J.E. Freeman

J.E. Freeman

Born: February 2, 1946
Died: August 9, 2014
in Brooklyn, New York, USA
J.E. Freeman (born February 2, 1946) is an American actor. He was a character actor, often cast in tough guy roles and authority figures. His first movie appearance was in the early 80's actionner An Eye for an Eye in which he plays a tow truck driver who minces words with Chuck Norris.

He is especially known for his menacing characters roles : the evil gangster Marcelles Santos in David Lynch's Wild at Heart, the terrifying Eddie Dane, ferocious gay hitman from Miller's Crossing, and the infamous scientist Mason Wren in Alien Resurrection. Other notable apparitions in : Ruthless People, Patriot Games, Copycat and Go.

He is openly gay. In 2009, he published a letter to the editor on sfgate.com, detailing his reminiscences of the 1969 Stonewall riots.

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Movies for J.E. Freeman...

Tremors 4: The Legend Begins
Title: Tremors 4: The Legend Begins
Character: Old Fred
Released: January 2, 2004
Type: Movie
In 1889, seventeen men die under mysterious circumstances, and spooked by recent events, the miners who populate the town leave in droves until there's nothing left but a shell of a community.
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Mystery Woman
Title: Mystery Woman
Character: Ian Philby
Released: August 31, 2003
Type: Movie
A famous writer is found hanged in his office. At first, all police investigations conclude that it was suicide, but when Samantha Kinsey, owner of Seller 'Mystery Woman' starts his own investigation, he discovers that there is chance that has been committed murder. The film is the first in a long series of American TV movies called" Mystery Woman", in which Samantha Kinsey, the owner of a bookshop specializing in thrillers and suspense is involved in the resolution of real cases.
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44 Minutes: The North Hollywood Shoot-Out
Title: 44 Minutes: The North Hollywood Shoot-Out
Character: Police Commander
Released: January 1, 2003
Type: Movie
After a failed bank robbery, two heavily armed men hold the Los Angeles Police Department at bay for 44 minutes.
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Along for the Ride
Title: Along for the Ride
Character: Jake Cowens
Released: February 17, 2001
Type: Movie
Two estranged brothers are forced to take a surreal and heartfelt journey to understanding, when they pick up the body of their deceased father in Mexico. A father they haven't seen in over 20 years.
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Suspended Animation
Title: Suspended Animation
Character: Philip Boulette
Released: January 1, 2001
Type: Movie
Hollywood animator Tom (Alex McArthur) gets lost in the Michigan woods after a snowmobile ride goes wrong. He finds refuge at an isolated cabin inhabited by two sisters (Laura Esterman and Sage Allen). Initially grateful to them, Tom soon realizes that the women are cannibals who peg him as their next meal. Tom's friends manage to rescue him, but he's perpetually haunted by his horrific ordeal.
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Auggie Rose
Title: Auggie Rose
Character: Pawn Shop Owner
Released: May 14, 2000
Type: Movie
An insurance salesman's humdrum existence takes a turn when a stranger, ex-con Auggie Rose, unexpectedly dies in his arms. Assuming the identity of the dead man, the salesman embarks on a double life, keeping it secret from his live-in girlfriend.
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Go
Title: Go
Character: Victor Sr.
Released: April 9, 1999
Type: Movie
Grocery store clerk Simon occasionally sells drugs from his cash register at work, so when soap opera actors Adam and Zack come looking for Ecstasy on a quiet Christmas Eve, they are surprised to find Ronna covering his shift. Desperate for money, Ronna decides to become an impromptu drug dealer, unaware that Adam and Zack are secretly working for obsessed narcotics officer Burke.
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Fool's Gold
Title: Fool's Gold
Character: George
Released: January 2, 1998
Type: Movie
Flimp and Sam are both outcasts in the Oklahoma town of Oiltown, but Jewish Sam idolises macho Latino Flimp. When they hear that a wealthy man has moved into a local house, they decide to check it out. Things go wrong, and soon they are on the run from the FBI...
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Dream with the Fishes
Title: Dream with the Fishes
Character: Joe
Released: November 21, 1997
Type: Movie
Terry is a suicidal voyeur who treats a dying addict to a final binge, but Terry will only do this if he promises to kill him.
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The Man Who Knew Too Little
Title: The Man Who Knew Too Little
Character: CIA Man
Released: November 14, 1997
Type: Movie
An American gets a ticket for an audience participation game in London, then gets involved in a case of mistaken identity. As an international plot unravels around him, he thinks it's all part of the act.
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Alien Resurrection
Title: Alien Resurrection
Character: Dr. Mason Wren
Released: November 12, 1997
Type: Movie
Two hundred years after Lt. Ripley died, a group of scientists clone her, hoping to breed the ultimate weapon. But the new Ripley is full of surprises … as are the new aliens. Ripley must team with a band of smugglers to keep the creatures from reaching Earth.
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Copycat
Title: Copycat
Character: Lt. Quinn
Released: October 27, 1995
Type: Movie
An agoraphobic psychologist and a female detective must work together to take down a serial killer who copies serial killers from the past.
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Title: ER
Character: Mr. Jeffries
Released: September 19, 1994
Type: TV
ER explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by the dedicated physicians and staff of its overburdened emergency room.
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There Goes My Baby
Title: There Goes My Baby
Character: George
Released: September 2, 1994
Type: Movie
It's the summer of 1965, and the members of the graduating class of upscale Westwood High are eager to reinvent themselves. Valedictorian Mary Beth wants to attend a liberal university. Surfer bum Stick plans to enlist to fight in Vietnam. Calvin lives in the poor Watts section of Los Angeles, which is slowly erupting in violence. As the summer nights grow long, they'll all be forced to make decisions that will affect the rest of their lives.
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It Could Happen to You
Title: It Could Happen to You
Character: Sal Bontempo
Released: July 29, 1994
Type: Movie
Charlie Lang is a simple, kindhearted New York City cop. When he realizes he has no money to tip waitress Yvonne Biasi, Lang offers her half the winnings of his lottery ticket. Amazingly, the ticket happens to be a winner, in the sum of $4 million. True to his word, Lang proceeds to share the prize money with Biasi, which infuriates his greedy wife, Muriel. Not content with the arrangement, Muriel begins scheming to take all the money.
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Title: Fallen Angels
Character: Johnny Cabe
Released: August 1, 1993
Type: TV
A neo-noir anthology television series, set in somber Los Angeles right after World War II and before the election of American President John F. Kennedy. The episodes, although filmed in color, mimicked what had been done by Hollywood filmmakers during the film noir era of the 1940s and 1950s in terms of tone, look, and story content.
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Casualties of Love: The Long Island Lolita Story
Title: Casualties of Love: The Long Island Lolita Story
Character: Det. Marty Algar
Released: January 3, 1993
Type: Movie
Joey Buttafuoco's story, of how a sexy, possessive young girl destroyed his life by telling her friends the two are lovers, and then shooting his wife.
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Title: Highlander: The Series
Character: Joe Scanlon
Released: October 3, 1992
Type: TV
Duncan MacLeod cannot die -- he is a 400-year-old immortal, who has seen his share of humanity's history. Still, he risks his life in battle against other immortals and tries to save people from harm.
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Patriot Games
Title: Patriot Games
Character: Marty Cantor
Released: June 4, 1992
Type: Movie
When CIA Analyst Jack Ryan interferes with an IRA assassination, a renegade faction targets Jack and his family as revenge.
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Title: The Fifth Corner
Character: Boone
Released: April 17, 1992
Type: TV
The Fifth Corner was a very short-lived American television series which aired on NBC and produced by TriStar Television in 1992. The two-hour pilot aired on April 17, 1992, and one final episode aired the week after.
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Till Death Us Do Part
Title: Till Death Us Do Part
Character: Det. Robert Guy
Released: February 18, 1992
Type: Movie
This is a true crime story based on the book of the same title by prosecuting attorney, Vincent Bugliosi. (Bugliosi is the L.A. prosecutor that put Charles Manson away.) On December 11, 1966, a murder occurs in a small neighborhood of El Sereno, CA. In the middle of the night, Henry Stockton is shot three times in the head and twice in the chest and then his house is set on fire. The murderer left no clues, baffling the police, until a year later when a young pregnant woman is found bludgeoned to death in a Jaguar. Strangely, these two murders are related. As the mystery unfolds a horrific tale of greed, lust and ambition are revealed.
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Memphis
Title: Memphis
Character: Podjo Harris
Released: January 27, 1992
Type: Movie
Two men and a woman in the deep south of the 1950s plot to kidnap a child from a wealthy black family, mistakenly believing that no one will try to stop them.
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The Doctor
Title: The Doctor
Character: Ralph
Released: July 24, 1991
Type: Movie
Jack McKee is a doctor with it all: he's successful, he's rich, and he has no problems.... until he is diagnosed with throat cancer. Now that he has seen medicine, hospitals, and doctors from a patient's perspective, he realises that there is more to being a doctor than surgery and prescriptions.
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One Good Cop
Title: One Good Cop
Character: Captain Schreiber
Released: May 3, 1991
Type: Movie
When his partner is killed in the line of duty, Artie Lewis becomes the legal guardian of his three orphaned girls. But during his investigation of the case, Lewis finds his life – and that of his newfound family – on the line. That's when the guilty crime-lord comes face to face with one man's rage, one man's fury, one man's justice.
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Miller's Crossing
Title: Miller's Crossing
Character: Eddie Dane
Released: September 21, 1990
Type: Movie
Set in 1929, a political boss and his advisor have a parting of the ways when they both fall for the same woman.
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Wild at Heart
Title: Wild at Heart
Character: Marcelles Santos
Released: August 17, 1990
Type: Movie
After serving prison time for a self-defense killing, Sailor Ripley reunites with girlfriend Lula Fortune. Lula's mother, Marietta, desperate to keep them apart, hires a hitman to kill Sailor. But he finds a whole new set of troubles when he and Bobby Peru, an old buddy who's also out to get Sailor, try to rob a store. When Sailor lands in jail yet again, the young lovers appear further than ever from the shared life they covet.
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The Couch Trip
Title: The Couch Trip
Character: Unger
Released: January 15, 1988
Type: Movie
The escaped delinquent John W. Burns, Jr. replaces Dr. Maitlin on a radio show, saying he's the psychiatrist Lawrence Baird.
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Title: Fresno
Character: 1st Henchman
Released: November 16, 1986
Type: TV
In Fresno, California, the once-wealthy Kensington family's raisin-growing empire has fallen on hard times. They are led by widowed matriarch Charlotte, who is locked in a deadly power struggle with rival raisin magnate Tyler Cane.
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Ruthless People
Title: Ruthless People
Character: Bedroom Killer
Released: June 26, 1986
Type: Movie
A couple, cheated by a vile businessman, kidnap his wife in retaliation—without knowing that their enemy is delighted they did.
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Hard Traveling
Title: Hard Traveling
Character: Ed Sloan
Released: January 20, 1986
Type: Movie
Set during the Depression, Dan Bessie's film (based on a novel by his father Alvah) stars Ellen Geer as a widow who begins a romance with an uneducated janitor (J.E. Freeman) who is later accused of murder.
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Chase
Title: Chase
Character: Dixon
Released: November 23, 1985
Type: Movie
A big-city lawyer (Jennifer O'Neill) returns to her small hometown after her father's death to resume his practice. There she is called upon to defend a migrant worker who has been accused of murder.
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Twice Upon a Time
Title: Twice Upon a Time
Character: Rusher of Din: Pool Player
Released: August 5, 1983
Type: Movie
In the world of the Murkworks where nightmares are made, the evil Synonamess Botch hatches a scheme to make non-stop nightmares. Only Ralph and Mumford, misfits from the cheery land of Frivoli where good dreams are made, can stop him.
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An Eye for an Eye
Title: An Eye for an Eye
Character: Tow Truck Dude
Released: August 14, 1981
Type: Movie
Sean Kane is forced to resign from the San Francisco Police Department's Narcotics Division when he goes berserk after his partner is murdered. He decides to fight alone and follows a trail of drug traffickers into unexpected high places.
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Bitter Harvest
Title: Bitter Harvest
Character: Farmer #2
Released: May 18, 1981
Type: Movie
A farmer's herd sickens and dies, then his family and neighbors fall ill, so he bucks the state agricultural establishment as he pursues the politically-explosive investigation of how his farm, family, and friends came to be poisoned.