J.A. Preston
Biography: James Allen Preston Sr. (born November 13, 1932) is an American actor. Preston is best known for his role as Ozzie Cleveland on the NBC primetime television series Hill Street Blues which originally aired from 1981 until 1987. Preston was born November 13 (1932) in Washington, D.C. In addition to his role on Hill Street Blues, Preston is also known for his roles as Leo Daltry in Dallas, Richard Matthews in Santa Barbara, court-martial judge Col. J. A. Randolph, USMC in the 1992 film A Few Good Men, and the minor but important role of a USAF Major General in Air Force One (1997). He was a series regular in the short-lived CBS sitcom All's Fair which ran just one season (1976-77). In it he played an assistant to conservative newspaper columnist Richard Barrington (played by Richard Crenna). Preston also appeared on the NBC television series The A-Team as a judge (Col. Thomas Milo) presiding over a military tribunal convened to try the A-Team. He also appeared in 3 episodes of Martin as Gina’s (Tisha Campbell-Martin) father Dr. Cliff Waters.
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Birthday: November 13, 1932
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Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins
1985-10-11
Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins
Overview: An officially "dead" cop is trained to become an extraordinary unique assassin in service of the U.S. President.
Genres: Comedy Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-10-11
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Narrow Margin
1990-09-21
Narrow Margin
Overview: An L.A. District Attorney attempts to take an unwilling murder witness back to the United States to testify against a top-level mob boss. Frantically attempting to escape two deadly hitmen sent to silence her, they board a Vancouver-bound train only to discover that the killers are onboard with them. For the next 20 hours, as the train hurls through the beautiful but isolated Canadian wilderness, a deadly game of cat and mouse ensues in which their ability to tell friend from foe is a matter of life and death.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-09-21
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MacShayne: Winner Takes All
1994-01-01
MacShayne: Winner Takes All
Overview: MacShayne is a gambler and small time con-man. After serving a short stretch in jail, he goes to Las Vegas to see his son, but when he gets there, his ex-wife is no longer where she use to live and work and left no forwarding address. Leggett, a recently retired cop, approaches him and tells him that he will help him find his son, if he does something for him. It seems that he is planning to rob a hotel casino and he needs three guys to pull it off. Now two of the guys he recruited has agreed to it but the third is uncertain, so he sets up a poker game wherein MacShayne is suppose to clean him out thus giving Leggett some leverage on him. After doing that he discovers that Leggett is duplicitous and is going stab everybody in the back. So he decides to turn the tables on him.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Body Heat
1981-08-28
Body Heat
Overview: In the midst of a searing Florida heat wave, a woman convinces her lover, a small-town lawyer, to murder her rich husband.
Genres: Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-08-28
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Fire Birds
1990-05-25
Fire Birds
Overview: A joint task force operation between the Drug Enforcement Administration and the U.S. Army has been formed to dismantle one of the largest drug cartels operating in South America. Multiple attempts to assault the cartel's mountainous compound have been thwarted by a Scorpion-attack helicopter piloted by a cartel leader, Eric Stoller (Bert Rhine). After having several aircraft shot down, most notably a pair of UH–60 Black Hawks and their AH–1 Cobra escorts, the army turns to the new AH–64 Apache attack helicopter, which can match its enemies' maneuverability and firepower.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-05-25
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High Noon, Part II: The Return of Will Kane
1980-11-15
High Noon, Part II: The Return of Will Kane
Overview: Former Marshal Will Kane and his Amish bride, Amy, return to Hadleyville a year after he resigned and find the town in the grip of a bounty-hunting marshal and his two trigger-happy deputies.
Genres: Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-11-15
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Aftermath: A Test of Love
1991-03-10
Aftermath: A Test of Love
Overview: Based on a true story, an adoring wife and mother is taken hostage during a robbery and brutally murdered.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-03-10
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The White Lions
1981-12-31
The White Lions
Overview: A college professor, his wife, and daughter go the the wilds of Africa to live, and study the rare white lions of the region.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-12-31
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Steel Justice
1992-11-11
Steel Justice
Overview: David Nash has lost his son and his will to live. But the boy appears in his dreams, as well as his Robosaurus toy ! A mythical figure will help Nash to turn the Robosaurus into a real creature in order to avenge his son's death.
Genres: Action Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-11-11
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Desperate
1987-09-19
Desperate
Overview: In this thinly-veiled, though uncredited, new version of Hemingway's "To Have and Have Not," here a prospective series pilot, an ex-sailor living in Key West, chartering out boats and struggling to forget his past, is lured into a dangerous rendezvous with Cuban gunrunners.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-09-19
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Harvest of Fire
1996-04-21
Harvest of Fire
Overview: In a small Amish community, three barns are burnt down almost simultaneously. FBI agent Sally Russwell is sent in to investigate this possible hate crime. What she finds however is a community that little trust for outsiders or "The English" as they call them. However, in her investigations, Agent Russell makes friends with one entrepreneurial widow, Annie Beiler who has her own curiosity about this stranger. Together, Annie introduces Russell in-depth to this close knit community bearing many appealing attributes. However, as Sally's investigations continue, she discovers secrets that reveal uncomfortable truths about the religious community that are linked to the arson attacks.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-04-21
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The Plutonium Incident
1980-03-11
The Plutonium Incident
Overview: A plutonium plant employee becomes the target of management, as well as union harassment, when she tries to blow the whistle on the company for negligent safety procedures, and she soon finds her life in peril.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-03-11
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Silver Streak
1976-12-03
Silver Streak
Overview: A somewhat daffy book editor on a rail trip from Los Angeles to Chicago thinks that he sees a murdered man thrown from the train. When he can find no one who will believe him, he starts doing some investigating of his own. But all that accomplishes is to get the killer after him.
Genres: Comedy Crime Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-12-03
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The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson
1990-10-15
The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson
Overview: A film about the early life of the baseball star in the army, particulary his court-martial for insubordination regarding segragation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-10-15
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A Few Good Men
1992-12-11
A Few Good Men
Overview: When cocky military lawyer Lt. Daniel Kaffee and his co-counsel, Lt. Cmdr. JoAnne Galloway, are assigned to a murder case, they uncover a hazing ritual that could implicate high-ranking officials such as shady Col. Nathan Jessep.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-12-11
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Contact
1997-07-11
Contact
Overview: A radio astronomer receives the first extraterrestrial radio signal ever picked up on Earth. As the world powers scramble to decipher the message and decide upon a course of action, she must make some difficult decisions between her beliefs, the truth, and reality.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-07-11
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Captain Ron
1992-09-18
Captain Ron
Overview: When mild-mannered Martin Harvey finds out that he has inherited a vintage yacht, he decides to take his family on a Caribbean vacation to retrieve the vessel. Upon arriving on a small island and realizing that the ship is in rough shape, Martin and his family end up with more than they bargained for as the roguish Captain Ron signs on to sail the boat to Miami. It doesn't take long before Ron's anything-goes antics get the Harveys into plenty of trouble.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-09-18
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The Gifted
1993-01-21
The Gifted
Overview: Psychic descendents of an African tribe reunite to save Earth. 5000 years ago certain members of the Dogon tribe in West Africa were granted psychic powers by good aliens to counterbalance the effects of Ogo, a bad alien intent on taking over Earth and killing all life to remake the planet for his own purposes. Descendents of the tribe who inherit the psychic powers are given an ancient book to read and pass on. Every 32 years, in connection with the orbiting of the star Sirius B, Ogo returns to kill a few more of the psychics in his ongoing bid for power.
Genres: Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-01-21
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The Spook Who Sat by the Door
1973-09-21
The Spook Who Sat by the Door
Overview: A black man plays Uncle Tom in order to gain access to CIA training, then uses that knowledge to plot a new American Revolution.
Genres: Action Drama Crime War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-09-21
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Black Cop
Black Cop
Overview: Black Cop is a film documentary that shows the lives of individuals who are caught inexorably in intense community pressures that arise because they are policemen, and become magnified because they are black.
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Original Language: en
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Two-Minute Warning
1976-11-12
Two-Minute Warning
Overview: A psychotic sniper plans a massive killing spree in a Los Angeles football stadium during a major championship game. The police, led by Captain Peter Holly and the SWAT commander, learn of the plot and rush to the scene.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-11-12
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Infiltrating Hollywood: The Rise and Fall of the Spook Who Sat by the Door
2011-01-01
Infiltrating Hollywood: The Rise and Fall of the Spook Who Sat by the Door
Overview: A documentary looking at the making and legacy of The Spook Who Sat by the Door (1973).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-01-01
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Real Life
1979-03-02
Real Life
Overview: A pushy, narcissistic filmmaker persuades a Phoenix family to let him and his crew film their everyday lives, in the manner of the ground-breaking PBS series "An American Family".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-03-02
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Perry Mason: The Case of the Lethal Lifestyle
1994-05-10
Perry Mason: The Case of the Lethal Lifestyle
Overview: A former associate of Perry Mason returns to handle the defense of a world-class chess player accused of murdering a prominent TV personality.
Genres: Drama Mystery Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-05-10
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The George McKenna Story
1988-08-01
The George McKenna Story
Overview: Washington plays a school principal in a tough inner city Los Angeles high school out to rid it of drugs, gangs, low moral of teachers, and restore educational values.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-08-01
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