Michael McShane

Michael McShane

Born: June 25, 1955
in Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Michael McShane is an American actor, singer, and improvisational comedian. He is known for playing Friar Tuck in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Dr. Swanson in Office Space, and for voice over work in cartoons and video games such as Final Fantasy X, A Bug's Life, Spawn, Castle in the Sky, Treasure Planet and Happily N'Ever After.

He appeared on the original British television show Whose Line Is It Anyway?.

Movies for Michael McShane...

Title: Wayward Pines
Character: Big Bill
Released: May 14, 2015
Type: TV
Imagine the perfect American town... beautiful homes, manicured lawns, children playing safely in the streets. Now imagine never being able to leave. You have no communication with the outside world. You think you're going insane. You must be in Wayward Pines.
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Love in the Time of Monsters
Title: Love in the Time of Monsters
Character: Slavko
Released: March 8, 2014
Type: Movie
Two sisters travel to a cheesy tourist trap where they battle toxic monsters dressed in bigfoot costumes in order to save the ones they love.
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Title: Bluestone 42
Character: Carter
Released: March 5, 2013
Type: TV
Bluestone 42 is a comedy drama about a British bomb disposal detachment in Afghanistan. So what’s the average working day for a hero? Make your keen young colleague deal with the boring paperwork? Wind up your fellow employees? Flirt with the new girl on the team? Or deal with an unseen enemy who’s trying to blow you up? Bluestone 42 is a comedy drama about a bunch of soldiers who just happen to be risking their lives diffusing hidden bombs. But who says they can’t have some fun alongside the serious professional stuff? This hilarious and often surprising series follows the adventures of a bunch of diverse characters living and working together at an army base in Afghanistan. This is a show about something easily forgotten; soldiers really enjoy being soldiers, but it’s not just a show for soldiers and it’s not just about the Army: it’s also a show for anybody who has ever fallen in love, experienced status battles at work or had a fear of failure. It is packed with the lively workmate banter and relationship minefields that most people will recognise. Even if they don’t face danger on a daily basis...
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Title: Lab Rats
Character: Dr. Vaabit
Released: July 10, 2008
Type: TV
Lab Rats is a 2008 BBC 2 situation comedy set in a university science laboratory starring Chris Addison, who co-wrote the series with Carl Cooper. The series was produced by regular collaborator Simon Nicholls and directed by Adam Tandy. Its executive producer was Armando Iannucci with whom Addison worked in The Thick of It. Iannucci stated that the programme would be a traditional-style sitcom recorded in front of a live audience. He hinted that it will be a "very cartoony" show featuring "lots of giant snails". A pilot was announced as part of a series called "Behind Closed Doors" in Autumn 2006, but was never aired. A series of six episodes was broadcast in 2008, although the show was not recommissioned for further series.
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Holly Hobbie and Friends: Surprise Party
Title: Holly Hobbie and Friends: Surprise Party
Character: Jim Bidderman / Station Manager (voice)
Released: August 28, 2007
Type: Movie
It's Aunt Jessie's birthday and Holly could not be more excited! There's so much to do - make and deliver the invitations, bake the cake, and practice her special song! But when Holly becomes a bit bossy with Amy and Carrie, the girls learn an important lesson about teamwork and honesty.
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Careless
Title: Careless
Character: Naked Man
Released: May 17, 2007
Type: Movie
Wiley Roth finds a severed human finger in his kitchen one night. Understandably freaked out, in a search across Los Angeles that brings them in contact with psychics, ineffectual police, crooked taxidermists, mysterious neighbors who might be on drugs, and a nine-fingered woman named Cheryl who might, improbably, end up being the girl of his dreams.
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Happily N'Ever After
Title: Happily N'Ever After
Character: Rumpelstilzchen (voice)
Released: January 5, 2007
Type: Movie
An alliance of evil-doers, led by Frieda, looks to take over Fairy Tale Land. But when Ella realizes her stepmother is out to ruin her storybook existence, she takes a dramatic turn and blossoms into the leader of the resistance effort.
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Holly Hobbie and Friends: Christmas Wishes
Title: Holly Hobbie and Friends: Christmas Wishes
Character: Jim Bidderman (voice)
Released: October 24, 2006
Type: Movie
Holly Hobbie is excited about spending Christmas-time with her friends and family. She soon learns of the situation of a widow, Mrs. Deegan and her twin boys, Joey and Paul. She works together with her friends Amy Morris and Carrie Baker. They also take part in a Christmas pageant and Christmas caroling. Meanwhile, Holly's brother Robby dresses up as Santa Claus to earn extra money, but discovers the spirit of giving.
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Title: Holly Hobbie & Friends
Character: Jim Bidderman (voice)
Released: March 7, 2006
Type: TV
A new generation can follow Holly, along with her family and her best friends Amy and Carrie, as she experiences the milestones and the joys of growing up and as she explores many fundamental themes in every young person's life: friendship, family, honesty, and the importance of home.
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Thru the Moebius Strip
Title: Thru the Moebius Strip
Character: Hymo (voice)
Released: September 6, 2005
Type: Movie
In the not-too-distant future, a young boy travels to an alien world to find his father and learn of his destiny.
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Title: Doctor Who
Character: Grayle
Released: March 26, 2005
Type: TV
The Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who mastered time travel. The Doctor saves planets for a living—more of a hobby actually, and the Doctor's very, very good at it.
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Title: American Dad!
Character: (voice)
Released: February 6, 2005
Type: TV
The series focuses on an eccentric motley crew that is the Smith family and their three housemates: Father, husband, and breadwinner Stan Smith; his better half housewife, Francine Smith; their college-aged daughter, Hayley Smith; and their high-school-aged son, Steve Smith. Outside of the Smith family, there are three additional main characters, including Hayley's boyfriend turned husband, Jeff Fischer; the family's man-in-a-goldfish-body pet, Klaus; and most notably the family's zany alien, Roger, who is "full of masquerades, brazenness, and shocking antics."
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Title: NCIS
Character: Matthew Heller
Released: September 23, 2003
Type: TV
From murder and espionage to terrorism and stolen submarines, a team of special agents investigates any crime that has a shred of evidence connected to Navy and Marine Corps personnel, regardless of rank or position.
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The Battle of Shaker Heights
Title: The Battle of Shaker Heights
Character: Mr. Norway
Released: August 22, 2003
Type: Movie
A quirky teen with a penchant for war reenactments, Kelly Ernswiler obsesses over military tactics with his buddy Bart. The school bully is one of Kelly's regular headaches, and he also has to deal with a frustrating situation at home, where his father is a recovering drug addict. Kelly's life gets even more complicated when he falls for Tabby, Bart's pretty and soon-to-be-wed older sister.
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Title: Oliver Beene
Released: March 9, 2003
Type: TV
Oliver Beene is an American sitcom. Set in 1962 and 1963, the show chronicled the trials and tribulations of the 11-to-12-year-old Oliver Beene, in first person perspective. Oliver Beene's other main characters are his parents Jerry and Charlotte Beene, his brother Ted Beene, and his two friends Joyce and Michael. The narrator, an older Oliver reflecting on his experience, is voiced by David Cross. Often in episodes, the story is interrupted by flashbacks and flash-forwards.
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Kaena: The Prophecy
Title: Kaena: The Prophecy
Character: Assad (english voice)
Released: January 2, 2003
Type: Movie
Compelled by a mysterious force, Kaena, a rebellious, high-spirited teenage girl will defy the High Priest and her people's ancestral beliefs to take the perilous journey through the Axis and discover what dark secrets lie beyond the clouds.
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Treasure Planet
Title: Treasure Planet
Character: Hands (voice)
Released: November 26, 2002
Type: Movie
When space galleon cabin boy Jim Hawkins discovers a map to an intergalactic "loot of a thousand worlds," a cyborg cook named John Silver teaches him to battle supernovas and space storms on their journey to find treasure.
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Title: John Doe
Released: September 20, 2002
Type: TV
John Doe tell the story of a man who wakes up naked on an island off the coast of Seattle, knowing everything in the world there is to know—except for who he is and how and why he ended up there.
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Title: Believe Nothing
Released: July 14, 2002
Type: TV
Believe Nothing is a British ITV sitcom starring Rik Mayall as Quadruple Professor Adonis Cnut, the cleverest man in Britain, and Oxford's leading moral philosopher. He is paid huge amounts of money for his views consulted by the government but he's bored and wants adventure so he joins the shadowy organization The Council which controls everything going on in the world. Starring alongside Mayall is Michael Maloney as Brian Albumen, Cnut's faithful servant, and Emily Bruni as Dr. Hannah Awkward who becomes professor of pedantics. The series was written by Maurice Gran and Laurence Marks, who give a twist to many of today's global issues. Although much hyped by ITV, who were hoping to repeat the success of Gran and Marks' previous project with Mayall, the successful The New Statesman, the series failed to catch on, and was dropped after one series.
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Big Trouble
Title: Big Trouble
Character: Bruce
Released: April 5, 2002
Type: Movie
The story of how a mysterious suitcase brings together, and changes, the lives of a divorced dad, an unhappy housewife, two hitmen, a pair of street thugs, two love struck teens, two FBI men and a psychedelic toad. Based on Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist Dave Barry's best-selling first novel, "Big Trouble."
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Title: The Court
Released: March 26, 2002
Type: TV
The Court is an American legal drama television series that aired from March 26 until April 9, 2002.
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Title: Don't Eat the Neighbours
Released: September 20, 2001
Type: TV
Don't Eat the Neighbours is a children's comedy series that originally aired in the United Kingdom and Canada in 2001-2002. It was filmed mainly with puppets, but occasionally used computer graphics. The series was focused on the characters Rabbit, Wolf, and their children. Music for the show was done by Jim Guttridge, with the theme done by Dan Gagnon, Sandy Nuttgens, and Michael Scott. Only four episodes were released on VHS and DVD in the 2001 volume A Rabbit for All Seasons.
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Title: The Legend of Tarzan
Character: (voice)
Released: September 3, 2001
Type: TV
The Legend of Tarzan is an American animated television series created by The Walt Disney Company in 2001, based on the Tarzan character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs. The series aired on ABC from July 13 to September 7, 2002 as part of its "Disney's One Saturday Morning" lineup. It was initially meant as first original series though ultimately shunted to UPN's "Disney's One Too" lineup. The Legend of Tarzan picks up where the 1999 feature film left off, with the title character adjusting to his new role as leader of the apes following Kerchak's death, and Jane adjusting to life in the jungle. Rounding out the cast are Jane's father, Professor Archimedes Porter; Tantor, the germophobic elephant; and Terk, a wisecracking female gorilla and Tarzan's old wrestling buddy.
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Making Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust
Title: Making Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 2001
Type: Movie
A behind the scenes look at the making of Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust.
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Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust
Title: Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust
Character: D's Left Hand (voice)
Released: August 25, 2000
Type: Movie
D has been hired to track down Meier Link, a notoriously powerful vampire who has abducted a woman, Charlotte Elbourne. D's orders are strict - find Charlotte, at any cost. For the first time, D faces serious competition. The Markus Brothers, a family of Vampire Hunters, were hired for the same bounty. D Must intercept Meier and conquer hostile forces on all sides in a deadly race against time.
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Espionage Escapades
Title: The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Espionage Escapades
Character: Anton
Released: July 12, 2000
Type: Movie
In the fourteenth film in the series, sixteen-year-old Indiana Jones joins an international trio of spies plotting against their German counterparts in the neutral city of Barcelona. Then later the same year, Indiana is reassigned to Prague where he is to receive an important phone call.
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Title: Clerks
Character: Officer Big Mac (voice)
Released: May 31, 2000
Type: TV
The continuing adventures of store clerks Dante and Randal, who try to make the best of their menial labor, with no help from Jay and Silent Bob.
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Title: Malcolm in the Middle
Character: Dr. Phelps
Released: January 9, 2000
Type: TV
A gifted young teen tries to survive life with his dimwitted, dysfunctional family.
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Tower of Terror
Title: Tower of Terror
Character: Chris 'Q' Todd
Released: November 1, 1999
Type: Movie
A disgraced reporter investigates an abandoned luxury hotel where five people mysteriously disappeared sixty years earlier.
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Drop Dead Gorgeous
Title: Drop Dead Gorgeous
Character: Harold Vilmes, Judge #2
Released: July 23, 1999
Type: Movie
In a small Minnesota town, the annual beauty pageant is being covered by a TV crew. Former winner Gladys Leeman wants to make sure her daughter follows in her footsteps; explosions, falling lights, and trailer fires prove that. As the Leemans are the richest family in town, the police are pretty relaxed about it all. Despite everything, main rival (but sweet) Amber Atkins won't give up without a fight.
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Office Space
Title: Office Space
Character: Dr. Swanson
Released: February 19, 1999
Type: Movie
A depressed white-collar worker tries hypnotherapy, only to find himself in a perpetual state of devil-may-care bliss that prompts him to start living by his own rules, and hatch a hapless attempt to embezzle money from his soul-killing employers.
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Title: Crashbox
Released: February 1, 1999
Type: TV
Crashbox is a Canadian-American educational children's television series that airs on the HBO Family digital cable television channel in the United States. It aims to educate grade-school children in history, math, vocabulary, and other various subjects. The show takes place in the insides of a game computer where green game cartridges are created and loaded by rusty robots. Each half-hour episode consists of at least seven 2-to-5-minute educational games. Near the end, the robots will do "Crashbox Rewind" where they flash back through the show and remind you how smart you really are.
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A Bug's Life
Title: A Bug's Life
Character: Tuck / Roll (voice)
Released: November 25, 1998
Type: Movie
On behalf of "oppressed bugs everywhere," an inventive ant named Flik hires a troupe of warrior bugs to defend his bustling colony from a horde of freeloading grasshoppers led by the evil-minded Hopper.
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Title: Seven Days
Released: October 7, 1998
Type: TV
"Ever wish you could live your last week all over again? Well, my name's Frank B. Parker, and I do it all the time. I work for a secret government project experimenting in time travel. When things really get screwed up, I'm the guinea pig they send back to take care of it. The catch is, I can only go back 7 days."
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Coronation Street: Viva Las Vegas!
Title: Coronation Street: Viva Las Vegas!
Character: Maxwell Baxter
Released: November 17, 1997
Type: Movie
The cast of Corrie take on Las Vegas!
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Title: Spawn
Character: Twitch Williams (voice)
Released: May 16, 1997
Type: TV
Todd McFarlane's Spawn is an animated television series which aired on HBO from 1997 through 1999. It is also released on DVD as a film series. It is based on the Spawn comic series from Image Comics, and was nominated for and won an Emmy in 1999 for Outstanding Animation Program. An unrelated series titled Spawn: The Animation is in production since 2009, with Keith David reprising his role as the titular character. Like the comic book, the series features graphic violence, sexual scenes, and extensive use of profanity. Todd McFarlane's Spawn was ranked 5th on IGN's list of The Greatest Comic Book Cartoons Of All Time.
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Title: King of the Hill
Character: Mountain Man (voice)
Released: January 12, 1997
Type: TV
Set in Texas, this animated series follows the life of propane salesman Hank Hill, who lives with his overly confident substitute Spanish teacher wife Peggy, wannabe comedian son Bobby, and naive niece Luanne. Hank has conservative views about God, family, and country, but his values and ethics are often challenged by the situations he, his family, and his beer-drinking neighbors/buddies find themselves in.
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Title: Where's Elvis This Week?
Released: October 6, 1996
Type: TV
Where's Elvis This Week? was a short-lived, half-hour, weekly comedy television program hosted by Jon Stewart that aired on Sunday nights in the United Kingdom on BBC Two. It was filmed at the CBS Broadcast Center in New York City and featured a set of panelists—two from the United Kingdom, and two from the United States. The panelists discussed news items and cultural issues. It premiered in the UK on 6 October 1996, and five episodes aired in total. Notable panelists included Dave Chappelle, Eddie Izzard, Phil Jupitus, Nora Ephron, Craig Kilborn, Christopher Hitchens, Armando Iannucci and Norm Macdonald.
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Title: 3rd Rock from the Sun
Character: Phil
Released: January 9, 1996
Type: TV
3rd Rock from the Sun is an American sitcom that aired from 1996 to 2001 on NBC. The show is about four extraterrestrials who are on an expedition to Earth, which they consider to be a very insignificant planet. The extraterrestrials pose as a human family in order to observe the behavior of human beings.
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Tom and Huck
Title: Tom and Huck
Character: Muff Potter
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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Title: Brotherly Love
Character: Lloyd Burwell
Released: September 16, 1995
Type: TV
Brotherly Love is an American sitcom that ran from September 16, 1995 to April 1, 1996, on NBC, and then moved to The WB, where it aired from September 15, 1996 until May 18, 1997. The series was created by Jonathan Schmock and Jim Vallely, and produced by Witt/Thomas Productions in association with Touchstone Television and Walt Disney Television. The primary focus of the series is on the relationship of three brothers, played by Joey Lawrence, Matthew Lawrence and Andrew Lawrence.
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Crazy for a Kiss
Title: Crazy for a Kiss
Character: Harley
Released: April 23, 1995
Type: Movie
On a hot sunny day in Kansas, 1973, Mike Kinross's parents tell him he's going on holiday to his Uncle Dan's house. But instead they drop him off at the juvenile unit of the local mental institution.
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Ri¢hie Ri¢h
Title: Ri¢hie Ri¢h
Character: Professor Keenbean
Released: December 19, 1994
Type: Movie
Billionaire heir Richie Rich has it all, including Reggie Jackson as a batting coach and Claudia Schiffer as a personal trainer -- but no playmates. What's more, scoundrel Laurence Van Dough is scheming to take over the family empire. Uh-oh! Enter faithful butler Cadbury to save the day.
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A Summer Day's Dream
Title: A Summer Day's Dream
Released: November 26, 1994
Type: Movie
Adaptation of the play by J B Priestley. After a nuclear war, the nations have combined to set up a World Government. An old man who lives quietly in the country finds his peace threatened by a visit from three World Government figures.
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Title: ER
Character: Hugo
Released: September 19, 1994
Type: TV
ER explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by the dedicated physicians and staff of its overburdened emergency room.
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Title: Avenger Penguins
Released: September 22, 1993
Type: TV
Avenger Penguins was an animated series produced by Cosgrove Hall Films in 1993. It was animated by Alfonso Productions, a Spanish based animation studio also responsible for bringing Cosgrove Hall's previous show Fantomcat to life. It aired largely on Children's ITV and was originally to be called "Hell's Penguins". It has the distinction of being the last Cosgrove Hall cartoon to be animated using hand painted animation cels, as all 2D animated series from the studio thereafter would use computers for the ink and paint process; with the animation drawings scanned and then digitally coloured. The story revolves around three bike riding Penguins that inhabit Big City, uniting to protect it and its citizens from the evil Caractacus P. Doom, an insane and reclusive criminal scientist. The Penguins attempt to prevent Doom's schemes but find themselves often hampered by their own miscommunicating and occasional scraps with other biker gangs infesting Big City, such as The Stink Brothers, a canine squad of Hell's Angels. As with most Cosgrove Hall cartoons, the series poked fun at the popular concepts of having creatures performing inhuman action feats and stunts in an animated medium, made popular by the then enormously successful Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise. The core the show's themes is heavily and coincidently similar to Biker Mice from Mars, although with the two shows being aired at exactly the same time, and from two different parts of the world that hadn't any connections whatsoever with each other, it is completely difficult to determine who ripped off who.
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Title: Frasier
Character: Frank
Released: September 16, 1993
Type: TV
After many years spent at the “Cheers” bar, Frasier moves back home to Seattle to work as a radio psychiatrist after his policeman father gets shot in the hip on duty.
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Wild Turkey
Title: Wild Turkey
Character: Bernard Matthews
Released: December 24, 1992
Type: Movie
Jed, a New York cop, brings home the last Christmas turkey in the shop for his wife Sue. Unfortunately, they make a dramatic discovery whilst stuffing it - namely that it is not dead.
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Tales from Hollywood
Title: Tales from Hollywood
Character: Hal
Released: October 18, 1992
Type: Movie
A slightly ironical description of the colony of German artists in Los Angeles, who had to leave their country during the Nazi-regime. A young playwriter (von Horvath) joins them and finds out, that there are gaps between the artistical attitudes and the real live behavior of authors like Thomas or Heinrich Mann, Lion Feuchtwanger or Bertold Brecht.
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Amnesty International's Big 30
Title: Amnesty International's Big 30
Character: Self
Released: December 28, 1991
Type: Movie
In the tradition of the acclaimed series of British concerts known as The Secret Policemen's Ball, Amnesty International celebrates its 50th Anniversary live at Radio City Music Hall.
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Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
Title: Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
Character: Friar Tuck
Released: June 14, 1991
Type: Movie
When the dastardly Sheriff of Nottingham murders Robin's father, the legendary archer vows vengeance. To accomplish his mission, Robin joins forces with a band of exiled villagers (and comely Maid Marian), and together they battle to end the evil sheriff's reign of terror.
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Robin Hood: The Myth, the Man, the Movie
Title: Robin Hood: The Myth, the Man, the Movie
Character: Self
Released: June 13, 1991
Type: Movie
U.S. network TV special surveying the history of Robin Hood in popular culture, emphasizing the 1991 film "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves". Interviews with principal cast and crew from that film highlight the special. Pierce Brosnan hosts.
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The Spirit of '76
Title: The Spirit of '76
Character: Angry Driver
Released: October 12, 1990
Type: Movie
Future Americans decide to time travel to 1776 to ask the founding fathers for the solutions to their problems. A glitch in the time machine changes their destination to 1976. Still believing themselves to be in 1776, the time travellers attempt to study this "ideal" civilization. 70's jokes, props and stars abound.
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Title: Seinfeld
Character: Franklin Delano Romanowski
Released: July 5, 1989
Type: TV
A stand-up comedian and his three offbeat friends weather the pitfalls and payoffs of life in New York City in the '90s. It's a show about nothing.
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Title: Whose Line Is It Anyway?
Released: September 23, 1988
Type: TV
An un-scripted comedy show in which four guest performers improvise their way through a series of games, many of which rely on audience suggestions.
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Title: Whose Line Is It Anyway?
Character: Himself
Released: September 23, 1988
Type: TV
An un-scripted comedy show in which four guest performers improvise their way through a series of games, many of which rely on audience suggestions.
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Tucker: The Man and His Dream
Title: Tucker: The Man and His Dream
Character: Recording Engineer
Released: August 12, 1988
Type: Movie
Ypsilanti, Michigan, 1945. Engineer Preston Tucker dreams of designing the car of future, but his innovative envision will be repeatedly sabotaged by his own unrealistic expectations and the Detroit automobile industry tycoons.
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Title: Arena
Character: Fatty Arbuckle / The God of Hollywood (as Mike McShane)
Released: October 1, 1975
Type: TV
Arena is a British television documentary series, made and broadcast by the BBC. Voted by leading TV executives in Broadcast as one of the top 50 most influential programmes of all time, it has run since 1 October 1975 with over five hundred episodes made, directed by the likes of Martin Scorsese, Alan Yentob, Roly Keating, Frederick Baker, Volker Schlondorff and Vikram Jayanti. Arena's subjects are a roll-call of the world's best known cultural figures from the 20th and 21st centuries, from singers Bob Dylan and Amy Winehouse to academics Edward Said and Eric Hobsbawm, from writers Jean Genet and V S Naipaul to artists Francis Bacon and Louise Bourgeois. The current series editor is Anthony Wall.