James Dukas

James Dukas

Born: June 6, 1925
Died: December 14, 2008
in Portsmouth, Ohio, USA

Movies for James Dukas...

Ironweed
Title: Ironweed
Character: Finny
Released: December 18, 1987
Type: Movie
Albany, New York, Halloween, 1938. Francis Phelan and Helen Archer are bums, back in their birth city. She was a singer on the radio, he a major league pitcher. Death surrounds them: she's sick, a pal has cancer, he digs graves at the cemetery and visits the grave of his infant son whom he dropped; visions of his past haunt him, including ghosts of two men he killed. That night, out drinking, Helen tries to sing at a bar. Next day, Fran visits his wife and children and meets a grandson. He could stay, but decides it's not for him. Helen gets their things out of storage and finds a hotel. Amidst their mistakes and dereliction, the film explores their code of fairness and loyalty.
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The Stuff
Title: The Stuff
Character: Gas Attendant
Released: June 14, 1985
Type: Movie
Amalgamated Dairies hires David Rutherford, an FBI man turned industrial saboteur, to investigate a popular new product called “the Stuff,” a new dessert product that is blowing ice cream sales out of the water. Nobody knows how it’s made or what’s in it, but people are lining up to buy it. It's got a delicious flavor to die for!
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See China and Die
Title: See China and Die
Character: Transplant
Released: December 9, 1981
Type: Movie
A maid who reads detective stories finds herself embroiled in a real life mystery involving her dead boss and a mysterious statue he brought back from China.
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Brubaker
Title: Brubaker
Character: Oafish Rankman
Released: June 20, 1980
Type: Movie
The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate.
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The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover
Title: The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover
Character: Frank
Released: December 1, 1977
Type: Movie
The files that escaped the shredder have become an incredible motion picture. From the Kennedys to Martin Luther King. From cab drivers to Congressmen. From housewives to hostesses. He had something on 58 million people. It was all in his files. Now you can see how he used it.
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God Told Me To
Title: God Told Me To
Character: Doorman
Released: October 22, 1976
Type: Movie
A repressed Catholic NYPD detective uncovers a netherworld of deranged faith, alien insemination and his own unholy connection to a homicidal messiah with a perverse plan for the soul of mankind.
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The Super Cops
Title: The Super Cops
Character: Patrolman (uncredited)
Released: March 20, 1974
Type: Movie
The true story of two New York City cops. Greenberg & Hantz fought the system, became detectives and were known on the streets as "Batman & Robin".
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Coogan's Bluff
Title: Coogan's Bluff
Character: Prison Hospital Doctor (uncredited)
Released: October 2, 1968
Type: Movie
Coogan, an Arizona deputy sheriff goes to New York to pick up a prisoner. While escorting the prisoner to the airport, he escapes and Coogan heads into the city to recapture him.
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Pretty Boy Floyd
Title: Pretty Boy Floyd
Character: Big Dutch
Released: January 1, 1960
Type: Movie
Trying to shake his troubled past and start a new honest life, Floyd loses his job because of that past. With nowhere to go but back home in Oklahoma he gets news that his father's been murdered and the local sheriff lets the killer off with a self-defense plea. Bent on revenge, Floyd does what he must which leads him down a dark road littered with robbing banks and loose women. Floyd's final days are anything BUT pretty!
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The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery
Title: The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery
Character: Willie the Driver
Released: September 10, 1959
Type: Movie
Career criminals and a local youth carefully plan and rehearse the robbery of a Missouri bank.