
Birthday:
11-06-1931
Deathday:
07-24-2021 (89 years)
Birthplace:
New York City, New York, USA
Biography
Arthur W. French Jr. (born November 6, 1931) is an American actor and director best known for his work in the theatre.
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Chocolate Babies
Act like Dada
event1996 star_border 4
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Welcome to the front lines of AIDS activism, where the latest enemy raids are being run by a band of unlikely warriors: two drag queens, an HIV-positive man with tiny gemstones dotting his bald head, and his HIV-positive sister.
See China and Die
Act like Rib Man
event1981
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A maid who reads detective stories finds herself embroiled in a real life mystery involving her dead boss and a mysterious statue he brought back from China.
The Stone Killer
Act like New York Detective
event1973 star_border 6.2
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A Los Angeles detective is sent to New York where he must solve a case involving an old Sicilian Mafia family feud.
The Associate
Act like Plaza Men's Room Attendant
event1996 star_border 6.2
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Laurel Ayres is a businesswoman trying to make it but unfortunately she works at a investment firm where she does all the work but all the senior investors like Frank Peterson grab all the credit. She then leaves and starts her own firm. While trying to find clients Laurel pretends that she has a male partner named Robert Cutty. And when she starts to do well all of her clients wants to meet Cutty which is difficult since he doesn't exist.
Loose Cannons
Act like Bus Driver
event1990 star_border 4.9
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Mac, the two-fisted, savvy cop finds that he's being saddled with a new partner, a known burnout, to work with him on a new and difficult case. The new partner is Ellis, an amazing detective, one who puts Sherlock Holmes to shame with his lightning-fast deductions. But he keeps assuming the personalities of entire casts of Television shows. This can be a problem when people begin shooting at them.
The Pickle
Act like Car Man
event1993 star_border 4.8
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Harry Stone always dreamed of making "The Great American Movie." Instead he made The Pickle - a teenage sci-fi flick about a flying cucumber. Harry just wanted to get out of debt; now everyone he's ever known, loved and neglected is standing in line for tickets.
Out of It
Act like Policeman
event1969 star_border 4.2
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An introverted nerd and a violent jock vie for the attentions of a cheerleader.
Hanky Panky
Act like Dispatcher on R.R. Platform
event1982 star_border 5.2
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Naïve Michael Jordon is drawn into a web of government secrets when a girl carrying a mysterious package gets into a taxi with him. When she's later murdered, Michael becomes the chief suspect and goes on the run.
Music of the Heart
Act like Ernie
event1999 star_border 6.7
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Story of a schoolteacher's struggle to teach violin to inner-city Harlem kids.
Movie 43
Act like Old Man (segment "Veronica")
event2013 star_border 4.6
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A series of interconnected short films are the backdrop for a maniac screenwriter who pitches insane storylines featuring some of Hollywood's biggest and brightest.
We're Puttin' on the Ritz
Act like Night Watchman
event1986
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Two employees of a reclusive millionaire, Micki the secretary and Max the chauffeur, decide to attend a society function to which their employer has been invited. In the course of the evening, Max and Micki establish new identities in the world of high society and, while rubbing shoulders with the elite, they uncover a scam that tests their sleuthing skills as much as their social skills.
3rd Street Blackout
Act like Hayward “The Chillmaster” Roberts
event2015 star_border 9
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A technology-obsessed couple is forced to examine their relationship during a blackout
You Can't Take it With You
Act like Donald
event1984
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A man from a family of rich snobs becomes engaged to a woman from a good-natured but decidedly eccentric family.
White Lies
Act like Bum #1
event1997
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A museum worker pretends to be an artist in order to impress women. When an attractive assistant director of a SoHo art gallery overhears him, she offers to exhibit his work. He plays along, which leads to a series of complications following his newfound double life. He starts falling in love with the assistant director, but her art critic fiancé grows suspicious.
Malcolm X
Act like Pullman Porter
event1992 star_border 7.5
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A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hit bottom during his imprisonment in the '50s, he became a Black Muslim and then a leader in the Nation of Islam. His assassination in 1965 left a legacy of self-determination and racial pride.
Utopians
Act like Morris
event2011
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Told through memory and metaphor, Utopians is a dark and subtly comic character study of three people on the edge: of society, of control, and of collapse. Roger is a yoga teacher. His daughter Zoe returns home from the military and to Rogers dismay resumes her relationship with her allegedly schizophrenic girlfriend Maya. Opposed to Zoe's pursuit of Maya but eager to be a part of his daughters life, Roger becomes entangled in the ups and downs of their relationship. Increasingly late and obviously distracted during his yoga classes, his few remaining students begin to lose patience. When Rogers well-meaning friend Morris offers them a live-in renovation job in an upscale Brooklyn home, the three of them move in and start a job they are not exactly qualified for. Living rent-free provides them with a respite from the responsibilities and expectations of the outside world. Together they try to find comfort in their new reality while being revisited by their troubled pasts.
Night of the Juggler
Act like Subway Cop
event1980 star_border 5.9
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An ex New York cop is desperate to find his kidnapped daughter.
You Can't Go Home Again
Act like Otis
event1979 star_border 1
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An adaptation of Thomas Wolfe's literary classic, telling of the struggles of a young writer determined to be a success in New York's literary world of the 1920s, his married lover, and the brilliant editor who sees him as a blossoming genius. The story parallels the life of Wolfe himself and his affair with stage designer Aline Bernstein.
Car Wash
Act like Charlie
event1976 star_border 6
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This day-in-the-life cult comedy focuses on a group of friends working at Sully Boyar's Car Wash in the Los Angeles ghetto. The team meets dozens of eccentric customers -- including a smooth-talking preacher, a wacky cab driver and an ex-convict -- while cracking politically incorrect jokes to a constant soundtrack of disco and funk. Some of the workers find romance as the day moves along, but most are just happy to get through another shift.
Forged
Act like Old Man
event2010 star_border 6
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Released from prison after serving a sentence for murdering his wife, Chuco returns to Scranton, Penn., where he meets his son, who naturally wants revenge. The two proceed to wrestle with their emotions and the past, forging an unlikely bond.
The Gentleman Bandit
Act like Det. Doerfler
event1981 star_border 6
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Based on the real-life ordeal of Baltimore priest Bernard Pagano, who was accused of several armed robberies in the late Seventies.
Red Hook Summer
Act like Mr. Curtis
event2012 star_border 5.5
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When his mom deposits him at the Red Hook housing project in Brooklyn to spend the summer with the grandfather he’s never met, young Flik may as well have landed on Mars. Fresh from his cushy life in Atlanta, he’s bored and friendless, and his strict grandfather, Enoch, a firebrand preacher, is bent on getting him to accept Jesus Christ as his personal savior. Only Chazz, the feisty girl from church, provides a diversion from the drudgery. As hot summer simmers and Sunday mornings brim with Enoch’s operatic sermons, things turn anything but dull as people’s conflicting agendas collide.
2 Days in New York
Act like Lee Robinson
event2012 star_border 5.6
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Marion and Mingus both come from failed relationships but, by bringing their children together, they've managed to form a small yet happy family. Tensions in their household soon begin to spike when Marion's jovial father shows up on their doorstep with his randy daughter and her peculiar boyfriend in tow. As the motor-mouthed houseguests shatter every taboo imaginable, the happy couple begin to question their commitment.
The Book of Henry
Act like Gus
event2017 star_border 7.5
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Susan, a single mother of two, works as a waitress in a small town. Her son, Henry, is an 11-year-old genius who not only manages the family finances but acts as emotional support for his mother and younger brother. When Henry discovers that the girl next door has a terrible secret, he implores Susan to take matters into her own hands.
God's Pocket
Act like Lucien 'Old Lucy' Edwards
event2014 star_border 5.8
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A boozy lowlife tries to bury the truth about his crazy stepson's suspicious death, but a nosy newspaper columnist and the young man's mother complicate matters.
Please Give
Act like Man Waiting for a Table
event2010 star_border 6.2
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In New York City, a husband and wife butt heads with the granddaughters of the elderly woman who lives in the apartment the couple owns.
Three Days of the Condor
Act like Messenger
event1975 star_border 7.3
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A bookish CIA researcher finds all his co-workers dead, and must outwit those responsible until he figures out who he can really trust.
Crooklyn
Act like West Indian Store Manager
event1994 star_border 6.8
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From Spike Lee comes this vibrant semi-autobiographical portrait of a school-teacher, her stubborn jazz-musician husband and their five kids living in '70s Brooklyn.
If You Give a Dance, You Gotta Pay the Band
Act like Customer
event1972
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Life in a black ghetto isn't easy for 14-year-old Billie Jean Sims, who has a father in jail, a blind grandmother, and a brother with a drug habit. Growing up among drug pushers, prostitutes, and pimps, Billie Jean still has some things going for her: fierce pride, a loyal friend named Fish, and, at last, enough savings to visit her father 1200 miles away in prison.
The Trip to Bountiful
Act like Roy
event2014 star_border 5.9
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Carrie Watts begrudgingly lives with her busy, overprotective son, Ludie and pretentious daughter-in-law, Jessie Mae. No longer able to drive and forbidden to travel alone, she wishes for freedom from the confines of the house.
Citizens Band
Act like Tony
event1977 star_border 5
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The interlaced stories of several characters in a small town united by their use of CB (citizen's band) radio.
Others
Act like John
event2019
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A series of non-narrative vignettes involving people in everyday moments who are connected to otherworldly beings.
Hollow Image
Act like Man at Meeting
event1979 star_border 6
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A black New York career girl, who has made it big in the fashion world, is torn between her new life "downtown" and her roots in Harlem with an old boyfriend still living there.
Blade
Act like Sanchez
event1973 star_border 5.2
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A homicide detective goes after a woman-hating serial killer, who uses knives to murder his victims.
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Act like Harold Starnes (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.
Law & Order
Act like Dr. Myron Jansen (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 Days and Nights of Molly Dodd
Act like Muff (1 ep.)
event1987 star_border 6
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Molly Dodd — a mid-30s, divorced woman living in New York — faces the comedy and drama of a widely changing career, difficulties of apartment living, love life and its consequences, and more.
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Act like Mr. Hawks (1 ep.)
event2001 star_border 7.6
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The third installment of the “Law & Order” franchise takes viewers deep into the minds of its criminals while following the intense psychological approaches the Major Case Squad uses to solve its crimes.
Due South
Act like Irving (1 ep.)
event1994 star_border 7.6
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Constable Benton Fraser, an officer of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, is attached to the Canadian consulate but works with Chicago Police Department to solve crimes.
New Amsterdam
Act like Walter Brandt (1 ep.)
event2018 star_border 8.4
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The new medical director breaks the rules to heal the system at America's oldest public hospital. Max Goodwin sets out to tear up the bureaucracy and provide exceptional care, but the doctors and staff are not so sure he can succeed. They've heard this before. Not taking "no" for an answer, Dr. Goodwin's instinctive response to problems large and small is four simple words: "How can I help?" He has to disrupt the status quo and prove he'll stop at nothing to breathe new life into this underfunded and underappreciated hospital, returning it to the glory that put it on the map.
Kojak
Act like Eddie (1 ep.)
event1973 star_border 7
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A bald, lollipop sucking police detective with a fiery righteous attitude battles crime in New York City.
Betty
Act like Mr. Felix (2 ep.)
event2020 star_border 7.1
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A diverse group of young women navigate their lives through the male-dominated world of skateboarding in New York City. Inspired by the critically acclaimed film Skate Kitchen.
NYC 22
Act like Angry 'Old School' Resident (1 ep.)
event2012 star_border 6.2
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NYC 22 follows six diverse NYPD rookies as they patrol the gritty streets of upper Manhattan. With unique backgrounds, personalities and reasons for being on the force, the new cops will make their share of rookie mistakes while they figure out how to relate to their boss, each other and the people they swore to protect.
Third Watch
Act like Johnette (1 ep.)
event1999 star_border 7.9
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The exploits of a group of men and women who serve the City of New York as police officers, firemen, and paramedics, all working the same fictional 55th precinct during the 3pm to 11pm shift - the 'Third Watch'.
Wonderland
Act like Buddy Hatcher (1 ep.)
event2000 star_border 10
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Wonderland is a short-lived and controversial 2000 ABC television drama directed by Peter Berg. It depicted daily life in a mental institution, from the perspectives of both the doctors and patients. Only two episodes aired on ABC during its original run in 2000. DirecTV aired all eight episodes on its channel The 101 Network starting January 14, 2009.
The show had many controversial positions on the mental health crisis and its treatment.
TV Guide included the series in their 2013 list of 60 shows that were "Cancelled Too Soon".
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