William Roerick

William Roerick

Born: December 17, 1911
Died: November 30, 1995
in Hoboken, NJ
William George Roerick was an American actor. He is particularly associated with the stage, but also played in many films and TV productions. He was also a stage manager and writer. His name is sometimes given as William Roehrick

Movies for William Roerick...

Title: Law & Order
Character: Dr. Robert Abraham
Released: September 13, 1990
Type: TV
In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place.
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God Told Me To
Title: God Told Me To
Character: Richards
Released: October 22, 1976
Type: Movie
A repressed Catholic NYPD detective uncovers a netherworld of deranged faith, alien insemination and his own unholy connection to a homicidal messiah with a perverse plan for the soul of mankind.
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The Other Side of the Mountain
Title: The Other Side of the Mountain
Character: Dr. Pittman
Released: November 14, 1975
Type: Movie
One year before the Olympics, Jill Kinmont, an 18-year-old skiing champion, suffers a fall during competition and is left paralyzed. With her life now completely altered, she undergoes an exhausting fight to regain some of what she has lost.
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92 in the Shade
Title: 92 in the Shade
Released: August 22, 1975
Type: Movie
A young drifter returns to his home in Key West, Florida and attempts to open a fishing charter business, provoking a dangerous feud with a rival fishing sea captain.
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The Day of the Dolphin
Title: The Day of the Dolphin
Character: Dunhill
Released: December 19, 1973
Type: Movie
Dr. Jake Terrell, who has been training a pair of dolphins for many years, has had a breakthrough. He has taught his dolphins to speak and understand English, although they do have a limited vocabulary. When the dolphins are stolen, he discovers they're to be used in an assassination attempt. Now he is in a race to discover who is the target, and where the dolphins are, before the attempt is carried out.
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A Separate Peace
Title: A Separate Peace
Character: Mr. Patchwithers
Released: September 27, 1972
Type: Movie
Gene and Finny are two boys who are best friends living in 1943, at the height of World War II. The idea that the boys will most likely be drafted when they turn eighteen is surrounding them, and they are practically forced to live their lives to the fullest. The two boys attend the Devon School, which prepares them for military life that they will most likely be subjected to. The film begins with a narration by an older Gene, traveling back to Devon some years later. The thing he wishes most to see is the tree, which had a great effect on the boys' lives
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The Love Machine
Title: The Love Machine
Character: Cliff Dorne
Released: August 14, 1971
Type: Movie
An ambitious TV newscaster has an affair with the wife of a network executive to get a promotion.
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The Sporting Club
Title: The Sporting Club
Character: Fortesque
Released: February 28, 1971
Type: Movie
The wealthy members of an exclusive backwoods retreat face an existential threat from both a disgruntled former manager as well as a subversive, anarchistic current member.
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A Lovely Way to Die
Title: A Lovely Way to Die
Character: Loren Westabrook
Released: April 19, 1968
Type: Movie
A cop quits the force after too much disappointment in the system. He becomes a bodyguard of a rich recent widow. She is on trial for her husband's murder. He decides to help her clear her name... and get over her husband.
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The Wasp Woman
Title: The Wasp Woman
Character: Arthur Cooper
Released: October 30, 1959
Type: Movie
The head of a major cosmetics company experiments on herself with a youth formula made from royal jelly extracted from wasps, but the formula's side effects have deadly consequences.
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Title: The Further Adventures of Ellery Queen
Character: Commissioner
Released: September 26, 1958
Type: TV
Make way for the reluctant detective. It's Ellery Queen, the suave, debonair and brilliant hero of the new, live, full-hour detective show. George Nader plays the stalwart writer turned investigator.
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Title: Perry Mason
Character: Bruce Granger
Released: September 21, 1957
Type: TV
The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.
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The Last Tycoon
Title: The Last Tycoon
Character: Kellogg
Released: March 14, 1957
Type: Movie
Based off the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel of the same title, a movie producer is slowly working himself to death.
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Not of This Earth
Title: Not of This Earth
Character: Frederick W. Rochelle
Released: February 10, 1957
Type: Movie
An agent from a distant planet has been sent to earth to ship large quantities of blood to his world, where a plague is ravaging the populace. He comes equipped with an interstellar matter transmitter, telepathic mind-control powers, and deathray-shooting eyes. Because he is also affected by the blood disease, he gains control of the town's physician and has him place a nurse at his disposal, while he collects live humans for fresh blood; but gains the nurse's suspicions, along with those of her boyfriend - a town police officer.
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Eloise
Title: Eloise
Character: Manager of the Plaza
Released: November 22, 1956
Type: Movie
It's not so much that Eloise is a mischievous child, but the darnedest things do happen when she's around.
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The Harder They Fall
Title: The Harder They Fall
Character: Mrs. Harding's Lawyer (uncredited)
Released: May 9, 1956
Type: Movie
Jobless sportswriter Eddie Willis is hired by corrupt fight promoter Nick Benko to promote his current protégé, an unknown Argentinian boxer named Toro Moreno. Although Moreno is a hulking giant, his chances for success are hampered by a powder-puff punch and a glass jaw. Exploiting Willis' reputation for integrity and standing in the boxing community, Benko arranges a series of fixed fights that propel the unsophisticated Moreno to #1 contender for the championship. The reigning champ, the sadistic Buddy Brannen, harbors resentment at the publicity Toro has been receiving and vows to viciously punish him in the ring. Eddie must now decide whether or not to tell the naive Toro the truth.