John Karlen

Born: 1933-05-28

John Karlen (born John Adam Karlewicz) was an American character actor who played multiple roles (Willie Loomis, Carl Collins, William H. Loomis, Desmond Collins, Alex Jenkins, and Kendrick Young) on the ABC serial Dark Shadows, in various episodes which aired from 1966 to 1971. Karlen also played Harvey Lacey, husband of Mary Beth Lacey (played by Tyne Daly), on the CBS crime series Cagney & Lacey (1982–88).


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Daughters of Darkness

as Stefan Chilton
Released: 1971-10-02

Ostend, Belgium. In a decadent seaside hotel, Stefan and Valerie, a newlywed couple, meet the...

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Trilogy of Terror

as Thomas Amman
Released: 1975-03-04

A horror anthology containing three stories: a female college professor is aggressively pursued...

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Pennies from Heaven

as The Detective
Released: 1981-12-11

During the Great Depression, a sheet music salesman seeks to escape his dreary life through...

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Cagney & Lacey: The View Through the Glass Ceiling

as Harvey Lacey
Released: 1995-10-25

Cagney and Lacey work a case involving police corruption and document forgery. Chris seeks a...

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Racing with the Moon

as Mr. Nash
Released: 1984-03-23

In a small coastal California town, Henry and Nicky are pals from blue collar families with only...

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Surf Ninjas

as Mac
Released: 1993-08-12

Two Asian-American "surfer-dude" brothers discover they are the long lost princes from a China...

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House of Dark Shadows

as Willie Loomis
Released: 1970-09-09

The story of vampire Barnabas Collins, the possible cure offered him by Dr. Julia Hoffman, and...

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Cagney & Lacey: The Return

as Harvey Lacey
Released: 1994-11-06

1994. Cagney, now a Lieutenant, re-teams with Lacey, who has left the force, to search for a...

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Shirts/Skins

as Herbie Bush
Released: 1973-10-09

Six businessmen who have a weekly after-hours basketball game get caught up in a bet about a...

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Cagney & Lacey: Together Again

as Harvey Lacey
Released: 1995-05-02

New York's toughest lady detectives re-team to solve the murder of a homeless transient who had...

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MacShayne: Winner Takes All

as Waldo Church
Released: 1994-01-01

MacShayne is a gambler and small time con-man. After serving a short stretch in jail, he goes to...

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The Last Ride of the Dalton Gang

as Charlie Powers
Released: 1979-11-20

A light-hearted view of the Dalton Gang's legendary raid on Coffeyville, Kansas and the years...

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Night of Dark Shadows

as Alex Jenkins
Released: 1971-08-04

A newlywed painter and his wife move into his family's ancestral home and find themselves...

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The Long Days of Summer

as Duane Haley
Released: 1980-05-23

In this sequel to his 1978 "When Every Day Was the Fourth of July" (and a pilot to a prospective...

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Babycakes

as Al
Released: 1989-02-14

Grace is an overweight mortuary cosmetician who falls in love with Rob, a handsome subway train...

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Frankenstein

as Otto Roget
Released: 1973-01-16

A scientist obsessed with creating life steals body parts to put together his "creation."...

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Melvin Purvis G-Man

as 'Tony' Anthony Redecci
Released: 1975-02-28

Agent Melvin Purvis is placed in charge of running down notorious killer Machine Gun Kelly, and...

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Perry Mason: The Case of the Glass Coffin

as Jake Morrison
Released: 1991-05-14

David Katz is a world famous magician and he comes to Denver with his group to perform for a...

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Cagney & Lacey: True Convictions

as Harvey Lacey
Released: 1996-01-29

Detectives Cagney and Lacey come face-to-face with their true feelings about capital punishment...

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The Return of Mod Squad

as Marty
Released: 1979-05-18

Pete, Linc and Julie are called back to the force when a series of sniper attacks are made on...

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Native Son

as Max
Released: 1986-12-24

In 1940s Chicago, a young black man takes a job as a chauffeur to a white family, which takes a...

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Impulse

as Bob Russell
Released: 1984-09-28

After a small earthquake in a small and quiet town, local citizens start to have a bizarre,...

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Nightmare on the 13th Floor

as Sgt. Madden
Released: 1990-10-31

In this made-for-cable television horror thriller, a travel writer visits a historic hotel to...

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A Small Town in Texas

as Lenny
Released: 1976-07-09

A crooked sheriff in a small Southern town frames an ex-convict in a drug bust and takes his...

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The Kansas City Massacre

as Sam Cowley
Released: 1975-09-19

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

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Welcome Home, Bobby

as Geffin
Released: 1986-02-22

When a Chicago teen is arrested for drug possession, the ensuing investigation reveals that he...

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The Picture of Dorian Gray

as Alan Campbell
Released: 1973-04-22

Adaptation of the novel by Oscar Wilde.

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Night of Terror

as Manning
Released: 1972-10-10

A hired killer hunts down a schoolteacher to get something she has. She doesn't know what it is,...

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Calendar Girl, Cop, Killer? The Bambi Bembenek Story

as John Garner
Released: 1992-05-18

Story of attractive cop Laurencia Bembenek, who, in 1982, was sentenced to prison for killing...

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Daddy

as Mike Burnette
Released: 1987-04-14

Two high schoolers are unprepared for the reality of parenthood when the girl becomes pregnant.

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Killer's Delight

as Danny
Released: 1978-04-28

A detective tracks a serial killer through San Francisco.

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Without Warning: Terror in the Towers

as Jack McAllister
Released: 1993-05-26

Massive rescue efforts are mobilized to save occupants of New York City's World Trade Center...

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Date Rape

as Joe Farrell
Released: 1988-09-15

Teenage girl is raped after accepting a date from the most popular boy in school.

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Master of Dark Shadows

as Self
Released: 2019-04-16

Revealing the fascinating impact of the ground-breaking Gothic drama Dark Shadows with a...

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Delancey Street: The Crisis Within

as Richard Copell
Released: 1975-04-19

The story of Delancey Street Foundation, a self-help group devoted to reclaiming ex-junkies,...

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The Cloning of Clifford Swimmer

as uncredited
Released: 1974-11-01

Clifford Swimmer, an angry and abusive man cruel to his wife and son, wants out if his marriage....

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The Return of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer

as Chapel
Released: 1986-04-18

After two attempts to kidnap a little girl Mike Hammer is hired to protect her.

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The Invasion of Carol Enders

as David Hastings
Released: 1973-11-05

Television thriller about a woman is possessed after a brutal attack.

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Hostage Flight

as DiSalvo
Released: 1985-11-17

A plane is hijacked and bound for London. Once the terrorists begin killing hostages, the...

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The Cover Girl and the Cop

as Lieutenant Wingo
Released: 1989-01-16

Julia Duffy is the cover girl and Dinah Manoff the cop in this made-for-TV contrivance.

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Downpayment on Murder

as Albert
Released: 1987-01-18

About an estranged husband who, in an explosive rage, decides to have his wife murdered by a...

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Nightmare at 43 Hillcrest

as uncredited
Released: 1974-08-20

Police looking for drug dealers mistakenly raid the house of a typical suburban family. However,...

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Roseanne: An Unauthorized Biography

as Jerry Barr
Released: 1994-10-11

Behind the headlines... Behind the laughter... there's an unforgettable story you've never heard...

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Police Story: Burnout

as Capt. Harrison
Released: 1988-11-26

A veteran vice cop has a hard time dealing with her partner's suicide.

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American Dream

as Coach Ritter
Released: 1981-04-26

A family moves from an affluent Chicago suburb to the mixed inner-city neighborhood where the...

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Rosie: The Rosemary Clooney Story

as Uncle George
Released: 1982-12-08

The story of singer Rosemary Clooney's rise to fame, her marriage to Jose Ferrer, and her...

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Express to Terror

as Quinn
Released: 1979-02-07

A gambling addict, mobsters, movie producers and others are plagued with murder while aboard a...

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Dark Shadows

as Willie Loomis
First aired: 1966-06-27

Dark Shadows is an American gothic soap opera that originally aired weekdays on the ABC...

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Murder, She Wrote

as Lt. Martin McGinn
First aired: 1984-09-30

An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life...

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Murder, She Wrote

as Patrick MacNair
First aired: 1984-09-30

An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life...

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Murder, She Wrote

as Superintendent Arthur Joyce
First aired: 1984-09-30

An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life...

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Quincy, M.E.

as uncredited
First aired: 1976-10-03

Los Angeles County medical examiner Quincy routinely engages in police investigations.

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Quincy, M.E.

as Agent Brice
First aired: 1976-10-03

Los Angeles County medical examiner Quincy routinely engages in police investigations.

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The Waltons

as Rev. Ezekiel L. Henshaw
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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Charlie's Angels

as Leonard Chaffey
First aired: 1976-09-22

Beautiful, intelligent, and ultra-sophisticated, Charlie's Angels are everything a man could...

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Hawaii Five-O

as Harris
First aired: 1968-09-20

Hawaii Five-O is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and...

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Mannix

as uncredited
First aired: 1967-09-16

Mannix is an American television detective series that ran from 1967 through 1975 on CBS....

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The Rockford Files

as Leo
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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Starsky & Hutch

as uncredited
First aired: 1975-09-10

Streetwise Detective David Starsky partners up with a more intellectual partner, Kenneth 'Hutch'...

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ABC Afterschool Special

as Joe Farrell
First aired: 1972-10-04

Dramatically presented situations, often controversial, of interest to children and teenagers....

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Mad About You

as Gus Stemple
First aired: 1992-09-23

Young, urban newlyweds Paul and Jamie Buchman try to sustain their marital bliss while...

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Fame

as uncredited
First aired: 1982-01-07

An American television series originally produced between 1982 and 1987. The show is based on...

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Cagney & Lacey

as Harvey Lacey
First aired: 1982-03-25

Mary Beth Lacey and Chris Cagney are teamed up as NYPD police detectives. Their opposing...

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Hill Street Blues

as uncredited
First aired: 1981-01-15

A realistic glimpse into the daily lives of the officers and detectives at an urban police station.

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Naked City

as Chuck
First aired: 1958-09-30

Naked City is a police drama series which aired from 1958 to 1963 on the ABC television network....

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Barnaby Jones

as Johnny Alban
First aired: 1973-01-28

Barnaby Jones is a television detective series starring Buddy Ebsen and Lee Meriwether as...

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All in the Family

as Leo
First aired: 1971-01-12

Archie Bunker, a working class bigot, constantly squabbles with his family over the important...

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Kojak

as Pinky
First aired: 1973-10-24

A bald, lollipop sucking police detective with a fiery righteous attitude battles crime in New...

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Kojak

as Hicks
First aired: 1973-10-24

A bald, lollipop sucking police detective with a fiery righteous attitude battles crime in New...

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Vega$

as uncredited
First aired: 1978-09-20

Vega$ is an American detective television drama series that aired on ABC between 1978 and 1981....

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The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries

as uncredited
First aired: 1977-01-30

The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries is a television series which aired for three seasons on ABC....

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Lou Grant

as uncredited
First aired: 1977-09-20

The trials of a former television station manager turned newspaper city editor, and his...

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Trapper John, M.D.

as uncredited
First aired: 1979-09-23

Trapper John, M.D. is an American television medical drama and spin-off of the film MASH,...

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Police Story

as uncredited
First aired: 1973-03-20

Police Story is an anthology television crime drama. The show was the brainchild of author and...

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The Streets of San Francisco

as uncredited
First aired: 1972-09-23

Two police officers, the older Lt. Stone and the young upstart Inspector Keller, investigate...

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227

as uncredited
First aired: 1985-09-14

A housewife sits on the stoop of her apartment building in a black neighborhood of Washington,...

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The Detectives

as uncredited
First aired: 1959-10-16

The Detectives is an American crime drama series which ran on ABC during its first two seasons,...

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The Sixth Sense

as uncredited
First aired: 1972-01-15

The Sixth Sense is an American paranormal thriller television

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The Magician

as Jim Russell
First aired: 1973-10-02

The Magician is an American television series that ran during the 1973–1974 season. It starred...

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The Mod Squad

as Johnny Wexford
First aired: 1968-09-24

The Mod Squad was the enormously successful groundbreaking "hippie" undercover cop show that ran...

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Stoney Burke

as Mickey
First aired: 1962-10-01

Stoney Burke is an American western television series broadcast on ABC from October 1, 1962...

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American Playhouse

as Reverend Walker
First aired: 1982-01-12

American Playhouse is an anthology television series periodically broadcast by Public...

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Finder of Lost Loves

as Arthur Barwell
First aired: 1984-09-22

The Finder of Lost Loves TV show was a 60 minute drama series on ABC about a private...

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The Gallant Men

as uncredited
First aired: 1962-10-05

The Gallant Men is a 1962–1963 ABC television series which depicted an infantry company of...

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Doc Elliot

as Vincent Parker
First aired: 1973-10-10

Doc Elliot is an American medical drama that aired from March 5, 1973 until May 1, 1974.

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Sword of Justice

as uncredited
First aired: 1978-09-10

Sword Of Justice is an American action-adventure television series that aired on NBC for one...

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Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Ned
First aired: 1951-12-24

Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark...

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Joe Forrester

as uncredited
First aired: 1975-09-09

Joe Forrester is an American Crime/Drama TV series, starring Lloyd Bridges.

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Hunter

as Power plant worker
First aired: 1977-02-18

Global espionage with an American agent and his sexy partner.

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Kaz

as uncredited
First aired: 1978-09-10

Kaz is an American crime drama series that aired on CBS from September 10, 1978 to April 22, 1979.

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Snoops

as Lieutenant Sam Akers
First aired: 1989-09-22

Snoops is an American crime themed comedy-drama series which aired for one season from September...

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In a Child's Name

as Joe Silvano
First aired: 1991-11-17

A true story about a woman who fights her brother-in-law's parents for custody of her deceased...

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