William Atherton

William Atherton

Born: July 30, 1947
in Orange, Connecticut, USA
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William Atherton Knight (born July 30, 1947) is an American actor, best known for portraying Richard Thornburg in Die Hard and its sequel and Walter Peck in Ghostbusters.

Movies for William Atherton...

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
Title: Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
Character: Mayor Walter Peck
Released: March 20, 2024
Type: Movie
The Spengler family returns to where it all started – the iconic New York City firehouse – to team up with the original Ghostbusters, who've developed a top-secret research lab to take busting ghosts to the next level. But when the discovery of an ancient artifact unleashes an evil force, Ghostbusters new and old must join forces to protect their home and save the world from a second Ice Age.
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Title: Reunited Apart
Character: Self
Released: April 27, 2020
Type: TV
Josh Gad reunites the cast and crews of various classic movies, and discusses the the films in hilarious yet heartfelt conversations.
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Cleanin' Up the Town: Remembering Ghostbusters
Title: Cleanin' Up the Town: Remembering Ghostbusters
Character: Self
Released: January 7, 2020
Type: Movie
The documentary that tells us the full story from where it all started through to the future of the "Ghostbusters" franchise.
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Clinical
Title: Clinical
Character: Terry Drummond
Released: January 13, 2017
Type: Movie
A psychiatrist tries to put her life back together after a violent attack by seeking to repair the life of a new patient, but he has his own terrifying history.
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Ghostheads
Title: Ghostheads
Character: Self
Released: April 23, 2016
Type: Movie
A documentary that explores the extreme side of the Ghostbusters fandom. Join us as we travel the world meeting extreme Ghostbusters fans. Every Ghosthead is unique. Every Franchise is its own. Every pop culture fandom should learn how to give back to the community.
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Jinn
Title: Jinn
Character: Father Westhoff
Released: April 4, 2014
Type: Movie
From the beginning, stories of angels and men have captured our imaginations and have been etched into our history crossing all boundaries of culture, religion, and time. These two races have dominated the landscape of modern mythology for countless centuries, almost washing away the evidence that a third ever existed. This third race, born of smokeless fire, was called the jinn. Similar to humans in many ways, the jinn lived invisibly among us and only under dire or unusual circumstances were our paths ever meant to cross.
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Jersey Shore Shark Attack
Title: Jersey Shore Shark Attack
Character: Dolan
Released: June 9, 2012
Type: Movie
Many years ago, hundreds of locals and tourists were massacred by giant man-eating sharks in the infamous 1916 Jersey Shore attacks. But that's just a legend... or is it? It's a holiday weekend on the Jersey Shore and, unbeknownst to anyone, underwater drills have attracted dozens of albino bull sharks to the pier. When a man goes missing, TC (The Complication), Nookie and friends fear the worst and plead with the police chief to close down the beach. It isn't until a famous singer is eaten alive during a performance on the pier that the shark hunt begins. Now, the Preppies must work together with the Guidos in order to save the Jersey Shore and its inhabitants from another vicious slaughter.
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Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie
Title: Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie
Character: Earle Swinter
Released: March 2, 2012
Type: Movie
Two guys get a billion dollars to make a movie, only to watch their dream run off course.
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The Kane Files: Life of Trial
Title: The Kane Files: Life of Trial
Character: Daniel Morgan
Released: October 2, 2010
Type: Movie
Scott Kane (Drew Fuller), a man with a checkered past is trying to live a clean life. When his son Owen falls ill, Kane finds his only option is to turn to Daniel Morgan (William Atherton), the local kingpin of the criminal underworld. Morgan offers to help Kane's family, but double-crosses him. When Morgan tries killing Kane by employing a dirty cop, Jace Olsen (Ethan Embry), Kane escapes from prison to seek his revenge and save his son. With the FBI (William Devane) and Police (Embry) on his tail, Kane must utilize all his deadly skills to save his family and himself.
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Title: Castle
Character: Ari Weiss
Released: March 9, 2009
Type: TV
After a serial killer imitates the plots of his novels, successful mystery novelist Richard "Rick" Castle receives permission from the Mayor of New York City to tag along with an NYPD homicide investigation team for research purposes.
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Title: Childrens Hospital
Character: Levon Bainter
Released: December 8, 2008
Type: TV
A hospital isn't a place for lazy people. It's a place for smart people who take care of people who aren't smart enough to keep themselves healthy. So begins Children's Hospital, a parody series that follows the lives, loves and laughs of a hospital staff.
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Ghouls
Title: Ghouls
Character: Stefan
Released: July 12, 2008
Type: Movie
Stefan invites his daughter, Jennifer, to travel to Romania for the funeral of his mother. His mystic girlfriend Liz travels with them to the cursed village of Pelosoara, where they are welcomed by Stefan's brother Vladimir, and Jennifer finds the locals are very peculiar people. Jennifer learns that she is the only woman from the bloodline of her father. At the funeral a stranger approaches and asks Jennifer to meet him in the square in one hour. When Jennifer arrives at the meeting place, she sees a creature devouring the man she was there to meet and is saved by Thomas. The man tells her that he is the last druid on Earth, protecting the world against the evil ancients. They were defeated by the druids in the past and banished to the spiritual world. That night, there was to be a reclamation ceremony where the evil queen possesses a vessel to open a vortex between the spiritual and the real world to bring the ancients back to Earth...
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Black Crescent Moon
Title: Black Crescent Moon
Character: Jo Dexton
Released: June 15, 2008
Type: Movie
A small town sheriff who's investigating a murder at the local diner ends up finding more than he bargained for in the town and in himself.
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Aces 'N' Eights
Title: Aces 'N' Eights
Character: Howard
Released: March 15, 2008
Type: Movie
Already taking a gamble settling in the uncharted west, the peaceful settlers of a town destined for railroad greatness suddenly find themselves being ruthlessly gunned down. With no law and order to be found, justice falls onto the shoulders of an elderly rancher and an accomplished, but retired, gunslinger.
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Title: Life
Character: Mickey Rayborn
Released: September 26, 2007
Type: TV
Complex, offbeat Detective Charlie Crews returns to the force after serving time in prison for a crime he didn’t commit. Crews’ new lease on life has provided him with a Zen-like outlook, peace of mind and no need for vengeance, an attitude which can be challenging to maintain when someone he cares about is threatened — or when he is investigating the mystery surrounding the murder he was falsely accused of.
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The Girl Next Door
Title: The Girl Next Door
Character: Adult David Moran
Released: July 19, 2007
Type: Movie
In a quiet suburban town in the summer of 1958, two recently orphaned sisters are placed in the care of their mentally unstable Aunt Ruth. But Ruth's depraved sense of discipline will soon lead to unspeakable acts of abuse and torture that involve her young sons, the neighborhood children, and one 12-year-old boy whose life will be changed forever.
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Kush
Title: Kush
Character: King
Released: June 3, 2007
Type: Movie
A young drug dealer Dusty, is torn between the money and getting out. When his partner Christian, is caught up in a kidnapping and murder scheme.
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Towards Darkness
Title: Towards Darkness
Character: John
Released: April 28, 2007
Type: Movie
About a kidnapped hostage's life, and the frustration his family, a special ops team, and a man in charge of delivering the ransom money all feel as they rush to save him.
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Into the Sun
Title: Into the Sun
Character: Agent Block
Released: November 26, 2005
Type: Movie
After the assassination of Tokyo's Governor by Yakuza members, the CIA bureau chief (William Atherton) for Tokyo puts out a call to an agent (Steven Seagal) that had been raised in Japan and trained by ex-Yakuza. Using his former ties, he quickly determines that a war is brewing between old-guard Yakuza members and a young, crazed leader (Takao Osawa) with ties to the Chinese Tong.
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Headspace
Title: Headspace
Character: Dr. Ira Gold
Released: September 18, 2005
Type: Movie
25-year-old Alex Borden's chance encounter with a mysterious stranger has found his intellect rapidly expanding, but as the power of his mind grows so too does the mystery of a brutal series of murders. Now, as the killer seems to set his sights on Alex, the frightened genius must use his newfound brain power to put an end to the mayhem once and for all.
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Title: Numb3rs
Released: January 23, 2005
Type: TV
Inspired by actual cases and experiences, Numb3rs depicts the confluence of police work and mathematics in solving crime as an FBI agent recruits his mathematical genius brother to help solve a wide range of challenging crimes in Los Angeles from a very different perspective.
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Gone But Not Forgotten
Title: Gone But Not Forgotten
Character: Sen. Ray Colby
Released: January 1, 2005
Type: Movie
An Oregon woman vanishes. In her wake remains a single black rose & a note reading gone but not forgotten. Now a man stands accused: a private eye has gone missing: a detective knows more than she lets on: & a tough female attorney has entered a web of duplicity revenge & multiple murder.
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Title: Desperate Housewives
Released: October 3, 2004
Type: TV
Looking down on her friends and family isn't a way of life for Mary Alice Young... it's a way of death. One day, in her perfect house, in the loveliest of suburbs, Mary Alice ended it all. Now she's taking us into the lives of her family, friends and neighbors, commenting from her elevated P.O.V.
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Title: Boston Legal
Character: A.D.A. Howard Zale
Released: October 3, 2004
Type: TV
Alan Shore and Denny Crane lead a brigade of high-priced civil litigators in an upscale Boston law firm in a series focusing on the professional and personal lives of brilliant but often emotionally challenged attorneys. A spin-off of long-running series The Practice.
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Title: Lost
Character: Donald Reynolds
Released: September 22, 2004
Type: TV
Stripped of everything, the survivors of a horrific plane crash must work together to stay alive. But the island holds many secrets.
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Who's Your Daddy?
Title: Who's Your Daddy?
Character: Duncan Mack
Released: January 7, 2004
Type: Movie
An adopted Ohio high school senior discovers he is the inherited heir to a porn empire. Dropped into a bitter power struggle, his new flock of beautiful co-workers come to his aid.
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The Last Samurai
Title: The Last Samurai
Character: Winchester Rep
Released: December 5, 2003
Type: Movie
Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, which finds him learning to respect the samurai and the honorable principles that rule them. Pressed to destroy the samurai's way of life in the name of modernization and open trade, Algren decides to become an ultimate warrior himself and to fight for their right to exist.
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Title: Monk
Character: Commander Nathan Whitaker
Released: July 12, 2002
Type: TV
Adrian Monk was once a rising star with the San Francisco Police Department, legendary for using unconventional means to solve the department's most baffling cases. But after the tragic (and still unsolved) murder of his wife Trudy, he developed an extreme case of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Now working as a private consultant, Monk continues to investigate cases in the most unconventional ways.
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Title: Justice League
Character: Dr. Destiny / John Dee (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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Race to Space
Title: Race to Space
Character: Ralph Stanton
Released: October 31, 2001
Type: Movie
In the 1960s a young woman works at NASA as an animal trainer responsible for the chimpanzee who will go into space.
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Title: Night Visions
Character: William Price
Released: July 12, 2001
Type: TV
Horror anthology series, with each episode comprising two half-hour stories dealing with themes of the supernatural or simply the dark side of human nature.
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Burning Down the House
Title: Burning Down the House
Character: Arthur Kranston
Released: February 7, 2001
Type: Movie
A down-on-his-luck film director sets fire to his home so he can collect the insurance money and fund his new movie. But crime apparently does pay, because once the rumor mill gets wind of his plans, everyone suddenly wants a slice of his new project's pie.
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Bread and Roses
Title: Bread and Roses
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
Released: May 10, 2000
Type: Movie
Maya is a quick-witted young woman who comes over the Mexican border without papers and makes her way to the LA home of her older sister Rosa. Rosa gets Maya a job as a janitor: a non-union janitorial service has the contract, the foul-mouthed supervisor can fire workers on a whim, and the service-workers' union has assigned organizer Sam Shapiro to bring its "justice for janitors" campaign to the building. Sam finds Maya a willing listener, she's also attracted to him. Rosa resists, she has an ailing husband to consider. The workers try for public support; management intimidates workers to divide and conquer. Rosa and Maya as well as workers and management may be set to collide.
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The Crow: Salvation
Title: The Crow: Salvation
Character: Nathan Randall
Released: January 23, 2000
Type: Movie
Alex Corvis, a man wrongly executed for the murder of his girlfriend, returns from the dead and sets out to find the real killer.
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The Stranger
Title: The Stranger
Released: December 12, 1999
Type: Movie
A young woman's dreams become real-life nightmares after a mysterious stranger comes into her life.
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Title: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Character: Ned Bogden
Released: September 20, 1999
Type: TV
In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.
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Introducing Dorothy Dandridge
Title: Introducing Dorothy Dandridge
Character: Darryl Zanuck
Released: August 21, 1999
Type: Movie
An acclaimed stage performer, Dorothy still struggled with the challenge of her color, in a time that wouldn't let some stars in by the front door. Yet against the odds she beat out many more famous rivals for the role of "Carmen Jones", becoming the first black woman ever nominated for a Best Actress Academy Award. Marriages and affairs would break her heart, but her heart was strong. Seductive and easily seduced, she was born to be a star - with all the glory and all the pain of being loved, abused, cheated, glorified, undermined and undefeated. Here was a woman who wouldn't wait in the wings. Halle Berry stars as Dorothy Dandrige.
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Title: The Crow: Stairway to Heaven
Character: Nathan Randall
Released: September 25, 1998
Type: TV
The Crow: Stairway to Heaven was a 1998 Canadian television series created by Bryce Zabel spun off from the The Crow film series starring Mark Dacascos in the lead role as Eric Draven, reprising the role originally played by Brandon Lee in the 1994 film The Crow.
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Michael Kael vs. the World News Company
Title: Michael Kael vs. the World News Company
Character: James Denit
Released: February 18, 1998
Type: Movie
A naive French reporter is sent to an African town to cover a sensational news story, unaware that it has been faked by an international news giant in the hopes of getting the US president re-elected for a third term.
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Mad City
Title: Mad City
Character: Dohlen
Released: November 7, 1997
Type: Movie
A misguided museum guard who loses his job and then tries to get it back at gunpoint is thrown into the fierce world of ratings-driven TV gone mad.
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Executive Power
Title: Executive Power
Character: President Fields
Released: September 25, 1997
Type: Movie
While protecting the U.S. President, Secret Service agent Nick Sager helps him to dispose of the body of a young girl, who accidentally died during an adulterous encounter. Some time later, a few weeks before the elections, the disillusioned ex-agent is approached by his former partner. The President's former aide, and one of few people who knew about the cover-up, is found dead in mysterious circumstances.
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Hoodlum
Title: Hoodlum
Character: Thomas E. Dewey
Released: August 27, 1997
Type: Movie
In 1934, the second most lucrative business in New York City was running 'the numbers'. When Madam Queen—the powerful woman who runs the scam in Harlem—is arrested, Ellsworth 'Bumpy' Johnson takes over the business and must resist an invasion from a merciless mobster.
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Title: Stargate SG-1
Character: Emissary Varta
Released: July 27, 1997
Type: TV
The story of Stargate SG-1 begins about a year after the events of the feature film, when the United States government learns that an ancient alien device called the Stargate can access a network of such devices on a multitude of planets. SG-1 is an elite Air Force special operations team, one of more than two dozen teams from Earth who explore the galaxy and defend against alien threats such as the Goa'uld, Replicators, and the Ori.
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Title: The Practice
Character: D.A. Keith Pratt
Released: March 4, 1997
Type: TV
A provocative legal drama focused on young associates at a bare-bones Boston firm and their scrappy boss, Bobby Donnell. The show's forte is its storylines about “people who walk a moral tightrope.”
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Raven Hawk
Title: Raven Hawk
Character: Philip Thorne
Released: July 20, 1996
Type: Movie
A Native-American woman, who was framed for the murders of her parents years before, returns to her reservation to seek revenge.
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Title: Nash Bridges
Released: March 29, 1996
Type: TV
Fun-loving San Francisco Police Department investigator Nash Bridges is part of the elite Special Investigations Unit. He tackles crime using his keen sense of humor and charm. Joe Dominguez comes out of retirement to become Bridges' wisecracking yet more rule-abiding partner.
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Bio-Dome
Title: Bio-Dome
Character: Dr. Noah Faulkner
Released: January 12, 1996
Type: Movie
Bud and Doyle are two losers who are doing nothing with their lives. Both of their girlfriends are actively involved in saving the environment, but the two friends couldn't care less about saving the Earth. One day, when a group of scientists begin a mission to live inside a "Bio-Dome" for a year without outside contact, Bud and Doyle mistakenly become part of the project themselves.
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Broken Trust
Title: Broken Trust
Character: Neil Roemer
Released: August 6, 1995
Type: Movie
A scrupulously honest judge finds he's a pawn in a federal sting to ferret out corrupt members of the bench, many of whom are his friends.
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A Night to Die For
Title: A Night to Die For
Character: Himself
Released: May 18, 1995
Type: Movie
TV special worth watching if only for the incongruous interviews with Wayne Newton, Wayne Gretzky, Kareem Abdul Jabar, Rudolph Giuliani, Mike Ditka, and Ice-T. Aired on CBS ahead of a screening of Die Hard 2, the day before the third film was released.
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Virus
Title: Virus
Character: Dr. Reginald Holloway
Released: May 8, 1995
Type: Movie
Who could have deliberately released a rare and deadly African plague that is now spreading uncontrollably throughout America's largest urban areas? A lone determined doctor desperately and fearlessly searches for the truth, but she soon finds herself targeted for death as well. With time running out to save human kind, Dr. Marissa Blumenthal discovers that the strange disease may have actually been unleashed by the medical establishment itself.
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Title: The Outer Limits
Character: Franklin Murdoch
Released: March 26, 1995
Type: TV
Anthology series of composed of distinct story episodes, sometimes with a plot twist at the end, with occasional recurring story elements that were often tied together during season-finale clip shows.
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Frank & Jesse
Title: Frank & Jesse
Character: Allan Pinkerton
Released: October 21, 1994
Type: Movie
At the end of the Civil War, Frank and Jesse James and other former guerillas who rode with Quantrill and Bill Anderson take the oath of allegiance to the Union. Feeling oppressed by Chicago railroad investors, the James and Younger brothers, Bob and Charlie Ford, Clell Miller and Arch Clements take to robbing banks, trains and coaches, with Pinkerton sworn to bringing them to justice.
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Saints and Sinners
Title: Saints and Sinners
Character: Terence
Released: September 28, 1994
Type: Movie
After many years Pooch returns to his neighbourhood. To Big Boy, his best friend, Pooch is valuable asset in his plans of becoming local crime lord. To Pooch, this reunion is painful because he is, actually, undercover cop sent to bring Big Boy down.
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The Pelican Brief
Title: The Pelican Brief
Character: Bob Gminski
Released: September 17, 1993
Type: Movie
A law student's theory about the recent deaths of two Supreme Court justices embroils her in a far-reaching web of murder, corruption, and greed.
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Title: HBO First Look
Released: June 12, 1992
Type: TV
HBO First Look is an American television show on HBO that chronicles up and coming movies. It first started in 1992 with a documentary on A League of Their Own starring Tom Hanks, and still airs today. The series shows behind-the-scenes looks at the filming and interviews with the actors. The show is part documentary and part advertisement. It airs on HBO with no set schedule.
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Chrome Soldiers
Title: Chrome Soldiers
Character: Sheriff Blackwell
Released: May 6, 1992
Type: Movie
Five ex-soldiers go to a small town in Oregon to help a friend investigate the murder of his brother.
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Diagnosis Murder: Diagnosis of Murder
Title: Diagnosis Murder: Diagnosis of Murder
Character: Eric Walker
Released: January 5, 1992
Type: Movie
Convinced that his long-time patient Nick Osborn didn't murder his boss, Mark Sloan starts investigating the case himself, supported by a junior doctor and a young female pathologist.
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Oscar
Title: Oscar
Character: Overton
Released: April 26, 1991
Type: Movie
Angelo "Snaps" Provolone made his dying father a promise on his deathbed: he would leave the world of crime and become an honest businessman. Despite having no experience in making money in a legal fashion, Snaps sets about to keep his promise.
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Grim Prairie Tales
Title: Grim Prairie Tales
Character: Arthur
Released: September 14, 1990
Type: Movie
Two travelers meet on the open prairie, and pass their time together by trading stories with each other. Their tales become a sort of competition, each attempting to relate something which might disturb the other.
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Title: Law & Order
Character: Dan Jensen
Released: September 13, 1990
Type: TV
In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place.
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Title: Law & Order
Character: Don Snyder
Released: September 13, 1990
Type: TV
In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place.
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Die Hard 2
Title: Die Hard 2
Character: Richard Thornburg
Released: July 3, 1990
Type: Movie
Off-duty cop John McClane is gripped with a feeling of déjà vu when, on a snowy Christmas Eve in the nation’s capital, terrorists seize a major international airport, holding thousands of holiday travelers hostage. Renegade military commandos led by a murderous rogue officer plot to rescue a drug lord from justice and are prepared for every contingency except one: McClane’s smart-mouthed heroics.
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Buried Alive
Title: Buried Alive
Character: Cortland "Cort" van Owen
Released: May 9, 1990
Type: Movie
A married woman and her lover plot to kill her husband to make off with the insurance money. However, their attempt to murder him using poisonous fish toxins backfires in surprising ways.
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Title: Max Monroe: Loose Cannon
Released: January 5, 1990
Type: TV
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Title: Tales from the Crypt
Character: Malcolm Mayflower
Released: June 10, 1989
Type: TV
Cadaverous scream legend the Crypt Keeper is your macabre host for these forays of fright and fun based on the classic E.C. Comics tales from back in the day. So shamble up to the bar and pick your poison. Will it be an insane Santa on a personal slay ride? Honeymooners out to fulfill the "til death do we part" vow ASAP?
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Intrigue
Title: Intrigue
Character: Doggett
Released: September 11, 1988
Type: Movie
A spy is looking for his old colleague who now works for the other side.
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Die Hard
Title: Die Hard
Character: Richard Thornburg
Released: July 15, 1988
Type: Movie
NYPD cop John McClane's plan to reconcile with his estranged wife is thrown for a serious loop when, minutes after he arrives at her office, the entire building is overtaken by a group of terrorists. With little help from the LAPD, wisecracking McClane sets out to single-handedly rescue the hostages and bring the bad guys down.
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The Equalizer - The Movie: Blood & Wine
Title: The Equalizer - The Movie: Blood & Wine
Character: Martin 'Alpha' Loeber
Released: September 23, 1987
Type: Movie
Robert McCall is forced to work with a former terrorist turned monk by the name of Joseph Heiden(Telly Savalas), whom he despises and mistrusts, on a deadly mission in New York.
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No Mercy
Title: No Mercy
Character: Allan Deveneux
Released: December 19, 1986
Type: Movie
An unconventional undercover Chicago cop and his partner are recruited to commit the murder of a New Orleans criminal kingpin.
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A Fight for Jenny
Title: A Fight for Jenny
Character: Michael Rosen
Released: October 6, 1986
Type: Movie
When Kelsey remarries, her struggle to get custody of her daughter from her first marriage is complicated by her current husband being black.
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Title: The Twilight Zone
Character: Brian Wolfe
Released: September 27, 1985
Type: TV
This 1980s revival of the classic sci-fi series features a similar style to the original anthology series. Each episode tells a tale (sometimes two or three) rooted in horror or suspense, often with a surprising twist at the end. Episodes usually feature elements of drama and comedy.
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Title: The Equalizer
Character: Gideon
Released: September 18, 1985
Type: TV
Robert McCall is a former agent of a secret government agency who is now running his own private crime fighting operation where he fashions himself as "The Equalizer." It is a service for victims of the system who have exhausted all possible means of seeking justice and have nowhere to go. McCall promises to even out the odds for them.
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Title: The Equalizer
Character: Martin 'Alpha' Loeber
Released: September 18, 1985
Type: TV
Robert McCall is a former agent of a secret government agency who is now running his own private crime fighting operation where he fashions himself as "The Equalizer." It is a service for victims of the system who have exhausted all possible means of seeking justice and have nowhere to go. McCall promises to even out the odds for them.
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Real Genius
Title: Real Genius
Character: Professor Hathaway
Released: August 7, 1985
Type: Movie
Chris is the top brain who just wants to party, Mitch is the 15-year-old college wiz kid. Supposedly hard at work on a lab project with a mysterious deadline, they still find time to use their genius to discover new ways to have fun.
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Title: Murder, She Wrote
Character: Larry Holleran
Released: September 30, 1984
Type: TV
An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.
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Ghostbusters
Title: Ghostbusters
Character: Walter Peck
Released: June 8, 1984
Type: Movie
After losing their academic posts at a prestigious university, a team of parapsychologists goes into business as proton-pack-toting "ghostbusters" who exterminate ghouls, hobgoblins and supernatural pests of all stripes. An ad campaign pays off when a knockout cellist hires the squad to purge her swanky digs of demons that appear to be living in her refrigerator.
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Malibu
Title: Malibu
Character: Stan Harvey
Released: January 23, 1983
Type: Movie
A young couple from Milwaukee moves into the fabled, high-society Malibu beach community and becomes involved with the lives of the various people living in the community.
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Tomorrow's Child
Title: Tomorrow's Child
Character: Jim Spence
Released: March 22, 1982
Type: Movie
The wife of a research geneticist agrees to the experimental procedure of a 'test-tube baby' by having her fetus brought to full term in a glass jar in a laboratory.
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The House of Mirth
Title: The House of Mirth
Character: Lawrence Selden
Released: January 1, 1981
Type: Movie
Lily Bart, a well-born, but penniless woman of the high society of New York City, who was raised and educated to become wife to a rich man. As an unmarried woman with gambling debts and an uncertain future, Lily is destroyed by the society who created her...
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Title: Centennial
Character: Jim Lloyd
Released: October 1, 1978
Type: TV
The economic and cultural growth of town of Centennial, Colorado, through the intertwining lives of the brave men and women inhabiting it. Spanning two centuries from the settling of the area in the 1700s, to the late 1970s.
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Looking for Mr. Goodbar
Title: Looking for Mr. Goodbar
Character: James
Released: October 19, 1977
Type: Movie
A dedicated schoolteacher spends her nights cruising bars, looking for abusive men with whom she can engage in progressively violent sexual encounters.
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Independence
Title: Independence
Character: Benjamin Rush
Released: July 4, 1976
Type: Movie
John Huston directs this film giving relevance and life to the hallowed buildings and ground making up Independence National Historical Park. Through vignettes, the people and events are re-created for the present-day visitor. Featuring Eli Wallach as Benjamin Franklin.
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The Hindenburg
Title: The Hindenburg
Character: Boerth
Released: December 25, 1975
Type: Movie
Colonel Franz Ritter, a former hero pilot now working for military intelligence, is assigned to the great Hindenburg airship as its chief of security. As he races against the clock to uncover a possible saboteur aboard the doomed zeppelin he finds that any of the passengers and crew could be the culprit.
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The Day of the Locust
Title: The Day of the Locust
Character: Tod Hackett
Released: May 7, 1975
Type: Movie
Hollywood, 1930s. Tod Hackett, a young painter who tries to make his way as an art director in the lurid world of film industry, gets infatuated with his neighbor Faye Greener, an aspiring actress who prefers the life that Homer Simpson, a lone accountant, can offer her.
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The Sugarland Express
Title: The Sugarland Express
Character: Clovis Michael Poplin
Released: April 5, 1974
Type: Movie
Married small-time crooks Lou-Jean and Clovis Poplin lose their baby to the state of Texas and resolve to do whatever it takes to get him back. Lou-Jean gets Clovis out of jail, and the two steal their son from his foster home, in addition to taking a highway patrolman hostage. As a massive dragnet starts to pursue them across Texas, the couple become unlikely folk heroes and even start to bond with the captive policeman.
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Class of '44
Title: Class of '44
Character: Fraternity President
Released: April 10, 1973
Type: Movie
During the last years of World War II, Hermie, Oscy, and Benjie are coming of age. They went their separate ways when they graduated from high school in 1944. Benjie joins the Marines as Hermie and Oscy enter college. There, Hermie falls head over heels for another freshman named Julie, and the two old friends deal with a troublesome fraternity president who is in charge of hazings.
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The New Centurions
Title: The New Centurions
Character: Johnson
Released: August 3, 1972
Type: Movie
An idealistic rookie cop joins the LAPD to make ends meet while finishing law school, and is indoctrinated by a seasoned veteran. As time goes on, he loses his ambitions and family as police work becomes his entire life.
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Midnight Men - A John Schlesinger & Michael Childers Story
Title: Midnight Men - A John Schlesinger & Michael Childers Story
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
A documentary on John Schlesinger and Michael Childers.
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Where Did the Adults Go?
Title: Where Did the Adults Go?
Character: The Father
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
When three siblings reunite at their family summer home on the anniversary of their parents’ death, a power struggle ensues when the eldest proposes selling the house so she and her wife can afford to start a family.