Dan Biggers

Dan Biggers

Born: January 18, 1931
Died: December 5, 2011

Movies for Dan Biggers...

Elizabethtown
Title: Elizabethtown
Character: Uncle Roy
Released: October 14, 2005
Type: Movie
Drew Baylor is fired after causing his shoe company to lose hundreds of millions of dollars. To make matters worse, he's also dumped by his girlfriend. On the verge of ending it all, Drew gets a new lease on life when he returns to his family's small Kentucky hometown after his father dies. Along the way, he meets a flight attendant with whom he falls in love.
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Boycott
Title: Boycott
Character: Judge
Released: February 24, 2001
Type: Movie
This made-for-TV movie dramatizes the historic boycott of public buses in the 1950s, led by civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The Price of a Broken Heart
Title: The Price of a Broken Heart
Character: Judge
Released: August 16, 1999
Type: Movie
Fact-based story about a landmark legal battle. A woman (Park Overall) learns that her husband has been having a very open affair with his secretary (Laura Innes) and has promised marriage. The wife sues for divorce and also sues the secretary based on an obscure law on alienation of affection, which was created to protect married couples from homewreckers. This sets a new court room consideration, as the culpability of the other woman must be defended and removes from consideration the fault of the married partners.
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Forces of Nature
Title: Forces of Nature
Character: Justice of the Peace
Released: March 12, 1999
Type: Movie
Ben Holmes, a professional book-jacket blurbologist, is trying to get to Savannah for his wedding. He just barely catches the last plane, but a seagull flies into the engine as the plane is taking off. All later flights are cancelled because of an approaching hurricane, so he is forced to hitch a ride in a Geo Metro with an attractive but eccentric woman named Sara.
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Flash
Title: Flash
Character: Jeweler
Released: December 21, 1997
Type: Movie
A boy falls in love with a horse named Flash that's for sale. He gets a job to earn the money to buy the horse, but he's forced to sell when the family falls upon hard times.
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A Christmas Memory
Title: A Christmas Memory
Character: Rev. Dickson
Released: December 21, 1997
Type: Movie
A new version of Truman Capote's 1956 tale based on his own bittersweet upbringing in Alabama. The story deals with a seven-year-old who forms a special friendship with his simple, older cousin whose two sisters and bachelor brother feel he needs better influences and role models and decide to send him to military school after the Christmas holidays.
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Title: Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Character: Harry Cram
Released: November 21, 1997
Type: Movie
A visiting city reporter's assignment suddenly revolves around the murder trial of a local millionaire, whom he befriends.
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A Son's Promise
Title: A Son's Promise
Character: Judge Pettus
Released: September 21, 1994
Type: Movie
An iron-willed Georgia boy accepts the burden of a man on his young shoulders. Fifteen-year-old Terry O'Kelly is fatherless and his remaining parent, his mother, is dying. Anguished, the soon-to-be orphan makes a surprising grown-up decision: Terry promises to care for his six brothers and vows to keep the family together. Steadfast to his word, Terry takes on the struggles of parenthood, which yields some difficult and unpleasant surprises.
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Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
Title: Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
Character: Doc Collier
Released: May 1, 1994
Type: Movie
Lucy married at the turn of the last century, when she was fifteen and her husband was fifty. If Colonel William Marsden was a veteran of the "War for Southern Independence", Lucy became a "veteran of the veteran" with a unique perspective on Southern history and Southern manhood. Her story encompasses everything from the tragic death of a Confederate boy soldier to the feisty narrator's daily battles in the Home--complete with visits from a mohawk-coiffed candy-striper.
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A Passion for Justice: The Hazel Brannon Smith Story
Title: A Passion for Justice: The Hazel Brannon Smith Story
Character: Judge
Released: April 17, 1994
Type: Movie
The story of Hazel Brannon Smith, a Southern newspaper publisher who risked the loss of everything she loved by defying the bigotry of her neighbors in the 1950s.
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To Dance with the White Dog
Title: To Dance with the White Dog
Character: Dr. Bennett
Released: December 5, 1993
Type: Movie
When Sam Peek's beloved wife, Cora, dies, a white dog suddenly materializes as his new companion and confidant.
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Deadly Relations
Title: Deadly Relations
Character: Roy Price
Released: May 22, 1993
Type: Movie
Leonard Fagot has four daughters and loves them so much, that he usurps his control over them. He lets them know how he feels about the men they date. And if he disapproves of them, he probably will have them killed to get them out of his daughters' life.
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Silent Victim
Title: Silent Victim
Character: Judge Tucker
Released: May 19, 1993
Type: Movie
An abusive husband is angered that his wife is having trouble conceiving a child. One night, after leaving his house following a fight, she overdoses on pills. After bringing her to the ER to save her, the husband discovers that she was, in fact, pregnant and had lost her child in the process of attempting suicide. Distraught, he decides to sue her for "property damage" and "breach of trust", among other things. She hires her feminist friend from New York to defend her, which is a difficult task in the southern town of Newnan, Georgia, which is predominantly pro-life. Written by Anthony Ventarola
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Stolen Babies
Title: Stolen Babies
Character: Mr. Crump
Released: March 24, 1993
Type: Movie
A 1940s Tennesee welfare worker learns that Georgia Tann, the charismatic head of a local adoption agency, is actually running a black-market baby ring behind the Tennesee Childrens Home Society.
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Basket Case 3: The Progeny
Title: Basket Case 3: The Progeny
Character: Uncle Hal
Released: February 21, 1992
Type: Movie
Henelotter ups the ante in the final part of his trilogy by introducing a new member to the family: the potentially monstrous fruit of hideously deformed Belial's loins. With the pair still enjoying relative anonymity and comfort in their new found home (presided over by Granny Roth), things however take a downward turn on a trip to the Georgia Clinic of Uncle Hal, which leads to an encounter with an especially nasty redneck sheriff and his similarly blinkered band of merry men.
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Wife, Mother, Murderer: The Marie Hilley Story
Title: Wife, Mother, Murderer: The Marie Hilley Story
Character: Corrigan
Released: November 10, 1991
Type: Movie
Based on the true story of an Alabama woman who was convicted of killing her first husband and attempting to poison her daughter. Out on bail, she flees in order to start a new life with two new identities.
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Carolina Skeletons
Title: Carolina Skeletons
Character: Warden
Released: September 30, 1991
Type: Movie
After a long time in the army, an Afro-American soldier returns to his hometown, where, years ago, his brother was executed for the rape and murder of two white girls. The commando believes his brother to have been innocent and seeks a proof for that, but there are some people in the town who will stop at nothing to hide the secrets of their past...
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White Lie
Title: White Lie
Character: Dr. Byden
Released: September 25, 1991
Type: Movie
A black New York man returns to his southern hometown to investigate his father's lynching at the hands of a white mob.
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Paris Trout
Title: Paris Trout
Character: Mayor Harn
Released: April 21, 1991
Type: Movie
Paris Trout is a vile Southern bigot. He owns a store and is a loanshark. He often sues people, and so his lawyer, Harry Seagraves, eventually meets Paris' wife Hannah. A former schoolteacher, she made the mistake of her life when she married Paris, who brutalizes her. Soon Paris goes beyond the overgenerous bounds of what a man in his position can get away with even in the segregated South, leading to a spiral of perverse insanity.
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Perfect Harmony
Title: Perfect Harmony
Character: Doctor
Released: March 31, 1991
Type: Movie
During the 1950s, a private school in the south undergoes racial tension as it experiences desegregation. Can a love of music help ease the pain?
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Glory
Title: Glory
Character: Minister
Released: December 15, 1989
Type: Movie
Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of both his own Union army and the Confederates.
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Cold Sassy Tree
Title: Cold Sassy Tree
Character: Minister
Released: October 16, 1989
Type: Movie
In the early 20th century, an independent lady from up North causes a scandal when she decides to wed an older local general-store owner just three weeks after he's been widowed.
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Home Fires Burning
Title: Home Fires Burning
Character: Tunstall Renfroe
Released: January 29, 1989
Type: Movie
When a WW2 veteran comes back home, he realizes how the war affected Americans by seeing the changes in his wife, family, and best friend.
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The Slugger's Wife
Title: The Slugger's Wife
Character: Preacher
Released: March 29, 1985
Type: Movie
Darryl Palmer is a major league baseball player who meets and pursues an attractive singer. After some setbacks, the two are married and sent on an emotional journey that sees his career take off, while hers doesn't. She can't escape unhappiness when she gives up her dreams to support her husband. With a separation on the horizon, Darryl must choose between his big-league life and his one true love.
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Go Tell It on the Mountain
Title: Go Tell It on the Mountain
Character: Mr. North
Released: January 14, 1985
Type: Movie
This film adaptation of James Baldwin's celebrated novel tells the journey of a family from the rural South to "big city" Harlem seeking both salvation and understanding and of a young boy struggling to earn the approval of a self-righteous and often unloving stepfather.
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Murder in Coweta County
Title: Murder in Coweta County
Character: Judge Boykin
Released: February 15, 1983
Type: Movie
Wallace a wealthy landowner in Meriwether County, Georgia, has virtually unlimited power in the county, including having the sheriff under his control. When he murders a share cropper he thinks that he is powerful enough to get away with it. Because the act of murder took place in Coweta County, it is under the jurisdiction of the Coweta County sheriff who hunts the murderer without trepidation.
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Maid in America
Title: Maid in America
Character: Judge Fink
Released: September 22, 1982
Type: Movie
An unemployed worker answers a personal ad for a housekeeper to a crusading female lawyer, and then takes her to court to force her to accept him into her home, claiming sex discrimination.