Josh Mostel

Josh Mostel

Born: December 21, 1946
in New York City, New York, USA
Joshua Elias Mostel (born December 21, 1946) is an American actor with numerous film and Broadway credits. The son of Zero Mostel, he is best known for his supporting roles in films such as Jesus Christ Superstar (1973), Harry and Tonto (1974), Sophie's Choice (1982), City Slickers (1991), Billy Madison (1995), and Big Daddy (1999).

Movies for Josh Mostel...

Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles
Title: Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles
Character: Self
Released: August 23, 2019
Type: Movie
The origin story behind one of Broadway's most beloved musicals, Fiddler on The Roof, and its creative roots in early 1960s New York, when "tradition" was on the wane as gender roles, sexuality, race relations and religion were evolving.
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The Congressman
Title: The Congressman
Character: Bernie Gimpel
Released: April 9, 2016
Type: Movie
Maine Congressman Charlie Winship has had a bad day. After being caught on video failing to stand and recite the pledge of allegiance, he knocks out another House member, confronts his angry ex-wife, and faces denunciation by the media for attacking one of the most cherished patriotic symbols in America. As his life spirals out of control, Charlie embarks on a journey to a remote island in the Atlantic whose eccentric inhabitants are in the middle of a shooting war over their fishing grounds. Treat Williams stars as The Congressman in this humorous and moving film that raises the important question of what it means to be an American.
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Superstars: The Documentary
Title: Superstars: The Documentary
Released: December 11, 2015
Type: Movie
In 1971, director Norman Jewison took a group of young actors, singers, and dancers to war-torn Israel to shoot the film adaptation of the hit rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar. Filming on location and walking in the footsteps of the actual biblical characters that they were portraying not only made an impact on these performers but on audiences worldwide who, five decades later, still watch annually and love this cinematic presentation. This is their story... in their own words!
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Title: Mr. Robot
Character: Bo
Released: June 24, 2015
Type: TV
A contemporary and culturally resonant drama about a young programmer, Elliot, who suffers from a debilitating anti-social disorder and decides that he can only connect to people by hacking them. He wields his skills as a weapon to protect the people that he cares about. Elliot will find himself in the intersection between a cybersecurity firm he works for and the underworld organizations that are recruiting him to bring down corporate America.
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Growing Up and Other Lies
Title: Growing Up and Other Lies
Character: Chuck MacArthur
Released: April 26, 2014
Type: Movie
After living for years as a struggling artist in New York City, Jake is calling it quits and returning home to Ohio. On his last day in the city, he persuades his three oldest friends – Billy, Rocks and Gunderson – to help him retrace their greatest adventure together: a walk down the entire length of Manhattan.
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Title: The Blacklist
Character: Mickey
Released: September 23, 2013
Type: TV
Raymond "Red" Reddington, one of the FBI's most wanted fugitives, surrenders in person at FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C. He claims that he and the FBI have the same interests: bringing down dangerous criminals and terrorists. In the last two decades, he's made a list of criminals and terrorists that matter the most but the FBI cannot find because it does not know they exist. Reddington calls this "The Blacklist". Reddington will co-operate, but insists that he will speak only to Elizabeth Keen, a rookie FBI profiler.
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Beneath the Harvest Sky
Title: Beneath the Harvest Sky
Character: Principal
Released: September 8, 2013
Type: Movie
A teen drama set during the fall potato harvest in a small northern Maine town.
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State of Play
Title: State of Play
Character: Pete
Released: April 17, 2009
Type: Movie
When a congressional aide is killed, a Washington, D.C. journalist starts investigating the case involving the Representative, his old college friend.
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Knockaround Guys
Title: Knockaround Guys
Character: Mac McCreadle
Released: November 30, 2001
Type: Movie
Four sons of well-known New York mobsters must retrieve a bag of cash from a small Montana town ruled by a corrupt sheriff.
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Title: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Character: Mr. Roth
Released: September 20, 1999
Type: TV
In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.
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Big Daddy
Title: Big Daddy
Character: Arthur Brooks
Released: June 25, 1999
Type: Movie
A lazy law school grad adopts a kid to impress his girlfriend, but everything doesn't go as planned and he becomes the unlikely foster father.
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The Out-of-Towners
Title: The Out-of-Towners
Character: Dr. Faber
Released: April 2, 1999
Type: Movie
The adventures of married couple Henry and Nancy Clark, vexed by misfortune while in New York City for Henry's job interview.
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Rounders
Title: Rounders
Character: Zagosh
Released: September 11, 1998
Type: Movie
A young reformed gambler must return to playing big stakes poker to help a friend pay off loan sharks.
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Thicker Than Blood
Title: Thicker Than Blood
Character: Kendall
Released: May 31, 1998
Type: Movie
Griffin Byrne is the idealistic new history, English and maths teacher in Father Frank Larkin's school in a mainly Latino ghetto neighborhood where most kids, even many of its graduates, end up in crime and poverty. He takes a particular interest in one of the boys nobody believes will ever come to anything, Lee Cortes, who he finds to be a prodigy in cartoon drawing but who never spoke a word at school, and always wears a Walkman, essentially because of his home situation: his elder brother Tyro, a drug dealer, abuses him and his mother, so he often stays home to mind the smallest siblings. Griffin tries everything to help Lee, despite everyones cynicism, even takes him in his bachelor flat, but finds the whole family situation must be solved, which is probably beyond his power, yet tries tireless, even if he gets nothing but abuse and the results seem to do more hurting then helping...
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Great Expectations
Title: Great Expectations
Character: Jerry Ragno
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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The Maddening
Title: The Maddening
Character: Chicky Ross
Released: June 18, 1996
Type: Movie
David and Cassie Osborne have an argument one night. So the next morning after David goes to work, Cassie runs off to her sister's house for a few days with their daughter Samantha. Only they never get there. David starts looking for them, and her sister, Joanne, thinks David had something to do with their disappearance, and calls the police. Actually Samantha and Cassie are with Roy and Georgina Scudder, and their daughter Jill. Roy picked them up after their car broke down. The only problem is, the Scudders, who seem a little odd at first, won't let them leave or call anyone.
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Let It Be Me
Title: Let It Be Me
Character: Jordan
Released: November 17, 1995
Type: Movie
Right after getting engaged, a man starts taking dance lessons.
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The Basketball Diaries
Title: The Basketball Diaries
Character: Counterman
Released: April 21, 1995
Type: Movie
A high school basketball player’s life turns upside down after free-falling into the harrowing world of drug addiction.
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Billy Madison
Title: Billy Madison
Character: Principal Max Anderson
Released: February 10, 1995
Type: Movie
Billy Madison is the 27 year-old son of Bryan Madison, a very rich man who has made his living in the hotel industry. Billy stands to inherit his father's empire, but only if he can make it through all 12 grades, 2 weeks per grade, to prove that he has what it takes to run the family business.
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City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold
Title: City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold
Character: Barry Shalowitz
Released: June 10, 1994
Type: Movie
Mitch Robbins' 40th birthday begins quite well until he returns home and finds his brother Glen, the black sheep of the family, in his sofa. Nevertheless he is about to have a wonderful birthday-night with his wife when he discovers a treasure map of Curly by chance. Together with Phil and unfortunately Glen he tries to find the hidden gold of Curly's father in the desert of Arizona.
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Bye Bye America
Title: Bye Bye America
Character: Abe
Released: April 28, 1994
Type: Movie
The mis-adventures of three Polish-Jews on the road to Gdansk is the basis for this German comedy that was filmed in New York, Germany, and Poland. Genovefa and Moshe have been married and living in New York for 30 years. Physically the couple resembles Mr. and Mrs. Jack Sprat. The two have decided to return to Poland for a visit. They intend to have Moshe's best friend Isaac, an unlucky, depressive German, take care of their house while they are gone. Unfortunately, Isaac loses his job before they go and ends up accompanying them on a Polish freighter. When the ship dies in a German port, the threesome must go overland to Gdansk. They encounter many mishaps along the way.
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The Chase
Title: The Chase
Character: Officer Figus
Released: March 4, 1994
Type: Movie
Jack Hammond is sentenced to life in prison, but manages to escape. To get away from the police he takes a girl as hostage and drives off in her car. The girl happens to be the only daughter of one of the richest men in the state. In a while the car chase is being broadcast live on every TV-channel.
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Tracey Ullman Takes on New York
Title: Tracey Ullman Takes on New York
Released: October 9, 1993
Type: Movie
Tracey Ullman and her wacky cast of characters take a bite out of the Big Apple.
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Searching for Bobby Fischer
Title: Searching for Bobby Fischer
Character: Chess Club Regular
Released: August 13, 1993
Type: Movie
A seven-year-old chess prodigy refuses to harden himself in order to become a champion like the famous but unlikable Bobby Fischer.
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Nervous Ticks
Title: Nervous Ticks
Character: Saul Warshow
Released: March 1, 1992
Type: Movie
A comedy about a man (Bill Pullman), who is on the run after his mistress (Julie Brown) confesses to her husband (Peter Boyle) that the two of them have been having an affair.
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City of Hope
Title: City of Hope
Character: Mad Anthony
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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Little Man Tate
Title: Little Man Tate
Character: Physics Professor
Released: September 6, 1991
Type: Movie
Dede is a sole parent trying to bring up her son Fred. When it is discovered that Fred is a genius, she is determined to ensure that Fred has all the opportunities that he needs, and that he is not taken advantage of by people who forget that his extremely powerful intellect is harboured in the body and emotions of a child.
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City Slickers
Title: City Slickers
Character: Barry Shalowitz
Released: June 7, 1991
Type: Movie
Three New York businessmen decide to take a "Wild West" vacation that turns out not to be the relaxing vacation they had envisioned.
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Title: Beverly Hills, 90210
Character: Mr. Ridley
Released: October 4, 1990
Type: TV
Follow the lives of a group of teenagers living in the upscale, star-studded community of Beverly Hills, California and attending the fictitious West Beverly Hills High School and, subsequently, the fictitious California University after graduation.
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Naked Tango
Title: Naked Tango
Character: Bertoni the Jeweler
Released: September 27, 1990
Type: Movie
When a young European woman assumes a false identity in 1920s Argentina, she gets more than she bargained for.
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Title: Law & Order
Character: Harvey Anchin
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: Wings
Character: Dave
Released: April 19, 1990
Type: TV
Brothers Brian and Joe Hackett attempt to run an airline on the New England island of Nantucket while surrounded by their various wacky friends and employees.
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Animal Behavior
Title: Animal Behavior
Character: Mel Gorsky
Released: October 27, 1989
Type: Movie
Biologist Alex Brisco develops a new method to communicate with chimpanzees. Instead of using machines, she teaches the chimps simple sign language. Her research is overlooked by ignorant colleagues, but one man, Mark, a cellist, helps Alex with her research.
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Heavy Petting
Title: Heavy Petting
Character: Self
Released: September 22, 1989
Type: Movie
Celebrities and creatives -- including musician David Byrne, performance artist Spalding Gray, comedian Sandra Bernhard, radical activist Abbie Hoffman, and poet Allen Ginsberg-- recall their earliest sexual experiences.
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Title: Murphy's Law
Character: Wes Harden
Released: November 2, 1988
Type: TV
Murphy's Law was an American television series that starred George Segal and Maggie Han, loosely based on the Trace novels by Warren Murphy.
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Wall Street
Title: Wall Street
Character: Ollie
Released: December 10, 1987
Type: Movie
A young and impatient stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthless and greedy corporate raider whom takes the youth under his wing.
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Matewan
Title: Matewan
Character: Mayor Cabell Testerman
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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Radio Days
Title: Radio Days
Character: Abe
Released: January 30, 1987
Type: Movie
The Narrator tells us how the radio influenced his childhood in the days before TV. In the New York City of the late 1930s to the New Year's Eve 1944, this coming-of-age tale mixes the narrator's experiences with contemporary anecdotes and urban legends of the radio stars.
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The Money Pit
Title: The Money Pit
Character: Jack Schnittman
Released: March 26, 1986
Type: Movie
After being evicted from their Manhattan apartment, a couple buy what looks like the home of their dreams—only to find themselves saddled with a bank-account-draining nightmare. Struggling to keep their relationship together as their rambling mansion falls to pieces around them, the two watch in hilarious horror as everything—including the kitchen sink—disappears into the Money Pit.
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Stoogemania
Title: Stoogemania
Character: Howard F. Howard
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
The film centers on Howard F. Howard, an overweight everyman. Engaged to Beverly, the woman of his dreams, Howard has one problem - an overactive fixation with The Three Stooges. Everywhere Howard goes, he sees Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Curly Howard intruding on his life. Determined to overcome his fixation, Howard and Beverly prepare for their wedding. But on his way to the ceremony, Howard descends into Stoogemania and finds himself walking into the city streets with other Stoogemaniacs. His only hope is commitment to the Stooge Hills sanitarium, under the care of a renowned psychologist, until the inmates take over the asylum on graduation day.
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Title: Spenser: For Hire
Character: Leonard
Released: September 20, 1985
Type: TV
Mystery and suspense series based on Robert Parker's "Spenser" novels. Spenser, a private investigator living in Boston, gets involved in a new murder mystery each episode.
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Title: The Equalizer
Character: Winston Erdlow
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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Compromising Positions
Title: Compromising Positions
Character: Dicky Dunck
Released: August 30, 1985
Type: Movie
An ex-newspaper woman who is now a suburban housewife can't resist getting involved in an investigation of the murder of a philandering dentist who had been having affairs with several of her neighbors.
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Almost You
Title: Almost You
Character: David
Released: March 29, 1985
Type: Movie
Alex and Erica Boyer are a young couple in crisis. Alex, despite his loving wife, beautiful home and high-paying job, feels trapped. When Erica has an accident that leaves her temporarily confined to a wheelchair and requiring the services of a private nurse, the beautiful Lisa enters the Boyers' lives. A complicated situation develops as Alex sees Lisa as the cure for his own problems as well as his wife's.
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The Boy Who Loved Trolls
Title: The Boy Who Loved Trolls
Character: Wiseman
Released: October 29, 1984
Type: Movie
Paul feels life should be an adventure, and sets out on one to prove that Trolls really exist.
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Windy City
Title: Windy City
Character: Sol
Released: September 21, 1984
Type: Movie
The lives of a group of young Chicago men, as seen through the eyes of one of them, a writer.
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The Brother from Another Planet
Title: The Brother from Another Planet
Character: Casio Vendor
Released: September 7, 1984
Type: Movie
An alien slave crash-lands in New York City while being pursued by two Men in Black bounty hunters. His attempt to find a place for himself on Earth parallels that of the immigrant experience.
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Star 80
Title: Star 80
Character: Private Detective
Released: November 10, 1983
Type: Movie
Paul Snider is a narcissistic, small time hustler who fancies himself a ladies man. His life changes when he meets Dorothy Stratten working behind the counter of a Dairy Queen. Under his guidance Dorothy grows to fame as a Playboy Playmate. But when Dorothy begins pursuing an acting career, the jealous Paul finds himself elbowed out of the picture by more famous men.
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Title: At Ease
Released: March 4, 1983
Type: TV
At Ease is an American sitcom that aired on ABC from March to June 1983. The series features an ensemble cast led by Jimmie Walker.
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Sophie's Choice
Title: Sophie's Choice
Character: Morris Fink
Released: December 8, 1982
Type: Movie
Stingo, a young writer, moves to Brooklyn in 1947 to begin work on his first novel. As he becomes friendly with Sophie and her lover Nathan, he learns that she is a Holocaust survivor. Flashbacks reveal her harrowing story, from pre-war prosperity to Auschwitz. In the present, Sophie and Nathan's relationship increasingly unravels as Stingo grows closer to Sophie and Nathan's fragile mental state becomes ever more apparent.
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Fighting Back
Title: Fighting Back
Character: Duster
Released: May 21, 1982
Type: Movie
An Italian deli owner forms a vigilante group to rid his Philadelphia neighborhood of street punks.
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Dead Ringer
Title: Dead Ringer
Character: Russell
Released: June 1, 1981
Type: Movie
Part fiction, part documentary. Dead Ringer was created as a promotional tie-in to Meat Loaf's album of the same name, which was his follow-up to the hugely successful "Bat Out Of Hell".
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Title: Delta House
Character: Jim 'Blotto' Blutarsky
Released: January 16, 1979
Type: TV
Delta House is an American sitcom that was adapted from the 1978 film National Lampoon's Animal House. The series aired from January to April 1979 on ABC.
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Title: Seventh Avenue
Character: Barney Green
Released: February 10, 1977
Type: TV
A poor young man from New York's Lower East Side determines to overcome his status, and through hard work rises to become a power in the garment industry.
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The Money
Title: The Money
Character: Wheel-of-Fortune Operator
Released: May 31, 1976
Type: Movie
A prominent businessman's children become the target of a young, unemployed man, who sees them as his ticket to wealth.
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Deadly Hero
Title: Deadly Hero
Character: Victor
Released: December 14, 1975
Type: Movie
Officer Lacy is an 18-year veteran of the New York Police Department who finds himself demoted from detective back to patrol duty for his violent tendencies and trigger-happy behavior.
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Harry and Tonto
Title: Harry and Tonto
Character: Norman Coombes
Released: August 12, 1974
Type: Movie
Harry is a retired teacher in his 70s living in the Upper West Side of New York City where his late wife and he raised his children--where he's lived all his life. When the building he lives in is torn down to make way for a parking garage, Harry and his beloved cat Tonto begin a journey across the United States, visiting his children, seeing a world he never seemed to have the time to see before, making new friends, and saying goodbye to old friends.
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Jesus Christ Superstar
Title: Jesus Christ Superstar
Character: King Herod
Released: August 15, 1973
Type: Movie
As played out by a theatre troupe, the last days of Jesus Christ are depicted from the perspective of Judas Iscariot, his betrayer. As Jesus' following increases, Judas begins to worry that Jesus is falling for his own hype, forgetting the principles of his teachings and growing too close to the prostitute Mary Magdalene.
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The King of Marvin Gardens
Title: The King of Marvin Gardens
Character: Frank
Released: October 12, 1972
Type: Movie
Jason Staebler lives on the Boardwalk and fronts for the local mob in Atlantic City. He is a dreamer who asks his brother David, a radio personality from Philadelphia, to help him build a paradise on a Pacific Island, which might be just another of his pie-in-the-sky schemes. Inevitably, complications begin to pile up.
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Going Home
Title: Going Home
Character: Bonelli
Released: December 1, 1971
Type: Movie
After doing 13 years in prison for the murder of his wife, mechanic Harry Graham is out on parole and looking to rebuild his life in a small seaside community. He settles into a trailer park and finds both a job and a girlfriend. But things get difficult for Harry when his estranged son, Jimmy, shows up. He witnessed his mother's murder as a child and, after years spent in foster homes, has come looking for revenge.