Birthday:
10-16-1924
Deathday:
12-02-2002 (78 years)
Birthplace:
New York City, New York, USA
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Ed McBain's 87th Precinct: Lightning
Act like McLaughlin
event1995 star_border 5
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In New York two detectives of the 87th precinct are initially baffled by the brutal, ritualistic slayings of several young women. Through good detective work and clues left at the crime scenes by the psychopathic killer, they are able to deduce who the killer's next victim will be. A tense chase ensues as they try to prevent him from continuing his bloody rampage
A Shot at the Top: The Making of 'The King of Comedy'
Act like Self (archive footage)
event2002
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Documentary about the making of Martin Scorsese's story of a man willing to go to any length for a shot at fame.
Murder: By Reason of Insanity
Act like Howard Norton
event1985 star_border 3.5
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A married couple from Poland emigrates to the U.S.,. but things don't turn out as well as they had imaged. The husband's business fails, while his wife's career really takes off. The husband, unable to cope with the pressures of his failed business, his failing marriage and the adjustments necessary to live in a completely different society, begins to take out his frustrations on his wife.
The King of Comedy
Act like Wilson Crockett
event1982 star_border 7.8
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Aspiring comic Rupert Pupkin attempts to achieve success in show business by stalking his idol, a late night talk-show host who craves his own privacy.
The Stepford Life
Act like Himself
event2001 star_border 6
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A documentary about the making of The Stepford Wives (1975).
Sleuth
Executive Producer
event1972 star_border 7.7
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A mystery novelist devises an insurance scam with his wife's lover – but things aren't exactly as they seem. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.
The Silence
Executive Producer
event1975
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A cadet at West Point is subjected to "internal exile," which means that other students refuse to talk to him or acknowledge his existence, after he is accused of violating the school's code of honor.
Take the Money and Run
Executive Producer
event1969 star_border 7.1
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Virgil Starkwell is intent on becoming a notorious bank robber. Unfortunately for Virgil and his not-so-budding career, he is completely incompetent.
The American Success Company
Producer
event1980 star_border 5.3
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A husband is humiliated at home and at work. He decides he has had enough of it and hires a prostitute to help him get back at his boss, wife and friends and get a lot richer in the process.
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
Producer
event1974 star_border 7.5
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In New York, armed men hijack a subway car and demand a ransom for the passengers. Even if it's paid, how could they get away?
The Stepford Wives
Producer
event1975 star_border 6.7
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Joanna Eberhart has come to the quaint little town of Stepford, Connecticut with her family, but soon discovers there lies a sinister truth in the all too perfect behavior of the female residents.
The Stepford Wives
Producer
event2004 star_border 5.7
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What does it take to become a Stepford wife, a woman perfect beyond belief? Ask the Stepford husbands, who've created this high-tech, terrifying little town.
Mother and Daughter: The Loving War
Executive Producer
event1980
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A love-hate relationship among three generations of women, spanning 30 years.
Ring of Bright Water
Executive Producer
event1969 star_border 5.6
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Stuck in a dead-end job, Graham Merrill adopts an otter, Mij, as a pet and then moves to an isolated village in western Scotland. Together they set out to explore the curious and magnificent natural wonders that surround their seaside home. Soon, Graham finds himself falling in love with the beautiful town doctor, Mary. Before long, the three become inseparable friends.
The Darwin Adventure
Executive Producer
event1972
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The story of Charles Darwin's journey on The Beagle.
Jenny
Producer
event1970 star_border 4.5
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An unwed mother-to-be marries a total stranger so he can avoid the draft. She now has a father for her child and he doesn't have to go to Vietnam. But this marriage-of-convenience leads to a romance between the two.
To Kill a Clown
Executive Producer
event1972 star_border 5.7
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A young hippie couple rent a secluded cabin on the beach in an attempt to re-connect with each other and save their marriage. Unfortunately, the man they rented the cabin from is a military-brat sociopath with two dogs more vicious than his temper.
When Michael Calls
Executive Producer
event1972 star_border 5.5
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A woman begins to receive ominous phone calls from her nephew, who died 15 years earlier. With each phone call, a family member dies. Will she be the next in line?
The Good Old Boys
Executive Producer
event1995 star_border 6.7
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An aging cowboy must choose between his desire to remain free and the responsibilities of maintaining a family.
The Siege at Ruby Ridge
Executive Producer
event1996 star_border 5.1
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A mini-series dramatization of the controversial 1992 attack by federal agents on the Idaho home of Randy Weaver, a white seperatist. The ten-day siege, begun over a minor gun charge, resulted in the deaths of Weaver's son, wife and dog, and a U.S. Marshall. The incident caused major public outcry against the FBI and U.S. Marshals.
Tyson
Executive Producer
event1995 star_border 6.1
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The story of Mike Tyson. From his early days as a 12 year old amateur with a powerful punch, to the undisputed title of "Heavyweight Champion of the World", and ultimately to his conviction for rape. The story of his turbulent life moves quickly, never focusing for long on anything in particular.
A Passion for Justice: The Hazel Brannon Smith Story
Executive Producer
event1994
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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.
The Wall
Executive Producer
event1998 star_border 5.7
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The story of three items left at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall: a pencil holder, a sheriff's badge, and an electric guitar. Each item connects the living with the dead and are left as either memorials or to heal the wounds of war.
An American Christmas Carol
Executive Producer
event1979 star_border 6.2
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In Depression-era New England, a miserly businessman named Benedict Slade receives a long-overdue attitude adjustment one Christmas Eve when he is visited by three ghostly figures who resemble three of the people whose possessions Slade had seized to collect on unpaid loans. Assuming the roles of the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future from Charles Dickens' classic story, the three apparitions force Slade to face the consequences of his skinflint ways, and he becomes a caring, generous, amiable man.
Anything to Survive
Executive Producer
event1990 star_border 6.9
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A father and his children are caught by a storm whilst sailing in Alaska. When they get shipwrecked, things go from bad to worse.
Reckless
Producer
event1984 star_border 5.8
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Teenager Johnny Rourke is reckless. Born on the wrong side of the tracks, he breaks the law and girls' hearts with equal cool. Cheerleader Tracey Prescott is reckless too. She dumps her conventional life and boring boyfriend to follow Johnny wherever his dangerous path leads.
The Heartbreak Kid
Producer
event1972 star_border 6.6
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Three days into his Miami honeymoon with needy and unsophisticated Lila, Lenny meets tall, blonde Kelly. This confirms his fear that he has made a serious mistake and he decides he wants to be with Kelly instead.
For Love of Ivy
Producer
event1968 star_border 5.9
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A white family has had the same Black maid for many years. When she tells them she wants to go back to school and will be leaving soon, the 20ish year old son decides what she needs is a change and begins searching for a man to wine and dine her, but who won't marry her, thinking that this will distract her from her plans. The man he finds doesn't entirely cooperate.
White Dog
Executive Producer
event1982 star_border 6.7
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A trainer attempts to retrain a vicious dog that’s been raised to kill black people.
The Secret Life of Ian Fleming
Executive Producer
event1990 star_border 4.9
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The Secret Life of Ian Fleming follows the exciting life of a dashing young Ian Fleming, the mastermind behind the highly successful James Bond books and movies.
Revenge of the Stepford Wives
Executive Producer
event1980 star_border 5.4
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A TV reporter arrives in the quiet town of Stepford to launch an investigation into why the town has the lowest divorce and crime rates in America. However, she begins to notice some bizarre behavior in the women of the town, discovering that Stepford is not as clean-cut as it seems.
Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil
Executive Producer
event1985 star_border 4.5
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The two-part TV movie Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil crystallizes that evil by concentrating on two Berlin brothers. In 1931, Helmut Hoffman a brilliant student and self-styled opportunist, joins Hitler's SS. At the same time, his younger brother Karl, a top athlete and idealist, becomes a chauffeur for the "S.A.".
Mrs. Soffel
Producer
event1984 star_border 6.1
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Kate Soffel is married to a prison warden in Pittsburgh, and is the mother of their four children. Ed Biddle is a convicted murderer awaiting execution on death row with his brother Jack. When Kate meets Eddie through her Bible readings to the prisoners, she is drawn to him, and they pursue a clandestine relationship. She agrees to help the brothers escape, and begins a treacherous journey with them to freedom in Canada.
The Stepford Husbands
Executive Producer
event1996 star_border 5
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Something sinister is going on in the town of Stepford, and this time the men should watch their backs.
The Stepford Children
Executive Producer
event1987 star_border 5
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Steven and Laura Harding, along with their kids David and Mary, have moved to the quiet community of Stepford. Steven joins the men's club, which is still assimilating their wives into robots. This time, they have begun to turn their out of control teens into robots as well. Once they are assimilated, they are obedient, homework loving, big band dancing droids. Laura, David, and Mary stumble onto this mystery, and they must avoid Steven's plans to turn them into robots.
Zuma Beach
Executive Producer
event1978 star_border 4.5
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A fading rock singer goes to the beach to get away from it all and winds up getting involved in the lives of the teenage beachgoers.
Unholy Matrimony
Executive Producer
event1988 star_border 8
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He's after a man who married for money. Insurance money.
Law and Disorder
Executive Producer
event1974 star_border 4.8
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In crime ridden New York of the seventies two cops has had enough. They decide to take justice into their own hands. Things turn exciting and humorous. No hoodlum goes safe.
Gordon's War
Executive Producer
event1973 star_border 5.7
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A black soldier comes home to Harlem after a tour in Vietnam and discovers that his wife had become a heroin addict and died of an overdose. Infuriated, he gathers three of his ex-GI buddies and they lay out plans to fight the drug dealers.
Betrayed by Love
Executive Producer
event1994 star_border 5
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An FBI agent and his pretty informant become lovers, which leads to tragedy.
The Girl Who Came Between Them
Executive Producer
event1990 star_border 3
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A home is divided when a 13 year old Vietnamese girl moves in with a family of an ex-GI who believes that she may be his illegitimate daughter in this fact-based movie.
The Birthday Party
Executive Producer
event1968 star_border 6.4
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Based on Harold Pinter's enigmatic play about a boarder in a British seaside dwelling who is visited by two strangers. They torment him verbally, ask him idiotic unanswerable questions, force him to sit down and stand up, and give him a "party". Then, eventually, they take him away, a tongue-tied idiot. The trivial becomes the terrible, and with it a certain wonder, a certain pity.
Quiet Killer
Executive Producer
event1992 star_border 5.2
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On her way home in a plane to New York, the teenage Sarah gets very ill. She realizes too late that it's more than a cold and with her parents still on vacation, she breaks down in the middle of the street and dies shortly after in a hospital -- by the plague, as the terrified coroners find out. While trying to keep this from the public to avoid a panic, epidemic commissioner Dr. Nora Hart has to investigate Sarah's identity and find everyone who had contact with her. If she misses a single person, the plague could kill half the city in a few days!
Hands of a Stranger
Executive Producer
event1987 star_border 5.6
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A New York cop becomes obsessed with finding his wife's rapist.
Stranger in My Bed
Executive Producer
event1987 star_border 4.7
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A woman gets amnesia after an accident, and doesn't remember her life, including her husband. While she tries to recall, she meets a man and begins a relationship with him.
Rambling Rose
Executive Producer
event1991 star_border 6.2
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Rose is taken in by the Hillyer family to serve as a 1930s housemaid so that she can avoid falling into a life of prostitution. Her appearence and personality is such that all men fall for her, and she knows it. She can't help herself from getting into trouble with men.
I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can
Producer
event1982 star_border 6
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An adaptation of Barbara Gordon's nonfiction account of her addiction to Valium.
Panic in Echo Park
Producer
event1977 star_border 5.4
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A young doctor tries to convince everyone about an impending epidemic, but he is accused of creating panic.
Lovers, Partners & Spies
Executive Producer
event1988
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Retired international police agent, now suburban housewife, is asked by her former partner to help him catch a serial killer.
Shoot the Moon
Executive Producer
event1982 star_border 6.4
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After fifteen years of marriage, an affluent couple divorce and take up with new partners.
Raid on Entebbe
Producer
event1976 star_border 6
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Based on a true operation by Israeli commandos. An Air France flight is hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The airplane landed in Uganda. The terrorists released some passengers, keeping 94 Jews and 12 air crew hostage. The Israeli government would not negotiate. A rescue plan was devised, and less than 100 commandos were flown across Africa to rescue the passengers in surprisingly successful operation.
Path to War
Executive Producer
event2003 star_border 6.7
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A powerful drama of soaring ambition and shattered dreams that takes a provocative insider's look at the way the USA goes to war—as seen from inside the LBJ White House leading up to and during the Vietnam War.
The Man Who Wanted to Live Forever
Executive Producer
event1970 star_border 5
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A famous heart surgeon finds out that a medical research foundation is being used for shady and illegal purposes.
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
Producer
event1977 star_border 6.2
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A disturbed and institutionalized 16-year-old girl struggles between fantasy and reality.
The Seduction of Miss Leona
Executive Producer
event1980 star_border 1
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An unmarried, reclusive college teacher is torn between a married maintenance man who has been repairing her house and her former professor and lover.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Executive Producer
event1987 star_border 7.8
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The life of an aging black slave, Tom, and the people he interacts with.
Thou Shalt Not Kill
Executive Producer
event1982 star_border 6.5
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A man is wrongly convicted for murder and sent to prison, where he is accused of murdering a brutal guard he killed in self-defense.
Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery
Executive Producer
event1978 star_border 1
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The wife of a paralytic becomes involved in an extra-marital affair, with his permission.
Fish Hawk
Executive Producer
event1980 star_border 6.5
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A hardened and embittered man turns his life around with the help of a farm boy in this uplifting family tale. Down on his luck and dependent on booze, Native American Fish Hawk (Will Sampson) changes his fate when he accepts a job hunting down a bear that's been killing local livestock. His temporary residence with the Boggs family brings young Corby (Charles Fields) into his life, and the boy's friendship gives Fish Hawk a new reason to live.
Nightmare in the Daylight
Executive Producer
event1992 star_border 5.3
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A married Wisconsin teacher fears a Los Angeles lawyer who has mistaken her for his long-lost wife.
The Kennedys of Massachusetts
Executive Producer (3 ep.)
event1990 star_border 7.2
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The Kennedys of Massachusetts is a 1990 TV miniseries that aired on ABC. Focusing mainly on the fifty-four year marriage of Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. and Rose Kennedy. The events depicted in the series are based upon the book by Doris Kearns Goodwin titled The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys : An American Saga. The series aired across three nights, an earned an Emmy and Golden Globe.
Evergreen
Executive Producer (3 ep.)
event1985 star_border 4.5
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Based on the novel by Belva Plain, covering a time span from 1909 to 1959. The story begins in New York's Lower East Side with the arrival of Polish-Jewish immigrant Anna (Lesley Ann Warren). At first employed as a humble seamstress, Anna is whisked into a whole new world when she becomes the wife of the enterprising Joseph Friedman (Armand Assante), who eventually becomes a wealthy Westchester contractor. Even so, Anna's heart belongs to Paul Lerner (Ian Shane), the son of the prosperous Fifth Avenue family which employs her relatives. In 1918, Anna gives birth to Paul's daughter, allowing Joseph to believe that he is the father. The secret surrounding Anna's child will lead to a daunting and frequently heartbreaking chain of events, culminating decades later in the newly formed state of Israel, where Anna's grandson Eric hopes to "find himself" -- and ends up finding more than he bargained for.
Wide World of Sports
Creator (3 ep.)
star_border 7.3
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ABC's Wide World of Sports is a sports anthology series on American television that ran from 1961 to 1998 and was hosted by Jim McKay. The title continued to be used for general sports programs until 2006. As the title suggests, it aired on the American Broadcasting Company, primarily on Saturdays.
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