Michael Shanks

Michael Shanks

Born: December 15, 1970
in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Michael Garrett Shanks (born December 15, 1970) is a Canadian actor who achieved fame for his role as Dr. Daniel Jackson in the long-running Canadian-American military science fiction television series Stargate SG-1.

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Title: Virgin River
Character: Wes
Released: December 6, 2019
Type: TV
After seeing an ad for a midwife, a recently divorced big-city nurse moves to the redwood forests of California, where she meets an intriguing man.
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The College Admissions Scandal
Title: The College Admissions Scandal
Character: Rick Singer
Released: October 12, 2019
Type: Movie
Two wealthy mothers, Caroline, a sought after interior designer and Bethany, an owner of a successful financial services firm, who share an obsession with getting their teenagers into the best possible college.
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Heritage Minutes: D-Day
Title: Heritage Minutes: D-Day
Character: Major Archie MacNaughton
Released: May 30, 2019
Type: Movie
On June 6, 1944, Canadian Forces landed on Juno Beach. D-Day, as this day would become known, was the largest amphibious invasion of all time, led to the liberation of France, and marked the beginning of the end of the Second World War.
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Title: Unspeakable
Character: Will Sanders
Released: January 9, 2019
Type: TV
In the early 1980s, AIDS emerged and quickly became an epidemic. Those responsible for public safety failed. People were kept in the dark, afraid to speak out. Ignorance, arrogance, politics and economics all lead to betrayal, to cover-up, to scandal. Unspeakable is told from the perspective of two families caught in a tragedy that gripped a nation, as well as the doctors, nurses, corporations and bureaucracy responsible.
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Title: Altered Carbon
Character: Horace Axley
Released: February 2, 2018
Type: TV
After 250 years on ice, a prisoner returns to life in a new body with one chance to win his freedom: by solving a mind-bending murder.
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Christmas Homecoming
Title: Christmas Homecoming
Character: Master Sgt. Jim Mullins
Released: November 18, 2017
Type: Movie
A military widow, whose faith in Christmas has lapsed, rents an apartment to a handsome Army Captain, recovering from an injury in battle, and whose faith in Christmas is inspirational. As they team up to save the town’s military museum with a Christmas fundraising event, these two ‘wounded birds’ find themselves falling in love — and being healed by the magic of Christmas.
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Title: The Good Doctor
Character: Paul
Released: September 25, 2017
Type: TV
Shaun Murphy, a young surgeon with autism and savant syndrome, relocates from a quiet country life to join a prestigious hospital's surgical unit. Unable to personally connect with those around him, Shaun uses his extraordinary medical gifts to save lives and challenge the skepticism of his colleagues.
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Yellow
Title: Yellow
Character: Blind Date Guy
Released: January 1, 2017
Type: Movie
10 characters each experience a crossroads in their lives on a seemingly ordinary afternoon in an art gallery.
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Hearts of Spring
Title: Hearts of Spring
Character: Andy Summers
Released: April 9, 2016
Type: Movie
A famous mommy blogger faces an empty nest as her daughter prepares to go away to college. When she turns to her blog for advice, she finds herself on the attack by a reader who has conflicting opinions. While she deals with him online, offline she finally meets a great single dad and sparks start to fly. What she doesn’t know is that the confrontational reader and the adorable single dad are, in fact, the same person.
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Elysium
Title: Elysium
Character: CCB Agent
Released: August 7, 2013
Type: Movie
In the year 2159, two classes of people exist: the very wealthy who live on a pristine man-made space station called Elysium, and the rest, who live on an overpopulated, ruined Earth. Secretary Rhodes, a hard line government official, will stop at nothing to enforce anti-immigration laws and preserve the luxurious lifestyle of the citizens of Elysium. That doesn’t stop the people of Earth from trying to get in, by any means they can. When unlucky Max is backed into a corner, he agrees to take on a daunting mission that, if successful, will not only save his life, but could bring equality to these polarized worlds.
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Mr. Hockey: The Gordie Howe Story
Title: Mr. Hockey: The Gordie Howe Story
Character: Gordie Howe
Released: April 28, 2013
Type: Movie
The story of the 1973 hockey season when aging legend Gordie Howe returned to the ice at the age of 44.
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13 Eerie
Title: 13 Eerie
Character: Tomkins
Released: March 29, 2013
Type: Movie
Forensics students arriving an isolated, island "body farm" get to try out their CSI skills on a bunch of corpses under the watchful eye of their grumpy professor. The island used to house a state penitentiary where the authorities were experimenting on death row inmates and now the bodies won't stay still.
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The Bouquet
Title: The Bouquet
Character: Sam
Released: February 5, 2013
Type: Movie
Two estranged sisters torn apart by their differences suddenly find themselves working together towards a common goal in this heartwarming drama...For years, overachiever Terri (Kristy Swanson) and her idealistic sister, Mandy (Alberta Mayne), have kept their distance from each other, as well as from their parents' struggling florist business. But when a tragic turn of events brings both women home, they discover just how much they need one another in order to continue their family legacy. Filled with romance, humor and hope, it's an endearing story about making time for the ones you love.
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Title: Saving Hope
Character: Dr. Charlie Harris
Released: June 7, 2012
Type: TV
When Charlie Harris ends up in a coma, he leaves the Hope-Zion Hospital in chaos - and his fiancée and fellow surgeon, Alex Reid, in a state of shock. As the staff of Hope-Zion races to save lives, comatose Dr. Harris wanders the halls of Hope-Zee in "spirit" form, not sure if he's a ghost or a figment of his own imagination.
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The Pastor's Wife
Title: The Pastor's Wife
Character: Matthew Winkler
Released: November 5, 2011
Type: Movie
Based on the true story of Matthew Winkler, a beloved minister who, in 2006, was found shot and killed in his Selmer, Tennessee home, his wife and young daughters missing. Authorities soon zeroed in on Matthew's wife, Mary, as the prime suspect in the murder. After her capture, the residents of Selmer were left to wonder what would drive Mary to shoot her husband in the back as he slept. They would get their answers during her trial, when what went on behind the closed doors of this seemingly perfect family was revealed for all to see.
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Faces in the Crowd
Title: Faces in the Crowd
Character: Bryce
Released: October 25, 2011
Type: Movie
A horror-thriller centered on a woman living with "face-blindness" after surviving a serial killer's attack. As she lives with her condition, one in which facial features change each time she loses sight of them, the killer closes in.
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Christmas Lodge
Title: Christmas Lodge
Character: Jack
Released: October 11, 2011
Type: Movie
Mary Tobin has wonderful memories of family gatherings at the Christmas Lodge. When she arrives for a weekend vacation, she quickly realizes that the lodge that she loves has fallen into serious disrepair. With a lack of funds and a looming deadline, she not only restores the Christmas lodge's charm but finds love along the way.
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Tactical Force
Title: Tactical Force
Character: Demetrius
Released: August 9, 2011
Type: Movie
A training exercise for the LAPD SWAT Team goes terribly wrong when they find themselves pitted against two rival gangs while trapped in an abandoned Hangar, armed with nothing but blanks.
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Red Riding Hood
Title: Red Riding Hood
Character: Adrien Lazar
Released: March 10, 2011
Type: Movie
Valerie is in love with a brooding outsider, Peter, but her parents have arranged for her to marry another man. Unwilling to lose each other, Valerie and Peter plan to run away together when Valerie's older sister is killed by a werewolf that prowls the dark forest surrounding their village. Panic grips the town as Valerie discovers that she has a unique connection to the beast--one that inexorably draws them together, making her both suspect ... and bait.
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Arctic Blast
Title: Arctic Blast
Character: Jack Tate
Released: August 4, 2010
Type: Movie
When a solar eclipse sends a colossal blast of super chilled air towards the earth, it then sets off a catastrophic chain of events that threatens to engulf the world in ice and begin a new Ice Age.
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Desperate Escape
Title: Desperate Escape
Character: Michael Coleman
Released: November 30, 2009
Type: Movie
After having suffered serious head trauma, Brooke tries to regain her normal life despite having lost all memory. Her wealthy fiancé helps her back to recovery in their beautiful country home. Little by little, as her memory comes back, she realizes that her fiancé is not who he says he is. The fortune is hers.
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Title: Stargate Universe
Character: Daniel Jackson
Released: October 2, 2009
Type: TV
The adventures of a present-day, multinational exploration team traveling on the Ancient spaceship Destiny many billions of light years distant from the Milky Way Galaxy. They evacuated there and are now trying to figure out a way to return to Earth, while simultaneously trying to explore and to survive in their unknown area of the universe.
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Stargate SG-1: Children of the Gods
Title: Stargate SG-1: Children of the Gods
Character: Dr. Daniel Jackson
Released: July 21, 2009
Type: Movie
An alien similar to Ra appears out of the Stargate, killing five soldiers and kidnapping another, a year after the original Stargate mission. A new team is assembled, including some old members, and they go in search of the missing soldier in order to find out how Ra could still be alive. Meanwhile, the alien Goa'uld kidnap Sha're and Skaara, implanting them with symbiotes and making them Goa'uld hosts.
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Living Out Loud
Title: Living Out Loud
Character: Brad Marshall
Released: May 2, 2009
Type: Movie
A wife and mother, diagnosed with breast cancer, decides to truly live her life, which has become comfortable and predictable, and the family must adjust.
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Stargate - En route vers les étoiles
Title: Stargate - En route vers les étoiles
Character: Jackson - Lui-même
Released: January 1, 2009
Type: Movie
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The Lost Treasure of the Grand Canyon
Title: The Lost Treasure of the Grand Canyon
Character: Jacob Thain
Released: December 20, 2008
Type: Movie
A team of Smithsonian researchers have stumbled across a lost walled Aztec city guarded by some evil spirits, including a "great flying serpent of death." As days turn to weeks, Susan Jordan, the daughter of the professor leading the expedition, assembles a team to rescue her father and his colleagues from the clutches of the ancient Aztec warriors and their horrible serpent god.
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Title: Sanctuary
Character: Jimmy
Released: October 3, 2008
Type: TV
The adventures of the beautiful, enigmatic and always surprising Dr. Helen Magnus, a brilliant scientist who holds the secrets of a clandestine population called Abnormals—a group of strange and sometimes terrifying beings that hide among humans. Magnus seeks to protect this threatened phenomena as well as unlock the mysteries behind their existence.
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Stargate: Continuum
Title: Stargate: Continuum
Character: Dr. Daniel Jackson
Released: July 29, 2008
Type: Movie
Ba'al travels back in time and prevents the Stargate program from being started. SG-1 must somehow restore history.
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Stargate: The Ark of Truth
Title: Stargate: The Ark of Truth
Character: Dr. Daniel Jackson
Released: March 11, 2008
Type: Movie
SG-1 searches for an ancient weapon which could help them defeat the Ori, and discover it may be in the Ori's own home galaxy. As the Ori prepare to send ships through to the Milky Way to attack Earth, SG-1 travels to the Ori galaxy aboard the Odyssey. The International Oversight committee have their own plans and SG-1 finds themselves in a distant galaxy fighting two powerful enemies.
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Mega Snake
Title: Mega Snake
Character: Les Daniels
Released: July 28, 2007
Type: Movie
Duff Daniels (John T. Woods), the younger, stupider brother of Les (Michael Shanks), can't help himself from stealing a rare snake that's been kept in a jar by a Native American snake dealer (Ben Cardinal), and which has to follow some rules: don't let it out of the jar, then don't let it eat anything anything living, and never fear the heart of the snake.
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Title: Burn Notice
Character: Victor
Released: June 28, 2007
Type: TV
A formerly blacklisted spy uses his unique skills and training to help people in desperate situations.
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Judicial Indiscretion
Title: Judicial Indiscretion
Character: Jack Sullivan
Released: April 9, 2007
Type: Movie
A federal judge’s life is disrupted by sexual assault, blackmail and murder after she’s put on the shortlist to fill a vacant Supreme Court seat.
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Under the Mistletoe
Title: Under the Mistletoe
Character: Kevin Harrison
Released: December 4, 2006
Type: Movie
At Christmas, the tables turn on on a selfless single mom when a local radio station takes over her love life thanks to an innocent call from her young son.
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Title: Eureka
Character: Christopher Daktylos
Released: July 18, 2006
Type: TV
The sleepy Pacific Northwest town of Eureka is hiding a mysterious secret. The government has been relocating the world's geniuses and their families to this rustic town for years where innovation and chaos have lived hand in hand. U.S. Marshal Jack Carter stumbles upon this odd town after wrecking his car and becoming stranded there. When the denizens of the town unleash an unknown scientific creation, Carter jumps in to try to restore order and consequently learns of one of the country's best kept secrets.
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Swarmed
Title: Swarmed
Character: Kent Horvath
Released: December 6, 2005
Type: Movie
Residents of a small town find themselves battling a swarm of wasps which has been sprayed by a super pesticide.
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Title: Supernatural
Character: Rob
Released: September 13, 2005
Type: TV
When they were boys, Sam and Dean Winchester lost their mother to a mysterious and demonic supernatural force. Subsequently, their father raised them to be soldiers. He taught them about the paranormal evil that lives in the dark corners and on the back roads of America ... and he taught them how to kill it. Now, the Winchester brothers crisscross the country in their '67 Chevy Impala, battling every kind of supernatural threat they encounter along the way.
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Title: Stargate Atlantis
Character: Dr. Daniel Jackson
Released: July 15, 2004
Type: TV
With the Ancients' city of Atlantis discovered in the Pegasus Galaxy by Stargate Command, Dr. Elizabeth Weir and Major Sheppard lead a scientific expedition to the ancient abandoned city. Once there, the team not only find themselves unable to contact Earth, but their explorations unexpectedly reawaken the Ancients' deadly enemies, The Wraith, who hunger for this new prey. Now with the help of newfound local allies like Teyla Emmagan, the Atlantis Team sets about to uncover their new home's secrets even as their war of survival against the Wraith begins.
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Sumuru
Title: Sumuru
Character: Adam Wade
Released: April 30, 2003
Type: Movie
Based on Sax Rohmer's cult novels "Sumuru", the futuristic fantasy take you to an Earth colony in the far future in which woman rule and men are used to propagate the race and work in the mines..
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Title: CSI: Miami
Character: Doug Stets
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: The Twilight Zone
Character: Donnie
Released: September 18, 2002
Type: TV
A 2002 revival of Rod Serling's 1950/60s television series, The Twilight Zone, with actor Forest Whitaker assuming Serling's role as narrator and on-screen host.
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Door to Door
Title: Door to Door
Character: John
Released: July 14, 2002
Type: Movie
Sometimes the true heroes in our lives are those people who inspire us not with their superhuman accomplishments but simply by their refusal to give up in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds and the dignity in which they go about their lives. Bill Porter is one of those heroes. Born with cerebral palsy, he was told for many years that he was unemployable. But with the unwavering support of a dedicated mother and an indomitable spirit that has become his trademark, Porter did support himself as a door-to-door salesman in Portland, Ore.
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All Around The Town
Title: All Around The Town
Character: Justin Donnelly
Released: May 18, 2002
Type: Movie
A young woman, seemingly good but still psychologically disturbed from being kidnapped as a little girl, becomes the obvious suspect in a murder.
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Title: 24
Character: Mark Bishop
Released: November 6, 2001
Type: TV
Counterterrorism agent Jack Bauer fights the bad guys of the world, a day at a time. With each week's episode unfolding in real-time, "24" covers a single day in the life of Bauer each season.
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Title: Smallville
Character: Carter Hall / Hawkman
Released: October 16, 2001
Type: TV
The origins of the world’s greatest hero–from Krypton refugee Kal-el’s arrival on Earth through his tumultuous teen years to Clark Kent’s final steps toward embracing his destiny as the Man of Steel.
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Suddenly Naked
Title: Suddenly Naked
Character: Danny Blair / Donny Blitzer
Released: September 8, 2001
Type: Movie
A famous 'Jackie Collins' type novelist falls for a quirky twenty year old kid.
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Suspicious River
Title: Suspicious River
Character: Ball Cap Man
Released: August 31, 2001
Type: Movie
A young married woman sells her body, not just for money, to guests at the motel where she works as a receptionist.
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Title: The Chris Isaak Show
Released: March 12, 2001
Type: TV
Follows a fictionalized version of the life of American rock musician Chris Isaak. The show portrays Isaak and his band members as everyday people with everyday problems.
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Title: Andromeda
Character: Gabriel / Balance of Judgment
Released: October 2, 2000
Type: TV
Captain Dylan Hunt and his crew quest to restore a government that once presided over an extended peace and prosperity.
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Escape from Mars
Title: Escape from Mars
Character: Bill Malone, Mission Architect
Released: March 25, 1999
Type: Movie
Five astronauts make the first manned trip to Mars in the second decade of the 21st century. They must battle and overcome inferior computer components, corporate greed and indifference, and their own personal problems, as well as the surprises that the Red Planet has in store for them.
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Title: Stargate SG-1
Character: Thor (voice)
Released: July 27, 1997
Type: TV
The story of Stargate SG-1 begins about a year after the events of the feature film, when the United States government learns that an ancient alien device called the Stargate can access a network of such devices on a multitude of planets. SG-1 is an elite Air Force special operations team, one of more than two dozen teams from Earth who explore the galaxy and defend against alien threats such as the Goa'uld, Replicators, and the Ori.
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Title: Stargate SG-1
Character: Daniel Jackson
Released: July 27, 1997
Type: TV
The story of Stargate SG-1 begins about a year after the events of the feature film, when the United States government learns that an ancient alien device called the Stargate can access a network of such devices on a multitude of planets. SG-1 is an elite Air Force special operations team, one of more than two dozen teams from Earth who explore the galaxy and defend against alien threats such as the Goa'uld, Replicators, and the Ori.
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Title: Stargate SG-1
Character: Dr. Daniel Jackson
Released: July 27, 1997
Type: TV
The story of Stargate SG-1 begins about a year after the events of the feature film, when the United States government learns that an ancient alien device called the Stargate can access a network of such devices on a multitude of planets. SG-1 is an elite Air Force special operations team, one of more than two dozen teams from Earth who explore the galaxy and defend against alien threats such as the Goa'uld, Replicators, and the Ori.
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Title: Stargate SG-1
Character: Daniel Jackson / Himself
Released: July 27, 1997
Type: TV
The story of Stargate SG-1 begins about a year after the events of the feature film, when the United States government learns that an ancient alien device called the Stargate can access a network of such devices on a multitude of planets. SG-1 is an elite Air Force special operations team, one of more than two dozen teams from Earth who explore the galaxy and defend against alien threats such as the Goa'uld, Replicators, and the Ori.
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Title: The Outer Limits
Character: Melburn Ross
Released: March 26, 1995
Type: TV
Anthology series of composed of distinct story episodes, sometimes with a plot twist at the end, with occasional recurring story elements that were often tied together during season-finale clip shows.
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Title: The Outer Limits
Character: Dr. Will Olsten
Released: March 26, 1995
Type: TV
Anthology series of composed of distinct story episodes, sometimes with a plot twist at the end, with occasional recurring story elements that were often tied together during season-finale clip shows.
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A Family Divided
Title: A Family Divided
Character: Todd
Released: January 22, 1995
Type: Movie
College swimmer Chad Billingsley is his middle class family's pride and joy. After a moody phase of scared denial, he owns up to father, attorney Roger, that Rosalie Frank, the provocatively dressed waitress who attended his frat's last party and is missing since, had sex with five of them. Roger does his utmost to prevent the potential statutory rape case ruining his son's future, but confides in his moralistic wife, refuge house worker Karen, who instead of supporting the boys haunts them like Rosalie's mother Inez, with multiple tragic results.
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Title: University Hospital
Released: January 16, 1995
Type: TV
University Hospital is an American medical drama that aired from January 16 until May 1, 1995.
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Title: Madison
Released: September 21, 1993
Type: TV
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Title: Highlander: The Series
Character: Jesse Collins
Released: October 3, 1992
Type: TV
Duncan MacLeod cannot die -- he is a 400-year-old immortal, who has seen his share of humanity's history. Still, he risks his life in battle against other immortals and tries to save people from harm.
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Title: The Commish
Released: September 28, 1991
Type: TV
Tony Scali is a former Brooklyn cop now the Police Commissioner of a small upstate city. But for Scali, this is no desk job. He's a tough yet compassionate boss, a loving husband and father, and a hands-on law enforcer with an unorthodox style of bending the rules. From parenthood to politics, from sex crimes to murder cases, one man takes it day-to-day with offbeat humor and street- smart skill.
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Time Cut
Title: Time Cut
Character: Gil
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
A high school student accidentally travels back to 2003 and decides to stop the serial killer who murdered her sister.