George Hearn

George Hearn

Born: June 18, 1934
in St. Louis, Missouri, USA
George Hearn (born June 18, 1934) is an American actor and singer, primarily in Broadway musical theatre.

Movies for George Hearn...

Six by Sondheim
Title: Six by Sondheim
Character: Sweeney Todd (archive footage)
Released: December 9, 2013
Type: Movie
This intimate documentary explores the life and career of the stage legend Stephen Sondheim through six of his best-known songs.
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Sondheim! The Birthday Concert
Title: Sondheim! The Birthday Concert
Character: Himself
Released: November 16, 2010
Type: Movie
Join us for a rousing celebration of the life and works of one of Broadway's greatest legends — the one and only Stephen Sondheim. For the master composer and lyricist's 80th birthday, many of musical theater's brightest stars gathered in March of 2010 to perform more than two dozen sensational numbers from Sondheim's illustrious career, and several of these enduring songs are performed by the original Broadway cast members. David Hyde Pierce hosts this magical event with Stephen Sondheim's longtime collaborator Paul Gemignani conducting the New York Philharmonic. Originally broadcast as an episode of the PBS series "Great Performances" (season 38, episode 2).
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Words and Music by Jerry Herman
Title: Words and Music by Jerry Herman
Character: Himself
Released: April 1, 2007
Type: Movie
WORDS AND MUSIC is the story of one of Broadway's iconic figures: the composer/lyricist of Hello, Dolly!, Mame and La Cage aux Folles. Jerry Herman and an all-star cast, chart his rise from 1950s off-Broadway through all of his smash hits. Featuring never-before-seen footage of original stage performances, and a score full of classic show tunes.
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Flags of Our Fathers
Title: Flags of Our Fathers
Character: Walter Gust
Released: October 18, 2006
Type: Movie
There were five Marines and one Navy Corpsman photographed raising the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi by Joe Rosenthal on February 23, 1945. This is the story of three of the six surviving servicemen - John 'Doc' Bradley, Pvt. Rene Gagnon and Pvt. Ira Hayes - who fought in the battle to take Iwo Jima from the Japanese.
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Broadway's Lost Treasures II
Title: Broadway's Lost Treasures II
Character: Albin (segment "La Cage aux Folles")
Released: October 26, 2004
Type: Movie
The annual Tony Award broadcast provides the only filmed record of Broadway's best for audiences to experience as if they were front-row-center on opening night. This second compilation of great musical moments from the Tonys features another dazzling array of stars and performances. Hosts Lauren Bacall, Bebe Neuwirth, Brian Stokes Mitchell and Jerry Orbach introduce these one-of-a-kind performances and share their personal Broadway and Tony memories.
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The Making of Sweeney Todd at the San Francisco Symphony
Title: The Making of Sweeney Todd at the San Francisco Symphony
Character: Self
Released: May 1, 2002
Type: Movie
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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street in Concert
Title: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street in Concert
Character: Sweeney Todd
Released: October 31, 2001
Type: Movie
In July of 2001, the concert edition of Stephen Sondheim's Broadway masterpiece, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, was presented at San Francisco's famed Davies Symphony Hall, with Patti LuPone and George Hearn starring. The world-class San Francisco Symphony, under the direction of Rob Fisher, provided the accompaniment for this powerful, sold-out concert.
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Putting It Together
Title: Putting It Together
Character: The Husband
Released: October 14, 2001
Type: Movie
An all-star cast performs the music of one of the greatest composers of our time... Stephen Sondheim. Anxiously anticipated by the myriad fans of the legendary composer, Putting It Together marked the return of Carol Burnett to the Broadway musical stage for the first time in over 35 years. Stephen Sondheim has won a record seven Tony Awards for his songwriting, and the Pulitzer Prize for Sunday in the Park with George. His Broadway smash shows and movies include Gypsy, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Sweeney Todd, Dick Tracy, and West Side Story. This Cameron Mackintosh stage production was captured live in performance during its Broadway run and recorded in high definition with a widescreen format using ten cameras and over 40 microphones.
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Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End
Title: Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End
Character: Dr. Hartley
Released: November 20, 1999
Type: Movie
The third installment of the Sarah trilogy provides a glorious and touching story of a family drawn together by adversity. On a cold winter day a stranger shows up at the farm. He is slow to reveal his identity. When they find out he is Jacobs father, John Witting, thought long ago dead, hard questions about the past are difficult to get answered.
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Title: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Character: Charles Sutherland
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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Durango
Title: Durango
Character: Rector
Released: April 25, 1999
Type: Movie
In 1939 Ireland, a young man decides to lead a forty mile cattle drive rather than selling his cattle to an unscrupulous local buyer.
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Barney's Great Adventure
Title: Barney's Great Adventure
Character: Grandpa
Released: April 3, 1998
Type: Movie
Mom and dad dump son Cody, daughter Abby, her best friend Marcella and a baby on the farm with Grandpa and Grandma. Purple dinosaur Barney soon appears to entertain the kids, and when a large colorful egg deposited on a farm by a shooting star is accidentally carted off, Barney and the kids start their chase for it.
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The Devil's Own
Title: The Devil's Own
Character: Peter Fitzsimmons
Released: March 13, 1997
Type: Movie
Frankie McGuire, one of the IRA's deadliest assassins, draws an American family into the crossfire of terrorism. But when he is sent to the U.S. to buy weapons, Frankie is housed with the family of Tom O'Meara, a New York cop who knows nothing about Frankie's real identity. Their surprising friendship, and Tom's growing suspicions, forces Frankie to choose between the promise of peace or a lifetime of murder.
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All Dogs Go to Heaven 2
Title: All Dogs Go to Heaven 2
Character: Red (voice)
Released: March 29, 1996
Type: Movie
Charlie and Itchy return to Earth to find Gabriel's Horn, but along the way meet up with a young boy named David, who ran away from home.
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Annie: A Royal Adventure
Title: Annie: A Royal Adventure
Character: Oliver 'Daddy' Warbucks
Released: November 18, 1995
Type: Movie
Annie is back! Along with her friends Molly, Hannah, her dog Sandy, and her wealthy father Oliver Warbucks. They take a trip to England where Warbucks is going to be Knighted by the King. Annie and the gang stumbles onto a wicked scheme led by an evil noblewoman who plans to blow up Buckingham Palace so she can become Queen and claim the throne for herself! And now it is up to Annie and her friends to stop her!
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Live from Broadway: Hello, Dolly!
Title: Live from Broadway: Hello, Dolly!
Released: October 19, 1995
Type: Movie
Documentary about the creation of the iconic Broadway show
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Daisy-Head Mayzie
Title: Daisy-Head Mayzie
Character: Mayor (voice)
Released: February 5, 1995
Type: Movie
Daisy-Head Mayzie wakes up one morning to find a daisy has sprouted from the top of her head. Facing her classmates' taunts and her parents' dismay, Mayzie triumphs at last with the hard-won knowledge that love is more important than fame!
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The Pagemaster
Title: The Pagemaster
Character: Captain Ahab (voice)
Released: November 23, 1994
Type: Movie
Rich knows a lot about accidents. So much so, he is scared to do anything that might endanger him, like riding his bike, or climbing into his treehouse. While in an old library, he is mystically transported into the unknown world of books, and he has to try and get home again.
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Jerry Herman's Broadway at the Hollywood Bowl
Title: Jerry Herman's Broadway at the Hollywood Bowl
Character: Himself
Released: March 4, 1994
Type: Movie
He hasn't had a new Broadway show since 1983's La Cage Aux Folles, but composer Jerry Herman has become ubiquitous on the concert, tribute and benefit scene, as evidenced by a video release of "Jerry Herman's Broadway - at the Hollywood Bowl." The star-studded event celebrating Herman's 30-plus-year career includes performances by Carol Channing, Leslie Uggams, Lorna Luft and Lee Roy Reams all together on "Hello, Dolly!"; George Hearn singing "Movies Were Movies" (Mack And Mabel); Davis Gaines crooning "Song On The Sand" and "I Am What I Am" (La Cage Aux Folles); Rita Moreno advising "Tap Your Troubles Away" (Mack And Mabel); and Beatrice Arthur pointing out "The Man In The Moon" (also from Mame). There is also special taped greetings from Angela Lansbury and Paul & Linda McCartney.
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Title: SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron
Character: Professor Hackle (voice)
Released: September 11, 1993
Type: TV
In a world of anthropomorphic felines, two demoted fighter pilots battle evil as high flying masked vigilantes.
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Jonny's Golden Quest
Title: Jonny's Golden Quest
Character: President
Released: April 4, 1993
Type: Movie
In the first feature-length animated movie based on the Hanna-Barbera series, Jonny Quest fans get to meet the women behind the adventurous men. Joining scientist Benton Quest, his plucky son Jonny, bodyguard Race Bannon and Jonny's young pal Hadji are Benton's biologist wife Rachel, Race's ex-wife Jade and young 12-year-old Jessie, who harbors a big secret. Throughout, Team Quest battles the evil schemes of modern-day alchemist Dr. Zin, who has cloned himself and created an army of mutant reptiles in the Peruvian rain forest. The clash there results in a tragedy that changes Jonny's life forever - and later leads to a worldwide pursuit of Zin that includes examining rare Leonardo da Vinci documents in Paris, exploring the Roman catacombs and a final confrontation in the Australian outback.
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The Vanishing
Title: The Vanishing
Character: Arthur Bernard
Released: February 5, 1993
Type: Movie
The boyfriend of an abducted woman never gives up the search as the abductor looks on.
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Title: Homicide: Life on the Street
Released: January 31, 1993
Type: TV
An American police procedural chronicling the work of a fictional version of the Baltimore Police Department's Homicide Unit.
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Sneakers
Title: Sneakers
Character: Gregor
Released: September 9, 1992
Type: Movie
When shadowy U.S. intelligence agents blackmail a reformed computer hacker and his eccentric team of security experts into stealing a code-breaking 'black box' from a Soviet-funded genius, they uncover a bigger conspiracy. Now, he and his 'sneakers' must save themselves and the world economy by retrieving the box from their blackmailers.
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Queen Esther
Title: Queen Esther
Released: February 27, 1992
Type: Movie
This Hanna-Barbera animated video tells a version of the Bible story about Esther, whose heroism is commemorated annually by the feast of Purim. Esther, a Jewish orphan girl, is chosen by King Ahasuerus of Persia to be his queen.
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Fire in the Dark
Title: Fire in the Dark
Character: Arthur
Released: July 1, 1991
Type: Movie
A 75-year old widow with battles herself as she struggles with being a burden to those she loves. Though determined not to rely on her children, she is forced to move in with her daughter after a serious fall, and the family learns to face the future with dignity and hope.
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Title: Sisters
Released: May 11, 1991
Type: TV
Sisters is an Emmy Award-winning television drama. It follows the lives and loves of four close, but very different, sisters of the Reed family living in Winnetka, Illinois.
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Title: Law & Order
Character: Independent Counsel William Dell
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: Major Dad
Released: September 17, 1989
Type: TV
Major Dad is an American sitcom created by Richard C. Okie and John G. Stephens, developed by Earl Pomerantz, that originally ran from 1989 to 1993 on CBS, starring Gerald McRaney as Major John D. MacGillis and Shanna Reed as his wife Polly. The cast also includes Beverly Archer, Matt Mulhern, Jon Cypher, Marisa Ryan, Nicole Dubuc and Chelsea Hertford.
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See You in the Morning
Title: See You in the Morning
Character: Martin
Released: April 14, 1989
Type: Movie
Three years after his divorce from his model-wife is the psychologist Larry Livingstone ready for a new commitment. He falls in love with the young widow Beth who has two children. But Beth and the children are still in mourning over their dead husband and father and Larry finds it a bit difficult to penetrate their reservations. Larry himself has to deal with his ex-wife and his love for his own two kids. Slowly both Beth and the children realise that they have to go on with their lives and that they have been giving a second chance.
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Title: Star Trek: The Next Generation
Character: Dr. Berel
Released: September 28, 1987
Type: TV
Follow the intergalactic adventures of Capt. Jean-Luc Picard and his loyal crew aboard the all-new USS Enterprise NCC-1701D, as they explore new worlds.
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Title: L.A. Law
Character: Dr. Westbrook
Released: September 15, 1986
Type: TV
L.A. Law is an American television legal drama series that ran for eight seasons on NBC from September 15, 1986, to May 19, 1994. Created by Steven Bochco and Terry Louise Fisher, it contained many of Bochco's trademark features including a large number of parallel storylines, social drama and off-the-wall humor. It reflected the social and cultural ideologies of the 1980s and early 1990s, and many of the cases featured on the show dealt with hot-topic issues such as abortion, racism, gay rights, homophobia, sexual harassment, AIDS, and domestic violence. The series often also reflected social tensions between the wealthy senior lawyer protagonists and their less well-paid junior staff. The show was popular with audiences and critics, and won 15 Emmy Awards throughout its run, four of which were for Outstanding Drama Series.
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Follies: In Concert
Title: Follies: In Concert
Character: Benjamin Stone
Released: March 14, 1986
Type: Movie
A backstage documentary film including footage from the legendary 1985 concert performance of Stephen Sondheim's classic musical at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall. The plot of the musical centers around a reunion of showgirls who appeared in an annual Follies extravaganza when it was staged between the wars.
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Title: The Equalizer
Character: Senator Jim Blanding
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: The Golden Girls
Character: Frank Nann
Released: September 14, 1985
Type: TV
Four Southern Florida seniors share a house, their dreams, and a whole lot of cheesecake. Bright, promiscuous, clueless and hilarious, these lovely, mismatched ladies form the perfect circle of friends.
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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Title: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Character: Sweeney Todd
Released: September 12, 1982
Type: Movie
In 1846, Anthony Hope sails into London with the mysterious Sweeney Todd, a once-naive barber whose life and marriage was uprooted by a corrupt justice system. Todd confides in Nellie Lovett, the owner of a local meat pie shop, and the two become partners, as Todd swears revenge on those that have wronged him and decides to take up his old profession.
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A Piano for Mrs. Cimino
Title: A Piano for Mrs. Cimino
Character: George Cimino
Released: February 3, 1982
Type: Movie
An elderly widow must find meaning and activity in her life when her son suggests she is no longer capable of handling her own affairs.
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Sanctuary of Fear
Title: Sanctuary of Fear
Character: Monsignor Kerrigan
Released: April 23, 1979
Type: Movie
A Manhattan priest with a penchant for solving crimes goes to the aid of a young actress. She is becoming enmeshed in a series of bizarre incidents she can't explain, and her complaints to the police have gone ignored.
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The Money
Title: The Money
Character: Banker
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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Sea Marks
Title: Sea Marks
Character: Colm Primrose
Released: May 12, 1976
Type: Movie
Tony and Emmy Award winner George Hearn stars as a fisherman in love -- and hopelessly out of water -- in this Broadway Theatre Archive production of Gardner McKay's stage play romance. The rural fisherman's life is turned upside down when he unexpectedly falls for a city girl (Veronica Castang) who works for a Liverpool publisher. But her decision to publish his quaintly worded letters as poetry nets them both a fresh catch of problems.
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The Silence
Title: The Silence
Character: Capt. Nichols
Released: November 6, 1975
Type: Movie
A cadet at West Point is subjected to "internal exile," which means that other students refuse to talk to him or acknowledge his existence, after he is accused of violating the school's code of honor.
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Title: Great Performances
Character: Benjamin Stone
Released: January 28, 1971
Type: TV
The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular song, musical theater, dance, drama, and performance documentaries.
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Title: Hallmark Hall of Fame
Character: Dr. Hartley
Released: December 24, 1951
Type: TV
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.
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Title: Hallmark Hall of Fame
Character: Rector
Released: December 24, 1951
Type: TV
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.