Ray Sharkey
Biography: Raymond Sharkey Jr. (November 14, 1952 – June 11, 1993) was an American stage, film and television actor. His most notable film role was Vincent Vacarri in the 1980 film The Idolmaker, for which he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. He is also known for his role as Sonny Steelgrave in the television series Wiseguy.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: November 14, 1952
Deathday: June 11, 1993
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Wise Guys
1986-04-17
Wise Guys
Overview: Harry Valentini and Moe Dickstein are both errand boys for the Mob. When they lose $250,000, they are set up to kill each other. But they run off to Atlantic City and comedy follows.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-04-17
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Who'll Stop the Rain
1978-08-02
Who'll Stop the Rain
Overview: John, a disillusioned Vietnam War journalist, turns to heroin smuggling. He cons Ray, an equally burnt out veteran into delivering the drugs stateside to his wife. Everything soon falls apart and Ray ends up on the run with John's wife trying to evade crooked narcotics agents.
Genres: Crime Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-08-02
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Cop and ½
1993-04-02
Cop and ½
Overview: When a pint-sized 8-year-old kid witnesses a murder he offers to help the police, if they make him a cop, too. Saddled with this streetwise sidekick, a hardboiled cop is forced to take his new partner seriously as they race the clock to bring the bad guys to justice.
Genres: Action Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-04-02
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Hellhole
1985-03-15
Hellhole
Overview: An unlucky woman’s mother is murdered by a scarf-wielding killer named Silk, leaving the woman injured, traumatised and suffering from amnesia. She’s committed to a mental institution, where Silk follows her, looking for the papers he was trying to get from her mother. And Silk’s only the beginning of her problems, since the asylum is run by a mad doctor, performing experiments in chemical lobotomies!
Genres: Horror Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-03-15
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Du-beat-e-o
1984-01-01
Du-beat-e-o
Overview: A filmmaker tries to finish editing a movie about all-girl rock band Runaways.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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The Idolmaker
1980-11-14
The Idolmaker
Overview: Based on the life of rock promoter/producer Bob Marucci, who discovered, among others, Frankie Avalon and Fabian.
Genres: Drama Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-11-14
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Act of Piracy
1988-07-07
Act of Piracy
Overview: A large motor yacht becomes the focal point in this action tale when a group of mercenaries decide to capture the vessel. The original owner, who was delivering it to Sydney, Australia, is believed dead but is in fact very much alive, and determined to recover the yacht...
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-07-07
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Some Kind of Hero
1982-04-02
Some Kind of Hero
Overview: A Vietnam vet returns home from a prisoner of war camp and is greeted as a hero, but is quickly forgotten and soon discovers how tough survival is in his own country.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-04-02
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Love and Money
1981-08-28
Love and Money
Overview: An investment planner, bored with his job and his girlfriend, is given the opportunity to help open a new firm in South America. Once in the new country, he finds himself dealing with dictators and revolutionaries during a time of intense political upheaval, and to complicate his life further, he begins an affair with his new employer's wife.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-08-28
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Body Rock
1984-09-28
Body Rock
Overview: A disco owner lures a New York breakdancer away from his rapping and dancing friends.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-09-28
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Stunts
1977-06-01
Stunts
Overview: After a stunt man dies while he is involved in the making of a motion picture, his brother takes his place in order to find out what really happened.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-06-01
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The Rain Killer
1990-09-14
The Rain Killer
Overview: Together, a weary cop and an all business FBI agent, team up to catch the latest homicidal manic: The Rain Killer. Just when they think that all the clues have been washed away, they find the one last clue; the one that's been in plain sight.
Genres: Thriller Crime Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-09-14
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Hot Tomorrows
1977-04-01
Hot Tomorrows
Overview: A portrait of a young man, Michael, so obsessed with death that he decorates his room with a life-size Grim Reaper. One night Michael's closest buddy, Louis, joins him for an adventure in Hollywood on Christmas Eve.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-04-01
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Willie and Phil
1980-08-15
Willie and Phil
Overview: Life imitates art when two Manhattanites — pompous teacher Willie and quiet photographer Phil — become friends after a thought-provoking screening of "Jules et Jim," Truffaut's classic film about a decades-long ménage à trois. Soon, the men meet Jeanette, a sexually liberated southern transplant who promptly falls for both of them. Frustrated passions curdle into jealousy as Jeanette entertains love affairs with each in the ensuing years.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-08-15
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Wired
1989-08-25
Wired
Overview: The ghost of John Belushi looks back on his troubled life and career.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-08-25
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P.I. Private Investigations
1987-06-05
P.I. Private Investigations
Overview: A young architect finds himself being stalked by a gang of criminals who believe he knows something that could expose their activities.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-06-05
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Paradise Alley
1978-09-22
Paradise Alley
Overview: Three Italian-American brothers, living in the slums of 1940's New York City, try to help each other with one's wrestling career using one brother's promotional skills and another brother's con-artist tactics to thwart a sleazy manager.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-09-22
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The Revenge of Al Capone
1989-02-26
The Revenge of Al Capone
Overview: After Al Capone is imprisoned, he still continues to run his empire, and plots to assassinate the mayor of Chicago.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-02-26
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Regina Roma
1982-01-01
Regina Roma
Overview: An aging couple search for peace and family harmony when their only son returns home after a long absence with his fiancee.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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Chrome Soldiers
1992-05-06
Chrome Soldiers
Overview: Five ex-soldiers go to a small town in Oregon to help a friend investigate the murder of his brother.
Genres: Action Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-05-06
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The Neon Empire
1989-12-03
The Neon Empire
Overview: New York mobster Junior Moloff begins plans to transform Las Vegas into a mecca of prostitution and gambling.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-12-03
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The Take
1990-03-29
The Take
Overview: An ex-Miami cop just back from prison for corruption gets caught up in the Florida drug trade.
Genres: Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-03-29
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27 Wagons Full of Cotton
1990-01-02
27 Wagons Full of Cotton
Overview: In order to boost his own cotton ginning business, Jake Meighan sets the local Syndicate Plantation ablaze. the superintendent of the Syndicate Plantation sends over 27 wagons full of cotton for ginning, and turns aside his suspicions that Jake is the arsonist in exchange for apparent sexual favors from Jake's wife, Flora.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-02
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Caged Fear
1991-05-17
Caged Fear
Overview: After a jewelry theft Tommy Lane can hardly free. His girlfriend Kristen has less luck and is arrested. She's sentenced to jail in an ill-reputed female prison in Oklahoma. Tommy doesn't let her down; he manages to get into the prison - on the other side of the bars - to force the ruthless director to let her go.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-05-17
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The Ordeal of Bill Carney
1981-12-23
The Ordeal of Bill Carney
Overview: Bill Carney has just been paralyzed from the neck down. He has been taking care of his two sons since his wife left him. Now, when word of his condition reaches her, she wants to take them away, as she feels that he is unable to care for them. And it appears that the courts agree too. So, his lawyer, also a paraplegic, begins the campaign to take his case before the Supreme Court. Will he win?
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-12-23
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Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills
1989-06-03
Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills
Overview: A wealthy Beverly Hills resident who has just become a widow, Clare Lipkin temporarily takes on her friend Lisabeth as a house guest. As the two women deal with their upper-class woes, Clare's driver, Frank, and Lisabeth's servant, Juan, make a wager to see who can be the first to seduce the other's boss.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-06-03
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Wiseguy: Pilot
1987-09-16
Wiseguy: Pilot
Overview: This was the feature-length pilot for the hit series. Vinnie Terranova, a Justice Department agent reassigned to the Organized Crime Bureau as a “wiseguy”, a specially trained deep undercover agent. To help support his cover, Vinnie has just finished serving 18 months in a New Jersey prison…
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-09-16
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Round Trip to Heaven
1992-09-02
Round Trip to Heaven
Overview: Since Larry works at a garage, he gets to use one of the Rolls Royces. There is only one problem, there is a briefcase full of money in the trunk. So when Larry and his cousin Steve decide to go to Palm Springs to look for Ms. Right at a popular beauty pageant, the owner of the briefcase will do the impossible to get it back.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-09-02
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Dead On: Relentless II
1992-02-26
Dead On: Relentless II
Overview: Detective Sam Dietz is paired with a shady FBI agent to track down another serial killer terrorizing Los Angeles.
Genres: Action Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-02-26
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Zebrahead
1992-10-23
Zebrahead
Overview: Interracial love story set in Detroit.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-10-23
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Heart Beat
1980-04-25
Heart Beat
Overview: An exploration of the relationship between Beat Generation writers Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassady, and Cassady's wife, Carolyn.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-04-25
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In the Line of Duty: Street War
1992-10-25
In the Line of Duty: Street War
Overview: In this gritty cops-and-crooks drama, two detectives hunt a gang leader suspected of murdering a New York cop. The detectives enlist the help of the dead cop's partner, who is also the brother of the gangster. There's nothing civil about this war that has two brothers squaring off against each other. The strong cast includes Mario Van Peebles, Ray Sharkey and Peter Boyle.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-10-25
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The Cops Are Robbers
1990-12-09
The Cops Are Robbers
Overview: Made-for-TV drama about one of the largest crimes in history—the 1980 robbery of the Boston Depositors Trust by a group of policemen. Capt. Gerry Clemente is the leader of a gang of rotten cops who take their piece of Boston's criminal offerings. The crimes are petty at first, but soon, Clemente sets his sights on a bank that promises a big score. Can the gang pull it off before a case is built against them?
Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-12-09
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Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp
1986-07-14
Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp
Overview: Based on the story "Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp", directed by Tim Burton and starring Robert Carradine.
Genres: Romance Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-07-14
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92 Grosvenor Street
1985-12-29
92 Grosvenor Street
Overview: Professor-turned-spy Col. Calvin Turner and his associate, workaholic Lt. Shelley Flynn, plan a daring rescue behind enemy lines in World War II German-occupied Norway of a brilliant scientist who may or may not be aiding the Germans.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-12-29
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No Mercy
1986-12-19
No Mercy
Overview: An unconventional undercover Chicago cop and his partner are recruited to commit the murder of a New Orleans criminal kingpin.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-12-19
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Trackdown
1976-05-20
Trackdown
Overview: When his sister Betsy packs up and leaves the family's Montana cattle ranch to find fame and fortune in Hollywood, her brother Jim decides to follow after her to make sure she doesn't get into trouble. He's a little too late, however, since almost as soon as she gets off the bus, Betsy has her belongings stolen, then gets kidnapped, gang-raped, and is sold to a pimp to work for him as a prostitute. It is now up to Jim, with help from social worker Lynn, to rescue his sister and set things right.
Genres: Action Thriller Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-05-20
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