Sydney Lassick

Sydney Lassick

Born: July 22, 1922
Died: April 11, 2003
in Chicago, Illinois, USA
Sydney Lassick (July 23, 1922 – April 12, 2003) was an American character actor perhaps best known for his role as Charlie Cheswick in the feature film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

Movies for Sydney Lassick...

Vice
Title: Vice
Character: Mr. Wanorski
Released: October 25, 2005
Type: Movie
Details the trial of a young Texas "erotic dancer" on charges of lurid behavior and indecent exposure and the various witnesses who testify both for and against her.
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Something to Sing About
Title: Something to Sing About
Character: Elderly Man
Released: June 10, 2000
Type: Movie
Tommy is a troubled young man with a history of crime. When he meets Memaw, an elderly lady, the two form a special bond with Memaw encouraging Charlie to sing in the local church choir, a talent he has ignored until now. While Charlie excels in church, his old friend G. Smooth remains skeptical and stays on the streets.
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Man on the Moon
Title: Man on the Moon
Character: Crystal Healer
Released: December 22, 1999
Type: Movie
The story of the life and career of eccentric avant-garde comedian, Andy Kaufman.
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An American Vampire Story
Title: An American Vampire Story
Character: Bruno
Released: January 24, 1997
Type: Movie
A group of friends go on a vacation with some new friends that turn out to be vampires, they hire a famous vampire killer to help them.
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Freeway
Title: Freeway
Character: Woody Wilson
Released: August 23, 1996
Type: Movie
Following the arrest of her mother, Ramona, young Vanessa Lutz decides to go in search of her estranged grandmother. On the way, she is given a ride by school counselor Bob Wolverton. During the journey, Lutz begins to realize that Bob is the notorious I-5 Killer and manages to escape by shooting him several times. Wounded but still very much alive, Bob pursues Lutz across the state in this modern retelling of Little Red Riding Hood.
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Attack of the 5 Ft. 2 Women
Title: Attack of the 5 Ft. 2 Women
Character: Weirdo
Released: September 8, 1994
Type: Movie
Spoof-miester, Julie Brown does a musical send-up of Tonya Harding and Lorena Bobbit's debutante debacles
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Future Shock
Title: Future Shock
Character: Mr. Johnson
Released: January 1, 1994
Type: Movie
A psychiatrist uses virtual reality to probe the minds of three unsuspecting patients, unleashing horrific psychic forces in the process.
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Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
Title: Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
Character: Competition Announcer
Released: December 9, 1993
Type: Movie
Deloris Van Cartier is again asked to don the nun's habit to help a run-down Catholic school, presided over by Mother Superior. And if trying to reach out to a class full of uninterested students wasn't bad enough, the sisters discover that the school is due to be closed by the unscrupulous chief of a local authority.
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Title: The X-Files
Character: Chuck Forsch
Released: September 10, 1993
Type: TV
The exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files: marginalized, unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena. Mulder believes in the existence of aliens and the paranormal while Scully, a skeptic, is assigned to make scientific analyses of Mulder's discoveries that debunk Mulder's work and thus return him to mainstream cases.
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Eye of the Stranger
Title: Eye of the Stranger
Character: Oli
Released: April 23, 1993
Type: Movie
A stranger comes into town and causes a stir when he stands up for the townfolk, in the face of the intimidation tactics from Mayor Howard Baines. The scheming mayor wants to buy up all the local properties, and has hired two thugs to help 'persuade' the owners to sell.
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Squanderers
Title: Squanderers
Character: Peter Chisholm
Released: January 1, 1993
Type: Movie
A security guard using video surveillance to watch a parking lot sees a man stash a suitcase in a car immediately before he is apprehended by the police. After everyone is gone, the guard gets the bag from the car and discovers it has $300,000 in it. He and his pals then set off on a spending spree. Of course, the bag belongs to mobsters who soon come after the men who stole their bag.
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Tom and Jerry: The Movie
Title: Tom and Jerry: The Movie
Character: Straycatcher #2 (voice)
Released: October 1, 1992
Type: Movie
The popular cartoon cat and mouse are thrown into a feature film. The story has the twosome trying to help an orphan girl who is being berated and exploited by a greedy guardian.
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Miracle Beach
Title: Miracle Beach
Character: Tooth Fairy
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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Judgement
Title: Judgement
Character: Dr. Henry Silver
Released: August 5, 1992
Type: Movie
A juvenile court judge goes out of her way to try to aid a young man whom she believes has innocently gotten involved with a gang.
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Deep Cover
Title: Deep Cover
Character: Gopher
Released: April 15, 1992
Type: Movie
Black police officer Russell Stevens applies for a special anti-drug squad which targets the highest boss of cocaine delivery to LA—the Colombian foreign minister's nephew. Russell works his way up from the bottom undercover, until he reaches the boss.
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Cool as Ice
Title: Cool as Ice
Character: Roscoe
Released: October 18, 1991
Type: Movie
Freewheeling, motorcycle-riding musician Johnny rolls into a small town with his band, and meets Kathy, an honor student who catches his eye. Meanwhile, Kathy's father, after being in the Witness Protection Program, is finally tracked down by two corrupt cops he escaped from years ago, who want the money he owes them.
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Shakes the Clown
Title: Shakes the Clown
Character: Peppy the Clown
Released: August 28, 1991
Type: Movie
Shakes plods about his duties as party clown, and uses all of his free time getting seriously drunk. Binky, another clown, wins the spot on a local kiddie show, which depresses Shakes even more, and his boss threatens him with unemployment if he can't get his act under control.
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The Art of Dying
Title: The Art of Dying
Character: Wallie
Released: August 8, 1991
Type: Movie
A cinematographer and his assistant are attracting aspiring young actors and actresses by getting them to try out for their movie. Once filming, the evil cameraman actually kills them. The detective on the case has his hands full trying to help out runaways with stars in their eyes. When some of the people he knows turn up dead, he takes it personally, and as he gets closer to the truth his girlfriend is endangered.
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Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead
Title: Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead
Character: Franklin
Released: June 7, 1991
Type: Movie
Sue Ellen Crandell is a teenager eagerly awaiting her mother's summer-long absence. While the babysitter looks after her rambunctious younger siblings, Sue Ellen can party and have fun. But then the babysitter abruptly dies, leaving the Crandells short on cash. Sue Ellen finds a sweet job in fashion by lying about her age and experience on her résumé. But, while her siblings run wild, she discovers the downside of adulthood
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Committed
Title: Committed
Character: Gow
Released: April 18, 1991
Type: Movie
A nurse is taken hostage by a patient pretending to be a doctor and is forced to administer to everyone.
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Smoothtalker
Title: Smoothtalker
Character: Mr. Nathan
Released: December 1, 1990
Type: Movie
A cop tracks down a serial killer who goes after women who work for a phone-sex company.
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Title: Dream On
Released: July 8, 1990
Type: TV
The family life, romantic life, and career of Martin Tupper, a divorced New York City book editor. The show distinctively interjected clips from older black and white television series to punctuate Tupper's feelings or thoughts.
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Pacific Palisades
Title: Pacific Palisades
Character: Mr. Beer
Released: March 28, 1990
Type: Movie
A woman from Paris, Bernadette, comes to the United States after being promised a job. When she arrives, however, she learns that she is a victim to a hoax. Unable to return to France, Bernadette looks for work while staying with her close friend Shirley, an actress looking for her big break. Their friendship is challenged when Bernadette finds herself falling in love with Shirley's boyfriend.
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Out on Bail
Title: Out on Bail
Character: Otis T. Smiley
Released: November 4, 1989
Type: Movie
A Tennessee sheriff and lawyer want a jailed drifter to assassinate a mayoral candidate.
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Curse II: The Bite
Title: Curse II: The Bite
Character: George
Released: June 27, 1989
Type: Movie
After a young man is bitten on the hand by a radioactive snake, his hand changes into a lethal snake head, which attacks everyone he comes into contact with. Also, his body becomes filled with snakes. Now, he must prevent himself from hurting others.
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Sonny Boy
Title: Sonny Boy
Character: Charlie P.
Released: March 22, 1989
Type: Movie
A small-town car thief and his transgender wife come across an abandoned infant; they amputate his tongue and train him for a life in crime.
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Tale of Two Sisters
Title: Tale of Two Sisters
Character: Dad
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
Two sisters reunite after not having seen each other for five years. While catching up on each others' lives, they relive childhood experiences, both good and bad.
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The Further Adventures of Tennessee Buck
Title: The Further Adventures of Tennessee Buck
Character: Wolfgang Meyer
Released: April 29, 1988
Type: Movie
Ken Manchester and his beautiful rich wife Barbara Manchester hire the drunk adventurer Buck Malone to take them on a hunting expedition in the jungle. However, the true purpose of the expedition was not just hunting.
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Lady in White
Title: Lady in White
Character: Mr. Lowry
Released: April 22, 1988
Type: Movie
Locked in a school closet during Halloween 1962, young Frank witnesses the ghost of a young girl and the man who murdered her years ago. Shortly afterward he finds himself stalked by the killer and is soon drawn to an old house where a mysterious Lady In White lives. As he discovers the secret of the woman he soon finds that the killer may be someone close to him.
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Body Slam
Title: Body Slam
Character: Shapiro
Released: November 21, 1986
Type: Movie
M. Harry Smilac is a down-on-his-luck music manager who is having a hard time attracting talent and booking gigs for his band, Kicks (The most recent of the gigs is a Dairy Queen opening!!). When making arrangements for a campaign fund-raiser, he mistakes Rick Roberts, a professional wrestler, for a musician and hires him. At that moment he becomes a wrestling manager and starts to book matches for him and his teammate Tonga Tom. The team is a success, and Harry decides to take his wrestlers and his band on a "Rock n' Wrestling" tour. The tour is a success, and Harry feels what it is like to be a winner again.
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Ratboy
Title: Ratboy
Character: Lee 'Dial-A-Prayer'
Released: October 17, 1986
Type: Movie
A failed window dresser exploits a being with rat-like features in an effort to make money.
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Title: Amazing Stories
Character: Walter Poindexter
Released: September 29, 1985
Type: TV
A truly amazing, fantastical, science fiction, funny and odd, and sometimes scary, sad and endearing anthology series presented by Steven Spielberg with guest appearances by many famous actors, actresses, and directors.
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Stitches
Title: Stitches
Character: Sheldon Mendlebaum
Released: August 23, 1985
Type: Movie
The misadventures of three students in medical school.
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Title: Moonlighting
Character: Alan Tupperman's Neighbor
Released: March 3, 1985
Type: TV
After being duped and going bankrupt, model Maddie is convinced by David to become a partner in a detective agency. Together they solve various cases, while getting comfortable with each other.
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Terror in the Aisles
Title: Terror in the Aisles
Character: Mr. Fromm (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: October 26, 1984
Type: Movie
A non-stop roller coaster ride through the scariest moments of the greatest terror films of all time.
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Silent Madness
Title: Silent Madness
Character: Sheriff Liggett
Released: October 26, 1984
Type: Movie
A psychiatrist poses as an ex-sorority sister to stop a slasher freed by a computer error.
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Title: Night Court
Character: Leo
Released: January 4, 1984
Type: TV
Night Court is an American television situation comedy that aired on NBC from January 4, 1984 to May 31, 1992. The setting was the night shift of a Manhattan court, presided over by the young, unorthodox Judge Harold T. "Harry" Stone. It was created by comedy writer Reinhold Weege, who had previously worked on Barney Miller in the 1970s and early 1980s.
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Monaco Forever
Title: Monaco Forever
Character: American Tourist
Released: January 1, 1984
Type: Movie
An American jewel thief in Monaco encounters various characters while trying to set up a robbery.
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Joe Dancer III: The Big Trade
Title: Joe Dancer III: The Big Trade
Character: Phil Estin
Released: June 5, 1983
Type: Movie
The last of Robert Blake's three "Joe Dancer movies" finds the private investigator framed for manslaughter as he tries to uncover a Hollywood scandal that could ruin a studio and destroy a top star's career.
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Title: Gloria
Released: September 26, 1982
Type: TV
Gloria is an American situation comedy that lasted one season on CBS, from September 1982 to April 1983. It starred Sally Struthers, reprising her role as Gloria Stivic, the daughter of Archie Bunker on the hugely successful 1970s sitcom All in the Family. Gloria was a spin-off of Archie Bunker's Place, which was a continuation of All in the Family.
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Title: Matt Houston
Released: September 26, 1982
Type: TV
Matt Houston is an American crime drama series that aired on ABC from 1982 to 1985. Created by Lawrence Gordon, the series was produced by Aaron Spelling.
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Fast-Walking
Title: Fast-Walking
Character: Ted
Released: May 11, 1982
Type: Movie
A dirty corrections officer gets involved in a murder plot involving one of the inmates.
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Partners
Title: Partners
Character: Photo Shoot Assistant (uncredited)
Released: April 30, 1982
Type: Movie
Benson is a police detective. After a series of murders in the Gay community he is ordered to go undercover with a gay police clerk named Kerwin as his partner. In order to be noticed they have to be flamboyant enough to attract attention which Benson finds rather disturbing. Can an uptight heterosexual and a mousey homosexual form a meaningful relationship?
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Pandemonium
Title: Pandemonium
Character: Man in Bus Station
Released: April 1, 1982
Type: Movie
A former high school student who always wanted to be a cheerleader decides to reopen the cheerleading program at her former high school after years of closure for being targeted by a serial killer.
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Title: Simon & Simon
Released: November 24, 1981
Type: TV
Simon & Simon is an American detective television series that originally ran from November 24, 1981 to January 21, 1989. The series was broadcast on CBS and starred Gerald McRaney and Jameson Parker as two brothers who run a private detective agency together.
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History of the World: Part I
Title: History of the World: Part I
Character: Applecore Vendor - The French Revolution (as Sidney Lassick)
Released: June 12, 1981
Type: Movie
An uproarious version of history that proves nothing is sacred – not even the Roman Empire, the French Revolution and the Spanish Inquisition.
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Damien: The Leper Priest
Title: Damien: The Leper Priest
Character: Supt. Rudolph Meyer
Released: October 27, 1980
Type: Movie
A dramatization of the life of the 19th-Century priest who devoted himself to service in Hawaii's leper colony.
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The Unseen
Title: The Unseen
Character: Ernest Keller
Released: September 1, 1980
Type: Movie
A trio of female reporters find themselves staying overnight in a house occupied by a hostile being lurking in the basement
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Alligator
Title: Alligator
Character: Gutchel
Released: July 2, 1980
Type: Movie
A baby alligator is flushed down a toilet and survives by eating discarded lab animals that have been injected with growth hormones. The now gigantic animal escapes the city sewers and goes on a rampage, pursued by a cop and a big-game hunter.
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Title: Knots Landing
Released: December 27, 1979
Type: TV
The domestic adventures, misdeeds and everyday interactions of five families living on a cul-de-sac in a small California community.
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Skatetown U.S.A.
Title: Skatetown U.S.A.
Character: Murray
Released: October 1, 1979
Type: Movie
A street-gang leader challenges a handsome young skater in a championship contest at the local roller-disco rink.
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Title: Archie Bunker's Place
Released: September 23, 1979
Type: TV
Archie Bunker's Place is an American sitcom originally broadcast on the CBS network, conceived in 1979 as a spin-off and continuation of All in the Family. While not as popular as its predecessor, the show maintained a large enough audience to last for four seasons, until its cancellation in 1983. In its first season, the show performed so well that it knocked Mork & Mindy out of its new Sunday night time slot.
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Hot Stuff
Title: Hot Stuff
Character: Hymie
Released: August 10, 1979
Type: Movie
When a police department's burglary task force is facing the possibility of being shut down because of their low conviction rate decides to try a new approach to apprehending their targets. They take over a pawn shop where thieves go to unload their merchandise. They record them as they bring stuff in and get them to tell them where they got it. Eventually they're threatened by the mob.
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The Cracker Factory
Title: The Cracker Factory
Character: Ernie
Released: March 16, 1979
Type: Movie
Drama depicting the problems of a suburban housewife suffering from fits of depression and alcoholism, and her stay in a psychiatric center after a feeble suicide attempt.
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Title: Kaz
Released: September 10, 1978
Type: TV
Kaz is an American crime drama series that aired on CBS from September 10, 1978 to April 22, 1979.
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China 9, Liberty 37
Title: China 9, Liberty 37
Character: Sheriff's Friend
Released: August 4, 1978
Type: Movie
Gunslinger Clayton Drumm is about to be hanged when he is given a chance to live if he will agree to murder Matthew (Oates), a miner who has steadfastly refused to sell his land to the railroad company. Matthew’s refusal is a major obstacle to the railroad’s plans for expansion.
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The Billion Dollar Hobo
Title: The Billion Dollar Hobo
Character: Mitchell
Released: November 1, 1977
Type: Movie
Vernon Praiseworthy is a clumsy but lovable dope who stands to inherit his uncle's fortune. The condition is that he travel the rails as a penniless hobo just as his uncle did in the dark days of the depression. That seems simple enough until he gets involved in a dog-napping plot. Written by Jerry Roberts
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Title: Man from Atlantis
Released: September 22, 1977
Type: TV
Atlantis survivor Mark Harris breathes underwater, withstands extreme depth pressures and wields superhuman strength.
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The Happy Hooker Goes to Washington
Title: The Happy Hooker Goes to Washington
Character: Percy Bowdler
Released: July 15, 1977
Type: Movie
The world's most famous madame is called to Washington to testify before Congress.
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Title: Tabitha
Released: May 7, 1977
Type: TV
Tabitha Stephens is the daughter of the bewitching Samantha and her mortal husband, Darrin Stephens. As a young, single working witch, Tabitha adds a little magic and fun to the lives of her relatives and friends.
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Title: Eight Is Enough
Released: March 15, 1977
Type: TV
Eight Is Enough is an American television comedy-drama series that ran on ABC from March 15, 1977, until August 29, 1981. The show was modeled after syndicated newspaper columnist Thomas Braden, a real-life parent with eight children, who wrote a book with the same name.
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Carrie
Title: Carrie
Character: Mr. Fromm
Released: November 3, 1976
Type: Movie
An awkward, telekinetic teenage girl's lonely life is dominated by relentless bullying at school and an oppressive religious fanatic mother at home. When her tormentors pull a humiliating prank at the senior prom, she unleashes a horrifying chaos on everyone, leaving nothing but destruction in her wake.
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Serpico: The Deadly Game
Title: Serpico: The Deadly Game
Character: Goldman
Released: April 24, 1976
Type: Movie
This pilot film for the TV series is the story of Officer Frank Serpico, a New York City cop who fought crime in the city and corruption in the police department.
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Title: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Character: Charlie Cheswick
Released: November 19, 1975
Type: Movie
A petty criminal fakes insanity to serve his sentence in a mental ward rather than prison. He soon finds himself as a leader to the other patients—and an enemy to the cruel, domineering nurse who runs the ward.
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Title: Barney Miller
Character: Arnold Cummings
Released: January 23, 1975
Type: TV
Barney Miller is an American situation comedy television series set in a New York City police station in Greenwich Village. The series originally was broadcast from January 23, 1975 to May 20, 1982 on ABC. It was created by Danny Arnold and Theodore J. Flicker. Noam Pitlik directed the majority of the episodes.
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Title: Barney Miller
Character: Victor Carse (as Sidney Lassick)
Released: January 23, 1975
Type: TV
Barney Miller is an American situation comedy television series set in a New York City police station in Greenwich Village. The series originally was broadcast from January 23, 1975 to May 20, 1982 on ABC. It was created by Danny Arnold and Theodore J. Flicker. Noam Pitlik directed the majority of the episodes.
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Title: Baretta
Released: January 17, 1975
Type: TV
Baretta is an American detective television series which ran on ABC from 1975 to 1978. The show was a milder version of a successful 1973–74 ABC series, Toma, starring Tony Musante as chameleon-like, real-life New Jersey police officer David Toma. While popular, Toma received intense criticism at the time for its realistic and frequent depiction of police and criminal violence. When Musante left the series after a single season, the concept was retooled as Baretta, with Robert Blake in the title role.
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Title: Bridget Loves Bernie
Released: September 16, 1972
Type: TV
Bridget Loves Bernie is an American television comedy program created by Bernard Slade, the creator of the 1970–74 ABC sitcom The Partridge Family and the 1967-70 sitcom The Flying Nun, based loosely on the premise of the 1920s’ Broadway play and 1940s’ radio show Abie's Irish Rose. It stars Meredith Baxter and David Birney as the title characters, and ran for one season, from 1972 to 1973 on CBS. Baxter and Birney married in real life after the program went off the air.
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Title: Hawaii Five-O
Character: Benilea
Released: September 20, 1968
Type: TV
Hawaii Five-O is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and Leonard Freeman. Set in Hawaii, the show originally aired for 12 seasons from 1968 to 1980, and continues in reruns. Jack Lord portrayed Detective Lieutenant Steve McGarrett, the head of a special state police task force which was based on an actual unit that existed under martial law in the 1940s. The theme music composed by Morton Stevens became especially popular. Many episodes would end with McGarrett instructing his subordinate to "Book 'em, Danno!", sometimes specifying a charge such as "murder one".
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Sinderella and the Golden Bra
Title: Sinderella and the Golden Bra
Character: Fairy Godfather
Released: December 16, 1964
Type: Movie
Prince David is having trouble finding a bride amongst the maidens of the village, so his father decides to hold a masked ball. Sinderella, an adopted French orphan, puts up with abuse from her stepmother and two stepsisters, and is not allowed to go to the ball. She is despondent until her inebriated fairy godfather appears and fixes her up real pretty and sends her on to the ball, with the admontion that she must return by midnight. Sinderella and the Prince get along famously, but the time flies and she leaves in a hurry, dropping her gilded support in her haste. The Prince mounts a desperate search for his loved one, requiring all the maidens of the village to try on the forgotten garment.
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Paratroop Command
Title: Paratroop Command
Character: Interpreter
Released: February 1, 1959
Type: Movie
Charlie becomes a paratrooper, but, while serving in North Africa, he mistakenly kills one of his fellow U.S. soldiers, who is masquerading as a Nazi in order to wipe out a nest of the enemy. Shunned by his fellow soldiers, including his childhood friend Ace, Charlie is forced to prove himself when it is left up to him to transport a generator across an open road in full view of Nazi attackers.
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The Bonnie Parker Story
Title: The Bonnie Parker Story
Character: Scout Master
Released: May 28, 1958
Type: Movie
In the 1930s, amoral blonde tommy-gun girl Bonnie Parker cut a swath of bodies across the South-West. Starting out on gas stations and bars with side-kick Guy Darrow she graduated to bank hold-ups with Darrow's brother and, after bloodily springing him, her jailed husband. But there was never any doubt who was in charge.