Jon Gries

Jon Gries

Born: June 17, 1957
in Glendale, California, USA
An American actor, writer and director. He is known for his role in Napoleon Dynamite as Uncle Rico, and more recently "Lost" as Roger Linus, "Taken" as Casey, and "The Pretender" as Broots. From early roles like Lazlo Hollyfeld in "Real Genius" to the suspicious Greg Hunt in "White Lotus" his career spans across genres, showcasing his talent in both comedic and dramatic roles.

Movies for Jon Gries...

Bits
Title: Bits
Released: March 9, 2024
Type: Movie
"Bits" follows a young woman in small town Montana who catches the attention of a serial killer on the hunt. When his pursuit ends abruptly, the young woman is overcome with rejection. Pining for closure, she struggles to untangle feelings of neglect and desire.
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Only the Good Survive
Title: Only the Good Survive
Character: Cult Leader
Released: March 10, 2023
Type: Movie
After a heist gone wrong and results in the deaths of all three of her friends, Brea finds herself in the custody of the small town sheriff, who may be hiding as many secrets as she is.
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Title: The White Lotus
Character: Greg Hunt
Released: July 11, 2021
Type: TV
Follow the exploits of various guests and employees at an exclusive tropical resort over the span of a week as with each passing day, a darker complexity emerges in these picture-perfect travelers, the hotel’s cheerful employees and the idyllic locale itself.
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Wish Upon a Unicorn
Title: Wish Upon a Unicorn
Character: Bud
Released: September 15, 2020
Type: Movie
Two children discover that their mother is gone. The youngest of the pair, adventurer and upcomming singer, Long Johnson forces his older sister, Lily Johnson, to hunt down a unicorn with magical blood.
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Time Warp Vol. 3: Comedy and Camp
Title: Time Warp Vol. 3: Comedy and Camp
Character: Self
Released: June 23, 2020
Type: Movie
The final volume of Time Warp digs deep into what makes us laugh over and over again as we reveal the greatest cult comedies and campy classics of all-time. From "Fast Time at Ridgemont High" and "Office Space" to "Monty Python and the Holy Grail," and "Showgirls."
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3 Days with Dad
Title: 3 Days with Dad
Character: Tim
Released: September 13, 2019
Type: Movie
The last thing Eddie Mills wants to do is go home to deal with his dying Dad. But the Catholic guilt gnaws at him, and he returns home to his crazy family, an overbearing step-mother, and his bear of a father. Once there, Eddie is confronted with a revelation that forces him to deal with the past he has always avoided.
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Glass Jaw
Title: Glass Jaw
Character: Sam Austin
Released: October 26, 2018
Type: Movie
Glass Jaw is the redemption story of Travis Austin, a one time champion boxer who goes to prison and loses everything. After his release, he experiences the trials and tribulations of redeeming his reputation, his belt, and his true love.
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All About the Money
Title: All About the Money
Character: Jon Waters
Released: June 2, 2017
Type: Movie
Two "down on their luck" buddies are convinced by a third to take a vacation. Only after landing in the third world country do they realize that they are there to attempt to capture the United States' most wanted criminal - with no military training.
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The Axe Murders of Villisca
Title: The Axe Murders of Villisca
Character: Greg
Released: January 20, 2017
Type: Movie
Three ghost-hunting high-schoolers visit the Moore House in Villisca, Iowa—the site of one of America’s most grisly unsolved mass murders. After their private tour is interrupted, the group sneaks back in at night, unaware of the otherworldly terror that awaits them.
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You're So Cool, Brewster! The Story of Fright Night
Title: You're So Cool, Brewster! The Story of Fright Night
Character: Himself
Released: December 2, 2016
Type: Movie
An extensive look at the making of Fright Night (1985) and Fright Night Part 2 (1988) featuring exclusive interviews with cast and crew members, rare photographs, behind-the-scenes footage and more.
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Title: Dream Corp LLC
Character: Dr. Roberts
Released: October 23, 2016
Type: TV
Helmed by the easily distracted Dr. Roberts, a psychotherapeutic facility treats patients with troubling dreams. Roberts employs a team of incompetent scientists to help analyze and record those thoughts plaguing the doctor's patients.
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Operation Chromite
Title: Operation Chromite
Character: Hoyt Vandenberg
Released: July 27, 2016
Type: Movie
A squad of soldiers fight in the Korean War's crucial Battle of Incheon.
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Operation Chromite
Title: Operation Chromite
Character: Gen Hoyt Vandenberg
Released: July 27, 2016
Type: Movie
A squad of soldiers fight in the Korean War's crucial Battle of Incheon.
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Falsely Accused
Title: Falsely Accused
Character: Gus
Released: June 24, 2016
Type: Movie
When a young woman is falsely accused of murdering her brother, she must catch the real killer to prove her innocence. Along the way she encounters unexpected love, sadness, and hardships, as well as deep insights about the crime, herself, and her destiny.
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Durant's Never Closes
Title: Durant's Never Closes
Character: Dizzy Dean
Released: January 22, 2016
Type: Movie
The story of Jack Durant, notorious restaurateur and ladies man whose connections to the mafia remain a mystery. Direced by Travis Mills.
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Endgame
Title: Endgame
Character: Principal Thomas
Released: September 25, 2015
Type: Movie
Since he was 5 yrs old, Jose's abuelita taught him to play chess like his grandfather who was a champion in Mexico. Now as part of the Brownsville school team, Jose has the chance to use his skills and for once in his life, finds himself in the spotlight, as he tries to help his team make it to the Texas state finals. As their coach, Mr. Alvarado, teaches his students the meaning of perseverance and team effort in the face of adversity, Jose discovers his own strengths and uses them to bring his broken family together.
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Pass the Light
Title: Pass the Light
Character: Franklin
Released: February 6, 2015
Type: Movie
Pass the Light tells the story of Steve Bellafiore, an 17 year old high school senior who decides to run for Congress in order to protect the faith that he so loves.
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Americons
Title: Americons
Character: Billy
Released: January 19, 2015
Type: Movie
A broken down collegiate football hero gets a shot at stardom during the eleventh hour of LA's nihilistic sub-prime mortgage boom.
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Taken 3
Title: Taken 3
Character: (Mark) Casey
Released: December 16, 2014
Type: Movie
Ex-government operative Bryan Mills finds his life is shattered when he's falsely accused of a murder that hits close to home. As he's pursued by a savvy police inspector, Mills employs his particular set of skills to track the real killer and exact his unique brand of justice.
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Bad Turn Worse
Title: Bad Turn Worse
Character: Sheriff Shep
Released: August 15, 2014
Type: Movie
Three teenage friends get in way over their head when they cross a down-home crime syndicate. They hope to make a break for it and escape their dead-end existence in a cotton-mill town but get sucked into the seedy underbelly of organized crime when one of them steals from the wrong man.
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The Last Survivors
Title: The Last Survivors
Character: Carson
Released: June 12, 2014
Type: Movie
In the near future, society collapses and water becomes scarce. When a greedy water baron starts violently clearing out survivors, Kendal, a 17-year-old teenager, fights the baron's henchman to keep a well open.
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Locker 13
Title: Locker 13
Character: Archie
Released: March 29, 2014
Type: Movie
The story of Skip, a young ex-convict who takes a position as a night janitor at an old-west theme park. His supervisor Archie, teaches him the ropes, but more importantly attempts to convey critical philosophical messages through a series of four stories: a down and out boxer is given the opportunity to become a real golden gloves killer; an assassin kidnaps three people in order to find out who hired him for his latest hit; a new recruit is initiated into a lodge of fez-wearing businessmen where hazing can take a malevolent turn; and a member of a suicide club introduces real fear into a man about to jump to his death.
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Eternity: The Movie
Title: Eternity: The Movie
Character: Barry Goldfield, Jr.
Released: March 8, 2014
Type: Movie
Big Hair. Guyliner. Someone lamenting by crashing waves on a beach or to their reflection in a fountain. Yes, we're talking about the 80s! Todd and BJ, two lonely wannabe artists, find one another and create the not-so-dynamic R&B duo "Eternity."
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Faults
Title: Faults
Character: Terry
Released: March 6, 2014
Type: Movie
Claire is under the grip of a mysterious new cult called Faults. Desperate to be reunited with their daughter, Claire's parents recruit one of the world's foremost experts on mind control, Ansel Roth.
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Skinwalker Ranch
Title: Skinwalker Ranch
Character: Hoyt
Released: October 30, 2013
Type: Movie
In 2010 “Skinwalker Ranch” gained media attention after experiencing a wide range of unexplained phenomena. Reports ranged from UFO sightings to livestock mutilation, but maybe most notable was the disappearance of ranch owner Hoyt Miller’s eight-year-old son Cody on November 11, 2010. Close to a year later, Modern Defense Enterprises has sent a team of experts to document and investigate the mysterious occurrences, which only escalate upon their arrival. Tensions rise as the team must decide how far they will go to unlock the mysteries of “Skinwalker Ranch.” The group debates whether the answers are worth risking their lives for, or if they should just call off the investigation and leave the ranch—that is, if leaving is actually an option…
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Byron's Theme
Title: Byron's Theme
Released: September 24, 2013
Type: Movie
Meet Nick. Nick loves his dog, Byron. Nick is obsessive compulsive. He loses his tooth. He sleeps with his girlfriend's twin sister. He gets stranded in the desert. He faces his inner demons. He must decide who he is as a man.
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A True Story
Title: A True Story
Character: Richard Simpkins
Released: September 20, 2013
Type: Movie
Mike and Matt own nothing and share everything, including their life's work, a screenplay, which seems to be their only escape from the harsh reality that is the Hollywood machine.
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Title: The Bridge
Character: Bob
Released: July 10, 2013
Type: TV
A murdered body on a bridge between El Paso and Juarez bring together El Paso detective Sonya Cross and Chihuahua State Police detective Marco Ruiz.
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Noobz
Title: Noobz
Character: Greg Lipstein
Released: January 25, 2013
Type: Movie
Four friends hit the road to LA to compete in the Cyberbowl Video Game Championship, but will they be able to compete with the worst hangovers of their lives?
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Taken 2
Title: Taken 2
Character: Casey
Released: September 27, 2012
Type: Movie
In Istanbul, retired CIA operative Bryan Mills and his wife are taken hostage by the father of a kidnapper Mills killed while rescuing his daughter.
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Unicorn City
Title: Unicorn City
Character: Shadow Hawk
Released: February 24, 2012
Type: Movie
Voss entices local gamers to create a utopia to impress a potential employer, but paradise is disrupted when his nemesis lays claim to the city and Voss's true love.
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Five Time Champion
Title: Five Time Champion
Character: Melvin Glee
Released: January 24, 2012
Type: Movie
While the young scientist, Julius, steadfastly researches the asexual reproduction of worms, his natural curiosity leads him to discover some inconvenient truths about those around him. He witnesses his mother's infidelity and suspects his grandfather for the same, all while he believes he is losing his best friend Shiley to a rival named Chase. These disappointments are forefront while he also wrestles with his father's mysterious departure years ago. Julius keeps a diligent eye, but unfortunately, all of his heartbreakingly acute observation seems to prove that no solution will restore the people he cares about to their appropriate roles. How can Julius hold together a family that seems as though none of its parts can stay intact? How can he build his own romantic relationships under the shadow of rumors about his father's homosexuality?
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Title: Napoleon Dynamite
Released: January 15, 2012
Type: TV
Napoleon Dynamite is an American animated sitcom based on the 2004 cult film of the same name. The series was created by Jared and Jerusha Hess and developed by the Hesses and Mike Scully. The series follows the adventures of Napoleon Dynamite in the small town of Preston, Idaho. The Hesses came up with the idea for the series after filming Napoleon Dynamite. It originally ran on Fox from January 15, 2012, to March 4, 2012, before being cancelled.
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Deep in the Heart
Title: Deep in the Heart
Character: Dick Wallrath
Released: January 1, 2012
Type: Movie
An alcoholic man refocuses himself on putting kids through college via 4H and FFA scholarship donations. Guiding him is a spiritual figure he calls "The Bearded Man".
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Redemption: For Robbing the Dead
Title: Redemption: For Robbing the Dead
Character: Tom Sutter
Released: October 16, 2011
Type: Movie
For Robbing the Dead is a story of compassion - compassion toward those who may seem the least deserving of Christian love. It follows the story of Henry Heath, a law officer in 1862 Salt Lake City. Heath finds himself responsible for the well-being of a prisoner whom he despises - an impoverished French immigrant named Jean Baptiste who is convicted of robbing the graves of the recently deceased. Baptiste is exiled to Antelope Island in the Great Salt Lake. With no one willing to look after this man, Henry Heath becomes Baptiste's sole defense against the hostile isolation of Antelope Island and the contempt of an entire community. Through his somewhat reluctant service, Heath's heart softens and his own sorrows find relief.
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Natural Selection
Title: Natural Selection
Character: Peter
Released: March 13, 2011
Type: Movie
When a dutiful, albeit barren Christian housewife discovers that her devout husband has suffered a stroke at a sperm bank where he's been secretly donating his seed for the past 25 years, she leaves her sheltered world and starts off on a journey to find his eldest biological son - a mullet-headed, foul-mouthed ex-con with whom she develops an odd but meaningful relationship.
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Title: Hawaii Five-0
Released: September 20, 2010
Type: TV
Steve McGarrett returns home to Oahu, in order to find his father's killer. The governor offers him the chance to run his own task force (Five-0). Steve's team is joined by Chin Ho Kelly, Danny "Danno" Williams, and Kono Kalakaua.
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Title: Nikita
Character: The Engineer
Released: September 9, 2010
Type: TV
Nikita will stop at nothing to expose and destroy Division, the secret U.S. agency who trained her as a spy and assassin.
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Good Intentions
Title: Good Intentions
Character: Sheriff Ernie
Released: March 9, 2010
Type: Movie
Meet Etta Milford. Loving Wife. Doting Mother. Armed Robber. Etta's husband constantly blows their money on make-shift inventions. When she decides to secretly take "investment" matters into her own hands - things quickly go awry! With their savings gone, her husband suspicious, and their children out of control, Etta concocts a scheme to get back their money and save her family.
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Crazy on the Outside
Title: Crazy on the Outside
Character: Edgar
Released: January 8, 2010
Type: Movie
A recently paroled ex-con who has trouble adjusting to the wacky normalcy of life outside of prison. He has spent the last three years behind bars after getting caught committing a crime and taking the rap for his much more dangerous pal.
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Elsewhere
Title: Elsewhere
Character: Mr. Tod
Released: January 15, 2009
Type: Movie
A teen girl disappears after trying to meet men online in order to escape her small town. Apparently, only her best friend worries enough to investigate the mystery.
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Around June
Title: Around June
Character: Murry
Released: October 10, 2008
Type: Movie
A love story set in the shadow of the shipyards of San Francisco. A young woman living with her much adored uncle Henry and domineering, abusive father, meets a penniless illegal immigrant, whose love gives her the insight and courage to finally break free and live her own life.
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South of Heaven
Title: South of Heaven
Character: Hood 1
Released: September 21, 2008
Type: Movie
A man returning from a tour of duty is mistaken for his brother by debt-collecting gangsters, while the brother goes on a killing and kidnapping spree with a loose-cannon convict.
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Title: Sons of Anarchy
Character: Magoo
Released: September 3, 2008
Type: TV
An adrenalized drama with darkly comedic undertones that explores a notorious outlaw motorcycle club’s (MC) desire to protect its livelihood while ensuring that their simple, sheltered town of Charming, California remains exactly that, charming. The MC must confront threats from drug dealers, corporate developers, and overzealous law officers. Behind the MC’s familial lifestyle and legally thriving automotive shop is a ruthless and illegal arms business driven by the seduction of money, power, and blood.
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Bar Starz
Title: Bar Starz
Character: Ricky Fabulous
Released: March 7, 2008
Type: Movie
Straight-arrow Barry has moved 3000 miles away from lackluster Ohio to attend college in sunny SoCal, and his friend Douglas has come along for the ride. Barry has his education on his mind; Douglas, the consummate mover-and-shaker, plans to make Barry a "Bar Star." Everyone knows the "Bar Star," the nightclub denizen that: like James Bond, he knows that every woman wants him, and every random guy wants to be just like him.
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Taken
Title: Taken
Character: Mark Casey
Released: February 18, 2008
Type: Movie
While vacationing with a friend in Paris, an American girl is kidnapped by a gang of human traffickers intent on selling her into forced prostitution. Working against the clock, her ex-spy father must pull out all the stops to save her. But with his best years possibly behind him, the job may be more than he can handle.
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Frank
Title: Frank
Character: Colin York
Released: November 2, 2007
Type: Movie
A young urban family spends summers on an idyllic island. When an abandoned, mangy mutt wanders onto the property, the dad alerts Animal Control - but the children beg to keep the dog. A compromise is reached: the kids can nurse FRANK back to health, but must put him up for adoption when summer is over. As he regains his strength, Frank risks his life to bring the family together...
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The Comebacks
Title: The Comebacks
Character: Barber
Released: October 19, 2007
Type: Movie
Out-of-luck coach Lambeau Fields takes a rag-tag bunch of college misfits and drives them towards the football championships. In the process, this life-long loser discovers that he is a winner after all by redeeming himself, saving his relationship with his family and friends, and finding that there is indeed, no "I" in "team"!
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Fathom
Title: Fathom
Released: August 6, 2007
Type: Movie
A lone beachcomber, searching for treasure on a deserted beach, finds more than he bargained for.
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September Dawn
Title: September Dawn
Character: John D. Lee
Released: May 17, 2007
Type: Movie
A story set against the Mountain Meadows Massacre, the film is based upon the tragedy which occurred in Utah in 1857. A group of settlers, traveling on wagons, was murdered by the Mormons. All together, about 140 souls of men, women and children, were taken.
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American Pastime
Title: American Pastime
Character: Ed Tully
Released: May 11, 2007
Type: Movie
American Pastime tells a poignant story set against the Japanese-American internment camps during World War II. Rounded up and uprooted from their everyday lives, they remained loyal to the United States and ironically turned to that most American of sports - baseball - as a way to deal with their plight.
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The Astronaut Farmer
Title: The Astronaut Farmer
Character: FBI Agent Killbourne
Released: February 23, 2007
Type: Movie
Texan Charles Farmer left the Air Force as a young man to save the family ranch when his dad died. Like most American ranchers, he owes his bank. Unlike most, he's an astrophysicist with a rocket in his barn - one he's built and wants to take into space. It's his dream. The FBI puts him under surveillance when he tries to buy rocket fuel, and the FAA stalls him when he files a flight plan – but Charles is undeterred.
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Car Babes
Title: Car Babes
Character: Gary
Released: December 26, 2006
Type: Movie
A coming of age story about the quirky lives of car salesman.
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Title: Psych
Character: Strabinsky
Released: July 7, 2006
Type: TV
Thanks to his police officer father's efforts, Shawn Spencer spent his childhood developing a keen eye for detail (and a lasting dislike of his dad). Years later, Shawn's frequent tips to the police lead to him being falsely accused of a crime he solved. Now, Shawn has no choice but to use his abilities to perpetuate his cover story: psychic crime-solving powers, all the while dragging his best friend, his dad, and the police along for the ride.
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Stick It
Title: Stick It
Character: Brice Graham
Released: April 21, 2006
Type: Movie
Haley is a naturally gifted athlete but, with her social behavior, the teen seems intent on squandering her abilities. After a final brush with the law, a judge sentences her to an elite gymnastics academy run by a legendary, hard-nosed coach. Once there, Haley's rebellious attitude wins her both friends and enemies.
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The Sasquatch Gang
Title: The Sasquatch Gang
Character: Chilcutt
Released: March 8, 2006
Type: Movie
Young fantasy and science fiction aficionado Gavin Gore and his friends stumble onto some huge footprints in the woods. A local cop, reporter, and a renowned Sasquatch authority investigate, while two of Gavin's dim-witted neighbors hatch a scheme to profit from the situation.
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Title: Supernatural
Character: Martin Creaser
Released: September 13, 2005
Type: TV
When they were boys, Sam and Dean Winchester lost their mother to a mysterious and demonic supernatural force. Subsequently, their father raised them to be soldiers. He taught them about the paranormal evil that lives in the dark corners and on the back roads of America ... and he taught them how to kill it. Now, the Winchester brothers crisscross the country in their '67 Chevy Impala, battling every kind of supernatural threat they encounter along the way.
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Waterborne
Title: Waterborne
Character: Carlton
Released: March 13, 2005
Type: Movie
Heera Bhatti, an American-Sikh, runs a corner store in Los Angeles with the help of her son, Vikram, and Gulu. She does not approve of Vikram's Caucasian girlfriend, Lillian, and would prefer that Vikram marry a Punjabi girl, but Vikram has made up his mind. Then the lives of all Californians are turned upside down when one morning eight people are dead after drinking contaminated tap water.
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Waterborne
Title: Waterborne
Character: Ritter
Released: March 13, 2005
Type: Movie
Heera Bhatti, an American-Sikh, runs a corner store in Los Angeles with the help of her son, Vikram, and Gulu. She does not approve of Vikram's Caucasian girlfriend, Lillian, and would prefer that Vikram marry a Punjabi girl, but Vikram has made up his mind. Then the lives of all Californians are turned upside down when one morning eight people are dead after drinking contaminated tap water.
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Confessions of an Action Star
Title: Confessions of an Action Star
Character: Donald Buckheim
Released: January 23, 2005
Type: Movie
A 'mocumentary' on the rise and fall of Chip and Dales dancer turned martial arts action star, Francis Allen Sledgewick, AKA Frank Sledge. When fame and fortune caused Frank to lose his sense of what's truely important, he realised he's going to have to get in touch with his roots if there's ever going to be a comeback.
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Last Best Chance
Title: Last Best Chance
Character: Bernard Wheeler
Released: January 1, 2005
Type: Movie
Thriller about governments around the world racing to attempt to stop a terrorist organization from gaining loose nuclear weapons and supplies before it's too late.
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Title: CSI: NY
Character: Jim Warren
Released: September 22, 2004
Type: TV
Follow the investigations of a team of NYPD forensic scientists and police officers identified as "Crime Scene Investigators".
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Title: Lost
Character: Roger Linus
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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Napoleon Dynamite
Title: Napoleon Dynamite
Character: Uncle Rico
Released: June 11, 2004
Type: Movie
A listless and alienated teenager decides to help his new friend win the class presidency in their small western high school, while he must deal with his bizarre family life back home.
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Title: Cold Case
Character: Bill Shepard (1978)
Released: September 28, 2003
Type: TV
The Philadelphia homicide squad's lone female detective finds her calling when she is assigned cases that have never been solved. Detective Lilly Rush combines her natural instincts with the updated technology available today to bring about justice for all the victims she can.
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Title: Cold Case
Character: Bill Shepard
Released: September 28, 2003
Type: TV
The Philadelphia homicide squad's lone female detective finds her calling when she is assigned cases that have never been solved. Detective Lilly Rush combines her natural instincts with the updated technology available today to bring about justice for all the victims she can.
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The Rundown
Title: The Rundown
Character: Harvey
Released: September 26, 2003
Type: Movie
When Travis, the mouthy son of a criminal, disappears in the Amazon in search of a treasured artifact, his father sends in Beck, who becomes Travis's rival for the affections of Mariana, a mysterious Brazilian woman. With his steely disposition, Beck is a man of few words -- but it takes him all the discipline he can muster to work with Travis to nab a tyrant who's after the same treasure.
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Title: Las Vegas
Released: September 22, 2003
Type: TV
Ed Deline is a strict ex-CIA officer who went from being Head of Security to becoming President of Operations of the Montecito, whose job is to run the day-to-day operations of the casino. Following his departure, former Marine Danny McCoy, Ed's former protégé, becomes the Montecito's new President of Operations.
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Title: Carnivàle
Character: Texas Ranger
Released: September 14, 2003
Type: TV
Carnivàle is an American television series set in the United States during the Great Depression and Dust Bowl. In tracing the lives of two disparate groups of people, its overarching story depicts the battle between good and evil and the struggle between free will and destiny; the storyline mixes Christian theology with gnosticism and Masonic lore, particularly that of the Knights Templar.
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The Snow Walker
Title: The Snow Walker
Character: Pierce
Released: September 11, 2003
Type: Movie
A bush pilot in nothern Canada who with the aid of modernity thinks he can handle it all & knows it all. After reluctantly agreeing to transport a local indian girl to a medical facility his light plane crashes & they have to survive whilst finding their way back to civilization. Along the journey the man finds a new respect for the native ways as they battle to survive the elements.
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Northfork
Title: Northfork
Character: Arnold
Released: July 11, 2003
Type: Movie
The year is 1955, and a great flood is coming to Northfork, Montana. A new hydroelectric dam is about to be installed in the mountains above the town, ready to submerge the valley in the name of progress. It is the responsibility of a six-man Evacuation Committee to relocate the townsfolk to higher ground. Most have duly departed, but a few stubborn stragglers remain – among them a priest caring for a sickly orphan, a boy whose fevered visions are leading him to believe he is a member of a roaming band of lost angels desperately searching for a way home.
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The Big Empty
Title: The Big Empty
Character: Elron
Released: May 16, 2003
Type: Movie
Struggling actor John Person agrees to drive a blue suitcase from Los Angeles to the small town of Baker, Calif., and hand it over to a mysterious cowboy in return for having his credit card debt of $27,000 paid off. Upon his arrival, John can't find the cowboy but receives an ominously head-shaped package he's supposed to hang onto. While waiting, John gets close to Ruthie, whose psychotic boyfriend, Randy, keeps threatening to kill him.
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The Pretender: Island of the Haunted
Title: The Pretender: Island of the Haunted
Character: Broots
Released: December 10, 2001
Type: Movie
Jarod takes a keen interest in an ancient symbol that may unlock secrets about his family. But Miss Parker is hot on Jarod's trail and about to make discoveries of her own. Their investigation leads to a remote Island off the Scottish coast, where a set of sacred scrolls, vital to the Centre, have been hidden – and protected – for centuries.
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Title: 24
Character: Joseph Wald
Released: November 6, 2001
Type: TV
Counterterrorism agent Jack Bauer fights the bad guys of the world, a day at a time. With each week's episode unfolding in real-time, "24" covers a single day in the life of Bauer each season.
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Jackpot
Title: Jackpot
Character: Sunny Holiday / Glen Allen Johnson
Released: July 27, 2001
Type: Movie
Sunny Holiday, a middle-aged country singer with dreams of stardom, walks out on his wife and child and hits the road with his manager in a desperate search for fame and fortune... and to get far away from the past he's left behind.
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The Pretender 2001
Title: The Pretender 2001
Character: Broots
Released: January 22, 2001
Type: Movie
Picking up where the television series left off, "The Pretender 2001" features even deeper explorations in the show's mythology, including a revealing look back at how Jarod originally espaced from the Centre. But now he must infiltrate the NSA to capture a ruthless assassin who might be a fellow Pretender from his past!
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Twin Falls Idaho
Title: Twin Falls Idaho
Character: Lawyer Jay Harrison
Released: July 30, 1999
Type: Movie
Francis and Blake Falls are Siamese twins who live in a neat little room in a rundown hotel. While sharing some organs, Blake is always fit and Francis is very sickly. Into their world comes a young lady, who turns their world upside down. She gets involved with Blake, and convinces the two to attend a Halloween party, where they can pass themselves off as wearing a costume. Eventually Francis becomes really ill, and they have to be separated. They then face the physical and mental strains that come from their proposed separation.
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Men in Black
Title: Men in Black
Character: Van driver
Released: July 2, 1997
Type: Movie
After a police chase with an otherworldly being, a New York City cop is recruited as an agent in a top-secret organization established to monitor and police alien activity on Earth: the Men in Black. Agent Kay and new recruit Agent Jay find themselves in the middle of a deadly plot by an intergalactic terrorist who has arrived on Earth to assassinate two ambassadors from opposing galaxies.
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Casualties
Title: Casualties
Character: Bill Summers
Released: April 15, 1997
Type: Movie
A woman tormented by an abusive, sadistic husband desperately tries to find her way out of her predicament. She discovers that she may have found the solution in her cooking class, she finds out that one of the men in her class is even more of a sadistic psycho than her husband, and she hatches a plan to get him to kill her husband.
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The Maze
Title: The Maze
Character: Dr. Holmes
Released: January 1, 1997
Type: Movie
People are trapped in a solitary building of infinite corridors and rooms where there appears to be no exit yet perhaps it is all part of an experiment.
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Title: The Pretender
Character: Broots
Released: September 19, 1996
Type: TV
Raised in a secret facility built for experimenting on children, Jarod is a genius who can master any profession and become anyone he has to be. When he realizes as an adult that he's actually a prisoner and his captors are not as benevolent as he's been told, he breaks out. While trying to find his real identity, Jarod helps those he encounters and tries to avoid the woman sent to retrieve him.
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Race Against Time: The Search for Sarah
Title: Race Against Time: The Search for Sarah
Character: Steve
Released: January 1, 1996
Type: Movie
The true story of the disappearance of Sarah Porter. With no help from the police, Sarah's parents are forced to act on their own to find her. They must battle the bureaucracy of the police department while they are searching all over town for clues to Sarah's whereabouts. When the crucial clue is discovered, Shara's father confronts her kidnapper at gunpoint.
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Get Shorty
Title: Get Shorty
Character: Ronnie Wingate
Released: October 20, 1995
Type: Movie
Chili Palmer is a Miami mobster who gets sent by his boss, the psychopathic "Bones" Barboni, to collect a bad debt from Harry Zimm, a Hollywood producer who specializes in cheesy horror films. When Chili meets Harry's leading lady, the romantic sparks fly. After pitching his own life story as a movie idea, Chili learns that being a mobster and being a Hollywood producer really aren't all that different.
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Title: Strange Luck
Character: Henry Bloom
Released: September 15, 1995
Type: TV
Strange Luck is an American television series, starring D. B. Sweeney in the role of Chance Harper, a freelance photographer afflicted with a bizarre tendency to always be in the wrong place at the right time. As Chance himself says, "If I go to a restaurant, somebody chokes. If I walk into a bank, it gets robbed." Harper's strange luck began when, as a small child, he was the sole survivor of a plane crash that killed everyone else aboard, including both of his parents.
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Title: ER
Character: Defense Attorney Marty Nesmith
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: Chicago Hope
Released: September 18, 1994
Type: TV
Chicago Hope is an American medical drama television series, created by David E. Kelley. It ran on CBS from September 18, 1994, to May 4, 2000. The series is set in a fictional private charity hospital in Chicago, Illinois. The show is set to return in the fall of 2013 on TVGN in reruns.
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Title: Bakersfield P.D.
Character: Ray Coombs
Released: September 14, 1993
Type: TV
Bakersfield P.D. is a short-lived American television comedy series that aired on the Fox network in 1993-94. The show was based in the police department of the city of Bakersfield, California. It was shot with naturalistic lighting and without a laugh track. Fox canceled the show after one season, citing low ratings. The cable channel Trio reran the show under its "Brilliant But Cancelled" umbrella.
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Title: The X-Files
Character: Salvatore Matola
Released: September 10, 1993
Type: TV
The exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files: marginalized, unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena. Mulder believes in the existence of aliens and the paranormal while Scully, a skeptic, is assigned to make scientific analyses of Mulder's discoveries that debunk Mulder's work and thus return him to mainstream cases.
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Ed and His Dead Mother
Title: Ed and His Dead Mother
Character: Rob Sundheimer
Released: June 4, 1993
Type: Movie
A mourning son makes a deal to reanimate his one year dead mother, however things turn into an unexpected direction.
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Four Eyes and Six-Guns
Title: Four Eyes and Six-Guns
Released: December 7, 1992
Type: Movie
Ernest Albright opens his eyeglass store in what he thinks is a thriving community, but soon discovers that his store is just a shabby shack in Tombstone, Arizona. The town's Doom Brothers are trouble for everybody including Wyatt Earp, the sheriff. Ernest uses his own special brand of short-sighted shooting to help Wyatt rid the town of its worst citizens and live in peace.
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Title: Martin
Character: Shawn McDermott
Released: August 27, 1992
Type: TV
Sassy sitcom centering on radio and television personality Martin Payne. Series focuses on his romantic relationship with girlfriend Gina, her best friend Pam and escapades with best friends Tommy and Cole.
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Fever
Title: Fever
Character: Bobby
Released: May 11, 1991
Type: Movie
Fresh out of prison, all Ray wants is to get back with Lacy, but she's in a stable relationship now with Elliott, a pacifist, and wants nothing to do with him. When she's kidnapped by Ray's former associates, he and Elliott must team up to save the woman they love.
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Title: Beverly Hills, 90210
Released: October 4, 1990
Type: TV
Follow the lives of a group of teenagers living in the upscale, star-studded community of Beverly Hills, California and attending the fictitious West Beverly Hills High School and, subsequently, the fictitious California University after graduation.
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The Grifters
Title: The Grifters
Character: Drunk's Friend
Released: August 8, 1990
Type: Movie
A young short-con grifter suffers both injury and the displeasure of reuniting with his criminal mother, all the while dating an unpredictable young lady.
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Rainbow Drive
Title: Rainbow Drive
Character: Azzolini
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
A Hollywood multiple murder is investigated by a homicide cop, despite high-placed efforts to cover up the crime.
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Pucker Up and Bark Like a Dog
Title: Pucker Up and Bark Like a Dog
Character: Max (as Jonathan Gries)
Released: December 29, 1989
Type: Movie
A socially isolated and extremely shy Los Angeles painter finds his dream girl in the form of a struggling actress and finds himself at last finding the confidence to exhibit his work in this off-beat romantic comedy.
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Kill Me Again
Title: Kill Me Again
Character: Alan Swayzie
Released: October 27, 1989
Type: Movie
After Faye and her psychotic boyfriend, Vince, successfully rob a mob courier, Faye decides to abscond with the loot. She heads to Reno, where she hires feckless private investigator Jack Andrews to help fake her death. He pulls the scheme off and sets up Faye with a new identity, only to have her skip out on him without paying. Jack follows her to Vegas and learns he's not the only one after her. Vince has discovered that she's still alive.
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Title: Seinfeld
Character: Homeless Man
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: Quantum Leap
Character: Flash McGrath
Released: March 26, 1989
Type: TV
Theorizing that one could time travel within his own lifetime, Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator and vanished... He woke to find himself trapped in the past, facing mirror images that were not his own and driven by an unknown force to change history for the better. His only guide on this journey is Al, an observer from his own time, who appears in the form of a hologram that only Sam can see and hear. And so Dr. Beckett finds himself leaping from life to life, striving to put right what once went wrong and hoping each time that his next leap will be the leap home.
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Title: Quantum Leap
Character: Roscoe (uncredited)
Released: March 26, 1989
Type: TV
Theorizing that one could time travel within his own lifetime, Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator and vanished... He woke to find himself trapped in the past, facing mirror images that were not his own and driven by an unknown force to change history for the better. His only guide on this journey is Al, an observer from his own time, who appears in the form of a hologram that only Sam can see and hear. And so Dr. Beckett finds himself leaping from life to life, striving to put right what once went wrong and hoping each time that his next leap will be the leap home.
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Title: Tattingers
Released: October 26, 1988
Type: TV
Tattingers is an American comedy-drama series that aired by the NBC television network as part of its 1988 fall lineup. After failing in the Nielsen ratings as an hour-long program, the plot and characters were briefly revived in the spring of 1989 as the half-hour situation comedy Nick & Hillary.
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Fright Night Part 2
Title: Fright Night Part 2
Character: Louie
Released: April 7, 1988
Type: Movie
After three years of therapy Charley Brewster, now a college student, is convinced that Jerry Dandridge was a serial killer posing as a vampire. But when Regine, a mysterious actress and her entourage move into Peter Vincent's apartment block, the nightmare starts again - and this time it's personal!
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Title: Jake and the Fatman
Released: September 26, 1987
Type: TV
Jake and the Fatman is a television crime drama starring William Conrad as prosecutor J. L. "Fatman" McCabe and Joe Penny as investigator Jake Styles. The series ran on CBS for five seasons from 1987 to 1992. Diagnosis: Murder was a spin-off of this series.
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Title: Tour of Duty
Released: September 24, 1987
Type: TV
The trials of a U.S. Army platoon serving in the field during the Vietnam War.
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The Monster Squad
Title: The Monster Squad
Character: Desperate Man
Released: August 14, 1987
Type: Movie
Count Dracula adjourns to Earth, accompanied by Frankenstein's Monster, the Wolfman, the Mummy, and the Gillman. The uglies are in search of a powerful amulet that will grant them power to rule the world. Our heroes - the Monster Squad are the only ones daring to stand in their way.
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Number One with a Bullet
Title: Number One with a Bullet
Character: Bobby Sweet
Released: February 27, 1987
Type: Movie
Number One with a Bullet is a 1987 American police detective film directed by Jack Smight. A pair of detectives is assigned to investigate a murder, and discover a trail of corruption and criminal activity that leads right back to their own police department.
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Title: L.A. Law
Character: Hotel Desk Clerk
Released: September 15, 1986
Type: TV
L.A. Law is an American television legal drama series that ran for eight seasons on NBC from September 15, 1986, to May 19, 1994. Created by Steven Bochco and Terry Louise Fisher, it contained many of Bochco's trademark features including a large number of parallel storylines, social drama and off-the-wall humor. It reflected the social and cultural ideologies of the 1980s and early 1990s, and many of the cases featured on the show dealt with hot-topic issues such as abortion, racism, gay rights, homophobia, sexual harassment, AIDS, and domestic violence. The series often also reflected social tensions between the wealthy senior lawyer protagonists and their less well-paid junior staff. The show was popular with audiences and critics, and won 15 Emmy Awards throughout its run, four of which were for Outstanding Drama Series.
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Running Scared
Title: Running Scared
Character: Det. Tony Montoya
Released: June 27, 1986
Type: Movie
Two street-wise Chicago cops have to shake off some rust after returning from a Key West vacation to pursue a drug dealer that nearly killed them in the past.
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TerrorVision
Title: TerrorVision
Character: OD
Released: February 14, 1986
Type: Movie
Stanley Putterman installs a state-of-the-art satellite dish in his backyard, soon unleashing a strange monster that leaps off the screen and needs to feed on humans for survival.
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Title: The Twilight Zone
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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Real Genius
Title: Real Genius
Character: Lazlo Hollyfeld
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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High School U.S.A.
Title: High School U.S.A.
Character: Leo Bandini
Released: May 26, 1984
Type: Movie
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High School U.S.A.
Title: High School U.S.A.
Character: Dirty Curt
Released: October 16, 1983
Type: Movie
Set in a senior high school class, J.J. pursues the girlfriend of a rival from a higher clique which culminates in a race at the end of the movie between the two rivals in this light comedy.
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September Gun
Title: September Gun
Character: Brian Brian
Released: October 8, 1983
Type: Movie
Ben Sunday, a long-in-tooth gunfighter forms an uneasy alliance with a Catholic nun. The single-minded sister wants to erect a sanctuary for a group of Apache orphans. Ben Sunday picks an ideal spot, right in the center of town--the local saloon and "bawdy house".
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Joysticks
Title: Joysticks
Character: King Vidiot
Released: March 4, 1983
Type: Movie
A successful businessman attempts to shut down a video arcade he believes is harmful to the mental health of children.
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Title: Cagney & Lacey
Released: March 25, 1982
Type: TV
Mary Beth Lacey and Chris Cagney are teamed up as NYPD police detectives. Their opposing personalities (one is tough and the other sensitive) mesh to make this one of the great crime-fighting duos of all time.
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Title: Falcon Crest
Released: December 4, 1981
Type: TV
Falcon Crest is an American primetime television soap opera which aired on the CBS network for nine seasons, from December 4, 1981 to May 17, 1990. A total of 227 episodes were produced. The series revolves around the feuding factions of the wealthy Gioberti/Channing family in the Californian wine industry. Jane Wyman starred as Angela Channing, the tyrannical matriarch of the Falcon Crest Winery, alongside Robert Foxworth as Chase Gioberti, Angela's nephew who returns to Falcon Crest following the death of his father. The series was set in the fictitious Tuscany Valley northeast of San Francisco.
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Swap Meet
Title: Swap Meet
Character: Doug
Released: September 21, 1979
Type: Movie
The plot: Roy is jealous of Sigi, who attracts Nancy's attention, and has two clumsy guys demolish Sigi's father's T-Burn classic. For the repair of the car, Sigi desperately needs $250 until his father returns next weekend. He and his friends try to earn it on the swap meet.
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Title: 240-Robert
Released: August 28, 1979
Type: TV
240-Robert is an American drama series that ran on ABC from 1979 to 1981. The series title is a reference to the call-sign designation for the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department's search and rescue/paramedic teams.
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More American Graffiti
Title: More American Graffiti
Character: Ron
Released: August 3, 1979
Type: Movie
College graduates deal with Vietnam and other issues of the late '60s.
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Sunnyside
Title: Sunnyside
Character: Wild Child
Released: June 1, 1979
Type: Movie
Nick Martin, a young street tough, has a change of heart and attempts to stop the gang violence in his neighborhood.
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Title: Mulligan's Stew
Released: October 25, 1977
Type: TV
Mulligan's Stew is comedy/drama television series produced by Paramount Network Television that originally aired as a 90-minute NBC television movie on June 20, 1977, and later, as a 60-minute series from October 25, 1977 to December 13, 1977. The series focused on the lives of the Mulligan family. Lawrence Pressman starred as Michael Mulligan, a high school teacher and football coach, and Elinor Donahue played his wife, Jane, who works as a school nurse. The series was set in the fictitious Southern California community of Birchfield.
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The Chicken Chronicles
Title: The Chicken Chronicles
Character: Tom
Released: October 1, 1977
Type: Movie
A late-1960s teen (Steve Guttenberg) working in a chicken-takeout stand cannot get his mind off his dream-girl (Lisa Reeves).
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Helter Skelter
Title: Helter Skelter
Character: William Garretson
Released: April 1, 1976
Type: Movie
The investigation of two horrific mass murders leads to the capture and trial of the psychotic pseudo-hippie Charles Manson and his "family".
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Title: The Jeffersons
Released: January 18, 1975
Type: TV
Sitcom following a successful African-American couple, George and Louise “Weezyö Jefferson as they “move on up” from working-class Queens to a ritzy Manhattan apartment. A spin-off of All in the Family.
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Will Penny
Title: Will Penny
Character: Horace
Released: December 19, 1967
Type: Movie
Will Penny, an aging cowpoke, takes a job on a ranch which requires him to ride the line of the property looking for trespassers or, worse, squatters. He finds that his cabin in the high mountains has been appropriated by a woman whose guide to Oregon has deserted her and her son. Too ashamed to kick mother and child out just as the bitter winter of the mountains sets in, he agrees to share the cabin until the spring thaw. But it isn't just the snow that slowly thaws; the lonely man and woman soon forget their mutual hostility and start developing a deep love for one another.