Morton Downey, Jr.

Morton Downey, Jr.

Born: December 9, 1933
Died: March 12, 2001
in Los Angeles, California, USA

Movies for Morton Downey, Jr....

Manufacturing Ignorance
Title: Manufacturing Ignorance
Character: Himself (archive footage)
Released: November 23, 2020
Type: Movie
Tobacco, climate change, pesticides,... Never has scientific knowledge seemed so vast, detailed and shared. And yet it appears to be increasingly challenged. It is no longer surprising to see private corporations put strategies in place to confuse the public debate and paralyze political decision-making. Overwhelmed by excess of information, how can we, as citizens, sort out fact from fiction? One by one, this film dismantles the workings of this clever manoeuvre that aims to turn science against itself. Thanks to declassified archives, graphic animations and testimonies from experts, lobbyists and politicians, this investigation plunges us into the science of doubt. Along with a team of experts (philosophers, economists, cognitive scientists, political men, or even agnotologists), we explore concrete examples of doubt making and try to understand the whole process and the issues behind it.
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AGFA MYSTERY MIXTAPE #5: HAUNTED LIVES
Title: AGFA MYSTERY MIXTAPE #5: HAUNTED LIVES
Character: Self
Released: October 14, 2020
Type: Movie
Unleashed from the video vaults of the American Genre Film Archive (AGFA), AGFA MYSTERY MIXTAPE #5: HAUNTED LIVES is a brand new compilation of the most electrifying found footage mayhem that you’ll see this week. For this latest tape, we take yet another deep dive into behind-the-scenes horror. Thank you for your generous support during these challenging times. And remember: “Don’t touch that dial . . . UNLESS YOU’RE SCARED.”
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Evocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie
Title: Evocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: June 7, 2013
Type: Movie
Long before O'Reilly and Beck, Morton Downey, Jr., was tearing up the talk-show format with his divisive populism. Between the fistfights, rabid audience, and Mort's cigarette smoke always "in your face," The Morton Downey Jr. Show was billed as "3-D television," "rock and roll without the music." Évocateur meditates on the hysteria that ended the '80s and ultimately its most notorious agitator.
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The Hunters and the Hunted: The Making of 'Predator 2'
Title: The Hunters and the Hunted: The Making of 'Predator 2'
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 25, 2005
Type: Movie
The Hunters and the Hunted: The Making of Predator 2 is a 2005 documentary that details the production of the 1990 film Predator 2. Created for the Predator 2: Special Edition DVD set, it uses interviews with the film's cast and crew, as well as behind the scenes footage and imagery, to examine the development, filming and release of the movie.
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Palmer's Pick Up
Title: Palmer's Pick Up
Character: Dick Cash
Released: February 9, 1999
Type: Movie
Two dimwit owners of a struggling hauling company are approached about hauling a huge, mysterious box across country at the end of the century. The cargo has religious significance and may be an attempt to release Satan in the Devil's Triangle to start the next century. En route, many step out to try to stop their delivery...
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Meet Wally Sparks
Title: Meet Wally Sparks
Character: Morton Downey, Jr.
Released: January 31, 1997
Type: Movie
Wally Sparks is a tabloid TV show reporter who's trying to boost ratings on his show. He goes to the governor's mansion to uncover a sex scandal.
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Hollywood: The Movie
Title: Hollywood: The Movie
Character: Carlton
Released: January 1, 1996
Type: Movie
An ambitious filmmaker sets out to make an avant-garde film but soon learns the only way he can secure financing is if he shows Jessica Hahn's breasts. Also, two old women are magically transformed into young starlets.
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The Rockford Files: A Blessing in Disguise
Title: The Rockford Files: A Blessing in Disguise
Character: Himself
Released: May 14, 1995
Type: Movie
Angel's televangelical ministry launches a boycott against a movie entitled "Little Ezekial," and Rockford is hired to protect its star.
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Title: Diagnosis: Murder
Character: Carl Burke
Released: October 29, 1993
Type: TV
Dr. Mark Sloan is a good-natured, offbeat physician who is called upon to solve murders.
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The Silencer
Title: The Silencer
Character: Michael Keating
Released: October 1, 1992
Type: Movie
Lynette Walden and Chris Mulkey star in this action-packed ride through the sexy and dangerous world of flesh for sale and murder for hire.
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Body Chemistry II: Voice of a Stranger
Title: Body Chemistry II: Voice of a Stranger
Character: Big Chuck
Released: August 5, 1992
Type: Movie
A man is torn between two women and his own violent self, borne of child abuse.
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Revenge of the Nerds III: The Next Generation
Title: Revenge of the Nerds III: The Next Generation
Character: Orrin Price
Released: July 13, 1992
Type: Movie
The nerds are now in control of the university, as a result of Lewis Skolnick and the rest's actions in the two previous movies. A new generation of sportsmen arrive, however, determined on winning the school back. The principle, himself an ex-nerd fighter, helps them, and the nerds return to suppression. Harold Skolnick needs help from his uncle Lewis, the hero of the first two movies. Lewis, however, are not too proud of his nerd past, and won't reveal any of it, much less help his nephew. However, his wife makes him change his mind, and with help from his friends from the first two movies, they start the fight to win the school back, using classic nerd tricks.
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Driving Me Crazy
Title: Driving Me Crazy
Character: Taj
Released: May 16, 1991
Type: Movie
An eccentric East German inventor and defector travels to Los Angeles, California to sell a prototype revolutionary new car that runs on vegetables and produces no pollution, but he runs into one madcap situation after another to find a buyer and financier for mass production.
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Legal Tender
Title: Legal Tender
Character: Mal Connery
Released: March 1, 1991
Type: Movie
A beautiful bar owner becomes victimized by a lethal bank fraud plot.
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Predator 2
Title: Predator 2
Character: Tony Pope
Released: November 21, 1990
Type: Movie
A police chief in the war-torn streets of Los Angeles discovers that an extraterrestrial creature is hunting down residents - and that he is the next target.
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Thanksgiving Day
Title: Thanksgiving Day
Character: Dr. Saul Minion
Released: November 19, 1990
Type: Movie
Light-hearted spoof about a dysfunctional upper-income family who have to come to terms with family and business problems around the titular holiday.
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Title: Tales from the Crypt
Character: Horton Rivers
Released: June 10, 1989
Type: TV
Cadaverous scream legend the Crypt Keeper is your macabre host for these forays of fright and fun based on the classic E.C. Comics tales from back in the day. So shamble up to the bar and pick your poison. Will it be an insane Santa on a personal slay ride? Honeymooners out to fulfill the "til death do we part" vow ASAP?
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WWE WrestleMania V
Title: WWE WrestleMania V
Character: Himself
Released: April 2, 1989
Type: Movie
WrestleMania V was the fifth annual WrestleMania professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). It took place on April 2, 1989 at the Trump Plaza in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The event was commentated by Gorilla Monsoon and Jesse Ventura. The main event was Hulk Hogan versus Randy Savage for the WWF Championship billed "The Mega Powers Explode" which Hogan won after a leg drop. Featured matches on the undercard were Rick Rude versus The Ultimate Warrior for the WWF Intercontinental Championship, The Hart Foundation (Bret Hart and Jim Neidhart) versus Greg Valentine and The Honky Tonk Man and Demolition (Ax and Smash) versus Powers of Pain and Mr. Fuji in a handicap match for the WWF Tag Team Championship.
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Title: WWF Wrestling Challenge
Character: Self
Released: September 6, 1986
Type: TV
WWF Wrestling Challenge was a professional wrestling television program produced by the World Wrestling Federation. It was syndicated weekly and aired from 1986 to 1995. The show became simply known as WWF Challenge in 1995. The show featured matches, pre-match interviews, and occasionally, summarized weekly events in WWF programming. Matches primarily saw top tier and mid-level talent versus jobbers. At times, there was a "feature" match between main WWF talent. As with other syndicated WWF programming, the show promoted WWF event dates and house shows in local media markets.
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Born Again
Title: Born Again
Character: Classroom Guard
Released: October 1, 1978
Type: Movie
Having been imprisoned for his part in the Watergate scandal, Charles Colson undergoes a religious conversion.
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Title: Saturday Night Live
Character: Self (uncredited)
Released: October 11, 1975
Type: TV
A late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels. The show's comedy sketches, which parody contemporary culture and politics, are performed by a large and varying cast of repertory and newer cast members. Each episode is hosted by a celebrity guest, who usually delivers an opening monologue and performs in sketches with the cast, and features performances by a musical guest.