Jeff Celentano

Jeff Celentano

Born: May 24, 1960
in Pemberton, New Jersey
Jeff Celentano (born 24 May 1960), also credited as Jeff Weston, is an American actor, screenwriter, and director. As a character actor, Celentano has starred in such films as American Ninja 2: The Confrontation, Puppet Master II, and Demonic Toys. In 1994, he turned to directing with his first short film, Dickwad. He also directed Under the Hula Moon, Gunshy, and most recently Moscow Heat. Celentano is an acting teacher and is the Executive Director of Drama at The Performer's Academy in Laguna Woods, California. Celentano was born and raised in Pemberton, New Jersey. He has been married to the actress Musetta Vander since 1988.

Movies for Jeff Celentano...

Moscow Heat
Title: Moscow Heat
Character: Denis
Released: November 24, 2004
Type: Movie
After a U.S. policeman is killed by black market weapons dealers, his partner, Rudy (Robert Madrid), and the murdered cop's father, ex-British Intelligence agent Roger Chambers (Michael York), head to Moscow to find the killers. The two begin to track down their targets, but their plan falters when Rudy's injured and Chambers is arrested. Enter Vlad (Alexander Nevsky), a Russian officer who's willing to help the men complete their mission.
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Windfall
Title: Windfall
Character: John
Released: November 28, 2002
Type: Movie
Robbers Ace and Scratch are caught in the act of robbing a casino vault and are caught after a long chase by the owner of the casino, who chooses not to send them to jail but instead hires them on as security consultants. The current head of security at the casino is not happy, but casino exec Amber couldn't be happier.
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Gunshy
Title: Gunshy
Character: Buddy (uncredited)
Released: March 6, 1998
Type: Movie
When the New York journalist Jake Bridges catches his girlfriend with another guy, he goes to Atlantic City to drink himself to oblivion. He is saved from a bar brawl by a small-time mobster Frankie, and Jake falls in love with Frankie's girlfriend Melissa. Jake soon also joins Frankie in his money-collecting duties.
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Misfit Patrol
Title: Misfit Patrol
Character: Sgt. Vickers Johnson (as Jeff Weston)
Released: December 17, 1996
Type: Movie
Two dim-witted and over-aged Los Angeles vice officers are forced to team up with a sexy female DEA agent to take down a drug dealing ring operating out of a local high school.
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Oblivion 2: Backlash
Title: Oblivion 2: Backlash
Character: Crowley
Released: April 2, 1996
Type: Movie
In the alien-western world of Oblivion, a suave, yet lethal bounty hunter named Sweeney arrives to arrest the seductive outlaw Lash on multiple charges, including murder. Lash, who just "inherited" a mine of Derconium (the most valuable mineral in the universe) from Crowley in a game of cards, meets up with Redeye's brother, Jaggar, who wants the mine for himself to rule the galaxy. It's a fight over Lash between the sheriff of Oblivion, Jaggar, and Sweeney. But who will emerge victorious?
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The Secret Force
Title: The Secret Force
Released: December 12, 1995
Type: Movie
Three Vietnam vets are targeted by the government in a top secret project that turns normal men into terminators.
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The New Age
Title: The New Age
Character: Tab
Released: September 16, 1994
Type: Movie
Peter and Katherine Witner are Southern California super-yuppies with great jobs but no center to their lives. When they both lose their jobs and begin marital infidelities, their solution is to start their own business together. In order to find meaning to their empty lives, they follow various New Age gurus and other such groups. Eventually, they hit rock bottom and have to make some hard decisions.
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Stickfighter
Title: Stickfighter
Character: James Tucker (as Jeff Weston)
Released: January 1, 1994
Type: Movie
D.E.A. Agent John Lambert (Kely McClung) fights the powerful drug cartels on a daily basis. But when his partner is killed in a violent shoot-out, Lambert needs some time away from the job to cope. Unfortunately, trouble has followed him and he quickly finds himself on the run from a drug boss seeking revenge. Wherever Lambert goes, dead bodies pile up. Wanted for questioning, Lambert is actively pursued by the police. Trying frantically to protect his dead partner's sister and seeking help from a wild Viet Nam vet named Mule (Jim Mitchum), Lambert begins a one man war against the cartels.
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The Player
Title: The Player
Character: Rocco
Released: April 3, 1992
Type: Movie
A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?
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Demonic Toys
Title: Demonic Toys
Character: Matt Cable
Released: March 12, 1992
Type: Movie
While on a stakeout, Judith Gray, a beautiful, tough cop, is trapped inside a warehouse full of toys that have been awakened to murderous life by a strange child of darkness.
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Puppet Master II
Title: Puppet Master II
Character: Lance (as Jeff Weston)
Released: February 7, 1990
Type: Movie
A new team of paranormal researchers has come to the hotel to investigate its murder-soaked past; the puppets -- led by a new member, Torch -- shed some light on the matter, as they tunnel, burn, strangle and hook to survive.
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Videozone: The Making of
Title: Videozone: The Making of "Puppet Master II"
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
Revisit the killer puppets and paranormal researchers, whose brain fluid they craved, with in-depth BTS footage and commentary from the cast and crew.
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Enemy Unseen
Title: Enemy Unseen
Character: Mel Noble (as Jeff Weston)
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
A couple of young scientists, Mel Noble and Roxeanne Tangent, travel to an island in Africa thought to be deserted in search of crocodile life, when African Natives storm the camp and kidnap Roxeanne. Her father, Gordon hires Steiger and his team of investigators to track down the natives that worship crocodiles as sacred animals. The problem is: they can't be seen. With natives in the jungles and crocodiles in the waters, Steiger and his crew must fight to survive and save Roxeanne from being sacrificed in a gruesome ritual with an "Enemy Unseen."
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The Revenger
Title: The Revenger
Character: Harry Crawford (as Jeff Weston)
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
When saxophonist Mike Teller's brother Mackie is killed before being able to deliver $500,000 to mob boss Jack Fisher, Mike is arrested as an accomplice and thrown into prison for five years. Upon his release, he finds Fisher has kidnapped his wife, Lisa, believing Mike has the stolen drug money. With the help of Mackie's old Vietnam war buddy, Harry Crawford, Mike and Harry rescue Lisa, but now have to escape the clutches of the mob in Harry's remote cabin. Will Jack Fisher retrieve his money or will Mike get his revenge?
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Crime of Crimes
Title: Crime of Crimes
Character: Jeff Young (as Jeff Weston)
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
A Latino family new to Los Angeles find itself in trouble when the husband is arrested for a murder he didn't commit. His pregnant wife winds up in the hospital, and his little daughter is kidnapped by a child molester.
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Paradise Road
Title: Paradise Road
Released: October 21, 1988
Type: Movie
The love story between a German prisoner of war and a British Army nurse, in an English prison camp in Rhodesia, during World War II.
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Journey to the Center of the Earth
Title: Journey to the Center of the Earth
Character: Tola
Released: July 30, 1988
Type: Movie
An English nanny and one of two brothers fall down a Hawaiian cave, all the way to Atlantis.
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The Tracker
Title: The Tracker
Character: Lon
Released: March 26, 1988
Type: Movie
After a series of vicious crimes by a renegade group of cowboys, led by "Red Jack" Stilwell, a legendary tracker, Noble Adams is pulled out of retirement to capture Stilwell, dead or alive. Reluctantly, needing more men, he allows his son, Tom to tag along, revealing to Tom a whole brutal side of ruthlessness Noble thought he left behind.
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Alien from L.A.
Title: Alien from L.A.
Character: Tola (as Jeff Weston)
Released: February 26, 1988
Type: Movie
When her archaeologist father disappears on an expedition, Wanda sets out to look for him. What she finds is a secret underground world, where no one believes in life on the surface and where she and her father are taken for spies.
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Code Name: Zebra
Title: Code Name: Zebra
Character: Alex
Released: November 16, 1987
Type: Movie
A group of Vietnam War veterans declare war on Los Angeles drug dealers and the Mafia.
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American Ninja 2: The Confrontation
Title: American Ninja 2: The Confrontation
Character: Capt. 'Wild Bill' Woodward
Released: May 1, 1987
Type: Movie
On a remote Caribbean island, Army Ranger Joe Armstrong saves an old friend from the clutches of "The Lion", an evil super-criminal who has kidnapped a local scientist and mass-produced an army of mutant Ninja warriors.