
Birthday:
03-03-1928
Deathday:
07-09-1988 (60 years)
Birthplace:
Brooklyn, New York, USA
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Where It's At
Act like Henry
event1969 star_border 2
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A "Sixties Generation" comedy about an offbeat father-son relationship. Dad runs a Las Vegas hotel-casino and his son is a college student with a different set of moral and ethical standards. When they meet in Vegas, they immediately clash in their efforts to understand one another.
The Anderson Tapes
Act like Psychologist
event1971 star_border 6.1
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Thief Duke Anderson—just released from ten years in jail—takes up with his old girlfriend in her posh apartment block, and makes plans to rob the entire building. What he doesn't know is that his every move is being recorded on audio and video, although he is not the subject of any surveillance.
Wise Guys
Act like Karl the Desk Clerk
event1986 star_border 5.3
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Harry Valentini and Moe Dickstein are both errand boys for the Mob. When they lose $250,000, they are set up to kill each other. But they run off to Atlantic City and comedy follows.
Oh, God! Book II
Act like Dr. Jerome Newell
event1980 star_border 5.2
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God appears before 11-year-old Tracy Richards to ask for her help to spread his word and influence over the world which she suggests the slogan 'Think God.' Naturaly, Tracy's divorced parents think Tracy's crazy, and plot to halt her 'heaven-sent' mission to spread God's word.
The Christmas Star
Act like Old Con
event1986 star_border 5.6
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Horace McNickle (Edward Asner) is a two-time felon serving prison time for counterfeiting. On the week before Christmas, he escapes from prison dressed as Santa Claus due to his uncanny resemblence to St. Nick resulting from his long white beard and heavyset features. McNickle hides out from the police in a nearby suburban neighborhood where he is befriended and helped by two local children who think he is the real Santa Claus. McNickle takes advantage of the kids naive ness to help him get his counterfeit money hidden somewhere in a local department store while he develops kind-hearted feelings for his two con victims that make him slowly understand the true nature of Christmas.
All That Jazz
Act like Paul Dann
event1979 star_border 7.5
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Joe Gideon is at the top of the heap, one of the most successful directors and choreographers in musical theater. But he can feel his world slowly collapsing around him - his obsession with work has almost destroyed his personal life, and only his bottles of pills keep him going.
Hammersmith Is Out
Act like Oldham
event1972 star_border 6.2
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The Faust legend retold (loosely) and applied to a mentally disturbed patient in a hospital run by a doctor of dubious sanity himself. The patient offers the innocent orderly vast riches if he'll help him escape.
The Last Mohican
Act like Fred Rinzer
event1966
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A pretzel seller is trapped by a sociology student.
Woman of the Year
Act like Gerald Howe
event1976
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The story of the tumultuous marriage of a gruff sportswriter and a sophisticated international reporter who work together on the same newspaper.
King of the Gypsies
Act like Mr. Tomlin
event1978 star_border 5.6
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Zharko, leader of the Romanis in NYC, passes his position of leadership on to his unwilling grandson, Dave, leading to infighting between Dave and his father.
Popi
Act like Pickett
event1969 star_border 6.1
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Abraham is a Puerto Rican single parent with two boys. He is becoming very worried about them living in their run down neighborhood when one day he notices that Cubans who escape are lionized and given exceptional benefits. He thinks up a plot to have his sons washed ashore as cuban immigrants who will be adopted by rich anglos.
Lucky Lady
Act like Mr. Tully
event1975 star_border 5.2
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When an American booze smuggler gets murdered in Prohibition-era Mexico, his widow, a nightclub singer, joins forces with her lover and a desperate loner to become rum-runners to the U.S.
Joan Rivers and Friends Salute Heidi Abromowitz
Act like Anthony Holland
event1988
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Fictional character, Heidi Abromowitz, is the butt of everyone's jokes.
Walls
Act like Frank McIntyre
event1984
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a relentlessly nerve-wracking deadlock between three convicts and an emergency response team deployed to quell the rebellion.
Hearts of the West
Act like Guest at Beach Party
event1975 star_border 5.4
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Lewis Tater writes Wild West dime novels and dreams of actually becoming a cowboy. When he goes west to find his dream he finds himself in possession of the loot box of two crooks who tried to rob him.
Howard, Howard and Howard
event1965
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Three men, all named Howard cope with living in an otherwise humanness world.
The Lonely Lady
Act like Guy Jackson
event1983 star_border 4.7
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A young screenwriter allows others to exploit her in the hopes of "making it" in Hollywood.
Midnight Cowboy
Act like TV Bishop
event1969 star_border 7.5
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Joe Buck is a wide-eyed hustler from Texas hoping to score big with wealthy New York City women; he finds a companion in Enrico "Ratso" Rizzo, an ailing swindler with a bum leg and a quixotic fantasy of escaping to Florida.
Rush It
Act like Lewis & Lewis
event1978 star_border 2
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A female bicycle messenger is looking for love in New York City and becomes involved with two very different men.
Lovers and Other Strangers
Act like Donaldson
event1970 star_border 5.1
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Mike Vecchio and Susan Henderson are preparing for their upcoming wedding. However, they seem to be the only two people at the wedding that are happy. Mike's brother Richie and his wife Joan are going through a divorce, which is upsetting his overly devout Catholic mother Beatrice. Also, Susan's father is carrying on an affair and her sex starved older sister Wilma is going through her troubles with her husband Johnny. All this is going on while Mike's best friend Jerry is trying to bed the maid of honor, Susan's cousin Brenda.
Goldstein
Act like Aid
event1965 star_border 5
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GOLDSTEIN, the feature film debut of talented director Philip Kaufman, is an early example of American independent filmmaking from the early 1960s. A fable about an old man with an odd effect on those he encounters, the film is a funny, warm-hearted postcard from an important moment in American cinema. GOLDSTEIN, starring veteran character actor Lou Gilbert, shared the Prix de la Nouvelle Critique at the 1964 Cannes Film Festival with Bertolucci’s Before the Revolution. Cinema deity Jean Renoir called the film "the best American film I have seen in 20 years."
Fearless Frank
Act like Alfred
event1969 star_border 4.8
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A country boy arrives in Chicago, gets killed by some gangsters, and returns to life with superhuman powers in this satirical look at movie genres.
Bye Bye Braverman
Act like Max Ottenstein
event1968 star_border 6.8
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One day, Morroe Rieff learns that his friend and fellow writer, Leslie Braverman, has died. After meeting Leslie's widow, Inez, who is more flirtatious than grieving, Morroe joins up with three other writer friends, Barnet, Felix, and Holly to attend funeral services. However, the quartet faces numerous obstacles that could keep them from paying their respects.
The Out-of-Towners
Act like Desk Clerk Night
event1970 star_border 6.7
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George & Gwen Kellerman make a trip to New York, where George is going to start a new job, it turns out to be a trip to hell.
Parades
Act like Filmmaker I
event1972 star_border 6
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An American soldier sent to Vietnam goes AWOL and returns to his hometown. His parents turn him over to military authorities. He is court-martialled and sent to the toughest military prison...
Her Life as a Man
Act like Proprietor
event1984 star_border 6
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To land a sportswriting job on a national magazine run by a chauvinistic editor, an aspiring female reporter convincingly disguises herself as a man to get the inside story.
Let Me Hear You Whisper
Act like Fridge
event1969
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A scrub-woman attempts to rescue a dolphin who will talk to no one but her from a research laboratory.
Triplecross
Act like Museum Curator
event1986 star_border 5.8
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Three cops become instant millionaires after saving a rich crime victim. They retire from the force and use their money to become flamboyant private detectives. They get involved in cases involving the death of an artist, underworld figures, blackmail and a fix on baseball games.
Tempest
Act like Sebastian
event1982 star_border 6
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A sobering mid-life crisis fuels dissatisfaction in Philip Dimitrius, to the extent where the successful architect trades his marriage and career in for a spiritual exile on a remote Greek island where he hopes to conjure meaning into his life - trying the patience of his new girlfriend and angst-ridden teenage daughter.
Klute
Act like Actor's Agent
event1971 star_border 6.8
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A high-priced call girl is forced to depend on a reluctant private eye when she is stalked by a psychopath.
The Virgin President
Act like Machiavelli von Clausewitz
event1968 star_border 7
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The President of the U.S. is suceeded by his naive, wide-eyed son, and his advisors try to take advantage of the situation by planning to drop an atomic bomb on Manhattan and blaming it on the Red Chinese.
M*A*S*H
Act like Captain Hildebrand (1 ep.)
event1972 star_border 7.9
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The 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital is stuck in the middle of the Korean war. With little help from the circumstances they find themselves in, they are forced to make their own fun. Fond of practical jokes and revenge, the doctors, nurses, administrators, and soldiers often find ways of making wartime life bearable.
Miami Vice
Act like Chance, the Editor (1 ep.)
event1984 star_border 7.4
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The story of the Miami Police Department's vice squad and its efforts to end drug trafficking and prostitution, centered on the unlikely partnership of Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs - who first meet when Tubbs is undercover in a drug cartel.
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Act like Mel Peters (1 ep.)
event1970 star_border 7.5
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30-year-old single Mary Richards moves to Minneapolis to start a new life after a romantic break-up. There she reacquaints with Phyllis who rents her a room, and meets her upstairs neighbor and new best friend Rhoda. Mary unexpectedly lands a job as associate producer at the TV station WJM, where she works alongside her bristly boss, Lou; the comical newswriter, Murray; and the newscast's often-incompetent anchor, Ted.
Night Court
Act like Ralph Kremski (1 ep.)
event1984 star_border 7.3
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An eccentric fun-loving judge presides over an urban night court and all the silliness going on there.
Temperatures Rising
Act like Donovan (1 ep.)
event1972 star_border 5
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Temperatures Rising is an American television sitcom that ran from September 12, 1972 to August 29, 1974 on the ABC network. The network had a good deal of faith in the low-rated series, which went through three cast changes, two different formats, and two time slots during its run.
Columbo
Act like Darryl (1 ep.)
event1971 star_border 8.1
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Columbo is a friendly, verbose, disheveled-looking police detective who is consistently underestimated by his suspects. Despite his unprepossessing appearance and apparent absentmindedness, he shrewdly solves all of his cases and secures all evidence needed for indictment. His formidable eye for detail and meticulously dedicated approach often become clear to the killer only late in the storyline.
The Hitchhiker
Act like Lawyer (1 ep.)
event1983 star_border 6.1
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A young hitchhiker introduces characters who are about to experience a frightening and sometimes supernatural incident of some kind in this moody anthology series.
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