Christopher Murney
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Christopher Murney (born July 20, 1943) is an American actor and vocal artist. He is the father of singer and actress Julia Murney. Murney attended several universities before picking up several undergraduate degrees (in Business Administration, Speech, and in Drama), and one graduate level degree (Master of Fine Arts in Theatre from Pennsylvania State University). Murney has worked on the stage, in television series, and in movies. In television, he appeared as Buck Miller in 1994 and in 2001 on the soap opera One Life to Live, as Buddy in 1977 The San Pedro Beach Bums, and starred as Mackie Bloom in the first three seasons of Remember WENN. In the movies, Murney has appeared in such films as 1985's The Last Dragon as Eddie Arcadian, 1986's Maximum Overdrive, 1987's The Secret of My Success, 1990's Loose Cannons, and in 1991's Barton Fink. He played Hanrahan in the 1977 film Slap Shot, where he beats up Paul Newman on the ice. His voice can be heard as Chester Cheetah for Cheetos and most recently (2006) in the popular video games, as Dwayne from VCPR New World Order talk radio in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories by Rockstar Games, and as Black Garius, the bad guy, in Neverwinter Nights 2, and as various characters in Red Dead Revolver. Description above from the Wikipedia article Christopher Murney, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Birthday: July 20, 1943
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Barton Fink
1991-08-01
Barton Fink
Overview: A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-08-01
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Jacobo Timerman: Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number
1983-05-22
Jacobo Timerman: Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number
Overview: An Argentinian newspaper publisher is imprisoned by his government for dissent.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-05-22
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The Last Dragon
1985-03-22
The Last Dragon
Overview: A young man searches for the "master" to obtain the final level of martial arts mastery known as the glow. Along the way he must fight an evil martial arts expert and rescue a beautiful singer from an obsessed music promoter.
Genres: Action Adventure Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-03-22
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The Secret of My Success
1987-04-10
The Secret of My Success
Overview: Brantley Foster, a well-educated kid from Kansas, has always dreamed of making it big in New York, but once in New York, he learns that jobs - and girls - are hard to get. When Brantley visits his uncle, Howard Prescott, who runs a multi-million-dollar company, he is given a job in the company's mail room.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-04-10
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Last Exit to Brooklyn
1989-07-26
Last Exit to Brooklyn
Overview: A gallery of characters in Brooklyn in the 1950s are crushed by their surroundings and selves: a union strike leader discovers he is gay; a prostitute falls in love with one of her clients; a family cannot cope with the fact that their daughter is illegitimately pregnant.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-07-26
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The Charmkins
1983-10-25
The Charmkins
Overview: The Charmkins is a television film based on an early 1980s toyline by Hasbro, which was broadcast on October 25, 1983.
Genres: Animation Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-10-25
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You Can't Go Home Again
1979-04-25
You Can't Go Home Again
Overview: An adaptation of Thomas Wolfe's literary classic, telling of the struggles of a young writer determined to be a success in New York's literary world of the 1920s, his married lover, and the brilliant editor who sees him as a blossoming genius. The story parallels the life of Wolfe himself and his affair with stage designer Aline Bernstein.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-04-25
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Chicago 10
2008-02-29
Chicago 10
Overview: Archival footage, animation and music are used to look back at the eight anti-war protesters who were put on trial following the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
Genres: Documentary Animation History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-02-29
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Where Are the Children?
1986-12-12
Where Are the Children?
Overview: In Cape Cod, Missy and Michael, the two children of Nancy Eldridge, are kidnapped by a man who has disturbing intentions for them. Local police chief Ed Coffin wrongfully suspects that Nancy is behind the disappearances.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-12-12
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Found Money
1983-12-19
Found Money
Overview: Two former bank employees, executive Dick Van Dyke, forced into early retirement by a computer, and guard Sid Caesar, unceremoniously dismissed before his pension comes due, concoct a computerized scheme to steal from the rich (i.e. the bank) and give to the poor with anonymous checks (money accessed from inactive accounts) to average do-gooders.
Genres: Comedy Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-12-19
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Way Off Broadway
2001-06-20
Way Off Broadway
Overview: Way Off Broadway is the story of five friends who, frustrated by the abrupt juxtaposition of being successful artists on the university level to poor struggling artists in New York City, take a crash course in life as they explore the dynamic of conflict in friendship involving sex, love, failure and betrayal.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-06-20
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Kent State
1981-02-08
Kent State
Overview: Dramatization of the four days of events leading up to the historic tragedy at Kent State University in May 1970, during the confrontation between National Guardsmen and students staging antiwar demonstrations.
Genres: History Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-02-08
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The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
1974-10-02
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
Overview: In New York, armed men hijack a subway car and demand a ransom for the passengers. Even if it's paid, how could they get away?
Genres: Crime Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-10-02
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The 10 Million Dollar Getaway
1991-03-06
The 10 Million Dollar Getaway
Overview: Jimmy Burke and his friends steal 10 million from the Lufthansa office in New York. The FBI has no idea who the thieves are until Burke girlfriend gives them a hint. When word leaks out a Mafia boss puts a killer on the gang's trail.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-03-06
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Grace Quigley
1985-05-17
Grace Quigley
Overview: Grace Quigley is nearing the end of her life, living alone in her New York apartment. On the day she's being evicted, she witnesses a murder being committed by a top hit-man, Seymour Flint. She proposes to blackmail him into killing her, however, she has one or two friends she wants him to get rid of first.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-05-17
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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 Passing Season
2016-08-10
The Passing Season
Overview: When his hockey career comes to a sudden end, Sam returns to his hometown and tries to escape into an earlier, simpler time in his life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-08-10
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The Equalizer - The Movie: Blood & Wine
1987-09-23
The Equalizer - The Movie: Blood & Wine
Overview: Robert McCall is forced to work with a former terrorist turned monk by the name of Joseph Heiden(Telly Savalas), whom he despises and mistrusts, on a deadly mission in New York.
Genres: Action Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-09-23
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Slap Shot
1977-02-25
Slap Shot
Overview: To build up attendance at their games, the management of a struggling minor-league hockey team signs up the Hanson Brothers, three hard-charging players whose job is to demolish the opposition.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-02-25
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Murder by the Book
1987-03-17
Murder by the Book
Overview: Mild-mannered mystery writer D. H. Mercer has become so immersed in his material that his creation, hard-boiled private eye Biff Deegan, constantly appears to him as a hallucination. Intent on getting rid of Biff, and replacing him with a more civilized detective, Mercer soon finds himself in a genuine mystery involving art fraud, murder, and a beautiful lady in peril.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-03-17
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The San Pedro Bums
1977-05-13
The San Pedro Bums
Overview: Pilot for the short-lived TV series centers on five rough-and-tumble guys living on a leaky boat where they try to collar a gang of waterfront toughs after a robbery of which their buddy was the victim.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-05-13
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The Country Girl
1974-02-05
The Country Girl
Overview: Frank Elgin's career in the theater is all washed up — but his friend Bernie thinks he can make a comeback, as long as his wife Georgie doesn't interfere.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-02-05
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The One and Only Phyllis Dixey
1978-11-01
The One and Only Phyllis Dixey
Overview: Aspiring dancer Phyllis Dixey makes her name as a stripper.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-11-01
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