James Stephens

James Stephens

Born: May 18, 1951
in Mount Kisco, New York, USA

Movies for James Stephens...

Hijack
Title: Hijack
Character: Harold Besser
Released: August 31, 1999
Type: Movie
A prestigious senator and the passengers on board a train are kidnapped by a militia group.
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Title: Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction
Character: Tom North (segment "The Gun")
Released: November 4, 1998
Type: TV
Can you tell the difference between fact and fiction? Several stories of strange, mysterious and incredible occurrences are chronicled during each episode. It is up to the viewer to decide which stories actually happened and which were completely fabricated by the show’s writers. The answer is revealed by Jonathan Frakes at the conclusion of each episode.
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Title: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Character: Dr. Weirick
Released: March 10, 1997
Type: TV
Into every generation a slayer is born: one girl in all the world, a chosen one. She alone will wield the strength and skill to fight the vampires, demons, and the forces of darkness; to stop the spread of their evil and the swell of their number. She is the Slayer.
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Against the Law
Title: Against the Law
Character: Detective Ben Hamada
Released: January 1, 1997
Type: Movie
A trigger-happy outlaw goes on the run and a burned out, disillusioned cop gives chase. They end up head-to-head in a Los Angeles shoot out.
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Perry Mason: The Case of the Lethal Lifestyle
Title: Perry Mason: The Case of the Lethal Lifestyle
Character: Daniel Kingman
Released: May 10, 1994
Type: Movie
A former associate of Perry Mason returns to handle the defense of a world-class chess player accused of murdering a prominent TV personality.
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MacShayne: Final Roll of the Dice
Title: MacShayne: Final Roll of the Dice
Character: Patrick Blondel
Released: April 29, 1994
Type: Movie
Reformed con man Jack MacShayne is back, this time as the head of security at the Las Vegas hotel he stayed at in MacShayne: Winner Takes All. As part of his new job, he's charged with protecting a variety of distinguished guests, from the kleptomaniac grandson of the hotel's CEO to the lounge singer whose ex-husband shows up dead. Meanwhile, a senatorial candidate is relying on MacShayne to keep him safe from a deadly hit man.
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The Getaway
Title: The Getaway
Character: Harold Carvey
Released: February 11, 1994
Type: Movie
Doc McCoy is put in prison because his partners chickened out and flew off without him after exchanging a prisoner with a lot of money. Doc knows Jack Benyon, a rich "business"-man, is up to something big, so he tells his wife (Carol McCoy) to tell him that he's for sale if Benyon can get him out of prison. Benyon pulls some strings and Doc McCoy is released again. Unfortunately he has to cooperate with the same person that got him to prison.
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Title: Diagnosis: Murder
Character: Dr. Niven
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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Title: Diagnosis: Murder
Character: Ian Trainor
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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Follow Your Heart
Title: Follow Your Heart
Character: Howard Dell
Released: April 2, 1990
Type: Movie
An ex-marine, in search of some defining life direction, unexpectedly faces a hurdle when his jeep breaks down in a sparsely populated Wyoming town. While waiting for parts to repair the vehicle he takes a temporary job as a rest area attendant and moves onto a ranch run by a one-legged widow with a mentally handicapped son. When an abandoned Vietnamese girl joins the group, the scene is ready for confrontation and tragedy.
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Title: Father Dowling Mysteries
Character: Father Philip Prestwick
Released: January 20, 1989
Type: TV
Father Dowling Mysteries is an American television mystery series that aired from January 20, 1989 to May 2, 1991. Prior to the series, a TV movie aired on November 30, 1987. For its first season, the show was on NBC; it moved to ABC for its last two seasons. It is based on the adventures of the title character created by Ralph McInerny, in a series of mystery novels. The series was produced by The Fred Siverman Company and Dean Hargrove Productions in association with Viacom Productions.
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Pancho Barnes
Title: Pancho Barnes
Character: Rankin Barnes
Released: October 25, 1988
Type: Movie
Bored socialite Florence Pancho Barnes decides to learn to fly.
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Title: 21 Jump Street
Character: Mark Rafferty
Released: April 12, 1987
Type: TV
21 Jump Street revolves around a group of young cops who would use their youthful appearance to go undercover and solve crimes involving teenagers and young adults.
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Houston: The Legend of Texas
Title: Houston: The Legend of Texas
Character: Stephen Austin
Released: November 22, 1986
Type: Movie
Sam Elliot stars as Sam Houston, the visionary who nearly single-handedly forged the state of Texas into a powerful entity in its own right. Refusing to forget the Alamo (as if anyone could), Houston led the military in Texas' rebellion against Mexico. G.D. Spradlin co-stars as President Andrew Jackson, with Michael Beck appearing as Jim Bowie, James Stephens as Stephen Austin, and Richard Yniguez as Mexican General Santa Anna. Lensed on location in the Lone Star state, this sweeping made-for-TV film originally occupied three hours' screen time on November 22, 1986. Its title at that time was Houston: The Legend of Texas. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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Title: L.A. Law
Character: Dr. Michael Joyce
Released: September 15, 1986
Type: TV
L.A. Law is an American television legal drama series that ran for eight seasons on NBC from September 15, 1986, to May 19, 1994. Created by Steven Bochco and Terry Louise Fisher, it contained many of Bochco's trademark features including a large number of parallel storylines, social drama and off-the-wall humor. It reflected the social and cultural ideologies of the 1980s and early 1990s, and many of the cases featured on the show dealt with hot-topic issues such as abortion, racism, gay rights, homophobia, sexual harassment, AIDS, and domestic violence. The series often also reflected social tensions between the wealthy senior lawyer protagonists and their less well-paid junior staff. The show was popular with audiences and critics, and won 15 Emmy Awards throughout its run, four of which were for Outstanding Drama Series.
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Title: Matlock
Released: March 3, 1986
Type: TV
Matlock is an American television legal drama, starring Andy Griffith in the title role of criminal defense attorney Ben Matlock. The show, produced by The Fred Silverman Company, Dean Hargrove Productions, Viacom Productions and Paramount Television originally aired from September 23, 1986 to May 8, 1992 on NBC; and from November 5, 1992 until May 7, 1995 on ABC. The show's format is similar to that of CBS's Perry Mason, with Matlock identifying the perpetrators and then confronting them in dramatic courtroom scenes. One difference, however, was that whereas Mason usually exculpated his clients at a pretrial hearing, Matlock usually secured an acquittal at trial, from the jury.
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Title: Moonlighting
Character: Mark Charnock
Released: March 3, 1985
Type: TV
After being duped and going bankrupt, model Maddie is convinced by David to become a partner in a detective agency. Together they solve various cases, while getting comfortable with each other.
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Title: Murder, She Wrote
Character: Bert Donovan
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: U.S. Treasury Agent Lennihan
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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Two of a Kind
Title: Two of a Kind
Character: Ron
Released: December 13, 1983
Type: Movie
God has had just about enough of the human's attitude so he will destroy the planet very soon. It is up to a struggling inventor and a bank teller, both with very amateur criminal minds, to save the world.
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Title: Hotel
Released: August 21, 1982
Type: TV
Hotel is an American prime time drama series which aired on ABC from September 21, 1983 to May 5, 1988 in the timeslot following Dynasty. Based on Arthur Hailey's 1965 novel of the same name, the series was produced by Aaron Spelling and set in the elegant and fictitious St. Gregory Hotel in San Francisco. Establishing shots of the hotel were filmed in front of The Fairmont San Francisco atop the Nob Hill neighborhood. Episodes followed the activities of passing guests, as well as the personal and professional lives of the hotel staff.
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Mysterious Two
Title: Mysterious Two
Character: Tim Armstrong
Released: May 31, 1982
Type: Movie
Two Aliens visit the Earth in an effort to enlist converts to travel the universe with them.
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Title: Cagney & Lacey
Released: March 25, 1982
Type: TV
Mary Beth Lacey and Chris Cagney are teamed up as NYPD police detectives. Their opposing personalities (one is tough and the other sensitive) mesh to make this one of the great crime-fighting duos of all time.
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First Monday in October
Title: First Monday in October
Character: Mason Woods
Released: August 21, 1981
Type: Movie
For the first time in history a woman is appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court, where she becomes a friendly rival to a liberal associate.
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Tourist
Title: Tourist
Character: Steve Konay
Released: July 17, 1980
Type: Movie
A group of tourists on a "once-in-a-lifetime" European vacation try to rekindle their romances with themselves.
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The Death of Ocean View Park
Title: The Death of Ocean View Park
Character: Phil Brady
Released: October 19, 1979
Type: Movie
A group of celebrants find themselves trapped in an amusement park that is being torn apart by a hurricane during a Fourth of July holiday. The real Ocean View Park in Norfolk, Virginia, scheduled for demolition by the city, actually was blown up and burned down during the filming.
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Title: Eischied
Released: September 21, 1979
Type: TV
Eischied is an American crime drama broadcast on NBC from September 21, 1979 to January 20, 1980. It was based on the starring character from the 1978 miniseries To Kill a Cop, which was based on the novel by Robert Daley.
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Title: The Paper Chase
Character: James T. Hart
Released: September 9, 1978
Type: TV
Critically lauded drama about the life and pressures of a group of students at a prestigious Eastern law school, with a strict and domineering contract-law professor named Charles Kingsfield, who alternately inspires and terrifies the students.
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True Grit: A Further Adventure
Title: True Grit: A Further Adventure
Character: Joshua Sumner
Released: May 19, 1978
Type: Movie
The further adventures of True Grit's Rooster Cogburn has him battling injustice in his own unorthodox way while contending with a teenage girl bent on reforming him.
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Title: M*A*S*H
Released: September 17, 1972
Type: TV
The 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital is stuck in the middle of the Korean war. With little help from the circumstances they find themselves in, they are forced to make their own fun. Fond of practical jokes and revenge, the doctors, nurses, administrators, and soldiers often find ways of making wartime life bearable.