
Birthday:
11-04-1917
Deathday:
03-03-2012 (94 years)
Birthplace:
Manhattan, New York, USA
Biography
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Leonardo Cimino (November 4, 1917 - March 3, 2012) was an Italian film, television and stage actor who in 1937 appeared in the original stage production of Marc Blitzstein's "The Cradle Will Rock." Leonardo's most well-known roles were in the 1983 science fiction miniseries, "V," as Abraham Bernstein and the 1987 feature film "The Monster Squad," as the "scary German guy."
Cimino made guest appearances on TV shows, including "Naked City," "Kojak," "The Equalizer" and "Law & Order." Cimino was married to actress Sharon Powers.
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Leonardo Cimino (November 4, 1917 - March 3, 2012) was an Italian film, television and stage actor who in 1937 appeared in the original stage production of Marc Blitzstein's "The Cradle Will Rock." Leonardo's most well-known roles were in the 1983 science fiction miniseries, "V," as Abraham Bernstein and the 1987 feature film "The Monster Squad," as the "scary German guy."
Cimino made guest appearances on TV shows, including "Naked City," "Kojak," "The Equalizer" and "Law & Order." Cimino was married to actress Sharon Powers.
Description above from the Wikipedia article Leonardo Cimino, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Dune
Act like The Baron's Doctor
event1984 star_border 6.2
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In the year 10,191, the most precious substance in the universe is the spice Melange. The spice extends life. The spice expands consciousness. The spice is vital to space travel. The spice exists on only one planet in the entire universe, the vast desert planet Arrakis, also known as Dune. Its native inhabitants, the Fremen, have long held a prophecy that a man would come, a messiah who would lead them to true freedom.
The Power and the Glory
event1963
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Based on Graham Greene's novel about a flawed but devoted priest in 1930s Mexico who attempts to perform his duties while eluding a police lieutenant determined to capture him.
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
Act like William
event2007 star_border 7.1
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When two brothers organize the robbery of their parents' jewelry store, the job goes horribly wrong, triggering a series of events that send them and their family hurtling towards a shattering climax.
The Monster Squad
Act like Scary German Guy
event1987 star_border 6.7
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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.
A Time for Miracles
Act like Italian Priest
event1980 star_border 6
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Elizabeth Bayley Seton, America's first native-born saint and founder of the Sisters of Charity, is the subject of this inspiring biopic. After the tragic death of her husband, Seton converts to Catholicism. Once again, she suffers terrible loss when two of her children die, but goes on to found the American Sisters of Charity and the first American Catholic schools. Seton died in 1826 and was canonized by Pope Paul VI in 1975.
Stiletto
Act like Allie Fargo (uncredited)
event1969 star_border 5.2
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A rich, jet-setting playboy has a secret life: he's also a professional Mafia hitman. When he decides it's time to retire from that life, he finds that his former employers don't like the idea that someone who knows so much about them won't be under their control anymore, and decide to send their own hitmen to eliminate him.
Household Saints
Act like Mario
event1993 star_border 6.2
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A chronicle of three generations of Italian-American women struggling to get by in post-World War II New York’s Little Italy.
Penn & Teller Get Killed
Act like Ernesto
event1989 star_border 5.4
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The "bad boys of magic" go over the edge in this mind-blowing, role-switching comedy murder mystery set in the dizzying world of Atlantic City casinos. In a TV interview, Penn mentions his idea of a fun practical joke: "I wish someone were trying to kill me. It would give focus to my life, excitement. I'd be like James Bond." Twenty million people hear him. One decides to deliver a punchline he'll never forget. Made by people who thought Psycho was a comedy, Penn & Teller Get Killed (they also wrote the piece) features Caitlin Clarke as the femme fatale and David Patrick Kelly as the Edgar Allan Poe-esque nutcase with a new mission. Arthur Penn, known for hip masterpieces like Bonnie and Clyde, Alice's Restaurant and Little Big Man, directs with roller-coaster pacing and subversive intelligence.
Stardust Memories
Act like Sandy's Analyst
event1980 star_border 7
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While attending a retrospect of his work, a filmmaker recalls his life and his loves: the inspirations for his films.
Jeremy
Act like Cello Teacher
event1973 star_border 7
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Jeremy is learning cello at an arts school in New York. At school he spots Susan, who practices for a ballet audition, and he falls in love.
Monsignor
Act like The Pope
event1982 star_border 4.4
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The vows of an ambitious young American priest are tested during World War II. Not only does Father John Flaherty get involved with the black market to raise money for the Vatican, he also falls in love with a young French nun.
Dead and Alive: The Race for Gus Farace
Act like Bruno Zambetti
event1991 star_border 5.5
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Both sides of the law hunt Costabile 'Gus' Farace for slaying a federal drug agent in 1989 New York.
Come Back, Charleston Blue
Act like Frank Mago
event1972 star_border 4.5
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Sequel to Cotton Comes to Harlem. Another bad influence is hitting Harlem and Gravedigger and Coffin Ed are the two cops who will stop it. Charleston Blue was a prohibition era black gangster, dead 4 decades. When he seems to have reappeared, once again slitting throats with his Blue straight edge razors, the two cops begin a complicated search for some answers.
Hide in Plain Sight
Act like Don Angelo Venucci
event1980 star_border 5.3
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True story of a man in search of his children after his ex-wife enters the Witness Protection Program.
The Love Song of Barney Kempinski
Act like Dino
event1968
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On his wedding day, in the few remaining hours of his bachelorhood, Barney Kempinski goes off to tour the city and sing his song to life, love and the city of New York.
Will There Really Be a Morning?
Act like Adolph Zukor
event1983 star_border 7
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This is the story of actress Frances Farmer, her struggles with mental illness and involuntary confinement in an insane asylum.
Q & A
Act like Nick Petrone
event1990 star_border 5.8
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A young district attorney seeking to prove a case against a corrupt police detective encounters a former lover and her new protector, a crime boss who refuses to help him.
Rappaccini's Daughter
Act like Rappaccini
event1980 star_border 6
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Set in 18th Century Italy, RAPPACCINI'S DAUGHTER is the tale of a young scholar named Giovanni (Kristoffer Tabori) who falls in love with a beautiful, yet forbidden, girl who tends her father's poison garden. However, the strange and unearthly beauty of Beatrice (Kathleen Beller) masks a terrifying curse which Giovanni must tragically discover. Her father, the mysterious Dr. Rappaccini, has made her the subject of a diabolical experiment. In Giovanni's attempt to free Beatrice from the control of her father and to escape the poisonous effect she begins to have on him, he unwittingly destroys her. From the short story of master American novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne, two quintessential Hawthorne themes are explored: the sins of interfering with another's soul and the futility of trying to tamper with nature.
Moonstruck
Act like Felix
event1987 star_border 6.9
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37-year-old Italian-American widow Loretta Castorini believes she is unlucky in love, and so accepts a marriage proposal from her boyfriend Johnny, even though she doesn't love him. When she meets his estranged younger brother Ronny, an emotional and passionate man, she finds herself drawn to him. She tries to resist, but Ronny, who blames his brother for the loss of his hand, has no scruples about aggressively pursuing her while Johnny is out of the country. As Loretta falls for Ronny, she learns that she's not the only one in her family with a secret romance.
The Seventh Sign
Act like Head Cardinal
event1988 star_border 6
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Abby is a pregnant woman with a curious new boarder in the apartment over her garage. Turns out he's heaven-sent and is speeding along the Apocalypse by bloodying rivers, egging on plagues and following scripture word for word.
Hudson Hawk
Act like Cardinal
event1991 star_border 5.7
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Eddie Hawkins, called Hudson Hawk has just been released from ten years of prison and is planning to spend the rest of his life honestly. But then the crazy Mayflower couple blackmail him to steal some of the works of Leonardo da Vinci. If he refuses, they threaten to kill his friend Tommy.
Cocaine and Blue Eyes
Act like Orestes Anatole
event1983 star_border 4.3
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Michael Brennen, a San Francisco private eye gets dragged into a drug-smuggling operation while searching for the girlfriend of a deal client, leading Brennen to a politically prominent family.
Mad Dog Coll
Act like Wickles (Bar Owner)
event1961 star_border 5.4
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Killer Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll moves in on gangster Dutch Schultz in 1920s New York.
Claude
Act like Daddy V.J.
event1992 star_border 9
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A hapless, bad-luck prone loser meets a free-spirited Frenchwoman who inspires him to get his life back on track.
The Freshman
Act like Lorenzo
event1990 star_border 6.3
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After a film student gets his belongings stolen, he meets a mobster bearing a startling resemblance to a certain cinematic godfather. Soon, he finds himself caught up in a caper involving endangered species and fine dining.
Waterworld
Act like Elder
event1995 star_border 6.2
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In a futuristic world where the polar ice caps have melted and made Earth a liquid planet, a beautiful barmaid rescues a mutant seafarer from a floating island prison. They escape, along with her young charge, Enola, and sail off aboard his ship. But the trio soon becomes the target of a menacing pirate who covets the map to 'Dryland'—which is tattooed on Enola's back.
18 Shades of Dust
Act like Connie Broglio
event1999
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Two gangsters threaten the owner of an upscale restaurant after his son can't pay a gambling debt.
Amityville II: The Possession
Act like Chancellor
event1982 star_border 5.7
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Anthony and Dolores Montelli, along with their four children, move into their dream house in Amityville and are immediately plagued by a string of paranormal experiences. When the abusive Anthony wrongly places the blame on their children, Dolores recruits a local Catholic priest to exorcise the house.
The Man in the Glass Booth
Act like Dr. Alvarez
event1975 star_border 6.1
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Arthur Goldman is a rich Jewish industrialist, living in luxury in a Manhattan high-rise. He banters with his assistant Charlie, often shocking him with his outrageousness and irreverent musings on aspects of Jewish life. Nonetheless, Charlie is astonished one day when Israeli secret agents burst in and arrest Goldman for being a Nazi war criminal. Whisked to Israel for trial, Goldman forces his accusers to face, not only his presumed guilt, but their own.
Cradle Will Rock
Act like VTA - Man in Line
event1999 star_border 6.5
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A true story of politics and art in the 1930s USA, centered around a leftist musical drama and attempts to stop its production.
The Confession
Act like Dr. Paoli
event1964 star_border 1
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Madame Rinaldi, owner of a bordello, helps thief Mario Forni locate an ancient buried treasure.
Route 66
(1 ep.)
event1960 star_border 6.3
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Route 66 is an American TV series in which two young men traveled across America in a Chevrolet Corvette sports car. The show ran weekly on Fridays on CBS from October 7, 1960 to March 20, 1964. It starred Martin Milner as Tod Stiles and, for the first two and a half seasons, George Maharis as Buz Murdock. Maharis was ill for much of the third season, during which time Tod was shown traveling on his own. Tod met Lincoln Case, played by Glenn Corbett, late in the third season, and traveled with him until the end of the fourth and final season.
Among the series more notable aspects were the featured Corvette convertible, and the program's instrumental theme song, which became a major pop hit.
Naked City
Act like Johnny (2 ep.)
event1958 star_border 5.5
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Naked City is a police drama series which aired from 1958 to 1963 on the ABC television network. It was inspired by the 1948 motion picture of the same name, and mimics its dramatic “semi-documentary” format.
In 1997, the episode “Sweet Prince of Delancey Street” was ranked #93 on TV Guide’s “100 Greatest Episodes of All Time”.
Kojak
Act like Ruby Kabelsky (2 ep.)
event1973 star_border 7
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A bald, lollipop sucking police detective with a fiery righteous attitude battles crime in New York City.
The Equalizer
Act like Thomas Marley Sr. (1 ep.)
event1985 star_border 7.1
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Robert McCall is a former agent of a secret government agency who is now running his own private crime fighting operation where he fashions himself as "The Equalizer." It is a service for victims of the system who have exhausted all possible means of seeking justice and have nowhere to go. McCall promises to even out the odds for them.
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Act like Caleb (1 ep.)
event1951 star_border 8.7
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Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones.
The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.
ABC Stage 67
Act like Dino (1 ep.)
event1966 star_border 6
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ABC Stage 67 is the umbrella title for a series of 26 weekly shows that included dramas, variety shows, documentaries, and original musicals.
It premiered on American Broadcasting Company on September 14, 1966 with Murray Schisgal's The Love Song of Barney Kempinksi, directed by Stanley Prager and starring Alan Arkin as a man enjoying the sights and sounds of New York City in his last remaining hours of bachelorhood. Arkin was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Single Performance By An Actor in a Leading Role in a Drama and the program was nominated as Outstanding Dramatic Program.
Future programs included appearances by Petula Clark, Bobby Darin, Sir Laurence Olivier, Albert Finney, Peter Sellers, David Frost, and Jack Paar.
ABC's effort to bring culture to the masses was a noble but unsuccessful experiment. Scheduled first against I Spy on Wednesdays and then The Dean Martin Show on Thursdays, the show consistently received low ratings. Its last production, an adaptation of Jean Cocteau's one-woman play The Human Voice starring Ingrid Bergman, aired on May 4, 1967.
"Stage 67" was not actually a part of the primary ABC facilities in Los Angeles. It was produced at the old Monogram Studios backlot that was later sold to KCET.
Law & Order
Act like Mr. Costello (1 ep.)
event1990 star_border 7.4
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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.
V
Act like Abraham Bernstein (2 ep.)
event1983 star_border 7.7
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Fifty spaceships, each three miles across, hover ominously above Earth's major cities. The Visitors that emerge are humanlike in appearance and extend the hand of friendship. Our planet's resources are just what these aliens need to survive. And for its future survival, unsuspecting humankind will need... a miracle!
The Hunger
Act like Nero (1 ep.)
event1997 star_border 5.7
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The Hunger is a British/Canadian television horror anthology series, co-produced by Scott Free Productions, Telescene Film Group Productions and the Canadian pay-TV channel The Movie Network. Though it shares a title with the feature film The Hunger the series has no direct plot or character connection to the film, and was created by Jeff Fazio.
Originally shown on the Sci Fi Channel in the UK, The Movie Network in Canada and Showtime in the US, the series was broadcast from 1997 to 2000, and is internally organized into two seasons. Each episode was based around an independent story introduced by the host; Terence Stamp hosted each episode for the first season, and was replaced in the second season by David Bowie. Stories tended to focus on themes of self-destructive desire and obsession, with a strong component of soft-core erotica; popular tropes for the stories included cannibalism, vampires, sex, and poison.
The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd
Act like Orambello Johnson (1 ep.)
event1987 star_border 6
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Molly Dodd — a mid-30s, divorced woman living in New York — faces the comedy and drama of a widely changing career, difficulties of apartment living, love life and its consequences, and more.
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