Louis Guss
Biography: Louis Guss was an American character actor with a long line of screen credits, having appeared in hundreds of TV series, feature films and stage productions, specializing in blue-collar ethnic roles, over a five decade career.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: January 04, 1918
Deathday: September 29, 2008
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Moonstruck
1987-12-16
Moonstruck
Overview: 37-year-old Italian-American widow Loretta Castorini believes she is unlucky in love, and so accepts a marriage proposal from her boyfriend Johnny, even though she doesn't love him. When she meets his estranged younger brother Ronny, an emotional and passionate man, she finds herself drawn to him. She tries to resist, but Ronny, who blames his brother for the loss of his hand, has no scruples about aggressively pursuing her while Johnny is out of the country. As Loretta falls for Ronny, she learns that she's not the only one in her family with a secret romance.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-12-16
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Crazy Joe
1974-02-08
Crazy Joe
Overview: The rise and fall of a Mafia gangster, based on the life of murdered New York gangster "Crazy" Joey Gallo.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-02-08
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The Yards
2000-04-27
The Yards
Overview: In the rail yards of Queens, contractors repair and rebuild the city's subway cars. These contracts are lucrative, so graft and corruption are rife. When Leo Handler gets out of prison, he finds his aunt married to Frank Olchin, one of the big contractors; he's battling with a minority-owned firm for contracts.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-04-27
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The Godfather
1972-03-14
The Godfather
Overview: Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son, Michael steps in to take care of the would-be killers, launching a campaign of bloody revenge.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-03-14
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Frank Nitti: The Enforcer
1988-04-17
Frank Nitti: The Enforcer
Overview: Al Capone may be the most famous Chicago mobster, but his successor, Frank "The Enforcer" Nitti (Anthony LaPaglia), was just as ruthless. This biopic goes to great lengths to accurately trace Nitti's rise to the top of the Windy City's underworld, amid corruption, betrayal and violence. The result is an engrossing glimpse into mob life in the early 20th century.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-04-17
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Seize the Day
1986-09-09
Seize the Day
Overview: Tommy Wilhelm (Robin Williams) is a salesman. An honest, hard-working guy who has lost his job, his girlfriend, and left part of his sanity behind as he heads to New York to pick up the pieces of his life. He's always been able to sell, but caught in a downward spiral, he must, in addition, face the father who never really understood him, while trying to balance his newly precarious existence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-09-09
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Nickelodeon
1976-12-21
Nickelodeon
Overview: In the silent film era, attorney Leo Harrigan and gunslinger Buck Greenway are hired to stop an illegal film production. However, they soon team up with the filmmakers and become important players in the show business industry. Leo learns he has a talent for directing, and Buck's cowboy persona quickly earns him leading-man status — but both men fall for beautiful starlet Kathleen Cooke, leading to a heated personal rivalry.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-12-21
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The Clue According to Sherlock Holmes
1980-12-26
The Clue According to Sherlock Holmes
Overview: Sherlock Holmes is merely a framing device for the real story: The Treasure of Alpheus T. Winterborn. A small-town boy accidentally uncovers a list of mystifying clues to a hidden treasure left by the late Alpheus T. Winterborn, the town's richest citizen.
Genres: Family Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-12-26
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The Art of Crime
1975-12-03
The Art of Crime
Overview: A Romani antique dealer, who is also a private detective, gets involved in a murder case when one of his colleagues is accused of committing the murder.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-12-03
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Lucky Lady
1975-12-25
Lucky Lady
Overview: When an American booze smuggler gets murdered in Prohibition-era Mexico, his widow, a nightclub singer, joins forces with her lover and a desperate loner to become rum-runners to the U.S.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-12-25
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Beggarman, Thief
1979-11-26
Beggarman, Thief
Overview: In this sequel to "Rich Man, Poor Man," moviemaker Gretchen Jordache, the until-now unseen sister, strives to pull the family together after the murder of brother Tom and the disappearance of brother Rudy by first reestablishing contact with her soldier son, and then patching things up with her sister-in-law, Kate, Tom's widow.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-11-26
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The Counterfeit Contessa
1994-04-04
The Counterfeit Contessa
Overview: Gina Nardino, a young saleswoman at the food counter of a posh department store, falls hard for a society stud, and, through a series of accidents, impresses him by taking on the false identity of an Italian contessa. But the masquerade begins to get out of hand when the stud's brother sees through her disguise...and likes what he sees.
Genres: Romance Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-04-04
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New York, New York
1977-06-21
New York, New York
Overview: An egotistical saxophone player and a young singer meet on V-J Day and embark upon a strained and rocky romance, even as their careers begin a long uphill climb.
Genres: Romance Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-06-21
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Sno-Line
1985-09-13
Sno-Line
Overview: A New York City district attorney secretly runs a cocaine-smuggling ring in Texas. When the mob tries to move in on his operation, he goes down there to try to stop them.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-09-13
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Vasectomy: A Delicate Matter
1986-01-01
Vasectomy: A Delicate Matter
Overview: Gino, a bank executive is not having a good day. After giving birth to their eighth child, his wife insists that he have a vasectomy, something he doesn't even want to think about. On top of that, he discovers that other family members are stealing money from his bank.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Lepke
1975-05-23
Lepke
Overview: Lepke is the feared leader of "Murder Incorporated" in this underworld drama based on the life of Louis "Lepke" Buchalter. Lepke began his criminal career as a petty thief in his teens; a stretch in prison taught him the finer points of life on the wrong side of the law. After getting out of jail, Lepke and his pal Gurrah Shapiro join a gang who hire themselves out as strikebreakers, and the vicious but clever Lepke soon rises through the ranks.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-05-23
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The Super Cops
1974-03-20
The Super Cops
Overview: The true story of two New York City cops. Greenberg & Hantz fought the system, became detectives and were known on the streets as "Batman & Robin".
Genres: Action Comedy Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-03-20
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Highlander
1986-03-07
Highlander
Overview: He fought his first battle on the Scottish Highlands in 1536. He will fight his greatest battle on the streets of New York City in 1986. His name is Connor MacLeod. He is immortal.
Genres: Adventure Action Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-03-07
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No Deposit, No Return
1976-02-05
No Deposit, No Return
Overview: Two rich children devise a way to escape their grandfather and visit their mother. Unfortunately for two hapless safe crackers, they become part of the plan.
Genres: Comedy Family Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-02-05
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Ready for the People
1964-10-01
Ready for the People
Overview: In a barroom fight over Connie Zelenko, Eddie Dickinson is badly wounded and Connie's boyfriend is killed. Witnesses claim Dickinson is the killer, but he maintains his innocence despite public prosecutor Murray Brock's advice that he plead guilty and take a life-imprisonment sentence rather than risk capital punishment. When Connie comes out of hiding, she confirms the other witnesses' stories, but Brock believes Dickinson is innocent. Dickinson sticks to his story at his trial but receives the death sentence. In the death house, Dickinson continues to maintain his innocence, but after the execution of the sentence, Brock receives a letter from Dickinson confessing to the murder.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-10-01
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Original Sin
1989-02-20
Original Sin
Overview: When his son is kidnapped a man has to face his past demons in speaking to a Mafia don about it.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-02-20
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Terror on the 40th Floor
1974-09-17
Terror on the 40th Floor
Overview: A number of business people, keeping the Christmas Eve office party going longer than was originally intended, are beset by a fire that starts in the basement of their office building and creeps up at them from floor to floor.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-09-17
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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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Fun with Dick and Jane
1977-03-18
Fun with Dick and Jane
Overview: When an upwardly mobile couple find themselves unemployed and in debt, they turn to armed robbery in desperation.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-03-18
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Harry and Tonto
1974-08-12
Harry and Tonto
Overview: Harry is a retired teacher in his 70s living in the Upper West Side of New York City where his late wife and he raised his children--where he's lived all his life. When the building he lives in is torn down to make way for a parking garage, Harry and his beloved cat Tonto begin a journey across the United States, visiting his children, seeing a world he never seemed to have the time to see before, making new friends, and saying goodbye to old friends.
Genres: Comedy Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-08-12
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Night Falls on Manhattan
1997-03-21
Night Falls on Manhattan
Overview: A newly elected District attorney finds himself in the middle of a police corruption investigation that may involve his father and his partner.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-03-21
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The Third Girl from the Left
1973-10-16
The Third Girl from the Left
Overview: A chorus girl comes to the realization that she is not getting any younger and that her longtime relationship with a nightclub singer is going nowhere. She finds herself attracted to an unassuming but attentive--and much younger--delivery boy.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-10-16
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Slaves of New York
1989-03-18
Slaves of New York
Overview: Meet the denizens of New York City: artists, prostitutes, saints, and seers. All are aspiring toward either fame or oblivion, and hoping for love and acceptance. Instead they find high rents, faithless partners, and dead-end careers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-03-18
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The Cemetery Club
1993-02-03
The Cemetery Club
Overview: The story of three Pittsburgh widows who meet every year to visit their husband's graves and talk about perspectives in their lives.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-02-03
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