William Newman

William Newman

Born: June 15, 1934
Died: May 27, 2015
in Chicago, Illinois, USA

Movies for William Newman...

Title: My Name Is Earl
Character: Cat Show MC
Released: September 20, 2005
Type: TV
When petty criminal Earl Hickey wins the lottery, he sets off on a quest to repair his questionable karma.
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Title: The Tick
Character: The Cape
Released: November 8, 2001
Type: TV
Based on Ben Edlund's cult comic, a mysterious blue avenger teams up with an odd group of superheroes to fight crime.
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Teacher's Pet
Title: Teacher's Pet
Character: Dr. Thompson
Released: September 8, 2000
Type: Movie
Psychopath Debbie Strand escapes from a mental institution for the criminally insane and takes the identity of a co-ed she meets and sets herself up on a college campus where she once again begins killing students who get in the way of her obsession with her former high school teacher Sam Deckner now teaching at the college.
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Title: Angel
Character: Old Demon Man
Released: October 5, 1999
Type: TV
The vampire Angel, cursed with a soul, moves to Los Angeles and aids people with supernatural-related problems while questing for his own redemption. A spin-off from Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
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For Love of the Game
Title: For Love of the Game
Character: Fitch
Released: September 17, 1999
Type: Movie
A baseball legend almost finished with his distinguished career at the age of forty has one last chance to prove who he is, what he is capable of, and win the heart of the woman he has loved for the past four years.
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Title: Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction
Character: Charlie Hayes (segment "Charlie")
Released: November 4, 1998
Type: TV
Can you tell the difference between fact and fiction? Several stories of strange, mysterious and incredible occurrences are chronicled during each episode. It is up to the viewer to decide which stories actually happened and which were completely fabricated by the show’s writers. The answer is revealed by Jonathan Frakes at the conclusion of each episode.
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Brown's Requiem
Title: Brown's Requiem
Character: Augie
Released: November 1, 1998
Type: Movie
Fritz Brown is an ex-LAPD, recovering alcoholic who now splits his time repossessing cars for a used car lot and staffing his one-man private detective agency. When a filthy caddie named Freddy "Fat Dog" Baker wanders into Fritz's office one day, flashing a wad of cash, Fritz is hired to follow Fat Dog's kid sister Jane, who is holed up with a Beverly Hills sugar daddy named Sol Kupferman. Kupferman is a 70 year-old bag man for the mob, and Fat Dog claims that "Solly K" is up to something evil that may harm Jane. The trail leads Fritz to an encounter with his dark past in the person of Haywood Cathcart, current head of LAPD internal affairs and the person who kicked Fritz off the police force.
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Title: The King of Queens
Character: Herb
Released: September 21, 1998
Type: TV
Life’s good for deliveryman Doug Heffernan, until his newly widowed father-in-law, Arthur, moves in with him and his wife Carrie. Doug is no longer the king of his domain, and instead of having a big screen television in his recently renovated basement, he now has a crazy old man.
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Touch
Title: Touch
Character: Court Clerk
Released: February 14, 1997
Type: Movie
Down-and-out former preacher Bill Hill witnesses stranger Juvenal save a woman from her abusive husband by defusing the latter's anger — and ending his wife's blindness. Determined to profit from Juvenal's mystical powers, Bill asks an old friend, Lynn Faulkner, to sneak into the Alcoholics Anonymous facility where Juvenal works as a counselor, but she finds herself falling for the healer.
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Santa with Muscles
Title: Santa with Muscles
Character: Chas
Released: November 8, 1996
Type: Movie
Penurious but muscle-bound Blake Thorne has made a vast fortune marketing health food and health supplements. He once was a nice fellow, but as his wealth increases, he becomes increasingly self-centered and decadent. One day, he gets in a great paint-gun fight that goes too far. Blake escapes the cops by running into a shopping mall, quickly donning a Santa Suit and pretending to be St. Nick. A head injury causes Blake to suffer amnesia, and an opportunistic "elf" decides to convince Blake that he is indeed Santa. This leads "Santa" to help save an orphanage, filled with adorable moppets, from the machinations of a greedy, insane doctor.
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The Craft
Title: The Craft
Character: Street Preacher
Released: May 3, 1996
Type: Movie
A Catholic school newcomer falls in with a clique of teen witches who wield their powers against all who dare to cross them -- be they teachers, rivals or meddlesome parents.
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Tom and Huck
Title: Tom and Huck
Character: Doc Robinson
Released: December 22, 1995
Type: Movie
A mischievous young boy, Tom Sawyer, witnesses a murder by the deadly Injun Joe. Tom becomes friends with Huckleberry Finn, a boy with no future and no family. Tom has to choose between honoring a friendship or honoring an oath because the town alcoholic is accused of the murder. Tom and Huck go through several adventures trying to retrieve evidence.
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Wounded Heart
Title: Wounded Heart
Character: Jedediah
Released: August 16, 1995
Type: Movie
A ruthless businesswoman, Tracy Lance, returns to her childhood home in Texas after hearing her father, Jake Lance suffered a stroke. The two have been estranged for years, and Tracy is just in Texas to collect her inheritance, thinking (and hoping) her father will die. She makes plans to sell her inheritance, the Wounded Heart ranch, to an unscrupulous land developer. Her father does die, and her step-brother Sean Donnegal helps her discover her true, caring self again.
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Title: Women of the House
Character: Dave
Released: January 4, 1995
Type: TV
Women of the House is an American situation comedy television series. It is a spin-off of Designing Women and stars Delta Burke, who had reconciled with producers after a bitter, highly publicized, off-screen battle.
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Dead Man's Revenge
Title: Dead Man's Revenge
Character: Doctor
Released: April 15, 1994
Type: Movie
Bitter and vengeful fugitive Luck Hatcher, dignified former slave turned bounty hunter Jessup Bush, and wily deputy U.S. Marshal Bodine all converge in a small town so they can hatch an intricate con in order to bring greedy and ruthless railroad speculator Payton McCay to justice.
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Mrs. Doubtfire
Title: Mrs. Doubtfire
Character: Mr. Sprinkles
Released: November 24, 1993
Type: Movie
Loving but irresponsible dad Daniel Hillard, estranged from his exasperated spouse, is crushed by a court order allowing only weekly visits with his kids. When Daniel learns his ex needs a housekeeper, he gets the job -- disguised as a British nanny. Soon he becomes not only his children's best pal but the kind of parent he should have been from the start.
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Title: Diagnosis: Murder
Character: Chester Chumley
Released: October 29, 1993
Type: TV
Dr. Mark Sloan is a good-natured, offbeat physician who is called upon to solve murders.
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Fearless
Title: Fearless
Character: Elderly Man
Released: October 15, 1993
Type: Movie
After a terrible air disaster, survivor Max Klein emerges a changed person. Unable to connect to his former life or to wife Laura, he feels godlike and invulnerable. When psychologist Bill Perlman is unable to help Max, he has Max meet another survivor, Carla Rodrigo, who is wracked with grief and guilt since her baby died in the crash which she and Max survived.
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The Odd Couple: Together Again
Title: The Odd Couple: Together Again
Character: Sylvester
Released: September 24, 1993
Type: Movie
Felix's daughter Edna is getting married, and his wife Gloria throws him out of the house for a few days, so that she can plan the wedding herself, without him getting in the way. Felix temporarily moves in with Oscar, who is still living in the same apartment from the TV show. Due to throat cancer, Oscar had to have one of his vocal cords removed, and he can only speak in a raspy whisper. Meanwhile, plans for the wedding are going on, and things get complicated when Felix finds out that Edna's fiancé has been divorced twice.
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Leprechaun
Title: Leprechaun
Character: Sheriff Cronin
Released: January 8, 1993
Type: Movie
A demonic leprechaun terrorizes a group of young people whom he believes stole his gold.
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Desperate Choices: To Save My Child
Title: Desperate Choices: To Save My Child
Character: Dr. Edwards
Released: October 5, 1992
Type: Movie
Sixteen-year-old Cassie Robbins is a spirited teenage girl, who loves her father Richard and stepmother Mel and dotes on her six-year-old half-brother Willy. But her carefree, happy life is forever changed when she is diagnosed with leukeamia and her only hope of a cure lies in a bone-marrow transplant. However, when Willy proves to be a match, Mel is not-so-willing to allow her young son to undergo surgery as he nearly died the last time he was operated on after reacting badly to the anaesthetic. Mel and Richard now have to decide if it right to risk the life of one of their children to save the life of the other child. And of Willy's own rights in deciding if he should help the sister he hero-worships...?
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Hero
Title: Hero
Character: Millionaire
Released: October 2, 1992
Type: Movie
Bernie Laplante is having a rough time. He's divorced, his ex-wife hates him and has custody of their son, the cops are setting a trap for him, then to top it all, he loses a shoe whilst rescuing passengers of a crashed jet. Being a thief who is down on his luck, Bernie takes advantage of the crash, but then someone else claims credit for the rescue.
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Solomon's Choice
Title: Solomon's Choice
Character: Dr. Edwards
Released: June 1, 1992
Type: Movie
A family is torn when their teenage daughter (Reese Witherspoon) is diagnosed with leukemia and their medically-unstable son is the best bet for a bone marrow transplant
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Chattahoochee
Title: Chattahoochee
Character: Jonathan
Released: April 20, 1990
Type: Movie
In 1955 Florida, a Korean vet has a breakdown and is incarcerated in a "maximum security" mental health prison, where patients are abused.
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Dinner at Eight
Title: Dinner at Eight
Character: Alf
Released: December 11, 1989
Type: Movie
Society matron Millicent Jordan arranges a dinner party to honor some visiting aristocrat oblivious to the health and financial problems of her husband.
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Monkey Shines
Title: Monkey Shines
Character: Doc Williams
Released: July 29, 1988
Type: Movie
A quadriplegic man is given a trained monkey help him with every day activities, until the little monkey begins to develop feelings, and rage, against its new master and those who get too close to him.
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Funny Farm
Title: Funny Farm
Character: Gus Lotterhand
Released: June 3, 1988
Type: Movie
Sportswriter Andy Farmer moves with his schoolteacher wife Elizabeth to the country in order to write a novel in relative seclusion. Of course, seclusion is the last thing the Farmers find in the small, eccentric town, where disaster awaits them at every turn.
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The Serpent and the Rainbow
Title: The Serpent and the Rainbow
Character: French Missionary Doctor
Released: February 5, 1988
Type: Movie
A Harvard anthropologist is sent to Haiti to retrieve a strange powder that is said to have the power to bring human beings back from the dead. In his quest to find the miracle drug, the cynical scientist enters the rarely seen netherworld of walking zombies, blood rites and ancient curses. Based on the true life experiences of Wade Davis and filmed on location in Haiti, it's a frightening excursion into black magic and the supernatural.
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Title: Star Trek: The Next Generation
Character: Kalin Trose
Released: September 28, 1987
Type: TV
Follow the intergalactic adventures of Capt. Jean-Luc Picard and his loyal crew aboard the all-new USS Enterprise NCC-1701D, as they explore new worlds.
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The Mosquito Coast
Title: The Mosquito Coast
Character: Captain Smalls
Released: November 26, 1986
Type: Movie
Allie Fox, an American inventor exhausted by the perceived danger and degradation of modern society, decides to escape with his wife and children to Belize. In the jungle, he tries with mad determination to create a utopian community with disastrous results.
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Act of Vengeance
Title: Act of Vengeance
Character: Ezra Morgan
Released: September 4, 1986
Type: Movie
In 1969, an administrator runs against the corrupt president of the United Coal Miners Union, and becomes the target of a murder plot.
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The Last Days of Frank and Jesse James
Title: The Last Days of Frank and Jesse James
Character: Sheriff Timberlake
Released: February 17, 1986
Type: Movie
This movie looks at the last years (not days, as implied in the title) of famous outlaws, Frank and Jesse James. The film opens in 1877 with the brothers trying to settle down after 15 years of thievery. Frank is shown to be a book-loving and family-oriented man, while brother Jesse is a money-hungry womanizer. The movie follows their lives through Jesse's death at the hands of the "rotten little coward" Bob Ford and Frank's death in 1892.
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Silver Bullet
Title: Silver Bullet
Character: Virgil Cuts
Released: October 10, 1985
Type: Movie
The small city of Tarker's Mill is startled by a series of sadistic murders. The population fears that this is the work of a maniac. During a search a mysterious, hairy creature is observed. This strange appearance is noticed once a month. People lock themselves up at night, but there's one boy who's still outside, he's preparing the barbecue.
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A Billion for Boris
Title: A Billion for Boris
Character: OTB Cashier #2
Released: January 1, 1984
Type: Movie
In this family-friendly sequel to Freaky Friday, teenaged Boris realizes that his television set is somehow receiving broadcasts from the future, so he starts betting piles of cash on horse races and making himself outrageously rich. Boris is on top of the world...until he discovers that something this good doesn't come without a price.
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Split Cherry Tree
Title: Split Cherry Tree
Character: Luster
Released: January 1, 1982
Type: Movie
Split Cherry Tree is a 1982 short film directed by Andrei Konchalovsky. A father learns the importance of education and gains an understanding of his son and an insight into his dreams and ambitions. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.
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The Postman Always Rings Twice
Title: The Postman Always Rings Twice
Character: Man from Home Town
Released: March 20, 1981
Type: Movie
The sensuous wife of a lunch wagon proprietor and a rootless drifter begin a sordidly steamy affair and conspire to murder her Greek husband.
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Brubaker
Title: Brubaker
Character: Dunfield - Prison Board (as William M. Newman)
Released: June 20, 1980
Type: Movie
The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate.
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Squirm
Title: Squirm
Character: Quigley
Released: July 30, 1976
Type: Movie
A violent electrical storm topples power lines into the rain soaked earth that is home for an aggressive breed of worms. The high voltage causes the worms to mutate into larger, hostile hordes of man-eating worms that lie in wait for the residents of Fly Creek.
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The Big Show
Title: The Big Show
Character: Lee Wilson
Released: November 16, 1936
Type: Movie
At the Texas Centennial in Dallas Autry confuses two girls by being himself and his own stunt double. When cowboy star Tom Ford disappears, Wilson gets his double Gene Autry to impersonate him. But Ford owes gangster Rico $10,000 and Rico arrives to collect. He fails to get the money but learns that Autry is an impersonator and now blackmails Wilson and his movie studio. Original version runs 71 minutes, edited version runs 59 minutes.