Dean Cameron

Dean Cameron

Born: December 25, 1962
in Morrison - Illinois - USA
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Dean Cameron (born Dean Eikleberry on December 25, 1962, in Morrison, Illinois) is an American television and film actor. He is best known for his role as Francis "Chainsaw" Gremp in the 1987 Mark Harmon comedy Summer School.

Dean has starred in some short-lived television series like Spencer (1984), Fast Times (1986, a spinoff of the 1982 film Fast Times at Ridgemont High), They Came from Outer Space (1990), and Mister Sterling (2003).

He has made guest appearances on many TV series, including The Facts of Life, ALF, My Sister Sam, Will & Grace, ER, and Felicity.

Played Dave Marshak in Ski School and Ski School II.

Married to Jessie Marion, granddaughter of Elena Verdugo and lives in Los Angeles. Their son, Duncan, was born August 1, 2009. He plays bass guitar in a band called "The Thornbirds" and a karaoke band poking fun at Corey Haim, Corey Feldman and Corey Hart called Coreyoke.

Tours with a two-person show entitled The Nigerian Spam Scam Scam, in which he and actor Victor Isaac read from Cameron's 11 month correspondence with a Nigerian 419 Scammer. The show was performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Comedy Festival in 2004 and 2005, the Just For Laughs festival and the Upright Citizens Brigade theater in 2006 and ran in Los Angeles from September 2004 to December 2004.

Co-wrote the 2001 feature film, Hollywood Palms, wrote and directed a short film, Glutton Falls and directed/choreographed "Bukowsical", a sell-out late night musical theater parody at the Sacred Fools Theater in Los Angeles, California. Cameron also directed the video "Fat Girl" for heavy metal band Steel Panther as well as co-wrote the song "Girl From Oklahoma" on their 2009 debut Feel the Steel.

Since late 1999, has made a living as voice over talent for radio and television commercials.

In 2006, he originated the role of Carl in Love Tapes, a play based on video tapes sent by a fan to guitarist Steve Vai. Love Tapes was written by Steven Banks and Penn Jillette and directed by Cameron's wife, Jessie Marion.

Movies for Dean Cameron...

Wine Club
Title: Wine Club
Character: Phil
Released: December 15, 2023
Type: Movie
A couple elopes to wine country and stumble upon a vineyard where they hope to get some nice wedding photos. But they quickly realize that there's something very different about the vineyard's wine club.
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Title: The Rookie: Feds
Character: Dr. Reeves
Released: September 27, 2022
Type: TV
Special Agent Simone Clark, the oldest rookie in the FBI, is a force of nature, the living embodiment of a dream deferred – and she works together with her new colleagues at the Los Angeles office of the Bureau to bring down the country’s toughest criminals.
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Title: Quantum Leap
Character: Saul Becker
Released: September 19, 2022
Type: TV
It's been nearly 30 years since Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator and vanished. Now, a new team, led by physicist Ben Song, has been assembled to restart the project in hope of understanding the mysteries behind the machine and the man who created it. Everything changes, however, when Ben makes an unauthorized leap into the past, leaving the team behind to solve the mystery of why he did it.
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12 Mill Road
Title: 12 Mill Road
Character: Father Greg
Released: January 11, 2021
Type: Movie
A stranger shows up at a dying woman's bedside with a package of money, arousing the attending hospice nurse's suspicion and intrigue.
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Green Seas
Title: Green Seas
Character: Narrator
Released: December 1, 2020
Type: Movie
A man suffers from a particularly devastating case of writer's block.
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Big Bear Lake
Title: Big Bear Lake
Character: Leonard Vickers
Released: July 25, 2019
Type: Movie
A famous cartoonist dies and is survived by his three children, now all grown up and grown apart. The day before the funeral, the estranged siblings are confronted with the past, present, and future.
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Nigerian Prince
Title: Nigerian Prince
Character: Bob
Released: April 24, 2018
Type: Movie
After being sent to Nigeria against his will, a stubborn Nigerian-American teenager joins forces with an internet scammer in order to return to the United States.
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Title: Alex, Inc.
Character: Bruce
Released: March 28, 2018
Type: TV
A brilliant radio journalist, husband, and father of two is about to do something crazy — quit his job and start his own company. He quickly discovers it’s going to be a lot harder than he thought.
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Title: The Comeback Kids
Character: Gary
Released: December 2, 2016
Type: TV
Two former child stars are now in their forties, trying to make a comeback in a youth obsessed Hollywood.
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Title: Goliath
Character: Joe Lakhani
Released: October 13, 2016
Type: TV
Once a powerful lawyer, Billy McBride is now burned out and washed up, spending more time in a bar than a courtroom. When he reluctantly agrees to pursue a wrongful death lawsuit against the biggest client of Cooperman & McBride, the massive law firm he helped create, Billy and his ragtag team uncover a vast and deadly conspiracy, pitting them all in a life or death trial against the ultimate Goliath.
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The Good Neighbor
Title: The Good Neighbor
Character: Defense Attorney
Released: September 16, 2016
Type: Movie
Two high school filmmakers decide to create the illusion of a haunting on an unsuspecting neighbor.
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Director's Cut
Title: Director's Cut
Character: Brian
Released: July 19, 2016
Type: Movie
Herbert Blount is a crowdfunding contributor for the new Adam Rifkin feature KNOCKED OFF. Unhappy with the film, he steals the footage and kidnaps actress Missi Pyle to star in his own "director's cut!"
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Title: We Bare Bears
Character: Additional Voices (voice)
Released: August 24, 2015
Type: TV
Three brother bears awkwardly attempt to find their place in civilized society, whether they're looking for food, trying to make human friends, or scheming to become famous on the internet. Grizzly, Panda and Ice Bear stack atop one another when they leave their cave and explore the hipster environs of the San Francisco Bay Area, and it's clear the siblings have a lot to learn about a technologically driven world. By their side on many adventures are best friend Chloe (the only human character in the cast), fame-obsessed panda Nom Nom, and Charlie, aka Bigfoot.
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Straight Outta Compton
Title: Straight Outta Compton
Character: Capitol Records Executive
Released: August 11, 2015
Type: Movie
In 1987, five young men, using brutally honest rhymes and hardcore beats, put their frustration and anger about life in the most dangerous place in America into the most powerful weapon they had: their music. Taking us back to where it all began, Straight Outta Compton tells the true story of how these cultural rebels—armed only with their lyrics, swagger, bravado and raw talent—stood up to the authorities that meant to keep them down and formed the world’s most dangerous group, N.W.A. And as they spoke the truth that no one had before and exposed life in the hood, their voice ignited a social revolution that is still reverberating today.
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Title: How to Get Away with Murder
Character: Jim Buchanan
Released: September 25, 2014
Type: TV
A sexy, suspense-driven legal thriller about a group of ambitious law students and their brilliant, mysterious criminal defense professor. They become entangled in a murder plot and will shake the entire university and change the course of their lives.
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Title: The Newsroom
Character: D.C. Panelist
Released: June 24, 2012
Type: TV
A behind-the-scenes look at the people who make a nightly cable-news program. Focusing on a network anchor, his new executive producer, the newsroom staff and their boss, the series tracks their quixotic mission to do the news well in the face of corporate and commercial obstacles-not to mention their own personal entanglements.
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Dream Cast
Title: Dream Cast
Character: Himself
Released: September 13, 2011
Type: Movie
The cast of the 1988 film, Bad Dreams, talk about their experiences making a film with heavy themes of suicide, guilt, depression, and mass death.
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Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer
Title: Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer
Character: Animated Reporter / Town Hall Official
Released: June 10, 2011
Type: Movie
Third-grader Judy Moody sets out to have the most thrilling summer of her life.
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Title: Regular Show
Character: Suit (voice)
Released: September 6, 2010
Type: TV
Two bored groundskeepers, Mordecai (a six-foot-tall blue jay) and Rigby (a hyperactive raccoon) are best friends who spend their days trying to entertain themselves by any means necessary, much to the displeasure of their boss. Their everyday pursuits often lead to things spiraling out of control and into the surreal.
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Hole in One
Title: Hole in One
Character: Dr. Carlton Piedmont
Released: September 12, 2009
Type: Movie
Eric, a highly-gifted golfer but radically-undisciplined college undergrad, finds his world drastically altered after losing a golf bet to a pair of sadistic plastic surgeons. Eric's bad-boy attitude lifestyle comes to a screeching halt as he loses his money, his girlfriend, his dignity and his golf swing. Eric and his best friend Tyler decide to take on the doctors, in a final golf match of "Best-Ball" to get his life back and become the man he should have been all along.
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Title: Glee
Character: Kurt's Acting Teacher
Released: May 19, 2009
Type: TV
In this musical comedy, optimistic high school teacher Will Schuester tries to refuel his own passion while reinventing the high school's glee club and challenging a group of outcasts to realize their star potential as they strive to outshine their singing competition while navigating the cruel halls of McKinley High.
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I'm Not Gay
Title: I'm Not Gay
Character: Magazine Man
Released: September 20, 2005
Type: Movie
Two friends are erroneously taken for a gay couple, and have their lives turned upside down.
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Title: It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Character: Drisko
Released: August 4, 2005
Type: TV
Four egocentric friends run a neighborhood Irish pub in Philadelphia and try to find their way through the adult world of work and relationships. Unfortunately, their warped views and precarious judgments often lead them to trouble, creating a myriad of uncomfortable situations that usually only get worse before they get better.
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Grace And The Storm
Title: Grace And The Storm
Character: Rich Karma
Released: March 4, 2004
Type: Movie
An exhausted Manhattan drug dealer stumbles across the existence of a mythical drug known as "Grace," which according to urban legend, can increase a user's cerebral activity to dangerous new levels.
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Title: NCIS
Character: Landlord
Released: September 23, 2003
Type: TV
From murder and espionage to terrorism and stolen submarines, a team of special agents investigates any crime that has a shred of evidence connected to Navy and Marine Corps personnel, regardless of rank or position.
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Highball
Title: Highball
Character: The Magician
Released: April 2, 2002
Type: Movie
A newly married couple tries to enhance their social life by throwing fabulous parties and inviting all their friends in Brooklyn to their home.
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Hollywood Palms
Title: Hollywood Palms
Character: Jeff
Released: December 31, 2000
Type: Movie
Set entirely in the Hollywood Palms apartment building and its yard, this movie looks at how people there live, and the intertwining stories of the residents who develop interesting relationships with one another.
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Deep Core
Title: Deep Core
Character: Head Engineer
Released: October 21, 2000
Type: Movie
A powerful laser machine rips the core of the earth causing earthquakes and tsunamis, and only one man and his team can save the planet from destruction. Will they succeed?
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Two-Eleven
Title: Two-Eleven
Character: Michael Glaser
Released: January 1, 1999
Type: Movie
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Hi-Life
Title: Hi-Life
Character: Santa Simon
Released: November 27, 1998
Type: Movie
Jimmy needs $900 to clear a gambling debt but a series of lies leads to Ray trying to raise the cash from friends who owe him money.
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Title: Felicity
Character: Jeff Marshall
Released: September 29, 1998
Type: TV
Felicity Porter, a sensitive and intelligent girl from the San Francisco Bay Area, decides to give up a slot at Stanford University's pre-med program to follow her long time crush to college in New York City. Things get even more complicated when she meets her dorm's resident advisor and they fall in love.
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Title: Will & Grace
Character: Guy
Released: September 21, 1998
Type: TV
Will Truman and Grace Adler are best friends living in New York, and when Grace's engagement falls apart, she moves in with Will. Together, along with their friends, they go through the trials of dating, sex, relationships and their careers, butting heads at times but ultimately supporting one another while exchanging plenty of witty banter along the way.
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Some Girl
Title: Some Girl
Character: Poet
Released: April 19, 1998
Type: Movie
Inexperienced in love and living in Los Angeles, aspiring actress Claire longs to find that special someone. Unfortunately, she couldn't pick a more undeserving guy when she starts a relationship with womanizer Chad. Although her friend April warns her about him, it's not as if April doesn't have problems of her own -- namely a chronic inability to stay faithful to her longtime boyfriend, Neal.
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Charlie's Ghost Story
Title: Charlie's Ghost Story
Character: Sheriff
Released: December 13, 1995
Type: Movie
Actor Anthony Edwards made his directorial debut with this comic fantasy based on a story by Mark Twain. Trenton Knight plays Charlie, a young boy whose archeologist father (Anthony Edwards) has made several discoveries while exploring a cave in Colorado. However, Charlie makes a discovery of his own -- the spirit of a long-dead explorer has come back to haunt him until his remains can be recovered and finally burried in a proper place. However, Charlie can't manage this on his own, and his father is too busy with his own work to pay much attention to him. Linda Fiorentino also appears in a supporting role. Also under the title Charlie's Ghost: The Story Of Coronado.
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Kicking and Screaming
Title: Kicking and Screaming
Character: Zach
Released: October 6, 1995
Type: Movie
After college graduation, Grover's girlfriend Jane tells him she's moving to Prague to study writing. Grover declines to accompany her, deciding instead to move in with several friends, all of whom can't quite work up the inertia to escape their university's pull. Nobody wants to make any big decisions that would radically alter his life, yet none of them wants to end up like Chet, the professional student who tends bar and is in his tenth year of university studies.
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Sleep with Me
Title: Sleep with Me
Character: Leo
Released: September 23, 1994
Type: Movie
Six different writers wrote a scene each of this romantic comedy featuring the marriage and turbulent relationship of Joseph and Sarah, with Joseph's best friend Frank trying hard to cope with letting the love of his life marry his best friend.
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Title: ER
Character: Edward
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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State of Emergency
Title: State of Emergency
Character: Roger
Released: February 21, 1994
Type: Movie
Medical drama about a major hospital whose emergency room regularly faces an overload of patients. One of the doctors finds it necessary to adopt an unorthodox procedure to try to save a patient, and finds himself in trouble in consequence.
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Ski School 2
Title: Ski School 2
Character: Dave Marshak
Released: February 17, 1994
Type: Movie
Dave has been enjoying life until he receives an ex-girlfriend's wedding invitation. Even though Beth dumped him years ago, Dave knows it's their destiny to be together. So Dave embarks on a quest: to save Beth from certain death-by-boredom, return balance to the universe, and maybe get in a little awesome skiing. Dave convinces his buddies to join him in his quest to make things right.
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Grey Knight
Title: Grey Knight
Character: Borne
Released: March 7, 1993
Type: Movie
During the Civil War, Confederate soldiers accidentally free an evil voodoo entity brought back by slave traders. The entity possesses the dead bodies of both Union and Confederate soldiers creating an army of its own bent on conquest.
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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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Miracle Beach
Title: Miracle Beach
Character: Scotty
Released: September 15, 1992
Type: Movie
A romantic comedy set in the Southern California beach scene. Down on his luck, Scotty McKay becomes the master of a very lonely genie, who brings him wealth, power and true love. Miracles can happen!
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Ski School
Title: Ski School
Character: Dave Marshak
Released: January 11, 1991
Type: Movie
Rival groups in a skiing school do battle on and off the piste. One gang are rich and serious, the other group are party animals.
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Disturbed
Title: Disturbed
Character: Singing Telegram Man
Released: November 16, 1990
Type: Movie
10 years ago the perverse Dr. Russell couldn't resist the beauty of a young patient in his mental clinic and raped her one night. When she plunged herself from the roof shortly after, he described it as consequence of her heavy depressions. Now the same urge overcomes him with his new patient Sandy. He doesn't know that she's the daughter of his previous victim and that she's come for revenge.
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Title: They Came from Outer Space
Character: Bo
Released: October 1, 1990
Type: TV
They Came from Outer Space is an American science fiction comedy series that aired in syndication from October 1990 to March 1991. The series was created by Tom McLoughlin.
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Men at Work
Title: Men at Work
Character: Pizza Man
Released: August 24, 1990
Type: Movie
Two garbage men find the body of a city councilman in a trash can on their route. With help from a supervisor, the duo must solve the case and find the man's killer while hiding the body from the cops.
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Rockula
Title: Rockula
Character: Ralph
Released: February 23, 1990
Type: Movie
Ralph is a sexually frustrated vampire who suffers from a peculiar curse. He's condemned for eternity to watch his one true love, Mona be murdered by a pirate wielding a ham bone. But now? Now it's 1990, and Ralph is determined to break Mona's cycle of reincarnation. His first order of business is winning her affections-- He does that by starting Rockula: a rock band that's sure to stake a claim on her heart.
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Bad Dreams
Title: Bad Dreams
Character: Ralph
Released: April 8, 1988
Type: Movie
Unity Field, a "free love" cult from the '70s, is mostly remembered for its notorious mass suicide led by Harris, its charismatic leader. While all members are supposed to burn in a fire together, young Cynthia is spared by chance. Years later, the nightmare of Unity Field remains buried in her mind. But when those around Cynthia start killing themselves, and she begins having visions of Harris, she may be forced to confront the past -- before it confronts her.
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Summer School
Title: Summer School
Character: Francis 'Chainsaw' Gremp
Released: July 22, 1987
Type: Movie
A high-school gym teacher has big plans for the summer, but is forced to cancel them to teach a "bonehead" English class for misfit goof-off students. Fortunately, his unconventional brand of teaching fun field trips begins to connect with them, and even inspires ardor in some.
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Title: ALF
Character: Robert Sherwood
Released: September 22, 1986
Type: TV
A furry alien wiseguy comes to live with a terran family after crashing into their garage.
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Title: Fast Times
Character: Jeff Spicoli
Released: March 5, 1986
Type: TV
Fast Times is a seven-episode 1986 television remake of the 1982 movie Fast Times at Ridgemont High that was produced by Amy Heckerling, who directed the original film. Cameron Crowe, who penned the original Fast Times novel and film screenplay, served as creative consultant. Moon Unit Zappa participated as a technical consultant. She was hired in order to research slang terms and mannerisms of teenagers, as she had just graduated from high school at the time and had a much better grasp of then-current high school behavior than the writers. Oingo Boingo provided the theme song.
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Prince of Bel Air
Title: Prince of Bel Air
Character: Willard
Released: January 20, 1986
Type: Movie
A free-spirited, womanizing L.A. pool cleaner finds his lifestyle challenged by a new love interest.
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Title: Spencer
Released: December 1, 1984
Type: TV
Spencer, later titled Under One Roof, is an American teen situation comedy broadcast on NBC for one season starting in December 1984. The show originally starred Chad Lowe as high school student Spencer Winger, Mimi Kennedy as his mother Doris Winger, and Ronny Cox as his father George Winger. Lowe left the series in 1985 after six episodes and was replaced by Ross Harris, who assumed the role of Spencer. At that time the show's title was changed from Spencer to Under One Roof; the first episode with the new title aired March 23, 1985. Cox also left the show during the retooling, his character written off as having left the family for a 23-year-old woman. Harold Gould and Frances Sternhagen were added to the cast as Spencer's maternal grandparents. Former WKRP in Cincinnati star Richard Sanders played a high school guidance counselor in the series.
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Things Are Looking Up
Title: Things Are Looking Up
Character: Kelly Sanfillipo
Released: June 24, 1984
Type: Movie
A group of high-school students deal with everyday life while attending JFK High School in Ventura, California.
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Title: The Facts of Life
Released: August 24, 1979
Type: TV
The Facts of Life is an American sitcom that originally ran on the NBC television network from August 24, 1979, to May 7, 1988, making it the longest running sitcom of the 1980s. A spin-off of the sitcom Diff'rent Strokes, the series' premise focuses on Edna Garrett as she becomes a housemother at the fictional Eastland School, an all-female boarding school in Peekskill, New York.
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Found Footage: The Making of the Patterson Project
Title: Found Footage: The Making of the Patterson Project
Character: Frank
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
A crew of acclaimed documentarians follow a young budding filmmaker as he attempts to create the world's greatest found footage horror film.
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213 Bones
Title: 213 Bones
Character: Bob
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Set in a college in Bristol Falls. WA, in 1993 set in the Seattle era of grunge and sub-pop at its best! A cohort of physical anthropology students and their wonderful teacher see their lives horrifically up-ended as, by turns the students are brutally murdered by a gruesomely masked attacker. As they learn about the bones in the human body in their class, they start to find real bones, or pieces of bones show up in their homes, cars, classroom. When they gather in their social groups to speculate about who the murderer could be, that person is invariably killed off. It is left to Sherriff Bracco, Laurie the County Coroner and their teacher, Kelly, to find out who the real bone crunching murderer is.