Ken Wahl

Ken Wahl

Born: October 31, 1954
in Chicago, Illinois, USA
Ken Wahl (born February 14, 1957) is a retired American film and television actor, popular in the 1980s and 1990s, best known for the CBS television crime drama Wiseguy. A severe injury in 1992 effectively ended his acting career. Wahl's best known movies are probably The Wanderers and The Taking of Beverly Hills.

Movies for Ken Wahl...

Wiseguy
Title: Wiseguy
Character: Vinnie Terranova
Released: May 2, 1996
Type: Movie
Vinnie Terranova is back, foiling a staged kidnaping of computer mogul Paul Callendar's son in order to probe possible inside information brokering. Meanwhile, McPike is having a hard time working with his young boss, who feels Terranova and McPike are dinosaurs not worth supporting.
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Search for Grace
Title: Search for Grace
Character: John 'Johnny' Danielli / Jake
Released: May 17, 1994
Type: Movie
A woman haunted by disturbing flashbacks discovers through hypnotherapy that she and her boyfriend led parallel lives with a doomed couple from 1927.
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The Favor
Title: The Favor
Character: Tom Andrews
Released: April 29, 1994
Type: Movie
On the eve of her high school reunion, bored housewife Kathy convinces her single best friend Emily to seduce an old flame Tom, so she can get all the juicy details. But when Emily falls for Tom, it's like high school all over again!
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The Taking of Beverly Hills
Title: The Taking of Beverly Hills
Character: Boomer Hayes
Released: October 10, 1991
Type: Movie
A chemical spill has caused the occupants of Beverly Hills to be forcibly evacuated. A retiring football player left behind, finds that the toxic gas emulating from the spill is a bogus front for a heist set up by fired police officers out to plunder the city of all its valuables. Finding himself siding with a corrupt cop who was once apart of the plan until he discovered the city's mayor had just been blown away, by one of the chief crooks in charge. Now both on the run with no help in sight...both must do whatever they can to stop these murderous looters.
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Title: Wiseguy
Character: Vincent Terranova
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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Omega Syndrome
Title: Omega Syndrome
Character: Jack Corbett
Released: October 26, 1986
Type: Movie
An ex-GI's daughter is abducted by a gang of white supremacists. He calls on one of his former Army buddies, and together they set out to track down the gang and rescue his daughter.
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The Gladiator
Title: The Gladiator
Character: Rick Benton
Released: February 3, 1986
Type: Movie
A road warrior vigilante avenges his brother's death at the hands of a crazy motorist by using his souped-up pickup to apprehend drunken drivers and others who abuse their driving privileges.
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Title: Double Dare
Character: Ken Sisko
Released: April 10, 1985
Type: TV
Billy Diamond's career as a thief takes a sudden turn as, once caught, he goes to work as an undercover agent for the San Francisco Police Department while continuing his high-living lifestyle.
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The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission
Title: The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission
Character: Louis Valentine
Released: February 4, 1985
Type: Movie
Major Reisman is "volunteered" to lead another mission using convicted army soldiers, sentenced to either death or long prison terms. This time their mission is to kill a Nazi general who plans to assassinate Hitler.
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Purple Hearts
Title: Purple Hearts
Character: Don Jardian
Released: March 30, 1984
Type: Movie
A Navy surgeon and a nurse fall in love while serving in Vietnam during the war. Their affection for one another provides a striking contrast to the violence of warfare.
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Jinxed!
Title: Jinxed!
Character: Willie Brodax
Released: October 22, 1982
Type: Movie
Harold, a professional gambler, and his girlfriend Bonita, a lounge singer, follow Willie, a young blackjack dealer, around the western U.S. Harold has a jinx on Willie and can't lose with him. Bonita and Willie meet and fall for each other and plot to do away with Harold and collect on his life insurance.
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The Soldier
Title: The Soldier
Character: The Soldier
Released: June 1, 1982
Type: Movie
Terrorists take over a plutonium bomb and threaten to detonate it in a Saudi Arabian oil field. A special anti-terrorist unit is sent in to stop them.
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Race for the Yankee Zephyr
Title: Race for the Yankee Zephyr
Character: Barney
Released: November 28, 1981
Type: Movie
In a lake high in the mountains of New Zealand hunter Gibbie Gibson discovers a plane wreck from WW2. When he tells it around, a gang of crooks follows and threatens him and his daughter, because they know there are 50 million dollars in the wreck. Helicopter pilot Barney helps Gibbie against them, risking his life thereby.
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Fort Apache, the Bronx
Title: Fort Apache, the Bronx
Character: Corelli
Released: February 6, 1981
Type: Movie
From the sight of a police officer this movie depicts the life in New York's infamous South Bronx. In the center is "Fort Apache", as the officers call their police station, which really seems like an outpost in enemy's country. The story follows officer Murphy, who seems to be a tuff cynic, but in truth he's a moralist with a sense for justice.
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Running Scared
Title: Running Scared
Character: Chas McClain
Released: November 1, 1980
Type: Movie
It's 1961. Two servicemen smuggle a box of military gear to USA. Leroy tries out a military camera and accidentally takes a picture of some military facilities. Army finds one of the pictures and thinks they're communist spies.
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The Wanderers
Title: The Wanderers
Character: Richie
Released: July 13, 1979
Type: Movie
The streets of the Bronx are owned by '60s youth gangs where the joy and pain of adolescence is lived. Philip Kaufman tells his take on the novel by Richard Price about the history of the Italian-American gang ‘The Wanderers.’