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02-04-1949 (76 years)

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Memphis, Tennessee, USA

Biography

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John Michael Beck Taylor (born February 4, 1949), commonly known as Michael Beck, is an American actor, perhaps best known for his role as Swan in the 1979 film, The Warriors.

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The Warriors

Act like Swan

event1979 star_border 7.7 top_panel_open

Prominent gang leader Cyrus calls a meeting of New York's gangs to set aside their turf wars and take over the city. At the meeting, a rival leader kills Cyrus, but a Coney Island gang called the Warriors is wrongly blamed for Cyrus' death. Before you know it, the cops and every gangbanger in town is hot on the Warriors' trail.

MegaForce

Act like Dallas

event1982 star_border 4 top_panel_open

MegaForce is an elite multi-national military unit that does the jobs that individual governments wont. When the peaceful Republic of Sardun in under threat from their more aggressive neighbor, the beautiful Major Zara and General Byrne-White see the help of Ace Hunter and MegaForce.

Warlords of the 21st Century

Act like Hunter

event1982 star_border 4.6 top_panel_open

It's the 21st century, the Oil Wars have made a mess of the planet and the land outside major cities is lawless. After Hunter comes to the aid of Corlie, who has run away from the villainous Straker, he takes her to the peaceful community of Clearwater. Unfortunately for the citizens of Clearwater, Straker fully intends to get Corlie back.

The Last Ninja

Act like Kenjiro Sakura

event1983 star_border 3.2 top_panel_open

A successful art dealer is sought out by law enforcement after terrorists take some scientists hostage. Finding no possible solution, a law enforcement agent approaches the dealer (Beck). Mr. Cosmo, the agent believes the dealer to be linked to the ninja responsible for tracking down criminals and serving them justice. Mr. Cosmo hopes that the ninja's seemingly supernatural skills will remedy this impossible hostage situation.

Xanadu

Act like Sonny Malone

event1980 star_border 5.7 top_panel_open

A beautiful muse inspires an artist and his older friend to convert a dilapidated auditorium into a lavish rollerskating club.

Deadly Game

Act like Peterson

event1991 star_border 5.6 top_panel_open

A group of seven strangers, including a dancer, a doctor, a teacher, and a disgraced former football player, are brought together on an island owned by the mysterious Osirus. There they are told that at some point in their lives, they crossed Osirus and now must face his revenge. The seven must reach a boat on the opposite side of the island before Osirus and his hunters track them down and kill them.

Chiller

Act like Miles Creighton

event1985 star_border 4 top_panel_open

A wealthy industrialist arranges for his body to be kept on ice in a high-tech cryonic chamber. When the instructions are not followed properly, he emerges from the frozen crypt as an empty, soulless creature with an appetite for destruction.

The Golden Seal

Act like Crawford

event1983 star_border 5.7 top_panel_open

A lonely 10-year-old boy living with his parents in a remote coastal part of Alaksa, spontaneously finds a legendary golden seal and her newborn pup. But the greed for her valuable pelt sets off the hunters, including his own father, the local natives, and an ambitious poacher in pursuit the seal. The golden seal and her cub are hunted for a huge bounty on her head and the mythological legend

Triumphs of a Man Called Horse

Act like Koda

event1983 star_border 5.8 top_panel_open

Shunka Wakan, formerly Lord John, helps his Dakota son defend their tribe against gold rushers.

Madman

Act like Boris Abramovitch

event1978 star_border 6 top_panel_open

Killing as many commies as he can is the goal of a hatred consumed private in the Israeli Army. The memory of his torture in a Russian mental hospital has driven him to revenge. Persuading his friends and lovers to join him in his quest, he sets out on a mission of blood and vengeance. Sigourney Weaver stars as the brave woman who must love and trust a madman.

The Jungle Book: Search for the Lost Treasure

Act like Prof. Gershwin Donovan

event1998 star_border 4 top_panel_open

Two teens (Lindsey Peter, Sean Price McConnell) get more than they bargained for when they join their fathers on a trek to the jungles of India to find a legendary diamond. Lucky for them, jungle boy Mowgli (Antonio Baker) and his animal pals are around to help. When the kids' fathers disappear, the characters from Rudyard Kipling's classic tale help save the day in this adventure film that also stars Gary Collins and Michael Des Barres.

Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness

Act like Self

event2020 star_border 6.8 top_panel_open

From "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" to "The Big Lebowski" and everything in between, this fascinating deep-dive documentary begins its celebration of the greatest cult movies of all-time discussing the birth of the midnight movie.

Blackout

Act like Mike Patterson

event1985 star_border 5.4 top_panel_open

A police officer suspects that a local husband and father, who has recently undergone facial surgery because of injuries received in a car accident, is in reality the same man who committed a quadruple murder several years before.

Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story

Act like Clarence Carnes

event1980 star_border 4.5 top_panel_open

Filmed on location at Alcatraz Island, this two-part "whole story" actually concentrates on a handful of the denizens behind the cold grey walls of "The Rock". Michael Beck plays the real-life Clarence Carnes, an Oklahoma Choctaw Indian said to be the youngest man ever incarcerated in the notorious maximum security prison. Serving a 99-year sentence for a gas station holdup and murder, Carnes makes periodic attempts to escape, the final attempt being the most violent. Many of the subordinate characters are fictional (as are most of the details concerning Carnes' escape efforts); the one exception is Robert Stroud, the "Birdman of Alcatraz", here portrayed by Art Carney as a gentle, kindly philosopher. Telly Savalas, a costar of the Burt Lancaster vehicle Birdman of Alcatraz, also guest starred in the 1980 film. Originally titled Alcatraz and Clarence Carnes, this made-for-TV movie wavers between gritty realism and "I'm bustin' outta here!" artifice.

Fade to Black

Act like Braith

event1993 star_border 2 top_panel_open

A professor accidentally records the murder of a neighbor on videotape and finds himself framed for the crime.

The Streets

Act like Sgt. Danny Wreade

event1984 top_panel_open

Undercover cops Wreade & Grozzo (Beck & Orbach) are searching for the identity of a gang leader who is selling handguns to people for their self protection. Unfortunately the guns are lethal to those who use them

Stranger at My Door

Act like Jimmy Lee Dancey

event1991 star_border 5.8 top_panel_open

A cop on the run from his mob boss "in-laws" tries to start a new life on a deserted farm with his two children. But things are not that easy.

Rearview Mirror

Act like Jerry Sam Hopps

event1984 star_border 7 top_panel_open

When the psychopathic jailbreaker Hopps and his cousin steal a camper to continue their flight, they notice too late that there's a baby on the back seat. At first they want to kill it, but...

The Grace of Jake

Act like Henry Haynes

event2017 star_border 5 top_panel_open

Ex-inmate and wandering musician Jake travels to a small town in Arkansas intent on exacting revenge from his father, but begins to unravel a complicated family history as he befriends the locals.

Mayflower: The Pilgrims' Adventure

Act like John Alden

event1979 star_border 6.5 top_panel_open

In 1620, the Assembly of the Pilgrims decides to emigrate to the young America because of the persecution they suffer by the English crown. The film tells the adventurous journey of the Pilgrims to an unknown land and future.

Fly Away Home

Act like Lt. Mark Wakefield

event1981 star_border 4.7 top_panel_open

Ambitious pilot to a prospective series revolving around a combat cameraman in Vietnam. Carl Danton is in Saigon on assignment at the start of the 1968 Tet offensive with a cynical boss in the local bureau chief. His love interest is a Vietnamese doctor whose brother happens to be a leader in the Viet Cong and whose influential parents are involved in high-level corruption.

Forest Warrior

Act like Arlen Slaighter

event1996 star_border 4.3 top_panel_open

John McKenna is a spiritual being who is able to transform into bear, wolf or eagle. He lives in the forests of Tanglewood and has dedicated his life to protect them. One day a gang of evil lumberjacks led by Travis Thorne arrive Tanglewood to chop the forest down. McKenna cannot let this happen, and together with his new friends - Lords of the Tanglewood, a band of children who love to play in the forest - he battles against Thorne and his evil gang.

The Warriors: Battleground

Act like Self

event2007 star_border 7 top_panel_open

Documents the filming process, along with technical insights by cinematographer Andrew Lazslo.

The Warriors: The Way Home

Act like Self

event2007 star_border 6 top_panel_open

An examination of the choreographed fight scenes and bizarre costuming.

The Warriors: The Beginning

Act like Self

event2007 star_border 6 top_panel_open

Details the origins of the story, with anecdotes by the cast and crew about how they got involved in the project.

The Warriors: The Phenomenon

Act like Self

event2007 star_border 6 top_panel_open

Features the editing and scoring processes, a proposed narration by Orson Welles, and some of the controversies inherent in the film's release.

Only One Survived

Act like Paul Haskel

event1990 top_panel_open

Four buddies set out on a three-week deep-sea fishing holiday in the Amazon and run into trouble.

Houston Knights

Act like Levon Lundy (31 ep.)

event1987 star_border 4.3 top_panel_open

Houston Knights is an American crime drama set in Houston, Texas. The show ran on CBS from 1987 to 1988 and had 31 episodes. The core of the show was the partnership between two very different cops from two different cultures. Chicago cop Joey LaFiamma, played by Michael Paré, is transferred to Houston after he kills a mobster from a powerful Mafia family and a contract is put out on him. Once there, he is partnered with Levon Lundy, played by Michael Beck, the grandson of a Texas Ranger. Although as different as night and day, and after a rocky beginning they form a successful partnership and become friends. This is aided to a certain extent by an event where a hitman from Chicago who holds the contract to shoot La Fiamma arrives in Houston and is ultimately killed by Lundy. During the series, it is revealed that both La Fiamma and Lundy have their own personal demons; La Fiamma's Chicago police partner had been killed when he went ahead while La Fiamma had waited for backup to arrive. Lundy's wife had been killed by an explosion that was intended to kill him.

Murder, She Wrote

Act like Danny Schubert (1 ep.)

event1984 star_border 7.5 top_panel_open

An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.

Crusade

Act like Mr. Jones (1 ep.)

event1999 star_border 6.6 top_panel_open

Crusade is an American spin-off TV show from J. Michael Straczynski's Babylon 5. Its plot is set in AD 2267, five years after the events of Babylon 5, and just after the movie A Call to Arms. The Drakh have released a nanovirus plague on Earth, which will destroy all life on Earth within five years if it is not stopped. To that end, the Victory class destroyer Excalibur has been sent out to look for anything that could help the search for a cure.

Walker, Texas Ranger

Act like Adam McGuire (2 ep.)

event1993 star_border 7 top_panel_open

Modern-day Texas Ranger, Cordell Walker's independent crime-solving methods have their roots in the rugged traditions of the Old West. Walker's closest friend is former Ranger, C.D. Parker, who retired after a knee injury, and now owns "C.D.'s," a Country/Western saloon/restaurant. Rookie Ranger, James "Jimmy" Trivette is an ex-football player who bases his crime-solving methods on reason and uses computers and cellular phones. Alex Cahill is the Assistant DA who shares a mutual attraction with Walker, but often disagrees with his unorthodox approach to law enforcement.

Babylon 5

Act like Abel Horn (1 ep.)

event1994 star_border 8 top_panel_open

Babylon 5 is a five-mile long space station located in neutral space. Built by the Earth Alliance in the 2250s, its goal is to maintain peace among the various alien races by providing a sanctuary where grievances and negotiations can be worked out among duly appointed ambassadors. A council made up of representatives from the five major space-faring civilizations - the Earth Alliance, Minbari Federation, Centauri Republic, Narn Regime, and Vorlon Empire - work with the League of Non-Aligned Worlds to keep interstellar relations under control. Aside from its diplomatic function, Babylon 5 also serves as a military post for Earth and a port of call for travelers, traders, businessmen, criminals, and Rangers.

JAG

Act like Senator Carter Innes (1 ep.)

event1995 star_border 7.3 top_panel_open

Harmon "Harm" Rabb Jr. is a former pilot turned lawyer working for the military's JAG (Judge Advocate General) division, the elite legal wing of officers that prosecutes and defends those accused of military-related crimes. He works closely with Lt. Col. Sarah Mackenzie, and together they do what needs to be done to find the truth.

Diagnosis: Murder

Act like Frank Waldeck (1 ep.)

event1993 star_border 7.1 top_panel_open

Dr. Mark Sloan is a good-natured, offbeat physician who is called upon to solve murders.

Robin's Hoods

Act like Det. Stephen DeCosta (21 ep.)

event1994 top_panel_open

Brett Robin is a prosecution official who is determined society is not always best served by locking up young offenders, but tries to give a good number of them the real second chance they get nowhere else, 'taking them under her hood'. They all live together and the rehabilitation project includes cohabitation, domestic chores and earning enough money as a club to keep in business. Of course their past regularly creeps back to complicate everybody's lives, as if reeducation weren't hard enough.

Celebrity

Act like T.J. Luther (3 ep.)

event1984 star_border 6 top_panel_open

Self-proclaimed faith healer T.J. Luther, movie star Mack Crawford and journalist Kleber Cantrell share a fateful reunion in a deserted Texas cabin that was the scene of a night of violence over two decades.

Holocaust

Act like Hans Helms (3 ep.)

event1978 star_border 7.4 top_panel_open

Berlin, Germany, 1935. The day Karl Weiss, a Jewish painter, and Inga Helms, a Christian woman, marry, is the one in which both of them and the entire Weiss family are caught up in the maelstrom of the Nazi regime, the storms of World War II and the horrors of the criminal Final Solution, the Holocaust, the Shoah; while Erik Dorf, an ambitious lawyer, undertakes his fall into hell at the hands of the sinister Reinhard Heydrich.

Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story

Act like Clarence Carnes (2 ep.)

event1980 star_border 5 top_panel_open

Fact-based story of the lives and attempted 1946 escape of several inmates in the famous correctional facility. Young inmate Clarence Carnes masterminds a grand escape involving several inmates who have nothing to lose, serving life sentences.

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