Richard C. Sarafian

Richard C. Sarafian

Born: April 28, 1930
Died: September 18, 2013
in New York City, New York, USA
Richard Caspar Sarafian (April 28, 1930 – September 18, 2013) was an American television and film director and actor. He compiled a versatile career that spanned over five decades as a director, actor, and writer. Sarafian is best known as the director of the 1971 film Vanishing Point.

Movies for Richard C. Sarafian...

Masked and Anonymous
Title: Masked and Anonymous
Character: President
Released: July 25, 2003
Type: Movie
Amidst unrest, organizers put on a benefit concert.
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Hitters
Title: Hitters
Released: December 1, 2002
Type: Movie
A respected civic leader is caught between two rival underworld crime families on the verge of war.
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Dr. Dolittle 2
Title: Dr. Dolittle 2
Character: God Beaver (voice)
Released: June 22, 2001
Type: Movie
A group of beavers ask Dr. Dolittle to save their habitat from loggers. The only hope is to get the forest preserved because it's the home of a protected bear, but there's a problem: the bear's the only bear in the forest, so she can't reproduce. Undaunted, Dolittle persuades a circus bear to help out, but he has to teach him not just the ways of the wild, but the wiles of lady bears too.
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Blue Streak
Title: Blue Streak
Character: Uncle Lou
Released: September 17, 1999
Type: Movie
Miles Logan is a jewel thief who just hit the big time by stealing a huge diamond. However, after two years in jail, he comes to find out that he hid the diamond in a police building that was being built at the time of the robbery. In an attempt to regain his diamond, he poses as an LAPD detective.
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Blink of an Eye
Title: Blink of an Eye
Character: Erlik
Released: September 16, 1999
Type: Movie
Tommy is a 28-year-old man who escaped his hellish childhood by murdering his abusive father. After a prison stint, Tommy's work release program gives him a shot at a new life when he is placed as a cook at St. Michael's School in L.A, There he meets Guillermo, a neighborhood kid who is committed to keeping him out of trouble, and Sophia, a schoolteacher who educates him in a subject he knows nothing about--love.
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Bulworth
Title: Bulworth
Character: Vinnie
Released: May 15, 1998
Type: Movie
A suicidally disillusioned liberal politician puts a contract out on himself and takes the opportunity to be bluntly honest with his voters by affecting the rhythms and speech of hip-hop music and culture.
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Bound
Title: Bound
Character: Gino Marzzone
Released: September 13, 1996
Type: Movie
Corky, a tough female ex-convict working on an apartment renovation in a Chicago building, meets a couple living next door, Caesar, a paranoid mobster, and Violet, his seductive girlfriend, who is immediately attracted to her.
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Gotti
Title: Gotti
Character: Paul Castellano
Released: August 17, 1996
Type: Movie
John Gotti, the head of a small New York mafia crew breaks a few of the old family rules. He rises to become the head of the Gambino family and the most well-known mafia boss in America. Life is good, but suspicion creeps in, and greed, rule-breaking and his high public profile all threaten to topple him.
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Miami Hustle
Title: Miami Hustle
Character: Henry Kronfeld
Released: July 21, 1996
Type: Movie
Marsha, a con artist with a conscience, has agreed to take on an unusual scheme in order to pay off a debt to a lawyer who helped out her brother. An elderly millionaire is about to die, and the entire fortune has been willed to a stripper named Jean, who is unaware of the windfall awaiting her. Marsha's task is to get to know Jean well enough that she can impersonate her at the reading of the will and take the inheritance for herself. Taking a job at the same strip club, the pair soon bond, but will Marsha's feelings for her new friend outweigh her need to help pay off her brother's debt?
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The Crossing Guard
Title: The Crossing Guard
Character: Sunny Ventura
Released: November 15, 1995
Type: Movie
Unable to move on from the loss of his daughter, Freddy, now a shell of the person he was before, swears to kill the man responsible for her death.
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Don Juan DeMarco
Title: Don Juan DeMarco
Character: Detective Sy Tobias
Released: October 12, 1994
Type: Movie
John Arnold DeMarco is a man who believes he is Don Juan, the greatest lover in the world. Clad in a cape and mask, DeMarco undergoes psychiatric treatment with Dr. Jack Mickler to cure him of his apparent delusion. But the psychiatric sessions have an unexpected effect on the psychiatric staff and, most profoundly, Dr Mickler, who rekindles the romance in his complacent marriage.
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The Road Killers
Title: The Road Killers
Character: Trucker
Released: May 7, 1994
Type: Movie
After a young boy is almost runover by a maniac on a highway, a re-encounter and confrontation by the boy's father with the driver sets off conflicts with a carful of maniacs.
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Gunmen
Title: Gunmen
Character: Chief Chavez
Released: May 21, 1993
Type: Movie
A New York DEA agent springs an outlaw from jail to lead him to stolen money in South America.
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Ruby
Title: Ruby
Character: Proby
Released: March 27, 1992
Type: Movie
Fact and fiction are combined in this story about Jack Ruby and a stripper, Candy Cane, and how they become involved in a conspiracy to kill J.F.K.
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Bugsy
Title: Bugsy
Character: Jack Dragna
Released: December 10, 1991
Type: Movie
New York gangster Ben 'Bugsy' Siegel takes a brief business trip to Los Angeles. A sharp-dressing womanizer with a foul temper, Siegel doesn't hesitate to kill or maim anyone crossing him. In L.A. the life, the movies, and most of all strong-willed Virginia Hill detain him while his family wait back home. Then a trip to a run-down gambling joint at a spot in the desert known as Las Vegas gives him his big idea.
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Title: Wiseguy
Released: September 16, 1987
Type: TV
Vinnie Terranova does time in a New Jersey penitentiary to set up his undercover role as an agent for the OCB (Organized Crime Bureau) of the United States. His roots in a traditional Italian city neighborhood form the underlying dramatic base throughout the series, bringing him into conflict with his conservative mother and other family members while acting undercover as syndicate enforcer.
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Street Justice
Title: Street Justice
Character: Taxi Driver
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
A forgotten CIA agent escapes after 12 years and returns to his corrupt New Jersey hometown.
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Alien Predators
Title: Alien Predators
Character: Capt. J.J. Wells (voice) (uncredited)
Released: August 5, 1986
Type: Movie
Three young friends who are on vacation in Spain and a NASA scientist must join forces to save themselves and the rest of the world from an alien menace.
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Liberty
Title: Liberty
Character: Philbert Evans
Released: June 23, 1986
Type: Movie
Drama about how the Statue of Liberty came to be erected in New York Harbor in the early 1880s and the people responsible for its creation.
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Long Time Gone
Title: Long Time Gone
Character: Omar
Released: May 23, 1986
Type: Movie
A "world-class screw-up" private eye finds his world and his attention changed when he is reunited with his estranged 11-year old son.
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Title: Foley Square
Released: December 11, 1985
Type: TV
Foley Square is a 1985-1986 United States comedic television series starring Margaret Colin which centers around an assistant district attorney in New York City. It was Colin's first starring role. Original episodes aired from December 11, 1985, to April 8, 1986.
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Title: MacGyver
Character: Caspar Kasabian
Released: September 29, 1985
Type: TV
He's everyone's favorite action hero... but he's a hero with a difference. Angus MacGyver is a secret agent whose wits are his deadliest weapon. Armed with only a knapsack filled with everyday items he picks up along the way, he improvises his way out of every peril the bad guys throw at him. Making a bomb out of chewing gum? Fixing a speeding car's breaks... while he's riding in it? Using soda pop to cook up tear gas? That's all in a day's adventures for MacGyver. He's part Boy Scout, part genius. And all hero.
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Songwriter
Title: Songwriter
Character: Rodeo Rocky
Released: October 14, 1984
Type: Movie
Doc Jenkins may be one of country music's most beloved stars, but his private life is a wreck. He's split up with his longtime partner, Blackie Buck, a country outlaw with a heart of gold. Doc's singer-wife, Honey Carder, has thrown him out of the house. And now he's gotten involved with a sleazy music manager, Rodeo Rocky, who's out to steal his material. Teaming up with Blackie, Doc takes drastic measures to win back his family and reclaim his songs.