Robert Prosky

Born: 1930-12-13

Robert Prosky (born Robert Joseph Porzuczek, December 13, 1930 – December 8, 2008) was an American actor. He became a well-known supporting actor in the 1980s with his roles in Thief (1981), Christine (1983), The Natural (1984), and Broadcast News (1987). Prosky's other notable movies include Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990), Hoffa (1992), Mrs. Doubtfire (1993), Last Action Hero (1993), Rudy (1993), Miracle on 34th Street (1994), Dead Man Walking (1995), and Mad City (1997). His most notable television role was of Sgt. Stan Jablonski on the TV police drama Hill Street Blues.


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Mrs. Doubtfire

as Mr. Lundy
Released: 1993-11-24

Loving but irresponsible dad Daniel Hillard, estranged from his exasperated spouse, is crushed...

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as Judge Henry Harper
Released: 1994-11-18

Six-year-old Susan Walker has doubts about childhood's most enduring miracle—Santa Claus. Her...

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as Grandpa Fred
Released: 1990-06-15

Young sweethearts Billy and Kate move to the Big Apple, land jobs in a high-tech office park and...

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The Great Outdoors

as Wally
Released: 1988-06-17

It's vacation time for outdoorsy Chicago man Chet Ripley, along with his wife, Connie, and their...

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Christine

as Will Darnell
Released: 1983-12-09

Nerdy high schooler Arnie Cunningham falls for Christine, a rusty 1958 Plymouth Fury, and...

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as Nick
Released: 1993-06-18

After his father's death, a young boy finds solace in action movies featuring an indestructible...

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The Keep

as Father Mihail Fonescu
Released: 1983-12-16

Nazis take over an ancient fortress that contains a mysterious entity that wreaks havoc and...

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Far and Away

as Daniel Christie
Released: 1992-05-22

A young couple escapes Ireland, dreaming of a new life during the land giveaway in Oklahoma. As...

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Thief

as Leo Alderman
Released: 1981-03-27

Frank is an expert professional safecracker, specialized in high-profile diamond heists. He...

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D-Tox

as McKenzie
Released: 2002-01-04

A disgraced FBI agent with a drinking problem joins nine other troubled law enforcement officers...

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Dead Man Walking

as Hilton Barber
Released: 1995-12-29

A death row inmate turns for spiritual guidance to a local nun in the days leading up to his...

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The Scarlet Letter

as Horace Stonehall
Released: 1995-10-13

Set in puritanical Boston in the mid 1600s, the story of seamstress Hester Prynne, who is...

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Rudy

as Father Cavanaugh
Released: 1993-09-17

Rudy grew up in a steel mill town where most people ended up working, but wanted to play...

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The Natural

as The Judge
Released: 1984-05-11

An unknown middle-aged batter named Roy Hobbs with a mysterious past appears out of nowhere to...

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Broadcast News

as Ernie Merriman
Released: 1987-12-16

Basket-case network news producer Jane Craig falls for new reporter Tom Grunnick, a pretty boy...

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The Chamber

as E. Garner Goodman
Released: 1996-10-11

Idealistic young attorney Adam Hall takes on the death row clemency case of his racist...

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Dudley Do-Right

as Inspector Fenwick
Released: 1999-08-27

Royal Canadian Mountie Dudley Do-right is busy keeping the peace in his small mountain town when...

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Hanky Panky

as Hiram Calder
Released: 1982-06-04

Naïve Michael Jordon is drawn into a web of government secrets when a girl carrying a mysterious...

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Death to Smoochy

as Network Chairman (uncredited)
Released: 2002-03-29

Tells the story of Rainbow Randolph, the corrupt, costumed star of a popular children's TV show,...

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Hoffa

as Billy Flynn
Released: 1992-12-25

A portrait of union leader James R. Hoffa, as seen through the eyes of his friend, Bobby Ciaro....

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Mad City

as Lou Potts
Released: 1997-11-07

A misguided museum guard who loses his job and then tries to get it back at gunpoint is thrown...

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The Brink's Job

as Lineup Gallery Cop
Released: 1978-12-08

In 1950, a group of unlikely criminal masterminds commits the robbery of the century. Led by...

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as Brontë's Lawyer
Released: 1990-12-23

Urban horticulturalist Brontë Mitchell has her eye on a gorgeous apartment, but the building's...

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Outrageous Fortune

as Stanislav Korzenowski
Released: 1987-01-30

Refined actress Lauren Ames finally has a chance to study with the great theatre professor...

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The Lake

as Herb
Released: 1998-02-01

Jackie Ivers is a Los Angeles nurse who returns home to the small town of San Vicente to find...

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Loose Cannons

as Von Metz
Released: 1990-02-09

Mac, the two-fisted, savvy cop finds that he's being saddled with a new partner, a known...

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The Skeptic

as Father Wymond
Released: 2009-05-01

After the mysterious death of his Aunt, a confirmed skeptic lawyer, Bryan Becket, dismisses...

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The Valley of Light

as Hoke
Released: 2007-01-28

The Valley of Light is a beautifully-filmed, sentimental movie of a young man's quest to make...

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The Lords of Discipline

as Col. 'Bear' Berrineau
Released: 1983-02-18

Will arrives for his last year at Military Academy, in the Deep South USA, in the 1960's. A...

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Monsignor

as Bishop Walkman
Released: 1982-10-22

The vows of an ambitious young American priest are tested during World War II. Not only does...

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Things Change

as Joseph 'Don Giuseppe' Vincenzo
Released: 1988-10-21

Jerry, a misfit Mafia henchman, is assigned the low-level job of keeping an eye on Gino, a shoe...

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Double Edge

as Maggie's Father
Released: 1992-03-22

In this fast paced action-thriller, daytime's top star Susan Lucci plays two roles: both a crack...

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Big Shots

as Keegan
Released: 1987-10-02

Following the death of his father, a suburbanite runs away from home and winds up on Chicago's...

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The Heist

as Dancer
Released: 1989-09-16

Ex-con Neal Skinner seeks revenge against track owner Ebbet Berens for framing him in an emerald...

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The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays

as Andrey Botvinnik (segment "A Walk in the Woods")
Released: 2006-05-02

The Great White Way comes into your living room via this disc of rare performances from some of...

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Swing Vote

as Chief Justice
Released: 1999-04-19

A newly-appointed Supreme Court Justice must settle a controversial moral and legal dilemma with...

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NBC 75th Anniversary Special

as Self
Released: 2002-05-05

A celebration of NBC's 75 year history, featuring clips of special moments.

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Funny About Love

as E. T.
Released: 1990-09-21

As political cartoonist Duffy and his bride Meg fail to conceive, he and sorority girl Daphne...

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Dangerous Pursuit

as Bill
Released: 1990-02-14

A young woman's past catches up with her five years later and nearly shatters her life. As a...

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Into Thin Air

as Jim Conway
Released: 1985-10-29

Ellen Burstyn stars as Joan Walker, a mother whose college student son vanishes while traveling...

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The Ordeal of Bill Carney

as Judge Philip Erbsen
Released: 1981-12-23

Bill Carney has just been paralyzed from the neck down. He has been taking care of his two sons...

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The Love She Sought

as Bishop Richard Baker
Released: 1990-10-21

An aging school teacher (Lansbury) at a Catholic grammar school in Minnesota questions her...

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Home Fires Burning

as Rosh Benefield
Released: 1989-01-29

When a WW2 veteran comes back home, he realizes how the war affected Americans by seeing the...

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Suits on the Loose

as Bishop Hollister
Released: 2005-10-14

Suits on the Loose is the story of two rebellious teens, Justin and Ty, and their breakout from...

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Age Isn't Everything

as Grandpa Irving
Released: 1991-01-02

Young man gives up his dream of becoming an astronaut to go into business — and finds himself...

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Teamster Boss: The Jackie Presser Story

as Maishe
Released: 1992-09-12

For a generation, the mobs main money machine was the Teamsters Union. When Jimmy Hoffa...

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Johnny Ryan

as Capt. Fitzgerald
Released: 1990-07-29

An honest, hard-working cop has to go up against the mob in 1949 New York City.

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Zalmen, or The Madness of God

as The Chairman
Released: 1975-01-13

This play takes place during Yom Kippur in a post-Stalinist Russian synagogue, where a Rabbi...

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From the Dead of Night

as Dr. Walter Hovde
Released: 1989-02-27

After having a near death experience Joanna finds her life in constant danger. She begins to...

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A Walk in the Woods

as Andrey Botvinnik
Released: 1988-01-01

A true story about one US and one USSR delegate who, during 1982 talks in Geneva between USA and...

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Washington Monuments

as Narrator
Released: 1987-01-01

Washington Monuments captures the beauty and history of the Capital's major landmarks in a...

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Frasier

as T.H. Houghton
First aired: 1993-09-16

After many years spent at the “Cheers” bar, Frasier moves back home to Seattle to work as a...

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Cheers

as Navy Captain Franklin Howe
First aired: 1982-09-30

The story about a blue-collar Boston bar run by former sports star Sam Malone and the quirky and...

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ER

as Wayne Rutley
First aired: 1994-09-19

ER explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by...

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Murder, She Wrote

as Bishop Patrick Shea
First aired: 1984-09-30

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

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The Practice

as Father Patrick Martin
First aired: 1997-03-04

A provocative legal drama focused on young associates at a bare-bones Boston firm and their...

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Tony Awards

as Self - Nominee & Performer
First aired: 1956-04-01

The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award,...

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Touched by an Angel

as Dr. Robert Harrigan
First aired: 1994-09-21

Monica, an angel, is tasked with bringing guidance and messages from God to various people who...

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Hill Street Blues

as Stan Jablonski
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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Coach

as Coach 'Jake the Snake' Connelly
First aired: 1989-02-28

Hayden Fox, the curmudgeonly coach of Minnesota State University's Screaming Eagles football...

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The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents

as Dr. Sutton A. Vogel
First aired: 1985-09-29

The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents is an American anthology series that aired on NBC from 1985 to...

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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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Once and Again

as uncredited
First aired: 1999-09-21

The series depicts the family of a single mother and her romance with a single father.

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LateLine

as uncredited
First aired: 1998-03-17

LateLine is an American TV sitcom that ran on NBC from March 17, 1998, through March 16, 1999....

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Veronica's Closet

as Pat Chase
First aired: 1997-09-25

Veronica 'Ronnie' Chase is the 'Queen of Romance.' Founder of a successful lingerie empire, and...

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World War III

as Gen. Aleksey Rudenski
First aired: 1982-01-31

When starving mobs begin rioting in the streets of Moscow, Soviet leaders believe they have no...

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Brooklyn Bridge

as uncredited
First aired: 1991-09-20

Brooklyn Bridge is an American television program which aired on CBS between 1991 and 1993. It...

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K Street

as Tommy's Dad
First aired: 2003-09-14

An experimental fusion of reality and fiction--a fly-on-the-wall look at government, filmed in...

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The Murder of Mary Phagan

as Tom Watson
First aired: 1988-01-24

In early-twentieth-century Atlanta, the murder of a young girl prompts strong reactions from the...

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Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Rosh Benefield
First aired: 1951-12-24

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

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Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Hoke
First aired: 1951-12-24

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

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Beacon Hill

as McLeague
First aired: 1975-08-25

Short lived soap opera about rich family and their servants in 1920s Boston.

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Thomas Jefferson: A View from the Mountain

as Edmund Bacon (voice)
First aired: 1995-04-04

One of America's most complex and enduring figures, Thomas Jefferson struggled personally and...

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