Peter Friedman

Peter Friedman

Born: April 24, 1949
in New York City, New York, USA
Peter Friedman (born April 24, 1949) is an American stage, screen, and television actor. Born in New York City, Friedman graduated from Hofstra University before making his Broadway debut in The Great God Brown in 1972. Additional theatre credits include The Visit (1973), Piaf and A Soldier's Play (both 1981), The Heidi Chronicles (1989), Ragtime (1998), and Twelve Angry Men (2004). He has been nominated for the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical, Outstanding Actor in a Play, and Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play. On television, Friedman starred as patriarch George Silver in Brooklyn Bridge, has made numerous guest appearances in such series as Miami Vice, Law & Order, NYPD Blue, Without a Trace, Ghost Whisperer, and Damages, and had a featured role in Perfect Murder, Perfect Town: JonBenét and the City of Boulder. Friedman's many feature film credits include Prince of the City, Daniel, The Seventh Sign, Single White Female, I'm Not Rappaport, I Shot Andy Warhol, Safe, Freedomland, The Savages, and I'm Not There. Friedman married actress Joan Allen in 1990. The couple divorced in 2002. They have one daughter, Sadie, born in March 1994.

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Ragtime Reunion Concert
Title: Ragtime Reunion Concert
Character: Tateh
Released: March 13, 2024
Type: Movie
This special event celebrates the 25th anniversary of the Broadway production. Ragtime weaves an electrifying tapestry of three families from vastly different worlds, colliding and converging as they chase the American Dream through a tumultuous era of hope, despair and the revolutionary sounds of ragtime.
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Carmen & Moony
Title: Carmen & Moony
Character: Louis
Released: December 1, 2023
Type: Movie
A romantic comedy about a semi-recovered kleptomaniac who goes home for the holidays and invites an unlikely guest to her family dinner.
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She Said
Title: She Said
Character: Lanny Davis
Released: November 17, 2022
Type: Movie
New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor break one of the most important stories in a generation — a story that helped launch the #MeToo movement and shattered decades of silence around the subject of sexual assault in Hollywood.
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Daddy's Girl
Title: Daddy's Girl
Character: Robert
Released: January 20, 2022
Type: Movie
A young woman’s charming but overbearing father helps her move out of her wealthy older boyfriend’s apartment.
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Good Grief
Title: Good Grief
Character: Uncle Harold
Released: October 10, 2021
Type: Movie
On a road trip to scatter her dad’s ashes, Nora’s family does a substandard job of paying their respects.
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Title: Stars in the House
Character: Self
Released: March 16, 2020
Type: TV
In the wake of the Coronavirus pandemic and theatres across the world closing their curtains indefinitely, SiriusXM host Seth Rudetsky and his husband, producer James Wesley have created Stars in the House, a daily live streamed series to support The Actors Fund and its services.
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Sundowners
Title: Sundowners
Released: January 26, 2019
Type: Movie
Ali and her father cook, drink, and ignore what's going on in the next room.
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Title: Succession
Character: Frank Vernon
Released: June 3, 2018
Type: TV
Follow the lives of the Roy family as they contemplate their future once their aging father begins to step back from the media and entertainment conglomerate they control.
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Title: The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Character: George
Released: March 16, 2017
Type: TV
It’s 1958 Manhattan and Miriam “Midge” Maisel has everything she’s ever wanted - the perfect husband, kids, and Upper West Side apartment. But when her life suddenly takes a turn and Midge must start over, she discovers a previously unknown talent - one that will take her all the way from the comedy clubs of Greenwich Village to a spot on Johnny Carson’s couch.
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Keep in Touch
Title: Keep in Touch
Character: Dallen Parcel
Released: April 16, 2015
Type: Movie
After a major crisis, a man attempts to track down his long-lost first love, only to discover that she was killed in a car accident many years prior. His online search leads him to her younger sister, an aspiring musician who bears a striking resemblance to the girl he used to love. Quickly becoming obsessed, he arranges a not-so-chance meeting and a relationship blossoms between the two before he has a chance to disclose his true identity.
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Side Effects
Title: Side Effects
Character: Banks' Partner #1
Released: February 7, 2013
Type: Movie
A woman turns to prescription medication as a way of handling her anxiety concerning her husband's upcoming release from prison.
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Coming Up Roses
Title: Coming Up Roses
Character: Charles
Released: September 23, 2011
Type: Movie
A drama centered on a former actress who subjects her 15-year-old daughter to a series of depressed small towns, money woes, failed love affairs, and bouts of depression.
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Title: Person of Interest
Character: Lawrence Szilard
Released: September 22, 2011
Type: TV
John Reese, former CIA paramilitary operative, is presumed dead and teams up with reclusive billionaire Finch to prevent violent crimes in New York City by initiating their own type of justice. With the special training that Reese has had in Covert Operations and Finch's genius software inventing mind, the two are a perfect match for the job that they have to complete. With the help of surveillance equipment, they work "outside the law" and get the right criminal behind bars. 
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Harvest
Title: Harvest
Character: Carmine Monopoli
Released: March 5, 2011
Type: Movie
Gathered one summer in a beautiful shoreline town, three generations are drawn together by their patriarch. With endearing moments of humor and uplifting spirit, Harvest is a portrait of a family awkwardly yet delicately hanging on to what was, what now is, and to one another.
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Love & Other Drugs
Title: Love & Other Drugs
Character: California Man
Released: November 4, 2010
Type: Movie
Maggie is an alluring free spirit who won't let anyone – or anything – tie her down. But she meets her match in Jamie, whose relentless and nearly infallible charm serves him well with the ladies and the cutthroat world of pharmaceutical sales. Maggie and Jamie's evolving relationship takes them both by surprise, as they find themselves under the influence of the ultimate drug: love.
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The Messenger
Title: The Messenger
Character: Mr. Cohen
Released: November 13, 2009
Type: Movie
Will Montgomery, a U.S. Army Staff Sergeant who has returned home from Iraq, is assigned to the Army’s Casualty Notification service. Montgomery is partnered with Captain Tony Stone, to give notice to the families of fallen soldiers. The Sergeant is drawn to Olivia Pitterson, to whom he has delivered news of her husband’s death.
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Breaking Upwards
Title: Breaking Upwards
Character: Alan
Released: March 14, 2009
Type: Movie
'Breaking Upwards' explores a young, real-life New York couple who, four years in and battling codependency, decide to intricately strategize their own break up. Based on an actual experiment devised by director/actor Daryl Wein and actress Zoe Lister-Jones, the film loosely interprets a year in their lives exploring alternatives to monogamy, and the madness that ensues. An uncensored look at young love, lust, and the pangs of codependency, 'Breaking Upwards' follows its characters as they navigate each others' emotions across the city they love. It begs the question: is it ever possible to grow apart together?
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Synecdoche, New York
Title: Synecdoche, New York
Character: Emergency Room Doctor
Released: October 24, 2008
Type: Movie
A theater director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he attempts to create a life-size replica of New York inside a warehouse as part of his new play.
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The Savages
Title: The Savages
Character: Larry
Released: November 28, 2007
Type: Movie
A sister and brother face the realities of familial responsibility as they begin to care for their ailing father.
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I'm Not There
Title: I'm Not There
Character: Morris Bernstein / Barker
Released: October 1, 2007
Type: Movie
Six actors portray six personas of music legend Bob Dylan in scenes depicting various stages of his life, chronicling his rise from unknown folksinger to international icon and revealing how Dylan constantly reinvented himself.
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Title: Damages
Character: District Attorney
Released: July 24, 2007
Type: TV
Damages is an American legal thriller television series created by the writing and production trio of Daniel Zelman and brothers Glenn and Todd A. Kessler. The plot revolves around the brilliant, ruthless lawyer Patty Hewes and her protégée, recent law school graduate Ellen Parsons. Each season features a major case that Hewes and her firm take on, while also examining a chapter of the complicated relationship between Ellen and Patty. The first two seasons center around the law firm Hewes & Associates. Later seasons center more on Patty and Ellen's relationship as Ellen begins to distance herself from Hewes & Associates and begins an independent career.
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Unconscious
Title: Unconscious
Character: Father William
Released: May 5, 2006
Type: Movie
Six different people all believe an unconscious and unidentified man in a hospital is their missing person. A film about being unconscious . . . or not.
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The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
Title: The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
Character: Scoop Rosenbaum (segment "The Heidi Chronicles")
Released: May 2, 2006
Type: Movie
The Great White Way comes into your living room via this disc of rare performances from some of Broadway's brightest luminaries. Culled from clips from the Tony Awards shows, this unique collection features acting powerhouses James Earl Jones, Annette Bening, Joan Allen, Joe Mantegna, Gary Sinise and Maggie Smith, among others, performing works by such playwrights as August Wilson, David Mamet, Wendy Wasserstein and more.
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Title: Heist
Released: March 22, 2006
Type: TV
Heist is an American television series that premiered March 22, 2006, on NBC, but was almost immediately canceled due to low ratings. The series was from acclaimed director Doug Liman and revolved around professional thief Mickey O' Neil, who created a team of experts to try to pull off the biggest heist in history — to simultaneously rob three jewelry stores on Rodeo Drive during Academy Awards week. Meanwhile, Amy Sykes, lead detective for LAPD’s Robbery Division, led the task force investigating a series of thefts committed by this new crew. Under high pressure from her superiors, she had to figure out not only who was behind the crimes, but also what larger job they were leading up to.
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Freedomland
Title: Freedomland
Character: Lt. Gold
Released: February 17, 2006
Type: Movie
A black police detective must solve a strange case of a kidnapped boy and deal with a big racial protest.
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Title: Ghost Whisperer
Character: Steve Burris
Released: September 23, 2005
Type: TV
Newlywed Melinda Gordon tries to help the dead communicate with loved ones, but sometimes the messages she receives are intense and confusing. Most of Melinda's efforts involve resolving conflicts that are preventing the spirits from passing over.
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Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
Title: Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
Character: Tateh (segment "Ragtime")
Released: August 7, 2005
Type: Movie
Broadway royalty and Tony-winners Tommy Tune, Carol Channing, Robert Goulet, and Harvey Fierstein are your hosts for this third compilation of great musical performances from the archives of the Tony Award® broadcasts. Legendary stars from legendary shows strut their stuff in 23 performances that have become part of Broadway history.
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King of the Corner
Title: King of the Corner
Character: Arthur Wexler
Released: June 8, 2004
Type: Movie
Leo Spivak is drifting through life without a compass. His father is aging fast, his teenage daughter is rebelling, his protégé is after his job and his wife is losing her patience. A twist of fate and some bizarre wisdom from a "freelance rabbi" help Leo navigate the murky waters of his life and turn his crisis into a second-chance.
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Paycheck
Title: Paycheck
Character: Attorney General Brown
Released: December 25, 2003
Type: Movie
Michael Jennings is a genius who's hired – and paid handsomely – by high-tech firms to work on highly sensitive projects, after which his short-term memory is erased so he's incapable of breaching security. But at the end of a three-year job, he's told he isn't getting a paycheck and instead receives a mysterious envelope. In it are clues he must piece together to find out why he wasn't paid – and why he's now in hot water.
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Title: Without a Trace
Character: Damon
Released: September 26, 2002
Type: TV
The series follows the ventures of a Missing Persons Unit of the FBI in New York City.
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Power and Beauty
Title: Power and Beauty
Character: Sam Giancana
Released: July 21, 2002
Type: Movie
A woman claims she had an affair with John F. Kennedy.
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Two Against Time
Title: Two Against Time
Character: Robert Portman
Released: April 21, 2002
Type: Movie
This film finds a mother and her teen daughter both being diagnosed with cancer. This discovery helps to overcome the longtime antagonistic relationship that the two have developed.
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Someone Like You...
Title: Someone Like You...
Character: Stephen, Alice's Husband
Released: March 30, 2001
Type: Movie
Jane Goodale has everything going for her. She's a producer on a popular daytime talk show, and is in a hot romance with the show's dashing executive producer Ray. But when the relationship goes terribly awry, Jane begins an extensive study of the male animal, including her womanizing roommate Eddie. Jane puts her studies and romantic misadventure to use as a pseudonymous sex columnist -- and becomes a sensation.
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Perfect Murder, Perfect Town: JonBenét and the City of Boulder
Title: Perfect Murder, Perfect Town: JonBenét and the City of Boulder
Character: Peter Hofstrom
Released: February 27, 2000
Type: Movie
About the infamous murder of six year old child beauty pageant contestant JonBenét Ramsey and the hysterical media coverage that made the investigation even more difficult.
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In the Presence of Mine Enemies
Title: In the Presence of Mine Enemies
Character: Kohn
Released: April 20, 1997
Type: Movie
In the Warsau ghetto of 1943, one man's struggle to keep his family together leads him to the ultimate crisis of faith and one final chance at redemption.
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I'm Not Rappaport
Title: I'm Not Rappaport
Character: Young Nat's Father
Released: December 24, 1996
Type: Movie
Old Nat Moyer is a talker, a philosopher, and a troublemaker with a fanciful imagination. His companion is Midge Carter, who is half-blind, but still the super of an apartment house. When he is threatened with retirement, Nat battles on his behalf. Nat also takes on his daughter, a drug dealer, and a mugger in this appealing version of a really 'odd couple'.
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I Shot Andy Warhol
Title: I Shot Andy Warhol
Character: Alan Burke
Released: May 1, 1996
Type: Movie
Based on the true story of Valerie Solanas who was a 1960s radical preaching hatred toward men in her "Scum" manifesto. She wrote a screenplay for a film that she wanted Andy Warhol to produce, but he continued to ignore her. So she shot him. This is Valerie's story.
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The Heidi Chronicles
Title: The Heidi Chronicles
Character: Scoop Rosenbaum
Released: October 15, 1995
Type: Movie
Unusual relationships, a feminist awakening and a career in art history mark a baby boomer's life, ages 16 through 46.
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Safe
Title: Safe
Character: Peter Dunning
Released: June 23, 1995
Type: Movie
Carol White, a Los Angeles housewife in the late 1980s, comes down with a debilitating illness with no clear diagnosis.
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Blink
Title: Blink
Character: Dr. Ryan Pierce
Released: October 1, 1993
Type: Movie
Emma is an attractive girl in her 20s who has been blind for 20 years. A new type of eye operation partially restores her sight, but she is having problems: sometimes she doesn't "remember" what she's seen until later. One night she is awakened by a commotion upstairs. Peering out of her door, she sees a shadowy figure descending the stairs. Convinced that her neighbour has been murdered she approaches the police, only to find that she is unsure if it was just her new eyes playing tricks on her.
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Single White Female
Title: Single White Female
Character: Graham Knox
Released: August 14, 1992
Type: Movie
Attractive Manhattanite Allison Jones has it all: a handsome beau, a rent-controlled apartment, and a promising career as a fashion designer. When boyfriend Sam proves unfaithful, Allison strikes out on her own but must use the classifieds to seek out a roommate in order to keep her spacious digs.
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Guilty Until Proven Innocent
Title: Guilty Until Proven Innocent
Character: Richard Emery
Released: September 22, 1991
Type: Movie
A teenage high school drop-out Bobby McLaughlin is accused of the murder of a local drug dealer he says he didn’t commit. When he is convicted with little evidence, his father begins a fierce struggle to free his son from prison.
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Title: Brooklyn Bridge
Character: George Silver
Released: September 20, 1991
Type: TV
Brooklyn Bridge is an American television program which aired on CBS between 1991 and 1993. It is about a Jewish American family living in Brooklyn in the middle 1950s. The premise was partially based on the childhood of executive producer and creator Gary David Goldberg. Brooklyn Bridge won a Golden Globe and was nominated for an Emmy Award as for outstanding television series in 1992, after its first season. The cast was led by Marion Ross; Art Garfunkel performed the theme song, which was titled "Just Over The Brooklyn Bridge." In 1997, "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling" was ranked #46 on TV Guide's 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time.
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Title: Law & Order
Character: Nolan Farber
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: Law & Order
Character: Defense Attorney Harold Jensen
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: Law & Order
Character: William Goodwin
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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The Seventh Sign
Title: The Seventh Sign
Character: Father Lucci
Released: April 1, 1988
Type: Movie
Abby is a pregnant woman with a curious new boarder in the apartment over her garage. Turns out he's heaven-sent and is speeding along the Apocalypse by bloodying rivers, egging on plagues and following scripture word for word.
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Title: The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd
Character: Harry
Released: May 21, 1987
Type: TV
Molly Dodd — a mid-30s, divorced woman living in New York — faces the comedy and drama of a widely changing career, difficulties of apartment living, love life and its consequences, and more.
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Finnegan Begin Again
Title: Finnegan Begin Again
Character: John Jewell
Released: February 24, 1985
Type: Movie
A schoolteacher in her early 40s, involved in a dead-end love affair with a married mortician, drifts into a relationship with an aging newspaperman.
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Title: Miami Vice
Character: Morgan
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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Piaf
Title: Piaf
Character: 'Papa' Leplée / American Sailor
Released: June 10, 1984
Type: Movie
Piaf is a play by Pam Gems that focuses on the life and career of French chanteuse Édith Piaf. This recording presents the Tony Award-winning stage play with its original Broadway cast.
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Daniel
Title: Daniel
Character: Ben Cohen
Released: August 26, 1983
Type: Movie
The fictionalized story of Daniel, the son of Paul and Rochelle Isaacson, who were executed as Soviet spies in the 1950s. As a graduate student in New York in the 1960s, Daniel is involved in the antiwar protest movement and contrasts his experiences to the memory of his parents and his belief that they were wrongfully convicted.
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Title: Rage of Angels
Character: Larry
Released: February 20, 1983
Type: TV
A young assistant district attorney is used by a ruthless attorney to get his client off. She is fired and almost disbarred, but fights back to become a top attorney, torn between two lovers.
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Prince of the City
Title: Prince of the City
Character: Goldman
Released: August 19, 1981
Type: Movie
New York City detective Daniel Ciello agrees to help the United States Department of Justice help eliminate corruption in the police department, as long as he will not have to turn in any close friends. In doing so, Ciello uncovers a conspiracy within the force to smuggle drugs to street informants.
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Christmas Evil
Title: Christmas Evil
Character: Mr. Grosch
Released: November 1, 1980
Type: Movie
Garbed in his red suit, Harry, a toy factory worker, decides that the only thing he can do to save the spirit of Christmas is to become Santa Claus himself and make all of the naughty townspeople pay... in blood!
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Title: The Muppet Show
Character: Crocodile / Banana (voice)
Released: September 5, 1976
Type: TV
Go behind the curtains as Kermit the Frog and his muppet friends struggle to put on a weekly variety show.
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Title: The Muppet Show
Character: Pa (voice)
Released: September 5, 1976
Type: TV
Go behind the curtains as Kermit the Frog and his muppet friends struggle to put on a weekly variety show.
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Title: The Muppet Show
Character: Additional Muppets (voice)
Released: September 5, 1976
Type: TV
Go behind the curtains as Kermit the Frog and his muppet friends struggle to put on a weekly variety show.
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Title: The Muppet Show
Character: Lead Mop (voice)
Released: September 5, 1976
Type: TV
Go behind the curtains as Kermit the Frog and his muppet friends struggle to put on a weekly variety show.
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Title: The Muppet Show
Character: Andre the Artist (voice)
Released: September 5, 1976
Type: TV
Go behind the curtains as Kermit the Frog and his muppet friends struggle to put on a weekly variety show.
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The Rules of the Game
Title: The Rules of the Game
Released: April 30, 1975
Type: Movie
Dramatist Luigi Pirandello's mordant comedy of manners tells the tale of upper-crust Italians Silia Gala and her sneering spouse, Leone, who finds his impassivity tested when he has to duel his wife's frustrated paramour.
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Title: Great Performances
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: Masters of Doom
Character: Al Vekovius
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV