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John "Johnny" Anthony Williams also known as "Johnny Roast beef" Williams is an American character actor with nearly 100 credits to his name. He is perhaps best remembered as Johnny Roastbeef in the Martin Scorsese classic Goodfellas (1990). He is also appeared in the Movies The Mask (1994) alongside Cameron Diaz and Jim Carrey as well as Greenbook (2018) which starred Viggo Mortensen Mahershala Ali. He has also made dozens of appearances in tv shows.
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The Mask
Act like Burt
event1994 star_border 7
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When timid bank clerk Stanley Ipkiss discovers a magical mask containing the spirit of the Norse god Loki, his entire life changes. While wearing the mask, Ipkiss becomes a supernatural playboy exuding charm and confidence which allows him to catch the eye of local nightclub singer Tina Carlyle. Unfortunately, under the mask's influence, Ipkiss also robs a bank, which angers junior crime lord Dorian Tyrell, whose goons get blamed for the heist.
The Wasp Woman
Act like Wasp Collector
event1995 star_border 3.5
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Janice Starlin is an aging model who owns a cosmetics company. When a researcher experimenting with wasps brings her a serum that will turn back the aging process, she decides to first try it on herself. The serum works, but it also turns her into a killer wasp woman.
The Cookie Mobster
Act like Cheeks
event2014 star_border 7.1
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A young mob member goes into the Witness Protection Program and settles into a quiet suburban village, where he falls for a local woman and gets involved with cookie-making fund-raising for her daughter's scout troop while dodging his former associates who have tracked him down.
Victim of Desire
Act like Marv Riker
event1995 star_border 4.6
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An SEC agent investigating $70M in missing funds and a murdered businessman gets involved with the man's wife.
Undisputed
Act like Al
event2002 star_border 6.5
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Monroe Hutchens is the heavyweight champion of Sweetwater, a maximum security prison. He was convicted to a life sentence due to a passionate crime. Iceman Chambers is the heavyweight champion, who lost his title due to a rape conviction to ten years in Sweetwater. When these two giants collide in the same prison, they fight against each other disputing who is the real champion.
Under New Management
Act like Dot Com Donnie
event2009 star_border 4.7
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Sparks and bullets fly when a Wall Street yuppie must steer a Brooklyn mob crew legit before a beautiful FBI agent can build RICO indictments against them.
Infidelity
Act like Bubba
event1997 star_border 10
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Middleweight boxing champ Shane embarks on an affair with a sultry lounge singer. When she is found dead, Shane becomes the prime suspect in her murder.
Mafioso: The Father The Son
Act like Danny Defino
event2004 star_border 5
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When the head of a mafia clan is perceived to be weakening, his family suffers a series of attacks. It is up to his son, Frankie, to figure out who’s behind the plot before they are all wiped out.
Wild Ride
event2010
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This film is based on a true story, and set in the affluent world of Kentucky thoroughbred horse racing; a close-knit society with a fiercely protected reputation as the guardians of this, "the sport of kings."
Friendsgiving
Act like Uncle Sal
event2020 star_border 4.7
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Newly-divorced actress Molly, her recently-dumped lesbian best friend Abby and Molly’s mother Helen host a dysfunctional, comical and chaotic Thanksgiving dinner for their motley crew of close friends and strange acquaintances.
State of Grace
Act like Borelli's Man #2
event1990 star_border 6.9
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Hell's Kitchen, New York. Terry Noonan returns home after a ten-year absence. He soon reconnects with Jackie, a childhood friend and member of the Irish mob, and rekindles his love affair with Jackie's sister Kathleen.
The Little Death
Act like Bartender
event1996 star_border 4.2
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A photographer obsessed with a wealthy man's beautiful wife kills her jealous husband in self-defense. The deceased man's down-and-out musician son soon is drawn in by his sexy stepmother who, unbeknownst to him, is scheming to collect the entire estate.
Opposite Corners
Act like Jimmy
event1997 star_border 10
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A rising boxing star faces success while trying to cope with his parents.
Sally, Irene and Mary
Act like Raymond Scott Quintette
event1938 star_border 6
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Manicurists Sally, Irene and Mary hope to be Broadway entertainers. When Mary inherits an old ferry boat, they turn it into a successful supper club.
Honeymoon in Vegas
Act like Johnny Sandwich
event1992 star_border 5.6
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On her deathbed, a mother makes her son promise never to get married, which scars him with psychological blocks to a commitment with his girlfriend. They finally decide to tie the knot in Vegas, but a wealthy gambler arranges for the man to lose $65K in a poker game and offers to clear the debt for a weekend with his fiancée.
Witness to the Mob
Act like Angelo Ruggiero
event1998 star_border 7.2
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Sammy 'The Bull' Gravano was mafiosi. He started out as a soldier, but his talent for murder, including the slayings of his best friends, his wife's brother and his own boss, Paul Castellano, saw him rise to under-boss in the Gambino crime family. However, betrayals within the family saw him break the code of silence and became the highest ranking member of the mob to turn into a rat - 'a rat in a suit,- assisting the government to finally put away the Teflon Don, John Gotti.
Sin's Kitchen
Act like Eddie
event2004 star_border 1
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Mobsters, ex-cons, grad students and other desperate persons see their various fates converge in the Mojave Desert.
Real Gangsters
Act like Big Tony
event2013 star_border 2.8
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Real Gangsters tells the story of the Lo Giacamo family, one of the most successful crime syndicates in New York City. Run by cousins Vincent Lo Giacamo and Jack Lo Giacamo, Real Gangsters shows how these two men maintain control of their dangerous extended family and volatile business ventures by very different means.
GoodFellas
Act like Johnny Roastbeef
event1990 star_border 8.5
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The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs the ranks of a Mafia family under the guidance of Jimmy Conway.
Call Me King
Act like Russo
event2017 star_border 5
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In the international world of gun running... loyalty, honor and discretion are valuable commodities, but nothing is more priceless than the bond of family. Power begets enemies and a loved ones betrayal cuts like a knife. Sides will be chosen, wars will be fought. In the end, there can only be one King.
Intersection
Act like Lou
event2018 star_border 9.5
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A guilt-ridden man who blames himself for the accidental death of his only child meets a mysterious beautiful woman in the same remote town where the fateful car crash occurred. There is a spark between them. But she carries a dark past.
Virtual Combat
Act like Fred
event1995 star_border 4.7
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Two Nevada border officers, Dave Quarry and John, amuse themselves off duty by honing their kick-boxing skills via virtual reality combat. Elsewhere, a computer tycoon prepares to market his company's latest invention, a combination of DNA and virtual reality that creates beings and creatures who look and feel real.
The Spook Who Sat by the Door
event1973 star_border 6.3
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A black man plays Uncle Tom in order to gain access to CIA training, then uses that knowledge to plot a new American Revolution.
Looking for an Echo
Act like Phil 'Pooch' Puccirelli
event2000 star_border 3.5
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The lead singer of an oldies group reminisces about the good ol' days and a potential comeback.
Ritual of Evil
Act like Newscaster
event1970 star_border 5.9
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A psychiatrist investigates the death of one of his patients, a young heiress.
The New Empress
Act like Joe
event2016 star_border 5.5
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So your boyfriend's broken up with your and your broke and hungry? Just stage a bunch of fake proposals and chow down.
The Assault
Act like Mario
event1998 star_border 4
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A female cop assigned to protect a dead drug dealer's girlfriend from mob assassins takes her to a home for battered wives. When revenge is the only option, the emotionally scarred women are forced to fight back.
The Unknown Trilogy
Act like Tanner (segment "Frankie the Squirrel") (as Johnny 'Roastbeef' Williams)
event2008 star_border 2
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Somewhere, between the boundaries of life and death, lays the darkest places in the human heart. In these dimly lit recesses crouch fears older than mankind itself. Yet only by visiting this netherworld from time to time can we hope to unearth what lurks just beyond the grasp of our imaginations. The Unknown Trilogy dares to navigate these shadowy passages in three chilling tales that will make you glad you decided to come along for the ride...
Wasabi Tuna
event2003 star_border 1
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A group of friends who take Halloween way too seriously kidnap Anna Nicole Smith's beloved pet Sugar-Pie. It's up to a bunch of drag queens dressed as Anna to bring Sugar-Pie back.
Jersey Justice
Act like Big Bill Romeo
event2014
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A suburban woman witnesses her husbands murder, and decides to seek revenge in a 24 hr period. Along the way, Polly O'Bannon finds others who share her taste for revenge in the Pinelands of South Jersey.
Exorcism at 60,000 Feet
Act like Frankie Foldem
event2019 star_border 5.3
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A priest, a rabbi and a flight crew team up to save their flight from a pandemic of demonic possessions.
Forget Paris
Act like Lou
event1995 star_border 6.3
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Mickey Gordon is a basketball referee who travels to France to bury his father. Ellen Andrews is an American living in Paris who works for the airline he flies on. They meet and fall in love, but their relationship goes through many difficult patches.
Sparkle and Charm
Act like Robo
event1997 star_border 3
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Jack is in his mid 20s and living in Texas when he gets dumped by Gwen, his gorgeous girlfriend. He decides to move to Las Vegas to sell RVs.
Rules Don't Apply
Act like Mobster
event2016 star_border 5.7
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It's Hollywood, 1958. Small town beauty queen and devout Baptist virgin Marla Mabrey, under contract to the infamous Howard Hughes, arrives in Los Angeles. At the airport, she meets her driver Frank Forbes, who is engaged to be married to his seventh grade sweetheart and is a deeply religious Methodist. Their instant attraction not only puts their religious convictions to the test, but also defies Hughes' number one rule: No employee is allowed to have any relationship whatsoever with a contract actress. Hughes' behavior intersects with Marla and Frank in very separate and unexpected ways, and as they are drawn deeper into his bizarre world, their values are challenged and their lives are changed.
Green Book
Act like Fat Paulie
event2018 star_border 8.2
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Tony Lip, a bouncer in 1962, is hired to drive pianist Don Shirley on a tour through the Deep South in the days when African Americans, forced to find alternate accommodations and services due to segregation laws below the Mason-Dixon Line, relied on a guide called The Negro Motorist Green Book.
The Whole Ten Yards
Act like Vito
event2004 star_border 5.7
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Jimmy "The Tulip" Tudeski now spends his days compulsively cleaning his house and perfecting his culinary skills with his wife, Jill, a purported assassin who has yet to pull off a clean hit. Suddenly, an uninvited and unwelcome connection to their past unexpectedly shows up on Jimmy and Jill's doorstep; it's Oz, and he's begging them to help him rescue his wife, Cynthia.
The Other Way
Act like Fat Joe
event2010
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A down and out actor plays the role of his life as he trades places with his hit man brother.
The Super Globetrotters
Act like Hubert 'Geese' Ausbie / Multi Man (voice) (13 ep.)
event1979 star_border 7.8
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It’s true—to the public at large they are the clown princes of the parquet, the internationally renowned sports superstars The Globetrotters. But, unbeknownst to John and Jane Q. Sportsfan, high above the Earth orbits the Globetrotter Crime Globe, a different kind of "eye in the sky." Whenever and wherever the Crime Globe detects dastardly doings, the call goes out to the Globetrotters—Nate Branch, Liquid Man, Freddie 'Curly' Neal, Super Sphere, James 'Twiggy' Sanders, Spaghetti Man, Louis 'Sweet Lou' Dunbar, Gizmo, and Hubert 'Geese' Ausbie, and Multi Man—and they quickly ditch the b-ball court for crime-fighting.
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
(1 ep.)
event1993 star_border 7
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A much more lavish version of the popular Superman television series which had first aired forty years earlier, Lois & Clark focused more on the Man of Steel's early adult years in Metropolis. With the unknowing help of Lois Lane, Clark Kent created Superman there in Metropolis after finding work at the world-famous Daily Planet newspaper, where he meets fellow reporter Lois Lane.
Harlem Globetrotters
(22 ep.)
event1970 star_border 6
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Harlem Globetrotters is a Saturday morning cartoon produced by Hanna-Barbera and CBS Productions, featuring animated versions of players from the famous basketball team, Harlem Globetrotters.
Broadcast from September 12, 1970, to September 2, 1972 on CBS, and later re-run on NBC as The Go-Go Globetrotters, the show featured cartoon versions of George "Meadowlark" Lemon, Freddie "Curly" Neal, Hubert "Geese" Ausbie, J.C. "Gip" Gipson, Bobby Joe Mason, and Pablo Robertson, alongside their fictional bus driver and manager, Granny, and their dog mascot, Dribbles.
The series worked to a formula where the team travels somewhere and typically get involved in a local conflict that leads to one of the Globetrotters proposing a basketball game to settle the issue. To ensure the Globetrotters' defeat, the villains rig the contest; however, before the second half of the contest, the team always finds a way to even the odds, become all but invincible, and win the game.
Charlie Grace
Act like Vince (1 ep.)
event1995
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Charlie Grace is a Los Angeles private eye with a daughter named Jenny, works along with other cops, including his partner, Crawford, to solve different multiple mystery cases.
The Mindy Project
Act like Elevator Attendant (1 ep.)
event2012 star_border 6.2
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Obstetrician/gynecologist Mindy Lahiri tries to balance her personal and professional life, surrounded by quirky co-workers in a small medical practice in New York City.
The New Scooby-Doo Movies
Act like Geese Ausbie (voice) (2 ep.)
event1972 star_border 7.7
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Aside from doubling the length of each episode, The New Scooby-Doo Movies differed from its predecessor in the addition of a rotating special guest star slot; each episode featured real-life celebrities or well known fictional characters joining the Mystery, Inc. gang in solving the mystery of the week. Some episodes, in particular the episodes guest-starring the characters from The Addams Family, Batman, and Jeannie, deviated from the established Scooby-Doo format of presenting criminals masquerading as supernatural beings by introducing real ghosts, witches, monsters, and other such characters into the plots.
New York Undercover
Act like Leo Galloway (1 ep.)
event1994 star_border 7.1
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New York Undercover is an American police drama The series stars Detective J.C. Williams and Detective Eddie Torres, two undercover detectives in New York City's Fourth Precinct who were assigned to investigate various crimes and gang-related cases.
Tim and Eric's Bedtime Stories
Act like Sam (1 ep.)
event2014 star_border 7.4
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Tim and Eric's dark comedy anthology series.
NCIS
Act like Carmen Lorenzo (1 ep.)
event2003 star_border 7.6
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From murder and espionage to terrorism and stolen submarines, a team of special agents investigates any crime that has a shred of evidence connected to Navy and Marine Corps personnel, regardless of rank or position.
California Dreams
Act like Sharkey (2 ep.)
event1992 star_border 6.7
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California Dreams is an American teen-oriented sitcom that aired from 1992 to 1996 on Saturday mornings during NBC's Teen NBC programming block. It was created by writers Brett Dewey and Ronald B. Solomon and executive produced by Peter Engel, all known for their work on Saved by the Bell.
Black Monday
Act like Chip (1 ep.)
event2019 star_border 7
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Travel back to October 19, 1987 – aka Black Monday, the worst stock market crash in Wall Street history – this is the story of how a group of outsiders took on the blue-blood, old-boys club of Wall Street and ended up crashing the world’s largest financial system, a Lamborghini limousine, Don Henley’s birthday party and the glass ceiling.
The Summit
Act like Kentucky State Trooper (1 ep.)
event2008 star_border 5.5
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Set on the eve of the next G8 Summit, this miniseries follows a mother's desperate struggle to bring justice to her murdered son, fallen victim to a corrupt pharmaceutical company.
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