John Pankow

John Pankow

Born: April 28, 1954
in St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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John Pankow (born April 28, 1954) is an American film and stage actor. He is perhaps best known for a supporting role on the sitcom Mad About You (1993-1999).

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Before/During/After
Title: Before/During/After
Character: Jim Lonergan
Released: August 7, 2020
Type: Movie
This sharp-witted dramedy studies a middle-aged NYC theatre actress suddenly forced to figure out the kind of person she wants to portray in real life when her marriage comes to an end after she catches her husband cheating.
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Title: Mad About You
Character: Ira Buchman
Released: November 20, 2019
Type: TV
A revival of the 1990s sitcom centering on the trials and tribulations of a married couple living in New York.
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Title: Lucifer
Character: Jimmy Barnes
Released: January 25, 2016
Type: TV
Bored and unhappy as the Lord of Hell, Lucifer Morningstar abandoned his throne and retired to Los Angeles, where he has teamed up with LAPD detective Chloe Decker to take down criminals. But the longer he's away from the underworld, the greater the threat that the worst of humanity could escape.
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An Experiment in Fear: The Making of Monkey Shines
Title: An Experiment in Fear: The Making of Monkey Shines
Character: Himself
Released: November 18, 2014
Type: Movie
Documentary about the making of George A. Romero's Monkey Shines.
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Doubt
Title: Doubt
Character: Mr. Syd Newman
Released: January 1, 2013
Type: Movie
Centers on Vincent, a former cop who's now a cunning but charming low-rent lawyer who uses his street smarts to work the system for his clients while battling his own demons and wooing his ex-wife.
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Putzel
Title: Putzel
Character: Sid
Released: October 10, 2012
Type: Movie
For Walter, a young man endearingly known as "Putzel," life literally doesn't go beyond his neighborhood on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Walter's dreams of taking over his family's smoked fish emporium are disrupted by the arrival of Sally, who starts a relationship with his about-to-retire and very-married uncle. In order to secure his future, Walter attempts to thwart the budding romance and falls for Sally too - throwing everyone's lives into hilarious chaos.
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Title: Elementary
Character: Edgar Knowles
Released: September 27, 2012
Type: TV
A modern-day drama about a crime-solving duo that cracks the NYPD's most impossible cases. Following his fall from grace in London and a stint in rehab, eccentric Sherlock escapes to Manhattan where his wealthy father forces him to live with his worst nightmare - a sober companion, Dr. Watson.
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Title: Episodes
Character: Merc Lapidus
Released: January 9, 2011
Type: TV
A British husband-and-wife comedy writing team travel to Hollywood to remake their successful British TV series, with disastrous results.
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Morning Glory
Title: Morning Glory
Character: Lenny Bergman
Released: November 10, 2010
Type: Movie
A young and devoted morning television producer is hired as an executive producer on a long-running morning show at a once-prominent but currently failing station in New York City. Eager to keep the show on air, she recruits a former news journalist and anchor who disapproves of co-hosting a show that does not deal with real news stories.
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Title: Law & Order: LA
Character: Attorney Byron
Released: September 29, 2010
Type: TV
From the tony Beverly Hills to the seedy side of Hollywood, LAPD’s elite Robbery Homicide Division is on the case. Fusing classic ripped-from-the-headlines storytelling with the backdrop of LA, the series delves into the high profile crimes of the west coast.
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The Extra Man
Title: The Extra Man
Character: George
Released: August 1, 2010
Type: Movie
A man who escorts wealthy widows in New York's Upper East Side takes a young aspiring playwright under his wing.
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Bride Wars
Title: Bride Wars
Character: John
Released: January 9, 2009
Type: Movie
Two best friends become rivals when their respective weddings are accidentally booked for the same day.
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Counterfeit World: Making 'To Live and Die in L.A.'
Title: Counterfeit World: Making 'To Live and Die in L.A.'
Character: Himself
Released: December 2, 2003
Type: Movie
The magic and creation behind the making of William Friedkin's classic action film To Live and Die in L.A. (1985). It follows cast, crew and the director several years after the film sharing their experiences while working on the project, also including footage from the shooting, and they discuss in detail the conception of the most spectacular scenes filmed there and also the great debate about the different endings developed for the film.
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Title: Without a Trace
Character: Brian Owen
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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Life as a House
Title: Life as a House
Character: Bryan Burke
Released: October 25, 2001
Type: Movie
When a man is diagnosed with terminal cancer, he takes custody of his misanthropic teenage son, for whom quality time means getting high, engaging in small-time prostitution, and avoiding his father.
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Title: Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Character: Phil Lambier
Released: September 30, 2001
Type: TV
The third installment of the “Law & Order” franchise takes viewers deep into the minds of its criminals while following the intense psychological approaches the Major Case Squad uses to solve its crimes.
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Title: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Character: Lenny Simmons
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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The Object of My Affection
Title: The Object of My Affection
Character: Vince McBride
Released: April 17, 1998
Type: Movie
A pregnant New York social worker begins to develop romantic feelings for her gay best friend, and decides she'd rather raise her child with him, much to the dismay of her overbearing boyfriend.
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Title: Ally McBeal
Released: September 8, 1997
Type: TV
Ally McBeal is a young lawyer working at the Boston law firm Cage and Fish. Ally's lives and loves are eccentric, humorous, dramatic with an incredibly overactive imagination that's working overtime!
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Title: Aaahh!!! Real Monsters
Character: Blook the Granfaloon (voice)
Released: October 29, 1994
Type: TV
Three young monsters — Ickis, Oblina and Krumm — attends an institute for monsters under a city dump and learn to frighten humans.
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Title: Mad About You
Released: September 23, 1992
Type: TV
Young, urban newlyweds Paul and Jamie Buchman try to sustain their marital bliss while sidestepping the hurdles of love in the '90s.
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Title: Mad About You
Character: Ira Buchman
Released: September 23, 1992
Type: TV
Young, urban newlyweds Paul and Jamie Buchman try to sustain their marital bliss while sidestepping the hurdles of love in the '90s.
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A Stranger Among Us
Title: A Stranger Among Us
Character: Levine
Released: July 17, 1992
Type: Movie
Detective Emily Eden is a tough New York City cop forced to go undercover to solve a puzzling murder. Her search for the truth takes her into a secret world of unwritten law and unspoken power, a world where the only way out is deeper in.
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Year of the Gun
Title: Year of the Gun
Character: Italo Bianchi
Released: September 10, 1991
Type: Movie
American novelist David Raybourne accidentally becomes entangled in the Red Brigade's terrorist plan to kidnap Italian Premier Aldo Moro during a research trip to Rome. As the terrorists attempt to kill David, he and his photojournalist friend must struggle to stay alive.
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Mortal Thoughts
Title: Mortal Thoughts
Character: Arthur Kellogg
Released: April 19, 1991
Type: Movie
A loathsome man ends up dead, but it's not clear who's to blame. If ever a person got what he deserved, it's James Urbanksi, an abusive drunk who steals from his wife, Joyce, and promises her close friend Cynthia Kellogg that she'll be the next target of his rage. At a group outing, James bleeds to death after someone cuts his throat. But because he's such a terrible human being, police aren't sure which of his acquaintances decided to kill him.
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Title: Law & Order
Character: Josh Lethem
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: Charles Meadow
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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Talk Radio
Title: Talk Radio
Character: Dietz
Released: December 21, 1988
Type: Movie
A rude, contemptuous talk show host becomes overwhelmed by the hatred that surrounds his program just before it goes national.
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Monkey Shines
Title: Monkey Shines
Character: Geoffrey Fisher
Released: July 29, 1988
Type: Movie
A quadriplegic man is given a trained monkey help him with every day activities, until the little monkey begins to develop feelings, and rage, against its new master and those who get too close to him.
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Johnny Be Good
Title: Johnny Be Good
Character: Lou Landers
Released: March 22, 1988
Type: Movie
It's recruiting time and despite being short and scrawny, Johnny Walker is America's hottest young football prospect. His dilemma: should he take one of the many offers from college talent scouts or should he attend the local state college with his girlfriend and give up his football career?
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Johnny Be Good
Title: Johnny Be Good
Character: Lou Landers (uncredited)
Released: March 22, 1988
Type: Movie
It's recruiting time and despite being short and scrawny, Johnny Walker is America's hottest young football prospect. His dilemma: should he take one of the many offers from college talent scouts or should he attend the local state college with his girlfriend and give up his football career?
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*batteries not included
Title: *batteries not included
Character: Kovacs
Released: December 18, 1987
Type: Movie
In a soon to be demolished block of apartments, the residents resist the criminal methods used to force them to leave so a greedy tycoon can build his new skyscraper. When tiny mechanical aliens land for a recharge, they decide to stay and help out.
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Title: The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd
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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The Secret of My Success
Title: The Secret of My Success
Character: Fred Melrose
Released: April 10, 1987
Type: Movie
Brantley Foster, a well-educated kid from Kansas, has always dreamed of making it big in New York, but once in New York, he learns that jobs - and girls - are hard to get. When Brantley visits his uncle, Howard Prescott, who runs a multi-million-dollar company, he is given a job in the company's mail room.
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To Live and Die in L.A.
Title: To Live and Die in L.A.
Character: John Vukovich
Released: November 1, 1985
Type: Movie
A fearless Secret Service agent will stop at nothing to bring down the counterfeiter who killed his partner.
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Title: Spenser: For Hire
Released: September 20, 1985
Type: TV
Mystery and suspense series based on Robert Parker's "Spenser" novels. Spenser, a private investigator living in Boston, gets involved in a new murder mystery each episode.
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Rambo: First Blood Part II
Title: Rambo: First Blood Part II
Character: POW #6
Released: May 21, 1985
Type: Movie
John Rambo is released from prison by the government for a top-secret covert mission to the last place on Earth he'd want to return - the jungles of Vietnam.
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First Steps
Title: First Steps
Character: Fred
Released: March 19, 1985
Type: Movie
Teenage Nan Davis is left paralyzed in a car accident and has a tough time accepting her new wheelchair-bound life. One day she hears about new research by Dr. Jerrold Petrofsky, about using external electric stimulations to enable paralyzed people to use their frozen muscles. She enters the research as a test subject and gets her reward when she walks up to receive her college diploma.
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Title: Miami Vice
Character: Floyd Higgins
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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The Hunger
Title: The Hunger
Character: 1st Phone Booth Youth
Released: April 29, 1983
Type: Movie
Miriam Blaylock, an ageless vampire, collects Renaissance art, ancient Egyptian pendants, lovers, and souls in Manhattan.
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The Chosen
Title: The Chosen
Character: Bully
Released: August 20, 1981
Type: Movie
In a 1940s New York, two Jewish teenage boys are determined to remain friends despite the deep differences between their two families.
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Life on the Mississippi
Title: Life on the Mississippi
Released: November 24, 1980
Type: Movie
Most mid-19th-century Mississippi River boys dreamed of occupying that pinnacle of power and glamour, the pilot house of a riverboat. In a riot of local color, this film tells how, unlike many, Sam's dream comes true. A callow teenager, he talks the tough but consummate Horace Bixby into making him his apprentice on the "Paul Jones," eventually following him to the much finer "Aleck Scott." Meanwhile, he is already spinning fantastic yarns to everyone from awe-struck lads ashore, to fellow "cub pilots", to young lady passengers who catch his eye. Things temporarily take a turn for the worse when Bixby must attend a meeting and leave Sam to work under Brown, a dour tyrant with a grudge against him.
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Title: Great Performances
Character: George Richie
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.