Brion James

Born: 1945-02-20

Brion Howard James (February 20, 1945 – August 7, 1999) was an American character actor. Known for playing the character of Leon Kowalski in the movie Blade Runner, James portrayed a variety of colorful roles in well-known American films such as 48 Hrs., Another 48 Hours, Tango & Cash, Silverado, Red Heat, The Player and The Fifth Element. James' commanding screen presence and formidable physique at 6 feet 3 inches (1.91 m) tall usually resulted in his casting as a heavy, appearing more frequently in lower budget horror and action films throughout the 1980s and 1990s. James appeared in more than 100 films before he died of a heart attack aged 54. Description above from the Wikipedia article Brion James, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.


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as Leon Kowalski
Released: 1982-06-25

In the smog-choked dystopian Los Angeles of 2019, blade runner Rick Deckard is called out of...

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as General Munro
Released: 1997-05-02

In 2257, a taxi driver is unintentionally given the task of saving a young girl who is part of...

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Tango & Cash

as Requin
Released: 1989-12-22

Ray Tango and Gabriel Cash are narcotics detectives who, while both being extremely successful,...

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as Streak
Released: 1988-06-17

A tough Russian policeman is forced to partner up with a cocky Chicago police detective when he...

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The Player

as Joel Levison
Released: 1992-04-03

A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected -...

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Enemy Mine

as Stubbs
Released: 1985-12-12

A soldier from Earth crashlands on an alien world after sustaining battle damage. Eventually he...

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48 Hrs.

as Ben Kehoe
Released: 1982-12-07

A hard-nosed cop reluctantly teams up with a wise-cracking criminal temporarily paroled to him,...

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Striking Distance

as Det. Eddie Eiler
Released: 1993-09-17

Coming from a police family, Tom Hardy ends up fighting his uncle after the murder of his...

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Silverado

as Hobart
Released: 1985-07-10

Four unwitting heroes cross paths on their journey to the sleepy town of Silverado. Little do...

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as Krasnov
Released: 1988-12-24

A Russian KGB agent is sent to Africa to kill an anti-Communist black revolutionary. However, he...

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Hard Times

as Man (uncredited)
Released: 1975-08-13

In the depression, Chaney, a strong silent streetfighter, joins with Speed, a promoter of...

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The Postman Always Rings Twice

as Crapshooter
Released: 1981-03-20

The sensuous wife of a lunch wagon proprietor and a rootless drifter begin a sordidly steamy...

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Armed and Dangerous

as Anthony Lazarus
Released: 1986-08-15

After policeman Frank Dooley is framed for theft and loses his job on the force, he joins a...

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Flesh + Blood

as Karsthans
Released: 1985-08-30

A band of medieval mercenaries take revenge on a noble lord who decides not to pay them by...

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Radioland Murders

as Bernie King
Released: 1994-10-21

A series of mysterious crimes threatens the existence of a new radio network.

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Cherry 2000

as Stacy
Released: 1987-11-10

When successful businessman Sam Treadwell finds that his android wife, Cherry model 2000 has...

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Southern Comfort

as Trapper
Released: 1981-09-24

A squad of National Guards on an isolated weekend exercise in the Louisiana swamp must fight for...

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Another 48 Hrs.

as Ben Kehoe
Released: 1990-06-08

For the past four years, San Francisco cop Jack Cates has been after an unidentified drug...

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Steel Dawn

as Tark
Released: 1987-11-06

In a post-apocalyptic world, a warrior wandering through the desert comes upon a group of...

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Nemesis

as Maritz
Released: 1992-12-26

In the future, chaos is rampant as 'information terrorists' threaten to destroy order in...

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Crimewave

as Arthur Coddish
Released: 1985-04-12

Fed up of his business partner, Ernest Trend hires the services of two exterminators. When...

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Corvette Summer

as Wayne's Car Wash Henchman
Released: 1978-06-02

Ken loves to design and build exotic cars. When the High School shop class project car, a fully...

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Amazing Stories

as Willie Joe
Released: 1986-07-10

A feature film edited from three episodes of Amazing Stories (1985): The Mission, Mummy Daddy...

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Wholly Moses

as Guard at Banquet
Released: 1980-06-13

Harvey and Zoey, two tourists in Israel, discover an ancient scroll about Herschel, the man who...

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D.O.A.

as Detective Ulmer
Released: 1988-03-18

Dexter Cornell, an English Professor becomes embroiled in a series of murders involving people...

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Nickelodeon

as Bailiff
Released: 1976-12-21

In the silent film era, attorney Leo Harrigan and gunslinger Buck Greenway are hired to stop an...

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Diplomatic Siege

as Stubbs
Released: 1999-12-17

When Steve Mitchell is clandestinely sent to the US embassy in Bucharest, Romania to disarm a...

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Cabin Boy

as Big Teddy
Released: 1994-01-07

A foul-mouthed finishing school graduate mistakenly winds up on an ill-fated fishing boat, and...

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Steel Frontier

as General J.W. Quantrell
Released: 1995-03-28

Set in a post-nuclear-holocaust future, this sci-fi western takes place in the frontier city of...

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The Horror Show

as Max Jenke
Released: 1989-04-28

Vowing revenge on the detective who apprehended him, serial killer "Meat Cleaver" Max Jenke...

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Cyberjack

as Nassim
Released: 1995-09-19

In the near future Nassim, terrorist leader, storms computer company headquarters. His aim is...

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Rio Diablo

as Jake Walker
Released: 1993-02-28

Kenny Roger's leaves his good-guy image behind as the rugged, gutsy Quentin Leach, a bounty...

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The Jazz Singer

as Man in Bar
Released: 1980-12-17

Jess Robin dreams of a career in popular music, but his father, Cantor Rabinovitch, forbids it,...

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Scanner Cop

as Dr. Hampton
Released: 1994-07-27

Rookie cop Sam Staziak has a unique gift: he is a Scanner, which gives him the power to read the...

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Future Shock

as Jack Porter
Released: 1994-01-01

A psychiatrist uses virtual reality to probe the minds of three unsuspecting patients,...

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Street Asylum

as Reverend Mony
Released: 1990-06-06

In the bleak near future Los Angeles has become a dangerous war zone with cops pitted against...

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Showdown

as Vice Principal Kowalski
Released: 1993-09-16

Ken has just moved from Kansas with his mother. He talks to a girl named Julie, not knowing that...

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Dominion

as Lynwood
Released: 1995-04-25

A hunting expedition goes awry when another hunter decides to make the hunters the hunted.

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Nature of the Beast

as Sheriff Gordon
Released: 1995-10-23

Two men, both hiding a deadly secret, are on a murderous rampage through the desert.

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Bound for Glory

as Pick Up Truck Driver at the Border
Released: 1976-12-05

A biography of Woody Guthrie, one of America's greatest folk singers. He left his...

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Mom

as Nestor Duvalier
Released: 1990-06-19

During a time when the city of Los Angeles is terrorized by animal attack style murders, a...

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The Underground

as Captain Hilton
Released: 1997-10-28

A cop must stop the killings of rap stars. But, he gets in too deep after his partner is killed.

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A Breed Apart

as Peyton
Released: 1984-06-01

A conservationist and a widow meet a mountain climber hired to steal bald-eagle eggs.

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Arthurs Quest

as Trent
Released: 1999-03-03

To escape the clutches of the evil warrior and sorceress Morgana, Merlin transports young King...

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Precious Find

as Sam Horton
Released: 1996-06-26

The year is 2049. 200 years after the great Californian goldrush. The new generation of gold...

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Annihilator

as Alien Leader
Released: 1986-04-07

Humanoid killer robots stalk a newspaperman, who has knowledge of their existence. One of the...

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Blue Sunshine

as Tony
Released: 1978-03-20

At a party, someone goes insane and murders three women. Falsely accused of the brutal killings,...

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The Wrong Guys

as Glen Grunski
Released: 1988-05-13

Five former cub scouts have a reunion and go camping on the mountain they never conquered. High...

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KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park

as Guard
Released: 1979-10-26

The tale of rock band KISS and their efforts to thwart a diabolical plan by mad scientist Abner...

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Harry and Walter Go to New York

as Hayseed
Released: 1976-06-17

Two hoplessly out of their class con-men attempt to pull off the largest bank heist of the l9th...

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Treasure of Matecumbe

as Roustabout
Released: 1976-07-01

In post-Civil War Kentucky, young David Burnic becomes the unexpected heir to the family secret,...

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Precious Victims

as Agent Jimmy Bivens
Released: 1993-09-27

Paula and Robert Sims are desperate: their 12 days old baby has been kidnapped! Since there's no...

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Knight Rider 2010

as Jared
Released: 1994-02-03

Loosely based on the popular television series of the 80's, this movie brings the story into an...

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Time Runner

as Neila
Released: 1993-03-17

During the alien invasion of 2022, one man flees through a wormhole to 1992, where attempt after...

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The Companion

as Ron Cocheran
Released: 1994-10-14

In the near-distant future, a female romance writer is planning to write her next book in a...

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as Oris
Released: 1996-09-12

The desert can be a lonely place for the people who live there or for those who are traveling...

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Flying High

as Clyde Boyer
Released: 1978-08-28

In this pilot film to the subsequent short-lived series, three attractive young women -- Marcy...

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Brain Smasher... A Love Story

as Brown
Released: 1993-11-17

A professional model, Sam Crain, is asked by her sister to smuggle a package from Europe to...

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Mutator

as David Allen
Released: 1989-05-15

A beast gets loose in a laboratory, killing all in it's way. A former scientist, now working as...

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Spitfire

as Tough Guy (uncredited)
Released: 1995-01-24

A sultry assassin is the target of two separate operatives in this globe-trotting action flick...

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Love Among Thieves

as Andre
Released: 1987-02-23

Caroline DuLac, a baroness and concert pianist, steals three jewel-encrusted Faberge eggs from a...

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Savage Land

as Cyrus
Released: 1994-09-13

Two women and two kids are stranded in the Old West when bad guys (posing as Indians) try to...

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Wishman

as Staten Jack Rose
Released: 1992-09-18

Basie is a man who collects junk and tries to make something out of it. He is also in love with...

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The Gambler: The Adventure Continues

as Reece
Released: 1983-11-28

Brady Hawkes, Billy Montana, and Jeremiah Hawkes are on a train bound for a huge gambling event...

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Deadly Ransom

as Bobby Rico
Released: 1998-10-03

A wealthy banker and his daughter are kidnapped by a gang of thugs. The girl's boyfriend, who...

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Bombshell

as Donald
Released: 1997-09-26

Characters in a bio technological firm utilize nanotechnology (miniature, smart robots) to...

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The Dark

as Paul Buckner
Released: 1993-10-01

Something is alive beneath the surface of the graveyard. Something with the power to destroy and...

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Dirt Merchant

as Detective Harry Ball
Released: 1999-09-16

A slacker turns P.I. to solve a rock star's murder.

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Black Magic

as Tom McKay
Released: 1992-09-21

A young man is tormented by visions of his dead cousin who attempts to warn him of a Witch...

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The Operator

as Vernon Woods
Released: 2000-03-04

A scoundrel is tormented by a seemingly-omniscent telephone operator.

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Nightmare at Noon

as The Albino
Released: 1988-06-29

Scientists poison the water supply of a small town, turning the residents into homicidal maniacs...

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Men in White

as Air Force
Released: 1998-08-16

National Lampoon's Men in White is a straight-to-television satirical parody of contemporary...

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Killing at Hell's Gate

as Turkey Jones
Released: 1981-10-31

A whitewater rafting party is terrorized by a group of loggers who, after accidentally killing...

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Conquest of the Earth

as Willy
Released: 1981-07-01

The Battlestar Galactica and its ragtag fleet of ships finally arrive at the Earth, only to...

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Malevolence

as Warden Walker
Released: 1999-02-01

A young prisoner tells his story to an FBI agent. How unjust judicial system, systematic abuse...

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Hear No Evil

as Billy Boy Burns
Released: 1982-11-20

A cop who became deaf as the result of a fight tries to break up a drug ring run by bikers.

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Frogtown II

as Prof. Tanzer
Released: 1992-11-03

In the sequel to Hell Comes to Frogtown, the Mutant-Frog leader of Frogtown kidnaps a professor...

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Jekyll Island

as Lawton Goodyear
Released: 1998-01-01

Crime Drama - Don Mogavero, Brion James, Olivia Burnette

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Kai Rabe gegen die Vatikankiller

as Monk
Released: 1998-11-26

Director Rufus Lindner is shooting his first film: " Die Vatikankiller". With audience favorite...

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Indecent Behavior III

as Mr. Cowed
Released: 1995-12-19

A sex therapist finds herself forced to cooperate with the police in tracking down a killer who...

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The King Is Alive

as Ashley
Released: 2000-05-11

Stranded in the heat of a barren African desert, eleven bus-passengers shelter in the remnants...

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Trouble in High Timber Country

as Eddie Rhodes
Released: 1980-06-27

A proud patriarch battles union organizers and a powerful conglomerate threatening the...

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Evil Obsession

as Stavinski
Released: 1996-09-19

As models show up on calendars and magazine covers, someone is making bodies show up at the...

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Ultimate Desires

as Wolfgang Friedman
Released: 1991-07-31

Samantha Stewart is a successful public defender whose life gets turned upside-down one night...

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Sketch Artist II: Hands That See

as Larry Walker
Released: 1995-01-28

Police sketch artist Jack Whitfield helps blind rape victim Emmy describe her attacker – a...

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The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez

as Captain Rogers
Released: 1983-08-19

Forced to run from Texas Rangers after a heated misunderstanding leads to the death of a lawman,...

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Soggy Bottom, U.S.A.

as Defalice
Released: 1981-10-09

In a small Southern town, the local sheriff tries to keep everything peaceful and under control.

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The Killing Jar

as uncredited
Released: 1997-05-27

Michael Sanford and his wife move to his old town so he can take over the family business....

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Brown's Requiem

as Cathcart
Released: 1998-11-01

Fritz Brown is an ex-LAPD, recovering alcoholic who now splits his time repossessing cars for a...

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The Soft Kill

as Ben McCarthy
Released: 1994-10-25

Private investigator and former police detective Jack Ramsey is enjoying an affair with the...

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Enid Is Sleeping

as Trucker
Released: 1990-05-25

Enid only looks like she's sleeping. In fact, she's dead. Shortly after Enid caught her husband...

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The Kansas City Massacre

as Homer Van Meter
Released: 1975-09-19

Gangsters free one of their colleagues being escorted to prison and kill several FBI agents and...

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Hong Kong 97

as Simon Alexander
Released: 1994-11-09

Hong Kong 97 takes place in Hong Kong right before the transfer of power from Britain to China....

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Dead Man Walking

as Decker
Released: 1988-09-15

After Leila, his boss's daughter, is kidnapped by psychopathic plague victim Decker, chauffeur...

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The Invasion of Johnson County

as Ben Jones
Released: 1976-07-31

A free-spirited Bostonian recently arrived in the West teams up with a crusty Wyoming cowboy to...

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F.T.W.

as Sheriff Rudy Morgan
Released: 1994-06-17

A man and a woman running from their pasts are trapped on a collision course with the future....

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Back in Business

as Emery Ryker
Released: 1997-05-29

An ex-cop gets pulled back in an undercover mission for the FBI by his former partner. The...

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Joseph's Gift

as Frank Childress
Released: 1999-01-01

Joseph is the youngest member of a large family that owns a successful garment business in Los...

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In God's Hands

as Capitaine
Released: 1998-04-24

Three pro surfers - gifted Shane, once-great Mickey and rising young star Keoni travel to...

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The Hunter's Moon

as Sheriff Foulkes
Released: 1999-10-10

A violent and dangerous tyrant who dominates the inhabitants of a mountain sees his authority...

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Assault on Dome 4

as Chairman
Released: 1996-10-08

In this science-fiction action opus, intergalactic extremist Alex Windham has seized control of...

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Pterodactyl Woman from Beverly Hills

as Salvador Dali / Sam
Released: 1997-10-07

Pixie is cursed with turning into a Pterodactyl when her husband is caught messing with bones on...

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Phoenix Point

as Spider Rico
Released: 2005-01-20

When the apocalypse arrives, it takes the form of a biochemical virus. All social structures...

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Farewell, My Love

as Renault
Released: 2000-02-15

Brigit as a young girl saw her family killed by the Karpovs, a Russian crime family, she would...

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Snide and Prejudice

as Hermann Goering
Released: 1997-05-11

At a mental institution, the resident physician, Dr Cohen, encourages his patients who believe...

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Art Deco Detective

as Jim Wexler
Released: 1994-09-16

While investigating the murder of a movie star, a detective finds that he himself is being set...

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Desperado: The Outlaw Wars

as Roy Grimes
Released: 1989-10-10

Duell McCall visits his old girlfriend, Nora, and learns that she gave birth to his child. He...

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Black Sea 213

as Captain Killick
Released: 1998-01-01

Mercenaries selling nuclear arms on the black market pose as models so they can set up an...

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A Place Called Truth

as Hank
Released: 1998-07-20

Love, pride and jealousy are aroused when a ranch owner's daughter, called Lizzie, has an affair...

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The Thief & the Stripper

as Shoe
Released: 2002-10-15

When a former private investigator steals a briefcase from local mobsters, a stripper joins him...

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Circles in a Forest

as Mr. Patterson
Released: 1989-08-01

Saul Barnard grew up in a family of woodcutters. The woodcutters are scared of the elephants in...

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Billy Lone Bear

as uncredited
Released: 1996-01-01

An honest cop named Billy Bear hides from the IRA in an Indian reservation. The problem is, the...

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The A-Team

as Ryder
First aired: 1983-01-23

A fictional group of ex-United States Army Special Forces personnel work as soldiers of fortune...

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The A-Team

as David Plout
First aired: 1983-01-23

A fictional group of ex-United States Army Special Forces personnel work as soldiers of fortune...

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The Rockford Files

as Clamshell
First aired: 1974-09-13

Cranky but likable L.A. PI Jim Rockford pulls no punches (but takes plenty of them). An ex-con...

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Quincy, M.E.

as Henry Moeller
First aired: 1976-10-03

Quincy, M.E. is an American television series from Universal Studios pert in several of the...

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Miami Vice

as Edward Reese
First aired: 1984-09-16

The story of the Miami Police Department's vice squad and its efforts to end drug trafficking...

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Highlander: The Series

as Armand Thorne
First aired: 1992-10-03

Duncan MacLeod cannot die -- he is a 400-year-old immortal, who has seen his share of humanity's...

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The Incredible Hulk

as Al
First aired: 1977-11-04

During an experiment gone bad, radiation turns a scientist into a raging green behemoth whenever...

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Batman: The Animated Series

as Irving (voice)
First aired: 1992-09-05

Vowing to avenge the murder of his parents, Bruce Wayne devotes his life to wiping out crime in...

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Batman: The Animated Series

as Additional Voices (voice)
First aired: 1992-09-05

Vowing to avenge the murder of his parents, Bruce Wayne devotes his life to wiping out crime in...

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Little House on the Prairie

as uncredited
First aired: 1974-09-11

Little House on the Prairie is an American Western drama television series, starring Michael...

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Walker, Texas Ranger

as Rafer Cobb
First aired: 1993-04-21

Modern-day Texas Ranger, Cordell Walker's independent crime-solving methods have their roots in...

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The Sentinel

as Warren Chapel
First aired: 1996-03-20

The Sentinel is a Canadian-produced television series. In the jungles of peru, the fight for...

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Tales from the Crypt

as Steve Dixon
First aired: 1989-06-10

Cadaverous scream legend the Crypt Keeper is your macabre host for these forays of fright and...

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Superman: The Animated Series

as Parasite / Rudy Jones (voice)
First aired: 1996-09-06

Superman, an incredibly powerful alien from the planet Krypton, defends Metropolis from...

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Superman: The Animated Series

as Parasite (voice)
First aired: 1996-09-06

Superman, an incredibly powerful alien from the planet Krypton, defends Metropolis from...

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Matlock

as Mr. Grock
First aired: 1986-03-03

Matlock is an American television legal drama, starring Andy Griffith in the title role of...

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Gunsmoke

as Joe Barnes
First aired: 1955-09-10

Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman...

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Millennium

as Sheriff Bowman
First aired: 1996-10-25

A retired FBI serial-profiler joins the mysterious Millennium Group, a team of underground...

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Sledge Hammer!

as Felix Ridel
First aired: 1986-09-23

Sledge Hammer! is an American satirical police sitcom produced by New World Television that ran...

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The Waltons

as Henry Ferris Jr.
First aired: 1972-09-14

The Waltons live their life in a rural Virginia community during the Great Depression and World...

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Roots

as Slaver
First aired: 1977-01-23

The epic tale of celebrated Pulitzer-prize winning author Alex Haley's ancestors as portrayed in...

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Galactica 1980

as Willy
First aired: 1980-01-27

30 years after the original Battlestar Galactica series. Upon reaching Earth, the inhabitants of...

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Amazing Stories

as Willie Joe
First aired: 1985-09-29

A truly amazing, fantastical, science fiction, funny and odd, and sometimes scary, sad and...

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Mork & Mindy

as George
First aired: 1978-09-14

A wacky alien comes to Earth to study its residents and the life of the human woman he boards...

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The Hitchhiker

as Lionel
First aired: 1983-11-01

A young hitchhiker introduces characters who are about to experience a frightening and sometimes...

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Hunter

as Lt. Jeff Wadsworth / Thomas Duffy
First aired: 1984-09-18

Hunter is an American police drama television series created by Frank Lupo, and starring Fred...

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Sidekicks

as uncredited
First aired: 1986-09-26

Sidekicks is a 1986-1987 Disney Channel martial arts TV series

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Spawn

as uncredited
First aired: 1997-05-16

Todd McFarlane's Spawn is an animated television series which aired on HBO from 1997 through...

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When the Whistle Blows

as uncredited
First aired: 1980-03-14

Short-lived comedy about construction workers enjoying themselves. The crew was all male except...

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The Marshal

as uncredited
First aired: 1995-01-31

The Marshal is an American action-drama television series that aired on ABC for two brief...

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CHiPs

as Billy Joe Ackerman
First aired: 1977-09-15

Lighthearted look at the adventures of two Highway Patrol officers in Los Angeles. The main...

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CHiPs

as Monk Adler
First aired: 1977-09-15

Lighthearted look at the adventures of two Highway Patrol officers in Los Angeles. The main...

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