Leon Rippy
Biography: Leon Rippy (born October 30, 1949, Rock Hill, South Carolina) is an American character actor. Active on screen since 1983, Rippy has appeared in numerous films and recurring roles on television. He is best known for his roles as Earl the Angel on the series Saving Grace, saloon owner Tom Nuttall on the series Deadwood and militiaman John Billings in The Patriot (2000). From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: October 30, 1949
Deathday: N/A
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The Thirteenth Floor
1999-04-16
The Thirteenth Floor
Overview: In Los Angeles, a wealthy man, known as Mr. Fuller, discovers a shocking secret about the world he lives in. Fearing for his life, he leaves a desperate message for a friend of his in the most unexpected place.
Genres: Thriller Science Fiction Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-04-16
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Stargate
1994-10-28
Stargate
Overview: An interstellar teleportation device, found in Egypt, leads to a planet with humans resembling ancient Egyptians who worship the god Ra.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-10-28
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The Patriot
2000-06-28
The Patriot
Overview: After proving himself on the field of battle in the French and Indian War, Benjamin Martin wants nothing more to do with such things, preferring the simple life of a farmer. But when his son Gabriel enlists in the army to defend their new nation, America, against the British, Benjamin reluctantly returns to his old life to protect his son.
Genres: Drama History War Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-06-28
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Moon 44
1990-02-15
Moon 44
Overview: Year 2038: The mineral resources of the earth are drained, in space there are fights for the last deposits on other planets and satellites. This is the situation when one of the bigger mining corporations has lost all but one mineral moons and many of their fully automatic mining robots are disappearing on their flight home. Since nobody else wants the job, they send prisoners to defend the mining station. Among them undercover agent Stone, who shall clear the whereabouts of the expensive robots. In an atmosphere of corruption, fear and hatred he gets between the fronts of rivaling groups.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-02-15
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
1997-11-21
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Overview: A visiting city reporter's assignment suddenly revolves around the murder trial of a local millionaire, whom he befriends.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-11-21
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Loose Cannons
1990-02-09
Loose Cannons
Overview: Mac, the two-fisted, savvy cop finds that he's being saddled with a new partner, a known burnout, to work with him on a new and difficult case. The new partner is Ellis, an amazing detective, one who puts Sherlock Holmes to shame with his lightning-fast deductions. But he keeps assuming the personalities of entire casts of Television shows. This can be a problem when people begin shooting at them.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-02-09
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Eight Legged Freaks
2002-07-17
Eight Legged Freaks
Overview: The residents of a rural mining town discover that an unfortunate chemical spill has caused hundreds of little spiders to mutate overnight to the size of SUVs. It's then up to mining engineer Chris McCormack and Sheriff Sam Parker to mobilize an eclectic group of townspeople, including the Sheriff's young son, Mike, her daughter, Ashley, and paranoid radio announcer Harlan, into battle against the bloodthirsty eight-legged beasts.
Genres: Action Comedy Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-07-17
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Young Guns II
1990-08-01
Young Guns II
Overview: Three of the original five "young guns" — Billy the Kid, Jose Chavez y Chavez, and Doc Scurlock — return in Young Guns, Part 2, which is the story of Billy the Kid and his race to safety in Old Mexico while being trailed by a group of government agents led by Pat Garrett.
Genres: Western Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-08-01
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Gridiron Gang
2006-09-15
Gridiron Gang
Overview: Under the leadership of their counselor, teenagers at a juvenile detention center gain self-esteem by playing football together.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-09-15
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Universal Soldier
1992-07-10
Universal Soldier
Overview: An American soldier who had been killed during the Vietnam War is revived 25 years later by the military as a semi-android, UniSols, a high-tech soldier of the future. After the failure of the initiative to erase all the soldier's memories, he begins to experience flashbacks that are forcing him to recall his past.
Genres: Thriller Action Science Fiction Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-07-10
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Track 29
1988-05-15
Track 29
Overview: Years after a desperate teenage Linda gives up her baby for adoption, she finds herself face-to-face with Martin, a young man claiming to be her long-lost son. Linda embraces Martin and in him finds a welcome reprieve from her unhappy marriage to the neglectful Henry. But soon Martin grows violent and becomes obsessed with Henry -- a philandering man whose only offspring is an expansive model train set that devours his waking hours.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-05-15
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Kuffs
1992-01-10
Kuffs
Overview: George Kuffs didn't finish high-school, just lost his job, and his college-age girlfriend is pregnant. To top it off, George's brother Brad is killed and George inherits Brad's "patrol special" privatized police district and all the problems that come with it.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-10
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The Hot Spot
1990-10-12
The Hot Spot
Overview: Upon arriving to a small town, a drifter quickly gets into trouble with the local authorities — and the local women — after he robs a bank.
Genres: Romance Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-10-12
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King Kong Lives
1986-12-16
King Kong Lives
Overview: After falling from the Twin Towers, Kong lies in a coma for ten years. When his heart begins to fail, scientists engineer an artificial heart, and a giant female ape is captured to serve as a source for a blood transfusion. When Kong awakens following his heart transplant, he senses the nearby presence of the female ape and the two escape to wreak havoc together.
Genres: Fantasy Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-12-16
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Beyond the Law
1993-04-22
Beyond the Law
Overview: Dan Saxon is an undercover cop who infiltrates a biker gang to nail the scum behind a drug-smuggling operation. In order to maintain the trust of the gang's leader, he must commit ever more dangerous and heinous crimes. Just how far 'beyond the law' will Saxon go?
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-04-22
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The Lone Ranger
2013-07-03
The Lone Ranger
Overview: The Texas Rangers chase down a gang of outlaws led by Butch Cavendish, but the gang ambushes the Rangers, seemingly killing them all. One survivor is found, however, by an American Indian named Tonto, who nurses him back to health. The Ranger, donning a mask and riding a white stallion named Silver, teams up with Tonto to bring the unscrupulous gang and others of that ilk to justice.
Genres: Action Adventure Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-07-03
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Hard Time Romance
1991-05-08
Hard Time Romance
Overview: A good-hearted, second-rate rodeo cowboy fights his way through numerous obstacles, including a Mexican jail, to get his long-time girlfriend to marry him.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-05-08
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Born to Race
1988-01-29
Born to Race
Overview: A race-car driver falls in love with a beautiful Italian automobile engineer who is traveling the NASCAR circuit to sell her controversial engine technology.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-29
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Illegally Yours
1988-05-13
Illegally Yours
Overview: Called up for jury duty, Richard Dice finds his first crush and only real, but unrequited love, on trial for murder. Richard desperately tries to prove Mollys innocence while untangling a complicated web of murder, blackmail and perjury, and still trying to win over the girl of his dreams.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-05-13
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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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At Last... Total Terror! - The Incredible True Story of 'Axe' and 'Kidnapped Coed
2015-12-15
At Last... Total Terror! - The Incredible True Story of 'Axe' and 'Kidnapped Coed
Overview: Documentary on the making of the low-budget 1970's drive-in cult classics Axe (1974) and Date with a Kidnapper (1976)
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-12-15
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The Alamo
2004-04-07
The Alamo
Overview: Based on the 1836 standoff between a group of Texan and Tejano men, led by Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie, and Mexican dictator Santa Anna's forces at the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas.
Genres: History War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-04-07
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Rockin' Road Trip
1985-01-02
Rockin' Road Trip
Overview: Martin meets Samantha, the sister of Nicole who is the leader of a band called "Chery Suicide". While Martin and Samantha are beginning a relationship, Nicole is trying to get away from her ex-boyfriend an insane punk rocker named Ivan. One night Ivan breaks in to Nicole and Samantha's apt. and they knock him unconscious. They run away in a taxi with Curtis the guitarist, Martin, and a blind street philosopher named Wally. They and the taxi driver make their way south to Virginia. In virginia they manage to buy instruments, a van, meet Lenny when their tire blows out, get chased by Ivan, give a concert, crash a Christian fair, and have a fun memorable time doing it.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-02
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Tales of the Third Dimension
1984-04-01
Tales of the Third Dimension
Overview: This movie is made-up of three tales, the first one is, "Young Blood" it is about a married pair of vampires who adopt a child. In "The Guardians," a pair of avaricious grave robbers make a terrible mistake when they visit the St. Francis Abbey cemetery to do a little pillaging. The final episode, "Visions of Sugar-Plum" is set at Christmas time and is set at the home of a loving grandmother.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-04-01
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The Arrival
1996-05-31
The Arrival
Overview: Zane Ziminski is an astrophysicist who receives a message that seems to have extraterrestrial origins. Eerily soon after his discovery, Zane is fired. He then embarks on a search to determine the origins of the transmission that leads him into a Hitchcockian labyrinth of paranoia and intrigue.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-05-31
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The Life of David Gale
2003-02-21
The Life of David Gale
Overview: A man against capital punishment is accused of murdering a fellow activist and is sent to death row.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-02-21
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Alcatraz
2012-01-16
Alcatraz
Overview: In 1963, all the prisoners and guards mysteriously disappear from Alcatraz. In the present day, they resurface and a secret agency are tasked with re-capturing them.
Genres: Action Crime Mystery Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-01-16
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The Tracker
1988-03-26
The Tracker
Overview: After a series of vicious crimes by a renegade group of cowboys, led by "Red Jack" Stilwell, a legendary tracker, Noble Adams is pulled out of retirement to capture Stilwell, dead or alive. Reluctantly, needing more men, he allows his son, Tom to tag along, revealing to Tom a whole brutal side of ruthlessness Noble thought he left behind.
Genres: Action Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-03-26
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Raw Deal
1986-06-06
Raw Deal
Overview: Mark Kaminsky is kicked out of the FBI for his rough treatment of a suspect. He winds up as the sheriff of a small town in North Carolina. FBI Chief Harry Shannon, whose son has been killed by a mobster named Patrovina, enlists Kaminsky in a personal vendetta with a promise of reinstatement into the FBI if Patrovina is taken down. To accomplish this, he must go undercover and join Patrovina's gang.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-06-06
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Hit the Road Running
1983-02-28
Hit the Road Running
Overview: Beau Jim Donner returns to his hometown to find unscrupulous tycoon Sam Grady has been buying out locals and intimidating any opposition to his plans. Donner joins as deputy and sets out to thwart Grady.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-02-28
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Maximum Overdrive
1986-07-25
Maximum Overdrive
Overview: When a comet passes close to the earth, machines all over the world come alive and go on homicidal rampages. A group of people at a desolate truck stop are held hostage by a gang of homicidal 18-wheelers. The frightened people set out to defeat the killer machines ... or be killed by them.
Genres: Horror Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-07-25
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The Bedroom Window
1987-01-16
The Bedroom Window
Overview: Baltimore, Maryland. Sylvia sees a girl being attacked from her lover Terry's bedroom window. The assailant flees and his victim is saved. But that same night another girl is found murdered.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-16
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Deadwood: The Movie
2019-05-31
Deadwood: The Movie
Overview: Follow the 10-year reunion of the Deadwood camp to celebrate South Dakota's statehood. Former rivalries are reignited, alliances are tested and old wounds are reopened, as all are left to navigate the inevitable changes that modernity and time have wrought.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-05-31
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The Color Purple
1985-12-18
The Color Purple
Overview: An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the South who survives incredible abuse and bigotry. After Celie's abusive father marries her off to the equally debasing 'Mister' Albert Johnson, things go from bad to worse, leaving Celie to find companionship anywhere she can. She perseveres, holding on to her dream of one day being reunited with her sister in Africa.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-12-18
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Traxx
1988-09-17
Traxx
Overview: Traxx has battled his way through El Salvador, the Middle East and Nicaragua, spitting lead with two-handed good grace. He decides to retire to a life of baking designer cookies. Running out of dough to buy more dough, he hires himself as a "Town Tamer" and begins cleaning up Hadleyville, Texas, telling the lowlife street scum, "You got three choices. Be good, be gone, or be dead." Like all bacteria, the scum are resistant: crime boss Aldo Palucci (Robert Davi) brings in the dreaded Guzik brothers to rid the town of the town tamer, setting the stage for a showdown in the streets.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-09-17
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Perry Mason: The Case of the Wicked Wives
1993-12-17
Perry Mason: The Case of the Wicked Wives
Overview: Anthony Caruso, an old friend of Perry Mason, comes to Denver on the request of Dee Morrison. She's married to famed photographer David Morrison, who wants to shoot a photo featuring his former models. The tricky thing is that all of his former models are also his former wives. But Dee knows Anthony can convince them to do it which he does. And David shoots them. Later Dee catches David it what appears to be in an inappropriate situation with his assistant. They have an argument and she leaves. Later David is found dead and she's arrested and Anthony defends her. And he suspects it could have been one of the wives
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-12-17
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Marie: A True Story
1985-09-27
Marie: A True Story
Overview: In 1978 Tennessee, a single mother and political appointee risks her career and her life to blow the whistle on rampant corruption in the penal system.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-09-27
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Firestarter
1984-05-11
Firestarter
Overview: Charlene "Charlie" McGee has the amazing ability to start fires with just a glance. Can her psychic power and the love of her father save her from the threatening government agency which wants to destroy her?
Genres: Horror Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-05-11
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