Powers Boothe

Powers Boothe

Born: June 1, 1948
Died: May 14, 2017
in Snyder, Texas, U.S.
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Powers Allen Boothe (June 1, 1948 – May 14, 2017) was an American television and film actor. He won an Emmy in 1980 for his portrayal of Jim Jones in Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones. He also played saloon owner Cy Tolliver on Deadwood, "Curly Bill" Brocius in Tombstone, President Noah Daniels on 24, and Lamar Wyatt in Nashville.

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Dead of Winter: The Donner Party
Title: Dead of Winter: The Donner Party
Character: Narrator
Released: November 27, 2015
Type: Movie
What starts out as a voyage to the West in pursuit of the American Dream quickly turns deadly for the Donner party after a series of bad decisions and severe weather. Trapped in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, this group of nearly 80 settlers fell prey to sub-zero temperatures, torrential rainfalls, extreme heat, and ten-foot snow drifts. Punishing storms trapped the party with nearly no food or shelter for 5 months in the Sierra Nevada mountains. Many died, some succumbed to cannibalism to survive, and others delved deeply into their faith while waiting to be rescued. “The Donner Party” explores this exciting journey through a hybrid of first-person narration, remarkable reenactments, expert interviews, CGI, and archival materials.
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Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
Title: Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
Character: Senator Roark
Released: August 20, 2014
Type: Movie
Some of Sin City's most hard-boiled citizens cross paths with a few of its more reviled inhabitants.
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Title: Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Character: Gideon Malick
Released: September 24, 2013
Type: TV
Agent Phil Coulson of S.H.I.E.L.D. (Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division) puts together a team of agents to investigate the new, the strange and the unknown around the globe, protecting the ordinary from the extraordinary.
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Straight A's
Title: Straight A's
Character: Father
Released: January 16, 2013
Type: Movie
Pressured by his deceased mother's ghost to return home to the family he abandoned, a former addict grabs a bag of pills and a sack of marijuana and hits the road to Shreveport.
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Burning Hope: The Making of Hitman Absolution
Title: Burning Hope: The Making of Hitman Absolution
Character: Himself (uncredited)
Released: November 20, 2012
Type: Movie
Behind the scenes documentary about the making of the game Hitman: Absolution.
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Title: Nashville
Character: Lamar Wyatt
Released: October 10, 2012
Type: TV
Rayna Jaymes and Juliette Barnes face personal and professional challenges as they navigate their paths as artists and individuals. Surrounding them, and often complicating their lives, are their family, friends and, in some cases, lovers, as well as the up-and-coming performers and songwriters trying to get ahead in the business.
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Guns, Girls and Gambling
Title: Guns, Girls and Gambling
Character: The Rancher
Released: September 5, 2012
Type: Movie
The story throws Elvis impersonators, Indians, modern cowboys, a 6-foot-tall blond assassin, a frat boy, a corrupt sheriff and a prostitute into a chase for a priceless American Indian artifact stolen during a poker game at an Indian casino
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Title: Hatfields & McCoys
Character: Judge Valentine 'Wall' Hatfield
Released: May 28, 2012
Type: TV
It’s the true American story of a legendary family feud—one that spanned decades and nearly launched a war between Kentucky and West Virginia. The Hatfield-McCoy saga begins with Devil Anse Hatfield and Randall McCoy.. Close friends and comrades until near the end of the Civil War, they return to their neighboring homes—Hatfield in West Virginia, McCoy just across the Tug River border in Kentucky—to increasing tensions, misunderstandings and resentments that soon explode into all-out warfare between their families. As hostilities grow, friends, neighbors and outside forces join the fight, bringing the two states to the brink of another civil war.
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The Avengers
Title: The Avengers
Character: World Security Council
Released: April 25, 2012
Type: Movie
When an unexpected enemy emerges and threatens global safety and security, Nick Fury, director of the international peacekeeping agency known as S.H.I.E.L.D., finds himself in need of a team to pull the world back from the brink of disaster. Spanning the globe, a daring recruitment effort begins!
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Tattoo
Title: Tattoo
Character: The Gambler
Released: April 11, 2011
Type: Movie
A stranger approaches an aged tattoo artist with a special artistic and mystical request - He wants to know if the tattoo artist can copy an image he has onto his skin. The old man is amazed and shaken by the image. He knows its powerful history and reveals a bit of it to the young stranger.
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Title: Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated
Character: Dead Justice (voice)
Released: July 12, 2010
Type: TV
This incarnation of the popular cartoon series finds Scooby and the gang living in Crystal Cove, a small town with a long history of ghost sightings, monster tales and other mysteries ripe for the sleuths to solve once and for all. But the longstanding Crystal Cove residents, who bank on the town's reputation to attract tourists, are prepared to do what it takes to protect their turf.
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MacGruber
Title: MacGruber
Character: Col. Jim Faith
Released: May 21, 2010
Type: Movie
Ex-special operative MacGruber is called back into action to take down his archenemy, Dieter Von Cunth, who's in possession of a nuclear warhead and bent on destroying Washington, DC.
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Title: Ben 10: Ultimate Alien
Character: Sunder (voice)
Released: April 23, 2010
Type: TV
With his secret identity now revealed to the world, Ben Tennyson continues to fight evil as a superhero with the help of the newly acquired Ultimatrix.
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13 Scarier Movie Moments
Title: 13 Scarier Movie Moments
Character: Self
Released: October 10, 2009
Type: Movie
Final entry in the Bravo scary movie moments countdowns that aired in 2009.
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24: Redemption
Title: 24: Redemption
Character: President Noah Daniels
Released: November 23, 2008
Type: Movie
Former federal agent Jack Bauer confronts African dictator Benjamin Juma, whose forces have been ordered to capture the children Bauer oversees for malicious military training.
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Edison And Leo
Title: Edison And Leo
Character: George T. Edison (voice)
Released: September 4, 2008
Type: Movie
The film is about the relationship between crazy scientist George Edison and his son Leo. After being electrocuted as a child, Leo is no longer able to touch people without electrocuting them.
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Mouth of Caddo
Title: Mouth of Caddo
Character: Narrator
Released: August 1, 2008
Type: Movie
We follow three outlaws; Will Edwards, James McKinnon and 'Kid Called Kelly' as they escape from the law through the rough terrain of 1870s Texas.
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Nick Nolte: No Exit
Title: Nick Nolte: No Exit
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 2008
Type: Movie
A frank and unconventional view of the life and work of actor Nick Nolte.
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The Final Season
Title: The Final Season
Character: Jim Van Scoyoc
Released: October 12, 2007
Type: Movie
True story of Kent Stock, who in the early '90s gives up a job and ditches his wedding plans to take over as head coach of the Norway High School baseball team. Kent must win over his players and convince them and himself that he can fill their former coach's shoes and that they can go out winners. In the summer of 1991 Norway High's baseball tradition ended on a triumphant but sombre note.
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Ottoman Empire: The War Machine
Title: Ottoman Empire: The War Machine
Character: Narrator
Released: August 26, 2006
Type: Movie
This History Channel documentary traces the Ottoman Empire from its beginnings in the 14th century to its incarnation as one of the largest empires in history, spanning three continents.
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Superman: Brainiac Attacks
Title: Superman: Brainiac Attacks
Character: Lex Luthor (voice)
Released: June 20, 2006
Type: Movie
Embittered by Superman's heroic successes and soaring popularity, Lex Luthor forms a dangerous alliance with the powerful computer/villain Brainiac. Using advanced weaponry and a special strain of Kryptonite harvested from the far reaches of outer space, Luthor specifically redesigns Brainiac to defeat the Man of Steel.
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Sin City
Title: Sin City
Character: Senator Roark
Released: April 1, 2005
Type: Movie
Welcome to Sin City. This town beckons to the tough, the corrupt, the brokenhearted. Some call it dark… Hard-boiled. Then there are those who call it home — Crooked cops, sexy dames, desperate vigilantes. Some are seeking revenge, others lust after redemption, and then there are those hoping for a little of both. A universe of unlikely and reluctant heroes still trying to do the right thing in a city that refuses to care.
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Title: Justice League Unlimited
Character: Gorilla Grodd (voice)
Released: July 31, 2004
Type: TV
Justice League Unlimited is an American animated television series that was produced by Warner Bros. Animation and aired on Cartoon Network. Featuring a wide array of superheroes from the DC Comics universe, and specifically based on the Justice League superhero team, it is a direct sequel to the previous Justice League animated series.
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Title: Deadwood
Character: Cy Tolliver
Released: March 21, 2004
Type: TV
The story of the early days of Deadwood, South Dakota; woven around actual historic events with most of the main characters based on real people. Deadwood starts as a gold mining camp and gradually turns from a lawless wild-west community into an organized wild-west civilized town. The story focuses on the real-life characters Seth Bullock and Al Swearengen.
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Second Nature
Title: Second Nature
Character: Kelton Reed
Released: June 22, 2003
Type: Movie
Everything is not as it seems for a man who recovers from a plane crash in which his family is killed. After plastic surgery and rehabilitation, he determines that he worked for a secret agency for which he was an assassin. His former boss puts him back to work to assassinate a political leader, but when he proves unable to pull the trigger, it is he who becomes the target for assassins. As he avoids capture, the story unfolds about his true past and the reason why he has a tattoo of "chilly willy" inside his lip.
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Frailty
Title: Frailty
Character: FBI Agent Wesley Doyle
Released: April 12, 2002
Type: Movie
A mysterious man arrives at the offices of an FBI agent and recounts his childhood: how his religious fanatic father received visions telling him to kill people who were in fact "demons."
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Title: Justice League
Character: Gorilla Grodd (voice)
Released: November 17, 2001
Type: TV
The long-awaited rebirth of the greatest superhero team of all time: Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, The Flash, Hawkgirl, Green Lantern, and Martian Manhunter.
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Title: 24
Character: Vice President Noah Daniels
Released: November 6, 2001
Type: TV
Counterterrorism agent Jack Bauer fights the bad guys of the world, a day at a time. With each week's episode unfolding in real-time, "24" covers a single day in the life of Bauer each season.
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Title: Attila
Character: Flavius Aetius
Released: January 30, 2001
Type: TV
Attila was an American TV miniseries set during the waning days of the Western Roman Empire, in particular during the invasions of the Huns in Europe.
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Attila
Title: Attila
Character: Flavius Aetius
Released: January 1, 2001
Type: Movie
A vengeful beauty foils the plans of the bloodthirsty Hun warrior to conquer Rome.
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Men of Honor
Title: Men of Honor
Character: Captain Pullman
Released: September 13, 2000
Type: Movie
Against formidable odds -- and an old-school diving instructor embittered by the U.S. Navy's new, less prejudicial policies -- Carl Brashear sets his sights on becoming the Navy's first African-American master diver in this uplifting true story. Their relationship starts out on the rocks, but fate ultimately conspires to bring the men together into a setting of mutual respect, triumph and honor.
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A Crime of Passion
Title: A Crime of Passion
Character: Dr. Ben Pierce
Released: December 15, 1999
Type: Movie
When a physician is murdered, his eldest daughter is accused of the crime, but the man's seductive new wife may not be all that she appears.
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Title: Joan of Arc
Character: Jacques D'Arc
Released: May 16, 1999
Type: TV
Joan of Arc is born in 1412 in the village of Domrémy in the war zone of Northern France. During her youth she often witnesses the horrors of war, but her spirit is kept high by the legend of the Maiden of Lorraine. This says that a young maiden one day will unite the divided country and lead the people to freedom.
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The Spree
Title: The Spree
Character: Det. Bram Hatcher
Released: April 18, 1998
Type: Movie
A policeman becomes obsessed with a female cat burglar, who convinces him to join her in crime.
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U Turn
Title: U Turn
Character: Sheriff Virgil Potter
Released: October 3, 1997
Type: Movie
When Bobby's car breaks down in the desert while on the run from some of the bookies who have already taken two of his fingers, he becomes trapped in the nearby small town where the people are stranger than anyone he's encountered. After becoming involved with a young married woman, her husband hires Bobby to kill her. Later, she hires Bobby to kill the husband.
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Title: True Women
Character: Bartlett McClure
Released: May 18, 1997
Type: TV
A story of love, friendship, survival and triumph spanning five decades from the Texas Revolution through the Civil War, Reconstruction and beyond.
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Dalva
Title: Dalva
Character: Sam
Released: March 3, 1996
Type: Movie
The sweeping story of Dalva Northridge, a young woman of part-Sioux heritage from an old, landed family on the Nebraska plains, and of her lifelong yearning for the man she loved and the son she gave up.
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Nixon
Title: Nixon
Character: Alexander Haig
Released: December 22, 1995
Type: Movie
A look at President Richard M. Nixon—a man carrying the fate of the world on his shoulders while battling the self-destructive demands from within—spanning his troubled boyhood in California to the shocking Watergate scandal that would end his Presidency.
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Sudden Death
Title: Sudden Death
Character: Joshua Foss
Released: October 27, 1995
Type: Movie
When a man's daughter is suddenly taken during a championship hockey game – with the captors demanding a billion dollars by game's end – he frantically sets a plan in motion to rescue her and abort an impending explosion before the final buzzer.
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Mutant Species
Title: Mutant Species
Character: Frost
Released: January 19, 1995
Type: Movie
A rocket containing bio-hazardous material to be disposed of by launching into space crashes in a remote wooded area. An army team is sent to recover it. One of the men is infected and mutates into a monster, killing most of the rest of the team. One man escapes with the help of a brother & sister who live in the woods. He then tries to stop his former buddy, while also fighting against another army team sent in to destroy everything. The bio-material was supposed to create a super-soldier, was banned, and the crash of the rocket appears to have been deliberate so the experiment could proceed. But who is behind it all? And will others be infected?
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Blue Sky
Title: Blue Sky
Character: Vince Johnson
Released: September 16, 1994
Type: Movie
Hank Marshall is a tough, square-jawed, straitlaced Army engineer and nuclear science expert, assigned to help conduct weapons testing in 1950s America. Hank has become a thorn in the side of the Army, though, for a couple of very different reasons. He is an outspoken opponent of atmospheric testing, though his superiors hold contrary views and want to squelch his concerns...and his reports. The other problem is his wife, Carly. She is voluptuous and volatile, wreaking havoc in his personal life and stirring up intrigue at each new Army base.
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Web of Deception
Title: Web of Deception
Character: Dr. Phillip Pearloff
Released: April 25, 1994
Type: Movie
A forensic psychatrist of the Police Department falls for a fatal attraction that threatens to terminate his marriage, his career and his life.
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Tombstone
Title: Tombstone
Character: Curly Bill Brocius
Released: December 25, 1993
Type: Movie
Legendary marshal Wyatt Earp, now a weary gunfighter, joins his brothers Morgan and Virgil to pursue their collective fortune in the thriving mining town of Tombstone. But Earp is forced to don a badge again and get help from his notorious pal Doc Holliday when a gang of renegade brigands and rustlers begins terrorizing the town.
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Marked for Murder
Title: Marked for Murder
Character: Mace 'Sandman' Moutron
Released: January 17, 1993
Type: Movie
Mace Moutron, The Sandman, is released from prison to take part in a project where convicts assist the police in their job. Mace isn't used to playing by the rules, and he's frustrated with the corruption and impotence of the police. When he takes action against a local drug lord, the conflict becomes personal.
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Rapid Fire
Title: Rapid Fire
Character: Mace Ryan
Released: August 21, 1992
Type: Movie
College student Jake Lo is pursued by smugglers, mobsters and crooked federal agents after he witnesses a murder by a Mafia kingpin.
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Wild Card
Title: Wild Card
Character: Preacher
Released: August 3, 1992
Type: Movie
Thriller about a former preacher, now a professional gambler, who heads down New Mexico way to visit an old buddy, only for him to be killed. It is not long before the Preacher is uncovering a hotbed of corruption and murder in the seemingly peaceful town, aptly named Farewell.
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Eternal Enemies: Lions and Hyenas
Title: Eternal Enemies: Lions and Hyenas
Character: Narrator
Released: January 1, 1992
Type: Movie
Trek into the hidden battlefields of northern Botswana where lions and spotted hyenas clash in overlapping territories. With never-before-seen footage, much of it filmed at night, you'll uncover an intense and vicious blood feud that has been waged for millennia. Follow the Southern Clan, led by a powerful hyena matriarch whose firstborn female cub kills her sister at birth to assure her succession as leader of the clan. Lurk in the shadows as a lioness from the Central Pride gives birth to three cubs and then encounters a deadly Egyptian cobra. You'll be stunned by breathtaking chase scenes as the hyena matriarch is brutally killed by a male lion, throwing the clan into chaos. Discover nature's savage conflicts in this ancient rivalry.
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By Dawn's Early Light
Title: By Dawn's Early Light
Character: Cassidy
Released: May 19, 1990
Type: Movie
A nuclear warhead launched by Soviet insurgents protesting the waning Cold War destroys the Ukrainian city of Donetsk. The destruction sets off a race between American and Soviet politicians to prevent a nuclear holocaust. While the U.S. president feverishly works to keep the military and political machine from going into overdrive, various subordinates panic. When the president is believed to be killed in a helicopter crash, zealous advisers take over.
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Title: Family of Spies
Character: John Walker
Released: February 4, 1990
Type: TV
In the late 1960s, a US Navy petty officer, with access to major state secrets and large debts, begins selling information to the Soviets.
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Stalingrad
Title: Stalingrad
Character: Vasily Ivanovich Chuykov
Released: February 1, 1990
Type: Movie
The WWII pivotal battle of Stalingrad is shown through the eyes of the soldiers and officers on both sides of the war.
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Extreme Prejudice
Title: Extreme Prejudice
Character: Cash Bailey
Released: April 24, 1987
Type: Movie
A Texas Ranger and a ruthless narcotics kingpin - they were childhood friends, now they are adversaries...
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Into the Homeland
Title: Into the Homeland
Character: Jackson Swallow
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
A man's daughter disappears after falling in love with the son of a right wing, white-supremacist terrorist organization.
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The Emerald Forest
Title: The Emerald Forest
Character: Bill Markham
Released: June 22, 1985
Type: Movie
For ten years, engineer Bill Markham has searched tirelessly for his son Tommy who disappeared from the edge of the Brazilian rainforest. Miraculously, he finds the boy living among the reclusive Amazon tribe who adopted him. And that's when Bill's adventure truly begins. For his son is now a grown tribesman who moves skillfully through this beautiful-but-dangerous terrain, fearful only of those who would exploit it. And as Bill attempts to "rescue" him from the savagery of the untamed jungle, Tommy challenges Bill's idea of true civilization and his notions about who needs rescuing.
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Red Dawn
Title: Red Dawn
Character: Andy
Released: August 10, 1984
Type: Movie
It is the dawn of World War III. In mid-western America, a group of teenagers band together to defend their town—and their country—from invading Soviet forces.
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A Breed Apart
Title: A Breed Apart
Character: Mike Walker
Released: June 1, 1984
Type: Movie
A conservationist and a widow meet a mountain climber hired to steal bald-eagle eggs.
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Title: Philip Marlowe, Private Eye
Character: Philip Marlowe
Released: April 16, 1983
Type: TV
Philip Marlowe, Private Eye is a British mystery series that aired on ITV in the United Kingdom under the shorter title 'Marlowe, Private Eye' and on HBO in the United States from April 16, 1983 through June 3, 1986. The series features Powers Boothe as Raymond Chandler's titular character, and was the first drama produced for HBO.
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Southern Comfort
Title: Southern Comfort
Character: Hardin
Released: September 24, 1981
Type: Movie
A squad of National Guards on an isolated weekend exercise in the Louisiana swamp must fight for their lives when they anger local Cajuns by stealing their canoes. Without live ammunition and in a strange country, their experience begins to mirror the Vietnam experience.
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A Cry for Love
Title: A Cry for Love
Character: Tony Bonnell
Released: October 20, 1980
Type: Movie
Divorcee Susan Blakely, with no alimony and two kids to support, begins turning to amphetamines. While at her lowest ebb, she meets an alcoholic and three-time loser in marriage -- who, incredibly, turns out to be the ideal man!
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Title: Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones
Character: Rev. Jim Jones
Released: April 15, 1980
Type: TV
The story of the Peoples Temple led by Jim Jones and the 1978 mass suicide at Jonestown.
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The Plutonium Incident
Title: The Plutonium Incident
Character: Dick Hawkins
Released: March 11, 1980
Type: Movie
A plutonium plant employee becomes the target of management, as well as union harassment, when she tries to blow the whistle on the company for negligent safety procedures, and she soon finds her life in peril.
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Cruising
Title: Cruising
Character: Hankie Salesman
Released: February 15, 1980
Type: Movie
When New York is caught in the grip of a sadistic serial killer who preys on patrons of the city's underground bars, young rookie Steve Burns infiltrates the S&M subculture to try and lure him out of the shadows.
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Title: Skag
Released: January 6, 1980
Type: TV
Skag is a short-lived American drama series that aired on NBC and starred Karl Malden. Skag originated as a three-hour television movie that aired on January 6, 1980. Over a week later, it then premiered as a weekly series, Thursdays at 10/9c, which ran from January 17, 1980 until its cancellation on February 21, 1980. Skag focused on the life of a foreman at a Pittsburgh steel mill. Malden described his character, Pete Skagska, as a simple man trying to keep his family together. The series was created by Abby Mann, and executive produced by Mann and Lee Rich.
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Skag
Title: Skag
Character: Jim Whalen
Released: January 6, 1980
Type: Movie
Pete "Skag" Skagska is a 56-year-old union foreman of a Pittsburgh steel mill until a crippling stroke forces him to stay home and try to put his life back together and deal with family problems.
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The Goodbye Girl
Title: The Goodbye Girl
Character: Richard III Cast
Released: November 27, 1977
Type: Movie
After being dumped by her live-in boyfriend, an unemployed dancer and her 10-year-old daughter are reluctantly forced to live with a struggling off-Broadway actor.