Kevin Anderson

Kevin Anderson

Born: January 13, 1960
in Gurnee, Illinois, USA
Kevin Anderson (born January 13, 1960) is an American theater, film and TV actor, as well as a singer and drummer. He is best known for his roles as Ben Woodward in Sleeping with the Enemy (1991), Robert G. Kennedy in Hoffa (1992), Bob Richmond in Rising Sun alongside Sean Connery and Wesley Snipes, Peter Lewis in A Thousand Acres (1997), Frank Gifford in Monday Night Mayhem (2002), Mr. Parable in Charlotte's Web (2006), and Father Ray in the ABC series Nothing Sacred (for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe for this role). He belongs to the Steppenwolf Theatre Company, which has also featured John Malkovich, Gary Sinise, and Laurie Metcalf. He has won a Theatre World Award and Joseph Jefferson Award for his performance in Lyle Kessler's play Orphans . In 1993, he created the role of Joe Gillis in the original London production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard opposite Patti LuPone who originated the role of Norma Desmond. Both Anderson and LuPone were subsequently fired from the production without warning, having been told that they would be reprising their roles in the original Broadway production of the show.

Anderson won the 1999 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play and was nominated for a Tony Award for the revival of Death of a Salesman. In January 2008 he opened on Broadway in Come Back, Little Sheba. Since September 2009, he has started as Andy Dufresne in "Shawshank Redemption" at the Wyndhams Theatre in London.

Movies for Kevin Anderson...

Starring Austin Pendleton
Title: Starring Austin Pendleton
Released: April 1, 2016
Type: Movie
A quirky and inspirational documentary film on the philosophical approach to the life and work of character actor, Austin Pendleton.
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Wilde Salomé
Title: Wilde Salomé
Character: Self / John the Baptist
Released: December 20, 2013
Type: Movie
Pacino takes us on a journey as he unravels and re-interprets Oscar Wilde's once banned and most controversial work SALOME, a scintillating tale of lust, greed and one woman's scorn.
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Salomé
Title: Salomé
Character: John the Baptist
Released: August 10, 2013
Type: Movie
One of Al Pacino's directory experiments, the stage elements of the film were filmed over 5 days in 2011. Initially part of the documentary "Wilde Salomé", the two pieces make up a thrilling tribute and rumination on Wilde's original stage play.
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Father's Day
Title: Father's Day
Character: Father O'Flynn
Released: June 19, 2011
Type: Movie
Ahab, a man obsessed with exacting a brutal, violent revenge on the man who murdered his dad, joins John, an eager priest, and Twink, a hot-headed street hustler, on an epic quest to find and defeat this mythical monster known as Chris Fuchman AKA The Father's Day Killer.
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Charlotte's Web
Title: Charlotte's Web
Character: Mr. Arable
Released: December 7, 2006
Type: Movie
Wilbur the pig is scared of the end of the season, because he knows that come that time, he will end up on the dinner table. He hatches a plan with Charlotte, a spider that lives in his pen, to ensure that this will never happen.
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Carry Me Home
Title: Carry Me Home
Character: Charlie
Released: December 13, 2004
Type: Movie
A widow named Harriet and her two children Carrie and Brian are living in rural New York in 1947 and are still recovering from the death of Harriet's husband killed in World War II. Carrie is a tomboy and hangs around with boys and they have their own clubhouse. Carrie and her friends make mischief and taunt their mentally challenged neighbor Charlie by stealing one of his puppies. Harriet meets a man named Bernard and begin a courtship, but Carrie is furious that her mother is dating Bernard and wants it to stop. The jealousy and anger of Carrie raises to a fever pitch when Carrie and her friends destroy their neighbor Mr. Grizzle's garden and pour sugar into his tractor. Grizzle then takes Charlie's other puppies away from him and then Grizzle's barn is destroyed by fire. Carrie learns it's time for her to grow up and make amends with her mother and her neighbors for the grief and pain she caused them.
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Title: Skin
Released: October 20, 2003
Type: TV
Skin is a television serial drama which aired at 9:00 p.m. Monday on Fox in 2003. It followed the tale of two teenagers who came from feuding families on opposite sides of the moral and legal spectrum. Adam is the son of the Los Angeles District Attorney, and Jewel is the daughter of a pornographer. The show is a modern-day take on the Romeo and Juliet story. Even after an incredible amount of advertising, the show was cancelled after only three episodes due to poor ratings and less than favorable reviews. It was reprieved in 2005, when SOAPnet acquired broadcasting rights to all eight episodes and aired the last five episodes for the first time.
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Power and Beauty
Title: Power and Beauty
Character: John F. Kennedy
Released: July 21, 2002
Type: Movie
A woman claims she had an affair with John F. Kennedy.
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Monday Night Mayhem
Title: Monday Night Mayhem
Character: Frank Gifford
Released: January 14, 2002
Type: Movie
The early years of a television sports powerhouse are chronicled as ABC becomes a player in the NFL coverage by putting their full resources into a major showcase. Executive Roone Arledge (John Heard) recruits former Dallas Cowboys quarterback 'Dandy' Don Meredith (Brad Beyer), along with Keith Jackson (Shuler Hensley), and the combative Howard Cosell (John Turturro) as commentators for the broadcasts, which become funny, odd trio events to millions of viewers. Jackson departs the show after the first year to take over the network's focus on college football, and former New York Giants star Frank Gifford (Kevin Anderson) takes his place, ruffling Cosell's feathers. Then things get really crazy!
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Ruby's Bucket of Blood
Title: Ruby's Bucket of Blood
Character: Billy Dupre
Released: December 1, 2001
Type: Movie
A Louisiana juke joint owner loses her star entertainer and hires a white singer to fill in.
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When Strangers Appear
Title: When Strangers Appear
Character: Bryce
Released: February 1, 2001
Type: Movie
A man enters a roadside diner run by a young woman and claims he is being chased by murderers.
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The Doe Boy
Title: The Doe Boy
Character: Hank
Released: January 25, 2001
Type: Movie
A Cherokee boy is a haemophiliac in a culture obsessed with blood identity.
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Gregory's Two Girls
Title: Gregory's Two Girls
Character: Jon
Released: October 15, 1999
Type: Movie
Twenty years after his teenage crush on a football-mad schoolgirl, Gregory is back at his old school, teaching English. When two of his pupils uncover evil practices at a local factory they want their teacher to help them expose the wrong-doer, who happens to be Greg's old schoolfriend.
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Title: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Character: Frank Sullivan
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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Title: The Hunt For The Unicorn Killer
Character: Ira Einhorn
Released: May 9, 1999
Type: TV
Based on true events, The Hunt For The Unicorn Killer tells the shocking story of Ira Einhorn, a respected American peace activist in 1970s America. He lives with Holly Maddux (Naomi Watts), but when he tries to leave him in 1977, she suddenly disappears under mysterious circumstances. Somewhat later, her lifeless body is found in a suitcase in the flat of Einhorn, who has meanwhile fled the country and in the following years cleverly manages to stay one step ahead of the authorities. However, Holly's father remains determined to bring justice in his daughter's name and after a lengthy manhunt, he finds the 'unicorn killer' in France in 1997.
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The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer
Title: The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer
Character: Ira Einhorn
Released: May 9, 1999
Type: Movie
An account of early 1970s social activist Ira Einhorn, who allegedly murdered his girlfriend and then fled the country.
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Firelight
Title: Firelight
Character: John Taylor
Released: May 27, 1998
Type: Movie
In 1838, lovely governess Elisabeth agrees to bear a child of anonymous English landowner, and he will in return pay her father's debt. At birth she, as agreed, gives up the child. Seven years later she is hired as governess to a girl on a remote Sussex estate. The father of the girl, Charles Godwin, turns out to be that anonymous landowner. So Elisabeth has to be her own daughter's governess, and she can't reveal the secret of her tie with little Louisa.
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Eye of God
Title: Eye of God
Character: Jack Stillings
Released: October 17, 1997
Type: Movie
A small Oklahoma town is stripped of its innocence when one of its boys turns up mute and bloodied by the lakeside. Unable to tell his story, the local sheriff embarks on a quest to uncover the roots of a gruesome crime. He's led to Ainsley DuPree and her new husband, Jack, a man whose interest in family may very well outweigh his morals.
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A Thousand Acres
Title: A Thousand Acres
Character: Peter Lewis
Released: September 19, 1997
Type: Movie
The lives of an Iowa farmer's three daughters are shattered when he suddenly decides to bequeath them the family's fertile farm.
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Title: Nothing Sacred
Character: Father Ray
Released: September 18, 1997
Type: TV
Father Ray, a card-playing, cocktail-sipping, blues-loving priest, ministers to his parishioners at St. Thomas, a large urban church in an inner-city neighborhood. He grapples with his own personal failings, including occasional crises of faith. Offering support are wise older priest Father Leo, young idealist Father Eric, and feminist nun Sister Maureen. (The series was co-created by a Jesuit priest named Bill Cain and producer David Manson.)
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The Wrong Man
Title: The Wrong Man
Character: Alex Walker
Released: September 5, 1993
Type: Movie
US merchant sailor Alex Walker (Kevin Anderson) is stranded in Mexico, penniless and wanted by the police. He meets and joins up with an unlikely couple - ageing but likeable shit Phillip Mills (John Lithgow) and young sexy, frustated wife Missy (Rosanna Arquette). The three develop a curiously inter-dependent relationship. Meanwhile, Police Captain Diaz and Detective Ortega are closing in and the plot circle is closed at Tapachula rail station amidst a stack of mistakes and wrong decisions.
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Rising Sun
Title: Rising Sun
Character: Bob Richmond
Released: July 30, 1993
Type: Movie
When a prostitute is found dead in a Los Angeles skyscraper occupied by a large Japanese corporation, detectives John Connor and Web Smith are called in to investigate. Although Connor has previous experience working in Japan, cultural differences make their progress difficult until a security disc showing the murder turns up. Close scrutiny proves the disc has been doctored, and the detectives realize they're dealing with a cover-up as well.
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The Night We Never Met
Title: The Night We Never Met
Character: Brian
Released: April 30, 1993
Type: Movie
Sam has a problem with his roommates: they are disgusting, and don't seem to share his views on responsibility, privacy, and basic hygine. Such is his discomfort with his living arrangements that he agrees to share the occupancy of another flat: he gets two nights a week, the owner (a sleazy frat-boy yuppie named Brian, soon to be married) and Ellen (a would-be painter seeking relief from her boring marriage) each get their seperate nights in the flat. Things go extremely well until Sam and Brian swap nights without telling Ellen, who attributes the "nice" things that happen around the place to the slob Brian, while berating the responsible Sam for his hedonistic lifestyle.
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Kurt Weill: Street Scene
Title: Kurt Weill: Street Scene
Character: Sam Kaplan
Released: January 1, 1993
Type: Movie
The opera takes place on the doorstep of a tenement on the East Side of Manhattan on two brutally hot days in 1946. The story focuses on two plotlines: the romance between Rose Maurrant and her neighbor Sam Kaplan; and on the extramarital affair of Rose's mother, Anna, which is eventually discovered by Rose's irritable father, Frank. The show portrays the ordinary romances, squabbles and gossips of the neighbors, as the mounting tensions involving the Maurrant family eventually build into a tragedy of epic proportions. Broadcast on BBC Two on New Years Day, 1993, this production was performed by the English National Opera and conducted by James Holmes.
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Hoffa
Title: Hoffa
Character: Robert F. Kennedy
Released: December 25, 1992
Type: Movie
A portrait of union leader James R. Hoffa, as seen through the eyes of his friend, Bobby Ciaro. The film follows Hoffa through his countless battles with the RTA and President Roosevelt.
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Liebestraum
Title: Liebestraum
Character: Nick Kaminsky
Released: September 13, 1991
Type: Movie
A man returns to his hometown and a series of dark secrets are revealed.
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Sleeping with the Enemy
Title: Sleeping with the Enemy
Character: Ben Woodward
Released: January 13, 1991
Type: Movie
A young woman fakes her own death in an attempt to escape her nightmarish marriage, but discovers it is impossible to elude her controlling husband.
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Orpheus Descending
Title: Orpheus Descending
Character: Val Xavier
Released: June 1, 1990
Type: Movie
Val Xavier is a drifter in 1940's Mississippi who brings new life to an Italian immigrant woman trapped in a loveless marriage.
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In Country
Title: In Country
Character: Lonnie
Released: September 15, 1989
Type: Movie
Samantha Hughes, a teenaged Kentucky girl, never knew her father, who died in Vietnam before her birth. Samantha lives with her uncle Emmett, who also served in Vietnam. Emmett hangs around with Tom, Earl, and Pete, three other Vietnam vets who, like Emmett, all have problems of one kind or another that relate to their war experiences. Samantha becomes obsessed with finding out about her father.
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Miles from Home
Title: Miles from Home
Character: Terry Roberts
Released: September 16, 1988
Type: Movie
Two brothers who are forced off their farm in the debt stricken mid-west become folk heroes when they begin robbing the banks that have been foreclosing on farmers.
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Orphans
Title: Orphans
Character: Philip
Released: September 18, 1987
Type: Movie
Brothers Treat and Philip have only had each other since they were kids, when a small-time criminal abruptly upends their routine lives.
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A Walk on the Moon
Title: A Walk on the Moon
Character: Everett Jones
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
A Peace Corps volunteer, bubbling o'er with idealism, learns to his delight that he has been assigned to a remote, backward Colombian village. When he arrives, he is confused by the cynical attitude of his predecessor
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Pink Nights
Title: Pink Nights
Character: Danny
Released: September 30, 1985
Type: Movie
Danny is shy and always astonished how his friend Jeff can just walk up to a total stranger and say "Hi!". Even more astonishing that Danny meets three girls the next week and when his mother goes on vacation, one after the other shows up on his doorstep and they move in with him! However that's rather a problem for Danny, because, in love, he's just with one of them.
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Title: Miami Vice
Released: September 16, 1984
Type: TV
The story of the Miami Police Department's vice squad and its efforts to end drug trafficking and prostitution, centered on the unlikely partnership of Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs - who first meet when Tubbs is undercover in a drug cartel.
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Risky Business
Title: Risky Business
Character: Chuck
Released: August 5, 1983
Type: Movie
Meet Joel Goodson, an industrious, college-bound 17-year-old and a responsible, trustworthy son. However, when his parents go away and leave him home alone in the wealthy Chicago suburbs with the Porsche at his disposal he quickly decides he has been good for too long and it is time to enjoy himself. After an unfortunate incident with the Porsche Joel must raise some cash, in a risky way.
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The Change-Up Kid
Title: The Change-Up Kid
Character: Ernie Moore
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Baseball pitching phenom Dean Fosh has a dream - he wants to play the game like no one's ever played it before. Who says some wishes don't come true?