Philip Bruns

Born: 1931-05-02

Philip Bruns (May 2, 1931 – February 8, 2012) was an American television and movie actor and writer. He portrayed George Shumway, the father of Mary Hartman on the 1970s comedic series Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, and Morty Seinfeld, the father of Jerry Seinfeld, in the 1990 second episode of Seinfeld.


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Inferno

as Old Man Buyer
Released: 1999-09-25

Eddie Lomax is a drifter who has been in a suicidal funk since the death of his close friend...

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Flashdance

as Frank Szabo
Released: 1983-04-14

Alex Owens, a teen juggling between two odd jobs, aspires to become a successful ballet dancer....

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Midnight Cowboy

as Man in TV Montage (uncredited)
Released: 1969-05-25

Joe Buck is a wide-eyed hustler from Texas hoping to score big with wealthy New York City women;...

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Return of the Living Dead Part II

as Doc Mandel
Released: 1988-01-15

A group of kids discover one of the drums containing a rotting corpse and release the 2-4-5...

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The Great Waldo Pepper

as Dilhoefer
Released: 1975-03-13

A biplane pilot who had missed flying in WWI takes up barnstorming and later a movie career in...

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Nickelodeon

as Duncan
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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Airwolf: The Movie

as Mitch, the Director
Released: 1984-06-26

Airwolf is capable of supersonic speeds, invisible to radar and armed with ultra...

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The Swimmer

as Biswangers' Pool Party Guest (uncredited)
Released: 1968-08-09

Well-off ad man Ned Merrill is visiting a friend when he notices the abundance of backyard pools...

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Amazon Women on the Moon

as French Ventriloquist Dummy Manager
Released: 1987-09-18

Centered around a television station which features a 1950s-style sci-fi movie interspersed with...

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The Out-of-Towners

as Officer Meyers
Released: 1970-05-28

George & Gwen Kellerman make a trip to New York, where George is going to start a new job, it...

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Silent Night, Bloody Night

as Wilfred Butler (1929)
Released: 1972-11-01

A man investigates the grisly crimes that occurred in a former insane asylum, unsettling the...

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The Trigger Effect

as Mr. Schaefer
Released: 1996-08-30

A blackout leaves those affected to consider what is necessary, what is legal, and what is...

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Corvette Summer

as Gil
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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The Stunt Man

as Ace
Released: 1980-06-27

A fugitive stumbles onto a movie set just when they need a new stunt man, takes the job as a way...

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Johnny Skidmarks

as Old Coot
Released: 1998-01-18

Johnny Scardino is working for blackmailers, photographing wealthy guys in seedy motels. One...

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My Favorite Year

as Fed. Marshal Holt / Featured Player
Released: 1982-10-01

Fledgling comic Benjy Stone can't believe his luck when his childhood hero, the swashbuckling...

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Harry and Tonto

as Burt Coombes
Released: 1974-08-12

Harry is a retired teacher in his 70s living in the Upper West Side of New York City where his...

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Taking Off

as Policeman
Released: 1971-03-28

Unable to deal with her parents, Jeannie Tyne runs away from home. Larry and Lynn Tyne search...

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Digital Man

as Bob
Released: 1995-09-05

An out-of-control robot is inadvertently set loose in a small community, and a crack squad of...

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Aunt Mary

as Det. LaMonica
Released: 1979-12-05

The true-life drama about a handicapped Baltimore woman living on welfare who organized a...

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Pentathlon

as Vic
Released: 1994-06-04

When East German Eric Brogar wins a gold medal in the pentathlon, he escapes to freedom in the...

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The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight

as Gallagher
Released: 1971-12-22

A Brooklyn mobster and his gang try to rub out their rivals.

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Love Bites

as Vinnie Helsting
Released: 1993-09-15

Story about a vampire who falls in love with a woman and tries to "re-humanize" himself in order...

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The Opposite Sex and How to Live with Them

as Irv Crown
Released: 1992-11-26

David seriously fancies smart, rich Carrie as soon as he first offends her in a Boston bar. They...

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The Christmas Star

as Lucky
Released: 1986-12-14

Horace McNickle (Edward Asner) is a two-time felon serving prison time for counterfeiting. On...

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Target Risk

as Marty
Released: 1975-01-06

A professional courier's girlfriend is abducted, and the kidnappers threaten to kill her unless...

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The Kansas City Massacre

as Capt. Jackson
Released: 1975-09-19

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

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Betrayed by Innocence

as Judge Mendola
Released: 1986-03-01

A married commercial filmmaker (Barry Bostwick) is charged with statutory rape when it is...

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A Thousand Clowns

as The Man in the Restaurant
Released: 1965-12-13

Twelve-year-old Nick lives with his Uncle Murray, a Mr.Micawber-like Dickensian character who...

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Last Hours Before Morning

as Max
Released: 1975-04-19

An ex-cop, now a private detective, investigating a gambler's murder finds that there may be a...

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Jenny

as Fred Callahan
Released: 1970-01-02

An unwed mother-to-be marries a total stranger so he can avoid the draft. She now has a father...

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Dead Men Don't Die

as Nolan
Released: 1990-09-08

A reporter investigating a drug dealing ring is murdered. Brought back to life by the voodoo...

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Let Me Hear You Whisper

as Dan
Released: 1969-05-23

A scrub-woman attempts to rescue a dolphin who will talk to no one but her from a research...

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Mr. Inside/Mr. Outside

as Brack
Released: 1973-03-14

Two New York City cops investigate a drug-smuggling ring that they believe is run by New...

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The Family Kovack

as Jo-Jo Linsen
Released: 1974-04-05

A tightly-knit family headed by a beleaguered Chicago widow rallies behind the eldest son when...

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Rock-a-Die Baby

as Lt. John Anderson
Released: 1975-03-21

A premonition comes true when the members of a rock group begin to die off for no apparent reason.

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Flash and the Firecat

as Mr. Walley
Released: 1975-05-31

Gang of robbers use dune buggies for their big heist.

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The Chopped Liver Brothers

as Mr. Ruth
Released: 1977-05-06

Tom and Jay are best friends. Tom is married to Sally and Jay is single. Tom and Jay are also...

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The Gold Bug

as Tattoo
Released: 1980-02-02

Shortly after the Civil War, while exploring the long deserted and reputedly haunted Sullivan's...

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M*A*S*H

as uncredited
First aired: 1972-09-17

The 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital is stuck in the middle of the Korean war. With little...

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The Twilight Zone

as uncredited
First aired: 1985-09-27

This 1980s revival of the classic sci-fi series features a similar style to the original...

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The Six Million Dollar Man

as Dr. Randolph
First aired: 1974-01-18

Follow the adventures of Steve Austin, cybernetically enhanced astronaut turned secret agent,...

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Columbo

as Gene Stafford
First aired: 1971-09-15

Columbo is a friendly, verbose, disheveled-looking police detective who is consistently...

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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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Here's Lucy

as Tompkins
First aired: 1968-09-23

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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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The Wild Wild West

as uncredited
First aired: 1965-09-17

The Wild Wild West is an American television series. Developed at a time when the television...

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Seinfeld

as Morty Seinfeld
First aired: 1989-07-05

A stand-up comedian and his three offbeat friends weather the pitfalls and payoffs of life in...

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The Streets of San Francisco

as Pete
First aired: 1972-09-23

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

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Judd for the Defense

as uncredited
First aired: 1967-09-08

High-priced Houston lawyer Clinton Judd and his assistant Ben Caldwell take difficult cases...

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Just Shoot Me!

as Professor Gladstone
First aired: 1997-03-04

Just Shoot Me! is an American television sitcom that aired for seven seasons on NBC from March...

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Sanford and Son

as uncredited
First aired: 1972-01-14

The misadventures of a cantankerous junk dealer and his frustrated son.

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Archie Bunker's Place

as uncredited
First aired: 1979-09-23

Archie Bunker's Place is an American sitcom originally broadcast on the CBS network, conceived...

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Airwolf

as uncredited
First aired: 1984-01-22

As part of a deal with an intelligence agency to look for his missing brother, a renegade pilot...

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The Rat Patrol

as General Koenig, 'the Butcher'
First aired: 1966-09-12

The exploits of four Allied soldiers — three Americans and one Englishman — who are part of a...

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Barney Miller

as Harry Cranston
First aired: 1975-01-23

Barney Miller is an American situation comedy television series set in a New York City police...

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Barney Miller

as Frank Mallory
First aired: 1975-01-23

Barney Miller is an American situation comedy television series set in a New York City police...

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Barney Miller

as Elvin Swift
First aired: 1975-01-23

Barney Miller is an American situation comedy television series set in a New York City police...

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Barney Miller

as Gordon Kaiser
First aired: 1975-01-23

Barney Miller is an American situation comedy television series set in a New York City police...

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Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman

as George Shumway
First aired: 1976-01-05

In the fictional town of Fernwood, Ohio, suburban housewife Mary Hartman seeks the kind of...

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Night Court

as Mr. Hubble
First aired: 1984-01-04

Night Court is an American television situation comedy that aired on NBC from January 4, 1984 to...

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Simon & Simon

as uncredited
First aired: 1981-11-24

Simon & Simon is an American detective television series that originally ran from November 24,...

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Route 66

as uncredited
First aired: 1960-10-07

Route 66 is an American TV series in which two young men traveled across America in a Chevrolet...

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Isis

as Jack Evans
First aired: 1975-09-06

The Secrets of Isis is the syndicated title of a live action CBS television series produced by...

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St. Elsewhere

as uncredited
First aired: 1982-10-26

St. Elsewhere is an American medical drama television series that originally ran on NBC from...

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The Rookies

as uncredited
First aired: 1972-09-11

The Rookies is an American crime drama series that aired on ABC from 1972 until 1976. It follows...

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The Defenders

as District Attorney
First aired: 1961-09-16

The Defenders is an American courtroom drama series . It starred E. G. Marshall and Robert Reed...

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Amazing Stories

as Mr. Beasley
First aired: 1985-09-29

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

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Jackie Gleason and His American Scene Magazine

as Sketch Actor
First aired: 1962-09-29

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Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Det. LaMonica
First aired: 1951-12-24

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

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Cagney & Lacey

as Daglee
First aired: 1982-03-25

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

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Baywatch Nights

as Nicky Pine
First aired: 1995-09-30

Baywatch Nights is an American police and science fiction drama series that aired in syndication...

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Kojak

as Mr. Seymour
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 George Lampert
First aired: 1973-10-24

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

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All is Forgiven

as uncredited
First aired: 1986-03-20

All is Forgiven is an American sitcom from the creators of Cheers that aired from March 20 until...

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Sons and Daughters

as uncredited
First aired: 1974-09-11

Sons and Daughters is a 9-episode 1974 CBS series launched from the pilot television movie...

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The Outcasts

as uncredited
First aired: 1968-09-23

The Outcasts is an American Western genre television series, appearing on ABC in the 1968-69...

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