Ben Piazza

Ben Piazza

Born: July 30, 1934
Died: September 7, 1991
in Little Rock, Arkansas, USA

Movies for Ben Piazza...

Guilty by Suspicion
Title: Guilty by Suspicion
Character: Darryl Zanuck
Released: March 15, 1991
Type: Movie
Owing to his alleged involvement with communist parties, film director David Merrill is forbidden from working in Hollywood. He decides to fight for his rights and faces numerous challenges.
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Title: Matlock
Character: Dr. David Westlake
Released: March 3, 1986
Type: TV
Matlock is an American television legal drama, starring Andy Griffith in the title role of criminal defense attorney Ben Matlock. The show, produced by The Fred Silverman Company, Dean Hargrove Productions, Viacom Productions and Paramount Television originally aired from September 23, 1986 to May 8, 1992 on NBC; and from November 5, 1992 until May 7, 1995 on ABC. The show's format is similar to that of CBS's Perry Mason, with Matlock identifying the perpetrators and then confronting them in dramatic courtroom scenes. One difference, however, was that whereas Mason usually exculpated his clients at a pretrial hearing, Matlock usually secured an acquittal at trial, from the jury.
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Title: The Twilight Zone
Character: Dr. Vaughn Heilman
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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Mask
Title: Mask
Character: Mr. Simms
Released: March 8, 1985
Type: Movie
A boy with a massive facial skull deformity and his biker gang mother attempt to live as normal a life as possible under the circumstances.
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Title: Moonlighting
Character: Captain Renault
Released: March 3, 1985
Type: TV
After being duped and going bankrupt, model Maddie is convinced by David to become a partner in a detective agency. Together they solve various cases, while getting comfortable with each other.
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Consenting Adult
Title: Consenting Adult
Character: Dr. Mark Waldo
Released: February 4, 1985
Type: Movie
Young and shy Jeff discovers his attraction to men. After struggling with himself he comes out to his parents. Mum eventually listens to his son and tries to understand his feelings, but his Dad would rather die — which, in the end, he really does, leaving behind a mother, her son and his friend to work those things out Jeff and his Dad had never the courage to talk about.
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Title: The A-Team
Character: City Councilman Michael Prescott
Released: January 23, 1983
Type: TV
A fictional group of ex-United States Army Special Forces personnel work as soldiers of fortune while on the run from the Army after being branded as war criminals for a "crime they didn't commit."
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Waltz Across Texas
Title: Waltz Across Texas
Character: Bill Wrather
Released: October 1, 1982
Type: Movie
A wildcatter and a geologist prospect for oil and love in West Texas.
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Title: Family Ties
Character: Mr. Wertz
Released: September 22, 1982
Type: TV
Former 1960s flower children Steven and Elyse Keaton raise their conservative son Alex, daughters Mallory and Jennifer, and later, youngest child Andrew.
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Title: Family Ties
Character: Ed Nelson
Released: September 22, 1982
Type: TV
Former 1960s flower children Steven and Elyse Keaton raise their conservative son Alex, daughters Mallory and Jennifer, and later, youngest child Andrew.
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The Five of Me
Title: The Five of Me
Character: Neurologist
Released: May 12, 1981
Type: Movie
Henry Hawksworth is a man menaced by a multiple personality. There is Dana, the conservative family man; Johnny, violent and sociopathic; Peter, creative and childish; and Phil, protective and unemotional. "Dana" falls in love with Ann and marries her. Following a crime, "Johnny" is arrested and tried. In court, Henry's multiple personalities are painfully revealed.
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A Matter of Life and Death
Title: A Matter of Life and Death
Character: Dr. Laurie
Released: January 13, 1981
Type: Movie
The true story of a nurse who spent her life caring for terminally ill patients.
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The Last Song
Title: The Last Song
Character: Ken Pentoff
Released: October 23, 1980
Type: Movie
An aspiring singer unwittingly comes into possession of several tapes for which her engineer husband and his partner, in their electronic eavesdropping business, were murdered, and discovers that she and her daughter are now being stalked by the killers.
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The Children of An Lac
Title: The Children of An Lac
Character: Dr. Wayne R. McKinney
Released: October 8, 1980
Type: Movie
Based on the true story of film actress Ina Balin and her efforts with American Red Cross volunteer Betty Tisdale, as well as a compassionate Vietnamese woman running a Saigon orphanage, to rescue as many children as possible and fly them out of the country before South Vietnam's fall in the spring of 1975 through the An Lac baby-lift.
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The Blues Brothers
Title: The Blues Brothers
Character: Father
Released: June 16, 1980
Type: Movie
Jake Blues, just released from prison, puts his old band back together to save the Catholic home where he and his brother Elwood were raised.
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The Murder That Wouldn't Die
Title: The Murder That Wouldn't Die
Character: Dr. John Spencer
Released: March 9, 1980
Type: Movie
William Conrad stars as a retired L.A.P.D. detective who has moved to Hawaii and taken a job as a college security chief and assistant football coach in this pilot to a post-"Cannon" series to have been called "Battles." With the aid of his niece, the school's star football player, a local tough-turned-college student, and the college dean, he investigates two related murders that occurred nearly 40 years apart.
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Nightwing
Title: Nightwing
Character: Roger Piggott
Released: June 22, 1979
Type: Movie
Killer bats plague an Indian reservation in Arizona.
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Title: The Critical List
Character: Dr. Henry de Jong
Released: September 11, 1978
Type: TV
A hospital director in line for a federal cabinet post discovers that his private life may jeopardize the opportunity and then finds himself in the middle of a scandal involving stolen federal health funds.
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Title: Dallas
Character: Walt Driscoll
Released: April 2, 1978
Type: TV
The world's first mega-soap, and one of the most popular ever produced, Dallas had it all. Beautiful women, expensive cars, and men playing Monopoly with real buildings. Famous for one of the best cliffhangers in TV history, as the world asked "Who shot J.R.?" A slow-burner to begin with, Dallas hit its stride in the 2nd season, with long storylines and expert character development. Dallas ruled the airwaves in the 1980's.
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When Every Day Was the Fourth of July
Title: When Every Day Was the Fourth of July
Character: Herman Grasser
Released: March 12, 1978
Type: Movie
A little girl convinces her attorney father to defend a mute war veteran accused of murdering a store owner.
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Kill Me If You Can
Title: Kill Me If You Can
Character: Bill Edmunds
Released: September 25, 1977
Type: Movie
The story of Caryl Chessman, a convicted California rapist who spent 12 years on death row before finally being executed.
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I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
Title: I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
Character: Jay Blake
Released: July 14, 1977
Type: Movie
A disturbed and institutionalized 16-year-old girl struggles between fantasy and reality.
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The Bad News Bears
Title: The Bad News Bears
Character: Councilman Whitewood
Released: April 6, 1976
Type: Movie
An aging, down-on-his-luck ex-minor leaguer coaches a team of misfits in an ultra-competitive California little league.
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Title: Switch
Character: Ernie Riker
Released: September 9, 1975
Type: TV
Switch is an American action-adventure, tongue-in-cheek detective series starring Eddie Albert and Robert Wagner, who work as private eyes, for a deceptive sting operation. It was broadcast on the CBS network for three seasons between September 9, 1975 and August 20, 1978, bumping the Hawaii Five-O detective series to Friday nights.
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Title: Barney Miller
Character: David Shulton
Released: January 23, 1975
Type: TV
Barney Miller is an American situation comedy television series set in a New York City police station in Greenwich Village. The series originally was broadcast from January 23, 1975 to May 20, 1982 on ABC. It was created by Danny Arnold and Theodore J. Flicker. Noam Pitlik directed the majority of the episodes.
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Title: Barney Miller
Character: Arthur Minch
Released: January 23, 1975
Type: TV
Barney Miller is an American situation comedy television series set in a New York City police station in Greenwich Village. The series originally was broadcast from January 23, 1975 to May 20, 1982 on ABC. It was created by Danny Arnold and Theodore J. Flicker. Noam Pitlik directed the majority of the episodes.
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Title: Barney Miller
Character: John Essex
Released: January 23, 1975
Type: TV
Barney Miller is an American situation comedy television series set in a New York City police station in Greenwich Village. The series originally was broadcast from January 23, 1975 to May 20, 1982 on ABC. It was created by Danny Arnold and Theodore J. Flicker. Noam Pitlik directed the majority of the episodes.
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Fer-de-Lance
Title: Fer-de-Lance
Character: Lieutenant Whitehead
Released: October 18, 1974
Type: Movie
An American submarine leaves Tierra Del Fuego, and one of its crew has secretly brought aboard a container full of poisonous snakes which escape storage and bite key personnel on the submarine, causing an accident that cripples the vehicle so that it drops to the bottom of the Southern Ocean. Worse still, the snakes are still at large on the submarine and complicate the efforts of the crew to escape the sunken vessel.
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The Candy Snatchers
Title: The Candy Snatchers
Character: Avery
Released: June 1, 1973
Type: Movie
An abused autistic boy is the sole witness to the kidnapping of a teenage heiress.
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Title: Barnaby Jones
Character: Eugene Armstrong
Released: January 28, 1973
Type: TV
Barnaby Jones is a television detective series starring Buddy Ebsen and Lee Meriwether as father- and daughter-in-law who run a private detective firm in Los Angeles. The show ran on CBS from January 28, 1973 to April 3, 1980, beginning as a midseason replacement. William Conrad guest starred as Frank Cannon of Cannon on the first episode of Barnaby Jones, "Requiem for a Son" and the two series had a two-part crossover episode in 1975, "The Deadly Conspiracy".
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The Outside Man
Title: The Outside Man
Character: Desk Clerk
Released: December 21, 1972
Type: Movie
A French hit man is hired by a crime family to end the life of a rival mobster, but things fall apart when the boss who hired him is killed.
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Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon
Title: Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon
Character: Jesse
Released: May 11, 1970
Type: Movie
Junie Moon is in the hospital after her face has been disfigured by her deranged boyfriend. There she meets two other patients — Arthur, an epileptic, and Warren, who is gay and uses a wheelchair. The unlikely trio of outcasts decides to move in together and manages to enjoy a series of adventures as they endure various forms of prejudice and struggle with their own issues.
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Title: The Fugitive
Character: Blaine Hagerman
Released: September 17, 1963
Type: TV
Richard Kimble is falsely convicted of his wife's murder and given the death penalty. En route to death row, Kimble's train derails and crashes, allowing him to escape and begin a cross-country search for the real killer, a "one-armed man". At the same time, Dr. Kimble is hounded by the authorities, most notably dogged by Police Lieutenant Philip Gerard.
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No Exit
Title: No Exit
Character: Camarero
Released: June 1, 1962
Type: Movie
The Valet (Manuel Rosón) enters a hotel room with Joseph Garcin (Morgan Sterne) in tow. The windowless room has a single entrance and no mirrors. Two women, Inès Serrano (Viveca Lindfors) and Estelle Rigault (Rita Gam), are then led in; afterwards, the Valet leaves and locks the door. Realising that they are in hell, the trio expects to be tortured; however, no torturer is forthcoming. While waiting, they strike up a conversation and discuss each other's sins, desires, and unpleasant memories. Adaptation of the play by Jean-Paul Sartre.
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The Hanging Tree
Title: The Hanging Tree
Character: Rune
Released: February 19, 1959
Type: Movie
Joseph "Doc" Frail is a doctor with a past he's trying to outrun. While in Montana, he comes across a mining camp with a hanging tree and rescues a man named Rune from the noose. With Rune as his servant, Frail decides to settle down, and he takes over as town doctor. He meets Elizabeth, who is suffering from shock, and the two soon fall in love. But when Elizabeth is attacked, Frail's attempt to help her lands them both in trouble.
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A Dangerous Age
Title: A Dangerous Age
Character: David
Released: September 9, 1957
Type: Movie
Teenage lovers are continually thwarted in their attempts to get married.