Chris Cooper

Chris Cooper

Born: July 9, 1951
in Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Christopher Walton Cooper (born July 9, 1951) is an American actor. He has appeared in supporting performances in several major Hollywood films, including American Beauty (1999), October Sky (1999), The Bourne Identity (2002), Seabiscuit (2003), Capote (2005), Syriana (2005), The Kingdom (2007), Where the Wild Things Are (2009), The Town (2010), The Muppets (2011), Cars 3 (2017), A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019), and Little Women (2019). He also portrayed Sheriff July Johnson in the acclaimed miniseries Lonesome Dove, which became one of the most successful Westerns in history.

Cooper won both the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as John Laroche in the 2002 film Adaptation. He played a lead role in the historical and political thriller Breach (2007), playing FBI agent and traitor Robert Hanssen. He played Daniel Sloan in the 2012 political thriller The Company You Keep, and supervillain Norman Osborn in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014). He also portrayed Al Templeton on the 2016 Hulu miniseries 11.22.63.

He is a frequent collaborator with director John Sayles, including Matewan (1987), City of Hope (1991), Lone Star (1996), Silver City (2004) and Amigo (2010).

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Boston Strangler
Title: Boston Strangler
Character: Jack Maclaine
Released: March 16, 2023
Type: Movie
Reporters Loretta McLaughlin and Jean Cole bravely pursue the story of the Boston Strangler at great personal risk, putting their own lives on the line in their quest to uncover the truth.
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With/In Volume 2
Title: With/In Volume 2
Released: March 15, 2022
Type: Movie
An anthology film that centres around relationships, love and family. A man misses his flight and instead finds love in quarantine, a lonely therapist finds companionship in an unwanted pet, two sisters find courage to say things they never had the words to say, and an unexpected packet of sourdough starter has horrifying and hilarious consequences. These are some of the stories captured in WITH/IN, a collection of thirteen films created by actors and their families during the time that changed our lives forever.
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With/In Volume 2
Title: With/In Volume 2
Character: (segment "Nuts")
Released: June 14, 2021
Type: Movie
Giving creatives the chance to step outside the box while being confined to their own homes, the filmmakers behind With/In range from seasoned directors to first-timers, all provided with the same iPhone and basic gear to bring their visions to life.
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Irresistible
Title: Irresistible
Character: Jack Hastings
Released: July 1, 2020
Type: Movie
A Democratic political consultant helps a retired Marine colonel run for mayor in a small, conservative Wisconsin town.
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Little Women
Title: Little Women
Character: Mr. Laurence
Released: December 25, 2019
Type: Movie
Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.
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Them That Work
Title: Them That Work
Character: Self
Released: October 29, 2019
Type: Movie
Documentary about the impact left by John Sayles’ 1987 film Matewan, about a shooting between company gun thugs and union organizers in Southern West Virginia. Along with a lasting legacy of support for union rights, the film inspired many West Virginians to become filmmakers and introduced the world to many great actors.
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A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Title: A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Character: Jerry Vogel
Released: September 7, 2019
Type: Movie
An award-winning cynical journalist, Lloyd Vogel, begrudgingly accepts an assignment to write an Esquire profile piece on the beloved television icon Fred Rogers. After his encounter with Rogers, Vogel's perspective on life is transformed.
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It Takes a Lunatic
Title: It Takes a Lunatic
Character: Self
Released: May 3, 2019
Type: Movie
The extraordinary life of beloved acting teacher and theatre producer Wynn Handman is recalled in this portrait of a provocative, innovative artist.
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Henrietta Bulkowski
Title: Henrietta Bulkowski
Character: Danny Wilcox
Released: March 8, 2019
Type: Movie
A determined young woman, crippled with a severe hunchback, will stop at nothing to fulfill her dream of seeing the world. This is the story of how she finds happiness.
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Title: Homecoming
Character: Leonard Geist
Released: November 1, 2018
Type: TV
Heidi Bergman is a caseworker at Homecoming, a Geist Group facility helping soldiers transition to civilian life. Years later she has started a new life, living with her mother and working as a waitress, when a Department of Defense auditor questions why she left the Homecoming facility. Heidi quickly realizes that there's a whole other story behind the story she's been telling herself.
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Intelligent Lives
Title: Intelligent Lives
Character: Self
Released: April 1, 2018
Type: Movie
Three pioneering young adults with intellectual disabilities - Micah, Naieer, and Naomie - challenge perceptions of intelligence as they navigate high school, college, and the workforce.
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Cars 3
Title: Cars 3
Character: Smokey Yunick (voice)
Released: June 15, 2017
Type: Movie
Blindsided by a new generation of blazing-fast racers, the legendary Lightning McQueen is suddenly pushed out of the sport he loves. To get back in the game, he will need the help of an eager young race technician with her own plan to win, inspiration from the late Fabulous Hudson Hornet, and a few unexpected turns. Proving that #95 isn't through yet will test the heart of a champion on Piston Cup Racing’s biggest stage!
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Live by Night
Title: Live by Night
Character: Chief Irving Figgis
Released: December 25, 2016
Type: Movie
A group of Boston-bred gangsters set up shop in balmy Florida during the Prohibition era, facing off against the competition and the Ku Klux Klan.
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Coming Through the Rye
Title: Coming Through the Rye
Character: J.D. Salinger
Released: October 13, 2016
Type: Movie
Coming Through the Rye, set in 1969, is a touching coming of age story of sensitive, 16 year old Jamie Schwartz, who is not the most popular kid at his all boys' boarding school. Disconnected from students and teachers, he believes he is destined to play Holden Caulfield, the main character of The Catcher in the Rye, and has adapted the book as a play.
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Fastball
Title: Fastball
Character: Clifford Blankenship (voice)
Released: March 25, 2016
Type: Movie
Since 1912, baseball has been a game obsessed with statistics and speed. Thrown at upwards of 100 miles per hour, a fastball moves too quickly for human cognition and accelerates into the realm of intuition. Fastball is a look at how the game at its highest levels of achievement transcends logic and even skill, becoming the primal struggle for man to control the uncontrollable.
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Title: 11.22.63
Character: Al Templeton
Released: February 15, 2016
Type: TV
An English teacher travels back in time to prevent the Kennedy assassination, but discovers he is attached to the life he has made in a bygone era.
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Demolition
Title: Demolition
Character: Phil Eastwood
Released: April 8, 2015
Type: Movie
An emotionally desperate investment banker finds hope through a woman he meets.
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The Amazing Spider-Man 2
Title: The Amazing Spider-Man 2
Character: Norman Osborn (uncredited)
Released: April 16, 2014
Type: Movie
For Peter Parker, life is busy. Between taking out the bad guys as Spider-Man and spending time with the person he loves, Gwen Stacy, high school graduation cannot come quickly enough. Peter has not forgotten about the promise he made to Gwen’s father to protect her by staying away, but that is a promise he cannot keep. Things will change for Peter when a new villain, Electro, emerges, an old friend, Harry Osborn, returns, and Peter uncovers new clues about his past.
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August: Osage County
Title: August: Osage County
Character: Charlie Aiken
Released: December 26, 2013
Type: Movie
A look at the lives of the strong-willed women of the Weston family, whose paths have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to the Midwest house they grew up in, and to the dysfunctional woman who raised them.
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Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy
Title: Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: June 19, 2013
Type: Movie
Revisits President John F. Kennedy's presidential legacy through 21 of the more than 800,000 condolence letters written to Jackie Kennedy after JFK's assassination. Based on a book by Ellen Fitzpatrick
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Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
Title: Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
Character: Gary (voice)
Released: November 16, 2012
Type: Movie
Academy Award®–winning documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side) explores the charged issue of pedophilia in the Catholic Church, following a trail from the first known protest against clerical sexual abuse in the United States and all way to the Vatican.
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The Company You Keep
Title: The Company You Keep
Character: Daniel Sloan
Released: September 6, 2012
Type: Movie
A former Weather Underground activist goes on the run from a journalist who discovers his identity.
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The Muppets
Title: The Muppets
Character: Tex Richman
Released: November 22, 2011
Type: Movie
When Kermit the Frog and the Muppets learn that their beloved theater is slated for demolition, a sympathetic human, Gary, and his puppet brother, Walter, swoop in to help the gang put on a show and raise the $10 million they need to save the day.
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The Company Men
Title: The Company Men
Character: Phil Woodward
Released: October 21, 2010
Type: Movie
Bobby Walker lives the proverbial American dream: great job, beautiful family, shiny Porsche in the garage. When corporate downsizing leaves him and two co-workers jobless, the three men are forced to re-define their lives as men, husbands and fathers.
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The Town
Title: The Town
Character: Stephen MacRay
Released: September 15, 2010
Type: Movie
Doug MacRay is a longtime thief, who, smarter than the rest of his crew, is looking for his chance to exit the game. When a bank job leads to the group kidnapping an attractive branch manager, he takes on the role of monitoring her – but their burgeoning relationship threatens to unveil the identities of Doug and his crew to the FBI Agent who is on their case.
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The Tempest
Title: The Tempest
Character: Antonio
Released: September 11, 2010
Type: Movie
An adaptation of the play by William Shakespeare. Prospera (a female version of Shakespeare's Prospero) is the usurped ruler of Milan who has been banished to a mysterious island with her daughter. Using her magical powers, she draws her enemies to the island to exact her revenge.
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Amigo
Title: Amigo
Character: Col. Hardacre
Released: July 14, 2010
Type: Movie
Rafael is a village mayor caught in the murderous crossfire of the Philippine-American War. When U.S. troops occupy his village, Rafael comes under pressure from a tough-as-nails officer to help the Americans in their hunt for Filipino guerilla fighters. But Rafael's brother is the head of the local guerillas, and considers anyone who cooperates with the Americans to be a traitor. Rafael quickly finds himself forced to make the impossible, potentially deadly decisions faced by ordinary civilians in an occupied country.
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Remember Me
Title: Remember Me
Character: Neil Craig
Released: March 11, 2010
Type: Movie
Still reeling from a heartbreaking family event and his parents' subsequent divorce, Tyler Hawkins discovers a fresh lease on life when he meets Ally Craig, a gregarious beauty who witnessed her mother's death. But as the couple draws closer, the fallout from their separate tragedies jeopardizes their love.
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Jake Gyllenhaal Challenges the Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
Title: Jake Gyllenhaal Challenges the Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
Character: Lt. Col. Kazinski (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 2010
Type: Movie
A remixed narrative that combines two Jake Gyllenhaal films (Donnie Darko and Jarhead) with news footage of former President Barack Obama.
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Where the Wild Things Are
Title: Where the Wild Things Are
Character: Douglas (voice)
Released: October 16, 2009
Type: Movie
Max imagines running away from his mom and sailing to a far-off land where large talking beasts—Ira, Carol, Douglas, the Bull, Judith and Alexander—crown him as their king, play rumpus, build forts and discover secret hideaways.
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The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Title: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Character: Himself (Narrator)
Released: February 9, 2009
Type: Movie
Just days after the Civil War ended, President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated at Ford's Theatre. As a fractured nation mourned, a manhunt closed in on his assassin, the twenty-six-year-old actor, John Wilkes Booth. The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln tracks the converging paths of the president and his killer, then tracks and draws connections between their last journeys, in the forms of Lincoln's funeral train route and Booth's desperate efforts to escape.
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Extreme Movie
Title: Extreme Movie
Character: FBI Agent Mike (uncredited)
Released: December 5, 2008
Type: Movie
A sketch comedy movie about the joys and embarrassments of teen sex. But mostly the embarrassments.
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New York, I Love You
Title: New York, I Love You
Character: Alex
Released: September 6, 2008
Type: Movie
New York, I Love You delves into the intimate lives of New Yorkers as they grapple with, delight in and search for love. Journey from the Diamond District in the heart of Manhattan, through Chinatown and the Upper East Side, towards the Village, into Tribeca, and Brooklyn as lovers of all ages try to find romance in the Big Apple.
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Walt Whitman
Title: Walt Whitman
Character: Walt Whitman (voice)
Released: April 14, 2008
Type: Movie
This American Experience tells Whitman's life story, from his working-class childhood in Long Island, to his years as a newspaper reporter in Brooklyn when he struggled to support his impoverished family, then to his reckless pursuit of the attention and affection he craved for his work, to his death in 1892.
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Married Life
Title: Married Life
Character: Harry Allen
Released: September 12, 2007
Type: Movie
A very gentle middle-aged man is married, but when he falls in love with another woman, he decides that to divorce his wife would humiliate her too much – so instead he decides to kill her.
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The Kingdom
Title: The Kingdom
Character: Grant Sykes
Released: August 22, 2007
Type: Movie
A team of U.S. government agents is sent to investigate the bombing of an American facility in the Middle East.
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Breach
Title: Breach
Character: Robert Hanssen
Released: February 12, 2007
Type: Movie
Eric O'Neill, a computer specialist who wants to be made an agent is assigned to clerk for Robert Hanssen, a senior agent with 25 years in the FBI, and to write down everything Hanssen does. O'Neill's told it's an investigation of Hanssen's sexual habits, however Hanssen is really suspected of spying for the Soviet Union and Russia for years and being responsible for the deaths of agents working for the United States.
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Primo Levi's Journey
Title: Primo Levi's Journey
Character: Narrator (voice) (U.S. version)
Released: September 12, 2006
Type: Movie
In February, 1945, Primo Levi (1919-1987) and other Auschwitz survivors set off for home. The journey took more then eight months. Sixty years later, a film crew retraces Levi's steps. Levi's words, mainly from "The Truce" (1963), tell us what he experienced. In turn, we see Poland's hollow post-war factories, nationalism in the Ukraine, Soviet-style Communism in Belarus, the abandoned town of Prypiat (Chernobyl), poverty and emigration from Moldavia, Italian factories in Romania, and on across Hungary and Slovakia to Munich where Levi's rage found no listeners. Then home to Turin. An aged Mario Rigoni Stern remembers his friend. What has changed? Some issues of the war remain unsettled.
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Making Capote: Concept to Script
Title: Making Capote: Concept to Script
Character: Self
Released: March 21, 2006
Type: Movie
Featurette on the making of Capote (2005).
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Syriana
Title: Syriana
Character: Jimmy Pope
Released: November 23, 2005
Type: Movie
The Middle Eastern oil industry is the backdrop of this tense drama, which weaves together numerous story lines. Bennett Holiday is an American lawyer in charge of facilitating a dubious merger of oil companies, while Bryan Woodman, a Switzerland-based energy analyst, experiences both personal tragedy and opportunity during a visit with Arabian royalty. Meanwhile, veteran CIA agent Bob Barnes uncovers an assassination plot with unsettling origins.
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Jarhead
Title: Jarhead
Character: Lt. Col. Kazinski
Released: November 4, 2005
Type: Movie
Jarhead is a film about a US Marine Anthony Swofford’s experience in the Gulf War. After putting up with an arduous boot camp, Swofford and his unit are sent to the Persian Gulf where they are eager to fight, but are forced to stay back from the action. Swofford struggles with the possibility of his girlfriend cheating on him, and as his mental state deteriorates, his desire to kill increases.
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Capote
Title: Capote
Character: Alvin Dewey
Released: September 30, 2005
Type: Movie
A biopic of writer Truman Capote and his assignment for The New Yorker to write the non-fiction book "In Cold Blood".
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Silver City
Title: Silver City
Character: Dickie Pilager
Released: September 17, 2004
Type: Movie
The discovery of a corpse threatens to unravel a bumbling local politician's campaign for governor of Colorado.
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The Bourne Supremacy
Title: The Bourne Supremacy
Character: Alexander Conklin
Released: July 23, 2004
Type: Movie
A CIA operation to purchase classified Russian documents is blown by a rival agent, who then shows up in the sleepy seaside village where Bourne and Marie have been living. The pair run for their lives and Bourne, who promised retaliation should anyone from his former life attempt contact, is forced to once again take up his life as a trained assassin to survive.
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Seabiscuit
Title: Seabiscuit
Character: Tom Smith
Released: July 22, 2003
Type: Movie
True story of the undersized Depression-era racehorse whose victories lifted not only the spirits of the team behind it but also those of their nation.
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My House in Umbria
Title: My House in Umbria
Character: Thomas 'Tom' Riversmith
Released: May 25, 2003
Type: Movie
Emily Delahunty is an eccentric British romance novelist who lives in Umbria in central Italy. One day while travelling, the train she is on is bombed by terrorists. After she wakes up in a hospital, she invites three of the other survivors of the disaster to stay at her Italian villa for recuperation. Of these are The General, a retired British Army veteran, Werner, a young German man, and Aimee, a young American girl who has now become mute after her parents were both killed in the explosion.
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Adaptation.
Title: Adaptation.
Character: John Laroche
Released: December 6, 2002
Type: Movie
Nicolas Cage is Charlie Kaufman, a confused L.A. screenwriter overwhelmed by feelings of inadequacy, sexual frustration, self-loathing, and by the screenwriting ambitions of his freeloading twin brother Donald. While struggling to adapt "The Orchid Thief," by Susan Orlean, Kaufman's life spins from pathetic to bizarre. The lives of Kaufman, Orlean's book, become strangely intertwined as each one's search for passion collides with the others'.
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The Bourne Identity
Title: The Bourne Identity
Character: Alexander Conklin
Released: June 14, 2002
Type: Movie
Wounded to the brink of death and suffering from amnesia, Jason Bourne is rescued at sea by a fisherman. With nothing to go on but a Swiss bank account number, he starts to reconstruct his life, but finds that many people he encounters want him dead. However, Bourne realizes that he has the combat and mental skills of a world-class spy—but who does he work for?
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Interstate 60
Title: Interstate 60
Character: Bob Cody
Released: April 13, 2002
Type: Movie
An aspiring painter meets various characters and learns valuable lessons while traveling across America.
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American Beauty: Look Closer...
Title: American Beauty: Look Closer...
Character: Self
Released: October 24, 2000
Type: Movie
A promotional short documentary on the making of the film American Beauty, directed by Sam Mendes and written by Alan Ball.
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The Patriot
Title: The Patriot
Character: Col. Harry Burwell
Released: June 28, 2000
Type: Movie
After proving himself on the field of battle in the French and Indian War, Benjamin Martin wants nothing more to do with such things, preferring the simple life of a farmer. But when his son Gabriel enlists in the army to defend their new nation, America, against the British, Benjamin reluctantly returns to his old life to protect his son.
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Me, Myself & Irene
Title: Me, Myself & Irene
Character: Lieutenant Gerke
Released: June 22, 2000
Type: Movie
Rhode Island State Trooper Charlie Baileygates has a multiple personality disorder. One personality is crazy and aggressive, while the other is more friendly and laid back. Both of these personalities fall in love with the same woman named Irene after Charlie loses his medication.
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American Beauty
Title: American Beauty
Character: Colonel Fitts
Released: September 15, 1999
Type: Movie
Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation with his daughter's attractive friend.
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Title: Teen Choice Awards
Character: Self - Nominee: Movie Sleazebag
Released: August 1, 1999
Type: TV
The Teen Choice Awards is a teen awards show presented annually by Fox. The first awards were held in 1999. The program honors the year's biggest achievements in music, movies, sports, television, fashion and more, as voted on by teens aged 13–19. The program features a number of celebrities and also musical performers. The winners are awarded with authentic mini size (182 cm) surfboards designed with a summertime theme. The ceremony has created spin-off teen awards on YouTube.
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October Sky
Title: October Sky
Character: John Hickam
Released: February 19, 1999
Type: Movie
Based on the true story of Homer Hickam, a coal miner's son who was inspired by the first Sputnik launch to take up rocketry against his father's wishes, and eventually became a NASA scientist.
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The Horse Whisperer
Title: The Horse Whisperer
Character: Frank Booker
Released: February 1, 1998
Type: Movie
The mother of a severely traumatized daughter enlists the aid of a unique horse trainer to help the girl's equally injured horse.
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Great Expectations
Title: Great Expectations
Character: Joe
Released: January 30, 1998
Type: Movie
Loosely based on the Charles Dickens' classic novel, "Great Expectations" is a sensual tale of a young man's unforgettable passage into manhood, and the three individuals who will undeniably change his life forever. Through the surprising interactions of these vivid characters, "Great Expectations" takes a unique and contemporary look at life's great coincidences.
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Alone
Title: Alone
Character: Gus Jr.
Released: December 21, 1997
Type: Movie
John Webb is recently widowed and living alone on the farm he and his brother used to share. He rarely sees his daughters, Jacqueline and Grace Ann, and his only company is Grey, the farm's longtime overseer. John's solitude is interrupted by his nephews, Carl and Gus Jr., who have been approached about drilling for oil on the farm. Tensions rise as John clashes with his opportunistic family.
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Breast Men
Title: Breast Men
Character: Dr. William Larson
Released: December 13, 1997
Type: Movie
We follow the two Texas doctors who invented the modern breast implant and its surgical procedure. However, when success and money come their way, they split up and follow different paths. One becomes the surgeon of the everyday woman while the other's career freefalls and has to settle with strippers and actresses. The film covers their history and their inventions, from the sixties until today.
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A Time to Kill
Title: A Time to Kill
Character: Dwayne Looney
Released: July 24, 1996
Type: Movie
A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his 10-year-old daughter, sparking a rebirth of the KKK.
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Lone Star
Title: Lone Star
Character: Sam Deeds
Released: June 21, 1996
Type: Movie
When the skeleton of his murdered predecessor is found, Sheriff Sam Deeds unearths many other long-buried secrets in his Texas border town.
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Boys
Title: Boys
Character: Mr. John Baker
Released: May 10, 1996
Type: Movie
Fed up with boarding school and frustrated with the way others have planned his life, John Baker Jr. wants a change -- anything to shake up his staid routine. The moment arrives when he stumbles upon a woman, Patty Vare, unconscious in a field. Deciding to risk it, John takes her to his dorm to look after her, much to the disapproval of his friends. John's decision proves fateful as he and Patty grow close to one another. However, she may be keeping secrets from him.
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The Deliverance of Elaine
Title: The Deliverance of Elaine
Character: Charlie Skyler
Released: April 10, 1996
Type: Movie
A small town schoolteacher is hunted by a paroled con who holds the secret of her dark past.
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Money Train
Title: Money Train
Character: Torch
Released: November 21, 1995
Type: Movie
When a vengeful New York transit cop decides to steal a trainload of subway fares, his foster brother—a fellow cop—tries to protect him.
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Pharaoh's Army
Title: Pharaoh's Army
Character: Captain John Hull Abston
Released: April 9, 1995
Type: Movie
Union soldiers in search of food descend on the farm of a Confederate family and decide to stay until one in their ranks' wounds have healed. While the war weary Union captain (Chris Cooper) falls for the mother of the family (Patricia Clarkson) - whose husband is off fighting for the rebels - her son plots revenge on the dirty, double-dealing Yankees. Co-stars Kris Kristofferson.
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One More Mountain
Title: One More Mountain
Character: Jack Reed
Released: March 6, 1994
Type: Movie
Margaret Reed, a wealthy and proud woman of Chicago unwillingly finds herself a member of the Donner party - a group of pioneers making their way to California by covered wagon in the summer of 1846. One by one the odds begin to stack against Margaret and her family as precious days slip away and an early winter storm closes the passes through the Sierra Nevada mountain range. Trapped without adequate food and supplies, Margaret struggles to keep her family alive.
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Title: Return to Lonesome Dove
Character: July Johnson
Released: November 14, 1993
Type: TV
After returning the body of Gus McCrae to Lonesome Dove, Woodrow Call takes on the challenge of driving a herd of wild mustangs 2500 miles north to the Hat Creek Ranch in Montana. But tragedy, triumph, despair and deceit will greet him before he ever gets there.
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This Boy's Life
Title: This Boy's Life
Character: Roy
Released: April 9, 1993
Type: Movie
When a son and mother move to Seattle in hopes for a better life, the mother meets a seemingly polite man. Things go south when the man turns out to be abusive, endangering their lives. As the mother struggles to maintain hope in an impossible situation, the son has plans to escape.
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Ned Blessing: The True Story Of My Life
Title: Ned Blessing: The True Story Of My Life
Character: Anthony Blessing
Released: April 14, 1992
Type: Movie
A haggard cowboy reflects upon his life while awaiting his death.
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Bed of Lies
Title: Bed of Lies
Character: Price Daniel, Jr.
Released: January 20, 1992
Type: Movie
Dramatization of the true-life story of a woman who fights for custody of her children while awaiting trial for the murder of her husband, who happens to have been the son of the powerful ex-governor of Texas.
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City of Hope
Title: City of Hope
Character: Riggs
Released: October 11, 1991
Type: Movie
This gritty inner-city film follows various people living in a troubled New Jersey setting, most notably Nick Rinaldi, a disillusioned contractor who has been helped along his whole life by his wealthy father. Other characters in this ensemble drama about urban conflict and corruption include Asteroid , an unstable homeless person, and Wynn, an idealistic young politician.
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To the Moon, Alice
Title: To the Moon, Alice
Character: Frank Wiliker
Released: October 2, 1991
Type: Movie
A homeless family of three sleeps on a TV production stage, by day looking for a job. One day somebody finds them.
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Darrow
Title: Darrow
Character: Eugene Debs
Released: June 8, 1991
Type: Movie
The life and career of Clarence Darrow, the noted American lawyer and civil libertarian.
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Thousand Pieces of Gold
Title: Thousand Pieces of Gold
Character: Charlie
Released: April 26, 1991
Type: Movie
In 1880s China, young Lalu is sold into marriage by her impoverished father. Rather than becoming a bride, Lalu ends up in an Idaho gold-mining town, the property of a saloon owner who renames her China Polly and plans to sell her as entertainment for the locals. Refusing to become a whore, Lalu ultimately finds her own way in this strange country filled with white demons.
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Guilty by Suspicion
Title: Guilty by Suspicion
Character: Larry Nolan
Released: March 15, 1991
Type: Movie
Owing to his alleged involvement with communist parties, film director David Merrill is forbidden from working in Hollywood. He decides to fight for his rights and faces numerous challenges.
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In Broad Daylight
Title: In Broad Daylight
Character: Jack Wilson
Released: February 3, 1991
Type: Movie
The fanatically uncompromising Len Rowan and his family insult and terrorize the citizens of a small town for years. One day the comment of a saleswoman about Len's son not being able to pay his sweets triggers off his persecution complex. As revenge for the believed insult, the whole family starts stalking the shop owner and her husband... until this escalates and the old man gets badly injured. Len is arrested, but gets off, free on bail. His clever attorney delays the court session for more than a year - while Rowan keeps threatening the witnesses. But then, the people feel they've had enough of this and decide to take the law in their own hands...
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A Little Piece of Sunshine
Title: A Little Piece of Sunshine
Character: Ernie Favaro
Released: November 17, 1990
Type: Movie
Sunshine, an idyllic and almost forgotten island under British rule, is shortly to become independent. But a few days before this event is to take place, the British governor of the island is shot. Her Majesty's secret service is called in and Sam McCready asks Desmond Hannah of Scotland Yard to take charge of the case.
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Title: Law & Order
Character: Defense Attorney Roy Payne
Released: September 13, 1990
Type: TV
In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place.
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Title: Lonesome Dove
Character: July Johnson
Released: February 5, 1989
Type: TV
A pair of longtime friends and former Texas Rangers crave one last adventure before hanging-up their spurs. After stealing over a thousand head of cattle from rustlers south of the border, they recruit an unlikely crew of hands to drive the herd 3,000 miles north to the grasslands of Montana.
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Title: American Experience
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: October 4, 1988
Type: TV
TV's most-watched history series brings to life the compelling stories from our past that inform our understanding of the world today.
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Matewan
Title: Matewan
Character: Joe Kenehan
Released: August 28, 1987
Type: Movie
Filmed in the coal country of West Virginia, "Matewan" celebrates labor organizing in the context of a 1920s work stoppage. Union organizer, Joe Kenehan, a scab named "Few Clothes" Johnson and a sympathetic mayor and police chief heroically fight the power represented by a coal company and Matewan's vested interests so that justice and workers' rights need not take a back seat to squalid working conditions, exploitation and the bottom line.
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Title: The Equalizer
Character: Michael
Released: September 18, 1985
Type: TV
Robert McCall is a former agent of a secret government agency who is now running his own private crime fighting operation where he fashions himself as "The Equalizer." It is a service for victims of the system who have exhausted all possible means of seeking justice and have nowhere to go. McCall promises to even out the odds for them.
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Title: Miami Vice
Character: Jimmy Yagovitch
Released: September 16, 1984
Type: TV
The story of the Miami Police Department's vice squad and its efforts to end drug trafficking and prostitution, centered on the unlikely partnership of Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs - who first meet when Tubbs is undercover in a drug cartel.
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Bad Timing
Title: Bad Timing
Released: December 31, 1982
Type: Movie
Nancy Savoca’s second student film follows two twelve-year olds, Bobby (Joey D’Arelli) and Denise (Kelly Cinnante) who run away to Hollywood. They land at an open mic night in a New Jersey bar where Bobby’s aunt and uncle (once aspiring actors) lay out the realities of life as a working actor. The film was inspired by performers Savoca met while making her first student film, most notably William DaPrato. Filled with wry humor and quiet revelations about the pursuit of artistic dreams, Bad Timing also features Marianne Leone and the on-screen debut of future Academy Award winner Chris Cooper.
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Title: The Oscars
Character: Self
Released: March 19, 1953
Type: TV
An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a statuette, officially the Academy Award of Merit, that is better known by its nickname Oscar.
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Light on Broken Glass
Title: Light on Broken Glass
Character: Jay
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Preparing for the revival of a hit Broadway show towards the end of a celebrated career, actress Melody Harper (Patricia Clarkson) is, for the first time in her life, uncertain and afraid. Struggling with the crushing possibility that her best years may be behind her, she quickly starts losing her grasp on reality as she experiences vivid memories of her younger self (Elizabeth Olsen).
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Everything's Going to Be Great
Title: Everything's Going to Be Great
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
A movie about a valentine to big dreamers whose dreams won’t necessarily come true. Individuality vs. conformity, fantasy vs. reality; but mostly, it’s about family. As the Smart family move from one state to the next, they cope with loss and struggle with identity, all while performing in regional theater.