Joseph Bologna

Joseph Bologna

Born: December 30, 1934
Died: August 13, 2017
in New York City, New York, USA
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Joseph Bologna (born December 30, 1934) was an American actor, director and writer.

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Tango Shalom
Title: Tango Shalom
Character: Father Anthony
Released: September 3, 2021
Type: Movie
When a Tango dancer asks a Rabbi to enter a dance competition, there’s one big problem—due to his Orthodox beliefs, he’s not allowed to touch her! But the prize money would save his school from bankruptcy, so they develop a plan to enter the competition without sacrificing his faith, and the bonds of family and community are tested one dazzling dance step at a time in this lighthearted fable.
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Driving Me Crazy
Title: Driving Me Crazy
Character: Martin Brown
Released: January 6, 2012
Type: Movie
Meet Elliot Brown. He is one of Brooklyn's most neurotically sweet and eligible bachelors . . . who also happens to be pushing forty and living with his mother. Not getting any younger, Elliot embarks on a 3000 mile road trip across the country to take a chance on a girl he has never met. His travel companion? Her fun-loving sister. Now, he must face his fears, confront his past and learn to take risks to be the man worthy of her love. Buckle up. It's going to be a crazy drive.
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Title: Celebrity Ghost Stories
Character: Self
Released: October 3, 2009
Type: TV
Compelling, surprising and downright spooky — celebrities share their real-life personal encounters with the paranormal in each one-hour special. From encounters with ghosts and angry spirits to haunted homes, unexplainable spells and magic, these descriptive, first person narratives from our favorite stars delivers a brand new way of experiencing the thrills and chills of the addictive world of the paranormal.
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Ice Age: The Meltdown
Title: Ice Age: The Meltdown
Character: Mr. Start (voice)
Released: March 29, 2006
Type: Movie
Diego, Manny and Sid return in this sequel to the hit animated movie Ice Age. This time around, the deep freeze is over, and the ice-covered earth is starting to melt, which will destroy the trio's cherished valley. The impending disaster prompts them to reunite and warn all the other beasts about the desperate situation.
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Boynton Beach Club
Title: Boynton Beach Club
Character: Harry
Released: August 5, 2005
Type: Movie
Residents of an adult community in Florida turn to one another for support and companionship after the deaths of their spouses. Lois has a rejuvenating affair with a younger man while acting as best friend to recently widowed Marilyn. Jack buddies up with Harry for a crash course in solo survival skills and deals with single gal Sandy's romantic overtures.
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Jane Doe: Til Death Do Us Part
Title: Jane Doe: Til Death Do Us Part
Character: Louis Angelini
Released: March 11, 2005
Type: Movie
When a ruthless arms Kingpin stages an ingenious escape from prison, Jane Doe and Frank Darnell, NSA head, realize he's bent on a vengeance killin. Who the prospective victim is remains to be seen.
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Title: Everwood
Character: Max Barrett
Released: September 16, 2002
Type: TV
After the death of his wife, world-class neurosurgeon Dr. Andrew Brown leaves Manhattan and moves his family to the small town of Everwood, Colorado. There he becomes a small-town doctor and learns parenting on the fly as he raises his talented but resentful 15-year-old son Ephram and his 9-year-old daughter Delia.
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Title: According to Jim
Released: October 3, 2001
Type: TV
According to Jim is an American sitcom television series starring Jim Belushi in the title role as a suburban father of three children. It originally ran on ABC from October 1, 2001 to June 2, 2009.
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Title: CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Character: Giovanni 'Papa' DiMasa
Released: October 6, 2000
Type: TV
A Las Vegas team of forensic investigators are trained to solve criminal cases by scouring the crime scene, collecting irrefutable evidence and finding the missing pieces that solve the mystery.
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Blink of an Eye
Title: Blink of an Eye
Character: Renfro
Released: September 16, 1999
Type: Movie
Tommy is a 28-year-old man who escaped his hellish childhood by murdering his abusive father. After a prison stint, Tommy's work release program gives him a shot at a new life when he is placed as a cook at St. Michael's School in L.A, There he meets Guillermo, a neighborhood kid who is committed to keeping him out of trouble, and Sophia, a schoolteacher who educates him in a subject he knows nothing about--love.
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Big Daddy
Title: Big Daddy
Character: Lenny Koufax
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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Baby Huey's Great Easter Adventure
Title: Baby Huey's Great Easter Adventure
Character: P.T. Wynnsocki
Released: January 1, 1999
Type: Movie
In this live-action musical comedy, Baby Huey, the lovable seven foot tall duckling, is taken in by a caring little boy named Nick and his kind but surprised family. A sinister scientist and a mean Las Vegas producer want Baby Huey for themselves, but they don't know what a little boy, a caring community, and a baby bird that's bigger than all of them is capable of.
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The Batman/Superman Movie: World's Finest
Title: The Batman/Superman Movie: World's Finest
Character: SCU Lt. Dan Turpin (voice)
Released: August 18, 1998
Type: Movie
As the Joker visits Metropolis with a plan to kill Superman for Lex Luthor, Batman pursues the clown to Superman's turf.
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Title: Jenny
Character: Bernie
Released: September 28, 1997
Type: TV
Jenny is an American sitcom that aired on NBC from 1997 to 1998. The series was intended to be a star vehicle for Playboy Playmate Jenny McCarthy. It was rated TV-MA.
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Smoke Alarm: The Unfiltered Truth About Cigarettes
Title: Smoke Alarm: The Unfiltered Truth About Cigarettes
Character: Hack
Released: September 14, 1997
Type: Movie
A look at why children smoke, showing how tobacco companies target their age group to perpetuate the rise in tobacco usage.
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The Don's Analyst
Title: The Don's Analyst
Character: Vincent DeMarco
Released: September 6, 1997
Type: Movie
Don Vito Leoni, the Godfather, is clinically depressed. The world has changed and he hasn't. He'd like to retire, but if he left the "family business" to his two idiot sons, they'd be dead in a minute. So he decides to go legit, which convinces everyone that he must be completely off the deep end. To preserve their cushy lives, his dysfuntional family conspires to get him some psycho-therepy. So his boys kidnap a "piasan" shrink and order him to "fix" their father. This film, which premired on Showtime, pre-dated the very similarly plotted "Analyze This" by over a year.
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Heaven Before I Die
Title: Heaven Before I Die
Released: January 1, 1997
Type: Movie
Jacob's feet are so turned out that he walks like Charlie Chaplin. He is different because of that and decides to emigrate from Palestine to Canada, where "everyone is equal". There everybody treats him kindly, and a thief specializing in stealing money from cash machines takes him into his home and treats him like a son, waitress Selma finds him a job as a Chaplin imitator, "prophet" Khalil Gibran gives him wise advice
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Title: Superman: The Animated Series
Character: Dan Turpin (voice)
Released: September 6, 1996
Type: TV
Superman, an incredibly powerful alien from the planet Krypton, defends Metropolis from supercriminals. Superman hides his identity behind the glasses of Clark Kent; a mild-mannered reporter for the newspaper the Daily Planet. At the Daily Planet Superman works with fellow reporter Lois Lane and photographer Jimmy Olsen.
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Love Is All There Is
Title: Love Is All There Is
Character: Mike Capomezzo
Released: May 10, 1996
Type: Movie
The Malacicis, a hard-working Italian family recently immigrated from Florence, open a fancy restaurant in the Bronx, N.Y., drawing the ire of another clan. Mike and Sadie Capomezzo, equally hard-working Sicilian caterers from the area, find they cannot stand Piero and Maria Malacici. But things get complicated when the Malacicis' daughter, Gina, and the Capomezzos' son, Rosario, fall in love.
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Ringer
Title: Ringer
Character: Goldstein
Released: January 1, 1996
Type: Movie
In this thriller, a detective helps save a prostitute from a stalker. The gumshoe's investigation throws them into a world where no one is quite who they seem and where everyone has a shady past.
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Revenge of the Nerds IV: Nerds In Love
Title: Revenge of the Nerds IV: Nerds In Love
Character: Aaron
Released: May 9, 1994
Type: Movie
Lewis and his nerdy friends attend Booger's wedding to the daughter of a rich politician, but nerd-haters in the family do everything possible to prevent the wedding going ahead. Meanwhile, Lewis awaits with eagerness the birth of his unborn foetal child...
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Title: Burke's Law
Character: Max Barnett / Leo Barnett
Released: January 7, 1994
Type: TV
Burke's Law, a revival of the 1960s cop television series of the same name, aired on CBS from 1994 to 1995. The series centers on Amos Burke, a senior Los Angeles police officer and millionaire, and his son, Peter, who is a detective under his command.
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Night of the Archer
Title: Night of the Archer
Character: Reggie
Released: January 1, 1994
Type: Movie
An archery contest results in the murder of the rich family head by someone with an arrow. Of course, the roving competitor trying to win the money becomes the chief suspect, despite everyone else there also being archery experts and many of the others being heirs in the dead man's will.
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Title: The Nanny
Character: Dr. Joe Razzo
Released: November 3, 1993
Type: TV
Fran, fresh out of her job as a bridal consultant in her boyfriend’s shop, first appears on the doorstep of Broadway producer Maxwell Sheffield peddling cosmetics, and quickly stumbled upon the opportunity to become The Nanny for his three children. But soon Fran, with her offbeat nurturing and no-nonsense honesty, touches Maxwell as well as the kids.
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Title: The Nanny
Character: Alan Beck
Released: November 3, 1993
Type: TV
Fran, fresh out of her job as a bridal consultant in her boyfriend’s shop, first appears on the doorstep of Broadway producer Maxwell Sheffield peddling cosmetics, and quickly stumbled upon the opportunity to become The Nanny for his three children. But soon Fran, with her offbeat nurturing and no-nonsense honesty, touches Maxwell as well as the kids.
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Deadly Rivals
Title: Deadly Rivals
Character: Anthony Canberra
Released: June 30, 1993
Type: Movie
A physicist involved in classified military research meets a woman who he begins to suspect is a spy. Her sister is involved with the mob and one of the spies is working with the mob. He unwillingly helps the FBI figure this all out.
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The Danger of Love: The Carolyn Warmus Story
Title: The Danger of Love: The Carolyn Warmus Story
Character: Detective Pollina
Released: October 4, 1992
Type: Movie
Michael Carlin, a teacher, has been having an affair with a much younger fellow teacher Carolyn Warmus. When his wife is murdered, the police suspect him due to inconsistencies in his alibi, and no evidence points to anyone else.
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Citizen Cohn
Title: Citizen Cohn
Character: Walter Winchell
Released: August 22, 1992
Type: Movie
As lawyer and power broker Roy Cohn lies dying of AIDS in a private hospital room, ghosts from his past visit him as he reflects on his life and loves.
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Jersey Girl
Title: Jersey Girl
Character: Bennie
Released: August 1, 1992
Type: Movie
A working girl from New Jersey looks for love with a fast-lane Manhattan salesman from Queens.
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Alligator 2: The Mutation
Title: Alligator 2: The Mutation
Character: David Hodges
Released: December 18, 1991
Type: Movie
A giant mutated alligator runs riot in a small town after the sewer system washes it into a lake.
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Title: An Inconvenient Woman
Character: Arnie Zwillman
Released: May 12, 1991
Type: TV
A rich man's mistress gets in the middle of a high-society murder in Beverly Hills.
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Title: Top of the Heap
Character: Charlie Verducci
Released: April 14, 1991
Type: TV
Top of the Heap is a spin-off of FOX's Married... With Children. It chronicles the escapades of a father who is trying to get his son hooked up with a rich broad.
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Thanksgiving Day
Title: Thanksgiving Day
Character: Ned Monk
Released: November 19, 1990
Type: Movie
Light-hearted spoof about a dysfunctional upper-income family who have to come to terms with family and business problems around the titular holiday.
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Coupe de Ville
Title: Coupe de Ville
Character: Uncle Phil
Released: March 9, 1990
Type: Movie
Meet the Libner brothers: Marvin (Daniel Stern), the oldest, is a sergeant in the U.S. Air Force. Buddy (Arye Gross), the middle child, is a timid dreamer. Bobby (Patrick Dempsey), the youngest, is a handsome rebel in reform school. As kids, they fought a lot and as adults, they barely speak. In the summer of 1963, their tough and eccentric father, Fred (Alan Arkin), gives them a task: to bring a 1954 Cadillac, bought for their mother, Betty (Rita Taggart), from Detroit to Miami. As the trip goes on, the three brothers fight and begin to reconnect with each other, while trying to keep the Caddy in mint condition.
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It Had to Be You
Title: It Had to Be You
Character: Theda Blau
Released: October 27, 1989
Type: Movie
A has-been actress lures a TV commercial director to her apartment to seduce him.
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Prime Target
Title: Prime Target
Character: Judge Ralph Manza
Released: September 29, 1989
Type: Movie
A homicide detective assigned to investigate the serial killings of New York policewomen begins to suspect that the serial killer might be a fellow police officer.
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Not Quite Human
Title: Not Quite Human
Character: Gordon Vogel
Released: June 19, 1987
Type: Movie
Dr. Jonas Carson, a scientist, invents Chip, an android teenager. Dr. Carson sends Chip to school with his daughter Becky to see whether an android could interact with others. But his former employer decides to try and make a profit by stealing the mechanical boy.
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Title: Married... with Children
Character: Charlie Verducci
Released: April 5, 1987
Type: TV
Al Bundy is an unsuccessful middle aged shoe salesman with a miserable life and an equally dysfunctional family. He hates his job, his wife is lazy, his son is dysfunctional (especially with women), and his daughter is dim-witted and promiscuous.
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Title: Rags to Riches
Character: Nick Foley
Released: March 9, 1987
Type: TV
Rags to Riches is an American musical comedy drama series that was broadcast on NBC for two seasons from 1987 to 1988. Set in the 1960s, the series tells the story of Nick Foley, a self-made millionaire who adopts five orphan girls. Each episode included music videos of hit songs from the era sung by the cast integrated into the plot.
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Rags to Riches
Title: Rags to Riches
Character: Nick Foley
Released: March 9, 1987
Type: Movie
Feature-length TV movie (with the title card "Rags and Riches") that served as the pilot to the series that ran from 1987-1988. A wealthy businessman decides to soften his "cutthroat" image by adopting some children. He winds up adopting six girls and isn't prepared for the problems that come with them.
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Title: L.A. Law
Character: Jack Barbara
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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Title: Sins
Character: Steve Bryant
Released: February 2, 1986
Type: TV
Sins is a 1986 CBS television miniseries starring Joan Collins. An adaptation of the 1982 novel of the same name by Judith Gould, it is the story of a woman who survives the horrors of the Nazi occupation of France and suffers a succession of challenges as she rises in the world of fashion. Produced by New World Television, Collins also served as executive producer with her then-husband Peter Holm, and the mini-series contained 85 costume changes for her role. Carly Simon co-wrote and performed the theme song, "It's Hard to be Tender."
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A Time to Triumph
Title: A Time to Triumph
Released: January 7, 1986
Type: Movie
Construction worker, Chuck Hassan, has a heart attack and is no longer able to work and support his family. After losing their home and savings, his wife, Concetta, looks for work and decides to join the Army, to take advantage of the security and benefits. She advances quickly and eventually becomes a helicopter pilot.
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Copacabana
Title: Copacabana
Character: Rico Castelli
Released: December 3, 1985
Type: Movie
In 1948, aspiring songwriter Tony works as a bar pianist; he meets aspiring star Lola, and is immediately smitten. At Manhattan's Copacabana lounge, they both start finding fame. However, fate steps in and she is swept to Havana to work in a splashy nightclub act where she is convinced she will find her stardom. Instead, she finds Rico, a suave gangster and the club owner.
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Transylvania 6-5000
Title: Transylvania 6-5000
Character: Dr. Malavaqua
Released: November 8, 1985
Type: Movie
Two reporters travel to a strange castle in Transylvania to investigate the apparent reappearance of Frankenstein, and encounter the sensitive Wolfman, the Vampiress Odette and a whole cast of other weirdos.
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Au secours, elle me veut !
Title: Au secours, elle me veut !
Released: September 12, 1985
Type: Movie
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The Joe Piscopo Special
Title: The Joe Piscopo Special
Released: September 22, 1984
Type: Movie
This is an HBO Special in which Joe Piscopo has 60 minutes to try to do many of his famous impressions. He has mostly his Saturday Night Live friends to help do small skits on the Special.
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The Woman in Red
Title: The Woman in Red
Character: Joey
Released: August 15, 1984
Type: Movie
When a happily married family man, who would never consider an affair, meets a beautiful woman in red, he is totally infatuated and desperate to make her acquaintance. However, as he tries out various schemes to sneak out to meet her, he realizes that adultery is not quite as easy as it looks.
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Blame It on Rio
Title: Blame It on Rio
Character: Victor Lyons
Released: February 17, 1984
Type: Movie
Matthew Hollis is man on holiday in Rio with his best friend. Both men have teenage daughters with them. When Matthew falls for his best friend's amorous daughter named Jennifer, they embark on a secret, if slightly one-sided relationship. Jennifer's father is furious when he finds out about the 'older man' in his daughter's life, and sets out to hunt him down with the aid of Matthew!
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Bedrooms
Title: Bedrooms
Character: Host / Bill / David
Released: February 14, 1984
Type: Movie
Tales of love and marriage are spun in four short adult comedy stories.
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One Cooks, the Other Doesn't
Title: One Cooks, the Other Doesn't
Character: Max Boone
Released: September 27, 1983
Type: Movie
A real estate agent has a problem: his ex-wife and son are moving in with him-and his jealous bride.
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My Favorite Year
Title: My Favorite Year
Character: King Kaiser
Released: October 1, 1982
Type: Movie
Fledgling comic Benjy Stone can't believe his luck when his childhood hero, the swashbuckling matinee idol Alan Swann, gets booked to appear on the variety show he writes for. But when Swann arrives, he fails to live up to his silver screen image. Instead, he's a drunken womanizer who suffers from stage fright. Benjy is assigned to look after him before the show, and it's all he can do to keep his former idol from going completely off the rails.
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Chapter Two
Title: Chapter Two
Character: Leo Schneider
Released: December 14, 1979
Type: Movie
George Schneider is an author whose wife had just died. His brother Leo gives him the number of Jennie Malone, and somehow they hit it off. And just when things are moving along, the memory of his first wife comes between them.
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Torn Between Two Lovers
Title: Torn Between Two Lovers
Character: Ted Conti
Released: February 7, 1979
Type: Movie
Diane is happily married. But, one day while travelling she meets a dashing architect. With some relief, she parts ways with him at the airport, her resistance to his alluring manner having been tested. She later discovers that she has his gloves, so she returns them in person, only to end up in bed with the man, and later falling in love. She now faces the toughest decision of her life.
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Woman of the Year
Title: Woman of the Year
Character: Sam Rodino
Released: July 28, 1976
Type: Movie
The story of the tumultuous marriage of a gruff sportswriter and a sophisticated international reporter who work together on the same newspaper.
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The Big Bus
Title: The Big Bus
Character: Dan Torrance
Released: June 23, 1976
Type: Movie
The ultimate disaster film parody. A nuclear-powered bus is making its maiden non-stop trip from New York to Denver. The journey is plagued by disasters due to the machinations of a mysterious group allied with the oil lobby. Will the down-on-his-luck driver, with a reputation for eating his passengers, be able to complete the journey?
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What Now, Catherine Curtis?
Title: What Now, Catherine Curtis?
Character: Peter
Released: March 30, 1976
Type: Movie
Following twenty-three years of marriage to a philandering husband, divorcee Catherine Curtis begins life anew as a single woman.
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Mixed Company
Title: Mixed Company
Character: Pete
Released: October 18, 1974
Type: Movie
Kathy Morrison (Harris), mother of three, who helps run a "color-blind" adoption program, wants to have another biological child. Her husband, Pete (Bologna), the head coach of the Phoenix Suns, finds out he can't produce another child. Kathy thinks about adopting a boy, Frederic "Freddie" Wilcox, and Pete does not want to adopt a boy who happens to be black. When he relents, Freddie's arrival causes an upheaval in the Morrison's neighborhood, their school, and family. Kathy's answer is to adopt another child, in this case two, a war-traumatized half-Vietnamese girl, Quan Tran, and a Hopi boy, Joe. The new extended family must now learn to live together.
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Paradise
Title: Paradise
Character: David / Biff / Tony / Nick
Released: March 12, 1974
Type: Movie
A couple decide to get away from their problems and spend their vacation in a tropical island paradise.
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Cops and Robbers
Title: Cops and Robbers
Character: Joe
Released: August 15, 1973
Type: Movie
Two disillusioned New York policemen plan a $10 million robbery to fuel their low pensions, only to run into one debacle after another in the process.
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Acts of Love and Other Comedies
Title: Acts of Love and Other Comedies
Character: Arthur Hellman
Released: March 15, 1973
Type: Movie
A funny anthology featuring various sketches about people having trouble with love and sex.
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Honor Thy Father
Title: Honor Thy Father
Character: Salvatore (Bill) Bonnano
Released: March 1, 1973
Type: Movie
Joseph Bologna stars as Bill Bonanno in this made-for-television adaptation of the controversial bestseller from Gay Talese, chronicling the rise of New York's infamous Bonanno organized crime family. When his father disappears in 1964 and Bill is compelled to take over the "empire," other mafiosi attempt to take what's theirs. Brenda Vaccaro and Richard S. Castellano fill out the impressive cast of this gripping crime tale.
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Made For Each Other
Title: Made For Each Other
Character: Giggy
Released: December 12, 1971
Type: Movie
An eccentric woman meets an equally odd man at a group therapy session and they begin a relationship.
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Title: The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Character: Self
Released: October 1, 1962
Type: TV
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under The Tonight Show franchise from 1962 to 1992. It originally aired during late-night. For its first ten years, Carson's Tonight Show was based in New York City with occasional trips to Burbank, California; in May 1972, the show moved permanently to Burbank, California. In 2002, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson was ranked #12 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.