Kevin Tighe
Biography: Kevin Tighe (b. Jon Kevin Fishburn; August 13, 1944) is an American character actor primarily known for his roles on television. Tighe is best known for his role as Roy DeSoto, a senior paramedic, on the NBC series Emergency! (1972–77). He and Randolph Mantooth, his partner in the series, have remained close friends. In the 2000's he played Anthony Cooper the father of John Locke on the ABC series Lost. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kevin Tighe, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Birthday: August 13, 1944
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City of Hope
1991-10-11
City of Hope
Overview: This gritty inner-city film follows various people living in a troubled New Jersey setting, most notably Nick Rinaldi, a disillusioned contractor who has been helped along his whole life by his wealthy father. Other characters in this ensemble drama about urban conflict and corruption include Asteroid , an unstable homeless person, and Wynn, an idealistic young politician.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-10-11
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Road House
1989-05-19
Road House
Overview: The Double Deuce is the meanest, loudest and rowdiest bar south of the Mason-Dixon Line, and Dalton has been hired to clean it up. He might not look like much, but the Ph.D.-educated bouncer proves he's more than capable – busting the heads of troublemakers and turning the roadhouse into a jumping hot spot. But Dalton's romance with the gorgeous Dr. Clay puts him on the bad side of cutthroat local big shot Brad Wesley.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-05-19
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What's Eating Gilbert Grape
1993-12-17
What's Eating Gilbert Grape
Overview: Gilbert Grape is a small-town young man with a lot of responsibility. Chief among his concerns are his mother, who is so overweight that she can't leave the house, and his mentally impaired younger brother, Arnie, who has a knack for finding trouble. Settled into a job at a grocery store and an ongoing affair with local woman Betty Carver, Gilbert finally has his life shaken up by the free-spirited Becky.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-12-17
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The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story
2003-05-24
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story
Overview: The Tulse Luper Suitcases reconstructs the life of Tulse Luper, a professional writer and project-maker, caught up in a life of prisons. He was born in 1911 in Newport, South Wales and presumably last heard of in 1989. His life is reconstructed from the evidence of 92 suitcases found around the world - 92 being the atomic number of the element Uranium. The project includes three feature films, a TV series, 92 DVDs, CD-ROMs, and books.
Genres: War Drama History Adventure Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-05-24
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The Deal
2005-06-17
The Deal
Overview: A political thriller steeped in illegal oil trading, the Russian Mafia, and governmental cover-ups.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-06-17
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K-9
1989-04-28
K-9
Overview: The extravagant cop Michael Dooley needs some help to fight a drug dealer who has tried to kill him. A "friend" gives him a dog named Jerry Lee (Officer Lewis), who has been trained to smell drugs. With his help, Dooley sets out to put his enemy behind the bars, but Jerry Lee has a personality of his own and works only when he wants to. On the other hand, the dog is quite good at destroying Dooley's car, house and sex-life...
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-04-28
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Another 48 Hrs.
1990-06-08
Another 48 Hrs.
Overview: For the past four years, San Francisco cop Jack Cates has been after an unidentified drug kingpin who calls himself the Ice Man. Jack finds a picture that proves that the Ice Man has put a price on the head of Reggie Hammond, who is scheduled to be released from prison on the next day.
Genres: Thriller Action Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-06-08
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Mumford
1999-09-24
Mumford
Overview: When a would-be psychologist, curiously named Dr. Mumford, comes to the idyllic town of the same name and offers his talent for listening and a disarming frankness, the town's quirkiest citizens scramble for a seat on his couch. As he lightens hearts darkened by old secrets no one realizes he's hiding a whopper of his own, or that he's fallen head over heels for one of his patients!
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-09-24
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Matewan
1987-08-28
Matewan
Overview: Filmed in the coal country of West Virginia, "Matewan" celebrates labor organizing in the context of a 1920s work stoppage. Union organizer, Joe Kenehan, a scab named "Few Clothes" Johnson and a sympathetic mayor and police chief heroically fight the power represented by a coal company and Matewan's vested interests so that justice and workers' rights need not take a back seat to squalid working conditions, exploitation and the bottom line.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-08-28
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Today You Die
2005-09-13
Today You Die
Overview: A former thief who is trying to go straight seeks vengeance on those who framed him.
Genres: Action Crime Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-13
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Eight Men Out
1988-09-02
Eight Men Out
Overview: Buck Weaver and Hap Felsch are young idealistic players on the Chicago White Sox, a pennant-winning team owned by Charles Comiskey - a penny-pinching, hands-on manager who underpays his players and treats them with disdain. And when gamblers and hustlers discover that Comiskey's demoralized players are ripe for a money-making scheme, one by one the team members agree to throw the World Series. But when the White Sox are defeated, a couple of sports writers smell a fix and a national scandal explodes, ripping the cover off America's favorite pastime.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-09-02
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My Bloody Valentine
2009-01-16
My Bloody Valentine
Overview: Ten years after a Valentine's Day tragedy claimed the lives of five miners, Harry Warden returns for a vengeful massacre among teen sweethearts gearing up for another party.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-16
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The Big Day
1999-12-03
The Big Day
Overview: While trying to make amends, Zack sends his soon-to-be-married brother, John fleeing on his wedding day, all while his bride, Sara, is anxiously awaiting him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-12-03
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Lost Angels
1989-05-05
Lost Angels
Overview: Rich L.A. party brat Tim spins into a cycle of despair after his parents divorce, and trying to fill the void with drugs and trouble only buys him a ticket to an asylum. But with the help of a psychiatrist who has taken an interest in him, will Tim try to pull himself out of the muck of teenage rebellion and ennui?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-05-05
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The Sight
2000-10-29
The Sight
Overview: The American successful architect Michael Lewis travels to London with his partner and friend, the builder Jake, to refurbish an old hotel. Michael is having successive nightmares, and once in London, he realizes that twenty-one spirits are trying to contact him to solve murders of a serial killer. Michael, with the support of Jake, Detective Pryce and the ghosts, try to avoid the ninth crime and find the serial-killer.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-10-29
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I Love a Man in Uniform
1993-09-10
I Love a Man in Uniform
Overview: Henry Adler, an outwardly normal banker, yearns to make it in show business and still answers to his overbearing father. When Henry is hired to act in a television police drama, he realizes his big break has arrived and decides to do whatever it takes to get into the role — even if that means donning his police costume in public during off hours. It isn't long, however, before Henry begins to take the law into his own hands as his violent side chillingly emerges.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-09-10
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Race the Sun
1996-03-22
Race the Sun
Overview: A bunch of high school misfits in Hawaii, introduced by their new teacher, attend a science fair in which they draw up inspiration to build their own solar car and win a trip to compete in the 1990 World Solar Challenge in Australia.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-03-22
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The Avenging Angel
1995-01-22
The Avenging Angel
Overview: Miles Utley is a professional Mormon commando/bodyguard who is forced to turn renegade and to question his faith as he investigates a scandal involving assassination and land speculation.
Genres: Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-22
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Narcotics: Pit of Despair
1967-12-31
Narcotics: Pit of Despair
Overview: An educational film from 1967 designed to scare teenagers away from illegal drugs
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-12-31
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Winchell
1998-11-21
Winchell
Overview: The true story of the influential and controversial columnist, Walter Winchell.
Genres: TV Movie Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-11-21
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Escape to Witch Mountain
1995-04-29
Escape to Witch Mountain
Overview: The tale of two orphan twins with special powers who go looking for their origins. The two are hindered by an avaricious tycoon who only wants to exploit their abilities.
Genres: Adventure Family Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-04-29
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Scorpion Spring
1996-10-10
Scorpion Spring
Overview: On the run from the law, desperate drug runner Astor and his beautiful prisoner struggle through the savage heat...
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-10-10
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Face of a Stranger
1991-12-29
Face of a Stranger
Overview: After the death of her husband, Pat learns that he gambled away all of their savings and that she's now destitute. She may even have to leave their apartment. Much to the embarrassment of her daughter Tina, who wants to marry a rich snob, she helps the homeless Dollie, who lives in a cardboard box near her building, and they become friends
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-12-29
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I Am I
2013-04-27
I Am I
Overview: I AM I is the story of a young woman, Rachael, who meets the father she never knew, Gene, at her mother's funeral. She discovers that her father is completely delusional and believes her to be her dead mother. After Rachael visits Gene in an assisted living home, she learns that he suffers from a disease called Korsakov's Syndrome, a form of retrograde amnesia and that her mother had placed him in this facility for treatment a year earlier. He does not remember anything past the age of thirty-three, and believes that he is still a young man. Unable to convince him of who she really is, Rachael decides to go along with her father's delusions by pretending to be her mother and discovers that under this guise, she and Gene can have "normal" conversations. Before long, Rachael is visiting Gene everyday, finding new ways to bring elements from his past into their present relationship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-04-27
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Emergency!
1972-01-15
Emergency!
Overview: The pilot movie to the hit series about Los Angeles paramedics and their interaction with the fire department and hospital system.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-15
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The Graduate
1967-12-21
The Graduate
Overview: Benjamin, a recent college graduate very worried about his future, finds himself in a love triangle with an older woman and her daughter.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-12-21
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Caught in the Act
1993-07-22
Caught in the Act
Overview: An unemployed actor is mixed up in a case about a $10,000,000 bank fraud.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-07-22
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Geronimo: An American Legend
1993-12-10
Geronimo: An American Legend
Overview: The Apache Indians have reluctantly agreed to settle on a US Government approved reservation. Not all the Apaches are able to adapt to the life of corn farmers. One in particular, Geronimo, is restless. Pushed over the edge by broken promises and necessary actions by the government, Geronimo and thirty or so other warriors form an attack team which humiliates the government by evading capture, while reclaiming what is rightfully theirs.
Genres: Western History Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-12-10
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Double Cross
1994-06-29
Double Cross
Overview: A chance encounter with a blonde in a sports car causes Jack to give chase in his souped up mustang and culminates in a car crash and a sexual encounter. The blonde asks that he sign that the accident was really her husband's fault, who was not even present, for insurance issues. Jack agrees and finds himself the alibi for murder and with his own past criminal record, he fears jail for lying under oath.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-06-29
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The Darwin Conspiracy
1999-01-14
The Darwin Conspiracy
Overview: The frozen body of a prehistoric, but super-advanced, human leads scientists to start covert DNA experiments for the development of a new race of super beings.
Genres: Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-14
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The Rebels
1979-05-14
The Rebels
Overview: This sequel to "The Bastard" continues the saga of Philip Kent, the illegitimate son of an English nobleman, who has renounced his patrician birthright to become a Colonial soldier fighting for America's independence, befriending a Southern aristocrat and his earthy buddy to help thwart a plot to assassinate George Washington. (Episodes 3 and 4 of the Kent Chronicles miniseries.)
Genres: History Drama War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-05-14
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Fast Food High
2003-02-25
Fast Food High
Overview: Fast Food High tells the story of Emma Redding, a young fast food restaurant employee who musters her inner Erin Brockovich and tries to start a union. When new management takes over the local fast food restaurant, favoritism, unstable hours and sexual harassment come with it. Eager to do something about it, Emma risks losing her job, her boyfriend, and her status with the "in" crowd as she squares off against big business in the greatest challenge of her young life.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-02-25
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The Mountain Runners
2012-09-27
The Mountain Runners
Overview: The story of America's first mountain endurance/adventure foot race, the Mount Baker Marathon, which took place in Bellingham, Washington. First run in 1911, the grueling 28 to 32 mile race to the glacial summit of Mount Baker and back lasted only three years due to it's inherent dangers. Told in a docudrama style, the film incorporates vintage images, historic film, visual graphics and 3D effects, and recreated dramatizations starring William B. Davis (The X-Files, Bad Times at the El Royale).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-09-27
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The Tulse Luper Suitcases: Antwerp
2003-08-31
The Tulse Luper Suitcases: Antwerp
Overview: "Antwerp" continues telling the picaresque adventures through the world of multi disciplinary artist and professional prisoner Tulse Luper. This movie premiered at the Venice Film Festival as a separate title located between the first and the second part of the Greenanway Tulse Luper Trilogy.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-08-31
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A Life in Suitcases
2005-10-20
A Life in Suitcases
Overview: Follows Tulse Luper as he is swept into the ill-fortuned tides of the 20th century and forced to spend his life in a succession of imprisonments.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-10-20
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Jade
1995-10-13
Jade
Overview: When a prominent art dealer is found murdered, the man's death leads to an intriguing investigation steeped in sex, corruption and crime. District Attorney David Corelli gets assigned to the case and discovers that a key suspect is his ex-lover Katrina Gavin, a beautiful psychologist who has settled down with his old friend and peer. As Corelli gets deeper into the case, he uncovers dark secrets with far-reaching implications.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-10-13
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Perry Mason: The Case of the Defiant Daughter
1990-09-30
Perry Mason: The Case of the Defiant Daughter
Overview: A young woman from Las Vegas wants Perry Mason to defend her father.
Genres: Mystery Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-09-30
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Better Off Dead.
1993-01-12
Better Off Dead.
Overview: A lawyer fights a losing battle against the courts to overturn the death sentence for a convicted female robber/murderer despite demands from the woman that her death sentence be carried out.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-01-12
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Nancy Drew
2002-12-15
Nancy Drew
Overview: Nancy and her faithful sidekicks Bess and George just entered River Heights University, where she tackles the mystery of a football star's drug-induced coma.
Genres: Mystery Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-12-15
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School Ties
1992-09-18
School Ties
Overview: When David Greene receives a football scholarship to a prestigious prep school in the 1950s, he feels pressure to hide the fact that he is Jewish from his classmates and teachers, fearing that they may be anti-Semitic. He quickly becomes the big man on campus thanks to his football skills, but when his Jewish background is discovered, his worst fears are realized and his friends turn on him with violent threats and public ridicule.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-09-18
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Newsies
1992-04-10
Newsies
Overview: A week in the life of the exploited, child newspaper sellers in turn-of-the-century New York. When their publisher, Joseph Pulitzer, tries to squeeze a little more profit out of their labours, they organize a strike, only to be confronted with the Pulitzer's hard-ball tactics.
Genres: Drama Music History Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-04-10
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Men of War
1994-09-03
Men of War
Overview: Nick Gunar is a burnt-out, jaded and hard-up former mercenary who is having a difficult time adjusting to civilian life. At the end of his rope, he is hired by the Nitro Mine Corporation to strong-arm the natives of a South China Sea island into giving up their rights to its valuable mineral resources. Nick loathes the thought of another mission, but this seemingly easy job will earn him enough money to get back with his estranged family. He recruits some of his former mercenary buddies to help him with the job. The island people refuse to give up their land and Nick decides to help them fight the greedy corporation that hired him. As greed and treachery begin to unravel, Nick's band of mercenaries choose sides.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-09-03
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The Saint in Manhattan
1987-06-12
The Saint in Manhattan
Overview: Simon Templar returns to New York via Concorde and is feeling restless, until a note from an old flame surfaces. This TV movie was an unsold pilot for an attempted series revival.
Genres: Action Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-06-12
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Bright Angel
1990-11-01
Bright Angel
Overview: In Montana, naive teenager George longs to escape from his broken home before his dysfunctional parents push him over the edge. When George meets pretty drifter Lucy, she easily convinces him and his friend Claude to join her on a road trip to Montana in hopes of breaking her brother out of jail.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-11-01
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Betrayal of Trust
1994-01-03
Betrayal of Trust
Overview: A woman has been to a psychiatrist for years for drug and alcohol addiction, and whose treatment includes being injected with a drug that knocks her out. One day, she was coming around when she notices that the doctor is molesting her. She then tries to get some justice by suing him, and reporting him to the licensing bureau, and the American psychiatric association. And also seeing another psychiatrist to try and figure out what's wrong with her.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-01-03
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