
Birthday:
08-29-1938
(86 years)
Birthplace:
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Biography
Elliott Gould (born August 29, 1938) is an American actor. He began acting in Hollywood films during the 1960s, and has remained prolific ever since. Some of his most notable films include M*A*S*H and Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, for which he received an Oscar nomination. In recent years, he has starred as Reuben Tishkoff in Ocean's Eleven, Ocean's Twelve, and Ocean's Thirteen.
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American History X
Act like Murray
event1998 star_border 8.3
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Derek Vineyard is paroled after serving 3 years in prison for killing two African-American men. Through his brother, Danny Vineyard's narration, we learn that before going to prison, Derek was a skinhead and the leader of a violent white supremacist gang that committed acts of racial crime throughout L.A. and his actions greatly influenced Danny. Reformed and fresh out of prison, Derek severs contact with the gang and becomes determined to keep Danny from going down the same violent path as he did.
Ocean's Eleven
Act like Reuben Tishkoff
event2001 star_border 7.4
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Less than 24 hours into his parole, charismatic thief Danny Ocean is already rolling out his next plan: In one night, Danny's hand-picked crew of specialists will attempt to steal more than $150 million from three Las Vegas casinos. But to score the cash, Danny risks his chances of reconciling with ex-wife, Tess.
Ocean's Twelve
Act like Reuben Tishkoff
event2004 star_border 6.6
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Danny Ocean reunites with his old flame and the rest of his merry band of thieves in carrying out three huge heists in Rome, Paris and Amsterdam – but a Europol agent is hot on their heels.
Ocean's Thirteen
Act like Reuben Tishkoff
event2007 star_border 6.7
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Danny Ocean's team of criminals are back and composing a plan more personal than ever. When ruthless casino owner Willy Bank doublecrosses Reuben Tishkoff, causing a heart attack, Danny Ocean vows that he and his team will do anything to bring down Willy Bank along with everything he's got. Even if it means asking for help from an enemy.
M*A*S*H
Act like Trapper John McIntyre
event1970 star_border 7
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The staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor and hijinks to keep their sanity in the face of the horror of war.
Nashville
Act like Elliott Gould
event1975 star_border 7.2
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The intersecting stories of twenty-four characters—from country star to wannabe to reporter to waitress—connect to the music business in Nashville, Tennessee.
The Long Goodbye
Act like Philip Marlowe
event1973 star_border 7.4
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In 1970s Hollywood, Detective Philip Marlowe tries to help a friend who is accused of murdering his wife.
Bugsy
Act like Harry Greenberg
event1991 star_border 6.4
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New York gangster Ben 'Bugsy' Siegel takes a brief business trip to Los Angeles. A sharp-dressing womanizer with a foul temper, Siegel doesn't hesitate to kill or maim anyone crossing him. In L.A. the life, the movies, and most of all strong-willed Virginia Hill detain him while his family wait back home. Then a trip to a run-down gambling joint at a spot in the desert known as Las Vegas gives him his big idea.
The Player
Act like Elliott Gould
event1992 star_border 7.2
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A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?
The Lady Vanishes
Act like Robert Condon
event1979 star_border 6
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On the eve of World War II, zany heiress Amanda Kelly travels by train to Switzerland. While passing through Germany, she meets a sweet elderly lady, who suddenly vanishes. Distraught, she questions her fellow passengers who claim that the woman was never there. Unsure if it's all in her mind or if there's a more sinister plot afoot, Amanda teams up with photographer Robert Condon to discover the truth.
The Muppet Movie
Act like Beauty Contest Compere
event1979 star_border 7.2
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A Hollywood agent persuades Kermit the Frog to leave the swamp to pursue a career in Hollywood. On his way there, he meets a bear, a pig, a whatever – his future muppet crew – while being chased by the desperate owner of a frog-leg restaurant!
A Bridge Too Far
Act like Col. Robert Stout
event1977 star_border 7.2
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The story of Operation Market Garden—a failed attempt by the allies in the latter stages of WWII to end the war quickly by securing three bridges in Holland allowing access over the Rhine into Germany. A combination of poor allied intelligence and the presence of two crack German panzer divisions meant that the final part of this operation (the bridge in Arnhem over the Rhine) was doomed to failure.
Legend of Destruction
Act like Rabbi Yohanan ben Zakkai (voice)
event2021 star_border 6.6
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What had initially started out as a Jewish revolt against the Roman occupation, quickly turned into a fierce civil war. The combination of religious messianic zeal and the friction between social classes proved disastrous and resulted in the destruction of Jerusalem and the Holy Temple.
Wet and Wild Summer
Act like Mike McCain
event1992 star_border 2.9
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A property developer wants to take over an Australian beach for a high rise resort. He sends his son to Australia to check out the situation, posing as an exchange lifeguard. He falls in love with a woman who owns the land his father needs for the development and finds himself sympathising with the locals.
Open Window
Act like John
event2006 star_border 5.1
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The engagment between a struggling photographer and an assistant professor is marred by an act of violence.
The Ten Commandments
Act like God (voice)
event2007 star_border 5.6
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This vibrantly animated feature recounts the biblical epic of the Hebrew prophet Moses and the Ten Commandments. Led by the word of God, Moses challenges the ominous Egyptian pharaoh, performs miracles and guides the chosen people on a 40-year journey through the desert to free them from captivity and lead them to the Promised Land.
Robert Altman: Giggle And Give In
Act like Himself
event1996
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Paul Joyce’s documentary profile of Robert Altman, with contributions from Altman, Elliott Gould, Shelley Duvall, assistant director Alan Rudolph and screenwriter Joan Tewkesbury. Originally broadcast on July 17th 1996 in Channel Four’s Cinefile series.
Capricorn One
Act like Robert Caulfield
event1977 star_border 6.8
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In order to protect the reputation of the American space program, a team of NASA administrators turn the first Mars mission into a phony Mars landing. Under threat of harm to their families the astronauts play their part in the deception on a staged set in a deserted military base. But once the real ship returns to Earth and burns up on re-entry, the astronauts become liabilities. Now, with the help of a crusading reporter, they must battle a sinister conspiracy that will stop at nothing to keep the truth hidden.
The Muppets Take Manhattan
Act like Cop in Pete's
event1984 star_border 6.5
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When the Muppets graduate from Danhurst College, they take their song-filled senior revue to New York City, only to learn that it isn't easy to find a producer who's willing to back a show starring a frog and a pig. Of course, Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy won't take no for an answer, launching a search for someone to take them to Broadway.
California Split
Act like Charlie Waters
event1974 star_border 6.6
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Carefree single guy Charlie Waters rooms with two lovely prostitutes, Barbara Miller and Susan Peters, and lives to gamble. Along with his glum betting buddy, Bill Denny, Charlie sets out on a gambling streak in search of the ever-elusive big payday. While Charlie and Bill have some lucky moments, they also have to contend with serious setbacks that threaten to derail their hedonistic betting binge.
The Silent Partner
Act like Miles Cullen
event1978 star_border 7
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Toronto, Canada. A few days before Christmas, Miles Cullen, a bored teller working at a bank branch located in a shopping mall, accidentally learns that the place is about to be robbed when he finds a disconcerting note on one of the counters.
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
Act like Ted Henderson
event1969 star_border 6.2
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After returning to Los Angeles from a group therapy session, documentary filmmaker Bob Sanders and his wife, Carol, find themselves becoming vigilante couples counselors, offering unsolicited advice to their best friends, Ted and Alice Henderson. Not wanting to be rude, the Hendersons play along, but some latent sexual tension among the four soon comes bubbling to the surface, and long-buried desires don't stay buried for long.
Little Murders
Act like Alfred Chamberlain
event1971 star_border 6.7
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A young nihilistic New Yorker copes with pervasive urban violence, obscene phone calls, rusty water pipes, electrical blackouts, paranoia, and ethnic-racial conflict during a typical summer of the 1970s.
S*P*Y*S
Act like Griff
event1974 star_border 5.2
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Two CIA bunglers botch a Soviet defection, then both sides mark them for termination.
The Devil and Max Devlin
Act like Max Devlin
event1981 star_border 5.8
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When Max dies in an accident, he goes straight to Hell. But the Devil Barney makes him an offer: if he manages to get three innocent youths to sell him their souls in the next two months, he may stay on Earth. Max accepts, and returns to Earth, equipped with special powers. However, his task is harder than expected, especially when seven year old Tobi demands that he marry his mother.
The Last Flight of Noah's Ark
Act like Noah Dugan
event1980 star_border 5.5
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The only chance to escape a desert island is to convert the plane carrying many different animals into a boat.
Kicking and Screaming
Act like Grover's Dad
event1995 star_border 6.2
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After college graduation, Grover's girlfriend Jane tells him she's moving to Prague to study writing. Grover declines to accompany her, deciding instead to move in with several friends, all of whom can't quite work up the inertia to escape their university's pull. Nobody wants to make any big decisions that would radically alter his life, yet none of them wants to end up like Chet, the professional student who tends bar and is in his tenth year of university studies.
Escape to Athena
Act like Charlie
event1979 star_border 5.7
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During the World War II, the prisoners of a German camp in a Greek island are trying to escape. They not only want their freedom, but also seek an ineffable treasure hidden in a monastery at the summit of the island's mountain.
Getting Straight
Act like Harry Bailey
event1970 star_border 6.3
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Graduate student Harry Bailey was once one of the most visible undergraduate activists on campus, but now that he's back studying for his master's, he's trying to fly right. Trouble is, the campus is exploding with various student movements, and Harry's girlfriend, Jan, is caught up in most of them. As Harry gets closer to finishing his degree, he finds his iconoclastic attitude increasingly aligned with the students rather than the faculty.
The Night They Raided Minsky's
Act like Billy Minsky
event1968 star_border 5.6
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Rachel arrives in New York from her Amish community intent on becoming a dancer. Unfortunately Billy Minsky's Burlesque is hardly the place for her Dances From The Bible. But the show's comedian Raymond sees a way of wrong-footing the local do-gooders by announcing the new Paris sensation "Mme Fifi" and putting on Rachel's performance as the place is raided. All too complicated, the more so since her father is scouring the town for her and both Raymond and his straight-man Chick are falling for Rachel.
His Way
Act like Self
event2011 star_border 6.2
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A look at the professional, political and personal life of legendary movie producer Jerry Weintraub featuring interviews with friends, family and colleagues.
Expecting Mary
Act like Horace Weitzel
event2010 star_border 4.5
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Expecting Mary is the story of a young girl, who's had all the trappings of an upscale life, but it's only when she finds herself in a small New Mexico town, in a downtrodden trailer park, that she learns the real meaning of love, sacrifice and family.
Saving Sarah Cain
Act like Bill Alexander
event2007 star_border 5.1
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When Sarah Cain, a self-involved big-city newspaper columnist, travels to Pennsylvania for the funeral of her Amish sister, she soon discovers that she is the legal guardian of her five Amish nieces and nephews. Rather than choose to move to Lancaster County to finish raising them there herself, or let them be separated by the foster care system, Sarah decides to take them with her back to Portland where she believes she can make a new life for them. However, she soon realizes that the modern world has forced them to compromise who they are, and that she has moved them there for all the wrong reasons - a motive which is soon exposed - because secrets can really never be kept secret. In order to find her own redemption, she knows she must make a choice to give them back their lives in Amish Country. And whether she remains part of their lives will have a lot to do with how much she has grown to love them.
The Caller
Act like Frank Turlotte
event2008 star_border 5.6
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Jimmy Stevens, a senior VP at an international energy firm, blows the whistle on his company's deadly and corrupt practices in Latin America. Knowing he will be assassinated for his betrayal, he places an anonymous call securing the services of private detective Frank Turlotte to trail him from a distance.
The Deal
Act like Rabbi Seth Gutterman
event2008 star_border 5.4
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Charlie Berns is a veteran Hollywood movie producer who has given up on his career and life. That is until his idealistic screenwriter nephew comes bearing the script of a lifetime and Charlie decides to give his career one final shot. The only thing standing in his way is Diedre Hearn, a sharp-witted studio executive brought in to keep Charlie in line.
Falling in Love Again
Act like Harry Lewis (Present Day)
event1980 star_border 5.5
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Harry and Sue Lewis met in the 40s as teenagers living in the Bronx. He was an aspiring architect, she was the most beautiful girl in school, and both had a fondness for bran muffins. They fell in love, got married, moved to Los Angeles, and had two kids. While struggling with his midlife crisis, Harry receives an invitation for his high school's reunion back so he takes Sue and their teenage kids on a cross-country car trip back to the Big Apple. Will they see in the Bronx what they expected? Will the good memories from their past help rekindle their fading love? Is it too late to dream?
Elizabeth Montgomery: A Bewitched Life
Act like Self
event2023
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"Bewitched" remains beloved nearly 60 years after its debut. The series lead, Elizabeth Montgomery, was a complex, strong-willed woman whose life and career became an ongoing quest for love and recognition she never received from her movie star father. "Bewitched" became one of television's biggest hits during the turbulent 1960s, a time that was symbolic of the series' behind-the-scenes turmoil.
The Screwfly Solution
Act like Barney
event2006 star_border 5.7
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A strange virus renders the entire human male population into homicidal maniacs who end up wiping out all females, leaving a woman and her daughter to fend for themselves.
Kim Possible: A Sitch In Time
Act like Mr. Stoppable (voice)
event2003 star_border 6.7
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Kim and Ron start out a new school year, only to find out that Ron's family is moving to Norway. This puts a strain on their partnership, just as Dr. Drakken, Monkey Fist, and Duff Killigan team up to find and use an ancient time travel device to rule the world. Attacking Kim in the past, present, and future, can these villians succeed? Or will an unforeseen force be more destructive?
Kill Shot
Act like Randy's Father
event1995 star_border 6
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Out at Pacific Coast University, five students living in the same apartment building go through personal trials.
Removal
Act like Dr. Segal
event2010 star_border 5.2
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Witnessing a murder and a suicide caused Cole to have hallucinations that cost him his marriage and job. Now working as a cleaner he must clean a stately home outside of the city, owned by the sadistic Henry.
Bad Apple
Act like Buddha Stanzione
event2004 star_border 3.8
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Black Comedy about a undercover FBI agent in New York who falls for his informant's sister resulting in a deadly game between the criminals and cops.
Michael Kael vs. the World News Company
Act like Coogan
event1998 star_border 3.4
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A naive French reporter is sent to an African town to cover a sensational news story, unaware that it has been faked by an international news giant in the hopes of getting the US president re-elected for a third term.
Little Hercules
Act like Socrates
event2009 star_border 2.5
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Little Hercules travels from Mt. Olympus to live life as a mortal in Los Angeles.
Inside Out
Act like Jimmy Morgan
event1987 star_border 6.3
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An agoraphobic must give up his sheltered life and venture outside after a series of personal and financial problems.
The Telephone
Act like Rodney
event1988 star_border 4.3
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Crazy out of work actress Vashti Blue spends all her time in her small apartment with her pet owl and her telephone, which she uses to try and solve all her problems with life.
Busting
Act like Vice Detective Michael Keneely
event1974 star_border 6.2
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Defying orders to lay-off the case, two Los Angeles vice-squad cops go after a local mobster and use unorthodox methods to achieve results.
Who?
Act like Sean Rogers
event1974 star_border 4.9
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After an American scientist is severely injured and scarred in a car crash along the border with East Germany, he is captured by East German military. The scientists use metal implants to save him. Once he's back in the States, no one can tell if it's really him, so an intelligence specialist must determine who is under the "mask".
Paul Reiser: Out on a Whim
Act like Self
event1987
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Paul Reiser brings his sophisticated observational humor to home video in this rare showcase of his acclaimed talent as both actor and stand-up comedian. Reiser goes out on a whim searching for "The Main Thing" in a unique blend of live stand-up comedy and an uprorious out-of-body experience feautring cameo appearances by Teri Garr, Elliott Gould, Carrie Fisher, Michael J. Pollard, Desi Arnaz Jr., Woody Harrelson, Carol Kane, and many others! Join Paul Reiser for his unique perspective on such subjects as exact change, dogs, valet parking, potato chips, "They" & "The Guy", Larry Storch and much more! Go out on a whime with Paul Reiser - you'll be beside yourself with laughter.
Seasons in the Valley
Act like Narrator
event2007
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Hollywood veteran Elliott Gould lends his distinct voice to this gentle documentary exploring the symbiotic relationships between the apple farmers of NY’s Hudson Valley and their Jamaican labor. Shot over four years in SD in the Hudson Valley and the island of Jamaica it screened at festivals, art houses, on TV and had educational distribution.
Dangerous Love
Act like Rick
event1988 star_border 3.7
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A psychopath kills members of a video dating club and records their deaths.
Playing Mona Lisa
Act like Bernie Goldstein
event2000 star_border 5.8
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A young pianist is looking for love in all the wrong places once her fiancee drops her. Maybe her flame will be rekindled both for the piano and a new love?
Judgement
Act like Judge Callow
event1992 star_border 3.8
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A juvenile court judge goes out of her way to try to aid a young man whom she believes has innocently gotten involved with a gang.
Ruby Sparks
Act like Dr. Rosenthal
event2012 star_border 7.1
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Calvin is a young novelist who achieved phenomenal success early in his career but is now struggling with his writing – as well as his romantic life. Finally, he makes a breakthrough and creates a character named Ruby who inspires him. When Calvin finds Ruby, in the flesh, sitting on his couch about a week later, he is completely flabbergasted that his words have turned into a living, breathing person.
Night Visitor
Act like Ronald 'Ron' Devereaux
event1989 star_border 4.2
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A teenager insists he saw a satanist kill the call girl next door, and tries to prove it.
Matilda
Act like Bernie Bonnelli
event1978 star_border 5.2
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A small-time talent agent discovers an amazing boxing kangaroo and figures to use it as his stepping-stone into the big time.
The Encore of Tony Duran
Act like Jerry Braill
event2011 star_border 6.5
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A victim of personal and financial failure, Tony long ago gave up his dreams of singing and performance. But now, even his day job has disappeared, prompting in Tony feelings of self-loathing and worthlessness. Desperate, Tony is prepared to sink to crime to pay his bills, but he finds himself incompetent at even that. Withering under the gaze of the meth dealer, Art, Tony is now a completely broken man: robbed, lifethreatened and miserable. He makes his last gamble and loses it all. However, just at the moment his life becomes a complete nightmare, his friend Jerry is there to guide Tony back.
The Touch
Act like David Kovac
event1971 star_border 6.3
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A Swedish housewife begins an adulterous affair with a foreign archaeologist. But he is an emotionally scarred man, a Jewish survivor from a concentration camp, consequently, their relationship will be painfully difficult.
The Lemon Sisters
Act like Fred Frank
event1989 star_border 4.6
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Three life-long friends work the bars in 1980s Atlantic City performing the songs of the 1960s girl groups.
Switchmas
Act like Sam Finkelstein
event2012 star_border 5.4
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A Christmas obsessed Jewish boy on his way to sunny Florida figures out how to get the Christmas of his dreams by trading airline tickets and places with another boy on his way to snowy Christmastown, WA.
Beyond Justice
Act like Red Merchantson
event1992 star_border 3.8
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A woman's ex-husband, who is the son of an Arab chieftain, kidnaps their teenage son and brings him back to Morocco, where the boy is to be made the leader of the tribe. The child's mother hires a mercenary to get her son and bring him back to her.
Fred Won't Move Out
Act like Fred
event2012 star_border 5
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Fred (Elliott Gould) lives with his Alzheimers' struggling wife, Susan in their home of over fifty years. Fred's grown up children try to convince him to move into a care home alongside Susan, however, he does not approve of this idea.
Frog
Act like Bill Anderson
event1987 star_border 4.3
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Arlo Anderson loves his reptiles, and so when he decides to buy a rare breed of frog with his date money he winds up with more than he bargained for! Gus, the frog, happens to be Italian royalty who was cursed by a witch some 600 years ago. So with the help of Gus, Arlo plans to win this year's science fair but he also somehow has to get Gus a kiss from a girl to free him from his curse. The only problem: the girls don't really like nerdy Arlo and his reptiles...
Shurtleff on Acting
Act like Self
event1994
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A feature length documentary on legendary acting guru, casting agent and author, Michael Shurtleff. Interviews with actors such as Gene Hackman, Elliot Gould and Don Murray who learned under this master.
Divorce Invitation
Act like Paul Lipnick
event2012 star_border 4.5
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'Divorce Invitation' centers on Mike Christian, a happily married man who runs into his high school sweetheart Alex, and after all these years, sparks still fly. When Mike is determined Alex is his true soul mate, he realizes he has a huge problem-he signed an iron-clad pre-nuptial agreement and his wife will not let him out of the marriage
Dead Men Don't Die
Act like Barry Baron
event1990 star_border 4.1
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A reporter investigating a drug dealing ring is murdered. Brought back to life by the voodoo spell of a cleaning woman, he goes after his killers.
Harry and Walter Go to New York
Act like Walter Hill
event1976 star_border 5.5
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Two hoplessly out of their class con-men attempt to pull off the largest bank heist of the l9th century—by gaining the enmity of the most famous bank robber in the world and the affection of a crusading newspaperwoman.
Move
Act like Hiram Jaffe
event1970 star_border 4.6
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A young playwright who writes porno novels to overcome a writer's block, lives the fantasies of one of his books, while trying to move with his wife from one apartment into a larger one.
I Will, I Will...For Now
Act like Les Bingham
event1976 star_border 5
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Les Bingham takes umbrage that his ex-wife Katie has a new love in life. What he doesn't know is that her new paramour is lawyer Lou Springer. When Katie's sister Sally arrives and tells the two about her new, hip '70s marriage contract, Les and Katie decide to try to get together again under a more liberal marriage contract, like Katie's sister. But, unfortunately for the couple, the contract is planted with the seeds of self-destruction.
Duke of Groove
Act like Dennis
event1996 star_border 5.7
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Mother takes her teenage son to a party, to make sure he will not be at home when father leaves the family for good.
Dorfman in Love
Act like Burt Dorfman
event2013 star_border 6
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Unknowingly trapped in her role as caretaker of her unappreciative family, a young single woman desperately needs to get her own life. When she volunteers to cat sit at her unrequited love's downtown L.A loft, her world, as she knows it, changes forever.
Tramps
Act like Willie Zobel
event1983 star_border 2.5
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The intellectual Willie flees from his bourgeois-academic environment, leaving behind his wife, child, and job to lead a vagabond life. In Vienna, he meets the retired laborer Josef, who becomes his closest friend. Together, they drink and roam the city. Willie makes one last attempt to visit his ex-wife in Salzburg, but she turns him away. Secretly, he takes his son Tommi with him, putting him in danger when they encounter a sinister motorcycle gang.
Morning
Act like Male Doctor Goodman
event2013 star_border 4.7
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Five days in the life of an American couple immediately following the accidental death of their child. An every day story of tragedy, loss, acceptance, hope and renewal. 'Morning' follows the divergent paths of Mark (Leland Orser) and Alice Munroe (Jeanne Tripplehorn) as they circle each other in a heart-breaking pas-de-deux of grief before finally coming to grips with their shared loss.
The Dangerous
Act like Levine
event1995 star_border 3.6
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Brother and sister Ninja warriors get revenge for their sister's death by killing the drug dealers in New Orleans. The police enlist the help of a biker warrior to solve the crime. The head drug dealer stirs the pot even further by hiring Cajun warriors to kill those he believes are responsible for the deaths of his dealers.
Over the Brooklyn Bridge
Act like Alby Sherman
event1984 star_border 5.2
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A put-upon Jewish deli owner in Brooklyn dreams of getting out from underneath the thumb of his domineering father and his haughty fashion-model girlfriend by buying his own restaurant in midtown Manhattan.
Live at the Foxes Den
Act like Paul Munchak
event2013 star_border 3.9
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A corporate attorney quits his job at a high profile law firm to become the singer at a an old cocktail lounge called the Foxes Den, becoming deeply involved in the lives of its staff and regulars.
My First 40 Years
Act like Nino Ranuzzi
event1987 star_border 3.3
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Marina is a woman who never says no...to men, money and fame! Determined to climb the social ladder, she works her way up from a marriage of a millionaire prince. At last, she's living the life of wealth and glamour she's always dreamed of. Then Love comes along and ruins everything! A starving artist steals her heart and seduces her away to his bohemian world. Will Marina manage to stay happy living a lifestyle out of the fast lane?
Vanishing Act
Act like Lieutenant Rudameyer
event1986 star_border 7.2
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A man honeymooning with his new wife in the Rockies reports her disappearance to the police. A few days later, a woman escorted by the local priest claims to be his missing wife, despite the man's failure to recognize her. Is a stranger impersonating her or is he delusional?
Uncorked
Act like Paul Browning
event2009 star_border 6
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Johnny is a high-powered executive who is definitely not looking to fall in love but a business conference takes her to wine country she meets a handsome widower Andrew who invites Johnny to meet his family after she loses her job. In helping his parents' winery she begins to fall in love with him and his family but when she gets offered another job she has to chose between her career or Andrew
Boys Life 3
event2000 star_border 5.1
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Jason Gould satirizes coming out in Hollywood in Inside Out, starring Alexis Arquette and papa Elliot Gould. Lane Janger's Just One Time was a festival favorite recently expanded into a feature film that turns the tables on a groom-to-be and his fantasies of sex with two women. Bradley Rust Gray's Hitch follows two attractive young guys on a dizzying road trip that leads them toward sexual self-discovery. David Fournier's Majorettes in Space is a witty French spoof of post-modern sex, romance, relationships, the Pope and baton-twirling majorettes. And, Gregory Cooke's $30 is the bittersweet story of a closeted teen presented with a young prostitute on his 16th birthday.
Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8
Act like Leonard Weinglass
event1987 star_border 6.5
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A made-for-cable-TV docudrama about the trial of the men accused of conspiring to cause protesters to riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Combines in an innovative manner dramatic recreations (largely faithful to the actual trial transcripts) with documentary footage and interviews with the actual defendants.
Dirty Tricks
Act like Professor Chandler
event1981
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A Harvard University student finds a strange letter that seems to be signed by George Washington. When trying to contact an expert (Prof. Chandler) to authenticate it, he is murdered but the letter disappears. Then Chandler, who does not know anything about the case, gets chased by the mafia and haunted by a TV reporter (Polly Bishop).
Casey at the Bat
Act like Casey Frank
event1986
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Down-on-his-luck baseball player Casey Frank (Elliott Gould) follows his dreams to become the biggest star in the game.
The Naked Face
Act like Det. Angeli
event1984 star_border 5.5
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Chicago psychiatrist Judd Stevens is suspected of murdering one of his patients when the man turns up stabbed to death in the middle of the city. After repeated attempts to convince the cops of his innocence, Dr. Stevens is forced to go after the real villains himself.
I Love My Wife
Act like Dr. Richard Burrows
event1970 star_border 2
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Young surgeon becomes bored with his wife and family, he has a very successful career, but even with having so much in life, he feels empty and goes through a series of brief and meaningless relations with attractive women.
A Boy Called Hate
Act like Richard
event1996 star_border 4.6
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After a run-in with the law, an angry maladjusted young man starts calling himself "Hate". One night he saves a girl from a lusty Assistant District Attorney. He falsely accuses them of robbery, so they go on the run and make things worse.
Yellowbird
Act like The Owl (voice)
event2014 star_border 5.1
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Yellowbird lives in the ruins of an old house. He lacks the confidence to leave his home, no matter how much Bug, his labybird friend, tries to convince him to go out into the world. Attempts to toughen him up have had little success, so Bug seizes an opportunity that leaves Yellowbird unexpectedly finding himself the new leader of the flock that is migrating to Africa. Still, lacking faith in his own abilities and with danger and imminent failure lurking around every corner, our feathered hero is forced to either find the strength required to work with the team or bow out and stay hidden away forever.
Whiffs
Act like Dudley Frapper
event1975 star_border 7.1
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Elliott Gould steals Army nerve gas to help him rob banks when he’s kicked out of the military after 15 years of service as a human guinea pig in its chemical warfare experiments.
Altman
Act like Self
event2014 star_border 6.4
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Robert Altman's life and career contained multitudes. This father of American independent cinema left an indelible mark, not merely on the evolution of his art form, but also on the western zeitgeist. With its use of rare interviews, representative film clips, archival images, and musings from his family and most recognizable collaborators, Altman is a dynamic and heartfelt mediation on an artist whose expression, passion and appetite knew few bounds.
M*A*S*H: When Television Changed Forever
Act like Self
event2022
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In M*A*S*H: When Television Changed Forever cast and crew reveal their battles with network executives to keep the show alive, their first days on set, favorite episodes, what they think made the show a mega hit and why it endures today.
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
Act like Self - Actor
event2014 star_border 7.2
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A documentary about the rise and fall of the Cannon Film Group, the legendary independent film company helmed by Israeli cousins Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus.
The Confession
Act like The Mute
event1964 star_border 1
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Madame Rinaldi, owner of a bordello, helps thief Mario Forni locate an ancient buried treasure.
Frogs!
Act like Bill
event1991 star_border 2.5
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Gus, a former frog prince turned lounge singer, shows up on his friend's doorstep just when Arlo has little time to help him. But when Gus tangles with a wicked witch, Arlo must come to the rescue, catapulting them into s series of adventure in which they both come to realize you must be true to yourself.
The Special London Bridge Special
Act like The Villain
event1972
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In 1972, the Arizona State Park bought the London Bridge. Tom Jones (as himself) is magically transported to the bridge's new location where he, befuddled, sings with other celebrities, has adventures and gets kidnapped by “the villain”.
Mean Johnny Barrows
Act like Prof. Theodore Rasputin Waterhouse
event1975 star_border 5.5
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A Vietnam veteran gets caught in a mob war with a couple of double-crossers.
Barbra Streisand: The Concert - Live at the MGM Grand
Act like Self
event2004 star_border 8.1
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Barbra Streisand returned to regular concert performances with this lavish production at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas. Performing on New Years Eve 1993 and January 1, 1994 Streisand was a smash hit and a U.S concert toured followed through the first half of 1994. The tour concluded in July in Anaheim, California and the final performance was filmed for a HBO special and won Barbra two Emmys the following year. However THIS performance is the MGM Grand concert which was filmed but not released in any format until 2004.
Amore!
Act like George Levine
event1993 star_border 3.8
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Saul Schwartz, a married successful businessman, is bored with his life and decides he has had enough. So he gets a divorce, quits his job, and goes off to pursue his dream, in Hollywood to be a movie star. Only becoming a movie star isn't as easy as he thought. Nobody wants an overweight, 50 year old, New Yorker who looks like a lawyer. He's going to have to make a few adjustments.
You People
Act like Mr. Greenbaum
event2023 star_border 5.6
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A new couple and their families reckon with modern love amid culture clashes, societal expectations and generational differences.
Stolen: One Husband
Act like Martin Slade
event1990 star_border 3
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An angry wife seeks revenge against her philandering entrepreneur husband who left her for a younger woman.
Secret Scandal
Act like Tony
event1990 star_border 4.5
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Marguerite receives as a gift from a filmmaker friend: a very modern, automatic camera, complete with remote control. Her life will change dramatically, as the machine reveals to her not only her husband's betrayal with her best friend, but also the desolation of her own existence.
St. Urbain's Horseman
Act like Uncle Abe
event2007
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Based on the novel by Mordechai Richler - Winner of the 1971 Governor General's Award - this is the story of Jake, a film director of modest success and a man in disgrace. His alter ego, his cousin Joey - Nazi-hunter, adventurer, hero of the Spanish Civil War - is the avenging horseman of Jake's impotent dreams.
Doggin' Around
Act like Joe Warren
event1994 star_border 6
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The past catches up with an ageing American jazz pianist when he returns to the clubs of Lancashire and Yorkshire that he last visited 10 years previously.
The Michaels
Act like Max Barnworth
event2014 star_border 6.1
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A manicurist predicts that an unlucky-at-love lawyer will meet the love of her life and that he will be a Michael, so the attorney begins a series of dates with men with that name.
Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult
Act like Elliott Gould (uncredited)
event1994 star_border 6.5
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Frank Drebin is persuaded out of retirement to go undercover in a state prison. There he has to find out what top terrorist, Rocco, has planned for when he escapes. Adding to his problems, Frank's wife, Jane, is desperate for a baby.
The History of Love
Act like Bruno Leibovitch
event2016 star_border 6.5
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The story of a long-lost book that mysteriously reappears and connects an old man searching for his son with a girl seeking a cure for her mother's loneliness.
The Glass Shield
Act like Greenspan
event1994 star_border 4.9
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J.J. is a rookie in the Sheriff's Department and the first black officer at that station. Racial tensions run high in the department as some of J.J.'s fellow officers resent his presence. His only real friend is the other new trooper, the first female officer to work there, who also suffers similar discrimination in the otherwise all-white male work environment. When J.J. becomes increasingly aware of police corruption during the murder trial of Teddy Woods, whom he helped to arrest, he faces difficult decisions and puts himself into grave personal danger in the service of justice.
The Feminine Touch
Act like Sen. George M. Kohn
event1995 star_border 6.5
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Jenny Baron is a beautiful investigative reporter swept into a deadly conspiracy that reaches to the highest levels of the government. When she is assigned to get the story of charismatic Presidential candidate Senator Ashton, her job is complicated by a string of political assassinations and attempts. After her lover is killed, things get personal. Jenny finds herself in possession of a computer disk that holds a list of powerful politicians marked for elimination, and the key to the massive web of death and deceit — and now she's next on the list of targets! Pursued by hitmen and hunted by police, if she survives, she may discover a truth she's not prepared to accept.
From Wharf Rats to Lords of the Docks
event2007
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Marvel at the all-star musical cast of Jackson Browne, Arlo Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Sarah Lee Guthrie, many other musicians as well as an audience of one-thousand longshore workers. Bridges was an immigrant working stiff who loved Karl Marx and Jack London, and who fought government persecution for 21 years to become an American citizen. He had a profound effect on the American labor movement, at the same time counting Charlie Chaplin, Orson Welles and Paul Robeson among his friends, He was revered by some, hated by others --a hero or the devil incarnate--but he faced it all with a twinkle in his eye. As Harry Bridges, Ian Ruskin takes you on a captivating journey through some of America's most exciting and turbulent years.
The Big Hit
Act like Morton Shulman
event1998 star_border 6
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Affable hit man Melvin Smiley is constantly being scammed by his cutthroat colleagues in the life-ending business. So, when he and his fellow assassins kidnap the daughter of an electronics mogul, it's naturally Melvin who takes the fall when their prime score turns sour. That's because the girl is the goddaughter of the gang's ruthless crime boss. But, even while dodging bullets, Melvin has to keep his real job secret from his unsuspecting fiancée, Pam.
Jack and the Beanstalk
Act like The Giant
event1983 star_border 5
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Imaginative and creative Jack seeks adventure while trying to provide for himself and his mother. Will he ever solve the mystery of how his father died?
Out to Lunch
Act like Self / Various Characters
event1974 star_border 6
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The Muppets of Sesame Street and the cast of The Electric Company take over the ABC Nightly News when the newsroom staff takes a lunch break.
Contagion
Act like Ian Sussman
event2011 star_border 6.6
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As an epidemic of a lethal airborne virus - that kills within days - rapidly grows, the worldwide medical community races to find a cure and control the panic that spreads faster than the virus itself.
A Yiddish World Remembered
Act like Narrator
event2004 star_border 10
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Elliott Gould narrates this affectionate look at life in the shtetls of Eastern Europe in the 19th and early 20th centuries. "It's unreal that all this could have just disappeared," says Polish native Mariem Adler Stok, one of the seniors whose memories of this "Yiddish world" give this documentary its life. The hour traces Jewish history in Europe and explores Jews' focus on education, their religious customs, clothing, food, music and theater.
Humor Me
Act like Bob Kroll
event2017 star_border 5.9
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With an interminable case of writer's block and a personal family crisis, playwright Nate is forced to move into his father's retirement community.
Bloodlines: Murder in the Family
Act like Stewart Woodman
event1993 star_border 2
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Stewart and Neil Woodman plot to have their parents murdered.
Puckoon
Act like Dr Goldstein
event2002 star_border 6.2
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Spike Milligan's book about the divided Irish village of Puckoon comes to the big screen.
Live from New York: The First 5 Years of Saturday Night Live
Act like Self
event2005 star_border 7.2
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A retrospective of the first 5 years of Saturday Night Live.
Johns
event1996 star_border 5.6
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It's the day before Christmas, the day before John's 21st birthday. He's a prostitute on Santa Monica Blvd in L.A., and he wants to spend that night and the next day at the posh Park Plaza Hotel. Meanwhile, Donner, a lad new to the streets, wants John to leave the city with him. John spends the day trying to figure out how to deal with Donner's friendship.
Inside Out
Act like Aaron's Dad
event1997 star_border 5.2
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A film that shows how "hard" it is to be son of celebrities.
Bergman: A Year in a Life
Act like Self
event2018 star_border 7.4
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The year 1957 was one of the most prolific for the Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman: he shot two films, released two of his most celebrated films and produced four plays and a TV movie while juggling with a complicated private life.
A Special: Olivia Newton-John
event1976 star_border 7
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In her first variety special, Olivia Newton-John performs with guests including Elliott Gould, Lynda Carter, Tom Bosley, Ron Howard and Lee Majors.
Ocean's Eight
Act like Reuben Tishkoff
event2018 star_border 7
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Debbie Ocean, a criminal mastermind, gathers a crew of female thieves to pull off the heist of the century at New York's annual Met Gala.
Once Upon a Mattress
Act like Jester
event1964
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Once Upon a Mattress is a musical comedy with music by Mary Rodgers, lyrics by Marshall Barer, and book by Jay Thompson, Dean Fuller, and Marshall Barer. The musical story of THE PRINCESS AND THE PEA, this television adaption of the 1959 Broadway hit was videotaped in black and white in front of a live audience and featured Burnett, Bova, Gilford, and White from the original Broadway cast, as well as new principals Bill Hayes as the Minstrel, Shani Wallis as Lady Larken and Elliott Gould (in his first appearance on any screen) as the Jester. Due to the reduced running time of 90 minutes, several songs and scenes were either cut or shortened. The conflict concerning Sir Harry and Lady Larkin was downplayed so that they were married in secret.
Ingmar Bergman
Act like Self
event1972 star_border 6.2
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Portrait of Ingmar Bergman, made while he was working on The Touch, about his professional and private life in the early 1970s.
Cher... and Other Fantasies
Act like Sign Painter
event1979 star_border 10
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Cher... and Other Fantasies is a 1979 prime time network special starring singer and actress Cher, featuring songs from her latest album "Take Me Home". In this special, Cher finds herself trapped in a strange building, where various fantasies await her behind every door. The memorable opening number “Aint Nobody’s Business” sees Cher on a tour of fashion from Eve in the Garden of Eden to disco at Studio 54 all while parading in dozens of stunning Bob Mackie creations. There's also a roller skating fantasy sequence and a second Garden of Eden moment when Andy Kaufman shows up as Adam and Cher plays the snake. Elliot Gould guest stars as a painter who resides in the building, Shelley Winters turns up in a skit about acting and Lucille Ball plays a cranky old washerwoman. To date this is Cher's last traditional variety-format special. The program was nominated for a 1979 Primetime Emmy Nominee for Outstanding Costume Design for a Limited Series or a Special for Bob Mackie and Ret Turner.
Bleeding Hearts
Act like Mr. Baum
event1995 star_border 5.5
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An ill-fated, tender romance between an adult white male tutor and his 17-year-old African-American female student.
Somebody's Daughter
Act like Hindeman
event1992 star_border 1
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A stripper and her bodyguard become involved in a murder.
Path of Dreams
Act like Samuel Stern
event1998 star_border 8.5
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A Jewish teenager goes to a Catholic school and falls in love with a black Catholic girl.
Cover Me
Act like Capt. Richards
event1995 star_border 3.2
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Police are stymied when a serial killer begins hacking up nude models all over L.A. In desperation, they hire sexy ex-policewoman Holly Jacobsen to do a little undercover work. At first her boyfriend Bobby Colter, also a cop, agrees to the plan, but when Holly moves from nude modeling to topless dancing to peep-show shower dancing, he begins getting a little possessive. Things get dicey when the killer, a transvestite who by now is totally obsessed with Holly, decides to make his move.
And the Oscar Goes To...
Act like Self (archive footage)
event2014 star_border 7
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The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO... traces the history of the Academy itself, which began in 1927 when Louis B. Mayer, then head of MGM, led other prominent members of the industry in forming this professional honorary organization. Two years later the Academy began bestowing awards, which were nicknamed "Oscar," and quickly came to represent the pinnacle of cinematic achievement.
Busted
Act like Game Show Host
event1997 star_border 3.3
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In the town of Amity, the cops take crime off of the streets and put it into the police station where it belongs.
Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind
Act like Self
event2020 star_border 6.4
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Explore the personal and professional triumphs and challenges of actor Natalie Wood, which have often been overshadowed by her premature death.
Dangerous Lies
Act like Leonard
event2020 star_border 6.3
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After losing her waitressing job, Katie Franklin takes a job as a caretaker to a wealthy elderly man in his sprawling, empty Chicago estate. The two grow close, but when he unexpectedly passes away and names Katie as his sole heir, she and her husband Adam are pulled into a complex web of lies, deception, and murder. If she's going to survive, Katie will have to question everyone's motives — even the people she loves.
I'll Be Going Now
Act like Alcide
event1991 star_border 6.1
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After eighteen years of psychiatric care, the former bank manager Augusto Scrivani returns home from his daughter-in-law Carla. Dino Risi directs a melancholy and scratchy Gassman.
Massacre Play
Act like Theo
event1989 star_border 5
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Estranged childhood friends, both passionate filmmakers, find themselves on divergent paths: one an acclaimed Oscar winner, the other struggling in TV. Accusations of plagiarism further strain their relationship as one's success is built on the other's stolen ideas.
Picking Up the Pieces
Act like Father LaCage
event2000 star_border 4.3
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A small New Mexican village discovers a severed hand that is considered a miracle of God, when it actually belongs to a murdered spouse with a husband in search of it.
Rip Van Marlowe
Act like Self
event2002 star_border 5.7
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Interviews with Robert Altman and Elliott Gould about The Long Goodbye (1973)
The Automat
Act like Self
event2021 star_border 6.9
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The 100-year story of the iconic restaurant chain Horn & Hardart, the inspiration for Starbucks, where generations of Americans ate and drank coffee together at communal tables. From the perspective of former customers, we watch a business climb to its peak success and then grapple with fast food in a forever changed America.
To Begin the World Over Again: The Life of Thomas Paine
Act like Narrator (voice)
event2016 star_border 10
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This is the story of one of the most extraordinary men in history, who ignited the American Revolution, defined the French and championed the use of Reason, all with his pen.
Yuri Gagarin Conspiracy: Fallen Idol
Act like Host
event2009 star_border 6
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On April 12th, 1961, the Soviet Union reports the successful launch, orbit and reentry of the first man in space, Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin pushing the cold war into a space duel. With the collapse of communism and the rise of freedom in the Russian Federation, recent access to documents in the Kremlin archives reveal a story intended to remain buried forever. Yuri Gagarin, the icon of triumphant communism known world over, was not the first man in space. He was preceded by Vladimir Ilyushin, an unsung hero and the man at the center of this decades old conspiracy....
Rickles
event1975
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Various comedy sketches with the Master of Insults, Don Rickles.
Segal
Act like Self
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A documentary focusing on the life and career of actor George Segal.
Camp Stories
Act like David Katz
event1997
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A man named David Katz remembers the formative summer he spent as a kid in an Orthodox Jewish summer camp.
Drug Free Kids: A Parents' Guide
Act like Self
event1988
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Ken Howard hosts a series of role-playing vignettes (featuring some of Hollywood's top stars) to help parents and children deal with typical family situations involving the use of illegal drugs.
City of Industry
Act like Loan Shark
event1997 star_border 5.5
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A retired thief swears revenge on the lunatic who murdered his brother and partner, while going on the run with the loot they stole.
Hotel Shanghai
Act like Hutchinson
event1997
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German two-part miniseries about the westerns staying at a popular hotel in Shanghai as the Japanese invasion of China also known as the Second Sino-Japanese War begins in 1937 as a precursor to WWII.
Enlisted: The Story of 'M*A*S*H'
Act like Self
event2000 star_border 6
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A behind the scenes look at the making of the movie M*A*S*H. The documentary reveals all of the chaos, politics, and conflict that was going on behind the scenes during production of the movie through new interviews done with director Robert Altman as well as Richard Zanuck, who was head of production for 20th Century Fox at the time, and others.
The Rules of Marriage
Act like Michael Hagen
event1982 star_border 1
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A seemingly perfect marriage disintegrates, as both husband and wife become involved in a series of affairs.
Friends: The Reunion
Act like Self
event2021 star_border 7.9
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The cast of Friends reunites for a once-in-a-lifetime celebration of the hit series, an unforgettable evening filled with iconic memories, uncontrollable laughter, happy tears, and special guests.
The Road to Damascus: The Reinvention of Bugsy Siegel
Act like Self
event2006
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Retrospective documentary of the film "Bugsy"
The Big Picture
Act like Prosecutor - Trial of Janet Kingsley (uncredited)
event1989 star_border 5.9
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Hollywood beckons for recent film school grad Nick Chapman, who is out to capitalize on the momentum from his national award-winning student film. Studio executive Allen Habel seduces Nick with a dream deal to make his first feature, but once production gets rolling, corporate reality begins to intervene: Nick is unable to control a series of compromises to his high-minded vision, and it's all he can do to maintain his integrity in the midst of filmmaking chaos.
Once Upon a Time Michel Legrand
Act like Self
event2024 star_border 6.5
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Michel Legrand, jazz musician and composer extraordinaire, has left his mark on the history of cinema, including the films of Jacques Demy, especially The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, the 60th anniversary of which is being celebrated in Cannes. Using never-before-seen archives and personal accounts, the film looks back on a lifetime dedicated to music, and the career of a man who served it masterfully to the very end.
The Simpsons
Act like Elliott Gould (voice) (1 ep.)
event1989 star_border 8
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Set in Springfield, the average American town, the show focuses on the antics and everyday adventures of the Simpson family; Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie, as well as a virtual cast of thousands. Since the beginning, the series has been a pop culture icon, attracting hundreds of celebrities to guest star. The show has also made name for itself in its fearless satirical take on politics, media and American life in general.
American Dad!
Act like Mr. Rothberg (voice) (1 ep.)
event2005 star_border 7
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The series focuses on an eccentric motley crew that is the Smith family and their three housemates: Father, husband, and breadwinner Stan Smith; his better half housewife, Francine Smith; their college-aged daughter, Hayley Smith; and their high-school-aged son, Steve Smith. Outside of the Smith family, there are three additional main characters, including Hayley's boyfriend turned husband, Jeff Fischer; the family's man-in-a-goldfish-body pet, Klaus; and most notably the family's zany alien, Roger, who is "full of masquerades, brazenness, and shocking antics."
L.A. Law
Act like Ed Morrison (3 ep.)
event1986 star_border 7.1
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L.A. Law is an American television legal drama series that ran for eight seasons on NBC from September 15, 1986, to May 19, 1994.
Created by Steven Bochco and Terry Louise Fisher, it contained many of Bochco's trademark features including a large number of parallel storylines, social drama and off-the-wall humor. It reflected the social and cultural ideologies of the 1980s and early 1990s, and many of the cases featured on the show dealt with hot-topic issues such as abortion, racism, gay rights, homophobia, sexual harassment, AIDS, and domestic violence. The series often also reflected social tensions between the wealthy senior lawyer protagonists and their less well-paid junior staff.
The show was popular with audiences and critics, and won 15 Emmy Awards throughout its run, four of which were for Outstanding Drama Series.
Friends
(1 ep.)
event1994 star_border 8.4
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Six young people from New York City, on their own and struggling to survive in the real world, find the companionship, comfort and support they get from each other to be the perfect antidote to the pressures of life.
The Shining
Act like Stuart Ullman (1 ep.)
event1997 star_border 6.3
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A new caretaker moves with his family into the mysterious Overlook Hotel for the winter.
The Twilight Zone
(1 ep.)
event1985 star_border 7.7
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This 1980s revival of the classic sci-fi series features a similar style to the original anthology series. Each episode tells a tale (sometimes two or three) rooted in horror or suspense, often with a surprising twist at the end. Episodes usually feature elements of drama and comedy.
Kim Possible
Act like Mr. Stoppable (voice) (5 ep.)
event2002 star_border 7.5
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If there's danger or trouble, Kim Possible is there on the double to save the world from villains... and still make it home in time for cheerleading practice! Luckily, Kim has her sidekick Ron Stoppable and his pet naked mole-rat Rufus by her side.
Las Vegas
(1 ep.)
event2003 star_border 7
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Ed Deline is a strict ex-CIA officer who went from being Head of Security to becoming President of Operations of the Montecito, whose job is to run the day-to-day operations of the casino. Following his departure, former Marine Danny McCoy, Ed's former protégé, becomes the Montecito's new President of Operations.
Cybill
(1 ep.)
event1995 star_border 5.8
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Cybill is an American television sitcom created by Chuck Lorre, which aired on CBS from January 2, 1995, to July 13, 1998. Starring, Cybill Shepherd, the show revolves around the life of Cybill Sheridan, a twice-divorced single mother of two and struggling actress in her 40s, who has never gotten her big show business break.
E! True Hollywood Story
(1 ep.)
event1996 star_border 8.1
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E! True Hollywood Story is an American documentary series on E! that deals with famous Hollywood celebrities, movies, TV shows and also well-known public figures. Among the topics covered on the program include salacious re-tellings of Hollywood secrets, show-biz scandals, celebrity murders and mysteries, porn-star biographies, and "where-are-they-now?" investigations of former child stars. It frequently features in-depth interviews, actual courtroom footage, and dramatic reenactments. When aired on the E! network, episodes will be updated to reflect the current life or status of the subject.
History vs. Hollywood
Act like Self (archive footage) (1 ep.)
event2001 star_border 7.7
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History vs. Hollywood is a television show on the History Channel in the United States. On the show, experts are interviewed on the historical accuracy of a film that is based on a historical event. For example the movie The Last Samurai was featured in one episode in which military historian Geoffrey Wawro, professor of history at the University of North Texas, and director of the university's Barsanti center for military-history, compared the movie with the actual events. On the show the expert guests discuss the factual accuracy of the film as well as the everyday objects that a person of the particular time period would have seen. In some episodes an expert or the host will go on a journey to the actual historical sites depicted in the film, or interview someone who witnessed the event firsthand. In each of the more than dozen episodes both expert guests and filmmakers will discuss the historical accuracy of the film dramatized.
The series was first released in 1999, and had been produced on a semi-regular basis continuing through at least 2005. The program was conceived and created by producer Steven Jack who also directed a majority of the episodes. Although the hour long programs were made for television most episodes were shot on 35mm film which heightened its authentic looking recreations and aided in earning critical praise for its efforts to both entertain and educate.
Masters of Horror
Act like Barney (1 ep.)
event2005 star_border 7.1
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An anthology series written and directed by the most famous names in horror.
Diagnosis: Murder
Act like Peyton Cartwright (1 ep.)
event1993 star_border 7.1
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Dr. Mark Sloan is a good-natured, offbeat physician who is called upon to solve murders.
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Act like Earnest Boozell (1 ep.)
event2000 star_border 7.6
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A Las Vegas team of forensic investigators are trained to solve criminal cases by scouring the crime scene, collecting irrefutable evidence and finding the missing pieces that solve the mystery.
Faerie Tale Theatre
Act like The Giant (1 ep.)
event1982 star_border 8.2
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A live-action children's television anthology series retelling popular fairy tales.
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.
The Ray Bradbury Theater
Act like Leo Auffmann (1 ep.)
event1985 star_border 6.9
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A Canadian-produced fantastic anthology series scripted by famed science-fiction author Ray Bradbury. Many of the teleplays were based upon Bradbury's novels and short stories.
Moon Over Miami
(1 ep.)
event1993 star_border 7
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Moon Over Miami is a short-lived American comedy series that aired on ABC.
The Magic School Bus
Act like (voice) (1 ep.)
event1994 star_border 7.7
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An eccentric schoolteacher takes her class on wondrous educational field trips with the help of a magical school bus.
Act of Betrayal
Act like Callaghan (2 ep.)
event1988
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An IRA informer and his family are given new identities and new lives in Australia but the IRA are still determined to track them down.
Together We Stand
(19 ep.)
event1986 star_border 7
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Together We Stand, also known as Nothing Is Easy, is an American television series that aired on the CBS network from 1986 to 1987. It was written by Stephen Sustarsic and directed by Andrew D. Weyman.
Together We Stand is about a married couple, David and Lori Randall, and their array of adopted children from all walks of life. According to producer Sherwood Schwartz, the plot for this show was originally written as a spin-off from The Brady Bunch called Kelly's Kids. In the January 4, 1974 episode of The Brady Bunch, which served as a backdoor pilot, the Bradys' neighbors plan on adopting one child but end up adopting three boys, all of different ethnicities.
E/R
Act like Howard Sheinfeld (22 ep.)
event1984 star_border 5.2
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E/R is an American television sitcom that aired in 1984 and 1985. Developed from the long running play of the same name created and produced by the Organic Theater Company under the direction of Stuart Gordon and conceived by Dr. Ronald Berman, the series was produced by Norman Lear and Embassy Television and lasted a single season. Shuko Akune and Bruce A. Young reprised their roles from the original Organic Theater Company production of the play.
Steven Spielberg and Michael Crichton borrowed heavily from this show in the creation of their television drama similarly entitled ER.George Clooney, a regular on this show, would later appeared in the NBC's drama.
Baby Bob
Act like Sam Spencer (14 ep.)
event2002 star_border 10
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Baby Bob is an American sitcom that aired on CBS as a midseason replacement in March 2002. The Baby Bob character had previously been on television since February 2000, appearing in commercials for FreeInternet.com. While actual infants played Bob, the effect to make him look like he was talking was achieved through computer editing.
The Hitchhiker
Act like Augie Benson (1 ep.)
event1983 star_border 6.1
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A young hitchhiker introduces characters who are about to experience a frightening and sometimes supernatural incident of some kind in this moody anthology series.
Drop Dead Diva
Act like Larry Baxter (1 ep.)
event2009 star_border 7.7
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A shallow model suddenly dies in an accident only to find her soul resurfacing in the body of a brilliant, plus-sized attorney.
Getting Personal
Act like Jack Kacmarczyk (18 ep.)
event1998
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Sam and Milo are best friends who work at a Chicago commercial production agency. Sam fixes up Milo on a blind date with an acquaintance named Robyn, and it turns into a disaster. The disaster continues when the two suddenly discover that Robyn has been hired as their new boss.
Saturday Night Live
Act like Self - Host (6 ep.)
event1975 star_border 6.9
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A late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels. The show's comedy sketches, which parody contemporary culture and politics, are performed by a large and varying cast of repertory and newer cast members. Each episode is hosted by a celebrity guest, who usually delivers an opening monologue and performs in sketches with the cast, and features performances by a musical guest.
Mulaney
Act like Oscar (13 ep.)
event2014 star_border 4.3
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Set in New York, and based on the life and stand-up comedy of John Mulaney, this multi-camera laffer follows an aspiring comedian coming of age under the influence of his boss, his roommates and his neighbors.
The Cape
Act like Samuel (2 ep.)
event2011 star_border 5
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"The Cape" is a drama series following Vince Faraday, an honest cop on a corrupt police force, who finds himself framed for a series of murders and presumed dead. He is forced into hiding, leaving behind his wife Dana and son, Trip. Fueled by a desire to reunite with his family and to battle the criminal forces that have overtaken Palm City, Vince Faraday becomes "The Cape" - his son's favorite comic book superhero - and takes the law into his own hands.
Maron
Act like Himself (1 ep.)
event2013 star_border 7.1
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Marc Maron has been a comedian for 25 years. He’s had his problems. He was an angry, drunk, self involved, twice divorced compulsive mess for most of his adult life, but with the popularity of a podcast he does in his garage and a life of sobriety, his life and career are turning around. MARON explores a fictionalized version of Marc’s life, his relationships, and his career, including his incredibly popular WTF podcast, which features conversations Marc conducts with celebrities and fellow comedians. Neurosis intact, Maron is uniquely fascinating, absolutely compelling and brutally funny.
K Street
Act like Bergstrom (3 ep.)
event2003 star_border 5.1
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An experimental fusion of reality and fiction--a fly-on-the-wall look at government, filmed in and around the corridors of power in Washington. The series ventures inside the world of powerful political consultants--a world that few people ever experience first-hand. Produced on location in Washington, D.C., the largely improvised ten-episode series combines fictional characters with appearances by real-life political figures, all centered around the biggest political news of the week.
Law & Order
Act like Stan Harkavy (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.
The Mike Douglas Show
Act like Self (5 ep.)
event1961 star_border 5.1
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The Mike Douglas Show is an American daytime television talk show hosted by Mike Douglas that originally aired only in the Cleveland area during much of its first two years on the air. It then went into syndication in 1963 and remained on television until 1982. It was distributed by Westinghouse Broadcasting and for much of its run, originated from studios of two of the company's TV stations in Cleveland and Philadelphia.
Tony Awards
Act like Self - Presenter (1 ep.)
event1956 star_border 4.6
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The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway productions and performances, and an award is given for regional theatre.
9JKL
Act like Harry (16 ep.)
event2017 star_border 6.4
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A time in Mark Feuerstein's adult life when he lived in apartment 9K in the building he grew up in, sandwiched between his parents' apartment, 9J; and his brother, sister-in-law and their baby's apartment, 9L and his attempts to set boundaries with his intrusive but well-meaning family.
Doubt
Act like Isaiah Roth (13 ep.)
event2017 star_border 4.6
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A successful defense lawyer at a boutique firm becomes romantically involved with a client who may or may not be guilty of a brutal crime.
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Act like Self (3 ep.)
event1962 star_border 7.4
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The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under The Tonight Show franchise from 1962 to 1992. It originally aired during late-night. For its first ten years, Carson's Tonight Show was based in New York City with occasional trips to Burbank, California; in May 1972, the show moved permanently to Burbank, California. In 2002, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson was ranked #12 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Act like Walter Tompkins (1 ep.)
event1999 star_border 7.9
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In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.
Dinah!
Act like Self (1 ep.)
event1974 star_border 6.5
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Dinah's show premiered 9 September 1974 and continued through to 4 September 1981. She started out the 70's with Dinah's Place which usually featured one guest and was more of a home oriented show about cooking, crafts and occasionally music. This format lasted until May of 1974. When the show came back in October of 1974 the format had changed drastically to a variety talk show which was called Dinah. and went on until 1981. This show was also known as "Dinah and Friends" during the summer of 1976.
Hey Arnold!
Act like Rabbi Goldberg (voice) (2 ep.)
event1996 star_border 8
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The daily life of Arnold--a fourth-grader with a wild imagination, street smarts and a head shaped like a football.
The Lincoln Lawyer
Act like David 'Legal' Siegel (9 ep.)
event2022 star_border 7.7
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Sidelined after an accident, hotshot Los Angeles lawyer Mickey Haller restarts his career - and his trademark Lincoln - when he takes on a murder case.
Ray Donovan
Act like Ezra Goldman (9 ep.)
event2013 star_border 7.5
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Set in the sprawling mecca of the rich and famous, Ray Donovan does the dirty work for LA's top power players, and makes their problems disappear. His father's unexpected release from prison sets off a chain of events that shakes the Donovan family to its core.
The U.S. and the Holocaust
Act like (voice) (3 ep.)
event2022 star_border 8.6
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Inspired in part by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s “Americans and the Holocaust” exhibition and supported by its historical resources, this documentary series examines the rise of Hitler and Nazism in Germany in the context of global antisemitism and racism, the eugenics movement in the United States, and race laws in the American south.
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Act like Rufus Van Aldin (1 ep.)
event1989 star_border 8.1
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From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet eccentrically-refined Belgian detective Hercule Poirot pits his wits against a collection of first class deceptions.
Burke's Law
Act like Harry Waters (1 ep.)
event1994 star_border 6.7
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Burke's Law, a revival of the 1960s cop television series of the same name, aired on CBS from 1994 to 1995. The series centers on Amos Burke, a senior Los Angeles police officer and millionaire, and his son, Peter, who is a detective under his command.
One Killer Question
Act like Self (2 ep.)
event2022 star_border 6.5
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The Only Murders in the Building aftershow that isn't afraid to tackle the hard question. One question. That's it. Featuring host Ali Stroker, the show's actors, a slew of celebrity superfans and one big murder to solve it just might be the only Only Murders In the Building aftershow you need to watch.
Tall Tales & Legends
Act like Casey (1 ep.)
event1985 star_border 5.4
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An anthology series that showcases various mythical characters and incidents throughout history.
The Kominsky Method
Act like Himself (1 ep.)
event2018 star_border 7.5
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An aging actor, who long ago enjoyed a brush with fame, makes his living as an acting coach.
The Wonderful World of Disney
Act like Self (1 ep.)
event1954 star_border 7.6
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Walt Disney Productions has produced an anthology television series under several different titles since 1954. The original version of the series premiered on ABC, Wednesday night, October 27, 1954. The show, which was hosted by Walt Disney until his death and then from 1996 to 2002 by then-CEO Michael Eisner (with one-off hosts or no hosts during other periods) has since aired continually as either a weekly program or an irregular series of specials on several networks and streaming services, most recently on ABC and Disney+. The show is the second longest showing prime-time program on American television, behind its rival, Hallmark Hall of Fame. However, Hallmark Hall of Fame was a weekly program only during its first five seasons, while Disney remained a weekly program for more than forty years.
Grace and Frankie
Act like Dr. Rogers (1 ep.)
event2015 star_border 7.7
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Elegant, proper Grace and freewheeling, eccentric Frankie are a pair of frenemies whose lives are turned upside down - and permanently intertwined - when their husbands leave them for each other. Together, they must face starting over in their 70s in a 21st century world.
Murder, She Wrote
Act like Lt. J.T. Hanna (1 ep.)
event1984 star_border 7.5
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An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.
Touched by an Angel
Act like Max (1 ep.)
event1994 star_border 7.2
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Monica, an angel, is tasked with bringing guidance and messages from God to various people who are at a crossroads in their lives.
Mentors
Act like Albert Einstein (1 ep.)
event1999 star_border 8.7
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A live-action children's television series following 15 year old Oliver Cates and his friend Dee who - using their homemade time machine- zap historical figures into their 21st century lives.
Backstory
Act like Self (1 ep.)
event2000 star_border 6.5
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A provocative and in-depth look at the making of a classic movie, providing viewers with great movies. And the stories behind them.
Golden Globe Awards
Act like Self (1 ep.)
event1944 star_border 6.8
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An annual awards ceremony recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign, bestowed by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
Hawaii Five-0
Act like Leo Hirsch (1 ep.)
event2010 star_border 7.8
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Steve McGarrett returns home to Oahu, in order to find his father's killer. The governor offers him the chance to run his own task force (Five-0). Steve's team is joined by Chin Ho Kelly, Danny "Danno" Williams, and Kono Kalakaua.
Omnibus
Act like Self (1 ep.)
event1967 star_border 7.4
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Omnibus was an arts-based BBC television documentary series, broadcast mainly on BBC1 in the United Kingdom. The programme was the successor to the long-running arts-based series 'Monitor'.
It ran from 1967 until 2003, usually being transmitted on Sunday evenings. During its 35-year history, the programme won 12 Bafta awards.
Among the series' best remembered documentaries are Cracked Actor, a profile of David Bowie, and Rene Magritte, a graduate film by David Wheatley, 'Madonna: Behind the American dream', a film produced by Nadia Hagger, and a profile of the British film director Ridley Scott.
For a season in 1982, the series was in a magazine format presented by Barry Norman.
The series was replaced by 'Imagine' hosted by Alan Yentob.
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