John Getz

John Getz

Born: October 15, 1946
in Davenport, Iowa, U.S.
​John Getz is a stage-trained American actor. Getz dropped out of college to attend the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. While working in a winery, he helped found the Theater Company in Napa County, California. His location in the grape-growing Napa Valley led to Getz's television debut in a made-for-television horror film Killer Bees. Killer Bees starred Gloria Swanson, Craig Stevens, Kate Jackson, and Edward Albert. Getz then moved to New York City, where he became active in local theater while doing an 18-month stint as Neil Johnson on the soap opera Another World.

Getz appeared in The Happy Hooker and followed up with several other roles before starring in the Coen Brothers' neo-noir thriller Blood Simple. He played the doomed lover of a married woman (Frances McDormand) who woefully misinterprets his increasingly complex circumstances.

Getz also appeared in The Fly and The Fly II as Stathis Borans, a science magazine editor who pays a heavy price for his curiosity. Also in 1989, he played a Marine Corps Major in Born on the Fourth of July. In 1991, Getz appeared as the unpleasant boyfriend of professional women in Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead and Curly Sue. In 1990, Getz appeared as a crime boss in the Charlie Sheen and Emilio Estevez spoof Men At Work. In 1994, he appeared in the film Playmaker, starring Colin Firth and Jennifer Rubin.

In 2007, he had a role in David Fincher's film Zodiac. Also in 2007, he appeared in Bill Guttentag and Dan Sturman's documentary film Nanking as George Ashmore Fitch, head of the local YMCA and administrative director of the International Committee for the Nanking Safety Zone. Getz also had a role in Fincher's film The Social Network, about the founding of Facebook. He appeared in the suspense thriller Elevator as a Wall Street executive trapped in an elevator with a group of strangers, one of whom has a bomb. Written and produced by Marc Rosenberg and directed by Stig Svendsen, Elevator was released in July 2012. He appeared in Trumbo (2015) as director Sam Wood.

Through the decades, Getz has guest-starred in many television series, including Barney Miller and Three's Company, where he played Lee Tripper, brother of Jack Tripper. He has guest-starred in How I Met Your Mother, Prison Break, The King of Queens and Private Practice, and had recurring roles in Homeland, Timeless and Bosch.

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Movies for John Getz...

Title: The Last of Us
Character: Dr. Edelstein
Released: January 15, 2023
Type: TV
Twenty years after modern civilization has been destroyed, Joel, a hardened survivor, is hired to smuggle Ellie, a 14-year-old girl, out of an oppressive quarantine zone. What starts as a small job soon becomes a brutal, heartbreaking journey, as they both must traverse the United States and depend on each other for survival.
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Title: Reservation Dogs
Character: James Minor
Released: August 9, 2021
Type: TV
Four Indigenous teenagers in rural Oklahoma steal, rob and save in order to get to the exotic, mysterious and faraway land of California.
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Body at Brighton Rock
Title: Body at Brighton Rock
Character: Sheriff
Released: March 23, 2019
Type: Movie
When an inexperienced park ranger finds a dead body under mysterious circumstances on a remote mountain trail, she must guard it overnight until authorities can arrive, forcing her to confront some of her deepest, darkest fears.
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Title: Doom Patrol
Character: Paul Trainor
Released: February 15, 2019
Type: TV
The Doom Patrol’s members each suffered horrible accidents that gave them superhuman abilities — but also left them scarred and disfigured. Traumatized and downtrodden, the team found purpose through The Chief, who brought them together to investigate the weirdest phenomena in existence — and to protect Earth from what they find.
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Title: Dirty John
Character: Doug Layton
Released: November 25, 2018
Type: TV
Anthology series in which each season is based on a true crime story featuring an epic tale of love gone wrong.
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Title: Dirty John
Character: Dwight
Released: November 25, 2018
Type: TV
Anthology series in which each season is based on a true crime story featuring an epic tale of love gone wrong.
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Brampton's Own
Title: Brampton's Own
Character: Bart
Released: October 19, 2018
Type: Movie
A struggling minor league baseball player retires and woefully returns to his small hometown, carefully dodging old wounds until confronted with the one that hurts the most - the girl that got away.
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Title: Ghosted
Character: Director Romslo
Released: October 1, 2017
Type: TV
A skeptic is forced to work with a firm believer of the paranormal on unexplained occurrences in Los Angeles.
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Title: Timeless
Character: Benjamin Cahill
Released: October 3, 2016
Type: TV
A mysterious criminal steals a secret state-of-the-art time machine, intent on destroying America as we know it by changing the past. Our only hope is an unexpected team: a scientist, a soldier and a history professor, who must use the machine's prototype to travel back in time to critical events. While they must make every effort not to affect the past themselves, they must also stay one step ahead of this dangerous fugitive. But can this handpicked team uncover the mystery behind it all and end his destruction before it's too late?
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Certain Women
Title: Certain Women
Character: Sheriff Rowles
Released: September 25, 2016
Type: Movie
Three strong-willed women strive to forge their own paths amidst the wide-open plains of the American Northwest: a lawyer forced to subdue a troubled client; a wife and mother whose plans to construct her dream home reveal fissures in her marriage; and a lonely ranch hand who forms an ambiguous bond with a young law student.
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Trumbo
Title: Trumbo
Character: Sam Wood
Released: October 27, 2015
Type: Movie
The career of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo is halted by a witch hunt in the late 1940s when he defies the anti-communist HUAC committee and is blacklisted.
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The Perfect Guy
Title: The Perfect Guy
Character: Renkin
Released: September 11, 2015
Type: Movie
With a fulfilling career and a loving relationship, lobbyist Leah Vaughn seems to have it all. Things come crashing down when Dave, her long-term boyfriend, disagrees with her future plans for marriage and a family. The resulting painful breakup leaves Leah heartbroken, until she meets the charming and handsome Carter Duncan. Soon, the budding romance turns dangerous as Carter reveals his volatile nature, forcing Leah to break up with the man she thought was Mr. Right. She soon realizes that Carter doesn't want to let her go.
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Title: Better Call Saul
Character: Chairman
Released: February 8, 2015
Type: TV
Six years before Saul Goodman meets Walter White. We meet him when the man who will become Saul Goodman is known as Jimmy McGill, a small-time lawyer searching for his destiny, and, more immediately, hustling to make ends meet. Working alongside, and, often, against Jimmy, is “fixer” Mike Ehrmantraut. The series tracks Jimmy’s transformation into Saul Goodman, the man who puts “criminal” in “criminal lawyer".
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Title: Bosch
Character: Bradley Walker
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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Title: How to Get Away with Murder
Character: David Dolan
Released: September 25, 2014
Type: TV
A sexy, suspense-driven legal thriller about a group of ambitious law students and their brilliant, mysterious criminal defense professor. They become entangled in a murder plot and will shake the entire university and change the course of their lives.
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Title: Bad Teacher
Released: April 24, 2014
Type: TV
An always inappropriate, fearless and unapologetic former trophy wife masquerades as a teacher in order to find a new man after her wealthy husband leaves her penniless.
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Eagleheart: Paradise Rising
Title: Eagleheart: Paradise Rising
Character: Bernard Moss
Released: December 13, 2013
Type: Movie
Chris Monsanto, disgraced Marshal turned fugitive from justice, goes on a journey of both heart and mind to clear his name and uncover the truth.
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Jobs
Title: Jobs
Character: Paul Jobs
Released: August 16, 2013
Type: Movie
The story of Steve Jobs' ascension from college dropout into one of the most revered creative entrepreneurs of the 20th century.
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Desperate Acts of Magic
Title: Desperate Acts of Magic
Character: Don Tarzia
Released: May 3, 2013
Type: Movie
A magician competes in an international magic competition where he goes head to head with a female street magician he has fallen in love with. This film shows great magic performed by a cast of professional magicians. Like a great musical where the songs and the story are seamlessly intertwined, Desperate Acts of Magic does the same, mixing story and magic as one.
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Elevator
Title: Elevator
Character: Henry Barton
Released: February 18, 2013
Type: Movie
Nine people are stuck in an elevator. One of them has a ticking bomb that can't be defused. The other eight will do anything to survive. There is no escape and no promise of rescue. As the tension in the elevator mounts the unthinkable soon becomes the only reasonable solution.
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Title: Scandal
Character: Patrick Keating
Released: April 5, 2012
Type: TV
Everyone has secrets and Olivia Pope has dedicated her life to protecting and defending the public images of the elite by keeping those secrets under wraps. Pope and her team are at the top of their game when it comes to getting the job done for their clients, but it becomes apparent that these "gladiators in suits," who specialize in fixing the lives of other people, have trouble fixing those closest at hand -- their own.
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Title: American Horror Story
Character: Mr. St. Pierre Vanderbilt
Released: October 5, 2011
Type: TV
An anthology horror drama series centering on different characters and locations, including a house with a murderous past, an asylum, a witch coven, a freak show, a hotel, a farmhouse in Roanoke, a cult, the apocalypse and a summer camp.
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Title: Homeland
Character: Joe Crocker
Released: October 2, 2011
Type: TV
CIA officer Carrie Mathison is tops in her field despite being bipolar, which makes her volatile and unpredictable. With the help of her long-time mentor Saul Berenson, Carrie fearlessly risks everything, including her personal well-being and even sanity, at every turn.
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How Did They Ever Make a Movie of Facebook?
Title: How Did They Ever Make a Movie of Facebook?
Character: Self / Sy
Released: January 11, 2011
Type: Movie
This feature-length documentary about the making of "The Social Network" goes back and forth from the elements of storytelling and long rehearsals with the cast and crew, to the shooting itself capturing the extreme attention to detail, filming locations such as Boston and LA, and David Fincher's filmmaking process.
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The Social Network
Title: The Social Network
Character: Sy
Released: October 1, 2010
Type: Movie
In 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer genius Mark Zuckerberg begins work on a new concept that eventually turns into the global social network known as Facebook. Six years later, he is one of the youngest billionaires ever, but Zuckerberg finds that his unprecedented success leads to both personal and legal complications when he ends up on the receiving end of two lawsuits, one involving his former friend.
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Title: Nikita
Character: Senator Ed Chappell
Released: September 9, 2010
Type: TV
Nikita will stop at nothing to expose and destroy Division, the secret U.S. agency who trained her as a spy and assassin.
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Title: Castle
Character: Gustavo Bauer
Released: March 9, 2009
Type: TV
After a serial killer imitates the plots of his novels, successful mystery novelist Richard "Rick" Castle receives permission from the Mayor of New York City to tag along with an NYPD homicide investigation team for research purposes.
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Title: Trust Me
Character: Peter Derby
Released: January 26, 2009
Type: TV
The series revolves around Rothman, Greene, and Moore, a fictional advertising firm. The storylines center on the difficulties of securing accounts and the characters' personal lives.
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Title: Eleventh Hour
Released: October 9, 2008
Type: TV
Dr. Jacob Hood is a brilliant biophysicist and special science advisor to the government who investigates scientific crises and oddities. His crusade is to protect the substance of science against those who would abuse and misuse scientific discoveries for their own gain.
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Title: Swingtown
Released: June 5, 2008
Type: TV
This period and relationship drama takes viewers back to the 1970s for a look at suburban households testing the murky waters of sexual revolution following swingers throughout open marriages, "key parties" and other swingers extravaganzas.
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A Line in the Sand
Title: A Line in the Sand
Character: Captain McClenon
Released: May 15, 2008
Type: Movie
A human story unfolds when detectives aggravated by a major bust gone wrong are forced to deal with a tormented man thrown into the cage after urinating on the Mayor's limo. The explosive combination of character and situation balances intense drama with laugh out loud comedy.
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Superhero Movie
Title: Superhero Movie
Character: Lunatic Editor
Released: March 28, 2008
Type: Movie
The team behind Scary Movie takes on the comic book genre in this tale of Rick Riker, a nerdy teen imbued with superpowers by a radioactive dragonfly. And because every hero needs a nemesis, enter Lou Landers, aka the villainously goofy Hourglass.
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Hard Four
Title: Hard Four
Character: Blazedell Woodruff
Released: November 1, 2007
Type: Movie
When legendary gambler Golden Hands Segal suffers a fatal heart attack at the craps table in Las Vegas, his grandson Freddy Meingold and boyhood pal Spencer Ragusa have less than 24 hours to retrieve the body for burial in New Jersey.
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Title: Big Shots
Released: September 27, 2007
Type: TV
Four friends are at the top of their game...until the women in their lives enter the room. Lines between boardroom and bedroom blur when these competitive but dysfunctional CEOs take refuge in their friendship, discussing business, confiding secrets, seeking advice and supporting each other through life's surprising twists and turns.
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Title: Private Practice
Character: Mr. Kent
Released: September 26, 2007
Type: TV
Having left behind Seattle Grace Hospital, renowned surgeon Addison Forbes Montgomery moves to Los Angeles for sunnier weather and happier possibilities. She reunites with her friends from medical school, joining them at their chic, co-op, Oceanside Wellness Center in Santa Monica.
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Title: Mad Men
Released: July 19, 2007
Type: TV
Set in 1960-1970 New York, this sexy, stylized and provocative drama follows the lives of the ruthlessly competitive men and women of Madison Avenue advertising.
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Zodiac
Title: Zodiac
Character: Templeton Peck
Released: March 2, 2007
Type: Movie
A cartoonist teams up with an ace reporter and a law enforcement officer to track down an elusive serial killer.
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Nanking
Title: Nanking
Character: George Fitch
Released: February 10, 2007
Type: Movie
The story of the rape of Nanking, one of the most tragic events in history. In 1937, the invading Japanese army murdered over 200,000 and raped tens of thousands of Chinese. In the midst of this horror, a small group of Western expatriates banded together to save 250,000. Nanking shows the tremendous impact individuals can make on the course of history.
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Title: Day Break
Released: November 15, 2006
Type: TV
Today Detective Brett Hopper will be accused of shooting state attorney Alberto Garza. He will offer his rock solid alibi. He will realize he's been framed. And he will run. Then, he will wake up and start the day over again.
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Title: Shark
Released: September 21, 2006
Type: TV
Notorious Los Angeles defense attorney Sebastian Stark becomes disillusioned with his career after his successful defense of a wife-abuser results in the wife's death. After more than a month trying to come to grips with his situation, he is invited by the Los Angeles district attorney to become a public prosecutor so he can apply his unorthodox-but-effective talents to putting guilty people away instead of putting them back on the street.
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Living 'til the End
Title: Living 'til the End
Character: Mr. Hines
Released: October 21, 2005
Type: Movie
Told by a psychic of his imminent death on his next birthday, Jack lives out the year, as a hopeless agoraphobic, until he meets a young woman who slowly coaxes him out of his self imposed bondage.
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Fear of the Flesh: The Making of The Fly
Title: Fear of the Flesh: The Making of The Fly
Character: Self
Released: October 4, 2005
Type: Movie
Feature length documentary on the making of David Cronenberg's The Fly.
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Title: Ghost Whisperer
Character: Rudy Wharton
Released: September 23, 2005
Type: TV
Newlywed Melinda Gordon tries to help the dead communicate with loved ones, but sometimes the messages she receives are intense and confusing. Most of Melinda's efforts involve resolving conflicts that are preventing the spirits from passing over.
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Title: Criminal Minds
Character: Andrew Kane
Released: September 22, 2005
Type: TV
An elite team of FBI profilers analyze the country's most twisted criminal minds, anticipating their next moves before they strike again. The Behavioral Analysis Unit's most experienced agent is David Rossi, a founding member of the BAU who returns to help the team solve new cases.
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Title: Close to Home
Released: September 20, 2005
Type: TV
Close to Home is an American crime drama television series co-produced by Warner Bros. Television and Jerry Bruckheimer Television for CBS.
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Title: How I Met Your Mother
Character: Bob Hewitt
Released: September 19, 2005
Type: TV
A father recounts to his children - through a series of flashbacks - the journey he and his four best friends took leading up to him meeting their mother.
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Title: Bones
Character: Steven Frank
Released: September 13, 2005
Type: TV
Dr. Temperance Brennan and her colleagues at the Jeffersonian's Medico-Legal Lab assist Special Agent Seeley Booth with murder investigations when the remains are so badly decomposed, burned or destroyed that the standard identification methods are useless.
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Title: Prison Break
Character: Dr. Roger Knowlton
Released: August 29, 2005
Type: TV
Due to a political conspiracy, an innocent man is sent to death row and his only hope is his brother, who makes it his mission to deliberately get himself sent to the same prison in order to break the both of them out, from the inside out.
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Title: Grey's Anatomy
Character: Michael Breyers
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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Mystery Woman: Sing Me a Murder
Title: Mystery Woman: Sing Me a Murder
Character: Dan
Released: February 25, 2005
Type: Movie
Murder is something to sing about when Mystery Woman Samantha Kinsey-an expert in pulp fiction, and increasingly proficient when it comes to real-life crime-untangles a record-breaking murder. Mystery Woman bookshop owner, Samantha Kinsey, has offered to host a charity concert for a once-famous folk-rock trio out to recapture their old fame flame. But sweet success hits the ultimate sour note when the band's promoter is found murdered in his hotel room. Sam and her partner in crime, Philby, investigate, digging up deadly secrets of private indiscretions, professional greed, and personal vengeance that put a twisted spin on fame and fortune-and bring a whole new meaning to a Top Ten hit.
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Title: Medium
Character: Councilman Stuart McCallister
Released: January 3, 2005
Type: TV
Allison Dubois works in the District Attorney’s office using her natural intuition about people and her ability to communicate with the dead to help to solve crimes. Her dreams often give her clues to the whereabouts of missing people.
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Title: Cold Case
Character: Bill Simmons
Released: September 28, 2003
Type: TV
The Philadelphia homicide squad's lone female detective finds her calling when she is assigned cases that have never been solved. Detective Lilly Rush combines her natural instincts with the updated technology available today to bring about justice for all the victims she can.
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Title: Joan of Arcadia
Character: D.A. Gabe Fellowes
Released: September 26, 2003
Type: TV
Joan Girardi has begun acting a little strange since her family moved to the city of Arcadia. No one knows that various people keep introducing themselves as God, and then giving the teenager specific directions to do things. Unsure of what God wants, and if she's even sane, Joan tentatively begins to follow God's cryptic directives, all the while trying to retain a "normal" teen-aged existence.
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Title: NCIS
Character: Walter Kane
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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Hunger Point
Title: Hunger Point
Character: David Hunter
Released: January 13, 2003
Type: Movie
A woman struggles with her self-image in a house run by a weight-obsessed mother, alongside a younger sister whose eating disorder has tragic coincidences.
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Title: Without a Trace
Character: Mr. Garrett
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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Title: CSI: Miami
Character: George Risher
Released: September 23, 2002
Type: TV
CSI: Miami follows Crime Scene Investigators working for the Miami-Dade Police Department as they use physical evidence, similar to their Las Vegas counterparts, to solve grisly murders. The series mixes deduction, gritty subject matter, and character-driven drama in the same vein as the original series in the CSI franchise, except that the Miami CSIs are cops first, scientists second.
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Title: According to Jim
Released: October 3, 2001
Type: TV
According to Jim is an American sitcom television series starring Jim Belushi in the title role as a suburban father of three children. It originally ran on ABC from October 1, 2001 to June 2, 2009.
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Zenon: The Zequel
Title: Zenon: The Zequel
Character: General Hammond
Released: January 12, 2001
Type: Movie
Zenon Kar is 15 and lives on a space station which the military has taken over and is dismantling. She receives a mysterious signal and must convince everyone that it's from aliens who have come to help them.
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Held for Ransom
Title: Held for Ransom
Character: Mr. Kirkland
Released: November 14, 2000
Type: Movie
Held for Ransom is a 2000 direct-to-video film about five high-school students that are kidnapped and held for ransom in a remote swamp area in Florida. It was directed and written by Lee Stanley based on the novel by Lois Duncan.
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Title: CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Character: Richard Zeigler
Released: October 6, 2000
Type: TV
A Las Vegas team of forensic investigators are trained to solve criminal cases by scouring the crime scene, collecting irrefutable evidence and finding the missing pieces that solve the mystery.
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Title: CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Character: Bill Harvey
Released: October 6, 2000
Type: TV
A Las Vegas team of forensic investigators are trained to solve criminal cases by scouring the crime scene, collecting irrefutable evidence and finding the missing pieces that solve the mystery.
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Title: The West Wing
Character: Congressman Mark B. Sellner
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: Vincent Albers
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: Providence
Character: Dr. Sullivan
Released: January 8, 1999
Type: TV
Providence is an American television drama series.
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Title: The King of Queens
Character: Mr. Dugan
Released: September 21, 1998
Type: TV
Life’s good for deliveryman Doug Heffernan, until his newly widowed father-in-law, Arthur, moves in with him and his wife Carrie. Doug is no longer the king of his domain, and instead of having a big screen television in his recently renovated basement, he now has a crazy old man.
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Title: Maggie
Character: Dr. Arthur Day
Released: August 18, 1998
Type: TV
Maggie is an American comedy television series starring Ann Cusack. The series premiered August 18, 1998, on Lifetime Television.
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Some Girl
Title: Some Girl
Character: Claire's Father
Released: April 19, 1998
Type: Movie
Inexperienced in love and living in Los Angeles, aspiring actress Claire longs to find that special someone. Unfortunately, she couldn't pick a more undeserving guy when she starts a relationship with womanizer Chad. Although her friend April warns her about him, it's not as if April doesn't have problems of her own -- namely a chronic inability to stay faithful to her longtime boyfriend, Neal.
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Painted Hero
Title: Painted Hero
Character: Sheriff Acuff
Released: September 16, 1997
Type: Movie
Virgil Kidder hasn't been in Waco for quite a spell, but now that he's back in town clowning in the rodeo, his troubles are catching up with him quicker than a Brahma bull. Country star Dwight Yoakam makes his leading role debut as Kidder, a "painted hero" who's at his best - and safest - when he's taunting the meanest bulls in the business. It's only when the paint comes off that the real danger strikes on a wild Waco weekend filled with thrills, spills and more twists than an eight second bull ride.
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Mojave Moon
Title: Mojave Moon
Character: Police Officer
Released: November 15, 1996
Type: Movie
Al McCord is hanging out at his favourite restaurant when he meets an attractive young woman (Ellie) who is looking for a ride from the city out into the Mojave Desert, where her mother lives. Little does he know that while Ellie is falling in love with him, he is falling for her mother (Julie), despite the nearby presence of Julie's boyfriend who seems likely to go berzerk at any moment. Even more strange, hilarious events follow and it's up to Al to find some explanation. His life may never again be the same.
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Title: Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Released: September 20, 1996
Type: TV
Two globetrotting spies with different styles team up. Posing as husband and wife, they guard their true identities at all costs from the bad guys‒and from each other.
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A Friend's Betrayal
Title: A Friend's Betrayal
Character: Dennis Hewitt
Released: May 19, 1996
Type: Movie
Old feelings of betrayal resurface, renewing a bitter rift between two girlfriends when one learns that the other seduced her son
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The Late Shift
Title: The Late Shift
Character: Brandon Tartikoff
Released: February 24, 1996
Type: Movie
David Letterman vies with Jay Leno and his manager to succeed Johnny Carson, retiring from "The Tonight Show."
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Title: JAG
Character: Adm. Harrison Spencer
Released: September 23, 1995
Type: TV
Harmon "Harm" Rabb Jr. is a former pilot turned lawyer working for the military's JAG (Judge Advocate General) division, the elite legal wing of officers that prosecutes and defends those accused of military-related crimes. He works closely with Lt. Col. Sarah Mackenzie, and together they do what needs to be done to find the truth.
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Awake to Danger
Title: Awake to Danger
Character: Steve Murdock
Released: March 12, 1995
Type: Movie
Recently awakened from a coma, a traumatized adolescent girl fights to remember the circumstances surrounding her mother's brutal death. But as the details slowly come into focus, a killer watches and waits.
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Fortunes of War
Title: Fortunes of War
Character: Franklin Hewitt
Released: December 7, 1994
Type: Movie
When Canadian diplomat Carl Pimmler sends his friend Peter Kernan and his wife Johanna to deliver medicine to the deep jungles of Cambodia, but Peter gets more than he bargained for when the journey ends in a fight for survival. Peter must use his experience and knowledge of South East Asia to get them out of this dangerous mess.
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A Passion to Kill
Title: A Passion to Kill
Character: Jerry
Released: November 4, 1994
Type: Movie
A psychiatrist gets involved with his best friend's wife who may be a murderer.
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Title: The 5 Mrs. Buchanans
Character: Roy Buchanan
Released: September 24, 1994
Type: TV
The 5 Mrs. Buchanans is a U.S. television situation comedy that aired on CBS from September 24, 1994 to March 25, 1995. Set in the fictional town of Mercy, Indiana, the show centers on the small-town misadventures of four disparate women with one thing in common: their loathing for their monster of a mother-in-law.
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Untamed Love
Title: Untamed Love
Character: Dan
Released: August 3, 1994
Type: Movie
A badly abused girl of 6 is saved from having to be admitted to an institution by a dedicated Special Education teacher whose class she's been placed in until there is an opening in the hospital. In that time they form a strong bond and the child begins to heal. The teacher begins to think an institution is not what this child needs.
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Playmaker
Title: Playmaker
Character: Eddie
Released: May 14, 1994
Type: Movie
A would-be actress uncovers horrifying files on other starlets.
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Betrayal of Trust
Title: Betrayal of Trust
Character: Curt
Released: January 3, 1994
Type: Movie
A woman has been to a psychiatrist for years for drug and alcohol addiction, and whose treatment includes being injected with a drug that knocks her out. One day, she was coming around when she notices that the doctor is molesting her. She then tries to get some justice by suing him, and reporting him to the licensing bureau, and the American psychiatric association. And also seeing another psychiatrist to try and figure out what's wrong with her.
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Triumph Over Disaster: The Hurricane Andrew Story
Title: Triumph Over Disaster: The Hurricane Andrew Story
Character: Doug Hulin
Released: May 24, 1993
Type: Movie
Relationship problems between a father and son are intensified by Hurricane Andrew.
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Majority Rule
Title: Majority Rule
Character: Paul Taylor
Released: October 27, 1992
Type: Movie
A war heroine returns to the US to run for president and ends up facing enemies worse than those in the battle: corruption and the dangerous game of power.
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In My Daughter's Name
Title: In My Daughter's Name
Character: Michael Elias
Released: May 10, 1992
Type: Movie
A mother takes the law into her own hands after her daughter's murderer is acquitted on a technicality.
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Curly Sue
Title: Curly Sue
Character: Walker McCormick
Released: October 25, 1991
Type: Movie
Bill Dancer and his young companion Curly Sue are the classic homeless folks with hearts of gold. Their scams are aimed not at turning a profit, but at getting enough to eat. When they scam the rich and beautiful Grey Ellison into believing she backed her Mercedes into Bill, they're only hoping for a free meal. But Grey is touched, and over the objections of her snotty fiancé.
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Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead
Title: Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead
Character: Gus
Released: June 7, 1991
Type: Movie
Sue Ellen Crandell is a teenager eagerly awaiting her mother's summer-long absence. While the babysitter looks after her rambunctious younger siblings, Sue Ellen can party and have fun. But then the babysitter abruptly dies, leaving the Crandells short on cash. Sue Ellen finds a sweet job in fashion by lying about her age and experience on her résumé. But, while her siblings run wild, she discovers the downside of adulthood
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Men at Work
Title: Men at Work
Character: Maxwell Potterdam III
Released: August 24, 1990
Type: Movie
Two garbage men find the body of a city councilman in a trash can on their route. With help from a supervisor, the duo must solve the case and find the man's killer while hiding the body from the cops.
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Born on the Fourth of July
Title: Born on the Fourth of July
Character: Marine Major - Vietnam
Released: December 20, 1989
Type: Movie
Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, Ron Kovic becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought for.
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The Fly II
Title: The Fly II
Character: Stathis Borans
Released: February 10, 1989
Type: Movie
Martin Brundle, born of the human/fly, is adopted by his father's place of employment (Bartok Inc.) while the employees simply wait for his mutant chromosomes to come out of their dormant state.
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Police Story: Burnout
Title: Police Story: Burnout
Character: Sgt. Jack Leland
Released: November 26, 1988
Type: Movie
A veteran vice cop has a hard time dealing with her partner's suicide.
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Title: Murphy Brown
Released: November 14, 1988
Type: TV
Murphy Brown (Candice Bergen) is a recovering alcoholic who returns to the fictional newsmagazine FYI for the first time following a stay at the Betty Ford Clinic residential treatment center. Over 40 and single, she is sharp tongued and hard as nails. In her profession, she is considered one of the boys, having shattered many glass ceilings encountered during her career. Dominating the FYI news magazine, she is portrayed as one of America's hardest-hitting (though not the warmest or more sympathetic) media personalities.
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Title: Mariah
Released: April 1, 1987
Type: TV
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The Fly
Title: The Fly
Character: Stathis Borans
Released: August 15, 1986
Type: Movie
When Seth Brundle makes a huge scientific and technological breakthrough in teleportation, he decides to test it on himself. Unbeknownst to him, a common housefly manages to get inside the device and the two become one.
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I Want To Go Home
Title: I Want To Go Home
Character: Thomas Sanders
Released: February 13, 1985
Type: Movie
Brother and sister go on the run with their divorced mom, not realizing until later that their mom has kidnapped them from their dad.
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Title: MacGruder and Loud
Character: Malcom MacGruder
Released: January 21, 1985
Type: TV
MacGruder and Loud is an American crime drama from Aaron Spelling Productions that aired on ABC in 1985. The series stars John Getz and Kathryn Harrold as married police officers Malcolm MacGruder and Jenny Loud in a Los Angeles Police Department-styled police agency. They fought a battle every day to keep it a closely guarded secret from their boss, Sgt. Hanson. Malcolm and Jenny lived in a duplex-type apartment complex where there was a secret door behind the grandfather clock in her apartment, where Malcolm could sneak in and enjoy her company. This was one of the few failures from Aaron Spelling's production company in its history, since it was picked by ABC to debut right after the Super Bowl in 1985 and was heavily promoted during the game. The promotion resulted in high ratings at first, but following a quick decline, the series was cancelled three months into its run, after ranking 40th out of 104 programs that aired that season with an average 15.76 household rating, according to TVTango.com. Because of the frequent commercials during the Super Bowl, the following night Johnny Carson ask rhetorically during his monologue on The Tonight Show: "Did you see that new show, 'Frequent and Loud'?"
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Thief of Hearts
Title: Thief of Hearts
Character: Ray Davis
Released: October 19, 1984
Type: Movie
A woman trapped in a boring marriage begins an affair with a handsome man who seems able to read her mind. She doesn't know that he has broken into her house and read her diaries, where she has recorded her deepest thoughts and fantasies.
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Title: Murder, She Wrote
Character: Kyle Kimball
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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Title: Murder, She Wrote
Character: Jonas Cole
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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Blood Simple
Title: Blood Simple
Character: Ray
Released: September 7, 1984
Type: Movie
The owner of a seedy small-town Texas bar discovers that one of his employees is having an affair with his wife. A chaotic chain of misunderstandings, lies and mischief ensues after he devises a plot to have them murdered.
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Concrete Beat
Title: Concrete Beat
Released: July 9, 1984
Type: Movie
A newspaper columnist becomes determined to clear a woman who is blamed for the death of her child in a tragic fire.
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Title: Maggie Briggs
Released: March 4, 1984
Type: TV
Maggie Briggs is an American sitcom television series that aired from March 4 until April 15, 1984. The original title for the show was Suzanne Pleshette Is Maggie Briggs.
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Not in Front of the Children
Title: Not in Front of the Children
Character: Dr. Paul Adams
Released: October 26, 1982
Type: Movie
Divorced for two years, Nancy Caruthers, asks her new lover, Paul Adams, a medical student, to move in. She has custody of her two daughters, but this new living arrangement prompts her ex-husband, Richard to sue for custody, based on moral grounds. He does not really want the girls to live with him, but his strict religious background will not allow him to stand by and let them be raised in an atmosphere of 'sin.'
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Muggable Mary: Street Cop
Title: Muggable Mary: Street Cop
Character: Dan Waters
Released: February 25, 1982
Type: Movie
Mary is a single mother with a disabled child who makes a living as a undercover cop catching johns, muggers, and rapists.
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Tattoo
Title: Tattoo
Character: Buddy
Released: October 9, 1981
Type: Movie
Karl Kinsky, an unbalanced tattoo artist, becomes obsessed with Maddy, a model he meets when he is hired to body-paint several women for a photo shoot, making the women look like they have large tattoos. As Kinsky grows more obsessed with Maddy, he becomes increasingly determined that Maddy should bear his "mark" -- forever.
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Rivkin: Bounty Hunter
Title: Rivkin: Bounty Hunter
Character: Lester Dederow
Released: May 20, 1981
Type: Movie
A New York-based bounty hunter who makes a living chasing and capturing bail jumpers matches wits with a heavily-armed drug dealer in this pilot to a prospective series.
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Kent State
Title: Kent State
Character: Prof. Ted Arnold
Released: February 8, 1981
Type: Movie
Dramatization of the four days of events leading up to the historic tragedy at Kent State University in May 1970, during the confrontation between National Guardsmen and students staging antiwar demonstrations.
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Title: A Woman Called Moses
Character: Stewart
Released: December 11, 1978
Type: TV
A television miniseries based on the life of Harriet Tubman, the escaped African American slave who helped to organize the Underground Railroad, and who led dozens of African Americans from enslavement in the Southern United States to freedom in the Northern states and Canada.
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Loose Change
Title: Loose Change
Character: John Campbell
Released: February 26, 1978
Type: Movie
Three girlfriends -- an author, an artist, and a political activist -- mature and change during the turbulent 1960s.
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Title: On Our Own
Character: Tom Ericson
Released: October 9, 1977
Type: TV
On Our Own is an American television series broadcast on CBS as part of their 1977-78 schedule. It featured Lynnie Greene as Maria Bonino and Bess Armstrong as Julia Peters, two employees in the Bedford Advertising Agency in New York who also share an apartment. Toni McBain was their boss, while April Baxter and Phil Goldstein were their coworkers. On Our Own was shot at CBS studios in Manhattan and edited at Unitel. The editor was Frank Herold. The show was filmed on location in New York in front of a live audience, which was somewhat unique for a show of its genre during the late 1970s, as most sitcoms were typically taped in Hollywood. The show aired from 9 October 1977 until 27 August 1978.
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Title: Rafferty
Released: September 5, 1977
Type: TV
Rafferty is an American medical drama that aired on CBS from September 5 to November 28, 1977. The series stars Patrick McGoohan as Doctor Sid Rafferty, a former army doctor running his own private practice in Los Angeles and helping out part time at City General Hospital.
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Title: Three's Company
Character: Lee Tripper
Released: March 15, 1977
Type: TV
The three single roommates Janet Wood, Chrissy Snow and Jack Tripper all platonically share Apartment 201 in a Santa Monica, California apartment building owned by Mr. and Mrs. Roper.
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Title: The Andros Targets
Character: Dan Bridger
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 Sentinel
Title: The Sentinel
Character: Film Crew (uncredited)
Released: January 7, 1977
Type: Movie
When a beautiful model, Alison Parker, rents an apartment in a gloomy New York brownstone, little does she realize that an unspeakable horror awaits her behind its doors... a mysterious gateway to hell.
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Title: Wonder Woman
Character: Christian Harrison
Released: November 7, 1975
Type: TV
With the strength of Hercules, the wisdom of Athena, the speed of Mercury and the beauty of Aphrodite, she’s Wonder Woman. Beautiful Amazon princess Wonder Woman travels to 1940s America disguised as Diana Prince, assistant to handsome but trouble-prone Major Steve Trevor. Using her golden belt, which imbues her with astonishing strength, her bullet-deflecting bracelets, a golden lasso that dispels dishonesty and an invisible supersonic plane, Wonder Woman combats evil.
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The Happy Hooker
Title: The Happy Hooker
Character: Trout Fisherman
Released: May 8, 1975
Type: Movie
Having emigrated to New York and immediately got the kiss-off from her mother-besotted fiance, a Dutch lass takes a well-paid office job and starts liberally sampling the local male talent. After a while she decides to make her pleasure her business too, and as her reputation grows she graduates to a high-class bordello. Soon she realises she has the right talents to make a real success of a place of her own.
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Title: Barney Miller
Character: William McKuen
Released: January 23, 1975
Type: TV
Barney Miller is an American situation comedy television series set in a New York City police station in Greenwich Village. The series originally was broadcast from January 23, 1975 to May 20, 1982 on ABC. It was created by Danny Arnold and Theodore J. Flicker. Noam Pitlik directed the majority of the episodes.
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Killer Bees
Title: Killer Bees
Character: Attendant
Released: February 26, 1974
Type: Movie
A strong-willed woman not only dominates her family of California winegrowers, but also has a strange hold on a colony of bees in her vineyard.
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Title: ABC Afterschool Special
Character: Thomas Sanders
Released: October 4, 1972
Type: TV
Dramatically presented situations, often controversial, of interest to children and teenagers. Several episodes were either in animated form or presented as documentaries. Topics included illiteracy, substance abuse and teenage pregnancy.
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Title: Another World
Released: May 4, 1964
Type: TV
Another World is an American television soap opera that ran on NBC for 35 years from May 4, 1964 to June 25, 1999. Set in the fictional town of Bay City, the show in its early years opens with announcer Bill Wolff intoning its epigram, “We do not live in this world alone, but in a thousand other worlds,” which Phillips said represented the difference between “the world of events we live in, and the world of feelings and dreams that we strive for.” Another World focused less on the conventional drama of domestic life as seen in other soap operas, and more on exotic melodrama between families of different classes and philosophies.
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Title: A Classic Spy
Character: Elliott
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
Charles, a retired man, gets a new lease on life when he answers an ad from a PI and becomes a mole in a secret investigation.