Cliff Curtis

Cliff Curtis

Born: July 27, 1968
in Rotorua, North Island, New Zealand
Clifford Vivian Devon Curtis (born 27 July 1968) is a New Zealand-born actor. His film credits include Once Were Warriors (1994), Three Kings (1999), Training Day (2001), Whale Rider (2002), Collateral Damage (2002), Sunshine, Live Free or Die Hard (both 2007), The Dark Horse (2014), for which he won the Asia Pacific Screen Award for Best Performance by an Actor, Doctor Sleep (2019), Avatar, and Avatar: The Way of Water (2022). His television roles include NBC's Trauma, and ABC's Body of Proof and Missing. From 2015 to 2017, he portrayed Travis Manawa on the AMC horror drama series Fear the Walking Dead.

He is the co-owner of the independent New Zealand production company Whenua Films.

Movies for Cliff Curtis...

Avatar 5
Title: Avatar 5
Character: Tonowari
Released: December 17, 2031
Type: Movie
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Avatar 4
Title: Avatar 4
Character: Tonowari
Released: December 19, 2029
Type: Movie
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Avatar 3
Title: Avatar 3
Character: Tonowari
Released: December 19, 2025
Type: Movie
The third entry in the Avatar franchise.
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Ka Whawhai Tonu
Title: Ka Whawhai Tonu
Released: June 27, 2024
Type: Movie
Two young teenagers are forced to take control of their own destiny amid the chaos of a pivotal battle in New Zealand’s first land wars in 1864.
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Title: Swift Street
Character: Robert
Released: April 24, 2024
Type: TV
When 21-year-old Elsie discovers that her hustler father Robert is being hunted down by a merciless crime boss over a bad debt, she decides to help him, sparking the beginnings of a reconciliation and a dubious reign as partners in crime.
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Meg 2: The Trench
Title: Meg 2: The Trench
Character: Mac
Released: August 2, 2023
Type: Movie
An exploratory dive into the deepest depths of the ocean of a daring research team spirals into chaos when a malevolent mining operation threatens their mission and forces them into a high-stakes battle for survival.
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Inside Pandora's Box
Title: Inside Pandora's Box
Character: Self
Released: March 28, 2023
Type: Movie
A series of featurettes on the challenges facing cast and crew as filmmakers devise new technologies to push the limits of cinema
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True Spirit
Title: True Spirit
Character: Ben Bryant
Released: January 26, 2023
Type: Movie
When the tenacious young sailor Jessica Watson sets out to be the youngest person to sail solo, nonstop and unassisted around the world, many expect her to fail. With the support of her sailing coach and mentor Ben Bryant and her parents, Jessica is determined to accomplish what was thought to be impossible, navigating some of the world’s most challenging stretches of ocean over the course of 210 days.
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Avatar: The Way of Water
Title: Avatar: The Way of Water
Character: Tonowari
Released: December 14, 2022
Type: Movie
Set more than a decade after the events of the first film, learn the story of the Sully family (Jake, Neytiri, and their kids), the trouble that follows them, the lengths they go to keep each other safe, the battles they fight to stay alive, and the tragedies they endure.
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Muru
Title: Muru
Character: Community Sergeant ‘Taffy’ Tawharau
Released: October 13, 2022
Type: Movie
Inspired by actual events, the story of a local Police Sergeant 'Taffy' Tawharau, who must choose between his badge and his people, when the Government launches an armed raid through his Ruatoki community, on a school day.
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Murina
Title: Murina
Character: Javier
Released: April 8, 2022
Type: Movie
A teenage girl decides to replace her controlling father with his wealthy foreign friend during a weekend trip to the Adriatic Sea.
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Reminiscence
Title: Reminiscence
Character: Cyrus Booth
Released: August 18, 2021
Type: Movie
Nicolas Bannister, a rugged and solitary veteran living in a near-future Miami flooded by rising seas, is an expert in a dangerous occupation: he offers clients the chance to relive any memory they desire. His life changes when he meets a mysterious young woman named Mae. What begins as a simple matter of lost and found becomes a passionate love affair. But when a different client's memories implicate Mae in a series of violent crimes, Bannister must delve through the dark world of the past to uncover the truth about the woman he fell for.
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Title: Invincible
Character: Paul (voice)
Released: March 25, 2021
Type: TV
Mark Grayson is a normal teenager except for the fact that his father is the most powerful superhero on the planet. Shortly after his seventeenth birthday, Mark begins to develop powers of his own and enters into his father’s tutelage.
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Doctor Sleep
Title: Doctor Sleep
Character: Billy Freeman
Released: October 30, 2019
Type: Movie
Still scarred by the trauma he endured as a child at the Overlook Hotel, Dan Torrance faces the ghosts of the past when he meets Abra, a courageous teen who desperately needs his help -- and who possesses a powerful extrasensory ability called the "shine".
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Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw
Title: Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw
Character: Jonah Hobbs
Released: August 1, 2019
Type: Movie
Ever since US Diplomatic Security Service Agent Hobbs and lawless outcast Shaw first faced off, they just have traded smack talk and body blows. But when cyber-genetically enhanced anarchist Brixton's ruthless actions threaten the future of humanity, they join forces to defeat him.
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The Meg
Title: The Meg
Character: James 'Mac' Mackreides
Released: August 9, 2018
Type: Movie
A deep sea submersible pilot revisits his past fears in the Mariana Trench, and accidentally unleashes the seventy foot ancestor of the Great White Shark believed to be extinct.
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Risen
Title: Risen
Character: Yeshua
Released: February 18, 2016
Type: Movie
Clavius, a powerful Roman military tribune, and his aide, Lucius, are tasked with solving the mystery of what happened to Jesus in the weeks following the crucifixion, in order to disprove the rumors of a risen Messiah and prevent an uprising in Jerusalem.
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Title: Fear the Walking Dead
Character: Travis Manawa
Released: August 23, 2015
Type: TV
What did the world look like as it was transforming into the horrifying apocalypse depicted in "The Walking Dead"? This spin-off set in Los Angeles, following new characters as they face the beginning of the end of the world, will answer that question.
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Last Knights
Title: Last Knights
Character: Lt. Cortez
Released: April 3, 2015
Type: Movie
When an evil emperor executes their leader, his band of knights – bound by duty and honour – embarks on a journey of vengeance that will not come to an end until they've destroyed their mortal foe.
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The Dark Horse
Title: The Dark Horse
Character: Genesis
Released: July 17, 2014
Type: Movie
One-time Maori speed-chess champ, Genesis Potini, lives with a bi-polar disorder and must overcome prejudice and violence in the battle to save his struggling chess club, his family and ultimately, himself.
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Title: Gang Related
Character: Javier Acosta
Released: May 22, 2014
Type: TV
Every villain has a noble cause, and every hero has a dark side. Detective Ryan Lopez is a rising star in Los Angeles' elite Gang Task Force. What the world doesn't know is that long before Ryan became a cop, he pledged allegiance to a different band of brothers – a powerful Latino gang called Los Angelicos. When Ryan's best friend and police partner is senselessly killed by a notorious gang member, Ryan teams up with longtime Task Force member Cassius Green who has been at the forefront of the city's war on organized crime. In this war between law enforcement and gangs, the series explores how only people who really know the streets can win the battle on the streets.
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Title: Missing
Character: Dax Miller
Released: March 15, 2012
Type: TV
Becca Winstone learns that her son, Michael, disappears while studying abroad, and it's a race against time when she travels to Europe to track him down. A surprising turn of events reveals just how far one mother will go to protect her family. Exotic locations and thrilling twists will keep you riveted in "Missing."
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A Thousand Words
Title: A Thousand Words
Character: Dr. Sinja
Released: March 7, 2012
Type: Movie
Jack McCall is a fast-talking literary agent, who can close any deal, any time, any way. He has set his sights on New Age guru Dr. Sinja for his own selfish purposes. But Dr. Sinja is on to him, and Jack’s life comes unglued after a magical Bodhi tree mysteriously appears in his backyard. With every word Jack speaks, a leaf falls from the tree and he realizes that when the last leaf falls, both he and the tree are toast. Words have never failed Jack McCall, but now he’s got to stop talking and conjure up some outrageous ways to communicate or he’s a goner.
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Saving Grace - Te Whakarauora Tangata
Title: Saving Grace - Te Whakarauora Tangata
Character: Himself
Released: October 23, 2011
Type: Movie
Saving Grace - Te Whakarauora Tangata is the final work of director Merata Mita, who passed away suddenly before the film could be completed. The film addresses some of the deepest and most distressing issues Māori communities face, and shows how extraordinary creative solutions are being provided by Māori communities themselves. Mita asks Maori men to front up to some grim realities by talking openly and honestly about the violence and abuse that has plagued their communities for many years. The film is a personal response to this violence, with Mita making a case for a return to an older model of Maori manhood, when men were the ones who sweetly sang the children to sleep. “Merata intended the documentary to count in ways that mattered deeply to her and to change perceptions of abuse and violence by using themes of responsibility, redemption, revitalisation, forgiveness and, most of all, love.” - Carol Hirschfeld, Māori Television.
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Colombiana
Title: Colombiana
Character: Emilio
Released: July 27, 2011
Type: Movie
After witnessing her parents’ murder as a child in Bogota, Cataleya Restrepo grows up to be a stone-cold assassin. She works for her uncle as a hitman by day, but her personal time is spent engaging in vigilante murders that she hopes will lead her to her ultimate target: the mobster responsible for her parents' death.
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Title: Body of Proof
Character: FBI Special Agent Derek Ames
Released: March 29, 2011
Type: TV
Dr. Megan Hunt was in a class of her own, a brilliant neurosurgeon at the top of her game. But her world is turned upside down when a devastating car accident puts an end to her time in the operating room. Megan resumes her career as a medical examiner, determined to solve the puzzle of who or what killed the victims.
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The Last Airbender
Title: The Last Airbender
Character: Fire Lord Ozai
Released: June 30, 2010
Type: Movie
The story follows the adventures of Aang, a young successor to a long line of Avatars, who must put his childhood ways aside and stop the Fire Nation from enslaving the Water, Earth and Air nations.
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Title: Trauma
Character: Reuben 'Rabbit' Palchuck
Released: September 28, 2009
Type: TV
When emergencies occur, the trauma team from San Francisco City Hospital is first on the scene, traveling by land, by sea or by air to reach their victims in time. From the heights of the city's Transamerica Pyramid to the depths of the San Francisco Bay, these heroes must face the most extreme conditions to save lives, and give meaning to their own existence in the process.
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Crossing Over
Title: Crossing Over
Character: Hamid Baraheri
Released: February 10, 2009
Type: Movie
Immigrants from around the world enter Los Angeles every day, with hopeful visions of a better life, but little notion of what that life may cost. Their desperate scenarios test the humanity of immigration enforcement officers. In Crossing Over, writer-director Wayne Kramer explores the allure of the American dream, and the reality that immigrants find – and create -- in 21st century L.A.
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Push
Title: Push
Character: Hook Waters
Released: February 4, 2009
Type: Movie
After his father, an assassin, is brutally murdered, Nick Gant vows revenge on Division, the covert government agency that dabbles in psychic warfare and experimental drugs. Hiding in Hong Kong's underworld, Nick assembles a band of rogue psychics dedicated to destroying Division. Together with Cassie, a teenage clairvoyant, Nick goes in search of a missing girl and a stolen suitcase that could be the key to accomplishing their mutual goal.
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10,000 BC
Title: 10,000 BC
Character: Tic-Tic
Released: March 4, 2008
Type: Movie
A prehistoric epic that follows a young mammoth hunter's journey through uncharted territory to secure the future of his tribe.
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Live Free or Die Hard
Title: Live Free or Die Hard
Character: Agent Bowman
Released: June 20, 2007
Type: Movie
John McClane is back and badder than ever, and this time he's working for Homeland Security. He calls on the services of a young hacker in his bid to stop a ring of Internet terrorists intent on taking control of America's computer infrastructure.
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Inside The Fountain: Death and Rebirth
Title: Inside The Fountain: Death and Rebirth
Character: Himself
Released: May 15, 2007
Type: Movie
A behind-the-scenes documentary about the making of Darren Aronofsky's ‘The Fountain’.
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Fracture
Title: Fracture
Character: Detective Flores
Released: April 19, 2007
Type: Movie
A husband is on trial for the attempted murder of his wife, in what is seemingly an open/shut case for the ambitious district attorney trying to put him away. However, there are surprises for both around every corner, and, as a suspenseful game of cat-and-mouse is played out, each must manipulate and outwit the other.
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Sunshine
Title: Sunshine
Character: Searle
Released: April 5, 2007
Type: Movie
Fifty years into the future, the sun is dying, and Earth is threatened by arctic temperatures. A team of astronauts is sent to revive the Sun — but the mission fails. Seven years later, a new team is sent to finish the mission as mankind’s last hope.
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The Fountain
Title: The Fountain
Character: Captain Ariel
Released: November 22, 2006
Type: Movie
Spanning over one thousand years, and three parallel stories, The Fountain is a story of love, death, spirituality, and the fragility of our existence in this world.
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River Queen
Title: River Queen
Character: Wiremu
Released: September 12, 2005
Type: Movie
An intimate story set during the 1860s in which a young Irish woman Sarah and her family find themselves on both sides of the turbulent wars between British and Maori during the British colonization of New Zealand.
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Spooked
Title: Spooked
Character: Mort Whitman
Released: October 31, 2004
Type: Movie
Spooked is a contemporary conspiracy thriller arising from the mysterious death of Kevin Jones, who thought he was just buying second-hand computers, until he looked at the data left on the discs. Was kevin murdered or did he simply get drunk and crash his car? Investigating journalist Mort Whitman says he will find out, even if it kills him. The film is based on material from the book 'The Paradise Conspiracy' by Ian Wishart.
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Fracture
Title: Fracture
Character: Inspector Franklin
Released: September 4, 2004
Type: Movie
A young solo mother loves her son and his needs are formost, but she still has room in her heart for her very broken brother, even as her fundamentalist mother rejects her. But when the brother is responsible for a woman's broken neck, during his burglary of her house, families are changed as crisis amplifies and at times the young mother seems to be the only adult.
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Heinous Crime
Title: Heinous Crime
Character: Pizza Delivery Man
Released: August 14, 2004
Type: Movie
Two players, one heinous crime to be revealed. Wellington Winner of 48 Hours Furious Filmmaking 2004.
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Title: Traffic
Character: Adam Kadyrov
Released: January 26, 2004
Type: TV
Going beyond the Academy Award-winning movie, Traffic: The Miniseries takes an inside look at the highly lucrative world of illegal trafficking, a world in which supply and demand isn't just for drugs: it's also for goods, weapons, and even human beings.
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Whale Rider
Title: Whale Rider
Character: Porourangi
Released: January 30, 2003
Type: Movie
On the east coast of New Zealand, the Whangara people believe their presence there dates back a thousand years or more to a single ancestor, Paikea, who escaped death when his canoe capsized by riding to shore on the back of a whale. From then on, Whangara chiefs, always the first-born, always male, have been considered Paikea's direct descendants. Pai, an 11-year-old girl in a patriarchal New Zealand tribe, believes she is destined to be the new chief. But her grandfather Koro is bound by tradition to pick a male leader. Pai loves Koro more than anyone in the world, but she must fight him and a thousand years of tradition to fulfill her destiny.
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Runaway Jury
Title: Runaway Jury
Character: Frank Herrera
Released: January 16, 2003
Type: Movie
A juror on the inside and a woman on the outside manipulate a court trial involving a major gun manufacturer.
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Point of Origin
Title: Point of Origin
Character: Mike Camello
Released: June 20, 2002
Type: Movie
An arson investigator searching for the perpetrator of a string of deadly fires in 1980s California.
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Collateral Damage
Title: Collateral Damage
Character: Claudio Perrini
Released: February 6, 2002
Type: Movie
Firefighter Gordon Brewer is plunged into the complex and dangerous world of international terrorism after he loses his wife and child in a bombing credited to Claudio 'The Wolf' Perrini.
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The Majestic
Title: The Majestic
Character: The Evil But Handsome Prince Khalid
Released: December 21, 2001
Type: Movie
Set in 1951, a blacklisted Hollywood writer gets into a car accident, loses his memory and settles down in a small town where he is mistaken for a long-lost son.
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Training Day
Title: Training Day
Character: Smiley
Released: October 5, 2001
Type: Movie
On his first day on the job as a narcotics officer, a rookie cop works with a rogue detective who isn't what he appears.
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Blow
Title: Blow
Character: Pablo Escobar
Released: April 4, 2001
Type: Movie
A boy named George Jung grows up in a struggling family in the 1950's. His mother nags at her husband as he is trying to make a living for the family. It is finally revealed that George's father cannot make a living and the family goes bankrupt. George does not want the same thing to happen to him, and his friend Tuna, in the 1960's, suggests that he deal marijuana. He is a big hit in California in the 1960's, yet he goes to jail, where he finds out about the wonders of cocaine. As a result, when released, he gets rich by bringing cocaine to America. However, he soon pays the price.
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Jubilee
Title: Jubilee
Character: Billy Williams
Released: April 13, 2000
Type: Movie
Billy (Cliff Curtis) is trying to organize the biggest celebration the town of Waimatua has even seen - the 75th Jubilee of their school. In doing this, feckless Billy is trying to redeem himself in the eyes of his family, especially his frustrated wife Pauline (Theresa Healey). However trouble arrives with the return of a local former All Blacks Captain, an old flame of Pauline's.
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The Insider
Title: The Insider
Character: Sheikh Fadlallah
Released: October 28, 1999
Type: Movie
A research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he decides to appear in a 60 Minutes exposé on Big Tobacco.
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Bringing Out the Dead
Title: Bringing Out the Dead
Character: Cy Coates
Released: October 22, 1999
Type: Movie
Once called "Father Frank" for his efforts to rescue lives, Frank Pierce sees the ghosts of those he failed to save around every turn. He has tried everything he can to get fired, calling in sick, delaying taking calls where he might have to face one more victim he couldn't help, yet cannot quit the job on his own.
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Three Kings
Title: Three Kings
Character: Amir Abdullah
Released: September 27, 1999
Type: Movie
A group of American soldiers stationed in Iraq at the end of the Gulf War find a map they believe will take them to a huge cache of stolen Kuwaiti gold hidden near their base, and they embark on a secret mission that's destined to change everything.
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Virus
Title: Virus
Character: Hiko
Released: January 14, 1999
Type: Movie
When the crew of an American tugboat boards an abandoned Russian research vessel, the alien life form aboard regards them as a virus which must be destroyed.
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Six Days Seven Nights
Title: Six Days Seven Nights
Character: Kip
Released: June 12, 1998
Type: Movie
In the South Pacific island of Makatea, career-driven magazine editor Robin Monroe is on a week-long vacation getaway with her boyfriend, Frank Martin. An emergency work assignment in neighboring Tahiti requires Robin to hire the cantankerous pilot Quinn Harris who had flown them to Makatea on a small transport plane. While flying, a powerful storm forces Quinn to make an emergency landing on a nearby deserted island. The dissimilar pair avoid each other at first, until they're forced to team up to escape from the island -- and some pirates who want their heads.
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Deep Rising
Title: Deep Rising
Character: Mamooli
Released: January 30, 1998
Type: Movie
A group of heavily armed hijackers board a luxury ocean liner in the South Pacific Ocean to loot it, only to do battle with a series of large-sized, tentacled, man-eating sea creatures who have taken over the ship first.
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Chicken
Title: Chicken
Character: Zeke
Released: April 22, 1996
Type: Movie
On the premise that his albums will sell better if he is dead, an aging pop-singer fakes his own death. True enough, the money rolls in, but no one can get their hands on it because of the seven year waiting period before a missing person can be declared legally dead. However, a crazed animal rights terrorist, who knows he isn't dead, is trying to kill him, because of the singer's advertisements for fried chicken restaurants. Eventually, it turns out that the singer's manager is paying the terrorist to kill him.
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Title: Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
Character: Nemis
Released: January 29, 1995
Type: TV
The legendary son of Zeus journeys across the earth fighting monsters and helping people.
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Title: Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
Character: Nessus
Released: January 29, 1995
Type: TV
The legendary son of Zeus journeys across the earth fighting monsters and helping people.
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Hercules in the Underworld
Title: Hercules in the Underworld
Character: Nessus
Released: November 7, 1994
Type: Movie
When villagers begin disappearing it is discovered that they had fallen through a crack in the earth which goes straight to Hades. Hercules once again comes to the rescue and faces one of his most difficult challenges, and must prove himself as a man as well as a god. "Hercules in the Underworld" is the fourth made for TV movie in the series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys.
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Once Were Warriors
Title: Once Were Warriors
Character: Bully
Released: September 2, 1994
Type: Movie
A drama about a Maori family living in Auckland, New Zealand. Lee Tamahori tells the story of Beth Heke’s strong will to keep her family together during times of unemployment and abuse from her violent and alcoholic husband.
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Rapa Nui
Title: Rapa Nui
Character: Short Ears
Released: June 3, 1994
Type: Movie
Inter-tribal rivalry leads to a competition to erect a huge statue (moai) in record time before Make can take part in the race to retrieve the egg of a Sooty Tern. The reward for winning this race is to rule the island for one year.
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Desperate Remedies
Title: Desperate Remedies
Character: Fraser
Released: November 26, 1993
Type: Movie
In a town called Hope on the edge of Britain's empire, desperations clash: the beautiful Dorothea Brook is desperate to free her pregnant sister Rose from the clutches of Fraser, a fortune hunter. A local politician, William Poyner, is desperate for cash and thinks marriage to Dorothea will save him. Dorothea hires Lawrence Hayes, a rough but handsome Argonaut, to bribe Fraser with jewels and to marry Rose; Hayes desperately loves Dorothea and may marry Rose to stay close to her. But Dorothea has a lover, the ravishing Anne Cooper, who encourages the match with Poyser to give the lovers cover. Are these remedies, each desperate in its turn, going to make anyone happy?
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The Piano
Title: The Piano
Character: Mana
Released: May 19, 1993
Type: Movie
A mute Scottish woman arrives in colonial New Zealand for an arranged marriage. Her husband refuses to move her beloved piano, giving it to neighbor George Baines, who agrees to return the piano in exchange for lessons. As desire swirls around the duo, the wilderness consumes the European enclave.
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Title: KAOS
Character: Poseidon
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
A modern day contemporary retelling of Greek mythology.