient curse of the Dain family. The curse has historically caused its victims to die prematurely.
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Title: Dallas
Character: Mancuso
Released: April 2, 1978
Type: TV
The world's first mega-soap, and one of the most popular ever produced, Dallas had it all. Beautiful women, expensive cars, and men playing Monopoly with real buildings. Famous for one of the best cliffhangers in TV history, as the world asked "Who shot J.R.?" A slow-burner to begin with, Dallas hit its stride in the 2nd season, with long storylines and expert character development. Dallas ruled the airwaves in the 1980's.
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The 3,000 Mile Chase
Title: The 3,000 Mile Chase
Character: Richette
Released: June 16, 1977
Type: Movie
Secret courier Matt Considine accepts the mission to escort chief witness Dvorak and his wife from San Francisco to a trial in New York. They have to cover 3,000 dangerous miles, because the drug mob wants to kill them at any price.
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The Commitment
Title: The Commitment
Character: Abe
Released: January 1, 1976
Type: Movie
A salesman's marriage is at stake due to his increasing gambling debts.
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A Woman for All Men
Title: A Woman for All Men
Character: Construction Worker
Released: August 1, 1975
Type: Movie
Irascible and domineering millionaire Walter McCoy marries the beautiful, but shady and duplicitous Karen Petrie. Walter's son Steve automatically becomes smitten with Karen while both Walter's daughter Cynthia and loyal housekeeper Sarah suspect that something is up. This provokes a tangled web of deception, infidelity, and even murder.
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Title: The Rockford Files
Character: Officer Hensley
Released: September 13, 1974
Type: TV
Cranky but likable L.A. PI Jim Rockford pulls no punches (but takes plenty of them). An ex-con sent to the slammer for a crime he didn't commit, Rockford takes on cases others don't want, aided by his tough old man, his lawyer girlfriend and some shady associates from his past.
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Title: The Rockford Files
Character: Jeff Cooperman
Released: September 13, 1974
Type: TV
Cranky but likable L.A. PI Jim Rockford pulls no punches (but takes plenty of them). An ex-con sent to the slammer for a crime he didn't commit, Rockford takes on cases others don't want, aided by his tough old man, his lawyer girlfriend and some shady associates from his past.
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Incident at Vichy
Title: Incident at Vichy
Character: Police Guard
Released: December 6, 1973
Type: Movie
Adapted from Arthur Miller's play, film focuses on a group of Frenchmen who are detained at Vichy, the capital of France while under Nazi occupation, and "investigated" under suspicion of secretly being Jewish.
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Title: Kojak
Character: Brenner
Released: October 24, 1973
Type: TV
A bald, lollipop sucking police detective with a fiery righteous attitude battles crime in New York City.