Birthday:
11-25-1940
Deathday:
03-20-2003 (62 years)
Birthplace:
Marks, Mississippi, USA
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Obsession
Act like Ferguson
event1976 star_border 6.6
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A wealthy New Orleans businessman becomes obsessed with a young woman who resembles his late wife.
The Morning After
Act like Hurley
event1986 star_border 5.9
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Failed actress Alex Sternbergen wakes up hungover one morning in an apartment she does not recognize, unable to remember the previous evening -- and with a dead body in bed next to her. As she tries to piece together the events of the night, Alex cannot totally rely on friends or her estranged husband, Joaquin, for assistance. Only a single ally, loner ex-policeman Turner Kendall, can help her escape her predicament and find the true killer.
Fletch Lives
Act like Tom Barbour
event1989 star_border 6
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Fletch is a fish out of water in small-town Louisiana, where he's checking out a tumbledown mansion he's inherited. When a woman he flirts with turns up dead, he becomes a suspect and must find the killer and clear his name.
Absence of Malice
Act like James A. Quinn
event1981 star_border 6.6
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Megan Carter is a reporter duped into running an untrue story on Michael Gallagher, a suspected racketeer. He has an alibi for the time his crime was allegedly committed—but it involves an innocent party. When he tells Carter the truth and the newspaper runs it, tragedy follows, forcing Carter to face up to the responsibilities of her job when she is confronted by Gallagher.
Love Liza
Act like Good Morning Man
event2002 star_border 6.3
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Following the unexplained suicide of his wife Liza, website designer Wilson Joel turns to huffing gasoline fumes and remote control gaming while avoiding an inevitable conflict with his mother-in-law.
Dreams of Gold: The Mel Fisher Story
Act like Luther Banks
event1986 star_border 6.7
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The true story of treasure hunter Mel Fisher, who spent much of his life--and his fortune--hunting for sunken Spanish treasure galleons off the coast of Florida.
Blackout
Act like Phil Murphy
event1985 star_border 5.4
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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.
Blind Vengeance
Act like Sheriff Horton
event1990
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A man seeks revenge on the white supremacists acquitted in the murder of his son
Doublecrossed
Act like Tony, Barry's lawyer
event1991 star_border 4.5
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Based on a true story, this made-for-cable film tells about Barry Seal, a pilot who was a drug smuggler for the infamous Medellin cartel out of Colombia. He was caught by the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and decided to turn over and help the DEA break the cartel. However, he got caught in the middle of the Reagan/Bush administration efforts to topple the Nicaraguan government in the '80s, in which Nicaraguan rebels called "contras" were allowed to smuggle cocaine into the US in exchange for their fighting against the leftist Nicaraguan government. Eventually Seal was murdered by his former Medellin employers, and some critics say it was with the tacit, if not implicit, connivance of the US administration.
Murder at the Mardi Gras
Act like Fenton
event1978
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A bubble-brained Philadelphia waitress witnesses a murder during the Mardi Gras festivities in New Orleans and finds herself stalked by the killer.
French Quarter
Act like Detective / Policeman
event1978 star_border 3.8
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Chronicles the life of a young New Orleans prostitute and her co-workers.
Freedom Road
Act like Gen. Ganfret
event1979 star_border 4.8
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Ex-slave and former Union soldier Gideon Jackson represents other ex-slaves at the constitutional convention, and is soon elected to the U.S. Senate despite opposition from white landowners, law enforcement and the KKK. He unites with sharecropper Abner Lait, who helps Jackson unite ex-slaves and white tenant farmers.
Ed Wood
Act like Southern Backer (uncredited)
event1994 star_border 7.5
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The mostly true story of the legendary "worst director of all time", who, with the help of his strange friends, filmed countless B-movies without ever becoming famous or successful.
Lush
Act like Har
event1999
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Among the rich in New Orleans, it's the lush life for Lionel Exley, a golf hustler and heavy drinker. Released from an Arkansas jail, "Ex" returns to the Big Easy and starts a friendship with another heavy drinker, attorney Firman Carter. Often waking with no memory of how he got to bed, Ex becomes the object of affection of two wealthy sisters, Rachel and Ashley Van Dyke. Ex also keeps bumping into various local oddballs, pals of the eccentric Carter. When Carter goes missing and the police suspect Ex of foul play, it may be time for him to put down his glass and sort out reality from the haze.
The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson
Act like Maj. Foley
event1990 star_border 8
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A film about the early life of the baseball star in the army, particulary his court-martial for insubordination regarding segragation.
Fear
Act like Holcomb
event1990 star_border 6.1
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Psychic Ally Sheedy helps police solve murders by mentally linking with the murderer. Then she discovers a murderer with the same talent - who wants to share the fear of his victims with her!
Cat People
Act like Train Station Agent
event1982 star_border 6.1
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After years of separation, Irena Gallier and her minister brother, Paul, reunite in New Orleans. When zoologists capture a wild panther, Irena is drawn to the cat – and zoo curator Oliver to her. Soon, Paul will have to reveal the family secret: that when sexually aroused, they revert into predatory jungle cats.
Mr. Murder
Act like James Stillwater
event1998 star_border 5.2
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A group of scientists are trying to produce the perfect soldier by cloning. The day the clone is born, Marty Stillwater, a mystery novel writer, feels that something strange is going on inside his body and mind. Seven years later, Marty discovers that his double has his same physical appearance but has the personality of a murderer.
The River
Act like Senator Neiswinder
event1984 star_border 6.3
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Tom and Mae Garvey are a Tennessee farming couple battling violent floods to save their land. In addition to natural disasters, the Garveys fight to stop a selfish land developer and a local corporation from foreclosing on their farm. While Mae stays at home to care for their children and tend to the crops, Tom finds work as a scab at a steel mill to preserve his family's property.
Manbeast! Myth or Monster?
Act like Perry Ford
event1978 star_border 8.7
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A documentary that explores the existence of Bigfoot, the Yeti and other legendary humanoid-type creatures.
Everybody's Baby: The Rescue of Jessica McClure
event1989 star_border 5.6
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Based on the true story of baby Jessica McClure who fell into a drain pipe in her back yard while playing. She was stuck in the pipe about 20 to 30 feet down and it took rescuers 58 hours to get her out. There was fear that if they shook the earth too much with machinery they could cause Jessica to fall further down and die.
Runaway Jury
Act like Potential Juror #2
event2003 star_border 6.9
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After a workplace shooting in New Orleans, a trial against the gun manufacturer pits lawyer Wendell Rohr against shady jury consultant Rankin Fitch, who uses illegal means to stack the jury with people sympathetic to the defense. But when juror Nicholas Easter and his girlfriend Marlee reveal their ability to sway the jury into delivering any verdict they want, a high-stakes cat-and-mouse game begins.
Dixie: Changing Habits
Act like Bob Hagar
event1983 star_border 3.5
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Dixie is caught operating a whorehouse, and is sentenced to 90 days house arrest in a convent! Can Dixie bend to the ways of the convent nuns to avoid jail?
The Sheriff and the Astronaut
Act like Deputy Tom Cassaday
event1984
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A small town sheriff and an astronaut strike up a romance as they attempt to solve crimes in this unsold pilot/CBS Thursday night movie.
The Toy
Act like O'Brien
event1982 star_border 5.8
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On one of his bratty son Eric's annual visits, the plutocrat U.S. Bates takes him to his department store and offers him anything in it as a gift. Eric chooses a black janitor who has made him laugh with his antics. At first the man suffers many indignities as Eric's "toy", but gradually teaches the lonely boy what it is like to have and to be a friend.
Pretty Baby
Act like Alfred Fuller
event1978 star_border 7
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Hattie, a New Orleans prostitute, meets a photographer named Bellocq at her brothel one night and, after he photographs her, he befriends her 12-year-old daughter, Violet. When Violet is brought on as a working girl by her mother's madam and Hattie skips town to get married, Violet quickly loses her innocence and focuses on reuniting with Bellocq. But a life with Bellocq is compromised for Violet after her mother returns to town.
Inherit the Wind
Act like Mayor
event1988 star_border 8
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Based on a real-life case in 1925, two great lawyers argue the case for and against a science teacher accused of the crime of teaching evolution.
The Savage Bees
Act like Deputy Churn
event1976 star_border 5
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In this horror-drama the festive fun of the annual Mardi Gras celebration is brought to a halt when a swarm of African killer bees escape from a foreign freighter.
Bad Girls
Act like Echo City Sheriff
event1994 star_border 5.4
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Four former harlots try to leave the wild west (Colorado, to be exact) and head north to make a better life for themselves. Unfortunately someone from Cody's past won't let it happen that easily.
An Early Frost
Act like Dr. Gilbert
event1985 star_border 6
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Successful lawyer Michael Pierson is gay, but he has always hidden this part of his life from his mother, Katherine, father, Nick, and grandmother Beatrice. But when Michael discovers he has AIDS and is dying of complications from the disease, he must open up to his parents and the rest of his family. Though fearful of their reactions, he introduces them to his longtime lover, Peter, and looks to them for support.
Dead Man on the Run
Act like Sam Daggett
event1975 star_border 6
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A government agent who is investigating a colleague's murder discovers a conspiracy to cover up a political assassination.
Marie: A True Story
Act like Governor Blanton
event1985 star_border 5.7
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In 1978 Tennessee, a single mother and political appointee risks her career and her life to blow the whistle on rampant corruption in the penal system.
The Deadly Tower
Act like Dan Wallace
event1975 star_border 6.6
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The real-life story of Charles Whitman's deadly shooting spree at the University of Texas is retold. In August 1966, after killing his wife and mother, Whitman climbed to the top of the school's tower and opened fire on passers-by, killing 13 and wounding many others.
A Seduction in Travis County
Act like Herman
event1991
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An acquitted killer (Lesley Ann Warren) lusts after her lawyer (Peter Coyote), who is a married man.
Malpractice
Act like George
event2001 star_border 6.7
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A lawyer turns private investigator when her doctor-husband holds himself responsible for the death of a patient.
Movin' On
(1 ep.)
event1974 star_border 5.2
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Movin' On is an American drama series that ran for two seasons, between 1974 and 1976. It originally appeared on the NBC television network. The pilot episode for the series was known as In Tandem.
The A-Team
Act like John Wells (1 ep.)
event1983 star_border 7.5
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A fictional group of ex-United States Army Special Forces personnel work as soldiers of fortune while on the run from the Army after being branded as war criminals for a "crime they didn't commit."
Tales from the Crypt
Act like Sebastian Fielding (1 ep.)
event1989 star_border 8
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Cadaverous scream legend the Crypt Keeper is your macabre host for these forays of fright and fun based on the classic E.C. Comics tales from back in the day. So shamble up to the bar and pick your poison. Will it be an insane Santa on a personal slay ride? Honeymooners out to fulfill the "til death do we part" vow ASAP?
Highway to Heaven
(1 ep.)
event1984 star_border 7.4
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A probationary angel is sent back to Earth to team up with an ex-cop and help people.
Hill Street Blues
(1 ep.)
event1981 star_border 7.6
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A realistic glimpse into the daily lives of the officers and detectives at an urban police station.
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
(1 ep.)
event1983 star_border 6.3
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Scarecrow and Mrs. King is an American television series that aired from October 3, 1983, to May 28, 1987 on CBS. The show stars Kate Jackson and Bruce Boxleitner as divorced housewife Amanda King and top-level "Agency" operative Lee Stetson who begin a strange association, and eventual romance, after encountering one another in a train station.
Knots Landing
Act like Boots Connors (2 ep.)
event1979 star_border 6.7
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The domestic adventures, misdeeds and everyday interactions of five families living on a cul-de-sac in a small California community.
Full House
(2 ep.)
event1987 star_border 7.5
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After the death of his wife, Danny enlists his best friend and his brother-in-law to help raise his three daughters, D.J., Stephanie, and Michelle.
Hunter
Act like Arthur Speigal (1 ep.)
event1984 star_border 7.2
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Hunter is an American police drama television series created by Frank Lupo, and starring Fred Dryer as Sgt. Rick Hunter and Stepfanie Kramer as Sgt. Dee Dee McCall, which ran on NBC from 1984 to 1991. However, Kramer left after the sixth season to pursue other acting and musical opportunities. In the seventh season, Hunter partnered with two different women officers. The titular character, Sgt. Rick Hunter, was a wily, physically imposing, and often rule-breaking homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department. The show's main characters, Hunter and McCall, resolve many of their cases by shooting dead the perpetrators.
The show's executive producer during the first season was Stephen J. Cannell, whose company produced the series.
Dallas
Act like Josh Vaughn (1 ep.)
event1978 star_border 6.8
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The world's first mega-soap, and one of the most popular ever produced, Dallas had it all. Beautiful women, expensive cars, and men playing Monopoly with real buildings. Famous for one of the best cliffhangers in TV history, as the world asked "Who shot J.R.?" A slow-burner to begin with, Dallas hit its stride in the 2nd season, with long storylines and expert character development. Dallas ruled the airwaves in the 1980's.
J.J. Starbuck
(1 ep.)
event1987 star_border 5
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J.J. Starbuck is an American crime drama series that aired on NBC from September 1987 to June 1988. The series follows cornpone-spouting Jerome Jeremiah "J.J." Starbuck, a billionaire Texan who wears ten-gallon hats, cowboy boots and fancy western shirts. He drives a flashy limousine with steer horns on the hood and a horn that plays "The Eyes of Texas," and spouts a steady stream of folksy homilies.
Quantum Leap
Act like Lamar the Promoter (1 ep.)
event1989 star_border 8
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Theorizing that one could time travel within his own lifetime, Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator and vanished... He woke to find himself trapped in the past, facing mirror images that were not his own and driven by an unknown force to change history for the better. His only guide on this journey is Al, an observer from his own time, who appears in the form of a hologram that only Sam can see and hear. And so Dr. Beckett finds himself leaping from life to life, striving to put right what once went wrong and hoping each time that his next leap will be the leap home.
The Atlanta Child Murders
Act like McLean (2 ep.)
event1985 star_border 5.9
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The Atlanta Child Murders is a TV miniseries that aired on February 10 and 12, 1985 on CBS. Inspired by true events, the miniseries examines the so-called "Atlanta child murders" of the late 1970s and early 1980s.
The Flash
Act like Frank Dejoy (1 ep.)
event1990 star_border 7.4
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When a bolt of lightening crashes through a police crime lab, a mix of electrically charged substances bathes chemist Barry Allen, transforming him into the fastest man alive--The Flash.
Street Hawk
Act like C.L. Howe (1 ep.)
event1985 star_border 6.8
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Street Hawk is an American television series that aired for 13 episodes on ABC in 1985. The series is a Limekiln and Templar Production in association with Universal Television. Its central characters were created by Paul M. Belous and Robert "Bob" Wolterstorff, and its core format was developed by Bruce Lansbury, who had initially commissioned the program's creation. This series was originally planned for the fall of 1984, Mondays at 8:00PM Eastern/7:00PM Central. However, ABC executives changed their minds when the summer series Call to Glory did well, and Street Hawk was pushed to mid-season. Street Hawk made its debut on January 4, 1985 on ABC at 9:00PM Eastern/8:00PM Central and ran until May 16, 1985.
Reruns aired on the USA Network on Saturdays at 10:00AM from 1990-91.
A Woman Called Moses
Act like Tom Hughett (2 ep.)
event1978 star_border 7
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A television miniseries based on the life of Harriet Tubman, the escaped African American slave who helped to organize the Underground Railroad, and who led dozens of African Americans from enslavement in the Southern United States to freedom in the Northern states and Canada.
Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction
Act like Bud (segment "Town of Remembrance") (1 ep.)
event1997 star_border 7.2
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Can you tell the difference between fact and fiction? Several stories of strange, mysterious and incredible occurrences are chronicled during each episode. It is up to the viewer to decide which stories actually happened and which were completely fabricated by the show’s writers. The answer is revealed by Jonathan Frakes at the conclusion of each episode.
Renegade
Act like Sheriff Tom Wendell (1 ep.)
event1992 star_border 6.6
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Framed for murder, Detective Reno Raines becomes a fugitive bounty hunter who fights crime while trying to clear his name. His troubles began after he testified about police corruption, leading Lt. Donald Dixon to set him up.
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